More Soldier*. It is conceded that more men are need ed to finish the business ot putting down the rebellion. The only question is, how ■hall they be raised ? The Government adheres to the drafting system as the best, and is asking Congress to make it more effective bv repealing the commutation clause. Congress, representing the peo ple whose war this is, and who intend to fight it through, have thus far hesitated to do away with the commutation, there by indicating a want of faith in the draft as the means for keeping the armies up. Ilerein we think th» immediate represen tatives of the people are wiser than the other branch of the Government; but un der the presure it is doubtful whether this wisdom will continue to the cud. ID our judgment, the mistake which tbe Government make?, is in not appreci ating the rfillingnesss of the country to furnish soldiers to the number required. The only unwillingness existing that we know of, is to bo drafted. It is a system that effectually closes every avenue to the popnlar heart, and extinguishes the feel ing without which the Government will be powerless. It is time the Government knew this pregnant fact. Take a given number of citizens, unanimous in their opposition to the draft; the Government has but to popularize its call and moans, to put two-thirds of them in the ranks.— Such is the fact here, and we believe it to be so elsewhere. We think we can as sure the President, the Secretary of War. and Congress, that if two hundred thou sand or five hundred thousand men are wanted to finish the business, they have but to put that fact hffore the country, in tbe place of the hated, chillingdraft, make ail appeal straight to the popular heart, and the mon can be obtained as rapidly as they can be an tied. It is no argument to say that they will be now mon. They will be no ncwerthan you will get under the draft—nn substi tutes with but the single motive of deser tion—but earuest men whose hearts arc in the right place. Besides, there arc no new men now in the sense of the term two years ago. The people have been educa ted and disciplined within that time by constant contemplation and greater or less familiarity with actual warfare. Recent experience has disposed of that pica. Whatever the Government does, if it expects success, it must have the popular heart iu its favor. Without this you can not get tho men—even if you could, they would not avail you. Therefore, the only thing to be done is to get in symathy with tho peoplo and then act together.— Certain we are, the repeal of the commu tation clause will not be a step in that di rection. It is evident that whatever the plau is. the capital of thecountry must in theend boar a large shareof the burden. Inthis view of the case, tho association of gen tlemen of wealth—most of them exempt from military duty—was formed in New York, to procure men and place them in the ranks at once. To facilitate efforts of this kind, tho following circular has been issued by the Provost Marshal General: WAR DEPARTMENT. 1 Tito. MAR. GENERAL'S OFFICE, - WASHINGTON, D. C., June 26. ) Persons uot fit for military duty and not liable to draft from age or other causes, have expressed a desire tc he personally represented in the army. 11l addition to the contributions tliey have made in the way of bounties, they propose to raise at their own expense and present for enlist ment recruits to present them in the ser vice. Such practical patriotism is wor thy of special commendation and encour agement. Provost-marshals affd all other officers acting under this bureau, are or dered to furhish all the facilities in their power to enlist and muster promptly ac ceptable representative recruits, presented in accordance with the design herein set forth. The name of the person whom the recruit represents will be noted on the en listment and dcscrsptivc rolls of the re cruit, and will be carried forward from these papers to the other official records which form this military history. Suita bly prepared certificates of this personal representation in the service will be for warded to this- office to be filled out and issued by the provost-marshals to tho per sons who putin representative recrusts. JAMKS 15. FRY. Provost.Marshal General We understand that some of our lead ing citizons, manufacturers aud capital ists, are considering the question of or ganizingaccording to the New York plan now legally provided for. By this means the wants of the Government would be provided for, and the rigors of the draft materially mitigated—perhaps the ex treme sort wholly avoided. We feel con fident that the quota of Allegheny coun ty can be tilled in this way; and that the plan will prove to bo uot only effec tive, but popular.— Pitts. Com. AN EXAMI'LI;. —In oue respect the South has set us an example. Through out the South, North Caroliua excepted, there have been no political parties since the war began. The legislation of the rebel Congress has related almost exclu sively to the raising and equipping of ar mios and fleets, and providing sinews of war. Democrat and Whig have become obsolete words in the Southern vocabula ry. The predominating and absorbing is sue is, shall Confederate independence be maintained and the American Union con tinue broken. We wish our politicians had allowed that to be the test and only important question with us, also—that they had «uuk partisanism as the rebels have done, and narrowed the contest to one of simply national existence. But they have not done so — Pitt*. Com. tgt* The Wheeling Sanitary Fair has been opened under auspicious circUm- Btanoos Governor Boremau delivered the address. He concludes as follows: Let us look at the position. How shall we act 7 Shall we think of compromise or a withdrawal of tho army ? Shall we after so muchlossof lifcand money .throw down our arms aud recognize the" rebels. No. God forbid it! The rebels aro ar rayed against us with powerful armies, but we must put them down. We must not give up. We have the men and the mon ey, and unborn generations call for to oling to and proteot the Government and regard the right* of the people. Jn the Rear of Richmond. The authenticated reports of our cavalry achievements, taken in con nection "with the ascertained results of Hunter's movements, give to the grand campaign against Richmond a most hopeful' aspect. The most certain way to besiege a city or fortress is to isolate it by cutting off its communica tions. This done, the period of de fence will be no longer than the sup plies on hand will last. This is the principle on which Grant is now con ducting the campaign against Rich mond. The expedition under Wil son and Kautz, having for its object the destruction of the Danville out let, having been successful, the roads running from Kichrnond can no lon ger be depended on as reliable means by which Lee can obtain supplies He mnj' v. Mor j ton, of Indiana, for assistance rendered I during Morgan's recent raid says: "The appearance of Vallandighain iu Ohio sim ultaneously with Morgan's raid into Ken tucky, fully confirms the matter made known to mo through Gen. Lindscy, by you." It is impossible for any loyal man to have a particle of sympathy with Val landigham. The most observable feature ot the Democratic policy is the failure to suggest measures more just, feasible and efficient for the suppression of the rebellion, than those of Mr. I incoln's which they so bit terly denounce. Were they really sincere in their professed desire to see the des truction of treason and the dispersion of its hosts, they would hesitate in the de nunciation of Mr. Lincoln unless they were ablo to indicate what course it would > be better for him to adopt. The rebel lion is a positive fact, and it can only be conquered by positive, determined means —negatives cannot accomplish the pur pose. Whatever may be said of Mr. Lin coln's measures, the fact that they arc the j best the necessities of the war have sug gested is clearly vindicated, lt is easy to state a denial, but very difficult at times j to support it. A man in a storm at sea j will not cast away his plank unless he has j a surer and safer means of succor within j reach. But Democrats, like Sampson, j desire to throw down the pillars which j support the structure, that perfect, ruin may follow.— Pills. Com. ONE TIIINO CLEAR —ft is clear that as Gen. Grant is sustained by tho Gov ernment and the people, eo will the future be. There is not ground for a single doubt that if he is backed up he will de- ; feat the rebels, and defeat now they con- j fess would bo fatal. The blows that he j has been dealing for tho last six weeks j kept up, will inevitably beat tho breach | out of tho rebellion. To end tho war at 1 the earliest moment, let ue sustain Grant, ' Tbc Fugitive Slave Law. The Souate 011 Thursday passed tho act repealing the Fugitive Slave laws of IT','3 and 1850, by a vote of 22 to 12. Wc give here tho Yeas and Nays: YEAS —Messrs. Anthony, Rrown, ('hand ler. Clark, Couness, Dixon, Foot, Grimes, Ilale, Harlan, Harris. Hicks. Howard, Howe, Lane (Ind.), Lane (Kansas), Mor gan, Morrill, Pomeroy, Ramsey, Sherman, Sprague, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade and Wilson. NAYS —Messrs. Buckalciv, Carlile, Cowan, Davis, Hendricks, Johnson. M'- Dougal, Powell, Riddle, Saulsbury, \ an Wintle and Willey. It sounds oddly in the year 1864 to read the names of two Pennsylvania Sen ators in the list of twelve nays on tho <[uestion of repealing the Fugitive Slave law; but such is tho humiliation of our great Commonwealth to-day, and such has almost ever been her fate. Pennsylvania has iurnished nearly two hundred thous and men to defend our sacred Nationality against tne assaults of Treason and Slavery, and full twenty-five thousand of thatnum bertill untimely and often nameless grave", —heroic sacrifices to the crowning crime of human bondage and its endless train of evils; add when an enlightened prog ress, dictated alike by humanity and Na tional necessity, seeks to bljit from our statue books the blistering evidence of our National abasement to Slavery. Pennsyl vania records a solid vote against it in the first legislative tribunal of the land. Fortunately the bill has passed and is now a law, despite the shame of our State. With Senator Buckalew we have noth ing to do. lie has disappointed 110 one— has sacrificed no convictions; violated no pledges; falsified no record, Hcwascho j sed by a legislature in sympathy with his j views, and he has simply been consistent iin error. But Senator Cowan has b*en I faithless to the sentiment that culled him | to responsible trust, and shamefully vio -1 lated his own voluntary record. In 1860, ! when the writer hereof was Chairmrn of tho State Committee, he was compelled to recall several appointments made for this same Edgar Cowan because of the radical abolition principles he advocated. His only theme seemed to be tho destruction of Slavery, and the blotting out of the last vestago of its power. 111 short be was radically in advance of tho times—then | holding and advocating views so violent I that, in tho absence of rebellion, they j could not be justified either in law or j comity. Before his election the formal j secession of several States was a matter | of history, and Slavery was about tore- I sort causelessly and wickedly to the terri ble arbitrament»of the sword. In such a I crisis, the supposed fidelity of Mr. Cow j an to the government and his known hos ! tility to the fruitful parent of our Nation jul discord, made him acceptable to the ! faithful men of the legislature, and lie S was clothed with the highest legislative j trust. Others might falter before the sc | ductions of power, or the disappointments j of small minds, but no one doubted that | there would ever be one faithful man in | the Senate —Edgar Cowan, of Pcnnsylva ! nia. Such were his antecedents —such his pledges—such the circumstances of his election, llow faithless lie has been, let his record tell. With Saulisbury and I'owell and Davis, and every open, inso-r lent sympashiser with treason, he votes habitually from day today, and shames his loyal friends and degrades his great State by his perfidy. When will Penn sylvania learn to value and cherish States men, rather than political adventurers?— Frunklin lirjiost fori/. | CONFIDENCE IN GEN. GRANT. —-'The more wo view this campaign," remarks ! the Philadelphia Press, "the m#rc thor- I oughly we are convinced of the justice of our faith in Grant; and when we read his assurance to the President, as reported in the newspapers, that lie will take Rich mond, we do not regard it as an evidence of vanity or presumption, but the confi dent calculation of a man who has exam ined the work before him, —a master-rafts | man who finds it within his power. We should like him to do it in our way and time. We should be delighted if he could do it dramatically, and take Richmond as he took Vicksburg, on the forth of July, i But still we care little for days and dates. I or the pomp and splendor of the event, Iso that it i.-» finally accomplished. We ! cherish this opinion the more earnestly because we believe that when Richmond tails the rebellion will be at an end. The | rebels seem to desire this, for they make I Richmond,as it were, the focus of their j power, by drawing around that city all their power, by drawing around that city : all their strength and substance. It is the I heart of the Confederacy, and when we | take it we shall have taken life itself from j the body of this monstrous rebellion." His power of generalship, says the N. Y. Times, which has evidently been more and more developed through Grant's whole career, is one great source of confidence that this difficult campaign will be brought ito a victorious conclusion. If Gen. Grant | finds the lines of the Chickahominy too j strong'for assult, as is intimated by our correspondent, he will undoubtedly attack ! Richmond by some other line, and thus | draw Lee from his intrenchments. llis campaign against Vicksburg showed how fertile in resources was his mind, and we must not be surprised if various means of attacking Lee, with varying success, are attempted, before the final and successful one. A just cause, a most brave and en during army, and a general of high mili tary skill and great tenacity of purpose — with these in view, we can afford to wait calmly for the future. JBraT' There is a tree near the present quarters of iShcrman's army, called the '•fatal tree." Eight men were shot, one after another, as soon as they advanced to the fatal tree to take a secure position be hind its huge trunk. .Seven men wero shot, when a board was placed therewith the word " Dangerous' 1 chalked upon it. The rebels shot the guide-board into frag ments. and asergerut unsuspectingly took his place behind the tree. In less than five minutes two minnio balls pierced the sergeant's body, and he fell the eighth martyr beneath the shadow of the tree of death. t&~ A down east editor says that mod esty is a quality that highly adorns a wo man. but ruins a man One Year Ago. One year Pittsburgh was menaced by an overwhelming rebel farce, which had crossed the State b< rler, threaten in}:; to reduce to ashes the cities of the North. Our city, as a point of great value to the government, by reason of its manufactories, was particularly threaten ed. At the call of danger, our citizens prepared for defense, and an extensive range of fortifications will long remain to testify their zeal and labors. The state of things then—the rebels aggressive, confident, defiant; the Army of the Po tomac outflanked, uncertain and underu cloud—i 3so fresh in the recollection of the reader that there is no necessity for recalling it. It is only to institute tho contrast between it and the present situa tion. The rebels are nowhere now on the aggressive, but everywhere on the defen sive. They nowhere propose or under take to advance, but are compelled to re treat everywhere. They hold, neither nominally nor really, one-half the territo ry they then did; and what they do hold is by a tenure so frail that it is liable to be lost almost any day. On the contrary, nearly the whole of the great, reach of country from Pennsyl vania to Georgia is now held by tho Union forces. Through tho whole extent of the great valley from Stanton to Atlanta, runs a line of railway of vast importance to the rebels. For the first time in the war, this and all their principal lines of com munication are threatened. Running from tho interior of the circumference to the center, these lines have hitherto been secure from menace, and have constituted the main reliance of the rebellion. To day there is not a railroad running to or from Richmond that is not cut. This changes the whole aspect of the case. It is the grand new fact in the situation.— It is the fruit of the present campaigu , it is what Grant has been steadily aim ing to.accomplish, and what l.ce has been striving to prevent. It is not solely in the territory wc liavo wrested from the rebels, or in the advan tages of the position we occupy, that wo find the results of the year. We have found a leader, whom not only our armies but the nation has learned to trust, and the rebels to fear. Our armies arc stron ger now than they ever were, and the de termination of tho North to put down the rebellion is still strong. Tho rebels con fessedly. have gone to tho extent of their resources. They own that beaten now, they will be beaten finally. Viewed from whatever standpoint vu choose, the situ ation to-day, compared with what is was one year ago, is not only full of encour agement, but in its very worst features proof that tho North has only to be faithful to itsell to win at an early day a complete victory and a per manent peace.— l'ilts. Com. THE BUSINESS OF THK HOUR. —To | keep tho army efficient and prevent the families of the absent from suffering ought, says the N. Y Post, to be the sole busi ness of the whole country for the next ninety days. Those who remain at home and do business should give their surplus earnings to the support of soldiers' faml i lies. In the country every farmer should see that some soldiers' wile children j gets food from him; in the city no citizen I should sleep till he has plcged himself to I give a weekly sum directly to the family |of an absent soldier. Many are already I doing this, and have done it for many months past. But it is now the duty of | every man who remains at home; it is the ! only condition on which he can lionora j blystay at home. Hread and.soldiers are I what we need now —hut for a short space |of time—in order to restore peace, The ! great time of trial has come, and if the men who stay at home do their duty- tho armies can be kept full without distress to families, and the war can be ended without delay. THK OBLIGATIONS OF PATRIOTISM. — There arc thousands who, though exempt from military duty, are nevertheless un der the obligations of patriotism to assist in keeping up our armies. A large poi tion of this class will, on examination, be found abundantly able to place each a man in the ranks. This they should do, in addition to whatever else they may have done, or may propose to do. W hat nobler or more genuine evidence of 'patriotism can there be, thafl the certificate that you haved placed asoldier in the ranks in tho hour of the country's great need. The Government would do well to give n tico that it will keep a roll of honor, whereon any man uiay have his name inscribed on proof that, being cxeni| t himself, he has placed an accepted sold erin the ta-ks. The record would bd an enduring honor to the descendants of those whose names it bore. There is on lack either of will or moucy. All that is wanting is the ap plication of the means to give it practical directions. Shall wc not have a move ment lice, having for its object the ac knowledgment of the obligations of pat riotism resting 011 all who, though not lia ble to military duty, are ready, according to their mean , to contribute to place meD in the ranks? WASHINGTON, June 28—4 P.M. — Maj. Grit. Die —The following dispatch has just been received from Gen. Hun ter : ••I have the honor to report that our expedition has been extremely success ful in inflicting great injury upon the enemy, and was victorious in every en gagement. Running short of ammuni tion. and finding it impossible to colleol supplies while in the presence of an en-> euiy believed it to be superior to our force in numbers and which was constantly re ceiving reinforcements from Richmond! and other points, I deemed it best to. withdraw, and have succeeded in doing so without serious loss, to this point where we met with abundant supplies of food. A detailed report of our operations will bo forwarded immediately. Tho command is in excellent heart and health, and will be ready, after a few days' rest, for ser vcce in any direction." Nothing later than my telegram of this morning has been received from Gen. Grant or Gen. Sherman. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of war. 1)cg~ If you would find a great many faults, bo on the lookout. If yon would fiud them in still greater abundance, b» on the look-in