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THE UNION--THE CONSEITUTION—ANE
TEE ENFORCEMENT OF Mb.; LAW.
HARRISBURG, PA.
Thursday Afternoon, October 10, 1861.
THE LESSON OF TEE ELECTION.
The failure of the Whig party to rule for any
length of time, was not in its principles, but in
the treachery of those who had been elevated
to power by its influence, and who betrayed its
trusts to subserve their own personal interests,
or the behests of other political organizations,
to which they once owed allegiance, and whose
prejudices and control they could not renounce.
Had it not been for this treachery when Harri
son died, the administrations which followed
would have based their policy on the doctrines
of the Whig party, because that party organiza
tion was broken op and destroyed bythe treach
ery of John Tyler, an old locofoco, then Vice
President by the indulgence of the Whig party,
and now a traitor by the indulgence of his own
feelings. We quote this incident in the history
of the Whig party, its rise to power, its pros
pects then, and its miserable betrayel by those
who existed only by its recognition, to illus
trate a lesson which is being inculcated by those
who are prominent in the Republican ranks, '
and those who have been most bountifully cared
for by its patronage. The lesson of Tuesday
last revives with mournful force the memory
of the fate of the once glorious and intellectu
ally powerful Whig party. Our defeats in cer
tain localities, remind us of the ingratitude
which cursed the last throes of that mighty or
ganization ; and thus by the inculcations of the
present, the Republican organization is fear
fully warned that the same path, tortuous, dark
and uncertain, has been opened to it, through
which its honest masses will be forced to
tread, vainly battling for their princi
ples, until, like the gallant men who
clung to the Whig party as long as there
was a virtue left to animate them, they be
come absorbed in every fag end of faction that
conspires to destroy them. and usurps the au
thority of the administration which their pow
er and labor ereated. No man, who observed
the influences brought to bear in the election on
Tuesday, can deny that there were both treachery
and ingratitude at work to defeat the Republi
can party, by those,too, who had received posi
tion solely because they belonged to its organ
ization, and not, we blush to admit the fact,
that they posssessed either personal me rite or
integrity or business qualifications superior to
thousands of good men who are steadfast in
their devotion to the Republican party.—
And yet these men, the men whom we
allude too, are now in position, lording
it over their underlings, lining their pockets
with wealth, and arrogantly assuming to them
selves that they are exempt from obligation to
the sublime principles of the glorious Republi
can organization. They yield to the cry of our
foes to break up our organization, because they
yearn for mischief of this description. They
accept any truce that the scheming of desperate
politicians can suggest, because they have no
attachment for our principles, and are as ready to
strike them down and destroy our organization, as
John Tyler was to strike down the organization of
the Whig party, pollute its sanctuaries with the
presence of men who had outraged its principles,
and disgrace its shrines with inscriptions of
lococoism, where the pure and sublime princi
ples of the Whig party should have been alone
emblazoned.
We appeal to the masses of the Republican
party, whether they will submit to this treach
ery. In their hands is reposed the power to
crush it out, and from their judgment must
emenate the correction of these wrongs. W e
have principles to contend for, and a party or
ganization to maintain, which are dependent
upon the success and strength of each other.—
If we intend to succeed hereafter as a party, and
therefore also triumph with our principles, we
must make our party organization as pure as
our principles, by bestowing its patronage upon
those only who will respect their obligations,
and acknowledge their binding force when the
hour of political trial arrives, and when we, as
a party, are before the country contending for
those principles upon which that country only
can prosper and progress in peace. If we fail to
do this, our brightest victories will also become
failures. If we bestow our favors on those who
have the disposition to betray either our organi
zation or our principles when their own caprices
may dictate or the temptation of locofocoism
may invite, we are left with little encourage
ment to urge honest men to cling to that
organization, and less faith to imbue ourselves
with devotion to its success. We must lje frank,
in an hour like this, when our country is in
danger and the hope of its salvation menaced.
Wo must be bold when treason puts on the
robes of power, struts before our face, and dic
tates our line of duty in adherence to our poli
tical organization and our principles. If we fail
to be thus frank and bold, we fail in our duty
to that great political organization, the Repub
lican party, of which we profess to be an honest
but an humble advocate. And if those who
are still higher in power than the men who
thus strike at our organization, fail to check the
evil, the time may come when the blows which
are now directed at the nominations of our
party, will be aimed at the federal administra
tion itself, and the power and patronage Abra
ham Lincoln was elected to wield and bestow
for the good of his country, be made the cor
rupt forces and the damnable influence of dis
gracing himself and destroying his country.
The initial step in this has already been taken.
Some of the very men whom he has elevated to
power and enriched with patronage, have
struck the blow tending to this disgrace and
destruction, and therefore we have no right to
hope that these men will refrain from progres
sing in their crimes and their ingratitude, until
they find themselves arrayed against the fed
eral authority, co-belligerants with the rebels
of the south, and ready with them to humiliate
its power and its majesty.
Let the administration be warned in time of
the subordinates who are fattening on its boun
ty. Let the honest men of the Republican par
ty join us in our protests against those who
have gained power by our victories,that they may
become rich in money and prolific in meanness.
We are for the Republican organization—its
purity and its principles—and they can only be
preserved by compelling those who wield its
power and emjoy its patronage, to respect the
will of its majorities, and support the candida
tes of its choice. If this is nut done, we may
as well go into political chaos with the political
factions of the land, and join the rebels in their
robberies and assassinations.
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A NOBLE AND PIOUS EXAMPLE IN A
PATRIOTIC WORK.
One of the most cheering evidences of the
strength of our cause in this contest, is the fact
that men of all classes are ready to do what
they can to aid the general success. When a
requisition is made for men, work ends and
workmen hasten to the camp. When an ap
peal is made for money, the credit of the gov
ernment rises in the market, and its coffers are
filled to overflowing before the appeal has ceased
to be read or heard by the people. These re
sponses for financial aid have perhaps developed
the loyal disposition of the people in a more
advantageous light, than any proclamation that
has yet been made for men, simply because
muscle is readier to engage in a contest than
men are to risk their money—and however
much we may disguise the fact, the rich have
contributed the least towards the greatness and
glory of this country. But they are making
amends now for the part, and that in which
they had not a fair share in creating, they are
certainly exerting an equal influence and con
tributing a fair share for its preservation.
Among those who have stood foremost as a
class, and who have contributed as largely as
any other in the community, towards the suc
cess of our arms and the maintenance of our
armies, are the clergymen of the loyal states.
Among these men there may be individual ex
ceptions; but these are few and far between, and
are disposed of, either by a full recantation of
the treason when indirectly uttered, or in a
yielding to the force of popular opinion, by ac
quiescing in the true terms of loyalty and the de
mands of patriotic devotion. In all the land,
too, there are none more patriotic among the
clergymen, than those who preach from the
loyal pulpits of the state capital of Pennsylva
nia, if we except one or two mistakes which
the hasty zeal of some unaturally lead them
into, and which were naturally and promptly
corrected by the interference and influence
of the TELEGRAPH. The clergymen of Harris
burg now set their brother pastors of the land
a noble example in offering to contribute a por
tion of their salaries in subscriptions to the na
tional loan. This subject was fully discussed at
a late meeting of the Pastoral Class of Harris
burg, during which the sentiment was avowed
that while many of the pastors were unable to
take up arms in defence of the country, they
could all contribute a portion of their salary, at
least, to the support of those who were engaged
in such a defence. It was resolved among these
clergymen of Harrisburg at once to enter on ar
rangements for this purpose, and we have
deemed this noble resolution worthy of this
public notice, if it does not in the end receive a
higher and a purer recognition than any which
men can offer, because the cause of our bleeding
country, like the cause of religion, has its in
terests iu Heaven as well as on earth !
Mr. Russell's Letters.
We copy the following from Mr. Russell's
letters to the London Times, one of which is
dated at Washington, September 6th, and the
other September 10th :
FREMONT'S PROCLAMATION
Major General Fremont's proclamation has
driven a wedge not only into the fine piece of
Cabinet work at Washington, but into the whole
substance of the Union party. It did not need
any such appliance to cause fissures in either,
for there were, and are, deep rents and cracks
in these fabrics, built up, as they are, of bits of
different platforms, which all the Union glues
and the varnishes of the politicians could neither
eventually cement no conceal. A system of
ostracism and the liberal use of Lafayette once
introduced, it is hard to say where the result
may end, or when those who enjoy the power
will become philosophers enough to deny them
selves the exquisite pleasure of sending off an
opponent at an election or a possible rival to
the seclusion of the strict retreats, where he
may reflect on the errors of his way, and repent
him of the evil he has done.
RUSSELL'S VIEW OF OUR PRESIDENT AND CABINET
I do not attach any importance whatever to
rumors, but it is within my own personal knowl
edge that serious personal dislikes exist between
the members of the Cabinet. The President in
the main cultivates the intimacy, and perhaps
approves the councils of Mr. Seward, but he is
exhibiting a rude vigor of his own—rude be
cause it is displayed openly—which proves that
he can reduce his Cabinet to what it really is
according to the American theory—a mere board
of heads of departments, who may be asked
their opinions of any matter as amid curia: by
the President, or who may be put on one side if
he pleases. Mr. Seward, wise, in his genera
tion, confines his attention to the onerous busi
ness of his own department, but others of his
colleagues distinguish themselves by an unlucky
assiduity in tormenting themselves with the
affairs of departments which do not belong to
them, and "everything by turns and nothing
long" are the teredos of every plank in the ship
of state. Mr. Lincoln, who has a right to go
everywhere, (and do anything he likes ap
parently,) evinces a solicitude natural enough
in all that is going on in the arm, the
navy and the other branches of the public
service, and has latterly turned his atten
tion to the subject of big guns and ordnance.
It would surprise an Englishman whose
notion of the functions of a President, founded
on the popular idea that they were those of a
milder sort of chief magistracy than that which
we have the happiness to possess, probably re
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stricted his powers to that of veto or approval
by signature of acts of Parliament and the send
ing of messag es , to be told that Mr. Lincoln is
not only head of the army and navy, but that
in such questions as the propriety of relieving
FOrt Sumpter by a military and naval expedi
tion the Illinois lawyer studied books, heard
arguments on both sides, and finally determin
ed on the course to be pursued. Pray observe
with what subtlety the southerners have acted,
in the language they have used in familiar cor
respondence and in the press, when speaking of
the United States. They never mention the
name of the ex-Great Republic. The United
States army is to them. "Lincoln's mercena
ries," the United States' navy is "Lincoln's war
ships," and so on through all thesvarieties of
Lincoln's "hordes," "barbarians," "Yankees,"
"savages," &c., they endeavor to fix on the
President the direct personal responsibility of
the whole conflict, and to restrict the agents he
uses in waging it to the Yankees of the New
England States.
The mass of the South are fighting for a
Union of their own, to which they have insen
sibly transferred their loyalty and their national
feeling, which unquestionably is great, in the old
flag, and believe they arc fighting against an
alien enemy—one Abraham Lincoln—who is
aided and abetted by the powers of darkness
and their Yankee co-efficient. And yet I have
reason to believe Mr. Lincoln is one of the most
moderate men in the section of his own cabinet
which looks to internal politics, and that in the
present distracting discussions he generally in
clines to the view that the North is not ma
king a war against slavery, and that the re
sult of her success need not to be the libera
tion of the negro. Mr. Blair, who is a
downright covenanter of the American sort,
and with whom the southern slaveholders
are sons of Belial—"a sword of the Lord
and Gideon " man, who could smite
the Philistines hip and thigh from the rising
to the going down of the sun—and several
hours after—with a grim satisfaction in being a
chosen instrument—l speak, of course, meta
phorically, and not physically—has a great in
fluence, derived from the clearness of his head,
his persistency, and the rigidity of his princi
ples, among his party ; but his doctrines would
most likely end in confining the United States
to the original New England settlements or in
establishing a dictatorship resting on bayonetts.
What prefacy, Popery and monarchy were to
the men of the first Covenant, southern rights,
slavehokling included, are to Mr. Blair. Nor
are they less so to Mr. Chase, who possesses,
ofter all, the largest and most solid brain in the
Cabinet, but who had no objection at one time
to let the South go if it liked, believing that the
system on which it was founded must be in the
end, and that not distantly, the 'means of in
flicting a punishment and vengeance on the se
ceding states far more terrible than any either
the army or navy of the North could execute.
It may readily, then, be imagined how Gen.
Fremon's proclamation increases the difficulty
and augments the animosities whiem exist in
tilt sections of the Cabinet. Lest it might be
supposed that the law confiscating slaves who
had been employed by their masters against the
United States in any way, which congress passed
at the last moment, and which the President
signed so reluctantly, has been 'taken by Gen-
Fremont as his authority for the edict he has
put forth, it may be as well to point out that he
goes so far beyond the terms of the statute as to
liberate the slaves of masters who are in rebel
lion against the government, and so far as his
district extends, therefore, he would, if success
ful, liberate nearly all the slaves, because there
can be but little doubt that a vast number of
the masters in the South are in rebellion
against the government of the United
States. To the democrats of the North,
who are at this instant talking of "guaranties"
for the South, and the revision of the Constitu
tion in the same breath in which they speak of
the vigorous prosecution of the war for the
Union and denounce secession as revolution,
the doctrine, founded as it is on the undefined
powers of martial law, must be particularly ob
jectionable. It may be a bold stroke of General
Fremont to attach to himself a coherent mass
of the Republicans, or it may be a simple act of
war without any arriere pewee. At all events, it
is embarrassing. The Commander of the forces
in the West is an ambitious, bold and enter.
prising man, but it will surprise me to find he
proves a very great man. Re is profuse in ex
penditure, energetic in action and speculative
in plans, but still I doubt whether he can effect
all that is expected of him with the materials
at his disposal.
0811, OBSTACLES AND ENCOUBAGEACENTS
It will require success in war and great dex
terity to make Kentucky safe for the Union ;
great still to recover Missouri, in spite of the
extreme weakness, feebleness and ignorance of
the Confederate leaders, and their inability to
turn their advantages to account. The war of
the colonies with Great Britain must have been
conducted very much in the same fashion on
both sides. The vast size of the states and the
enormous distances to be traversed render it im
possible for mere fighters to do anything except
kill and wound each other in a guerilla war, till
a leader, some soldier who knows something
about the A B C of his profession rises up and
reduces the efforts of his followers to a systema
tic mode of warfare. It is pitiable to see the
Union distracted as it is, but I.fear the condi
tion of things will become worse instead of
better.
THE RETIREMENT OF TIM REBEL LINES.
All that can be seen or heard leads to the
belief that the confederates are preparing for
some great effort, and that they have retired
portions of their force from before Washington,
either as a device to blind their antagonist
while making it, or to co-operate with the rest
of the army by a serious demonstration above
and below the city. If the confederates have
moved, they mean to do some mischief. They
can scarcely retire and hope to make a better
leap by doing so. In inactivity on both sides,
coupled with prodigious expenditure, are the
best if not the only chance of compromise and
peace. Success on either side revives the hopes
of complete ultimate triumph of the one, and
stimulates the animosity and the display of the
resources of the other. There is one thing to
be taken into consideration as an element of
peace. During the winter the armies must go
into quarters. Even so far south as Virginia
the weather is frequently vey severe, snow lies
many teet deep on ..thee ground for weeks at
a time. The Potomac is occasionally frozen
over completely. The roads, always indif-.
ferent, become rivers of mud and slush, through
which it would be nearly impossible to move
men or guns or baggage. When the armies
are in winter quarters, will the politicians work
for peace or war? Or will the leaders of divi
sions be permitted to carry on operations in the
ice and snow, remembering the great success of
Washington, after the traject, which is so often
represented in bad engravings all over North
America? It is obviously the interest of Beau
regard to strike a great blow before winter sets
in, and thus strengthen the base for negotiations;
but General McClellan, I am satisfied, will not
move a man if he can help it until the very end
of this mouth or the beginning of October.
About that time there will be kind inquiries
about the second fifty millions of the loan, and
no doubt increased vigor on the part of those
opposed to the war. But if General McClellan
obtains any very considerable victory, and is
able to break through the shell with which the
Confederates have covered their soft parts in the
interior of the states, some measure short of
secession and independence may satisfy them ;
and when they are menaced with destruction,
they may put up with an offer to live on fair
terms with their conquerors. It is to be seen
whether the latter will then offer them what
hey might have easily obtained at an earlier
tage of hostility.
LINCOLN, BLAIR AND CHASE
FREMONT AND HIS PROCLAMATION
BY TELEGIthi.
From Fortress Monroe.
Exchange of Shots with the Pig
Point Battary.
TROOPS TO TO BE QUARTEREA AT OLD
POINT AND NEWPORT NEWS.
FORTRESS MONROE, OCt. 9
Brig. Gen. Williams has not yet left for Hat
teras Inlet. The revenue cutter Corwin having
been detained by the severe gale now prevail
ing.
The tug Young America while engaged in
sound the channel of the James river yesterday
exchanged a few shots with the Pig Point bat
tery. Several shells exploded'near the tug but
did no harm
The Union gun is now mounted so as to sweep
the roads between the fortress and Sewell's
Point.
Gen. Wool and Quartermaster Tallmadge
have recommended to the Quartermaster-Gen
eral the quartering of the troops at Old Point
and Newport News for the winter, and that,
comfortable wooden houses be built so as to
accommodate two or three companies each.
This plan will doubtless be adopted.
Later From Washington.
ADVANCE OF THE ARMY TO LEWINSVILLE.
FURTHER, WITEDRA.WAL OF THE ENEMY.
Reconnoisance by Gen. McClellan.
CAPTURE OF REBEL CAVALRY,
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10
About six o'clock yesterday morning the di
vision under command of General Wm. F.
Smith, at Chain Bridge, advanced, and occu
pied prominent positions in the neighborhood
of Lewinsville.
On the advance arriving at Langley's, which
has hitherto been the outposts of our army, the
division was divided, a portion of them con
tinuing up the Little Rock run turnpike, and
occupying Prospect Hill, the other part of the
division taking the new artillery road, and oc
cupying Smoot's and Maxwell's Hills, a mile
and a half this side of Lewinsville.
The batteries were drawn up on prominent
positions, and the infantry placed in situations
to support them. After remaining about three
hours waiting in vain for the rebels to make an
attack—in fact inviting them to it—our slur
mishers advanced and occupied Lewinsville, the
rebel forces retiring.
Lewinsville will beretained as well as the
other positions taken by our forces to-day.
A portion of the troops under Brigadier Gen
eral Porter also advanced and occupied Miner's
Hill, to the right of Fall's Church, and com
manding that village and Barrett's Hill, which
latter is now in the possession of the rebel
pickets.
General McClellan and his staff, accompanied
by Capt. Barker's McClellan dragoons, crossed
over Chain Bridge early this morning, spending
the whole day in making reconnoissances of the
new positions taken by the Eederal forces.
Yesterday afternoon Captain Balmy, of the
Twenty-fouth New York Regiment, advanced
three miles beyond Falls church, on the Lees
burg turnpike, with ten men, where he sur
prised a picket guard of eight of Col. Stewart's.
Three of them were killed, and one taken pris
oner. They alsocaptured five horses, equipped,
thirteen navy pistols, four sabres, one carbine,
and one telescope. The horse killed was a
white one, which has been often seen by our
pickets, and it is believed to have belonged to
Captain Powell, of Stewart's Cavalry. The
capture took place within half a mile of a rebel
encampment.
So sudden wag the descent of Captain Barney
upon the rebels, and so much were they fright
ened, that they had not time to draw their pis
tols. Only two horses out of the eight escaped.
PROM MISSOURI,
Sr. Louis, Oct. 9.
The Memphis papers publish a proclamation
from Ben. McCulloch to the people of Arkansas,
dated Sept 25, asking for three regiments im
mediately to serve for one year.
Dispatches from Fort Smith, Ark., say Ben
McCulloch , is in want of men, his present force
being only 3,500 strong. This would seem to
prove that McCulloch is still alive.
The officers of the Fremont Light Guard deny
that the recruiting officers of that regiment
closed the rendezvous on the announcement of
the removal of General Fremont, and state that
enrolments are going on rapidly.
JEFFERSON CITY, Oct. 9.—The surrender of the
Federal camp near Hermann, reported this
morning, proves not to have been so serious
an affair as at first stated. Colonel Matthews
simply abandoned his camp on the approach of
the rebels, and retired to Hermann without
loss of any kind. The three cannon mentioned
in a previous dispatch belonged to the rebels.
Colonel Harding now telegraphs from Her
mann that he has no apprehensions of an at
tack on that place, and that the Gasconade and
Osage bridges are well guarded and secure
against the rebels.
ARRIVAL OF DR. HAYES' POLAR EXPE-
DITION
HALIFAX, Oct. 9.
Dr. Hayes' Polar expedition arrived here
this morning in the United States. The party
are all well. Two have died—August Sontaug,
the astronomer, and Gibson Caraltes.
Dr. Hayes reached Smith's Straits on the 25th
of Auemst last year, but could not penetrate
the strait with his vessel either last season or
this, He wintered at Port Foulke, near Cape
Alexander, and with a dog-sledge reached lat
itude 81 degrees, 35 minutes on May 18th of
this year.
THE STATE ELECTION.
Lowry, the radical Republican candidate, has
been elected to the State Senate over the Union
candidate in the Twenty-seventh Legislative
District.
MUNICIPAL ELECTION AT BALTIMORE
UNION TRIUMPH.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 9.
The election for members of the City Councils
to-day was quietly conducted. The Secession
ists made no opposition. The total vote polled
was 9,587, and the whole Union ticket was
elected without opposition, save a few scatter
ing votes.
This vote exceeds by 338 the Secession vote
of last April, by which the members of the
Legislature,now in Fort Lafayette,claimed their
scats.
RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS BY
THE PITTSBURG BANKS.
PITTSBURG, Oct, 9.
All the banks in this city have resumed specie
payments.
AFFAIRS AT HATTERAS
Official Account of the Engagement
WASIIINOTON, Oct. 9.
The following despatches were received to
night the Navy Yard :
Sin :—Late in the afternoon of the 4th inst.
I received information that the enemy had
landed a large force at Chicominica and Kine
Beet, and that the Indiana Regiment posted
there was in full retreat before them ; also that
our three tugs in the inlet were aground or
disabled. The steamer Fanny had been cap
tured the day before.
I at once got under way the ship and the
Monticello and anchored for the night close to
shore, in Hatteras cove. At daybreak, I found
our troops in and about the light house, and in
distress for want of provisions, which they had
been without for twenty-four hours. I supplied
them with food, and, at the request of their
commanding officer remained for their protec
tion during the day.
Learning that the enemy were still in large
force at ine Beet, I sent the Monticello to
drive them off, which important service was
performed by Lieutenant Commanding Braine,
with great effect and good conduct. His report
is enclosed.
I am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. LATIMER, Captain.
To Flag-Officer L. M. Goldsborough, etc., etc.
UNITED STATES SHIP MONTICELLO,
Off Cape Hatteras, N. C.,
October, 5, 1861.
SIR : I have the honor to inform you that in
obedience to your order of this morning, I stood
through the inner channel of Hatteras shoals at
12.30 p. in., and stood close along shore to the
northward, keeping a bright lookout from aloft.
At 1.30 p. m. we discovered several sailing
vessels over the Woodland Kine Keet, at the
same time a regiment marching to the north
ward, carry a rebel flag in their midst, with
many stragglers in the rear ; also two tugs in
side flying the same flag.
As they came out of the woods at Kine Keet,
we ran close in shore and opened a deliberate
fire upon them at the distance of three-quarters
of a mile.
At our first shell, which fell apparently in
their midst, they rolled up their flag and scat
tered, moving rapidly up the beach to the
northward. We followed them, firing rapidly
from three guns, driving them up to a clump of
woods, in which they touk refuge, and abreast
of which their steamer lay.
We now shelled the woods, and could see
them embarking in small boats for their vessels,
evidently in great coonfuslon, and suffering
greatly from our fire.
Their steamers now opened fire upon us, fir
ing, however, but three shots, which fell short.
Two boats, filled with men, were struck by our
shots and destroyed. Three more steamers were
down the Sound, and took a position opposite
the woods. We were shelling also two sloops.
We continued firing deliberately upon them
half-past one o'clock P. M. until half-past three
P. M., when two men were discovered on the
sea-beach making signals to us. Supposing
them to be two of the Indiana regiment, we
sent an armed boat and crew to bring them off,
covering them at the same time with our fire.
Upon the boat nearing the beach, they took
to the water. One of them (private Warren 0.
Haven, of Company H, Twentieth Indiana
Regiment,) was successful in reaching the boat.
The other man, private Charles White, Com
pany H, Twentieth Regiment, Indiana troops,
was unfortunately drowned in the surf.
Private Haven informed me that he was taken
prisoner on the morning of the 4th, and that
he witnessed our fire, which was very destruc
tive. He states that two of our shell fell into
two sloops loaded with men, blowing the vessels
to pieces, and sinking them ; also that several
of the officers were killed. Their horses were
seen running about the beach. He had just
escaped from his captors after shooting the
captain of one of the rebel companies. He
states that the rebvls were in the greatest con
fusion, rushing wildly into the water, striving
to get off to their vessels.
Private Haven now directed me to the point
where the rebels were congregated, waiting an
opportunity to get off. I opened fire again with
success, scattering them. We were now close
in three fathoms of water, and our shell told
with effect.
Six steamers were now off the Point one of
which I recognized as the Fanny.
At 5.25 p. m. we ceased firing, leaving the
enemy scattered along the beach for upwards of
four miles. I fired repeatedly at the enemy's
steamers with our rifled cannon, a Parrott 32-
pounder, and struck the Fanny, I think, once.
I found the range of the piece much short of
what I had anticipated, many of the shot turn
ing end over end, and not exceeding much the
range of the smooth-bore 32-pounder.
I enclose herewith the memorandum of the
ammunition expended to-day.
I am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Lieutenant D. S. BRAINE,
Commandim , b U. S. steamer Monticello.
To Captain J. L.Lardner, commanding U. S.
steamer Susquehanna, off Cape Hatteras, N.C.
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 9.
The city is quiet. No news has been ieceiv
ed from below
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 9.—The Richmond Enquirer,
of the 28th ult., says the privateer Sumter
coaled at Trinidad on the 14th September.
The Nashville Unien and American, of the 2d
inst, says two gentleman arrived last evening
from Fontras county, who report the Union
men there as very refractory, and that have
killed four or five secessionists and the county
sheriff.
Jeff. Davis had not returned to Richmond up
to the ad inst.
The Evansville (Ind.) Journal says that Col.
Harris, a rebel officer, has been arrested at Pa
ducah, Kentucky.
The steamer Curlew, loaded with wheat and
tobacco, ran into sunken fiat-boats on Saturday
and sunk. The loss, which amounted to $50,-
000, was uninsured.
The New Orleans Picayune asks the city au
thorities to extend the chain of forts to the Ba
lize, and says the taking of Washington or oc
cupation of Maryland is of no consequence com
pared with the loss of New Orleans, and the se
curity of the cotton and tobacco there.
The Marlboro, (Md.) Gazette says the tobacco
crop has been materially injured by the August
rains.
ERIE, PA., Oct. 10
Expected Attack on Paducah, Ken
tucky---Our Troops Preparing.
, Oct. 9.
The Cairo correspondent of the CHICAGO
Tribune says
advices from Paducah represent that the troops
there are preparing for the reception of the
rebels, who, in heavy force, are said to be ad
vancing against that place. The women and
children have been sent away, and everything
indicates an approaching struggle.
General McClernand will issue to morrow a
proclamation closing all the drinking and gam
bling houses in Cairo.
The returns from the election in lowa, yes
terday, come in slowly. Those received indi
cate the election of Kirkwood (Republican,) for
Governor,
I=l
UNITED STATES SHIP SUSQUEHANNA, /
OFF HATTERAS INLET, Oct. 6, 1861.
FROM KENTUCKY.
FROM CAIRO.
THE lOWA ELECTION.
CLUCAGO, Oct. 9
SEIZURE OF THE BARK TEXAN STAR.
BOSTON, Oct. 9.
The bark Texan Star was seized to-day
charged with landing a cargo of powder at Gal_ ,
veston, and returning to Liverpool, with a
cargo of cotton, running the blockade both
ways since the war. She arrived to-day from
Liverpool.
Dirb
Is this city, yesterday evening, October 9, lis. g .
!'Assns, aged sixty-sine years.
[The funeral will take place to-morrow (Friday,) al
o'clock, P. M., from the house of E. Byers, to wh:cii,
her
relative and friends are respectfully invatv,t to attend.
3. R. INGERSOLL'S
PATENT
FOUNTAIN HAIR-BRUSH
•
It dresses the hair without soiling the linger:.
It effects a saving of one-half in the use of kvor
alkOng.
It (Ives away with grea , y botthrs
It is handsomer article than the commcu hairhrusl.
It regulates the quandty of fluid u-ed, to a drop.
It is perfectly Ttnui, and cannot spill over in the trunk
or on the toiiet.
It carries enough of any preparation to laat for a via
age or a long journey
'Ds p-ieo ii moderate, and It saVo3 fBo WU en-t In three
m .
For sale at Keller's Drug and Fancy Store, 91 Market
etred two doo: s east of Fourth str,.et, south s:de
o.t
PROPOSALS FOR SUPPLIES.
HEAD-QUARTERS PENNSYLVANIA MILITIA.
QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMEN T , j
Harrisburg, Oct, 9, 1861. )
S EALED proposals will be received at this office up to twelve o'clock on Monday, the
14th day of October, 1861, to furnish the fol
lowing articles of supplies iu such quantities
and at such places as may be directed at (his
office :
300 cords of Oak Wood.
The same to be inspected by proper. persons
selected as provided by the Act of Assembly.
R. C. HALE,
Quar. Mast. Gen.
oct9 d3t
SEALED PROPOSALS,
ENDORSED " Proposals for Subsistence
Stores" will be received until 3 P. M.,
October 14, 1861, for furnishing by contract the
following articles fc,r the United States :
250 barrels Extra Family Flour.
100 barrels Extra Mess Pork.
4000 pounds Rio Coffee.
3000 pounds Rice, in barrels.
3000 pounds good Hard Soap.
300 gallons Molasses.
To be delivered free of cost to the United
States at the United States Storehouse at Har
risburg, Pa., on or before the 19th inst.
All articles to be of the best quality and in
strong packages, and to be subject to such in
spection as the U. S. Commissary may require.
Bids to state the price per barrel for flour and
pork, per pound for coffee, soap and rice, and
per gallon for molasses.
The right is reserved to reject any bid ; and
any articles if not of satisfactory quality.
Bids to be addressed to the undersigned at
Harrisburg, Pa.
B. DuBARRY,
Cart. & C. S. IT. S. A.
oct9 dtd
CIRCULAR NO. 7
HEADQUARTERS PENNSYLVANIA. MILITIA,
TRANSPORTATION AND TELEGRAPH DEPT. ,
Iliwrirburg, Oct, 10, 1861.
I. All Pennsylvania regiments, and unattach
ed companies preparing to enter the United
States service on the call of the Governor,
having been directed to raise their organizatious
to the maximum standard required by the War
Department, viz :—lnfantry company 101 ; in
fantry regiment, (10 companies,) 1010, com
pany officers and enlisted men. Cavalry corn
pany 95 ; cavalry regiment, (10 companies,)
950 /company officers and enlisted men, the
following regulations to govern the recruiting
thus made necessary have been adopted by this
department to take effect from and after this
date:
11. Recruiting will be done by officers de
tailed for the purpose from each organization.
The State will furnish transportation, on appli
cation to this Department in proper form, and
will pay all:proper expenses incurred in recruit
ing. Such expenses are,
Ist. Rent of office or recruiting rendezvous.
2nd. Advertising to a reasonable extent.
_ _
3rd. Subsistence of recruits from the date of
their being sworn in before a magistrate, until
their entrance into a state camp. The actual
expenses will be allowed not exceeding forty
cents per day for each man mustered into the
United States service. More than ten days for
any one recruit will not be admitted. Twenty
cents additional will be allowed for each day ne
cessarily consumed in traveling from the recruit
ing rendezvousto a State Camp. Subsistence will
not be paid for when rations can be obtained
from the Commissary Department.
4th. Transportation by railroad, steamboat
or stage line when not provided by the State,
may be procured by the recruiting officer if
he sees proper, but only half the regular fare on
the Pennsylvania Railroad, and two thirds regu
lar fare on all other lines, will be refunded to
him.
111. Forms of Accounts.—These must be pre
sented in the name of commissioned officers
only, on forms furnished by this Department,
accompanied by bills of all matters charged for,
with date, particulars and receipts of the parties
to whom payments were made.
IV. No officer is permitted to have bills for
recruiting expenses charged to the State. lie
must pay all liabilities of this character that he
incurs, and be reimbursed by this department
on the basis heretofore stated.
By order—
JOS. D. POTTS,
Chief of Transportation and Telegraph Dept
oc9-1w
UPHOLSTERING.
PALM LEAF MATTRESSES,
COTTON TOP MATTRESSES,
HUSK MATTRESSES,
COTTON COMFORTS,
CHAIR CUSHIONS,
• LOUNGES,
CAMP STOOLS &e.,
On band and for sale at the very lowest rates for cash.
Hair Mattresses and Spring Bottoms made to order.
SOFAS,
LOUNGES,
CHAIRS,
HAIR MATTRESSES
Reraired and made equal to new, very re monab le, all at
No. 109, Market street, between Fourth and Firth, hi'
oet9-2md J. T. BARNITii._
Harrisburg Blind Manufactory,
SECOND STREET BELOW CHESTNUT.
YENITIAN BLINDS made to order, and
an repairing neatly and expeditiously done. Per
sons at a distance can have their work done by ail Are
s g a letter to the undersigned. Thankful for past pat
ronage be hopes, by strict attention to business, to merit
a continuance of itie same. Jear Satisfaetion guaranteed
both as to prices and werti..—Mt
oct9 d6m
FOR. RENT,
ACali FOR TA BLE, DWEL LIN (3- HOUSE,
near the Water Basic), with, or without bTABLING
as map be desired. l'ostession forthwith.
CHAS. C. RAWN,
Harrisbu4 , , October sth, 1861.—Imd
COAL.
THE undersigned would respectfully in
form the citizens or Harrisburg that lie is prepared
torurnish in any part or the city, Lyeens Valley, Trevor
to and Wi!kesbarre Coal as low as any other dealers in
ben city. Please call and give me a trial.
J. WALLOWER, Jr., Agent,
No. 8, heading flathead Depot,
Harrisburg, Pa.
sep6•dlm
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