Later from the North.
We have received Northern papers of the 5th inst. Two reports, one from Pope's headquarters and one from Washington, say that Richmond is evacuated. One says, on account of a pestilence, which has broken out, and the other, that the troops have been sent to the Southside. A large war meeting was held in New York on Monday night, which was addressed by Gen. Sickles. Only four men volunteered, and the gallant General, according to the New York papers, ‘"embraced them as they stepped on the platform."’ The steamer George Weems, on her trip from Baltimore to St. Mary's county, Md., on the 3d, was stopped at Fort McHenry, and searched. Some contraband goods and 102 letters, unstamped, being found on her, all the passengers were taken to the guard-house. The steamer Mary Washington, of the same line, was boarded and 165 unstamped letters found on her.--Her passengers were also arrested. Among the passengers arrested on her were Lewis Wagner of Richmond, James Graves, of Virginia, and Major Abraham Barnes, late inspector at the Baltimore Custom House. The inevitable drafting order has at last fallen on the North. The following is the document.
War Department,
Washington,August 4, 1862.
- Ordered, First.--That a draft of three hundred thousand militia be immediately called into the service, to serve for nine months, unless sooner discharged. The Secretary of War will assign the quotas to the States, and establish regulations for the draft.
- Second.--That if any State shall not by the 15th of August furnish its quota of the additional three hundred thousand volunteers authorized by law, the deficiency of volunteers in that State will also be made up by special draft from the militia. The Secretary of War will establish regulations for this purpose.
- Third.--Regulations will be prepared by the War Department, and presented to the Pesident, with the object of securing the promotion of officers of the army and volunteers for meritorious and distinguished services, and of preventing the nomination and appointment in the military service of incompetent or unworthy officers. The regulations will also provide for ridding the service of such in competent persons as now hold commissions.
The "Irrepressible conflict" in New York — riot between whites and Blacks.
In Brooklyn, N. Y., on the 4th inst., a serious riot occurred between a number of Irish laborers and the negro workmen in the tobacco factories. The negroes had been very insolent for several days. The Herald says:‘ On Saturday last hostilities assumed the first practical shape. On the afternoon of that day one of the negroes employed in Lorillard's tobacco factory was standing in the doorway of Grady's liquor store, on the opposite corner of the street, when a white man, who wanted to pass in, asked him quietly to get out of the way. The negro said he would not, as he had as good a right there as ‘"any other man."’ The white man again asked the negro to step one side, which the latter gruffly refused to do, upon which the former kicked him out of his way. On seeing this, another colored man ran across from Lorillard's with a knife in his hand to stab the white man, but was prevented from doing any injury by a policeman who came up. This ended the difficulty on Saturday.
Yesterday morning a delegation of white men went into Mr. Lorillard's factory and insisted that negroes should not be allowed to work there. Mr. Lorillard said he would comply with the request, and stopped his colored laborers from working.--About one o'clock in the afternoon over a thousand white laborers, women and children, assembled in front of Mr. Watson's factory, armed with clubs, brickbats, stones, and other missiles, and commenced a headlong assault on the windows. Several policemen had been previously secreted in the building to protect the negro workmen in case of the threatened attack. As soon, therefore, as the rioters entered the door, they endeavored to rush up to the second story, where the negroes were.--Here they were met by the policemen, who succeeded in preventing their ascent. One of the assailants then set fire to a pan of tar on the first floor, and in an instant all the wooden work about that part of the building was in flames. The fire was, however, speedily checked by the police before much damage was done. Finally, while a few policemen were holding the ricters at bay, a large reinforcement arrived from the 42d, 43d, 44th, and 50th precincts, and those in the building were ejected, when a general row occurred between them and the police. A negro attacked officer John Donnelly, of the 43d precinct, thinking he was going to arrest him and inflicted a serious wound on his head with the side of a box. Sergeant Wright got badly cut during the melee in the shoulder with a pitchfork.
At this juncture a voice cried out, ‘"Boys, set the bloody building on fire and burn the damn niggers."’ This was received with the wildest shouts of approval by the crowd, who again surged toward the premises with the intention of carrying out the advice that had been given them; but, notwithstanding the showers of stones, brickbats, &c., the police plied their clubs vigorously, and the intention was frustrated. Some one or two of the negroes got badly hit in the row, but all the rest were well protected by the police, who sent them away in all directions to avoid further trouble.
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Riot anticipated in Washington — Arrests for disloyalty — arrival of contrabands.
Dispatches from Washington, dated August 4th, give the following news from the Federal Capital:The Star, of to-day, says: ‘We are informed that the negroes of this city are organizing secret associations for the purpose of protecting themselves, in anticipation of a riot and mob by the laboring classes of whites similar to those which lately occurred in New Albany, Indiana, Cincinnati, Ohio, and other places. It is also alleged that a number of clerks in the Government employ are aiding the negroes in perfecting their organization. Our informant is a colored man of this city.’
Arrests are frequently made in Washington of offensive disloyalists. Dr. Camp, a dentist, was arrested last night for boisterous secession language, and boasting of having communication with Richmond. His effects were searched, and, among other things, a letter from Gen. Beauregard was found. Camp is an old offender, having been arrested some two weeks since on his return from Richmond. He was released through the mediation of the French Minister, since which time he has been comparatively quiet. Recent movements on his part made him an object of suspicion, and last night he was arrested. He was sent to the Old Capitol prison.
Rev. D. D. Broadus, a minister of Fredericksburg, was arrested there last week, and brought to the city and committed to Old Capitol. It is understood that he is held as a hostage for the return of several Union citizens of Fredericksburg, held as prisoners by the Confederates.
Rev. T. N. Conrad, who has recently been preaching for the Southern Methodist church, has been arrested by the Provost Marshal and sent to the Old Capitol prison. The charges against him are, holding communication with the enemy and attempting to get his scholars as recruits to the rebel army.
B. Wheat, W. C. Taylor, and Dr. J. B. Johnson, were arrested in Alexandria last night, and have been brought hither.
Several citizens of Fairfax county, arrested under Gen. Pope's orders, and taken to Springfield station, have been released. Considerable excitement exists in Alexandria and vicinity in consequence of these and kindred proceedings.
The boat from Aquia creek has brought up over one hundred contrabands, who are principally from Caroline county, Va. Many of them have been away from their homes for a considerable time. --They were sent to the creek on Saturday last. On their arrival there they were at once directed to the contraband quarters. Among them are persons of all hues, ages and sizes, including a sprinkling of infants barely a week old. The women, for the most part, lugged the children Indian fashion, and the men bore on their shoulders immense bundles of baggage.
Upon an offer being made to the President yesterday of two negro regiments, he peremptorily refused to accept them — declining to put the negro on an equality with the white man in the army of the republic, which is engaged in restoring the integrity of the Union and the Constitution erected for the benefit of the white race.
The New York Herald on the Situation — the Virginia Campaign to end in Six weeks.
The New York Herald says that in the draft just ordered the United States Government will haveover 1,000,000 men in the field, and thinks that everything promises that the ‘"Virginia campaign will be ended in six weeks, by the capture of Richmond and the expulsion or capture of the army now defending it."’ It says:
‘ Our information from various sources justifies the assertion that our forces in Virginia far exceed the number that is generally understood to be under the different Generals in command there, and that we are to-day able to present a much stronger front at every point than the most sanguine have heretofore imagined. This view of the position of affairs, is borne out by the confidence that is manifested in Cabinet and military circles in Washington, as well as by the hesitation of the rebels, their fear of attacking either McClellan or Pope, and in their hurrying troops from the Gulf States to Richmond. The quiet but effective system inaugurated by Halleck, and carried into operation by McClellan and Pope, with the assistance of the fames river fleet, may well allay all fears of any disasters in Virginia, and will soon put an end to the work of the panic makers here and elsewhere. We are assured that the different divisions of the army are in a good condition, the navy ready for operation, and it is now only necessary to hurry on the recruits and fill up the ranks of the depleted regiments to have active operations commenced in every portion of Virginia upon a scale far exceeding anything that has taken place heretofore. In this view the order of the President is a timely one, and secures, beyond a shadow of doubt, the concentration of a force at different points in Virginia that will give the finishing blow to the rebellion within a comparatively short time.
The incendiary and mischievous courses of the ‘"infernal republicans"’ and Jacobins in the last Congress, the efforts of such men as Wickliffe and Vallandigham in arguing in their speeches to Western audiences that the Administration is pledged to a war for the negro, thus creating dissensions; the ‘"wet blanket"’ articles and attacks upon the President; and our generals by such Abolition sheets as the Tribune, Post, and kindred journals, in their determination to force the Administration into a war against the institution of the South, instead of a war for the Union, and the constant decrying of our financial system by the jobbing journals, have all aided in confusing the public mind, causing a general despondency, retarding enlistments, and embarrassing the Administration. They have kept the public mind in a feverish condition, and caused great hesitation, doubt, and misgivings, on the part of the masses of the people, when there should have been but one feeling, and that a zealous and cordial response to all demands of the Government. Had it not been for their course the authorities would never have had to entertain the idea of drafting. But Congress has adjourned, and its members are no longer prying into the secrets of our Generals. The Secretary of War is relieved from the hourly visits of the virtuous Wilsons, Wades, and Chandlers, with threats to bombard his office unless he acceded to their wishes and adopted their political strategy of dividing up and defeating our armies, and in the place of those Jacobins the President has placed a military mind as the general manager of all military affairs. It is now only necessary that the conspirators on the stump in the West and the abolition and jobbing journals here and elsewhere, should be made to cease their assaults upon the Government, to remove from the public mind the desponding feeling that has existed.
On the other hand, the silent but effective work that has been accomplished under the establishment of a military instead of the political system that existed in Washington while Congress was in session, the new vigor which has been infused into all war operations, of which the order of the President in regard to drafting is a guarantee, with the dispersion of Congress, all assure us that we are on the eve of startling and thrilling events of the most momentous consequence. The public may rely with perfect confidence that the Abolitionists are at the end of their work of creating dissension, that the days of the rebellion are numbered, and that such effective blows will be administered to the rebel army before the first frost as will effectually close this monstrous Southern conspiracy, or at least drive it into the Gulf. Now that the rubicon is passed, the crisis turned, let one and all put their shoulders to the wheel and hasten the day of the final triumph of the Union armies.
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From the Rappahannock — a Specimen lie.
A letter from Washington says:‘ The Reliance a few days ago captured a canoe in the neighborhood of Urbana, with a mail of about 40 letters, addressed mostly to officers and men of the 50th Virginia regiment, near Richmond. The letters seem mostly to be of a private character, and from the fact that many of them are enclosed in envelopes which have been turned, and on the inside bear directions to parties at Heathsville, Northumberland county, Va., it is quite certain letters have been forwarded from that neighborhood. Several of them have the postmark ‘"Baltimore" ’ on the inside, and were undoubtedly sent from that city, to be forwarded from Heathsville. --One of them is directed to Capt. Hiram Cole, and asks him to send some of Uncle Sam's ‘"green backs"’ from Richmond, the writer being under the impression that the officers and soldiers of the rebel army made themselves rich by robbing the killed and wounded Union troops of the money they had on their persons.
Several refugees came up on the Wyandank They all reside in Middlesex county, and were at one time in the 55th Virginia regiment, but when that regiment left Fredericksburg for Richmond they deserted and returned to their homes, where they have been living for two months past, sleeping nightly in the woods or in a boat on the river, being in dead of roving bands of cavalry who have been scouring the country in search of them and other deserters. On Monday last, hearing that the rebel cavalry were to scour the woods, all but one made their escape, and came off to our gunboats for protection.
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Yankee Accounts of the skirmishes on the South side.
A dispatch from the headquarters of McClellan, dated the 4th inst., says:‘ Yesterday a reconnaissance was made from that point back into the country, to within fourteen miles of Petersburg. It was conducted by Col. Averill, and was composed of 150 of the Fifth United States and 150 of the Third Pennsylvania cavalry, with four companies of the First Michigan infantry. Captains Castor and Bowen, of Gen. McClellan's staff, accompanied them.
At Cox's Mills, five miles from the river, they encountered the Thirteenth Virginia cavalry drawn up in line. Our men charged on them, when they broke and ran. They drove them to their encampment, at Sycamore church, two and a half miles further, where they again formed, but were ingloriously put to flight, leaving behind all their tents, camp equipage, and commissary stores, which our troops gathered together and burned. The rebels had two horses killed, six men wounded, and two taken prisoners. Our loss was one horse killed.
After scouring the country a short distance further they returned to the river. There is no further evidence of rebel gunboats on the river this side of Fort Darling.
Information received here goes to show that the new Merrimac will not be ready to operate for three weeks yet.
Two of the gunboats were yesterday afternoon engaged shelling the opposite shore above City Point.
The health of the troops has improved ever since they began to receive fresh vegetables, which were ordered to be issued to them by Gen. McClellan.
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Outrageous proceedings in Accomac — brutal murder of citizens by Yankee soldiers.
The citizens of Accomac county, Va., are subjected to the most cruel and barbarous treatment by the Yankee hirelings who now infest and pollute by their presence that portion of our State. At a court held for that county last Monday, says the Enquirer, at Drummondtown, a soldier, in passing through the crowd near the Court-House, came across a young man by the name of Bell, who had been captured at Roanoke Island, and paroled. Seeing that Bell had a small badge hanging inside of his vest, he asked if that was a ‘"secesh"’ badge? Bell replied that it was only a badge which had been used by the members of the Debating Society while at College; and he still kept it as remembrance of hours happily spent among friends and comrades. The Yankee soldier, said it was a falsehood, and that it was a ‘"Secesh badge."’ This led to an altercation, and a scuffle ensued. During the fight the constable of the Drummondtown district, Wm. Addison Kellum, came out of the court- house, separated the combatants, and commanded the peace as a civil officer. Another Yankee soldier, coming up at the moment, struck the constable over the head with the butt end of his musket, while a Yankee officer split open the constable's skull with a sword as he fell to the ground. Constable Kellum was then taken into a neighboring house, where he died within a few hours afterwards.Several citizens, who witnessed the shocking murder of Mr. Kellum, and expressed their horror at such lawlessness, were arrested. Among them were George S. Rogers and his son Lewis Rogers. These gentlemen said to bystanders that they thought they were living under a civil Government, which they had taken the oath to support, but such conduct and such scenes were an outrage on all Government. A large number of citizens of Accomac were imprisoned for various political offences, and females as well as men were not allowed to utter a word in condemnation of the Yankee Government or the Yankee hirelings in Accomac.
Execution of a guerrilla.
[from the Leavenworth (Kansas) Conservative, July 29.]
Jeremiah Hoy, one of the Quantrell guerrillas, was shot at the fort yesterday morning, having been found guilty by the Military Commission of treason and murder.
It was proved that Hoy was a member of Quantrell's guerrilla band; that he was accessory to and guilty of the murder of Allison, a citizen of Missouri, and of a United States soldier of Major Banzhaff's command, on the 20th of March, at Blue Bridge Crossing, Jackson county, Mo; also, of burning said bridge; also, of treasonable acts in levying war against the United States.
Financial.
day's bank statement compares as follows with that of last Monday:
| Week ending | Loans. | Specie. |
| July 26 | $149,768,293 | $33,064,609 |
| August 2 | 150,517,844 | 34,022,490 |
| Increase | $749,551 | $957,881 |
| increase | $749,551 | $957,881 |
| Week ending | Calculation | Deposits. |
| August 26 | $9,244,953 | $132,427,178 |
| August 2 | 9,311,868 | 137,112,937 |
| Increase | $66,915 | $4,685,759 |
The feature of this statement, as of the last, and indeed all the statements for several weeks, is the large increase in the deposits. With the bank deposits increasing at the rate of four and five millions a week, and the loans — which indicate the demand for money — only increasing at the rate of three-quarters of a million to a million, it is evident that we shall have a 2 or 3 per cent, money market here this autumn, unless the rate of interest be prevented from declining by the offer of the Government to receive money on deposit to any amount at 4 per cent per annum.
If Mr. Chase wants to see money fall to its natural level, and 6 per cent, bonds rise to a handsome premium, let him stop receiving deposits, or lower the rate at once to 3 per cent, per annnum, with a view hereafter to lowering it to 2½ or 2.
Money is generally offered to the brokers to-day at 4 per cent; we even hear of some loans at 3 ½ though this is below the general rates. Certificates, of indebtedness are again up to 98 5/6. A fresh inquiry sprang up this morning for demand notes to pay duties with and they to 105½. Several heavy cargoes of goods, which were expected to arrive before the 1st, are only just coming in, and the duties will probably be heavy for some time.
Exchange and gold are rather inactive. Bankers are buying grain bills at 125@126, and selling their own bills at 126@127½. Gold opened this morning at 115, fell off to 114¾ at midday, and sold at 114¾ in the afternoon, and closed at 114 5/6 bid. There is less speculation in gold than there was, and we understand that several leading bankers are discussing the policy of declining to lend any more on gold.--If this were done the speculators who are trading on the apparent depreciation of the currency would soon lose money- enough to teach them a useful lesson.
There was a much better feeling in Wall street to-day. It seemed to be generally believed that movements were taking place on the peninsula and elsewhere in Virginia which would speedily set at rest the anxiety which has lately prevailed in respect to our armies, and that matters would be placed in such a shape that the reinforcements which will soon pour in will enable our Generals to accomplish the suppression of the rebellion within a shorter period of time than is commonly supposed.
Miscellaneous.
John W. Reid, of Missouri, who resigned his seat in the last Congress to take up arms against the Government, and has since been doing a very brisk business in the guerrilla line, was arrested last week, and given in charge of Colonel Dan Huston, who commands the military post at Lexington. Col. Huston paroled Reid on the same day he was arrested.Some of the regiments in Massachusetts are nearly full. The Thirty-third has 908, the Thirty- fourth 974, and the Thirty-fifth 996.
The War Claim Commission at Cairo closed its business on the 1st inst. The whole number of claims filed is 1,698, amounting to $599,219.36. Of these, claims to the amount of $451,105.81 were allowed.
Latest Memphis advices mention rumors prevalent there of the capture of eight Federal Paymasters by the rebels at Humboldt, Tenn., including Jacob A. Camp, Gatzmer, Coon, Hanna, Zouker, and Hazleton, with an aggregate of $1,800,000. Army circles here give these rumors no credence.
