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Bfc* itoUiato I, W. WAKBE*’ - - - Editor. tt'edntsdoy Morning, September 7, 1864. Tm Price of Papers at thi North.— The New York Herald published {i card to its readers some two weeks ago. announcing that on account of the high price of printing ma terials and the cost of composition it would hare to increase its rates of subscription and advertising. Not the Herald alone, but num* hers of other papers in the North have been compelled to do Hhe same thing. We learn from a late Yankee paper that seven papers in the State of New York have given up 4he ghost from the same cause. The Northern press is just beginning to feel the effects of this war, and we think that ere long there will be a large increase in the number of peace journals in Yankeedom, unless prices decline, of which there is but little probability. A correspondent of a I’liUaHelphia paper, writing from New York, states that tlie new 1 Homan Catholic Archbishop of that diocese, and Bishop Rotter, signed a petition to the President praying for an armistice. * The Nkw Alabama.— The greatest mystery pre vails about the new Alabama's whereabouts, though report giv«s full particulars of the vessel. She is said to be an iron clad and ram, and armed v ith pivot guns that can fling hollow projectiles of 170 pounds and solid projectiles of 220 pounds. She ! can steam 15 knots an hour, [some say 20J and will have 172 sailors, picked men, including the old crew, who will reserve their pay till wanted, which' will be the/ef« day of Napoleon, the 15th of August. ; It is just probable that this is one of the iron ves- * sels said to have been bought by Prussia, as it ap pears they have only got one. (lex. McCook— The Cincinnati Commercial of the 20th ult., announces the death of General Daniel McCook, late of Sherman’s army, and says: “He i died at the residence of his brother, Colonel Gao. W McCook. in Steubenville, Ohio, at 2 o’clock p.m. Saturday last. It will be remembered that he was shot through just below the right shoulder in the ss-:i alt oit Kennesawmountain on the 27th of June. Additional from tlie North. * Wo make up from our latest Northern files the following summary of intelligence. It will i be found extremely interesting just now as an expose of the state of affairs in the United States: TIIK SIEGE OF ATLANTA. Northern press telegrams speak of the de monstration of Sherman against the Macon and Atlanta road, and the massing of bis | forces southwest of Atlanta, “in the rear of ! Hood s forces, as they are pleased to. style the j position. The Cincinnati Gazette has a long ! gassing letter from Sherman’s army, dated j August 19th. The writer says .• If tho rebels should conclude to resign their j cherished city (Atlanta) to the Federal troops, j the opinion prevails that it will be only to j make a. more desperate and decided stand j at the village of Eastport, six miles south of i their present location. At this place thejune- ! tore is formed of the Macon and Montgomery railroads, nnd is supposed much more forraid- | able works, both military and artificial, (?) j are located. The city of Atlanta, merely, is ! clearly of little importance in the eyes of the commanding general as a desirable military I position. Had his object been solely to take j ’hat place, the matter would have been con- j eluded long ago, for there has not been a day | in the past four weeks when our army could not have occupied it by one of the most simple movements known to military men. But i ishennan docs not want Atlanta unless he can receive Hood s whole urnii/ within his lines ad • p/isqrwrxjjl' j>var. our transport* Greer ' lol ** *nast be passed just as the. 1*; '’ f days have been spent, and the rebels ! in (dTrffronl wyi be rebels only in name. *'•* */'* -X* 7T . rm; defences of mobile. The Northern .press have advices from their fleet in Mobile Bay to the 21st ultimo.. A com munication, dated “Blockading - Squadron, Mobile Bay. Aug. 10,'’ says: Naval reconuoissances towards Mobile found formidable, but not ■insurmountable, ob- j stnictions. Besides batteries, rams arid sunken \ vessels, there are very strong casemates, j mounting ten guns. In ali the spaces between i batteries and vessels, and on both shores, i piles arc driven, tl>e tops of which are sawed I oil just below tlif. surface of the water, and | have heavy iron bolts in them, sharpened at \ the upper end, so as to tear oft the bottom of a boat passing over them. Men arc seen working on two rams. The wharves are covered with steamboats ; among them, four English-built crafts, probably blockade-runners. The streets of the city are deserted. THK All StKU RESISTANCE TO THE 1)1!AFT IN THE NORTHWEST —THE INDIANA CONSPIRACY. Lincoln's draft for five hundred thousand men is to take place next Monday: (says the Riel* -’ Dis: iicli of the 2d) the Yankee authorities bbVe become aware that a formid able secret organization, pervading all the States, is in existence, the object of which is to resist the enforcement of the draft and de feat its purposes. How very formidable this organization is believed to be, may be gath ered from the telegram relative to the orders of General Heintzleman. commanding the “Northern Department,'' (prohibiting any forwarding companies from delivering arms or powder in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois orMichi- I gan for the next sixty days : ) the speech of j Gov. Morton, of Indiana, and the proclama- ■ non or Governor Brough, of Uhio. Governor : ■Morton made an address in Indianapolis, Aug. 22d, iu which he discussed at length the re- ! cent development regarding the alleged con spiracy and the finding of arms, ammunition, Ac. lie says : For eighteen months past the people ot In diana have been told repeatedly that immense quantities of arms and ammunition have been coming into the State for the avowed purpose of resisting the State and Federal authorities. This has been well known to me during that time, and likewise to the authorities of the United States ; but because until now the * people have not happened to see with their own eyes the visible evidence of the truth ot these things, it has not heretofore made a very deep impression upon their minds. There has been all the while one party to deny the truth of the assertion that this wholesale im portation of arms was going on, and pro nounce it all an Abolition falsehood, a mere Government lie. Bat now the people have -een for themselves, and no wonder tney begin to realize their great danger. Let-rne tell you, notwithstanding, that you j have not seen it all. The arms and arnmuni- , tion that were seized in this city on Saturday . are but a drop in the bucket compared to the ' immense quantity that has been imported into . the State in a similar manner during the last j twelve or eighteen months. The seizure amounts to this : Some four or five hundred ! revolvers, and one hundred and thirty thous and rounds of ammunition ; that is to say, one hundred and thirty-five rounds for a reg iment of one thousand men. Evidently ffcis arge amount of ammunition was not'intended simply for the use of the four or five hundred revolvers. The revolvers seized are but a part of thirty thousand yet to come, and the largo amount of ammunition captured is but : a portion of a lot of forty-tm> boxes, contain* j ing, altogether, about two hundred and ten i thousand rounds. I Then, after a protracted discussion of the j terrible condition of affairs, he said further : Some publications have been mads to-day of ft portion of the correspondence of theee men—their secret political correspondence. — Look ftt tome of these letters for a moment*— As an example, take one written by the pres ent Auditor of State, and a candidate before the people for re-eleotion to that high and Im portant position. This letter was written three years ago, not long after the beginning of the war, and before the inauguration of Mr. Lincoln's anti-slavery war policy, which these men now assert to be the great source of discomfort and dissatisfaction to them; and what does he say to his friend, Mr. Voorhees ? ! “Our salvation is in the success of the South ern arms. If they are crushed down, then woe betide us!” What think you, my fellow citizens, of that, coming from the Auditor of vour own State ? llow do you like his asser tion that bis salvation and that of his political friends depends upon the success of the rebel arms ? If these were his sentiments three years ago, and if he entertains the same senti ments now, as is sufficiently evident from the fact that he is one of the prominent members of the Order of the Sons of Liberty, would it not be reasonable to infer that from that time ' to ihe present, he has been assiduously using all his efforts to avert the terrible calamity of having the rebel arms crushed ? And let me ; say to you that the sentiments of Mr. Ristine are the sentiments of the men with whom he has associated himself in a political capacity. The question has been asked me this even ingwhat money it is that has been expended in the purchase of those arms and munitions of war, and whereit came from ? In answer to that question I must say that I do not know; but I will tell what Ido know. Some men in Indiana, who are really unable to provide a cow for their families, have been sporting re-, volvers since these operations began. There is a large class of such persons. Where the money that bought the weapons whfch they carry came from, I do not know ; I only know that large sums of money have been, and still are being, provided somewhere, by somebody, to send arms and ammunition into the State of Indiana. We can at best, only imagine where the sources of this fund are. I believe, how ever and am as coufident of the fact as l am of any other fact of which I have not positive and undubitable evidence, that this money with which these operations are, and have been, carried on in Indiana has been supplied by the rebellion : either direct ly from the Confederate authorities, or by : their authorized agents in New York. For myself, I entertain no doubt upon that subject. It is utterly impossible that the large amouut \ of money required for the purchase of these large quantities of arms and ammunition could have been raised in the ordinary way of contributions. I happened to know some thing of the difficulty in the way of raising, twenty, fifty or a hundred thousand dollars in ! that way. fn the city of New York, there are hundreds and thousands of men wfio have been compelled to leave the rebel States, and who have both the means and the di-position to aid the rebellion in this way. in addition to these, there are also, there a.large number of : resident capitalists who have sympathized i with the rebellion from the very first. Their trade was in the South at the breaking out of : the war; their financial interests have been in the South from the very first, and they have doubtless contributed liberally towards j paying the expenses of organizing and equip- i ping the .treasonable organizations in the j North. It is all one thing to Jeff. .Davis whether we shall fall by means of a defeat at the coming elections, or by the overthrow of the Union ; armies in the field. If we’shall elect a cani date for the Presidency who is in favor of peace ; upon the terms of Jeff. Davis, who is in favor of withdrawing our armies from the field, and : recognizing the independence of the South- ; orn Confederacy, they will gain their object • just as effectually as though they should have • annihilated the last of the Union armies in the ; field. These men understand it. They know j that their easiest, and safest, and surest, and, I indeed, their only way to accomplish their in fernal purposes, and secure the permanent disruption of the Union and their own inde pendence, is to divide our people and to get the Federal Government into the hands of men who will at once concede thorn the victory. THE PROCLAMATION 'OF GOVERNOR BROUGH, OF ' OHIO—WARNING AGAINST RESISTING THE j DRAFT. i The last draft of Lincoln for five hundred j thousand men, has created the deepest dis j content in Ohio. So manifest is this, that ! Governor Brough, of that State, has felt it his : duty to issue a proclamation, dated “Execu i live Depart ment of Ohio,Columbus, Aug. 23d, j in which he warns the people against resist ing j this new thinning out of their homes. The ; draft is to take place on Monday next, the sth j instant, and in some of the districts in the j Statethero is a deficiency in the quota, and it j must be put in operation in those districts.— ! In his proclamation, he says : The exertion which has been made to dis courage and prevent enlistments, if otherwise directed, would have filled the quotas of those localities, or left the deficiencies very light.— However unwilling to believe that any consid erable portion of the people of this State would array themselves in a spirit of factious, if not treasonable, opposition to the execution of the laws of the land, there are indications of such a spirit in the State, which, as Chief ! Magistrate, 1 may not disregard. In appeal | ing to the people to discard the counsels of wicked and unprincipled leaders that invite them to factious and forcible resistance to the j draft, or any other legal requirement of the i Government, 1 am actuated solely by a desire to preserve, if practicable, the peace of the i State and the welfare of the erring, portion of our people, and not from any apprehension of either the determination or ability of the Gov ■ eminent to maintain the supremacy of its I laws. The man who supposes that either the I National or State Government is unadvised of, ; oi-unprepared for, the threatened emergency, is following the deception of his leaders to I consequences of the most serious character. Let me advise you who countenance this in | surrectiqn to look carefully at the civil and military penaltivAq hi are incurring. He then cites to them all the pains and pen, : alties ordained by Congress to follow any re -1 sistanee to the ‘-Government of the United ■ States." which it is likely the people of Ohio j will count as light afflictions; and but for a moment, as compared with the terrible alter native of being sent South to be killed. The following is the conclusion of his proclama tion : If men may take up arms to resist laws, in the policy or effect of which they do not con cur. then all government is at an end, and wc are resolved into anarchy. This state of things is not to be tolerated. A government may as well perish in a bold and vigorous effort to maintain its integrity as to suffer an insur* rection to neutralize its laws and defy its power. Most earnestly do I appeal to the people of the State not to engage in this forcible resis tance to the laws to which evil counsellors and bad men are leading them. It cannot and will not succeed. Its triumph, it it achieve any, must be of a mere temporary character, The Government is not weak: it is strong and powerful. It cannot, audit will not, permit any armed insurrection to impeach its strength l or impair its power while contending with ' the Southern rebellion. Ido not say this to : vou in any spirit of intimidation or in any I threatening tone. I speak it to you as a warn i ing,and with an imploring voice.to hear and heed it. I know what the determination of your Government is, and I fully comprehend the power at hand to enforce it. What can you, who contemplate armed re sistance, reasonably expect to gain, by such a movement? You cannot effectually nor per manently prevent the enforcement of the laws. You cannot-in any wise improve your own j condition in the present, and must Seriously j injure it in the future. Judicious and conser | vative men whdtlook to tkesupremaey ofgov | eminent for the protection and safetyof their persons and property will no.t sympathize nor : co-operate with you. You may commit crime: you shed blood: you may destroy prop erty: you may spread ruin and desolation over i some* localities of the State: you may give aid -and comfort for a season to the rebels al | ready in arms against the country : you may ; transfer for a brief time the horrors of war | from the fields of the South to those of the j State of Ohio; you may paralyze prosperity ! and create consternation and alarm among j our people. This is a bare possibility; but it is all you. can hope to accomplish ; for you have looked upon the progress of our present struggle to little purpose if you have not learned the great recuperative power and the deep earnestness of the country in this con test. The final result will not be doubtful; the disaster to you will be complete, and the penalty will equal the enormity of the crime. From the commencement of this rebellion the State of Ohio has maintained a firm and inflexible position, which cannot now be aban doned. In this internal danger that now threatens us, I call upon all good citizens to assert and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and the Laws of the Land.— These constitute the great elements of our strength as a nation, and they are the bulwarks of our people. Hold in subjection, by persua sion and peaceable means, if you can, all at tempts at civil insurrection or armed resis tance to the. laws. Failing in this, there is another duty as citizens, from which we may not shrink, and to which I earnestly hope we may not be enforced. To those who threaten us with this evil, I say we do not use any threats in return; there is no desire to pro voke passion or create further irritation. Such men are earnestly and solemnly invoked to abandon their evil purpose: but at the same time they are warned that this invocation is not prompt ed by any apprehension of the weakness of the Government or the success of the attempts to destroy it. I would avert, by all proper means, the occurrence of civil war in this Ktate : but if it must come, the consequence must be upon those who precipi tate it upon us. John Brough. ; [From the Hallifax, N. S., Morning Chronicle August 19th, 1864.] €o at feci ©rate Cruiser Tallahas see. Yesterday morning a considerable flutter was created in the community by the appearance of- a strange armed vessel, of rakish appearance, off the Market wharf. Upon inspection tko visitor prov ed to be the Confederate cruizer Tallahassee, which has, within the short space of twelve days, made extensive havoc among Federal merchant vessels ; off Sandy Hook, Now Y r ork, Portland, Maine, and ; in the vicinity of Cape Sable. The Tallahassee ii an iron steamer of about 500 tons burthen, has a powerful engine, and is furnished with two screws, and is the swiftest ocean steamship in the Con federate service, being capable, under heavy pres sure of steam, of making from 18 to 20 miles an hour. I Her sides and smokestacks are painted white I and her bottom red. two formidable j swivel guns, one at the bow and another at the stern, and a piece of brass ordinance of smaller i eallibre forward her foremast. The Tallahassee is commanded by Captain John Taylor Wood, said ! to be a nephew to Jefferson Davis, President of | the Confederate States, and has a crew of upwards of one hundred men. She was built in London, England, about two years and a half ago, and was for some time employed successfully iu running the blockade into and from Wilmington. She was fitted out as a cruiser at the latter port, from which i she sailed on the 6th of the present month, and has since captured, burned or bonded no less than 33 Federal merchantmen and fishing craft. Off Sandy Hook, in one day, tko cruizer cap tured and destroyed six vessels, one of them being the large ship Art-ic, with which in rounding to collided with the steamer, carrying away the main mast of the latter, but doing no other damage. Be tween Sandy llook and Cape Sable several small crafts fell a prey to the vigilance of the cruizer, and near the latter place she took and destroyed seven vessels, and lauded their crews at Yarmouth, N. S. On Wednesday night between Cape Sable ; and Halifax the Tallahassee captured and burnt ' three American schooners, and put their crews j ashore at some point on the coast. This cruizer | appears to be well officered, and judging from the j appearance of things good discipline is maintained j on board. The engines, we were informed by on# j of the officers, are under the eontrol of the best and j most expererienced engineers whose service it were I possible to secure, and the (ire department is most j efficiently managed. In the cabin are a large number of ships’ j uomoters, and a variety of valuable articles, in- ; eluding many swords and small arms. There are, j too, several cases of clothing which, with other i commodities were taken from the craft captured j during the cruize. The officers say they do not j fear all the Federal men-of-war that may be sent : in pursuit of them, as their steamer is much swifter I than any formidable gunboat in the Northern < Navy, and as respects lesser craft they count upon ; being a match for thorn in case of a contest. In ! coming out of Wilmington the Tallahassee was j chased by one of the blockading .squadron, and ’ several shots were exchanged, but, as the contest j iu speed was a very unequal one, the Federal gun- ! boat soon gave up the chase, and the cruiser con- j tinued on her course. On nearing Halifax harbor, j ou Wednesday night, the Tallahassee sighted the steamer Franconia from this port for Prince Ed ward, but the commander of the former, presum ing that the latter was a British mail and passen ger vessel, did not molest her. Had the cruizer not been short of coals she would doubtless have met with and destroyed many more vessels in the vicinity of Capo Sabel, but in consequence of the small quantity of fuel on board the captain was : reluctantly compelled to make direct for this port to procure a supply, and was, therefore, not in a : position to justify him in spending much time in searching for shipping, although he captured every Federal vessel he iSfet with in his course from Wilmington to this city. Yesterday afternoon the Tallahassee was towed by the Neptune over to Woodside wharf, on the ! Dartmouth shore, and during the evening took on •' board a quantity of coals from the Prussian brig j Marie Griefswold. Soon after the cruizer arrived : here the authorities communicated with her com mander, notifying him that the vessel could not ; be permitted to remain here longer than twenty four hour#, so that it is very probable that she will ! leave here some time this morning: but of course we know nothing of her destination, but it is evi dent she will pursue the object of the mission for which she was equipped. One of the officers affirmed that the statements contained in the Fed eral papers to the effect that the Captain of the cruizer exercises much cruelty to those who fall in his power, has not a shadow of foundation in fact, and alleged that, upon the contrary, the comfort of the captured persons is invariably at tended to as far as the circumstances of the case will permit. The crews of captured vessels, he ] says, are always permitted to take with them when landed all their clothing or other personal property—chronometers excepted, which are kept as trophies—in their possession at the time of seizure: llojrrors of tlie Battle-Field— -15,000 liaion Soldiers lying UExbiiried in tlie Wilderness. Since the breaking out of the rebellion, a great deal has been said about the horrors of war, and much has been written descriptive #f battle-fields covered with the dead and the dying. Scenes have been witnessed that well might appeal to the stoutest hearts, and shake the stronges t nerves. So much concerning the fierceness of the war has been writteu and published, that the public mini has been made familiar with tho stories of the 1 deadly strife that has been so long raging in our land.' The history of a battle seems but a dupli cate account of one that proceeded it. The an nouncement that thousands have been killed scarcelv commands a moment’s reflection, and some are even disappointed if they are not inform ed that a day’s fighting has not resulted in cover ing the field with the slain. If any of our readers have failed to realize the magnitude of the war and its terrible consequen ces, and those who compose our armies, let thffin : peruse the following account of the “Dead in the Wilderness.” It was written by Lieut. Bailv, of the 16th regiment New York volunteers, from Anandale. on the 4th inst. He says that, after | crossing the Rapidan, within a space of fifteen 1 miles, thirty thousand carcases lay rotting upon ! the ground—and fifteen thousand of them hadbe } longed to our army. What more do we need to tell us of the terrible fighting of Grant's campaign. “1 did not expect, when I left you at Rochester i and promised to write you, that I should visit the j battle-fields of the Wilderness again at tin* early j period. I arrived in camp on Sunday afternoon < after leaving you, and was placed an duty as offi ! cer of the guard: and the day following was de tailed as an officer to accompany an expedition of i 500 cavalry to guard nil ambulance train, and rescue our wounded who were yet in the hands of I the enemy, whom thay had placed under guard and were removing to Richmond as fast as possi ble, as prisoners. We arrived at the United States Ford, on the Rapidan; Friday night; crossed Saturday morning, and at 10 o’clock found a d*-" serted hospital where the first three days of the battle were fought. Within about a mile of this the dead armies had been buried, but from this to the next hospital about fifteen miles, the doad .re main as death found them, with the exception of their clothing. “The rebels had stripped them of boots and shoes and nearly all their clothing, and where there an exception, the pockets were all turned. It is a scene I shall not attempt to describe, and so ut terly awful that I could not do’it. It is estimated that fifteen thousand of our men, and as many of the rebels, lie unburied here ; and as six weeks have elapsed since the battle, imagination in its wildest fancies cannot begin to paint the spectacle. I must pass it. After passing through this wil derness of death, we found another hospital, sur prised the guards and took possession, and found about sixty wounded, in charge of one of our surgeons, he being a prisoner also. “We did not stop to inquire to whom or what side they belonged, whether friend or foe, but commenced at once to put them i»to our ambulan ces, and to make our way out of this wilderness and shadow of death, hastening on our way to Washington. An official account of the expedi tion will doubtless soon be made. j “We did not allow any talking with tko men— ; many of them! had all they could bear to endure | the transit; and as nearly all of them were unable ! to sit up, ancLas some of them had had limbs am putated, we judged a portion would die on the way, with all the care we could exercise, and so they did. As to the care they had received, they all say that as much had been done for them as under the circumstances was possible. .“They all expressed great satisfaction that we had come for them, and that they were going with us back under the dear old flag. One scene affect ed me much ! It was found that one poor fellow was totally unfit to be removed, and when we told him so he said, ‘take mo with you as far as I can go, and let me die on the way home—if you do not, 1 shall crawl after the train as long as life lasts, and then dio on the field with my comrades.' We put him into au ambulance, and brought him along until death relieved him, and then stopped and buried him. His last words were: ‘Now I know I’m dying, but I know I shall uet be left above the ground for vultures to feed upon, as my comrades were" No one had words, but all had tears here."— Niagara Democrat. Complimentary,— The following congratulato \ ry order of Gen. Jackson makes favorable men ; tion of our gallant young townsman Lt. Geo. ’l3. ; Young, whose conduct was recently so conspicu i ous at the post of danger. The tribute is well j deserved: Congratulatory Order ot Gen. Jacligon to bin Troops Hdqr’s Jackson’s Cav. Dn. f Atlanta. Ga.. Aug. 21-th, ’64. j General Orders, No. The Brig. General, commanding, desires to con gratulate the officers and men, of his command, also Gen. Reynolds and brigade, on their success sul expulsion of the large and well appointed raid ing party under Killpatriek, boasting to “destroy our rear communications, and compel the army of Tennessee to retire from Atlanta/’ and to ten der his good thanks for their energy and fighting. He takes pleasure in noticing the part performed by Gen. Ross, and his gallant Texans, in resisting with the most determined courage, the entire force of the enemy, not less than four thousand, hurled upon his brigade as a “denier resort” to eut their way through, continuing to fire upon them till the last one had passed—inflicting heavy loss upon them and capturing one piece of artillery and four stands of colors, reflecting the highest credit upon himself and brigade. As, also, Geu. Arm strong and brigade, for very vigorous pursuit, compelling the enemy to abandon wagons, horses and ambulances. . lie takes this occasion to make special mention of the daring bravery displayed by Lt. Geo B Young, of Croft’s battery, who alone continued to serve his howitzer, when completely surrounded by the en emy. within a few paces of him. and refused to abandon it till ordered away by his brigade com mander. Soldiers: In meeting and repelling this, the larg est raiding party ever sent to your rear, you have won the lasting gratitude of your commanders and ! countrymen, and have reflected fresh glory upon i the proud appellation of the Confederate army. You inflietedupon the enemy a loss of 500 killed, wounded and prisoners, captured two pieces of ar tillery, four stands of colors, a number of horses, equipments and small arms, besides wagons and ambulances, with small loss to yourselves. Lie returns thanks to Gens. Armstrong, Ross and Reynolds for prompt action, hearty co-operation and skillful handling of their commands. By command of Brig. Got). W. H. JACKSON. E T Sykes, A. A. G. Tlte Chicago Xoiuinees. The result of the nomination at Chicago by the Democratic Convention has at last reached us, with the.platform they have adopted aud the candidates they have elected to, contest the election in November for President and ; Vice President of the United States with Lin coln and Johnson. The selection of Gen. George U. McClellan, as the Democratic candidate, will fall like a wet blanket upon many in the South who en tertained the hope that an out-an-out peace man, such as Long, of Ohio, Reid of Pennsyl- : vania, Fernando Wood, of New York, or Val- i landigham, were the most prominent men be fore the Convention for the nomination. Os Gen. McClellan’s political sentiments, we are ignorant, unless we judge his princi ples by the animus of the Convention which nominated him. He has, we believe, hereto fore been classed with the set of politicians at the North denominated peace Democrats, and we have heretofore thought of him in connec tion with the Presidency as being no more pacific than Lincoln. But we can judge his future policy better by noticing the platform of the Convention which nominated him. That Convention, recognizing the futility of restoring the Union by the experiment of war, propose that efforts be made for a cessa tion of hostilities, with a view to an ultimate Convention of all the States, or other peacea ble means, to the end that at the earliest prac ticable moment, peace may be restored on the basis of the Federal union of all the States. > This is direct antagonism to the doctrine we went out of the old Union, proclaiming, and for the maintainanee of which we have been fighting for three years, namely : the in dependence of the several States and their right to separation. The North and South are separate and distinct nations, divided by Ia sea of blood formed by three years of ac i tive warfare. It is fallicy to talk of ever uni ting us again under the corrupt Federal Gov ernment of the United States. The South spurns the idea of ever sheathing the sword ; to shake hands in friendship with a people . who have wantonly plundered their homes murdered their innocent non-combatant i population, for the purpose of accomplishing j their fiendish designs of crushing our right to j self-government and independence. President Davis has already set forth the ! sentiments of the Confederacy, in regard to a ; convention of all the States, in the answer made by him to Jacquess and Gilmore, when they proposed to submit all questions in dis pute to a convention of all the States, Yankee | and Confederate, in which a vote of two-thirds ! was to be decisive. The President stated that j we had seceded, and were now fighting to get rid of the tyranny of the majority. That it | would be a palpable violation of the Consti ; tutiou to use the treaty making power to bring j the States of the Confederacy into a conven i tion with the Yankee States. The South will not recognize any treaty of peace but one based solely on the entire in j dependence and sovereignty of the several | States of the Confederacy. If the Federal’ Government refuse to concede this, then we | cannot, according to the Constitution, nego tiate with them. There is but one way for the South to go into convention with the Yankee j States, and that is upon the concession on the | part of the latter for our entire independence and sovereignty.— Savannah Republican. General Canby in his late order says the practice ; of permitting persons in the rebel service to send ! their families within his lines for greater safety ! and comfort, has prevailed to a, dangerous extent ! at soma points within the limits cf the command: j that hereafter al! such persons will ba turned back i at the picket linos, cr it'they have ra.de their way t through them will be sent Rack. Refugee? of good j faith are to be received aud kindly treated, If des- II titute, their wants will be sapidi td, as far &3 tho me ns under the control of ihe <:• ioaiiiandicg officer will permit. Whenever ihe> aD«rras3 military i operations they ars to be packet iff to Cairo, HU- ! aoi a.—&o*wn t TELEGRAPHIC. i _ _ REPORTS Of’ THS PRESS ASSOCIATION. I Entered according to act of Congress in tke year 1863. by J. S 'l brasher, in the ClerkS ofice of the District Court of the Confederate States for the Northern District of Georgia. Petersburg, Sept. 6. The Washington Chronicle of 3d received. Stanton lelegraiphs Dix of the fall of Atlanta, also reduces the draft to 300.000. Stanton con cludes his dispatch by saying that 100,000 new troops promptly furnished is all Grant wants to | capture Richmond and give the finishing blow to to the rebel armies now in the field. The residue of the call will be adequate for garrisons, cities, fields, lines of communication and 'supplies north, free the ciAiutry of gfterrillas, give security to trade, protect commerce, travel, establish peace’ order and tranquility in every State. • Statum telegraphs from Canton, 2d, the 20th corps holds Atlanta. In the fight at East Point Shorman was successful—results unknown. The Chronicle says editorially a deadly blow has been given to the rebellion which can neither be paliated or denied. Yankee press dispatches say that Early’s head- j quarters are at Bonkers Hill, half way between W inchestev and Martinsburg. Wheeler burned several miles of the Nashville and Chattanooga Road oil tho Ist, and captured Franklin. Tenn., the same night. Jersey's Confederates have been on a raid to the Ohio river but had returned. Gold 2.7?. Richmond, Sept. 0. The Washington Chronicle of the 3d received. : Farragut in his official report of the surrender of i Fort'Morgau draws a comparison between Andei- j son and Page, and say3 the former finding his ! position perfectly untenable, and encumbered with i superfluous nifmbors of conscripts, surrendered a fore he could not defend, having scrupulously kept everything in tact, whilst Page in childish sport fulness destroyed the guus which he had never defended, and threw away and broke up weapons he had not the manliness to use against the enemy, j Fort Morgen never fired a gun after the com- t mencement of the bombardment. Staunton's Bulletin of the 2d announced the the occupation of Atlanta by Sherman’s advance. I nofficial dispatches state that the rebels are re treating at East Point with very heavy loss. Gen Hardee killed. Federal loss not kuown. Telegrams from Nashville on the Ist say a rebel force 10,000 strong is withia 11 miles of the city on the Murfreesboro Road. Rosseau had gone out to attack them. The rebels captured the town of Franklin on Thursday night. Latest gold quotations 244. Macon, Sept. 0. | The situation at the front is not materially changed. The enemy reported advancing, but | this is not confirmed. • « j An officer-from Rome Georgia reports the Tun- ! nel at Tunnel Hill having been blown up by Gen * Wheeler several days ago. The last heard from him at Hood’s Headquarters was between Chat tanooga and Murfreesboro. -Gov. Brown today issued a proclamation setting apart the l oth inst, as a day of fasting and prayer , and calling upon the army and people to observe if _ . _ j \ortliEin Dispatches. Cairo, August 18.—A meeting held last night, for the purpose of organizing the Home Guards, was largely attended and much enthusiasm was manifested. Three companies were immediately organ ! ized and others are forming Organiza ; tions for the same purpose are being effec ; ted at Mound City and other towns on the border. Indianapolis, Aug, 19.—A dispatch I to Gen. Carrington from Gen. Hovey,! commanding the forces sent in pursuit of j the guerrillas, said he had reached Mor> ; ganheld and captured a few prisoners, and scattered the balance in all directions, j Gen. Hovey has levied an assessment on j the disloyal citizens of Union county, Ky., for $82,000, to cover damages sustained by the Government. j BoSton, August 20.—Senator Wilson ! publishes a note, denying all the reports ! to the effect that he is mixed up with any proposition for an armistice with the ; Rebels. He says: “No public man, connected; with the Administration, is in favor of an j armistice. I personally know that Presi ! dent Lincoln, and all the members of his Cabinet, have undoubted faith in the suc cess of our armies, and the complete trh umph of our cause. With this belief they i - will pursue the most vigorous measures j to raise money and men to carry on the war.” The Chew of the Alabama at Weston’s ; Music Hall. —On Monday July 4th, eleven of the remaining crew of the gallant but ill-fated Confed erate cruiser Alabama visited this popular place of ; amusement, in Liverpool, and were introduced to ; a crowded audience by Mr. Weston amidst re- * peated and most enthusiastic applause. Mr. Ber- | nard, ou behalf of the gallant and weather beaten ; defenders of the unfortunate vessel, said they formed part of the survivors of that ship sunk by the Federal war sloop the Kearsage. They only j ' longed and hoped for all opportunity to meet the | latter vessel, to wipe away the stain of defeat from j their character, not from their bravery, as the late i contest between the two vessels was admitted to ! have been one of the most gallant in the records of ! naval warfare. It was Mr. Weston's intention : to give these brave sailors .a benefit at tine hall shortly. The sailors left the stage in the midst j of hearty English cheers, and were twice calied on | the stage. One of their number briefly thanked j the English public for the kind sympathy and sup j port which had been shown them since they were saved from a watery grave by the Deerhound. “I Mean to Fight it out ox this Line if it takes all Summer. ” —This was the ex pression of Grant in the opening of the pres ent campaign after the battle of the Wilder ness had been fought. The Summer has passed and the fall months are at hand, and still the boastful butcher is no nearer the cap ture of Richmond than when the campaign opened. He ha3 lost over a hundred thousand men since he crossed the Rappahannock, while the loss in Gen. Lee's army has been compar atively smaller than during any campaign of the war. Grant has but 3ix or eight weeks to accomplish his purpose, before cold, rain and mud must end the campaign. -Savannah Repub lican. The North Carolinians.— The Richmond sen tinel pays the North Carolina troops the following exalted compliment: The infantry force by which this splendid success beyond Petersburg on Thursday evening last was achieved, consisted entirely of North Carolinians— all honor to the old North State, and her brave and victorious soldiers! The victory over the Yan kees was as signal as the late triumph at the bal lot box over factionists, demagogues, and tones.— Hampton, too, performed with his cavalry anew and brilliant part in his charge upon and capture of a line of breastworks. Well done every body ! We congratulate them all, and our people every 1 where, arc- praising their exceedingly handsome achievement. In France the waste steam from the loco motives is made to heat the cars in the train behind it. It is conducted from the escape pipes through tubes, which inside of the cars, j are copper, but outsiue are of vulcanized In- j dia rubber, with couplings which can be reaL- j i!y managed. I CITY MATTERS T. J. JACKSON. LOCAL EDITOP,. Raise in Rates.— In consequence of a heavy advance in printing paper, we a» compelled to ad vance the price of subscription to onrp a p er . which will, until further notice, be as fallows Daily, per month. . ... .. For three months, - . . sls 0(J F uxeral Obsequies.— The funeral of Mr. J. W. Woolfolk took place at the Episcopal Church in this city yesterday, from whence hia remains were escorted to their last resing place by a large number of weeping friends, and citizens. Money Found.— By reference to an advertise ment it will be seen that a sum of money has been found and left at this office, which the owner can have by describing and paying for the andvertise ment. Go ro Ditching.— The fall of Atlanta, the ap proximation of tho enemy to the very heart of the State, and the almost.absolufe certainty that all the great cities of Georgia, may expect an early visit from the Yankees, renders it highly impor tant that the authorities here at once'commouce the work of ditching if it be their object to defend the city". There should not be one hour's delay. Rifle pits should bo dug all around the icty, or at least so as to command every approach. History illustrates that well fortified towns may often be saved by even a small force, but without these fortifications a small corps of well disciplined troops, may overeomo and destroy a city even when manned by superior numbers in a disorgan ized state. If wo have to make a fight, let us have all the benefits which the science of modern warfare can give. The Commandant here should, we think, impress every idle negro- in the counfy and put them to work. Now is a time when they can be easily spared from the farms, as there is no pressing work just at this time requiring their services at home. Within these rifle pits, when the emergency arises one man may keep off two or three cavalrymen, but if called to fight in an open field the cavalry of the raiders would have an ad vantage over infantry, and one of the enemy would be a full match for one of our men, and of course if they have superior numbers we will fall an easy prey. Let us not imagine that we will be visited with insignificant numbers. Sherman can now sit down quietly in Atlanta and plan and execute raids on a most grand and magnificent scale, and we are and shall remain in a state of imminent danger. If anything can be done to avert it, let it be done quickly. Prater. —We are requested to give notice that the daily Prayer Meetings for the country have been resumed and will hereafter be held at the Baptist Church at 5 p. m. Christians of all de nominations and the public are invited to attend. Geu. L.ee to tUe Cavalry. We publish below a letter addressed by Genera l Lee to General Hampton, complimenting the cav alry for their gallant and valuable services again 3< the enemy on the Charles City and Darbytown roads on the loth, 16th and 18th ultimo. luecom plimentary letter was written, it will be observed, previous to the battle of Thursday, 25th ult„ upon which occasion again the cavalry contributed so conspicuously to the success of General Hill’s at tack upon the enemy at Roams’: Headq’rß Army Northern Va., August 19, 1864. Major (r'.n. Wad-. Hampton, conid'y cavalry : General—l desire to express the gratification de rived from the conduct of the cavalry during its late operations north of James River. The saccess of W H F Lee’s division on the 15th instant, the more signal results that attended the combined attack on his and Gary’s forces on the following day, and the skillful execution of your orders on the 18th by Butler with his division, re flects great credit upon the several commands en gaged. Please oxpress to the officers aad men my thanks for their gallant and valuable services. The loss sustained by the cavalry in the fall of Brigadier Genoral Chambliss will bo felt throughout the ar my, ia which, by his courage, energy and skill, ho had won for himself an honorablr name. Very respectfully, Your ob’t serv’t, [Signed] R. E. LEE. General. Official: L Tcernan Brick, Major and a. a. a. Notice. Headquarters, 24th Sen. Dist. G. M. All men subject to the recent call of the Governor Os the 9th July, 1864, will report immediately at my Office, next to Col. i/ines Holt’s, and thereby save me the disagreeable necessity of arrest. 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