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Democrats of the present day. These men deny the
true Democrats of the day like Gen. Dia and ot h ers,
The president then introduced lion. Charles
O'Neill, who spoke as follows :
Speech *of Hon. Charles O'Neill,
MR. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW - CITIZICNB: At this
late hour of the evening, and after the marked and
Constant attention you have given to the eloquent
words of the speakers who have preceded me, I dis
like to detain you ; but I feel that I ShOuld'say some
thing, and endeavor to perform, in a brief period,
my duty in adding my testimony to the fidelity,
loyalty, and unceasing Patriotism of Abraham Lin
coln. [Cheers.] I desire to urge upon all in this
vast meeting the necessity of making every effort
fer suoceess in the present campaign, so as. to
save our country from the widespread ruin and de
gradation which the nominees or the Chicago Con
vention, should they be elected, would inevitably
firing upon its. The only hope for this land of free
dom and l'or this Union is in the re-election of
our great and glorious President—[applause]—
and, with him, to elect the true-hearted and noble-minded Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee.
[Cheers.] Abraham Lincoln you have tried,
and the history and life of Andrew Johnson I know,
have satisfied you that his elevation to Johnson,
'Vice
Presidency will add another patriot to the coining
Administration of this Government, who will toil
and labor with President Lincoln to suppress rebel
lion, to uphold our flag, and to make the country
cnce more the glory of the world, happy and united
forever.
Pellow.citizons I have heard the Chicago Con
vention and its hingediscussed tonight. I have
studied its proceedings, and I have looked in vain,
for living loyalty and manly sympathy of expression
in its members. The groat tests of fidelity in that
Democratic assernbtage, and the real point in its
plat f orm -is ponce—peace at any hazard—and the
result of its labors the nomination of candidates,
pledged by its ineffaceable minutes, to the dishonor
of tire country, to negotiation with rebels in arms,
and to the surrender to traitors of all that
Is dear and near to the hearts of loyal men,
even to our very nationality. That party has
made its platform, and upon it the country
must form its judgment; but whether George
B. McClellan stands upon it, or whether it stands
upon him, it seems just now very difficult 'to
decide, although I am confident that the candidate
and the platform, upon the day of the Presidential
election, will fall together, burled in ocean depths
by the votes of loyal citizens, determined to crush
planks and men daring to sympathize with rebellion
or to uphold the treason of .Tefferson Davis and his
followers in this terrible conflict. [Cheers.]
My fellow-citizens, every one ol yon desire peace.
Many of you have gone to the army and sent your
sons to fight for it. None of you desire war, but
when you want peace, and when you pray for it,
you desire notsuch peace as the Chicago platform re
commends. NV°, no.") You do not want such peace
as the iSe y in ours, the Vallandighams, the Woods, the
alcOlellans, or the Pendleton would bring you.
You look to Abraham. Lincoln and Andrew John
son for that precious boon. You and I rely upon
such peace.thaking as they will give us; upon the
Grants. the Shermans, the Mended, the Han
cocks, and other, patriot soldiers, whb not by
cringing terms, but leading victorious armies to the,
very threshold of the rebellious capital, and into the
very heart of a traitor-ridaen Confederacy, demands ,
it and will have it, at any cost of blood and treasure
necessary to uphold good government, the Consti
tution and the laws, and to raise again that precious
fia . all over the land.
ellow-citizens we must not forget the October.
election. Wo have-•a ticket nominated for State
and city officers worthy of your support. You havo
heard, during the evening, Hon. Leonard Myers
[cheers for Myers], the able, faithful and eloquent
Beprotentative from the Third Congressional dis
trict, who has been deservedly honored by a renomi
nation. Let me say to any of his constituents who may
be present, that the country looks forwards to his tri
umphant election. He has served you well ; your in
terests are safe in his hands, and you can, and I
know you will, return him by a largely increased •
majority. In fact, we must all work. Pennsylvania
must be represented at Washington by true and
loyal men, who will stand by the Administration,
ever ready to aid it, ever willing to satlsfythe coun
try that they will labor unceasingly to carry out its
views. A President whom the loyal voters of the
country will re-elect by a unanimity never before
witnessed must be sustained; the Thirty-ninth
Congress must be in harmony with him. One year •
ago we stood upon this very stand, urging the re
election of Governor Curtin. The contest then was
to decide whether Pennsylvania stood by the Union:
whether her thousands and tens of thousands of
patriot sons in the field shedding their blood and
yielding up their lives for country should be upheld
by their fellow-citizens at home. We succeeded in
carrying the State by fifteen thousand majority!
Attain a momentous Issue is presented. The con
tut now is of greater importance. In fact, upon
us may depend the destiny of the country. Shall
we fail now 1 Pennsylvania ever was true and
loyal. ["She will be still."] Lot us work on and
bring the great old State into line with 30,000 ma
jority for Lincoln and Johnson, ["Wo will"] our
country and the Union. [Loud applause.]
Mr. O'Neill was followed by Mr. W. S. Peirce, or
this city, and by Dr. William Coates, but at this
time the meeting on the main stand had adjourned,
and the npise made by the bands of the departing
delegations and by the crowd assembled, was so
great that the reporters, although seated close to
the speakers, were unable to hear them.
At half past ten o'clock the meeting at this stand
was adjourned. •
Elje Vrezz
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1864.
Two Lettere.
. The public opinion of the campaign is
forming rapidly. General McCLELLex
...May at least claim the credit of ,calling
forth as prompt a response to his letter.as
any public man in a similar position ever
• received: When the Chicago Convention
adjourned he had a very simple and easy
course before him. There was no mistak
ing the temper of that Convention or the
tone of its platform. It was ruled by SVm
.
pathizers with treason; it professed sympa-..
thy - with .treason ; it placed-GEolibE H.-
PEIiDLETON on its ticket as the Most plau
sible defender of treason in the last Con
gress, and added a little. military man, as a
swindle and a'.subterfuge, in the hope of
making the combination . popular during
the canvass and available during the new
administration. It would have been diffi
cult to have arranged a more plausible
scheme, and certainly difficult to have as-.
signed a duty which a public man could
more easily perform. If there - was any
thing in GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN'S record
as a soldier, or in his little narrow
record as a civilian, he certainly
had no business • with the Chicago .
Convention. lie was *a soldier, and
he held in his hand a commission en
trusted to his valor, lOyalty, and fidelity.
To paraphrase an almost classic simile, the
Administration had taken him from the
sordid dust and stamped him with fame and
power. 'He might have given the gentle
men from Chicago a very ready answer.
He might - have simply said that he could
not carry the standard placed in his hands
by CLEMENT L. VALLANDIGHAM—he could
not adopt sentiments that . no -American
could read without a blush—he could not
make his whole record a lie. We admit
the temptation. The honor even of being
a candidate for the Presidential office .is
something that no American could regard
with indifference, and particularly when
there was a chance of the nomination being ,
successful. We do not wonder that an am
bitious man, the tenor of whose life hereto-
fore seemed to be confined to the railroad
business, should yield to such a temptation.
Great men had resisted even greater bribes
—CiNcticriArcs, CROMWELL, WASHINGTON
—but there was nothing. in the whole life of
this young anan to lead us for a moment to
suppose that he would imitate an example
so illustrious. He. fell. He went to the Chi:
. .
cago gentlemen, and, with the sword given
to his valor, loyalty, and fidelity; became
their slave. After sealing FAUST'S bargain
with hiephistophilea, he undertook to 'ex
plain it with a letter... •
We have all reed his letter. ' It '.has a
great deal about the Union,. and - a pious
allusion at the end, which Mephistophiles
could hardly:relish. Indeed, that exacting .
and crafty personage is restive about the
whole business. He threatens to tear . the
bond—but we know him better. It is very
easy to unite lofty and religious phrases,
particularly when there is a purpose in .
haiing them Written, And when it is really
intended• that people shall believe them..
We do not anticipate any release from the •
laud, and as for Mephistophiles, his temper
is of that facile character that can' never,
interfere with his interests. VALLANDIGHAM:
will get over his petulance, and continue
his speeches. The, WOODS will invest
their lottery earnings in the campaign,
and see that no money is spared and
no trick avoided that may insure tri
umph, and the -little hungry • crew of
home politicians will all rush to the polls .
with the avidity of men who hope for
fornething to eat. The people will look at
-ibis man, and those who surround him,
and question him closely, and put their
:lingers through his professions. It is not'
the first time they have been deceived.
They have before asked for bread, and re
ceived stones ; they ask for bread now, but
hey well know that McOLELLA. - x has
I:othing• but stones to give. He could not,
is" he wished, not if he dared, refuse to do
site bidding of the Mephistophiles who has
urchased his soul. Will his letter, or any
I...umber of letters, take him out of the
liands of HORATIO SEYMOUR, 01 WILLIAM
• HEED, or CHAUNCEY BURR ? Will it
release him from RICHMOND,. and HASKIN,
and BELMONT, and those who own him,
and invest him, and put him in the market
as so much money or so many shares of
stock ? Will it keep VA.LLArinioakm from
the Cabinet, or FITZ Jon - rt PORTER from
the command of 'the army ? Will it pre
-vent Lord LvoNs: l trom returning the visits
cif the New York Democrats, and con
cluding the : arrangements for . intervention ?
Will it in any -way lessen the joy that
every despot and anti-Republican in Europe
would feel at the triumph of treason and
the downfall of American liberty ? Let
.1.18 not believe it. The bond has been
scaled; every condition has been fulfilled ;
and every infamous pledge will be exacted,
even to the life of the Republic.
Let us compare the humiliating spectacle
this soldier presents with that of the Lieu
tenant General of the American armies, the
man who is to be superseded by Pm JOHN
PORTER in the event of McCwia,LAN's
-triumph. General GRANT is certainly a
greater soldier than General MCCLELLAN.
His early triumphs at Fort Donelson and
Fort Henry threw upon McOLELLAN's
career the first glow that it ever received.
This man, whose military eye discovered
one of the finest soldiers of the time to be
the same General SnErtmAN whom MC
CLELLAN buried away in Si,. Louis barracks
as a crazy man, writes a letter which conies
to us at the same time. General GRANT, were
he an ambitious man, might have obtained
the nomination of any Convention that has
'assembled during this yeai. Ile might have
gene to Chicago and obtained,for the asking,
the nomination that MCCLELLAN and his
owners have labored for two long years to
secure. it is not doing injustice to Mr.
LINCOLN to say that he might have even
obtained the nomination at Baltimore, and
were he to-morrow to express any pre
ference for this high office, his name would
be the rallying-cry of thousands. General
GRANT speaks with no dubious or uncer
tain phrases, but the words of a bold, sincere,
simple, earnest man, anxious to fight his
battle and go home. Read the letters we
reprint to-day. He tells us that slavery and
peace are incompatible; that when slavery
falls the Union will live. He gives -us
words of comfort in a military point of
view, and shows us that by one more
earnest and united effort we can overthrow
the rebellion. It is just such a letter• as a
soldier like GRANT would write, and we
honor him with even a higher honor than
we have ever shown before.
Cqmpare these two men.. MCOLnLLA
sells his honor for a nomination, taking his
place on a platform which he - professes to
disown, and asking men to vote for him on
false pretence. If he is sincerely for war,.
then his platform is false and his request
for Peace men's support a deceit. If he is
sincerely for peace, then his letter is false
and his solicitations for War Democrats'
confidence is a deception. There was one .
honest course, but that involved a decli
nation of the nomination.' He has taken a
dishonest course. He must serve or be
.tray .one portion of his friends, and our
great fear is that in his effort to reconcile a
false and cowardly course he may betray the
country. By the blessing of God this shall
not be. We shall defeat this man so utter-•
ly that his name will only be remembered
as a name of warning and pity, and his
party will be among those memories of the
Republic that our children will regard. with
hatred and scorn..
WE REGRET the construction that a *cor
respondent places upon a paragraph that
recently appeared iu The Press. Colonel
WILLIAM MCCANDLESS is too well known
for us to impugn his courage, and no state
ment of this newspaper should lie rendered
liable to such a meaning. _ Colonel WrlimAx
McCANbLEss served his country during
three years with great courage and skill;
and we have always•been glad to recognize
him as a good and gallant soldier. While
we say this we cannot recall anything we
have said in reference to the course of this
gentleman during the past few months.
He had an opportunity such as has fallen to
the lot of few men. The Administration
at the expiration of his service offered him
a brigadier general's commission. He de
clined, with the . offensive declaration ihat
he could not *fight in a war like the
present. We do not stop to inquire into
motive's.. If he disliked emancipation he
should have resigned in 1862. If the Go
vernment's policy was unpleasant, that po
licy was fully enough confirmed one year
ago to excite his displeasure. He continued
to fight until this campaign deVelOped it
self, and at the time when the. Government
wanted his services to aid in crushing the
rebellion he declined.. A soldier who does
this thing deserves the...severest. censure.
We prefer to leave the. matter to this sol
dier's conscience and record. He has made
a sacrifice for the Democratic party such as
no young 'man ever made before, and now
that lie has taken his course we . trust that
the party will appreciate this sacrifice and
reward him accordingly.
The New Deineeratic Secession;
WCT,ELLAN REPUDIATED DT TRE 1E IV YORK
DAILY NEWS' BIETROPOL/TAN RECORDS
AND FREEMAN'S -JOURNAL
• The Democratic camp is already demo
ralized, and war among friends has en
gulphed the . question of peace The-New
- York Daily Hews • of the 10th takes bold
and open ground against the letter of Gene
ral McCLELLAR, and declares that it cannot
find it possible to . support him. It calls for
the reassembling of the Chicago :Conven
tion in the following terms :
"George B. McClellan was nominated upon a
platform that promises an immediate cessation of
hostilities and a Convention of all the States. Does
he stand upon that platform to day? He does not.
He has renounced the platform in his letter accepting
tke nomination. It is as if the bridegroom should
accept the bride's property, but not her person. A
bond like that is null and void. The peace party
will not consent to have their principle betrayed
and then do homage to the betra} er. They demand
all that is nominated in the bond. General McClel
lan having rejected the proposition for a cessation
of hostilities and a Convention of ill the States, de
clined the Chicago nomination, and stands before '
the people self-nominated on a platform of his own
creation. The Democracy must seek a candidate
who will stand upon the plat form, for they cannot
consistently support one who is in collision with the
Convention that tendered him the nomination. If
the platform accords not with the nominee's convic
tions of the right, a due respect for the opinions of
the assemblage that unanimousty adopted it requires
that he should give back to . the Convention the
standard of the Democracy. l'he De - macrons Na
tional Convention is not dissolved. It is ready to con
vene at the call of its Executive Committee, and, if
General McClellan cannot abide by the resolutions
through which the principles of the party have been
enunciated, let the Convention reassemble, and
either remodel their platform to suit their nominee,
or nominate a candidate that will suit the plat
form."
That FERNANDO WOOD, VALLANDIGIIA3 I,
VOORHEES, and- the leaders of the large
Peace party in the West will imitate this
act of secession, cannot be reasonably
doubted. Preceding and following the de
claimer of the Daily News, the Metropolita4
Berard, and the .M•eevian's Journal, organs
of the Irish Catholic sentiment in New
Xork, have declared roundly against Gen.
-MoCismert's usurpation. Mr. MULLALY,
editor of the Record, says :
. . .
-" General McClellan says : lam happy to know
-that when the nomination was made the record of
'my_public life was kept in view ° but ho certainly
cannot be ignorant of the fact that the 'record' of
his public life' was the great obstacle to his nomi
nation in the minds of the Peace Democracy, and
that it was only upon the assurance that he was in
faVor of the immediate cessation of hostilities that
they withdrew their objections to him as a candi
date. It was. their wish that his 'record' should
be kept out of view, and they honey - eel that he-him
self was not desirous of giving it a more extended
publicity than it had already obtained; bat they
never supposed that he would refer to it as a matter
of pride or satisfaction. Are we to understand by
this ill-timed reference to his 'record' that he re
gards his arrest of the Maryland Legislature as a
justthable act, and that If elected he will continue
the system of arbitrary arrests inaugurated by
Abraham Lincoln, and so willingly carried into
execution by himself.? This 'record' tells us that
he Is the enemy of habeas corpus, and it also informs
us in regard to another very unpleasant fact—par
ticularly unpleasant to the industrial classes—that
he was the first to urge and press upon the Presi
dent that most despotic of all despotic measures of
the present Administration—the odious conscription.
As he intimates his intention to carry on the war,
the public should understand what that means ; that
it means renewed conscription; that men shall be
forced,•by the strong arm of military power, from
their homes to wage a war of subjugation against a
people who claim the right which we ourselves
ehould be the last to resign --the right of self
government.),
The Popular Opening.
The great demonstration of Saturday eve
ning in Independence Square opened the
political campaign for the Union with a
wide-spread enthusiasm and earnestness
which we find it impossible to adequately
record, but which the people will long re
member. Greater manifestations of the
popular patriotism are yet to take place, for
the canvass in favor of the re-election of
ATIRAILAm LINCOLN promises to exceed all
other Presidential campaigns in the un
mingled rejoicing of the true and zealous
friends of the Union and the Constitution,-
and the noble war in defence of the national
honor and safety. From now till liovem
ber the great, honest heart of the nation
will celebrate its continual victory over the
foes of the Union.
The meeting in Independence Square
has Aria: the chord which will now vibrate
throughout the State.- Numerous meetings.
have already been held, and the fall of At
lanta has been the occasion - of bringing the
true patriots,of the State together. These
meetings will multiply in all quarters of the
Commonwealth till the great work of the
canvass is achieved. !The cause is worthy
of indefatigable and universal effort on the
part of its friends, for the triumph in the
end will not be the victory of a party, but
the vindication and salvation of the coun
try.
LETTER FROM "OCCASIONAL."
WASHINGTON, September 10, 1864
"- Believing that the views here expressed are
those of the Gonvention and the people you- re- .
present, I accept the n‘Anination." These
words are contained in the last paragraph
of the letter of acceptance of Major General
George B. McClellan. Are they trite? That
is the question. When we reflect that the
man who writes these words was educated
at West Point, and claims to be, on that
account, one of " the *chivalry," and espe
.cially a soldier and a gentleman, we may
well wonder at an assertion like this. He
" believes" that the views he expresses arc
those of the Convention that nominated
him, and, as he does hot reject the plat
form, it is a fair preAumption that he ap
proves the resolution of that Convention
which demands that " immediate efforts
be made for the cessation of hoStilities."
In other words,. that he sanctions the
monstrous idea of an armistice between the
T'ederal Government and the rebel traitors.
But how are these two positions to be re
conciled? The Convention practically de
clares in favor of an armistice. General
McClellan declares in favor .of .continued
war for the preservation of the Union ; and.
in view of the fact that the one position
defeats and rebukes and destroys. the other,
he coolly . tells us that he believes his
opinions expressed in his letter of accep
tance are those of the Convention that
nominated him ! We remember nothing
in the tergiversations of party politicians
so discreditable ~ts this.',General McClellan
certainly. could nothave.meant to say that
the Convention declared in favor of au ar
mistice• and for an immediate cessation of
hostilities, and yet approired his letter. Can
he believe as he says ? Hit be so; then the
Convention is a fraud, or. General McClellan
himself has violated the truth. Now mark
the difference between McClellan and Lin
coln. 'When the resolutions of the Balti
more Convention were presented to Abra
ham Lincoln, he said, in a single sentence,
" THE NOMINATION IS pIIATIIIFULLY AC-
CEPTED, AS THE RESOLUTIONS. OF THE CON
VENTION, CALLED . THE .PLATFORM, ARE
HEARTILY APPROVED." No qualification
here ; no false and dishonest front, but an
earnest and emphatic endorsement of the
work of the men who had put
. him before
the people for re-election. He heartily ap
proves the Baltimoreplatform, because in
that . 'platform there is not a word nor a sen
tence that has not been inspired by earnest
attachment to the GoVernment, by gra,
titude for our brave uien in the army,
by a desire to cOnclude peace on the basis
of the restoration of Union, by ha
tred to slavery as the cause of the war,
by a determination to maintain the national
faith inviolate and to redeem the public
debt, and by an utter ignoring of all seats or
parties until the war is . happily concluded
and.the Republic vindicated. But it would
seem that General McClellan fears his plat
form, and yet, while fearing it, and doubt,
ing it, and while writing a letter which he
'desires the people to understand as in op
position to it, he yet coolly says ii his letter
of acceptance that he believes the views he es-.
presses in that letter are the views of the Con
'Mak% itself ! I think no man, in or otit
of public life, and no soldier, in or out
of the army, has ever deliberately placed
himself in a more inextricable dilemma.
OCCASIONAL.
WAI3I - IINGICON.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11, 1864
AN EXPEDITION AOArNST FLORIDA
_SALT
-WORKS AND SUGAR mrLLs-JEFF DAVIS'
PROPERTY DESTROYED
Captain THOMAS P. GREEN, commanding the
East Gulf Blockading Squadron, communicates to
the Navy Depart9Cent the particulars of several
successful 'boat erptiditions from the United States
bark J. L. Davis, Acting Master W. N. GRISWOLD,
commanding, on the station at Tampa Bay. The
first was made ot the 11th of July, and resulted in the
destruction of sonic salt works belonging to strong
Secessionists of Tampa, Messrs. HAVOOOD and
CAirneit ; the second was made on the 16th of July,
to the factory of another strong rebel, named
MoCtoon, which was also destroyed.
The third expedition was made on the 2d, 3d, and
4th of August, by the tender-schooner Stonewall,
attached to the schooner Davis, and commanded by
Acting Master HENRY B. CARTER, with his gig's
crew of six men, proceeding up the Manitou river
to the town of the same name, and a large saw and
grist mill, with its steam engine and fixtures, was
completely destroyed. Learning here that about
three miles up the rives was a sugar mill belonging
to Jana Davis; the party ascended the river and
found an establishment which made last year fifteen
hundred hogsheads of sugar, of which two-thirds
yore sold to the rebel commissary department.
After breaking as much of the machinery as pos.'
slide, loaded shells were placed in various parte of
the engine, and the building was fired, and soon
totally destroyed. The expeditions, without loss of
life or limb, show a very-commendable spltit on the
part of the officers and men. The conduct of Acting
Master CARTEnis particularly spoken of as highly
creditable.
THE EEW 75,000,000 LOUT
In the list of successful bidders for the new 7.5,000,-
000 loan, as published in Saturday's papers, the
name of Messrs. C. B. WRIGHT & Co., of .Philadel
phia, who bid for $500,000 at four per cent. premium,
is incorrectly printed as DWIGHT & Co. The open.
ing of the bids was resumed on Saturday. The
amounts were not so large comparatively as in those
opened on Friday, but the average premium is about
the same. According to present indications, about
two-thirds of the entire proposals having been
opened, the loan will be taken at four per cent. and
over.
The aggregate of the bids for the new loan is
$72,762,750, and the entire amount awarded is near
ly $82,00,000, nine•tenths of it at over 4 per cent.
premium. ,
The remainder will be divided pro rata among
those who bid at four. •
Among the successilil bide opened today, in UAL.
tion to those telegraphed yesterday, are : • •
Bowery Sayings Bank, 4200,060 at 4.05. •
Bowery Savings Bank, $l6OOOO at 5.05.
First National Bank of St. Paul, 00,000 at 5.
Bank of Freemansburg New York. $20,000 at 5.
• R. N. Shoemaker, Cincinnati, $12,000 at 4.25.
Battengill Bank, Vermont, $lO,OOO at 6.
R. W. Bush, Louisville, $6,000 at 5.
T. Steele, Louisville, $lO,OOO at 5.
- Thos. Cornell, Rondont, N. Y., $25,000 at 412 g.
First National Bank, Akron. Ohio, $15,000 at 4 60.
Corn Exchange, Philadelphia, $60,000 at 4.055:4
4.30.
Fourth National Bank, Waynesboro, Pa., $25,000
at 9.60. •
G. Caswell & Co.. New York, $O,OOO at 4.50
Granite National Bank Maine, $15,000 at 4.02.
Home Insurance (Jo., New Haven,s22,ooo at 4.05.
South Berwick Bank, Me., $lO,OO at 4.25.
J. Gulliver, Philadelphia, $15,000 at 4.20.
J. Gulliver, Philadelphia, $16;000 at 4.12 -
People's Bank, Baltimore, $lO,OOO at 4.2'41.50.
Haddock, Reed, &Co., Phila., $20,000 at 4.25@5.
Philadelphia Bitnk, s2:oo,ooCrai 4.5 4 504.75.
Bank of the State of New York, $260,000 at 4.058
3larket Bank, New York, $50,000 at 4.60
There were ,numerous successful bids from indi
viduals and corporations all over the country for
amounts smaller than the above: . •
It is stated that some of the offerers prefixed
remarks to their bids saying that If these should not
be accepted they would take seven•thirtios at par. •
Among the unaccepted bids for the new loan
there were two, amounting in the aggregate to
over $6,000,000, at from 3.37 ; 1 4 to 3.75, and another
bid for $1,400,000 at from 3.07 to 3.3735.
A party of three citizens of New York subscribed
together for $5OO worth, offering the highest rate of
premium of all others, namely, 10 per cent.
It will be interesting to bidders to learn that the
bonds in payment of the . loan will be ready for de.
livery at the Treasury Department to morrow
morning, at 10 o'clock.
Such prompt delivery is unprecedented, and is
due to the arrangements made by Secretary F ES
SEN DEN and Assistant Secretary Hanainvrox,
previous to the opening of the proposals, the blanks
having been printed and otherwise prepared so as
to require only the signatures of the proper officers.
Parties, therefore, who have subscribed to the
loan, will not be subject to the inconvenience of de
lay heretofore experienced, as the facilities of the
Treasury Department, in this respect, are more
ample than ever before.
The adjustment of the bids, with a view to the
award, was not completed until eleven o'clock on
Saturday night.
FOREIGN CEREALS PERMITTED ENTRANCE
TO PORTUGUESE PORTS
The State Department has been officially inform
ed of the promulgation of a Portnguose royal 'do
cree, that from August 12th last until March 31st,
1865, the importation of foreign cereals, whether in
grain or flour, is permitted in the ports of Lisbon
and Oporto. and also by the Eastern railway and the
River Douro.
TEE TREAT\' WITH ECUADOR
The United States and the republic of &numlor
have exchanged the ratifications of the Convention
for the mutual adjustment of claims, which are to
be referred to a board of two commissioners to be
appointed by each country, with an arbitrator in
cases where they may disagree.
REVENUE DECISION
It' as decided on Saturday, at the Internal Reve
nue Bureau, that in reassessing licenses under the
provisions of the now revenue law, full credit Is to
be given to parties holding licenses issued under the
old laws, for the same business for which the new
assessment is made, altbongh the new law may de
scribe the business under a new name.
REPORTED SDItRENDER OF MOBILE.
It 13 reported here that inobtle has .fallen. 'rho
THE PRESS.-PHILADELP4I4I_, MONDAY, SEPTEVMER 12, 1864:
Rawnrifo, Sept. 11.—The Union party of Berke
county met in Convention on Saturday and . made
the following nominations For Congress; Wil
liam M. Mester ; Senate, Major William Bri
ner ; Assembly, Louis Ouster, Dr: E. E. Grim
mer, and George W. Yeageri This. Is ,an excellent
ticket. The Hon. William' M. Mester represented
Darks county in the State Senate for many years,
and was afterwards Secretary of State during Gov
Packer's administration. He is a gentleman of
high character and ability, and when we say
that he is the exact opposite of Ancona it will
sufficiently define his political position. He
Will receive the enthusiastic support of all the
friends of the Union in Berks. Major Barter is
also a War Democrat. He went out at the begin
ning of the war as a captain in the Pennsylvania
Reserves, saw much hard service, and rose to the
rank. of Major, and
. acted as such untilhis term of
service expired. 'Dr. Griesemer was also a Demo
crat when the name meant something more than
utter submission to. the slave, power. All these
gentlemen give a hearty support to the National
Administration in its ellorts.lo put down the re
bellion, and the whole ticket, deserves every effort
that the friends of the Union in: Barks can make In
its behalf.'
WELAT OUR GREAT GENERALS AND
STATESMEN 'SAT OF IT.
Opinions of Generals. Grant; lioOker, and Lewis Vass
LIEUT. OEN. mum' ON THE CONDITION OF THE RE
BELLION, THE RESTORATION OF SLAVERY, AND
TIM AIMS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY,.
HEADQUARTERS ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES,
CITY POINT, VA., August 16, 186-1.
To Hon. E. B. Wasliburne
DEAR Sin: I state to
_all, citizens who visit me
that all we want now to insure an early restoratiop of
the Union, is a determined unity of sentiment North.
The rebels have now in their ranks the 'last man.
The little boys and old men are guarding prisoners,
guarding railroad bridges, and forming a good part,
of their garrisons for entrenched positions., 'A man
lost by them cannot be replaced; They haye robbed
the cradle and the grave equally to get their pre
sent force. Besides what they lose in frequent skir
mishes and battles, they are now losing from deser
tions and other causes at least ono reginient per
day. •
With this drain upolithem the end is not far dis
tant if we will be only true to ourselves. Their
only hope now is in a divided North. This might
give them reinforcements from Tennessee, Ken
tucky, Maryland, and Missouri, while it would
weaken us. With the draft quickly, enforced the
enemy would become despondent, and would make
but little resistance. I have no doubt but .the ene
my are exceedingly anxiety! to hold .pit u it
-
after the Presidential election., 'They' havd many
hopes from its effects. Theg hop * e a counter revOlu
lion ; they hope the election of the peace candidate. In
fact, like " Micawber," they .hope for something to
"turn up." Our peace friends, if they expect peace
from separation, are much mistaken. It would but be
the beginning.of war t , with thousands of Northern men
joining the South bemuse of our disgrace in allounng
separation. To have "peace on any terms" the -
South would demand the restoration of their slaves
already freed ; they would demand indemnity for
losses sustained, and they would demand a treaty
which would make the North slave.huniers for .the
South. They would demand pay or the restoration
of every slave escaping to the North. ,
Yours truly, U. S. GRANT.
GENERAL GRANT IN 'FAVOR OP THE ANNIHILA 4
TION OP SLAVERY.
The following is an extract from the letterer.
General Grant written in August, 1863, after the
fall of Vicksburg : •
"The people of the North need not quarrel over
the institution of slavery.' What, Vice President Ste
phens acknowledges as the corner.stone of the con
federacy is already knocked out. Slavery is already
dead. and cannot be resurrected. It would take a
standing army to maintain slavery in the South, if
we were to take possession, and had guaranteed to
the South all her constitutional privileges. I never
was an Abolitionist; not even what would be called
anti-slavery; but I try to judge:fairly and honestly,
and it became patent to my mind very early in the
rebellion. that the North and South could never, live at
peaee with each other, except as one nation, and that
without slavery. As anxious as lam to see peace esta..
Wished, I would not, therefore, ,be willing to see any
settlement until this Nation is forever settled."
GENERAL ROOKER'S LATE SPEECH. AT WATER
-
• TOWN, MASS.
FELLOW•CITIEEIIB :'You have come. here to re
joice at the success of the Union arms, in WhiCh
am ready to join you heart and hand. My business
is fighting, not sech-making, but let me tell you
pe
that the army of Sherman is invincible, and cannot
be disheartened. We must trelit this rebellion as a
wife.,parent, would a vicious ohild—he must whip
him into subjection. No milder discipline will an
swer the-purpose. Some are crying peace ; but
there can be no peace as long as a rebel can bifound
with arms-in his bands. Woe be to those
.who.cry
peace v hen there is no peace. This Union must be.
preserved, and there is no way of preserving it but
by the power of our arms—by fighting the oonspl
racy to the death. This rebellion is tottering now -
while I speak ; it is going down, doWn, and will soon
tumble into ruin. Politicians may talk to 'you
about the cause of the' war, but I say, put down
the rebellion, and then, if you choose, inquire
into the cause of it. Bat first put down the insur
gents—first-whip them, and then talk about - the
cause if you have loathing else to engage your at
tention. I belie6e in treating the rebellion as General
Jackson treated Indians—whip them first and treat
with them afterwards, The Union cannot be divided,
let politicians talk as they may; for if division com
mences, where are you to end.? First. /he South would
go, then the Pacific States, then New England, and I
hear that one notorious politician has advocated that
the city of New York should secede from the Empire
State. In such case there would be no end to rebel
lion. Gentlemen, every interest you have depends
upon the success of our cause ; every dollar you pos
sess is at stake in the preservation of this Union. It
will better accord with my feelings to see the limits
of our glorious country extended, rather than cir
cumscribed, and we may feel it a national necessity
to enlarge our .borders, at no distant day. -This
Union, gentlemen, cannot be dissolved,- as long as .
the army have guns to fight with. Furnish men and
muskets. and the Union is secured.
HON. LEWIS CASS OPPOSED TO SURRENDER..
The Cities go - Pribune learns from undoubted autho
rity that Hon. Lewis Oass pronounces the Demo
cratic platform a most Ignominious surrender to the
rebels, and says he cannot support it. -
The Fever at Rey West—Death or Drix.
Gen. Woodbury.
.•
(Correspondence of The 'Press.] , •
Ear Wasx, Fla., August 21; Ip4.
We are still subject to the visitations of that
monster, Yellow Jack. Almost every Northerner
here has had a tussle with him. Many have'died.:
Our commanding officer, Brigadier General D..P.
Woodbury, who had been sick with this fever some
ten days, died suddenly on Monday evening hist, at
half past six o'clock. As soon as it was known, the
business people closed their stores, and the flags on
shore and on the vessels in port were loWered to half.
mast. The town looked sad itself at the loss of such
a good man. It had been difficult for a long time to
place a man In command here Who could be satisfac
tory to all parties. Such a man, however, was the
General. Never before have I witnessed. such a
-gathering of the people of this city as tiler() was on
the day of his burial. The funeral took place
an Tuesday afternoon at five o'clock. Previous
to proceeding to the cemetery, the corpse was taken
to the Episcopal church, where funeral services were
held, Surgeon Anthony E. Stocker, of Pennsylvania,
officiating. The procession, composed of fivo cow
parties of the 2d U. S. Colored Troops, commanded
by Colonel B. R. Townsend ; the hearse containing
the corpse ; the General's horse, unsaddled and un
bildled ; navy, army, and civil officers ; Band of
Hope, (a Temperance Society) ; and citizens on foot
and in carriages—then proceeded to the Soldiers'
Cemetery, whore the usual ceremonies were•read,
when the detachment fired three volleys over the
grave.
The fever seems to be abating ; most all strangers
have gone through the process ; but It is almost cer
tain death for a. stranger to come, here at present.
Everything Is dull. Nothing doing, and the absence
of the blue jackets renders it more so
Died at Key West, Fla., August I.9th, 18% of yel
low fever, Mr. Charles Schultz, orPhiladelphia, Pa.
He was in tho employ of the Government, as enst
neer on the - United States steam tug W. H. Romney,
and leaves a wife and child to mourn his loss.
Vollaindigliain will not Support
•
CoLtr.untss, OhtO, Sept. I.o.—Mr. Vallandigham
arrived here yesterday, en route for Pennsylvania;
to address the people of that State, at various
places; Luton meeting r Geo: McClellan's letter .of
acceptance hapromptly anthOrized the Democrat:lo
oolrMittee of 01110 to withdraw his mime frOm
appointments, and returned home. The pewit' teen
are detiitinined to maintain their integrity, a n d
will soon call a meeting to determine their Nurse
of action.
.
news is said to have been received from rebel de
serters, who assert that Dog river bar was passed by
the entire fleet of Admiral FiLanAour, and that,
after a brief shelling, the city surrendered, the
troops having withdrawn into the Interior. This
statement may be correct. It Is well known that
Admiral RIERAGIIT'S appliances for removing the
obstructions in the channel of Dog river bar were
simple, and that the torpedoes could be removed
with the greatest facility. Then the channel would
be . perfectly clear. and an uninterrupted passage
given the fleet close Up to the city.
ARRIVAL OF A PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT.
The 83d Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers ar
rived here on Saturday evening, under command of
Lieutenant Colonel D. C. InCol - . It has suffered
severely in numbers, and returns with one hundred
and three men and seven officers, all that is left of
a. total of eleven hundred who were once in its
ranks. Colonel
. 11IcLaaw, killed at Gaines'.;~l(lls,
belonged to th is regiment.
ANOTHER CASE OF CONSCIENCE
General Signora, the United States Treasdrer,
yesterday received a letter of which the following is
a copy :
"Please put into the treasury the enclosed 46, the
excess paid me as a witness at a court martial in a
neighboring city. The acting quartermaster, know
ing the fact that I had come and was about to re
turn the same day; made out an account for me
Which he said was correct and usual, paying me for
an additional day for coming and another for going.
This sum in itself Is no object to the treasury, but if
It be the moans of drawing the attention of the`Go
vernment to the like abuses In this department of
the public service, it may save hundreds of thou
sands of dollars."
LOSS OF A 'BLOCKADE-RUNNER
The Charleston Mercury chronicles the loss of the
new ldockade•running steamer Mary Bowers, which
ran on an obstruction near Long Island on Timis;
day week, proving a total lOss. The oEticers and
crew were saved.
NO COAMISSIONEES SENT TO Itteirsi OND.
The President denies that commissioners have
been sent to Richmond.
PERSONAL
SAatuilL Jamsow, Ist Pennsylvania :A.rtillery;
ALsx.animux Herrn, Ist Delaware Ca.valry - s,GEOituis
Murat, 184th .Pennsylvania ; P. , vritunctCownniq
69th Pennsylvania, died and were burled 'on Friday.
TWenty-four of the rebel sympathizers arrested in
Loudotut county, about a week ago, upon suspicion
of being connected With the bushwhacking gangs
infesting that neighborhood, have been transferred
front the Old Capitol prison to Fort Delaw'arel;
' Berke 'county Union Notubtations.
[Special Denpatch to The Press.] -
THE CHICAGO: PLATFORM,
GENERAL SHERMAN'S ARMY CON
CENTRATED AT ATLANTA,
WILSON AND STEADWA.N OPERATING
Rood Claims t]►at Gen. - Sherman is . Retreating.
REBEL REPORTS FROM GEORGIA.
AN OMINOUS - QUIET AT PETERSBURG:
HOW THE REBELS ARE SUPPLIED,
A HEAVY ARTILLERY DUEL ON THURSDAY.-
LEE REPORTED MASSING TROOPS
ON GEN. GRANT'S LEFT.
ADVANCE OF' THE SECOND CORPS.
CAPTURE AND OCCUPATION OF RE•
BEL ENTRENCHMENTS.
One Otincired. Prisoners "Pa'Ken.
DESTRUCTION OF MILLS IN THE SHE
,SIIBEIVIA1 , .: STILL AT ATLANTA-THE PURSUIT OF
VIREELER-NO MOVEMENTS AT MOBILE, PETERS
BURO i 'NOR IN TEM E RICNAICDOAII.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10-9 o'clock P. M.
The Departraezt has received despatches from
General Sherman down to 10 o'clock yesterday
morning. His army Is concentrated at Atlanta.
His troops are in position, and well.
He says Wilson and Steadman are stirring
Wheeler up pretty well, and hopes they will make
an end of him, as Gillen did of Morgan. The
weather was beautiful, and all things were bright.
No recent intelligence has been received from
Mobile.
No movements are reported from the Shenandoah
Valley or in the . Army of tho Potomac.
Recruiting is progressing vigorously in most of
the States. EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
, tiENERAL SIIERNAN'S ARMY.
LITTLE ON VALUE LEFT ISY ROOD AT ATLANTA.
-NASHVILLE, Sept. 10.—Hood left very little of
value at Atlanta, most of the Government stores
and railroad material having been previously re
moved to Macon. •
REBEL REPORTS FROM GEORGIA-SHERMAN SAID
TO BE DRIVEN OUT OF JONESBORO-THE REBEL
LOBS STATED AT 1,500.
HEADQUARTERS AUNT OF THE POTost c, Sept.
9—Evening.—The Richmond Examiner of to-day
contains a despatch from Hood's army, dated Sep
tember 7th, which says :
"Yesterday our advance drove the enemy from
Jonesboro and captured the hospital, containing
'ninety of our wounded. Sherman continuos to
draw back towards Atlanta for 'the purpose, it Is re
ported, of strengthening the works on the eastern,
western, and southern approaches thereto.
"Fifteen hundred will cover our losses from all
causes 'in the battles and skirmishes of the last
week. The army is now in fine spirits."
HOOD CLAIMS THAT SHERMAN IS RETREATING.
The following despatcliappears in the Richmond
Enquirer:
" HEADQH.P.RTERS ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,
" September 6, 1864:
"To General Braxton Bragg:
"Sherman his continued his retreat beyond Jones.
boro. • J. B. Hoon, Major General."
THE ARMY BEFORE PETERSBURG.
01111NOLTS QIII - ET-HOW THE REBELS OBTAIN
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TEE POTOXAC, Sept.
9—Evening.—The past two days have been omi-
nously quiet.- Hours have passed without a single
gun being heard. The enemy were reported mass
ing on our left, with the intention of attacking us
if they feund our lines penetrable, but have evi
dently given up the enterprise, which they would
have found to be a costly one. At the centre of the
line the pickets have been very friendly of late, but
within a day or two strict orders have been given
against intercourse.
A battery on the Jerusalem road opened on a
working party of the rebels this alteration about
five o'clock, and quite an interchange of compli
pliments took place, but without much harm to
either party.. The enemy sent us a Whitworth shot
yesterday, weighing thirteen pounds, beautifidly
polished .and steel pointed.- It landed - in, rather
'clime proximity to our qua,rters, and had travelled a
distance of a mile and three-.quarters. ' •
September 9. A. 111.-,A number of contrabands
came into our lines last night from Chester county.
They report that trains are running on the Weldon
Railroad as far as Stony creek, where the supplies
are loaded on wagons and hauled to Petersburg via
Diriwiddie Court House.. Between 500 and 600 wa
gons are engaged constantly in this business. They
also state that all the corn in that county is being
pressed by Confederate officers and fed to the ani
mals, leaving the farmers none for next season, ex
cepting just enough to justify them in saying that
they did not take all. W. D. MeG.
'EE SUPPOSED' TO BE MASSING TROOPS ON OUR
WasnivcTow, Sept.lo.—News is received from
the Army of the Potomac that a heavy artillery
duel took place on 'Thursday, with no important
result, and that Lee is still massing troops on our
left.
There was a little light on Thursday morning at
Davis' House. A small party of rebels attacked our
force at the house, which contained some twenty or
thirty men, and three or four rebels were killed,tut
they captured all of our men save eight. Afterwards
'our forces attacked the rebels and retook the house,
whiCh we now hold. On the evening of the 7th, a
guard of pickets in front of the corps was attacked
by a superior force. The officer in charge was killed,
and fifteen or twenty men captured.
TAR REBILLS FIRING AT GRANT'S NEW RAILROAD
THE BTH NEW JERSEY REGIMENT.
HEADQUARTHES ARMY' OF THE POTOMAC, Sept.
9—Evening.—The batteries on the right and centre
of our line kept up quite a lively fire to-day at, in
tervals. The noise made by the cars as they passed
towards the front attracted the attention of. the
enemy, and they endeavored to interrupt the work
ings of portions of the road, but without success.
Among the regiments whose term of service Is about
expiring is the Bth New Jersey. It has lost a large
number of men at Uhancellorsville, Gettysburg,
and elsewhere. Major Healey has been in com
mand during tho campaign, and was wounded seven
different times. None of his wounds were, how
ever, of a serious character. New Jersey will,
doubtless, give these veterns such a reception as is
due to their bravery and the important services
which thoy have rendered.
INCIDENTS OP THE INVESTIiENT-ARTILLERY
PRACTICE.
(Special Correspondence of The Press.)
Etaponn PETERSBURG, Sept. 9,1964.
A few shells were thrown at our works near the
extreme - right of the sth Corps. This•is the first
attention we have received from the enemy's batte
ries at this point since settling down after their last
assault. No Injury being Inflicted, notioe was not
taken of their cannonading, which was soon discon
tinued. The artillery practice will notion confined
to one. or two places on the right, but be varied by
occasional discharges on the left.
In this locality is a large corn field. Our pickets
hold one-half of the ground, the rebels the remain.
ing portion. For a day or two back our men haie
been pressing the confronting pickets, and showing
a disposition to encroach upon their territory. This
was resented by the rebels, who warned our men to
keep to their own half of the field. I have read the
wish of a Petersburg editor that Hampton's cavalry
would drive in our skirmishers, that he Might thus
get one of our newspapers and learn the result of
the Chicago Convention. I do not think their
bersemen - are in the habit of doing so; al
though an Innocent reader of • the Petersburg
.Express might think such was the manner
in which they procured late copies of our newspa
,pers. Our pickets heard of watermelons being in
the further extremity of this field. They deter
mined on having some, and took the same way of
procuring a supply that the Petersburg editor de
sired•Hampton,s cavalry to pursue in getting him a
"Yankee paper." They rallied and drove the rebel
pickets from the field, gathered what corn and
melons could be carried off, and returned to their
former posts. Such men laugh at danger. There
are others who practice every little deceit to keep
them from endangering comfort or safety.
When the rebels made that partially successful
assault upon our works at the Weldon Railroad,
wounded men came to the sear in great numbers.
Some of the stretcher-bearers shrank from exposing
themselves to stray shots, and, hoping for a brief ces
sation of the leaden shower, suffered many a wound
ed man to lie uncared for on the field longer than
was absolutely necessary. Near a [group of out
buildings alongside of the railroad, and about
one mile from the Yellow House, were three men.
Or avid( wounded, the other two had
the front, and brought him.
They examined his foot where
-ently entered, and found , it
,e bullet had passed. through
rot, slightly lacerating the skin
the freshness •of face, and
.uniform, the man: is unmis-
1," and have persuaded him,
Ao take his mairaket; and go back with them into the
fight. Just Mei appear two new personages. They
have a stretcher between them. The tallest seizos
a friend of the wounded man, and ingutresC," Hurt,
ain't he!" "No, suree," 18 the. answer. " Well,
you are." ho exclaims, as our friend with the frao
tured boot is noticed washing the blood from "his
foot." Before reply or remonstranoe could be made
he was thrown on the stretcher and carried to a safe
place far in the sear in spite of his struggles. I glve
the man credit for not wishing to return to
danger wine's. be had so narrowly escaped a short
VI:TY31:.&:%;
time ago, but cannot confess too niuoh respect for
tkose n•ho were so zealous to he useful that they
Carried a sound Man from the front. True, It saved
them irom ineurring - further risk by taking them
frtm perils they knew not of.. ,I. never thought of
Ile rebel arilllerlita endeavor• to get ate range of
THE WAR.
AGAINST WHEELER.
NANDOAH VALLEY
OFFICIAL GAZETTE.
BUPPL ES
A FL9HT AT DAVIS' ROUSE
It. His comrades made light
our new railroads. Some shells from their Whit
worth guns come very near the mark occasionally,
but the . majority of the shots fall wide of the mark.
Engineers working near the front were fired on
yesterday for the first time, and forced to doilst;
This acrimonious disposition of the rebels increases,
and may soon lead t 9 a battle. • R. H. M.
ADVANCE OF TOR 2u CORPS—A REBEL LINE OF RN.
TRRNOHNRNTS TAEEN-ONE HUNDRED PRISO
NERS CAPTURED.
HRADQI7ARTER6 ARMY OF TIM POTOMAC, Sept.
le—A. EL—At a point of our Une, just west of the
'Jerusalem plank road, occupied by the 3d Division
of the 2d Corps, the pickets have been so close to
gether that they could converse without difficulty.
•On a part of this line and : some distance in the rear
of their advance the enemy had thrown up a line of
slight works, with the intention, It Is supposed, of
falling back• to them when occasion might demand.
It was determined last night to drive them back of
this line, and thui strengthen our own. About mid
night, when ail was Uniet, the division was formed
in line of battle, and the picket line being reinforced,
was ordered to advance. The rebels were evidently.
not prepared, for such a movement, as they were
completely taken by surprise, and nearly the entire
line captured:.
They made every effort to retake the lost ground,
but did not succeed, and Our men now occupy the
line and are securely entrenched.
We took about one hundred prisoners, while our
own loss was very light.
Desultory firing has been kept up in that violnity
all the morning, and the enemy evidently feel sore
at being so taken by surprise. Some of them called
out to our men, saying, "That was a d-41 mean
Yankee trick, anyhow, but we'll pay you up for it
before . W. D. IrlcG.
THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY.
EARLY REINFORCING LEE-NO ENEMY BELIEVED
TO RE IN THE VALLEY.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—Intelligence from the
front and Shenandoah seems to lead to the conclu•,
sion that Early's forces must be reinforcing . Lee.
It is quite, certain that Lee is Massing reinforce
ments in front of the Weldon_ Railroad, and they
I are believed to be from Early's command. Whether
it is a portion of his original force, or the return of
Anderson's division of Longetreet's corps, lately
tent to reinforce Early, is not known. Parties on
the mail boat from City Point believe that the ene.
my's attack for the possession of Weldon is near at
hand. Our own position and that of the rebels is
strongly fdpilled, and it is doubtful if infantry can
take either: 'Areconnoissance toward the Shenait
doah from this direction failed to find the enemy in
„large force. .
DESTRUCTION OF NTLIA BY UNION TROOPS.
Mon. YoRB,. Sept. 11:-;;The' Herald's Berryville
desalt& of the 10th states that Col. Lowell, with
the 2d Blatsachusetts and two othir cavalry mgt.
meats, yesterday destroyed four flonr mills and se
veral other smaller mills on the Opequan creek,
capturing several prisoners.
.
A Harpers Ferry despatch of the 10th says that
the rebels are still in force near Winchester and
Bunker Hill. All was quiet at the front.
A lIECONNOISBANOERETURN OF GENERAL NAL•
LACE TO BALTIMORE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—Advices from the She
nandoah 'Valhi , state that a reconnoissance found
the enemy in a strongly entrenched position.
General Wallace has returned from the army to
Baltimore, to retain command of the Bth Army
Corps.
TUB REBELS AT 'WINCHESTER.
BALTIMORE, September 11.—The American's cor
respondent at Berryville, Fa , says that reconnois
sances show the rebels to bn,ken force at Winchester.
TEitNESSEE.
110IISSEAN, STEADS! .
WARDS THE TIM :•- • .
OF DICE TAY-LOW ' • *.
SCRIPT/ON /N -
NASHVILLE, • ' —Despatches dated
September 9th, fr i 11 ajor R. H. Polk,
A. A. G., state that (} :seau has conceal
trated alltho forces of Generals Steadman and Grail
ger with his own at Athens; and has moved towards
the Tennessee river.
General Milroy has returned to Tullahoma.
The cars will reach Columbia this evening, (10th,)
coming north, the railroad being all right. The
south country is tilled with strolling bands of rebel
stragglers from various commands, and also a part
of the Tennessee brigade which was disbanded for
thirty days.
A report has reached General Starkweathor's
headquarters that the rebel General Dick Taylor
has crossed the Mississippi, and is concentrated
with Forrest for the purpose of enlisting in West
Tennessee.
A scout who has just come in from Savannah says
that all the males between nand 45 have been con
scripted in Mississippi. The loss in Starkweather's
brigade was very small.
THE LOWER MISSISSIP PI.
REBELS RAID A PLA.IiTATION.
CAIRO, Sept. 10.—The Vicksburg Herald says that
one hundred and fifty rebels, under Captain McNeil,
made a raid on Wilkins' plantation, near Good
rich's Landing, on the 25th ultimo, and carried off
seventy mules and horses and two hundred negroes,
after killing the plantation guards and burning the
stables.
A SPEOIAL SESSION OP THE AItEANS AS`'REREL
LEGISLATURE • OALLER-EIIFFEASSION OF TRW
.SONABLE JOURNALS.
Sm. Lours, Sept. 10.—General Payne, command
ing the District of Western Kentucky, uts called a
special session of the rebel Arkansas Legislature.
.The circulation of the Chicago Times, Cincinnati
inquirer, New York World, - New York Day Book,
Fr'eentaies Journal, and Metropolitan Record, has been
suppressed at Memphis.
The negroes of Memphishavingexpressed a desire
to assist in the defence of the city, General Wash
borne-has authorized the organization of a regiment
of colored troops for that purpose.
DEPARTMENT OF TILE GULF,
OEN. BERNOWS EXPEDITION-LARGE' DESTRUCTION
RIINI. STORES AT OLENTON--REBEI O DEMON.
- STRATION AGAINST BRASHRAR CITE.-4ITLITARY
PREPARATIONS LLB.
Naw YORK, Sept. 10 —Adviees froni New Orleans
to the 3d Instant have been received by tho arrival
of the Evening Star.
It appeass that our forces occupied Clinton only
two days and two nights.
_The rebels had made &demonstration on Brashear
City, but accomplished nothing.
They are reported to •be preparing a formidable,
expedition to attack Brashear City or some other
point.
General Banks will come North, probably on the
steamer of the 15th.
The captured rebel guns of Selnia and rain Ten
nessee attract much, attention in front of New
Orleans.
Guerillas aro still hovering in the vicinity of
Alexandria. They visited the farm of E. H. Dela
hay, three' miles south of there, on Thursday eve
ning, and robbed him of six line 'horses, valued at
*1,200.
The steamer Creole, on her last trip to New
Orleans, was chased by a. pirate.
A letter from Fort Gaines, of the 2d, states that
General Granger has not yet returned from New
Orleans, and there will be no military operations
till he does. In the meantime preparations for the
work are going on.
The New Orleans Times contains the following
despatch:
"HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISIONOF WEST
MISSISSIPPI, NEW ORLEANS, August 27.—Major
General Herron has just come in from the expedi
tion. The breaking down of a bridge near Port
Hudson delayed the infantry column ; but, 'not
withstanding this, the result was a success. Gen.
Herron inflicted a loss upon the enemy of at least
160, besideidestroying a large amount of stores at
and near Clinton,. Louisiana. Our loss in killed
and wounded about thirty.,i
CALIFORNIA.
DEMOCR.ATIO NOMINATIONS-NEVADA POLITICS
- -
SAN FRANCIBCO, Sept. 9.—The Democratic State
Convention completed their work' last evening by
the nomination of E. G. - Lewls as remaining elector,
and Jackson Temple -as the remaining Cowes's
man.
At night a large mass meeting was held to. ratify
General MeClellan's nomination.
The Democratslave carried Story county, Neva
da Territory, owing to the presence in the flaid of
two Union tickets, and there is probably a majority
in fhvor of thd State Constitution.
The Ladies , Christian Commission Fair has
Closed, having netted over $20,000 in gold.
The markets are quiet.
Dreadful Aeeldent on the Pennsylvania
Railroad.
IVlimarr, Pa., Sept. 10.—A. frightful accident
occurred last evening on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
One and Malt' miles west of Latrobe,wbich resulted
in the death of three men, the injury of a fourth,
the destruction of 'a locomotive, and the total de
molition of six loaded cattle cars. The freight en
gine No. 237 left Pittsburg yesterday with a long
cattle train, and proceeded at the usual speed until
she reached a. point one and a half miles west of La
trobe, when her boiler exploded; tearing the loco
motive to pieces, and destroying the tender and six
cars.
The engineer, Charles Garriken, was Instantly
killed, and his body was found about fifty yards
from the track. He was mangled in a shocking
manner. He resided in Pittsburg, and leaves a
family. William Walter, the Conductor, is missing,
and ibis supposed his body has been blown to pieces.
He also resided in Pittsburg, and loaves a family.
E. Jones, the fireman, must have been Instantly
killed. His remains were found about one huxulred
feet from the wreck of the eng,ine,.with.his intestines,
&c... strewn upon the earth.
The brakesman, whose name we were• unable to
learn, bad his knee crushed. The accident occurred
at Beatty's station, where the track was torn up for
some distance, and most of the cattle in the•forward
cars were killed. We have never witnessed so com
plete a wreck. The passenger train which left
Pittsburg at 8.49 on Eriday evening, was detaind
six hours. The wreck has been removed, and the
trains are now running regularly.
Democratic Congressionril• Nomination.
DOT,LESTOWN, Pa., Sept. 10,—Henry PrOSS, of
Doylestown, has been nominated•for Congress in the
Filth Congressional district by the Democratic Con
vention. .
Robbery or Adams' Express. Company.
RRIFILIIRCK, Now York, Sept.. It —The office of
Adams' Expmss Company, in this town was entered,
by burglars last night and robbed of $l,BOO,
LARGE POSITIVE A.ED VERY ATTRACTIVE SA./.7.
OF 900 Loa's op Fn.r.swn Dnr GOODS, THIS BAs,_
The early particular attention of dealers is-request
ed to the valuabla.assortraent of. French, Giorivan,
Swiss, and India dry goods (including largt lines of
Paris and Sammy dress goods, dress silks, shawls
in gseat variety, bonnet and velvet ribbons, Paris
gloves, cloaks, &c.), embracing •900 lots of
staple and fancy articles in cotton, worsted, wool
ens and silks, to be peremptorily soli by catalogue
on four months' credit, commencing this (Itlonday)
mottling at ten o'clook precisely, to be oontioued all
day and part of the evening, without intermission,
by John B. Myers'. ('a: , 90.1ni9T10:13, ?PA. 232 and
2,4 blariist greet.
.ND GRANGER MOVING TO
\IIV.RR-RRDORTEDJINION.'
DIREST'S FORCES--OON-
BAINDIOIII.
cArtrtpLie: or & BLOCKADE-Ittrar Kin.
The steamer Robert - Nem% Captain Bennett,
arrived hate to-night, after a voyage of twenty
days from New Orleans. She reports that on
Thursday last the United States steamer Keystone
State captured a fine blockade-running steamer,
the Elzey; and sent her into Beaufort, S. C.
OHNERLL 'NEWS
Major Henry Z. Haynok, eminent proVost mar
shal and A. D. C., has been relieved from duty In
the Bth Army Corps.
Thomas Hunter and John Neale were arrested by
Government detectives upon the charge of having
murdered a soldier in Washington City a few days
since.
Terrence R. Quinn was arrested at H.arpees Fer
ry Upon the charge of running men out of the State
as substitutes. He has been brought here and awaits
IL military commission is in session, trying &num
ber of officers oharged,with holding unauthorized
communication mith the rebels during their late
raid,
THE MARKETf.t
Wheat has a declining tendency, caused by
thi decline in gold. Corn is very scarce, and
firm for white'; yejlow heavy. Flour very dull, at
a decline of 123,1 e. Whisky dull and nominal at
Provisions steady; 1,500 bbls mess pork taken by
the Government at 847.58418:25 ; 750 tierces sugar
cured hanis at *24.40@24.73 ; 100 hhds sides, unco
vered, at Va..10@i2.3.42.
NEW YORK CITY.
Nzw You x, Sept. 11, 1864.
ARRIVAL OF RELEASED SURGEONS FROM CHARLES
TON. -
The steamer Kama has arrived from Port Royal,
with dates to the sth. She brings a number of re
leased army and navy surgeons from Charloston..
Arrived, U. S. gunboat Galatea, from' the West
India squadron; ship Haze, San Francisco; harks
Brothers, Lingan, and Queen Victoria, Liverpool;
Laura, Cow Bay; Cima, Lingan ; Alacrity, Algoa
Bay; R. Murray, Jr., Miragoane ; Bolivar, Aspin
wall; Statue, Jamaica; A. A. Drebert, Rio Ja
neiro ; A. Bishop, Matamoros ; brigs Alice, Belize ;
Chesapeake, Boston; steamer California, New Or
leans. Below, bark St. Ursula, Rio Janeiro.
Reliable Information.
To the Editor of The Press: •
Six: As I constantly hear the' disalfieted . aAfert
that the only reliable war news is what appears in
the Daily Copperhead, I wish you would inform your
readers what advantages for obtaining correct
knowledge of the armies of the Union- that paper
can possess over the loyal press.
Reliable accounts of the Federal army we na
turally expect from official sources.. Does President
Lincoln and his Cabinet, and the loyal generals,
send special information to a paper noted for its
league with traitors 1 I, for one, cannot believe It.;.
neither do I credit the constant assertion that Union
men read it to Wain the truth. If so, they must be
persons of obtuse intellect, for, whenever I chance
to take up that notorious sheet (which I acknowledge
is seldom), I find it to contain such garbled extracts
from The Press that I cannot recognize them, just a 3
certain verses of the Bible can be taken from their
context and made to prove the exact reverse of what
Is intended. I recommend to all the readers of the
Daily Copperhead that .they should read The Press,
too, If they are really earnest seekers for the truth.
If the people will use their own good sense, and sift
the assertions of t Democratic party in the
coming campaign, t y will no longer be led by
partisan
leaders to destruction and the ruin
itottliribest Govemm i trt the world has ever seen.
the watchword be; "Our country, our whole
country, and nothing but our country.' , T.
AUCTION NOTICE.-SALE OF BOOTS AND SLIOES.
—The attention of buyers is called to the large sale
of boots, shoes, brogans, &c., to be sold by cata
logue this morning, commencing at 10 o'clock pre
cisely, by Philip Ford & Co., auctioneers, at their
store, Kos. 525 Market and 522 Commerce street.
THE CITY.
[FOR ADDITIONAL CITY NEWS BEE POUR:PR .PAGE 4
FATAL RESULT.
Michael Welsh, eight years of age, who was ad
mitted into the hospital three weeks ago, having
been injured by falling off a house on llaydock
street, above Laurel, while flying his kite, died yes
terday from the result of his injuries.
DllO.l7ltiED
Clara V. Foster, 12 years .of age, fell Into the ea
nal at 261 - anayunk yesterday and was drowned.
• - -
ACCIDENT WITH A PISTOL.
. Elias IL Jones was admitted into the Pennsyiva•
nia, Hospital yesterday, having his thumb blown off
by the premature discharge of a pistol.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
The fall of 20 per cent. In gold upon Saturday took
everybody by surprise, and none were more sur
prised than the gold speculators themselves. As It
is the forerunner of a fall in the price of provisions
and the necessaries of life, it will be hailed with de
light by the community at large. It would lie need
less to speculate as to the cause of this welcome de
cline in the gold market. The prospects of the re
hellion are generally regarded as having been-heavi
ly damaged by our recent successes, and there is a
fixed impression that the end- of the warts-teach
nearer than it ap - peared to. be thr4 montliskago.-
The steady increase of exports" of produce, and a
decrease in the imports of merchandise, indicate a
continued light export of specie, while the reduction
in the imports foreshadows a decrease ere. long in
the demand for customs. Under these influences
the natural tendency of gold seems to be plainly
toward lower quotations.
•
The stock market did not sympathize with the
downward tendency of gold. •On the contrary, there
was rather increased activity in the
. oil stocks as
well as other securities, and prices were higher. The
Government loans were held-more firmly, and for
the ?Ws an advance of 1 was realized. The five.
twenties sold at 111, and with coupon oft at 104—no
change. The negotiation of the balance of the loan
'of 1381, ($31,000,000,) is an eminent success. The
biddings were very large, and more widely distri
buted than in June. This negotiation will indicate
to Dlr. Fessender the readiest and most economical
mode of replenishing- the. treasury. With the re
bellion steadily tending to dissolution, the way is
Open to get all the money required, above the re
ceipts from taxes, by loans. The manufacture of cur
rency can now be reduced, and a reductionln prices
of commodities be enforced by putting the national
Credit squarely upon the market, and buying money
at the best rates. Company bonds were in steady
demand at the beard. Camden and Amboy 73s sold
at 100,.; ; Pennsylvania Railroad second mortgage
at 113; Delaware Market scrip at 82, 1 4 '.; Philadel
phia and Erie es at 112; Allegheny County Coupon
5s at 79X. City. and State securities were better.
State coupon 55 sold at an advance of and new
City Os at 19634. -Reading Railroad shares were
weak at a decline of l;,. and Pennsylvania Railroad
at a decline of 3‘. Northern Central sold at 85;
Norristown at 68 ;.; Camden and Ambeyat 168. The
oil stocks were very firm. Dalzell advanced ;
Densmore 1, BleElhenny lc, and Bull Creek
lllcOlintockclosed steady at 73‘ ; Rock Island at 3 ;
Story Farm at 43g.
Drexel & Co. quote -
New United States bonds, 1881 10S 11(0
New United States Certif. of Indebtedness—vfslX 91}
New United States 7 3-10 Notes 113
Quartermasters' Vouchers 90 .
. . 91
Orders for Certificates of Indebtedness .... 4 4.8 f
Gold - `a) 323:
Sterling Exchange 2R (a 244
Five-twenty Bonds UOX 1111(
Quotations of gold at the Philadelphia Gold Ex
change:
f 3 A. Ai
11 A. M......
230
228
12 111
STOCK EXCHANGE S
BEFORE
100 Noble &Dela • /53£
160 801 l Creek 4.3(
12.50 d 0...... 5
200 McClintock b 5 73(
100 Irving Oil 734
100 Phi ft & Oil Creek 23(
100
100 Densmore blO 143(
do
rutgri .
300011 S coup 6s '31.c511.1083‘
MO.. do cash-101335i
MO do 1053 1 '
.
4(00 do 1083(
740. .. . .. lots .109
1(00 II S 5 2Obonds us]] .1113(
50 do coup 0ff.104
500 do coup 0ff.104
WO do coup 0ff.104
200 do coup off 104
7500 do .. ....
2600 State coupon 05....101
2000 City 6s new 1063(
1(00 Alleg'y co coup ss. 79%
2000 do •. •• 793
16000 Del d Mutual scrip 623(
_
WO Penne R n
2d mo. 11362, (
10(0 PLila & Erie 65....112
100 Green liloutitain.. 63i
100 d 0.... 63i
•
%0 Northern Cen..,bs lOO Dalran b 9 12%
4 Mechanics' Bank 28 100 Bull Creek b 5
sco North Penna. bds —lOO SO3 Seneca h-40 - 1.3 i
15[0 US 5- 23 bds -con 0ff.104 200 Bruner lots 1.91
1500 do coup.off.lo4 100 Miller Oil 1,%
800 do coup off-104 lal Reading b 33 egti
330 Corn Planter. 4.91 230-. •do ' •• .• 544
HO Perry Oil 6% 1000 Olmstead .......... 23i"
800 Eibberd blO 211 SO Nav common ...... 13 t. ,
• ••2
No Bun Creek ........ 5% 200 0 CAM & Ala 'Us ...••109%
400 Rock Oil - 5 1005tou Farm .dir off 4%
SCO Dalzell 11% 100 McCormick & DIcK oY
-• 2
500 Buli Creek Creek. 534 NV MOMIntOOIO . . ....... 7X.
400 Philo, & Oil 2% 100.0rganic ............ 11 ,
..4
SOO Dalzell.. ...... lots 12 600 Globe -2. 50
100 Irving 1%100 Mineral ........ .b 5 3
400 Petro Centre it% 100 do .... . . ... 3
r>o Mineral .4 503 Bgbert ........ sd . ys 3%
NO Bull Creek - 53, 20011 d 5.20 s ........ ,.111
200 hinEllieny NO 8% 1000 •do coup off.lol
200 Big Tank 2% 200 Reading ........ b3O (MC
1(0 Cat& pref.... ••1115 4095 100 do • . b 5 603
10 do • b 5 40% 200 do bffa 00;
SOO Bull Creek —.lots 5% = Bull Greet. it,
. • ,2••
NO Dairen 15&int. 12% 50 Sgbert 3 44'
& 0 Big Tank.. ..... Me 2% . - 5. X.) Petro Centre 4.11,
300 Dairen.. ...... lots 12- 'lOO Maple Shade.. 15
MO 801 l Creek 6% 200 Pl e as & 011. Creek 2%.
100 Dairen 1320 12% 7O Man &k1ech.13k.b5%28 ..
110 McElheny ......... . 8% •300 Union Pet 3A I '
100 Densmore - 15 200 McClintock . h 5. 1%.
500 801 l Creek 5% 200 _do .. 74
200 do ........... i.. 8 200 Hibberd 2,14"
503 Organic 1% 400 Dalzell . LSO 12' , ,
1100 Ball Creek:•..lots' i% 200 do 1)5;1
50 McClintock., '. .... 7% 100 Reading, . .• . • . .... 653,i".•
200 Story Fltrin•div on 43i 300 Pldla & .001 , ...... 23i
100 Reading.. ‘..• :b3O OW 100 Densmore .... 5..in23..11%
100 Dillon Pet:•••`2dys 3%
i -
• The Chicago Tribune of Iliedneaday. • thus fore
shadows the stringency in moneJ,and the consequent
decline in prices of produce, the. probability of
which we have indicated : •
The money market continuesclose, but at rirwat
all legitimate calls are met by bankers at the regu
lar. rate. Oar leading banking houses, however,,
anticipate a serere stringency in the. market as
soon as the packing season shall oommenoo„ w hieh
will be in a tew weeks. A close investigation shows
that from $7,200,000 to it.3,C00,000 aranow invested on
speculation in:whisky in, this eity,, scarcely any of
which will be available for other uses before the first
or-middle of February_,abont.thatime the packing
season closes. There is also a. large amount invest
ed In the same rummer in wool, whiob will be una
vailable, for the uses of packers The combined
amounts will hardly fall short of *10,000,000 thus
withdraten from use when most needed. In
what way thia vacuum is to be filled is what
now puzzles business circles. The immense crops
which are now being gathered will also requlre
the use of large sums of money. Taken altogether, ,
the cahcliarion is inevitable that there will be an almost
unparatteled stringency in money circles during the in
coming packing season, which can only }l n d re li ef
from other sources of supply, the prollipeet forwhieh
is not good now. IT looks as if,ono result would
follow, and that is, a dOwnfoll it Vrico Pork anct
BALTtiIO . III, I . Sepyimb e r 10.
I IP. bi
22. S
920
4 P. 111 21St
SEPTEMBER 10.
BOARDS.
100 Coin Planter 4.49
2Rea do ding R c GiX
0 0
c 6611
ICA do bl 5 663(,
SOO do. b3O 60K
100 do ' b3O 61.'
100 do c 61.;,1.
BOARD...
100 Green 310unt....b5" 63;
100 Big Mountain . • b3O 7,4"
SCO Irving 011 1 / 3 0 V.i
100 Daizell Oil
100 .• do. • ...... ••••• 11111
.100 do. • 1131
100 do 80)wn 11
.100 Reading, R b3O 66
100 do '......*565.04
100. ' b3O 663'
100. do ' b3O
100 do -..
14 &bun .IG.Nr pref.. 3 , 111
31 do pref g),AI
34 cam & Am 11.10t5.16S
3 Pemba R - 311
2 do X 73
10 Norristown. R 66
10 do 66
BOARDS.
praftz, and If this prove true, the stringency rut ,3
pated will hardly bring with•it any serious regr et;
We shall probably continue to have large ,5 a ,..•
plies of money from the Eastern banks, 23 the rae a l," - :
faeturers of that section are" receiving large pr o r mi
upon their• products, and' are likely to now h es .,,
heavy deposits bathe banks : but at present a sea s s, le.
rable proportion of the Eaitern funds sent h.r fl i s
market.
invested in certificates 'of indebtedness, and te e d ;
little to supply the current wants of the in m
vairi
• .. • • •• --
The exports of breadstnifs fro the United States
to Great Britain and the continent of Europa for
the year ending September al, 1864, as compar e t
with former were as Willows :
14. Britain. Europe. 1E64 T "t l ----,
Flour bb l
5 ,51 3 113
Wheat, bu5h—.11, 4 7,577 95,M 1, 5 52,706 161t2943 3/9,427 16,22, 310 2454,4:
Corn, btuh662,691 11,963 6ssossc ,o
The decline here is very great in quantity,
for the year equal to 9,165,617 bushels of wheat am
10,174,753 bushels of corn—a decline equal in valet
to $16,000,000 in gOla,"or 140 t 0r0.w0 in paw, r u3
decline has been the effect of the good harvNr s
abroad, that have sunk prices below the rates
ordinary years, and below the rates that would 4 3
ruled here as a'consequence of the stoppage 0: E.zt
Southern trade by means of war.
W,The New York Erening Post of Saturday says:
-Mr. Fessenden luts• every reason to congratutit,
himself on the success of the new loan. At twei l ;
P. M. the bids were _opened. and three oilers, at 3
fraction over 101, are reported to give a total
twenty-two millions of dollars. The aggregat e tdd.
are estimated at sixty millions of dollars, cl wb,ip e
deposits for thirty-two millions have been -m at h
with Dlr. Stewart; at the Sub•Sreasury in this (it--
Gold opened heavy at 235. and after selling as 14;
as 2333, closed at flaky,. Exchange is dull. awl
freely offering at 2543-.:012.55, or 109 for gold.
The loan •Inar,ket is moderately active at 7
cent. - The stock market opened dull and elese.t
steady. Governments are quiet, State stocks Ural.
coal stocks heavy, bank shares neglected, railrol.i
bonds fim, and railroad shares steady. Before the
first session, gold opened at 235 and sold dtwa
2:3!”„'. Erie at 107, 1 . f. Reading at 1.3132. -
The appended table exhibits the chief movement.;
at the Board compared with the latest prices of yes.
terday
Fri. Th.
Meted States is, 1581, rag 107 107 .
United States Se. 1881, c0up....107% 107. 3 .,
United States 7•30 s 110% ]1) Ai
United States 5-9)a, COUP 11U nON -
United States cart, car MI o3:£
American Gold. M s f 215 ..
Atlantic Mail ' 185 '135 ..
Pacific Mail 270 270 • ..
New Tork Central Railroad ....1203 "IE3 ..
Brie 1073£ - . 107% .
Brie Preferred 10811 Is ;'
Readingl.l2. 181 - , 4 .4
Pittsburg Railroad ' 111 111; . ~
..
After the Board the market was heavy and irreso.
lar. New York Central elomd at 1273.g. 1 Eric at
10734, Reading at 182.1. Pitrsbarg - at 111. N.
Philadelphia Markets.
SEPTEMBER JAL-Evening.
The rapid decline in gold and foreign exchange
has unsettled the markets generally, and prices are
drooping. There is very little demand for Flour.
either for shipment or home use, and the market la
very '•dull. Sales comprise about 1,000 bbis aunt
family, on private, terms, and 400 bbls 'Jenny Lind
at *18.25 111 bbl. The retailers and bakers are bay
ing in a small way only at from $lO 50@ll for super.
fine ; $11.50@11.75 for extra, and $l2O/13 bbt for
extra family and fancy brands; as to quality. There
is very little doing in either Rye Flour or Corn
Meal.• Small sales of the former are reported a:
1;10.50 itt bbl.
- Fiaulx.—Domestic is less plenty. Apples are set:.
ing at from 50c@$1 haiket, and Peaches at lrouf
75c@$2 /ft basket, as to quality.
Oit.m.x.—There is more Wheat offering, and the
market is unsettled, and prices have declined 56/6c
1p bushel. 9,000 bushels prime new Southern tat
sold at $2.60 ift bushel. Old red is offered at $2 50 9
bushel. White ranges at from $2.80@32 9011 bushel,
as to quality. Rye is quiet, with small sales at
$1.85@188 ip bushel. Corn is scarce; small sales
are making at $1.73 for prime yellow, and 51.791,
bushel for Western mixed. Oats are quiet, with
sales of new, Delaware and Pennsylvania at 83*).).:
IR bushel.
Ban:K.—Let No. 1 Quercitron is dull, and offerel
at 01 ton, but we hear of no sales.
Covrox.—The market is very dull, and there is
little or nothing doing in the wasofsales ; middlitqs
are quoted at $1.81(01.85 14 it, offsh.
PLTROLRIig.—The receipts and stocks are very
light, and the market is dull ; small sales are re
ported at 494250 c for crude; 80@83c for refine.' h
bond, and 856 , 90 c ip gallon for free, as to quality.
Gaociaaras.--..S.ugar and Coffee are very gale t i e ri.l
there was little or nothing doing in either.
SERTS.—FlaxEeed sells on arrival at $3.70 11l ha.
Timothy is scarce and firm with sales of 200 bus at
$6.50 1.3 bu. Clover is selling in a small way at 314
1-1 64 its. •
laon.—Manufactured Iron is firmly held, but
there is less doing: Pig Metal is rather Fearce.
Small sales of Anthracite are making at 3437@T3 31
ton for the threanuMbers. "
PIWVISIONS.—The market continues firm, but the
transactions are limited. -Mess Pork is quoted at
$41@42 bbl. 25,000 Its bagged Hams sold at 24 y A c
V lb, and a lot of Shoulders In salt at 18%c Vf L.
Lard is scarce, with small sales to notica at 24r, sst.
tlb for bbls and tierces. Butter is firm, with saias
of solid-packed at 486 500 V it.
Warearr.—There is very little doing, an.l the
market is dull. Small sales are making at i 35
@lB6O for Pennsylvania bbls, and 16; @lBBe lit gallon
for Western. _
. .
The following, are the receipts of Flour and Greta
at this port to-day:
Flour
Wheat..
Corn....
Oats...
CM( irrivi.s.
Now THAT OUR FAstuaus HAVE, for the ratlit
'part, returned to' the city, we would advise our
lady friends to . bear in mind that the Wheeler Sc
Wilson Company do all manner of sewing, in tha
most elegant style, at reasonable prices. They also
send out obliging and competent ycung ladies, with
or without machines, by the day or week. The most
useful and economical article in every family is a
Sewing Machine, and we know the Wheeler S: Wil
son to be the best, most simple, and cheapest Sew
ing Machine in the world, Every machine war
ranted, and the money returned if not entirelysatts
factory. Instruction given at the residences of the
purchasers. Go to the Wheeler ar Wilson Agency,
No. 704 Chestnut street,. above Seventh, Philadel
phia, and examine these wonderful machines. Sent
for circular and specimens of work.
"Lrnm's FLonnaris.”--This inimitable arti,le
for t he hair has assumed very much the same relations
to every lady's toilet that letters sustain to litera
ture. It is at once the greatest beautifier, the most
potent restorer, and effective preserver of the human
hair that the genius of man has over invented.
You who have . not yet done so, try a carton, by all
means. You will never be without the "Florilint
afterwards.
THE STOUR oB GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOon"
offered :by Mr. George. Grant, No. 610 Chestnut
street, is the finest in the city, and his celebrated.
"Prize-Medal Shirts," invented by Mr. J. F. Tag
gart, are unsurpassed by any. others in the world is
fit, comfort, and durability._
"A ST - urca rw TIME Sivas Nrros."—This is a
good motto at all times, but it applies with special
force in purchasing sewing machines. For this
reason, buy the "Florence," sold at 630 Chestnut
street, Philadelphia, in preference to any other. It
is the best sewing machine In the world, and is so
pronounced by hundreds of the most prominent
families in the city, who now have them in use.
Every machine sold is warranted to give satisfac
tion or the' money will refunded. Numerous
families, in various, portions of the country, after
trying many other machines, have decided that. the
"Florence" is, beyond comparison, the - best family
machine in the world.
GaNgRAL MoCI.BLLAN Aconrrs.—General Mc-
Clellan has written a letter accepting the Chicago
nomination ; Mr.• Lincoln his accepted the Bahl
more nomination, and General Fremont is "in"
on the Cleveland platform. The ball is fairly
opened, and there - will be brisk times between now
and November. In the meantime all tho world mil
the rest of mankind agree upon the broad platform
of procuring their wearing apparel at the Brown
Stone Clothing Hall of Rockhill .S; Wilson, Nos
603 and 605 Chestnut street, above Sixth.
• "Nino - Ens ix ran Cans."—Mn. EDITOR: A.
growing evil in our city is the various attempts
made by niggers to ride in our handsome horse cars.
Friday evening a nigger woman, with - a bundle of
clothes in her arms, whether washed or unwashed,
I did not learn"(l mean the clothes), had the Impu
dence to ask our conductor. who, by the way, is a
young man of the Napoleonic type, and means a,
great deal more than he says, if she could ride on
the platform, as she was unable to carry the " wash"
any further. His prompt reply was, "N o niggers
allowed on the cars of this line !" and the very bell
struck with aclearness, and the very horses started
with an alacrity that gaie unmistakable emphasis
to the words of the order, as he said, or the prest
' dent and directors of the line. In another case it
was a nigger boy who was the growing evil (as he
' bad about a pot and half yet to grow), sitting on
. the front steps with a box under his arm and a five
cent portrait of the Father of his Country in his
angers, where an untutored driver had given the
permission, not knowing that the "evil," with ltls
parcel, was the cause of this 'cruel war, and who
was u.noonselous that his seat was too high for hint
(although bid one step from the. ground), sat quite
Contented, until the conductor of:the crowded car
deputized a white gentleman passenger, smelling of
weak rum and strong tobacco, to push him off. The
push became a kick before it reached the evil, and
the evil consequently landed in the middle of the
street. The conductor, in reply to the remonsirance
of a passenger, said it ought to be into the middle
of," nest week," ' The lid of the box that flew- off
had on It. a picture of Charles Stokes & Co.'s one
price Clothing Store; under the Continentalaotel.
I merely mention this so that any partyreceiving
a suit of clothes on Friday from that house ; some.
what soiled, may know it was owing to. ttlnz " free
soiler " being In the way of the president and direc
tors of our line. The remedy, Mr. Editors Itsuggest
is, to have two or three cars fitted - upto.carry the
president and directors, and let the remainder be
for resposfable passengers only, whether their skin is
white or black, or their hair straight or curly, for in
our car the, sympathy was wholly on.the side c f the
evil; anal not on the side of the "president and di
rector:a of the line."
Respectfully,
B2,RO,ArNS I\ (.11..oTErtre,
Ra?gains in Clothing,
Nargains In Olothing,
litarzains in Olothlngy„ •
, At Granville Stokes' 011 StanJ,
AeGranville-Stolies' Old Stand.
At:Ceram-111e Stokes' Obi Stand.
At GranvlW&fekes , Old - 50.54.
669 Chestnuo Street.
609 Chestnut Street.
609 Chestnut Street.
609 Chestnut Street.
No
No
No
No
7.. 3. Punwnra,. 7 -Tho friends of this chaste. and
elegant Hair Cutter will he' pleased to learn that
be has returned from (United States Hotel}
City, and is atthe S. E. earner Fifth and Claistaut
streets, basement.
T
treated by ane d reoit teases, Catarrh, Asthma.
succeszful treatment.
Eye -- .4lllmaludieS Of the eye attended to by Dr.
Von Itioschrisker, Oetilist
.and Aura Office lar
Walnut street. -
9 . sell`kt:
A. S. Dorman, 304 North :. , trent, 031 % 1
dealer, would respect y. advise . ri s an-1
l c
the public in, general : not to:delay int b ing to
coal, and run th e risk of poling fur t h er " I . l a.
but buy at once of his superior atook of far - 14 '
'mall stove, stove, egg, &o. None to eigL I"'
tuallty, durability, 0.2 eheapness. soli-ln
Eva
Arai E.& allot atioopeafally tmated by J.
butes, Dl v D., Doollat itudAltrist, 511 anne at. lief.
Adv. D..L.
''.1;474 bbis
12,600 bus.
"2,0k4 bur.
4,700 bus.
P'AZSTIZI 033.