_DAILY POST.
W. PEITEN GILL & 4)0.. No.
PAItIC. ROW NEW YOBS., end 6 ST Al B
STREIT. BOSTON are our agcnita for tho Daily
and Weekly Post in those cities, and are as
t &nixed to take Advertisements and Stihscri 0.1: 0
or UB at our Lowest Bates.
See First & Third Pages for Com
mercial Daily illarkeis and River News
MONDAY MORNING, AUG. 24
CITY LIND 19EIGILBOR11001) INTELLIGHIR
District Court.
In the U. B. District Court the case of
Joseph Will charged with resisting the en.
raiment in Cambria county was brought
up and argued. The principal question
seems to have been whether the enroll
ment is part and parcel of the draft, or
whether it is separate and distinct from
it. In one case the obstruction is made
an offense, and is punishable by law; the
other it is not. A strict construction
would make the obstruction of the enroll
ment one offense, and the obstruction_of
the draft another, while on the contrary
a liberal construction would make any
obstruction to the enrollment an obstruc
tion to the draft, on the ground that the
enrollment was an initiatory step to the
draft. and therefore a part of it. There
is a punishment laid down for obstructing
the draft, but none for the enrollment.
The decision of the Court was withheld
tor a few days in order to take the matter
into consideration:
Distressing Case of Insanity.
About three weeks since, from some
cause or other, one of the tuust prominent
physicians of Brownsville, in this State,
became insane. The leading feature in
his insanity was his belief that he was
dead. At times he would become very
violent, and when those around would
attempt to restrain him, he would remark
that it was altogether useless for them to
attempt to kill him, that he was dead al
ready, and could not be affected. At
other times he would settle down to a
pensive melancholy, from which nothing
could arouse him, until oue of his parox•
isms would - return. Since his insanity he
has lost one of his children, but the death
of the little one had no effect upon him.
At length he became so violent at times,
that it was thought best to place him in
the hospital for lunatics at Dixmont. He
was taken in charge by his father, and
another gentleman who started with him
for this place, and on the way in, one
night after they had retired he sprang
from his bed, and leaped through a second
story window to the ground. The fall
had no other effect than to stun him, so
that he was recaptured. The parties ar•
rived in this city on Saturday morning,
and the insane man was taken to Meaner's
Hotel on Fourth street, until the father
could obtain the assistance of a couple of
officers to assist in taking him to Dixmont.
When the carriage drew up to the door,
he exhibited the greatest reluctance to
wards going, and it took the united
strength of the officers to put him in the
carriage, where they were obliged to hold
him. He is now where, by proper treat
ment, he may eventually regain hie reason.
We have heard him spoken of as the best
physician in Brownsville.
U. S. Christian Commission at
Saratoga.
On Thursdaypthe 13th inst., Mr. Geo.
H. Stuart. President of the Commission,
made a circle of calls at the different ho•
tell, and while the guests were seated at
their sumptuous tables enjoying the luxu
ries of life, he commanded a wondering
silence, and while it lasted, made a short,
telling appeal for ice for the suffering sol
diers before Charleston and at Hilton
Head. The appeal was responded to with
almost electric speed, and in less than
twenty four hours over $3,00U wee raised,
an order telegraphed to Boston, and the
ice was on its way South.
The nest day the following acknowledg
went appearod in the Saratoga papers:
The United State Christian Commis
sion gratefnlly acknowledge the receipt of
the following sums in response to the call
for ice for the wounded soldiers at Hilton
Head:
United States Hotel
Co •gress Hall
Union Hall
Clarendon Hotel.
Colnuablan Hotel
b . r.115,1" rt ha" •;.
Dr. Hamiltc,n',
This prompt and noble donation will
soon reach the soldiers in the shape of ice,
lemons, and other things for cooling
drinks, and God bless the kind donors"
will come from the soldiers' hearts.
GEoaot H. SiEWeRT,
Chairman Christian Association.
What an Old German Said
About the Grope Rut.
Cl. Harris, of the Ohio Farmer, in
giving some not,s of a trip through the
vineyards in the vicinity of Sandusky, gives
the following as the opinion of one of the
citizens of that place relative to the cause
of the grape rot :
WHAT CAUSES Tilt, ROT.—As We were
examining a vineyard back of Sandusky—
the only one seriously affected by water
rot, we came upon a vine dresser at his
work, and asked what caused the rot.—
"The land is too rich," was the prompt
reply. "Is it not the effect of such hot,
muggy weather as this?" " No, the land
is too rich ; such days as this brings out
the rot faster than cool, dry weather, but
it is only because it stimulates the rich soil
in which the grapes are growing. I have
been in a vineyard all my life ; my father
has a large vineyard in Germany. which
he inherited from his father, so I know
something about grapes. The land in this
vineyard is too rich, and that is why the
grapes rot."
This vineyard is in dark muck and
loom, with a clay bottom at the depth of
twelve to eighteen inches, and is the most
neatly kept vineyard about Sandusky.
Armies of the Dead.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press writing from New Brandy Station
Virginia, under date of August the sth,
says:
Last night I slept on historic ground.—
The white bones of those who had been
slain before gave forth a ghastly gleam
when the so.t moonlight shimmered down
upon them through the heavy foliage.—
But a short distance from here can be
seen the perfect skeleton of a large sized
man, the bare skull, with its great hollow,
eyeless sockets, was there ; the long fin
ger bones and each particular rib was in
its place. All was bare, white and ghastly.
No ; I forgot to mention that a well pre•
served pair of boots still encased what
were the feet of the soldier, but in
whose friendly cover now rattled the shin
bones of the deceased. The wayward
winds played through the cavity of the
chest and sighed through the empty
skull, which gave forth along, melancholy
wail—the only dirge that has been played,
save the requiem which the song birds
twitter from the neighboring trees. The
bones of the horse bleached close by the
side of his master.
When the last great trumpet of the
mighty Archargel summons forth the
quick and dead, whole armies will start
from the banks of the Rappahannock.—
Every ford is memorable for some deadly
tight, from Kelly's to Beverley's, and in
one trail of Pope's army the bones of the
foe bleached and mouldered, and mingled
theiaoshes together.
City Councils.
There will be q regalar meeting of the
City Councils to-night. A large amount
of Imaineee is on hand.
Rain! Rain!
Pruyen were offered up in the chur , Alee
yesterday_ for rain. We hope sincerely
that 'the prayers will be answered, other
-Vile we are appreheneiv9 of short, crops.
Among the list of patents issued by the
United states Patent Office during the
week ending August 11, 1863, we find the
following for this vicinity.
Robert H. Lecky, ot Allegheny City,
Pa., for improvement in piston valves for
steam engines.
Leopold Thomas, of Allegheny City,
Pa., for improvement in nut machine.
Richard Savary, of Pittsburgh, Pa., as
signor to himself and Robert C. Totten, of
the same place, for improved process in
uniting iron and steel with copper,
brass, .tc.
G. W. N. Yost, of Nashville. Tenn., as•
signor to himself and William Dill worth,
Jr„ of Pittsburgh, Pa., for improvement
in ploughs.
G. W. N. Yost, of Nashville, Tenn., as
signor to himself and William Dilworth,
Jr., of Pittsburgh, Pa., for improvement
in double ploughs.
Phillip Corlett, of Manchester, Pa., for
improvement in spark extinguishers for
locomotives. This last bears date ot Au
gust 16th,
What Horgan Did in Butler
County, Ohio.
The follming comprises the amount
and value of losses sustained by citizens
of Butler county dur;Li the Morgan raid :
11 horses taken by Morgan 4, i. 25 Ou
43 " Hnbsnt• ,1, - , , i)
Other property tah(n h) 4 ,r-an ,r, (4)
11 , bson 4)) 0,1
City of HAmilton subt.istln, troops 4 in (XI
The above facts are obtained from the
Military Committees report to Gov. Tod,
of Ohio.
The alarm of fire on Saturday evening
was occasioned by the partial burning of
the refinery of Rees & Graff, in the Ninth
Ward. It was extinguished with but
little damage, as their arrangements are
so admirable in case of fire, as to leave it
but little chance to spread. We did not
learn how the fire originated.
Circuit Court
In this Court the case of °ht. Donald•
son, a miner, brought np on 0 writ of
habeas corpus, was continued until this
morning. The habeas corpus case of
David R. Craig was also laid over until
this morning.
Thunder Clap
Yesterday morning about four o'clock,
a tremendous clap of thunder broke over
the city, arousing hundreds from their
slumbers. There were but few clouds vis
ible: at the time, and certainly none that
threatened a storm, or looked as though
they would warrant such a report.
New Counterfeit
Counterfeit S 2 bills, purportiug to be of
the Strondsburgh Bank, Monroe county,
Penn., are in circulation. The vignette is
a figure 2in each corner. The paper is
light and flimsy, and the whole note bad
ly executed. As this bill is not described
in any of the detectors, the public should
be on the lookout.
New Greenback Counterfeits.
One dollar greenbacks altered to tens
have been put in circulation in Philadel
phia. The alteration is done by pasting
th - _ , figure ten over the one. Several per
sons have been deceived by thorn. Our
readers should be on the lookout for the'e
new counterfeits.
From the Philadelphia Coal Oil Ci;.-u•
lar we learn that the exports of Petro
learn from Philadelphia for the week end•
ing August 22d amounts to 144,049 gal
lons, valued at $42,521 ; from New York
for the week `ending August 21st, ;:2,547
gallons, valued at 511,4'.4.1: from Boston,
for the week ending August 2.0,h, 4:1,311
gallons ; from Baltimore for the week
ending August 10th, 31,51 0 gallons.
The imports of foreign wool at New
York for the first six months of 1662, were
28,(KK.,484 pounds, valued at $4,681,-
879, against 16, 2 . ..6,136 pounds, for
the same period of 1862. This in•
crease in the imports is due to the enorm
ous advance in the price of domestic
wools, an advance which is encouraged by
foreign importers
1.3. - ,5 00
1.020 00
. 575 Du
. 10700
pt 00
. Yt 62
. 2
Col. McComb's regiment, 2d Penn'a.
Militia, arrived in the city yesterday from
Parkersburg. Va . and atter having re•
ceived refreshment.: at th a Hall were
marched into camp. from wlich place
they will be discharged. A company of
New York soldiers, having in charge fifty
rebel officers, also passed through the city
on their way to Ohio.
'4» , )4 62
The Theatre opened on Saturday to a
full house anxious to witness the acting of
the new company. Some of the old favor
stes still retain their positions, and that
they are still favorites was testified to by
the warmth of their reception. An open •
ing night is a poor criterion by which to
test the merits of a new company, but we
are much mistaken if several do. not be•
come decided favorites before they have
been here long. To•n ght, the beautiful
comedy of School for Scandal will be pre
sented, after which a song by Miss Mary
Becket, the whole to conclude with
Sarah's young man. In fact tonight is
comedy night.
Shoulder Straps•'---A Novel of
This is the first attempt of any import
ance, to produce a novel out of the war,
events connected with it, and characters
involved in it. In the delineation of these
characters, Mr. Morford has been very
successful, and he has been successful,
also, in contrasting their lights and shades.
The hero and heroine of the story are a
certain Tom Leslie, who has traveled,
studied, seen life, and wasted wealth, but,
by energy and ability, has reached a re
spectable position on the New York press,
and Josephine Harris, a very uncertain
but charming hoyden, with a large heart
and brusque manner, who fell in love
with each other almost at first sight. The
villain of the tale is one Colonel Egbert
Crawford, representing a class of men
who abounded in New York at the begin
ning of the war, pretending to raise regi
ments, showing mock, muster rolls, draw
ing rations for imaginary companies, and
generally cheating, under the mask of
loyalty and patriotism,
This man Ps a murderer at heart, also,
and when foiled in his evil purpose, final
ly plunges into the war in earnest, and
finds a soldier's grave at Antietam.—
The author shows much judgment in leav
ing him the virtue of valor, for, as Byron
said, " None are all evil. - There are
four or five different love-plots in this
story: Leslie and "Joe" Harris: Har
ding and " Crawford ; Frank Wal
lace and Emily Owen ; Richard Crawford
, and his cousin Mary •, Dexter Ralston and
' Marion Hobart. Seldom has any one vol
ume contained more love scenes. There
is mystery, too, as well as fortune-telling,
and many incidents which read as if they
actually had occurred. The quiet humor
of the visit of a couple of civilians to a
"Camp Lyon," near Brooklyn, showing
the system and discipline of recruiting,
even in last summer, shows that Mr. Mor
ford can amuse his readers without run
ning into face.
It has been received and is for sale at
the book store of Henry Miner, Fifth street
near the Postoffice.
Take the Papers.
" Samivel 1 Samivel ! beva re of the
simrnin as reads no newspapers! Your
father married a voman as reads none,
and yon - are the gad conseq aenc 9. You're
as hignorant as a 'orse, Hignorant peo
ple my it's throwing money away to take
a paper, and iciohn' away time to read
Patents.
Petroleum
Troops.
Theatre.
the War.
TELMAPHIC.
IMPORTANT FROM GRANT'S ARMY
Great Destruction of Rail-
road Property,
57 LOCOMOTBAS s 400 CARS DRSTROYED.
IMPORTAN f FROM CHARLESTON
Sumter Badly Breached.
THE PEW 6- 20 COUPONS
LATE FROM NEW ORLEANS
&c., dc„
MEMPHIS, August 20.—Abont two weeks
since Maj. Gen. Hurlbut ascertained that
there was a large amount of railroad stock
at Grenada, which the rebels were endeav
oring to get off south, by making tempo
rary repairs to the railroad. Wilk his
usual energy and promptness, Gen. Hurl
but arranged an expedition to destroy this
stock. Sending a request to Gen. Grant
to make a division from the South to aid
in the enterp , ise, the expedition started
from Lagrange, Tenn., on the 30th inst.,
under coalman . " of Lieut. Col. Phillips,
of the ninth Illinois mounted infantry,
and reached Grenada on the 17th, driving
Gen. Slimmer, with two thousand men
and three pieces of artillery, from the
place. They destroyed fifty-seven loco
motives, upwards of four hundred cars,
depot buildings, machine shops, black
smith shops, and a large quantity of
ordinance and commissary stores.—
They captured about fifty railroad
men, and a number of other prisoners.
After Col. Phillips had thoroughly accom•
plished his work, Col. Winslow from
Grant's army, arrived with a force from
below.
The expedition returned to Lagrange to•
day. Great praise is certainly due Col.
Phillips and his gallant command, for en
during the hardships of such a march,
through Central Mississippi in mid August
and so thoroughly crippling the remaining
energy of the rebellion in the Southwest.
A band of guerrillas drove in the pickets
at Lalayette, Tennessee, at midnight.—
Our boys rallied and followed them a few
miles, killing four and capturing seven,
with which they returned well satisfied
with the night's adventure.
The movements of our forces below are
contraband.
The weather is very hot.
There is considerable cotton coming in
o Memphis by wagons.
PHILADELPHIA, August `_3.—The fol•
lowing account i 3 from the pen of Mr.
Charles C. Fulton, editor of the Baltimore
American:
Sur` DINS MORE, August 13 —Tne
attack on Sumter commenced at daybreak
yesterday morning by the siege battcrie3
of (ien. Gilmore and the naval battery on
shore, At 6 o'clock Admiral Dahlgren
proceeded on board the Weehawken, and
the Ironsides and entire monitor fleet at
tacked batteries Wagner and Gregg with
great fury, completely silencing Wagner,
and almost silencing Gregg.
The wooden gunboats, sevan in number,
also joined in the assault and enabled all
of the shore batteries to pour their shot
and shell into Sumter.
At ten o'clock the Admiral changed his
flag to the Passaic, and with the Patapsco
proceeded to within about 1,400 yards of
Sumter and shelled the sea wall with the
rifled gun, of those vessels for about an
hour with marked effect. Sumter tired
about fifty return shots, but doing no
damage to the vessels.
The Fleet Captain, Geo. W. Rogers,
took command of the Catskill and went
up within 'FA yards of the beach in front
of battery Wagner. After 'filing a num
ber of times a shot from Fort Wagner
broke a piece of the interior lining which
struck on the head of commander Rodgers
and instantly killing him as well as Pay•
master Woodbury, who was standing at
his side; both of their heads were split,
and those were the only persons injured
on land or water during the six hours en
gagement.
The damage done to Fort Sumter by the
siege batteries of Gen. Gilmore, is visible
without the aid of a glass. the rebels
had erected a false wall against the wall
exposed to our batteries. It extended to
within ten feet of the top of the wall, over
forty feet high and ten feet thick, and this
wall is now a mass of ruins, whilst the old
wall is bored full of deep holes. The par
apet is crushed and ragged. The harbor
is filled with torpedoes, a dozen of them
have been picked up in the Stono. On
Tuesday a torpedo, exploded under the
Patapeio, raising her a foot out of water,
but doing her no harm. None of the ves
sels were injured in the least, and the
Admiral and his officer, are confident of
the ability of the Monitors to.hatter down
Sumter. He is however anxious to save
the vessels for heavy work required of
them after Sumter is taken, and to let the
army reduce Sumter if possible.
The fleet, except the Weehawken and
Nahant, all retired before 2 r. M. But
they remained to keep Wagner silent
during the afternoon and prevent till
remounting of guns. The shore batteries
continued firing all the afternoon and
night on the wall of Sumter with good
effect, This morning the batteries are
steadily at work. The Weehawken and
Passaic are keeping batteries Wagner and
Gregg's quiet, and up to noon when the
Arkansas sailed the remainder of the
fleet was lying at their mooring.
Gen. Gilmore announces that the work
thus far has been entirely satisfactory, and
that the fort is greatly damaged and the
work progressing finely.
Admiral Dahlgren is much depressed
by the loss of Fleet Captain Rodgers, but
is highly gratified with the operations of
the fleet and army, and very hopeful of
ultimate success.]
The Arkansas left the fleet at 7 o'clock
on Wednesday morning. At that time
huge volumes of smoke were seen issuing
from Sumter as if from the burning of
cotton, and the officers of the Arkansas
lAlisve the fort would be captured or en•
tirely destroyed by noon. Her guns ware
replying feebly to on:. fire Fort Gregg
bad been entirely silenced. Wagner still
held out. The bombardment continued
without cessation during Tuesday night,
and was renewed on WadnesdayMorning, ,
and when the Arkansas left the firing was
furious. The ironsides, five Monitors
and the short batteries being all engaged.
Two, refugees from Savannah, named Jos.
H. Califf and John C. Coburn, are pas
sengers on the Arkansas. They report
that there is nearly a famine in Savan
nah.
PHILADELPHIA, August 23. —The U. 8.
supply steamer /Irk - arises arrived at the
Navy Yard to-day. She lett Charleston
on Wednesday morning, and reports that
the navy and army shore batteries have
done tremendous destruction on Fort
Sumter. The south arid east face looks
like a honey-comb, and a complete de
molishment of Oa walls is looked for in
a week.
W A 9 iiNaTONI August 22.—The Mar
shal of this District advertises the pubic
sale of the life estate of a number of pie
ces or parcels of ground with impiniem
ments, in this city, under the confiscation
act. Nits. French, Forest and Matfitt's
estates are included,
Bevan hundred deiierti-fa have, within
he last two dayg, been hen,-. to join
heir respective regiment.
The Treasury Department is ttidUJ Lig the
tb.ird set ice of Conpolim, each series
being 100,000,000 dollars in amount. The
new bonds have additional protection as
guards against counterfeiting upon the
face of the bonds. The demonstration
appears in the bill underneath the
engraving, which cannot he removed,
and cannot be copied by photography,
or any other known process; and
the backs of the coupons are so printed
that the coupons for one period cannot, by
alteration of date, be substituted for an
other period without detection. The
bonds are considered safer from imitation
than the former issues, and are produced
at far less expense.
Isaac Newton, Commissioner of Agri
culture, in his monthly report for August
of the condition of the crops, says the
wheat cropsjast harvested are moat excel-
lent, both in amount and quality, and the
corn crop promises to be a full one,
although in some localities in the west
where the drought of June has extended
into July, it may not be so good. The
Marsden wheat has entirely failed to sus
tain its character in this country. It is
an English rarity of great excellence there
and hence it was desirable to test it here.
New YORK. August '2:;.—The steamer
Cromwell from New Orleans on the 13th,
arrived to•day.
The Mobile Tribune copies approvingly
an article from the Charleston Mercury,
which says: Since the Federal successes
Beauregard had better lay aside the engi.
neering and artillery drilling which are
now played out, and take to the bayonet,
and advises the authorities to reinforce
Morris Island or else abandon Charleston
to flames.
Gen. Pemberton issued an order calling
upon hie troops to assemble within thirty
days at Demopolis, Alabama. He com
pliments them on their defense of Vicks•
burg.
Francis Scott was executed at New
Orleans on the 15th for the murder of Ma
jor &diem of the 2811. Maine.
The great event of this Department was
the opening of the 14th of the New Orleans
and Great Western Railroad through to
Braahear city.
S.&N FaeNctsco, August 22.—Business
dull. No news. Public attention is en
grossed in politics. The local questions
are making the canvass in San Fracieco
very exciting. A regular I . nion Conven
tion has nominated A I, , r,slittive ticket
which gives great ilissiitistactitin, and an
independent opposition Ilion ticket will
be brought out and largely supported by
the hatter classes of the conim mity, and
will probably be elected.
The following General Order has been
promulgated from the Army of the Poto•
mac —The practice of ileseitieu 3f sub
stitutes under the draft, has hec•-ime so
prevalent, that hereafter the extreme pen
alty of martial law will be awarded to
such delinquents.as may be re-captured,
and extraordinary efforts will be made to
effect that object.
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH
New Yosx, August 22.—Cotton dull and lower
at 66@67 for Middling Uplands. Flour dull, heavy
and lower for Old, and unchanged for Fresh
Ground: $4 60@4 75 for Extra State; ss@s 45
for Extra R, H. 0 and $5 50®7 for Trade
Brands, the market closing heavy. Whisky with
out material change at 45%046. Wheat dull and
unsettled and I@2c lower: 76®$1 08 for Chicago
Spring; 89@5.1 17 for Milwaukee Club; $1 14@
172 for Winter Red Western; $1 10 for Common
Red Illinois; 81 alga 35 for inferior to good
White Western. Corn scarce and %@lo better:
7Cic for Shipping Mixed Western; 78 for Round
Yellow. Oats 52@d5 for Western. Pork opened
qulet and closed a shade firmer; $ll 62%@111 87%
for Old Mess; $l2 62%®13 75 for New do.; $lO 50
@lO 75 for New Prime; $l3 25 for New Prime.
Beef quiet. Bacon Sides less active: salsa Wes
tern Short Clear as they are at 7c. Lard less
active and a shade easier at 9%®101.1. Cheese
steady at 8@125,.
Money active at 5@6 cent. Gold lower,
opening at 24% and closing quiet at 24 Sterling
lower and dull for first class bills at 13701375%.
Government Stocks firmer: U S. 6's 81; Coup
ons 107; 7-30's 106%g107
Total reoepts in 'peel° to-day $151,283.
DROVERhßAKßß ' eSowingMaehines,fotry , roily
manufasto ring purposes, are the best in use.
A. P. CUATO.NAY, General Agent,
Ist Yifila street. Pittsburgh. Ps
IS=
JOSEPH MEYER fi BON
VA 31.114.07 . 01411t1 01
FANCY AND PLAIN
ErtErIiNITURIE At IBA
RAIO2EOIII3E, 155 SMITHFLILD
CBarnata Sixth etreet and Vixen eller
PITTSB U Rig 11
IL O'HARA...
O'HARA 8z MIGINN,
Attorneys at Law,
-AND
REAL EsTATE, AGENTS,
OFFICE 89 GRANT STREET
Opposite the Court louse. Pittsburgh
ft-11-Particular attention given td the settlement
of Estates, sale and transfer of Real Estate. Ex
amination of Titles. Soldiers claims, collections
In any part of the west.
Prompt remittances, and full correspondence
in
regard to all business entrusted too= care.
fuld-t1
S. J. LYNCH
AVING VACATED THE FRONT
•Y of his store. No• 96 Market street, to make
alterations, will be found in the new addition, in
roar of old store, entrance on Market alley, Emit
door from sth street, where Dry Goods will he
sold eh es•P• • atas
OATS
-100 bush prime Oats in store end for solo by
JAB. A. Frran,
0912er Marko; and Myst stn. --
By Last Night's Mail.
From the Richmond Enquirer of Anfrtmt 20
CHARLESTON.
Every good Confederate is proud of
Charleston and jealous of her fame. Once
more the gallant city is in. the agony of
battle, standing at bay with a fierce and
dogged resolution against the moat stu
pendous bombardment that has ever yet
assailed any strong place . in this world.
The Yankee has made sure this time, as
he firmly believes, of the speedy fall of
the proud little stronghold which he so
cordially execrates in his mean soul.
More and greater guns ; longer and longer
range ; more and more tons of iron hurled
from the throats of the hugest artillery—
such are the means by which he confi•
dently hopes to " hold Sumter on Sunday
next" which weft Sunday last and
Charleston a few hours later. It is a great
issue between unlimited material force, on
the one aide, and on the other indomita
ble hearts. The whole policy of the enemy
would now seem to be, to hurt the de
fenders as much as possible with their
longest range guns, while they remain as
much as possible outside the range of ours
Then the unbounded supply of improved
missiles ou their side gives them hope of
wearing out the little garrison and es•
hausting its ammunition. In this, as in
all their other calculations, they aro
likely is fail. Wo have shot and shell
enough to serge their turn ; and we trust
to be able, very shortly, to announce that
their mammoth armada has crept away
again, crippled, to the open sea; and that
they are still impotently gnashing their
teeth at the sight of the Confederate ban•
ner flying over unconquered Sumter.
Yet, if they take Charleston—what
then? Why, then, they will have dearly
bought the ruins. They will tread with
awe the site of that famous town, which
they will envy, hate and dread, even in its
ashes ; and they will be as far from the
conquest of the Confederacy, of South
Carolina, or even of Charleston, as they
are now.
From Charleston
Official information from Charleston
states that Fort Sumter was bombarded
during the day, Tuesday, and all night
Tuesday night. No casualities on our
side, and no damage done to the Fort.
Resigned
Brigadier General Roger A. Pryor has
resigned his commission in the Conteder
ate army, and it has been accepted by the
War Department.
From Morris Island
The furious bombardment of Friday
night resulted in a single casualty upon
our side, while it is believed, upon good
authority, that our fire was in a high de
gree
effective. On Saturday the quiet of
the harbor was undisturbed, save by an ' 1
occasional shell from Battery Simkins.
but just before nightfall the batteries open
ed upon each other with an acharnement
beyond anything that has been displayed
in this tedious siege. Fort Sumter, Bat
terieS Gregg, Wagner and Simkins, the
Yankee Batteries at Craig's Hill and Vin
egar Hill all joined in the dreadful con
test. A Monitor and a gunboat also lent
their aid to the enemy's batteries. The
firing was at times so rapid that twenty
shots might have been counted within a
minute. Sumter is said to have thrown its
shells with remarkable precision, drop
ping them at will at Craig's or Vinegar
Hill. This contest continued with more
or less vigor all night. Nevertheless, up
to half past ten p. m., we had sustained
a loss of tao only. Private Smoke, of
company 11, '2oth regiment South Carolina
volunteers, (Col. bleitt's) had his head
shot off by a Parrott shell just as he was
entering the battery, and private Manly
Boykin, company G, of the same regiment
was severely wounded in the head by the
same shell. On Friday night private H.
H. Carter, of the l•-..h Georgia, lost a leg,
and was badly wounded in the other.—
Sunday was very nearly 119 tranquil as a
Sunday should be, the ever vigilant Bat
tery Simking being alnkost the only dis•
turber of the peace.—Charleston Mercury
of August 17th.
Carpets, Oil Cloths,
A N D
WINDOW SHADES.
Prices reduced at the
NEW CARPET STORE
—OF—
M'FARLAND COLLINS & CO
71 .173 FIFTH STREET,
Between the Post Office and Dispatch
•
Desiring to purotase for the Fall trade
An Entirely New Stock,
We are selling all goods now on hand at prices
very much below present market rates.
We especially invite the attention of
Country Merehads and Wholesale &lyre.
au6dacw
DAUB & CAPPELL,
IFIL4I WATCH' TAILOR'S,
WIVE IA AVE JU ett TILEC =VIM
V v hate and well selected stook of
Spring Goods,
oortalfrttng of
Clottin g Cisninneren, Ventimiglia dm.
ALSG—A lure stool[ of
GENT'S FURNISHING GOODS,
inoludLug Paper Ooliare. Neck s, mud every
thing usually kept by first class Itmmiahing Blare
Orders promptly executed. &I'M:lyd
PEEBLES TOWNSHIP PROPERTY
FOR SALE.—The undersigned Committee
of Thomas B. Satoh, in and by virtue of an order
of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny
,county, offers at private sale that very desirable
tract of land, the property of said Thomas H
Sutch, situate in Peebles township, Allegheny
county, adjoining lands of Judge Forward's
H e irs' John Alderson, Patterson 's Heirs and
others, containing about Forty-five acres, and
having thereon erected a frame dwelling house,
barn, stable, and other out-buildings. There
are on the premises a good well of water, several
fine springs and an exoellent orchard. For terms
and price apply to Robert Patterson, near the
premises, or to
GEORGE THOMPSON.
Commit•ee,
Corner Rosi and Second streets, Pittsburgh.
anls:6td
EGGS.
5 bids fresh eggs inert received and for Bala
by J AB. A. FETZER
anlo corner Market and First streets.
ILOCASKS SAL. SODA. NEWCASTLE
received and for raisin ,
GEO. A. KELLY.
au2o 69 Federal 13t.. Allierltaly.
RiV24Et INTELLIGENCE
PORT OP PITTSBURGH.
ARRIVED.
Franklin, Bennett. Browastilia
Gallatin, Clarke, do •
Jim Ree,P, Peebles Mizabstk.
Oil City. Ness, Wheeling.
DEPARTED.
Franklin. Bennett, Brownsville.
Gallatin. Clarke. do
'Jim Reese, Peebles. Elisabeth.
Key West, No. 4, Evaas, Cincinnati
Savanna, Mason, St. Louis.
The river—Last evening at twi
light there were net 3 feet water In the channel
and falling.
ISTEABII3O..Ir Atak.1 , 44.7, 1 2.
W . HA. I.C. IL 11 4 : 7 E'
Has °Med an Mice at
LW 90 WATER STREET,
Where he will transact a General Steamboat
Agency business. and woald solicit a Z131:L . 0 oY Mg
ronams from steamboat Ir en. ap24-13•3
r h o SVIII.REIP') Nto CONTRAajrO3,32
WO ars wt, zaz.aeflutanna val.:lll3r tritiala at
which , au ars pre! =2 , 02111
YARD, 509 Lt cwr STU r - Za.:l'.
Best quality* t.l rirrltS
hand as maid.
m 79- - sYSKOri, STYWAILIT &
Passage from Eaigland & Troland
25 emu.
EUROPEAN -! AGENCY,
P.ATTIGABI, ,a IROFN
Agent, 1213 hfononeahela Rouse, Pitts
burgh. Pa., ispraparod to bring out or rend back
Parsongers from or to env part of the old corm
try either by steam or sailing packets.
BIGHT DRAFTS FOE SALS. parable In MU
Part of Europe.
Agent for the Indianapolis and Cincinnati Rail
road. Also, Agent for the old Blairit Star f
Sailirut Packets, for the Strainer Ea s t-Greatern, and for the lines of Steamers sailing between
New York, Liverpool, Glasgow sod ealwar.
STEAIIIISIHIP
GREAT EASTERN,
NEW YORK AND LIVERPOOL,
HOWLAND & ANIMAL, Agents,
THE STEAMSHIP
Great Eastern,
WALTER PATON, Commander
WILL BE DISPATCHED
From Liverpool Wednesday. Augnet 12
at 4 o'clock P. :11., precisely,
From New York Wednesday, Sept 2,
at S e'cloek A, .111„ precisely-
And at intervals thereafter of about Si" weeks
from each port.
RATES OF PASSAGE_ .
FIRST CABIN, from .$ 95 to $135
SECOND CABIN, state room berths.,
meals furnished at separate tables $ 70
Excursion Tickets; out and back in theist ..t,
2d Cabins only, a fare and a half.
Servants accompanying MoiSongels (hil
dren under twelve yi are of age,'lWf fare. Infants
THIRD C &BIN, intermediate state room,
passengers found with beds, bedding, table
utensils aOd good aubstant fold
STEERAGE. with superior accomedatio n5...530
Prices of cabin passage ft, m Liverpool i.t same
rates as above
Prices of steerageliassage from Liverpor 4, $25,
All fare Payable in Gold, or its 'equiv
alent lu U. S. Currency.
Each passenger allowed twenty eubia feet o
luggage.
Au experienced Surgeon on board.
For passage only apply to
CHAS, A. witirMEY,
At the Passage Office. 28 Bis}adwer
or to THOMAS RATT.I.GAN,
No 122 Mononsahelaßouse.
I.IOW LAND 5c ASPIN WALL Agents.
iY2S:t e 2 54 -oath street. New York.
41. 1 UNARD4, - ;,7, 7 4,k_ LINE.
Steam to Queenstown and Liverpool.
The first class powerful Steamships
SIDONKEDAH,
MARATIION, I TRIPOLI,
vir ILL SAIL FROM NEW YORE
every alternate Wednesday, from Liver
pool every alternate Tuesday, and from Queens
town every alternate Wednesday.
Steerage Passag, from Liverpool or Queens—
town, $25; from Now York, $32.f44, payable is
Gold or its equivalent in Currency
For Steeray,e Passage apply to WILLIAMS S;
OVION, 40 Futon St., New York or
THOS. HAYMAN. Agt,
No 122 Monongahela House. Water St..
iu:t:lvd
GELMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL
PITTSBURGH, PA.,
NO 597 PENN STREET,
Wa highly 4Pprova of the German Catholic
High School recently estab,ished in this city, and
we cordially recommend it to the patronage of all
the Catholics of our Diocese.
DOMF.NIC.
Bishop of Pittsburgh.
FIRST SESSION OF THIS IN-
A. STITUTION will commence on TUESDAY,
the lst of SEPTEMBER, 1 , 563. The studies of
th• sobooj aro su arranged as to embrace a full
and thorough course of fireek, Latin, English,
Germanand Mathematics, including the branches
usually attended to in connection with these re
specfve departments. Students who are intend
ed for commercial or professional pursuits, are
care ully instructed in Book-keeping, Mercantile
Arithmetic, and such other b finches as may fit
them to be useful and intelligernt in the discharge
of the various duties of the store or counting
room, or( / any profession. Our course of studies
embraces also the subjects required in prepara
tion for entering any of our Theological Schools
or Seminaries.
Parents wishing to secure for their sons a thor
ough instruction. are respe Itfully invited to ap
ply to Pro£ F W. A. Riedel, A. Si, No. 597 Penn
street, assoon az convenient, and, if possible.
BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF SEPTEMBER.
Mr. Reidel will be at hole daily from
10 to 12 A. M. and from 3 to 4 P. M.
. .
For further information, cr for a prospeetni
oontgining full details. please call on or address
REV. JOSEPH M. HELMPRAECHT, •
Rector of St Philomena's Church, or
PROF. F. W. A. RIEDEL, A. R.
P. O. Box PAO, Pittsburgh. Pa.
jrandtwtd
BeCOLISTER at BAER,
108 Wood S're et,
2. RE SELLING OUT THEIR LARGE
stook of
TOBACCO, SNUFF AND SEGAILS,
at the very lowest
Cash Figures.
Call and examine our stook before purchasing
elsewhere. 1¢23 3taw
~r,.GrCi
Hon. Wilson MeCandle.% Judge of the United
tates Circuit Court. President.
Corner of Penn a: St. Clair St., Pitts
burgh Penn's.,
THE LARGEST, CHEAPEST AND
best. $35 PEWS for a full .Commardal
No extra charm for Mannfaotners. Steamboat.
Railroad and Bank Book-keeping.
Minister's sons at ono-half price. Students en
ter and review at any time.
Thislnstitution is conducted by experienneed
Teachers and practical accountants, who pre
pare young men for active business at the least
expense and shortest time for the most lucrative
and responsible situations. Diploma granted
for merit only. Hance the preference for grad.
mites at this College by business men.
Prof A- Cowley. the best Penman cf the Union,
who holds the largest number of FIRST Pan
xturs over all competitors, teaches Rapid
Business Writing.
ea., Attend where the Sons and Clerks of busi
ness men graduate.
For specimens of Penmanship and Catalogue
containin full information, etudose twenty-ave
cents to t he Prlnapala
.VENSKINB di KNUTH.
ad°
TF.AN,
Young
Oaionj i
tMP
111111 DOW er.
NO hit 'hest in iitor tr ied . .. Lnr 1)
U.* jr
AMUSEMENTS
iIIatiTTSEITMIGEL THEATRE,
Lena° andlfauagrar......Wsi. lirstrr.ascrot
LTreasuror If . 09118INGTO7i.
crest encoass•of the tat ented Stock Company
%41) HEDY NIGHT.
This, Monday evening will be presented the
celebrated 5 act comedy of the
SCHOOL FON. SCANDLE :
Mr Chl g pendile
C Loveday
J 0 Fefkm
Eberlie
Phillips
__Min Becket
_Miss Becket
..... Orchestra.
Sir Peter
Joseph Nu face
°barleo Surface..,..
Crabtree
Lady Teaz
Lady Sueerwell
lit aria
Song
New Overture.....
To conclude with
SARAYUS YOUNG MANE
Sam
Hairy Fielding
Sarah ...... ...
Araminta .....
Several rkoveltie3 are in aoEve preparation
SPECIAL NO,TIOEIS.:
CORNWP:LI,
—eau% ILIUM
CORNWELL dr KERR !
CANAGE MARFACTURERS,
SILVER a BRASS PLATERS,
and sartafacturers of
Saddlery and Carriaza Hardwire,
No. 7 St. Clair Street. and Daantano.WaL
mll4
(near the Cridrz
Mr/1M PA.
POISON NOT TEE HEAD
WITH !CITRATE OF SILVER,
Use CRISTADORO'S HAIR DYE,
Cortlfied to be PURE—SAFE—tINEIQUALLED.
by Dr. Chilton, of New York,
and other itninent"Chemicta.
mononucEs ANY SHADE FROM
rich, mellow brown to glow black in ten
minutes, and contains no ingredient that is in
jurious to the hair.
d
CHBISTADORO'S HAIR ESrE . SAVA.
TINE,
Is invaluable with his Dye, as it imparts the ut
most softness, tho most beautiful closa,nto: great
vitality to the Hai?. •
Manufactured by J. CRISTADORO, 6 Astor
House. Now York. Sold everywhere, and appli
ed by all Hair Dressers.
Price, 50 cents la antil2 per bettle.ixotordiatt
to sire. iyl3cLictvamo
A. IL. TOBIAS' VF.NrET.L&N - I
MEET. Mere Testimony I
This is to certify that for the lost five years I
have used in my family Dr. Tobias' celebrated
Venetian Liniment and in every instance have
found it fully equal to his recommendations. I
have found it to give almost instantaneous re
lief in cases of toothache, croup. bilious colic,
sore throat, pain in the chest and back and
rheumatism, and I cheerfully recommend its
trial to every one afflicted with any of the above
named diseases.
JAS. H. WARNER,
Hartford. Conn., Oct 16th, 186 l
Price 2.5 and 50 cents a bottle. Office 56 Cort
lnndt Street, New York. Solsi by all Druggists.
aul4idkwiclAvr3wa.
QIIRGEON . GENERAL ... INAXINOND,
by ordering calomel - and destructive min
erals from the supply tables, has conferred a
blessing on our-sick soldiers. Let him`uot stop
ttere. Let him order the difccintinuance of
"Bleeding," and the substitution of Brandretb's
Pills in the plane thereof. Then will commence
a "new era ' in thepractice of Medicine, which
would then become emphatically
THE HEALING ART
Ichave for thirty years taught that no diselised
action could be cured by mercury or tartar
emetic. That the human body could only be
"made whole" by-"vegetable food"—Animal food
being, in fact, condensed-vegetables.- - Brandreth's
Pills should be in every military hospital. These
Pills cure Bilious Diarrhea, Chronic Plarrhba,
Chronic Dysentery, and ell levers and Affections
of the Bowels, sooner and more surely than any
medicine in the world. Brandreth's Pills in these
cases should be taken night and. porning. Read
Directions and get new style.
CASE OF ROBCOE K. ATSON
Dr. B. Brandreth,—New York.
Era: I was a private in Co. F, 17th Regiment,
New York Vols. While at Harrison's Landing,
and on the Rappahannock near Falmouth, I and
many of the Company were sick with bilious di
arrhea. Tho Armi . Surgeon did not dire us, and
I was reduced to skin and bone. Among the corn
,,pany wore quite a number of members who had
worked in your Laboratory at Sing Sing. They
were not sick. because they used Brandreth's
PM.s.. These men prevailed upon me and others
to use the Pills and we were ail cured in:from
two to five days. After this our boys used Bran
dreties Pills for the typhus fever, colds. rheuma
tism. and in no ease did they fail to restore
.health.
ant of gratittkie to you for my good health, I
semi you this letter, which if necessary. the en
d' o company would alga.
I inn. respect - ray yonr
RASCOE E.WATSON, ging , SinK. N. Y.
piinaipalnace. ig4 Canal Arcot. 4. CM York.
gad by 'Rhona= Reupatßl,l),;vr:,,,d, A lLey,
tra [Arran- . iyl4%lA-sr:tfo
ItHEIFirrISTRY.
/TEETH EX. WR.INCTED NiIITHOUT
pain by the use of Dr. Oudry's apparatus.
J. F, 11.OFFIALA N,
DENTIST.
All ' , work avarrnalted.
ittS:dly 1?-f Smithfield Street,Pittsbareb.
Dissolution.
FrinE COP.IRTNEKSHIP existing be
tween the undersijrned, under the firm and
name of KNAP, RUDD St CO., expires this day
by limitation.. The business will be continued
by Charles Knap, by whom all demands due to
or from the late firm will be settled.
CHARLES KNAP,
H. F. RUDD
NICHOLAS k. WADE.
Fort Pitt Foundry. July 1. lt3tid. .IyLS-2m
RE;IOV®L.
B R. V, BAJLDEEN HAS REMOVED
_RV from Smithficgd street, .below the Girard
House. to N 0.145. Fifth street opposite the Court
0 Olt CORD: GRAPE.
( 1 .1 LeERIOR FINE AT $2 50 PER
dozen; $1250 per 100. Extra Vines at $5 Pa'
citgen; $25 per 100.
J. KNOX
111.1. No. 2) ilfth street.
WHEELER a WILSON . -
.Sewing Plarhine
Was awarded a
.PIEST GLASS PRIZE MEDAL,
THE—
WOFILD'S FAIR LONDON, ENGLAND.
where all the Machines of
EUROPE AND AMERICA
were in competition.
Also, at the Industrial Exposition. Paris, France.
andat every
United State@ Fair
at winch Sewing Machines bye been exhibited.
The principal Companies making Sewing Ma•
chines are Wheeler & Wilson, L M. Smear ot
Co. and Greyer& Baker. 01-the machines made
there were sold during the year last reported:
By Wheeler & Wilson 21,305
By 1. M. Singer & Co 10.953
By Grover at Baker 10,280
Showing WHEELED. & WILSON'" sales to be
double those of any other Sewing Machine Com
pany in the country.
OFFICE, 27 FIFTH STREET. PITTSBURGH
This -Machine makes the ' - LOO STITCH.
and ranks highest on account of the elasticitY-
permanence, beauty. and general desirablenee
of the stitching when done, and the wide ran Ii
of Reapplication —[Report of. the American In- 2
stitute. Him York.] ielBd&w
CONCENTRATED'
COMPOUND EXTRACT OF BUCHIL
for all diseases of the
Madder di- Kidneys.
one half dozen fot‘P 50
Orders by mail promptly filled.
A. J. RANKIN & CO.,
Druggist'. A 3 Market street.
PITTSBURGH.
MEEN FVN,
HOSE LEAP POWDER*
Pearl Powder.
THEATRE ItOIIGE,
Vinegar AMMO,
VIOLET POWDER,
• Violet Powder.
HARD dt SOFT BERBER STRINGEIII.
Hard A soft Rubber Syringes,
Just received at Just received at
RANK izatiltore. No, Si liarkitts=
doors belowws
..J O. Se ft on
Mr Hamilton
..Annia Ward
_Fanny Burt