then Charleston remains as well fortified as
almost any place in the world.
It is said that one hundred heavy guns
have arrived since the last attack. But, after
all, Charleston is of no real value, even if cap
tured. Onr old residents say that, it is to be a
yellow fever year, and death to northerners ;
but, in any case, success by . the latter will not
be earned with lees loss. than perhaps 15,000
livea,.possibly 20,000. Protected as the Con
federate troops are by defenses, their loss has
teen comparatively Bina% Report says less
than 400 against 2,000 of the enemy. It has
always astonished ns Englishmen bow very
little value toe Americans have ever bad for
human life.
"P. S.—The cotton bales have temporarily
been taken down, but will be replaced if Fort
Sumpter is attacked. One or two took ire
from - the gnat."
th e 4 4 :grist ItP aioll+
TIEURSD.AY MORNING, AUGUST 13,1863
O. BARRETT k. CO., PROPRIETORS:
Commnmeamena will not be published In thE, PATRIOT
Ussos animus accompanied with the name of th
author.
DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINATIONS.
FOR GOVERNOR,
HON. GEO. ,W. WOODWA.RD,
OP PHILADELPHIA,
FOB JIIDOB OF THE SUPREME COVET,
WALTER H. LOWRIE,
OT ALLEGHENY COUNTY.
Democratic State Central Committee.
The following is the State Central Committee sus ap
pointed by Hon. TIMM AY PATTERSON, of Washing
ton county, who, as Pi esident of the late Democratic
Convention, was authorized by a resolution of the body
to announce the Committee. It consists of a Chairman,
and Representatives of the serveral Senatorial Districts
into which the State Is 41TIded
Hos. CHARM J. Btont.s, Chairman.
at District—Theodore Cuyler. Philadelphia.
Robert J. Hemp hill.... do.
D 0..... John Fullerton, jr do.
Do. —lsaac Leech do.
26....d0 John D. Evans, Chester county.
ht... d0.....W en. IL Witte, Montgomery county.
ut,„ .0 Wm. Rogers, Bucks county.
Sth...de.---Thomas Heckman_ Northampton county.
6th.. Clymer, Barks county.
' Tth...do . William Randall, Schuylkill county.
Sth... d 0.... Asa Packer, Carbon county.
9th...d0..... Michael Mylert, Sullivan county.
10th...d0 .Stephen 3 Winchester, Lucerne county.
Iltli....do.....Mortimer ll_ Elliot, Tioga county.
12th...d0 John H. Homes, Lycoming county.
hiliot, Northumberland county.
14th...de—....3amnid Hepburn, Cumberland county.
16th...d0..... William 111._ Brisbin, Lebanon county.
16th...d0 George Sanderson, Lancaster county.
Do.....Jadnis Patterson do.
F Spangler, York county.
18th...d0 Dewy Smith, Fulton county.
19th...d0 J Simpson Africa, Huntingdon county.
28th,..d0.....Wi11iani Bigler_ Clearfield county.
Fint.__do-- -Hugh Weir. Indiana County.
Thomas B. Searight, Fayette eounty_
23d....d0.....W. 2 H. Pau ey, Greene county.
211th...e10 Geo W Case, Allegheny county.
D 0..... lames P. Barr do.
G. Campbell, Butler county.
Wth...do.....David S. Morris, Lawrence county.
27th...d0 Thomas W. Grayson, Crawford. eoanty.
215*. _karuiaily L. Blood, Jefferson county.
NOTICE.
The several County Committees of Superintendence
are requested to communicate the names and postoffice
address of their members to the Chairman of the State
Contest Committee. Editors of Democratic papers in
Pennsylvania are requested to forward copies to him.
CHARLES J. BIDDLE, Chairmen.
Parransi.enti, Ju1y22,1865.
Dauphin County Democratic COmmittee.
The Democratic County Committee for the county of
Dauphin, will meet !ho pahHe hones of .Tinea Hay.
moral, (White Hall,) in the city of Harrisburg; on
Saturdety, the Nth jest , at 2 o'clock p. in., for the
trans'a'ction of important business.
The following are the names of the Committee:
Harrisburg—First ward, George F. Weaver; Second
went, Alex. W. Watson; fourth ward, Owen )I , oabe;
Fitch ward, Wm, U. aideney.. lftddletown—north
ward, .0 A. Leaman;
Middle ward, John Lafferty;
south ward , Jno. Snavely ; Lykena, Geo. W. Fer
ree ; Corretnum, A. U. Redsecker ; Londonderry, James
Dougherty; West Londonderry, Henry Gross;
o Bowman ; Swatara, John Young; Derry,
Frani Smirk; Lower Seaters, Wm.. K. Wilson; Wash:-
intem,-Llharles Stine; 0. Deshler; DiSpbill,
C. H. Rhoads; Kiddie Pextoo, Peter Hoeker ; Reed, B.
Stiles Duncan' Lower Paxton, George Shoop; Beath
Hanover, D aniel Cassel, Ten ; Upper Paxton, Jacob
Stiller • alifax, Albert Loomis; Jefferson, William
Richards; Jackson, James Miller; Rush, Henry Mich
; Grata. llahlaa Bellow ; Haat Hanover, Dan el
'Minh; West Hanover, tieo.-W. Finney; ennuehlu.na l
Zamee.WAHieter ; George Relizer. . .
By order of the chairman.
-PRANK SMITH, Secretary_
August 6,1583
The Telegraph..
The Tedegraph of last evening occupies its
entire editorial columns in abase of Judge
Woodward. This shows their own appreffia-
Um of the cause they advoette. They cannot
defend their own candidate, and they have no
principles to advocate upon which they dare
to go before the people, and eo they spit their
venom at Judge Woodward, who can well afford
to pass it by as the " idle winds which he re
apects not." They might as well shoot their
pop-guns at the sun, in the hope of depriving
us of the light of day, as to fire at Justice
Woodward, so far above them, in the hope of
depriving the people of Pennsylvania of his
services as Governor.
The oft refuted calumny that Justice Wood
ward advocated the disfranchisement of the
foreigner and the soldier is reiterated. The
Democratic party, that never in its whole his
tory was so firmly and decide* united, is
said by this unscrupulous sheet to he divided
in their support of Justice Woodward: We
Would suggest to the Telegraph that, as its
reputation for veracity is not of the highest
character, it cannot possibly make any im
pression upon this cemmunity by its unsup
ported word, and that the repetition of these
slanders is therefore only a waste of breath.
The Telegraph further says that Governer
Curtin, in the canvass, desires to avoid all per
sonalities. We have no doubt his Excellency
would be glad to do so, that his pecadDloes
and short comings, his weakness and imbe
cility might not be exposed to the people. "If
personalities are to be persisted in," concludes
this donbty editor, ff we shall take a hand in
the same game, which will decide the fate of
our opponents.'
If this conceited scribbler could defeat Judge
w oo d war d• by any amount of lying he would
nnopetitionably accomplish it, but the people
have taken the matter in their own hands and
the fate of the Democratic party—notwith
standing the trenchant pen of the Telegraph—
will not be decided Anal - the second Tuesday
of October; and then not at all to its liking.
The Philadelphia Now, .terican is sorely
discouraged at the prospect of the coming
election in Trnosylvastiat. The Republicans
'We not only oisoiganlied, but it Stelae they
are &ermine CoppPrheatiti. Says.:
j' singular habit some of, .thefe' *publi
.....Wre of never saying it word wines the
D em b ir o N hat of perpetually dencunoing the .
D e p a bliraa Prvsitiont., Cabinet; g e p t erffl-tn-,
cbu i r acovrelo and alrue 9 t every. one Ole-An
our,eide. vs!orA more of real copperoeadisto,
than of anything else, and we cantiot under
stand by what right such men are allowed to
call themselves Republicans, when they are in
point of fact virtual enemies.
This simply shows that the conservative por
tion of the Republican party have become dis
gusted pith the extreme and lawleikmeas*Wit
of the radicalts who nowcontrul th&-adminis
tration at Washington, and bettikens their
speedy downfall. It shows that men of mind
and thought are not to be compelled to follow
a single idea. They look over the whole field
and select for themielves such, a course as will
best serve to carry them to the desired goal.
They are not to be coerced into following
blindly after mad fanatics, when they clearly
see that they are in the path that leads to de
struction. They are not - willing to enter a
contest alongaile of a blind Polyphemus, who
in his fury is as likely to slay,. hie friends as
enemies. They wish to expend their force in
some intelligent direction, where they see it
will accomplish some good result.
If the administration were not blind to the
signs of the times they would see in this the
band-writing upon the wall, wantieg t4em of
their threatened doom. They would stop the
horrible feast of blood and carnage at which
they are now revelling, destroy the dam of
fanaticism which has turned away the waters
of peace from the citadel of our country, and
thus save it from irretrievable ruin.
The Gubernatorial Canvass.
Yesterday's Press in a long article en the
coming canvass for Governor, speaking of
Judge Woodward, says: "Os one sids we 9L e
a sympathizer with treason—so avowed—and
in alliance with men like Hughes, Reed, Inger
soll, and the rest, whose triumph would be
full of danger to the administration."
Knee Forney has obtained a fat office at
Washington, and wormed himself into horse
and shoddy contracts, through which he is
gorging himself at the-expense of the toil and
blood of the people, he is particularly sensitive
to any danger which threatens the , administra
tion. This bread aid butter patriot is ready
to cringe at the footstool of any power that
furnishes him the means to gratify his de
praved tastes and beastly appetites; but Lin
coln dethroned, he could not find any one else
to accept his services, and tossing his subsidy,
would have nothing left but the execration of
all honorable men.
The administration, as Forney has from time
to time infermekus, having made up their
minds to destroy our ,governbient and erect Ott
its ruins another which, while preserving the
forms of the oldkUnien, shall' be clothed with
monarchial powers, the election of Judge
Woodward would certainly be fraught with
danger to its revolutionary plans and purpo
ses. Judge Woodward as Governor would un
doubtedly uphold thetlaw, jealously guard the
rights of the people, and use every offort in
his power to restore the Union as it was
founded by the patriots and etatOblien who
rescued our country from the grasp of British
tyranny, and who having periled their lives in,
the cause of, freedom knew best how fo guard
anal protect it by a fundamental law.
According to creatures like Forney, every
man who questions the acts of th e jacobin party
they- serve, or stand up against any'encroach
meats upon the rights of individuals, every
man who asks our Were to be governed by the
oharter of powers delegated to them by the
sovereign people, instead of being guided by
some !thigher law," is a traitor to his country.
In this sense Judge Woodward is unquestion
ably "a sympathizer with treason," and so are
a large majority of the peoPlc of Penneylve
nia, as will be shown by their suffrages in Oc
tober next.
Outrage Committed by Negro Soldiers.
The following eonimunication appears in the
St. Louis Republican of August 7:
Ma. EDITOR: We landed at a place called
Compromise, in Tenneseee, near the dividing
line between Kentucky and Tenneoeve, and
heard there, from the neigbora, of a moat hor
rible murder, committed yesterday morning,
Tuesday, the 4th. Eighteen negro soldiers,
fully armed, having come from the camp on
Island No. 10, went to the house of Mr. Frank
Beekijain, on the river immediately where we
landed this morning, and murdered him, aged
forty years, his old father, (Major Benjaatin
Beckham, aged eighty,) and four children of
Mr. F. Beckham—Laura, aged fourteen, Kate,
aged ten. Caroline, seven, and Richard, two
years. They first caught Mr, F. Beckham and
IfigF aged father, tied them, marched them to
the edge of the bank of the river, Alm, and
stabbed them, and threw their bodies into the
Water. They then' threw little Dick into the
river, tied the two youngest girls together, and
threw them in, then forced the oldest girl and
beat her over the head with their muskets until
eke mink down. The bodies of old Major
Beckham and the youngest child have been
recovered. Many of our passengers and my
self went to . the house and saw them. Fortu
nately two of the family of children were off
at school, and the mother mad oue child feur
year old , went up to Owensboro'. Kentucky,
with us on our last trip. All the rest were
murdered. Twelve of the negroes were caught
by our cavalry and are now confined at Ibland
No. 10. Six are yet at large. The immediate
motive for the deed was thought to be the fact.
that. Mts. Beacham took up tee rivet- with her
a negro girl as nurse, whose mother had run
off, and was at Island No. 10. The negroes
had before attempted to steal the girl away, hut
Mr. Beckham drove them off with arms. The
above is a correct statement of the murder I
got from the neighbors and a Mr. Mai Jehlati,
who had, just an hour before, left Mr. Beck
ham's house, and is now a passenger on the
boat. Truly yours,
We call the attention of ,our readers to the
above letter which exhibits the first fruits of
the radical policy pursued by the present ad
ministration.
Ever since this war begin, the sanguinary
war preachers of the Abolition school; every
Abolition orator, and the entire Abolition
press have been advocating a course directly
tending to inaugurate such horrible scenes as
that described above.. John Brown has been
canonized as a saint in New England pulpits,
and the song, "John Brown's Soul is Marching
On," has been sung by Forney and his drunken
followers as a National Anthem. Toussaint
rOcverture, the blank demon who led the man
mere in St. Domingo, carrying aloft In place
of a flag the head a a white infant upon the
end of a pike-staff, has •peen. eulogized by
Wendall Phillips an•l others as the greatest
hero that ever lived—greater than even our
Own Washington !
It is not nec-scary to say to any intelligent
man, that snob teachings must inevitotily pro
duce snob traits, nor are these men -deceived'
in that respect, it is privisely what, they aim
at end anticipate. The outrage above detailed
will make their hearts leap tor joy, and they
WASHINGTON, August 12 —lnformation has
been received here to-day from the Army of
the Potomait, saying that Brigadier General
Warren, chief of the topographical engineers,
has been promoted to Major General. This
appointment is generally conceded by all to be
justly due to this distinguished and accom
plished offioer.
A new rebel ,camp was discovered on Pony
Mount, near Culpepper, on Sunday. It is be
lieved that the rebels came from the south side
of the Rapidan.
GEORGE 0. HART
will hail it as the dawn of the gtotiows day fur
which they have watched and prayed. If they
could they would carry to every hearthstone in
the South the same fiendish carnage. And all
this they do in the name of Gotkand humanity !
Is it poindble to produce any better evidence to
prove their utter madness ? In the name of
civilization and Christianity,..yre ask that then
lunatics, if left unchained, shalt at least be di-
vested of all power to work out their evil pur
poses. Upon you, fellow.ettitens, devolves this
task at the coming elections. Through your
suffrages you can show most effectually your
condemnation of this bloody and inhuman
policy. Every vote cast against the Democratic
party apataiaa the perpetrators of these infa
mous. crimes, and every intelligent man who
contributes to their success must be followed
through life by the curse of Cain.
It will not do for us to imagine that because
these wrongs °MU' in a distant State that we
are secure from their recurrence in this lati
tude. If the aims of these madmen, can be at
tained, and from three to five hundred thousand
negroce , = gad and lot loose to ravage and de.
stroy in the South, what security have we that,
when the South is desolated and these semi
barbarians drunk with blood, they will not turn
and rend us ? Independent of the claims of
humanity, we are personally' interested, the
question comes home to our very firesides.
We have faith, however, in the good sense
and intelligence of the American people, and
feel assured that their " sober second thought"
will, in We future as in the past, be right s and
that a crowning Democratic majority in 000-
ber next will avert from Pennsylvania and the
Nation these clinging curses—these irretrieva
ble calamities.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
BY TELEGRAPH.
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
PoOgoTION OP BRIG, GEN. WARREN... 4. NEw
BEIM. CAMP DpcOItERED, ETC.
William P. Howell, ,of Philadelphia, for a
long time chief clerk to the quartermaster of
the Army of the Potomac, has been rewarded
for his ability and fidelity by the appointment
of captain in the same department.
Brigadier General Patrick, Provost Marshal
General, hat obtained a stmt leave of absence
to attend to private business, it being the first
time since his entry into the volunteer service
that he has been absent from his arduous du
ties. Deputy Provost Marshal Sharpe acts in
his stead.
No moTetnents of a general charactet
transpired for some time. The weather is in
tensely hot, the earth dry and parched, and
man and beast are glad to seek the cooling
shades.
DISPATCH BROM GDS. HEADZ.
The following dispatch has been received at
the headquarters of the army :
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TIER POTOMAC,
August 6
MAJOR GEN: HALLECK, General in Chief—
GENERAL :-My attention having been called
to what purports to be an official clicagtelt of
General R. E. Lee, commander of the Confede
rate army, to General S; Cooper, Adjutant and
Inspect or General, denying the accuracy of my
telegram to you of July 14, announcing the
result of a cavalry affair at Falling Waters. I
have delayed taking any notice of lam Lee's
report until the return of Brigadier General
Kilpatrick, absent on leave, who commanded
the cavalry engaged on the occasion referred
to, and on whose report from the field my tel
egram was based. I now enclose the official
report of Brigadier General Kilphttielt, Made
after his attention had been called to Lee's
report. You will see that he reitterates and
confirms all that my dispatch averred, and
proves mast conclusively that General Lee
has been deceived by his subordinates, or he
would never, in the face of the facts, have made
the assertions his report contains.
It appears that I wasiin error in stating that
the body of General Pettigrew was left in OUT
hands, although I would not communicate that
fact until an officer front the field reported to
me that he had seen the body. It is now aaeer
tained from the Richmond'eapers that General
Pettigrew, though mortally wounded, was ta
ken t 3 Winchester, where he • subsequently
died. •
The three battle flags captured on this occa
sion and son 4 to - Washington belonged to the
40th, 47th and .55th Virginia regiments of in
fantry; General Lee will surely acknowledge
that these/sere not left in the hands of strag,
glers asbii , p in barns.
Respectfully yours, GEO. G. IIiEADE,
Major General Commanding.
REPORT OF BRIO. USN, HILPATBIGH—THIS JIOIIT
AT FALLING WATEBS
IiRADQVARYIERS THIRD DIVISION CAVALRY CORPS, }
Warr nton Junction, v a., August 7.
To Col A. J. Alexander, chief of staff, cav
alry corps
In compliance with a letter just received
from the headquarters of the cavalry 2orps of
the army of the Potomac, directing mt to give
facts connected with my fight as Falling
Waters, I have the honor to state that at 8
o'clock on the morning of the 14th of July. I
learned that the enemy's pickets wereretiring
in my front. Having been previously ordered
to attack at 7 a. m., I was ready to move at
once. At daylight I bad reached the crest of
the hills occupied by the enemy an hour be
fore, and at a few moments before 6 o'clock
Gen. Ouster drove the rear guard of Ike enemy
into the river at Williamsport. Learning from
citizens that a portion of the enemy had re
treated in the direction of Falling Waters, I at
once moved rapidly for that point, and came
np with the rear guard of the enemy at 7.30
a. m., at a point 5 miles from Falling Waters.
We pressed on, driving them before us, captur
ing many prisoners and one gun. Wien within
a mile and a half of Falling Waters the enemy
was found in large force drawn up in line of
batle on the crest of a hill eommanding the
road in which I was advancing His left was
protected by earthworks, and his right ex
tended to the woods far on my left. The enemy
was, when first seen, in two lines of battle
With arms stacked.. Within less than one thou
sand yards Of th s large toroe a second piece
of artillery with its support, consisiing of in
fantry, was captured while attemp!ng to get
into position. The gun was taken to the rear
A portion of the 61h Michigan cavalry, see
ing only that portion of the enemy hellitel 440
earthwork, charged, led by Major Weber, form
ing one of the most gallant charges ever made.
At a trot be passed up the hill, received the
fire from the wnole line, and the next moment
rode through and
over the earthworks, passed
rig
to the Sabering the re - ale along the en
tire line, and ht - returned with a loss of thirty
killed, woundect•ands missing, including the
ga l li drat it e j d 'lr G W en e s e k be r i a r r l ai . w i e s k i o w s rs te w r , a :to u k t i s i t e l : i n e d d; forward.
pulsed before " etippert could be sent to them
ee-d driven haelt;elodely followed by the rehele,,
until checked hy the 1 t Michigan and a squad-.
ron of the ah New York.
The Second brigade having come up, it was
throwd inte position, and after a fight of two
hours and thirty minutes we routed the enemy
at all points and drove them toward the river.
When within a short distance of the bridge,
Gee. Buferd's command came up and took the
,adVagtoe. We lost 29 killed, 36 wounded and
40 naming. We found upon the field 125 dead
, rebels and brought away upwards of 60
wounded; large number of the enemy's
wounded were left upon the field in charge of
their own surgeons. We captured two guns,
three battle flags and upwards of 1,500 pris
oners.
Tv Gen. Custer and his brigade, Lieutenant
Pennington and his , hattery,.and one squadron
of the Bth New York cavalry, of Gen. Buford's
command, all praise is due.
Very respectfully your odedient servant,
J. KILPATRICK,
Brig. Oen. Vole. Com'dg. Division.
ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP THE CROTON
AQUEDUCT.
NEW roux, August 12 —Some miscreants
are reported to have been detected in an at
tempt to blow up the Croton Aqueduct, at Tar
rytown, on Monday night. They broke into
the powder magazine, and stole a keg of pow
-der, wbich was found with them near the aque
duct. Time evidence being ineuifteient i the
men were released after a hearing.
FROM THE ARMY OF THE SOUTH-WEST
.WAsaineron, August 12.—The report of the
operations of the army of Tennessee from the
time Gen. Grant took command of the expedi
tion spinal, Vicksburg to the surrender of that
place, is published in an official gazette. He
says he cannot close his report without ex
pressing his thanks for his good fortune in be
ing placed in co•operation with Admiral Por
ter. Ile says that oilier, vith the very of
officers under him. have , ever shown the great
est readiness in their co-operation, no matter
what was to he don.e or what risk to be taken,
either by their men or their..vevels. Without
this prompt and cordial. support, my move
ments would have been much embarrassed, if
not wholly defeated.
ARREST OF COUNT JOiTNESS•
BOSTON. Augnst 12. Count Jouness has
been indicted by the Grand Jury as a common
nuisance_ He plead not guilty and held in
10,000 dollars to answer at court..
BY THE MAILS.
DRAFTED MEN-DESERTERS.
The following order in regard to drafted men
held as deserters, has just been issued by the
Provost Marshal General :
WAR 'DEPARTMENT,
PROVOST MARSHAL GINBRAL'S OPTION,
WASHINGTON, Agguat 9, .1863.
CIRCULAR No. 57.—The following opinion of
Colonel Joseph Holt, Judge Advocate general,
with regard to men who have been drafted,
and who were abroad or at sea at the time of
the draft, is published for the information and
and guidance of officers of this bureau, viz :
The class of persons referred to, if deserters
according to the letter of the statute, are not
so according to its spirit, and should not be so
treated by the government. The drafted men
who are declared to be deserters for having
failed to report themselves for duty are those
who have bad actual personal notice, or con
struative notice, from leaving a 81.11111110125 at
their last place of residence, that they have
been 'drafted. and that their attendance at the
place of rendezvous named is required. It is
assumed that the constructive notice has
reached the parties, and hence they are de
nounced as deserters for` not obeying it. De
sertion involves a criminal intent, and a man
cannot, in the sense of the law, or with any
propriety of language, be held to have deserted
a service when he did not know he belonged
to it—to have neglected a duty when he had
no means of knowing that it had been imposed
upon him. The law would stultify itself were
it to declare otherwise.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man, but
ignorance of facts always does. The law
obliges no man to do an impossible thing, nor
can it on any principle hold him responsible
for not Laving done .it. When, therefore, a
drafted man is abroad, or at sea, or otherwise
placed in sudh circumstance as to render it
physically impossible for him to have bad
knowledge of the draft, and of his duty under
it, he Owl go 1;19 advertised or treated as a
deserter. Such a step would be cruel, and
would shook that sense of public justice which
all entertain. If such person do not, without
delay, report themadlies for duty, after receiv
inginfermation that, they, have been drafted,
they should be arrested as clesertera. It will
be for the Secretary of War to determine how
long the public interest will permit the guy
erument to wait for the return of this class of
persons. Unquestionably the drafted men who
do not within a.reasonable time return to the
country, so as to enter the' service, should not
be accepted as apart of the quota of troops due
to the States from which they belong. '
JAMES B. FEY,
Provost Marshal General.
THE DRAFT IN NEW 'YORK.
t•; ; : r
SEYMOUR
r SSW:ITM MANSION, Z
WASHINGTON, August 11, 1853. S
To hie Excellency Horatio Seymour, Governor of
New York: •
Yours of the Bth, with Judge Advocate Gen.
oral Waterbury's report, was received to-day.
Asking you to remember that I consider time
as being very important, both to the general
cause of the country and to the soldiers already
in the field, I beg to remind you that I waited,
at your request, from the let to the 6th inst.,
to receive your communication dated the 3d.
In view of its great length, and the known time
and apparent care taken in its preparation,
did not doubt that it contained your full case
ae you desired to present it. It contained fig
ures for twelve districts, omitting the other
nineteen,t.as I supposed because you found
nothing to complain of as to them. I answered
accordingly. In doing so I laid down the prin
ciple to which I propose adhering, which is to
proceed with the draft, at the same time ,
em
ploying means to avoid any great
wrong. With the communication received to
day, you send figures for twenty-eight districts,
including the twelve sent before, and still omit
ting three, for which I suppose the enrol
ments are not yet received. In looking over
the faller het of twenty-eight districts, I find
that the quotas for sixteen of them are above
2,000 and below 2,700, while of rest six
are above 2,700 and six are below 2,700.
Applying the principle to these new taws, the
Fifth and Seventh districts must be added to
the four in which the quotas have already been
reduced 2.000 for the first draft, and with these
four others must be added to close to be en
rolled. The , correct case will then stand : The
quotas of the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth,
Seventh and Eighth districts, fixed an 2,200
fur the first draft. The Provost Marshal Gen
eral informs me that the drawing is already
completed in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth,Eigh
teenth, T wen ty-second, Twenty-fours h,T weary
sixth, Twenty-seventh, Twenty eigth, Twenty
nine and Thirtieth districts. In the others, ex
cept the three outstanding, the drawing will he
made upon the quotas as now fixed Atter the
first draft, the Second. Fourth, Fifth, Sixth,
Seventh, Eighth,' Sixteenth, Seventeenth,
Twenty-first, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-ninth and
Thirty-first Will ,be re-enrolled for the r uipoite
and in the manner stated in my letter of the
7,h inst. The same principle will re applied
to thi now outstanding aistricts when thee
shall come in No part of my former letter is
repudiated by reason of not being restated in
thi4, or for salty t!igor•oamoo.. •
Yogr nbegelial servant,
A. LINCOLN
THE WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST
THE EXPEDITION INTO ARKANSAS-AFFAIRS AT
VICHEDURO-DESTRUBTION OF REBEL PRO-
RERTY.
CAIRO, August,ll.—Gunboats are being pre
partd to co-operate with Gen. Steele's cape
ditiOn into Arkansas.
Vicksburg is, being put in a Complete sani
tary condition. Rations are still issued daily
to upwards of 10,000 inhabitants.
It is reported that the guerrilla Richardson
has returned to West Tennessee, with require
ments to carry out the rebel 00138CTiptillii.- - 4 4 :,
is said he has been instructed to conscript all
the light colored men .betwren 18 and 45, to
serve tor three years as soldiers, and at the
expiration of that time they are to be manu
mitted, but are to receive no pay for services.
The reconnoissance, under Major Warden, of
Gen, Ramaques staff, to Woodville, seventy
miles froth Natchez, destroyed five locomotives,
forty-three platform, and twelve passenger
oars; burned a rebel cotton factory at Wood
ville, and also cotton and manufactured goods
to the amount of 5200,000.
Cairo is thronged with twenty-day fur
loughed men from below on their way home:
Twenty deserters delivered themselves up,
after bearing a speech from General Logan,
at Marion, a day or two since.
Deserters are Wag captured daily in the
southern counties of Illinois, and forwarded to
their regiments.
FROM NORTH CAROLINA.
NEwucas, August 19.—The appointment of
Colonel Lee, of the 27th Massachusetts, as pro.
vost marshal, and Captain 1). Sanford, of the
same regiment, as provost marshal of Newbern
gives universal satisfaction.
Colonel Biggs, the chief quartermaster of
this department, leaves in a day or two for For
tress Monroe, where he will establish his head
quarters,
THE WAR IN KENTUCKY
CINCINNATI, August 11.—A special dispatch
from Lexington to the Commercial says:
Reports from the front indicate that all is
quiet on the border.
The refugees from East Tennessee.report that
Forrest's mounted force was to rendezvous at
Kingston or Concord. .
A rebel brigade, , under Armstrong, had ar
rived at the former plane.
Cen. Burnside 4rrieed at Lexington yester
day. The movement of troops in that direction
is very active.
THE CONSCRIPTION BEFORE THE SU
PREME COURT OF NEW YORK.
NEw Yam, August 11.—A writ of habeas
Corpus p as allowed by Judge ChamVsers, on
Saturdat ordering Gen. Canby to produce the
body of. Guy W. Hollister,,a conscript from the
interior part of the State. The counsel for the
conscript, Jas. 0. C. Fabb, claims in his peti
tion that the conscription act is illegal, null
and void. Gen. Canby made return this morn
ing that the drafted men arc not under hit
command, whereupon a new writ was issued to
the officer having control of the forces on Bi
ker's Island where Hollister is claimed to be.
FROM MEMPHIS.
MEMPHIS, August 9 —A company of citizen
scouts, numbering about sixty, organized in
Northern Alabama, in June last, to resist the
rebel conscription, have thus far evaded every
effort to capture them. They report to General
Dodge, at Corinth, that their number is in
creasing daily. They have either captured or
driven out every officer sent into that section to
enforce the conscription.
Letters from privates in Bragg's army report
him falling back to Atlanta.
A considerable number of rebel deserters,
who had retained their arms, are in the moun
tains near Pikeville, Ala., and are organizing
with the citizens to resist the conscription.
The efforts to exeoute the conscription in
West Tennessee are pretty effectually broken
up by the vigilance of Oin. Hurlbut's army,
THE PIRATE GEORGIA.
Nnw Yong, August 11.—The bark Lord Bal
timore, from Rio Janeiro, reports the bark
Good Hope, from Boston for the Cape of Good
Hope, was captured by the privateer Georgia,
on the 13th of June, in latitude '22 8 8V longi
tude 42° 08/, and burned the next day. The
crew and passengers were transferred to the
bark J. W. Seaver, from Boston for the Amoy
river, and landed at Rio Janeira. The pirates
bonded the Seaver for $15,000.
FROM FORTRESS bIONROE.
ARRIVAL OF A PRIZE-NEWS FROM CHARLESTON
-FARM WEATHER.
FORTREfIe MONROE, August 10_ United
States gunboat Western World, Captain Greg
ory, arrived this morning from Moorehead
City, North • Carolina. with the prize steamer
Rate in tow: The Kate is an English built
steamer, recently captured while attempting
to run the biockade from Wilmington:
The United States revenue transport steamer
Flora, W. A. Booth commander, arrived. last
evening from off Charleston. _ They report
having left Port Royal on Friday, the 70,
and passed close by Charleston at eleven
o'clock that evening. They heard heavy and
rapid firing.
The bombarding was between Fort Sumpter
and Morris Island, and the sky was brilliantly
illuminated by the shell.
On the Bth, while off Cape Lookout, was
boarded by the blockade runner James Adger.
On the 9th put out the fires to repair boilers,
detaining them ten boner.
The Cherrystone boat arrived at Fortress
Monroe at two o'clock this afternoon with two
prisoners, the father and son, charged with the
shooting of two of the United States sentinels
at Cherrystone last Saturday.
The old inhabitants at Fortress Monroe say
that yesterday was the warmest day experi
enced here since 1836.
A soldier died from sunstroke in the For
tress.
The gunboat Iroquois left Beaufort on Fri
dey last to resume her station at the blocky e
off Wilmington.
All the rebel officers and surgeons confined
as prisoners of war in Fort Norfolk—upwards
of one hundred and twenty—are being trans
ferred to Fort M'Henry, by the steamer George
Washington, in charge of Major Mulford.
THE lOWA. EXCITEMENT SUBSIDED.
MtrscArlan, August 11.—The latest advices
report that the excitement in Keokuk county
hag subsided. Upon the arrival of the mili
tary from Davenport, the insurgents dispersed.
The. Unionists prominent in shooting Folley
were arrested and bound over. Some arrests
of insurgents had been made,ind others will be.
Most of the military have returned. One com
pany from this place remains with the sheriff's
posse.
How TO rORETELL THE WEATHER.—Take a
Walk a few miles into the country, until you
arrive at a field where cows are grazing, and it
the animals turn their tails to the wind, you
navy be sure it will he stormy ; if they turn
their faces, it will be fair ; but if some stud
.one way and some another, you may toss up a
few cents, and as they come dawn, hqeds or
tails, yott can guess which way it will be; it
no other good result from this,.you pill have
a good walk, and perhaps seen nature in al
her.,glowing beauty ,and loveliness.
Tutus has .a ptil Insurer' co Company, which
assures against robs or. - damage from the bait
storms which are hereiat times a most terriblt
calamity for husbandmen.
TAlClonAns.—The Pacific Ocean covers sev
enty-eight millions of square miles; the Atlan
tic, twepty,-,fivc lAtilio s
Lirtl is a caBkpt Alitrecious fo -ltself„- 1 ;u;,
vainatotw prppert.ol3 t o wtmr fortliu 01 , o rau - _ .
ttustry, or vir ue has plsoed within it.
New 70Dertizcinente.
TO THOSE DESIRING TO PRO
CURE SUBSTITUTES, AND
TO THOSE WISHING TO BECOME SUBSTITUTES.
The undersigned, Mi Cary Claim Agents, tender their
services for the procuring of hibistitutes for Drafted
men, as well as for the securing of the highest p r i ce
for ihose wishing to offer themselves as Sub.tautes.
They will register the names of each class referred to,
with the amounts, in money , proposed to be given by
the one and to be received by the other.
Those interested ere invited to call at the office, in
the vzolkarkze Buildings. opposite the Esnohin County
Prison, liscDOWELia & Ma CHI/RE,
ants.tre Military Claim Agents.
TEE BEST BEER IN TElk: CITY!
THE EMEROENVY OVER!
VTY BEER !
Friends of an excellent glass of beer, the best re
freshment in this hot weather, can get it always at my
Saloon, Walnut street. next to tho hanesste-iatL school
house, at I am supplied retalarly from T. !WRING.
ER 7 B Brewery, Lancaster, Pa.
anls-3t
GEO. BUSTER.
musements.
BRANT'S HALL
RETURN OF THE FAVORITES
II .41.1 W IS 1.1 I .1V AA
COMBINATION TROUPE
FOR
Orr THREE NIGHTS ONLY! .4113
Thursday, Friday' and Saturday,
August 13th, 14th and 15th.
ADMISSION 20 And 35 CENTS.
_ augl9-2t
RETURN OF
RETURN OF
RETURN OF
RETURN OF
NIXON'S CREMORNE CIRCUS,
NIXON'S CREMORNE CIRCUS,
NIXON'S CREMORNE CIRCUS,
NIXON'S CREMORNE CIRCUS,
AT HARRISBURG
AT HARRISBURG
AT HARRISBURG
AT HARRISBURG
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY,
- FRIDAY AND SATURDAY,
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY,
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY,
ON LOT IN SECOND STREET,
ON LOT IN SECOND STREET,
ON LOT IN SECOND STREET,
ON LOT IN SECOND STREET,
NEAR THE COT ON MILL
NEAR THE COTTON MILL
NEAR THE COTTON MILL.
NEA.P. THE COTTON MILL.
NIXOWEI
CREMORNE
tr CIRCUS.
MIKE MACARTE'S
.0 EUROPEAN CIRCUS.
I T l t. '...." First appearance in America.
f
IQ Madame Macarte has great MU
/ •
~ faction in announcing to the people
! _i 7 of this country, that after an sib.
I. . -, .
sense of several years she will
"RIANANIN" .... again have the honor of appearing
' - - before them.
Among the Royal British Circus
i4lVir is the beautiful Stud of Engksh
thorough-bretls„ including the celc
brated Mare,
• BLACK SWAN. '
• Being the same Troupe with which
—..m - Sill ag- in England, Ireland and Scotland
she bad the honor of performing
before the most reined and numer
r" sus audiences ir. every city in the
„,,,„ ~.f British Realm.
„,,,,,. Madame blaearto's great Act, the
tol. VENETIAN CARNIVAL
.>; l 4-, 7: S- - ,.
~ „, , ,j , .,„ ..._ Will be remembered by those who
! sb , : wiMessed her former eTorty in this
if : d v.W_lgt - --- Country. --
':,......€•`”" First appearance in Arnorier. of
d 4
t 0 Mr. JOHN COOK,
. .
',..- The English humorist, known as the
• .• ',.- most brilliant wit in England, and
ft , familiarly styled the COMIC MUSE,
01 Tho elegant follies of this well.
N i bred and gentlemanly clown will 40
occasionally divergitted by the ex.
. i
, ( ~..,f4 ; ,4 4 ~./ . J ..,,, ceedingly comic grotesques of the
--' famous FRDICII PIERROT. ' , we
-....-_,
121M5!
First appearance in America or the
.110111 k... - , SYRO-ARABIC TROUPLir
_ ,
4 Comprising Male and Female lug.
'IOIIIPI glers, Acr.obates, Contortionists.
;14 11, • Prom inent among the features of
is troupe is the distinguished,
I)th _, -=---- : t prism CARROLL, ,
------ .4.0f European and American cete
. _
l- --4. ' brity. This young and brilliant
• artiste is acknowledged by all, both
:N• in and out or the equestrian pro
',. i , ' fession, to be th e most perfect rider
..16 . ~.., ...o f the age.
V i /. .."'i _. . In addition to the Star Company,
4„- , -, JafrAA.,.2l..: _ the manager has secured an en
1.- 1, ---.`_,...„,,,,; gagement with the renowned wild
Rider,
- 4 Mr. EATON STONE.
1" _.,..- ---L, Mr. Stone's feats on horseback
....„-..- li., ----
~ k- - -- are all performed on his naked
k' s ...';' V4F-• Steed, without saddle,
bridle, or
. -....-, covering of any kind. His reckless
.v . and brilliant leaps over four-barred
te.,_ V . '--..,. \ - 7 .- gates and ether harriers, while
----- carrying his son upon his head, and
- ,----- in various other attitudes are con
'•- • sidered the per fection of equestrian
7,..
skill, and have justly entitled him
to the distinction of " Champion of
the Arena."
1111
15. LATIIIXOP,
The Sento& Clown.
JIM REYNOLDS,
The Great Diode! Clown.
•-• ' The great romantic spectacle
1,
• :.1, 1 14,
--'4 DICK TURPWS
BIDE TO YORK,
AND DEATH OF BLACK BM.
Dux Tumm M'ME SLACARTE.
WANTED.—An active boy, in a dry
11 goods store. /Inquire at, TIS OFFIOE•
augil-tf
TAKE NOTIC ill —That my wife Mary
T.
has; lett my bhd and board witnnut any Mat cause
whatever ' I therefore forewlrn all prrs.ms from trust
ing or harboring he. on my aocom,t, ~p I am determin
ed to pay no debte.of,her contrafti! r. 10 this date_
trarzELMAN.
Lykenstonn. Angial() 1868.--aull-4 * '
; .------ --
, % PBTOlrwse left ,at. my s ore Vo. 114
,
, ,
.m..k...t, week 0. , last Fr , attv by 4 c loped boy.
ehproilie /weer- G ee (bun, it by et.v oit pr portyand
s*Yisg e ,argei
angli
FOR TWO DAYS ONLY,
FOR TWO DAYS ONLY;
FOR TWO DAYS ONLY,
,FOR TWO DAIS ONLY,
AUGUST 21 AND 22,
AUGUST 21 AND 22,
AUGUS r 21 AND 22,
AUGUST 21 AND 22,
imio .1 vs IN'GEB.