Zip IZlaiin Post.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY.
PITTSBURGH:
SATURDAY 'MORNING OCT. 19
For Afternoon Telegraph and Local
New See First Page.
POLITICAL QUACKS.
The Democracy of the State of Indi
ana, like many other unfortunate local
ities, is at present cursed with a few
antiquated politicians, who are endeavor.
ing to keep themselves upon the surface
by keeping alive partizan animosities.
These men, like old Jaqes, "will be
talking," but they rarely ever say any
thing worth repeating or remembering.
"We ought to do so and so." these old
gentlemen will say; reminling us of the
condition of things existing, immediately
before or after the close of our last war
with Great Britain. They will not believe
that public affairs are totally different
now to wha,t they were half a century
ago.
' One of this class is a Mr. Palmer,
Chairman of the Democratic State Com
mittee of Indiana. This gentleman has
issued a call for the assembling of a
State Convention on the Sth of January
next, and invites "all who are opposed
to the policy of the present Aminis
tration" to participate in its delibera
tions.
This Mr. Palmer seems to forget that
the Administration has no policy except
that connected with the war, He forgets
that the Union is torn and distracted by
intestine commotion, and he, in his anx•
iety to figure as a narrow partizan, also
forgets that some of the best blood of
his own State has been shed in defence
of the Republic, The great question at
issue now is the crushing of rebellion,
and until this is decided there is no
other, of any nature, of sufficient im
portance to keep the people divided.—
Old partizans, however, will not forget
old prejudices; they must have conven
tions and caucusses and resolutions even
while rebellion threatens to invade their
very homes. This class of politicians
never learn wisdom, and what is worse
they never forget or discard political
nonsense. They have thought so long
about a certain condition of public af
fairs, that they have become almost
monomaniacs, Without the malice or
guilt of the Abolitionist they are almost
as incorrigible.
Will these blind partizans never learn
that the government is theirs and ours
and not solely President Lincoln's?—
will they reflect that administrations are
but of brief duration, while our govern
ment was intended to last forever'. And
will they remember that this magnificent
and stupendous Republic is the result of
Democratic policy, and that it is the
peculiar mission of that party to guard
and protect it. •At the present moment
the. President's, or rather the govern
ment's ablest champions are those who
have borne aloft the Democratic banner,
while the most bitter of his assailants
are among those who helped to elevate
him to the Presidency. These relative
changes are not in consequence of Mr.
Lincoln or Mr. anybody else, but simply
because he happens to be at the head of
our government. It will be of little
consequence to posterity or to the hopes
and chances of free government through
out the world to know who was President
of the United States when the rebellion
began or when it ended.
The Chicago POST paints us the follow
ing picture of things in general, but of
the Ohio valley in particular. It is
scarcely a time for the people of Indiana
to follow Mr, Palmer into his political
labyrinths :
The hand of rebellion, red with some of
the best blood of the country, is now raised
against the cznstitution of the Union.—
The shores of Indiana overlook the battle
fields of Kentucky,soon to become the the,-
etre of a life and death struggle between
the enemies and friends of the American
Union. At this very moment thousands
of Indianians are treading the soil of Ken
tucky, armed and equipped for a deadly
conflict with Kentuckians, with Tennessee
sns and with all other men wherever born,
who dare invade the territory or strike the
flag of the federal Union, War, cruel,
unnatural, horrible war, rages along the
whole bordLr from the mouth of the Sus
quehanna to the Ohio, and from the Ohio
to the Desmoines. Soon that war is to be
commenced with fire and sword, with all
the crushing and devastating power of
retributive justice from the Potomac and
the Wabash down through the Southern
States, until the last vestige of foul, trea
sonable rebellion shall be swept from the
land.
Mr. Palmer had better turn his atten
tion to uniting the people of Indiana to
enable them to meet and vanquish the
common danger. Instead of calling
conventions let him muster men for the
war. Let him labor for unanimity among
his fellows,and no t foster political animos.
es. Such gatherings a 4 he proposes for
the intrepid Democrats of Indiana will
give more aid and comfort to the rebels
than would another Bull Run disaster.
We have no fear, however, of the Hoosier
boys being entrapped into any expres
sion that looks like disloyalty to their
goverment.
Movements of Produce at Chicago.
The. receipts and shipments of produce
at Chicago on Monday were as follows:
Receipts—Flour, 7,172 bbls ; Wheat, 124,-
618 bush; Corn, 141,067 bush ; Live Hogs,
1,786; Cattle, 872; Hides, 24,911 lbs ;
0,000 lira. Shipments—Flour, 9,378
bbls ; Wheat, 136,500 bush; Corn, 193,-
800 bushels.
, General Shields.
The :Sidi-American states positively that
Gen. Stdelds'has not declined the commis
sion of a Brigadier,General recently ten.
dered him toy PM:add& Lincoln ; but that
sussoon se theLintelligence of his appoint
snimt reaches him in Mexico, where he has
gone on private business, he. will hasterito
the seat of war to devote himself with all
his might to the duties of his new com
mand.
A Skirmish—Defeat of the
Rebels.
This morning a detachment of 1,000 from
the Massachusetts 13th and Col. Geary's
Penn. Regiment crossed the river at 8011.
var, and attacked the enemy, 1,600 strong.
After a severe conflict, the Union troops
drove them back from the river, capturing
a 32. pounder. Our loss was six killed.—
The enemy's loss is unknown. Gen. Scott
thought this intelligence of such import,
ance that he called on the President to
communicate it.
REBELS TH ACCOMAC COUNTY
. .
Letters received here state that 6,000
armed rebels, with 25 cannon, organized in
Accomac county, on the Eastern Shore,
Va.
CAPTURE OF A DOZEN SCHOONERS
The United States steamer Louisiana,
which has been off Chincoteague Island,
has captured a dozen schooners, which had
no clearance papers. On the bth inst., two
launches, sent to capture a rebel vessel in
shore, were fired upon by a larger force of
rebels, and one of our men was wounded .
The firo was returned,and one or more reb
els killed. The shot from the rebel guns
burned up the schooner. The following
official report of the affair has been re
ceived :
UNITED STATES STEAMER I.OOISLANA.
CILIPOOTEMIIIS INLET, OM. e.), IEtU•
This morning at '9 o'clock we had a sharp
conflict with the enemy, who, SOO strong,
attemplei to cut off two boats from this
vessel and 28 men, all told, which I had
despatched to take or destroy a fine schoon
er which I had reasm to believe ws being
converted into a privateer. Fortunately I
had gone in with the steamer at the same
time, it being high tide, and was enabled
to cover the re:urn of the party.
The boats, after passing through a terri
ble fire, finally reached the schooner, blit
firding her aground, made a breastwork of
her and opened a deadly fire, which, with
the assistance of a few shots from our long.
range gun, drove the enemy back to a die.
tant cover with loss, and the boats, after
firing the schooner, returned without
farther molestation. Acting -plaster Fur
nose estimates the loss of the rebels to be
at least eight in killed and wounded, as he
saw that number carried off.
Our loss was one seriously wounded,
Acting• Master Hooker, and three very
slightly. I have great praise to bestow on
these engaged in the boats for their cool.,
mass and intrepidity when assailed by such
overwhelming odds. They were yet some
three hundred yards from the schooner
when fired upon, but they preferred push
ing on and returning through it, rather
than fail in accomplishing their object.
During the reconnoissance, last night,
two of their dispatch sloops were captured.
A. MURRAY, Lieut. Com.
Flag Officer, L. N. GoLnseouotron,
Commander-in-Chief Atlantic Blockading
Squadron.
ARMS STOLEN IN DICLAWARE
Rebels in Washington county, Mary
land aided by peace men in Southern Del.
aware, have taken from the arsenal in
Georetown, Delaware, several musket.,
and are now preparing to seize the re
mainder, all flint locks, for use at the State
election in Maryland.
=II
The Saranac, reported lost, was, at last
accounts, undergoing repair at San Fran ,
cisco. She has not been in the Atlantic for
two or three years.
MARYLANDERS JOINING THE REBELS
Two hundred Marylanders who wore in
the Bull Run fight are believed to have
left Baltimore this week for Virginia, to
join the rebel army. IL has long been
known that they were In the Monumental
City, but the new-police could not and the
old would not identify them.
Probable Exchange of Prls-
oners.
A despatch from Washington says that
Sir James Ferguson, Baronet, and Hor-
Mr. Burk, M. Y., arrived here to-day from
Manassas Junction, under a flag of truce.
They came by the way of Norfolk.—
These gentlemen have been visiting in
Richmond, where their arrival was some
time since noticed
It is believed here that the order just
issued relative to an exchange of prisoners,
is only the forerunner of a speedy ex
change of most of the prisoners on either
sides. This will be good tidings both to
the captives and their to:friends.
A scout who has just returned reports
that there are thirty thousand rebels near
is.qnia creek
Our Armies in Kentucky
A correspondent of the New York
Times, writing from Louisville, under
date of Friday, October 11, says :
Gen. Crittenden (now a United
States brigadier general) may speedily
have ready for mustering into the
United States Service, twenty of the
forty volunteer regiments authorized by
our Legislature. These, and the thirty
regiments being raised by our United
States colonels, under United States
authority, would make fifty thousand.
Gens. Sherman, Nelson, Crittenden,
Itosseau, Thomas, and Ward, with an
army of fifty Kentucky regiments, and
fifty Northern regiments, would quick
ly clear Kentucky of all her enemies,
also open and secure Curiaberland Gap,
control the Virginia and Tennessee
Railroad, take Knoxville, Nashville,
and Memphis, and rally the downtrod.
den people of Tennessee around the
good old flag of Liberty and Union.
We shall soon have some severe
fighting. The present quiet is ominous
of a storm. Gene. Johnston and Polk
should be dislodged and driven from
the Purchase this month, else they '
may before the let of November, man
age to take Paducah and conquer the
entire First District. Indeed, before
the let of December the Confederate
invaders design to take Louisville and
conquer the entire State. Certainly,
to say the least, Kentucky will be in a
wretched plight if her enemies are not
conquered or whipped out before. win
ter. But in my opinion they will, be
fore winter, be routed, and Tennessee
herself be in rapid progress of deliver
ance. There can be no doubt of this,
if we all put forth our whole strength.
DIiSAPPOLNTED. A Savannah paper says
the likelihood of the rebel troops going in•
to winter quarters south of tho Potomac
has a very depressing effect upon the minds
of the people in that quarter. They had
been promised and expected that the reb,
.els 13kOttld winter FadunZton and Bal
timore, and possibly i>; Thiladelphia ; but
now to , find that they are to_ itay out in
the cold at Manassas, or compelled to re.
turn to Richmond, must necessarily open
their eyes to the delusion which has been
practiced upon them.
The Forward Movement at Washing—
ton—The General Tendency.
.George Willies, writing from Washing
ton on the 13th, speaking of the advance
movement of our grand Army of the Po•
tzmac the other day, says :
The rbels beheld the movement with dis
may, and yielded to it; but, after three
days of moody observation, they determin
ed to test the resolution of our line. They
advanced in strength, on Saturday, in tho
direction of Prospect Hill, apparently with
the view of making an attack, and drove
our pickets rapidly before them. General
McCall, whose division was the nearest, at
once formed into line of battle, and, sup.
ported by a strong force of artillery and
cavalry, began a responsive movement,
while the divisions of Generals Smith,
Porter and McDowell also prepared to take
an active part, should an extended battle
follow. The rebels, however, gazed wisely
on this vast perturbation of our mass, and,
having amused themselves by flinging a
few shot from their foremost batteries, all
of which were short of range, fell back and
declined the opportunity. It is plain they
do not ictend to give us battle on the
ground between our present lines and Fair
fax Court House; and it is also plain, that
the step to Lewinsville sufficiently men
aces their main position to oblige them to
fall hick to Centreville. That it is the in
tention of Gen. McClellan to follow them
as they retire, there can be but little doubt,
and those who cling to the philosophy of
retribution, may now reasonably calculate
upon seeing the great battle of the Union
leueht upon the already famous triangle
of Manassas,
THE MASK THROWN OFF
Fillibustering Purposes Avowed.
The London Times, in recapitulating all
the enormities of Mexico as a justification
for destroying its independence, dues not
try to conceal the real object of the alli
ance. It is no longer to force payment of
debts due to Englishmen and Frenchmen,
but it is to conquer the land and possess it,
just what Walker tried to do in Centre
America. IL says:
"There are injuries to which no govern
ment can expect its subjects to submit
tamely. When a Christian State, reek
oned as one of the family of nations,
decays and degenerates; when the evils
both of tyranny and anarchy are corn•
bined ; when in one city forced loans
are levied by a Dictator and houses
plundered by brigands and inanrgents;
when generals, in arms against the govern
ment, seize peaceful foreigners and extort
n ransom by a throat of shooting them, the
country in which these events take place
passes out of ;ho pale of civilization. It
cannot expect that Its soveieignty should
be respected, that its territory should be
held inviolate; that other nations should
bow to the decisions of its tribunals, or ac
quiesce in its atrocious taxation. Mexico
is in this state. It is idle now to say that
the English and French and American
settlers are there as unbidden guests, and
that they must abide by the laws and bear
with the calamities of the Republic. The
Repubie, in fact, does not exist. All that
dues exist is a feeble and vicious race, over
ridden by contending factions, which, in
their tierce hatreds, snow the only energy
which is to be mot with in the country.—
The immense sums due to British subjects
for the spoilations and ill treatment of
nearly thirty years would alone justify and
require some action on the part of our
g,• vern went. But it is not only pecuniary
toes which has to he made good. The
country must have reptration for the
slaughter of its citizens and some assur
ances that more of them shall not perish.
Unless this Le ':.-ne, it is hopeless to expect
that any English residents will remain in
Mexico. ' The beautiful region, teeming
with wealth, the land of I remise to the
adventurous arid one rupulous Anglo-Saxi
on of the Southern States, must be closed
to English enterpise for many a year. It
must be as much severed from the world
as the Paraguay of the last generation.—
While these savage and bigoted halfscastes
are cutting throats, banging, shooting,
even burning each other, the little colonies
of foreigners who carry on the mercantile
business of the country may be gradually
destroyed. The only hope for the world
would be that a stronger avid wills all its
lauds, a more estimablo race would CUM(
in and conquer the (awl and possess
Our Blockade Correspondence.
Frcan't he Philadelphia Inquirer.
U. S. STEAM FaICiATE. RoAliciKE,
Off Charleston, S. C., Oct. 11, 1861.
We left Hampton Roads September 28,
4 and arrived here October 1. The wind was
fair, and after clearing Cape Henry the
, engines were stopped and all sail let loose
But one sail was seer, during the passage—.
that was the U. S steamer Susquehanna,
cruising off Cape Hatteras. Our southern
coast is quite free from vessels engaged in
cc mmerce now. You may cruise a whole
month without speaking any but men-of.
war. The Wabash, Vandalia and Flag
were here blockadinc when we arrived.—
The first is gone to New York to take on
hoard Flag Officer S. F. Dupont. The
Vandalia has been blockading this port for
five months, and during that time not a
man on board has placed his foot on land.
She has rendered most rflicient service.
Almost daily some English or French
nisn,icitii war pass along to examine the con•
dition of the blockade, One day last week
a shot was fired across the bow of the Eng
lish man-of-war Steady, to bring her to.
It inflamed the commander very much, and
he boldly and angrily asserted that " the
matter would be reported to her Brittanic
Majesty."
Early on Sunday morning, October
schooner was discovered, which seemed ot
be endeavoring to enter the harbor by the
Southern channel. The steamer Flag was
sent in chase, and after a smart run of four
hours, and exposed to shell from a rebel
battery on shore, she rAurned alongside
with the prize, which proved to be the
Alert. She had a clearance from Nassau,
New Providence, one of the Bahamas,
bound for St. Johns, Newfoundland, load
ed with pineapples, sugar and bananas.—
The crow is on board, and are mostly in
habitants of Charleston, S. C. When first
seen she had the rebel flag at her masthead,
but so soon as she discovered the steamer
Flag in chase, ran up the English flag. A
Palmetto:and secession flag were found in
her cabin and bruught on board the Roan
oke, They left them on the capstan for
exhibition, and we all secured a small piece
of each as a memento, when we found the
ulcers not looking. I may mention that
the steamer Flag was not hit by the shots
from the rebel battery in the chase.
Charleston is now effectually blockaded,
almost "water proof." The Roanoke lies in
the middle, and on each side are the Van
dalia and steamer Flag ; the former guard•
ing the Northern channel and the latter
the Southern one. We are about five miles
from Fort Sumter, lying at anchor in thir.
ty feet water. This is as near as we can go
in, on account of the bar. The steamer
Monticello arrived last night, and will take
part in blockading this place.
The greater part ot each day is spent in
drilling us to use the large guns, and par
ticularly the small arms. We are formed
into companies and insrtucted in the army
drill. This is the case, I understand, on
board all men-of war at present, and if our
'services are required on land in the cepa
city of soldiers you will hear a good report
from us, equal to McClellan's best.
Theist is a little rebel steamer, armed
with six guns, in the harbor, and she reg
ularly comes down within four miles of
our anchorage every morning and looks at
us a few minutes, and then return, appal
rently satisfied.
fperThe whole number of West Point
graduates from 1801 to 1860 was leas than
two thousand.
No Failure Yet.
Certain London journals, written in
the intersts of English tories and of
European aristocracy generally, have
been pleased to repeat for some years
that popular institif ons were on trial in
this country ; and since the outbreak of
the Southern rebellion they have as
sumed that the trial has terminated with
a signal and overwhelming veriict
against the popular theory. The great
republic is dead, said the Times with
illbconcealed joy, and all the little pa
pers at once took up the cry, as if it bad
proclaimed an assured and incontesta
ble fact.
Now, we have no desire to boast in
the face of these complacent judges, but
when the scheme of popular govern
ment is so industriously and invidiously
assailed on all sides, we are forced to
recall the history of its workings upon
this continent, to show by the actual
results that the principles upon which
it was founded arc still worthy of every
confidence.
It is scarcely eighty years since this
grand experiment of the government of
the people by themselves was here un
dertaken. Within that short period of
time the freedom guarantied to every
man by our institutions has allowcd us
to clear and prepare for human use a
territory equal in extent to that of the
largest empire of the Old World. Every
part of it has been dotted by thriving
villages, intersected by canals, and
bound together by the iron bands of the
railroad. We have one metropolitan
city, like London and Paris, but we
have besides a dozen other cities that
are the equals, in trade and proportions,
of any of the secondary cities of Europe.
Oar commerce has reached an amount
of tonnage which is greater than the
measure of Great Britain, the most
commercial nation in the world. Oar
agricultural labor is now the hope of
mankind, and for two years past has
turned the current of the world's ex
changes in our favor. In a word, the
annual product of the United States is
nearly equisalent to that of the foremost
of the European nations, which possess
a larger population and have the accu
mulated capital of a thousand years to
work upon.
Not that Americans are wiser or more
charitable than other men, but teat th•
whole effect of popular institutions is to
give free scope to the ingenuity, the tal
ent, the ambition and the benevolence
of their subjects. Are we not justly
called a nation of inventors, for ex
ample? Fulton gave the world the first
steamboat;
Morse the first telegraph ;
Whitney the first cotton-gin, on which
Britain's greatness is founded • hoe the
lightning presses on which the London
Times condescends to be printed ; Colt
the revolving arms which British offi
cers found indispensable in the Crimea
and in India; and an American citizen.
Ames of Chicopee, invented and made
for the Britsh government the compli
cated and beautiful arms manufacturing
machinery which is now set up at the
Woolwich armory, and:an American
machinist was sent over to put it in op
eration. An American (Goodyear) first
made India rubber available for the
thousand uses which it is now put to in
all the world; an American (Rowe in
vented the sewing machine, which is
said to be the greatest boon conferred
upon womankind; an American (Mc-
Cormick) invented the reapers and
mowers with which Englishmen gather
their harvests ; an American built the
first railroad in Russia; another took
the contract to raise the sunken men-of
, war in the harbor of Sebastopol ; and
American labor-saving machinery has
taken prizes in every fair in Europe
What is the secret of this? Simply
that our institutions open a free theatre
t•) all men for the exercise of their beet
abilities.—N. Y. Post.
The Foreign Alliance against
Mexico.
THE TREATY NOT VET SIGNED
The Paris Patrie, of the 2Sth ulti
mo, states, that by the last courier
despatched by the Spanish Govern
ment to Cuba, Serrano, the Captain
General of that Island, will receive an
order to suspend the departure of the
Cuban expedition to Mexico. It is as•
serted that Spain will not act alone in
an intervention, and that she has agreed
to come to an understanding as to a
common plan of action with France
and England. But it is believed at
Madrid that no agreement between
the three Powers interested can be
ready for signature for several days.
THE ERENCH FLEET ON THE MEXICAN
)s) Correspondence
Paris (Sept
London Pimes.
By a despatch from Brest, dated the
27th, it is stated that the frigate As
tree is to be immediately armed and
prepared for sea. She is to reinforce
the French naval division on the coast
of Mexico.
SPANISH WAR VESSELS FOB, THE GULF.
[From the London Times, Sept. 30.1
The Spanish screw frigates Lealtad
and Conception, the latter at present
the flagship of Admiral Pinzon, at Ali
cante, are shortly to leave for Havana,
to reinforce the Spanish squadron
there.
ORGANIZATION OF THE FLEET AND
ARMY AT CUBA
[From the same paper, same day.]
It is stated in a letter from Idelfon,
so that the Spanish squadron about to
proceed to Mexico will consist of six
screw frigates, two steamers of 500
horse power, besides transports and
smaller vessels. A staff officer has
been sent with despatches for the Gov
ernor-General of Cuba on the subject
of the expedition, and had embarked at
Cadiz, in the war steamer Leon.l4 Fif
teen hundred men destined for Cuba,
are to be ready at their respective de•
pots by the 15th of October next, and
the officers who are to go with them
have already been appointed.
BRITISH NAVAL RBINFORCRMENTS FOR
THE GULF
[From the London Times, Oct. I.]
The Stromboli and the Chanticleer,
are hourly expected to be commission.
ed at Portsmouth to reinforce the
West India squadron, with reference,
most probably to expected operations
on the coast of Mexico. Both vessels
are masted, and are being rigged and
stored with the greatest possible de
spatch.
THE BRITISH NORTH dMERICANFLEET,
[From the London Times, Sept. 301
The Virago, six paddle,. Command
er A. J. H. Johnstone, with the
Sparrow, five, screw gnu vessel, in
tow, arrived at Spithead during the
night of Saturdry from Chatham, and
sailed again yesterday morning for
the westward, calling in Plymouth
Sound, whence she is expected to
proceed to the North American and
West India Station.
MUNITIONS OF WAR AND ANOTHER
WAR SHIP FOR CANADA
[From the London Times, Oct. I.]
A number of Armstrong 100 and
poundes guns, with their fittings,
shot, shell, &c., have been already set
aide by the ordnance authorities at
Portsmouth for the service of the
North America and West India
squadron, and, according to present
arrangements, the Emerald, 51, screw,
Capt. A. Cumming, will at once em
bark the guns and stores apportioned
to the Nile, St. Geonze and Cadmus,
land sail with tboun 1.. 111,1,1,,v
60,000 Eastern Men Destined ism Ken
tucks and Missouri
Important Military Movement's.
It is aecided by the Government to push
00,000 Eastern troops into the West—one
halt through Kentucky, and,the other into
Missouri These, with the Western troops
going forward, will swell the Wertern and
Southwestern armies to vast proportions.
Out of those pushing nn into Missouri
arother wing will be formed, under a new
command, to proceed with the new gun
boats and transport steatn,rs down the
durin4 the autumn months.—
W0. , 1, it is thuucht, will command
the river fleet and army. In these three
branches of the Union army there will be
about 200,000 men.
Mason and Slidell
A Washingtcn correspondent says the
unless the rebel ernissanes, Mason and
Slidell, suddenly changed the place agreed
upon for their exodus from the rebel States
they have not, as represented in the South
ern journals, sailed for Europe from
Charleston in defiance of the blockade.—
Bat directly the intelligence published
reached here, the Navy Department, with
commendable zeal and promptness, ordered
a fast steamer to intercept them, and a disi•
path from New Voik to Secretary Welles
was received, stating that the steamer was
ready and would start off at once. If,
however, Mason and Slidell havonut sailed
Imm Charleston, but have taken the route
first agreed upon, they will still find bur
government on the watch for them.
How Postal Arrangements Work at the
The Richmond Examiner, ilia late issue.
has a fierce attack on the inefficiency 'of
the Southern postal arrangements. In the
closing part of the article it says:
"The outrage inflictod upon the people
of the South by this brutal suppression of
the news is only equaled by the tax now in.
Hinted upon the soldiers In the camps for
the newspapers they read. Are the pub
.10 prepared to believe that the carriers
who distribute newspapers among the
soldiers encamped at any distance from our
cities, have first to purchase them of news.
paper offices, and then to pay the amount
of the purchase money a second time to
the Postoffice Department, before being
allowed to transmit them upon the railroad?
The agent who sends a thousand papers
from any Richmond office to Manassas
must first pay two hundred dollars for
them at the printing office, and then pay
two hundred dollars to the postoffice, be
fore they can be sent to the army. A
greater hardship even than the extortion
of this sum is the requirement that the
papers shall be Eltampod before transmis
sion—this delay itself hazarding the trans•
mission of the papers at all.
The consequence of the arrangement is
that, whereas, before the postoflice levied
this extortionate tax of two cents, the car,
rier could afford to sell newspapers to sot.
diera for five cents, he is now compelled to
demand ten cents—the actual cost of the
paper, delivered at the camps being more
than five cents. Thus the soldier who
wishes to spend the leisure hours of his
time in camp, in reading the latest news
papers, is obliged to pay three dollars each
month, out of his eleven dollars pay, for
the very harmless recreation. lie is coin.
polled to pay a d otter and a half more per
month for his newspaper, in order. that
the pustoffice may reap the wretched pit.
tance of sixty cents.
"The public are aware that in all coun ,
tries in the civilized world, except the
Confederate States, newspapers in the
mass, intended for general sale, are trans
mitted as freight on the railroads, without
any postage tax. If the finances of the
Confederacy were on their last legs, it
might be excused to this extraordinary
circumstance that a tax should be levied
upon their transmission on the railroads,
though this is done at no cost at all to the
government. But when the Postoffice
Department demands the whole price and
cost of the newspaper as a mere gratuity;
domande as much for allowing the rail.
roads to transmit them at their own cost
as any large printing establishment, con,
ducted at great cost, receives for their
manufacture, the folly of the thing, not to
call it an outrage, appears so monstrous
and disgraceful as to inspire a feeling of
profound contempt for the department."
STATISTICS show that tobacco smoking
le becoming more general in most countries,
and that in England it has increased one
quarter in ten years. The calculation also
shows that as tobacco contains, on an av
erage, three per cent of nicotine, 7,500,000
kilogrammes of that poison are annually
consumed. A few drops of it cause death.
ULLIII EN'S
HULLIFIEN'S
PARISIAN TOOTH PASTS,
PARISIAN TOOTH PASTE
PARISIAN TOOTH PASTE,
Prepared from the original recipe by Dr. Brent,
lieto.r, of Wbee.mg, and recommended El , Dr. J.F.
Ilnliihee, of this city, as being the only true and
genuine artte.e of this Paste now before the public.
Bold by
SIMON JOHNSTON, Druggist
and dealer in choice Family Medicines,
oe-dlemd-2p cor. Smithfield and Fourth stEl.
tr - 3,4 - aR. FAIRMAN, UNDERTAKER, sole agent
Ins,Y
for Flake's Metallic Bimini Cases, at R. R
BULGER'S CABINET WAREROOMK No de
EIMiTHFTELD STREET Residence, 218 Latmck
street, Allegheay City. Orders may be lett AT
CHARLES' LIVERY STABLE, Allegheny City.
se2l43md.2p .
WFOR THE Wan....THE BRIGADE 07
Colonel W. H. LAMOIt. the late law partner
and friend of the President, is not quite full, and
men wt's be received either as companies, parts of
companies or es individuals, and have the choice
of the branch of service which they prefer, either
as Very, Infantry or Cavalry.
Itrtion of the Brigade is now in active service.
This is a chance rarely met with, as the Brigade
will be a favorite one. From the date of enlistment
men will be subsisted, paid and clothed. Apply at
the stable of R. 14.. YATTERSO3.4
at the Red White and Bine, Smithfield at.,
odls-lm opposite the Postoiliee.
MINER'S UNION
STATIONARY PACKET,
Costs but 25 cents. Agents wanted in every town
and village. A-14. 1 7 to
HENRYMINER,
stieeeadior to Bunt & Miner,
71 and 73 Falb at, next door to Post Office.
NEW
REVISED ARMY REGULATIONS,
and a complete
ASSORTMENT OF MILITARY ROOKS,
can be found at HENRY MINER'S,
oaf next door to the Poet Moot
1L743. S. ARMY—WANTED HdI4IIIDIATELY
or the SIXTH REGIMENT 11. 13. CANAL.
HY. REGULAR SERVICE—A few more able
bodied men, between the ages of twenty-one and
thirty.ll ve. Pay ranges from $l4 toWV:nth,
according to the ranit'of . the mildier. l . - 2 - - man
will be furnsphed Wittr - ft. goeithoran4n_d equip
ments, ample clothing and subialstenct Wren+,
fuel and medical atiendAttee free of Chart'. The
pay of each soldier comitienceacia 0003 0 5 loan
listed.
By an Act lately passed the term of enlistment
ie chang, d from five to THREZ YEARS, and every
soldier wno serves that time is entitled to
$lOO &,LINTY and 180 ACRE 3 OF LAND
from the Cove:t-4am. Attention in drawn to the
fact that theP nment has wisely commenced to
promote solder,. ,from the ranks. Advancement is
therefore open to all.
For further particalars apply et the Recruiting
Office, NATIONAL HOTEL.
HENRY B. sArg t _.„
Captain, Sixth Regiment 17; Chapiali; —
BeC Recruiting C nicer.
UsHEADQUARTERB MULLIGAN GUA:BM/&
No.loe Grant street, opposite Cathedral.
The Company is fast filling op, thope wishing to
loin must call soon. M. H. NOLAN,
oe4 JOHN STEWART.
HEADQUARTERS an BATTALION 18TH
REGIMENT U.& INFANTRY,
Prrrsomion, September Z 1881.
Ui TO TB E YOUNG MEN OF WEB 6Di
PENNSYLVANIA.—I am ordered to recruit
the 3d Battalion of the 18th Regiment United
Kates Infantry in Pcnnsy lassie. and now appial to
you to 'show your patriotism by entering . the. ser
vice of your country m this fine Rifle Regiment, to
consist of 2.462 meo.
The pay is from $l3 to $34 per month,. with abun
dant food,
clothing, and sit necessaries Every
moldier of the regular army is entitled, besides
pension if disabled, and bounty of One Hundred
Dollars when honorably discharged,to a comforrabe
stipportif iok or disabled,in the •Boldier's Homes"
established by the government.
Immediate provision made for uniforms, arms,
equinments, rations and transportation for all whoho
enlist. Onr-third of the company officers tl
taken from the ranks. No better opportunity is
uttered to spirited young men for good treatment
and lair chances for promotion. For fug informa
tion apply to Lieut. ROBERT SUTHERLAND, at
the Rendezvoni, No. 64 Fourth
LL. S strA. eet.
WITOKE%
se23 Major 18th Reg't U. S. Infantry. .
07PITTSBURGH, BEPTEMBKR 17th
In accordance with the annexed order,
the undersigned has opened a Recruiting Office,
to fill the Rtighth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve
Corps to the maximum standard. All the allow.
maces, pensions, At., are guaranteiiiiito the recruit
ORDER.
Hun QUARTZES Assn' or we Porouto,l
Washington, September 14,1861. f
SPECIAL ORDERS, NO. 86.
O. Maj or John W. Duncan, Pennsylvania Reserve,
Is detailed on the recruiting service for his Regi
ment. and will report to the Adjutant General of
the Army for instructions. One noncommissioned
officer will be detailed to assist him.
By command of Mej:Gen. McOLELLA N.
M. WILLIAMS, Asst. Adjt.-Gen.
Apply to JOHN W. DUNCAN,
Major Stn Regiment, Recruiting Officer.
Recruiting Offices, Kennett Hones, Diamond
and Alderman Owaton's office, 4th stre et, opposite
Mayor's office, self.
pIT rs BURGH GYYNART IC ASSOCIA
TION—There will be a special meeting of
the Pittsburgh Gymnastic Arsociation held at the
iiymnasium on FRIDAY EVENING, October
at 7% o'clock. It is the earnest desire of the ottl•
cars that the members will take anfficient intereel
in the welfare of the institution, to be In attendance,
as business of importance will be suitor considera
tion. Remember, FRIDAY EVENING.
Br
order
of the President. Ei,,IicFADEN,
ocl7-21 Secretary.
FOR FEMALES GENERALLY.
—The Brandroth Pills cannot be too highly spoken
of. They remove all obstructions, give energy and
strength; cure the distressing headache unfortu
nately so prevalent with the sex ; depression 01
spirits, dullness of sight, nervous affections,
blotches, pimples, sallowress of the skin, are all
removed, and a juvenile bloom and general spright
liness indicate the power and healthfrar mos of
BRANDBEI9I3 PI Ll 9.
Ladies, at delicate periods, will find them 'burl
valed ; they are the best medicines for mothers
and children, and cure worms and costiveness.
Let it be remembered that BBANDRETH'S
PILLS are easy in their operation, and yet Unite
mildness with efficiency, and requ re no alteration
of ditt dung their use.
Mrs. Morgan, corner of 15th street end tinlon
Pqnare, hew York, was dying apparently of Ons-
Karr:lac the was given up to die by her physicians
and all her friends, but after using Bittentarrn't
PILLS for a few weeks the cough left her, and she
began to regain her strength, and is now able to
atte r. d to her duties, and feels sure of soon attaining
robust health.
Mrs. Wilson, of No. 82 Beach street, New York,
has eared Dyspepsia. Small Pox, Measles, Dropsy
and '1 yphun Fever, and all Headaches and. Bilious
Diseases, with Bit6NDIDTH'S Pats, will be pleased to
newer any questions.
Sold by T9OB. RIEDPATH, Pi z tt= a Ps,
And by all respectable dealers le
ocAlmdaw
To Consumptives.
The advertiser having been restored _
health in a few weeks by a very simple remedy,
after having suffered several years with a severe
lung affection, and that dread disease, Consump ,
ton—ia anxious to make known to his fellow ant
erers the means of cure.
To all who desire it, he will send a copy of the
prescription used, (tree of charge,) with the direc.
pons for preparing and using the same, which
they will And aME MEM POE tauterios, Awrices,
Samaria, kit. The only object of the advertiser
in *miling the prescriptions to benefit the afflicted,
and spread information whichbe conceives to be
invidnable, and he hopes every sufferer will try his
remedy, as it will cost them nothing, ,and MAY
prove al:dewing.
Parties wishing.
_the p : All please ad
dress REV. EDWARD A. WILSON
Williamsburgh, KIEV cow*,
New ark
Us THE GREA"I"I'EtiT OF ALL CHEMICAL,
preparations is analyais, and CRIBTADOROffi
HAIR DYE, which imparts the most superb blacks
and browns, has passed the ordeal. Bee Dr. Chil
ton's certificate declaring it free from deleterious
ingredients. Bear in mind the fact that no other
hair dye has been officially tested and pronounced
pure and safe. Manufactured by J ORIM'ADORO
6 Astor House, New York. Sold every where k and
applied by all Hair Dressers.
oc7:aaw:lm ORO. H. H. EWER, Agent.
EAN - HOOD.
HOW LOST, HOW RESTORED.
.fr": , Just Published in a Sealed Envelope
U€ 7 Price 6 cents.
A Lecture on the Nature, Treatment and Radical
Cure of Spermatorrhoia or Seminal Weaknese, In
voluntary Emissions, Sexual Debility, and Impedi
menta to Marriage generally, Nervousness, Con
sumption, Epilepsy and Pits Mental and Physical
Incapacity, resolung from ttelAbuse, he By
ROB f. J CUL VERWELL, M. D., Author of the
Green Book, de.
"A Boon to Thousands of Sufferers. , '
Sent under seal, in a plain entekme, to any
ad
dress, past paid, on receipt of six cent or two st•
age stamps, by DR.KLINE,
sen.3md.tv IX Bowery, N. Y., Post Office 80x,41586
LrWE CALL ATTENTION TO THE AD
VERTISEMENT of ur. Brown in another
column of this paper. Be continues - to he oonsulted
at No. 60. Smithfield street. charges reastomble.
Now OPENING -_
Beautiful Prints &c.
Dark Ginghams„
Flannels / all Colt ms,
Canton Flannels,
Checks, Tickings, &c.
Beautiful Delaines and
other Dress Goods.
Tweeds, Jeans, CasAinets,
Sheetings and Shirtings
Balmoral and Hoop Skirts,
Needle Collars and Sets.
ALL SELLING CHEAP FOR CASH
C. HANSON LOVE.
74 Market Street.
ocl6-dkw
K. Hs BULGER,
ILANUFACTIMIS 03P
EVERY DESCRIPTION OD
FURNITURE,.
No. 45 Smithfield Street,-
A FULL ASSOBTICENI OF
Pittsburgh lianufaelued Furniture,
00 netantly on band which we wlll se 11 at the law.
eat prices for OdBH. InT l C 7 * l
THOMAS FARLEY'S •
FURNITURE AND CHAIR WARNELOOKS,
No.I.6.IFEDESAI. ST., 41.7S,GRENY.
UNDENTAKINGJD all Its bninehes,sereceive
prompt attention. Orders minim ke,N aethe room
or at the Livery Stable of Alfr.lianitSMlM Ohd
treat. Allegheny- • . • salS•ly
CAMP AND BOWIE K Ro t '
ooli sale by BOWN &
lie WWI died.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
SELITIE PITCH:
. .
Renton Tli 0111 1 ,
4- c
Ne. 48
ST. CLAIR STIIIREV:
LOOK. AT
OUR PRICES OF:
BOOTS, .SHOFS AND GU3125"-1 .
Ladles Heated Morroceo Boots for onliiiti34 4 ;..-
do do Calf do dd
do do /Up do
do Gum 13hoes, Cheap; 4
Men's Kip Boots only $2,0% . . ,
• I do Calf Brogans LDS
• Boys, Youths and Children's Kip and Calf Boots
at low prices; •
Also Misses-and Chilit.ren'aito* and Bhoes
tau nt the OkiltlVOies Sto,rtsg
JOSEPH Rn3ORIANIV
98 Market street, 2nd door from Fifth.
BOYS BOOTS CHEAP,
BOYS:110HTS iCHITAPOA
BOYS BOOTS CHEAP,
YOUTHS' BOOTS OHLAP,
Y 0 UTHS',HOOTS CHEAP,
AT NO- 15 FIFTH STREW.
ocl9 D. S. DIFFENBAOHER.
DARROT AT AUCTIOII —1
THIS EVENING, at earl
i t l as light tbe
Stabil:cm House :AI W. Al =mamma:4
Wood' street and Vtritin.apey?:a
PAI rot and cage. s 1 Igan
IOLDIEES, ATTENTION
. soo 'Patent Water Xllleulf , z 4 o. = 13 . 0 1 411 4
ever invented for soldiers and trairgara:"l36l
wholesale and retail by
kATON, MACRIMILk
rel 9 17 Fifth Cent
C ARD PIRYLOGRAPIi PICTURES
and Photograph Frames, all the notablhties of
the times, pretty groups and figure% received and
for sale by EATON, 4,AORIllif k
'0c.19 - - - nariabz.Sl
rINEN COLLARS AND BETTS
/ 75 dozen received- and a Id wholesale and re
t dl by EATON, BIAORLIM & CO,
ocl9 1I Fifth street.
- IT B. E. NEW. BAL4I.O.RAL HOOP
76EIRT, tiY to and o'ol4 *Y netrifitaing
eceived and tot Bale tir ' -
EATON, MAORUM k 00:
ocl9 ,„ 17 Flith street.
ruAL, NUT WAL, SLACK AND
1.1 COKE.-DICKI3OI% tiff.F7AFDAVO,
509 LIBERTY STREET,
Haling superior facilities for atipplling thetest
iipinktvid But al,Sleektmdtokeiire.
Walla delfver-theasime, in iniYAinnitkty totient.
purchasers, at reasonable rates. Our ."Cicail is
brought in fresh dailyby railroad, and Is dry and
free from slack. Par ti cular attention given to sup
shine family Coal.
.1540443 OLL. 9414.1D3.
. ••,z
• st' Azaimoxi
D EFLNERS AND Djattlig . lN
:Pare Carbon Oils qinditygniiientneit Pitts
burg. 1.10
h.
Bensiole end Car Grease contently-an hind.
Ordeal least .011eas a . Smyth : Water
ndPiret MAL; will be prompel • Blled.l , Go
•
FI R. SWEET'S
.114. 1NioALLIBLEZ 6. , a 74
Ia amend in-need. Aeery,-Sizeepplen#l lave
R. E. 8341.4#0, 4 4t CO.,
ocl9llmmod earner Second end Weed e'e.
EXCH ANGE BANK OF PITTSBURGH,'
October 181 h. 1861. f
AN ELECTION FOR DIRECTORS OF
this Rink will ... be' bO.ll in the Banking
House on MONDAY, November 18th, 1861, between
the hours of 1/ a. zo, and 2 p.m.
Te animal meeting of - thelideirbeldertewill be
held on TC M DAY, November fah at 11 m.
od9-1m H. IL MURRAY, Cashier.
tit'llZkNhOliballa,
Pittsburgh, Oet:lBfb.
WAN ftECITION FOR Tams= DB. lk-
TORII of this Bank will be held as the Bank
ing If ouse on MONDAY, 18th day of November,
prozhno,-petveenthe_hours of MI a. m. and m.
.Ta
issanuatmeetang AP - DitSPOekhektelfle be
held on TUESDAY, NoiiiiimeriStlcoaloX
a. m. GEORGIE T. VAN DOREN,
oela-lna Caehier.
• -BAB. •
October 17th. 788 L
O
r C
AN ELET 'T
lON FOR METEEN DJR
TORS of thiaßank Wine held at the Rank.
mg House on, MOM:IAX .Novetirtherettr, between
thehours otio-a,m4inct-24).
The annual meeting oratocklioliters Wit be held
on TUF.gDAY, November sth. at 11 o'clock a- m.
olB3td-ltw JOHN HARPER, Cashier.
ALLECTRENYWNE,
Octoberl7th, 1881.
0. AN ELECTION FOR DIRECTORS Of
this Rank toseue for tho ensuing year wit
be held at the Banking House on the 18th of NO
VEM SRR, between the hours of 9 o'clock a. tn.
and 2 o'clook.p.m. W.OQO, Cashier.
Theannuta inftetinkiglitixtltholderiterill be bob
at the Banking House on TETESDAY;Novembe
stb, at 10 o'clock a. m. oclB-td
THE 11102 i OITY, pANKRIK.7MITTOSI 3I ‘ II .I
• • , PittshmultAidlobtelnhatteli:
U. ANEt M'ECTIONTORVEIRT ef'DIRO.O
TOR' of this Bank, to Bel" during the en
'sutra year, be held:atehkilenktegetonee ce
MONDAY, DOVNIMBEIt - littiVbetifinialthe hour
oLnA. hi. arid 2 P. M
'I he ANNUAL MEETING of the Stockholder
will he held at-thavAtanking House on TUESDAT
NOVEMBER bth, at 11 o'clock a m.
oclAlm PORN BLiGIOFFnii. Cashier.
. . _16E0136181(23 06.1811 : 4 1
Erdleborgh; Odalieflink, 1861.
WAN ELECTION - FOR DLEEOTORBOR
Eiudr-lo eennwtorthowninungieiveill b
held at the Noticing House int 311018D834 ale .1 1 4 1
proximo, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. a
and 2 O. x.
A general dneeting.otAlieStackholdere will b
held on TUEBDAY,Neee *abet:6th at 10 doleee A. I
0e17.1m .OEa. uhraftzw. Osmium.
OrY7o3oP2niPialea licsoatataLktlatiffilactmert,l
Prrrenceen, October Ilth,lBffi.
STOOKIIO,I 4 pEWO,TELD
A Company are hereby iiiitiffiliethlitVeinnat
election for Dire:dors far the swain year will b
held at the office, N 0.63 Ptittilliatreet.baween th
>are of ten o'clock .i. r. and one o'clock P. 11.. o
MONDAY, the 4th day of-NovemberillWlL
ocll.dtno4 I. GRIER SPROUL, Secretary.
L INEN
for•6oo 7, worth
ZOUAVE BEI% fdr4rUrdith $2,00;
Embroidered Sete '-f0;j4,24,V0rt,?,, : 52,50
A large lot of Corsets
Beal French Emhroidaradsuid Itfunhani
Embroidered andllens,,Stlich liandker
Swiss-und4secousivAldengs,
and Insertinge, Infants A/am and
WiOn*
Infanta Robes, -
FanbrOldered Skirts,
Jacoiiet Flouncing
Dimity Bands
and M.agle,
• WO o l*l/4 114 L
iniefland Shavricf
Zephyr,iyonted
Shetland Wool,
Dress..Triuurd.4.,Velvet Efbions;
- • • Gilf - Braids
Gloves, Htery,
Gents' , l344*-Aeg#7*
• '00.7/ORS. AND I+A{llo1 + A{110 t ( OODI3,
" aniirfAlti*.-0-* - ` 1 : 441111 4 -
o.*-4-RtstiSit-OXPl•Tledts
JIALL • • unto on
- 44(gtrinn Rad Eludtblield streetaiuuth
ocl6 et *sok
liiiii=l