Daily State Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 3695, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 August 1862 — Page 2

DAILY SENTINEL

Triri . i cii r .-, .The Union It caust.be preferred. JfAa. Democratic Union State Ticket. 'torn. iirc&rrARr or täte, . JAMES S. ATHOX. Of Marion Coanty. TOM. ACDtTO CT PTAT, JOSEPH RISTIXE. Of Fountain Ooawty. rot TiKturtta or tat, MATTHEW L. BRETT. Of Darle County. rot. attchskt ortr.EAL, OSCAR B HO KD, Ol Dcctur Cwtttj. ro itrtftixTEvncir or rcsuc i:htcctigx, SAMUEL L. RUGG, Of Allen Count. t37We understand tht Governor Weight in lit peech at the Circle on Saturday Xil.ht. that the Democracy were laboring to tecure a majority in the iiex. Legislature, to turn orer the State to the Southern Confederacy. If the Governor said thi, he U meir.er liar than the Father of Lied. To what b.vse ues hx he come at laat! Treasonable Orgjanlzallon In Indl ana Indictment bjr the Grand Jury. We publish this this morning the presentment of the Grand Jury of the United States District Court for the Sure of Indiana, giving the grounds for indicting certain parties for treason arainat the Government. From the Journal we learn the follow inj facts: 7e-ir two hundred witnesses were sworn and examined. Sixty indictment were written by the attorney fur the Government and returned by the jury, sixteen of wh'ch were for treason, and tgain the following per.on: JeA6 Fuller, Solomon Coker, Nathaniel Hicks, Theodor Appleate, Noah McCalliier, Thomas Cole, Andrew Meflorl, William Hrownlee, John H'tet, Adatn H. Johnson, Rirhanl Lambert, William Luken, Andrew Huston, Taylor Mefford, Robert Slaughter, James Thompson alias Ja nie- McOomell. There were aI.o eighteen indictment returned against persous for cutinpirucy to take and posses the property of the United Sutes, and thir teeti for conspiracy to defeat the operation of this lw. The character and object of a hecret organization were inquired into and fully exposed and found to be a hot bed of treason. We agree with the Journal most fully in the tcutimeiit that "secret political societies cannot live in thU country in time of peace, much les 1 Jo time of war, when ecrccy becomes treajou." This is illustrated in the death of the Know ! Nothing order, a ecret political society, to which the editor of tint print belonged. It there are 15,000 traitors in Indiana who j have bound thcraclvei by onlhd, as the Grand t Jury charge, "to resist the payment of the KM- ! cral taxes and prevent enlistments in the armies of the United States," and if enlisted to treacherously betray loyal soldiers in the army, it is time the people should know it by indubitable evidence. The good name of Indiana is involved In such an astounding development, and it is due to her people, it is due to the country, that such an alleged conspiracy ehoiJd not rest upon tho ex parte statements of a partisan Grand Jury. It is due to the men who are Indicted that they should have a prompt and fair trial, and if guilty they Rhould receive a traitor's punishment. Judge Swatse should promptly convene a special term of the court, and try the accused parties, as the ery best way of crushing out treasonable secret associations. Unless this presentment be intended for partisan purposes, there can be no excuse for delay. The Democracy, as a party, put their seal of condemnation upon all secret or open political organizations having either unpatriotic objects in view, in the following resolution which was unanimously adopted by the Convention of the 30th of July: 8. That the Convention denounces, as unwise and unpatriotic, all organization, secret or open, having for their object the nullilication ol, or resistance to, the laws of the Suuo or of the United Stale that oppressive laws and unwise legislation find their projer correction only at the b.lot box, where a chiuge of legislators will produce the wished for reform of bad and odious laws, and to that tribunal only will the patriot resort in this nour of his country's trial. We hold sacred and binding every enactment till repealed or declared nugatory by competent legal authority. We protest against the use of the presentment of the Grand Jury for political partisan purines, as the Journal ha already done. It can not be denied truthfully but there are secret political organization all over the State, composed entirely of "unconditional Union tnen," and they are equally guilty with the associations presented by the Grand Jury, lor the editor of that print avows that "secret pditical aocietiescan not live in this country in time of peace much less iu lime of ytir ichen srertsy becomes treason." If this be the correct position, the people will inquire, "why did j not the Geand Jury extend their inquiries to the latter associations?" Hut this is no time for parleying. We de ire to address ourselves to th sober sense of all good citizens. Marshal Robinsox, although a Democrat, placed men of opposite politics upon the Grand Jury during hi term of office. So did Marshal English. It remains for a "no party" Marshal to constitute, a Grand Jury without a single Democrat upon it. We regard this as an insult, a gross insult, an impeachment of the loyalty of at least one half of the citireus of Indiana. It gives the lie, beyond contradiction, to all the miserable humbug declarations of nopartyism from Republicans. Now for the facts. A secret inquisition, as mean as the SpacUh inquisition, with the power of the Government to sustain it, without notice to the accused aud civinz them no ojportunity to bo heard in defense iu person or j by counsel, upon ex parte evidence, seeks to stab j the integrity and the loyalty of a citizen for par-! tisan purposes. Unheard this secret. pili.an body arraigns him as a criminal. In addition to I this, this irresponsible body, protected by law and j under the veil of secresr, comes into Court with j itr.-tr nnA tl.la! iMliinitnr f and publih it to prejudice the public mind ind attempt in advance to convict the accused. We know not, and have no personal sympathy with any of the men indicted, but we say in all Lon esty that Lucifer himself could not etince greater malignancy than has this Republican Grand Jury. In looking over the list of that j body we Und the name of one JuJge. We ask. him. because he professes some intelligence, if tffh is the way he discharges bis trust? Is it his protiace to become accuser, prosecutor, judge and jury? If so. in comparison, the memory of the infamous Jirrait thouM be enshrined in rirtue. Mo-e than this. The Journal professes to give a report of the testimony before the Grand Jury which we believe its members in honor, if cot by oath, are bound not to divulge. I this justice, or partisanship, mean and devilish? That print states, in corroboration of the evi dence it reports of the guilt of the accused, that Jit hundred reenters were told on the day the Democratic Mass Meeting was held in this city. The editor knows that is a wicked, wholesale lie. There were cot a hue4rd revolver sold on that day there were not fity old to penoas attending the Contention.

Thete were rrjt five hundred revolvers In the city j on that day f i r sale, and we think we can inclu '.e in that iiuailT thoe in the arrenal. A mm who will wilfully lie in oi.e thinr, will deceive in ft cry thing. And what are his statements worth in regard lo anything? We ;eak not in this maltcr with any partisan bias. We Hak as a citizen. We appeal to the people of Indiana not as partisans, but as citizens desirous of preserving the great heritage of a free Government from a patriotic ancestry, to brand as it deerTe this base attack upon the liberty and rights of the citizen. It i not for the accused we plead, but for constitutional liberty. Strike that down aud all is gone. If the men whom this Grand Jury have indicted are guilty of treason against their Oovernmect, upon a f.ir trial, confronted by the witnesses against them for we, as yet, pro! cm to be under the Constitution and the laws if guilty, hang thero as high a Haman. Hut let not Iks partisan civil war. The radical; may for awhile triumph, as in the Cromwelliin era, but to be relieved from anarchy, to be eafe in life and property, the people will finally welcome the ru!e of a despot. Such U history. And the people of to-day are of the same nature, governed by the same paaaions a the progenitor of our race. So moth fur the intent of the Grand Jury. In all seriousness, we believe that no sensible man can read this Munchausen presentment without coming to the conclusion that the Grand Jury have been sold humbugged. In evidence of th:, it is only necessary to allude to that part where the members, North and South, have signs, by which, in battle, they can communicate to each other so as to "$hoot over." Battles com roence often half a mile off, and in the heat of an engagement the smoke hide the contending parties. It is known, also, that in an engagement, but few of the soldiers take, or can take aim, and fire indiscriminately. Xot only the malignancy, but the folly of this presentment i made manifest by the stupidity of its authors. Dah!

Laying Down the rartinn. Our distinguished and comprehensive Governor, in his war speech at Cincinnati last Wednesday night, remarked, which we copy from a terbalim report in the Cincinnati Commercial: v When this war began, and I undertook tocomprehnnd the whole issue, I felt it was my duty, and the duty of every man, to lay down the par tisan on the altar of" his country until peace had been restored; anil I can aj)peilio my course hince this war began, in evidence of my sincerity and good faith. Now then for the Governor's own evidence of his abnegation of all partisan feelings. Right on the heel of the foregoing thi follows: I appointed a Democratic Fentor to Gil a vacant seat in Congress, and nearly seventy thousand men were received in Indiana for military service, indifferently from all parties. I think, therefore, I have succeeded in laying down the partisan, and that I am entitled to ipeak freely, and if what I say ii offensive to any man, be lie Republican, Democrat, Abolitionist or American, it is not because he belongs to this or that party, but because he is doing things which I think he should not do, under existing circumstances. The sum nd substance of the Governor's anti partisanship is the appointment of a man to the United States Senate upou the condition that he would repudiate the party who had heaped unmeasured aud unmerited honors upon him, and had received, "indifferently from all parties" nearly seventy thousand men in the military service of the country. Good heavens! what an act of grace is the latter! To receive Democrats in the army to fight the battles of the Union is the Governor's comprehensive idea of laying down the partisan upon the altar of his country. "Tell it not in Gath, publish it not iu the streets of Askilon." His Excellency's patriotism, according to his own showing, is a ware of the cheapest kind. The Governor does not, in evidence of his no partyism, state that he has appointed Democrats to civil positions, even in those cases where they have been vacated bv the incumbent m Democrats entering the military service of their country. Nor did he apologize for the telegraphic dispatches to the Cincinnati Republican papers.which emanate from his office and which day after day revile the best men in the State for no other reason than they do not happen to hare the same political views as the Governor, yet would do at least as much for the country as His Excellency if by accident they had been placed in the same position to do so. We will give the Governor credit for meaning well, for energy in the discharge of his official duties and for the intention of dropping the partisan. Rut the fact is that the party screws hive been broucht to bear'tlpon him with great power and tenacity, and while desiring to break loose from all party restraints, he has not had the moral courage to b.eak the fetters which bound him and rise to that standard of patriotism which he claims for himself in his Cincinnati speech. To illustrate the influences brought to bear upon the Governor, we will state that a prominen t Republican in this State, who professes to be in favor of the very vigorous prosecution of the war, said if he had been it Chief Magistrate not a solitary Democrat should have had u position above the ranks in the army. Surrounded by such a jrcssurt, the Governor perhaps deserves credit for doing as well as he has, but certainly not enough to entitle him to his self heralded no partyism. From the Indianapolis Journal. Astounding Developments before the United Male firatid Jury. A SECRET SOCIETY OF TRAtTOM IX 1X0IAXA. In the District Court of the United States, for the District of Indiana, May Term, li62. The Grand Jurors of the United States of America, within and for the District of Indiana, empauneled, sworn and charged in said district at siid May term thereof, having about complete! their labors (and being now ready to adjourn) feel it their imperative duty to announce iu a respectful manuer to this honorable court the general features of some startling development m de during their investigation. These developments, when considered in connection with the disturbed eoudition of the country by reason ot the cau?e!es and atrocious rebellion against the Constitution and laws of the land, are deemed of the gravest importance and should be made known, that prompt and efficient meas ures may be taken by the civil and military authorities" to meet and ward off the effect of the wicked and treasonable designs of those connected with such development. A recent art of Uoiigress made it the duty of the Grand Jury to inquire into any combinations or conspiracies formed by individuals within the jurisdiction ot t'e court to prevent the execution ol any law of the United States. Having heard that organizations with this object in view existed in certain localities, witnesses were sent for, and brought before the Grand Jury. These wit nesses canm from many couuties, and "lived in various parts of the Mate. After a careful and diligent examination of the testimony from wit-Lev-es well acquainted with the facts deposed, and kariny a personal knowledge of f.'te matters, saki Grand Jury are constrained to say that a secret and oath bound organization exists, numbering some?een thousand in Indiana, as estimated by the members of their order, commonly known as Kniyhts tf th Golden Circle, and even in the same localities by different name. Their lodges, or "Castles" as they denominate them, are located in various parts of the Stale, jet they have common iign, grips, and words whereby the members are able to distinguish each ether, and passwords to enable the member to eater the castle in which he was initialed, or any other which such member may chooe to visit. They Lave ainals by which they can commu

nicate with each other in the day, or the irght time, anl above all they luve a signal

or sigri which roiy be recognized" at a rreat distance from the pnou giving it. This t signal, we re-tel to say, was invented f r the tite of such mrmhrrs as sUnuld, by means of the draft or othtrvi, Le compelled to rr in the rankt of the army. Ia such case members of the order nerving in opposing armies receiving the pign are reminded of tteir obligation not to injure the member giving it. This signal i given iu every instance upon the initiition of a i.ew member, and its observance is strictly crjained upxn every individual belocicg lo the order. By the teachin;; of the organization it i the uuty of its members engaged in the pre.-ent war, although ar ra)ed on opposite sides, upon the tigual bein? given, if they shoot at all. "tt shoot over each other." Many members of the order examined before us admit the Lindinj force of t'u obligation, and pretend to justify it as correct in principle. Said Grand Jury would respectfully submit that the effect of such obligation is to set a!de the oath taken by every soldier when he enters the service of the United States. The obligation imposed by the organization alluded to is inconsistent with the duties of a soldier who in battle dire not spare the person of his enemy. We must either disarm orde-uroy him, and especially so long is the rebel may be seeking to take the life of the loyal soldier. To do otherwise, would be grossly treacherous, and justly subject the guilty party to a traitor's doom. From the evidence introduced before said Grand Jury, it would seem that the order called the Knights of the Golden Circle had their origin in some of the Southern States, und was introduced into this State from Kentucky. Its primary object, when it originated, wns to organize the friends of the institution of African slavery in the United States, for the purpose of acquiring more territory in Mexico and the Central American States, and also the acquisition of Cuba, thereby to extend and footer a great slive empire, even though it should dye those countries iu human blood. Hence the various raids made upion those countries which have culled forth from time to time the proclamations of our former Presidents, denouncing such attempts and threatening the ex ercise of the tower of the Government to put t hem diwn. Wicked as thee hellish schemes ete,said JiHiul Jury would not have troubled this Honorable Court with this presentment had the maciiirations of the Knights of the Golden Circle been confined solely to their original designs. Finding how u-eful such nn organization was for the purpo-es original! v intended, said Grand .Ju ry believe that it not only extends at present through every part of the South, and every department of the tebel army, but during the last winter and spring was introduced into the State of Indiana and other Northern States. Since that time it has made alarming Togie-s in our midst, with entirely new features attached to it in view of the unnatural conflict now desolating onr country. Not only are the loyal tuldiers in the army to be treacherously betrayed in the bloody hour of battle, by the signal before re ftrred to, but said Grand Jury have abundant evidence of the membership binding themselves to resist the payment of the Federal tax and prevent enlistments in the armies of the United States It is a fact worthy of note, and conclusively shown, that in localities where this organization extensively prevails, there ha. been a failure to furnish a lair proportion of volunteers. Said Grand Jurv, after a thorough examination on that point, have been unable to find any instance ichere a member of sail organization had nolun teered to fight fur the Union under the late requisition for volunteers. Said Grand Jury were informed that an individual ol the Order hid pro posed to make up a company to be called "Jayhawkers," composed exclusively of "Knights of the Golden Circle." Rut said Grand Jury believe that at no time was the proposition seriously entertained, but in fact only intended as a cover to hide their treasonable purposes when they found they were about to be discovered. The meetings of the Order referred to are holden in by places, sometimes iu the woods, nnd at other times in deserted houses. Its members frequently attend teil harms in their hands, and in almost every instance, armed sentinels are posted to keep off" intruders. Youths not more than sixteen years ot ago are iu many case introduced and initiated into its mysteties. The credulous and unwary are often allured into the fold of the Order, upon the tretest that it was instituted for no other purpose than the better organization of their party. Its real character and teachings are sedulously concealed until the oath of secrecy has been in due form administered. Having taken the first degree, the initiate is familiarized with the obligations and opinions of his associates.and is gradually prepare I for the second degree When be is further taught and found apt to learn, and ready to adopt its princip'les and teachings, he is obligated in the highest degree, and is turned out upon the country a thorough traitor, wiih the wicked purposes already specified. Said Grand Jury are happy to know that in many cases individuals, niter their first introduction into the Order, seeing its evil tendencies, hate abandoned it, although unwilling, on account of their obligations of secres , and for fear of personal violence, are reluctant to fully expo.-eits treacherou principles. Since said Graud Jury began said investigation it has been discovered that the order exist among the prisoners of irar note in Camp Morton, tcho rfne to testify, ufioq the ground that it may tm plicate the mtmbers of th'ir order in Indiana, and thenby injure the cause of the Southern Cnufed eracy. For the purpose of evading any legal liability, incase of judicial investigution.it appears that their signs are to be used to enable them to get members of tfuir order on the jury, in case of criminal charges being preferred against them, and by changes of venue, and appeals from u Judge who does not belong to the order, to ere ate judicial delay, until they can find a Judge or juror belonging to this order, and thus escape all legal li; bihty. Said Grand Jury have no doubt that the order of the "Knights of the Golden Circle" exist in many localities in Indiana where their vigilance has not been able to penetrate. They have labored under many difficulties in their researches, and have drawn evidence in most of the canes from unwilling tcitnesses. Judicial oaths have but little binding force where individuals once consent to abandon the allegiance they owe t heir country. The general facts, however, so lar as I they have come to the knowledge of the said J Grand Jury, have been submitted to this honor- : able Court. They leel it their duty to i do so. The safe'ty of the country in this I hour of peril and civil strife demand it at their hand. I he power of sucn an organization to do harm, acting as one man, with one purpose in view, with their influence, may be appreciated by the honorable Court. It is the place where treason i concocted the nest where traitors r.re hatched. The Grand Jury, therefore, respectfully ask this Court that thi their presentment mav be j spread upon the records. j William 1 Fisuback, Foreman. ! Charles H. Test, George Moon, Win. A. Montgomerv, James Make, T. It. McCarty, ' Daniel Siglcr. Leonid is Sexton, Ken. G. Stout,' James Hill, Daniel Sagre, H. D. Scott, Robt. Parrett, Fred. S. Drown. Social cum-sporiiif i:ce of the Chicago Tinje. From .MrmphU. Ahmdonmcnt of the Siege of Vickshurg The In- j effectual Attempt to Capture the Arkansas The Xegro Canal Diggers Turned Loose to Shiji for Thrmstlves Where the Fleet hate Gone. M tii rms, Texx., July 29. The ran; Queeu of the West'arrived yesterday fioin Vicksburg, with intelligence of important events iu that locality. She brings details of the second unsuccessful attempt to capture the Arkansas, and confirmation of the rumor thit the seige of Vicksburg has beeu abandoned. After several weeks' exertion, vrith an armament of over two hundred guns, and a naval fjree unequaied in streu gtii oa our inland waters, the Federals have failed to destroy a fortification mounting from thirty to fjrty guns, and have been fairly bullied and bafiled by oue little iron guuboat, into running away and leaving the job. The rebels are entitled to raise the shout of exultation which at thi moment rings from one end to the other of the Confederacy. A rapid resume of the events which brought about this result will not be uninteresting. No boats have penetrate! the re!el blockade of the river except the Queen, and the mails which have been lost so breaks the connection that minor details are at present unattainable. The affair of ths 15ih, when the new invulnerable made her appearance aud ran through our fleet to complacently, is well known: also, the more recent attempt by Com. Farraut to blow her out of the WHter iy the combined broadsides of his fleet when running by the ballen e. which resulted in

little or nothing. From that time to the present the ever.ts late r.ol reached publicity , although ! they are of intere-t. '1 be f.ii'.uie of the atteuipt to capture the icbel J 1 at sat heavily upon the consciences of our l a- j al heroes, a the aud city of her fir.t appearance ' disturbed their sieepv equanimity. A plan was j

according! v laid by which it was liorl that she micht be taken, nd on the 13th, at about sun-1 rise, it was nut int-a execution. The new iron! clad gunboat E-sex and the ram Queen of the est were detailei for the duty, and nt a piven signal the Essex led the way upon the field of action. The ;lr.n was that these two boats should attack her and cut her out and carryher offtx.;ity, while the rest of the gunboats, above and below, engaged the batteries. The latter Van of the arrangement failed, aa the boats did not venture wuhin range, and the gallant pair were left t i fight it out alune. 1 he E-sei made a gmtid dah around the bend, and went nt her enemy in fine stvle. She was discovered immediately, of course, and pre parations were made to receive her. The bow of the Arkansas was swung out so as to present a front to the Lssei, and, if possible, reieive her on her iron prow. This operated to throw the assailing boat out of her course, and, in avoiding the iron prow, she struck a glancing blow, which did no particular harm. Her gunners had been active in the meantime, and several shots had been fire into the Arkansas, one of w hich, an eleven inch solid shot, went through her from stem to stern, killing fite men. Alter striking, the Essex recoiled from the collision, and swung around below the Arkan-as, with her bow close in shore, and, while in that position, both boats opened a fierce cannonading. The balls tok ef feet upon the Essex, and cut her up badly, while the Arkansas, a usual, was invuloerable. She seemed to be impervious to the strength of powder, and turned the heavy missile of her enemy uside, like p ier pellets, or crumbled them to atoms with a flush of blue light, and threw them overboard piecemeal. 1 he Essex whs, meantime, in danger t-f being sunk, and prudently conclu dedto Icne. She had lost three men killed and a number wounded, and was lighting alone a battle in which the whole fleet should have been engaged. She swung off, and started down s.:ream under the fire f all the batteries, and ran n gauntlet whir would have sunk any ordinary gunboat in the heet. Meantime the Queer? of the West wa getting under way. She made her start, and had got a good headway on, when she was hailed by Commodore I) i vis. In order to receive his communication, she was obliged to stop and teturn, when it was ascertained that the old cenlleman was merely telling them lo go it ns strongly as was feasible under the circumstances. This little digression sent the Essex into action alone, aud, betöre the Queen was again under headway, she had fought the battle and passed on. The ram went down in fine style. Shehad a hundred and fifty pounds of steam on, and was fairly bounding from the water when she struck the Arkansas. She made a circle lo strike her square, and the concussion was like an earthquake. The Arkansas careened, and rose out of the water as if lifted bodily off her Led. A crash of timber and iron resounded in the air ns the two boats parted, nnd the Queea backed her engines and prepared for a seen i id tdow. Thy Arkansas gave a heavy roll and settled buk to her positiou quietly, and again they came together. Theie whs another crash MinJ ufcother surge, nnd once morc they parted. The Queen turned and ran for the upper fleet, amid a perfect storm of balls, which ratt'üd about her in every direction. She was j ierced in every part, and only escaped sinking by a miracle. She was in a disabled condition, fur the only result of her tremendous blow had been to batter her prow into a wreck, and unjomt the iron sheathing with which it was covered. She got the worst of it by long odds, for tho Arkansas seemed to lie as quietly as ever, arid as invulnerable s ever. She was, in reility, uninjured. It may be well to add tint the man who took her info this storm of iron, to encounter a foe of ten time her strength, and fight single handed a battle in which there should have been a hundredfold more force, was Lieut. Hunter, w ho is stigmatized by the commander of the Tyler as a coward and a pxdtroon for his course in the first engagement. It shows that hasty words may do great injustice. A bolder thing never was done. It having been demonstrated to the satisfaction of the antiquated council which presides over the destinies of the river fleet, that the Arkansas was too much for them, the next step was to abandon the field and leave her iu victorious possession. Tiue, she was but one, while they were fifteen or twenty. She carried ten guns and was backet! by thirty five rnoie on the bluff, while they mounted eotnet ing over two hundred; but all that amounted to nothing so long as she was too much for them. She could not be shot to ptieces. or sufficiently banged about to induce her to show the white flag, under any circumstances, and the only alternative was to run away and leave her, like a parcel of corn fed boys breaking their necks to put the fence between themselves and a email buil calf which haftpteiied to be plucky aud pugnacious. Really, after such a performance, it would not have looked surprising to have caught a committee of three heroes applying salt to her stein-post some datk niht, that ohe might be safely caged the next morning. The upshot wa sufficiently ridiculous to crown the whole undeitaking. Throughout, the affair was a sp-ecinieu of imbecility. When the Arkansas came down, the fleet lay helpless. like so many turtles on their backs; not a pound ol steam to move them-elves with, and each vessel carefully anchored so that, if she fired a gun, she was sure to rake her next neighbor or sink a transftort. The small prodigy floated leisurely along, delivering her lire right and left among the astonished fogies, who were too mich dumb foundered at her audacity to do much besides open their mouths and look, and finally rested under the protection of the friendly batteries. The Renton waked up then, and made a valorous rush at nothing, and got punctured for her pains. Shu might as well have rushed at the moon. She jKked her nose around the corner, when there was nothing in the world to shoot at, and received the full fire of the batteries, and was glad enough to get back ugaiu, like a vuloious gander charging to protect his geese, after the danger is ail pa.st, and perchance running h's nose into a hornet's nest. Then the fleet must run the blockade and sink her. They ran the blockade, but did not sink her. Some say it was dark, and they cfluld not find her, and others sty that when they found her, and picked her up, she was, like the Irishman's piotato, too hot to hold. At all events, they lelt her there, although the supposition that they might have brought her away is by no means incredible. There were nine of them, all powerful steamers, aud. it they had grappled with her and dragged her off by main force, no body would have objected. Rut they did not do that. Aud then they must knock her to p'ieces with rams. So the two brav e boats above mentioned went at her, and the test looked on. It was like a boy fight at the li.ck of the schoolhouse, where two do all the hair-pulling and finger clawing, while .he rest sit and enjoy it. Of course the enemy considered it a joke, destitute of any serious intentions, and refuse! to acconi inodate tbera with a surrender. I'eriiapts.if hcy had all pitched in, as if they meant some . g, and backed up the supposition with their two hundred and odd guns, a different result would have been gained; but they never thouJKt of that. Eveu the venerable fossil w ho p-re-ides at the head of the Navy Department would have got that through his hair sooner than they. It he showed more imbecility, he ought to be nude a figure-head for some bold rebel craft like the Ar kansas, and be compelled to live a thousand i years to be shot at. Having determined to evacuate, the small colony of a thousand negroes which bad been employed on the canal, by whose united efforts the work of genius had effected a level five f eet above the water-line, with an increasing ratio poingon as the river fell, were disposed of by turning them !K)se into the woods. A ftortioa were carried down the river and deposited on the ehore iu the neighborhood ot their homes, and the whole pack wa thus got rid of. This was a bitter pill for the blacks, who were sure that Kingdom Come bad arrived wbea the Federals got there. They made a rush for the boats, and would have taken them by force bad tbey dared. They w ere : beaten off and told to shift for themselves, and j they had no alternative except to take to the i w roods to starve, until they 'choose to go home to j their masters. They went with the Federal so willingly, in many cases coming out of the woods where their masters had hidden them, and iu j many more insulting them most gratuitously in ! the process, that they at present stand in boddy I lear or being killed the moment they are caught; so they live bet w ecu the danger of starvation and murder. The canal remains a monument of inefSciency. It is full five feet above the water, and as that fluid does not surmount such slight obstacles unaided, there is D ) chance of its being luptized. Until the Mississippi can be coaxed to run over the top ol a moderate sized hill, it a ill never change its bod in that locahtv. the contrabands did their best todijra fast as the ri er went down,

but failed ignominiously. naif an inch a day ws too much lor them. On the 21th, F.un;ut'i fleet went down the river, au I ii now nt New Orleans. He took on board (Jen. Williams at.d his lour tl.ouan 1 men and left them at Baton Rouge. On the same day Davis's flotilli left the v-ilin and came

up to the m'uth of the Yazoo liver, where it now remains, waiting for more invulnerah!es to come down The Essex and the Sumter, victim of the grand policy which has directed movements, are Itelow Vicksburg, and can nut get up. Farragut left three of his gunboats to protect them with a utrong probability that the Arkansa will come out some fine morning and gobble them all up before breakfast. In the meantime the rebels were busy up the river. Batteries lud been planted at various points, and the boats were being fired into con tinually. The Sallie Wood, a transport, which left the fieeton Sunday, the -'1st, with dispatches, mail and passengers, was fired into at Island Z'2, immeliately above Greenville, and disabled. Shots passed through her steatnpipe and machinery, and she wns grounded on the Island. The pis-engers and crew, some thirty iu number, got ashore and roamed about the Island until the mostof them were captured. From Lieut. J. H. Wing, the only one who escnpl, I learn some particulars. Lieut. James C. Riddle, of Philadelphia, was sick, and there were others who were almost helptless. One party went up to the head of the Island and were taken the next forenocn. Those who were with Lieut. Wing took to the woods, and concealed themselves until the next day, when they discovered the Victoria going down. They could not make themselves heard, and she passed on. Tbey returned to the woed. Lieut Riddle was left behind at his own request, being unable to proceed further, and was captured. L;eut. Wing left the party to explore, and saw them no more, but met a negro the next day who told him that they had got starved out and given themselves up. He continued his efforts to escape, and the next night waded to a tow -head, or small island near, where he remained tiil taken off by the Carondelet, which passed. He was out iu all four days, almost without food, and underwent the greatest paivatiotis, but his p-erse veranve saved him. All the rest of them were taken prisoners except the Pilot, who escaped in a small boat. Lieut. Tubbs, of Jefferson county, Wisconsin, is among the captured; also a Mr. Fowler, of Chicago, an array contractr. The rebels burned the loat. The mails had been thrown overboard before she surrendered, and therewith went much valuable newspaper correspondence to the bottom the Misissidpi The Queen of the West was attacked at the same place on her way up, but she was well protected and managed to come through. She got a large number of caiman balls through her, one of which made tw o pieces of the carpenter, who was instantly killed. There were many narrow escapes. The passengers occupied themselves in peppet ing their assailants with some old muskets which were on board, which probably did more execution behind than before. The rebels have plante! batteries in three or four different places, and have most effectually blockaded the river, so far as ordinary steamboats at e concerned. SlIILOII. ANNOUNCEMENTS. 2?"Wc are authorized to announce JOHN A. BKAL a an independent unconditional Union camlitate for Common Pleas Ju !?e for th? 12th District. We are authorized to announce JOHN KkKkYKIt, .f Southport, a caii'lidatr for County KectiW, uV'j-ct to the Uecisiou of ths lH'iuocratic Convention. MEDSCAL. PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE, mO LADIES OFDEMCATE HEALTH 0RI1IPA.IHKI) fi. organisation, or to those by whom an increase of füiuily in froia any reason objectionable, tin t ndersignfd vml J oflVT a oreKcrqttict: wLich is perfectly rHiable and safe, arid w hich has liern prescribed in various part f.f the Old Worhitor thejoistceiitury. Although tbis article ls very cheap aud simple, y-t it ha been put up in half pint hottleo and sold very extensively at tie ethorbitant prieeoffö pcrbottle, the undersigned propoaes fur-rii-h the recipe for 91, by tin possession 4f which every lady can; supply bernell with a perfect safeaad, at any druu store for the triflinir sum of 25 cents per vcar. Any physician or druxicist w ill tell you it ii perfectly harmless, thus;ind.of testimonials can be procured of it efSca.-y. Sent to any part of the world on receipt of 1, by addres. In. Da.J.C. ÜKVERAUX. P. t). Box, Xo.2jö3,7ew Hv-n.Conn;cticut . ily22-d.Vw'Bl WHOLESALE GROCERS. Barl Sc Hatcher, V IE O Ii K S A . V. OER 200 I1HD3. New Orleans S-par just received from Mo:nplii!i, and for sal Ly KAKL k UATCHEK. o 0 0 BDLS Reflncd Sngar for m1 by EARL & HATCHER. 500 BAGS Rio Coffee; 100 Bags Java Coffee; 10 Bales Mocha Coffee; Forjaleby EARL 4 HATCHER. TOBACCO. 150 BOXES 5 Lump; 100 Bo.ea 10 Lump; 73 Boxe Ä Lump; loO Boxe bright lb; L0 Boxe dark Ib; 500 Caddj?s U lbs.; 50 Kejs Six Twit; The above aivrtror.t of Tobacco ii now the largest to be foulet in the Wen, and will be ao'd brlow tfce eumtt rate. EARL 4 IIATCIIER. I, x k i: i i s ii 2,000 Half Brl. White FUb, For ale by EARL k HATCHES. i jjolm-

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e A i: - V. 0 r 0 . 7 3 2 b 0 - w ea. 3 SO Cw - 51 H v -r o -"t I B jo r -w hI If o -a IH - to mm 0 - a-, 5" O 5- ? -I M et Z. I m. v. ) H 0 V Z Z M - 3 -a W S b tm CHOCOLATE. i:tabimtri In ITsO. BAKER'S PREMIUM CHOCOLATE. PURE TREPAKKIt Cocoa, l;rma. Prei.ch, Homeopathic and Vai.il! Chorolate.. warranted equal ia qualify and flavor to the Pari Chf-coUter; Lave tod the text f over threequarter of a century, and are prnUNcrl by all who have once ud them to Ik? superior to any other. J!ai;ufaT:reit Ly W. lUVer A Co., at their MJU, in iK.r-i cheter, Ma., atid fur a! at their Brarch Ik-pot No. 217 Fulton tro-t. New York City, and by Grocer and Dealer generally thrr u;hoi.t tie Union. ; AJdrr It. L. P1EKCE, j JflO-:.1m 217 I-'uJtoii ttrrrt, Nrw York. COLD AND SILVER. t I will psy the L 'cLpsd pr ce 'or American 'Jul l and Sil- J ver, also for United Mul.u U-m.wl Note, old i.ue. i kilby m:i;UMix, i E.v.rhar.jre Broker. ; OfHec No. 24 !i Eat YTa-hington ftreet, up-Mair. 2d ! doorto right hanl. j19-10d MEDICAL. t fllHESE Tills are the r-u't of mach Meady and carefill experience in all varieties f Ft male complaint, an 1 in cn-s of Irreitulnritir, SupprfM-i.tns, Leuctmrrhe or White, Inflammation of the Bladder, Kidney and Womb, and los of Xcrvou K nervy, etc. Their ue Is above all praise. Are entirely freo from any Mercurial or Mineral poison, are purely vczctnlle, u l arc free frojn dancer; can be .cd willj perfect safety. Anions the many thnu-an li that har ned them in all part of the Union jsoxk hpc.ik ill of theni, fr all like them. Married Ladie in cert.v'n situations hhoulJ not u.e them. For reason m diret ti n on earli bvr.. lrirr One Hollar Vcr Hox. The are sent in a thin, flat, box, pottage fr, to all parts of the I'nued Mat upon the lecvipt of the pi ice. TreparcdanJ sold by litt. EWINCJ, No. IS Virginia Avenue, my7-cAw'ly Iudian-ipolih, Indiana. 1 Slight Caltt, er dftxfc jDlitctit, U'hich "viirrht he choice i with a cimrle remedy, if neglected, cfleru termiruitea cericxicly. Few are aware cf the imj-oriance cf stopping a ßcuali. er llahl (saLci in, its first ciage ; that wnich in. the beginning wcxdd yield to a mild remedy, if net attended lo, svcA attacks the lungs. &eCWLJl!& I&tCJuJLLiTLj&tacJLrS. were first introduced eleven years ago. It has been proved that they are the best article before the public for jlzsULmcLt ala.0tfL, the Hackirjj Ccugh in $csL&iirnLtLcji , and numerous affections cf the fEJlLtcat, giving immediate relief. Public Speakers tC Sincrrs will find them effectual for clcxring and ctrenrrtherdnrr the voice field by all (Druggists and (Teiler in Jedioine, at 5 cents jrr I ox. mm C O : F I II S3 a T I A . grt-z rouxo men who have vs. X if''sSi!tjt JL'KKH litems Ives by certain secret V:'j 1t-,mi habits, which unfit them for hu-dne, i?.S' pW-T:r or the duti s of marri'-d life; also, middle-aJ a.n! old men, who, froia the follies of youth or thi r fuv, frl a debility in adv.iticc of their year-, before placing tt.eaisele under the treatment of ar.y oi.e, f-hMi! I f rst read "THE SECRET Mil END." Married ladies wi 1 V nm M.rr.etbins of importance by perusing " J hk Seckkt Fhiksp." Sent to aiiy addret, in a .-ilcd envelope, on rc ipt of Ten Cent-. IR. STUART CO.cati be consulted on all diw-a-e of a private or conTlder.fi.il nature, from H A. M. tc 9 P M., (Sunday from 9 to 11 A. M.,) at their o3".ce. No. 13 East Third street, up-stiir-, between Mt:o and Scamre, opposite the llenrie Hous. Ad ln- liii.cn AS. A. STUART k CO., mch2l dAwly-i-'6J Cincinnati. Ohio. HAPPINESS OR MISERY ? THAT IS THE QUESTION. fBinE proprietor? of the "I'ABISIAX CABINET OF I WONDEBs, ANATOMY, and MEDICINE," have rietenruned, regardless of exj-ense, to lue, free, (f.r the bereft of stfTeriiür humanity) FOUIt of tbe r mot inftrtctive and inU-resiinir Lector: on Marriaze and ita Iri-o.UG.lifteauons, Nervous Dt-hilify, Premature Iline of Manhood. Indirection., Weakne or It preion, Lo cf Energy and Viul Power, the Great Social Evil, and thoc Maladtej Lich r-suit from y-nrhlul folli, xeesj of Maturity, r Ignorance nt n.yoJ.ry ar.d Nature' Law Thee invaluaM Icture have been the mean of er.li;htenin;; attd mvuij thoua:ids, and will be forwarded tree or. the receipt of f-ur tamps, ty addrer-a-i:ijr SLCH.TAKT Paaiw.i CAitT or Avarcvr an Mr.i:cisc, Broadway, New York. Je23-dly DRY

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'2? an at BAKERY. i. R. MCKIM. HORACE FARRCTT. NICKUM & PAREOTT'S (rcvis to a. ' t. Mim;,) wIiÄO. STOATS IfiAKEUtY ar CO ISTFECXIOSTEIRTSr, No. 11 NORTH ri:NNYl.VANlA STIIEKT (ft-tween (M l I tll.tw' lUn and rt OSe.) Manufacturers of all kinds of Cracker, Cke, itrvad and Pits, Wholesale and Let ail. U7F. m.v.ufacture and keep a Con-tant upi 1 of tbe f lowing artk l-'K CRACKERS Butter Cracker, l"ic-lc Crackers, S.da Cracker, (iraLam Cracker. Crack hell Bi-cui!s, Water Crackers. Soifar Craekers, Wine Ci ackers, ltou d arker. Cr-'-am Crackers. Uinr r Cracker, etc. UkF.S i f Ml kind-, l'lai.'i and Orn imen'e.1. .Ml kiriN of Mdcro i - ;.nd Tirt-. J' Vy, l attey, türper aid Siunr Cke, A" , Ac. Vnl iii;; uml 1'nrfir fiirnUhrd on !irt 'NiMire. EtTCAXIMES OF ALL KIMS. Jiay-Orders for larce q laiiiit!? filled at low rate. BCi.Oph-r ;rn i ily MW, and Mirore 1 in t'eity fr' oj c ha te. jy21-l2in DRY GOODS. Lynch Sl Keane. 33 T.Sr WA'HlNfiTON STBFET, itv 7.' sjicrrjLr;at OTHER LAUGE INVOICES OF SUMMER UA' goods, I.ndir I)rr. Cood evrrrlhlri'; In the L.lucf und .rvt ! ign. rACE atui ilk Maniiila, iiew style Faque, SimwU J ai.d Cioakf, Printed Cthce, Pr(ox ! ani Sun I'm. breiit. Hoop Ski ts, H-ii.ry Ac; Irn-h IJr.er,, I ml r".detie. White ,ood, Lftjen end Camiri 11 in i-r iii'f. Bleached and Brown Sheetings, l",;.,ve, N.;i-.i.4. Ilet Aine;ican bra:e'. Iron xc a yard Dp; nt:sT tuvaisisu i'M.YTs. O-.ly li.'.c a yard; .. u ;.s' titsOm.va :lotii9 6-4 w i le, o-.ly C0r a yard; vt-ry p 3 pair ra Tlh HALLOC'S FRENCH YOKE SHIRTS, only to le Lai ai I.yib 1 Keane" TUT BEST I BENCH CO.'iSiiTS ANU WAISTS. CHOTH, CASSIMERE. AND PANTS STUFF For njen'n and boy' wear; S raw Good. Hai, Car ail I tai evrryiu.iiK i o ii'una in m iry tffn ctn'ideie; ln.u:ht at reoei.t auc.i oa in New M.yfe. Yotk: w i.i o ii per nut utmiw iwrror pnee ior cao. HOOP SKIBTSTIOOP SKIRTS! Having made arrangements . with two cf tbe larrat Il w-tp Stirt Manufa'-'orie in the Eat, r re; ared to oEer th' if!. wholeile aid re'aJ, at New York pricea. Call and eatniti the stork; no trouble to hnw rr-odv Or.ly one price. Benumtier r'.ca of tL 1 II. on Skirt. Jel3C2-dly COODS.

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