The New York Herald Newspaper, August 10, 1864, Page 4

2 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GURDON BENNETS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE K. W, CORNER OF _—_ AND NaSSaU STS. ‘TERME cash io advance money seat by mail wil be et the risk of the sendor. None but banic bilis current in Kew York tekea. TBE DAILY HERALD, Tease oenls per copy. Volume XXI AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—East Lene. WALLACK'S THEATRES, Broadway.—Tag Laisa Eur Gua DY ANDY. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ruy Bias—An Aran. Foot—Masom oF ABBEVILLE. BARNUN'S MUSEUM. Broadway.—Two Gtants. Two DWAakis, AUDINOS. Bamrents, &o at all houra, Tue Bacio Cave—ai 1 A. M., Sand 7% P. WOOD'S NINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Ermoruas Bongs, Dances, &c.—UN To KicumonD. CAMPBELL MINSTRELS. 199 and 201 Bowery. —Vagizp AND ExoiTING MELANGE oF Krusorian Oppirees. RW YORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broads Goncatie ED Leora mgs, from 9 A, M. Mill 10 P, aa aed FOOLET'S OPERA Bouse, Brookiyn.—Ermortas ria Dances, Burtesqurs, &c. New York, Wednesday, August 10, 1864. ADVERTISEMENTS FOR “THE COUNTRY, Advertisements for the W ¥ Higeauy must be band- «Gin bofore ten o'clock every Weduesday evening Its Circulation among tbe enterprising mechanics, farmers, merobonts, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- eerted in the Wxskiy Herato will thas be seen by a large portion of the active and energetic people of the United States. THE SITUATION. Thore is very little news of importaoce from General Grant’s army to day. In the extra session of the Pennsylvania Legisiature Governor Curtin calis upon the peoplo to organize and Protect themselves against the rebel raid. It does not ‘Sppoar, however, that the raiders are making any ad- ‘vance into the State. General Shoridan’s assignment to the command of the ‘Middle Military Division of Virginta is welcomed by the troops with great good will, The rebels are said to be Moving up the Shenandoah valley, a beavy force of the anion troops hanging upon their rear. Martinsburg is Teported to have been occupicd by Union troops yester- day. Particulars of the success of General Averill at Moore @eld are before us. He is said to have captured be- tween five and six hundred prisoners, including General Johnson, who subsequently escaped, and his whole Staff, with thoir colors, all the rebel artillery and trains, and a large quantity of small arms. Genoral ‘BicCausiand himself, it is reported, barely escaped by fy Jog into the mountsins. General Averill pursued the rebel force for twenty-four miles, oapturing many of the fugitives. His entire Joss in killed was seven meo. The pursuit was abandoned, it appoars,-only when Gene- fal Averili’s horses were too exhausted to follow the edels into the mountains.” + ‘We bave lave news from Port Royal to the 6th Inst , by ‘which It appears that General Birney has made a raid to Florida, by which he bad destroyed several bridges over Important creeks aud rivers, captured a locomotive and Beven cars on the railroad between Baldwin and Fernan. dina; also captured @ quantity of small arms and sup- plies. Heavy firing on the city of Charleston and Fort Sumter ‘was comlinued up to the time the steamer left. From Geueral Foster's department, at Hilton Head, 8 G, the latest news ts the mutual exchange of five generals and forty-five field officers of our service, including those who were held under fire severally wt Charleston by the rebels and at Morris Gsiand by our forces. The list of the officers ‘Shos released appears in our columns to-day. Private advices from South Carolina inform us that there were thirty thousand Union prisoners in Andersopvite about be 84 of August. Nearly two thousand eight bundred Prisoners died there during the month of Jane” MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. . The Cunard steemsbip Sidon, which left Liverpool at Boon on the 26th, and Queeastown on the 27tb of July, arrived at this port yesterday morning. The French AM rewsatlwtic Steamship Company’s steamer Washiogton, Cuptain Duchesne, from Havre on the 27th of July, weached this port yesterday morning. The news and Bewspaper Gies of both vessels have been anticipated. At the meeting of the Board ef Supervisors yesterday ‘8 g00d deal of discussion arese on the subject of recrait- fing io rebel States to Mi the county quota. A motion made by Mr, Blunt to commence recruiting in rebel Biates by the appoimtment of agente and offering of Dounties to recruite wae finally lost, and thus the ques- tion settled for the present in the negative. Tt was decided yesterauy by Judge Jos. Barnard, in the case of the people vs. George Keyser, that « conviction ta ‘the Court of Special Sessions of petit larceny, where the property stolen exceeded twenty-five dollars in value, ‘would held good, The spplication to discharge the pris- over was therefore denied. Tn the United States District Court yesterday United States Commissiover Veborn announced that, in conse. ‘quence of the absence of Judge Betts, all motions and processes wouki staod over until bis retura—about the Jatter cnd of the present month. The criminal calendar shows unmistakable signs that Crime is on the increase in this ofty. For the past week compiainte have been pouring into the office of the Gene- raf Sessions, especially obarges of grand larceny; and if ‘the police magistrates coatinue to send them io during the month the probability ts that the September term ‘will be ® very busy one, A boy, only thirteen years of age, named Jobn Lasiey, charged with committing a rape oo Mary Glangluf, was held to answer. Lackey Mao- wing, who caused the death of ti wife by shooting ber ‘with & pistol on the Mot of Joly, at No. 125 West Tweoty- Seventh street, was committed to the Tombs for trial. Joan aod Elizabeth DeGroot are held on a charge of grand larceny, in stealing a gold watch and sot of ear- riogs, the property of Lonisa Bowdon, West Thirty-frst Breet. It te charged that the theft was committed while the defendants were inspecting the house, which was mdvertived to let, They both protest thelr Innocence, @lfirming that they were never in the house, At & late moeting of the Grovers’ and Tea Clerks’ Karly Closing Assooiation the gratifying announcement ‘was made by the president that the grocers aud toa deal- ers bad evinced sa inclination to accede to the request of tho assoviation, and that om and after the 19ta iustant they would close their stores at seven o'clock P.M. This ‘will be a great boon to the young men io those branches Of busivess, and it is to be hoped that they will tura it to go0d account, A democratic meeting was bold in Greeocastic, Indiana, on the 6th instant, Mesars. Emerson Ktheridge and D. ‘W. Voorbees wore the principal epeakers. Mr. Voorhees expects to be the oamdidate for Vice President on the Chicago tickm. ‘The stock market was inclined to bacyancy yesterday, Dut lacked the activity which incites speculation. Gor- ernment securitios were firm, with # livety demand for the five (weuties and the registered bonds of GoM was lower, the cheering news from Mobilo hayiug bad Gepressing effect on the market, It sold down to 258%, end closed at 254. Money is acoumuleting in the hands Of lenders, and borrowers are not disposed to allow any ‘Commission om the bogel rate of imterest. ‘The fali ia gold created quite a stir in commoroial oir. Clos yesterday, especially where an advance wae oon- Bdently looked for. Valves aro griahty nngeitied, and post kinds of merchandise—especially domestic pro. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST tv, 1864 was about the eame ag 0a Monday. On ‘Change flour was 100, a 20¢ lower; wheat, Sc. a Sc. ;eorn, Le. ; pork, $1 per bb!. Lard heavy and drooping. Whiskey steady, Freighta quite aotiye, but rates drooping. There was no marked change in the market for beef cattle this week, though prices showed a much wider range, which was neceasitated by the grext diférence ia the quality of the offerings, Prices varied from 60. to 18e.—a diference of 12c. a pound, which fairly ropre- sents the difference in quality, Prime cattle were wanted at 1Tc, a18c., and fair to good at Lic, a 1d ie. Cows were unchanged, Veals were steady, Sheep and lamb: re Called substantially the sane, though prime sheep were lower. Prices varied from $3 25 to $6 a $7 each. Hogs were scarce and firmer at 11i¢c.to12c. The receipts wore 4,403 booves, 154 cows, 2,704 vealae 16,359 sheep aud lambs, and 3,020 hogs. Mobile—A Powerful Movement in Sup- port of Sherman and Grant. The cheering rebel news from Richmond, which we published yesterday, that the main body of Admiral Farragut’s squadron, running the gauntlet of Fort Morgan, had entered Mo- bile bay; that in the naval fight which followed the rebel fleet of iron-clads and cotton-clads had been so terribly cut up that it was doubt- ful if a single ship could be saved, and that our fleet was approaching the city, would seem to justify the conclusion that if Mobile is not now it very soon must be occupied by the Union forces. It is probable, however, that it will yet bea work of some time and of con- siderable labor to reduce the city to a capitula- tion. A very important step, indeed, towards this result was made by Admiral Farragut in effect- ing a passage into the bay, and another in bis demolition or dispersion of the enemy’s squad- ron; but the toughest, if not the roughest, part of bis work, on the 5th of August, was still be- fore him. From Fort Morgan up the bay to Mobile the distance is about thirty miles, the upper twenty miles of which—through a tor- tuous and obstructed channel—afford no water for vessels of more than ten fect draught. Itia probable that some of the Mississippi river craft of our squadron can be worked up to the city; but we apprehend that the enemy’s earthworks on the little if#and which imme- diately covers the town, and on the mainland, on both sides, will be found too strong for any weight of metal which Farragut can bring to bear against them. He may, perbaps, be able to approach sufficiently near, at long range, to shell the town into a surrender, or to cover the landing of our ao- companying’ land forces at some convenient point for an effective flank movement; but this will depend upon the developments of a close reconnoissauce of the enemy’s line of defensive works, The entrance (three mfles wide) to Mobile bay, which is commanded on one side by Fort Morgan, is held on the other by Fort Gaines, on Dauphin Island. A detachment of our co operating land forces’ had been put ashore on this island to advance against the rear of the fort—a movement from which we infer that our admiral and general in command will first labor to secure an undisputed possession of the bay and its outlets before moving deliberately against the city itself. In any event, the pres- ence of Farragut’s squadron in the bay reduces the enemy toa choice between two alterna- tives: they must prepare for the abandonment ef Mobile, or call in heavy reinforcements to maintain it. But frem what quarter are these reinforcements to come? Mobile cannot be strengthened without weakening Hood at At- lanta; but Hood is so fur weakened already that he needs reinforcements as badly as Maury. The rebels in the Southwest, in a word, are just now in this positioa: Mobile and Atlanta are each necessary to the maintenance of the other, and yet the one must be sacrificed to save the other, or both will be lost. Thus, if Admiral Farragut has dome nothing more than to carry his squadron into Mobile bay, and to diminish the enemy's fleet therein, he has con- tributed not a little to strengthen both Sher- men and Grant, whether the enemy may elect to reinforce Maury or to abandoe*ilobtie Grant anv tax Constirvtiox.—A glowing eulogy ef Grant and a statement of the regard Grant has fer the constitution will go far to atone for the past political offeaces of Caleb Cushing, if he sets them forth eloquently in his speech at the McClellan meeting to-night. Tue Conoressiona, REPRESENTATIVES OF Gazar Cirms.—It is a remarkable fact that the principal cities of the country, and particularly New York and Philadelphia, are, as a general tule, always represented in Congress by the emallest specimens of legislative nobodies that eould be picked eut in the House of Representa- tives; but rarely has that peculiarity been so prominent as during the past session. Two of the men who had the bonor of representing this city were anxious enough to make speeches whenever they had en opportunity to do so; but, no matter what the subject under discus- sion was, each of them barped upon the one idea. With Fernando Wood it was submission to the rebels; with the sapient Brooks it was the amours of a Treasury official. But, with these two exceptions, New York was dumb in the national councils; and it might have been better for her reputation if there had been no such exceptions. Peace speeches on the part of one member, and stories of the doings of an antique Don Juan on the part of the other, were net very well calculated to make up for the drivelling imbecility of the rest of the New York delega- tion. Is it always tobe eo? Are the mighty iate- rests of this great metropolis, with its popula- tion of over a million, with its great wealth, intelligence and activity, to be committed in- variably to the keeping of such nonentities as Tammany Hall and Mozart Hall and other po- litical clubs may choose to designate for us? We hope not; but we do not see a single step taken to put anend to the evil and disgrace. While the system of primary elections is sus- tained by the people, no great city can ever be fitiy represented, because there must be always & majority of voters among those whose politi- cal knowledge goes no deeper than party names and the claptrap of demagogues. But if an earnest and bonest effort were made by the in- telligent citizens who identify themselves with no miserable party organization te have fit and proper and deceat mon elected to the Common Council, to the State Legislature and to Con- gress, following it up with active eamvassing among the bonost tradesmen and operatives who now vote for the nomiaees of Tammany and Mosert, there might be some reasonable hope of seeing sa improvement in our repre- sentatives at Wastington, our legislators at Albany and our municipal maeagons at the City Hell, Those who have large interests at stake in this community might beaeGt those interests leg giving some attention to this matter den thay do by speculative vorturss ‘ stank Bace—ware lowes. Colin was cleo lower, yeroune | ag commercial sansepioas The Friends of Ge: Grant Friepds of Gene McClellan. ‘The World pretends to be the exclusive friend of General McClellan, and the especial advocate and mouthpiece ef those friends of General McClellan who urge his chances for the Presidency; and it has the folly and the impudence to assail General Grant, and to vir- tually cbarge that he is the last and the worst of our many wilitary failures. In the course of @ siege an assault has been made, and has not met with the success expected from it. As nsual in such cases, it bas been very casy to trace this failure to a real and adequate cause, That cause, the World knows well, was the failure of subordinates—Meade and Burnside— to do their duty, conjoined with the cowardice of some bad material that the abolitionists bad forced into the army, Such is the simple bis- tory of the late disaster, and yet the World seizes upon this disaster as a pretext to impugn the capability of General Grant for his posi- tion, and declares, with malignant misrepre- sentation, that this failure is the culmination of a series of disasters, and must end the cam- paiga, If the World were the organ of Jeff. Davis it could say no. more than this; but, as the organ of the friends of General McCle!lan, such wholefale and hasty charges of failure come with a very ill grace from it. If any general has a better record or has been more successful in this war than General Grant has, it is not General McClellan. Gene- ral Grant’s achievements are great and tangible. His victories are counted by the half dozen, and when the people run over in their minds the lists of our great bat- tles they namo six of the victories of this illus trious soldier where: they name one achieved by any other. General Grant is the man who has planted the Stars and Stripes on all that part of the rebel territory that we now occupy. It is upon a much smaller basis of success than this that the World persistently admires Gen. McClellan, and it must see how glaring is its inconsistency when, despite Grant's great suc- cesses, it attempts to raise a elamor agaiast him because his subordinates mismanaged an as- sault. We always had faith in the abilities of Gen McClellan, and we often had need of it. We sympathized most heartily with that true and modest soldier when the radical and Presideat- making influences at Washington were arrayed ruthlessly against him and causod repeatedly the failure of his good plans; and we now know that the same influences are arrayed in the same way, and with the most uncompro- mising Gostitity, avatist General Grant. While we deny that Grant’s campaign is in any sense a failure, we yet know that its positive success has been thus far prevented by the very in- fluences that caused the miscarriage of General McClellan's many attempts. The inflated dotard at the bead of the War Department—a man as contemptible in intellect as he is ma- lignant and pretentious—stands fn @ position of even more determined and open hostility to General Grant than he ever did to General McClellan; for Generat Grant opposes him with more force than ever McClellan did. And the President—whbose corrupt intrigues have been denounced most bitterly in bis own party, from the Pomeroy circular to the Fremont manifesto aod the Wade-Davis letter—suffers those intrigues to sland in Grant's way to worse purpose than his meddlesome interfer- ence ever stood in McClellan’s. Grant, in his late visit to Washington, required certain things of the President. Nothing will be done that he requires, because it is thought that to do what he wisbes would injure the President’s chances for re-election. Grant opposed the appoint- ment of Butler aad Sigel; but they were kept in place, to ruin our earlier chances of success, despite bis opposition. He desires the removal of Meade and Burnside; but they will remain where they are, to cause the failure of assaults yet tobe made. Grant needs men—and the draft weuld give them—but the President will not make the draft uatil after the election is over. Moreover, since the President has but one idea, he is likely to even attempt the ruin of General Grant on account of his fear for the Presidency. It is the President’s creed that every man who will not give a pledge net to run against him for the Presidency is a candi- date for that office. He sends round men to require these pledges. By this means he has conjured yp avery respectable list of oppo- nents, and it seems that General Grant is ene ofthe number. Thdt infinitely little parasite, Mr. Hay, says that Grant is a candidate. Un- doubtedly the President has taken the right method to make him one; but in the mean- while his friends mmy see in what we have said the exact cause why the campaign does not go forward more effectively. It is silly in any one, under these circumstances, to charge our present difficulties to General Grant; but it is more especially sifly for the friends of General McClellan to do so. I-v-x-a—The meaning of the queer name of this town, where Grant won a battle, onght to be explained by Sunset Cox at the McClellan meeting to-night. Hecanalso explain why the Great West is for Grant. ‘ A Cuampion ror Caamnerseurc.—Colonel A. K. McClare comes out in a leog letter to the Philadelphia Press as the champion of the people of Chambersburg, who did not run away, who did want to fight, and who wenld have fought if they had not run away, accord- ing to Colonel McClure’s story. In the course of his letter we find this elegant sentence:— “That the Satanic Horan should defame and falsify, under any circumstances, surprises no one.” Here are afew facts in regard to McClure, which come to us from a reliable source, and which show pretty conclasively how much de- pendence is to be placed upon the statemeats of his Press romance. This McClure was among the first to leave Chambersburg when the rebels appeared. He mounjed a platform car, crowded with negroes, aod was the oaly white man on that train. He took with him his stiver ware (presented to him by the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company), but left bis wife behind. He expested ber to take eare of the rest of the property, because she had saved it once or twice before. Now it seems to us that Mrs. McClure is the porson to bear testimony to the bravery aad the manliness of the Cham- bersburg people. The gallant Colonel was not taere, and leas ne right to speak about it, Pan MoCimaan Maetive.—We hope that there will be # great ceowd at the MeClelian mecting to-night. There will be good music aad good oratory. Many of the Grant mea will be there, aod will expect to hear something about theie favorite coneral, They must got Tetus or Peact.—The Riccmond Sentinel is the organ of Jef. Davis, and that y Ten devotes Canprares vor Governor.—It seems that some democrats are putting up the name of a portion of its space to talk about ,"eace. 16] Judge Barnard as a candidate fot Governor does not repudiate and ridicule the Niagsane- gotiators as the other Richmond papers ae; neither does it indulge in the hifalutin Ledger’ rhetoric attributed to Davis by Mr. Gilmore. Ts aptly compares Mr. Lincoln’s letter to a cir- cumatance jn Lalla Rookh. In that poem the veiled prophet borrifies bis followers one day by giving them a glimpse of his frightful fea- tures—just such a glimpse as Lincoln’s letter gives to the people of bis purposes. We thought we honored a pure prophet, whose face was veiled from unworthy mortals because the light of divinity was on it. -We thought we were fighting for the bonor of our glorious Stars and Stripes, and to put down a rebellion that would destroy our country. But we find that this face was veiled only because it was so marked with crime and sin that the sight of it would fright- en even the most infatuated of worshippers, We find that we are fighting only to carry out the programme of a corrupt clique of freedom shriekers, But this Sentinel—this organ of Jeff. Davis— even makes a proposition for peace negotia- tions. Here it is:— Let perce commissioners be appointed by either sec- ton, and, invested with plenary powers of negotiation, meet on nonitral torritory, and discuss the terms of peace, Lot at! subjects be open to free dt-cussion and negotiation We ot the Soutn cous der independence ag the great and first object of the war, and that separation is esseatia! to iwdependence; yet we shall be willing (9 luten to what you have to say and propos: on the oler sid, You may oller us something that will Secure our equal rights within tbe Union; you May propose to give the stavehotding and {ree States equality of votes in Congrass and to the elece tion of l’resident; and partly t effect this you may throw all Now England into ove St e her to England — or, if England won't bave her, let ber secede. Now, this would be a tempting bait, We don't say tt would satiaty uB; bul the culject 18 worthy of consideration, We cannot say whetber the South ia exactly in the position of the chuteay qui parle; but this at least looks like an authoritative asser- tion that it would not consider Southern inde- _pendence an absolute essential to peace--that is to say, there may be terms of peace that it would accept on the basis of Union. If thia be 60, the North and the Souta are not very far apart on the peace question. Tor Lrecrenant Geverat.—Those _ politi- cians cut their own throats who try to ignore, underrate or sneer down a man who haa fought more battles and won more victories than any otber general in the army, and who has won his way from a colonelcy of militia to the Liea- tenant Generalship of the United States. Let them remember this at the McClellan mecting to-night. Tus Wrpervess Battiesi—The splendid marobes, flank movements and stubborn battles in the Wilderness we leave to the Hon. Mr. Evans and General Norton, who have just got out of the wilderness of Texas, and who are announced to speak at the McClellan meeting to-aight. Excegstve Quota or New Yors.—The com- munication we publish to-day from Mr. Blunt to Provost Marshal General Fry is of great interest, not only to our own citizens, but to the people of the State. It shows with much force that great unfairness and injustice are practised, from some inexplicable ‘cause, towards the inbabit- ants of this city in making up our quota under the late call for half a million of men. The quota for this city under the call is made up to the enormous figure of 23,140, while the call in October last, for the same number of men, made our city quota but 15,879. Since then our population has probably decreased; the material from which we create soldiers has vastly diminished; yet a demand for seven or eight thousand more. men than under the late call is made upon us, involving an excess of expenditure of two or three millions of dollars. The letter throughout presents such aa array of facts, establishing the greatest wrong upon usin this matter, that itis diffleult to under- stand bow the Secretary of War can refuse the suggestion made of the appointment of acom- mission, as once before, to correct the enrol- ment. Such a commission should be at once appointed. The seener the better. In the meantime let property holders press forward their fands to aid Mr. Blunt in furnishing recruits. Loosout Mocxtar.—How is it possible to overlook a man who has fought his way to the top of Lookout Mountain? We rely upon Hosea B. Perkins to answer this question at the MoClellan meeting to-night. Prrrssura Lanpixo.—Hiram Ketchum, Jr., has beon writing a great deal lately about McOlellan’s battles. We should like to hear him ventilate his/views of the battle of Pitts- burg Landing at the McClellan meeting to- night. Desrare or THe Sovra Caronmtans.—One of the national officers just released from con- finement in Charleston city reports that no one oan imagine how utterly used up and hopeless the rebellion is who has not spent, as be has done, some months in its very cradle. The sufferings of the people are be- yond belief, and, whatever their Northern sym- pathizers may thiak or pretend to think, they themselves are in the lowest abyss of des- pair, and utterly infuriate against the Richmond tyranny under which they groan. They are in want of the necessaries of life, and there is not ap able-bodied man or boy in att South Caro- lima who bas not been ruthlessly eonscripted. ‘The same officer reports the “bombardment ef Charleston,” kept up by Gea. Foster from Mor- ris Island, to be an utter failure. One shell burst in the yard of the prison in which the national offieers were confimed on the very morning of their release; but, with thie excep- tion, they knew nothing of the so-called siege. He expresses the confident belief—and he is aa old soldier, of the highest reputation—that for every one thousand dollars expended in shot, shell and erdoauce material by Geo. Fester the bombarded city is not injured to the value of fifty dollars. The only persons killed by it are women and ehildren, walking or playing ia the streets. The soldiers, who should be hurt by it, are all safe in their casemates and uader bombproofs. How long is this wasteful, crucl farce—to the folly of which the Henao drew attention more than eight months ago—to go on? Grayt ano Tae Uxton.—There is a disposi- tion in certain quarters to overlook and sneer at General Grant's services to the Union. We expect to hear this sternly rebuked by Senator Jobneon, of Maryland, at the MoClellan m ing to-night. Tar Serrenvue or Vickseurc.—Thomas Fran- ois Meagher will have s eplendid theme for his eloqueace in picturing how Graot eelebrated the Foarth of July at Vicksburg. A fow re- marks about this will mot be inappropriate et Wap MaGiplina mesting to-night, of this State; and we understand that tho Judge, like another Justice Greedy, is going actong politicians and pleading for votes in this way:~~“Mr. Snigger, you belong to Tammany, don't your” “Yes,” replies Snigger. “Do you know I'm a can lidate for Governor?” “No; you a candidate for Ge ¥eraor?” “Yes.” “Well, I never should have believed it if you had aot told me yourself.” Now, if Judge Barnard, or Justice Greedy, chooses to go around among po- liticians and impart this important information, “aot received by telegraph,” we have no objee- tion, But we have a candidate of our own for Governor. It is Judge Russel, who has fought the fight of opposition to corruption for a quar- ter of a century, who has overcome @ low- lived and miserable faction by his masterly course upon the bench, and whose ability as a jurist has recently been prominently distin- guished by certain decisions. He adds honor to the bench, and would confer re- spectability and dignity upon the gubernatorial chair. We put Judge Russel against Judge Barnard, or Justice Greedy, confident that he will make a better Governor, as he now does a better judge, than Barnard. He adds dignity to the bench, whereas Barnard detracts from both its dignity and gravity by @ vulgar habit of picking his teeth when he has important legal questions to consider and determine. Cuatranooga.—Most of us remember the glo- rtous victory at Chattanooga, but none of us will object to being reminded of it in the speech of Emerson Etheridge, of Tennessee, at the McClellan meeting to-night. pe Trovsanp Square Mies or Terrrro- ry.—Tbis amount of land—~iarge enough for a nation—Grant has wresied from the rebels, Governor Parker, of New Jersey, is at liberty to use this fact at the McClellan meeting to- night. He can oasily calculate bow many New Jerseys could bo made ont of all that territory. How Mvcon Ir Has Cost ro Maka Wanpsut. Pups Harry.—More than half a million niggers who, three years ago, were fed by planters on hog and bominy are now fed by the United States on hard tack and salt horse. To bring about this change in-the conditien of these niggers it has cost the United States about five thousand dollars and the life of one white man per nigger. Has the change in the condition of the niggers been of any advantage to them commensurate with this price? No. No one ,can pretend that the salle wretches were not in all respects better as they were. But we have gained one great point by this change—we have made Wendell Phillips happy. Another great point gained is that we have satisfied Garrison, Greeley and Exeter Hall. Can a free people desire to barter.na- tional prosperity for a nobler purpose than this?’ Northern and Southern men, to the num- ber of a million—the first choice and very flower of the race—have fallen in battle or have died more horribly in hospitals, and the nation is nearly broken down with financial embarrassments, and all this bas been done to make some hundreds of thousinds of niggers even more wretched than they were--aad to make Wendell Phillips happy. Has any one the impudence to complain that thisis a very large price for a very little whistle? Send him to Fert Lafayette. Fort Donetsox.—Judge .Daly oan describe in magnificent style Grant’s capture of Fort Donelson. Let him post himself upen the facts, and give us a glowing account of them at the MeClellan meeting to-night. Esuutuent or Neonoss Sovra.—We have always considered that negroes born South and acclimated would be of more service in their own sections than in being enlisted under Northern State authorities to fill the quetas of such States, and subjected to duty in any part of the couutry. A general order issued by General Batler, very recently, prohibits the taking of negroes from his department for en- listment in other States. This squelches at once the Massachusetts movement in regard to negro enlistments in the South,a movement which commenced under many flattering aus- pices. What will Massachusetts now say to her favorite son, General Butler? Grant ano Wewtinatoy.—These two gene- rals are not unlike in genius. A. Oakey Hall, who is very fond of historical comparisons, can draw one between them at the McClellan meet- ing to-night, and elaborate it in an article for the Leader. Tax Pore anv Tom Renets.—The rebel jour- nals are endeavoring to make out that the Pope entertains a profound sympathy for the rebel States. The last story is that Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, who, it will be remembered, exchanged a correspondence with the late Archbishop Hughes on the subject of the war, is now in Rome in a special diplomatie capa- city; but it does not appear that he has broached the question of politics at all, but confiped himself simply to his duties as a dig- nitary of the eburch. Then we are told that his Holiness, when solicited to sond his photo- graph to some New York charitable fair, wrote on the back, in the Latin tongue, the words “Put thy sword into its sheath, and the God of peace will be with thee,” This motto would be equally appropriate on either side of Mason and Dixen’s line. Bnt we suspect that the Pope has enough to do to keep the sword in its sheath in Italy, without bothering himself about our affairs, jast now. Tue Orrxtne or tam Misstsstrr1—General Grant reopened the Mississippi to commerce. Wilson G. Hunt can tell what that will be worth to New York merebants in his speech at the McClellaa meeting to-night. Tus Omninvses.—We understand that the omnibus nes are again making arrangements to raise the fare, It seems from this that they were not satisied with their former failure. Real y, ia t not about time for these nuisances to give way for some more modern mode of con- veyance, like railroads, or something better suited to the necessities of the people than their clumsy conveyances? Grayt avy rae Prestosycy.—While pressing the nomination of McClellan at Chicago, Hiram Ketchum must remember that Grant is also a candidate.” It won’t do to overlook him at the McClellan meeting to-night. A Quanter of 4 Mitton or Moener.— Jobn Van Barea can makoa sensation at the MoClellan meeting to-sight by remindiog the people that Grant has equashod several gua contracts aad contractors by capturing overs Five Howprap Cavnon.—Siuce the opening of the war General Grant has captared over five bundred cannon. That is a fine point for the Hon. Gilbert Dean to use in bis speech as the McClellan meeting to-night. A Nicoer War Corresroyoryt.—We per ceive that Forney’s Press, of Poiladelphia, bas sent a nigger correspondent to the Potomac army, and that he has been allowed a pass by General Butler. Is there not danzer of bis being gobbled up a3 a Massactiusetts recruit? One Huyprep Tuovsanp Prisonens.—-Gene- ral Grant bas captured over one hundred thous- and prisoners since the war opened. Let Johu B. Haskin ask the McClellan meeting to-night if the capture of rebels enough to make a large army is to be ignored. pal as Et Cortnri.-—Here is a battle with a classical name, which General Grant won, and which George 6. Hillard, of Boston, can appro- priately refer to at the McUlellan meeting to-night. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON Wasminotoy, August 9, 1666, THB MILITARY SITUATION. Our sews through rebel sources is all encouraging, The capture of Mobile is contideatly expected, aud we jearn from tbe front that great exortemont exists among the rebels both at Richmond and Atlanta. Military mea hore say that Sherman will undoubtedly take advantage of the confusion of whe rebels, and we look for accounts of abattieat any moment. Averitl’s victory in the val- ley is confirmed, His loss was vory slight, and Le oap- tured from five hundrod to six hundred prisoners and all the rebel artiliery. This and the reports from Mobile have made our Wasbington officials very heppy to day. RFJOICINGS OV RK THR SUCCRS8 AT MOBILE. Tho flag at the Navy Department was raised thie wore- log, in hovor of the success of Admiral Farragut and the Monitors in the-harbor of Mobile. ‘The successes at Mobdiloand in the Shevandoah valiey caused a decidedly improved feeling in tao minds of the public here to-day, The croakers wera for tho time being silenced, At tue Navy Department much gratifoa- tion was ¢+pressed at the naval achievements of Mobile, It ts hoped that these are but foreruuoers of more um. portant successes 807m to be achioved, which sbaliin @ measure compensate for recent disasters. REAPPKARANOR OF THE GUMRILLAS IN FARvax oounty. Yesterday morning the guerillas again made thoie ap- Pearance in Fairfax county, for the first time in soveral weeks, capturing a picket post of three mea near Anan. dale. Reliable reports from that section state thas Mosby's gang is preparing for @ reuewal 0; bis operations: to that rogton. THE PROPOSED BRCALL OF GENERAL M'CLELLAN, An evening paper bere, whoze relations with the War Department aro rather peculiar, this afternoon contra. dicts, semi-oMoially, the report that General McCetlan had been authofized to raise troops’ for special service, fhe statement in the Tribune of Monday, contradicting the reports of a strong prossure being made apom the President for (he assignment of General McClellaa te active service, fe untrue. It is well known that there has been and is such a pressure constantly, aod thas lending and tofueotiat republicans have not only written in favor of such action, but visited the President to urge personally that it snould be dove GENERAL HALLECK ON THA ORISIS. ‘The few who have access to General Halieck make o@ socret that bis views of the present crisis are most desponding. Ho expresses himself as grateful that the responsibility for the situation is oa other and higher shoalders than bigown. It seems the moment he beard that the Lynchburg expedition had beea beaten back by superior forces seat from General Leo’sarmy, bo warned is superiors that an immediate Northern tayasion might v6 looked for. The waruiug was vot cred'ted at the time, nor wore any preparatioas made to resist it wotil the enomy wore fa Maryland, It thus happened that General Eariy bad advanced directiy upon Wash- ington wilbout halting to plunder, the only forces he would,bave found vebind the vest circumval- latiog worka of tbis city would bave beeo’about four thousand Ove bupdred of the favatids, or Veteran re serves, together with a tremulous armed rabble of about seven or eight thousand scared militia add clerks in the Public offices. Of the Veteran reserves about two-thirds were actually ft for duty; but could these bave contended with any bope of success agalost the thirty thousand rebel veterans who were without tho walls, and the ecared riffrall eforesald and the excitable secession popa- lation who were witbia? These matters may now be safely talked of, as Wasbiogton is abundantly defended and abl» to resist, with proper management, ali the forces of the rebel confederacy. It has been so ealy very lated; veeeees LOADED, W!TH AMMUNITION NOT ALLOWED TO fase HE THAMES, The Lorde Commissioners of the Admiralty of Great Britain recenUy communicated to Minis ter Adams, at London, a notice that no vee tol whatever is allowed to pass up the river Thames above Galieon’s with powder, loaded sbelig or combustible stores oo board, without special pornie- tion from the Admiralty. Applications must be made by foreign vessels to the consuis of their respective govera- ments for arrangements for the laadiug and safe custoey of powder, &o. REBRLS TAKING THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE. Hundreds of applications are-beiag made every weetr, to the Commissary Goneral of prisoners, for the release of prisoners of war upon takiag the oatb of allegianen Deserters and refugees are released upon takiogthe oath, but none others, except in particular oases presented by members of Congress to the Secretary of War. An im- tense number of such applications are on filo ia the War Departmeat unacted upon, aod It is useless for any loyal man to apply for the release of friends without securing strong political influences. The application of the prisoser bimself ts equally unavailing. Parties having seok claims to prescat should govern themselves accordingly. MILITARY ORGANIZATION OF THS QUARTERMASTAR'S All the clerks and employes of the Quartermaster's De- partment are being organized into regiments and eqaipped for duty. Colonel Greene, Chief Quartermaster of the Department, has organized two regiments. These are supplied with arms and uniforms, but are requested by the Quartermaster General to provide their ewn rations. All men who participated in the recent defence of the city are to wear @ peculiar badge, There is no probe- bility of thetr betog again ordered to the front: but, showld emergencies hereafter require it, there is no donbt that the fatlure on the part of the goverament to furrows rations will reader the whole thing iluee, THR POSTMASTER GENERAL. The friends of Postmaster Genoral Blair atete that the report that he le about to retire from the Cabinet is te- correct, and that he has mo intention of resigning, aod there is mo probability of bie being compelied to leave the Cabinet. ARRIVAL OF REBEL PRISONERA, Sixty-four rebel prisoners arrived here today from Harper's Ferry, and were committed to the Vid Capitet They were captured at different poiats tu Maryleed, end belonged to the fovading forces. SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THR GOVERNMENT LOAN. ‘Tho subscriptions to the seven-thirty loan, reported at the Treasury Department to-day, amoant to $288,000. Death of John Me Francs. « August 9, 1964 Jobn for m iazeats @ load ing ottizen Brown Fri Of the State, died this morn| ga lo hadgbeea Governor aud served ia both houses of Arrival ef a Wh Brorom, Augnst Arrived bark Elizabeth, Wostport, Franc: Ovean, ten days from C aporra 0 Ht; ment home 240, bbls, bruary 3, on poy eee the Hines the Captat % Charleston an sho was pine. Nativode thirty eigbs, long tude "gaeepeverss, Sowers, from New & O's mill, ‘No. (he Evans, Seagrave ‘s enuroly senirores & 3%, fre ay to ‘sos. ann les Nees woe ma. a wn Stat, 200. 45,200 In Dotre "end, to New York ‘oston, 0d Providence nen Seas aaa eh IX Gok be quite a totes 1976, an the @nereaeh, quarter pf @ million of musket irom the rebel, eum 804 bagel ory pared, ny