DAILY POST. The Union as it liras, the Constitution as it Is. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 1 DemoCratic Nominations. FOR GOVERNOR, GEOIU W. WOODWAILD. FOR 13IIPHEN F. JUPGE, WALTER H. LOWRIE ANOTHER INDICATION. From the Washington Chronicle, of the 28th nit., we learn that Forney, the pre vious evening, was serenaded by several brass instruments in the hands of pro ficient performers. He made a speech, of course, the conclusion of which is nearly as good as his late account of the meeting of "patriotic Governors at the White House," all of whom, except "Andy Curtin," were "wrapped in the mantle of profound meditation." The patriotic Chevalier said : "I said at the beginning, and still bold, that the hand of God is in this contest. I recognize Him in that flag. and in the constant bles Tugs poured out upon my country. This is my faith. Call it fanaticism. if you please, but it is the de- votion which alone can save our country. It is the devotion which I feel, and which I trust we ail feel to-night. It is the devotion which is to bring us out of this strife successfully. 'Yes, we aro on the eve of a great peace. The nations of the earth stand appalled at this majestic specta cle. Within an hour I have received papers from all parts of the Southern country. Despond ency, g'oom, and despair are written in every line of these journals. They feel . hat they have tempted their fate: they feel that their hour of doom has come. I am not here to exult over them. I am here to see the fulfillment of the prophecy which the true patriot has felt from the first. I thank God that I have lived in this era; that I have seen this struggle: that the Govern ment is bound to prevail, and to prevail by no hollow peace, by no flimsy compromise made between convenient and easy negotiations, but to prevail upon eternal principles; and if the heathen). States choose to come back to the Union and submit to that potential pow• r, that puissant majesty, which can never be defeated, well and good; but if they do not, let the war go on until there is not a foot of their toil that is not covered by oar flag. and Until there in not a (lava f rum whom the shackles tape not fallen." Forney's relationship to Mr. Lincoln which is that of chief purveyor of his kitchen—a sort of political scullion—en ables him to obtain an inside view of the secret plans of the Administration. Being very verbose, especially when under the influence of stimulating beverages, and always eager to impress his hearers with his immense consequence, he, occasion ally says "more than is set down for him." It was so on the occasion of his late sere nade. The President has, all along, in all his public documents, in which refer ence was made to the purposes of the war, announced that hostilities were for the restoration of the Union. His emancipa tion proclamation and edict of confisca tion, however, gave the lie direct to his professions, and now wo have one of the kitchen cabinet, who while "full of supper and distempering draughts," blurting out that no peace is desirable, so long as there is a slave "from whom the shackles have not fallen." The people, may, therefore, take this announcement of Forney as the prelude to its elaboration by President Lincoln, in his next annual message to Congress. If Mr. Lincoln were not in favor of prolonging the war until all the slaves in the South are free, Forney would never have alluded to the subject. The latter's performances may be regarded as sure indications of the sen• timents of the controlling element of the Administration. It was so during the Ad ministration of President Pierce. Forney then, as now, was a sort of chief cook . he was connected with the Washington Union, which he devoted principally to the puffing of tke great " New Hampshire Statesman," as he is now the " dignified Western gentleman." When the South ern Radicals, backed by Forney, Dicken son, Ben. Butler, and other " Northern creatures of the slave power,"resolved up• on the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, it was Forney who firstbegan to darkly hint at its propriety. He wanted no "artifi Biel lines" dividing any portion of oar territory. He and his coadjutors finally forced the repeal of the line in question, which was the means of opening the ter rible scenes and excitement which follow ed in the Territory of Kansas, and which gave rise to the formation of sectional party, the success of which brought with it our present national calamities. This political profligate now sees "the hand of God" in this terrible crisis, although, we will venture to say, that at the moment he was speaking, it was quite difficult for him to see things that were entirely visible to the naked eye. The Chevalier, however, is, upon certain occasions, remarkablp sharp sighted. seeing double at least; no adventurer in or about Washington can draw a finer sight upon a contract, than he can; nor is there one who can swell and swagger more upon the proceeds of a sale of spavined horses to the government, thus giving additional and unmistakeable evidences of his splendid patriotism and stupendous "loyalty." WY" THERE is a sentence to Jeff. Davis' proclamation in relation to our Adminis tration's refusal to grant Stephens an inter view, which looks as if he had made some overtures for peace which were rejected by Mr. Lincoln. It is as follows: " COIIBOIOIIB of their inability to prevail by legitimate warfare not daring to make peace lest they /thou d be hurled from their seats of power, the men who now rule in Washington refuse even to confer on the subject of putting an end to outragee which disgrace our age. or listen to a suggestion for conducting- the war according to the usages of civilisation:" When the secret history of this war shall have been written, says the World, we have no doubt but that it will be found that the Federal Administration had in its power several times since the com• me cement of the war to end it, and at the 'same time to restore the Union "as it was." But it was a question between reunion and the preservation of the Re publican party, and the Administration chose the latter. In the above Davis no doubt refers to Stephens' mission, which undoubtedly had other objects in view than a mere understaeding touching the disposition of prisoners. That was the excuse, but the Vice President of the Con federacy would not have been sent Wash ington on any such errand. We believe that Stephens brought with him a propo „skim for peace and reunion, or whichthe Federal AdzediSistiatiop .was aware, and to which Davis refers in his late prods' ration. For the Morning Post. METAPHYSICAL EQUALITY NUMBER XXXIII To 1118Exceilexter, Abraham Lincoln, • President of the 11:111led Stales: Sin : —You have adopted the adage that " all men are created equal," or, as it is sometimes expressed, " all men are by na. ture equal," and seem to have taken it as a rule or law of your official action. Yet it is not found in the constitution or laws by which you have sworn to be guided ; and therefore you ton announce your alle glance to what has been called a " higher 0/ official duly than the law of the land : and I puppose that you do riot use it, as is too often done, as a means of par tisan jugglery, 'but in all official sincerity. Yet I desire that you should only 1,1, at it, and you will see that it is no law at all, that is, no rule of civil conduct; put only a principle that may pees/big be used in the construction of laws, or in setting them aside. Ycu use it for both, espe cially in constructing a whole abolition code, and in setting aside the inetitutions and laws of one-third of the nation. You act, therefore, as if you suppose that abo litionism were the necessary and only sys• tem that could be deduced from this adage, and that therefore you have an official right to adopt it ; but I shall show you soon that numerous end very conflict ing, systems have been founded on it; and if yon may make ewer deductions from it so as to annul the Constitution and laws. so may every other person. It is called a " self-evident" principle, and is therefore metaphysical iu its char acter, and not derived from experience, and we ought to try to understand it be fore we make it a law of action, or even a principle of political philosophy. Equal in what? That is not defined. Equal iu stature, strength, beauty, position or men tal power; Every one can see that this! is not true, and therefore, in this sense. the adage is not self-evident, and this ie not its meaning. Equal in goodness, wis dom, skill, morality, science, influence? Here again it is evident that this cannot be its true meening. All will admit that all men have the same human germs of affection, thought and action ; but that, as matter of fact, they all grow differ ntly and unequally. All the seeds produced by the same trt e or species of trees have this sort of equal ity, and yet no two trees growing from them will be alike or equal. All apple seeds have the same germ principles, yet some grow into crabs and others into rambots. The germs and tendencies have different forces and develop differently By their fruit you shall know and dis tinguish them, and not by any arbitrary or metiphysical principle. No one supposes that the savage is equal to the philosopher, the mean to the honorable, the impure to the pure, the apprentice to the adept, the burglar to the best citizen, or the rebel to the true pa triot. Ily their works you shall know and distinguish them, aid learn their worth. Equal at birth ! Who can know that, ex cept by their growth ? And therefore this is not Bell-evident. But even if it , were, the law and the state do nut govern ' babes, though it extends protection to them : and if they grow differently and unequally, this fact of equality in birth can have no influence in legislation about their conduct as men. Equal in the eircumstanres of their birth ? Then it is as well to be born in Africa as in America or Great Britain, and it makes no difference, whether one's parents are pagan or christian, religious or irreligious, mcral or immoral, poor or rich, ignorant or vicious, white or black. Indian, Turk or Tartar ; and then all forms of institutions, involving human sacrifice and all torms of corrupt and de grading laws are equal to our own. Of ' couese this is not its meaning. Equal before the law? Then the child, the beggar, the burglar. the liar and the murderer are equal lo the President, or to the beat statesman in the land. Then there is no difference between strong and weak, sharp and simple men, rogues and dupes, and no man can plead that his weakness or simplicity has been imposed upon by superior strength, influence or cunning; yet the law actually does tree: such acts as illegal and repair them us well as it can. This meaning is therefore neither self evident nor true. And when two races of people, with different cus toms and institutions come together on the same land, one race is always made the subject of the other. Thus the Ito mans always subjected conquered coun tries to its rule; thus the Normans sub jected the Anglo Saxons: the Franks sub jected the Gauls; the Lombards. the Ital• Iona; the Vandals, the Spaniards: and it they had not done no, they would have been themselves the snbjecte of the others, or been conipelled to lave. Thu interior race in power or civilization, call r.et be part of the State except as sul;jects of it. We could not have admitted our Indians as members of the State, except as su/i,cel members; for we could nut allow their savage notions to influence our legisla tion, without degrading our laws. In the 'actual conduct of society all men are treated proportionally, rather than equally; that is, according to the social appreciation of their merits; and no civil law or metaphysical principle can change this. We all admit the social duty that the laws shall create no distinctions among men and cast uo obstructions in the way of any ones social progress, further than is necessary for the protec tion of the social oreanization. But this duty, is not at all the self evident fact that all men are by nature equal; and the duty was not deduced from that supposed fact. There never was an actual political system deduced from this or any other abstract principle, and never can be. I shall show hereafter how very limited is the true meaning of this natural equality; and how pernicious is that method of rea soning that would build a system upon it. Law never creates nnequality among men, for it directs no man's pursuits, edu cation, maintenance, or associations. Its business is to maintain order among all the different characters, occupations and relations of society. It does no violence to society by forbidding the distinctions that naturally accompany individual and social growth, or by rudely breaking down those that exist. These differences are an essential part of our social freedom. To forbid them is to forbid all moral and intellectual growth, and all trades and professions, and all progress. It was not law that created the distinction between master and slave; but the natural die tinction between two races and be- I tween babarism and civilization caused a profound social -distinction, and re ' gamed one to be a subject, and the other the ruling race. No doubt the law has gone too far in fixing this social dis tinction, and making it parmount, when it ought only to be provisional—a prepara tion for a more homogeneous, equal and happy state of society, or for some sort of escape for the inferior race into a more hopeful condition. -But your doctrine of epiality points to no way of escape, except by degrading by law the supe>ior rare. If you carry out your doctrine fully and logically, yon will treat every man's labor as equal in reward and respect, and make the hod-carrier , egtial 'the*:huilder, the apprentice to I his master, and ignorance to science,' though the aspirations , ofnligood men of every degree contradict the result. If you are really in earnest in proclaiming this doctrine of equality, why not begin with wakes? All men are equal, therefore all inequality of wages is unjust and is prohibited; and all inequality of property is unjust, and there must be an equal di vision. I shall show hereafter that this is the consequence usually drawn from this doctrine of equality. Forbid all inequality, and make all more equal, irrespective of goodness, wisdom and skill and of social estimate; and then there will be no one above and below in society, and no one will have anything to aspire to, no higher examrles to imitate, and all will be at the dead level of a herd of cattle. Do, Sir, stop and reflect before you announce such crude and destructive doctines from your high place. if you were to suce - .ed in them, you would soon bring all society down to the lowest bar barism; for you would suppress all the hopes that urge men onward and upward, in the varied pursuits of civilized society, to the attainments of such merits as render them respectable in the large or small circle of their acquaintance, and crush all the aspirations out of which civilization grows. The law can fix no values either of men or things or acts or of social position.— All these depend on the estimate of so ciety: not on arbitrary estimate certainly, but one made np according to the na ture of man, his education. civilization, habits, customs, hopes and wishrs, and to the fitness of thirgs to attract nod satis fy his affections. No buza can fix such value. They change with the moral chang es of society. No savage people can value men and things and acts as a civilized people does. Men naturally take such a position in society as the appreciation of them by society call for: end this appre ciation can never he forced by /ay. Very respectfully, yours, Alonsfs. From the National Intelligerwer To Be or Not to Be? The very interesting letter inserted be low is from a gentleman of intelligenceand honor, personally well known to us, and whose statements of fact are entitled to full credit. Ile is, moreover, a thorough loyalist, and has been a uniform and de cided friend of the Administration. The result of his observations in a recent and extended tour in the South he hes thought of sutticient interest to be eommunicated to the public here, and we are sure that all of our readers will agree with him : NORYJI.K. August To the, Ed's of the National Ittleitigeneer Having just returned from a tour through portions of the Sates of Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Ten nessee, end Kentucky, and having met in my travels many of the former prominent politicians of those States, and, as was most natural under the circumstances, had frequent conversations with them on the subject of the war, its origin. objects, hearings on the present and future c t our country, and its ir,:tbahle result, I feel as sured to some extent that a brief Eynopei of the impressions made on my mind will not be altogether unacceptable to, your readers. The war, they argue, was instituted for the purpose of securing further guaran tees to their own peculiar institutions— slavery—and to repress abolitionism or I,crthern aggressions on their rights. Its bearing on the institution has been to weaken and endanger its entire overthrow They admit that they have been deceived by their political leaders, and that nearly all their promises have proven failures 1 hey see, they feel the crushing tilleuts of the war upon the Slave S,ates. and admit if it indefinitely cortirue that the institu tion of slavery will not only be in danger of annihilation. but that theic former slaves will be drafted into the army of the United States for the Purpose of continu ing the war on the South. This one single fact bears more heavily upon them than any-thing else connected with the war: and to escape this now ap• parent inevitable fats, they r xprees a wil lingness to accede to any terms which shall not humiliate and degrade them They affirm (in fact they expect, they hone, they pray for it) that it is not for them to beg for peace, but for the Presi dent to hold out the olive-branch: and if the President were to issue a proclama tion bolding their leaders to a striet ac countaktity for the rebellion, and deer people protection in person and prop erly, leaving the institution of slavery to the constitutional immunity rf ••;tiate laws. they will not only accept it, but will hail the act as magnanimous, noble and great. Thus it will be perceived that the great masses of the Southern people are stand ing On a point of honor, which to them is of far greater import than defeat in battle. the loss of strongholds, or the reduction of their armies. All this they can bear, but dishonor they cannot bear, and they hope, they expect, they pray that the President will spare theta this unspeaka ble humiliation. In view of these simple truths, I would ask, Messrs. Editors, through tie medium of your invaluable journal, if the Presi dedt cannot atiotd to be magnanimous? If, after the fall of Charleston, he cannot stl'ird to offar sonic , terms which shall in duce the great body of the Southern peo ple to rPturn •to their allegiance to the Federal Union and the Government of the United States? If he be ambitious of en viable fame, he will do it if he desires to be remembered as the second Washington, he will do it 1 if he wishes to secure to himself the appellation of Abraham the Great. he will do it; if he wishes to imi tate the example of Hut who said "9,, Own and sin no more," he will do it ; and, I may add, if he wishes to proclaim the popular sentiment of the American peo ple' and the sentiment of humanity, civili zation, and Christianity throughout the world, he will do it; which God grant, for peace's sake. Yours, very truly, JOHN Audis, Mr. HORACE GREELEY contributes an essay on Wendell Phillips to this week's Independent, in which occurs the follow ing singular passage: 'Mr• Phillips over-ostinantcs the int portan..e of the part played by himee f and his lit' le hand in the area, drama now approaching it s con summation These sworn toe. t f phariech,ii have a most pharisaic conceit of th , it ca ❑ recrk And its consequences; which mis ends and undu ly inflates them They as-ail or else condes cendingly patronize men who have been as fai h ful to their ligbt and se useful in their sphere so themselves. This conceits o ten distorts and e hibits them to disadvantage. "Flitch your wa• eon to a star" its wholesome adr ice: hut if you ahou d happen to get the notion into your Lend that y , a are drawing the star, instead of bei g drawn by it you wi 1 probably he led i to mis chievous phantasirs and pernicious eccentrici ties." Every word of this is as true of Gree- ley himself as is of Phillips. The "mis chievous phantasies" and "pernicious ec• centricities" for which he is noted spring from the same narrow egotism of which he complains in his associate agitator.— If he and the fanatical party he acts with could only realize that men who differ from them in foto may be as honest and as "faithful to their light" and "useful in their sOlieres" as themselves, it would be-the beginning of a new era of good feeling in this country. But so long as we have a party in the country that be lieves its creed embraces all the truth, and insists upon forcing : its notions upon all other parties, so long will the fountains of bitterness continue to•flow. 'Physician, heal thyself," NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE SOUTH-WEST. Successful Operations up White and Bed RiVers—All the Rebel Steamers on the Yazoo Destroy— ed, &c. WASHINGTON, August 28. Rear Admiral Porter forwards the re port of Lieutenant Bache relative to the late river expedition. He first stopped at Des Are, on the White river, and burnt rebel stores, destroyed the telegraph wires, and thdn sent the Cricket after the steamers Tom Gregg and Kaskasia, which he had reason to believe were hid up the river, while he end the Marmora proceed ed to Augustus, thirty miles further.— There he obtained valuable information of the enemy, which was subsequently con firmed—namely, that the grand South ern army was concentrating at Brownsville to make their line of defence on the Bayou hleto. General Price was there, and 3enertil Kirby Smith at Little Rock.— General Marmadnke had crossed the river a few days before, and was then crossing Little Red river. Leaving the Marmara off the mouth, Lieutenant Bache went up the Little Red with the Lexington. When about twenty five miles distant lie met the Cricket with two prizes which she had captured et Scurry, h teen miles further on. She also destroyed Mermaduke's pontoon bridge, leaving a portion of the letter's brigade on :he other hide of the river. The Cricket wee , fired into by Marmadnke'e men, and had about twenty soldiers wounded out of ore hundred and fifty. Both yesaels were attacked coming down the river. 'Some cotton and a few prisoners were captured with the prizes. The Tom Gregg is a'fine side-wheel steamer, as is also the Kaskas kia, thought somewhat older. They are now officered and manned, and are retain ed to co operate with the army. All along the river the farmers were glad at our presence, and many Union demonstra tions were made. The captured boats were the only means of transportation the rebels had on the river, and therefore our taking them ih a heavy blow inflicted upon them. Lieutenant Dunnington, who was formerly captured while in command of Arkansas Post, is now fitting out at Little Rock the Ponchartrain, the last rem the rebels have in these waters. If she ven tures outside the shoals Admiral Porter says she will be captured. Admiral Porter, in communicating the results of the last expedition up the Ya zoo river to recover the Baron De Kalb, the particulars of which have already been published, says that the visit cost the reb els more than was at first supposed. Captain Walker has received informa lion to be relied on, that, besides the five -tempers at or near the city of Yazoo, iqrilic Brown, late Lieutenant in the Uni ted States Davy. in a panic. and for fear the y would fall into our hands, set fire to and destroyed fourteen others, among them nine large ones, the machinery of which was intended to be sent to Selma, Alabama, for the gunboats building there. The , P ere no more steamers on the Yazoo. All the veseele which sought refuge there as the safest place in rebeldom have been destroyed. A Curious experiment To tht Editors ,1 the Erening I'ost : Will some of our scientific readers en deavor to explain a coricus phenomenon, which has been witnessed by many, but to account for which 1 have been unable to elk it any satisfactory theory : Fill a ccrurnon wine glass with water, so tLnt it w ill be difficult to add wore without overflowing, or, except with a very steady hand, to raise it to your lips without spilling. If asked how many pins could be drop• tied into this glass thin tilled without caus ing the water to overflow, some perhaps would answer, half a dozen or a dozen, ethers might say possibly twenty or tihirty ; many would affirm the impossibility of putting in a single pin : none who had never seen the experiment tried would be lieve it poseible that eight hundred or nine huhdred pins could be Oaced in the glass without the overflowing of a drop of water. Yet such is the fact, as any one can sasisfy himself by careful experiment. It only necessary to drop the pins in, points downward, gently and cautiously, one, two or three at a time, and you can continue it till the glass is pretty closely packed with the pins, and they are piled half an inch or an inch above the surface. I have frequently seen more than eight hundred pins of fully average size, and in one instance more than nine 'htindred, weighing three ounces. put in a common tapering cherry glass. which had been fairly filled with water, to the satisfaction of several persons present, who were pre viously skeptical as to the possibility of the perfoi mace. It may be said that the water must, of course, rise above the edge of the glass to an extent exactly equal to the bulk of the yins ; but this does not appear to be the case—the rise of the water being compara• Lively small. The fact that eight or nine hundred pine, weighing three ounces, and filling a wine gli REY:all be submerged in a wine glass full of water, without increas ing the volume of the latter in a corres pouding degas e, is sufficiently curious and interesting to make it worthy of seientfic investigation.E. W. 8. New YORK, 24th August { We print our correspondent's letter, but do not vouch for his assertions. Frank• lin as said to have puzzled some French savants with similar statements, but he took care not to commit himself to them. A DIFFERENCE between the Republican and Democratic parties is ,this 7 —a few years' service in the former party Unfits man for office and he is laid on the shelf to make room for some man from the De mocratic party. A man who will sell his principle will steal—therefore it is no wonder that the Republican party is the moat dishonest ever known, as a lot of old rogues are the toughest of society. DIED At 'he r. , sidorce of her father Bon. Thomas Irwin. on the f 1 ult., Mr , . Meta 11 BROWN, a ifs of John 11. Brown, of Philadelphia- The funeral will take place on Wednesday, the 2d Inst., from the house of her father, corner of Grant and Diamond &treat', at 3 o'clock P. M. (Chronicle copy.) B(ERHAVE'S BITTFRS, BCERHAVE'S BITTEBS, IMERHAVE'S BITTERS, 'the Great Care for Dyspepsia, The Great Cure f..r Dyeuettia. The Great Cure for DYsPePsia. Selling at Half Price by SIMON JOHNSTON, corner Smithfield and Fonrth street nut 2 Burnett7s Cocoaine, Only GO cents. The most complete asosrtment of pure and genuine Drugs, Medicines, Pe/Turnery, Liquors, Soaps, Hair Brushes, &c., Sc., to be found in the nits% DRATE'S PLANTA t TIONT. - - Wholesale and Retail at loweafees.- 81110 JOHNSTON. au24 corner Smithfield and Fourth ats TRIYAGR APE IC. LATEST FROM CHARLESTON, BOMBARDMENT OF THE CITY. Expedition Fitting Out at New Orleans, Guerrilla Moseby Reported Dead. REBEL PARTY CAUGHT IR A TRAP Death of the Rebel Floyd. &c,, &c., &C., &c. Primenzi.Pnie, Aug. 30.—The Charles ton papers of last Monday give the partic ulars of the bombardment of the city by Gilmore. Of thirteen shells fired, twelve l i 8 inch fell in the city. The firing com menced between one and two o'clock on Saturday morning, arousing the people from their slumbers. No person injured. Most of the shells fell in the middle of the streets.. One entered the warehouse of Mr. Williams, on the corner of King and Church streets, and exploded in the upper story, making a large opening in a brick wall of the Medical Purveyor's storehouse, scattering things in great confusion.— Some straw ignited causing the alarm of fire, but it was extinguished without much trouble. Four shells fell in this locality. NEW YORK, August 29.—Advicee to the Times trom New Orleans to the 29th inst. via Cairo 30th, are very important. Military movements were going on, but their character we are left to imagine. We are assured, however, that we will soon hear of events which will make us rejoice. The prices of the necessaries of life have still fu!ther receded in New Orleans, in consequence of the continued arrivals from above. The communications with St, Louis and other points are now considered quite regular. General Banks has recently issued two important orders; one, directing (4'41-al Butler'sassessments to be enforced against the parties who subscribed to the loan rais ed to defend New Orleans against the United States authority, and the other, directing the Banks of the city to pay over to the Quartermaster's Department all monies in their possession, belonging to registered enemies, or those convict od of rendering aid and comfort to the enemy. NEW YORK, August 31—The Herald's special froth Warrenton Junction of the 30th, says :--I have Just received a die- paten from Fairfax Station saying that five more of White's geurrillas, captured near that place this morning, state that Mose by was shot twice in the bowels and breast, and that he had been taken to Richmond. A party that brought prisoners in state they were informed by citizens of Draines ville, on yesterday, that Moseby died near that place on Friday. The prisoners do not doubt the report, as he was pro nounced to be mortally wounded. White now commands the Confederate forces north of the Railroad. NEW 'Voss, August 31.—The Tribune specials from Washington, dated the 30th, says : Letters received at the General Land Office from Marysville, California, speak of considerable activity in the sales of government land along the lines of com• pleted and projected railroads. On Sunday last, two men belonging to the Confederate navy arrived in this city, sent up from camp at Point Look-out, and were incarcerated in the old capitol prison. Their story may be told thus : On the night of Wednnsday, August 12th, Lieut. Wood, of the Confedertite Navy, left Rich mond with seventy•one men, four boats loaded upon wagons, and about a dozen wagons containing stores, ammunition, &c. The expedition proceeded across the Chickahominy river. taking the route of the Army of the Peninsula. They crossed the Pamnulty and Matapony rivers, and on Saturday reached the Piankatank Here the olject of the expedition be came known. On the river there is sta tioned a United States gunboat. fhe in tention of Lieut.. Wood was to surprise the gunboat and kill or capture the crew and then put to sea as a pirate. In case the boat was well.provided with stores and ammunition his wagons could return to Itichmond. If anything was needed he had all that was requisite with him. Every preparation was made for the success of the expedition. The men were armed with rifles, pistols and cutlassess. On Sunday the forcewas divided—sixty. four men to go with Lient. Wood, and the balance to go with the wagons. On Sunday night the party set out with their boats, and soon reached the neighborlood of the gunboat. Instead of surprising the crew, however, the rebels were themselves surprised; for when within three hundred yards the gunboat. was suddenly illumi nated; and such a deadly discharge poured into their boats that only Lient. Wood and four men escaped. ST. Louts, August 31.—The Repabli can's Memphis special, speaking of mat ters in Arkansas, says : Gen. Price with some 2,500 rebels, is at Bayou Metarie, a stronger point on White river, fourteen miles above Duvall's Bluff, where a battle is expected•to be fought.— Oar forces are now at Duvall's Bluff, fifty four miles from Little Rock. This point will probably be the base of supplies, as it can be reached by White river at its lowest stage of water. Skirmishing is con stantly going on, but our losses are slight. Rebel force in Southern Texas is estima ted at eighteen thousand. Gen. Magrn. der bas enforced toe conscription to its fullest extent. The rebel gunboat Grand Duke, with 500 bales of cotton, was burn ed at Shreveport. Naw Yonx, August 31.—The Herald has Mexican dates to August 6th, stating that—Minitatlan had been captured by the French, and an expedition had started -En occupy' -Tampico: It is_ reported that Jaarez was fleeing to Zexas. - 4tc Mexican paper thinks thdre" is danger of war with the United States. TO-DAY'S AbItEiTTIOnIiNIO7B ggst ER ICELLEYVILLF. io BOP E IST Y fnr sale.--Awell built and convenient dwell ing home. suitab a for two SaMitiPF. each having a portico. h-lt, five rooms and cellar, stable and other 11M:dings, large outern, gripe vines, fluit and shade 'ire e.rleaelt.t.l. a to te tat Chestnut street. rot 100 ft et front by lro deop to an all; 7. For price and terms min.‘• th S• cer n iszwr at SON, eel l Market etrPsf. c a-re RTNkR6IIIP .NOTIC nil HE BIISI NESS HERIETOIVOTRE c ndnot.d by JAMES A FETZEK: deo'd, will be condone I by his -widow and WM. O. • • MS MONO who hae long been engaged wfth Mr Netz , r, and •r the sante tender , of YEW'S tt S"HONK t rodace and Cornmasi n Merchants, No, 16 Market Street. Pitubnrah• IhoftiendsofMr Paz a ara reset ettnHy vslic ited to continue their patro - A age to t te n , w firth. M Y VI? rz taw eel-lead WM. C. ARMSTRONG. AAPPLES. 75 bblt choice green apples. just received and for sale by ZER .Sc ARM QT 201 6. sel corner Mark t and First stmts. NOTICE. IRIVERS OF ADMINISTRATION on the eatate of JAMES A. FETZER, de ceased. having been granted to the undersigned. all persons indebted to, or having claims against, said decedent are hereby notified to call and Bet tie the same with my Attorney, b. Cuthbert, 51 Market street. kit'sburgh. an3l:l3t MART J. FETZER, Adams. A LARGE STOGIE ON BOYS, YOUTHS and CHILDREN'S SHOES, Just roceived at Dint ENB A CHER'S. No. 15 Fifth etrr et o °RNEI - COPIA SALOON, Corner of Fifih and 'Union Streets, near Liberty. 110ROGS, TURTLE SOUP AND ALL Jr other delicacies in the r season served up The bar is supplied with the tort tf Liget( es: au29 tt FRED. Wltid. LADIEti & MISSES HOOP SKIRTS, ALL SIZES, AT IFCLELLAND'S AUCTION HOBE 55 Fifth Stteet. s ,4,7,-1 Ilk = 2 E;1:,1 000 ;51.E5 CM me.2:--';' .1 CO -ti . n ivz zi. r.W1.71 1 P d Cr tt T, 4 , z do ....c 4 5.W 9 a C 41 ..0...F., -'1 V. i.-:. 0 w 0 Ft 7 41 P;;:,2Z-.. ~, tr.' 40 ~. 2E.- [' z e .0. '' 4 ~, ,-1 0 gV: a Z 0 .. SCIIII Z tl. 01, 0 T t i i;,. 5..,0g: k L. zo ".' 0 .- ;t - 7 - A: 4 2 Ro a qt .m- , tz ;,..7 () • n 0 X C X. s.tg . ..., ' m g ,, ir. R. r N '• frvs.' id .i Da W a la.. • GO Ea 1§ 4 - tz ° a SUMMER DRESS GOOD' Selling at ONE HALF PRICE HIIGII4 & HACKE. °enter FMIt aril Market streets. riTERESTIZO TO THE LADIES! We are selling, at a REDUCED PRICE Cott on Hosiery, Gloves, Lace Mitts, Embroideries, Veils, Sleeves. Waists, &e., Flo - op Skirts, slightly moiled, half price. We are recalling the latest rtyles of Head Dresses, Nets, New Fall Dress Tritrunings BELTS, BIICHLES, .to- WHOLESALE ROOMS up stairs• DL4IOII,IIRE & GLYDE, No, 7f,.1 Market st.; suisdaw Betwan Fourth and Diamond. TO•DA'Y'S AtiVERTISEMENTS. M SV, 72 . w z _ F., m 1 2 -e7 o B," 9„%4T11.u0 6 Or 4 : - i ' '".; 1 7 . : 7. : p 1= 0 ' . W . g1 2.1.. ..Egri , ‘tt . 2.. M. ~ . 9 . ~.tz gc n .6.1 C''' rt. - .0...,0 0 ; ;4 S `... ' gg i q.§ -4- =a...'o, o , .., * ... . . FP . nIM. 4" ~. II pm" v,„ . ' ;rolg.-17g.t"'Thi, 1i,.-,7. v,e. r , p.,,A 4 iv , tq- emsrr P' • 000m,70.m m c*, ' 2 ,-s9g,Etifws; e. liM • 0 " - gq 1 TaV a WA ? velqaPi: o t e. 'Z4 1 'f 4 SOg'ltg'km i l 2 w e. X* et' e-4 d l At:42;;;=el r'' P= o * „t 1 M z n go m '4.t?..1 - F01g0...m 00= ....a Pm44lmE- <=, -00.4, ~m . g ,- zzo -,,,, ii.. 77 mi ..- ET-Altg.7.!4f QTATIE3eENT OF THE IRON CIT BANK' PITTRItrRGIT, Aug. 31, 1863. Capital Stock $400,000 i Loans and Discounts 497.214 • U.S. and Pa- B •nds it Certitk area 632.500 Pile by U S. SO-Treasury 335,5r0 Dye by other Banks -.; 145,395 Notes and Checks of itlicr Banks, and United States Treasury Note, 233,796 Specie 1 132;178 Circulation 762,785 Duo to other Banks 36,740 Due. to Deposit* 746,196 The above Statement is eerrect according to tl best of my knowledge and belief. . hia(4oFFIN. Cashier. Affirmed unto bolo mo this day. a 1 8 NI 11 11, Nortary Public. SCIIO L 1300111{ ntel in the PCBLIC SCHOOLS, H►HH (,BOIL, ISELEg T SCHoOI.B, I'E3La LE Co L LEG E, WESTLRN LIN ivErtsrr and the various eirmaticnal institutierm in tl city and vicinity. Also a complete assortment of SCHOOL STATIONARY, Cnpy-Bookr, Pens. Ink, Pencils, slates, Rabb Writing. Letter end Note Paper, ItnveloP Trdivii.,g Pater, Rates, Composition Books. t ror Este at, Crag; C. MELLOR'S. 81 Wt od street, Pittsburgh FOR SALE AI:ITY4'I7 /I WE BE COITATNRY RES A. DBNCE, occupied by , the subscriber, o mile from the city. on the - Brownsville turnpib commanding a view of the cities suberbs a ten miles of the livers. The BRICK HOBS of modern st, le, hht eleven rooms besides ba room and cellar and dcnble Verandah. T b' use is newly pal erect and ainted tied is so plied with lit and t old Wa er.drawn in t house from spline and rainwater cisterns; a lax Brick Stabl, partings .Hotise. Ice Home, a The lot has tne acre, enclo,ed by a atone we high fence and hedge, witn over one hundr ch.ies bearing- Fruit Tues. Grape Vines a every variety of small fruits and shrubbery, t Place having teen twenty_ veers under on! viit•en. To those wanting w DESIRABLE II PRO VED PttOFlitttY. in complete ordi thit is an oppo-tuni'y seldem to be met wit It is within vie.* of the city and only twee mi autee walk b • ei•her bridge - and ten minut , walk from the Itirmineham Street Railway, H, ill DWELL, C , reer of IVatcr street and Cherry Alley augt-lwi U IV L. TWENTY-FIVE DOLLAR: _ . 41,r.,V74.1 / Cit 10 3 IIGRAN'i'S • brought out from Live pool. Londonderry, Cork., or Or way, to New York, in MIST CLASS MA. STltAlu ERS, for Twenty-Faye Dollars. Parties also brought out by Sailing Vessel lowest rates. Apply to Chronicle building. 70 'FM d., D i t O sb N ] jytstf CALL 11.30RL14 Ckar t Wo are now roping off our stock of BOOTS and SHOES AT VERY LOW RATE! To make room for our Fall and Winter Goods. - I:PECIALTIE4 AT RANIIINS Acre, 63 Mame. street, three doors bel 4th street. Baulk l.'s Spiced Blackberry, For Dit" rhoea; Dieinteiy, Cholera Infante Eankin's By-tract Rimii. For all diseasel of the Kidneys and Bladd Radian's Philocrine. A hair dressing of intrinsic val Figaro Segiira, Hard and Soft Rubber Syringe% Hand 1, rora, ,ko., at lidiNllll4 S DRUG STORE; an 27 No, 63 Market street, below Faure T RUSSES. TRUSSES, TRUSSES, TRUSSES, TRUSSES, TRUSSES, TRUSSES, TRUSSES, TRUSSES, A superior article of Trusses. The latest i provemernt. ' Hard Rubber Trusses, Hard Rubber Trusses, Hard Rubber Trusses, Those wishing a good Truss and at a low pr ahoutd call and examine „ray stook before D' chasing elsewhere. Superior Carbon OM Burning Ash and Pot Ash, Perfumery and Patent Medicines of . • • kinds. A large and complete assortment of 0' Butte and Hard Rubber. Syringes. it emem the place, ' At Joseph Fletnipg's Drug Store, At Joseph Fleming's Drug Store, At Joseph Flemir g's Drug Store, Corner of the Diamond and Market etre, Corner of the Diamond and Market stre, au2o STRICTLY PURE ARTICLES Mow Prices. PITTSBURGH HUG HOUSI TORRENCE & AteGARR, Avorrlii&-c A. nazi „ Corner Fourth an d Market streets. PrlVlßillteg, DRUGS! DRUGS I DRUGS! MEDICINES-1 MEDICINES I MEDICINES! MEDICINES CHEMICALS! •CHENIICALS CHEMICALS 2. CHEMICALL DYES ! " DYES • DYES PAINTS! PAINTS I PAINTS ! PAINTS 1 PAINTS 1 PAINTS t PAINTS 1, PAINTS I PAINTS I OILS I OILS! OILS! SPICES ! SPICES I SPICES ! SPICE SPICES ! SPICES! SPICES 1 SPICE SPACES SPICES! SPICES! SPICE! Soda. Cream Tartar. Eng. Mustard..b. French. gualhir: and American Perfumer and Toilet articles. Brushes. Trusses, Pate Aledialnes, and ad Druggist articles. Strict pure articles. 'Low price.a. WS. Ykluunans "Prescrir dons accurately ea pounded at all lours. Pure Wince and Liqums for medicin oats.: ival a 134 1101111 1 1 Z •Zz' MERTZ . , BAIIIKEEB, No, piviiroed St., second doo lobo , • Fifth Street, -111111AI*ELS:ASIZONISION J. 7 liseheninAlloin & Benk Soto. and Gem meld Secoultier. vousouoni newilus okays to ott, The genuine bra
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