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              :;v"OLTFME:XXVM Srmflcratit IBaimtr ii rnsnsajto btkkt iatcbdat xonxnre bt L. HARPER. Offlee In Woodward Block, 3d Story. f KRMS.Twa Dollar! per annum, payable in ad-rrao; 3.ae withia ix months; $3.08 after the expi ration of the year. Lyon's Kathairon. Kathairon ia from the Greek word " Kathro," or ' Kathairo," signifying to cleanse, rejorenate and restore. This article is what its name signifies. For preserving,-restoring and beautifying the human fcair it is the most remarkable preparation in the worlds It is again owned and put up bjr the original proprietor, and Is now mado with the same care, skill and. attention which gave it a sale of over one million bottles per annum. It is a most delightful Hair Dressing. . It eradicates sourff and dandruff. It keeps the head cool aod clean, It makes the hair, soft and glossy. It prevents the hair from falling off. It prevents the hair from turning grsy. It restores ihair upon bald heads. Any lady or gentleman who values a boautiful head of hair shuaid uee Lyon's Kathairon. It is known and used throughout the civilised world. Soli by aU'respectabie dealers. DK MAS S. BARNES A CO. Sew York. Mar. 2-ly - - Hagan's Magnolia Dalm. This is the most delightful and extraordinary arti-tlele ever discovered. . It changesbe sun burnt face and hands to a pearly satin texture of ravishing beauty, imparting the marble purity of youth, and - the ditinrjne appearance so inviting in the city belle of fashmn. It removes tan. freckles, pimples and roughness from the skin, leaving the complexion freeh, ' transparent and smooth. I contains no material injurious to the skin. Patronized by Actre.4tes and Opera Singers. It is what every lady should bavo. Sold everywhere. Pre'pareo by W. E. HAGAN,Troy, N. Y, Address all orders to - DEMAS S. BARNES A CO. New York. '" Mar. 20-ly . HEIMSTREET'S Inimitable Hair Restorative, NOT A DYE-But restores gray hair to its original color, by supplying the capillary tubes with natural sustenance, impaired by age or disease. .' All inntuHlewns dye are eomposed of lnnar cauttic, destroying the vitality and beauty of the hair, and afford' of themselves no dressing. Ilaimstroet's Ini'aitable Coloring not only restores hair to its natural color by an easy process, but give the hair a . Luxuriant Beauty, promotes its growth, prevents its falling off, eradicates dandruff, and imparts health and pleasantness to tho head. It has stood the test of time, being the original xiair coloring, ana is constantly increasing in favor. Used by both gentleman and ladies. It is . sold by all respectable dealers, or ran be procured bv them of the commercial agents. D. S. BARNES A CO. 202 Broadway, New York. Two sisos, 60 cents and SI. Mar. 28-ly , Mexlcanltlnstang Liniment. The parties in St. Louis A Cincinnati, who have counterfeited the Mustang Lihiment Under pretense of proprietorship, have been thoroughly estop d by the Courts. To guard against further imposition, 1 have procured from tho United States Treasury, a private steel plate revenue stamp, which is placed over the top of each bottle. Each stamp bears the Vic miU of my Signature, and without which the ar ticle is a Coui.terfeit. dangerous and worthless imita tion. . examine every bottle. Tuts Liniment has ieen in use anu growing in javor rr many years. TOers naraiy exists a bsinlet on the habitable (ilobe that does not contain evidence i' its won ler.'ul effects. It is the best etnuliuicut in the world. - With its present improred in;rt:dicut., its efforts upon man snl beast are perfectly rem ir:ible- Sores are healed, pains relieved, lives fave.l. vuluuble animals mads wseuJ, and unt'dd ills aKiiiiod. r'or cuts, bruises, spraws. rhemuatii-in. swoMimrg; bites, cuts, caked " t.rpasts, strains 1 horde. c. i. is a n Reinc-It should dy fuat-s boiii'l never l v fitj bs in every t'diui'y. Sold by- -ovcre; with. nfed all Druggists. 1) Mar. 2f.-ly S. JM K N KS, Nexr York S. T.-ISUO. -X. '. . Persons t.f ?e ii rjils t.ri-n..;ei with t-ls- tiess, Ussitit.ie, f'f.?ulti'...n t the lio..rt, lack of npe- tite, distres. a'ier c.it.ug. t--rpid liver, constipation, Ac, deserve to suffer if thoy will not try the celebrated:. Plantation Sitters, I which are njtc rccouuiodaed by the highest medical auta.nt.jei. and warranted to produce an hniKd Inic bene:i jial edi'eot. They are exceedingly agreeable, perfectly oure, an 1 must supereele all other tonics where a baUUy", gentle stuuulant is required. They pnCy. strengthen aud invigorate. T'noy create a healthy apetite. They are an aati l.te to c han jfeof water and diet. . Thuy overco-nu tSaU of dissipation and late hours. They strentbeu the system and enlire.l the mind. They Prevnt miasmatio aud intermittent fevers. .: They purify the breath and acidity. f the stomac h. They cure Dyspepsia and Constipation. They cure Diarrhea, and Cholera Morbus. They cure Liver Complaint and Nervous Headache. They mtke the weak strong, the linguid brilliant, nd are exhausted nature's great restorer. They are composed of the celebrated Caiisara bark, winter-green, sassafras, roots and herbs, all preserved in perfectly pare St. Croix rum. F r particulars, see cir-calars and testimonials around each bottle. Beware of impostors. Examine every bottle. See thai It has our private D. S. Stamp nnmutilated over the eork. with plantation scene, and our signature on fine steel plate side label. See that our bottle is not refilled with spurious and deleterons stuff. Any person pretending to sell Plantation Bitters either by the gallon and Bulk, is an imposter. Any person imitating this bottle, or selling any other malarial therein, whether called Plantation Bitters or Slot, is a criminal under the U. 8. Law, and will be so .'2roseenVd by ns. We already hare onr eye on sev-rl parties re-ftlling our bottles, Ac , who will sno-eei in ettin themielves into close quarters. The 4ema 1 f Drake's PlanUtion Bitters from ladies, clergymen, merchants. Ac, U incredible. The simple trial of a bottle is the evidence we present of their rorth aal superiority.- They are sold by . all res-Metahh druggists, grocers, physicians, hotel, saloons, tUaiaboaU and oountry stores, P. n. DRAKE CO, lr. - 102 Broadway, Y. ' JBCV-TOBIt STATE DIPLOMA 4TAMS3 PU&ffO, Albaay, Tar t!it Cft Catarrli Bemedj of the Age DUEHO'S 0ATABBH SHUPF B. f. J0UN80N. S. T; 8. FAXTOIf, Prei't. This most dsslrabU eall jesnedl for Catarrh "has BO aqaj iB madieiaa. It ttraagthoas the sight, iapreves xhe haariar, U waneftelal ia Bronchitis, and iysnisttksBmth.. . - ntstb LadUe1 speesai rmmdjf tot Nsrroas Usad-oS eootaias a Tobaaee is bizhly aromatic, pro-dssstaa, pteasUj aaaaatSoa and eaefteial rwaHs ie -aaUMrko apprveiate -; -. t ' A" CXEAB XXIUO. : V-. JC BoliW all IrstaUu . oJ. ee MSt4 fr -Jo. What, mot mm uWaW JaWtw ff mt. rrosa-U DKJW31 acW PaiaUr fa 3tmmtik Wmutx EDITED BY L. HARPER. FEBSOVAL AITD POLITICAL. The National Intelligencer, at Washington, orges the nomination of Hon. Edgar Cowan, the able U. S. Senator from PennajlranU, bj the Chicago Convention. Mr. Cowan is an OH Line Whig, but has been opposed to AIk lition despotism from the beginning. He is an able, honest, fearless and patriotic man. The Erie County News, published at San dnsky, in an article on the subject of the Pre sidency, declares its first choice to be Hon. O. H. Pendleton, the bold, fearless and incorruptible Congressman from "the Cincinnati District. --- Petitions are being extensively circulated in all parts of the country, by leading Republicans, requesting Lincoln and Fremont both to withdraw from the Presidential canvass. The Shoddies have made the " smutty joker'' believe that he will be re-elected, and he therefore regards every one a a " traitor," who in sinuates any thing lo the contrary. The re-action against Lincoln during the last few weeks, exceeds any thing that was ever witntssed in the history of politics in this country. It is absolutely a revolution Lin-i coin is politically dead and damned. He had better repent of li is sins before bis day of grace expires, ask forgiveness from GoJ and man, and strive to "flee the wrath to come." " The New London (Conn.) Chronicle, the Suffolk L. ; I. Herald, the Kansas State Journal, the Helvetian, a Swiss paper, published at Tell, Indiana, as well as many other influential Republican papers, have come out against the re-election of Lincoln. A circular, issued in the City of .New York, and bearing date August 3d, 1864, re" commends the nomination of Hon. Millard Fillmore bv the Chicago Convention. It pro" fesees to speak for leading Whigs and Democrats in all parts of the country. The Democratic State Central Committee of Indiana, have placed on their State Ticket Gen. Mahlon B. Mason, for Lieutenant Governor, in place of David Turpie, resigned, to run for Congress in the 9th district ; and Napoleon B. Taylor for Supreme Court Reverter, in place of Kerr, resigned, to run for Congress in the 8th district. Tlie Cincinnati Commercial, the leading Republican paper in the State, utterly repudiates the nomination of Benjamin Eggleston, for Congress, by the Abolition Convention of the First District. The Democracy of the Ninth Congressional District, will hold their Convention at Monroeville, on the 8th of September. Hon. W. P. Noble, the present able and influential member, will doubtless be re-nominated. A letter from Seneca county to the Ohio Statesman, says: " The best of feeling prevails there are numerous changes in our favor in this county. Many men who supported Lincoln, will not do so this fall. This is the glad nevs winch we hear from every direction." The Lincolnites at Cincinnati are jubilant over the defeat of Salmon P. Chase and the nomination of Ben Epgleston, for Congress. They declare it was Eggleston who defeated Chafe's nomination for President four years azo, and they boast that Chase is now laid on the shell forever. The Ohio Sun ask his neighbor 'of-the Cotirit-r, " Why is" it, if the war is tv closed, in a :ew months, that the leading A lo! ilionifts of liie coiitny are euj'!oyi' siih.-titutes for three year? Strnii.e, iil ee I, that they should employ men for three y cars .to accomplish three months' work." Lincoln won't let the Southerners come back into the Union without they all turn to be Aholitioiiisrs. lie will, hffihitlv de- mand that they shall exchange places with tht-ir pjaves 1 The oi l eiqner I There was an immense Demo?ratic meeting at Peoria, IUinois, on the 3d i net., n urn bering some 40,000 freemen, which demanded an immeli;ite armistice, to bring about peace, as the only means of saving the nation. The BucyruB Forum has an article in favor of the Hon. George H. Pendleton for the Presidency. ' All the poldiers who were candidates lie-fore the Hamilton county Lincoln Convention, on Saturday last, were defeated. The fat places were given to the "stay at home" patriots. Unpopularity of tlie Draft. The Poughkeepeie N. Y. Eagle, a Lincoln paper, says: " The people are very tired of hearing of drafts ; ibey dread tbem as they do pestilence, and will rejoice greatly when they begin to see that they are likely to get rid of tbem." In order to get rid of them we know of but one effectual way, and that is to rote for the Democratic nominee for President m November, who is sure to be elected, and under whose administration peace, happiness and prosperity will be restored to oar beloved country thus rendering drafts, conscriptions, and all Abolition abominations, wholly unnecessary. Do yoa hear that, boya t Emphatie, 'tat Proper. Tba Washington ZbWay: - "Tha following ententioas and Datriotia rr .rTd 1LSt Tharsday, the day of Tfi ,u.'""n aa prayer, by. a dwtm- Svneu jimeuer ox ne Aletbodist Episcopal lurch la Baltimore city i Ood Almighty on Ilia throne, bar mercy on Abraham Lincoln. That la Terj appropriate, lt .ii the prayer that the Jodraalwaya maaaa fottha criminal after ha 1 has ' aeateneed him' to dealh ; The earthly Jadg enarally coaeladaa M foUowai "An tniy 06 Aliihty hate mercy on voor The national Intelligencer 'on General v: " Grant's Campaign. . .-. The National ItidCigencfr, of Saturday, contains the article, five columns in length, which has been noticed by telegraph, and in which is given a detailed review of the camgaign of Gen. Grant. The first half of the review is a diary of the work done from Hay 3d, when the army broke camp, to June 14th. when it had been trans fered to the south of the' James River. In this period onr losses, apart from those incurred in skirmishes; not comprised in the count, amounted to 57,000 men. ' Generals Sedgwick, Hayes and Wads worth were among the killed. The Intelligencer' halts in its diary to make this remark: On the 11th of May, after six days of heavy fighting on the overland route, Gen. Grant bad written to the Secretary of War, "I propose to fight it on on this line if it takes all summer." On the 14th of June, just a month afterwards, and when the summer xaa only two weeks old, he had turned his back on this line, and the Army of the Potomac, t leapt what remained of its origina I number on the day when it took up the bloody march across the country fromv Fredericksburg, was set down by its commander on the banks of that river from which it was removed by Gen, Halleck in the summer of 1SG2, and where it might have been replaced by Gen; Grant long before the- 14th of June in the present summer, and that too without the I099 of a man, if he had chosen to coney it there in transports instead of marching it overland, where every foot of its progress was marked with precious blood the blood of trained and brave and skillful veterans. . Our contemporary then proceeds to inquire into the consideration which can be supposed to have induced the adoption of the overland line of advance against Richmond. The Intelligencer concludes, after a candid consideration of the reason urged in defence of Grant's course, that : in us, in any light , in winch we mav view. this question, it is impossible not to perceive that the men who were killed and disabled by the overland march were killed and disabled in vain. For if General Grant proposed to himself the destruction of Lee's army -by. hard pounding, so that the fall of Richmond would follow, we now see that he weakened the aggressive power of his hammer even more than he damaged the resisting power of the anvil, for he was compelled in the end to intermit bis blows and resort to the slow processes of the mine and the siege. And as the course of events finally turned him from the line of the overland march to the line of the James-leaving the Confederate army unbroken as a resisting power it follows that by. pursuing the former line he needlessly sacrificed all the men who were killed and wounded in excess over the Confederate killed and wounded, and that he forfeited by it at the vital point of his operations all the strength and energy which had been wasted in the terrible but fruitless battles which intervened between the 3dof May and the 14th of June. After citing the assertion of the Army and Navy Journal that the campaign thus far had "been attended with losses proportionate to the enemy's certainly as three to two, possibly as fi ve to three" the Intelligencer sara : We shall not undertake to estimate the losses of Geii. Grant in the overland expedition. We shall perhaps never know them with authenticity or exactitude. Mr. Senator WiK son, speaking in the Senate in his capacity as chairman of the Committee on Military af fairs, characterized them as "immense." We at least know they were without precedent in the history of oar war, and let it be remembered they were losses which robbed ns of veter- i an soldiers men seasoned by service, whose lives, in a purely military : point ot view were precious beyond numeraal reckoning. ' j But the loss of valuable lives was not the sole disadvantage of this overland march. Thoe of the army who succeeding in reach-' ing the James were so worn and spent by their previous uninterraitting and exhausting labors that thir officers found them out of breath at the very point where they came to the final tug of the dreadful struggle. The enemy had fought behind his defensive work, and, though doub:les greatly reduced in number and vigor, could still fight behind his trenches at Petersburg or Richmond, . But as our forces bad been required to carry rifle-pits and to scale entrenchments along the whole line of the pogress from the Wilderness to the James, they were, with hearts as ever, so prostrated in their physical energies that their charges became ineueciive and uAVAi1in precisely at the juncture when success in the l)o!e yjsct of the ciVipnisn defended On the impetuosity and vigor of their assault. : A review of the operations before Peters burg, concluding with the affair of the 30th ult., shows, according to the InUlligencer, that "our panting it oops, wearied by the toils and conflict of the overland march, had little either of speed or vigor to spend in assault of the enemy's form able line of redoubts and entrench menu.". Losses amounting to 17,000 men, apart from thot-e sustained in General Wilson's movement against the panville railroad, are noticed by the Intelligencer as having accrued before Petersburg. After alluding to the defeat of the 30th ult General Grant's reviewer concludes : The result (of the defeat) is not so important in itself as for its probable consequences, eutailing as it must still longer delay in front of these works, if their reduction should not be abandoned by General Grant. But during this interval of delay will the enemy remain idle ? On this point the intelligent correspondent of the New York Time in this we allude to Mr. Swinton pertinently writes .as follows.:-.';- -"Under the most favorable circumstances, with the rebel forces reduced by two great detachments, we failed to carry their lines. Will ibey not conclude that the twenty-five thousand men that held Grant in check can garrison the works of Petersburg? Wi ll tfcey not conclude tbat, if they were able thua to hold their own with the force of from eighteen to twenty thousand men sent to the north aid of the Jamea river neutralized, this force ia available for active operations elsewhere, and may w not expect t see it join the col-uraa o Breckinridge and Early with a view to attempt still more aodaeious enterprises on the eoil of the loyal Statea." " - These -.ulterior 'oonaKraaboea of General Grant failure before Petersburg are aa yet purely apeculative. AnJ a we propose to confine eareelvea strictly to a rehearsal of the past,; wa her close our review of lb ifeveirtfnl but, is thapreaeat aUgaor iu progreaa,most nnaeaWttl eampaiga It iaaoc ia mortals alwaya to rtmomand ioceeat, botoaa wil Iety that tW callant Army of ch- Potomaa has. by it -heroie esdaraac a.ad his- it rmidiiea of valor duened Usaaaeeeaa trhieh a' maJl I ka a M V a a - Protest of 8enator T7ade and Hon. Hen-1 ry Winter One of the most imjji(H;ant political demonstrations which s Wen ' made lately, is the protest -of enator Benj. Hon. Henry F. Wade, of Ohio, and Winter Davis, of Marylaid, against the usurpations of power ttjxp the part of Mr." Lincoln, in reference to the seceded States. It is a signil and heavy, blow, in the face of the President from stont old Ben. Wade, tlit will cause him to reel and flutter.: klr. Wade and Mr. Davis, with many fther"leading and influential Republican Congressmen, have evidently obsnrved the design upon the part of llincoln to degrade Congress, and bjjbold usurpations to overthrow all its 'constitutional functions, and, render theone-rnan power supreme in the Gove 'nme'nt. Our readers can judge how. iifamous must be the character of the ; . .dministration when two of its stanches political supporters, in the midst of , Presidential campaign, feel compelltil to address their Presidential candidate in language like this. They say : TO THE SUrPOBTKRS OP fllE GOYERIir-ME XT. We have read without surprise, but not without indignation; tie proclamation of the President of tb 8th of July, 1864. j .: . The supporters of the Administration are responsible to th country for its conduct, aud it is thfir right and duty to check the encroaciments of the Executive on the autbjrity of Congress, and to require it to confine itself to its proper spbere. I It is impossible to , pjlss in silence this proclamation without neglecting this duty ; and having . triken as much responsibility as any others in supporting the Administration, ye are not disposed to fail in the other j duty of. asserting the rights of Congress. ; The President did not sign the bill " to guarantee to certain States whose Government have been; lsurped, a republican form of Govern uent," passed by the supporters of hit Administration in Both houses of ,tibngress after mature deliberation. yX The bill did not therefore become a law, and it is thereforepw The Proclamation Is TitEcrari" approval nor a veto of ther ball ; it is there fore a document unknoyn to the laws and Constitution of the United States. So far as it contains an apology for not signing the bill, it is a. political manifesto against the 1 friends of the Government. So far as it proposes to execute the bill which is not a law, it is a grave Ex-cutive usurpation. . It is fitting that the facts necessarv to enable the friends of the Administration to appreciate tli3 apology and usurpation be spread before them. After a lengthy argument on the question, sustaining their points against Lincoln, they close as follows :. Such are the fruits of this rash and fatal act of the President a blow at the friends of his Administration, at. the rights of humanity, and at the principles of republican government. J The President has greatly presumed on the forbearance which the supporters of his Administration have so long practiced, in view of the arduous conflict in which we are engaged, and the reckless ferocity of our political ' opponents. But he must understand tbat our support 13 of a cause and not of a man ; that the authority of Congress is paramount and must be respected ; that the whole body of the Union men in Congress will not submit to be inpeached by him of rash and unconstitutional legislation ; and if he wishes our support, he must confine himself to his executive duties to obey and execute, : not make the laws to surpresB by arms armed rebellion, and leave political reorganization to Congress. . If the supporters of the 'Government fail to insist on this,. they become . responsible for the usurpations which they fail to rebuke, and are justly liable to the indignation of the people whose rights aud security, committed to . their keeping, they sacrifice. Let them consider the remedy for these usurpations, and haying found it, fearlessly execute it. ' A - v B. F. WADE, Chn Senate Commit- H. WINTER DAVIS, Ch'mn Com- v mittee House of Representatives - on the Rebellious States. We are as much opposed to the political sentiments of Mr. Wade or Mr. Davis as we are to Mr- .Lincoln, but they are entitled to credit for their bold ana manly attempt to assert the dignity of tho Legislative . against ; the usurpations of the Executive power. -Xn, J&nquirer. . - Preaideatial Preferences A Hepublican ' The Pittsburgh Ckroniclfj m Lincoln orat, aya:-, . ; -. :r- . .-., t . ' , ju. ; .-The Chicago JPto (Democrat) thtnka r the indicationa ara daily growing thai ilillafd Fillmore will be tha botbhiw of the National Deiaocratio Con veatioa for Preaident. ' Jodge Nelsou Uuo4eratoe4 to ballha favorite oftha Albany Eegjency; Pendleton, of Ohio, 4 warnvj jy snpponea; tnt jicuteiiaa naa tne mot.r- faca tre2th. n - v'-:1. ; --""v., y IWris. A Radical Republican Arraigns. Old Abe. The Fremont wing of the Republican party lately had a large and enthusiastic meeting at Cairo, Illinois. Among others who addressed it was Gov. Gantt, of Missouri. He arraigned Lincoln for his want of principle and incompetency. He says : "Mr Lincoln might sit in Washington and act the jester, but that the radical Democracy were called on to elect a President-r-not to advocate the claims of any person; but to place a man at the head pf the nation who would be an honor to it, and that in determining between them the responsibility was with the people. That he knew no better rule than that of Jefferson, " to be both capable and honest." He held that Mr. Lincoln was not capable, and that even his most devoted friends, the shoddyites, only claimed that he (Mr. Lincoln) had done " his best," and that that best was equal to nothing. Tire people had furnished him with 1,800,000 men to whip the rebels, who had never had more than 700,000 men ; they had furnished him with seventeen -hundred millions of dollars, which he had expended; and yet, this day the Union army occupied less territory than it did two years ago, and that the war had just commenced. That the flash of the wires had brought the news of the disaster to our army before Petersburg ; that the rebel hordes were devastating Maryland, and had sacked Chambers-burg ; that the whole country was in misery on account of the war ; that the women and children, the fatherless and the widows, asked in their : waitings, if this war was being carried on properly. Our flag had been insulted by the nations of the earth ; an American Republic had been crushed under our very noseb and a piratical empire established on its ruins ; that the want of success was not the fault of our gallant and valiant armies in the field ; but that the blame rested with Mr. Lincoln," in appointing politicians to military positions, who were totally incompetent. He illustrated the-honesty of Old Abe by an anecdote, thus : Some individual went to Washington, and on asking a negro for the rail-splitter, the darkey put; his hand On Abraham saying " dishonest Old Abe." lie said: that Lincoln was elected on the principles of Freedom and Union, which he had totally disregarded: that in every speech from Springfield to Baltimore he had nothing to say, and could not even say that. . '' - "Mr. Lincoln had accepted the nomination upon the Baltimore platform, arid his letter of acceptance, written weeks afterwards, says he fully endorses the platform there adopted, one plank of which requires the removal of Bates, Seward and Blair from the Cabinet ; Lincoln indorsed the platform and removed Chase, the leader of the radicals. The Baltimore platform endorses the Monroe doctrine, and Lincoln shows his respect for it by instructing Mr.. Corwin, our Minister to Mexico to recognize the pirate Maximilian as Jumper or of that Country ; that he claimed to be in favor of human freedom and - removed General Fremont from the Department of Missouri because he issued a proclamation of freedom, arid when asked why he removed him, illustrated his reason by a vulgar joke, the end of which was he tcanted the glory. When Congress made a new article of war liberating the slaves, Mr. Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation which has never liberated one slave- That American political philosophers predict that if ever this Government failed, it would be the President's using his patronage for a re-election. Washington had warned the American people of the dangers of a second term. Since then it had only been attempted twice ; first by the " traitor Tyler" who had a patronage of seventy millions of dollars, and secondly by Lincoln with with the civil patronage of over seven teen millions of dollars, independent of the army patronage, shoulder straps and all : and that if he succeeds this time there is no telling bat that he will make himself President for life as a " military necessity." That the Baltimore Convention was packed for Lincoln by the officials, shoddyites, .etc., etc.;" - .;' . . .- ' Severe and just as have been the criticisms jof the. Democracy upon Lincoln, it is surpassed by the vigor of the attacks made upon him members of his own party those who know him best.' . "Hy Lord President.? p. The Administration "press are publishing withjgreat gusto correspondence between Anne Williamson, of Edinbnrs, Scotland, and A. Lincoln, of Sangamon . county, Illinois, now temporarily residing in Washington, respecting the presentation of a piece of plaid by the former to the latter. Misa WiUiamaon had probably read aboot Lincoln's journey through Baltimore disguised in a Scotch cap; and bav ing seen portraiu of him, her brilliant imagination no doubt pictured the fine figure he woold cut in cap and kilt, and hence she sent the plaid to make him a petticoat: "Bat the beauty of the correspondence ia the compla-eenej with which Lincoln accepts Misa Williamson title of address to hirn, Lord President Jff- Urd resideuxlw Good Cr Kow is the lime to obacrtbe From Washington. Grant's Last and Greatest PaHure Grant's great mistake about the Hine Terrible Slaughter of the Union Troops Projected Invasion of Pennsylvania by ' General Lee Great victory" at - Cumberland. Special Correspondent ef the Cltiago Times. ' ; Washington, Aug. 4. Sickened and pained as the readers of the Times have been at the- sad details of the assault on Petersburg, they will scarcely be surprised, either at that deplorable catastrophe, or at the humiliating reverses which have attended our arms onhe upper Potomac during the last four or five days. The defeat of Grant and the present invasion of Pennsylvania are so notoriously the consequence of Mr. Lincoln's" interference that any other -result could not have been looked for. While that i3 true, there is a certain measure of responsibility which attaches to General Grant, which it is not right that he should escape. The administration has already found a seapegoat in the person of General Meade,, who is to be immedi ately suceeded, it is said, by General Hooker. General Meade is not blame less,' as I shall show presently. But the design of the Administration in this removal is to make it. appear to the country that the President's confidence in General Grant-is unshaken, and that his plans for the capture of-Richmond are to be persevered in. The very reverse is really the fact. . But it serves the purpose of the administration to de ceive the people on these points- .Of all the failures which this war has produced, Ulysses-S. Grant is the greatest. It is a literal fact that ho has failed in every step of his campagn against Richmond. His . successive failures may have been duo to the constant interference of the President with his plans. But his plans have failed, every one of them, and one after another. The intelligent readers of the Times can recall: tnetn to memory and mark the constant succession of failures since the 3d of May. - . His most recent failure- his failure to destroy the railroad communications of Richmond; his failure to approach Richmond by water; his failure to make a left flank movement around to the south and west of Petersburg; his failure to get possession of the Weldon Railroad; 'his failure to prevent General Lee from sending large detachments of his army to invade Pennsylvania and Maryland and to be- siege Washington; his failure to invest Petersburg; his failure to approach menmona irom tne east; anu ms janure to comprehend the design of General Lee in cojoling jiim into a siege of Petersburg, a point that has no more relation to the capture of Richmond than Wilmington in North Carolina, these, his most recent failures, are more mar - ked and more complete" than those which began at Spottsylvania and terminated in the flank movement from ColdHarbor. But even these sink in-1 to lnsignincance beside his stupendous ' failure in the assault that followed the explosion of his great mine. xhis mine was itself a great humbug. Jle wasted the labor ot thirty-aye days in its construction ; and, after all, it j town if the money was not speedily pro-undermined nothing. He intended it j duced. It was not produced, and the to undermine the key to Petersburg; threat was immediately carried into ex-the fort which it blew up was only aniecution. The torch was applied about iiisigmuca.ui, 5 fci..-uu lcuuuuk wumu eigne o ciock in tne morning, ana pro-commanded nothing, and was the key bably in some fifty to one hundred pla- to nothing. The arrangements for springing the mine were so bunglingly made that the explosion was delayed an hour and half after the time fixed, when by the whole design was exposed to the enemy. The arrangements for the storming parties were the very worst that could have been devised, as tho event proved. The breach formed by the blown up fort was not large .enough for half the: men to operate in that were nuddled together in it. Into that pit of death a division of our best and bravest soldiers were driven, only to find that they could do nothing, that there was no enemy in sight, but to be actually mowed down like grass by a fire that came in sheets like lightning from above and all around them. Burn- side can no more wear the title of the Butcher. The name now rests on oth er shoulders. ; Such horrid, frightful, useless f butchery was never seen at Fredericksburg; - - It was a severe, but a perfect, test cf the respective valor and disipline of the white and black soldiers, and it forever settled that question. I have been careful to sift carfully all the testimony on this point, and it is ample and abundant. - The white troops stood Up to the horrid work without flinching, and-never retired till ordered to retreat. The negroes, on the" other hand, wavered from the first, and then immediately turned and fled in "abject terror, throw-away their arms, and screaming, as if the bottomless pit itself had opened its horrors spon them. The whole organisation of the colored troops is broken tip. " There is no use trying; to organize them again.:. : They; were fearfully cut down in:the retreat, and they' can nev-eragafobeiaade 4 .face tho'xansic.-They will probably be buietely disbanr qzo, avna turaeu ouca mure ravo team' Well,;.tI;3aultwas repulsed. The whole of Grant's main body was 'engaged in it, and the frightfulaffair cost us a loss of fully 12,000 men. The at- tick was repulsed by a very small part ot ben. lice s army. Tne latter ha been sending troops away from Petersburg and Richmond to the North for the last two weeks " Only as late as the 20th ult. 20.000 of his troops left Petersburg, made a feint against Gen. Foster, on the north side of the James, on the 27th and 23 th, and then pasael through Richmond on their way to Cal-peper and the North. It is. pretty certain that there are not more than SO,- 000 rebel troops now in Petersburg. There is every reason to believo that the main body or General Lee's" army is either now on the line, of the Potomac, or is en routs thither ; and that Gen. Lee intends to transfer the seat of active hostilities from the South ti-the North immediately! What - can prevent him from doing so ? It is abundantly evident that Petersburg and Richmond can be held Dy 80,-000 or 40,000 troops. Besides these General Lee has in his own army proper 125,000 troops.: : At this moment, when Gen. Sherman is reeling on thw north side of Peach Tree Creek under the heavy blows of Hood; when the southern half of Pennsylvania is panic stricken ond virtually abandoned to the rebels ; and when there is nothing to prevent his army from marching straight on to Harrisburg, it is not likely that the rebel General will keep that-many men idle, or throw away the best chance he ever yet had to capture our capital and to dictate a peace from Washington. The reported victory at Cumberland, on the 1st inst., is about the same kind" of a victory as Gen. Shermca gained , near Atlanta on the 22d ult. On the heels of this " victory" it is reported that two corps of Grant's army are to be brought up here immediately, to pre-" vent any further invitsi(iji of Peunttyl-vania. - The Burning of Chambersburg. J. M. Cooper, Esq., oue of the editors ; of the Lancaster Intelligencer gives in the last issue of his paper a lengthy account of the recent burning of Cham- bersburg, this State, by the Confederates. He says: : . "The enemy, consisting'of mounted infantry and cavalry to the number of perhaps four or five hundred, adranctxi ! to the euberbs of the town. Here th infantry were dismounted and thrown out as skismishers, and soon they he- ! rran to swarm m amonc tne streets. through the alleys and across the lots, like rats making a reconnoisance in force through a cheese manufactory. Squads of cavalry kept pace with tbem. ! and seemingly in a few minutes "tho 1 whole town was occupied, borne low citizens on the streets were picked up and p r ssed as guides, a nd at theberil ! of their lives were ordered to show the marrauders where goodii could be b-Hotisetained. iThev ranj? the Court bell and ordered the citizens to meet, . arld.when some had obeyed the summons, they demanded five hundred thousand dollars, and threatened to burn the ces, so that in a few moments one half of the town-was burning." He gives a list of two hundred and fifty-seven buildings! which .were des- ; troy ed (among which was a very, large-one belonging to himself), in addition to which fifteen or twenty houses. shops, kc; including the Lcmnos Ed go j Tool Factory and the Railroad Conipa ny's ware house, situated in various parts of tht town, here burned, making a grand total of at least two. hundred and seventy-five buildings destroyed, with all their contents. ThU does not ; include barns and stables, man v of which were more valuable than some ot the ' houses. The number of stables burned -! cannot be less than one hundred and fifty. The part consumed .- covers per- ' haps one-half of the territorial area of the town, and contained four-fifths of its wealth. It would be hard to" state with anything like accuracy whaV'jthe t6tal loss amounts to, but it can hardly fall short of three million "dollars. As everybody within the limits of the barnt district lost everything, even down to. the smallest article, the full amount of the loss can never be known. ." The scene presented by this once beau- tiful and flourishing town is the saddest-that the human eye ever looked upon in Pennsylvania. ;; So utter is the destruction within the limits given, that own- era of burnt property can with ' cb'fSeai-" ty distinguish, the places were their hou' ses used to' stand. -. ! ' V The Seeretarr of the Treasury; I The Portland ( Maine,) JVe JVx, in atf ar iticfe on the' visit home of the Secretary of thai. Treasury sayer - " ..i t- v And here we 'will state what we. Jearned from Mr. Feeaendeo. himself, that he' consid-. era hk eeapaney of a seat ia the Cabinet as 1 knere temrary'thinjrbe oe no cons ii cr hie etrensth adeqnate to the labnrious an j ov rnjittin bailee of the place. aa.l he will IieU if only ta he ran; resign wiUioa dtricitnto the'pablle irTica?.. - : - - -. . . ,