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SATURDAY DRYING. AVIUDT tl; 1861
NATIONAL UNION TICKET.
FOR PIirXDANA
Abraham Lincoln,
OP ZUJNOEL
FOR YlOll IiqSIDERT.
Andrew Johnson,
Unitas State Central Committee.
A meeting of the Union Etat° CentraLcom
stittee will be held at the committee rooms in
the •nity l of Philadelphia, on hurstinv, B,ptern
bar Ist, at four o'cfock, P. at. It is earnestlyrequested that every member.be punctual in
attendance, as businese of great importance
*into' brought before the meeting.
SIMON CAMERON, Chairman.
A. W. BENEDIGT, Secretaries•
Wt FORM'.
THE SITUATION..
The rumor circulated within the last two
days that the rebels had crossed therPotomac
at Williamsport, Md., are all false. It is tru e
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that they have been in the vicinity of Shep
herdstown and Williamsport, but no attempt
has been made to cross the Potomac, which
they could easily do witiiimt much opposition
on the fait of our forces. It seems that ow .
force are anxious that thby should Bross the
river, and they will no doubt give them such
reception as will do credit to the Union cause.
PEACE:
A favorite cry of, the opponents of the Gov
ernment 'ever since the war'of the elave-hold•
ers was precipitated, has been that , peace was
within the reach of the National Administra
tion, and'the President was censurable for not
accepting it. The cry for peace thus alludedto
has had the influence of Prolonging the Rat
for three years and more. The South had been
taught to believe that the great masses of the
NorthWifre opposed to war. So far as war meant
conquest of foreign territory—so far as war
meant merely the advancement of the schemes
of party, or the vindication of the aims of am
bitionsleaders, there is no doubt that the peo
ple °flit° North have been and still are
averse to War. 13nt when the issue involved
the integrity of the Government, when the
hazard of war embraced the recognition of tht
national authority, and when an intestine foe
mad • war the means of overthrowing the Gov
eminent and forever : destroyingthe l :Ernion.
then the sentiment and feeling of the nOrthem
people were changed, and they became. in fa
vor of war—war to the knife and tothe throat
rather than yield a single principle in the is
sue at stake. Yet the mind of the soothe •
people oontinties disabused, and they still es-'
timate Atte misses of the North as being too
cowardly to fight and too craven to risk their
lives. in a contest for principle. This, esti
mate has been derived from the fact
that there is a party in the loyal States which
has strained every effort to convincer the
Sonthern people that there is a strong senti
ment existing in the North in favor of peace
on any terms--that the northern masses are
for peace, and are'only prevented from making
demonstrations in its favor by the strong arm
of "'the Lincoln tyranny." Receiving such
statements as these, the rebel leaders have
been successful in recruiting armies by assnr.
ing the ignorant masses of the South that
they have a divided ,North to contend with,
and that as soon ac the propitious opportunity
offered itself. the friends of peace in the free
Stites would uphold the cause of rebellion
in the South, by refusing the Government all
suppoit in its efforts for its suppression. Thus
directly and clearly, can the prolongation of
the war be traced to the Democratic leaders.
In the first place, the war of the slave-holders
never w mid have been precipitated, had the
rebel ions leaders received no assurances of
aid fa in the Democratic leaders of the North.
The traitors of the Bout* were , too sagacious
to oome into collisicin with a united North.
They depended for success more upon the lies
and dissensions that were to be pro.
mitigated and created- by their northern
allies than they did on the blades or
the bullets of 'their Southern followens.
And at this very hour there is nothing
whichaffords the rebel leaders so much' en
couragement—nothing which inspires their
followers with so much hope, as the cries of
the northern doughface for peace, because the
pence established by glich an influence would
be the complete reCognition of all the claims
of the insurgents, with ,the, frill rindicatiaik of
all the demon& of the traitors. .
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These is but one road , to peace, and that is
,
by the paths of war. ream), wro ught : by any
other influence—peace established by any
other arbitrament, would be as useless as a
rope of sand—as unstable as "water. 063
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we had a peace brought about by negotiation,
would that establish the national authority.?
Would, the hot heads of the South content
themselves to live up to the requirements of 'a
treaq „estOlielOng peace ?, Would the men
who recklessly: violated the sacred compacts
of thi!-Oonstitation—who for years plotted for
advantages which would rat;le them to over,
throw the Soffsnment,' content themselves by
obeying its authority .and its just
poWers, on a cemprifinitie ,brought about
by the concessions of that `lovernment ?'
To suppose this, is spilt fp,,.insanity
whieb is not fit to govern. To suppose
that those in rebellion would remain'- at
pesos with a government whit& they bid
fcr*,l to a oemprotriikris to bolievithaetha
upholders of alaver7 are AA' Oen& (0? free
dom. - %t 4s idlef vain, prOntessuataindulge
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in* condition utterly deb:stied es.
The pesos which will restore the
peoplo to their former security and prospi
1 -indeed, the peace which will increase this
444 4 and prosperity is that which, can
dens be' hi' the - comple 4,o te Itri
%mph of our art ,"lienee the true per ien
Ls he who contributes moat to the•martial suc
cess of the 'Government, while he *ll6 , it-
I tempts to embarrass the efforts making fo
that success, is in realit,y,gniltickproloriging
the war, guilty of 'increasing the Ibtrors of
the strife. Let it be understood in the South,
that the.,poople of .the North are united, for,
war, united in the resolution to sustain the
warlike efforts of the Goventinent to vindi
tate its constitutional authority,raltde, war
will not last until, the list of January,ll 865-
Nothing now sustains the rebellion so effectu
ally as the attitude of what' ate called the
-Democratic leaders." The Southern leaders
'viler . ° now that the leaders of the Northern
Democracy are all pottmtial in the free States
-that the party which they control will sno
wed at the coming . Presidedtial election—and
=hat the confederacy will be recognized, and
thus of course -.the rebellion will: become a
grand success. In order to make political
capital for the Democratic party hundreds
and thousands of valuable lives are to be sac
rificed to this hallucination. The time which
it will require to convince the traitors of the
South of the folly of each a hope, will waste
millions of dollars and require perhaps the
sacrifice of legions of brave men. And this
leaves z the responsibility of,peace with 'he
men who are at home. - It is those whom the
enemies of the Government look to withmoie
hope than they fear the soldiers to whom thet
are opposed in battle. Give us a united
North—stop the blatant cries of treacherous
demagogues for peace—give the Government
harmonious support- t put an end to all
creaking—teach politicians that this war has
higher objects in view than making places for
.thom—and we will soon establish a lasting
peace to the victorious achievement of oar
ern's!
. The following, are the charges upon which
Surgeon General Hammond was found guilty
-aid dismissed the service in disgrace :
'let. That Surgeon General Hammond
wrongfully andshaniefully, and with the in
tent to favor persons in PhiladiilPhia,`
prohibited AttedicalTiarveyor Cox from par=
chasing drugs for the army in the city of Bal
timore.
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2d. That he unlawfully, and with intent to
Lid one' Wm. A Stevens to defraud the Gov-
R:anent of the United States, instructed
George E. Cooper, medical purveyor in Phil-
Ldelphia, to buy from Stevens, for the use of
the Government,' eight hindiect blankets, • of
, uferior quality, which were unfit for hosp ital
tee, the burgeon General well knowing the
Blankets were of inferior quality,' and that
Lth h e e tu m . edical .purveyor.had refused to purchase
3d. That he corruptly and with intent to
Said Stevens to defraud the Government
gave an order to Stevens to turn over to Med
ical Purveyor Cooper, at Philadelphia, eight
'thousand pairs of blankets, whereby he in-
Aimed the purveyor to buy on Government
-ace ount, and at an exorbitant price, 6,677
pairs of blankets, which h 5 Had tiefere refused
to buy, aid for iitat`gteibith rdcetved about'
$35,314.
'4th. That the Surgeon General, well know
ing that Wyeth & Brothers, of Philadelphia,
bad furnished medical. supplies to the pur
veyor at y !hiladelphia, that were interior in
quality, did corruptly, unlawrolly, mad with
tent to aid Wyeth 4 Brothers to furnish addi
iotat supplies to ;h•, government and thereby
fraudulently realize,laroe gains, gave the medi
cal purveyor at Philadelphia, an order in
writing to have constantly on ,hand hospital
supplies of all kinds for two hundred thou
sand men for six months and directed the
medical purveyor to purchase a large amount
thereof, $27,000 worth, from,Viryeth & Broth-
' sth. That he unlawfully directed Wyeth &
Brothers to send forty thousand cans of their
extract of beef to various places, and to send
the account "to the Surgeon General's office
for payment."
6th Conduct unbecoming an officer and a
gentleman, in falsely representing that Medi
cal Purveyor Cooper had been relieved frOm
duty at the request of Major General Halleck.
7th. That Surgeon General Hammond un
lawfully ordered the medical storekeeper and
acting purveyor at Washsngton to purchase
three thousand pairs of blankets from J. P.
Fisher, at Washington.
We reprint these charges, in order VI bring
before our readers the names of parties men
tioned therein, whe were evidently accom
plices in the frauds of which Surgeon General
Hammond has been found guilty. Ii is now the
duty of the Government at once to piiweed against
the accessories in these frauds. Hammond
is not the only guilty party, and therefore
should not suffer alone. Let those who
shared his ill-gotten gain, share also the jus
tice whic' has unrobed his crime, and feel
the punishment that now stings in his heart.
The people demand that these prosecutions
be at once commenced.
Amaze nom raz WaATTI To COM.E.—The
Albany ArguO, which in such a case may be
regarded 'as - good authority, says that Gov.
Seymour is not a candidate for nomination
at the Chicago Convention, and besides, he
is utterly opposed to the use of his name
for any public position. In that decision,
the Governor harmonizes better wi . h public
Opinion than in any other recent act. He
knows enough to understand the utter hope
!essneze of success for the Democratic party
in the pending election, and hence very wisely
flees from the wrath to come.
lr Grant was penned up bY .Lee is Wash
ingtori; yAllespi l iti was defending gincinnati,
besieged by flood ; if . a rebel fleet was moving
up Delaware Bay to Philadelphia ; if the ter
ritory held by the Feder* armies Lad become
educed over, one-half since the war began—
itbenwperhape,. people might appreciate - !'the
situation '-' who oarinot now in the exactly n)-
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Official War Bulletin
The Attack on nancociOs Lines.
Desperate Battle on Thursday Evening.
DEFEAT OF THE REBELS.-
They Leave thetrield and Woanded on the
Relions of Glint, Meade and Oth'ers.
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DETAILS OF THE ENGAGEMENTS.
, WABBINGRON, Ang.. 27, 10.20 A. m.
Major General Dr; New York :
On Thursday, the 25th, General Hancock,
who was south of Ream's station, was attack
ed several times during the day, but he repuls
ed the enemy at each assault.
At 5i o'clock, A M., a combined attack was
made on his centre and left, which; after one
of the most desperate battles of the war, re
salted in the enemy withdrawing from the
field, leaving their dead and wounded on the
ground. •
The details were given in the following brief
official reports of Generals Grant, Meade and
Hancock.
The following has just been received, dated
SECOND ARMY Cox.rs, Aug, 20.—For Gen.
Humphreys :—The attack about 5.30 P. hi. was
probably intended to be simultaneously by
Wilcox on my centre and Heath on my left
T►o enemy formed in the woods, placed their
artillery in position and opened a heavy can
nonade, lasting about fifteen minutes.
They then assaulted Miles' force. He re.
sisted tenaciously, but the enemy 'broke his
line. ...Sume of Gilphi'S troops were hurried
over to repair the dainage, and the enemy
only gained a slight foothold.
They soon attempted •on my extreme left,
driving Gibbons' division from his line. His
men had been much wearied going over to
Gen. Miles and back during the repeated' as.
Gen. Gibbons succeeded in forming a strong
line, and the enemy who were pressing on
with great enthnsiam were severely checked
by the dismounted cavalry under Gen Gregg,
which he handled handsomely.
Gen. Miles regained most of his entrench
ments. distinguishing himself. All he had to
work with weremuch small parties ai could
be rallied and formed by staff officers.
The fighting was continuous till dark, the
enemy being held in check by artillery, dis
mounted cavalry and skirmishers.
At dark we withdrew for reasons stated.
The chief of artillery reports that- he lost
about 250 horse!!. •
`The enemy made nb advance up to a late
hour last night, 'holding, as far :is could be
seen, 4701110 of our captured guns with their
skirmish lines. They must have suffered
heavily. •
This is acknowled to. have been one of the
most determined and desperate fights of the
war, resembling Spottavania in character,
though.the number engaged gives it less im
portance. A few • more good troops would
nave given us a victory of considerable im
portance.
I forward thisforenoon, prisoners from the
field. Wilcox and Heath and Major Angel, of
my staff, saw and conversed with two prison.
ers of Morgan's division last night. 'I do not
find them this morning. They slid that Ma
hon's division, with the exception of one bri
gade, was there. (Signed)
MANSFIELD S. HANCOCK,
Major General,
U.S. Gnaw, Lt. GeneraL
The following is just received;
Szcown Com% 12.30 P. st., Aug. 26.—A
safe guard that was left on the battle-field
remained there till after daylight this a. at.—
At that time the enemy had all disappeared,
leaving their dead on the battle-field unburied.
This shows how severely they were punished,
and doubtless hearing of the arrival of rein
forcements they feared the result to-day if
they remained.
(Signed) G. G. MF I ADE, Maj. Gen.
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' The following is just received:
SECOND ARMY CORPS, 1 A. D[., August 26th.
—To Lieut. Gen. Gra,nt:--Sinoe sending my
last dispatch, I have conversed with the safe*
guard referred to. He did not leave the field
till after sunrise. At that time nearly all the
enemy had left, moving towards Petersburg.
He says they abandoned not only'their dead
but their wounded also.
He conversed With an officer who said their
losses were greater than ever before daring
the war. The safe guard says he was over the
field, and it was covered with the enemy's
dead and wounded.
He has seen a great many battle fields, but
never saw such a sight. There were very few
of our dead, nearly all being of the enemy.
I think Ido not overstate the loss of the•
enemy in the last two weeks' battles at 10,000
killed and wounded. We have lost heavily,
but our loss has been mostly •in captured
when the enemy gained temporary admits.
ges.
The number of rebel prisoners taken on
our side has not yet been reported.
All of our wounded are brought off,but our
dead are unburied. I have instructed Gregg
to make an effort to send a party to the field
to bury our dead. (Signed)
G. G. MEADE, Maj. Gen.
To 11. S. Gum, Lieut. Gen.
Oar forces hold the Weldon road, and in a
dispatch dated at 3 r. at., yesterday, General
Grant says that their loss of this road seems
to be a blow to the enemy he cannot stand.
Gen. Grant makes the following report of
an unsuccessful attack by the enemy on Gen.
Butler's picket line on Thursday: The enemy
drove in Butler's picket line. The picket
guard soon rallied, however, and drove the
enemy back 'and reestablished this line.
The result was one killed. and sixteen wound
ed, and fourteen miheing on our side%
Two commanding.officers and ifty-nine en
listed men were captured from the enemy.
What their casualties were in killed and
wounded, we do not know.
EDWIN IL STANTON,
. Secretary of War.
important Raid' by Gen. A. a.
Nisavizza, August 17.
The importance of. Gen. A. J. Smith's move
ment from Memphis cannot be valued' too
highly. His force is large—ziarger than is gen
erally supposed—and he goes:to hold, possess,
and besiege; he goes to sweep the oonntry of
rebels until he has freed both the States-of
Alabama and Mississippi of the insurgents
forever. He will meet with little or no oppo
sition. 8. D., Lee left the greater portion of
his forces under, his command at Dalt on , . I
feel prettr.sure that we shall hear of th e f e ll
if MolggtilaerY very PO; for 'Oat if d/nbit
letti:the object rt, part ot;.thit erprolopu, and
Mobile, as some suppose. That place,
, will fall in due tune. If c . 431,11: mitt
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Field.
Successfal Raid by Gen. Kilpatrick.
Fourteen Miles of the Macon Railroad Destroyed.
DESTRUCTION OP REBEL SUPPLY TRAIN.
Capture of Colors, Guns and Prisoners.
klipatriek Makes an kniire
cult of Atlanta.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 26.
The Gazette has received a special dispatch
from Atlanta ; which says that General Kil
patrick has debtroyed the-Macon railroad in
two places, tearing up about fourteen miles of
track. He also captured and burned a train
of supplies belonging to the rebels, en route
to Atlanta.
On his return he met the rebels in strong
force and totally defeated them, capturing
four stands of colors, six cannon and two
hundred prisoners.
Afterwards he . met another force of the
rebels who pressed him so heavily that be was
obliged to abandon all but two guns and most
of the prisoners.
He made an entire circuit of Atlanta and
reached Decatur with 100 men. He inflicted
severe damage on the rebel communications.
From Grant's Army.
Rebels, in Strong Force, -Attack the 2d Corps.
Reinforcements Arrive and the Enemy
is Repulsed.
The Weldon Railroad Still in
Our Possession.
FORMLESS Blosnox, Aug. 26, P. M.
The follow information has been received
here from City Point :
The enemy, in very strong force, attmied
the 2d army corps, on the extreme left, yes
terday, and having far superior numbers, were
almost upon the pointof overwhelming them,
when the sth corps came up and the enemy
were repilsed and driven from the field.
The loss on both sides was about equal.
We still maintain our lines as before, hold
ing the Weldon railroad in our grasp.
FOBTBEsS Mariam Aug. 27.—Information
from the front states that all is quiet.
TH ATTACK UPON THE 2D CORPS
TIM BOHM COIPELLED TO FALL BACK
THE FIGHT STILL PROGRESSING
Butler's Pickets Attacked,:
,luccessful Resistance and Capture of Rebels
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Heavy Rebel Loss on Thursday.
RECAPTURE cioE,GrITNI6
Wesnisorom, Aug. 27.
Passengers by the mail boat from City
Point report that on Thursday a division oi
the 2d corps,in the vicinity of Reams' Station,
on the Weldon railroad, were attacked about
9 o clock in the morning, by a large force of
rebels, supposed to be Hill's entire corps,and
were compelled to fall back, which they did
gradually, disputing, however, every inch of
the ground, and fighting for most of the dis
tance hand to hand.
At 5 o'clook . the fight was still progressing,
but our men had gained a secure position
and movements were being made calculated
to put the enemy on the retrograde turn.
About three o'clock on Thursday morning
the rebels in front of Butler made a sortie
and captured twenty-five of our pickets, and
driving in the others, but we immediately re
gained the ground, and captured forty-five
rebels, among them a Lieutenant and' private
who had, in a spirit of bravado, got into one
of our.rifie=pits, which they said they intend
ed to hold at all hazards. Our lines are soon
reestablished.
Later information of the fighting on rhurs
day,in which Gen. Hancock was engaged with
the enemy, at Ream's station, is to the effect
that about 4 o'clock, General Hancock was re
inforced from the Fifth corps, and the enemy,
after making several desperate 'assaults upon
our lines, was badly repulsed and retreated,
leaving his dead and wounded in our hands.
It is also reported that we re-captured the
guns taken by the enemy earlier in the day.
The rebels lost terribly in the battle on
Thursday, even, more, it is estimated, than in
the repulse on Sunday.
The above are reports by passengers on the
mail boat.
Froin 4 llorth Carolina
A Rebel Visit to Greensboro, to
Conscript the People.
The Union Citizens Turn Out to Defend
Themselves.
Repulse of the Rebels.
REBEL LEADER KILLED.
Foirrnras Morino* Ang. 26.
The following has been received: .
ROANOKB letotrin, Aug. 24.—Reliable infor
mation received here states that a rebel force,
commanded by Major Whitford and Captain
Kris, went to Greenaborough, North Carolina
for conscripts for the rebel army.
The Union citizens mustered oat to resist
the conscription, and a severe fight ensued.
The rebels were driven from Greenaborough
and many of them killed and wounded.
• Captain Kris wakkilled, and Major Whit
ford mortally wounded.
At empted ,Invasion of Maryland.
The .Eiemy
Bit:mums, Aug. 26.
A spedial dispatch froM frarper's Perry to
nista, saYel
: "The enemy median attempt to omen into
Maryland. t. 40, at Williamsport, with two
regiments of cavalry and some infantry.
After a spirited fight of several how& du
ration, ‘hey were handsomely repulsed by
Gen. kverW, with heavy loss.
A moonnoissarioe Was made 1:11 Oen. _Crook
to:day, which resulted in the capture of,els
s9menissioned officers, among them • one lieu-.
Want colonel and Mity,three pandas.
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The Operations on the 2341
THE DESTRUCTION ON THE RAILROAI
DEAUREGARD'S ADDRESS TO MS TROOPS
itimximirraus, 5r Asir CORPS,
Srx-Ilium Homo; Aug. 23.
Advancing our skirmish line some three
quarters of a mile, sending the third division
to tear up more of the railroad track, and
completing the burial of the rebel dead, are
the three and only facta of special interest
occurring to-day.
Our men tearing up the road presented an
animated though not altogether novel scene.
An attempt has been made to use a machine
brought here for the purpose; but the ma
chine did not prove superior to manual labor,
and was abandoned, for our soldiers have had
experience in this kind of work before. They
do the work very rapidly. The track has now
been destroyed to within four miles of Pe
tersburg, in front of us, and with the assist
ance of the second corps, nearly double this
distance in the opposite direction.
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FIGHT. .
It is now conclusive from the statements of
the rebel wounded and prisoners, that Gen.
Beauregard, whose troops first confronted us
here, made them an address before leading
them into 'action, setting forth the indispensa
ble necessity to the Confederacy of recovering
possession of the Weldon railroad. "Boys,"
said he--for so the speech is reported to me
in subs tance—"we have lost this railroad and
we must get it back. You are now , as you
know, living on half rations. If you don't get
this road back again you will be living on
quarter rations within four days. Boys, you
know your duty ; now go in." The boys did
go in ; but they were soon glad to get out
again.
It has been stated that some four hundred
captured from the Id division were armed
with the Spencer repeating rifle, and the fall
of these arms into the possession of the en
emy was deeply regretted. We have it now
from most positive sources that the men hav
ing these pieces—the Bncktail Regiment nearly
all had them—broke, bent and otherwise de
stroyed every one of them before the enemy
got them. It was their first thought and
work on finding there was no possibility of
avoiding capture.
THE WORE or THE 2D CORPS.
HEADQUARTERS IN THE Rem, August 23
Evening.--Though the 2d Corps has not been
engaged in actual fighting since the recent
operations under Hancock on the north side
of the James river, it has performed a good
deal of hard and important service; for, re
crossing the James on Saturday night, a por
tion of the corps, by one of those marches
which are almost unparalleled except in the
annals of the 2d Corps, Unexpectedly tomer*
appeared on Sunday on the Weldon Railroad
to assist in completing the operations which
had been inaugurated - by the troops of the sth
and 9th Corps.
Yesterday the Ist division, under the tem
porary command of General Miles, during the
illness •of General Barlow, moved 'along the
railroad from the left of General Warren's po
sition, destroying several miles of the track.
The ties were burned and the rails bent in the
most effective manner. This evening the
road has ' een destroyed as far as Reams'
Station, and the work of destruction is being
continued.
From Washington.•
WASHINGTON, - Aug. 26-10 P. at.
PEACE /ICMORS IN RICHMOND
It appears from Richmond papers that the
same rumors relative to the appointment of
Peace Commissioners prevail in the South as
here. The Richmond ..S.ntiml of Wednesday
states that there was considerable excitement
is that city, on Sunday last, at the Petersburg
depot on the arrival of the train from that
place, it having been rumored that Peace
Commissioners, appointed by Lincoln, were
expected to arrive. The crowd that gathered
at the depot looked upon every well-dreased
man carrying a carpet-sack as a Peace Corn
missioner. The reporter of the &•thud says,
judging from the number of that class of per
sons who came on the train, there were about
twenty-five.
ITNANULLL
• Secretary Fessenden has issued orders that
parties holding Seven-Thirty notes, due Oc
tober Ist, may present them in any amount
at once and have them funded with interest
to maturity in six per cent bonds, due after
1881. There is about sixty-four million dol
lars of this loan yet outstanding. The inti
mation that some arrangement is making for
funding certificates of indebtedness falling
due before March next in the Ten Forty loan
at par, is denied by the Treasury Department.
GEN. 1301155E61313 RAID
Montgomery papers of a week ago say that
the railroad from that city to Atlanta. de
stroyed by Gen. Rousseau, cannot possibly be
put in running order before the first of Sep
tember. There is difficulty in stetting iron,
which at last reports was held at two hundred
and fifty dollars per ton; also difficulty in get
ting laborers.
A. PAID IN immix)Dm.
'Tile Petersburg Express of Saturday last
says a body of Yankee cavalry was reported
on Friday moving westward from Warren's
army, through Dinwiddie county.
A Deserter Rung.
Paruntrmas, Friday, Aug. 26.
W. H. Howe, of the 116th Pennsylvania
Regiment, was hung at Fort Mifflin, at noon
to-day, for desertion and killing an enrolling
officer in Montgomery county, a few months
since. The execution was witnessed by a
very large number of persons.
Markets by Telegraph.
Parnaretz,rure, Aug. 27.
Flour—Firm feeling in breadstuffs market
and the receipts and stocks of all description
are light. Sales of 3,000 barrels low grade
and good fresh ground extra family at 11 874
@l2 50, and 500 barrels extra at $l2. Small
sales of rye flour at $lO 50. In corn meal
nothing doing. Wheat is in fair request at
$2 5502 57 for old red ; S 2 6502 70 for new
do., and 42 80(33 for white. Itye commands
85®1 87. Corn is scarce, and yellow com
mands $1 72®1 73: Oats are dull at 00c. for
new, and El for old. In provisions the ten
dency is upward. Petroleum is in fair de
mand, 50®510. for crude, 83®860. for rebed
in . bond, and 89@920. for free, Whisky is
firm at 11 90.
'MUM* Stock Market.
• PitLIADELPM, Ang. 27 .
Stocks dull ; Pennsylvania s's. I Read
ing railroad 66f; Morris Canal 1O ; Long
Island 49,; Pennsylvania railroad 74.11 Geld
2501 1 exchange on New Yak par.
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TAIEIC NOTIOU
A 4l oPigmas . ""Nikomatiasm'-aft-A&
moan er ig a i ro s- c new eft 17 lb. War
16 6 0 , 1 1 10 Pr• geliotr, of Won Divots, avian amo k
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P&., VII" AY (01:04 moo stet boo mot to.
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' NEW-ADVERTISEMENTS.
Hands Ward.
CA.IIPENTNEtB, Cabinet Makers, Macki..
iaa sae Mouklera weetad, et the EAGLE wpm .
aaggiu &tun W. 0 RI Ent
LO 8 TI
ON Friday, a GOLD TUCK-UP, belonging
to a &lid. Ihe odder wiit be rewuded by leariag
it at Nog= diti THIS OFFICE.
Miss Sue F. Wilson
I'UTILL reopen her SODOOL on MONDAY,
SFPTEMBF.R 6, at her rosldenoe on Trout Area,
second house below Chestnut. Lau47.4eod4t
A UDITOR'S NOTICE.
___
lu the matter of the twat • of cienra4 Melo% dec'd
petition for a review or the Auditoee rniort, tuaking dia.
',Mutton in this c aa, baying been presented to the Court,
and the same hearing been rererreit h iger to the Audit.*
for (unbar hearing, be hereby Wee lice to all patties
Inteteteed that he CB meet them at °Mee, to th city
ofifarriebwg, on Tuesday the 2111 day of September
next, at 10 o'do -k, A. M.
aug274lltiw2t] H. if. GRAYDON, Auditor.
PUBLIC SALE
OF
ITNID.L AIMED GOODS,
RENAINING IN THE WAHBBOII3B
or the
HOWARD & NPR FINLESS COMPANY,
THE articke described in the following
schedule, having been conslaned to the Howard ik
Bhp° 11:1110e119 Company, and she consignees, a ter date
and legal kotic., n t having taken them away, nor paid
be co-t- bbd ex 4 ns.s of carriage will be exoreml to
public sale or Gang's at thaMarket Hu se Oa SATCADAV,
dhPralidEß 24 1864. T+.e sale to conuaence at 8 o'cl,ck
in the forenoon of mud day :
1 box, Capt Joe Hutchinson 1 Mlle, no name
1 box, B. Mo shock 1 pkge, JohnShuPhouse
box, Peter Henshaw I or, Elizabeth Mewling
I. box, Id 0 tighlui 1b x , MrdßTßrady
1 c bag, Geo L Baths* 1 bottle, Chas Bucher
1 pkge, Cato Irtlarty I box, Taos .1 Tomer
1 idle, cost and boot att. I boa, Chas B bdcebelser
no name 1 boa. U W Napes
1 k t tope, A L BaUles 1 pkge, M L HaDonahi
1 box, no name 1 pkge, Geo T Barkhatt
1 box, Wolf 1 box, Cha- Taylor
1 box. Capt W Harland 1 trunk, .1 W
Ibox,u.oßDaily 1 trunk RC Bally
1 pkg, R F I kisenrieg 1 box, BD FM
I box, j r K filer 1 box Wm Drehel
1 box, L P ililis I box, Peter J Warts .
1 box, F N Mutton 1 pkge, J Vogle
1 c bag, W II Po-tee 1 pkge, J Tomtit(
1 bile, Henry Lander 1 pkg', Limn W B Boyer
1 cast R Pittock I pi. ge, WOl MORI/
pkge, Geo Fl Russell 1 V se, W S King
pkge, Ceo Voght 1 pkge, George Betchtre
1 box, EPRo-eocrantz Ipk John A Heidrich
box Capt L H Bummed! 1 , ox, Patrick Fl 'MOIL
1 box, n A Stevenson 1 bottle, Jane Schuler
pkge, Wro It Mons' 1 pkge, no name
1 pkge, ce d, J F Ebersole 1 wheel, Cam. Dodge
1 IJOX A P Poinepaektr I box no name
i box, Leah Lees 1 p box, helm Herr 'ger
•
9 boxes O P H rdwick 1 b same
1 box Capt J Beim 1 pkge, 8 Anthony
siert h 1110 , 411" 1 page, J A Nixon
be:. K. M F Crisman 1 boa Wm LRa le
'
1 box, Jos Burggs /to n John NeSOlOlllB
b x, J E spaloing 1 box t ub, apt J J Johnson
box, 4 a t J • siw-lEs 1 p g' , retold Pepper
box, A I.Brvant 1 do Wm Car,ts e
1 box, ohu WHo tins 1 on Elber
'V; Mars Itadabaltak 1 do It a S 0 Joaes
g oil (loth no name 1 do Louisa Bexley
I pkge, w D Jack 1 no Aan n *bluer
k ap b tot, H Healy 1 do Jam s Prell'lortt
1 pkge, Wm P Patterson 1 do A-ain Wultsgsr
pk, e, Jo-tan De Boor 1 do no name
lis nag, no none 1 do Ca I IL.yer
1 p g Li .nt Ft B Bally 1 do Theo You ethers;
tCb g. IC-I D Conrad 1 do John II tletykin
t a beg. I.lmt P • Wida 1 do . Henry each!
1 mat, non me 1 do Sohn Ditcasho
/ belle , bee Hight
The ~ tiove articles will be expotial to public sale, ait
atm-said, according t. at • pros% ittUrl at the tt at a vtina.
of the art of Ara embly of the 4 1101111020DW• a tb or P. es-
Thrum, appr v.d he 18th day . f Burch, a. to ICA ;
alth a l he n q 100141140 01 wh eh the Nos and and Hope
bxpr as company have to ail respecos cotuihed. The a-Ct
uI'AS early is 101 owe :
• • Consnuanon merchants and factors, and all common
carafe a, or oth r mire na baring a lieu upon gads, wares
dad mettnandee, tor or ou account of the costa sad ex.
pewter of earns eor storage, or any o her chirp minks
awn the transport 4lOn, kerping, r star ge of such prp
perty, in case ti .0 oe Eters or ixitielgne Behan not pay ordha
urge to auaouut d e fig such cost, extreme, c
storage, or ota or cher-es hereinbefore named maM k r
the expiration of ninety dire from the L 01,103 her honer
pro lded, pi oceod to ken toe same, or so mudib thereof as
may be necessary to discharge said at pub! c auction:
Provided, That notice of sale an .11 be give', as regi 'red
or ...henyf's .Saks of personal property, and that thirty
days' notice of said lien b given to th , onmeroroonaigme
of the pr manly, if they cannot be ao found, that Ore nom
Isbell be advertised weekly in some new paper oublitiod
in the mopes' city or county to which the g Kode, war a
or metehao• in. save .b.ou consigned, for four on sem
wire weeks before the sale, the residue of rwatey arising
fr nit rush sale, after deducting coats of trarderw 16416
i•ttergea and stomp venisin. and • rale, to be bald lib-
Ject tribe trd.r of the owner or owners of such property."
GEO, HERGN i, Avon
ang27-dls] Howard sad !tope Express
Leggins: Leo•gists:
500 FAIR S FRENCH ZOUAVE WA
-ISE-PH.OOP LEGGIN'S fur
INFANTA r,
ARTILLERY.
CAVALRY,
TRAVELERS,
AtKERS'.
SPOICSMEN,
To be sold at about oae-half the coat of uumut.cturutg
them. Cain sad get ap dr at
/LIMN ALL'S CITE tP STHRE,
No. 38% Market stn et,
LI Opposite th 2. Jott‘a House, Hairt,burg, Pa.
EM3
Military College,
Anent° Pa.,
FIFTY miles from Philadelphia--eh gee artered
by the state and . feti kupenor adantA foe a
titone.igh tOttGlatili t:LA-att ng al. +AAA MlLi a Td.itY
tiou--open, ba next aes-i.at SICE'rEMisER Lb.
4 Am t mule 8, address
att.g464lwl rev. 11.. 11 1, FFORD, A. )1., President.
To District Committees Paying Local
Bouuties
TIRE undersigned Will act as agents for
omnattece authorise I to pay LOCAL BOUNTIES
for creche to their respective claviers. at a ax easteeseisait
tor e.oh recruit procured sue presented Which prooduot
shall hot be acc tided in the bounty au homed to be paid
o the recruit by the Ciariots respectivody. The under-
Mg bed, to tendering the servi , e, wig act In suits eas
formity *Nu the aCt of the Legi la , ure and the ord., at
the Asalataat Prot oet lie shut nettend of the Winters
Dleuitn in Pennsylvania.
NAGIVRE k casnzmes,
Whose Claim d rata , Exchange Sup
aug2ls-3t Watuut street, war ot.the CapitiMel.
NOTICE TO SHIPPERS BY THE NORTH
ERN CENTRAL
in accordance with the provnionsof Yee new Internal
Revenue taw, it becomes necessary tutu all recehAa loss
by this coutpluy for tnerchandiee reek:doe I for transpxta•
non, should bear an INTERNAL REVENCe. STAMP of
the value of two oente, the expensed of the same to be
borne by the patty receiving bitch reoeipts. Ali reeeip
taken by thla company for tnerehandne delivered to
signees, will be stamped by raid company.
Consignees requinng a recept from the company for
money paid for freight (when exceeding twenty dollars,'
must affix the stamp. .i. N. DU BARRY,
General dupenatentlent.
•
Offiee of General Superintendent bombers
way
Central Railway to., Balte.. Aug. 111, 1864.1 auult-Sir
ilanisbuy, Female Seminary.
•••••••••
THE fall session of this Institution mitt
commence on WEDNESDAY, SFIATSNRIS T.
sa24-d%w4. S S. DIXON, Pliscipal.
'Vat *alga OK MOT,
rpHin UNION HOTEL, on "Ridge rood
11, Math ward. Jr' particulars 10faint f
anat. 140] HENRY BOgratN.
Special Election.
Tx compliance Willi the charter of the city
1 of liar WWII, anti '0 is hereby iglv• at to the piddled
vo mi t or the d tin Ward In dam eel, that a Specal gig*
U6ll will be held it the NA/MATNOM a Vernhin
1034
llookOar ssld
ali rt WibtailDAY arerel lud i
ana penou memage OF oo
ow:nom to eg tfaa Nanvia.4 tam of Dr. Watilso
air4"‘D Gels[ l4 7 l64p or Tor.ise
2 Ilkor F.I. or Szehosiko
4TVACM of 0110100 rarl= 4 :lo)
ILF LAND, la Wino, sad HOW .
"APPID W. F. - 11' •
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