%\t Jj r SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, i B6l T,H *«E S «w»*EKor KTEBT CO UNT Y. • Ohßßtnnt CoaM ITTEE Booms, No. nos ® t ;^ a - ,rieadsl »”«ry county and die s 3. Immediately, without one rfli'r’? Se ® ddo ffi ® State Committee a correct copy ■ 8 ticket, giving plainly the name of each «uutwate for every office. All this most be done to ana* Ms th.® tickets to be prepared to seed to the severs! re£i- ■ * meatier the State. County Committeee ehonld also prepare and send ■ With the Commissions their several county tickets, or ‘ send a special. agent with the Commissions to carry ’ •Chem. . - 'Oue of McClellan’s Friends on Oui Vic. ■ tories.. ■ One of the strongest friends of Me Clel lan in New York is C. Godfrey Gun ther, Mayor of that city. He was the president-of the McClellau ratification meeting, on. the 22d nit., and privately and publicly is eloquent in his admiration of the hero of the swamps. What such a man says is important, not only because he is the intimate friend of a Presidential candidate, but because New York is the headquarters of McClellanism, and lie is the Mayor of that city, the representative man of his party. Very recently Sherman aroused the en thusiasm of the nation by the capture of Atlanta ; suddenly, and before the echoes; of the cheers for Sherman’s victory had died away, Farbagut gloriously added to his deeds in Mobile, the seizure of Fort Mor gan. These were victories great enough to satify the most despondent patriot that the war was not a failure; yet, as if each of our generals was in rivalry with the others, Sheridan sent from the Shenan doah the tidings of a triumph 'that; has scarcely been excelled in the war. He not only defeated the enemy—he routed him. He attacked an army; he drove before him u mob; he never paused in his career of exultant pursuit till the whole Yalley was at his'mercy and ten thousand men were blotted from the list of the foes of the Union. What effect these victories had upon the nation, we need not pause to say. Who that cares for his country does not yet feel thfi joy they awakened, and repose in the confidence they confirmed. The stem cannon of the Union, in these im mortal battles,; sounded proclamation of despair to its enemies. Then, while ail patriots rejoiced, Gunther moaned. The Common Council’bfNew York pro posed to celebrate these great victories by -an illumination of the public buildings. The resolution, passed by both boards, was submitted to Gunther, who vetoed it with unusual energy, and accompanied his disreputable veto with a letter explaining his reasons for not rejoicing over Union victories! What can these be ? Gunther must give them himself, for we cannot • Gunther objects to rejoicing, because he cannot find anything to rejoice over. He “does not see’’ (none are so blind as those 'who will not see) how people “ can v be expected to rejoice oyer victories which, ■whatever they may be, surely are not Union victories.” By an argument which -reminds us of Mr, Richard Vaux lecturing ■on the subjective and objective to the un happy: .orphans at Girard College, Gun • thee attempts to prove that as “it has been the immemorial custom of man- hind (!), in all ages and climes (!), to ab stain from rejoicing over victories gained in civil wars (!), the only effect of depart ing from this usage, sanctioned alike by hu manity and sound policy ( !); will b» to ac knowledge, by such exhibitions, that; these are victories over aliens and enemies !” Gunther's immemorial custom is a new historical discovery. Any school boy could ..tell the Mayor of Hew York that earnest men always rejoice over victories, and there is no child of loyal parents.who does not know, what Gunther should know, that precisely because these are victo ries over enemies, we should rejoice over •them. What- are the men who declare the Union divided but our enemies ? Who are Davis, Lee, Hood, Benjamin, but the enemies of the Union and those who love it? What are those men who. have killed thousands of our sons, brothers, and fathers, but our enemies ? Gunther will not acknowledge them as our foes, and he supports McClellan for the Presidency. The friend of McClellan would treat as friends the rebel.enemies of the Republic. Bythis,friendship George B. McClellan. may profit if he can. But though Gunther may regret these' victories, and vote for McClellan, loyal men will rejoice, and none more than those who won them. Tell the soldier, if you dare, that these were not Union victo ries ; that the men he drove before him are not enemies. Mr. Gunther has so de clared, and signed his name to a letter so terribly stupid, so very ignorant, ■unpatriotic, that we imagine that the “rule he laid down for his guidance as Mayor” was neither found in the English grammar or the common school history. Gunther will not rejoice because we have. ' whipped the rebels? Well, we can rejoice without him. The only point worth noti cing is this—that he is McClellan’s warmest friend and one of his chief ad- visers. The Congressional Canvass In Mont gomery and I.ehigli, George Bullock, the Union candidate in the Congressional, district composed of Montgomery ' and Lehigh counties, is making a splendid canvass. There, are some curious political obliquities in this struggle. The nominee of the so-called Democratic party is a Mr. Boyer, who ■clearly possesses all the qualifications en titling him to the attentions of the new Democratic party. He has been a Know- Mothing of tbe worst stripe, and a member of nearly every political organization; in deed, he was even contributing to a Doug las Democratic paper when the rebellion broke out. In order to secure bis nomina tion several influential Democrats had to be postponed, and some even entirely ignored. Dr. Acker, the editor of the old Democratic paper, who was again out for the support of the party, was thrown overboard. Col. Owen Jones, who fought with: distin guished courage in the present war, and a gentleman of large fortune, having con sented to be a candidate for tbe nomina tion, received but two totes! Had Colonel Jones followed out his original declara tions .against the Lecompton fraud, at the opening of the Kansas controversy, and had he’, when he returned from the war, placed himself upon the Union platform, where he was at the beginning of the war, in his own township, at a public meeting, Me would not have been subjected to the Humiliation of being rejected by a Copper- Head Convention. He would have been the nominee of the Union party, and re turned triumphantly to the National Legis lature. It is one of the'extraordinary •anomalies of politics that any man who has acted as Colonel Jones ha§ acted in the present war should trust, himself to the •Copperhead party at all. That party has taken no man who has truly and consistent ly fought in this battle for freedom, and put him forward as a candidate for luera .tiye and distinguished honors. Even Col McCandless (a colonel who might have been a brigadier general), of this city has ■been put off with the doubtful and surely .expensive situation of chairman of a local party committee. There is no known fight ing man- running on the Democratic ticket to-day, in any part of the Union, unless he is doing so in order to revenge personal grievances on the Federal Administration. Had Gwen Jones, with/his large fortune, •early recorded himself in favor of the right, be would not, we say . again, have been -humiliated. He should now remember ■that the only people who refused, kt the .ballot-box, to give the soldier his right of , suffrage, were the men who opposed his nomination to Congress. George Bullock, the Union candidate, as doing what every candidate ought to do in the present struggle. He is devoting all his means and energies to the support of the common canse, conscious that as he labjri he both for himself and for the. Government. The, district in which he runs was carried in 1858 by John Wood against Owen Jones, and this was consummated by incessant energy and solid harmony among the friends of the good cause. The Democratic masses of Mont gomery, six years ago, condemned Jambs Buchanan’s infamous Kansas policy, and the revolt among them was so general that politicians changed front in a day, and township, after township threw its vote against that policy. Hon. J osepii Bailey is a candidate for re-election to Congress in the counties of York," 'Cumherland, and Perry. He is making a gallant struggle against Adam J. Glossbrenner, the Buchanan and Jeremiah S. Black candidate. Here there is a plain issue.* Mr. Glossbrenner is a personage of considerable political re nown, and-deserves high credit for the boldness with Which he has asserted the doctrines of the two gentlemen with whom he has more latterly and immediately been identified. Mr. Buchanan, while Presi dent of the United States,, announced an extraordinary theory in his last annual mes sage. He asserted that the Government could not protect itself, so that in this district the whole issue, the right of secession and the wrong of coercion, is involved. Mr. Bailey does not run as a party candidate ; Mr, Glossbrenner does.; Mr. Bailey is the representative of the soldiers ,as well ■ as of their friends ; Mr. Glossbrenner of the sympathizers with secession and of the Secessionists themselves. When we reflect that the district in which these two gentlemen are now running for Congress has been ravaged by rebel hordes, we may see that if every soldier who followed ■Early, McCausland, and. Stuart, in those raids was hailed upon to Vote, he would vote for Glossbrenner against Bailey. But we may still feel sure that an unaccountable number of people would be ready to vote for the latter. Now the question is whether the Democratic party, which assisted James Buchanan in 1858; is more deserving of the confidence of the voters of Montgomery county than when they rejected Buchanan’s policy in their own defence; whether that which inspired the Democratic masses in the great' cause; in the past is not a thousand times more important in the future. ' y There is no more interesting contest than that now going on in the Montgomery and Lehigh Congressional district, and none that should tend less to awaken patriotic solicitude. A Correction. Iu the report of the eloquent speech of Daniel Dougherty, Esq., at Union League Hall,' published in our columns yesterday, and copied into other papers, a, mistake occurs , which we think Mr. Dougherty undoubtedly would desire to have corrected. The report; makes Mr. Dougherty say : “ Temporize with these traitors, who are bent on destroying the Government, the last hope of suffering mortals! Never, never, never! The day the Democratic party admits these men to her counsels ’ her dbom; is sealed, and she deserves to die. Let the Democi'ais" rave, and rave, and rave, and we will laugh their threats to scorn; but if they commit one overt act of treason, hang them from off the dome of the Capitol, and teach their followers that the liberties of the nation are too precious to be destroyed by those who, rather than fail in their unholy ambi tion,would deluge their native land with fraternal blood.” These strongwords will find an echo in every loyal heart, but the true. Democrat who uttered them never said ‘‘let the Democrats rave, and rave and rave,” but “let the miscrearUi rave.” ' Though some miscreants are Democrats, all Democrats are hot miscreants---a fact of which Mr. Dougherty’s own noble pa triotism is a forcible illustration. - We hail with mjich satisfaction the re storation of harmony between the Execu tive of this State and one or two members of the Federal Administration. ''Governor Curtin has been efficient, patriotic, and unselfish in the performance of his grave and "exciting duties, and it has" been a source of great pain to thp friends of The common cause that anything should have arisen that should have alienated those who Have each heavy burdens to carry. We would not make, this public reference to the restoration of good feeling between the State and Federal Governments but to hope that nothing again may occur to induce to disturb the peace. Wc understand that it is Governor Curtin’s intention to make a personal appeal to the soldiers in the army, whose earnest friend he is, and their ear nest friend from the beginning, to cast their ballots for the only candidate now in the field.who is uncompromisingly devoted to the principles for which they arc fighting. The course of the JST. Y. Herald during the last few weeks has somewhat mystified the [mongrel crowd who delight in that amiable sheet. What with its alternate abuse of what it terms the Baltimore Shoddy Convention and the Chicago Shent-per-shent Convention (though what it means by those terms an over-ruling Providence only knows), its. advocacy of either candidate in obligingly proximate paragraphs, and its stern denunciation of the “partisan press,” it has bewildered finally even those who, have withstood the mazy influence of its former gyrations. We, however, perceive its drift clearly* and 1 intend here to expose it. The fact of the matter is this: The Herald has been con verted of its Sataniety, and is a prime backer of Horace Greeley for the Presi dency. This may seem an astounding revelation to our readers, but we can as sure them it is absolutely the fact. We have it on good authority that the Herald will in a few days boldly hoist the flag of a third and independent party for the com ing campaign., In proof of this we have ■ only to instance the fact that Mr. Bennett ■: has hot called the editor of the Tribune “ poor Greeley” for a week past. We cannot publish all the material in our pos. session, but all will be clear before the week is out. It is said, too—but of this we know nothing—that in the event of the suc cess of this ticket Bennett is to be minis ter to Eayti 1 and a valuable officer he would be in that region. We see by this that the Herald is not so bad as It is reputed to be. It is not the devilish, conscienceless creature of the worst elements of our society. It is a re former, and seeks to work, by roundabout ways simply, success to the principles we all approve. - ; The Copperhead press is continually prating about the proprieties of the can vass. To some people, who have in mind the uniform course of many of the Opposi tion papers, these advices and admonitions appear ludicrous enough. We will yield to none in a desire to conduct this great canvass in a dignified and earnest manner, and we would fain believe this to be the wish of pvery journal, whether of our way of thinking or not; But what shall we say of this utterance of the Binghamton Daily Democrat. Speaking of Mr /Uincoln, after a furious tirade it closes thus: “is such a President fit to govern? No, not fit to live !” One is inclined at first to be slight ly indignant at such expression as this, but only for a moment. This New “York Pott of the Binghamton JSatansville Democrat may go his way, but not unwhipped of the scorn of honest and decent men. “It is regarded In military circles as quite pro bable that General Sherman will be ordered to re l)c'tt to General Grant at Petersburg, leaving Gen; Thomas in command at Atlanta. When Grant was in the Southwest, Sherman and McPherson ware regarded as the < brains’ of his army. It Is very certain that Grant’s career since he separated from Sherman has been a failure. 'By giving him Sher man ack again, It Is thought probable that ho may recover, something of his former renown.’’-- New York Express. . ~.. llow many votes does the Mcpress expect to gam for MpCmthLAN by this slander of Ghaut . Is it because Qbant’s success has exposed the absurdity of McClellan’s strategy, and oyer-shadowed all his pre tences to military ability, that the Copper head papers systematically disparage him ? At the best it is' a mean way of helping McClellan, to pretend that Quant has Jailed. _ : Another Outrage. To the Edit or of The Tress: y :> . Sie : The press, has lately teemed with Instances of brutal [treatment to colored people by the con ductors of passenger railroad oars. We have another instance to record, and we hope you will Insert It" In your valuable paper, as It shows the depth of malignity and cool brutality some of the conductors possess. On Thursday evening a very respectably dressed colored woman stepped on the front platform of a. caron Pine street, near Eighth, and was abruptly ordered off by the “gentlemanly” conductor, who swore that “niggers should not ride on any part ot his car.” She remonstrated with him, when ,he seized her by the arm, and dragged her-from'the car, throwing her, with a basket she had, Into the .gutter. In his efforts to force her from the car her, clothes were torn, and her arm very badly lacerated. How long will EttOh barbarities be tolerated in this professedly enlightened c6bimunlty 1 In this case the woman injured will have no one but herself to blame if legal redress is not obtained. The conductor must cer tainly be known, and it is hardly possible that witnesses cannot be obtained. It Will surprise us if so brutal an action should not result in the arrest and punishment of the brute. There is an epic in the following, which we copy from the Union paper published at York, Pa.: U, S. Gknrral Hospital, York, Pa., Sept. 23,1864. Messes, Editors : I herewith send you for the information of your, numerous readers the result of the vote as taken in the several wards of'the army hospital of this place, yesterday morning. Permit me to add that the vote was Impartially taken, without solicitation or intimidation, every soldier voting doing so intelligently and freely. The result, thereibre, accurately expresses the feelings of the soldiers in this hospital: . Total Lincoln’s Wards. Lincoln. McClellan, vote cast, majority/ 1 & 2... 122 26 148 98 3d 60 28 87 81 ■ 4th.. ;... 54 21 ■ ■ 75 33 51 h 76 . . 20 96 56 6th ~...70 19 95 57 7th.......;.. 70 40 110 30 81 It 57 30 . 87 ■ ■ 27 9th., 81 26 10T 56 10th 83 . 23: ' 105 CO • 11th.......;.. 64 24 -83 " 40 12th 56 . 14 70 42 • 13th 82 24 106 88 14th.......... CO 32 92 23 ,16th...' 75 8 , S 3 07 16th,..,....,. 58 7' ' 65 , 51 17th 77 18 95 69 Officers...... 58 3 C! 55 Guards...... 32 5 37 , 27 1240 363 . ; 1608 872 Earnestly yours, for Abe the second timo, W. H. W. When the soldiers who have bccirwound ed or have sickened and lost; their health in theservice;* and: those who are not wounded, but are : still (fighting for the old flag,' are in favor of Abraham Lincoln and not for McCleli,an, why should we not be satisfied that the real candidate of the army is the candidate of the Union party ? ■■ ■ . The Express says that young Mr. Mc- Clellan “ was baptized in blood and fire” in Mexico. If this terrible sanctifying was •actually perfected,: it seems lamentable to reflect that we have no evidence of the re generation of the young disciple. Of what use are these forms and ordinances, of what value are the oaths and prayers of the neo phyte, if he' afterward prove that his new heart is little better than his , old one ? With all sympathy for Mr. McClellan’s friends, we would suggest, as a true state ment of the case, that if he were baptized in blood and fire in Mexico, the ceremonies were re-performed in milk and water in Yirginia. Yesterday afternoon, when the news was published of the repulse of a rebel at tack on our entrenchments on the Jeru salem road by our gallant colored soldiers, a well-known supporter of General Mc- Clellan exclaimed : “ Repulsed by nig gers ! Well, was' it by white niggers or black niggers !” Soldiers of Grant’s army, what do you think of this ? GrAnt’s peace means 'union and sta bility. McClellan’s peace means dis union and anarchy. - WASHINGTON. IMPORTANT/NATAL CHANGES. On the sth Inst, the Navy Department Issued an order relieving Rear Admiral David G. Farraout from the; command of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, and assigning him to the Command of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, in place of Rear Admiral Ban, who will take charge of, the West Gulf Squadron. These officers have been directed to turn over their respective commands with as little delay as possible, and they are now actively engaged In making the necessary arrange ments to do so. ; . - . ... CIBCULAB RELATING/TO' ARMY OFFICERS. A circular has just been Issued from the Adjutant General’s office, submitting the following regula tions for those which have heretofore existed':/ First:. Hereafter, when a commissioned officer of a three yeaTS’ volunteer organization receives a new commission, or an enlisted man is appointed to a commission, he may, at his option, bo mustered into the United States service for three years or the un expired term of the organization of which he may at the time be a member: Provided, That no officer or enlisted man so receiving a commission shall be mustered in for a less period than throe vears, if at the date he presents himself for muster under It he has lesß than six months to serve. Second. All regimental officers 1 of volunteers now in the service of the United States who have been In service three years, and all who shall hereafter have served three years, may, if they so desire, be mustered out and honorably discharged on satis factory proof being furnished the commissary of musters of their command that they have so served provided that the said officers have not in the mean while voluntarily been remustered for three years, or, If belonging to veteran organizations, signified in writing their willingness to serve for the hew term of the organization to which they belong, : Third. Regulations similar to the foregoing will apply to organizations mustered Into service for a less period than throe years. V Fourth. If officora of veteran organizations do not dofire to secure the advantages of iheir former eom : missiens and rank, as contemplated by Section 2 of paragraph 1, circular,No:;36 (currant .series), they can decline to be remustered as tbereth direeted,and take advantage of the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2of this circular in so far'as they may he appli cable. - Fifth. When the regiment, company, or other command of a regimental officer is mustered out, It must be distinctly understood that the officer must bo considered as mustered but therewith at the same time and place as the command. An officer will be held to service for thefull term of his muster only when the regulation command is retained in service 'for him. •.■■■-, ARRIVAL OF; SICK FROM THE FRONT The steamboat Express arrived hero this morning from City Point, which .place .she left yesterday at 10 A. M. . She brings up forty two (42) sick men of ihe_ Engineer Brigade, under charge of Assistant Surgeon/ Baum. 1 These’ men wore immediately placed in the hospital hero. RAILROAD COMMUNICATION WITH TtlE SKE- NANDOAH VALLEY. The Orange and Alexandria and Manassas Junc tion Railroad is to to be repaired and put in run ning order to Strasburg. / A large force of workman, protected by an ample military guard, has boon sent out for this purpose. The work will be pushed forward with tbo utmost possible despatch, in view of the operations of our armies, and communication with Sheridan’s army will soon be opened. THE SEVEN-THIRTY LOAN. The subscriptions to the seven-thirty loan for ths last two days amount to about a million and a half of dollars. DEATHS OF PENNSYLVANIANS, The following Pennsylvanians died hero, and wore buried yesterday Joseph Bbindle, sth Artillery, and Franklin Weshlono, 60th Infantry, A NEW MILITARY BODY. The dorks employed in the Surgeon General’s office have formed themselves into a military orga nization for home defence.' PERSONAL. Colonel M. Reaver, of the 13th. Pennsylvania Cavalry, is here sick. POLITICAL. GOV. CURTIN AND THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, Harrisburg, Sept. 30 —It Has been known here for some time that an engagement existed between Governor Curtin and his old political and personal friends in Centro county to the effect that ha should visit Beliofonte and there Inaugurate the Presi dential campaign in Central Pennsylvania.. In order to fulfil this engagement, Governor Cur tin left Harrisburg to-day for Centre county, and will speak in Beliofonte to-morrow afternoon, where arrangements have been made for Holding a meet ing. ; From Centre county the Governor will pro ceed to fill engagements In other parts of the State, visiting Erie, where a grand demonstration will shortly be made, and to address which he has just received an invitation. The most amicable feeling, as well as a thorough good understanding, exists between the Governor ol Pennsylvania and the Union candidate for the Pro. sidency. /, ■NOMINATION OP G. W, CURTIS POE CONGRESS. New York, Sept, 30.— George' William Curtis has been nominated for Congress by the Republi cans of the First district of this State. / ■ NEW JERSEY UNION - CONGRESSIONAL NOSIINA- Bublington, Sept, 30—Hon. W. A. Newell, of Monmouth, N/J., was nominated to-day for Con gress by the Union Convention of the Second Con gressional district. COLORADO ASD ARIZONA. Denver City, Sept. 30—James D. Clink, late a pay clerk of tbe Branch Mint, who was tried by the United States Court for robbing the Mint last win ter, has been convicted. Charles D. Pastow has been elected a delegate to Congress from Arizona/ The Italian Concert.—Tho sale of: reserved seats for the concert to be given oh Monday even ing, at the Musical Fund Hall, by the Association of Italian Artists, will begin to-day, at Gould’s music store. The programme will be new, and the concert Is expected to be even more interesting than those given this week. Italian music 1b not often illustrated by finer voices than those' of Lorini, Xwt», SW&pi, and A»odlo, THE PBESS.-rnrLIDELPHIA, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 1. 1861 T. J. B. Washington, Sopt. 30. THE WAR. GIANT'S FORWARD MOVEMENT Tlie Whole Army Advancing. THE .ENEMY ATTACKED BY MEADE AND WABBEN. PART OF THE REBEL LINE CARRIED. A KEBEt ASSAVtT NEAR CBAPirS FARM RF.PVISED. A BRIGADE OF SHERIDAN'S CAVALRY / REPORTED AMBUSHED. 2,000 PBISONEBB EXCHANGED BY ■ GENEBAL SHEW MAN. Forrest’s Raid into Tennessee. HIS WHOLE FORCE AT FAYETTEVILLE ' ON WEDNESDAY THE INVASION OF MISSOURI Capture or a Wagon Train ana Mas- sßcre or tlie Guard. REPORTED MOVEMENTS OF THE ENEMY. ©FFICIAX. GAZEITE, TBB ADVANCE UPON RICHMOND—SUCCESSFUL AT. TACKS OF GKNB. ME.AUK ;APTI> WA.NSBM' ON THE BIGHT OF THE EKBBL LINX—A .ISRIOAM OP SHBBIDAN’S OAVALKY AMBUSHED SHEBMAN UNCHANGING FHIBONKB6. . Washington, Sopt. 30,1804-9-10 P. M. A despatch from General Grant, dated at 3% o’clock,this afternoon, at City point, states that Warren attacked and carried the enemy's line to day, on their extreme right, capturing anumber of prisoners. .' Ho immedinteijr prepared to follow up his sue- General Meade moved from ids left this morning) and carried the enemy’s line near Poplar Grove Church. ’ A later despatch, dated this evening at 5 P. fit., reported that the enemy had just made an assault in three columns on his lino near Chapin’s Farm, and hod been repulsed. No ieport had been received from General Meade since he carried the enemy’s line near Poplar Grove Church. No intelligence of General Sheridan’s operations has been-received since Sunday night, except through the Richmond papers, and the latest report from that source which has reached the Department was the advance of his cavalry to Staunton, as heretofore mentioned. The Petersburg papers ol to-day mention a ru mor, which they say is not confirmed, that one bri gade of Sheridan’s cavalry was ambushed at Swift Run Creek..- - . Despatches from Newbem, N. 0., received this, evening, state that the yellow, fever is extensively prevailing at that place; but is not fatal among the troops. They are encamped outside the town. A despatch from General Sherman, dated at half post bight o’clock last night, states that he has made an actual exchange of two thousand of his: own army, and has made an arrangement with Hood to send to the other prisoners a supply of olothing, soap, combs, etc. THE AKMY BEFORE PETERSBURG. THE REBEL DISBKRTRRSAND THE COLORED TROOPS —DEATH OF LIEUTENANT AMES, Headquarters Army op thr Potomac, Sept. 28.— Five deserters came In last night, in front of Colonel Russell’s brigade of the Bth Corps, giving: themselves np to the colored pickets on the line. These men had been conscripted, and had served out their time, but could not obtain their discharges. As soon as they found that they would not be forced into our ranks they made up their minds to desert, expressing their intention to their comrades. This they accomplished; and are now on their way North under the terms oi Gen. Grant’s proclama tion. The rebels seem to have got over their noted 'an tipathy to the colored soldiers. Some time ago they made It a rule to keep up a continual fire wherever these soldiers made thefr.appearanoe ; hut now they remain as quiet on that part of the line occupied by the colored troops as at any other point. ' When deserters: come' In, many of them being Virginians, they are always willing to accept: food from whatever, source if may come, .and. .they can often be seen sitting on the ground eating with .the negroes, and acting towards them as though theik, skins were as white as their own, : Lieut. Ames, of Ames’ Battery, was killed on Monday by a rebel sharpshooter. The ball entered his side, and he died almost Instantly. A great deal of firing has been Indulged in by both Sides to-day along, the entire centre and right. Quite a lively , skirmish occurred at dark last evening while the pickets were being relieved on the centre of the line. . ■REBEL ATTACK HEAR THE JERUSALEM ROAD RB * PULSED. Washington, Sept, SO.— The news brought to day by.passengers from City Point, who left there yesterday, has been anticipated by the official bul letin.. .. They mention that on Wednesday night the rebels made an attack on our advanoed intrenohments In front of Fort Sedgwick, near the Jerusalem road, hut were easily repulsed. ' "GRANT’S WHOLE ARMY JN MOTION. : Washington, Sept. 30.— Passengers by the boat from the front this morning state that'G-rant’s whole army Is in motion*. He has been in readiness for some time, and jonly awaited the . development of Sheridan’s operations to proceed. Thanks to rebel enlightenment, : he was enabled to seize the favorable opportunity; and is now executing his plans. . f . . THE MOVEMENT OR ORD’S AND BTRNEY’S CORPS— THE REBEL ATTACK ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT RE PULSED BY COLORED TROOPS—HEAVY FIRING ON THURSDAY. Washington, Sept. 30.—Early on Wednesday night General Ord’s corps, the 10th, began to move from their old position to Jones’ Neck, on the Jameß, where a pontoon bridge had been thrown across the river, and immediately began to cross. By twelve o’clock the advance guard succeeded in effecting the’erossing in safety and before daylight the whUBo corps got over. An advanoe was immedi ately ordered, and the entrenchments on Chapin’s Farm were carried with but little show of resistance on the part of the rebels. There appealed to be but row rebel troops in the entrenchments, and it is, thought they had boen previously withdrawn either to be sent up the val ley to check Sheridan, or to the Weldon Railroad; fearing a blow from Grant in that direction. We, however, captured between three and four hun dred prisoners and fifteen pieces of artillery, as al ready stated. The 18th Corps, under General Blrney, advanced from Deep Bottom about the same time that .General Ord did. General Birnoy moved up to the New Market road, and carried the entrenchments with ease, the rebels showing but Tittle disposition to contest the ground. They appeared to be com pletely surprised by the appearance of our troops in that direction. , Of the subsequent movements of our forces nothing was known at City Point when the express left there, and there was nothing to Indicate that the advance of Ordor Bimey had been Checked. It is confidently believed at'City Point that the rebels have withdrawn largo numbers of troops from the defences of Richmond, and sent them up the Valley to aid Early. This being the case, Ord and Blrney can make considerable progress before the rebels ban concentrate their forces; 1 On Wednesday night:the rebelsmadeafurlpus at : tack on our advanced earthworks in front of Fort Sedgwick, on the Jerusalem plankroad. These en trenchments wore held by a portion of the 2d bri gade, 3d division, Otli Corps. The rebels were hand somely repulsed with considerable loss." These are the works which were captured from the rebels seve ral weeks ago by our troops, and this is the second unsuccessful attempt the Johnnies have made to take them, The troops attacked were commanded by Colonel Russell, of the 28th United States Colored Troops. Fort Sedgwick opened fire on the rebels, and accelerated their movements on their retreat. Russell had-his men In line of battle In two minutes after the attack. ’ -T; T; ' LATER. , A quartermaster just arrived from the front In forms me that the firing was particularly severe on Thursday, and when he left there yesterday there was still heavy cannonading going on. _. \OKTH CAKWIXA. DESTRUCTION OX A BLOCKADB-RONSER, Washington, Sept. 30.—Acting Master KeSnbel, commanding the U. S. steamer Niphon, writing to the Nary Department from off Now Inlet, N. C., under date of Sept. 26th, reports that on the 26th he discovered a. long steamer, painted white, with two smoke staeks:and two masts, coming out of!the Swash channel. He immediately gave chase, and fired several broadsides at her, nearly,every shot o 1 which took effect. The Niphon attempted to run down the blockade-runner, but was unable to do so, but, owing to her superior speed, she escaped; An other United States vessel overhauled her, however, and chased her aground off Half-Moon battery, where she was set on fire by her grew and destroyed. The name of the blockade-runner could not he as certained; FORTRESS MOSKOI3. . DEATHS AT HAMPTON - HOSPITAL. Fortress .Monroe, Sept. 28:—The following Pennsylvania soldiers have died at the Hampton Hospital since the last reports t Mathias Shaffer, 3d Pennsylvania Artillery; Johnson Wallace, 97th Pennsylvania.; Lewis Bush, 2d Penpsylvania Ar tillery j Robert B. Greer, 2d Pennsylvania Artille ry ; George W. Colburn, 85th Pennsylvania ; Cap tain Lewis Watkins, 85th Pennsylvania. Also, the ipU9ffiߧ ir«» New Jersey: John Brown, 37th Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. New Jersey; Francis Hendershoss, llthNew Jer sey. * . MARINE DISASTER, The steamer Continental, from Newhern, bound., to New Orleans, put in here to-day and reports that she took In tow from New York the barge Resolute, laden with hay. Duilng the passage the barge filled and sunk, but no lives were lost. ARBI VAX. or SICK AND WOUNDED—HEAVY VISING AT THE FRONT ON WEDNESDAY" NIGHT. Fortress Monroe, Sept.29,—The United States hospital steamer George Deary arrived herd this /afternoon from City Point, with about 200 sick and 60 wounded soldiers from the 10th Army Corps hos pital. • - They report that heavy firing was hearaon our left from seven o’clook last evening until one o’clook this (Thursday) morning. No results .were known at the'tlme the steamer lett. / .'■' The removal of patients from the front hospitals, as well aB other movements now going on, indicate immediate activity with/the Army of the Potomac. A VESSEL SUNK. 'Fortress Monroe, Sept. 29.—The steamer Con tinental, from Newbern, bound to New Orleans, put in here today, and reports that she took in tow from New York the barge Resolute, laden with hay. During the passage the barge filled and sunk, but no lives were lost. FORREST’S KAr D ON SHERMAN’S COMMUNICA TIONS—REIDGES ON THE CHATTANOOGA RAIL ROAD DESTROYED AND TRACK TORN HU—LO- CALITY OF ROHE SEA IT. . . ■ ■ ‘ Nashville, Sept. 30.—Forrest, on the night of 28th Instant, was at Fayetteville with nearly his whole force, en route to the Cattanooga Railroad. A small part of the road was destroyed by a small body of rebels. ’Parties of rebel cavalry are scat tered along the line of this railroad, and an attack is apprehended at Duck and Elk rivers bridges, on the Tennessee and Alabama Railroad. AH the trestles and bridges between Athens and Pulaski, a distance of thirty miles, have been destroyed. General Rousseau was at Christiana last night. During the night the telegraph wire was cut be low that place; and this morning there has boen no communication with Murfreesboro. . . Colonel J. Zi. Donaldson, chief quartermaster of the Department of the Cumberland, has been pro moted to brevet brigadier general. Since his arri val here he has opened the Northwestern Tennessee and Alabama and Clarksville Railroads. ADDITIONAL DETAILS OF FORREST’S MOVEMENTS/ Nashville, Sept 30.— Date advices report Gen. Rousseau at Tuliafeoma, The road and wires are in working order to that point A telegram from Pulaski, Ky., reports' that the patrols there fired upon several different squads yes terday. Several Fedefal officers who,’were captured had escaped, and many privates are coming Into our lines. . . . Forrest has twenty-two wagon loads of ammuni tion and nine pieces of artillery, two of which are 10-pounder Parrot, guns. A portion of; the 18th Michigan Begiment was eaptured in the fight at Athens, which Is again re ported captured by Wheeler., In the fight at Sulphur Branch Trestle, Colonel I.atbrop, 11th TJ. S. Colored Troops; Lieutenant Carter and Assistant Surgeon Fred Wagner, 3d Tennessee, were killed., The total Federal loss was seventy-live killed and eight wounded. The 3d Tennessee Ca valry, Colonel Mann, 313 in number, yyere captured at Sulphur Trestlo. The negroes were all treated as prisoners of war and the officers were allowed to keep their private property. The officers will be paroled at Meridian, Miss, and wlll be sent to Memphis for exchange. ’ Forrest moved his lines under a flag of truce at Sulrhiir Branch trestle. The rebels are reported In large numbers oppo site Florence and along tho line of the river. It is believed another attack will soon be made on Pulaski. MISSOURI. THE DEFENCE OF PILOT KNOB—DESTRUCTION OF ARMY TRAINS—DESTaiTCTIOJf OB' CROPS ANT* POPULAR DISTRESS— GENERAL BLAIR RELIBYISD BY GENERAL PLEASANTON. St. Louis; Sept, so.—Oaptain Hill has arrived here, and gives a detailed account of the defence of Pilot Knob, but it does not differ materially from the reports already telegraphed. At one time the rebels were so near the . fort that they got on the drawbridge, which was down, the ropes having been broken, bntthey were driven back with great slaughter, and were forced to retreat. Oar line fired about three hundred rounds; A train of sixty;four wagons had been destroyed by the rebels between fronton and Mineral Point, and the men massacred without a surrender being demanded. One brigade of General Smith's forces is now stationed at Wetemac bridge, a few miles below Jefferson barracks, the remainder of the command being at the latter place. Nothing was known this morning of the where abouts or movements of the enemy. The towns of Ironton, Arcadia, Mineral Point, and Potosi have suffered great injury. Tho crops oL that country are entirely destroyed, and many citizens are utterly mined.- A party of rebels :were reported to be moving, yesterday morning, via Richinond and Washington, towards the South Branch Railroad, but no tidings have yet been received of damage done to the road. GENERAL EWING PURSUED BY THE REBELS TO ■ HARRISON—TWO TOWNS. SET ON FIRE—COMMU NICATIONS OUT OFF. I . . St. Louis, Sept.. 30.—Jhe mail agent or the Southwest Branch Railroad arrived to-night, and reports that General Ewing reached Harrison Sta tion about 10 o’clock last night, closely pursued by the enemy. Fighting has been going on, but the result is unknown.- The road, is cut this fide of Harrison, and the towns of Cuba and Bourbon are burning. Harrison is between these two towns, and the supposition is" that the road is cut on both, sides of that point, severing the communications both with St. Louis and Kolia.” ' Escaped prisoners, who arrived at De Soto to-day, report that Pilot Knob Is still held by the rebels but their numbers or their probable movements are not known. : . : It is understood that a portion of General Smith’s forces will start for Franklin, the, intersection of the Pacific and Southwest Branch roads, forty miles west of here, tc-night. The telegraph between Franklin and Rolla was interrupted at nine o'clock last night, indicating the presence of tho robols on the Southwest Branch Railroad. It was supposed that if General E wing reached Harrison Station, and; found the road out east of him, he would attempt to reach Kolia, where Gen. McNeil is strengthening the post, having the entire male population working on the fortifications. One of the forts commands every approach to the town. General Fisk called out the militia of North Mis souri to again take the field against the guerillas. He confirms all the accounts of the Oentralia massacre. . General Douglass is already in pursuit of the Anderson butchers. A train went down" to De Soto to-day, and found Iron Mountain clear, and sawnothing of the enemy. The condition of affairs below Do Soto Is unknown! The rebels captured about 1,000 pigs of lead. The steamer Barth Able, well armed, loft yester day for below, to serve as a packet-boat. General Pleasonton relieved General Blair from command of the city and county of St. Louis to-day KE STUCK Y. ARREST OF THE PROVOST MARSHAL OF LOUISVILLE AND HIS ASSISTANTS. Louisville, Sept. .30.—Lieut. Col. Hammond, acting commandant of this post, haß arrested Capt! .Dunk, provost marshal of this city, and all his assist ants, Including the military police, for seizing ne groes about this city, and selling them as substi tutes. „ - - . •• The parties will be tried before a military com mission. Major Wharton performs the duties of Provost Marshal.: , ' , : , . The civil police are also said to be implicated in these negro seizures. E U R p 3? E. Jhe Sasionia at Cape Race—Arrival of Muller in lomlon-Thc Times on the Csptnre of Atlanta;—-Recline in the Re bel loan—The Roman ilnestlon—A New Spanish Ministry. St, John’s, N. F.,! Sept. 29,' via Port Hood, Sept. 30.—The steamship Saxonla, from Southamp ton on the 2lst inst., passed Cape Race at'B o’olock this evening, ep route to New York, She was: boarded hy the news-yaeht of the Associated Press, and a summary of her news obtalnod, which Is three .days later, ■ ' . - ■ . , The steamship Jura, from New York, arrived out on the 20th Inst. Muller, the alleged murderer, arrived in London on the 17th inst. “An Immense’crowdfatheredto take a look at him. - The witnesses for. the Crown ■ v?® 1 ® examined on Monday. Muller’s defence has been postponed for one week. The London Times says that the capture of At lanta Is regarded as the crowning success of the Southwestern Army, v The Confederate loan fell three peri cent, on the report of the surrender of Mobile. The French Rentes closed on the 20th at 66f 10c. Consols, for money. : The Atlantic, Great Western, and New York second mortgage railway bonds have advanced two per cent, - : - ‘ ■ Erie railway paid-up shares and Virginia sixes have declined one per cent. The rumors of an approacnlnginterview between the French, Russian, and Prussian sovereigns are considered unfounded in Paris. , The Paris Intelligence says It seems certain, that arrangements have been made betwoi n France and Italy for a solution of the Roman question. The Czar of Russia was to visit the Emperor of the French at Swalback on the 2lst Inst. A new Spanish ministry had been formed, who had announced a conciliatory policy. The ministry is as follows: x •• President of the Council, Narvaez; Minister of War, Cordova; Minister of Finance, Barganollana; Miniate rjof Foreign Affairs. Lleorente, and Minister of the Interior, Gonzalo Brailo. , The commander-in-chief of the Allies in Sehleswig has issued a proclamation prohibiting the circulation of petitions and collection of sslgna . tures under the penalty of rigorous martial law. This is for the prevention of getting addresses from the Northern SchiesWigers praying against separa tion irom Denmark. ■ The Emperor of Austria has gone to Hungary on a military visit. The Turin iournals discuss the question of the removal of the .Italian capital to Florence. The Opinione says that if the removal* is necessary to advance the solution of the Roman question, the Government cannot refuse. . The Legislature ofHolland was opened bv tho Bing on the 19th Inst. " > Denmark consents that the Duchies’ claims on the publlo property of the Kingdom should bo satisfied with the payment by Denmark of a round Sum. The demand of Denmark that the; troops of the allied armies in Jutland are not to be provisioned by Denmark has been absolutely rejected by the" German Powers. . . The Egyptian Government has concluded a loan - of one hundred arid twenty-five millions "of frahCs with the house of Oppenhaim, redeemable in fifteen years.. ; - . > " No commercial intelligence has been received hv this steamer. 3 Shipping Intelligence. Liwpooi. fr ° m Kew Y<)rl£ ' s ®Ptember-19, Catharine, at Arrived from Baltimore, September 19 E.tw », t : vorpool. asioer, at hi- Arrived from San Francisco, September 1R non, at Liverpool. ■ l,r A * ami,a ‘- CALIFORNIA ORGANIZATION OF A REGIMENT OF INFANTRY— BOUNTIES TO RECRUITS. San Francisco; -Sept. 28.—Gov. Do*d has issued a proclamation calling on ,the citizens of California to enlist In a new regiment of infantry, and fill the recent requisition for the old regiments.. Recruiting is going on briskly. The State offers a bounty of $l6O in gold for, new recruits, and $3OO lor veterans, and a tender of $5 per mouth extra pay. Business Is prosperous. The receipts of produce are Increasing. Greenbacks are declining slightly. THE WEST INDIES. PROBI-EOT OF VKAGE IN ST. DOMINGO—MARINE DISASTERS NEAR VOBTO RICO—BLOCKADE RUN NERS AT HAVANA. New York, Sept. 30.—The steamer Corsica has arrived with Havana dates to the 24th ult. There is a prospect of peace in St. Domingo. Over 12,000 Spanish soldiers have been sacrificed during the recent troubles there. Several vessels have been lost off Porto Rico In the recent gales, v Seven thousand people havebeen starved to death at the Cape de Verde; The rebel steamers Susannah and Denbigh left Havana on the 23d for Galveston. The steamer Henrietta had arrived at Havana, consigned to rebel agents. NEW TORE COT. [Special Correspondence of The Press. J New York, Sept. 30,1881. THE MAYOR AGAIN. Mr, C. Godfrey Gunther, our worthy Mayor, has taken It Into his head to veto the resolution of the Common Council calling for an illumination la honor of our victories. In support of this singular transaction he alleges sundry reasons, many of which would bo. docisive if they were true. The Ideas of the Copperheads are somewhat ludicrous. The World seems to think that the Government has no higher aim than-snaring “good Democrats,”/ and, perhaps, if opportunity offered, shooting Mar bles.; The Mayor’s "Ideas are painfully Dutch in their character, and just about as wise. He thinks that weio he to issue his proclamation all who did not illuminate would be considered disloyal. He thinks that the war Is not for the Union; that the authorities claim , our victories as results of the emancipation proclamation. The;’Administration papers claiifi that the victories will be continuous,; therefore, argues the Mayor with a logic acquired " In the fur business, there would Save to be contiqu-, bus iliuminaiiona. Altogether, the Mayor has dis tinguished himself. He hates all that the loyalists like, and writes long answers to everything. There will, doubtless, be an illumination, without regard to his veto. These are the resolutions to which this leading McClellanite objects, and it may be well for people to ponder upon the spirit which has suggested the veto: ’ ■ ; v ' , Resolved, That a special committee of five mem bers from each Board of the Common Council be appointed, for the purpose of makihs the necessary arrangements to cause the various public build tegs to be iilumlnated.in honor of the recent victories on land and sea, and that his. Honor the Mayor be re quested by proclamation to invite the citizens ge nerally to join in the illumination forthwith'. Resolved, That the thanks of the Common Council of the city of New York, are due and are hereby tendered to the gallant soldiers and sailors through whose heroic efforts the Union arms have been tri umphant in so many well-fought fields. ' , THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESAN CONVENTION organized on Wednesday afternoon, Bishop Potter presiding. The regularbusiness will be taken up to-day.. Yesterday the question of a division of the diocese was aruged. The Bishop took strong grounds against the Idea, and declared that he should with hold his approval therefrom. If the diocese were divided, he should keep the funds in his part, or as otherwise worded, “ should never consent to a di vision of the Episcopal funds.” : ■ MAYOR GUNTHER’S LETTER, The following Is Mayor Gunther’s letter to the Common Council yesterday: “Mayor’s Office, “ New York, Sept; 29,1864." “To the Honorable the Common Council: ' ■■ c , , . “ Gentlemen : Your resolution of the 26th. Inst., appointing a ‘committee of five from each Board for the purpose of making the necessary arrange ments to cause the various public buildings to -be illuminated in honor of the recent victories on land and sea,’ is returned, unapproved. . “I might acquiesce In your response to an appeal of your,fellow-citizens, who might desire togive an expression of their feelings respecting these vic tories, but I must: decline to comply with your re quest to issue a proclamation to the citizens gene rally,, to join\in such an Illumination, for various reasons, which I will briefly state. “Ist. If I should issue such a proclamation, there are many citizens who would be denounced as dis loyal, if, through want of opportunity, of Inclina tion, or of means, they failed to comply with the recommendation. “2d, By those in authority they are not claimed as Union yietorles, but as the result of the emanci pation proclamation and latest war measures of President Lincoln, as announced In his ‘TO whom it may concern’ manifesto. . ■ “ 3d. It is asserted that the new policy of the Ad ministration will give us a succession of victories. If this Is the ease, y ourhonorablebody will be called upon to Illuminate every fortnight, and if the par pers in the employ of the Administration, which daily parade ‘the defeat of the rebels,’ are to be believed, threo times a week. . “I yield to do man in my attachment to ‘the Union as it was and the Constitution as it is,’but as the President demands, of the Southern people to abandon the rights which the Constitution con fers,„l do not see how those who have always held that the Federal Government has nothing to do with the domestic institutions of the States can be expected to rejoice over victories which, whatever they may be, surely are net Union victories. . “If these victories.were to unite the States, and were a sure harbinger of peace, I would be pleased 1f I could Issue such a proclamation as would in duce the poorest citizen to part with his last mite for the purchase"of a single tallow candle to cele brate the event. ' “ 4th. It has been the Immemorial custom of man kind, In all ages and climes, to abstain, from re joicing over victories gained In civil wars, and such has been tire practice thus far during the present strife, which has distracted bur once happy Union. The only effect of departing from this usage, sanc tioned alike by humanity and sound policy, will be to acknowledge, by such exhibitions, that there are victories over aliens and enemies, and that there is no hope of securing peace on the basis of the Fede ral Union. This hope, In common with a large por tion of our fellow-citizens, I am not prepared to abandon. “You are aware that here is the essential differ ence between the two parties now contending for political mastery in the Northern States. One of these declares that no terms can be offered 1 except such as may be based upon an unconditional sur renderor the rights of the States, and the other maintains that ‘ peace may berestored on the basis of the Federal Union.’ ' - “ Taking into consideration that a canvass la now in progress of the most exciting character, I am forced to regard the proposed demonstration as one of a political nature, and, according to the rule which I laid down for my guidance on entering upon the duties of mayor, I cannot give it my offi cial endorsement. ' “ , We are root to take counsel together. ioivi ar Tw„ 0 -- the P eaoel " u l people that we were in iB6O. War is upon us—a war forced upon a gene rous and noble Northern people. And, while I am not a sectional man, yet I can see in the wide ex panse of onr noble country, America, the land I love, and you love, and rejoice in ,the citizen. I desire - peace, but I de sire It through war—stern, 'Unrelentiruc. and conquering war,, until the rebels shall acknow ledge, their wrong. Lincoln! I know him, and I love him. ’ [Applause.] The .AmSrioan people know him and love, him. They know him to be the representative of freemen and free labor. How can peace be restored T There is one honorable wav. There are commissioners appointed by the General • Government, who to-day are pleading the cause of peace with eloquence. We have one in the She nandoah—[applause]—and unless he is stung by some miserable Copperhead biting his heel, he wifi ba in Richmond with Grant. [Applause.] Oiu Copperhead friends assert - that this method of pursuloer pea-c ©. 1b unconstitutional. , Jjot this war be prosecuted with, all tbe energy and power of the American people. There Is peace In every flash of our muskets, in every clang of our swords. A united North would to-day have given us peace and restored our flag from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Look at the Chicago Convention. Who nominated Little Mac 3” Not Clement L. Valisndigham, a traitor yet unhung and undamued [applause], but August Belmont, the agent of a foreign banking houso avowedly hostile to the coun try. We all know McClellan has been, for a num ber of years, connected with railroads, and afccus tomed to, look after the safety of others. It Is usual- to 'see on ail cars the inscription, “Pas sengers forbidden to stand upon the platform.” True to his Instincts, McClellan is afraid to stand upon the platform. [Laughter.] Notlong ago * follower of McClellan said: “If Lincoln Is re-elected we will maroh to Washington, with Gen. McClellan at our head, and re-establish the Go vernment on the principles of our fathers.” [Cries of“Never!”] Say what you trill, gentlemen, the people will in November triumphantly re-elect that noble man. [Applause.] ' lie will be inaugurated on the 4th ofMarch, 1866, and woe be to the man, rebel, Copperhead, or devil, that attempts to pso : vent it. [Applause.] The election of Lincoln and Johnson is inevitable. Men of America, are you ready for this straggle 3 It may cost your lire, and the life of millions more. Shall the war cease in gloriously 3 Let your response be an emphatic “No!” as von value the service of those patriots who sleep In glory and,the grave. [Applause ] The next speaker was David Paul Brown, Esq., who said: My fellow-countrymen : I am hare once more among yon, and I am rejoiced to find In this •assem bly that Spirit which is essential to the preservation of the Union In the time of peril. And I am also' rejoiced to find that the women have lent their smiles to the patriotism of the country. ' Fouryears ago to day I had the honor to address you upon the subject of electing a President for the country. The ques tion to-day is, whether we are to have a country to require a President. Ido not come .here to speak for you, but of yon and to yon. And I want to know whether you are- ready to stand by your flag or not. [Applause.] Let me see whether you have fire in your eyes and warnth in your hearts-when you approach this struggle, [applause.] Whom do you represent ? Is the war a. pageant 1 No! It’s a question Involving the fate of a nation. You represent not only your wives and children, but you represent all-time to come. Are you ready to meet the issue ? Have you 'oil In your lampsl [Applause.] Now Is the accept ed time. Now is the day of salvation. [Applause.] If von have no internal stimulus, let the smiles of ; the patriotic women about you stimulate yon into, | some honorable action. Yon, the Inviueibles, not read y! Then let the Irresistibles, the ladles, take charge of yon. [Applause.] Don’t wait-for Novem ber. The. election to control the destinies of this country takes place in little more' than a week. Are yon ready, then ? [A voice—“ Wo are.”] I thank yon for even one voice, for I know it speaks the sentiments of all of you. If you are beaten in October you will be beaten in November, Stand up m SC SSCtSB tfe® interests of your country, and, my word for it, you'will render this election sure.: I know I,have taken a bold position here, but boldness becomes a man at such a time:-Unlike other gentlemen, lam not unaccustomed to public speaking; I am not taken by surprise; No man has a right to he taken by surprise but General McClellan. [Langhter ] But 11 I was paralyzed and bedfast I could.speak In such. a cause as this. The dumb themselves might; speak in such a cause; The dead might speak, - Your 1 brave fa thers, who bought their liberties with steel, speak to you now, appealing to yon to stand by the ■flag. Will, you do it? [Cries of « Yes.”] Your wives and children appeal to you; posterity appeals to you j unborn ages Appeal to yoa, to establish the example of the .permanency of our Republic. Let this scheme of government fail, and what-: can suc ceed If you don’t stand by yonr institutions I tell you plainly you are not true men. [Applause.] I occupy a very pleasant-, position. -1 was born a Federalist, I bave lived a Federalist, and I will die a Federalist. [Applause.] ,It Is impossible for a Federalist to be a traitor to the Government. lam not here to' argue the doctrines of State rights or secession. Think of thirty-five States all sove reign and independent! Why can’t they de clare war? Why can’t they coin money if if they are sovereigh? One other point: I re fer to-the African. Abraham Lincoln has not abolished slavery. I wish to heaven'ho had. [Ap plause.] I have been an Abolitionist since my birth as well as a Federalist. < What has President Lincoln done? ;lie has-pronounced them contra band of war because their former owners have de clared them chattels. He recommended Congress . to carry out this policy; and many of the States, seeing its wisdom, have declared their slaves free. He has not touched slavery in States not in rebel lion, He has, it-is true, created a moral sense 1- against It, hut that is all. The name of Abraham Lincoln will go downwith tbat of Washington— will go down to the last period of recorded time. The decrees of the Almighty may slumber, but -never dief; And there is this decree—that man was horn to be free. [Applause.] The speaker closed by pointing to the folly of the Sonth in attempting to overthrow a Government the control of which was always in its own hands, and by urging that Abraham Lincoln was the only man fit to be entrusted with its control for the next foturyears. The next speaker was William L. Dennis, Esq. His remarks were brief, but well-chosen, and point, ed. We are engaged, he said, in a contest as im portant as that which engages the attention- of the Army of the Potomac. We have against us Jeff Davis, hi 3 army, and his Cabinet. We have against us, also, Jeff Davis’ Northern army. It IS estimated that there are 250,000 Southerners in our hospitals, camps, and public meetings. We have-also against us the enemies of free government in Europe; and against all these we must do battle. The speaker * closed by urging his auditors to battle bravely In the sacred cause of the Union, and success would crown their efforts. The meeting adjourned about ten ’o’clock, with three cheers for Lincoln, Johnson, and victory. HALL OF THE: DNION LEAGUE. Another largo meeting of citizens was held last evening at the Hall of the Union Leagues ' Mr. Edward Shippen was called to the chair. ' The meeting was addressed by Hon. James M. Seovel, of New Jersey. ; He said when he was asked for his opinion of McClellan, he replied of hi m as Kearney had done, that he was either a- coward or a traitor. The reason we have more respect for the traitor In the South than for the Copperheads of the North, Is ‘ that we know that they are our open enemies. /We don’t know whether McClellan Is a friend or an -enemy. We do know that at a-great battle he was on a guhhoat smoking his cigar. Mr. Seovel then eomngred letters of McClellatt during the war with firs letter of acceptance, and showed that he had changed his base. Geo. B. Mc- Clellan, from the timoihe first took command of the army, never had an hdnast, earnest desire te prose cute the war at the sacrifice of his own-personal comfort. -The men who visited McClellan were such men as Horatio Seymonr, Fernando Wood, and Vallandigham, some of whom had said that they wanted a young, gallant Napoleon to drive the Abo lition: herd out of Washington. The Woodward letter is enough to condemn him in the eyes of every bODest patriot. Yon: can’t get a Union idea into Woodward’s head; and that’s tho man whom Mc- Clellan tells you, in; his; opinion, it would be to the interests of the country and .of the people of Pennsylvania to elect as Governor. That letter is enough to ooridemn him In the eyes of all patriots. He then referred to the fact that McClellan's nomi nation was, on motion of Vallandigham, made unanimous. He said the Democratic party talked largely about the Constitution, when one-half of them had never read it, and the other half couldn’t read. It. McClellan had one eye on the Presi dency -and the: other eye on the Constitution, and he went on to fight the rebellion in the dark. That’s not the way- we want the war carried on. The Northern Copperheads are the kind of men who don’t represent a loyal descendant of America. It is. time we were in earnest in this matter. V.’o have lost enough of treasure and blood already in whipping the devil round, the stump. The issue is made up, and we want to Send Sn echo back to Grant knocking at the doors of Richmond, that the hearts of the people of the North are with him. We will bear the flag to the foot of the sccnmed territory, as It was Intended to wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. When we compromised with slavery, we took the serpent into the bosom, and for seventy years it hasltved,there;butitcanstay there no longer. It was late in the day for the Democratic party to say that they had any love and;Sß>mpathy for-the soldiers. They have already told them that they shouldn’t vote.; Every lover of liberty in England waits anionsly.to hear that Abraham'liiceoln is re-elected President. This can) only be done by your votes. When this contest ends, It will end when every man in this country shall do his duty. I have always been for the people, and against the politicians; ana for my country, and against Jeff. Davis: that’s my platform ; and we intend to put down Jeff. Davis, and every one who sympathizes with him in the North. : We wiU end the war by electing Lin coln and Johnson; and by a peace won over a bat tle-field. Rev. Mr. Dennison,Tate chaplain in the United /States Army,-.was then-introduced. -He was an Eastern-man, He had resigned his commission in the army for the purpose of coming home to fight the Copperheads. He would use all his- energies to destroy that body that was doing everything'to de stroy the unity and liberty of the country. Jf it were right for Bishop Polk to carry the prayer-book in one hand and the sword in the other, he felt that he could taka his musket in one hand and his Bible and Constitution in the other, and say, comß boys, and if you can’t find any better leader than me, follow me. He had been opposed to slavery from his youth, and he had believea that- the most severe blows which that institution conld receive would be from the Demo cratic masses. For that reason he had always been a Democrat, and was always earnest and true in speaking and working for the Democratic party, and it was not until he found that James Buchanan had hot one particle of moral backbone that he re jected him and his followers, although he still claimed to be a Democrat. He would not allow those men who had Hardly been baptized in the, chuieh to read him Democratic faith. He main tained that wo should/ not give te a party what be longed to the country and mankind. He then went on to review the causes of the war, the reasons for prosecuting it, and expressed his belief that God in his mercy was. bringing the nation through this struggle to make it the grandest and best nation of the world. ■' \ Captain Colhoun, who was to have addreEaed the meeting, was laboring under indisposition, and was unable to do so. Mr. Joseph SMppen then ad dressed tie meeting, after which it adjourned. ADDRESS OF GEORGE TXCKNOB CURTIS, OF NEW YORK. Pursuant to announcement, a meeting of citizens of Philadelphia was convened . last evening at Musical Fund Hall, the occasion being an address by George Ticknor Curtis, of New York, on tie Issues involved in tie coming Presidential election. Upon being introduced tie speaker commenced his remarks by a reference to tie private biaracter and public ser vices of tie candidate of tie Democratic party for the Presidency,; General McClellan. - It was now eighteen years since he first met that dis tinguisied man, tiougi ie had not enjoyed his par ticular friendship until tie winter of 1862. His qualities as a man and a statesman stood before' the, world upon tests which all intelligent persons could a PP»y- : : His accomplishments as a soldier were bv no means tie limit of his powers. Js® speaker contended that, notwithstanding his S Belial regard for, General McOlellal, he vffW J«e-°J crge others to vote for him, If he believed that there was the slightest dan ger, of .his proving; in the office.of the President to he anything but the firm and Independent min that hneonceived him to be. He continued: If any man labors to bring about General McClelland election in the expectation that he can thereby accomplish ; any selfish, personal scheme, or any public nlan or project that is not as comprehensive as the Union and aa beneficent as the Constitution itself, in mv judgment he will make a great mistake. Ifan v man shall.refrain from voting for him inHhe hMinY that his Administration wllf he infiue “ed by Any person or persons in whom the people of this coin. n’lf frianr Co sJ t W fore, a right to put down It 1 slftance to the exercise of j tg ~,i t ?. r Poi4 l In any State. ; But It can hive to •by force powers, which have h upon it by the Constitution, and V underthe Constitution ; and n e^ taot St treat a State, or the people of at?'. tlus 4’ forfeited _ their rlghf of self.^, 6 - 4 matters to which the Constitni-if 3 ®^!, States does not extend. of ij] On the Issues of the day, the - r , himEelf substantially as follows. t Fit cannot be doabted that th» r, the greatest poEsible peril. On t>,» been so wrenched out of Its appro™ , oa ® its true meanings by those who *5 been charged with its admin?.?™ r ° r k numbers of men have been mis. “> it stead of being the best It is the w4> on earth. On the other hand, them 51 despairing of the attainment nf\: atetj forms of the Constitution. whieV, 6 ? 03 «■ perverted, as they believe, into ■> b longings the war and promoti a t"4N turned their, thoughts to other a tt . forecast .In various modes ofrec™. s > new arrangement of our natioaii Jl; would imply a new national Ideas and Interests, other than t!u* the distinctions between Worth aa.i " intrude themselves among these in the West speculate upon its reh°i 5i * East and with the centre. Men • 5: ' States look upon both sides of them 1° ; Irg on the relative strength and tur tles which go eastward and westwsM ! easy and anxious about the par*iV„T their own or of some other section to .’' diflerenceswblohprodueed, or which 4; this great schism which has sepy3 from the Test of the Union. Meanviiu*; of taxation is settling down upon tw 1 with a terrible weight, and men be^rl 6 magnitude of a public debt which" th& ready beyond the just resources ol tS pay, for which they can see no limit, and which Is expressed in a fluctuating the; most demorallzingof all the fiaanci into which a nation can bethrown. These considerations, then, win be ~ reasonable men, as famishing a saffi. for insisting- that ibe just authority 0 ; Government shall be preserved, aid?-,, modifications are hereafter to be mad,' tioßal system, they must be made acet forms and methods which the Cor scribes. There Is, therefore, in my opinion portantprlnclple, as well as sound poi In the position taken by General Mcyi position is that the Sonthern States rts the Union ; and that If they do so, we them and guarantee to them ail the j th'e'CoEstithtion has ever Secured to th« In speaking of the letter of Preai with reference to alleged peace proposi ly made at Niagara, Mr. OR ADDITION At, CITY NEWS SZZ meteok. A very brilliant meteor was seen is evening about seventeen minutes past > It started in the-constellation Aqnila.i north of Theta, and moving quite rf the west,. disappeared at about the; equilateral triangle, described on a ife Its starting point,- to Alpha Sync, it Si apparently, as a street lamp, and hadii three 'degrees long. The whole time perhaps five seconds; ■ AH ATTEMPT TO STOP A I.Op Lost evening- a man named Geoi a seed 60 years, was admitted into the l Hospital, having; had his right shoulte catisa. It is stated that he was labotir attack of the mania-a-potn, and : stop a locomotive at Sixth and Washir / : the 104th p. v The IOJthP. V will be mustered am and go np to Doylestown this aftenio! CITY ITEM! Gira&T Rtouctiok ik the Pei Goons.—W6 have looked with inters which the recent decline in gold was ■ duce, and have read with some regret charges already preferred against especially in the various department the effect that the latter meant to kej the two-hundred-and fifty gold standai seen enough to Convince ns of the lnj sweeping charges. Having visited prominent houses yesterday, with tl taining .correct information upon this can truthfully say that, so far from' being rigidly adhered to, the erases are absolutely larger-than the decline calls for. The old house of Messrs, i dart & Brother, whose advortlsemer another column of our paper this men ly state (and by all who know them th< is not questioned) that their stock at» September was very light, and that t sequently prepared to purchase goods delphia and .New. York auction i?' greatdecline In gold, which.they tot usual small profits. Among their w seasonable goods—one of the iar assorted stocks In the city—we saw prices hot greatly higher than befor there is not a single article in the which they do not offer at a redw tion these facts as illnstrattve of whai house, but every otherjtrue business Or course, if from any unforeseen ctai should assume amopposite turn, pric a similar direction. A day or two convince the masses that retrain®; on the grounds above stated, will art tended purpose. : A Fact Woeth CoMHimnsH.-, the “Grover & Baker” Stitch, a* Stitch, in Sowing Machine wort,: admitted to be the best, though either dered preferable to the other bys The Grover & Baker Company, wi jthis city is atVfO Chestnut street, m these stitches, and in. selling thes: the purchaser the privilege ores the other, after giving either a fai ating all possible risk in purchase* every Grover & Baker machine soK give satisfaction, and is kept in one .year' free of eharge. We are the testimony of thonsands insayii ver & Baker machines are tie best' . By the way, just as we are going: to that the « Grover & Baker” has jnr premium, awarded for double-third s State Fair at Easton; also, that the awarded a premium for their eleg;: work. Stizz Another Keasoe.—Tteß number of cogent reasons gtreu 'b Sewing Machine, sold at No. 630 Ct preferable to all others In use. Aaot that cannot be too thoughtfully cor chasers—that it Is so simple that showing mahes an. efficient operai chine sold by this Company is ' perfect satisfaction or the mosey win the purchaser. THB CrBEATEST Discovery op matters of ait pertaining to the ado. eex, Paris has emphatically taken the greatest Parisian achievement onr judgement, is the intention of ■ line.” This Inimitable Dressing ft sale everywhere, and should be toilet. It is not only the most for, and beantifier of the hair, but ftnne. Try it. COSFKCTIONS FOR AUTUMS AT Pkices.—Tte autumnal confect i <@ of Messrs. J. ft Whitman & Co if o. 318 Chestnut street, are now t at their splendid stock will show i lost none of Its fame for orlgina'.te ties. They use only the finest am’ In manufacturing, and, doing the the confectionery department in tid are unusually low—a fact that is ff- Messes, C. Somers & Sok’s F j ment, These gentlemen row offer lar old stand, No. 625 Chestnut strset HaU, orihof the most magnificent s' of fashionable Clothing ever offers'! and having imported their mate* In prices, their rates are exceed! Give them a call. Send In your step in and make yohf selection;. Tbb Stock of Gen-m.es* Goods offered by Mr. Gci>rcf 1 Chestnut street, Is the fiae--; ia celebrated “Prize Medal Shirt-' J. F. Taggart, are unsurpassed iff* world, in fit, comfort, and duiaM® Ajwahcing.—Onr armies aw fl * to victory and the doom of season is advancing, a fact wK* 01 every one with the wisdom of ® c a supply of Goal from theft®® 5 Alter, 957-North Ninth street. How to. Ecohomize. —A If the women of America would f extra twelve-inch tail piece to ti« ! of $1,000,000 a.year would oeeSe« thatlf all mankind were to P ri " apparel at the Brown Stone O®® hill &. "Wilson, Nos. 603 anil so® td* Sixth, a sum would be saved St interest on the national debt. ;■ CUBE FOB A. F*tOK.— TaW lasses, one ohnce of lard, l«» r ?• a gill of cherry bounce. If throw up his profession, try ■want any long-haired man, ffIEJ , ef and hand.organ,to sell this •*. Chestnut street In the n ei Stokes & Co.’s One-price Oj>'* v Continental. .Public Ebnefactres-s-— l,l jOBt earned this title, aid joicing oyer a One head of ha« - equalled preparation for rea and beautifying the Hair. H f! storer quickly cleanses the fall; the hair, if gray, la eii colorj firing it the same quantity as In youth. For whoso hair requires frequent ® faiTium, or World’s Hair D re: Ho lady’s toilet is complete ff !t -gist has it for sale.