The New York Herald Newspaper, August 7, 1862, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BUNNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. DFFICEN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS TuIS EVENING, MIBLO'S GARDEN. Broadway.—Simon’s Mismars— —Firine Trarsce—t oatusn » FRoLis. WALLACK’S THRATRE. No. St Brosdway.—To Panis amp Back—Eiter 0 Conson. WINTER GARDEN, Broadwag.—Loox Ovr roe tus Duart—soupien’s KerUKs, NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Sowoers.—St. Mazo~ Muserexe or Touxvo. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery,—Macaatay, OR fmE Pusr 0 D.r—Maniac Loven. NIXON'S CREMORNE GARDEN. Fourteenth street and Bixth avenve.—Ormna, BALtst, ’ROMKNADK CONCERT AND BovrstRianism. BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM, Rrosdway.—Taw Le,asep Bast Harer Faminy, . at all bourse, Tas ‘ALesGmaNiANS—Nir asp TUCK, afternoon and evening. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Ermioriax Sonos, Dances, 4¢.—Anwr Gor Truk ro Taner, HITCHCOCK'S THEATRE AND MUSIC HALL, Oanal street. —soxgs, Daxcns, B UKs, &O. , CONCERT HALL, 616 Breadway.=Daswine meg Reteencroneoe r CABINET OF WONDERS, 563 Broadway.— Ope dls DALE New York, Thursday, Aug rere a THE SITUATION. The army of General McCiellan is on the move. About dark on Tuesday night a body of onr troops, under General Hooker, went out to Malvern Hill end White Oak Swamp, in the direction of New Market and Richmond, large bodies of the rebels, whom they aucceeded in driving in towards Richmond, after a fight of three hours’ duration. The cavalry under General Averill pursued the enemy hotly. Nearly two hundred prisoners were captured. Our advance went within ten miles of Richmond. General McClellan was prgsent at the scene of action and had not returned at last accounts. The particulars of the great war meeting in Washington yesterday, in which the President participated, are given in another column. They furnish a cheerful evidence of the feeling of loyalty to the government existing in the national capital. Affairs in the Southwest present a stirring aspect. A severe fight occurred at Newark, Knox ‘county, Missouri, on Friday evening last. About ® thousand guerillas, under Porter, approached the town an hour before sunset, and were met by parte of two companies of State militia, under Captain Lain, numbering seventy-five men. The guerillas charged on our troops and were repulsed, when they dismounted and drove Capt. Lain into the town, where a severe struggle took place, re- sulting in the capitulation of. our forces, who were immediately paroled by the guerilias, Our loss was four killed and four wounded. -The re- bels acknowledge seventry-three killed and a large number wounded. Porter's gang car- vied off all the arms and camp equi- page of our troops. On Sunday the State forces of Colonels Guitar, Meigs, Clapper and Caldwell passed through Newark in pursuit of Porter. On Saturday evening s band of one hundred guerillas took possession of Alexandria, Missouri, They then seized all the arms and ammunition they could find, and did considerable other plundering, after which they abandoned the town. Some extraordinary developments of latent trea- sou have been made in Indiana. It appears t_c Grand Jury for the United States District Court of that State, at Indianapolis, have just presented a seoret organization called the “ Knights of the Golden Circle,"’ whose purposcs are declared tobe treasonable. The Grand Jury show that there are 16,000 members of aa order directly tn league with the secessionists of the South. They have plans to avoid or defeat legal proceedings against them ; they are sworn to resist the collection of federal taxes, and go armed to their meetings. The In- dianapolis Journal states, on this latter point, that during the late Copperhead Convention no less than five hundred revolvers were sold, Sixty o! these men have been indicted—sixteen of them for treason. Our extracts from the Southern papers which we give to-day will be fpund very interesting. The condition of affairs in Richmond, srising from sickness, is represented as fearful. The latest ac- counts from the rebel capital, which we publish in another column, comprised in the statements of two refugees, are exccedingly importaut, and will put our readers: in possession of a good deal of valuable infofmation touching the state of things in rebeldom. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. To-day the annual State elections will take place in Tennessee and North Carolina. In the latter State the canvass has been very animated over the candidates for Governor, and a great dea! of bitter feeling has been created on both sides. One of the aspirants for the Executive chair is Zebulon B. Vance, who represents what is termed the ‘ conservative war party,’’ which has a strata of Unionism underlaying a thin covering of forced secessionism. On the question of taking North Carolina out of the Union the party whose stand- ard bearer is Mr. Vance cast 47,269 Union votes, against 46,672 for secession; but the State was ne- vertheless turned over to Rebeldum by the Conven- tion, against the wishes of the people. Mr. Vance fepresented the Eighth district in the last Con- gress, and was then termed a Southern opposition man, or Know Nothing. He was on the rebel side fn the battle of Newbern, and is now with the Twenty-sixth North Carolina regiment, which he commar’s, forming « part of the defence of Richmond. His party will pro bably succeed in the present contest. The other candidate is Wil- liam Johnson, President of the Columbia and Charlotte Railroad Company. Mr. Johnson ts a man who has not heretofore been much known in politics, but isan uneompromising foe to the fe- deral Union. The platform of principles upon which he hopes to ride into the gubernatorial chair is thus set forth by the partivon journals im bis (rain:—" An unsemittiag prosecution of the war,” “the war to the last extremiiy;"’ ‘ complete in- Gependence;” “eternal sepuration from the North;” no abridgement of southern territory; | “no diminution of Southern bowtlarios?” Thore will be lively tines in this ciiy next week. ‘Tho regiments in Maine, Massachusetts, Connecti- eat and Rhode Isiand are now about full, and @early ready for marching orders. Next week they will be passing through this city, each headed by ite spirit stirring drum corps. Ve have thus far seen but one journal that is frightened at the recent order to draft men fi arvay, and that is the organ of the but mbraoy in Hartford, Cy The cities of New Y and encountered some | | of the Btate, have furnished over two-thirds of the volunteers that weut te the war, as will be seen by the following tuble:— mae ar and Interior of The above table does not include the first call for one month and three months militia, nor the three months uniformed militia now in the field. New York and Brooklyn are again ready to re- spond to the calls of the government. - The Northwest has furnished the following num- ber of troops for the Union army:— THinois. - 69,319 Towa. Indiana Minnesota . Michigan. Missouri. . Wisconsin. sre in Taunton, Mass. Major General William B. Franklin and wife arrived im Philadelphia on Monday, from Cape May. By the arrival of the brig Tallulah, Captain Plummer, at this port yesterday, we have advices from Rio Janetro to the 29th of June. News hav- ing reached Rio of the capture of New Orleans, some demand had sprung up for vessels to that quarter, American vessels, however, were un- willing to go there until more certain advices had been received. Several foreign vessels in conse- quence had been taken up for New Orleans. The coffee market on the 28th of June closed firm at previous quotations, with an upward tendency, holders being sustained in their pretensions by the probability of a speedy reopening of the Southern ports of the United States. The last four steamers that left San Francisco had.on board the following amounts of treasure for New York:— Steamer of July 1... Steamer of July 11.. Steamer of July 21... Steamer of August 1.. ++ $878,834 957,542 1,114,000 1,080,000 Total......secesees pte tener ee eee edd $3,950,376 The last two shipments are yet to arrive. ‘Wail street was quiie buoyant yesterday, and stocks of all kinds were 34 @ 1 per cent higher, the favorites o the day being the leading railway shares. There was no change of conseqnence ia gold, exchange or money. The cotton market was decidedly firmer yesterday, owing in part to the restrictions placed upon its move- ments under the military authorities of Memphis, and Partiy tothe light stock on hand, The sales embraced about 500 bales, closing stiff on the basis of 480. a 48%c. for middling uplands. The flour market opened firmer and rather higher, especially for common to ood grades of State and Western, while other aescrip- tions were unchanged. The enhanced views of holders tended to check sales. Wheat was firmer, especially for good to prime shipping qualities, while common grades were unchanged. Corn was rather better an@ in good request. Good to prime Western mixed sold at 5Tc. @ 5T4ge. Pork was buoyant, with sales of moss at $lla $11 1234, and of prime at $9 6234 a $9 75. Sugars were steady at the recent concession in prices, and, including an snetion sale of 1,109 hhds., embraced 1,782hhds., at rates given in another columm. Coffee was st rly. A sale vi 2,600 bags of Rio was mado at p. t. Tue stock embraced 123,203 bags of Rio and Santos, and 163.866 bags of all deseriptions. Freights were sluggish and en gagements moderate. Wheat to Liverpool was engaged at 15d., and dour at 3s. 9d. To London and Glasgow flour was 46. The Rebel Army and Its Leaders at Rtch- mond, and Their Plans and Purposes. Where; now, is the great rebel army of Vir" ginta? Is it engaged in strengthening and ex tending the defences of Richmond, or is it mov- ing off stealthily for a sudden dash in over- whelming numbers upon General McClellan or upon General Pope, in view of a triumphal march into Washington? What is the present programme of the rebel leaders—an aggressive or defensive war? Are we prepared to meet them, north or east of Richmond, at a moments warning, or is General Halleck satisfied that they have not sufficiently recovered from their late terrible losses to resume for some days or weeks to come offensive operations? These and many other similar inquiries are now uppermost in the public mind. In reply, in the absence of any unquestionable information, we can only advise out readers to wait in patience for the satisfactory intelligence which will soon be furnished by actual events Meantime, among the abundant rumors afloat, it is said that the bulk of the rebel army of Richmond has been withdrawn to the south side of the James river, and it is conjectured that this movement means an evacuation of the city from the presence of a pestilence, or for the purpose of procuring supplies. But it is also reported that, while a considerable rebel force is at Petersburg, meditating a descent upon Norfolk via Suffolk, a much larger force is spreading itself across the upper country, eastward to the Rappahannock and westward into the valley of the Shenandoah, from the central position of Gordonsville. That there is & pretty strong rebel force at Petersburg. aud another strong columa at Gordonsville, we know from the actual reconnoissances of our own troops; and that the rebels have drawn back their lines from the Chickahominy we know from a recent exploration from General McClellan’s army over the line of his late re. treat froin Gaines’ Hill. From these facts we conclude that, while the rebel leaders at Richmond do not anticipate any further danger from the Chickahominy, they are preparing for a possible attack on the south side of Richmond, while threatening an advance upon Washington from Gordonsville, by way of Manassas or the Shenandoah valley and Maryland. The seizure of Washington, and a Southern revolutionary coup d'etat at that point, comprehending the reconstruction of the government of the whole Union or the dictation of the boundaries of a separate Southern con- federacy, was the original scheme of the leading conspirators in the work of this rebellion. Henry A. Wise had openly proclaimed this design in 1856, in view of Fremont's election; but he proposed to confine bis threatened raid of that day to the robbery of the Treasury and the government archives. In 1860, however, he became the head of an extensive band of conspirators in Virginia and Maryland, whose object was nothing less than @ regular French revolutionary coup d'etat, to be consummated by a sudden descent upon Warhington of ten thousand armed men on or before the inangn- ration day of President Linooln. General Scott can tell how this bold, daring and dangerous scheme was discovered and de. feated, tis still, by the fire-eating rebel lead- ers of the South, of the school of Wise, Rhett, Iverson, Yancey and Beauregard, the seizure of Washington has been adhered to as the crown- ing victory of their Southern confederacy, It appears, however, that Jeff. Davis has always been opposed to this enterprise as the most foolish and disastrous that could be attempted in behalf of Southern independence; and that his opposition to Beauregard had not a little to to in restraining the rebel army from an ad, noe upon Washington after the battle of Bull o. Davis and his party, then, had full faith ng Cotton, Southerg fee trade, Lazepcan intervention and a Southern confederacy, with” out much of a war; but it is quite probab'e that to-day the capture of Washington has be- come as much an object with Davis and his ruling confederates as the defence of Rich- mond. Why, then, after all their boasted viotories over General McClellan, have the rebel leaders at Richmond delayed so long in pushing for- ward a portion of their immense and victorious army into Washington? We answer, that the rebel army has bad to repair damages; that General McClellan and apowerful co-operating naval force in the James river are too close to Richmond to be left in charge of half the rebel army which lately attempted his destruction; and that, while a rebel force equal to the task of saving iteelf in a march upon Washington would have to carry its subsistence all the way from Richmond, the rebel government has neither the transportation nor the provisions for such an expedition. Between the opposing armies ali the intervening country from Rich- mond to Washington has been substantially drained of its supplies, and cannot further be depleted without reducing its inhabitants to starvation. It follows, that before the rebel General Lee can push forward to Washington be must be supplied with an immense wagon train, equal to the subsistence of an army of two hundred thousand men for a distance of one hundred and fifty or two hundred miles. We say two hundred thousand men, for any- thing short of this would be destroyed before reaching the Potomac. Without going any farther, therefore, we find in this important item of subsistence a sufficient reason for the inactivity of the rebel forces in Virginia since the late battles on the Chicka- hominy. Their supplies have to be drawn from great distances, and their indispensable railroad facilities keep them near Richmond. Had they routed General MeClellan, and captured his wagon train, they could have marched right gn to Washington. Failing in this they have lost their game, and we have now the men, the means and the facilities of all kinds for the complete expulsion of the rebels from Virginia, army, government and all, before the lst of October. Wendell Phillips Spouting Foul Trea- son. At the anniversary celebration of the eman- cipation of the slaves of the West Indies, held at Abington, Mass., Wendell Phillips, the corypheus of the abolition faction, delivered a speech which, in treason and sedition, has out- stripped anything he has yet uttered. It seems as if this bold, bad man was waxing more auda- cious under the impunity he experiences. He threatens the President with deposition from the chair of the chief magistracy, and if Mr, Lincoln does not haul him up with a short turn it is possible he may carry his threat into execution. He says, “The government fights to preserve slavery;” and again, “As long as you keep the present turtle at the head of the government, you make a pit with one hand and fill it with another.” Here is, first, a falsehood that the President is fighting for slavery; and second, there is an inflammatory appeal to the people to overthrow the government and depose Mr. Lincoln, whom the orator describes as “a turtle.” Next, he calls the President “q@ mere convenience,” and lastly, “a broom- stick.” He caps the climax of his treason by saying, “Better the South should go to-day than lose another life to prolong the war upon the present detestable policy. * * * Let this Union be dissolved in God's name. * . England ought to recognize the Southern con- federacy.”” Such are the atrocious sentiments of the chief representative man of the abolition party—its organ in common with the Tribune, the Post and the Independent. Surely, if auy man can commit treason by words spoken or written, this is of the blackest hue, and if any maf ought to have been arrested since the beginning of this war, Wendell Phillips is that man. He impudently proclaims that. the President “has no backbone,” and therefore it is, we suppose, that he calculates upon impunity. If the Pre sident would adopt the most effectual way of contradicting his foul calumny, by sending him to Fort Warren, the act would be worth one hundred thousand armed men to the Union cause. This foul-mouthed traitor does no t stop here. He sows the seeds of distrust in the army by saying that “McClellan’s balls are not intended to do much damage to the rebels; he could not have done more to help them than he has done. The people need not fear for Richmond; Mc- Clellan would not take it. He (Phillips) looked upon the present war, conducted without a reasonable object, as a total loss of blood and treasure. * * * Men well acquainted from positive experience with the Army of the Poto- mac affirm that Richmond could have bémM taken five different times had the do-nothing at the head of it permitted; but he preferred to dig dirt in the Chickahominy swamps, and then leave that locality and its dirt heaps ignomi- niously. President Lincoln, through coward fear of the border States, keeps this man in the position he holds.” Such is the language of Phillips. There are two kinds of treason and two classes of traitors. The traitors South we are bringing immense armies into the field to put down, and expending vast sums of moncy in the enterprise; and yet, here at the North, there are traitors banded together to impede the progress of the Unton arms by maligning and misrepresenting the government and ridiculing the chief gene- rals in the fleld, and by calling for a dissolution of the Union. The traitors of the North are oompletely in the power of the government, and it ought to strike at them boldly at once, The traitors of the South will never be overthrown while the trttors of the North are thus permitted to give them aid and comfort. The arch-traitor is Wendell Phillips, who con- fesses that for fifteen years he has been a dis- unionist. Why is he permitted to be at large? It is the faction that he leads which has been the cause of the rebellion. It first furnished the pretext to the secessionists to throw off the yoke, and now it does its utmost to encourage them and discourage the government and the army pouting out its blood for the Union. In the beginning of the war Greeley «nid the Union ought to be dissolved if the South desired it, and that the action of the secessionists was justified by the pringiples of the Revolution. Secession, therefore, is but the stem and the brauches of the tree of treason. The root that first caused the upas to germinate, and bas ever since given it vitality and support, is the revolutionary abo- lition faction, which openly preclaims ite detex- mination to overthrow the constitution as “a covenant with death and an agreement with Hell.” Let the axe be laid tq the root aud the poison treg wilh fat, - Stato Governors as Recruiting Officers, When the President called for three hundred thousand volu:teers, a few weeks ago, be ap- pointed the Governors of the loya! States as chief recruiting officers. Ina few days the ef- forts of these recruiting officars will be super- seded bya general draft, and we shall then know precisely which Governors have and which have not worked efficiently and success- fully to fill up the Army of the Union, From present indications, however, we conclude that Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts, will be among the first, and Governor Morgan, of New York, among the last, on the list; but we hope that, within the next nine days, our Governor may redeem himself, and place the Empire State where she should be—foremost among the loyal States in her response to the call of the President. Governor Washburn reports the quota of the State of Maine very nearly ready. Governor Berry, of New Hampshire, makes the same re- port. Governor Holbrook, of Vermont, has the quota of* that State already in the field. Massachusetts will have her quota at the time appointed, Governor Andrew having proven as & recruiting officer as he is a bad poli- Like all the Puritans,Governor Andrew is perfectly insane in regard to his religion and bis opinions; but in business he is very methodical, accurate and success- ful. His reply to Secretary Stanton’s fright- ened telegrams, when Jackson made his raid down the Shenandoah valley, displayed the worst and weakest side of his character. But as soon as the War Department talked business, and demanded so many men from Massachu- setts, Governor Andrew became less puritanical and more patriotic, and turned from sermon- izing to recruiting. With the ‘energy and tact of a man of business he organized his forces in every township, sent out competent agents, and now has nearly the whole number of recruits re. quired. In Rhode Island, Governor Sprague has been equally expeditious and successful- Little Rhody has her quota ready, but uafortu- nately an unexpected crack has been discovered in the hitherto sound head of her Governor. It isthe negro crack. Every one expected Field Marshal Greeley or Border Ruffian Jim Lane to be the first to raise and command a negro bri- gade, but Governor Sprague has deprived them of this dark and doubtful honor. At a recent public meeting he offered to raise a negro regi- ment and accompany it to the field in person. This, itseems, he had a perfect right to do, under an old obsolete militia law of the State; but the refusal of the President to accept negro regiments has probably put a quietus upon the movement. Governor Sprague has distin- guished himself so greatly during this war that his friends are pained to see him fall a victim to the negromania during the dog days. In Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa- chusetts and Rhode Island, therefore, drafts for three years’ men will probably be unne- cessary; and the same thing may be said of Connecticut, which promises to have its quota . ready next week, Governor Buckingham having already gone on to Washington to make the final arrangements. In: New York, however, affairs have a different look. Before the Pre- sident’s call was published Governor Morgan made sure of more two and a half per cent commissions for his contractor friends, by obtaining the consent of the government that the State authorities should furnish the supplies for the troops raised. He has also carefully provided for his military and political friends, by appointing numbers of officers to command regiments which exist only on paper or are far from full. Having devoted so much attention to these essential matters, the Governor has had very little time to attend to recruiting; and consequently we have only about twenty thou- sand accepted recruits, under the last call, while our quota fs about forty-five thousand. The rural districts are especially backward in recruiting: and should be stirred up with a very sharp stick. The cities of New York and Brooklyn have sent off two-thirds of the volunteers from this State, and the coming draft for nine months’ men will bear very heavily and unjustly upon these cities. Let our New York country cousins see to it, therefore, that the quota of three years’ menis complete by the 15th of August, so that the large cities shall not be further op- pressed. If Governor Morgan will take a leaf from the book of Governor Andrew, of Massa- chusetts, and go to work zealously and syste” matically, we shall have no need to draft in this State, and shall escape the disgrace of being eclipsed by our smaller but more energetic neighbors. Even New Jersey will probably avoid a draft; for although Governor Olden seems very slow he is sure that he shall be able to recruit atl the men demanded, especially if he be allowed to count in the Ninth New Jer- sey regiment, which was offered, in excess of the State quota, ynder a former eall, Pennsylvania will probably obtain her quota, Governor Curtin had procured the acceptance of several three and six months’ regiments afd had drafted many nine months’ men before the President issued his order. Governors Burton, of Delaware, and Hicks, of Maryland, will be obliged to draft—uander both orders—in their semi-secession States. Governor Tod, of Ohio, was among the first to ask for, and will be among the first to enforce, a draft; and he promises to begin with the sym. pathizers with Vallandigham, and convert se- ceasionists to the Union by making them fight for it. Governor Yates, of Illinois, reports his quota ready to be armed, but other reports con- flict with this statement. In Indiana, Governor Morton has been greatly occupied with the re- cent fraudulent issues of State bonds; but he thinks that his recruits will be on hand by the 15th instant. Governors Blair, of Michigan; Harvey, of Wisconsin, and Kirkwood, of Iowa, will require drafts to fill up their quotas. ‘Go- vernor Gamble, of Misouri, has already or- dered every able-bodied male citizen under arme, Governors Robinson, of Kansas, and Rameey, of Minnesota, will probably be ex- cused from furnishing their quotas, as their States have done wonderfully well already. Kaneus has sent eight regiments to the field and Minnesota is not far behindhand; and in both States so few men are left that it will be best to “let well enough alone,” and ask no more. Kentucky has already sent very many more men to the war than her quota calls for, and, although Governor Magoffin is only a half-baked Union man, the State will respond nobly to any call of the government. Governor Stanford, of Callfornia, has the Indians and the New Mext- can rebels to look after, and sends no soldiers East, except General Halleck, who is an army in himself. This completes the roll of the loya; States. That the result of this review is most encon- & jieging agne gam Ge We howe, however, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1862. that every State will eventually send ifs full quotd to the war, and that Governor Morgan will not sllow New York to be surpassed even by Massachyisetts. Drarrina ro THE Navy.—We untterstand that the governaient is considering the pro- priety of drafting for the navy, and that such a draft will, in all probability, be resorted to be- fore long. The reasons urged for this draft are: first, the urgent necessity for moge sailors; second, the difficulty of enlisting seamen, and third, the number of persons who now repre- sent themselves as sailors in order to claim ex- emption from military duty. That the navy needs more men is very evident, and it is equally evident that, with the military boun- ties and the military drafts, few men can now be found to enlist either as marines or seamen, in spite of the great temptations of large prize money. At present, and for some time past, the naval recruiting officers have been obliged to go back into the fural distriots in order to enlist men; and consequently they secure only landsmen—men who have never seen the sea, do not know what ship is, and are for a long time inefficient, seasick and almost valueless. ‘The men who ought to be government sailors, in times like these, are fishermen, or are em- ployed in the coasting trade,. or are on board commercial vessels, some of them owned by foreigners. This na val draft will secure many such men and especially it will catch the shirkers, who cannot navigate a canal boat, but who call themselves sailors, to avoid being drafted as soldiers. Of course if these artful dodgers are really sailors they cannot object to being drafted for the navy; and if they are not sailors they will be caught between two fires and com- pelled to serve Uncle Sam afloat or ashore, with the marlingspike or the musket, as the fates may determine. In France drafts are made both for the army and nary, and the system is much preferable to the indiscriminate impress- ment and odious “right of search” systems by which England ekes out her navy. We hope, then, that the Navy Department will take this matter in hand immediately, and not wait for some naval disaster, as unsuspected and alarm- ing as the repulse before Richmond was to the War Department, to make this draft still more imperatively necessary. How to Make Drartine Fits, rae Posrio Treastry.—In a few days a general draft will be made for over three hundred thousand men. Those who are drafted will be obliged either to go to the wars or send competent substitutes The price of substitutes will of course vary according to circumstances; but five hundred dollars would seem to be a fair average. Now, if only fifty thousand drafted men out of the three hundred thousand called for shall pro- cure substitutes at five hundred dollars each, we shall have the immense sum of twenty-five millions of dollars expended upon substitutes, who will be sure to waste and ill use the money they receive. Why should not the government secure this twonty-five millions of dollars for its own treasury, to help pay the expenses of the war? This can be done very easily if the government will announce that; upon the payment of five hundred dollars, it will provide a substitute for any drafted man. These government substitutes should be draft- ed from among those not exempt by the present laws or by the payment of five hundred dollars, and thus the government might proceed until it had procured the number of men required and filled its treasury into the bargain. I¢ may be objected that this plan would excuse all rich men from service and send only poor men into the army; butthe present regulations do just the same thing, for every rich man can pur- chase a substitute. Why, then, should not the government take advantage of this state of affairs and fill up both the army and the national treasury by granting purchased ex. emptions? InpivFeRENcE o¥ ENGLAND TO Her Conontan Ovrsprino.—We can imagine the disgust of the Canadians on reading the report of Lord Pal_ merston’s recent speech, in which they are cool_ ly told that, in case of anysdifficulty with this country, they will have to.take care of them- selves. Was it for this that their leading men and journals launched out into such oxuberant demonstrations of loyalty and such bitter and foul-mouthed abuse of the United States and its institutions since the Trent affair? Well, let bygones be bygones. We regarded those ex- ceases merely as temporary aberrations of the Canadian mind, just as Governor Sprague’s efforts to raise a nigger regiment are to be look- ed upon ag a passing cloud upon an intellect otherwise distinguished by its clearness and practical good sense. The cold shoulder a upon them by the English govern™*<t and Par- liament will show the people of Canada where their true Interests jie. They must now see that they were only considered of importance to England so long as they furnished a provision for broken down placemen and the cadets of aristocratic families. These convictions, and the knowledge that in our prosperity their own is in @ great measure bound up, will cure them of their anti-Yankee bile, which, after all, is, we believe, confined merely to a few leading tory papers and Englishmen not long resident in the country. We should not be surprised if the reaction of feeling produced by the recent display of English indifference to them should lead to the Canadians either setting up an inde- pendent government for themselves, or annex- ing their territory to the United States. In either case they have only to send a commis- sion of inquiry here, and we will cheerfully post them up as to the means of carrying out their object. Saamep mto Conrrsston.—The London Times is at last compelled to own that the press of New York treats the federal reverses with fairness, and shows no disposition to disguise the truth from the country. It is rather late to make this discovery, and were it not that inter- vent‘on has received the coup de grace from Parliament we should not have the admission even now. It suited the purpose of the séces- sionist sympathizers in England and France to blackguard the Northern press, and to convey the impression that it was unfaithful to its mis- sion in concealing or glozing over whatever was unlavorable to the progress of our arws. Nothing could have becn falser or more unfair than this, From the defeat st Manassas down to the pre- sent time the press of New York has never yet shrunk from discharging its duty to the country in this respect. For what other. purpose does the Hernan keep with the army @ corps of picked eorrespondents, whose expenditure is equal to that of all the other newspapers combined? Not» sursly, tg agt we iducrant special plepdesy on eS at for the bluaders of the War Department, which, up to a recent period, has tai” care of its own interests by placing a rigid congrship over the telegraph. When the history of this ¥4" comes to de written, it will be found that the co!To% pondence of the New York journals isthe most reliable of the sources from whence its facts will have to be taken. Can as much be said for the correspondence of the London and Paris newspapers during the Crimea and Italian campaigns? Tas Neoro Riots anp Tair Cavse.—auch indignation has been shed by some of the abolition papers about the negro riots; but. these very journals, and the leaders of the fad tion of which they are the organs, are the reai cause of the disturbances. They have so filled the empty heads of the blacks with silly notions of equality that many of them have become exceedingly insolent to white men and women in the streets, on ferry boats, in cars and other places. They are known frequently to push white women off the sidewalks and to insult them. Then a point has been made of late by some capitalists and manufacturers to turn out of their establishments white men and'women by hundreds and fill their places with blacks. These things have led to collisions» and the agitators who puff Sambo up with absurd ideas of his importance are to blame for — what has occurred. The Irish, as a class, are industrious, hard-working, quiet and loyal to the government. The riots are fomented and brought about by the abolitionists, whose phi- lanthropy is ever sure to redound to the injury of the unfortunate negro, who, if let alone by the anti-slavery agitators, would conduct him- self properly and never provoke the hostility that is being awakened against him. Tae Wartermne Piaces—According to all accounts the watering places are doing well this year. The easiness of money, the low~ rates of discount at the banks, and the brisknesd of trade generally, caused by the large ©ou- tracts given out by government, have rende: id mercantile men more disposed this season to afford their families their accustomed trip to the country. Long Branch, which now boasts of fourteen hotels, is chock full; Saratoga makes a fair average show, and Sharon Springs and Newport are also tolerably well attended. Still, on the whole, the larger watering places are far from exhibiting tle same animation that characterized ‘them in former years. Many now seem to prefer the retired spots along the, coast or away amongst: the hills, where the mind can receive that repose and relaxation which are denied them in the haunts of fashion. By and by we shall become thoroughly sensi- ble in these matters. As soon as we feel the visits of the taxgatherer we shall get cured of many of our extravagances and follies. Posruasrer WakEMaNy on Reorvrrinc.—Our city Postmaster has taken hold of recruiting ta such a way as to give to the army as many sol- diers as he has clerks in his office. We shat publish a letter from Mr. Wakeman on this sub- ject to-morrow. If the Collector would adopt the plan of the Postmaster the army would be largely increased. IMPORTANT FROM MEMPHIS.- Engagement Between the Union Troops and Jeff. Thompson’s Forces. The Rebels Driven Back with Great Loss, se, é&e., ey Camo, August 6. 1862. The Memphis Bulletin of the 34 reports that a fight’ occurred seven miles from town on Sunday, b tweens force of four thousand federals and the rebeis under Jel. Thompson, The lattor wore driven back with groat loss, ‘The paper gives no further particulars. More fighting ie anticipated. ‘The Jackson Misrissippian svys that Com. Brown, of the ram Arkansas, was wounded in the head at tho time she ran the federal gauntlet. ‘An officer from Tuscumbia says that on Saturday son @ rebel cavaly burned the station houses at Leighton, ten miles from Tuscumbia, and at Jonesboro, fifteen miler from the same place, on the Memphis and Charleswo road. IMPORTANT FROM NASHVILLE, Naguvitte, August 5, 1863. General Nelson occupied McMinnvilie on Sundsy wip six thousand troops. Tho rebel Forrest fled on his ap. proach, leaving forty stragglers tofall intoour hauds. The rebel Morgan was not there. «Forrest is supposed to be at Sparta, with two thousand cavalry. x ‘Transportation between Murfreesboro and McMinnville Tho tolegraph line is being o ~ as poi Genoral Negloy arrivod at Coluntbia yesterday. A. 0. P. Nicholson, Judge Martin aud brother ,and General Branch have been sevn South. Gen. Negley disperse! a large cuncentration or gh rillas at Williamsport, twelve miles from Coluinbia, ow Sunday evening, capturing a number. , Captain Julian, of the Leunosses troops, put to flight » gang Of guerilias near Bigbysville, a fow miles frum Co lumbia, Guerilias near Columbia have been attompting to com contrate for some time. The ut vost vig.ance is re. quired to prevent their concentrati.n. Liberty is ocoupiod by United States troops, Cotton has been burned in considerable quintitio: a at Columbia. ‘The Tennessee and Alabama Railroad, from Columbia to Nashville, was never more secure. Morgan is supposed to be at Knoxville. Col. Stokes, of the First Tennessee cavalry regiment, made @ parade to-day, showing sirongth both in mon aud horses. IMPORTANT FROM MISSOURI., ' Activity of the Guerilla Bands—Severe Fight at Newark, &e. Pauurna, Mo., August 6, 1862, A Severe fight occurred at Newark, Knox county, Mis- souri, on Friday evening last. About # thousand guerillas, under Porter, approached the town an hour before sunset, and were met by parte of two companies of State militia, under Captain Lain, numbering seventy-five men.” ‘The guerillas charged on our troops and were repulsed, when they dismounted and drove Captain Lain into the town, where a sevore struggle took place, resulting im the capitulation of our forces, whe wore immodiately paroled by the guerillas, Our toss was four killed and four wounded. The rebel ficknowledge seventy-three killed and # large numbeg wounded. Porter's gang carried off all the arms and camp equipg nge of our troops. On Sunday the State forces of Colonels Guitar, Moi, Clapper and Caldwell passed through Newark to anv of Portor. Paterna, Mo., Angust 6, 12084 On Saturday evoning a band of one hundred guoriiiag took possension of Alexandria, Missouri. They thow seized all the arms and ammunition they coll find, ané did considerable other plundering, after which they lof, About three hundred men went down on Sunday trot: Kovkuk and arrested some thirty rebel sympathizers (034 toyis show to Kookua, 4 ‘