pAILY (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED) 4 '"" BT JOHN'W. FORNEY,. orywE, No. 11 11 SOUTH itouRTH STREET. THE! DAILY PRESS, 'ray suboilbers, is EIGHT DOLLARS ma i n advance; or FlrTintit CENTS PEE rsysble to the Carrier. Mailed to sob rriber .the savior nDOLLARS Pan. a •fe DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS FOR .:,f • MOTHS. ONE DOLLAR AND SEVENTY-FIVE-FIVE<-INTS FOR THERE MONTHS. Invariably in &WSWe f.,4' lite time ordered, IdverlisentientS tuaerted at the usual rates. .0411 TRI-WEERLY PRESS, w iled to :11‘t..c.ribera , Fotra DOLLARS PEE in advance. V i rezz, SATURDAY, AUG=UST 180 TOE NEWS. Tile frigate Congress has at last been raised. on Thursday she was raised to such a height that six feet of her hill/ were out of water. At tact See Mints she was imbedded in sand. but idgh tide, it expected, would float her off. win be taken to the Gosport Navy Yard . , s utler store at Newport News had been rob -I,oa the Ist Maine Cavalry, the soldiers Mg off $7,000 worth of property. rrivroed rebel soldier, named hillier, in- Wed the proprietor of the Spencer House, oo - le (a Mr. Gregory,) to visit Shelburu, ~infra' county, New York, and when there at lint in a brutal manner, and then robbed Will. The people of Shelburn caught Miller, ord bang hint on a tree near where he coin ie.l the assault. . A t a dinner to Gen. Ortega, of the Mexican „ oil y, given in New York on Thursday eve tina., a letter leas read from Gen. Sheridan, in whiell he asserted that our work was not done' We had given a permanent government Be +o ltexieo, thinks the advent of- Maxima was a portion of the rebellion, and his" fall :inimitt belong to its history." A Mr. Robert, Brown, who wrote the first re ,ort of the meetin g of the friends of Jeff Davis in New York, to the Post of that city, has made affidavit reaffirming the statements he :ode, alai which were denied by some of those 110 were present. It will be found in another foleran. one hundred and eighty captured gnus were :cod at Fortress Monroe, on Thursday. The 4. „,.,t iron ones sold at five-eighths of a cent renal, the wrought iron at one and one and the brass pieces at twenty-nine cefils tier pound. uo , se a General Hale reports, in a despatch to the State Department, that the number of deaths in Alexandria, Egypt, from June sith to July, was 1,75.5. The disease was making sad ravages in the interior. Tile eleetion returns from Tennessee indi ,:ate that Maynard, of the KnogVinit district; Stokes, of the Chattanooga district; Thomas, M the Clarksville district; and Campbell, of the Nashville district, are elected. The reception of Gen. Grant in Maine amount- Cd to an ovation. Yesterday the General visit :t,lllo of the interesting places in the neigh heel of Portland, after which lie left for e w Brunswick. There was no Cabinet meeting yesterday, in . ro e.equence of the indisposition of President :Anson, A correspondent from Canada, says the story ai.oat the attempted abduction of Geo. N. San- WItS a hoax. Enetus Poulson, Pension Agent of this city; Sled ft new bond, which requirement is a •.raellcal reappointment to that position. Brigadier General Seth Williams, for a long t!;ne Adjntant Genet* Army of the Potomac, been brevetted a major general. The dock market was quite active ycster- thOUgh prices, exeept in one or two in s:3nm,, showed no improvement. Reading shine advanced, selling up to 5374 Go -, ermuent loans were dull, and the 5.20 s de There was very little demand for Flour yesL. Ivrilay, either for shipment or home use, and ii nuntet was dull. wheat, corn, and oats were also dull and lower, Cott°n is unchanged. Provisions continue very scarce, and prices are Arm. Whisky is dull; small sales of Penn :sylvania. and Western Ws are making at ..'22KO:RSe IR gallon. Gold closed in New York last night at 14334. THE MONROE DOCTRINE. Whatever value, may attach to the tradi t'.ow,. of the Mot Bon doctrine, it is obvious it at a very pas•ainnate, it Ltot a very pro -I.3ent effort, is being made to give r. . n and comprehensive application at vv,ent time. The presence of a large army on the frontier rivers of Texas, f.mit thither, doubtless, not for warlike or crzresi•ive purposes by the Government, is m,eil by the politicians as the basis of a pro phecy that difficulty with the French in Mcaiso may be precipitated at an early day ; and we have a letter of General Pun, SlLE itir,xii's, who is in command of the army of Texas, in which that gallant and impetu ous chieftain makes a very strong pro-Mexi- Can policy for the President. This letter was produced at a military dinner in New Toth yesterday, and is as follows : Time is no use to beat around the bush in 11. i. Mexican matter. We should give a per w:anent government to their republic. Oar cork to crushing the rebellion will not be &nu lilt this takes place. The advent of NaNhailian was a portion of the rebellion, and his fall should belong to its history. :Moi,t of theMexiettn soldiers of Maximilian e. army would throw down their arms the ma. lam we cross the Rio Grande. The French il:!lui•nce is governed by sheer impudence. [Cheers.] That this was a private letter is clear from the terms of it ; and it will doubtless be nail in print with as much regret by General SEEERMAN as by many of his best friends. He wasp =questionably, not sent to the Rio Grande to make a war. What ever eourse destiny, and even duty to our s; Ives, may constrain the Government to Pur,tte, we are not certainly in the position, either morally-or politically, to initiate hos tilities with France, a power with which Ire are openly on the most friendly terms. The Mormon doctrine has recently been Etrrouncied with a new interest. Both, or rather all the great parties of the country teas be said -to have been committed to it at different times, and there is a current setting towards !it which is increased by temporary and, not very temperate coun sel. Ou the specific subject itself, au esteemed correspondent. sends us a very pertinent tad well-conceived passage from One of the nervous speeches of Hon. Wm. D. KELLEY, which we print elsewhere. DATIS AND 1115 FRIENDS. The meeting of the New York adorers and admirers of JEFFERSON DAVIS proves to have heats genuine affair, after all, and if not huge in numbers, was sufficiently violent in spirit. The informant of the ;New York Evening Post, who was of c. - (larse doubted and denounced by the friend s of DAVIS, comes out in a "e'l'f statement ; giving full partieu hrs. which we copy. The JEFF DAVIS party is evidently on the increase in the •Nottli. He has some ardent supporters even here. "The stern statesman" would not long -ladle a volunteer attorney if he litre tried in our courts. And at any meet ing held -to sympathize with him, a very little pressure would tempt the sage of . Wheatland to assume • the curule .Lair. IHow strange the bond between these loving compatriots ! How true to themselves ! How costive in their gifts to others ! They had nothing to rpare for the assassinated President, the butchered Secretary of Sfate, the starved prisoner, the mutilated -martyr. What :Ley had they held in reserve for DAVIS, lie patriot ; for PAYE, the Adonis ; for 'lrs. StRATT, the Mary of the sezitfold ; for 'WERTZ, the noble janitor of the Anderson.. rile heaven. Calculating the degree of - ;eneration by the degree of crime, it would ;N reasonable to estimate, that if DAvis killed a few more thousand of innocent BOOTH had lived to murder Presi (,oll.JouiNsoly, and PAYNE had survived to " s rdsh" the flintily circle of Mr. SEWARD, a IRAV set of saints would have been added to the Christian church; of whnch WILMER, GR EEN• , and .crEIME, are the presiding apos lles and priests. THE ONLY TWO CHRISTIAN NATIONS that still tolerate slavery are Brazil and Spain. In these, active efforts to promote emanci pation arc now being made,' and when they are successful, this horrible institution will exist only in benighted regions, where civilization and Christianity are unknown, and where heathen barbarism has always prevailed. It is a most significant circuna. stance that all intelligent nations, after a protracted trial, condemned the infamous system of labor which heretofore prevailed in our Southern States; and we remember no instance in which, after its abolition, it was ever restored. Experience has strength ened and confirmed the dictates of reason and justice, which so clearly teach that every man untainted with crime possesses the right of personal liberty. However little elpe he my own, he should alway 4 welt',- and have a fair opportunity of . . . .. ' "xi ' is. ~. " ~. . ' • .?..• , ...I/ .. . . . .. . - . ' f lek' / .. 44". •" -. ' '- ''': wit i I t i pl* f ' ' '• --`.-- . trite ite ... . . AI , • k. - - -.. - •. - :0 ... ' .4...',-- - - , ------...„....,\,,,, ~; ,. .7 0071 • ~./, , V _ 4 text A„ ) _ ~ ___• iy . :-. . ..211111,Z ... , ~ ... . 1 _____ __ do .„. •NEL , r AlilL.l,- )*. Xit • - ... ~.I._?.'- --.---- Al - .:- „..<;.„,... 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BEPUDIATION-RECONSTRUCTION " Occasional " sounds the alarm in his letter to-day, ex - posing a conspiracy to foist disloyal members from the South into the Congress of the United States for the pur pose of discreditih the national securities, and ultimately repudiating the national debt. To those who have carefully ob served the signs of the times, and especially the frequent recent exhibitions of malevo knee on the part of the conquered rebel leaders, the admonition of our corres pondent will not be unreasonable or unex pected. A SPECIAL correspondent from Washing tgn speaks of the .n.amous Captain WERTZ, late keeper of the •AnderSonvillc, (Ga.) "prison," in which our poor Union soldiers were allowed to_ starve and "rot" by thousands ; but the letter we copy from yesterday's New York Times, heing a more elaborate, authentic account of that bar barian's conduct, goes beyond even the wildest exaggerations of the cruelties of JEFFERSON DAVIS. LETTER FROM "OCCASIONAL." WAsitu GT ON, August 4, 1865 The hopeful condition of our finances, stated by the Secretary of the Treasury, is the best news that could be given to the American people, In other days, the question of the public debt, and the manner of paying it, occupied the at tention of the Committee of Ways and Means in the House, the Committee of Fi nance in the Senate, the Secretary Of the Treasury and his agents, the leading bank ers and capitalists, and the great manufac turers of our own and other nations em ployed in the manifold occupations of skilled labor. - The number of persons holding our bonds was comparatively small. But now the financial condition is the concern of mil lions. The holders of our national securities include rich and poor, high and low, the millionaire and the mechanic, the philoso pher and the poet, the tinman and the tailor, the sailor and the soldier, the seam stress and the statesman. The rich having invested freely, and the poor litiving confi ded nearly, if not all, of their substance to the care and the cause of their country, the study of the money market has become as common RS the reading of a morn ing paper. The spirit that prompted this exhibition was in the beginning the loftiest patriotic sacrifice ; and it vitalized and in vigorated the Government in all its arteries and nerves, But, at the same time, it cre ated' a new and a watchful interest, It united the element of a just regard :for individual well-being .to that of jeal ous vigilance over the details of the administration of government ; and in this respect, the National Debt, if not a "national blessing," became au ac tive and unsleeping auxiliary of the Go vernment in all its duties. It made the agent feel that the eye of his principal was upon him, and the vastness of the tru- , cave to the principal a fresh obligation to see to faithful management. Hence the perfect trust-x._ the midst of oceans v of expenditure. The P vin felt that they were lending their money. the holiest of missions, that it was being trustily expended, and would be honestly and promptly returned. Hence, also, the success of our arms, the comfort of the masses at home, who lived, as it were, on a tranquil island in thehot and bloody vortex of war, the consequent conquest of the rebellion, the achievement of peace, and after peace, the rapid retrenchment in pie public outlay, and the wise and compre hensive preparation for a period of economy and moderate taxation. It was but natural that the people should learn finance, and that the "money article" in Tits rums should be as interesting to many who here tofore passed it over, as the " marriages and deaths" are to the good housekeeper, the poetry to the young lady of the family, or the politics to the youthful candidate for the State Legislature. It was natural, also, that the slightest attempt to depreciate or discredit our currency or bonds, our five_ twenties or seven-thirties, should be re sented by thousands and tens of thousands. For what a savings bank for the laboring and frugal was in days gone by, the na tional treasury is now. If that is heal thy and solvent, and pays its inte rest promptly, so whole communities are comforted and in repose. The difficulty of spreading doubt as to the intrinsic value and ultimate redemption of these securities has been increased by this very cause. The Northern sympathizer with the rebels —the local Copperheadw. I to busies himself in spreading all sorts of panic stories among the people who hold the bonds of the Na tional Government—has heretofore found his avocation a most profitless one. But he has not been less active for that reason. He has been constantly on the qui vise. He seizes upon every text and pretext to excite dissension and despondency. The present favorite Copperhead expedient is to demand the admission into Congress of representa tives from the late rebel States, elected by such bitter rebels as lately threw their ballots in Richmond, Virginia. It is the great mission of the Democratic leaders. They are prompted to it by various motives. The rebel Congressmen will be the nucleus of a new Democracy, fashioned after the Breck inridge and Buchanan organizations which plunged the nation into civil war. They will help the men who broke the old party, to resume control in the several Southern States. These reunited brethren can then proceed to repeal the war-measures of Con gress, especially the odious confiscation Rut above, all, when the doors are thrown open, Mut tn, are brought into the Capitol in tritiMpu,- THE ASSAULT UPON THE PUBLIC CREDIT AND UPON THE NATIONAL FINANCIAL SE CURITIES wrm. miiaric IN TERRIRLE EAR NEST. There . will be consistency hi this. The Democratic leaders have been laboring for four years to bring the bonds and cur rency of the Government into disrepute. They have advised their followers to refuse the currency, and, abovd all,'not to invest in the bonds. The key-note Was given given by ,l'ames Buchanan, in 1861, after he had assisted to deplete the public treasu ry, to drag down the value of our national securities, to Make us beggars for loans in the markets of the world, and to strip the Go vernment of nearly all her weapons of pub lic defence and preservation. Under his lead his intimate friends bought real estate, rather than trust the Govern ment;' and at his cue, the Democratic press rung with sombre prophecies of 'rain to all who took the national notes, or con fided in the national bonds. What was true of him, was true of nearly all the same school. They fed the hopes of the foreigners who looked upon our financial scheme with amazement, and generally predicted its downfall. The fact that our debt is owed to the people alone, and that its repudiation would bring thousands of happy and industrious citizens to abject want; produces no pity in their bosoms. They, therefore, bail the idea of making an issue upon the admission of the rebels to Congress: To the rebels the national debt of the United states is a most odious sight. They know it was incurred to crush them and to abolish slavery. They know that their confiscated lands will be made to contri bute to its liquidation. They know that, while not one Clime of their own debt will ever be recognized, they will be eoingelled to help to raise the needed revenue for the payment of the interest and ultimately of the principal. They long, therefore., to get into the next Congress to unite with their Democratic brethren to vote against all .revenue or, appropriation bills, and boldly to raise and fight under the flag' of Repudiation. The conspiracy has been duly organized, and involves more ele- Ments than the people would at present readily believe. I regard it as the great peril of the Republic. Thus it is the duty of all patriots, apart from their own interests, to be ready to meet it. Under the most plausible and deceptive theories this infamous tmanlcl will be made. It has already conirived to secure the sanction of what are supposed to be great names, It contemplates the completest disgrace and the most astounding repudiation in civil history. Ido not fear that it will succeed; because it is only necessary to expose such a plot to bring it to shame. OCCASIONAL WASHINGTON. THE INDISPOSITION OF THE PRESIDENT STILL CONTINUES. OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE RAVAGES OF THE CHOLERA IN EGYPT THE PENSION AGENT OP PHILADELPHIA REAPPOINTED. Special Despatches to The Press.] WASIHNOTON, August 4. The Andersimville savage Wertz. From the card of "the counsel for IL %Team," in this city, the keeper of the Andersonville Prison, at Georgia, it would appear that that 13111111129.11 Wretell IS to have a civil trial. In one view of it I am not sorry, for even before Judge WymE we must get Some facts to add another chapter to the volume of proofs of the horrid cruelties of JEFFERSON DAVIS. I have seen and heard many of the victims of Anderson vine, and all, without exception, tell the same harrowing story. One of the most eminent surgeons in the regular army, who treated some Of our poor boys after they were sent home from that hen of horrors, told me it was not an uncommon thing to find a soldier whose feet had dropped off from his limbs, owing either to imperfect surgery or brOken bones left uncared for; and that the dry or carious shank would protrude! In many othOr cases they came home to linger in inconceivable tortures, and to die the most horrid deaths. I was present when a leading Southern man frankly admitted his inability to defend the inhumanity practiced at this post. I also heard a citizen of Pennsylvania who was a prisoner at Andcrsonville give his experience. He had escaped, but was retaken by means Of bloodhounds. The food was so execrable as to lead to certain death. In the morning he woke to see himself surrounded by the corpses of those who had laid moaning and dying at his side during the night. I am not one who seeks for vengeance even against the most guilty; but now, when there is a cry for the forgiveness of the whole body of the despoilers of our Country, the deliberate assassins of our President, the murderers of our friends and defenders, and when a party is being made upon the appeal of mercy to JEFFERSON DAVIS, I demand that justice should not be lost in this exhibition. of a iinitity which, eVell if exercised towards the rebel chief, would only be regarded as a proof of Iveakness or fear. 4, Commodore" Buchanan. This man, one of the earliest and worst of the traitors, is now supposed to be at his farm in Maryland. lie came to - Fortress Monroe two days ago, in a Government steamer, from Mobile. He had the Insolent effrontery tO de mand a special vessel to carry his precious carcase. BUCHANAN had command of the navy yard at Washington when the rebellion com menced, and staid long enough to get all the - „ ,:nation he could, when he decamped. He expects •---• escape confiscation, inasmuch as iris Wife now owe, all his real estate This is Mrs. R. E. Lug's get back to Arling ton. These most excellent '-hivalry are such sweet fellows, they do not scrap,. io - nr,k oaths and betray information confided to them, and are adepts at using their wives' clothes or name to save their lives and their property, and their "sacred honor.” General Sam Jones. Among the other rebel worthies now at For tress Monroe is the notorious General SAM JONES, the swie who placed our gallant Union officers and fire at Charleston when the guns of our fleet and batteries were shelling the city. That most pious and hUmano hero also coolly asked a special vessel to convey himself, family, servants, prop.erty, &c., to the North, a favor which General GILMORE. politely declined. Now that we are engaged in trying to be merciful to the rebels, and seeking ex cuses for pardoning them, the graceful feat of General Jowes, i s plaaing the ff madsilla " of the North under the fire of their own guns, as a sort of refined retaliation, must not be for gotten. Probably the General will himself claim special grace, because, like the keeper of the Andersonville plague-house, he acted under orders! 313 y Assodated PreaS,) The Health of President Jrohnson. Owing to the continued sickness of Presi dent JOHNSON, the beads of Departments were formally notified that there would be no meet ing of the Cabinet to-day. The Colored Convention. The Colored Men's Convention to-day, at Alexandria, Va., adopted another address, setting forth the reasons why they are entitled to all the privileges of freemen. In the course of a discussion Governor Panneozrr was roughly censured, and accused of selling out the =grins at auction when he removed the sent of his Government to Richmond. A delegate said that. REIEPONT as the Governor ought to be respected, when another replied that no man was entitled to respect who did not respect the rights of colored men. An anonymous letter, postmarked Washing ton, was read, threatening, among other things, to put the principal leaders of the con vention under the sod before the falling of the autumn leaves, if they persisted in their object. This caused great excitement, and a fierce debate, but the speakers said they were not to be intimidated; and finally the letter was disposed of by throwing it under the table. The Cholera in Egypt. Consul General Hale, at Alexandria, Egypt, in an official despatch to the State Depart ment, gives a vivid picture of the ravages of the cholera in that city. There, were 1,755 deaths from June 27th to July 7th. It is esti mated that 30,000 persons have left Alexandria since the disease appeared, on the filth of June, up to July 7th. The most distressing reports are received from the interior. Promotions in the Army; The War Department has Promulgated a general order, showing a large number of pro motioni for gallant and meritorious services.. Among them are Brig. Gen. Sara WILLIAMS, to be major general by brevet; Cols. JOHN C. 11...x.45n SIMPSON, ROBERTSON, and GIBES, tot be brigadier generals by brevet. Capt. J. G. c. LEE, U. S. A., Depot Quartermaster at Alexan. been breveted as a lieutenant 'co lonel in the The Pension ~ oS ENASTUS POULSON has executed a new - MAI.- as rensien Agent at Philadelphia, which re quirement IS practically a reappointment to that office, auul puts an end to the contest. Inness of Captain Drayton. Captain PERCIVAL DRAYTON, U. S. N., Chief of the Bureau of :Navigation, is now danger ow.dy ill, with but slight prospect, if any, of recovery. PersoniL On Wednesday afternoon, Rear Admiral Dahlgren was married in New York, to Mrs. Goddard, the daughter of the late Samuel Vin ton, of Ohio. The marriage took place at the house of the Rev. Dr. Cummings, pastor of St. Stephen's Church, New York. Cienerai Augur has received a brevet promotion to Brigadier General in the regular army, and his Chief of Stuff, Lieut. Col. J. S. Taylor, of the Gth Cavalry, is breveted Colonel in the regular service. The number of prisoners in the Old Capitol, yesterday, ♦was 225. The Election in Tennessee. LOUISVILLE, August 3.—The result of the Ten nessee election is as follows Franklin coal - Ay—Campbell (Dem.), 170; Car ter (Union), 68; Stokes, 194, Hood, 106; Falk ner, 4. Sv. , eetwater,' Mom.* countY Mayn ar d (Valor, ), al majority ; Soldiers' vote, Maynard, 52 majority. : Soldiers'_ vote, First district—Congress-- Miller (Union), 151 majority ; Jonesboro, Tay lor; 99; Miller, PI Murfreesboro—Ed. Cooper (Administration), 211 majority. - COlinnbia—Arnold, DI; Tllolllas (Conserve tive),lsS. Cowan—Cooper (Administration), received 95 vOteS in the Tenth district, in Franklin county, with no opposition. NASH VILLE, August 4.—No additional election returns have been received that would indi cate nay positive twilit. Maynard, of the Enoxville district; Stokes, of 1110 Chattanooga district; and Cooper, of the Shelbyville dis trict (all Union); and Thomas, of the Clarks ville district ; and Campbell, Nashville dis trict (both Opposition), are undoubtealy elect ed. No reports have been received front West WeWlBB3oth PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1865. GEN'. GOAN - TN MOVEMENTS. An Eacareion Among the Wands—His Departure for Portland. PORTLAND, Aug. 4.—Gen. Grant started on an excursion among the islands .in the harbor at 9.15 this morning, in the revenue steamer lifa honing. The party on board is very select, and limited, The day is pleasant, and the trip cannot but be delightful to the distinguished party. POUTLAND, Aug. 4..—The lilahoning returned and landed Gen. Grant and party at Atlantic street wharf at 2 o'clock, whence they walked to the. Grand Trunk depot through a dense crowd and cloud of dust, which rendered them almost indistinguishable, and perfectly dis gusted. They immediately entered a train of ears prepared for them, when a portion of the crowd made a rush for the General's car and made convulsive grabs at the hand extended from the window. Without a moment's delay the train started, and relieved the General, who appeared on the rear platform and bade the crowd adieu. GORHAM, N. H., Aug. 4.—Lieutenant General Grant and family and several prominent citi zens of Portland arrived here at 6.45 P. M. A large crowd of people met him at the depot, and he was escorted to the Alpine House, which is decorated with flags and mottoes. The General took a stand on the green terrace, and an address of welcome to the Granite Hills was made, after which he returned to supper. He leaves at 10 A. H. to-morrow for Quebec. _ FORTRESS MONROE. The Frigate Congress Raised—A Sutler Store at Newport News Plundered. FORTRESS Molter% August 3.—The old frigate Congress was raised to-day. At half-past eight o'clock the pumps were set at work on her, and at ten o'clock slit, commenced to raise, and by noon six feet of her hull was out of water. She was deeply embedded in the sand, and cannot be removed from its banks until high water, which will be at six o'clock this evening. The pumps, in the meantime, will easily keep her free from water. Mr. Brown, one of the contractors, immediately tele• graphed to Norfolk for steam power to tow the Congress to the dry-dock at the Gosport Navy Yard. She now draws nineteen feet of water. Last evening, at eight o'clock, the steamer COSSACK put into Newport Fewii for coal, hay ing on board the Ist Maine regiment 15f Ca -miry. As soon as they landed, - the soldiers commenced stealing goods from the store Of Nicholas White, the post sutler at that place, and before the Cossack left, they had nearly cleaned out the store, carrying off goods to tho.amount of about $7,000. The Cossack is at anchor ab Fortress Monroe, and it is under stood she, with her troops, will be ordered back to Newport News to adjust the damages. The 180 captured gang were sold at auction to-day, by order of the Secretary of War. The average price received for cast-iron guns was Dye-eighth cents per pound ; for wrought-iron guns, one and one•eighth cents ; and for brass pieces, twenty-nine cents. BALTIMORE. Important Regulations in Regard to Paroled Rebels —Order by General Illaneock. BALTimons, August 4.-,General Hancock has issued an order saying that paroled prisoners of the late rebel armies, who have not been pardoned by the President, will, upon arriving within the limits of the Aliddle Department, report their presence and residence, immedi. ately, to the nearest Provost Marshal, and register their names. If nort-residentB of this Department, and not allowed by the terms of their parcilLto enter this Department, especial authorit net be shown, and sled, under which they are found therein; and that au thority to be Valid must be from an officer hav ing power in the premises to allow persons of the latter class to remain within the limits Of this Department, and requires the sanction of the Department Commander. No person of the class named will be allowed to visit Balti more without permission from these head quarters, or higher authority. . CANADA. The Story about the Attempted Ab• &action or Sanders a Hoax—The Vacant Premiership. NEW You', August 4.—A special Montreal despatch to the Commercial Advertiser:says the story of the attempted abduction of Sanders is an unmitigated hoax. The inevitable Foote is there, looking seedy, and a mere relic of the former blusterer. The vacant Premiership excites. great in.. rest, and the Hon. John .2.1a - litacDorgild: is Pointed at by public opinion as the successor of Tacue. It is probable that Belleau or Canehon ivui receive the vacant Cabinet all polnunOst. The confederation scheme is regarded with iudifference by the-people. Lynch Law in Iftainna. TERRI: HAUTE, Indiana, Aug net 4.—Yester any a paroled rebel prisoner, named Miller, who had induced a Mr. Gregory, proprietor of the Spencer House, in Louisville, to visit Shel burn, Sullivan county, twenty miles below this city, under pretence of selling him some land, attacked Gregory murderously in the woods near Shelburn, beat him nearly to dsath, gmhhed him 80 - erg times, and robbed him of ninety dollars and his watch. The people turned out, caught Miller, had him identified by Gregory, and hung him on a tree near the 'spot where his crime was com mitted. Faint hopes are entertained of Gre gory's recovery. Riot at Aequia Creek. BALTIMORE, Aug. 4.—The Richmond Republic of to-day says a riot took place at - Acquia Creek on Tuesday last, between the whites and blacks employed there. The latter par tially succeeded in driving the whites away, when the military interfered, and killed one black man, and wounded many others. Fif teen colored men - were taken to Mellon:aid and turned over to the military authorities. NEW YORK CITY. Tin STOCK SZCOND 90000 U S es 5-20 c 10196 10000 do 106 20000 IJ 8 Ss 62-0 cnis KS% 10000 Tr N 7 3-10 2d s. 99) 50000 do 99.4 16000 Mo St 6s 706 10300 0 6; Nis Ctf 26.94 100 Quick Min C 0... 57 100 do MO 5734 100 Brous L Co. 113 100JNY CR 9396 100 do s6O 93 200 Erie R 90X 1500 do 91 700 do 530 9034 TR& EVENING BTOCK BOARD GOlii, 143 . 1 4 5 Erie, '89 5 4' 3 5 Hudson River, 112y 4 ; Reading, lOcia 'Michigan Southern 66%; Pitts burg, 70%; orthwestdrn preferred, WA. Xar ket not very active, but rather firm. Markets by Telegraph. BALTIMORE, August 4.—Flour is quiet; West ern extra $8.731§9. Wheat dull and declined se. Corn is heavy, and has a declining ten dency; yellow Me. Provisions dull and in active. Bacon -drooping. Whisky firm at CHICAGO, August 4.—Flour quiet. 'Wheat dull at $1.20: 1 / 2 for No 1, and 401.07@1.08 for No 2. Corn quiet, and PA° lower; sales No I at 05V 2 c, and No 2 at 64 , /,e. Oats quiet at 41 - 011 , Ae. Ilighwines neglec%ed. Provisions quiet., u s i hl e2 l:oothlts. , 58,000 21,000 16,000 Flour,barrels Wheat, bushels Corn, bushels Oats, bushels . . Mr. E r kA F n iat Springfield, _ VA VA llor • -- -.-, Armory in this erry; dlaaster armorer. at the - tly - tim War Department, t6 - IPI-.e.ernmiasioned arsenals in England, France, and SiirttwiouS and to be present at trials of breech-loftMa, nrcarrns, soon to take plaee in Ihigland ARK Switz,erland. lie will leave NOW York fOr Liverpool on Wednesday of next week, pass ing thence to London and over to Ostend, Bel gian'. Here he will visit Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels: and Liege, . the tdwn whore the famous-Belgium rifles are made, next Paris, and other cities in France, and finally, Switzerland. The rifle trial in the lat ter country will begin September 2d, pro bably at Geneve, and will be open to t com petitors from all over the world, a p ze of i. , i'i,ooo being offered for the best breech-1 ader, .besides the sum which the Swiss Gover intent I will pay for the patent right of the gun; Air. _Min will return to London, so as to pre sent at the Government trial of breec -load, bi g rifles in that city, September 30th. n his return s about three months hence, will make a.report to the Depstrtmerit of the emit of his observations. Our Governmen ould not well have selected a more suitable gent than 'Mr. _ADM for this purpose; as lie is Wall rably qualified for it by his long corm °Mon with the Armory in its practical wor inns, and his well-known mechanical ability. .De timbal, teacher of languages, and foMome time a clerk at the Armory, will aced pinny Alr. Allis as interpreter—a position he i fully competent to occupy.—Sprintkidd (Max)s ) Re publican. ..AN ACCIDENT AT THE LAmlffuncff or A V —Yesterday afternoon there was laul from the shipyard - of Messrs. Booze Br Canton, a fine brig .f about three hund re burden, built for Mr. Samuel W. Filth' <Alien, of Philadelphia. Her length on is one 'hundred and twenty feet, brea, beam thirty v feet, and depth of hold teal and is named the William Welsh, after tiuguished merchant of Philadelphia. eighty or one hundred persons, among v.:re a number of ladies, were on the when she was launched, and she had fair into the Stream, when - the operation of " ping," or bringing her up, was &MIMI, The windlass rope was put in play whi was under headway, and, unfortunatel William Riderhush, a ship carpenter yard, and better known as Seymour taught in - the bight of the rope, and h leftleg, at the knee, crushed and cola] torn off, leavin the lower part of th g his boot. The blood spouted to the de. torrent, bet instantly a young man on said to he the mate of the vessel, With presence of mind, picked up a small ro ; formed a tourniquet above the knee, partially stopped the effusion. Subset an amputation wasperformed, hut tile died under the operation.—BaUini. I 424 oust 3. The F A SWOR The IT: York Post, of last evening, prints the folloking sworn statement of the gentle man wilt reported the proceedings of the council of Jeff Davis , friends lately held in New Yo city. The gentleman (Mr. Brown) s lt reaffirm his first statement in such a manner as to lea e no doubt of the truth of the first report: The foll&Wing ii the sworn statement of Mr. Brown: i' L. _ "State of Iffew York, City and County of New York, 4.: "Robe r( Brown, of said city and county of. New Yell, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith : 1 "On Monday, the 31st of Ju1y,.1865, he attend ed a meeing in this city, having received an invitatiet in the following terms: " Youe invited to meet, with several gentlern ,at the offices Nos. 19 and 20 in the N . house 9 Broad street on Monday, the list r, us instant, i t 4 P. M., to devise means for the fair and fullefence of Jefferson Davis and his as sociates,)so that whatever happens, justice may be done. " 1 Naw Yonn, July 26th, 1.835. , "The meeting was held at the rooms desig nated, being those occupied by Carlos Butter field. There were present at the meeting Messes. Gideon J. Tucker, Surrogate of this county, Theodore Martine, Peter Y. Cutler, Clancy and Douglas, among others. One of there saidthat Mayor Gunther would attend if business did not detain him, and - that he was entirely in union and sympathy with the Objects of the meeting. • After some 'delay, it was remarked that it word be as well to invite their Southern friends outside to come in. This was done; several persons entered, after which the doors were closed. There were now ten men present. "The object of the meeting was to raise funds to meet the expenditures to be incurred in the defence of Jeff Davis. The follOwin„re committee was appeinted for that purpose: C: Godfrey Gunther, Mayor of New I ork 5 Carla. Butterfield, Theodore Martine, Messra. Doug lass and Clancy. "A general conversation followed upon the signification of the trial of Davis. It was, they all .agreed, the most important trial in the WOHa'S history. Every lover of liberty in Europe and America had an interest in it, They were on trial. The celebrated trial of Warren Hastings would sink into insignifi cance compared with that of Jefferson Davis. "Mr. Cutler declared the Declaration of In dependence to be the Magna Oherta of human liberty, and quoted it to prove that the South erniStates had the right to secede. "Another person, one of the New remarked Yorkers, rearked that the State of New York refused.. to enter the Federal Union except the right; was assured to her to Witbilra.w it she thought proper. The proceedings and debates of the convention were referred to in confirmation of this statement. "Another of the New Yorkers declared that evenin Massachusetts every officer taking the °BAD of office swore that he owed allegiance to the State paramount to every other obligation of fealty. "Ni'. Robert M. Livingston, of Mobile, Ala bama, remarked how few people had ever read the Oonstitutions of the different States. He had read them, and found in ,several of the coiritutions of free States the expressed right to ecede. ''A running conversation followed the state ment, in which it was said that the effect of 00 trial of Davis would be a revolution of Sen• ti4ent everywhere& favor of thelSouth. It wound be proved on the trialthat the secession cause was right, and-entitled to the sympa thy of the world. , One of the company, Mr. Cu ler, if I remember rightly, quoted a pas se . from Burke, to show that a State cannot be guilty of treason. "Air. Livingston; now wrought up to a high pith of enthusiasm, made the declaration: 'intwenty-five years the man that 110 W ae euSes the South as having committed treason, will be looked upon as a madman and a fool.? lie repeated this declaration, saying that in fifty years the revolution in popular senti mei* would be so great that such a man would be looked upan as a madman or a fool. "One of the New Yorkers denounced the ex ecution. of Mrs. &Watt as a cold, deliberate murder. Another declared that she was con victed upon forged testimony. A third (Mar tine) asserted that the court by which she was tried had no legal jurisdiction, and that the execution was a deliberate murder. NEW YORK, August 4. EXOHANGS. • 100 Erie it s3O 9014 500 do 913 500 Reading R.... 515.107% 500 do - • 107% 10 In Cent R......:..12034 100 .01 So & N /...430 67 , 500 do ... 67k: 800 Clev &P R. 71 100 Chi & N W R.... 277 f, 200 do 28 500 Chi & N W prof., 6576 200 (10 . ..... 635(4 550 do P u 9 0 7 , )4 100 01, Views of a Returned Rebel Soldier. [From the Nashville Press and Times. 3 A very . respectable resident of the Third Congressional district, who recently returned from the rebel army, remarked to a Union friend, after listening to a stirring . speech from Colonel Wnsli. Stokes " The [Num men are not half as hard upon the rebels as we in tended to be upon you, when we were in the Southern army. Colonel Stokes is not a bit harder upon us than we were against you one year ago. We did not intend to let Stokes, or any other decided Union man, vote at all. We talked that matter over often in the Min and everybody, except the Union con scripts, agreed that the "Tories," Who stood up for the United States against the Confede racy, didn't deserve to vote, and shouldn't vote. So I can't think hard of you Union men for wanting to keep us who have been rebels away from the polls, for it is exactly the way we meant to treat you. - I don't want to vote until I have satisfied you all that I mean to be a - peaceable citizen, and to stand up after this for the United States Government. And when we Came out of the Southern army, none Of us expected to vote,rand hardly any of us wanted to vote right oft: If the Copperhead politi cians, and the rebels who have staid at home, would shut their mouths, there would be no trouble about it." "Do the rebels who remained at home tell you that you have a right to vote," asked the tsnion man. " Certainly they do," answered the returned soldier. "They were the first persons who spoke to me about voting. - And at the same time, they abuse us for giving up so soon, and not holding out till we had driven the Yankees and Tories out of Tennessee. The very men who tell me I have a right to vote, quarrel with ale Southern soldiers for not fighting better and sustaining the Southern Confederacy." This conversation Was related to 1.15 by one of the most respectable, influential and truth ful citizens of Middle Tennessee, a gentleman whose word will pass .unquestioned wherever lie is known. And there is truth in it. It IS COUtbliteGiculeTery elite, JIFF DAVIS' FRIENDS. 1 Report of their Treasonable Utterances Reaffirmed. STATEMENT OF THE PROCEED INGS OF THE COUNCIL. . . . "Mr. Livingston said that he had conversed with a number of Englishmen in regard to this brutal murder. They told him that it Would send a thrill of horror throughout Eu. rope, and the howl of indignation that will ho sent back would so cower and terrify the. Ame rican Government that it will be afraid to bring Mr. Davis to trial. Ile believed that the intention was to keep him lingering in prison till he died, without bringing him to trial. The friends of Mr. Davis must keep such an agitation of the matter stirring, that the Go vernment would be forced to put him on trial without further delay. "Mr. Cutler said that he had been of opinion that the Government would bring Darts to trial before the District Court of the District. of Columbia. But it had been ascertained that a Democrat (Judge Wylie) had been appoint, ed one of the judges; and hence the Govern ment would not dare let him be tried there. it wiLs_nrobable that Mr. Chase would hold the court. -- _ " The conversation - took another turns and `Black Republicanism; was tak - en - up. The question of negro suffrage, it was predicted, would divide the ' Black Republicans.' " Mr. Livingston said that lie had conversed with agreat number of Western soldiers. Ile found that their hatred for the 'nigger' was even more intense than that of. Southern men. Ile would mention a fact that had come under his own cognizaneellwithin a short time more than n hundred ' niggers ' in Mobile had been murdired in cold blood by Western soldiers. "A lrew Yorker asked Mr. Livingston how Alabaha would be likely to vote at the next electiOn for members of Congress. Tley will reeurn a solid delegation of Omani and true Southern men,' he replied. Work g himself up into anotherfury of ens thust m,he declared that thitty-flve hundred noble Mon-hearted Southerneffiad kept at bay for many months an army . seventy-five thousind Union troops. Mobi e only capitu lated )t lien she was worn out and exhausted. "Ile, then paid a glowing tribute to 'the noole-ikearbefl women of Mobile: ' They look down jhe said with scornful contempt upon a Yanice officer, and suffer no advanceS from them,taking care, of course, not to give cause or pretext for arrest. The feeling is universal that damned Yankee must be allowed a Tooth id in the South. These are not my word lam not a swearing man. "As the meeting was about to break up, Mr. Livingston remarked: ~ , Gentlemen, you will want a great deal of money. I am on my way to England for the purpose of raising funds. This great work must go on. The Government must not be alloyed to shirk the trial. I can promise you with confidence that I will furnish you with kers replied tents that the g;o re n ci e noir& theeit amo w n n y t o . . i. , there would be no difficulty in raising the mmey in this city. "A. further opportunity for private consul tation was held, of which no account eau be given. "The Southern men _present were, all of them, open and avowed Secessionists. The Northern men at the meeting were in the most perfect accord of sentiment and sympathy with them. There was not' the slightest par. eeptible shade of difference between any of them. They were all ultra and unequivocal SeqeotiOnipte... .. ROBERT BuOWN." . _ I, 'subsciiiied and sworn before me this 4th dayof August,lB6s. Jour/ Burcnen, "Notary Public, city and county of Ne,w York." Davie and Clay Meet for the First Time _Achanging of flour of Promenade. FORTRESS MONROE, July 29.—hardly anything is spoken of here save the intense heat, and the military changes which daily occur from the moving of troops to their homes. Yesterday, however, a little incident trans pired which will prove of interest to your readers. Mr. Davis, as you are aware, has been allowed for several days past the privi lege of - walking on the ramparts. 4a officer accompanies him, and a guard, armed with muskets, follow some five or ten feet in the rear. A. similar indulgence is granted Mr. Clay, and under the same restrictions. Care seems to have been taken that they should not be out at the same time, but last evening, Probably through inadvertence,. they were permitted to be out at the same hour, and du ring their promenade they met. It was the first friendly faee save the sur geon's, that either prisoner had seen for months,' and the emotions that rushed upon the hearts of both may boimagined. 'Mr. Clay extended his band, remarking , : " Though we are not permitted to hold con versation, Mr. Davis, I presume we will not be forbidden to shake hands." z The. acovn—vanying officers made no objec ,;iii-hitikd initbe .... tends thitMl'liar courtesy. Mr. Davis , thin lips quivered, but probably from bis - z4esira.. to observe scrupulously the rules of ement t he uttered no word. To-day t rule was adopted of appointing different hours for the promenade, and Mr. Davis walked alone this morning at ' Sis. Mr. Clay will enjoy the same priviledge this eve ning.—Petersbarg Index. AJIDERSONVILLE. How our holdiers were Murdered There—The SyStelliatie Acts of Cruel ty Practised by the Commauders of the Post—A itecord of the Most .Horri ble Deeds ever Committed by Melt— Another Illustration of "Southern Chivalry." .21, the Editors of the Kew York Evening Pest: There appears to be a, disposition on the part of some of the public preB to Mitigate the offences and .crimes of Major Henry - Wertz, late the respontible keeper of the stockade at Andersonville, Ga., and to• throw upon others the responsibilities that justly attach,to those alone who were in immediate command of that prison. Being personally acquainted with most of the officers who were'stationed at An dersonville, and knowing much of the treat ment of those who were so unfortunate as to have been confined in that pen of horror,i have thought that a condensed; statement of how things were managed and prisoners of war were treated there might not be entirely unacceptable to your readers, I wish to be understood as not desirous to forestall the action or opinion of the commis sion which is about to investigate this matter, or to add anything to the feeling entertained toward Major Wertz. It is enough for him to rest, now and forever, under an obloquy that no time and no repentance can obliterate; to feel within himself the unenviable pangs which the recollection of his powerless mur dered victims will ever arouse, and to know that whatever may be the award of a human tribunal his punishment is already decreed. The prison of Andersonville is a stockade of about eighteen feet high, the posts comprising it being sunk in the ground five feet. It ori, ginally comprised an area of eighteen acres, but was subsequently enlarged to twenty-se ven acres. The enclosure is upon the side of a hill, looking toward the south, at the foot of which is a small brook, about five feet wide and as many inches deep, which furnished water for the Mse, of the anisoners. Within this en closure were turned the prisoners as they ar rived, and left to provide for themselves, there being no shelters, or arbors, or any kind of protection afforded, by trees or otherwise, against the burning rays of the Southern sun, the furieuo storms, or the freezing winters. The position was selected by Capt. Winder, a son of Gen. John H. Winder, who was sent from Richmond for that purpose in the latter part of 1803. When it was suggested to him by a disinterested but humane spectator of his operations that it would perhaps he better to leave the trees standin" with3n the proposed stockade; as they would - - afford Outdo to the prisoners, he replied: "That was just what he was not going to do; he was going to make a pen for the Yankees, where they could rot faster than they could be sent there." And admirably did he accomplish his mis sion. The "first commandant of the post was Col. Persons, who was soon succeeded by John H. Winder, with his son as Adjutant, his nephew as commissary and sutler, and Henry Wertz in immediate command of the prisoners. There were generally stationed there for guard duty from three to six regiments of in nuitry, with one company of artillery, having a battery of six pieces, according to the exi gencies of the case, the number of prisoners then confined, or the fears entertained of an attempt to Set them at liberty by raiding par ties of United States troops. When prisoners were first received it was usual to subject them to a. search for money, valuables, tic., which, ostensibly, were to be restored when they . were released from cap tivity, but which, in reality, went into the pockets of those who controlled the prison. I.Zetwithstanding a law of the Confederacy, expressly prohibiting the dealing in "green backs," yet the initiated—a few whose " loyal ty" was unquestioned—could always Obtain for a consideration the greenbacks they re quired. The writer of this was the foreman of the last grand jury which was empanneled for Sumner county, Ga., and in the performance of his duties he had to investigate a large number of presentments for dealing in the for bidden curreiley, which -was brought against poor 'Union men in every Instance. Struck by this fact, he resolved to examine, as his posi tion gave him a right to do, into all the eir emnsta»ceswhere the, money originally came from, who did the selling of it, indeed, the whole modus operandi, and lie elicited the fact above stated, how the money was obtained, that the Winders and Wertz were the princi pals, acting through subordinates, in . gather ing bushels of plums, in the way of premi ums, &c. Ifeanwhile, the prisoners were left to the tender mercies of their jailor and com missary for their food, which Might have been improved in quantity, at least, if their money had been left in their own possession: At first .it was customary to send a wagon into the stockade every morning at ten o'clock, loaded with the rations for the day—bacon and eOrn-bread, nothing alga; but as the niunber of prisoners increased and the greed of gain grew upon the trio above-mentioned, the corn bread was reduced in its quality, being then manufactured of .equal proportions of ground held peas and corn; unbolted, unsifted, un cleansed, indeed, from the dirt and trash which peas naturally accumulate; and at last, when the number of prisoners increased to over thirty.seven thousand, the meat rations per week were reduced 'to a piece of bacon, for each man, about three inches long and two wide, with one pone of the bread above-de scribed per day. Then also, the custom of carrying the prisoners' food into the stockade in , wagons was ablitished: They drove lip to the gates, which were slightly opened, and the scanty food, foul and unhealthy as it was, was for o b n y m thein s wl e et b c y b e t e d i g i La o r n d t b h e e sc s j a v ni n b g l e e s c t i and those nearest the gate getting the largest share, the weak and sickly giating none. I have mentioned the small.. brook which runs through the lower part of the stockade, and which supplied the water for drinking and washing. This brook has its - rise in a swamp not - liar from the prison, and at no time, certainly not for a lengthened period, was the water suitable or healthy • but when the flecks and filth, the drainage of the whole camp of prisoners, came to be superadded to the natural unfitness of the water for drink ing or cleansing purposes, my readers can judge what thirst was assuaged, or fever cooled, or throbbing temples washed, by this floatingSti , Aatia of filth and disease ! At any time, under the most rigid hygienic restric tions, it is difficult to maintain health and cleanliness among a large body of men—what do you think was the condition of thirty-seven thousand half-naked, half-starved men, with out any police regulations, under no moral or restraining influences I If the remnant who were dually allowed to pass out of this mili tary Golgotha werenot wild beasts, unwashed, befouled devils, no thanks are to be given to Henry Wertz ffir lack of effort to produce ',such a consummation. . . When it rained, as it does in that climate al most continually during the spring and fall months, the soil within the enclosure was one mass of loblolly, soft mud, at least fifteen inches in depth, through which stalked and staggered the gaunt, half• Clad wretches thus connned, The stench from the prison could be perceived for two miles, and farmers living in the neighborhood began to fear for the health of their families. As a consequence of this, the hospitals—fa cetious was Wertz in his horrible humanity -.were crowded to repletion - with the emaciated, starved, and diseased men who were trundled into them. The hospitals were constructed of logs, un hewed, the insterstices unfilled and open, ad mitting the rain, without floors, cots, hunks, or blankets, filthy and fetid with the fester ing, putrid bodies of the sick, the dying, and the dead; Words fail, language is impotent to describe one of these dens Of disease and death. I once mustered the courage, impelled by the earnest entreaties of a Northern friend, to enter one of them, to visit one who was ten derly reared, and walked in the best ranks of Connecticut society. I believed I had seen be fore this what I deemed to be human wretch edness in its worst forms. I thought that I could nerve myself to witness mortal agony and wretchedness and destitution, as I had heard. It, described, - without blanching or trembling; but if the condensed horrors of a hundred " black holes 11 had been brought be fore my mind toprepare me for the ordeal, they would have failed to realize the facts as I saw them,. face to face. I cannot, in a daily paper read by Innocence and virtue, detail what met my sight on the occasion 1 refer to. I will not pollute any page, save the records of the courts that must 113 the Culprit for the crime of torture by dis ease and flith,"with the details of that caravan sary of hOrrible, intentional slaughter. For fear that some may think I have exaggerated, an episode here will, perhaps, dispel such illu sion. Convicted by the horrible fact that was a stench in his nostrils, General Winder, then Commissary General of Prisons, but having his headquarters at Andersonville, was forced by decency, not humanity, for this he him self asserted, to ask the aid Of the Presiding Elder of the Methodist Church of that cir cuit to adopt some means to alleviate the mi series and soothe the wretchedness of the poor inmates of that Andersonville hospital. This gentleman invoked the cooperation gf the women of Sumter county, who responded with clothing and necessaries only, for these ajAwB„ an„Jillowed, to the amount of four ladies, accompanied: to the prison and sought from the Provost Marshal a pass, to take their benefactions to the sick prisoners. It was refused with a curse. The party proceeded to Winder's head quarters,where Henry Wertz was iu company with the General. The demand for a pass was repeated. Understand, the ladies were pre sent, and the reasons given why the party were there, in accordance with Winder's special request. To their astonishment, they were met with this reply " G—d d.—n you, have you all turned Yankees here 1" " No, General," responded the spokesman of the party, " I am not, as you know, nor are any here present ; we have come, as you re quested us, through Vey. Mr. D. to bring ne cessary articles for the Federal hospital, and ask a pass. for the purpose of delivering them," "It's a d—n I never gave permission for any of the kind ! Be off with you, all of you! As if his fearless display of martial valor and gentlemanly bearing was not sufficient, Henry Wertz essayed to and did eclipse his Generalni profanity and indecency—and I here assert that if the lowest sinks of the most abandoned parts of your city were gleaned, they could not surpass the ribald vulgarity and finished profanity of this tailor, exhibited in the presence of refined and "loyal" ladles. Shocked, terrified, beaten to the very dust with mortification, the party retired, and, foiled in their efforts to succor the sick or alleviate the tortures of the dying Union sol dier, they gave their loads of clothing and food to it passing column of Federal prisoners on their way to another place—Millen. They at least bad the satisfaction of knowing that some were benefited, even if they had failed in their efforts for those who most needed their assistance. During the last winter, which was unusually cold for Georgia, when the ice made an inch thick, no shelter, no blankets or clothes, no wood was prOvided for the wretched inmates of that prison. Squads were permitted, to the number of thirty, to go out under guard daily, for one hour, without axes or any cutting tool, to gather the refuse and rotten wood in the forests ;• and r if theoutstaid their time, they were tried by drum-head court-martlal, charged with violating their parole, and if found guilty, Were hung I I myself saw three bodies banging who were thus executed. Peer fellows, I thought, God has taken pity upon you and given you deliverance from your cruel jailor. When you and he meet, at another judgment kiettt, wqc W Mitt it • authority lte THREE CENTS. found Insufficient for this taking of your lived, wretched though they be. Illy house was the. resort, or, I should say, refuge, of most of the prisoners who made their escape fromthe. stockade; nd thetales of star vation and (MIMS Which they told would. have melted an iron heart, I mast close my hurried account of what I had seen. It iS far from full t not one half has. been told; by far the most has been kept back from very shame, and in respect to your readers. I have not embellished. The pictures were too rough the characters too forlorn for the flowers of rhetoric to bloom in their presence. Broken hearts, crushed spirits, and manhood tram pled on, may answer as fitting SUbjeate for the romancer's pen, but the horrible reatity, so seldom seen, burns its images upon the be holder's soul, that no other impression can ef face, and they remain life-pictures indeed. S. BASE-BALL. Great Match for the Championship. of the United States. THE ATLANTIC UWE, OF BROOK- LYN, THE WINNERS, THE FINEST DISPLAY OF THE SEASON. A great base-ball match for the ehatapion ship of the 'United States, between the Na tional Club of New York, and the Atlantic Club of Brooklyn, came off on the grounds of the former on Thursday. Upwards of twenty thousand spectators were present, who closely watched every movement of the players: The New York papers aCknowledge the playing to have been the best ever witnessed in that vicinity. The following. full report Of the Playing will be read by all interested in this noble game: At a quarter to four P. M., all being in readi ness for the match and the field clear—as well as it was possible to clear it—the contest com menced, the. Atlanties being the first to go to the bat. By some excellent batting they se. cured two runs; and by equally good fielding put out their adversaries for a single run, thereby taking the lead at, the outset,!tmid applause from the immense crowd of friends the champions had on the field. The ttutuals in the -second innings put out the champions in handsome style for a blank.score, and doing some good batting on their owe account, se. cured two runs, thereby winning the lead from the Atlantics, the totals at the close being three to two. The third innings was then commenced, and the Champions, marking their batting with two long hits, added no less than four to their score, the applause again bursting forth in deafening Style, Tile Illutuals, how ever, nothing daunted, went into their work in tine style, and equalling the batting of the champions, duplicated their score of four, thus retaining the lead of one run gained in the second innings. It was now plainly apparent that both parties were in tip top order for play, the game thus far being as handsomely played and as closely contested as any game of the season. The Atlantics now went into their fourth innings, and opened some of their most powerful batteries on the enemy, the result being the capture of no less than ssr runs, one of which was a home run from a splendid hit of the veteran P. O'Brien, to right field, the hit eliciting a perfect storm of applause from all Present, for the veteran is a popular favorite everywhere among base-ball players. The score Of the champions had now reached a dozen, and their Opponents, being put out in this innings, for a single, left the former in the majority by a score of twelve to eight, and confidence in the ultimate success of the At lantics began to be manifested as strongly as before the game began, the odds then being one hundred to sixty - in their favor. Such odds now, however,were very risky invest ments to make, the Mutuals being well up to their highest murk In their play, and in fact, cooler and more collectee than thole adVersa: ries. The important fifth innings was now com menced, and we say important, from the fact that evidences of an approaching storm began to be manifested, and as unless five innings were played out there would be no game, and also as the party having the lead at the close of the fifth Innings ran the best chance of suc cess, in case the s...thinning,s was interrupted by rain, it of course became the most impor tant period of the contest, and the result of this inning's play, therefore, was anxiously watched for. The Atlantics led off and had secured one run and had a man on the third base, when their third hand was pat out, their total score reaching thirteen. The Mutants now went in against a lead of thirteen to eight, and by some very handSomo batting pulled up their score to twel t i e, amidst the up roarious applause of the New Yorkers on the grounds, their plucky play meriting the com mendation bestowed. The total - now stood thirteen to twelve in favor of the champions, and the lilutuals seeing that a heavy thunder storm w mild inevitably interrupt proceedings in a vory short time,hnrried up things all they and by tilree handsome catches disposed of their opponents for a blank score. It was now that things became exciting to the highest degree. The rain clouds were almost over head. The sun was obscured, the fair sex were hastily on the lookout for shelter from the approaching storm, and it was evident that a few moments more of time would end the contest. Though loose play would have delayed the game and rendered success cer tain, the champions played tip to the Nark manfully, and as honorable hall-players, al though some of their adversaries, in a rather excited state, thought otherwise. Two hits bad been made and bases thereby secured, when down came the rain in such a per fect torrent that nearly the whole vast assemblage became wet through before they could obtain the least shelter. In fact, none was to be had for the twentieth part even of the crowd who anxiously sought envoi , from the rain, and the result was that a more drenched crowd of pleasure seekers never he , fore crossed the Hoboken ferries en route home than on this eventful occasion. The final re sult—according to the rules of the National Association, by which all our senior clubs are guided—was a victory for the Minot/Es by a score of thirteen to twelve. It is a victory that, at the same time they may well be proud of, affords them but little opportunity for exulta tion over their skilful oppon eats, for assuredly the Nutuals never contested a championship match as ably as they did this. Of course, the result will add - great interest to the second eenien, 4f the series, which is to take place on the Capiteiine tirialthlia, at _Bedford. The fol lowing is the score of the match MUTUAL. Plqyers. 0. R. ITtrown, 2db 2 2 Wansley, c 3 1 Duffy, 3d h 2 1 Zeller, 1. f . 2 1 Goldie, Ist b. 2 1 Dcyyr, s. 6......... 12 Patterson, c. f 1 2 McMahon, r. f 1 1 Thorn, P. . .... 1 1 ATLANTIC, Players. 0. R.) Pearce, 0 2 2 Smith, 3d b 1 3 Start, lstb 1 3 Chapman, 1. f 1 2 Crane, 2d b 1 2 P. O'Brien, 0. f",.. 3 1 Galvin,...s. a 2 0 Pratt, 1111 2 0 Sid. Smith, r. f 2 0 Total "KGB. !ME et. 3d. 4th. sth. Total 0 4 0 1 13 2 4 1 4 12 Atlantic Mutual Umpire--Mr. Yates, of the Eagle Club Scorers—Mawlein and Dongan. Home runs— P. O'Brien, 1 ; Put out on bases—Atlantic, 9 a times, Mnta 9 times. Put out on foul balls— Atlantic, twice. Mutual, 3 times. Fly catches —Atlantic, 5 ; M'utual, S. Time of game—One hour and thirty minutes, The decisions of the Umpire were praise- worthy throughout. WAIFS FROM THE SOUTH. The recent rains have washed away four spans of the bridge erected over the Staunton River, on the Danville road, by the United Slates Government. Four hundred yards of the track at other points were also washed up. These accidents will prevent anything from being sent west of Roanoke River for several days to come.—Bcpubtic, 2d. The Richmond post.oillee will, we under stand, in a few days be transferred from the stores wilder the Spotswood House to the main floor of the custom-house, where it was previ ous to the war. The Ist Battalion of the 12th Regulars is about to relieve the Ist Battalion of the 14th Regulars and the Ist Battalion of the 2tl Regu lars, which last named commands have been on duty in this city for some months past. The lst battalion of the 12th Regulars is larger than both of the others combined.—Republie,2d. There has been considerable MOrtatity in this city, among very young children, (luring the past week, from that dreadful disease so alarming to parents, known as the croup. We noticed the deaths of five recorded in the city papers during the past few days.—lbid. Though the prices of all articles of family marketing are much higher than at the same season before the war, the people of Rich mond may at least have the satisfaction of knowing that the cost of artivies or Mthaidt enee is much less here than in any of the principal cities North or South. Our markets are overflowing with all descriptions of meat, poultry, fruit, and vegetables. The butchers' meat was neverbetter, and the prices asked for it not high, as the times go. Beef, lamb, and mutton, of best quality, was sold yester.lav at li 20etteri.i, eggs, 80c. • butter, lie.; 10e. apiece ;atcTmeratg, l ilM.: l i i &skiNgo"" t t bautelopes, Sc.d to loc. each; chickens are almn dant, but quite high; ranging, according to size, from 80c. to i 1 a pair. AVhile on this sub. Ject it is proper we should advert to the admi rable order and cleanly condition in which our market-houses are, notwithstanding the immense amount of business done In them, kept by the present efficient clerks.—'bid. Garroters in Petersburg are troubling the re sklents: There were breaks yesterday morning in the tobacco market at three of the warehouses in this city. The market opened and closed ac tive, and for middling descriptions of tobacco prices were somewhat higher, while ;. for all sorts, isPieea were well bilSliiined. Ile quote lugs, 44W; poor to common lout, SUMORSO mfddling, fair to tine shipping, 4tle@ 17.50 ; fair to goOd manufacturing, slB@2o@3o. No line manufacturing has yet appeared in market, and such would bring full prices. A day or two since a hogshead. of tobacco, be longing to Mr. W. H. Jones, of Mecklenburg county, was opened at Oaks , warehouse, and soid Tor tIZO per hundred poundor—Exprow, gq, Between one and two hundred oaths - - were administered to citizens at the Provost Mar shal's office on Monday, and about three hun dred yesterday. A large proportion of those who are now taking the amnesty oath, are Tile " Old Phcenix" WAS opened on tile eve ping of the Sd, by a theatrical company. ORAIILOTTESVILLN, Henry Massoy l Esq., has entered upon his duties as postmaster at this place. • One of the leading physicians in town in forms us that unless speed steps are taken to cleanse the streets and back lots in Char lottesville, we shall have a great deal of sick nesS here, Already the typhoid fever, of a most Malignant type, pratralla tl) if gronaidera• ble extent. Not only is there much filth afid refuse matter accumulated in different parts of the town, but there is a rank vegetation in our gardens, which, if it is not injurious now, will prove so when it begins to decay.— Chronicle, We bad delightful nine-tenthshnday, Mon day, and Tnesaa, - , and of the corn may now he considered safe, It wLU Ifo he largest crop made in this section for funny vears. Cheap food is the Mall llefl4 Of the Soutia at rzelest.—go, THE WAR PIERS. (PURLISHICD WEEWLY.I THE WAR PEERS Will be sent to subecribeni by Mall (per annum in advance ' ) et Ims as rive copiee /0 00 Ten copies 00 00 Larger Clubs than Ten will be charged at the ISSUIt rate, 42.00 Per e spy. no motley mast always acawayasty the order, and in no instance can them terms be crenated tram ed. °4l3 ' Oora vent Mats more than the cost I Pater. Ai- Postmasters are roonesteit to sot no Montt for Taal Was. Pumas. Or To the getter-up of the OM of ten or twenty, an extra copy of the paper will be given. STATE ITEMS. A prize fight came off near the Rod Tavern, Cen yngham township, Columbia county, four miles from Ashland, at, an early hour on Mon• day -morning last, between two Wohlbinen.... one from Ashland. the other from Big Mine Run. The Ashland pugilist came off victori ous, Winning the two hundred dollars prise money. Both 'combatants were well bruised and battered. The contest IS said to have been a fierce one, some thirty rounds having been exchanged, The citizens of Dauphin, and other COP l' bordering on tile Susquehanna River, are holding meetings for the purpose of devising measures to compel the enforcement 'of the law requiring owners of dams on said river ter so alter or dx them as to enable shad and other fish to ascend the river. By the present arrangement of these ibralS, the shad LlAttries have been very much impaired. Col. A. K. Id , Clure, who has been referred to as a prospective candidate for the Guber. - natorial succession, thus puts the matter to rest, in a paragraph in the last number of his paper, the Franklin Repaqiiory: "if there is one man in the State who, MOM than another, don't mean to VIM for Governor, it is A. H. M,Clure.“ The Commissioners of Snyder county have been commanded by the court to proceed with. the erection 'of new county buildings at Selina. grove, the new county scat The oil-dealers of Pittsburg arc still en gaged in boat racing. A keg of lager is the usual stake. The public take great interest in the regattas. The annual commencement of Pennsyl- Amnia College will take place at Gettysburg, on Thursday, August 10th. -7 Major 33. M Morrow, a soldier, announces hire6elf as an indenendent candidate tOt Legislature from Thair county. . . The annual plc-nie of the Lancaster Man nerehor takes place at Rocky Wings, on Mon: day. The Democrats of Columbia will hold their County Convention on the 28th. —At last accounts tiio 77th ROBltriVut was stationed at San Antonio, Texas. HOME ITEMS. A letter from Saratoga describes the latest style of vehicle in vogue there as a broad backed -landau of green NM I With a yellow. frame-work, On a high cent lialtind Sits a page in (lark livery, with black hat and band. Ne-. gro boys being at a discount, the squaws have leased their male offspring for the season, and no equipage is considered an fad without a iktie ledian hoy,b who bobS UP end down in a style highly edifying to the spectator, but - productive of a degree of torture which only an Indian in miniature could bear. -The committees and managers of the "Great Northwestern Sanitary Fair," at Chi cago, after a most animated discussion, have decided to stand by their first awards, which ordered WOOD Paid to the Christian Commis. • sion, and the residue of the net reatipts to be divided equally between the Soldiers' Home and the Sanitary Commission, The latter or ganization has been formally dissolved, The. 'Vale navy gained about $1,500 towards paying its debt by subscriptions made by en thusiastic collegiallS and graduates after the victory at WOreester, last Week, Mayor Scran ton, of New Haven, has given them fifty dol lars, and another New Haven man has done the same. The navy debt now—incurred by building the new boat-b ouse—is only. *l,OOO, and will be wiped out before long. —Returns O the revenue department at Chicago show fortpuine wholesale flimis in that city who did a business last year ranging from half a million to nearly seven millions of dollars. The heaviest is Palmer, Potter, & Co., 56,791,000 ; the next, Farwell, Field, & $14464,t00 ; and the next, Bowen Bros., $1,7135,00a— a1l in dry goods. The Vait&l Sham military force at Waft' nab has been disbanded, Mid an organization of armed patrols substituted. The provost courts have been abolished, and all criminal cases are to be tried by Captain Cox as Post Provost liarshal. The functions of District Juoge are performed by Lieutenant Colonel. Yoth. A father and son in business near tfart ford have an ingenious way of making money seven days in the week. The son is a Seventh. day Baptist, and keeping Saturday, drives the business on Sunday, while the father keeps Sunday and works Saturday. —F. W. Sims, the former proprietor of the Savannah Dcpubllava, has petitioned ror restoration of that property, but General Brannan has ordered that, ou account of his treasonable conduct; the petition be denied. —ln Bridgeport, Rhode Island, a bounty Of one dollar is paid fos,,,a dog's fore paws ; in consequence of which boys hunt the animals and out off their paws, and cruelly leave the poor brutes in their misery, General Reintrelman publishes a oar& denying statements made in a book Just pub lished, that he had a misunderstanding about rank with General Keyes at the battle of pair Oaks. —A guerilla, just hung in Kentucky, Was the Only Son of an aged widen', who had a drilla. ter poisoned by a negro, a sett. killed by an assassin, and another lost in the rebel army. The largest income in the State of Rhode Island is *615,215, and the man lives in Provi dence who is burdened with it. iiyron Dimon, ex• Governor of the gtate of Rhode Island, died at Bristol, Tuesday night, at the age of seventy years. Our troops have caught about thirty of the miscreants who created so much terror in the interior of Texas by their robberies, The Raleigh (North Carolina) markets are loaded wit 4 clMetlaa, but the People liaY9 119 money to buy them, Artemus Ward is in blew York, and ap pears to have given up his European tour for the present. There were two hundred and eight mar. riage licenses issued in Washington in one wobit. Thirty Indian tribes will assemble at, 'or. Gibson soon fora grand powow with the whites. The North Carolina Railroads are equal to only ten miles an hour. The Western grain dealers and others be. gin to look gloomy about the crops. The rebel General Ewell is passing the summer at South Kingston, Rhode Island. Nine million (loners worth of cotton arr rived at New York in July. Forty sharks were caught near Bristol, B. 1., last week. Raleigh youhg les wish the union men to remain in their city and marry, Tobacco is looking poorly in Mossachm. setts. There are seven railroads in running or der in Texas. The politicians arc gathering strong at SaTatogn, A Chicago erlitor returns an income or 1522,473. Chief Justice Chase is in.floston. FOREIGN ITEMS. —The coming review of the English and French fleets of Cherbourg, on the 15th of Au gust, is greatly exciting the continental papore, Scrneely a day passes wtthout an announce ment which is contradicted the next day, Italy, it is said, proposed to send her iron-clad sonadron,, but has abandoned the project. Austria is now reported to have made a pro pesal to send hers, and the Independowe as aella that it MU been declined, The Europe declares that England ami France have sent invitations to several foreign Powers to join in a great naval demonstration ; and a Madrid journal asserts that Russia will send six yes. sels. After the review, some eight or ten Eng. , lish ships will visit the various French porta, and a like number of French ships the English POrte,--Pty/ishpaper , Some time ago the young men residing id the upper and lower part of the Hungarian village of Tapio-Szent-Gyorgy had a violent dispute about their respective claims to the best room in an inn which is in the middle of the place. A few days since the one party invited the Other to come armed to a eertain spot, in mem Lucre co eettle theiy difference& The challenge was readily accepted, The. rivals met and a Bone fight ensued, which ended with the death of six of the combatants. It is not known how many were wounded, though twenty-two young men who had taken Part in the fray are in the hands of the autlio- The clerical party in Xatiles is excessively irritated against a conjurer, M. Bosco, Jr., who lately, at the San Carlo Theatre, imitated the miracle of St. Januarius, BY un i v ersal con sent Boseo , s miracle was declared to be far more marvellous than that annuallyperforraed In the &lan of Met saint. A nedilentan, who was a great. alnatellr painter, showed ono of his performances to Turner. The great artist remarked, ~M y Lord, but poverty to become. very excellentym'amtlilig i ) uter." tt Is proposed to hold an exhibition of na. t i on al portraits in London. The Queen ap. proves the idea, and promtaes to 0011t1104e. from the pictures at Windsor and Bucking. have Palace. One or two of the French Ministers have spoken of their determination to resign if the French troops arc not all recalled from Mexico within two months. a. rubponic consumption is said to be more prevalent in vicuna than in any other city of Europe. Some monkeys attacked a man in the Zoo. logical Gardens in Antwerp, England, and nearly bit him to death, —Eugenic is said to be laboring under a fib of jealousy PrOYoed by a flaxen-baircd beauty. The Russians are conscripting Poland at the rate of six and a half neon her 1,000. The Japanese at Nagaskai View the rail road there with amazement. Hayti has bad eleven revolutions in six years, Ito unrepr ie a dark ono, The anima or ren+a l- 4 6 Luat, 11 is havirtit Pi PIWNIPItUi run in r
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