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FnOsE WASHINGTON.
WAsHINaToN, Aug. 10.


There is authority for stating that the
report to the effect that the Secretary of
the Treasury con.emplates putting upon
the market, at an early day, u $50 loan,
the interest to be paid In gold, is entirely
without foundation.
The loans authorized by the various
acts of Congress, and yet available, are
under the act of March Sd, 1864
Bonds Of 6 per cent $33,245, 800, under
the act of March Sd, 1864. Bonds of 1910
) per cent. Sl25, $50 under the act Of
June 3Otb, 1864. Bonds redeemable in not
less than nor more than 80 years, or If
expedient, made payable, at not more than
40 wears from date, bearing interest," not
exceeding 6 per cent. payable in coin, S4OO,--
600. 600, or IN lieu of an equal amount Of
the bonds last named, not exceeding two
billions Of dollars in Treasury Notes,
payable not exceeding three years from
date or if expedient at any time after
three wears from date, bearing interest not
exceeding 2 $40 per cent. payable in law
full money at maturity or semi-anuually
under the act Of July 25th 1862. Bonds
5-2Os in Europe 100000 dollars, total
562. .7II35O dollars under the act Of June
3oth 1864 in substitution Of per cent
legal tender notes, heretofore issued, new
Withdrawn, to be destroyed. 0nthe Sd Of
MAY there will be issued notes as above de-
scribed, S67639, 1896, making total Of
$3.50, ,356,247. The 5-per cent. interest
bearing notes, were issued under the act ol
March Sd, 1863, as follows: One year IN
terest, payable at maturity, at 5-per cent
$4,6O4, 900; two years interest, payable al
maturity, at 5-per cent? SIT96O, 1000
Two years coupon interest, pay
able seini-annually at per cent Sl5,
100000, Total S2l4OOO,O 900 Of the latttei
SCI, ,63s, ,ss7- have been Withdrawn as aboy'
stated under the act Of March Sd, 1868
These have been delivered to the Treasury
compound interest per cent. note amount
ing to $50, 100000. The loan not closeC
and offered ut Treasury and agency ar
The 5 per cent bonds redeemabie at tn
pleasure of the government after ten an(
payable after forty years, and hence callec
| io-4O certificates Of indebtedness (which ar
issuable in discharge Of curret claims up
on the government The 6 per cent
loan provided for exchange Q
the 7-8o three years notes, maturing OF
the 18th Of August and lst Of October
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A Mouse on the Wire.

A very little matter will gather street
crowd. One stops to look, another stops to
look at him, to those twain others are ad-
ded apace until from small beginnings a
| street has been blockaded. But think of
Clark street being blockaded by mouse.
| This is how it happened; On Saturday af-
ternoon mouse made his way ont of the
telegraph building over one of the wires,
and soon had a street crowd of two hun
dred gazing up at him as la Blondin
he crept along his slender footway.
lie did it in brave style, steadily
passing post after post carrying a full con-
sciousness Of danger, and resting every few
yards to recover from fatigue, and resist a
tendency to toPple over. On such occasions
it was curious to notice how instinct taught
1t all the arts Of the human wire-walEer,
for its tail did duty as a balancing staff and
hew from side to side with lightning rapidi-
ty, to maintain equipoise. The whole dis
tance Travelled by the little animal, and re-
turned, was some six hundred feet which
brought it back to its starting point. The
feat was accomplished ia spite of the tend
ency Of small boys to interrupt the perform
ance with stray missiles, and amid a fusilade
Of puns that rained from every side out of
the delighted crowd. Thus it was suggested
that lt4 sQ@ebeagg Hafts pas ha hP 5s tie way
in which telegraph dispatches got unused =
that there was "mlss" being telegraphed |
West. But oven the puns failed to throw |
the small rodent OF its balance, and it re-
turned to the building, whisked its tail sau-
ely through the fingers of an attendant tele-
grapher, who thought to Barnumize the |
artist, and the crowd dispersed with yell |
Of delight that would have repaid Blondin
himself, though, like this item, it was all
about a mouse-C C.io1go Tribune.
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THIRD DISPATCH.
Special to Cleveland Ieadfr.J

WAsHINGToE, August 10.
Brigadier General William Birney has
been relieved from the command OF the
Florida District by General John p Hatch
and ordered to report to General Butler at
Fortress Monroe. He viii probably be as
signed to the command of the. colOred
troops in General Buffers Department.
General E. E. Potter has been assigned
the command of the District Of Hilton
Head. -.,. .I -.-tl-..-
The War Department has decided that
the allowance for clothing for three
months men who have served less than
that time should be fixed for the full time
of service. The same applies " six and
nine months, men. The hundred days men
will be treated in this respect the same a.
the three months troops.
The amount of unpaid equisltiOns o.
the Treasury during the past week were re
duced So 637, 900. q Z--at ra
One hundred and thir0-fve thousand
dollars in fractional currency was ISSUED
from the Treasury last week.
Over four millions of the three year.
I $40 notes were converted into bonds be
tween the Sd and 9th Of AuguRt
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CIereInnd Wool RepOrt.

The market has been quiet here since the
great excitement incident to getting up the
clip, though very large lots of wool have
changed hands in quiet way, creating no
excitement. We can report one lot of400,-
900 lbs. at lose, and many other smaller
merchants lots at lower prices. One lot
was sold at e9c, the lowest prices at which
we have heard of any sales for two weeks.
There is little disposition on the part of
holders throughout the West TO concede
prices Money Is abundant, especially in
the more Western States where the crops
are good, and the wool now on hand is
held very firmly at prices varying
from 10 TO l25c and we know no in
auence which is likely to bear
which will have tendency so reduce the
prices short of the entire cessation of hostil-
ties. Many manufacturers having large
stock Of weol and goods on hand, as we'll
as importers and speculators, advocated
strongly an advance in prices. We think
tho first named classes will regard the prices
as high enough by the time they will want
more stock, for wool VIII be held oh the
first Of Judy at extra high prices; and
should favorable change in our armies
take place-of which there Is very sight
grounds to hope-coarse grades Will be low;
but fine grades will still rule at high prices.
Wool GToUeT. g
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General Oliver o. Howard, the successor
of General MCPHERSON, in command of the
Army of the Tennessee, is native Of Maine
and is now in his Saith year. He was grad
uated at Bowdoin College in 1850, and at
West Point in 1854. He entered the ord
nance department, and in 1857 was promo
ted to be First Lieutenant, and instructor in
mathematics at West Point. He resigned
his commits sion in June, 6l, to take theC Colo
nelcy of the Sd Maine volunteers Hecom-
manded brigade at the first battle of Bull
Run, showing a marked gallantry, for which
he was promoted to be Brigadier General.
He remained in the Army of the Potomac,
and at the battle of Fair Oaks lost his right
arm. After the battle Of Antietam he took
the command of Sedgwick's division. AT
the battle of Charlottesville he was in
commaod of the 18th corps, having been
promoted to be Major General. He was
transferred to the West at the same time
Hooker was, where he has been the com
mander Of the 4th corps in tho army of
General Sherman.
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HEADQUARTERS UNION Forces I
NEAR BUcYRUs, CRAWFORD Co, o.
AUGUST 5. 1864.

August s. 1864.
Quite an unusual stir was noticed last
evening in the enemy's camp. In fact,
ever since the call for 100000 more men,
he has evinced great activity. He has
now in position, in Bucyrus alone, thirty
one batteries, each occupying a Command
ing position in the central portion of the
town.
General Abdomen jackson has been re-
inststed, and placed in command of all
the Confederate forces in Crawford county,
with one Bishop Tuttle of Benton, as his
Adjutant. Abdomen has introduced
new and very destructive shell which is
thrown by all his batteries in Bucyrus,
and which is manufactured by one Down.
worth who is in charge Of the navy yard
Just east of the town, and runs in connec-
ton Herewith distillery or brewery.
This shell is very destructive, killing at
long range, and is known as the Down
worth she'll. Abdomen has great conf
dence in this missile, and thinks that if it
was more generally used throughout the
whole Confederate army they would be
more successful, notwithstanding that he
and several Of his staff were severely
wounded the other day by the premature
explosion of one of them. Strange IL say,
they were all wounded in the neck. They
are all fast recovering, yet the effects Of
the wound is plainly visible in their faces.
From a reliable contraband that came
through the lines this morning l received
( the following intelligence:
In the afternoon, yesterday, Abdomen
received word, by some means or other,
that we were receiving strong reinforce
ments from the direction of Crestline, for
the express purpose of cleaning him out
J generally; and soon after dark we. could
/ distinctly hear the long roll beating, and
1 the enemy were soon under arms, ready to
/ receive US Abdomen issued an order that
gas should be kept burning all night, and
that iokets should be Stationed in different
portions IF the town to prevent the Union
citizens from giving Us intelligence; and he
also threw out heavy line Of pickets on all
the roads leading in the direction Of Crest
line, and so arranged i forces near the
depot as to prevent surprise providing we
should send force by rail. The nsmy lay
on their arms until day began to dawn,
when Abdomen, thinking the "Yanks" had
played a ruse on him, ordered his men to
their quarters while he and staff retired to
battery s, just opposite the Post Office,
where he rteeived another severe woundin
the neck, which is thought, by many, will
prove fatal; but as near as can learn, it is
simply an opening of the old wound, which
he received months ago.
All is quiet this morning, but am in
formed that feet Of gun-boats have
Started up the Sandusky River, from
Lake Erie; and if this should Prove
true you may look for stirring events from
this quartir soon. 1 viii keep Your read
ers well posted in regard to tho enemies
movements
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FOURTH DISPATCH.
Special to Cleveland LosSer.I

WASHINGfoF, Aug. 10.
The following ofiial report Of General
Ayerill has been Transmitted, by General
Hunter, to the War Depa<Ineut:
overlook the enemy unzler McCauslAud,
johnson Gilmore and McSeiI about 5000
strong, this morning, and attacked him at
daylight. Thenamher of killei and wound
ed of the enemy is unknown; but three
large battle fsgs were captured together
with four pieces of artillery, all the eHemy
had, four hundreIl and twenty prisoners, in
Guiding six field and staff, and thirty-two
company officers, over four hundred horses
and equipments snda quantity ofsmall arms.
Colonel Peters of the Dist Virginia, (rebel,)
was mortaIHy vOundsd4-Genoral johnson
was captul ed with his colors and three Of
his staff; bat passing undistinguishOd among
the prisoner ., efft cted his escape. The
enemy was b. coken- up, pursued and many
killed upon very road fora distance Of ter
to twelve mil es. My loss is sevenkilled and
twenty-one rcunded- Major Conger and
Lieutenant Clark, Sd Virginia Cavalry
were killed7 FhEle leading charge Captain
Kerr, l4th Smnylrania cavalry, was Sc
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Associated Press Report.
FROM WASHINGTON.
WAR DEPARTMENT, WAsHINoToN

WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, |
Aug. l0--l0:30 P. M. :
10 MAJOR General Dtz:
The following report, of the success of
our operations at Mobile, extracted from
the Richmond Inquirer of this morning,
has just been received by this Department
from Major General Butler:
MOBILE, Aug. 8.
On Friday night, Lieut.. Col Williams,
commanding Fort Howell, evacuated and
blew up the fort.
Yesterday and to-day the enemy are
sheliing Fort Gaines
The people OF Mobile are all ready for
the fray: Great eoPHsdsRee sgl prey8la IbBeq bBq
Leutenants Buchanan, Maury and Barrett,
Of the navy -.l
MOBILE, August 9-It IS painfully hui
m!iiiiss5iipg to announces the snameIII ,,1TI sur
ing by Colonel Charles Anderson of the
2lst Alabama Regiment. This powerful
work -ras FT1vizIoned FOX six months and
had garrison Of COO men. He communi-
Gated with tho enemys fleet by flag of
truce. General Page enquired by signal
what his purpose was, but received no
answer Hls attention was attracted by
signal guns. Page repeatedly telegraphed
"hold on to your fort" He visited Fort
Gaines the same night and found Ander-
son on the Yankee fleet Arranging the
terms Of capitulaton. ...-r
lie left preemtOry orders for Anderson
on his return, not TO surrender the Fort,
and relieved him of his command. Fort
Morgan signalled this morning, but NO
answer was received, except the hOisting Of
the Yankee dag over the ramparts Of Fort
Gaines. ..
Anderson's conduct IS officially pro
nounced inexplicable and shameful
/ Dispatches just received from General
Sheridan report his forces moving
against the enemy up the Shenandoah
al P NJ they were sklrmishing about tel
miles from Winchester.
This morning General Grant reported
the explosion Of an ordinance boat yester
day loaded with ammunition at City Poin
Of which no details have been received.
Colonel Babcock OF General Grants sta1
was slightly wounded.
No operations before Atlanta Of conse
quence, arc reported to-day.
Portions of StOnemaRs command ar
continuing to arrive The total loss vii
| not exceed one thousand.
| (signed,) EN-. STANTON.
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Mednry fears the Men and Money from
the EaA1.

We stated yesterday that the East is
coming to Chicago with any amount of
men and money to nominate McClellan.-
Medary, who shakes in his boots over the
draft, is greatly alarmed and again cases
his mind in the following attack on McClel-
Ian.
As we said last woek-there can be no
want of fharmony at Chicago unless there
is q rush from the East with men and mon
ey to corrupt the delegates and force Gen
eral Mcclellan on the party. If this Is at
tempted there will be an explosion, and no
power on earth can prevent it. The har-
mony Of the Convention canonly be dis
turbed by that GLASS of men, few in number
comparatively, but reckless in purpose.
We talk thus plainly beforehand, because
silence at such time would be criminal
We know well what we say, and therefore
it should not be hid under bushel. Il
Mcclellan is nominated no trumped up
peace platform will satisfy the people.
They have been too often fooled and hum
buged by platforms looking one way and
the candidates another to trust any such q
maneuvre't this time.
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Rerenue DecisIon.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided that

The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
has decided that
Lawyers, cocveyancers, claim agents
physicians, surgeons, dentists, cattle bro
kers, horse dealers, and peddlers under tn 9
new law, though associated in business,
must take license individually, and cannot
be licensed as a firni. Where person be-
longing to either class have taken license
as a firm, such license, wit the approval of
the collector may be transferred TO a mem
Der of the firm, and the other must take
new license.
Where any person shall claim an ex-
emption from license tax, as dealer, man
lfacturer, apotbecary, confectioner, eating
house keeper, tobRcconist, cattle-broker,
builder, contractor, or insurance agent, be-
cause of his annual receipts being less
than the sum which determines the liabili-
ty according to the act, it will devolve on
him to show to the satisfaction of the as
sistant assessor that his annual sales or re-
c4ipts do not exceed that sum; and the as
sistant assessor may demand of him a
statement in writing of his actual and es-
timated rCcsipts. If he shall fail 70 satis-
fy the assistant assessor Of the amount of
his receipts or sales, the assistant assessor
may make Whatever examination may be
in his power, and assess the license tax as
in his judgment may appear just. If hO
should be unable 20 obtain evidence sufi-
cient to justify him in making an assess
ment, it will be his duty to report the case
to the assessor, who may proceed under the
I4th section of the act to elicit the neces-
sary evidence, on the basis Of which tho
assessment may be made.
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" 1'Il4N14ONi aug. ~.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TES,Nrssvr
Before Atlanta JuIv 24tb Lee
WAsHIyGToN. Ano m

WAsHINeToN, Aug. 10.
dEADQUARTERs ARMY OF TENNEssrr
Before Atlanta5 July oath, 1854. =
Ge'lerat-I have the honor to rero,+ 81,
following general summary as the res1,it ~
the enemy, on this army, on the 22pd inst
1he total loss in killed, wounded and
We nave UuIIeu ANA vlrrffy,reiIi -,
enemy, under q hag of truce. sent II, Nv
them IN front of The 18th army corps 100
OF their killed. Nv
The numberof their dead in front of
the 4th Division of the same Corps. fncIud-
ing those on the ground not now in our
possession. General Blair report will swell
the number of their dead on his front 10
1000 The number of dead buried in
'front.' oil the 18th corps up to this hour is
3ao, and the commanding officer reports
that at leas. as many more are vet unbu-
red- Ihe number Of dead buried in front
Ot the 10th corps was 422.
We have over thousand of their
wounded IN our hands, large numbers of
wounded being carried OF during the
night after the engagement, by them.
We captured Is stands of colors and
have them now. We also captured 5000
stands OF arms
4ne attack was made on our Hnes and Z
times rePulsed. Hoods and Hardee's corps
and Wheeler's cavalry engaged US.
We have sent 10 the rear 1000 prisoners,
including 80 commissioned officers Of high
rank.
We still occupy the Geld and the troops
are in fine spirits.
A detailed and full report will be for
warded as soon as completed
REHABILITATION.
Our total loss is .3,52I. The eneuv's
dead, thus far reported buried or delivered
to them is J, ,23O. Total number Of prisoners
sent north l,Ol7. Total wounded, and IN
our hands, 1000.
The estimated loss of the enemy is at
least 10000.
Very respectfully your obIdt servant
(SigRed) JOHN a. LOGAN,
Major General
To Major General W. I. Sherman, COM
nlanding Military Division Of the Missisa-
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mona INnIAN nurRAGES.

OMAhA N4E1l aug ~.
The Indians arc hourly committing new
redations-stealing stoOk burning trains
and killing indiseriminately.
They were within one hundred yards Of
the piekets of Fort Kearney last night and
fired an arrow at one Of them.
4 coach arrived at Fort KearnGy this
morning, and reports having passed several
trains which had been burned, and dead
bodies by their side.
A party of six whites were killed at Thir-
ty-two-mile Creek last night.
! The Indians have stolen all the stock at
Cottonwood Station, ninety miles west OF
Fort Kearney. f u 1-
This morning a party Of soldiers started
in pursuit Of the sayages.
1t is well known that renegades, supposed
to be from Qusntrelrs old band, are assO-
eiated with the Indians in these depreda-
tons
Fort LARAMIE, Aug. 9.
! Indians are very bold. There is great
alarm throughout the country. 1t Is fear
ed they will attack this point, Many emf
grants havs been killed, and much stool
taken.
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The Strengthening of Cattle in BuenOs
Ayres, >. A.

The Tribune's Buenos Ayres correspond
ent thus writes:
The past Summer has been exceedingly
dry and animals have suffered greatly for
want of water and pasture The result is
that there have been more poor cattle killed
this year than for an age before. The num-
bers killed, however do not vary much
from those of previous years. An approx
nation of the numbers, is as follows, for
1864.
The Saladeros of Entire Rios, GOO, 1000 !;
Buenos Ayrcs, $4,000; Montevideo 290,-
600; Rio Grande, 10000. At each of
these there will probably be $4,000 more
klled-being an aggregate addition of 4QO,-
600. The total killings Of this region will
then be l,670, 900.
OF the beef SO produced there is but
small portion used for food here. 1t mus
not be supposed that these are like themam-
moth oxen, stall-fed, that reach the New
York market. The average Of 200 ponds
would be too high an estimate-I5O would
be the utmost as tho average weight. Per-
hap5 one-half of the beef of these l,670, 900 |
cattle is used as fresh and as jerked beef the
remainder is about thrown away, for the |
ENSNN77 Va NANAuNNAALss5 AAAN teARbW " HLSellu ]
fia-trar-7 I lin 10 cot nnfirnl1r a-aa5c. IL
beef Is sailed here. Some OF II Is Used lfesn |
and some of it is jerked; and thesproductive |
value of the 2,5O5,O0 pounds Is hardly as
many cents. Thus far all efforts TO make |
this beef more profitable have proved fruit
less. The summary methods of curing that |
have proven successful in the North fail |
here 1t may be the climate, or it may be /
the nature of the beef or ii may be the Sc
we're test the beef undergoes in the hold of a
vessel IN the equatorial heat, but one thing
Is certain, there IS sons cause for the |
failure of four hundred experiments to pre-
serve beef made without stint of money, and
under the incitement Of great reward. :,
We are in midwinter. For years this
season Of the year has been dry and beauti-
ful weather, but this winter has poured oul
floods. Thepampas parched
for years, have been drenched in abundant
rains. Travel has become almost impossible.
Such drouths as have decimated these plains
annually for years can hardlI be repeated,
at least for one year TO come.
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IInni :. ration to RuenOS Ayers from
tile United States and Europe.

In such state Of things, it is little
strange to see emigrants from the United
States arriving here. Within short pc
rlod several families have arrived, seeking
more hOspitable home on the pampas than
that offered on the prairies. One family
from Milwaukee that recently came ashore
dismayed at the fearful contrast between
this country and the United States as a
strangers home, told me they would not
have thought of coming here but that, from
The Irish American, New York paper,
they were led to believe that here they
would find paradise. For one who has
his own fortune to make, and wife and
children to support, and the habits of this
country yet to learn, it is folly, it is mad
ness to leave the United States to come
here. For the down-trodden peasantry Of
Europe, for whom any change is an i'm
provement these regions offer shelter and
liberty, and freedom from direct taxation.
Hitherto our unfortunate friends who have
migrated here from North America have
done 90 despairing of any recovery in the
United States from the war. We are also
IfS{Sh hhS {Ssh al ts Is VIE ea6s feHc Of 5 c6min
in out of the draft" But thus Ifar repent
ance has been certain and speedy.