The Sun (New York) Newspaper, September 30, 1864, Page 1

. -_ = ——— a RS Y-Finst VRAR. 9) MBER 10,057. ‘ ————S The Latest . News By Telegraph to the NV, ¥. Sam. | Gen Rouseau or bis command HIGHLY IMPORTANT! ‘Grant Moving Again. REBEL ENTRENCHMENTS CARRIED, U5 Pieces of Artillery Captured, THE ARMY MARCHING FOR RICH MOND. Gen. Ord Wounded. THE PURSU!T OF EARLY. Sheridan Occupies Staunton, HIS ADVANCE AT WAYNESBORO’. Operations in Sherman's Rear. DESTRUCTION OF KAILROADS. Forrest Driven from Pulaski, THE MISSOURI INVASION, Ca pti ire of Pe tsi. THE FEQERALS CONCENTRATING. 12,0 State Militia Under Arms, &e, kc, &8 FERAL GRANT. On to Richmond, Wav Department, Wishington, Sept 29.—The Bilewing dispatch from Genera! Grant announ- @ivg the movement of our forces aginst Rich- mrond, bas just beem received ; Headquarters, Chapin's Farm, Sept, 29—10:45 A. M.—Mojor-General Halleck } Genero! Ord's @orps advanced this morning and carried the very etrong fortifications and long of intrench- ments below Chapin's Farm, capturing some fif feen pieces of artillory and from two to three bun- dred prisoners. General Ord wae wounded, Gough not dangerously General Birney advanced at the same time from Deep Rottom, and carmed the Newmarket road and Qntrenchments, and scattered the enemy in every Prection, though hecaptured but few. Ae ta mow qmarching on fowarda Richmond T laft Genera! Birney where the Mii! road geets the Nevemariket and Richmond road. This w ‘fons thus far inter- couutry is filled with field fortifica- U8 Grant, Lieutenanteneral, Fowr M frantos, Secretary of War. Deep Rotten spoken of in the abowe diepateh is ®n the North side of the James river, neariy oppo- wte General Datier’s position, and within two agil'es beep built, Duteh Gap ie simply a sharp bend in fhe rivor, less (han half a mile across and a canal across it shortens the disisuce, that our gunbeats suet traverse to Richmond as much as ten miley cutting off thet extent of torped.s aud rebel Datteries on the shores Deep Bottom fs within two miles of New Market and teu miles of Richmond. This route to the Con- federate capital is through an cpen countre, and | sloag roads built by General M.Cleilan fo whe P @insular campaign, and presenting the advar tages of thorough reconnolssances sid toparraphi- ea) information, obtained during that campaign ff this movement of General Grant's right wing should prove the real point of attack, ft would todicate that the formidable demonstrations | eo the extreme left on the Weldan road were mere feluts to draw of th mtention of the enemy ‘rom more vital ints. The rebels ebvious!y expocte! an attack m the left. A few bours uniinpeled march of G Hene men will bring them to the fortifications of Richmond Fort Darling, a forwidalle rebel fortification on the dames river, is only tour or five miles from Dutch Gap, in 9 direct line, and about ten miles by water. The blaffs on the North bank eommand the works, aud may be ettackod by our forces preliminary to the capture of Richmond. As cover the Hee @ mere feint to tions of Gener) S). ghly portant opera. bv the Shenandoah, this ent of Geveral ant is of the highest fcw.) GENERAL SHERIDAN Onr Vorces Pushing straight Ahead Wash ngton, Sept. 24 A & from General Grant epateh just received cives as telezram cootained in vesterday's Rebmond Wiis, dated at Charlottes. ville, which states th airy entered Stann- ton on Monday at § ¢* « A.M. ; tha ur forces: were alsoat Wovnesbor'; that no damage had been Cone uptod i M indicated what they w the railroad track between Chrisiian C and wanton, No direct com- munication, Las been bad with Genera’ Sheridan for aeveral dass, Cour to have been cantured by the g country in his rear Epwin M, Stanton, Secretary of War, ura are known rillas that infest GENERAL ROUSSEAU, Retreat of Forrest ‘rom Pulaski, Ete, Nashville, Tenn, Sept. 28, thing has been heard from Gen Rousse.a to-day, The telegraph \ines are cut ou both the Tennessee & Alabama and Nash ville and Chattanooga Railroads, south of Co- Yumbia and Tullahoomas. There are no trains running senth of Nashville, ce a | Missour, entered the § of Dich Gay, acrosa which the famous canal bas | ° ie ' been a race ground | It was reported vesterd ' in Sherr Oficial deepatches received on the 28d, etate that the enems ral Ear (224) at Fisher's Hol, and suc skOORD pISraton Nashville, Sept. 2&.—Owiny to the cutting of the telegraph wires nothing has been heard to<lay of | It in believed, however, that a deaperate batue for the posmession of Pulosks bas occurred, or may even now be in Progress, The rebel forces, accor ling to the latest advices, bad advanced their lines preparatory to an early attack upon our troope to-day. The fact | of the telegraph wires being cut induces the belief that there are parties in the rear of Gen Rousseau's forces, The wires on the Chattanooga Ral!road, which were down to Tullahoma, have since been | repaired, ani are workin through forthe rest of the distance. The policy of the rebels appears to be to damage to the full extent beth the ra:lroada | to the front, The damage done to the Tennessee and Alshama Railroad by the rebela wi | take seve- ral weeks to repair THIRD DIRPATOR, Nashville, Sept 28— Evening —A courtier just | from Gonera Rousseau Lae arrived with dispatches to the effect that during the night. General Forrest withdrew his whole force from the vfcinity of Pu- Inaki, ani he is believed to have crossed the Chat. | tanoogs Railroad. General Rousseau reports that the rebel! tose during yesterday night waa about | two hundred, and some twenty prisoners were captured, A ama! rebe! force is ai The colonel commanding at Co'umbia telegrapha that smal) detachments of rebel ace near Columbia, in- tending to strike the rairoad between there and Nashville, * maville, (orrictaL | Warhington, Sept 29-.We have received dis. Patches from Nashville upto 9.50 Inst night. The enemy did not attack at Prlask!, but took the pike towarde Fayetteville and was pursued about nine miles by our cavalry, Genera! Rousseau is revurn- ing with bis infantry to Nashville, Desperate ef- forts wil! be made by the enemy to force Sherman from Atlanta by destroying his communications Epwin M. Stastox, Secretary of War ‘By Mail.) The Nashville Timms, Sept. 25, aye: A gentleman who arrived in this city last even. ing, from Atlanta, informa us that the rebel Gen- era) Jackson crossed the Chattahoochie on the Dightof the 19th or 20th instant, wits three brig- | ades of cavalry, one of mounted infentry and three batteries, They were aiming to cut General Soerman's communications it was supposed, GENERAL ROSECRANS, Progress of the Missouri Invasion. St Louis, Mo, Sept. 28.-My. Burns, « tele- graph operator, who left Pilot Knob, diaguired, at noon yesterday, arrived at De Sito to-day. Lie re- porta that General Ewing hus concentrated bis troope in front of the rebels. The rebelea bave cap tured some property and planted a battery on Shepard Mount, and are throwing shells inte the furt, doing some execution, General Ewing was ordered to evacuate Pilot Knot, but the rebel ont off his communications before be could get away Colonel Mills was attackod at Mineral Porat last night by a large bedy of rebels, who were repulse t. Our troops subsequently withdrew to De Bote. Geaeral Boulh's headquarters are still at De Soto, where he is re 4 reinforcements, Potosi was captured by the rebels last night. Major-General Rosecrans to<lay, was directed to assiat in the or- ganization of the State militia, Aleut 12,000 mili. tia are now under arms, which, th dent citizen companies, will make uite a fori ble force. eivir wit! ind (Potosi, mentioned above, ia the canital of Wash- ington county, about reventy unl St. Louin, and contains, besides thi inty build. ings, several churches and an semlemy. Rich mines of lead and iron are worked in this viewmity. | The body of rebele which have thus far invaded ate fromm Ark a ! From Dixie Direct. | Rebel Dates to Vonday Last. | Paltimore, Sept, 20.—The Richinoud papers of Monday contain the following items : | Ou Saturday and on yesterday heavy cannon- | ading was heard {n the direction of Harrisonburg. | pera! Barly reached Keezeltown at eleven o'clock yesterdoy (Sunday), Opinions are divided whether | be will make a stand at Keezeltown or fall further back. There is considerable excitement among the ens at Staunton, and mauy ere leaving. All the sick and wounded, and the government stores, have been moved to @ place of safety, Sheridan may take Bi omy but its capture will avail him | nothing cll The Valley, since the wor bevan, has Sheridag has reached the he course, and if he don't pull up of | own accord, he will be pulled, From Culpepper we hear shat there is no enemy in the country except sama! bedy of cavalry that recently burned the bridge at Rapidan Staton | | | | her end of President Davis arrived at Macon, Ga, on the 22d inet. and made a epeech at the Baptist church | there. He .8 going to Hood's army The expul- sion of the jzens of Atlanta has been completed ab Hood's army was ants rear—between bim and Chattanooa. | A larce force of mounted Yanuhoes are ecllected at Pound Gap with the intention of making the Virginia This we presuine, same force that was at Lex on, Ky. two weeks ago. They number about 12,04 The Richmond Esquinrn . md on is the Salt-worke tains the following : back the left of bis line, and thro rear, cornpeliing him w abandon they ing twelve pieces of cann her bands, though ; losing & women news published al ve, was sufficiently astounding roone Gay, efter the puble bad become pretty well aemired that no further retrograde movement would be | made, the assurance arising from the known strength of she posivon selecte! by Gencral Eorly It seetns, however, that the enemy sc lurvely out | numtered our f 6 especia in ¢ favorite arm of Sheridan, that the strenvt Poe bon availed nothing agauat an fuok movement, Ourcavalre, weakenr i losses on Monday, were in nv day to resist treble their number them, abu gave Way, thusex at Fisher's Hl) T ¥ abandonment of the place, sud a rapid retreat upon New Market, in Shenandoah, where Geveral Early is suid to have determined once to omke astand, But the enemy continuing to pr in front and flank, he fell back on Friday risonburg, and on Sstugday passed through Port | Republic, and stopped & post station known as | K wo, about thirteen miles from Staunton, and six from Port Republic, on the road between the valley turnpike and the South River road. The entire movement was made without what may be NEW YORK FRIDAY, | fire at Morris Inland, ‘Light artillery, effeet, should the situation termed a fight, Gon, Barty deeming it better strate ey to avoid one than to risk one under the cireum- stances, On Friday, however, « aay party from Sheridan's forves hav.ng penetrated the Page | Volley, with » view to retard any remforcementa that right have been on the route to Karly from that direction, wae encountered by « forve of our cavalry and wh pped, At Inet accounts, on vewer- dav Early wae wht at Keealetown, where it was be- heved he would eake @ stand, although many fears were naturally expressed that he would con- tinue hia retreat, Many rumors were afloat, grow- ing cut of the confusion of the batike on Mon tay, sod the retreat mnce Thureiay, snd representing terrific battles and appalling lossee, Tt i« hardly necessary to do more mention the iact to clear up the confusion, (From the same paper.) General Early haa been forced back from Fisher's TE") with the ‘ons of twelve pieces of artillery. The | enemy are following up their anecesaes in the Val- ley with great vigor, Sheridan ie determine! not © pertoit hie opportunity to slip by without making the most of it, There seems to have been bad management tn these afaire in the Valley The duty of ascertaining thre, and taking to retrieve our fortunes is with General Lee, ai could not be entrusted to abler and better hands, it 18 not necessary for the people to be over anxious or very nohoppy. For three years our fortunes have rested on bis broad shouldera, and, wader Provi- dence, he bas brought our cause through He bas been beavily reenforeal by the report for duty of Leutenant-General Longstreet, that “old war forse’ whe ollcited the embrace of Gen Lee on the field of Sharpsburg. Longsireet comame bacs nroat oppertunely to reetify affairs in the valley. Want of co-operation, more than the Prepoudering numbers of the enemy, bas caused the late disesters in the valley. The presence of two lenutenantewenerals, the one not subordinate to the other, but intended to co-operate, haa preven ed, when there should have been con entration The presence of Longstreet in the valley would re- Atore unity of command, and check the advance of the enemy. Notwithstanding the losses sustained in the late disasters, if some of the worthless horee- men that have been routed by the enemy could he brought to trenches at Petersburg, and their places mupplied by real cavalry, all our reverses may be repaired, and the valley preserved, uf not reclaim ed, bo the banks of the Potorune From Charleston. Arrival ef the Fulton, The stearnship Fulton, from Port Royal 26th In- stant, arrived yesterday with news fromm Charies- ton. She had on board 25 men of the Third Rhode Island battery, Atsirs op Morris Island remain nearly tne same. The enemy's charpshooters from the ruins of Burn- ter have ceased tiring, ag the construction of acreens by our men rendered it evident even to rebel com- prehension that no damage wae deur Firing on the fort t# maintained only when evidences are apparent of repairs being made, or positions p pare’ to remount the guns, when our heavy niles open, and the work is demolished, The regular ety taaintained, Deserters report sound eid aad range. Shelle are now thrown two blocks beyond Calhoun etree, in the Lusiness centre of the cay, The old gunaecnly reached to ibe “burned distric The rebels have twenty-five hundred mep at work on the defences | of the elty, repairing and strengthening old works, and conatrncting new ones, They are preparing for the day of trial thoroughly and as well aa they may. THE RETALIATION [ROC RES. The Patwerro Hanatp gives the following ae- connt of the operation of the new plan of retahation adopted by our Government t The «x hundred rebel officers who came to this department sore weeks since, to be placed under 8 A retaliation fora like act of the rebe| authorities towards the same number of Union officers in Charleston, have been placed in camp, and have already become quite accustomed to the new order of things The place of confine- ment ia located between Forte Strong and Putoam, in the dangerous district, where sholis fy freely, tn full view of all the rebel worgs, and closely under our own guns, Within an immensely atrong palisude of beavy timbers, deeply imbedded in the sand, twelve or fifteen feet high, and firmly 1 eile wrdal ipauiads perbaps an acre and » half, are the tents of the | an ares of strapped together, and surretindiry Prisoners, laid out in regimental style, with wide street, and abundance of room between them Fatirely surre distance prsonera br a the tent, mm eruer to give the bing room, is a rope attached to sty about fifteen feet from the palisades, which ee t : sie Ww plundering everybody they mee t. marks the extreme verge aud limit of the camp, aud beyond which no one erossem® save under the pain of iuatent death at the hands of the guards, who have imperative orders to shoot down any one who attempts to cross the ‘*death line." Within the «pave between the "death line" and polisades aif sevtries, who patrol their bea bight aud day without intermission, Upon a platfortn erected on the outside of the palisades 16 the second tine of sentries, who can look dowu aod malutain the closest wateh upou the prison. ers tu all their movements, Beyond these are other sentries aud pickets, properly stationed, and forming success.ve cordona yvuerds, to prevent escape if the inuer lines Lave been passed by those who may be insane enough to attempt an escape, in position at different points, bear upon th bined effort should be tasde to murprise and over+ power the guard, and rush outen masse Besidery the heavy guur of Fort Sireny bear upon every part of the camp, and could be used with deadly of affairs demand it, Toere is little danger of such an attempt being made, as the most reckless of the prisoners must observe the utter futility of ao effort of the kind ; but al) the precautions wre wisely taken, und the wreatert vigilunce ia alway erved, The prin- overs have rations of precisely like quautity fur- nished by the Confederates to Union prisoners in Charleston, and ot hke kod ax uearan may be, They are cooked by detaied men, and distributed te therm in . They would have been compell- ed todo their own cooking, if such an arrange= ment would ho vasioned embarrassment | and trouble. The plan had too many serious dis wmivantages to be mlopted just atpresent. The prisoners are divided into eight detachments, each commanded or in charge of @ Legr) Kerceant, who brings them inte line at rol! call three times & Cay, and when they recei.e food, The | prisoners do not particuluriy fancy ther imme- diate commanders, bus are compelled to put up with them, The sergeants sre proud of their position, and are exceelingly strict in en- forang obedience t» all proper orders. They treat the'r charge with a projer degree of polite- ness, and no more, but carry out the'r orcers promptly aud to the letter their present situation as far preferable to any they have ves been placed in, and sevin to be enjoying theniselves as well ag persons can under liko cir- cumstances, Tbey enjoy the heavy art.'ery con- | test which is going ou night and day, and exbibit great sot efaction when the rebel shells jal! into our work or @ particularly good shot is made by the rebel gunoers. A few fragmunts of shel! bave fal- len in the enclos...e, but gove of the prisouers have teen Injured ey sleep upon the er yund Wrap. ped ina single blanket, but auffer no d.scomiort irom that sort of joiging., They are qu.et and tractable, aud have not exhibited the first sign of « mutinous or turbulent sp.rit since they have been ashore, They are all in» tolerabie good state of health, and are patiently awaiting the day of ex- change, au a transfer to the streets of Charleston, towards which they turn many a long and wistful gaze. The Fifty-fourth Massachusetts regiment (colored) is entrusted with the duty of Susreing the camp, which is performed with ‘0 fulelity an vigilance worthy of praiee. Richmond papers of the 25th contain the follow- ing t~« SEPTEMBER | | | plantation seven miles fi ding the camp, although at some | prisouers, to be used if any com- | | is an iron sidewheel steamer of about 500 tons; is The rebela pronounce | ce Oo Charleston, Sept, 22 Truce communications took place in the harbor to<lay. Fighteen Yankee surgeons aud chaplains were rricased by us, A number of women and children were sent on board the Yaukee truce steamer A clereyman and five sokliors came into our lines today Stores and clothing, to the amount of 150 Loxes, from the New York Sanitary Commission, for the Yanker prison. ers in our hands, were received and brought to the city, Our returned prisoners report a recent in- crease of troopa at Hilton Mead from New York, On the iat of October an exchange of naval prison: era will take place in the harbor, Four hundred more Confederate prisoners have been placed in the pene oo Morria Island, Frow Vicksburg. The Vicksburg Hreacp, of the 2ist, saya there are shout seventy-five farmers working land on thelr own account, and making about 12,000 acres of cotton, besides as much more corn. Thia trial of their capacity and readiness to work, planned and encouraged by Col, Eaton, jaa auccess, They will make op en average from §2,000 to $5,000 each There is warcely one failure among seventy- five lesaeew, Some nevrone will clear from $14, to $20,000, who were ven three yveara ago, and yet man still wonder “what aball be done with the lacks 9") There is one good use to which they might he prt, viz.: To instruct those who know no better than to ask such questions, Jot? Davis's plantation covered with these negro fi and Just where the rebe'lion was hatched aball mee up # demonstration that black men need only av op- portunity to solve the great problem that has so stirred politicians, The same paper saya that a that city, on the War- renton road, wae visited on Turaday night by seven of Whittaker'’s scouts, who carried off three horses, robbed the wardrobe and storehouse, and made themsely@ at hore generally about the premises. The owner of the place made bis oacape to this city. _ POSTSCRIPT. NKW YORK BUN OFFICE.) Friday, Sept. 50, 1564 4 o'clock, A. Mi) 6 Latest From Missouri. éirent Victory at Pilot Knob. St Lotus, Seyt, 20.—The following dispatch was received st headquarters to-night from Capt. Stiles, Gen, Ewell's Adjutant General ; “At daylight, our outposts at Ironton were et- tacked and forced beck within halfa mile of the fort, The enenry ‘aale a desperate effort to get posnes- tion of Sheppard's Mountain, and @uccesced in driving a batta, ion of the 14th Lowa tute the rifte- pits, and gett) ig two mx-pounder gune in position on the mot ntaii 1. The three mort ntain slopes overlooking the fort were filled with «Usmmounted cavalry The South front was threate: ied by four lines of cavalry, ex. tending across the Valley between the fort and Horton, commanded by Gen, Marmaduke, while « column passed around the base of sShephard's Mountain and formed at the South, Gen, Cabell comms ndet the dismounted cavalry onthe slope of Pilot Knot. The rebel troops thus disposed, a signal of two guns waa fired from the mountain, and an assiult in force moved on our works, The rebela came \ip in fine atyle to the ditches, nnd went back to the mountain in in- decent baste, leaving about fifteen hundred killed and wounded, An ong them is Gen Cobell, a Lieut. Colonel, two Ca) tains and two Lieuten- ants Our entire loss wat ntno killed and. @ixty | wounded. Yesterday mornin at four o'clock, we | left the tort and blew it up Gen, Price command. ed in person. Since the reception of the ab ovediapatch, I learn that Gen, Ewing, after blowing: up the magazine, evacuated Pilot Kuoby brougnt away bia entire command, and wi!! reach Harrinon Station on the Ral!rcad, te -night, Gen. Bmith evacuated Je Bo vo tha morning, and brought his forces to Jefler¢on Barracks, twelve miles below the city. The rentire country below the Merrimac Bridge has been abandoned. & Rebels infest the entire count ry south of De Soto They have lists of all the Union men in the coun try through which they pars, whorn, it fe anid, they will killon aight, They conscript all rebel sympat‘izerryy oll men, and boys of tifteen. News items (By Telegraph to the New Y ork Sun.) Gex Hooxen left Washington yea orday morning for Cincinnati. In consequence of unavoidable delay in printing ! and numbering money order blank 4 the aystern | cannot be put into operation befure the mididle of next month. Ir may not be generally known thatithe pay due to our eoldiersin Soutbern prisons can be obtained | by their wives, on the presentation of whe letter of | proper vouchers to the Pay Department in this city. Ir is expected that Admiral Farragut will be inm- mediately transferred from the command of the West Gulf to the North Atlantic blockading service, | and that Adiniral Lee will take commana of the fleet in Mobile Bay Tur War Departmont has decided that a drafted man may furnish a substitute after he haa been ne- cepted andincamp., When the submtinte is ac cepted the government will discharge the drafted man Tne prize steamer Matacorda aias Alice, captur- od Sept. 10th, armved at Porton yesterday, She | was from Galveston bound to Havana, and was taken off Yucatan Ranks, after a chase of five hours, with a cargo of 600 bales of cotton on board. She qiite fast, and was built at Wilmington, Del, General Intelligence. [By Mail to the New York Sun.) Tue journals of Moravia state that the govern- ment of that province has decided that widowa who jay taxes have aright) vote in municipal ele- tions. A onemret in Liverpool, who sold strychnine by mistake and killed @ man, was sued by the widow and compelled to pay her $7 500 damages, Is Italy, ® brigand trial recently took place. There were 74 accnsed. The opening for the pros- ecution took four days; the summing up 86 daya: the charge of the President five days, 4,832 quea- Hoos were submitted to the jury, who were out 98 ours, Am unusual number of bounty jumpers have re- cently been arrested in Alezan and are await- ing eourt martia!. One man ‘sc with hav. ‘ae enlisted, received the bounty, deserted 27 reg ed a railway carriage iy four gentlemen, one of whom was Melting a clear. Observing her, wouk! incommode her know, sir: no gentioman bas ever an presence."* who was drafted a Wastin ton, has behaved ve: isin Minoia, and tn a district wh: JPRICE ONE CENT-IN GOLD (TWO CENTS IN CERKENCY, AN elegantly drensed y une lady recently ent Pari, where there were the Frenchman seked if smoking ale “i do not ted in my Mr. Nicoray, the President's private seretorys geveronee F © quote ts filled; nevertheless he has put in a substibute for the bene. fit of the district, A towne lady wan bathing lately at Troemouth, Fogland, and persisted fn venturing out too far, Bhe would not regard the remonstrances of the keeper of the bathing machine, who fins to save her ify rte out in the waier on horse and pursuing the lady, threatened to horsewhip her nus eas abe returned at once, She heat a retreat, and declared abe would nevor again patronize thie Healous keeper of bathing muachives. Wrerrnn Missorn ia neal overrun by guerre rillaa telonying t Price's invading army — The Majority of the inhabitants favor them, and the Unionista have become cishoartened and are pres paring t& leave the country Vie rebela divide nto banda of two, three and four hundred, and rove from town tw town robin ( vists, and when thowe are not purmerous, heolog open thet friewda, The Draft. Call on Patriotle Citizens, Seevetary Stanton to General Div Washington, Sept. 20 —T! 6 dratt is quietly proe Rreasing in all the States, but vo unteer enlisiments being more speedy than the draft, all loyal and Patriotic people should urge forward rapid enlist. ments in order to reinforce Sherman, and enable him not only to bold his position, but also, withe out delay, to push on bis campaign, FEpwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, The Peace Ramors. Washington, Sept, 29, After 9 careful inquirgy it cannot be ascertained that any importance ta ate tached, in official circley to the rumored peace propositions from Georgia. Jef Devis ia in Georgia, and itis suppose’ the purpose of bis vist is to provent any hasty action by Gov. Brown, That Lite Calculation, Naw Youx, Sept. 28 Riitor of the Sun: 4 “A Small Calculation’ objecta to Another Cale culation’ made by ‘A Corner Grocer," who mays @ barrel of oniona contains ¢'s bushels instead of 8. A bushel of onions weighs 47 or 48 Ibs, instead of 12 tbe; halfn peck weighs 7 Iba; one quart weighs 2 Ibe. Now, ifone quart of onions weighs 3 Iba, will not ¢ quarts (halt # peck) weigh 8 Iba one peck 16 Iba, and one bushel 64 lbs, instead of 47 ov 48 tbe. Again: FE cannot follow hia “other calewe lation" where he makes 2's bushels contain only 72 quarts Let me prove the exact truthfulness of that first “Small Calentatron't hy the weightameae sures and words of “Corner Grocers themseives. Tewase “Corner Grocer’ who acknowledged to your correspondent that a barrel contained 8 bushe els of ontons ¢ that the cost wae #7 50 in the marke et; that be sold them licts w Ib red onions they were —and another “Corner Grocer" weighed: for the writer a quart of onions and pronounceds the weight Slbs fox, therefore the profit must have been #22 T4 as stated on a «ingle barrel of onions, Let fruth shine to enlighten the people, and trie to lengthen out th tents of their puraetts and lot al! doubters buy and weigh for themantves. Untenarrisp, LOCAL NEWS. NEW YORK AND THE VICLNITY, Re-commencement of Recrerrine,—The city quota having been filled, under all requiate tiona-—an already stated recruiting was re-come meneed, yesterday, by the Supervisors’ Committees for the purpose of aiding in the reinforcement of the army, and to forestall the necessity of a future draftin the elty, The work was inaugurated by the firing of eannon in the Park, in front of the ree eruiting headquarters. The indefatigable Super visor Blunt was on hand, and prepared to renew bin labors with bis usual complaceacy. oystem of recruiting bere for other districts can be broken up, the Committee will undoubtedly secure a large number of recrnita, City GOVERNMENT, —THb ALDERMEN VoTR: Taeaserves Bapars—A RAILgo.o iN FCLTON Bt.» Ero,—Deth branches of the City Government met yesterday, The Aldermen passed an appropnation. of $2,400, over the Mayor's veto, to pay for badges. They uleo granted, over the veto of the Mayor, @ right to the Fulton Stiect Railroad Company to lay rails through Fulton street to Greenwich street, by Malden Lane, Resolusiona increasing the salaries ot the Chief Clerk of the City ai tor to $8,000 3. and the Furst Clerk iu the Otice of the Deputy Bue perintendent of Repairs to $1,300 5 and two other clerks to $1,500 each; and also appropristing $40,000 to the Uith Rewiment, N.Y. 8. M., to peg lomes by fire, were respectively laid over, THE MAYOR ILLUMINATRO THM OLTY FATRERS, A communication was received from the Mayor, vetoug the resolutions for the appolutment of » © munittee of each Board to provide for iNuming» tions in honor of the late victories, His Honor state?! that be could not approve the resolutions, be» cuuse, in th 4 plnce, all who, through poverty or other causes, should fall to luminate, might be considered disloyal: also, because they are noe claimed as * Uni ietories by the Admintetra= tion, but as the result of the Frmaneipation Proclae tuation, and the “Al! te whoro itinay concern pros clamation’ of the President; and if the papers tm the employ of the Adminiatranon ehance to pro claimy “the defeat of the rebels’ three times a welts the people will be required to iuminate three times a week The Mayor states that when the President asks the Bouthern people to abandon rights which the Cmsticution confers, he does not feo how those, who have always held that the Fede | eral government has nothing to do with the domea- tie iuastitutions« oy the States can be expected to rejoice over victoPes, which, whatever they may be, aurcly are uot Union victories Lf these were to unite the States he would issue a igre israatien calling on the j oorest person to pub the las ow candle in Rls etn os Fina n view of the effect which the iluninetions my have upon the party issues now before tLe people, be feels it big duty & veto therm, Vhe Message was referred in the usual way, when the Board aljourned! to Monday, The Board of Councilmen did notang of importance, Prorestant EviscoraAL'@Diocesan Cone vention.—After the opening of the Convention, yesterday morning, @ resolution and plan for es- tabliahing s provisional system for the Church in this country, were submitted, and temporarily laid over. It is proposed to divide the Church into pre vinces, each of which shall include four or more dioceses, to be regulated and governed by a ays tem which was submitted for the consideration of (Continued on last pegs.