The New York Herald Newspaper, August 22, 1863, Page 4

NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENET, EDITOR AND PKOPRIGIOR OFFICE N.W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU 878. TERMS cash ™M advance. Money sent Dy mali wil! be stthe risk of the gender None but bank bills current io New York taken " (HE DAILY HERALD, Tanms cents per copy. Velume XXVUI.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway. —Tax Duse’s Morro. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Trvw to tae Last. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Navatre. KEW BOWERY THIATRS. Bowery.—Macrrim-Two Dioruus—Carrer Ds " BOWERY THEA —Gnost or ALTENBuRG— Roser Macair BRYANT'S MINST way.—EruioriaN SONGS, Guost. Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. Dances, Boaiesquus, &.—Tus Foner, Dances, &0.— IRVING HALL, Irving place —Taw Srergoemeox. 444 Broadway.—Bararre, Ne THOUSAND MILLINERS NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Brosdway.— Cumosimms anv Liciunns. trom $a. M. UNO Pe Ms BOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE. Brookly fonas, Dances. borresovus, &c —Ermoruy New York, Satarday, August 22, 1863. LIES SITUATION. The news from Cuarleston brings us down to The Southern journals speak despondingly of the state The Chattanooga Rebel looks for the worst, but declares that Charleston will never be taken as it stands. It threatens mining and blowing the city from its foundation in case of emergency. The Richmond Whig says that the fire of our two hundred-pounder Parrot guns tells fcarfally on Sumter, and that the fort only replies atintervals, But it consoles itself with the idea that to reduce Fort Sumter is not to take Charles- ton, for even if it were battered down the harbor would still be held. Ithas been determined, it says, to defend the city, street by street and honse by house as long as afoot of earth is left; and, in preparation for such an emergency, Governor Bonham has issued @ proclamation urging the removal of all non-com- Ditants from the city as soon as possible. Refugees from Richmond, who arrived in Nor- “folk a few days ago, report that the Confederate government is sadly frightened about the possi- die fate of Charleston, the capture of which they regard as the winding up of the rebellion. They also state that a guard is kept about the resi- dence of Jeff. Davis night and day to prevent him from leaving Richmond. The news from Genera! Meade’s army is interest- ing. A cavelry reconnoissance to Culpepper dis- covered no rebels in that quarter, Reports that Thursday, and comes from rebel sources. of afluirs there, ' active speculative request, and were advancing. . The de- j-mandfor bay, hides, leatbor and tallow was fair, The Beauties of the Comscription Lottery. The vagaries of the wheel of fortune pre- sales of whiskey were light andthe market heavy. The./ gided over bythe Provost Marshal General are freight market was inactive. There were no tmportant alterations in other branches of business. |. ; The dry goods market has been active for Fegsonable Styles of domestic woollous and of imported dress goods, which have boen quite firm, thoavatiable eupptics, though. very wel! assoried, beiag quite moderato for the com- mencement of the fall trade, The main inquiry has been for cassimeres, ‘lapels, printed delaines and plain coloret foreign dress goods, black silks, woollens and ribbons. Pomestic cottous baye not been generally active, though there has been more doing in prints and ginghams, the latter closing very firmly. Shawls bave been selling freely at remunerative prices, The auction salea of tho week, comprising catalogues of dress goods, brocho shawl, carpetiogs, &c., were well attended, and. all do- tirable ‘abriog were spee lily bought up at very satis factovy prices. Tue week's imports of dry goods at this port were to the value of $1,992,226, including $1,644,210 ineutries for sonsumption direct, and $253,016 entered for warehousing, The amount of foreign dry goods ac: tually marketed during the week was $2,182,(54 Kentucky a Ma) jand—Copperhead and Niggerhead Complaints. The political reader will dnd in another part of this paper two very curiqus and suggestive letters—the one on the late Kentucky elec- tion, the other on the approaching Maryland election—the firgt from a copperhead corres- pondent of the News, and the'second from a nig- gerhead correspondent of the Tribune. The cop- perhead shows how the late Kentucky election was engineered by the. federal administration against the copperheads, and the niggerhead shows how a part of the administration is engi- neering to defeat'the niggerheads in Maryland. The copperhead roars lustily over the accom- plished defeat of his party’in the West, but the niggerhead blubbers quite as noisily ovér the anticipated thrashing of his faction in the East. Such a pair of unruly oxen deserve well to be yoked together. Ben Wood’s copperhead correspondent ead- mits that the issue in Kentucky was between the conservative Union war party and the cop- perhead peace party, the platform of which was: “No more men and no more money to wage an abolition unconstitutional war;” or, in other words, the election was between the “men and money” party and the “no more men and no more money party.” But he says that, as tho day of election approached, the men and money party became alarmed; that“bayonets had to be invoked again;” that the pretence of a guo- rilla invasion was siezed upon; that General Burnside thus stepped forward as master of ceremonies; but, continues the indignant cop- perhead commentator, “I will not sicken you with the detailg of this sad, this melancholy transaction, styled an election. You know the result, and, in‘God’s name, that is enough.’”” “And yet, would you believe it,” says this dis- gusted copperhead, “the men who rejoice over this disgraceful transaction, who instigated it, who boast of it, claim to be democrats, and commend themselves to the Northern democracy as co-workers against federal tyranny.” » Tt is evident that this. Kentucky coppertiead is considerably muddled and befogged with tlie results. of the Kentucky election; but a very few words, we think, will serve to explain the mystery.’ ‘The successful ‘party in the election was a Union conservative party, emphatically opposed to the policy of the emancipation pro- clamation and to all the, extreme negro war measures of the abslition faction, but still in Lee was moving toward Richmond are not con- firmed. There is no doubt that he is still on the Rappahannock and Rapidan, and intends to remain there as long as he can, It was nevertheless cor- fidently stated that his army had moved towards Gordonsville, on the way to Richmond, but such information had not reached our commanding generals. General Meade has issued an order with refe- rence to the circulation of newspapers in the army, to the effect that those who require them can procure any paper they choose by ordering it from the Provost Marshal of the command to which they belong, thus affording the men an op- portunity to select the papers they desire to read. The draft in the Sixth district proceeded as quietly yesterday as on the two preceding days. The conscription in the Fourth and Seventh dis- tricta will commence on Monday. We learn from Leavenworth, Kansas, that a band of rebel ;uerillas made a descent on Law- r nce on the night of the 20th inst., and pillaged the town, finally setting it on fire and destroying it. The reports from the Southwest represent our army in the Mississippi valley as lying dormant for the time being at different points. Very few troops are at Vicksburg. General Sherman’s corps is etill enoamped near the Big Black, on Bear and Clear crecks, Admiral Porter's fleet is scattered along the Mississippi river from New Orleans to Cairo. The intermediate distances between the points where the gunboats are stationed are pa- trolled by light draught boats. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. All of the Central American States seem to be in an agitated condition, General Zavala, a par- tisan of Duenas, arrived at Sonsonate, San Salva- dor, on the 24th of June, with four hundred men, when the town pronounced against Barrios. Gen. Zavala was received with cheers and garlands. On the 24th ultimo, however, Gen. Bracamonte, a partisan of Barrios, with four hundred and fifty men, was marching on the town, which, in the na- tural course of things in that part of the world, ‘would fall into his hands, The steamship Kangaroo, Captain Bridgman, which left Liverpool on the 7th and Queenstown on the 8th instant, arrived at this port yesterday noon. Her news has been anticipated. ‘The steamship Great Eastern, Captain Paton, from Liverpool 10th inst., will be due at her anchorage in Flushing Bay on Saturday, 22d. The prize steamer Kate, Acting Master Dexter, commanding, arrived at this port yesterday from Beaufort, N. C., via Hampton Roads, in tow of the United States steamer Newbern. The Kate was driven ashore on Smith's Island, July 12, by the ‘United States gunboat Penobscot; after which the rebels succeeded in getting out het cargo and engine ‘an@ floating Ber off. The United States e#teamer Mount Vernon then went in and captured her, She fa an iron screw steamer of six hundred ‘tons burthon, built at London in 1863, and was from Nassau, N. P., bound to Wilmington, N. C. ferry houses of the Atlantic street and Hamilton avenue ferries are being removed. A large and commodious iron structare will be erected instead. Extensive improvements are also being mado in the slips. Blocks opetied yesterday at @ material decline, but re. Aton ‘al average of ‘a prices, Har- advanced (9 171. is we AD avtaiee yand at 187K 0188. MObey shentiful at 6 per cent call. | Tho cotton maPkot was quict yesterday. No important occurred in prices. There was less activity in jutts, at easier prices for flour and wheat and firmer jates for coro, The transactions in hog products wore toe ie extent and prices were buoyant. Groceries were th cate demand, without any remarkable alteration in *Xgluee Rellned po:roleum oll and Manila hemo were ja favor of,men and money for the suppression of the rebellion, as the only way in which we can restore the “integrity of the Union.” In short, the war policy of this party was that embraced in the almost unanimous resolution of Congress passed at the extra war seasién of 1861. Upon this broad Union platform there was no diffi- culty in bringing about a fusion of all the old conservative whigs and democrats of Kentucky. As for the abolition faction of the State, it amounts practically to nothing. But, in oppo- sition to the Union war party, there was this copperhead peace party, or the secession and Southern confederacy wing of the old demo- cratic party. This mere fragment of the old democracy had already suffered a loss of per- haps not,leas than forty thousand men, drawn off into the rebel armies, a whole brigade of them, for instance, under Breckinridge, hav- ing joined the army of Bragg. The Union vote, therefore, in Kentucky, being a fusion of con- servative men of all parties, was comparatively heavy in the late election; while the copper- head vote, being only that of a reduced rem- nant of the secesh democracy, was exceedingly light and feeble. Burnside, we know, issued his proclamation against all disloyalists; but we dare say that if he had issued forty procla- mations, or no proclamation at all, the result would have been substantially the same. So much for the late Kentucky election and the copperheads. Now for the approaching Ma- ryland election and the niggerheads. According to the Tribune correspondent, Mr. Postmaster General Blait and Mr. Secretary Seward are working in Maryland with the copperheads against the niggerbeads. The Tribune man -eays “it ig darkly hinted and generally under- stood that the member of the Cabinet from Maryland (Mr. Blair) is not so entirely satisfied with the firm array of the emancipationists of the State, and would prefer « less decided policy. It would have been better, it is in- sisted, to have gone into the copperhead con- vention, and, if outvoted, to have acquiesced.” ‘Worst of all, General Schenck, being a radical of the Burnside class, it is charged by this Tri- bune man that there has been in the Blair cor- ner of the Cabinet, and is, “an organized effort to remove General Schenck, and great fears are expressed that he will be so pertinaciously persecuted by still curtailing his command as to compel him to retire in disgust.” To make sure work upon this point it seems that Mr. Seward kas been hobnobbing with Stanton at the War Office, and that Stanton has been “sof- tened by the relieving vapor of the of State’s segar.” But, for all this, we are told that “if Mr. Seward and Mr. Blair have made a coalition to atifie the free voice of Maryland, and make it ectio their timid and wavering policy, they will fail;” for that “their only pos- sible success will be to send several copper- heads to Congress, and defeat the edministra- tion entirely.” From ali this we conclude that the nigger- heads have been “prospecting” very actively in‘ My Maryland,” that they have made some iptoresting discoveries, and that they expect to be defeated in Maryland in November about as decisively as the copperheads have been in Kentucky. We expect « similar result in Mary- land to that of Kentucky—a great victory of the conservative Union party and its sound Union platform, against both niggerheads and and that from these border slave | States will come that wholesome leavening of . the Presidential campaign which will unite all the whole Jump. | quality hé will be an invaluable acquisition to entirely ahead of ‘that was ever pro- Auged by the a y lottery of the Tritune or the IV. XI. XLIV. lottery of the Daily News. One of the prizes of the Conscription lottery bas been drawn hy the patriotic pugiliat, John Morrissey. Of course he will gird on his aword and prepare to attack the foo, striving to emu- late that gallant guardsman and brother pro- fessor of the noble art of self-defence who fell at Waterloo, surrounded by a hecatomb of slaugh- tered Frenchmen. Another prize has becn drawn by John Clancy, one of the shining lights of one section of the demooratic party in this city—it does not matter which. Clancy will go to the field, we are gure. His Leader henceforth ‘will be the general who will flash his sword most gallantly and triumphantly in the face of the advancing foe. We will take care of all the branches and ramifications of the democracy while John is serving his coun- try in the tented field; and when he comes back, covered with glory, we wiil reinstall him in office. Last, but not feast, in our notice of winners in Uncle Sam’s lottery is Wm, H. Fry, one of the editors of the Tribune. On this prize we congratulate the country. Mr, Fry, although 4 connected with the Tribune, is‘@ gentleman and ascholar. When he shall have gone—as go le will—there will be none of the same sort left in that establishment, He ia, moreover, an author and a musical composer besides, In the latter our army. He has been fora seore of years and more trying to manage opera and operatic troupes in this city. If he found them un- manageable it was no fault of his. Not an impresario or great Italian artiste has landed on these shores for the last quarter of a century but Wm. H. Fry was eager to’ press upon their acceptance aa opera of his own composing. The miserable foreigners could not see tie beauty of it, and so he could not have his operas presented to.a longing and admiring public. But now fortune seems ready to make amends to him for her former playful buffet- ings. The Secretary of War, who is famous for discovering the right man for the right place, will immediately, we have no doubt, commis- sion him as brigadier general of the musical brigade. In that position he will be able to ‘haye all his operas and musical compositions played by every band in thé army, to the ex- clusion of such stupid airs as “Yankee Doodle,” “Hail Columbia,” “John Brown Marching On’ and “The Battle Cry of Freedom.” Hereafter the ears of our: brave soldiers will be greeted with classical music alone, composed by Briga- dier General Fry.',"Who can estimate the moral effect of the enthusiasm which this will inspire in the breasts of the army? It will be no figure of speéch to say of Brigadier General William’ H. Fry that } One blast upon bis bugle br Were worth ten thousand men, Tue Resroratiox or THe Union aNd THE Nic- GeraeaD AND Corpeinkap Press—The radical and copperhead journals of this city are making @ great fuss about the mode, manuer and condi- tions of the restoration of the Union at the end of the war, and they are speculating whether the army now being raised by the draft will be eufficient for the purpose. They might as well save themselves the trouble. When the military power of the rebels is completely destroyed—as it soon will be—there will be no longer any question at issue. The insurgent States, by virtue of the constitution, whose authority is above that of Congvess and the President, be- come unconditionally States of the Union again; and they have only to send their Senators to the’Senate Chamber and their Representatives to the other hal! of Congress, and no power can keep them out. It needs no proceeding of Congress, no act of amuesty, no proclamation of the President, to give validity to the restora- tion of the Southern States to their legal and constitutional status in Congress. NorhasCon- gress or the President any power to interfere after the close of hostilities with any of the domestic institutions or municipal laws of the South. The Confiscation act and Emancipation act are null and void by their unconstitutionali- ty, and the only emancipation which can have any effect is that which has taken place by the acts of the generals within the lines of the army. All outside is legally untouched by the Pregident’s proclgmation, which is, as he wibsoir described it, only like the Pope's bull against the comet. The war being over, military lines cease to exist, and every State right and insti- tution revives by the force of the constitution. This was the platform laid down by Congress in its declaratory resolution in the extra session proclaiming the fundamerffal law of the land; and all parties may as well make up their.minds at once that this constitutional principle will prevail .over all crotchets and revolutionary {deas. The people are determined to have itso, and that settles the matter, as all the world will find out by the result of the next Presidential election. Loraurr—Waar Is Ir?—The begging eircu- lar for broken down republican journals which we published on Thursday raises a point which we should like to see more clearly defined by its authors. When it solicits subscriptions for the hamed init as “loyal journals” ts it meant by implication to stigmatize all not included in the list as disloyal? What is loyal- ty? Wealways understood it under our form of government to mean fidelity to the con- stitution and the laws. Fidelity to politi- cal organizations or to their leaders is not loyalty. We defy Postmaster Wakeman and the other signers of this document to point out any journal in the country which bas been so consistently and unswerv- ingly loyal as the Heratv. It has ever incut- cated respect for the constitution, obedience to the laws, and abstinence from violence of every, kind. Can the same be said of the j whose claims to loyalty are paraded in this cir. cular? Did not the Tribune, in the fall of 1860, give all the encouragement possible to the re- bellion by proclaiming the right of secession? peace? And is it not now using every effort to intensify the bad feeling produced by the draft ' in order to have martial law proclaimed in our ! city anda reign of bloody despotism inangu- ' gated? If this be loyalty we do not want to be | confounded with the journals laying claims to! lic on the st of it. H we oP sae clligations as lo Lat 0 o i different, and the manner in which they are en- like other fanatics, have been tablelag @ muck. In an article of thelra yoaséitay ey eligma- tize the “patrons, admirers and “aupportere of the Henan” as being; ninety per cent of them, composed of what they call “the dangefous classes.” And then they go on to divide those classes up into gamblers, prize fightora, thievoa, rumsellers and slave drivers—the ramaoller being represented by the imaginary charactor of Barney O'Toole. This must be taken as highly complimentary to the enlightened oiti- zens of New York who aro “patrons, admirers and supporters of the Henratp” to an extent ten times greater than they are of the organ of the free lovers; so that, if there were any truth in the ravings of the Tribune, the moral standing of the people of New York and of the United States must be at a very low point. —_. A paragraph which appeared in yesterday's Herarp, in the despatch of one of our army correspondents, is a pretty good commientary ’ upon poor Greeley’s last exhibition of bad tem- per. We reproduce it here. It is as foliows:— CIRCULATION OF PAPERS IN THE ARMY. To show the favor with which the Herauy is ved in tho army I am permitted to stato what was tho order for it and otber papers yesterday, sent by Mc-———-, who bas the movopoly of all news retailed to (hesarm: New Yorm Hira. New York Iribun 200 Now York Pim: 100 Now York Wor} ++ 180 The circulation of the Heraxp in the Army of the Potomac is, according to these figures, five times greater than the aggregate circulation of the Tribune, Times and World, and twelve and ahalftimes greater than that of the Tribune alone. The inference, therefore, is inevitable, if there be any truthin Horace, that the Army of the Potomac is'largely composed.of Barney O'Tooles and of the other répreseatatives of “the dangerous classes.” When Hooker was in command of that army he endeavored to restrict the circulation of New York papers to that of the Tribune alone, but with very poor success» When Meade superseded him all such. absurd attempts at restriction were abolished, and the consequenee is that the H«ravp. has distanced all its puny competitors. We take it for granted that the army is about equally made up of democrats and republicans, and yet, accord; ing to the 77‘hune, ninety per cent of its mem- bers must belong to “the dangerous classes,”” After that we wonder that Horace would not be ashamed to show his old white hat any- where. He should immediately withdraw him- selffrom the haunts of’ civilized men, and, by penance, prayer, mortification aad the reading of holy books, strive to make some atonement fur this slander upon the good people of New York and our brave Army of the Potomac. 2,600 A Pam or Nosie Brorugrs,—Pen Wood, :of: the News, and Horace Greeley, of the Tribune— the one formerly @ member of Congress, and the other a member at present—one * the! editor ofa radical revolutionary niggerhead sbeet, thé” other {he editor of a radical revolutionary cop- perthead concera—are both laboring in the same Vocation and to the same end—to effect a separation of the North from the South. Both are fomenting riots and civil war at the North, the better to accomplish their common purpose. Wood wants an armistice, which implies a recognition of the independence of the Southern States; and that is exactly what Greeley has. been driving at from the beginning. He said if they were realiy in favor of separation they. ought to be allowed to go, accarding to the principles of the Declaration of Independence, which proclaims that “government can only exist by the consent of the governed,” and that every people have a right to change their gov- ernment with a view of promoting their own happiness. It will be thus seen that extremes meet, and that the teachings of Ben Wood in the News and of Horace Greeley in the Tribune lead to the same result. Though they have taken their departure from opposite points of the compass, they are steering for the same destination. Both are playing into the hands of Jeff. Davis and his confraternity, and both are contributing as far as they can to defeat the grand object of the war. Par nobile fratrum! _ Corrox Fravos.—We see it stated that the re- port of the commission appointed to investigate the frauds upon government arising out of cotton speculations in the West and South- west has been sent in to the War Depart- ment, and that it seriously implicates a major general and several other officers of rank. ‘This is the investigation which General McDow- ell was sent down to preside over shortly after his removal from command, and his time since has been unremittingly devoted to it. Able and impartial as the report no doubt is, we do not believe that anything will result from it. The parties incriminated are creatures of the administration; and in this, as in the case of other inquiries of a similar character, means will be found to cusbion the evidence, or at all events to save the offenders from punishment. ‘Sgxrocents oF tHe Kentucky Coxcrrseumy.—The repub Weans persist Jn claiming the Kentucky delegation to the Bext Congress as being composed of administration men. Five of them were in the Inst House of Representatives, “and their record will show to what extent they will ve Wkely to support a radical republican for Speaker. gave some days since a letter from Brutes J. Clay, an. other of the representatives elect, in which he stated that he-was “opposed 10 the policy of the administration.” We now hsvethe sentiments of another, General Green Giay Smith, whom tbe republicans have claimed as being of the ‘right stamp.” Mr. Smith delivered a speech at Hamilton, Obio, on the 19th instant, which is reported io Park. ince that there will be the Park, on the Mail, today (Saturday), 294 instant, at four o'clock P.M, by the Park Band, ubder the leadership of H. B. Bodworth, if the weather is fine. ‘The following ie the programme: \¢ Medley’ National Pot Pour. ‘The Revel General Hotmes, ‘TO THS RMCTOR OF THE HERALD. ‘The death of General Holmes, of Arkansag, ‘an reported fa the Henasd by drinking intoxicating liquors, te folee. ' ROBERT RAINEY, of Napolegn, Arkapens, | At bis death. Tis death pr ‘Your obedient servant, meut use.; One was stopped at Alexandria, ob ber way »Martinsbarg, yosterday and to-day iad before them Col yaw ‘Wasmmatox, August 21, * ¥RADE IN THE MISBIAGIFP VALLEY. ‘The Treasury Department has heard nothing of tho courier reported to have been sent by General Grant; nor Of amy modification of his views in respect to trade. PROTEOTION OF WEST VIRGINIA. Governer Boroman, of West Virginia, attended by Colonel Crothers, of bis staff, is here to urge upon the government tho adoption of measures to enable the loyal citizensof tho now State to pretect themselves against rebel maraudors, His requests havo been acceded to, and all the arms required have been given to him. THE LOYAL GOVERNMENT OF VIRGINIA. Gov, Piorpont is here making arrangements for putting tho government of tho Stato of Virginia into operation, (ho seat to bo at Aloxandria, With this view the Gras Legislature will be convened im extra session, ‘probably in Boptember, when they will elect a Treasurer and Auditor, for without them no salaries can be paid, aor the taxes coltected im the aaveral counties deposited. By the crea- tuon of the State of West Virginia the sum of $100,000 ‘was left to tho credit of the remaining portions of the Qid Domiuion. Tho new term of @ jor Piorpont will Commence in January vext, the election having takea Place on tho 28th of Jast May in those parts of Eastern Virginia roo from rebel contro!. Thus there are three Governors in what was formorly kuown as ou Stato, in cluding the rebel functionary at Richthond. SEIZURE OF SYEAMERS FOR GOVARNAENT SERVICE. Three steamers belonging to the New York and George- town Steaniship Company havé been seived for govern- out with passengers and freight. * CHIEF JUSTICE OF COLORADO. Stephon 8. Harding, formorly Governor of Utali, and recently Consul at Valparaiso, has ‘beon appoisted Chief Justice of Colorado Territory. GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA. Jobn W. Gooawin, formerly membcr of Congress from’ Maine, and lately Chief Justice of Arizona Yerritory, has ‘boon appointed Governor of Arizdna; in the place of John A. Gurley, decensed. It is understood: that the appoint- ment was conferred at tho request of the other oflicers of the Territory. MroTurver, of Iowa, has been appointod Chief Justice in the place of Mir. Goodwin. The officers of the Territory will feave New York carly next week to organize the territorial government. ‘THE CASE OF GENERAL MILROY. ‘The Court of Invontigation into the facts and circum staboes connectod Will (ho evacuation of Winchester and McReynolds, of the Kirst. New York cavalry, commanding a brigade under Genera! Milroy, at the time of the evaer- ation of Winchcsior and during tho retreat to Harper's Ferry. Ho tostitiod that Genoral stitroy called a council of his brigade officers—General Elliott, Colovel Ely and bimse—in which it was decided to retreat. Colonel McReynolds coli not ay upoa whom the responsibility rested for the disastor at Winchostor, though evideutly || some one was to blame, Ho has been the only witness before. tho court since yout hist report. Hix tes ‘timgiiy fa, very yoluminous. He corraborated ‘tlie evidenoe of Cantain Alexander, ef the Baltimore bat- tery, given on Wednosday,, as to tho destruction of all tho artillery ammunition of his brigade, by throwing it into the cistern of the fort near Wischester known as the Star Fort, previous t0 the evadhation and after the coun. Oil of war bad determined upon this course. », Id the last despatch to the Henatp the brief extract from General Filiott’s testimony on this court, is incor- rectly reported, dnetend of seyirg that be would vot have abnndoved Winchester without a moro sanguinary 6git if; he had been in command, be testilied that he thonglt bo ‘cyuld have brought away the forces without. ao attack being made upon hius-by the enemy the day’ before Gen. SMiroy moved. Gen, Eltintt also testiled that the despatete from Gen. Schenck to (eo. Milroy, ordering the evacuation * of Wincheater,’ did: not reach tho lattor previous tothe council of ‘war composed of Gen. Mifrdy'and his brigade DECLINED TO BR A BRIGADIER GENERAL. Major Prime, of the’ Biigiseer Corps, aud attached to the ataff of General Grant hag declined to accept the appoint- mént of brigadier general of yoluntcers,preferring to ro- tain his position'in the Enginoer Corps. ‘He is rogarded ag & most valtiable officer, ty whose skill ts attributed mugh of our succées at Vicksburg.” | THR INVALID corrs. Seventy-five démpanies have thus far been organized and mustered into the Invalid Corps, and have been as Signed to garrison and other duty not requiring too much fatigue cr exposure. This corps is proving itsclf a valua- ble addition to the serves. POSTMASTER GENERAL BLATR ON AIR TRAVELS. Postmaster General Blair left this city to-day for New Hampshire. Ho will spend a few days with his family at Portsmouth, the lato residence of Judge Woogbury.| Dur- ing his absence Gov. Randill, First Assistaut, will act as Poetmaster General. ; Dr. McDonald is now Acting Third Assistant Postmaster. General ia place of Mr. Zevoriy, who bas started upon a ‘Journey across the plaing for the purpose of restoring his health. PATENT OFFICE AFFAIRS. In consequence of the sccumulation of letters patent at the Patent Office, Congrces at the last session passed a law providing that rights under them should be forfeited unlers tho final fee should bo paid within six months after the date of the act, March 3, 1863, ond the tuvention shall become public property. Eoveral hundred patentoes bave not yet complied with this law. THE ELECTION IN MATNR. Letters continue to reach bere from Maine stating that the election bids fair to be close, and urging tho seading ‘on of absent voters with money to insure a certain vic- tory for the republicans. It is believed that tho result wiil largely influence tho elections in other States, which must determive whether a civilian or a mililary man must be run by the administration party. In the latter event General Banks is confidently spoken of as the pro. bable nominee. . POSTAL APFAIRS. ‘The late order of the Post UMfice Department for sending to the dead letter office all mail matter not, purely official arose from the fact that claim agents and others who cor- respond with the different departments ‘have assumed that their communications are official, awd thoy thus manage to evade the payment of postage. Hercafter pri- vate persons who write to government offieers upon busi- ness matiers must prepay postage. —————_—. The Navy. Newseax, 5.—The Unitod States supply steamer New- bern arrived yesterday from the North Atlantic squadron, MEADE’6! “AR Ce aceraravaunaraenaarataee 3 | Odvairy Reconnoissan:. « y Culpepper. NO REBEL TROOPS FOUND THERE. “ Probable Retreat of Lee's Army Towards Richmond, &., &., &o. Wasmunarow, Augast 21, 1863 . Information is current here that Lee’s army has been moving off from our front upon the Virginia Cembral Rail- foad to Richmond; but officers arriving here to night, whoee position in the army entities them to know what is going on, assert that no'such intelligence ts ta the pos- ‘session of our commanding generals. Leo ts undoubtedly upon the Raptign and Rappa- hannock, His pickets are extended from the Upper Rap- pahannock along that river to Fredetickaburg,, and the region about ,Potomac creek ‘ts infésie@ with rebel cavalry. t Everything indicates that tho enemy intendyt> remaia in his present locality, unless our own movements should necessitate a change of bass; and it is not imp.s” hat the next battle may be fought upon that river. / ody it is approhended that Loo witt aime the oneasive rather than retreat, and many expoodan attack from him at anearly dute.<-Preparations foreach aa emergency are now being made, Mr. B. G. Chapman's Despat FIEADQUARTERS, ARMY Ok THE. ae” F + Anguss 21, 1863. I bavo information from three difforént sotirces which leads.me to believe:thas the: rcbs's have: left our frome and goné fouth to Richmond. i Deserters who came across the Rappshannocksay thes thé ‘movement. of troops towards -Kredericksbarg from Culpepper was only a rure to cover Leo's real objept—i. ¢ » to enable him to movo his troops southward by way of Gordoreville, 4 Day before yosterday large bodics of rebel cava'ry @nghod down towards the Rapp ihandock at hd hepirnte fords, driving tm/our pickots, ‘They come boldly out in sight of our lines and doployed in fine ling of batde order. Immediately all the corps atong the river wore pat under arms, in which position thes remaiccd until morning, when. behold the enomy bad withdrawn t A cavalry rccopnoissance was ‘thea made, whlch wens as far pepper, but found no esemy, bat, on the contrary, obtained such fuformation as leads to the beliet that the whote rebel force has gone in the direction of Gordorsville."The reason tor my Levee: ath not ab liberty to give. b Richmond papers of the Bsth brought intovour lines: speak most despondingly of aflairs, but: particularly de- plore tho prospect, vow in view, that Chaileston must fait. Acompicte: panic provails i Richmond-to obtein green- backs. Many of tho dexlers will take no. other money for the commudities they, haveto diervse, 0% Tho Enquirer mountethe Jew spédulntors rough shod, agi’ cindses, Mr. Benjamin es the king thief of the tribe. « 4 ber Important Ordors of Generat Meade. GENERAL ORDERS—-NO. 80. UxkaDQUARTERS, AkMyY OF THE *} Tor the purprse of giv! ‘full tresacen holes Pirst—Tor tho purprse ing rz to thia army 10 the selection of vowspay crave merceres that any off.cor or: man wishing{o purchase any datly ‘Hortal not ‘now furntsled pgen inted undor the provisionsyf the circ: aif tra 9 give notice tucreof to the proyost marshal of shecommand te which he Hoiongs, who shall forward tho same through provost marshal of his corps to the Provagt Wl jarshe General, who shat! jastruct sud Agent) to: the mame without delay tnd @ nogiect on pias a comply with Cy Sea tons stat bg hola ~ for vacati appoiptinent. ‘Secon t_-it Appearing in saverad instances that @h 9 pay- ment of the sick aid 2 of thie army han Been de- layed by reason of their descriptive liste heving boos sianed by non combiesiaued, olloera, jemnporsriy, some. manding oompaniew, ‘ext gtint whe ‘rom anv caso tho signature of a bd ih ofe company Cannot be Chtained,the said lint ehall.be sizned by afield aftioar or .by the Adjutant of fenent to which.such company belongs. * t Thirdethe reportseaiied for by ra Orders No 62, of June 12, 1868, from those jarters from eaptains of compan{os, will be made monthly, and ‘will state, ir sdditjon.to the name and rank of every oM- cor laying a ier im bis.servivo, and the regi- ment of the soldidreo omployed, find ‘the fomgtnet time such service bas been rend: lsred. Fourth No bt, erinegtssloged 0} fr to ben of the United States, thor ized to recetye Np gt one of the points agreed sf by the givor for the ex- ghange of prisongrs of war, or at some osher point agreed ‘by the commander of au army to-which hee Belongs. Alother paroles are Aull and void. Any officer or soldier of this army giving them wil! be reternet to duty with out exchange, aud will be punished tor disobedionce o oer comicand of Major Géneral MEADE. S. Wr risus, Asglatant Adjutant General, Drs. Linco! New York. HER VISIT TO THE ERENCH FRIGATE LA OVENnIERR, Mra, President Lingoln bas beon staying in this city for sovoral days, but she bas not made her visit of any pub- lic notoriety. On Thursday, however, she expressed ber determination to pay a visit “to the French frigate Le Guerriere, thirty-six guvs, commanded by Admirad Renaud. For this purpose the beautiful reyenno cut- ter.J. C. Winans was set apart for conveying the lady of the President of the United States aud suite on board the Guerriere, now lying oT the Battery, in’ the North river. On it being made known to the Admiral thas | the disting‘ished personage was the wi’e of the Presiaent, sho was received with ail the becoming respect due to her rank and pesition, notonly by tle Admiral, but also by all th Freveh officers ov board, 98 well as by the crew. Aftor Burvey lng the principal compartmonts of the Intertor of the Guerriere she expressed hersclf highly pleased, and (banked the Admiral for the reapcet and kindness which tind been shown, Sho stated farther that sho was much gratified aud delizhtod ta having palt ® vieit tow French masiofwar. Mrs. UinevIn was thea taken down the river at some length, when, after participating im a pleasant sail, she was left oo shore, aud conveyed ina or private com r, and no off cer commaud ean, = uy his parole through an o eal or daa or President Lincoln to At Meeting—General fo, Judge Omeleveny, Jo Sr. Lovrs, August 81,1963. ‘The Democrat of this city publishos a special despatch from Springfeld, Ilinois, which cays tbat President 1in- coln bas signified bis purpose to attend a Usion mass with the prise steamer Kali in tow. Gn the 17th, off | meeting to be held in that place on the 34 of September; Beaufort, N. C., spoke the United States steamer Connect- | but sbould the public business prevent him from being font and received the mail for the North. All well on | present he wil address the people by letter. Most exten- board the Connecticut. On the 19th passed steamer At lantic, bqund into Hampton Roads. The following is a list of hee officers:— ‘olunteer Lieutenant Commanding—T. A. Harris. Acting Assistant Surgeon—J. E. Cobb. Assistant Pr Hi. Cushing. '. B. Sheldon. C. DeBevoise, Webster. ‘exon, G. C, Willams, W. Young, sive preparations ire being made to make this the largest meeting ever held in the West, cz General Logan addressed a large meeting at Saline, IMinots, on Tuesday. Judge Omeleveny was present, aod General Logan denounced bim as one of the leaders of a band of traitors who are plotting to overthrow the gov- ernment oes % ~ Judge Omeleveny left the crowd without making aay Acting First Aetistant, J. Maplee; Acting | Fply to General Lagen. Pe ean ty — Sian vd. Quinn, ¥. E. Lomas, News from Sen Francisco. Ane, 6.—Tbe Aries, Volunteer Lieutenant Devine, | ™® DSFENONS OF tailed yesterday for Charleston bar. She takes out seve. ral officers ordered to Admiral Dahigren’s fleet. Among the number are Acting Ensigus J. E. Wallace, B. H. Chadwick, 0. F. Deering, J. A. Gore, J, W. Guy; Master's dofences and di ‘nether plan to be sdopted. Mates Wm. Arkins, Frank Millett,Jos. D. Leon, A.M: | tostead of erecting works on Yerba and Buena lslande Bates, J. F. Benoett, Elisha Aalbair. Forr Jacksos, 11.—Captain James Alden, who bas been in command of the Richmond fer nearly two years past, has arrived here to take command of the Fort Jack- fon, vice Captain Walke, detached. The Fort Jackson possibly may make @ (ial trip to Borton, avd from thence she wil fo im search of the ‘three bold priva- teers.” Broox.ys, 28.—Shie meble steam sloop is hourig ex- pected at this port, when she Will undergo extensive re- aire. It is romored here that sbe will touch at Charles. ton On her way ap, and if her services are needed no doubt bat she wil! tale « hand tm. Tre Makers of Rebel Bakk Nete Paper Held for Trial. Reorow, Angst 21, 1863. ‘George W. Line, Prentiss C. Baird and William Brown, all residents of Lee, were brought before United States Hallett to day, on the charge Otfgiving af€ and comfort to the rebels hy pank notepaper, having the water mark “C, 8. A” in the contre Of tho bills. A noile provequi was entered in the cane of Baird, that he mightappoar ase witness. Lion was etd in $8,000 bail to appear at the September term of the Distriot Court, and Brown, whe wofked for Lion, but whom ao testimony beyond that fact was jatro- duced, was beld in $1,000, and Rincon Point, twe large batteries, of ten guns cach, are to be constructed on Angel Island, and a boavy battory omfan Jose or Black Point. The works aro to be com- menced as soon as the heavy timber roquired for themm can be obtained. News from the Oregon and Idabo mives is received to the endof July. Three-fourths of the people at Boke river mdst foave Boon for lack of water, ‘The bard on the upper Columbia river, extending two hundred miles, are found to tura out rib. 5 area failure. : Pailed August 19, ships Merchant, Spragno, for Calleo: Btars and Stripes, Cleaves, for Paget Sound; Alboni, for 40, ; Catalina, Reed, for do.; Friend, for do. Arrived, Stip Bunker Hill, from New York, The Gevernment Loan. Pur.aperrma, August 21, 1868. ‘This salts of government bonds today amounted to $850 ,A60. Deliveries of -bonds are made to July #7. The formation of National Pangs is absorbing large amounts of five twenties and giving greater stability and perma- nanee te local ourrency than thas been heretafore enjoyed im commercial circ:es,