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NEW YORK HERALD.
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AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENIBOt
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?TMing.
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New York, Taesduy, Augnat 14. lSu'4.
the situation.
We to-day publish further particulars relative to
the recent latllc at Cedar Mountain. Amo. s
other things it will be remarked that the reb-!s
have begged permKuon to bnry *heir dead lett on
the field, plainly blowing that t .cy U:d not gain a
victory. The resume of the operations of the
Army ol Virginia since the commencement of the
month will be found very interesting, as also the
sketches of some of the officers who have suffered (
from the conflict.
Later news shows plainly that the rebels have
retreated, aud that General Pope has taker, posses
sion of the ground formerly held by tl-.em.
The non-connection of the trains south of Balti
more last evening prevented the arrival of 0".r
special messenger from the actne of the recent
conflict under General Pope. We arc therefore
compelled to omit the full description of the bat
tle, usually furnished by our spccial war corres
pondents, until to-morrow.
The tidings from Northern Missouri are more j
flattering to the Union forces. Colonel McNiel is |
apparently too much for the guerillas of that
gut?. Porter's band of rebels are reported to ,
have deserted him and to have become scattered,
several tailing into the hands of our troops.
General Morgan, Governor of the State of New
York, has announced the quota ol the Si?te, for
the draft call, to be 59,705, of which 12,518 forms
the portion allotted to the city and county of New
York. Gerterul Buckingham, Assistant Adjuiant
General, has officially stated that-'whatever volun
teer force above its ratable proponion shall be
offered by a State, any time before the draft i? ac
tually made, it, uld be acccpte'd by the War De
partment and credited upon the draft as a propor
tiopable reduction.With regard to county or
district proportions, the State Executive alone can
set. The same General calk upon the various
Governors to enroll the militia immediate y.
Another order announces that recruits for old regi
ments will be counted as part of the new levy,
and the State credited therewith. The Judge Ad
vocate's order will also repay careful perusal.
Recruiting for the volunteer call appears to be
very briak. At Oswego it appears that fine men |
have to be refused, as the regiments are full. In
Kentucky the militia and cavalry are already en
,oUed' miscellaneous hewb.
Ths anti-slavery war meeting announced to lake
?lace at Dr. Cheever'a church was held last even
fog in the schoolroom attached to the building.
7here wrre not ovet forty persons present. The
proceedings were marked by the utmost tarn ne?a.
Dr Henry Hart, who receives some 12,500 tor the
purpose, very diligently defended the rights of
the slave. He contended that emancipation is the
enly panacea for the evils now afflicting the coun
try and hoped that the war would not be ended
till every slave be free. Dr. Cheever was not pre
sent- but another gentleman, unknown to our re
porter. presided. The meeting was devoid of
interest in everyway, and the only coojrabaud
present very heroically resigned himself to the
arms of Somnus during the most interesting part
of the exercises. ..
Thirteen persons were yesterday arraigned in
ike Brooklyn City Hall, b*fore Ju-tice Bot-rum, of
the Berond district. Brooklyn, for creating a riot
sod attacking Watson's tobacco factory, on Sedg
wick street, on Monday, tbe 4th inst. So much
time was consumed in tbe examination of thrct
Witnesses that our report is necessarily short.
Those witnesses proved the throwing of brickbats
at tbe factory by an excited crowd, who also in
dulged io some very iselegant expressions; but all
^ having reached the scene after the disturb
>nrr commenced, ws are yet in the dark as to who
begas it. Tbs caas baa bees adjourned to this
^*Th?^Thirty-third regiment of Massachusetts, to
which are attached two companies of *harp*l?oot
?ra- making in all over twelve huudrcd men-will
leave Lynnfleld to morrow for the seat of war.
Gen. Jim Lane's " one or more brides," to be
rs^ed in Kansas, and Gen. John B. Floyd s " ten
iho...??d," to be raised in Virginia, will probably
W the field on each side about the same t .me.
The I- t news f "HI D'*ie Wil* t0 th# Cffe
ar. mor. territory was to b? given up. Siscethat
time oi. r a dozen towns have been occupied by
Unl..n *ol?V rs i . the heart or Virginia.
T)lP . i and unwanted democracy go by
different n.i e - i-i various localities. In Ohio
ih.'v sre call d '? Vail * idlghamniers," in Hlinoie
? j-rynt anr." Missouri "butternuts," in Kan
pft? 'javhawl ' i*,' is K:ntu ky "bttahwbackm,"
ami In Indiana " mpporh-ads."
In Hut a ha* three or four regiments above her
n.M.ta ol the I ' r?H, and It is thought that
m!.-hignn will till her quota of both ealls without
''.Nine'ihott-ai-u firs? cla*? Austrian mubkcU lave
b??n sent to Ohio for the new volunteer regi
ment*.
Considerable new wheat has already reached
the mills at Rochester, and is being converted
into flour.
A silver pitcher and two goblets are to be pre.
sented to Gen. W. S, Rosecrans, by the members
of his staff, at Wheeling.
Rev. Mr. Payne, of Rocheport, Boone county,
Missouri, who was recently reported to have been
robbed oa the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad of
$42,000, has recovered the whole amount. He
Lad dropped the package, and it fell into honest
hands. ?
The prompt measures of the government in ar
resting skcdaddlers will materially lessen the va
lue of gold.
SkedadUers are informed that the Clifton
House, on the Canada side of Niagara Falls, is
lull. Not only the hotel building, but all the out
houses connected therewith, contain aa many
lodgers as can be Btowed away.
The One Hundred and Seventh New York regi
ment of volunteers, raised in Chemung, Schuyier
and Steuben counties, will leave for Washington
on Wednesday.
The Postmaster at Philadelphia bad the oath ad
ministered to every man in his employ on the 8th
inst.
A large number of applications were made at the
State Department in Washington on Friday and
Saturday, for passports, all of which were refused.
The citizens of Chicago who are exempt from
draft will form themselves into a Home Guard.
Tha government contract for 100,000 pairs of
army bootees, deliverable in thirty, sixty and ninety
days, at prices ranging from $1 87 to $2 20 per
pair, was awarded on the 8th inst. The contract
was divided up among somo thirty-four manufac
turers of Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania. The government also last
week contracted for a large amount of foreign
lead, to arrive from abroad, to the value of over
$?100,000.
According to the City In=pector's report, there
were 568 deaths ;u the city during the past week?
an increase of 111 as compared with the mortality
of the week prcvidhs, and KM) less than occurred
during the corresponding week last year. The re
capitulation table gives 2 deaths of alcoholism, 3 of
diseases of the bones, joints, &c.; 105 of the brain
and nerves, 2 of the generative organ* 13 of the
heart aud blood vessels, 115 of the lungs, thro.it,
Ac.; 6 of old ago, 12 of diseases of the skin
and eruptive fevers, 5 premature births, 241 of dis
eases of the stomach, bowels and other digestive
organs; 'M pi' uncertain seat an I general fevers,
.j of diseases of the urinary organs, and 28
from violent causes. There were 423 natives
of the United States, 6 of En2land, *S of Ire
land, 34 of Germauy, and the balance of various
foreign countries.
Th# stock niarl ot wa? irregular yesterday, opinions
being fcni what divided with r*Lkrd to the churac-er of
the battle .it Culpepper. Government touched par, on
the bcl:ef th: t tho i..utlo had been purpo?ely brought on
by Pope, in order to difcovcr the whereabouts of Jack
son: but alterwards they and the general list wera low'
?i , on rumors of disaster, and osr* .ally on the non ad
rent of Imer no.vs. The market < losed dull. Money wus
very easy on call it 3 a 4. Exchange inactive at 124a
pj-f; ; Gokl rose to 114. but clo^rlHt lir.'i ft 113^.
The bank? show a futthcr hicrca?o of 12.401,743 in depo
. its, $672,369 in loans, and fi->8,879 in specie.
Tut cotton market was Urin yesterday, while B-^lcs
were cootuod to about K>0 bales. Though pricos were
nominal, from the paucity of galea, yet wc quote them
sti!T on the basis of 47,ljC. ? 48o. for middling up
lands. Flour was heavy and Bales moderate, closing at a
decline of 5c. a 10c. per bbl. for m^at descriptions
Wh< at was firm for prima red and other good shipping
qualities, while inferior grades were heavy and dull. The
transactions were moderate. Corn was rather firmer and
in fair demand. Prime shipping lota of Western mixed
were m id- at full prices, l'ork was less buoyant and
s .l ?mcderatent$ir 23 a f 11 37 K for mess, and at $10
for prime. Su/ars were quiet and Steady, with sales of
3fi0 a 4f:c hhd?., in'-lud' d i:: which won- 160 New Orleans
and t'..a r matndcr Cuba*, both within the ramjo
of 8c. a 9c. C See was quiet. Holders were
unwilling to accept th'- term* proposed ity purchasers.
S Fr<'lfcbu closed heavy an l lower, especially towiverpool.
Wheat, in bulk and bags, was taken as low as 10>jd a
j lid., and flour at 3s. To London flour wad at fs. lO^d.,
and wheat at lid. To Glasgow Hour waa at S?. 6d. j|nd
wheat at 13>;d. \
I The Battle of Cedar Meuntaln?Oe^Fal
Pope's Position?Pua& Forwara^lla
Reinforcements.
The late fight of Cedar Mountain, half way
between Richmond and Washington, though an
indecisive affJr, may be set down as a sub
s.antial Lnion victory. It was not a geneial
er.gagemeiii, but rather the prelude to the great
battle which remains to be fought between
General Vope and Stonewall Jacl:.-on. The
results are highly creditable to General Danka
and his oorps d'urmte, upon whom devolved the
heat and burden of the fight. Against the
superior forces of the enemy, in a strong posi
tion, and in ambush, a more reckless officer
than Gen. Bark* would have pushed his troops
to certain destruction, and under a less skilful
and clear-beaded leader they would have been
ignominiously put to flight. It will suffice that
Gen. Banks, against very great disadvantages,
maintained his ground, and that the enemy,
under a Aug of truce, has aaked permission to
bury his dead.
Considering the strong position on the moun
tain side held by Jeckson, and the heavy forces
under his command, it is perhaps fortunate that
this collision with the advanced corps of Gen.
Banks did not occur until late in the afternoon;
for it appears that all the forces of Gen. Pope
within saving distance would have been unequal
to the general engagement whieh this fight, if
opened in the morning, would have precipi
tated. We think that Gen. Pope has opened his
campaign very Bk#fully. He has drawn together
the bulk of his trwops on the eastern side of the
Blue Ridge, and has moved tl.em forward from
the front and rear of Washington so far down
towards Richmond as to cut off Jackson from
another raid into and down the Sheuandoah
I valley, and to compel bim to guard the road to
the rebel capital while menacing our own.
But here the question arises, will General
Pope as he stands be equal to a struggle with
the whole army of Jackson, including the rein
forcements hourly coming up to him from Rich
mond? We have great faith in the ability of
General Pope to avoid an unequal and disas
trons battle if not strong enough to seek an
immediate general engagement. But Stonewall
Jackson is an able officer, and, with the dis
covery that bis army it competent to defeat that
of Pope, it will be difficult for the latter to
avoid a battle bejond a day or two. The
rebel leaders are well apprised of the value of
speedy action on their part, and that if they are
to save their sinking cause they must strike
without further loss of time. If they can defeat
General Pope tbef are encouraged by the idea
of a triumphal march upon Washington} but if
they wait, until he is reinforced to any extent
they know that their cause is lost.
What, then, are wo called upon to do? It
becomes our duty immediately to push forward
our reinforcements to General Pope by regi
ments, by battalions, by companies by squids
I of thirty, twenty, or ev<m ten men. when we
have them in readiness. Let tb?m be pusheJ
i forward to-day from every available point.
General Po]>e will know how to provide fur
them. The gaps in hia regiments aud cvjpp i
nlo# will absorb thousands of meu, and, though
sent in broken doses, thuy will be counted in
the quota of the State to which they belong.
So let them be pushed forward at once, even in
tens and twenties where there aio nolajjer
squads in readiness. Let us give Ceneral Pcpe
at once an array which will cubic him to
make an er?d of that of Stonewall Jackson, and
we may yet, before the expiration of August,
hear the glad tidings of General McClellun's
occupation of Richmond.
Sedition and Disunion at th( North?
Wendell Phillips and Horace Greeley.
The disunion orators and the organs of treason
and sedition at the North, leagued together for a
common object, continue to ply their vocations
with impunity, and are still girlng aid and com
fort to the secession treason at the South. We
recently adverted to a sketch of the speech of
Wendell Phillips at Abington on the occasion
of the anniversary of the emancipation of the
negroes of the British West Indies. We hare
now received the fall report in the Boston
Liberator, and find it inflnitoly worse than the
abridged version. It is preceded, too, by a
speech from Garrison, and another from a Rev.
Mr. Conway?the same man who tried to get up
a revolution among the Germans in the West to
supersede the authority of the President and
make Fremont dictator, when Mr. Lincoln put
down his foot and removed the Pathfinder from
the command of the army in Missouri.
Conway now turns up in the Cast, and he
says Mr. Lincoln is a tortoise with an elephant
on his back?the elephant being the army?and
that it is impossible for him to go f'aster*than
his nature will permit. lie got the shell upon
his back beer-.use he was born in Ken
tucky, creation having stopped in that Suite
when it got to the tortoise, lie gt,es on to say
if any man expects to make ot Mr. Lincoln a
leader who will free the country, ho gives him
fair warning that it is impossible. Ho stiys the
man l:e wants to see in the Presidential chair i:
Fremont, with Hunter as Secretary of War.
Wendell Phillips responds, and, adopting the
epithet of Mr. Conway, he says "the President
may be honest?nobody cares whether the tor
toise is honest or not; he has neither insight nor
provision, nor decision." "As long as you are
keeping a tortoise at the head of the govern
ment you are digging a pit with one hand and
filling it with the other?filling it up with the
lives of your sons and the accumulations of
your fathers. * ? * I do not believe in the
government. I agree entirely with Mr. Con
way." Such is the audacity of this Danton.
But he docs not stop even here. lie goes on to
prav that the rebels may succecd in bombard
ing aud capturing Washington, in the hope that
Lincoln might not survive it, and that even
Hamlin might bocome President. He says tho
abolitionists are to "pray for such blows as will
arouse the mass of the people into systematic,
matured, intelligent interference in the action
of the government. ? * I do not believe
there is in that Cabinet?Seward, Chase, ?tan
ton, Welles or the President of the country
enough to make a leader." lie calls on his
fanatic followers to pray God to humble the
nation by one blow, and to put despair into Hie
hearts of the Cabinet. He even hopes that the
President of the United States may be seen
flying on horseback from his capital, in order
that he may "return to that capital on the arms
of a million of adult negroes, the sure basis of
a Union that will never be broken." Who is to
be the leader of that army? Some black major
general? By no means. It is none other than
John C. Fremont, the Cromwell indicated by
Conway to supersede "the tortoise." Hore lire
the words of Phillips:?"What we want is some
stunning misfortune; what we want is a baptism
in blood to make the aching and bereaved
hearts of the people cry out for Fremont, for an
idea, at the head of the armies. Meanwhile
we must wander ofT in the desert, wasteful mur
derers. Every life lost in that swamp is mur
der by the Cabinet at Washington. Every dol
lar spent is stolen from the honest toil of tho
North."
Thus, according to Wendell Phillips, Mr. Lin
coln and his Cabinet are wholesale robbers and
murderers of the blackest dye, and lib generals
are as bad, and they ought to be overthrown
by revolution?by "systematic, matured,
intelligent interference by the mass of
the people." Here is an open proposi
tion for meeting rebellion and revolu
tion at the North. If such sentiments
and language are not calculated to prevent en
listments, and are not in direct conflict with the
order of the War Department, then words have
no meaning. But it may be said that these
speeches were made before the appearance of
the order. Tho same is true of the placard
printed by the publishers of a Harrisburg pa
per; and yet they have been securely lodged in
the prison of the Old Capitol. So much, how
ever, cannot be said in extenuation of Horace
Greeley, who yesterday published sentiments
identical with those of Conway and Phillips.
He says "the ominous sil<yice of our govern
ment. llalleck's Order No. 8, the cowardly as
sassination of a number of unarmed blacks by
our soldiers at Norfolk (which is a cowardly
lie of the Tribune), and a hundred minor in
stances wherein our army officers and soldiers ,
have dono tf>? work of the rebels, give color j
i to the statements that the Unionists will sell
I the negro slaves to Cuba, will kill them, starve
' them, work them to death," Ac. Again, in the
I same article, he says:?"We have generals who
* bate and doppise the poor downtrodden vic
! tims of generations of bondage. These we see
clearly can get little good out of them."' The
object of these attacks is ovidenKy to bring
the army and the government into public con
tempt, and to prevent enlistments, because the
President will not issue an emancipation
proclamation. The conspirators, by these
libels on the government, expect either
! to overthrow it or compel it to proclaim
' the blacks of the Southern States free
and equal to the white man, which Greeley main
tains "would give an immediate reinforcement
to the Union armies equal to a hundred veteran
regiments and flfty well served batteries."
Now, here are the same sedition and disunion
sentiment * as uttered by Phillips and Conway,
1 except that Phillips and Conway talk in an open
' and frank manner, and Greeley in a sneaking,
dastardly, insidious fashion characteristic of him.
The poison is the same in both. Phillips an 1
Conway administer it without adulteration:
Greeley disguises It with admixtures to de
ceive his victims. All threo ridicule and inswlt
j president sn4 his * -sbi' and gcueials. East
fall Greeley contended 1La Mio South, upon the
I principles of the Declaration of Independent*,
had a right to secede; and he published u soi'?
I against the t'nlon flag in which he called upon
1 the people to vull it -<ld * lil& tlU(^
?'a flaunting lie." He is now laboring day aild
nL'Ut iu the same direction, How long will
the people have to complain that only the
radical disunionists are exempt from the opera
tion of the orders of the government, and that
abolitionists and niggers may ?ay and do what
tliey please with impunity ?
Senator Wilson's Posthumous Defence.?
Tho Senator from Massachusetts should have
rosicd satisfied with the mortuary disposition
that we Lad made of him. Dead men, but es
pecially defunct politicians, are not expected
te vindicate tleir past actions. If, however,
they will get out of their coffins and canvass
the opinions of the world in their regard, tliey
must make up their minds to hear things that
are not pleasant. Thus, the communication
which we published the other day from the
Massachusetts Senator has elicited much in the
way of comment that might not have been ut
tered if he Lad remained quietly where we had
put him. Even the republican organs deal un
sparingly with his explanations. Referring to
the impropriety of his bringing in Senator Fes
senden's speech to his aid in the enlistment con
troversy, one of them says
If any man in the Senate should have known the trua
nr.mhuiB and condition of the Uuion armies it was Senator
Wilson; and Mr. Fea&enden, aa Chairman of tho finance
Committee, could have relied on no ouo If not on Senator
WilAon lor hie grnuly exonerated ideas of the number ot
soldicrjyin the Held. If wo give to Senator Wilson, then,
the- full benefit of his asseveration that he was deceived,
nn.l that ho thereby deceived Congress and the country,
and was Instrumental In tho adoption of measures that
weakened the army and well nigh destroyed the nation,
the (|uostion coinr.s up, who is guilty of the deception?
and is Scmiitrr Wilton, w'ui u i" easily dfieiifi, a Jit man
tu bt chairman of so imi<oiiant a commi ttrf of Congrua t
This is pretty hard; but it is surpassed in se
verity by what follows. Commenting on Mr.
Wilson's statement that his "opinion and ac
tion were based upon the report of Secretary
Cameron, Hie assurances of Paymaster General
Lamed and the estimates of Quartermaster
General Meigs, that we had from seven hundred
to hundred regiments and seven hundred
thousand men,'' the same journal adds:?
Th io f..is long been a suspicion lhit a stn;ieud jus con
'??i ey 1' r defrauding ihe goveii mi nt was covered up in
triii -'s mus*. r rolls, filed !u ilie War rqia:'tmo:.t, but
lo :!io i :imcs ou which no nun ever answer <' in the
fill . Senator Wilson s.iys ho had "tho assinouei "of
l';n n-ns'er i.ame<J (Paymaster (jen-ral of tho L'uited
State ; thnt yeven hur. rod thousand men were under
pay of ilio ^overntnei.t as soldiers. Now, Paymaster
l i d deals with figures, wh I cli are frequently said nil
to! . ' itaiulywe roi^Ut lay somothlug of Cameron's
?>? est r even hundred thousand men to ( abir. t gasco
imdA i>i t when it comes to allotting the money to pay olf
the soldiers enrolled, or said to be enrolled, there should
be an approximation to certainty in the "apsurancea" of
theot'cT performing that duty. Will Senator Wilson
and Paymaster Lamed anticipate the public demand, and
<- : jain tli** discrepancy that is so manliest and so start
ihe difference in cost to tho government between the
numbers reported and thove actually in the field was
about this ty mill! 'ns of dollars a month; and this margin
is too wid-: !o hint oca pal hun<jsl oUervaiuM J'ur a <Liy}
tnuc.'i Ustfor months.
Nothing that we have said of Senator Wjlson's
conduct on this question has approached the
above in its sweeping imputations. Nay, when
he came forward with a letter endeavoring to
reconcile his speeches, we regarded it as an act
of repentance, and dealt with it accordingly.
The organs of his own party, however, appear
to think that if he preserves bis character for
consistency he proves his official incompetency,
while, if he loses it, he on the contrary estab
lishes his fitness for his position. We leave the
contradiction to be settled between them.
The Senator may well sty, "Defend me from
my friends.''
Thk Jobbing Journals on Bank Management
and Finance.?The World, a journal that came
into existence by robbing the government, and
became notorious by its managers* paliniug off
on the soldiers straw hats and linen panta*
loons?all boys' sizes at that?for regular army
uniforms, is now zealously at work endeavoring
to destroy confidence in the financial system of
the government, and thus indirectly n-sist the
treasonable designs of Jeff. Davis and Company.
The financial system inaugurated by Secretary
Chase, and approved by Congress, is an essen
tial portion of the plan of the government to
put down the rebellion, and is its strong arm in
this great contest to sustain itself. If public
confidence in that is destroyed, and general
distrust created, the administration will be
weakened in its most vital point, and thf rebel
lion made successful for tbe want of means to
prosecute tbe war. It is equivalent to attack
ing the war policy of the President, and on a
par with the negro and "wet blanket" articles
of. the Tribune, Post, Boston Liberator, and
other abolition sheets.
If there was any result to their efforts it would
be to embarrass the government; but, fortunate
ly, of the handful who ever look at that sheet,
no one, except it is the secession sympatlif/ers
in our midst?who have been bears ever since
the war commenced?ever heeds its clamor or
endorses its ideas on finance. For a feng time
past it has Bfcen advising our bank directors
bow to manage their institutions, and now
comes out with (^chapter on foreign exchange.
The idea of a concern that is obliged to turn
and twist in all directions?first adopting the
"pious dodge," then robbing the government,
next trying amalgamation, in ordor to keep
itself alive?attempting to advise otir prosperous
and money making banking institutions what
to do, is certainly refreshing even in this hot
weather. In this light, what must we consider
its efforts to dictate a financial system to the
administration to carry a country so extended
as onrs, with all its varied interests, through a
war like the one in which we are now engaged?
Its financial ideas, like the straw hats and linen
pantaloons, are all "boys' sifes,"and, from their
reception by our bank officers and the adminis
tration, we conclude that our bank and govern
ment officials so considered them; and this, we
opine, is the cause of its escape from the en
forcement of Secretary Stanton's recent order.
Evidences or tops Desperate Condition or
Jbfk. Davis and His Associates.?The refusal
of the rebels to give up our officers in exchange
for those sent to them under the cartel recently
agreed upon is a violation of good faith which
proves more than mere want of principle. It
shows that their leaders beliove their cause so
near a collapse that they are unwilling to part
with the hostages by whom they expect to save
their necks at tbe close of the rebellion.
In their attempt to drive McClellan from be
fore Richmond they made their supreme effort,
and the additional six hundred thousand men
that we are about to put into the field annihi
late all further hopes of a successful resistance.
By holding our officers prisoners until they are
compelled to sue for peace, the traitors who
have been the main instigators of and leaders in
this war hope to secure their personal immu
nity. Under no circumstances will the nation
consent to exempt them from the punishment
which they merit Instead of attempting to
curry otSt any further exchanges of prisoners
with them, let the government strain every
energy to bring the war to a speedy close. It
is by fighting, aivl not by negotiating, that we
shall sooacsl effect the Ubqratiouoi vur
Tijk Eaausit Iiiok-Claos.?It turns out that
the large iron frigates built by the English
Admiralty Lave proved bo unaouworthy that
they will have to bo lightened considerably of
tEeir plating before they can venture . ;y dis
tance. For this reason the Warrior, which be
lougs to the Baltic fleet, has not been able to
join the squadron. The English bave to learo
a good many lessons from its in the art of con
structing and managing iron war vessels.
Should they be negotiating with France and*
Russia for a forcible intervention ou this side,
as their tory organs pretend, they are likely to
get more from us in that way than will suit
their stomachs.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
WAR GAZETTE.
OFFICIAL.
?
Node* (? Soldiers Abnat Prom Tb*lr
Corps on Lcav*.
GKNKKAL OKDBK8?NO. 100.
Wilt DcriKTMBMT, Adjutant's Gsnsbjl's Omcs, >
tirtt?So much of General Order* 61, current series,
ss relate* to tbe extension of sick leaves or absence is
hereby revoked, and no application fer such extensions
need hereafter be made Tbe order of tbe President,
dated July SI (General Order* N? 92), explain*
what may be considered as good cause for tlio
absenfo of surgeons' certificates of disability
required by existing orders, and regulations must be
forwarded not only to tbe Adjutant General of
the array but also to tbe commandcr or tbe regiment, or
in case or a glad' officer to tbe commanding General.
SWond?Officers absent rrorn duty without leave, or
beyond tbe time of their leaves, will not be allowed to
draw pay until a court or commission, which will be
ordered on their return to thur post or command, shall
determine w hether there was sufficient cause for their
absence. They will accordingly provide iboinselxes with
a full desert; lion of the nature and cause of their disa
bility, certified by tbe proper medical authority, as re
il'iired by existing ordeis and regulations.
Th ird?Ofl cers of volunteers who ?re absent from duty
on account of disc, so contracted before tliey entered ?he
service, will be Immediately mustered out. Those who
I'avc been absent more tn.m sixty days en account of
wounds or disease contracted in the line of their duly,
w ill be rei?i tcd to the Adjutant General of tbe army tor
dlschftrgo, in order lhat their pieces mnr be filled by
others fit for fuB service; for this cia?3 of cUicer* ( ou"
gress ba= pro\ ided pensions.
1' mth?Applications for pensions must be made to the
Commissioner of Pen .ions, who is jndge of tbe sufficiency
of e vidence in supi>ort of such claims, aud who furnishes
tbe f'rms a-id regulations relating thereto.
Fifth?When an officer returns to his command. after
havii g overstayed his leavo of absence, he may be tried
by a court martial for this as a military offence,or a com
mission may bs appointed by tbe cmr.mandi.ig officer of
his division, army corps or arnty, as tbe case Luay be, to
Investigate his case arid to determine whether or not he
was absent from proper cause: and if thero should be
found to be such proper cause, ho will be entitled to pay,
during such absence. The pro< ocdir.gs of such commis
sion shall be seut to tho Adjutant General of the army for
the approval of the Secretary of War. Such commission
wl!l consist of not less than threo nor over five eommis
sioned officer*.
SM?When troops are serving ra army corps or an
army, no leaves of absence will be granted r.n tho certifi
cate of a regimental or brigade surgeon till the same has
been approved by the medical director of such a. my
corps or army, and no medical director will endoreo any
certificate urMI he has made a personal examination of
the applicant, or received a favorable report from a medi
cal officer appointed by him to mrke snch personal ex
amination, and if when such |?rsoual examination It
shall bo found that tbe certificate of disability was given
without proper cimiss, the name of tbe medical officer
giving it will bs reported to tbe Adjutant General of tbe
army in order that be may be dismissed from the service.
Seventh?Where officers are not E?rvitig in a division,
army corps or separate army, applications for leave may
be made to tbe Adjutant General of the army; but, ex"
cept in very extraordinary cases, no leaves of absence
will be granted unless the applications be accompanlcd
by a certificate of tbo same character as that dencribod
in Ccueral Order No. 61.
EitjUth?la all eases of personal application for leave o'
absence made to tbe War Department ibe applicant wll|
be examined by a medical offii er aligned to that duty in
this city.
By order of the SKCRFTARY OF WAR.
ED. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant General.
Organization of Volunteers In th? Dla.
trict of Columbia.
War Depabihekt . Wasbsgim, August 11,18(32.
Ordrred,Jhtt?Tbat Erigadier Geueral Wadsworth be
and be is hereby authorized to raise and organize one or
mure infantry regiments of volunteers in the District
of Columbia, to serve for three years or daring the
war; under the rules and regulations of tbe War Depart'
mem.
Secmd?That the volunteers so raised and organized
shall be entitled to and receive the bounty authorized by
the act of Congress in tbe tame manner as Slate vo
lunteers. EDWIN M. STANTUN,
Secretary of War.
generaF news.
Washiwutoji, August 11,1802.
8PPPLEMXMTART OBDER FROM THE WAR DEPART
MENT.
The following additional order has keen Issued is re
iatioo te those parties endeavoring to leave tbe country
before drafting takes place -
la default of giving bail the parties arrested are to b
taken to the nearest post or military depot and placed a
once on military duty.
tbi ARmr or thb potomao and tbr craft op
Titoors.
Intelligence has been received here that tbe Army of
tbe Potomac Is rejoicing over the recent orders for siz
hundred thousand more troop* It is regarded by e(B<
ceis and soldiers on James river as a proof tbat tbe gov
ernment id now in earnest. It Dim doubted that
tbe people were. Tbe new order bus infixed into tbe
whole army a hopefulness and confidence which it never
before felt. Tbcy bad seen that when tbe rebels began
tb< ir conscription our government stopped recruiting,
and tbat when the rebels concentrated thvir forces ours
were divided. This was dispiriting. The Army of the
Potomae was melting under tbe influence of diseases
contracted In tbe swum;* of tbo Chiekahonrny,
the suppoits promised and expected were withheld,
and dccimatcd by disease and battle tbe little band
of heroos were left to stand by themselves the l?r nt of
the Kittle with live times their numbers. Now tL. y tee)
U>it the government Is coring for tbem.aud tboy will
soon be able to go forward and accomplish their destiny.
It is regarded as unfortunate that a rsserve of two bun
dred and fifty thousand men was not kept in prepsrstion
to fill np tbe corps which were in tbe field Even aow
r.early one third of tbe officers an 1 men are absent I
they can be brought back, and tbo regiments filled opr
the Generals ate confident tboy can bivouac in Richmond
in a fortnight.
CAPTURES ON THE POTOMAC.
The Freeborn arrived at the navy yard yesterday
afternoon bringing twenty, five prisoners, five sallb ais,
a number of canoes and a lot of merchandise, which were
captured on Friday and Saturday nights' last, near Black
cet'n's I.-lands. On tho boats they found about 200
bushels of wheat, a large n?m be sf sacks of salt, sixty
thousand solars, three chests of tea, bones of boots and
shoes, handkerchiefs, pins, needles, thread, Ac.; quinine,
morphine, opium and other medicinee, a trunk contain
ing percussion caps, a lot of gray cloth for rebel officers
uniforms, ftc. These prisoners have been engaged in
regular commerce between Maryland and Virginia, taking
over salt, ftc.,and bringing back wheat.
ARltEfiT or MRS. COLONEL PIPER.
On Saturday last the wife of Colonel T. rt. Piper, of tba
rebel army, was arrested at the Navy Yard, and Is now
In the custody of the Provost Marshall. At the time of
ber arrest several letters from her husband were SeiSSt.
arrival op PRlMVERBt
Among the prisoners brought to the city on 8aturday
night and lodged in the Old Capitol weie Thomas R. I/)ve,
David Fitshugh and Williams, of Fairfax < ourt House,
for refusing to tAk* the ostb of sllegUnre and Colonel
(herles Lee .tones, late of this city, at>J Major Alfred
Moss.af Fnirfax Court House, aid tn Gen. Swell,both
taken prhftMft by Dayard'a cavalry, near Orange Court
House,
rt'PPORT FOR THB FAMILIES OF TOtrNTKHRS.
Instead of calling upon tho clerk* in 'be napertmintitat,
volunteer, they have beet* oalledupon MQe?Vrl)ttt? Wtyt
fund for the support of I be families of Yoluuff* in thid
district. About a tbouaaad dollars wan raigad for tni*
purpose la tbo Poet office department to day. All <he
government employee are expected to suhxnbe liberally
to this fund.
A BAMK1NQ aoura CMI81D.
Ab alleged bogus bunking coat era, denon?lmtetf f*M
Mercantile [Ink of Washington, 1>. C.f which has bees
puttie^ id circ?iatiou a large amouM of email note*, warn
closed le-iMj- by CtSpnel Baker, tbo clief guvcrnunat ua
icelivo, &y aiutior/?y of the govorunio.w.
ARRIVALS FKOM NEW OltLTA'NS.
Ameng ihe arrivals av' Willards to-nigftfare ITon. Ho
ver 4 y Johnson, just returned frcm his rttliSK'D to Nov?
Orleans, and JudfeeC. R.^ius, aud Dr. I). I* 'rriluian, of
New Orleans
I'UK CORPORA!. AND Tfl* PRKSIDS **.?
While* eur army lay bete* e Yoi1H?wti the reltele bad A
kiviall work which causes much aiA ^yaixa tooaework
meu, and ilenerai JlcClelUa ordered ? dash lo be mad*
upou it, vcub * vlow to oscertaui its dtreuglh aod it* sur
roundings, ana, it possible, 10 c\rry and destroy lb*
work accordingly a compuay of sixty mou wan de
tailed from oorof our bravest regiuh'nts for this despe
rate undertaking On tbe eight appointed?for It hid
beeo determined to make a night attack?the meat wors
drawn up in from of the camp, to a coUl, drissling rain:,
awaiting tbe order to march, wbea a prferate of another
company came up t? tbe captain a?d eafcd, "Oaptaiu C.f
there ta one man- la your cwspaa y who hla no
die closer, can't I got"' The septal n expressed his
willingness, provided hla own captaia would oooseat.
Thia waa soon obtained;, and the volunteer waa In hla
placc in tbe ranks. The- attack waa mad*; the retold
driven from their work, but noi without loss, for om
third of the brave men wore left on the bold as the rest
rusbed forward upon tbe enemy. Our frieed escaped,
and upou bis return waa predated with ? corporal's che
vrons. Through all the Ogbis about Fair Oaks he was one of
tho lorern<>st, aud at lust received a bail which entered
bis wrist and passud up into Ms elbew, bhat
tering tbe bone and tearing the U<*b in ?
horrible manner, yet not a murmur has been hoard from
bim. He wn sent toone of ibe hospitals iu Washington,
and Is now able ta go about with his arm wx splinters.
Disabled from tbe use of a musket, aud atiM anxlows to
serve bis country, be applied fer a furlough to to hie
native Slate and r.u3e a company of volunteers, having
ono arm left, with which he could.wield a sword; %u* red
tape could not allow it, and instead of meeting with any
sympathy or encouiv'omout, Order No.?.prohibiting
furloughs, was UiruHt at bim, aud lie was told if the
Governor would comrui .-ion hiin be wont I be discharged.
Tbo Governor will not commission unless ho raises tit*
men, and thus tbc poor fellow is kept in the hospital tit I
such tune as tbe surgeons choose to discharge hitn as s
disabled soldier. As this was a case not within tbe
meaning or intern of the order prohibiting furloughs,
a friend who hud known of his bravery and dariug ap
plied to tbe President to ask his interferon?. The Presi
dent expressed deep sympathy fur him. but declin?d't?
cut ihe red tape whlnh binds o:ir government together.
He said, the Corporal's cose is a bard one, and reminds
me of a story told by Judge 13.. of Illinois, of tbe ollicere
of some county town In Ireland, who met tuid resolved:
l'irsl, to build a uow jttli, second, to build it out of the
idJ one; and third, to l:oep tbo prisoners in the old Jail
till the now ono wa? built. And thus tbe cmtitry loeee
the services of as brave s soldier as she has in lier l inks,
and a true man is kept cagcd in the hospital while past
ing to be iu the field.
INDUCEMENTS FOIt YOI.CNTRKRINO IN TIIE NAVY.
As the military drift is soon to commence, It Is rea
sonably supposed that men familiar with tbo s^a, such as
New England iisht men, will prefer to emar the uary,
especially as strong IndijeocncDts are presented in ths
'onn of prize money, of which recently laug! amounts
have been procured. Among the latest captures is ths
Memphis, wnrth f.'iOO.OOO, by the Magnolia, with a crew
of only Feventy men. After deducting three twentieths
for the commanding offic-r of the fleet and of ths
capturing vessel, the remainder will be ap
portioned among the ofllora and moo. The
law also provides bounties for the dostructlos
of the enemy's vessels in action. Tbc {vipers of Iks
Memphis were received at the Navy Department to-day.
Among them la a note addressed to Captain Cruikshunks,
commanding that Brit -h steamer, by Nathaniel Levin,
of Charleston, accompanied l>y the gift of a chair, which
the writer says adorned the breakfast room of Georgs
Washington. This chair will probably be sold with ths
other effects of that vessel at the port of New Yo.-k.
activitt at the rkcrfitino stations.
The news from all the loyal States shows a groat impe
tus in recruiting. In counties wbers volunteora wars
coming into the ranks at the rate of only five or ten per
day, they are now coming by fifties and hundreds.
It Is believtd that the whole of the three
hundred tbousaud volunteers called for will be made ay
by the 15th instant, without a resort to drafting la any
State, except, perhaps, Maryland.
COMMUNICATION WITO VIRGINIA.
The communication with Virginia from her# is stilt
kept up by the Chain Bridge. The farmers and market
people thus male* sales and procure supplies, using passea
granted by the military authority, and uaderjoing (he
ordeal uf sentries and gyanls.
RECRUITING UPON XALSK PBBTEXCB?.
The following correspondence relates to an mganioo
device of parties of a neighboring State to raise recruit
in Pennsylvania:?
As?-rant Obxkrai.'s Omn, Atijru?t 11, lscat
Brigadier Gen 'rat BccMSGKam. War Departm nt:?
Gemuial? Siw any authority !>een gl v< l by your dc)iert>
ment to rake a "Biicktail brijra to ' of l'ornaylv:into
troops? Very respectfully, THOMAS M. VINCENT,
Assistant Adjuuut GoueraL
Major Thomas M ViwcsBT, A. A G.:?
Ma: 'ti?Authorities to individuals to raise troops haro
for ft hmg timo been refused, and I may mif'.-ly say thai
bo authority of the kiud referred to has beeu gractod.
Certainly not to oiy knowledge.
C. T. BUCKINGHAM,
Brigadier General and A. A. O.
ffil rsPARTHtifT, August 11,1861.
PROMOTIONS IK TUB OLD RKfllMENTf.
A strong feeling prevails In the old regiments agaiast
ofljcers who are absent from their regiments and em.
ployed In making arrangements lo promote the true:. e?
above their mora meritorious comrades remaining in Ike
Beld.
TBI Bale OP P08TA0B BTAMPfl TO 80LBIER8.
By specisl orders just issued from the War Department
tho attention of sutlers and all others concerned is di
reoted to the section of the act of Maiib i, 18S3, which
provides that It shall not bo lawful for any poM master or
other persoa lo seii any postage stamps or stamped en
velops (or a larger situ than that Indicated upoa tho
face of such postage stamp, or for any larger sum thaa
that charged tbeiel'or by the P'.sl Office Department, and
that auy person who shall vtotate this provision shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof,
?hall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars s* met*
than Ova hundred dollars.
Tli a Fanersl of General MrCook.
Cibci>!?ati, August 11,1842.
Necerai MrCook's funeral was an imposing aOatr Tho
attendance was large The statement of the I'biladolpblo ?
Prru, that the General was shot while knceV.ug beg*in?
for mercy, la denied by Captam Beat Tbe (.anorai's AA
Jutant says be was kneeling, assistisg tbe driver to ma
oage the frightened borses
Tike Jars Bit Route Q,ttebee.
Fatbsb Poixt, August 1!, 1982.
The stesmihip Jure passed this polsit at forty-flr*
minutes past eue o'clock Ibis morning, en rout- to
Qeebee
The Jura reporta that ibe passed, off Cape Chaite, at
Hi o'clock yesterday evening, thj steamship Nora S?o>
tlan, bound to Liverpool.
Bsommo or rns Nicaragua Rorvs It will be see*
tbat tho route to Ca' rornia and Oregon, via Nicaragua, to
to be reopenrd In October next. The steamahlp America
of the M 0. Roberts l<ne, will satl for San Juan dol Norto
on the 'i6th of that month, and after connertlnj with Oa
Moses Taylor, at 3au Juan del Snr, the passengers will bo
couveycd direot to ttou Kraacisco.
("osncrr or row Offh b Osticuls im th* Fi?u i Oow
aus Mo\bm??t ?Mr. Maurfco Lewis Parsuol, of No. IS
Nassau ? treet, haviDg occasion yesterday to purchase ono
dollar's worth of thruo oeot posisge stamps, soot bis boy
to dischargo this duty, and gave hln\ a Ove dollar legal
tender. I ho boy, having atated t.<a message, was re-,
fused the ip Autlly of stamps he applied for un'*eo ho
took the ftfato tlT? dollars. We are at a loss to under
stand why the parties referred to at the Post Office should
nut have tompliod with the request or Mr. Samuel, and bo
the ilrsk lo set an esainple IB tbB present coinage tuovsa
ment. _______________
ArrlvallBBd Departures.
arrivals.
Brig Fsustlns?W Smaller, Q Vivse.
Font AV Pi.At*?Brtg Porto l'laln?Mr LHhdow, Mr B It
V'HK*?roat. NC?8te?m^iip Empire ntr?Csptsin Ijorit-su
AK?tit?nt yiisitemi*?t<T* clerk; Csptalu Stewart, ITnl!em
Hmto* Army; t.'aptaln Nonsi.s *nd sen ant, L' KB, W 0
CovMl. K Slevens, also two Bister* of Merry, ?i,d 11 MUlOC^
rvu Wtuled Slates ftorssklp Maalt Qrutatsaf,