The Sun (New York) Newspaper, August 17, 1864, Page 1

’ TE THIRT\-FIRST YEAR. } NUMBER 10,018. ‘ The Latest New a FROM GRANT'S ARM /. A New Stragetie Movem ent. I By Telegraph to the N. ¥.: Suan. NEW | informant left. Our forces drove in the rebel pick- eta early on Sunday morning, and during the day had micceeded in carrying two lines of the enemy's earthworks, the outer ome being sbont nine miles from Richmond. The loes in the Seeond Army Corps so far haa been very smal!. Generals Grant and Meade ame commanding in person, LATER, YORK WEDNESDAY, dom obtained without great riska, and it waa not expected that the harbor of Mobile would be se- cured without disaster. The loss of the jane Cravens and his brave companions with the Te Cimeeh, a vessel that was impenetrable to the guns of Fort Morgan, by @ concealed torpeda, was a casualty against which no buman foresight could guard, While the nation awards cheorful honors to the living, she will ever hold in grateful re- membrance the memory of the gallant and la- mented dead who periled their lives for their “AUGUST 17, 1864, @. rr JPRICE ONE CENT..IN GOLD (TWO CENTS IN CURRENCY, ag ee ene intended to rennin in force antil:¢he conclusion of peace, Waa also signed, During the armiatioe Jut- jand will be oceupied, and the government of the province administered by the aflier, The Anexprust (the evening edition of the We- fre Zerrena) says; Laueneburg, schieawig and Holstein have been relinquished by Denmark with- out any reserve, At the #ame time » rectification of the Schleewig trontier was determined upon ia the interest of Germany. FRANCE, News Items. (Uy Telegraph to the Now York Sun.) VALLANDIGNAM has arnved et Syrecuas, N, Y4 and will be present and speek at the Mees Peace Convention on Thursday, Tus boat race between the New York and Pits The mail beat Keyport bas arrived from City Point, and has on board one hundred rebel priso- ners, captured during the ek rmishing of yeater- day. Besides the earthworks captured yesterday by our forces, there was also captured one battery that bore Upon our men, Working upou the cana! here ofore alluded to, [Dutch Gap ie situated at @ point where the James river makes a great bend in the form of Horse-aboe, The land forming thie neck ia called Forrar's Island, and the name of Dutch Gap i# kiven to the point between what we may terms the two extremities of the horse-shoe, The toterven- ing land at this point ie oniv about one hundred and fifty yards wide, while the distance by water is about seven miles. Thin point is about five miles from Fort Darling, the same distance from Rermuda Hundred, and about twelve miles from Richmond. The object of the canal i« to tacilitate the pasaage of the gunbouta by avoiding the rebel obstructions and batteries that defend the bendand ofer an riunity fora tlaok move ton the north side of the river. —En, SUN.) WANCOCK ONLY 10 MELES FROM RICHMOND. FIGHTING AT DEEP BO1'10M. Many Prisoners Cepturt: 6 CANNON AND 4 MORT/IRS. | NEW CANALAT DUTCH GAP| Seven Miles of Navigation § aved. Sheridan's Pursuit of Early. LITTLE PLUNDER WITH THE RELIELS. THE WAR WESTWARD. ANOTHER REBEL RAID What the Rebels say nbout Natler’s Canal. The Richmond Ware of August 12, saya: eee lies Tt ia rumored, with what truth we know not, thes the Yankees are eutt.nzg a canal across the nentoaw neck of land forme! by a bend in the James and known as Dutch Gap, This is dona we | EIGHT STEAMERS CAPTURED. | Hendersov, Kentucky, Threatened "su tries Ler vir aye tut aey | | tex discover that ditching, like mining, did very INTERESTING EUROPEAN NEWS, | feosnsehate ae: of Meds ure, Oe eas : bo Voe ix only about half The Dano-German Treaty of Peace. § sme writs wie by wate re distance round rs eS ‘ uf ¢ctehing at this po reporied, Wey i Discussion of the American War. ‘ire what the A roen of Bi \| &e., &e,, &e. Lis ‘s shut of from bree inh el rit at ev . quarter, wae alwave familiar'y known to the sail- ory Whe damoed."’ held it in special cread aa“ Pull and be Phere may be some truth ir She rumor; GENERAL GRANT, | | Richly successful Wo vements. but we are nevertheless ine! « believe that be fore many weeks ha Orant, instead of Bermuda Hundred, Aug. 16.-Yosterday the | ditchiue on the James Daring sun, wil cond corps (Hancock's) were going on boant be making tracka before wm victorious army, io rearch of a eefe eheiter bebind the fort Washing ton, tious ab @aneports at Cit, Pout all day, apparently for Washington, and started down the river, their TD } } 9 Movewents in Front of Petersburg. dands playing gu OF course the rebels wore Warhinet ; he D bh watohing trom the shore, and no Coubt felt mitch ashington, Auguet 16.—The Department has received au official report from Fortress Monroe that morements were being made yesterday in front of Petersburg, but owing to the telegraph line inter: ot in the movement wirl The transports did «er- river forten miles or t ore, go down the when, however, they put ebout, and ursier wer of the darkness returned, cotning up being down, no intormation bas been received from by thie place under full speed nt 10 p, | Peadquarters, : M. and proceeting yp the river, At the sane time sdodetal M Staton, Socretary of War, od heslaah ae ag Pal BA ak fears Major-General Barnside. Corps were croamng tot rth side of the Jamas Prestishia Ris A uavie atc Mae Gichea piver, and were all lor iup the river within | bis. a ae! 3 , | Buruside is in town, on leave of absence, He hax repay pssulen Gt. Fics mii: Set eo : bat edd not been relieved of his con The Court of this moruing. Th.s force, with General ms eter "sy, { Feaateyervel tortb acon Pasaed (aes makes quitearespectniie atiis. This under’ «l ad; as abowanit’ of ae has raed ghee él that their first mote will be to destroy, if poss ble iba salen hee the rebel pontoon bridges above Fort Darhny:, If Phis is done, Lee will be unable to transfer his army “NERAL STILERTDAN, te the north side more than twenty r to Manele Thus far all worl « well, without marchit ‘ he Pursuit of Barty. Wa-hinoton, Arg. Miz Ge eral Dir; —A Mueketry fring wos heard in the direction of this | tegram u : command, dated Movemeut this morn ny Avjcust 14th, at Cedar Creek, was received this ECOND 1 ATAH. morming. It states that except Moseby's and Washinatan, Ava. ve rhe +) boat? Keyport | White's one & there iano enemy thia side of geports the movement of the Becuad Con the | Biue Ridge, Sheridan's trains are all up, and Games Riveron Saturday night, resubking in the | thet hiv army iin fine condition. Gen. Sheridan, pouting of a lare rebel force at Doteh Gapy and the | 7 Odispatch of the Lith inst, reports that the @apture « r Cred prisoners besides | Stories of plunder taken from Marylaud by the reb- even pieces of arullery. ‘The position occupied by els ave all | bug. They have very little, just the enemy ts «ai! to have been a strengyone, and is ugh tosubsiston, snd nothing more, most of Bow ocseupied by our treops, who are vble to hold which has been take rom the Shenandosh Val- &. There was but little bard @ghiing «tone. Gen, | ley another dispatch, dated the 13th inst. be Mancock accomp! shing his end by ekilll manu. | says; Gen, Karly's train is @ very aie Tone not vering and a rurprise, and consequently our loss | ¢ xveeding 250 wayons, and the stories about accu- was small, it be ug estiinated at less thra one bun dred. Previous to tue n troops were placed upon the transporte and moved Gown ostentatiously to below Horr.son'® Landing, ‘ the rebels, who at once ae aa a pei . se Richmond Washington, Aug. 16.-To Major-General John was being raised. Under the cover of the night A. Diz: The following official report of the eur- the troops were turned up the river again, aud the render of Fort Gaines, and the abandonment of femnit was a compiete surprise of the enemy. Our Fort Powell, lated August Oth, New Orleans, bas froops have now gained an important position just been received from »r-General Canby: thin two miles of Fort Darling. Fort Gaines, with fifty-six coninussioned officers THIRD PIEPATCr. and 414 enlisted men, with its armament of twenty- Washington, August 16,-Ov Saterday leat x gune intact, and provisions for twelve months, Mancock's Corps was putin motion on the James ue RTE i porsgeneayc ond was oocupled River, and by # circuitous route reached the north he a coe unos i poli besigploan di dag side of the River at Deep Bottom near Dutch Gap. ae Point ae pees p. ie einai bali Turner's and Terry's divisions, of the Tenth corps | aye also crosaed over to Deep Bottom Saturiey night. Hon for immediate service, Foster's division, which had been for some time | posted at Deep Bottom, wis advanced by General Birney alittle after sunrise on Sunday moruing, pushing the retc! line of wkivtnishers before them a considerable distance, When the 24th Massachusetts regiment, Colonel Osborne, charged and broke the rebel line, capturing seventy prisoners, Meantime Genera! Greyy's Cavalry bad clearedt | tbe roads for Hancock, and he got his (the gay | Corps into position ou Bimey's right on the New ! mulated pit er irom Maryland are untrue, Epwis M, Stanton, Secrotary of War, vementup the river the ADMIRAL FARRAGUT, Fert Powell Not Blown Up, Hte. Genera! Granger will immediately invest Fort Morgan, leaving garrisons in Forts Gaines and Powe!l, Fowts M. Stanioy, Secretary of War. Washington, Aus, 16.—From semi-official in- formation recerved here ubt is expres] in mi'i- ath of the report that Fort It is asserted that it was | tary Grcles as to the tr | Powell was blown up, evacuated and left int Thanks to Admiral Farragne, honatom Avg, 1s,—-The Secretary of the Los addressed the full ug tw Aduural wi Market road, which leads from the viclnity of said ¥ ! li y Richm: 1 . Ma'vern Ii} directly to Richr ony A Navy Daraatunen ) The position thus taken by Huncock fs abont ten | Was) nytton, D, C., August 18, 9 milesfrom Rickmond. TPirney bis front and carried a it which guard the eppro quarter, capturiny & of cannon and mor. tars. Bome advices state the number of mortars é ang tate! at four pieces. r i ¥ nloasur (By Mail late you and your toide an agsult on (tho evemy*s works, | } ches to Richmond in that ur dispaieb of tee Sth ivet., stating chat the rporning of that dag enterad Mo- pareing between Ports Morgan aud nd encountering an ming the re. he subislact) elve thie d ! » bed ° ] pleas u ty te conyratu- brave sesocintes in an achieve. Fortreas Monroe, Aug. 16.—The hospital steam. | ehh Wed allan ip Our gervice bs any Piet: 2 2 ! ane >» an a " in) ey Here, of Now Jersey, Capt, Hancock artiy naval triumph, of the » er Your Come from Deep Bottom, ov the James River, this afte mand in the epring of proceeding noon, with 100 wounded men, who were wounded {he Hiseias P's you ‘ son at in the ficht yesterday, after landing ow the north Peiesse, (Ms rater iad hagtration side. The following officers were arnong the ye commercial exaporium of the great central | ber: volley ot the Union, The bay of Mo) ile w | oe . og ; “ uly well fortified and guarded by forts and Capt, W. C. Mines 24 b N.Y, 3 Cant James ries on the shore, and by submerged obstruct MM i6ith N.Y. pte We ON, Bullies Tih fut tie cebels had algo cofiecte | there a for wei ve n Me P BAe ro. Ls heats « anded by ther bivbest naval uttx Jaw . Kichara Pilkincon, 16 Navy, whicy false 10 ¢ tund the Union, had ceserted hi ur of peril and levelled his guns a b it Was bis dutyto have cee » Lib Con Mansur, Lieut, P, \ Bouth Caroliua (rebe) prisoner). } Tne Hero brought away all the wounded of the | {on of Mobile Bay, which you L 6 | a inflate } nirei, will close tne i} aah Righteenth Army Corps, up to five o'clock yester- | he on by running by Fa Ky Bye of | day afternoon, Artillery and musketry firing had | the Gul’ Aon iver paint and value to the success | een kept up oll day, end sti continued whenour ' you haveachiered, Groat regulte in war aro eel: | J David, % | coced to the two vreat Germs ) of Arvo to remain with Denn country, and died in her cause, To you and the brare offcers and sailors of your aquadron who participated in this great achievement, the Depart- ment tenders jts thanks and those of the govern- Ment and country. Very reapectfnlls, &e., Geox Wars, Secretary of the Navy. Rear Admiral David G. Farragut, Commander, &c, The War Westward. Mebel Raklers. Tndiancpolia, Ind., Avg. 15.—The rebela, under Colonel Johnson, estimated at fifteen bundred, captured three steamers near Shawneetown, Dl, on Saturday night. The steamers were loadet! with fas cattle belonging to the Government. Forces have been stationed along the Ohio River to pre- vent the rebela from crossing the Indians border. At last accounts the rebele wore ferrying the cattle across the Kentucky River, Cairo, Ill, Aug. 15.--About five hundred rebel cavalry under Colonel Johnson, crossed the Ohio River into Llinoig, at Saline Rar, on Saturday, The ateamers Kate Robinson, Jimmy Per- king, Nightingale, Fanny Brandon and Clara Hall were ayround at that place, and were captured by them. These steamers had a large amount of stock n board at the time, and those in charge of ther hel to pay several thousand dollars each to ave them from destruction Loutavilla, Ky, August 15,—Passengers arriv- ing at New Albany, Indiana, aay that Col, Johnson, witharelel catatry force is threatening Hender | the s now the bona fide property of M son, Ky. mopored chiefly of | Hates, by whom she has bean put in thorugh pair, and was about leaving Liverpool for Lisbon, negro soldiers, who are under the protection of our in jer a charter to the P. ehimieee Government to carry troops to the Weat coast of Africa, and the mula between Lisbon and the Azores, — Tt was al- leged thatthe Niagara waited outeiae tho Mersey Marshal McMahon is expected to eat! for Algeria this month, and will take possession of the Govern. ment. An expedition is to set out to the interior, in September, with the object of crushing out what- ever of the insurrection existe, The decision of the Emperor with reference to the Suez Canal bas been publiabed, The total indem- nity to be allowad to the company, for surrender. ing the stipulations of July 20, 1856, and for relin- quishing certain territories, is fixed af 549100,000 france, From 8000 to 10,000 men are to be recalled from Mexico, and the shipe for that purpose are to ar- rive at Vera Cruz in October, The Federal corvette Lroquois anchored in Breast Roads on Fridey lnat, coming from New York, Mtlll Laser. Halifaz, N.S, Augquat 16.—The R.M. steam- ship Asia, from Queenstown the 7th inst, srrived et this port, en route to Boston, this evening. The United States steamers Walhusetts and On- ward were at Rio Janerio, July Oth. The steamer Niagara, after taking In coals and provisions, left Liverpool on the Sth, Hor destinatian wae un- known, Runwore were currenten the 6th that the tate rebel cruiser Goorgia had been seized by the order of the Government, as she was about leaving Li- verpool, Tt turned cut, however, that ae was ‘ly detained by her owner, Tt is allered that Our garrison there ia ¢ runboata, which are ready to ehell the tewn in casa for the Georgia, but it waa contradicted, the rebels mucccod in getting into it. Many of the inhabitante are tleeing north of the Obio River, The Times’ city article says advicestrom Frenk- fort mention that under the preesure of some sales The Tallahassee. on American account the prices of United States Halifiz, Aug, 16.—The Tallahassee ia reported Of ‘Yarmouth, bonds gave way for some days, nntil quotations Washington, Aug. 16.—The first information of | were only two per cent, above Now Fork 1 bat p dey one ¢ h v mich ia the eagerness of the German public in- the depredations of the pirate Tallahassee wan re- | ether investinenta that ag oon as tho pres ceived by the Navy Department on the 12th inst. | ,ure of these exceptional operations was removed, after office houra, when Secretary Welles immediate- | & fecovery took place of more than three per cent. The reason for the renewed furore consists in the ly ordered the following-named vessels to forthwith | y aed “peace” baving been mentioned in the last start in pursuit, viz; The Susquehanna, the Bolus | telegrams, Tt in added that the estimate of thirty Pontosac, Dumbarton and Tristam Shandy; on the | Millions sterling as Me ee of haneg oocyte 7 . Toll s certainly below sth the Moccasin, Aster, Yantic, R. BR. Cuyler and Sorbed lo Germany and Holland 1s ¢ 7 Grand Gulf ; and on the 18th the Dacotah and San the actual amount. Admiral Binapar Jacinto, They al! took different directions, These | Hved in Engle. were all the vessels available in the navy. acs Heavy Firing Ienrd off Vontaak. Providence, R, 1, Auguet 16.—Neavy and con- tinuous firing was beard at Newport and Btoning- ton this afternoon, from the direction of Montauk of the Chilian Navy, had ar- Qupowered ty buy War vessels rder iron clads, THE DANISH QUESTION, It is confirmed, via Copeubagen, that Denmark completely eedes the Duchies to Austria and Pras her with the Jutland Enelaves the town >, ted; also thal ipation of Jute penis - al 4 tall the final con: on of pence, From Europe. nivated the matterto the Rigerad at the Perales ‘ sittinw, and on the following day @ motion was of- TREC DG Ye it aieE Newes fered und eupported by w cons.derable number of The steomobip North American, from Liverpool | qhe meters, declaring that the silence by whieh with advices to the Sily & portion of which was vent Wak received, 0 atch be gent published in yesterday's Ss, arrived off Farther padi ap approval of the conduct of the Go pment, Point, Monduy nfghh and the Hansa and City of | Furloughs have been granted to all the Dantsb Raltinnore, with advices and newspapers of the Sd | reeruits uncer prelit y drill, Troops and 4th, arrived at this port yesterday morning, | "°C returning opeubagen from Func Hee : ¢ The German papers assert that the Duchies have The news is unusually interest ng been eurrendered in theirentirety w the re servae The reported capture of Atlanta by General Sher- | ¢ and That Ausicie aud Prussia have full liberty A ‘ man wea received with much satisfaction by the . ele Gov nment has addressed a ciren- friends of the North in England, and caused a de- | lar ne {ta representauves almond, giving an pression of 2'6 per centin the rebel loan, analysis of the preliminary pees hee etating all uestio ive to future aispomal. The U. 6. Consul ot Liverpool publishes an order | * M : Tre on "the head of the ‘Volih National M. Trangott, the hea ) b from the State Department at Washington, requir: | (, vorament, wgether with four chiefs of depert- ing that all pergons embarking for America, with |" ‘ ape Stitt Tea kin iRatin Ratha iiaed ot . ment, were ue «on th " exception o} ‘ Pm r to se ai bli ies ee eae best 1D | he citadel, The sentenceaof death on eleven other mT t a of . i ced ila officials of the National Government had been com- he Pigs 0 nday says: Z muted Discount requirements are active, and an im- b ckreg pression in some quarters that peace in America The Missionary question in Turkey had been tight be followed by a further tncrease in the settled between Sir Henry Bulwer and the Porte, mand for money, seemed to contribute to the f 1 Ith " A Mismonary stations are to be rev pened, and con- ness of prices on change, although, as America is : a Ma bare of nearly #!) kinds of produce, it is difficult to | verts are tobe sent for the present to the prov eee, after allowing for any stores of cotton that | ines may be available, how she could draw capital ou balance from Europe. Moreover, the reduction that would ensue in the price of cotton would at onve check the transmission of specie to the Bust. Attbe same time it isto be remarked that the be- lief in any possibility ot an early aud permanent peace being neyotiated is entertained by very few, A period of suspense between this date and the Presidentia! election, is the utmost that is hoped for. The Birmingham Jocesan sys: Mr. James Buchanan, the ex-President of the Uni'ed State: end Mr, Mason, the Contecerate ayent, are at pri ent staying atthe Regent Hote', Leamington, Eng- land, In regard to thenew Government of Mexico, the London Tres in its city article, says: The attempt to reprosent the new order of affairs e* being in opposition to the wishes of the per isteld by merchants and capitaliete acqualuted with the country to be alike impelitic and errone- our, © ering the great interests that are it volved to Britieh commerce in the rehabitation of that coun wud the fact that our people hold 14. The alleged enlistment of seamen for the Federal Government in America was attracting attention | at Calcutta, India, Foderal agents were said to have already freighted one ship for the Northern Btates with unemployed sailors, in contravention of the law. The authorities were onthe watch fir their detection. ‘Telecrams from Calcutta to July 16, Singapare to July 6, Melbourne to June 20th, bave been receiv ed via Suez, They contain no news of laport+ ance. (Latest via Queenstown.) Liverpool, Avg. 6.—The friends of the North were much disappointed that the alleged capture of | Atlands was Armco’, while the southern sympathizers loud! wel, The Mosesisa Post to-day has an edit the kMdnapping of British subjects for the nok co rejc 1 de- Qon,000 t seemaan espeeal duty for the | 7 ecia!! » case C ai : +e ry Na ite pan ence ; | al service, It refers specially to the case of ib tbat can fucil'tute the task ; and “it w seven Inighmen Who were subje a Tine lant to o singular, although perhaps undes cable ay } gross indir ter their rel 1 an a ned if the Washington yovernuent were, a8 Spposra | wud bay the tac ware proved, t iH itr 3 : ana : lkely to be the case, ts revugnive the new order of | ment not Le sate he 1 wit thon one aifnirs before ourselves. thanahe exemplagy panishinent of all concerned According to accounts from Manila of the th of | in the outrages eye tia June, eighty thonssud anintala of toby » were The Vines bag mm editorial the me snbject, burned in the Government storeson the 6th, ritup to Iacvhmen av 9 warnit tthe gederal & vt gsiust emis THE DANO-*GREMAY WA | bse A telegram from Vienna of July oth, eure Darcy Nv ioral! refutes the A truce with Denmark will to-day be prolonged | tationa airainet the lnbe rt " wet ” ame? ea} Rows for two days, It is alm t poace will | thatit isin a mort > es tate, aod overs irres be concluded within fo sistible attraction to erm eraats, A telegram of the Slut | ic est Qomuercial. The Conterence sat tive hours yesterday. M.Von Liverpoot, Au? 6—2,.M.-—Cotton. 8 to-lay Quonde has rece. ved the expecte! ins OM | Bue hte sie tors nud ime Copenbagen, and the preliu nares « be|y quiet axe! wn ed, @gned and an armistice conchide!, within ‘4 cuve, Provisioas dull, and tea. hours, The truce was yesterday prolougol Wil 12 dg sar o'clock on the night of Aug F ) 6 PMC 'onse'a closed at 8 A telegram from Vienns of Aucnst 1, #4 The » Central shares 44048 div following are stated to be the bass of tie proposed 9.6. The ady ‘ance of the Bink of peace; F ‘ jscount , to § per cent, hes pressud the murke Lauenberg, Bebleswig and Mo!stein are to be Pow Tae island , th wife of Gene ral Bibley, who lef stotakeuparms against us in the pearance at Little and the islands in the Nort wig. Ou account of the Du af wig, @ rectification of the Jutland ironher ¥ | take miwde her ef i Neck aye age, ar rece 1 the prose Place, | 8. Gea, BI, Ney accompanied A Vienna telegram of the 2d of August sa) 94 ver to the line of the Federal pick ¢(¢s bur vas hot The preliminary treaty of peace was «¢.0d to» | peranicied to come further, although be aud Ge yeral day upon the basis that ali rignts to Schleswig, , Steele were classmates at West Polk Mes. &.bley Holstein and Laueneburg should be ceded by the | does not, it is said, adopt the sent, ments of ber { King of Denmark. The protgcal of an armistice, | husbaud ip regard to the rebellion. burgh boats, that was to bave oocurred at Pough- keepsie yesterday, was postponed in consequence af the rough state of the weather. Tire subscriptions to the 7-80 loan yeaterday were $1,121,900, The delivery of notes to subscribers begun yesterday, and will be pushed forward as rapidly aa possible, ‘ A riaut occurred at Mokena, Mondsy evening, between « party of excursioniets and the proprie- tors of a drinking enloon near the depot, In which pistola were frealy used, Three men were mor- tally wounded and « number of otbers injured. Tun Committee of Arrangements have fixed the grand ball of the season nt Seretoge, fer Briday night, at Union Hall, The supper will be provided by the Lelands, Mra, Lincoln is expected to be present. Mise Cannie E.oripor and John Doherty were killed by @ train of cars, at the Charies street crossing of the Worcester Railroad, Providence, R. 1, yesterday, Two other persons were injured. They were mill operatives, sud were walking on the track, General Intelligence. (By Mail to the New York Sun.) Tne cranberry crop in New Jersey promises to bd very large this year. Furves thousand boarders filled the Aaratege boarding houses last week. Mes. Lrnco.n sud her son Robert left Washing- ton, Munday,ssor Now York, on their way to Saratoga, Tre Chicago Trrnene saya there is more than demble the amount of wheat and corn in store fp. that city than there was a yoar ago. Tur «stance (rom Fort Morgan to Fort Geines fe loss thau three miles, The width of the opposite Fort Morgan does not exceed 1,600 y. i ‘Tne Washington Rereniican says thet it gave instruct ons to an able reporter to write an cle on tho heat, but received instead a note from bis man servaut to the effect that “ ho had been ed to dip his master out of bed with « he would not be ablo to write newspaper present."* Cons soTioutT was fortunate enough to beve @ credit of nearly 4,000 over and above all otber calla, and but # eral! margin to fill on the last eall, The surplus was cue to the large number of veterans who re-onheted (being more than two-thirds of all the men in the old mente), and the raising of over thirteen hundred negro troops, before the othor states fairly began to recruit. A Wasarmatox dent says :—The ete pectant public need not be disappointed if the pre- sent expedition agsost Mobile should not imme. Giately rewult in anything of more obvious le ance thin bermet: ically sealing that port for all biockwding purposes, by holding the mouth af the harbor by forte and a small blockading force. rebebs have a large infantry force at Mobile, pert aanent occupation by our army would liberate. Maine Democratic State Conveation. Bangor, Me August 16.--The Democratic Btas Cenvention was held in this city today, Kighs bundred and «ixty-one delegates representing four hundred towns were present. Jonatheau Smith, Westbrook, was President, Hen. James Brawibury, Chairman of the Com- mittee on resclutions reported the follow- ings which were adopted unanimously. Reeolntions were passed avowing that the Domo- eratic party las ever been the True Union party uncer which the United States have hitherto been preserved; that the Union must still bo maintained> that the existing war is the result of the political ascondancy of fanatical extremists; denouncing the invasion of State and individual rights; proclat that the war ouht to cesne when the supremacy the Conatitution had been achieved, That the only mode of obtaining an honorable peace, was by ex- pelling the present corrupt aud imbecile Ad- tounistration from power, and substituting an Administration which will conduct the government according to the requirements of the Constitution, and protect all partios in the full ex- joymenut of their constitutional rights and privi- leges, That the present administration {6 incapa- ble of a successful) prosecution of the wer or nego- tiating an honorabi co, That the Democracy are in favor of the Constitution, the rights of the States and the people, and of the entire Union fn all its integrity, and of an honorable peace at the ear- liest practicable moment, Hou. G, L. Boynton having withdrawn bis name. Hon, Jas. Howard, of Portland, was unapimoualy nominated as a candidate for Governor. Hops, W. P. Haines and Adams Treat were nominated fer electors. The resolutions and nominations are understood to be the result of # compromise be- tween the peace and war wings of the Demon | Tay. ot w. Obseauies of a Departed Here, The funeral of General G. A. Stedman, whid® took place on Saturday Inst at New London, Con- necticut, was one of the most imposing demonstra. tions of respect ever paid to the memory of any person by the Inhabitante of that city. Aten early bour flags were displayed at half-mast on pablir buildings, private residences, and on the shipping in the harbor, The stores and public offices werr nearly all closed, and crowds of strangers from a!' parts of the Btate amewbled to follow to the rave the remains of @ gallant soldier, At twelva o'cl«k @ short funeral service took place of tho fumily mansion of the deceased, aud froue thence 6 proce son of military aud civiliang (uear lyu mile long), accompanied the remains to the Eple opal Church, Here the body was received et the € h door Ly the officiating clergyman, whi Naucel, Where the funeral ser- ducted by the Rey, Dr, Hallam, Av 4 the conelisionthe burial eave containing the body Was pleced upon a gun-carnage, and covered bw the America rn Pa oT wi whick, affectionate bande Vdaitleautifal wveatha of natural towers, In od- lee tothe sdlers who eame fon Petersburgh fi the Gouveai's remaimy the troops garrisoning I Hrimtnal perortued cadeort 1atyy. segome Panel by the Hortord City Ged, Norwleh Tighe Sti qard, the New London military, &¢» the hende playing appropriain aire. Tee horse of tho de tesaed was Wh {tn TD ter the remains whic owed very large numba os including Ws | Exec vebany Major-Gonst Ww sheldy Brigndies-Geaces iu I. ont.-Cols, Barn Lieut, Webb, dc, Nuiner ithe relatives, frenas aye don these, a large pro ollowed the reriams © mm Grove Cemetery. lived with nd a hai to Cedi oD ether sdoof the way bei tors, who wstifed their respect Ly uncover | heads, as the melancholy corteve passed, | at the greve, be cofin wan lowerod into ite Dv |=am place. Tho officlating clergyman bavte (Continued on last pige.)