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person, and conferring upon the subject to which 
i t relates. 
I desire to proceed directly to Washington in 
the steamer Torpedo, commanded by Lieut. 
P. M. We shall take formal possession at 7 o’¬ 
clock this morning. 
“N. P. Banks, Maj. Gen. 
‘‘IT. S. Grant, Maj. Gen.” 
The New Orleans Era of the J 1th says On 
Wednesday, the 8th inst., at 2 p. m.. General Gard¬ 
ner, the rebel commander of Port Hudson, sur¬ 
rendered unconditionally to Gen. Banks. The 
rebel army were drawn up in line, stacked arms, 
and General Banks took possession of the place. 
10.000 prisoners, 70 pieces of artillery, small 
arms, Ac., have fallen into our hands. 
A dispatch to the Inquirer, dated the morning 
ot the 8tb, says at 2 o'clock a parley was sounded 
from the fort and being replied to an inquiry was 
made about the news from Vicksburg. On being 
assured that it had fallen, Gen. Gardner promised 
to surrender to-day. We entered the place at 
noon. The glorious event has filled the armv 
Movements in the West and South-West 
Tennessee. —TheN. Y. Commercials aysMr. 
Swinton, of the N. Y. Times, has arrived from 
Rosecrans’ headquarters. The main body of Gen. 
Bragg's army retreated from Chattanooga to At¬ 
lanta. The presumption is that the bulk of his 
force has been sent to Richmond to garrison it 
Ilosecrans captured 6,000 prisoners during the 
late forward movement Our army is in high 
spirits and splendid condition. 
Col. Hatch has captured the artillery and train 
of Bliffles. Blifiles' men scattered in every di¬ 
rection, and most of them succeeded in crossing 
the Tennessee river, and joining Rodney. 
Mississippi.— The Commercial has Vicksburg 
advices to the 8th. Grant bad finished paroliDg 
rebel prisoners. They number 31,277. Thegen- 
men, anu drove them to all manner of crime and 
outrage. The draft was of secondary considera¬ 
tion, and murder, arson and plunder, became the 
ruling features of the outbreak. We have no 
space for details; but from published accounts* 
we are satisfied that the killed and wounded 0 f 
all parties must be computed by hundred?.* For 
four days and nights terror reigned supreme in 
that city, and only by the most strenuous efforts 
of the Governor of the State, and other civil and 
military authorities, was the effusion of blood 
and the pillage of property stayed. Arguments 
in the shape of six thousand armed soldiers ply. 
ing at their avocation with musket, bayonet, 
grape and canister, convinced the satellites of 
u Old Nick that jhe place was growing too hot 
even for the Arch-fiends. 
The draft , we are informed, will be resumed 
at an early day, and in anticipation of it the 
following important ordinance has been passed 
by the Common Council of New York city, and 
$2,500,000 appropriated to carry it into effect: 
Section 1. The Comptroller of the city of 
New York shall pay to the proper officers’ap¬ 
pointed to receive the same, a sum equal to 
three hundred dollars for each person who shall 
be drafted in accordance with the act of Congress 
entitled “an act for enrolling and calling out the 
Natonal forces and for other purposes "and who 
shall be found to bp unable to pay the said sum 
of three hundred dollats, under such regulations 
as to the proof of the persons entitled thereto as 
commanded by Lieut, 
be Confederate States 
. „ on board but the Hon. 
Mr. Ould, myself, and the boat’s officers and 
crew. Yours, most respectfully, 
Alex. II. Stephens. 
To S. H. Lee, Admiral, Ac. 
N.ivy DEPARTMENT, July 4, IS63. 
Acting Bear Admiral S. 11 Lee, Hampton 
Loads: The request of Alexander H. Stephens 
is inadmissable. The customary agents and 
channels are adequate for all needful military 
communications and conferences between the 
United States forces and the insurgents. 
Leaves fill, bat to, th* young l>u<l« peep I 
Flower* die, but •rill Uieir Med »hiiit bloom I 
From death the quick young life will leap, 
When spring thall come and touch the tomb. 
The splendid shiver of brave blood 
Is thrilling through Our country now, 
And she who In oJd times withstood 
The tyrant, lift* again her brow. 
God’s precious charge we sternly keep 
Unto the final victory: 
With freedom wo will bve, or sleep 
With our great dead who set us free, 
God forget us when we forget 
To keep the old flag flying yet. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JULY 25. 1863. 
had eaten its last mule This was found to be 
literally the fact. The news was brougt to New 
Orleans by the flag ship Tennessee. One hun¬ 
dred guns were immediately tired by order of 
Gen. Emory. The loyal citizens of New Orleans 
were to hare ft torch-light procession and Illumi¬ 
nation, and a general jubilation, the night the 
steamer sailed. The secesh in that city are rep¬ 
resented rather gloomy. Nathaniel Hobbs, gun¬ 
ner of the steamer Tennessee, died of apoplexy. 
He belongs to Boston. The news of the capture 
The Army in Virginia. 
Contrary to the expectation of a large 
number of people, and the cherished hope of all 
well-wishers of their country, General Lee, the 
rebel commander of the late invading forces 
of Maryland and Pennsylvania has managed to 
slip his neck out of the snare laid for him and his 
army. There are >fs in the way of accomplish¬ 
ing mauy desirable ends, and we are constrained 
to the opinion that if the waters of the Potomac 
had not subsided sufficiently to allow a large 
number of Lee’s army to ford that stream at. the 
time they did. accommodations for many thou¬ 
sands of additional rebel prisoners would Lave 
been necessary before the present time. The fox 
has eluded his foes, but tnuy we not reasonably 
hope and predict that the leader as well as bis 
gang of whelps may never be permitted to enter 
their lair at Richmond? We give the particu¬ 
lars Of this last hegira of the rebels from an eye- 
Wbile out on 
prisoner by the rebels and 
Department of the South. 
There has been 
an important movement 
inaugurated near Charleston, and though our 
forces had not been able to accomplish all they 
intended at the first onslaught, on the whole the 
result is considered far from a deieat. We look 
forward with strong hopes that Charleston will, 
ere long, share the late of Vicksburg and Port 
Hudson. The subjoined official In reference to 
the affair, tells the story briefly and to the point: 
Ilh'AtjQCAKrXIlS DkfARTMENT OP 
LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON 
The subjoined official will be read with profit 
by all those intere^ed at the present time : 
War Department, i 
Provost Marshal General* office, ' 
Washington, July 17 ) 
Circular, A’o. 47. • 
1. Drafted men become soldiers in the service 
of the l iiited states by the fact of their names 
having been drawn in the draft The notification 
served upon them by the Provost Marshal is 
merely an announcement of the fact and an order 
lor them to report for duty at a designated time 
and place, 
2. The following opinion of the Hon. Wm. 
Whiting, Solicitor of the War Department, is pub¬ 
lished for the information of all concerned : 
\\ hen a person has been drafted in pursuance 
of the enrollment act of March 3.1*63. notice of 
such draft must lie served within 10 days there¬ 
after, by a written or printed notice to lie served 
on him personally or by leaving a copy at bis 
last place Of residence, requiring him to appear 
at a designated rendezvous to report for duty. 
witness, a Government detective 
a scout he was taken 
confined at Williamsport, from Friday, the loth, 
until the arrival of our troops on Sunday. 
Thongh in close confinement he had full view’ of 
the river and the operations of the rebels. 
On Sunday his guard went across the river, 
leaving him, and he then passed about as a citi¬ 
zen of Williamsport, and hud the fullest oppor¬ 
tunity for inquiry and observation. 
The temper of the rebels, both officers and 
men, was despondent, and they were in momen¬ 
tary expectation of an attack from our forces, the 
result ol which they admitted must be disastrous. 
On the arrival of Lee’s advance on Sunday 
week the most earnest efforts were made to 
cross the river. Seven scows were built. On 
these, light wagon trains were crossed, each scow 
taking one wagon and as many men as it could 
carry. On Tuesday and Wednesday the river 
fell so much that mauy of the infantry lorded it. I 
the water being breast high. A subsequent rain 
again swelled the river, and it became unforda- 
ble. The rebels then commenced the construc¬ 
tion of a bridge at Falling Waters, using for it 
the parts they had built at Williamsport. This 
bridge was not finished till Monday noon, and 
then a grand rush took pluce to get across. Ar¬ 
tillery and heavy trains, everything, was moved 
back to the river, except the lightest artillery, 
and a strong picket line which held the field 
works, thrown up along the front. On Monday 
night they were drawn in, and by daylight noth¬ 
ing was left tliis side but a rear guard of infantry, 
most of whom were captured by Buford’s cav¬ 
alry. The tone of the rebels was utterly de¬ 
spondent Both officers and inen regarded their 
position as desperate, and many of the latter 
expressed a wish that our forces would attack 
them so they might be captured. 
On Monday they had not more than 40,000 or 
50,000 men north of the Potomac, and had they 
been attacked their situation must have been 
precarious. Lee and his staff forded the river at 
3.30 P. M.. Monday. Stuart with his cavalry fol¬ 
lowed about two hours later. 
Federal officers report that Lee lost at least 
46,500 men during his late operations, 2,000 of ' 
whom were captured while the army were cross¬ 
ing the Potomac. 
The last advices from the routed rebels is to 1 
the effect that they are retreating by way of 
Strasburg and Staunton, and that Meade’s army , c 
were also south of the river. 
The National Republican of the ICth, says:—A ' 
TH] SODTl , 
IN the FJELK, MOOKtH I BLAST’, 8. f ' 
July 12, 1863, $ 
To Major-General Halleck:— Sir— I have the 
honor to report that at five o'clock on the morn¬ 
ing of the 10th inst, I made an attack on the 
enemy's fortifications on Morris Island, and after 
an engagement, which lasted throe hours and a 
quarter, captured all his strongholds on that part 
of the island and pushed forward my infantrv to 
within 00<i yards of Fort Wagner. 
We now hold all the island except one mile on 
the north end, which includes Fort Wagner and 
a battery on Cummings’ Point, which at this 
time mounts H or 16 heavy guns in the aggre¬ 
gate. The assaulting columns were gallantly 
led by Brig-Gen. Strong. 
It landed in two small boats under cover of our 
batteries on Folly Island and four monitors, led 
by Rear Admiral Dahlgren, which entered the 
main channel abreast of Xprris Island rood after 
our batteries opened. The monitors continued 
their fire during the dav, mostly against Fort 
Wagner. 
On the morning of the 11th inst., at daybreak, 
an attempt was inado to carry Fort Wagner by 
assault. The parapet was gained, but the sup¬ 
porters recoiled under the lire to which they 
were exposed, and could not be got up. 
I not vary much 
■•sing. We have 
>rdnance and a 
?. The enemy’s 
■d and wounded. 
$l)c Ncrus (tfon&mser 
— Gen. Meade is a brother-in-law of Henry A. Wise, of 
Virginia. 
— The telegraph censorship is not abolished only “ lib¬ 
erally modified.” 
— Substitutes for drafted men in some places demand 
enormous prices. 
Dr. Nott, President of Union College, has just com¬ 
pleted his 07th year. 
— Twenty five banks have been organized under the 
National Ranking Law. 
— Upward* of $14,000 have been raised in Baltimore 
for the wounded soldiers. 
— The Nova Scotia gold mines are reported to have 
turned out. a complete failure. 
— The Connecticut legislature passed a two-mill tax 
bill, which will raise $500,000. 
— The contrabands at Port Royal submit with singular 
cheerfulness to the conscription. 
— The great Tredegar Iron Works of Richmond were 
destroyed by lire on the 17th ult. 
— The monitor Passaic is to remain in N. Y. harbor for 
the present for defensive purposes. 
— A law suit is on trial at New Orleans, in which 
$1,000,000 of propcrty'arc involved. 
— Mai General Anderson, of Fort SumpteFmemory, is 
spending the season at Bridgeport, Conn. 
— Several hundred workmen are employed in perfecting 
the harbor defences of Portsmouth, N. H. 
— Gen. Hancock was wounded in the recent battle by a 
tenpenuy nail, driven from a fence near by. 
— A Polish newspaper has been established in New 
York. It is called EehoJPolski, the Polish Echo. 
— The revenue cutter Agassiz, at Newbem, N. C., is 
ordered to New Bedford for duty on that station. 
— The largest item of State expenditure in Massachu¬ 
setts, excepting war aid, is foreign born paupers. 
— There are three “.citizens of color” in Beverly, Mass., 
and all of them w ere conscripted on Friday week. 
— Edson A Co. of Albany, distiller*, have paid since 
the first of January taxes to the amount of $45,732. 
— An extensive turpentine establishment in Montreal 
was burned on th*l3d inst., causing a loss of $8,000. 
— Hon. Sherrard Clemens of Virginia still suffers from 
the wound he received in his duel with young Wise. 
— An army tram valued at over a million dollars arrived 
at Bxltimore on Tuesday week from Martinsburg, Vo. 
— All the fortifications in Boston harbor are to be put 
in telegraphic communication with the city without delay. 
— The front door of the old Hancock House, Boston, 
Department of the Gull 
The Navy Department has received 
a commu¬ 
nication from Rear-Admiral Porter, dated the 2d 
instant, in which he Bays that on the 2lUh of June 
he received a communication from General Den¬ 
nis, commanding the post at Young’s Point, in¬ 
forming him that our black troops had been at¬ 
tacked at Goodrich’s Landing, La-, and that the 
rebels were getting the upper hand of them. A 
gunboat had already been dispatched to that 
point, but another was sent without delay. 
General Kllet was directed to proceed at once 
with the Marine Brigade to the scene of action, 
and remain there until everything was quiet— 
The hindmost vessel of the brigade, the John 
Haines, arrived there os the rebels were setting 
fire to the so-called government plantations; 
and supposing her to lx 1 an ordinary transport, 
they opened fire on her with field pieces, but 
were much surprised to have the lire returned * ftr k re quantity of camp 
with scrapnel, which fell among them and killed * 088 " ^j.^ctlu' 
and wounded several. The result was a retreat '' ’ V r< 
on the part of the rebels, and the escape of a mini- Pl ,.. 
Jim Ot Juty, me out Connecticut and 9th Maine 
regiments made a furious attack upon the Cum¬ 
mings Point battery, got possession of it and 
hoisted the American flag. At daylight Fort 
Sumpter opened upon them, when a Pennsylva¬ 
nia regiment cowardly deserted them, refusing 
to stand by their comrades. The other regiments 
held the battery uutil they were badly cut up. 
and then abandoned it, when the rebels again 
took possession of it These two regiments have 
shown themselves heroes in this campaign. At 
10 a. m„ the Monitor proceeded to attack Cunt- 
take command of her. She is over the bar, mak¬ 
ing, with the gunboats. 24 vessels in front of 
Morris Island and Sumter. We shall commence 
the attack to-morrow morning, when we are sure 
of silencing Cummings Point battery and Fort 
Johnson. Everything is working well. The 
ball has opened in earnest- The Memphis has 
just brought in a rebel side-wheel steamer, load¬ 
ed with cotton, captured while trying to run out 
of Bull’s Bay last night. 
P. S.—Our troops will have their battery done 
in two days, and then they can shell Sumter. 
Advices per steamer Fulton state the results o ! 
Gilmore’s operations up to the morning of the 
14th. and that he has possession of ail the batter¬ 
ies on Morris Island, except Fort Wagner. It is 
reported that our iron-clads have made a breach 
on the south wall of Sumter. On the 13th 113 
wounded rebels were brought into Folly Island, 
many of them stating that they were forced into 
the rebel service. They are Germans and will 
has been bought by Moses Kimball, of the Museum, for 
cavalry and artillery force was ordered, two 
days since, by Gen. Heintzleman to make a 
reconnoissancc through the Shenandoah Valley. 
The commander. Col. Lovell, found very few 
rebels in the valley. He discovered that Ashby’s 
Gap was held by between 300 and 400 rebels. 
He charged upon them and drove them out and 
held the place, capturing u rebel Adjutant Gen¬ 
eral and several other officers and privates. 
The Late Repel Mission.— The following is 
the correspondence relating to the mission of 
Alex. H. Stephens io Washington: 
U. S. Steamer Minnesota, ) 
Fortress Monroe, July 4,18«3 —2 P, M > 
Hon, Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Xuvy:— 
The following communication'Is’just received 
from Mr. Stephens, who is on a flag of truce boat, 
anchored above. 1 shall inform Mr. Stephens 
that I await vour instructions before giving him 
an answer. ' 3. H. Lkk, Admiral. 
CoXFKnERjTK States Steamer Torpedo, 1 
lu James River. July 4, 1803. j 
Hitt: As Military Commander. 1 am the bearer 
of a communication, in writing, from Jefferson 
Davis. Commander-m-Chiof of the Land and 
Naval forces of the Confederate States, to Abra¬ 
ham Lincoln, Comtnaoder-iti-Cbief of the Lund 
— A large double turreted armored gunboat, christened 
the “ Winnebago,” was launched at St. Louis on the 4th 
inst. 
— The U. S. Naval service has been supplied with 17,000 
men from the ship Ohio, at Boston, since January 1st, 
1861. 
— The Worcester Spy gives as the tune of the conscripts 
—we are coming Father Abraham three hundred dollars 
more. 
— General Banks has ordered that hereafter none but 
negroes shall be employed as Government teamsters in the 
Gulf. 
— Stewart, the dry goods king of New Y’ork, will lose 
at least $2,000,000 by the purchases he made in goods last 
winter. 
— A number of influential Cubans of wealth and intel¬ 
ligence, are about to form an agricultural society in 
Havana. 
— A sew opera house in Paris will cost four or five mil¬ 
lions of dollars, and will not be completed for four years 
to come. 
— Between two and three hundred skedaddlers celebra¬ 
ted the fourth of July at Hamilton, Canada, by a straw¬ 
berry festival. 
— Martial law is proclaimed in Cincinnati, Covington 
and Newport Business is suspended, and the militar y 
are concentrating. 
— President Lincoln has issued a proclamation for a na¬ 
tional thanksgiving, in view of the recent victories, on 
Thursday, August 6lh. 
to flight, although ii was reported they had twen¬ 
ty field pieces. 
General Ellet, not knowing the country very 
well, and having only a small lorce with him, 
deemed it proper not to pursue the rebels much 
farther. He sent two hundred infantry across 
the Bayou, and found that the rebels were re¬ 
treating to Delhi, leaving all their plunder, 
splendid furniture, pianos, Ac-, strewn along the 
road. The unexpected re-enforcements of the 
brigade and. gunboats saved the whole of the 
black troops. The blacks will always be in danger 
THE GREAT RIOT IN NEW YORK. 
The New York City Riot, which was pro¬ 
gressing when the Rural went to press last week, 
proved to be of greater magnitude than we anti¬ 
cipated. No mob in the United States ever be¬ 
gan to assume such proportions. It seemed as if 
Bedlam had been purged of all the master-spirits 
of iniquity, and they had united to bold a grand 
Bacchanalian Feast in the great metropolis of 
the State and Nation, upon the inauguration of 
the draft. At first, it would appear that the riot 
was set on foot to destroy the records of the En¬ 
rolling Board of the 9th Congressional District, 
and which, being accomplished, the evil-doers 
were re-enforced by hundreds and by thousands, 
when the ** feast of blood and rapine ’’ commenced 
in good earnest, and a pall of horror descended 
upon the whole city. The influence of His Sa¬ 
tanic Majesty for revenge and conceived injustice, 
rankled in the hearts of more than five thousand 
so long a? they remain in such smal numbers. 
The rebeis who made this attack are the same 
that attacked Milliken’s Bend. They are a half 
starved and naked set, and hope to capture trans¬ 
ports with clothes and provisions. 
On Thursday, the lfitb, the country was again 
electrified by the annexed official dispatch : 
Vhebbcrc, Miss., July 11—3 P. M. 
To Major Gen. Halhrk —The following dispatch 
