j4't thtss. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1864. IS 44 :4 vislii:U4V • o,si EVERY COUNTY. lINTON STATE CENTRAL 00MTATTTRE ROOMS, No. 1105 Chestnut Street.—Our friends in every countrand 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 county tickets, or send a special agent with the Commissions to carry Li accordance with the invitation of the Union State Central Committee, Mr.- J. :w.: Foltrfor Will address his fellow.citizens. at West Chester on the 20th inst., and at Lancaster on the sth proximo. • Old Democracy Of rermaylvania. Under the administration.of Mr. -Mobt . „ ROE there was practically but one party, the Republican,. as it was styled .by Mr. SEE FERSON and his followers, or Democratic. party. This was the era 6f good feeling— Mr. MoicnoE receiving at the election, for his second term, 231 Electoral votes out .of 232.. At the close of the Monroe Adminis tration came the last trial of the Congres sional caucus, which nominated for Pre sident WILLIAM H. CRAWFORD, of Georgia, then Secretary of the Treasury, but which was not considered binding by the Demo cracy. There were, accordingly, put in the field three other Democratic candi dates, Ram 'QUINCY ADAMS, HENEV : and ANDREW JACKSON. The political leaders in Pennsylvania, who were really . Calhoun men, ,met in. convention, at Harrisburg, during the winter of 18234, _and, contrary to their own wishes, were forced, by the universal opinion of the people, to nominate General ANDREW JACKSON, and to put theiri favorite into the back ,seat of. the :Vice Presidency. Mr. ADAMS became the ,Pre sident by the vote of the House of Repre sentatives, and in 1828 and 1832 . General ,TAcKsoli . was elected and re-elected, Penn sylvania always giving her solid vote to her first and only choice, the Hero of New Orleans, the sworn foe and extinguisher of South Carolina' nullification and secession, as taught and practiced by that metaphysi cal traitor,,Joni 0, CALEtoux. In 1844 Mr. POLK was electedand , ob tained the vote of Pennsylvania by one of the interpretations put upon the piped Kane letter by the Democratic editors:and politicians, who swore through thick and thin that it was in favor of a tariff. If the, people had 14DONVIL that Mr. POLK was really anti-tariff, he never could have had their votes, for Pennsylvania is, and al ways has been, a strong tariff State. They were bitterly undeceived by the tariff of 1846, and the October election of that year, signalized by a political, moral, and physical storm, showed the deep in dignation of the people at the fraud deli berately perpetrated upon them. A simi lar attempt to cheat by ,false tokens, by holding up a-peace-at•any-prize-man, in the disguise of an United States , uniform, is now in progress before our own eyes. In the annexation of Texas, Mr. TYLER, and Mr. CALnouN, and Mr. Poria, and Mr. BUOTTANAN recognized and reaffirmed the Pennsylvania doctrine of 1819, of the power of Congress to exclude slavery, upon the admission of a State, from a part of its ter ritory, and, of course, of the whole, if ex pedient, and make it a condition precedent to its becoming a State of the Union. The adinission of Texas produced the war with:: Mexico, and in August, 1846, in a bill recommended by President PoLx, to enable him to negotiate with Mexico for the acquisition .'of territory, the following proviso was introduced: Provided, that as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty that may be nego tiated between them, and to the'use by the Executive of the: moneys herein appio priated, neither - slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except - for crime. whereof th& party shall be first duly convicted." This bill and proviso were passed by the House, and sent to the Senate in the last hours of the session, and would hare passed that body but for the unwarrantable conduct of Mr. DAVIS, of Massachusetts, in persisting to speak against time, which defeated all action upon them. So convinced were.. the people and the. Democracy of Pennsylvania of the pro priety of this . proviso, that on the 22d January, 1847, the Senate and House of Representatives passed the following joint " resolution relative to the acquisition of new territory," by a vote of 95 yeas in the House, unanimously, and in the Senate by a vote of 24 yeas to 3 nays: Trhereas, The existing war with Mexico may re' 3ult in the acquisition of new territory to the Union; and, whereas, measures are: now "pending in Con gress; having in view the appropriation of money and the conferring authority upbn the treaty.making power to this end ; therefore, 66 tteso/vid, That our Senators and our Repro" sentativei in Congress be requested to vote against any measure whatever by *which territory will acorue to the 'Onion, unless, as a part of the fundamental law upon which any compact or treaty for this pur pose is based, slavery or involuntary servitude, except jar crime, shall be forever prohibited, " Resolved, That the Governor be requested to forward a copy of the foregoing to each of our Sena tors and Representatives in Congress.” This was done by Governor Suurat, who, with his whole Cabinet, warmly approved of them, and thus the Legislatures and Governors of 1819 and 1847 showed the unshaken attachment of the Democracy, and people of the State to free soil in the Territories of the Union. In the face of this solemn dticlaration of the.people of Pennsylvania, Mr. BUCHANAN addressed a letter to a Fourth of July cele bration, at Reading, recommending the extension of the Missouri Compromise line of 30.30 'to the Pacific ocean—a proposition which shocked and disgusted every, true .friend of his. In order to prevent :the pas sage of the provision recommended by his own Legislature, he published, as Secretary of State, the Constitution and laws of Mexicp, to show that all its territory was frenterritory. The victory of Btiena Vista elected General ZACHARY TAYLOR President of the United States. The Democratic Governor was defeated in .october, 1848. On the 4th of July, '1849, the Democratic Convention to nominate a candidate for Canal Commissioner; to put the party right before the people, passed the following resolution it Resoliyed, That the Democratic party adheres now, as it always has done, to the Constitution of the country. Its letter and spirit they will neither Weaken'nor destroy; and they redeclare that slavery is a domestic local institution of the Sotsth, subject to State laws alone, and with which the General Government has nothing to do. Wherever the State law - extends its jurisdiction, the local institution can continue to exis.t. Esteeming it a violation of State rights to carry it beyond State limits, we deny the power of any citizen to extend the area of bondage beyond its present dominion; nor, do 'fie Consider it a past of the Constitution that slaiery should for ever travel with the advancing column of territorial progress.,, This resolution gave the . Democratic candidate fora Canal Commissioner over 13,000 majority, bin it displeased, shocked, and embittered Mr. RIICRANAIsT, who had been for years . propitiating the South . by worshipping at the shrine of slavery. From 1780 And the time of Pres'ident REED, for . an uninterrupted eriod of severity years, there had• beet;bill one fixed principle. of Democracy upon the extension'of slavery, founded upon a stern disapprobation of the system itself, as cruel and , degrading to humanity, " and a most foal blot upon the American character." This was old Jefer son and Jackson Dernocracy, and we shall hereafter look at the modern Democracy commenced CALHOUN and perfected by I.* grpat disciple, JEFFERSON DAVIS, who gave the law to the two last Democratic Presidents.L Fnor the diaries of officers on board the gunboat: _Galena, during the retreat from. Richmond, it seems to be conclusively proven that General McOLELLAN was part of, the crew, instead of the army, during the battle of Malvern. To which, then, does General MCCIXLLAN belong, the army or t the navy'?-We presume that he is an amphibious general. Facts for the Poor Man. Let us consider the delusions which the poor and the uninformed are apt. to labor under from the teachings of lying politi cians : Ist. They are led to - expect that when General MCCLELLAN obtains power there will be no more drafting. Now, General MCCLELLAN himself ex pressly urged a draft, even before the com pletion .of the enrolment, while in com mand of the army. Still he declares that the military poiver of the rebellion must be destroyed. 'Should negotiations fail to re store the "gnion, he must prosecute the war with even greater vigor, according to his own showing. Now, if he manages to effect an armistice, and retire his navies froin the coasts, his armies from the rebel lines, and disband 200,000 black soldiers, how is he, in the name of common sense, going to resume the war_without making a draft, the rigors of which our poor have never felt before ? SECOND DELTYSION.—Gen; MCCLELLAN will restore the' cuirency to its sound con dition., There will, be no more high prices, and the wages_ of the laboring man will in crease. We caution the honest poor man to be ware of this absurd falsehood. When dema gogues tell them that the financial health of the nation can be restored in a week, or month, or year, or four years, with the methods proposed by McCLELLAsa's pro minent supporters, they utter impossible statements and deliberate untruths. Gen. McCLELLAN is in favor of peace by nego tiation, of an armistice, &e. Very little calculation - will show that any interrup tion to the war before the rebel Government is brought to sue for peace will only serve to prolong it, or create the independence of the South. Our armies are at Atlanta and before Richmond, while SHERIDAN is winning victories in the ?Shenandoah. Stop these armies in the midst of victory, and recognize the South by entering into negotiations whose basis Must be the ac hnowledgment of a Confederacy, and the disgrace of such a catastrophe will produce panic in finance and commerce, and inse curity in society, added to the evils which we endure as part of a state of honest war. But if Gen. MCCLELLAN'S negotiation only succeeds in prolonging the war, what will prevent our debt from increasing at i a terrible rate ? What is to become of GRANT and SRENMAN if General AIcOLELLAN is elected ? Who are to manage his treasury.? Are they FERNANDO Woo and the other eminent Copperheads who propose the as sumption of' the whole Southern war, debt, and at the same time are only in favdr of a reconstruction of the Union ? Are they the profligate and dishonest speculators of New York, who have labored to produce unnatural rises in the price of gold, and artificial depreciation of the currency ; who fight against every measure calcu lated to relieve our finances ? Are they the shoddy contractors., who, having made money from our armies and the Govern ment, having been brought to punishment for fraud and malpractice, are now using their means to defeat the Administration in order to produce such a state of corruption as will enable them to dis guise their dishonesty and to steal more ? • Are they AUGUST BELMONT & Co., the New York representatives of the gold of-the RorrnsonmDs in this country, of the foreign_ idea that 'Americans can be bought, of the pro-rebel ideas of the Lon don Times 7- 'Will General MCCLELLAN be • Ids own financier ? Let the poor man re member, then, that the far greater propor tion of the public debt has been produced by General . MCCIALLAN'S own disasters. No period of the war has been so full of blunder, failure, and prolonged misfortune as the-few years in which he commanded. He was a costly general in every sense. It is proverbial that he required more men than any other general we have had in the field,' and more supplies and munitions than he could ever take care of. Seven months of miserable inaction in Washington, while the Potomac river was left to the rebel blockade, cost us extravagant millions The long delay in starting to the Peninsu la, the indisputable Quaker guns at Manas sa&.:the Chinese_eeneralship rllarlo37.a 'Yorktown, the inexplicable sloth in pur suing the rebels, the absurd blunders of not reinforcing HooxEn at Williamsburg, and not following up his fortunate victory— and the subsequent delay, timid stoppages, demoralizing idleness, unredeemed by suc cess, and only justified by the general's unfortunate vanity—all these cost us ex travagant millions. The " change of base" from Richmond to Harrison's Landing, during which 'General Mc- CLELLAN proposed the destruction of the private equipage and baggage of all his officers and men, after ordering the greater part•of his stores to be burned, was a disastrous movement, which cost us many millions more. The yresence of General MCCLELLAN on the gunboat Galena, and his failure to profit by victories which his soldiers and generals gained in . spite of him, was another costly mistake, , y The acknowledged and oft-repeated fatuity of magnifying the numbers of the enemy so that forces of 40,000 became 100,000, and armies of. 100,000, 200,000 strong—all these vain delusions of the puppet general be came expensive items to the Government. The treachery of Frrz aoulT PORTER • (we can find no milder name for it) was another of the monumental expenses of his military household. POPE'S ca tastrophe may be added to PORTER'S di vision of the bill of costs Yet even after this .:hundred-fold prodigality of disaster, we must again debit our vaunt • ing and flimsy little hero. With his own army and the army of POPE (some what discouraged, we grant, but outnum-, bering the force of the enemy) he marched five miles a day to overtake the forces of General LEE. He reached the enemy in time to fight battles, and fought them in a manner• to render victory fruitless. What GRANT, SHERMAN, and SHERIDAN have not done, he grossly exaggerated his successe& When the Government, with an economical desire which the General did not appreciate, again commanded him to move, the Gene ral declined. Not alone has MCCLELLAN himself been a vast expense to the country, but his eminent lieutenant BUELL has been a ruinous cost and failure in propor- Win. GRANT, with all his victories, has not cost us half as much as MCCLELLAN Or BUELL. Yet Gen. MoCDarzaia's mili tary shortcomings are blamed upon the Administration, so prompt to recognize the genius of GRANT, while the incapa ble policy which was the consequence, not the antes, of his military incapacity, is adopted and avowed by a political party. Now, if General MCCLELLAN can show Us one single permanent good result of all the absurd anaconda strategy, and his amiable anaconda policy, which have been so singu larly strangled in their own coils, we are quite willing to accept the uninterpretable jargon which his friends announce as his principle& But,• in brief, let the poor man ask himself—how much has this spoiled favorite already cost the nation ? It is proposed to restore a military failure and a ruinous policy to power. General Mc- CLELLAN is to be made not a corps com mander, not a commander of a department, but the President of the 'United States—a military and political incuba&to sit upon our victories.. The citizen who is in terested in the price of flour and .coal may well ask himself—how much will it cost me to help WOOD and VALLANDtc aAii to elect MCCLELLAN The Necessity of Reinforcements. The great want of the country at pregent is reinforcements for our armies. The losses in battle from sickness and other causes are such that to carry on successfully the sieges of Richmond and Petersburg, or to thoroughly invest them, our armies must be reinforced. Could GRANT once bring LEE to a general action in the open field, it would soon be over with this pertinacious rebel. If he does so it will be an accident, is it is LEE'S interest to remain inhislines. Hence, it becomes the duty of all good citi zens to exert themselves to furnish the men called for in the coming draft, and, above all, by bounties and otherinducements, to encourage the veterans to' re-.enli r st. One of them is worth more than five, raw . re cruits. Nothing will more thoroughly dis courage our enemies ; nothing but that will convipce them of our earnestness and determination to put down the rebellion. Moreover, it will convince our traducers over the water that we do not mean to be trifled with, that our resources are yet un touched, and that there is not the least evi dence of exhaustion on our part. The rebels expect that our efforts will be, dis tracted by the coming Presidential election. They mistake the peace faction for a party ; they believe in a divided North, and, buoyed up with this belief, they are making superhuman efforts to maintain their posi tion intact. Show them that their hopes are unfounded, and the reaction will be tremendous. A.nd when they are con vinccd we will persevere to the end, they will yield. Their leaders have deceived the masses with the cry that we desired to subjugate them, and that an insurrection was about to break out in the North. These false hopes, like that of foreign in tervention, must pass away. Our deceived brethren, once convinced of our favorable disposition towards them, peace and plenty will again reign throughout the land. Major General D. B. Birney. We have authority for saying that Lieu tenant General GRANT and Major Generals BUTLER, MEADE, and RAwcocur have writ ten a joint letter to the President of the United States, recommending that Major General BERNEY be appointed a brigadier general in the regular army. Thi'S is a well-deserved compliment to an officer who has been with the nation, heart and hand, from the beginning of our struggle until the'present day. General Brim'Ev emerged from civil life, and.joined the A.rmy of the Potomac as colonel of a regiment of Penn sylvania volunteers. He has been in every battle fought by that army, with the single exception of thi , action at. A.ntietam, anti he has won his way steadily up to the ex alted position which he now holds as ma jor'general of volunteers and . commander of the .10th Army Corps. The public may not have forgotten that General 1311MBY, on more than one occasion : , has been as sailed by the hastily-written and ground less attacks of newspaper correspondents. Throughout these cruel and unjust assaults upon his reputation he preserved a soldierly silence, preferring to vindicate himself with his sword upon• the bloody fields of the fu ture than to engage in a pen and ink con test with his anonymous slafiderers. His wisdom and valor have nobly vindicated him ; -and in this letter of recommendation by the highest military authorities of the land—by men who are themselves covered with the glories of innumerable victories General Balmy must receive a satisfaction that is above price in the eyes of a true. soldier. The President will no doubt grant the request with that alacrity which has ever characterized his generous nature where justice was to be done or merit rewarded. FOUR lEUNDRED SOLDIERS, Of Camp Cur tin, citizens of Perry county, renominated the Hon. JOSEPH* BXILY for Congress in the following admirable resolution : • And whereas, A portion of the Citizens of the Fif teenth Congressional district have put in nomina tion, as Representative in Congress, Adam J. Gloss brenner, of York county, a man whose associations and antecedents warrant us In distrusting his friend ship for the soldier, to question his desire to pre serve the integrity of, the Union, and, therefore, to consider him unworthy the support of either sol diers or civilians who love the Union and are deter mined to restore it : • And whereas, The Ron. Joseph Bally, our present Representative, during the whole of his term in the Thirty-Seventh and Thirty-eighth Congress did, In his official capacity, and by his persOnal atten tion to the soldiers in and out of the hospitals, and by various acts of generosity and benevolende, show' himself to be, the ardent supporter of the cause of the Union, and the warm, sincere, and devoted friend of the soldier;' Therefore we, the fellow-citizens;neighbors ' ' and friends of the Hon. Joseph Bally, (without distinc tion of party,) now composing four volunteer corn pante. from Ferry county—one of the counties in the said Fifteenth Congressional district—attached to the 208th Regiment, do nominate_and present .he Hon. Joseph Bally to the citizens and soldiers of the said distriet as a candidate for Congress in opposition to the said Adam .1: Glosshrenner. Mr. BAILY 18 a consistent'and.' devoted patriot; and his course as .a Representative dorsement. 'He will enter the canvass' with vigor. LETTER FROM "OCCASION/16'Y WASHINGTON, Sept. 24, 1861 I have been spending a few days in some of our Northern cities, and find abundant cause for congratulation and hope. I must confess I did not realize the deep came' ness that pervades all classes until Twent among the people, and looked them in the eye, and felt the grasp of their hands. The people of the free States mean to re-elect Abraham Lincoln President, and to give him such a majority that all hopes of Euro pean intervention or of Northern •recogni tion, through the triumph of a peace candi date or a peace platform, must 'be forever abandoned. They will do this as an ear nest of their purpose to prosecute the war to a legitimate, speedy, and perpetual peace. We have all had doubts ; of New York. The State is anchored fast in the watereof freedom, but the city, with its vast multitude of interests, its inter course with the distant foreign world, its isolation from national sympathy, and its moneyed aristocracy, is so large ly against freedom that there has been a danger of its carrying the State by virtue of its large majorities and those contri vances so well known to the politicians of New York. Yet, even in New York, I found the McClellan tide on the ebb, and a ground-swell in. favor of Lincoln that may revolutionize even the metropolis. The Democratic leaders were arranging his canvass very much as the Mr. Mica wber of Dickens' story arranged his financial schemes. They would elect their favorite, not by majorities nor by a direct vote of the people, but by some technicality, or quibble, or subterfuge. In plainer words, they had abandoned the canvass, so far as any dire& - fight for preference or even prin ciple was concerned,• and • awaited the 're sult of the election very much as the Saxon king awaited the subsiding of the waters. But the waters will not obey their bidding. In Pennsylvania I found even. a more gratifying condition of affairs. The Cop perheads of that State, and particularly those who congregate in Philadelphia, have been fluent in their calculations for carrying Pennsylvania. If ~any Common wealth would " rebuke" the Administra tion, it would certainly be the . Common wealth that has suffered so much from - the rebel invader. Chambersburg had been burned, the Cumberland valley had been desolated, and the towns along the South- . ern border were liable at any moment to' be captured and burned. Of course, Penn sylvania would " rebuke " the Government that had abandoned her to rebel invasion, and throw herself under the protection of a general who found it impossible, with an army of over a hundred thou sand men, to keep Stuart and a bri gade of cavalry out of Franklin coun ty. In Pennsylvania, however, I found the Union feeling sweeping everything be fore it. The Democrats who fought slave ry in earlier days, and who began the war against rebellion. by making a war upon the great apostle of rebellion, James Bu chanan, are all warm and earnest in their devotion to, the Union cause and the Union candidate. .GenCial Cameron has'made a thorough organization of the State, and, after close examination of the field, has so dis posed his forces that no single point of ad vantage will be neglected. , The Governor is earnest in his support:of the candidates, and those who claim to represent him, and are his special friends, are all laboring with enthusiasm to gain this victory. Such men as Dougherty, Cessna, Brewster, Knox, Shannon, and Champneys, .and hosts of Democrats like • them, who follreng and believe the true democracy that came to us from our fathers, are active and eloquent in favor of Lincoln. In addition to this, I have bad another evidence of the power and energy of your great Union League. The history of the war will be feebly writ ten if 'it does not speak of the doings of this magnifice4 association. — We May TEE P 1 ESB.--PHILADELPHIA; MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1864: Six paymasters, under a heavy escort, started for SHERIDAN'S army this morning, to pay off the troops of that command. They takea large amount of money with them, but have ample military pro. U:Alen. • Warrants to complete the payment to the army and navy to date have to-day been signed by Sec retary FESSIIIIDEN. The entire armies of the United States will therefore receive payment in ha as soon as the paymaster can arrange the de tails. There are no suspended requisitions In the Treasury other than those awaiting rearrangement by order of the proper authorities. THE PAY OF OUR ARMY. It is said the provision recently made for the pay of the armies covers $73,009,000.: HON. HENRY WITTEE DAVIS--NCARTL4IID SAFE FOR THE UNION. (Special Despatch to The Press.] ' The lion. Henry Winter- . .: —.3cnaton, ; : . illl3 . 7.Bii f fire l it," — iiiiCiii:V . . ' There is much ie. jplcing among Union men here' over this announce• "merit. Maryland is safe for Lincoln and Johnson' by ten thousand majority. ARRIVAL Or PRIBONBRB FROM IifRPEIt'S FEthrr. A large number of 'prisonersarrived from liar per's Ferry at one o'clock, and were marched along Pratt street under a guard. They were about a thousand in number. Business is at a standstill, in consequence of the decline in gold. Grain is drooping, and the prides are nominal. Flour is neglected ; Howard super, $10,87211. Whisky heavy at $1.84. The white lead works in Water street were burned this afternoon, involving a loss of: $lOO,OOO. Partfy insured. The fire is thought to hiSve boon caused lity spontaneous combustion. . ' The Roman Catholic church at, the corner of YOTL and Jay streets was fired by cinders, and some.w t damaged. It was full at the tithe, but nobody , burned. The packing-box factory of W. L. Tovy, in Sad - wick street, was also burned to-day. The loss $26,000. The transport steamer Charles Thomas is, 08110 at Hell Gate. She will come Or with damage. Arrived, French gunboat Tisephone, New 0 leans. . Sra Fnewcrsoo, 5ept..22.--A large and enthue esti° Union meeting wasikeld last night, and at tli close several hundred disorderly partisans of M. Clellan attempted to head off and break up the pr. cession. A general riot seemed imminent, but th forbearance of tlio assailed and activity of th pollee prevented it. Only one man was injuibil:. The receipts of bullion since tbie listlteamer ar over $2,250,000. Money is abundant and easy.' ' Dr:. Bellows made -a - favorable iddress iri:beha Of the Sanitary Commission this evening, and Start; for the East to-morrow. - -• • t Sex FRANdiaoo, Sept. 2S.—The mail steam Golden City Sailed today for Panama with•Bl7 pa. sengers and $1,165,000 in bullion: A.• fair business his been done in Eastern ex change. CurrencY: bills 110 per cent. premln.. Telegraph transfer's 63 per cent. premium. Co bills 330;p4 per cent,premium. -) The Chamber of Commerce has Issued a ciroulsY pointing out the defects in the postal service on thit, coast SAVDIVICE T.SLATWS. Advlces from the Sandwich Islands to Angtui 28tli have been received.here. The Constltutional Convention abrogated the Constitution under wide all the members of the Government were sworn The election for representatives Is ordered fo September 29th. The new Legislature meetspot ber 15th. The step is well - ieceived by the people generally, and the Constitution Is pronounced' an . , improvement. DENVER CITY, C. T., Sept. 21.—The (Institu tional election was held in this Territory, on the 13th. Returns come in slowly, but enough havel been received to show that the State Constitution is defeated. Allen and Bradford are elected delegatelto Con gre 88. THE *AILS OF THE STEAMER FAWN RECOVERED LARGE NUMBERS OF REFUGEES ARRIVING--cox Naw Yonx, Sept. 24.—8 y the arrival of the steamer Albany, we have received North Carolina advices to the 22d inst : The steamer Fawn, which was recently . cantured and burned by the enemy, contained the Boit= mail of the 4th and sth Inst. and the New York mall of the sth and 6th init. A large portion of the malls have been rescued from the wreck and brought to Newbern. A flag of truce recently brought to Newbern a large number of refugees, many of whom belong to the first families of the State, who are on their way ,North, having lost all confidence in the Confederate cause since the fall of Atlanta. Among the number is the wife of the rebel General Martin. The Wilmington and Weldon Railroad has ad vertised a dividend of ten per cent. The Salisbury (North Carolina) Itratsliman hae the following: "We protest against the inhuman treatment extended to Yankee deserters, who' are subjected to a course of treatment whtoh makes fife far more uncertain than the battlefield gaol*: A general pardon from Lincoln would doubtless re lieve the Confederacy of at least fifty thousand of these miserable beings, provided tbey have strength enough to enable them to make their escape North." DEPARTMENT OF ME SUSQUEHANNA SALUTE 808 SHERIDAN'S SECOND 3710TORP. :HEADQUARTERS OE THE DEPARTMENT DE_THE SUSQUEHANNA, IDHAM.SERSBURG, Sept. 24 —Gene ral Orders, No. 64.—0 n receipt of this order the commanding officer of each military distriot and post in this department will cause to be fired a sa lute of ore hundred guns, in.honor of the great vic tory achieved by Major, General Sheridan and the United States forces under his tkomtiand, over the rebel forces under Early, on the 22d Instant, at Fisher's 'Bill; near Strasburg, Va. - • well say that war has refined politics. The privations and sufferings of many .cam paigns have - chastened and purified the people. The associations of the canvass are no longer those of the grog-Shop and gambling hell. The men of wealth and taste and respectability have gradually taken this important duty into their own hands, and we see in the Union League what these- men can do in the most sa cred work of citizenship. I know of - no one civil organizatioh that has done-one. half as much for the cause as the Union League. Comprising many men of prince ly fortune, it has given its money with princely liberality to the raising of troops, the care of the wounded and sick, and the management of elections. It is managing the campaign in its own way in Phila delphia, and with characteristic enter prise begins the work by leasing one of the finest public .halls in the city. An agency like this can do a world of good in behalf of a good cause, and I do not think the loyal men of to-day, nor those who come after, to write the story of this great revolution, will be just or grateful if they fail to recognize and rewaud these true and brave men. Thus we see that on all sides the ranks are:closing up. With swords drawn and shields locked the friends of the Union march on to victory. McClellan cannot be elected unless by a trick or a subterfuge; and we not only have the assurance of triumph; but a triumph that shall be over whelming. The country is aroused. Men, women, and children, the soldier, clergy man, judge, are alike engaged in, the Holy Work. Ido not use the words profanely, for it is a Holy Work indeed. We are in a new crusade. We war upon slavery and treason as the early knights warred upon Paganism and tyranny. They saved 'from destruction the