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THE NITUATION.
A despatch from PliiladelpLia asserts that pri
. Tata intolligtnee had been received in that city,
giving the information that a junction had been
effected between our armies in Virginia. It also
announces the death of Colonel Coulter, of the
Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, who la reported
as dying on the battle field. This news, if reliable,
Is most important.
Genera! Corcoran arrived in this city yesterday
afternoon and met with a moBt enthusiastic recep
tion. The streets were crowded with spectators,
and it wen .inserted by many that the assemblage
Cr?atlv outnumbered the crowd that was gathered
together on the celebration of the Atlantic cable
?>r at tho reception of the Prince of Wales. The
weloome given to the returned prison* ? ' . ve
Leon most ratifying not only to Gcnti. i.orin
but to the parties who have been engaged in the
Ketting up of the affair. 0
Prom 1- ortrf-ss Monroe we learn that Williams
burg wa? evacuated by the Union troops on the
afternoon of the 20th inst. It is also reported that
the city was burned on the Mine night; but the
statement is not ccuflrmed.
A !a, er despatch states that the city of Williams
burg was not destroyed, but is still in the poses
won of the Union troops.
The news from Helena Is Tery important. The
rebel general has had prepared certain despatches,
wliioh he has allowed to be captured, giving the
intelligence that he had under him at f.ittle Bock
18,000 well armed infantry. 6,000 cavalry and 64
pieces of artillery. The letter of our correspon
dent shows plu.nly that this Is a false despatch,
and merely prepared to have its effect on the Union
generals, it is said that Hindman is determined
to annihilate Cnrtis, but w?ll not attack him.
We publish in to-day's Herili> highly important
and interesting news from Richmond and the
South. The Richmond Exmnii^r of the ISth in-t.
thinks that a great buttle is imperilling between
the rebel army oti the ttapidan and General Pope's
forces, at su h times when their "generals were
ready, and not before," and that the battle field
would bo in the vicinity of Culpcpucr Court House.
Tue rebel editor's wish must be father to the
thought, as he anticipated, no doubt, in coBUuoa
with the big rebel generals, that General Pope
would be aught napping at the point Lamed, ami
that they could there uwiits their whole army in an
attack upou him, and thereby destroying hit force
in detail. The wily rebel gcnorals have learned
before this that he was not to be caught in a state
of somnamliitlincy, but that be keeps both hi*
eyes open, and will choose his own battle ground
The rebel Congress met in Richmond on the lbth
Instant, on which occasion JeB. Davis submitted
Inn annual men age. He leads off in his usu*l
hypocritical style, and then alludes to the federal
government as "robbers," "assassins,M Ac., ad
tinfinitum. He next speaks of and lecommends re
taliatory measures to meet the late laws recently
passed by the federal government; recommend*
the issue of more rebel treasury ahinplastera, and
allude" to the building of rebel war vessels "a;
home and abroad." The resolutions introduced in
the rebel House are highly significant of the future
policy of the rebel government.
The menage betray* great signs of weakness in
the rebel govt rnment, for no nation that has power
in its hands ever puts forth su< h arguments as a<
?pii smn.'e in murder, rapine, Ac., under the nam
of "retaliation."
The steamer Haze, Captain Clift. arrived at |hit>
port yestt rday afternoon. In fifty-eight hoars from
Newborn, with -everal eabin passengers and aorni
soldiers. An expedition of the mariue artillery
Iiad sailed from Newhern fur Kiugstou, accompa
nied by throe gunboats of light draught They
proceeded some miles on the way when they di*
covered neveral masked batteries and obstructions
in the river. As it was thought impracticable t<
forte them, the expedition returned to Nuwocrn
witliout accomplish ng its object.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
The steamship Tentouia, from Southampton on
the 11th inst., passed Cape Race yesterday afl<r
!>?? >n. and we publish in another column a te
graphic ?ynop?ii of her news.
Ti.e da'es by this arrival arc three days Istei,
hut the intelligence is of no great political impoi'
nin e, if we except some few additional detail* o
Ire operations or tlsribaldi in Italy. A am a I
1 arty of Ills forces arc reported to have ha
* "onftlct with a detachment of Victor Emanuel
troop*
There i> nothing now in reference to Amcrin. i
alTsiis.
;:onsoU, for money, were quoted in London at
MfcftWM.aadfer aooooat at wVj a wy4. The
L'xerpool cotton m.irket IU quiet and nnrhnneed.
In briMdotuJit aud provisions there waa uo quota
ble change.
By the arrival of the steamer H:ize we have ad- I
vice* from Ntwbwn, North Carolina, to the 20th :
in-t., at which date all was quiet in and around
that district.
The pay of a soldier for one year who enlists in
an old regiment will be a.- ?oliowa:?
lte;ular pay, $!'i per mouth $lo6
Hal.oiis and clothing lu#
G 'veriuiif it b>'ii'.ty 25
Knlmtiueut bouuty 3
St ite bounty 50
Couuty bounty 60
Total ?9?
DuriuK the present year a number of ohanges
have taken place in the executive departments of
soma of the Southern States. The names of the
various Governors are now as follows:?
Al.U'.iin i.,... J ti.i till. ai. .rtec Rebel
Arkansas 1 J?:i y M R?<:ior..~.. Kobol.
Job.i 1.. I Urtlps. military.... I'a i on.
Delaware W in Duruiu .....Unlou.
Florida J aim Milt u .....Babul.
UeoiKia JuHcpb I.. Hi own Rebel.
Kentucky J kinet F. Ki>i>in?jn Union.
H. Hawks, pro\ uiional Kebol.
Louisiana Thus. Ovorton M *tu lUtDoi.
Go.'. F. She.> <-*, military...Union.
Mississippi Jao<>b Thumpsju Rebel
Mitisojri Claiborne >. Jack,-.u Rebel.
liimilti'U It. Gamble Union.
Maryland Augustus W. Bradford Uuion.
Norm C arolina Hvu yT. Clark Rebel.
Edward Stanly, military Union.
South Carolina Francis W. Pickens Rebel.
Hums .Sax ton, military Union.
T^nnogpoe Ialiura G. Harris Rebel.
Andrew Johnson, military?. .Union.
Texua. Frank It. Lubbock Rebel.
Virginia John Letchar Rebel.
Francw H. l'ierpool Coin.
Two hundred and ten young ladies of Syracuse
and Onondaga county have published their names
and residences under a pledge to take the places of
the clerks and salesmen in the county who will en
list for the war.
The old New Hampshire regiments require two
thousand and twelve men to till up their ranks.
The democrats of Philadelphia are called upon
to meet en masse, this afternoon in Independence
square, to " express their llrm purpose to stand by
the maintenance of the National Constitution, and
to declare hostility to the policy and measures of
all who seek to prostitute the country to the par
poses of abolitionism, and to express the intention
of the democratic party to do, as it has always
hitherto done, viz:?to support the federal
government in the exercise of its constitutional
powers, and to defend it, at whatever peril, against
the insidious and treasonable teachings of aboli
tionism.1'
The First Congressional district of North Caro
lina embraces the counties of Currituck, Camden,
Pasquotank, Perquimans, Chowan, Gates, Bertie,
Hertford, Northampton, Halifax, Martin, Waaliing"
ton and Tyrrel; and the Second district contains
the counties bf Wayne, Edgecombe, Green, Pitt,
Lenoir, Jones, Onslow, Carteret, Craven, Beaufort
and Hyde. These are the two districts in which
Gov. Stanly will order elections for members to the
United States Congress.
Five privates deserted from the Quebec garrison
on the lath inst. and came across to the States.
The Third New York regiment will be filled up
from the Twenty-fifth militia, whose term will as
pire on the asthinst.. and the proper credit will
be given to Albany county, from whence both re
giments hail.
Six hundred government employes at the water
vliet Arsenal have taken the oath of allegiance.
Five refused to tako the oath and were di?
charged.
Tbo government ha* decided to razee and cover
with iron the steam frigate Niagara, now lying at
the Charlestown (Mass.) Navy Yard.
The United States Marshal paid $600,000 yester
day ir.to the Sub-Treasury on account of prize
ve.'sels and cargocs sold nnder condemnation.
Tho Attorney (leneral of the United States was
tn town yestorday, and had an interview with
Judge Betts in chambers.
City Judge McCunn has lately been interfering
with the action of the Justicca of the Court of
Special Sessions, by releasing prisoners on bail
who have been sentenced by them. Two cases
wore moved on during the past week?in one the
prisoner was released on bail after sentence had
been passed, and in the otherJudgoMcCann issued
a writ of certiorari, and afterwards discharged the
prisoner on bail. District Attorney A. Oakey Hall
hvs taken the matter in hand, and will in future
pre.em Judge McCunn from interfering with mut
ters which belong to the Supreme Court. The
District Attorney has move 1 that the two parties
who have been illegally discharged by Judge Mc
Cunn be rearrested, and serve out the term of im
pri-ouiuent to which tljfcy were sentenced by the
Justices of the Court of Special Sessions.
Tho slue* market yasterday rallied from the depression
of the past Jay or tvro,and prlcee were a 1? per cr.it
higher. Cheer Ml ramo.e w re tree.y circulated, a id Uio
tone or f- 'ing was much better. Money was a'oundant
at 4 |/cr cout. ISxcUaa^ : gold abuut 1IS * at the
clo o.
The cotton mart-I was llraier yesterday, with a fair < e
mant. The salos embraced 1,000 baloe, on a basis ot
4*c. a4S)?c. for middling uplands. Th.' bfoadstuffs mar
ket was unfavorably affacted by the rise iu freight? and
the pro?i*ctive large recipts. Flour was dull and droop
ing. Wheat was q ilet and pricee were ratbor ea ler.
Corn was heavy, while the demand wa? moderate. B.re
was .jolut, Oals were fcaree and Orm. Porte was active
andllrm Sugars were dull, and the salee were 175 tihds.
and 34 boxes. The public Bale of coffee passed off at |
ateady rate, 'or Rio, but Pantos showed a dec'.tne
Freights ware d.-cidertly Ortm-r, wt'.ta only a small
supjdy o' tenusge immediately available.
The Impiadieg Straggle In Virginia?
brut and Ueclelve Krente Close at
Hand.
We are on the verge of a tremendous and de
ceive struggle with the great rebel array of j
Virginia. P?|HW the rear guard of General
l'ope und the advanced columns of General
Lee this struggle may bave already com
menced. I* may be onded before the expira
tion of another week: and if ho, we have every
reason to believe that the crowning result will
be the sub^tautiat extinguishment of this re
bellion.
Carefully avoiding any information 9alcu
lated to be oaelul to the enemy, we have some
facts to give upon this all important subject
which may b?? useful in strengthening our ow n
causa. At the beginning of the late ?'?even
(lays' battles in ft nt ot Richmond" the rebel i
army the?e mustered not less than 200,000 |
men. In killed, wounded and otlwrwieo disa
bled its losses in those seven days were between
thirty aud forty thousund. Hut intelligent wlt
,voo were ir: Kichmond so late ?u Friday
last inrorin us thai by the i'etersburg Railroad
alone these gaps had been filled up by new re
cruit* to the extent of forty thousand men.
From the same aud from other sources we are
informed that some days ago, stretching from
Hanover Court Houho to Gordonsrllle, and
ihence across into the valley of the Shenan
loah, the advancii'g army of General Lee
numbered two hundred and lifty thousand
This movement of the rebel army of Richmond
oegan very soon after the beginning of the
work of the evacuatiou of Harrison s Landing
l,y General McClellan; but the designs of the
> b 1 lead rs to crush the army of General
('ope by an overwhelming force, and to move
?rward upon Washington before tho army ot
McClellan or our new volunteer regiments
'otild be brought forward to the rescue, w?re
liorougldy comprehended by General HBIfck.
We art' as-uml of this from the movements or
otfi* own forces, and from the MsertloM of
JRic1 mood L'snniner of t' ? 1Mb in^t.. pabtfeftf !
bi another columi., and ih.it by t!.?* time (>en
Lee or Stonewall Jacks >;? can bring on iny
great engagement our generals and our troops
will be ready lor it. Al thin day along the
Poloruac and the Bappahauiioek our aggregate :
force* can hardly bo loss than tho^e of I !u: ird |
v;incing eue*uy, aud die ui 'Jioixt he advances iu
force beyo. d G.?rdoa.>viI?e i:is troubles of sub
bistenee aud transportation Begin.
Let us uot, however, relax our efforts to
strengthen our arrwy in Vhgtnta, under the pre
sumption that, Wa.-hii : ?? ? being well guarded.
we?can take our ow m tu.niug back ti.e
tide of invasion au uiehnond. The rebtjl
lea lers have resolved to stake everything upon
the chances of their present desperate enter
prise. They have no meaus for another winter
campaign. They have no time to lose, and
they know it. It is now or never with them:
and for foreign intervention and a Southern
confederacy they recognize their only chance
to be Washington, at all hazards, While, there
fore, the government is ca in and coulideut, auil
the people of Washington feel themselves se
cure, and stocks are looking up in Wall street,
it is the duty of the authorities and the people
of our loyal States to push forward their new
troops to Washington as if the safety of the ca
pital depended upon additional reiutorcemeuts
to the extent of flity thousand men within the
next three days.
Let us push forward our new troops
by day and by night. Where we have
not a regiment, let us send a battalion,
and where we hare not a battalion,
a company or a fragment of ti company. They
can be readily fused into the army at Washing
ton. We have the men, means, materials and
facilities of all kinds for short aud decisive
work with this rebellion; but after eighteen
months of war we find the rebel army of Vir
ginia rccoiling back upon our national capital.
This army, we believe, is advancing to its de
struction; but our own forces between it and
Washington should be so fur strengthened as to
enable our generals at once to resume the offen
sive. Fifty thousand fresh troops thrown into
Washington within the next three days may
result in bringing this war to a solution before
the end of August. We have the troops en
listed. They are going forward at the rate of
four or fire thousand a day; but we think that,
with a little more energy, we might, by land
and water, push forward twenty thousand men
per day.
The crisis and the incalculable issues depend
ing upon it are worth the effort; and so we call
upon all concerned to make the trial of sending
down to General Halleck, within the next three
days, reinforcements to the extent of fifty thou
sand men. Every man of them may thus prove
to be ten times over worth Lis weight in gold
in the work of suppressing this rebellion.
The Corcoran Reception.?Yesterday our
city poured out its thousands to do boaor to
one of the heroes who have shed upon the pre
sent struggle no small share of the glory with
which the nation's sacriflocs and sufferings
hare invested it. Until the war broke out the
name of Michael Corcoran was known to but a
few. Now it occupies a place in the historic
page of which more brilliant and ambitious
men might well feel proud, but which is not
th* lens due to the qualities displayed by its
possessor at a time when those qualities were
just what were required to insure the oountry's
salvation.
To the patriotism and generous self-devotion
exhibited by General Corcoran when the war
broke out we unquestionably owe much of the
enthusiasm with which our Irish fellow citizens
took up arras to assist in putting down the re
bellion. His personal gallantry in the face of
the enemy had also its effect in stimulating his
countrymen to deeds of bravery; and when his
absence in a rebel prison deprived them of bis
encouraging influence his name still served as
a rallying cry to them on every battle field'.
Now that be comes back to us adding to bis ser
vices as a patriot the claims of a martyr?for
what martyrdom could be worse than the thir
teen months' slow torture that he has undergone
while in the hands of the rebels??we give him a
reception than which soldier or statesman never
received one more sincere and heartfelt. And
yet so great is the modesty of this simple
minded man that he would gladly have shrunk
from it, did not those whose opinions ho is
bound to respect assure hiln that the effect of
such an example would be beneficial to the pub
lic interests ju.-t at the present time.
Of this there can be no question. The moral
influence of such a spectacle cannot fail to pro
duce its results, both here and abroad. Ilere,
the example of a man who, starting from hum
ble beginnings and with no other qualities than
a brave heart and a firm faith in the destinies
of his adopted country, finds himself thus re
warded and honored, cannot fail to stimulate
thousands to follow in his footsteps. Abroad, it
s ill raise the drooping spirits of those w! o
despair of republican institutions to find that
the Roman virtues still hold a place in our
esteem, and that we are not wholly l??st in the
Corruptions attributed to us. A country that
thus rewards the patriotism of her sons cannot
be so very near destruction.
The Gi eiui.i,ah in the SotrrgwKsT.?The news
from the Southwest which we published yester
day is of a very exciting churacter. The West
ern papers nre filled with accounts of the opera
tions of guerillas in Tennessee, Kentucky and
Missouri; the capture of numerous places, in
cluding Clarksville and Fort Donelsoo, and the
invasion of Kentucky at several point*; even
Nashville is said to be in danger of being cut
off from supplies. Some oT the accounts aro no
d >ubt true, and some probably are not. But
the movements of guerillas, after all, do not
amount to much, unless to harass and annoy.
They are in small bodies, aud though by a sud
den raid they may pounce upon a town and
take it, they are not strong enough to hold it
after its capture, and they abandon it and pro
ceed to another town to capture supplies, make
prisooers of Un'on men, and otherwise intimi
date the inhabitants. It is true that Kirby
Smith is in their rear, with some fifteen or
seventeen thousand men. and it is staled that
the intention is to cross the Ohio and invade
the free States. Hut there is a force now march
ing across the borders which will mako short
work of his regulars as well as his guerilla*.
Fourteen regiments have left Indiana alone, aud
from the other frontier States other troops are
marshalling for the fray. Soon will Tennessee,
Kentucky ttod Alinsourl be cleared of these pre
datory bands and the Union men be rescued
I'rotn their grasp. Ail along the right ba> k of
tho Ohio the people are jrg*ai*tng for resist
ance to the invaders, and the result cannot be
doubtful.
Cawiui If. Clny, the AbiillliniiUt* auil
the \i ur lur tUr Union.
Recently our rndtn wore inforaed, by a
U*!e. rt|>liic doapattb ia our columns. that Cas
f>iu> M Cny was about to be assigned to au im
portant command wast of tbe Mississippi. We
d">ut>t the trutb of thin intelligence, tirat. be
cause Mr. Clay i* unfilled for such u command;
and. secondly, he ha? declarod iiis intention
never to 'raw hh? sword in a war for tbe pre
servation of si ivory, which he in common with
Wendell Phillips und other abolitionists, re
gards the prevut war for the Union. Both
agree that tb? w.ir can never b< successful, and
that it is ttierelore a criminal wRste of human
life. If it were a w ar for emancipation. then
Costitis M. Clay could "go.in;" but a* it is not,
be has hwoiu to have nothiug to do with it.
Suppose we were successful, after "expending
four thousand millions of dollar* and losing
half a million of our noblest men," what then.'
The South, he contends, would hate her con
nection with tbe North more than ever, "by the
memory of the blood we bad shod and the de
vastation we had caused."
In his letter, publisned in the Hkk.m.d of
Monday last. Mr. Clay complains that he has
beeu misrepresented. But be does not point
out the passages nor state what he did say.
His letter iB substantially the same as bis
speech, a- reported in the Hkrai.d, and does not
mend the matter. In bis letter he defines his
position thus:?"I am for the constitution at it is
and the Union a* it ought to be?not slavery and
Union, but liberty and Union, now and forever."
It is idle for Mr. Clay to say he Ja for the old
constitution, unless he is also for the Union of
which it is the instrument. He is not for the
Union as it was before the rebellion, but "as it
ought to be." This is exactly Horace Greeley 's
position and the position of Wendell Phillip*.
They are for a new Union, with slavery cut out
of it, and for a new constitution also, the old
being "a covenant with death and au agreement
with hell." They are consistent. Mr. Clay in
consistently says he is for the old constitution,
but not for the old Union. This is a contradic
tion in terms. Mr. Clay, perhaps, interprets the
constitution by a peculiar construction of his
own, aud not by the ordinary rules of inter
pretation and the obvious meaning of the
words. Does the constitution any where au
thorize the overthrow of the old Union to make
way for a new one, unless by amendments to
the constitution itself? Mr. Clay admits he
differs with the President, who is both practical
and constitutional. But Mr. Clay is evidently
revolutionary aud anti-constitutional, lie de
nibs, however, that "he is or ever was an abo
litionist, in the strict sense of that word."
Again he is inconsistent, for he says, "There
is no compromise between liberty and slavery.
One or the other must die." But the constitu
tion expressly provides for the protection of
slarery against any authority or power but
that of tbe people themselves in the States in
which it exists. Yet Cassius M. Clay Bays he is
in favor of the constitution as it is. Mr. CI. y
goes on to say:?"If slavery and the Union as it
was is the choice, then I do say, send your em
bassy to Jefferson Davis and make terms. But
if wo are to be a homogeneous people, and il"
our blood and money are to bear fruit, then
Ut slavery be abolished in all the rebel State,h."
Thus it is that Mr. Clay is a constitution
alist, andv by no mua.ua an abolitionist or a
revolutionist.
One thing is very clear: the ex-Minister to
Russia is not a statesman. He is an eloquent
stump orator, an agitator, a politician, but no
statesman. Ho started in 1845 a weekly paper,
called the True American, to effect theubolition
of slavery in Kentucky; and in 1851 he sepa
rated from the whigs, in consequence of their
agreeing with the democrats in adopting the
compromise measures proposed by Henry
Clay, by which the country was then saved
from the civil war which has now broken out;
and in the summer of that year he ran for Go
vernor of Kentucky, agaiust whigs and demo
crats, on the anli-slavery basis, and was of
coursc defeated. He was then as impracticable
as he is now.
Mr. Clay is not a diplomatist, and could not
he. His mind is cast in a totally different
mould. When he was sent as Minister to Rus
s a he opcaed, while on his way, an undignified
and imprudent discussion with the Loudon
papers, which did himself and his country no
small injury, as we remaked at the time, though
Mr. Clay bays "he has never before been honored
with his name in our columns." Agitation, not
diplomacy, was his element, and he could not
resist the temptation offered to his ruling pa<
sion. Had he been a diplomatist he woirid not
have returned ao soon to the United states from
St. Petersburg. lie is a polished, educated
and honorable gentleman, but diplomacy is not
his fort*.
Mr. Clay is not a general. He ia a brave
soldier. brave even to rashness; but he has no
gilt of generalship, no strategy, no tactics.
Curiom enough, though he always opposed
the annexation of Texas, and was a great chain
pion of Mexico?having, as he says in his letter,
"cried out against the raid upou Mexico and the
annexation of Texas''?yet he did not hesitate
to embark in the war with that country arising
out of our annexation of her toriner province.
He became a captain in the army of General Tay
lor in l?!4ti, and by his temority he was taken
prisoner at Kncarnacion in 1847, and he and
all his follow prisoners narrowly escaped being
put to death, lie exhibited no evidences
whatever of military talent. He would, how
ever, make a gallant captain under a prudent
comn.ander, or oven a good colonel under an
able general. He would be the very man to
lead a storming party or a forlorn hope; and it
seems sad that his anti-slavery crotchets and
the impractical character of his mind prevent
hi, accepting a colonelcy in tbe war for the
I'uion after having resigned his mission to Rus
sia for the purpose of taking pari in the con
flict. It ia a pity that, from prejudice against
a social institution in the Southern States, he
will not go heart and soul into the struggle to
r??tore the Union as it wa<> before the rebellion
began.
Exouuston ok Reporters from the Camps.?
In some of the newspapers it is stated that an
order has been issued by General Halleck di
recting that newspaper correspondent* should
be excluded from tbe li.ieaof the Union armies.
We have received no oillciul intimation of this,
but wo suppose tbe measure has been taken in
consequence of the premature disclosure of the
movemeMt of Gen. .NicClellan from the James
river by one or two newspapers, which might
have led to serious consequences, and which lias
resulted in the rapid massing of the rebel troops
in front of Pope's army. Tho imperfect intelli
gence which tie rebel generals had previously
received was confirmed by tbe aotouale iu the
rini? 4I papers, which clcaied their minds or all
doubt an.I (>u ibU?4 them to act upon a certain
ty. For f> breach of faith and want of pa
triotism t: o representatives of the guilty jour
nals buve been, we suppose, excluded from the
liuos ol the Union armies. Served theui right.
The Uati'ilug Piut-e S?uii>o?Sew De?
Yclopmr ut?.
Fashion has succumbed to Mars. The war
ljaa revolutionized the watering places. The
fashionables who used to spend the eummer
months Hi Newport, Sharon Springs or Niagara
l ulls have deserted these resorts, ahd are
now si-attorcd about the country In quiet nooks,
sequestered retreats or suburban villas, en
joying themselves rationally, unohronicled in
the new papers and unfaligued by the former
necessities of dress, society, flirtation and dis
sipation. Even the old dowagers, the indispen
sable impedimenta of the aruiy of fashion, no
longer frequent their former haunts, but are to
be fouud blooming, like wall flowers, in the par
lors of little hotels near pleasant but unfashion
able lakes. The hotels of Newport and Sharon
iro only half filled. Niagara Falls enjoys only
the patronage of skedaddlers, who seek in Ca
nada a release from the expected draft. The
ancient glories of the summer season hare de
parted. The war, which is reforming the man
ners, the dress, the society, the commerce, the
manufactures, the politics and the politicians
of the nation, baa reformed the fashionables
also, and for this year, at least, they prefer the
genuine, healthful country to the Artificial,
enervating, corrupting caricature of rural lil'e
at the watering places.
Two of our summer resorts, howeyer, are now
crowded to suffocation. At Saratoga, which
has outlived its fashion, aud at Long Branch,
which never was fashionable, the rush this year
is tremendous and the excitement at fever heat.
There new equipages, with new horses, driven
by new coachmen, in new liveries, flash gaudily
along the drives. There now silks rustle
gorgeously through the halls, and new and su
perabundant diamonds sparkle brilliantly in
the gaslight. There the most varied and elabo
rate, though not the most tasteful, toilettes via
with each other to attract the attention and
compel admiration. There the tables are su r
rounded with new faces, and new healths are
drank in New Jersey champagne. There new
bellea introduce entiroly new figures during
the lancer's, or display new steps in the polka
or the? galop. There new couples walk and
flirt, and new acquaintances bow with new
graces, rigidly observe the loose rules of an
entirely new etiquette, or indulge in an equally
new style of conversation. Tho most expe
rienced landlord does not remember any of
these people, and overcharges them accordingly.
The oldest waiter cannot recognize them, and,
with a knowing wink, hands them the wrong
dishes, or supplies them with twenty-five cent
claret in response to a call for Chateau Mar
<jaux. If a former habitue drops in by accident
aud asks curiously who all these people are he
can obtain no satisfactory reply. Nobody
knows anything about them. They seem, in
fact, to know very little of each other. They
are by no means desirous of telling what they
know of themselves. They make acquaint
ances easily; but introductions are wan
aged upon the same principle that stolen
property is returned?" an amicable arrange
ment effected aud no questions asked." Some
of them rejoice in titles, but appear to be
colonels without regiments, captains Without
companies and doctors without.patients. They
register their names and residences; but the^
New Yorkers are unknown here, and the Phila
dclphians aro strangers to* the denizens Of the
City of Brotherly Love. No wonder, then, that
this new watering place development is one of
the most (Singular and interesting incidents of
this eventful year.
While pondering over this curious social
problem, however, we accidentally obtained a
clue to its solution. The leading jewellers of
this city and of Philadelphia report that they
huve sold more jewelry, of the most costly
kinds and at the highest prices, during the past
lew months than any previous year, aud
thut the purchasers have been new people, who
have iuterests in eoroe kinds of government
transactions. 'We think that this statement
discloses the mine whence came all those now
diamonds which glitter so dazz'ingly at Sara
toga aud Long Branch. Why, these new people
ure our old frionds of the shoddy aristocraey,
whom we noticed last spring driving now
equipages about the Central Park and inspect
ing Brignoll through the wrong end of their
new opera glasses at the Acadcmy of Music.
They are the noble army of shoddy contractors,
with their wives and families. They have
line hones at the watering places; but they sold
the government knock-kneed, spavined, broken
winded quadrupeds, unworthy of the name of
horses. Their silks and broadcloths are lustrous
and supertine; but we do not forget the shoddy
uniforms, rotten blankets aud good-for-nothkig
linen pantaloons with which they equipped oar
soldiers, or the straw hats, boys' sizes, which
thoy palmed off upon the susceptible Cummings.
They grow fat upon the choicest dainties; but
they have supplied the army with bad beef,
spoiled provisions and "hard tack." They
drink the best champagne?that is, the best they
can get?but they began upon army ale and
porter, and thought water in kerosene casks
good enough for our soldiers. They muke lu
dicrous figures In the dances; but the figures
they have charged the government for useless
muskets, badly manufactured guns, transports
warranted to go to the bottom when loaded with
soldiers, and ships chartered at pricos sufficient
to plate them with gold armor, are anything
but laughable. The mystery about these new
people is over. Every one now knows who
they ar? and where they obtained their supera
bundant wealth. Tho public, though it has for
some time lost night of these shoddy contractors,
has neither forgotten nor forgiven then, and
our enrolment officers will see to it that their
stay at the watering places does nut at all
assist them in escaping the inevitabl* draft,
v hich, it is to be hoped, will put some of them
into (lie army to wear their o>, n shoddy uuiforms
and live upon their own shoddy fure.
IltuRT Up fob tiir Bounties.?The limit fixed
by the order of the War Department for the
payment of bounties and advance pay to re
cruits for tho new regiments expired yesterday.
According to the terms of this order the new
retrfm?nts that remain incomplete after this
date will be consolidated, and superfluous offi
cer# mustered out. This will dispose of a num
ber of military organizations the recruiting for
which has not been prosecutod in the proper
spirit, and will, beside;), deprive many desirous
of wealing shoulder straps of that hitherto
cheap mark of distinction.
For those ?axi?tu to Mcure the bounties and
advance pay for their families one more chancff
remains open, and that is to volunteer for the
old regiments previous to the 1st of September.
After that no more bounties will be paid, as
the draft will then supply the remaining defi
ciencies in the quotas of the different districts
throughout the State. Those who hare been
holding back in the expectation of profiting by
the additit>nal bounties offered bj individuals
or by the premiums for substitutes will do well
to recollect that only a few days are to elapae
before all bounties are to cease. The question
for them now is, not as to the amount they will
take, but whether they will take what they can
get, or be compelled to go into the amy wftb
out getting anything at all. The choice ought
not to be a difficult one.
IMPORTANT FROM VIRSIMJA.
Reported Junction of the
Union Annies,
Mi
Philadelphia, August 22, IMS.
Private intelligence, received In this oily, confirms the
news of the Junction of oar armias.
It also announces the death of Col. Coulter, o( fee
Eleventh Pennsylvania regiment, on the battle Held.
INTERESTING FROM POPE'S ARMY.
Our Special Army Correspondence.
Ubadqitabtxes ok thk Army or Virginia,)
August 21,1862. J
The Protptd of an Advance?Colonel Carroll WovmAtA
Death of Captain Walter*?Danger of Gathering Newt?
Unlhusitum of the lroopt, ?tc.
After the buttle of Cedar Mountain the prospect for aa
immediate and successful advance seemed exceedingly
promising, and thus matters have remained for several
days, the relicls holding the south bank of the Rapides
and firing on our pickets at every opportunity, un Sun
day morning last, ss Colonel Carroll, who w >s In oommarud
of a brigade of Geueral Rickotts' division, was riding
along the outposts. Inspecting tho pickets, be was fired
upon and badly wounded in the shoulder, and on Monday
morning, Captain Walters, of the Harris Light Cavalry,
was shot dead by a volley while giving instructions te
the sentinels. For some time the"rebels prevented th?
recovery of the body; but at length Lieutenant Colone*
Kllpatrick, with a small force of ca\alry tinned with
cat biues, charged down upon the enemy and drove these
from the river, when the remains were placed in an aa
balance and brought into Culpepper. Captain Walters
was one of the most valuable officers in the service. Ex
perienced, bold and dashing, yet always c<k>1, he eqjoyed
the entire confidence of his superior offlccrs and the love
of tbe whole regiment. Prisoners were tukeu by both
parties from time to time, and the outposts finally be
came so dangerous that the curious prudently kepi
aloof from that locality, very soon rendering tho collec
tion of items anything but a plousant occupation,
and the Items became remarkably soarce at the front
On Monday vre received intelligence of the advance of the
rebels from Richmond. It #as reported along the line
that they were in great force, and orders were given te
prepare for an immediate movement. Tbe enthusiasm ei
the troops was greatly Increased by the near prospect oi
another battle, and they do not seem to rear any danger
until It Is too late to fear It, and they have only tbe option
*o meet and fight it. Tbo enomy did not advance near
enough for a fight, and therefore everything is quiet up te
.to-day. Firing was heard yesterday, aud it was supposed
to arlso from a skirmish between Buford's cavalry *>4
the rebels.
THE ARCTIC REGION.
5twi from the Franklin Expedition.
St. Joilns, N. F., August 22,1862.
The bark George Henry, of New London, Capuiu Uud
Ington, from Frobisber's Bay, hag arrived here abort of
provisions, and with Mr. Hall, of the new Sir John Freak
llu expedition, on board.
The expedition lost one man the first winter oat. He
froze to death.
Hr. Hall reports that in consequence of the loss of some
of his eraft be was unable to proseoute his missloR to tfea
extent of its pnrpoee.
The expedition had probably determined the fate of two
boats'crews of Sir John Franklin's expedition, who pe-"~
risbed in endeavoring to return.
Mr. Hall learned the fate of five in en captured front
Frobiaher on hU first voyage, and identified the exact
places of their landing.
Mr. Hail explored over a thousand miles or the coast,
Including the so-called Frobisber's Straits, which proved
o be a deep bay, terminating in latitude 63 48, longitude
70 west.
Mr. Hall also discovered a great glacier and mountain
of fossils betweon Hudson Straits and FrubUhor's Bay.
The tieorge Henry was about to start for thedtatee la
October, 1861, but was prevented doing so by ice until the
9th lust. The ship's company subsisted through lael
winter by the hospitality of the Ksquimaux.
Bridges Horned by the Rebeii?Exehanfe
of Rebel Prisoners?Indian* and Obi*
Troops, dw.i die.
Cmamun, August 22, ISM.
Two bridges on tho Marietta and Cinciuuau Railroad,
east of Lowland, were burned yesterday morning, it ll
I supposed by rebel sympathizers.
A freight train ran through one of tho bridges, and the
| engine and three cars were wrecked. No one was hurt.
Tho bridges are being rapidly reconstructed.
The first instalment of rebel prisoners leave Indlanapo
lis to-day for Vlcksourg. Others will leave, at the ratt
of a thousand per day,till all are exchanged.
Indiana has uant into the field 14,480 men slnoe Sunday,
and Ohio troops are rapidly following them.
lnpomTA.Tr Brno* Movemsxt Among tii Gcrxixs A
meetlug of the most Influential Germans residing In New
York and Its vicinity will be held at the Attor House et
noon to-day, for the purpose of aiding the government la
'urnlshing men and money to put down the rebellloa.
Mr. August Belmont, tue well known banker, will pro
side on the oocasion.
Arrival of Steam Transport Jersey Dime.
The United Stales steam transport Jersey Blue, Capt.
Chadsey, arrived at this port last evening from Newborn,
N. C.,18th lust., bringing the mall and the following
passengers
Ilonry L Farls, 9. E. Young, Capt. B. Jcpson, Ten*
Connecticut; Capt. S. W. Athertou, Tenth Connecticut
Lieut. H. I). Sweet, Third New Yoffc cavalry; Fre<Ierlcl
Sunford, Mi^orOunn, Third New York cavalry; Serjeant
Haynae, ihird New York cavalry; I>evl Cramer, ( Uaa
Biajlhury, Sevetitrcuth Maasachusetts Volunteers; Kbeno
zer Mitchell, Sixth New Hampshire Volunteers; Henry
Fry, 1'. I). Coburu, Sixth New HRmpehire Volunteers,
Atuos Cpham, Twenty sevouth Mas< uhusoUs Volunteer*,
L. t?. Butler, Iwemy third Massachusetts VoluntoerS)
W. 11 Wilson, Twenty-third Massachusetts Volunteers.
M. Trlan,Ouo. It. Uwon, Twenty-seventh Massachusetts
Vol intcors; Levi Mabe, Third Now York artillery; Ne^
son K.Knapp, twenty seventh Massachusetts. D. R.Cobb,
Twouty seventh Massachusetts; S. Host, Twenty seventb
Mim.iohugelts; C. II. Blocker,Twenty thiid Massachusetts
Volunteers; BenJ Stone, Seventeeuih Massachusetts V?
iunteers; A. T. l^n*. Third New York artillery. S. D>
Lawrence, Twen y-third Mnssachusetts Volunteers, H.
lloas.Wtn. 11 Davidson Tenth Connecticut; Jt hu K. H
I'orkins, Tenth Conuecttcu'. John Lighthouse, Wm. Net*
son, John Morrell, Lewis Ust, C. M. Smith, Jo.'iab S. Sto
veil, 1 wenty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteers; John llilllk
H><r,Otis 0. Martin, seventeenth Massachusetts Voina
leers; lapis. Haseltob, Bryon, Babbit.
The Jersey Blue left the United 8ta?es steam transport*
Albany at Newborn, N. C., and (jutted Stales at Hatters*
Jniet, waiting for weather and bound to Aquia Creek.
Obltnarp.
CAPTAIN WAI.TBKH, HARRIS LIGHT CAVALRY.
Captain Charles C. Walters, who was rocently shot bp
the rcboi pickets near the banks of the Rapldan, was a
young man, about twenty-eight years of age, and a satire
of tho city of New York. He served with Walker ta
Nicaragua. an>l was distinguished while storming a bat<
t?ry, during which attack he io?t one*third of nts met.
This brave foal was performed betwoou the battles ol
Kivas and Uranada. He was interested in the stlvei
mm ?? of Arlz"na, but came home to Join the United
States service upon the breaking out of the rebellion. H*
was distinguished also during the recent fight at Hanovel
Junction (gainst the operations of the rebel Oenerst
Stuart's cavalry. He bad bee* on scouting duty tor tb?
past two months. He was of a particularly gentlemanly
disposition, kind and attentive to his meu,who were ver?
much attached to htm.
Death of Rear Admiral George Campbell
Read. S
PBiLaost-rBU, August 22,1862.
Rear Admiral George Campbell RoiM, (lovernv* at M
| Nar?l Asylum Ir this oity, died Utl* morning.