DAILY POST.
The Union ayt Was, the Constitution as it Is.
«3> WJierti there la no law there Is
no freeaom.
THURSDAY MOBNING, AUG. 6.
Demooratio Nominations.
FOB GOVERNOR,
BEOBSE W. WOODWABI),
FOB SUPREME JtJBQE,
WALTER 11. LAWBIE,
irStSOTICK-THE SEVEBII
IRS* Coontv Committees uf Sm erintendence
are reque.ttd to communicate the names and
Foitofn-.ie addrcci o their members to the Chair'
man uf the State Central Committee. Editors of
Democratic pap o 3in t'ennsylranju are requested
to forward copies to dm.
OaAttliha J. BlDDLE,Chairman.
Philaielphia. Fa., July 2id, 1863.
no PAPEB,
There will be no paper is jusd from this
office to* morrow.
THE UNION CONVENTION,
The Abolition, Republican (misnamed
Union) Convention assembled in this city
yesterday, at Concert Hall, for the pro
ceedings of which we refer the reader to
our local department We have, in our
brief political existence, seen many State
political assemblages, bat in point of
talent, character, dignity and spirit, thiß
was tbe weakest we ever witnessed. There
was not a man of commanding ability in
the whole assemblage. As for spirit and
an embodiment of that feeling which sug
gests Buccese, it was entirely destitute of
both. It reminded ns of the Democratic
gathering in Harrisburg, in 1854, which
felt that its candidates were doomed by
the uprising flood of Know-Nothingism,
which burst forth upon ns the following
October. The overwhelming defeat of
the Abolitionists of Pennsylvania, at the
approaching election, was plainly visible
in the Convention yesterday.
On Tuesday evening the friends of Cur
tin held a cancns and figured up seventy
six votes for their candidate. When the
Convention assembled yesterday, it was
plainiy visible'that they had everything
their own way. On every vote indicating
a preference, they polled from eighty to
eighty-fire, and in the evening about seven
o'clock, after allowing their opponents
the largest liberty of discnssion in assail
ing Curtin’s political and moral delin
quencies, they nominated him on the first
ballot by ninety-three votes, or twenty six
more than a clear majority of the Conven
tion. The Curtin majority seemed utter
ly reckless and used their power, appa
rently, with a desire to aggravate and
punish tbe minority. A triumph over
them was determined on, even at the ex
pense of their candidate’s overthrow in
October.
Judge Agnew, of Beaver Co., was nom
iuated for the Supreme Bench by acclama
tion. We have not yet seen the Conven
tion’s resolutions.
UNION FEELING SOUTH.
When we seriously reflect upon the eon
duct of the present Administration ever
since the rebellion began, we can arrive
at no other conclusion than that those
who control it are determined upon the
permanent disruption of the Union. Our
readers remember that the votes cast in
the State of Virginia alone, upon the
question of Union, resulted in a majority
of some eighty thousand in its favor.
This was but a few months before the
firing upon Sumter. This majority in Vir
ginia, in favor of the old Union, waß
equalled by the vote in Maryland; in fact
every one of the border slave States showed
overwhelming majorities in favor of the
continued Union of the Btates. More
than this, it was believed by all, and stated
Ify President Lincoln, in one of his public
addresses, that there was a positive
majority of the people of even the
Qnlf States, with the single exception of
South Carolina, in favor of remaining in the
Union. Whatbeoame of these majorities?
They were, in time, by eur acts of emanci.
pation and confiscation, driven into the
rebel ranks. Instead of our Administra
tion encouraging the preponderating
Union feeling in the discontented States,
it labored to destroy it. Had that feeling
been nurtnred and encouraged, it was, of
itself, sufficient to put down the rebellion.
But that was not the programme of the
Abolitionists, and we now perceive and
feel the consequences.
A.l ter two yeara and a quarter of slaugh
ter and carnage, which is shocking to con
template, and when the strength of the
rebellion is not only broken, but many of
the seceded States anxious to return to
their allegiance, what do we perceive?
Do the Abolitionists, who control the
President, manifest any desire to bring
these States back? Not they; but on
the contrary, they are enforcing an odi
ous conscription act to prosecute hostil
ities—as some of them are bold enough to
avow—for the absolute subjugation of
the Bouthern whites, and the complete
emancipation of their blacks. Prom Loui
“ana, Tennessee, North Carolina and even
Georgia. ..Alabama and Mississippi, we
hear cries come to us upon every breeze
in favor of returning to their allegiance.—
The original Onion men of these States,
who voted lor Douglas and Bell, at the
last Presidential election—forming a ma
jority even of the extreme Southern vote,
seeing a chance to return to the Onion’
are imploring our government for assist
ance to do so. Are their cries, for deliv
erance responded to by our rnlers ? Are
these suffering friends, who are waiting
for deliverance from the.Davis.usurpation,
receiving a word of encouragement from
our Northern championsof the Onion?
Not one (their cries fall dead upon the doll
eats of Abolitionism, whose programme
of daughter is not yet complete. Ust
““ e °° ntetn Plation of emancipation and
negro equality, they have no-ear for the"
cnesof freemen struggling to free them-!
»elTe« from Southern tyranny The plain
tive appeals of women imploripgaßaia't.
ance and the innocent smjje of 'childhood
aw all neglected, in the fanaticism which
rules the honr —a fanaticism which hopes
to raise as if by magic an inferior and en
slaved race to the dignity and grandeur of
Icine which has created governments and
-ruled tiiem when in the wildest confusion.
To confer freedom tipon those nnfitted
for it, our own race.in the South is to be
sacrificed; and this infernal policy is being
carried oat under the hypocritical pretext
of restoring the Union. But it cannot
succeed; the minds of the people are not
bo heated and befogged as not to see
through so diabolical and transparent a
scheme. The cries of the people South
for a return to the Union we mnet give
heed to, and not expend all onr sympa
thies and thoughts upon the imaginary, as
well as real, evils of negro slavery. Will
our Abolitionists forego agitation for a
season in order to provide ways and meanß
for the return of three or four Southern
States into onr Union ? Or will they
persist in war until our white p opulation
is destroyed in giving freedom to the
Sonthern slaves?
A PICTUBE OF SHODDY ABIS-
TOCBACY.
Our old acquaintance Daniel Dough
erty, Esq,, of Philadelphia, who left the
Democratic party because, it was said,
President Buchanan conld'nt oblige him
with the District Attorneyship of Eastern
’Pennsylvania, has been making one of his
spread eagle addresses in Lancaster. In
the coarse of his observations he paid his
respects to the shoddy contractors and
Union Leaguers, who are piling up fabu
lous wealth because of their connection
with the war. Dougherty’s connection
with the League of Philadelphia enables
him to Bpeak by the eard. He said :
■'Grief may* shed its bitter tears in the silent
chamber, poverty may starve in its hiding-place
the patriot may mourn, but no grief, nor fear
nor feeling seems to dwell in tbe public mind or
touch the publio heart- This year has b«en wild
with fashion, hilarity and snow. Our Northern
cities eclipse the past in gorgeous dissipation :
more diamonds flash in the glare of the gay
Baioon : the gentlemen stop at no extravaganoe,
and the ladies in full dress powder their hair
with gold; .dinners, balls and masquerades iu
omontatioo and luxuriance, turn midnight into
day; prancing steeds and gaudy equipages curry
light hearted loveliness through all the drive, oi
fashio -; stores where jewels* pearls, and precions
stones, and the rich goods of turope and Asir nre
exposed, are crowded with purchasers, and ha\ e
doubled sales, though gold touched a premium
of seventy percenr.; speculators in stoc a imi#e
fortunes in a day; palatial stores and marble
dwel.ings are springing from the earth on every
side; resorts of amusement were never so numer
ous and never 10 crowded; prize-fights excite
for a time more interest than the battles of the
Kepabuc; thousands of dollars are ptaked on the
favorite of the race; gambiinghells are wide open
to entice to infamy the young; crime is fearfully
on the increase; the law grows impotent, ami
Dkfco who have, by the basest means, defrauded
the. laborer, the widow ana orphans, hold high
their heads, and go un whipped of justice.’'
W&* The Draft seems to be getting
but few soldiers, but a great deal of money
paid to the Government. In the interior
of New 1 ork, the Times says, and in New
England, half thB persons drafted pßy
their s3on. It is men and not money that
is wanted. Possibly the 3.100 exemption,
added to the $lOO bounty from the Gov
ernment, may get-substitutes enough. It
ought to before another draft is resorted
to, because the amount of the exemption
was considered by the Government an
equivalent for service, and nntil it. is all
paid ont in procuring substitutes, it would
not be fair to the people to call upon them
again foriservice. Besides, the knowledge
that it all will be certainly paid to the
Government substitutes, will induce per
sons the more readily to entor the Gov
ernment service. If these means do not
have sufficient effect in procuring the num
ber of men desired, another draft will
have to bo resorted to.
Assaults on Gen. Meade
There is scarcely a General prominent
in command in the U. S. Army who has
not, at some time or other, been the ob
ject of fierce attack from the partisan
press. Thuß far, General Meade has been
remarkably farored. Ever since the es
cape ef Lee across the Potomac, a com
mendable forbearance has been displayed
in his behalt by journals hitherto nnspa*
ring in their treatment of other officers
who happened to fail in achieving all that
was demanded of them. Bat now we fear
General Meade’s tnrn has come. A Rad
ical organ at Washington opens the ball
as follows
“Unless Meade is more demonstrative
than he has been since Lee crossed the
Potomac, we shall find the latter in his
old camp again, on the south side of the
Rappahannock, at Fredericksburg, in less
than a week. Without going into details,
we are satisfied that General Meade a few
days since, had Lee on the flank, where
he oould have struck him a fatal blow ;
tod by allowing the wily rebel to escape
him, General Meade has lost a golden op
portunity which he may never recover.”'
Of coarse, other editors will chime in,
A New York evening paper said, on Fri
day, in reference to Lee's escape :
If a corps ot ten or fitteen thousand
men had then been drawn from the pen
insula, where they oonld without doubt
have been spared, and thrown to the south
bank of the Potomac to act as a corps of
observation, success would have been en
sured beyond doubt. Lee could not have
built his pontoons, neither would he have
dared to cross the river. He would have
been compelled to fight Gen. Meade, who
was strong enough, with his victorious ar
my and Gen. Couch's corps to defeat him
The situation chosen by Lee would have
proved a trap from which his escape was
next to impossible. Why was it not made
so?”
Delaware Slave Released,
Among the names of the slaves recently
released from the slave pen in Baltimore
by Col. Birney, we notice that of James
Thomaß, belonging to John N. Smoot, of
Georgetown, Del., who has had him held
in confinement for eighteen months, for
disloyalty to his owner. The Colonel B avs
in his report that it appears from the state
ments of the prisoners that this slave
pen has been ü ß ed chiefly for the pur
pose of holding persons (in evasion
of the law of Congress) entitled to
freedom in the District of Columbia, and
persons claimed as slaves by rebels and
rebel sympathizers. He liberated twenty
six men, one boy, twenty-nine women,
and three infants. Sixteen of the men
were shackled together by coupleß, at the
ankles, by “heavy irons, and one had his
legs chained together by ingeniously con
trived-locks connected by chains suspend
ed to his waist. They-had been confined
in that loathsome dungeon on Pratt street
from Bix to thirty months, for what t—Del.
Republican.
Captain Eawyer’a Wife.
-The Richmond Examiner of the 25th
inßtant, says:
Mrs. Sawyer, wife of Captain Henry W„
Sawyer, of New Jersey, one of the pris
oners held for retaliatory execution, on
arriving at City Point on the flag of truce
boat, made application to the Confederate
anthoritiea to be permitted to vjsit Rich
mond ror the purpoße' of having ah inter
metv-svith her husband before Sir execu
the authorities denied her per
bo~S£ “*$ returned on the same
What Constitutes “Aidand Com
fort’' to the Enemy.
Opinion of the Attorney-General.
Attorney-General’s Office, 1
Jnly 27, 1863. j
Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of the 14th inßt.,
inclosing certain correspondence with the
Secretary of the Treasury and the United
States Cogsul at Nassau with the Depart
ment of State, and submitting for my
opinion the question suggested by the
Consul at Nassau, viz.: Whether the act
of dispatching an American veasel to a
neutral port, in ballast, though its ulti
mate destination as a blockade runner is
all bnt certain, is an offense against the
United States, and ior which arrests may
be made, and parties concerned in Buch
enterprises may be prosecuted, and, if
convicted, punished.
The second section of the act of July 17,
1852, chapter 105, to suppress insurrec
tion, to pnuish treason and rebellion, to
seizs and confiscate the property of rebels,
and for other parposes, enacts that if any
person shall hereaftrr incite, set on foot,
assist or engage in any rebellion or insur
rection against the authority of the United
States, or the laws thereof, or shall give
aid or comfort thereto, or shall engage ini
or give aid and comfort to, any such re
bellion or insurrection, and be convicted
thereof, such person shall be punished by
imprisonment for a period of not exceed
ing ten yeara, or by a fine not exceeding
ten thousand dollars, and by the libera
tion of all his Blaves, if any he have; or
by both said punishments, at the discre
tion ofthe court.
The act of dispatching an Americanves
sel from any port of the United State|s to
a neutral port in ballast, with the purpose
of taking in cargo at that port and run
ning the blockade therefrom, would, in
my opinion, bring the person or persons
so dispatching her within the penalties of
the above cited section, if the vessel, in
the exeention ol that purpose, actually
ran the blockade. This would be an overt
act of assistance, or aid and comfort to
the rebellion, Buch aB the law prohibits.
To secure the conviction of the person or
persons who dispatched the vessel it
would of comae be essential to prove the
existence of the guilty purpose in ao do
ing.
I am also of opinion that the act of dis
patching an American vessel to a neutral
port, in ballast, with the aaoertained pur
pose ol taking in cargo at that port and
running the blockade therefrom, would
subject the person or person so dis
patching her to the penalties of this
law, if, in pursuance and in exeention of
that purpose, the vessel actually attempted
to run the blockade, bnt in the attempt
was captured or otherwise prevented from
BO doing by a blockading vessel.
The question whether the mere act of
dispatching an American vessel to a neu
tral port, in ballast, for the purpose nl
running the blockade Therefrom, not fol
iowefl by aDy actual running or at tempt to
run the blockade, would, of itself, con
stitute an offense within and punishable
by onr criminal statutes, deserves careful
consideration. The Becond section ofthe
act of the 17th ot July, 18G2, provides com
prehensively enough for the punishmeut
of the offense of actually inciting, setting
on loot, assisting or engaging in rebellion
or insnrreetion, or of giving aid or com
fort thereto, of of engaging in or giving
aid or comfort to an existing rebellion or
insurrection; -turrit fails to Include the
claßß of acts which, while done with the
intent to do these things, do not of them
selves amount to actual assistance, or aid
and comfort to the rebellion or insurrec
tion.
The question, then, is whether the act
of dispatching an American vessel from a
port of the L nited States to a neutral port,
in ballast, with the ascertained purpose of
there taking in cargo to run the blockade,
of itself amounts tp actusl assistance to
aid and comfort to the rebellion, within
the Btatufe. I think it does, for this rea
son : such a vessel started from an Amer
ican port with intent to run the bloade,
would in my opinion, be subject to lawful
capture as prize of war from the moment
she left that port. It is a well-settled prin
ciple in the law of blockade that the act
of Bailing with an intent to breaks block
ade, is deemed a sufficient breach to au
thorize confiscation. From that moment
the blockade is fraudulently invaded, and
the vessel is liable to capture, without
reference to the distance between the
port of departure and the blockade port,
or to the extent of the voyage performed,
ed. (3 Philadelphia 390 400, and cases
cited. 6 Cranch, 843-9 ib.; 440 Story J.)
Whether a neutral vessel, proceeding
from one neutral port to another neutral
port, with the inteut* there to take in car
go, and from thence to ran the blockade,
is liable to capture and condemnation be
fore she reaches the port, at which she
is to receive her cargo, it is not necessa
ry now to deoide, although from the lan
guage of Lord Stowell, The Jonge Pieter ,
(4 Rob. 39.) I infer that such was his
opinion. But however this may be, he
distinctly asserts in that case, that if a
subject of the blockading country ships
goods to go to the enemy througha neutral
country, they are liable to captnre and
condemnation. For, as he says, “ with
out the license of government, no com
munication, direct or indirect, cau be car
ned on with the enemy. *#*■».•
interposition of a prior port makes no dif
ference ; all trade with the enemy is alte
gal, and the circumstance that the goods
are to go first to a neutral port will not
make it lawful." Of course, if the goods
shipped on such a venture may be con
demned, a vessel started from a port of
the blockading country with intent to take
in cargo at a neutral port, and from thence
run the blockade, and thus to hold illicit
intercourse with the enemy, is equally
guilty and liable to capture and condem
nation.
If then, tin American vessel starting from
an American port, in ballast, with such a
purpose, be a lawful prize of war, it fol
lows that, from the time of her departnre
for the neutral port, it is as much the
duty ot our eruisers to capture her as if
she were actually entering a blockaded
port with tall cargo. And the moment
she is placed in this predicament, the per
sons who dispatched her on her guilty
errand became liable to the penalties of
the second section of the act of 17th July
1862. For, whenever the vessel they have
started is in such a position as to impose
on our cruisers the duty of arresting her
voyage by her capture, then these persona
have actually and materially assisted the
rebellion by adding to the duties of our
cnusers that of pnrsning and capturing her,
which involves necessarily their withdraw
al, tor the time, from other eervice If
necessary it would be easy to illustrate in
thSAT 78 the e f ectiTe assistance
which might be renewed to the rebellion
by the mere act of dispatching vessels
in ballast, to neutral porta, with
Lwb Q Jd Umate TV, PDrpo l e of the
blockade. The nght and consequent
duty of capturing such vessels off our
coast, before they reach the intermediate
neutral ports, might well give g 0 muc h
employment to our navy as to diminish its
effectiveness, elsewhere, or require a con
siderable addition to its force. To create
this necessity wonld, in contemplation of
r lstv, bB to assist and give aid and comfort
ta the rebellion in a form only less aggra
vpted than the actual fitting out of vessels
of war for rebel übo. Ana of this offense
within the terms of the statute ! have ci
ted, are those persons guilty, in my opin
ion, who dispute American (easels iubal-'
last, from our own ports, with intent to
stop at neutral ports, and, after there ta
king-in cargo, from thence to run the
blockade. The unlawful purpose being
established, the offense is committed when
ever the vessel Bball have started on her
voyage, whether it be consummated at the
blockaded port, or oe arrested after she
has left, or before she has reached the in
termediate neutral port. ©I am, sir, verv
reßpeetfnUy, your obedient servant,
TITIAN J. COFFEY,
Attorney General, ad int-erim.
Wm. H. Seward, Sec. 0 f state.
A Peace Party at the South.
Hon. J. L. Curry, of Alabama, recent
ly delivered a speech to the people of
Talladega.
‘Referring to peace, he said that he
earnestly desired and prayed for an honor*
able peace that no propositions for peace
have ever been made by Lincoln or any
Northern State, that the belief that peace
except at the sacrifice of onr liberty and
independence, could at any time have been
brought about, was an ignorant delusion
CO R IOU . B e *t p acts were read from Pres*
ident Davis’ messages, showing ‘that
President, Congresß and people of the
Confederate Slates earnestly desired a
peaceful solution' of the question at issue.
itie effort to organize a Peace party in the
south was declared to he unjust to our
sifter states, grossly wrongful to the ar
my, and an encouragement to our enemies
to persevere in their unhallowed designs.
Whatever peace sentiments exists, or has
found expression at the North, was based
exclusively on the idea of reconstruction,
and that was a proposition too monstrous
to be tolerated by any Southerner. While
he would not stickle on any rules of false
propriety in making propositions for
peace, he had more hope in conquering a
peace than in humbly begging the Yankees
to abandon their wicked purposes. If
peace he desired by the North, a withdraw
al of their army from our soil would ac
complish it."
The Two Armies in Virginia
■lust now there is a lull in the thunder cf
battle, and the public mind, ever on the
qui rit'c, is eager for news. The proba
bility is that we shall not have to wait
long for intelligence of stirring events.
Ihe armies of Generals Meade and Lee
each other in formidable array
between tbe Rappahannock and Rapidan
rivers, and there is every prospect of an
immediate and general enagagement. —
Tbe situation is not only critical but ex
citing enough to gratify all but tbe most
morbid appetite for military sensations.
Locusts in India
A letter from India to the London
Times, says that on the 16th of June last
a flock of locusts passed over Raneegun
ge, which was about a mile in breadth and
two or three miles in length. The old
cantonment was covered with them, but
by far the greatest portion did not alight,
bnt remained at a considerable elevation,
gyrating in dense columns resembling
water-spouts. Ao the flock moved for
ward, these living gyratory masses assum
ed the uppearance uf clouds and then dia
appeared in the distance. The flock was
not sufficiently thick to throw a deep
shaoe, but the myriads of these destruc
tiue little insects moving in the intense
glarge arid sunshine which prevailed im
mediately before t.heir appearance and
after disappearance.
Naval Orders
The following prizos have been captur
ed by the United St&t adjudicated
by the and*/ <iade ready at t?e
Fourth Auditor's' 0/ 6e for the distribu
tion of prize money,'tbe 4th of Jane
last: Catalina, capturedTly the Keystone
State and Alabama. Amy Warwick, cap
tured by*thu Quaker City. Active, cap
tured by the Fmmbeau. Albion, captnred
by the Roanoke. Cambria, captured by
the Augusta and Hurou. Pioneer, cap
tured by tbe Portsmouth. One hundred
and three casks rice, captured by the Nor
wich and Albat.ro.s3. A similar list will
be furnished monthly hereafter for the in
formation cf persons interested.
The Peace Party in Worth Caro-
The Wilmington (N. C.) Journal, of
the 21st ult., has a long editorial on the
peace party oi that State, It says :
We tell our people candidly and plain
ly that we know there is an organised
movement on foot to control the Congres
sional elections in all the districts. We
say in all sincerity that if this movement
means anything ir means reconstruction
and submission.
.Released
Messrs. Marshall and Winthrop, recent*
ly arrested in Dorchester county, Md., on
a charge of disloyalty, have been released.
The si* men arrested in Strait’s district,
same county, and sent to Kaaton jail,
charged with resisting the draft, have also
been released, and the two enrolling offi
cers, Messrs, l.angrt-ll nod Harding, re
moved from office. Jacob Ccrsey and
Wm. Mnrpky have been appointed in their
place;.
died
On Wednesday, the sth inat.. TRANCES, in
tant daughter of Barnes and Annie Denney, aged
£& months.
Funeral to morrow (Thursday) afternoon at 2
o'olock, from the residence of her parents. 328
Penn street The fnendj of the family are In
vited to attend.
August 4th, u rur’ington, ELIZABETH
PRlVrfflV NfcV’rW''.. m S-‘ tlu and 1; ' days.
MftLLIE HaV, aged 8 years, 11
months and 12 days; and LOUiS KOsSt/TH
rtAy.aeed fl years. 6 months and 7 days. All
children of James and Sarah Rn«.
Funeral Thursday morning o'clock, from
the re?idenoo of their parents. No. ISI Sandusky
B treet, Allegheny. Fiiends of the family Invited
to attend.
~°n, the sth fast., FRANK NICHOLSON, in
the 4ith year of his age.
Funeral will leave his late residence. No. 30
Diamond at 2 o'clock, The friends of the family
are requested to he in at.endance.
S 5n n i ght ', i,, !5 n J t «h. 1863, ELIZA*
JBBIHSIMPbUxv. only chud of Dr. Julian and'
Margaret C. Rogers, a?od 1 year and 8 month*
The funeral will take place on Thursday at
o’clook p. m., from the residence of Dr- Rogers,
No 114 Fourth street.
JIGHTXI SQ FJLY KILLER,
KILLS FLIES INSTANTLY,
without danger to anything else. For sale by
• SIMON JOHNSTON,
oornor Hmithfiold and Fourth street
..ffT ?^) rEO Trepa-ations still selling at 50
artiolos such as Bmrhavo’s Bitters at
something like half their former prices
Jy2l
STOVE POLISH.
Reasons why it is better than dry Polish;
1. It u already mired
2. It has no smell whatever.
* ,5 p /° «««? no dirt or dust.
4* It stands the most intense boat,
a\\ ?IS erVM from rash
7 Ttif “* 6 most , economioal polish,
one-fourth the labor.
■ J,°‘ sale by ’ SIMON JOHNSTON
Jy ~ corner Smithfleld and Fourth sts
Passage from England & Ireland
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EUROPEAN AGENCY.
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TELEGRAPHIC.
FROM 6MRRAL 111 ABE'S ABilV.
SKIRMISHING ON THE RAPPAHANNOCK.
GtN. GRANT'S OFFICIAL REPORT.
Favorable Sews from
Charleston.
BURNING OF THE STEAMER RUTH
Union Vessels at Charleston.
* c . &c. Ac. Ac.
New Vo RK 5.-The Herald has
the following:
Rappahannock; Station, Va., Aug. 4.
A force of the enemy’s cavalry, with artil
lery attacked Gen. Buford’s pickets this
afternoon at 3 o'clock, and drove them
back a mile, when the General went for
ward with the first brigade of his division,
under Col. Chapman, and the second, un
der Gen. Merrill, and drove them back
beyond Brandy Station, establishing our
picket fines for the night half a mile fur
ther out than before. Onr loss was one
killed and two or three wounded.
Information gained from scouts and
prisoners indicates that the main body of
the enemy has fallen back towards Fred
ericksburg and Gordonsville. The first
corps were all in arms and eager for an
attack, which they fully expected. Gens.
Newton and Robison left their headquar
ters with their staff and awaited the tide
of events, bnt were doomed to be disap
pointed.
Nsw York, August it. —The World’s
Washington dispatch contains the i.Jiow
mg One of the evening papers hers, in
an article on the military situation, snvs
° U a a [ my . “ mossed the Rappahannock,
and that if an engagement was not pro
gressing it was at least imminent, though
it is thought Lee’s probable retreat to
Kicbmond might prevent it. Advices
from the army to night show the utter fals
ity of the situation thus presumed on pa
per yesterday.
A rpconnoitering force under Stuatt
crossed the river and attacked some of
our forces at Warrentou. They were driv
eu back after a slight Bkirmish, without
obtaining the object of their visit. To-day
all is quiet. None of our forces have
croesed the Rappahannock as published
here.
Ni.w Tore, August s —The steamer
Northern Light, from Aapinwall on the
2Hth, arrived this morning. The Herald’s
” ashington correspondent says the offi
cial report of General Grant’s operations
at V icksbnrg reached here on Thursday
lasl. It ig said to be one of the most in
teresting reports ever made to the head
quarters of an army. A copy was imme
diately prepared for publication in order
to gratify public anxiety for details of
splendid achievements which contribute
so largely in giving to the country once
more the free navigation of the Mississip
pi river. This publication was, however,
suppressed on the ground that such a doc
ument should first appear in the Army
and the Navy Official Gazette, the last
number of which 'is issued to day, but
does not contain the report.
Nm- York, August 5.-A Charleston
letter of the 31st says the last day of July
passed away with everything promising
success, though perhaps not as soon as
some may wish. All things are now
working well. We know that anxiety is
telt in Charleston for the safety of the
city. Last week there were hanging from
the parapet of Sumter as a protection to
the walls lines of cotton bales. It told ns
plainly that fifteen inch Bhot were equal to
its destructiou, but the cotton bales are
now gone, set on fire as they were by their
own guns. They were obliged to take
them down, and are now piled into scorch
ed heaps behind the Fort. Everything be
tokens a fearfulness on the part of the reb
els here, which is very encouraging to us.
St Lons, August 6.—Febiger, chief of
the ray master’s Department of the Dis
trict of Mississippi, has just received a
telegram stating that the steamer Ruth,
which left here for Vicksburg on Monday
evening, was .burned a few miles below
Cairo last night. The boat and cargo
were entirely consumed. Major Green
wall, Paymaster, and three clerks were
lost. Several other paymasters, en route
tor Grant s army, escaped only with the
clothes on their backs.
Two million and a half of Government"
lands were consumed.
Though many lives were lost, the above
are the only particulars received yet.
Cape Race, Ai%aßt 6. The steamship
Ueala from Liverpool on the 28th, via
Queestown od the 29th. arrived with three
days later news. The news received of
Federal victories caused the Confederate
loan stock to decline 27@20 per cent. A
perfeot panic ensued in that stock, The
Times considers the New York riots as
an insurrection against the Government.
Cotton advanced one-half pence. Bread
stuffs steady.
Fortress Monroe, August B.—The
Charleston Courier of the Bth says there
were about twenty-seven vessels inside
the bar yesterday, including the Ironsides
and six monitors,also twenty-firs in Stono
inlet.
W. E. Schmertz & Go,.
NO. 31 FIFTH STREET,
received a large and superior assort-
MIBSKS AND CHILDRENS.
BALMORALS. BUTTON BOOTS.
EUGENIE. CONGRESS AND
LACE GAITERS.
PATENT LEATHER, KID.
AND MOROCCO SLIPPERS.
MOROCCO AND KID BOOTS, &0 Ao
joU ° h they are Bomn * at *ery low priced
T° ASD«OHTRao|o K
We ere now manufacturing a superior ..w.i.
la I ME,
which we ere prepared to defirer from our COAX
TASS, SOS LIBEBTY STREET.
htXS 01 FamUy mn on
aaB) WCHSOB. BTKWABT A CO.
C. A. VAN KIEK & CO.,
IUKOTACTUBSfiS OF
OAB FIXTURES & CHANDELIERS,
Patent linproied Ikcekoir & Patent Paragon
COAE Oil BERNERS.
AAffD LAMPS, OOLUMHS, &o.
Salesrooms, 517 Arch St. Philadelphia.
Manufactory, Frankford, Philadelphia.
*3-All goods warranted. : j yv-w ;
W**’*’ PiPKB*..IIK AND
i J e hyo 3 ?“ loe R&i »ad_l6 .oen‘s, for
W. P. nntmtiT
TO-DAY’S ADVEBTIQSMLKETTS
Dark De Laiilei,
New Styles
dabs; pbints,
* New Styles.
Striped and Figured
Sheeting Prints*
PINK, BLUE, BUFF AND BROWN
CHAIHBIIAy"«INGHAIUS,
Best Quality,
I'INK. BUIE. BUFF, ORAXttE,
MAGENTA and GREEN
WOVE XAIHEJS,
JUST OPENED AT
HUGUS & HACKE.
Corner Fifth and M arket streets.
City Retail Shoe Store at Auction.
OS MONDAY NEXT AT 10 O’CLOCK
at No, 3(3 Diamond alley, near Wood Bt. will
bd told the atook entire of a first- lass retail
snoe B ore, being principally of city manufacture,
embracing fnen’a tine Calf Boots, Men’s Calf
Kid and Patent Leather Congress Gaiters, Boys
and Youths’Boots, Shoes, Gaicerd and B&lmcrals
Ladies and Misses’ Morocco, Kid and Goat iSoota*
Ladies and Misses’ Gaiters and rlipners. Chil
dren s shoes. A great variety of hob-nail ihoes.
Also a quantity of Calf and Patent Leather
Uppers, Leaiiur, Counter?, Fettew, Stove, Ac-
T. A. ItIcCLELLASD,
Auctioneer.
For Cluelnnatl & Louisville.
BATU&DAY, AUGUST S, 10 a. h.
THE SEW AMD SPLENDID
Passenger steamer NIGHTIN
GALE, 0* 0. Williamson ooznmander, will leave
as announced above, for freight or passage
apply on board. . aao
OATS—
-100 bush prime Oats iQ store and for sale by
c „ „ JAB, A. tfJSTZEtt.
aus Oqtoot Market and FSwrt *tr*
jL^GGS,
MU 9 bbls fresh eggs jast received and for sale
JA&A. FETZKL
corner Marketand First streets.
MeCOL,ISTER £ BAER,
108 Wood Street,
Abe seeeing ovttheik labgk
stock of
TOBACCO, SXUTF AND SEGARS,
at the very lowest
Cash figures.
Call and examine our stock before purchasing
elsewhere. lyVB 3tow
llljs® HUNDRED mULAHS-OXS
L ’ half cash, remainder in five annual payments
—will purchase a neat two story frame dwelling
house* a stable, and two lots of ground, each iO
leet front by 14U deep to an ai.ey, situate at eor
ne*of NiXbn and Chartiers streets Manchester.
• Large Bnck Dwelling to Let
, S. CDTiiBBHT & SONS.
aQ * 61 Market street.
IjOSDOH and interior
Royal Mail Company's
CELEBRATED REMEDIES
BLOOD POWDER AND
BONE OINT M E NT,
A certain oure for Diseases of Horses and Cattle.
Known to and used only Dy the Company in their
own stable* from 1844 until the openiog of the
ttaUway over the principal routes. After the gen
eral use of these remedies in all the stables of the
Company, their annual sales of condemned stcok
were discontinued, a saving to too Company ex
ceeding £7,000 per annum. In 1853 the London
Brewers Association offered the Company £2,000
for the recetpes and use the articles only in their
own stables.
BLOOD POWDER
A certain cure for founder, distemper, rheuma.
tisimhide bound.taward straits, loss of appetite-
W T e^ n , esa ' keaves. ooughs. colds, and all diseases
of the lungs, surfeit of scabbers, glanders. poll
evil, mange. inflammation of the eyes, fistula,
and all diseases arising from impure blood, cor
rects the stomach and liver. improves the appe
tite, regnlatei the bowels, corrects all deranve
menta of the glands, strengthens the system,
makes the skin smooth and glossy. Horsra fer£
ken down by hard labor or driving, quickly re
store* by using the powder once a day. Nothing
will be found equal to it in keeping horses up in
appearanoo. condition and strength.
London and Interior Royal Mail Companys,
CELEBRATED RONE OINTMENT.
A certain onre for spavin, ringbone, scratches
lumps, tumori sprains, swellings, bruises, foun
dered leet, cinUblaios, mad galls, contractions of
the tendons, bone enlargements, so.
Blood Powder 500 per 12 oa, packages ■ Bon.
Ointment 600 per Bos. jar. No. 320 Strand, Lon
don.
McKesson A Rorbins. New York.
French, Riohards A Co.. Philadelphia
TORRENCE & McSARR,
, _ _ Pittsburgh Drug House,
luaidlro Corner Fourtn and Market street
i«t „ isea
AT
MACBUJH & GLIDE’S.
WE ARE IN RECEIPT OF NEW
GOODS, bought during the present de
pression of prioes, and can offer to wholesale and
retail buyers, at much lower rates than usual,
handsome as.ortments of Trimmings, Fancy
Roods and Notions.
*S-Country merchants will find our wholesale
department well stocked with all goods in our
line end at prioes as low as any house in this city
or in the East.
MAGRTJM & GLYDE,
No, 78 Market St.,
aul-diw Between Fonrth and Diamond,
RENTS’ PATENT ‘
BULLETPROOF
steel COLLARS
GENTLEMEN'S NEGLIGEE SHIRTS,
In HBHBOELT,
AZfJUHK,
and all other desirable odors.
GENTS’ FINE LINEN BHIRTB
for one dollar and a half
For gale by
MACRIJM A GLYDE,
No, 78 Market street.
■aul-dsw —_ between Fonrth ann Diamond.
mam ihlotS'Seyire
tinw Wnk between: the Oakland Bta
*™yg the Mononghatiels. l'iver. They, offrr
s??*fadneementsTor private riridencoa. ,For
plan of lots uid price, apply aUtheoffico Cf/ * -
No-RUPourth Bt one door above StnlafiSd'bt.
TO-bAya A DVEBTISEMENTS.
Carpets, oil Cloths,
WINDOW SHADES.
Prices reduced at the
NEW OABFET STOBE
t _'7 -OF- ■ i :i ,
M'FARUNO, COLUNS & CO,
"I *l3 FIFTH" StMEET.' '
Between the Post Office and Dispatch
Entitling - . ’ ■_ r
DesJritis to purotase for the Fall trade
An Entirely ®etr Stock,
We are selling oil goods now on hand at piicts
veiy much below prejent market rates.
We especial'y invite-tie attention of
Connin' Merchants and Wholesale Buyers,
au6 * , , . . ■ ■
£tOjrCENTBATED ; ;7 -
for all diseases ol the
Orders by mail promptly filled.
The Third Annual FestlTal, for the
BENEFIT OF THE POOR, ;
On Thursday. August 6th, 1863. by thoSoolety of
St Vincent do Paul '
Dinner Tickets, 33 Cent!.
h^ r tSr^&?d?y oDn6nSVmeDe » rat ■"«*
Expuraon Tickets, IS cents.
au4 3t -
piASOS,
Fourteen new Pianos last received from th» :
factories of
chickebino <fc sows, Boston;
market, Davis * co., Boston;
QBEPE * KINDT, sew York) *
W; P. EMERSON', Boston.
J. FT. YOSE, Boston.
.i Ta *naWe Parent Medicines.
All Iho valuable Patent Modi dues
All Ole valuable Patent Medicines’.
At the Lowcgt Price.
At the. Lowest Prioe,:
At the Lowest Price,
At the Drag Store of
At the Drag Store of
At the Drug Store of
JO3EPH FLEMING
JOSEPH FLEMING*
Corner of the Diamond and Market atreata.
b^ otdot of 1116 Diamond and Market etelrtSl
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The first class powerful Steamahina
RIDON i jr*iike r
MARATHON, I fgggi.
W*“< ®*II FROM NEW WORK
town every alternate Wetoi-US'* 9?*“*.
town, s2s® fS^ew'iSwfc^^n-
GU
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STEAMSHIP
GREAT EASTERN,
FROM NEW YORK TO LIVERPOOL
WALTER PATOU, Coomodn
WILL BE . :. .
FroruNew York!!!. "
And^at^r **i'V*%2&*" 4
SOLFERINO,
k.ATKSOFPABS46E
CABIN, stata room berths. .
; at roparate $ 70
put and baok in thelat A,-
2d Caoma only, a fhifl and a halt
. Servants accompanying "parsmgers. and Chit
dren under twelve yi ars of age, half fare. In&ntT _
THIRD cabin, intermediate
paasengersfound.with bed*, bedding, table,
utandlaand goodsnbstant food" ' •
STEERAGE, with superior acoqitiej'ati'rmJ^o*
AuTEhrePayaMolSGold? < a» a ttl aill9 rate
alhnt tb fe.
Each passongnr aUowid „
luggage.;,’ eubtn feet
J/For^wsage 11 - *-
or to - . giEpi^^^ongahele^^lJe.’
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ijiij A tthejQCefe 26 %>•'{.£ 11
100 WfiABIUBEDHAJIS,
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COMPOUND EXTRACT OF BUCHU,
Bladder «& Kidneys.
one half dozen for $3 sa.
A.J.BANKIN&CO,
Druggist?, 63 Market street,'
PITTSBURGH.
PPEES, -■ ~
53 bb:s apples juitr-o'd and for sale by;
r. JASA. FRTZEft,
i corner Market and First sts
grand FESTIVAL.
will be given at
CiItEJfIVOOD GROVE,
Pfiosa from §2OO to $4OO.
OH AS, C. HELLOfi,
Bl Wood ftraoL
WKBXOJi TBCSSES ASD
SUOIIDEB IIBACES,
“<? ffoulder Braces.
Snjwnai Trasses end Shoulder Braces,
Snpester Truces and Shoulder Brae eel
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