The New York Herald Newspaper, August 29, 1863, Page 4

7 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON: BESNETr. EDITOR AND Leebecery orvics ¥. Ww. COMMER OF PULTOM AND KASSAU evs. TERMS cash to a@vanoe Money veut by mali will be tithe risk Of the sefder None but bank bilis current in Rew York takea, Volume XXVITE AMUSEMENTS THIS NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway —Mancuanr or Vexicx, WALLACKS THBAT Ast WINTER GARDEN, Broad: , Broadway.—-Taox 90 THE —CamtLue, BEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowory.—Vanrine—Pisan- RO BLK bey Suaasox and Won, POWERY THEATRE. Bowers. —Guost or ALtexnuRG— Lorreny Ticker—Carrain Kap. »BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadway —Tax Dias Citar RROR: AND BuUAWS A0.. at avNTED MBeK—Quitk at Home—Aiter- venug. S MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- muan Sonas, Dances, Burtesques, 40—Tux Ghost Phy ‘S MINSTREL Bau. 516 Broadwav.—Brmortan . DAN FS. Ac = lime Girost, AMERICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway,—Bariers, Tarioximes, BURLXSQURS, 46,—SLasuRK AND CRASHER. IRVING HALL, Irving p'ace ~Tre Steneorticoy. NEW VORK MUSBUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. Cu niositigs any Lagiomxs, from 9 A, M. till 10 P. a. iw York, ‘Setura y, August 29, 1863, & ——— THE SITUATION. The news from Charleston, brought to Fortress Bonroe yesterday by the steamer Western World from the blockading,fleet off Wilmington, is to the éffect that Forts Sumter and Wagner have both doen occupied by Federal troops since Monday ‘evening, and that the old flag is now flying from Roth fortifications. This (gunboat received the datelligence from the United States steamer Florida, which eft Charleston on Monday night, after the Arago sailed. The surren- dor of the city must soon accrue, as it will be impossible to hold out under the terrific fire of our batteries. We publish the official report of General Gillmore, dated on Monday, announcing the practical demolition of Sumter, and the report of his chief of artillery, Colonel Turner, describing the effects of the bombardment upon the walls of the fort. It is ramored in Washington that in view of the capture of Charleston. there are indications that Gen. Butler will be sent out to command the mili- tiry department there, his services in Baltimore and New Orleans pointing him out as the ft man for the place. There is very liftle to report from the Army of he Potomac. A gplehdid sword was presented to ‘General Meade yesterday. A party of gueflilas attacked dome of our troops yesterday near Harwood Church who werecon- ‘eying @ mail from the neighboring cavalry sta- | Xion. They killedtwo of our men and succeeded fn carrying off the mail. \ The gunboat Sattellite and the gunboat Reliance @re reported to have been captured by*the rebels meer the mouth of the Rappahannock on Tuesday. It was said the captain of the former was killed @nd the captain of the tugboat wounded. A report forwarded by Aamirat Porter describes ‘the late naval expedition up the Red and White rivers as most successful, quantities of rebel stores having been destroyed and the only two steamers the enemy had having been captured. nmmmlatad fee itn athe a-ntamtam the. full quota . of conscripts having been drawn. The Board of Supervisors at their meeting yester- day, passed an ordinance, which was signed by the Mayor, providing for the appropriation of two mil- lions of dollars for the exemption of firemen, po- the militia, and the heads of families which may be dependent upon them for support. The communications which passed between Governor Seymour and General Dix previous to the commencement of the draft, and relative to the employment of United States troops and the State militia in the maintenance of order, will be found in another column, The draft will commence in Brooklyn on Mon- day, and in preparation therefor a large number of United States troops were sent over there yester- day, and are now quartered at different points ip that city. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamer Corsica, from Nassau August 24, arrived at this port yesterday. Quite a riot took place at Grant town between the inhabitants and soldiers. Two or three were killed on both sides. Several blockade runners had returned to Nassaa from unsuccessful at- tempts to get into Southern ports. An arrival at Nassau from Havana reports that the old walls of Havana had been demolished. The ganboat Juni- ata sailed from Havana on the 12th inst., in por- suit of the rebel steamer Nita, which had sailed the same day for Mobile... The Nussan Guardian of the 22d says:—The steamer Cronstadt was captured by the federal licemen, gonboat Rhode Tsland on Sunday last, about “forty-two miles from Abaco, while on her way, from Wilmington to this port. The pilot, second piite and two engineers belonging to the Cron stadt left ina boat, and two shots were fired at them by the Rhode Island without effect. The captain, chief mate and purser were detained on board their vessel and sent to New York in charge ofa prize crew. The passengers and crew were ¢aken on board the gunboat and transferred at arbor Island to the schooner Elizabeth, in which they arrived here 6f Tuesday last, The steamer G. B Winans, formerly in the em- ploy of the Revenue Department, was sold toa porty in St. John, New Brunswick, and yestorday, | won about to proceed for that Port, was saizéd by the Custom Honse authorities, on suspicion t was to be used ia Confederate interests < market recovered considerably from the mi dilie of (he day forward, and @ more-cheertul feeting © +t Hay, hops, ton ote J Tyditleopper Wate 6 deabie ans buoy ve) was: mo-e freely purehaged, ‘ Uo" buffets, was 0 red. Gold, rose. $0 134%, evi s 124 on | ston news’ Exchange at 196. Money ab nd ust for call Moane at 6; paper tea dy at 6a 6 andcurrensy obrtitiesten ah ‘Tpanssc'ions in on yesterday were ‘enimportant, Pricer were a ed nnd irregutar, "The prekdatads Todi , 7 erwin, with ‘wort oagethSes.on the pe is Tealtze, white the demand @ne"resteict! | et part y fo” CS oort under the influence of the fall dn ¢ 4 exe The Dasiness in provisions was ‘ WAY Aetlorable alteration ta quotations, & ‘ee wore 10 fair deniand, Crean, teas. w re attention © feos, 0d alkdesir ible | mr “vy vet igh ey Tt vere, prtrataty | NEW "and through the duction rooms, and prices were gouorally Well supported, the availab!e supplies being devidedy moderate for the season, not very active, a buyers were anticipating & material Teduc’ ion in prices, aud acgordingly purchased with re- sorve. The week's imports of dry goods at the port were | go the value of $1,480,161, including $1,176,262 in entring | for consumption direct, and $255,899 ‘entered for ware housing. The total amount of foreign dry goods thrown ‘upon on the market during the week was $2,875 220. Fort Samt er Ours The Approaching Fall of Charlie Ap arrival at Fortress Monroe from the blockading fleet off Wilmington brings the news | of the occupation of Fort Sumter and Battery Wagner by the Union forces on M®nday even- ing. The Arago left the bar on Monday after- noon at five o'clock, while in all probability the Florida, having an intimation that au as- sault was to be made that evening, delayed her departure to ‘witness it. Even had she been lying at the bar, with the aid of her signal book | she could have read the messages as they were transmitted from the victorious assaulting | party to the commander of the naval forces. | Having thus obtained the desired inf)rmation, she probably immediately started for the Wil- mington blockaders, having only about one hundred and twenty miles to run. ‘This could have been easily accomplished, even had she started at midnight; so that it is not improba- ble that she has brought the positive informa- tion which we publish to-day of our success, She arrived at Wilmington at three o’clock on the afternoon of Tuesday. The capture of these formidable points of de- fence will greatly facilitate the task of reducing the city. The continued bombardment of the latter, however, will not advance us anything as far as these intervening obstacles: are con- cerned. The rebels have declared—and we believe them—that they would sooner see it destroyed than allow it to fall into our hands. It must not be imagined, however, that this Spartan determination arises merely from their hatred of us. There has long been a growing conviction among the people of Charleston that, owing to its difficult approaches and its malari- ous atmosphere, their port was becoming more and more unfitted to the requirements of their commerce. Before railroads were built, when internal traffic had to be carried on with Savan- and Mobile by water, Charleston did very 11; but now it is but illy adapted to its pur- pose. Its foreign trade has become of vastly more importance, and would become stil! more so did its harbor offer greater facilities. Hilton Head, owing to its superior climate and its fine entrance and anchorage, is destined to usurp the place ‘so long occupied by its rival. The people of Charlestdh: are impressed with this fact, and hence in» part the declared indiffor- ence with which they would see {it destroyed sooner than allow-t:to-fall into our possession. That they do not feel. any strong interest in preserving it from the decay to which the su- perior claims of Hilton Head must ultimately consign it is plain, silos no attempt. bas been | made to rebuild that. extensive portién of the elty which wag destroyed by the last great fire, ‘» Whilet, therefore, we do not believe, that ‘the surrender.of.the remaining defences of Charles- ton will be hastened by the bombardment of the city, we are of opinion that their destruction or capture will be the result of only a few days’ work—a week at ‘the farthest. Once de- moralization sets in, its progress is rapid. Now that Beauregard is beginning to whine about the inhumanity of our Greek fire, forget- ting the barbarism of his torpedoes, about which General Gillmore says nothing, his troops. will quickly arrive at the conclusion that the game fs up, and will lose all heart for their work, Although it is well not to be too sanguine on the ee Se probabilities are, we hawine Anil possession of the defences 3 of he’ city by the end of next week. General GicLvore a8@ Minrrary ENGINEER,— The siege of Fort Sumter has been such as to prove that General Gillmore is the greatest engineer officer yet developed in this war. That reputation has heretofore been pretty generally assigned to Beauregard. But tho little creole has found more than his match in the man who commands the forces now ope- rating against Charleston. Beauregard got his great credit for engineering ability by his suc- cess in capturing Fort Sumter in April, 1861. But under what circumstances? He had from three to four months of preparation, when he was permitted, through the treachery.of Floyd and the imbecility of Buchanan, to build his batteries without opposition or Interruption within easy range of Sumter. On all sides of the doomed fortress, and at every point where guns could be brought to bear upon it, works were erected, and even an iron floating bat- tery, from which great things were expected, was permitted to be built and launched. And after all it was only the want of provisions that made Major Anderson and the little garrl- son of sevénty-one men surrender fort, when it was opened on by three hundred guns, with a supporting force of seven thousand men. Contrast this easy conquest with the work. which General Gillmore has accomplished, and it will be seen how immeasurably greater are his claims to distinction as a great military en- gineer. He has had, witha force numerically inferior to that which garrisons Charleston, to make his way up, slowly and surely, against all op- position and obstacles, to a point within breaching distance of Fort Sumter; and that great defensive work of granite is probably by this time pounded into dust over the heads of its defenders; and this, in spite of all the boast- | ed skill of Beauregard, with two years of time | tn which to reqder it, as he supposgd it was, | impregnable. If, therefore, tho felaiive merits | of the Union and rebel generals were to be measured by the test of Fort Sumter, there could not be a moment's bestiation as to who | should wear the laurels, As it is the end that crowns the work, we have now to announce | that not only Fort Sumter, but Fort Wagner t hus.been swept away before .the combined fire of Gillmore’s batteries and Dahigren’s iron- } elads. *And thé, Country ‘will know how to” | honor the men who shall have aceompliahed i the great work of restoring Charleton to federal control or wiping: it ont of 6xistence asa city. How THE Mensos Rivet Ravkolp iy. Man: ackép.—The management of the Huddon River {Railroad ..is, admirable tn one respect. The | Brothers Jerome, who are all m'itionaires ip Watl (street; have beautifully managed the atock, and contrived to raise it to x very Ligh point. But this is the only management we Sean discover about the concern, The ‘move “\ wants of the'train’ seem to be loft to chanec. ‘Duey are all running wild and out of time. We hope somebody will look after them. Domestic cotton gods wore | ‘ The Next 8; jer. Thia ia.a very interesting: tious and itis | radical journals, fully alive-to ite importance, ° ; and feeling, {rom the evidenee we | need, that it will be decided ag ole fao- | tion, are resorting to eundry artifices to break | the'foree of the coming defeat by anticlpatiig it. The Tribune of yesterday, notwithatanding , the array of facts and figures we have published, showing that no radical member of Congress can be elected Speaker of the next House of Representatives, saya+—“There ig” no doubt that the friends of the administration will elect their Speaker than there is thatthe next Congress will meet in Washington.” This. is a mere dodge. republican could be elegted Speaker ‘of, the next Congress. The Tribune does not diapute this position, but says the friends of the ad- logicians call an equivoque. We are all friends of the administration, as the United States goverument. We all sustain the administration with men and money to = NEWS FROM down the rebellion by force. In this sen vast majority of the democracy, the men in the Cotntsion on the Mt army and navy and ‘the men out of it—all the conservatives of the country—are supporters of the administration, like General Tuttle, the | contain bus little news, democratic. Candidate for Governor of Iowa. We want to see no man elected as Speaker who-is not of this stamp. Nor is it at all likely that any other would have the slightest chance of success. But,on the other hand, we main- tain that no radical republican can be | boat Des Arc, thirty titles below Memphis, The Courier elected—no man who is not ‘opposed to the four horrible measures of the adminis- tration—the Emancipation aot, the Confis- cation ‘act, the Conscription act, and tho arbitrary arrests. These are the measures by which the candidates for the Speakership will be teated. The Tribune and its faction, seeing the desperation of their case, would gladly sink the nigger for the moment, and try to slip | wnich are vessols-of-war and six teanéports. The Yankees @ man into the Speakership whose sentiments | are puilding two tmmense hospitals at tho Navy Yard, are unknown, and afterwards claim him asa | each three hundred fect long and three stories high. All radical and use him as their tool. But we will | the negroes are being sent to New Orleans to be placed not permit them to play any such game. They must come squarely up to the test and toe the | xew york, arrived in Hampton Roxds this morning, mark. They evidently do not like discussion of the | Chesapeake hospitals:—J. C. Whiohmond, Company K, subject, because it @mbartisses them and re- | Seventeenth New York, died August 25; Silas Hevens, duces them to an awkward dilemma. But they must either stand by their measures or openly | died August 24, and unequivocally renounce them. It must be | thirteenth New finmpshire, August 4 either the programme of Wendell Phillips or a | Thirteenth New humoce © ‘August return to the programme laid down by Con- | ane Gunbeat Satellite and Taghoat Re- grees in the extra session two years ago. There is no middle path, and no artful dodging will suffice to evade the Issue which will be forced upon the radicals. We will keep this question } “lsc 00 Wednesday owht, aud reports baring met ite open before ‘the publio til it is ‘thoroughly un- derstood by nien of every party, and there is no loophole left by which the abolition fanatics can escape from the consequences of thelr acts, or defeat “that awaits them ‘at the opening. of Congress. Exemption Orpinances—Dovste Action or Fecetred here to THE Svcpgrvisors any Common Cotnem.—-The Aldermen and Councilmen met yesterday in general committee to consult in regard to the course to be taken in ‘reference to exempting persons drafted. Alderman Froment presided. } present at the seat of war or tn this city, as the following A committee to report rules and regulations | order will show:— was appointed, and its report, subsequently pre- sented, adopted. It provides that the offi- cers of this general committee, which is to be a sort of permanent bedy, shall consist of chair- man, secretary and treasurer, and that the com- mittee shall hold daily sessions, commencing on Monday next, at two o’clook P.M. Its members shall ba = ech.anmmittes in the warda in which they reside, aud shall be at liberty to employ clerks and messengers. They are to hear and decide upon applications to pay for the exemption of drafted men who shall first | m9. Evans, Acting Assistan have applied for exemption to the enrolling board and been refused. When the drafted | BBPORT FROM THE BARK ST. MARYS, OF PHILADEL- the three hundred | spe ge:ty arrivals at man elects to serve, dollars sball not be paid until he elects not to serve, the money is to be paid in such a way as to secure its subsequent payment to the proper officer of the United States for the purpose of procuring a substitute, Lastly, the Mayor, Comptroller and Presidents of | Bryant, bound from Black River, Jamaica, to Philadelphia, the two Boards are to bea sub-committee, with | Will be found tntercsting:— power to establish one or more recruiting | shie aay CM Fe ks Me one Bowing offices for the purpose of procuring volunteers | “tended with very high cross sea: ship lying to under te serve as substitutes for drafted persons. The Board of Supervisors havo taken action } Wpmest sayaall tow avay. which will render the ordinance of the Common | At this time ship lurching vory heavily; all the water Council unnegessary. They have, on consulta- tion with the Mayor and Comptroller, adopted an ordinance to pay the exemption of such militia men, police, members of the Fire Depart-"| Pamps attended ment, active and exempt, and poor citizens with families dependent upon them, ds may be drafted. It provides for the appointment of a commit- eed en tee to whom drafted men shall make applica: | SPMpe Oe te ‘seat tion, and such as come under either of the fore. sae ‘ind. rather going designations—militia, police, fremen and | vem .twa" amcerouy pralten ike poor men with families—will receive a certffi- cate to be presented to the Comptrolier, who will thereupon pay to the proper officers of the government the exemption fee of such person. There can be no objection to this ordinance. Under it the young loafers and vagabonds who swarm the city will not be bought up by our | of taxpayers to prevent them rendering military service, and at the same {ime poor men will not be torn from their helplosa ‘families and sent to the war. Neither can the Immense frauds which every one fully expected to witnoss under the system invented by the Common Council be perpetrated. The Comptroller has proved himself to be an honest, upright, relia- ble official, and there need be no fear of a frandu- lent use of the public funds entrusted to his hands. . We presume the Boards of Aldermen and Councilmen will,submit with o* good a own ordinnnee, vetoed by.the Mayor, go by de- | fault, Impertant to ‘ptatn Davia eet ** idow, <9 THR FOITOR OF UIE UEKALD. ats Litirhadeas, Usttio Stirs Gewunis toe ras, ) Coerevenc ra, Par, Ate HER, 18h5. 5 cinatstoe tin tad dese Leted & anak del the name of Captain Deeld Brawn. He either 1 | the Sixty-mintn dr Serety nthe New York t He was mortally wounded. He vars lim wator ail that he Ould for bin. As he: wawl emt tie 1, be Pockersbak and gome letters roMed Out, fie found srry. seven dollagd Ib gold in nts poekatboot cand g mo lotto wt from bis wife gud chide” ChE Colonel has thom now in bis pomwessiong and would liketo give thom ww ene captain's widow br chided. “Tle Ie severely woundtou and now jays hee in the hospital Wt Cettyburg. —¢ tain Thomas Clark, of theSixty.nipt@ may tenow nm would Hke to Rote alma tnanatce tote Cont PUBS. mint “mh dad every day becaming more and more so." The | What we said was that no radical | condscation in Mexico, and withdrawn the Proposition ib ministration will elect their man. This is what | corps diploma‘ que. the representative of | Frankfort. he | furnish us with additional details of disasters by the tor- is actually mustered into service; when | rible burricanc which visited our coast on the 19th, oth grace as possible to this new plan, and let their | YORK BHEKALD, SATURDAY, (AUGUST "29, 1868, (ADDI HONAL: L FROM EUROPE. ‘the Labdee Mee hy eho Hidermra, ‘Tho'ecente of the Confaderate toms! announced thas the Ropte Ler dieitend will be palg tiMfue course, ~ A Bits ar enip, Crom Hie dpdgretro, revorte as fol. Jowa—Piased & hip, mame, aot given, burnt to tae water's edge on the 24 of July, tm tatit do 26 south, tongl- tu 10 38 weet, Shortly afterwards eucke the ateamor Ala- Dama, wh ck had capfured aod burnt this ship.’ The Lon’on Times in ite gity artiolo tn roferemas to Mexico wavs:— ; Lon‘on | It ia. in vain ou that the me of tl mecharta are, th ton the Empey re has dono a great Rervice, bath. ‘and commercial to the world: political, in conform! the seeriour soln of Spain in extincutebine the and com. mercin!, tu rastorine ag oe saat such tea: portance of territory. The French government had revoked the measure of regard to specie exports, ‘The Empero” Napoleon's fete dey at Parie passed off» quiculy and without any political algnificance. Drouyn do Lbuya had ‘given a grand banquet ‘tevte ‘The Congreas of the German princes was im seentea rs It was _boaded by the Smperor of ‘Ausiris and wag largely attended. NEW ORLEANS. ieatppioThe Steamor Courter Sunk, Ke. . ‘| Mement, August 25,1863. flew Orleans advices up to the 20th peoatwot to-day The ship C. C, Duncan, from Boston, with 75,000 bushels of oats, bad arrived. Eichay. bales of low middling cotton sold at 56%40. Thore was very ‘ttle cotton on sale. The steamboat Courter, withthe Forty-ninth Mlinols regiment on board, came into collision with the steam. sunk, Some lives wore lost; how many is yet unknown. NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE. AAAANNAANA? Fortress Momnon, August 27, 1863, ‘Tho steamer Daniel Webster arrived last evening from New York with seven hundred rebel prisoners, who will leave for City Point this a*ternoon to be exchanged. ‘Tho Mobile Daily Tribune of August 18 says:—‘'There are sixteen verspls in the harbor at Pensacola, too of fn the Yankeo armies there.” ‘The English corvette Jason, Captain Von Donop, from ‘The following deaths are reported in the Hampton and Company I, Nineteenth Wisconsin, died August 26; Gil- bert M. Vanvelcer, One Hundred and Thirtieth New York, be Portemonth Hospital:—G. D. Chapma Died tn ul rtamont pi Wea. Tyrrel lance Captured by the Rebels. i» Basamona, August 28. 1868. ‘The gunboat Meigs arrivad at Polat Lookout at eleven Currituck in toe. Chesapeake bry. Her — reported that the guaboat Setelfite aad the tugboat penile ot of Bosh vessels, Tudenay Afi revels ned the mouth a0. ra pinned the guaborts nce, |, OF Potomac: ware off the mouth of the Tannabanuook: ak Henuet Rorordinary confitmation of the rumor has "beee mM 'y Affairs. THE SIXTY-NINTH neonate NEW YORK NATUONAL ‘ GUARD. ‘The question has now beén officially decided as to whether the Sixty ninth regiment National Guard 1s at @ "Simao Sei or aw Yorn, ieee ioe ean roe : fons and corel The Courts or conve ey ok Naw ork ow Une ‘4th in dng ot eek. Funry, 188%. by virtue of 6 Giders No, 1. dated 3. to Major General Charis an se Perinat ‘division ‘ational Guard of ths . comman: State of New York, are hereby confirmed, which are ss Col- is bhak ine at nen ect Nayak enb abs s the ihe Biy: ity-ointh ee National rd of the te of New York did not the United tes Bs the Ooreoran t order Of the Commander-te.C N 8, SV AFRAGUR, R, Adjuuant General Adjutant General. Ui borvicg The Late Hurricane. PRIA, BTC. this and other perts continue to end Zist days of this month. It is estimated that seve ral hondred thousand dollars’ worth of property has been damaged and destroyed. ‘The following report, from Thomas Price Bedoe, a sea- manon board of the bark St. Marys, of Poston, Captain gales and heavy squaiis, clone refed maintopsail and foretopmast atayss il. ‘hires A. M. gaio increased with terrific vinlehee, Aboat Fore. Clewed up mainto; sail and stowed it. . Also stowed all other sails with extra gaskets saila, &e., broke adri(t.in the fore cabia; enn quickly as possible with sails. ropes, oranda da daylight gaie pier witb burricano violence labored heavil; shipped head deck; ~~ tteaded fo with Wea masnoet eare, rae About: Sight o'clock the gale At this time the i sight: also shipping some Beavy seas Carried away port maingall and a largo partion of the starboord bulwarks. Made every posible effort to going, but it was 10 on deck, dodios of Areva a being on re vn ends coma ir ur ricane sti terri aint dang ot certo to to batches. ing no ka sae by the pees, to cut plied topmasts and get the eee mute tic cod fv gree mainpensttoa nd ing; was compelied nd at ae ing vory heay! feegtaay te her rudder. Shee ia i ee ee sos tanh Ls fr meyer hem oi it nine eee ing snok: towards rardnigbt the weatber Airport attend to with the prea v joy out the vitont wea: bor Of (Bi footy. ‘ be Abe ship had ios aoe ed with much lees damage than | (a magbt eo ntexpected under the elroumetancen } a heenet Intotiigence. ard and the party of foroign Ministers whe. Abia cag oesstro voce inet) On 9 toar Weetere Wwed nt the Awtor House lash neh ie co bout te ' vas ine { Mey, of New Orieank 9) tne yee pl and Twenty stern fre attain Sip sy ie w, ut fal tbé Lotted od tates net el Clarky of New. 4 at Port Rogal: Bon Jimoe M, ‘ty nat peg eh of Pint ah fauntly, i oe FS Ig OE bit torn aes ra aly mi et fees |i dow Fed ptslaber 4 “ Attadrin Te sane opurtitte THE dere eto: : vqawe ree send at fobiiea, EnEe | ee Seren to jet styie ¢: ie e 1 Mad renowned ' 3 ry a win ‘.Temombered eiegation tw, on Ube pated in ike | the whore They hace» | eriivas and nit ty have me doubt that asa whi oA cend reier i aay of ali | rath Keigior Pest a | PGAMME Jogust Keigter ionesrta Votnnteors. | ace tomadlty 4A freee tie min dock of Atlaotic and | was fet at Alexendeit, Of Taureday eight, Boor (iemnenleor. They bar yvert of Civil order ani 1] bare aall 2 A. oF Fort Sumter coletrigy ty IW tn) tte v Aerce 7 = Raceryret 006 HIGHLY IMPORTANT. The Latest--News from Charleston. is Forts Sumter and Wagner 0c- cupied by Genoral Gill- ‘more’s Forces. kt Chatteston Within Effective ‘Bango of: the Union “ Batteries. eeeeenenioe a weal The Old Flag Waving Over. Sumter. OMmcial Despatch from. Gene- ral Gillmore, hen &e. Forrasss Mownon, August 28, 1863. ‘Tho gunboat Western World, Captain Gregory, arrived this moraiog Crom off Wilmington, end reports the arri- val there of the United States steamer Fierida from Charleston, with the intelligence that the Union forces occupied Forte Sumser and Wagner on Monday last. BEOOND DESPATCH. Forrraas Mownon, August 28, 1863. Ifeara by the steamor Western World, whioh arrived from Wilmington at midnight, that Fort Sumter has sur- rendered and Battery Wagner been blown up and de- stroyed. ‘This report waa brought to the flagship Minnesota, off Wilmington; N. C., by the steamer Florida, Captain Bank- head. Nows all favorabie. THIRD DESPATOR. Baurmonz, August 26, 1863. The following comes specially by telograph from” vhe highest and most reliable authority. 1 can vouok for ite truth:— at, Forranas Monon; August 28, 1863. ‘Tho United States tugboat Western World, just arrived at Fortrems Monroe to-day from the fleot off Wilmington , reports that on Tuesday, at three o'clock in the atter- neti, one ie pore she startea, the United States +toamng, Florida |arrived from the fleet off Charleston, velth the posit news that. Fort Sumter and Battery , Wagner “baa: and .were occupied by. the Unica ‘roops,and that the Stars and Stripes were teiusaphanthy ‘uring over both fortresses, ‘The Unien troops were in ths, lgbest opie, wn cob tain of possessing speedily all Morrie Island ad reducing Fort Moaltrie, ‘The capture and occupation of Ubarieston in a few days by the Union troops was morally certain, OMelal Despatch from Gen. Gilimere. rARTMENT OF THR WN rouu Tntadc BC August 24s1068. f Maor General H. W, Hactacn, Goueral-in-Chief United States Army, Washington, D. C:— Gawuaai—I have the honor to report the practical de molition of Fort Sumter as the result of our seven days’ bombardment of that work, Including two days of which & powerfe! northeaster!y storm most seriously diminished the accuracy and effect of our fire. Tort Sumter is to-day a shapeless and bar micas mass of rutus. My chief of artillery, Colonel J. N. Turner, reports its eatruction #0 far complete that it is no longer of any avail in the defences of Charleston. Hoe also says that ‘by alongor fire it could be made mure completely a ruin and « mass of broken mavonry, but covld scarcely bo more powerless for a defence of the harbor My breaching batteries were jocated at distances vaty- ing between 3,330 and 4,240 yards from the work, and now remain as efficient as ever. 1 decom it unnecessary ‘at present to continue the fire upon the ruins of Sumter. Thave also, at great labor and under a heavy fire from James Island, estabiiehod batteriea on my left, within eflectige range. of the heart of Char'eston, and have opened with them, after giving Genera! Reauregird doe notice of my intention to do so, My notification to General Bexuregird, bis reply there to, with the threat of retaliation, and my rejoinder, have Deon transmitted to the army beadqaarters The projectiles trom my batieries entered the city, and General Beauregard himself designate: them as the most destructive missiles ever used tu war The report of my chief of artillery, and an accurate aketeh of the ruins of Sumter, taken at tweire M. vester day, six hours before we oeasel firing, are herewith transmitted. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, & A. GILLMORE, Wear General Comman ding. Cot. Turmer's Report of the Opera OFFICE oF CHieE oF A: Derartumet ov tm Monn Istanp, 8. C.,; ‘August 22, 1863, Cramar—T have the honor to report the effect that our breaching batteries have bird npon Fort Samrer and the condition of that work to night. At the close of the seven days’ Hombardment the go-go ‘wall of the fort iy nimost a complete mass of ruins for the “distation Of several casemates, About midway on this face the ramparts are remoyed nearly, and in places quite, to the arches; spd ‘but for the exndbage with which the caxcmates were filled, and which have served to sustain the broken arches and masses of makonty, it would have long #ince been entirety cot away, and with it th® arches to the floor of the second tier of casemates. ‘ho debris on this front now forms a rampart reach'ng as high as the floor of thesocasemates. The parapet wall of the two northeasterly faces 14 com. pietely cartied away, 2 s:nall'portien ouly being left In the angles made tn the gorge wall, abd tbo ramparts of these faces are algo a tota! roin, Quite one half of our projectiles eeom to have strack ‘the parade and parapet of those two froor, and, Judging from the effet they have had ayen the gorge wall within our observation , the destryction of misoury on these two sides must be véry great, and 1 am of the opinion that nearly every arch of these fronts must be broken in. Bat ‘one gam Femains in position on these twofednts, and this tm in the angle of the gorge, and, I think, unservicsabie. ‘Tho rufo extends around, tak ng tu the portheasterly face | am far an cam be seen. A portion Of this fave, adjoiniog the angle it makes with the southeaster'y tnce, {9 concealed; gaping great number of misaries which have struck ‘during the siniiee days, it” clntios be otherwise than areatty damaged, and { Cha beontgry ed 4, on this face ie ‘Thé ramparts in Se egam ot ‘Vis angle, ax well as im foe birsiihde Wat "OH tt he eel h weet immed a eee deg Sigs bacaoel = th today of po avail Sethe a mieveroe Cueto | Try nage fee ion be made Madte completely Fain |, anda mam of be kon masonry, bat could scarcely be more pinworteds for the dofoade Of the harbor. \e T therefore respectfuily timuance fire is 20 no ends (or the consamiptios of our resources. . ‘Very respectfully, your obedient servant, JNO...N. TURNER, Colonel and Chief of Artillery ‘To Brigadier General Q. A. Gnixors, commanding De- Partmout of the South, Morris Island, 8.€,.. NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST. Swocessfal Expedition Up tre White and Rea Rivers—All the Rebel Sten mers on the Yasoo Destroyed, &e., dic. Wasninaron, August 28. 1863. Rear Admiral Porter forwards the report of Lie:tenant Bache relative to the late river expedition, He first stopped at Des Arc,on the White river, and burnt rehe! Stores, destroyed the telegraph wires, kc , and then sent the Cricket after the steamers Tom ( reeg Kaskaskia, which be bad reason to believe were bid un the river, while be ana the Marmora proceeded to Augustus, thirty miles further. There he obtained valuable information of the enemy, which was subsequently confirmed—namely, that. the grand Southern army was concentrnting at Brownsville to make their line of defence on the Bayou Meto, General Price was there, and General Kirby Smith at Little Rock, General Marmaduke bad crossed the river @ fow days before, and was then crossing Little Red River. Leaving the Marmora of the mouth, Lieutevent Biche Wont up tho Little Red with the Lexington Wheft’nbout twenty-five miles distant, he met the Cricket with two Prizes which she bad captured at Sourcy, fi; mile further on, She alo destroyed Marmaduk pontoon bridge, leaving @ portion of the:latter's brigade on the other Side of the river. The Cricket was fired into hy Marmaduke's men, and had about twenty soldiers wound ©p out of ane hundred and fifty, Both veesels were at- tacked'coming- down tho river. Some cotton and a few Prisoners were captured with the prizes, The Tow Gregg is 0 fing uide,wheel steamer, ns ts aiso the Kankas- kia, though somewhat older. They are now officared and manned, and ere rotained to oo.onerate with the ‘army, All along the river the farmers were giad at our presence, and many Union demonstrations were mae. The captured boats wore the only mexna of trannportation the rebels had on the river, and therefore our taking them i# a beavy blow inflicted upon them. Lieutenant Dunvington, who was formerly captured while in com mand of Arkansas Post, is now fitting ont at Little Rock the Ponohartrain, tho last ram the rebels have in these waters. If she ventures outside the shoals admired Porter says she will be captured. Admiral Porter,in communicating the resulta cf the last expedition up the Yauco river to recover the Rare De Kalb, the particulars of which have already been pb lished, says that the visit cost the rebols more than was at first supposed. Captain Walker has received information to be relied on, that, besides the five steamers at or sear the city of ‘Yazoo, Isanc Brown, late Lieutenant in the United States navy, ina panic, and for fear they would fall into our hands, set fire to and destroyed fourteen others, among them nine large ones, the machinery of which was in- tended to be sent to Selma, Alapams, for the gunboats buliding there. There are no more steamers on the Yazoo. All the vessels which sought refuge there as the atest place in rebeldom have been destroyed. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. ‘Wasnmrotox, August 28, 1368. GENERAL BUTLER TO BE SKNT TO SOUTH CAROLINA In view of the speedy capture of Charleston and econ pation of South Carclina by the Union fcrees, the inten. tion of the government, hes béen indicated to place Major , Gen. Buti: r fn cqmmind oF that department as soonen sien @itmore and Admiral Dehigren have completed. their work. The Sdniirable manner: in which Geers! ‘Batler admivistored tbe military governorship jo ars, ywheo Baltimore-waa in charge of the Lousiana when there.qwas bnit a corporal’s guard aes men there, bag induced his eelectio#. Terides, it ie thonght a Just retribution (bat Massachusetts should far- nisl the military commander over thé hotbed of rébel- | dom, MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT. ‘The President intended to vialt the army to-day, but was prevented by the pressure of public duties. ABREST OF A GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR. A government contractor named Pitc'l, from Pitts- ‘Durg, was committed to the Old Cupitat prison to day, oa the charge of naving sold in Baltimore fraudulent quar- tormasters’ certificates of indebtedness to the emount of topty-tbousand @vars, The arrest wis mer, ara phia, where another negotiation wee about made. CAPTURE OF THE BLOOKADE MUXMER CRONSTADT. The Navy Department bas receiv:@ a communication from Commander ‘Trenchard, of the steamer Rnede Island, reporting the captare ef the Kugish screw steamer Cronstadt, for s violation of the blockade of Wilmington, N. C. Hor cargo consists of cotton, tarpentine an@ wbacco, She has beon sent to Boston for adjudication. CAPTURE OF UNION CAVALRY BY OUERILLAS. Some three hundred of White's rebel guerillas crossed the Powmac to-day and gobbied up a party of “‘Soott’s Nine Hundred,’’ who were guarding the canél, Tea out of fifty escaped. KXECUTIVE PARDON, Tho Progident has pardoned William bake, charged with divers offences against the United States, and with aiding tho rebels in Kentucky, THR LOYAL GOVERNMENT OF VIRGINIA. Governor Pierpont,"in_an address to the people of Vir ginia, ana cm es that be has estubliehe! the seat of gow ernment at Alexandria, He s.ys if resistauoe to the civil authority be attempted and a posse comitiitus prove ii snf- ficient, the aid of the military asa last resource «ili be javoked te enforce the laws, Fe ts hoppy te be wbig wo say that the President manifesta the mont lively desire for the restoration of order im the State and a dis}~sition to nswist by every means at his command to restore the civil government and produce harm ny. APPEAL VOR FXECUTIVE CLEMENCY, A Jewish rabbi from Baltimore of the condemned and several others wero here to day to make an appeal toshe President for bis clem-vcy bebalf of the five privates of the Ove Aundred aud Higbteonth Ponosyivania regiment who are to be shot to-morrow. ‘Their mission does not appear Weta saccessful, rh SRE Muste fm thé Park. Tho Park Commissioners announce that there will be music at the Park, on the mall, to day at ‘our o'clock P. M., by the Park Pand, under the leadership of B. B. boa. worth, if the weather is fine, The following i» the pro- cramme:— PART a. 5. The Sultan “ azig” March 6. Overture. *"Der Freisebate’ 7. Selection fram the ‘-Stabat 8. Sebuzo from Symphony N Cs Mal Bohottiech, “Carte ta Belle’. 10. Soren, Weapon ha aba Laney’ x A rom ‘Linda Otwetal Les Porcberous Mazurke.. Natieual Pot Pour! ‘The company of Bedouin Arabs now in thie city intend visiting the Park this afternoon. In their gry aud plo- turesque costume they will, for the nonce, add an attraction to the innumerable othera of that bevutiful ground. On their arrival at the pagoda on the mal) Mr. Dodworth ahd Hie faimitadle band will greet them by porter the national hyma of Arabia. Po mtetiigence. DEMOORATIO NATIONAL COM WITTER. At the (ime of the division of the (emocratic National Convention ta 1860 cach wing of the party apprinled » coman ittee to eall future #.. The Cormmities of Mr. Belmont is chairman has been called to moot iam yo nt “Sepletiber't. Av'gtoet is ‘belie made to have net at the samme tite, ‘and also the harbor 4, Mak 0 eunicert of -petion may be bad of all persons opposed fo the de sirvetive measures @C the radical abolisiontite, and fo order tb prodded T Shu owsommrvaive tam Tre tet, 0 tenet aT