C4t Vrtss THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, Mt TO THE FRIENDS OF THE SOLDIER IN EVERY couhrry. Ermoir STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE Room., No. 1105 Chestnut Street.—Our friends in every county aad dis trict in Pennsylvania should immediately, without one day's delay, send to the state Committee a correct copy of their whole ticket, giving plainly the name of each candidate for every office. All this must be done to ena ble the tickets to be prepared to send to the several regi ments of the State. County Committees should also prepare and send with the Commissions their several Vainly ticket.. or send a special agent with the Comrui.eions to carry them. FORNEY'S WAR PRESS, volt THE WEER =Mira; SATURDAY, SEPT. 24, 1854. 1. ENGRAN ING—View of the Stockades and Fortifi• cations around the Capitol. Nashville, Tennessee. A Woman's Life," by Alan Vane— 11. POETRY — " •• Union Forever" — " The Young McClellan, " a lyrical effusion Ls C.nrporal O'Griffin—" Who will pay for Batter now "" ll'. WHO PASSES UNDER MY WINDOW, WW t RUIZ. - -(Collett:Med. ) IV. EDITORIALS—What of the Night?—The Victory in the Shenandoah Valley—ls the War a Failure?— Good's Remonstrance—Old Democracy of Pennsylvania _E u ropean Stunt:nary — The Sentiment of American Uniry i a dectruetible—Criticism of the Administration, Ste. V. LETTERS OF "OCCASIONAL." vI. we?, NEL - VS.—A Splendid Victory in the She. , ande , b ey —The rebels totally routed by General Sheridan—Fait account of ,he great battle—An Import ant .Movement in Texas—The Mexican Cortinas captures E"wn,vilic —The etare and stripes hoisted, and the city held fe, the linion—Alfaira um Pet, rsburg—Pre ,,,e:,l4t;ou of medals of honor for bravery—Eesulta of the Georzi. Campaign — Account of the Capture of At =ants., Tit. THE VICE PRESIDENCY. — Congressional Re emd of Han. George IL Pendleton_ VII L 'SHE CHICAGO CONTENTION. —Appeal of the Nation,l Union Committee to the People. ..e ) DitEss 01 , GEN CARL SCHURZ. —Great Union GAthering :It Concert EfalL x . LITEBARV—Notices of New Publications—Re v few al .15e:r.ef , "Poems aid& War. XL CITY.IFTELLIG ENCE—Presentat.on of Flags . ; rtun—Speeches by General William pirney And Charles Gibbons—The Late Lista Harry Elliott- Sm. NIT. OPS IiCTELLIGENCE—God in the Na !Ma a -::tn on by Rev. James Neill. mu. GI:SENA'. NEWS—Condition of the Crops 01111,10ns of vh..Cl,l,•ago Platform—The New York .Thiliard T.-urnament &c., &c. . ciIESS PEPARTMENT—Items—An Interesting Illuadfold Playing—Problem—End Game— Ches.? Philadelphia, in England, in Germany. XV. FIN I ,CL A L L AND COMMERCIAL. la- Specimens of the "Wag PRESS" Will be for. warded when. requested. The subscription rate for sin gle copies Is +a per year. A deduction from these - terms will be allowed when clubs are formed. Single copies, pat np in wrappzrs, ready for mailing, may be obtained at the muter. Price tire cents. A Faction, not a Party. It has been observed that in most, if not ail, of the loyal papers, the political organi zation which supports the claims of Major Genoa? McCuELLAN to the Presidency is styled the "Democratic" party. Such a term. applied to such a body, is most cer tainly a misnomer. "A party," says BlinKE in his Present Discontent, is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interests, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. — (Works, vol. ii., p.Nou - , if we apply this definition to the order of politicians which stands on the Chicago platform, we shall find that in not one single particular will it bear the test. The ad herents of this so-called party are not " united ;-' for while they are all, indeed, bent upon doing injury to the Union, and are all eager for the spoils of office, they are divided and disputing among them selves as to the means by which this praise worthy object is to be attained ; very much asifa gang of burglars (if we, may be permitted to dignify the Demobratic or ganization by such a comparison), skulking around a house with an eye to the family plate, should quarrel as to whether it were better to force the front door, or sneak in by the kitchen window. No one, save in the bitterest irony, could ever assert that this body of men were en deavoring to "promote the national inter rests, — unl ,„ ror the jute or a proud nation to surrender its honor at tlia bidding of treason, or to kneel and sue for peace at the hands 'of insurgents in arms ; unless it be for the nation's interest to take away two hundred thousand fight ing men from the ranks of its armies, simply because they arc black; to loose its zrasp from the throat of a foe in which the death rattle is already heard, and to confess that the millions of money and thousands of lives which have been spent during the past four years have all been spent in a bad -cause, and have all been spent in vain. The third requisite for a party in the above definition is; that the body of men should have "some particular principle in which they are all agreed)! Has the-so called Democratic party any - fixed principle upon which even one-half of its adherents are all agreed If so, what is it I Is it the principle of the Chicago platform, - which demands peace at whatever cost ; or the principle of General McCLE.Lt.vic's letter of acceptance, which demands 'Union at whatever cost ? Is it the principle of one of its nominees, who asks to share the fate of his army • on the field of - battle, battle, or is it the principle of the other nominee, who refuses to vote a single dollar to pay a single soldier or buy a single gun I Is it the prineiple of their chief candidate - when he dictated the order for the arrest of the Legislature of a State, or is it the principle of that same candidete When he prates in placid plati tudes about liberty and constitutional rights ? What is this principle ? Where is it to be found ? "To hunt for a needle in a hay-staek" is a homely proverbial ex pression for a hopeless search, but that is an easy task compared with the attempt to find anything bright, sharp, and firm in that dull and tangled mass of rubbish, made up of treasonable platforms and the epistolary effusions of a respectable but weak-minded ex-rallroad superintendent. What term, then, shall be used to desi,m nate the Democratic organization ? We 7 would respecifully suggest that the word " faction" approaches nearer than any other to a correct expression of the charac ter and objects of that body, and that it ought to be constantly used at all times when loyal men have occasion to speak or write about their political opponents. "Na tional interests," says BOLITRIMILORE, in his Dissertation on Parties,( Works, vol. iii., p. 15, ) " would be sometimes sacrificed, and always made subservient to personal inte rests, and that is the true characteristic of a faction." As wild, be seen by the statement of a correspondent, Senator WALL, of New Jersey, declares that, in the event of the Democrats being defeated at the polls in November next, General .7AlcOnErsarr will place himself at the head of a million of men, and by virtue of military power de <-!are himself President of the United states. As Senator WALL hails from the iurte State as General MCCLELLAN, he .would know whereof he speaks. We have :ooked upon General McGLELLAN as a weak, timid, and irresolute, rather than as a disloyal and criminal man, and however h agrined he:might feel at:the disappoint ment of his high anticipations, we cannot Irelieve he would look with favor on any :cuch revolutionary scheme, notwithstand ing he has tacitly accepted a platform pledged to revolution in certain cantin g envies. But suppose the opposite case. Suppose General Meerma...xx should be uilty of the anomaly of placing himself tit the head of an army, and suppose that Any even numbered a million of men, .c. ,, es anybody suppose that unpleasant con , quencis would follow ? Does anybody :5- 11 ppose that General MCCLELLAN, with ten - 1 imes a million men, would ever accomplish Anything? Possibly he would organize - the force, throw up some earthworks, send FITZ Jon PORTER adrift in a balloon, and perhaps attempt to approach Washington parallels. Further than this it is un likely that anything very alarming would .occur, and if these things should come to pass, we may look for the denouement about die year 181:0. Tnn communication of " A Voter" should :have been sent to the Harrisburg Teielpaia. If he will refer to the paragraph in The Press, he will find that we do not speak our opinions, but those of a respected and mita :C.le eotemporary_ Abatement of City Nuisance., The ordinance which passed the. City Councils on Thursday, enumerating va rious ptthlie nuisances, and imposing pen alties in the event of their not being abated is well-intended and generally sensible and, . practical, but is capable of being im proved. Tt has sins of omission and commission, which ought to be removed, ere the Mayor's official signature gives it the validity of a local law. We shall touch on a few of these points, confident that others, with closer examination, may discover more. As to the regulation of awnings, there ought to be a provision that no awning shall be so placed as to cover the name of the street, placed upon some corner houses. Indeed, the name of a street is so seldom so placed that strangers ought not be de prived of the few opportunities thus afforded of discovering where they may be. It would also be advisable to have some cer tainly as to the names of streets. In one block, "Arch street" may he found in scribed, and in the next it is labelled "Mulberry street." So Sansom street and George street are one and the same. The prohibition of using handbarrows, wheelbarrows, or handcarts upon the paved footways of the city, except before certain hours in the morning, ought to be accepted as a special compliment by the fair sex, whose fine clothes, expanded as they are by crinoline, balmorals, and odious hoops, are not much improved by Coming in Con tact with these vehicles. There is a very special order against suffer ing or permitting snow to remain "more than six working hours after the same may cease to fall;" that is, to remain "on any paved footway or gutter of the city, in front of or adjoining any church, public building, house, store, shop, stable, or tene ment of any kind, or the adjoining side yard thereof, or vacant lots." The occupier, or the owner, if unoccupied, of such premises, shall be liable to be fined for neglect in re moving such snow. Very good—but, though the Mayor should sign twenty such city ordinances, this section will scarcely be effective. The Mayor, certain other city officials, and some of the judges (who preside in the law courts), are the occupiers of the State House, and, not within the me mory of that venerable myth, " the oldest inhabitant," has the snow been removed from the front of the State House, which in cludes the portion occupied by the Mayor's own office. Moreover, the footpaths sur rounding the remainder of the block called Independence Square never have the snow removed from them, and the footpaths sur rounding Washington, Logan, Franklin, Rittenhouse, and other squares are equally neglected, when the snow falls. What is sauce for goose, the old proverb says, ought to be sauce for gander, and it is manifestly unfair to fine private occupiers or owners of property for not keeping their foot paths and gutters free from snow, when city property is allowed to remain uncleared, until the rain or the sun shine melts or thaws it, and when' even the portion occupied by the Mayor himself is sometimes snow-covered for weeks, be cause no policeman has the boldness to do his duty and summon the said Mayor be fore a magNivate, to be fined as " occupier," for not having the footpaths before his office kept dear of snow. The 14th suasion declares it punishable "to place or suffer to remain, on Sunday, any goods, wares, or merchandise, or any cask, barrel, or other thing, capable of con taining the same, on any footwaY or high way of the city." Surely, this prohibition should be extended to allowing casks, boxes, barrels, &c., to remain on the footpaths at any time. It takes not long to haul in or to wheel out such articles, but we find thete, standing for A7l the foot-paths of some of our principal streets—especially Market, Se cond, Third, and Front streets—in the way of pedestrians, and, every now and then, damaging wearing apparel by aid of projecting nails. Sections 17 and 18 do not fully cover the case. The 10th section declares it unlawful "To fly any kite in any of the highways or, public squares in the city." The City Councils are probably not ignorant that a great deal of kik-flying is of daily occur rence in some of our highways—especially between the hours of 10 and .1, in Third street, and in Walnut street, between Second and Fourth_ No prohibition, we suspect, will abolish that. Several sections are very properly de voted to obtain the cessation of the danger ous and absurd, as well as childish, practice of having fireworks, gun and pistol shoot ing, and so on, within the city limits on any occasion or pretence. It will be very difficult, but not impossible, if the police do their duty, and are sustained in doing it by the authorities, to break down the evil habit of celebrating Washington's Birth day and the glorious Fourth of July in this ißery manner. It ought to be done, how ever. The ordinance, though imperfect, is well meant. Some obvious evils, which may be easily dealt with, are left unnoticed. Titre ought to be provisions that the passenger railiVay companies should keep their rails on an even level with the causeway; that, in winter, they should - keep the .s.treet-ero:scs - swept. clear at their own proper charge, and that the use of salt as a snow-dissolver, should be prohibited. The nuisance of pavement washing, at unseasonable hours, Fliould have been dealt with in thir- ordi- nonce. After years of remonstrance, re proach, and request, from THE PRESS ("alone we did it !") Mayor Iluxox ordered that, during the five summer months of the year, May to October, there should be no pavement washing. This regulation was en- forced, but in the remaining seven months, October to April, both inclusive, the Biddies and the darkies indulge in the dirty cleanliness of inundating the pave ments with water, at all hours—kindly pre ferring from 11 to 12 in the forenoon, when the streets are most thronged. We have counted, in that hour, with a hard frost setting in, thirty-two distinct cases of pavement-flooding and pavement-scrubbing in the three blocks in Spruce street, between Fourteenth and Seventeenth streets. It was painful to see thinly-shod women, alike the fashionable lady and the humble semp tress, compelled, every twenty or thirty paces, to step off the footpath into the pud dle(' highway—preferred to be dirtied by mud to being soaked in water. We earn estly entreat the Mayor to make some cor- restive provision for pavement-washing during the seven months which his present regulation leaves wholly uncared for. The ordinance on street nuisances, though not perfect, is a step in advance, and should be gratefully accepted as an instalment. The remainder will be wel comed whenever the Collective Wisdom of. our municipal Parliament shall have brought its great sagacity and wondrous industry to frame it. A COPPERHEAD NEWSPAPER raises the poor little story that President LINCOLN draws his salary in gold. As a matter of information to the unsophisticated, we will answer this petty falsehood. President LINCOLN draws the money due him for his unparalleled labors in the most trying pe riod of our history in the currency of the country. What is more, he has the whole of his fortune, the greater part of which is his salary as President of the United States, invested in the national credit. It has been his habit to leave one year's salary undrawn from the treasury. Will our Copperhead potemporaries bear this in mind, and re member that the little MCCLELLAN is draw ing his salary as a Major General without drawing a sword or even handling a pen in behalf of the country and the Govern ment which has given him precocious and undeserved honor. Tam Union citizens of Lycoming, Union, and Snyder counties have nominated for the State Senate Mr. OnAuLns ii. SIERINER, a gentleman of unswerving loyalty, ability, and integrity. The nomination is generally acceptable, and should be ratified at the polls in October next with a handsome ma jority. LET US illage Cr.or.r.AN by his friends. Ile has no more ardent and gifted admirer than Mr. FERNANDO Wool). That gentle man, in the course of a recent speech in his. fhvor, says : "The Chicago Convention's nominee and Its plat form were apparently inconsistent with each other ; and yet, for paramount reasons connected with suc cess, it deemed such a contradictory position re concilable with good policy." "Therefore, haying none ether toimte for but the man thus selected, and, having been a party to the snort to select some other person, I am precluded from opposition to him. Besides, if elected, I ant satis d ied he will entertain the views and execute the principles of the great party he will represent, without regard, to those he may hi2nself possess. He will then be our agent, the creature of our voice." i. Mr. WOOD frankly confesses that the whole Chicago. business is a swindle. He places it iu a way that would do credit to that eminent scamp, Mr. AUGUSTUS Tom- LINSON. Unlike some of our conscience stricken Copperheads at home, he does not make any lame and whimsical apology for MCCIMLAN and his platform. He admits the scheme is a swindle, and frankly avows swindling purposes. "For paramount reasons connected - with success," the.schcme is arranged. " For these paramount rea sons," which we all - understand to mean plunder, office, power—bread and meat for hungry men—Mr. WOOD is willing to as sume a contradictory position. In other words, we will elect 3.IcOLELLAA . by false pretences, if it cannot be done fairly. IL Mr. WOOD assures us that the swindle will not fail from any misunderstanding. He tells. he is satisfied MeOLF.LLAN will not allow his own opinions to prevent his adopting the policy of the Peace cowards. "I am satisfied," says Mr. WOOD. He has no doubt, no misapprehension, no fear of betrayal. WC - LELIA - is will do what these men desire without regard to the opinions "he may himself possess." 111. Still further to illustrate what MC CLELLAN will do to satisfy WOOD and the Peace cowards, we may recall Mr. Woon's effort to induce New York to secede from the Union, and his protest against the action of the Governor, of, New York pre venting the shipment of arms to the rebels in Georgia. As a further evidence of what the hero of the Chickahominy may be ex pected to do with a reluctant Congress, we may recall Mr. Woon's declaration that the Congress of 1862 should be dismissed ; that it was "to be done as OLIVER CROM WELL sent home the Rump Parliament, by Walking into Parliament and scattering it to the winds." Mr. Woon is satisfied ; but does the na Lion partake of his satisfaction ? TEE following sentence occurs in General 31 - cCLELLArt's letter of acceptance, follow ing an exordium upon the many beneficent advantSges of conducting the war upon the kid-dove principle : " Thus conducted, the work of reconciliation would have been easy, and we might have reaped the benefits of our many victories on land and sea." That is to say, we have not reaped the benefits of our victories, and the war is, consequently, a failure. - Y et, in the same letter, E eneral 11IcCLELLA:x has the ef frontery to say : " I could not look in the face of my gallant comrades of the army and navy, who have survived so many bloody battles, and tell them that their lithors and the sacrifice of so many of our slain and sonzoided brethren had been in THE NEW Yoni Tnanown makes this public and prominent announcement of JOHN C. FREMONT'S intention to retire from the Presidential canvass : 66 There have been many rumors of late that Gen. John O. Fremont intended to withdraw his name as a Presidential candidate. We are happy to be able to state, on authority which we do not question, that this is. true. A letter from him to that effect is to be published within a day or two. Of the cha racter of the letter itself we know nothing, but we do knew something of • the character of the man, and believing him to have been governed always by the highest motives, to have had at heart always the good of his country, to have been uninfluenced by any selfish feeling or any partisan purpose, we do not doubt that he withdraws his name from the canvass because he holds that men, in this great struggle, are nothing and principle everything; that true masnanimity, true dignity, and true patriotism demand of every lover of his country that all personal predilections, and even private judgment : should be sacrificed where the salvation of the country itself is in question." TEE Rev. Dr. BRECKINRIDGE, one of those saintly gentlemen whom devotion to the Union is only surpassed by their de votion to God, thus gives his views of the peace MCCLELLAN would bring : "We love peaCti—lOYo it for its own sake. They love peace because they are afraid we will first whip the rebels and then punish them. They want peace that they may makenew conspiracies, and the peace they propose is disunion peace, which means sepa ration of the States and endless ruin to the whole country. Ten thousand times better would it have been for us to have acquiesced at first, and never shed a drop of blood, than under these circum stances and at this time to make such a peace as that." GENEEAL MCCLELLAN is now engaged in an electioneering tour. He was last heard from at Newark, N. J., where his friends gave him an " immense ovation." The Democratic clubs received him, and a Democratic politician made him a guest. Drawing the salari of a major general for parading around with political clubs is a profitable and cheap occupation. This is, perhaps, what the ork? would call one of the " iniquities of the Administration." Trim London TIMM 15 the most malig nant enemy of America in Europe. It denounces our cause and has sent men like MACKAY _hither to misrepresent and belie us. It bus mailed our honor and endea vored to depreciate our securities. It has covered with ridicule every public man, and has found no means too ignoble or unjust to aid its policy. The London Timm is eloquently in favcir of MCCLELLAN. Is it not fair to judge a man by his friendships f, Tilt Boston Herald, a leading jourkal of New Engla,nd, and among the most earnest supporters of DouGLAs in 1860, denounces the Chicago platform, and says : " The success of the Chicago ticket would be but the beginning of a series of disasters which would come upon us, too horrible to contemplate. Forour selves, we support no such doctrines and no such ticket as that made and put forth at Chicago, and which we believe will be repudiated by the people at the polls," WE occasionally find charming bits of reading In some of the Copperhead speeches. This extract is from a speech made in Washington on Saturday evening, by a Copperhead orator : In the President's grounds they have negro pic nics. A lot of pleasant young negro women are there. They have swings, and Old Abe goes out and swings them. lam for peace, and lam for.the Oew etitution and the Union. When we get in power Clod will take care of the negro and we will take care of the white man." We presume that as long as people can be found ignorant enough to listen to such trash men will be found base enough to repeat it. WASHINGTON. Mr 4.6111110T0A, Sept. 21 3 UG-i, A SALUTE FOR SHERIDAN A national salute of 100 guns was fired to-day, by order of General Law. WALLios, from Fort Fede ral /1111, in ttoiaor of SuunzAaw's victQrar 9 4 4h9 Opequan. (MANORS IN NAVAL COMMANDS _ . . Commodore THEODOR:US BAIL; has been ordered to the command of the Portsmouth Navy Yard, in place of Commodore GEORGE P. Picaroson, who is ordered to the command Or the PO.OIIIO squadron. Commodore C. K. STRIBLING Is relieved from the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and ordered to the com mand of the East Gulf squadron. The report has been widely circulated that Admi ral rOATBIL Is now en route to the Mississippi squadron, to deliver it up to another officer, that he will take command of the special West India squad ron, and that his flag•ship will be the Vanderbilt, etc. On inquiry it is ascertained there is no truth in any part of the above statement, and besides, there is no " special squadron" in the West Indies. REBEL HOPES AND ASSUMPTIONS The Griffin (Ga.) Rebel, a copy of which has been received here, is gratified at its assumed informa tion that tie Northern draft had been abandoned, and says " The pretence that volunteering is going on to an extent which renders the draft un necessary le thrown out for the benefit of the fanatics who demand a vigorous prosecution of the war." The Rebel believes " a few short weeks more of determined, heroic resistance will settle this campaign, and time will do the rest." RRWARD FOR THE FIRST UNION FLAG - BEARER IN nrclimAnip, A citizen of Washington having contributed 4100 as a reward to the first man of our army who will unfurl the stars and stripes in the city of Riolunond, the money has been sent to Lieutenant General GRANT for that purport, THE LOAN SUBSCRIPTION'S The subscriptions to the seven-thirty loan for the last two days have been $1,020,000, and to the tea forty loan r1,71,0t0. PRESS.-PHILADELPIETA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1864: Prom all I can learn, the prisoners will approxi mate 1,000. The indications are that the rebels will not make a stand short of Staunton. They are evidently too much demoralized to makeenother fight. Joan D. STEVBXSON, Brig. Gen. General Grant transmits the following extract from the Richmond Sentinel of yesterday: " A slight ripple of excitement was produced here yesterday by the report that a Yankee raiding party was aaVatleilit 011 Gordonsville, and were within a few miles of that place. The result of all our inquiries on this head is that this report origi nated in the fact that early yesterday a party of Yankee raiders, whose'numbor is not known, visited Rapidan bridge, and, after destroying it, proceeded to Liberty Mills live or six miles above, which they also destroyed. From this latter place they are be lieved to have gone back to Culpeper." The operation alluded to by the Richmond Nadi. ner was by a force sent out previous to the battle of Monday. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War. SHERIDAN'S PRISONERS OVER RIVE THOUSAND. WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 1.---Information received by the Government up to noon to-day makes it cer tain that Sheridan has secured 5,000 prisoners, and that every hour more are being sent to the rear. OUR CAVALRY PICKING UP REBEL STRAGGLERS— THE COMMUNICATIONS WITH WHEELING. WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—Reports just received from Sharlditnig army state that our cavalry is continually picking up rebel stragglers, largely swelling the number of prisoners. The railroad and telegraph to Wheeling will be opened in two days. ply of General Sherman to General Hood's charge of studied and ungenerous cruelty," and which was received in 'Washington today HEADQUARTERS MILITARY D/FISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, IN THE FIELD, ATLANTA, GA., Sept. 10, 1804. General J. B. Hood, Commanding Army of the Ten nessee, Confederate Army GENBRAL : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, of this date, at the hands of Messrs. Ball and Crew, consenting to the arrange ments I had proposed to facilitate the removal South of the people of Atlanta, who prefer to go in that direction. I enclose you a copy Of my orders, which will, I am satisfied, accomplish mypurpose perfectly. You style the measures proposed " unprecedented," and appeal to the dark history of war for a parallel, as an act of "studied and ungenerous cruelty." It is not unprecedented, for Gen. Johnston himself very wisely and properly removed the families all the way from Dalton down, and I see no reason why Atlanta should be excepted. Nor Is It necessary to appeal to the "dark history or war, when resent and modern examples are so handy. You yourself burned dwelling.houses along your: parapet, and I saw to-day fifty houses that you have rendered un inhabitable because they stood in the way of your forts and men. You defended Atlanta on a line so close to the town that every cannon-shot and many muslcet, shots from our line of investment, that over shot their mark, went into the habitations of women and children. General Hardee did the same at Jonesboro, and General Johnston did the same last summer at Jackson, Miss. I have not seemed them of heartless cruelty, but merely instance these cases of very recent occurrence, and could go on and enumerate hundreds of others, and challenge any fair man to judge which of us has the heart of pity for the families of a "brave people." I say it is kindness to the families of Atlanta to remove them now at once from scenes that women and children should not be exposed to, and the "brave people " should scorn to commit their wives and children to the rude barbarians who thus, as you say, violate the laws of war, as illustrated in the pages of its " dark history." In the name of common sense. I ask you not to appeal to a just God in such a sacrilegious manner. You who, in the midst of peace and prosperity, have plunged a nation into war, 4, de.rk and cruel war ;" who dared and badgered us to battle; in sulted our flag; seized our arsenals and forts that were left in the honorable custody of a peaceful ord nance sergeant; seized and made prisoners of war the very garrisons sent to protect your people against negroes and Indians, long before any overt act was committed by the (to you) hateful Lincoln Government ; tried to force Kentucky and Missouri into rebellion despite of themselves ; falsified the vote of Louisiana; turned loose your privateers to plunder unarmed ships; expelled Union families by the thousands ; burned their homes, and declared, by an act of your Congress, the confiscation of all debts due to Northern men for goods had and received I Talk this to the ma rines, but not to me, who have seen these things, and who will this day make as great sacrifice for the peace and honor of the South as the best Southerner among you. If we must be enemies, let us be men, and fight it out as we propose today, and not deal in such hypocritical appeals to God and humanity. God will judge us in due time, and he will pronounce whether it be more humane to fight with a town full of women and the families of a brave people• at our book, or to remove them in time to places of safety among their own friends and people. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. T. SHERMAN, Major General Commanding. Uncial copy: L. M. DAYTON. Aid-de-OaoMP. FIGHT WITH PART OP SHIMMY'S COMMAND^ PRICE'S ARMY. AT POCAHONTAS, ARK.-.SHELBY REPORTRD AT POWHATAN, ARE., ON THE 12TH, - MTH A LARGE FORCE. ST. Loris, Sept. 21.—Despatches to headquarters announce a fight on the 19th inst., at Powder Mills, on Little Rock river, in Southeast Missouri, be tween detachments of the ad Missouri militia, under Lieutenant, Pope, and a pottion or Shelby's com mand. Our loss was twenty killed and wounded. The rebel loss is unknown. Wounded prisoners report that Price has his whole army at Pocahontas, Arkansas. One thou sand robals are reported at Chalk Pluff, and four hundred at - Kennet, preparing for an attack on Bloomfield, in Stoddart county. Shelby le reported to have been at Powhatan, Arkansas, on the 12th, with 4,000 to 8,000 men. OFFICIAL REPORT OF GENERAL SULLY -TEE BAT TLE ON TEE LITTLE IVISSOURI---OVER 6,000 DIANS PUT TO FLIGHT. General Sully's official report of the battle at " Tab.Kah-O-Kuty Mountain," situated on the Lit tle Missouri, has been received in Washington. Thera were at least five or six: thousand Indian war_ riors, while Sully's entire force numbered on the held about 2,200 men of all firms of the Pcrylce. The country is intersected by deep ravines filled with limber, of which the savages took advantage, bat by the skilful manmuvres of our officers they were driven in a circle of about three mites to the base of the mountains, beyond the line of fiiiirMieherS, and many of them killed. 7he Indians fought with skill and extraordinary desperation, but were finally put to Alight. By sunset none were on the ground, and our trvops that night slept on the battle•tlold. Successful opera Mons against the Indians were Foto equently made, whose vast quantities of goods, left In the timber and ravines, were destroyed. Early in August sully marched towards the Yet- THE WAR, SHERIDAN'S GREAT VICTORY Me Enemy Demoralized and in Flight THE UNION FORCES IN PURSUIT SEVEN REBEL GENERALS KILLED AND WOUNDED ON.. MONDAY. FIVE THOVELLND PRISONEILS TAKEN A UNION RAM REAR OORDONSVILLE GENERAL SHERMAN'S LETTER TO HOOD A SCORCHING REPLY TO THE REBEL GENERAL'S CHARGES. Oren. Sherman's Recent Orders Vindicated A FIGHT IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI MOVEMENTS OF PRICE AND SHELIVI IN ARKANSAS. THE INDIAN WAR IN THE NORTHWEST CEN. SULLY'S OFFICIAL REPORT Over Five Thousand Indians Routed OFFICIAL GAZETTE. CONTINUED. PURSUIT OF THE ENEMY DT sHRDI DAN—SEVEN REBEL ORNBRALS KILLED AND WOUNDED—.A. UNION RAID TOWARD OORDONS. WASHINGTON, Sept. 21-lom A. Ai This Department has just received the following despatch announcing the continued pursuit of the rebels by General Sheridan : Cedar Creek, where Sheridan was crossing at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, is a short distance this side of Strasburg, He had pursued the rebels over thirty miles from the point where he attacked them at daylight on Monday : HARPER'S FREE; Sept. 21, 186.1 lion. Edwin 111. Stanton, Secretary of War: Reliable news from the front has been received. Our army was crossing Cedar Creek yesterday at 3 o'clock P. M. There has been no fighting The following fist erne rebel generals killed and wounded is correct: Generals Rhodes, Ramseur, Gordon, Terry, Goodwin, Bradley Johnson, and Fitz Lee. THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY. TILE WAIL IN fiEOlNfitlii. WASHINGTON, Sept. IL—The following is the re- MISSOURI AND ARKANSAS. THE INDIAN 'WAR. low Stone. expecting to again overtake the enemy on his way. THE BERET BEFORE PETEROBURIEL ALL QUIET POI: THE LAST THREE DAYS WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—The information from the Army of the Potomac is that nothing of import ance has occurred within the past three days. The expeeted attack of the enemy on Monday dia not take place, although from indications it was believ ed the rebels seriously meditated an assault. Scarce ly a Shot has been heard along the lines for twenty. four hours. A number of deserters come in every day, but bring no news. lIABRISHURG. SITROICO2 . OI D.E.9. PATCHED TO TiliC VALLBT TO AT TEND TO 'WOUNDED PIO24NRYLVANIANS. HA unrest:ECG, Sept. 21.—Surgeon General PhillipS, with a corps of volunteer surgeons, by a special order of Governor Curtin, has been despatched to the Shenandoah Valley to look after the PennEYl - wounded in the late brilliant actions in that quarter. SALUTES FOR BIIRRIDAN'S VICTORY. A salute of one hundred guns was tired from Fort Washington, and by special order of the Governor the same number from the Capitol to-day, in honor of General Suerhian's recent victory in the Shenan doah Valley. THE LAKE ERIE PIRATES. CAPTURE OF THE FRINCIFAL AND A NUMBER OF ACCOMPLICES-THE OBJECT OF THE RAID. Commander Carter, of the U. S. steamer Mold gan, has telegiapned to Secretary - Welles, dated nif Johnson's Island, to-day, concerning the capture by pirates of the steamers Parsons and Island Queen. He says they were pursued by him, and that he has .got the principal agent a prisoner on board and many of his accomplices. He adds that all is well and safe at present, and that the object oft he pirates was to capture the Michigan. It further appears that Colonel Hall has six of the pirates on Johnson's TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT. COLLISION ON THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD TWO CARS DESTROYED BY FIRE The Doors Locked. and the Passengers Imprisoned r7rMIMMMMMTNTrII77!M PROTEST OF THE SURVIVORS [Special Despatch to The Press. ] Heisurenuno, Sept. 21.—A frightful accident oc curred on the Pennsylvania Railroad at halt past four o'clock this morning. As the train which left Pittsburg at 8.35 P. M. for this place arrived near Thompsontown, which is about thirty-eight miles beyond here, it collided with a coal train which was standing upon the same trash. The consequenees were terrible. The locomotive was thrown off the track and utterly demolished, the tender was shat. tered into fragments, and the baggage car was jammed into the first passenger car, and afterwards run up upon its roof. It is supposed that Several persons were crushed to death by this, but the sub sequent burning of the car leaves this in doubt. The morning being quite cold, about half an hour before a fire had been kindled in the first car. The stove was instantly upset by the collision, and the hot coals spreading over the floor of the ear, the flames burst up and soon enveloped it. Frantic ef forts were made by the passengers to escape. They rushed to the doors but found them locked. The key was probably in the pocket of the conductor, who was on this car, and who must have been killed instantly. Many of the passengers were stupefied at theimminency of the danger, and made but feeble efforts to escape. Some endeavored to get out of the windows, but this was difficult, and in some cases impossible. Some, after having thrust their head and shoulders through the win doses, were unable to get further, and found a slow and torturing death from the flames. Others had their limbs broken while getting out. By con tinued efforts, to which was lent all the desperation of dying men, the doors' of the car Were then finally kicked open, and a few escaped through. It is thought that not more than twenty, if that many, escaped from this car. Probably more than thirty were crushed or burned to death ; but in most Cases their bodies are utterly consumed, and it will be some time before their number and names can be ascertained. The car was burned to cinders. Of the conductor nothing could be found, except his ticket punch, His name was John Dlallison. - He is believed to have lived in Middletown. A sergeant of one of our returned regiments was in this car, and succeeded in getting his head and ShOttldere Out of a %endear, hut meld get no further. Every effort was made to extricate him from his fearful position, but in vain, and the heat of the fire finally driving away those who were trying to help him, the poor soldier was left to perish. When the car was so much burned that it - fell to pieces, a head and arm rolled out, which, are supposed to have been those of this unfortunate man. A lad of is years, from Johnstown, who had re. cently enlisted, had his leg broken and his head cut. Some of the bereavements suffered are terrible. One woman lost three children, who were burned in this car. Her aunt was also burned. One poor boy, who was badly injured himself, lost his father in the flames. Many parents lost their children, and their agony exceeds the power of words to picture. The second car caught fire from the first, but from this, although the doors were also locked, I believe all the passengers escaped with their lives, but some of them were badly burned before being rescued, Two died after they were taken out. One was a woman• A man had his legs completely burned otf. This car, like the first, was burned to cinders. The other cars (four in number) were saved by the passengers, who uncoupled them and pushed them back out of danger. Bad there been axes on the train manymore lives would doubtless have been saved. As it was, there were but three or four to be procured, and these were not obtained immediately upon the occurrence of the accident, when they would have been of the most use. The engineer of the train, by some miraculous chance, escaped. Some of the wounded were taken to the Thompsontown station, and others were distributed among a few houses in the vicinity. Two army surgeons were fortunately upon the part of the train which was uninjured, and they, with a physician residing near by, rendered most efficient assistance to the unfortunate passim• gers. Other physicians were sent from here. The coal train, the stoppage of which caused the acci dent, was bound in the same direction, but had stopped beyond its usual time, and had Only par tially observed the precaution usual on such cars. It is customary to place a man upon the track with a light at a sufficient distance from the waiting train t o give the coming one timely warning of the dan ger. In the present case the man who was stationed to give the warning was only about fifty yards from his train, and the morning being very dark and fog gy the light was not seen till too late. The engineer reversed the engine, but the collision Could not be prevented. The fault seems to rest entirely with the parties in charge of the coal train. The train which left Philadelphia at 10.30 on Tues day night arrived at the scene of the accident short ly after its occurrence. The Conductor of this train Was very energetic in giving - , assistance, and is high ly spoken of by the passengers. A train of wreckers arrived at Thompsontown Station from here a little before ten A. M., and by two o'clock, by very active labor, the laborers had succeeded In clearing the road of all obstructions, and had put it In work ing order. Some of the cross ties were burned and had to be replaced with new ones. One rail was broken in two, and others were so bent as to be ran. dered useless. Many of the wounded arrived here on their way to different places this afternoon, even those dangerously hurt preferring the inconveni ence of a journey to remaining among stranger& PEOTEST OF TEE SIMVIVOrtS. The survivors, to the number of eighty-six, sub scribed to the following statement : " THOMPSONTOWN, Pa., Sept. 21. " We, the passengers whose names are affixed here, protest at having the doors locked on the Pennsylvania Central Railroad, or any other. In the great accident this morning many lives might have h gen saved had the doom been unlocked. This we know to be true. We ask, for humanity's sake, that all railroads forever after see that the doors are kept unlocked. We think it due to the public to publish this, our protest, and withhold our patronage from all roads that keep their doors locked while in temsalt." Signed, Joseph Stibson, M. D., Indiana; Allan Ray, New York; John Rementer, Philadelphia; C. Stone, California ; A. F. Brooks, Pennsylvania ; C. Trask, Massachusetts, and eighty.two others. dienTrilert .I.OOOIIIM. The fallowing statement we received from a gen tleman passenger who was on the second passenger car, and who reached the city last evening : The train started from Pittsburg at about half past eight o'clock on Tuesday evening, end proceeded without interruption until about half past lour o'clock yesterday morning, when the engine, having whistled for down brakes, almost - directly thereafter a collision occurred. The greatest excitement prevailed among the passengers. The car had come suddenly to a halt, and the passengers wore thrown from their seats, and many of them were considera bly injured by the concussion. A rush was made for the doors of the car, which were found to bo locked, The blase from the burning baggage car was very bright and alarming, and every exertion was made by the passengers to get out. The windows were found quite difficult means of exit, and many of the passengers were Seriously injured by felling out of the windows on their hands. Two of the passenger oars took fire, and the screams from those within were alarming• and terrible. The calamity from its commence ment to its conclusion was but of about thirty ml nuteS duration, but vne who has never been in a situation equally dangerous can imagine how long thirty minutes under such circumstances appear. The lujered were properly cared for. The rub bish was removed 55 Senn as pog.3lble, and the bodies of two men ;one a soldier! and three children, who had been burned to death, were removed. All the baggage, in the baggage-car was destroyed. The accident was caused by a collision with a coal train going in the same direction In which the passenger train was moving. The hind part of the coal car which was struck was knocked Into atoms, and as may be imagined, little was left of it. Many of the passengers were asleep at the time of the occur rence, and their feelings upon awaking to the mise ry which surrounded them can be imagined. They cannot be described. A train was sent from Harris burg which brought the passengers to this city yesterday afternoon. Our informant is un certain as to the number killed and wounded. The engineer escaped uninjured. The conductor or the train was killed. The blame, so far as our in formant could judge, rests entirely upon the persons in charge of the coal train. ANOTRER ACCOUNT HAnnisnuno, Sept. 21 —The fast line east on the Pennsylvania Railroad, due here at six o'clock this morning, ran Into the rear end of a freight train ganging on the track at Tlionspsontown Station, Juniata county, which resulted in the death of six and the wounding of thirteen of the passengers and attaches of the train. The morning was excessive ly foggy, which prevented the endneer of the pas senger train from seeing the danger, and he only re ceived the signal when it was too late to avoid the collision. Efforts, however, to do so were made, and the velocity of the train was considerably di minished ere the fatal contact. The imputative of the passenger train and two of the freight cars were thrown front the track and perfectly demolished, The tank of the locomotive remained on the track, while the baggage and three passenger cars were wrecked, and immediately caught tire and were con sumed. It is supposed that at least six persons, including the conductor and brakesman, perished in the flames, being unable to extricate themselves from the wreck. Immediately after the disaster became known here, the Superintendent, S. D. Young, Esq., left for the scene in a special train, accompanied by Drs. Rutherford and Martin, with all the necessary arti cles for the relief of the suffering. Physicians were also in attendance from Thompsontown and Mifflin. The wrecked trains wero promptly re moved from the track and the trains are again run ning on their usual time. The following is a list of the killed ; John Malli son, conductor of the fast line ; L. Imbrie, brakes man of the fast line. The names of the remaining four are unknown. The wounded are Solomon Brooks, mall agent, of Mifflin, Pa., internally injured. Wm. Noterstine, of Johnstown, Juniata. Co., leg broken ; Catherine Sternden, Indianapolis, scalp wound ; G. H. Abbott, Chillicothe, Ohio, shoulder blade injured ; Wm. Jones, Downing town, leg broken ; Temple Jones, of Downing town, leg broken John Purpos, of Philadel phia, leg broken and shoulder bruised ; John Bruch, of St. Clair, Schuylkill Co., leg broken ; E. M. Williams, of Baltimore, arm broken; Jones Henry, of Milford township, Cumberland county, Pa., bruised in abdomen ; Lehman Goldsmith, of Philadelphia, leg broken ; Wm. Newmyer, of Alle gheny City, injured internally; John Haveland, of Cannonsburg, Pa , Injured Internally. The wounded have all been forwarded to their pima of residence excepting Mr. Abbott, who re- Mine at Thompsontown. The remains of the killed have been placed in re spectable coffins, and will either be Interred by the Company or held to await the orders of relatives. EUROPE_ Arrival of the Persia—Semmes Re ported in Command of a New Steamer —Order Relating to _Belligerent Vet- Nels—Dlflleolties in the Danish Qaes• tion—Rnmored Austrian Recognition of Italy and Greece—The Georgia Case. NEW Your:, Sept. 21-3 P. M.—The royal mail steamer Persia has arrived from Liverpool with dates of the 10th inst., via queenstown on the 11th. THE GEORGIA CASE. The British Goyernment has declined to inter fere in the case of the pirate Georgia. THE DAMAFICIIs DISABLED. The steamer Dammam, from Liverpool, on the let inst., put back to Mobile disabled. SEMMES REPORTED IN COMMAND OF A NEW STEAMER. The - agent of Lloyd's gives a report of a large and swift steamer having, arrived at Bremerhaven, which hoisted the Confederate flag. She carries 300 men, and is pierced for 40 guns, and Is said to be commanded by Semmes. ORDER PROHIBITING SALE OF AMERICAN WAR VESSELS. The London Gazette announces the Queen's order that no war ships of either of the North American belligerents will in future be allowed to enter or remain in any British port for the purpose of being dismantled or sold. The Telegraph says the order supplies an omission in previous notices, which did not prohibit them from entering, being dismantled ; and sold. THE DANISH QUESTION. The Vienna journals admit that difficulties have arisen in the negotiations with Denmark, and say that France, England, and Russia are acting in concert, with the sole object of saving North Schles wig to Denmark, and to effect a reunion of the Duchies to Denmark. The official Prussian Gazette says the Prussians have reimbursed the Jutlanders for war contribu tions levied. Denmark ha= resumed the management of the post offices In Jutland, ItErOnTisn RECOGNITION OT ITALY AND GRIMM BY AUSTRIA. The Independance Beige attaches belief to the re port that Austria is about to recognize the Kingdom of Italy. It Is also reported that she would recog nize the lilngdom of Greece, SPANISH MINISTER TO MEXICO. The Queen of Spain has appointedthe Marquis di Rivera Minister to the Mexican Court. THE SWISS QUESTION. The Canton of Lucerne has decided upon con testing the competermy of the Swiss Federal Cle. vernment to conclude a treaty of commerce with France. [Latest by Telegraph. THE PIRATE GEORGIA LIVERPOOL, Sept. 10, P.M. Earl Russell's letter concerning the pirate Georgia is as follows : FOREIGN OFFICE, Sept. 9, 1864. Sin lam directed by Earl Russell to inform you with reference to your letter of the 27th ult., that her Majesty's Government are of the opinion that the ease of the Georgia must go before the prize Court in the - United States, and that you must be prepared to defend your interest therein. I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, H. 1 - IA.MATOND. EDWARD BATES, EsO., Liverpool. There is no important news to-day. Consols advanced and closed firm at an improve. in ant. Urosimy & Co., railroad contractors, have failed ; liabilities £OO,OOO to £1(0,000. The assets depend upon the satisfactory management of large works in south America and other places. The Paris Bourse was steady to.day. Rentee Closed at &ILO. The steamer Asia, from Boston, arrived at Queenstown on the llth. Commercial Intelligence. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.—LivEnPoOL, Sept. 10 —Market qniet and unchanged for American, but irregular and Hat for other lands. Sales to-day 3,000 bales, including 2,660 to ppeculators and expertmy. LIVERPOOL BREADSTUFFS MARKET. —Breadstutre dull and declining. Flour very dull and easier. Wheat inactive andtlecli nod 2d; white Southern, 7s 10d@Se 3d; winter red, 8s &WIN 3d. Corn quiet, and Partially de clined 6d: mixed Corn, 29e. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET. —Provisions dull and declining. Beef flats Fork dull. Bank ad varelng. LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET. —Lard dull and declined l®Es. Tallow—sales unimportant. Sugar very dull and nominal. Coffee quiet and steady. Rice Hat. Linseed quiet and easier. Linseed Oil quiet at 37e. Linseed Cab es easier. Cod Oil—no sales. Common Rosin steady, Spittle Turpeuliee — eeles small at 67s@, 68A for French. Relined Petroleum- Zsgis Zd crude nominal. LONDON MARKET. — Breadstuffs quiet and steady. Iron steady. Sugar flat and declining, 6deis. Coffee easier. Tea easier. Rice steady. Tallow very dull and easier. Linseed Cakes quiet and steady. Linseed Oil 55s 6d. Spirits Turpentine quiet at 70s for French. Cod oil, no sales. Petroleum quiet and steady; refined Os Id ; crude 17e. .aIdEEICAN SECURITIES.—IIIinois Central shares, 44 @43 II cent. discount: Erie, 43.@455. NACRE COTTON MARKET. Sept. 9. —Sales for the week, 6,000 bales; the market declining and lower. N. Orleans tree ordinaire. 153 francs; do. bee, 346 francs. Stock in port, 61,000 bales. TO. .P. hi. —Consola closed at 57310 E=Lfil - Pin's, Sept P.—Bourse steady; rentes closed at 671'. The Bank of France has advanced the rate to seven IA cent. WEST MIEN AND SOUTH AMERICA. Affairs in St. Domingo—A Rebel Steamer Chased by an American Cruiser. NEW Tors, Sept. 21.—The steamer Eagle has arrived from Havana with advices of the lith inst. St. Domingo advices state that the Spanish troops had been withdrawn from Porto Plata to Monte Christi. Venezuela advices report all quiet there, and that the sold mines were yielding largely. The rebel steamer Denbigh arrived at Havana on the 10th inst. from Galveston, and the Susanna from Houston. The latter had only 73 out of 300 bales of cotton, having thrown overboard 200 bales to maps an American cruiser. The steamer Honeysuckle, from Key West, re. ports the arrival there of the captured steamer Matagorda, with COO bales of cotton, while on her way friim Galveston for Havana. ./Skil unknown coal-laden American ship, aban doned, wet found ashore on Mocarran reef. There is nothing new from Mexico. BALTIMORE. intlfT.EileE OF COMET, THIL RIMEL ocurn: Charles T. (Jockey, who piloted the rebels in their raid, was sentenced, yesterday, by the military commission In this city, to be imprisoned for five years, to date from the day of arrest, July 11,1831, at such place as the commanding general sho u ld designate, and then to be released upon the pay ment of one thousand dollars to the Government of the United States, or to be further imprisoned - until the same shall base been paid. Maj. Gen. Wallace has approved the sentence, and has designated Fort Warren as the place of confinement of the prisoner- ARRIVAL FROM FORTRESS MONROE. The steamer from Fortress Monroe has just ar rived. She repute everything quiet in that 'utility. PREPARATIONS POR THE WOUNDISD AT WIN- CHESTER A number of soldiers were sent North this morn. ing from the hospitals to make room for those wounded at the Winchester fight. NEW ZEALAND. A 13Iii:SAL BUTTIOII VICTORY-VIRTUAL ENO Olr Sex FRANCISCO, Sept. 20.—A.dvices from Now Zealand to July 3d state that tho war is virtually closed. The British troops galnod a sinnal victory a few days before the 3d of July : and the leaders of the insurgents were 3 - leldling unconditionally. Fatal Accident on the Hudson Inver Railroad. TWO PERSONS 'MIL= AND TWO IttJDRKD. NEW YORE, Sept. ti.-4 Serious accident eseu.rred to the train which left here at 8 o'clock A. :Lon the Hudson River Railroad, While passing through the Breakneck Tunnel an axle of the tender broke, throwing the entire train from the traok. Two hays In the baggage oar were killed, and a. brakeettlatt and one passenger (a lady) were Injured. The track has been repaired, and trains are now runtang ret utarly, BALTIMOJAB, Sept. 21 We are permitted to add another to the multitude of unmistakable evidences of the feelings of our brave brothers in arms as to their preference for the Presidency. The following Is an extract of a private letter from a staff offiear of the 2d Division, 6th Corps--a gentleman well known to hundreds of our citizens as a life.long Democrat—which was not intended for the public eye. “1-laanQtrAnmans 2D DIVISION, STH A. C., Sept. 13, DM. • - ".I feel very netvOut and feverish to day, caused, I suppose by the excitement under gone during our skirmish yesterday. Our division made a reconnoissance to the Opequan Creek, where we found the enemy in force, and very defiant. One of the best electioneering cards for Lincoln that emuld possibly bo gotten out, I think, was the cheers with which the rebels greeted us .for McClellan! You may depend upon t that these calls were answered by OUT boys in lustrshortts and vigorous ' tigers' for the army's candidate, Abraham Lincoln. "The frequent occurrence of such signs as this on the part of our enemies, indicating thew preference for the Presidency, and the course of politicians at home, are uniting as ono man the entire army. " We occasionally indulge in hearty laughs at the preposterous ideas of some of the modern Democra tic speakers in regard to McClellan, styling Aim 'the soldier's friend,' So. The soldiers will not vote for any man who le PAK:pica for and applauded by the enemies of our nag—the creatures who are in areas against them. We do want peace, but not a peace that will cause a stigma to rest upon the me. inorieS of our departed brothers and comrades in arms. No! no! The peace we want must be won by the cannon and the muSket—this is the only peace that will now satiety the blue jackets. I might write whole pages on this subject, but I am not well to-clay.,, A MYSTER.IOIIS AprAn.—There is a new Sell9B,- Lion In London. .susplri9O was not right in a certain house, and that all was the neladdiora made a forcible entry. In the front parlor a woman was found kneeling by the side of a couch quite dead. Lying on the door, partly in the front parlor and. partly in the back parlor, was the body of another WORM), also quite dead. In an adjoining rodm there woo a man in a State Offillo6y, and half flaked. There were marka of a struggle in the rooms, but at present it would rather Seem that poison, was the eauSe Of death, CALIFOBNLL. POLITICS AND ADRICITLLCIRS SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20.—POHLIC8i Meatinge are being held all over the State, and agricultural fairs are in progress. MAISSB elinsett.g Democratic State Con WORCF:TraIt, Mass., Sept. 2l.—The Democratic State Convention met here to-day, and 18 largely attended. The Convention has been organized by the election of T. I. Sweetzer as president. BOSTON. Sept. 21.—The Convention nominated the following ticket: For electors at large—Robert U. Winthrop, Bos ton , Brastuo D. Ileaeh, Sprit! ulield. For Governor, Henry W. Payne, of Cambridge. For Lieutenant Governor, Thomas F. I'lunkett, of Pittsfield. For Secretary of State, F. 0. Prince. For Treasurer, Nathaniel Clark. For Attorney General, S. 0. Lamb. For Auditor, Moses Bates. Resolutions were adopted endorsing the nomina tions of McClellan and Pendleton, and approving of the platform of the Chicago Convention, as em bodying the only effective way of restoring the Union and securing a permanent peace. Rhode Island State Convention—Nomi nation of Electors. Pnoviorma (R. I.), Sept. 21.—The National Union Democratic Convention met here to-day. Colonel Van Zandt, of Newport, presided. The following eentlemen were nominated as Presi dential Electors: Robert B. Cranston, of Newport. William S. Slater, of Smithfield. Rows Babcock, of Westerly. Simeon Henry Greene, of Warwick. Connecticut Union State Convention Presidential Electors Nominated. RARTFORD, Sept. 21,—The Republican State Convention met here to-day, and was largely at tended. Sohn T. Waite, of Norwich ; John P. Elton, of Waterbury ; James U. Patterson, of Hart ford ; Samuel C. Hubbard, of Middletown ; L. L. Sayler and F. A. Benjamin, of Stratford, were nominated as Lincoln and Johnson electors. Reported Loss of the Hartford NEw 1 Qua, Sept. 2.1.—A. rumor prevailed here today that the sloop-of-war Hartford, bound home from nlobile bay, had been blown up. Movements of •Bloelkode•Ronners. liertavAx, Sept. 20.—The blockade-runner Ptar migan has arrived from Bermuda, for repairs. Marine Intelligence. BosmoN, Sept. 21.—Arrived, United States steamer Saco, from Eastport : bark Aberdeen, Rum Key; brigs . Clio, Gottenburg ; AIICe, Iliragoano, NEW YORK CITY. [special Correspondence of The Prom Zinw Yost, September 21, 1E64, TAR VICTORY of Sheridan has been hailed here with the greatest enthusiasm. Yesterday there was a general grin of delight upon the public face. It would require only One Or two more of the same sort of affairs to utterly demolish the hopes which the Copperheads now entertain of a vast majority in this city for their sweet little man. continues, as physicians say, "about the same.”. Since Monday there has been a greater attendance, and the increase of competition has naturally im proved the prospects of the sellers. The list of J. B. Lippincott &. Co., of Philadelphia, was offer ed on that day, and realized well. The lists of Blanchard & Lea, and Ticknor & eo., followed. Harper's list will be told to-day. REWARD FOR A MURDERER A Mr. Thompson, cattle dealer, of this clty, was murdered in Albany, last week, by some stranger, who has thus far managed to escape the clutches of the law. The dealers at Bull's head have opened a subscription and, obtained the sum of fifteen hun dred dollars, which is now offered as a reward for the apprehension of the murderer. THE "NEW NATION.' still lies beneath the injunction obtained in the Case of Wee. P. Dinsmore againSt Justus P. Class rot. The war of cards is at an end. Gen. Oluseret applied through counsel, yesterday, for a vacation of the injunction. Plaintiff's counsel not being pre pared, however, the case was postponed until to morrow. If the application be granted, the follow ing number of the 1%5W Nation will doubtless con tain editorial notes of a pungent character. THE DEATHS IN THE CITY last week numbered dve hundred and sixty. No less than ninety-five were from consumption, where as, the general average of deaths from that disease is not much above sixty to sixty-live. Old age was the cause of five deaths. will not doh, Scarcely had the Davenport Bro thers and Sister left us to our spiritual obtuseness, when suddenly arises a lady who invites editors and others to witness her control over the shades of Hades. Periodically, it maytbe said, (without dis- paragement to the present medium,) these potent sorcerers appear in our city, tempt from voluntary immurement the iong•haired and solemn-looking spiritualists, seduce them into going upon the stage as committees, and by their tricky ways leave them deceived and laughed at by an unsympathiging pub- lc. The new medium is positively genuine, how ever, and has "no connection with the house over the way." They are trying to make her the object of a fresh sensation. THE KEARSARGE is expected to arrive in this port very shortly, and the receptlkon of her officers and men will doubtless be upon an appropriate scale. It is proposed to present Captain Winslow with a painting of the naval combat in which he was the victor, and to give the tars a public reception and dinner. The latter idea is especially in favor among those who understand what naval hard-tack is. It is stated that Governor Seymour was not ex pected by the managers of the Peace concern to ac cept his nomination. If such was the case "one Seymour" was smarter than has been t:enerally supposed. The remains of Dr. Potts were interred in Green wood Cemetery on Monday afternoon. His funeral was very largely attended, The time-honored custom among our more frisky rowdies of murdering Germans who are enjoying themselves ? has been again adopted. A poor fellow next ed Sclunidt was brained by one of the "friends" while in company with lady friends at Weehawken. Gold iEI on the dance again, and general prices are falling; bad indexes for the Young Philosopher. REJOICIN 0 - OVER, TILE rlcron-y- A salute of one himdrod guns was tired by the Union Central Committee at noon to-clay, in honor of Sheridan's great victory. SAILING OF THE SCOTIA The steamer Scotia sailed to•day for Liverpool, with $330,000 In specie. Among her passengers Is the Hon. Hiram Sibley, preeitiont of the Russian- American Telegraph Company. TEE NEW TORN RACES The trotting match on Fashion Course to-day be tween General Butler, Prince Morgan, and Lady Enana l bait three in frFO, regulte4 i f91.1 0 51r§ 134t ler won the first two heats, and Prince the three last heats. The shortest time 2.27. Six thousand per sons were present. ARRIVAL OF THE BORUSSIA The stunner Borussia i4as arrived ] with South arnptou dates of the 7th inst. Her news is outlet rated. THE GOLD MABRET Gold closed to-night at 221,,5. EXTENSIVE 'POSITIVE SALE OF 1,1100 PAGICAOES AND LOTS OF BRITISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, AND AMERICAN Dar GOODS, &C., THIS Day.--The early particular attention of dealers is requested to the valuable and desirable assortment of domestic and P.tiropean dry goods, embracing 1,200 packages and lots of staple and fancy articles, including 460 pieces cloths, coatings, cassimeres, satinets, vestings, Italian cloths, &c., 120 packages domestics, 900 pieces Paris and Saxony dress goods, silks, &c., 7,000 dozen hosiery, gloves, shirts, &c., &c., to be peremptorily sold by catalogue, on four months' credit, and part for cash, commencing this (Thursday) morning, at 10 o'clock, to be continued all day, without inter mission, and to be resumed on to-lhorrow (Friday) at same hour, by John B. Myers & Co., auctioneers, Nos. 232 and 234 Market street. N. B.—The sale will be found very attractive and well worthy the attention of the trade. TiS. attention of those interested in the use of steam Is sailed to an advertisement headed COA Safe Steam Boiler." The name of the advertiser is a sufficient guarantee that the article recommended is all that it is said to be. of: Baal% AND SHORPL.— We call the attention of buyers to the large and desirable sale of 1,900 cases boots, shoes, brogans, &c., to be sold by catalogue, for cash, this morning (Thursday), September 22d, commencing at ten o'clock precisely, by Philip Ford & Co., allotlen.eors, at their store, Nos, 525 Market and 522 Commerce street. The Rebels Cheering for McClellan: A, VOIOS PEWS THE ARMY-WHO IS THS BOLDISTCB9 IM2=Mk EYDR. ADDITtONAL CITT 14:V.V4 Fn, SPEECHES AT THE LOW Last night the saloon was well filled wi t Z ; ; ;r ts era to speeches by "General" Johnson of I'a r county, "General" Case, and Hon. J. As usual, the accommodations for the prey, the meanest and most miserable c haraelttr, • rat Johnson was the first. This ttrfe n „. 4l about as stupid in his speech as the other r; It for whom he prosed was in his strategy, a " `,l- 11 tedious. " General" Johnson owed 1,1 1 - 4 , , minutes' occupation of the stave to the ture of his audience, and General owed his lengthened occupation of to the good nature of the rebels. Tl:e was rambling and .incoherent, evidently c. as to where he was drifting and what he w a ,.., 1r . ' 3% and at last sat down, to the Infinite hearers, who evidenced It by drawing to m ,. and leaving the bays in the galleries 4. ,"' him. . . Hon. John McKlbbin, of Calliorra: next introduced, The chairman, i, '"tt forming this ceremony, sang in '' Se: monotone several platitudes about tie stranger being once an officer on lialless:.•••lst and having resigned because he Mend tj o coming Abolition. This chant , font was e . ,, t was intensely solemn, beginning with 3 sound, such as, it is said, proceeds front as, "Gentlemen, let me introduce , " an.; "„ -4 ht a melancholy squeal: with "Abolition var song, which was undoubtedly without thr s „ ••' McKlbbin proved to be entirely wil ; s ea SS • 4 :. flatly contradicting it in the course 01 hit 5,,.,,,. He He said he came to this city a stranssr far-off shores of the Pacific, but their ws, which bound all Democrats together whor:7.- might be. It had never been his lietene such a large gathering as that which a Fs sa .:,•• • • Saturday night last in Independence Sms, • • condition of the country was now very dia.ss:; . • : what it was four years ago. Our shippi n • '" driven from the seas, without couirifs,.. " whole industrial system is deranged, we as , „'• with a worthless national currency, Our Ss si , desolated of fathers sons, and brethors, Jos' war still goes on—still further depletins • sury and sapping our strength. Then we Is. ... , foremost nation of the world—our curso r ,• • ' commerce, our industrial interests, all we re - ; and prosperous, and the people looked to rw, bright and successful future. When , wt; lout he because a soldier of the Government I • of the Administration. [Applause.]las s , that more than one Government was inc , nr, with the best Interests of the country, S. S of thousands of unreturning bravos, who iss., beneath the turf of the South, and huvnif. thousands more, and lie, among them, :to electric shock that went through the 50 05 1,.. Fort Sumpter was fired on. Men of all pa is with each other in filling up the armies of the, : D . They went assured by the -Administration. ! . ,i1" the Chicago platform and the President's address, that the war was for the Com:titers, the maintenance of the laws, which Derr:sets!, cognized everywhere, [Applause But Mein • objects were no longer those of the war, t ,;: lost heart. But here he would say that it was (as the chairman had stated) for those, but ' r•. vats rea tons, that he hateresigned biseoralili d i i the army. The uldforni of the American •,r,., Of which all were proud, was Seen upon black than, And he believed that 49 further than most people saw • day, He saw the whole rear of our guarded by negroes, while white men were s ,, n: l , the front, lie considered that the great feLtsle the present aspect of the war was a divided :c,.., strains.t a united South—a feature which was eisely the reverse four years ago. He belleved . s.., state of things to have been brought about bs conscription and emancipation policy of the . al. ministration. That policy had laid 200,000 /au ; men beneath the soil. That policy might seem 7', feasible to these who remained at hems j while Lei delegated to others the deriver/mg and deadly of carrying it out. - It was Massachusetts, and Y i ; England generally, which had enforced the ration of that ruinous policy. And these Sta , , had, while he yet was serving in the arms, two hundred and fifty agents to buy up the rfinti population of the rebel States to fill up the ular.,u the gallant dead white men. What effect I ri j emancipation on the condition of the negro' though the speaker regretted the existence s , it,. very as much as any one, still he did not think present policy was the best one to get us rl.l evil. The negro, before the policy began b which was almost contemporary with the ar t . ping of the war—the negro was comfort, - ,!•i., happy. What 113 he to-day 1 In the n'irt , band camps at Washington, and alon th'. n' sissippl, the were dying by hundred's n 1 tti sands, without a single comfort they once e n s . -s! in their old homes, and the able-bodied rasa ,os, being bought up , or driven Into the army fea Sherman [slight applause) had a proper s;ss ; of this plan of filling up our armies will. au!: and the refuse population of the rebel f•lti f : protested against the acts of the alassaCillii?E,..l recruiting agents, saying that he wanted ehusetts voters, not Southern negroes. Sich • course on her part, and that of her New Enkdat.' sliders. was an insult to the lighting mon of his Ira'. Mr. McKibben then adverted to the grienar,i, under which he said the people of the North lawssl. He was particularly struck by the similarity 5: grievances enumerated by the people of the f:.,1 14,,n in the Declaration of Independence to those eunaat• rated now by the Democracy, which, he tuVeith asserted, were "the people of the North." But :..s Democratic party were under no necessity :3 the Administration. That had already I,een Wade and Davis had shown Abraham Lit cola t usurper, [applause,] neither making nor exe.a.t.L. ; the laws. He would counsel men by action Ant their strong RIMS to rid themselves of this aittb paten to rid themselves of Abraham Lines!s, n't I sink him so low that history could not lift Is, Abraham Lincoln would spare no efforts t, .L 379 himself elected. He had made West •Virsirsa State so as to get its electoral vote, although bayonets were taken out it would not remain In t,.a Union a day. The seine Mailed Was about ti 'l4 pursued in Florida, Louisiana, and Arkansas. 7::s purpose of the immaculate President was evidois Congress had passed an enabling act, but the P::• sident bad put it in his pocket, and meant to ls lc he pleased. His purpose was to re-elect Sha.”S with the electoral votes of the States whole 701st: were controlled by his bayonets. If ho did so, jet tried to become elected In that manner, t'nen became the duty of every honest man to srs test, both by words and bayonets. [Loud r ip. please.) Now the question was—how peace be restored I One Government must ii;;: wherever one flag was waved. This could brought about by the election of George B. MO lan. That was our only hope. With the ere ,, , Administration In power, under its legislatfiaa. gulf between the North and South, already Would grow wider and wider. We have by our ,71• tent policy sought 'to ruin and impoesrislCsis South : we have stolen its negroes, devastate) tls farms, 'robbed its people. They now say, Si 6.4 speaker once heard one of their colonels say, • :to titer give me six feet of Southern soil than a ca with you " They will fight as long as there 3 hope. Gallant Sheridan baa driven them him. We may continue to do so. But wn - 1 do all these victories amount to? Our antiwrty does not extend further than the particular occupied by our armies. Arkansas, Louisiana, ani Missouri are again overrun by the rebels. But pan we iboultl t as the Administration threatens We will, enfOrce the Monroe doctrine, after war is over. against Maximilian in Mexico 'With a Union made by force of arms, the slta.t old hate against us will live in the SOUL: ern breast. Two hundred thousand SoutLet: soldiers will aid the prince against us, and we ,•• have a war on our hands as oast as that we Ins now waging. - Could we support it No! The ,t -perise of the present one already staggers us, E' , sa if there was no trouble with Mexico we woula to keep a standing army, the expense of whilb. would crush us. The Democratic party pointed the only road—a Union, cordial and lust, by irt:;i3. If this road was not taken we would reach politiol as well as monetary bankruptcy. The speaker 20. ionized McClellan, and concluded with what it - said was the only truth ever uttered by Lincoln. Tail Said when his beleaguered capital was relic-I'l, "God bless McClellan." General Case, the last . Speaker, was not lug to detain them long,” but said with great fora that this occasion, that Is, the meeting in the :ow concert saloon, was one of great moment to country! The people up the country were a.raii• ing up in their majusty, and the Indies, WL) wanted their husbands and sons to come rut: huh again, were a-raising up in their inalt and the Democratic party was a-raising up in Ea inejusty. The people were a-holding no mass met'. tings, but were &meeting in their clubs, and ti their towns, and homes, and townships, and ward, and counties." to elect McClellan. During :11.• speech the audience began to separate, and e parted in the advance. We suppose the orator eau tinned until his only auditors were the e.toT.; benches. MAGIC LANTERN At the Keystone tllub headquarters, last to.cat(.l. there was a public exhibition of the magic Lintel - a. A largo white sheet was spread on fratnetet;riz ffti front of the third-story window of the buitliag. This flag of truce by day received such oleturei last evening as the operator might choose to - place the lantern. A crowd of people lingered in fn-at t) view the shadows on the screen. The first pint-re was a portrait of the SPIPIOrteI Washington- A p er• son in the street proposed three cheers for IV3-UN,- ton. This was not responded to by a single voice. Silence at such times is best. The likeness 01 11c- Illellan was the next portrait. This was reeeiN. l with slight applause, the majority remaining silent. The likeness was not clearly shown on the c9.nysi , The face assumed aereral thailee Qr appearances The soldier's dream was exhibited. This wal rattle an attractive picture. The exhibition as a worl;. science was a failure ; as a novelty fore street ,050 , ' it will prove attractive as time progresses. '• News from Plaine" was not exhibited. MILITARY. SYLkIiPSITOOTERS ifirney's Sharpshooters, that were to hal.-.s away yesterday, did not get off. It is reported tae regiment will start about 8 o'clock this raorn!nt from the camp. It is probable the regimen: l'ntt proceed to the 'Volunteer Ilefreehment Saloons ad. fore finally taking their departure from Broad Ja Prime streets. NAVAL. PIERRE NEW WAR VE6SELi. Orders have been received at the navy yam 7 the immediate construction of three war VOSSOIS One is to be a gunboat, and the other two w:1 sloops of 2,000 tons each. CITY ITEMS. ECONOMY IN Fast..—What we have t 9 sal nloc , this subject to-day is of the greatest importance ti the Willa. We need not dwell upon the fabuktu price of coal ; that is a fact too practically known already. But we have a secret to unfold, which will enable all who act upon it to save more than half the quantity they are now consuming. The secret this Mr. S. Sr ()lark, the well known and hits;;* respected stove genius, No. mos Market Street. ii supplying his customers with an admirable hookas? Stove, that is noted for burning at the rata of )01 ton of coal in six months in doing the work a' .1 large family; or, to speak with more absolute = 3 r . rectness, Its ratio of consumption, with oconocilm; management, of course, is one ton and a half in win' ter and ono ton in summer. And, besides being . 1 miracle as an economizer, it Is unsurpassed, if, in' deed, equalled, by any cook stove in existence, O r baking, roasting, and every other purpose to wh l,ll . a cook stove can be applied. We know that 'JO economy here claimed sounds extraordinary, but. as we have seen for ourselves, Mr. Olark has :10 1111 two thousand references registered at his store. Market Area, to corroLM , ilt6 to 016 MAP all viii' is here claimed. Every one of these stoves ranted when sold. PRMSIGRVIC YOUR Mara.—ThtS Injunction to be heeded by every one who has-lair to presor ,3 and the article or all others to employ for th,: , pose is "Lubin.'s FPori EOM everywhere. 1 most rigid trials of its merits have been mad.), the sequel has shown that for beautifying, streng:d* ening ? enriching, restoring ? mud preserving :he it has no parallel in the toil , A. Try a zarwa recommendation. BIG Trtirtos.—London is a great city. an I Yorkers regard their city as an immense tettn l. 4'" lily, and Philadelphia in square znileb 61Snedt: eri ,e of them. But if the Mayors of Nineveh and lain`' lon could revisit the earth they would laugh st ' pretensions of the moderns. The area or Ba' , Y 3 Tea 2tIZ: square miles, surrounded with a wall feet high, 75 feet thick, with one hundred 'd;t:' gates, and Nineveh contained ate square rounded with a wall 100 feet high, and wide ea4-et for three chariots to drive abreast. Yet wits ii• this they had no readymatle clothing estn.blislarfl Where their citizens could be clothed lienda,lt,•ri7 and cheaply. as we can, with Charles 14t040 3 First-eI:US Clothing Store, unde7 tae -