monitors will go in to-nigbt to harass the enemy. 
Yesterday there was considerable cannonading, 
and during the night 
There have not been a dozen guns fired to-day, 
and they were principally from our water bat¬ 
teries. The enemy has been unusually quiet, 
evidently finding that he has been wasting a 
great deal of ammunition. We guess the naval 
battery, which is the advance battery, will be 
erected to-night 
Yesterday 500 hundred prisoners were taken 
by four companies of the Lost Children on an 
island in the rear of Falls Island. They showed 
but little fight and after receiving two volleys, 
laid down their arms. 
The sea is very calm, and the weather very 
hot; but all are hopeful and confident of victory. 
The arrival of re-enforcements has given new 
spirits to the troops on shore. 
At Atlanta, Ga-, on the 20th ult, gold was 
quoted at $12, making one dollar in gold equiv¬ 
alent to $12 in Confederate currency. 
These and other causes far less disgraceful than 
the desire to avoid danger, or escape from sacri- 
ces required by patriotism, are nevertheless 
grievous faults and place the cause of our belov¬ 
ed country, and everything we hold dear, in im¬ 
minent peril. 1 repeat that the men who now 
owe duty to their country, who have been called 
out and not yet reported for duty, or absented 
themselves from th«r posts. are sufficient in num¬ 
bers to secure a victory in the struggle now im¬ 
pending. 
I call upon yon. then, my countrymen, to has- 
(en to your camps in obevance to honor and 
duty, and summon those 'who have absented 
themselves without leave, or who have remained 
absent beyond the period allowed by their fur¬ 
loughs, to repair without delay to their respec¬ 
tive commands; and 1 do hereby declare that I 
grant pardon and amnesty to all officers and 
men within the Confederacy, now absent with¬ 
out leave, who shall with the least possible delay 
return to their proppr posts of duty, but no ex¬ 
cuse will lie received for any delav beyond 
twenty days after the first proclamation in the 
State in which the absentee may be at. the date 
of this publication. This amnesty and pardon 
shall extend to all who have been*accused of or 
who have been convicted, and are undergoing 
sentence for absence without leave, or desertion, 
excepting only those who have been twice con¬ 
victed of deserting. 
Finally, 1 conjure my countrywomen, wives, 
mothers, sisters and daughters of the Confeder¬ 
acy to use their all-powerful influence in aid of 
this call to add one crowning 'acrifice to those 
which their patriotism has so freely snd consti¬ 
tutionally offered upon their country’s altar, and 
take care that none who owe service in the field, 
shall tie sheltered at home from the disgrace of 
having deserted their duty to their families, to 
their country and their God. 
Given under my baud and seal of the Confcd- 
AFFAIES IN WASHINGTON. 
t,IST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS, < 
Statements appeared in some of the North¬ 
ern papers after the fall of Vicksburg and the 
defeat of Lee. that the question of peace had been 
discussed in the Federal Cabinet, and that a 
Cabinet crisis has been caused by a proposition 
of Mr. Seward to issue a Presidential Proclama¬ 
tion offering an amnesty to the Southern peo¬ 
ple, withdrawing the emancipation proclama¬ 
tion, suspending the confiscation act, aDd offer¬ 
ing protection to the personal property and 
rights of the Southern people, except the leaders; 
that Attorney General Bates and Mr. Montgom¬ 
ery Blair favored the scheme with a modification; 
Messrs. Stanton and Chase violently opposed it; 
Mr. Welles also opposed it. but not so strongly. 
Here, where the public is accustomed to assump¬ 
tions of this kind, these statements were not 
thought of sufficient importance to demand atten¬ 
tion. It seems that they went to Europe, and 
were made the foundation there of ne w castles in 
the air, built by the European enemieB of the 
United states. It Is therefore proper to say that 
the statement has no foundation whatever in the 
fact, no such doubts or propositions or any de¬ 
bate on the subject of peace or such amnesty have 
been made or had in the Cabinet nor have any 
such differences arisen. 
Robert C. Grist, special agent of the Post-Office 
Department in charge of the Memphis Post- 
Office, writes to E. W. McLellan, Second Assist¬ 
ant Post-Master General, that steamboats are ar¬ 
riving and departing almost daily to and fro 
from New Orleans without molestation from 
guerrillas. He adds, I am now making up a mail 
daily for New Orleans. 1 have consulted the 
Surveyor of the port, master of transportation 
and other officials, all of whom express a decided 
opinion that the northern and eastern mails for 
New Orleans can be sent with more safety and 
expedition via the river, than by ocean steamers, 
so long as ocean vessels continue to invest our 
coast and commit depredations. 
Gen. Grant has established a mounted patrol 
I nnder- 
Sermour’s Improved Patent Grain Drill—P. & C. H. Sev 
i-ur. 3 
The Champion—W 0. Hickok. 
Rne-oll'e StrawheirT—(Jeorpe Clapp. 
Bridtre water Paint—P»obert Reynolds. 
®l)c Nous Condenser 
— It is said there are nearly 30,000 blind people in Great 
I Britain. 
— Wendell Phillips Garrison was among the Boston 
conscripts. 
— Two sons of Gen. Meade were drafted at Philadel¬ 
phia last week. 
— Cole, Democrat, is elected to Congress from Wash- 
ington Territory. 
— On June 3d the city of Manilla was destroyed by an 
earthquake—2,000 liTes lost. 
— The Maine State Seminary at Lewiston is hereafter 
to be known as Bates College. 
— Garibaldi is reported to he coming to France to take 
the waters of Neds les Bains. 
— There were twenty women and several children killed 
in Vieksbnrg during the siege. 
— The city Directory of Chicago for 1863 fixes the pop¬ 
ulation of that city at 150,000. 
— The claims for damages by the New York riot now 
presented amount to $452,160 16. 
' — A Washington correspondent states that the Presi¬ 
dent will visit New England soon. 
— Yale College has been favored the past year by en¬ 
dowments to the amount of $200,000. 
— It is reported that there are plenty of substitutes to 
be had in Boston at from $200 to $250. 
— Several substitutes are advertised in the Providence 
papers, offering their services for $250. 
— The total valuation of real estate in Portland, Me., io 
$14,423,000; personal estate, $10,088,204. 
— The Indians on the Yellow Stone river are robbing 
steamers conveying provisions to our forts. 
— The papers are predicting a decline in cotton goods 
in consequence of the opening of the Mississippi. 
— The rebel report ahout Gen. Osterhaus being killed 
had a grain of truth in it. He was severely wounded. 
— Waitman T. Willey and P C Van Winkle, have 
been elected United States Senators of Western Virginia. 
— The Union officers raptured during Straight’s raid, 
have ever since been confined in the prison at Richmond. 
— Late advices from Pike's Peak state that large quan- 
tities of gold are being taken from mines around Central 
City. 
— One of Morgan's Lieutenants, a prisoner, says that 
tlic whole force which crossed the Ohio Into Indiana was 
3,100. 
— The Sultan has sent over to England an order for 
four frigates and a cutter, or sloop, and fifty thousand car¬ 
bines. 
— The Times states that there are now 12,000 troops in 
New York city, consisting of cavalry, artillery, and in¬ 
fantry. 
— Short dresses are said to be coming in fashion, and 
next winter nothing else will be seen in the grand salono 
of Paris. 
— The Richmond Whig complains bitterly that Gen. 
Lee has disappointed the expectations of the rebel Gov¬ 
ernment. 
— A woman in Columbus, Ga., proclaims herself ready 
to command a regiment of women in defence of the Con¬ 
federacy. 
— The list of names of prisoners paroled at Vicksburg, 
filled a box about three feet long and two feet in width 
and depth! 
— It is computed that there are in England and Wales 
about 5,000,000 oxen; 32,000,000 sheep, and about 1,825,- 
000 horses. 
— Five of the Connecticut regiments which were enlist¬ 
ed as nine-months men, will be mustered out of service 
this month. 
— The track of the street railroad in Richmond has been 
torn up and sent to the mill to be rolled into plating for 
the iron clads. 
— A repentant Rebel, a son of Gen. Price, has a petition 
circulating to allow his father to come home to Missouri, 
and live in peace. 
— The mother of Gen. John and Col. Dick Morgan is 
in Cincinnati for the purpose of seeing her sons, and Basil 
Duke, her son-in law. 
— A New Orleans letters says Gen. Banks looks remark¬ 
ably well, although his face is bronzed by constant expo- 
posure to a tropical sun. 
— A wealthy Marylander named Cashal has been arrest¬ 
ed on a charge of having acted as a spy and informer for 
the rebel General Stuart. 
— Tbe crops in Litchfield Co., Ct., look well. Rye is 
heavy, corn is growing fast, and the grass crop has greatly 
improved since the rains. 
— Commissioner Dole is to visit Kansas immediately to 
remove the Indians from that State according to the pro¬ 
visions made by Congress. 
— Nearly $10,000 have already been collected for fami¬ 
lies of policemen, firemen and soldiers injured or killed 
iu the late riot in New York. 
— The slave pens of Baltimore are broken up, and the 
inmates at liberty. Thirty able bodied men, lately ten¬ 
ants, are now U. S. soldiers. 
— Tbe police of Bangor, Me., found recently at the 
house of a Mrs. Geo. Foster, several cartloads of property 
stolen by clothes-line thieves. 
— The City of New Fork made the passage from 
Queenstown to New York in nine hours, the fastest time 
on record for a screw steamer. 
— A boy in Colorado, appointed to the U. S. Naval 
Academy at Newport, walked seveu hundred miles to avail 
himself of the place given him. 
— Gen. Sickles has arrived at home on the Hudson Riv¬ 
er. The prospect is that he will soon recover, and be able 
to resume bis duties in the field. 
— Commodore Charles Stewart was S5 years of age the 
28th of July. He is as active and cheerful as a man of 40 : 
he has been in over 40 engagements, 
— A piece of glass of an inch in width was recently 
cut from the foot of a boy in Hartford, Conn., where it had 
been a year embedded without soreness. 
— The North Hampton (Mass ) Courier reports that the 
tobacco worm is making havoc in that vicinity, and the 
prospect is that the crop will be half lost. 
— Dr. J. M. Currier, of Newport, Vi, has Java coffee 
growing in his garden, and declares that it is less suscep¬ 
tible to frost than beans, tomatoes or com. 
— A committee of lawyers in New York has volunteered 
their services to prosecute the claims of negroes against 
the city for damages received during the riot. 
— Geo. Hossefross, a fireman of San Francisco, bas pro 
cured for an aged and valuable dog a fine set of artificL-1 
Op all the flags that float aloft 
O’er Neptune's gallant tars, 
That wave on high, In victory, 
Above the son* of Mam, 
Give us (hr flag—Columbia’s flag— 
The emblem of the free, 
Whose tlaaliing stars blazed thro’ our wars, 
For Truth and Liberty. 
Then dip it, lads, to ocean’s brine, 
And give it three times three, 
And fling it out, ’mid song and shout, 
The Banner of the Sea. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., AUGUST 15, 1863, 
The Army in Virginia. 
Direct advices from the front say that the 
army of the Potomac is inactive and likely to 
remain so for some time to come. The various 
corps are camped in a healthy place, near cool 
water, and have cool and comfortable quarters. 
The first instalment of conscriptsreacbed camp 
on the 3d inst. From 200 to 400 are daily ex¬ 
pected. 
The rebel army lies between the Rappahan¬ 
nock and the Rapidan, Lee being at Culpepper, 
and everything is as quiet within their lines as in 
our own. 
Furloughs of 20 or 30 days have been granted 
by Gen. Meade, 
The 4th Penn. Reg’t of Cavalry was dispatched 
on a reconnoisance by Gen. Gregg on the 1st inst. 
At Little Washington they encountered a com¬ 
pany of rebel cavalry about 100 strong and drove 
them through the town, capturing a private of 
the 2d Virginia regiment who had been directed 
by an order from Gen. Fitzhugh Lee to purchase 
bacon and flour for the brigade in the vicinity of 
Waterford. Loudon county. It was ascertained 
that a brigade of rebel cavalry was posted be¬ 
tween Little Washington- and Sperryvllle. The 
private captured had correspondence in bis pos¬ 
session indicating that the rebel army is iu a very 
desperate condition and bitterly bewailing the 
recent raid into Maryland and Pennsylvania, 
and predicting that if the war should much 
longer be waged, Lee’s army will be starved to 
death in the mountains. 
Advices from the Army of the Potomac say 
that the enemy sent a reconnoitering force to¬ 
ward the Rappahannock in the vicinity of Kelly's 
Vord, probably to ascertain our position and 
strength, but altera skirmish were driven back. 
It is generally believed that, up to the 2d inst. 
Lee had not received any re-enforcements of con¬ 
sequence from Riehmoud, but the rebels have 
been sending heavy supplies to Fredericksburg, 
as if they intended to re-occupy it. in strength. 
Information has been received that, guerrilla 
parties scour the. country between the Rappa¬ 
hannock and the Potomac, pouth of the Oecoquan. 
A Times dispatch says it, is again asserted, on 
the most undoubted authority, that the main 
body of Lee's army is encamped between Rapi- 
idan Station and Orange C. H. It, is positively 
crate States, at Richmond, this 1st day of August, 
in the year of our Lord, 1863. 
.1 kfferson Davis, President. 
J. P. Davis, Sec'y of State. 
We think that a perusal of the foregoing 
“Address,” and the following “Proclamation,” 
will indicate that matters in the Confederacy are 
not very hopeful: 
FAST AND PRAYER PROCLAMATION OF THE 
PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES. 
Again do I call upon the people of the Confed¬ 
eracy—a people who believe that the Lord reign- 
eth, and that his overruling providence ordereth 
all things—to unite in prayer and bumble sub¬ 
mission under bis christening band, and to 
beseech His favor on our suffering country. 
It is meet that when trials and reverseg befall 
ns we should seek to take home to our hearts 
and consciences the lessons which they teach, 
and profit by the pelf-examination for which they 
prepare ns. Ila° not onr successes on land and 
sea made us self-confident and forgetful of onr 
reliance upon Him ? Has riot, the love of lucre 
eaten like a gangrene inio the very heart of tbe 
land, converting too many among'us into wor¬ 
shipers of gain. 3nd rendering them unmindful 
of their duty to their country, to their fellow men, 
and to their God ? Who, then, will presume to 
complain that we have been chastened, or to 
despair of our just cause and the prolection of 
our Heavenly Father ? 
Let ns rather receive in humble thankfulness 
the lesson which He bas taught in our recent 
reverses, duvontly acknowledging that to Him, 
and not to our own feeble arms, are due the 
honor and the glory of victory; that from him. 
between Vicksburg and New Orleans, 
stand, and I have no hesitation in saying, that, 
the transportation of tbe mails will be as safe 
hence to New <Irlenns as to Cairo. The guerril¬ 
las who infest some portions of the river at times 
have generally no artillery. Musketry can do 
no damage to the boats. The prospect is that 
they will be cleared out if they make any further 
demonstration. 
As a matter of personal information it should 
be known that persons having selected and en¬ 
tered upon lands under the homestead law, un¬ 
der the stipulations of five years actual and con¬ 
tinual settlement, can at any time before the ex¬ 
piration of (bat period obtain a patent deed as a 
certificate title by paying tbe price of the land at 
the minimum price per acre, and making proof 
of settlement and cultivation as provided by tbe 
existing laws granting pre-emptions. Returns 
just received at the general land office from St 
Peters. Minn., and the still more distant region 
of Vancouver, Washington Territory, show that 
actual settlements are now iu progress under the 
homestead law. 
All tbe rebel officers in our hands are being 
gathered together at Jackson’s Island, Sandus¬ 
ky, where they will be kept until satisfactory re¬ 
ply is received from tbe rebel authorities in an¬ 
swer to tbe President’s order of retaliation which 
bas been forwarded there by our government 
"Vlf'i •••"4 Ml' J » IV»>VI J ) VUCll illllll IJIIII, 
in His paternal providence, come the anguish 
and suffering* of defeut, and that whether in 
victory or defeat, our bumble supplications are 
duo to His footstool. 
Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis. President 
of the Confederate Status, do issue this my proc¬ 
lamation, setting apart Friday, the 21st day of 
August ensuing, as a day of fasting, humiliation 
and prayer; and I do hereby invite the people 
of the Confederate States to repair on that day to 
their respective places of public worship, and to 
unite in supplication for tbefavor and protection 
of that God who has hitherto conducted us safely 
through all the dangers that environed us. 
In faith whereof I have hereunto set my hand 
and the seal of the Confederate States, at Rich¬ 
mond, this 25th day of July, in tbe year of onr 
Lord one thousand eight' hundred and sixty- 
three. Jefferson Davis. 
ADDRESS OF JEFF. DAVIS 
The Baltimore Amtriean of the 8th inst, has 
received Richmond papers of the 5th, which con¬ 
tain the following address of tbe President to the 
soldiers of the Confederate States: 
For more than twoyears of a warfare, scarcely 
equaled in the number, magnitude and fearful 
carnage of its battles; a warfare in which your 
courage and fortitude have illustrated your 
country, and attracted not only gratitude at 
home, but admiration abroad—yom enemies con¬ 
tinue a struggle in which onr final triumph must 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS 
The freedmen who have been put in camps on 
plantations iu possession of the Government be¬ 
yond Arlington Heights, on the Virginia side of 
the Potomac, are beginning to supply fresh veg¬ 
etables to the hospitals about Wtu&ington. 
There are some eight hundred and eighty-five of 
the colored men thus engaged. 
Our blockaders are doing a thriving business 
just now. No less tbau a dozen vessels—several 
of them steamers —laden with precious freight, 
have been captured off Charleston and Wilming¬ 
ton within the past two weeks. 
There is a fair prospect that Tennessee will 
soon be restored to her old place in the Union. 
Gen. Rosecrans announces in a general order, 
that “having practically driven the enemy from 
her soil, he proposes to aid her citizens in restor¬ 
ing law, and securing its protection to persons 
and property, the right of every free people.” 
The Richmond Examiner confessed, a few days 
since, that “ the people of Middle arid East Ten¬ 
nessee have taken the oath almost unanimously." 
The admission speaks volumes. 
Within a few days past more than 2.000 cav¬ 
alrymen, representing every regiment in tbe 
army of the Potomac, have arrived in Washing¬ 
ton for horses, to take the place of those damaged 
by late excessive service. 
So great is the scarcity of harvest hands in Joe 
Daviess county, Illinois, that a number of Ger¬ 
man girls in Galena have left in-door employ¬ 
ment and (gone to work as harvest hands at one 
dollar a day. 
An order for thirty stoves, to be sent by the 
first boat, was received at St. Louis from New 
Orleans the other day, and is regarded by the 
local pi ess as one of the symptons of the reopen¬ 
ing of the vast trade formerly carried on between 
that city and New Orleans. 
Fifty asjx slaves who had been sent to the 
negro jails in Baltimore by their owners for safe 
keeping, were set at liberty on Monday by order 
of General Schenck. Subsequently all the men 
enlisted in Colonel Birney's colored regiment 
A catalogue of coins belonging to Yale Col¬ 
lege, recently published, shows that the collec¬ 
tion contains three thousand specimens belonging 
to all periods from 700 B. C. to the present year, 
and almost all countries where coins are used. teeth, got up in the beet style of the dental art. 
be inevitable. Unduly elated with their recent 
successes, they imagine that temporary reverses 
can quell your spirits or strike intimida¬ 
tion, and they are now gathering heavy masses 
for a general invasion, in the vain hope that bv 
desperate efforts success may at length be readi¬ 
ed. You know tou well nfy countermen what 
they mean by success, Their malignant rage 
Department of the South. 
The Norfolk Virginian contains the follow¬ 
ing : 
Savili.’s Hills, August 3.—News has been 
received here of the cavalry and artillery expe¬ 
dition under Col. Spear. The cavalry and artil¬ 
lery crossed the Chowan river at Newton, North 
Carolina, and proceeded to Jackson, twelve 
miles from Weldon, near the Roanoke river, 
where the enemy were discovered in strong 
force. Our advance made a heavy charge on the 
rebel advance, and drove them back, capturing 
seventy prisoners. Our loss was two killed and 
three wounded. We captured sixty bales of cot¬ 
ton and three hundred horses. It has rained 
incessantly since the expedition started, render¬ 
ing the roads nearly impassible. The men have 
suffered great hardships. Had tbe weather been 
aims at nothing else than the extermination of 
yourselves, your wives and children. They seek 
* A - 1 ... I .1 .. 3 . " fn. 
bauchan inferior race heretofore docile and con¬ 
tented, by promising them the indulgence of the 
vilest passions as the price of their treachery. 
Conscious of tbeir inability to prevail by legiti¬ 
mate warfare, not daring to make peace lest they 
Bhonld be hurled from their seats of power, the 
men who now rule in Washington refuse even to 
confer on the subject of putting an end to the 
outrages which disgrace our age, or listen to a 
suggestion for conducting the war according to 
lie usages of civilization. 
Fellow citizens: No alternative is left you but 
victory or subjugation, slaveiy. and the utter 
ruin of yourselves, your families and vour coun¬ 
try. That victory is within your reach: stretch 
forth your hands to grasp it. For this, all that is 
necessaiy is that those who are called to the 
field by every motive that can lead tbe human 
heart, should promptly repair to the post of duty, 
r,l» n , . 1 rl n . . J V,*- a-.. a A . _ * C , j-* 
should stand by their comrades now in front of 
the foe. and thus so strengthen the armies of the 
Confederacy as to insure success. The meD now 
absent from their posts, would, if present in the 
field, suffice to create a numerical equality be¬ 
tween onr force aDd that of the invaders: aDd 
when, with any approach to equality have we fail¬ 
ed to be victorious? 
I believe that but few of those absent are ac¬ 
tuated by unwillingness to serve their country, 
but that many have found it difficult to resist the 
temptation to remain at home with loved ones 
'from whom they have been so long separated; 
that others have left for tbe temporary attention 
of their affairs with the intention of returning, 
and then have sprung from the consequences of 
their violation of duty; that others again have 
left their post from mere restlessness, or by per¬ 
suading himself that his individual services 
could have no influence on the general result 
