The New York Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1864, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GQORDUN BENNETT, SSTTOR AND PROPRIETOR OPTICE N. W. CONNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXIK ANUSESENTS THIS EVENING, BIPLO'S CARDEN, Broadway.-Saa or You BALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Mrumsqa Cor- re KEW BOWERY 7H —Dox Casan bow aca Yes Lenco ; BOW ELY THEATRS, Kowery.—Ruy Buss—AN APRIL BROADWAY THEATAE, Brondway.—P: Sry— Ruivy or Lrons, Rencn Srv. BARNUY SEUM Broadway.—Two Grants, Two War, 6 M. 80, ut ail houra Ma. BL Lae Ai aus WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway,—Ermormas 08, DAdCkS, AC,—BOxvaRONENT OF PRIERSUURG, CAMPHELL MINSTRELS. 199 and 01 Rowerv,—Varigp hMxD ExcimNe MeLaNce or bTHiOriaN OppiTiES KEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. uosITixs AND LxoTuRKS, from) A.M. tl 10 P.M. MOOLES OPERA HOUSK, Brooklyn. —Eemor Bones, Daxces, Burumwous, &c ag ai — i ae New York, Saturday, August 6, 1864. — Owing to the press of important news we are feompelled this morning to postpone the publica; ‘tion of the list of uncliimed letters at the New York Post Office, It will appear in our paper to- ‘orrow morning, and in the meantime it will be ‘Posted at the usual places and on the Hera bul- Jetin boards. THE GITUATION. She rebols have agein made s serious raid foto Penn- aylvania, They oressed the Upper Potomac in large force yesterday at Hancock, They had driven Goueral Averili's pickets into Cumberland. They occupied Hagerstown esterday morning at ten o'clock with a cousid- ‘erable force, Governor Curtin bas issued & pro- Ciamation calling out thirty thousand militia for dofence. It isa matter of surprise that the Governor ‘did not take the precaution before and not after the eno. my bad entered his State, Surely there was warniog enough. It ig hard'y necessary to say that a panic pre- vails among the people of the invaded district. The news froin Atlanta reports that General MoCook thad arrived sa‘ely at Marictta with a body guard of three Dundred men, twelve bundred having ‘brrived before, Gis loss was pot 60 heavy as at first supposed. There Gre still missing eight"bundred men. General Sherman claims that the raid was success. The rebel journais state that Geveral Stoueman, with a force of Gve hundred cavalry, was captured by Gene- eal Iverson, with a Portion of the Georgia coilitie, near Macon; but they admit that the Pailroad had been damaged before his capture in a man- Ber which more than compensated to us for the loss of Stoneman and the portion of his command taken, Tho Febel journals declare thatthe cars were running regularly from Atiania to Macon on the 2d inst., although they ad. ‘mit that Stoneman’s force cut the roads up terribly two QF thtge days previously. ‘Thote does not appear to have been any progress made fp Grant's army before Petersburg siace our Inst advices. Interesting dotatig of the movements there have been Secetved from our correspondents and other sources. Among them is a letter from a military spectator of the @cene on Saturday, describing the explosion of the mine, ‘Bnd bis viow of the cause of tho disaster. Picket Gring and tbe work in the treuches on doth sides lone disturbod the monotony yesterday aud the day Defore. Intelligence received by the steamer George Washing- ton, from New Orjoans, with dates to the 29th ult., is to Cho offect that Admiral Farragut had made an attack up- On the defences of Mobile with an immense flect. Eicht Aron-clads wore engaged on our side. The fleet is said to ave parsed Forts Morgan and Gainos, thus Placiog a Dart of his fleet between these defences and the city and ay of Mobile, At last accounts the bombardment bad ‘Deen going on for three days, and was still progressing. ‘Or map of Mobile and ite defences, which we give to-day, ‘Will tilustrate the work which Admiral Farragut has be fore bim in this brilliant movement, the result of which ‘bad not been achieved when the steamer left, althongh it SPpears that the bombardment had been going on for three days, Thé pews by the same steamer informs us that Fort Hobson, near Pensacola, Florida, was captured by Goneral Asboth, together with a quantity of stores, eighteen guns and some ammunition. Mr. Bolicitor Whiting, of the War Department, bas Promulgated another very elaborate “opinion” about the raft, apd ite Spplication to the different States and dis- “priets, for which we bave not room today, Suifice it to @ay that {t is about as complicated and misty as the Soli- Citor’s opinions usually are. Governor Seymour has addressed a letter to Secretary Branton, complaining that in many districts of this State, particularly in the cities of New York and Brooklyn, the enrolment for the draft is exosssive and injurious, He sks for a commission to examine the cage and adjust the Quotas in these cities equitably. EUROPEAN NEWS. ‘The steamship City of Manchester, from (néenstown on the 2ist of July, reached this port yesterday morning. The steamship Saxouia, from Soathimoton on the 20th of July, passed Cape Race on Tharsday ou her voyage to New York. Asummary of ber which ts two days Jater than the advices of the Africa at Halifax, bas been Kolographed from Newfoundland, and ts published iu the Fivnarp of w dey, The steamer Washington, from New York July 6, ar. Fived at Havre on the 17th of July, The passenger mselves highly pleased with tho ship and ali bortaining theroro, “Lord Palmorston decinred in the Englieh Parliament Mat ‘at present there was vo ndvantage to be gained from moddling"’ in Amorican affairs, al:hough be lameated Who loas Of life and property takicg piace in America, Mr. Slidell is #a\d to bave goue from Paris on a visit to Bapoieon at Vichy. The new Dano-German Perce Conference asrembled in Vienna on the 26th of July. Nothing was known of its wroceedings. Hopes wore eotertained that peace would eosuit from the wegotiations The ports of Po tugal will soon be opened to the free Awportation of breadsiuff,, in consequence of the scarcity of the est. Protestantism {8 reported ag ‘great!y spronding’ in Turkey, It mngd “the Porte has closed the Provestant misstonary establisbmect and arrecied couverte,”” aud axnim we are Wid “American missiouary Bovietios wore foopened."" Englieb troops were to take up quartera in Joddo, Japan Major Gordon's Anglo-Chinese force was disvanded {a China. Copaols closed in Joudon on the 26tb of July ob 807% o 90 for money. fhe Yank of Hngiemd bad advanced the ; but the demand for There was @ decline tu the coven Jona wat at Tard of discount to sev money was unchecked es Jendiog Ameriosn &' 95 0 17, The Liver pc urket wae quiet, with "prices unchauved, oo th hana %o of July. Bread @:nis were dali and teu’ wh t 4 gave. rally svetey Joe Coburn wan in Armagh. fr ‘ ot for a wultatie Rpot for fis coming bait ce. [aoe je @ native of the Gounly Aruaca pares | surrounded by heets of friends and soqumntances to | whom be.was known before he emigrated t) America, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘The steamer Ocean Queen, which arrived yesterday from Aspinwau, Seige us very interesting news from Panama, Fensaor, Chile, Pera and other places o@ the n continent. TheChinehs Islands question 4m our news, andthe details will up doudiediy «:tract due attention, A correspcudept in Valparaise, writing on the 24 of Joly. seve that both hile aud Peru may very soon be involved in awar with Spain in defeace of the demo- cratic principls of “America for Ame-icans.”? In the meantime (ha Souk American republics look with hope {or ai} Lo tbe | mited States against Raropean mouarcnical Ageression, Oar correspondent to British Monduras, dating at Pelize on the 17th of July, reports the Indian war on the northern border, which threw the colony ito snob astate of alarm, tarned out to be a smell matter, and is at an end, Provisions abundant xnd dul, Logwood abundant and falling in price, Sogar scarce and rising inprice. Cotten is active at 1c. to 17c., unginned. The crops promise @ good yield, and hopes are entertained that in spite of caterpiliare and worms the colony may yet be a larve cotton growing country. The Board of Supervisors brid @ meeting yesterday, and resolved to refer the subject of appointing agents to reernit for the county in rebel States to the Volunteer Committee, They also resolved to continue the payment of $300 to every One liable to the draft.who brings a sub- stitnte, We are requested toetate that the horseshoers in the city are pot op a strike for higher wages, but for the sub- stitution of the hand-made shoe for that of the machine used by all the railroad and stage companies, made by the Messrs, Burden & Grey, of Troy, These shoes have Deen in use by the different lines for the past eight years. In the General Sessions yesterday Abrabam D. Craig and Charles R MoDonnell, who were engaged in the sub- ativute business, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor in in- ducing Charles Qavenport, a citizen of this State, to go to Boston for the purpose of enlisting. Keoorder Hoffman sentenced the defendants to the City Prison for fifteen Gaye, and fined them each one bundred dollars, intimating, however, that in future, if such cages were brought before him, this seutence would not be a precedeat. © The prosecuting officer 1s determined to bring to justice, and the court equally resolved to panish with severity, every violntion of this act. The proceedings in the case of the United States against ‘Theodore Allen have been suspended, in the United States District Court, upon the application of counsel, General Dix has,on the part of the War Department, consented to release Mr. Allon upon bis giving bonds in the sum of five thousand dollars, the bonds to be approved by Gene- ral Dix, Tho stock market was dull yesterday, and prices were a litt'e off. Gold advanced and sold up to 261% Gov- ernment securities were in better demand than on ‘Wednesday, and were held firm at a small advance. ‘The weekly report of the public debt shows that tho temporary loan has decreased $7,000,000 since the last exhibit, and the six percent compound notes have in- ereased $3,500,000. The total debt is now $1,827 492,170, and the annual interest amounts to $76,418 035. The rise in gold tended to arrest the declining tendency in mavy kinds of merchandise yesterday, but did not effect any marked improvement, There was jus! little disposition te operate as there was on Wednesday, and the business done was firmer, owing to the small supply ‘and light receipts, Petroleum was substantially the same. At the Produce Exchange there was a fair busi- ness, but generally et softening prices in the leadivg staples, the exceptions being fresh ground flour, strictly prime whost, lard, tallow aud whiskey. Freights were firm, but not active. - President Lincoln Demounced by His Party—A Congressional Manifesto Against Him, Senator Wade, of Ohio, and Representative Henry Winter Davis, of Maryland, chairmen of the Benate and House Committees on fhe Rebellious States, have prepared and pre- sented, in their official capacity, and represent. ing, we presume, their respective committees, an indictment against Abrabam Lincoln, the executive head of the nation, and the nominee of his party for another term of office, charg- ing him ‘with arrogance, ignorance, usurpation, knavery and a host of other deadly sins, in- cluding that of hostility to the rights of bu- manity and to the principles of republican government. Nothing that Vallandigham or the most venomous of the copperhead tribe of Politicians have uttered in derogation of Mr. Lincoln bas approached in bitterness and force the denunciations which Messrs. Wade and Davis, shining lights of the republican party, have piled up in this manifesto. The ostensible motive for the address which these gentlemen have seen fit to issue ‘‘to the supporters of the government” is to show that the design which the President had in view in not approving and signing the bill passed by Doth houses at the lust session “to guarantee to certain States, whose governments have been usurped, a republican government,” white he did not assume tbe responsibility of vetoing it, was that he might, by pursuing his own plan of readmitting rebel States on the pretended return to loyalty of one-tenth of their inhabi- tants, hold in his bands the control of the next Presidential election. The reasoning on this point is brief, but fraught with siguificance. Here it is:— tawn*nolds the” electoral voles tte Fabel States at the dictation of his persooal bition, Ir thove w te turn ine balance in his favor, is it to be supposed that ig compdilor, defeated by such means, will “te rebel majority assert their suprem™>> in tnose nd gend yous syhieh elect 89 ehemy of the gov. ernmeéni, will we not repé: i215 Ciatcia’ And 1s wt that civil war for the Presidency, inaugurated by the votes of rebel States? The President is told, in so many words, that if he dare to carry out the scheme foreshad- owed his election will be resisted, and civil war for the Presidency inaugurated. Will not this ; make him pause? Will it not, at least, make the supporters of the government, to whom this remarkable document is addressed, pause and consider whether it is wise, in any aspect of the case, to go through with the sham nomi- nation made at Baltimore, and persevere in an attempt to impose upon the country for another term of four years a chief magistrate who has given such signal proofs of bis incompotency, ‘in the Gret place, and whose plans for seour- | ing a re-election are likely, in the second place, | to lead to such disastrous consequences? We | trust the appeal will reach the mind and con- | science of the republican party, and lead to a call for & new national convention, at which | the action of the officeholders’ convention at | Baltimore will be repudiated and annulled, to- | gother with that of the othor farce at Cleye- | land, and by which men of acknowledged | ability and patriotism will be put ta nomina. tlou for the high and arduous offices of Presi- | dent and Vice President of the United S Such js the evident design of those wi prepared and issued this mavif irs ill for Mr. Lincoln's el by an aspirations to have ‘ such eoutimeuts exore. ending men ip NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1864, his party as are contained in the following extract, which cioses the addweps: The President has greatly presumed om the forbearance which the ters ate practised, 10 vies of the Ongaged, Bod the reckless ponenie Hut be most onderstand that our suppor! ts of @ and mo of a wea FOCHLY OF Our political ep- cau, that The antbormty of Cappress is pure’ mount ard must be respected; that the whole boay of the Union meno, by him of va. wishes ¢ congress will mot submet (o he timpea hed hand unconiitudional lepwmiation; and, of he prort, he mua conine Rimseb” to has excculine and eorcur, Wt make the laws—to supp oss d rebeihon, awd leane potitica reorganization orters of the government fail to insist on me responsible for thé usurpations which and are justly Hable to the indivua- rights and security, committed 4, they sacrifice, sider the remedy for these usurpations, and, hawang found it, -ar'essly —zecutent, RF. W Choarmaa Senate Committes. H. WINTEE ‘DAVIS, Chairman Committve House of Representatives on the Rebellious States, Mr. Lincoin has been frequently represented as entertaining and expressing an ardent wisb that he could slip off his shoulders the anxie- ties and labers belonging to his present po- sition, and place upon them the musket and knapsack of a Union volunteer. The oppor- tunity of realizing that wish now presents itself. The country would be overjoyed to see it realized, and all the people would say “Amen” to it. Let him make up bis mind to join the quota which his town of Springfield, Ill, will next be called on to furnish. He is said to have done well as a railsplitter, and we have no doubt that he-will do ‘equally well as a soldier. As a President ef the United States, he must have sense enough to see and acknow- ledge he bas been an egregious failure. The best thing he can now do for himself, his party and his country is to retire from the high po- sition to which, in an evil hour, he was exalted, and, if any military ardor possesses him, join the ranks of the army. One thing must be self- evident to him, and that is that under no cir- cumstances can he hope to be the next Presi- dent of the United States. The dissatisfaction with his administration, which has long been felt by the great body of American citizens, has spread evento his own supporters, and now, if he will not make a virtue ot necessity, and withdraw from the Presidential contest, “the supporters of the government” will be very apt to act upon the advice given them by Messrs. Wade and Davis—to “consider the’ remedy for these usurpations, and, having found it, fearlessly execute it.” That remedy, need we say what it is? Mr. Lincoln cannot need to be told that it is the same of which the winds have been whispering for some weeks past—the assembling of a new national conven- tion at Buffalo, to put in nomination for the Presidency a man in whom ql the people of the United States will repose trust and confi- dence—some such man as Grant, MoOleilan, Hancock, Sherman or Hooker. The Rebels Again im Maryland—Another Surprise in Preparation fot Wash. ington, The rebels are again in Maryland, aad another panic prevails in the southern border counties of Pennsylvania. Gov. Curtin has accordingly issued s call for thirty thousand men “for the exigency” —waiting, as usual, for the near approach of the enemy before making preparations to receive him. We apprehend that if the defence of Pennsylvania shall be left to these thirty thousand men, still to be raised, there will be nothing to check the ene- my in a Northern movement, whether thirty thousand, twenty thousand, ten thousand or less than five thousand strong, short of that difficult natural obstruction known as the Sus- quehanna river. The inhabitants of the country below, meantime, seem to be actuated by but one idea—that supreme idea of running off their borses, cattle, live stock and other movables, beyond the reach of those terrible Southern barbarians, the smallest of whom, no doubt, to the Pennsylvania farmer, stands, barefooted, at least forty feet high. In view, however, of what we consider the main design of the enemy in all these desul- tory and perplexing operations along the Upper Potomac, we think the panic-stricken yeomanry of the Pennsylvania border have some reason for their alarm. The rebellion now is in serious danger of a violent death from strangu- lation. Grant has it by the throat at Rich- mond, and cannot be made to relax his hold, except by some desperate and -formidable diversion that will compel him, as McClellan was gompelled, and as Hooker was compelled, to turn his back upon Richmond in order te save Washington. That this great design underlies all these guerilla movements along the Maryland border we do most seriously believe. We ey my that Early, Breckingidge, Moy by, Imoaen and Company are for the present engaged in the important work of providing, at convenient stations, all the way up the Shenen- doah valley, the depots of supplies necessary to enable an army of sixty or eighty thousand men to move down in light marching order, so rapidly as to be in Maryland again in advance of any reliable warning of their numbers or their near approach. In this view of the sub- ject, we care leas to know what Iunter, Crook and Averill are doing than what the adminis- tration is about at Washington. When we were satisfied that General Joe Johnston had been removed from the command of the rebelarmy of Georgia and recalled to Richmond we guessed that it was for more important service nearer Washington. We showed, too, from his military experience in and knowledge of all the country between Richmond and the line of the upper Potomac, and especially the Shenandoah valley, that he was the very man to head the movement of a rebel army in this direction. Now we find the rebel journals at Richmond admitting that in this view of the matter we were right; for they «com to believe that our opinions were actual facts obtained through the agency of spies or leaky veasela in communication with the rebel War Office, Whatever may be the truth in regard to this thing, there is one unquostiona- ble fact which so strongly suggests another rebel descent upon Wasbington that we would earnestly call to it the special attention of the administration. The only point at which the armies of Jeff. Davis, around the whole circlo of the rebel- liow, oan by any apparent possibility inflict a blow upon te that will be, if successful, of any cisive advantage to their cause, is Wasbing- At this crisis, too, a successful blow at ton. ! this point might at once change the whole face of affairs, and, through the intervention of Fravoe and England, might result in breaking up the United States into, not two, but three or four, contederacies of the South American order, In view of these results, cannot Lee under- take to hold fora few weeks the defences of Petersburg and Richmond with even twenty thousand men, while, with sixty or eighty thousand, eiiher he or Johnston is sweeping down the Shenandoah vatley for the vulnerable north side of Washington? Can this idea never be impressed upon the thick beads of our War Office, that desperate men, in desperate extremi- ties, are always ready for, and are often suc- cessful in, the most desperate enterprises? Wuat Nicorx Freepom Costs.—Some years ago the abolitionists. started a crusade, as friends of humanity, to free the niggers, and their agitation of that subject brought on the present war. Thia war to free the niggers has now raged relentlessly for three years, and what isthe result? There were at the com- meacement four millions of niggers in slavery. It is estimated that the war has made one mil- lion free, But even all of this. million have not been able to stand the ordeal of their passage from slavery to freedom. Two or three hundred thousand have. perished meat- while by famine, disease and bullets. Butnay that in round numbers one-quarter’ of the nig- gers have been made free, what has it cost us, as friends of humanity, to free this milliont North and South together‘ bave paid well for it; for in the armies of both sections. there have been killed of disabled, or have died, not Jess than one million white men—e fair balance, man for man. A white man dies for every’ nigger that is made free. But this is not all. The debts.of beth sections make up the round sum of five thousand millions ef dollars. ‘hus, for every nigger that has been made free, in obediénce to the clamors of the friends of humanity, the whole country has given five thousand dollars and the life of one white man. | At this rate what will be left of us when we. have made free the whole four millions? Will it not be like the Kilkenny cat fight? Will there be any more left than the tails? Fervanpo Woop on THe Peace Trat.—It is reported that Fernando Wood has made ar- rangements to send a large delegation from this city to the peace gathering to be held at Syracuse on the 18th of this month. This meet- ing is held for the purpose of operating upon the Chicago Convention. It is proposed to send a delegation to Chicago, and Wood is playing his cards to be chairman and leader of the delegation, just as he was of the outside delegation from this State to Charleston. It is probable that he will succeed this time in getting Dean Richmond into his toils, and be- come the leading spirit of the Chicago Conven- tion. Having accomplished this much, he will be able to nominate Vallandigham, Pugh, or perhaps himself, for the Presidency. He is playlag a desperate game, which, of course, he would not do unless he saw some chances of winning at Chicago. Generat Covgm AND THE PENNSTLVANIANS— A Lovp Catt For Kana Loc.—Some Pennsyl- vanians, led oi y imon Cameron, recently called upon the dent to remove General Couch from hie comnistd of the Department of the Susquehanna, and put Genera! Cadwallader in bis place. It appears that all tha. portion of the people of Pennsylvania who recentiyran away at the approach of McCausland—and that proportion of course includes nine in every ten of the native Pennsylvantans-—think that Gene- ral Couch did not do his duty because MoCaus- land burned their houses. General Couch is, therefore, unpopular. - But we never yet heard that the wrath of the ‘Pennsylvanians had burt any one, and we fancy that the General can stand it. It isa pity, however, that the Presi- dent skould not give them a commander after their own hearts. General Couch, at Williams- burg, in the centre, at Fair Oaks, on the right; in the red hot heart of the fire at Malvern Hill, at Antictam, at Fredericksburg, at Chancel- lorsville, and in several other hot places, im- bibed the prejudice that the way to treat the rebellion was to look it in the face and fight it, That will forever render it impossible for him to be a suitable commander for that craven race that inhabits the country in which Gettys- burg and Chambersburg lie. Wu tHe Quota Br Firisp in New Yorr’— This has become a very serious question. It should be earnestly considered by every prop- erty holder and peace-loving citizen. We again call upon the capitalists to supply abun- dance of funds to help along enlistments. If six hundred dollars bounty is not enough make ita thousand. If ‘a thousand be not sufficient make it two thousand. Let property holders and capitalists, we repeat, strengthen the honds of the authorities before it is too late. Mr. Blunt ig ready at all hours to receive sub-, Seriptions at his office. Uxpenuente a Great Max.—The Journal of Commerce professes to be a wise and dis- oreet friend of General McClellan. We doubt its triendship very much. It continually de- clares that McClellan is the only great soldier in the country. We have always had large faith in the abilities of General McClellan, and have always earnestly desired that the public service should have the benefit of those abili- ties; but it is absurd to assert, in the face of the history of the last tew years, and in view especially of the achievements of Generals Grant and Sherman, that General McClellan monopolizes the military genius of the coun- try. Let not the real friends of McClellan be led to injure him through such mistaken zeal. A Canprpate vor Fort Larayerrs.—Ir yes- terday’s Tribune poor Greeley bitterly attacks Stanton and Seward, thongh not so bitterly as Wade and Winter Davia attack Lincoln. Why don’t Seward touch his little bell and order Greeley’s arrest? Why don’t Stanton lock Greeley up in Fort Lafayette? Is it be- cause they dare not? Intormation upon this point will be thankfully received. hs AND DEPUTY OXAND COMMANDERS ADMIT THY BXISTENCS OF THE ORDER, Br. Loum, August 6, 1966, ‘The Democrat of this morning contains the esseotial points of the comfersion of Greea B. Smith, Seoretary of the Order of Amorican Knights, Charios L. Hunt and Charles f. Duna, the formor the Grand and the latter the Deputy Grand Com mander, also asked for & re-examination, in which they acknowledged their former statemrote to be untrue, admitted the existence of the Order of Amorican Knights aad their momborship of it. ‘This confession gives many dotails of the workings ant oa of the order; but oo now facts of impostaace THE REBEL INVASION The Rebels Crossing the Poto- mac at Hancock. Averill’s Pickets Driven Into Cumberland. OCCUPATION OF HAGERSTOWN. SEBELFEIN? ON HARPER’S FERRY Consternation in the Oumderland ‘Walley. PROCLAMATION OF GOVERNOR. CURTIN, | hte &o.. &e. Mr. T. C, Wilson’s Despatches. ; Haoxastown, Md., August 6, 1864; ADVANCING UFO HAGERSTOWN. A rebel force is within four miles of this place, on the Sharpsburg pike. This is positive. As to whether they ‘will advance further wo have yet to learn, ‘Hacesstows, M4., August 5—A. M, ‘We are in the midst of an excitement}? said to be threatened by rebels, and afflicted with more reports of @ premoditated rebel invasion, In ® despatch immedl- ately preceding this ove an assertion was made that the rebels were preparing for another invasion movement. ‘This bas been verified by the operatious of the previous evening, and by indications that aro just now of an im- minently threatening character. ‘Yestorday-afternoon wore quietly away, and was only accompanied by a fow.light shades of disquictude. At length the evoning “came, and. with it @ mulfi- Plicity of reports, ‘conflicting in almost every fnstanoe, but still possessing sufficiest ferce to merit our serious consideration. - Notwithstanding these reports, the streets... eacoted their usual appearance, al- | most the same as in the bygone hours of ‘ul times Gaily dressed ladies ‘studiously arrayed gentlemen ‘together promensdedjtbe principal thoroughfare, while the hotels and some of the busizess men continued to turp an honest penny, even though the social eky wes omicousiy threatening storm. Darkness succeeded, and then it was military affairs began assuming a threatening aspect. From various sources ipformstion reuched us that the rebels were crossing the Potot river in thred placee— Clear Spring, Shepherdstown and |)am No. 4 Towards daylight our pickets thrown out on the Sharps- Durg rosd hastily entered the town, and reported that ‘they bad been driven in. We heard some firiog; but it was only of @ light, straggling character. The duty of ‘videttes was cheerfully assumed by cttizens. who noted well their part, and did not come in until it was necessery they should do so. In this byhly anxious aod imminently uncertain state we remaived for several hours. 1 us, revealing many interesti occasion certainly the @ risers. Daylight found them all up Some gathered ground the telegraph office for news. otters flocked around the latest incomers for information from ‘tho front, while an immense number of nitives and strangers precipitately left in every species of four and two wheeled conveyances. The departure of thoso indi. viduals was attended with all kinds of laughter and dear, the interim the full light of daycame upon city sights. On this Hagerstown were early goodby remarks, The streets were kept constant echoing the tread of horses. Great numbers the ‘mers pressed through with their stock, on their way to Gettysburg, Waynesboro and Chamberabure. As I close this despatch the rebels are advancing en two roads—the one leading from Will! the other from Sharpsburg are pow within Sabort bcp the town, and bay enter it in few mines ‘wo con learn thore (sd Pinltee fedtoaion that we are threatened with an extensive advance: but, judging by past experience, it.” on it is a8 well to be prepared for 1 Persons who left Williamsport thie. morning say they ae Jere penis. we Vi ta fide of tbe Potomaa rand at tho ne they Toft Tebols were crossing, seomingly im heavy force. No more from bere at present, as the government tele eal ts DOW Ris orcamet Coamptey wat, open Decause Legnfeleracy are in town. ‘ } cocuraTon OF a ~ ‘The rebels entered Hagerstown at tem A, M, to-day/ Mr. N. Davidson's Despatch. Barrmeons, Angust 6, 1966 ‘The en-my made a threatening demonstration from Charlestown towards Harper's Ferry and Halitown yes- terday evening, in two'columns, They proved to 86 small bodies, which rétired without showing Agbt, Early seems to bave divided his corps into maranding and threatening bands,’ with the desiga of,occupying General Hunter's attention as mach ore all-along “the Potomac, from Hancock to the m of the Moncca- oy. At the samo time be evolds giving him battte, Major Eltis, Inspector upon General Getty’s taf, died very easeeny, yesterday from the effects of ‘8 recent wou! which he bad hitherto deomedof ittie eye ele wey sed ing on the er an river, craers have eee issued to our vous’ ana pickets in this department to bring none of these men in aa pris- oners of war, ; Our Special Washington Despatch. ‘Wasuaton, Aagust 6, 1864. ‘Ibere is some excitement hore ia reference to the ope- rations of the rebel forces in Maryland, and wild reports are in circulation in regard to the numbers and purpose of the invaders. ‘There can be little doubt that a serious attempt ts te ‘ve made by General Lee and the rebel authorities to transfor the campaign to Northern soil, and thas compel the abandonment by Grant of bis present position before Potersburg and Richmond. The plan willfatl, for it is ‘well understood that uoder le combination of Durg, and diminish the difficulties’ be encountered there. It is believed he is now this, and ampie preparations are being made to meet this demonstration. It would not be proper to detail what those ‘prepara. tions are; but it will suffice to aay that Grant is awake to the exigoucies of the occasion, and will be found equal to them, and will find means to circumvent the movoments of bis wily advorsary, and at the same time press for- ‘ward to the reduotion of the rebel capital, which is in no dla oneal laar ca assault on Satur. day last. THE PRESS DESPATCHES. at Hancock, Md. Hannssvra, Pa., August 5, 1864. ive of General Averill’s messengers came into Mo. Connelsburg, Fulton county, last night. ‘They report the robels are crossing the river at Han cock three thousand strong. ‘They also state that Gotioral Averill is at Cumberland, and that his pickets have becn driven in by the invaders. The Reb: The Rebel Occupation of Hagerstown. Harnssuna, Aagust 5, 1864. The occupation of Hagerstown is confirmod by official Gespatehes, Three regiments of cavairy and two of in- fantry are strongly posted in and around the town. ‘The fact that the rebel expedition is accompanied by tnfantry is @ strong indication that thie force ie the ud vance of a large body,as such troops are not used for marauding purposes only. i ‘After crossing at Sheppardstown it appears that the @nemy passed through Sharpsburg end sn A ie jorstown ¢ ae th Sete gureemate teave on a band car, closoly puraved by ® ‘ State Line, a tele- graph tiation on the Frabkila ratiroad, coven amies north of Hagerstown. ‘The operator there states that the rebels in Hagerstown have thrown out pickets, but as yet havo made no farther advance movements. General Averill’s Pickets Driven tnto Cumbe \. Haenwsvero, Pa, ge tot 1844, Despatches received bore at anearly hour this morn- Ing state that the rebels were then crossing Ban Hanoock,and that they bad drivea General Avorill’e Cumberland, hi peodegerry dospatoh, técelved at nine A. M., conveys the intelligence thas the rebels eocupied Hagerstown 1a foroo this morning. A greatest ation once more provalls amor ans poame in the) gouthermporsion of the Cumberland, valley. rmore from thoi homes with thoir when aud thet " ira Benornlly 18 reported to be per- foctiy’ panic atcicken bY (bis siden and to them anex: pected ccqupation again of tho owwntry by the rebels, noe of the Rowe's on Harpor’s Ferry, ari r Datrtwone, Auguat 6, 1964. Aporson Who loft Charleston, Va., early yestorday morn. { (og reports thata rebel fureo, componed of Monby’s and i Imbodgu's gavalrg aud magunted infantry, emi! nuyed at a oe < seven thousand strong, femt on Harper's Ferry, while General Karty, with aome tweive (nousani mfepiry, was guarding the trams o Pluuder aad grain at Buniter Hull, and wae aboat starving up the valley. ‘Rebel parties were scattered at different points in the valley, gatbering iu gram and collecting oasbe, aod would Join Genera! Ewell in his mired. The redoit conscripted all the men they could lay a. and eves bye of BIxiond vers Of agey y had @scsped and were bidiog 1 the moAMtare le! ig thatas soon as the trains are wot o® Vaucou tbe-eatire rebel force will retire up the vadiey, Bight at Now creow, Va. Pauaperesna, Angust 5, 1864, A fight @ Now Oreck, Virginia, wis clso reported’ te have tukeu place yesterday afvernuon ; but up,t0 last evoe- Q, DO result bad been ascertained, Hargisnora, August 5, 19¢4 A derpatoh from Somerset, received at teu P ML, bates that the Union loas {n the tignt at No was twenty nive killed and ufty wounded, 18° ow Geu. Kel y d feasted the rebels A despatch from Greencastie at cight P.M. states tues agenti hud just arrived thers who says be saw tue Tovels crossing at Williamsport beiweeu six mud twaive Peivck this morning, Bix OF eight tousand girsog, imantry and cavalry, Movements of the Rebels, Tareisnvra, Aug 5, 1864, ‘We had communication from this poiut by tetogragn with Staio Line station at eight o’clock this evoaing, ‘The communication does not extend bevend Greencasua, the rebels having entered Middlebury, oievoa miles nores of Hagersiown, La what force they oocry Mildiebury is no. kiowd, It ts presumed that they hove more taup the five regiments which entered Hagerstowo this mroing. Tue movements of the apemy are utterly inexp/icxble. Thy seem detwrioined to Thyest their operttions wito as mush mystery as postiple,: both a8 to mumvers, tates tions and pornis of attack.’ At the game time that the five regiments wore adv rae ing towards Chambersburg, another clump, it is re ported, was moving up the Potomac in the dircction ot Cumberland, the strougth of which colupu nove of eur officials are able-to teara. A telegraphic report bas just reached these beadqnar- ters from Bedford, to the efiect that passengers by the Stage, who bad reached that 2 represent Ubat @ Ae tovk place at Cumberland on Thu iy, which a 4 loss to our side of tweuty killed aad thirty No.other particulars are wiven Prociamation by Guvermer Ourtin.. GCVERNOK'S Orrice,Hagersnura August 5, 1866. , ‘The following proclamation has been iseued:— Im the numo aud by the anthority of the Commos woulth of Peonsyivania, 1, Andrew G. Ourtin, Governer Of the said Common wogith: 4 PROCLAMATION, ‘The advance of the rebel army bas acain crossed the Potomac, and this morning oooupied Hagerstown. | call for thirty thousand voluateer militia, to be mastered the service of the State, to serve during the emor -for (he defence of the State. Tue men east of Jenut will rendezvous at Harrisburg, and those west of that place at Pittsburg. 3 Loannot two earnestly urge upon the people of the State set forth the arrangements for trauspor tation & the mode of organization. RIIN. HmapQuantars, PaNNsyivania Mnuavia, August 4, 1864, Pirs-—Thas all able bodied mon of Pennsylvapia ae immediately assombie ia their respective borvagbs, the necessity for tho immediate presouce-of tht forea The generai ordors which wecompauy this proclamation A, G. By the Goveroor—Eu. Surge, Secretary of State. GENERAL ORDERS—N®, 53. Tn accordance with my proclamation, this day made, # is ordered: — wards aud townsbipg, and urgavize companies (or the ae fence of the State. ‘aptdly as organized, wilt, em nt railroad companies, be (ar nishod with transportation by the United States to the proper rendezvous. boxe organized west of Juhasiowa to Camp Reyaolus, at Pittsburg; those east of Jobnstowe to Camp Curtin, at Harrisburg, where they wiil be sup- ‘States government, sworn into the for defence during the period of the ents, G. CURTIN, Governor and Commander in-Chief. 4.8. Russeiz, Adjutant General of Pounsyivania, i Reported Defeat of the Rebels in West- ern Virginia. [From the Wheeling Intelligencer, Auguat 4.{ ‘We have a report that would aeem to be application to wires Despatches récelved yesterday morning announce the rebeis were at Brady’s mills, about tea miles Cumberland. Ata later hour in the day we were ad- ybat they had destroyed two culverts at Brady*a mills and were still retreat! Gen. Kelley in pursuit. The culverts were being repaired, ‘very Ustie Joss would be occasioned, MEWS FROM WASHINGTOR. Wasmuaron, August 5, 1864, THE PROPOSED RESTORATION OF GEN. MCLELLAN TO COMMAND. - ‘The pressure on the President to restore Gon. { Cisiian to command, sad put him iu charge of the army ‘and defences. of Washiugton, is oonstanuy intredeiig. ‘Leading and influential republicans are constantly urgieg, personmily and’ by letter, the necessity of something of the kind being done. The President, it is understood, {a disposed to yield, at least so far as to authorize him'te raise at once fifty thousand men for the special servjee indicated; but a leading member of the Cabinet opposes 4%. There is a very lively row golog on sbout this mat- ter, and its importance Js by no means undereswmsted by either the friends or enemies of McClellan. The re sult is'yet uncertain; but If the opposition of the iadi- vidual referred to wore overcome no further éiflcuby ‘Would be experienced in arranging it, ’ SUBSORIPTIONS TO THR GovERYMENT Loa. | © ‘The subscriptions to the seven-tuirty loan reported te the Treasury Department to-day amoumt to nearly $1,500,000, THD FLAG OF TROCE BOAT. ; The flag of truce boat which is to make.a trip te ‘Varina, on the James river, has not yet arrived at Fors Delaware, and it may be some days before she is ready for the excursion. MILITARY AFFAIRS, Board of Supervisors. , Bow TO FILL THE COUNTY QUOTA—THS SUBJ! OF APPOINTING AGENTS 70 RBCKUIT IN STATSS BEFRRRED, BTC. The Board of Supervisors held a special meeting yesterday aftérnoon—Supervisor Tweed in the chair. Acircalar from the Provost Marsbal General of the Btate to the Sapervisors of the several counties was read, recommonding recruiting Io the rebel Stales,and the payment of bounties of two Bundred and iifty dollars te each recruit so obtained, and fifty dollars to the agent procuring the recruit. This recommendation was given for uniformity and % avoid competition, which might be injurioas, Supervisor Lerriz moved that the subject of appointing agents to recruit for the county inthe rebel States be referred tothe Committee on Volunteering, with instrue- tome to report at tho noxt aS. 4 Supervisor PURD® I hoped the never engage in @beracterized It as trafiicipg’ in humana flesh. able to perform tbe duty of maintaining the Union with- ‘out following the example of Massachusetts in kidvapping ‘Negroes to have them slaughtered. poor lied that the object wae merely to reba stay ane an ‘vhe county quote without being obi: ‘to resort ton draft of our citizens, There are white men in the rebel States as woll as black men, aud there was nothing to lexd any one to believe that we want to fecruivany partioular of men, if wedo agree to ‘Teerait Mm the Southern States. Alter ey re nem the resolution offered by tle Was ai . o ervisor S00K then'moved that the county atilt con- tinue to pay thfee hundred dollars to every man Hable 62 draft who brenae, owen a (aod some opposition from Supervisor Pardy it oe rr at those who ie Supervisor Snoox then mo: thi bry money money with the Volunteer Committee to procure tutes prov: for them, the tone batt othe gartien bringing the substitutes to the ofice. A ‘ Suoon offered a Tecolution that the Comimit- ¥ 35 on Volunteering confer with the Polica Commissto ‘on the bost plan of filling the quota of the coun: “fue Board then adjourned. ‘The Queta of New York. Aran, August 6, W364., An order signed by Adjutant General Sprague was is- sued to-day, which states that the quota of the Sate ™o- ‘dur vbe Inst call of the Prosident, amounts to 7 -pine thousand three hundred and eighteen men. Under authority received from the War Dapartmont, ‘one handred companies aré to be organized. A’shoriza- to recruit a company tpon, applica. tice hieitaners bers, Proferenge will Rovgtven to these who Dave been in the servic“. Hews from San Franctsom | Sat Paanomoo, August 4) 1864. ‘About a doen thrifty farmors, Of Banta Clara county have been arrested on the charge of being confodorates: of the robet highwaynton who have been robying t stagen aod expressos 10] Slorra Nevada, They are ends,” aod it ts thought they were helping J a. pethioata beld a méeoting In City Inet oventeg to protest iinet Pn rinasier Wailor, wivo te chairmen of the Dem soratio State Commit liiary ancbori © charge of using ue, The We etlug Was @ sanall alfale tee, by th troasonali }, were there, aed abowt to make 9 *