The New York Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1864, Page 4

‘ ae a tee bee ‘NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1862. OFFICE NX. W, CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash ia advance. Money sent by mail will be ‘at the risk of the seuder. None but bank bills current in Now York taken. THE DAILY HERALD, Foor cents per copy. Annual subscription price $14, Apverraxwants, toa limited number, will be inserted to the Wassct Herato, aod io the European and Califorola Bations. Voiume XXIX AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, a ate i RIBLO’'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Caviite WINTER GARDBN, Broadway.—Byenrsopy's Fxixxo~ Roven Diamonn. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, ULETERR OF LoLEDO—Yovs L. Wwery.—C ARTOUC HE Bowery.—Sigxet or Kixa $0.0 APOTUARY. 435 BOWERY THEATR: MONS BageeeNT Burs BROADWAY THEATRE, Lire—Psorts's Lawren, BARNUM'S MUSEUM. broadway.—Livinc Waarm, ‘Two Giants. Two Dwanrs, ALDINOE. Sanrents, &¢. Bu hours, Jocuematll AM. Saud 7% P.M. Broadway.—Maarizp WOOp'’S MINSTREL HALL, 5 Broadway.—Brmorus Bones, Dances. AC.—THk CosTRABANDS CoLiKuR, CAMPBELL MINSTRELS, 199 and 201 Bowery.—Varixo yp Exoimxc MBLancs or Eriorian Oppitigs. AMERIOAN THEATRE. No. 444 Broadw: Pawromimes, BURLE JQUES, '8C.—VOL-au-VENT, MEW YO! { MOSHUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Comosimus AND Leotunes. trom 9 aM. Ul 10P. a, -~Baccars, BOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSY, Brookiyn.—Eratortis Bonus, Danurs, Burimsaous, dc. Wew York, Wednesday, August 31, 1864. ADVERTISEMENTS FO THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for the Warity Herazp must be band- «din before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening Its circulation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers Mmerchapts, manufacturerwand gentlemen throughout tho wountry is increasivg very rapidiy. Advertisements in- Sorted ia the Wxexiy Heraup will thus be seen by a large Portion of the active aud qnergetiy people of the Cuiied ‘Eiates. THE SITUATION. The news from Genera! Sheridan is that the Sixth Briny corps attacked the rebels on the Opequan on Kon- day, when quitea brisk fight ensued. On the same Might Genoral Averill attacked the enemy on the Gerards town road and took some prisoners. The fight during the day took place SmithGeld, Geveral Custer being in the advance with a view to Teconnoitre. He met the enemy iv pretty strong force, however, and retired across the river. The enemg fol- owed, bul were confronted by two brigades of cavalry ®nd Rickets division of the Sixth corps, which General ‘Bheridan bad sept up to support them, Heavy skirmisb- ing{oocurred, in which we lost one hundred men, and the enemy a much larger number. Tue latter wore forced Goross the river at six o'clock iu the afternoon. Genera! Wheeler’s cavalry force was expected to make @a attack on Nashville. He’wae at McMinnville at last Sccounts, eight thousand strong, advancing towards Mu rfreesboro, ‘ There is nothing new transpiring in General Grant's @rmy. A “reliable” English gectleman, who ewam the Appomattox river on Monday vight, says that the rebels fo Petersburg, where he bad resided for three years, ‘are very gloomy and despondent. Our correspondents represent everything unusually quiet im the different pear Mr. Benjamin, the rebel Secretary of State, has address. @d a lengbty document to Mr. Mason, at Paris, giving ao mocount of the visit of Mr. Gilmore and Colonel Jaques to Richmond on their alleged peace mission. He charges Skat Mr. Gilmore's narrative, already published, is ex- tremely inaccurate, but we do not find that Mr. Benj.- min’s statement of the affair materially difers after ali from what we have beard from other sources, MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. In the National Democratic Convention at Chicago yes- terday Governor Seymour was chosen permanent chair- ‘man by acclamation, end a full list of officers was elected The Govervor, on taking the cheir, addressed the Con ‘vention at considerable length, severely animadvert- Ang on-the war conduct and geceral policy of the ad- Muisistration. The party platform reported by the Com- ‘mittee on Resolutions, and adopted, calls for the imme. Giate cessation of hostilities and a convention of ali ihe States to adjast the present differences between the cov ernment and the rebels, strongly denounces the President, Lis advisers and assistants, and claims that nothing but Ano return to power of the democratic party can restore harmony and prosperity to the country. Several candidates were proposed for nomination, and over the tame of Goueral McClellan an excited discussion was in Guiged tn, one of the Maryland delegates pronouncing im s tyrant, aod unworthy the support of the demo cratic party, The Convention adjourned till to-day, with- Out effecting a nomtnation. A nt Provost Marshal General Townsend, of this Slate, has iseved an order directing that voluntoors for the army shall be accepted after the Sth of September, the day on which it has beca announced that the draft is & take place. A number of mail bags sent from this city on the 10th of August by the overiand mail route to California were received back at the Post Office yesterday, having reached St. J seph, Missour!, The mal! agent there, ap- Prebensive of their capeure by tbe bostile Indians in- feasting the remainder of the route, returned them, to- gether with one mail bag received from San Fraocisco, from which city it was sent on ‘be 20th of July. Theso mails will be forwarded to California by the steamer which sails from this port on Saturday next. The suit brought against John Morrissey and others by Jobo Moran, to recover certain moneys lost at gambling, wae dismissea yesterday by Judge Cardozo, on the ground that the litigation was a vexatious one, aud was fot conducted according to the statute. A very doatructive confiagration occurred at Toronto, Caoade, on Sunday morning. The Grand Trunk olevator God wharf, togethor with Mfty thousand bushels of grain ®od four hundred barrels of flour, were totally destroyed. ‘Tho lows is cetimated at $109,000 (gold), on which thore ‘was an insurance of leas than $40,000, Toe Now Rogiand Agricultural Society are to hold their Aonve exbiditiin at Springfield, Mass..oa September 6, 7, Band 9, The monagers atate io their cireuiar (bat the fair wi'l probably be the grandest and most complete Ovor held in Now Rogiand, The railroads agree to osrry Brook free both ways, and also to run excursion trains for he acoommodation of passengera at reduced rates of fore, @ « Andrew wil dollver an address en the Jast day of the exibition ‘The st~azency fo the money market and the farther great Gocline In gold, which war attributed to the Chi cago ation and the big foreign loam talked of, unse!- Wed the merchandise markets and rendered es en tiroly nominal yesterday. Holders of foreign morchanties wore decidedly averse to granting any concersiin from Former prices; but owing to the groat difference in gold and exchange, as compared with © few Jaye ayo, thoy Wore obliged to yield to some extent. Io domestic pro Gute there was almost # panic, and everyiting wes dower, aod merely nominal et that, In the exiatiog con Gition of aMnirs our market report will be found of Recta! Antorest and vaiue, On 'Change the four market was Gall, heavy Oc. 2 600. lower, Wheat was dull, heavy end bo. a lower. Corn and oat wore dail ‘The pork market opened dull and declined $i, but elonod Arine: And quotations were nom! pal. Lard was dull and lower, Whisrey was dull. Froights were insctive and quotations nomine, ‘The cattle market w mor this wook, and though re- Ooipte Wore leavy prices Were Sfo. por pound migher, ra fing trow Oc. to 190, & 20c.--the tatier ao oxira rate Ml Cows were wtosdy, Voris Gomand at te, to 196 elle, Sbrep an m were vienly and ratuor easie: @rlon Ot $3: 7510 GT AFI. Hore wold woll wt 110, « Tac Tho reosipts wore 6,714 ber 130 cows, 2.04 MA, Rie snoopy Bud lauils wed J 00) Lome o Beet war 4 ore | veala The Great Issue of the Political Cam- paige. The time is approaching when the people must determine the fate of the republic: Whether wo are to fall to pieces, lke the re- publics of Greece, or rule the world, like the republic of Rome, is the issue now before us Are we to hang together slightly or not at all, like the metaphysical States of conglomerated Germany, or are we to be a great Power, like France or like England? The people will soon be called upon to reapond to this question by their choice of a President for this distracted, divided and suffering country. Let them pon- dor the question carefully and answer it rightly The republics of Greece formed a powerful nation while they were banded together againat the Persians; but as soon as that war was over, 1 and they began to quarrel among themselves, they wére absolutely hei pleas, ana were paar to submit to thd tyranny of the little republic of Macedonia. Whilé we wore fighting with Great Britain we were a powerful nation; but as soon aa that war, which lasted practically from 1776 to 1814, was fairly over, we began to en- gage in intestine conflicts. Tho result was that South Carolina tyrannized over the South, and Massachusetts tyrannized over the North, and we are now in the midst of a great civil war. How is it to end? Is the nation to be re-eatab- lished, or are we doomed, like ancient Greece? Opposed to the Grecian idea—now the rebel idea— of a confederacy of small republics, was the Roman fdea—now the loyal idea--of ono great republican nation, composed of separate previnces, but vesting its bighest powers in a strong central government. ‘hat great repub- lic was the only one, ancient or modern, that has achieved anything like success or endured any considerable length of time. Finally it, was destroyed by its shoddy aristocracy—an evil which aff cts us also. Now, are wo to last as long, and longer, than the Roman republic did, or are we to give up the ghost of a nation and try the old, foolish experiment of little in- dependent States over eg in? The various provinces of France amounted to nothing until statesmen united them into a nation. Then, after various monarchical muta. tions, they became a republic and defied the world, Had it not been for the overweening ambition Gf one man Fraace might pow have lived as a mighty centralized republic. But even as an empiro she has an im- mense influence, to which the influence of a confederacy of independent litte provinces cannot be for one moment compared. England had very little power when the British islands each had its petty nationality; but when these were combined under one central government Great Britain began to expand, until now she holds the first rank among nations. These examples are not so appropriate as those of Greece and of Rome so far as regards our present situation; but still they exhibit the same underlying principle, which is, that to be a great nation we must be united by stronger ties than those which can exist between the perfectly independent States of a league or a confederation. The fathers- of the republic understood this, and changed our form of gov- ernment from a confederacy to a Union in order to make us @ permavent nation. To accomplish this they vested oortain powers in the general government, and reserved others for the States. Among these reserved powers the rigut of secession was not included. No State was compelled to come into the Union, but when it came in voluntarily it voluntarily relinquished the right to go out again, except by the consent of the others. Thus it is that the seceded States are now in rebellion against the national authority, and it is, there- fore, our obvious duty to put this rebellion down. We state the broad and frm axioms which explain tue philosophy of this war, because the same axioms will control the coming elec- tion. The electioa is a part of the war. It can be used as a war measure to help us or to help the rebels, Evidently it must help one side or the other. If it shall result ia the choice of a man who will give more vigor to our arms, more statesmauship to our councils, more security to our liberties, then it wili bea war measure in our favor. If it shal! result in the choice of s man who will divide the North, encourage the rebel leaders, cripple our gene- rals aod make reunion impossible, tbea it will be @ war measure on the side of the traitors. Should a President of the former class be elected the war will soon end in the restora- tion of the Union and the re-establishmeut of the United States as a great nation, like Rome, France and England. Should the latter sort of a President be chosen the war will ead io disunion, and we shall have two confede- racies, thea three oonfederacies, thea half a dozen confederacies, aud fiaally a lot of little nations, either warring together, like those of Greece, or intriguing to- gether, like those of Germany, and all subject te the domination of any European Power that pleases to interfere here as France has done in Mexico. These great facts of the past, the present aud the future are more im portaus than any candidates, Politiea!l cand: dates are noiliag, except as the representa- tives of political principles, provided they be fit men to represent any principle whatever. Let tue people soberly docido whether they desire reunion aad its consequences or dis union aad its consequences, and then they can easily pick out the particular candidate who will accomplish their desires, nr aeraey A Previcrion Veririen—Only a few days ago we predicted that Wade and Winter Dav's, Bryant and Greeley, Chase and Barney, Opdyte and Wendell Phillips, Weed and Forsey, thé other republicaa sorebeads wou'd soon be shouting their loudest for Lincoln and contr! all buting towards his success. Our prediction hes been verified sooner than we expected. Already the Tribune, the Times, the Post and the Philadelphia Press have come out for Lin- colo,and it will not be long before all the other republican soreheads will “be clamorous for Old Abe. In the former article fo which we refer we said tuat the trickelers and trimmers, braggarts and bummers, tumblers and typeselters, poets and poctasters, shoddyites and nigger worsbip- pers of the republican party were ouly making thelr little bargains and would soon return to Lincola again, Those bargains must have been made tately, and we wonder what they are, Al auy rate, it tsa satisfaction to us to have this now evidence of our thorongh know- ledge of the motives of politicians. If there liad been avy sense or any consistency in the abifcan sorcbeads they would have gone rey for Fremont, or cailed @ new convention at Buffalo, But it shows that they are corrupt | oll tho wa ‘through to go to Lincoln now 88 tot after having eo bitterly dendhnced him. The republican party was always a mean, double- faced concern, however, and the recusaacy of the republican soreheads is but a new evi- dence of this fact. to Grumtand Sherman—The Prospect. One hundred thousand men gent to Grant, and thirty thousand sent to Sherman, will end the war in sixty days, by the annihilation of the Southern armies. At the rate at which reinforcements have lately gone to Grant they have only kept pace with bis losses; but the draft will do better. Before September runs out, if there is no postponement of the draft, both Grant and Sherman will have received all the men they want. By the middle of Octo- ber these additions to the armies will have -taken effective shape, and jn the cool, crisp Rp NSIS: Slows M cathe ie ned ays Oi Gewwor vs acvvemuer vio jes am force of the rebellion will be under our feet Tt is this glimpse of daylight through the strug- gle, together with the favorable situation of affairs at all points in the theatre of war, that gives its present healthy and hopeful tone to the public mind. Never was the public mind in better tone than now; and the actual situa- tion and the prospect for the fall are both auch ify this confidence in success. Mobile, with the better part of its defences gone, hardly stands at bay, and is despondent— has only the faintest hope that it will be ablo ¢o resist the Old Salamander when he comes up to it. Atianta also trembles in the balance. Hood, having tried desperately, finds that bo cannot move Sherman. It may be that Sher- man cannot move Hood, though he bas not tried it, But Sherman will be reinforced and Hood will not, and that will settle the question in Georgia. Grant in Virginia has given the evidence of his generalship. He has forced Lee to ‘come out and fight;” and three times Lee’s forces have retired from Grant’s frout weaker and wiser. In the Shenandoah it is the same. Early is desperately anxious to. get out of the way, and once more the rebels aré likely to abandon the valley. That Shenrndoah val- ley has beon like a glass tube stioiched out from Richmond to the Potomac, and the moye ment up and down it bas indicated throughout the war the amount of the vital force that nul. ested In the heart of tie confederacy at Rich- mond. At the very commencement the subtle Ouid ran out from Richmond and pulsated on the Potomac, at the very end of the tube. Tho advance to Bull run shortened the ourrent, but itsoon ran up again, The Peninsular ceapaign emptied the tube entirely, and in Pop+’s cam- paign, with the chances of the confederacy bigh in the scale, the stream leaped out across the Potomac and stopped only at Antictam. Now once. more the rebel life runs low; thore is no force to pulse it out to Winchester end Charlestowa, Early retreats, and common ru- mor in the beleaguered city of Petersburg tells of the bitterness of tho rebel leaders over the failure of this valley attempt to frighten Grant from the James. It was so easy io frighten those who guarded Washington in 1862 that they thiuk it ought to be less difficult now. Early goes out of the valley, and supplies for Richmond from that direction are done with. Grant’s seizure of the Weldon road ran up the price of beef in the rebei capital to eight dollars a pound. There mast have been very little of it then—ten days ago—and Grant holds the Weldon Railroad yet. Only the Lynchburg road and the road to Danville are left to feed two cities and an army of sixty thousand men. So there will soon be another desperate battle on tho Weldon road. Tux Bowestays—A Fewavs Specruen.—We have been cracking jokes with Brooks of the Express, and making fun of him, and laughing at him, for nearly thirty years, Sometimes he bas received the fun in good part and some- times he has not; but, ou the whole, we were beginning to entertain a sort of respect for him. Recently, in fact, he had risen as rapidly in the thermometer of our esteem as the mer- cury did in the ordinary thermoineters during the heated term. Imagine our surprise, then, at finding in his paper, without the rebuke with which a gentleman ought to have accom- panied it, the following letter from Joanie June, whoever she may be. (We were not at all sur- prised to find the same letter copied, without comment, by the World, for the World is the acknowledged organ of the Bohemians: — 70 TAY EDITORS OF THE New YORK exrnes?, Gurneviitn, Wyoming County, suguet 22, 1864 In'this remote region I have had my sttension called to @ statement in a recent number of the Lveming Lzpress to the effect that | bad sent a copy of tay book, “Talks on Women's 1ovics,” to Mra, Livcola, accotnpanted by a uote expressive of appreciation of ber virtues, &o. Will you please do me the justice to deny this statement, 1 never Bent & book to Mrs. Lincolo, never wrote a note to bor ex- pressive of my admiration or appreciation whatever. Mra, Lincoln cin afford to buy ber own books, and biro ber own flunkoye, and J have noiteaof supplying bor with either ove or theotber, Respecifully JENNIE JUNE. We do not know who Jenuie June is, She may be the sister of Queen Victoria or the Grat cousin of the Empress Eugene for augit we sow of her. We have never read her book, and never waut to read it if this letter be a specimen of Lersty'e. A more ill-mannered epistie it bus seldom been our misfortune to encounter. An Ivish servant girl, leaning out t the area window of a fourth rate boarding house, het head covered with an old shaw! and her gown dirty with grease and cobwobs, would have chosen fitter phrases in which to speak of the wife of the President. Bira. Lincoln is a respectable, Jndylike woman, who never at- tempts to slep oul of her proper sphere. By precedent, etiquette and courtesy she ts the first lady in the laod, and certainiy she bag never done anythlag to disgrace that bigh position A good wife and a good mother, she is respected and esteemed by all who koow ber. What right, then, hus Jenn'e June to scribble about her so impertinently ? We eny t woe were surprised that Mr. Brooks should allow his paper to be need to attack the estimable wife of the Presideut; but we remember that only a few days ago-he allowed one of fis writers to attack another lady quile as impudeatly, Unless Brooks re forms, repeats and apologizes we shall have to overhaul him from head to foot and recon- on of bim. As for and finaneiah-dte. icot neat of them. daidies ave no ua- common thing in the World. If Jennie June wanted lo give & sensation puff of her book by writing the above letter, very good, But fo thie sho abowed want of sense as well at wantof manners. Tt may not be @ point of uuch importanea whether or not Mrs, Lincoln reads her volume of esanys; but it will affect both her purse afd her feelings pretty de- cidedly if every other Indy shall decline to read \t, and thus teront her unwarvantable at- tack upon Preeldent [Ancolo’s wife, “Bring Down tux Patos or Coat.”—This is the cry coming to us from all quarters; and it must be responded to by the grasping monopo- liste who manage the fuel market of this city, or they must take the consequences. The com- munity will not tolerate the present system of extortion in the price of coal. They will not submit to combinations which affect so seri- ously the comforts of home as we'l as the large manufacturing iuterests of the land; for wher- ever # furnace, grate or stove is used the effect of 80 excessive an advance in the price of coal as now prevaila in this market ia to inflict much hardsbip and entail enormous and un- warranted expense. The bogus sales of coal weekly reported are but a blind to deceive the community in regard to the actual price of the article. It is gross imposture, and fully as liable to legal prosecution as any of the mock auction or Peter Funk concerns in the city. ats aaatiw all One company state that they cam seu cas..7 &.. their coal without resorting to the sham auc- tion process, but that they kindly promised to furnish thiriy-five to forty-five thousand tons per month to be sold at public sale for the benefit of the poor public.” This is certainly very gracious on the part of this one monopoly. But who are the poor publie benefited? From the first sale to the last they have been confined to the same four or five persons, with a few immaterial exceptions, and the fabulous prices quoted as having been paid, but which are not paid at all, are published as the stand- ard of prices for ooal at wholesale all over the city. When it comes to the retail dealer and the direct consumer the price is so en- hanced as to make ita question whether it is not better to buy it with greenbacks measure for measure. It is a dodge of the monopolies and wholesale deulers not to sel! coal to con- sumers or retailera a few days prior to an auc- tion sale, well knowing that the price is to be fixed at the sale, and the work of humbugging the public be systematically proceeded with. At present coal has fallen in price nearly two dol- lara per ton wholesale, and large quantities for sale are accumulating along the docks. The mock auction sales take place to-day (Wedaes- day), and we wonder to what extent the impu- dence of those coal operators will now carry them in fixing the prigg, OF gourae they will endeavor to persuade the public that coal is really scarce, and say they have only fifteen to twenty thousand tons for sale, as they did ona former occasion, when coal was in slow demand. But these stories should be regarded as false, and the public be placed on their guard concerning them. If the newspapers would not report their bogus sales the objects of the monopolizers would be defeated, and the public spared a vast amount of awindling More Troops Wanrep, Wire on Wirnovur a Drart—A Grand Rauty ror tax Counrry.— General Grant is now in the crisis of his grand military combinations. He has the rebels hem- med in at Richmond, Petersburg and the She- nandoah valley. They have lost their great Southern artery of subsistence and transporta- tion—the Weldon Railroad—and have only two lines remaining—the railroads through Danvi'le and Lynchburg. We say nothing here about the splendid achievements of Farragut and Sherman. Now is the exact moment when the government and the people should come up as with one mind and a single will to the support of General Grant. A great deal is said in the newspapers by way of explanation about the draft. Every man is trying to dodge it, and Governor Seymour is trying to show that we are to have no draft by the effusion of some ngtions about naval enlistments. The copper- head or disunion and rebel journals in the North, like the Daily News, are endeavoring to incite resistance to a draft if one should be at- tempted, as they are continually inciting oppo- sition to the suppression of the rebellion. But more troops are wanted, draft or no draft. One hundred thousand men sent to Grant to-day would finish the rebellion in six weeks. Now is the time for the government to cull for that number of troops, and offer a bounty of ono thousand dollars to every man who enlists. Phere is plenty of material in the North ready to be moulded into a splendid body of troops. At least five hundred thous- and able-bodied men are here in that condition, and one-fifth of them can be readily spared for a short, sharp and victorious campaign like that which will assuredly follow their prompt appearance under the banners of General Grant. We appeal again to the government to offer a bounty of one thousand dollars each for one hundred thousand men. And then let the newspapers, the Union people, the Union ora- tors all over the North, the heads of govern- ernment in city, town and village—every one who has a voice and an influence in his own aphere, and would witness the restoration of our national prosperity and unity, labor with zeal in the cause for a very short time, anda splendid army of a hundred thousand men will rally for the country to the aid of Grant, enable that gallant chief to Wevelop his ‘splen- did strategic combinations and put a quictus to the rebellion within the space of fifty days One more grand rally for the country, and the thing is done. THD DRAFT. Volunteers to be Accepted After the 5th of September=Order from Ass! Provost Morsha!l General Townsend, Povonnenrste, N. ¥., August 90, 18¢4 The following bas just born recelyed by Provon: shal Johnson, of this district — Aunany, Aaguat 30, 196 ‘The following is promulgated for Lhe guidance and in. formation of tbo Provost diars hala of tots division: — Keep voliateoring up x meh as po: ‘He after the Sth of ember, and let it be known that volunteers will be ted on the quota Of bbe present cal: up to the Inst xoticably moment beforn the a ut to roodezvous FREDE Volant ttt for Saflors, ‘ibe Supe: toe, votwitbatan ling their of forts to obinin credit from the War Pepartmout for the bat aller The anbetitat fare matte daily opoo Mr. Bint by au x\0y Osh, Wso-1e4 IIRILC Bums, Bhat eabstitutes may There in u> juformation yet from the Fepartment rogard to what course wil! be adopled reayeot fog the naval reer fore, we think, © #0 Credilor. 1 dustriog Have obuained a such reoruits, ‘ully aw beot would be gteang tndeed Wf tbo War Departinent or the President #nbr i ew York cred ator wnt decline to give to mon who entered city and Brooktyn , find we Are jhetos mach evtitled to have them pasged to the credit on the quotp of theee two cities ae any Bol. dier who entiste. Suc, too, is the law pagsed by thé date Gongress, Such is also the decision of tbe govern mons im reference to similar caver iu Hhiladt iow ports Gloucester, &ec., and it is Bot possible « iw ow tofuRe bo receive these men On Cer quota because the point would be favorable to New York, mous must give us oredit fur the goliors, Quotas watied. 90, ee. wR, Auguat The clty of Oswono aud the towns of Boriba, Richland Sandy Creek and Hanthal in Oawago county, are out o the draft undor the call for Ove hundrad Mhourant men, fun quotas for the (owns Of Mexico aad Voluey are nearly ally The govern They are | ) cout, wit NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. Wasurvorow, August 30, 1854, THS PROPOSED THOUSAND MILLION Loan. ‘Tne proposition for e thousand million loam, detatied ia the Henatp of to-diy, ts attracting general attention, and meets with very gevera! approval. It is believed to furnish the solution of our present foancial difficulties, and that its adopticn would have a most important {uflu- euce upon the successful continuance of the war aod the speedy suppression of the rebellion. THR GOVERNMENT BONDS, The subscriptions to the geven-thirty loan, ceported at the Treasury Department to-day, amount 60 $500,009, and to the ten-forty loan $231,000. REBEL NAVAL MOVEMBNTS IM ALSRMARLS SOUND, ‘The United States steamer Tagopy arrived at the Navy Yard to-day from Albemarle Sound, N. U,, whore sbe bas been on duty for aix months, She brings uo special news (rom that quarter, The rebel ram Albemarie keeps out of sight and dangor; but our boats are fully prepared for ber |ppearance. Some of them, since the eucouater between the Sassacus and the rebel ram, have been armed with iron prowa, Amobdg the officers of the Albomarle is fa sign Somers, who was on the Satellite when sbe was oaptured in July, 1862, by the rebela near tho mouth of the Rappanavnock, when he was badly wounded while resisting the onemy. SIGNALLING IN TH ARMY AND NavY. At the request of the Secretary of tho Navy the Seo- retary of War has recently ordered that the inatructions for signalling, prepared by Colonel Meyer for the use of the Sigaa! Corps of the army, be furnished to the Naval Bureau of Navigation, with suitable plage aud illustra. tions, for general use in the navy. THE INDIAN OUTRAGRS ON THE PLAINS Mr. Ottis, Genoral Superintendent of tho Overland Mall route, bas reached Washington for the purpose of repre. senting to the ofMflciuls the condition of affairs on tho Plains, The Sioux, Cheyenyes, Arapahoes and Koowas are ail hostile, and according to the report of friendly Indians they number from five to eight thousand war riots. In addition to the indiscriminate massacre of whiter in the most shocking modes, they have destroyed at least $1,000,000 worth of property, including emigrand trains, and have taken possoaston of al! the ranches be. tween Julesburg and Fort Kearny, a distauce of two bundred miles, and ono hundred and fifty miles thia way to tho Big Sandy. The wires to tho Pacific bave beon cut ud emigration rendered insecure, excepting in largo bodies. Deaver and other settlements are at present curtailed ia their supplies from the States. Tuo Indjins = eay «tho =~ country = belongs «to «thom, and that = they {fotend to drive out tho whites. This seems to be the ovly argument for their warfare, and jo viow of this fact, conciliation ts at pro- Bent out of the queation, Those who have the best kuow- ledge of all the attendant circumstances are auggosting that Gevera! Harney be placed in command of the ‘orces, war, having been convicted of aiding and abetting the enemy. ADDITION TO THE NAVY DEPARTMENT ROTLDING. Owing to tho inadequate accommodations of the Navy Department, work bas beoa commenced upoh an addi- tional wing south of the present structure, to contain twolve large apartments for clerks. POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. The Fall State Electio ‘The following States will hold their annual clestions be- fore the greas contest for the Prosideucy takes piace. AS the result Of those elections will tend to Indicate the stato of parties, sed in ® great measure to foreshadow tho final action of the people ix tho following November On the question of the Chief Magistracy of the nation, the retorns q@ill be looked for this yoar with unuauat io- torest. We give the voto ip oach State at the two last elections, that those most deeply ioterested may make thotr calculations and study in advance their chances of ‘succoms:— VaRNOND-BUBOrIDN Caurrenege 6, 1864, Ropublicam............ 30 02 29,618 Demvoratic. . 8,724 11,962 Republican majorit 28,308 17,651 MAINE—BLEOTION SePTamBEe 12, 1864 1852. 1863. Repvbiteaas. rere eevee. 45,056 67,016 Democratio.. 0.6.6... 89,009 60 306 Republican majority... 6,036 11,660 PRENNSYLVANIA~-KLROTION OoropBe LL, 1864, 1862. 1863. Republican. 215,616 269,406 Democratic... + 219,140 254,171 Democratic majority, 8,524 Republican maj.. 15,325 Goria! Ba cd U, 1864 Republican, Democratic. are 185,274 Democratic majority. 6,477 Ropubiican maj, 61,920 O10 BOLDNERS’ voTS. Republican. trevee wo rcesee G1467 Democratic. igi HBV Cans wnveseakee 2,238 Majority of republionn soldiers............ 39,179 Making the aggrogate republican majority |... 101,099 Set hee ee ee LL, 1864. Republican... 118,517 pr Democratic.........,.-123,160 = Democratic majority. 9,643 ‘There was no election in 1662, oxcopt for membors of the Logialature and county officers. The Legislature was demoaratic. rows muserton ogTosss UL, 1864 Ropubdlica n. Democrat io 1363. 66,143 36, 29,513 Reaping, I'a., August 30, 1864, At the Borks County Democratic Convention’ to-day, Honorable Sydenham &. Ancona was nominated for Con- Gress, and E. N, Clymer reaominated for State Senator. Democratic Wide Awake ‘As tho MoCieilan cuthusiasm goes mo along through the whole city tho Goneral’s frieuds aro showing that they are not satisfied with more shouting for bim, They want more solid work. Several clubs are now being organized in various parts of the city to support his nomination, Ono of these is “The White Boye’ Club,’ an orgavization having oxteusive ramifica- tions. These clubs aro on the principle of tho old “Wide Awake’’ societies, the members havitg seised ‘upon the republican atick to break the republican bead, 1t is @aid that these organizations are to ve apread over the country, The name is & popular one, and will bo imitated everywhere, The motto of the new clubs Is:— ‘This is @ white man's country, founded on a white basis for white men.’ There are preparations pow being mide in the various warde for the aj of thove organizations, phernstia. “The ‘olate peasiul charactor oarance in public only tw resolve questions Not bow ie Of tam Atmirat. vewe ROM ALOvd gam obage By the latest arrival from Port Royal intelligence haw heen reooiwed of the arrival (here, on tho oventng of the aut instant, of the United States steamship Admiral Acting Yoluotgar Ligutevant Wun, 1, Katon commanding Tho Ad é ow York on (he eveoing of the 20th inatant fia, exppites, aud a draft of aearly | tera hundred and fifty bide jackete for tho West Quit biockading squadron, undat the command of Roar Adm ral Farragut, [8 obedience 0 orders reosived trom the Nav wpertment the Admirat toucbed wt the Delaware mater, and (ound there the army transport Crea- soine 1x hundred gpbal offivers on bard, an dor a geart of two bundest of our troeps, which rassc! Lad arrived am hour beforatrom Philadelphia ‘Whe Aduviral, at three Ms MM. on the Biat, left with tho Cresceht under her convoy. bound t6 Hilton Neat, Oa the ight of the 254 the Adu ral ex aed Aignale with tie Unitod Galea stom frigate why oul for a crotee, “Rot sshorily, afterwards spoke the United States gunvoat Flaw pseu, At this time the Creacent was observed how ing the whore Of Cape Romain too clonély, and signals ware made by teste for her to LM = GB oe eset Piet asa a oe 8000 shore, tur, Admiral was stop at tl stood towni'da ‘her, in company with the United no wtaamabip N'ipwid, Tectonent Commandor Alexgndor Croesmiag, ¥ vich vormel was (ound cruising In the vicinity. Lined oak ther wheels wore observed PASSO» and ‘& hort (ine nbs wae soon stand ty saving ‘vorked herself of, with no lujary to hernelt, e rebel F. Moers on board the Crescont aré, wo understand, (0 be placed usder fire xt Charleston, {othe morning of tho 25th, the Admiral haytn Vor charge aafo te Port Moyal, left for tha Weat plookading squadron, noon Gut which cao easily be rallied under bim, to carry on hos. tilities againat the savazos. SUIT BY THE GOVFXNMENT AGAINST BX-30RGZON GENERAL HAMMOND, The government has entered auit against 6x-Burgeon General Hammond to secure four hundred and filty thou- sand dollars, the amount of the alleged fraud on bis part tn the purchase of supplies. SENT TO FORT PELRWARE. Wm Canby, of Mowtgomery county, M4., bas been sentenced to Fort Delaware during the continuance of the Engagement of the Sixth Corps and Averilt’s Cavalry with the Rebels. The Enemy Driven Back With Con- siderable Loss. A Heavy Force Still Thought to be Confronting Us, ke, Mr. N. D Biangu: BRYRBE OONFLICT OF 145 Cowgr ny General Merritt’s division, of Genoral Torbert’s oar. alry, was fighting Bradley Johoson's cavalry and one division of Early’s intantry all day yesterday He came ‘upon Johnsoa’s command on Sunday, aad, the ocoumtry being open, the First and Second them by a counter clarge, o@ tho cnemy were chargiog down upon thew. The collision of the two columns was fearful, and there was more sabre cut- ting than has beea seen before during tho war. Léeub. Boyer of the First regular cavairy, was killed, after show. ing the most remarkable prowess and skill Arebel officer who was taken prisoner said (hat he was aatisiied, now that be had sea some resi cavalry ‘fAgbting. rogulars mat TAS gAsOLT Johnson was driven from Charlestown through and be Yond Smithfield, aud Morriit’e towa last night, Tm riGat on THR 2978 This morning tho enemy brought a division of tofantry agatuat our cavalry, and the fighting continued briskly until about three o'ciock, when General Sheridam, who bad gone to the frovt, sent to General Wright, of the Sixth corps, for a division of bis troops. He at ones directed General Ricketts to advance with the Third divteion, General Ricketts made 4 rapid march of two miles or more, aad relieved General Torbert's cavairy, who bad fought most splendidly ail day. Among the casualtis is Dr, W. H, Rulsoa, Modicat Director of the Cavalry corps, who was shot through the chest while riding with General Torbert, Ho foll over, simply exclaiming, “It is of no uso doing apythiug for me; [ am killed; and be died almost immediately, Hie remains will be taken to his home at Mexico, Gawege county, New York, by Captain Theodore W. Bean, l’re vost Marehal of tho First cavalry division. Lieutenant Hoyer, of the First regulars, was kilfed, making the sixth officer of that regiment who has bees killed durkog this eampaigo. Captain Hanley, of the Ninth New York, was mortally wounded, Lieutenant. Alfred, of the First New York, was wounded, First See- geant Wm. Roott, of Williston’s battery, was killed ; Ricketts’ division advanced nearly a mile before be found the eaemy’s line, Then a skirmish ensued of about five minutes, and the enomy fel! pack for the night. division ogoupied the Me. Theodore C, Wilson's Despatch. Naar Marriwasura, Va., August30-—A ML GRNERAL OUSTER'S MOVEMENTS. General Custer yesterday crossed the Opequan to the Alrection of Bunker Hill, but on encountering two dive sions of Breckearidge's corps retired, as {t was oot tm tended that ho should bring on a general eagagemout. THB BIXTH CORPS AND GENERAL AVERILL RNGAGED. ‘The Sixth corps yesterday attacked the enemy at the Opequar, when quite a lively engagement ensued. & dotach ment of General Averili’s command last night a tacked the enemy on the Gerardstown road avd tect some prisoners. General Averill is to-day ongagod ia making recompoisances of tho enemy’s positions. The enemy bas bis main force in the neighborhood of Bueker Hill this morming. The {ron-clad ears came downsthts morning from General Kelley’s command to the edge of town at Mar. tiusburg. Mr, Charles H. Farrell’s Despatoh. Haaree’s Foret, August 30, 1964 fou REDELS MAKING 4 SHOW OF STRENGTA. Rarly this morning orders were issued that no sapply trains or gutler wagons be permitted to go from thle polotto the army near Charlestown, At eleven P.M the army was drawn up in line of battle, The eeemy wore visible in the direction of Smithfield, and « battle ‘was imminent. It appears that the rebel goueral made a feiut from before Geveral Shoridan’s works oear this place, in order to give battie on a fair fold. A HRAVY BATTLE ANTIOIPATRD. A goneral well posted informed your correspondent that he believed that a groat battle would be fougiit near Harper's Ferry, and that the rebels bave not relinquished thoir tdea of an invasion of Pennsylvania and Maryland. ‘Tho wagon trains ordored to the front yesterday te Charlestown returned to day without unloading thelr The Pr Despatch, Fisangvanress, Sumnipan's Any, August 30, 1868 The position of our army since my letter yesterday remains unchanged. There was a very spirited cavalry fight yesterday as SmithHeld, or, aa it is sometimes called, Middle Way, about seven miles from Charlestown, which proved thas ‘the encmy bad not retreated up the valley. Goupral Custer’s brigade of cavairy, with Captain Ram aom’s battery of artiliery, were moved across the Ope quan about a mile beyond Smitufet, for the purpose ef making @ reconpoisgance towards Bunker Hill They had proceeded about a milo when they came on the ene tay’s skirmish live. A portion of General Custer’s command were dis. mounted and,sent,to engage them, Skirmisbing laated unt eleven o'clock, when Caster was obliged to refire across the Opequan, where he was reinforced by two brigades of cavalry, when sbirmishiug was ronowed with increased vigor. Too enemy now sont two brigades of fefantry acroms the Opequan, with a view of oulflanking us and cutting off our retreat on Smunfeid, In this they were folled, for Genera! Merritt, discovering theiriotention, retired om Stmithfleld before they could accomplish thelr desigus, Heavy skirmisbing was kept op ali the time we were retreating, and we inflicted considerable lors on the enemy, a5 our mon took advantage of every commanding position and from bebind every cover to pick off thelr advancing lines, Th the meantime General Sheridan bad ordered Covert Rickett's division of infavtry, of tbe Sixth corps, to pro coed towards Smitndeld and support the cavalry, The jufavtry roackod @ point two miles this side of Sm\thielt at five o'clock P. M., when they formed a junction with the cavairy,which bad gradually fatlon pack to that potat, contesting overy inch of the ground. Tho two lorcos united pow assumed theoffersive, Gea Ricketts deployed one brigade of his command as sku. mishore, and sont them tn advacoe of our cavalry. Ag 3000 as the enomy discovered that they lad infantry to contend with thoy rapidly withdrew, crofalug (he Ope 4 qian about glx o'ctook. Our forces pushed thom vory closely aed captured 80” pe prisoners. Our loss ia tho whole aair, including killed aga wounded, will not oxceed 000 hundred, while that® ff the enemy must bave been much groater, a6 we had’ jue af. vantage of position Among the killed ia Dr. Rutison, Medicat D' poctor ow (he staf of Gonoral Torbet. He was riding along tee skirmish Jing, in company with General Tor! get and Caps Harley, when he waa shot by a rebol ebar pehooter, whe Y discover oa by Captain yr alteutions, to the Genera: was ome moment® previo. Bailey tobe paying pw aud stat. The reconnoissance yesterday devrsopad tha fact be a doubt that ibe enemy atill Maven hovvy force la our frdmt, aod it ie believed that Shee nre concontrating at Buaker Mili, Clouds of dust Mores diniinctly ree. ro terday arising from the road ‘bet mm BHucker Hit ane Wincheatar ,aupposed to be camsed, by she ovemp's wagne Cento going up the valley: acca The Malls f+ wurope. *, . Boston, August 40, 1% ‘The maiis por steacneh!> “Ania will clone at wOvEN ovoloce to-morrow (Wodneaday) morning; dub the mtenmer witli not sail until about ter 4 itty Crrtam F. Pe“ Raowntow.—Tho Aladentl of M, Prancix Ravlor’e wae 94. John's College, Forduam, are to weet Yhie aftorow’ on to take action concerning the death of Le Vato gAIP'ut end regretted Captain Brow asou.