The New York Herald Newspaper, September 13, 1862, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENSETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICEN. W, CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. PERMS cash in atvance. Money vent by mail will be at the wtab as tne sander. Nome but Bank ville current in New York DAILY HERALD. to cents THE WAEKLY Ui. come. ST per rumuem, cents per sopy, 0 1S per an). THE FAMILY SEMALD, on Wednesday, at four conte ver ictted from any quart oh PERE en aa ax -ARTIOULARLY RuquesTeD TO Seat att Lerters axp Pace- (AGES SENT ‘WO NOTICE token of anonymous corveepomdence, We do not wahern rain -d commun: siMone AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, GARDEN. ad way.—Taxss Facep Fasxcn- Ata VOL-AU-VENT, WINTER GARDEN Brosdway.—Tux Teatias Wire Wiscx Brep Susan. gia NRW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tas Zixcaur's kMAKRA's Hat—Lax Tan Boatswaix—LOve BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Cuarx of Guict—Savace me tax Naiven--Incncare Batr—Borr.s Lar. WIXON'? CREMORNE G\RDEN. Fourteenth street and aronyd.—Orges, BaLver, LoMEN4DS CONCHRT AND anise. Afternoon—CLxDRRELLA, wIBLO": saan—La SAkNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadway.—Guary *Aqvanta—Luamen Smat, 4c., at ail hours, CLAUDE Man- @FL. alterncou and evening. BRYANTS’ MINSTRELS’ Mechanics’ Hall, 672 Broad. Bec isorms boxce, Bunteseves, Dances, 40—Tae LACK BRIGADS. OHRISTY’S OPERA HO! fui! oroning.—ErMtor ian So iS Broadway.—A/'ternoon aNcks, &o.—Tar Mower, WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, ale Broadway.~Eraiorran Sonos, Dances, &0.—Lut His Go. ing ; HITCHOOCK'S THEATRE AND MUSIC HALL, Caual @treet.—TOCauaryY OuTvONY—inian TUTOR. GAIETUNS CONCERT HALL, 616 Broadvay.—Daawine Room KXTAUTALINMENTS, PARISIAN CABINET OF Open daily trom lO A.M, tl 10 New York, Satarday, Se; DERS, $63 Broadway.— General McClellan has advanced his headquar ters beyond Rockville, the army approaching the Monocacy, over which a porticn of the bridges wore destroyed by the enemy. All late news re- ports the army of General McClellan in a most favorable position. The camp of the rebels at Fredorick was broken up yesterday, and the army, under command of Stonewall Jackson—Howell Cobb and Lee accom: panying him—marched towards Pennsylvania, and they now occupy Hagerstown. The force con- «sista of infantry aud about three hundred pieces Of artillery. Many of the guns and wagons were marked U.S." They were preparing to march Into Pennsylvania, making their first attack on Ubambersburg. ‘The excitement in that vicinity was consequently very great. Money, it is said, was boing removed from the banksin all the towns around, and stocks of goods from the stores. The defence of Pennsylvania has been vigorously de- olded on by the people. The efforts ef Governor Curtin are very successful in raising a large militia force. “fhe city council of Philadelphia voted five hundred thousand dollars yesterday for the protection of that city. Colonel Bradley T. Johnson, of Maryland, now with the army of General Jackson, has issved a proclamation, calling upon the citizens of that Wate to carol themselves under the Confederate ag, and to bring with them “a stout pair of hoes, a blanket and a tin cup.” Ttia stated that there is now no force of the enemy @t Dranesville; that General Jackson, Longstreet and Fitahugh Lee reached Leesburg on Wednesday fast, and remained there on Thursday, when they cressed into Maryland by Edwards Ferry, with 40,000 mea. They advanced from near Fairfax, behind Hunter's Mills, direct to Leceburg, where @ large force remained, under General Lec. On Thareday evening @ force of rebet ‘covalry, five huadred strong, with two pieces of artillery, made 0 raid on the village of Westminster, Md., and id considerable damage to the uparmed citizens. A train due at Westminster, from Baltimore at eight o'clock yoaterday morning, had not artived, and was thonght to have been captured by the rebels. 4 despatch from Fortress Monroe informe us that 8 rebel force of cavalry, with three pieces of artillery, under Colonel Shing!e, made anattack on Williamsburg @n Tuesdey morning, about eight e’elook. After having captured onr pickets they arched into the tows, talking our troops by sur- prio. Anocagagement ensued, which lasted about _ Sedety minutes, leaving us. in possession. Our Toros consisted of the Fifth Pennsylvania cavalry, @olenei Campbell, who was taken prisoner, to- @ether with five captains, {cur lieutenants, and @ Gow privates. The rebel commander, Colonel Ghingles, with cight of bis officers and men were Killed. From the Wheeling Intelligencer we learn that Sonkins’ whole force of guerillas was met end routed near Gauley, on the th instant, bysix com- panies of the Second Virginia cavalry. Our loss Was one killed. The loss of the enemy is unknown The news from Cincinnati ts most importent. fhe rebels have retreated from their position in Seutucky, im front ef that city, probably alarmed at the approach ef General Buell in thetr rear, who is eaid to be advancing from Nashville, via Lonis- q@ille, with 46,000 men; probably im consequonee of ®@ report that a large Union force had landed on their “loft flank at Woersaw, thisty miles west of them; or it may be only with @ view of drawing our troops out of their intrench- ments. However this may be, it, appeare that a recounolssance im force was made yesterday to & distance of twelve miles from our iutrenched position at Covington, and e deserted camp of the @nemy was discovered three miles from Fort Mitchel, conteining o quantity of provisions, tur- beeys, chickens and beef, recently killed, showing What their departure hed been @ hurried one. Five Prisoners wore takem, who ealé that the rebel General Kirby had tntende@ the attack of Cinotnnats, but beged that a large force of oure bad Vanded at Warsaw, thirty miles west, to take bim (a'flank ond rear, when be ordered a harried retreat, @rhich was commenced the previous might st nine o'clock, A large body of our troops were ed: wanced yesterday, an4 hold the new position. was said that large reinforcements bad the rebele recently, apd that General wee 6 rapid advance trot the by way of Lexington, to join them. intelligence from Hilton Head up ta the @th inst. Our correspondent states that the | The Present Aspects of the War—The gunboat Canandaigua, which was sent by Admiray NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, SHPTEMBER! 13, 106 en ee EEEEEEEEEEEeeee Dupout to Man-of-War Point, for the relief of the crew of the wrecked sloop-of-war Adirondack, re- turned on the 6th inst, with the officers and crew | of the ill fated vessel. handred and five souls. They numbered in all two The Adirondack had been fired by the wreckers and burned to the water's edge, her splendid battery having previously been thrown overboard and buoyed, so as to ronder its ultimate recovery ® work of no difficulty. No blame is attached to Commander Gansevoort for this catastrophe, which has eost our navy one of its finest vessels. The officers and crew of the Adirondack arrived in New York yesterday, in the steamer Massachusetts. The Anglo-rebel ship Fanny Laure, laden with @ cargo of salt and wines, was captured off Edisto on the night of the 6th inst., and was towed into Hilton Head on the 6th. She isa Quebec vessel, but sailed from Nassau, Evidently she lost her” reckoning, as she ran aground in attempting to pasa the blockade, and was made-an essy prize by the boats of the gun- boat Sheppard Knapp. : By. the Edinburg of Cape Race yesterday we have four days later. news from Europe, Thero is nothing in her news of importance concerning the American war, cXcept the statement that the rebel privateer Stunter—new ‘*290"'—has received a heavy armament at sea, and is prepared to make an assault upon Northern commerce, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. We publish in another column four days’ later news from Europe, received -by the Edinburgh, which arrived off Cape Race last evening. Aman named Nathan Levi was recently arrested ja Memphis for trading off eight hundred dollars counterfeit Confederate treasury notes for two Inindred and forty dollars in bills on Tennessee banks. He was discharged, on the ground that Confederate notes were not money, and hence there were no counterfeits in the eye of the law. The following named candidates are in nomina- tion in Ohio for members of the Thirty-eighth Congress :-—- Democrat, Union and Repub. L. Vallandigham, Robert C. Schenck. McKinney. William H. West, €. Le Biond, 6th. 7th Samuel S. Cox. hilton A. White, Robert M. Briggs. Samuel Shellabarger. Jamest.Goodwin, Godlove 8. Orth. Sth— $th—Warren P. Noble. Worcester, 10th— ao Ashley. Wells A. Hutchins, Bundy. ~Edson B. Olds. John O'Neill. 1ith--George Bliss. 16th—James R. Morris, 16th—J. W. White. 17th—George W. Belden. 1sth—-8. A. Garfield. Thomas A. D. Fessenden has been chosen in the Second Congressional district of Maine, to the seat in the House of Representatives formerly oc- cupied by Hon. Charles W. Watson. In the next session of Congress there will be three of the Fes- senden brothers—Thomsas A.D. and 8. C.'in the House, ond William P. in the Senate. The telegraphic operators who were captured by the rebels on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad were at stations numbers one and four, situated respectively forty and forty-four miles from Balti- miore. The telegraphic instruments were also Major Joel B. Warner, who is now at the seat of war, has consented to run for Congress, on the Union ticket, in the Reading, Pa., district, against Sydenham EB. Ancona, the present copperhead re- presentative. Major Warner is a war democrat. The first exhibition ef the “ Anglo-African In- stitute’ for the encouragement of industry and art among the colored population has been post- poned until May, 1863. Three new batterics of light ertillery are to be raised in Massachusetts, for three years or the war. No able bodied white male citizen, ef the milita- ry age, is exempt from draft im Rhode Island by State law. The Kennedy paper mills at Montgomery, be- tween Beliville snd Bloomfield, New Jersey, were destroyed by fire on the 10th inst. Lose $40,000, Senator Browning, of Illinois, has heen giving the ultraists of his party another dose. at Gales- burg he pitches into the abolitionists and Gree- leyites ina style truly vefreshing. He says the editor of the Chicago 7riuue is a traitor, and he Proves it. Camp Dougles, at Chicago, is now cleaned out of rebel prisoners. There were at ene time in the camp over elever thousand. The Norwich (Connecticut) Bullelin professes to have information that as soon as the levy for 000,000 men is filled up it is the intention of the goverpment te call out an additional force of 400,000. This force is to be drilled, ond held in E. Finck. George B. Wright. William B. Cutler, J, A. Bingham, he States an a reserve. The now reyimente that arrived at Cairo, bound for the seat of war, were armed with the muskets and rifles captured from the rebels. Stocks were tower all rownd yesterday, though there waste panic and ve great pressure to sell, but merely'a general Gulners. Vhe decline was from % to 1 per cent. inactive at 290; a I5t per cent. Money 5 per cont on call, The unfavorable weather and tho absence of exciting news bad @ tendency te check business. ‘The inclemeusy of the weather tended to check trans” actions ia the regular trade yesterday, confining them to 3002 400 bales, closing tame on the basis of 58c. for middling upionds, with @ small lot reported at a trifle lees. The chief attraction was the large government sale of confiscated Sea Island eottom, by Messrs. Burdett, Jones & Co, It embraced 620 round bales, whigh bronght very full prices. 100 bales sold at Géc. a 0, 300 do, do, at Sc. a $1, and 100 do de at, G1 02.6 61 00, and 120 do. as $1160 91 3224 ver Ib. A considerable portion of the purchases were made fur export to Europe. All wan solé for cash. The highest purchase made—§1 21 per ib.—was 20 unprecedented price. The light receipte, with the decline in (reight-, imparted more firmness to the markot fer Sour, while the niles wore ( © (air extent. Wheat, from the seme causes, advances about lc. per bushel, Oorm wee steady ead without ebenge of momen: in prices, while sales were fair. Pork wasstesdy and sales moderate ot $11 62); a $13 7) fa moss, and 810 » $10 19% for prime. Sugars were steady, but sales, owing ie some degree to the bad weather, were ‘ight, ano eoufmed to 300 0 400 Bhds., aud aemali lot of boxer [he Messrs. Stuart's quotations (or thetr refined goods will be found ip agother colunn. In coffee aales were limited and prices steady. Vreighte were lower, especiaily to Liverpool. Wheat was takes at 10d. « 16 Jed. in balks and shipr’ bage, chieily at the insite Ugure, and flour at fe. 60. « Se, 10544. | mostly at the latter quotations, To Lenten whest wux taken oF 104 & 16 end Sour at 4. 30 Tar Ram axv rae Wan.—-It rained heavily in this city, and probably at Washington, all day | Gold advanced to 11074, closing at abott 11034. Exchange | Crisis of Life or Death to Our Coun. try. To every honest supporter of our govern- ment; to every friend of our liberal institu- tions, law, order and civitized society; to every man who realizes in the destruction of this Union the reign of Mexican anarchy througb- out the length and breadth of our land, the present aspects of this war, Kast and West, are painful, humiliating and alarming. After e ghteen months of war by land and water, involving the wasting of an immense army and the expenditure of a thousand miltions of money, what is our position? Disgracefully defensive, As the opposing armies of this war stand this day we cannot, without @ sense of shame and deep humiliation, contemplate the contrast be- tween the immense forces and resources of war at the service of our government and tho piti- ful weakness of our rebellious States, We have @ loyal population of twenty-three millions, against eight millions serving this rebellion, and of these eight millions nearly three millions are Afriganslaves. The white population of New York and Pennsylvania is greater than that of our rebeltious States. Qur manufacturing es- tablishments of all desoriptions reader us 9 self-sustaining people for all the roquirements of peace or war; and with theso advantages we retain all those of an unrestticted com- merce with foreign nations. Our rebellious States, on the other hand, with ouly ® few insigniiicant manufaciories of arms and materials of war, textile fabrics, teather, &c., have been cut off by an encircling block- ade for fifteen months from all those supplies upon which they had depended from the North and from Europe, in the way of arms, munitions of war, clothing, medicines, and many of tho essentials of istence. The rebellion is without the vestige of a navy, except a straggling ship or two, while ours in this war is equal to & land force of three or four hundred thousand men. Our revolted States are nearly exhausted of the commonest articles of food, while we of the loyal States have a superabundance of all the essentials and luxuries of life. Our troops, en masse, are bet- ter armed, equipped and subsisted than those of any other nation, while those of the rebellion are armed with all sorts of weapons, good, bad and indifferent, clothed in rags, fed upon half rations; and yet, advancing upon our bordera, they threaten the invasion of Obio and Penn- sylvania, and the occupation of our national capital. Upon this schedule of undeniable facts, how are we to account for this reaction of the tide of war aguinat ust Are the men of our revolt- ed States superior in strength and courage to the men of our loyal States? No. They are all of the same goneral stock. Are ourgenerals inferior in pluck, zeal, strategy and tactics to those of the enemy? No. The generals of the rebel army have committed quite as many blunders as our owa. How, then, are we to ex- plain our army failures and disasters since the rebel evacuation of Corinth? We charge them all upon our intermeddling Jacobin abolition politicians in Congress. They have interfered with and broken up the well considered plans of our ablest generals, and they suspended the work of recruiting our depleted armies at the very time when reinforcements were most needed to meet the sweeping conscription en- tered upon by the rebel government. Hence, from the evacuation of Corinth down to this day, our armies in almost every encounter have been pushed back by the overwhelming forces of the enemy ; and so now, while Wash- is menaced by a» great rebel army on both sides of the Potomac, the clothing stores and pork houses of Cincinnati are threatened with a visit from the hungry and ragged battal- ions of a rebel army column all the way from Tennessee. We have so more time to waste in trifling: We are in the very crisis of life or death to the country. Grant thet the desperate necessities of the rebets have driven them to the invasion of eur loyal border slave States and to the gates of Washington; that Virginie and the cotton States have been eaten out of provisions to the verge of famine, and exhausted of their materials for clothing to the verge of naked- ness—is our danger any the less? We know that desperate men will attempt the most desperate enterprises, and that with all the odds appe- rently against them they are often successful. We are gratified to believe that the administra- tlon is at length acting upon this fdea—that this idea has restored (ieneral MoClellan to the head of our most important army in the field, and that in this single act the safety of Wash- ington is again eecundd against all possible con- tingencies. But thisip not enough. Every day we stand mpon the defensive oon- tributes much to strengthen the rebels in the articles of subsistence. and clothing, which they ere gathering up from the farms, miils and stores of Northern Maryland. They should at once be driven ont. If General McClellan is not yet stroug eneugh to do this without dan- ger to Washington from the rebel column on the Virginia side, a hundred thousand strong, whai is there to prevent New York, New Jer. sey and Pennsyivenia sending down to his sup- port a body ef fifty thouseod militie within the next ten days? Governor Curtin, of Peunsylvania, is fully alive te the demands of the crisis, and ip aeting accordingly. But what ie Governor Morgan doing’ Hae he no arms! Let every wan who has a rifle, urket or shotgun be called upoa te bring it forward. Hap he no untforme or Maryland to escape bofag cut off by a flood in the Potomac, or to attack Washington. Against the latter alternative we rely upon General McClellan; in view of the former, let us push forward at once fifty thousand of our Northern militia, each man equipping himself, if necessary, to assist in cutting off the rebels in their retreat for Richmond. Now is the time to save our country, and to bring this rebe)lion to an end, while Europe is yet debating tho question of interveution, Tue Improrer IMprisonwent of Oor Orm- v#x3.—Some of our contemporaries are publish- ing sensation articles attacking the government and its officials on account of 9 few instances of improper imprisonment of citizens, ‘These arti- cles are written in the Jack Sheppard, Dick Turpin, Mysteries of the Bastile style of flashy rhetoric, aud amount to nothing. It is very true that the zeal of some of our officials has some- times outrun itself; that some innocent persons have had to suffer in consequence, and that if certain officials had done half as much to con. quer the rebels as they have to annoy our own loyal citizens, Jackson would not now threaten Pennsylvania.” Admit all this, and eoncede also that the nation is too great to care for or bother witi‘#ome of the ‘really treasonable little talkers, and what then? fn an intelli- gent country like this such matters always cure themselves. The good sense of the people at large soon makes itself felt, and corrects all such temporary gbusea, The whole matter ig OW Brtanved, the us resirlotloas are with. drawn, the guiitless prisoners released. What is the use of protesting now, when all cause of protest is reioved? Where is the courage in talking bravely, now that all arrests have ceased? Our officials did as well as they knew how. If they occasionally did a silly thing, arrested the wrong person, allowed great crimi- nals’ to escape, and committed unintentional injustices, they have apologized by reforming, There is other work for pen and hand now than attacking extinct abuses. Let us attend to the rebels. The cases of our own officials can wait. THe ReveL Arreats to THE PEOPLE oF Ma- RYLAND.— We publish to-day a proclamation to the people of Muryland from the notorious Brad- ley T. Johnson, himself a citzen of Maryland, The grounds on which he callson Marylanders to rise are the very same as those urged by Generali Lee in his proclamation, which we pub- lished yesterday—‘sixteen months of oppress sion more galling than Austrian tyranny.” Goneral Lee descants on “the wrongs and out- rages” that have been inflicted upon them by “armed strangers,” who have “reduced them to the condition of a conquered province,” and says he has come to “aid them in throwing off this foreign yoke.” Colonel Bradley Johnson’ calls on them to “remember: the cella of Fort McHenry, the dungeons of Fort Lafayette and Fort Warren ; the arrests, the midnight searches oftheir houses. Let them remember these ther wrongs, and rise at once in arms and strike for liberty and right.” Suoh are the appeals made to the people of a State whose whole area pre- sents nothing bnt scenes of plenty and prosperi- ty, and a State which enjoys ‘the protection of the best government an.the face of the earth, requiring only allegiance in return. What does the Southern confederacy. propose to give the State of Maryland? Nothing but the oppres. sion which it inflicts upon all the other Southern States ; to make of it a desert and « waste like Virginia. Such is the protection Maryland may expect from the rebels—such protection as vultures give to lambs or lecusts to the green fields. ma Dorr ov ras Prorta.—The crisi® whioh is now upon us, with three hundred thousand rebel soldiers knocking at the very gates of our capital, bas been brought about by the petty squabbles of politicians aad the unseemly disputes about our generale in the last Congress. We do not feel very desirous of bringing these facts too frequently to the notice of the people. Tae memory of them is bad enough. But in this crisis of our affairs it is for our people to leok our responsibilities fairty in the face. To prevent such disasters ia the future they must decide at once on sending none but true, patriotic men to the next Gon- gress, honorable men, worthy of the days of our early history. No more petty disputes and Wranglings must be countenanced or allowed: We must have true, conservative men as our representatives, who will not attempt to hamper our government or interfere with the generals in the field, but who, on the contrary, will give their warm and cordial support to the administration for the suppression of the rebellion. Next to the army in the field there is nothing of greater importance to the coun- try than the coming Congressional elections this fall. By returning to Vongrese none but firm, uncompromising patriots, true to the in- terests and traditions of the country, and re- solved to give strength to the hands of the gov- ernment, the radicals, who are attempting to disintegrate the republic, will be finally de- feated, and we will emerge from the crisis o united and victorious people. Lesanne Bow vo Do In—Some people think that the country is lost because, after fighting for eighieeu months, we find the posi- tions of thinge abont the same os when we be 840, or a little more so, since the rebels have in- veded Maryland in force. Well, we have only been learning how todo ft, The rebels have antictpated thie war for thirty years, end Rave heen driliing and preparing for it. We have been engaged only in mercantile concerne equipments * Let every man, then, called upon | uring that period, taking 00 thought of war, he sent forward in bie every day costume, and with his own outit for a few days’ subsistence. Jn this way the great rebel army was gethered at Richmond which turned the fortunes of bat H tle against the well oppuinied but numerically interior forces of Gen. McClellan. By this ayatenr, within a few days he way be able to draw into | the Geld fifty thoneand disciplined troops trom | the forts of Waehington, replaciug them by our | extemporized militia, who, behind the walle of these forts, will be wi once available for sctive yesterday. We are informed that it miso rained | service. at Weshlogton on Thursday. Thir rain may water @ crop of Union victories. In six hours the Upper Potomac may be transformed from a fordable stream to an impaceabie torrent. Then the rebele are trapped this side of the river, and our army wili bay them. The snows of Bussia destroyed Napoteon’s army. We do not expect the rain to dp a4 mugh for the army of the rebels; but it wh by bag G goners fn Maryland, McClellan will do the de struction. With Jupiter Pluvius) in the'’ “yr, and Jupiter Tonsns attacking their front, the rebel invadgee will furnish another illustration of the old adage— Whom the gods would destroy they firet make mad.” We have the opportunity now to pul down this rebellion at onr doors, if we lose it we may lose everything. We may be broken up by ons rebel armies and oar infamous political factions, not into wea confederacies, bot into ten or twenty petty republics of the South American schoo}, electing each dictator every yoar at the Point of the bayonet, and ali inces- tently fighting each other. We must save our country, or no man ip the land can eny that hiv surviving children will not be outcaste nuder @ rule of rufflans and robbers, Now is the time, ‘The very elements invite us to instant action. The rain which set in yesterday will almost ceriataly compel Gepegel Lee ty evacuate } | i ' | botter and wchleve mach and not dreaming that any of the citizens ef the United States could be so ingame ae to attempt fo pall down the glorious fabric of the Union. We huve had our experience within the past eighteen monthe, and, considering how mueb the rebels had the etert of us at the first, we have cione remarkably, well. Now that we have learned how to do it, and now tbat the goverament hae found out whom to trust to commend out armies, we ehall do very much more gloriour re- wulle. McCrenuan’a New Tacricn,—The sbolitionints bave made plenty of capital out of MeClellan’s use of the spade, though the spade, iv the end, will have gaved some of them from # short measure of repe ut the bands of Ive and Stone- wall dackson, Have thay nothing to say of the Union General’s revont ‘toh of the knap. socks of his men back to ington. That iv a theme thet ought to stir up their entbusiaem, They will no doubt diccover by and by that when anything is to be gained by fighting McClellan has as vuger an appetite for it as their pot generals, The great difference be, twoen him and them is that he knows when t) fight, ond ther qaly ques at it, s ° tt Sorpmrs NGT Huan Frou.—Every day we Sanrrany Conprtion or Our Aus?" £2 receive many le‘ters from the relatives of | the military chief who has the supreme direce soldiers in the army, asking information in re- gard to volunteers, from*qhom they have not heard for months. We give si! the information of that sort which we can collect ia the columns of our paper... Some of these poor fellows are doubtiess dead, others wounded and in the hospitals, others prisoners among the rebels. It is impossibte for us, or even for the govern- ment, to keep books of reference in regard to every one of 60 many thousands of soldiers, scaiiered over such a very large extent of terri- tery. Let soldiers’ relatives comfort themselves with the fact that their friends will turn up some day or other in the right place. Whether dead, wounded or prisoners, their names will some day find their way into print. Uf still weil and in the army, the necessities of the ‘vice or a disinclination to write bad news, or the lack of stamps and writing materials, may prevent some of the soldiers from keeping up ® correspondence with home friends. A good soldier has little time to write with®ny- { thing but his bayonet, just at prosent. It is very painful not tobe able to hear from relatives and friends in thé army; but it isa kind ‘of-suffering which must be cheerfully borne in common with us all; for who ag not relatives and friends now in the fietd, «14 who has not some sacrifices to make “ow for the country? The shortest way to Votain intelli- gence from soldiers in the army is to put down the rebellion, Yxen those who aro alive and well will oome joyfully home. Then the missing will be heard from and the prisoners released, Then the wounded wil! be accessi- bio at the hospitals, or return to be nursed at their own firesides. Then the patriot dead will be known, and their names written brightly upon the scroll of undying fame. Let us all, therefore, help to put the rebellion down. Let mothers and sisters scrape lint and make band- ages. Let fathers and brothors contribute of their means or secure recruits for the armies. Even the children can do something, and should be set to work. If we all labor heartily together, we shall soon end the war and bring the loved ones home. : Hint rromw Brapiey T. Jounsox 10 THe Navy Deranrmewt.—In calling on the people of Maryland to rise against the government of the United States, Col. Bradley T. Jobnson advises each man “to provide himself with a stout pair of shoes, a good blanket and a tin cup;” but, as for arms, he say 6, “all companies formed will be armed as soon as mustered in,” for they—the rebel generals-—“have the arms there for them.” This is very different from the language of the Confederate authorities last winter, when they called for every old fowling piece in the country, and directed all recruits to bring such arms with them as they possessed. Now it seems the rebel generals have arms in abundance for the whole of the insurgent popu- lation of Maryland. Whence this change as.to arms? It has arisen entirely from the number of vessels filled with arms which have run the blockade. Had the Navy Department done its whole duty the rebels of the cotton States would not have bad half enoiigh of arms.for themselves, much less plenty to offer te the people of Maryland.. The enemy menaces the Northern States with invasion, and the least the Navy Department can do is to prevent any further supply of arms to the rebel government from foreign ports. This is no time for men to whom the eafety of the republic is entrusted to be found sleeping at their poste. Tas Crisis or Tau Restttion—The backbone of the rebellion has been broken very often, and yet remains whole; but it bas now put iteelf directly under the hammer, and cannot escape. Six hundred thousand men are now arrayed against each other along the line of the Poto- mac and Ohio. The rebels boast that they have three hundred thousand soldiers on our borders, and we have quite as many more there. All that we have asked of the traitors ts to come out of their holes aad try if they can invade free territory as easily as we have marched into Dixie. Now we have them where we want them, and do not have to go and dig them out of their burrows before fighting them. It is no doubt a very sad thing for the families of those Tebels who have invaded Maryland to reflect that they will never see the faces of thelr dear kinsmon again; but certainly, if our government and our people do thelr duty, none of these an- acious rebels will ever revisit the sunny South, except as paroled prisoners of war, and many of them will inherit only six feet of the ¢oll which they have invaded. ae Tad Fiore Dare ov ran Rarcwic—We are now once more in the fighting days of the. republic.- In Revolutionary times, whesever there was any tighting to be done, it was done vigorously and with detcrminetion, and as a consequence victory always followed our ban- ners. All the rubbish aud nonsensical talk of political conventions can never save the repub- Me. It matters very littte—indeed nothing at all—to the people what unknown candidate any convention may nominate for Governor. Whether Mr. Nincompoop Thts or Mr. Nincom- poop That be chosen is a matter of no conse- quence whatever. These are fighting times, and we went men to think of nothing else silt this rebellion ie put dows. No political trickery will be allowed to interfere with the firm re solve of the people to crueh out the rebel ar- my now threatening our ftresides. We must fight sharply, vigorously, end decisively to end this war, and all political wranglers who wonld retard the progress of our arme must be ostra- days ago one bnndred out of seven hundred rebel prisoners refused to be paroled or ex- changed, voluntarily took the oath of allegiance, and arrived at this ¢ity in the Arago, They re- port that there are many other men in the rebel army who are equaily tired of Joff Davis’ Dixie, but who cannot get away. Let but the rebel armies find the fortune of war going against them In the free and border States, and we shall dee auch @ skededdling of rebol de- sorters ag will make General Lee and Jeff. De- vis wonder what hes beceme of their armies Set the tide turning, then, and hurry op efficient Tes Vivaire oF Tam Nation-—Now is the time to show the world what we can do. The rebels are gt our deors. Bag them. Let note squad go home except ae peroled prisoners. Orgesive the militia; drill daily. A little energy now, and the rebellion is crushed Murra Terovenour ran fifty thousand men ready to answer any call frem Pennsylvania at any moment. Organize. Onganise THB | Srates—Let New York have tion of the movements of our army, ro man Ras a greater load ‘of responsibility in connection with it than its Medical Director, Dr. Ham- mond. It is calculated that two-thirds more lives are lost by sickness in a campaign than by the casualties of the battlefield. On the Medical Director and his subordinates will soon devolve the care of the physical health of « millfon of soldiers, and he will have to see to it that proper provision is made for this immenge increase of their duties, We are aware that up to the present time this conscientious officer has been natiring in his efforts to make the medical staff of the army all that it ought to be. He will now, however, have to redouble his efforts. The country is determined that the men who are fighting in its defence shall be properly cared for, and it will‘hold atrictly te their responsibility all those who have charge of their health and comfort. A Cosrusion or Tzxvs.—A republican jour- pal, whose, editor while on the peninsula with McCicltay’ Wrote in the most culogistic terms, of bi: plans, has an article yesterday in whiok +t wpoaks of, him os being support yoye ‘eeton.” tthe. éebestltGs a ah the Cabinet, of the people, of the press and the entire body of tle army be.a faction, then it cannot be denied that he has its unqualified and most enthusiastic support. We have yet to learn, however, that our contemporary’s ters minology is correct, even in this age of rapidly shifting political definitions. ¥ = remanence | INTERESTING REBEL CORRESPONDENCE, Fit PEN Sept Interesting Letters—Rebel Spies in the Loyal States—What They Think of War Preparations in the North-—-Robel Agents in Nassau, N. P., &o. We have como intw possession of two highly interesting letters, written by an avonymous rebei correspondent, signing himself “Powhatan,” who ts now circulating Im the loyal Statea, One of theso letters (enclosing the other) is directed to H. Adderly & Co., Nassau, N. ?., the wel! known rebel agents and part owners of tho British. robel steamers which make periodical trips to “ Dixie,’ ‘This letter was put in one of the envelopes of the Jones House, Barrisburg, Ps., Wells Coverly, proprietor. Ea- clored in the loiter to Adderly & Co, was another ono, di. rected to Theodore Wagusr, Fsq., firm of Frazer & Co. Charleston, 8. C. The latter letter was enciosed in one ag the Astor House onvelopes. In tho envelope to Adderly & Co. is the following note:— A British subject who, when-in the South, received much kind attention from the partios whose names are enclosed, will feel very much indebted to Mr. Addorly he will kindly forward this (iettor) by the first and opportunity. New Yorn, August 24, 1862. The letter to Theo. Wagnor, Faq., is quite rich ta its @e- tails and admissions, and is weli worth perusal. B& reads:-— : Taro, Wacwen, Faq.:— Dwar Sim—By this time my handwriting will be knows to you, so that @ signature will be unnecessary. Iam writidg in much haste, but ehall write freely. These ere Qot Limes te be ceromonious; therefore, permit it witheus offence. Your people are not half careful enough. Prag charge them tobe sure to destroy letters, &c., if any shig Going out.of Charleston ia threatened with capture. Thep @ught te have them ready ina heavy bag to sink on the joetant. The. Northern papers are constantly publishing Quotations frem letters taken on board captured vessels. One perticuiarly,‘‘from Mr. Ward tohis wife in Pasig, takes in the Memphis, in which the mim amd substance : ” ‘"Tepanlea severat owes" aba it way calterly Hopatens’® Ancther to the, same pu! from & niece @f Presi Davis’ and =many = others. New Yorg, August 28, 1663 i ‘ : i i tk : geee i i Kf é i Ht belied Fez i 1 i t i z ii Hi 38 i til el WMPORTANT FROM THE PENINSULA. Defeat of the Rebels at Williamsburg, Veo Forrrass Mownos, Sept. 11, 1862, A robe! force of cavalry, with three pieves of artillery, under Colonel Shingies, made an attack on pra on Tueaday morning, about eight o'clock. After captured our pickets they marchod into the tewn, taking our troops by suryrise. AQ gngagemont cussed, which tasted about thirty miuutes. Our force consisted of the Fifth Pennsylvania cavalry, Colonc! Campbell, yybo was taken prisoner, together with five captains, four fieutenants, and @ few privates. ‘Re rebel commander, Col. Shingles, with eight of bie officers and men, were killed. ‘The robel loss was more severe thas oure, aad we re~ “waived in posession of the place. ‘We took @ number of prisoners. IMPORTANT FROM WESTERN VIRGINIA. Defeat of Jenkins’ Gacrilies. PMLADELENTA, Sept. 12, 1062. The Wheeling Zatelligecer of the 11th inet. says thas Adjutant General Bomuels to-day received the following: ‘ Gauiar, Va, Sept. 91802: Jonkine’ whole fores of guerilina was met aud roated by stm companies of the Second Virginia cavalry, Our lone eae one kilos. The flown of tho enomy te unknowa. Volonel J. A. LIGHTBURN, Fourth Virginia infantry. The Surrender of Speneer—Colone! Rath- Le ‘From the Pittsburg Gasetie. } ‘The wey Soeeraieareuees) Wens- oro doen officers 8 0 oe . wae Called, and : decid ofa » Dut efter the man Yorn in line of Gol, Rathbone , i“ fore warrendering Sor eonte peme_—ve ae commanding 0 a ee to be aitanked, and that he was'‘ad men to come to hip sssietamce . no tages or Dritying she maga’ who were ere oF Bel wi Giatance of what fad he started tor * wood with the rebel , ten ‘Sia oslelere {4 gare of themselves. rye alg then - evs his own borars, ande ein be placed upon a lot ‘of “valu Qwnres stores which had been oxgored upon river bank, Charges are to be 404 against Colonel Rathbone, when a whale il! wo brought Gat by cours martia!