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4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BESNETT. EDITOR AND PHOPRIEVOR OFPI08 B.W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. Last. WINTPR GARDEN, Broadway.—Cawtiie EW BOWERY THEATRE. Boworys.Srectar—Sea- Oxant’s Wive—kino's Gagner. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery.—Quosi @ Autaxsunc— How to Avorp Duarrinc—Dasni er. XDIAY Citikrs, WaRkions aNo Squava, &c.. ait Wautep CmAmaxn—Qor = Alter: ait owes Msc == Qeitk at How—Aiter BRYANTS MINSTRELS, Mechanica’ ; quy._Seeorae Sonos, Bunce Bomaseuas y Epes Woon'e MINSTREE BALL. Sd Brekdwie, Kamera tone Dantes sentra Gree 5a AMBSICAN THEATRE. Mo, Broadway Samosa, ‘Dusvesaues, msi nik “ND MASHER. IRVING HALL, Irving place —Tue Sreneorticoy, Kew . a OF ANA = i deen amb * ‘Comosrizs ap antag OF abaronix, fi 3 [oe lead — <= = Sdw York, Priday, A THE SITUATION. We have one day’s later news from Charleston — to Monday evening at five o’clock. Sumter being reduced to a mass of ruins, the fire of the “Swamp battery’ on Morris Island has been constantly directed upon the city, dropping shells filled with “(reek fire,’’ a liquid and unquenchable demon of destruction, into the streets at intervals. The consequence of these fearful visitors was that the city was discovered to be in flames several times since Friday night. General Beauregard has pro- tested against the ‘inhumanity’ of using such weapons of offence against the inhabi- tants of the city, and severdl flags of truce have passed between tim and Gen. eral Gillmore on the subject, but with no ef- fect. General Gillmore demands an unconditional surcender, and will accept nothing else. Beaure- gard asked for a truce of forty hours, but it was refused, upon which the foreign Consnls in | and eighty-five miles east of Nash hundred snd four miles southeast.of Lexington, Kentucky. It has several important railroad con- nections, extending into Virginia and Gedrifia’. Charleston protested on behalf of the inhabitants belonging to their several nationalities. ‘Tue navy, under Admiral Dahlgren, kept up a constant fire on the remnant of Sumter and the other forts, but they had not, at last accounts, ap- proached the city. Forts Moultrie, Gregg, Johnston and the batteries on James and Sullivan islands pour doing but little damage. All these forts have to ‘be silenced before, our vessels can reach the city, and it may be some days yet before that work is accomplished. An attempt to destroy the Iron- aides. by a torpedo was made, and fortunately frustrated, the other night. ‘Ve give a sketch of these torpedoes to-day. The accounts of all the | heavier, opening rather buoyantly, but closing with a fecent proceedings both of our land and naval | downward tendency. There was less inquiry for provi- forces will be found most graphically given in the despatches of our special correspondents in attention of our readers to them for a fine history of the siege for the pas: week. The Army of the Potomac remains quiescent. General Pleasanton’s cavalry makes daily recon- noissancea, occasionally picking up some prison- era. The pickets of both armies on the Reppa- hanaock keep up a constant friendly interchange of conversation. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broudway.-Tuve 10 tae | by employing negroes in the army the igent M’S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadway. —Tun | Mr. Lincoln's proclamation threateging’ fo pies it. | ena the Union army is about to foilowenp. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1863. | and the speakers were loud ia their dewunociation | cratic platform and candidates, in order to bav: greater part of a dey was given that the citizens | of what they termed “a cruel and inhuman mea- | # united country. Ifthe Tribe do not advise | might leave. In view of the distance from oar ure.” By the arrivalof the Hibernian yesterday, off Cape Race, we have three days later news (rom Europe than that by the Persia. Ia the discussion upon the American question, Mr. Lincoln's action with regard to the negro appears to attract the most attention. The London Times thinks that renders it necessary to hold every inch of in the South by sheer force as fast as he occy It looks in vain for any ¢ its recent successes. ThE Daily News © ate upon the white troops: ‘of. she*Bouth ‘fer injustice dono to the nogrs, soimag ee the fed army who may be captutede” ew ah Ea France insists that the: Archdake Maximilian pliant. that this fact wilt be announced to the Mexicansin. | Vices received by the Persi has positively accepted the orown of Mexico, and November. - Meantime the present government. ig By the’ arrival-of the Hibernia off Cape ‘Race, on Wednesday morning, we have news from. Europe ta the 19th instant, thtee days, later’ Slits The politicabintelligence interest. : a ce Tu the London ley market consols 93 a 9834 for mosey: - Winois Central ia qdc 11% 9 124, discafint, qad-Erie 77079. At Pool cotton was firsr'and bu olders manding an advance.’ Breadstufts éxhiblted ¥ downward tendency, while provisions were gene- rally firm. The Coroner's investigation into the circum- stances attending the shooting of Joseph T. Don- nelly, on the 20th instant, by Major Bassford, was concluded yesterday. The jury failed to,agree upon a verdict, whereupon Coroner Ranney decid- ed to hold Major Bassford in $2,000, to await the action of the Grand Jur: ein The city of Knoxvil 5 reotly in the path of théonward march.ef Genera} Burnside’s army, is the capitat of y and was formerly the seat of they ment. It is beautifully situated on bank of the Holston river, four miles bélowits,confia- ence with the French Broad rive: The vote in Kentucky, with eleven count: () hear from, foots up an aggregate of 126,638, The total vote for Governor in 1859 was 148,479; in | breed, the result of which would be the de- 1860, for President, 147,216; Border State Conven- tion in 1861, 111,129. The eleven counties to be heard from will probably bring the vote of this # steady fire upon Morris Island and on the Monitors year up to 130,000—but 13,000 less than that of: 1860, and not quite 17,000.less than that of the Pre- sidential election in 1860. More than this deficiency of voters: have left the State and joined the rebel army. The* vote in 1863 must, therefore, be consi- dered a fair average, as compsred with elections | and it cannot prevail. The Northern States are of previous years. The cotton market was extremely tame and trregular yesterday. The sales of flour, wheat and corn were was in fair request, ranging oat and wheat, and 600. a 10c. tor rye, per 100 | protract the war to extermination, in order Ibs., in bales. Tallow was somewhat brisker. Thero | to prevent the Sonthern States coming back, ‘waa moro inquiry for freight reom, and more engage- mente reported, mostly in broadstuffs, for the British islands. The changes in other branches of trade were Bet important. The Great Quest ions. from 300. to 40c. for ef the Day and the Artful Dodging of the Radical Press. ‘ ‘posure of the programme, they cannot get rid of for generations to come for the mere purpose of New mess pork fell off 123c. # 25¢, per | being revenged on the Southern,population, or bbl. Whiskey was unusually active. Sugars and moiasses | for the purpose of spiting democratic leaders at were saleabic and steady. Green teas were more sought ‘nother column, and we would direct the special | a/ter and were doing better. Petroleum was heavy and les inquired for. New’ bay was selling freely. Straw this it etultifies itself. But that journal has no sincerity or truth in it. The object of its com- ment on General Tuttle's letter iq to (ako the Wind out of the saile freemen A and, having Rot ahead by this-cl trick, then to take the opposite tack. Indeed the real policy of fhe radical pacty and its chief organ is in another is argued. that if slavery should survive in ten n would'be “ more impe- t il “would be site to General Tuttle’s letter as ‘the north is to the eouth pole. General Tuttle holds that alf questions 1 Slavery ougtit to be ! ti the rebellion is put down; end Gene+ ral Gree ntaing "that ‘the abolition of slavery forthwith and evebywhiere ta sbsolutely’ necessary to reunion: Yet .the.alippery politi- cian of the. Tribune'pretends ts endorse Gene- ral Tuttte’s ‘letter as “sound.”: If this “ de- rly’ wmeafe to sthnd upon or stand near. -organ of the radicals thus blows hot tad blows cold at the same time; but such Aftful. dodging is too transparent to. escape Public detection. .. a lite : Even the Tadical platform foreshadéwed by Greeley is only the article in the rough, and is disguised as much as possible under general terms. The structure, in its perfect and finish- ed form, has been exhibited by Wendell Phillips, who blurted out prematurely what he knew; and, though some of the keener and craftier politicians ‘regret the ex- the fact. The awkward attempts to get round it only fix it the more steadily in the public mind. That pregramme is not only to abolish slavery, but to destroy the white race of the South root and branch; to make the country a waste, ‘howling wilderness; to give the land to the negroes in reward for the massacre of the old men, the women and the children who now inhabit it; then to send colonies of white men from the North to settle among the negroes, amalgamate with them and beget a hybrid struction of both races. Such is the hopeful picture of “what will be,” as presented by the great New England leader of the radical faction which controls the War Department, the Navy Department and the. Treasury Depattment of the administration. ° ‘ But this is not the sentiment of tke. people, too sagacious to adopt the foolish policy. of cut- ting off one’s nose to vex his face. They will never consent to so fatally injure themselves the North who expect to regain office by the return of the Southern States. They know, too, that the barbarous purpose of the radicals is to lest the abolitionists should lose their ill-gotten spoils. It is very plain that the radical leaders and their journals are doing themselves what they charge upon the copperheads, and that is, all in their power to prevent the restoration of editorial in the very same number, ia Whiten it” " . The great question of the day—the admission | the Union, the only difference between them Aa expedition from the Third Pennsylvania ar- of the reclaimed Southern States—every hour | being that one faction at the same time desires tillery, under Major Steveneun, went nine miles up | more and more confounds and puzzles the radical | to overtbrow negro slavery at any cost to the the Chickahominy river in an armed steamboat, | press. As the time approaches for the erection | mation and to humanity, while the other faction on Sunday night, and dispersed the rebels’ vaval- | of the rospective platforms for the great con- | either desires to preserve the institution or ry, thirty strong, under Robinson, burning hin | test of 1864, these politicians are bewildered | cares little about it. headquarters and capturing two of his men. Mike men who are treading on a quagmire, | But the Kentucky platform, Which hes been It is stated in a letter from Richmond of the 24th | f8ting to sink over their ears at every step, or adopted by the democracy of Iowa, is equally like persons crossing about midway a broad | remote from thé principles of both factions, and inst., that Colonel Straight and his party will now frozen river in a thaw, when the crackling ice it is the only one that can save the country. ‘be regarded as prisoners of war, and it is thought | ;, giving way under their feet and on every | It is that which last fall we compelled that silly that John Morgan and his men who are now con- ued in the Ohio penitentiary, will be put by our | advance or retreat. The chief organ of the | saved him from defeat, because of two evils we government on the same status in return. A despatch from Stevenson, Als., yesterday | able example of this tergiversation the other day | him to the rampant radical Wadsworth. Since ‘states that a part of General Wilder's force came dnto collision with a party of rebels and captured one entitled, side around them, and it is equally peritons to radical faction in this city fusnished a remark- in two editorial articles which it published— “What Will Be,” and the other, “The Democratic Platform,” an article relating donkey Governor Seymour to adopt, and thus chose the lesser, and consequently preferred that time muetr evil has been done. and copper- headism has made innovations. But it is not too late to sweep away those cobwebs and two of them, who sald that the Chattanoga Zélel | 4, tho Towa election for Governor—which will | come owt square upon the principles. of the. of the day previous, the 26th, alludes to the fall of | 44 found transferred to another part of this | Kentneky platform. Let that be done prompt- Charleston. Tt further states that Lee had been | morning's Henanp. The latter article copies a | ly in this and every other State, and the doom defeated by General Meade; that the advance of ; }etter of General Tuttle, the democratic candi- | of revolutionary radicalism will be sealed at General Burnside’s command reached Kingston on | date, accepting the nomination, endorses his | the ballot box; but if not, not. ‘Tuesday, and had defeated Forrest after a short | views and regards his chances of election as | wme News from C \—Bembard- t, . ‘ good, aa his letter will “help him immensel, ment and Protest. poeta that Bragg’s army is moving towards amici the valtisteste.” ry y Fort Sumter is finally reduced to a beap of ‘The guerillas of the inhuman chief Quantrell are The facts of the case are remarkable. At | ruins, and of ite immense battery that so bl hd ers the Democratic State Convention there was a | covered the approaches to Charleston there being hunted through the woods and mountains of | . rare contest between the copperheads and | remains but one gun in position. Much stress the border counties of Missouri. Most of the | the conservatives or Union democrats. The | is laid upon the fact that the fort has not yet horses and plunder they took from Lawrence have | copperheads succeeded in gaining the nomina- | surrendered; but, since its guns are now harm- heca recovered, and many of the ruffians have been'| tion for their man, Fisher, though the other | less to prevent the operations of our fieet in the killed. ‘The houses in which the stolen property | party alleged foul play in the counting of the | harbor, General Gillmore has accomplished the was concealed are being destroyed by order of | Votes. Fisher, on finding how the land lay, | object with which he opened fire upon it, and withdrew from the contest, and, the copper- | the surrender of its garrison is merely a ques- heads not nominating any other candidate, the | tion of pride. If they can content themselves nominee of the conservative democrats, Gene- | with permission to dodge behind a ruined wall ral Tuttle. a volunteer for the war, became the | whenever a shell comes towards it, and can of this city yesterday was peacefully proceeded | sole candidate of the democratic party, on the | find any triumph in that exercise, they ought with. The examination of the conscripts belong: | principles set forth in his letter, which are the | to be welcome to it. Otherwise the operations ing to the Sixth district was commenced by the | printiples of the Kentucky platform. Thus the | progress satisfactorily, and we may look for- Enrolling Board on Tuesday and continued yeuter- | copperheads in Iowa were mas rT yregitd ed blew confidence to the complete reduction 5 their foolish ideas and to acquiesce ia the nomi- | o! place. » day. Sixty-six conscripts were examined, out of gatichs bi 4 ended whe Nalaeibdh totes: n shells were thrown into Charl whom only six were held to military service. The r tain to the uttermost the war for “the Union | between one and two A.M. on Saturday last, majority of those set aside claimed to be aliens, without an if,” by “all that may be in | and Beauregard, the great chieftain, is excited Only a few were exempt from physical disability. | ou. possession recognized by honorable war. | about it. Beauregard in a rage—the braggart The claims of the alleged sliens remain yet to fare,” and who will not agree to make the abo- | creole, with # lie on his lips, and protest in be adjudicated upon by the Board. It is thought | jition of slavery a condition precedent of the | the name of humanity, ‘and such commodities,” ‘that it will take about two months tofinish the | restoration of the Southern States—his only | is # familiar spectacle. This hero has been examination in the district. The draft in the | condition being “the submission of the rebels to | on the rampage nearly ever since he has been Thirteenth ward will commence to-day. In | the constituted authorities of the government in the Southern service. He can “roar you ” ” by letter or in general orders, Brooklyn Monday and Tuesday are fixed for turn- of the United States. He further denounces | like any lion” by for the inhabitants of the “alarming” party “intolerance” that pre- | and never misses an opportunity to do 80. ing the wheel of destiny for vails, and observes witb truth:—“Most of the | There ie « kind of boy in every school, and that city who reside inthe First, Second and Third questions are entirely outside of the mainand |@ kind of man in every social. circle, Congressional districts. The First district com- only question now before the peeple—that is, | who answers, when hit, only with complaint, prises Queens, Suffolk and Richmond counties. | the putting down of the rebellion. All parties | He has no response for a sounder on the ribs In the Second district the quota required is 3,07. | desire that to be done as speedily and effectual- | but s cry of foul. Whatever is done against ‘The district includes the five country towns in | ly as possibly. The great point to be desired | him is wrong and contrary to agreement. Kings county, and nine wards in the city of Brook- | is that minor issues and questions should be all | Such a fellow is Beauregard among generals, lyn. ‘The Third district ia composed of ten warda laid aside until we have again ® united coun- | a chronic whimperer, and of course we cannot in Brooklyn and Williamsburg, with or | 17” This is sensible and sagacious, and the | wonder that be once more appeals to” the ve gpa maburg, with @ quote of | | tion of the Lowa democtaie—the result of the | ‘usages of civilited warfare.” What the ex- sam, sober second thought—ie the first fruite of the | act nature of his latest protest is our advices The Germans of this city held a mass mecting in Kentucky elestion. The Tribune pronounces | from Charleston do not inform us. General Harmonie Hall, Essex street, last night, to take the letter of General Tuttle to be “the demo- | Gillmore’s notice for the removal of the non- measures to protect the parties drafted, and to cratic platform,” and calis it “sound.” If this | combatants from Charleston went into the teat the legality ef the Conscription act. Acom- | he the case, what mecessity is there for any | rebel lines as early as nino A. M. on Friday, mittee was appointed to visit Governor Seymour | separate republican platform, and why should | and the first shell sent into Charleston was at Albany for advice. Much excitement prevailed | not all the Tribune's party vote for the demo- ' fired at one -4. M. on Saturday. Thus the General Ewing, who is determined to root out all the disloyal inhabitants on the borders of Kansas. ‘The draft in the Tenth and Nineteenth wards batteries to the olty, it is possible that the rebel general may have regarded Gen. Gillmore’s announcement as a of bravado, and not baye given an, notice to the citizens of They expect. This Sipears tne more probable ¢inoe the sb*Tis thrown seem to haye created an ewftil confusion and alarm in the If, gs is probable, the shells contained protest may be agelnet that. But Béauregatt’s protest is accompanied, we are told, by protests from the forelgn consuls resident at Charleston. By what right these representatives of the Powerd tbat assume to settle the affairs of the world olaim ¢o interfere inthis matter we cannot conjecture. Half a dozen Frenchmen own houses in Charfeston, MP4 dozen Englishmen probably have ships in the harbor that have just run the blockade; therefore the United States must not bombard Was” bombarded for a second tinte on Sunday night it. will, if not,s09p surrendered, be totally destroyed. ‘Thus the object for: which ithe forts: about it were: bailt—ite defence—is defeated, and the forts rendered of ue account,’ The Army Assembling at New York— ‘What Will We Do-with Ie? “Avast amount of speculation is being in- Gulged in, and very naturally, as to the desti- hation of the splendid army that is being con- centrated at this point. The city is full of troops, and all the islands in the bay and the adjacent country for miles around are dotted with encampments. There is at present a force of over thirty thousand men in and around New York, and it ia being dally increased, so that we may expect it in a week or two to reach the figure of fifty thousand men. It is composed of infantry, cavalry and artillery in due proportion, and is in every respect offi- cered, equipped and disciplined up to the high- est standard of excellence. What will we do with it? That is the question that is puzzling the minds of the whole community. At first it was supposed that it was intended to overawe and repress all riotous demonstrations that the enforcement of the Conscription law might give rise to. That was a mistake. The draft bas been going on with the utmost regularity, in peace and good temper, without the remotest approach to resistance, and yet the army, instead of being withdrawn, as it would be if that were the object of its being sent here, is being steadily reinforced. Then, again, a few wise heads among our own citizens and a great many nervous people ia the British provinces have come to the conclusion that we are about to anticipate events by croésing the St. Law- rence and quietly annexing the Canadas to the American republic. Not yet. That witt come by and by; but the army of fifty thousand men encamping in and around New York is not destined for that pleasant and easy conquest, and our Canadian friends need not get excited for yet alittle while. Others might imagine that it was intended for operation against the rebels, except that it is plain to everybody that the confederacy is at its last gasp, and that it ié entirely unnecessary to have recourse: toany new army to accelerate ita dissolution. None of these guesses, therefore, are correct. And yet this mysterious army must have a des- tination. What isit? We will try our hand at unravelling the mystery. We had, when thie Southern rebellion broke ont, a republic as a neighbor—a republic unfor- tumate, it is true, and suffering calamitously from: civil diacords. While we were engaged in re- storing our own government and putting down armed treason an ambitious European Power stepped im and overthrew our neighbor’s gov- ernment, establishing in its place the monar- chieal principle, which is entirely contrary to the instinets and interests both of Mexico and of the United States. Well, now that by the virtaal subjugation of our own rebellion we. can afford to pay some little attention to our neighbor's affairs, we propose to undo what has been done or attempted to be done by the Emperor of the French. The army about which so much speculation has been indulged in is intended for that little piece of business. It will probably be transported without much loss of, time to the harbor of Vera Cruz, and will plant the emblem of freedom on the castle ot San Jnan d’Ulloa. It will not be the first time for that flag to float from those ramparts. The French army will thus be locked up in the interior, and will not be very well able to get out until the imperial programme is thorough- ly renounced and abandoned. Our sister. re- public will then be left free either to recon- stitute herself and make another effort at civil, religious and constitutional freedom, or will have the option of entering into the family of States of the American Union. All this can be accomplished without much trouble or difficulty, and unless Louis Napoleon desires to bave a war with us he will be left free to withdraw his forces. If he desires war he can be indulged to any extent he wishes in that costly luxury. He made the great mistake of supposing that the American republic was jn such straits that he might carry out, with little or no risk, bis ambitions views on this continent. We will try, with all proper polite- ness, to undeceive him. We are neither regard- less of the welfare of our neighbors nor unable to defend them. Our ability keeps pace with ples of government to be forced upom any people in this hemisphere by European despots. Civil and religious liberty belongs to this con- tinent, and must not be supplanted. The French ruler has, therefore, committed a grave political error in supposing that we would quietly acquiesce in bis policy. Because we allowed Southern demagogues to swagger and boast—not deeming it worth while to notice their silly talk about Southern valor and North- ern cowardice—Louis Napoleon seems to have swallowed all that nonsense, and to suppose that he might experiment at pleasure on this side of the Atlantic. The time has come for him to be taught that the people of the free States of America have in themselves the wealth, the power, the resolution and the abili- ty not only to crush out rebellion at home, but to accept any issue which foreign nations may force upon them. The dynasty of the first Napoleon fell before his Moscow campaign. His nephew had better see to it that the like result do not follow the equally ill-advised expedition to Mexico. It surely will, unless be recall immediately his expeditionary army under Marshal Forey, and leave the people of Mexico masters of their own destiny. our will. We cannot permit exploded princi- |. Taz Towa S{ecrion—Taz Conservative Prsrvona.—It will be seen that the copper- heads of Iowa have been compelled to cave in, withdraw theiraudidate, and yield the aomi- nation for Governor to 8 sund conservative democrat, on the yee SES. a orm. ‘tue tothet Ml Tutte tine cue. cessful candidate, will b? found in another column, aid we pert de Sig SoA it of TamfincY Hall and of Mozart Hall. fe would also advige re ay Regency to “mark, learn ang jardly digest,” but that that concern {fs past rédemption, and facts and arguments would be thrown away upon it. But let the democracy of this city and State, independently of the Regency, cast aside the rotten planks which the copper- heads would insert in the opposition platform, to the utter ruin of the demooratic party and the tuin of the country besides. The world moves, and will go on without those who do not keep pace with it.» Ben. Wood, who thinks that he is Obstham without Chatham’s tongue, and a | Talleyrand without the great statesman’s sa- Gucity, keops hammering away on'his old cop- perhead anvil “peace” principles, which are out } of date and-out of place. But. the great Ken- | ‘tucky conservative movement keeps | the even. tenor of its way, and will continue todo go till, it is triumphant throyghout the land, and’ Wood and all lke him will be then either “nowhere” orin a still worse plight. But the democracy of New York are too shrewd to hold on by the skirts of such a sorry leader as the editor of the News. He ignores such events as the Ken- tucky election and the [owa nomination. But the democracy of New York will lay these things to heart. IMPORTANT FROM THE SOUTHWEST. THE REPORTED FALL OF CHARLESTON. Army Retreating to Atlanta. Defeat of the Rebels by Burnside’s Forces, &.. &o Stevenson, Ala., August 27, 1863. A part of General Wilder's force mot thirty rebels at Hanover to-day, and killed three and captured two. ‘The latter state that the Chattanooga Rebel of yesterday adverts to the fall of Charieston; also that [ee had been defeated by Generrl Meade. It algo learns that Burnsido’s advance had reached Kingston on Tuesday, and after a short engagement had whipped Forrest. Bragg’s arury is reported as moving towards Atlanta, om AES Ear REWS FROM WASHINGTON. ‘Wasarncton, August 27, 1863, LETTER FROM A UNION PRISONER IN RICHMOND—THE EXCHANGB OF PRISONERS, ETC. By the last flag of truce boat which arrived at Fortress Mosroe on Tuesday last, a brief letter was received from Dr. McDonald, Inspector of the Sanitary Commission, who, with other employees of the commission, were captured Dy the rebels in Maryland during the fate campaigu. ‘Tho lotter is dated at the Libby prison, August 24. He says they are kept im the hospital, and are as comforta- bie as is possible under the circumstances. They are expecting soon to be released, and had hoped to have come down on this tripof the New York; but the neccs- sary arrangement for their Hiberation had not been com- pleted. Living wae expensive, Dat their funds held oat as yet. ‘The following is an official list of the aeatbs which had occurred in the Libby Prison Hospital, at Richmoud, trom July 17 to August 24:— Brage’s &e., | “Private Hugh Coakes, Co. 68th Pennsylvania, July 26. Private A. J. H, Kaapp, Co. F,.93d Indiana, J A. J. ‘aly 27. First Lieut. J. T. Jemkios, Co, K, 154th New York, daly 21. Private D. Empey oy bre I, 54th New York, July 28. . J. B. Kieg, Om. @, 10th New York caval. ry, July-21. “i Robert Morris, 68th Peonsylvania cavairy, Au- Srrivace W. Thompsen, Co. A, 12th New York cavalry, "Private Lewis Thomas, Co. b, 213th Mlinois, August 19. Ener Theodore Vanroman, Ce. K, 7th Wisconsin, Au- rt E ‘The first iaterview between Genersi Meredith, the re- cently appointed Commissioner of Exchange, sod Mr. Ould, the-rebel Commissioner, toek place at City Point o# the 23d instant. fome points in dispute were ar. ranged, and arrangements for the exchange of paroled Prisoners were vot completed, and negotiations are stil! in progress. The imprisonment of John Morgan ond his officers in the Ohio penitentiary has brought the rebel authorities to verms, and it has been agreed that Colonel Streight and the officers of bis command, who have been 80 long similarly imprisoned, shall be placed on the foot- ing of other prisoners of war. This will probably be re. sponded to by the restoration. of Morgan aad bis officers to asimilar status, General Neal Dow has beeo turned |. Over to the civil authorities. A rebel brigndier general wilt immediately be placed in close confloenent as a hos- fegefor him. It bas not yet been sacertained who it shall be. ‘The omployes of the Sanitary Commission who were captured in Maryland auriog Lee's last campaign are to be immediately released, they having been eugaged on @ mission of mercy whieh included the wounded and suffer. ing Of both armies. ‘The difficulties in the way of arrangements for ex. change of prisoners are very much increased by the refusal of the rebels to recognize the negro troops or their officers as prisoners of war,and the continuance ‘of the roiense on parole or exchange of prisouers of war and of civilians may be entirely suspended, it certainly would be were it not for the very heavy excess of prisoners ip our hands. LETTER PROM ROBERT TOOMBS ON THE NRBEL FI- NANCES. A letter of Rovert Toombs, of Georgia, dated August | 12, addressed 10 the Georgia Cons/itution, has been re- osived here. itis a strong picture of the dela ited condition of the Southern fivances. Jt is deplorable in | tone, and characterizes the whole system of the rebel leaders as a grand mistake. from the letter:— The Confederate goverument baye committed two radi. | cai errors in the management of our Seances which have | produced oy ae calamitous vondition vy the opera currency as ‘The following are extracts | fixed, certain and immutable, the pal id at pur for our bonds, wenith laid ite treasures at our foqt, and poverty itecif claimed it a privilege augment our resources with its mite, comtribated to the dayimg of thie living | ‘The fret great error was in ardent, sincere, honest, but mistaken patriotiam of the | poopie, have been invoked Woupbold tu Bet, tbe, priaete | Riooe, radically , and in rapidly adjusting tbemse! k en ee stppoce thet we bave five hundred millions of | corrency now im circulation, worth fifty millions of standard bullion, the issue of an additional five huodred | millions of such currency wil! met add a single dollar to ite value—the thousana millions will be worth no than the five hundred millions were beiore the Inst to wit, fiity miilions of bullies. Ihe addition bee depreciated iad wate eae the depreciation wi wariabiy exnivit the rise of i com moditics for — whet ¥ovi was 6x! ernment, « expenda the additions: issue incommdit be Peetecteg, whole amount of depreciation existing at beset i i and aino all (be additional produced by am dail half the valve b. jurre@cy of our onenies to us. | Nei 1) eat lished State governments ere united z kept | Eh tae |. ‘The reaion is solely that | understood and AEH Live 3 @ i of er allow delay. Our present eystem 18 portable It is upsetting the very foundations of rights, weakening daily public confidence iu our cause et home apf abroad, sowing dangerous discvntents the pools, ach ae daily deepening and wideuing. Pa- triotism demands that all good mon should waite to cor- rect these evils. THE Geese vias. he Greek Gro which is #0 distasteful to the dire-oatere of Charleston ig the inveation ef Mr. Short, who was fer 4 long time & suitd fo the goveroment (0 use this projec- tile, but did not euccecd mati! it was recommended by Admiral Porter by bis exparience at Vickaburg Mesa- time representatives of foreig# governments have ep- plied (or the invention without avait, <The. fire missives, forty or Mitty, ia aamber, are enclosed ta-e.ahell, which ts” ltgolf encloned fm one of the ordinary. shofts of the aervioe ADMIRAL. PORTER'S | DEFENCE OF THR | mtsorserret,*. “When it waa knowaat the. Nevy Department tnt @ complimentary lettdr fad beog sect (0. Admiral Porter and 8 leaye of absence tendered tim om account of pro- tracted and wearing servica, it was supposed that fhe ould accept the proffer of leave; but guch jenot the casa. ~~ proper atations for trading vessels and rendezvous dariag “thelr trips, and how they are tebe convoyed. The gas- ‘boats must also police the river and see that intrenct- mente are not thrown up by the rebets at any point ‘THE ELECTION IN MAINE. Republican reports from Maine Rave it that their dan- Gers in the canvass arise from the draft. Were theew- vass by the democrats confined to the Bumaip’s policy of holding the administration responsible for Ke negro mea- sures they might succeed; but as it is sumdry politicians of the Buchanan and Breckinridge etamrp have sprung ep to address the people, and their intervention # material- ly helping the republicens, NAVAL ORDERS. + Commodore Thatcher hes received preparatory ordere to command the frigate Colorado, vice Captain Golde- borougi,, detached and ordered North. Captain John De Camp is ordered to the command of the stean: frigate Wabash. Commander Armstrong has recetved preparatory erdere. to command the steam sleop San Jacinto, vice Commander Febiger, detached and waiting orders. Coramaader Macomb ts detached from the command of tho Genesee and ordered to retura North, Commander Newcomb is ordered to command the gua- boat Tioga. Commander Colitns is detached from the command of the Octorara and ordered to return North, Commander Rhind isdetached from the command of the Wabash and ordered to command the gunboat Pontiac. Commander Bavkhead is detached from the command of the Florida and waiting orders. Commander Howell is detached from special duty ta New York and ordered to the command of the Meta- comet. Commander Leroy has received preparatory orders te command the sloop-of-war Oneida. Lieutenant Commander Waiter W. Queen is detached from ordnance duty in the. North Atlantic blockading squadron, 20d ordered to the command of the steamer Hlorida Lioutenamt: Commander Wim. W. Low is ordered to command the gunbcat Uctorara. Lieutenant Commander’ Grafton’s order to command the Sagamore is revoked, and he is ordered to command the gunboat Genesee. THE STATISTICAL CONVENTION. K. B. Eiliot, cf the Samitary Commixsion, sailed for Europe yesterday to attend the International Statistionl Convention at Berlin, whieh conveace mext month. MR. F. L. OLMSTED’S NEW POSITION. Fred. Law Otmstead, late secretary of the Sastary Commission, bas been sppeinted superiatendent of the Mariposa Mininy Company of Californie,at a salary of ten (thousand dollars per year. THE PIVE-TWENTY BONDS. There: is audbority for saytog that the dolay in the de- livery of fivetwenty beods to gubseriters is owing mainly to the ricte in New Yorks, which prevented the engraver from furnishing the plates for the third serien within the stipulated time. The plates have now ccem delivered, and it ts believed that within tee days all ar. rearages will be brought up, and that the deliveries wi? tbenceforward keep pace with the eabseripticas. “ARMY APPOINTMENT. Charles Hail, of Leroy, N, Y., hae Deew appetated ecm missary of subsistence in the army. GOVERNOR CURTIN EN ROUTE POR GENERAL MEARE'S ERADQU SBTBES. Governor Curtin, attended by bie staff, io here, ap route for the beadquarters of the Army of the Potomac, to be present at the presentation of @ sword to Generad Meade on the part of the Penoryivania reserves. REBBL BONDS AND BANK NOTES. There baebeen received at the Treasury department = lot of foreign and domestic robel bonds sad beok notes, captared property. The bonds ere remarimabie specimenn of the art lithographic, with portraite-of Devts and Ste- phens, beautified of courre. Therua of these bonds ia warranted for thirty years to the holder. The cheap wood cut fac-similie of the Confederate: notes sold at one dollar per bundred are gems of art in- contrast to these. NEWS FROM MEADE’S ARMY. Waanimaros, August 27, 1963. Advices from the Army of the Potomes state that the extcntion of the five deserters of the One Hundred and Kighteenth Peansylyania regiment bas bedn postpreed until Paturday, im accordance with the desire of some ef them tobe allowed further time for spiritual prepare- tion. Captein Hunter, of the Thirteenth Virginia regiment (rebei), and four men of "the rebel Topographical Corps of Engiveers, were captured on Monday by our cavairy, in King George county. while engaged im making a our- vey. ‘The mail arrangements, as organized by Gen. Patrick, and executed by Lieut. David B. Porter, Superintendent, and Mr. Haslett, headquarters Postmaster, assisted by Mr. Cooley, are as near perfect a@ possible. The daily vewspapers under contract with Mr. Lamb promptly received and distributed thfoughoat camp. Under the present arrangement the ter is oot of a partivan character; but the | vate can obtain the paper of his choice &y giving notice of his desire to the nearest army newspaper the contractor is bound to procure and deliver it if cessibie to the newspaper dealers. ‘The organized bands of depredators ig the army have been accnstomed to forage 00 private account epew the impoverished imbabitante of the surrounding country, ave nearly al! been broken up by the prompt aad strin~ gent measures of the Provost Department. While no operations of « general offensive ebarae. ter have taken piace during the recent warm weather, tho cavairy uoder Major General Pleessatom have beep constently on tho alert, seouting, reeonnotter- ing and picketing, and neta day has passed whice hep Not added to the list of rebel prisoners; and some of these captures are of an important characier, ‘The provort guard have in confinement sbout thity unauthoried sutlers or fediers, who have found their way within our lines. Such persone have heretofore given the department much trouble, but hereafter they ‘will be dealt with summarily. Our own and the rebel pickets on the Rappabasmost: i | velow bold friendly intercourse daily. Bat no iatelligence, of importance is obtained by tis meses. The rebeip generally assert that the heavy fighting is over for the | geason in Virgioia. ell Ovenqcins oF Commanomn G. W. Rovamra —The rematam of the lamented Commander George W. Rodgers were re- moved yesterday afiersocs from Brookiyn and placed om } poard of a special Boat, under charge of Commodore Rad Lieutenant Commander Fillebrown and & proger pase taken te the steamer City of Boston, at the foot of Vestry street. ‘Taey will arrive i New London to-day, and the fanerst ‘wit take place probably to-morrow. Quite a number of naval oMcers wil! be praseat st the ‘The band and marines of the Sabine, ‘at thie port, will do the powora to the brave dead. Captain ¢. P. R. Rodgers aed his Captain Jote Rodgers, United Heater , went ap ra ths bent Tettermialon, having been Ws Wala CRY ewaling Gio arrives. Lime. ta “rogutaving © * ere