~)nr' rttrald.
CARLISLE, PA.
Friday, August 26, 1864.
FOR PRESIDENT,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
I=
VICE PRESIDENT,
ANDp.EW JOHNSON,
OF TENNESSEk
Union Electoral Ticket
enNATORIAL.
Morton M'Miehael, Philadelphia.
Thomas H. Cunningham, Beaver county
REPRESF.NTATITIC.
1 1 Robert P. ICing, 13 Elias W. Hell,
2 George M. Coates, 14 Charles H. Bhrlnor.
8 Henry Baum, 15 John Wl,ter.
4 1771111 am IT. Kern, , 18 DS. Vla WOonaughty,
5 Harlin H. Jenks, 17 David W. Woods,
6 Charles M. Ronk, 18 lame Hanson,
7 Robert Parke, 19 John Pllton,
8 William Taylor, 20 Inalewd R. Dhlt,
2 John A. Ltinstand, 21 Evorhnrd Pierer,
0 Richard H. Coryell, 22 John P Penney.
1 Edward Halliday. 23 Ebenezar W.lnkin.
2 Charles P. Reed, 24 John W illanchnr4.
S. 111. PETTENGILI. & CO.,
N - 0. 37 Park Row, New York, and 6
Stato Bt. Boston, aro cur Agento for Mt, If ro.Arn
n those oltioa, and aro authorlsod to take ?Orin-tit°.
manta end Subscaptious for us at our lowest ratoo.
UNION COUNTY CONVENTION.
The loyal citizens of Cumberland coun
ty are invited to, meet in County Con
vention for the purpose of nominating
oandidates for county officers, at the
Court House, on Monday, the 29th 'of
August, 1864, at 11 o'clock A. M.
Meetings for the election of delegates
will be held in the various townships of'
the county, at the usual place of holding
such elections, between the hours of 5
and 7 P. M., and in the several wards
and boroughs between the hours of 7
and 9 P.M., On Saturday, August 27th,
1864. J. M. WEAKLEY,
Chairman Union County Committee
Delegate Election
v s , The loyal Citizens of
.41 , 1 ; , the Last Ward of the Itbr
•‘-' ough of Carlisle, are in
- 111 P vited to meet at ' the Pub
lic House of T. B. Weekley, and those of the
West Ward at Public House of John Han
non, to morrow evening, (Saturday) at Z
o'clock, for the purpose of electing two dele
gates from each ward to the Union County
convention to be held in Carlisle, on Mon
day, August'2oth inst
TUE BASIS OF PEACE
It is remarkable that, while a few papers
favorable to the Administration are discuss
ing the question of peace and the terms upon
which the Union can be restored, the South
ern press and other exponents of Southern
public opinion declare bitterly against listen
ing to any terms of peace that xlo nut recog
nize their independence.
In the account published in the Atiantir
Monthly for September of the visit to Rich
mond of COlonel JAcuES and Mr. GILMORE,
this is the principal fact which challenges
the attention of the reader. In the frank,
full and unrestrained conversation between
those gentlemen and JErr. DAVIS, the latter
disdained all proffers of peace except on the
ground of disunion and independence. This
was his tone first, last and all the time. As
suming a desire fur the end of the war, or to
be let alone," he yet repelled, with a warmth
amounting to anger, every thought of recon
ciliation and harmony between the North
and South. We are two countries, he said,
we are a distinct people, the South bitterly
hates the North, it can never consent to live
under the same rule, and we shall prosecute
the war until our separate existence is offi
cially recognized or every man of us rots un
der the sod.
The same feeling is apparent in the edito
rials of every Southern paper from which we
have seen extracts. There is, of course, a
great deal of bravado in all this, and the de
fiant tone of these-papers may be, in some
measure, assumed; but if there was any la
tent desire for peace on other terms, eviden
ce.s of it would creep out here and tln•re, in
spite of all etibrts to conceal it, and of this
we see no indications whatever.
We take it for granted, therefore. that Mr.
DAVIS is, in this matter; the faithful spokes
man of his people. Ile may he as great a
liar and demagogue as any one may choose
to regard him; but demagogues watch for
the indications of public sentiment with the
keenest of eyes, and when they put their foot
down firmly, rest assured they are well back-
ed up.
Why, then, should the friends of the Gov
ernment delude themselves with the idea that
peace is at all practicable, just now, upon„any
terms acceptable to the country ? Why
should the intimate friends of the Adminis
tration discuss such a question at all? Why
be crying " Peace I Peace I when there is no
peace," at least no honorable peace within
our roach ?
The maiden aunt who declared that she
would have peace in the house if she had to
fight for it, enunctated the true theory. If
we want peace we must fight for it-- 'con
quer a peace," as the phrase ran in the time
of the Mexican. war. GRANT and SHERMAN
and FARRAGTIT are better negotiators, at
present., GREELEY, RAYMOND and FORNEY;
and if the Government will
. only back them
up with the men and materials they need, we
can in a short time write the terms of peace
with a boyonet.
All discussion of the terms of peace, now,
is idle. There is no enemy willing to treat
with us. Wo have got to humble him into
willingness ; ind the way to do this is to push
on the army and not be higgling about what
terms we shall offer him, or how much we
shall abate of the ultra demands set up on
our side.
If the enemy prefers extermination to sub
mission, we presume ho can have it; at least
he ought to have, if he wants it. But all this
talk.about extermination is resolvable into a
rhetorical flourish. It serves to round a pe
riod, and is characteristic of tho windy and
stilted declamation of the South ; but it means
nothing. The South will submit whei'it ist,
well - Whipped, and not before. That is thei:
one serious task before us, and it is, to that
we must now address ourselves, instead of
debating whether WO had better yield some-1:
.thing or everything to bring them back. \
There are but two ways open to us—prose
cute the war vigoronsly or give it up. The
latter will suit the Rebels and bring about
peace after Mai. fashion; the former will end
In. a %permanent peane,,the terms of which'
can easily berarranged when the tine' consee..
Let us bide that; time patiently, and in the
fi:rtirconviction.that the only road to honor
able pace lies- through the bloody field of
battle. lt is not our fault' thatit is so. The
Rebels can have peace by sitbmission, at any
time,. hut , they will not have it at any price,
ss at present minded, and we have no alter
zr-tive but to thrash them into abettor Mind:
Gpla'.cloe:l 4 yesterday. in. Philadel
',hit!, at, 2644 i, ' * *
DEMOCRATIC ARGUMENT.
I elected Curtin, for I sent him 15,000
more votes than he had majority.—En-
N M. STANTON.- Volunteer.
When, where and to whoni did Secre
tary Stanton say this?' It has been cir
culated extensively since the election,
and is about as barefaced a forgery as can
well be concocted. Stanton never said
it and if he had there isn't any truth in
the assertion. Gov. Curtin owes his
election to the votes of honest Democrats
who were so l disgusted with the record
of Judge Woodward and the treasonable
tendencies of tl4l party that supported
him, that they couldn't do otherwise than
vote for Curtin. We rather suspect the
Volunteer knows at least a score of the
very best Democrats in town, who voted'
thus. Every man knows that Gov. Cur
tin was elected by the aid his party re
ceived from the honest and patriotic war
Democrats, whom the course pursued by
their party forced to his support. This
would be a d:mgerous admission however
for politicians to make and therefore they
coin such statements as the above to suit
their purposes. Here is another from
the same paper :
ON VIE STumP.—Fred Douglas, the
well-fed and impudent negro who wears
a :Major's uniform, is on the stump for
Lincoln. Fred says he loves Lincoln,
buy yet ihults him "for not having one
or two colored gentlemen in his cabinet."
lie says he has "Osurances from the
President-, however, that in .his second
term . this will he made right." Fred
expects to take Stanton's place as Secre
tary of War.
'Tis a little funny to hear any One talk
of Fred Douglas wearing a Major's uni
form and stumping for t 1 r. Lincoln. To
what regiment does lie belong ? shut did
lie receive his commission ? and at what
places is he making speeches ? The
men who have been bringintr, Fred into
notice have been and are those who arc
denouncing Lincoln in about the same
style that our Democratic friends delight
in. and it isn't intiny months since lied
himself denounced the tolininistration in
a manner that tickled copperheads im
mensely. The white men who ttssociate,
with Douglas and are his most hearty
admirers are about the most efficient al
lies the Democracy mor have. Couldn't
MANY
you concoct a more plauz-ible story next
time, neighbor'! \Ve fear not, however, az!
hare is one from another eulanui that
borders somewhat. on roman:2n.
)Ir4. Lincoln arol her -hopeful rim
•••13i,13, (~.v; 'no boa , t, that Ito has maje
C:,'4U0,001) since the election of his rather,)
are (laneinr at Saratoga.
‘• Bob" Lincoln has just graduated at
Harvard, where lie has been a student
ever since Mr. Lincoln's election. What
special facilities a Presiden•t's son may
have for making money while at College
we are not informed of. nor do we know
What peculiar talents hoh" may have
for money making. but we are certain
that any one who read , the above and
does nut set it down as a mean, miserable
invention of a party hack for the purpose
of accomplishing what he can
not do by fair reAsoning, hair a
much greater credulity than is safe f,)i
mo,:t por:-ons to possess.
We hal hoped that the present, cam—
paign would lie conducted in a spirit of
fairricss and honcsty. The peculiar cir
cumstances with which we are surround
ed and the necessity which exists for a
cello an I deliherate exercise o'four judg
ment ;in i reason, would seem to demand
that all the petty tricks of politicians
shondl he d I,carded. But from these
quotn..ions it would seem our opponen's
rely on prejudice and not on reason.
Stories without foundatio r p, are manullac
ture.l and made to serve in plac6 of ar
guments, and we may expect to see the
country flooded with inventions intended
to divert the attention of men from the
great politi'cal issucs before the people.
and to excite their feelings concerning
events that have never occurred. But
we not fear the Sect of the ftbricatious.
The people are intelligent enough to de
tect their falsity and they will teach their
originators that such means can never
accomplish what they design.
COLDS AND COUOLIS.—Sudden changes of
climate aro sources of Pubnonary and Bron
chial affections. Experience having proved
that simple remedies act speedily and cer
tainly when taken in the early stage df . ,dis 7
ease, recourse should at • once he had to
"Ttrount's Bronchial Troches," or Lozengeif;
let, the Cold, Cough or •Tiritation of the
Throat be ever so slight, .as by this precau
tion a more serious attn.* may be effectually
warded off. Soldiers should have them, as
they can be carried in the pocket; and taken
as occasion requires,
x-Z"*. Don't forget the Delegine election on
to-morrow evening,
Niagara and Chioago
We propose "to whom it Inay concern,"
and fOr the facilitation of all concerned, the
construction of a special' telegraph between
the conspicuous points of Chicago and Niag.:
ara Falls. At the former the )self-styled -
Democratic party promises to4neet, , and if
possible, to deliberate. At the latter, JEF
FERSON DAVIS' own confidential friends haVe
a watch-tower for the stratgetic espial of
Northern politics, from which eminence ev
ery speck of pungent 'intelligence favorable
to the last master-stroke of mischief may be
transmitted to'that gaunt and unextermina
ted person who has the life of the rebellion
in his despotic keeping. This task of obser
vation has been rendered less difficult than
might be supposed, for the approach of the
suspicious strangers to the Canadian border
has been a signal for the rally of all the
Peace party to the Northern frontier. Con
veniently near the great Palls, and next door
to precipitation itself, three or four gentle
men of the , precipitate school of Southern
politics have come to precipitate a question.
To aid their interesting effort, let their
sympathizing friends full at once to work,
and complete a telegraph between Chicago
and Niagara before the meeting of the grand
Convention. It can be done in ft short time
if all the Peace men arc set to task between
'Niagara and Chienr, and by the hour the
Convetion meets the line will be ready to re
ceive a message from JEFFERSON DAVIS long
before any word frOm the President of the
United States can by any possibility resell
the ears of the friends of Mr. VA LIAN DlO
- The construction of a platform will
thus he the merest scrivenery in the world;
and the upholders of the doctine of State
Rights and Peace-upon-any-terms can secede
at pleasure, by telegraph, to the mouth of
the St. Lawrence and down to Richmond,
and have terms of peace to their heart's con
just wart l} as Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS
Waliti them. Wire-working could not have
a bet ter triuni l h, for, with a little magic of
prestidigitation, Chicago could, in a flash, •
be converted to Richmond.
.With 011 our pains to make this proposi
tion clear, we find that we, have suggested
nothing new. The telegraph is already con
structed. Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS . ITIe..LSIIgO
is prepared. and thi‘lino is in excellent work
ing order for all further ecumnunication.
In view of this portentous circumstance, it
is easy to conceive how the gentleman from
New York may become the mouth-piece of
the gentleman from Alabama, and how a
Northern Con vonzion may become a South
ern Cons potion liy proxy. How trilling a
matter, t;PE would be to reverse
the relati•ms formerly existing between two
it. Mr. FRANKLIN FIERCE
Jkrekasos I).ev Is'
tary of INiar..hy re-clected to the
Presidency lictt.r still, if clerical Presi
dent upon a pho form made itocording to Mr.
DAVI,: plans, General )IeCLELL..xx; would
be the best of all coMmanders-in-chief. for
Mr. V is' Northern army. Here we reach
the limit of , preulation, and must return to
faet
We are informed upon reliable authority,
that Mr. CLAY, of Alabama. one of the Ni
agara co in i n i,i,,m•rs friml Richmond. hits
brought with him the draft of a platform
and ioldress, to lie adopted by the Chicago
Cons ention, the ( oniersion of that body be
ing the main iindspeeitiT 4 Tikject of tln:S.aith
ern The points of the platform.
its numbered lit the Times, are as follow;:
ri. The war to he prosecuted only to restore
the Cthimt if u s ed,
awl only in such man
ner that no further detriment to slave prop
erty :hall be effected.
:1.11 negro soldier.' and women t
vice in the army and navy: and no addition
al nog-roes to be. on any prot,,licerebat'e'd',
Laken from their masters.
7. All negr , s , not havlng enjoyed Aetna]
-freedom during the war ti be held perma
nently is slave: , , and hether those teloshall
enjoyeditetnal freedom during the war
shall he fre,, legal question.
Th, plimigrapli:, of the address, which we
get e further, etre in happy ke , ping with thi,
fragment of pla n a Tin;rui n both, for identi
ty with the established doctrine and the ha
bitual expression .c this poirloerilLie party,
read to acharni. Is it possible to ili•-tinguish
in the following the rebels of Ili! South front
the Peace men of the North?
" Let all who are in favor peace; of
,u r , •-tiny of our
of saving the country from hankruptiw Rod
ruin of St•I•111'111u: fi,011:111 , 1 raithont
ivutfee for the bthuruig (•18,,,-, of ilitapp
ing i , 11,011i•-• of democratic and
cult govcriiintlits, N\ Ito are r. joicing in the
overthrow of their proudest monuments;
vindicating our capacity for self-government.
sr in , - stet their principles, and
elect their eandidat(!e.
•• Line stupid tyrant wit. - i now ilise - racei the
eheir once occupied by Washington and
Jack-on could, any day, have peace and res
toration of the Union ; and would have them,
only that he persists in the war merely to
free the slave , ..'
We cannot doubt what the Times predict 4,
that this platform and address will be the
substantial utterance of the Chicago Con
vention ; and we are prepared for another
piece of revelation :
" Mr. Clay confesses to his Democratic
friends that he is fur peace and disunion ;
but he says: 'You cannot elect without a
cry of war for the Union ; but, once elected,
we are friends, and can adjust matters sonic
-how.' Ile also says: ' You will find some
difficulty in proving that Lincoln could, if
he would, have peace and reunion, because
Davis has not said so, and will not say so;
but
. Ipm must as , eet it, and re-assert it, and
slick to it, o rid, it will pass as at least hay--
proved.'"
Here close the terms of bargain, and the
understanding between Niagara and Chica
go is perfect. We shall receive without sur
prise the developments of the Convention.
It may ho objected,'oa the part of the peo
ple, that the Southern scheme for peace is
unfair; and that peace for ..the Union and
peace for disunion are not terms converti
ble. Let all such weak patriots be silent
while the mystery is unfolded at Chicago of
how the nation is to be saved by conspiracy.
In the hour of our deadliest peril wo are
told the Democracy is about to throw itself
in the broach, and preserve the nation by
delivering itself to the enemy. Thosublimo
heroism of saving one's honor by running
away may discover a more majestic height
in the devotion which proposes, surrender
for the purpOse of victory. The nation will
not wait till the surrender to inquire for
whom the victory is intended.
)36rTLIE DRAFT in September is a fixed
'fact. It will be neither : modified nu post
poned. • Those Subject to it might a@ well
~prepare for it—by
,proeuring substitutes in
advance, or by "setting their house in order"
for,,departurc,: if they choose to give Almir
personal service. Should they prefer to as
list in filling. their quotas with volunteers,
the way is still open, : in most of the districts.
Pay your money into bounty funds, and du it-,
aficeitily. In less than two weekS,the draft
will certainly take pram.'" , ,
.
'ltgOrMi:,' John Covoicle. *as Severely in
,
vpred the other clay while, assisting in mow
ing on 'hiss.firni . ,,in Mrcstmoreland county.
„His' left.foot came in'contnet with . thOcnivei
fief theinachirio; cutting l his-great toe , nearly.
off Hcm will be convened to lay for'sOme
'the Seven-Thirties--What,are they?
~We trust that a large portion of our read=
era have . pOndered the Appeal of ILVessen
den, 'ouittew Secretary of,the Treasury. TIM
purport of it is that the , People of trio United
'States, acting as a body thropgh their **-
the Government, wish individuals to lend
them two hundred millions of dollars for three
years, at seven and throe-tenths per cent.'
annual interest, payable every six months.
For thiS they offer Treasury ..:Notes—thatis,
in reality, notes drawn and endorsed by every
man in.the country.. The loan is wanted for
a great national purpose, to effect which
every man, unless he be a traitor at heart if
not in act, is solemnly pledged.
The Appeal is addressed not merely to, a
few great capitalists, but also to the many
whose aggregate means constitute the MVOs
of the wealth of the land. The notes upon
which this loan is asked are from $5O -up
ward. Every man who has fifty .dollars can
take part in this loan. Apart from -patrio
tism and the duty which all owe to their
country, no investment is so desirable as this.
It is secure. Every dollar of every man's
property is pledged for the punctual payment
of the interest, and of the debt when due.
The security is increasing in value. For
some years before the war we were earning
]Out) millions a year more than we spent.
During the three years of the war, owing to
the high prices and constant d.mand for
labor, we have earned more than ever before.
No man who could would work has'tzm
idle : and. except for the war, we have spent
less than before. The total valuation of.the
property of the United States, according to
the census of 180, was 510.159,000,000} of
which $10,957,418,010; was in the Loyal
Status. This valuation, according to the
usual rule of assessment, was not more than
two-thirds of the actual cash value of the pro
perty. The increaseof property in the Loyal
States during the last ten years was overl2ti
per cent., or an average of 12 6-10 per cent.
per annum. In three years ,of the war we
of the United States have certainly earned
3000 millions more than we have spent apart
from the war. The cost of the war may be
set down at 2 atii millions. Deducting this
from our net earnings, the People who are
security for this loan are 1000 millions Eich
er to-day than they were when the war broke
out.
No other investment can be so easily con
vertible. The man who has a Treasury note
for :350, or Slott, or $lOOO, can turn it into
money !mire readily, and upon better terms,
than if it were invested upon bond and mort
gage, or in railroad stocks.
The interest offered is higher than can be
re& i zed from any other safe and convertible
investment. It is, moreover, red lily collect
able when due. T. each note are affixed five
"coupons,' or intcrrst liekr/s, doe at the ex
piration of each successive half-year. The
holder of a note has simply to cut off one of
th e se coupons, present it at the nearest bank
or Government Agency, null receive his in
terest ; the note itself need nut be presented
at all. Or a coupon thus payable will every
whergbe equivahmt, when due, to money.
Thus, while thie loan presents great ad
vantages to l a rge capitalists, it offers sptcial
inducements to those who wish to make a safe
lint' profitable investment of small saving.
It i.e in every way the hest Savings' Bank ;
for every institution of this kind must some
how invest its deposits prulitahlyuin order to
pay interest and eapense. They will in - vest
largely in this loan, as the best investment.
But from the grosss interest Mich thinly i'l'-
ceivo they must deduct largely fur thex
penees of the Batik. Their usual rate of in
terest allowed to depositors is 5 Srle zo.mt.
upon sums over So it. The person who in
vests directly with Governim•nt wiil receive
almost 50 per cent more. Thus the Allan
Wilt/ (117 i-its IP PI in a private Savine,s'
Bank receives 5 / dollars a year interest ; if
he deposit : , the saILIV :AIM 111 this National
Jayiugs Brunk he receives 73 dollars. For
those who wish to Lind a safe. c .nv
earnings which they have reserved for their
obi age or for the benefit of their chiieren.
there is notliing which presents so many ad
vantages as this \ati to to Loan.
It is convertible into a six per cent. gold
heal...lug bond. At th expiration of three
years a loibbo- of the notes nt the 7.:t0 loan
has the option of accepting payment in I'nll
or of funding his note: in asix per cent. gold
intereq bond, the principal pa, able in not
less than five nor more than twi•niy years
from its .late as the Governin.•nt may elect.
For six months past, these bonds have rang
ed at 11.11 average premium of about eight per
cont. in the Sew York market. at it haVUbuld
at lOU to-day (Aug. thus mittung the
real rate of interest over tell per 'mt. ; and
besides, to make the inducement even great
er, Congress by special act exempts its Trea
sury notes frotnstate and municipal taxation.
Could Shylock ask more? Was patriotism
ever so liberally rewarded ?—//arper'et Mug-
Confidence and Courage
The Western Christian -.Nearctic: (Cincin
nati), of last week, publishes the following
extractfrum a private letter of Gen. Grant:
"There has been no Giles since the begin
ning of the war when I felt a doubt of ulti
mate success. I now feel as certain that
Richmond will fall before the end of the
campaign as I did that Donelsom or k'icks
burg would. I never doubted success at
either place. I believe the enemy feel bore
Its I do, that they must finally succumb."
While the General-in-chief of our army
feels conndent of success, why should-any of
us fuel less so ! And yet some among us seem
to have lost their confidence in the a biltiy
of a powerful Government, backed' :ti'
groat, free people, and having resources at
its command that are next to inexhaustible,
to maintain itself in this contest with,-armed
and rebellious treason. We have never seen
the day,"th.a hour or the instant, when we
have entertained a doubt, or even the shadow
of a doubt, of the successful result 'of the
struggle. The very fact that the right is
clearly oh our side, and that wrong is on the
side of the slaveholding rebels, is- of itself
sufficient to inspire thinking and reasoning
minds with faith in our final success, and to
keep the faith strong, notwithstanding the
reverses that unavoidably overtake cur fu ,
mica in the field occasionally, or the unfa
vorable events, political or military, that
from time to time come like clouds' to the
sky of our hopes and wishes. We welkup
prociate that war is' war, and this war of ours
would be the most marvelous and extraordi
nary of all wars if uniform and uninterrupt
ed triumph should attend all our movements,
battles. and efforts. It is unreasonable ,to
expect this, and those only who are's() un
reasonable as to expect it are 'readily cast
.down and ditibeartened by untoward .eVents ,
in the war's progress.
The soldiers and officers at the "front" aye
More confident and sanguine of success than
our people at home, Whose view is too much
beclouded bypolitics, mere
,partisanism and
the timidity of selfishness, to be favorable to
a dear judgment...lira -hopefulpteapeet; , t4
General, Grant, who understands better than`
any other man what walleye to cositOid with
and_hOw formidtible.an =enemy we have to
subdue is the Most'cinifident of all men, aisle
the result. His faith that Richmondmill be'
ours,, is snore firm now than when he opened
this terrible campaign; and.he sees far
yond.Rielimond-he Sees the'reilitary power
of the rebellion *crumbling ':and destroYcd,
end' the authority of the GOVernMent
tablishodesior, the , insurgent. Stakes,`. And
,the edlicersiMd Men' Whom ,he leads , see aS
lie adesthey. are, confident';-firm' in faith;
fulT; of hope, and tight' on , with stout-Itearts
.
and ready arms,' and will fight on to the end,
Which they believe cannot be very,far off. '
Why, then,• should any of us who are
grumbling bccanse' of taxation, and fearful
of everything, lose courage or faith of the
result? Even if all does not go smoothly
on every side, and everything does not go
everywhere as we should wish, why despond?
It is our nation, our country, a free and migh
ty Republic, that we are fighting for, and is
any hardship, any sacrifice, any labor too
great for us to endure, suffer or undertake to
accomplish its salvation, rather than be forc
ed to submit to the humiliation,' shame and
ruin that would be ours to boar in case of fail
ure? Surely the heart that faints in this
struggle must be a coward heart, lacking all
pride, courage:or manly impulse.
Our cause is just, and it is the cause of
American freedom, manhood and nationality
—and, until it shall be successful and firmly
established, let us never fur a moment lose
heart or become faint in hoping, laboring,
enduring and fighting. We must have the
courage and valor of the Spartan, and the
faith of the Christian never faltering, nev
er doubting. never dreaming of despair, un
til " the list armed foe expires," and peace
and the nation honorably saved shall be pro
claimed to the world. This is the spirit loy
al Americans must be animated by—it is the
spirit that will save us at Tri.
PERSONAL
GENERAL AvErinr. has been promoted a
Major-General for his gallant fight at Moore
tlehl, and successful operations during the
last month.
gijrlrSenator Wilson publishes a note de
nying all the reports to the effect that he is
mixed up with any proposition for en armis
tice with the rebels. He save that no public
man connected with the Aduninienittion is
in favor of an armistice. I personally know
that President Lincoln and all the members
of his Cabinet have undoubted faith in the
success of our armies and the complete tri
umph of our cause, and with this belief they
will plir,tle the most ., vigorous Ineltsures to
rake money and men to carry on the war.
HMS. EDWARD MC Pll ERSON, Clerk of the
United States House of Representatives, has
in pre;; and will shortly i,stei "The Politi
cal History of the United States, during the
Grout Rubellion, from November, 181;11, to
July I, 186.1.' Jtb,t. such „ i ,, rk 21. , this is
greatly needed, and i\trPttclieuN is just, the
man to prepare it.
fir..71.1r. Wilson McCandless, of Pennsyl
vania, has written a letter to Adjutant Gen
eral Thomas, refusing a brigadier general
ship offered him by the War Department,
and declaring that fur the present. hue post of
honor is the "private station," by which he
moans the ia,ition of a citizen staving com
fortably at home. Hereupon the. Irer///siQ,
Wdefil[i
— . Elle following It•tt , ”., that of Grner
al Buell, a fF•Nv day, lig,. is a sail
iwlicntion tir that dividing of
Air. Liar In has laloi , l'Otl
fully 10 Illak,! unmert,kl,le.
"I' twn Of DM . 1,5 . 51 11)01 I,l . »Vt . si ollirrr.•+ is
1.110 (11fta . I. of
thr Nvar truer a into all
Abolition erti,ade."
Thi: is drendlul I II rr are Bii.•11, who
never did Iknythinic but ret rent and denmra
lize a lino army, and M.el:;imilesi. whom no
body ever heard of as an army otlii , r till he
wrote this letter, on one side, and all the
Union armies iin the other.
111;2)—(oneral 13tirn-id r arrived in Provi
dence Tue , day noir tlin". ill grand 110111(11 and
-TiritA. It is not eorre, t. stated by the
telegraph. that Ike has Bern relieved.
cwlrt. ‘)1 Inquiry in relation to the a-quill in
l'eterribure riot reported. un i Inns tl,it ex
amined any Nvitn,..sps(oxoept (:enerals Burn-
Sid , arid )lende. AVe judgeihat one or 1.110,0
unfortunate military (lltiicultio ,
in,eparalile from the rviee. ha< arien 110-
WI't•11 ()ell )111 , 1 Iturn-ide.
and di , hot-r L in:; th, ••.it miiinnt••, pre
ferred. a • he :11NlaN
r.uh,•r than the army in Ow
field In not 001111..,\.,•Ny Ile tendered his
re-i , znation. ivhieli General (;raiit refused,
and al-o ref..l-ed to r,li , ve Ilium. The .('ourt
lepiirs n,ts t nil ornrilr nnijourtu d. 011
(=rant Mr,•r,.,1 him
tw..tity day,' I,;v, t\' virtu,.
which In• i. at !mai , . NVo hayr no kall4
that Lu te,tiltMlly b..fore. the Court or In
qu ry will II I lit Min 1 1 11111 ,., 11111 1 th n t
he Will s•mn I, called to hi, old or to Noint ,
mew command.
Tll3 Condition of tho South
The R , C111 ,, e ehl I''cur Erb,' h.q
Letter f ef. (_; heehi yht , hle, te a Pei -
SC, nee ( . 11 Intr.
NEw Tutu, August 19, 16 , 11.
To the ~ J 1 Ti,, s:
I have just reeciv.-ml the follmm \Villg most in
teresting- letter from General Smmymour, lately
released from "under fire - ni. Charleston.—
As an old West Point officer, ‘‘ith General
Anderson at. Sum pt r, /11141 ,tatiollPd many
years in the South, he knows the Southern
people well. Ile is a brave, true soldier,
devoted to the Union. and, although at the
time of the unfortunate battle in Florida, lie
was accused of lukewarinness by those igno
rant of his character, lie has proved, by his
•tion on many a battle field. as well as by
his plucky talk to the rebels at Gordonsville,
when captured in Mmy last, that he was e cry
inch loyal to the old flag.
Yours, &c., W. E. 1)., Jr.
IN[asA., Ailg. I.s„lSti-1
MY DEAR SIR. YOU ask for my impres
sions of the present condition of the South
ern Confederacy, and you shall have them.
Fur tho benefit of our cause I wish they
might he impressed upon every soul in the
land, that the confidence begotten of my
three months' observation in the illtk•liOr .t•
the South might be shared by every inan
who has the lea.t connection with the re
sponsibrities of this struggle. And I tun
sure that these opinions are not peculiar to
myself. Every one of the fifty officers just
exchanged will express the San - IC—every one
of them• whether from the jails of Charles
ton, or the pens of Macon and Andersonville,
will confidently tell the same story. •
The Rebel cause is fast failing from ex
haustion. Their two grand armies have
been reinforced this summer from the lag
resources of the South. From every corner
of the land, every old man and every boy
capable of bearing a rifle lots been impress
ed, willingly or unwillingly, and hurried to
the front. Lee's army was the first so
strengthened It was at the expense of
Hood's. Gov. Brown told the truth with a
plainness that was very bitter, but it was
none the less the truth. Lot me extract a
few prominent statements from his procla
mation of July 9, addressed to the "Reser
ved Militia of Georgia."
"A late correspondence with the President
of the Confederate States satisfied my mind
that Georgia is to be left to hemown resources
to supply the reinforcements to Gen. Johns
ton's army, which are indispensable to the
protection of Atlanta, and to prevent the
State from being overrun by the overwhel
ming numbers now under command of the
Federal general upon our soil.
' "But thin.° is need of further reinforce
ments, as will bo seen by the accompanying,
letter of General Johnston. * *
And it becomes m,y duty to call forth.every
man in the State able to bear arats,..as.fast as
they can boar Med, to aid s til the defence of
our homes, our altars, and the graves of our
ancestors. ' •
. -
•
"If the Confederate GOvernment will not
send the largo cavalry force (now engaged
in raiding and repelling raids) to destroy the
long line of radroodS:over which Gen. Sher-
Man brings his supplies from and
thus compel him to retreat with The loss of
'most of his army; the people o' Georgia,^whii
have 'already been drawn upon more heavily
in'prOportion to population then those of any
othor§tatChj,tlie Confederaey;raust at all
arnt , at' any - sacrifico p rush to the
"If Gen. Johnston's army is .destroyed;
the Gulf States are thrown open to the ene
my, and we are ruined."
There must, indeed, have been desperate
weakness when Georgia, and the Southern
ettll9o with it, were so neglected that Leo's
army might .be made equal to the task of
holding Grant on the Pdtomac or the James.
and the people of the South are intelligent
enough to understand and to appreciate the
fact, and they have lost heart accordingly. •
The following is from a letter written by
one rebel to another that accidentally fell
into the hands of one of my fellow prisoners,
and for the authenticity of which I vouch:
"Very few persons are preparing to obey
the late call of the Governor. His summons
will meet with no response here. The peo
ple are soul-sick, and heartily tired of this
hateful, hopeless strife. They would end it
if they could; but our would-be rulers will
take good care that no opportunity be given
tho people to vote against it. By lies, by
fraud, and by chicanery this revolution was
inaugurated; by force, by tyranny, and the
suppression of truth it is maintained. It is
nearly time that it should end, and of sheer
depletion it must end belbre long, We h ave
had enough of want and of woe, enough of
cruelty AU carnage, enough of cripples and
corpses. There is an abundance of bertvived
parents, weeping widows and orphaned chil
dren the land. If we can, let us not in
crease the number. The own who, to ag
grandize themselves, or to gratify their own
political ambition, brought this cruel war
upon a petweful and prosperous country. will
have to render ti feat-Ail aceount of their mis
deeds to a wronged, robbed, and outraged
people. Earth has no puuidunent ,uttieient
ly meet fur their villainy here. and hell will
hardly be hot enough to scathe them here
after."
There is certainly a no small proportion of
the Southern people (despite'the lying decla
rations of their journals, as we had gal oc
casion to learn.) that not only favor the pro
gress of our arms, but that daily pray that
this exterminating war may soon be brought
to a finality by our complete and perfect suc
cess. They have had too much of despotism
—emit enough of the triumph promised them.
Many intelligent Southern gentlemen do,
indeed, express strong hopes of their ultimate
independence, but such hope is not shared by
the masses. Disappointed from the first in
not having been acknowledged by foreign
Powers—more bitterly disappointed in their
general expectation that Northern cowardice
or di,en4in would secure their ends. but a
single chance remains, and that i- the result
or ,sir next election for President. If it
Doini ;unlit succeeds Mr. Lincoln, they pro
fess to feel sure of negotiations, and 'Cure of
their Confederacy. They believe IL Deutn
crat will be elected. In Mr. Lincoln s re
election they .see only subjugation, 2111111hila
tbisn, for the war must then continue, and
continuance is their failure and rui n.
In military attains it is an excellent rule
never to do what the enemy desires—is it
not equally true in polities! Certain it is
that the only remaining hope of the South
lies in Mr. Lincoln's defeat.
•
NOW, I !WI not (.111.11g)1 111101ItiI'larl to
kilt/Vt . NVIII•tilOr thy I.IOCtIOII Or It 1),111tICI'Ilt
can result as favorithly to the South it , it :in
tieipates. The wish alone may be the parent
of their belief. But I assured all taro ex
pre,,l that indier thAt thr ti eil, , a , a orris,
is is united a 4 the :-;oilth—Ghat n,. I)enioerat
could he elected on a ,ea,••• and
that any l're,hb•nt wh” w nud inat , nrat.•
any •nwtt,tire loadin:4 h pt•act , uu thf•
54althern w,,lthl prmnialy
puny. by b , yal acchitnat NM, l.) 1:11111)
110 4 th itl front ut hi? OWII tll2lll
Ilewever that limy hr., if NA :ll , ' bnt tr./
~111*,•1Vt..4 there call I/0 but ete• r , ••itit
AN - hat we /1”W ilf•pd j: n n vt— , pule Ilion
tit)..,titutes or hirelinmi 101,, gt, 1 . ./rt :k . \
motive but the country's good, and pr,duc.
but little beyond depreciating our 10'1111c,
but men—such as really constitute the Staie.
and boast of being freemen and the
freemen. If these• fail to =upport eiam
try's Cflll,ll in her hour• of I eril, they are un
worthy of cowinuing 811 , 1
blush ever to exercise a freeman = lien
But if bounties must be paid, let it be in
Southern land, not in . ..Nortlown gold: an I
armies of emigrants, whom ~,!ins may aspire
to even the rule of thh nation, will erns: the
Seas to win the broad acres that disloyalty
has forreited to the State.
\OII.IIIQ If '11;111
theMlol Itil unl , ,•i-ic,•
111111 , ,t \ li'•l , l-. the
ill I v
\\ Ith
11 , $ 11.)i ~ vi r \vh. , lnl r 1•11.111 i. •,
Ten , ~ 1. tIP,LNIttid , 4.1 I t% aro 1.1. t
111 itrraty .11 , ,ii,;11r is
thitii that agninst hick WI. btIIIII'
E rvwl M ., ' 11Wet 1411.111 i form
wii nii 1 well }lnv, tiiiiii , .
to tim in awl trrtt urv. iir
geil tt ar. can hardly
North 'Mt 6 , 1111.
Th 4, South will !iglu it' low,: u< tit' .1 11 , 4 _
gle is equal; it will ,riblitit to -itch prt•in.ll
- ttr Junt hl L nc in 'N,•l'%
(Ilmw, at the ~twiw.l4 w . If
S1011)2111 had but 7. - 11h10 Jr1, , ,•1n n
!War, th ,, llth h•• 11..1
Wi/id
ill the spring - with reser% ei• 75,000 or 1 oil,-
mel t , !writ
erti-hed. Even rtt tlii. iniitni•nt a third
(Hui , „ c rigilitly
give imoppil,..ll Ciinhideracy
friiin which ne
What fella then to niggle .11 ill t
when we can ...mil to the field live times the
force already th,lr. W hat w oak nu- , to think
we cannot conquer the South. Behind the
Jame:, only buys and oil I (nen are to be ~11.
WHIP hum buy and sell'as in the olden
days of quiet. and regiment, of able-bodied
citizens crowd the streets of 0111'
There is JUL one cour , ii consistent with
safety or honor. Let tho awake to u
Of their dignity and strength• and q
few months of comparatively trilling i.xer
thin of such etfort as alone is worthy of the
great work, and the rebeliion will crumble
before us. Fill this draft. promptly and will
ingly, w ith gaol 21.1111 htqld n few
Span; thousands over rather than under the
call, and the summer sun of 1805 will shine
upon a regenerated land.
Thera are some who speak of peace! Of
all Yankees the Southron most scorns those
who do not light, but are glad enough tocin
ploy them, as they do their slaves, to perform
their dirty work. Peace for the South will
be sweet indeed; for w, except through
Southern subjugation, but anareity and our
forever. The Piwi fie, the Western. the East
ern States would at once fall asunder. The
South would be dominant, and the people of
the North would deserve to be di ices
under negro overseers, to 1100 corn and cut
ton fur Southern masters.
But no faint-hearted or short-sighted poll
cy can set aside the eternal decree of the Al
mighty, who has planted no lines of disunion
between the Atlantic and the Western des
erts between the great lakes and the Gulf
of Mexico—that signify His will that we
should be separated ; and unless so separated
peace is a delusion, and its advocacy a trea
son against the wisest and holiest interests of
our country.
It has been with a trust that renewed hope
and vigor might be given, when vigor and
hofie are needful, that I have written, and
you have my consent to using this as you
please; and I am
Very truly yours,
T. SEYMOUR,
Brig. Gen. U. S. Volunteers.
To W. E. DoDoE, In., New York.
A Truce Impossible
In answer to numerous letters and inquir
ies we may state that the proposal of an ar
mistice by-the Government of the United
States is a moral impossibility. In the first
place, it is not &sired by the people ; in the
second place, it would injure the credit of the
country almost irretrievably at home and
'abroad ; in the third .it would ruin tire mil
itary plans of Ginaiiiil'GßANT, and 'undo all
that ho has done ; in the• fourth, it would
make. the whole 'War it useless sacrifice of
men and money; in the fifth, it would aban
don great victories that are now certainly
soon to be won by us; the sixth, it would
inevitably result . in a longer and bloodier
war than is now probable, or in the recogni
tion of the South; in the seventh place, it
would be cowardly, foolish, useless, and;:slis
honorable. Those who are most anxious for
an honorable peace are the least de4irous of
such an armistice, and . if suspension 'Of hos
tilities for the purpose of negotiation is ever
to be Propo;ied by 'the United States to the
Yol leaders it could not kialltly lk , . until
GRANT hits whipped Licit and SIIERMAIsI
vanquished Moo. When we have our foot
On the, noek of the foe, we cad propose to step
the*flght, but not while lie confronts us in
bitughtv pride and. dellance.—,,Prot.
MILITARY BILL
' The following bill in.referenee to the or
ganization of the militia has passed both
houses,,and is now in the hands of the Gov-
ernor, viz
A SUPPLIMENT to the act for the organi
zation, discipline and regulation of the
Militia of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl
vania, approved May fourth, one thous
and eight hundred and sixty-four..
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of rhea
monwealth of Pennsytrania en General As
sembly me,t, and it is hereby enacted by the
authority of the same. That the Governor
and State Treasurer be and they are hereby
authorized and empowered to borrow, on the
faith of the Commonwealth, at such tinm itt
such annul/tits and with such notice as they
may deem most expedient for the interest of
the State, any sum not exceeding three mil
lions of dollars, and issue COlititietaitS Of loan
or coupon bonds of the Commonwealth for
the same, bearing six per centum interest
per annuni, payable semi-annually in
. the
city of Philadelphia, which certificates of
loan or bonds shall not be subject to State or
local taxation for any purpose whate‘;‘Yr: and
shall be reimbursable at any time after the
expiration of ten years from their date ; and
the sum so borrowed, or so munch thereat a,
say be necessary, shall be and the same is
hereby appropriated to defray the expenses
which may be incurred male' the provisions
of this act: That no veil tint
loan or hand shall be is-ueil for a less sum
than one hundred dollars : farther,
That no certificate shall be negotiitted 6,r
Irss (Lott its par value and there shall lit.
in
scribed on the face of said certificates of loan
or bonds that the, debt thereby secured Wu
contracted to repel invasion and defend the
State in war, and to be transferable on the
books of the COIIIIIIOIIM, wilth at the. Fariner:f
and Mechanics ' 137t/11: iii the city of Pinta
delphia : Pt - uric/rd/art/wt . , That the Gov
ernor and State Treasnrer arc hereby author
ized to Use fir the liurpo-e of this act. tempo
rarily, and funds in the State Treasury not
immediately required, or if ' necessary, to
make a tempory loan, to he repaid Until the
procee , ls of that 11CrIllallUllt loan hereby au
thorized.
SEC. 2. That dm bomb; or certificates of
loan issued under the provision of this nil,
shall, he signed by the liovcrnor and_ counti•r
si.gm•d by the State Treasurer and Auditor
General, and a correct and aecurate registry
or the same shall be kept in a hook to he
provided l'or that purpose In the °thee ui the
Andillw General, v,11,, shall mak.. annual re
port th e r e of to the Legislature; and the
Cav,•ruor is hereby authorized to draw' War
rant, 101 010 State Treasurer fir such as may
be nebessary to pay the proper expenses in
cident tar the Jaigot halo!' of such loan ; the
preparation of the bonds or certificates of
loan authorizi•d to be issued by this act. and
said warm - lit,. shall be paid out of any mon
in U,. treasury.
•,. That the Governor be and he is
berel , Y authorized. liv and with die I,ll , ent
ui this to Appoint a competent per,io
of military education, t.xperienee and skill
to have emninand of all Ob .
:OWL la Lc cursed under the iirovis
nin, On , net , With the rank of majorgem
era I yylto white in actual ••••I'V ' lCe, shall Ire
,od i. , ti,, pf,y 1 : 111..111111 0 ifis oi a 111,1j.,1'
t iiit.•.
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1.,.1111 hc., 1..•1'.-3.111 , (Pt . 11.1111 ;try vlu
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tli.• ran., lti at My
: That
u 1..1 ..11i.•.•r- 11.. t IP. 11111/glintOd ~r il•--
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wil..it Aliu forck:. prUy ItILII fUr
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r. ; apt I t 11 , 1111 11 ,, ar lII.Ly
,aid utlicer hull 1'Urt..1111;l111 ail
OW
!lance 11 , May he ip•cr . --Ilry
1.11 , • 11. arc pr.,1p1,,1 by
lair, 1 , •:4111W,I..1,- I nit,-,1
v,iil• -•—
~I 111'111,11,1k ttl I, ,
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for 1.•%,,, , t piolwr
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tak,•ii tor Ow faithful v•rf..rtilati,•
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AWE 1...1..1.• 111 , :it
4,r 1111111;11%
kind whiit,iever
contract u. h It.
hall he The duly .0 the tjuarterimeder
eral or ( 'mom e•sa General. a-I he lir iy
he, in conneetion it - lilt the Auditor General
and State Tremurer. to appoint from film , to
time as ioquired, one or In..r...li , ilit..•restell
;111.1 c..utpctrnt inspeet..r.; familiar %%all the
Vilikt , met of the ' , implies, ordnance.
ordlimme'st ore , . or other military stores so
eontriteted for, a it .hall be t.. eX
:mune and acc..;lt or reject the same, and if'
itet•epted l.i 41NC a (•011.111.1lb• thereof' to the
,•iintractiir or vendor; tuul 11., hill render...l
for any smell supple , , ordnance, ordnance
stores or other military store.: shall he paid
until so certified and approved; the inspec
t. so appointed shall each recelve live
I . v,ry dn.% necessarily em
ployed in the iliseharge of their duties, mid
shalt severally he sworn or affirmed to dis
cischarge their duties with fidelity: i'rovid-
Tlnit the (lintrtermaster General and
l'otimii—itry Geller:Al shall respectively have
authority, of pr:tetieume to eht,,in the
111111 ordnance stores, or oth
er military stores. or any part thereof mom
toned in tilt, section, front the United
States Government pa . ) tug diem, if required,
the c,.: 4 1 prices tin , rcot: Provided, lartltvr,
That the Comnii,sary General shall hove
puaver,:to purchase direct, when actually
accessary, 1111(1 there i, not thin: 10 ad
vertise tor contracts, all commis,ary stores
actually needed for the troops: l'iorided,
also, 'Pl a tt nu More than the actual cash
priee shall be paid for any article purchased.
SEC. 5. That the Governor at the Cain
-11101111 t:t111.1/ is hereby authorized and ein pow
ered to orgaiiihe a military corps, to lie called
the Ivania State Guard, to be com
posed of fifteen regiinents, in due proportion
01 cavalry, military and, artillery, or such
. portion thereof Its may be deemed necessary.
'lite said regiments shall severally be com
posed of like number, and to be armed and
equipped, clothed, disciplined, .gtiverned and
paid whale in actual service, as similar troops
im time service Of the U 1111A:d States, and shad
be enlisted in the service lit the State fur a
period nut exceeding three years, umess soon -
er disenarged, and shah he liable to he called
into the service at this Stale, at such times
as the Governor of the Commonwealth may
deem their services necessary, tar the pur
pose of suppressing insurrections, or repell
ing invasions; and the Governor shall ap
point all the regimental officers, and the
companies shall have the right to elect the
company officers, and said Major General
amid Brigadier Generals, and all reginiental
and company officers 81. all he citizens of this
Commonwealth Provided, That such por
tions of the said corps as shall he eallqd into
actual service, shall be supplied and provid
ed with ' ordnance stores, as s previded for in
this act, but when not called into 'actual ser
vice, such supplies, ordnance and ordnance
stores shall be withheld until required.
SEc. ti. The Governor of the Comtnon
wealth is hereby authorized to provide the
necessary hospital arrangements, camps of
instruction, arms and accoutrements, garri
son, and crimp equippage, transportation, a id
itll , things necessary 'for the arming and
equipping and putting into service, subsist
tence_ when in service, quartermaster's corn
, misaary and ordnance. stores of the said Penn
sylV l ania State Guard, and to make and adopt
all needful rules and regulations, to take and
name horses for 'cavalry and artillery service,
fur which full compensation shall be made
within six months after 'the taking of the
same, °lathe person b.) whom the same shall
be taken shall exhibit to the Owner thereof
his authority for such seizure; and shall at
the thin give to the Owner a•certilicate Stat
ing the number of horses taken, and the
limo when and by whom; and the servicefor
which the same are required, and suCh sup
plies as.in his judgment' may be . necessary,
and to seize nticit railroads and other means
of .transportation on the exigencies of the
case may demand.
SEc. 7. The Governor of the Common
wealth is also hereby authorized and em
powered to cause to be made an immediate
enrollment and classification of the militia
of the Coinmonwcaith ; and it shall be his
duty to call, and keep in service, as long as
he may deem .necessary, from the body
of, the said militia, or from such portions of
the gommonwcalth as he may deem neces
sary, the said Pennsylvania State Guard, by
volunteering or draft: Provided, That any
person who may be deemed by the board of
examination able to do military duty, may
be received as volunteers in the 4fcgiments
provided to be raised by this'act without
reference to age.
Sm. 8. That if practicable, until the time
fixed by law for making the enrollment of
the Militia of the Commonwealth, the Gov
ernor is authorized end empowered to or
ganize the military force authorized by this
act, on the basis of the enrollment made in
the several districts of the State by the en
rolling officers of the General Government,
but if impracticable, the Governor is hereby
directed to cause an immediate enrollment
of the militia of the Commonwealth, to be
made. as.provided for in the act_to which this
is a pplement.
That when the assessors refuse or neglect
of enter upon the performance of the duties
f enrolling the citizens of their respective
districts, for a period of five days after being
notified of their duty, the Governor shall ap
point a competent person Or persons to make
the enriilhnent.
It -Mall be the duty of the Governor to ap
point one competent citizen in each county f
who shall he a physician, who, in connection.
with the county commissioners, or city corn
ini4,ioners, shall constitute a board, three of
whom, the physician being one, shall make
quorum, with power to determine who are.
exempt from enrollment under this act, and
the act to which it is a supplement; and it
shall be the duty of the enrolling officer to
give notice, by publication in a newspaper
of tine county, of the, times at which such
*l,ml:cation >h dl be hard, and to notify said
board Wll,ll they will be required to hear
such applications.
That all other duties in reference to the en
j rollment be performed us directed in
the act to which thin is a supplement, and
that the physician so appointed to hear and
deei.by ou applicati,,ns for exemption shalt
rceeive for each Ina] every day so employed
the .out of live dollar. 3, nil the county coin
, mi,,ioner., or city commissioners the sum of
Hire,. 111 ilar4 per diem, to be
paid out of the
;i 4 tate Treasury.
That the G'iyernitr shall have authority to
make and enforce all inters which may in his
judgment be 110,2 , 5 , Ury to curry out the pro
thi, act. and to effect a speedy en
rollment and organization of the militia of
t hi, Coin moo h.
Svc. 9. That the Quartermaster General
b.i and he is hereby authorized to sell any
unsuitable or itn-iiirvicable ordnance belong
to the the proceeds of which shall
Ii paid into the State treasury, and applied,
deenciii by the Commander-in-
Chief. in addition t.o t h e appropriation above
named. towards the purchase of ordnance
told ordinance tore ,
That where tho brigade fund of
the contd . \ i, not suilieiont to pay the asses
sttr,. pr,vitioti by tho third ,tection of the
art t.. ahirlt thi , ry a supplement, the said
lie pith! hy the several cities
and eelintie , in which such assessment is
made.
Stitt,; all
Tho Lato Attack on Dalton by
IP , / /P
MEI
The 1.,!6•1:, in th , • Hurd: un I>alton nutn
-111,,11,111,1 nit tntry tuid
bra'S h o'ui. r. nuhuutdkl 11 1 0-
( Tlw 1) 0 .11“ 11
of th.• tinder c,,1.
-t )11 Stindity niern;rez: the rel)ekapproneherl.
the town in lit et . (;enentl
-,nt 11 11,1'111.11 W . 111:111,1 611' the surrender,
prev , n t the ire if blood:
it•d,•mand theitrirneditito
stirreii.ler of the forces un
-I,•r e , t11.11:111i1 iit this grirris.m.
.1 A AV E r.ER,
( . -n I e,,iewitieliiie; l'otife,.kritte for-
i,•
1 1 1 1 i, r, b •1, anunn,S rc l C„1. Ili'lll , l l l tf l ll
~,,,, 11,' , ,111,111,11,1 rr.,h•elien to
hi- eartlnn , rl and a large brick beililing.
lii invielcr- armed int,' tiiwil were
kept ,it bity by the garri,wi, Ns 11f . ,1
~1 11 \‘,Prl:s iiiiiwed tlewn the
In )I,pialay inerning (len. Stewlinan ar
rived with r, , intr..eitients. A sl:irinish tlien
eentile garrisea sullied o u t.
Irein their eathwerl:s. .I.t this stage the
irie n;lt l nito l States eelered infantry,
M,rgan (a , ininanding, was (ordered
eliarge, which was den- with an impulse
that ti 11 irresistible. and the rebels fled in
cenfusien. rebels slightly datimge(l the
track and rail , t h is Dilltoll, but they
ha new been repaired.
ImpnHant front General Grant,—General
The L'aemy Reprised With Loss.—Attack
on Gen. Birney's Line.—The Rebels Re
pulsed with Great Loss.—Latex/ News front
Generals Sherman and Sheridan.
[OFFICIAL BULLETIN.] •
WAR DEPARTMENT,
A:,111 NoToN, August 2uth. j
m a. ), Genera/ l)ei. New Fork:
The operations of General Grant's forces
are dot:Mediu the following - official despatch,
jut-t received by this Department
CITY POINT, BP. _ll., August 18th.—Gen
eral Warren nnived is it h his Corps this morn
ing. t and neross the Weldon railroad about
one inilesouth of the load works, up to which
he met nothing but the enemy's pick
ets. Ile 11(1 vanc, , ,l Irian there towards Pe
tersburg, meeting the enemy early in this
advance. lle had considerable lighting dur
ing the day, suffering some loss and inflict
ing loss upon the enemy.
I have no report showing the extent of our
losses, but judge them to lie light front the
despatches. Some of the enemy's wounded
fell into our hands and a few other prisoners.
CITY POINT, Va.-7.30 I'. 111.—Aug. 19.
Our troops are lirmly fixed across the %Vol
don road. There has been little or no light
ing to-day either south of Petersburg or
north of the James.
General Warren reports that the enemy's
dead in considerable numbers were found in.
his front unburied.
General Birney telegraphs to General But—
ler as follows
“1.1 I.:AI/QUARTERS, TENTH CORPS, Aug,
10 180.—The eneipv attacked my line in
heavy force lust night, and were repulsed
with great loss. In mid of our colored reg
iment 02 dead bodies of the enemy are count
ed. Thu colored troops behaved handsome
ly and are in fine spirits. The assault was
in column and a division strong, and would
have carried works not so well defended.
The enemy's loss was at least one thousand.
Respectfully, D. B. ButrlEY,
Major General.
"We have had a great deal of rain about
Petersburg this week, and a very grateful
change in the temperature.
Criv Pourr ; 9. P. M., Aujust 19.—The
enemy came out this evening to 'Warren's
right, driving in the pickets connecting br.
tween him and the left of our old line orr tho
Jerusalem pike road, and forcing,back tbe
two right divisions of Warren's - orps. A
heavy tight took place, resulting in the es
tablishznent of our lines and the capture of a
good number of prisonera were from heath's,
Malanfs and Iloke'ti Divisions. „We also
lost considerable in prisoners.," '
The last foregcang' despatch was received
this afternoon", and it ifs ',the tat* informa
tion',, received by the Department. - ;
It is estimated hint the losti of the enemy
during the week in killed, wounded and cap
tured cannot fall,short of -1,990 1 if it does not
exceed that number. ' •
The ,Depa . rtm,mt has satisfactory
ii:OM General Sheraton to half-past
eight o'clock last evening. '
- Reports at live o'clock this . morning from
Gen. Sheridan's front represent all quiet at
that time. Gilmore }with 40 or:50 .men on,
tered nOurg last ev,ening.. , ;;•'•
- (Signed),,. )O:m.lN M. STANTON%
• Secretary of mat, •
Wheeler's Forces
NA , HVII.I.E. Aug. 17.
I'h' Go:efte tho Ifjth con-
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1%.1 , m,1 ri•-irndrii in ti' , f,,110w
I • 1,
t , .ch•r,•llJ. tills post
l' SI Er,' )1.1). Colnmanding
THE CAMPAIGN
11 . i• re II (le the
, 11" e: 1 (lon Railroad,
—The R,bois