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    Tie Union as if Was. tie Constitution ns -it Is,
Where there is no law there In
iioCreedoni.
SATURDAY MORNING, AUG. S.
Democratic Nominations.
FOR GOVERNOR,
6EOBQF. W. WOOIMVARi),
' FOR SUPREME JUDGE,
WALTER H. LOWRIi:
|rg»IOTICK-THE SEVERAL
wer County Committees of Surerintendtnoe
are requested to oommnnioate the names ana
ifoetoffiee address o: their members to the Chair-
San of the State Centra} Committee. Editors of
emocratio papers in Pennsylvania are requested
to forward copies to nim.
CiLARLKs j. BIDDLE, Chairman
Philadelphia. Pa., Jniy 22d. ludi
THE LATE WHIPPING BY OBDEB
Or OUR PBOVOBT MA.RBHAL.
Upon the announcement of a citizen
having been stripped and cowhidcd by
order of onr Provost Marshal, we heard
the expression of its condemnation from
persons who had previously been insensible
to the horrors of similar outrages: and,
Bince its perpetration we have received a
number of commnnications inquiring if
the people are to Bubmit to such enormi
ties hereafter? We have foreborne, until
the present, to allude to the subject in
question, forthe very palpable reason, that
if we had given expression to our ieel
ings when the outrage was perpetrated,
many of those who are now indignant
would attribute our conduct to partisan
considerations. Our silence, therefore,
has given these an opportunity to reflect
upon the beauties of arbitrary power.
But let ub look a little further. This
ease of whipping is simply an outrage
to which no man can submit, if even
a poltroon, public opinion will not
permit him to rest quiet under snch
disgrace. The poor man, himself, felt
the degradation about to be inflicted,
when he asaed to be shot, in preference'
to surviving it. This mode of punishment
was years ago considered too brutal for
even the punishment of the worst of sail
ors; and the whipping-post was long since
abolished as a relic of barbarism. Bat
after fully considering these facts, together
with the Btaoning circumstance of our
Provost Marshal having no authority,
more than we have, to strip and whip a
citizen, we are compelled to attribute the
outrage to the numerous precedents estab
lished by the Administration. This eon
duot of Captain Foster is no worse than
that of other Provosts, who have dragged
men from their families and incarcerated
them in prisons without a hearing. It is
no worse than the outrage perpetrated by
Gen. Bnrnside upon the once old
Commonwealth of Kentucky, in declaring
martial law, lor the purpose of robbing her
citizens of their suffrages. It is no worse
than the Administration sending home,
from the army, three thousand soldiers to
carry the last election in Connecticut; nor is
it any worse than the dismissal from the ser- j
vice of Lieut. Etheridge, a gallant New
Hampshire officer, lor the offense of voting
the Democratic ticket. These and similar
outrages have been frequent throughout
the country for two years, and we regret
to be compelled to Btate that they have in
every case been justified by some of ihose
who are now shocked at onr Provost's
mode of punishment. How is this? How
happens it that these people, whose big
American boßoms are now swelling with
indignation,becanse of a particular outrage
lmve been tor two years, totally insensi
ble to a multitude of crimes perpetrated
in all quarters of the country ? For de
noncing these infamies, we, instead,of be
ing commended, have only received con--
demnationand persecution. Onr opposi
tion to them has been used by brainlesß
Abolitionists, as evidences of disloyalty to
onr government; and the genius of onr
Union League has been taxed and invok
ed to devise some means to prevent oriti"
ciam of, and fitting comment upon, such
palpable usurpations.
Bnt as we had no proper conception of
the terrors of war, until our own homes
were lately threatened by rebel invasion,
so we had no feeling for the countless vic
tims of. arbitrary power throughout the
country, until a caße occurred under our
own observation. We now have a taste |
as well as an idea of what “ military ne- j
eessity ”is; we now have a practical il
lustration of Bitting aside all law and
trampling upon constitutions, if, in the es
timation of some ass in authority, they be
required to carry out his infamous designs
either upon the citizen or the State.
W© trust that this act of our Provost
will canse some of our most violent advo
cates of military and martial law, to re
flect upon their conduct. Had they heard
of some runaway slave in South Carolina
being captured and whipped, as one of our
own citizens has, in violation of all law,
they would see in it another of the enor
mities of the slave system. We treat that
their sensibilities will hereafter be equally
sensitive in vindication of the rights of
their fellow citizens. Let them remember
alio, thstiftbey do not check these mili
tary nsnrpations and oppressions, that they
may not be entirely free fronrithe conse
qnences. License, and disregard for law,
upon the part of those in power, suggests
insubordination and outrage? The Ad
ministration, at Washington, and its prin
cipal supporters, throughout the Union
are responsible for creating the spirit
which prompted the late shameful crime
against a .citizen. Had not precedents
been established and jnstified, onr City
wonld not now he subject to the lasting
infamy she is. They have long taught the
people military necessity, bnt that doc
trine is too much to die borne even in days
as degenerate as these. A few more snch
as the one complained of, hap
pening m each community, wcnld cause
onr people to awake to the dangers and
artifieea which are, i n the name of neces-'
«ty, fast depriving them of their liberties
Ths city directory of Chicago for 166 s
fixes the population of that city at iso;!
f '* ll, » ,: W 1 Jt.mn
Tho ‘ Glorious Victory” in Kon
tuoky-How the. Election was
Carried.
POST.
Covington, August 5, 1
.To the Editor of the Enquirer
fhave.read in the Commercial, Times
*' age Uf ; ..tlie rejoicing overthe area!
mon victory in Kentucky.,- I have also
looked i but looked in vain) tor some
article in your paper this morning, con
cerning the way that the election was car
ried.
And wishing our Democratic friends m
the Norrh to know the measures that were
adopted by the Union party to carry their
pomt, 1 will relate a few of the incidents
that occurred at one of the polls on Mon
day. These, are strictly true, having been
an eye witness to some of them myself,
and learning the rest, from mithoritu that
cannot he doubted.
The I nion League, not content with the
proclamation of General Hoyle and Pro
voat Marshal Berry, nor satislied with
Ueneral Burnside proclaiming martial law
and his instructions to the judges at the
polls, hut still tearing the tremendons
majority that they knew the Democratic
ticket would have had if justice had been
done, they placed at the polls a ”4 pound
cannon and a guard o) soldiers {-perhaps
to keep order, bat more probably to in
timidate Democratic voters). But even
this was not a safeguard ; so they brought
up a reinforcement of I 'rounders” from
the mills to challenge the vote of gentle
men. The resalt was as follows :
A young man, jof the best family i on
asking tor a Democratic ticket, was asked
if he was willing to take the oath laid down
by the Legislature; he assented, when one
ot the bullies thrust a Bramlette ticket into
his face with ''Damn yon, if you don’t
vote this tioket yon shan’t vote at all, for
wedon't intend to allow any damned Bui
tsrmU ticket to be voted at these polls,” and
so the voter was driven away without
voting at all. Another man voted all the
Union ticket until he came to Congress
maQ > when he requested to vote for Men
ziea in place of Smith; the result was he
was knocked down, badly beaten, and
driven away. Another was treated the
same way, because he preferred Richard
eon to Benton.
Hat, Mr. Editor, the moat shameful act
of all was the knocking down of an old
gentleman, between seventy and eighty
year 3 o! age, merely because he wished to
exercise the same right he so often had
before exercised, that of voting for whom
and as he thought best.
Such incidents occarred at all the pulls
yesterday, but I have given a few exam
ples of the tyranny that, was exercised at
£>?!<? o/ the pulls, and only such as 1 can
prove. The result is as was expected.—
‘ln a ward that baa formerly polled hun
dreds of Democratic votes, only eighteen
have been polled this election. Still it is
a glorious rictori/.
Jn days gone by, when it was considered
an honor to be an American, we consid
ered it a still greater honor to be called a
Kentuckian ; we were always proud of
the honor, chivalry and justice that me
thought formed a pari of hn-sr/i . it may
be that on account af this ve;y State pride
tbe Pivine Providence has seen iit to hu
miliate us as He has done.
Our only hope in this dark hour is that
his anger may be of short duration, and
that soon again Kentucky wHI recover the
proui! position she has lost.
Bragg at Ohattanooga.
* The correspondent of the Atlanta .!/.
’ pea! writes under da:e of July 11
I The hills surrounding this warlike v,l
: liage are being fortified, of course. Per
haps the purpose is to keep the men em
ployed more than aoy other design. -
Chattanooga is already defensible enough
naturally. Besides there is not much
likelihood that it will ever be attaeked.—'
No point on the border is safer from
aids. Its surroundings are admirably
adapted for successful defence. The river
in its bend from the base of Lookout
Mountain, almost encircles it, leaving but
a short apace ot perhaps half a mile from
one bend to the other, which might be
traced with a line oi earthworks, whic h
would render it a complete fortress. The
hills ol Chattanooga ascending from thej
liver, are higher than those of Vicksburg,
and command the opposite bank for miles
back to the bade ol the Cumberland range.
On the hill back of the cemetery, a fort,
commenced some time since, under the
supervision of Major Necuet, of the Top
ographical Kngineer corps, is being com
pleted- Fatigue parties paBS through the
town daily to work on the trenches. The
country above and below this point is so I
crossed with creeks, ridges and almost
impassible ravines, that a raid upon this
point by even a very large body of incur-1
stoniats would be attended with many I
difficulties, which would endanger the sue-1
cess of such an enterfriae, if the party at- I
tempting it were not captured before they
could even-make the assault. ' I
A late letter from Washington lu the
droy, IS. Whig, infrma ns that Mrs.
Lincoln is recovering from her compound
fracture of the cerebellum, caused by
being thrown from her carriage, and is
now drawing her rations out at the Sol
diers Home. Abraham rides out to see
her every evening, accompanied by a
heavy cavalry escort; it is rumored that,
Mrs. L , after the most cruel anxiety and I
hesitation, has concluded to have her I
summer dresses made up “biased,” with
Bhort necks and low sleeves.
Tut: Dubuque (Iowa) Times publisher
the following: “Un the 28(h of June a
gentleman residing in Galena, a warm per
sonal friend of Gen. Grant, received a let
ter from the commander of the troops be
fore Vicksburg, in which was inclosed an
invitation to a dinner to be given on the
4th day of Jnly, ISCM, at ,1 p. m., by U. S.
Grant. The Galena gentleman is willing I
to stake his fortune that Grant dined in
Vicksburg at the time appointed.”
A t a rod of one hundred and sixty-five
mules from Montivede— the first ever im
ported into this country Irom that port—
reached New York on Monday in the ship
Leonidas, Daring a passage of fifty-seven
days, but six of the mules died. The cae- i
ualnes of the war have made such havoc
among horses, and so raised their price
that it has become absolntely necessary to
get a cheaper supply of muleß to perform
the necessary labor of the country
Surgeon Philip S. Wales, detached from
duty at the Naval Academy, and ordered
to the steamer Fort Jackson. Snrgeon
Wm. Lowber, ordered as a member of the
medical board, for the examination of
camliJates tor admission to the Naval
~f de ™y aB midshipmen. Assistant Sur
geon J McD. Rice, detached from the
and ordered® the j
Bteam gunboat kutaw.
Dangerous Greenbacks
- One dollar greenbacks, altered to tens,
were pat into circulation in Philadelphia
last Friday. alteration is done by
pSßtinc; the fignre ten over the figure one.
Severai-perscna-wererdscrived:, hyihem!
and did not discovW'taeifTnistakeaDti! it
too late to detect, the parties who pasß-
C\E Til A T nrii \’UT \i.i,
Naval Orders
Mr, toward Prophesying War, j
It is uo ie“n strange than true, and do
icfi-'i «ftd than strange,. that the adminifl-1
tration ne:na to know the feelings of the
people. Here is the President of the
Lnited States officially bidding us thank
heaven for the Dearprospeet of peace, and
the Secretary of State in the same breath
calling upon us aemi-offici&Hy to prepare
for war, wilder and worse ihau ever yet
we have waged.
The Secretary of State we say, for the
article from the National Republican
which the telegraph throws this morning
like a bomb into all the circles and church
es o! the land bears too conspicuously the
u strawtwry mark” of its origin to be
cast aside as a foundling, Mr. Seward
“semi officially,” as it were “disfiguring
or presenting” a linn cornea and roars a
most terrible roar.
Mr. Solioifor-of-the-War- Department
Wh.Lrn;, wo are left to infer, has gone to
England, not as a solicitor, but as a pur
suivant. a sort of Rogue-Sanglier, hearing
detianea of war in his red right hand. On
the “slightest occasion;" on the least ap
roach to the metaphorical knocking off
of a hypothetical chip from the imaginary
left shoulder of Columbia, we are to plunge
into a fresh and fearful centest with Eng
land. Our steam marine, disdaining the
Fioridas and Alabamas and Georgias of
the confederates, is to pounce directly
upon Ihe commerce of the country from
which the Fioridas and Alabamas and
Georgias have sallied out to harass us, and
m a short time, in very much less time,
no doubt, than " sixty days," is to Bweep
the meteor, flag of Britain from the seas.
Whether, after accomplishing this “job,"
our steam mam .- under the orders of the
vigorous and vivacious Welleß, will im
mediately return to receive the homage of
a nation’s gratitude and aid in enforcing
the Conscription law, or whether it will
be allowed to finish the good work by dis
posing of the confederate cruiserß which
have skirted our coasts for two years past,
does not yet appear so clearly as one
might wish. I.et us be satisfied, however
with one thing at a time. We may not
be able to suppress the confederates at sea,
but if we can annihilate the British on
that element ,t will be a creditable thing
to do R
Mnch injustice barf been done Mr. Sew
ard uf late. He baa been thought, for in
atauee, lo have shrunk from asserting the
tradumuhl American policy in the face of
the breach invasion in Mexico, blow lit
tie 01,1 tnose who cherished such a notion
understand the miDgled subtlety and spirit
of our premier ! Tne old proverb bids us
• beware the anger of a patient man," and
Mr. Seward incarnates the warning in
his character and his course, He has not
interfered with the French advance into
Mexico ; he will not interfere with the
consolidation of French power in Mexico ;
he will smile serenely upon the establish
ment of an empire in Mexico, because he
remembers, yes remembers, what we all in
onr impatience are forgetting, "the great
Wt ‘ ran lQ rn the French out of
Mexico and re-establish the republic there
whenever we think fit so lo do. The no
torious facility with which French armies
can he dispersed, and the acknowledged
tendency of Napoleon 111. to do as he is
hid, are sufficient guarantees that, in for
bearing immediately to eject Gen. Forey
from Mexico, Mr. Seward is actuated by
no unworthy motives whatever.
The designs of France being apparent,
11 is not worth while lo compel that power
to unmask them.
Hut b.uglaud, perfidious England, is in
quite another ease. She has exhibited
such an indisposition to fight us, that it is
evident she must be concealing some deep
design against us, and Mr. Seward means
to force her band.
If, after all, it should turn out that she
does not mean to fight us, that she pre
fers not to have her commerce swept from
the ocean: that she will adjust the quea
t‘°ns in issue between us, at least we shall
have seen that the semi-official valor of
onr Secretary of State is of so high astrain
that -.veie it not tempered by official dis
cretion, the whole world had long ere this
been overshadowed l.v the wings ol our
eagle. V\ lira language can adequately
describe the satisfaction which this faith
ought to give us ’
fo our Celtic population partieularly,
and to all such persons as have been in
dimed to abstain from volunteering, to be
drafted, mainly by their fears that they
sonld not have enemies enough to fight
the pleasing hope of a war with England
and the confederates combined will de
scend blip sweet shoWs upon frogß in
marshes parched with August heat, lhey
will swarm to the front of battle, and
shout Ila. ha ' among the enrolling officers
1 his result of his “semi official" manifes
t ?,, B '. of ( ' 0 . 0r3e ' never entered as a pos-
Bible thing info the calculation of the
premier; hot we are confident the sugges
tion of it will not displease him.
There will naturally be persons found in
the country so incapable of appreciating
true statesmanship as to question the wis
dorn and to doubt the propriety ol "semi
official" declarations of war. It may
even occur to such persons to reserve their
belief of the consternation caused in court
circles abroad, by Ur. Seward’s decisive
attitude Until further and more explicitly
advised. Such persons as these are to be
looked for among the responsible classes
ol the community, the people whose
habits of life breed in them the cheap vir-
P .u Ud< ii nC c and J'gn'ty, and hamper
in them the (lights of the imagination.—
lhe only comfort we can condescend to
offer to such persons is the consideration
n iJj 6reaa Mr. Seward now semi offici
■ l rT 8 , us P ro Pare for an immediate war
With England, even so in December, 1860 i
Mr. Seward semi-officially bade us prepare i
tor an immediate peace with the South. If
they dislike the prophesy, it must be con- 1
fessed they have their remedy in *he i
fropheJ- ZrTd. *** P “ l Care<sr ° f the 1
Skedaddlera in Canada.
Those who contemplate fleeing into Can
ada for the purpose of escaping the draft,
should read the following taken from the
St. Catherine’s Journal :
‘ ‘The Canadian mechanics and working
-1 men, who have paid for taxes for years,
and who are. always have been, and al-
I ways will be loyal to the government and
country, are beginning to feel the effects
of the large inltux of these emulators of
I Bob Acres, for they agree to work for low
wages, are employed of course, and thus
throw out of employment for at least a
portion 01 their time, our own ‘‘goodmen
and true ' A large number of mechanics,
Booner than go idle, have provided them
selves with certificates that they are Biit
u ‘ j have gone over to Yan
kee land to supply the places of these ske
daddlers. Vie don’t think much of the
trade, but suppose it must he endured
those who employ these skedaddlera will
have a serious account to settle with their
consciences “when this cruel war is over”
forme f b ab ° Ut bein «
| formed. They actually encourage cowar
dice, one of the meanest and most useless
elements of human character. There is
an old fellow ‘ down below" who can, and
no doubt will, take charge of all skedad
dlera ; ana that thought causes mauy brave
men to ‘Jeep easy.
A i rusT class steamer, the first oi its
kind ever built in China, in in course oi
constrncfiOn at Shanghai. As no timber
is grown in that hart it is built of teak,
Srnm wood and j Oregon pine. Her engines
rtk °J'ZZ e 1100
Shanghai by Mr. James I DP m
Opinions m Hegard to JSxemp
tions. 1
Than. • AugV'd.
biie following opinions 'in'begard to ex -
emptions were promulgated by Colonel
Joseph Holt, Judge Advocate General ol
the Army, yesterday:
THE OSI.V SOX OK AC Eli OR IN , lnM |'A P. ENTS
OH PARENTS EXEMPTION
r Tte on y son of a s ed ° r in
urm parent or parents, is not exempt un
‘®fla A lB , p , aren ‘ or parents are dependent
on tag labor for their support. If he is
Jfti? condition to Bupport and does support
them without his personal labor for that
purpose, he is Bnbjsct to draft, because he
JB in a condition to perform military
w ‘‘ hou L t depriving his parents of
thfim aw efl *K na to secure
s?®”* , \ he Pareuta need not be wholly
ent A n , th 6 labor of their son (or
A re 80 dependent for
the principal part of their support the right
to exemption arises.
in- the case of a wmow HAYrNc four
Opinion. In the case of a widow hav
ing four sons, three of whom are already
in the military service, the fourth is ex
etnp , provided hia mother is dependent
on ms labor for support.
IN THE CABK OF A WIDOW HAVIM. TWO HONS,
ONE OF WHOJI l 1! A!.READY IN THE MIL]-
! TART SERVICE,
. Opinion —ln the case of a widow hav
ing two sons, one of whom is already in
the military service, and the other has
been drafted, the latter is exempt, as the
only son liable tn military duty in the sense
ol the act.
IN THE FARE OF All LD OR IN-FIRM PARENTS
having two or more bone subject to
military duty.
Opinion. —ln the case of aged or in
firm parents having two or more sons sub
ject to military duty, election of the son
to be exempted must be made before the
draft, and his name should not then ap
pear in the draft-box. If one of only two
sons of snch parents is already in military
service, the other is exempt, provided his
parents are dependent .on his labor for
their support.
OP PERSONS HAVING CONSCIENTIOUS SORT
PLES IN REOARI) TO BEARING ARMS.
Persona having conscientious scruples
in regard to bearing arms are not on that
account exempt. They are not found in
the list of exempted classes, and the act
expressly declares that no persona except
those enumerated in that list shall be. ex -1
empt.. The . Society of Friends and
others entertaining similar sentiments, i(
dratted, may find relief from their scruples
in the employment of substitutes, or in
the payment of the $2OO.
OK A WHOSE WIFE Ifl IN'SANE.
Opimon. The children of an insane
mother, who may, at anytime, recover her
reason, cannot in the sense of the law,
or with any propriety of language, be
tsrmed motherless children. The father
of such, though they may be dependent on
his labor for their Bupport, cannot, there*
fore, claim exemption from the draft.—
The case is a hard one, and would proba
bly have been provided for, had it been
foreseen, it is, however, the law as it is
and not as it may be supposed it ought to
be, that is to be so enforced.
A i ATuER OAVJJff: LOTR SON'S, TWO 01'WHO
Have DIKL> IS TUK MILITARY SERVICE
•" OL AO ED OR IN! IBM PARENTS SE
LEt.’T IN 0 MBirn OK TWO SON'S MAY EE
Opinion— In the <-aae of a father having
four sons, two ol whom have died in the
military service, it seems clear that the
remaining two are not exempt from the
drafu ftefore such exemption' can be al
lowed it must be shown that the father
has not had two sons In the military ser
vice, so the law is written. Congress
might well have accepted the loss of two
sons in the field as equivalent to their con
tinuance irt the service, and therefore se
curing the same privileges to their lami
ly ; but this bas not been done. To hold
otherwise would not bo interpretation, hut
legislation.
Iq the case ol aged and infirm parents
I having two bods subject to military duty,
the father, or if he be dead, the mother
may elect which of them shall be exempt.
The right of this exemption does not rest
upon the parents' dependence on the la
bor of their sons for support. The law
doeß not contemplate any such depen
dence.
Ua. A. L. Stfwakt has made another
princely donation by subscribing $- Jt uoo
for the reliet of the firemen, police and
soldiers who were injured in the late riots
and the families of those who were killed
in the riot.
I Pardon of Blumenberg.
I Kudolph Blumenberg, who waa sen
tenced to the State prison in 1861, for per
jury, in the case of the ship Orion, hag
received a pardon. He was tried three
times. On the first two trials the jury dis
agreed. He was then arraigned a third
time by the United States District Attor
ney, K. Delafield Smith,-who procured a
I conviction. On Thursday last Mr. Smith
received from the President a pardon,
granted at the request of the District At
torney Marshal Murray, becauao of
important information giveu by Bluraen
burg. The man thus restored to liberty
has two brothers in the military service
ofthe Union. They are both Marylandes,
and one of them has been twice wounded
—A'. V. Times.
The New York Post goes into an elabo
rate statistical investigation to determine
how many men there are of military age
in the States east of the Mississippi, now
under rebel control, and comes to the cos'
elusion that there cannot be over 54,188.
If there are not, it is simply impossible
tor Davis to raise another.army, or to make
any important additions to those alre&dv
in the field. 3
The St. Louis HejmbHcan says that the
three camels captured by Gen. Curtis du
ring his expedition into Arkansas laßt
year, and which were transferred to his
tarm on the banks of the Des Moines, in
lowa, where they have been kept in great
seclusion ever since, were delivered over
to the government authorities in SC Loufs
Monday.
FLY KILLER,
kills flies instantly
without Manser to anything else. For sale by
SIMON JOHNSTON,
corner Smithfleld and Fourth sir«4t
Preparations ctlll felling at 50
f-w 1 * 0 !® 8 , BUch . “ Bitten at
a< like ball their former prices.
STOVE POLISH.
Reasons why it ia better than dry Pulieh
L It is already mixed
i it has no smell whatever.
V* 15 P locea no dirt or dust.
4* Jt stands the most intense heat.
§• V P r ®®«rve3 from rust.
o. Jt la the most economical polish
r. it is no: one-fourth the labor.
For sale by SIMON JOHNSTON
'Y- 1 ooraar Smithfleld and Fourth sts
•aasage from England .& Ireland
#25 00,
UROPEAN AGENCY,
Stepranaaaaal
§“s°* thofitteßjer «reat East,
era, %jid.roMneßiMaof flteamara g&ninff bet**-**™
ldvorpcoh a^rsndGiSwtj
TmjmmmiG.
liPOBTAST FROM THE SOUTH,
Johnston Lost 10,000 Men
by Desertion.
MAINE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
The Rebels Fear the Pal
«f Charleston.
Memphis, August 4. -The steamer Hope
has arrived, bringing prisoners from Port
Hudson, Vicksbnrg and Jackson. Every
thing was quiet on the river below.
C'ol. Hatch reports Forrest, Biffles and
Wilson retreating, their forces entirely
broken np and their men deserting in
every direction. Col. Hatch has divided
his forces and is scouring the country,
picking np all small squads he can find.
A sront that left Meridian on Saturday
and IIL-okma on Snnday, reports John
ston’s army at Enterprise and Brandon,
under direct command of Hardee. Most
of the forces at the former place are ready
to move at any moment, cars standing
on the side track ready to move at
a momouit’s notice. Johnston went to
Mobile on the 27th. The scout thinks
the rebels will remain where they are,
unless Mobile is attacked, and says John
ston has lost lOjOOOtnen by desertion since
the fall of Vicksburg, and the remainder
of his force is terribly demoralized. They
are poorly fed, and officers and men great
ly disheartened.
Rebels it- official circles acknowledge
that Morris Island will be taken.
A great mtiny secret societies have been
organized with the intention of bringing
the State back into the Union, and officers
are arresting citizens and soldiers for be
ing connected with them.
Ruggles is at Columbna, Mississippi;
Cnalmera is at West Point, and Tippah on
the Mobile and Ohio railroad. The late
conscript act will not avail much in the
Southwest.
ihe Mobile News of the 30th, has a
leader on despondents and croakers, and
tells the citizens to “avoid them as they
would a pestilence.” It states that Grant's
army has mostly gone to Virginia, where
the great final struggle is to take place,
and callß upon the citizens of Alabama,
Mississippi and Georgia to join Bragg and
Johnston, aod all will be well. We are at
the point when this Confederacy should
throw everything into the scales, and turn
the tide of this fatal campaign ; that Lin
coln can put no more men into the field,
and if they only checked the Yankees now
he 13 used up, and the revolution at the
North at an end.”
The article closes up very bitterly as
Follows: J
‘ \Ve have to choose between the whip
of the slave or the whip oi the master.
Choose ye. Among recent arrivals from
Europe, is Pierre Soule, who says he is
not sanguine of mediation movements by
the emperor of France, on the oi-onnd of
popnlarity in Mexico.”
A'*Richmond telegram of July 28thsays
• ’in the fight at Manassas Gap we lost
twenty-three hnndred in killed and woun
ded, when we retreated, overpowered by
superior numbers.” '
ahe Mobile News of Jnly 3,lst says edi
,? rl r/ : “ Grßnt ’ B conduct in parolling
’ tcksburg prisoners is being investigated,
and hopes hia head will be cntoff, for he
could not have struck a heavier blow to
the confederacy. Pemberton's army dia
persed. and Teias and Alabama troops
then crossed the Mississippi river, and
are lost beyond reeall. The whole mass
of them were precipitated npon Johnston’s
camp to eat his stores, and to discourage
and decimate his ranks, and n»w they are
ordered to report to the samo officers as
last as they are exchanged, which they
will cut do, as they hate how we r»ur it
upon record. If Pemberton is assigned
to the command of that army again it°will
be r.univalent to its annihilation, not a
title of it will be eyer gathered again to
togethe.
Poeti.svs. Me., August 6.- The Demo
cratic State ( onvention met to day. Nine
hundred delegates were present. Resolu
tions were adopted, which in snbßtunce,
are as follows ’
First—That all men, irrespective of par
.y interest, shonld nnite for a termination
of the calamities which now depress our
distracted and unhappy country.
Second—The Union was formed in fra
ternity and concession, and cannot exist
in the absence of that brotherly spirit.
third—We will earnestly support every
constitutional measure tending to preserve
he Union of the States.
therefore; support the present Adminis
tration, whose course is the destruction
of the I mion and the Government.
hourth—The war is now being conduct
ed not for the restoration of the Union,
but for the abolition of slavery and the
destruction oi the republic.
Fifth—Under our form of government,
our sovereign power is vested in the peo
pie, andl rests on no other foundation than
their will. The people are the only lawful
sovereignly, whose public functionaries'
are servants. Sixth-On the part of the
Kebel States, if a disposition is shown to
return to the Union, they should be wel
comed back with all their dignity, equality
and rights unimpaired. The seventh res
olution denounces arbitrary arrests. The I
eighth asserts freedom of speeeh and of
the press. The ninth denounces the con
scription law as unjust, but counsels obedi
ence unless the courts decide it nnconsti.
tntiowj. The tenth endorses the course
of Gov. Seymour, of New York. * The
eleventh commends our soldiers, and says
h U„ ar6 i? or ‘o y °I, a nation ’ 9 latitude,
??“• " 10n Bradbury, of Eastport, can
mdate of last year, was renominated for
[Governor, with great unanimity. Private*
letters from him to members of the'con
ventton were read, in which he expressed
that madness ruled the hour,
and republic can be saved from im
pending rum only by the co-operation of
conservative men against the spirit of fa
naticism. He declares his opposition to
the Emancipation Proclamation, to the
confiscation act, to the subordination of
the civil to the military authority, and
says that opposition to the war poliiv ‘of
the administration, not opposition to the
government, to secure the restoration 0
Umon.is the first duty of the citizen
Brief speeches were made, and the Ton
vention adjourned. on
Baltimore, Aug. 7.-The flag r f trues
boat arrived at Fortress Monro/last even-
Riehmond papars contain no news of
importance.
a j* a ‘BBued an urgent appeal to
t&e Confederate officers and soldiers to re
turn immediately to their various camps,
tie complains of the want of alaerity on
the part of all classes in coming forward
in the most dismal hour of the South.
The Richmond Examiner is gloomy
over the prospects at Charleston, andaavn
the fall of that place will be the moßt mor
tifying and disastrous event of the war
and a fatal blow to the cause of the C™’
federacy. •
Richmond papers state that Lee has
massedtiia troops and is ready for a battle
The Examiner:saysthat Lee’s army is in
excellent condition and spirits. An an
gagementis possible if not probable on
theimerof the iSSS
fochmond been
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A thorough and systematic arrangement 0/
easy, progreasige etndies. adapted to the wants of
scholars in every degree of advancement. Add
w.ttLu 5l a U s? e aslecti .o n of Popular Songs,
Waltzes. Folk “8, Dances, JVlarohes, Quicksteps,
Am By L. Q. Fessenden.
The autior of this-work is a teacher of the
' ’o.Ui and gives this Sohool after o long eg
perieuco m its use. For Exercises 'and Examples
Pi„i°M taken irora Sargino, Labitzki,
r ley el. Mcriani, Czerny and others of like celeb
r" 7 « teaehe-s and composers. The second part
u ,’ 1116 b .ook 13 intended to meet the wants of
‘"S -n ato desirona of well arranged Airs
k'jiidrdlcs, Waltzes,Polkas, Ao.
Pi ice. $2 00.
€HAS, €• 9ICIXOB,
81 Wood street
I>ark Re Laities,
New Styles
DARK PRINTS,
New Styles,
Stripeil and Figured
Sheeting Prints-
PIMK, BLUE, BUFF AND BROWN
CIIA9IBRAY GINGHA9IS
Best Quality,
PIRIK. BI.IIK. BI FF. ORA.VUF.
and QREES
WOVE Be LAINES.
J UST OPENED AT
HUGHS &HACKE.
Corner Fifth anil Market Btreatßi
City Retail Shoe Store at Aaetion.
O'CLOCK
bT rMH“,‘VJ°® la “on>i 0 n>i aliey. near Wood st will
the stock entire ot a first-lass retail
shoe store, betas principally of city manufacture
km ? en . a r Fi ? B Calf omh
Leather Congress Gaiters. Boys
and Youths* Boots, Shoes, Gaiters and Balm- rals
Ladies and Misses Morocco. Kid and Goat Booty
dre‘?“ d Mines’ Gaiters and clippers, chil
dren s shoes. A great variety of hob-nail ihoes
"j? » Ca 'f »nd Patent Leader
uppers, Learner, Counters, “ettees, Stove &e-
T. A. McChKjAASD,
:iU: ‘ Auotioneer.
DAOB & CAFPBT.T.,'
JIUBfHAIT ’S , IILOR§i
Wr? HAVE JUST BECEXVED A
▼ v large and wen selected stock of
Spring Goods,
! oo&stetlxtff of
Clotbfl, Coslmerea, TesUngi, Ac,
ALSO-A Urea stook of
GENT’S FURNISHING GOODS,
Oraen promptly executed. SoBO-lyd
MACRI M A (JLII)F. ’S,
W E P KfCEIPT OF SKW
UOODd, bought dunag the present de
pression of prioes, and can offer to wholesale and
retail-buyers, at much lower rates than usual,
handsome assortments of TrtnunbigH.Fnney
Goods and Notions.
merchants mil.find our wholesale
department well stocked gS all goods in onr
line and at prices as low astnihouse in this city
or in the East,
MAGBUM & GLYDE,
No. 78 Market St.,
aul-daw Between Fourth and Diamond,
|ATS — "
100 bush prime Oats in store and for sale by
„ „ JAS, AFETZIiiB.
n Corner Marirst and First etrc
EIGGB,
JJhd 9 bbls fresh eggs just reeel red and for sale
W r JAS. A. PETZBL
iul ) corner Marker and First streets.
MeCO LISTER BAER,
108 Wood Street,
A®onkS IJ ‘ me Ml rTHFnt LARGE
TOBACCO, SNUFF AND SUGARS,
at the very lowest
Cash Figures,
BMMiHe ■*«* »**»«•
FOB SALE.
ship, M&wcfSffr pSu o .i K 3%f° n l OT ?-
sale HO acra of chofca lSfa 0 ’.?? 0^' O ?Kv? r
6 miles of “Afßua^jriOih,
on the fine of the PitUbnwJi .SJ&JSSSSjiP'
ah|| O fkS : SSSM^S e
-ag£sgSMar3s3
hnmfiCT ofchofce taut trees^Si^'
jyUdmd
TOPAY’a ADVBBTIBBMEHTS.
A „ llr : s ,’ s HAIB BEKTORtK,
Sj rA ' AJlon’a Bnir Rostorar.
It is riot , uJv. Uen 8 Bair Kestorer.
v , be but rifi the hair to its original
Xt.H not a dja hut restorej'iho hair tolaoriginal
It is nut a ,k« but restor<a\hobalr to Its orimn.l
got sJe at
JOSEPn 1 FlMlSfl.,,
~ J«t*PH nlnavg
Corner, of the Diamond and M&?ir*Y D
aiS’™" of 1116 Dis “ <in <* and s£l£t,rt£oa:
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pint: OLD PAIH SOAP,
PlTag OLD PALM soap!
fl r KK uL . PALM HOaP,
t„ui PUB*; OaD PAuM SOAP. Sit
p. 1 .™ 1 !n rfooiytor a I.rge IntofPareOldPalm
cunf, ,^? tIa ‘ to aoy toilet soap now in o?af"S
handl M urfl Prevention orihaptitd
ic - Iho e wishing a igoid sou at
tne prlSo of an otdmary a,-tiolß should nse tha®‘
Attho p^K? I>AI ' M '
«Hh r! ras alore ”f
At the Drue Store of ;
bi -
|r louwAsr
CHEAP, HOOD AND DURABLE
BOOTS, SHOES, HAITEKS,
and halmobAls,
ODT SIIE OF ~~
BUMMRR BOOTS, ....
U AITK SS: and Bl I.MORALS,
At graat redaction^
CarpetSyOif Cloths,
WINDOW SHADES.
Brices redncedutthe '
NEW CARPET STORE
-OF- ' u
M’FARLAND, COLLINS & CO.,
71 J:73 FIFTH BTHEET.
Between the Post Office and Dispatch
Bnlldliijf.
Desiring to pnrclasa for the Fall trade
An Entirely New Stock,
We are selling oil goods now on hand at prises
very mnoh below present market rates. -
We especial’ y invite tie attention »(
Cenntrv Mauls and Wholesale Bnjers.
auG
ovc: EXT ISA TED '
COMPOUND EXTRACT OF BFCHU
for eil diseases of thu
Bladder A Kidneys.
one half dozen for $3 Be.
orders by mail promptly filled
A. J. HANKIN & CO.
Oroßfiiat*. 5.1 Afarket street.
APPLES, —— -
■ C “‘ bt * ,f apples just r e’d and for sale by
„■ JAR, A. FKTZKEt,
an oemer Market and First sta.
BIIUMBRS Afili QOHTRdOTOKd
W» sr* not* mznafaotnrina a rapcior mad* of
la I M S 3 ,
whloh ire are prepared to deliver from ocr COAI
fABJJ, 509 LIBERTY STREET.
BanfaS of Family coal *Jw, M »,
_no9t DICKBOB. BIEWABT « CO.
error i^ise,
Steam to Qaecastowii and Liverpool,.. "
Tha first elas a powerful Steamship* S ‘
8U)05 I RVAiD
MARATHON. I ¥igi?gti;
liV lll SAH, Fflou NEW FORK
s|f
GtllONf”^
, or *
HTEAHSHIP
GREAT EASTERN,
FROM NEW YORK TO LIVERPOOL,
THE STEAMSHIP
Orent Eastern,
WALTER PATON, Commander
WILT. BE DISPATCHED
From Liverpool _.. Wednesday. AugnTTJ
at 4 o'clock P. M„ precisely.
« Y ,° r , k -;: -Wednesday, Sept 2.
at So clock A, 31,, precisely.
And at intervals thereafter of about six weeks
from each port.
RATES OF PASSAGE " '
FIRST CABIN, from.. _s9sr to $l3
GABIN. state room berth-,
meals mrnishe lat separate tables......™ 70
Bxenrsion Tickets; out and baok in the Ist A
-2d Cabins only, a fare and a half.
Servants accompanying passengers, and Cbil- '
drenunder twelve yi are of age, half fare. Infant,
THIRD CABIN, Intermediate stale goom, ,
passengers found with beds, bedding, table
ntonsils and good substant f00d.... Cl. .
STEERAGE, with superior '
Prices of passage frrm I»ivert>ool «♦ a >—> _ ■"
AH fere Payable la iu 0 -
alent in V. 8. Cnrrenoy
Eaoh passenger allowed twenty cubic ft«t of
luggage.
An experienced Surgeon on board
For passage apply to
„ THOMAS BATTIBAS
or to
iyESiU-aj lAttho Office. 26 Brosdnay.
flljp*® HBSDBED BOUABS-OBS
dTetr a'n 0t ’
ne j&&?& SSSSsgs* Ma “W;
-4 S - CUlH |f H^^ at .
C. A. VAN EIRE & CO.,
airarACTOBEBa of
OAS FIXTURES & CHANDELIERS -
Patot Improved Eitelsoir & Patent Parara *
COAL OIL BBBNEBS
HAND LAMPS, OOLUHBs,4 C .
Salesrooms, 8,7 AretaSt. J
*•**•*.••; •
T : 1
lOUBISTS WOILD H
*Kh *S v«S* -■ '
NE3OJL,i Ga2E ;;
- r Y e shtat dt
2nd r’ery a litsa invoice of n» w
BuRLANO'S,
No. .'s Market street,
Second Door from Fifth.
at 8081.AMD'S.
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