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Democratic State Ticket.
AUDITOR GENERAL,
ISAAC SLENIEF.R. Tinton County
SURVEYOR GENERAL,
JAMES P. BARR, Allegheny County
MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST
Al? Reading matter on every page
PROPOSITION
We propose to Sheriff Woods to pub
lish the forthcoming list of Sheriff's Sales
and the usual handbill■ accompanying the
same, and to devote the entire proceeds
to the Volunteer Bounty Fund. By ac
cepting this offer the Sheriff will, without
loss to himself, be•the means of increas
ing this most patriotic fund. Will he do
it?
GREAT MEN IN DEMAND.
• We rejoice to witness that, notwithstand
ng the absorption of thought and
energy among our people, in their patri
•tic endeavors to respond properly and
promptly to the government's call for
volunteers, the no less important business
of selecting competent. public servants in
- civil capacities is not entirely overlooked.
We were impressed with this, by
glancing at the Pittsburgh Gazette of Sat
arday last, containing a double correspond
ence, between our distinguished fellow
citizen, Hon. Thomas Williams, and cer
tain well known citizens of both the Con
gressional districtsinto which our county is
divided, urgently soliciting him to become
their respective candidates for Congress.
While perusing the first of these commu
nications, coming as it did from Elizabeth
township, we inferred that it was an indi
oation of a desire to get rid of Gen.
Moorhead, who, it is well known, is de
sirous of serving the district for another
term. These Elizabeth gentlemen seem
thoroughly impressed with the necessity
of having some one else than a mere con
tractor in Congress during the coming
term, and express themselves, in their
note to Mr. Williams, accordingly. They
express confidence "in his honesty and
ability," which we infer to be a slight re
flection upon our present member. N o
reason is given for this sly thrust at the
General, but we presume that it was caused
by his heroic and defiant endorsement of
Cameron's operations in the War Depart
ment, by which several worthy Pennsyl
vanians are said to • have accumulated
something quite handsome. P.r, this, as
it may, Mr. Williams was evidently struck
by the reference to his honesty and ability,
and like all really great and modest men,
he exhibits the emotion which the allusion
produced. He truthfully remarks that
"the largest capacity and the highest wis
dom will not be snore than equal to the
requirements of the position." This is
evidently another plunge at our present
member; but, in justice to Mr. Williams,
we should remark. that. lie disclaims hay
ing the vanity to suppose himself able to
come up to the standard which he himself
has created! The question here naturally
arises, if Mr. 'Williams is not capable of
giving effect and action to his own great
conceptions, who is? And here we again
perceive that artless greatness which, like
crystal, only shows the thing it would hide
but only covers. Surmounting these con
siderations of sensibility, Mr. Williams
soars aloft, and patriotically declares that
the position referred in is orre not to be
shunned by any patriot upon whom it may
be imposed, and closes his communication
by informing those who addressed him that
he does not live in this Congressional dis
trict, and "therefore declines the honor
intended him." Just- here we paused,
wondering what this long correspondence
meant, and what it was all about, regard
ing it as a "most lame and impotent con
clusion," when, further down in the same
paper, we perceived another correspond
ence between the aforesaid Thomas Wil
liams, Esq., and some dozen prominent
gentlemen residing in his own district.
We proceeded to peruse this, in order to
discover the "milk in that cocoanut," and
that rare liquid was at once discernible.
This committee also deSired to monopolize
the services of our remarkable fellow-ci
Zen, in Congress, and we presumed that
the first. correspondence, declining, was
iiblished merely as a graceful introduc-
tory to the more serious one of accepting
that which followed. It seemed us the
cuttle-fish, to indicate the near - approach
of his rapacious follower.
This second correvondence is heavier
and more serious than the first; it presents
all the marks of being the production of
old, political stagers. 'rho committee
speak about " mornentoie:. questions,"
and the necessity of the services, in
die national councils, of our coun-
try's "ablest statesmen and purest patr
ots." This, necessarily, leads the com
mittee to solicit Mr. Williams to permit
his name to be used, which we construe
into n. petty, plausiNe dodge for con-
signing oar amiable friend, Mr. McKnight
to the pleasing and tranquil shades of
private life. Mr. Williams' reply to this
second demand upon his patriotism seems
to have aroused him to the proper concep
tion of the magnitude of the occasion ;
and he declares that it "him cost ns a
year's delay and a hundred thousand lives
to educate the nation's representatives up
to the level of the necessities which so
many of its public functionaries have trot
Jet readed." We infer, very clearly, from
this, that had our luminous fellow -citizen
been elected to Congress, when he ran as
the champion of anti-bit, all the disasters I
to our country of which to now complains
would havnbeen lutipp*sioided. Whatan
inconceivably
mI dehildriPonding
- _
occasion, entailed upon a bleeding country?
After this allusion to the past Congress,
the distinguished gentleman gives us some
very fine rhetoric, from which we- are
tempted to select the following
Their task has been, however, a trilling
one, compared with that which is reserved
for their successors. To solve the many
dark and mysterious problems of state
which every hour is evolving—to gather
up and bind together anew the shattered
fragments of our once great and powerful
Republic—to replace on their original
foundations the dismembered and broken
columns of the once beautiful temple,
which is now "so marred by the hands of
traitors"—and to make our present sacri
fices available for future generations, by
restoring the divine harmonies which per
vaded that glorious. structure—these--
these are a task which may well engage,
and perhaps even over-master, the highest
faculties that have ever been vouchsafed
to man. And yet this is to be the work
of the Congress which you are about to
elect."
This, we confess, is a very striking pic
ture of the duties likely to devolve upon
the next Congress. But as Mr. Wil
liams remarks that. "great occasions pro
duce great men,'• may see not fondly in
dulge the pleasing anticipation o!' having
in our next Congress men who ran not only
solve the "many dark and mysterious
problems of the State,'• but also re,tore
the divine harmonies'• which once per
vaded our beautiful structure
After another modest disclaimer as to
his ability to ,be of much :.:erviee, Mr.
Williams concludes to he a candidate,
so we announce him to th,• I:opublican
voters of our sister district.
In order that those interest k:kl in the
_f2l Congressional district may have an
idea of what is in store for them, we may
remark that their prospective Congress
man differs. entirely, in his military con
ceptions, with any General now in the
field. He differed in the beginning of our
troubles with the plans of Clen. Scott : Ile
next objected to those of M'Clellan Ike
now denounces Haneck's ; and it. e:ay he
fair to presume thet he will keep differing
from these officers as 1011:2 as r Von
t-lames, just as determinedly as he has !Well
differing with the decisions of :;nl , ren
Court. There .S 00 •luo.=tion ithi , lll
Williams' military capacity- the only
trouble is, that common folks can't see it.
le is several years ahead of the age in
which he lives. "Great occasions call
forth great minds," however : and in the
double correspondence tr. which we have
alluded we think that we perceive among
the masses that delicate and comprchen:
sive appreciation of the wonderful ability
which is just now bursting upon the men
tal vision of an admiring penp . e. In a
few short months, when in Congress .• re
storing the divine harmonies, - should he
be solicited to take command of the entire
armies of the Republic, we trust that Mr.
Williams will not leave its to mourn his
loss, but that he will refuse. any :itch.
tempting proffer, remembering that he
" lies won golden ;01'1 4 of Pe-Ph ,
Which should he worn in their
Not east aside so soon."
A GOOD STORY SPOILED
Some tune since an individual calling'
himself Rev. Clark, of Houston.'
Texas, made a very met:manly speech.
giving the particulars of the death of hi:;
late father-in-law, Gen. Sam, Houston.
He made a very touching 4ory, mention
iug, among other inchients, the tics of
Sara., just before closing his eyes in death,
calling for the deg of United States- -
the old flag, and after wrapping if closely
around his breast, the aged patriot smilfoi ,
a light seemed to pass over Id s
and after breathing a few audible ;,enten-
ces in prayer for his country, spirit
winged its flight t,, region-, of i - ternal
bliss.
This pathetic. ai•c omit. I tio• mo
ments of old San .lacintu been
spoiled by a Mr. IVesley Johnston, who
appears in the Chicago Times, and
proves very conclusively Ilint the Rev,
C'lark's story is a hug,• lithrieation.
DRAFTING.
IVe clip the following froth a Lancaster
paper:
" Inquiry was made of the Attorney-
General whether the excess of these vol
unteers, now numbering over fourteen
hundred, over the quota apportioned t.o the
Old Guard, cannot be counted in the draft,
The Attorney-General replied that, it would
not : and when asked whether there
was any legal objections, he replied
that there was not—only prit,tico/ ones :
that he had received innumerable let
ters from committees, congressional dis•
tricts, cities, villages, and even por
tions of townships, wanting to know if
they send as volunteers more than their
quota, whether this excess cannot lie con
sidered as an offset to a draft. In COME,-
quence of this, the enthusiastie loyalty of
Lancaster county, that has practically
evinced its willingness to enter the ser
vice by more than double the number de
manded of her, must be subjected to a
draft."
The reason why Pennsylvania was ea
ed upon but for twenty-one regiments un
der the first call for three hundred thous
and we understood is because she re
ceived eredit for the surplus sent, into the
field, being the Reserves and sever
al other regiments. The question now
to be settled is will Allegheny or
any other county receive credit, on
the requisition for a draft, for the num-
ber raised in excess of the quota first call
ed. If the Attorney General has made
any such decision, it will produce a reac
tion in volunteering at once. Counties
not responding to the call for volunteers
should be subject to a draft for their share
uhder both calls. Will Governor Curtin
make this matter clear at once.
There is not only great repugnance
drafting, but it would he attended with
most serious consequences to our commu
nity especially. It would take an amount
of skilled labor sufficient to close the ma
jority of our manufacturing establishments
and workshops, and effectually unhinge
the industrial interests of Allegheny coun-
ty; but, under the volunteer system, society
accommodates itself to the depletion, and
those most 'required at home to keep all
interests in healty motion, are retained.
It would :imply be an outrage upon the
Patriotism of oar people, on the part of
the authorities, to refuse to accept volun
teers where they are freely offered in place
of drafted men. Can we not have a deft-
nits understanding at once, either from
Harrisburg or Washington?
- -Since writing the above, We find the
following in the Eastern papers of Sot-
" EAsTox August 8, 1862.
"To His Excellency , Abrahams Lincoln,
President of the United Beata: Or-coan
ty has raised its quota of the call for vol
unteers. We have a surplus on hand, and
men still coming in. We want very much
to lilt our quota of the draft with volun
teers, and thus avoid the draft and furnish
better men. Can we do it? Please an
swer. Allou r arrangements for recruiting
and bounties wait on the answer, and the
excitement to enlist is so high that it is
unwise to check it. Do answer to-day.
(Signed) "A. H. Emma."
WASIIINCTON, August 8.
•• To 11i,12. A. li. Reeder: Your telegram
to the President has been referred to this
Department :
" The General Government apportions
the quota of militia force among the
States, but has no regard to county or dis
trict. 'Whatever volunteer fume above its
ratable proportion shall he offered by a
State, any time before a draft is actually
made, would be accepted by the Depart
ment and credited upon the draft as a bre
portionable reduction. It would be right
for the State to make a proper allowance
to any county that exceeds its proportion :
but it must be left to the Executive of the
State to make such arrangements.
" By order of secretary of War.
I Signed I C. 11. Itrt`KINCIIAM.
Brig. (hen. and A. A. (1."
f the excess of volunteers in any county
shall produce a credit on the State quota
of the draft, it cannot be believed that the
uvernor will apply that credit elsewhere
than to the counties which furnish it.
DIED:
On Stunisy morning. Antrust 10, OEORGE C.
BEA I.E. eldest ,on ot Airs. Ellen 11. Bea le, in the
seventeenth yen r of his uge.
I'uten•al Will take pinee at lo A.M . ., on Monday
A agte.l 11, Irmo the residence of James Cochran,
lr , S,. 1:: Fedei al ::trees Pit leburgit, to proceed
to rt. 11try':: Conetery. Ilis friends and the
friends .11 1 the fatally are respectfully invited to
attend.
On Sabbath, August 10, at her late residence
Maple Grove. near Manchester, NANCY W
CAMPBELL, widow of the lute Allan D. Camp
bell, L. L.
The friends ol the family are invited to attend
the tonere!, from her late residence, without fur
ther notiee, nn Monday, the 11th inst, at 4 o'clock
P. M. Carriage! , will leave from the Allegheny
llridge, on St Clair street. at :: n'eloek.
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i I isomer Smithfield And Fourth tstree
or THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTER
oe ALLEGHENY COUNTY, -
Pittsburgh, July 30tb,
.4 II E MEETING OF 'IIIIIE ENECIT.
Tt VI!: COMMITTEE held this day, the fol
lowing resolution was adopted:
Re..tved. ..fhat subset iption books be openol at
the Banking 'louse of Messrs. Kramer Jr Rubin,
33 Fifth street. Pittsburgh, and at Meelianies'
Bank Federal street, Allegheny City, and that
tieti.•o to that elieel ha publiAte.l. in Om eity pa
rev?.
Lt te,ordanco with fl) above, books foil' Fllll
- to 1110 Bounty F I for Volum'.
64 . er% Irvin Al lewlieny emattty have boon opened
at the plaeos indicated in the resolution.
file Committee would most respectfully but
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in this important rri=is of our National affairs,
:tad c,mtribute. ,) the extent of his ability, to aid
in placing in the tie tl, in the shortest possible
time. the quota of volunteers required from this
comity. THOS. Al. HOWE.
President of Committee.
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LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
Late Foreign News.
THE ENGLISH PRESS ON THE WAR.
ROMV MISS 0
de.. de., de., ate.
CAPE Iti,crt, August 10.—The tbllowing
additional advices have been received by
the stentner Jura, which was intercepted
oil this point yesterday afternoon.
The Times' city article draws attention
20 the Ilia that within a short period the
I :lilted States bonds have fallen from tiro.
to WI& 1;5c.. being the lowest point ever
reached.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Times believes the American question oc
cupies the most serious attention of Na
poleon, and that a council had been held
upon it. lie would not lie surprised if the
matter was laid befo're the English ertv
ernment in a still more pressing manner
with a view to its speedy solution.
The Times editorially continues to point
out the federal prospects as more gloomy,
but the Daily News combats such views,
and speaks of the Northern policy with
continued confidence.
Most of the London journals allude to
the financial crisis in America, ar.d re
iterate their strictures upon the false finan
cial policy of the government. Even the
Star charges the Washington Cabinet with
the most deplorable ignorance of true
economy.
The Times urges that if tlii•ir positions
had been reversed Americans would never
have recognized the blockade as England
had done, but would have broken it. tinder•
a idea of self-preservation.
Some of the journals attacked Arch
bishop Hughes, for certain revolutionary
remarks which he make in a speech in the
Dublin Parliament.
Chinese affairs had claimed the atten
tion of the British Parliament.. The min
isters in defending their course asserted
that they only intended to protect the ports
devoted to commerce, and had no inten
tion of going further.
It was asserted that tl,,•Fretteh govern
ment addressed a ei mil:lr to the European
powers wfut had rerognized Italy, urging
the necessity of a Enmpeatt Congress to
settle the Boman queoion.
The Italiait Canto of Tieinia threatens
to secede front Switzerlacd, but the Fede
ral Diet had determined to prevent the
withdrawal.
It was asserted that (;aribaldi . , proje
ed expedition to !tome had been given
The report. of a conspiracy having be
discovered at Warsaw is coafirau•cl.
is, Aug. Rail
road Co. subscribed fifteen thousand dol
lars for the suppression of the guerrilla
operations in Missouri.
Itveruitit g oilievrs of vollitttevr
meats are untlitirized I , l,•nlist ;1;.•:t
the 4.11r011..1 i iilitia of the Sifite.
Military 'Excitement among the
Coal Minors.
ANIMAS Conni} • , An ; ;
Tho greatestexcilement exists 11,-ro
the coal ininvrs. win, are daily
for the war. A full company left for I lar
risburg yesterday. and a st.entol one is
now being organized by Mr. Connor, iof
the firm of Connor A. Patterson 1. The
Catholic priest here is out in the streets
railing upon all good Irishmen to enroll
their names. This new company will
pro l l,able leace this evening. Mr. E. liast
hag' contributed over live hundred dollars
to ireiust in the good work. All the Co
ope,ratorS are taking an noire part in en
listing 11/1•11.
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TIE VERY LATEST TELEGRAPH,
Battle between the Armies
of Banks and Stone- •
moll Jackson.
Later from Richmond Papers
Gen. Pope at Culpepper, Va
COIL RESPONDENCE RELATIVE won
EN LIRTMENII4.
Skirmish near Madison Courthouse
The Recent Order of the Secre
fart• of War.
TIIE NEW REBEL RAM FINGAL
ate.. ate., tic.. &C.
NEw Vora;, August ”.—The following
dispatch has been received by the Tribune: .
ll:tnq as, six NI lI.ES ItELOW CrI.PEI'
I'ER, VA., August 10, 1802. I
A battle was (ought between Generals
Banks and Stonewall Jackson. General
Bayard, of General Mel towell's corps,
with his cavalry brigade, had been engaged
before in the extreme advance near the
Rapidan river in skirmishing and man
euvring, taking some prisoners and end
ing with slight loss and baffling the efforts
of a large three to cut him oft Yester
day morning he was engaged some hours
hefore Gen. Banks came up, and with four
regiments of cavalry. the Ist Pennsylva
nia, Ist Maine and ist Ithode Island, de
layed and embarrassed the enemy's ad
vance. The rebels under Jackson and
McColl had crossed the itapidan in force,
and their advance guard, 15,000 strong,
was attacked by Gen. Banks, yesterday
afternoon about six miles south of Cul
pepper Court House. The light was al
most wholly with artillery at first, hut the
infantry beerime engaged about 1; o'clock,
and a determined and bloody contest fol
lowed. (ten. I tanks right wing, tinder
I len. Williams suffered severely. The
rebel position was in the woods, while the
troops which attacked them were obliged
to ern3-; open ground. It was
mot till about Six o'clock that it
hf•Ca1110 evident dial the rebels were at
tacking us in force. Previous to that
there had been rather drsultory cannon
ading. .1 he whole rebel force suddenly at
tacked it in overwhelming numbers at all
Nearly all their regiments had
full ranks. At 1 o'clock, Gen. Pope ar
:iv,d on the tield from Culpepper, aecom
panied by Gen. McDowell, with a part of
the buter's li.rce. The battle was then
submani ially over, Gen. Banks holding
the ground that he had occupied at the be-
Attu the arrival oltieneral l'ope there
was all h•ry vow ost, continuing at in
tervals till in•arly o'clock. The night
wai minim: II) clear :mil the moon Inn.
The relicts plauttql a battery against Mc
i...ntre, where (lens. Pope and
Batiks were bringing lioth of them under
lire. The Generals and their stair were so
near the rebel lines. being actually in front
of their own lines, that a sudden charge of
the cavalry was. 'nude Croat the woods
a IT rit toile ffi1'.. 1 , 1 ,,,,,,ny with a
t!ro th.. 111.
The attenip! w:.:: repelled by a vigcweils
fire front rail the gen
eral and their mails left the field, under
enuta ilre from Ile rel,llA 811,1 their own
troop.,.
Clio tit, rebel I,:tti, - -tiot was after
ward.; .fflenci , :l.
General Pope, on arriving. sent, fresh
troops to the front to take the place of
I ;cneral Dank's exhausted columns.
The enemy did not renew the attack
except by artillery. Our troops were un
der arms and in position all night.
Gen. Itanks was in the lield throughout
the action. and constantly under lire.
Ills handling of his troops and personal
gallantry highly praised by his officers.
The bravery and good conduct of the
troops were conspicuous during a large
part. of the time. When overpowered by
numbers, some of the reaiments retreated
in disorder.
Col. Knight, of the tialt Pa., is danger
ously wounded; Lieut. Col. Selfridge was
seriously wounded, Major Mathews had
his arm amputated, Adjutant Boyd was
seriously wounded, all of the 21;th regi
ment: Col. Donnelly, of the 28th New
York, was wounded; Lieut. Col. Brown
had his arm amputated, Major Cook was
killed, both of the 28th New York. Col.
Chapman, of the Tith Conn., was wounded
and taken prisoner; Lieut. Col. Stone, of
the smile regiment, was killed, and Major
Blake was wounded and taken prisoner ; '
Major Savage, of the 20th Mass., is
probably killed. lie was left on the field
in a dying condition. Capt. Abbott of the
smile regiment was killed. Gen. Banks
'vas rather severely hurt by an accident.
A cavalry trooper ran against him and he
was struck heavily in the side, neverthe
less he remained on the field and is on duty
this morning with his command.
Gen. Geary was wounded and has had
an arm amputated. Gem Augur is se
verely wounded.
Maj. Melange, Gen. Banks' Adjutant,
took command of a hesitating regiment
and gallantly led it through a galling fire.
He received two shots and is severely
wounded, though not dangerously.—
Capt. Williams is missing; Capt. Good
will is also missing : Capt. Quincy was
taken prisoner; Surg. Leland was wound
ed ; Licuts. Allston and Buckman, of the
Ist New Jersey cavalry, were wounded.
No other officers in that regiment were
hurt. Lieut. Hopkins, of the 7th Ohio,
was wounded.
Col. 'Ruggles, Chief of Staff, had his
horse shot under him. Two of General
Pope's body guards were killed. Col.
Morgan, of den. Pope's Stair, and Major
Perkins, of Gen. Banks Staff, both re
ceived bullets through their hats.
The 2d Massachusetts regiment was in
the hardest of the light and suffered se
verely. The rdlt Connecticut, 27th Indi
ana and 4th Peunsykania regiments are
badly cut up. Lieut. Ramsey, of Gen.
Banks' Staff, had his horse shot under
him. Gen. Wilder, of the rebel forces
was wounded. The losses are very
heavy on both sides, and it is suppos
ed that not less than two or three
thousand were killed. wounded and miss
ing on each side. Some prisoners were
taken on both sides.
Jackson and Ewell were both present
on the field.
lteinforeements to the amount of 18,000
men , reaehed the rebels last night, about
the same time that ours arrived. •
Shirmishing in front is going on this
morning, but the troops on both sides, Sri
somneh exhausted by fatigue and *sin
tepee heat, that no serious 'enCOunter
expected to take place today.
WAstnwGros, August 10.—Reports were
current on Friday of the crossing of -the
Rapidan by the rebels in force. It is said
by a passenger who came from the vicinity
of Waterloo to-day that Gen. Banks'
column, which was in the advance, was at
tacked by Gen. Ewell with superior num
bers. The struggle'. continued all day
yesterday, and may at any time he re
sumed.
A number of our sick and wounded have
been brought to Culpepper. No details of
the battle have been officially received. It
is reported that General Prince, Augur
and Geary were wounded.
WssulscroN, August 10.—The follow
ing is from the Petersburg Daily Express,
of yesterday:
RICHMOND, August B.—A dispatch from
t; en. Van Dorn to Secretary Mallory states
that the Confederate ram Arkansas, Lieut.
Stephens commanding,had been destroyed.
She left Vicksburg on Monday, to co
operate in the attack on Baton Rouge.
A fter passing Bayou Sara her machinery
became deranged, and whilst attempting
to adjust it several of the enemy's gun
boats attacked her. After a gallant re
sistance she was abandoned and blown up.
Her officers and men teached the shore in
safety.
risv tux, August t►. —The remains of
General Robert McCook were transferred
trom the Galt House, under a guard of
honor, to the custody of the CmCinnati
committee, on board the mail boat, at
noon. Lieut. Col. Scott, and lieutenants
Boyle and Green accompanied the remains
to Cincinnati. The flags in the city are at
half mast, and other indications of mourn
ing.
The Nashville I ' lll . oll says Gov..lohnson
is authorized by the Secretary of War to
release the disloyal Tennessee prisoners in
the North, and exchange them for loyal
Tennesseeans imprisoned in the South.
Ex-tiov. Campbell has been appointed
commissioner to carry ont the matter, and
goes North to-day.
Bragg is in command of 80,000 troops at
Battle Creek.
Three rebels were hung in Alabama for
the murder of two Federal soldiers.
Col. Wynkoop, with one hundred and
eighty cavalry, surprised seven hundred
of Forest's men on Alonday, near Sparta.
Wynkoop withdrew after a sharp skirmish,
losing one man and killing thirty rebels.
EAST6N, PA., August 9.—The following
correspondence has taken place between
the State authorities and ex-Governor
Reeder, relative to enlistments :
EasTox, August 9.—To Governor Cur
tin, Harrisburg: The War Department
informs me that if this county sends a
surplus of volunteers it shall be credited
in the State quota of draft if that is done.
Will you credit it to the county quota'?
Please answer immediately. The condi
tion of - things here are such that we must
know. [Signed, A. H. ftcsnim.
llARRisitußii, August 9.—To A.R. Ree
der : There are practical difficulties which
render it uncertain whether the Governor
ean allow the credit your people desire.
You cannot, therefore, rely upon its being
done however much the Governor may
desire it. - I Signed, J ELI Suite
Sr. LOFTS, August 10. .Major AfeConnell,
of the Provost Marshal General's depart
ment, left yesterday to establish Provost
Marshalships at various points in Illinois
and lowa, under the recent order from
Washington.
The police of this city are organized into
military companies.
Two of Price's recruiting officers were
arrested here yesterday. They had some
three hundred recruits in this city, most of
whom will doubtless be arrested.
• Gen. Schofield has issued an order for
the suspension of business throughout the
city. after 4 o'clock, to enable the citizens
to organize military companies and drill.
Amos Green, a prominent lawyer of
Paris, Ills., was arrested at Terre Haute,
by order of the United States Marshal. It
is reported in Terre Haute that the charge
against bins was purchasing arms and am
munition with which to resist a Govern
ment draft. The editor of the Democratic
Standard, published at Paris, was arrested
the same day for treasonable practices.
It is reported that armed organizations
exist in Indiana and Southern Illinois, to
resist a draft.
NEW YORE, Aug. 9.—The New York
i•:xpress announces that Superintendent of
Police Kennedy to-day received orders
fron, Washington authorizing him to act as
Provost Marshall, with his officers as a
guard.
The New York Herald says: Our cor
respondence from Hilton Head touching
the new rebel ram Fingal and the pro
ceedings of the enemy in that quarter is
highly interesting. They new gunboat is
fully armed and manned. She has been
altered froth the British steamer of that
name, which ran the blockade into Savan
nah last spring, and, it is said, is now
quite a formidable engine of destruction.
She carries two one hundred pound rifled
guns, six ten inch columbiads, four fifty
pound rifled guns and two twenty-four
pounders for grape and canister. She is
said to resemble the Merrimac in shape
and form, with a massive beak at either
end. Our troops are preparing to receive
her. The plan of the rebels is said to be
first to destroy our fleet and then move the
Fingal around to Seabrook and then cover
the landing of their forces. They, mean
while, are concentrating land forces at
Bluffton, at Hardeesville, and at Grahams
vil le.
CULPEPPER, Vt., August B.—Caen. Pope
and staff have arrived here and located
their headquarters near the property of
Mr. Wallace's, editor of the Star. The
Buford cavalry made a reconnoissance to
Madison on the f;th: they report all quiet
in that direction. It was reported there
among the secessionists that Jackson,had
moved to Liberty Mills on the „Rapidan,
west of the Central Railroad having &force
of 3,000 men there. Everything indicates
a readiness for action. The inhabitants
in this region are desponding. No orders
have yet reached the Provost Marshal to
administer oaths of allegiance to citizens.
The first train of cars arrived here yester
day with passengers from Alexandria.—
The telegraph will be completed to-day.
MAnisoN COURT llousE, August 9.—A
skirmish took place between our pickets
and a body of rebel cavalry yesterday, at
a place called Wolftown, some eight or
ten miles from here, on the Stannardsville
road. A battalion of the 2d Penn'a was
sent forward, who charged upon and drove
the rebels beyond Rapidan, killing two
and wounding a number. Our loss was
one killed; James Robins and John C.
Evans were shot in the foot, and George
Bailey and John Rallentine were slightly
injured; all are of' company B, 2d Penn'a
cavalry. This morning everything re
ported quiet along our lines. This com
mand is very short of horses, the country
having been cleared by the rebels.
wAseix(yroN, Aug. 9.—The recent order
of the Secretary of War is designed to
operate on two classes-of persons, viz :
Those who contemplate leaving the Uni
ted States for the purpose of evading their
military duty, and those who leave their
own State or place of residence and go
into other States for the same purpose.
The other is to compel every citizen of the
United States, subject to military duty; to
bear his share in supporting the govern-
ment.
Instructions have been prep . ared, and
wig be issued on Monday to =jimmy com•
qmi d se t jp , marshals, and police ofteal,
respecting the mode - of executing the
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WASHINGTON, August R.
ttkimumil Dispatch of Monday, the
4th, says:
"A day of retribution is at hand for the
outrages which have so long characterized
the conduct of the enemy in their prosecu
tion of the war."
AD 3 TTART AND INsi.EcToE GENERAL OfrlEE,}
itrcum.,ND, August ],1842.
1. The following orders are published
for the information and observance of all
concerned:
2. WHEREAS, By a general order dated
22d July, 1862, - issued by the Secretary of
War of the United States under the order
of the President of the United Stites, the
military commanders of that government.
within the States of Virginia, South Caro:
lien. Georgia, Florida, Alabama i Missis
sippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkansaa are
to seize and use any property, real or per
sonal. belonging to the inhabitants of this
Confederacy. which may be necessary Or
convenient' for their several commands
and no provision is made for any compen
sation to the owners of private property
thus seized and appropriated by the mili
tary commanders of the enemy.
And whereas, by General Order No.
I, issued on the 23d of July, 1862, by
Major General Pope, commanding the
forces of the enemy in Northern Virginia,
it is so ordered that all commanders of
any army corps, divisions, brigades, and
detached commands, will proceed imme
diately to arrest, all disloyal male citizens
within their limits, or within their reach in
the rear of their respective commands.
Such as are willing to take the oath of i‘l•
legiance to the U. S., and will furnish
sufficient security for the observance,shall
be Permitted to renetin et their homes,
and pursue in good Ihith their accustomed
avocations. Those who retitse shall be
conducted south beyond the extreme
pickets of this army, and he notified that
if found again anywhere within our
or at any point up the rear, they will he
considered as spies, and subjected to the
extreme rigor of military law. It any per
son having taken the oath as above speci •
tied be found to have violated it, he shall
be shot and his property seized and applied
to the public use.
Fourth. And whereas by an order is
sued on time 1:;th of .1 uly, Mao, by Briga
dier General A. Steinwehr, Major William
Steadman, a cavalry officer of his brigade,
has been ordered to arrest five of the most
.prominent citizens of Page county, Vir
ginia, to he held as hostages, and . to suffer
death in the event of any of the soldiers of
the said Steinwehr being shot by bush
whackers, by which term is meant the
citizens of the confederacy who have taken
up anus to defend their homes and fami
lies.
And whereas it results from the
above orders that some of the military au
thorities of the United States, nut content
with the unjust and aggressive warfare
hitherto waged with savage cruelty against
an unottending people, and exasperated
by the allure of their efforts to subjugate
them, have now determined to violate all
the rules and usages of war, and to con
vert the hostilities hitherto waged against
armed forces into a campaign of robbery
and murder against unarmed citizens and
peaceful tillers of the soil. •
Secretary of State
0. , And whereas this government, bound
by the highest obligations of duty to its
citizens, is thus driven to the necessity of
adopting such measures of retribution and
retaliation as shall seem adequate to re
mess and punish these barbarities, and
whereas the orders above recited have only,
been published and made known to the
government since the signature of a cartel
for the exchange of prisoner of war, which
cartel, in so thr as it provides for
an exchange of prisoners hereafter cap
tured would never have been signed by
this government it' the. intention to change
the war into a system of indiscriminate
murder and robbery had been made known
to it; and whereas, a just regard to hu
manity forbids that the suppreSsion of
crime, which this government is compel
led to inforee, should he unnecessarily ex
tended to retaliation on the enlisted men
in the army of the United States, who may
be unwilling instruments of the savage
cruelty of their commanders, so long as
there is hope that the excesses of the ene•
my may be Accked or prevented by-retri
bution on the commissioned officers, who
have the power to avoid guilty action by
refusing service under a government which
seeks their aid in the perpetration of such
infamous barbarities.
7. Therefore, it is ordered that Major
General Pope, Brigadier General Stein
wehr, and all commissioned officers serv
ing under their respective commands, be,
and they are hereby, expressly and espec
ially declared to be not entitled to he con
sidered 'as. soldiers, and therefore not
entitled to the benefit of the cartel for the
parole of the fixture prisoners of war.
Ordered, further, that, in the event- of
the capture of :Major General Pope, or
Brigadier General St einwehr, or any
.com
missioned officer serving under them, the
captive so taken shall be held in close
confinement so long as the orders afore
said shall continue in force and un- -
repealed by the competent military
authority of the united States; and
that in the event of the murder of
any unarmed citizen or inhabitant of
this Confederacy by virtue or under-pre
text of one of the orders herein before re
cited, whether with or without trial,
whether under pretense of such a citizen
being a spy, or hostage, or any other pre
tense, it shall be the duty of the command
ing general of the forces of this confeder
acy to cause immediately to be hung out,
of the commissioned officers, prisoners as
aforesaid, a number equal to the number
of our own citizens thus murdered by the
enemy. By order,
S. Owen, A. A. G.
New Tonic, August 9.—The steamer
Etna and Saxstiiiiit were detained from
departing till this evening, in order to per
mit an examination of the passengers un
der the Secretary of Wars regulation. The
Saisonia has 457 passengers and the Etna
578, some of whom will, doubtless, be de
tained; but the War Department has con
sented to allow all to go who . procured
tickets before the order was promulgated.
Sr. JOHNS, August 9.—The steamer
Scotia passed off Cape Race at 10 o'clock
this morning, and was interrupted by the
News Yacht. Her advices are two days
later than those received by the Jura.
Earl Russell justifies the vigilance of
the Federal cruisers at Bahamas. •
The Tuscarora was at Queenstown '
watching for a confederate steamer which
had left Liverpool, but put back to Holy
head
and there lost all her men.
WAsniNnvox, August 9.—Some of the
newspapers have erroneously published
Major General Richardson instead ofMajor
J. 11. Richardson of the 9th Michigan vol
unteers a 9 having been dismissed from the
service.
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