Ct't ;I,lrtss TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1804 UWe can take no notice of anonymous comma aleations. We do not return rejected manusorlpts Jew- Voluntary correspondence is solicited from al parts of the world, and especially from our Moran military and naval departments. When used, it wil be paid for. Who. Broke the Peace on ,Saturday Night I The eloquent BURKE: never uttered ' a nobler or truer sentiment than the follow ing, spoken at a period of 'extreme national agitation : "We must pardon something to the spirit of Melly !" No well-disposed citizen., .of course, does regard the scenes of violence which occurred in , one of ow' chief thoroughfares, on Saturday night, with any other feelings than those • • of profoundest sorrow. The causes of such outbreaks, however, lie on the sus face, ant are patent to the view. In the procession of the opponents of the Government were carried a number of transparencies grossly caricaturing the CHIEF MAGISTRATE OF THE NATlON—placing him in attitudes re volting to all 'ideas of decency and pro priety—now in the embrace of negro women—now in the act of swallowing negro children—then on a scaffolding, resting on the shoulders of negroes—with other insulting and degrading repre sentations ! So long as such carica tures are confined to the shop-win dows, as an article of merchandise, they arc harmless, but when paraded, in a public manner, through the streets, amidst a dense and excited populace, it it not to be wondered that the passions of men become inflamed, and that, they arc greeted :with volleys of mud 'and other more hurtful missiles. It is a noteworthy fact, too, that the " getters-up" of the dramatic display of Saturday night again wholly ignored our brave soldiers and sailors. No • banners for the noble GRANT—none for the heroic SHERIDAN, and the victory he had just achieved in the . Valley—none for the intrepid FARRAGUT -and his brilliant naval triumph before Mobile ! The entire spirit of the display—indeed,the very letter of it—was anti-American, offensive, dis gusting, and. inflicted poignant stabs on the tenderest sensibilities of thousands of citizens. And all this, be it remembered, by a party that makes the very welkin ring 'with unfounded accusations against the Government of an attempted suppres sion- of the freedom of opinion! The base charge, we see, is refuted in the very monient it is made. We justify no resort to mob-violence, of course. • On the contrary, we deprecate it as the very spirit of' Pandemonium. But we would-place the responsibility of Satur day night's outrages where it belongs. It rests with ihe sy9npathieers with the rebellEon. It is . . simply part and - parcel of that fell spirit wych.fired on Fort Sumpter, seized on the nation's : mints, and forts, and cus tom honks, and dragged entire States, itolens miens, out of the Union. Another Election ,Trick. Governor SEYMOUR recently appointed State agents to receive the votes of New York soldiers. One of these has con fessed himself guilty of forging votes for McCLELL.or, and another has been con victed of the same crime. Their arrest, and that of other of his agents, was ordered by the United States Government, and the order was just, necessary, and legal. - But Gov. SEYMOUR, who did nothing to suppress the riot in New York, who did nothing to as sist the execution of the draft, who does all in his power to thwart the National Go vernment, has, of course, attempted to prove a new case of tyranny and interfe rence with the freedom of elections. He has sent three commissioners to Washing ton, to inquire into the matter and manner of these arrests, and also, in his own lan guage, " To take such action in the premises as will vindicate the laws of the State and the rights and liberties of its citizens, to the end that justice may be done, and that all attempts_ to prevent soldiers. from this State, in the service of the United States, from voting, or to defraud them or to coerce their action in voting, or . to detain or alter the votes already cast by them' in ptu.suance of 4 lhe laws of this State, may be exposed raid punished." Goveinor SEYMOUR has not the slightest evidence that any attempt has been made to prevent New York soldiers from voting, (nevi the attempt made by his own agents, who refused to take any votes that were not for McClellan. He knows, too, that the arrest of these forgers was made by, the Government to protect the soldiers. Yet in this underhand and disingenuous way, without proof, he accuses the Government of the United States of the very crime it has discovered and punished. Governor SEYMOUR would never have found out that atrocious forgery; he had confidence in the forgers, or he would not have appointed them his agents. His party has been struck a terrible blow by the exposure of this in famons crime, and no false cry of "forger ! forger !" can divert public attention from the real criminals.. His commissioners are direCted to report with " all convenient speed." No doubt they will tell a terrible tale about the 7th of .November—all elec tioneering dodges are published just in time to have an effect on the ignorant, and just too late to be contradicted. Nai t yland Unbound. To-day slavery ceases in Maryland. A State fair and fertile as our own, •only needed to be free to become as prosperous and happy. Maryland has long owned, a divided rule. Her climate, he4geography; her material and moral interests, all bound her to the North ; she was, linked to the Smith solely by. a social institution. But her tendency has been for half a century steadily towaTds freedom, nor could the prejudices of her people, the tyranny of her slaveholders successfully oppose the inevitable gravitation. In 1779 she had 8,048 free colored citizens, and 103,036 slaves. In 1840 there were 62,078 free blacks,•and 89,737 slaves. In. 1860 there were 83,942 free, and 87,189 slaves. Mark, by these • records, how strongly the State. has struggled to throw off the burden that • has bowed her to the earth. Maryland would have been freed by her own law of development, even had she not been eman cipated by the war and the suicidal rebel lion: of slavery against the Ggyernment which gave it local protection. Nor will it ever be forgotten-that the curse has been thus early lifted from the State by the de cision of her 'own patriotic soldiers. Her noblest citizens are doubly her saviors— they defended her from rebellion with their bayonets, and have freed her from slavery with their votes. To-day will hereafter be an anniversary of freedom, to be kept sacredly by At least thirty thousand beings - who were chattels yesterday are men and -women to day. All the North will. rejoice; in their liberation, and Philadelphia will celebrate the event with fitting ceremonials.. No 'Southern State is so dear to us as Mary land; and this divorce from slavery unites her *forever with our progress and pros perity. "My Maryland 1" the North says to-day, "what God.hath joined, no power shall part." , Confessions of a Democratic Editor. 11 new and significant' - revelation of the infamy of the great Copperhead conspiracy in aid 'of. the rebellion has jusi been made. 'JOSEPH J. llmounwt, editor of the Indiana polis Slate Sentinel, a well-known PalVt7 and . &airman of the Democratic State Cen tral Committee of Indiana, has confessed to the military commission now in session at Indianapolis all that he knows of the .great conspiracy which Mr. ilovr lately e x posed. He has told enough to show that the- present Democratic party is largely controlled by, the worst men in the country. Mr. ; Braaaem joined the Order'of Amerfean'illnights one year ago ;.hawas in the confidence of its lead ers ;ho waa aware - of rplot to release the rebel prisoners in all the Northwestern camps ; he knew that a revolution against the Government was organized ; he knew that Governor MonToN was to be assassi nated. All of this time he was editing the leading Democratic plper . of Indiana, and denying that this conspiracy existed. Ha leas at once a traitor and the chairman of the Democratic State .Committee. All this lie has confessed, and the damning fact will go into history to the eternal shame of the false leaders . of' his party. Those who will not believe the mass of evidence of the existence - of this horrible conspiracy are not.. to be convinced by any proof. It was born in the Democratic party, controlled . by Democratic leaders, intended to advance . them to power by the ruin of the country, and every . man who had a haAd in it sustained MCCLELLAN for the. Presidency. We do not think so meanly of the American people as to sup pose that the majority of those who will vote for him are disloyal ; but we do say that all who arc disloyal hali - e adopted him as their candidate. Loyal men who vote for ItIcCLELLAN must do so in defiance of the fact that the rebels have cheered him, that VALLANDIGILAM nominated him, and that traitors at home and abroad arc his friends. Post Office Money Order System. . The comity of nations happily permits one country to appropriate to itself the inventions and improvements which the ingenuity of another may have made. The American FULTON first made Steam Navigation a practical action instead of a fanciful theory, and the English STEPHEN- S(); did the same by Railwayism ;, so with Monsn, who Set the Electric Telegraph to work ; so with .our sewing machines. Each country freely borrows from the other. Even now, England is about fashioning her railway cars after the American model, has adopted our system of street nomenclature, (calling a line of streets by one name, instead of considering every block as a separate street,) and has commenced numbering the houses with odd .numbers on one side, and even on the other, instead of having Number 1 on the right facing Number 500 - on the left. "Give and take" is a model motto for society in these and similar cases. What is called the Penny Postage Sys tem, which went into operation in England early in 1840, was adopted in the United States in March; 1845, and went into prac tice in the following July. It would- be simply waste of words to declare how sa tisfactory the change has been. We are on the eve of another great Postal benefit :- 41iis .very . day,. the Money Order 'System will go into effect. Like the Penny Post age, it comes to us from England, and pro mises to be a. decided benefit to the public. Let us briefly Indicate what this system • will effect. „Let .us suppose that Mr. John Smith, residing in St. Paul, Minnesota, sEould desire to remit the sum of ,nine dollars and twenty-five cents to his wife then in .Reading, Pa. ; he must ask the Postmaster of St. Lbuis to give him a printed form of application, to be filled up with the fact that John Smith, at St. Louis, desires to send such an amount to Mary Smith, at Reading„ (in each case Abe Christian names of both persons must be inserted,) and, on paying in the sum of $9.35, he will receive a draft on• the post office of Reading for $9.25, the balance of ten cents being ithe - price or commission which , the United States . Post Office Department charges for send- big any amount under twenty dollars. The money paid into the St. Louis post office must be in coin, United States Trea sury notes, or the notes of the. National banks, and the money paid out will be in the same currency. Odd cents will not be received, we believe, in the small postal currepcy, which, in the present scarcity of metallic cents, is likely to be found incon venient. The order to Mary. Smith, Read ing, will not contain the name of the sender, but, on the day it is issued, what is called a " Letter of Advice " will be despatched from the post office in St. Louis to that of Reading, which Will state the name of the person who remits and the person who is to receive the money: - - -John- Smith sends the Money Order to Reading, and Mary Smith will take it to the post office there, where, after she states who sent it to her, which must correspond with the name in the Letter of Advice from St.• Louis, and the Order is ascertained to be authentic and correct in form, date, signature, &c., the full amount of $9.25 is handed to the said Mrs. Mary Smith, and her part of the transaction is ended. What subsequently is done with, or on account of the money order thus paid, is matter of post office detail, which can have no inte rest for the public. If a money order be lost or destroyed before payment, a dupli cate may be issued, on complying with certain conditions ; if it be not• paid within three months, it becomes invalid, but re covers vitality on payment of a second fee ; or, if the person who remits desires to draw out the money before sending off the order, he can do it ; also, if the recipient of the order cannot personally attend . at the post office to endorse it, he may dele gate another person to do so for him. There are several miner regulations with which a little experience iu the working of the system will soon make the public familiar. The rates of commission payable on ob taining money-orders are : On or era not exceeding $lO Over $lO and not exceeding $2O Over $2O and up to $3O The rates in England are six cents for sums under $B, and twelve cents for sums under $25. There is no compensation, however, to • postmasters in . England for transacting the money-order business; it goes into their general work, whereas, with us, except where the postmaster's annual salary exceeds $4,000, he is to be allowed one-third of the fees received for the issue of money-orders, and one-eighth of one per cent. upon the gross amount of orders paid. This allowance cannot be re garded as niggardly ; indeed, its fault is on the other side. An iinportant question is, will the Money- Order system pay ? We believe that it' will, after a time. The Issuing of Money Orders Las been part of the British post•office rou tine for nearly eighty years. Until 1840, however, it was a private undertaking, in the hands of a few gentlemen respectively connected with the General Post Offices in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin. Before they entered upon it, certain of.the German States had used it in their postal depart ment. In 1840, ceasing to be a private speculation, it was made a distinct branch of the Post thrice in London. In 1848, over 4,000,000 Orders were issued for $40,000,000. In 1859, the amount remitted exceeded $75,250,000, and in 1862, (the atest period of any official statement accessible to; its,) there were 7,580,455 money-orders issued in Great Britain and Ireland for $93,080,740. After dedueprig all expenses, the profit on that year exceed- ed• $150,000. From 1862 to 1862 the whole amount of money-orders lost was only $1,335. Such a thing as .the forgery of a money-order is of rare occurrence in Eng land, where it is held as felony, and se- verely, as well as surely punishable, to forge the signature, as a recipient, to any order. In. England a single money-order can ,be obtained for any sum not exceeding *5O. Early in 1862, the system being then not only self-supporting, but profita- ble, it was extended to Australia, and has since been extended to Queensland, New Zealand, and the Cape of Good Hope. Here, we have no doubt, it will be success ful from the beginning,, and "speedily re munerative. It will be subject to compe tition, of course, from the I4xpress Compa nies, but as its application will almost ex clusively be ll* small sums, the rivalry between the public institution anti the pri vate -carriers will probably not -be very great. • • 'JEFF DAVIS has appointed a day of tliankOiving. For what ? His armies have,mot _won' a victory , for six month's. It must be for . taie nomination of Ncavado L ' A/i--" the I:£4 pf frcn Chicago. -64 THE ONLY PLACE TO HEAR THE GOSPEL PREACHED, now-a-days," says a Mr. YAUX, "is at a Democratic' meeting !" Let us test this piece of insanity by the Chicago - Convention, where, it appears, so few of the Democratic dolegates even knew the Lord's Prayer, compared to the many who declared themselves willing to "cutthe d—n throats of the Lincoln Administration !" We give the opening scene, as recorded by an eye-witness in Harper's Magazine : . "On the conclusion of the benediction by Bishop Whitehouse, which constituted a part of the open ing exercises, he commenced the recitation of the Lord's Prayer, in which the delegates attempted, by request, to join in concert, and it Is described by an eye-witnese as the richest of all rich affairs. The an nouncement was hardly made by the reverend gen tlemen, and he had but articulated the open ing words of the piayer, when confusion con founded ran through the whole assembly. ,Had they been called on to join the chorus of ' Pass the Blowing Bowl,' or Bonnie Blue Flag,' or 'Just Another Drink Before We Go,' they would have boon equal to the emergency, but the Lord's Prayer was 'too many for them. However, for the sake of harmony (I) they started in. One dele gate, whose early education evidently had not been neglected, vociferated at the top of his voice, Now I lay me down to sleep ; a Western judge thought himself all right with, 'On Jordan's stormy banks I stand ; a clerical brother, Our 11th hangs by a single thread;' a delegate from the Wabash was troubled with, When shall I see Jesusl , a 'peace' fellow from Illinois gave, with a good nasal twang, How tedious and tasteless the hour !, a Now Yorker (Captain Rynclers, probably) scorned anxious to know when be 'Could read his title clear to man sions in the skies,' and a short-haired Bowery boy was anxious to Let her rip,' because, he claimed, 'She's all oak;' it tavern-keeper cleverly piped, ithry spirits never wane ;, a country squire, the first time from home, proclaimed, Know all men by theso - presents ; and a Keystone boy sapped the climax with Down with the traitors, up with the flag.' " A MONTREAL paper, which openly ad vocates Southern independence, has come to the help of Northern CopPerheads, and interprets General Drx's order to prevent Canadian refugees from voting on the Bth as proof of the intention of the Govern ment to carry the election by force. Of course a rebel-loving journal must echo, Copperhead cries, but the sound is not pleasant to the ears of intelligent Ameri cans. It is a fact that thousands of de serters, aliens, and. Southerners are now in Canada, and intended to cross the lines and vote for .11fcCramumr. There could be no free election if these attempts were not resisted. OF THE 23,120 Pennsylvania soldiers whose votes are thus far registered at Har risburg, 17,888 voted for Union candidates. This majority of 12,650 •iS not complete —thousands of votes are not yet , recorded-- .but it is enough to place the KeYstone State gloriously in the front rank of States that stand by the Government. The soldiers of the Union are on the side of liberty, and there are no better Democrats than the men who hold up the flag of the country in the very face of death. ' , Tau army's long roll' is the melanoholy roll that contains the names of the 300,000 bravo and fiery-hearted men sacrificed by the Admlnistra tion's incompetency, its blunders, and its lack of earnest patriotism)) This is, of course, from a McClellan pa per, which finds it convenient,to forget his two years of command. Admit that 300,000 men were killed or wounded on our side, during the war,"and it follows that at least 150,000 were sacrificed while MCCLELLAN was the head of the army. FREE srmEon is not respected by the party which talks the most about it. • Why was Mr. THOMAS M. COiE3LIN,. of the Ledger, struck ox the head last night by a Copperhead ruffian, and dangerously wounded, if not because of his independent advocacy of Union candidates and•princi ples.? We demand of Democratic papers that they at once use their influence to put a stop to these outrages. Riot has been preached too long. • WE ARE GLAD to know that the work of organization is'going on well through thd State. In every county immense Union meetings have been held, and the canvass is • being thoroughly made. -- 00n every county and township.committee .we. / urge the importance of bringing out the, full 'Union vote. ,Let not one be lost. ..31ifflin. carried the Union ticket by a majorityof one on the,home vote. “ Orin of General Grant's staf f officers, going h,ome unexpectedly, and obtaining the envelope he had previously sent, opened it and found his McClellan ballot had been taken out and an Abolition ballot put in its place.” • The World, throughout the campaign, has been making assertions of this kind; We remember no case in which it conde scended to prove them. We should like to know the name of this staff officer. " Will the World print it ? OBITITAET.—The eminent Irish Catholic divine, Rev.. Dr. Daniel W. Cahill, died at the Carney Hos pital, in Boston, on Thursday last, at the age of seventpone years. Dr: Cahill was distinguished for his earnest and able advocacy of the Irish masa, and his death will be deeply regretted by a large mass of the Irish people. Six years ago his, letters on the cause of liberty in Ireland had the utmost popularity among his countrymen, both in Ireland and America, and for awhile this intellectual and eloquent priest was . looked upon as a fit successor to o , Conall, Dr, Cahill truly loved his country, and Its people, and; to the host of his ability, used his great acquirements to Instruct them. Besides being an able preacher, Dr. Cahill was a' highly-learned theologian, and a professor of extended scien tific knowledge. About four years ago he came to this' country, and .was cordially received by the masses of his country Men. His lectures on Ireland, and an astronomy and theology, and his eloquent extemporaneous sermons wore always valuable, and attracted crowds of hearers. His particular mis- Sion to America was to open a waver 'the large emigration from Ireland, in consequence of the well.known landlord tyranny, as instanced in the "Plunkett Evictions," the casting out of tenantry, to clear the land for the accommodation of "sheep and herds." Dr. Cahill possessed a commanding intellect and an impressive appearance. Hundreds who knew him personally will think of him as the man and priest of large and kindly heart and of wise counsels, while his countrymen generally will hold his memory in gratefil reverence. 10 cants. 15 cents. 20 cents. A BEARTiIItrL WORK OF PRKMANSIIIP,—A draft of the resolutions of Councils on the death of the lamented Gen. Henry Bohlen has been executed by Prof. George .T. Becker, of Girard College, and is now on exhibition at the store of its framer, in Sixth street, above Arch. As a specimen of the tine art of penmanship this work has been hardly equalled, and it is worthy, in every respect of one so well known to Philadelphians as among the very best professors in the country. What is rare In per formances of this kind, Mr. Becker's writing Is full of variety, and is equally chaste, spirited, and classic—the hand of the artist showing an admirable balance of care and freedom. We recommend this composition to the Inspection of engravers. Prof. Becker's work has been expensively framed, and is about to be sent to Europe, where it will doubtless 'excite as much admiration as here. •Br xmaartEicon to advertisement of West Jersey Railroad, it will be seen that two daily lines run to and from Capo May, viz.: at 0 A. M., due at 2.45 P. M:; and at 3P. M., dlie at 7.45 P. M. Return ing from. Cape May at 6 A. M. and 11.45 A. M. WASHINGTON. .W.essazikrrox, Oct. 31, 1861. ARRIVAL OF WOUNDED MEN AND PRISONERS. About seven hundred soldiers, wounded in the military operations of Thursday, have been brought hither and distributed among the several hospitals. The mail boat to-day landed fifty or sixty rebel prisoners, including a colonel, a lieutenant colonel, and a major. They were committed to the Old Capitol. •RILT,OEN OF GENERALS HALLECK AND EAR NARD--;ARRIVAL OF 'REBEL PRISONERS. The steamer Beyport, headquarters' boat at this post, afrived early to.day with Generals HALLacir, BARNARD and Rom,trui, and Colonel °lmre, who have been to the front. The mall steamer Dan Web• ster also arrived, bringing 150 men of tho Ist Maine Cavalry, on their way home, their term of service having expired. The Webster reports that loud cannonading was heard yesterday morning from Etrusn's front before sho left. She brought up 40 rebel officers, from colonels down to lieutenants, who were delivered to the Provost Marshal. It has recently been published that Secretary FassaNDEN intended to reoommend, in his financial report to Congress, the reception of legal tenders in payment of customs. It is not at all probable he has Informed any one of his plans and purposes; or even given an intimation which could justify such a. conclusion. That statement, like others of a kin. dred speculative character, are scarcely worthy of formal contradiction. .. NAVAL CHANGES. Commodore Jos. B. HALL has been ordered to on the 10th of November as commsuader — of the Philadelphia navy yard.. Captain B. MoDouosx.r. has assumed the duties of commandant of the Mare Island navy yard California. DEMOCIUTIO PROCESSION IN WILMING TON. (Special Despatch to The Press ] :WlL'strwo , rosr, Oct. 31.—The McClellan torch light procession this evening was respectable in display and in numbers, but an • unusually-large number of boys and youth, from fifteen to eighteen years of age, were observed to be in the line. This is regarded here as a confession of a want of men Mthough there were repeated cheers for Vallan• dlgham.l:lo violence was offered by the "Union men. THE PRESS:-PHILADELPHIA:: lIESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1864: AN UNFOUNDED RUMOR THE WAR, GEL GRANT'S RECENT.MOVEMENT. Unsuccessful Attempts of. the Rebels to Charge on our Troops. THEIR CAVALRY REPULSED WITH HEAVY LOSS BRB Prisoners and Four Battle-Flags Capture GALLANT CHARGE OF THE NEW JERSEY 3RIGADE, i • .:'.1.•1t6 THE REBEL OTT'ICIALS PR'EPAliff4a TO ARH THE NEGROES, Three Hundred Thousand Slaves to be used in the Spring Campaign. " . THE FEVER AT NEWBERN ABATING GEN. GRANT'S AWRY. REPULSE cm THE ENEMY'S CAVA LEV IN SEVERAL ATTA.OXS—OUR LOSSES IN TEE LATE moyzniglvr ABOUT 1,600-828 PRISON - RAS CAPTURED ~ 118— BRILLIANT CHARGE BY THE NEW JERSEY BRI GADE. (Correspondence of the Associated:Press.] HEADQUALLTBRS AMEX' OP THE . POTONicO i • Oct. 30, A. 31.—Since the army returned to Us old guar. tern on Friday nothing of Importance has - trans- Spired. The enemy's cavalry hdlowed our, troops closelfas they returned, but were prevented from doing any damage of importance. The only captures they made at this time wore some eight or ten ambulances, which had taken a wrong road, but even these they could not get away. The horses were out loose and run oil; and °lir men burned the wagons. The rebel cavalry made repeated attempts to charge, but were each time repulsed with loss. Duting the day the entire army reached the posi tions occupied by it previous to the move, when the enemy returned to their former position. • Our losses will reach about 1,600 as neseas can be ascertained at present. The'2d Corps,444 did the.moStllghting,lost 10 officers killed, sywqiiudiail, 77 men killed, 480 wounded, and 400 missing;: The sth Corps. lost about 180 altogether, and the oth Corps upwards of 160, mostly in the colored division. The casualties in the cavalry divisions are. not known precisely, but many of those classed as Mis sing will undoubtedly return to camp, as the number of stragglers was large. The loss of the enemy was severe, and aome•say greater than our own, in killed and wounded. We have eight hundred and twenty-eight prisoners and four battle flags, most of which were taken by tho 2d Corps. laThe highest pra'se is given by all to tho offieers and mon of the 2d and 3d divisions for their beha vior during the day. Generals IfAi gen and hlott, who conimanded them, and General Smith and Colonel McAllister, com manding brigades, are particularly praised for the manner in which they handled their men, The charge made by the New Jersey brigade, under Colonel McAllister, on the enemy who had got in the rear of our forces, was one of the finest ever witnessed, and resulted in saving the entire position. " All Is quiet, with the exception of picket firing, which b quite lively at night.. THE WAR HIT THE SOUTHWEST. OPERATIONS OF. FORREST—A. .lINiON STEAMBOAT SDNE ON THE TENNESSEE - RIVER-"PING BLUFF, TADUCAR, AND COLII:sIBUS THREATENED BY THE REBELS—PREPARATIONS TO REPEL THEW. Loursvara, Oct. 31.—The Journai :says a de spatch received at the headquarters at Nlehville from Clarksville, Tenn,, states that Lieutenant Colonel Booth, 'at Fort Honelsoni reporta that a partof Forrest's command, with three guns, sank a steamer and barge loaded with army . clothing at Fort Herman, on the Tennessee river, on •Sa turday. The same despatch mentions that Captain butter, with twenty-live men, tho same day at tacked and drove across the river slaty of Colonel Malone's rebel cavalry, killing two and wounding eight. ' ILIt is rumored that three hundred rebels are threa tening an attack on Pine Bluff, on the Tennessee river. The Democrat learns that on Gen. Meredith's re• turn to Paducah, on Mrednesday, he received de spatches from Gen. Sherman and. from Columbus, stating that Forrest intended to attack Paducah, and was menacing Columbus. ScoutS and deserters reported a large number of rebels passing Dresden, Linton, Lexington, Big Shanty, and Ma Leilersville. At the latter place heavy supplies were bell* accu mulated. All of these places are within fifty miles of Mays-- field. Forrest is also known to have been at Jackson; with several ihouFand men. The danger being im. minent, on Wednesday night our cavalry was safely Withdrawn from Maysfield. The same night, busl 'nese men Were advised to pack up their stooks and place themaboard the steamers which were detained for that purpose. ' On'the 27th scouts reported a rebel force within sixteen miles of the city,- sifice which time no Intel ligence of theirpiovementt,haa been r ecei ved. Every business house is closed, and the goods re moved to places of safety. Business of every kind is suspended, and everything is prepared to give Forrest a warm reception. General Meredith will undpnbtedly hold the place. Buford's headquarters are at Shady Grove. He has eight regiments, three battalions, and a battery of Dahlgren vine. Orders were issued for a con centration of the force on the Tennessee line, and to prepare for a march on Paducah. Forrest, Chal mers, and Buford are all in command. On Thursday a dash was made upon Johnson - vine, and six head of cattle were captured. • Yesterday's Nashville Union contains the follow• leg ::"A rumor was in circulation yespeiday that Atlanta had been evaonated. `We are authorized to deny the absurd statement. The place is not•ovon in the slightest danger. There oan be bat little doubt of the fact that Hood's army was, a day or two since, near the Tennesiee river, but the rebel leaderheiltates to attempt a crossing. The news comes through refugees, and it is very Contradic tory and confused." LAVICE REpEL.NEWS. RROGRRES OP .THR LABT.OONSOILIRT/ON--IMPEOT OR BARLT'S DEFEAT-TNION ITRELING, RTC.-Alt- RANORMENTB FOR A GENERAL ARMING OR TUB BLACKS, {PITH BOUNTY'AND BRIANOIPATION. WASHIVOTON, 00t. 31.—A gentleman who for twelve months had been attempting to get away from-the South succeeded several days ago in reaching our nuts, and is now in Waihington. He occupied a responsible position: under the Coiifede: rate Government, and had a , bundant opportUnities for learning the real condition of affairs in that sec tion. He represents that the conscription is active ly progressing, and that many persons botween the ages of sixteen and liftplive are being sent to *the army. , Telegraphers, expressman, and railroad employees continue to be exempt from military duty. The rebel authorities are making every effort to get every available man Into the army. About a thousand of the new levies have been sentto re inforce General Lee. Hood's army numbers snout thirty thousand. There are but few troops apart from these armies scattered over the South, and only forty men'as a provost guard at Fredericksburg, Virginia. There appears to bo a sufficiency of substantial food, but luxuries cannot at many places be pur chased. • The gentleman says that thousands of the sol diers would, if they could, escape from the milita ry service, and that in some sections, if an opportu nity were afforded, the Union feeling would em phatically manifest itself. He bought some .gold before ho left Richmond, paying twentf-!lve dol lars in Confederate money for one dollar in coin. After Early's defeat in the valley a dollar fa gold could not be pnrchased for less than $3O in paper: Ho says no one out of the Confederacy' can have a correct Idea of , the general effects of the ravages of war, both as to agriculture and trade. Michael W. Oluskey, formerly postmaster of the United States House of Representatives, has recovered and been elected member of thp rebel Congress from the Memphis district. nrw YORK, Oct. 31.—The rebel papers, received here, appear to be unanimous in favor of arnilng the blacks. • The editor of the Southern Confederate, in writing home to his paper, from Richmond, _says : ":The pressure brought upon the authorities here, layer ing the arming of the blacks, has been too strong to resist. Mince 'lt is with gratitude, I am able to state officially, that arrangements are now' being made to arm for the spring campaign, 300,000 slaves, whose masters are to be compensated by the Oen federate Government. The slaves thus armed* are to have their freedom and fifty acres •of land, each of which insures them permanent homes In the South." TUB YELLOW FEVRE IN NORTH CAROLINA CHECKED. Nxw YORK, Oot. 111.—We have received North Carolina dates to the 27th inst. The late froit has materially checked the yellow fever, which is abating. 'Medical authorities nay that it will not be safe for parties to return who have not been exposed to fever until the cold weather sets In permanently. The report of the death of Colonel Heaton and his son is incorrect. Both gave recovered. The number of deaths from fever will not exceed 2,00, consisting mostly of citizens and refugees. The fever originated from a ship at the foot 'of Craven street ' in Newborn, which was tilled Up last Stine with manure and barrels of rotten meat. Capture of a Prize Steamer- 7 . 11er Arri- sal at . Boston. BoSTow,.oot. 31.—The rebel prize steamer Hope arrived at this port to-day, having heen captured off Wilmington, N. 0., on the 22d inst., by the , TJnitis Stites steamer Bolus. She was previously chased. e for several hours on the 20th, and in order to eioape threw most of her cargo overboard. The cargo Con sisted of machinery, coffee, dry goods, &o. The Hope is a vessel of 600 tons and. 300-hor9e power. She was built at LiVerpool last year . tri .Pdessrs. James Sing Sen & 00., and had made ono successful trip before being captured. . The Bald on Buffalo. SuPPALO, Oct. 81. The city is being patrolled by the military and police - in anticipation of the raiders, but none hail yet 'appeared. Last night comps. pies were stationed at the elevators and around the docks, but nothing occurred, through the prompt action of the authorities ; and the faot that the mili tary were out yesterday attending Gen. BidivelPs funeral, 'entirely fruitrated the rebel plans. gany suspicious persons have been observed in town with: .in a few days, and it is even stated by some that rocket's were thrown rip and guns fired by unknovin :pathos for the purpose of signalling to parties on • the opposite shore: In the science of the Law our country has ac quired great and well deserved fame • and many an admiring compliment has been paid by the critics of England tq the law writers of America. But to what part of 'America do these writers belong? Among the brightest stars .of international law shines the Earns of Wheaton, a native, of Rhode Island. The immortal Story, the two Parsons, and Greenleaf, wore born in Massachusetts. Chancellor Rent; the American Blackstone, belongs to New York, the home of Sedgwick and the. Duero. Oar great authority on criminal law, Francis Wharton, 18 part of the pride of Pennsylvania, the State that among hernaturall zed children boasts of the n sane of Bouvier, a native ,of France. But. where, lot me ask you, are the great law writers of the South? There is; indeed, one name which, although not that of a writer on law must be mentioned with great respect and admiration. It is tne name of John Marshall, of Virginia. But he belonged to an earlier and vastly different period. He belonged to what then was tile first State of the Union,, to the Virginia of Washington, Jefferson, arid Patrick Henry, to the Virginia over which the curse of slavery not yet ruled supreme. The names of the great men with whom' his was associated, must not be desecrated, by confounding theta with the South of the present day. They belonged to a time when that evil spirit which we now personify by the term "South," was confined to Georgia and South Caro-, lina. They belonged to .a time when slaverywas considered to be in the course of speedy extinction"; when, indeed, it was fast being driven freed State after State. Nobody could have imagined then that an institution which, to all appearances, was promptly dying away, would yet assume the most gigantic and unforeseen dimensions, and oven pre tend to rule the land. The reaction had not yet taken place. Cotton was not yet king. Southern society had not yet been organized on the basis of property In man. The spirit 01 liberty; yvas yet . alive. Tbon it was that Virginia could produce and nurture groat men. But when that spirit died away, when slave ry, instead of being abolished, was made the coiner- Stone of Southern institutions ; when abolition be• came impossible, and new Territorles were added to the don.lnions of Slavery, the doom of the South was sealed. She left the path ofprogress and civiliza tion, and sank into stagnation and deoay. Her glory was gone—her prospects were blasted—her in tellectual vitality was destroyed. It is in this sense that Dhave undertaken to prove that the South, which we identify with slavery—the South, whose political life and existence began with the muffle, tion of the original draft of the Declaration of Ind°• pendence. and ended with President Lincoln's groat proclamation of freedom, has not added one illustri ous narne!te the glories of American civilization. W. .D.. NaGisooß, .I have spoken of historians and jurists. Let us turn to ry. Has American poetry grown among the swamps and rice-fields of North Carolina 1 Has it grown aroUst, the sugar.oane of Louisiana, or on the dettexi-plantations of Mississippi I. No; not in the "Sunny South," but in the frosty winters and short' summers of Maine, the muse of Longfellow smiled. It is Northern Maine that claims Willis and John Neal; Buchanan Reid is a native of your own State of Pennsylvania, Curtis belongs to Rhode Island; Mrs. Sigourney to Connecticut, and to the intellectual nursery of Massachusetts we owe the graces of William Cullen Bryant, Whittier,Lo well, Richard H. Dana; and Oliver . Wendell Holmes. Where, I ask again are, the„ poets of the South 1 Edgar Allan Poe, it is true, was born in Baltimore. But Baltimore had that within her which enabled; us easily to rescue her from the grasp of slavery. No longer polluted by the connection with barbarism and treason, the metropolis of free Maryland will be a _noble gem in the diadem of our country's great ness.. Let Pennsylvania hail her newborn sister.; the nation's welcome to free Maryland ! Of our novelists, I shall mention but a few. Where is the friend of literature who is not familiar with the name of•Fenirnord Cooperl: Whore is the civil ized language into which his charming tales have not been translated 1 With what reminiscence of early colonial life his graphic pictures are not en twinedl It is New Jersey where the cradle of Feni more Cooper stood. . It is Massaohnsetts that smiled on the childhood of Hawthorne. It is Connecticut that ushered into the world the kind.hearted author ess of Uncle T0m.,.. It is New. York that gave birth to Paulding, the friend and dompanlon of Washing ton Irving. - • . • Critical literature is justly proud of the name of Ticknor, a son of Boston. A better history of Spanish literature than his was never written. Among our lecturers and esFayists shines Emerson; among our great orators, Edward Everett, to both of whom, and to hosts of others, Massachusetts Was the cradle of their childhood and their fame. - Of our vreiteraon political eeoboMy and the Science of governthent, I shall name but Henry Charles Carey, a native of. Philadelphia. and Francis Lieber, a native of the land of Schiller, Humboldt, and Goethe, in whose language an .open and direct defence of slavery has never aeon the light. Wherever in the country of his adoption one of the sons of Germany has distinguished himself in science or literature, in politics or arts, put him down for the North It is to the free North and West, where labor is respected, and not to the South, where labor is despised, that the great stream of German immi gration took its course, adding to the national wealth and advancing the national progress and prosperity: But whenever. owing to exceptional circumstances, Germans have settled in a State blighted with the curse of slavery, you may be sure to find them; like the Germans of Missouri and Texas, forethost under the banners or foremost among the martyrs of free dom. Let us now turn our attention to other branches of science ard literature. Our great travellers— which of the two sections' of the country is .to claim them l• Let us drop a grateful tear on the grave •of 'Professor Kane, the leader of the famous Arctic expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, and one of the brightest jewels' In the intellectual crown of Penney Win's. Let us pay an'admiring•tribute to the genius of Settler and. Stephens 'the explorers of Central America, the former a native of New York, the latter• of New Jersey.* lia:yard Taylor, whose graphic pen has brought the remotest countries 'to our firesides, is'another noble son of Pennsylvania, and Charles Wilkes, another ornament of New York. Where, let me ask again, are the great tra vellers and descriptive writers or the South 7 4, The natural and mathematical sciences, and practical arts will next claim our attention. Prof. Stillman, a name which commands respect wherever science is appreciated and understood, belongs to Connecticut ; Bowditch, the mathematician, to New York; Audubon, althoUgh born in Louisiana, was of French parents, educated in France, and a citi zen of Pennsylvania ; Mitchel, the astronomer, was born in Kentucky, but emigrated to Ohio at tile age of twelve years, and ever afterwards belonged to that noble State which I am proud to call the home of my adoption ; Agazzlz is a native of Switzer land, and a citizen of Massachusetts, a bright and noble 'link -el common brotherhood between the land of William Tell. and •Winkelried, and the country of Benjamin Franklin ; • Perkins; the astro• nomer, James D. Dana, the geologist,' Luther S. Dana, the chemist, Fowler, the phrenologist, belong to New York ; Prof. Bache, the meritorious chief of our coast-survey, to Pennsylvania. Where, I again ask, are • the naturalists and philosophers of the south 1 Where are the Fultons and the Monies of the South'? Where are the heroes of science and intellectual conquest whom slavery has producedl, When century after century will have passed away ;. when the last remnant of slavery will long be blot ted out even in Timbuctu and Dahomey; when the names of Jefferson Davis and .his barbarians will only be remembered by the cold contempt of future historians, the people of the United States will still continue to honor the memory of the Massachusetts Yankee, to whom they owe theintroduction of the electric telegraph. • With reference to the fine arta, I shall mention but three names. Trumbull and Church belong to Connecticut ; Powers, the great Anterican sculptor, to Vermont. But where are the sculptors and the painters of the South? , And shall begin to unfold tho catalogue of Northerners who have carried American enterprise, improVements, and machinery into foreign lands I Shall I remind you of the name of Whistler, the' enterprising Indianian, who introduced railroads in Russia; or of Colonel Totten, of Connecticut, the persevering chief of the heroic pioneers who built the railroad across the Isthmus of Panama, a task of; which other nations had despaired as Impossible. •Go to Spanish America, and wherever steam navi gation is being introduced, wherever railroads are being built, wherever new and useful machinery 18 being established you will lied the children of the North Suggesting, organizing, animating, or direct ing progress and improvement.: Or shall I begin to read the long list, the endless-list of, inventors who form so striking a feature of American civilization?. It would be unjust to mention a few where so many ought to be named. Or shall I combine them all in one sweeping generalization, and say that, with all due respect to the many inventors belonging to other Northern States, the 'people of New England are eminently famous for the inquisitiveness, restless nets' and energy of their enterprising genius, which loads them from invention to invention, from. dis ,covery. to. discovery. • Is that the New, England which certain slavery-sympathizing reeonitruation- Ists proposed to leave out in the cold'? Athens pro- • scribed Abdera and Megaral .They might,' if they had their own way, leave New England in the cold; but ono thing is certain, Mr. President, they could never leave her In the dark. . nn . I do toeau to say that the mare birthplace of a man,'thn accident of his being born under a higher or lower degree_ of latitude or longitude can of itself influence his natural talents or capacities. On the contrary, I believe' that the average amount of un developed human genius is nearly equal all over the world. It is not, therefore, that a' man's birth' in Mississippi or Alabama deprives him of those ca pacities which are the common heritage of the human race , but this I mean to say, that the system ' uponwhich society is' organized in the Southern States is such as not to bring:those talents and - . capacities Into proper play.. It either leaves them undeveloped or cripples their development. It either discourages them' or turns them Into fruitless channels. A system of society wide& recognizes as its corner-stone, not the rights, but the rightless nese, not the elevation, but the degradation of man, cannot develop his Ingenuity and intellectual ac tivity in such a manner as a system which recog nizes for its foundation the great stimulating and' civilizing principle that every man is entitled to enjoy the'fruits of his own labor.. The one, In order . to maintain Itself, must keep the masses 1n igno ranee ; the _other prospers but by the diffusion of knoirledge. The one depresses the many teeleiate . the few; the other cadeavors to d.o the coldest, peg-, THE- PRESIDENCY. HALL . OF THE REPUBLICAN IN VINCIBLES. The War of Civilfration. ADDEXEIS DELIVERED BY.PREDERIOR RAEWALTEEK, AT PR/LADE/PRI/1, cnt:man 31, 1864. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : The argument 1$ dosed ; the case'has gone to the jury, and the jury have agreed on their vordlet. It is a sealed verdict, which will be opened on the Bth of November. All the speeches that might be made between now and the election could not change it, and I could add nothing to the many able arguments to which you have listened in this very hall. But perhaps I shall be able to present to you the question which you are called upon to decide,,from it point of view somewhat different from the line of argument;nerally fol. lowed by political speakers ; and W I contrib ate thereby to strengthen you in the convietion that'you are now about to make the crowning effort in the greatest and most important struggle known in the annals of history, my object will be accomplished. It has often been said that this is a war between two' different forms of social organization, ono of which represents a superior, the :other an inferior degree of civilization. Which, then, is it our duty to uphold' SOUTH - ERN CLAMS TO .8171.6ERIOILITY. Southerners hare always boasted of a superiority over the drudging and laboring North. They have always boasted of their refinement and eduoatton, of their superiority. In statesmanship and military art, of their eloquence and taste. But let us look -at the facts. .Vhatever justly constituted the pride of our country in science,. in literature, the fine arts, manufactures, inventions, and all that tends to improve the condition and to contribute to the happiness of the people, has originated in the North. All our great inventors, naturalists, law-writers, historians, poets, travelers, artists, and, philoso phers, were, with but fewexceptions, born and edu cated In the North. It is only the demons or do. struction that have come from the South. . THE riownsts or NORTHERN CIVILIZATION. I do not btlieve in that system of political war fare . which makes assertions without sustaining them by proof. I should consider it Wrong to make an allegation the truth of which I could not at oneo establish by facts. And when I say that it is the North to the genius of which our country owes the rapid and astonishing development and progress of its civilization, I do so prepared with the evldence, to which, for a few moments, I invite your at tention. HISTORY Let us begin with History. AU Europe' and Spanish-America have paid a tribute or admiration to the genius of Prescott, a native of Massachu setts. Among the names which swell the pride of our country aro those of Bancroft and Motley, both natives of Massachusetts. 111 Wrath is a native of the same State ; Jared Sparks was born in Con necticut, and Abbott In Maine: But there is another name which must be added to the list of our his-. torians—a name which always touches a chord of sympathy and love in our hearts—the name of Washington Irving, the literary pride of the State of New York. Where, let me ask you now, is the great historian whom the South has contributed to the national galaxy 1 POETRY BELLES LETTRES. POLITICAL APONOMY, TRAVELLERS. NATURAL SCIENCES ARTISTS .AND INV.ENTOES TILE CAUSE , Or NORTHERN SUPERIORITY. sible amount of good tope greatest possible num ber. The one proo noes &jealous and narrow-minded aristooracy ; the other the free and fruitful develop. ment of an intellectual democracy. The one, from the very nature•and character of its institutions, enabling the father to sell hie own children, tearing them from the bosom of the despairing mothef, tends to blunt those feelings of kindness, and charity will& ennoble the human heart; it promotes a spirit of cruelty and immorality Which leads to vio lence, duelling, mobs, private revenge, and lawless ness ; the other, resting on the broad basis of mental and moral education, and carried onward by a genius of enterprise and invention ever adding to the comforts and happiness of mankind, tends to produce a spirit of law and order, always willing to abide by judicial and majority decisions ; it restricts the demon of private revenge, and promotes a reve res. Cc for public justice ; its sensibilities are never blunted to the struggles of the poor and the unfortu nate. and its public and private benevolence flows like an irrigating stream over a healthy land. Sternness and heartlessness oharacterise the one, mercy and charity the other ; arrogance and domi neering overbearance the one, kindness and gentle manners the other; boastful pretensions and intole rance the one, a controlling sense of fairness and justice the other; stagnation and decay the one, progress and prosperity the other. The,ione, in or der-to provide for its own safety in the midst of a subjected and outraged race of bondmen, who every day and every hour may rise against their masters, must cultivate a military spirit. devote its chief at tention to the arts of war, and live haunted by sus picion and fear; the other, thriving and prospering In the full consciousness of absolute security, culti vates the blissful arts of peace, and adds, from year to year, and in a geometrical, proportion, to the wealth, the comforts, and the happiness of the human race. 'MILITARY SUPERIORITY It has, indeed, been said in Europe, during the first years of this war, that the South, although in ferior in the arts* of police and civilization, has proved herself superior in military spirit, tactics, and discipline, and that if she should succumb it would be to superior numbers and not to superior skill. Let ns examine this assertion. The more physical man, who has led a life of uselessness in a society where it has always been more or less iscees- Baty for his own safety to be a good pistol or rifle shot, and to know how to handle bowie knives and revolvers, may in the beginning of a war, I admit, be possessed of qualities which are considered Valua ble in a soldier. The intellectual man, on the other . hand, who has led a life of usefulness in a society where there was no necessity for military skill and prowess, the cultivation of which would have un duly trespassed upon the time he required for other and more productive pursuits, may in the beginning of the war be inexperienced in practices which'in military life are paramount. In this respect Rome Was more of a military-nation than Carthage, the Spain of the sixteenth century more than England and Holland, the France of the seventeenth century more than the Low Countries. But the armies of Carthage. under Hannibal, were the dread of Rome. Military Spain has gone down and decayed, while the trading nation of England has become one of the first Powers of Europe. The commercial people of Holland not only broke the yoke of military Spain, but afterwards, unaided and abandoned by their natural - allies, checked the victorious arms of the great generals of Louis XIV. There is this in the superiority of civilization, that in the end it leads to superiority in everything, whether in peace or in war. And, sir, the American North, which, without having cultivated military arts in times of peace, rose when it became necessary like one man, not from 'motives of sordid interest and sectional hatred, but to vindicate the great principle of constitutional liberty, has proved itself a nation of heroes, hoe : ever badly at first its armies may have been led by incompetent, lukewarm, or . treacherous generals. The intelligent American freeman abhors the butcheries of war; he deplores its sad necessity ;he prefers the blessings of peaeo .ful development and progress to all the glee -ries of battle; but when his, country's safety, honor, and,existente are at stake, he is ever ready to sa crifice his life, his sons, and his fortune on his. wan tryikaltar. Armed with the superiority of modern science, and applying hie keen and practiced inge nuity, schooled in the inventions of peace, to tho contrivances - of war; animated by the conviction which alone a great principle and a noble cause can give, he bears unfalteringly the mortification of temporary , defeat; he heeds no sacrifice of life and treasure ; he shrinks not from yea.rs of suffering and gloom ; and at last strikes down the foe in spite of all his tactics and generalship; He must conquer because he knows_ that, in the end, right will tri umph over wrong; justice over injustice; freedom over oppression ; civilization over barbarism. And thus not even in the art of art of war do I admit the superiority of the South, which in everything else has proved itself infinitely inferior to the civiliza tion of the North.. From the causes I have ex plained the South may, in the beginning, have had the ,adVantage of drill, preparation,_and military practice ; but, on the other hand, it can never take very long,to make soldiers out of a nation of intelli gent freemen. And it would be a perversion of all 'phytical, mental, and moral laws if such a nation were not to triumph over an enemy td whom it. is, in every branch of civilization, incomparably superior. OAI7BEB 01, THE DEEXIIH.A.TE RESISTANCE OF THE SOUTH. . But 1 am pointed to the desperate resistance of the South, kept up for more than three years against superior numbers, against an effective - blookade, against famine and misery. There are, however, reasons for this obstinacy which have °soaped the attention of superficial observers. Southerners light for the preservation of an institution which has given them an easy life of comfort, pleasure, and enjoyment, at the expense of the tears, the sweat, and the labor of their fellow-men. They fight for the gratification 'of _ambition and love of power which, by the election of 1860, has forever passed from their hands. They fight instigated by sectional antipathies and hatred which the-differ ence between the two systems' of labor inevitably produced. They light inflamed by ignorance and fanaticism, two powers which ever since the first dawn of historical knowledge have proved the most obstinate, bloodthirsty, and barbarous evil doers known among men. They fight with the fear of the punishments before their eyes with which the law visits the crime of treason. All the mo tives of selfishness', vanity, haughtiness, hatred and passion by which the human heart may be cor rupted, have combined to inflame their obstinacy and desperation. Their ships are burned. They know that, if they fail to establish their indepen dence, it will be the death of their cherished system of slave labor, on which at present their social orga leization rests, and to which all their vanities, all their prejudices, and all their passions most fondly cling. The people of the North, on the other hand, have shown their superiority even in military spirit. and true herolem, by persevering in the sacrifices of a war for more than three years of trial, not from sordid motives of interest, avarice, hitred, or vicious ambition, but from an intelligent, a noble, a sublime 'conviction that there.can be no liberty withoat law, no popular government without order, and that, by once recognizing the disorganizing principle of re bellion and seceseion, the doors would be thrown Open to anarchy and confusion, to ruin and dissolu tion. THS EOLITH HAS CARRIED ON TUB WAR IN A SPRAT OF BARBARISM, The North, consequently, has carried on this war In a spirit of modern civilization and in strict con formity with the benign reads of modern interna tional law. The South has carried on the war in a spirit of feudal barbarism and medieval brutality. Ruthless barbarians who have diegracad the nine teenth century by butchering defenceless or wounded prisoners, as at Fort pillow and Centralia, ought to, say as little as possible of their ChiValrous spirit and military exploits. Hiding their heads In shame, • they will have to shrink from the judgment seat of history. What spark of honor, manliness, or com mon humanity can be left in the dark bosom of the rend who murders defenoelais "prisoners.!. Had it been done by drunken soidiera and in the heat of bat tie, and afterwards disavowed by tho leaders, the plea of extenuating circumstances might have been illBde. Bat as the crime standi without a disavowal, as it has been defended, exalted, rejoiced over and gloried in by.the vandal press of the South,- it cries aloud for the expulsion Ot its perpetrators and abet tors from the society of civilized men. It places them on the same level with the brutal Indians of the Northwest, with the Cannibals of Australasia., with the savages of Patagonia, and the ferocious tribes of benighted Africa. Indeed, it passes my comprehension how peace, compromise, and recon ciliation, may be counselled with an institution whose savage spirit tuis given birth to suoh a crime. But had they their prisoners on the spot, it 'would have been an act of humanity when com pared to the mode in which they treated them in their Southern prisons. When the secret history of this war comes to be written, the astonished world will learn that our enemies have differed from can. nibais but in one respect. They have not. eaten human flesh,' bet they have "done everything else that cruelty and ferocity could sriagest. These are . not fancies, ladies ar.d gentlemen, but facts ; facts established by the testimony of hundreds of wit nesses, and more eloquently, perhaps, than by•the words of the witnesses established by their emtv-t elated forms and haggard-looks, and by the shock'. ing number of those who never returned from cap tivity. Ask the prisoners whom we received back in exchange, whether they would be willing to nego tiate and compromise with those in arms against the flag of our Union 1 And how have the enemies of our Union carried on their maritime warfare 7 Have they carried It on according to the rules of modern International "law and civilized warfare? Have they respected the rights of third parties, and submitted their prizes to the adjudication of Courts of justice, by, which alone the validity of a capture may be deter mined and restitution decreed to wronged and inno cent parties 3 Will you tell mo the difference be tween robbing_ and burning ships presumed to be long to an enemy and the piracy of the Barbary States t In this, as in everything else, they have disregarded the spirit of the century in which we live. They have spurned and defied the obligations which bind together the family of nations. They have violated all the conditions of the great inter national compact into which they asked to be ad mitted. Or is it the spirit of the age that manifests itself in the confiscation of debts due to Northern credi tor* a practice unanimously condemned by modern writers, modern , treaties, 'and the enlightened ex. ample of great Governments 1 Or is It the spirit of the nineteenth century that manifested itself in the revival of the barbarous custom of making hostages, and adding, by all the devices of refined cruelty, to the horrors of war 7 Richard 111. and Robespierre may still find their defenders, but no, future histo. rian will defend, or even excuse, the war of Jeffer son Davis and his confederates. 808 .WHAT. IS AMERICAN . .CIVISTZATION INDEBTED ' • TO' THE SOUTH 7 • I have shown that to:the North the American Or ion is indebted for all the monuments of its Intellectual greatness and the unparalleled progresa of . ita civiliza tion. I have shown that the Sooth has not contributed ene tingle great name to the list of our historians, law writers, poets, naturalist?, philosophers, and invent ors. For what. then, is American civilization indebted to slavery ? What do we owe tokthe South? Nothing in science, nothing in literature. nothing • in mechanics and other arts; but two ideas in politics, which have cost the country dear—the one is Nattifi ation, the other is S caution. For these two. indeed, we are in debted to th - South. Give the evil One his due ! Let him have all the credit to which he is entitled ! The greatest blessings our country has enjoyed she owes,to the civilization of the free North; the greatest curse with which she has been afflicted she owes to the bar barism of the pro-slavery South. .•. What else do we owe to slavery? Anottuir idea, or a name rather for another equally recommerleahle prise tice—Ffiibusterfein Again, I say, give the Evil One his due. The glory of that pAitical invention solely and vac:naively belongs to the South What else do we owe to the SontW, We owe to the arrogant and overbearing .tone of 17Mt ipoliticians; as long as flip ruled' the destinies of our country, thst bad .opinion for quarrelsomonets and bullying. in which, until recently,. we were herd in many pnadr tsp re o j f u d E c u o wh ich We h e Spanish ea ndaAmersrunt . and especiallY,„ the • Central American, Republica entertained against ' us, until they were enlight ened as to the real character of our people by the ori gin and causes of this, present war. Onr country's glory we owe to the spirit of freedom; our co intry'a theme we owe to the spirit of slavery. 'What else do we owe to the South? We owe to her the prostitution of the dignity of our Congress , the mur derous assault on a senator While at his post of duty, and other accuse of 'violence or indecency which have diegraced our National Legislature The spirit of slavery was the evil spirit in American history; I re joice that we can say, et last, it was! THE STATE OF SOUTHERN OPTILIZATION. And could it be otherwise? Look at the condition to which_slavery r e duced the States that ,uphold it.' It is an indisputable and well-known fact.th at, although the population of the !forth is far grea t than that of the South, the number of those who cannot read or write is far greater in the South than Ms in the North. To the census x eturns I refer you for proofs of this state ment. It is an indisputable and well-known fact that, while. the advocates of slavery could always obtain a fair bearing in the North; nobody via% allowed to argue agsinst it lathe South. • There it had established a deo petit ZEL which could notbear the light of critical examl; nation, trampled down the liberty of speech and of the press. - private thought and utterance were subjected to inquisitorial surveillance, and even the sacredness of correspondence by mail was violated with a:ruthless . hand. . ' It is an indimutableand wall known fact that private revenge. dn.lling, mobs. and lawlessness, tarring and. featbwing, and withal destruction of life' and property, bad their home in the South, where the state of public.- morals has always been infinitely lower-t an in tha . . North. . • • • It is an Indisputable and well- known' fact that in ag riculture, mdbufaotnres, industry, commerce, shin. b u ildi ng , modern improvements, the fine arts,-science an d literature, the stagnating and, decaying South can not be compared to the thriving and ever-progressing North, • QUEBT/017 B.TATED. d yet, that Institution 'which-has produced the ereatest evils from which the countr whichuffered and nffers yet, and nothing of the - good constitutes -its welfare and greatness,has dared io raise its criminal' hand against the fair. fabric. of the Americin Union. It bee attempted to destroy a system of government under "'which we. had advartoerl to unexampled prosperity—a ,system of government which was, the hope and the so lace of all friends of humanity—a bright. and smiling Atlantic in an ocean of misgovernment and tyranny!' 'But the day of reckoning. has come. The hand. writing is on'the wall. The - nation is awake It is grouped tda consciousness (tribe magnitude of the evil which forbearance and compromise have never. failed to aggravate. Let us Vier, the question in its true light. Shall ail that is bad in our country triumph over all tbat is good ? Sballnll that is shameful tr.umph over all that is aloes:me ? Shall barbarism rejoice over the defeat of civilization? Shall - the spirit of the middle imes trium resolutione pnins of tbe nineteenth centur!? The noble of the American people, whin/t, in spite of the greatest sacrifices of life and treasure, has remanded true to its cause for more than three Years of trial, never faltering in its unalterab e and sacred de termination. that noble resolution. I say, has answered the question. TO ALL WHOM IT - MILY CONCERN. lam not a believer in long platforms. They are (rented for temporary effect, ana soon forgotten_ lam not in favor of the perpetuity of political parties. Every-. now question will lead lo anew formation of partied, and many new party formations may take place within the next few years. But there is generally one leading question on which each Presidential election tarns. In If•6e it was whether slavery wag to rule the Union. Now it is 'whether eleven , shall be allowed to destroy the Union. The question is. whether that Union. which 'was conceived in the spirit of liberty, born in the spirit of fortitude and perseverance, edacated in the spirit of toleration end equal justice, and guided by the spirit of modern civilization, shall be destroyed by the dark and evil spirit of slavery? This question it does not take a long platform to decide. That platform has been written by Abraham Lincoln. It was nnpopneir at, lint, but future historians will look upon Was the turning point of the contest, and the salvation of the Republic. It is the great moral protest of the Represen tative of the America a nation against treachery and • cowardice. It is only equalled by the proclamation of emancipation. It was diets ted in an hone of trial, by a spirit of fortitude worthy of the memory of our Revola aionary lathers. It deserves to be written "in letters of gold on tablets of marble " It is the act of a noble and undaunted soul. It is the great proclamation : 'To all whom it may concern." Mr. Lincoln knew that this proclamation- might en danger Lis re-election, and ho also anew that the draft before the election would have the same tendency. Yet, when politicians pleaded in favor of a .postponement of the draft, he told them, "Gen:Grant wants those men, and ho must have them; let the consequences take Care of themselves." Be put his trust in trio American peo ple, end after the Bth of November it will be clear to the world that the A merican reople reciprocate his tenet, It Is useless to argue now why theneople cent not con sent to a disruption of the Union. The word has gone forth to the world that the Union shall be 'preserved, and the people will redeem its solemn pledge. Bat it is equally clear that there can be no lasting peace, and no permanent Integrity of the Union as long as tae element of disruption remains. Wo deferred to slavery as long as slavery would defer tb tho Onion. Rut when slavery, unappeased by compromise and submission, insisted on the destruction of the Union; when it rejected all oar advances and refused all terms; when not even "a blank sheet of paper to write their own conditions on would bring back the haughty barons of the South, we became absolved-at once from all obligations to uphold or tolerate en institution the destruction of which - is demanded, not only by our own sacrod duty of self preservation, but by, the unanimous and deliberate opinion of the entire civilized world. Sball the descendants of the men of '76 be discouraged by the long duration of this war? Was it not a war of seven years which the thirteen little colonies of Ameri ca waged against the great power of Old England, w ith • out resource 6. without credit, without money, without arms, and almost without hope of /success? And we, in the age of steam and electricity, of monitors and ot ri fled guns ; we, the most powerful nation on the globe. With millions of men and, unbounded resources at oar dispetal—wbh a fleet that might cope with the combined maritime Powers of the world, and with a western ter- - ritory containing the germs of a great galaxy of yet un born empire btatee, ate we to be shamed by our dead forefathers in their honored graves? Are we to bo shamed by the immortal sufferers of Valley Forge? Aro we to be shamed by the half-starved, barefooted, and tottered heroes - of the Revolution, who held out against misery, defeat. "and disappointment until the last letter had been added to the - brightest page in the - records of the human race? . - - - . To our soldiers in the field—to our dead heroes—to the black fixtionists of the bouth—to ourseires and our child.- ren, we owe the redemption of the nation's solemn pledge. The national honor is at stake.and the national faith must be kept. I have said that we owe it to our soldiers in the Sold. Let me ask you whether it is his paltry pey for which the I:oldier braves the perils of battle, ready to sacrifice his life on his country's altar? Is It his poor pension that could indemnify him for the loss of an Rumor a leg and a crippler. existence? It is &nobler ambition which. lo ads him on to the gapes of death and destruction. His reward is the applause and admiration of hie fel low-men. It le the conviction that, when he retarns to his hum% he will be honored and beloved, and that when-the snow of ma ny e , winters will have melted over his heed and a new generation. has sprang up around him, the el e of admiration and respect will sail ha on him as one of the braves who helped to save the coun try and to restore the Republic in the trying days of the. areas war. Will: on rob him of this, his proudest and his only reward? Are you prepared to tell the heroes of a tiloneetd battlerithat this *war is a " failure. " and that their enfferinge were in vain? No, my friends. there was a time when the son disliked to hear that his father was a member of the Hertford Convention. There will be a time when the son will be ashamed to bear that his father voted for George B. McClellan. If cottage, perseverance. and self-reliance are no - tenger to form White of our national character, thenlet IL3 bury the American Republic in the graves of the Republics of Grew end Rome, and let us confess to our adver caries in Europe that they Were right in asserting that republican self- government is au uriposeiblllty and a failure. OUR DUTY TO OUR DEAD HEROES I said that we owe a debt to the dead heroes of this war. The mother siteweeping at the windows of her cottage near the village green, and waits:or the stage coach to biing letters from her son who volunteered in the cause of his country. Thou wilt see him no more, poor mother; he sleeps the sleep that knows no waking on the battle-field of Cedar Creek. Is that sacrifice to be in vain ? Is that mother to be told that this is a wrong" and wicked war? The anxious wife cons, three times a cay, no list of letters at the post office for news from her husband! Stretch not thine eyes, poor woman; his bones are bleaching on the banks of tee liver James. Is that marines to. be in vain? /a the widow to mourn for aloss which produced no good? The old grandfather waits for the r eturn of his darling, and with a hand trembling with old age and solicitude opens the newspaper that contairs a long and moarnfal list. Let thy tears flow. peer tottering man; thy boy will return no more! Is that sacrifice to in vain? No, ladies and gentlemen, it Is an insult to the ntelli gelled of the American nation to say that this war was wrong m its beginning. it is an insult to the /Mart of the American people to say that it must be abandoned Wore its greet object has been accomplished. OUR DUTY. TO TNIE BLACK UNIONISTS Or THE I said that we tiws a debt to the black Un'onists of the South. We have helped to wrong that race; it is our duty to right it. We have proclaimed their free dom; we have made a solemn promise; will the nation break it? Shill your memory go down to history stained by a breach of plighted faith? It is said that this is Lincoln's war to free the negro, and bring him into ruinous competition' with the labs of the white man, and that the North will be ovt rrnn by the freed blacks of t) a South. Let me tell those who say so that they do not know the human heart. The negro loves the play-ground of his childhckal as dearly as the white man. He loves his home; he loves even the scenes of his past oppression, • where he has lived for so many years. the place where his poor cot tare star de, and . with which all his early reccelections are entwined. Take a Laportitut or en Rscpalmaux fr•im his snow fields, where, there is but one night and one day in this year, transpo e r t er into a more talciime, end surround him witl the comforts of civilization, and his heart will pine. fa his seals .and reindeers. homesick for his dreary fields of anew. Thcinsandteof negroes have been freed by this war, but how few of them have come to the North ! Individuals may come, and go, but zhe great mass of negroes will cling to their old homes, where they are not chilled by the frosts of unwonted winters and the cold faces of strangers; They will work, as hundreds of them do now, on the same planlatielia, and sometimes even for their Same old Mailers; but the laborer will be worthy Ids hire, and a new civilization. will spring up under the cheerful energy of those who are rewarded for their toil OUR . DUTY TO OURSEL92I9 • I said that wo owe a duty to out selirea... We have told the - world tl at the integrity of the nation shall ha main- • . tamed. Are we to make onrselves the laughing stock' of Europe. by admitting that we foolishly undercook a task which we wore unable to accomplish ? --Are we to have a isovernment, .or are - we not? I have heard threats already that, in, case of Kr. Lincoln s re oleo _tion there will be a revolution in the North. These are the germs'of.the secession seeds.. *Let the principle of anarchy once take root: and the rate of Mexico awaits this proud &aerie-an Republic. We have undertaken to pay a great national debt. Would we be able to do it-with our credit destroy.ed by a shamqtl failure tig, k the loss of an immense territory, with our promiseri troken,*orirpretenslons belied, and the months of many of our rivers in_possession of a foreign and hostile Power? There is but one way to maintain our credit. It is to prose to the world that the pledges made by the American nation WILL BE REDEEMED. fr.CADENY IttrUSIC. OUR NATION'S CONRLIOT-ADDRIZSB BY BLS.ROP SIMPSON The Academy of Mole; was well filled last eve ning, by an audience , of ladles and gentlemen as sembled to listen to an address on the above subject, by the , dietinguished divine Bishop Simpson. The proceeds of the lecture were for a charitable object, and a large sum was realized. The Bishop was in. tieduced m a few brief remarks by Ex-Governor Pollock. • Toe Bishop was greeted with rounds of applause. He spoke in effect as follows: The question, in the midst of our troubles, comes up—what shall the end of all these things be ? God has given us some means of judging what shall be. lie has given us speech ana memory. The history of the past lies before us, and frofirit we may judge of thefutare. History throws its rays forward amongst things to come. Coming eventsenten cast their sha• dews before. There is a God whore:gas In Heaven, and governs the children of men. He casts one down and raises another up, and amidst the terrible events around us we can see the hand of God. If we could know what wore His purposes and His plans, we might be able to predict events. We may not Sully understand thii;but we can trace the footsteps of God in history. In history we read of the rise and fall of empires : the crushing of great armies: . ..Bat it will be cf no service to know those ,things if through them all we cannot trace the hand of God. We comelo consider this evening what is Gotra pur pose witWas..ln discussing this subject I shallleave an party considerations, and view the matter in the calm light of reason. There are four. possible Issues, and I think but four. The first is, that our nation Is to be destroyed ; the second is; that there • are to be two or more confederacies carved oat of our nation ; the third is, that the form of Our Go vernmente shall be ehanaerl Southern institutions shall be substituted for Northern institutions; the fourth is, that our, nation ehall be united, a free nation, more pure and more 'glorious than it over was bolero. Shall this nation oe destroyed ? If so, God has changed his plans for the government of the. universe. There's no recordin history of any nation, widening and strengthening under free institutions, being destroyed. Greece, Rome, Babylon, presented long periods of growth, and then a long period of de cay. Engler, d, which numbers more than a thousand years of some of her institutions, Prance, Germany, and Reale had likewise a record of centuries • and, if this nation is to rise and fall in one ' century, God had dealt with us as he never dealt with any nation on earth. What are the indications in regard to God's purpose with nsl Why was the discovery of this nation re: Dried to so late a period? God spared' tbeniscovery of this nation until a day of light had .dawned, when literature and religion flourished. When ColuinbUs asked for ships to aid Mdlsco vering- this country', ha went to the pious Isabella, and she said : Columbus shall have his ships, if I sell my crown jewels to pay his expenses. Three hundred years ago, whenever women- undertook' to carry out a project they had their way. The vessels were turned southward, the West Indies discovered, and the American continent reserved for a later period. .. "When the Tiniest was forined all religious opi nions were laid aside, and in this respect America had done what no other nation had ever done, and .in the education of -our girls no other nationn• on earth is equal to ours. In its form of government it has elevated the masses as no other country. The masses of England and France are not edu cated, and in Parliament it was argued that It was better not to have the people educated; that education but multiplie4 their wants. The conse-` <pence was that very few in those countries were competent to fill official Positions, while in this country the poorest boy could hold the high est office in the land. Every mother has the right to say of her boy this child may rule the nation. A. listening multitude may hang upon his lips. As the result we have great mem in the obsoureat.places. Gen. Jackson—Jackson—[applause]-was the child of poor parents, and I have'road in history that there was once a ralbsplltter--[tremendous applause]—who occupied the Presidential Chair. The eyes of the whole world are.upon us_, and men from all coun tries come to 11E—from Erin, Scotia, France, Italy, Buena, China ,Japan—and-we arc an asylum for all nations. I have no sympathy with any party who . would shut out from. our land a poor flying Nve We have a Constitution 'and a land wide eno ug h and broad' enough for them all. I am proud to say that I live in , a country which depends upon the masses, and is not afraid to rely upon the passes. I have never been afraid to put myself upon the masses of the people. In our civil policy, also; we are a great nation. Where ever an American' gces among the masses of any people he finds friends. We have a record untar nished by the foul deeds that blacken other nations. England and Prance have been marked by deceit and - fraud, and. I say, if America be, destroyed, where is the nation to take herVlacel and I say, with all reverence, God Is not able, to do without America. In considering the second head, we find that where there is no Christianity the people all speak dlfferent languages, without literature. Amongst our Indians this is the case ; constant division exists amongst them all. If we would divide, where is the line of division 1 There was no impassable gulf to open .and separate us foreyer. .We might patch up a peace for a time, but it would last bat for a short ' time. War is terrible—it has taken some of our noblest sons ; but, it' division be allowed, we will bare an unceasing war, and . I- say better fight It out now if it takes twenty years to do • it. [Great applause.] I want a peace, -when' it comes, that will leave my children .in, safety.,, There's nedlviaion for , our country. I don't be lieve the South want a division. They want to. make us their servants, and take the whole .land and Governineat themselves. I believe in the an- • ewer a .Bentucklan gave to a John' Bull ,. when asked what our boundaries were. He saittwe were bounded on the east' by the rising stin, on the 'north. by the aurora borealis, and on the south by the day of judgment. [Applause.] I don't doubt_ some of; :us would& tobjeet to having a nobility, if we were to be the nobles. You wouldn't Object to having; landed estates, eapecially if there wore tO, them. [Laughter.]. If we had a n mar ,,,, were overthrown,l believe that the bell-11,7Ni: out independence would come togetherw ring out liberty a second time.Fl^ele, We arc near enough a monarchy n o ' ePleile have Maximillian In Mexico; posately of gi bes Is over be will find that he is a Itttli,th„iv_ r q [Apple:Um] Our nation wi a ll: d as m o oemalts tolifattliu.ll: gle with every spot removed from her f a i,7 3 tei Our statesmen saw the clouds in the h ar i,— obeerved the lightings flash, and Bus On, 42 came, until let last it burst upon us withe 4 4 3 %i God 111 j - liE mercy bad Erep endure the trouble. T e speaker proceeded Wert the coast survey, by which we asc ertain ,pe% bar and coral reef on our Atlantic and e n - ',ete l 'der, the depth of water of the varlous'' emptying into the great Atlantic, so th at : h tre ilt . war did come we know every spot , and wer,. / ell for the emergenty. and have already ne r i,, waters of the South. The speaker now hap py luded to the net-work of railroads, the r g 1 7 4 telegraph, the improvement in sewing and articles of agriculture, and term, in 4 01 a tribute be the inventive genius of thee e t i N the North, portrayed in language at ones ee" oe V and forcible the great use of all these ~, and improvements to assist us in the war fett Union. In regard to the currency wad ba o the United States Government, the introduced the fact that they were ail Lee upon gold, and in this connection gave a RT ievi description of his own experience i s thkf regions of the country, concluding this of hes address with the consoling idea that i s.: was enough gold in the mines to pay w ee! war debt, and yet there would be a fortt:eh f .te every man, woman, child and soldier in thl L ie In the concluding portion of his speech he ; m e: duced the intreduction of the monitor inveaterk, Mr. Ericsson ; its triumph over the Itlerre-' which event caused the thrones of Ecgia.,„r France to tremble and to ward off interveme 1.'74 those countries. He spoke of the people of South as brave Americans, bone of onrhse a j T l fie shof our flesh, and he rather honored tv,l l , In a few years this war will be over, and thrs Th . people of the North and South wilt tend those: to shoulder and defy the nations of tha a. 4,4 In regard to slavery, he thought that the:eym; 6 ` be none of it left, if the war continued much lone; In fact, it Is an institution very muck datneeo present ; it seems to have the consumption ee l .: in its last stages. The bright sun of liberty l ie arise tomorrow . (this) morning over Marv,: [Tremendous applause and three cheers for 4 7 1 - • land-) As a nation, we have lived much in a (short time, more than some nations have le„, in a whole century. In regard to slavery , C t thought he could see the linger of Provideetth this affair. Ten years from this the little cslaat ,children will be full grown. They can say tr, E. , fathers fought for liberty, and then they Tu rf ,. forth to the land of their origin, and redeem it, so many-missionaries. The. land of heathen da ta , nets by this means will be* lighted up under ti, blisrful rays of Ohrietianity, - in all its glory. It well known that the colored .people of the Sswe knew where the North star !MS, bat now theyi a low anti fight for other stare; anal who shall say eal do not deserve their freedom? The reverend tom man plaid a glowing tribute to the many geaends admirals in our army and navy, which reinre "brought down the house.e He alluded to Gia s ray Grant in the following style : "I had ofte prayed to God that we had a Jackson; [applause:l a man of iron will, courage, and patriotism. A id I think I Can say that my prayer has been ans were, for God certainly has `Grant-ed that prayer ; fora. have a Grant at Petersburg who has the reballea by the throat, and there he means to keep it mita he chokes the monster to death.'.' The allusion thu wan made to the irreat general was received with thunders of applause from eyery part of the hews, STATE OF NEW TOM Worrespendence of The Preae.l PenT-JEuvre, OnArum Co., October 28, 1864. Probably all your readers have not visited this tar. ner of the world, although undoubtedly it would hart been worth their while, especially if they have any taste for the beauties of nature, in her wild and re mantic state. Those who have taken a run 111 this direction, had not, perhaps, as favorable opportnat tics of observing the peculiarities of the scenery as your present correspondent. Ilavingheard mach of the abundando of game found in the woodlands and mountains in -the neighborhood of Port Jervis, was induced to come down here from New York some nine or ten days since. I have ridden about in every direction, and if I have not killed many deer, partridges, grouse, woodcock, - Or rabbits, the pleasure I have enjoyed, both in my rambles and loiterings, haVe fully. equalled my most sanguine expectations. - This you would readily understand if I could only give an outline of half what I have seen and heard, but my chat must end as soon as I hear the railroad whistle; which, I am told, will bs in half an hour. Then Igo back to New York, bat .will be careful to take my notes of Port Jervis with me, so that I may be able to give your readers sores sketches at wiper time, which would now be possible. licw delightfully this village is situated I Ime no longer wonder that so many resort to it in the summer from Philadelphia, as well as New York, especially as it is so easy of access from both clues. The, beautiful Delaware begins to assume majenic proportions as it approaches Port Jervis, where it iijoined by the Neversink, whioh, although it can hardly he said to attain the dignity of an A.merlm liver, presents attractions along its meandering banks that would more than repay the trouble of a visit by themselves. The situation of the village, almost surrounded as it Is by the "everlasting mountains," would remind the European traveller, especially at sunset, of that part of the valley 0 the Rhone where the river enters the take of Ge• neva. The Blue Mountains do not, Indeed, poisw Alpine grandeur at this point, although there 13 an air of sublimity in their frowning aspect, softenei as this frown is by the perpetual verdure of their beautiful hemlock groves. ." There is, however, another difference between the two valleys. While therm Is scarcely a sound to be heard in that of the Rhone but the voice-of the has. bandman or the shepherd, here the shrill whistle of the locomotive is constantly remindlngus of Amer& can industry and enterprise. What a number of tra. vellers pass over the Erie road day and night! Those. who have never seen for themselves would hardly believe it; I have often counted thirty cars filled with pasaengers 'nth° lightning tray." The enormoes - amount of freight brought over the road would seem Still, more incredible. The wonder is that so few accidents occur on this line; considering that It la one of the longest in the world. I firmly belie7e that, were It otherwise, the constantly varying, be: ever beautiful, or sublime scenery along the who's route would always render it a favorite with the ad- miters of nature. Bid, in truth, the road ii; g 4 well managed. I find this to be the opinion of:" all unprejudiced persons who are capable of judging. An fns nos of my own experience is this: I. bad my horse and wagon put on the freight train in New York at half past fire o'clock P. M. ; I took the six-o'clock train myself, and reached thief place, a distance of nearly ninety miles, in, three hours and a half. Next morale:: I went to the railroad office and found my horse in the stable,' perfectly safe and sound, and the wagon eisually ready for a drivel What I am in formed on all hands is that DLr. Minot, the present general superintendent of the road, is constantly snaking improvements in its management, nor can say that I have any reason to doubt the fact. me political excitement of the three States which meet at this point—namely, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, is well represented at Port Jervis ; but the large majority of its four or five thousand inhabitants are decidedly in favor of Mr: Lincoln, altimugh nearly all the pretty girls are rdoClellantfes: As ram not a politician, and have not time just now to form hypotheses, I must leave your readers to discover the cause of this pre ference fer themselves. The people of Port Jervis have one institution of which they are justly proud. I mean the Deer Park Female Institute. I heard so much about this seminary that There been induced to visit it daring my-stay here. It Would require a column in year paper did I attempt to give my impressions of its various excellent features. -More than once it oc curred to me, while passing from one recitation room to another, that if men of means and intelli gence in our large cities, who have daughters to educate, were only aware of the peculiar advan tages,„botli, mental and pitysical t enjoyed by the stu dents at this Institution, spacious as the building is, with its sixty single rooms, large parlors, and ex tensive lecture halls, it could not contain half of those for whom admission would be sought. The Rev. J. H. Northrup, A. 111. ) the principal, is an experienced and acccmplished educator, and ho is aided by a corps of professors, each of whom had attained distinction in other seminaries before his connection with this. The latter fact is true, for example, of the Rev. P. E. Steven son, who has charge' of the . Departments of An cient Languages and _Millis& Literature. Bat, undoubiedlyenkilful and successful as Mr. S. is as an instructor, he is scarcely more so than Mrs. Wysr.ond, the, widow of an English clergyman, a lady whose abilities and reputation would alone ba a sufficient.guarantee that thoso under her tuition would attain a high degree of culture and refine ment. To the instructors of music, drawing, the modern - languages,- sm., I cannot allude more defi nitely than to remark, in passing, that the orna mental and useful are happily blended at the Insti tute. No where else have I seen light gymnastics better taught, or more graCefully and profitably practiced. But the locomotive whistle sounds, and so I must come to an abrupt close; even without paying that tribute to the ladylike deportment and superior intelligence of the 'students which they so eminently deserve. Aiiquis. NEW ,YORK. GUM Nxw Yoas, OCt. 31,1864 • AhRIVAL OS TEM GEIIMANIA. The Gerniania, has arrived with Stinthampton dates of the 19th. Her news is anticipated. TER STOCK MARKET. Stocks closed very strong to-night at the Evening Exchanue : Gold, 22.91" . New York Central,l243;; Rudsen - River, 124 X ; Eric, 100 If ; Reading - , Illinois Central, 129 k; Cleveland and Pittsburg. 10734 ; Cleveland and Toledo, 114; Chicago and Rock Island, 90%; Chicago and Northwestern,-ISY-s; Chicago Preferred, 81M; Fort Wayne, 107; Chicago and Alton, 8834 ; Canton Company, 37 ; Cumber land Preferred, 53k; Quicksilver, 84K; Marl poea, INTELLIGHNCE, Arrived, ablp Clara. Wheeler, Liverpool; bark Transit, New Orleans ; brig Kenneth, from Jaameli before reported abandoned after collision, towed up by pilot boat No. 1; brigs Acadia, .31orant Bay. Jamaica ; Villageßelle, CaMpeachY ; Si 0. Shall , Turks Island ; belnw, ship Atmosphere, Liverpool ; also the French frigate Bailees. ' ' - PLATE Ds TOILBTTB FaarrosiSE.--Yer enamel- ling -the skin, eradicating wrinkles, snuallTpol marks, pimples,. arc. Price $l. Swale 0?.. 1 1911 S. Seventh street,. ar.d 41 S. 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