the Mailp 11;lost, OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY. PITTIAB URG H: MONDAY. MORNING SEPT. 30. For Afternoon Telegraph, See First Page. UNION TIL'ICET POI PILTEMINT /MGR 00IIRT OF OONNON PISAN WILLIAM IS. MaCLURE. FOR /880CTATE JUDOS COURT (P CON VON Pl.llB LAURENOE MITCHELL. 108 ASSISTANT NMWILLIAMS.I DISTRICT COURT: H. W. FOB ROMP?: JOSHUA RHODE* FOR ETATS SENATE: JNO. P. PEINI , EY. 7011 ARMEE .1/: THOS. WILLIAMS, THOS. J. BIGHAM, L. H. CARLI.,LE, A. H. GROSS, T. B. HAMILTON. /Oa PROTHONOTART ROBERT FONEY. POSI JAMES BLACKMOR R. 70It =NTT COMIIIIISIONIR JOHN A. PARKINSON. TOR COOOOlO. WILLIAM ALEXANDER. POa DIRLOTOR 01 SUM POOO ROBERT H. DAVIS. THE TICKETS READY. The Union ticket is now ready for die tributien, and electors of the several Wards, Boroughs and Townships of the county, are requested to send for a supply to the office of the Post. THE OFFICE SEEKERS IN AGONY. On Saturday morning, for the first time, the GAZETTE gives tongue on the question of the Sheriffalty. The fear that the Sheriff's printing may be taken away and the present corrupt Court House clique be disturbed and their plans deranged, so that they can no longer feed at the public crib, has created a panic in the partizan camp. The GAZETTE squeals like a colt with its tail being docked. The GAZETTE appears only to be con cerned about Mr. Woods, and is willing to let the balance of the ticket take care of itself. As the bulk of the Republi can ticket was adopted by the Union Convention, the GAZETTE perceives the policy of letting it alone ; but to lose the Sheriff is to lose every thing which interests the GAZETTE. The spoils of office are to it a greater matter than the great principles of sustaining the Gov ernment. But a few days ago the AZETTE was in favor of a Union ticket. It advised the giving of a portion of the offices to the Democrats. The Republican Con vention intended to adopt a Union ticket, but the office seeking clique about the Court House defeated the intentions of the Convention. The Union Convention placed upon the Union ticket exactly as many Dem ocrats as the Republicans had intended to do. The people of the county have almost unanimously, so far as wo can learn, resolved to endorse this action•— They are determined that the great principle of sustaining the Government shall be vindicated, and they are deter- mined that the Court House influences Which have so long maladministered the affairs of the county shall do so no longer. Mr. Rhodes, the Union candidate for Sheriff; is abused; he is not a bitter partizan like Mr. Woods. Partizanship is a quality which the people have de cided should not have an influence in this campaign. Mr. Rhodes, although a Republican, does not profess to be a partizan. He is a Uniou man, and since this struggle to maintain the Union commenced, has devoted his time, his energy and his money. in large amounts, to the grand object of forwarding the Union movement. The soldiers and the soldiers' wives and families can speak of his noble generosity, and it was not done with the hope or expectation of any re ward. But the partizan course of the Republican Conventions compelled the Union loving people to seek out certain candidates for office who were not wholly devoted to their own selfish emolument. They hit upon such men as Joshua Rhodes, and Robert Finney, and others —men who had taken the lead in the Union movement from the first. They were selected by the Union Convention as representative men of a great patriotic sentiment—not as partizans whose nar row views and personal interests bound them to obey the behests of the corrupt Court House clique, whose mouth-piece the Gszarrs has descended to become. Mr. Woods may be a better partizan than Mr. Rhodes ; we have no doubt he is; but he is not a better Union man, and the very fact that he is an admitted partizan destroys his power to be so, even if he had the inclination. The GAZETTE will not be able to deceive the people in regard to these things. SAVE US FROM THE GAZETTE. All the Union-loving Republicans are crying out, "save us from the Gazette." In its desire to [secure the patronage of more offices it is willing to sacrifice every sentiment of true patriotism. The Union , Convention adopted the noble address of "'the i,Hoini Defence Committee, issued last :,..-ip r it g .,. , on reed its sentiments. This was &oil° .to'iittow that what Union men thought itiarti v itinion were now willing t o maintain. This address was, we believe Mitten by Thomas Bakewell, li.t q , than i l bum no purer minded, honest man lives ' _ n,gst us. It was signed by many of ''' loading citizens. The adoption of the and patriotic sentiments of this ad. ~ , by the Union Convention the Gazette . ee "a, dirty trick." The gentlemen who signed this address will appreciate the .3.ll:o3?Plithe4 40 1 -= gm , * 'tor Vtas very much in ticket" z~ Union some time ago. tOttuff Harri79ods for Comas of the Bohm Address may be had at this aim HALF THE FEES TO TDB COUNTY. The editor of the GAZETTE pitches into Mr. Brinton, who offers to divide the fees of the Sheriff's office with the county, and calls him a humbug. C n the editor of the GAZETTE tell his reas-ns why Mr. Woods, the straight party cqr.- didate, signed the bond offered by Mr. Brinton, agreeing to do precisely the same thing, and why the Republican Executive Committee compelled Mi. Woods to withdraw it? What kind 1 a humbug does this make of Mt. Woods? FOOLISH .FALSEHOOD. We have never known the sam, amount of bare-faced misrepresentation, even in the thZETTE, in any former campaign that there is at present. With but two or three known Democrats on a ticket, out of fourteen offices, the ZETTE coolly informs its readers that there are but two Republicans on the Union ticket—the Prothonotary act Director of the Poor. Does the editor imagine the Republicans are all fool that they cannot gee through the thin-) misrepresentation? OUR SOLDIERS IN WESTERN VIRGINIA. Our friends in Western Virginia, who are bearing the brunt of severe engage ments, want shirts, drawers, socks awl prepared vegetables. A meeting ha,- been called by the ladies to provide for the wants of those brave men. We are requested to state that any of the above articles may be delivered at Lafayette Hall up to three o'clock this afternoon. They will be taken care of and properly distributed. Hand in the clothing. AN INSIDE VIEW AND AN IN SIDE PL ACE A young Democrat well acquainted with the purlieus of the Court House, who writes a communication in thy• GxzEtrx, abusing Joshua' Rhodes, and signed an "Inside View," is anxious t, have an "inside place," and has struck a bargain with the republican candidate for Sheriff. A UNION MAN PLACED IN A FALSE POSITION. The other day the Gazette spoke of sowc resolutions adopted in Venango county. which it stated ware offered by Arnol i Plummer and supported by Jas. J. Kerr, Eq. Although the resolution q•.ioted l.y the Gazette was a mere platitude, stilt the obvious intention was to place Mr. Kerr in a false position. We know Mr. Kerr intimately and have for years. We know he is less of a partizan ant mnr(‘ is Union man than any editor tsf the (;,is vette. The resolution reforml ho did not sustain, but opposed. Mr. Kerr inado th.. first Union speech which was iuscle in Ve nango county when the war broke imt amt from that time to the present has Leen consistent and persistent supporter of th.• government in all its effort. , to suppress this rebellion. In his own county he need 3 no defence from the aspersions of the Ga.zefte or any other journal. Hero he has many ,friends and acquaintances who might b.-, led astray by the uncontradicted assertion of the Gazette. We ask the Gazette to do Mr. Kerr the justice to publish the following from the last number of the Vonango Speziatw• A Word for a Union Man We rPgret to see an article in it late number of the Jefferson ,'N'tar, casting putations up 5n the patriotism ofJames K. Kerr, Esq., of this county. The editor of the Star does Mr. Kerr injustice•. The resolutions offered by him in our County Convention were truly patriotic and in support of the Gave =neut. We speak what wo know when we say that Mr. Kerr, in public and private, since the attack on Fort Sumter, has done all in his power to aid the Constitutional Government of the Union to crush the rebellion. We cannot think that Mr. M'Elhose would willingly misrepresent a true and, loyal citizen be• cause he is of opposite political faith, and we believe he will make the amende bon orablo. It is a homely but significant say ing, that every tub should stand on its own bottom. Judged by his own acts there is no bettor Union man thin James K Kerr. THE LATEST FROM ARTEM US WARD. Artemus Ward commences his contri bution to this week's Vanity Fair with the fcllowing cheering paragraph. Notwithstanding I haint writ much for the papers of late, nobody needn't flatter themselves that the undersined is ded. On the contrary, "I still live," which words was spoken by Daniel Webster, who was a able man. .I,ven the old line Whigs of Boston will ad mit that Webster is ded now, howsoru ever, and his mantle has proply fallen into the hands of sum dealer in 2nd hand close, who can't sell it. Least. ways nobody pears to be goin round wearin it to any particlor extent, now days. The regiment of whom I was kurnal finerly concluded they was bet ter adapted as Home Gards, which ac counts for your not hearin of me, ear this, where the hauls is the thickest and where the cannon doth roar. But as a American citizen I shall never cease to admire the masterly advance our troops made on Washington from Bull Run. It was well dun. I spoke to my wife 'bout it at the time. My wife sed it was well dun. ACCORDING to army orders, just is sued, whenever companies by an econ omical use of their rations have raised a surplus, it must be left in the hands of the commissary from whom they draw their rations. The bills of purchase at cost prices of articles will be paid by any commissary having funds for that purpose, for the benefit, of the ecdnom ists. Heretofore surplus rations have been sold to sutlers and storekeepers, or exchanged for other supplies by the soldiers. A LAROR CONTRACT. Stephen Cromwell, of Camden, Ohio, has made a contract by which he is to furnish one hundred and fifty thousand cords of wood for the Ohio Central, Railroad Company. The magnitude of this con tract can be understood only when we take into consideration the fact that it makes a pile four feet high and not less than two hundred and fifty-seven miles in length, and requires the delivery of nearly fifty cords a day (Sundays excep ted) for ten years. For The Poet A Fair Divide." The Gazelle just now nas much to say about n fatr division of the local offices between thr Republicans and Democrats, and scouts the idea of allowing to the Deinocrat., , anrthinz, in a county whore the opposition gays - , 10.000 majority. On the question, how2ver, of an equitable di vision of the spoils among the aforesaid 10,000 Itepublicans, the Gazette has not a word to say, that establishment bagging the entire game. Here is a table, quite as instructive to the curious in such matters, as the figures of the Gazette : Whole number of Republican voters in our county according to the Gazette, 16 72.3 A "FAIR DIVIDE OF TDE CFFICKs " TO 14T,OELL EIikICTT I City Controllerehip, 3 yea, F a toe 1 Clerk of Oenate, 2 yeara 0 1 0 t Cry Printer, (Pittebilr;zh 1 Printer U. B. biatutos, 4 year; :; OiX) I Pay mastership U.S. Army, per year 1 800 1 Clerk War Department, per year 3 0)01 TO SAMI'FLL R11 , 10L.F.: I'o-t; •e, I year; 12000 TO SOL. SCHuY KR, jr.: 1.. 4 0!1., tor, per 3.0 TO ERKETT,RIDDLE A .CEIOI - ER,OI , OAZ ETTA: rit A6v,rtnsirg. 3 year'. i 3 000 of f',.uri Printing. par year 200 Commissioner's ot)tr.,lrr 3.. k) . . •• ?rot no n ,tary •• .. Reg, L.r. ..... Ito ' Alter Grendilj - taking nil this nn itg share, the will goner, he left by the. Go. 'tie non 'l , tir - division among the remaining 16521 Republican voters of the county, whom it profe•so; to admire s,) much while they vrori), obediently in bar er,' and brine "grigt to their mill i" The coipartner.ihip existing between the ( :a; ettc and the Republicans resembles much that formed tp. , LWasti the lion and the other ani• noel, of the forett is labul,us tittles. Great is the (Jaren on paper, on "a fore divide," at least such is this ,pinion of one who han had an INSIDE VIEW. For Tho Post To the Lover,. of the Clortow. , 1:11lou iu the ' ,- t!ates In Allegheny County 'i.e citizens of Allegheny county. who love and adore the Union. 111 , C,nstitatirot ant ',la:yr,' :lag i ar nationality, should turn out on the Con day of tibtober and devot , one day to sustain loyal men who are presented to you without party distinction. The Union ticket is composed of good citizuss, men who are directly from the ranks of the yeomanry—men who have n hureloforo ben fed on the bounty of the taxables, but have been thy ardent friends of what is just and proper . TOe people of the county will see the ne cessity of nipping in the but partizan tips peals for Ow sake of continuing old abu ses in art about the Cots.•l Now that N patr,.•!;C and Unio7l-In.riny people !At - Utliull in putting down beggers, who claim utli,.ts on the ground of poverty will have na opportu pity of doing strict fustice to themselves by voting for g..nith.mon who are b..th honest and eapabie, and who do not c o me before the voters on mere ground ut p iv• arty. 11 ,, ne,t man uf all parties, destre the cu ..peration of it ry loyal cit.- Wii;t ~ oroprir sinking poll. ties as the only etl.3ctive means under pros , . dent , - of saying our Union from the grasp of sordid and unprizeopled man, why are anxious to drag the country into the rot , of anarchy Then all who desire says: us from keeping , hike a deLestahln party spirit, will, unless blinded by gross igmtrince or partizan pr. joduta, vote the I'ri,•u ti , • urn! Or.) very hest county Let the second Tues.- Ws\ of U L .her be mow n:rat - do reafter a day deditt'ated to the prrservati of wu r n, C , lCltir (11:11 „ tiny rut wit/Wilt dila tlift acid th:q nu bolter I.htirliod, bet tor ser..l tnao keeping niivin party for party sake. h'. - .l'ng ritizlns in Ott.: al ich C.l]. re•ult in no good when all I )ya. 1:1:.r1 I t :runt :4 ,, ther to th- p:op Arner:.•an an... ( oLL6 lel all r, -t'' al snink ink parlizan ct; , o 1 men to Aud his our rrot:. , in Ins I ”1:7 I ru,t. I Sp,[4,:•-d uer, 10114 rmty r WSlre, V 1" ills-•;WI t I •• I. r.t , 0.0 home )11 , 3 I :ave.- I,lii~oUll. Gen. Lane's command surprised a rebel camp at l'apinsville on the 21st, utterly routing the enemy. One hun dred rebels were taken prisoners, and forty killed. The whole camp equip ments and the provisions of he enemy were taken. Gen. Lane has issued a thundering proclamation, threatening death upon all rebels found under arms. It is also reported that he attacked a camp ac Osceola, routing the rebels and burnin:!. the town. Claib Jackson with 1 ()AO men is re ported to be moving on Booneville There is every indication that an im portant battle must come off in the lo cality of Jefferson City ere many days. A federal force of Kentuckians had captured R. B. Clay and sixteen of his followers. Breckinridge was among tl!e company but effected his escape The mounted force under Zollicoffer ooutinues to commit the most attrocious outrages upon the farmers bordering on Tennessee, systemattically carrying off their slaves, robbing the masters,and destroying their property. TuE blockade will now begin to tell upon the seceded States, with redoubled force. It was loose at two points--the North Carolina coast and Kentucky. Now both these avenues for smuggling are used. No more trains loaded with contrabrand goods. will go down the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, nor will boats pass up the Green, Cumber lead, or Tennessee rivers, with aid and comfort for traitors--nor will vessels from the Canadian ports find their way through the inlets into Pamlico and Albermarle Sounds, with cargoes of the things that are precious in the sight of the Small. The blockade will now pinch with a severity heretofore un. imagined. A DESERTER from the Rebel army atatea that they have 10,000 men at Freestone Point, 30,000 between there and Manassas, and a large foree along the river to Matthias. TU .. SWO on the. Potomac is said to be 18tY600,iand the plan of the Rebel Generals' is to cross above and below Washington sim ultaneously, attacking in front and Tear I The Situation at Lt aington THE TWO ToWNS AND THE PoSITION OF COL. MULLIGAN'S FORTIPICATIGNs. [From Hm L. Louis Dernocrol The following is a diagram of the posi tion of the city of Lexington, Mo., which was surrendered to an overpowering rebel force, under Sterling Price, on FrlAy,th” 20th , by Col Mulligv.: New ! Lexington ..: till.gan'e Forutioa tlUliH. .3. Lannglc❑ Toe boats, as shown above, were old ferry boats, and were seic id by 10.-4 reteia The general direction of toe Missouri river at the city of Lexington la from west Lo east, as is marked, the city lying on th south bank, 0 d li , xingion is the earls settlement, situated back on the hill. I. has been surierseded by New I. , •xingtor., farther up the river, whore the steamboat 'ending now ia. New Lexin.t;t• Il is 1:i. main city. There are us.s along the bluff betwe , n o'll tw.-i, and both are now united under the moue 01 Lisiing ton. Colonel Mulligan fortifies:ions were between the two locations, etClEi9tiOg GI heavy earthworks, ten feet in height, with a ditch of eight fuel in width. ii•The?e for tifications iurroulded a oolicge buil.ling, which was used as quarters fiir the Union soldiers, and had hum str&nglhened to re sist an artillery attack. Tho it tOO of lh fortifications won, i•stuniik and w,rc capable of containini; 3 f,ru. of 10,001 men. The main body ol the army of Price was loested at (lid Lexoe,.tton, Iron . which point the attack us 3 made, th o u g , the tort was assailed on all Tao oe eupents of the fort had a ,kirmieh m. Taursday of 'last week with a petty of rebels, not, however, und , r Pre . s at the time, who sheltered thernseivl•A behind the houses in Old L xington. To deprive then, of this advantage, the old town was after wards shelled and burnt, by order of Col. Mulligan. New LJzingtull, or Lazing ton proper, was in possession oi the rebels, but the city was not the theatre of can a Colonel Mulligan could easily have shelled and destroyed it, but this, of cour.c, ; I would not do. The lino of the fertitd•ald,ns ran down to the river bh,tf, ar.d from the h'utf to the water's el 4, there :Lea vul,4 ben; h. Tne L. std rep)rted hl captured laid el. the water . ult;e. wale t 1; direr guns of the ilnos ut Ow for:. and on 0, beach is where a severe : , druzgle ensued of Tueeday for the pJaifs•ien hunts Colonel 3 , 1 ulli force consisted o r hi : , own regiment, Marshall's r ,, 6iment, and 1' •rO." , CMIIII,RMI about six numir , .+.l LI mu Gu..rdi and liynsnatroop4, the wh,.le ammint!nz t. Ir,mi 500 t o I,oi.di men. A 3 to thm r pile,: prOVißlt•Dd !Ina atutiltll,Illo!! II • wa4 known. General Price'i Eir1 . 110:1 IS TiOteEeprtain ed, but may be put down anywhere be tween fifteen and thirty thmi,tnd men - Ile had plenty of artillery, bit was ehor ut powder and ehot, fur no had goat stores to draw open sineP the tii•l4 battle. Prince Na pu leon'a Op in Lail The letters in the Paris t/pinione de Nationale, attributed to Prince Napole on, speak of his visit to th,. two cauips. and thus deseribeo it : TUE SPIRIT OF BOTII It is inclintestible that there is routit more passion and ardor among the ofli• oers of the Southern than among those of the Northern army. Individual bra very is incontestibly superior in ilia Confederate camp ; but the union army makes up for the disadvantage by a more advanced military organization and knowledge, at least among the sol diers; so that matters, being equally balanced it is difficult enough to fore see towards which side the fortune of war will incline. REPUBLI, AN It is true the victory of Bull Hun is of a nature to excite to the highest pitch the confidence and enthusiasm of the Southern men; but 1 find it itth possible to see in the result of that bat tle one of those solemn judgments, without appeal, which condemn one side to bow the head beneath the irre sistible ascendencyof the victor. These men, after all, are nearly of the same race or the same mixed races; and, de spite of the divergence of opinion, they have a common fund of ideas, manners and feelings, which does not permit a line to be drawn through the thirtieth &Fee of latitude, and to haVe it said, all that is north of this line is inferior to all that is South of it. To estimate the event of July 21, we must leave a wide margin for the local incident, the chance and unexpected en counters on the field of battle, the un foreseen events which take hold of the imaginations of the masses—secondary causes which operate on the wai' by so much the more as the armies have less experience, discipline and linowl , edge. M'CLELLAN AND MMOWELt General M'Clellan, a pupil of the West Point Academy, is a man thirty five years old, very small in stature, with black hair and moustache, an in telligent, frank and agreeable counte nance, and of simple, modest behaviour. Seeing him pass in the street you would certainly take him for a French officer of engineers or artillery. General Mc- Dowell commands all the troops on the right bank of the Potomac. Ile is a man of about forty-two, is large, and strongly built; his face not particularly delicate, but it is remarkably open, and from it expression of frankness and amiability, engaging. If McClellan resembles one of our engineer officers, McDowell is like a French infantry officer. His conversa tion, his character and his principles are superior to his exterior, however prepossessing that may be; he is a man as just, as true, as simple as one can meet. He received a terrible check at Bull Run and he speaks of it without bitterness, without recrimination, with an accent of sincerity and an elevation of sentiment that do. him the, greatest honor. Deprived of• the supreme corn, mand in consequence of this reverse, he saw McClellan, his comrade at West Point, and his junior by several years, inherit his power, his position and his grading popularity. He accepted, without complaint or murmur, an inferior position under him whose mission was to repair the misfor tune with which hilvown name was asso ciated. Yet no one doubts that Mc- Dowell will prove the nxist submissive and the most devoted of the Lieutenants of McClellan. McDowell has, besides the reputation in the army of being a sort of philosophical stoic, a reputation of which some of the West Pointgrad oates eec ambitious, and of which they arc in some degree worthy He drinks neither wine, tea nor coffee ; he does not s moke, and his sobriety and endur' ance are quite analagous with his Puri tan principles. _ Rein ,.. force-- . ' trent..• 'r"-•- • Experience, and particularly the ex perience of adversity, is the best teach er in all things, even the conducting of a newspaper, the management of a steam engine, and the business of trade. The New York World has an essay which perhaps the experiuretr of the present day will servo to render torcis We. 'ln an article on the "abuse of credit," it says The late heavy failures among our city merchants preach a moral that should be heeded by commercial men. It. is a patent fact that, excepting those who have sucoombed through their doing a purely Southern business, the houses:that have been the first to fail arc those commonly known as the "fast merchants" of the city. Unreasonable facilities fur securing a large credit have created in our midst a class of men whose chief ambition is to build up a monster establishment, utterly ir respective of the principles on which its affairs are conducted. A dashing store, an army of clerks, a huge accu mulation of merchandise, and sales that foot up to yearly millions—these are the great desiderata of some mod ern merchants , : ambition. They are the end or his purposes, and not the means by which they aim to reach the ledititnate object of trade. Time was when traders held all the machinery of their business subservient to the realb zatien of an actual pn,lit, and accuum. of wealth 'That ssstetn is now kit to the 'slow fogies." The• Julius of inederu competition scorn it as um suited to the "two-forty" speed of their days. Profits may be realized, say they, if convenient; but enormous transactions and 'an imp , ing, display are the things without which a busi ness is worthless. It frequently hap pens that their ambition spurns the nariew hunts of one establithment,and -prends out into sundry branches, reaehiu:: to the far west or the extreme south. These are found to be coine uient outlets for the over-gorged con cern at New York, and to render their relief to the present concern the more prompt and effective, goods arc sold as much below their cost as the necessities of the firm may require. The result of this reckless system is nay to involve the parties adopt it i u bankruptcy, but also to neces si; tte mere conservative traders to ac commodate their prices to this losing level. The whole trade thus becomes ritiate'l and thus comparatively worth less through the vices of One class. The creditors ut the "last merchant" ulti. mately lose heavily through his bank ruptcy, and, all along, their risks are increased through the diminished profs its imposed by his reckless sales. That such a system of trading is dis honest in principle and ruinous in the result is palpable enough to dispense with the ceremony of proof. The mar vel is that it should have Leen so long tolerate] The im; , orters and domest ic commission tnerchants arc responsible for its existence, and cannot now jnstly complain if they feel heavily its losses. They protest against all such reckless trailing, and yet have been daily sells ing their largest bills to 'the class of men whom they denounce. Were it not that they sold to these parties on terms almost double the limits of :a le gitimate credit, and that they credited them to twice the amount of what they consider a safe "line," the inflated job bing establishments of our city could not exist a month. These evils live with the consent and by the support of our package merchants; and if they desire a reform it must come first of all by their own unanimous decision,— I. To sell as much as possible on four months' time, and in no ease on longer than six months; To seli to no man more goods than is consistent with his known ability to pay, even though it may be possible to dispose of his notes at a fair rate and without endorsement; and, :;.T refuse goods entirely to those who are slaughtering the value of mer chandise throughout the market by ma ing large sales below cost. THE SITUATION OP TILE WAR There appears to be a probability of a serious engagement between the Union and rebel forces in the vicinity of Wash ington before many days. The rebels have unmasked their batteries along the Virginia side of the Potomac, pre senting a powerful front:so as complete. ly to have closed the navigation of that highway to the capital. These batteries are said to be placed at intervals of a little over two miles,rall along the shore from Occoquan creek to Mathias Point, and military men declare the river to be blockaded and rendered ussless. Every vessel that passes is fired on, and it is said that at least ten thousand troops are located along the rebel shores, with a powerful force within a striking dis tance. It is also believed that an at tempt will be made by the rebels to cross the river at two points--viz: from Again Creek and opposite to General Bank's column:. Whether theireibels are rea dy for an open field fightis not actually known, but, judging from the refusal to take up the glove thrown down by Gen eral Smith on Wednesday, it would ap pear they are not. THE remains' of- an Irish crown, of pure gold and weighing seven ounces, were found, with a regal 'collar, in a log near Clcinniacnoiale;'hy cogntrimen. They were to*Posedte date tioackto the time of the first introduction of Chris tianity into Ireland. The Mercantile World. The Secretary of War 'and the Vo luu- Leer system. G :I. Cameron's order to the authorities ~f lowa riot to draft men for the army,-89 was proposed in that State, is commented upon very generally, some-taking sides with, others ac ainst the ordeffrem the Sec retary of War . It is certainly desirable that the army may be filled up without drafting, but it must be acknowledged that many of the States, especially those in the North, are slow in sending forward reinforcements.— The Bull Ran affair has been repeated, and worse than repeated in he results, in M's 'mini, and that, too, solely on account of the meagerness of our army in that State; and yet Fremont is called upon, and is cc tually sending troops forward to defend the capital, while our Eastern cities are teeming with unemployed, able-bodied' young men who refuse to come forward in defence of their country. This thing is a mystery to all classes here. The very States whose representatives in Congress were most ready to vote the President an army of 500,000 men, have not yet sent in their quota of men for an army of even half that size. Massachusetts is offering men $2O each bounty, and. with that induce ment, Gen. Wilson's regiment is tilling up but slowly. V r rmont and other Northern Ststea arc n 14., backward in sending for. w.rd tool., and the inilicatione are not at for a full army at an early day without a draft, at least from some of the Stet( a. Pennsylvania Ahead Again Pennsylvania has taken the initiatory steps to establish a State military school.— It is hoped th it other loyal States will fol. low her example, and that each will, with out delay, cause a school for military im struction to be established, with arrange• ments fivDrable as to be acc,seible to any who may wish to avail themselves of its tylvantageq, P•nm Ti,., •ic ' c of lexing 011..-4eouie Interesting tearticulars--ibiefoism of the Troops. From gentlemen arrived in this city Irorn Loicrigton we get additional inter e.,doe; partieuisra rf the late sole° at that pkeo. The first assault upon Col. Muili ii.drenchrnents was made, as bus heretofore been .tated, on Thursday, the 12,1 i Let , In tho afternoon, when Price's forces, niter en engbg, went of about two hours, wore repulsed with considerable slaughter. Two of the rebel cannon were dismounied, and Um attaching party were driven back two miles to the Fair G:•ounds. Nu general fight occurred from Thurs day until the following Wednesday, al though there were Influent skirmishes be tween the pickets of the two armies. Oa Wednesday, Price having been reinforced by Green and Harris, and hie command then numbering, as is said, as many as thirty thousand, commenced a most de termined and desperate siege. The fight lasted from nine o'clock Wednesday morn ing until live o'clock un Friday afternoon, when Colonel Mulligan was compelled to surrender unconditionally. Of this whole time, the forces on both sides scarkely paused live minut e s in the battle. The reihr ~f cannon and the rattle of the musketry were kept up almost continually day and night. The enemy erected breastworks of hemp bales, and fired upon the Federal gurrsuo front tree term, hillsides and roofs ut Meoe Several terrific charges were upon the intrenchments, but in every Lee the secessionists were driven back , ‘v the brave defenders of the Stars and Stripes. On Thursday night Gen. Price sent in a flag of truce, with a peremptory order for the unconditional surrender of the entire force, but Col. Mulligan forwarded a reply that be could not accede to the demand teti only served to exasperate still more the besiegers, and the battle was renewed with greater vigor than before, On Friday two desperate charges were made on the fortifications, the rebels rolling bales of hewp before them fur breastworks, and thus protecting themselves from the steady tiro f the Federal troops. They also curried large bundles of hemp upon their arms, to serve as shields agairst the bullets that showered open them like rain. In one of these charges, made in the af ternoon of Friday, the Secessionists got their portable breastworks very near to the Federal intrenchments, tiring upon the garrison as they advanced. At the point where the attack was made a company of Marshall's Illinois cavalry, under Captain Walton, and a company of the Irish Brigade, together with a company of Le.N ington Houle Guards, were stationed. The advance of the rebels seemed so over whelming that a terror stricken Home Guard took a white handkerchief and fastened it upon his bayonet, thus impro vising a hag of truce. The movement cream(' considerable confusion in the three Federal companies, who anticipating that they would be taken prisoners, beat a hasty retreat. The rebels were thus able to capture a six-pounder from the trenches and another six pounder belonging to the Irish Bri. Lade, that had been placed in a position to protect the hospital, upon whii-h the enemy had no scruples in firing. The taking of these guns was signalized by a general shout and hurrah in the secession ranks, which demonstrations. however, soon ceased, for good reasons. On reach. ing the wagon corral on the inside of the in trenchments, the Irish company rallied and the Lexington company returned,— Another company was ordered by Colonel Mulligan to their support, and the three made a bold and gallant charge. which re sulted in the recapture of the two guns, which were immediately planted in their former position. This splended achieve ment was accomplished just before the re ception of the last flag of truce from Gen. Price's command, and was about the finish. ing part of the battle. The surrender was made at five .o'clock on Friday afternoon, and was on account of the reasons with which the public are already acquainted. The noble garrison, had fought two days without food or water.. Five hundred horses had been killed inside of the fortifications, and the intolerable stench arising from their carcasses added to the sickening sensations of the famished and exhausted troops. Men fainted in the trenches for want of water, and when the surrender took place, the whole command was drooping with faintness and fatigue. The wounded and killed on the Federal side, amounted, in the whole engagement, to one hundred and forty nine. The dead, up to Monday morning, number forty-two. The loss of the enemy is believed to be not leis than one thousand and is by some re ported to have reached fifteen hundred. TELE sudden arrest of Ex-Goveinor Morehead of Kentucky, and his remo val so far from home, which have exci ted a good deal of comment, were made we understand, by order of the Secreta ry of Wsr to anticipate a threatened rescue. PATENT OETIOX Buernxes.-7 The business at the Patent office haw fallen off fifty per eentsinee the warivasom4 mewed. Many of the eleris'tnyis; conpOttenee; heen . diseharged t , peog ittatie retained has been , redruid $2OO per head, COMMODORE STRINOMAM AND GIANT.—An "old salt," who ) 4ailed with Commodore atringbam, the hero of HattaralOnleti,ln earlier days, relates the; lol'l4 . 4ns', interesting incident-- When a fir44licutenant of a frigate he arattilthort:th Stature, and Blender ii form but qvas endowed with great muscular power of limb. At one time the frig. ate was lying in the harbor of Naples, where a giant was on exhibition; who was invited on board the vessel. ..As he approached Lieutenant Strfitahimrhe towered above him like - a tall - fatherArjr.... the side or =his child. The =Li automat gave him a quizzical look and IPepped up to a pile of heavy cannon balls.— Taking up one of these be placed it up. on his hand and held it out. at arm's length for nearly a minute. The giant . looked on in astonishment. When . ki , 'attempted the same feat he foundlhat his strength was not sufficient and , ut terly failed in its performance. ACCOMMODATIONS FOR I r aMTo4l:4.—!r As Fort Lafayette overflows, orders have been sent to get ready several forts. North for the reception of political and war prisoners. Capt. Geo. Kemal, nos" recruiting in Boston, is instructed - to provide quarters and rations in Fort- Warren for one hundred. aril. M. ARMY—MA.I , 4 tED.ININIMEXATELit for he SIXTH ARGUMENT U. EAELVICE=" 4 REGULAR RERVICE —A few more able bodied men, between the ages of tweet!-one and thirtydive Pay ranges from $l4 to 123 per month, ar-cordtuu to the rank of the aoldier, Each man will be furn kted with a good head fled equip , men's, ample clothing and sulmilitcmci.l . , Qttapterafi fuel and med,eal attendance free of charge. ' The` pay of each soldier commences as soon as he Wen the ed. . . By en Act lately passed the term of enlistment cluing dft ern ve to '1 ReEY EARS, turd every solther .who serves that time is entitleitto $lOO BOUNTY and 100 ACRES OF LabiD from the tiov , rnmeet. Attention Is drawn to the fact that t he Government has wisely commenced to promote soldiere from the ranks. Advancement is therefore open to all. . For further parteulgu•A apply at the Recruiting Office, NATIONAL. HOTEL. HENRY 13. HAYS, Captain, :Sixth Regis. ent L. S. Cavalry, beg Recruiting Meer. Ec.V. P I '1 - em PT if, 11 ER 17th 11161,-- In accoldsace with the annexed order, tho undersigned has opened a Reeruili ,i 011164 to ((lithe Itighth R9gintent..PonosYrnitila Corps to the maximum etaodard. Ali the allow. Races, per t emn+, ke . are anaranteed to the recruit. ORDER. HE T QUIET& RS MIST 072E8 Porrelarl Wo.ltint,fon, September 14, 1661. SP WY! A I. ORDERS, N 0.66. 9 Mar r John W. buncau, Pennsylvania Emery% is datolod on the recruiting servke for hie me, t and will report to the Aejutant General of the Army 'or instructiens One non-eommi, atoned c@hrr he detalicd to sag at - - By command el Maj. Gen. DI cCLRLLI N. d. Wnuexs, Asst. Adjtdien. Apply to JOHN W. DUBOAIc- , - , :- - Msjor Rth Rerment, Recruiting Officer. ' R,cruning offices, K.nnett Ha tl , e, Diamond and Alderman (Melon's office, 4th street, opposite tlf xyzn'A face. sale 7lf A I RAI AN, UNDERTAKER, 80/0 aaent for Flake's :Metallic Burial elites, et EL B BULGE.R'S CABINET WAREBOOMP, NO 45 SM TH Ft RIAD STRKET. Residence, 218 I. aeljt k strati, Allegheny City. Orders may be lett Al' OBARLES' LIVREY STABLE, Allegheny City. ee2Lfand 2p .IiLKN WANTED—to fill up therantte of the (key ALLEGHENY LIGST INFANTRY. Apply et the Recruiting Office No. 125 LIBERIY (near Here's Hotel ) JAti. A. LOWRIE, Capt., Late commending Co. /I, 14th Teg't P. V. _ se2fett IiEAINUARTARS 3o BATTALION 182.n} REGIMENT 1.1.8: INFANTRY, Pirrszu• on, September U, 186 L I.u. TO TB E YoUNG MEN OF WESTERN PENNS'S LV ANIA.—I am ordered to recruit the Sd Battalion of the Ind Regiment, United tita Las h.fmtry in Pennsylvania. and neireyribal to you to show your patriotism by entering . tne eel , vice of your country in this fine Itifie Regiment, to cont.i4 of 3462 men. The pay is from $l3 to 04 per month, wittrabluk. dant Mod, clothing, sod atl necessaries. Every , oldior of the regular army le entitled, besides tension if disabled, and bounty of One , Hundred oilers w hen honorably disebarged,to a eomfortabe support.if .Ick or disabled,in the - Soldier's Homes" established by the government. Immediate provision made for uniforms, arue, eq oinments, rations and transportation for all who eolisL On, -third of the company. elbows will be taken from the ranks. No better opporttulity is odered to spirited young men .for good treatment and lair chances for. promodom"ii`ortu I informs two app!y to LietiL ROBERT SUTHERLAND, a the Rendezvous, No. 04 Fourth-street. WILL. A. STOKES, se23 Major Mtn Reg't U. S. Infantry. 4 - , y• TE.A.IIISTERS- WANTED.—Twenty experienced dnvers, who can come *ell recommended, will be accepted in my Battery.— Appi r immediately at 184 Ltherty street. .- ae26;twd H. B. El AMPTON, Captain. BUGLERS W A NTIOD.--1 wo able men, cornpetent to ant asßaglers, want ed in my Company of Artillery Immediately. Apply at 184 Liberty street neat St. Clair. se2B.lwd B. B. HAMPTON, Captain. NEW ADVERTISENBNI'& [cq. , THE UNION NOW AND FOREVER Hurrah! for the Irish Brigade, AND CEN SHLELDS,_ AII N 1 ishing to join the 1111811 BRIGADE, will re. port immediately at No.loo Grantetreet. opposite Cathedral. M. K. 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