The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-08 00:00:00

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH)

GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, Oct. 7—Anna, from Dantzie.
Sailed—Holland, steamer, for Ostend—Triton, steamer,
for Boulogne—Emma, steamer, for Christiania—Velocity,
steamer, for Calais.

A new novel, of the highly sensational school, is
announced for immediate publication by Messrs. Trubner
and Co. It is from the pen of the author of Blackfriars,
and is entitled Superior to Adversity.

MADAME ROLAND.—Among the victims of the
French Revolution there is scarcely one who has
excited such compassionate interest as Madame Roland.
Her beauty. her great talents, her high character and pure
patriotism, the influence she exercised upon the more mo-
derate and respectable section of the republicans, the forti-
tude with which she bore the sorrows of her imprisonment,
and the intrepidity with which she met her tragic fate—
all have contributed to render her an object of attraction
and pity. She stands forth among her contemporaries as
a fair representative of what was best in the party that
overthrew the ancient monarchy. In the prejudices
of the party she fully shared, and her memoirs
speak df Louis XVI. and of his political intentions in terms
which history has certainly not ratified. But, in the gene-
rally noble aims of the Girondists, and in their utter
abhorrence of the excesses of Robespierre and his crew, she
also fully shared ; and when her friends fell before that
Nemesis of successful agitators—the necessity of governing
in the face of agitators more extreme than themselves—
their fall bore her with them in a common ruin. Able and,
for the most part, upright men, had they all possessed her
energy and courage, it is possible they might have made a
more e.ffdctuel stand than they did. Be that as it may, few
nobler deaths than hers were the result of their want of
practical governing power.— Me Reader,

MEDITERRANEAN HOTEL COMPANY (LIMITED.)
—The poll demanded by Mrs. Parr on the question, as to
the passing of the accounts of the late directors, took place
to-day, when there were recorded, in favour of the resolu-
tion that these accounts be passed, 616 votes ; and in favour
of Mrs. Parr's amendment, 33 votes. The accounts were
therefore passed by a majority of 683 votes,

The Brest journals announce the departure from
that port of the frigate Sybille, with a convoy of
emigrants for the French colony of New Caledonia, in the
Pacific. The Sybille has already made three voyages with
emigrants, many of whom have since married young wo-
men brought up by public charity in France, and who had
voluntarily gone out. Those females received dowries from
the Empress, and are so well satisfied with their lot that
several have written to Paris to induce their former com-
panions to follow. Regular communications have been
established between Port-de-France, the chief town of the
colony, and Sydney in Australia.
MINERAL WATERS.—The beneficial Effects of
mineral waters are generally admitted, but the
cause of their efficiency is declared by the best practitioners
to be unknown. The only means as yet employed to solve
the mystery has been chemical analysis; and when a
chemist has discovered a milligram of iodine or some other
substance in a spring, its efficacy is immediately attributed
to that substance, although it has been hundreds of times
administered in much larger doses without any visible
effect. In a paper addressed to the Academy of Sciences,
Dr. Scoutetten endeavours to show that the real activi.y
of mineral waters is owing to their electricity. Imbued
with this idea he at first attempted to discover traces of elec-
tricity in mineral springs by means of a gold-leaf electro-
scope, but without success. Continuing his experiments,he
found the confirmation of Becquerel's theory, viz., that the
earth in contact with a sheet of water manifests electricity ;
and also that when the latter is impregnated with air, it
takes a quantity of positive electricity, while the earth is
negative. The same is the case with sea water, but all
mineral springs aro negative with regard to the earth. By
the aid of Nobili's galvano-meter, which is founded on the
principle of the deviation of the needle under tho influence
of a galvanic current, Dr Scoutetten found that, if a mineral
water be brought into impel feet contact with common aerated
water by means of a porous diaphragm, and if platinum elec-
trodes Le used a regular pile is formed, and the galvano-mete►
shows the mineral water to be negative, and the common one
positive. Extending these experiments to the-human body
ho found that mineral waters determine a current always
passing from the water to the patient; they are therekte
negaiive with respect to the latter, and the galvanometer in
their case marks 70, 80, and as much as 90 degrees. Hence
Dr Scoutettin explains the efficacy of mineral springs by the
three following propositions-1. That mineral waters all
determine phenomena of excitation owing to the electricity
they develop in contact with the human body ; 2. That the)
exercise a therapeutic action, which varies according to the
nature of the mineralising elements; and 3. That they oc-
casion a topical action which provokes erui,tions on the skin.

REGENERATION OF BONE.—In a paper addressed
to the Academy of Sciences, Dr. Sedillot examines
the influence of the vital functions on the structure and
form of the organs. Without entering into the strict:}
professional part of the paper, we will glean a few parti-
culars which may appear interesting to the general reader.
Dr Sedillot states that if, of the two bones which constitute
the leg or the arm, one of them be partly cut away, and not
afterwards reproduced by the periosteum, the other bone
increases in size so as to acquire a volume equal to that or
the two bones taken together. This phenomenon is parti-
cularly evident in the case of dogs whose tibia has been cut
away. In these animals the peron sous is almost filiform,
and scarcely measures the fifth part of the thickness of the
other bone, and yet it soon acquires the volume of the lat-
ter, and may even exceed it. In one of Dr Sedillot's expe•
riments the peronssus which, in its normal state, had a
diameter not exceeding three millimetres, increased to ten
at the point where the tibia had been cut away, and the
same is observable in the cubitus and radius
when one of these bones has been partially removed.
These facts, however singular, are easily explained.
Whenever our locomotive organs are kept in great actiyit)
they acquire greater size and strength. Thus the right side
of the body is generally more developed than the opposite
one, and in left-handed persons the reverse is the case.
Boxing and fencing masters have their right arms much
more voluminous than the left. Motion, in fact, accelerates
innervation and circulation, and renders nutrition more
active. The density of the osseous tissue is equally im-
portant. All animals that have to support considerable and
prolonged efforts have very compact bones, nearly approach-
ing to the density of ivory—an observation which is con-
firmed on inspecting the skeletons of several horses cele-
trated for their swiftness, which are preserved at the Ana-
tomical Museum of Alfort. All perforations and other
operations on the living bone cause the formation of new
strata of bone.

A HOUSEBREAKER SHOT AT BIRMINGHAM.—
Yesterday, at thb Public Office, Birmingham, a man
named John smith, was charged with breaking into the
warehouse of Mr J. Randall, jeweller, Hukley-street, and
stealing 14K.z. of gold and 5s worth of postage stamps;
total value, £2B. The prisoner was suffering from the
effects of a gunshot wound, and had to be brought from the.
General Hospital where he had lain some days, to appear
before the magistrates. A few nights ago the prisoner
and three other suspicious-looking fellows were seen
loitering about the prosecutor's premises; and Mr. Green,
the landlord of a neighbouring publichouse, and
his man Grice, set themselves to watch their movements.
Grico armed himself with a gun loaded with blank cartridge,
but did not perceive in the hurry that the ramrod was lasi
in the barrel. After watching the men for some time the)
saw the prisoner coming out of the warehouse. They callee
upon him to stop, but he made off at the top of his speed.
Grice pursued him, threatened to shoot him if ho did not
stop. The prisoner did not heed the threat, and at last Glick
fired. The ramrod struck the prisoner and passed througi,
his thigh, but fortunately the wound i. flitted 'was not of c
dangerous character. The prisoner iinnu.diat, ly rose hl.ll
showed fight and was only secured alter being knockee
down with the gun. The prisoner's companions escaped.
Tire quotation of gold at Parts is about 3 per milk pm., an C.
the short exchange on London is 2.5.32 j per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the Eng-lioh Mint price of £.
17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
about 3-ICths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocx.

PRUSSIA.

Advices from Berlin announce that the King of
Russia is to return to that city from B,Aden on the
14th. The Prince and Princess of Prussia and
their children are to proceed, after the 18th, to Nice,
and remain there two months.

THIRD EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

TATTERSALL'S.---This Evening,

CESAREIVITCH STAKES.
4to 1 ag,t Mail Train (offered) (9 to 2 taken
freely)
6to 1 agat Gratitude (`akan)
103 to 12 agst Calista colt (, ffered) (9 to 1 taken)
9to 1 agst Thalestris (,aken)
1000 to 55 agst Suspicion (wanted)
18 to 1 aget Lady Hylda (off,red)
25 to 1 agst Cathedral (taken)
25 to 1 agst Planet (offer. d)
33 to 1 agst Charmian (taken)
33 to 1 agst The Boatrix (taken)
1300 to 20 agst Ackworth (taken)
50 to 1 agst Blackdown (taken)
66 to 1 agst Dr. Syntax (t•ff3red)
1000 to 15 agst The Brewer (taken)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
100 to 6 aget Prince Plausible (taken)
100 to 6 agst Muezzin (taken)
120 to 6 agst Gratitude (taken)
25 to 1 agat Bayard (taken)
25 to 1 agat Brick (.ffered)
1')C0 to 35 agst Planet (taken)

The Last Scene in the Windsor Tragedy

Yesterday morning, at 9 o'clock, the funeral of the mur-
derer aril suicide, John Richard Cook, and tha four mur-
dered children, Mary Ann, Agnes Josephine, Eugenie, and
Louisa Elizabeth, took place at Old Windsor. The dreadful
nature of the circumstances in connexion with the deaths of
the sufferers atti acted a large number of persons, notwith-
standing the early hour fixed for the performance of the sad
and mournful ceremony.

The bodies of the father and children were placed in neat
elm coffins, bearing plates with suitable inscriptions, and
were furnished by the parish, at the expense of which the
funeral was carried out. The friends and relatives of Cook
and his children having assembled at the cottage at Old
Windsor-green, the scene of the murder and suicide, a fune-
ral procession was firmed, the body of Cook, with the coffin
covered with the usual pall, being carried first, on the
shoulders of four of the undertaker's men. Next came the
four little coffins containing the corpses of the poor children,
each covered with a snow white cloth and borne on the
shoulders of eight young men, selected from the village.
These were followed by the relatives of the deceased, in
black, the police-constable George Lovell, who discovered
the murder, also taking part in the procession, which was
followed by a large number of the villagers and spectators.
It was a sad and touching spectacle which the mournful
procession presented as it wound along the road in the bright
autumn morning, on its way from the cottage so lately the
scene of such an accumulation of horrors to the Old Windsor
churchyard,where the remains of Cook and his children were
to be interred. The churchyard is about a mile from the
house of Cook, and was reached about half-past nine, when
the body of the murderer, by the kindness of the amiable
vicar, the Rev J. Blunt, whose Christian feeling of charity
prompted him to do all that a minister of the Gospel could
to spare the feelings of the relatives, was taken through the
west door into the body of the church ; the coffin contain-
ing the bodies of the murdered children being taken round
the church to the great door on the south side of the sacred
building, where the Rev. J. Blust,having previously met the
procession, commenced reading the Burial Service,the coffins
being also placed in the body of the church, while the service
was continued. On leaving the church the coffin containing
the body of Cook was taken to and phiced in a grave or hole
which had been dug in an obscure corner at the west ex-
tremity of the churchyard near the wall which separates the
graveyard from the road. There it was deposited without
any ceremony, while the four little elm coffins of the girls
were placed in one common grave, over which the remainder
of the service was performed by the vicar, the relatives and
crowd standing round and listening most attentively to this
beautiful and touching service, while many an eye was wet
at the remembrance of the shocking fate which had cut short
the tender and innocent lives of these four poor innocents.
Towards the conclusion of the service the vicar briefly be.t
earnestly addressed the crowd around the grave, and in doing
so remarked that though he did not wish to say anything to
blacken the dreadful deed, he would exhort them to pray
earnestly to God, who, of His great mercy, would grant
them true repentance for their past sins, and he begged the
young men whom he saw around him not to play with sin,
for if persisted in it would lead them to the depths of hell;
and finally concluded the ceremony in the usual manner,
otter which the crowd of villagers and spectators left the
churchyard, evidently much impressed with the very ferven
address they had just listened to.

ANOTHER GUNPOWDER, EXPLOSION AND HOR
RIBLE DEATH.—An inquest was held on Saturday
at the White Hart Inn, Cats&ld, by Mr Kell, coroner, re-
specting the death of Wm. Wait, through an explosion at
Messrs Lawrence and Sons' gunpowder mills, Battle. Sus-
sex, which occurred on the previous Thursday. The de-
ceased had been in the employ of the firm 30 years, and on
29th of September was engaged with another man tamed
John Chapman in putting down some flooring in one
of tde press-houses. Orders had been given that the
building should be well watered, so that any stray gun-
powder which might have escaped in the manufacture
should he rendered uninflammable ; but this necessary
precaution appears only to have been partially carried
out. Chapman in pressing up one of the joists used a
cross steal mattock, instead of as ho should have done
a wooden lever, which was the cause of the explosion,
as the instrument came in contact with a nail or some-
thing else, causing a spark and igniting the gun-
powder underneath the flooring which escaped through the
crevices. l hapman was blown on to the Brooks, a distance
of three or four rods, receiving extensive injuries, and is
still lingering. The poor man Watt was hurled on to the
bank of the river, and was severely burnt on the surface,
and injured in nearly every part of his body, and notwith-
standing the treatment of Mr Cruickshank, the surgeon,
expired on the following night. The jury returned a verdict
of " Accidental death."

ELOFEMENT.—In the neighbourhood of the
Great Heath of Maryborough lived a well-to.do
farmer, named Mr The beauty of his daughter,
Miss L. O'K--, was, we believe, an object of much ad.
miration, especially to those who, conjecturing the capabi-
lities of her father's purse, knew that all her recommenda-
tions.were not comprised in the mere transitory attractions
of personal charms. Au individual, whose business it was
to teach the young idea how to shoot, was himself shot by.
Cupid. Carried away by the loveliness of the fair Mis
O'K—, he resolved in turn to carry her away, which re-
solution he put into action on the night of Friday, the 23d
alt., when both of them took French leave of the Heath,
and subsequently the train from Portarlington. Their
whereabouts at present we do not know.—Leinaer Express.
HOUNDS IN THE 17TH CE2;TURY.-01:143 of the
earliest packs of foxhounds on record was that kept by the
then Lord Arundell of Wardour, between the years 1690
and 1700 ; and the family are in_ possession of memo-
randa proving that they occasionally hunted them from
Wardour CaElle, in Wiltshire, and at Braemore, near
Salisbury, now the seat of Sir Edward Hulse, but then the
occasional residence of Lord Arundell. These hounds were
kept by the Arundeds until about the year 1745, when the
sixth Lord Arundell died. After his decease they were kept
by his nephew, the Earl of Castlehaven, by whom and his
successor they were hunted until the death of the last Ear
of that name, about the year 1782. The pack was then sold
to the celebrated Mr Hugo Meynoll, of Quornodon-hall,
Leicestershire; and it is probable that they contributed
largely to the establishment of that gentleman's foxhunting
fame, and have been the progenitors of some of the Quorn
hounds of the present day.—Once a Week.

THE MISSING YOUNG CHORISTER BELONGING TO
ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—Upon instituting in.
quiries yesterday morning at the Vicar's Choral of St. Pant's
Cathedral, we were informed, notwithstanding the informa-
tion given to all the inspectors of the metropolitan police
of the disappearance of young King, one of the youthful
choristers, and the offer by the Dean and Chapter of St.
Peal's of a reward of £lO for any information as to
what may have become of him, not the slightest clue bad
been obtained up to 11 o'clock. It appears he was present
at the morning service on Saturday last. since which time
neither h's family nor his friends have heard anything of
him. Many rumours are ell 3at as to his supposed abduc%
Lion, slid as he was a lad of great talent and promise in his
profession, it is conjectured that he has been induced to
leave London by other than disinterested parties. The
occurrence has occasioned great grief on the part of hia
friends and the authorities connected with the Ca,bedral.

MUTINY IN THE MERSEY.—Yesterday en Ami
Rican packet, the City of Brooklyn, commanded by Captain
%en Cousene, which left the Mersey the same morning,
put back into the river and eignallei fcr the police. An
inspector and four men went aboz.r3, and the captain then
rave 12 of the crew of intee custody, charged with refusing
to obey orders. One of their number, Andrew Petersen, a
Dane, was also charged with having stabbed the third mate,
Jas. Johnson, in the thigh with a pocket knife. It appeared
that Petersen refused to obey an order of the second mate
and on the third mate enforcing it Petersen threw him
down and stabbed him. The arm were all new hands,
unknown to the (facers.

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, Friday.

The North German Lloyd screw steamship Arne•
rica, Captain H. Wessels, from New York on the
24th ult., arrived off Cowes at half-past 10 last night
and went on to Bremen after transhipping mails,
&c., for this port. She brings 25 passengers for
Southanlpton and Havre, and 125 for Bremen ;
150,000 dols. in specie for England, 2,000 dols. for
Bremen, and 1,100 tons of cargo, including 140 tons
of butter and cheese for England. His Excellency
the Marquis de Corio, Ambassador to Belgium of his
Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Mexico, was a
passenger by the America.

- -
During the first part of the voyage strong westerly
winds were experienced, and the latter part strong
easterly winds. Oa the 29h ult., in lat. 47 4 N.,
long. 43 45 W., the America spoke the English ship
Conway Castle; and on the 3d inst., in lat. 49 31
N., long. 18 19 W., the English ship Pradhoe—both
bound east.

The Royal Mail steamer Persia, from Liverpool,
arrived out at New York on the 21st ult.

The following official despatches report General
Sheridan's continued pursuit of General Early in
the Shenandoah Valley, and a defeat of the Confe,
derate forces on the 22d tilt. at Fisher's-hill :

"War Department, Washington,
Sept. 21, 10.15 a.m.

"This department has just received the following
telegraph announcing the continued pursuit of the
rebels by General Sheridan. Cedar Creek, which
General Sheridan was crossing yesterday at 3 o'clock
in the afternoon, is a short distance this side of
Strasburg, He had pursued the rebels over 30 miles
from the point where he attacked them at daylight
on Monday :

Harper's Ferry, Sept. 21.
"' Reliable news from the front states that our
army was crossing Cedar Creek yesterday at 3 p.m.
There was no fighting. The following list of rebel
generals killed and wounded is correct—Generals
Rhodes, Ramseur, Gordon, Perry, Goodwin, Bradley
T. Johnson, and Fitzhugh Lee. From all I can
learn the number of prisoners will approximate to
5,000. The indications are that the rebels will not
make a stand short of Staunton. They are evi.
dently too much demoralized to make a fight.
" JNo. D. STEVENSON, Brigadier. General.

" ' Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War.'

" General Grant transmits the following extract
from the _Richmond Sentinel of yesterday (the
20th) :

A slight ripple of excitement was produced
here yesterday by the report that a raiding party
was advancing on Gordonsville and was within a
few miles of that place. The result of all our in-
quiries on this head is that this report originated in
the fact that early yesterday a party of Yankee
raiders, whose numbers are not known, visited
Rapidan-bridge, and after destroying it proceeded
to Liberty Mills, five or six miles above, which
they also destroyed. From this latter place they
are believed to have gone back to Culpepper.'
" The operation alluded to by the _Richmond
Zentinel was by a force sent out previous to the
battle of Monday.

" EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
"Major-General John A. Dix."
"War Department, Washington, Sept. 22, 9,30 p.m.
"Despatches down to 9 o'clock last night have
been received from General Sheridan. A portion of
the rebel cavalry, having turned off to Front Royal,
were pursued, attacked, and driven by our cavalry,
which were still pursuing the enemy. The rebel
infantry made a stand at Flint-hill, a strongly in-
trenched position beyond Strasburg, which was
attacked by our Threes last evening and the crest
carried and held by our troops. There is reason to
believe that later despatches were captured last
night by Mosby, near Winchester. General
Stevenson reports that Sheridan's supply trains
arrived safely at Winchester last night.
" EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
" To Major. General Dix, New York."

" War Department, Washington, Sept. 23, 3 p.m.
"The following telegram, announcing another
victory of General Sheridan over Early, has just
been received

" Harper's Ferry, Sept. 23.
" Sheridan has again beaten the enemy at
Fisher's Hill, capturing 16 guns and many prisoners.
This is, in all probability, the finale of Gen. Early.
" I. D. STEVENSON, Brigadier-General.
" Hon. E. M. Stanton.'

"The Surgeon-General this morning reported
that our wounded were all cared for at Winchester,
with adequate arrangements and supplies. The
number of our wounded prior to the battle of yes-
terday was estimated not to exceed 2,000.
" E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
" Major-General Dix."
" War Department, Washington,
Sept. 23, 3 30 p.m.

" Sheridan's victory proves to be signal and com
plete. Nothing but the coming night saved even a
remnant of Early's army. The following despatch
of General Stevenson and Major-Gener4 Sheridan's
official report to General Grant give all the particu-
lars thus far received :

" ' Harper's Ferry, Sept. 23.
" The military telegraph line is down. The
affair is complete and overwhelming.—Respectfully,
6' J. D. STEVENSON, Brigadier-General.
" ' To Hon. E. M. Stanton.'
" GENERAL SHERIDAN'S OFFICIAL REPORT.

" Headquarters, Middle Military Division,
six miles from Woodstock, September
22, 11 30 p.m.
" • I have the honour to announce that I achieved
a most signal victory over the army of Gen. Early
at Fisher's Hill to-day. I found the rebel army
posted with its right resting on the north fork of
the Shenandoah, and extending across the Strasburg
valley westward to North Mountain, occupying a
position which appeared almost impregnable. After
a great deal of macceavring during the day, Gen.
Crook's command was transferred to the extreme
right of the line on North Mountain, and he furi-
ously attacked the left of the enemy's line, carrying
everything before him. While Crook was driving
the enemy in the greatest confusion and sweeping
down behind their breast works the 6th and 19th
Corps attacked the rebel works in front, and the
whole army appeared to be broken up. They fled
in the utmost confusion. Sixteen pieces of artillery
were captured ; also a great many caissons, artil-
lery horses, &c. lam to-night pushing on up the
valley. I cannot say how many prisoners I have
captured, nor do I know either my own or the
enemy's casualties. Only darkness has saved the
whole of Early's army from total destruction. My
attack could not be made till four o'clock in the
evening, which left but little daylight to operate in.
The Ist and 3d cavalry divisions went down the
Luray Valley to day, and if they push on vigorously
to the main valley the result of this day's engage-
ment will be still more signal. The victory was
very complete. A more detailed report will be
made as soon as I can obtain the necessary data.
" P. IL SHERIDAN,
" Major-General Commanding.
'Lieutenant-General Grant, comman ding armies
of the United States, City Point.'
"It will be remembered that Early's command
embraced the 'Stonewall Brigade,' and the troops
constituting Stonewall' Jackson corps, and was
the elite of the rebel army.

" E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
" Major. General John A. Dix."
The news of the Federal victory at Opequan
Creek on the 19th nit. was read to the troops of the
Army of the Potomac on the afternoon of the 20th,
and Was received with unbounded enthusiasm and
repeated cheering. A salute of 100 guns was fired
on the morning of the 21st, at daylight, in honour
of the event. Deserters reported that the Con.
federate troops were receiving rations of fresh beef
from the drove captured from the Federals the
previous week. They state that it was Hampton's
cavalry which accomplished the feat; that they took
250 prisoners and captured 2,600 head of cattle,
besides trains, horses, guns, &o,

General Fremont had formally withdrawn his
tame as a candidate for the Presidency in the fol•
lowing letter:—

"Boston, Sept. 21.
" Gentlemen,-1 feel it my duty to make one step

more in the direction indicated by my letter of the
25112 of August, and withdraw my name from the
list of candidates. The Presidential question has in
effect been entered upon in such a way that the union
of the Republican party has become a paramount
necessity. The policy of the Demo Jra icparty sig.
nifies either separation or re-establithruent with
slavery. The Chicago platform is simply separation.
General M'Clellan's letter of acceptance is re•estab•
lishment with slavery. The Republican candidate,
on the contrary, is pledged to the re-establishment
of the Union without slavery; and however hesitat-
ing his policy may be, the pressure of his party will,
we may hope, force him to it. Between these issues,
I think no man of the Liberal party can remain in
doubt ; and I believe I am consistent with my ante-
cedents in withdrawing, not to aid in the triumph
of Mr Lincoln, but to do my part towards prevent-
ing the election of the Democratic candidate. In
respect to Mr Lincoln, I continue to hold exactly the
sentiments contained in my letter of acceptance. I
consider that his Administration has been politically,
militarily, and financially, a failure, and that its
necessary continuance is a cause of regret for the
country. There never was a greater unanimity in a
country than was exhibited here at the fall of Sumter,
and the South was powerless in the face of it. But Mr
Lincoln completely paralysed this generous feeling.
He destroyed the strength of the position and divided
the North when he declared to the South that
slavery should be protected. He has built up for the
South a strength which otherwise they would have
never attained ; and this has given them an advo-
cate on the Chicago platform. The Cleveland Con-
vention was to have been the open avowal of that
oondemnation which men had been freely express•
ing to each other foe the past two years, and which
had been made fully known to the President. But
in the uncertain condition of affairs leading men
were not found willing to make public a dissatis-
faction and condemnation which could have ren.
dered Mr Lincoln's nomination impossible; and their
continued silence and support established for him a
character among the people which leaves now no
choice, United, the Republican party is reasonably
sure of success; divided, the result of the Presiden-
tial election is, at the least doubtful.

"I am, gentlemen, very truly yours,

" J. C. FREMONT.
"To Mesars George L. Stearns and others, a corn.
mit tee, &c." .

The following is another letter from General Fre•
mont, in which he gives his reasons for withdrawing
more fully :

"Nahant, Sept. 17.

"Gentlemen,—l enclose you my letter of reply

to an invitation from some of my Republican
friends to meet them at Faneuil-hall. In declining
their invitation I have informed them of my inten-
tion to stand aside from the Presidential canvass,
and assigned my reasons for doing so. To avoid
repetition I enclose you the letter in communicating
to you now officially my desire to withdraw my
name from the list of Presidential candidates. In
this decision I have the approval of such of our
friends as I have been able to consult. Urged by
the near approach of the election, I have thought
it not prudent to incur the longer delay of
consulting others. But I have reason to believe
that they will unite with me fully upon
the propriety of the step I have taken.

But in withdrawing from the post of candid
date I do not in any way intend to withdraw from
my share in the labour which we jointly undertook
to secure the triumph of the ideas represented by
the Radical democracy. Whatever the next Ad..
ministration may be, we owe it to ourselves to form
a phalanx, compact and capable by its thorough
unity of exercising a pressure strong enough to inR
sure the eventful success of the principles for which
we have been contending—the re-establishment of
the Union, the abolition of slavery, and practical
respect for liberty. In the present composition of
parties it is indispensable that earnest men should
devote themselves to watching the progress and in.
suring the success of these issues, regardless of men
and parties. Mr. Lincoln says he does not lead, but
follows the will of the people. It remains, then,
for the people, in the event of his re-election, vigi-
lantly to require this following at his hands ; and,
further, to require that in the execution of his
duties he keep scrupulously within the constitution
and the laws; to make him recognise that he holds
his place and his power, not as belonging to him.
self, to be used at his pleasure, but as a really faith.
ful servant of the people. This is the important
duty which we have now to perform. Although,
as representatives of the Cleveland movement, we
surrender our functions, the du+y of watching party
politics in the interests of liberty aLd the Constitu-
tion remains. What steps are necessary in the per-
formance of that duty mast be the subject for future
consultation.—l am, gentlemen, respectfully and
truly yours, - "J. C. FREMONT.
" To Messrs. Worthington G. Snethen and
others, a committee, &c."

General Cochrane had also issued the following
address, withdrawing from his nomination by the
Cleveland Convention for the Vice-Presidency :
" To the War Democrats of the United States :
A convention of men of various political tenets
assembled at Cleveland on the 31st day of May last,
for the purpose of discharging from the suppres-
sion of the rebellion the infraction of the rights of
both individuals and States which attended it.
The presence of a large number of War Democrats
unexpectedly contributed to my nomination by the
convention for the Vice-Presidency, preceded by
that of John C. Fremont for President. The prin-
ciples which dictated my acceptance of the nomina'
tion approved themselves at the time to very gene-
ral regard, and have since, in my opinion, lost none
of their original virtue or vigour, Their practical
assertion was rEquired, it was thought, by the suc-
cess with which personal liberty bad been assailed,
and the extremities to which constitutional freedom
had been reduced. Not the least inducement, how-
ever, was the consideration that the redress of
grievances in the manner proposed could not inter-
rupt, but would entirely consort with, a vigorous
prosecution of the war. It certainly was not con-
templated that the success of tl'e candidates should

in any degree impair or endanger that most
impor-
tant part of the platform which resolved that the
rebellion must be suppressed by force of arms and
without compromise. Instead of *the Democratic
party, as was then hoped and expected, co-operat.
ing at this point, they flouted the war at Chicago,
and pronounced for unconditional peace. When, to
exhaust the resources of statesmanship,' and to
allow the ' spirit of conciliation and compromise to
prevail,' Gen. M'Clellan virtually asserts that there
should be a cessation of hostilities,' he is in agree-
ment with the convention which nominated him.
hen,lpwVraere,
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rebellious
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iproposes, in the alternative of
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precisely the same political representation as when
they departed from it, he rejects a convention of
States, on which, as the peaceable means, the Chi-
cago Convention evidently relied for reconstructing
the union out of States physically debilitated and
politically shorn. While, therefore, General
M'Clellan resolves upon an impossible union as it
it was, through war, the convention resolves upon
an impossible union as it should be, through peace.
That the candidate does not stand erect on his plat-
form, though admitting a question whether, if
elected, he would negociate a peace, permits none
that, if elected, he could not effectively prosecute
the war. The success of the Chicago nominees
would therefore, at the best, but place in power a
party of divided counsels, of uncertain policy and
of indecisive action. Clearly, such an event would
be at the farthest from a suppression of the rebel-
lion by force of arms and without compromise.' The
Baltimore platform, however objectionable at other
points, is unimpeachable at this, and, while it fails
to vindicate personal rights, and the rights of free
speech and the press, it does not fail to refer to the
re-establishment of constitutional liberty and the
restoration of the union to the arbitrament of arms,
in which, and in which alone, the national safety is
to be found. We stand within view of a rebellion
suppressed—within hail of a country reunited and
saved. War lifts the curtain and discloses the pro.
spect, War has given us Atlanta, and war offers to
us Richmond. Shall we exchange the proffered
victory for a cessation of hostilities ? No.
As we fought at the beginning we should fight to

the end; and when rebellion shall have laid down
its arms may we peacefully reconstruct whatever
the war for the Union shall be found to have spared.
' Lay down your arms,' then, as it was at the com-
mencement, so it is now, all that is demanded by
loyal Americans of their rebellious brothers. I
would certainly prefer that the American people
could be brought to a vote on the several proposi.
tions peculiar to the Cleveland platform. The right
of asylum, the one term policy, the direct vote of
the people for their national chief magistrate, the
Monroe doctrine, the confining exclusively to the
representatives of the people in Congress the re-
construction of States, and the amendment of the
Federal Constitution to prohibit slavery, are princi-
ples of primary magnitude and importance. But
before all these is our country. It is menaced by rebel-
lion. Loyal armies alone protect it. Should those
armies retreat, and our protection be withdrawn ;
or should they advance, and our safety be esta-
blished, shall there be peace through the concessions
of politicians, or peace through the action of war ?
That is the question. Peace and division, or war
and the Union. Other alternative there is none.
And, as I am still of the mind that once led me to
the field with the soldiers of the republic, I cannot
now hold a position which, by dividing, hazards the
success of all those who, whatever their differences
at other points, agree, as upon the question of first
consequence, that the restoration of the Union can-
not be effected without the uninterrupted continua-
tion of the war. I therefore withdraw my name
from the Cleveland ticket.—Very truly, yours,

" JOHN COCHRANE.

" New York, Sept. 21."
Lincoln and M'Clellan are thus the only candi-
dates left in the field for the Presidency. An im-
mense ratification meeting for the nomination of
Abraham Lincoln as President and Andrew Jack-
son as Vice-President was held at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music in New York, on the night of
the 22d ult. While the Hon. Henry Wilson, of
Massachusetts, was speaking, General Hooker,
" fighting Joe," as he is called, made his appearance
on the platform, and was received with boisterous
applause. In obedience to loud cries of " Hooker,
Hooker," " Speech, speech," General Hooker came
forward and said :

Ladies and Gentlemen,—l need not tell you that lam
totally unprepared for this. I cannot and I do not take this
demonstration, or any part of it, to myself. I am not
worthy of this reception. (Yes you are, and loud cheers.)
lam not more worthy than you. We are all In the same
boat. You have been working in the cause in one place,
and I have been working in another. Your victories here
are as dear to us in the front as those in the front are dear
to you here. (That's so.) The victories of last fall—l
speak from a full knowledge of the facts—were hailed with
as much joy and enthusiasm in the army as though those
victories had been achieved by another army than the
army that I belonged to. The victory of Ohio was also hailed
with joy, and I felt glad at the result. I hope I may feel
many more, and I do not doubt that before next November
WO will taste of one like which this rebellion has furnished
no parallel. (Cheers.) I need not tell you that lam re-
joiced to find such an assemblage. It shows that it is all
right with our cause and our country. (Applause.) Nothing
—no reverses, no misfortune, can befal us when our people
are animated by the feeling evinced here to-night. If the
war has been prolonged, it has not been from weakness but
rather from conscious strength. We have never put forth
our resources nor our strength, although we have put forth
such resources as have amazed the world. (Applause.) But
it is true that the North has never yet made one great effort
to crush the rebellion. It can and will do it when it moves
for that purpose. (Cheers.) The people in these loyal
States, and I am proud to say it, have been in advance of
the authorities during the whole of this rebellion. They
will be so until we reach the end, and that end is not remote.
I am rejoiced to meet you to-night, and to meet you under
such auspices. Tidings, glorious tidings, reach us from all
the armies. The work goes bravely on there. There are no
copperheads (cheers) in the army. (Loud applause.) They
will fight well, and will vote well also. (Loud applause.)
More loyalty, more devotion never animated the heart and
the hands of men more brave. I thank you most earnestly
for the kindness with which you have received me this
evening. lam unworthy of it. (" No, you are not—no,
sirree.") I have in a humble capacity served my country,
and have never failed to do my duty—(" That's so")—and I
trust never will. I bid you good night.

General Hooker then retired amid renewed ap-
plause, and Senator Wilson proceeded with his
speech which had been interrupted by this episode.
While the meeting was in progress a large and en-
thusiastic meeting was held outside in Montaguee
street, at which addresses %ere delivered from two
platforms simultaneously, and the feeling indoors
and out is described as very onthusiaGtic for Lincoln
and the Union.

The following despatch from Washington an.
nounccs the resignation of Postmaster-General Blair
at the request of the President ;
Washington, Sept. 23.
When the resolution of the late Baltimore Convention,
declaring that they" deemed it essential to the gederal wel-
fare that harmony shall prevail in the national councils, and
regarding as worthy of public confidence and official trust
those only who cordially endorse the principles proposed in
the series of resolutions, and which should characterize the
administration of the Government," was shortly after its
passage read by Postmaster-General Blair, he at once ver-
bally tendered his resignation, which was not formally made
and accepted until to-Jay, as will be seen from the following
correspondence. It is understood that ex-c-overnor Denni-
son, of Ohio, will be his successor :
THE PRESIDENT TO THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL.
Executive Mansion, Washington, Sept. 23.
My dear Sir,--You have generously said to me more than
once that whenever your resignation could be a relief to me
it was at my disposal. The time has come. You very well
know that this proceeds from no dissatisfaction of mine with
you personally or officially. Your uniform kindness has
been unsurpassed by that of any friend, and while it is true
that the war does not so greatly add to the difficulties of
your department as to those of some others, it is yet much
to say, as I most truly can, that in the three years and a
half during which you have administered the General Post-
office, I remember no single complaint against you in con-
nexion :,herewith. Yours, as ever,
Hon. Montgomery Blair. A. LINCOLN.
THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL TO THE PRESIDENT.
Post-office Department, Sept, 23.
My dear Sir,—l have received your note of this date
referring to my offers to resign whenever you should deem
it advisable for the public interests that I should do se,and
stating that, in your judgment, that time has now come.
I now, therefore, formally tender my resignation of the
office of Postmaster-General. I cannot take leave of you
without renewing the expressions of my gratitude for the
uniform kindness which has marked your course towards
yours, very truly, M. BLAIR,
The President.

Ex- Governor Dennison, of Ohio, is to be appointed Post-
master-General in the place of Mr Blair. It is said that Mr
Blair has taken this step to be at liberty to stump the border
States in favour of Lincoln and Johnson ; but it is believed
that there are other reasons impelling him to resign.
The 10 days' truce between Generals Sherman
and Hood expired on the 22d ult., but, in order to
complete the removal of families from Atlanta, it
was renewed, to continue for some days. Sherman
had effected the exchange with Hood of 2,000 pri-
soners. The reply of General Sherman to General
Hood's protest against the depopulation of Atlanta
was received in Washington on the 21st :
Headquarters, Military Division of the Mississippi,
in the Field, Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 10.
General J. B. Hood, commanding army of the Tennessee
Confederate army :

General,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of this date at the hands of Messrs Ball and
crew, consenting to the arrangements I had proposed to fa-
cilitate the removal south of the people of Atlanta who pre-
fer to go in that direction. I enclose you a copy of my orders
which will, I am satisfied, accomplish my purpose perfectly.
You style the measures proposed " unprecedented," and ap-
peal to the dark history of war for a parallel as an act of
"studied and ungenerous cruelty." It is not unprecedented,
for General Johnston himself very wisely and properly re-
moved the families all the way from Dalton down, and I see
no reason why Atlanta should be excepted. Nor is it neces-
sary to appeal to the dark history of war when recent and
modern examples are so handy. You yourself burned dwel-
ling houses along your parapet, and I have seen to-day 50
houses that you have rendered uninhabitable because they
stood in the way of your forts and men. You defended Atlanta
on a line so close to the town that every cannonshot and many
musket-shots from our line of investments that overshot
their mark went into the habitations of women and children.
General Hardee did the same at Jonesborough, and General
Johnston did tke same last summer at Jackson, Mies. I
have not accused you of heartless cruelty, but merely in-
stance those cases of very recent occurrence, and could go
on and enumerate hundreds of others, and challenge any fair
man to judge which of us has the heart of pity for the fami-
lies of a " brave people." I say it is a kindness to these
families of Atlanta to remove them now at once from scenes
that Women and children should not be exposed to, and the
bravo
.people should scorn to commit their wives and chil-
dren to the rude barbarians who thus, as you say, violete
the laws of war, as illustrated in the pages of its dark his-
tory. In the name of common sense, I ask you not to ap-
ipneatl to -e ) a justmdst God
peaceod in sauncdh
par
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sa
pc reirlietgyi,o
haveu m s manner—yon,
plungedn e r—ou y
an'awtiohno
into civil war, " dark and cruel war," who dared and
badge] '.ed us to battle, insulted our flag, seized our arsenals
and lolls that were left in the honourable custody of a

peaceful ordnance sergeant, seiz3d and made prisoners of
war the very garrison sent to protect your people against
negroes and Indians long before any overt act was c-m-
-mitted by the " to you" hateful Lincoln Government, tried
to /wee Kentucky and Missouri into the rebellion spite of
themselves, falsified the vote of Louisiana, turned loose your
privateers to plunder unarmed ships, expelled Union fami-
lies by the thousand, burned their houses, and declared by
act of your Congress the confiscation of all debts due to
Northern men for goods had and received. Talk thus to the
marines, but not to me, who have seen these things, and
who will this day make as much sacrifice for the peace and
honour of the South as the best born Southerner among
you. if we must be enemies let us be men, and fight it out
as we propose to-day,and not deal with such hypocritical ap-
peals to God and humanity. God will judge us in duo time
and He will pronounce whether it be more humane to fight
with a town full of women and the families of a "brave
people" at our back, or to remove them in time to places of
safety among their own friends and people.—l am, very re-
spectfully, your obedient servant,
"W. T. SHERMAN, Major-General Commanding.
Official copy,—L. M. DAYTON, Aide-dc-Camp.
The Richmond Sentinel of the 7th ult. says :

" Official information has been received that the army of
Tennessee is in splendid condition and spirits. In a de-
spatch to General Bragg, dated September 15, 1864, General
Hood says he is very much gratified at the feeling now ex-
isting among the officers and men of his army, ar d that they
are in better condition for battle than at any time before
they crossed Chattahoochee. Official information has also
been received that the extra duty list (consisting of detailed
men) is being materially decreased."
The following is from the Richmond Examiner
of the 21st :

" The Macon Confederate says it is currently rumoured
on the streets that General Beauregard is to take command
of the army of Tennessee. The Macon Telegraph remarks,
'lf the reader will consult the map he will come to a realis-
ing sense of the ease with which Sherman can repeat from
Atlanta the combined movement by which he backed John-
ston down from Dalton to the heights of Albona. It shows
how Sheridan can move by different roads, flank Barnes-
ville, and thence southwest, they would flank Macon with
the same ease. Hence there is an overwhelming necessity
for such reinforcements as shall prevent a repetition of the
Sherman strategy from Dalton to the Etowah.' The
Savannah .Republican says :—' If Sherman is to be allowed
to hold peaceable possession of Atlanta until he has time to
fortify the place, and make it impregnable, then the citizens
of Georgia tray look out for large and formidable raiding
parties from that place making extensive excursions through
the State.' "