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EMZEIII
FOURTH AND <MARKET STREETS,
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AND WINDOW CURTAIN PAPERS,
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oods. from the 'cheapest Brown Stook to the finest
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SILVER-PLATED WARE.
SILVER PLATED WARE
MANUFACTORY.
TEA SETS,
CASTORS, •
WAITERS, • .
ICE PITCHERS, &c., &c.
85 .MOSS,
,„eB-2m • .225 SOUTH FIFTH STREET.
DRUGS.
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Illortheut Corner"7OITILTH and BLOB Streets.
kIIILADELPHIA.
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS]
lEPOIMM AND DEALERS
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SILK AND DRY-GOODS JOBB KRNI.
1 86 3 . FALL AND WINTER 1863 .
'DRY" G-003305.;
RIEGEL, WIEST. & ERVIN
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF
DRY GOODS:
NO. 47 NORTH THIRD STREET,
PBILADBLPHIA.
We are constantly receiving large lots of all kinds of
fresh and desirable Goods hferchants trlri find it to
their advantage to call and examine our stock before
purchasing elsewhere, is we can offer them inducements
unequalled by any other establishment in Philadelphia.
se9-2m
CASH HOUSE.
Bought exclusively for cash, and which will bo oola.
at a small advance. • eel-Sm
TFIOS• MELLOR As C..
We invite the attention of the trade to our large etock of
HOSIERY, GLOVES,
SII - IRT - S,DRAW - ERBI
GERMANTOWN 'FANCY WOOLENS,
LINEN CAMBRIC HDKFS.,
44 LINENS, AND SHIRT FRONTS.
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JAMES, KENT, -.
SANTEE, da Co.,
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF
DRY GOODS,
Nos. 5139 and 241 N. THIRD STREET. ABOVE RAC!.
PHILADELPHIA..
Nave now open their usual
LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK
OF ,
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS,
Among which will be found a more than usually attrac
tive variety of
LADIES' DRESS GOODS;
Also. a fall assortment of
' MERRIMACK ANDand COCIIIICO PRINTS.
PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS.
To which they invite the SPECIAL ATTENTION OF
CASH BUYERS. au27-2m
TO WHOLESALE BUYERS.
THOMAS W. EVANS Be CO.
INVITE THE ATTENTION OF
WHOLESALE BUYERS
TO THEIR LARGE AND WELL-SELECTED ASSORT
MEET OR
"FANCY DRY GOODS.
FOR
FALL AND WINTER SALES.
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PORTATION, and will be offered at the
NIOST REASONABLE PRICES. •
BUYERS are solicited to call and examine.
818 CHESTNUT STREET;
UP STAIRS.
BLACK. SILKS, •
PATTERN sIiIRT,
UNDERCLOTHING, do
AMERICAN AND FOREIGN. IN GREAT VARIETY
M. L. HALLOWELL eaoo.;
' "r• No. 615 CHESTNUT STREET
An immense assortment, in French, English, and Saxony
Goods.
CASH : PIIYEtt§;
FLANNELS,
BLANKETS,
MERLNOES,
POPLINS,
BLACK SILKS,
• • FANCY SILKS,
IRISH LINENS, WHITE GOODS,
DRESS GOOD%
arid other articles adapted to the seism: -
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HAVE NOW IN STORE,
DRESS GOODS,
BLACK AND FANCY SILKS,
SHAWLS, BALMORALS,
RIBBONS, KID GLOVES, &a., &c
IMPORTERS,
Nos. 40 and 4M NORTH THIRD STREET
AT PUT LOW PRIOSIS
N. L. HILLOWELL & CO.,
No. 615 CHESTNUT STREET
°SR WLS,
DRESS GOODS.
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No. 615 CHESTNUT STREET
AT WHOLESALE;
Are invited to examine our .
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CHESTNUT STREET
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HOOD, BONBRIGHT, 43: CO.
WHOLESALE DEALERS Ix
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
_ DRY= GOODS, '
NO. 9E35 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA,
The attention of the TRADE le invited to their large.
Stook of
STAPLE AND FANCY GOODS.
Among which are choice brands of Sheet
ing and Shirting Muslins,
Madder Prints, De livines,
Ginghams, and
BBASOITASLB DRESS GOODS.
ALSO,
MEN'S WEAR
IR GREAT VARIETY.
GREAT INDUCEMENTS OFFERED TO
CASH BUYERS.
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1863 FALL IMPORTATION:IB63
EDMUND YARD & 00.;
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS, SILKS AND FANCY
DRY GOODS,
/ 611 ORESTDRIT and 614 JAYRE Street,
HIM now opened their Fall importation of Dress Goode.
MERINOS
CO
REPS
ALPACAS,
DEL &INES"
PLAID AND STRIPED POPLINS
FANOY AND .BLACK
Joao, A. larks alusortment of '
SHAWLS,
BALMORAL SKIRTS, • •
WRITE Goons
LINEN, EMBREDERIES,
which they offer to the trade at the •
LOWEST- MARKET PRIDES.
CHINA AND GLASSWARE.
K E WR:S
Furnishing China & Glass Establishment,
CHINA HALL, 5g9 CHESTNUT STREET,
DIRECTLY OPPOSITE LEDEPENDENOE HALL,`
,its the cheapest (for the quality) and, most extensive as
Akortmont or
WHITE, FRENCH, GOLD-BAND
AND DECORATED CHINA. IN THIS CITY
•
Just opened,' of our own importation;eighty:one casks
very superior plain WHITE FRENCH CHINA, in any
quantity to suit purchasers. Also, a splendid assortment
of Fashionable • •
COT AND ENGRAVED TABLE. CRYSTAL GLASS.
Jils_ L O plain white English - Stone Ware, Dinner and
Tea .Ware. Also, Toilet bete, in .great variety, some
Very elegantly decorated. -
• OE- Double thick China Stone Ware, and Glass, ex
pressly for
liOTELS, SIiIPPING, AND RESTATALANTS.
agr French China decorated to order in any pattern
Arif , Initials ena - raied On Table °lam
Maria arid Gage 'Tiabelted in prOper manner.
acre-satnthl4m.l ' -
CLOTHINQs
EDWARD P. KELLY,
JOHN KELLY:
FORMERLY CHESTNUT, ABOVE SEVENTH,
LAnl 2.038 CHESTNUT STREET.
TAILORS;
142 SOUTH TREED St.. NEAR TEE EXCHANGE.
Rave just received a large Stock of Choice
FALL AND WINTER GOODS,
AND
FALL STYLES,
TERMS CASR. at prices ranch lower than any other .
drat-class establishment. an27.tf •
' , BLACK CASS. PANTS, $5.50,
- At 704 MARKET Street.
BLACK CASS. PANTS, $5.50, At 704 MARKET Street.
BLACK CASS. PANTS, $5.50, At 704 MARKET Street.
BLACK CASS. PANTS, $5.50, At 704 'MARKET Street.
BLACK CASS. PANTS, $5.50, At 704 MARKET Street.
GRIGG & VAN OUNTEN'S, No. 704 MARKET Street.
GRIGG & VAN RENTEN'S, No. 704 MARKET Street.
GRIGG & VAN GUNTEN'S, No. 704 MARKET Street.
GRIOO & VAN OUNTEN'S, No. 701 MARKET Street.
GRIGG & VAN GUNTER'S. No. 704. MARKET Street.
trat22-6m
WOODEN AND, WILLOW WARE.
A . H. FRA.NCISCTJS,
WHOLESALB DIMMER IN
YARNS, BATTS, WADDING%
WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE,
OT CLOTHS, WINDOW SHADES.
LOOKING GLASSES, CLOCKS,
FANCY BASSETS . ; dad.`
613 MARKET and 510 -COMMERCE Sts.
anL9m
GREAT OPENING OF
CEDAR AND WILLOW WARE.
THE. LARGEST STOCE IN THE CITY
NOW SELLING AT BABGLINi3
8,000 DOZ. CORN BROOMS
3,000 DOZ. FANCY PAINTED BUCKETS..
1,000 NESTS CEDAR WASH TUBS. '
2,000 CEDAR STAFF AND BARREL CHURNS
L COO DOZ. WILLOW MARKET BASKETS
3,000 BALES COTTON-WICK AND TIE YARN.
2,000 BALES BATS AND WADDING
RETICULE BASKETS, OIL CLOTHS,
LOOKING GLASSES, CORDAGE, Sge.,..tc•
All goods are sold at the Manufacturer's Lowest Cash
Prices, '
Orders promptly 'filled
ROWE & EUSTON
157 and 159 NORTH. THIRD , STREET.
eel-tuthslm Three doors below Race.
F ALL '
WHITE & PrACIIIN 1863 .
No. 423 MAR HET STREET.
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE,
BROOMS, CEDAR WARE,
OIL-CLOTH, LOOKING GLASSES,
FANCY BASKETS,
0 0' R-D A GE, &• 0:
sir Agents for _
". HALEY, MORSE. & BOYDEN'TPATENT
, SELY-A1)-
JOKING CLOTHES.WRINGER,'
THE HOST. RELIABLE WRINGER NOW IN USE.
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J. H. COYLE, & CO.,
Wholesale Denloin in
YARNS, BATTS,
CARPET CHAIN.
WOODEN WARE — ,
BRUSHES.
!310: MARKET STREET,
YIIILADELPHIA..
CARPETS, OILCLOTHS, Bcc.
REMOVAL.
J. F. & E. 13. ORNE
HAVE REMOVED FROBr
519 CHESTNUT STREET,
Opposite the Rate House, to their
NEW WAREHOUSE,
904 CHESTNUT STREET,
In the' "BARD BUILDING," and have now open their
FALL STOCK OF
NP.,17%7 - CAIR.PETE'INGS-
904 CHESTNUT. STREET.
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G*.W, BLABON CO.
'LA • MARDFACTIIRERS OF
OIL CM24=P3C'7x3CM,
NO. 124 NORTH THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
Offer to the Trade a foil stock of
FLOOR, TABLE, AND CARRIAGE
C3O T-T-a 40. T-1 0 1
GREEN-GLAZED OIL CLOTHS AND WINDOW
sek-2m SHADES.
6 6 GLEN ECHO" MILLS,
GERMANTOWN, PA.
MoC ATILUM do FlO4
ISAIRIFACTURERS, IMPORTERS, AND DEALERS IN
C A.POPEICING-.S,
OIL CLOTHS; &al
WAREHOUSE, 509 CHESTNUT ST.,
OPPOSITE INDEPENDENCE HALL
GEORGE W. HILL,
Manufacturer and. Wholesale Dealer in
CARPETLNGS, MATTINGS, I RUGS.
ALSO,
COTTON AND WOOLLEN YARNS,
At very Low Priem
NO. IN6 ,NORTH THIRD STREET, ABOVE AROH,
sel-Im* -Philadelphia.
GAS MIXTURES, &c
517 ARC`II STREET
A. VANIKIRH LKI CO.,
C 11 A N' D I_E
IMMECI
GAS FIXTURES.
Also, French Bronze Fiancee and Ornaments, Porcelain
and`Mica Shades, and a variety of
FANCY GOODS,
WHOLESALE AINT'D;RETAIL.
Please'call and examine goods
p 0 K-A X. ES,
SHINGLING HATCHETS,
BROAD HATCHETS, PLILES,
NAIL TIAMMNS,
SHOE HAMMERS;
ErVETING HAMMERS, and
ENGINEER IiIaiILKERS,
MANUFACTURED AUWD FOR BALE BI
O HAMMOND qa BONE
CIS 00110(1WRI Street,' Phys.
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PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, SEPT. 15, 1863.
Etet Vitss.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1863
TBE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON.
Instructions for Assault upon Fort Wagner
[Correspondence of The Press. 3
MORIZIEI ISLAWD, SOO. 7, 1863.
To Major E. L. Rogers, Commanding 104th P. V.: ,
In obedience to instructions from the general cont.
mending the department, an assault will be made
upon Battery 'Wagner tomorrow morning at nine
o'clock, precisely.
Fire from the navy, the breaching batteries, and
the mortars will be kept up on the work till the
latent moment; it will cease, as far as necessary, on
the signal hereinafter named, and the assaulting
millions will Instantly move forward when , the hour
named arrives.
The 3d Regiment New Hampshire Volunteera, and
the Pith Pennsylvania Volunteers, will occupy the
trenches in the extreme advance, and when the sig
nal is giVen will leap over the parapet and rush
upon the sea-face of the work, One hundred men,
under a competent °Dicer, will be detailed from the
leading regiment to attackthe fianke the sea.face,
spike the guns upon it, and, mounting -the parapet,
prevent the enemy from- passing in or out of the
sally port behind the flank. Those who attack the
tea-face will spike the guns, and then mount"< the
bombproof by the traverse, and fire down into the
interior of the work. They must also seize the open
ings from the bombproof to . the sea face.
Brigadier Gen. Stevenson's brigade, reinforced by
the 4th New Hampshire and the nth Maine regi
ments, will occupy the trenches immediately in rear
of the advanced party. When the signal is given
they will spring out on the beach, move forward at
the ,"double quick," pass between,Wagner anti the
sea, and extend themservee along the rear e ace o f te e
fort to the marsh. They will then mount the para
pet and fire down on the parade.
Col. Davis' brigade will occupy the trenches in the
rear of Stevenson's brigade, and, at the came signal,
will, with all possible despatch, form upon thebeach,
"left in front," and follow Stevenson's'brigade.
Having passed the fort, it will form =on the island,
facing toward Battery Gregg, so as to prevent any
- aid being bent from that quarter to Wagner. Skir
mishers will be thrown out towards Gregg as far as -
possible.
The force thus thrown upon the tank and rear
should close in upon the garrison of Wagner, drive
them to their bombproof, and make them.prieoners.
The abovementioned troom will move to the
places assigned to them at half past one o'clock A.
M. They will have their breakfasts in their haver
sacks. In order that they may doso, the guard of
the trenches (the 2d brigade) will be veithdravin
'to the rear of the second parallel, and at much
further as-may be requisite. As soon as theassault
iig column moves upon the work, the 2d brigade
will move up through the approachesto.the ex
treme front, prepared to reinforce the assault.
The whole detail of " sharpshoot end' will be sent
to the front before daylight ; a . portion of them will
be placed in the rifle-pits in front of the fifth paral
lel, the remainder in such a position in the zig-zags
in front of the fifth parallel as will enable them to
fire into the embrasure in the tank of the fort which
covers the salient next to the sea. They must keep
up a constant and rapid fire on the parapet of the
work and the embrasures.
When the work is carried, it will be garrisoned by
General Stevenson'" command. Davis' Brigade
will remain in position beyond the fort, and his men
will cover themselves as ranch as poseible, but keep
ing skirmishers out.
All the remaining troops in the command will be
relieved from fatigue duty at midnight, and will be
placed under arms at 314 o'clock.
Montgomery's Brigade will move up. and occupy"
the trench south of the Beacon House, before light.
These troops, and all others, must be kept care
fully concealed from view, and perfectly quiet.
No man will be permitted to leave the ranks
during the assault to assist the wounded, or for'any
purpose whatever.
The wounded can be taken care of-when the affair
shall be over. All commanding officers will 'caution
their men upon this point.
All prisoners who may be taken be kept in
the fort until orders shall givervfor their, ro:
=oval. -
The signal - for the assault will be the raising of A
signal hag on the surf battery, and on the right of
the fifth 'parallel, and the American ensign on the
Beacon Rouse. By order of
Brig. Gen. ALFRED R. TERRY.
ADRIAN TERRY, Capt. and A. A. General.
At 124 o'clock, on the morning of the 7th, - we
were aroused up and each man furnished with a
spade or shovel. Our regiment, in fact the whole of
Colonel Davis' brigade, was to pass round the fort
and draw up in line of.ba.ttle between Wagner -and
Gregg, so as to prevent any reinforcements, intended
for Wagner, reaching their destination. Not a very
A - holesome situation to occupy, certainly, for accord
ing to the programme we were destined to receive
the fire of Gregg in front, and in case the assault on
Wagner had been repulsed, thnwhole strength of
that rebel hornet nest, would have been throws on
our rear. Death or capture was certain, unless we
succeeded in taking Wagner. I wished most earn
estly that the utmost success might crown the ef
forts of the columns who were to take Wagner- We
were not to help them take the battery, but our very
existencee - depended on their. success. As we marched
up the beach the enemy from. James Island threw',
shell with most unnecessary care and precision' right'
at us. They seemed to-have the range of .the beach
perfectly. Now a shell would burst short of us, the
next, perhaps, would go beyond, and a third explede
almost perpendicularly over your head. Occasion
ally a solid shot would strike - near us with a deep
thud. "Oh, that's nothing but a solid shot," would
be the remark. Every one appears on the lookout
to save himself, if possible, when shells fall in hia
vicinity, but let the hissing , danger go to the right
or left, fall short, or pass over a certain distance
from the column, and it is spoken of withcontempt
as a thing of the past. As we
,approached Fort
Wagner the news passed along that the garrison had
evacuated, and reaching our position we found it to
be so. The enemy had yielded his stronghold with
out a struggle. The place was in a horrible condi
tion; the marks of our recent cannonade were plain.
The parapets were badly damaged, the guns dis
mounted, and the bombproof crushed in; from the
horrible smell proceeding from beneath its ruins, it
must have covered many a poor wretch, whose place
of refuge from our shot and shell had proved his se
pulchre. Passing between Fort Wagner and the
sea we approached Fort Gregg. Here again we
were unresiated ; the enemy had abandoned the key
point of hisjiarbor defence.
While the army on shore was preparing for the
expected assault and marching to its point of attack.
an expedition under Major Sanford, of the 9th Con
necticut, composed of fifty men of the 104th, under
Captain Duncan, and the same number from other
regiments of the brigade, had been placed in boats
and were scouring the harbor. They were rowed
by men from the colored regiments, and accompa
'nied by a body Of seamen who had charge of some
boat howitzers. They visited Fort Sumpter, and a
couple of sailors, climbing into the ruins, removed
the rebel flag that still waved above the ruined para.,
pet. " They found no .occupants to dispute their en
trance. The place was deserted. But as they pro
ceeded. on their watery way, stopping occasionally
to bail out the -leaky boats with hats and shoes,
when the water - got too deep within their craft, there
rung out on the night air a shout of " Heave to,"
accompanied by the discharge of one of the howit
zero, "Mowed by cries of " We surrender! we sur
render !" and, behold I a fine prize ; three boats laden
with part of the evacuating garrisons of. Wagner and
Gregg, consisting of a major, a captain, a surgeon,
and eighty-two rank and file. - A very creditable
night's work. I regret not to know the names of
more of the party, but may be able to do themjus.
tice hereafter. Although chased by a rebel steamer,
and obliged to take refuge in a creek where the
water was too shallow for her to follow, no casual.
ties occurred. The whole affair reflects great credit
on "Major Sanford, his officers and • men. The
prisoners seem willing to be taken. They evi
dently despair of success. Every one seems in better
spirits; now that the stronghold that has so long
baffled the efforts of our bravest men, has -at last
succumbed. No one but feels a proud satisfaction,
now, in having endured the hardships and dangers
that have been necessarily passed through, that
such glorious results might - be attained. The beds
of our brave fellows are composed of about equal
proportions of fleas and sand ; but who among them
would to-day exchange his position in the eyes of
his fellow-countrymen with " gentlemen who sleep
at home at ease," as the old song sepal.. Not many,
IbelieVe. Z. Z.
A Statement of Interest.
To the Editor of The Preis:
Sin: I desire to present to you the merits of a
case which, I think, needs only to be properly under
stood in order to receive the attention it deserves :
The rebellion found the Rev. Daniel Feete in
charge of three m
Geran Reformed congregations in
•
Shenandoah county. He was at that time one of
the most respected ministers of that region. When
it appeared that he would not identify himself with
the Secession movement, the Secessionists, who
formed the majority of his congregations, compelled
him to resign,, and refused to pay him the fifteen
hundred dollars salary Which they owed him. His
wife fell sick, and at last died. During her illness
he was refused the medicine he needed to relieve her
sufferings. I don't deny that the chivalry - of Vir
ginia is remarkable for refinement, but in the case of
Mr. Feete they have proved it by little else than
. their refined cruelty. At length Mr. Feete succeeded
in making his escape. At the present time, as Mr.
Feete does not speak the German language, there
are hardly any vacant congregations in the denomi
nation to which he belongs. In a few months the
aspect of, things may be very different, in this re
spect. I address you in behalf of the Rev. Mr. Feete,
though on my own responsibility, because the bene
volent organizations which the war has called into
life may be the means of giving temporary employ
ment to one who has suffered so severely by the war.
The Rev. Mr. Feete has proved himself an un
compromising Union man in the South, in the midst
of the fires of persecution. He is an uncompromising
Union man now in the North; in the midst of the trea
sonable movements of many withwhom he formerly
symimthized. He has been always a Democrat, but
has been unwilling to act with that portion of. the
party which, as be expresses it, broke , itself up in
order to break up the Union. The peculiar charac
ter of his sufferings, an much, perhaps as his tem
perament, have prevented him from giving publicity
to hie history . ' I have now made ieknown as far as
I have deemed it' necessary, in order to enable our
warm-hearted Union men to
- open for the,Rev. Mr.
Feete a sphere of wiefulnees.
Dr. Bomberger, pastor of the German Reformed
Church, will gladly receive any communications in
regard to the case of Mr. Feete.
Very respectfully,
HERMANN 130KT_TIYI,
PFULADRI.PIIIA, September 14, IN3. ,
THE CANVASS FOR GOVERNOR.
Speech of Judge ShitMbar.
The following able speech was made by judge
Shannon, of Pittsburg, to the 10th of August, in
this city. Its reproduction is justified, by the im
portant truths it contains, upon which every rani
should ponder. Judge Shannon said :
I feel grateful, citizens of PhiladelphiN-fer the
kindness which you have bestowed upon* me this.
evening.
A western Pennsylvanian, I am not much accus
tomed to the grace of rhetoric which clusters around
your eastern people. Froth: the western slopes of
the Alleghenies I hail you, and only those men who'
are loyal in these times of peril to our country.
[Applause.] / would not have the plaudits, for any
coeeideration on earth,. of those persons who, whilst`
they have the word Democracy upon their lips. as- -
sail and stab the. Administration of my country.
[Long applause.]
I have read the historY of my country as carefully
ae any modern Democrat has read it. lam so
quainted with the writings of Jefferson and the
maxims of Jackson. And, with my eyes open and
my ears awake, I shall neiser submit to the teach
ings and heresies of a Fernando Wood, a Vallandig
hamr or a William B. Reed. [;Deafening applause.]
It Is, almost bestowing honor upon a person of our
own State—the worst traitor amongst them all—to
mention the name of the pusillanimous wretch who
haile,;from Pottsville, Schuylkill county. " [Derisive
laughter and cheers.] It is, perhaps, distasteful to
refer to myself personally. But in order that this
company may know my political status, I crave
leave lo say that, from the tint vote that I ever gave
until *the time when our so-milled Democratic bre.
thren !tired upon our flag at Sumpter, I was ever a
Democrat of .the straightest sect, standing up upon_
- all occasions for.the rights of the Southern people,
under:the American Constitution. [Applause.] I
was willing, with every young Whig, and, every
your gAmerican, and every Republican, to stand by
the constitutional rights of the south, as long as the
South fought the battle of the Union inside of the
Union,i[loud cheering], peacefully and legitimately.
But, when, discarding the precepts of our R.evolu.
tionarYfathers, and disdaining the maxims of-the
Constitution, the Democrats of the South under.
took, nut merely to break up the ancient Democratic
party, but to destroy the- very Constitution and the
fundamental principles oft our Government,. it be-
CaMe tinitfor every man of leal heart and upright
conscience'no, longer to follow the miserable.teach-
Inge of thei ?Southern ollearchv,_but to assert-tax— l
orfgfnal Plitierprcer-u.iiiaalit/ Jee
uraoll
foundedrthe Democratic party. [Lend applaused-
Thereris no use' in disguising the fact that the
modernso.called Democracy, abjuring the maxims
of the founders of their party, have been crawling
into the-slimy arms of a Southern obligarehy. The
ptimroae path. of- ambition, in modern days, has
been for; Democratic leadern to bow their knees to
the autocrats of the South. [Voices—That's so I]
Witness;for instance, the case of that miserable old
man, Jamee Buchanan, of Wheatland [laughter],
for whom in _the North there was' no society
like that which environed him from the baronial
seats of Virginia and South Carolina. " A favorite
son of Pennsylvania"—the son of poor and humble
Dish parents, flattered by the aristocracy of the
South =weak-headed and lame-hearted„ aping an
aristocracy which, with all its faults, he could never
reach—[laughter]—elected by the honest Democracy
and the old-line. Whigs, he lived long enough to be
tray his country, to say nothing of the destruction
of a venerable party to which he never earnestly be
longed.:
It is said by many a flippant tongue, and many a
brazen pen, that the Abolitionists of -the Norm nave
• brought this rebellion upon the country. In the
name of all that is veracious in history, I assert,
without fear of contradiction, that this cruel war has
been brought upon us by the machinations of Demo.
crats,lso-called. [Voices—" That's so!"] What, I
ask you, was the condition of the country after the
November election of 18601 We had a Democratic .
President and a Democratic Cabinet, selected by-
Democrats. Every honest Democrat in the land ex
pected that the chosen pilot and his selected crew
should stand steadily and faithfully by the ship of
tate, amidst whatever tempests might arise or
surges might beat.
Re was a Democrat, and his Cabinet were elected
from the chivalry of the Southern Democracy. The
storm blew, the winds came, and untrue to his fealty
to his party and his country, with his miserable
Cabinet, he deserted the ship, and ran her foul upon
the breakers. [Groans.] He asserted that Sena
don was wrong; but yet he stated that if a sove
reign State should choose to secede from the Union,
there was no power in the executive, no force even
in Congress, to coerce that seceding State to return
•to the Union it- had deserted. Through the adVice
of members of his Cabinet, the ships of our then
little•navy were sent to remote and distant seas; so
that when the conspiracy should culminate, our
gallant - .tars, - renowned upon many an heroic occa
sion, should be in place to respond to the call of
their country.
Through him and his Cabinet the, arsenals of the
North were stripped of the armseand munitions of
war ; So that when the conspiracy broke forth at
Sumpter, the loyalists of the Nortn nad neither im
plements nor appurtenances of war to assail the re
bellion. [Groans.] We•had to wait, almost para
lyzed, until guns could reach us from the continent
or Europe. 'You know that the union of the sword
and the puree is considered essential to a successful
war. And what did the Democratic Secretary of
the Treasury? • Ho beggared the purse of the nation
- in' order to play into the hands of the Democratic
conspirators. We were left in the deplorable ab
zenceof army, navy, and treasury.
And who did this foul- and most miserable workl
Who, accomplished ill [Voices, "The Copper
heada !"] Was any Abolitionists then in power, or
any opponent of the- ancient Democratic party
e Democrats then had it all our. own way. We
were _entrusted with the sacred heritage of our
fathers; we were responsible to men and_to angels;
and how did we sal Upon the accursed altar- of
Southern oligarchy we • sacrificed everything that
was democratic, everything that was manly, and
everything that was honorable. [Long-continued
applause.] Your lightlingered leaders may say
that the Abolitionists began the war. I, as an-hum
ble Pennsylvania Democrat, assert that, the charge
is falae: [Applause.] -'I unhesitatingly assert that
this rebellion was begotten in the secret places of
the so-called but false Democracy; that it was nur
tured by Buchanan and his Cabinet, who were the
slaves and dupes of the Yaneeys, the Slidells, the
Davises, and the Breckimidges of the South. [Ap
plause.] I but assert what the iron pen of history
shall record, that there never was a party so be
trayed, nor a country-:eo slaughtered, as by the so
called leaders of the modern Democracy.
What did we do, we young men of the Whig, the
American, and the Democratic parties? - To our
etcrnallionor it shall be recorded that we stood fast
and firm for all the rights of our Southern brethren,
so far as acknowledged by the American Constitu-
tion.. We faltered not. We wearied not. From
every mountain top of the North, and from every
valley, we declared our unswerving attachment to
the Constitution of our fathers. [lmmense cheers.]
We stood manfully, as Christian men never stood
before, by every principle of the fugitive-slave law._
So that when Alexander H. Stephens made his
speech, in reply to Toombs of Georgia, - he was
obliged to contras that never was Christian civil
law more faithfully upheld than was thefugitive
'elave law by the men of the North. He further ad
mitted that the rebellion bad no justification what
ever; that the General Government had never been
false to its duty to the South; that none of its
statutes had ever interfered with the franchises or
the privileges of the slaveholder. And reluctantly
and lingeringly Alexander H. Stephens, with' his
bead turned back to the glories and -brilliant memo
ries of the country—with his averted eye upon
Mount 'Vernon and Monticello, slowly and, tardily
did be leave the clustered records of the'greatest,
republic upon which the sun has ever shone. [Long
cheering.]
No warrior, but a thin, attenuated,- intellectual
man, he may be—compared to the Sybil of Rome,
who offered her volumes to a corrupted government.
When history shall- come to correctly record this
rebellion, the aw , ° uries of Stephens shall stand as an
everlasting blot of infamy upon the men who
created this rebellion and are carrying it out.
I have no time, on an occasion of this sort, to
entet into full detail of the history of this most
nefarious transaction. The leaders of the modern
-Democratic party say to me that they alone can re
store peace to the country and integrity to the
Union. I reply, that another such Democratic Ad
-ministration as-the last one would send my country
into the jaws of inevitable dissolution. What! re
store such another Adhainistration into power I
Think of it. Think of its perfidy, its treason, its
corruption,; its weakness. Restore to power your
Buchanana; and'your Fernando Woods, and your
Vallandighanui, and your Hugheseal Give them
the -reins of powert lilay Heaven defend us from
1. such a calamity.
I have confidence the masses—the honest
masses, I mean—of the Democratic party, but I
have none whatever in the miserable pretenders.
Who attempt to teach in the sacred names of Jeffer
ion and Jackson. I should be recreant to my man
hood if I should fail to acknowledge the heroism
and the bravery of the good, honest Democrats, who
have fought in this war. Many of them have given
ftheir lives, martyrs on the field of battle [cheers],
like the gallant Col. Samuel W. Black, and the gal
lent WilliamG. Murray. May God bless their me
mories, and, those of the brave men of that old party
' who have fallen in the fight. [Cheers.]
But there is one cry which echoes from the lips of
Andrew Gregg Curtin [vociferous cheering], the
father and the guardian of the Pennsylvania soldier
[renewed cheering] ; there is one cry which comes
- from the very bosom of 'Pennsylvania ' and that is,
"Stand_ by our country, whether, itbe right- or
whether it be wrong." It is a Democratic maxim
which rung from the brilliant fields of Mexico, and
which, if true then, must be trebly true now. [Nine
cheerafronithe crowd for Andy Curtin:]
Let me say te - youfin conclusion, fellow• citizens,
that there is but one course for loyal men to pursue.
There' cannot be, and - thore_must not be, any side
issues. We must make this Stale nry..njapctober
next, [cries, " We will ; it is "], and we can omy-no
so by supporting Andrew G. Curtin and Daniel
'Agnew. This point is inevitable. The man who
says he is loyal and refuses to vote this ticket had
better do what is honest, viz : go down and bow his
knee at the shrine of that miserable rebel Jeff
Davis.
m=:zim
Colonel' John W. Forney and Dr. William Ri
der are speaking through the State. 'Major Gene-.
ral Butler will follow them shortly. Ex•Govemor
Randall and Greene Adams, of. Kentucky, are al.
ready here ; and Chief JUstice Carter will lend his
aid. Andrew G.Durtin, fearless and candid, ill now
announcing his principles and purposes, face to face
with the, people, but Judge;Woodward is silent.
Dare he speak, afterwhat the Richmond Examiner
has said of his success I
GENERAL BIITLEE."
The Herrisburg Telegraph says
By a notice of the Chairman of the Union County
Committee, in another column of to-day's Telegraph,
it will be seen that the speech of General Butler, an
nounced to be delivered on this (Monday) evening,
has been postponed. The postponement is-con
strained by prior engagements of the distinguished
statesman and patriot, but it will not interfere with
his appearance in this city at some before the
close of the campaigh in which we are now engaged
with the avowed enemies of the Government.
Hence we can afford to watt.
Due notice will be given of Gen. Butler's appear
ance in Harrisburg, when the time can be definitely
arranged to suit his other engagements.
CUP.TIN AND] AGNEW
The Titusville Reporter—a paper that has
not heretofore taken much part in pOlitical
discussions, being more particularly devoted to
questions connected with oil developments—has
raised to its masthead the names of Curtin and
Agnew. It aled supports the Union ticket of Craw
ford county, a ticket composed of able and deserving
men. Henry C. Johnson, Esq., is on it' for Assem
bly, Wm: Davis; Jr., for associate judge, and S. G.
Krick for sheriff.'
.A PENNSYLVANIA COPPERHEAD,
[From the New York Trtbane.-3 •
The Hon. George W.'-Woodward, Copperhead
candidate for Governor:of Pennsylvania, while mem
ber of the Constitutional Oovention in 1837, while
the clause relating to the qualifications of electors
was under discussion, proposed an amendment to
the Constitution "to prevent any foreigners who
-may arrive in this State after the 4th of July, 1841,
from acquiring - the right to vote or to hold office in this
Commonwealth?- A record of this may be found in
vol. 5 of the official report of the Convention, pages
446-7. Judge Woodward gave the following reasons
for his proposition :
"It is my honest opinion that we do but squander
thane privileges in conferring them upon every indi
vidual who choores to come end take them;
" Why should we olien'these great political Privi
leges to every apeciep ol,charaeter,thet may light on
our shorsai They (foreigners) have no syymatpathy In
common with la ; they have no qualifications to
render than fit recipients of these high political
privileges.
"I believel.bnt, If the time has not' yet oCsne, It
will speedily °bloc" when it will be indispensably
necessary eiti?.erfor this body, or, some other body of
this State, or of 'the United States, to. inquire
whether it is norrighlrUy put some plan in execution
by which foreigueur should be prevented from can. ,
trolling our elections' and ..browbeating .qszecricace
citizen at the pclis:"- , -.Delicfcc of Convention; vol.
PP. 446 .
Yet this man, as the repreeentative of the Demo.
crane party, expect:VW receive the foreign vote 'of
Pennsylvania. -
JUDGE RIELLBY orrmt..scrBTicE WOODP7AEW
Hon. W. P. Kelley writee a , reply_ to an an.iny,
moue critic in the Pittsburg Poer. From hie le'vter'
we make this extract : -
When, however, I cotmented as the fact, that lie
regarded a system of unpaid labor as an incalculto
ble blessing, I said it warconsistent with the policy ,
of Moriarty and his own fruititicts. In proof of this'
I cited the terrible blow li had, when a member of
the Convention to amend tab Constitution of Penn
eylvania, aimed at the millions of white laborers of
foreign birth who have emigrated to this State 6ince
the 4th of July, 1811, or who niay hereafter mope to
it from opprespion of ,the Old Word. I referred
by date, the: 17th. November, 1837,•t0 the reaoluttod
which he peopoaed to the Contention, instructing a
committee"" to inquire into the - propriety of eo
amending the Constitution as le - preocnr any foreign
ere who may arrive in the Slate offer Mei - math, day of
July, 11441, from acquiring the righPlo vole -or to hold
office tnts Commomunalth." I nico mentioned the
fact that he enforced his doctrine by a speech,. and I
urged the eitimens present to withhold power from
one who- held the rights of the laboring mosses in
such contempt.
Your-correspondent also says, thatl , did not tell
the people. "that Andrew G. Ourtini was loyal or,
honest," and Win me etill to answer - a question
which he did not then propound to me: Let this , be
my answeri.and Fi pray you lay it beforeyour read
ers as an act of justice to one whom you' have-per
mitted to be assailed through your of:dun:ins by ati
anonymous writer. I did urge the persona- present
to vote for Curtin end Agnew as honest men, earnest
patriots, and.levery of freedom and political-equa
lity. Yes, Mr,. "Union aliaa "Honest men,P , de
believe Andrew G. Oilcan to be an honest man, and
meanwhileph rethain, dear air; very truly: yourai:
wm. D. KELLEY..
olcolgoalsar.a..noo-r,
ANDREW P. OIIZTIN
Andrew G. Curtin is the candidate of the.
party of progress. He represents a,-principle of
ireedom which.. must forever antagonize all the ,
elements of slavery, whether they tome dia.•
guised in the oorruptions of modern Democracy,.
or whether they invite a conflict in the bloody garb.
of treason and rebellion. He represents the great
idea of elevating and ennobling labor. He is- op
posed to the diefranchiaement of those who fight the.
battles of the Government. He is in favor of sus
taining the legally, chosen authorities of the land.
Be' is opposed to rebellion. He has practically
proven his ability to• administer the State Govern
ment on a principle of economy Duch as has never
before been practised in Pennsylvania. Would it be
just for the people to pass by such a man, to experi
ment with one who.has already shown a disposition•
to betray the tight of the people fighting for the
defence of the Government, and who is the open
U
friend of the foes • of the nion? Let the people
_ answer this question at the polls.--Ilarriaurg Tele.
graph.'
. . .
A COEVERHEAD , SCHEME.
The Harrisburg Telegraph says : " One of the plane
now adopted to further the success of this diabolicaL
scheme of disfranchisement, is confided to the ex
ecution of the different popperhead assessors in
this and other cities. The game consists in omit
ting on the assessor's list all -soldier : a who are ab
sent fighting the battles of the Union. This is the
last trick in the infanious plans of the opposition,
to degrade, outrage, and disfranchise the soldier.
But these wretches overreach themselves in this
desperate business ; as it matters not whether a
voter is assessed or not so that he has paid a State
or county tax within two' ears, he is stili entitled
to his vote. The conspiracy or the-negligence of an
assessor cannot disfranchise a freeman. •
, • We call the attention of the. proper officers, the
friends of the soldier, all the soldiers themselves, to
this base plan to commit a villainous fraud.
POLITICAL
Governor Seymour, the other evening, referred
to his speech in Tweddle Hall, in February, leer,
but he did not refer to the patsage‘in that speech
wherein he predicted that a war with the rebels
would ruin the North.
The Charleston Mercury, when General Gilmore
began his approachen to Charleston, said that
"either they (the rebels) must drive the Yankees
from Morris Island, or the Yankees would drive
them from the city." The Mercury was right for.
once, as a few days will show.
A correspondent of the Springfield (Mass.) Re
publican suggests a new way of bringing about peace: .
"Let a committee, consisting of rillaindigham,
Seymour, Wood, and George Lunt, visit the Con•
lederacy In the inane of the party, and in pathetic
tones, imitating the beast on.which Baalam .rode,
plead Am sot I thine ass, on which thou haat rid-.
den ever since I was thine? , "
-- An Ohio paper makes the following reference
to the state of the campaign in that State. The re
mark might be applied to Pennsylvania : " And
now, if anybody has heard cheers at 'a Democratic
meeting concerning our late successes, we would be
glad to publish the lull particulars. We'do not
think such a phenomenon has occurred. If it has, .
• we want names, Asters, places, spirit of the occasion,
circumstances of the announcement, all about it."
—G. W. Curtis writes in Barper'S Weekly: Ver
mont has just elected a loyal Governor; a Senate
unanimously loyal, and a House which counts only
some dozen members who are opposed to the war.
Vermont supports, unconditionally and overwhelm
ingly the policy of the Government. Does anybody'
believe that the great safeguards of civil liberty are
endangered in Vermont, because she did - not elect
friehds of Davis and Toombs to be her Governor
and legislators? Does anybody believe that those
safeguards will be more secure in Ohio than in Ver
mont, if Vallandigham should be chosen Governor
of Ohio ? Does anybody believe that the rights of
citizens or legitimate State rights are in any greater
peril in Vermont, where -a Copperhead is not Go
vernor, than they are in New York where Seymour:
is? Are the principles of the Government and the
Constitution any less safe in the State of Vermont
than they arc in Kentucky 1 If every loyal State,
followed the example of. Vermont would a single
lover of the Union and the Government regret the
milli?
Let us consider that slavery has become the
worst possible condition for thenegro, and the moat
dangerous for the whites. It cannot make matters
worse to emancipate them, for in that case the-ne
groes would be put upon their good behavior, and
be compelled, by necessity, to , labor. They would
not dare to be idle, for the incoming tide of immi
gration would force them_to work, and if they, ven
tured to commit acts of violence they would incur
the risk of extermination. He who talks of re•es
tablishing slavery in. Tennessee, on the other hand,
invites insurrection and' massacre:—Nashville Union.
In a recent speech, Major General Prentiss
thanked God there was not a man on earth today
more radical than he. He represented truly the
voice of the army—meetings like these were love
feasts to the army. So help him. Heaven, every boy
that had been sent by them to the army (who was
not suffering punishment for disaffection).felt as he
did, that it was better to punish traitors in -Illinois,
than to brain them in Arkansas.
General John A..McClernand thus writes to , a
meeting in Illinois : "A mission is confided to us to
keep alive the lire upon the altar of liberty at what
ever personal coat this must be done. If armed
rebels stand in the way, remove them, if need be, by
arms ; if moral rebels stand in the way, crush them
by the weight of an indignant public opinion; it
party creeds stand in the way, hasten to wipe them
out of it." .
Had Tennessee been a free State like Ohio, she
would, like her, have been loyal and prosperous.
Her slave'code plunged her in the rebellion. That
code to-day lies trampled under foot. Shall we re
store it to lifel The God of freedom. forbid !—N ash
ville Union. •
PERSONM.
—Among a number of distinguished visitors in
Pittsburg, we notice Hon. John Covode and Hon.
Titian J.,Colfey, assiatant attorney, general of the
United States.
Gen. Sigel passed through Cleveland en route
West, on the 10th inst. Governor Curtin, of Penn
sylvania, Ex• Governor Johnston, John W. Forney,
and other distinguished gentlemen of the same
Statei - w.•— , --+batcity on tile same day.
A person Can .
.”uo. Japan for two
cents a day, or fourteen cents a
house costs thirty dollars !
It gives us pleasure to state' that Mr. Hunt, of
the Girard Union, is recovering from his dangerous
illness.
The Levant 170.a1d, of August 25th, says The
local American colony on the Bosphorus has, we are
informed, subscribed $2',000 in aid of the fund being
raised for the widows and orphans of the Federal
troops killed since the, commencement of the civil
war. .. -
The Memphians have been amused in a rather
novel manner the past week. A circus man, named
Tom Cony, after duly advertising the feat, sailed
down the Mississippi river in a Washtub, - drawn by
two geese.
=- Colonel Roy Stone, who was severely wounded
at the battle of Gettysburg, is still at the Huron
House, in New Brighton, and is- slowly . recovering
from the effects of his wounds.
-A new daily newspaper has been started' in
Memphis, under the name of " The Memphis Daily
Journal." Its editorial management will be con
ducted by Mr. William iftesselle, recently of the
Bulletin, and formerly of the Appeal. This is a good
sign of the renewal of prosperous times in that city;
and we cordially wish Mr. Rosselle and his new en
terprise every success. • -
Mr. Isaac Seymour, for many years president
of the Bank of North Ameriea, in New York, died
suddenly on Sunday morning, during service hour,
'at Trinity Ohureb, of heart disease. Deceased ap
peared in usual health in the morning, and went to
church with his wife and dalighter at the customary
hour. During service he was observed suddenly to
fall back in his seat, as if exhaukted. Several gen
tlemen immediately gathered around,. and Major
General Dix, who occupied the seat immediately in
front, assisted to take him into the vestry. Medical
aid was speedily procured, but was of no avail, and
death ensued in fifteen minutes.
-There is some anxiety manifested respecting
the health of the Queen. The precautions taken to
protect her from public 'observation are of a very
singular character. For example, on her embarka
tion at Woolwich for the continent, every place
which could afford a peep was boarded up, and even
the windows of the Government workshops were
whitewashed, to prevent the workmen from looking
at her. The officers were excluded, all but a few
. cOnfidential policemen. If Her Majesty should ab.
dicate there would be little surprise. The Prince
- of Wales is popular'only as Prince of Wales. Prince
Alfred is the popular favorite. The morbid sorrow
of the guieo throws dmnp over taglish society,
THREE CENTS.
THE WAR AND. OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS,
Important 31Dipiomatic Circular of Sem
tory Seward—Review of Recent Military
rervatii.
CifiCtillatill:No.. 89.
. • MaPARIMENT or - Pritx.
• - • WasairraTok, August/2g 1861-
' SIR; - .l 4 Thenever the United Btatee 'have . complained of
' the preonature decrees a Groat 13r:t sin and Franee;.which
accorded the character of a belligerent to theinsuigente,
the statesmen of those countnee have answered. , that,
from the Aret, they agreed in opinion that , the efforts of
I the 0 overumen t 4.0 maintain the Union,: and. preseiflitalin
integrity 0.1 , the Republic, could not be successful. with
a view to cewtect this prejudgment Cleo- vital a question,
I addressee circular letter to. the representatives of the.
United ha. heir in foreign countries on the 14th day- of.-
1852, rawbich I reviewed - . the operations of the'
war on sea ..altd land,sjid presented thn -restate width'
had Attended -IV downo - that -period. The prejudice - ,'
which I then at/Monied t. remote still remaine, and it
constttntes: the haste of all that is - dedgnerily or- und.g=
sionedly injuritue to this country in the policy of foreign'
•- The • ineurgents have lasen enabled to protract -
- their resistance hYarnearts of sympathy ands.td they-have
rec ol yoc t f rom al` road, and the expectation of further and
more effective forsign aleistaime is now their chief re
source. Anew effort. therefore, to correct thatpreindice
'is demanded egrualipby a prudent comernfor oar foreign
relations, and by MY - paramount intsrests Of peace and
humanity - at home. - -
In the battles od,i_rtTetst, 1962, the Union forces suffered
some severe and at:snailmg reverses. Etta they resulted
ifi'the reunion of .the- army which had-heen called in,
from - the Iteialnsaila, tilos/ Richmond, with - thoermy
which' had its position between that. strongly fortified
eeat hf theinenrrectien a - ad thin capital. -- The - iviedem of •
this-reunion was sorra to Ilk vindicated. 'The insurgent
-army; flushed with its remit successes, and expecting
that asympathetio interest et slayery would-produce an
.uprising-off the people ofMaryland . in its fartir.; for the
- first time crossed . the-Potomac river_ Ilarocr's Ferry,
with _ many prisoners, fell , into its •• -hands, -rather
through" accidentsin preparing. itedefenee than bees.ture
it was indefecreitsle. Neyerthiiiese, the exPectatlon
of recruits failed. •e.th.erhi McClellan. _corm ,
mending' the' now coneolidatea• forces -- of the .
my - of - the - -115teamac, • . was . reinforced - by' : fresh
levies fro - Pianneyivania, and by detachments called
in from neighbanng. forts. _ lleroye the insc.egentir
from therz , ncisiticm at South. lifluntain and Cramp
ton's Gap. Abbillitie middle of Sergeneher the two 'On-.
posing armles'conftkonted each otlierherpaliarg„...and:.
a pitched-battle-wee-fought on the backs of the Ar.tfe ,
tam and. Potomac. lb was well sustained on both sides;,-,
Men of one ruceand trebling directodftlivitittnies,"whose -- ..
rank and file-weresubstantially of one.,-Ix)ood,•and'evert ,
nearly.. edualln , nttiabiers,-The. arrogant assumed - ow , of-.
superior valor. , and, Itercriam.:which the , isaiirgents• had'
brought Into tirecoptestraeod had cherished throughout
its early stages, Perished ea that sanguinary field. The'
sargent army, shattered; in the conflict,- abandoned the-;:l
- 15-Itit4A4oPghtfa-Ms r d l / 2 .ifitiWit li rti L dligiffalitaliA2Ctani. 1
-customed barrier, the Fotonme:
White Lee was thrurattempting Maryland', the equally
hold and al arm ngenterpriseof carrying the war through'
Kentuckylnto Ohio was assigned to Bragg; Who was in
command of theinsurgent:army on the southern' border
of Tennessee. Ho,- with. great ra-pidity-rnoved from.
Chattanooga, turning the left dank - of General Buell.
. . _
and,appealing for reinforcements to the slavery-Inspired
sentiments which ex - land. in Xnntlicky and.Teimpsseq,
directed his form against Louisville anthiCiazinnati.
Jan uprising of the farmers of Ohio con , ronted•and turned
away ;be devastation from tae latter city. Gee Buell
'followed the main column of invasion, outmatched it on
the way to Louisville,-and obliged it to take a direction
eastward. The two insurgenteelniuns beinm:nnited at
Perryville. were attacked. by General Buell. - _ The bat
tle. like all of one contesta obstinate and: bloody.
Bragg, after severe losses; retreated through a-compara. , .
tively barren region, and Bueltwas obliged tonal:amnion
the pnreuit by the complete exhaustion of all sources of
supply. The insurgent commander crossed the Ghmber
land mountaine, and then, marching westwardt took Ws
a position at Murfreesboro, fortited there, and proceeded,
to recruit his wasted torcee.
Van Dorn and Price were at thesame. period. in, com
mand of very considerable foreee in Mississippi and Ala
bama, and to them was -assigned the third part in the
grand invasion of the loyal States- which the cabal at
Richmond bad decreed. Tine was an attempt, as they
called it, to 'deliver, hut in fact to subjugate Western
Tennessee and Kentucky. General Rosecrans received,
the assault of those portions. of the 'insurgent forces - at
Corinth, defeated them with great slaughter, andeirove
them backward, so that they neither reached; nor ap
proached the region which. they were appointed to in
vade. General Rosecrane, called to succeed General Bu
ell in command of the army of the_ Cumberland, then
entered Nashville, which the insurgents had before in
vested in carrying out their general scheme of inva.elon.
He raised the siege and prepared for offensive action. In
the last days of the year he issued from Nashville. and
delivered a sanguinary battle at Stone River, which
gave him possession of Murfreesboro. Bragg retreated to
Shelbyville and Tullahoma, and there again rested and
entrenched. A long period of needed rest was now em
pluyed by the respective partiesiwincreasing the strength
and efficiency of their armies; but- this repose was bro
- ken by frequent ekirmishes. and by cavalry expeditions
which penetrated hostile regions, sometimes lauetdreds
of miles, and effected breaches of military connections
and a deetruction.of military storm; upon an extensive
scale, while they kept up the spirit of the troops, and
hardened them for more general and severe conflicts.
Vicksburg ehen remained in the hands of the insur
gents, She principal key. to the navigation of the Missis
sippi river, a navigation which- was -confessed on all
sides to be absolutely essential to the United States, and.
when reopened by them, fatal to the insurrection. -The
'duty of wresting chat key from the Insurgents had been
devolved on the navy, with the aid of a considerable . .
land force then encamped on the west bank of the
Mississippi river. But new-and unforeseen diffi
culties continually e baffied the-enterprise, and seem
ed to render it impossible. General. Grant, who
was at the head of the department and of the Army of
the Tennessee, at length estemed the active com
mand of the troops investing the stronghold, and these
-were adequately reinforced.. The naval squadron on
the ellsEissippi, under command of Rear-Admiral Por
ter, was also steadily increased until more than one:
hundred armed vessels were employed upon the river.
including many iron-clad.gunboat of great power. Part
of the Gnlf Squadron, ender Admiral renegue gallant
ly running the batteries of. Port Hudson under a fierce
fire, co-operated with the river fleets Laborious and
persevering attempts were made to open an artificial
channel for the river opposite Vicksburg, as had been
done with such signal succees at Island No.- 10. e. Bat the
various canals, projected and executed, failed, and only
a few small steamers of any considerable Power were
thus enabled to pass the city. Combined land and naval
expeditions were also sent forth, which, with intim. te
pains and endurance, attempted - to turn the enemy's --
work s by navigating the various bayous and sluggish
rivers. - whose intricate network forma so singular a fea
ture of the military topography of the Wake of the His
aiesippi. All these attempts having failed from physical
obstacles found Is be insurmountable, General Grant
and Admiral Porter at. last put afloat -armed steam
ers and steam transports, which ran through the fires of
the . loug line of chore batteries which - the insurgents
ha d erected st Vicksburg, end its chief supports, War
renton and Grand Gulf. At the same time the land
forces moved down the right bank of the river to a paint
below Grand Gulf, where they
.crossed in the steamers
which bad effected so dangerous a passage. The batte
ries of Grand Gulf for several hours resisted a bombagd
ment by the gunboats at short range. bat they fell into
the hands of the admiral as soon as General Grant's
forces appeared behind them.. Gen.- Grant, through a
series of brilliant mancenvres—with marches interrupted
by desperate battles day by day - , succeeded in dividing
'and separating the insurgent 'forces. He then attacked
the chief auxiliary ct lupin under Johnston, and trove
it out of Jackson, the capital of Mississippi. Having
destroyed the railroad bridges and military, stores there,
General Granetenned at once to the west. Numerous co el
bats ensued, in all of which the loyal arms were success
ful. Loring, with a considerable insurgent force, was
driven off toward the southeaet, while Pemberton, after
a loss of sixty pieces of artillery and many prisoners,
regained his shelter within the fortified -lines of Vicke
burg, with an army now reduced to between thirty
thousand and forty thousand men. Daring these
movements the heavy batteries of the insurgents
which were established near, the mouth of the-Yazoo
river, end which constituted -an important part of
the defensive syetem of Vicksburg, were--taken and
razed 4- Rear Admiral Porter, who thdienpou sent a
detachment of his fleet up that important tributary
of the Mississippi, tied eventually destroyed the nume
rous vessels and stores which were found within and
upon its banke. General Grant, during these-brilliant
operatior,s, had necessarily °pirated by . a io.ovable
colc DM He now re-established hi§ communications with
the river fleets above as well as below Vicksburg, in
vested the town, and, ignorant of the numbers inclosed
within its defences, attempted an assault. Though brave
ly and vigorously made, it was nevertheless uusuccess
ful. He thereupon sat down .before the fortifications, to
reduce them by the less bloody; but sure method of siege.
Pemberton made a gallant defence, hoping for relief
from Johnston. Strenuous efforts were made by the
chiefs at Richmond to enable johnston to render that
assistance. They detached and sent to him t r oops from
13ra gg't army on the frontier of Alabama, and from Beau
regard's command in South Carolina, and -in doing this
they endangered both those armies. - All theepapabie free
men of Mississippi were called to the rescue of the capi
tal of their State, and to save the stronghold of the trea
sonable Confederacy which was besieged within their
limits. Moreover, the besieged post was-in the very
centre of the slave popul.tion of that- Confederacy. and
the President's proclamation of freedomwonid be sound
ed in their bearing if the *stronghold should fall. But
the effort required was too great for the demoralized and
exhausted condition of - the insurgents. Johnetonelid
net arrive to raise the siege, nor did success attend any
of the allele - tits from within to break the skilfully-drawn
lines of Gen. Grant. On the 4th of July Gen. Pemberton
laid down his arms and surrendered the post, with thirty
thousand men, two hundred pieces of artillery, seventy
thousand small arms and ammunition sufficient for a
six years' defence. Tide capture was as remarkable as
the famous one made by Napoleon at.IIIm.
On the same day an iniurgent attack . upon General
Prertiss, at Helena, situated on the west bank of the.
- Mississippi, in the State of Arkansas, was repulsed with
the loss of many prisoners en the part of the assailants.
As if the anniversary so identified with the nation's
hopes was appointed to be peculiarly eventful, Lee,
who had again entered Maryland, and passing through
that State, had Approached the Susquenanna, threaten
ing Harrisburg, Pittsburg,. Philadelphia, and Baltimore,
fell back, after pitched battles continued for.three days
at Gettysburg, and resumed his retreat, with as army -
even worse shattered than before, to his accustomed po
sition on the Rappahannock.
On the Sth of July the insurgent garrison at Port Hud
son, 6,0(0 strong. after enduring a long siege with the
utmost courage, surrendered unconditionally to General
Banks; and thus the United States. recovered from the
insurgents the last of the numerous posts by. Which. for
more than two years, they had effectually, destroyed the
navigation of the Mississippi. .The great river which, in
tine of peace, contributes relatively as much toward a
supply of the increased wants - of mankind as the Nile
did to those wants in the time of the Roman Empire, is
now.again open to the inland Commerce of the country
-
Steamers descend the river and its tributaries from the
navigable floods to the Graf of Mexico. It is not to be
doubted that the insurgent losses in these operations
upon the • Mississippi amount: to 50,000 men and' SOO
pieces of artillery, a large portion of which were of
heavy calibre. Johnston's army, which, at the time of
the surrender, was advancing to threaten the besiegers,
at once fell back to Jackson, and it was again driven from
that capital by a detachment which General Grant had
committed to the command of General Sherman. In re
tiring, Johnston fired many buildings filled with mu
nitione of war, and abandoned a large quantity of rail
road locomotives and cars, which had been detained at
that placeby reason of the railroads north, south, east,
and west of Jackson having been previously cut by the
Government forcee.
General Sherman now desisted from the pursuit of
Johnston, and returned to Vicksburg, where a portion
of the ex= is eisioeing repose, not more necessary than
well earned, while others are engaged in expelling
leeen the vicinity of the Mississippi roving bands of .the
. epe eeeeeleeeeefest its banks and fire from thence .
with the troops at tZfeAtta l teee.ertecl that Johnston,
live thousand,
has fallen bads to MiTtEieideteek......._e twenty
ern border of Mississippi, a hundred and twenty Mtgs
. east of Vicksburg, so that the State, whose misguided
people were among the earliest and most intemperate
abettors of the insurrection, is virtually abandoned by
its military agents. e
In Louisiana, General Banks succeeded Generalßut
ler. After spending some months in organizing the de-
Vertmeut and disciplining the • new levies which con
stituted its force, General Banks made a rapid and atm
cessful series of marches and contests, dn which he
drove the insurgent : troops out of the Attakapas and
Tecbe regions. well known as the riches tportions of that
very productive State, captured Alexandria and Donald
sonville, the seats of ite fugitive seditious executive and
legislative authorities, crossed the Mississippi at Bayou
Sara, and there receiving an additional column which
was ascending, from Baton Rouge, invested Port Hud
son, which, excluding Vicksburg. was the only remain
ing stronghold of the insurrection on the great river.
It will be remembered that on the 223 day of Septem
ber, 1862, the President issued a proclamation requiring
the insurgents to lay dov n their arms and return to
their allegience. under the penalty that in all the
die tricts where the insurrection shoiald'be still main
tained with the support of the people,, he wonl don the
first of January then next proclaim as a mieitareemea
sure, the freedom of the slaves. The warning was gene
rally rejected and defied, bat the . proclamation which
it heralded was duly. issued. As ethe national armies
advanced into the insurrectionary territories, slaves in
considerable number accepted their freedom and came
under the protection ofthe national flag. Amidst the habits prejudice and many embarrassments which attended a
measure SO new and so divergent from the political habits
of the country, freedmen with commendable alacrity en
liked in the Federal army : There wasin some quarters a
painful inquiry about their moral capacity for servic e .
That uncertainty was brought to a sadden end. in the
siege of 'Port Hudson. The newly-raised negro regi
ments exhibited all necessary valor and devotion in the
military assaults which were made, with desperate 'atm
rage, and not 'without fearful loss,. by general Banks.
This protracted operation engaged nearly all of General
Banks' available forces. While it was going on insur.
gent troops. which were called up from Texas", ',mecca
pied much of the southwestern portion of Louisiana
which be had before reclaimed. The surrender of Port
Hudson however, set hie army at liberty,. and he has
already madeconsiderable progress in restoring the na
tional authority, thus temporarily displaced.
The complete, occupation of the Mississeeei by the na
tional forces has effectually divided the insurrectionary
region into two parts, and among the ira,DOrtant features
of this division, one which is of the highasepractical sig
nificance is, that the field or military operations of the
insurrection is chiefly on the eastern side of the river,
while its supplies have been mainly drawn from the
'prairies of Arkansas and Texas, which stretch away
from the western shore. These prairies can no longer
supply the insurgents with cattle for sustenance and., use
in the - field, and, on the °the- hand, arms, orduence,
and ammunition can no longer ie sent from the eastern
manufactories and deposits to trees employed or, in gar
rison in the west. The velem of the acquisition of the
Missiesippi in this respect was illustrated only a few
days since in the capture by Gen Grant, near Natchez,
of 6,000 beeves and 1,000-mulee e which had, crossed to the
eastern bulk, and at the same tune many hundred thou
sands of cartridges end other stores which had just been
]at ded at the western end of the MIAs Ferny.
A vigorous blockade has been maintained at Charles
fon, and although fast steamers, oil light draught and
painted. with obscure colors. occasionally unused in
slipping through Abe blokadiug eclattdraa ig. ths gem
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tog and ever Mg twilight, many are destroYed and mere,
„ are cantered. An attack by the andmade on
&ay of April last, upon the forts batteries which
;defend the harbor, failed because the rope obstructions
lit the channel fouled the screws or the tron.clade and
covipelied them to retire after passing through the fire
of the batteries. Those vessels bore tbs. lire of the forte,
althongh.strme defect! , of construction were rebottled by,
received. The crews passed through
the iris they,
ty. Nuesa'arbpled. • cannonade 'with singniar impuni
ot one life Was lost on board of a monitor. The
defecte Ms' closed belie been remedied, and an attazic
is now to progress, with good Prospect of ultimate.
encePes. • bating for lie object the redaction of the
forte in the liatheri bycoffibined sea and land forces.
We occupy more than half of liforriajtland with land
forces, whica , , aided by batteries aft& and batteries
ashore, are trashing siege.works np .to Fort Wagner. a
strong earthwork Which his been twice assaulted with
groat gallantry,- but without ettecess. On the 17th of
Jane: the Atlanta, which was regarded by the ineer
gentras their moat formidable iron-clad Vessel . , left Sa
vannah. and carte down tho - Wilmington river. The'
national iron-claticsWeehal.vken, Captain Tohn Rogers.
and Babant, ConimannerJobn Downs, were itr readi
ness to meet her. Ai 4 o'clock 54 minutes the Atlanta
fired a rifle...shot acron the stern' of the Weehawken,
Which' atrncl - near tile Nahant. At 5.15 the Week aw
ken, at a range of X 0 yards, opened upon the Atlanta.
Which had:then grout. ed... The Weehawken fired five
shots, four - of which tooLeffect on the Atlanta. She ear.
rendered a 46.30.
Our. liner 14ave not changed in forth Carolina. All
attempts of the insurgenicto recapture the towns from
-which they bad been ex - gelled, hare been repulsed_
Mach damaMthas been inflicted upon their communica
tions, and vtiaable military stores have been destroyed.
by expeditious into-the North Carolina shows
some syroptorawof disaffection towards the insurgent
leagne. Siloam-indications ate exhibited in BllsaissiPP
Alabama. Arkansas, and Texan.
The situation on the Yolk James rivers hes re
mained unchanged since the withdrawal of the army of
General Itfeelellna , from the Peninsula a year ago, At
temptohy the insurgents to retake Williamsburg and
Suffolk have been defeated. but the garrison Of the latter
place brr; keen withdrawn,lor purely military reacting,
to a more defensiblelitte.
I now return to ide - Areny of the Potomac, vrhich was
left restinw and refit:nee , after putting an end to-the fleet
insurgent invasion Of , Maryland. General McClellan
r creased the Potomac' and entered Virginia in Novem
ber,e and et-We - ad. the invading forces - v rider Lee to fall.
backward to Gordonsville. south of the liappahannoek.
When the la-My of the' Potomac reached Warrenton et
was placed under command of-General-Burneide:
marched to lanienouth, hoping 'to. croesehe liaePahane
mock at Fredesirekeburgesand to hove at mice upon Rick- -
mend.' e Delayeseeresulrinpflomararioutioausee, without
:fault of tlie parmittea the insurgents to occupy
the heights of Plederickshargs and-when, - at length, in
December, Gen. Burnside crossed the Rappahannock, his
neranlt upon Lee'iwell e forti led position failed: lie skit
' fully recrossed theriver without toes. Gen. Hooker sac
. ceeded to theternmand.and it was not until the beginttlit.
of May thit the condition of the river aril enstilea s eeselm.e.---
; the ppaliannock and accepteclaa battle, which proved
,
equally -sanguinary to both parties, and unanceeesful to,
the Army of the Potomac. The heights of Predericks
, bury were captured Ley General sedgwick's corps, bat
-. the whole army was ceremelled to return to the north
bank of the river. After this battle Lee, in the latter
past of May and in Jane; - withdrew his army from-Gene
ea/ Hooker's front, and ascending the south bank of the
Rapidan, towards the sources of the. Rappahannock. en
tered? he Shenandoah Valley. and elate more tempted the
fortune of 'war by invading the loyal States. A severs
cavalry engagement at iaeverly Phrd unmasked this
movement. The Army et the Potomac broke up its
camps and marched to the. encounter. The. militia of
Maryland.. Penns - ylvaniea. and New York flew to
arms,. and occupied Baltimore, Haterisbnegt, and the
line of the- Snegetehannas The two - armies met at
ettreburg, in Pennsylvania, and-alter a fierce con
test of three days' duration, and terrible slaughter on
botheeid es, the insurgents revelled from the position held
by General Meade, who ball been then only four days
in command of the Army of tile PotOmace On the fourth
of July,. the day of the surrender ofVicksburg, Lee re
treated,. Paseing through Chambereburg and Haeem
town to Williamsport, where the proper disposition to
attack , him wee made by Gem. Meade. Deceived. con
cerning the stele of the river, supposed to be unfordable.
General Meade, hourly expecting reinforcements, de
lay.ed the attack a day too long, and the insurgents, partly
- try lording and partly by floating bridges, succeeded
- withdrawing across the river by night, with their artil
at d a great part of their baggage Mach of this bag
go ge,.t.E. well as of the plunder which Lee had collected.
was destroyed by cavalry, or thrown out of the wagons to
make room for the wounded whom Leo carried off from
the battle-field. He bad buried most of his dead of the
first day's conflict at Gettysburg. The remainder, to
gether with those who fell on the second and third days
of the battle, in all 4,5C0 3 were buried by the victorious
army. Many thousand insurgents, wounded and cap
tives, fell- into the hands of General Meade. is not
doubted that this second unstacceeettell invasion-cost the
insurgents 40,000 men. Our own Arse was revere, for the
strife was obstinate and deadly. General Meade crossed.
the Potomac. Lee retired again to Gordonsville, where
he is now understood to be in front of our forces:-
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While the stirring events which have been related.
were occurring in the East and in the West. General
'Roseerans advanced upon Bragg, who, with little fight
ing, hastily abandoned his fortified positions of Shelby
ville and Tullahoma, in Southern Tennessee:. General
Rommans took, and he yet holds them, - while Bragg,
with severe loss in a hurried retreat, has fallen back to
'Cbattanooga. It is understood that his army had been.
already much weakeried by detachments sent from it t.
reinforce Johnston, with a view to a raising of :the siege
, of Vicksbarg.
I must noCoverlook the operationsof cavaLey."General
Stoneman, in connection with the movement upon Chan
cellorville, made a - rapid and effectivepassage through
the insurgent- country, from the Rappahannock to the
York river, which will be remetaberectamong the striking
achievements of the war. While our forces were opera
ting. against Vicksburg and Port Hudson, Colonel_
Grierson, with a force of 1,600 men, left Corinth, on the
northern border of the State of Mississippi, and made att
expedition, in which he broke military communications' s
destroyed stores,. and effected captures through the
gth
len and breadth of the State, and finally, without
serious loss, joined the army of General Banks, then en
gaged in the siege of Port Hudson.
John Morgan, hitherto the most succeed - al of the in
surgent par leans, recently passed around the lines of
General Burnside, crossed - the States of Tennessee and.
Kentucky: moving northward, and avoiding all large
bodies of our troops; he reached the Ohio river at Bran
- deebnrg. below Louisville, and seized two steamboats.
with which he crossed into Indiana. Thence proceeding,
rapidly eastward, subsisting on the country, and im
pressing horses as his own gave out. he traversed aspor
lion of Indiana and nearly the whole breadth of Ohio,
destroying railroad stations and bridges, and plundering
the defenceless villages. The people rallied to arms under
the calla of their Governors. Some of them occupied the.
most important points, w hile others berricaded the road:
or hung upon therear of the intruders. Morgan found no -
disaffected citizens to recruit his wasted ranks, and when
he reached the Ohio his force was prevented from crossing
-by the gunboats and driven backward with great slaugh
ter. His force was between 2.ffiXeetuad4, WO horse, with seve
ral pieces of artillery. Only some 300 succeeded in re
crossing the Ohio and escapiGg in to the wilds of Western
Virginia. Many perished in battles and skirmishes
-
and the remainder. including Horgan himself, his planet
- pal officers, and all his artillery, were finally captured
by tbe national forces. An attempt has just been made
by the insurgents to -invade Eastern Kentucky, which
,probably was began with a view to make a diversion in.
favor of Moreane escape, but the forces. after penetra
ting as far as Lexington, have been routed by-detach
ments from . General Burnside's army, and pursued,
with the capture of many prisoners and of all their ar
tillery.
This review of the campaign shows that-no great-pro
grass has been made by our arms in the Bast The op
- posing forces there have been too equally matched to
allow great advantages to accrue to -either party, while
the necessity of covering the National capitalist all con
tingencies has constantly restrained oar. generals and
forbidden such bold and dangerous movements as
- usually conduct to brilliant military success.- In the
West, however,lhe results have been more gratifying_
Fifty thousand square miles have been reclaimed from
the posnesion of the insurgents. Oa referring to the
annexed map it will beseen that since the breaking oat
of the insurrection, - the. Government .has extended the
former sway over and through a region of two hundred
thousand square miles, an area as large as Austria or
France, or the peninsula of Spain and Portugal. The
insurgents lost in the various field and siege operations
of the month - of July which I have described, one-third
of their whole forces.
Jefferson Davis. the leader .of the sedition., has since
proclaimed a levy of all theable-bodied men within his
military lines. 'This, if carried into effect, will exhaust
the whole material of which soldiers can be made. The
insurgents 'estimate the total number of conscripts thus
to he gained at from 70:000 to 05,100. Oar armies now
confront the insurgents at all points with superior num
bers. A draft for 300.000 more is in progress, to replace
these whose terms of service have exrired, and to fill
up the wasted ranks of our veteran regiments, and the
peeple, just so fast as .the. evidence- of the neceessity
for that measure is received and digested, .submit
with cheerfulness to the ascertained demands. Our
; armies everywhere are well equipped, abundantly
fed, and supplied with all-the means of transporta
tion. The soldiers of two years. zervice bear them
selves as . veterans, and show . greater _steadiness in.
every conflict. The men, accnstomed to the camp. and.
hardened by exercise and experience.- -make marches
which would have been impossible in the beginning of
the contest.
The nation is becoming familiar with arms,
and easily takes on the habits of :war. Large , voluntary
enlistments continually augment our military force. All
supplies are abundantly and cheaply purehased within
our lines. The country shows no signs of exhaustion of
money, materiel, or men. A' requisition for 6,200 re
mount-horses was filled and the animals despatched
from Washington all in four days. Our loan is pur
chased at par by our own citizens, at the average rate
of $1,20,1)00 daily. Gold sells in our market at 123 to
126, while in the insurrectionary region it commands
1,200 per cent premium. .
Every insurgent port is either -blockaded, besieged, or
occupied by the national forces. The geld of the pro
jected Confederacy is divided by the Mississippi. All
the fortifications on its banks are in our %ands, and its
flood is patrolled by the national fleet,.
Missouri, Kentucky. Delaware, Maryland—all slave
States—support the Federal Government. Missouri has
already in C,onvention ordained the gradual abolition of
slavery: to take effect at the expiration • of seven , years_
Four-fifths of Tennessee, two-thirds of Virginia,. the_
coasts and sounds of North Carolina, half of' Missis
sippi and half of Louisiana, with all their large cities.
part of Alabama, and the whole sea-coast of Georgia
and South Carolina, and- no inconsiderable part of the
coast of Florida . , are held by the United States. The in
surgent, with the slaves whom they-.yet hold in defi
ance of the President - 8 Proclamation, are now crowded.
into the central and southern portions of Virginia.
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama,
while the pioneer slavehoiding iitsurgetitei beyond the
Mississippi axe eat off - from the mateforce.
On the other hand. although it is less than six'
,months since the laws or customs of the:United_
States would allow a man of African descent to
bear. arms in defence of his country.. there are
now. in Ahe field 22-060 regularly enlisted, armed, and
equipped soldiers of - that class, while 60- regiments of
2,ofe) each are in process of organization, and 62,800 r
sons of the same clasff are employed ass teamsters,. laboper
ers, and camp followers. These facts show that, as the
insurrection continues, the unfortunate servile popula
tion, which was at the beginning an element of its
strength. is being transferred to the support of the Union.
Yon will use the facts presented. in this paper in such a
way as may be most effective to convince those-Who seek
a renewal of commercial prosperity through a restora
tion of peace in America, that- the quickest and shortest
way to gain that desirable end-is to withdraw support
and favor from the insurgents, and to leave the adjust
ment-of our domestic controversies exclusively with Mit
people of the United. States.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
- WILLIAM II.: SEWARD_
,PENNSYLVANIA.
A FEW evenings ago, at Portland Mills, several
i L Jrp J Clarion, Pa., while the provost marshal
named DanieTS7Mith;itlinlilArt a deserter
the revolver of the marshal was knockeirerMa
band and accidentally exploded, the
the neck ok Mrs. Smith, killing her instantly. A.
verdict of accidental death was rendered.
. _ . ,
AIR. Hartrw WILBUR. died on Sunday creek, int
the sixty-sixth year of his age. wen, a citizen.
of Mauch Chunk for about thirty years, and well.
known as one of the most upright and conscientious
men living.
VoLUNTEEnrsto in the rural districts of peaussi
vania has been on the - increase:during -the past
month. By- the monthly reports_of the, recruiting
officers stationed in the_various,parts.Of the Com
monwealth it appears that the numberof men re
cruited in August exceeds that of any -previous
Month this year. The volunteers were assigned.
mostly to the infantry.regiments.in the Army - of the
Potomac.
THE Beaver Valley Railroad. is rapidly approach
ing completion. Wejearn that it is the expectation
of those connected with the road to have the cars
running to New Castle within three weeks.
Wi underatand that colored recruits from various
parts of Western Pennsylvania arrive in the, city
daily, avelaging fifteen or twenty a day: A'egtuul
of thirty is expected in the cityyto-day.
Trre!Town Council of Carlisle has adopted a reso
lution directing an investigation into the losses sus
tained by the, citizens of that place at the hands of
the rebels , during the recent, invasion,.with a view,
we presume, of aiding the - losers, to obtain remune
ration.
AD.TOTAXT GENERAI, RufaELl, who hadlost his
companion and several children, by death, within
the past , year, received word on .Erilday . evening of
the death of his mother, at Bedford, to which place
he started next morning. He wilt absent several
days.
Tux PAROLE CAME at "Watt CliDiter has been.
almOst entirely dererted—the only persons there
now being a few sick soldiers quartamsi in ; the hos
pital, and they will be removed an. soon' as they are
so far recovered as to be able to.be removed. The
guards have left for. 'Reading, to which place they
were ordered.
WE )EARN that OaMp Curtin is to be abalidoned.
A new site for a camp Lan been selected, on the farm
of Mr. Rutherford, three miles from Harrisburg,
the Reading pike. The location is said to be the:
bestin the neighborhood.
_
- DeviD .lrtisox, of Lstimore '
township,.
Adams county, died & few , days ego at the me or
nearly one, hundred years. Be, was a highly re.
spected citieu, and his 004114 ismented by a very
large circle of.frlends.
CZ THE annual fair of the Beaver County Agricultu
ral society will be held in Beaver on the last day of
September, and the first and seeorid days of October._
No egatt will lig ;WA t9lllAlte i a t attnkcji..yei