tile a:trim & &don. MONDAY MORNING, AUG. 31, 1863 0. BABBSTT & 00., PEOPEENTORS Oonsmemesuona will not be published in the Pcsitios da lissom unless accompanied with the name of th anther. 111. M. VETTENGILL & VO., no. 37 Pork Raw. 11. Y., and i State Ss., Boston, An OUT firsts for the Parma, as Moon in thole WM% mid ase msthosised to take Advertisements and llimmilstioso for iss at our Leukus Rani DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINATIONS. FOB GOVBRNOR, MN. GEO. W. WOODW&RD, OP PHILADELPHIA. FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT. WALTER H. LOWRIE, Cr ALLIGNINT COUNTY. Ws publish on our -first page this morning the letter of the Bon. Chas. 8. Bnchalew is the Lycoming county meeting, to which we call the attention of our readers. Its clear, axiomatic, earnest utterances are the fruits of that sound reflection and faithful conservatism whisk so eminently characterize all produc tions _of the author's pen. How admirably wisdom and calmness and a deep devotion to coneervative principles is blended in this brief letter, with perfect sincerity of feeling, honest and active sympathies with the cause of De mocracy and the Union. let the reader judge. Corporations and Coercion. The following resolution, passed originally by the Damao:may of Northampton county, was fully endorsed and adopted by thereeent Demo cratic County Convention in Philadelphia. It is a movement in the right direction, and we trust it will be made a question at every poll is the Commonwealth, and men elected to the Legislature who will inexorably carry out this Inatome, so necessary, in these days of pro scription and tyranny, to preserve the untram meled right of oniftnge end thus secure our liberties. In every election district these cor porations should be carefully watched, and the evidence oollected upon which to base the ac tion of the next Democratic Legislature : ResoFeed, That we re•isbo the sentiments of the resolutions of the Democrats of old Northampton, calling upon the Legislature to repeal the charters of all corporations that shall have been engaged in proscribing men for the exercise of their political opinions, or in excluding, from the institutions and public conveyances under their control, the Demo cratie prom of the country; and we request the member. from this city to aid, by all the means in their power, this laudable effort in behalf of constitutional freedom." A Gospel of Extermination I The War Department has recently added to Ma paraphernalia ) two DeW offteers—a Solicitor and a Judge Advocate General. Stanton has thus become a gg Bashaw of two tails," after the manner of a kindred tyranny in Turkey. HOLT, who sneered at Mr. Buchanan as incom petent, and afterwards eagerly took office un der him, is the Advocate ; and somebody named Wnrrino, is the Solicitor. These places were doubtless filled entirely to the liking of the august Stanton. Whiting, we believe, Wes picked up somewhere in Massachusetts, among the Butlers, the Andrews, and other small lawyers of that ilk, and from his reckless sophiems and pliant subserviency, there is no danger but he will duly illustrate both his birthplace and his breeding. A writer of legal opinions and political es says, is Whiting, and in these especially his training and origin are apparent. We do not look upon him as a fanatic, like Phillips ; we 'odd rather suppose that he was the incarna tion of a retail pettifogger suddenly grown into a wholesale trader in the same line; and from the utter unscruptdonaness of his asser tions, deductions and teachings, we cannot shake off the conviction, that he is as ther m:oly a canting hypocrite, as he undoubtedly ie a most pernioious demagogue.. A very able writer in the New York 'World, entitling himself Waxes, has recently given to Stanton's Solicitor, and over his back, the whole adminis' trade* a most terrific excoria tion, for the opinion published by Whiting, in zeolite the rights of Union men and loyal citizens, in those States included in the Presi dent's proclamation of confiscation, The posi tions assumed by the cringing apologist of the proclamation, are in the words and to the effect—" that nets reason, in those sections of the country declared by the President to be in a state of rebellion, has the rights that belong to a PUBLIC SNOWY, and no mare." In a subse quent portion of the paragraph, he adds— after the inhabitants of a district have be some PUBLIC wWIOIII6B I act have na rights, State or personal, against the United States." Mark the words—" each pet-son," (not each rebel, nor each individual guilty of overt acts of treason, but ' 1 each person,") inhabiting the several States in rebellion against the Govern ment at Washington, becomes, by that habita tion, under the fiat of the President—not by his own seta—n public enemy ; and 50 may tos plundered, imprisoned, hung, or treated in any manner the brutality of war may choose to adopt I A Union man in Pennsylvania has fights; but if he resides in Georgia. he has none. The writer in the World may well tharaoterize these doctrines as a gospel of ex termination. The same writer, with an ability and terse ness that could spring only from a master land, remarks, in reply, that the relations of indiyiduals awl of the States to the United ifkates are legal relations. They are always the same. The state of war (Iles not change them, for they t are institutions—emphatically Matitutions--eatablished for a guide at all times and under all circumstances. There is no pro em by which they can be changed—save that provided by themselves. Rebellion, instead of overthrowing them, affords,. only an oppor tunity to apply and enforce , them. Without them there could be no rebellion, because they arc the gouty a ut h or ity *Web men in this 13011 The try are bound to obey. A State canei.t die sohd them. Her place in the confederacy is died. If she tries by force to get oat of that pimps the government may coerce her back. If an administration tries by force to assign her a different place she may resist the administra tion. Whatever the law demands of her or of the Federal authorities must be performed. Her weeittutional inadtutions are part of the system of government which she may be com pelled to obey and which she has a right to demand that the general government shall re spect. To assert that rebellion destroys the i n stitutions of a State, is to admit either that it is too strong for the Federal power, or that our institutions are a failure. It is on the lat ter ground, apparently, that Secretary Sian ton's solicitor rests ; and his remedy is to blot out the institutions Of bait the States of the republic, and to make the general government supreme and absolute in their limits. He as sumes this ground upon the hypothesis that "each pettlem"--egery inhabitant—of a district declared by the President to be in rebellion is a public enemy. If his hypothesis is correct, if residence in Souti Carolina legally does make a man a public enemy, then he must receive the treatment of a public enemy—not after the Abolition fashion, but according to the usages by which civilization has endeavored to make war Pee repugnant to Christianity ; but the government cannot class its own citizens am traitors because they reside in rebellious dis tricts, any more than it can class all men as thieves who live in a neighborhood of thieves. Nor can a government apply the term "public enemies" to its own citizens in the same sense as to the citizens of a foreign hostile power. A rebel is a traitor. An alien enemy is not. The former can only fix his character by his own act. The latter is bound by the acts of hie govern ment. Each, according to all rules, military as well as civil, is supposed to be loyal to his own government, to aid and assist it to the ex tent of his power, and especially to be subject to it, so that he must absolutely follow its for tunes. Indeed, so plain is the distinction be— tween foreign enemies and rebels, that it has been reserved for Mr. Stanton's solicitor to confound it, and to apply the same rule to citizens in a rebellious territory as would be applied to alien enemies in their own home. A district may be in a state of war by reason Of the armed rebellion of the inhabitants. That may subject loyal men to the inconveni ences of a military occupation and to the rigors of martial law. I admit that ; but the solicitor of Secretary Stanton is not content with this, which embraces the utmost concession that any man earnest for the restoration of the national authority can demand. He assumes a position from which the power of the nation may be directed to a different object—to the overthrow of that authority as conittituted by the people—a position which can only have been assumed in the interests of a maturing despotism. I have said that a rebel is a traitor. Who does not understand that treason is a crime, having a legal meaning ? Who does not understand this, except Secretary Stanton's so licitor ? It dove not coosist in residence, but in acts. A Matt Oannot be a traitor without his own consent. The place of his birth or the home of his family cannot enter into the cata logue of overt acts, deprive him of his pro perty, and consign him to the brutality of mill Lary power. A child scarce able to know the name of the rebellious State in which he or she was born, cannot by any law, human or divine, be held tainted by corruption of blood, and classed as a "public enemy." If fierce vindictive passions, if the lust of power, if unholy partisan ambition ripened into a design to overthrow the liberties of the people, has silenced the voice of human justice end defies the eternal justice of God, that child may be branded and oppressed by the savage rule an nounced by Mr. Stanton's solicitor ; but under the institutions which Americans enjoyed be fore Mr. Lincoln entered the White House. such an act would have been likened to the atrocities of Bomba—to the woman-whipping and boy-shooting of the Austrians in Italy ; but here is the fact. The United States of to-day are forced to listen to a proposition from a high government officer which would have consigned him to instant infamy two years ago, He proposes to hotchpotch millions of citi zens together, and to make the overt acts of part evidence of the guilt of all of them. And this, too, in the very face of an axiom of liberty as old as the common law, and to which even a thief is entitled—that innocence shall be presumed until guilt is proven. In his anxiety to unfold the "plan" of the administration, he does not pause to consider principles of liberty which have been the birthright of his race during centuries, and without which he would proba bly to-day be obscure, instead of occupying a high place from which to aim his blows against public liberty. He does not even allude to the right of good citizens to protection from the hands of their government. He wilfully re frains from saying, what all the world knows, that men in the South who have not taken arms against the government, who have done nothing save to stay in their homes, have an absolute legal right, not to be classed as pub lic enemies, but to be treated as loyal citizens. Thu is only a proposition of law and justice, and was therefore inconsistent with the design to destroy law and to withhold justice. He boldly abjures all the beneficent ends of gov ernment—the protection of persons and pro perty—but sternly outlaws all men resid,ing in rebellious districts; makes them traitors, not by their own act nor with their own consent, but by the proclamation of a President whose duty it is to protect them in their home and liberty, instead of repulsing them as public enemies. Ne doubt Mr. Solicitor Whiting simplifies matters. So Went worth did with his "Thorough"—Wentworth, the renegade to freedom, the apostate to the noble teachings of the same profession which Mr. Stanton's solicitor dishonors by his advocacy of despot ism. Strange similarity in profession and baseness! But the student of history will re m- mber that Wentworth's career ended on the block. So Robespierre simplified—Robespierre and his grim compatriots in the work of mur der, and (like the modern Republicans) of lib erty. How plan it is that it is easier to cut every man's throat, confiecate every man's property, and exterminate an entire people. than to waste time in inquiry a 4 to guilt or innocence! No shorter out can be taken to absoluteism than to deny the duty of the the government to its citizens. Besides, the Old fashioned sans culottes habit of suspecting MD, at least, before they were condemned, is elow—not up to the spirit of the age. Surely it is an improvemeut to measure treason by the square wile, and to make degrees of latitude and longitude the tests of the “eignts" ot God's creatures. Why not brat up the loyal men, the women and children and other non combatants of the South. as bunters rurrottod and drive • together the animals they design to destroy ? Why not ? says Mr. Stanton's solicitor. It may be that many of them are loyal. It cer tainly is true that sex, age, and inclination has prevented many more of them from participa ting in the rebellion ; but what weight ought such considerations to havegwith an ardent so licitor doing the bidding of the Secretary of War ? It is true that men have a right to live quietly in their homes, that Southern Unionists could not leave theirs without toss of property, and perhaps loss of life. But of what impor tance is this to the valorous horde who have waxed fat by contracts, and chirruped them selves into solicitorehips and other nice places ? It is true there is no evidence that Mr. Stoll ton's solicitor would have sacrificed a cent for the sake of the Union, and that men of his "thorough" tendencies do not lead the van in battle, or take any more dangerous part in the war than is involved in the infamy of safe at tacks upon the rights of the people, or in aid ing the heroic Stanton himself to take care of "the sword of the Lord and of Gideon ;" but the question will afise, how can the proclama tion of President Lincoln convert a loyal man into a traitor ?—how can he, by a flourish of his pen, multiply "public enemies ?" . The seces sion of a state cannot pro facto make all her people secessionists. It cannot change all of them to public enemies, nor strip them of the right to enjoy the State Government under the Constitution. If they take part in her seces sion, if they (commit overt acts of treason, they fix their own status and must abide the conse quences ; but remaining in one's home when rebellion rages around him does not make him a rebel. Thousands and tens of thousands of the Southern people, overawed by the military power of the Southern Confederacy, have un doubtedly done nothing, been able to do noth ing, save to refrain from taking arms agains t the government. So in the streets of New York when riot ruled the city, many good men dared not resist, but held their peace, waiting for the restoration of the supremacy of the law. Ac cording to Secretary Stanton's solicitor, those men are only entitled to the rights of rioters, because they lived in riotous districts. A great deal has been demanded for the is military power." " Military necessity" hite been made the pretext for assaults upon free speech and a free press. In some form or an other every valuable right of the citizen has been assailed. The magic properties of that power have transmuted our freedom into the base metal of despotism. We have a Conscrip tion act, a President with a body-guard, and cabinet officers veiling their august counte nances behind a Bashing line of sentinel bayo nets. Our principal towns and cities are garri soned. &Olio meetings, opposed to the ad ministration, are interrupted and dispersed by military force. Peaceable siti24sAd are perse cuted, imprisoned, and shot down because of their political sentiments. Martial law stands between the voter and the ballot box. The official dependants of the ailmieletration con stitute a host with which to coerce or to de bauch the people. Spies and informers, the vile brood who make thrift by the arts of eaves dropping and perjury, repeat here the worst feature of European espionage, and of. European insecurity to individuals. For all this " mili tary necessity" has been the excuse, but who, even after this experience, is not startled by this enunciation of a high and confidential officer of the administration that a citizen can not be loyal if the President proclaims the State in which he lives disloyal—that without an act upon his part he may be forced into the oats gory of public enemies, and made the victim of military power ? Yet this is the doctrine of Secretary Stanton's solicitor, and of Mr. Lincoln's confidential for eign agent. The despots of Europe should open their arms to receive a man who has had the effrontery to announce a brutality which they may have thought of, but have never dared to speak. NEWS OF THE DAY. BY TELEGRAPH. FROM 011ARLE8TON_ FORTRESS MONROE, Aug. 28.—[Special to the Herold.]—The gun boat Western World, Captain Gregory, arrived this morning from oil Wilmington, and reports the arrival tbrre of the United States steamer Florida from Charleston, with the intelligence that the Union forces ocoupied Forts Sumpter and Wagner on Monday last. [SECOND DISPATCH.] I learn by the steamer Western World, which arrived from Wilmington at midnight, that. Fort Sumpter has surrendered and Battery Wagner been blown up and destroyed. This report was brought to the flagship Min nesota, off Wilmington, N. C., by the steamer Florida, Captain Bankhead. News all favorable. [THIRD DISPATCH.] 13Avriumm, Aug. 28. —The following comes opeoially by tologroli from Lilo highest and moat reliable authority. I can vouch for im truth : FORTRESS MoNsoE, Aug. 28.—The United States tag-boat Western World, just arrived at Fortress Munroe to day from the fleet off Wil mington, reports that on Tuesday, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, one hour before She started, the United States steamer Florida arrived from the fleet off Charleston, with the positive news that Fort Sumpter god Battery Wagner bad fallen and Were occupied by the Union troops, and that the Stars and Stripes were trium phantly waving over both fortresses. The Union troops were in the highest spirits, and certain of possessing speedily all Morris Island and reducing Fort Moultrie. The capture and occupation of Charleston in a few days by the Union troops was morally certain. FROM WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON. August 29.. —The line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is still infested with guerillas. A large party yesterday cros sed into Maryland, at White's Ford, and cap tured a number of stock Canal teams, Although there is no official confirmation of the capture of the gunboat Satellite, and the tugboat Reliance, by the rebels near the mouth of the Rappahannock river, the naval authori ties have no doubt of the fact. In illustration of the appearanoe of Fort Sampu-r, Gen. Gilmore has sent to headquar ters a drawing illustrative of that delapniated work. voLuNTEERING IN NEW JEE6ar TRaNTON, August 29 .—Volunteering in New Jersey is proceeding very briskly About five thousand men have been obtained binoe the Governor's proclamation was issued. Three new batteries are almost complete and one re giment of cavalry and one regiment of infantry will be completed during the coming week Al most every township in the State is at work and is expected that in a few days the quotawill be furnished. EXECUTION OF SUBSTITUTE DESERTERS HEANMARTBEB ARMY Or vun POTOMAC, Aug. 29.—The execution of the substitute desetters, sentenced to the penalty of death in general orders No. 84, took place to-day. More than ordinary interest was exhibited in this mention of the military law, and it is estimated that. not less than twenty five thou sand persons were present. The ground was well selected, and every ar rangement was so complete that no accident occurred to mar the solemnity of the proceed ings_ The position of the spectators was upon a semi-circular elevation, partly surrounding the place of execution. The scene presented a remarkable view to the spectators. Two of the sentenced men were Protestants, two Catholics, and the other a Hebrew. The spiritual advisers of each were present, admin istering the last consolation of religion. The criminals were sitting upon their re spective coffins, with yawning graves in the rear. The troops were drawn up in columns by divisions. The order for the immediate execution was issued by Gen. Griffin at 3 o'clock, p. m.. and the officer of the guard, Captain Croaker, 118th Pennsylvania, then called the clergymen from their spiritual duties. The rest is briefly told. At the order to fire thirty-six muskets were discharged, and instant death, as announced by the surgeons in attend- Mee, was the result. The bodies were then placed in their respective graves, and the clergymen then performed the relgious rites over the deceased. The spectacle was an unusual one. The Catholic the Protestant end the Hebrew stood side by side, each uttering prayers for the de parted studs. The names of the deceased are as follows : Genrge Kuhn, John Felane, Chas. Walters, George Reinese, Eli Lai. The clergymen who attended the unfortunate men were the chaplain of the rlelb P _ snsylva nia, Rev C. L. Egan, of St. Dominio's church, Washington, and Rabbi B. S. Scold, of Balti more. FROM BERMUDA. Now Yost, August 29,The smack Pacific has arrived from Bermuda with &drives to the 24th inst. The rebel steamer Gladiator, from Wilmington, N. C., was going into Bermuda on the 25th. The rebel steamer Robert Lee arrived at Bermuda, on the 231, reported being chased nine hours by one of our cruisers, and threw overboard three hundred bales of cotton to escape. On the 26th, in let! 85°, long 67°, the Pa cific passed the pirate Florida with a ship in tow. Mr Bermuda Gazette gives an lacount of proceedings in St. George's, showing that seri ous troubles are occurring there relative to negro laborers, who have demanded higher wages on discharging rebel vessels. several assassinations have occurred, and incendiaries are frequent. A large quantity of co:ton has been burned, and a quantity thrown into the bay to extinguish it. The rebel attunes Columbia and t agenia were at the wharf where the fire occurred, and sent their crews to extinguish the flames. A meeting of citizens was held and a reward of £2OO offered for the arrest of the incendiary. The steamers Fanny and Jennie, from Halls fax, and the Florida from Nassau, had arrived, consigned to Bourne, the well knoWn rebel agent. The rebel steamer Phantom, from Wilming ton, with cotton, arrived on the 10th. FROM FORTRESS MONROE. FoRTRESS MoNROZ, August 29.—The steamer C. W. Thomas arrived here to-day from New bern, with Lieut. Sterling, of General Peck's eteff, Who is a bearer of dispatehes. • A dispatch from the blockading fleet says that on the morning of the 17th a large sloop nf-war of ten guns, with the British flag flying, swept past the blockading steamer and imwe diately hoisted the rebel Bag, and passed into The port of Wilmington. This is the fourth rebel war vessel that has run the blockade within the past six weeks. Southern papers received at Moorhead city, C, say that Je.ff_ Davis has decide& after a conference with the Governors of the Confed erote States, to call out half a million of black troops, who are to receive their freedom and fifty acres of land at the end of the war. INDICATIONS OF A MOVEMENT AT NEW ORLEANS. CINCINNATI, August 29.—There were 600 Il linois troops on the steamer Conner when she collided with the Des Are, and 50,000 pounds of ammunition ; all the knapsacks, guns and baggage of the addicts was lost, The 14th corps has been transferred by Gen. Grant to the Army of the Gulf. Preparations were being made at New Or leans on the 29th for a movement in some di rection. UNION. MEETING IN TENNESSEE CINCINNATI, August 29.—A numerously at tended Onion meeting was recently held at Pel ham, Greenbay county, Tenn , at Which resole lions were passed expressive of the desire to return to the Union, repudiating the act of se cession passed in 1861, and recommending the reorganization of the State. Gen. Grant received the hospitalities of Mem phis on Wednesday last. NO DRAFT IN OHIO CINCINNATI, Aug. 29.—1 t is announced this morning that no draft, will be made in this State. (Moors of the army who were sent home to secure dratted men were instructed to open recruiting stations for enlistments. THE CAPTURED STEAMER RELIANCE. EALtrimouis, Aug. 29:—The steamer Reli ance. captured by the rebels at the mouth of the Rappahannock, was the gunboat belonging to the Potomac flotilla, commanded by Acting Master Dockray, and not the revenue steamer of that name. DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION. BEDFORD, PA., Aug. 29 —William J. Baer, Etql , of Somerset, was• nominated as the Dem ocratic cantlidate for State Senator, in the Nineteenth Dictrict, composed of Bedford, Huntingdon and Somerset. THE DEATH OF GEN. PEMBERTON. CINCINNATI, Austuat 29_—Late information from Vicksburg confirm 4 the report of the death of Gen. Pemberton. He was shot by a Texan soldier. No particulars of the affair are given. BY THE MAILS. OPERATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST. SUCCESSFUL EXPEDITION UP THE WHITE AND RED RIVERS-ALL 'IRE REBEL STEAMERS OE THE YAZOO DESTROYED, EC. Waal:11141210N, August 28 —Rear Admiral Por ter forwards the report of Dentenant Bache relative to the late river expedition. He first stopped at Des Arc, on the White river, and burnt rebel stores, destroyed the telegraph wires, &e_, and then sent the Cricket after the steamers Tom Gregg and Kaskaskia, which he had reason to believe were hid up the river, senile be and the Marmon proceeded to Au guste, thirty milei t further There he obtained valuable information of the enemy, which was subsequently confirmed—namely, that the grand Southern army was concentrating on the Bayou Meto. General Price wns there and Gen. Ruby Smith at Little Rock (1-n Marmaduke had crossed the river a few days before, and wee then orosaing ,bittle Red river, Leaving the Mstrmora, off the mouth, Lieut. Bache went up the Little Red.with the Lexing ton. When about 25 miles distant he met tb• Cricket with two prizes which she had captured at Seuroy, 15 miles fortheren. She also de stroyed illarmaduke's pontoon bridge, le .ving a portion of the latter's brigade •he other side of the river. The Crtcket was fired into by Marmaduke's men, and had about twenty soldiery wounded out of 150. Both vessels were attacked coaling down the river. Some cotton and a few prisoners were captured with the prizes. The Tom Gregg is a fine side wheel steamer, as is also the Kaskaskia, though somewhat older. They are now officered and manned, and are retained to co-operate with the army. All along the river the farmers were glad at our presence, and many Union demonstrations were made. The captured boats were the only means of transportation the rebels had on the river, and therettore our taking them is a heavy blow inflicted upon them. Lieut.. Dunnington. who was formerly captured while in command of Arkansas Post, is now fitting out at Little Rock the Ponchar train, the last ram the rebels have in these wa ters. If she ventures outside the shoals Admi ral Porter says she will be °sutured. Admiral Porter, in communicating the re sults of the last expedition up the Yazoo river to recover the Baron De Kalb, the particulars of which have already been published, says that, the visit cost the rebels more than was at first supposed Captain Walkey has received information to be relied on, that, besides the five steamers at or near the city of Yazoo, Isaac Brown, late lieutenant in the United States navy, in a panic, and for fear they would fall into our hands, set fire to and destroyed' fourteen oth ers, among them nine large ones, the machi nery of which was intended to be sent to Selma, Alabatna, for the gunboats building there.— There sire no more steamers on the Yazoo. All the vessels which sought refuge there. as the safest place in rebeldom, have been destroyed. GUNBOAT BATELLI CR AND TUGBOAT RELIANCE CAPTURED Luantoss, August 28.-:-.The gunboat Meige arrived at Point Lookout at 11 o'clock on Wed nesday night, and reports having met the gun boat Currituck in the Chesapeake bay. Her captain raported that the gunboat Satellite and the tugboat Reliance, Capt. Dungan, with the crown of both vessels, were captured on Tues day by the rebels near the mouth of the Rap pahannock river. The captain of the Satellite was reported killed and the captain of the Reliance woun ded. WASUINOTON, August 28 —A report has been published that the gunboats Reliance and Satelliteo of the Potomac flotilla, were captured several days ago off the . mouth of the Rappa hannock; but neither official nor ordinary confirmation of the rumor bee been rook/cd here to-day. ROBBERIES OF THE MAILS OF THE SEC OND DIVISION, SECOND ARMY CORPS. HEADQIYARTS2I4 ARMY OF THIS POTOMAC, } , August 28, 1864, • Lieutenant Colonel Lockwood, commanding the Seventh Virginia Union regiment, reports a series of robberies of the mails of the third division, sePond army corps, running from the Sib to the 25th of August. Several thousands of dollars in government and private drafts, checks and funds have been purloined, and the letters covering them found along the route The mail carriers are under arrest. The publio are cautioned against negotiating checks or drafts from this division, unless com ing through responsible channels. MEADE'S ARMY. WASHINGTON, August 28.—A letter from the Army of the Potomac states that about two hundred Germans of the Twentieth New York Volunteers, who mutinied and were sentenced to hard labor during the war. have received doZOLOUHItiOII of their senten 35 through the ex. ertions of Provost Marshal General Patrick. Accounts from the country between the Po tomac and Rappahannock show that the rebels have a considerable infantry force at Port. Con way and are pm:wooing tbtir consoription vigorously. General Kilpatrick bad a skirmish with them several days ago, and was compelled to fall back from his reconnoissance. CAPTURE OF AN ARMY MAIL BY GUBRIL. LAS-REBEL SPIES CAPTURED lIKADQVARTERIS, ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, 1 August 28, 1863. At noon to day a party of guerillas attacked a party who were conveying the mail from the cavalry division stationed at Harwood Church, killing one man and capturing four others. They toot he mail and made their escape. Early this morning three rebel surgeons, with their instruments, were captured on this side of the Rappahannook by our troops. They did not deny their connection with the rebel army. They will be tried immediately as spies. FROM FORTRESS MONROE. FORTRESS Mormon, August 27.—The steamer Daniel Webster arrived last evening from New York with , seven hundred rebel priminers, who will leave tor City Point this afternoon to be exchansel. Ths Mobile Daily Tribune of August 18. says: Thrre are' sixteen vessels in the harbor at Pensacola, ten of which are vessels-of-war and six transports. The Yankees are building two immense hospitals at the Navy Yard, each three.huinired feet long and three stories high. All the negrore are being sent to New Orleans to be placed in tho Yankee Minims there." FROM NEW ORLEANS. COLLISION ON THE MISSISSIPPI-THE STEAMER COURIER SUNK, Ik.o MemPuts. August 25.—New Orleans advices up to the 20th received to-day contain but 'lab. news. The ship C C. Duman, from Boston, with 75.000 bushels of oats, had arrived. Eighty balsa of low miltdling cotton sold at 5613. There was very little cotton on sale. The steamboat Courier, with the Forty-ninth Illinois regiment on board, came into collision with the steamboat Des Arc, thirty miles be low Memphis The Courier sunk. Bozic lives were lost; bow many is yet unknown. IMPORTANT FROM TENNESSEE. STIIVENSON, Ala., August 23.—1 t is probable that the reb-le are evaeuatieg Chattanooga and all Es.t Tennessee. Des.•rters who come within Gen. Reynolds' lines report that they are moving guns and use ful and important nitehinery from the foundries at Chattanooga to Atlanta. The rebel cavalry ie reported to be concen trating at Rome, Ga. WASHINGTON. ITEMS. GBN. BITTLRZ TO ICC BENT TO 13013211 CAROLINA. - - WAEITEINGToN, August 28.—1 n view of the speedy capture of Charleston and occupation or South Carolina by the Union forces, the in tuition of the government has been indicated to place Illaj Gen. Butler in command of that department as soon as Gen. Gllone and Ad miral Dahlgren have completed their work, ARREST OF A. GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR A government contractor named Pi' chi, from Pittsburg, was committed to the Old Capitol prison to-day, on the eharge of having sold in Baltimore fraudulent quartermasters' certifi cates of indebtedness to the amount or $40.000 The arrest was made in - Philadelphia, where an other negotiation was about to be made. CAPTURE OF THE BLOCKADE RUNNER ORONSTADTA The Navy Department has received a com munication from Commander Trenchard, of the steamer Rhode Island, reporting the capture of the English screw staamer Cronstadt—for a violation of the blockade off Wilmington, N. C. her cargo consists of cotton, turpentine and tobacco. She has been sent to Boston for adjudication. OAPTURR OF UNION CAVALRY BY GUERILLAS. Some three hundred of White's rebel gueril• las crossed the Potomac to-day and gobbled up a party of "Scott's Niue rico . r..d," who wm guarding the canal. Teo out of fifty escaped. EXECUTIVE PARDON The President has pardoned William Duke, charged wish divers offences against the Uni ted States, arid with aiding tae rebels in Ken tucky. THE LOYAL GOVERNMENT VIRGINIA Governor Pierpont, in an address to the peo ple of Virginia, announces that he has estab lished the seat of government at Alexandria. He says if resistance to the civil - authority be attempted and a posse comitatus prove insuf ficient, the aid of the milirary as a last resource will be invoked to enforce the lava. He is happy to be able to Bay that the President manifests the most lively desire for the rem. ration of order in the State and a disposition to assist by every means at his command to re store the civil government and produce hat- Motu. APPEAL TOE EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY. A Jewish rabbi from Baltimore and the wife of one of the condemned and sever3l others were here to-day to make an appeal to the President for his clemency in behalf of tee five privates of the One Hundred and Eighteenth Pennsylvania regiment, who are to be shot to morrow. Their mission does not appear to have been successful. THE SWORD PRESENTATION TO GEN. MEADS A superb sword was presented to Gen. Mewls this.afternoon by Brigadier General Crawford, commanding the Pennsylvania Reserves, in the , name of the division. YOU? Dr PRAMIII A;III44LAIW The Mark Lane Express gives a table compri sing the average yield per acre, of wheat, bar ley, oats, beans and peas, for thirty-eight counties in England. prepared trues returns re ceived from e.orrespondents of that paper.— The average for the cereal grains mentioned is as follows Wheat 29 bushels ; Barley 37:i. ; Oats 461. The lowest average of wheat in any County returned, is 22f bushels per acre, in Devon shire, and the highest, 341 bushels, in Lanca shire. The lowest average of barley is 29 bushels per acre, in Shropshire. and the highest 44 bushels in Northampton. The lowest ave rage of oats is 324 bushels in Westmoreland, and the highest 59f in Cam hridgesnire. The beans mentioned are a kind not much cultivated in this country. The average yield is 324 bushels per acre. The average yield or peas is 30 bushels per acre. DIED. On Friday, August 24th, WILLMIr BILRITIELL, aged 63 years. The funeral will take place from his residence on Market Square, at 4 °taloa this afternoon, August 30th, Ratite E. Infant daughter of William b. and Mary It. Raiment, aged 1 year and b zartitha. The funeral will take place from the reeloence of Wm. G. Damara, Locust street. Monday afternoon at 3 O'oloek. Tba Itleada ltral relatives are respeetfa2l7 in iiteo to attend. On Saturday morning, of congestive fevor. Jeannine R. Rumor's. Aged 13 year•, R month., and 1 days. She was burn in Schuylkill county, and her remains will be taken there for intermentby the 8 o'clock train this morning Nrm '3,6lterti clients. DR. J. C. HOYERI riinivwx - sanza OFFIPE IN WYETWA BUILDING, In room formerly occupied by Dr. Carman, comma 07 MANINT SWIZZ? AND MAIDENT SWANN. WANTED.—A Woman with a fresh breast or mirk wanted to nurse a young ebild et No. 99, Market street. sag 314t* F XEMPTIONS FROM THE DRAFT.u, Persona baying legal claims to «aa. ption from the draft nun hay' du* cases preps T d sod yr emoted to the Board on application to R 2 BEL GUSON. Attorney-st- Law, Pecond street, opposite Buebler Bowe !,else with Wm R. Miller. Fag. Aug 2T-tf. STATE PAIR. THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION OP THR PENN'S STAIR IGRICOLTURAL BOCIETT,, WILL BE RELD ♦T NORAISTOWN, MONTGOMERY CO., PA,, September .19th and 10th and October lot aml Id, 186$. Norristown Is about 17 miles west of Phil.delphia, na the Schuylkill river, and is accessible by railway to every portion of the State. The ground" are beautifully situated. enataiolog •:$ acres et ground with fine kegs buildings themes erec ted. together with la-ge amount of sheddi• g, The track is said to be one of the best half mile tracks is the S tate. T h premiums are the beavhet ever offered by the society. amounting to about $7OOO The pre• miume for all areAter, of tattle eareed $ 000, Eire or which are $5O each. 19 from 525 to sls_ others running down to leaser rates. Best bard not les. than 16 hest tint poeminm $4Ol second premlimm. $26. Homes for ell grades the i reminms stetted $ 1 354• The highest $100; 22 between $:0 and $3O. and other!; retiring from $1.5 $lO and $5 For -heap and Swine the premiums stage from $lO to $5 and $3 For Poultry there is a long het or °renewers from to $1 each, to the trollowleg chime. mart Wirers! pre • miums are offered : Ploughs, itultivetois. Drills, Ws gone, Reaping and INnefng Welt nee Cutters. Core Shelters, Cider M Us , Pumps Buckets, Tin Ware. Leather and its Mannfectn es, Gee Pixtar is. Marble Mantles, Butter,Pio Li., Grain and Paella. Vegetables; and also for D ome tie and Ro-sehold IPanniseturer, Cloths, Garrets. Satinet. Shirtisg, Meeting Pisolistri PI tnnels. Shawls, le nit Goode. Needle Wort, Le- Bread. Cakes. Preserves. J. Bien, & c Large premiums are Cr-ffered for every v. , riety of Fruit and Flneers The Floral Teut vil be the large t ever erected by the Poolety and well fore. one of the meet attrarti re teaturre at the cabin Lion Fruit, Grape 4 and Wise Tell he exhibited deparee.-nt The Pennerlvenia Rail-ead evd Norri.rowoltaihroad have arranged o ear , artio ea tor exh:biti.it to an? from the I , anild -ion freight free. recto; ring theforwar& lag freight to be paid. which will be rep .111 whippet when geode ate returned o the s ation wh oar ettipped. It is hoped to effect the same with other importer:, rends !excursions at reined rates will be run On CI the leading railrosdn. Tentrfen can he r ado at thee filice.tp Norrißtima, ate!' the 4th day of Reptember I' art, Glee must be ea te-ed on tho ‘ooka on or before Toe dsv awning, Sep tember 29th lib bito n must it come member , Meat emhip $I 00, altk fan* eatipwo T 4 -fib's unit, 0 50 of wnivb will admit one nevem to lb Fair once. SINGLE ADMISSION . 25 CENTS. .10.• • List of Pre turns and Brolatconstim be bre. by addremiag the Secretor., To bIA a P, 'KNOX ? Prepiine A BROWZB Loma's!' Stextary Norristown. Pa A DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that letters of ddminktratiori have this day be o eyelet d to the enderoiened ny tom' kegiater of I) upbiu county. upon the eetaie of plait , : Bromley., late of Jolts •on , owo eh p, ii, said county, de ceased Ail pera.ma beef , g mai •or mantle spine; maid estate are Pereey Prq «poled to me g « k oos o the same without delay and th-e indebte to raid estat-: are notified to make itom di.te , s y m . o t to JOIN HOFFMAti. 24i8t1140‘ . 1 ang27.lawor* . en 4,, w r . 4 „phi s en. , NEW MUSI A. Why I Loved Her," "'P PILPDTPII o. tb 3 . 21 ‘ Childhood Days," three new and • e.uti.cd songs, it' J. 8. cox. a new aril brastee.l 02 4 4 - wi;h il h u i r g e hl n y aTi on ti l. s ert iF fre ;age. Uul. rr are wooer the latest. receipts of nrw music b. W glvrit HE, where can be found at al. times a , nll rtffurnt of Drum. Itifee, and all lards r 'net umente. Remember the place, NO 93 Pia ket at rept. • yP GROOMS, BRUSH -, IUM AND J BAPHETS of all descriptiong, t o. given mil price , — for wile by wo. WOK, Ja.. & CO. BLAuKuvo liLsosnsa.”-100 GRUBB 11111tiorted r. mimed nd cor 40*, witatesale sad retail. v\ 'um.l% &CIO, B" AMP:RICAN W FLUID. equal If net stationer to aruuld'it gs6 l *"" Fluid, and only 62 cents BUpeßlr gear tin ,t BBER'S BO •MITOSAI• ta:l3