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T .PRELISI4, vsf isppAlL ing T (SUNDAYs EXCEPTED) rn. sir s /waxw. voNET. v ows, MO. In SOUTH FOU R RTH STREET. TOE DAILY PRERS, To PM' Subscribers, 18 RIGHT DOLLARS PEE advance: or FIFTEEN CENTS PER payable to tile Carrier. Mailed to Sub ritterSont a the City, SRVW DOLLARS PER o . s sip,[; Voss Dor.LAIDI AND FIFTY CENTS Fop tors FORTES= MONTHS, invariably in advance Co the Sal Ordered. AdVettilletnents inserted at the usual rates. TUE irsi-wEERLY PRESS, 3 1 5 00 to Illibectibets, FOWL DOLLARS ram Am , goi. le Ovine& • Virt6s. TUESDAY, AUKTST V, 1865 TOE NEWS. Yesterday the Military Commission, of VIII& Major General Wallace is President, and Colonel Chipman, Judge Advocate,assem pied in the Court of Claims Room, at the Capi toi, Washington, for the purpose of trying aP( mi l Henry Wirz, the keeper of the Ander t,,,,,vine prison pen. The charges and speelfi rstions were read by the Judge Advo although the counsel for the de jcnee, Judge Hughes, objected against ,ins them, since neither he nor his Curia had yet bad it proper opportunity of ay.:opining them. The first charge itOt only ntraig,ns Wirz but also Lee, the WinderS, f--,:evenson, Moore, Seddon, Northrop, and tiers unknown for conspiring to injure the tealth and destroy. the lives of Union soldiers, visoners of war within the so-called Confede :rale *attics. The second charge arraigns him personally for - murder and the violation or the lines of war. The specitications are very full, gust give statements of the treatment of our prisoners at And ersonville—long ago familiar to the public. After a discussion between the Judge Jitirenate and the counsel, the Court Scent into secret session to consider the Objec. lions of the latter against the reception of the thsvg,cs, etc. It was decided that the objec fd,os were not well taken, whereupon the total adjourned tin this morning. Ws have more accounts of the brutal treat. !went of the Southern freedmen, particularly ;la North Carolina. A Southern reliw e ious raper, the Christion Inielligeneer, says that the :pointers of negroes over the South average ilvatirrda per 41w,y• The Baieigh Progress says lbat sir negroes were massacred itt Goldner° :a few days ago, for refusing to leave_ a farm %hid) a rebel owner had come back from the vars to claim. Advice.% from Cape Haytien to July 25th have /been received. The place is still held by the ;rebels, notwithstanding a daily cannonading from the national troops, which has not, how ever, as yet, done much damage. The rebels, 5t vas thought, would hold out as long as they could obtain ammunition and provisions. fyi l c lives of the American and. English Com. Os have been frequently threatened by the .ebel.s, -on account of their supposed aympa- ay with Geffrard. A witness for the defence at the trial yester day, exhibited at Washington the original traininission of Jeff Davis as Second Lienten wlt of Dragoons. It is signed by Andrew Jackson, President, and Lewis Cass, Secretary c..)f War. It was procured at the Wine of DA ris, in Itlissi.9l,Vpi. Major General A. A. Humphreys commands Cie Middle Military Department during the pbsence of Major General Hancock, who is away on a thirty days' leave. General Hum yareys left here yesterday tor Baltimore ; but min return to this city on Thursday. NA special despatch to the NOW' York Herald of today, from Iluirelo, states thatthe ease for llie prosecution, in the Colchester trial, has Closed. Several witnesses were examined for lie defence; and it is anticipated that a ver dict for the defendant will be given. Quite a gathering of New Jeracymen, the yrienns, of Marcus L.Ward, the Union candi date for Governor of that State, took place yes* 2enlay at Washington, on the occasion of his 'cisit to that city. It was resolved to give him determined and generous support. Daniel E. Goodloe has been appointed Mar. pfifil of the District of the State of North Carolina. This gentleman has been for some }ears an editor of the Washington Chronicle. ale is a native of North Carolina, and will :taake an excellent olileer. Paring the past week the deaths in New 11 - vrk . numbered Cl 7-101 men, 71 women, 223 and 292 girls—a decrease of 35 from the ploriality of the previous week s and 133 as Compared with the corresponding week in 3Na. . The latest election returns from Kentucky 'indicate the success of Neale (Union) by one ii two thousand majority. The result in the :Lower liouse of the Legislature is doubtful, Vali a probability Of ft Small Union majority. &Marcus L. Ward, the Union nominee for Go- Werner of. New Jersey, is in Washington. Yes ;.erthly his friends tendered him a quiet reap- Von, at which he was assured of their cordial fiappOrt, J. Barclay Harding has been appointed Col- Jecior of Internal Revenue for the First Dis lrict of Pennsylvania, to fill the vacancy oc cz6-ioned by the death of Jesper Harding, his lather, The route of the coming great parade. Of fire- , Den has not been determined upon. We pub- LAI today the proposed one, but it will be isucli altered, according to present appear_ thees. Cave Johnson, of Tennessee, formerly a member of the United States House of Rep resentatives, and ex-Postmaster Genera', has recently been pardoned by the President. Yesterday a young lady of this city, from fear of an unexpected and dreaded visitor, jumped from the third-story window to the pavement, fracturin g her skull. Ex•Dongressman Burnett, of Kentileky, has been permitted by the President to return to his home. He has not, however, been par doned. Jeff Davis , commission as lieutenant of dra goons is in tiMPOSSOSSion of a stranger, who captured it-at the late home of Davis, on the. A desperate affray took place in New York, on Sunday night, between rival fire corn- Twomen were killed, two mortally, end several severely wounded. An employee of a New York express com pany has proved a defaulter to a large amount, and departed, whither it is not known. All the patients have been removed from the Chesapeake Hospital, and the building leas been turned over to the Freedmen's Bureau. Nearly nine millions of dollars have been received during the last seven days from in 'kraal revenue. 11iester• Clymer has 'received the preference Of the Reading Democratic Convention as the the nominee of that party for Governor. The funeral of Mr. Fearon, formerly chief tf the Fire Department, will be largely attend ed by the Ifremen. Receipts at the Internal Revenue Bureau for the last seven days amount to almost nine :millions of dollars. There are no further important develop lients in the New York defalcations. Yesterday, the Germans of Baltimore coin- Sheneed a three days' Schutzen Feit. Herschel V. Johnson is in Washington. Gold closed in New York last evening at THE STATES IN AND THE TRAITORS The Philadelphia Age, which may be r:tilled the organ of the Democratic leaders in this State, takes issue with the short ar- Vele in THE Paso of Monday, the l4th Instant, in which we asserted that while i&iody seriously maintained that the rebel 3ious States were out of the Union, it was the duty of the loyal men to unite upon the =round that the men who attempted to iireak up the Union should not be admitted' lo seats in the Congress of the United i~tates, and that even the States could not Ile formally rehabilitated until they had lalrged their Constitutions of the poison of rilaTery. We reprint what we said on that occasion : Now that the doctrine is nowhere directly, Controverted that secession did not take a tsingle State out of the Union, we may meet on satibfaCtOry and solid platform, as we come lo consider the question of admitting the tsenatOrs and Representatives from such Mates. Congress may, and in our opinion mnia, insist upon such a purification of the r , everal Southern State Constitutions as would Ime them Of the poison of slavery; but even - I , ben this condition is fulfilled, no impenitent 'traitor, and no ieader of the rebellion should 1, ” permitted to take. his seat in either Rouse, Sa least not for a long period of Mine. Suppose The inhuman guerilla, Mosby, sliOnldbe elected Congress from the Alexandria (Va.) d is- Virginia were as sacredly and as strongly a member of the Union as Penn- Fi.livania, we should deny his right to a seat, tnai enforce his exclusion. Nay, if ennsylvan ht ca• New York, for instance, were to elect such zi man, it would be. the duty of the majority ze refuse him admission. Last year President. lineoln was most desirous for the admission mf lilt , Louisiana claimants. At the present """greys doubtless President Johnson will es pee t to see Tennessee represented ; but it does :hot kno w that elalmantig of doubtful loyalty,. vlected by rebel votes, Will be permitted to g.::ke or held their seats. Does any one sup pese that Etheridge would be allowed. to enter The Capitol as a member, no matter how great the majority that returned him? Undoubted ay not. We hold the. power of Congress over Ibis subject to be unquestionable—established :not alone in the law anti thecOnstitution.„ but by abundant practice and precedent. It vith them to say who shall be Senators and :Representatives. The, can decide as to the qualifications" of the claimants, and they 4:an exclude them for a short time, or for a "whole Congress. This, it seems to us, clears 'the way of many of the difficulties suggested 'it/ the Course of the discussions on this im- Ilona= subject. We now give the words of The Age in reply, as the statement of an argument that h doubtless held to be gospel by JEFFER SON DAVIS himself and by all his obedient :Followers in the South, and his sympa lbiling friends in the North: It must be apparent to all that if the doc trine set . forth in this article be adopted it nt change our whole form of government as v einnletely as did the coup d'clat of Louis 'Ns :oolcon that of France. The power is here .c..laimed for Congress, a mere legislative body, "with its duties and the boundaries of its power clear" y set forth in the Constitution, to say 'whet kind of a constitution the people of a aevereign State shall adetpt, and to dictate to The electorki Who shau and who Shall net repre- 11 11 .- . • , . rir-se- • • Inn \ - - -_• A - • • all • ',lt k f ai l ..;•••• I \ t l i < '• • e- C g • 7 ,7,7 . (") , . • jyr VOL. 9.-NO. 19. sent them in Congress. The effect of this would be to render the union of the States at all times dependent upon a partisan majority. The question to-day upon which purification of the several State Constitutions is demanded is slavery - . But issues change,as do the minds of men. The sentiments Of entire communi ties are subject to like revolutions; and how Would this doctrine apply to a different is-. suet Suppose protection, or free trade, or the' -currency question, should be the dividing line between parties, would it be constitutional, fair or just for a partisan majority in Con gress to refuse the admission of a State into the Union unless its Constitution agreed with their ideas upon these questions -I Would the )eople sanction such a course? We need not stop here to urge the point that the late revolted States never were out of the Union, and that, as a matter of course, Congress IMS nothing to do with their COnStitutions. It IS sufficient for our present purpose to show that if Congress had a right to say that the people of a State shall exclude slavery by a constitutional provision on pain of non-admission to the Union, they, would have the same right to demand simi lar action upon the tariff, or bankin, or any other question that may decide the coun try.. Ilow long would the Union last—what, indeed, would it. be worth—under the practical operation of such a principle? But, look at this doctrine as a means of perpetuating the life of any political party or faction that should happen to obtain the as cendancy in the Legislature of the nation.. Because theliousesof Congress have a right , to deckle as to the " q ualification" of their members respectively, it is now claimed that this right extends to questions of " doubt ful loyalty" and others of a kindred cha racter, the interpretation and ' understand- Mg of which rest not on law, prece dent or reason, but upon partisan feeling and political opinion. It is boldly- stated that if Pennsylvania or New York elect men to Congress who do not agree with the radicals upon the issues which they have declared to be essential to the welfare of the nation, it would be the duty of the majority to refuse them admission! This is going to the full ex tent of the doctrine at once, and telling the people that no matter how they may change their opinions, and indicate that change by the election of members of Congress, the radi eals 'mean to hold on to power, and exclude any member elect, North or South, who they think Nan be troublesome to them in their exercise of usurped authority. it will lie seen by the extract given that there are no Sections suggested in the exercise of this re. volutionary and anti-republican doctrine. Even if men be elected to Congress who-are eligible under laws passed by a radical. Con gress, and by voters qualified in the manner pointed out in the same enactments ; still, if each individual member does not come . fully up to not t e i . e .equge n la i r t n e t a s the to ti mepri ty t he either House." ) This is the I.l prgela i rm s e e d! de cision of the radicals; and the President is notified that no exception will be made in the ease of Tennessee, notwithstanding his desire to see that State represented in the coining Congress. • When the Senate of the United Statea expelled -JESSE D. Buren; a Senator from Indiana, for holding communication with .the armed traitors, the principle was as serted that the Government must be pro teeted, and that Congress had a right to rid itself of all who have dealings with the com mon enemy. And yet JESSE D. n RIGHT regretted in his heart; .as we be lieve, the imprudent letter that cost him his seat.; - }le was, even if guilty, far less so than the cruel men who for four years toiled to divide and to destroy the Republic, and to cover the whole land with blood and tears. The argument of The Age is to restore these traitors to power. We seek to keep them out of power- That is our whole object, in brief. That Congress can protect itself from the presence of such men can not be questioned. The power of ex cluding Territories claiming admission as States, has been exercised in the cases of 11 111issouri California and Kansas • and the power of excluding members from regular ly organized districts, has been so frequent ly asserted as scarcely to require an allu sion. The Age, like others of its school, tries to make this a matter of party ponties, and anticipates allsorts of tyranny and con fusion, if the representatives of the people are excluded because they do not agree with the party majority. A very unfair pleading I Unhappily for the country, treason has never been regarded as a crime by the Democratic leaders, and is not so accepted by The Age. These leaders look upon JEFFERSON DAVIS as the martyr rather than the murderer of liberty, and have more sympathy with him than with the dead Li.wconzt, who was offered as a sacrifice by the unappeasable spirit of trea son. In making the crime of the traitors 'a mere political offence we must understand The Age to be ready to admit all the con spirators to Congress, should they be elected by their friends. Let us test our coteraporary by applying its own doc trine to York county, from which both its proprietors hail, and from which the senior has been chosen to the next Congress of the United States. Suppose General EwELL, Or EARLY on MICAUSLAND, Or any of the chiefs who led the rebel columns over our borders and marched through York county almost to the Susquehanna, were now a citizen of that county, and were chosen to a seat in Congress by the faithful Democracy, would it be SO very cruel and revolutionary if a radical ma jority refused to give him his seat ? We need not answer the intimation that by adopting such a rule as this, good Demo crats would presently be deprived of their right to represent their districts in Con gress. Let us allay the apprehensions of the Age by stating that a radical or Union majority that tolerated VALLANDIGRAM, MALLORY, EERNANDO WOOD, DEN WOOD, and ALEXANDER LONG, will not be des potic enough to lay hands on Democrats, even as patriotic as the senior editor of the Age himself, and we think it will prove to be a blunder even greater than the blunders that "have buried the Democracy under a mountain of popular disfavor. When The Age indicts the Union party for the grievous offence of being opposed to allow ing the arrogant authors and alders of the re bellion seats in the Congress of the United States7it will not help the accusation by alleging that if JEFFERSON D tvis and his associates may be ,kept out so may such Democrats as Mr. GIOssBRENNER and Mr. DAWSON I rise Age is especially horrified at our counsel to , Congress, to insist that before the so-called seceded States shall be duly rehabilitated, their several State Constitutions must bepurged of slavery. We believe The Age rather favors the Reconstruction policy of Presi dent Jonxsoh - . It is certain that it has re peatedly shown a disposition to give him. what IS called a trial; and it has laid conside rable stress on the fact that he is a Democrat of the right grit. We need not say that this very heresy of eradicating slavery from the Southern State Constitutions was ear nestly recommended to the South Caroling delegation by Mr. Joutzsox in his celebra ted interview with them, and was followed by the clear intimation that they would not get into Congress unless they acted upon his advice. And, doubtless, inspired by this very advice, .or by the stern logic of the case, Colonel JAMES L. ORR started from Washington with President JointsoN's pardon, and will appear in South Carolina in September next, and lead the movement in this very reform. LETTER FROM " OCCASIONAL.” WASITHIGTON, August 21, 1865 There seems to be as much stubbornness and venom among many of the recent "M liels as when they led their columns against the Union forces. I am not of those who ex pect the questions that have grown out of the suppression of the wide-spread insurrection to be composed without considerable con troversy. Where there is free discussion and an untrammelled press, harmony of sentiment and promptitude of agreement on such issues are not to be looked fora It is, perhaps, better there should be a careful investigation into details. But that there should be a manifest disposition to deny and to oppose the plain principles that have been settled by the victory of the Government of the United States, is not an encouraging " sign of the times," I alluded yesterday to Mississippi, Alabama, and Virginia, as States in which this feeling breaks out most frequently, It is marvellous that there should have been so little admonition gathered by the men who keep this venom at work, from the example of the last four years. Are they resolved to force President Johnson to severe mea sures of repression and punishment, as they forced President Lincoln? They seem to have coolly forgotten that they have been convicted of the most frightful crime that can be charged against a citizen—the crime of attempting to betray and destroy a generous and indulgent country—that it was the obduracy and insolence of pre cisely such men as they, if, indeed, it was not themselves that decided President Lincoln to issue his Proclamation of Emancipation, to sign the Confiscation laws, and to order the arming of the freedmen ! That illustrious ruler, (the embodiment of a Government, which,' even in the midst of the wounds and woes in flicted by her Own sons, forgave and " la bored" with them,) offered them compensation if they would agree to the emancipation of their slaves. They haughtily and bitterly rejected the offer. Precisely the same madnesss rules the present hour. President Johnson og.- tends to them the warm, open hand of friendship ; he appoint§ thek own citizens Provisional Governors ; he expressly de clines to interfere with suffrage ; he par dons many of their prominent men; he di rects their helpless and poor to be fed out of the United States commissariat ; he fa vors the resumption of postal. facilities, the rebuilding and refitting of the railroads'; and invites the return to honest allegiance of the deluded and betrayed people. No body denies that this policy is wise, mode rate, and - magnanimous. But it does not many of the recent rebels. Like themselves in Lincoln's time, they reject what is thus tendered in good faith, because they, cannot get all they demand. Thus they went on fighting the Government, and refusing all its standing pledges of forgiveness, because they were not permitted to divide the Union. And now they pro pose to go on fighting the Government in another way, and rejecting all its standing pledges of forgiveness and protection, be• cause they will not be permitted to send their extreme leaders into Congress, to practically re-enslave the colored people, and to sanctify (as was attempted in the Mississippi Conten tion) the acts of the rebel Legislature from 1861 to 1861 Mr. Lincoln realized with the keenest anguish that the Christian spirit would not do with these men, and he resorted to decisive measures ; still, however, leaving the door open in his amnesty proclamation; and yet, all his leniency and love for them did not save his precious life from the pro-slavery assas sins. His successor, animated by the same philanthropy, is daily told' that he is aLso misunderstood and defied, and that he, too, must bare the arm of justice, and punish where he has forgiven. It would seem, in deed, as if a mysterious fate impelled these Southern leaders. The work of regenera tion is not to be half done. Their despera tion and ingratitude may be one of God's ways of completing' the mission of free government on the ruins of every vestige of tyranny, -whether that of slavery or of caste—of the few or the many. WASHINGTON. MORE PARDONS BY THE PRESIDENT. APPOINTMENT OP A PHILADELPHIA RE- VENUE COLLECTOR. IMMENSE RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK FROM IN- TERNAL REVENUE, ItEUEETION TO THE UNION NO3IINBE FOR 00• VRENOR OF NEW JERSEY. WASHINGTON, August 21 The law of Congress fOrbidding, under heavy mantes, the placing of the words "United States Mail," kte., on a steamboat or other ves sel not employed in carrying the mail, and the publishing, in newspaper or otherwise, that any such steamboat or vessel not so employed is used in carrying the malls of the United States, haying been recently evaded in many instances, the Postmaster General has given special instructions, ikc., to take the necessary steps to promptly enforce its provisions against all offenders. North Carolina Appointments. The President has appointed Geonou N. Bnooks, United States District Judge DAtunr. it. GOODLOE, Marshal, and D. IL SrAREUCK, lltr torney for the District of the State of North Carolina. The three gentlemen heretofore appointed to these-offices, having technically involved themselves in the rebellion, could not take the prescribed oath. The gentlemen just appointed, however, are attainted with no such disability. Mr. GOODLOE, a native of North Carolina, is well and favorably known to the newspaper fraternity of this city, having for some years been an editor in Washington. Meeting of New Jerseymen. Quite a gathering of NewJerseymen, friends of Hon. MARCUS L. WAIID, the Union nominee for Governor of New Jersey, took place to-day. on the occasion of his visit to Washington. Speeches were made and resolutions adopted ; pledging a determined and generous support to him. Jett' Davis' COMMISSieIIi as Lieutenant of Dragoons A witness, called for the defence on the Wirz trial, exhibited to various citizens to-day the original commission issued to JEPP DAVIS, as a second lieutenant of dragoons. It is signed by ANDREW JACKSON as President, and Lewis CASS as Secretary of War. The possessor of the parchment procured it at the house of pious, in The Internal Revenue Receipts. The receipts at the Internal Revenue Bureau for the last seven days amounted to nearly nine millions of dollars. Cave Johnson Pardoned. Among the special pardons recently granted by the Pre'sident Wft ODA tO CAVE JOHNSON, Of TerinesSee, formerly a member of the United States Rouse of Representatives and ex-Post master General. Philadelphia Collector of Revenue Ap• pointed. S. 33iihOLAY HARDiwo has been appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the First District of Pennsylvania, to supply the va cancy occasioned by the death of his father. Personal. The President has permitted rebel ex-Con gresoman "Evax,..rT, of Kentucky, to go home, iree from civil and military arrest, and has re stored to him his property. lie has-not, how aver, pardoned him. HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON, former DOUGLAS can didate for Vice Presidency, arrived to-day. BRUTALITIES TO THE FREEDMEN. 1 General Massacre Said to have been Inttn uarated in the South. MURDERS BY HUNDREDS OCCUR RING EVERY DAY. Ktyte * Tonu, August 24.—T11e southern Chris icrn incettiffencer, of August sth, Says, if one tenth part of the reports are true, which are (-owing from all parts of the South thicker and faster, a most shocking state of affairs exists. From localities where there are na tional troops Genie reports that unfortunate creatures, the negroes, are being hunted dawn like dogs and despatched without ceremony. The newspapers in the South are filled with accounts of these brutal murders, which foot up to an aggregate of several hundred deaths per day which is, doubtlestr; only a ,small por tion of the number noticed. An Alabama paper says this business has become so exten sive and common that some %planters even boast they could manure their land with the dead carcases of the negroes. If negroes can be shot down daily in garrisoned towns] where . the authorities aro unable to stop this state of things, it is very reasonable to suppose that this brutal work is carried on more extensive ly where the blacks have no protection. This wholesale murdering of human beings is, we fear, the practical working of the conspiracy to exterminate the colored race, which is re volting to the Christian age. The Raleigh (W. C.) Progress of the 16th inst. learns from Col. Lawrence, commandant of the post at Goldsboro, that six negroes were killed at or near Warsaw two weeks ago. Their for pier owner left on the approach of the Union army. The negroes, remaining, went to work and made a crop. Their former owner returned recently, and Ordered them to leave. The ne• groes refused, and the proprietor of the place, getting some neighbors together with arms, ordered them off again, and on their refusal attacked them, killing six. A company 01 sot. diers was sent up from Wilmington to iuvesti• gate the affair. PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1865. BOSTON, August 2..—Ey the arrival of the brig Example, advices from Cape Ifaytien to July 25th have been received. The rebels still held the place, sustaining a daily cannonad ing from the national troops, who had failed to inflict much damage, only three persons having been killed, and a few housesdamaged. It was thought that as long as the rebels could obtain ammunition and provisions they could hold out. A vessel recently ran in with a supply of provisions, although the port is blockaded by two atearnerS. Provisions were getting short, only seven days' supply being on haiid. The foreign consuls had attempted to mediate between the belligerents, but with• out success. The lives of the American and English consuls bad been frdqueutly threat ened by the rebels, owing to their supposed sympathy with the cause of Garrard. F0UT17.813 /{624lterg, AlMlid Pe pa' tients are removed from the Chesapeake Hos- Pital, and the building was yesterday turned over to the Freedmen's Bureau. The steamers J. D. Coleman and Winnpenny were discharged from Government service to day. Another Defalcation in Few York. NEW YORK, August 21.—The Ommerciai states that an employee of an extensive express com pany - bas turned up a defaulter to a large amount, and has left for parts unknown, with out waiting for the aCCeptance or rejection of his resignation. BALTIMORE, Aug. 21.—A three days festival Of the :German Target Bite Association Of Baltimore, commenced to-day at the grounds of the Association, near this city, There was a large gathering,•and the grounds were hand somely decorated, and to-night were Mural -naiad. The prizes contested for lire very beautiful and costly, A number of mute:atm - ate from other eities were present. rrea 6 i 4 ele. Kramer, of Baltimore, won the King's Gold Medal ; Langenbelm, of Philadelphia, • and Schalk, of Pottsville, Pa., each won gold medals. Ens Tow, Pa., August 21.—The Demooratie County Convention held here to-day was largely attended. A resolution was unani mously adopted expressing the preference of the county for the nomination of Hiester Cly-. mer for GovernOt Naw "roux, August 21.—A special to the Herald from Buffalo, says the case for the pro.. secution in the Colchester Spiritualist trial has closed. Several WitneeeeS were examined for the defence, and a verdict for the de fendant is anticipated. A fire commenced at noon in a liquor store, No. 241 fiouth street, and communicated to Nos. 202 and 206, and thence to the Government bonded warehouse, NO. 208. The - fire is still burning, and there is a prospect of being a heavy loss. A large police force is present to protect property and to prevent riots among the firemen. . Tbe flee today consumed buildings 201 South street, occupied by riggers and ship-joiners 400, 401, and 405 Market street, known as J. Hicks' United 'States bonded warehouse, oc cupied by F.W. Brampton, and heavily stored with teas and coffees ; Nos. 397 and MP Water Street, occupied by Smith do., dealers in copper and old iron, were badly damaged. The loss amounted to over half a million dollars, mostly on the bonded warehouse. Three firemen were injured by the falling walls. OCCASIONAL Luther Gallagher, of Bloomfield, N. J., re- Cently in the Quartermastetta Department, __was arrested to-day and sent to 'Fort '% arren. on the charge of defrauding the Government by forgery. Statement of the condition of the New York bans for the week ending August 21 ; 1.863 Decrease of loana . ..14,630,000 Decrease of specie Decrease of circulation Decrease of deposits... Increase of legal tende SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE—SECOND BOARD. /0000 II 5 Bs, 'Bl e 10634' 500 Reading It 103 X, 4000011 0 Ss, 5-20 C 97% 5001 do 103 400011 B 65, 5-20 —0306% 100 Chi & Alt R cx-d 06 170000 T N 7 3.10 3d ser 98% 500 MSo& li I R..... 63 10000 do 99% 100 do 62% 100 Erie R_ ,- . .-.. .. 84% 200 do 62% 235 Quick Min Co.. •54 FM Clot. & Pitts R..• 673 E 100 do 54,14 480 do ' 67% 100 kr Y Cen R„815, 0074' 10 0 Chl Rc RI. It• ,•• • .10 6 :4" 100 do OM 906 Mil & P Int C 11.., 40 100 'and Ric It, 10831. /00 P Ft W & C R.... 0174- At Gallagber , s Exchange, - this evening, Gold closed at 143%; Erie, 83%; Hudson River,loB%; Reading, 102%; Michigan Southern, 62 Pitts burg, 675 g, Cleveland and Rock Island', 10554',. The market WM dial but steady. . • Terrific Fight between two New York Companies—Two Men Milled and Many Wounded—The Rioters turn on the Pollee, but are Defeated. About one o'clock on Sunday morning a false alarm of fire was caused by the burning of a straw bed, which had beenmysteriouslyplaeed In the roof of 33 Ridge street, N. Y., for the purpose, as evidence since taken shows, to at tract the attention of the Essex bell-ringer, who could see the flames from his lookout. Re would strike, and an opportunity would then be given' for the finishing stroke to an old grudge long existing between two companies the "Dig 6 1, and the Clinton Company, No. 41: The ruse succeeded. At the cornet of Ridge and Delaney streets, Engine Companies Nos. S and 41 met, and after a short, angry contro versy, a general fight was indulged in. Both parties were armed with pistols, Clubs bound with lead and iron, stones, trumpets, and in fact every conceivable kiv.d of offensive weapons. All were brought into play, and soon a blood-covered sidewalk, the groans of the wounded and the yells of the maddened rowdies, gave token that their work was seri ous. A platoon of the Thirteenth precinct police, that bad been sent to the scene to preserve order at the fire, in vain strove to dissuade the firemen—they could do little more, their force not being of strength sufficient to cope with the rioters, perceiving which a messenger was despatched to the:Delaney-street pollee sta tion, with a requisition for aid. Capt. Steers at once went out, with every available man of his precinct, but on reaching the neighbor hood of the riot, which was now densely pack ed with firemen and spectators, he saw and comprehended the magnitude of the battle; and it became clear to him at a glance there was serious work to be done, and that he must without delay have assistance from the police of other East side precincts. He, according ly, hastened to his station-house, and by tele graph notified the sergeants in demi:Mind In Seventh, Tenth, Eleventh, and Eighteenth Pre cincts that a sanguinary riot was in progress at the intersection of Delaney and Ridge streets and thattheirpresence,withplatoons of armed men, was required without delay. Meanwhile, the hostilities were being waged - with fercicity, and the firemen were dashing trumpets, brick bats, and bludgeons in each other's faces, and delivering the contents of their pistols among the crowd of curious spectators that had be come wedged in around them, and the police were still unable to make headway against .them.. Several persons were severely wounded in the first skirmish, and taken off to their biomes. .at length platoons of policemen began to arrive down Ridg9 street from the Seventh; down Grand street from the-Tenth; upp De. laney from the Eleventh, and n Ridge from the Eighteenth, thus surrounding the combatants by a cordon of Metropolitan offi cers, strongly armed and ready for any emer gency. But before the arrival of officers from the precincts that bad sent aid, Captain Steers and Sergeant Woodward, with their force of about forty Mil, had dashed upon the rioters and driven them up Ridge street to Broome street, and there they were met by Sergeant Davenport and about six teen men, and the Sergeant rushed on the crowd, with "Boys, in and give it to them ;', and the combat b etween the policemen and the riots] s began with terrific earnestness, the firemen receiving severe punishment, and dy ing thence, hotly pursued by several sections of police, to Grand street, where a halt was made and another stand attempted; but the combined police, who were continually receiv ing reinforcements, made an onslaught upon the rioters, and the members of No. a Engine Company, deserting their machine at the in tersections of Grand and Ridge streets, fled batik to the Seventh ward. At this point Eire Company No. 41, intimidated by the presence of an overwhelming array of locust-dealing of -deers, succumbed, and after arresting six members of the company the police permitted the residue, guilty, and like whipped spanieb , to draw their engine back to its shelter in Nor folk street. Captain Steers here took posses sion of the engine-house and its contents. Captain Jameson, of the Seventh precinct, now took the machine belonging to Fire Com pany No. 6 back to the engine house in Henry street, and placed the house and its machinery under the surveillance of his men. The riot d about twenty-five minutes, and during that time two Bremen Were mor tally wounded, and from a dozen to a score arc knowri to have received serious cuts, shot wounds and bruises. Among those wounded are the following named persons: Matthias Bettman, of No. 771:4 Broome street, a "run ner" attached to Fire. Engine Company No. 41; Bartlett McGee, a "bunker," attached to No. 41; James Quigley, of No. 80 - Ridge streets a member of No. 41 Engine COmpany;, --- Murray, a "runner"'with Engine Company No. 41; Moran, of No. 29 Ridge street; Charles' Oram, a "bunker , ' at No. 6 Engine house ; Thomas Clayton, of No. 6 Engine, " bunker Thomas Kelly and Thos. Sweeny, Of NO, 6 'Engine, both "bunkers." The mor tally wounded are Bartlett MeGee, James Quigley, and Matthias Bettman. The latter three, one of whOut died at 4:o'clock yesterday afternoon, were taken to the Bellevue HOS pita by policemen Gray and Dixon, and their comrades were removed to the Delaney-street police station by policemen Robert Gray, Dewy Eulner:Allgus% Bersemann, and Frank Algeltinger, and the wounds 6f the rioters were dressed by Police Surgeon J. P. Bliven. A post-mortem examination on the body of Betffnau will be keldto-day. An ante.mortem examination was taken by Coroner Grover of James Quigley, whose death last night was hourly expected. He, however, refaced to communicate any of the facts, and claimed not to know who shot him.—New York Rxems. last erening• CAPE HAYTIE N. FORTRESS MONROE. German Shooting Festival. Stiote Polities. The Spiritualist Case. NEW YORK CITY. `I 4 I , TISW Yoke, Atigtigt 21,1965. A GREAT AND DESTRUCTIVE EIRE. DEFRAUDING THE GOVERNMENT EVENING GOLD EXCEL9.I.IGE FIREMEN'S RIOT. 111. C A LEGAL INQUIRY INTO ITS TER RORS AND HORRORS. Commencement of the Trial of the knew, Captain Win, THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM, AND THE SPECIFI CATION SUPPORTING THEM, , lie is Arraigned for Conspiracy to Murder, With Ler and Seddon, and with Actual Murder, • Lee, Seddon, and Others Arraigned with him on the First Charge, WAsniwerow, August 21.—The special Mili tary commission convened this afternoon, in the Court of Claims room, at the . Capitol. Major General Wallace, President; and Colonel Chipman, .Judge Advocate. At 13 o'clock, Captain Wirz the prisoner to be tried, was brought into the rooni, guarded on each side by a soldier, The prisoner was requested to rise, when Colonel Chipman said : Captain Wirz, you are to be tried by the Mili tary Commission. Have you any personal ob jection to any of its members 1 Judge Kligbes, of the counsel, said they proposed to make no objection of it, Dersonal character. They would, however, at a subse quent stage of . the proceedings, ask to be heard on the •plea' of general jurisdiction, especially, objecting to the mode of consti tuting the court ; but, if the prisoner was to be tried. by a Military Commission, he would as soon be tried. by this one as any other. The members Or the Commission were then sworn. The Judge Advocate informed the prisoner that he was arraigned fortrialnnder the name of Henry Wirz. Wae that the name? The prisoner replied that it was. Judge Hughes desired to say that the charges and specifications were not delivered to the prisoner until yesterday afternoon, and were not seen by his counsel until this morning. Therefore, they had not had aufliOient time to examine them. Colonel Chipman said the counsel could ask for delay atter the arraignment, and then pro- ceeded to read the charges and specifications preferred against Henry Wirz, as tonows; 783 ca.Altilllg AND BPHOIBIOATit,N6, Charge wilfully, and trai torously, and in aid of the then existing rebel lion against the United States of America, on or before the Ist day of March,A.D. 1861, and on divers other days, between that day and the 10th day Of April, 1865, combining, confedera ting, and conspiring together, with Robt. E. Lee Jas. A. Seddon, John Winder, Lucius D.Northrop, Richard B. Winder, It. It. Ste venson Moore . , and others unknown, to in pure the health . and destroy the lives of sal tilers in the nAlitary service of the United States, then held, and being prisoners of war with!n the linag of the so-called Confederate States, and in the military prisons thereof, to the end, and that the armies of the United States might be weakened and impaired, in violation of the laws and customs of war. Spectfication.-131 this that he the said Henry Wirz did combine, confederate s and conspire with them, the said Robt E. Lee, James A. Seddon, JOllll IL Winder, Lucius D. Northrup, Richard B. Winder, Joseph White, W. S. Win der, R. R. Stevenson Moore, and others whose 'names ,are unknown, citizens of the United States aforesaid, and who were then engaged in armed rebellion against the United Stares,. maliciously, traitorously, and in violation of the laws of war, to impair and injure the health, and to destroy the lives, by subjecting to torture and great suffering; by confining in unhealthy and unwholesome quarters - tva sposing to the inclemency of winter and to the dews and burning sun of summer; by com pelling the use of impure water, and by fur nishing insufficient and unwholesome food, of large numbers of Federal prisoners, soldiers in the military service of the United States of America, held as prisoners of War at Anderson ville, in the State of Georgia. within the linos of the so. called Confederate States, on or be fore the first day of March, A. D. 1864, and at divers times between that day and the 10th of April, A.D. 1865, to the end that the armies of the United States might be weakened and impaired . , and the insurgents engaged in arm ed rebellion against'he United States might be aided and comforted ; and he, the said Henry IV irz, an officer in the military service of the so-called Confederate States, being then commandant of a military prison at A_ndersonville, in the State of Georgia, kr oated by authority of the so-called Confederate States lor the confinement of prisoners of we; and as such commandant Dilly clothed with authority ani;indatyboundto.treat, care, and provide forssneh =prisoners 'held as aforesaid as might be placed in histcustody, according to the laws of, war 'did in furtherance of such combination, confederation, and conspiracy, and incited thereunto by there,the said R. E. Lee s . Jas. A. Seddon, John 11, Winder, Joseph White, W. S. Winder, It, h, S. lifoore, and others, uthose names are unknown maliciously wickedly and traitorously confine a large number of such prisoners of war s soldiers in the military service of the United States, to the amount of 30,000, in unhealthy and un wholesome quarters, in a close and small area of ground, Wholly inadequate to their wants, and destructive to their health, which he well knew and intended, and while there so con fined, during the time aforesaid, did, in fur therance of his evil design and in view of the said conspiracy, wilfully and maliciously neglect to furnish tents, barracks, or other shelter sufneiellt ter their protection from the inclemency of the weather, and the dews and burning sun of summer, and with such evil intent did take, and cause to be taken from them, their clothing, blankets, camp equipage, and other property of which they were possessed at the time of being placed in custody;lliS and, with like malice and evil intent, did refute to furnish, or MOO to be furnished, food, either of a quality or quanti ty sufficient to preserve health and to sustain life; and-did refuse and neglect to furnish wood sufficient for cooking in summer, and to keep the - said persons warm in winter; and did compel the said prisoners to subsist upon unwholesome water, reek ing with the 111th and garbage of the pri son and prison guard, and the offal and drainage of the cook-house of said prison, whereby the prisoners becamegreatly reduced in their bodily strength, and emaciated and injured in their bodily health, their minds ims paired, and their intellects broken, and many of them, to wit : the number of ten thousand, Whose names are unknown, sickened and died by reason thereof, which he, the said Henry Wirz, then and there well'knew and intended, and so knowing and wilfully intending, did refuse and neglect to provideproper lod,gings, food or nourishment for the sick,and necessary medicine, and medical attendance for the re storation of their health 3 and did knowingly, wilfully,' and maliciously, in fustherance of 'his evil designs,permit. them to languish and die from want of care and proper treatment. And the said Henry Wirz, stillpursuing his evil purposes, did permitto remain in the said prison, among the emaciated sick and lan guishing living, the bodies of the dead until they became corrupt and loathsome, and filled the air with fetid and noxious exhala tions, and thereby greatly increased the unwholesomeness of the prison,, inso much that great numbers of the said pri soners, to wit : the number of one thousand., whose names are unknown, sickened and died bv reason thereof; and the said Henry Wirz, still pursuing his wicked and cruel purposes, wholly disregarding the usages Of civilized warfare did, at the time and place aforesaid, maligiously and wilfully subject the prisoners aforesaid to cruel, unusual, and infamous pun ishment upon slight, trivial, and fictitious pre tences, by fastening large balls of iron to their feet, and binding large numbers of the ;srison ers aforesaid closely together, with large chains around their necks and feet, so that they walked with the groateat Mine-silty, and being so confined were subjected to the burn ing rays of the sun often without food or drink for hours, and even days, from which said cruel treatment large numbers, to wit: the number of one hundred, whose names are unknown sickened, fainted, and died ; and he, the said Wirz, did further cruelly treat and Milne Said prisoners by maliciously confining them within an instrument of torture called the stocks,. thus depriving them of the use of their limbs, and forcing them to lie, sit,' and stand for many hours without the power of changing their *position, and being without food or drink, in consequence of which many, to wit: the number of thirty, whose names are unknown, sickened and died; and he s the said Wirz, still wickedly pursuing this evil purpose, did establish, and cause to be designated within the prison enclosure con taining sueSt prisoners, a dead line, being a line around the inner face of the stockade or wall enclosing said prisoners, and about twen ty feet distant from, and within said stockade; and haying so established said dead 1 inc,wit ich was in many places an imaginary line, and in many other places marked by insecure and shifting strips of boards nailed upon 'the top of small and insecure stakes or posts; 1/143, the said Wirz, instructsd the prison guard stationed around the top of the said stockade, to lire upon and kill any of the prisonersaloreaald - who -might touch, fall npOli s pass over or under or across the said masa line, pursuant 'to which said orders and in structions maliciously and needlessly given by the said Wirz, the said prison guard did -tire upon and kill a large number of said prieeners, to wit : the numbers of about three hundred and the Said Wirz Son pursuing his evil purpose, did keep and use ferocious and bloodthirsty beasts dangerous to human life, called blood-bounds, to bunt down pri soners of war aforesaid, who 'made their escape from his custody and and did then and there Wilfully and malielously suffer, incite, and encourage the said beasts to seize, tear, mangle, and maim the bodies of said fugitive Prisoners of war, whichthe said bedsits incited us aforesaid did ; therebyy a large number of Paid prisoners of war, who, during the time aforesaid made their escape, and were recap tured, and were, by the said beasts, then and there cruelly and inhumanly injured, in so. much that ninny of the said prisoners to wit the number of about fifty died, and the said Wirz s still pursuing' his wicked purpose, and still aiding in carry. ing out the said conspiracy, did use and cause to be used for the pretended purposes of swel -1 nation, impure and poisonous vaccine matter, which said impure and poisonous matter was then and there by the direction and order of Said Wire, maliffifitudy, cruelly, and wickedly deposited in the arms of many of aeldpritionerts by reason of which large numbers of them—to wit, one hundred—lost the use of their arms, and many of them—to wit about the number of two hundred, were so inured that they soon thereafter died, all of whie he, the said Henry IN'irz, well knew, and MallolollSly Intended, and in tad of the Men existing rebellion .. 1,000,000 2,500,000 against the - Milted States, with the view to assist in 'weakening and impairing the armies of the United States, and in furtherance of the said conspiracy, and with the full knowledge, CODSO4, and eaffravanee of his conspirators aforesaid, be, the said Wit's, then and there did Charge 2.—Xurderr, and in violation , of the laws and customs of war. qpecificationl.—ln this, that the safd`Henry Wirz, an officer in Me -military Service' of. the so-called ConfederatZ' States of America; at AnderSOnville, in the State of Georgia, on or about the Sib day of July, A. D. Mai, then. and there being commandant of a prison thorn idd cated by the authority of the said so-called Confederate States for the confinement of pri soners of war,taken and hcld.as such from the armies of the United States of America, while acting a$ said commandant; feloniously, wil fully, and of his malice aforethought, did make an assault, and he, the said H. Wirz, with a certain pistol, called a revolver, then and there, loaded and charged with gunpow der and bullet, which said pistol said Henry Wirz in his hand then and there had and held to, against, and upon a soldier belonging to the army of the "United 50.tes, in his, the said Henry ivirvs custody, as a pri soner of war, whose name is unk.nown, then and there feloniously, and of his malice afore thought, did shoot and discharge, inflicting upon the body of the soldier aforesaid a mor tal wound with the pistol aforesaid, in conse guenee of which mortal wound ` - murderously 1131lieted by the said ifeary ir2, the Mid soldier thereafter died. .. _ peeification 2.—ln this that the said. Henry an officer in the military service of the so-called Confederate States of America,' in Andersonville, in the State of Georgia, on or about the 20th day of September, A. D.' 1864, then and there, being commandant of a prison there located by the authority of the said so called Confederate States for the confinement of prisoners of war, taken and held as such from the armies of the United States of Ame rica, while acting as said commandant, felon', onsly,wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, jump upon, stamp, kick, and otherwise injure, with the heels of INS boots, a soldier belonging to the arMy_Of the United States, in his, the' aid Henry Wirz's custody, as to pri sonor of war, whose name is unknown of which said stamping, kicking, and bruising, maliciously done and inflicted by the said Wirz, he, the said soldier, soon thereafter died. Spectfication 3.—in this, that the said Henry. Wirz, an officer in the military service Of the so-called Confederate States of America, at Andersonyille, in the State of Georgia, on or about the thirteenth day of June, A. D-1804, then and there, being commandant of a prison there located by the authority of the said so called Confederate States for the. confinement of prisoners of war, taken and UM as snob from the armies of the United States of Ame rica, while acting as said commandant feloni ously, and of his malice aforethought, did make an assault, and he, the said Henry Wirz, with a certain pistol, called a revolver, then and there loaded charged with gunpowder and bullets, which said pistol the said Heal' Wirz, in his band then aAd there,lmil and held to, against and upon a soldier belonging' to the army of the United States, in his the said Hen. iY Witz's custody as a prisoner of war, whose name is unknown; then and there felonious. ly and of his malice aforethought, did shoot and discharge, inflicting upon the body of the soldier aforesaid a mortal wound with • the pistol aforesaid, in consequence of which said mortal wound, murderously inflicted by the said Henry Wirz, the said soldier thereafter died. . Specification 4.—ln this, that the said Henry Wirz, an officer in the military service of the sacalled Confederate States. of America, at. Anderseetville, in the State Of Georgia, on or about the thirtieth day of Bray, A. D. 1801, then and there being commandant of, a prison there located by the authority of the 'said so-called Confederate States for the confine ment of prisoners of war, taken and held as such from the armies of the United States of America, while acting as said eOmMellflent, feloniously and of his nialiee aforethought, did make an assault; and he, the said Henry Wirz, with a certain pistol called a revolver, then and there loaded and charged with gunpowder and bullets, which said pistol the said Henry Wine, in his hand, then and there had and held to, against,and upon a sold ierbelonging to the army of the United States, in his the said Henry Wire's custody as a prisoner of war, -whose name is unknown ; then and there fe loniously, and of his malice aforethought, did shoot and discharge, inflicting upon the body of the soldier aforesaid a mortal wound, with the pistol aforesaid ; in consequence of which said mortal wound, murderously inflicted by the said Henry Wirz, the said soldier there after died.l Specification, s.—ln this, that the said Henry Wirz, an officer in the military service of the so-called Confederate States of America, at Andersonville,lin the State of Georgia; on or about the 20th day of August, A. D. 1864, then ehd there being COMMendant of a prison there located by the authority of the said so-called Confederate States for the confinement of Prisoners of war, taken and held as such from the armies of the United States of America, while acting as said commandant, feloniously, and of his malice aforethought, did confine and bind with an instrument of torture called the "stocks " a soldier belonging to the army of the United States, in his the said Henry Wirz's custody as a prisoner of war, whose name is unknown; in consequence of which said cruel treatment, maliciously and mur derously inflicted as aforesaid, he, the said Soldier, soon thereafter died. Specification 6.—ln this that the said Henry Wirz, an officer in the military service of the so-called Confederate States Of America, at Andereonville, in the State of Georgia, on or about the first day of February, 18e5, then and there being commandant of a prison there la cated by the authority of the said so-called Con federate States for the confinement of priso ners of war, taken and held as such from the armies of the United States of America., while acting as said commandant, feloniously, and of his malice aforethought, did confine and bind within an instrument of torture called "the stocks," a soldier belonging to the army of the United States, in his the said Henry ,Wirzis custody as a prisoner of war, whose name is tmknown, in consequence of which said cruel treatment, maliciously and Murderously inflicted as aforesaid, he, the eaid soldleie soonthereafter died. *iecification7.—ln thls,that the said Henry Wirz, an officer in the military service of the so-called Confederate States of America, at Andersonville, in the State of Georgia, on or about the 20th day of July, A. D. 1864 then and there being COMmandent of a prison there located by the authority of the Said so-called Confederate States for the confinement of prisoners of war, taken and held as such from the armies of the United States of America, while acting asoaid commandant, felonibusly, and of Vs malice aforethought, did fasten and chain together several persons, soldiers be longing to the army of the United States r in his, the said Henry Wieefeenztody RS prisoners of war, whose names are unknown, binding the necks and feet Of said prisoners closely together, and compelling them to carry great burdens, wit: large iron balls chained to their feet, SO that in consequence of the said cruel treatment inflicted upon them by the said Henry Wirz, at aforesaid, one Of said soldiers, a prisoner of war as aforesaid, and whose name is unknown, died. SpecificationB.—ln this, that the said Henry Wirz, an officer in the military service of the so-called Confederate States of America, at Andersonville, in the State of Georgia, on or about the - 16th day of May, A, P, ISee then and . there being commandant of a prison, there located by the authority of the said so-called Confederate States for the confinement of pri soners of war taken and held as such from the armies of the United States of America, while acting as said commandant feloniously, wil fully, and of his malice aforethought, did order a rebel soldier, whose name 15 unimown, there on duty as a sentinel or guard of the prison of which said Henry Wirz. was commandant as aforesaid, to fire upon a soldier belonging to the army of the United States, in his, the said Henry Wires, custody, as prisoner of war, whose name is unknown, and. in pursuance of said order, so as aforesaid, maliciously and murderouely given as aforesaid, he, the said rebel soldier, did, with a -musket loaded with gunpowder and bullet, then and there fire at the said soldier, so as aforesaid held as a pri soner of war, inflicting upon him a mortal wound with the musketaforesaid, of which lie, the said prisoner, soon thereafter died. Specification 9.—ln this, that the said Henry. Win, an officer in the military service of the so-called Confederate States of America, at Andersonville, in the State of Georgia, on or about the Ist day of July, A. D. Mt, then and there being commandant of a prison there located by the authority of the so-called Confederate States for the confinement of prisoners of war, taken and held as such from the armies of the United States of Ame rica, while acting as said - commandant felo niously and of his malice, aforethought did order a rebel soldier, whose name is unknown, then on duty as a sentinel or guard to the pri son of which the said Wirz was commandant as aferesaid, to fire upon a soldier belonging to the Army of the United States in his, the said Henry Wirrs custody as a prisoner of war, whose name is unknown and in plum ance of said order so as aforesaid, maliciously and murderously given as aforesaid he, the said rebel soldier, did with a musket loaded with gunpowder and.bullet then and there fire at the said soldier soap aforesaid held as a pri soner of war, inflicting upon him, the saidri soner of war, a wound with the said musket of - which lie the said prisoner goon thereafter died. Specification 10.—In this that the said Henry Wirz, an officer in the military service of the so-called Confederate States of America, at Andersonville, in the State of Georgia, on or about the 20th day of August, A. D. 1.864, then and there being commandant of a prison there located by the authority of the said - so-called Confederate States, for the confinement of frisoners of war taken and held as such rom the armies of the United States of Ame rica, while acting as said commandant, feloni ously,- and of his malice aforethought, order a rebel soldier, whose name Is unknown, then On duty as a- sentinel or guard to the prison of which said Wirz was commandant, as afore said, to fire upon a soldier belonging to the army of the United States, in, his, the said Henry Wirrs custody as if prisoner of: war, whose name is unknown; and in pursuance or said order, so as aforesaid, maliciously and murderouslygiven, as aforesaid, he there, said rebel soldier did, with. a. musket loaded with gunpowder and 'bullet, then and there fire at The said soldier, so as aforeeaid held as a prisoner of war, inflicting upon him a Mortal wound with the said musket, of which he, the said prisoner, soon thereafter died. Spec:AlM:oft 11.—In this that the. said Henry Wfrz, an officer in the military service of the po-called Confederate States of America, at Anderstheville, in the State a Georgia, on or about the Ist day of July, A. D, AliBll and there being a commandant Of a prison there lo cated by the authority of the saidscecalled Con federate States, for the confinement of pri soners of war taken' and held as such from the armies of the United States of America, -while acting as saidVOnimandant, feloniously and of his malice aforethought,. did cause, incite and urg.e certain ferocious and blood thirsty animals called bloodhounds to pursue, attack, wound, and tear in,pieces a soldier be longing to- the army _of the United States, in his, the said Henry Wirrs, custody as a pri soner of war, whose name is unknoten, and in consequence thereof the said bloodhounds did then and there, with the knowledge, moon ragemeut, and instigation of lam the said Wirz, maliciously and murderously given by him, attack and mortally wound the said sot- Bier, in consequence of which said mortal wound the said prisoner soon thereafter died. eelf/eation 12.—1 n this, that,the said Henry Wlra, en officer in the military service of the ' so-called Confederate States Of America at .Andersonvine, in the State Of Georgia, on or about the 27th day of July, A. D. 1861 then and there being the commandant of a prison there located by the authority of the sacalled Con federate States for the confinement of prises ners of war, taken and held as such from the armies of the United States of Ame rica, while acting as said Commandant feloniously and of his malice aforethought, did order a rebel soldier, whose name is un known then Orr duty as a sentinel or guard to . the prison Of, which said Wirz was command ant as afore:said, to fire upon a soldier belong ing to tile. army of the United States i in his the THREE GENTS. said H. Wires custody as aprisoner of wa whose name is unknown, and in pursuance t, said order, so OS aforesaid maliciously and murderouslyiven as aforekaid, the said rebel soldier did, with EV Musket loaded with gun powder and bullel4 , then and there &s at the said addles se as aforesaid, held as a prieoner of srar r lndicting upon' him a mortal wound with the said musket, of which said niortal wound L. the said prisoner soon thereafter died. qpecificollan 13: In this thatthe said HesTrY Wins, an WNW in the military service of the' so-called Confederate Statel of America, at Anderson.ville, in the State of Georgia, on or about the third' day of .A.ugnst,ls44, then and there being commandant of nprison there lo cated by the authority of the' said so-called Confederate States for the confinement of prisoners of war,.token and held as such from the armies of the United Statee Of America, while acting no said commandant, felo niously and of his malice aforethought, did make an assaulli upon a soldier be longing to the army of the United States M his, the said H. Wirr:U•custod y, as a prisoner of War, whose name is unknewn, and, with a 01, called a revoiyerelion and there held in the hands of the mitt'Wira, did beat and bruise said soldier upon the head shoulders, and breast inflicting thereby mortal wounds, from which said beating and bruising afore said, and mortal wounds caused thereby, the said soldiers soon thereafter died.' cSignecl,) N..P. CHIPMAN, Coloildl and A. A. D. al Judge .4,Vocate. Colonel Chipman asked the prleoner What answer have you to make? Judge Hughes replied that the'eharges were delivered to the prisoner only s'etiterday after noon, and were - not seen by his counsel, Ha meld; Hughes, Denver-Peck, and Louis Sdhode until this morning. lie submitted the ques tion whetherit reaSonable time should not be given to the prisoner to preilaNa for Ills de. Tense or not. What made an extension of time still more important was that three or four weeks ago a totally different set of charges were served to those who proposed to defend him, and on which preparations_ to that end alone had been made.. The charges Just read were different in substance and form, and cer tainly twenty-font hours , notice was not slim dent to consider them: • Colonel Chipman felt it to be his duty to state the charges served two or three weeks sinek, embracing precisely the substance but . not the form of those just preferred. The only addition is the charge of conspi racy, which include the- facts heretofore legea. Therefore, the counsel should be pre pared to meet them. There should be no un reasonable delay. We had subpcenaed a num ber of witnesses from the South, and a hun dred witnesses for the Government were in attendance. Judge Hughes repiied that the counsel de, Signated no time, They asked no undue or unnecessary indulgence,but wished to facili tate the proceedings of the Commission. As to the substance of the charges to which the prisoner pleads not guilty, they were totally different from those heretofore preferred. One set called upon them to defend his own life only, but the other just read to this court required him not only to defend his own life, but that of General Lee and half a dozen others. Colonel Chipman desired the gentleman to 'indicate for whom he appeared. Judge Hughes replied appear for the prisoner now on trial. The Judge Advocate was no doubt aware of the rule that when the proof of a conspiracy is once made out the prisoner is responsible for the acts of all en gaged in it. Colonel Chipman desired the entry, to be 'made that these gentlemen appear only for the priSoner, and it should be understood whether, without authority. they should de fend anybody else, Judge Hughes : We only desire to defend •Captain Wirz. We may object to the form of the charges, the first of which is a conspiracy, and not only a conspiracy, but actual crimes under it, The Other char is murder, with thirteen specifications, If these specifications of murder come under the civil law, then We propose that this court cannot take jurisdic tion; but if they come under military law this court might take jurisdiction. I wish to sub. mit to the court that they lay down some rule by , which they are to be governed' during this trial. .• This is an order emanating from the Presi dent of the United States appointing a Mili tary Commission not only to try a particular case, but any ease that may be brought before it; and it does not appear that this case has been sent here. The one statute gives mili tary courts jurisdiction over civilians incases where persons are found lurking about as N o jurisclictioll is conferred in cases of conspiracy. The prisoner is charged with treasonable conspiracy and murder. Then, do we know that it was the intention of the President to send such a case herel We have no evidence that the charges emanated from any other source than the Judge Advocate of this court.. Judge Cliniman said while not designing to answer the fallacy of Judge Hughes, he would merely remark that the practice has been to try any case properly coming before the court. The order reads: ', For the trial of such pri soners as may be brought before the court.. All the books lay down the rule that the Judge AdYoCate shall prepare the oases for adjudica tion. beveral caSea have already been decided. The point is not a new one. The case is not required formally to be prepared and sent to the court. The court is constituted for the trial of such prisoners as may be brought be fore it, and the prisoner is here to be tried. The court, with closed doors, decided to overrule the plea of the counsel for the lic ensee. Judge Hughes, in order, as he said, to facili tate proceedings, filed several petitions. First. Denying the jurisdiction of the court to try the prisoner, it having no authority to do so, either by statute or well-established usage. Second, That this cue is not brought before it by competent authority. Third. That the prisoner is an authorized citizen, and was never in the land or naval ser vice of the United States, and that the United States now being at peace and civil war ceased, there is no authority to punish. The PriP9xter protests that he- °ugh& not,. therefore, to he tviAd, but discharged limn cus tody.:He also claims that just before the time of his arrest at Andersonville, Captain Noyes, on duty near that place, applied to him for in formation, which he cheerfully communicated to him and he accompanied Captain Noyes to Gen. lit ilson , s quarters, the former promising him safe conduct, and giving him an assurance that he should not be arrested, The prisoner relied on the good faith of Captain l'Teyeal but, notwithstanding the above repeated assu rances, the prisoner was seized, held in con finement, and brought to Washington. The pri soner further protests that he [ought not to be held any longer, for the reason as set forth at length, that he came within the terms of the capitulation bet , Ween General Johnston and General Sherman. The defendant also asks the court to' quash the several charges and specifications because they are each and every one uncertain and indefinite as to the time and the offence; and the allegations are so indefinite and vague that he ought not to be tried on them ; and further, that they do not charge him with any offeriee punishable under the laws of war. Mr. Denver inquired what rules were to go vern, whether the rules of bourt-martial, or some other rule. General Wallace the President of the Court, replied that the Court would:serve counsel with a copy of the rules relative tp the argu ment and the motions. The Court adjourned till to-morrow. -•• THE DEFALCATIONS. The Broker Grahaw and Edward Retebuns—Minar EmbeazleDigpts• There were yesterday no important diselo sures concerning the great defalcation in the house of Ketchum, Son, & Co., and in the firm of Graham & Co.; and until the investigation now in progress terminates, and the persons in charge of it make up their statements little more will be known of the losses Or of any other facts bearing upon the final settlement for the various frauds of Edward E. Ketchum. Mr. Charles Graham, who, next to the house of Ketchum, Son & C0.,1s the largest loser by the operations of young Ketchum, occupies a somewhat singular position in regard to the defalcation, and there are some interesting facts which have not been hitherto published. Mr. Graham owed his success as a broker to the influence and patronage of the house of Ketchum, and it was through a member of the same house that he was ruined. But the pa tronage of the firm did not continue up to the time Of Edward Ketchum's flight. The state ment to this effect in the published Card of the house, on which there was so mach comment, Mr. Graham says was strictly cor rect. The last orders he received from them were in April last, and amounted to only a few thousand dollars. The orders of the son were not only continued but increased, and in a few months eoyered many million dollars worth of stocks and securities of various kinds, The personal and business relations of Graham and young Ketchum were most intimate and co dential. Mr. Graham considered himself under obligations to the family; and it was an ocea sion of great pleasure to him, as well appa rently of great profit, that he was able to ex tend to the young man, whose broker be had bceonie, any accommodation it might be in his power to give. Mr. Graham has frequently said to his friends, that so perfect was his confidence in Ketchum , s integrity, and so great his affec- - 'on for him, that if the young man had come to him on the day of his flight or at any time, and had represented that he was in difficulty, under Circumstances that he could not disclose even in his own house, and that one or more hundred thousand dollars would save him, the money would have been furnished not only without hesitation, but without regard to any inconvenience to Mr.Grali am that might follow the withdrawl of so large a sum from his avail able capital. Mr. Graham is collecting the bills of the claimants upon his-estates, growing out of the forgery of the sold certificates 110 receiv ed and drew against ; and a statement of all the affairs of his firm is to be made to the credi tors, who will be offered the estate in liquida tion. There is much sympathy for Mr. Gra ham. His friends speak of him- with great kindness, and some of them propOse, if lie ob tithill release from his creditors, to furnish him with such capital as he may need to re sume his business. OTHER DEPALCATIONS. Two or three defalcations or embezzlements of minor importance have been discovered within a day or two. The facts are briefly as follows "On saturdaz evening thewholcSahagrOCera, Messrs. Autun anger & NO, P 4 wagifting ton street, caused the arrest Of. their book keeper, named Henry Singer, Whom, they suspected of having stolen a considerable sum of money. Singer was taken. into custody, at his residence, No. IS3. Third street, and confessed, that he had robbed his employers of money in sums Of twenty-five dollars to sixty dollars a day, and that WM" thefts would amount from seventhousand dot: lass to, twelve thousand. dollars—he did not know precisely. He added that lie had ex pended the money, and that ho was to he mar ried this morning. When his preliminarY ex amination et the Tombs took place, the young woman who was to hays become his wife was a deeply interested. spectator. The story of the embezzlement by a teller of one of the Wall street banks of a hundred thousand dollars, which the bondsmen and friends of the teller are to pay, thus settling the account of the bank and preventing ex posure, has not been traced. If the persona in interest c hoose to make good the alleged. loss, the s ecret may properly remain their PWa• Markets by Telegraph. BALTIBMIIO,AuguE2I.—FIour quiet ;Western and Iloward street heavy. Wheat firm ; prime red *2.2002.25. Corn dull ; white 91692 c ; loSF 90c. Oats active at 50c. Previsions steady. wilialq dull at $2.24, DiIIairATIKEIE, August 21,--4 1 1mit firm. Wheat firm at en advance ot4rgrec ; sales at *1.8401.85, closing *USX n 1.34% for No. I. Oats firm at 41c;Receipts-4i II barrels of flour and 31,000 bushels of wheat, THE WAR, E9ECIDISSI. (PUBLISHED WEEKLY.) Tat WAO Pones. will be sent to subscriber, by Ina!: (rer :ISM: 3:17 ~nee.) VI 50 10 00 ^.'••1.1 copies AU Uto L'arl-Tr, (Mobs then Ten will be charged at tbe same rate, 4 , 2.00 per copy. The Money mud ajoggye aeffefeefetr fig Murder, and "no i"ane'e cam Owe terms be euriated fro." a they 4ord. oft mare am &saga of socipM is- Postmasters are reqtteeted ta act as WM. for TUX WdH TRIM. Nor To the getter-up of the Club often or twentf. ILb extra copy of the paper will be glom. S'FA'IIF; ITEMS Reno is the name of a new town located on. the right bank of the Alle g h eny rivet, within L 'eur miles of Franklin, and on the'line of the A. and W. Railway, It la named after • G et %era] Reno, who was a native of Franklin. The founders of the town are Galusha A. Grow, ex-Speaker of the United States Howie • o f Rep TesentatiVes, and C. W. Culver,Con. greEsmv elect from the Crawford district, a,fieordanoo Witll the State law re houseng web. County to erect at its e61114,- ; a au - a -dial, one has been put up at Pittsburg, an'd then enclosed by an iron railing in s uch a Tr umler that no one can see the dial. Wonder what ti`te commissioners thought the diarwas fort Th e following Are among the nOtioeb put up are petroleum town in the western part of Can State: "No talking with the chamber maid'' "'Fare as high as at any other house.P. "plot responsible for boots left in the hall. , No eardince , kildniti ed." The mmiserate in .tame portions of our State arelnetltatting a novekfeature in the con ducting of the political campaign, by meeting In old-faskioned• camp-Meeting style, for the purpose of disenasion and, perhaps, repen tance. _ _ A band or Wandering Gipsies, numbering fifteen or twenty, men, women, and children, in all, have pEtched. their tents a2ld encamped iu the woods near'tlie,toll-gate at the foot of the Wilkesbarre inennuain, POtteYnie is Wild to be the rielkaist town of its silo in ponnsyrnmia, y'eai4ly simlinndred persons pay taxes on more or leys immineS lit .excess of six humlred•dollar's. The Schuylkill;. COuntyt ComitthOuSe been thoroughly repaired and is now one of the handsomest bnildd4s In the 'Atte, Pith ole ff City PP is tto arrangements having Amen 'made for that purpose. —Hon. Paul Leidy, otiliontear, is named 'as the Democratic' eattdidate for Auditor General, The latest novelty In tltiv reglOin, Says. the Carbon County Demcstlit N footoraeing by women. -- The farmers of Northtnnherland a're Plainiug of the "potato rot.lo SOME PEENS. To make peaches grow without stones, an agriculturist who has tried it with success says : " Turn the top of the• tree down, cut off the ends, stick them into the' ground, and fasten`se with stakes ; in a year or two these tops will take root, and when well rooted, cut the branches connecting these reversed and rooted branches with the tree proper, and this reversed peach tree will produce tine peaches without stones." The same experiment may be tried with phires, cherries, and curnsnto, Meerschaum is made on a large scale in New York by saturating carbonate of magne sia in silicate of soda or soluble glass—care In selecting a good quality of magnesia and sili cate being the Only requisite for success. The profits are immense, as will b 0 seem. MUM sia costs about twenty-five cents per pound, silicate of soda even less ; a pipe made of the "foam of the sea," as smokers verily believe, costs for material about five cents, leaving the balaace for labor. Steamers are charging twentygive dollar per bale for transporting cotton down the Ala bama river to Mobile. Mobile papers say that as most of the cotton coming down has .been stolen, they can afford to stand it. The Seuth tend (Indiana) Rfoldffr, d i Vinte a list of the losses by the reeent tornado at that place, states that the drst , reports were greatly exaggerated. The entire losses in the city will not exceed *20,000, Six young negro men from the , island of Ilayti have entered the Episcopal Theological Seminary at Gambier, Ohio, with a view to prepare themselves for missionary work among their countrymen. A correspondent says the Saratoga tribe of Indians is dying out. It consists this year of six or eight Canadian Frenchmen, a Labia. dorian, two petogentirian squaws, and a North American pappoose, Forty thousand visitors at Saratoga this season—more than ever before. In a single morning last week, nine thousand _glasses of water were dipped from Congress Spring alone. The Cincinnati eontrne-Ml4l estimates that during the past spring and summer not IeSS than seventy-five cases of drowning have oc curred in the immediate vicinity of that city. The long continued warm weather - in Lou isiana has dried up all the cisterns and wells, and the Inhabitants are drinking water From bayous which are uotoriouslyunhealthy. The memorial monument in the cemetery at Lawrence for the unrecognized dead who were killed bythe fall of the Pemberton mills, is now finished and in its place. A. shadatree society hlia been Organized in Rockford, 111., the object being to procure the planting of shade trees at the sides of every street in the city. There are 10,744 negroes, of all ages, in the city of Nashville. In 1800 there were only goowitl3in tha limits of that oity, —At Wooster, Ohio, on Thursday, General Cox addressed twenty thousand people, in cluding two thousand soldiers. Governor Brough has so far improved in health that physicians pronounce him nearly out of danger. There are a lot of guerillas in Hardeman and Dicicairy counties, Tennessee, stealing horses, &e. By a vote of the school board of St. Paul, Minn., negroes are excluded from the public 80100/9. The peach and grape wive in the neigh borhood of Cincinnati are seriously damaged. A monument to John Brown is talked of in Torrington, Corm., where he was born. —Gen.Ewell and wife have returned to their old he= jli Prince William county, Va. There are said to be Iyd thousand desert. era from the army in New York city, The horse railway cars were first run in Quebec on Thursday. Major General Sickles 'is in Boston. rosktON ITEMS. A correspondent, speaking of Alexandre Dumas , lectures in P rance and Belgium, says that, although the placards announce die- COlirkeN on Unser and Napoleon, the lectures are in reality tleyote‘l to "Omar, Jules Gerard, lion-shooting, swimming, the.ifaltitudke, and personal adventures. The lecturer has an enormous manuscript with him, from which be never once looks up the whole time of the lecture, so frightened is he by that hydra, the public,” Very recently, his son sold the whole of his cabinet of pictures and 01140* ties. Among the former were eente,a Eugene Delacroixls best works ; " Tasso in the Mad-. house ;" an admirable work by Troyen ; " Goats Browsing Roses e , three Decamps ; and the twenty water-color drawings which Sa wittil draw to illustrate "La Dame, aux Ca-' mellas," The sale is the subject of general talk with Dumas' acquaintances, especially as many of the articles were gifts from old friends, and the erratic author was.not in any great stress for money. -- Among the new arnieuncements in Lou don is one of an a International 1 1 01illat Travelling Institution," to which young gen tlemen of all nations are admitted. The school "will be continually traveltingonder the superior person. Each language will be tatigbp in the countrywhere monuments, i o s n s uta po o ke nt n al w4l4 the greatest purity, Towns, museums will be carefully and scientifically inspected." _ A. cast has been taken of Dr, Pritobard , s bead, and it is stated by the phrenologists .that the animal part of the brain. was fully fourAfthe of the whole. A gent4emen emL neut in the art of reading Mining is said to havoremarked that ho bad .only knOWti Ono head of a sane person to equal ,itt, in its unfit favorable development. The amusement of a picnic party - in the environs of Rome was recently somewhat dis turbed by a patrol of genaarmels.,l7lio informed them that the brigands were /144Etng ft.b 6 nt, and had Just killed a young farmer who could not furnish 2,000 seudi ransom., --- The Canadian public debt exceeds seventy five millions; more than three-fourths of which, stranffe to say, has been incurred Within the past ten years, rblitical atraire ill the provinces are represented as in a very ' , ticklish' , condition. Mrs. Key Illunt,the daughter of the author of the "Star-Spangled Banner," has lately been in Paris, endeavoring to prepare herself for the. Often but althaugli full of talent, she „ lacks executive power. She is a laity et-Me ai= sympathies. The New York Tithia. estimates. from sta tistics furnished, that the total Ceti:toile popu lation in Europe is 147,104,000; in Asia and , E) ", t mer t , 00,000 ; Africa, 4,071,0001 in Ame rica, OM”; total in the world, 9.07,901,000, Paris correspondent says the Queen of spain and her Prime Minister are not at all on good terms. A strong republican feeling exists among the officers of, the army, and a revolu tion may be considrrod as Imminent , -The Germans do not - nai3 the words "church-yard" and."burying-ground' { to dettig nate their places of interment. They use the beautiful and suggestive expression, "God's Acre," and "Court of Peace." A Paris correspondent states that Victor /Ingo hita Just sieliad gli agreement with M, Delaerota for the publication of a volume of poems, another of dramatic oeMpositions, and a novel in three volumes. Crime in Ireland isdecreasing. A Donegal grand juror writes to the London Times, boast. ing that in his assizes there has not, among two hundred anti iorty itiOnund Dent% beolli a single case to try. -- The death is announced of the Rev, Caleb Morris, foso many years one of the most enii. vent Nonoomformist ministers in London. Ile OfflOtated at Fetter lane Chapel. -- florae repairs 1114 are going on in clAstie street, Falzon square, london, Wive revomlod., ono of the old towors of Lonclon