TUESDAY, JILY 26, 1864.
the Conditions of Peace.
War with all civilized nations is the ex
'teptional condition ; the very object of
war is supposed to be the establishment of
n securer peace. Thus the long wars of
iiaryolmoN with Austria, Prussia, Russia,
and England, Were considered necessary
by bitn, upon the ground that the French
•empirc could never enjoy quiet Until it had
proved its strength and crushed the oppo
sition it had encountered froM the first;
On the contrary, the coalition acted upon
the hypothesis that peace in Europe. could
not co•exis( with the NapoleOnie . theory..
In the Present struggle the North acts
•
upon the firm conviction that the success
of the rebellion Will result in perpetual
Strife, and that the prosperity and
peace of the American people is impossible
unless the Union is maintained. For this
creed we fight. For:this we will fight to
the last. We have evert tensed to argue
its justice, with thoSe who belieVe that two
happy and :peaceful empires may be built
upon theruius of the old Republic ; we are
so profoundly convinced of its truth, that
we listen impatiently to those orators who
. undertake the superfluous task of proving
the Union to be invaluable.' Whatever we
may sacrifice to gain . peace, we cannot
sacrifice the Union, it4oUt :which peace
mould be no blessing.:ThiS,,and thiS alone,
is the radiCal question: :between the rebel
.
lion and the Government.
It is only byliolding fast to this principle
that .the great difficulty can -be removed.
The decision of minor questions can never
end the greater difference. In the begin
ning of the war slavery and rebellion were
almost synonymous terms, and every blow
dealt at the one fell heavily upon the other.
All the anti-slavery measures of the Go
vernment were intended to weaken the
rebellion, and were- justified by their effect
upon it. That they have had terrible effect
is evident. 'Whole States 'wherein slavery
necrned to be an indestructible power have
been rid of it. The social system of the
South has been- literally revolutionized
in three years. Thus, as the end of the
'war approaches, slavery and rebellion
:ire terms no longCr identical. It was in
the slave-system and for its protection and
extension tbat the rebellion originated. This
unquestionably is true, but it is rio less the
,truth that treason no longer needs this inspi
ration, but is self-sustaining, and finds sail- .
dent motive for perseverance in the pride of
its own achieNements and the consciousness
of its strength. JEFFERSON " DAVIS spoke
snore truly than perhaps he knew, when he
said that he was not fighting for slavery,
„but for independence. Every day adds to
evidence that it is no longer the exist
ence of slavery that:the war is to determine,
but the existence of the Union. There is
3:10 longer a slave-power in America ; there
is a power of rebellion. -
For these reasons, when the war ends,
and we believe it must end soon, the terms
of peace will not be greatly embarrassed by
The discussion of the slave question, the
punishment to be inflicted ,upon the rebel
deadens, the extent of confiscation; the ac
knowledgment of the authority of, the
;United States will be the grand demand of
She victorious majority to the minority.
By reason.. of its transcendent importance,
at will he an imperative and almost soli-
Awry demand. We will permit no discus-
Mon of the integrity of the Union. All
other questions may be decided then, but
this is sietermined now.
]Peace a la Mode.
If there is a really happy man in the
country, North or South, at the present
Moment, we fancy it must be our amiable
friend, War. CORNELL JEWETT. This im
perturbable gentleman has succeeded so far
M his conscious destiny for politC meddling
on behalf of the whole world in the affairs
of "the rest of mankind," that he has
managed to bring—by sonic indescriba
ible magic or diplomacy—a peace con
ference to Niagara Falls. The con
ference fails, but what then ? Mr.
VEIvETT has had the satisfaction of
bringing his party together y and having
:a talk over the matter. Tire is a luxury
in this which only racy and good-humored
ambassadors of Mr. Jewarr's school can
appreciate genially. It is the mission of
plenipotentiaries such as these to be for
ever talking, and Mr. JEWETT, after his
feast of talking at Niagara, will not cease
to talk of it. Never was there so sublime
an opportunity for the breathless steam
engine 'of Mr. JEWETT'S locomotive
genius. At midnight, we suppose, he
has been dashing off his thunder-and
lightning despatches to the Emperor NA
roLaorr, and exposing the whole pleasant
puppet and hand-organ plan for playing
peace to an old • tune. Mr. JEWETT has
been living in an atmosphere of amiable
enterprise, and his last appearance, inprint,
as the peace editor of the New York Herald,
'crowns all the many sensations with which
•he has startled himself and the world.
(With what corrugated anxiety at first, and
then unruffled and expanding pleasure, the
Emperor of the French must have read the
following despatch, we may attempt to
conceive. "I further addressed," says Mr.
Jawarr—(and we beg the diligent reader
to mark the portentous emphasis of this
eommunication)—" the Emperor of France
thus:
N/AGA.r.A FALLS, July 11S, UM
'Emperor Napoleon:
in accordanco with mypromiso to advise you of
the progress of peace, I inform you that I am ar
ranging an immediate private negotiation. Seim:t
ad by representatives of the South now in Canada—
two of whom hold powers for negotiating uncondi
tional terms of peace with the ambassadors—l have
arranged the matter with Mr. Greeley. Mr. G., or
other parties will meet me hero within a week, with
full powers direct from the President for negorutton
In Canada, or a conduct for three representatives of
the South to proceed to Washington. This will tend
to Suspend hostilities, while negotiation may be
prolonged. I shall advocate the judgment of your
proposed International Congress. I fully concur
in the suggestion made to me by Mr. Greeley, that
your Majesty influence the President at the Swiss
epublle, or a delegation from Switzerland, to at
Once visit America to urge peace to sustain republi
can liberty. Your Majesty will, in your exalted %cis.
dom and statesmanship of character, roost once the
importance of such a mission in the midst of a nogo•
tiation now to take place and its beneficial effect.
Yours truly, Ww. Cortratu, JUWETT."
And how must Mr. Lus - coLx have in--
'ardly recoiled at the calm and dignified
'warning of Mr. JzwErr, who seemed to
]sold in . Tits-bendLlike an ambassadorial
--
glove, the scorn of the cWinzed--..oria.
OATARACT }SOUSE, NIAGARA. July 15, 1854.
TTesident Lincoln:
I have been chosen by Southern representatives
On the Canada ride to bring shoat a private negoti
ation for peace. I have communicated with iYIr.
Greeley on the subject, who, at an interview in Now
York yesterday, requested me to wait hero the ac
tion of your Excellency, and that la a few days ne
gotiations would be initiated through me or other
wise, or a conduct to Washington far three furnish
ed to me. Under the full powers for an armistice
and unconditional negotiation of terms of peace, to
depend upon eircumstaneesand the judgment of two
of the Southern ambassadors, I have no hesitation
in expreaaing the opinion that you cannot refuse re
nionding to this magnanimous advance of the
s.onthern Confederacy without mooting with the
condemnation of th e
ci v ilized
world.
Yr ,
'WILLIAM CORIVELL JRNVETT.
Mr. OnitßLE - 7 was next aticirtiSged, with
P. brevity like lightning, but not wanting
Duch a thunderbolt as the coupled - names of
'resident Luxor; and the Emperor Naro-
Ism( :
I thlin addressed Mr. Greeley thus : .
CATARACIT.IIOI/874, N1A0.4.11A, July 16, VW.
Horace Greeley:
I cannot herewith duplicate my letters to the Em
peror Napoleon and President Lincoln. I wait hero
your return. Delay not.
COIMILL .TICWETT.
Though this is sufficient to convert auy
one of ordinary nerves from the very
north to the very south pole of politics,
Itr. GIZEtLEY is not yet settled. Herewith
.s an ominous note to Mr. J. GORDON
53ENNEVI's vastly flattering to that =light
tned and temperate statesman—a states-
Irian, let it be observed, too wholly devoted
to the Union to be absorbe by any scheme
laving for its object the compromise of the
cation
Zion. Horace Greeley
Sanders has telegraphed Bennett he Is here for
resole, opposed to auarchy, and In favor of rostora.-
Von of all valunhlo to ether sootlon. Matters Via&
Cantors , here. Hurry up your part.
W. 0. Jawspp.
NIAGARA, July 15, 101.
,lamer G. Bennett.
Yon have done the South groat Injustice to your
lattaok upon Sanders. Great things are to be and
be done In movements now making hero, all
tending' to an honorable peace.
W. 0, Jawerr.
I again addressed Mr. Greeley the same day, In
past thus :
I have telegraphed to you and Bennett. A letter
will mob you from Sanders, designed its authority
for you or myself to present to the Proiddent. I will
follow up this matter, Convinced, under an armis
tice, points will como before an International Own
gress. Air. Sanders approves of my letter to the
Emperor of France, and deems your suggestion
about Switzerland excellent.
There is a smack of real diplomacy a o hout
this—airs from the ante-rooms of the old
World—a breeze from the Alps. Ah I if
we only knew the whole of the Switzerland
mystery, and what M. DEOUYN L'HUYI3
bad mentioned confidentially to Count
CrtAsnLour Lomovr. But here is some
thing which must be spoken with closed
doors, and in an excited whisper :
NIAGARA ' Silly 16,1864:
Mn. GREIZLICT—MI7 DIZA SIR : SS . Gan] at 111111(1.
I wait, your arrival. All will My ready for you.
Balm been applied to by 13ullalo-Riclituond than•
enee.for detailed information .of supposed action in
Canada. Answered public interest, demanded , my
silence. ' : W. C.. 1 awnrm.
The gems of diplomacy which string Mr.
J.EwETT's narrative are concluded with
a letter of thanks to HORACE Gnltnixr,
Esq., end a panegyric of . the "wise and
noble ItArotzol; III." But we 'must not
omit the impbrtant disclosure which Mr.
JEWETT has made concerning the peaceulti
matt= of the stray gentlemen from the
South. Let the whole country attend, and
bear this self-sacrificing friend. of the na
tion and of the world
I subsequently learned that the South had no con
ditions to make, but simply desired to negotiate, be
ing willing to leave disputed, points to the action. of
)
the people or a fair tribunal ; yet—lermitted to
name conditions, would prefer—
First. independence.
Second. Jurisdiction over slavery, except the mil
'lion be .under military ipowe'r, they to remain.-free
under an understanding-that the North would ale.
vato them to a superior position than the remaining
slaves, they would emancipate them,
Third. Free trade.
Fourth. Repudiation .of war debts North and
South—that is, the people North and South holding
such indebtedness to suffer, not future generations.
In connection with which points they expressed
themselves ready for—
Fifth. Any settlement honorable alike to all sec
tions, rather than be obliged to accept the aid of
ILuropean goverrunentsto secure thetrindopendence,
believbng to do so would not only subject them, to a
certain extent, to foreign dictation, but destroy en
tirely the government Of our forefathers.
.Through force they would do nothing—
thrOugh. eoricillation much. —x•
`Seventh. That while they would not negotiate for
a peace conditional upon returning to the Union or
freeing the slaves, there .might be Cireumstances
under negotiation leading them to otibtelt tO One or
Eighth. Their desire was to cease the war, not be
cause weak, as they could continue it Irons genera
tion to generation, but with a view to a peace for
national prosperity anti returning harmony and
good feeling;
Ninth. Tian t,in order to attain so desirable an end,
they reall74 the folly of making conditions to "a pro
posed negotiation.
Wli0; after this, can deny Mr. ,TEWkrva
fecundity of-ideas, and a taste for schemes?
lie does not so much move as careen-in
mystery. Think of a plan of peace com
prehending free trade and repudiation of
war debts, - North and South Mr. JEWETT,
with his amiable lancet, lias probed the
very depth of the Southern reticence as
regards the delicate question of peace. But
we object to his attempt to intimidate the
Chief - Magistrate of the nation in the long
letter which he wrote to that vexed func
tionary, concluding with words that might
open the fearful sluices of the French Re
volution:
IWouAr..--Alas, you have given to the country ..a
river of blood. Beware ; for if you turn not soon
you will find no road, and be obliged to wade through
it, not even to find shelter in the now cold, dark
dungeorrof liberty. Wm. CORNELL JRIVRTT.
There is much tragedy inall that Mr.
3 . E. ETT - writes, bUt, we are happy in being
assured, no blood. -This joyous diploma
tist cannot be, in the economy of fate,
doomed to misery, however lunch he might
be disposed to sacrifice himself upon the
altar of peace. RossiNt said of a great
singer that . _ the muse one day gave him a
kick and he went through the world singing.
The Genius of America, or the patron of
all merry diplomatists, must have touehed
Mr:-JEwErr With some such familiar rude
ness and tossed him. off into the world to
table-talk princes into good humor. Ah
if Mr. JEWETT, the world's ambassador
from Colorado, would be as communica
tive as he pietends to be—if he would
tell us what NAroLEoN has told him con
fidentially Some day we shall learn;
and meanwhile, if there is a chance of
settling the affairs of the nation amicably
in .n small tea-party, Mr. JEWETT is the
man for the emergency, and will be on
hand like DAY & MartmEN's blacking !
It is impossible for any impartial person
to glance at a map of the seat of war and
not be struck, firstly, with the remarkable
.progress which our arms have made in the
Southwest since the commencement of hos
tilities, and, secondly, with the remarkable
manner in which the rebellion headwindled
down from territorial proportions origi
nally vast and-impressive, until it now em
braces but a very few States, which are
about to be made the theatre of the closing
conflict. The fall of Atlanta would actu
ally be a more terrible blow to the rebel
lion, in a military sense, than the fall of
Iliclimohd ever could be, by any possible
contingency. It is, of course, entirely de
sirable that the rebel capital should speedily
be taken. Such a glorious consununation
to the present campaign in the East is de- :
mended for reasons of State ; it is demand
ed for reasons of finance ; it is demanded
by the loyal Northern sentiment as a just
retribution for the treason of the South, and
as an assertion of our true military prowess.
No other victory our armies could achieve
would occasion the same outburst of tumul
tuous joy as this. But this object, im
portant as it is, is not necessarily the first
to be secured. Richmond is not now a
strategic point; and, strange SSA may seem,
the operations of General. GRANT are, in a
strictly military sense, subordinate to those
of General SliElar.tli. Let us suppose that
SHERMAN should not march his 'army
another mile in Georgia ; let us suppose
that, having taken. Atlanta, he should con
tent himself with occupying those massive
fortifications . so elaborately erected by his
predecessor, JOHNSTON ; in such a case, pro
viding he can maintain ins communica
tions intact, he has gained the pivotal
point which makes the fall of Richmond
an ultimate necessity. As a strategic..
point Atlanta is of 'lncalculable value. Its
capture bears the same relation to the pre
sent field of operations as the fall of Vicks
burg to the valley of the Mississippi. After
the fall of this vital point, it seems that only
one great act of the drama remains—the
taking of Richmond. Nothing could show
more clearly the weakness of the enemy, or
justify more fully the sagacity which has
ruled our councils, than this latest exploit of
Gen. Sum:iiac An immense advantage
that the rebels have hitherto enjoyed over
us has rested in the circumstance of their
fighting upon the interior line, whereby
they have been enabled always to promptly
strengthen such weak points in their line us
may have been menaced by us, and - in
man3Thst.-+Ax-r-t - aripletely overwhelm is.
It was an advantage cliltiturrrin-iii3Arix. oll4 _,.._
terbalance with almost any superiority of
numbers. From present appearances the
enemy can scarcely hope to have the benefit
of it much longer. A junction of the
armies of JOHNSTON and LEE in this cam
paign (repeating the junction of BEAHRE
GARD and LEE in• a former campaign for
the defence of Richmond) is no longer to
be feared: To Gen. LRE, Atlanta has been
the keystone of the Confederacy; to Gen.
Sn - EnmAx it will be the wedge Which is
to rend that Confederacy asunder.
NIAGAILA, July 15,1861
Atlanta.
" HONORABLY AND DISCREETLY."—One
of HARRY GILMOR'S friends, who evidently
reads the New York Work; writes a com
munication to that paper, vindicating the
character of the "brave but misguided"
man who plundered the railroad trains in
Maryland and emptied the watch-fobs of
the passengers. This sentence is charac
teristic :
"Harry Gilmer neither burnt nor destroyed the
Governor's house, or anything - the in Maryland.
}le acted honorably and discreetly, punishing his
men for small oneness. Ills mission was the
burning of the Gunpowder bridge. This he did,
according to order. But ho is an honorable man."
Of course, in the estimation of The
World, they are " all, all honorable men."
It is rather incomprehensible, however,
that this HARRY GILMOR "neither burnt
nor destroyed the Governor's house, or
anything else in Mary/and," and yet burnt
the - Gunpowder bridge, "according to
order."
Garibaldi, in his retreat at Whin, is holding a
perpetual donatioo party. Every steamboat brings
its load of admirers, each burdened with presents
for the 'General, who does nothing but shake hands
and say, "Thank you." One of his latest presents
was a sword-fish, (leaked out with flowers.
James Gi. Campbell, ex-member of Congress
from Philadelphia, WIZ been appointed minister
resident at Stockholm.
A New Triangular Duel.
Captain MAnurAT's description of the
great triangular duel, in his novel of "Mid
shipman Easy," has been admired for its
humor but ridiculed for its improbability.
No doubt it was a lively bit of invention, as
imaginative as Lady Audley's throwing
her husband into a well and his emergence
therefrom with only a few scratches. Yet
something akin to IVlAnnvAT's amusing
scene—but with the amusement omitted—
is now being played in the great political
arena of Europe. The stake isDenmark,
and thf players arc—but we had better not
anticipate.
The treaty of 1652, in which the prin
cipal contracting parties were England,
Russia, and France was intended to se
cure to Prince drIRISTIAN of Gluelcs•
hourg, the succession to the crown of Den
mark, in the event of King FREDERIC'S
dying without a male heir, Russia, which
had some- pretensions to holstein-Gottorp,
a small duchy then held by Denmark,
liberally abandoned them; and Duke C n am-
TIAN of Augusteubourg, who was nearer the
Dnnish throne than CHRISTIAN of Glucks
bourg, but who had opposed the King of
Denmark in the war of 1849, and had
thereby incurred the penalty of treason,
accepted a large sum of money, in consi
deration of which he agreed, for himself
and his heirs, to abandon, forever, all chum
to the crown of Denmark, and particularly
to the Duchies of. Holstein and Schleswig.
Ms eldest son, who now claims these
Duchies, - as of right, was twenty-three
years old when this sale or surrender was
made, offered no protest at the time, shared
in 'the condonation of his own and his fa
ther's treason, which it gave, participated
in the comforts and luxuries which the mo
ney gave, and accepted the wilige transac
tion as right and lawful, until last Nevem- -
ber, when King Frlmm - tric of Denmark
died, and Prince CHRISTIAN of Glucksburg
succeeded him oitthe uropean guarantee.
of the Treaty of 1852.
. The moment the old King of Deninark
was dead, the young Prince of Arigustea
bourg, evidently carrying out, a pre-ar
ranged plan, to which the Duke of Saxe_
Cobourg-Gotha and some other petty Ger-
man-sovereigns were - also parties, claimed
the Duchies of Holstein and Schleswig—
carefully ignoring the paternal sale of such
claim and his own acquiescence in it
during a period of twelve years. The
result is known to the world—war carried
into Denmark-by Prussia and Austria, and
non-interference by England, Russia, and
France,' who also had signed the treaty of
1852, whose express object WAS to prevent
any difficulty on the Danish succession. Not
without cause has Mr. TENNTEL drawn a
cartoon in the last number of Punch, en
titled " The :Promissory Note," which re
presents King CHRISTIAN of Denmark pre
senting John Bull with a Promissory note,
"London, 1852, on demand we promise ;"
while NAPOLEON and the Czar arc stealing
away out of the counting-house, and Mr.
Bull, the note being presented for . paythent,
exclaims : "Now, -then, Mr. Knoutem and
Mounseer Froggy,- what are you skulking
off for ? Your names are to the Note, as
well as mine, and you're AS much bound to
pay your share as I. am." This does not
tell all the truth, however, seeing that
England declines interfering for Denmark,
unless Copenhagen be bombarded, or the
-
unfortimate King made prisoner.
All things seemed to go well for Prince
FREDERIC of Augustenbourg. Austria and
Prussia invaded Denmark on his account.
Queen VICTORIA took his part, against the
advice of her ministers, against the inter
ests of her daughter-in-law, against •the
wishes of the British nation. The Ger
man Confederation backed up the Pre
tender. It was proposed to let Denmark
off by detaching Holstein and half of
Schleswig from it, and giving them to,the
Prince of Augustenbourg. The unfortu
nate King of Denmark was willing to
make this sacrifice of territory, but the
Prince, flushed with ambition and success,
refuses to accept half of Schleswig. Most
probably, lie 'drives at becoming master of
and ruler of the whole of Denmark.
He is beginning to experience the truth
of the old saying that there is many a slip
between the cup and the lip. The Grand
Duke IsTICICOLAS, of Oldenbourg, in whose
favor the Czar has now resigned his pre
tensions to the Duchy of Holstein-Gottorp,
(a place not as big as one.of our smallest
Pennsylvania counties, and so insignificant
that it is not mentioned in "Lippincott's
Gazetteer,") has put in a claim against that
of the Prince of Augustenbourg, to the
Duchies of Holstein and Schleswig, and
will be a formidable opponent should Rus
sia baCk up his pretensions. Connected in
blood with the Imperial family of Russia,
the Grand• Duke NICUOLAS of Oldenbourg,
now thirty-five years old, is an antagonist
not to be despised or disregarded.
To these claimants may be added an
other, who has suddenly sprung up, a new
Jack-in-the-box. This is Prince F.REDERIC
of Electoral Hesse-Cassell, born in 1852,
and resting his pretensions on the family
claim to Holstein-Gottorp, and also on his re
lationship to the late King of Denmark. Ho
is not to be confounded with Prince Louts,
nephew of the reigning Grand Duke of
Hesse-Darmstadt. There • really are five
distinct rulers in Hesse, whose united sub
jects are considerably under a million. He
renounced his claim when the London
treaty of 1852 was made, and now resumes
it, in consequence of that instrument being
declared inoperative.
Here, then, is a prospect of a Triangu
lar Duel—the Princes of Oldenbourg,
Hesse, and Augustenbourg blazing away
at each other, and the unfortunate King
of Denmark, set up in the centre, as a
target, at which each of the combatants
may occasionally discharge shot. To add
to the complicity, we may imagine Russia
aiding Oldenbourg, Hesse sustained by Aus
tria, Augustenbourg supported by Prussia,
and Denmark not assisted by England.
- w.a.sx-rxwergrow.
I . WASIMMICOV,ty 25.
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FROM SECRETARY FESSENDEN.
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of Congress of Juno last, empowering him to issue
an amount not exceeding $200,000,000 in treasury
notes, etc., has to-day given notice that subscrip
tions will bo received by the Treasurer of the UM
- tea stales. the several assistant treasurers and de
signated depositories, bud by.the national banks de
signated and qualified as depositories and financial
agents, for treasury notes payable in throe years
• LT) lingaast lath, 1664, bearing interest at the rate
Of seven all - a"arreV""""."-PPr aent,por annum, with
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These notes will be convertible, atthe option of the
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issued in denominations of fifty, one hundred, five
hundred, one thousand, and five thousand dollars,
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sons making deposits subsequent to that date must
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of one•quarter of one per cent,, which will be paid
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the deposit was made.
No deductions for commissions must be made
from the . deposits.
Ac - companyiu this advertisement in circular
form i ks SecreWy F.MORNDAN'e. appeal 6:4,110 pOO,OO
of th * United States, in`which he isyl4i The clr
cumatanees -Under...Which , the lean its - Itsked for, and
your aid itiveked,.thMfgh'-differing• widely from the
existing state of affairs:throe years ago, are such as
afford e q uaf . encouragement and security. Time,
while proving that the struggle for national unity
was to exceed In duration and severity our worst
anticipations, bas tested the national strength and
developed the national resources to an extent alike
unexpected and remarkable, exciting equal aston
ishment at home and abroad.
Three years of warhave burdened you with adebt
which, but three ,years since, would have seemed
beyond your ability to moot, yet the accumulated
wealth and productive energies of the nation have
proved to he so vast that It has been borne with
comparative ease, and a peaceful future would
hardly feel Its weight: As a price paid for national
existence and the preservation of free Institutions,
it does not deserve a moment's consideration. Thus
far the war has been supported and carried on as it
00151 could have boon by a people resolved at what
ever cost of blood and treasure to transmit uriLm.
PRESS.-PHILADELPMA, TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1864.
paired to posterity the system of free government
bequeathed to thorn by the groat mon who framed it.
This dellborateand patriotic resolve has developed
a power surpri-ing even to themselves. It has
shown that in less than acontury a nation has arisen
unsurpassed In vigor, and exhaustless in resources,
able to conduct through a series of years war on its
most gigantic scale, and finding itself when near
its close almost unimpaired In all the material ele
ments of power.
It has, at the present moment, groat armies in the
field, facing on enemy apparently approaching It
Polled of utter exhaustion, but still struggling with
a three the greater and more desperate as it sees,
and because It fees, the near approach of a final
and fatal consummation.
Such, to my deliberate judgment, Is the present
condition of tho groat contest for civil liberty In
Which you aro now engaged. Up to the present mo
ment you have readily and cheerfully afforded the
moans necessary to Support your Government in
this protracted:strugglo. It Is your war ; you pro
claimed It, and you have sustained it against
traitors ovorywboro with n patriotic devotion
unsurpassed in the world's history. ;The
securities offered aro such as should command
your ready confidence. Much effort has boon
mado to shako the publie faith In our national credit
both at home and abroad. As yet we have asked
no foreign aid. Calm and self-reliant, our own
means have Mils far proved adequate to our wants.
They arc yet ample to meat those of the present and
the future. It still remains for a patriotic people to
furnish tho needful supply. The brave mon who
arc lighting our battles by land and sea must be fed
and clothed. Munitions of war of all kinds must ho
furnishod, or the war must cad In defeat and dis
grace.
This is not the time for any lover of his country to
Inquire as to the state of the money market, or to
ask whether ho can so convert his surplus capital as
to yield him a larger return. No return and no
profit con 1113 desirable, if follewed by national dis
solution or national disgrace. Present profit, thus
acquired, is but the precursor of future and speedy
destruction. Ho investment can be so really profit
able as that , whion tends to insure the national
existence.
1 am encouraged in the belief that, by the recent.
legislation of Congress, our finances may soon be
placed upon a sounder and more reliablVooting.
.The present deranged condition •of thOcurreney
is imputable, in a' great degree, to disturbances
arising• from'. the withdrawal of necessary checks,
often inevitable in time of war, when expenditures.
must largely exceed any possible supply ofteotn.
The opportunities thus presented to :metre sud
den wealth have led to vicious speculation; a, conse
quent increase of prices, and violent fluctuations.
The remedy is to be found only in controlling the
necessity which begets the evil. llttherto,wo have
felt the need of more extensive and rigorous taxa- •
tion. Severe Comment has • been made upon what
seemed to many an undue timidity and tardiness of
action on the part of Congress. In this regard, I
deem it but just to saj that very great misappre
hension has existed, and perhaps still exists, upon
this point. Legislators, like all others, have much
to learn. In a new condition of affairs an - entirely
new system was to be devised, and that system must
necessarily be the growth of time and experience.
It is not strange that the first efforts ehould have
proved imperfect and inadequate. To lay heavy
burdens on a great and patriotic people in such
a manner as to be equal, and as to occa
sion the least amount of suffering or annoyance,
requires time and caution and vast labor, and with'
all these experience is needful to test the value of
the system and correct its errors. Such has been,
the work which Congress was called upon to per
form, and I am happy to say that the daily results
aro proving the internal-revenue act to exceed in
efficiency the most sanguine expectations of its
authors. In the month or June, 1863, it yielded
about $4,600,000, while the corresponding month of
this year returned about $15,000,000, under the same
law. Under the new law, which
. went into operation
on the first day of the present month, the treasury
not unfrequently receives one million in a day. As
time and experience enable the officers employed in
collecting the revenue to enforce the stringent pro.
visions of the new laws I trust that a million per day
will bo found the rule, and not thi3 exception. Still
much space is undoubtedly left for improvement in
the law, and in its ed ministration ,as a grerxter amount
of necessary information is acquired. The proper
sources of revenue and the most effective modes of
obtaining it are best developed. In the execution
or the existing laws. And I have caused measures
to be initiated which will, it is believed, enable Con
gress so to improve and enlarge the system as, when
taken in connection with the revenue front customs
and other sources, to afford au ample and secure
basis for the national credit. Only on such a basis,
andin a steady and vigorous restraint'upon carrell,
cy, can a remedy be found for existing evils. Such
restraint can only be exercised when the Govern
ment is furnished with means to provide for its
necessities; but without the aid of a patriotic
people any government is powerless for this or
any other desirable end. The denominations of
the notes proposed to be issued, ranging from
fifty to five thousand dollars, place these secu
rities within the reach of ail who are disposed
to aid • their country. For their redemption the
faith and honor and property of that country are
solemnly pledged. A successful issue to this
contest, now believed to be near at hand, will
largely enhance their value to the holder, and, peace
once more restored, all burdens can be lightly borne,
Ho who selfishly withholds his aid is the hope of
turning his available means to greater . imrnodlate
profit is speculating upon his country's misfortunes,
and may find that what seems to be present gain
leads only to future loss. I appeal, therefore, with
confidence to a loyal and patriotic people, and in
voke the efforts of all who love •their country and
desire for it a glorious future to aid 'their Goyign;
meta in sustaining its credit ma placing that oreat
upon a stable foundation.. W. P. FIWISICriDgrr,
Secretary of the Treasury.
ASSISTANT TREASURER APPOTNTETI.
Noses TAYLO R
. has been appointed Assistant
TrentTfier or the United States at New . Yorle,•in
piece of Mr. Cisco, whom continued ill health oom
pets to rerign.
A DISGRACEFUL SCENE
. disgraceful case of infidelity, involving an army
officer and a private soldier and his wife, occurred
hero on Saturday. The wife of the soldier was lost
to all shame. It ended In a public Antimidation in
the street and the arrest of the parties. • The officer
dtserves dismissal.
OUR SOLDIERS TO BE PAID
It is understood that paymasters are shortly to be
sent to the front with funds for the payment of the
troops. They will go 'probably soon after the Secre
tary of the Treasury has offered his new loan to the
peoplo. This will be cheering news to "Akio boys
and their families at home.
DISTINGUISHIOD ARRTVAIS.
General MARTINDALE, commanding the 18th
Corps, In place of Gen. SMITH, arrived in this aft*
yesterday, and is stopping at Willard's Hotel. So
alto is Gen. SANDI - MD, commanding the New York
militia, and supposed to be in communication with
the Government in reference to the position of the
New York volunteers prevented from coming to aid
in the defence of Washington,
RELIGIOUS SERVICES
Divine serviee was held yesterday in most of the
camps, hospitals, and fortifications of this city. The
churches were also well attended by soldiers be
longing to the Sth Oorps. • The Chronicle, this morrk.
ing, congratulates their friends and relations upon
having such respectable ambassadors representing
them away. Letters mailed to-day will be in time
to reach the ath Corps here.
OFFICERS CASHIERED
Lieut..Gnotton Woonaß, and Second Liont.
'lrony Moldeas, of the 118th Pennsylvania ((join
Exchange) Regiment, have been cashiered, and are
now in this city.
Persons doing business with the Government,
Should understand that certificates or Indebtedness
are now transmitted free by the Treasury-Depart
ment by express.
There is very little activity at the Navy Yard.
The famous Yankee was hauled up for repairs on
Saturday.
The following Pennsylvanians died and wore
tarred here yesterday: Wm. EswoaTnT, let OM*:
ry ; AA:110X SAT on, 167th, and H. STOWBR, ilth.
TILE INDIAN WAR.
•
Ten White 'Women Captives amo ng the
Sioux—lndian Attack on. an,lihnigrant
Train—Thirteen Emig-venlig Massacred.
The St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald of tho 21st contains
the following: One of the proprietors of the timeri.
can Fur Company, and an old Indian trader of 45 •
years amongst the Missouri Sioux, says` that tale
Sioux have now in their possession, not as prisoners,
but as slaves, some ten white women, and that no
price could ransom them, as they are valued far
more than riches. The only way they can be re
leased is by the strong arm of the military. The
ma ltreatment to which these unfortunate women are
subjected no pen could describe. Mr. B. while at
ono of his trading poets ' was informed by one , of
his Indian friends that a young white woman
was there in one of Ihe lodges, and, having:a true
_mpathy for the unfortunate captive, and the itor
-anuelon in which she was placed, went to see,
her
_her release. $ e Wet re- .
fused admittaaaerl:_etree lodge by the savage who
hold her and eounteu--m^,—.6. his own . HO then
tusked him if he would not sell her, and the Indian
raid "No ,*" that he had " learner to love her, and
would not part with her for any. price." Mr. R.
then told him that the Great Father (the President
of the United State') would soon'hear - of hie daagh-.
ter's situation and the misery she was in, aid would'.
wipe from the face of the earth the Sioux Nation.:
The Indian laughed in his savage, grunting way '
,
but made no other reply. Mr. R. left 'feeling' tha
h o had done all in his power to obtain the captive's
release. Perhaps General Sully may break their
chains ere long.
From Mr. G. P. Beauvais, who has arrived in St.
Joseph from his Lone Star Blanche, a few miles this
side of Fort Laramie, me learn that an emigrant
train of thirteen wagons was attacked last week,
a short distance above the Fort, by six hun
dred Minnesota and Missouri river Siouxe. The
emigrants defended themselves with , despera
tion, but were soon overpowered, thirteen- of
the party being massacred, when the belance
surrendered. After plundering the train of all
thegoods that suttee their fancy, and taking off
the live stook, the wagons were set on tire and en
tirely consumed. Mr. Beauvais met Six companies
of troops on route from Fort Kearney to Laramie,
their object being to pursue and disperse the hostile
ravages and to protect the emigrants. l'he South
i
Matto s . still greatly swollen, and has not been.
'fordable for over four weeks. Notwithstanding this,'
the emigration still flows on. Trains go up;to
a short distance of Denver, where a crossing' is
effected. Serious trouble is autiolpated during the
summer from the Indiana on the plains.
Dr. Wm.. Prescott, of Concord, Nov Ilanip-,
shire, has recently given to Allegheny College, i at
Meadville, Pennsylvania, ono of the finest geolo
gical, mineralogical, and conchological ablnote in
the country. It embraCes six thousand Specimens
from all parts of the habitable globe, 'Mott the
donor has been over fortYleare In collect! g. There
un
are represented one hdred and ninety-s general,
and two thousand six hundrod different peace of
conchology, and over three thousand dlethot varie
ties in mineralogy and geology. To thost r here are
yet to ho added upwards of two hundred
.11, idles of
birds.
—There is a boy living at Trost'llama.
named Edward Weeks, who, although on
of age,*etande 6 feet 6 inches high, la
meitsures43 inches round the waist, aral,i
tordshing wolght of 189 lbs, or about , 10u
an ordinary youth of the same ago
MISCELLANEOUS
THE WAR.
THE SIEGE OF ATLANTA.
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF TgR BATTLE
BEFORE TIIR CITY.
The RCIJCI Ilssaull a Disastrous Failure.
ONE THOUSAND OF THEIR DEAD BURIED
BY OUR TROOPS.
PROBABLE OCCUPATION OF THE CITY
THE GVEIULLA NAIL IN KI4NTUOKT AND MISSOURI.
LAWLESS CONDUCT OF THE' REBELS.
TUE WAR IN TUE SOkUTEUVEST.
The Slcge of Atlanta.
TIIIi BATTLE ON FRIDAT-ONS THOUSAND ARTIELS
INTERRED NY OUR TROONS-OOR LOSS Anowr 2,500,
THAT DV TIII: . 1tH11141,14 ASSEUTED TO 1160.000
IV.AsnimyroN, July 25.—Tho Republican has
Issued an extra with the renewing Information from
General Shertann's army :
Despatchea to the Government represent that a
great battle was fought on Friday, resulting In a
complete repulse of the enemy at every point.
The enemy, holding the. largest part of the city,
assaulted our works on Friday with groat fury, 00-
dently expecting to drive our forces out of the city.
The lath Corps,commanded by Frank Blair, seemed
to be the special object of the rebel wrath, as the
enemy messed against it an overwhelming force.
.The "15th" received the shock gallantly, and hold
its own until General Bodge with the 16th Corps
came up, when the rebels were driven back with
great Slaughter. General Logan, at the head of
the 17th Corps, went into battle with the rallying
cry of "Remember McPherson I" This corps, as
well as Blair's 15th corps, both constituting the
army under Major General McPherson, fought
desperately, the news of their bravo commander's
death having been communicated to them just be
, fare going into battle.
General McPherson was shot while recOnnolte
ring; be having become separated from his staff for a
moment, a rebel sharpshooter shot him from an am
bush. The terrible struggle ended by repulsing the
enemy at every point on the line. It was arranged
that on Saturday the dead of both armies should be
buried, and the wounded removed under a flag of
truce. The Union troops buried 1,000 rebels left on
the field within our lines, besides the rebels buried
many of their own dead near their own works.
Upon this basis It is eatimated,lhat the rebel killed
and wounded, on Friday, will exceed 6,000, the ave
rage of killed and . wounded in battle being about
seven wounded to one killed. Our loss will roach
about 2,600 In killed and wounded, the 15th Corps
suffering severely for the reason named above, that
the enemy massed ageing it. It was this act of the
enemy, in part, that cost him such a heavy loss.
'While the work of burying the dead and removing
the wounded was going on, on Saturday, Sherman's
heavy artillery was playing upon tho city. At the
game time, largo fires were observed in different
parts of Atlanta, supposed to be the destruction of
supply depots and such other property as they
could not convey away, and did not wish to have
fall into our hinds. This was considered evidence
of an intention by the enemy to ovacudte the place.
Several rebel generals are reported killed, but their
names are not 'given. After General alePherson's
death, General Logan assumed command of his
grand division.
' A later despatch states that our forces had ob•
tamed possession of the elevated ground on the
northeast of the town, and that siege guns had been
mounted which command the place, also, that the
rebels were burning their stores preparatory to a
retrograde movement. Everybody feels confident
that Atlanta by this time has fallen into our hands.
THE BATTLB OP ATLANTA.
Wasinnirron, July 25. despatch received
to•day from General Sherman states that his loss
In the battle of Friday last was less than 2,000,
while that of the enemy cannot be less than 7,000 i
owing to the advantage Sherman took of their
effort to turn his left column.
There is no offictol Information to show our force'
have entered Atlanta.
TUB LATE GENERAL 10P111313SON.
General James 33. McPherson, killed before Al
lants,"was a native of Sandusky, Ohio, and nadust
ted at West Point as the first in the class or 1851
Ile received a commission as brevet second lieu
tenant in the Engineer Corps, and for about a year
remained at West Point as assistant instructor of
military engineering From 1854 to 1857 he was em
ployed on the New York hirboi defences, and on
Various Hudson-river improvements; Was Mt,
charged with the construction of Fort Delaware,
and afterwards directed certain defences of San
Francisco. In 1881 (then a captain) he was appointed
to the charge of the defences of Boston, and in No
vember of the same year was made en aid-do-camp
to General Italica, with the rank of lieutenant
colonel.
In the expedition against Forts Henry and Donal
son, and at Corinth, he was the army engineer. In
May, ISfY2, he was nominated a brigadier general,
and in October of the same year was promoted to be
a major general of volunteers. His rise in rank was
rapid and deserved, and few officers have been so
constantly in active service, or won a more honors.
hie reputation for bravery and for intelligent know
' ledge of their duties as professional soldiers,
THE. corrlT:r IN TPA VICINITY-A DESCRIPTION
OP THY. CITY-ITS ORALAT IHYOUTAUCIS TO THU
- TrEDILL CO.NYEDSAACY. - " '
. .
The country around Atlanta , is now' of historic
interest, and the following description of it will
give a clear and well-donned idea of the Southern
"Gate City," and of a region heretofore unvisited
by our armies :
Toroanerar
Pursuing the railroad south from the Etowah, the
last range of hills are the Lost Pine and Kenesaw
mountains. Below this begins an immense almost
level surface, often thickly covered with forest, and
with a soil of 'ten fertility than further north ; in
fact, some portions of the surface in the vicinity of
Atlanta are absolutely sterile. As we enter this
plain we soon reach the Chattattoechie river, a
stream of considerable size, flowing in a southwest
erly direction, and possessing, in a military point of
view a few of the requisites of a strong defensive
position. Several miles south of the Ohattahoochie,
and at the termini of several railroads, is situated
Atlanta.
This town, before the war, was important merely
as a flourishing business and railroad centre. It
was the county town of Fulton county, Georgia.
The inhabitants of the surrounding plantations
came there for j1161.1C0 and for trade. Large quan
tities of cotton and grain found here either a mar
ket or shipment for the seaports. The people were
active and industrious, and met with a merited
growth in wealth.
There are three railroads which terminate at At
lonia—Abe Georgia road, connecting Atlanta with
Augusta the lilacon and Western road to Macon,
and the 'Western and Atlantic road to Chattanooga,
Term. A few miles south of Atlanta branches tho
Lagrange railroad, connecting Atlanta with West
Point, on the Chattahoochie river at the Alabama
line, seventy-two miles distant. By moans of there
railroads Atlanta in former times was connected
with all pars of the United States, and until re
cently was the greatest railroad point in the hands
of the enemy.
The town was laid'out in 1645, and has now be
come one or the most populous in Georgia. In IWO
its pripulation Consisted of about 12,000 resident in
habitants, and since the war has increased almost
double that number, the surplus being_ made up of
Government Metals and employees. The city con
tains several hotels and some line blocks of build
ings. Since the war it has become an extensive Go
vernment depbt and manufacturing centre. Here
are -located the principal shops of the railroads
joining here, the most extensive rollinimllls in the
South, foundries and machine • shops, pistol factory,
shops for the manufacture of miscellaneous Govern.
ment articles, and two laboratories.
r:M = l = nTM I R ==
Of these we will give some details. Many of the
works are owned by private Individuals, but for the
past two years have been extensively engaged in
supplying the rebel Government. They are, la con
sequence, generally Included under the head of , Go.
vernment workC
Ono mile below the passenger depot, and on the
westsido of the Georgia: Railroad, is situated the
Atlanta rolling-mill. This is the most ostensive
establishment of the kind in the South. It was
built in 1858, and owned In 1863 by Schofield & Mark
ham. It wag at ono time purchased by the South
Carolina Railroad Company for 5600,000, exclusive
01 the negroes belonging to the mill, which sold
for an additional sum of 875,000. The mill has em
ployed one hundred white hands and alike num
ber of negroes. It Is the only ono In the South
with accommodations for rolling railroad Iron.
Of this work, however, it has done but little, its
.full capacity being used In the manufacture of
gunboat plates; and so great has been the demand
for iron fur that purpose, that alrunused rallirfrom
the different roads of the South have been brought
here to be turned, into armor for gunboats. Even
roads not part of a chain of communication between
two important points have been torn up, and the
iron appropriated to the purpose mentioned. This
mill furnished the iron for the Merrimac, Arkansas,
.the boats In Mobile bay, and, In fact, nearly all
of the iron boats that the rebel Government has
ever .built have received plates from these
works. This fact alone rendered Atlanta a
goodpolut for destruction. ISM neenumuss
to the South did not end here. From the rolling
mill, following the railroad towards the depot, and
but flsbort distance, is a foundry and machine shop
fo r the reeheiAUEUSO of shot and shell exclusively.
Furth.- on, and on the same side of the railroad, Is
milistol factory. This establishment is . owned by
Spitler &Emir, and wgs reconstructed in- 1882. It
is a largo building, five stories high, and was former
ly used as a grist mill. It was built by Richard
Peters, of Atlanta. The machinery used for the
, purpose of manufacturing pistols was removed from
Holly Springs shortly before 'lts capture by our
forces. This work has given employment to nearly
three hundred hands.
On the other side of the railroad, near the pistol
factory, is a Government arsenal. Tide has been
built since the war, and has been in vigorous opera
tion over since, repairing and making arms, build
ing gun-carrlagos, and also has a machine for roll
ing out sheet-copper, for caps. This establishment
employ eirabout two hundred hands. A short dis
tance further up the railroad, oil the west side, are
the machine-shops, round-house, &0., of the Georgia
Railroad and Banking Company. These works are
very extensive, and have done the repairing of on-,
pines and cars of the Macon road. Near the depot,
on one of the main streets of the town, is the mili
tary storehouse. Hera a largastook of small arti
cles used by.the Government aro stored . and Issued
as ordered by the proper authorities. Three 'fillies
• east is the Government laboratory. Hero were ma
‘nufeettired percussion caps, fulminating powder,
fuses, alchohol, ohemleals, etc. In this establish
ment were employed a largo number of both sexes
and all ages and colors. North of the depot are the
machine Shops and roundhouse of the Western nod
Atlantic Railroad, and opposite is the Naval
Laboratory. Higher u and on the west
side of the railroad aro Windship , s foundry and
machine shops. This establishment has filled .
some • of the largest Government contracts,
and kept in constant employment a large nuns
ber .of bands. On the other side of the re:t
rend aro several shops of different kinds, all, re
cently engaged in the manufacture of supplies for
the rebel Government. There aria besides the
works enumerated, a large number of pork packing
and oil establishments, also a button factory.
Many of the buildings in the town aro used; by the
rebels far different purposes, such as olokhing,Shee,
artillery, harness, etc., manufactories.
ATLANTA A. GROAT 82911M101758." •
r Truro,
12 yoare
. • bony,
of Cho to
e that of
Tho railroad Amps of which wo hains arkokon are
not inferior to any in tho South. The occupation.
of the roads north and treat of Atlanta drove D large
number of looomOt Ives and cars to that point, and
there were recently .thousands of them oolteotod
.there.
After the surrender of Plow Orleans Mere wag
ATS-itiTA.
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stowed away, it Is said, In Atlanta, as much specie
as their locomotives could drew.
There waa a great ounntity or unemployed in
chinery In Atlanta, taken there at different time
upon the evacuation of different towns and ()Wes.
TN N 0 RNAT V/ LON OP ATLANTA
It will be seen, in addition to its Importance as a
key to the network of railroads extending to all
portions of tho Gulf States, that Atlanta has had a
greater value on account of MACtOrIOB. rho
very existence of the Southern armies, as such, has
been largely dependent upon the products of the
machine shops, thundrles and laboratories of Atlan
ta. lf, when the opportunity formerly offered, a
strong column had been pushed through this coon.
try, no Is now being done. and Atlanta had boon
captured end destroyed, there is no doubt the re.
hellion would now hardly exist. It Is by no means
the only point In Georgia which possesses a manu
facturing Importance. Jr. enema the Isolation of
Georgia—her Inland situation—has made her the
centre of the greatest Industrial elfortsof the South,
iv providing themselves with the material of wor.
XENTUCKY AND MISSOURI.
Tito Guerilla War
MOVEMENTS OP OVICRILLAI7 IN ICHNTUOTCS-IT.LT
-11016 AND lOWA COPPE.II.IIEAD9 JOINING THAL
The Louisville Democrat of the 23d has a Totter
from its special correspondent at Fort Leaven worth.
lie says:
"'Thornton, the chief of the guerillas, Is now re-
ported to bo In Kingston, Caldwell county, having
been joined by Thraliklll, lila major, with a conside
rable torce. Theirjoint strength Is said to ho Moen
hundred. General Flrk Is pursuing them with ml.
title, and Colonol Ford, with a portion of the 2.1
Colorado, is following. Small bands are scouring
Platte and Clay counties, and hotwoon the two
forcoa these counties meet with rebol punish
ment. General Sturgis still bola WostOn, with
a part of the ]BBth Illinois one-hundred-days
men and a battery under Major Tooe.son, from
Southern Kansas. Bushwhacking °par:Woos are
active In Western hlissourl, south of the river:
General M. (J. Keen thinks they design a forty Into
KllllsilB. At least seven hundred arms have been
turned over to Thornton by disloyal or Paw Paw
"There Is little doubt but parties of CoppertreadS
from lows and Illinois have been nmsinsr into
Northern Missouri within the last three weeks, and
joined Thornton. This accords with the Statement
of Thornton at Platte City, that 1,1500 Illinoisans
would join his forces.
‘‘ The river patrol Is atilt kept up north of Wyall
dotto. Thornton's marauders hare a regimental
organization, be befog colonel, Kendall lieutenant
colonel, Thrallkill major, and several notorious dL4-
loyalists captains.
"A. tight occurred on the 23i1 between eighty
gnerillne and demelimonts of-State militia, under
Alajor Cox, at Union Antis, Clinton county. Rebel
loss two killed and nine wounded; Federal loss, one
killed and three wounded.
HENDERSON, KY., ATTACKED BY TILE BRENTA.
The Evansville (Ind.) Journal of the 2211 says
that "It courier arrived In that town on Thursday
last, from Henderson, advising the military au
thorities that Henderson was attacked by rebels,
numbering from 150 to 700, and that fighting was
going on. Our gunboats immediately left for Hen
derson. The Federal troops who went to Henderson
on Wednesday to shoot two gnerilla prisoners in
retaliation for the murder of a Union man in Hen
derson occasioned this rebel raid. Certain dis
tinguished citizens made great exertions to prevent
the execution, and General Ewing postponed IL.
The citizens of Henderson left in large numberl, the
steamboat Halleck being literally crainuled. Per
sons who left Henderson later report that the gue
rillas were in the city and the Federal troops in
line of battle aimitting an attack. The timely ar
rival of the gunboats would save the Federal troops
from disaster. The latest passengers arriving last
night say that the gunboat Brilliant was shelling
the woods at the lower .end of the town, but it was
not expected that Capt. Perkins would do the town
much damage whether the guerillas are there - or
not. We are sorry Chat Commander Fitch Is not
there in person."
111 TJ It 0 F' E .
larliral of the Belgian with Two Days'
Latei News.
False Reports of an Engagement Between th
Learsarge and the Florida.
TEE GERDLOHvma NEARLY &T AN END
Denmark Reported to base Proposed Terms Of Pen&
THE WAI3, IN NEW ZEALAND.
FATHER PorN, (L. 0.), July 25.—The steamship
Belgian, from Liverpool on the 14th, via London
terry on the loth inst., passed this point, en route
for Quebec, at one o'clock this afternoon. She was
boarded by the news-yacht of the Associated Press,
and a summary of her news obtained. Her dates
aro two days later than those already received.
The steamship North America, from Quebec, ar
rrived at Londonderry at 10 o'clock On the evening
Of the 13th inst.
The steaintihip Rama, from Now York, arrived at
Sdathampton on the lath inst.
Tho steamship Great Eastern had reached Sheer
ness, from Liverpool.
GREAT BRITAIN
The London Times' "city article " says that the
advance of the Confederate loan to 71 is partly
owing to advices received by speculators.
The London Daily News says that the floating sup
ply of Confederate bonds, is diminishing, owing to
their being absorbed by blockade-runners for the
purchase of cotton.
The Atlantic Mail Company, Galway Steamship
Line, have further adjourned their meeting until
the 18th of July, to ascertain the definite result of
the proposal to the Postmaster General. •
Parliamentary proceedings Were unimportant.
The customary ministerial "white bait" dinner
was fixed for July 23d, and Parliament would be
prorogued about a week thereafter.
. • TUE SR.I.RSAROR AND. THE FLORIDA.
It was reported that. the Kearsarge and the Flori
da had an engagement oil 5 ersey, July 13th; that
the KOarsarge was disabled, and had to put late
Gorey, and that the Florida came up and waited
off Gorey to renew the engagement. No details era
given.
"TIIZ RA rrAirAmgoex.l,
A letter from Calais Bays. that the Confederate
steamer Rappahannock, ut that port had judgment
pronounced Barefoot her by the Boulogne Chamber
of Commerce for commercial debts contracted by
her captain and officers that the Board attempted
to fix the notice of sale, but that they were pre
-vented by the captain, and had to draw up a proces
"verbal."
Captain Semmes was travelling incognito in Ire
land.
DANCFORRMAN AFFAIRS
The successful passage of the Lynn Fiord by the
Prussians is confirmed.
It is also confirmed that Denmark has proposed an
armistice with a view to peace negotiations.
The belief Is generally entertained that a peace
will soon he concluded.
It is reported that King Christian proposes in the
cane propositions to include the transfer. of the
finish navy, on condition of his remaining King of
Dentnark, under the protection of the German Con
federation.
Tho new Danish Ministry have sent a mama° to
the Rigsraad, of which the following is a summary :
The King, deeming that • men unconcerned in
late events would be bey er able to save our Father
land, has decided upon a change of lU,piators.
We hope to obtain the confidence of the Rigsraad
and of the people. Otherwise we shall be powerless
to lay down a programme at present. It would be
impossible to do so. The new. Ministers can only
give assurance that, in taking their stand firmly
upon legalground, they will never advise the King.
to adopt an - illegal measure. The message concludes
by saying that Ministers will consider it their mis
sion to uphold the independence of Denmark.
The Independance Beige . asserts that the Bing of
Denmark has invoked and obtained the interven
tion of the Emperor Napoleon.
FRAIICE
The Bourse closed firm on tho 14th at 66f. 400. for
he Routes.
A frightful accident occurred on the Saono rigor,
at Lyons. Thirty people wero drowned through a
lurch of an oyer-orowded boat.
The National Bank of Italy has reduced its rate
of discount to seven per cent.
A Bombay telegram of June 21 reports that
Ameer. of Cabul, completely defeated Alger Khan,
In a great battle at Bernice,
NEW ZE&L &ND
Tho London Times publishes details of the late
disaster to the British troops in Now Zealand. It
says It was peculiarly disgraceful, and perhaps un
precedented. The men were surprised, and fled,
while nearly all their officers were killed or wounded
In heroic ellorts to rally them.
Money and Commercial Intelligence.
LoNDOIv MONEY lkismuirr. —ln the London
money market the funds wore improving under the
pacific aspect of affairs. MOROy was abundant, and
the discount rates in' the open market were lah.
per cent. below the Bank's minimum.
The West India steamer had arrived with nearly
two and a quarter millions of dollars in specie.
LIVERPOoI. COTTON Manurr, July Lt.—The sales
of cotton for four days roach 72,000 bales, including
34,000 bales to speculators and exporters... The mar
ket is buoyant, with an advance ofl@ly‘d sia 11. since
Friday last.
TRADE RETORT.—The Manchester market is ex
cited, with an advanoing. tendency.
LIVERPOOL BREADSTUFF'S Idartwar, 14th.—The
'Breadstuff!' market is quiet, bat steady. alessrs.
Richardson, Spence, St Co. report Flour quiet and
steady. Wheat firm 1 ; , winter red Si tidells ed. Corn
easier; mixed 30s 3(10§30s 6d.
LI VERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, 74th.—The Pro
vision market Is generally firm. Wakefield, Nash,
& Co., and others, rqport Beef finn. Pork has an
upward tendency. Bacon still advancing. Lard
firmer at 40@315. Tallow steady. Butter steady.
LERPOOL Pnonucx MARRIZT.—Ashos quiet ;
sugar Runny auJet and steady • Rico quiet ;
Linseed Oil steady ; Roam, sales o fro,.
pentine inactive at ; Petroleum quiet, quoted s.
id on spot)
LONDON MARKETS.—BreatiStuffs are quiet and
Steady; Sugar easier ; Coffee has an upward ten
dency ; Tea dull; Rice quiet; Tallow dull.
Lori vox, July 14.—Consols closed at 90fl(0?90X for
money.
A k:RICAN STOOKS.—SaIes of Illanols Central
Railroad at 41X0IBOX discount; Brio Railroad,
48640.
The Latest Commercial.
[Via Londonderry.]
LIVERPOOL 'July 15.—Ootton.—Sales of tho week,
113,000 bales, I ncluding 30,000 'bales to speculators
and 24,000 bales to exporters. The market is buoy
ant, with an advance of 3031 d 'ft ih on the week. The
sales today (Friday) were 10,000 bales, including
3,000 to speculators and exporters, the market
closing buoyant and unchanged at the following
authorized quotations
Fair. 11Iiddling.
Orions• .. nominal. 3134 d.
Mobile "
Uplands " 31%d.
Stook in port 212,000b01e5, of whickllso are Auto-
Ilea xi.
linnansTuFas.—The market Is quiet and stoady.
Wheat firmor and upward.
P.ROVltilOrts.—Thit market is firm, with tin upward
tendency..
LONDON, Suly 16.—Consols DIM at 00%60074 for
money. Tho bullion in the Bank of England has
decreased -C230,000.
ASEIRIOAN STOOKa.—The latest salos were: Illi
nois Oentral Railroad at 41640 discount; Erie Rail
road 50@52.
Mum-Atlantic Steamers.
Sr. JOHN% N. F., July 25.—A. lielvjt 90g oame
down just os the Asia, from Boston Far Liverpool,
was duo off Capo Raee, and she was hot soon ; The
United Ktogdom, from Glasgow for Quebec, passed
Cape Race on Sunday morning, but was not board.
od. At 10 o'clock to-day the weather at Caps Race
was Tory thick.
Four Persons Drowned.
PnovinEnou, M. 1., July 28.—Four pennon' wer -
alrorrned In Newport harbor,•yoeterday, ty the up
setting of a boat.
Jeste Stedman, aged eighty-taro years, ad
'dressed a publle assembly at Springfield, Vermon
on the fourth, and died before he left the platform.
lIAKUI3I URG.
Military Dint term- Prrporationa to Avoid
the Draft.
Special Correepandeece of The Preto.)
Ifaunianufro, July 25, 1564
The President's call for five hundred thousand
men has developed no little solicitude and anxiety
among the Copperheads of this city. They are,
however, submitting to their fate with becoming
grace. Efforts are being made In all the wards to
stimulate enlistments and oicape the draft. Thus
far but little success has attended the result, Sub
scripl inn papers are afloat., with a view to see how
much the citizen? are willing to contribute towards
increasing the bounties, yet nothing very satisfac
tory has been accomplished In this direction. Too
much confidence le being placed In the efforts of the
recruiting agent of this county to nil their vita
from the revolted States.
LE=
Lieutenant Colonel Itomford, commandant of this
post, mustering officer, and assif tont provost mar
shal of this State, has been removed. For some
time complaints of incompetency, &c., have been
very severe against this officer, and as soon as the
circumstances wore communicated to the President
lie was almost immediately removed. The Colonel's
fighting qualities and military knowledge are be
yond reproach, but his business qualifications were
deemed wholly inadequate for so important a trust.
Much of the dissattslactlon existing among the one
hundred-days men, caiwlng many to return home
disgusted with the lack of necessary preparation, is
said to be duo to his inefficiency. The Colonel has
been ordered to report at Governor's Miami, New
York. Capt. Richard .1. Dodge, late disbursing
officer at this post, is his successor.
DEPAUTIMIC OP REGIM'ENTB
The 194th Regiment of ono hundred days' volun
teers left Camp Curtin yesterday , afternoon for
Washington. Their marching through the city ex
cited a great deal of interest, especially as several
Or the companies are composed of the young men of
this city. Tho regiment is commanded by the fol
lowing gentlemen : Colonel, James Nagle, Schuyl
kill county ; lieutenant colonel, Richard McMichael,
Berke county ; major, Ospier 1). Jenkins, Schuylkill
county; adjutant, John Schall ; quartermaster,
lienry C. hemming, Dauphin county; surgeon, J.
P. Aeheom ; chaplain, 0. 11. McDermod.
Then:Al Regiment also left camp last night for
the same destination. The field officers of this re
giment are as follows :
Colonel, Joseph W. Fisher, Lancaster county;
lieut. colonel, 'Wm. S. Bear, Lancaster county;
major, Oliver 0. James; adjutant, Howard S.
Chase, Lancaster county ; quartermaster, John ..
Willoughby, Huntingdon county.
With these two regiments all thesolcilers in Camp
Curtin have departed, with the exception of about
one hundred men.
APPOINTMENTS TO RECRUIT IN Tile MIVOLTRD
Governor Curtin has made the following appoint
ments, on the recommendations of the commission
ers for their respective counties, to recruit 111017 in
the rebellious States, to fill the quota of this State
under the recent call of the President for volunteers:
Chester County—Robert Feathery, to recruit in
Georgia, with rendezvous at Nashville.
Crawford County—Oscar 0. Trantum, to recruit
et Newborn, with rendezvous at Newborn.
Lebanon county.—Wm. B. Reinhardt to recruit In
Southeast Virginia, with rendezvous at Washing
ton,City.
Perry county.—Col. Franklin B. Shoakmon to re
cruit in Southeast Virginia, with rendezvous at
Fortress Monroe.
Snyder county.—Ales. C. Simpson to recruit in
Newborn and Roanoke, with rendezvous at New
born.
APrLICATIOXS TO RECRUIT
Numerous : applications from every part of the
State arc received at the Executive Department
from persons soliciting for themselves appointments
as recruiting agents. The authorities here pay no
attention to the letters of Individuals, unless they
are accompanied by recommendations from the COM
miEFloners or the county, or otherwise as pros - bled
in General Orders No. al, emanating from the
Executive chamber.
ILLNESS OF OE'N. RUSSEL
Adjutant Gen. Russel has beon confined to his
room by a severe indisposition during the last week,
but is now improving. Gen. W. W. Irvin is tem
porarily performing the daties of Adjutant Gene
ral of Pennsylvania.
OOVERNOU CtUTTS OUT OP To"wir
Governor Curtin, in a special car provided by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, left here, accom
panied by Governor Morton, of Indiana, for Bed
ford Springs. Ills, Excellency will be absent from
the capital for a week or ten.. days to come. Ger.
Morton was en route for Indiana.
GENERAL COLTIL
General Conch was still In town at noon, though
the headquarters of the Department of the Susque
hanna have been removed to Carlisle.
THE QUOTA OP DAIIPIITIf 00CNTS
The quota of this county under the President's
call for fire hundred thousand men Is about fourteen
hundred, fourktundred of which this city Is expected
to produce.
A DOLMTPIIL RUIZOR
About one o'clock to-day a rumor was going the
rounds that somebody had received intelligence that
Lee was aMut to make, or had actually commenced
a raid or invasion with seventy thousand rebels.
That Pennsylvania was Ids destination was in
cluded In the report.
NEVI 1011% CITY.
Nadel Correspondence of The Press.]
Neer YORIC, Stay 3, 1884.
Goiernor Seymour having sent General Sandford
to Washington on a mission to the President, con
corning the draft and its relations to the one hun
dred days' men, the mustering in - and marching of
the latter are, or course, temporarily suspended.
The matter seems to be or very slight Importance,
but the "powers that be" do not appear Inclined, to
think it so, and so our militia regiments are still
among US, and bid fair so to•remain for some little
time to come. There . is some probability that no
draft will lake place here at all, as the commission
ers entertain a hope of being able to fill the quota
without the nceeeity of drafting. To.day the
branch recruitingottice on the Battery will be open
ed for UEC, with appropriate cerenionles, such as the
firing of a salute of ono hundred guns, the raising
of a flag, etc. The business is quite brisk, and Su
pervisor Blunt thinks If he is left to himself he can
provide the whole number without calling for man
from elsewhere, that is, from_ the rebel States, as
there has been a project for recruiting in those
States for this county.
I=lM=l
for the trial of Gen. Spinola convened on Saturday
morning at No. 17 State street, but as Gens. Peck
and Webb were both absent, after some unimportant
Preliminaries the court adjourned tip to-day at 11
A. M. Gen. Spinola was present, attended by his
counsel, Mr. Waldo Hutchings and Mr. Titicott.
James T. Brady is also to defend him. .
THE INSTALLATION Ole THE NEW ANOKEISHOP •
NM take place on Sunday, August 21, at St.
Patrick's Cathedral. The ceremonies will be among
the most imposing and grand known to theritual of
the Catholic Church, and Dr. McCloskey will de
liver his brat archiepiscopal sermon s hiusielum been
composed for the occasion, and a De Ileum and Jubi
late are to be sung. The great building will no doubt
be entirely inadequate for the accommodation of the
thousands who will desire to witness an event of such
rare occurrence.
Is to come off on Wednesday next between the Rest
luso, twenty tons, owned by ex-Commodore Jones,
and the Annie Laurie, thirty tons, owned by Kr.
Mclnnies. They are to mate the circuit of Long
Island, starting front the footof Court street, Brook
lyn, and returning to the same place. Tke match
Is for $5OO a side, and they start at 10 A. M. •
I=!
At Wallach's Theatre to-night, Bliss Avonia.Tones
takes a benefit, and appears for the last time this
season ; the play is to.be "Camille." On Tuesday,
Mr. Dan Bryant will begin. 'an engagement there,
during which he is to appear in Irish characters,
beginning with "The Irish Emigrant" and "Randy
Andy."
Baife's opera, "The Role of Castile," will be
produced at the Olympic to-night. It has Darer
been brolight out In Amerlea,' and with the ex
cellent company now at the Olympic, it will prose
a •cry great attraction. The other . theatres offer
nothing peculiarly marimd, as they we mostly con
tinuing their last week's programme.
THE CONTINUED DROUGHT
is becoming a matter for scrloua anzlotles, as the
crops are suffering terribly, and the skies seem
almost to mock us with their clear brilliancy.
Yesterday our clergymen generally showed their
appreciation of the importance Of rain by offering
up most (layout prayers for it.
(By Telegraph.)
TUB SEARSAROF AND FLORIDA,.
The reported engagement between the Kearsarge
or Sacramento nod the Florida In the British Chan
nel, on the lath inst., is a canard. The Florida, was
off Cape lienlopen on the Ilth inst.
NEW YORK BANK STATERRICT.
. Statement or tho condition or. tho. New York
banks for tho week ending July 25
48,000,000
Specie,. do. .... ^roo,ooo
'Citcela , n, do.
Deposits, do. 9,800,000
Arrived, ship Charlemagne, Calcutta; barks Al
moner, Salina ; N. H. Gaston, Barbadoes ; brigs
Prince of Wales, Matanzas ;. Renshaw, Havana ;
Fannie, Cienfuegos ; Ann Lovett, Black rivor, Ja
maica; Gov. Downs, Port Sadin ;. South Boston,
Bathhurst, West Coast of Africa; Carl Constan
tine, Alicante; Pollux, Bahia; J. H. Dillington,
Remedies ;ma, Cettu ; Sarah Crosby, Havana
schrs. Nancy Miller, Nassaui Latin, Sagua.
Below, ship Uncle Joe, Cardenas.
The steamer. Cambria arrived to-night, with 3CO
men of the 13th Connecticut Hutment.
BostoN.
TIM 11. S. STRATUM CONNECTICUT
The 'United States steamer donneeticul, 00111-
mender Aimy, arrived here to-day from tho•Wfi
mington blockade. She has been in commission
about a year, and has been very successful in. her
operations against the blockado-runnsre, hr.sing
captured within that time four steamers, with
valuable cargoes. Sho RIO assisted in running
ashore and destroying three others. She. lass not
lost a man by sickness during the °mdse.
REGATTA AT WOROISSTXR
The Wizens of Worcester hate mail° arrange
ments for a regatta to talirsplami on. Lake Quinsi
gamond on Saturday nest. There will be throe
races for wherries, one for feur.oared and one for
six-oared boats. Prizes to the amount of 8525 edit
be awarded to the victorious. oarsmen. Liberal ar
rangements have boon made for the transportation
of bouts and their crows from and to Nevr York.
Markets by Telograpb,,
BALTISIORF:, J UIy 25.—Flour very ieull ; Ohio et-
LTA, 1511.50611.75. Wheat dull ;as lea of 3,000 bus of
new white at $3 00133. Keutuotty white $2.8044.35.
Corn firm; white 4 1 1.M1 , 75; yellow $1,70611.71.
Groceries neglected 4:14 (I.K o uning., whi 4 k. i num b.
nal, $1.7541L1L
(From the New York: Times, 1e1y23
In 0cc0mi,,,,. tact l.:resident Lincoln Issued a pre
clatation
I , mi:ols n .. e n pardon every person in re
hellion against the ilove.mment of the Liaised States
(with certain specified exception) who would swear
to support the tkinstitutioil or the United States,
and all valid acts of congresa and proclamations or
the Executive In regard to slaXeS. In the message
accompany i ng Li i i 9 document the: President took oo
casion to say that it was not intendeti to specify these
terms of restoration, to exclndeall oti.`ers). "It is not
said," ho remarked, "that other classes and other
terms than chore designated will never be In Chrded."
At that time tho President invited men In rebellion
to return to their allegiance, and promised p'i.rdoet
on certain specified conditions—holding himself yer
fectly free to change and modify those conditions zb
any subsequent time. according to his own sense of
justice and public policy.
Jo a previous correspondence with Fernando ,
Wood, President Lincoln had declared that witen
eve., any proposition. looking to the restoration of
pence, emanating frompersons authorized and com
petent, to make it, should come to his knowledge, it
should meet with clue consideration. and shonld
not be kept from the knowledge of the American
people, He Las more recently tail occasion to let
upon this assurance. Upon information- from a
quarter which he regarded as entitled to respect,
he has given an assurance to the whole country
that—
Arty proposition which embraces the restoration tif •
Peace, the Integrity of the whole Union and the abs.n
donment of alevery, and which com-s by and with an
authority that can control the armies now at war
aseloat the United Stereo, will be r.ceired and Quasi
tiered by the execulived• vernment or the United States.
and will be met by 'tonna terms. en anti:ta•d.ial and.
collateral points, and the bearer or bearers thsreof shalt
have kateconduct both wars.
This declaration reaffirms and reinforces the
President's strong desire for the termination of
the war. That desire is one which Is most pro
foundly shared by the whole country. Without
making any point as to which section desires
or needs It most, we believe that the sincere
and heartfelt longing of the great to uts of the
American people, In every State, anti in every
part of the country, is for the restoration of
peace. The President= es press no desire for that
result which the great body of the people will not
echo and reaffirm. lie cab take no step, consistent
with his constitutional duty toward opening the
way fur securing it, which they will not sanction.
The time has gone by when questions of more term
and etiquette can stand in the way. There may and
will be wide differences of opinion as to the terms
and conditions on which peace Is desirable or admis
sible, but there is almost none es to the readiness of
the people to canvass those conditions, and to seek
earnestly for some just and stable ground of peace.
The President made but two conditions to the
reception and consideration of nay proposition for
the restoration of peace, which stiould come to htt
from competent authority ; first, that it should em
brace the integrity of the whole Union :second, that;
it should embrace the abandonment of slavery. We
believe he might have tome still further than this ;
bell:eight have omitted the second of these con
ditions altogether, and required the rirst alone, as
essential to the reception and consideration of
preporals for peace. We do not mean to say that it
will be eventually found possible to end the war
and restore the Union without the " abandonment
of slavery ;', but we do say that this abandonment
need not be exacted by the President as a conditioa
without which he will not receive or consider pro
posals for peace. The people do not require him to
Insist upon any such condition. Neither his oath of
Office, nor his constitutional duty nor his personal
or official consistency, requires him to insist upon
it. That is one of the questions to be considered
and arranged when the terms of peace come to be
discussed. It is not a subject on which terms can
Ito imposed by the Government, without coneultat
tion, without agreement, or without equivalents.
The President has a right, and it is his duty, to
insist upon the integrity of the Union as a con
dition sine qua non. Ills °attic,: office binds him by
the most solemn sanctions to execute the laws ever
all the territory committed to his ExeOutive juristilth
non by the Constitution; and it he were to enter
upon any negotiations with any Power, foreign or
domestic under any pressure from within or without,
for the disruption of that territory rind the over
throw of the Government committed to his heeds,
lie would render himself - liable to impeachment,
trial, and punishment as a traitor. lie cannot son
cede that point, nor waive it at any time or under
any circumstances. Ile can make no treaty; he
can Helen to no propoeitions for is treaty ; he eau.
receive not otherwise than as a crime any suggestion
from any quarter, for any peace which involves the
• destruction or separation of the Union.
Upon this point, moreover, tie people of the coun
try, outside cf the rebellion, are thoroughly and
heartily agreed. No party In the loyal States dare
favor separation for a moment, and terrible as are
the burdens and calamities of the war, they will be
borne and welcomed, with alacrity even, and carried
through to the bitter end by the great mass of the
people of all parties and of all opinions, if this
Union can be preserved in no other way. Upon this
pelntwe have no doubt, and the President need have
no misgivings. lie cannot err in standing by it, and
in making it the absolute and Immovable guide for
his action now and forever.
But it Is not so with slavery, with centisCatien,
with the doctrine of State rights, with the assump
tion of the rebel debt, or with any other question
growing out of the war or connected with it in int
origin or its progress in any way or however closely.
These questions were open to discussion before the
war commenced, and they are open yet. It is the
right of both sides to be heard upon them. for both
dries are to be affected by them. It needs bet little
reflection to convince any candid man that their
discussion and settlement by concurrence must enter
into any peace which will be either posible or worth
preserving.
Now, we hive as yet seen no evidence that the
power which "controls the armies now at war
against the United States" Is disposed to maze' or
entertain any propositions for peace which shall
"embrace the integrity of the whole tinion. ,, So far
as the record goes, the presumption is the other
way. The, Niagara correspondence strengthens
that presumption. The objection made by the re
bel emissaries there is not specially to the Presi
dent's requirement that slavery shall be abandon
ed, but rather to the requirement that the Southern
Confederacy shall abandon their own Government.
Nevertheless, we believe that the great body of the
Southern people are satisfied that the rebellion •
must and will mil, and are therefore willing to re
sume the "priceless heritage of self-government "
which they enjoyed within the Union and under the
old Constitution.
We believe it to be the duty, and we know it to be
the desire of the President, to watch eagerly for
every indication of such willingness, to meet It
heartily and in the most prompt and liberal spirit,
and to give every possible facility for Its develop.
ment and satisfaction. The time has - come when the
South should understand that the one thing and the
only thing which shuts them away from us—whleh
builds up between them and us an impassable wall
of separation, which shuts our ears to every claim
or demand they can make upon us, which steels our
hearts against them and strengthens our arms for
their destruction, is, that they are waging war for
the destruction of the Union. We differ on many
other subjects. We have quarrelled and are ready
to quarrel again upon questions of infinite Import-
ante to them and to us. But this is the one thing
which, so long tus it lasts, renders It utterly impossi
ble for us ever toMe friends. All other differences
we can discuss; upon this we can only fight.
We trust that the day is not far distant when the
President can hold such language to the people of
the Southern States with the certainty of a friendly
reception and the prospect of a happy result. air.
Greeley, in whose judgment and patriotism we have
high cenfidenee, saw reason in what passed at
Niagara for believing that peace was by no means
so Impossible nor so distant as it had been deemed.
We hope that conviction may ere long become
equally evident to the country at large. Anil we
feel confident that President Lincoln will not leave
its consummation,when ever it shall become possible,
to be sought solely through party intrigues, or
aehieved•Sy a party triumph.
George Sanders:m(l'l'ls Opinions.
A corrpor.dent of the New York Tinter, spoak.
Ing of the late'Peace Conference at Cli ft on ' noose,
Canada, gives the following sketch of the opinions,
etc., of the leading rebel negotiator, "George"
Sanders:
_
"Being at 'Niagara, I could not hesitate to cross
Into. Canada, to discover what my old e olltical
friend—heaven save the mark:—George Sanders,
wap about; although it was quite as clear to
me then as now that George was only after
notoriety ; that his great object was" to forge
thunderbolts for the Chicago Convention, under
cover of some broad diplomatic purpose ; for,
although a sharp trickster, Sanders is no statesman;
he cannot comprehend the breadthand depth of such
an arrangement as might induce the rebels to lay
down their arms; the Copperheads to dismiss their
treasonable designs ; the honest old fogies to be un
deceived as to the magnitude of the great rebellion
(at this time gasping short and quick), and once
more submit to the old flag on the honorable condi
tion—to both parties—of submission to our. Govern
ment, and of making reforms (if need be) thereafter in
a "constitutional" way. I expected what I found, viz:
the same curly-headed, fat, good-natured, canning
George, who talked precisely as our „friends of Me
Opposition do with regard to the Administration.
He had the same stale arguments about gold, bank- ,
ruptcy, arbitrary arrests, suppression of the press,
waste of life, exhaustion of the North, the immi
nence at the North of bread riots and anarchy, the
unconquerable power of the South, the " butcher "
Grant, the buffoon and "original gorilla," Lincoln.
am not betraying your confidence, Sanders, for
you know very well that my batteries were
all unmasked. I only wish to inform the
country of the character and esprit of the
opposition to the. Administration, and to the
re-election of President Lincoln. Of course
Sanders talked like a member of the Chicago
Convention, for he said Lincoln could not carry
an electoral vote, and the like. Tills Interview con
vinced me (of what I previously was sorry to believe
prima facie) that the leaders of the Opposition to
Mr. Lincoln aro in accord with the leaders of the
armed rebellion. Tho movements of Sanders and
his coadjutors are plainly intended to enable the
Opposition to say to the people that the President
has rejected honorable terms of peace. It is a trick . ,
and nothing more—the trick of a mero party poli
tician—with this depth Co it. however: It means,
Gentlemen, the South is 'willing to come back and
rule you, as it has done In times past. If you are
ready for this, defeat Lincoln and give us a good
Democratic President
A man'lest—Fifteen Hundred Men In
Last Saturday week, a young man who Hved with
his parents in Somerset county, near the Cambria
county line, by the name of Wertz, took a bucket
from home and said he was going out to the moun
tain near that place to gather some whertleberries.
lie did not come home that night and the parents be
com tug alarmed, gathered some twenty or thirty of
the neighbors the next day and made a searoh for
him, without, however, discovering any signs that
might lead t 6 his recovery. The alarm spread,
and the next day two or three hundred persons went
to the mountain in quest of the missing man, bat
without avail. The search has continued every day
since, the numbers still increasing. Yesterday, not
loss than fifteen hundred persona front Johnstown
and vicinity started early in the morning for the.
Laurel Hill, determined, if possible, to learn what.:
had becomo.of him. His father (John Worts) and)
his mother aro almost distracted during the fearful
suspense in regard to his whereaboutt. The Laurel.
lilil is D• dense forest, near firmed miles wide, actin.
ronomg through the State, full of deep ravines,
whose tortuous windings form a labyrinth in which
any one may be easily lost. The think underbrush,
too, makes this wilderness still more solitary and_
dreary.
Tho men in search at night built tires at different
points in the woods to attract, it possible, the atten-
Hon of the missing man, which communicated to thie
leaves, and the whole mountain is now one ontandasit
Hold of tire, leaving butlittle,prospects for acytbln
bat the charred remains of young Wertz to bares
covered if he is ever found.—Pdtsburg Post, yosteals/
WALXVT-STRULT TH SATRE-5A7...180 RIAS T now ! i t
—Tho return of Sanford's famed minstrel! troupe j t o
this city, the scene of its organizationaxat for mer
triumphs, after an absence of two years, was saw rked
by a full and fashionable house last evening. The
performance passed off vary successfully, tt A ta .,.*
gramme being judiciously selected, and amt asking
many musical gems and quaint wittielsess
rue Good Nl,2,tt, Mother,. and "I'm Lon oly since,
my Mother Died,” two beautiful ballads,: were kind
ly applauded. Every ono should Ser s ori f ord. ,,
Troupe.
BOSTON, SUV:2§..
Mrs. Ethelioda Belden, who .die , I a t T ray, New
York, on the l'Ah inst., at the sot „f ninety-four,
settled in that region in 1794, Tibe Troy Times gives
this reminiscence of her early All e: "In a great fire
which took Owe in Lonsinebilir gin 1196, the praott.
cal courage of Min. Soldonw.a 4 remarkably exhibit
ad. Warehouses, in lianas*: of condagration, were
emptied Of their contents; 'into the middle of the
street; and from one of %I ,m wore thrown out sore
' ral kegs of powder upon. ' a quantity of shavings to
the immediate vicinity ef: the fire. A man on the ,
top of one of the hewed . called out to the people to
acquaint them with this danger, and shouted out to
them to remove the :cause of It. All were 'afraid to
go near it. Mrs. 9 elden, a young woman of only
twenty-two yearn 'of age, seeing the prospect of as
Immediate espkoston, ran out from her own house,
and took the ke gs one by ono in her own hands and
threw them inao a well, while no one could be pee-
Waded, by I . 4Siy urgency, to assist her."
The pbokot of Mr. Clay, M.P., was picked, rit.
gentlYt In the lobby of tho liouso of /area. •
Th e pcieeddent, and Peace.
Search for him.
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