DAILY POST. The Union as it Was, the Constitution as it la AV- Whore there is no law there Is no freedom. :WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG. 26 Democratic Nominations. FOR GOVERNOR. ORORDE W. WOODWARD. FOR SUPELEMiL ImoN, WALTER. IL LOWS S& THE FALL OF SUMTER. The telegraph, yesterday afternoon, an nounced the fall of the rebel stronghold,Fort Sumter. There, on the eleventh of April, 1861, Beauregard opened the rebellion which has delaged the country in blood, and there the same rebel chieftain now sees the stare and stripes waving in tri umph over its vanquished ramparts. ANOTHER REBEL RAID ABOUT OCTOBER The following interesting bit of infor mation is from the Pittsburgh Gazette o yesterday. Read it attentively : PHILADF.L.PEITA, August 24.1863. To-night I learn from a retiable private source, that the present mission of Gov Curtin to Phila delphia is to have an understanding with the mil itary anthr rides here, with the view of estab lishing a thorough cavalry force of many thou sand strong to be organized PARTICULARLY IN THE EASTERN COUNTIES OF THE STATE. There is much afloat in regard to the next raid of Gen, Lee's army North. That army will never make another raid this way ; but Gov. Cur tin has received reliable information that a ray airy raid is projeotad, AND MAY COME BE FORE THE OCTOBER ELECTION. thus throw ing the State into confusion at a very important crisis, Gov. Curtin is the man of the age. No alarms but cautions. It is contemplated to raise a car airy force of 25,000 men to be held in readiness in case of a cavalry raid which is not at all improb able. Notwithstanding the hapless condition of the rebel cause, at all points, the re duction of Lee's army to less than 35,000 men, and they, as we are informed by the Abolition press, demoralized and in rapid retreat towards Richmond, we are now admonished that we must prepare for an other rebel raid somewhere about the coming October election. The danger is considered imminent in certain East -ern counties of the Commonwealth, which are feared will give crushing Democratic majoritios. To prevent this a cavalry force of 23,000 is to be rais e 4, so that the re-election of Curtin may be rendered certain. There are not now, nor have there ever been that number of cavalry in our whole service, and yet, in the face of the noto rious fact of the rebellion being upon the verge of dissolution, the party in power gravely asserts the necessity of an over• whelming army to save our borders from rebel invasion. This formidable body of cavalry to control the approaching election in our State, will afford nice pickings for the loyal members of the Union Leagues throughontthe Commonwealth. The horses alone at thi3ir present prices, will reach near ly e half a million of dollars—a Mere trifle, but sufficient to produce harmony among the various jobbers and plunderers into which the Abolitionists of the State are now divided. If, as we are informed, Lee's army numbers but 35,000, why does not the Administration crush it at once? Is it the intention to nurse the war, in or der to furnish pretexts for more plunder, and to cheat the people of their suffrages? It looks so. This remarkable vigilance, which snuffs danger at so great a distance, is very re markable, in view of the fact of Lee's cavalry having prowled about our south ern counties for two weeks, before Curtin ascertained that our State was in• vaded. And after he did, and informed the Washington authorities of our weak ness, they and he had to appeal to the " Copperhead Governors" of New York and New Jersey to coma to our assistance. Loyal New England. the land of Aboli tionism and contractors, stood aloof and looked on our sufferings, while the "trai• tore" of the two states mentioned, rushed to our rescue and saved our' Common• wealth from the disgrace inflicted upon it, because of the w._atnees of our Governor and the indifference of our National Ad ministration. Bat what they could not do to save the State from devastation, they can now accomplish to prolong their power. 'I wenty-five thousand cavalry, scattered throughout twenty-five coun ties, will be quite as effective in pro ducing the desired results as could be wished for by the most "loyal" Abolition• ist in the State. This contemplated usurpa tion of the ballot box in Pennsylvania, will be urged upon the stale plea of ne cessity, and those whose liberties it threat ens will be howled down for being traitors, if they object to their own political degra dation. So we go on in the path of des potism, Lords Napoleon's advances in connecting a Republic with an Empire, were not half so rapid as our Administra tion's have been in establishing a military despotism. He gave them the privilege of voting it is true, but he controlled their ballots by the bayonet ; our Administra tion is and has been emulating his majes ty's example. THE "GAZETTA" AND GOV CURTIN. The Gazette yesterday, under the pre text of replying to the Post,, has a long apology for its late assaults upon the per sonal integrity of Gov_ Curtin. The fierce assailant of the sth inst., has become the whining spaniel of to-day. Hear him: " When we protested again the nomination of G oy . C ur tin. it was only a question between loyal .6u—between himself. and any other sincere Union man—whether Republican or War Demo crat Overruled• as we were. then; the contro versy has assumed another aspect. It is a ques tion now only between a &Val ei(ll2, and a Cop. perkead. Between two such men, we can and no common term of comparison." A-question between loyal men. It was a question between a set of the moat cor• rupt political rascals the country ever witnessed—one set led by Cameron and the other by Curtin, whom the Gazelle proved over and over again to be a rogue. The Gazette seems to imagine that it can ignore all this by a repetition of twaddle about loyal men and Copperheads. The people are too serious to be attracted by any such prattle. -.:~-' !'The Gazette requests us to publish Judge Woodward's speech IN Philadel phia, delivered iu December ltt;0. We intend to publish it as soon as we can find room for it. In the meantime we direct our neighbor's attention to an extract from one of the Judge's speeches, pub lished in another column, upon the word "white" in our Constitution. There is no negro equality to be found in it; and. in the absence of the speech delivered by our candidate at Philadelphia, we recom mend this one to the Gazthe's attentive perusal. If its sentiments should create any particular Abolition, negro equality, disgust for their author, our neighbor can readily relieve itself by the reading of one of its late editorials, triumphantly proving its present candidate for Governor, a .üblic swindler, For the Morning Post. GENEROSITY IN SOCIAL DI VISIONS. To ills Excellency Abraham Lincoln President of the United States : SIR: Thucydides tells us a very touch ing story of the rebellion of Mytilene against the Athenian confederacy. It had revolted, not from any actual oppression or wrong, but from a suspicion that op. pression was intended; and, in the minds of the Athenians, it was greatly aggrava ted by the fact that it occurred at a time when Athens was much weakened by the Peloponnesian war and by a severe epi demic, and also by the obstinacy with which the siege was resisted for more than a year, and by the fact that the rebels had confederated with Sparta. The city was at last reduced with the assistance of a re volt of the people within the walls, who compelled the leaders to surrender, and who had not at first any desire for the war. One of the terms of the capitulation was that the people of Athena should deter mine what was to be done with the cap tured town and people, azicl the Mytile nians were allowed to send an embassy to plead their cause before the assembly of t Athens. They were heard; but the sen tence pronounced was most cruel—death to all the adult males, and the sale of the women and children into slavery, and the same day a vessel was dispatched to bear the sentence to Mytilene. Bat it was no sooner gone than some of the leading men repented of the cruelty into which their excitement had lead them, and which was abated by the very exercise of it in passing sentence. Consultations were held„ a new assembly called to meet the next day, and the case was reheard. Cleon, a heartless demagogue, iu a speech of great power, opposed the revo cation of the sentence, using many such arguments as are now common in rela tion to the Southern rebellion, referring to the unprovoked and treacherous chco - actor of the revolt, the dangerous exam• ple it set to the rest of the Confederacy. the danger of vacillating counsels, and the necessity of treating with rigor a set of determined villains who, with a pre sumption above their strength bat below their intention, had violated the integrity of the confederacy. All have rebelled and all ought to have the punishment of rebels. Concede not the justice of the revolt by lenity in dealing with it. Relent not at the scene of horror which you have purposed ; but think of the weight of misery which was just now suspended over your own heads. Punish those wretches according to their deserts. Make them a notable example to the rest of your de pendents, that death must be the portion of whoever dares revolt. This was answered by Deodatus. His appeal was not to their mercy in favor of Greek brethren, for the excitement of the war had suppressed that feeling in the hearts of the majority ; nor to the gener osity of the conquerors, for in that day the world had not learned to consider that a virtue to be emulated. But he conceded the vice of the rebellion, and the justice of severity, and manfully disre garding the slanders of want of patriotism by which the best advice and the ablest counselors are too often set aside, he ap pealed to their interest and asked them to take a larger view than the fanaticism o party spirit and the fury of the hoar wculd suggest. By strict law, rebellion is trea son, and its punishment is death ; but no people is restrained by that when they feel that they are wronged. Hope and love are stronger incentives than fear. The ardent passions of a people are not sup pressed by law. Severity drives to acts of despair, while kindness encourages to re pentance and reconciliation. Severity repels, but kindness attracts. Restore them and you increase your strength by adding affection to numbers. Oppose them, and though subdued, they remain your enemies, and make you distrusted by all your other allies, and thus decrease your strength. Men who have known what liberty is ought not to be too severe ly !dealt with even- for revolt. No union is safe that is cemented by terror. The most of the people were driven into this rebellion by treacherous and selfish lead ers, and have got out of it as soon as they could. Punish not the innocent with the guilty, and thus exclude the hopes even of the loyal. By such punishments all rebellions must become desperate and in terminable. Mercy prevailed as being the best policy, and the cruel sentence was revoked. But the ship laden with the heavy sentence of the previous day had already accomplished one third of its sad voyage. Slowly and heavily its oars struck the wave, for sad hearts worked them. Often the sailors' rested from their mournful labor, and slowly returned to it, conversing of the terrible massacre which was to follow their arrival. How different was the spirit that filled and enlivened the vessel of mercy that fol lowed the next day. It awaited eagerly the expected revocation. Every oar was in its place, and every sailor in hie seat. The message-of mercy was received, and the ship bounded forth on its errand of love. Mercy nerved every arm, and en livened every sweep of its oars. Night and day it bounded onward with its glad tidings without any cessation of its labor of love ; for refreshed spirits always stood ready to take place of wearied ones. Per haps there were fathers, brothers and sons of those men, women and children doomed to death and slavery, whose hopes gate increased speed to their ship. They were not too late. The vessel of wrath landed first ; but mercy was in time, and the Mytileneana were saved from massacre, and the Athenians from the disgrace of their first hasty sentence. Sir, let us profit by such examples. ' Every mail from the South brings us clear proof that a large portion of the popula tion still cling to their old recollections of the American Union, and would love to see it restored. Let this war be sacred to the restoration of the Union ; and divert it not to the purpose of subjugation. Give up your confiscation and emancipation and other abolition and mere . party meas ures, and plant yourself again promptly and fully on the integrity of the Constitu tion and Union, and very soon we shall all be one brotherhood again. Very respectfully, yours, Wont& NUMBER XXIX For the Ilorairti Poat. Proceedings at Our Provost Mar- shal's Office When the Conscription liaw was passed almost every one thought there would be tine operiings in these offices just created for di-atiled and maimed soldiers. The tedi , Dus length to which the Board of En• roliment has spun out their operations hag completely ul set that notion. We find they require active. strong and quick- minded men. Here we have a Board equalled by few and aurpas=ed by none for talent and especial fitness for their peculiar duties—at least in their own esti mation—protracting their work beyond all expectation, rolling it under their tongues like a sweet morsel. They com menced like a new broom. The "last man" in the District was notified under pain of death to appear on or before the 26th of July, and here is the last of August and they are not near half through. No one can suspect these gentlemen of pro tracting their labors on account of the daily pay they receive. It only goes to show how particular the authorities should be in selecting the members of their Board. They should be most energetic and practical men, able and willing to work, not fonds and invalids. They should be the first subjected to the strict physical and moral examination to which substitutes are now put through. A draft is only resorted to to meet any emergency and its efficiency depends on the prompt ness with which it is carried out. These officials should know how to treat people with common courtesy at last. The Pro vost Marshal seems very active. Witness hie promptness in offering a reward for the conviction of the boys who assaulted a U. S. soldier at a fire. This unusual ac tivity was explained when it was known that the said "U. S. soldier" was a negro. How he makes a negro out a U. S. sol dier in the face of hie master's order tell ing him that he is 1110 i the equivalent of a U. S. soldier we can't say. How many it takes to make one soldier or his equivalent Col. Fry don't state. Also how quick• ly he applied the lash to a fellow who tried to impose on the honorable Board, a punishment severe and sum• mary enough to deter all from attempt ing the same trick, provided they were simple enough to believe that he would ever dare to do such a thing again -under any circumstances. As to the Surgeon, it was not to be expected that a very good physician or one with any practice of any account would give all his time for less wages than a common coal digger makes, making examinations for $4 00 a day, for which if he added prescriptions he would charge $5O 00 in his office. But there were plenty of young, active surgeons to be got instead of the nearly superannated one they did select. The literalness with which this one construes the word of the orders he receives is worthy of Bandy Andy. The orders are to examine each man in the presence of the whole Board. This is all right, and is doubtless intended to prevent the surgeon from receiving . • bribes (an insinuation most honest men would dislike) for the others could be of no Ilse in deciding on diseases they never even heard of. It also shows the kind of men the authorities expected to get, and it was a very natural conclusion in view of the fact that they were to be selected exclusively from their own party.— But when it comes to stripping a decent man r.....-...rk naked to sound his chest. or to measure his height. i while deficient sta ture, ~ feet ." inches. exempted,) or more ridiculous yet, to examine his teeth, it seems to be a vulgar ,•onstructiort of the order that no man of sense would eider think of. But examinations of this kind occupy more time, and therefore yields more dollars, and hurts the feelings of the victim more, a consummation proba bly desired at that office. When deficient stature exempted, what was the use of examining further, unless it was to con sume time ; and what was the use of pub lishing a diseass in addition, except it was to annoy the unfortunate man. An other proof the suspicion with which the framers of the law looked on the members of their party, was making the Board con sist of three members. This was not ac tually necessary, as the Commissioner is only a mere clerk ; but it was taken from the rules of the old Knight Templars, and also from those of the Jesuits, both self-distrusting orders. These compelled their members, especially of the lower classees, invariably to consort together in threes, and no other number, as it was supposed the odd one would watch the other two rotatively. We don't like to say anything about the per sonal appearance of men, but three such " lean and hungry Cassius' ' as our Board of Enrollment consists of, are sel dom thrown together by chance, and if Shakspeare is to be believed, it looks dan gerous. And as to the whipping at the Provost Marshal's office a short time ago. It is a disgrace to this community that this thing should be 1-.•sed over so quiet ly and allowed to hr forgotten ; it is a disgrace to the War i)epartment that it overlooked such nn . m -age, by one of its satellites. But thevictim was only a poor white man. If Le had been a negro it never would have tal:en place, and for two reasons : In the first place, Capt. Foster's feelings would not have permitted him, for has he not for years howled in response to every lash laid on a ne gro in the South, no matter what his offense 1 And in the second place, if he was a reasonable being at the time he did it, he would have known that his own party would never have rested until he had begn punished, even if the Department had been disposed to let it pass quietly. The cries of a brutal ly beaten white man can not penetrate the recently Africanized ears of the Secretary of War, but the shrieks of scared negroes, held as prisoners of war, make him nearly frahtic, and the whole power of the Gov ernment in retaliation is threatened to be used on white men, if a bunch of wool on their t hhaeta the is A 11 a mri m n d l3t. r a . t i N o V n e m e n u d s o t rrseems this outrage by retaining its perpetrator in office. We repeat that if this man had been of " African descent," instead of Irish, Foster would have been removed at once. If any Irishman or voter forgets this at the polls this fall —the only chance we may have if we let it pass unimproved of showing our condemnation of such a one-sided party—he deserves the lashes that poor Hagan received. These Know Nothing Abolitionists would prevent a white foreigner from voting but would re ceive a Hottentot or Caffre with acclama tions and give him a vote before he could wear decent clothes with comfort. CITIZEN. F.l the Morning Poet Consistonoy Mr. Eot TOR : Gazette, in its issue of July 31st, says "We have shown some of the reasons why Governor Curtin can not and ought not to be elected." Will the Gazette please informs its read ers who ought to be elected Governor if Curtin cannot and ought not to be elected. If Curtin cannot and ought not to be elected, why does the Gazette keep his name at the head of its columns? The proper course for the Gazette to pursue in the present campaign would be to tear down the name of a thief from its mast head, (as the Gazette has denominated Curtin,) and remain in a position of strict neutrality, or rally like a man to the sup port of the patriot and statesman, Judge Woodward. Such base slavery to party, or such obedience to the behests of a rot ten, corrupt sectional and fanatical organ iz,ation never has or can be equalled. There are more terrors in the crack of the party whip than one can imagine. AFFAIRS OP MEXICO The New York Evening Post, on the authority of private letters, states that the Liberels of Mexico (the Juarez party) have determined to give up the contest with the French and submit to the fortune of war ; that Gen. Comonfort had taken the oath of fidelity to the Government es tabliahed by Gen. Foray; and that it was probable that the greater part of the Lib erals will also make their peace. It seems that they consider the struggle hopeless and perhaps injurious to their country, and prefer peace and the security of their rights of property to the risks of war.— And we should think that they acted wise ly in doing so, considering how fruitless have proved all their bloody intestine struggles to obtain these objects through the independent establishment of a Re publican Government. They will have exchanged the wretchedness of civil war, which has afflicted their unhappy country almost unremittingly from the birth of their nation, for at least two of the bless ings for which government was ordained —those, namely, of internal peace and the protection gf property —the latter indeed being hell by a high British au• thority as the highest function, if not chief value of civil government. however this may be, as a general rule, certain it is the people of Mexico have not been able to secure this essential good through any of the transient forms of government which they have spent almost the entire period of their existence in rearing. It has been said, indeed, by one of the most enlight ened observers and longest foreign real-, dents in Mexico, that the irrhabitants of the country—that is, of the Central States, which constitute the controlling power of that extended Confederacy—had, through the long prevalence of civil war and anarchy, come to be divided substantially into two classes, the plunderers and the plundered ; the former embracing all the loose adventurers of the land, ever ready to follow any chieftain who could pay them, and by making a political pronun ciamiento against the President or Dicta tor of the day, give them military license for spoliation and pillage : the latter class consisting of the men of property, plant• era, merchants, miners, artizans, and the friends of order, who would at any time have gladly exchanged halt their property for security to the remainder and the blessing of peace, which boon it seems they are now to receive at the hands of a foreign conqueror. The possession of this long desired good must doubtless suffer some alloy from the mode and medium through which it is acquired. This retlec• Lion must naturally touch the sensibilities and the national pride of the true friends of freedom in s country where, amidst so much of gross ignorance and licentious ness, there vet so much of high cultiva Lion, braverq. and public spirit. But, as long and bloody experience has sadly shown, there nature of the race, the habitudes of the people, or the frame of society in the Spanish American States, not in Mexico alone, but alt. from the Sierra Madre to the Andes, something apparently inimical to the consolidation of free government and the habitual obedi• aloe to public law. For nearly fifty years the people of Mexico have striven to attain this highest form of government, but their efforts have resulted in every phase of government save this. They have tried Emperors, Dictators, and a long line of Presidents, so called, but rational liberty and regular government, the safe ty of person and security of property, have eluded their grasp, and proved to them, so far, an ignis tato?, —National Intelligencer. Judge Woodward on the Word "White" in our Constitution. In January, 1838, tivecty live years ago, a great question came before the Conven tion which made our present Constitution whether tlia right to vote should be con fined to white men or extended so as to embrace the blacks. To the powerful ef forts and speech of Judge Woodward upon that occasion we are indebted for that word in our Constitution which now, in view of the emancipation policy of the ad ministration, becomes more valuable than ever. The Judge commenced his great speech upon the motionto insert the word "white" by saying : "Who ought to be voters in Pennsylva nia, or, in other words who ought to have political control of our government'?— This is the question of the first impres sion and of great magnitude. When you established and distributed its powers among the several departments—legisla tive, executive and judicial, it remains to decide who shall direct and control that government. The machine may well be supplied with all the necessary wheels and springs, but in preparing and fitting them, no question can arise of so great moment, as who shall have the regulation of itsmo tions and direction, when it is finished and ready., or use. This question has now to be answered with reference to two distinct and separate classes of men, the whites and the blacks, and from all the reflection I have been able to give the subject I am prepared to say, that the political powers of this government ought to be exercised exclusively by the whites. In coming to this conclusion I have endeavored, as far possible, to divert my mind of all popu lar prejudices against the African race, whom we have among us. They deserve my sympathies and they have them; but I feel unwilling to surrender this govern ment in whole, or in part, into their keep ing, and I am therefore prepared to vote for this amendment and to say in our Constitution that the voters of Pennsylva nia shall be WHITE freemen." He then proceeds in a statesman-like manner to suppost his position and in re ply to others who had spoken in favor of conferring the right to vote to the blacks. On the 6th of May, 1842, President Lincoln made a speech in Cincinnati on the same subject at a gathering of negroes for the purpose of presenting Secretary Chase with a silver pitcher. Then, and there Mr. Lincoln said amid the sweet ar oma of perspiring negroes, "We feel, therefore, that all alleged distinctions be tween individuals of the same community founded in any circumstance as color, ori gin or the like, are hostile to the genius of our institutions and incompatible with the true history of American liberty. I embrace with pleasure this opportunity of declaring my dilLieprobation of the clause of the Constitution which denies to a por: Lion of the colored people the right of suffrage." BCERHA.VE'S BITTERS, BCERHAVE'S BITTEBS, BCERHAVE'S BITTERS, The Great Core for Dyspepsia, The Great Cure f,,.r Dyspepsia, The Great Cure for Dyspepsia Selling at Half Price by SIMON JOHNSTON. corner Smithfield and Fourth street au22 TELEG± APE IC. EST FROM CHARLESTON, NINE BREACHES IN FE SUMTER surrender of Morris Island Demanded. SUMTER REPORTED SURRENDERED. The Invasion of Kansas. Tlilall OF OLANTRELL'S FbRCB KURD Explosion of the Steamer Madi son and Loss of Life 'T I n a' 0 N AJD etc:, ae., FORTRESS MONROE, August 24.—The steamer City of Richmond arrived at Hampton Roads yesterday noon. She re ports having left off Charleston at noon on Saturday last. The flags of Sumter were shot away on Thursday and Friday, and no reply made to our bombardment, which was constantly kept up. The whole of the southwest side of Sumter is demol ished, and nothing left but a heap of ruins. On Friday morning nine breaches were observed in the fort. Our casualties averaged about four NEW YORK, August 25.—Two steam transports, from off Morris Island, mid night on the 21st, report the bombard ment continued. The south wall of Sum te.r has" been demolished almost to its base. Forts, Wagner, Gregg, and other batte ries, replied at short intervals. An expedition was fitting to silence James Island batteries, which became an- noying. Every confidence in our success is fe FoRTRYSB MONROE, August 24.—The steamer from City Point has arrived. The Richmond Sentinel, of the 24th, contains the 'following highly important dispatches : CHARI EsToN, Aug. 22.—The tire from the enemy's land batteries is being kept up on Sumter, and more guns are disa bled; also a heavy fire on Wagner from the fleet and land. Gilmore's demand for the surrender of Sumter and Morris Island, with the threat to shell Charleston in four hours from the delivery of the papers at Fort Wagner, was received and returned this morning, Beauregard in reply, charges inhu manity and the violation of the laws of war against Gilmore, and affirms if the the offense is repeated, he will employ stringent measures of retaliation. Up to this time the threat to shell the city has not been executed. CHARLESTON, August 23.—0 n Saturday six hundred and four shots were fired at Sumter ; four hundred and nineteen struck her inside and outside. The east wall is scaled and battered, and the para pet undermined. The north-west wall and the arches have fallen in. The guns are all dismounted. On Sunday the land batteries opened from the south and north, and the Moni tors from the east and west, coming close up. The fire was very damaging. The shot swept through the fort. A shell wounded several officers, including Col. Rhett. The latter is ordered to hold out until relieved, or the place taken. Col. Gaillard, of Wagner, was killed, and several wounded. It is said there are twenty•three vessels inside the bar, including the iron•clads. Gen. Gilmore sent notice on Sunday that at 11 o'clock to-morrow he would open on Charleston, and in the meantime non-combatants could leave. PHILADELPHIA, August 2.;.—A private dispatch from Washington says: 42 The War Department has an announce• ment of the surrender of Sumter. KANSAS CITY, Aug. 24, 11 P. M.—Gen Ewing has just returned from the pursui of Quantrill. The rebel force that burn Lawrence is estimated at not over 800. They disbanded at the head of Grand river, some going South, some North-east and the others scattering into the brneh. Our forces have been divided accordingly, and are closely pursuing them. Constant skirmishing is going on. Lieut. Colonel Lazear, with two squadrons, first cavalry, Missouri State Militia, had an engage ment with the guerrillas on Big Creek, near Harrisonville, Mo., killing live and capturing a considerable quantity of goods and horses taken at Lawrence. Thirty one guerrillas have been killed as far as heard. CINCINNATI, Aug. 25—Some particulars of the explosion of the steamer City of Madison, at Vicksburg, was received here last night. The steamer was being load ed with ammunition, end had received nearly a full load, when a negro, carrying a precussion shell on board, let it fall, causing instant explosion. The boat took fire and communicated to the ammunition on board. The steamer was entirely de stroyed. Out of one hundred and sixty on board, only four are known to have escaped. The City of Madison was a large side-wheel boat, owned by Captain J. S. Neal, of Madison, Indiana, worth about forty thousand dollars. BERLIN, Wis., Aug. 24.—A tornado passed through Buenaviata, Wis., on Fri day, and every house in the place was blown down. Three persons were killed and fourteen wounded. NEW YORE, Aug. 25.—A Morris Island letter to the Herald states that the ap• pearance of the gorge face of Sumter, last night, and its parapet., was not unlike that presented by Fort Pulaski on the evening of the first day's fire. Thirty or forty large holes could be counted on the face of the work. The parapet was knocked ofi• in places. The barricades of bricks covering the magazines, and the sand tra• verses were seriously damaged. Three days of such work will bring down Sum ter around the heads of its defenders if they wait so long. Monongahela Water Company 4 A A MEETING OF THE coNLIIIIII --x. SION EttB of the Monongahe a Water Com pany. held August 24th. at the Birmingham C , uncil Chamber, James Salisbury was appoint' ei Chairman and John P. Pears Secretary. ( la motion of Mr. Chambers it was Beeolved, the books of the Monongahela Water t orupany be reopened to receive sub script ons to the stock of said Company, com mencing on '1 hursday. the :9 h day of August, from 9 o'clock a. m. to 6 o'clock P. m., contia. uing opea until farther notice, at the following places:—At the Office of Esquire Ammon; East titre, ingham ; at the Office of Esquire lialisbnrY, Birmingham. and at the Office of James iillin gar,. bon•h Pittsburgh. One Dollar per share will be paid on sub scribing. according to the onarter. au26 F. urniture and Piano at Auc tion. /IN WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG. Ulf 26th, at 10 o'clock. at the Masonic Hall Auction House, No. 55 Fifth street will bo sold a quantity of household and kitchen furniture, comprising Wainut Field Post Beds teat, High and Low Post do, Mahogany Side Tables. Walnut Spring Seat Arm Chair, Mahogany Sofa eat ocker, Extension Table now. Kitchen aid Dining Tables and Chairs, Venit an Blinds, Desk, Ingrain Rag and Etat'. Carpets, Matrasses, Queenerware, Kitchen Utensils- Also, ono Piano. T. A. M'CLELL&ND, Auctioneer. IniEMIOCRATIC MEETING IN T E 11-1 , Fourth Ward, Allegheny will be hel t on Wednesday evening, the 26th instant, at 714 o'elcosk, in Mr. Beilstein's Ball, corner of Bag Lane and canal. au24-3t CBICKERING et SONS, HALLET, DAVIS 44 CO., W P EMERSON, J W VOSE. MILLER,GIBSON 4.7 z CO. OREPE& HINDT, C FISCHER, lti Pianos From the above Factories. from stir , to $5OO. Just received and for sale by CHAS. C. NI EtLLOR, Si Wcod street, Pittsburgh ati.2-daw LIUJER DRESS GOOD Selling at ONE HALF PRICE HUGUS & HACKE, Corner Fifth and Market streets. r TERESTING TO THE LADIES I We are selling, at a REDUCED PRICE Cotton Hosiery, Gloves, Lace Mitts, Embroideries, Veils, Sleeves, Waists, & c., Hoop 191cIrtEl, slightly soiled, half inlet( We are reoeiving the latest styles of Mead Dresses, Nets, New Fall Dress Trimmings BELTS, BUCHLIM, &o WHOLESALE ROOMS up stairs MAC RUM & GLYDE, No, 78 - Market St., atils Between Fourth and Diamond Burnett's Cocoaine, Only 50 cents. The mein complete easertment of pure anti genuine Dr uge,Molll4llines,Perftimery, Liquors, Soaps, Hair Brushes, &0., &C to be found In the eltq. DRAKE'S PLANTATION BITTERS, Wholesale and Re:aili at lowest prices. SIMON JOHNSTON. corner Smithfield and Fourthsits 50 GROSS DeLARES PILLS AND vermifure. Jut. received by GEO, A. KELLY. 3u3 69 Federal St.. Alleghany. BARRELS FRESH rimy 1F 'ay "bladders." inst received sad for etildby 86 OW. BELLY Hedersa Bt.. Allistily, TO• DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS. PITTSBU GEL FEMALE, COLLEGE. ev. I. C. l'erehing. I). D., President. Best sustained College in the State. Superb Buildings, to which extensive additions are making. Nineteen Teachers. Unsurpaseed fa cilities in the ernam.ntol Branches. Forty Dolia-s per term Pays for all euersea in the B e ami ng j)epartment except eshing and FTerm will commence on ee dauVe.LthePal Septemberi Th let• Ecnd to President Per shing for a Catalogue. M. SIMPSON. au26.3w President of Trirteea, Superior Household Furni- tore at Auction. ® N FRIDAY MORNING. AVOVST 28th, at 10 o'clock, at the residence No. 156 Third street, will be sold the entire furnishment of new and superior Farr ituro, Caets. /to., comprising in pact Mahogany Hair heat Sofa. 6 Mahogany Hair Seat Chairs, Mahogary Hair Seat Arm Rooker. Marble Top Mahogany Pier Table, alunt Bat Sack, Solid Walnut Exten sion Tahiti, Wardrobe, solid Walnut French and Field Post Beds ends, Walnut Enclosed Wash tands, lepoys. Cane Seat Chat s. do do Rocker, Ottomans, Gilt and Mahogany Frame Loaa irg Glasses, Chat deliers. Gas Fixtures. Mantle Ornaments, Venitian and Buff llinds, Matrasses, Feather Beds and Bedding, Kitchen Utensils. Large Cooking Stove, Queensware. Arc. Carpets— ncinded in the above sale will be found one xioa Plush Velvet carpet, Brussels and Ingrain do.ohamber and rag do, Brussels and Stair do, Dining Room. Hall and St it Matting. Rugs, duo Special attention is called to this sale, the far • nitnre and carpets being well kept and in use tut a abort time, T. A. M'CLELLAND. Auctioneer. T BUSSES. TRUSSES, TRUSSES, F.+ at ot cz TRUSSES, TRUSSES, TRUSSES, TRUSSES, TRUSSES, TRUSSES, A =parlor article of Trusses. The !Mast In procement. Hari Rubber Trusses, Hard Rubber Trusses, Hard Robber Trusses, Those wishing a good Truss and at a low pnes should call and examine my stock before pur chasing elsewhere. Superior Carbon Oil. Burning Fluid, Soda Ash and Pot Ash, Perfumery and Patent Medicines of all, z o *1 A Fargo and complete assortment of Gum Elastic and Hard Rubber Syringes. Remember the place, At Joseph Fletnines Drug Store, At Joseph Fleming's Drug Sore, At Joseph Fleming's Drag Store. Corner of the Diamond and Market streets. Corner of the Diamond and Market streets. au2o LONDON AND INTERIOR Royal Mail Company's ./ CELEBRATED REMEDIES BLOOD POWDER AND BONE OINTMENT. A certain cure for Diseases of Horses and Cattle, known to and used only by the Company in their own etables from 1844 until the openiug of the Railway over the principal routes. After the gen eral use of these remedies in all the stables of the Company their annual sales of condemned stack were discontinued, a saving to the Company ex ceeding £7,000 per annum. In 1853 the London Brewers' Association offered the Company £2,030 for the receipes and use the articles only in their own stables. BLOOD POWDER A certain cure for founTer, distemper, rheuma, tism, hide bound: inward strains, lose of appetite weakness, heaves, coughs, colds, and alt diseases of the lungs, surfeit of scabbers, glanders. poll evil, mange, inflammation of the eyes, fistula, andlill diseases arising from impure blood, cer met:olm stomach and liver, improves the appe tite:regulates the bowels. corrects all deranse manta of the glands, strengthens the system. makes tffe skin smooth and glossy. Horses bro ken down by hard labor or driving. quickly re stored by using the powder once a day. Nothing will be found equal to it in kee:ahorses up in appearance. condition and strength London and Interior Boyal Mail Company's, CELEBRATED BONE OINTMENT. * z cit co A certain mire for spade, ringbone, scratches. lumps, tumors. sprains, swellings, bruises. foun dered beet, chillblaMs. wind galls, contractions of the tendons, bone enlargements, &c: Blood Powder 50c per 12 oz, packages ,• Bone Ointment 50c per 8 or . Mr. = Strand. Lon don. MoKeeson & Rorbins, New York. French. Richards & Co. Philadelphia. TORRENCE dP., Pittsburgh Drug Bonn. iu2:dlso Corner Fonrtn and Market, street drihN ACCOUNT OF THE HIGH PRIM V Paid for feed the Milkmen in the vicinity of Pittsburgh will, on and after the )et day of t eptemb er. oh arge S rents pet quart. Cash every week. au.2444t 11113123M2 WELDON & KELLY, Gas and Steam Fitteria, PLUMBERS AND MSS POUNREBS, 84 WOOD STREET, NEAR saTa, PITTSBURGH. PA. 4ar- Pumps sold and repaired. Proprietors and Manufacturers of Dakin'e Patent Water Drawer and litusgrave's Patent Gas Cooking and Heating Stovea. auta FOIA kRIA.I.-M. ALOT AND TWO STORY : MUCH house, co:Alining POUR ROOMS AND A CELLAR. The lot has a front of a feet on Fulton street, and runs book 160 feet to Crawford street. For :urther particulars apply to GEO. ENGLEKENG, No, 3:n Liberty street. au22:lNvd FINE FARM AT AUCTION. rIpHE VNDEREIrGNED WILL EX -11. pose to public sale, on the premises, hii farm, cons sting of 80 ACRES AND 23 PERCHES, situate on the Baptist Church Road, about ono mile from White Rail, in Baldwin Township, and known as the "CARSON FARM," On Thursday, August 27th, at 2 o'clock P. M. Said farm is all cleared and ender good fence but about twenty acres; has a frame dweLing hour., log barn, and other frame buildings erected thereon. Also an Orchard of Fru't. Is a , so well watered, having three never tai.ing springs. Said farm is stuice , .tible of being divided into two smaller farm., aa the public road run, through It, leaving a 2 acres on one aide and 48 acres on the other. It will be sold in two parts if desirable. Sale positive. Te , ms made known on day of sale. Coal is supposed to underlie the whole tract. anls JAMES MoGOWAN. LLOYD'S STEEL PLATE Telegraph, Express AILROAD MAPS United States, CANADAS AND NEW BRUNSWICK• SIZE S FEET BY 6 FEET. Accompanying each main map is an independ ent map of THE EASTERN STATES, In a scale ten times as large as the main map; SIZE FOUR FEET IN DIMENSIONS. The ;we maps together show 60.000 RailrOad Stations• Sold Only by SubserlptioLL SUB3CRIPTION BOOR NOW OPEN. JOHN W. PITTOCH, Sole Agent, • Opposite the Postai:hoe, MEEN ROSE LEAF POWDER Pearl Powder, THEATRE ROUGE, Vinegar Rouge. VIOLET POWDER, Violet Powder, HARD dr SOFT RUBBER SyRINGES Hard dt Soft Rubber Syringes, Just received at Just received at RANKIN'S Drug Store. No. 63 Market street, doors below Fourth.my2a 0 "S-- 100 bush Drina* Oats ia store and for sale JA. A. MTZALU. anl2 (}order(}order Eitg* NOTICE'. MECO
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