the people. She had a pass from the rebels on 
account of her beiDg the wife of an Englishman, 
who had been protected from the draft by the 
British Consul. 
Gor. Pierpont is in Washington making ar¬ 
rangements for putting the government of the 
State of Virginia into operation. The first Legis¬ 
lature will be convened in extra session, probably 
in September, when they will elect a Treasurer 
and Auditor, for without them no salaries can be 
paid nor the taxes collected in the several 
counties. 
The new term of Gov. Pierpontwill commence 
in January, the election having taken place on 
the 28th of May in those parts of Virginia not 
under rebel control. Thus there are three Gov¬ 
ernors in what was one State, including the rebel 
functionary at Richmond. 
The Treasury Department has heard nothing 
of the oourier reported to have been sent by Gen. 
Grant, nor of any modification of his views in 
respect to trade. 
The following is the language of Major-Gen¬ 
eral Halleck to the agent, for the exchange of 
prisonersIt is directed that immediately on 
receiving official or other authoritative informa¬ 
tion of the execution of Capt. Sawyer and Capt. 
tlST OF NEAV ADVERTISEMENTS 
which swept the opposite shore, one shot, of 
which killed a horse and took off a leg of A. B. 
McCook, of Lillie’s Battery. Our fire was very 
destructive, and every gun opened upon us was 
disabled. 
The works of the enemy on the river are re¬ 
ported to be very strong, the parapets of which 
are no less than 15 feet wide. Several water 
batteries, on a level with the river, have also 
been discovered. 
Moored at the wharf are two Bteamers, and 
opposite the city is a pontoon bridge of forty- 
four boats. The largest of the steamers was 
sunk by our fire, and the smaller one disabled 
An attempt to destroy the pontoon bridge was 
defeated by the sharp fire of the sharpshooters. 
Forty prisoners were taken, two killed and four 
wounded. A train of wagons and mules belong¬ 
ing to the rebels, grazing on this side of the river, 
was captured. 
Our advance reports that there are two rebel 
divisions at Chattanooga, and Hill's late corps 
is along the railroad in the direction of Bridge¬ 
port. A detachment sent opposite to Harrison 
discovered no enemy. 
Contrabands report that Joe Johnston arrived 
with two trains of troops, on the 3d inst, super¬ 
seding Gen. Bragg, who has retired to Atlanta. 
This statement is corroborated by the citizens. 
Eleven deserters from the 1st Louisiana Regt 
came into Nb-g ley’s fines last night. They were 
detached lately as the crew for the rebel steamer 
Point Rock. They abandoned the steamer on 
Tuesday, twenty miles below Chattanooga They 
£l)c News Condenser 
Morris Island. Their fire begins to tell on Fort 
Sumter, which replies only at long intervals. 
The defense of the harbor does not depend 
mainly on Sumter. Even if that, fortress should 
be battered down the harbor may still be held. 
Gov. Bonham has issued a proclamation urging 
the removal of all non-combatants from Charles¬ 
ton as soon as possible. 
The 200-pound Parrott guns of the enemy are 
too much for the walk of Sumter, and the fort 
only replies at intervals. 
It has been determined to defend the city 
street by street and house by house as long as a 
foot of earth is left. 
The Port Royal New South contains the fol¬ 
lowing items: • 
The rebels call upon the authorities to seques¬ 
trate certain Yankee property in Brunswick, 
Georgia. 
Tbe rebel steamer Robert Haversham, which 
has been watching our advance movement in the 
Savannah river, exploded, destroying the vessel 
and killing all of the crew. 
Gen, Mercer, commanding at Savannah, is im¬ 
pressing one-fifth of the able-bodied slaves of 
Georgia for work on the fortifications. All the 
negroes in Savannah have been seized and put 
to work on fortifications. 
Several contrabands have reached Fort Pu¬ 
laski, having escaped from Savannah. 
A new rebel ram k building at Savannah. 
Several heavy guns have been sent from 
Savannah to Charleston. 
The ram Savannah came down the river on the 
10th, intending to run out to sea, but she broke 
one of her engines and bad to put back. She is 
the mate to the Atlanta. 
— The rebel Gen. Holmes is reported dead of delirjn 
tremens. 111 
— It is asserted that from 600 to 1,000 lives were lost • 
the N. T. riot. la 
— A Confederate dollar is now worth only 6 cent. „ 
the gold dollar. 8 0a 
—,Gen. Grant recommends the opening of the cotton 
trade in the South-west 
— A party of Bedouin Arabs arrived in New York b 
the steamer Hcda last week. y 
— Prairie chickens were never known to be so abundant 
in Iowa as the present season. 
— The Canadian Parliament is in session. The minis- 
terial candidate wa* elected Speaker. 
— Onr forces have occupied Huntsville, Ala., with the 
intentention of holding it permanently. 
— Thirteen divorces were ganted at the August term of 
the Supreme Court for Washington Co., Vt. 
— Forty meteors were observed simultaneously on Hart¬ 
ford and New Haven on Monday niriit week 
Beneath its folds we fear no foe, 
Our hearts shall never quail, 
With bosoms bare the storm we'll dare, 
And brave the battle gale. 
And though the caution plow onr decks, 
The planks with gore rnn red, 
Still through the fray our flag al way 
Shall gleam from overhead. 
Then dip It, lads, in oecan’s brine, 
And give it three tinieB three, 
And fling it out, ’mid song and shout, 
The Banner of the Free. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., AUGUST 29, 1863, 
Flynn, you wifi proceed to hang W. H. Lee and 
the other rebel officer designated as herein above 
directed, and that you notify Robert Quid. Esq.. 
Department of the South. 
The United States supply steamer Arkansas 
arrived at the Navy Yard, Philadelphia, on the 
23d, from the South Atlantic Blockading Squad¬ 
ron, with one hundred and seventy passengers, 
prisoners and invalids. She left Charleston on 
Wednesday morning, the ]9tb, and reports that 
the army and navy shore batteries have caused 
tremendous destruction to Fort Sumter. The 
south-east face- looks like honeycombs, and a 
complete demolishment of the walk is looked for 
in a week. 
The following account, is from the pen ol’Chas. 
S. C. Fulton, editor of the Baltimore AmeHoo/n: 
The attack on Sumter commenced on Monday 
morning at daybreak by the siege batteries of 
Gen. Gilmore, and the naval batteries on shore. 
At G o’clock Admiral Dahlgren proceeded on 
board the Weehawken, and with the Ironsides 
and entire monitor fleet attacked batteries Wag¬ 
ner and Gregg with great fury, completely 
of such proceeding, and assure him that the Gov¬ 
ernment of the United States will retaliate for 
every similar burbarons violation of the laws of 
civilized war. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS 
The Richmond Whig contains an advertise¬ 
ment in which “a farm of two hundred and 
thirty acres, in Hanover, Vtt.or the highest price 
in Confederate money,” k offered for a substitute. 
Pkof. Airy, a celebrated English astronomer, 
has discovered that we are several million miles 
nearer the sun than has been supposed. This 
may account for the heat of the past two weeks! 
Statistics of the Pennsylvania coal trade for 
the present season show an aggregate production 
of nearly 5,000,000 tons, against Jess than three 
and three-quarter million to the same time last 
.year. 
Tnr.EE States hold their Annual Elections in 
September, as follows: Vermont— Tuesday, 1st 
September. California—Thursday, September 
3rd. Maine—Monday, September 14th. Each of 
them elects a Governor and Legislature; Ver¬ 
mont and California elect Members of Congress 
also. 
Neither of the Richmond papers refer to the 
execution of Capls. Sawyer and Flinn, which 
was to have taken place on Friday, the 14tb, and 
it is probable their execution baa been quietly 
postponed. There Is not much danger of its 
being carried out so long as W. H, Lee and Capt- 
Winder are held as hostages for them. 
The Government is about sending out to 
Europe, as special agent. Prof. Ruggles, of New 
York, for the purpose of making the people 
abroad familiar with the country west of the Mis¬ 
sissippi, its extent and vast resources. To this 
end the General Laud Office has furnished speci¬ 
mens of minerals, ores, maps and statistics. 11 is 
now believed that the mission will prove of great 
benefit for the development of the Great West. 
The New York Nenlng Post says that nearly 
a thousand deaths occurred in that city during 
the week ending last Monday, of which more 
than live hundred were caused or accelerated by 
the effects of heat- Of the deaths Jive hundred 
and eleven were among children. 
Within the last month there have arrived at 
Wilmington. N. C., 17 large steamers having run 
the blockade, loaded with stores for the rebel 
army, among which are SC,000 English rifles, 
16(1,000 army blankets, 131,000 ready-made uni¬ 
forms, 23.000 cases ready-made army shoes. 11 
locomotives, 9 rifled cannon, heavy calibre, five 
cargoes of railroad iron, and skillful men accom¬ 
panying them. 
Vicksburg was laid out in ls22 by Neivitt 
Vick, and incorporated in 1825. It has always 
Movements in the West and South-West. 
Kentucky. The Southern Bank of Ken¬ 
tucky, in Carrollton, Carroll county, was robbed 
at hall-past ] o’clock on the 20th. by about six¬ 
teen men in uniform, who represented themselves 
as belonging to Colt’: 
silencing Gregg, and almost silencing Wagner, 
The wooden gunboats, seven In number, also 
joined irt the assault, and enabled all the shore 
batteries to pour their shot and shell into Sumter. 
At ten o'clock the Admiral changed bk flag to 
the Passaic, and with the Putapsco proceeded to 
within 1,400 yards of Wagner, and shelled the 
seawall with the rifle gnus of these vessels for 
about an hour with marked effect. Sumter fired 
about 50 return shots, doing no damage to the 
vessels, whilst the walk of Sumter were badly 
scarred. 
Fleet Captain George W. Rogers, took com¬ 
mand of his old vessel, the Monitor Catskil), 
went up into the light, going within 150 yank of 
the beach front of battery Wagner. After firing 
a number of shots, a shot from Fort Wagner 
broke a piece of the Monitor’s lining, which 
struck ou the head of Commander Rogers, 
instantly killing him, as well ns Paymaster 
Woodbury, who was standing at his side. These 
were the only persons injured on land or water 
during the 6 hour’s engagement 
The damage done to Sumter by the siege bat¬ 
teries Of Gen. Gilmore is visible without the aid 
of a glass. The rebels had erected a false wall 
against the wall exposed to our batteries. It 
extended to within ten feet of the top of the wall 
over twenty feet high and ten feet thick, and this 
wall is now a mass of ruins whilst (he old wall is 
bored full of deep holes, the parapet crushed and 
ragged, and the north-west corner gashed und 
cracked down almost to the waters edge. 
The harbor and Stono river are filled with tor¬ 
pedoes. About a dozen of them have been 
picked up in the Stono, and one was exploded 
under the Patapsco, raising her foot out of the 
water, but doing her no particular harm. None 
of the vessels were injured iu the least, and the 
Admiral and his officers are confident in the 
ability of the monitors to batter down fort Sum¬ 
ter. However, he is anxious to save the vessels 
for the heavy work required of them after Fort 
Sumter is taken, and let the army reduce that 
fort if possible. 
The fleet, except the Weehawken and Nahant, 
retired before 2 o’clock, but thev r«mainuS in I i 
's rebel cavalry. They were 
first discovered by M r. Crawford, Cashier, who 
lives in the rear of the bank, upon whom they 
fired, driving him back into his house. After 
removing all the money in the vaults, anil burn¬ 
ing tho papers therein, they mounted their 
horses and started off in the direction of Owen 
county. The amount ol'money taken was $100.- 
000 in gold and silver, and $30,000 in paper 
money. Every effort is being made to capture 
the robbers. 
Kansas. —About 6 o’clock on the evening of 
the 20th, the rebel guerrilla chief Quantrell, 
with a force 400 strong, crossed the Missouri 
river into Kansas, near the town of Gardiner, 
and immediately started for Lawrence, arriving 
before that, town at 4 o’clock in the morning. 
Quantrell posted a guard around the town so the 
citizens could not escape, and with the remain¬ 
der of his men commenced pillaging stores, 
shooting citizens and firing houses. 
The fist ol killed and wounded, as far as ascer¬ 
tained, number 180, a majority of whom were 
killed instantly. The houses that remained 
standing were filled with killed and -wounded, 
who belong to all classes of society. From the 
burne.d houses the charred remains of bodies are 
constantly being found. 
Only one hotel was left standing, and Quan- 
trell spared this because lie had made his homo 
there once without expense. 
The murderers planted pistols to the breasts 
of their victims and shot them down. In one 
instance the guerrillas drove twelve men into a 
house, shot them, and then burned the building; 
and the friends of these murdered men. while 
standing on the river bank, were fired into, and 
of July, and is the only surviving revolutionary pensioner 
iu Vermont. 
— Among the visitors at a late camp meeting at Yar¬ 
mouth, Mass., was a colored woman from Nantucket, who 
is 105 j ears old. 
— A sprightly youth in East Gloucester, Mass., 3 years 
old, went Ashing the other day for the first time and 
caught 22 porch. 
— The American Print Works at Fall River, Mass., 
which have been stopped for several months, have just 
started up ugain. 
— Nevada sends a handsome contribution to the New 
York Christian Commission, in the form of a bar of silver 
valued at $1,800. 
— The claim of the Managers of the New Y’ork Colored 
Orphan Asylum, for damage to property during the riot, 
is nearly $74,000. 
— Thirty thousand letters were distributed at the Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn , Post Office in eight hours and thirty minutes 
on the 30th of July. 
It is reported that very rich and extensive gold mines 
have been discovered east of the Colorado river on tbeSan 
Francisco mountains. 
— It is said three million dollars worth of merchandise 
has been run into Wilmington, N. C., by blockaders du¬ 
ring the present month. 
— Thomas Addis Emmet, nephew of the distinguished 
patriot, Robert Emmet, died at his residence in Astoria 
Aug. 12tb, aged CC years. 
Mason 4 idage, N lb, is ahead in the production of 
largo blueberries. One was picked lately which measured 
2;,, inches in circumference. 
— One thousand musket: 
AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON. 
The act to provide a national currency, tfce., 
authorizes tbe employment of the national* bank¬ 
ing association created under it as depositories 
of the Internal Revenue, and snob employment 
involves the duty of requiring adequate security 
for the amounts deposited. The Secretary of the 
Treasury lifts come to tho conclusion to ask 
the national banks desiring to receive such de¬ 
posits to place in the Treasury of the United 
States C per cent, bonds to the amount equal to 
10 per cent, of their capital stock as a security 
for the punctual payment of all lawful check’s 
Ibr deposit. 1 nasmnch, however, as a number of 
banks have boon organized, and as yet are with¬ 
out circulation, Secretary Chase proposes to 
direct deposits to be made with such on receiving 
security ror ctrcnnuion may P>e hold as security 
for deposits, leaving the additional bonds, as well 
the bonds of the directors and others, to be given 
afterward at any time before the furnishing of 
circulation. Should the associations prefer in¬ 
stead of giving a joint bond equal to the capital 
stock, to give separate bonds of directorsof stock¬ 
holders each for not less than one-tenth of the 
capital stock, and equal to it in the aggregate 
amount, there can be no objection to such sepa¬ 
rate bonds being accepted instead of a joint bond. 
If good reasons shall appear the conclusion of 
the Secretary will be modified. 
W. P. Mellon, supervising special agent of the 
Treasury Department for the Valley of the 
Mississippi, arrived in Washington on the 19th 
After consultation between him and Secretary 
Chase such amended regulations concerning 
trade in the Southwest will be published as 
the condition of affairs in that section will admit 
a number of them were killed and wounded. 
Twenty-five negro recruits were shot dead. The 
guerrillas took all the money lomul in houses, 
and stole all the jewelry of the ladies, oven to 
the rings on their lingers—sparing nothing at all 
movable. 
Quantrell is retreating toward Missouri, burn¬ 
ing everything on his route. It is not expected 
Is a day are turned out at the 
Springfield armory, and 100,000 of the best model are now 
subject to Government orders. 
— Among the claims for damages by the N. Y. mob is 
one of Sarah Matson for $10,000 for death of her husband, 
also $1,000 fur loss of left eye. 
— “Bounty Jumpers 
is the term applied to those who 
make a business of enlisting as substitutes, and running 
away when they get the money. 
— Summer life on boatd the iron-clads is more than 
tropical. In those unvenTilnted hulks the temperature for 
days has marked 132* Fahrenheit. 
— The story that Sterling Price had applied for permis¬ 
sion to return home und renew his allegiance to Federal 
authority turns out ro be a canard. 
— E O. Haven, D. D., late editor of Zion's Herald, has 
accepted the office of President of Michigan University, 
and will soon enter upon his duties. 
— Three of the guard on the steamer Ruth, recently 
burned on the Mississippi, perished because they would 
not leave their posts w ithout orders. 
— The depleted regiments in tbe army of the Potomac 
w ill be first filled from tbe conscript cumps; then Grant’s, 
Rosecrans’ and the army of the South. 
demonstrated 
Instructions have been issued by the Post- 
Otlico Department that all mail matter deposited 
in any post-office and addressed to any execu¬ 
tive department, or to any officer therein, on 
which the postage is unpaid and which is not 
franked, must be forwarded to the Dead Letter 
Office. 
Count Nicholas George was introduced to the 
President by the actiDg Secretary of State on tbe 
19th. delivered his credentials, and was received 
as Minister resident of his Majesty the Emperor 
of Austria. 
It has just been decided by the Second Comp- 
wen* wr some time kept under arms; hut from 
assurances that Quantrell would never invade 
Kansas again, their military organizations were 
abandoned, and Quantrell and his band heating 
this, made the raid when the people were en¬ 
tirely defenceless. 
The men comprising Quantrell’s band are the 
kind of guerrillas who have been robbing and 
killing along the borders for six months! 5 with 
little opposition. They have had ample time to 
prepare for everything to insure success. 
The loss at Lawrence is not less than $2,000,- 
OliO, and will fall heavily on New York and 
Leavenworth merchants. Two banks were rob¬ 
bed of every dollar, and the third escaped a 
similar fate only because the heat was so great 
from the burning buildings that the rebels could 
not stop long enough to get the safes open. 
The telegraph this (Tuesday) morning fur¬ 
nishes the following highly interesting intelli¬ 
gence from Gen. Rosecrans, dated in front of 
Chattanooga August 22d: 
Rosecrans' army was in front of Chattanooga 
on the 21st inst., and opened fire on that o.itv 
— The lack of horses iu the rebel army is 
by an order recently promulgated dismounting all of the 
Quartermaster and Commissary attaches. 
— The Confederate loan meets with no sympathy from 
the Rothscliilds, and ill Frankfort it is not allowed to be 
quoted ou the stock exchange by that drra. 
— Ati enrollment of contrabands employed in the army 
and in different duties has been commenced with a view 
of making a draft for the colored regiments. 
— A considerable number of rebel conscripts have re¬ 
cently reported at Corinth for doty iu the National army. 
A cheap way of recruiting Uncle Sam’s forces. 
— In the St. Louis papers of Wednesday week nineteen 
steamboats wye advertised for the Lower Mississippi, in¬ 
cluding Memphis, Helena, Vicksburg and New Orleans. 
troller that when a pensioner re-enlists he for¬ 
feits pay in that capacity, and oau not be again 
put upon the pension rolls, except, by u surgical 
re-examination, and a certificate of his disability. 
The Marshal of the District of Columbia adver¬ 
tises for public sale the fife estate of sixteen 
owners in various numbers, and pieces, and par¬ 
cels of ground in Washington City, under the 
Confiscation Act 
A lady reached Washington from Richmond 
on the 21st who states that the utmost destitution 
exists.among the soldiers and lower classes of 
