Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1863, Page 2

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON OITY: THURSDAY...... SEPTEMBER 3, 1863. @7 BEADING MATTER ON EVERY PAGE. GEE OUTSIDE FOR INTERESTING TELE- GRAPHIO AND OTHER MATTER. Washington Money Market. Quotations for stocks, coin and uncurrent Nsw TES. Coupon 6's, 1881, 107; 7.30’s, 107; New Cer- tificates of Indebtedness, 994; Gold, 129%. OUR MILITARY BUDGET. CHARLESTON. ‘he delay in the reduction of Charleston is Coubtless at the bottom of the recent rise in the price of gold in Wallstreet. While this was to bave been expected to a certain extent, it by no means justifies the course of the copper- head prees who are seeking to shake public confidence in the ultimate success of the cam- paign of Gen. Gilmore. When journals of the stripe cf the New York Herald were doing their best to creata the impreceinn that Gon tdilmorat= work in band was but a few hours’ job, the Star urged that hopes built upon such silly prog- nostications must necesearily prove fallacious, { #s the difficulties in his way were as great as these which beset the path of Gen. Grant in his Vicksburg campaign, and were likely to consume perhaps as much timeere the expected consummation might be achieved. Events, in cemonstrating the soundness of this conclu- sion, have in no manner weakened the certainty that complete victory willsooner or later perch upon the banners of Gen. Gilmore and Admiral Dakigren; norhas aught yet occurred to create | a doubt as to theentire sufficiency of all the messures of the War and Navy Departments _ to that end. There was no reason whatever to anticipate the fall of Charleston before the advent of the season in which our army can venture off | Morris Island to points nearer the city with- out risking as great loss from the climate, as from the guns of the traitors in arms. present oferations there are evidently but pre- lhminary to those which are promptly to fol- low the advent of that season. They are neces- sarily slow, because the point of sacrificing as few of our troops as possible is being wisely kept in view. The history of war affords ne other instance in which so much was accom- plished as has already been achieved by Gen. Gilmore and Admiral Dahlgren, with so small less of life. We trust that policy will be ad- bered to by them. Until after the first sharp frst of the season they could not ventare to hold Charleston for a week, if reducing it pre. | viously. Though Gen. Gilmore can probably reduce it to a heap of ashes at any time in twenty-four hours, it seems clear that the time for so doing with all the advantage to the Union esuse anticipated by its reduction, has not ar- rived by probably a month or so. THE GOVSRNMENT’S POLICY. The President's letter to the Springfield mass meeting, printed elsewhere in to-day’s Star, ‘will meet the hearty approbation of the loyal and patriotic.everywhere, because its state- ment of facts involved will strike all as being | true to the letter, while the justness and sound- ness of its deductions from those tacts, are self-evident. None but those who would sooner see the Union perish than have the rebellion crushed, will fail toagree with its conclusions. MOY ewpeciany vw V.uio mare UcMUnSUL AED beyond question that nothing but the most vigorous war measures hold out hope for the reccnetruction of the Union upon any terms: and more especially upon terms guaranteeing future peace and future good behavior in the Union on the part of the traitors of these times, without which reconstraction would be but a mockery. ABREST OF CAPTAIN LEVY. Captain OC. M. Levy, Assistant Quarter- master, was arrested yesterday and consigned to the Old Capitol prison, charged with being | a defaulter. He has for some time been assigned to the defenses north of the Potomac, and has always enjoyed the confidence of his brother officers. The case will be investigated in a few daye.— New York Heraid. 2d. —_+<+e-______ .. The Battle of Honey Spring, Arkansas. CONDUCT OF THE NEGRO TROOPS. General Blunt in his official report of the bat- tie of Heney Springs, Ark., says :—«“The First Kansas (colored) Regiment particalarly dis- tinguished themselves. They fought like vet- erans, and preserved their line unbroken threughout the engagement. Their coolness and brav?y have never been surpassed. They Were in the hottest of the fight, opposed to the Texan troops twice their number, whom they ccmpletely routed. One Texan regiment went into the fight with three hundred men and came out with only sixty.” ae ee WF" Advices from Port Gibson to the 2ith ult. tate that Gencral Blunt, with six tionsand men and twelve pieces of artillery had crossed the Arkavsas river on theaad. Which was estimated to number twenty-five thousard, fell back. A report prevailed at Fort Scott on the 2th that Gen. Blunt had fought a bittle and had been whipped, with the less of three thousand men. Lateraccounts completely reiute the reported defeat of Gen’! Yiun’. Our advance had defeated the Rebel cavalry and their main force, under General Price, were in full retreat. Little Rock, the nal cf the State, is no doubt in our posses- en &7 The draft was continued in Brooklyn and Williamsburg yesterday. Among the lucky ones were the Rey. Theodore Tilton, one of the Our | The Revet rurce | LETTER OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. HIS VIEWS OF COMPROMISE MEASURES. ees KO COMPROMISE WITH REBELS IN ABMS. —.—_ THE EMANCIPAYION PROCLAMATION. ee EMPLOYMENT OF NEGRO SOLDIERS. SS THE PROSPECT OF PEACE. =a A FORCIBLE AND CHARACTERISTIC LETTER ————— The followirg is Pretilent Lincoln's letter to the Springfie:d mass meeting: Executive Mansion, WasHINGTON, August 26, 1863. Hon. JamEs C. CONKLING: My Dear Sir—Yoar letter, inviting me to at- | tenda mass meeting of unconditional Union | men, to be held at the Capitol of Illinois on the 3d day of September, has been received. lt ‘ would be very agreeable to me to thus meet my old friends at my own home, but I cannot just now be absent from this city so long as the yisit there would require. The meeting is to be of all those who main- tain unconditional devotion to the Union, and Iam sure my old political friends will thank me ior tendering, as I do, the nation's gratitude to these other noble men whom no partisan malice or partisan hope can make false to the nation’s life. There are those who are diseat- isfled with me. To such I would say, you dezire peace, and you blame me that we do not have it; but how can we attain it! There are but three conceivable ways: first, to sup- press rebellion by force of arms. This I am trying todo. Are youforit? If you are, eo far we are agreed. If you are not for it, asecond way is to give up the Union. I am against this. Are you forit? If you are, you should say so plainly. If you are not for force, nor yet for dissolution, there only remains some | imaginary compromise. I do not belleve any | compromise embracing the maintenance of the Union is now possible. All I learn leads to a directly opposite belief. The strength of the rebellion is its military—its army. That army dominates all the country and all the people within its range. Any offer of terms made by any man or men with:a that range, in opposition to that army, is simply nothing for the present, because such man or men have no power whatever to enforce their | side of a compromise, if one were made with them To illustrate: Suppose refugees from. tha South and peace men of the North get to- gether in convention, and frame and proclaim a compromise, embracing the restoration of the Union, in what way can that compromise | be used to keep Lee’s army out of Penn- sylvania ? Meade’s army can keep Lee’s army | out of Pennsylvania, and I think can ultimate- ly drive it out of existence; but no paper com- promise to which the controllers of Le’s | army are not agreed, can at all effect that army. In an effort atsuch compromise, we | should waste time which the enemy would | improve to our disadvantage, and that would | beall. A compromise, to be effective, must be made either with those who control the rebelarmy, or with the people first liberated from the domi- nation of that army, by the successes of our army. Now, allow me to assure you that no word or intimation from that Rebel army, or from any of the men controlling it, in relation to any peace compromise, has ever come tomy knowledge or belief. All charges and intima- tions to the contrary are deceptive and ground- less; and I promise you that ifany such propo- | sition shall hereafter come, it shall not be re- jected and kept a secret from you. I freely acknowledge myself the servant | Of the people, according to the bond of service— the United States Constitution—and that as such I am responsible to them. But to be plain, you are dissatisfied with me about the Quite likely there is a difference of - Seercum yuu amu MLYStiL upuu vue subject. I certainly wish that all men could be free, while I suppose youdo not; yet, I have neither adopted nor proposed any measure which is not consistent with even your views, Provided you are for the Union. I suggested compeneated emancipation, to which you re- plied you wished not to be taxed to buy negroes. But I had not asked you to be taxed to buy negroes, except insuch way as to save you from greater taxation, to save the Union exclusively by other means. Yon dislike the emancipation preclamation, and perhaps you would bave it retracted. You say it is un- constitutional. I think differently. I think the Constitution invests its §Commander- in-Chiet with the law of war in time of war The most that can be said—if so mnch -is that | slaves are property. Is there, bas thera ever | keen, any question that by the law of war the Froyerty both of enemies and friends may be taken when needed! And is itnot needed when- ever taking it helps us or hurts the enemy? Armies, the world over, destroy enemy’s property when they cannot use it, and even destroy their own to keep it from the enemy. Civilized belligerents do allin their power to help themselves er hurt the enemy, except a fiw things regarded as barbarous or cruel, Among the exceptions are the massacre of yan- guished foes and non-combatants, male and female. But the proclamation, as law, either is validor is not valid, If it is not valid, it needs no retrac- tion, Ifit is yalid, it cannot be retracted any tore than the dead can be broug it tolife. Some of yon profess to think its retraction would operate favorably for the Union. Why better efter the retraction than lefore the issue! There was more than a year and a half of trial to suppress the rebellion before the proclama- tion issued; the lastone hundred days of which passed under an explicit notice that it was coming, unless averted by those in revolt re- turning to their allegiance, The war has certainly progressed as fayor- ably for us since the issue of the proclamation as before. I know, as fully as one can know, the opinions of others, that some of the com- manders of our armies in the field, who have ' given us our most important successes, believe editors of the /ndependent, ana me “original * Jacobs,” one of the reporters of the New York Express. Mr. Tilton, as everybody knows, is a Vehewtnt advocate of a vigorous prosecution of the war, and, his friends say, it is more thaa than likely he will prefer to shsulder a musket to pa} ing the £200 exemption. . Tee ExpPepition UP THE PED correspondent of the Philadelphia /nqu: writing from the Peninsula, sas of the re scout by @ portion of Gen. Westar’s command up the Peninsula: “The object of the scout was to see if there was ony truth in the report that a portion of Gen. Lee’s army was in force on the Peninsula resey to muke an attack on Yorktown. We Larned that there was‘no truth in the report. i ce has enough to <o elsewhere.” 8&3” A Tobacco Convention Is to be held at Louisvilic, Ky , Septemer 16. It is principal- ly in recerd to the excise tax, which tobacco manolacts ink works hardupon them. Tue Kentucky State Fair is to be held at the same time and plice, and as the whole Obto Valley is @ tobacco growing region this year, we presume that the Convention will be mo small afiuir. BF Forty-five rebel Prisoners, taken from | rebel yeseels recently captured, were brought | to New York by the Hendrick Hadson and placed in the hands of the United States Mar- shal. Among them is a son of the Iate Senator Borland, and a brother of Adalina and Carlotta atti and Mme. Strakosch. wF'The “Publisher's Circular,” issued py Ged. W. Chiids, Philadelphia, is an admirable journal indeed, baying much more sprightli- ness and vim than-any other similar publica- tion in Barope. It has the look, moreover, of prosperity, we ore glad to say. ‘B7 The Legisiatare of West Virginia met yesterday (Wednesday) at Wheeling. the emancipation policy and the use of the colored troops constitute the heaviest blows | yet dealt to the rebellion, and that at least one of those important successes couta nui nave been achieved when it was but for the aid of black soldiers. Among the commanders holding these views are some who haye never had any affinity ‘with what is called abolitionism, or with Republican party politics, but who hold them purely as military opinions. I submit theso opinions as | being entitled to some weight agsinst tho ob- jections often urged that emancipation and arming the bleeks are unwise ¢ military measures, and were not adopted as such in | 8 goed taith. You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some cf them seem willing to fight for you, But no matter; fight you, then, exe} to save ike Union. 1 ed the vely procla- matien on purpose to ald you in saving the Unien. Whenever you he U ‘ing, it will be an apt time then for you to deciare you will not fight to free negroes. I thought that in your sirngeletorthe Union, to whatever exte the negro should e helping the enemy, to that extent it weakened the exemy in his resisiauce to you. Do you think differently? I thought whatever negroes can be got to do as soldiors, leayes just so imu h lees tor white soldiers to do in saying the Union. £ , Dees itappearotherwiseto you! Putnegroes, ike other people, actupon motives. Why should they do anything for us if we will do no’hiag | forthem! If they stake their lives for us, they Must be prompted by the strorgest motive, even the promise of freedom. And the promise being made, must be kept. The signs look better. The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea; thanks to the great Northwest for it. Nor yet wholly to them. Three hundred miles up they met New En- gland, Empire, Keystone, and Jersey, hewing their, way right and lett. The sunny South, too, in more,’colors than one, also Tent a hand. nil have conquered | fon, if Ishall urge you | On the spot, their part of the history was jotted down in biack and white. The job was a great National one, and let none be banned ‘who bore an honorable part in it. While those who have cleared the great river may well be. prond, ever that is notall. It is hard to say that anything bas been more bravely aud well done than at Antietam, Murfreesboro’, Gettys- burg, and on many fields of lesser note. Normuet Uncle Sam’s web teet be forgotten, At all the watery margins they have been present; not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow, muddy bayou; and wherever ths ground was a little damp they have been, and made their tracks. Thanks to all fur the Great Republic, for the principle it lives by and keeps aliye_fyr man’s vast future—thanks to all. Peace does not appear so distant As it did, I hope it will come soon, and come to stay, anggo come as to be worth the keeping in all fu:ure time. It will then have been proved thatamong freemen there can be-nosuccessfal appeal from the ballet to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay thecost. Andthen there will besome black men who can remember that with silent tongue and clenched teeth, and steady eye | and well-poised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation; while I fear there will be some white ones unadie to forget that with malignant heart and deceit. ful speech they have strove to hinder it. s:i11, let us not be over sanguine of a speedy final triumph. Letus be quite sober. Let us dil- jigently apply the means, never doubling that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful reenlt. Yours, very truly, A. LINcozy, w7-The finance committee under the relief | act of the board of supervisors of New York | city, have raised about $750,000 of the 82,000,000 | authorized, to which Peter Cooper contributed | 210,000, and the German Savings Institution about $100,000. Burneiwe’s Anmy RAPIDLY ADVANCING. The Cincinnati Commercial of Monday says « We have Inte advices from Gen. Burnside’s army, indicating that his movemefifs have been made with extraordia ry rapidity, and that a report of decisive results may be expected ina few days. His advance is by this time very near Knoxville, Tenn., and at latest accounts the General, in person, was pushing on with his cavalry.” GENERAL McCLELLAn’s OrFiciaL Report. The official report of General McClellan was received at the Adjutant General’s office about @& month ago. We understand it is very volumi- nous, comprising from seyen to nine hundred folios foolscap, and the accompanying docu- ments cover nearly three times as much more paper. The pressure of more important busi- ness has thus far precluded the possibility of | its examination by the proper officials.—New York Times. NOTICB.—1here will be a meeting of the Hackmen’s Association vn THURSDAY BVEDIN t 8 u’slock, at their Room, on sth at. The members are requesied to be punctual in their attendance, bneiness of importance is to be transacted. 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FROM DOWN THE RIVER. —_——_——_ EXPEDITION FOR THE RECAPTURE mF THE SATELLITE AND RELIANCE. —__——— BLIANCB REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN ‘sili BURNED, —_—_— ee THE REBELS FOILED IN THE MAIN OBJECT OF THE EXPEDITION, co SEIZE A SEA-GOING STEAM- THEE AND PUT TO SEA AS PRAYATREBS. ——— L EXPEDITION TO CAPTURE SOME * OFTHE GUNBOATS ON THE POTOMAC. —_— >_>" The staff boat Ella arrived this morning, tringing up Commodore Harwood; theexpedi- tion sent up the Rappahannock to re-captare the gunboats Satellite and Reliance having re- turned, being unable, in consequence of the low water, to get higher up than Tappahannock. One of the seamen of the Sattelite, D. A. Flibbins, also came up on the Ella, he having made his escape while they were marching to Richmond. He reports that on their being landed at Urbana, they were transferred to the charge of some fiity cavalrymen, and that Capt. Robinson and his brother were both put in irons, because they were once in the Con- tederate cavalry and deserted; and they were formed in @ body, with the cavalry around them, and starwa on their march to Richmond on foot, going at the rate of about fifteen miles per day. They were treated with tolerable kindness. When they arrived within a few miles of the Pamunky river, (about 11 o’clock on Tuesday,) Mr. Flibbins determined to at- tempt an escape, and made an excuse to leave | the party, and at once went down into a deep gully and bid himself. The rebels searched for him ineffectually, and he laid there until night,, when he s arted back towards Urbana, reaching that place on Wednesday night, where he procured @ canoe and came down to the mouth of the river, where he got on board the Currituck. He did not see more than two hundred and fitty rebel troops, (and those were cavyalrymen,) during his march to the Pamunky. The Sattelite had been carried up to Port Royal, and the Reliance was reported to haye been burned; the machinery and guns having been first removed from her. The rebels were in high glee on account of the capture, but their expedition did not fully accomplish their objects. Lieut. Wood, who had command of the rebels, asserted that they after capturing the Satellite and Reliance, would wait ior the Currituck and board and capture her, and then the three vessels would go out in the bay and capture the first sea- going steamer to which they would transfer the guns and ammunition of the three boats, and put tosea asa privateer; first firing the beats and setting them adrift, For the purpose of capturing the Currituck, after they landed the prisoners at Urbana, they took on beard the Satellite about 150 men and went down to the mouth of the river to wait for her; but fortunately her arrival was delayed, and her non-appearance caused them to be suspicious, and after capturing the | schooners they put out up the river without accomplishing the main object of the expe- dition. An expedition, numbering between tour and five hundred rebels, consisting in part of the same party who captured the two boats, left the neighborhood of Port Royal on Tuesday for the Potomac for the purpose of capturing some of our vessels. A party of cavalry are with them who have been seen lately about Mathias and other points on the river. Itis sot known what means they propose to make the capture, but it is supposed that they intend to fix up some of their old batteries on the river, as they have recently been recon- noitering about them. Jack Tye, the boatswain of the Satellite, who was so badly wounded during the engagement, died on the Currituck on Tuesday, and was buried at Point Lookout yesterday. It 1s our belief that by this tima Gen. Meade- has either recaptured the Satellite or forced the rebels to burn her. RSONS WISHING TO BE ACOOMMOD TED Whi SADDLE AND HARNES3 HORSES, PLCGIES SIN“ LE axy DOU BLE CaARKI4GES, SUPLERS’ TEAMS, MULES. &c Gan call at __. . 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And Gaga st PRS POTEET 5 Site | | jor Lovell dispersed early last week in the yi- | the Blue Ridpe kr | Side of the river, almost every man of whom, cbara THE £CARE UP THE RIVER. Nothing has yet reached Washington to change our impression that the cavalry force from which Capt. McCullum and his com- pany (F) of «Scott's 900" ekedaddled on the last day of August, near Leesburg, were ours, | and not the rebel Imboden’s men, as alleged to the fugitives by some Virginian who recently crossed the river to avoid conscription. Im- boden’s cavalry are not within a handred miles of Loudon county, but the rebel Gen. Jon: = has a force, mostly guerrilla in its attri- botes, with which he is scouriug the valley in Vari direction=, nd at times yentures east of the Blue Ridge of lat, to aid the guerrilla White to enforce the conscription law, which, as we explained last week, he is doing of i laying perdu by day. It was a small portion of this force that Ma- cinity of Middleburg. White’s nest or den is on the Hegback Mountain, about four miles back of Leesburg, where he is comparatively safe from the superior Union forces period- ically chasing him into it, becanse they know nothing of the intricate paths over which he climbs to his roost. The rebel Gen. Jones’s | uest is in the immediate vicinity of appoint on | wn the last century as “The Trap,” situated 2bout half way between Snicker’s and Ashby’s Gap, if we remember correctly. That force varies from fiye hundred to four thousand men, nearly all of them rebel citizens belonging in the two valleys—that between the Bull Run and the Blue Ridge, and that be- tween the Bine Ridge and the Alleghinies. When his opportunities arrive he can soon get | the four thoncand around him, most of whom | skulk a out theiz homes in cittvens habiliments when a large Union force may be threatening | them. Capt. Means, of Loudon, has a com. pany of London Unionists doing inty on this we take it, knows the intricate paths by which Whit and Jones batile pursuit almost invari- | ably. ¥ itis being rapidly increased to n, @very mau to bea Virginian, We | hope from that bittalion in the | § a stop to White’s and Mose- » than in anything that can be troops, until it can take the fleld, | in detachments as the so much one by othe it but to sery, needed guides, NAVA? ORDERS. Lieut, Commander Andrew W. Jonson, or- UND! INTENCE, Androw Clark, 624 Pa. Vol.; George Arrick, 27th Pa., Jas. Smith, 155th Pa., Geo. Reifsny- die, 1%th Inf; Samuel Jenkins, 120th Inf; ©hagles Luther, John Roberts, John Ogden, Henry Player, Uharles Miller, Jasper Miller. and @. W. Comstock, of 140th N.Y., were com- mitted to the Old Capitol yesterday afternoon by order of Capt Todd. They are all under Sentence of court-martial. “SENSATION REPORTS.—Yesterday we ©x- Posed the faleity of a sensation dispatch, for- warded irom New York, about the President's Torthcoming letter, which was elaborated upon by an immense capital heading in the first edition of the Star. Thinking the pablic not suflictently humbugged, that paper, in its second edition, made the startling announce- ment that Lee had crossed to the north side of the Rappahannock with fifty thousand men. «Some frightened jackass, observing a large Federal force at a certain point on the Rappa- bannock, rushed up to the city and reported that Lee, with fifty thousand men, had crossed the river; the Star swallows it, and the whole community is thrown into a state of alarm! No other paper has the news.”— Republican. Nosir. The Star stated thatsuch a ramor was afloat, but that it “needed confirmation.” But in thus striking out wildly at «Sensation Reports” the Republican seems strangely un- mindtul of the fragility of its own vitreous tenement. For who was it but the Republican thatso lately set the country agape by the triple- leaded announcement, impliedly “ By Author- ity,” that war with England was inevitable, fortifying its stunning editorial by a 5 o’clock “ExTRA,” headed “STarTLing News!” in which it ‘said it “had reason to believe it was true” (Italics the Republican’s) that a notice had been ‘served on the British Government by our minister at London” thatifGreat Britain (Italics the Republican’s again) “permits the two iron-clads now building for the rebel autherétécs w be employed against American shipping upon the high seas, that the Government of the United States will accept the act on the part of Great Britain as adeclaration of war and will actaccordingly.” And upon this “Sensation Report” being questioned, what paper but the Republican had the sublime effrontery to insinuate that it obtained its information from higher sources than Cabinet authority, and actually attempt- ed to use the President’s name 4s a bob for its sinking sensation kite? The Republican evidently “went it” on the Emersonian advice, ‘Hitch your wagon toa star,” but like an aspiring sensationist of my- thological history, who undertook to harness the sun, got a very discouraging tumble for any journalist less plucky than our neighbor. His report was flatly denied by authority. **No other paper had the news” in that case, as in most of its mary-leaded extra stunners; and subsequently when it got up a stunner as was & stunner (two columns triple-leaded) in- volving no end of «Startling Disclosures” and a sure-enough war with France (this time), on the Mexican question, not a solitary cotempo- rary, city or country, could be induced to nib- ble at it. «No other paper had the news,” or cared to have it. It is hardly worth our while to notesuch o/ the Republican’s average daily one o’clock and four o’clock stunners as involve issues of less magnitude than a general war with Europe, and merely call attention to these instances to show whatan odd figure our neighbor makes as a sermonizer upon the sensational. Fiax anp Hemp vs. CoTTon.—As will be remembered, the last Congress appropriatea $20,C00 to be expended in testing the practica- bility of the introduction of flax and hemp as a substitute for cotton. The Commissioners appointed by the Com- missioner of Agriculture to consider the sub- ject, viz: Hon. J. K. Morehead, of Pittsburg, Pa.; Dr. Jno. A. Marder, of Cincinnati, O., and W. M. Bailey, of Providence, R. I., began their session this morning at the office of the Commissioner of Agriculture. THE PRESIDENT’S LETTER.— We advise those who have read the President's letter to the Springfield Convention as published in the morning papers, to re-peruse the corrected copy published in the Star this afternoon, as the telegraphic version used by the morning papers abounded in material errors. REFUSED.—The Interior Department has re- tused ail the bids for the sale of the Kansas Trust lands, and ordered new bids, which are fo be made on or before the isth of October next. 7 Fernando Wood has returned to New York city from Canada yia Niagara Falls, where he had an interview with Vallandig- bam. Washington Money Market—Latest Quo- tations. Furnished by Lewis Johnson & Co., Bunk- ers. Buying. Selling. U.S. Conpon Bonds, 1891 ......1064 107 U.S.5 ; : ae U.S. 7.30 Notes ..ccseescs 107% Quartermasters’ Grecks... - New Certificates American Goid, American Silver. NEW YORE RATPS—3 0 CLOOK P. ML Conpon 6's, 1651, 107: 7-30’s, 107; New Oar. tificates of Indebtedness, 99%; Gold, 132; N.Y. Central R.R., 1287; ErieR.R., 96%; Reading, 113%; Michigan Central, 107¥; Ill. Centrai, 121%; Chicago and Rock Island, 105%. Market in a regular panic. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. eget MASS CONVENTION OF YOUNG MEN AT SYRACUSE. Syracuvsr, Sept. %.—The Mass Convention of Joyal young men met this morning. E. F. Shepherd was chosen president, Resolutions were adopted fully endo the President, his administration, and h ter, and condemning Goy. Seymour's course, and urging the total obliteration of slavery. The Convention is well attended. LOCAL NEWS. THE Drart.—The following cases were dis- posed of by the Bourd of Enrolment up to the hour of 2 o'clock to-day : Owes Gainey, alien. Patrick Donavan, alien. John Sexton, disability. Wm. M. Barry, disability. obn L. Bursley, under age. f *'Y) tWu members Of family in oo . erroneously enrolled. taer ol motuerless chil- f widow. only son of widow. on of widow. ny neously enr ie Rey. Edward McNerkeny, disab ui. Lineaborn, Geo. Hits, faraisle zetia, David Haggerty, turvished su Wilson. 5 es stilute—Carlo Cuz. ered to the South AUantic Blocknding Squa ron. “ : Lieut. Jonathan Young, detached from the command of the Pembina and ordered to teia- porary orduance duty at New York Navy Yard. Liexnt. Commander L. Howard Nawmau, detached from the command of the Dawn ard ordered to command the Pembina, Ensign Beary J. Blake, ordered to the Frigate Sabine. Gunner Eugene Mack, detached from the Missiseippi Sqadron and ordered to the Niaga- ra. Third Assistant Engineer James A. Barton, detached from the Dai Ching and waiting or- cers. 4 » COMMITED TO THE OLD CAPITGL, * Wm, F. Obire, Albert F. Cowin and Heury *| Williams. citizens, sent in by Provost Marshal General of Army of Potomac, were committed to the Gld Capitol yesterday by order of Capt, Tode. “ 4 B feud sok ‘L. Ewell and Ohesies Wright; aankzerous rs, Joho Griblin aad. Miohaal ‘Boner, British Subjects, sent. in.by,the Lewis Burwell. colored, furnished hie tute—Frank Hawkiis. ee Alphonsus Charlier. alien. John L. Russell, over aga. Michael Hussey, only son of low. Rhinds Ash, erroneously enrolled Robeit Bishop, under age. W. T.-Walker, furnisied sybstitnte—Thos. Jones. John Wetzel, mental disability. Ree dis ibility. Charles Wright, furnished sustitnte—Geo. Dixson. James iiughes, erroyeously enrolled, Rev. Patrick MeUarty, alien. John Murphy, alien. James Johnson, over age. 2 Marshall T. Fincolud, overage. Thomas Carter, deafness. Gecrze W. Crutchley, disability. John Medden, aiien. 132 ‘Dwight Partello, disability, G. H. Gates, disability. Hemulten Cartion, disabitity. H. Bromi i Jenn Hoyer cieatiliyg.: Ee Famuud 1. Rolled, erronvomie: Sie. Lad swage AER La oan John Shebanya! BA nad US Sateen “Loe Robert Barney, disability... j. “8"" =" 4 Jobn'D cer . Jol i B 2 “ieGiae f i} ° St See Tobias colored, furnished itate— John Marshall. 9 baie Joseph Wallace, furnished substitute—Joha Wilson. Jobn Pyemount, turnished substitute—Geo. Bowling. Christopher C. Chew, only son of widow. —_—_o—___ Brps For Frovr.— Bids were opened - day by Col. Beckwith for 20,000 barrels of flour. ‘There was 8 large number of dealers in attend- ance and the bidding ws spirited. Offers were made to fornish 40,000 barrels of No. 1, 182,908 barrels of No. 2, and 6,000 barrels of No.3. Bids rapged from $6.10 to $7.05 for No.2, aud from 86 to $6.60 for No.3. There were only two bide for furnishing No.1, and they were $6.93 to 7.25. After the bids had been announced Col. Beckwith decided to take all the flour offered at $635 and under, amounting to about 35 vue barrels. ‘he names of the accepted bidders, together with the quantity wedges furnished by them and the prices, are as foliows: - ‘Montgomery Hunt—1,000 barrels at $6.27, CLO at $6.35, 1,000 at $6.22. Genjamin Darby--o00 barrels at $6.20, 1,000 at 6.25, 500 at $6.30. . George Waters—!,000 barrels at $6 50. A. H. Herr—1,(0 barrels at $6.20, 500 at 86.30. W. H. Edes—S0) barrels at $6.15, 60) at $6.15. Thos. P. Morgan—1,000 barrels at $6.21, 1,500 at $6.31, 1,000 at 86.35, 800 at 86.24. George T. McGlue—700 barrels at $6.31, 1,000 at $6.19, 2,000 at $6.24, 2,000 at $6.30. D. L. Shoemaker & Bro.—1,000 barrels at $5.20, 2,000 at $6.25, 1,000 at $6.30. Evan Lyons—75i) barrels at $6.15, 300 at $6.1('. John Davidson—400 barrels at 26.20, 600 at 6.15. ' A. Ross Ray & Bro.—2,000 barrels at $5.29, 2,000 at $6.25, 2,000 at $6.30. Geo. F. Webb—1,000 barrels at $6.36. Lambert Thomas & Co.—1,000 barrels at $6.19, 1,000 at $6.21. David Edes—500 barrels at $6.25, ——_—_—>—— AKRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF TRoors.— This morning the secund battalion of the 16ih New York cavalry (speae cavalry,) num. bering 314 men, arrived at the Depot. They are under the command of Major Giles (. Horton, and emong them are many who haye already served two years in the service. The men belonging to the 20th New York (Turner Rifles,) numbering 197, wz ho it will be recollected refused to go into the battle of Chancellorsville, alleging as @ reason that their time was out, and who were charged with mutiny and sentenced by court-martial for imprisonment at Fort Delaware, arrived here yesterday on their way home, their sen- tence having been remitted through the instra- mentality of Gen, Patrick, Provost Marshal General of the cee Sie the Potomac. They have promised Gen. Patrick lo re-enlist azain afier visiting their homes. Forty-nine recruits trom Trenton, N. J., also arrived yesterday. Pic-Nio THI8 Eve ‘he police of the Sixth Ward give a pi ic this afternoon at Beckert’s Garden, near the Navy yard, to aid in some of their number who have been drafted, and as they have been very carefulin the dis. posal of the tickets, no deubta pleasant time will be spent by all who lend them a helping hand. —_—_—_>——_ At Gatt’s.—The superb sword lately pre. sented to Gen. Meade is now at Galt’s jewelry store, where it may be seen for a few days. GUERRiLLA RAID ON THE CHESA. PEAKE AND OHLO CANAL. —— SQUADS OF THE FORCE VISIT THE MARY- LAND SHORE. ———— MORE HORSES STOLEN. Se AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN. eg ee {Correspondence Evening Star.] GEORGETOWN, Sept. 3, 1363. Boatmen who arrived this morning, report still another raid on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, on the first of September, by the gueril- las who have lately been so active along the banks of the Potomac. They numbered about 250, but were not all on the Maryland side; only squads of ten would come over and pay their respects to the best looking teams, used to tow the Canal boats, which they would (im- mediately after capture) run across tne river to those who were awaiting for the prizes on the opposite bank. The arrivals by river to-day are—Steamer Salvor, Nott, N. Y., mercandise to Morgan & Rhinehart; steamer Elizabeth Fowler, Sanitary Boat from Norfolk, Va; schrs. Mary S. Tib- bets, Plum, hay to Government; B. J. Deveny, Bristol, merchandise for ey merchants; Semmes, Taylor, Saulsberry, Md, lumber to E. Pickerell; Federal Hill, Wheatley, Port De Posite; Md., lumber to Wheatiy; Harmonia, Jones, merchandise; Jno. Cooper, Taylor, lum- ber to Libby & Pickerell; Ashland, James, Balt., grain to Shoemaker; Geo. Washington, Jones, Balt., grain to B. Danby; Antelope, T. Jones, Balt, flour to Shoemaker, and corn to Hartley & Bro.; Math C. Durfee, Bearce, corn to Haritly & Bro.; J. C. Caihoun, Emerson, oats for Hartly & Bre; C. A. Farmouth, Hod- ron, Alex., light; Jno. Forsyth, Bridsall, Alex , light; Friard, Mitchell, Washington, lizn:, sloop Christiana, Bell, grain; M. J. Fard. Hooper, Saulsbury, Md., lumber to Wheatly; sloop Star, Price, plaster for G. Waters. Arrived by canal:—Boats Great Eastern and Rainbow, coal to John Young; W. McAte, wood; Wm, Darrow, M. E. McUoy, M. P. C. Morrison, S. K. Hensell, coal to Ray’s Docks; E. Stanhope, John Gorman, Col. Moore, coal to Agnue; Clipper, coal to Georgetown Gis Co.: Fred Mertins, J.J. Watson, Sarah Ana, coal to ©. C. & 1. Co.; Old Dominion, wood; John H. Shaw, coai to Agnue. Departed by canal:—Boats Anna Marion, P. Heines, W. McAtee, D. Stewart, J. G. Morri- sor, A. H. Bradt, Helen May, H. F. Kindle, Great Eastern, Keystone, Wm. Darrow, Fred Mertins, Gem, Oid Dominion and John Shaw. L ieumpneesmersrarmeieniteeniesctetocete ate $5 BEWARD-—Strayed or strlen, on Saturday Se) right, the 29th inst .2 BAINDLE Cow, w:ta white star in forehead and part of tail whi above reward will be given if returned to J. NEHAN, on Ist at , bet K and L sta. S23 3I* SEATED On Sunday, 3ith August, a BAO WN POIN CER DOG; white breast and white froot feet; dew claws on hind feet; 2 years and 6 months old. If brought to corner Vermont aveaue and L street, Washington, or 14S Bridze street f-eorg?- town. a liberal reward will be paid. 82S 3t* OST—On sth :t.. between Bountary and N, a SILVER WATCH ; douvls case; of Boston manufacture, lort about 5 p.m, yesterday, The fincer by leaviog it at Lr ine © Sigel’s,on Band lith or second precinet Station House, or Metropolitaa office, or the subseriber JAS, MULLOY, will re- ceive 35 reward. 523 3t* FoUsNISBED HOESK WANTED. —a large and weil-furnished Houre ted for ¢ or 12 Address Bcx 180, Post-ofice. 8e 3-3t* ANTED—A YOUNG LADY to attend ia a Confectionary Store — Must come weil-re erded Apply at 520 Seventh strect. ott ROYAL £. MILLER. TED—A well FURNISHSD HOUS%, in ¢¥ Wari rgtoh, Georgetown, or vicinity, fur the winter ora jonger term, for which a liberal rent will bo paid est of references given, Adirass “L,,” 442 13th street, Washington. se 3 bt" YY Anrep TO KENT—A HOUSE, farn’ upfarnished acentral location in this ci‘y. Rent must be m ‘ate. The very beat of refer exces wiil be given, Addresr Box 589 City Post UF ce. se 3-3t* 5D TO-DAX—A good Pastry Baker for = 1; aise, a smart Boy, several fCooks er ard Ivoners, and General Houseworkers i pivae femilies mad bosedk Honses. Taoss Wiehivg eocd places and well pai: ould apply a> the Intslligence oiiice, No 514 Ninth street. near anis avenue, mcnths. Ww N. H. MILLE ')OB SALH_Ata ereat bargain, a small POUR BY SEAT ONE-HORSN OSRELAGR. roomy, c03 fortableand in excellent crder. Will be sold +x credingly low, Inquire at Centre Ofice, in tue Ravy Yard. Siw allery Carpets, » &e. 3.0, MeQUIRE & O9., Aart. By GREBN & WILLIAMS, Au-:i uchioa sAua Of Hogsniol A Niet Brash iteredtth ma ta in th ‘erms cash, pets, child’s Carriage, risking Utgars, ome open face Gold ¥ Far ily Flour, om SATURDAY MORYI" ietent, at Lo o'clock, in feont of cornibe’ FS dud D is & ts streets. Ne would call the abien ton of persona to che s0¥4 als they will be everything that tacy my ¥3a% ip Ocse fermighi Fe8 “GES & vOTELER & WILL3SON, Avctione= > Ba TORY SALECOF AN UNDIVEDED INTEREST IN City Loag.—Oo Rati DA APTEFNOON, September 5th, at §0'cls y the wone balf inte wetk orr Bremiges, a Mg prevem: 4 thoim ing 25 feet on nowt L sievt. be crac eh CNet Sean foot on coath L est part’ Of Lot NO, 4. fronting 59 fect 7 i003 ti pre. te ‘0 aquare feet in the roa? oF f In Equare 8&2, the whole of original Lots No 1.8, lor the 1, 15-15 Mt abd WP. hoe No. 7 e 5 ae = ur cffonsare to self without reserva = bar hj ed may therefore be anticipated.) © ae ae } i | \ ceca