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r;ti ttss. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1803 ds• We can take no notice of anonymous comma. tiloations. We do not return rejeeted manuscripts. far Voluntary correspondence solicited from all parts of the world, and especially from our different military and naval departments. When used, it Will be paid for. The Letter of the President. The country will thank the President for laving written the words we print this morning. It is a charactiristic of Mr. LmT .CouN, that on every opportitnity he admits the whole nation to his' confidence, and speaks to the people as frankly and earnestly as a father to> his children, or a friend to There is, of course, the friends beloved prudence that must always be observed by, men high in authority, in reference. to mat ters of diplomacy and statesmanship. Be yond this, we think we can say for the Pre sident, that at no time since he assumed the duties of the Chief Magistracy, has he hesi- tate to tell the world the thoughts that were within . him, his motives, and his hopes. We are never in doubt as to what he thinks, for be is frank and plain to all men :His spirit of frankness was never more ap propriately shown - than iii his letter to the liepublicans of Springfield. The times de nianded such a letter, and the President has shown' the highest statesmanship by an swering the demand. The glow of recent Yictories still suffuses the Republic, and while loyal men are rejoicing and preparing for further triumphs those who are timidly loyal or boldly disloyal have been en deavoring to weaken the faith of the nation in the Administration by discussing terms of reconstruction, and endeavoring to make the people believe that the war was being conducted for vindictive purposes, — mere ly to ruin and devastate the Southern territory, and at the same time add to the glory of those who make the army a method of gain or advancement. There are thou sands of gpod men who desire the prosecu tion of the war and the reconstruction of the Union on the strongest and grandest princi ples, and spare nothing to aid the Govern ment in its mighty struggle, who have been led to think that peace might be made if the Government were only anxious for peace. We are told that war shas e.xhausted the South, and that out of its exhaustion it is willing to come back to the Union, repentant and loyal ; that it is only necessary for the President to offer honor able and soothing terms to have the Union as it was; that the time has come for the Nortlito put away the sword and offer the Oihre branch. In other words, the President has merely to issue a proclamation amend ing or withdrawing his emancipation edict, offering amnesty to all, and assuring the 'States of their rights under the Constitu tion, for the Southern armies to dissolve, the Confederacy to expire, and the repre sentatives of the slave States to come again to their seats in the National Congress. As we never believed the assurances of our officious conservative friends, we have reframed from entering into a discussion that could do the cause no good, and might lead to harm. 'We are among the journals that desire a speedy peace, and we hold our selves ready to welcome any offer or enter into any negotiation that is honestly made with a view to peace. We are willing to discuss any plan of reconstruction that will save the shedding of blood, and enable us to heal the wounds from which we are now suffering. The difficulty, however, is pre cisely that indicated by the President. We . can only discuss terms of reconstruction - with those competent -to speak of re construction. We can only accept the alle giance of the South in a legitimate way. That is to say, by the men who have com menced the rebellion admitting their error and throwing themselves upon the mercy of the Government. If we grant this, we do more than it has been the custom of any nation to do. When the Irish rebelled against England, their leaders were hanged. When the Sopoys rebelled in India, and - with jar more cause for diSaffection than any alleged by the k outherners, they were blown from the mouths of cannon. The Poles are in rebellion against Russia, and although the war 'is ,in progress, we read by every foreign mail of the execution of leading retels. After every Russian vic tory there is a drum-head court-martial, and the leaders 'are immediately executed. It - will thus be seen, that even in permitting the rebels to return to their allegiance, and promising mercy, we extend a clemency that it is not the custom of nations to show. What more can we do? There has not been a Single attempt, since the war began, on the part of the rebels, to ask the forbearance of the North. Mr. WOOD, . of New York, gave currency to a story of that kind some time ago, but the people, rightly judging that, beyond the deplorable condition of the lottery business in Geolgia, his knowledge of Southern affairs was unre liable, it was unheeded. Mr. VALLAacnictirAm brought back a contrary• assurance, giving his authority as " every man, woman, and child in the Confederacy." The Southern newspapers breathe defiance, and now that they can no longer speculate upon the de struction, of the coal mines in Pennsylvania, or what must be done in Philadelphia by. LEE and ' his army, they arrange their rhetoric into defiant and angry me naces. What, then, are we to do ? To - whom are we to speak? Who are to be the high contracting parties ? On the one hand, the President of the United States—who upon the other hand - ? Will it be the military - or the civil power—DA - vas or lax ? And how can we ask a negotiation when we know the dissolution of the Union must be assured before the conference can organize? This is the difficulty that has oppressed -every loyal man, and we thank the President for having settled it. "Let me assure you," he says, "that no word or intimation from the rebel army, or from any_of the men con trolling it, in relation to any peace compro mise; has ever come to my knowledge or belief." Here is a fact, and it, of course, ends the discussion of theories. Our timid and anxious friends may take the word of this man—a man whose character is the embodiment of truth—and dismiss their doubts and fears. The desire for compro mise has not been expressed, and we are -assured that when it comes we shall be ac quainted with it. The . Government cannot go before the Southern armies with schemes of peace. Such schemes would only bring ridicule upon us, and weaken our power. Nor . could we avid - meeting the South ern armies in any plan we might pro pose. Any _other parties would be out of the question. " Suppose," says the Presi dent, "a refugee from the South and the peace men of the North get together in the Convention, and frame and proclaim a com promise embracing a restoration of the Union, in what way can that compromise be atsed - to keep General LEE'S army out of Pennsylvania?" This is the plain issue. We must meet LSE's army. The peace men propose to meet it with olive-brauches and proclamations. The President pro poses to meet it with General MEADE and many_thousands of men. The President is, of course, right, as any reasonable man will see. We pass from this to more profitable con fsidefations. The President meets the negro .question with a quaint and irresistible sim plicity. This negro question men surronnd with so much unpleasant and false rheta- Tie that it is gratifying to hear. it discussed -with common sense. The matter of slavery is in itself very plain and simple, mind the words of the 'President will do much to convince and disabuse the minds of men. The President accepts the issue made upon' his emancipation policy, and answers it. Is the slave a chattel ? Then the military stakes possession as it does of other chat tels—gunpowder, horses, and corn. Is the" slave a man ? Then the army throws its flag' tver him, ilia he may speak as a man. Does he ask protection ? The flag gives. him protection. Does he ask - to fight against the enemy ? We give him a musket or a spade, and put him under an orderly ser geant. He is so much strength, and we - add him to the power of the Union for,,hisin! trinsic value, as we would add a wagon, or a cannon, or a recruit: This is the military view—the view of common sen Se. We are humane and just men, however, and go far ther. The negro gives his strength to the Union, and we" must answer it as men. "Negroes, like other people," says the Pre sident, "act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do no thing for them? If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motives, even the promise of freedom; and the promise, being made, must be kept." This is plain language, and the President would have gone down to infamy if he had failed to say otherwise. In this war we take high ground. The nation will follow its Chief Magistrate, and honor him for the brave and true words he has written to his friends in Springfield. Let us welcome this as the true policy, for we can see that nothing is needed now, but to let the people of the Sonthern States feel that they will be protected when they rise against their betrayers, and that they will be furnished with such moral weapons as will enable them to conquer and to hold public opinipn in that quarter. As to the question of slavery, we, cannot, doubt that the example of Missouri and West Virginia will be gladly followed, in the returning States, especially when the leaders and authors of the rebellion are driven to foreign clinics, and forever- de -barred from taking part in any of our future elections. Slavery has received its death blow, and when the great slaveholders are expelled, disfranchised, and disgraced, the institution upon which they have rioted and depended, during so many years, will cram• ble to, pieces, and in a short time be heard of no more forever; War In America and Crime in England. The war in America, looked upon simply as a war, ought to put human nature in this nineteenth century to shame. It is not even war on modern civilized dimensions ; it is war upon 'a barbaric scale. It is ancient war revived. Its carnage, its devastations, its famines, its pestilences, are barbaric." Thus speaks the Times, of London, in spe cial reference to the battle of Gettysburg, .where 40,000 men were killed or wounded. It is horrified because of this slaughter, in which 10,000 men were instantly slain. America cannot, please Europe. Like the old man in the familiar fable, who took his ass to market, America, whatever she does, displeases. We remember that when Sumpter was bombarded so furiously in 1861, and so few were injured, how unmercifully the Times ridiculed that mountain of smoke and fire`which brought forth such a v ery little mouse of death. It was in keeping with American bragga docio. But now we fight in deadly earnest, and the Times complains that we kill too much, just as it then laughed at us for kill ing too little. We wonder what " civilized dimensions " are ; what is the humanitarian allowance of killed and wounded in a'great battle I Nor was it very long ago that the Times sneered at American devotion to the "almighty ttollar ;" but now that we have shown that we can fight as well as trade, it inquires, " Ten thousand dead bodies on one field ! Is it a scene of a civilized, mercantile, cotton-growing, cotton-spinning age ?" Such a question is in Mr. Chad band's style. It is a scene of a civilized, mercantile, cotton-growing, cotton-spin ning age, but not of a cowardly; mi sefly, and degraded people. The armies who fought at Gettysburg were composed of brave men ; and if there be barbarism in battle, it is altogether independent of the courage of the combatants. That, at least, is honorable in human animals ; and though we profoundly regret the destruction of hu man life, we are proud that Americans, when they do fight, fight as men should. War is indeed a splendid but cruel barba rism, but warriors are not therefore barba sians ; it is barbaric in kind, not in degree, and whether one man or a thousand men be slain in battle, the barbaric nature is the same. NAPOLEON justly defined the object of war as the destruction of the enemy. The enemy is seldom a nation, of which by-far the largest portion is non-combatant, hut an' army. The destruction of an army is not, necessarily, the deitruction of all the individuals which compose it. It is sim ply the annihilation of its fighting power as a'. mass. It is plain that the destruction . of the enemy is the only way by which the United States can obtain peace; - that only by the destruction of our military power can the rebels achieve the independence of the South. Each army is, therefore, justi fied in attempting to destroy its opponent, by all the laws of war and common sense ; and until our English critics are bold enough to affirm that war is not intended to deci sively settle the question of superiority, by hard fighting, they are inconsistent in ac cusing America of barbarity, because her_ battles are fierce, and - bloody, and terrible. Barbarism, however, is not visible in war alone. Peace is not without brutalities and beastliness ; and if America has her furious battles, England has her shameful infanti cides. Here, men slay each other - in open battle ; but there, mothers secretly poison their babes to an extent which is Unpara : lelled in the modern annals of crime. A book was recently published upon the con dition of the poorer classes of England, which startled intelligent Europe. Crime in England is multiplying with alarming rapidity, and baffles - the attempts of law and morality to restrain it. There are now 'two thousand six hundred and thirty-seven known thieves in London alone, and 'thirteen thousand two hundred and ninety eight known crimes were , committed in that city last year. In the same period twenty thousand five hundred and ninety one coroner's inquests were held in Eng land and Wales. AIr,HAWTIEOftNE might well say that while in England he felt an indefinable sense of insecurity, as if he was treading upon a hidden earthquake. Child-murders have become so fearfully nu merous that the 'attention of Parlianient was recently called to the crime, and it was then stated that one thousand eight hun dred and eighty-seven cases of infanticide :were known to have occurred in England and Wales from January, 1861, .to July, 1862. The undiscovered child-murders were probably as numerous, for infanticide is easily concealed. Have the English, then, such moral superiority; that they can de clare that " the war in America puts human nature to shame ?" Does their civilization entitle them to accuse other nations of bar barism ? Are their withers unwrung, that they can unconcernedly laugh when the galled jade winces? TENNYSON, in his " Maud," tells, in indignant -verse, the story of. crime `in England, and welcomed the Russian war, as a nobler method of sa crificing human life. He pictured in bitter words the meanness, the cruelty, the wick edness of the social life of England ; he de clared it to be - " , Civil war, as I think, and that of a kind Viler, as under:ltand, not openly bearing a sword." .Rather than 'see this moral corruption he would have seen "the heart of the citizen hissing in blood on his own hearthstone," and to end it would have welcomed 4! War with a thousand battles, and shaking an hun dred thrones.,, “THERE is not, in reality, a more thoroughly loyal State in the Union than this same New York, which, under the administration of Governor Seymour, has acquired the name of being half. hearted and halting. This could hardly be other wise ; for no State has, in other days, derived such immense advantage from the Union, and none has now so much at stake in its maintenance. Yet the' moral influence of the Empire State, through the last year, has been perverted against the war. It has kept faction and rebel sympathy in countenance• through the whole breadth of the land.” This melancholy confession of a leading. journal of New York should be a warning "to - Pennsylvania. If Governor SEYk.OI7B .C - 0111€1 in one year force a loyal people -into an attitude of disloyalty, how long would it he before Mr. WooriwAun would, if eleeted, betray this State into the - service of the rebellion? Governor SR:moral may be caled "halthearted ;" but Mr. WOOD iV.ARD'S whole heart is with slavery, which he calls "an incalculable blessing;" with the South, whose doctrine of secession he has publicly justified. A Governor has great power to degrade a State ; Mr. WoonwAno, we trust, will never,have an _opportunity to . exercise it. A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT He Discusses Reconstruction. No Peace Proposals from Southern Leaders. PEACE TO BE MADE BY WAR, The Negro Gives us His Life—We Give Him Freedom. The Glorious Condition of the Republic. WHAT IS THE DUTY OF LOYAL MEN CIUcAGo, Sept. 2.—The following is Presi dent Lincoln's -letter to the Springfield Mass Meeting : _ EXECUTIVE MANSION, WAsirmoTorr, August_ 26, 1863. Hon. James C. Conk:ling.—My DEAR SIR : Your letter inviting me to attend a mass meeting of unconditional Union men, to be held at the capital of Illinois, on the 3d day of Eeptember, has been received. It would be very agreeable to me thus to meet my old friends at my owu home, but I cannot just now be absent from this city so long as a visit there would require. The meeting is to be of all those who maintain unconditional devotion to the Union, and I am sure that my old political ,friends will thank me for tendering, as I do, the nation's gratitude to those other noble men whom no partisan malice or 'partisan hope can make false to' the nation's life. nef; are those who are dissatisfied with me. To such I would say, " You desire peace, and you blame me that we do not have it. But how can we attain it ? :There are but three conceivable ways : First. To suppress the rebellion by force of arms. This lam trying to do. Are yen for it? If you are, so far we are agreed. If you are not for it, we are not agreed. A second way is to give up the Union. I am against this. If you, are, you should say so plainly. IT you are not for force, nor yet for dissolution, there only remains some imaginary compromise. •I do not believe that any compromise em bracing the maintenance of the Union is now possible. All that I learn leads to a directly opposite belief. The strength of the rebellion is its military—its army. That army dominates all the country and all the people within its range. Any offer of terms made by any man or men within that range, in opposition to that army, is simply nothing for the present, because such man or men have no power whatever to enforce their side of a compromise, if one were made with them. To illus trate—suppose a refugee from the South and the peace men of the North get to gether in Convention, and frame and pro claim a compromise embracing a restoration of the Union, in what way can that coin. promise be used' to keep General Lee's army out of Pennsylvania ? Gen Meade's army can keep Lee's army out of Pennsyle vaiaia, and I think can ultimately drive it out of existence; but no paper compromise, to which the controllers of General Lee's army are not agreed, can at all effect that army. In an effort at such compromise we would waste the time which the enemy would improve to om disadvantage, and that would be all. A compromise, to be effective, must be made either with those who control the rebel army, or with the people, first liberated from the domination of that army by the success of our army. How, allow one to assure you that no word Or intimation from the rebel army or from any of the-men controlling it, in relation to any peace comproMise, has ever come to my knowledge or belief. All charges and intima tions to the contrary are, deceptive and ground less, and 1 promise you, chat if any such proposition shall hereafter come, it shall not be rejected and kept secret from you. I freely acknowledge myself to be the servant of the people, according to the bond of service, the United States Constitution, and that as such I am responsible to them. But, to be plain, you are dissatisfied with me about the negro. Quite likely there is a difference of opinion between you and my self upon-that subject. I certainly wish that all men could be free, while you, I suppose, do not. Yet I have neither adopted nor proposed any measure which is not consist ent with even your views, provided you are for the Union. I suggested compensated emancipation ; to which you replied that you wished not to be taxed - to buy negroes. But I had not asked you to be taxed to buy negroes, except in such a way as to save you from greater taxation to sue the Union exclusively 'by other means. You dislike the emangipation proclamation s -and perhaps you want to have it retracted. You-say it is unconstitutional. I think differently. I think that the Constitution invests its Com mander-In-chief with the law of war in time of war. The most that can be said, if so much is, that slaves are property. Is there, has there ever been, any question that by the law of war the property, both of enemies and friends, may be taken when needed, and is it not needed whenever taken it helps us or hurts the enemy ? -Armies, the world over, destroy enemies' property when they cannot use it,- and even destroy their own to keep it from the enemy. Civil ized belligerents do all in their power to help themselves or hurt the enemy, except a few things regarded as barbarous or cruel. Among the exceptions are the massacre. of vanquished foes and non-combatants, male and female. But the proclamation, -as law, is valid or not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction; if it -is valid, it cannot be retracted any more than•the dead can be brought to life. Some of you profess to think that its retraction would operate favo rably for the Union. Why better after the retraction than before the issue ? There was more than a year and a half for trial to suppress the rebellion before the proclamation was issued ; the last one hun dred days of which passed under an ex- plicit notice that it was coming unless avert ed by those in revolt returning to their alle giance. The war has certainly progressed as favorably for us since the issue of the proclamation as before. I know as fully as one can knckw the opinions of others, that some of the commanders of our armies in the, field who have given us our most'im- portant victories; believe the emancipation policy and the aid of colored troops consti tute the heaviest blows, yet dealt to the re bellion ; and that at least one of those 2:M- portant successes could not have been achieved when it was, lut for the aid of black•soldiers. Among the commanders holding these views are some who have never had any affinity with what is called Abolitionism, or with the Republican party politics, but who hold them purely as military opinions. I submit their opinions as being entitled to some weight against the objections often urged that emancipation and the arming of the blacks are unwise as military measures, and were not adopted as such in good faith. You say that you will not fight to free ne groes. some of them seem to be willing to fight for you ; but no rnatter—fight you, then, exclusively, to save the Union. I issued the proclamation on purpose to aid you in saving the Union. Whenever you shall have conquered all resistance to the Union, if I shall urge you to continue fight ing, it Will be an apt: time then for you to de clare that you will not fight to free negroes. I thought that, in your struggle forthe Union, to whatever extent the negroes should cease helping the enemy, to that extent it weakened the enemy in his resistance to you. Do you think differently ?.' I thought that whatever negroes can be got to do as soldiers, leaves just so much loss for white soldiers to do in saving the Union. Does it ' appear otherwise to you ? But negroes, like other people, net upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do. nothing for them ? it they stake their lives fora us, they must be prompted by the strongest motives--:even the promise of free dom ; and the promise, being made, must be kept. . The signs look better. The Father of Wa ters again goes unvexed to the sea ; thanks to the great Northwest for it - ; nor yet wholly to them. Three hundred miles up they met New England, the Empire, the /ieystone, THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA; THURSDAY, SEPT 3, 1863. and New Jersey, hewing' their way right and left. The sunny South, too, in more co lorktium one, also lent a hand, on the spot; their part of the history was jotted down in black and white. The jobwas a great nation al one ; and let none be banned who bore an honorable part in it, while those who have cleared the great river may well be proud. Even that is not all. It is hard to say that anything has been more bravely and better_ l done than at Antietam, Murfreesboro, Get tysburg, and, on many fields of less note. Nor Irma Uncle Sam's web-feet be forgot ten. At all the water's margins they have been present, not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was- a little damp they have been and made their tracks. Thanks to all For the Great Republic—for the principles by which it lives and keeps alive—for man's vast future ; thanks to all I • Peace does not appear so distant as it did., I hope it will come soon, and come to stay, and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. It will then have been proved that among freemen there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bul let, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost; and then there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well poised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation, while I fear that there will be some white men unable to forget that, with malignant heart and deceit ful speech, they have striven to hinder it. Still, let us not be over-sanguine of a speedy fmal triumph. Let us be quite sober. Let us diligently apply the means, never doubt ing that a just God, in his own good timo, will give us the rightful result. Yours, very truly, Special Despatches to The Preso. Captain TirAratzu, of the U. S. steamer De SotO, advises the Navy Department of the enptore of the steamer Alice Vivian, for a violation of the blockade. She represented herself as from Mobile to Havana, laden with cotton, and admitted that she had thrown her papers overboard. Among the passengers transferred to the De Soto were several of the staff of General SLAUGHTER, of the rebel army. SLAnonTarthimself had embarked on board of the steamer with all his staff; but a few hours previous to her leaving Mobile bay, he re tinned to the city with the intention of rejoining the vessel as. soon as he, could remove the baggage thither. But for this he too would have been cap tured. His destination was Texas to raise a bri gade. _ Other rebel captures are reported. Commodore THATCHER. has been ordered to the West Gulf Blockding Squadron, to command the steam frigate Coloradn. CoMmander BOWERS has been detached from the naval rendezvous, at Portsmouth, N. H., and order ed to command the receivingship Vandalic Commander lin Ror has been ordered to command he sloop-OP war Oneida. Lieutenant Commander E. P. WILLIAMS has been detached from the Powhatan, and ordered to com mand the Huron. Lieutenant-Commander CmAs. E. FLEMING has received preparatory orders to command the Saga more. Lieutenant-Commander ROBERT Born has been detached from the receiving ship at Boston, and or dered to the Posvhatan. The life Interest of seventeen different owners of valuable real estate, in Washington, was to have been sold to-day. A large number of persons were in attendance, but after the provost marshal had read the decree of the eourt, Provost Marshal TODD pro duced a letter from the military authorities stating that they would give up no part of the property of which they now have possession. A postponement of the sale till Wednesday next was then announced. The Swiss Uonsulstaip. The President has recognized PAUL GuYE as Vice Consul of the Swiss Confederation, at St. Louis, for the States of Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, and the ter ritory of Nebraska. FORTRESS MONROIZ, Sept. I:Write of election, dated August 26th, for a judge of the First Judicial district, composed of the counties of Princess Anne, Norfolk, Nansemond, Isle of Wight, &a., were re. cebred-yesterday by Mr. R. G. Staples, chief clerk to assistant quartermaster, to be forwarded to the sheriffs of the different counties in said district, for an election to be held on Monday, September 28th, to supply the place of Richard S. Baker. who has failed to take lhe oath of allegiance to the United States Government The steamship S. R. Spaulding is hourly expected from Charleston. Gen. Gilmbre , s Reply to Beauregard. Wesairccrrox, Sept. 2 —The following is Gen. Gilmore's reply, a brief notice of which has been published from the rebel papers, to Beauregard's communication, already printed at length, of the same date: Sin E I have the honor to acknowledge the re ceipt of your communication of this date, complain ing that one of my batteries has opened upon the city of Charleston, and thrown a number of heavy ride shells into that city, the inhabitants of which; of course, were asleep and unarmed. My letter to you demanding the surrender of Fort Sumpter and Morris Inland, and threatening, in de fault thereof, to open fire upon Charleston, was de livered near Fort Wagner at 11.15 o'clock A.M., on the 21st instant, and should have arrived at your headquarters in time to have permitted your an ewer to reach me within the limit assigned—namely, four hours. The fact that you were absent from your headquarters at the time of its arrival may be re garded as an unfortunate circumstance for the city of Charleston, but it is one for which I clearly am not reaponsible. This letter bore date at my headquarters, and was officially delivered by an officer of my staff. The inadvertent omis sion of my signature doubtless affords ground for special pleading, but it is not the ergo, rent of a commander solicitous only for the safety of eleeping women and children and unarmed men. Your threats of retaliation for, acts of mine, which you do not allege to be in violation of civilized war fare, except as regards the length of time allowed as notice of my intentions, are passed by without corn ment. I will, however, call your attention to the well-established principle that the commander of a place attacked, but not invested, having its avenues of escape open and practicable, has no right to expect any notice of an intended bombardment, other than that which is given by the threatening attitude of his adversary. Even had this letter not been written, the city of Charleston has had, RC cording to your own computation, forty days' notice of lier danger. During that time my attack upon her defences has steadily progressed., The ultimate object of that attack has at no time been doubtful. If, under the circumstances, the life of a single noncombatant`is exposed to peril by the bombard ment of the city, the responsibility rests with those who have first failed to remove the non•combatants, or secure the safety of the city, after having held control of all its approaches for a period of nearly two years and a half, in the presence of a threaten ing force, and who afterwards refused to accept the terms upon_which the bombardment might have been postponed. From various sources, official and othetwise, I am led to believe that most of the women and children of Charleston were long sincei removed from the city. But upon your assurance that the city is still full of them, I shall suspend the bombardment until 11 o'block P. M. to-morrow, thus giving you two days from the time you acknow ledge to have received my communication of the 21st inst. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Q. A. GILMORE, Brigadier General Commanding. , G. T. BEANREGARD, Commanding Confederate States forces, Charleston, S. C. The Battle of Honey Springs, Arkansas— Conduct of the Negro Wroops—General Blunt's Official Report. WABRIVOTON, Sept. 2. 7 -General Blunt, in his official report of the battle of Honey Springs, Ark,i says: "The Ist Kansas (colored) Regiment I .darticu larly distinguished themselves. They fought like veterans, and preserved their line unbroken through out the engagement. Their coolness and bravery I have never seen surpassed. They were in the hot test of the fight, opposed to the Texan troops, twice their number, whom they completely routed. One Texan regiment (the 20th) that fought against them, went into the fight with three hundred men, and came out with only sixty." MARIVIADDKE , S CAVALRY DEFEATED, AND COLONEL BURBRIDGE CAPTURED. ST. LOMB, Sept. 2.—General Steele telegraphs General Schofield from Duvall's Bluff, Arkansas, on August 26th, that our advance, under General .Davidson, has driven filarmadukes cavalry, about a,OOO strong, Out of Brownsville, capturing. Colonel Burbridge and some privates. At the last accounts, General Glover's 'Srigade was pnahing the enemy towards'Bayou Melorie. A despatch from Pilot Knob says that deserters from Burbridge's command report that Prices forces had been driven across the Arkansas on the 29th ult. The zrebels were in full retreat, and Steele and Davidson were in hot pursuit of them. IllirmadukePos command was completely routed and scattered, and Little Rock was within the grasp of the Federal army. LotrisviLLn, Sept. 2.--Hughee, with from fifty to a hundred rebels, appeared in Burksvile to•day. It id reported that Hamilton, with from five to six hundred rebels, had reached Jameston, near Frank lineville. A Contradiction. Sept.STavENBON, Ala., p statements impli cating Colonel William Trueedale, chief of the army • police, in cotton speculations, are, on the authority of thejudge advocate, declared to be false. A. LINCOLN wA ITING Sor WASHINGTON September 2, 1967. Naval Capiuree. Confiscation. Fortress Monroe. CIIMESTON. DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, Headquattere in the Field, MORRIS ISLAM,, August 22, 9 P. M. TRH WAR IN ARKANSAS. The War in Kentucky. The fladicar Emancipation Convention of Missouri.. JEFFERSON GITV, NO., Sept. 2.—ln the Emanci pation Convention this morning a committee of one from each county in the State was appointed to visit Washington, to lay before the President the grie vances of the loyal people of Missouri. A resolution was passed inviting the Union men of Kansas to send a delegation to Washington, to act in conjunction with the committee appointed by the Convention. Henry A. Clover, of St. Lords ; Arnold A. Kre. lad, of St. Charles, and David Wagner, of Lewis county, were nominated by acclamation for Judges of the Supreme Court. A resolution was adopted instructing the State Executive Committee of the Emancipation party to prepare a public nddreae, calling upon the people to form a State organization and a central organiza tion in the "United States, to give efficacy and power to radical reforms in our Federal relations. A. resolution was also adopted, providing - fora committee of five to prepare a system of organiza tion for the friends of freedom, in this State, that shall take cognizance, not only of the dangers now impending, but for future emergencies. The Committee on Resolutions reported' a plat form, in substance as follows Fired. Sustaining the Government in a. vigorous prosecution of the war to complete the final sup pression of the rebellion. Second. Denouncing the military polioy pursued in this State, and the delegation by the General Go viimment of the military powers to a proviiional State organization, the whole tendency of which is to throw back the people under the control of the pro.slavery party, and by reactionary influences to paralyze the Federal power in suppressing the re bellion ; to prolong a reign of terror throughout a large sestion of the State, and extend aid and com fort to then who are meditating hostility to the na tional authority in other States. Third. Endorsing the President's emancipation proclamation, and asking for its prompt execution; declaring thitt they wilt support no one not pledged to its principles ; believing that those liberated under it cannot be reduced to slavery, and refusing to sus tain any reorganization of the country that does not . embody the freedom principles therein con tained. Four/h. Referring to the French influence in Mexico, and calling on the General .Government to resist it. Fifth. Arraigning the Provisional Government as untrue to the loyal people of the State, and giving eight reasons therefor. Sixth. Demanding immediate emancipation in Alia . Bouri. &Tenth. Favoring a constitutional amendment to disfranchise all who have taken up arms against the Government or adhered to the enemies thereof. Eighth. Demanding that the Legislature call a new State Convention, to take into consideration the grievances under which the State now labors. in iize of their refusal nothing can stop the right of the people to mien the mattef.. A committee was appointed to attend the Union meeting to be held at Springfield, 111., to-morrow. Additional resolutions were adopted requesting Governor Gamble and Lieutenant Governor Hall to resign, and the President to remove General Schofield ; denouncing Quantrell's raid on Lawrence, and expressing tc,e warmest um• pathy with Ile survivors of the massacre ; in viting all lovers of "free labor, free soil, and free speech," to seek homes in Missouri, and guarantying them protection ; thanking the gallant soldiers, of Missouri ' • thanking the President for arming ne groes to kill the rebels; warning the members of the Legislature against disregarding the will of the people; requesting the radical members of the Le gislature to vote for 13. Gratz Brown and Benj. Loan for Unitt. d States Senators. The Committee on Public Safety reported the following: .12esolved, That in view of the serious complica tions arising out of hostilities on the part of the Provisional State Government to the National au thority and National policy, and the absence of pro teotion from the inroads of g - uerillas. we hereby in st: uct the present Convention to appoint a general committee of public safety, composed of one from each Congressional district, whose duty it shall be to confer with the loyal men of the State, to organize and arm them for protection, and in the event of no relief being obtained from our present troubles. to call upon the people of the State to act in their sovereign capacity,and take such measures of redress as shall be desired neces sary. The proceedings of the Convention were at tended with much enthusiasm. SYRACUSE, Sept. 2:—On re-aseembling, Postman- ter Wakeman, of New 'York, was made perinanent president of the Convention. 'A. number of vice presidents and secretaries, were also elected. The following ticket was then nominated: For Secretary of the State, Colonel Peter A. Por- ter, of Niagara'; for Controller, Thomas W. Clark, Albany ; for Attorney General, John Cochrane, of New York ; for State Treasurer, George W. Schuy ler, of Tompkins ;Ifor Judge of the Court of Appeals, Henry R. Selden, of Monroe ; for Canal Commis sioner, General Benjamin Y. Bruce, of Onondagal; for State Engineer and Surveyor, W. B. Taylor; for- Inspector of State Prisons, Tames X. Bates. The resolutions adopted declare that while we would joyfully welcome peace, we will not consent to a peace which involves a separation of the Union or the recognition of the right of any State to Secede [denounce the action and policy of Gov, Seymour as unpatriotic . , invidious, and unjust; up holds the foreign policy of the President; denounces the feeling which prompted the New York riots, and invites all men, irrespective of party, to rally around the ticket. From New Orleans. Naw TORN, Sept. 2.—The steamer Morning Star, from New Orleans on the 27th ult., arrived here to night She brings 670 bales of cotton on freight. A movement was on foot in New Orleans to pre. Eclat the 26th Maisachusetts Regiment with a stand of colors, for their good behavior while posted in the city. Many vessels are advertised to leave for St. Louis and other ports up the river. All the vessels of war engaged in the recent ope rations on the Mississippi are to be surveyed, and such of them as need repairs be sent home. Three hundred bales of cotton were sold on Go vernment account on the 25th, bringing prices from 67 to 5614 c. An order has been issued to. regulate the enrolment, recruiting, employment, and education of persons of color. The New> York Union State Convention. SYRACUSE, Sept. 2.—The Ulan, State Conven tion met this morning at 10 o'clock, and after ford ing a temporary organization, took a recess till 2 4:Polack, without transacting any business of impor tame. Ward Hunt was elected temporary, chairman. In the afternoon a committe on permanent organi zation was appointed, when a recess was taken till 5 o'clock P. M. Death of Pemberton Dented. NSW YO.IIW, Sept. 2.—A letter from Memphis, dated the 25th ult , denies the death of General Pemberton;'but says-that his men and officer? had sworn to kill him He had been tsken to Rich mond under a strong guard. Fully two-thirds of his army are in the field under General Hardee. Johnston is in command at Mobile. Departure of stearMrs. NRIN , Yolt, Sept. 2.—The steamer Asia, which sailed from Boston today, for Liverpool via Hali fax, took out $lOO,OOO in specie. The Sidon, which sailed from this pork took no specie. Fires at Williamsburg and Brooklyn. New Yowl', Sept. 2.—A fire at Williamsburg, last night, destroyed the agricultural implement factory of Nashmitz & Brothers. The loss amounted to $20,000. A fire in Brooklyn, this morning, destroyed Robin son's tin factory. LOBEI, $40,000. Declination of James T. Brady. NEW Yonx, Sept 2.—A. note from James T. Brady is published to.day, emphatically declining the candidacy for any office, and refusing to accept any nomination from any political organization. The Steamer Pact°lns. Sm. Join's, Sept. 2.—The steamer Pactolus was boarded off Cape Race at 6 o'clock last evening. Her dates are to the 22d tilt., but have been antici pated. Attempted Bribery. SARATOGA, Sept 2.—Dr. Levy Weed was arrested at Ballston Spa, yesterday, on the charge of attempt ing to bribe the examining surgeon at Seheneo• tady. General Doubleday. New Yoirg, Sept 2,--A. special deepatch to the Commercial nap that General Doubleday has been ordered to report to General Banks. Arrival of the Steamer Shannon. HALIFAX, Sept 2.—The steamer Shannon arrived here to-day from Liverpool, with forty passengers. Her advieee have been anticipated. Lord Lyons at Quebec. QUEBEC, Sept 2.—Lord'Lyons is nere, the guest of Gov. Gamble. He attended a review of the troops to-day on the plains ofr Abraham. He will leave to-morrow for Saguenay. Tampico. Nver Yous, Sept. 2.—The New Orleans Pica/Now of the 32d ult. contains Tampico dates to the 16th, stating that that place was occupied by the French. Burnside's Army Rapidly Advancing. The Cincinnati Commercial of Monday eayl \We have late advicrs from General Burnside's army,i indicating that his movements have been made with extraordinary rapidity, and that a report of decisive results may be expected in a few days. His advance is by this time very near= ICnoxville, Tennessee, and at latest accounts the General, in person, was pestling on with his cavalry. Quantr ell and the Illinois " Democrats*" A correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat says: c'Quantrell, the Kansas assassin was in Spring field, Illinois, on the 11th of June fast, at the great Democratic mass meeting, and was also closeted with some of the leading Democrats of the State on that day. He fully approved Singleton's twenty third resolution, which was submitted to him before it passed the meeting.) , The resolution here referred to was one of the most infamous adopted by the Convention. Markets by Telegr4ph. BAvriivroun, .Sept. 2.—Plour is dull and heavy. Wheat dull and unchanged. Corn quiet; yellowB6o Plc. Oats firm; Maryland, 60&53. Whisky advanc ed 3‘c. Coffee firm. CINCINNATI, Sept. 2.—Flour dull. Wheat firm; red 93@.19.3.14:0 ; white $6.12,,W1 20. r Whisky active at 46c, closing buoyant and unsettled. Mesa Pork sells at 100 for old. There is a firmer feeling gene rally for other articles. A Flour CONSCRIFT.—The Pittsburg Chronich of the lith instantiesys : t , We had a visit yesterday from an exceedingly interesting specimen of hu manity named Lewis Greene, who was among those drafted in Blonongalia township, Greene county, but who, from his extreme diminutiveness, was re jected by the board. Lewis is twenty.two years of age, Setts scarcely larger than a boy of eight, but far better made than any dwarf we have ever seen, and a vast:deal more sprightly, intelligent, and in teresting. After - he Was drawn he received - his no.' lice the same as other conscripts, and presented' him self on Tuesday before the board of examination. The provost marshal ordered his exemption on sight, whereupon be affected to be greatly . disappointed, remarking, in-a loud voice, that in rejecting him the. board had refused - a 'thorough-going Union man, and deprived the army of one of the beet eoldiers of the State.' " NEW YORK CITY. (Correspondence of The Press.] Ninv Yozr, September 2, 1863. " CATCHING A TAMAR." There is now resident among us Mr. James Mores, a gentleman whose courageous course during the re cent riotaibronght him' into prominence, and whose connection with the primary nucleus of the Aboli tion party, Ms already rendered him somewhat notable. Mr. Morse was an intimate friend of the lamented Lovejoy, who was assassinated by pro slavery murderers, at Alton, Illinois. When the latter gentleman took refuge in the building where he was ultimately alas, Mr. Morse accompanied him, and caught him in his arms, after the- fatal shot Was fired. Re was, also, the only man, claiming to be poor Lovejoy's friend, who dared, in the then murderous state of public feeling, to follow the body to the grave. When Governor Seymour'', "friends" attacked the house of Mayor Opdyke, Mr. Mores, unarmed as he- was, sallied out to protect it from sack. Long before the police appeared upon the ground, he, in conjunction with other gentlemen, resisted the mob, and saved the building from demo lition. In one instance, a stalwart, desperate-rioter,. rushed up the steps, intent on forcing an entrance, and leading his accomplices on to the work of ruin. In the doorway he encountered Mr. Mores, and a desperate struggle ensued. Mores, who is a tall, athletic man, finally succeeded in wrenching the bludgeon from. his -assailant's hand, and al most brained him with a bloW which sent him down headlong into the • street, and pre vented any aggressive act on his part there after. After the grand charge >of the police, which he describes as something absolute terribl& finding that the, safety of the building was perma nently assured, he hastened to other infested locali ties, lending his aid most freely to the authorities in their endeavors to crush the ineurrectiontsta. In many of the most stubborn conflicts he took a pro minent part; among others, in the struggle to save the Tribune office; and as a practical testimony of good service, his wrist and hand were bruised to discoloration from the constant use of the locust which he wielded so effectively in the cause of law and order. The Copperheads, in their insane enthusiasm for killing the Abolitionist& literally caught a Tartar, in this instance. Although residing in a menaced locality, and indeed within hear ing of the mobs, Mr. Mores boldly offered an asylum to houseleas negroes, and in a nlanner less cau tious than most men would have cared to adopt; this, too, when,his own family dared not retire at night, for fear of an attack from the Seymour ites, who were unfortunately for themselves, practically acquainted with his sentiments in regard to putting down rebellion, whether it raged at home or in the South. If, as the'Copperhead press asserts, the Abolitionists were the instigators of the slaveholders' rebellion, and Mr. Mores being an Abolitfoniet,the logical sequence follows from these two premises that Mr. Morse was one of the insti gators. But when, opposed to this Byllogism, we naVE the fact thilt he treated tte N:ortftgril fricri4 shabbily, and enlarged the phrenological develop ments of many of them so abnormally with his "locust" we certainly find ourselves confronted by a strange political paradox, to say the least of it. THE PRECAUTIONS OF GENTRA.L DIX The troops who were summoned here by General Dix, for the preservation of order, and the protec tion of our citizens against murder and robbery by the "innocent people," are, as far as I am able to ascertain, to remain at the North until the draft shall have been enforced throughout the State. Strong detachments are stationed in Brooklyn, where the draft is now in progrCES. The river is still patrolled by the miniature navy of armed tug boats, and our parks, notwithstanding tbe ceaseless moan of the disloyal press, are yet "infested" by the presence of blue coats. At the custom house, the detachment of marines remains on guard. These facts would seem to indicate that the Government suspects more than the generality of a confiding public is able to appreciatm The suspicious course of our disloyal Governor, at all events, must con tinue to justify apprehensions. An ounce of pre vention is better than a pound of cure, and it is poa sible that we may yet have this maxim proved prac tically enough. Quien sabe? A-SPLIT IN THE COPPERHEAD PARTY. The famous correspondence between General Dix and Seymour, which resulted in the appeal to the Government for aid, ir still the subject of general discussion, and, In the culminating arguments, the Copperheads find themselves rather unable to keep up their end. The people are becoming thoroughly awakened to the character of Seymour, and even those who were originally his staunchest sup porters are, in many instances, disposed to forsake him and his affiliators, if they have not done so al ready. Democrats of fabulous persistency do not hesitate to avow their dissatisfaction with the dis graceful policy which he has inaugurated, and his friends are now to be found only among those whom he so plainly designated, in his childish and sympa thetic speech from the City Hall steps, during the riots. In fact, the Seymour-Wood party is now dis membered; the respectable wing having severed it self when the mob, patted on the back by his Excel lency, stood forth as the exponent of his principles. To-day, were Horatio Seymour - a candidate for re election, he would not poll a tithe of the respectable votes which his sophistical assurances secured be fore. Men, now that the enthusiasm of party spirit has cooled, are enabled to observe and appreciate the character of the man for whom they threw up their hats in the heat of the canvass, and it is very certain that unless he is able to patch up his reputation by some act of ostensible decency, some hair brained, unwilling performance, savoring of loyalty to the cause of the Union, he is p-olitical ly dead, buried, and out of remembrance. This is one of the political suicides where all genuine men are enthusiastic to pay the undertaker, and impress upon him the necessity of promptitude in the per formance of hie functions. A NOTABILITY - has recently appeared in our midst, in the shape of Colonel Estvan, an Englishman, who was lately an officer in the Confederate service. Estvan, it will be remembered, is the author of a work entitled " War Pictures from the South," which gave a rather unprejudiced view of the war, as far as mili tary operations were concerned. He is transiently in New York on literary and artistic business. Jefferson Davis' Letters. The Indianapolis Journal of Saturday last says: "The other day a carload, more or less ' of the pri vate paperwol Jeff Davis, found by our troops' near Jackson, Miss., passed through Vincennes on the way to Washington. Among them were all,, or nearly all, the really important lettere that were found. A few, no doubt, are kept by the soldiers as cmiosities, but the greater portion were collected from their captors, by order, for examination by the authorities. Before long the public will learn what revelations are made in these interesting documents, but we may anticipate a fuller disclosure so far as to state that one letter from Judge Wick, of this city, and another from Jesse D. Bright, both dated in 1861, and full of the moat virulent rebel sympathies, are among them. Captain Conner, of the 12th Regi ment, was the fortunate finder of Judge Wicks' let ter, which, he assured us yesterday, ' was a regular Secesh harangue.' intended to have kept it, but it was deemed by the officers charged with collect ing and forwarding the papers to the Government too important to be omitted, and was, therefore, sent with the - rest. That of Jesse D. Bright was found by another officer, who told Captain Conner of it, and of its thoroughly treasonable character; but it, too, was seized by the official collector as of too much consequence to be kept in a private col lection of mementoes. If these facts will give the gentlemen particularly interested any com fort we ate happy to be the means of conveying it to them." - Colored Soldiers. From the Nashville Union, August 20 The city,police recently arrested several negro soldiers for infractions of the municipal laws. Their offences were investigated by Recorder Shane, who sent them to the, workhouse. On the iSth instant the following notice was sewed upon the Recorder, and the negroes were accordingly 'turned over to the military authorities : "HEADQUARTERS ENGINEER HEPARTACENT, " NearivlLLn, Tenn., August 15. " William Shane, Esq., Recorder of the city of Nashville: "Sin :'I understand that there are now confined in the Nashville jail or workhouse the following named colored men : James Moore, Willis Moore, James Brice, of Company B, and Renry Miller, of 'Company E. These men are enlisted and mustered into the service of the United States, and belong to the - army. They are under military rule, and not subject to civil authority. You will deliver, or order them to be delivered into the custody of Lieutenant Samuel G. Webb, adjutant of this department, and if .you will give a statement of their confinements, I will have them punished, if they, have deserved it, when they are returned to their camp. "I have the honor to be, your obedient servant, "JAMES R. WILLET', 6, First Lieut. Sth Illinois Infantry, conVing.n It will to seen from this communication that it is the intention of our military authorities to place all United States soldiers on the same footing, without regard to color. In the management of the police affairs of this city, the offences of soldiers who may be arrested are investigated by military tribunals ; citizens by the civil tribunals, unless their offences are such as require the investigation of the military. Negro soldiers will, like their white comrades, be tried by military authority. THE New York Jourrial of Commerce reminds Beauregard that he threw hot shotinto Fort Sump ter, and cannot see the difference between throwing red-hot shot into Sumpter and setting fire to its wooden buildings, making that place -a miniature hell for the brave men who were in it, and throwing cold shot with fiery mixtures inside of them to kin dle flames in Beauregard's quarters in the city of Charleston. Public Entertainments. WALNVUT•STEEET THEATEO.—This establishment; was reopened last evening. Its beauty and bril liancy have been materially increased. The repaint ing of a portion of the curtain, and the abolish. meat .of that imitation of Mrs.. Siddons were im provements. Of the character of both play and company we have not at present a great deal to say. Cubes did not succeed, we think,in her speaking character. As a danseuse and pantomimist she ex eels. Her gifts of nature, united with those which art has granted her, render her alhandeorne, woman, and successful artiste. We are inclined to think she has stepped out of her line in the play of " Ls. vengro." her voice is effete, indistinct ; _her pro nunciation inexpressibly amusing. We do not doubt she has taken much pains to pro nounce even. as well as she does. But what distinction is to be accorded to the artist, who, un unsolicited, assumes a foreign tongue, and pro nounces love loaf; miserable :mania meoseyrable OSSOSSin, and et cetera ad infinitum l The Senorita should either adhere to her hitherto successful and very pleasing line of business or else perfect herself in her new role. =The crowded house last evening was due, of course, to thafact of its being a first night, as well as a tribute to the ability of Cubes. The play was excessively tiresome and incompre hensible. The old members of the company were warmly greeted, and the new ones were not coldly received. Of these, more anon. .A first night is al wa3 a a nervous affair Nut so much painstaking was evident in the production of " Lavangro " that, in this respect, little or no fault was to be found with it. The success of the r Walnut this season will probably equal that of the last. LARGE POSITIVE ILICD EtiTIINSII4I SAME DET GOODS, &C.—The partiCular attention of dealers is rceuested to the large and valuable assortment of MA, French, German, and American dry goods, &c., embracing about, Soo packages and lots of very dcairable staple _and, fancy articles, in woolens, tvorateCs linens, cottons, and silks, to be perempto rlly sold by catalogue, on four months' credit, and I art for cash, commencing this morning, at ten, o'clock', precisely; to be continued all day and part of the evening, without intermission, by Naha 13: Myers Co., auctioneers, Noe. 232 and 234 Market street. Arrivaf of Prisoners in New York. Lieutenant Commander Charles S. McDougal, of the United States steamer Liendrik Hudson, brought to this port yesterday forty-four rebel 'prisoners, captured attempting to run the blockade out of Mo. bile in the steamers Alice Vivian and Nita, this being their fourth attempt to get to Havana. The prisoners were delivered into the custody of United States Marshal Murray, and a ferw of them, who were aliens, were discharged. The remainder were sent to the house of detention to await further or ders from Washington concerning them. This is by far the best looking set of men that have yet been brought to this city !from rebeldom, Among them are Major H. Borland, Confederate States Army, son of the late Senator Borland, of Ar kansas, recently of General Slaughter's staff; of Mobile; Surgeon T. T. Pratt, Confederate States Army ; and Carlo Patti, Confederate army, also of General Slaughter's staff: Patti is own brother of Adelina Patti, and made most ALIXIMS inquiries after his family, whom he has not heard from fora long time. Our reporter had an in. terview with the prisoners, and Patti stated to hint that he bad been in eight dfferent battles, including the that Bull Run fight,.and had served principa ll y in the signal corps. Ma jor Borland is a West Point graduate, and a young gentleman of culture and re• finement. He said little, but evidently felt his Pe solar position very keenly. Another of the prison ers is Captain George A. Preston, Confederate States army, of General Kirby Smith's staff. Preston is a nephew of Kirby Smith also, of the lion. William Ballard _Preston, at one time Secretary of the Navy of the United States. He was quite communicative on matters not nearly related to military subjects, but said little regarding his capture, or the cause in which he had been. engaged. On this latter point the general opinion among all the prisoners seemed to be that they had been acting right, although as things now appeared, in a hopeless cause. J. B. McDonough and IL Forest had been actors at the Mobile Varie. ties, but held minor commissions in the rebel army to exempt them from the eonscription. M. B. Mo ses was agent tor the Southern Express Company at Mobile, and had also held a commission in the rebel army to exempt him from the draft. The re. =hinder were clerks in stores and hotels, one or two were merchants, and a few were seamen. EL bag, containing letters and despatcriee ' was also de livered ro Marshal Murray, and will be forwarded to Washington. The nature of these papers has not transpired, they being tightly sealed and ad dressed to the Secretary of the Navy. Some of the prisoners represent some of the first families.--He. raid, &pi. 2. Coy. Kirkwood on the Dthurbances in At a recent Union meeting in Dubuque, Gov. Kirkwood, of lowa, addressed his fellow-citizens as fellows, in the course of a vigorous speech : " You remember a draft was commenced the other day in New York, and a mob was raised to atop it ; and threats have been made that the same thing would be done here in Dubuque. And I wanted to talk here in Dubuque just long enough to tell you that it will be a bad thing for yditto start a mob here in opposition to the draft. It is for your own interest that no mob is started here ; but if you do not see to it that no mob is started, I tell you that I will see to it that any mob which is started shall be put down for you l You see that I am not only a plain-looking man, but a plain-epeaking man ; and I intend to speak plainly. "When this war began, lowa had no history. People in the East knew there was such a State west of the Mississippi, but they supposed it was inhabited by a few white persons, a good many Indiana. and that the balance of the population W 53 composed of wolves. But lowa's soldiers have been Making a patriotic name for her. On every battle field since the commencement of the war in the West, they have fought, and fought with a bravery not surpassed by the troops of any other State in the. Union. lowa has a naniehow. And it will bee shame, a burning shame, men and women of lowa, if the soldiers who are in front of the enemy, cannot be assured that their wives, and children, and loved ones at home will be protected from traitors in the rear. thy, down in Keokuk coun ty the county records were packed up, and about: to be carried to some more safe place of deposit; and the wives and families of absent soldiers trembled, and tied in fear from their homes. What will the soldiers think—what did the soldiers from Keokuk county think, when they learned that their homes had been in jeopardy, and that their mothers, and wives, and daughters, and sisters, were made to tremble for their lives, unprotected, because they had given up those who once eared for them to the service of their country? Such a burning shame shall not disgrace our. State. and grieve the hearts of our noble soldiers again, With out-punishment, dire, swift, and sure, reaches the traitor that engages in it. The homes, and families, and property of those who have gone to fight their country's battles must be protected; and may My God forget me in my hour of sorest need if I do not see to it that they are protected P, Ilavan a—Removal of the Walls of the City. [Correspondence of the Jotfrnal of Commerce.] HAvama, August 10, 1863.—0 n the morning of the Bth inst., at 7 o'clock, began the work of demolition upon the walls of the faithful city of Havana, ac- cot ding to the programme which had been duly pub lished, for free air and thoroughfares. The first stone was displaced and dropped in the ditch by the Cap tain General Governor Dulce, and salvos from the walls followed the act, uttered by heavy ordnance, to give echo from the heavens- of progressive power over the moss covered towers and walls representing the ancient idea of strength and safety. The walls are to go down. "Once begun the work is half done," says the Diane, with due commendation, from the supreme power down to all who have labored for this end. The construction of the walls commenced in 1633, under the administration of General Juan Bitrian Viamonte, and were finished in 1740, under the energetic and most important ad ministration of the early history of Cuba, that of Field Marshal Juan Francisco Guetnes de Ron csaitas, who was retained twelve years in the com mand on account of hie brilliant services to the State in saving Cuba from the rapacity of the British under . General Vivian. That administration is memorable for the establishment of a postal system through the Island, the building and launching of five ships-of-the:line of seventy guns each, four frigates of fifty guns, and two corvettes or sloops of twenty-four guns, and various other important measures, which made the basis of subsequent pros perity of Cuban industry and the safety of the people fit= niere piratical incursions. The ditches and covert way were not entirely-finished until the year 1797, under the administration of the Conde de Santa Clara ; so that the walls from completion are but one hundred and twenty three years old, and the fosse and coverts sixty-six years. TOBACCO IN CHESTER COUNTY.—A number of farmers in Chester county have gone into the tobac co business, and on almost every farm you can see a small patch 'sown with tobacco. Some of it looks very line, and is nearly fit to cut. The price that " weed " now demands, makes it about as profitable as anything our farmers can plant. Whether it will lead our farmers or their sons into the practice of its use, We cannot say ; but we should not be at all surpristd to see many of our farmers seated on the fence, in the shade, enjoying the " luxuries " of a good pipe, the same as they now do a good apple, and instead of saying to the passer-by, " Come and have an apple," it will be, " Come and have a whiff." —Record. DEATH OP A COLORED CENTENARIAN.—Died August 8, 1863, at the Montgomery county alms house, Mrs. Lydia Cox ' (colored), aged, a few days lacking, one hundred and six years. The deceased was born in the State of New Jersey a slave in 1787. She served as a slave until she was married t when she was taken as a house servant ; she always made a distinction between a slave and servant, considering the latter more honorable. Af ter she had served 28 years she was granted her li berty. She felt great pride rdi speaking of the kind nr ss of her masse. In conversation with her, many incidents of the Revolution came into her recollec tion, and she seemed highly pleased to converse about the scenes and incidents of those bygone times. She recollects of having seen the American army, under Washington, at Trenton, previous to the battle there, and part of the British, or red-coals, as, she called them. She was living at that time on the spot where Washington defeated the British, and re lated with much amusement, the incident of a British soldier taking refuge in the bake oven attached to the house, and how her mistress sent her to tell the guard of his concealment and capture by the soldiers of Washington. She often went to see the army of Washington ' and rejoiced in the victories over the British and Hessians. She also saw. General La fayette several times, and spoke of him as the second Washington. The house she resided in was riddled with bullets. In the year 1823 she became thus being deprived of her sight for forty yea] - STUYVESAINU. ON SICK LIZAVE.--Colonel John F. Hartranft ar rived at his hoine in Norristown, last week, from Vicksburg. He 1,0 on a = thirty-days sick leaves having been attacked, while at Vicksburg with chills and lever, which prevails to a considerable extent in our army there. .The Colonel has been for some time in command of a brigade in the 9th Army Corps. But few officers have rendered such efficient service to the Government since the break ing out of the present war, and we cannot see why his claims for promotion are passed over. The star of a brigadier could not be more worthily bestowed, 'at this time, than upon Colonel Hartranft. PRAvaits von °nit SOLDixus.—We> would . call the attention of the citizens of Pottstown to the fact, that on eVery Tuesday and Friday morning, at 8 o'clock, the Episcopal Church of this borough, is open for prayer in behalf of our country and her soldiers. These services havab- been kept up ever since the late raid of the rebels into Pennsylvania, and we believe they have been very well attended.-- Pottslownpaper. BEERS COUNTY Porrrics.—George J. Eckert, Esq , chairman of the Union County Committee of Berks county, has issued a call for a meeting to be held in Reading on. Saturday afternoon next, for the purpose of placing in nomination a 'Union ticket to be supported at the election this fall, and also to ratify the nominations of Curtin and Agnew. NEW DErox.—The Lehigh Talley Railroad Com pany have erected a fine new brick depot building at Lehighton station. It is located about one hun dred yards east of the Weiseport bridge. Ix OPERATION.—The rolling mill at Allentown went into operation week before last. Nothing but merchant iron is manufactured. About fifty hapds are employed at present. COUNTY CONVENTION.—The Democratic County Convention, of Lehigh county, will be held at the public house of E & P. Bitner, at Pleasant Corner, in Heidelberg township, on Saturday, the P2th of September. THR POTATO CROP of Cheater county is very find this season, end there is a fair prospect of coming down to the - old-time price of fifty cents per bushel. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Gold was very firm to-day, opening at 127%, closing 128,V , steady. There is a large bull interest at work, and they make the most of unfavorable rumors. The "short" interest also helps to sustain the market, and when the latter is satisfied and the former neutralized by good news, we shall see if the present price will be maintained. In the event of trouble with France, gold certainly would advance, but we think it would be more in accordance with the necessities of trade than speculative motives. It - rose to 170 because many were making money out of it, and everybody desired to do the same thing, and almost everybody had their lingers into the great bullion speculation, and not a few had their fingers burnt. It was not the legitimate purchases which put the price up, but the inflation caused by buying on time—buying at to.day's figure with an agree nient to deliver at any time within thirty, sixty, or ninety days—in most cases parties merely paying or receiving the difference in the value at the expire lion of the time, or when the option is used, no gold whatever passing between the parties. The act of Congress effectually shuts up this business by restricting operations to three days or lees, under the penalty of a heavy tax. The condition of the money market remains the same ; large amounts are offered at 6 per cent., bor. rowers being compelled to pay 6. Government Securities are firm, 10634 for 1881 s being bid. In New York they and the seven-thirties are selling at 107. Tee five twenty loan is progressing very favorably, from five to eight hundred thousand dollars being taken every day. Jay Cooke, Esq., the agent, re ports the subscriptions as coming from all parts of the country, and-he anticipates a continuance of the same until the entire loan is taken. The stock market opened active and strong, but fell - off later in the day. At the close prices were but somewhat lower. A entail lot of State fives sold at 100% ; new City 6s were in demand at 106 X, the old at 101% ; Pennsylvania Railroad first mortgage rose X"; 10734 was bid for second do; Beading bonds were steady, 109 was bid for 1880, 107 for 18 . 70 ; 122 for the convertible ; Elmira Sevens sold at le9 ; 106 was bid for Philadelphia and Erie ; 109 for Sunbury and Erie sevens. Reading sharses opened at 60%, closing at 60; Little Schuylkill rose %; North Pennsylvania was steady, at 163 f,; Catawissa preferred, at 24; Hunt & ingdon and L liroad Top, at 21; IYUnehill, at 01 . ; Nor • PENNSTLYANIA ITEMS. THE MONEY MARKET. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2, 1863 riatown, ; Pennsylvania sold at 66,4@)&53‘; Camden and Atla.otic preferred, at 22; Long Island. at 47 ; Philadelphia and Erie, at 27. Paesenger rail ways are stronger. Seventeenth and Nineteegth sold at 12x ; Race and yine, at 10,1¢ ; 42 was bid for Tenth and Eleve n th ; 22 f or (3i card Avenue; 44 for Green and Coates; 16 for Spruce and Pine ; 66 for Market street; 80 for Second and Canal stocks were dull. W)'oralttg Sold at 52 ; Le. hlglt, at 68K. 12 war bid for se k huylkill Navigation ; 24% for the preferred ; the fsixe,s, 1882, aold at 83K ; Susquehanna scrip gold at 62, sixes at 63. Hazleton Coal sold at 62 ; New Creek, at s.; Me chanics' Bank, at 27. The market closed firm. Drexel & Co. quote: United States Bonds. 11. S. new Certificates of Indebtedness......... 99%99/5 U. S. old Certificates of Indebtedness... ---,PA XIOW United States 7 2-10 Notes -106% .6.17 Quartermasters' Vouchers 89 993 g Orders for Certificates of Indebtedness 3i Vdts Gold 127ig Lax kterling Exchange 140 X 141 Say Cooke Is. Co. quote Government Securities, &e., as follows United States sixes. 1881... United States 740 Certificates of Indebtedness Do. do new.. Roarterrlasters' Vouchers. Demand notes ' Sates flve.twenties, tp,493.5c0 The following is a statement of the business of the Philadelphia Custom House for the month of Au gust, 1863, as compared with the two previous years: August. Merchandise in warehouse, let of month 1 232,909 77.516 932,40 Received in warehouse from foreign ports 10,619 69,806 150.241 From other districts 3,460 3.656 41,276 Withdrawn from warehouse for consumption 117,573 33,714 295.872 Wiihd'wn for transportation 5,751 4,143 2,326 Withdrawn for exportation. 15 .... • 3,506 Remaining in warehouse, last of month ..... ... .:1,126,679 107,553 612.465 Dutiable goods' entered for consumption direct from foreign poets 120.828 426,058 291.605 Free goods- entered 242 508 16.413 57.844 Domestic goods!exported.... 563,610 1,049.481 549,426 DITTIES RECEIVED 1860. 1861. 1862. 1863. Außust 863.218 63.587 240.404 288,678 Previous 7 m05...1.616,556 1.006,24 2,696.285 L 6aitt 975 1,979,773 1,069,809 2,856,689 1.984.e53 The following shows the receipts of the Delaware Division Canal Company for the week ending Au gust 1863: For week Previously in 1863 Corresponding time last year ncreape 1111863 The following are the comparative receipts of the Susquehanna Canal Company for the week and sea son ending August 31, 1863 Week. Previously. Total. Tons, Tons. Tons. 1969 $6.C94 69 $94 017 24 $lOO,lOl 93 1162 5,947 15 92,482 07 97,526 2.5 $1,037 51. Inc eaee The following ehowa the amount of coal trans ported over the Lehigh Valley Railroad for the week ending August 29, 1863, and previous since December 1, 1862, compared with same time last year Week. Previously. TotaL Tons. Cwt. Tons. Cwt. Tons. Cwt. <1,(Y26 02 166,916 03 170.940 0.5 ITEBEi - - - East Sugar Loaf 4.16 . 3 . 113 161,916 07 109,140 06 Connell Ridge 1,346 12 69,337 07 70.633 10 ?forint Pleasant 1.014'06 21,357 10 22.171 16 Spring Mountain. . ... . . . 3,125 16 75,813 18 74,944 14 Coleraine 955 17 35,818 01 36.803 13 Beaver Meadow 11130 3.163 ID 3.275 411 Neer York and Lehigh. 1,263 02 26.231 11 27.517 13 N. Spring Mountain 1.8.3812 86.4.1.5 01 38,063 13 Jeddo 2,852 09 87,906 03 90.753 12 1.411 07 33,310 00 39.773 07 1,163 11 41,490 01 42,653 15 72313 30,312 02 31,034 15 HarMid) German Penna Ehervale. ...... 496 03 22,4313 00 19,432 03 Illnesville 967 07 XllO 09 1. , C 67 16 23,512 OS 23,542 03 Luck mountain Other Shippere. Total 25,8(5 09 810a40 15 866.036 01 Corresponding week last 5 - ear 27,713 02 514.809 15 572.148 11 Increase Decrease The following shows the business of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company for the week ending August 29, 1863 FROM MARCH CRUNIC. &MIRA Mines Room Run Mines.... ... . . E. Lehigh Mines ..... FAST MARCH CHUNK. Coleraine Mines . • Spring Mountain Smith'e Spring Mount... .. N. Spring Mountain Mies B. Spring Mountain Hazleton Mines Back Mountain— ... ... Council Ridge......... ..... leddo Mines Fulton Mines Harleigh. Mines Mines P. and Duet Coal The following shows the shipments of Coal over the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad. for the week ending Saturday, August 29, 1863, com pared with the same in time 1862: Week. Year. Tone. Cwt. Tons Cwt. . 7,69: 08 209.00 01 • 19,416 03 676,351 07 Shipped North Shipped South Total ?7,1L311 For the corresponding time last year Shipped North 6.639 02 Shipped South Total.. Increase The aggregate amount of exports (exclusive or specie) from New York to foreign ports for the week ending September 1, was $2,536,164. The New York Evening Post of today says: Before the first cession gold was selling at 127%e@ 127%, New York Central at 136, Erie at 117%@117%. Illinois Central at 133, Reading at-I21;%, and Michi gan Southern at 108%. The appended table exhibits the chief movements of the - market compared with' the latent prices of yesterday evening: Wed. Tries, 11. S 6s, 1881, rag 106 U, S. Es, 184.4, 107 107 U. S. seven-thi. - ti..,. 107 107 U. S. 1 year Corti! z01d...161% 101% ;%; U. S.l Tr. Cert. curr'roy 093 E 99% American gold 1.27% 127 X Tenneesee 65 65 Missouri 70% 70% - Pacific 229 N.Y. Cor.tril 136% • Erle ... 116% DIX • • Eris preierred.....— -107% 107% Hadeon River 148% - Er 163% .. Harlem preferred.--. 150 150 Reading...... 15 1 121 Bich. Central. 122 .. 511. ch. Sonthern----.107% 107% • . Mich. So. guar 136% Illinois Gan scrip. 1323fi 13134 Cleveland&Fittsbnrk. • AAR% 101% Ga1ena...:...... 111% ClevelandatFoledo 119% 120% 1 4 , Chicago & Rock Island.ll2% 112 % • . Fort Wayne._ - 91% 92% .. I Prairie du Chien 77 • 77 • • • Alton .1: Terre Ratite-- 62% 64 • • 1% Chicago &Northweat'n. 35% 3534 Canton-- .32 32% Cumberland... .. . 293$ 20% • • 34 Quicksilver. Co 69 59 .. Phllada. Stock Exchange Sales, Sept. S. i:. ~~ • FIRST BOARD. 2000 City 6s new ga5....10134 ' 200 New Creek 5500 do new 106 N 50 Lit &hay U.-- • • 4731 13 Lehigh N. .... , • 583 4 73 do 473 i 100 PhilSekrie R • •..b5 27 8 do .. • 47N 50 do h6O 2.734 50 d 0... ... cash 47.74 50 do .. ... . . • .cash 26% 100 Race & Tine R.... 10.4 NO Long Island 47 240 (abt) Penne 5s ....1003$ lee N Penna. R 18)i 3517th 3t 19th st R.... 1234 304 1 0 Snsq Can 6s 63 100 Reading R......... 60% 25 Catawissa R pref . 24 1000 Penna. R Ist mt.-110)i 100 do.. .. ... pref.. 24 25 Wyom'gVal. bswn 52 5 Mechanics' Bank.. 27 5000 Elmira R. 7. 5....b5 IMO 1000 Schny Nay 6s. 'B2. 5334 5 Norristown 11 60 240 Susq Canal Scrip.. 62. —"SECOND 25 Hazleton Coal • •• 62 210 Heading ...aluflat 603£ ICO do ICO d 0...... slO 60 ' 100 do 100 do 200 do . 200 do 300 do. 200 do, 6102 at 60 .slOwn 60 ....slO 60 Philadelphia SIEPTEMMIER 2—Evening There is some little demand for fresh ground Flour for shipment, but prices remain about the same as last quoted. Sales comprise 1,500 bbls City Mills ex tra and extra family on private terms, and Boo bbls at $5.50 for old stock, and $6Qs la , barrel for fresh ground family. The retailers and bakers are buying moderately, at from $4.75@5 for superfine, $5 25 5 50 for extra, $5.50@6 50 for extra family, and $7(O 750 bbl for fancy brands, according to quality. Bye Flour is selling in a small way at $4.75(55' bbl. Corn Meal is scarce ; 2,000 bbis Brandywine sold on private terms. Pennsylvania is held at $4 la' barrel. GRAlN.—There is not much demand for Wheat, and paces are lower. About 9,000 bus have been cold, at 1300137 c %t bush for old Red, the latter for choice; 79.0@130c for common to prime new do; and 140@1550 VP bush for White, the latter for prime Kentucky. Rye is dullott 105 c for old, and 90c If bush for new. Corn is in demand ; sales comprise about 8,000 bus Western Yellow, at 820, and mixed, at 79 ChEoc t bush. Oats are in fair demand; about 5-000 bus sold at 55@56c for new, and 70c, weight, for old. BARB.—lst No. 1 Quercitron is dull, and offered at $lO ton, without sales. COTTON.—The market is firmer- about 50 bales of middlings have been' disposed of at from 67Q68e ib, sash. GROCERIES.—Sugar is firmly held, with Balmier 200 bhds Cuba at 10%,@lic $9 16. Coffee is scarce, and there is very little (Ding; small sales of Rio are makina ' at 263‘022e go , lb. PROVISIONS.—There is very little doing, and the market is dull. Bacon Hams are in fair demand at 11@l3c ?lb for plain and fancy ; small sales of Mesa Pork are making at . $14.50@15 et bbl. Butter is firmer ; choice is scarce at 20@23e i lb. Lard is dull, and offered at 10.34(010,V,c lb for bbls and tierces. WRISKY'is firmer, and 100 bbls sold at ,50c ; 160 ironboundirobound packages at 61c, and drudge at 48e ift gallon. The following are the receipt' of Flour and Grain. at this port today Flour - Wheat Corn Oats -• New York Markets, Sept. 2i. /leans are firm, with sales of 50 bble at $7 for Pots, and $9 for Pearls. BREADEITTDITS.—The market for State and West-i ern Flour is dull and drooping for common grades of old, but fresh ground is steady and in moderate re quest. The eales are 7,600 bble at $3.90@4.45 for superfine State ; $4.65(04.90 for extra State; $3.90@4.50 for superfine Michigan, Indiana, lowa, Ohio, &a. ; $4.30 @6 for extra do, including shipping brands of round-hoop Ohio at $5,10@6.36, and trade-brands of do. at $5.4007. Southern Flour is dull and unchanged • sales 700 - bbls at $510@6 . 25 for Superfine Balti more,i and $6,30& 76 for extra do. Canadian Flour is inactive and heavy. The sales are 550 bbls at $4.'75@4 95 for common, and OW for good to choice extra. e flour is dull at $3.60@5.20 for the range of fine and superfine.' Corn meal re firm. We quote .Tersey at $3.90 Brandywine $4.35 • Caloric $4.25 ; Puncheons $2l 50. Wheatis generally dull, and common grades rule in favor of the buyer. The sales are 38,000 bushels at 83c@51.05 los Chicago Spring; 910051,12 for Mil waukee Club; $1.1601.18 for anther Iowa; $4.14(0 .1.20 for white: red -Western; $1.21@1.25 for amber Michigan, and $1.2134 for Green Bsy. Bye is quiet at 80©90c for Western and State. Bei ley is nominal. Oats are in active demand, and the market is very ea cited ;'prices are two cents higher, witha fair bust• ices at 436'65 for Western, and 58@63 for State. Corn is 2023 c higher, under reports of great damage to the crops in the West, by frost. There la quite an active inquiry, in part speculative. The Bales are 60,000 bushels, at 76c for shipping, and 73e 74e, for Eastern. Beans are dull and heavy at s9o@3 for manta, and $3 20@3.30 for marrowfats. Canada peas are nr minal at $l. PiREIGHTIS.--To Liverpool 2,000 bbls flour at le Td. @ls 9d; per Great Eastern, 1,000 bble flour at le 10Xd '• 7,060 bun wheat at 73rd , To London 2, 60 s bble d our at 2s 3d. . .Uors are very firm with a fair demand for brew, ine - at 15@20. GI - LEM:E.—We notice sales of 300 pkgs at 8X: WHISMY is decidedly firm, bat not active; sales 450 bbli at 411;00+ 1063 1073 i i .106'4 1073.4 1013 f. 101 .54s 119.3 i 993 i 99 _ 99 127,Nr4rAfbi (girl2io" 1562. 1363 '17,095 77 92 623 65 • - - 42 60.092 :-03 $1,534 17 *2,572 68 Z 5,395 00 Z 3,487 07 For theWook. TotaL Tons. Cwt. Tons. Cwt. —11426 07 227.23410 .... 2,552 05 55.613 10 •••• 1,237 17 10,739 05 EMMf= 343 07 1,1X38 15 2,77003 21.707 15 1.496 07 16 415 16 2.7113 15 46, 2559 11 814 19 1,207 00 730 06 10.273 00 905 18' 17.254 63 606 1.9 10,118 05 950 13 1,759 08 2,176 14 414,967 C 6 eSS, 21 11 212.2981 T .502.893 05 7'7.663.02 .67a59 CO Adv. Dee. 100 Reading R. ..... b 5 60 4 13.00) City 6s ...... ....10111; 2000 do new 1020 60 Cam & Atlan pref.. 22 38 Pen na R. 65" 72 do 6.5. K 1 Norristown R 5911. N Penna R 19 15 Hunt & TR. 21 10 ininehill R • . 63 _2,200 bbls. ....9,775 bush. ....2,700 bush. ....6,000 bush.