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Forever float Mat standard sheet
vs. here breathes the foe hill falls before us!
VV,t It Freedom's son beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us
OUR PLA IP oti DI
UHE UNION-THE CONSTITI ITION-ANE
THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW .
HARRISBURG, PA
Friday Afternoon, August 16, 1861.
THE SANITARY COMMISSION AND OUR
TROOPS.
SANITARY COMMISSION,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13, 1861.
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Will you please state that an immense
am unt of vexation to officers, and of hunger
to troops, would be avoided if the quartermas
ter of each regiment of volunteers ordered to
Washington would go on one train in advance
of the regiment, and make his requisition upon
government for ration, and see that all needful
supplies are ready on the arrival of the men.
When this is not done there is often an una
voidable delay of hours before the troops can
obtain food or refreshments. This is part of
the business of quartermasters, and they ought
to look to it. Some member of the Sanitary
Commission is usually at the station on the
arrival of troops, to minister to the wants of
the sick. Respectfully,
FRED. LAW OLMSTEAD,
Secretary of Sanitary Commission.
"EXPERIENCE TEACIIFS,!" is a wise proverb, and
recent events ought to impress it very deeply
upon the public mind. We have lost as much
from vanity and from self-confidence as from a
want of appr, ciation of our enemies. We forget
how long they have had the reins of power, and
how accustomed they have been to make the
mot of the power they possessed. In a com
mon war for common objects the south has al
ways shown that it had brave, skillful and ex
perienced men, and while Ihe North has devel
oped men of equal bravery and skill, it has not
been so devoted to arms. We have been con
tent to be rather a utilitarian people than oth
erwise, while the south ha; shown a love for
those arts and acquirements which belong to
the field, Each section of the country has had
its peculiar advantages and its particular train
ing, and all we mean to say is that one part of
it has been snore fond of the turf, the saddle,
the use of the gun, ball, and pistol than the
other. Climate has had more effect in making
the distinctions between us, and a difference of
institutions has not been without its influence
also, but had the condition or places of each
been changed, each would have taken the place
of the other without regard to climate or in
stitutions.
VIOLATION OF THE U. S. POSTAGE LAWS--
Notwithstanding the cheap postage as adopted
in this country, there are many who try to
evade its payment by sending gloves, collars,
handkerchiefs, seeds, &c., labelled as newspa
pers. So loosely have the affairs of the Post
office been managed for a few years, that but
few of these little delinquencies have been de
tected. The other day a package marked " one
newspaper," pad, was addressed to a produce
dealer in New England. Upon examination at
the Chicago Post office it was found to contain
two samples of flour, with orders how to sell
and at what price. The samples weighed less
than six ounces, and would only have cost six
cents in an envelope ; but the desire to save a
half dime is likely to entail disgrace and a
heavy fine from the government on the perpe
trators of this /Rae transaction.
IT IS REPORTED that evidence has been discov
ered, showing that before Jeff. Davis resigned
his seat in the United States Senate, he made
out a list of men who were to be made officers
in the rebel army. There is nothing very
strange in this report, either, because it was a
threat of The Southern Democrats of long stand_
ing, that if , the people of the country dared to
elect any man President of the United States
personally or politically obnoxious , to them,
they would dissOlve the Union. This threat
was the standing boast of every southern dele
gation in the Democratic National , Convention
for the last twelve years, and it has at length
been carried out. Hem : —We wonder if that
list contains the names of any of the valiant
Colonels who display their militaryardor through
the. columns of the Patriot, in giving aid and
comfort to Davis and his followers.
IT IS INTERESTING at this time to present, in
tabular form, the combined strength of the
three cities who have so nobly reponded to the
wants of the government :
Aug. 10. Aug. 13. Aug. 13.
, • New York. Boston. Philadelphia.
L 04113 $109.983,942 $61.138.000 524,064,070
Specie 48,630 116 6,412,000 6,796,140
Circe WW11... 8,730,483 6,450,000 2,074,009
Net Deposits.. 92,016,057 18,044 700 15,568,024
Here is an abundant evidence of the ability
of the banks to carry through what they have
undertaken. The specie strength of New York
alone-is nearly equal to that of the Bank of
England, (12,196,000) with immidiate proba
bility of its diminishing, as the course of our
foreign trade has every appearance of continu
ing to rule in our favor for some time to come.
THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT announces that
the states of New York and Pennsylvania will
be reimbursed for the sums of money advanced
for the equipment of regiments for the war.
The money will be paid in drafts on New York
and Philadelphia.
LARGE QUATITIES of ordinance, ammunition
and army stores are constantly going forward
to Washington. Twenty to thirty tons of shot
and shell are often sent from New York city
in a single day.
THE PRESIDENT AND THE CABINET.
One of the darling plans of those who are en
gaged in damaging the efforts to vindicate the
federal laws and authority, is to create the im
pression in the loyal, and impart the informa
tion to the rebel states, that there is a want of
unanimity in the consultation and actions be
tween the President and his Cabinet. If the
dough-face press and their traitor allies of the
Patriot and Union ilk can succeed in creating
this impression in the north or loyal states, they
hope to affect the credit of the government, and
thereby completely bankrupt the national
Treasury. By this means they expect to de
moralise the army, weaken our resources and
cripple our means of national defense against
the threatened incursions of the rebels not only
on the federal capital, but to the principalcom
mercial emporiums and cities of refinement and
prosperity in the loyal states. It is a deep laid
and well digested plan thus to give aid and
comfort to the enemy, and if our readers have
noticed the persistent zeal with which the Pa
triot and Union has insisted on these disagree
ments in the Cabinet, and the coarse and cow
ardly manner with which it has pursued and ma
ligned its individual members, they can at once
estimate the character it bears towards this unho
ly plot to bring further disgrace upon the coun
try by weakening the efforts of that country to
maintain its own authority. These miscreants in
thus assailing the harmony and unanimity of
the Cabinet, and insisting that there are dif
ferences existing in its councils which amount
to personal antagonism and objections to prin
ciples and policies, aim at the purpose of con
veying by falsehood the intelligence to European
courts, that the American government is totter
ing and reeling to destruction, unable to sustain
the weight of its own power, and unworthy the
respect and confidence of the powers of the
world. This is the work of that portion of the
Democratic press of the loyal states which sup
ported John C. Breckinridge for the Presidency,
and which are now seconding his efforts and
threats to destroy the administration of Abra
ham Lincoln. And if they can accomplish this
purpose, if they can brow-beat the free masses
of the north, and rob the ballot box of its power
and prestige, so that slavery is maintained in
its ancient force, and rebel traitors are allowed
to escape retribution, the country, the adminis
tration and our nationality may sink beneath
their feet and perish forever.
So far as the President and the Cabinet are
concerned, there never was more confidence be
tween any Executive and his legal advisers, and
never more reliance reposed by each in the other
as men, as individuals and as statesmen, that all
their efforts were for the general good and the
national safety. The head of each Department
devotes himself zealously to the work assigned
to him, and when each Secretary does this, he
finds himself surrounded by a daily accumula
tion of business which engages all his energies
and industry. They agree on the great princi
ple that this government has the power to pre
serve its own authority. They are proudly
conscious that they have been invested with
that power, and they are therefore determined
to preserve and maintain in all its force and
majesty, the authority which the rebellion was
created to destroy. This resolution, no longer
to be mistaken, annoys the northern secret ally
of traitors. It has aroused the determination
of the open sympathisers
Olir own midst, who
can do nothing more to frustrate the efforts of
patriotic men, than by casting doubton their pur
poses, or sowing discord in their councils. The
desperation with which these men pursue their
objects, exposes the mad zeal of the black
hearted villains, and sooner or later it will be
come the duty of loyal men in the free states,
to turn their sabres and their bayonets on those
in the free states who are now using their zeal,
perseverance and malice to damage the cause
of the Union.
As the President and Cabinet are a unit, so
are the people, on the subject of the war. As
the President and Cabinet labor zealously to re
deem the land from anarchy, to rescue business
from distraction, to save labor from perishing,
and to restore the Union to harmony, so are the
people zealous to sustain and support Abraham
Lincoln. The faith that is lacking for him is
evinced by the politicians who never supp3rt
that which they cannot control. It is the peo
ple who confide in the Cabinet. And when
they are thus assured of the harmony existing
between both the President and every member
of the Cabinet, and among them altogether
and individually, their confidence in the Gov
ernment is increased, their hopes in restoration
and vindication strengthened, and their faith in
the stability of free institutions placed beyond
doubt or dismay.
EVERY DAY demonstrates the necessity of dis
cipline among our troops, and the fact is no
longer questioned, that without it, our armies
are worthless, and with it, invincible. This
is shown in the condition in which the crack
regiments of Zouaves which lately returned
to New York. They had become demor
alized by a lack of discipline, and when
they returned to New York lately, their condi
tion was truly deplorable. The New York Ex
press says of-them that the few were compared
with the many ;: the Colonel who had given
them a name, was stricken low ; the woumded
were borne in carriages; the flag that waved so
gracefully three months before, looked soiled
and draggled. The crowd was not enthusiastic;
the men themselves must have bitterly felt the
change. But this is only one of the chances of
life, and especially of war. If it teach us a les
son, the great need of dicipline, the uselessness
even of strength and enthusiasm without that
moral force which only severe discipline can
produce either in the army or a regiment, the
contrast would not have been without its uses.
Let it be carefully noted and the lesson taken
to heart.
A HARTFORD paper remarks : "In reply to a
great many of our exchanges who hove the
question at the head of their leading columns,—
" '0 say, does that Star-Spangled Banner yet
wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of
the brave ?'
we would say, that up to date, it do:'
Tun Marts to Washington daily deposit in
the post office of that city, thirty. thousand let
ters for the volunteers stationed within and
around its limits.
pennopluanid Elatip ifttegrap4 fribap 'Afttrnoon, uguot 16. 1861.
THE PRACTICES OF THE PATRIOT.
When the corrupt old organization of the
democratic party was in power, the slavery in
fluence used it to oppress and degrade northern
labor. The constant cry against protection
and the consequent injury to the labor of the
free states, came always from the democratic
party. It maintained its administrations by
pandering to the slave power, and during every
single past democratic rule the institution of sla
very was more or less extended and enfranchised,
until its lusts for political power culminated in
the rebellion which is now in armed array
against the legitimate government of the coun
try. This is the result of the democracy preach
ed by the clique which control the course and
mould the sentiments of the Patriot. It is the
end of a policy that was inscribed upon its ban
ners last fall when it sought to make the traitor
Breckinridge President, knowing at the time
that he was colleaging and plotting with the
very men who have since achieved the tempo
rary disembursment of this Union. Since the
southern democracy can no longer control the
masses of the north, and hitch the conviction of
duty which the northern laboring man feels for
his country, to their own dogmas, creeds and
institutions, it has become the work of the
dough-faces such as control the Patriot to intim
idate opposition to the rebellion by declaring
that the objects of those who are struggling to
maintain the federal power, are to overthrow
the institution of slavery, to release the slave
and turn him loose on northern society Here
is the plan of the northern sympathiser with
treason. That which the south makes the mo
tive of rebellion, the northern dough face of
the Barrett and McDowell order make the ex
cuse for refusing to aid in suppressing such a
rebellion. And with this excuse they beseige
the public prejudice of the north, in ancient
democratic style, and with all thepeculiar force
of the erudite heads which preside over the col
umns of the Patrtot, they depend more upon a
misstatement and a false argument than they
do upon the truth, or the facts as they exist, for
the maintenance of their cause. They know
that they are creating false impressions when
they declare that the slave population of the
south is to be driven ou the people of the north—
they know that such an undertaking is a physi
cal and natural impossibility, but it suits the
purpose for which they now labor, and insures
the embarrassment of the federal administra
tion, while it gives aid and comfort to their
rebel friends and allies in the south.
The Patriot and Union knows that as the in
fluence and power of the institution of slavery
is crushed or suppressed, the hopes and even
the memory of democracy are bound to be
come extinct. They know that the advocates of
southern slavery and the tendencies of northern
dough-faceism such as maintained one of its pro
prietors in position as a committee clerk in the
United States Senate, brought about this rebel
lion, and-kowever they may seek to avoid it,
the wrongs that it has already inflicted upon
this nation, are to be traced alone to the orga
nization of the democratic party. Our labor
has been blighted by the same influence. It
made a renegade and ingrate of Dallas when
he was forced to defeat just and equitable reve
nue laws. It made a usurper of Buchanan,
when he sought to use his power to advance its
interests in all our territories—and now it make s
traitors of small men like Barrett and McDowell,
When it blends their zeal in favor of its own
exploded dogmas, and leads them into open re
bellion and sympathy with those who are con
spiring to destroy the only free government on
God's foot-stool •
—Such are the twistings and shiftings of the
folly and the vanity which still enliven the
rotten carcass of democracy in Pennsylvania.
THE PHIMENCE OF Wise is perfectly astound
ing, and it is refreshing in thes a hot-headed
times to find a man who feels it better to eat
his words than risk his head, who thinks glory
a poor compensation for life, and who regards
feet as much better than rifles, when danger is
near. The valiant Ex-Governor of Virginia,
when the sound of battle was afar off, was like
the war horse of Job, he " snorted," he "paw
ed," he cried " ha ha" at the sound of the cap
tains, but when face to face with the fire, like
Balaam's ass he wont go. In his oration last
June he said : "I rejoice in this war."—
" Though your pathway be through fire or a
river of blood, turn not aside." " Let your
aim be to get into close quarters, with a few
decided vigorous movements, always pushing'
forward, never back." The meaning of this
and much more of the same nature is learned
from Gen. Cox's brief despatch of August Ist.
" Wise fled without fighting, destroying the bridges
to prevent pursuit. We have captured a thousand
muskets and several kegs of cannon powder."
How are the mighty fallen !
A &MIT MISTAKE.-With this side head•the
Lancaster Evening Express exposes one of the
mistakes into which the blind folly and persis
tent opposition to the war for the Union, have
led our dough-face neighbors of the Patriot. It
shows how anxious the sympathisers with trea
son have become, and how ready they are to
use any means or pretext to place on record
their sympathies for the cause of rebellion :
The Harrisburg Patriot is very much pleased
with the portrait of the patriot and hero Gen.
Jackson, on one end of the new United States
Treasuary $5O notes, but fairly bursts with in
dignant disgust upon "recognizing " the "head
of Owen Lovejoy, the "Illinois aboitionist" on
the other end. A more careful look at that
head might have caused our cotemporary to
bottle his wrath. It happens to be the head of
Mr. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury—not Mr.
Lovejoy ! Such at least was the conclusion we
Arrived at the other day in looking at one of
these notes. The editor of the Patriot ought to
go down to Manassas and write proclamations
for Gen. Beuregard I
A Bna is before the rebel congress which
looks to the confiscation of all southern bonds
and evidences of southern state" indebtedness
which are not registered by a certain date as
the property of citizens of the confederate
states, or of citizens of nations at peace with
them.
A SPECIAL DISPATCH from Washington states
that the body of Colonel Cameron has bebn
properly interred by the enemy in the grave
yard of a, Methodist church near Stone Bridge.
BY THEM.
HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK
LATEST FROM WASHINGTON
The Sick and Wounded in the
Hospitals.
MILT fARY OVARAANERIP OF THE EWES-
APEAKE AND OHIO CANAL.
Appointment of Police Commissioners
The Destruction of Washington Con
templated by the Rebels,
THE REBEL ARMY OVERRATED
Sixty-nine lintineers Sent to Tortugas.
EAST TENNESSEE STRONG FOR THE
UNION
WASIIINGTON, Aug. 10
According to the official report there are in
the general hospital at Washington 88 sick and
wounded soldiers ; in Georgetown 291, and in
Alexandria 95. The mortality among such
patients is remarkably small.
iffea.ures have been adopted for a careful mi
litary guardianship throughout the entire line
of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. Many coal
and other boats are now on the route.
The President has appointed Richard Wal
lach, Joseph F. Brown and Zeena C. Robins, of
Washington, Wm. El Jenny, of Georgetown,
and Bayles J. Bowen, of Washington county, as
Commissioners of Police under the recent act of
Congress.
There is information through more than one
reliable source, that Jefferson Davis strongly
contemplates the invasion of Washington, nut
to hold the city, but to destroy it. He hesitates
not an inability to do it, but on the loyalty of
Maryland. Strenuous exertions are in progress
to secure a change of sentiment in favor of se
cession. That accomplished, the first move
men'
of his army would be upon the capital,
with the desperate determination to mete out
to it the fate of Hampton.
There is a strong propensity here, just now,
to over-estimate the merits 'of the rebel army,
as there was to underrate them, previous to the
battle of Bull Run. Many believe that they
are superior in efficiency to our own troops. It
is a very great mistake. Extensive and abun
dantly reliable evidence is at command proving
that, with the exception of a few heavy guns,
stolen from the United States armories and navy
yards, and a few officers who have, to their
everlasting disgrace, gone over from the Uni
ted States military and naval service, they are
deficient in everything essential to a successful
campaign, and vastly inferior to the Federal
army. They have, singularly enough, gained
one or two temporary victories—enough to make
them feel their inevitable overthrow doubly se
vere.
The sixty-six mutineers of the second Maine
regiment will, it is said, be sent to the Tortu
gas, where they will serve the remainder of
their term.
About forty of the New York Highlanders,
regarded as the principals in the insubordina
tion, are still in irons at the watch house, and
charges are being formally made out against
them.
The Pennsylvania Campbell Artillery regi
ment, the first of the kind organized in the
United States by volunteers, are vigorously at
work at their encampment, and aredrilled five
times each day.
Provost Marshal Porter has been placed spe
finally in charge of the bridges over the Potomac
and passes to cross them will h ereafter be ob
tained from him.
Major McMichael, of Philadelphia, has been
appointed an assistant Adjutant General, and
Assistant, Adjutant General McKeever has been
detatched from the stall of General McDowell
and ordered to duty on the staff of General
Fremont.
Hon. Horace Maynard has been returned to
Congress from the district adjoining that of T.
A. It. Nelson, who was arrested and imprisoned
at Richmond, . Mr. Maynard has been more
fortunate, and has succeede in reaching Wash
ington. The question is naturally asked why
we allow Breckinridge and others of his stripe
to go round the country making seditious
speeches and stimulating rebellion, while good,
honest Union men, elected legally to seats in
Congress, are arrested: and thrown into prison
by the enemies of the Union. Are not the au
thorities here amenable to the country for laxi
ty of exertion to stay the progress of rebellion ?
Mr. Maynard represents East Tennessee as
stronc , for the Union, and every man striving
to stay the tide of Secession which now threat
ens to part our country. The people are all
ready_ to take up arms, and ask for the aid of
the Government by a supply of arms, &c., with
a few leading spirits to direct their energies in
organizing a strong military force.
On the morning of the late battle in Missouri
the lowa regiment was entitled to be dis
charged, because their time had expired ; they,
however, voted enthusiastically to "hold on,
so long as there was any fighting to be done. , " They
have the thanks of a grateful country.
FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
FORTRESS - HORROR, Aug, 16
The steamers Adelaide and George Peabody
have arrived at Old Point from Baltimore and
will shortly leave on an important expedition.
The rumored presence of a privateer in the
elhesapeake was caused by one of our own
vessels belonging to Lieut. Crosby's expedition
to the eastern shore.
Gen. Butler is so well satisfied with the re
sults of La Mountain's reconnoissances that
the latter has gone north for a balloon of a
much larger size.
The report that the rebels beyond Fos Hill
have connected a wire with the telegraph line
from Old Point to Newport News, and thus ob
tained our dispatches, is entirely without foun
dation. The line is now being put in working
order, communication having been interrupted
since the evacuation of Hampton.
The U. S. frigate Cumberland has arrived
from Boston and will soon sail southward. The
gun boat Peaquin is up from the coast of North
Carolina. She obliged one vessel attempting
to run the blockade to beach herself ; the crew
escaped.
GEN. PILLOW RETURNING
NEW YORK, Aug. 15.
The Commercial has information that Gen.
Pillow broke up his camp at New Madrid on
Friday last precipitately, and moved back to
Randolph. Seven steamers were seized at Mem
phis on Thursday, and went to New Madrid,
bringing Pillow's command back, arriving at
Memphis. on Friday noon. During the inter
mediate time the passengers thatwere previous
ly on board the steamers were detained at Mem:-
phis, and suffered severely, numbers of sick
women and children being left subject to the
insults of the mob. The movement is supposed
to:haverMen made on account of the active
preparations of General Fremont at Cairo.
MORE GUERRILLA WARFARE.
THREE KEN KILLED AND ONE WOUNDED.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16
Yesterday — afternoon about half-past one
o'clock the steamer Resolute was ordered from
Aquia Creek to Mathias Point, for the purpose
of reconnoitering. Seeing a battery filled with
barrels on shore just below the point, a boat
was sent from the Resolute with six men to
bring off the batteau.
No sooner had the boat reached the beach
than a volley of musket balls was opened upon
them from a secession force concealed in the
woods, killing three men instantly, namely—
John James Fuller, of Brooklyn, master's
mate, who, it was subsequently ascertained,
was placed by ten balls%George Seymour, cap
tain of the gun, of New York, by seven balls ;
and Thomas Dully, of Boston, by two balls.
Earnest Walters, a native of England, is wound
ed in the head—it is feared fatally.
Another volley was fired by the enemy as
they moved their position or as soon as they
had time to reload.
. .
The Resolute was about seven hundred yards
from the shore and fired in the midst of the re
bels one shot of canister and nine of schrapnell,
with, it is thought, extensive havoc, while
other reports are positive to this effect.
The scene aboard the small boat is decribed
as heart sickening. The dead lying stretched
out in it covered with their own blood.
The boat was towed a short distance from the
shore by one of the crew named Sanderson, who
quietly slipped into the water for that purpose,
and thus concealed himself from the enemy.
The other uninjured man it is said lay iu the
boat stupified by the scene through which he
had just passed, while the wounded man helped
Sanderson to row the boat toward the Resolute,
from which assistance was immediately ren
dered. The enemy congratulated themselves
that they had killed the entire boat's crew.
The Resolute reached the navy yard last night
at eleven o'clock, bringing with her the dead
and the wounded man who has beensent to the
hospital.
FROM ALEXANDRIA
Court-Martial of Col. Miles-I?thel Signal Lights—
Gen. Heintzelman—Batteries on the Potomac—
Small Pox at Manassas.
ALEXANDRIA, Aug. 16
The trial, by court-martial, of Col. Miles,
charged with unofficerlike conduct on Centre
ville Heights, on the day of the battle of Bull
Run, is still progressing, the court being held in
the City Council chamber. The witnesses on
the part of the prosecution are not more than
half through. The counsul for Col. Richardson,
the complainant, is Lieut. Col. Lardner, of
troit, and for Col. Miles, Reverdey Johnson, of
Baltimore.
Last night, between 11 and 12 o'clock, the
rebel signal lights were plainly seen from here
in the direction of Fairfax Court House. They
were visible for nearly an hour.
General Heintzleman paid a visit to Alexan
dria to-day for the first time since the battle of
Bull Run. He is recovering slowly from the
wound he received at that time, and hopes soon
to assume the command of his brigade.
A scouting party of twenty-rebel cavalry
were seen yesterday, six miles from here, in
the direction of Mount Vernon.
Information, thought to be reliable, has been
received here that rebel batteries are being
erected at White House Point, and also at
Quantico, ten miles this side of Acquia creek.—
The steamer Pawnee suddenly steamed up last
night, and went down the river to make a
thorough reconnoissance.
The report that the small pox is raging to a
fearful extent at Manassas Junction is credited
here by Secessionists, and also by those in mili
tary authority.
Alexander M. Flowers, who was arrested on
the Bth of August, while making his way out
side of our lines, on the charge of being a spy,
had a hearing before the Provost Marshal, after
which he was sent to Washington. Flowers,
who was a clerk in the Census Bureau, was dis
charged on the 6th inst., and on the 7th he
wrote a letter to Mr. Russell, to whom he owed
board, stating that he was going to Richmond.
The next day he was arrested.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Passengers from Nashville report that the
military authorities of Tennessee are about to
prohibit the entrance of any kind of goods into
that State over the Louisville & Nashville Rail
road, and this is seemingly corroborated by the
Memphis advices to their agents to purchase no
more goods in Louisville at present.
For two or three nights past, wagons sup
posed to contain munitions of war, including
powder, have gone in the direction of Tenigies
see. For two nights the surveyor's posse were
overpowered. Last night the posse was in
creased, but the wagons were attended by cav
alry end got away. Measures are taken to pre
vent similar occurrences in future.
Muslim:is, Aug. 14.
A telegram from Hickman says that a battle
has occurred at Charleston, Mo., between Jeff.
Thomson's force and the Fremonters. The lat
ter were driven back with severe loss.
Two gun boats are now chasing the steamer
Equality, captured to-day by Captain James
Erwin, from Cairo.
A SECESSIONIST ARRESTED.
NEW YORK, Aug. 16
J. A. King, a Catholic priest, was last even
ing taken into custody and conveyed to the
Detective Police office by a number of excited
Germans, who alleged that he was a secession
ist. They charged that he entered the lager
beer saloon at the corner of Twenty eighth
street and Sixth avenue, where he partook of
lager beer with a number of volunteers, and
thn tried to induce them to desert their com
panies. He abused the Government outra
geously, contending that the Southern Confed
eracy ought to be recognized, and finally be
came so bold in his assertions as to enrage the
Germans, and they at once arrested him. Their
prisoner was detained at Headquarters for ex
amination.
PIRATE STEAMERS SEEN AT SEA
BOSTON, Aug. 6.
The whaler Jeremiah Swift arrived at New
Bedford last night from Penambucco, and re
port the British brig Alliance there. The Cap
tain of the Alliance saw three privateer steamers
in lat . 7-47 north, lon. 22.48 west. The British
mail steamer Tyne also reported seeing a pri
vateer steamer between Rio and Penambucco.
A BRITISH STEAMER RUNS THE BLOCK-
ADE
The British steamer Eastern State from Yar
mouth N. S., arrived to-day with 492 barrels
of spirits of turpentine and 431 bales of North
Carolina cotton, which it is presumed escaped
the blockade. It is said the owner of the tur
pentine will clear $17,000.
IN PURSUIT OF TB SIMITER
The steamer Keystone State arrived at Kings
ton the latter part of July and sailed August
Ist on a cruise for the rebel pirate Sumter.
COL. JAB. FREELAND, of Halifax town
t,„; ship, offers himself as a candidate for ASSESIBLY
at the ensuing election, tebject to the action of the Peo
ple's County Convention. He promises, it elected to dis
charge the duties of the office with fidelity.
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KEA,DQUARTETS, PENNSYLVANIA. MILITIA,
QUARTER-HAZTF.Ita DEPARTSIBNT,
HARRISBURG, Aug. 16, 1861.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this
office until 12 o'clock on the 22d day of
August, 1861.
For digging and walling one or more wells at
or near Camp Curtin..
Also for curbs, well buckets and fixtures com
plete.
Contractors will state in their proposals the
price per foot, and the time within which they
will do the work. R. C. HALE,
augl6-dlt. Q. M. G.
IRVING FEMALE COLLEGE,
MECHANICSBURG, PA.
(VIERS IrtPlitution chattered with fall c o l.
1., iate pow,r., will open its Fall Term on Wednes
day the 4th of Septemaer.
The anent ou of Parents hiving daughters to °dete
IS reFpec , fully invi.ed to this institution For catalogu e s
address. A. G MARL.tr.
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FOR PROTHONOTARY.
THE undersigned offers himself as a
candidate for the aloof Prothonotary &c., or h a ,.
phin county at the emoting election. He rug, Tes if nice.
led to perform tee duties of the office with ll.tetity.
augtb•d3twlt* J. U. YttuNG.
STONEWARE.
TOMATO BuTTLE . 3, APPLE i:UTTER
cßorKs, PREsERVE JARS, MILK PANS, CRK.all
AND NUTTER POTS, JOGS and all kinds or SPINE
WARE for sale at the Harrisburg Pottery, near the Car
Factory. Thus ware !s free from poisonous glaz ug, nor
does it abEorb and become foul like earth.uware, a
liberal discount made to storekeepers. Allorders prompt
ly attended to. J. W. COWOPN.
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VURNITURE FOR SALE.-A set of
FURNITURE of elegant pattern will be sold at a
reduced price. Also a BRUSSELS CARPET', THEE NINE
ENGRAVINGS, &c. Inquire at No. 93, Market Amt.
11 rriiburg, Aug 14, ISEL-41e •
POST OFFICE.
HARRISBITRO, August 12 1861.
The new style of Government Stamped En
velop es, is now ready and for sale at this office.
Exchanges will be made of the new style for
an equivalent amount of the old issue, during
a period of SIX days from the date of this no
tice, after which no letters under cover of the
old issue will be sent from this office.
GEO. BERGNER, P. M.
DlSmall Post Offices in the vicinity can ex
change their envelopes at this office.
ZOUAVE REGIMENT.
QOBER young men between the ages of
1,,j eighteen and dirty years, desirious of joining a
company to bc att,ched to the 'Leave regiment of Col.
(-Mode, can leave their names at the Exchange iu Walnut
street, ua stairs. Aug 2,1861 J WESLEY AWL.
Designers and EnoTavers on Wood
EXECIITE ail kinds of Wood Engraving
with beauty, correctrms and dispatch. Original
designs furnished for Fine Book 111uStrations. Persons
wishing cuts, by sending a Photogrtph or Iliga,reo, i.e.
can have views of Colleges, Churches, Store warts,
Machines, Stoves, Patents, tte., engraved as well en per
sona( application.
. _
Fancy Envelopes, Labels, Bill Readings, bow mils,
Visiting, Business and other Card.; engray. , l al he
highest style of art, and at trio lowest prices.
For specimens of fine engraving, see the timpiraied
works of J. B. Lippincritt di CO.. E. H. r
oct26 lyd
THUNDER AND LIGHTNING.
[IRE vast amount of property destroyed
X manually by Lichtning ought to be a warning to
property holden to secure their butiatn4s. .1.11 °mere
Car Lightning Rods left at the auction store el W. BARR,
will be attended to.• Ruda put up in the latest improved
yle and warranted. jeli d
• FOR SALE 1
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A BUILDING LOT, situate in West Rat
risburg, frOutingW2l Bru.decrect 20 lent, and run
ning back 161 feet, more or 1038, to a. 20 font allay , sd
joiaing on ono Hide the property or Mr. Blutnouttine.
Por particulars enquire SC111,1,111It„a
Berguer'e Booi:etose.
May 8,1801. my 9
LOITISVIIM, Aug. 15
WHEREAS, the Honorable JOUN J.
PRA RSON, President of the Court of COIIIIIIOII Pleas
in the Twelfth Judicial District, consisting of the ceilidh - 8
of Lebanon and Dauphin, and the Ron. A. 0. [Lena
and Hon. Faux ginstni, Associate Judges in Dauphin
county, having issued their precept, be,ring dale the
fourth day of June, 1861, to me directed, ler 1101Slisg
a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail pert very
and Quarter Sessions of the Peace at darrisburg, for the
county of Dauphin, and to commence ow ma 4ril Max.
DAY OF AUGUST MM. being the 261 e DAY OF AUGUST 1861,
and to continue two weeks.
Notice is therefore hereby given to the Coroner, Jus
tices of the Peace, Aldermen, and Constables of the said
county of Dauphin, that they be then and there in their
proper persons, at 10 o'clock: in the forenoon of said day,
with their rewards, inquisitions, examinations, and their
own remembrances, to uo those things which 'to their
calico appertains to be done, and those who are bound
in recognizandes to p tosecute against the prisoners th.it,
are or shall be in the Jail of Uituphiu county, be then
and there to prosecute against them as shall be ju-t.
Given under my band, at Harrisburg, the Slot day of
bJuly, In the year of our Lord, 1801, and in the eighty
fifth year of the independence of the United States.
SURGEON DENTIST'
jAFFERS his services to the ,citizeus o
jr Harrisburg and its vicinity. He solicits a share o
the public patronage, and gives assurance' that his best
endeavors shall be given to render entic.factionin his pro
fession. Being an old, well tried dentist, he feels safe in
nviting the public generally to ....ill on him, assuring
hem that they will not be dissatisfied with his services,
Office No. 128 Market street, in the house formerly oc
cupied by Jacob R. Eby, near the United States Hotel,
Harrisburg, Pa mvB,ll v
IMPORTED BOLOGNA . SA.IISAGE.-ii
very rare lot just received and for sale by
spfi WM. DOCY .111 Ai CO
BOSTON, Aug. 16
A.QUANTIT Y of Bags, Checks and Ging -
hams for sale by the dozen oral piece, cheap for
cash, at the DACIPaIN G.nl U rY mYB-30
isfmtuattotart May A. 1861.
C RAB CIDER 1 1 I --Strictly pure, spark
N.,,/ bog and sweet—has received a Silver Medal or Di
ploma at every State Agricultural Fair since 1856. For
ale by / tell-d WM . DOC}C At CO
NEW Yoßx, Aug. 16
CIDER II I VINEGAR . ! I I
MADE from choice and selected Apples,
111. and guaranteed by ns to bestrictly pure.
au-st wm.. DOCK di CO.
New libvertisements.
FOR ASSEMBLY
SEALED PROPOSALS
VAN INGEN & SNYDER,
N. E. COB. FIFTH & CHESTNUT STS.,
Philadelphia.
PROCLAMATION.
J. D. BOAS, Sheriff
&MIFF'S OFFICE
Harrisburg, July 31.1861.}
DR, T. J. MILES,
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