Oijt Tiress FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 186:4 TERMS REVUE PRESS. To clity Subscribers $lO per annum, payable in ad z Vance; or Twenty Ofintsteriveek, payable to'the carrier. 'Rolled to Subscribers out of the city RI per annum; 114.50 for six months ; $2.25 for three months—in variably in &bowe for the time ordered. TIII-WEEKLY PRESS. • - * , anal to Subrorthers $5 per annum ; $2.50 for six , • mouths f; $1.25 for three months. , ailroffe can take no notice of anonymous commu- Dieations. We dtl not return rejected manuscripts. Voluntary correspondence is solicited frtun all past 4 Of. the world, aid ospeotatlyfrom our 'different military and naval departments. When used, it will be paid for. Mr. W. W. Rnrraur.. NO. bO4 Ninth street, two doors south of Penney Wants Avenue, Washington My, Is the Washington agent of Tau Nuts& Mr. Namur. will recelvd subscriptions lor Tint Passe in Washington, see that subscribers are regularly Served at their residences and attend to advertising. . , . “ Colonel” Jewett Saves the Union. It is , plain'that." Colonel" JEWETT can not be ..deterred•from Writing letters to the President •by so trivial a circumstance as the refusal of Mr. LINCOLN, expressed through his private secretary, Mr. HAS, to open these frank and amiable epistles. Strong in the faith.tbat the pen is mightier than the sword, and that the United States does not rigorously require prepayMent of letter postage, the indefatigable Colonel, with something of the sublime persistency of BRUCE'S spider, has been addresiing two more letters to President LINCOLN." Both of them are characteristic .014twarr in style and rhetoric ; and in the mere fact of his omitting the definite article "-the" So frequently before his .substantives, we are permitted to have a glimpse 44' the • inner life of a busy master-spirit, whose bands are too full controlling the.destinies of nations. to attend to details a gram.' mar. 'The error of omission first arose from the necessity of economy in. Me graphing to the Emperor NAPOLEON ; but it detracts so greatly from the dig nity of- style so requisite in the notes of a courtly diplomat,' frith' patent-leather bouts and a trouhlesome eye-glass, that it shOuld clearly be discontinued. " Colonel " .Tswarr might make a tolerable plenipo tentiary but fdr 'two intolerable faults that mark all his official effusions : They are slightly rattle-brained, and slightly incon sistent. fitst letter to the President Ite says : "I know that, upon the with drawal of your note addressed To whom it may concern,' the South will send com missioners, with full powers to treat for peace. ,I%do, therefore, urge upon you the duty and policy of reopening negotiations at. Niagara with the gentlemen who have now-general powers, and that Mr. GREELEY be re-empowered to bring about this de sirable result." In hia second letter he says to Mr. LINCOLN:. "It is now understood the war and peace elements will unite at Chicago under a peace platform meeting the approbation of the South. This will insure ycilr defeat. Turn, ,therefore, I be seech you, your attention, during the few months of your power, to the salVation of the country, through an armistice and ne gotiation unconditional, or be prepared to receivelhe curses of future generations." Perhaps " Colonel " JEWETT has authority to make this' important 'announcement of the line of policy to be pursued by the De mocratic party in the coming contest. But as Mr. LINcoLN's defeat will be "in sured," and the Confederate candidate for President of the United States-is certain of election, it really lo‘oks as though 3lr. JEWETT was not faithful to - the 'best interests of the South, when, as one of their self-appointed ambassadors, lie beseeches Mr. LINCOLN, with such fine' frenzy . the " curse of future generations,", to re open peace negotiations. at Niagara. 'Hate victory is certain for the South at the ballot box, why is the South 'so - anxious to bring' up the issue in tke counciichambei? 'Per haps for the sake of " the.aalvation' df the conetry." Nit will not the Country be• in evitably saved if the Chicago nominee be elepted by the combined disloyal vote of the country, North . and South, as indicated above ? Assuredly it will. For in. that event, the loyal'voters of the country will be in the minority, and as loyal minorities never secede or rebel against the constituted authorities, the Union would necessarily be restored without further fighting or parley. Gold, and its Trade Moral. The gold' sent 'to Europe from New York, .on : last Saturday, was $250,000, and a fur ther sum of $69,100 was taken away by the steamer on Wednesday. This is a +Per ceptible decline in the exportation of specie, and would indicate a return to a healthier condition of trade than has existed for some time. Regarded, too, in relation to . the fact that our exports of produce have car respoidingly increased, (they always do in creitse, more or less, about this time, when our new cereals come in,) it - would seem vs if we hid or were really entering into the policy, of importing nothing except what is actually necessary for food, dress, or manu facturing. 'ln time of war, when increased taxation 721.214 be made,. it is bad -policy N to send specie glut of the country in exchange for articles of luxury. With our immense natural resources, which produce .overy thing that human ?Mitre can reasonably desire for Comfortable and even elegant living, and with our unsurpassed poWer of invention and of manufacture, we ought to dispense with most of our present 1111- . ports. When gold- ceases to be in demand for remittances abroad and for the pay ment of import duties at home, its factitions value will be reduced. Indeed, gold would ftndlts proper level, under such circum stances, were it not for the Government demand specie—the to pay the. interest on the debt, in specie—the only doubtful part of our financial policy, but. which, once adopted, cannot be Changed without _ _ . _ _ breach of faith with the iiublie creditors. The 'greatness of England, which was of stogy giowth, was mainly cfeated by her long persistence in a strongly protective polioy Her , own, native prience, was iimited;4lroo and. her 800-.16- vrati g ht prodneis donstitutekintis_pfstottr " 'wealth these 'she construciedmv chin ry converted the-rawmatefial- , . „ of hiported cotton flax, .silk, and wool into the muslink linen, satins, and cloths with she supplied the world. • So jealoits Was shef that she adarcely allowed these , tnanufactures to be exported in &reign vessels, though, to build her own mer cantile taayine, she had-.to import timber from Canada and Norway. Her popula tion `being greater than her agricultural capacity for: feeding it, she was con.stantly. impqrting .cereal: stuffs and flour from foreign countries, and heamily taxed these; in order to protect her, own farmers. Raw mat( rials'she collected from illparts ofihe ; world, - :and - did not generally 'subject to heavy- taxation, but on luxuries. the fiscal tnttlet,Was very heavy. John Bull plainly said to his family: "It you want foreign dreisis; foreign - wines, foreign spirits, foreignleivoiry, and foreign kickshaws of any . t3ort-'if you are not content with good home apparel, ,food and ornament—you must pay, torjindulging your fancy." Tt was not till 1843 that the late Sir ROBERT PEEL, thinking his England strong enough: to relinquish protection,: began to recognize the principle of free•trade; In that, year, out of a tariff of I,2oo.fbreigtr articles he re duced. the duty on 750. In * the year follow ing he repealed all duties on expores,•and all import 'duties on 430 other articles of raw materials used in manufactures. ^ „Zot until 1846 was he able to abolish the 7m.- port duty on grain and flour, and give the poor Mali (to use his own words& the power to recruit his exhausted strength. with abundant, and untaxed food, the tweeter 13 . 6eause , it is nhonger leavened I with a sense of 14-notice." What England so persistently did, for eon.. tuzrps, until within the last twenty years, we also . ought to do. We ought to fall back, as muchi as we pan, upon the flat - pull predifotions atti4 ! Monthe skilled ac- Cures of our ma" wintry.. The lifted States, whether in war or in peace, would be still more powerful and prosperous could her citizens becomeindependent of foreign countries for a semi) of years or so. Om: custom-house officers would then have little to do, but our farmers, our mechanists, our manufacturers, dux laborers, would be busy and thriving. Even now, we venture to say, were it agreed upon and carried into effect, that none but domestic- wearing-ap parel should be used here, , ere the year was out our manufactUrers Would produce fa brics as good, at least, - as those • obtained from England and- France. The supply will follow the demand. We believe, indeed, that already has commenced the necessary reaction . . The Jewellers and dealers in other 'beautiful but mot necessary articles are sensibly feel ing a decline in their sales. Some say that this is caused by hoarding greenbacks, bull most amrm that the money which used to be dispensed for mere elegancies is now being applied to the purchase of arti cles of native produce. It will be a proud day for this country-when the shopkeeper— can recommend the superiority of an article, with the assurance that it is of American manufacture. Then we shall look back and wonder how foolishly we used to send our gold out of the country to purchase what could be as well made at home. Royal Scheming. King LEOPOLD, of Belgium, now the oldest of European kings, and said to be the most astute of all, with the exception of the Emperor NAPOLEON, is a man of so much importance, though his doininions ' are very small, that his actions are usually watched with considerable attention. Hith erto, he has held himself somewhat aloof from the inserutable • man who governs France, and, considering that ..LEoroun's second wife, and the mother of his chil dren was eldest (laughter of the Citizen king, whose place NAPOLEON fills, this , . coolness is not surprising. However, Lto , has paid a friendly visit to NeFor.zoN !rit, Vichy, and thk politicians have already built up a story out of it. LEoroLD is a man who carefully looks after the interests of his family. His eldest son is married to an Austrian archduchess. His second son, the Com* of ,Flanders, is a bachelor twenty-seven years old. _His only daughter is the wife of the Emperor MAIUMILIAN, being the identical Empress CHARLOTTE frequently mentioned of late in Mexican correspondence. She was mar ried in July, 1857, and is childless. Now, being an excellent family man, and a political Micawber, tired of waiting for something to turn up for the Count of Flanders, it is_declared that -LEOPOLD'S visit' to Vichy has been to interest NAPO LEON in a little matrimonial plot. The throne of Mexico will be very unstable if MAXmULteN•die without a male heir. The Empress CHARLOTTE, though only twenty four years old, has no children after seven wedded years. Let the Count of Flanders, her brother, marry the Princess_ ANNA. MURAT, cousin to . NArorzon, ,and make an arrangement that, if the royal rulers of Mexico continue childless, the eldest son of the Belgian prince and She French prin cess shall be acknowledged heir, on Maxi ma,rAx's death, to the crown bfliekico. The programme, like most of LEoroLros, would advance the interests of the . house of Cobourg. If carried out, it would gratify the reigning house's of Austria, France, England, and Belgium. Of course, the Mexicans have not been consulted as to this arrangement. What of that ? They are only the people, whose duty it is to ac cept the policy of the rulers. Aid for Chambersburg. It is very evident, from the small sum— less than: 16,000—received by the Treasurer of the Fund for the relief of the Chambers burg sufferers, that the liberality of Phila ,_delpbia has scarcely .been `.tapped," as yet. The greater part of a prosperois city - was burned down by a band of marauding barbarians ; and two thousand persons (con stituting nearly one-half of tlie,:whole popu littiOn) have been left without roofs to cover them, without mbney, - without food, with t any.clothing but-what they wore when the incendiaries sent them into the streets. All classes, all ages, _from the'white-haired grandstre to the babe in 'arms, participate in this sudden and awful suffering. Many of them actually have not as much cover ing as decency requires. It is to relieve this very terrible misfortune that a sub , - scription ,was commenced here, of which that estimable gentleman, Mr. EDMUND A. SounEy (whose admirable wife did the duty or a FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE among . our wounded and sick soldiers in Virginia), acts as treasurer.. The aura collected is wholly inadequate for the purchase of clothing for the destitute sufferers of Cham bersburg. It would not be difficult, with suitable organization, to multiply the - sum already obtained by, ten—to raise SSO,OOO in a few days. Let the ladies personally take the matter in hand. Let them go, in deputations of two, and visit every house within certain districts, pressing gently, but firmly, fUr some contribution at each house, for this Chembersburg fuud. Many of the wealthy inhabitants are out of town. They can be called upon after their return. But there are thousands and tens of thousands remaining in the city who, if personally ,solicited, will cheerfully give something—apparel, if they" cannot afford money. We throw out this hint in full Confidence that it will prochice abundant fruit, and with the full conviction that the ladies of Philadelphia, who never grudge their labor in a good cause, will cheerfully and efficiently'act upon it. TEE following important announcement is taken from the New York Herald of yes terday': " There was a gathering of Peace politicians at Hope Chapel, in Broadway, yesterday. .A• number of prat:hi:lent an shining lights in that faith Were present, among them WM. B. REED, Crtanr,us IN GERSOLL, and Judge WOODWARD, of Penn sylvania ; also several •of the faithful in this city and from the West. It is understood that they have some very important busi ness on hand looking to the management of the Chicago Convention, and securing the nomination of - some man pledged to their interests, and who belongs to. their . 'particular Peace - churcli." • General Mc l'-..qtaiirarr would have - beenjust the . man - • for the crisis, if he had not incautiously_ ex pressed himself in favor of the war, in his • classical West Point" oration. After that terrible fiasco, it is not in human nature to I ; expect Messrs. REED, "" IitGERSOLL, WOODWARD to have anything to. do. with him. • WA SIZIW4G-TOINT. WASHTNOTON, MIME. 11. TREASITRY DBCISION. The decision of Acting Ooronrissioner-Rozarrse that the 710 Treasury notes , are liable to taxation applies to banks that hold them as part of their capital,stock, .The drat section of the last loan act expressly tixempts all 'United States Treasury Notes all well 94 bonds from State and municipal taxation. T - ErE 7-30 LOAN The amount,of subscription to the 7-30 loan re ported at the Treasury Department to-day was nearly half a million. - n THE NEW ItZGLSTSR Or THE TIMASURT. • , S. B. COLBY of Vermont, was to-day sworn In. as Register ,of the Treasury, in place of L. E. CHIT- Tawnier, resigned. THE WEATHER This has been a terribly hot day, the thermometer ranging from ninety-one to ninety. eight degrees in the simile. A thunder storm prevails this evening, with fine showers, and prospects:of more. ODDER lur.Oat THE WAR DEPARTMENT. A special order issued from tbe War Department directs all officers in the military service of the United-States to render every fitellittte such ex press companies as may be charged by e Govern ment of Igew York with the delivery of the neces sary fOrms'and blanks required to record the votes Of soldiers of that State in the field, with a view to the blanks being delivered with the least praoties hie delay. • 71tOitE comprEurnmms ninIaBONED. Tine more of the Western eonnterfehers heirs arrived here,ana been committed to We Old Capital. DISPOSITION OP PRISONERS Fortrnine rebel officers were today sent hence to Fort Delaw . are, and one hundred and twenty-1170 priviton to Minks. „ SENTENCES COMBFITEIi. Seven deserters , from the Ivy, found -gutlty of desertion and sentenced to likaltot bAve had "tlier seat ac es es , commitalrlo eout4iment it ltr`Dry •TO as and Wei for ten=d tobutt THE WAR. TEE EXPLOSION AT . CITY POINT. GREAT 3C,CISS QV' 53 PERSONS IrTTIED AND 126 WOUNDED Shennan Actively Bombarding Atlanta ERIXOBED CAPTIThip OF MOBILE HEAVY FIRING AT PETERSBURG A GIINBOATISITELEING THE "ENEMY GEL SLOCUM - RELIEVED AT VICKSBUR'. The Rebels Trying to Cross the:Mississippi REBEL ACCOUNTS FROM ATLANTA AND MOBILE Gen. Smith at Holly Springs, Mississippi INDIAN notruzi ON THE 'FRONTIER OFFICIAL GAZETTE WASHINGTON, Augw3t 11-10 P. , To Major deneral Die, New York: A despatch from Gen. Grant, just received, rep ports thwoasualties by the explosion at City Point, on the 9th Inst., as:follows : Killed, twelve enlisted men, two citizens, employees, and one civilian not employed by thW-Governinent, and 88 colored la borers. Wounded, three commissioned officers, four enlisted reen,lo civilians; employed by the Govern• merit, and 86 colored laborers Besides thcie, there were 18 others Wounded, soldiers and citizens not belonging about:the wharf. • The damage to property was large, but I have not the meanaof reporting,tt, The names of the-killea and wounded:hare not , been reported to,a,the... e .. .DePirtment. The cause of the explosion hadnottbeen tiekeriained. No further intelligence 'has Veen received from Mobile, except. tr,Ore deserters, who report the cap ture of the' city , but nothing official. • Gen Sherman reports all well, and that he is knocking Atlanta with four-ancl-a-hulf-Jrioh rifle sb ells. No movement :lung been made by our fames in front of Petersburg. Gen. Sheridan has not been heard from to-day. EDWIN M. STAIiTO2I, SOClOtary ARMEN' 'OIF 'TEM .1,017011A.C. TICE EXPLOSION AT CITY POINT—PBARPIEL LOSS OP LINTE—PIPTY PEDESONB REPORTED KILLED AND ONE EITEDREETWODWDED. WABRINGTON, August 11.—A. letter 'from City Point, dated Augnetlo, says About 11 o'clock yes terday, a .nolse ieseinbling the explosion of a maga zine was beard at headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, and many surmises were indulged teas to the direction from. hich it came and its cause, During the,.afternoon word came that a boat loaded.- with ammunition had exploded at City Point, causing& frightful loss of life. On the corre spondent of the Associated Press reaching the scone of disaster, .a speots.,olo was presented to him utterly indescribable. - .Buildings were demolished, tents thrown down, and a number of horses killed. The depot building, which had just been completed, was a mass of ruins, while the ground, for hundreds of yards, was covered with pope] ty of almost every description. The dead and wounded had been eil , ricated from the ruins and carried back—the former for burial, and the latter. le the hoepital. .„ • A boat, loaded. with varloms kinds of ammunition, Was being unloaded by the negroes of the Quarter master's Department (nearly a hundred in unnaber), and the 'only theory advatieed as to the cause of the calamity is: that a ehell.mustlhave been dropped by one of them, thus communicating the die to the entire mass. • The wise lasted about thirty seconds; and wit• nekse,s say the shoeltwasi felt'a long distance on the side of the road. In front of the landing were located a number of offices and stores, among them the post office and Adams , Express, which were almost utterly torn down, the largey number of persons occupying them escaping with slight bruises. - In'the rear of. this is a steep bank, its summit be. ing covered with tents which are occupied chiefly by-the colored laborers and their families. Had the ground been level the loss of life would, no doubt, hate exceeded that which resulted. Shells, balls, &c., struck this camp in a perfect shower, while the ground in the vicinity is actually covered with all kinds of stores, a large number of old saddles and pieceS of harness amongst the ‘ debris. A boat loaded with , these stores-was lying along side and was blown to pieces, and another was torn to pieces, a large portion being raised entirely out of the water, and hurled through the store-house on the dock. Captain Benedict and-C,aptain Ames, of the Com" missary Department, were in the betiding tit the time, and were . buried beneath the ruins. Aftar„ mucioabor ,h'a'y Were eslilo s 3 fromtheir situation,,peru Ms neither bolas" fatally injured, but a good deal bruised. Captain Daniel D. Wiley, who was in his tent, quite a distance from the spot, was struck in the head•by a piece of shell and injured, though not dangerously. His clerk, McKee, was so severely injured at the same time that he cannot recover. A. M. Baxter a civilian, from Cold Spring, New York, was, killed. Jae kept a soda-water stand. Privates Ansel]. and Metcalf, of the sth Cavalry, were killed. A sergeant named Morris, in the ordnance office, was ininteg, and died soon after. Lieutenant Lane, of the cavalry depot, was slightly IT jureci, as was also a oaken named Wright. JBlllOB Thorp, clerk in the ordnande office, wag killed ; Mr. Fay, of the Sanitary Oomtnission, was slightly injured, and Richard Stone, a citizen, killed. Dirs. Spencer, a relief agent, received slight Injuries. The casualties are believed to be at least fifty killed and nearly one hundred wounded. A number Of the bodies of colored persons have been found, besides those above mentioned, and there are alateen in the Prat Hospital, while others are scattered_ In the different locklities. • Twenty five colored men, more - or less wounded, were taken to the Colored General Hospital, under charge of Dr. Calhoun, where several amputations were pirformed. • Five shells passed through the roof of the Sani tary Commission boat, but no one upon ft was in jured. It is believed that many bodies were blown into the river, and may never be recovered. The- loss is put down at about 30 killed and 70 or 80 woundedrl3 of the killed being soldieri. • - Nothing has been discovered as_to the cause of the calamity. In the commissary department six men are known to be killed, and some twenty wounded, • Twelve Wen belonging to the railroad were wounded. ' - The loss of prapertyls not known, but will prove to be very large. • - The 20th New York lost eta men killed and had seventeen' wounded; and the 148th Ohio lost three killed and four wounded. . Tke boat Le wis, the and wrecking tug, ran ashore, and extending,her hose threw six streams on the fire; putting out-the flames and thus saving the entire building, ammunition-in the - • Considerable firing Is going on at the front this morning One °f ix= gniatiolits opened during the night, and threw a number °fawns at what was supposed to be at reeving retie/ force. LATE RESEX, -NEWS. AIPPAIBS AT YETEBQBII&Ei o*-TECIE ,OF - ATI.ARTA--TEE ArCiag.;O2.I:XoBILIC—C4RNISe RAI, SMITH'S ADVANCE AT tEOLLT SPRINVS. A • - . copyp of the Richmond Dssaid/a, of the 6th inst., contains the folloyfine: .711.11 SIEGE GB PETERERIIIRG "PY.TiresnunO, - Angust t—This being Lincoln's fasting, humiliation, and . prayer day, the Yankees have mit fired n gun 4 The enemy are so near in Gracie's front that IPS.tplikets on both sides have used hand slionaties. ;27 --;"4.;-e ATLANTA, Aug,47.l46;tplogly have been.iinusu ally active during tbepai, sixteen hours. About .4 o'clock yesterday afterdoon a heavy albumin' was made, upon . Mil works held by our skirmishers 'Upon the extreme left. After some stubborn fighting they succeeded in gaining possession of the position there, but subsequentiy , were driven from it, and our lines were re•established , About 10 o'clock last night an assault was alio made on our skirmish lines, extending from the cen tre to the extreme loft;-but the movement having been anticipated; restated in a complete Brisk skirmishing continued throughout the night up to OM - preient time. Our loss in both affairs is insignificant. There win comparative quiet in the city lest night, and but few shells were thrown, resulting in no damage. 00MKENORITHET OF THE AT i ricx. ON MOBIL - E.—DAM. PEt.N ISLAND OOOTITIBD--OHN. A. J. 831.1Tp AT HOLLY SPRINGS, MISS: • MOBILE, Aug. 4.--Yeeterday and last evening the enemy threw an Infantry upan Dauphin island, seven miles from Fort Gaines. The fleet outside is large this morning: • The Federal double-ender opened on the transport Dick Keys, and then on the fort, which is replying slowly. General Mauryealls on all to enroll themselves for...battle. Great confi dence prevails. A i Federal force, estimated at sixteen thousand, occupies Holly Springs, Mississippi. STOTMEATS..RAJD IN GEORGIA. NA edlvii,La t August,ll.—lnformation from Kiri- Ma of the oth. inst: gives the particulars of Stone man's raid: On july 7th, the - sth and oth Indiana Cavalry,"iindlWaliskitierui of the Sitirindiana Bat tery, set out for Xis . son-to relieve the Union officers imprisonedikere., Tke eapedition arrived too late, the rebels having removed the prisoners to a place of greater security. . General force started at the same time to effect a junction-silth Stoneman, but were over by anliviriciwiirtisg forte, and were obliged to let Steneman's command cut. Its way out. The rebeislitteekedtheM on Saturday _July 30th, and the engagement- lasted all - that day until late at n 134.. Sunday morning found them oompletely surrounded, and Colionet Adams, finding - resistance hopeless, escaped to Wirietta. Colonel Capron, command, : escaped. once,. but was again • .urrounded; andlis men were oat to pieces. The Bth Indiana cut through the enemy's ranks, but welag.::,Akateite4ed„iad thejr fate' Unknown. General Stanerlian, • and Butler, ; 4 11 ijOs 71" h m an d•, 1.• Soper, thiptarine Whiteman, ,Eallitt, arid FenneY,Lieutener,' se - -Anderso n - spa. THE PRESS.--PIMADELPTHA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 14904: ton, Angell, Lindsay, IlUbbard,,Miller, Simons,and Clegg, are ,prisoners. Identenant Obitterided was killed. Company I, sth Indiana, lost fearfully, An escaped• seedier reports that the rebels sur prised Colonel Capron's camp, shooting his mett and braining them with their guoil while asleep. The sth Indiana, lost about four hundred men. -Three hundred and eighty prisoners of war, in cluding fifteen commissioned officers, arrived today. Major General Palmer reached bete to-day en route for Washington. It is reported that he has been relieved of the command of the 14th 'Army Corps. Later information Is to the effect that Oa Cap ron, with several s quads Of his men, is In Marietta. This, will reduce Stoneman's less to less than one thousand. GEN. SMITH'S EXPEDITION—SLOOMA RELIEVED AT VIOR 8131.111G—Talt REBELS TRTIRG TO GROSS THE IVEszurnrs, August o.—El-en. Smltti'S expedition well. Its destination is unknown. blaj. Gen. Slocum has been relieved at Vicksburg, and ordered to report to Gen. Sherman. i ns Dir trict of Vicksburg is assigned to Washburn°, who now controls the river from the Cairo Department to the Gulf. . , All is quiet on thil White river. The rebels in the trans-Mississippi Department are trying to cross the Mis Iseippl. Gen. Dick Taylor is at Meridian, in place of Gen S. IL Lee, now at Atlanta. THE INDIAN WAR, DISTRIBUTION-OP TROOPS FOR PROTECTION Ihro , van CITY, August 10.—Although the Indians have been very troublesome of late in attacking nn•. armed trains, and murdering emigrants unable to defend themselves, there has been no dttack by the. Indians, as far as known, Upon the mail coarhas, which run regularly both Ways. • The wails were or• dared to be stopped at Atchison and this plsoe to• day, by the superintendent of the overland, line, owing to the Stock bolpg run off frono some , stations, but it is believed the troops are belug.so distributed along the route as fully to protect it. THE INDIANS MAXIM/ PORAYS. ONAEL6- err; AuguStlo.—Hostile bands of ma rauding Indians infest the whole line -from Fort Kearney- to South Pass, a distance of Rye hundred miles, and daily commit new outrages, making forays on stook, and burning trains.- A_ great num ber of travellers are now slopping at Fort Kearney for protection, and are waiting for -arms. The In dians, in bands of ten to one hundred, move with celerity, and possessing a thorough hnotiledge of the country elude pursuit, The telegrapteAte is still in good order. . OMUTA, August IL S. llughtl, Ailjtitattt General of TNebraslca, has issued . _ sit over ealling for two regiments of mounted infantry for Indian service, to 'Serve four months, and to rerort to Brig. General Burford and Brig: General Cos as' soon as possible The following is the address of Governor Satins ders to the citizens of Nebraska : The news from our western border is alarming. Numerous trains of emigrants and freight have been attacked, and the owners killed, wagons' de• strayed, and stock run off. No less than:four AIL ferenfpoints on the route between our Territory and 'Denver were attacked; in one day. The Indiana are now known to be -infesting these rods .fore the distance of several hundred miles. All the available Government troops• have been sent forward. We need more men, in order to punish, these savages, .and 'to give security to our settlers. In order to meet the want I have thought proper to call the able.bodied militia of the Territory to organize a few oompaniei of minute men—men who and will, if necessary, move at a Moment's warning to the stone of 'these depreda tions, and assist in punishing the murderers and robbers, or driving them from the country. I make this appeal to our people confident that lt, Will be responded to promptly and with !willingness on their part. The Adjutant General has today issued a special order from these headquarters, ,giving particulars in regard to the manner of or and reporting these companies, Visit of the Legislature to Chambers burg—The Burned District Inspected. CnAianalentrao, August 11.—rhe Senators and Representatives, accompanied by the. president of the CuMberland Valley Railroad and several other persons, left Harrisburg at 8 o'clock this morning, and arrived here at half past 10, in a special train, to view the ruins. Upon arriving here the visitors were taken In charge by a committee of citizens and escorted through the burned districts. The scene can never be properly described. Four squares in either direc tion, private houses and stores, have been thrown into one black ruin. The order of the invaders had been to spare churches, and none of these were destroyed, except those In close proximity to residences. The fact that a Catholic church jelned the depot was the means of saving the latter structure. The losoes-of the Cumberland' Valley Railroad, Since the beginning of the war, have teen one hail• Bred and twerty.five thousand dollars. The total loss to Chambersburg will reach three million dol. lilts, bS actual count.. The records of the Courts were nearly all pre served, and are now being arranged in a new structure. The people of Clhambersburg are now returning. and commencing to rebuild their dwellinga.All, are well saPplied With the neoesarries of life. The'Legislature leave this glade at noon for liar' rhshiirg. Ernrsc possible' attention is beingahgben~ them by the Reeple Ito t ' wsfr'o ` ze►" the `upper Piitort,te4AP' BALTIMO)3E, August 11-11 P. ~ I ft-,—Tfothing hM been received to-day from the Valley or Trpissr Po toniso. BOSTON, August 11.—The British ship William, from Manzanilla, In coming up the harbor, this morning, 1n thick weather, ran ashore on pecr Islend, where she remains in a bad poslibm, Captain May has come to the city for assistance. She has a cargo of pain:clear, molasses, etc. BOSTON ; August 11.—Arrived, brigs Afton, Port au Prince ; George Amos, Philadelphia. ' TUN NEW AUCTIO EXPEDITION.—The following le the latest news received from Captain Hall's Arc tic - ftpeditlon : ST. JOHN'S lianuoa.. N. F.; July 18-11 05 A. FL We are now on board the Helen F, tender to the Monticello, bound down the harbor to join the ship, which has remained outside since trlday evening, the time Captain Obepell and myeelf left her. The reason of our delay hue been on accountof not being able to get the men on board that had been pre-en gaged for the vessels. The St. John's people have been very kiod to us, Fold our consul, Mr. 0. 0. Leach, has forwarded the interests of the expedition in - a most marked man. ner. I expect to be at home soon, and return to the 'United States in About three years. Yours, , C. Treason at our Subtlest! Restirts. To the Editor of ThePrae Sin : Why does opr Governinent harbor and pro tect. the mothers,,wives, and daughters of 'rebels, and in some instances mint offiderd, now in arms against then:lnes? States ? , , • At Bedford, rebels and rebel syMpathtzers in crinoline—say female rebel spies—render the place intolerable by their insolent advocacy of - tpeir secession princir les on ell occasions, insulting quiet loyal ladies, but claiming proteition for their trai torous conduct ork account of their sex.. There is not one of our fashionable watering plaees exert pt from their unwarrantable and Insolent abuse of a too-lenient Government. Cape May has hundteds of Southwestern and Maryland rebels and their friends. This evil is so great and defiant at Newporahat rebel badges and colors are worn, and daily flaunted in the faces of loyal men and women, to suett an ex tent as to render a residence at some of the hotels out of the question to many people. Why does this Government permit these female spies to ootne here for protection and pleasure that they cannot have at bowel Why not arrest them, and send them to their' beloved Dixie? Would', Jeff Davis permit a Union woman to reside in his and correspond with her relatives 14 the Union army I Not for one hour ; and If they got out with life it would be more than 'hundreds have done. This nuisandb should be abated, If we have any respect for ourselvei, even if every one of them: were imprisond. Our safety demands it. ' Thoughts for Many—No. 2. , To the Editor of The Press: Sia: The other day I Milli with a gentlein one of our city cars, 14 At ;lFolagh 'strangers-t s oh nt other we entered into obrereation. 411 welt on I: * . well until he asked me whether htid everfloiown of seven,Or. eight . millions of people who'had been subjugated. Redid not: refer, he said, to the days of Alexander, but to the period of time characterized morn or less by the civilisation of our-own age.. I told him that it was rather a delloate task for me to answer that question. That a rebel colonel 4my home in East Tennessee silted me the very same question, and that I felt disposed to say to him, !; Sir, I do not belong to yotir eight millions ; do not shunt me in; and two-thirds of the peaplerof East Tehnes see do not belong to your eight millions; dti,not count them in, and many on the mountains and the plains of Noßh Carolina do not belong to the eight millions ;do not count them in- , ' ThingsSutve changed since then, but In many respects only in appearance. Th e spirit which . made 'lelfergen Davis say that the last man must die in his tiacks before resistance is given up to the United Stales, reigns supreme In the SOuth. Yet; there is no;need Of subjugation, in the sense of that rebel cojonel and that 'gentleman In the street car. Let the mili tary power of the South be broken, and the people will gladly return to the Stars and the Stripes ; . and to break it nothing Is needed but trust in God,atid hard fighting. . -X.,. • . • AECEIRAID GETTY', ESQ.—On Monday a select party, conslating of the intimate friends of; *r. Getty, late president of the Corn Exchange ,Aitao. elation, entertained him at a choice dinner at Au gustin's, 1103 Walnut itreot, previous to ,his d!tpar- Cure for Europe, on a visit of a few menthe. rile chair was adequately tilled by Charles . Esq., and Alexander G. Cattail, Esq., ollicia64 as vice chairman. It - was an unusually solital party. Mr. Gott) sailed in the steamer for Liverpool on Wednesday. SALK OF OARPUTINGIS AND LINEN 10 AnrST Onsaw.r-The early attention of purchasers is re quested to the deeirablo assortment of superfine in grain, Venetian, list, cottage, and hemp carpets, English superfine ingrain medallion carpets, linen carpet chain, &0., &e, to be peremptorily sold by catalogue, &four months' credit, commending this morning at precisely eleven o'clock, by John E. Myers & Co., auctioneers, Nos. 232 and 23t Pdarket street. RESCUE OF TUB Nt AO ABA ACIIOB4 . I%—A. deVatob. M dated at oneta Falls; Anwust 9, says : ' erica- bee succeeded In making his escape from his Aticom.- . tortabie pesltlon this afternoon about rifle o'clock, In this manner: We brother walked cat and floated a ropedown to ,tdin, and by tbls mesas he we pbled to walk across therepids to - Goat . fetaud, Ind is Davi - at his condorta , l4a..quartfum . pin Interds uonaL". . - . THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI. I=4 ALVIN. SAITNDICRS, Governor and Comina,nder-in-elkier. Marine Digiaster. E.U.R ARRIVAL, OF WIIE PERSIA THE PROROGATION , OF PARLIAMENT SPEECH .OF THE QUEEN. Ramon of Another Anticipated Naval Battle. THE ENGLISH PRESS ON THE WAX Peace between Germany and Denmark Announced The steam ship Persia, Captain Lott, which sailed from Southampton on the 30th ult., at 5.P. na., and from Queenstown on the 31st, arrived at .New York y e,sterday -morning. She brings two days' later news. ARRIVALS OUT, The Louisiana arrived at Queenstown on the morning of the 29th, and Liverpool on the 30th ult. The Asia arrived off Oape Olear on the morning of the 30th ult. ENGLAND TO IMBOOGNI2III MASIMILU. f. In the Rouse of Commons, on the '2sth July, Mr. Layard, in reply to a question by Mr. Singlake, enumerated those portions of •the States and Terri tories of Mexico which have been subjected by the army of the French, and those which have not yet acknowledged the authority of the invader. The policy of England had been to recognize the de facto Government, the condition being that the Government should be in possession of the capital. The Archduke Maximilian was at .present in pos eession of the City of Mexico, and also of a conside rable portion of the territory, and her Majesty's G-o -vernment had intimated to the Government of the Emperor of the , Fran* that when the Archduke should be in Mexico, and had notified the fact to the European Powers, it was their intention to ad vise the Queen to recognize him. They Would, not wait to adopt that course until the main portion of the States - and Territories still under the sway or President Juarez were brought under the authority of the Archduke.- RUCROITING Aletanwil ~Lord E, Howard called attention to the subject of emigration to the United States, In reference to the prulongation ut the war. raging in that country, and be b . onipiLlabOil Of the organized system of fraud and depeit which` haa been:- . resorted, to .;by Federal agents for entrapping Batiks: subjects Into the Uxiited States army, and suggested that Govern s:bent should exercise greater gratelifulness and en ergy in order to put down tuch illegal and inhuman practices. He indeed far the productien of papers on the subject. `Mr. Layard observed that LOrd Reward had done good service by the statement he had made ; bit he did not see e hat the Government could do inure than reiterate the caution they had -given--to en igrards. Foreign Office had received heart-rend ing Accounts of the sufferings of some of these emigrants, and Lord Lyons had done his utmost to deal with the: Cases brought to his notice, but - difficulties stood in .his way, Owing to the ,par ties themselves. 'lie trusted that the American Goverement and the local authorities .would do all-thee"could to check these %Mises. After .a few remarks by ,Mr. Ferrand and lair. Hennessey, Mr. Lindsay gaVe an appalling estimate of the havoc of human life caused by the hopeless contest between the North and the tßiuth. Mr. P. Taylor took occasion, from some. remarks of Lord E. Howard and Mr. Lindsay, to speak in deleuce or the Northern Government, which was del ermined, he said, to put down the slavehdding rebels. Lord .T. Manners after a remark upon the inap propriateness of Mr:Taylor's speech, suggested that some warn ings mig tithe given the humble migraine to America by the Emigration Commissioners. .'the motion was agreed to, after a le weibservations by I.old E. Howard In reply. PARLIAMENT PnonCerittku—THE QI7ERN'9 STMECIL The British Parliament has been prorogued till October, with the following speech from the throne: "My Lords and Gentlemen: " We are commanded by her Majesty to ,release you irons further attendance in Parliament, and at, the same time to to you her Majesty's ac knowledemeete for the zeal and assiduity with which you have a pplied yourselves to the disicharge of-your duties ,during the session orParliament now brought to a close. - "Her Majesty commands us to inform• you that she greatly regrets that the endeavorlt•which. she Made, in concert with the )Emperor-of' the French, the Emperor of Russia,- and the King of Sweden, to bring about a reconciliation between the German Powers and the Ring of Denmark, were not success nil, and that hostilities, which had been suspended during the negotiations, were again resumed. Her Majesty trusts, however, that the negotiations which have been opened between the belligerents may re store peace to the north of Europe. ' "Bar Majesty having addressed herself to the Powers which were contracting partial to the treaty by which the Inuian republic was placed wilier the' 'protectorate of Great Britain, and hawing obtained their consent to the annexation - of that republic to the kingdom of Greece, and the States of the lonian republic having agreed thereto, the republic or the Seven Islands has been formally united to the king dom of Greece; and her' Majesty trusts that the union so made will conduce to the welfare and pro-' sperity et all the subjects of his Majesty the King of the liellenes. - "Her Majesty's relations with the Emperor of China continue to be friendly, and the commerce of her subjects with the Chinese empire Is Increasing. "her Majesty has been engaged, In concert with the Emperor of Auttria, the Empercrof the Preach, the Ring of Prussia, and the Emperor of Russia, in an endeavor to bring to sheet an amicable arrange ment of difference which had arisen between the liospodar of - Moido.Wallachia and his suzerain the Sultan. Her Majesty has the satisfaction to In for ill :you tbatthis eraleavor has been successful. - "Her Majesty deeply laments that the civil war ". in North America has not been brought to a close: Her. Majesty continue to observe a strict neu trality-between the- beiligerents, - and would rejoice anti, friendly reconciliation between the contending partis- , Gen e tlemen of the Houseof Ccrmmons Rea litejesty:cuermands us to convey-to-yeniter warm - acknowledgments f6l. the liberal supplies 'which you have granted for the services of the pre net year and‘towarda the permanent defence alter Majesty's dockyards and arsenals. " iqt -Lords and Gentlemen: - "tier Majesty heti observed with satisfaction that the distresr which theecivil war in North America has created in some of the manufacturing districts has to a great extent abated"; and her Mufeity,trusts that increased supplies of the raw material of In dustry map be extracted from countries by which it has hitherto been scantily furnishid. "-The revolt of certain tribes In New Zealand has not yet teen quelledi but it is satisfactory to her Majesty-to know that a large portion of the native population of three Islands have taken no part in this revolt. . . . ".It has been a source of much gratification to het Majesty to' observe the rapid development of the resources 'of her East India possessions, arelithe general contentment of the people inhabiting those extensive regions. . "_Her Majesty has given her cordial assent to crony measures of public usefulness, the result of your labors daring the session now brought to a eIOFO. " The ant for extending to women and children employed in various trades the regulations applica ble to factories in general, will tend materially to pieserve the health and improve the education of those on whose behalf. It was framed. s "The act for authorizing the grant of government annuities will encourage habits of prudence among the Working CluAti..and will afford them the means of securely Investing the results of their industry. "I be set for authorizing. a -further advance for public.works sumo of the manufacturing districts will contribute. to alleviate the distress in those dis tricts, and will afford, them. Means of. completing merry works of Marked importance'for the health of the Imputation. - e.Tho act for giving Increased facilities for the construction of railways will diminish the expenses attendant upon the extension of these important channels of communication. "It has aflorded to her Majesty the most heartfelt satisfaction to observe the general well-being and contentment which prevail througheat her demi ideas. and to remark the progressive increase and.; develepment of the national resources, and to and that, after soffrciently providing for the public ser yOu bare been, able to mak.e a•material dimi nutten in the taxation of the country. On returning to your teapective counties you will still have important duties to pertOrm, espe cially connected with the linking together of the several clams of the community, and her Majesty fervently_prays that the blessing of Aloft:slay Go .t may attend 'your exertions and guide them to .the object or her Majesty's constant solicitude, the wel fare and happiness of her people." ASSERTIONS.OP A COMING BEA erotta.--KOVBMIONTS OP 'UNION AND REBEL VESSELS. French Journals continue to assert that a fight will soon take place In the waters Of trio British Channel between Federal and rebel cruisers. Antilst end letter in the Independence mentions the arrival In that port of two Confederate war steam ers, the screw corvette Butterfly, Captain Russell, and the paddle corvette Paul Jones, Cdptain Ba wled. . The Trigic de Cherbourg Baia Three vessels be longing to the Federal States of America—the Niagara, the Sacramento. and the Kearsarge—and foprbelonging to the Confederates—the Georgia, thh - Florica, the Nouvel Alabama, and the General liee—have recently been met in Channel by several merchantihen. An action between theta IS ex- peeled. [The Georgia, it will be remembered, has been Sold at Liverpool, and is now lying there.] • THE DANISH QUESTION. On the 29tb, in the Rouse of Commons, Lord Pal. wanton made some expldnatione se to rue Darkish question, and atateOliat the negotiagjone at Vienna would be carried on solely between are belligerents.' The English Government had no Intention of Inter ferivg turther. Nothing was .known on the 30th as to the peace negotiations at Vienna. . The Copenhagen Journal says that the alleged armistice for some months . Ii pretonture. - Prinsle agrees to the ro-entry of the Federal troops tato Rendsburg. TEE LATEST—PEACE ANNOUNCED. LOWDON, July 31.—The Pails Prate under re serve, . announces the conclusion of p eace between Germany and Denmark. The baste le unknown. The armistice hag been slightly prolonged. 4*Z1:4304.:0:0 4: 4 4 :1:1.1i60:C4:4,'N ;WV 4flejft.l,l;ll4o);# The Daffy News, while accepting the speech of Lord Howard in principle, denies, however, some of his cm:min:dons: A full and steady tide of emigration, like that from this country to America during the last three years, ,, the editor says, " must spring from anbatan that causes, and cannot be lightly arrested. Hun dreds of thousands of working people do not con tinue to leave their herpes year after year without some - good reason, and had the original stimulus or the sustaining motive been no better than a delusion it must have been exposed and exploded long ago. It must be remembered, moreover, that the clam who emigrate in this country are not really so ignOraA of the social and industrial aspects of life In America as many who discuss the question in Parliament appear to Imagine. Almost every large family - of worklbg people in England have some relative or friend settled in America, in actual re ceipt of weekly wages, and who know, therefore; by experience in the most direct and practical way, both the value of labor and the price of the necessa ries of hie. It is the example and representations of these people ol their own class, who know the facts, and have no interest in misrepresenting them, that encourage the younger and more active section Of the Industrial classes of this country to emi grate to America. , t • • But even supposing that emigration could be arrested, the notion that this (meld have any •perdeptibie Influence on the conduct of the war is, perhaps. of all others, the most visionary and base less. The progress of the war has sufficiently dissi pated the °elusion that the Northern armies, are, to any considerable extent, recruited by foreigners; and we know by statistics that If every man avails, ble for the army who bas left these shores during the last three years had actually enlisted, the whole brdy of emigrant recruits would conatitnyo a mere fraction of the fortes actually raised and equipped by the Northern Government for the prosecution of the war.lr THN. TIMES 001111891 . 01cOWNT ON THS AMMILIOAN 81TUAYION. The New York correspondent of the London nlnce thus gives his views of the situation: Alter three 3 ears or such bard fighting as the world has seldom seen, the situation resolves itself In . the North into the comforting know ledge that ".Waahlogton Is safe,” and in the, i-outh ir,to the proud boast that. " Richmond, Is . Impregnable." .The "safety , t of each capital bas not, however, been purehaaod by . the, same , meant. Whatever ttiat of Richmond . may have ,cost .the Confederates, no huntiliatten enters into the account, while the safety of Washington; if tt be assured. at this moment.—which is more than any one can conaolentiously affirm until it Is known where - General Wand what he proposes doing— has cost the Federals, in addition to men , and -isso- ney. (lbrwhich they, care tom little), very nearly all their liberties (for which they seem to careetill less), Prestige and character whichare involved withln hattthefac t. that such an invasion as Early's could hive been made so strecessfully and with such all but .perfect impunity. Nor is the apa thy with which the whole movement has been regarded throughout the North the least extra ordinary part of the business. No publio meet ings were called to support the Government; no fiery patriot uttered a word of "buncombe ;" no. body-pet htS hand into his pocket to purchase a re cruit tar.the'svork of war, which he was unable to do himself, but willing to pay another for doing In his behalf; no apostle of freedom stood in the maxima place, like Peter the Hermit of old days, to call the multitude: to' arms ; not a preaeher sounded from his the nate of alarm• and urged .upon , .1 young and able-hoillea parishioners the duty of fighting, if not of dying . for their imperilled country. Even the women -forbore the Wan dhhments Of:, their smiles, and called no son or lover .a coward Tor not „rushing to the defence or 'the capital. The tide of business and amusement rolled on unimpedisd. The War party considered the invasion a mere foraging ex cursion on the part of a few half famished guerillas, who were certain to be caught and punished; while the Peace party, continually growing in strength and courage, made no secret of their belief that the Vonfederates Were In full force, and of their hope that they might not only capture Washington, but that General Lee might dictate the terms of final ;separation from the steps. of the Capitol; with , Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet on one side, and General Augur on the other, to ratify the articles of agree. - The London drmy and Navy Gaxette thinks that the. Confederates in their late raid might have taken Baltimore or Washington or both, and that they ost a•golden moment. THE YELVERTONABB DECIDIM. Tho Rouse of Lords having decided against the validity of Mrs Yelverton's marriage, the has determinedlo resort to the Scotch laws in a Anal East. The Conifnental-news le.unimportant. sultitaxivcri OT THE lARMY. OT THE BEY OT TUNIS Advlces front Tunis report the surrender of the army of the Bey, without an engagement, to the insurgents. The latter declared rheir. desire to re main.taithful to the Bey, their only ',doh being the distrairral of - the„Blinistry.and the - abolition of their unjust tax, GARIBALDI.. In regard to ari allbged eon em toted movement by the ,party' of aetiOn in Italy, the Morning Pow authoritatively states that-Garibaldi not only holds personallf aloof from it, but has exercised his Infht. once to moderate the enthusiasm of his followers. Coinmereial-intelligeace. LIVERPOOL- BREADSTUPFS Ittartairr, July 30. RichardsoncSpence, & Co., Biglandi Attrya, &Co., and other authorities, report Fiourquiet andsteady. Wheat sttuidy& wln ter red 8s Corn dull, at a dectine ordif;talesstifiCaultda'atl9Bl3d. ' " LIVERPOOL' PROVISION - DlAlLKET.—Wakefleld, &,,Co. and Gerdon, Bruce, & Co., report Beef quiet and , steady. - Perk quiet. Bacon steady. Lard nrm at 1.00445. Butter steady. Tallow steady a_t 39@425. -L/17.1.11Pi501. PBODITCS MARICET.—Ashes dull at 308 for pots, and 849 for pearls ; Sugar flat at a de cline offidaris; Coffee. quiet ; Rice.steady ; Linseed Cakes active; Linseed Oil quiet ; Rain steady; Spirits Turpentine 'irregular, sales at 693; Pe troleum, no sales. Louport ildenrcirrs.—Baring Brothers report Breadstuffs quiet and steady ; iron steady ; Sugar heavy at a decline of ed ; Coffee steady ; Pea quiet and steady;.Tallow firm;.Rosin advancing; Lin seed Cakes active and advancing ; Petroleum quiet and steady:" VBalr LATBBT, Lrincarcior., ruly 30—Evening.—The sales of Cot son • to-day are estimated at 6,000 bales, the market closing quiet at: unchanged prices. Sales to speculators and exporters 2,000 bales. Breadstuirs closed quiet and steady. Provisions steady. • LrumOil 1110211 CY Illankrr.--OonSols quoted at 9089034. !. , American securities are - nominal. Illinois Central 463E@4534 per cent. discount. Erie 41@43. The Bank of France gained over 6,000,000 franca during the week. The Bourse was flat. A.. NIA lORK CITY. [speetal 9orrespexelenee of The Press.] NSW Yoßs, August 11, 1864 HOW WE PILL OUR QUOTA. Ira draft almost merciless in its proportions is brought upon this oity, as doubtleis it will be, let it be-remembered that party obtuseness, and the pill. less, uncompromising spirit of party have evoked it. When the doylies, arrived which summons oar citizens from their homes, when the Copperhead press mites its chronic growl and grumble, when the disaffected • shall howl against the enforcement of that law which 'demands that citizens shall per form their duties to the land, let It be borne In mind that to the anttnegro prejudice of those who pre• tend to be the poor man's friend the conscription is owing. On Tuesday afternoon the Board of Supervisors met and considered the propriety of appointing agents who should proceed Sonth and enlist negroes on behalf of our quota:. Mr. Orison Blunt, who has had charge of our recruiting matters, who under stands the necessity 'of immediate action in the matter, moved. their appointment. In opposition, Supervisor Purdy is reported to have said: "I am told, sir, that iris too late for us ; that Massachu setts has secured allthe negroes who are anxious to go to the war. Now the country has enough before it. The system is to me repulsive. The negroes de moralize the army. 14111 opposed to their enlist went." And' again, that "me recent example at Petersburg made Lim' entirely opposed to the en listment of negroes: He-would-not vote for the re solution under any circumstances?" Supervisor Ely offered a resolution to the effect that "it was inex. pedient to enlistnegro reeimits not in accordance with the.polley or feeling of humanity. of the great State of:new York.) , . The party which these gentlemen represent Is the poor man's party, and the great City,of New York will be sett , ed rightly when these sensitive beings are forced in tArtqaiekei:. • It is now all Skip and jump 'to see who DUD: pi"oidie :substitutes; and may the drilViiik; tEe hiiitlesost. It is the poor men who pay for the elegant indulgence of this laxarious po licy and this feeling of humanity. "A little civet, good apotheeary P' A COOL P#OCENDISTO for hot weather has just been made public, in the shape of .a communication from the officers of the 11th Regiment N. Y. S. N. G. to Major General Sandford. Reciting bow he issued, a peremptory order. commanding the'regiment to leave the State for duty, and placed its colonel under arrest, thereby destroying all confidence and respect, etc, etc., it requests him to resign his position. The joke is ab solutely excruciating; a, genuine Joe Millerism. THE. STEAXER VANDEBZILT has arrived In this city, having suffered less damage than was at fast apprehended. A hole was stove in her bow, but, beyond this no material injury was suffered. She.will be able to resume her regular trips in the course of a few days. ANOTHER DBSBRTER. suffered the penalty, of his rapid proclivities yester - day. While the officers who had him in custody were proceeding through Beekman street he broke from them, and: endeavored to perfect the escape which he had once before attempted.. Orie of the officers fired thrice upon him, lodging the bullets in his shoulder, and bringing him to the ground. The wounds are not of a serious. character. There is some little dispute atout the gentleman's reputa tion, he claiming that he is a discharged soldier, while the officers protest that he is a chronic bounty jumper. POLIT 10 AZ Pining =EWA Some of the Republican papers seem to have grown strangely non -committal In politics of late. Perhaps this phenomenon may mean a sudden reces. 'Edon from the stand formerly taken, and a spasmodic raid under the Wade-Davis leadership. Quien sabe Polities are muddy. The Wade and Davis circular has caused no little debate irethe columns of the daily press. Some of the correspondents are severe in their censure ; others moderate. It appears to be looked upon as affording a topic; nothing more dangerou or pop tenttal. It is said that the publisher who-is about availing himself of the expiration of the Irving copyright la, or wits, an Irish porter with one of the old book concerns. 0 temporal 0 moral [By Telegraph.] DEATH OP AN AWSUICILN CONSUL. Dr. Reynolds, the American Consul, died at S Nero's, St. Domingo, on July 22d. ARRIVAL OF REBEL PILLSONERB Seven hundred rebel prisoners•arrived this morn Ing from Point Lookout. A IatTPPORSD ETR.ATE. The - brig Saxon, from Cape Breton, reports that on the list ult., when twenty-tire miles southeast of pable Island, she saw a large steamer which was supposed to be a rebel pirate. INTBLLIGIENOII. Arrived, ship Galena, New Orleans ' • barkentine P. 0: Warwick, Rio; Ida., Rio; Lincoln Webb Kan zanißa. Returned, brig Bayard, hence for Liven. pool,leaky.• • The McClellan Demepatratlon In New • York: A LANOB AOSSILELAGE IN UNION SQUABB—OZNID. BEL N'lrLiteLAN }INDORSED—REPORT Or THE PROCNE/NVOB. The New York Times gives the following report of the McClellan mime meeting held In 'that city on Wednesday night: • Last night the DemoOraOy of the city of .Now York made their grand initial demonstration in favor of General George B. McOleßan for the nomination as the candidate of the Chicago Con venilen for the Presidency of the 17ulteci States. It was held at Union Square. The purpose being so important in its pature, no pains or espenae were spared to make the meeting Imposing both fa num ben. and spirit. Your platforms for speakers were erected, each of which was decorated with the Ame rican colors, Chines lanterns, and canvases inscrib ed with mottoes - and the names of battles in which General ltl cOlellan had participated. The music of a brass band, the tiring of cannon, the appearance of firework erections which gave promise of pyrotech nic displays, the efforts made In the wards to bring out the boys, all tended to bring together a meeting of large magnitude, amounting in the aggregate 80 about thirty thousand. But howeror' the meeting may have been successful in numbers and spirit; it was an utter failure so far as ability was Otincernad. A formidable list of speakers was announced to be present, but, for the most part, the orators disap pointed General McClellan, if not the meeting. Of the distinguished names of the Democratic party, not one was present., and the speeches were made by orators mostly unknown to fame. But oven these were, for the most part, inaudible beyond a radius of twenty feet from the stands, on account of the boisterousness of the audience, the firing of cannon, the cheers and ejaculations In favor of McClellan, and the groans and abusive epithets of Mr. Ida ooLn, and the marching and eounter.marchings, and martial music of the processions, which kept the meetlr g in front Of the stands In a constant state of confuMun. STAND NO. 1. The meeting was called to order by Dr. Skinner, who nominated as presiding officer Brigadier Gene ral Duryea, whose appearance upon the stand WWI the signal for prolonged applause and cheers. After , briefly thanking the. meeting for the honor conferred u ti p o o n n s, li as im iv to ow co a mmenced the reading, of the resolti- . Dataattrrions. Whereas. The lincrof. policy adopted by the Chief Magistrate of the nation is In oppositiOn to the plain injunctions of the Constitution and his awn inaugu ral. declarations, and , under the specious plea of ml- Mary necessity, he has eanamenoed a system of di rect encroachment upon the rights of the States and the people in making arbitrary arrests ; in striking down the freedom of sPeeolt and the press, and abifo lishine the right of habeas corpus where the lethal lion does not: exist; in a fanatical attempt taforoe en equality, social and political, between raises. nee totally direrent ; in distranohnement; in holding the electoral vote of States subject to ['impersonal ambitioo, in detlanoe. of the autcority of Oungress; and has omelet! Reneral distrust of hie ability to carry the Dation *Maly through the arduous OutAlet ID which It 14 DPW engaged ; end, Whereas, What is nors.wantinq to settle this war is the aleotton of a Yreahlont aho will , ajiallaister . .--thegowletiiitest m y forepfritOof ite _foutt e de o rs . , c an ls to d afford an opportunity the people of tit return to the Union with rights under the, Cantina- Don. ' [Tremendous cheers.) Therefore Resolved, 1. That the only hope _for_ remedy il g existing evils is in a change In the Ad- Ministration, and an abandonment of its policy. 2 That the salvation of the oountry now depends on the determination of the people to eledt the man of their choice, and it is incumbent upon, and the paramount duty of members of party conventions to ignore all disputed onestions of policy, and, in the selection of candidates, to regard the plainly eX• pressed wishes of the masses they are delegated to n r e 4rat success inthe election, in otspoSition to the powerful. combinations of this Administration, depends upon the popularity of the candidates with the army, and the final iselection must, therefore. fall on one of i be great soldiers who has d tsti ogu Is lied himself in defence of the principles upon which the Government was founded. Resolved, That in .Major General George B. Mc- Clellan— [prolonged cheers]—sve recognize those sterling qualities 'hick characterise tne true pa triot, soldier, statesman, and gentlemarr, and which will insure an Administration alike elevating to the nation and creditable to the civilization of the age; and while we would not disparage the claims of his brother sonnets, we but reiterate the voice of the million, which comes upon the wings of the wind from every part of the land, when we declare him the embodiment of the hopes, as he is the choice, of tbeAmerican people. [Cheers.] Resolved, That our sympathies are deeply enlisted for our brave soldiers in the field, and that we lone for the return ot the day when, by ballots instead of bullets, we can maintaln the Constitution and the Union, and restore to'bar country the inestimable blessings of an honorable peace. [Cheera.] Resolved, That we earnestly recommend the friends of in colonan [cheers] to hold immediate meetings in every city and county, and give expression to their viewsas to his nomination by the approaching convention; or by the people; and that they assemble in mass convention at Chicago, on Saturday, 27th instant, at 12 o'clock noon, to take such action as may best unite the conservative elements in the Coming campaign. [Cheers.] On motion, the resolutions were adopted. The president then introduced Hon. Sohn 13. Has kins as the first speaker. At the opening of his speech he staled they had met together to unite their forces in favor of Gen. McClellan for the next Presidetcy. Be spoke disparagingly of Presiaent Lincoln,_ and Ciudad to an alleged depatch sent by him to Gen. McClellan after the battle of Antietam, in which be had said, "Gcd bless you and those who are with you ' e and said that if Mr. Lincoln were to-morrow to Send a telegraphic despatch to Gen. McClellan, it would not contain a blessing, but a curse. lie next alluded to the pledges which had been made by the Administration when it came into power, and to the pledges contained in the Chicago platiorm, that slavery should not be interfered with in the ,States where it existed. He referred also to the action taken by Congress in 1861, resole ing that Congress had no power to interfere with slavery in the States, and to the proposition in troduced by lion. C herries Francis Adams to so amend the Constitution that local. institutiOns: sta. very among the number, should not be distorted. But this man Lincoln had been false to all his Xedgea The Emancipation Proclaniatiomens7anwary rte , • was In opposition to the Constitution, and to the laws of the United States, and to his open pledges, to the pledges of the Chicago platform and of a Reptant can Congress. His last proclamation—" Co whom it may ouncern"—sent to George Sanders, had stated that he would receive no otters for peace unless the abolition of slavery was to be especially recognized. He had usurped powers which he had no right to, and had done acts which had brought Charles I. to the block and Louis XVI. to the guillotine. The speaker said that he had been admonished by a para graph In the Herald to speak in favor of Gen. Grant, and not against him. It afforded him pleasure to speak in favor of the great soldierly ability-of Gen. Grant. [cries of "no, no, no, he's played out," and loud cheers fur McClellan.] lie did not know but if Gen. Grant had bagged Lea's army he aitt have been the next Presiaent of the United : [Cries of "No, no, he wouldn't."] If Me n hadn't been interfered with, he would, tool , ere this, have restored the old Union. [Cheers . But the ides of November were approaching, an when he (the speaker) looked around and saw the iniiiense enthusiasm for General SdoCloilan, he was certain he would be the next President of the United States. [Cheers.] This was not the only case when abtue.atid falsitication had resulted in the success of the persons sought to be injured. General Jackson had thus been persecuted and abused, but the reoplo took him up and made him their President. The pressure of power and public patronage which had been brought by the Adidinistratibn against General McClellan was so great that it was the duty of every patriotic citi- Vali to come forward to his support. If the country was to be saved It must be through a change of the A druiristration. The war was going on at a cost of four millions of dollars a day, and, notwithstanding the assertions of the Administration to the con trary, our national debt amounted to over four thou sand millions of dollars. The soldiers of the Army of the Potomac had not been paid from four to six. months. The chairman introdnoed as the next speaker Col. Mansfield Davis. He alluded to the grand review of the Army of the Potomac at Bailey's Cross-Roads, in October, 1861, when cheer after cheer by the soldiers rent the air as they passed General nicClel. len. But the cheers on that occasion were as gentle words compared to the cheers that greeted his name here. Be was present, too, as the regimental commander of the Ira Harris Light Ca valry, six monthslater, when thatgreat Army of the Potomac, once so powerful, came from the Rappa hannock to the second held of Bull Run, to tight the second battle of politicians. They came in broken, dispirited, worn down by disease, battle,and exposure, and with their hearts gone, even as the heart of this great nation was now sunk in dismay and fear. Bat when it was announced to them that George B. McClellan was, again to Le their commander; their hearts were again lifted up, for they saw that victory was before them, and they pushed.onward to a triumph on the field of Antietam. [Tremendous cheers.] One peculiarity of Gen. McClellan's campaign was that no matter how bad the situation, the next mere he made always placed us in a better condition than we were beim e. The speaker then animadverted in seven) terms upon alr. Lincoln. if we wanted a change of generals in the Army of the Potomac to save the Country after Pope's defeat, so we wanted a change of generale at the head of the nation to in sure another victory like Antietam ; in short, we wanted Gen. McClellan at the haul of the nation, for we had enough of Gen. Lincoln. [Groans and laughter.] We wanted a man who could lead this . . great nation on to victory, and restore to us she Constitution and the supremacy of the laws. He bad heard, with sorrow, during the last three years, that the Constitution which our forefathers had/ made was only intended fur times of peace, when we were under the governucent of the con stable. But we wanted a new man at the head of the Go vet nment, who believed that the Constitution should be respected in time of war.; who werk t without pledges to any one, and who had iliown qualities of fineness, bravery, self-rellanee, and/ostriotivm, and that man was the patriot, statesman, and Christian, George B. McClellan. Four other speeches were made at this stand, by a Mr. Murphy, of Albany; Mr. Egan, of Williams burg ; Blym Ketchum, Jr., of New York, and klr, Jelin Corley, of Washingtou, STAND NO. 2 was called to order, and Hon. W. P. „Tannins:a appointed president. Atter thanking the multitude -tor tthe honor done him he introduced Ron. E. 0. Perrin. Mx. Perrin handled the Administration very fiercely. He said that while Democrats were righting our battles at. the South, President Line'dit was trying to cut of the beads off all who:held effuse at Ike North, bat that this could not stop their progress; that the present Government. were using the people's money and blood for an Aboli tion crusade, but that the Demooratio party were now going to make itself heard, and were going to take the gallant soldier who - heads the movement, and who would say to the South, c , When you are ready to atop fighting and Conte Mick, come back niggers and all. ' A man whose record will show that be will and can fight, and who goes forward with the Sword in one hand and the olive branch la the other—we say be can restore tuts Union, but it will not be by a crusade ofcondscation and Aboli tionism. Tennessee was once nearly ready to come hack In the Union, but now she will not until this . Abolition sway is over. McClellan was removed bale' cause his plans were too good for the immaculate ones at Washington, but he is not to be crashed, and next November we will prove it. He closed by saying :hat he expected the delegates at Chicago would act out the plans of the people, and nominate George B. .ISicelellan for President. - The president then read a set of resolutions which were unanimously edoptea. He next introduced Hon. Judge Evans, of Texas, who said he appeared In behalt ot hundreds of thousands of tile fellow peo• ple. He had evidence which letehint to believe that President Lincoln designed that we should never have another free vote; that he will carry the States by. the bayonet, and that If that^ is not 'sumach it will be accomplished by fraudulent voten in Arkansas and other States; and Ifyouintend to pat him out and McClellan in, you must pile up your votes so high that he cannot beat you by his treacle lent votes. It is you who must restore every & State to the Union, and that is to be amine' plished by the election of George B. McClellan. He did not believe McClellan was the only man under whom the South would come back, but he was the available men, for the Southerners regard him as a sufferer for opinion's sake, and a man who would enable them to come back to the Union with honor and glory. • What the South la fighting for is the right of self-government, as guaranteed them by our forefathers. Hon. "Eli P. Norton followed. He said that the American people were always ready to give credit to the man who periled his lite for hie country. The victories in Western Virginia under McClellan had raised the people from despondency to hopefulness. McClellan from a diserganized mob made one of the most powerful armies in the world, and that, when It wet ready to take the field, a spirit of Plat t:nay took possession of the autlwrtries at Washing ton, and they depleted his army, and took .part of his men away trom him—that they finally gave the army to General Pope, who was defeated, and Gen. McClellan was again called to defend Washington. They had stripped him of his command to bury hint in obscurity; but the people In that obscurity.fixed their eyes upon him, and decided that he must be the man to save the country. The youth of. New York were in laver of McClellan, and he wished to give this as a manifesto to instruct the delegates to the Chicago Convention. TI e meeting was afterward addressed by Judge Beach, Colonel Mansfleld,Davls, Mr. Ostrander, and others, alter which a large and beautiful Hag was raised, bearing a portrait of General Mantillas. The bands playing and many coloreddighta about it, the effect was very beautifut °Tern NO. O. The meeting at this stand was Organized by the appointment of Hiram Ketcham, Sr., to the chair, who proceeded to give a rather extensive review of the civic and military career of General , McClellan, charging the Administration with breaking faith with him, and withholding Its forces, to .compel his . defeat before Richmond. He stated that tie was compelled, against his earnest protest, to leave off his designs of taking Richmond, and, after de 'eating Lee on the field of Antietam wit h an army demoralized by the late defeat under Pepe, he was removed from command. - - What would have happened had he been retained in command I Not less than twenty thousand men were lost at Chancel . loreville, under Burnside. Meade encoeedtid,, and prevented tie enemy from reaching Washington. Gen. Grant succeeded. [At this point, there were cries of "Butcher, butcher," followed byconflution.] Gen. Grant acts under the orders of the 'f'residedt. [Groans.] He remembered the • caution of the Herald. He did . not. blame General Grant. [Voices—Abe Lincoln I Shall we have 'a change 1 (Cries of "Yes, yes.' , ] The war had failed, not from want of men or money, but . fr ont, imbecility and Wtakne:s in the head. [La.ughter.] From his heart he desired peace, upon. terms honorable to the Go vernment. and such as Gen. McClellan w .uld ap pros e and ratify.. (Cheers.). Our fellow-citizens in the South were In error, but though in error, they were sincere . He was not afraid to say ho was more desirous now of being United to, the South than ever before. [Here the speaker was compelled to atop on ' account of the great confusion ] 'I he resolutions - were then read and adopted - amid lunch cheering. The next speaker introduced was Mr. F. V.Sei. Tree, who stated that in the presence of the vast as- • sernbly, anti in despite of the despotism of a long of oppression, the people had not forgotten their righ ts . [Cheers.] The object of this-meeting Was to recommend to the Democracy' of oar country a representive man. of a pure and spotless name— a man patient In humiliation, modest in. victory. In the election of McClellan the South would see that . there 18 a reactionary spirit' at the North, which would give th em the 0013511 M 1 011inviolate. . Colonel E. B. Norton, of Texas, was introdueed, who made an exceedingly tedious apiech.. Mr. Norton's remarks were almost entirely lest to our. reporter, owing to the confusion and the poor etc cutionarY powers of the speaker. The- crowd was relieved by a song from Mr. Carrigan. The chairman next Introduced Mr. Daniel Car ter, "a true Vision man from Tennessee." Carter wished them to understand- that although, he was a Southern man he was nat.- in taror of the rebellion.' Be had been 'for three ysers a wanderer from his natty. lands 'Ltn ooln's lawful nets he was wi th him, bat in his un lewful acts he was riot. He was from Tennessee, from the sane State with Andrew Johnson, and he eonsidftred p rof an e worst.man America to-day. He was thest O man he ever knew and a com mon drunkard. He was brought up a Whig, In the school of Henry Clay, yet there was one Democrat be could vote for. Re had confidence in him . . Teat m hee an ri was ,l General George 334 . / Itilellau- .I[Grejit cng. W. HeWit,..CAptaln Ryinatirk:itSiri others made sable retwitts, aneriThloll e • ti mosUing ediQurlkeit.. - _ HARRISBURG. [Special corrooposilepoo of The heft.) Baastuato ss auana lo • The Leartslature has convened In the proclamation of Governer Com a t. the members of both Menthes are in a .: . c . , .;; The message of the Gozernor lea n aci "' 4 ll.,, It has the true ring, and the r..1. 4 0. 1 „ 1 „, pared the way of acting uporrata, by already appointing the proper cona n walta ference. . • t '%:* It is to be hoped that all partiaaa sad..• questions will be laid aside, and that o me n% a all, collectively and individually, 'ill 1,, 11be , labor only for the test good of the Stan ea s e In times like these, when our State is s ai 4l lk tened by an invasion by armed rebsts a Lla towns and cake are being burned, am,ql l ; role and cruelties of civil war are 4%4 ,7 home to our own firesides, the parti sac;: . "". : merged in the patriot, and all men Antall . 1 ‘ a differences out of sight, and labor only aa t iT . -.€ ti vaon of our imperilled country. The only danger of the country is the half • efforts of the people. We have been ~ war more than three years, andyet trad e aa prebend the magnitude of the sin/gat e ae . - bt aea involved in the contest. '4 The friends of the rebellion have m , thing to bear upon their war aaai n brea et . na man[. They do not resort to hais may ta rt. but with a zeal and energy wort ),) ,as ratter they have sacrificed everything upon the '4a rear this war. But how is it with us ? Do we not dreF, and fare as sumptuously as ever • re greedy far the " almighty dollar a are ;b' 3! eat upon the question of vigorously 1 w ec „ war, until the last aimed rebel it vicut."ng tie land, and the old Rag of our father;l where, honored and aespeoted? as e '""a all els.v.. our Government to the extent of our neon answer is plain. Yon will find men al' q," country who are busily decrying the alsreaa!! and doing all in their power to anake odious, the people restless, and the end 44 . if not rendered wholly uncertain. Unless tit', a change in the public pulse, the earl a a A divided North cannot soon bring us m alt en 4 . us hope that our legislators may be impreassl a4 the responsibility resting upon them and Ida, such legislation that our State finances may a healthy and our borders free from rebel invasive:. The public generall3 are laboring under a nal t4 . concerning the action of the Legislature, at ttet,a; session, upon this military question. It hes 1., dated in respectable journals that they rep the flimsy law we had, and then failed to another. This is all an error. Any one crassest the proceedings of the last session will int It upon the fourth day of May last the Govenar a f . proved of a bill " fcr the organization, fasciae,. and regulation of the militiaof the Conarantreal of Pennsylvania," which consisted of over one La died sections. This bill was prepared with great labor, several times revised, and was in committee ao before ale Legislature for a long time. ae n not passed until It had. been carefully examine, E, the military authorities at this place, and ea .1; cidcd to be the beat that could be had under circumstances. The Military Committee spent a large portiot . the session upon this bill. Colonel Glass, the eau man of this committee, has had considerable ! tary experience, and I know that he labored area onsly to perfect it; and yet the Legislature is hea denminced for not having prepared a bill ! I; au; newspapers had examined the records they an a l: not have fallen into this error. If this law had been put into successfuloperata s ' Chambersburg would not havo been in ashen. at; Gov. Curtin would not have been compelled to an. vene the Legislature. The Legislature paw militia bill ; the people have not enforced it. aye yet who are to blame? 'This only proves my at, a , tion at the beginning of this letter, that the peas 2 are only hall in earnest, and that, until they becat united and fully awakened, the Legislature say pass laws, and the Governor may issue procima. Lions, and yet we shall have raids—the war en; on, and the country will be ruined by the Sat heartednest with wbich our people prosecute aita war. Every man in the future must do his duty,it he expects the nation to live. Let him tat sal fault with his neighbor. Let every one work as though the success of the Union cause depeala upon his individual efforts. If this were r, tre should Soon have a peaceful and united repubile. The Democratic members of the Legislature sal 1 a party caucus last evening, it le supposed, to are - upon a Course of action upon the militia bill. Their future course is pretty generally understomL T,,7 will go in for protecting the border counties or le State, but will not be very liberal in their offertn the General Government. You need not be sir. prised to see them falling back upon the edging Seceah doctrine of Stole rights. It is now their oil; course. They have in one way and wither reara to every imaginable means of embarrassing the ara vernment. And now they are driven to the doctrie as originally proclaimed and defended by Camas and his brethren in treason. There is, of course, a possibility that I may is wrong; pope I may bee; for *a good of the coal. try. Yet, I prophesy that, within ten days. tree .!.et will be delivered in the Legislature of l'enesars nia which will jaoaid very much like the elaaa speeches of Breckiroridge, Da;as,and Toombs in at Senate of the United States. The effect of such a course upon the whole tam try can readily be imagined. It will tend immenn - Iy 'to strengthen. the bands of the rebels, diaa. rage enlistments, and be like a bath of in water upon the Union cause everywhere. Sea post their position was carried out to its loll:al tionausion, whatarould be the resadt 1. We shag haves= interminable war; we should surpass p down-trodden Mexico in anarchy and nriond • ruin. If one State can set up for itself, protest its self, and refuse to do anything for the general ;sal of the whole-nation. why then our gorernmeta is worn than a tope of sand, the labors Maur fatial were vain, and the institutions bequeathed us were delusive, valueless, and ephemeral. If their pit Um; is correct the Constitution of the United Stan is a lie, and the Revolution of 1176 an entire Whim If a State can set up business upon its own acona, and refuse to perform its part of the national Cur: pact, then a county may secede from the State, a township from the county, a sutaschool district rein the township, and, to carry out their doctrine to its , fullest and absolute extent, an individual might secede from the civil government entirely, the completely overturning all civil government. Their doctrine is at war with every theory of government. No people could live if mach a doctrine could is enforced. A: county boars the same relation to the State that 'the State bears towards the Genual Government ; one hi no more bound than the other: each has its duty to perform, and the moment au the doctrine is allowed that one may cut loose when it pleases, we may bid good-bye to any government under which civilized beings can possibly lire. The people of the country must be prepared to se: Democracy taking sides against the 'Governs:era before many months. They will pretend to ba !ail until after November, when their mask, so ! tno worn, will be thrown off, and they will stand Woe the country in their tine light. A Democratic official said to me last evening ant another draft, beyond the one impending, small never be made. Upon asking him for his reason es replied that should Lincoln be defeated, and tit Chicago nominee elected, the war would be virtual• ly ended ; that peace would be had upon sans terms, either by separation, or conceding to as "erring brethren" what they reasonably asa. strong effort would be made to effect a reconellatiss, and that, in his opinion, the Democracy would CM cede enough to satisfy them. . . But should Lincoln be elected the Opposition would so conduct themselves that the Government would find it impossible to carry on the war. Thee there would be no more enlistments ; the draft weal be hindered and obstructed, and perchance a civil war might be inaugurated north of the POWILIC, and the result of the whole thing would be the sul• cers of the rebellion, eternal separation and as establishment of a Northwestern Confederacy, and the leaving of New England out in the °old. Such, I have no doubt, is the programme of the modern Democracy. They do not intend to sae the rebellion and its cause die and be burled in the 30;t5 grave, and rather than see freedom become the ono• (Mien of all men, they would see this nation ruined and dismembered. The Legislature to-morrow visits Chambersbatg, for the purpose of seeing the condition of the peop:e, at d to gather such facts that they may intelligestlf make an appropriation for its suffering lotto))!tants. Undoubtedly the people of the border countio have been greatly abused, and their courage inkra presented, and especially by the press of Nov York and other States. They can afford to be courageous. 'They are out of harm's way; and the most they have courage to do is to &be* their neighbors who live upon the borders of rebeldom. Pennsylvaa , has cheerfully responded to every call of the C} 22o ' rat Government; she has been lavish in me.: and means; ; her brave HODS have been foremost upon every battlefield ; she has sent nearly all her young men to defend the flag of her country. A reserve force of fifteen thousand Ulf n, raised for home :e• fence, was handed over to the National Govern went, and they have tested their bravery In every battle fn which the Potomac army. has been ea gaged ;and now, when one hundredthousand Pool• .E)lvavians are absent, in dlstint armies, leaving cot frontier exposed, armed rebels come upon our soft, burn our towns and villages, rob our farmers of cat tle, horses, and produce, and by their repeated side of wantonness tend in a great measure to di.place snit interrupt peaceful pursuits, the people of our secure sister States, instead of lending a helping band, stand by with folded, arms and make cur homeless pecple a subject of ridicule, This Is all wrong, andi sooner or later will lead to bad result. ' • ' Faans. GnAnD . Corremyr AT CAPE MAY.—This evening a grand vowel andLinstrumental concert will be given at the Columbia'llouse, Cape Delay. The fol• lowing distinguished artists are announced in the programme: Madame Henrietta Behrens, soprano; Miss Caroline McCaffrey, contralto; Mr. µrein un A. Briscoe,-Lenore ; Mr. A. IL Taylor, basso ; ;Hr. Theodore Ahrend, violoncellist f - Mr. Henri Thunder, pianist. The conducto r'i Mr: A. E. Taylor. This concert will doubtless prove onfot the moat brilliant and successful entertain marls of the sea-side season. The preparations to. give success are on the largest 'scale, and cannot fait 0 1 their object. Tes REMARRABLE E KThLTroa r Chi s afternoal and evening two more exhibitions of the lime States Circus and Menagerie will be given. The season will close tomorrow night, and on Morelli afternoon and evening the tent will be pftobed is Ceraden, New Jersey. Messrs. Thaw &. NO . " sill leave behleed them a imputation that will mss'`' rantee success in any future visit. SAL, OP • Women ru Astmeou.—One of the most disgraceful scans ere have ere? heard of to Chrlin lan epantry took plate In the Market ptait Armagh, recently. A. woman - Pas put up for Fi-a by auction by her husband, a man named P.r!gl.L who resides In the town. FM. some time pasz, tt . 561411, the woman had been addicted todriokin‹. tkl is alleged to have been the cause of the sal , '" A man named Thomas Gunyan, with whom :he hv; latterly resided, bid o ..• ..und, and was deaUire . t the purcheter. A 1.• • • wiu2e: , the novel tad .t , Akk
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