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The New York herald., 1862-08-07

Intervention and Southern confederacy. with
out much of war; but 1t is quite prob abe
that to-day the capture Of Washington has be-
ruling confederates as the defence Of Rich
mond
Why, then, after all their boosted victories
over General Mcclellan, have the rebel leaders
at Richmond delayed so long in pushing for.
ward portion Of their immense and victorious
army into Washington! We answer that the
rebel army has had to repair damages; that
General Mcclellan and powerful cooperating
naval force in the James river are too close to
Richmond to be left in charge Of half the rebel
army which lately attempted his destruction;
and that, while rebel force equal to tho task
of saving itself In march upon Washington
would have to carry its subsistence oil tho way
from Richmond, tho rebel government has
neither the transportation nor the provisions
for such an expedition. Between tho opposing
armies Al the intervening country from Rich
mond to Washington has been substantially
drained Of its supplies, and cannot further be
depleted without reducing it, inhabitants to
starvation. Il follows, that before the rebel
General Leo can push forward to Washington
be must be supplied with IN immense wagon
train, equal to the subsistence Of IN army Of
two hundred thousand men for distance Of
ono hundred and fifty or two hundred miles.
We say two hundred thousand men, for any
thing short of this would bs destroyed before
reaching the Potomac.
Without going any farther, therefore, we find
in this important item of subsistence sufficient
reason for the inactivity Of the rebel forces in
Virginia since the late battles on the Chicka-
hominy. Their supplies have to be drawn from
great distances, and their indispensable railroad
facilities keep them near Richmond. Had they
routed General Mcclellan, and captured his
wagon train, they could have marched right on
to Washington. Failing in this they have lost
their game, and we have now the men, the
means and the facilities of all kinds for the
complete expulsion Of the rebels from Virginia,
army, government and all, before the LIST of
October.
The New York herald., 1862-08-07
IMPORTANT FROM MISSOURI,
Activity or thc Guerilla Ban0s-severs
Fight NJ Newark, 80.

Activity or thc Guerilla Bands-severs
Fight at Newark, 30.
PALHrRA, Mo-. August 9, 1857.
severe nght occurred At Newark, Knox county, ME-
souri,, on Friday evening last
About thousand gusrilas, under Porter approached
the town hour before sunset, and By parts
Of two companies Of State militia under Captain LAIN
numbering seventy.nvs men.
The guerilas charged troops and rspulssd,
when thcy dsmountcd and drove Captain Lain into ths
town. where struggle took place, resulting In
the capitulation Of our forces whs were Immediately
paroed by the gusrIllae.
Our loss was four killed and four wounded The rcbela
acknowledge seventy. three killed and large numbss
wounded.
Portcrs gang carried OF all the arms and camp squlps
ags of our troops.
On Sunday the state forces o Coonsls Guitar, Msigs,
Cappcr and Caldwell passed through Newark 10 pursut
OF Porter.
PALxvsA, No., August 0, 1907
On saturday evening band Of one hundred guorIiss
took possession Of Alexsndra, Missouri. They thcv
seized all the and ammunition they could ind ant
did considerable other pundsrng after which they Lore
About three hundred men went down on Sunday fror-
Ksokuk and arrested some thirty rebel sympa.hlzsA
and ,oyk shom 70 Ksokus.
The New York herald., 1862-08-07
IMPORTANT FROM MEMPHIS
Engagement Between the Union Troops
and JEFF. ThOmpson'S Forces.
The Rebels Driven Back with
Great Loss,
StO., &c., dsos

CAIRO, August Q. 1852
The Memphis 5Ml4in OF tho 81 reports that nshi
occurred seven miles from town on Sunday, tween
force OF four thousand ederas and the rebels under JeI
Tn mpson. The latter driven back with great loss
The paper gives further particulars More lighting
anticipated.
The Jackson Misssppan says that Com. Brown Of the
ram Arkansas, wounded In the head at tho time
she ran the federal gauntlet.
An officer from Iuscumbia says that on Saturday
rebel cavay burned the station houses at Leighton
miles from Tuscumbia, aud at Jonesboro fifteen mtes
from the same place, the Memphis and Charleston
The New York herald., 1862-08-07

SHAMED INTO CONFESSION. London
Times IL al last compelled to own that the press
Of New York treats the federal reverses with
fairness, and shows no disposition to disguise
the truth from the country. 1t is rather late to
make this discovery, and were 1t not that inter
vcnt'on has received the coup de grace from
Parliament we should not have the admission
even now II suited the purpose Of the scces-
sionist sympathizers In England and France to
bIsckguard the Northern press, and TO convey
the impression that IL was unfaithful to its mis-
sion in concealing or glowing over whatever
was unlavorabls to the progress of our
arws. Nothing could have been ialser
or more unfair than this From the
defeat at Manassas down to tho pre-
sent time the press of New York has never
yet shrunk from dlscharging it's duty to the
country in this respect For what other
purpose does the HERALD keep with the
army corps Of picked correspondents,
whose expenditure IL equal to that Of
all the other newspapers combinedf Not
surely, t9 act ~ itinerant special plesdsgs
The New York herald., 1862-08-07

INDIFFERENCE OF ENGLAND TO Her COLONIAL
OFFsPRING.-We can imagine the disgust of the
Canadians on reading the report of Lord Pal
merston's recent speech, in which they are cool
ly told that, in case Of any>dificulty with this
country, they will have to take care Of them
selves. Was it for this that their leading men
and journals launched out into such exuberant
demonstrations of loyalty and such bitter and
foul-mouthed abuse Of the United States and
its institutions since the Trent affair? Well, let
bygones be bygones. We regarded those ex-
cesses merely as temporary alterations Of the
Canadian mind, just as Governor Spragus's
efforts to raise nigger regiment are to be look
ed upon as q passing cloud upon an intellect
otherwise distinguished by its cearness and
practical good sense. The cold shoulder turned
upon them by the English government and Par
lament will show the people Of Canada where
thei.. true Interests lie. They must now see
that they were only considered Of Importance
to England so long as they furnished q provision
for broken down placemen and the cadets of
aristocratic families These convictions, and
the knowledge shat in our prosperity their own
is In great measure bound up, will cure them
Of their anti-Yankee bile, which, after all, II,
we believe, confined merely to few leading
tory papers aud Englishmen not long resident
in the country. We should not be surprised If
the reaction of feeling produced by the recent
display Of English indifference to them should
lead to the Canadians either setting up an inde-
pendent government for themselves, or annex.
ing their territory to the United States. In
either case they have only to send commits
sion of inquiry here, and we will cheerfully
post them up as to the means Of carrying out
their object
The New York herald., 1862-08-07

The WATERING PLAcEs.-According to all
accounts the watering places are doing well
this year. The easiness Of money, the low
rates of discount at the banks, and the briskresS
Of trade generally, caused by the large con-
tracts given out by government, have renderod
mercantile men more disposed this season to
afford their families their accustomed trip to
the country. Long Branch. which now boasts
of fourteen hotels, is chock full; Saratoga
makes fair average show, and Sharon Springs
and Newport are Also tolerably we'll attended
Still, on the whole, the larger watering places
are far from exhibiting tie same animation
that characterized them in former years. Many
now seem to prefer the retired spots along the,
coast or away amongst the hills, where the
mind can receive that repose and relaxation
which are denied them in the haunts of fashion.
By and by we shall become thoroughly sensi-
BILE in these matters. As soon as we feel the
visits of the taxgatherer we shall get cured Of
many of our extravagances and follies.
The New York herald., 1862-08-07

for tho biunSsrs Of tho War Department. which.
up to recent period, has taksn care OF It's own
interests by placing rigid censorship over the
telegraph. When the history Of this var comes
to be written, 1t will be found that the cs'rres,
pondence Of the New York Journals il. the most
reliable Of the sources from whence its facts
will have to be taken. Can az much be sad
for the correspondence of the London and Paris
newspapers during the Crimssn and Italian
campaigns?
The New York herald., 1862-08-07

POSTMASTER WAKEMAN ON REcRUTNG.-Our
city Postmaster has taken hold Of recruiting In
such way as to give to the army as many sol.
diers as he has clerks in his Office. We shan
publish letter from Mr.. Wakeman on this sub
ject tomorrow. II the Collector would adopt
largely increased.
The New York herald., 1862-08-07

How TO MAKE DRAFTING FILL THE PUBLIC
TREAsURY.-In a few days a general draft will
be made for over three hundred thousand men.
Those who are drafted will be obliged either to
60 to the wars or send competent substitutes.
The price of substitutes will of course vary
according to circumstances; but FIVE hundred
dollars would seem to be fair average. Now,
if only fifty thousand drafted men out of the
three hundred thousand called for shall pro-
cure substitutes at five hundred dollars each,
we shall have the immense sum of twenty-five
millions Of dollars expended upon substitutes,
who will be sure to waste and ill use the
money they receive. Why should not the
government secure this twenty-five millions Of
dollars for its own treasury, to help pay the
expenses of the war! This can be done very
easily if the government will announce that,
upon the payment of five hundred dollars, 1t
will provide q substitute for any drafted man.
These government substitutes should be draft
ed from among those not exempt by the present
laws or by the payment of five hundred dollars,
and thus the government might proceed until it
had procured the number of men required and
filed its treasury into the bargain. It may be
objected that this plan would excuse all rich
men from service and send only poor men into
the army; but the present regulations do just
the same thing, for every rich man can pur-
chase substitute. Why, then, should not the
government take advantage of this state of
affairs and fill up both the army and the
national treasury by granting purchased ex-
emptions!
The New York herald., 1862-08-07

THE NEGRO RIors AND THEIR CAusE-Much
indignation has been shed by some of the
abolition papers about the negro riots; but
these very journals, and the leaders of the fa>1
ton OF which they are the organs, are the real
cause Of the disturbances. They have SO filed
the empty heads Of the blacks with silly notions
Of equality that many of them have become
exceedingly insolent to white men and women
in the streets, on ferry boats, in cars and other
places. They are known frequently to push
white women of the sidewalks and to insult
them. Then q point has been made of late BY
some capitalists and manufacturers to turn out
Of their establishments white men and women
by hundreds and 6ll their places with
blacks. These things have led to collisions
and the agitators who puff Ssmbo up with
absurd ideas Of his importance are to blame for
what has occurred. The Irish, as class, are
Industrious, hard-working, quiet and loyal to
the government The riots are fomented and
brought about by the abolitionists, whose phi
lanthropy is ever sure to rebound to the injury
Of the unfortunate negro, who, il let alone by
the anti-slavery agitators, would conduct him.
self properly and never provoke the hostility
that is being awakened against him.
The New York herald., 1862-08-07

thst every State will eventually send if full
quota to the war, and that Governor Morgan
will not nllow New York to be surpassed even
by Massachusetts,.
The New York herald., 1862-08-07

Ihe last TWO shipments are yet to arrive.
Vail street was qeite buoyant yesterday, and stocks
OF all kinds were per cent higher the favorites OF
the day being the leading railway shares. There
change of consequence in gold, exchange money.
The cotton market was decidedly frmer yesterday,
owing In part to the restrictions placed upon move
ments under the military authorities of Memphis and
partly to the light stock hand The sales embraced
about 500 bales closing stH the basis 49, 4sxc
for middng uplands. Tho -four market opened
nrmer aud rather higher, especially for common to
good grades Of State and Western, while other descrp
tons were unchanged. The enhanced views Of holders
tended TO check sales Wheat armer especially for
coed to prime shipping qualities while common grades
were unchanged. Corn rather better ana in good
request. Good to prime Western mixed sold at 57c
57lsc Pork was buoyant, with sales OF mess at $ll
sll l2k and Of prime at 80 62k 80 7S Sugars were
STEADY at the recent concession In prices and udng
auction sale Of 100 hhds embraced 1872 hds at
rates given in another column. Coffee was st .,dy
sale o. 900 bags Of Rio was made at p. t. TIE stock
embraced l23 o3 bags Of Rio and Santos and l6s sse
bags o sl descriptions Freghts sug ggish and en-
gagements moderate. Wheat Liverpool was engaged
at lad and aour at 3s 3D. To London nd Glasgow our
Is.
The New York herald., 1862-08-07


Brigadier General Darius N. Couch and family
are in Taunton. Mass.
Major General william B. Franklin and wife
arrived IN Philadslphia on Monday, from Cape
May.
BY the arrival Of the brig Tallulah. Captain
Plummer, at this port yesterday, We have sdvices
from Rio Janeiro to the 2sth Of June. News hav-
ing reached Rio Of tho capture Of New Orleans,
some demand had sprung up for vessels to that
quarter. American vessels, however, were un
willing to 60 there until moro certain advices had
been received. Several foreign vessels In conse-
quence had been taken up for New Orleans. The
coffee market on the 2Sth Of June closed firm at
previous quotations, with an upward tendency,
holders being sustained in their pretensions by
the probability Of q speedy reopening Of the
Southern ports of the United States.
The last four steamers that left San Francisco
had on board the following amounts Of treasure
Cor
The New York herald., 1862-08-07

DRAFTING FOR THE NAvY-We understand
that the government is considering the pro-
priety of drafting for the navy, and that such
draft will, in all probability, be resorted to be-
fore long. The reasons urged for this draft
are: first, the urgent necessity for more sailors;
second, the difficulty of enlisting sesmen, and
third, the number of persons who now repre-
sent themselves as sailors in order to claim ex-
emption from military duty. That the navy
needs more men is very evident, and IL is
equally evident that, with the military boun-
ties and the military drafts, few men can now
be found to enlist either as marines or seamen,
in spite Of the great temptations Of large prize
money. At present, and for some time past,
the naval recruiting officers have been obliged
to 60 back into the rural districts In order to
enlist mon; and consequently they secure only
landsmen-men who have never seen the sea,
do not know what . ship Is, and are for long
time inenlcient, ssasick and almost valueless.
Tho men who ought to be government sailors,
in times like these, are fishermen, or are en-
ployed In the coasting trade, or are
on board commercial vessels, some Of
thsm owned by foreigners This ma
val draft will secure many such men
and especially It will catch the shirkers,
who cannot navigate canal boat, but who call
themselves sailors, to avoid being drafted as
soldiers OF course If these artful dodgers are
really sailors they cannot object to being
drafted for the navy; and If they are not sailors
they will be caught between two fires and com
PEELED to serve Uncle Sam adoat or ashore, with
the marlingspike or the musket, as the fates
may determine In France drafts are made
both for the army and navy, and the system is
much preferable to the indiscriminate impress
ment and odious "right of search" systems by
which England ekes out her navy. We hope,
then, that the Navy Department viii take this
matter in hand Immediately, and not wait for
some naval disaster, as unsuspected and alarm
ing as the repulse before Richmond was to the
War Department, to make this draft still more
imperatively necessary.
The New York herald., 1862-08-07

tuc iotatc quolsf phu~' " ANA"SA N"''
Pennsylvania will probably obtain her quota
Governor Curtin had procured the acceptance
Of several three and six months regiments and
had drafted many nine months men before the
President issued his order. Governors Burton.
of Delaware, and Hicks, Of Maryland, will be
obliged to draft ft-under both orders--in their
semi-secession States. Governor Tod, of Ohio,
was among the first to ask for, and will be
among the first to enforce, draft:
and he promises to begin with the sym.
pathizers with Vallandigham, and convert Sc
cessionists to the Union by making them fight
FOR it. Governor Yates, of Illinois, reports his
quota ready to be armed, but other reports con-
fict with this statement. In Indiana, Governor
Morton has been greatly occupied with the re-
cent fraudulent issues Of State bonds; but he
thinks that his recruits will be on hand by the
18th instant. Governors Blair, Of Michigan;
Harvey, Of Wisconsin, and Krkwood, Of Iowa.
will require drafts to MI mp their quotas Co
vernon Gamble, Of Missouri, has already or
dered every able-bodied male citizen under
arms Governors Robinson. Of Kansas. and
Ramsey, Of Minnesota, will probably be ex-
cused from furnishing their quotas, az their
States have done wonderfully well already.
Kansas has sent eight regiments to the field and
Minnesota is not far behindhand and in both
States SO few men are left that IL will be best
TO "let we'll enough alone" and ask no more.
Kentucky has already sent very many more
men to the war than her quota calls for, and
although Governor Magofin is only half lfbsked
Union man, the State will respond nobly to any
call Of the government. Governor Stanford, Of
California, has the Indians and the New Mexi
can rebels to look after, and sends no soldiers
East, except General Halleck, who Is an army
in himself. This completes the roll Of the Loyal
States.
That the result Of this review Is most encou-
rsgnS ngns CAV deny, We hsps. however,
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1862-06-18

GEN. BURNsIDE's OpINIoa.-Gen. Burnside IS
reports from the Peninsula, where he spent
several hours with Gen. Mcclellan, are favor
able. He sees no reason why, with good
weather, our army should not be in Richm ond
within very few days. He does not think
that the rebels are strengthened by their
forced levies, but believes that undisciplined
numbers endanger an army which they appa-
rently reinforce, as was the case at Newbern,
where the raw North Carolina militia threw
the whole rebel force into panic. General
Burnside had an interview with the President,
Secretary of War and several Senators, in the
course of which he made a long explanatory
statement respecting the action of Governor
Stanley in the matter of closing schools and
returning fugative slaves, which increased the
desir- to hear directly from Governor Stanly
himself.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1862-06-18
GALE OF REAL ESTATE OF GREEN
- WOOD BELL. DEC'n

The undersigned Executors under the viii of
Greenwood Bell, decd and by authority of the
Orphans court of Clearfeld county, Pa. will ex
pose to sale by public vendue or outcry, at the
public house of VIM Reed, in Lumber-city,
On Friday the 18th day of July, n. d. 1862,
At d clock, p NJ, the following two pieces or
parcels of timber land and lying the waters
of Little Clearield creek, about one mile from
the river, in Ferguson township, Clearfeld coun-
ty, Pa, being part of the John Hambright tract,
containing severally 144 and Ia acres with al
lowance, described as follows:
The first piece commencing at hemlock near
LittleCIearfeld creek, thence n 16 deg.W 46 per-
ches to post, thence north 40 degrees west 160
perches to post thence north 81 degrees east l23
perches to post by white pine, thence south IS
degrees east 209.T perches to a post thence south
81 degrees west 1903 perches to place of begin
ming, containing I44 acres and allowance
The second piece, beginning at hemlock,
thence south 80 degrees east 1903 perches to a
sugar. thence south 81 degrees west 1927 perches
to dogwood, thence north 80 degrees west y
perches to post thence north so degrees east 126
perches to a post thence along the first tract
south 16 degrees east 46 perches to the place of
beginning, containing / IA acres and allowance.
TERMS-One half cash, and the other half in
one year, secured by bond and mortgage
ARTHUR BELL, lExo.,,.o.
June IL, 'e2. DAVID BELL HAe0'ofs
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1862-06-18

NORTH CARoLINA.-A gentleman who had
been spending several weeks in North Carol-
ma, whittier he went conservative, has re-
turned afradical. He found that the army had
experienced a similar change of heart. A
little observation there convinces both civil
ians and soldiers til at the rebellion will not be
suppressed until its cause, slavery, be destroy
ed. He believes that there is very little real
loyalty in the State, but much willingness to
submit, in consequence of the belief derived
from bitter experience, that the rebellion has
cost more than it has come to. He heard from
our prisoners returning from Salisbury and
Raleigh the most deplorable accounts of ar
vation and misery which they had witnessed
from their prison windows. From what he
saw and heard he was convinced that Gov.
Stanly already doubted as to the policy of his
proceedings, all things considered. He had
not returned any more fugitive Africans, nor
had he on the other hand, however, recinded
his order forbidding vessels from taking any
of them away.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1862-06-18

PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENTS SoUTH.-Sena-
tor Harris bill to establish Provisional Gov
ernments in the rebel country, as reported
from the Committee on the judiciary, is
amended so as to empower the President to
establish Provisional Governments for each of
the rebel States not districts, as it originally
stood and clause is added providing that
the Legislat i've power shall not be so exercis-
ed ssto interfere with the laws and institutions
existing in such States at the time the author
tiles assumed to array the same against the
United States further than shall be necessary
to carry into effect the provisions and purpo-
ses of this act" These changes suggest some
important questions not unlikely to be discuss
ed when the bill comes under consideration.