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HE hPIHIT OF THE f'Hir I'iO COW FA HON" We give below the speeches ol Mr. Belmont >f New York, who called the Chicago Conven tioa to order, Mr. Bigler, ft Penni> Ivania, the temporary chairman, and Governor Seymour, of New York, the permanent President of the Chicago Convention. From theoe onr readers ■will be able to understand the sentiments which controlled its action : The Convention was called together at jioon by August Belmont, chairman of the Na tional Democratic Committee, who tail: Gentlemen of the Cos. eni,Oa : We are ae.-em bled here to-day as the National Democratic Convention for the purpose of nominating can didates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States. This task, at all times a most difficult and arduous one, baa by the sad event of our civ il war» assumed an importance and responsi bilily of the most fearful nature. Never since ihe forma.ion of our Government has there been an assemblage, the proceedings ,of which were fraught with more momentous %nd vital results than those which must (iow from your action hero. ' .... Towards you, gentlemen, are directed at this moment the anxious fears and doubts, noton Jv of millions of American cititzens but also of every juver of civil liberty throughout the •world. In your hands rests, under the rulings of an all wise Providence, the future of the re public. Four years of rule by a sectional, fa>- natical and corrupt j>arty, warns ns of the dis astrous consequences which would befall ug if Mr. Lincoln's re-election should bo made possi ble by onr want of patriotism and unity. The inevitable results of such a calamity must bo the utter disintegration of our whole political and social system, amid bloodshed, and anarchy, with the great problem of liberal progress and yeif government jeopardized for generations to The American people have at last awaken ed to 1 he' conviction that a change of policy wild Administration can alone stay our down ward course, and they will rush to the support ; of your candidate and platform, provided you will offer to their suffrages a tried patriot who has proved his devotion U> the Union and Con stitution; that you pledgo him and ourselves to maintain their hallowed importance by ev tffy effort and sacrifice in our power. Let us, at the very outset of our proceedings, bear in miad that tb*dissentiohs of the last National Democratic Convention were one of the prin cipal causes which gave the reins of the Gov ernment into tbe hands of onr opponents, and let us beware not to fall again into the same fatal error. We must bring to tho altar of our country the sacrifice of onr prejudices, opinions aud convictions, however dear and long cherished they may be, from the moment they threaten 1 the harmony and unity of action so. itnlispea ttuble to our success. We are here, not as War Democrats, nor as Peace Democrats, but as citizens of this great •Republic, which will strive and ■ labor to the last to bring hack to its former greatness and prosperity, without one single star taken from the brilliant constellation that once encircled i»s youthful blow. Let pure aud disinterested patriotism, tern, pered by model atimi and forbearance, preside over our deliberations, and. under the blessing of Almighty God, Ihe sacred causo of the Un ion, the Constitution and the laws must prevail over fanaticism and treason. Mr. Belmont was enthusiastically applauded during the delivery of his address. SPEECH OK KX (I,OV. DIi.I.HR. Gentlemen of //*« CimnnUon :—I am greatly honored in your selection of me to preside over the preliminary deliberations of this body. My acknowledgjtoents for the high compliment* and for a tho kind greeting just extended to me by this vast concourse of my fellow citizens, will bo best manifested by the proper discharge of the duties of tin po sition to which you have called me. It is not ixpected, nor would it be tilting in one assum ing a mere temporary Presidency of the Con vention, that he should enter upon any gene ral discussion of the many topics suggested by the unhappy condition of our country. A brief allusion to trio occasion und pur poses of our assemblage is all that will be necessary. No similar body ever assembled * in America with mightier objects before it, or to which such a vast proportion of the Ameri can people looked with such profound solic itude for measures to promote the welfare of the country and advance their individual hap piness. The termination of Democratic rule in this country was the end of peaceful rela - tions between the States and the people. The elevation of a sectional party to author ity at Washington, tho culmination ol a long indulged, adriiqonions war, crimination and recrimination between exhume men at the .North and Synth, wore promptly followed by dissolution and civil war, and in the progress of that war even the outworks of civil liberty have been imperiled and the whole labile brought to the very voice of destruction, and now, at the end of more than three years of n war unparalleled in modern times for its magnitude and for barbarous desolation, after more than two millions of men have boon call ed into the field on our yid - alone, after the land has been literally drenched in fraternal blood, and wailings and lamentation are heard in every corner of cur common country, the hopes of tho Union and of our cherished object are in no wise improved. The men now in authority, through a feud which they long main brined wish violent and unwiso men at the South, became of a blind fanaticism about an institution in some States, and in relation to which they had no duties to perform and to bear, arc ut terly incapable of adopting the proper means to rescue our country, our whole country, from ils present lamentable condition. Then, gentlemen, it is apparent that the first indispensable step to the hccomplishment of this great work is the overthrow by the. ballot of the present Administration, and the inau guration of another in its stead, which will wisely and zealously, but temperately and just ly wield all (be inlluer.ee and power of the v Government to bring about n speedy settlement of our internal troubles on the principle,s.cf The Constitution, and on terms honorable and lost to all sections. North, South, Hast and West; one which will staud unfalteringly by ci\l and religions liberty ; one which, instead of trying solely on its peculiar dogmas and doctrines and the ravages of the sword, w ill referthe national troubles to the people, the fountify* of political authority, and to the States under the forms of the Cor, dilution ; one .which wHi have no conditions precedent to the restoration of the Union, but will diligent ly seek that result as a return of permanent peace among the people. Gentlemen, you have been com mb stoned by tho people taseomo here and initiate st. ps to accomplish these great objects, to select an agent and agencies in the good work. That that step will be wot) performed 1 have an nnfal tering faith, anti that the people may sanction and Grid bless tbiW means to the desired end is my sincere prayer. SPEECH OF ObV SEYMOUR OF NEW YORK. —On taking the chair Governor Seymour spoke ns follows: > Gentlemen of the Cotm idion—l cannot fore cast the resolutions and action of the Conven tion; but I enu say that every member of it loves the Union, desires peace, and will up bold constitutional freedom.t While the reso lutions and action of this Con% ..{ion are of the utmost importance, there are r vats wbv tho Democratic party should be restored to power, and they are great reason)'. Tho De mocratic party will restore the Union, it because t. * its restoration, it willbriug peace, longs be cause it loves pence: it will bring back linerty to our land, because it loves libery; it At put down despotism, because it hates the lanobio tyranny which now degrades the An. x ot people. Four years ago a Convention n* iu this city when our country was peaceful. ;> < porous and united. Its delegate did n -me to destroy our government,' to overwhelm us with debt, or to dtench our land with blood;* but they were animated by intolerance and. fanaticism, and blinded by au ignorance of the spirit of our institutions, the character of our people, and the condition of our land. They* thought they might safely indulge their pas sions, and they concluded to do so. Thee would not heed the warnings of our fa the is' and they did not consider that meddling-be get* strite. Their passions have wrou -'•>< out their natural results They were im; dkd to ►purn a?l measure* of Step 1 v step they have marched on ‘to results which at the onset they would have shtuuk with horror from; and even now. when v-ai les d.s olated our laud, has laid its heavy burdens no on labor, and wbeu bankruptcy and ruin ov. r hacg us, they will not have the rniou re stored except upon conditions uakuowu t-> *>ur constitution. They will not 1. 1 the ,‘h dieg of blood cease even for a little time t see if Christian ehariiyor the wisdom of states manship may not work out a method to our country. Nay mere than this : ti 07 will not listen to a proposal for peace which’does net . .-. r that which this Government has no right to ask. This admiuistratibn cannot now save t. ia Union if it would, it has by iU proclamations. by •viudictivu legislation, and by displays of i, ie *Bkd passion. placed obstacles in it.- own path way which if cannot overcome. It has iiam ■peered its own freedom of action by unconstitu jicnalites. It cannot be said that the failure of its policy is due to the want of courage and devotion on the part of our armies. Never in the history of the world have soldiers given up their lives more freely than have those of the arm .;- which have battled for the Hag of eur Union in the Southern States. The world will hold that they have done all that arms can do: and had wise statemanship secured the fruits of their victories, to day there would hare been peace in our land But while our soldiers have and -perately struggled to carry our banners south to the Gall of Mexico, even now thegov ernment declares, in the edict of a general, that rebellious discontent has worked northward to the shores of tb“ lake-. The guaranteed rights of the people to bear arms has been trampled under foot up to the very borders of Canada, so that American servitude is put in bold contrast with British libeity. This administration thus declares to the world that it has no faith in the people of the States whose Votes placed it in power. It also admits by such an edict that the people have no faith in this administra-- tion. While thosq,iu power without remorse -acrifice the blood and treasures of our people they will not give up their own passions for the public good. ThisJUnion is nol held asunder by‘military am bition. If our politbjaljtroublescould be refer red to the peaceful arbitrament of the contend ing armies in the Held, our Union would be restored, the rights of’the States would be guaranteed, the sacredness of homes and per sons be again respected, and an insulted judi ciary would again administer the laws of the land. Lei not the ruin of our country be charged to our oldiers. It is not due to their teachings or their fanaticism. In the con stant official intercourse with them 1 have nev c r heard uttered one sentiment of hatred to wards the people or Ihe South. Beyond all other men they value the blessings of peace and flu; virtues of mercy, of gentleness and of charity, while those who stay at home demand that no mercy, charity or forgiveness shall be shown. The bigotry and fanaticism and the intrigues of placemen have the bloody pages of tho history of the past three years. It was a soldier upon whom our Savior bestowed his only commendation when he hung upon the cross, and Pharisees mocked his sufferings." It was a soldier alone who discerned his divin ity when he heard him pour forth a prayer for mercy and forgiveness lor tho authors of his sufferings. 'J his administration cannot save tiiis Union We can, Mr. Lincoln views many things above the Union. We put the Union first of all. He thinks a proclamation worth more than peace. We think the blood of our people more precious than the edict of the Pres ident. There are no hindrances in our path way to Union aud topeace. We demand no conditions for the restoration of the Union. We am shackled wiLh no hates, no prejudices, no passions. 'We wish for fraternal relation ship with the people of the South. We de mand for them what we demand* for our selves—the full recognition of the rights of the We mean that any State on our nation’s banner shall shine with one and the same lustre. In the coming eloetigiy ®en must decide with which of the two parties, into which our people ale divided, they will act. If they wish for unton they will act with that party which will hold the Union together. They will act. with that party which does now, and always did, lov<f and reverence the Union. If they wish for.peace they will act with those who sought to avert this wAr, or who now seek to restore good will and harmony among all sections of our country. If they care for their rights and .or the ra. ■ f'dpess f their bocait, they will act with those who have stood up to resist arbi trary arrests; despotic legislation and the over throw of tho judiciary. If, upon the other hand, tlu v are wilii g to continue the present policy ol the Government and condition of af fairs,let them act with that-organization which made the present, condition of our country.— ‘There are many good men who will bo led to do this by their prejudices, and onr laud .swanns ,wUh placemen who will hold upon power with a deadly grasp But, as for us, we are resolved that the party which has made the history of our country, since its advent to power, H-,"in like some unnatural and terribje dream, shall be overthrown. Four years ago it. had its birth upon this spot. Lotus see that by our notion it shall die here, where it was born. We desire. Union and peace. The administration deny us Union and peace, for they demand conditions and exact a price which they .know will prolong the wai; and war unduly prolonged becomes disunion. Wise statesmanship can now bring this war io a close upon the terms solemnly sat forth by the at the outset of the contest In the political contest In which wo are engag ed, we do not seek partisan advantages. We are battling for llie'rights of those who" belong to all political organ!ztions. We mean that their rights of speech shall be unimpeachod, although that right mav be used to denounce us. We intend that the rights of conscience sliall be protected, although mistaken views of duty may turn the temples of religion into theatres for partisan denunciations. We mean that, home rights and the sacredness of the fireside shall be respected by those in authori ty, no matter what political views may be held by those who sit beneath their roof trees. When the democratic party shall-have gained power wiAßhall not lie less but mere tenacious upon these subjects. YVo have foreborne much be cause those who are now charged with the con duct of public, affairs know but little about the principles of our government. We were un willing to present an appearance of factious opposition ; but when we shall have gained power that official who shall violate one princi ple of law, one single right of the humblest man in our land, shall be punished by the full rigors of the law—it matters not whether he sits in the Presidential chair or holds a hum bler office under our government. We have hud upon this floor a touching and significant proof of tli.; tolly of this administration, who have driven from their support those upon whom they chkliy leaned at the outset of the rebellion. Then their hopes even for their own personal safety were upon the noble men in ihe border Stales, who. under circumstances the most try ing, severed family relationship and ancient associations to uphold the flag of our country. Many of-(hose men are now members of this Convention They bear impressed niton their countenances end manifest in their presence the high and genetoils purpose whieh ani mates them, and yet it is true, and great God that it should he true, they are stung with the sonsy of injustice and ingratitude of low and unworthy men, who have insulted and ruined them and their families, "and trampled upon (heir rights by vindictive legislation and through the agency of m-serable and dishonor able subordinates. Gentli men, Ido trust that our proceedings here will be marked by har mony. Ido earnestly believe that we shall be animated by the greatness of this occasion. In all probability the future destiny of our coun try hangs upon cur action Let this considera tion inspire us with a spirit of harmony. God our father bless us now, lift us above all per- S'.'tt: 1 considerations, fill us with a just idea of t ie great n-spondbilities that rest upon us, and give again our land its union, its peace, audits liberty. Loud d-d enthusiastic cheers greeted Gov. Seymour as he concluded his speech. moot AOKTJI EAST UEORGIA. The company of lories formed in Fannin county, to aid and assist the Lincolnites have been dispersed and driven to the mountains lu Gilmer county there are three companies of the same stamp. In Dickens county the company of lories •formed were di«p rsed by Wheeler. Ami ar bor were, killed. But little quarter was shown them when captured who escaped are' banding together again for the purposes of plunder and robbery. A correspondent of the* Athens Watchman says that t-r-t of the tones in North East Georgia veto born and raised there, and re grets that -•> many miscreants exist in that section The same correspondent says that '.g.i.i's i -ril a rangemcnid in that section are coining but a nuisance. No reliance a{ all lean ho placed on them. !*\ KKOMAOTH CAROLINA. v On Sunday morning August,:>»h a portion of tin- Sixty-seventh regiment North Carolina Btroops. under Major Whitford, struck the A; ’ SL 1 ami North Carolina railroad near Croa tan below Newbern. where they tore trp the threw from the road the train from Si City, The Yankees say the train wei touch damaged and several persons injured. i.;*tr troops made a complete circuit of "and returned on Thursday morn-, ir,.r to Kinet\k having killed seven or eight Yankee ne/h and captured several more j without su?tai-#t any injury themselves. The ' V ecs at Ne*%>( rn, it is said, were greatly excited at this dining raid. - yat ojm - From Arors-fA to Atlanta, the distance is 171 mil s; from Atlanta to Macon, 103: At lanta to West Point, 87; West Point to Moat-, gem. ry, sv, Savannah to Macon, 190: Macon to Auderjonville, 50. By a reference to these distances it will be seen that Hood's army is mile.-, south of Atlanta, on the Macon road, . 1 from Macon, and 134 fteni Andersonville, wlu re the Yankee prisoners areconfined, which v,; i! serve to dispel tLe idea that the prisoner.! are in darger at present. Sev<-n>i c:t ,-a of bran J-j kegs of wLisky, supposed to be smuggle hare byou sviaed iu Charleston. LETTER FROM SOtyHXVESTEBA VIRGINIA. SI’KMAL CORRESPONDENCE CHRONICLE 4 SENTINEL. Xarnber of Lincoln troops in Kenbufcy—Tlein forcements sent to Sherman — Yankee merchants failing East Tennessee—Miscegenation at Rnoxvilie—A nigger soldier killed Inj a Knox ville lady, &c., Ac. Department Southwestern Virginia. ) Wise Cos. Va , Aug. 25. 1864. j We left Carter county, Tenn., about five days ago to spend a short leave of absence in Wise county, and to gather some intelligence from Kentucky, as we are situated only twenty miles from Pound Gap, the place that Prentice want ed excavated and widened so that Gen. Ham "phrey Marshall could pass through. Yesterday an old gentleman cime up from ML Sterling, Ky. He says that there are very few Lincoln troops in the State; that they have been taken away; we suppose to Sherman. There are about two hundred up on Licking river near Puncheon: but they are thinking of leaving the State soon. Giltner's brigade has been near Cumberland Gap, and had some fighting. Yankees in East Tennessee are terror stricken, and have boxed uo their goods and are leaving in droves. Such is our information. - We have heard many ludicrous stories about the negro soldiers at Knoxville, and they are doubtless true, tor they were given to me by a gentleman of undoubted veracity, Mr. David Haynes, the father of Senator Haynes from Tennessee. He says that Mrs. Baker’s waiting girl, a bright mulatto, who was left in charge of that lady’s home, in Knox ville, when our people evacuated that city, has been married to a white Yankee Major, and. the mulatto and the Major are the leaders of the ton in that city of tho Hills. The Major’s sister made a visit lrorn the North, and happened to arrive at Knoxville while he anil his bride were at church. Away to the church she flew and upon meeting her sister-in-law embraced her and kissed her before “all them poor white trash.” lam also informed that the negro sol diers are gallanting the white women to chu’ and elsewhere. A beautiful couple of kind were passing the door of a M>s. Snapp, recently, and she laughed at their a short time the “Moor’’ came back and imoi ed Mrs. Snapp that she must aud should w with him to church, also. She refused i ordered him to leave her house; and on his fusing, she drew a pistol aud blew his brs out. She was arrested but has been relos without trial. The “year jubulee” has . rived at Knoxville, we should say, at least aa far as the negroes are concerned. Sous Lieutenant. FROM REMTICKY. Iu the Richmond Enquirer we fiatTthe an nexed news from Kentucky : Captain S, P. Cunningham, of Colonel Adam Johnson's command, arrived iu Rich mond a few days since from the new Military Department of Southern Kentucky, bringing the War Department the most cheering report of the practical results wo have recently ac complished in that quarter, and the brig’ prospects that await the progress of our a In the eTitire State. Colonel Johnson's m meuts have been denominated by the enei mere raid, and from the absence of direct vices we have been under a like imp re; heretofore. It appears, however, that a gular Military Department has been ert in Southern Kentucky, comprising an are eight populous counties It is self-support; and daily'extending in boundary. On entering the State Colonel Johhsor sued the following address : Citizens of Kentucky : The alternative is now presented to you entering either the Federal or Confederate army. All persons between the ages ot seven teen and forty-five, who are not lawfully ex empted, will be required to go into service at once. - You must now see that, after the sacrifice of all .that freemenjshould hold dear, toavoid this evil and to save your property, that the one lias not been rendered secure, and you have not saved yourself from the other, even by the sacrifice.of principle and honor. Your country has been overrun by lawhss bands, whose depredations are only' equalled by the outrages of larger bands of the Federal army. Neither feel nor have any respect for the sulimissionists, and you are plundered, robbed and murdered with impunity. How long do you intend this to continue ? To what depths of degradation aud shame are you to be reduced before you will cut loose the bonds of slavery and assert your rights as freemen ? Men of Kenluckey! are you willing to see your families reduced to the level of your slaves ? Mothers, can you realize an affiliation of your daughters with the African ? Young men! canyon expect to have any claims to manhood, can you hope to share the smiles or claim the love of the blight eyed daughters of this famed “Land of beauty,'’ while those gentle beings are subjected to the insults of Yankee hirelings and negro troops ? If not, then speedily seize the only way to bring yon peace, liberty and honor. Too long have you listened to the siren song of the trai tors of the country. Already too much has been sacrificed to no advantage. Y’our only hope of peace is in the success of the Southern armies! Not alone your, liberties, but your lives are involved in this issue. The moderate Union man, the Democrat at the North, as well as the Southern soldier, will all owe th6ir lives and liberties to this result. I appeal to you -again as I did two years ago to rally and strike a blow for. the freedom of your country. * A. R. Johnson, Commanding Confederate Forces In Southern Kentucky. Recruits poured in from all quarters of the State. It will be seen, from the subjeined order, that we do notinteal to tolerate “neutrality” In the new department: Hkadq’rh Department or Southern Kr , ) August Bth, 1864. ) General Order No. 2. ) In pursuance to General Orders from the War Department, Richmond, Virginia, I here by cider all citizens in Ibis department, be tween the ages of seventeen and forty-five (whoaienot exempt from military (lurty,) to report to their county towns, or the nearest camp thereto, for duty as soldiers in the Con federate States army. This department embraces all that section of the Confederacy contained within the follow ing boundarv,-to wit: Commencing at the mouth of Salt river, and extending through Elizabethtown, Glasgow and Tompliinsville, Kentucky, to Carthage, Tennesse : then fol lowlog the Cumberland liver to Nashville; thence with the line of the North Western Railroad to the Tennessee river; then west to Hickman, Kentucky ; then up the M’ssissippi river to the mouth of the Ohio, then to the place of beginning. All persons failing to report as above order el will be conscripted immediately after the 15 th instant. By command of Colonel A. R Johnson. Com’ding Department Southern Ky. S. P. Cunningham, Captain and A. A. G. As the department is extended, the order will doubtless, be enlarged, and it may rea sonably be presumed with good remits. The State is represented as ablaze with revolu tion. The inauguration of Sherman’s eoloniz , ing programme is the feather that bus broakon the back of “neutrality.” A thousand cilzens have recently been arrested, shipped down the Mississippi and sent to Yucatan. There was not an able bodied man among the number, and the old men. helpless women and children’ who are the victims of this horrible cruelty must perish of starvation on the inhospitable shore of Yucatan, from the fevers of that deadly climate. Instances are numerous where men have been seized at dead of night, forced into the Federal ranks, and their fami lies, banished a moment’s warning. Frequently the husband is sept to Canada anti the wife to Yucatan, or vice versea. No limit is set by the Federal authorities to the fiendishness of Payne and Burbridgs, who have already become, under the tutelage of Burnside acd example of Butler, the most ac complished scoundrels in anti Christendom. The military operations of General Johnson have been • inert to organizing his rte, . ifcc., still he has found tim- • number of transports, up* ed head of cattle, im mei t uartoFmasters’ stores and- all with tho loss ot less «... enty men. We hope to see this new department, under the management oi General Johnson, rapidly stand, until it includes the entire State. If the change wrought in the sentiment of Ken tucky exists io th» extent represented by all accounts that have reached as from the State, the conjecture that such result awaits us is not improbable. A gentleman in Tbomasville, Ga., has au thorized the proprietor of tbe Hotel in that place to feed and lodge ail needy soldiers pass ing through that place, to the amount of sl,- 000, at his expense. This is certainly com meudable and patriotic, and.desgtyiug emula tion. NORTHERN sews. Iu the case of Mr. Mullaily, editor of the New Y’ork Metropolitan Record,’ the United States Commissioner decided as follows : A careful study of the sections have led me to the conclusion that before aay'person can re sist anv draft of men enrolled into the service of ihe United States, or shall counsel another to resist such draft, the draft must be actually in opeiation. drawing the names from the wheel and going through the modus operand! of the proceeding. It is tme, the enrollment is completed, or being completed, and the Pro vost Marshal is periiaps ready to draft at the expiration of the time allowed by the Presi dent under his proclamation for the respective districts to fiil the.quota assigned. Still, until the order is actually enforced, I cannot see how a person can commit the offence of resist ing the draft, or counsel a resistance to .the draft. It is an operation not ol itself, and all the steps taken up to the sth of September are mere preliminaries to the dratt, and decide that the defendant is not properly put on the com plaint, aud hereby order his discharge. A monument is about to be erected over the remains of Stephen A. Douglas, at a cost of fif ty thousand dollars. An order has been issuffd forbidding the ship ping of arms in Ohio, Indiana, and lilnois, for sixty days. Gen. Butler has gone North on a furlough. Forty-eight bales of Missouri hemp recently brought one hundred and sixty-five per ton at St. Louis. Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts, has con sented to be a candidate for re-election. Tho Construction Corps of the United States military railroads has just accomplished a great feat. The railroad bridge over the Chattahoo chee, seven hundred and sixty feet long and ninety feet high, destroyed by the Confederates in their retreat, was rebuilt in four and a half days’ work and " Friday last to within three mil An Opera Ho' erected in Baltimore. T.“* - ’ Yankees made « 1 and hfln tred tous, ana The Troy, v /esan * -a sr' rthern bof con on in _ is trouble b dthe citizens liable to nr ms, Natchez and Vick v ha3 ordered all' ages of eighter of occupation and the P sissippi the se’ not > w -e a w caulkers, etc., m me towns along the -river, and many are trying to get outside of Ganby’s department. A chimney, built in 1799, in an old house in Northampton, Massachusetts, and lately taken down, furnished bricks enough to build three modern chimneys, an underpinning to a house eight pieis in a cellar, a cistern, aud a diain three hundred feet leng, besides a wagon load sold and a lot left. -The Northsrn papers say the coolest robbery committed by the rebel raiders in Maryland was at an ice cream manufactory, about four teen miles from Baltimore, where a small body of cavalry devoured one hundred gallons of that seasonable article without waiting for spoons. The New Y’ork Democratic State Convention meets at Albany, September 14th. The New York Herald puolished a card to its readers some two vveeks ago, announcing that on account of the high price of printing materials &c. it would have to increase its rates of subscription and advertising. Not the Her ald alone, but numbers of other papers in the North have b«en compelled to do tbe same thing. We learn from a late Yaukce paper that seven papers in the State of New Y’ork have given up the ghost from the same cause. The Northern press is just beginniug to fell the effects of this war and we think that ere long there will be a largo increase in the number of peace journals in Y’ankeedom, unless prices de cline, of whiith there is but little probability. Gen. Canby in his late order says the prac tice of permitting persons in the rebel service to send their families within his lines for grea ter safety and comfort, has prevailed to a dan gerous extent at some poiuts within the limits of the command, that hereafter all such per sons will be turned back at the picket lines, or it they have made their way through them will be sent back. Refugees of good faith are to be received and kindly treated. If destitute, their wants will be supplied, as far as the means under tho control of the commanding officer will permit. Whenever they embarrass < military operations they are to be packed off to Cajfo, Illinois. An agent sent out by the authorities of Jer sey City, to recruit in ihe Confederate States, writes from Beaufort that recruiting agents are "fur more numerous than able bodied blacks de sirous of going into service. Tbe imports at New York so far, this year are forty million'dollars over last year in the same time, and the exports, reckoned in cur rency, have increased sixteen million. The great twenty inch gun cast at Pittsburg is on its winding way through New Jersey to New York, at the rate of thirty miles a day. Tbe friction of the journal boxes, under the excessive weight, prevents any greater speed. The Newark Advertiser says the mechanics’ shops o r that city are being literally deserted, by men determined lo avoid the draft. Fifty in one shop quit the same dav. An anvil weighing seventeen and a half tons was recently cast at Dundas, Canada, for the Giand Trunk railway. A large force of workmen are employed in laying the double track between Washington and Baltimore. Work to be completed No vembers 1, 1804. There are oveidtbree thousand bushwhackers on the north side of the Missouri River. The latest Northern papers received state positively that the six hundred Confederate of ficer who recently arrived at Port Royal in tho steamer Crescent, are to be placed under our fire, and that they will not-be exchanged. The high tariff beings to be severely felt by the merchants of New York, who have import ed large quantities of fancy goodsin anticipation of finding a ready market and high profit. The high duties imposed upon all articles of foreign importation are to oppressive that several mer chants will be compelled to return their goods to Europe. Smuggling is said to be carried on to such an extent across the frontier of Canada that merchants in legitimate trade are not able to compete with this illegal traffic. Sevetal prominent merchants engaged in the importa tion of jewelry and fancy articles of great val ue, give as their opinion that unless immediate steps are taken to protect them from this im position they will be compelled to suspend busi ness entirely. The Northern papers say that Charles F. Boa vers, of Loudon county, Virginia; a member of Mosby’s company, who was hung last week in Washington, met his fate with unbending composure. A letter dated Nassau, 20th, states that the steamer Fox has arrived from Chareston having thrown overboard 130 bales of cotton while being chased. The steamer Lucy and Syren, with cotton from Wilmington, had also arrived The barque Lexington was burned on tbe 10th, off Hog Island, by the ignition of ajar of vit rol and was a total loss. Bermuda advices of tbe 20th mention the arrival there of four steam ers from WilmiDgton with nearly 3000 bales of cotton. Aankee accounts represent that over two hundred of the Fort Gaines prisoners have either taken, or offered to- take the oath of allegiance to Lincoln. We can hardly belit?ve this, but if it be so, it accounts sufficiently, for the tatne surrender of the Forts at the mouth of Mobile Bay. • A severe storm at Council Bluffs, lowa, re cently. blew down the canvass of a menagerie, coveting some 2,000 people with confusion and alarm. A lion got out of his cage and under tookto run tbe blockade, but was recaptured. The Annual Convention of the Bible Socie ties of South Carolina is appointed for Tues day, Feb. 20th instant, in Spartanburg. NORTHERN' SEWS. » Northern papers say no arrangement has as yet been made for an exciiange of prisoners. Confederate prisoners in Fort Lafayette are not allowed-to receive any luxuries whatever.- 5 Yankee transports are being destrpyed by our guerrillas on the Arkansas river. All cotton now at Memphis is to bo shipped ’north. The Pennsylvania Legislature ha sappropria ted SIOO,OOO for the relief of the Chambersburg sufferers. The new Confederate steamer Electric Spark was at last accounts cruising off Nassau. ■ Guerrillas still keep harrassing tbe Y'ankees in lventiftky. At a convention of ministers of the Southern Methodist Church, at Loutsvi'le, P. M. Pinckard C. B. Parsons and S. B. Baldwin were appoint ed a Boaid of Commissioners, with full power and authority to assert the rights of the Church to the Methodist Publishing House in Nash ville. ’I he -‘preamble” set forth that “ in formation has beengfiled in the United States Circuit Court for the Middle Dis trict of Tennessee for tho confiscation of the ’ Southern Methodist Publishing House at Nash ville. Tennessee, on Sunday speculations un known to us, but generaly on the ground of disloyalty: that said publishing house is the property of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, alegitimelv organized ecclesiastical or ganization, and organized as much by the laws and courts of the United States; that it is the duty of said church to respond to said in formation but that the regular general confer ence of said church,—owing to toe existing ag itations of the country,—cannot be held ac cording to the laws of the church,” whereupon tne convention aforesaid undertook tn act for the church in the matter. Yankee recruiting iu Alabama and Northern Georgea is very dull. Two hundred and twen ty five agents from the Northern States so far have not enlisted one hundred and fifty accept ed recruits. Roseucranz is executing all the Confederate guerillas he captures in Missouri. Hon. Milliard Filmore has writen a letter-in favdr of McClellan. Gen. Burnside lias made a speech in which he assei ts that Lincoln will be able to crush out the South. Hon. Schuyler Colfax says Lincoln did not arrest Vallandigham because he did not want to create a civil war in the Northwest. Hon. Albert Gallatin Watkins, of East Ten nessee, has been arrested for aiding and abet ting Wheeler’s raiders, and is imprisoned at Knoxville. The Indians are reported as having fairly got to work at the Yankees at last, it being nted that they sacked oil the 22d July, Marys 'e in Kansas, ninety miles west of St. Joseph, n address to the working men of New York made its appeal anco in that- city, which is iting quite a sensaliou. It denounces the liv capitalists against labor meed with terrible se nen are informed that natural ally aud defend -s«vu w»iu interests. They arc also hat “In this wav the rich escape the bur t imposes, while the poor do the lighting ive to pay the cost. Free negroeg are unuing the North as paupers for white ng men to support, or as low-priced la s crowding white men o ;of the market, aborer is thus being reduced to the vas jo of the Middle Ages in order only that egvo should be free, etc.” e Newport, Rhode Island, News complains o secession sentiment at that place. On “fashionable drives the rebel cockade is minentiy displayed every day by women who are loud-mouthed in their denunciations of the Northern people and the Union army. In the parlours these degraded females give ex pression to sentiments that no respectable wo men will entertain, while the secession braw lers keep gentlemen away from the clubs.” Another attempt to escape has been made by the Confederate prisoners at Elmira, N. Y. The New lork Herald says that the nomi nation of Gen. McClellan produced intense ex citement among all classes. The Republicans looked somewhat serious about it, while tho democrats, with the exception of a few ultra bilious oopperheads, appeared to be in ecsta cit-s. Several Yankee journals are lamenting the /act that Confederate cotton bonds command nearly double the price in English commercial circles of Yankee Securities. A Philadelphia paper announces the death of Dr. Robert M. Houston, an old and distinguish ed phjsician of that C'ty. He was born in Virginia in 1794, but most of bis long life was spent in Philadelphia, where lie became an em inent professor in the Jefferson Medical Col lege, and was known to thousands of med ical graduates throughout the country. The official statement of the public debt on the 3.oth of August shows tbeamount outstand ing to be $1 878,565,234, and the interest, in both coin and lawful money, $77,447,122, or an increase of the public debt since tho 2d of August of $53,073,000] and of interest $1,029,- 000. The debt bearing interest in coin is now $889,899,492; the debt bearing interest in lawful money, $469,197,000; the debt on which interest has ceased. $357,470; the debt bearing no interest, 519,111,267. The unpaid requisitions aro $78,795,000, and the amount in tho Treasury $17,1§9,518. It further ap pears that since the 2tl of August the six per cent, bonds under the acts of July 17 and Aug. 5, 1861, exchanged for seven thirties, have in creased to the extent of $15,000,000; that the seven-thirty three years notes under the act of July 17, 1861, have been reduced about the same amount, and the six per cent, certificates of indebtedness under the act of March 1, 1862, increased nearly $28,000,000. The Nashville Times, which flics at its mast head the Lincoln and Johnson flag, publishes an interesting correspondence, between Messrs Bunt.' and Lindsey, abolition attorneys, and Colonel Massey, of tbe 100th U. t S. C. I. C. O. IJ. S. C. T. Phoebus what a title it moans‘-Col onel ot the 100'lt United States Colored Infan try, and Commissioner of Organization of the U. S. Colored Troops. The attorneys volunteer to defend a negro who has only boon guilty of insignificant crime of killing a Yankee soldier. The Colonel, with the alphabetical suffix, thanks them for their kindness, but informs them that he has released the African citizen without ever the superfluous formality of a court martial. The quarterly report of the national banks of tbe United Statea (308 in number) has ap peared. The amount of United States bonds held'by them March 30th was $41,175,213, Unon the deposit of $25,484.70!) of bonds to secure circulation there had, at that date, been reissued $12,144,650, of which there were : In civculatio*. $9,797/975; in the banks, $2,346, 075. Total $12,144,650. At the close of March their loans and discounts were only $29,583, 659, while their deposits were $51,274, 912, • In an article on the’ Presidential election the N. Y. Herald presumes to give some words of “wholesome advice to both parties ”. It seems to think that the bitter partizan feeling which has already been aroused may lead to a bloody issue. Under this feeling the Herald urges a a pacific and temperate spirit between the con testants. The Mexican population in the Southern counties of California are beginning to take sides for and against the usurpation of Maxi milian. — «g> Hi FROM MEXICO. Through Northern p apers of tho 2d we are in receipt of important news from Mexico. The French are gradually, it is asserted, gaining ground. They have taken possession of Saltillo, and were, at last accounts, advan cing with a large force upon Monterey, the .provisional seat of Government of President Juarez. Tho policy of Ifc r seems to be to avoid any general engagement with the in vaders at present, and to attack their exten ded lires at their weakest points. The family of President Juarez has left Mexico and arrived in New Orleans, a fact which the agents of the New Mexican empire will not faiTto impute to a fear of defeat on the pari of the republicans. A recent arrival at New OJeans repotts that on Augt. 22d. The town of Bagdad at the mouth of the Rio Grande, was occupied by a French force of four cr five/hundred men who landed from the squadron. »It was reported that a forcejof 1200 to 150 t) had landed further down the coast and would operate against Matamoras, where Cortinaswas fully prepared lo fight fhem. The bark Abertiae, at New York, from Ye raiem, on the 10th inst., reports that tbe French blockade of Mexican ports gwas raised on the 7th I*E WSSUSIMABY. A petition of citizens of Alexandria, \a., urging the military authorities to displace or override the so-called State Government of Pierpoint. has been refused by Lincoln. The majority for Vance over Holden, for Governor of North Carolina, is not yet ascer tained, but is estimated at fifty thousand ill a total vote of seventy-five thousand. . The Shreveport News, of Aug. 23, says that on the Saturday before, about eight hundred Federal prisoners left that place to he exchange ed. The point ot exchange Is the mouth of Red Riyer. THE B ATTLE OF JONESBORO. The Macon Intelligencer gives the annexed account of the late battle of Jonesboro : On Wednesday morning, August 31st, the enemy advanced in heavy force against the position which General Hardee held at Jones boro in accordance with oiders A severe and most terrible battle ensued during the day. General llardes being iu command of the two corps in position, placed bis own corps iu charge of CleDurne on the left aud Lee’s corps under the charge of that commander. Six corps of the Y’ankee army advanced against the line crossing the M. & W. R R.. and pene trating on our right almost to the McDonough road The advance cf Sheiman’s forces was checked and their assaults repelled with the gallantry and usual bravery that has ever marked our veterans. At nightfall, the line was nearly in the same position that it occupied in the moiniug. Du ring the night Lee’s corps, by order of Gen. Hood, moved to the right to form connection with Stewart's corps and tho militia forces in Atlanta. Thus a large amount of the effective strength of Hardee’s command was withdrawn and bis line fearfully weakened. Early on Thursday the Yankee army, con sisting of six corps, led in person by Sheiman, advanced on the enfeebled line heid by Har dee’s command. Then ensued the hardest fought battle of the war. The veterans of that brave old soldier. Hardee’s corps, men that had never been defeated on any field, stood grimly and fought with unsurpassed bravery aud gallantry. They bore the fury of tbe storm of battle during several hours and though they knew the tremendious power of tbe foe that as ssailed them, and were well aware of their own weakness, yet they stood unconquerable and undismayed. That isolated but undaunted corps, small ns it was, continued tiie light till night closed the scene. Cleburne’s division occupied the right and against his position, mainly directed against Gqvan s brigade, the enemy massed iu tre mendous force. These veterans- who have nev re turned their back on tbe foe in a fight, fought with a desperation never surpassed in battle, but finally were forced by detail from their,'position, but not until the enemy lay thick and deep on the sanguinary field. The enemy continued to push their forces in heavy massed divisions, in lines, ten to one against our almost worn out battallions. Night at' last closed over the bloody scene, when want of ammunition and want of men. and the imminent danger of capture by a threatening heavy flank movement on the part of the enemy, together with tbe destruction their enfilading fire was producing, caused General Hardee to withdraw to Lovejoy’s Sta tion. This movement was ' consummated with much success. All our wounded being with drawn and every thing being saved but six or eight guns, which were abandoned for want of horses competent to draw them. On Friday the Y'ankees were engaged in clearing the battle field of the debris, and lit tle disposition was exhibited on their part to renew hostilities. The gallant men who fought them so bravely and desperately the day before, still confronted them as undaunted as ever, and eager for the fray, though their ranks exhibited a battered and worn appear ance that was v.cry saddening to their war worn General. Thus was fougl.it one of Ihe most desperate battles, and against the most terrible odds, that the" Army of Tennessee has yet engaged in. Hardee’s corps fought alone against al most the entire Yankee army, immediately un der the eye and command of Sherman. That the meed of unmeasured praise is justly then due, aud that they saved the Army ol Tennes see from utter rout and annihilation, is incon testibly true. That the brunt of the battle fell on them is unfortunately too true. ’ They are entitled to the credit they have made by their valor and invincible bravery, and their deeds should not only be written by the historians’ pea in enduring sentences, but ennobled with words of living light in the memory and hearts of a grateful and admiring people forever. How gloriously the bright lustre of honor and the laurels of military fame gather about the brows of that war-worn and gallant soldier, tbe uneonquerablfe Hardee. He and his brave veterans will live in history and song and le gends, the heroes whose unconquerable spirits and bravery shall be the -admiration of the world for ages to come. FROM ATLANTA. A correspondent 6f the Atlanta Intelligon cer writing from Jonesboro under date of Sept. 8, speaks thus of affairs ill Atlanta : • On Monday night the Yankees had a grand ball at the Trout House, under the direction of Mrs, Clements, its present proprietress. Gen eral Sherman and staff and his corps and divi sion commanders patronized the affair. About a dozen women of t-lie town, not a decent lady amongst them, attended the thing. But what was wanting in white was made up niggers. They mingled, oh 1 li.ow they mingled. Black and brown, white and gray. They began the dance wit It the Lancer’s Quadrille, in which Gen. Sherman led off with Mrs. Clements for partner. Ilis ois a vis, Gen. Howard, had one of Mayor Jim Calhoun’s wenches as partner. One of Sherman’s staff danced with one of J. E. Buchanan’s nigger women that he took there himself. Billy Sylo man’s nigger woman lent the charms of her presence and her figure in the dance, and had a great deal of attention paid her. Billy Markham brought two nigger women to the ball, and looked on the scene with grinning admiration. lie nobbed with the blue bellies until he had to he retired in a carriage. Several respectable negro women, who were invited and sent after, in carriages with Yan kee officers for escorts, refused to go, and free ly expressed their dislike to the insult that was offered them. They looked on it as an indigni ty to be asked by the enemies of their country to associate with the white womenwlio attend ed the ball. The negro avomen were feted and toasted and monopolized tbe attentionof the entirecrew of Yankees; and in fact some of the sympathizers who-have affiliated. They waltzed* scbotlisclied, and polkaed and danced until everybody was tired and drunk and tha stink became unendur able, having scented the house until it became almost untenable They kept up the saturna lia until morniug, and were then seen lovingly tottering home, in many linked pairs of ivory and ebony. Mayor Jim Calhoun was present, toasting and congratulating the Yankees on their handsome trickery and the success of their arms. It is said that he proposed to open the ball with prayer and thanks for the great and decisive victory that had captured Atlanta, broken the spirit of tho Confederacy and brought Georgia into a condhion where it could be governed by the free and enlighten ed rule cf the royal ape. He was proud to see so many of their black sisters in arms wel coming the conquerors, and hoped for many returns of the like occasion. It is supposed he Was uproariously drunk before be began. I. T. Banks lent the baleful light of bis traitor visage to the Scene. He bopped around the room with one of the blackest niggers in the ball room ami promenaded arm in atm exhibiting much elation at being per mitted to promenade arm in arm with a huge -nigger Sergeant, who remarked, he didn’t know but what he was disgracing himself by walking with such a trashy white man. I. T. Banks was the first citizen of the city who visited Sherman. He had laid wrri.t, watch ing for him and before he had washed himself, Banks placed before him an accurate list of the secessionists and minute men of Atlanta and the description and location of their property. He was very extravagant in his demonstrations of joy and extremely elated over the Yankee’s success and occupation of the city. He con gratulated them on the streets and mingles with them whenever opportunity offers, ■•. and doubtless by this time occupies some office com mensurate with his worth to the enemy. A Yankee journal will be in operation this week, they supposed it would make its first appearance on Sunday. They have taken possession of the old Intelligencer buildings and propose to issue tho paper from your old office. The first copy I secure I will send you. It is reported Ah at Billy Markham saved ma terial enough for them to start a paper with. FROM CHARLESTON. About four o’clock Wednesday afternoon a latgo body of men, estimated at from six hun dred to a thousand, were landed on Folly Isl and from Lighthouse Inlet, and marched to Morris’ Island, into the stockade or “pen.” They are believed to bo the Confederate pris oners recently arrived from Fort Delaware. They were strongly guarded by a large num ber of seDtinels. The baggage of the prisoners was brought to the enclosure in four warrens from the lower end of the Island. No official information of the above that we could learn has l>een received by our authorities. Two new guns on sling carts, drawn respec tively by twelve and fourteen horses, wert brought from the lower end of the Island to Battery Gi egg. Within the past few days the price of corn in Columbia, S. C-, has declined from twenty five to twelve dollars per bushel. Beef, bacon and other articles have also declined in price. A sesK.ion of the : Alabama Legislature has been called at Montgomery, bept, 26. FROM \ IR«1M v. The artillery duel at Petersburg on Thurs day occurred betwe n the batteries on tho centre of the line just in the rear of the Old Bl.tnford Church. It lasted about aud-is represented ns having ihe most interesting exhibitions of tieo which has occurred during the campaign. The enemy give in fiaallv, our fire being too hot for them. The casualties on our side were lew, if any ; none were reporte 1. On Sunday morning, about 11 o'clock, a brigade cf the enemy’s cavalry, by a forced march around the left of their line, entered the Boyd ton Plank Road, some distance from our pickets, and came down suddenly upon an en campment of one of Gen. Dealing’s cavalry regiments. They were met by our men and gallantly resisted until supnort arrived, when the enemy wheeled and fled procipitaiely. Jly this demonstration they accomplished nothing, beyond the information that our right was too well guarded to admit of any serious Hank movement against it. Many servants captured after the mine ex plosion near Petersburg, are now in “Castle Thunder,’ Richmond, awaiting calls from the owners. The exercises of the Virginia Military Insti tute will be resumed on the first of October. A Yankee cavairy force advanced twice on certain portions of our lines near Petersburg on Friday, and were driven back. There has been but little shelling done at Futeisburg during the past few days. It is stated that Brigadier-General John Echols has been appointed to tho command of the Department of Southwestern Virginia, to sucececd General John 11. Morgan. Lieuten ant-Colonel John F. Terry, of the Thirty sev enth Virginia regiment, is now iu command of the post at Bristol. A piece of retaliation was visited upon tho Yankees in Virginia a few days since It seems that on a considerable portion of onr lines in front ol Petersburg there had existed a tacit truce for several days, during which the Yankees, w ithout fear of disturbance, strolled and loafed in large numbers in front cf their works. Our men received orders not to inter fere with them unless Petersburg was again shelled, but in that case to open upon thi-ni without notice the most destructive possible fire. Thursday morning the Y’ankees were out in great numbers, enjoying the fine weather and tbe early morning air. For half an hour tbe Yankee batteries had been playing upon the town, knocking private bouses to pieces and endangering the lives' of non-combatants, bat the Yankee sir oilers, gave the matter no attention, not then believing that it could con cern them in any way. Suddenly a tremend ous volley of musketry was poured into them front our works, throwing them into a panic and causing them to scamper back into their trenches like so many startled rats. The best of it was that limy left, about two hundred of their number lying dead or wounded on the re cent promenade. When the-shelling of tho city had ceased, and quiet had been restored along the lines, it was explained to the Yan kees that they had been fired into because of the barbarous conduct of their Generals iu bombarding the private resiliences cf Peters burg. According to information received from with in the enemy’s lines, the Yankees coutiifue to fortify on their left in front of Petersburg but their works are not so extensive as has been previously represented. They embrace the Yellow Tavern on the north, mu down nearly to Wyatt’s crossing, two miles this side of Reams’ iu a southerly direction, and on tho east include the residence of Dr, Gurley. On .the west, they approach a3 near Vaughan’s road as it ia deemed prudent to carry them. The enmity -has largely increased tho number ot his pickets at the point last) named. The Petersburg Express stab s that General Baldy Smith has been relieved from tlio com mand of tho Eighteenth army corps, and that Lincoln has approved trie order. Grant baa assigned M 'jor-'.leneral G. O. G. Ord to tho command of Smith’s corps, and Major-General D. B. Bivney to the command of the Tenth corps. According to reports of deserters. Smith had indulged in a free criticism of Grant’s campaign, saying among other disparaging re marks, that it was a lamentable failure. This got to Grant’s ears, and the consequence was that Smith was relieved. The Lynchburg Republican has a statement of a disaster to tit ; Fifty first Virginia regi ment, Wharton's brigade, on tbe 25th ultimo, derived from a member of the T hirtieth Virgin ia battalion, from which it would appear that the regiment was ambuscaded, flanked and bad ly cut tip. Among those reported killed aro Lieutenant-' olonel Wolf and Lieutenant Akers Captain Bowen bad a thigh broken, and Cap tain Allison was mortally woundod—since dead, Judge Meredith, in Richmond, in the case of Dr. A. E Peticolas, testing" the right of the county Justices to make him testify with re gard to a duel recently by Messrs. John M. Daniel and E C, Elmore, has decided that the Doctor could not be compelled to answer any questions wltialt he thought might criminato himself. The matter is to be taken before tho Court of Appeals. The Petersburg Register, \ve regret to learn, has been obliged to suspend ils publication temporarily for want of paper. Mr. A. TANARUS). Kelle/, a merchant of New Or leans, will succeed Mr. Elmore as Treasurer of the Confederate States. At a meeting of the United Synod of tho Presbyterian Church, in Lynchburg last week, a union was cosummated between the two branches of the Presbyterian chinch in the Confederate States, known t s the Old School and New School. The first actual coming to gether of the ministers in Virginia, v.ill be at the meeting of the Synod of Virginia, in Lex ington, in Oelobqr next. This is the kind of ■union wo are a’! pleased to hear of—union among ourselves, ecclesiastic il and political. In this kind of union there is strength. The Yankees at Petersburg have heavily strengthened their pickets on our right; anil, from appe.-.rances, manifest a disposition to still further entend their lines westwardly.— They seem determined lo make an appeaiance of doing something extensive. Early, who has established himself “ for good,” it seems, in the lower Valley, moves so mysteriously, that no o. e knows what he is about. We know very little about his move ments, and ihe enemy appears to know even less than we do. Anew feature was .inaugurated on Saturday towards Yankee deserters who have entered our lines under the guarantees of tho recent order issued from the Adjutant General’s office of the War Department. That order declares that deserters from the armies of the enemy would be protected and put safely on their way across the borders of the Confederacy into the United States at such points us would bcU facilitate their return to the States of their nativity or adoption, or their escape into other couniries. Tho Government hits kept its faith, and a few days since the first installment of sever al hundred wore started—we will not say in what direction; but ere this they tread another soil, and are freemen again. It ia stated that Brigadier General M. C But ler has been promoted t > the rank of Major General, to command Hampton’s old division. Colonel John Duvant, Colonel of tho Fifth South Carolina cavalry, has beSn promoted to Briga dier General, lo command Butler’s old brigade. By the latter promotion, Lieutenant Colonel K. .7. Jeffords, iisles, by grade, lo the rank of Col onel, commanding Fifth South Carolina cav alry. 'J fie Petersburg Express narrates the annexed incident cf the battle near that place on Thurs day, August 24. When the enemy’s main line of works near Reams’ Station was captured find the frightened Yankees were flying for safety, some of our infantry attempted to turn one of the captured guns upon them. They loaded, 'sighted and fired it, cutting off the top of a tail tree in the distance. They ventured to try the experiment again/ and this time made a hotter f hot, etri ring the body of a tree soma t wenty or thirty feet above the heads of the Yankees A prisoner standing by and watch ing their practice, said: “Ob ! boys, you dont understand the use of that gun—let me load and sight it.” He did so, and the shell ex ploded in the midst of the Yankees. We have no doubt that many a prisoner would be glad to turn a gun upon his Yankee friends if the truth were known. » Schedule or Prices in North Carolina.— - The Commissioners of Appraisement for the State of North Caroliua have presented their schedule of prices to govern the purchasing officers of the Government for the next sixty days. Extra family Hour per barrel $00; com meal per bushel $0; corn per bushel $0; ba con from $1 50 to S3 ; beef, fresh and salted, $1 to SI 50 ; beans per bushel $lO ; tallow and adamantine candles per pound $3 to 3 50 tallow $3; coffee 1 1 50; apple brandy per gallon $00; fodder, baled and unbaled, $5 50 to $0; hides SI 75 to $4; horses SBOO to $1000; Oats 87,50 to $8; esaaburgs SI 50 to $1 75; jeans SlO per yard; lard, $3; leather, $C to 37; molasses, cane and sorghum $lO per gal lon; mulerSoOO to $1000; common brown su gar S3 per pound; black and green tea $5 8 : soap, toft and hard 7octs to $1 per potmd; tobacco SI 25 to $3; sheep per head S4O; tune gar $i 25 to $2 50; whit key $25 per gallon: wheat S3 to $lO per bushel; wool $0 to $8 ; potatoes $8 to 10 per busjiel ; pork* $2 to $2 50; rice So to 50 cts. per pound; rye $lO per bushel ; salt S2O to $25 per bushel ; shirting sllO to $130; Colton stripes $1 TfficoUon $1 00 per pound, . .*■