The New York Herald Newspaper, August 23, 1862, Page 4

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The streets were crowded with spectators, and it was asserted by many that the assemblage greatly outoumbered the crowd that was gathered together on the celebration of the Atlantic cable or at the reception of the Prince of Wales. The weloome given to the returned prisone, t been most rratifying not only to Gener: .vcoran ‘but to the parties who have been engaged in the getting up of the affair. e From Fortress Monroe we learn that Williams- burg was evacuated by the Union troops on the afternoon of the 20th inst. It is also reported that the oity was burned on the same night; but the statement is not confirmed. A loler despatch states that the city of Williams- burg was not destroyed, but is still in the poses- sion of the Union troops. The news from Helena is very important. The robel general has had prepared certain despatches, whioh he has allowed to be captured, giving the intelligence that he had under him at Little Rock 18,000 well armed infantry, 6,060 cavalry aud 54 piecos of artillery. The letter of our correspon- dent shows plainly that this is a false despatch, and merely prepared to have its effect on the Union Generals. itis said that Hindman is determined to annihilate Curtis, but will not attack him. We publish in to-day’s Heraup highly important and interesting news from Richmond and the South. The Richmond Examiner of the 18th inst. thinks that a great battle is impending between the rebe! army on the Rapidan and General Pope's iave forces, at such times when their ‘generals were Feady, and not before,” and that the battle field would be in the vicinity of Culpepper Court House. The rebel editor's wish must be father to the thought, a3 he anticipated, no doubt, in coninon with the big rebel generais, that General Pope would be caught napping at the point named, and that they could there mass their whole army in an attack apon him, and thereby destroying his force in detail. The wily rebel generals have learned before this that he was not to be caught in a state of somnambulency, but that he keeps both his eyes open, and will choose his own battle ground: The rebel Congress met in Richmond on the L6th instant, on which occasion Jef. Davis submitted He leads off in his usual hypocritical style, and then alludes to the federai government as ‘robbers,’ “assassins,” &c., ad tmfinitum. He next speaks of and recommends re- taliatory measures to meet the late laws recently his annual message. passed by the federal government; recommends the issue of more rebel treasury shiuplasters, and alludes to the building of rebel war vessels “at home and abroad.’ The resolutions introduced in the rebel House are highly significant of the future policy of the rebel government. The message betrays great signs of weakness in the rebel government, for no nation that has power in its hands ever puts forth such arguments as ac qnicaconce in murder, rapine, &c., under the nam¢ of “retaliation.” The steamer Maze, Captain Clift, arrived at thir port yesterday afternoon, in fifty-eight hours from Newbern, with several cabin passengers and some soldiers. An expedition of the marine artillery bad sailed from Newbern for Kingston, accompa nied by three gunboats of light dranght They proceeded some miles op the way when they dis covered several masked batteries and obstructions in the river. As it was thought impracticable t« force them, the expedition returned to Newbern without accomplishing its object. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship Teutouia, from Southampton o the 13th inst., passed Cape Race yesterday after hoon, and we publish in another column a te Graphic synopsis of her news, The dates by this arrival are three days later, hut the intelligence is of no great political import ance, if we e taome few additional details o tke operations of Garibaldi in Italy. A smal Party of his forces are reported to have ha ® conflict with @ detachment of Victor Emanue! troop, There is nothing new in reference to Americas affvire. Vonsols, for money, were quoted in London a Mis @ 0096, and for sccount at WH 200%. The NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1862. Cassius M. Clay, the Abolitiontsts aud | radcat papers, which cleared their minds of all Liverpool cotton market was quiet and unchanged. In breedstuds and provisions there was no quota” ble change. : By the arrival of the steamer Haze we have ad- vices from Newbern, North Carolina, to the 20th inst., at which date all was quiet in andaround that district. The pay ofa soldier for one year who enlists in } an old regiment will be as follows:— ; Regular pay, $1% per mouth. Rations and ‘clothing. 109 Government bennty 2 Ealistwent bouuty 3 State bounty County bounty. Total.....-se.seseee vee During the present year a number of changes have taken place in the executive departments of some of the Southern States. The names of the garious Governors are now as follows:— Alabam: Arkansas. Delaware. Foorid: Gev Kentucky. +James F, Robinson. H. Hawks, proviso «Thos. Overton Moore. Geo. F. Shepiey, military... jacob Thompson. ‘aiborne F, Jackson Hamilton R, Gamble Louisiana. Maryland... North Carol South Carolina. Tennessee ., Two hundred and ten young ladies of Syracuse and Onondaga county have published their names and residences under a pledge to take the places of the clerks and salesmen in the county.who will en- list for the war. The old New Hampshire regiments require two thousand and twelve men to fill up their ranks. The democrats of Philadelphia are called upon to meet en masse, this afternoon in Independenee square, to ‘‘ express their firm purpose to stand by the maintenance of the National Constitution, and to declare hostility to the policy and measures of ali who seek to prostitute the country to the pur- poses of abolitionism, and to express the intention of the democratic party to do, as it has always hitherto done, viz:—to support the federal government in the exercise of ita constitutional powers, and to defend it, at ati se peril, against the insidious and treasonable shings of aboli- jonism.’? The First Congressional district of North Caro- linaembraces the counties of Currituck, Camden, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Chowan, Gates, Bertic, Hertford, Northampton, Halifax, Martin, Washing” ton and Tyrrel; and the Second district contains the counties Of Wayne, Edgecombe, Green, Pitt, Lenoir, Jones, Onslow, Carteret, Craven, Beaufort and Hyde. These are the two districts in which Gov. Stanly will order elections for members to the United States Congress. Five privates deserted from the Quebec garrison on the 19th inst. and came across to the States. The Third New York regiment will be filled up from the Twenty-fifth militia, whose term will ex- pire on the 23th inst., and the proper credit will be given to Albany county, from whence both re- giments hail. Six handred government employes at the Water- viiet Arsenal have taken the oath of allegiance. Five refused to take the oath and were dis- charged. The government has decided to razee! and cover withiron the stedm frigate Niagara, now lying at the Charlestown (Mass.) Navy Yard. The United States Marshal paid $600,000 yester- day into the Sub-Treaaury on account of prize vessels and cargoes sold under condemnation. The Attorney General of the United States was in town yesterday, and had an interview with Judge Betts in chambers. City Judge McCunn has lately been interfering with the action of the Justices of the Court of Special Sessions, by releasing prisoners on bail who have been sentenced by them. Two cases were moved on during the past week—in one the prisoner was released on bail after sentence had been passed, and inthe other Judge McCunn issued a writ of certiorari, and afterwards discharged the prisoner on bail. District Attorney A. Oakey Hail has taken the matter in hand, and will in future prevent Judge McCunn from interfering with mat- ters which belong to the Supreme Court. The District Attorney haa moved that the two parties who have been illegally discharged by Judge Mc- Cunn be rearrested, andserve out the term of im- prisonment to which thgy were sentenced by the Justices of the Coart of Special Sessions. Tho stock market yesterday rallied from the depression of the past day or two,and prices were 4g @ 145 per cent higher. Cheerful rumors were freery cirenlated, and the tone of fecling was much better. Money was abundant @tdperceut. Exchange 12754: gold about 11534 at the close. The cotton market was firmer yesterday, with a fair de- mand. The sales embraced 1,000 bales, on a basis ot 46c. a 48 3gc. for middling uplands. The breadatuffs mar- ket was unfavorably affected by the rige in freighta and the prospective large receipts, Flour was dull aud droop- ing. Wheat was quiet and prices were rathor easi Corn was heavy, while the demand wag moderate. R; was quiet. Oats ware scarce aud firm, Pork was active and firm. Sugars wore dull, and the sales were 275 hhd s. and 35 boxes. The public sale of coffee passed off a, steady rates for Rio, but Santos showed a decline, Freights were decidedly firmer, with only a small supply of tonuage immediately available. The Impending Struggle in Virginiae Great and Decisive Events Close at Hand. We ure on the verge of a tremendous and de- cisive struggle with the great rebel army of Virginia. Between the rear guard of General Pope and the advanced columns of General Lee this struggle may have already com- menced. It may be ended before the expira- tion of another week; and if so, we have every reason to believe that the crowning result will be the substantial extingvishment of this re- bellion. Carefully avoiding any information galeu- lated to be useful to the enemy, we have some facts to give upon this all important subject which :uay be useful in strengthening our own cause. At the beginning of the late “seven days’ battles in front of Richmond” the rebel army there mustered not less than 200,000 men. In killed, wounded and otherwise disa- bied its losses in those seven days were between thirty and forty thousund. But intelligent wit- nesses who were ir. Richmond so late as Friday last inforin us that by the Petersburg Railroad alone these gaps had been filled up by new re- cruits to the extent of forty thousand men. #rom the same and from other sources we are iufermed that some days ago, stretching from Uanover Court House to Gordonsville, and thence across into the valley of the Shenan- loah, the advancing army of General Lee aumbered two hundred and fifty thousand men, This movement of the rebel army of Richmond began very soon after the beginning of the work of the evacuation of Harrison's Landing by General McClellan; but the designs of the «bel leaders to crash the army of General Pope by aa overwhelming force, and to move orward upou Washington before the army of icCleflan or our new volunteer regiments ould be brought forward to the rescue, were horonghly comprehended by General HigHeck. We arg assured of this from the movem@nts of out own forces, and from the assertions of the | Ric! mond Eraminer of the 18th inst., published in anotier column, and that by the time Gen Lee or Stonewall Jacksoa can bring on any great engagement our generals and our trodps | will be ready for it, At this day along the Potomac and tie Rappahannock our aggrogut forces can hardly be less than those of the wd- vancing enewy, and the nwment he advances in force beyo. d Gordonsville bis troubles of sub- sistence and transportation begin. Let us not, however, relax our efforts to strengthen our army in Virgiaia, under the pre- sumption that, Wasbing'on being well guarded, weeean take our ow tn turning back the tide of invasion ag suchmond., The rebgi lea lers have resolved tv stake everything upon the chances of their present desperate enter- prise. They have no means for another winter campaign. They have no time to lose, and they know it. Itis now or never with them; and for foreign intervention and a Southern confederacy they recognize their only chance to be Washington, at all hazards, While, there- fore, the governnitat is caim and confident, aud the people of Washington feel themselves se- cure, and stocks are lovking up in Wall street, it is the duty of the authorities and the people of our loyal States to push forward their new troops to Washington as if the safety of the ca- pital depended upon additional reinforcements to the extent of filty thousand men within the next three days. Let us push forward our new troops by day and by night. Where we have not a regiment, let us send a battalion, and where we have not a buittalion, @ company or a fragment ofa company. They can be readily fused into the army at Washing- ton. We have the men, means, materiais aud facilities of all kinds for short and decisive work with this rebellion; but after eighteen months of war'we find the rebel army of Vir- giuia recoiling back upon our national capital. This army, we believe, is advancing to its de- struction; but our own forces between it and Washington should be so far strengthened as to enable our generals at once to resume the offen- sive. Fifty thousand fresh troops thrown into Washington within the next three days may result in bringing this war to a solution before the end of August. We have the troops en- listed. They are going forward at the rate of four‘or five thousand a day; but we think that, with a little more energy, we might, by land and water, push forward twenty thousand men per day. The crisis and the incalculable issues depend- ing upon it are worth the effort; and so we call tpon all concerned to make the trial of sending down to General Halleck, within the next three days, reinforcements to the extent of fifty thou- sand men. Every man of them may thus prove to be ten times over worth bis weight in gold in the work of suppressing this rebeilion. Tne Corcoran Recertion.—Yesterday our city poured out its thousands to do honor to one of the heroes who have shed upon the pre- sent struggle no small share of the glory with which the nation’s sacrifiocs and sufferings have invested it. Until the war broke out the name of Michael Corcoran was known to but a few. Now it occupies a place in the historic page of which more brilliant and ambitious men might well feel proud, but which is not the less due to the qualities displayed by its possessor at a time when those qualities were just what were required to insure the eountry’s salvation. To the patriotism and generous self-devotion exhibited by General Corcoran when the war broke out we unquestionably owe much of the enthusiasm with which our Irish fellow ‘citizens took up arms to assist in putting down the re- bellion. His personal gallantry in the face of the enemy had also its effect in stimulating his countrymen to deeds of bravery; and when his absence in a rebel prison deprived them of his encouraging influence his name still served as -arallying cry to them on every battle field: Now that he comes back to us adding to his ser- vices as a patriot the claims of a martyr—for what martyrdom could be worse than the thir- teen months’ slow torture that he bas undergone while in the hands of the rebels?—we give him a reception than which soldier or statesman never received one more sincere and heartfelt. . And yet so great is the modesty of this simple minded man that he would gladly have shrunk from it, did not those whose opinions he is bound to respect assure hitn that the effect of such an example would be beneficial to the pub- lic interests just at the present time. Of this there can be no question. The moral influence of such a spectacle cannot fail to pro- duce its results, both here and abroad. Here, the example of a man who, starting from hum- ble beginnings and with no other qualities than a brave heart and a firm faith in the destinies of his adopted country, finds himself thus re- warded and honored, cannot fail to stimulate thousands to follow in his footsteps. Abroad, it vill raise the drooping spirits of those who lespair of republican instigutions to find that the Roman virtues still hold a place in our esteem, and that we are not wholly lost in the corruptions attributed to us. A country that thus rewards the patriotism of her sons cannot be eo very near destruction. Tue Gcertt.as IN THE Sovrywest.—The news from the Southwest which we published yester- day is of a very exciting character. The West- ern papers are filled with accounts of the opera- tions of guerillas in Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri; the capture of numerous places, in- cluding Clarksville and Fort Donelson, and the invasion of Kentucky at several points; even Nashville is said to be in danger of being cut off from supplies. Some of the accounts are no doubt true, and some probably are not. But the movements of guerillas, after all, do not amount to much, unless to harass and annoy. They are in small bodies, and though by a sud- den raid they may pounce upom a town and take it, they are not strong enough to hold it after its capture, and they abandon it and pro- ceed to another towa to capture supplies, make prisovers of Union men, and otherwise intimi- date the iwhabitants. It is true that Kirby Smith is in their rear, with some fifteen or seventeen thousand men, and it is stated that the intention is to cross the Olio and invade the free States. But there is a force now mareh- ing across the borders which will make short work of bis regulars as well as his guerillas, Fourteen regiments have left Indiana alone, and from the other frontier States other troops are marshalling for the fray. Soou will Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri be cleared of these pre- datory bands and the Union men be rescued from their grasp. All along the right bavk of the Ohio the people are organizing for «resisi- ance to the invaders, and the result cannot be doubiful. | » | portant coramand west of the Mississippi. doubt the truth of this intelligence, first, be- cause Mr. Clay is unfitted for such a command; and, secondly, he has declared iis inteation never to draw his sword ina war for the pre~ servation of stivery, which he, in common with Wendeh Phillips and other abolitionists, re- gards the preseut war for tie Union. agree that the war can never be successful, and that it is therefore a criminal weste of human life. If it were a war for emancipation, then Cassius M. Clay could “go,in;” but as it is not, he has sworn to have nothing to do with it. Suppose we were succeasful, after “expending four thousand millions of dollars and losiag haifa million of our noblest men,” what then? The South, he contends, would hate her con- nection with the North more than ever, “by the memory of the blood we had shed and the de- vastation we had caused.” Russia is not a statesman. stump orator, an agitator, a politician, but no statesman. He started in 1845 a weekly paper, called the True American, to effect the abolition of slavery in Kentucky; and in 1851 he sepa- rated from the whigs, in consequence of their agreeing with the democrats in adopting the compromise measures proposed by Henry Clay, by which the country was then saved from the vivil war which has now broken out; and in the summer of that year he ran for Go- vernor of Kentucky, against whigs and demo- crate, on the anti-slavery basis, and was of course defeated. He was then as impracticable as he is now. be. mould. When he was sent as Minister to Rus- 8a he opened, while on his way, an undignified and imprudent discussion with the London papers, which did limself and his country no small injury, as we remaked at the time, though Mr. Clay says “he bas never before been honored with his name in our columns.” Agitation, not diplomacy, was his element, and he could not resist the temptation offered to his ruling pas sion. Had he been a diplomatist he would not have returned so St. Petersburg. and honorable gentleman, but diplomacy is not his forte. \ the Viar tur the Union. Recently our readers were informed, by a telezraphie despatch in our columns, thet Cas- sius M Clay was abeut to be assigned to an im- We Both In his letter, publisibed in the Heratp of Monday last, Mr. Clay complains that he has been misrepresented. But he does not point out the passages nor state what he did say. His letter is substantially the same as his speech, as reported in the Herarn, and does not mend the matter. In his leiter he defines his position thus:—“I am for the constitution as it is and the Union as it ought to be—not slavery and Union, but liberty and Union, now and forever.” It is idle for Mr. Clay to say he js for the old constitution, unless he is also for the Union of which it is the instrument. He is not for the Union as it was before the rebellion, but “as it ought to be.” This is exactly Horace Greeley’s position and the position of Wendell Phillips. They are for a new Union, with slavery cut out of it, and for a new constitution alse, the old being “a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.” They are consistent. Mr. Clay in- consistently says he is for the old constitution, but not for the old Union. tion in terms, Mr. Clay; perhaps, interprets the constitution by a peculiar construction of his own, and not by the ordinary rules of inter- pretation and the obvious meaning of the words. Does the constitution any where au- thorize the overthrow of the old Union to make way for a new one, unless by amendments to the constitution itself? Mr. Clay admits he differs with the President, who is both practical and constitutional. But Mr. Clay is evidently revolutionary and anti-constitutional. He de- nies, however, that “he is or ever was an abo- litionist, in the strict sense of that word.” Again he is inconsistent, for he says, “There is no compromise between liberty and slavery. One or the other must die.” tion expressly provides for the protection of slavery against any authority or power but that of the people themselves in the States in which it existe. in favor of the constitution as it is. goes on to say:—“If slavery and the Union as it was is the choice, then I do say, send your em- bassy to Jefferson Davis and make terms. But if we are to be a homogeneous people, and if our blood and»money are to bear fruit, then let slavery be abolished in all the rebel States.” Thus it is that Mr. Clay is a constitution- alist, und, by no means an abolitionist or a revolutionist. This is a contradic- But the constitu- Yet Cassius M. Clay says he is Mr. Ch.y One thing is very clear: the ex-Minister to He is an eloquent Mr. Clay is not a diplomatist, and could not His mind is cast in a totally different to the United States from is a polished, educated Mr. Clay is not a general. He is a brave soldier, brave even to rasiness; but he has’ no gitt of generalship, no strategy, no tactios. | Curious enough, though he always opposed the annexation of Texas, and was a great cham- pion of Mexico—having, as he says in his letter, “cried out against the raid upon Mexico and the annexation of Texas’”—yet he did not hesitate to embark in the war with that country arising out of our annexation of her former province. He became a captain in the army of General Tay- lor in 1846, and by his temerity he was taken prisoner at Encarnacion in 1847, and he and all his fellow prisoners narrowly escaped being put to death. He exhibited no evidences whatever of military talent. ever, make a gailant captain under a prudent commander, or even a good . colonel under an able general. lead a storming party or a forlorn hope; and it seems sad that his anti-slavery crotchets and the impractical character of his mind prevent his accepting a colenelcy in the war for the He would, how- He would be the very man to Union after having resigned his mission to Rus- tia for the purpose of taking par: in the con- flict. # social institution in the Southern States, he will not go heart and soul into the struggle to restore the Union as it was before the rebellion began. It isa pity that, from prejudice against Excision or Rerorrers rrom THe Camps.— In some of the newspapers it is stated that an order has been issued by General Halleck di- recting that newspaper correspondents should be excluded from the lines of the Union armies. We have received no official intimation of this, but we suppose the measure has been taken in consequence of the premature disclosure of the movement of Gen. McClellan from the Janes river by one or two newspapers, which might | have Jed to serious consequences, and which bas resulted in the rapid massing of the rebel troops in front of Pope’s army. The imperfect intelli- gence which the rebel generals had previously received was confirmed by the aceounts iu the doubt and cnsbled them to act upon a certain- -ty. For (rs breach of faith and want of pa- triotisin t!.¢ representatives of the guilty jour- nals huve been, we suppose, excluded from the liues of the Union armies. Served them right. The Wate: Place Scason—New De- lopments, Fashion has succumbed to Mars. The war has revolutionized the watering places. The fashionables who used to spend the summer luonths at Newport, Sharon Springs or Niagara Falls have deserted these resorts, ahd are how scatiered about the country in quiet nooks, sequestered retreats or suburban villas, en- joying themselves rationally, unchronicled in the newspapers and unfatigued by the former necessities of dress, society, flirtation and dis- sipation. Even the old duwagers, the indispen- sable impedimenta of the army of fashion, no longer frequent their former haunts, but are to be found blooming, like wall flowers, in the par- lors of little hotels near pteasant but unfashion- able lakes. The hotels of Newport and Sharon we only half filled. Niagara Falls enjoys only the patronage of skedaddlers, who seek in Oa- nadaa release from the expected draft. The ancient glories of the summer.season have de- parted, The war, which is reforming the man- ners, the dress, the society, the commerce, the manufactures, the politics and the politicians of the nation, has reformed the fashionables also, and for this year, at least, they prefer the genuine, healthful country to the artificial, enervating, corrupting caricature of rural life at the watering places, Two of our summer resorts, howeyer, are now crowded to suffocation. At Saratoga, which has outlived its fashion, and at Long Branch, which never was fashionable, the rush this year is tremendous and the excitement at fever heat. There new equipages, with new horses, driven by new coachmen, in new liveries, flash gaudily along the drives. There new silks rustle gorgeously through the halls, and new and su- perabundant diamonds sparkle brilliantly in the gaslight. There the most varied and elabo- rate, though not the most tasteful, toilettes vie with each other to attract the attention end compel admiration. There the tables are sur- rounded with new faces, and new healths are drank in New Jersey champagne. There new belles introduce entirely new figures during the lancers, or display new steps in the polka or the. galop. There new couples walk and flirt, and new acquaintances bow with new graces, rigidly observe the loose rules of an entirely new etiquette, or indulge in an equally new style of conversation. The most expe- rienced landtord does not remember. any of these people, and overcharges them accordingly. The oldest waiter cannot recognize them, and, with a knowing wink, hands them the wrong dishes, or supplies them with twenty-five cent claret in response toa call for Chateau Mar- gaus. If a former habitue drops in by accident and asks curiously who all these people are he can obtain no satisfactory reply. Nobody knows anything about them. They seem, in fact, to know very little of each other. They are by no means desirous of telling what they know of. themselves. They make acquaint- ances easily; but introductions are man- aged upon the same principle that stolen property is returnegd—“an amicable arrange- ment effected and no questions asked.” Some of them rejoice in titles, but appear te be colonels without regiments, captains (vithout companies and doctors without patients. They register their names and residences; but the, New Yorkers are unknown here, and the Phila- delphians are strangers to* the denizens of the City of Brotherly Love. No wonder, then, that this new watering place development is one of the most singular and interesting incidents of this eventful year. While pondering over this curious social problem, however, we accidentally obtained a clue to its solution. The leading jewellers of this city and of Philadelphia report that they have sold more jewelry, of the most costly kinds and at the highest prices, during the past few months than any previous year, and that the purchasers have been new people, who have interests in some kinds of government transactions. “We think that this statement discloses the mine whence came all those new diamonds which glitter 80 dazzlingly at Sara- toga and Long Branch. Why, these new people are our old friends of the shoddy aristocraey, whom we noticed last spring driving new equipages about the Central Park: and inspect- ing Brignoli through the wrong end of their new opera glasses at the Academy of Music. They are the noble army of shoddy contractora, with their wives and families. They have fine horses at the watering places; but they sold the government knock-kneed, spavined, broken- winded quadrupeds, unworthy of the name of horses. Their silks and broadcloths ure lustrous and superfine; but we do not forget the shoddy uniforms, rotten blankets and guod-for-nothing linen pantaloons with which they equipped our soldiers, or the straw hats, boys’ sizes, which they palmed off upon the susceptible Cummings. Tbey grow fat upon the choicest dainties; but they have supplied the army with bad beef, spoiled provisions and “hard tack.” They drink the best champagne—that is, the best they can get—but they began upon army ale and porter, and thought water in kerosene casks good enough for our soldiers. They make Ju- dicrous figures in the dances; but the figures they have charged the government for useless muskets, badly manufactured guns, transports warranted to go to the bottom when loaded with soldiers, and ships chartered ut prices suilicient to plate them with gold armor, are anything but laughable. The mystery about these new people is over. Every one now knows who they are and where they obtained their supera- bundant wealth. The public, though it has for some time lost sight of these shoddy contractors, has neither forgotten nor forgiven them, and our enrolment officers will see to it that their stay at the watering places does nut at ull assist them in escaping the inevitable draft, which, it is to be hoped, wiil put some of them into the army to wear their owa shoddy uniforms and live upon their own shoddy fare. Herry Ur ror tae Bounties —The limit fixed by the order of the War Department for the payment of bounties and advance pay to re- cruits for the new regiments expired yesterday. According to the terms of this order the new regiments that remain incomplete after this date will be consolidated, and superfluous offi- cers mustered out. This will dispose of a num- ber of military organizations the recruiting for which has not been prosecuted in the proper spirit, and will, besides, deprive many desirous of weaving shoulder straps of that hitherto cheap mark of distinction. For tuose gnxigus te secure the bounties and advance pay for their families one more chance remains open, and that is to volunteer for the old regiments previous to the 1st of September. After that no more bounties will be paid, as the draft will then supply the remaining defi- ciencies in the quotas of the different districts throughout the State. Those who have been holding back in the expectation of profiting by the additibnal bounties offered by individuals or by the premiums for substitutes will do well to recollect that only a few days are to elapse before all bounties are to cease. The question for them now is, not as to the amount they will take, but whether they will take what they can get, or be compelled to go into the army with- out getting anything at all. The choice ought not to be a dfflicult one. 3 IMPORTANT FROM VIRGINIA. Reported Junction of the Union Armies, hen Ke, ae PurLapevenia, August 22, 1862. Private intelligence, received in this city, confirms the news of the junction Of our armies. t It also announces the death of Col. Coulter, of the Eleventh Pennsylvania regiment, on the battle field. INTERESTING FROM POPE’S ARMY. Our Special Army Correspondence, HEADQUARTERS OF. THE ARMY OF WinGiMA, August 21, 1862. } The Prospect of an Advance—Colonel Carroll Wounded— Death of Captain Walters—Danger of Gathering News— Enthusiasm of the Troops, de. After the battle of Cedar Mountain the prospect for am immediate and successful advance seemed exceedingly promising, and thus matters have remained for severa) days, the rebels holding the south bank of the Rapidan and firing on our pickets at every opportunity. Om Sun- day morning last, as Colonel Carroll, who wos in commaud of a brigade of General Ricketts’ division, was riding along the outposts, inspecting tho pickets, he was fired upon and badly wounded in the shoulder, and on Monday morning, Captain Walters, of the Harris Light Cayairy, was shot dead by a volley while giving instructions te the sentinels. For some time the*rebels prevented the recovery of the body; but at length Licutenant Kilpatrick, with # smallforce of cavalry armed with carbines, charged down upon the enemy aud drove. them from the river, when the remains were placed in an am- bulance and brought into Culpepper. Captain Wakers was one of the most valuable officers in the service. Ex- perienced, bola and dashing, yet always cool, he enjoyed the entire confidence of his superior officers and the love of the whole regiment. Prisoners were taken by both parties from time to time, and the outposts nally be- came so dengerous that the curious prudently kept aloof from that locality, very soon rendering the coillec- tion of items anything but a pleasant occupation; and the items became remarkably scarce at the front On Monday we received intelligence of the advance of the rebels from Richmond. It vas reported slong the iine that they wore in great force, and ordérs were given te prepare for an immediate movement. The enthusiasm of the troops was greatly increased by the near prospect of another battle, and they do not seem to fear any danger wntil it is too late to fear it, and they have only the option to meet and fight it. The cnemy did not advance near enough for a fight, and therefore everything is quiet up te .to-day. Firing was heard yesterday, and it was supposed to arizo froma skirmish betweon Buford’s cavalry and the rebels. THE ARCTIC REGION. Nows from the Franklin Expedition. Sr. Jouss, N. F., August 22, 1862. ‘The bark George Henry, of New London, Captain Bud- ington, from Frobisher’s Bay, has arrived here short of provisions, and with Mr. Hall, of the new Sir John Fraak- lin expedition, on board. e The expedition lost one man the first winter out. He froze to death. Mr. Hall reports that in consequence of the loss of some of his craft he was unable to prosecute his mission to the extent of its purpose. ‘The oxpodition had probably determined the fate of two ‘boats’ crews of Sir John Franklin's expedition, who pe-~ rished in endeavoring to return. Mr. Halli learned the fate of five men captured from Frobisher on his first voyage, and identified the exact places of their landing. Mr. Hall explored over a thousand miles of the coast, including the so-called Frobisher’s Straits, which proved o be a deep bay, terminating in latitude 63 48, longitude 10 west. Mr. Hall also discovered a great glacier ard mountain of fossils between Hudson Straits and Frobishor’s Bay. The George Henry was about to start for the@tates im October, 1861, but was prevented doing so by ice until the 9th inst. The ship’s company subsisied through last winter by the hospitality of the Esquimaux. Bridges Barned by the Rebels—Exchange of Rebel Prisoners—Indiana and Unie Troops, &., &c. Cercrrsam, August 22, 1862. ‘Two bridges on the Marietta and Cincinuati Ratlroad, east of Loveland, were burned Yesterday morning, it is supposed by rebel sympathizers, A freight train ran through one of tho bridges, and the engine and three cars were wrecked. No one was hurt. ‘The bridges are being rapidly reconstructed. The Grst instalment of rebel prisoners leave Indianapo lig to-day for Vicksburg. Others will leave, at the rate of a thousand per day, till all are exchanged. Indiana has sent into the field 14,480 men sinoe Sunday, and Ohio troops are rapidiy following them. Iuportaxt Uxion Movexent AMonG THe GERMANS.—A meeting of the most influential Germans residing in New York and its vicinity will be hold at the Aator House at noon to-day, for the purpose of aiding the government im furnishing men and money to put down the rebellion, Mr, August Belmont, tie well known banker, will pre side on the occasion. Arrival of Steam Transport Jersey Blue. The United States steam trausport Jersey Blue, Capt. Chadsey, arrived at this port last evening from Newbern, N.C.,18th fust., bringing the mail and the following passengers:— Henry L Faris, S. E. Young, Capt. B. Jepson, Tente Connecticut; Capt. 8. W. Atherton, Tenth agg rpten | Lieut. H. D, Sweet, Third New Y, cavalry; Frover' Sanford, Major Gunn, Third New York cavalry; Sergeant Haynes, third New York cavalry; Levi Crapser, Chas, Bradbury, Seventeenth Massachusetts Volunceers; Ebene zer Mitchell, Sixth New Hampshire Volunteers; Henry Fry, P.D. Coburn, Sixth New Hampshire Volun Amos Upham, Twenty-seventh Massachusotts Volunteers, L. O. Butler, Twenty third Massachusetts Volunteora, W. H. Wilson, Twenty-third Massachusetts Volunteers, M. Trian, Geo. D, Mason, aie ten tare. Massachusetts Volunteors; Levi Mabe, Third Now York artillery; Neb son E. Knapp, Iwenty-seventh Massachusetts ; D. R. Cob! Twenty-seveuth husetts; 8. Rost, Twenty-seven! Massachusetts; ©. H. Stwueker, Twenty-third Massachusetts Volunteers; Ben). Stone, Seveniconih Massachusetts Vo lunteers; A. T. Lane. ird New York artillery, 8. D Lawrence, Twen-y-third Massachusetts Voluuieers; H - Boas, Win, H Davidson Tenth Connecticut; Juhu K. He Porkins, Tenth Conuecticu’. John Lighthouse, Wm. Neb ‘son, Joba Morrell, Lewis Ost, C. M, Sinith, Josiah 3, Sto veli, Twenty- fifth Massachusetts Volunteers; Jobn Hilim gor, Otis G. Martin, Seventeenth Massachusetts Volun- teers; apts, Hazelton, Bryon, Babbit. The Jersey Blue left the United Stases steam transporte Albany at Newborn, N. C., and United States at Hatteras Inlot, waiting for ather and bound to Aquia Creek. Obituary. CAPTAIN WALTHRS, HARRIS LIGHT CAVALRY. Captain Charles C. Walters, who was recently shot by the rebel pickets near the banks of the Rapiden, was @ young man, about twenty-eight years of age, anda native of the city of New York. He served with Walker ig Nicaragua, and was distinguished while storming @ bat tery, during which attack he jost one-third of bis a This brave feat was performed betwoon the batties Rivas and Granada. He was interested in the silves minos of Arizona, but came home to join the United States service upon the breaking out of the rebellion. He was distinguished algo during the recent fight at Hanovet Junction against the operations of the rebel Genera) Stuart's cavairy. He bad boon on scouting duty for the past two montis. He was of a particularly gentlemanly isposition, kind and attentive to his men, who wore very much to him. Death of Rear Admiral George Campbell) Read. Ss August 23,1862. Rear Admiral George Campboll , Governer of the Naval Asylum tm this city, died this morning, A