Show BY PACIFIC TELEGRAPH FerB ciAL TO TD THE me DAILY UNION VEDETTE 0 BOSTON sept b the republican convention met hero here today to day nearly 1600 db delegates legates pre sent bant governor andrew and the rest F of f the state ticket was nominated re b by y acclamation MACON sept 10 th force ha has s been dispersed abir tullahoma Tul lahoma 31 by steadman v 4 petersburg sept ath I grant algrant is still perfecting his lines on ali atie weldon railroad and pushing his line slowly to the west of the road NEW YORK sept ath the worlds special from grants 11 headquarters head ead quarters says there is every reason to believe that the rebels have in ill co contemplation ands and are already preparing for the evacuation of petersburg bu r ID retiring 0 their army within the de fences of richmond this may account for the protracted quiet in our front since their failure to rega regain in possession of the portion of the weldon railroad captured byus by us there has aseen been considerable firing almonr alon a por til tion 0 iw n t of th the line tod today to d day ay but without results of bf any moment on oil either side abraham wakeman postmaster in this j city has been appointed surveyor of the port vice rufus ruffis Audre viz the heralds sera ids ath corps correspondent says sayd jk A party rt of our men out a few nights since f set fire to a sign signal 0 a station 1 captured froni from us recently and it burned to the ground aground divisions of the ath carps corps L have been remembered the 3rd ard commanded by gen wilcox is now the the 2nd and commanded by gen potter retains its number the ith composed oi of colored troops and commanded by gen ferrars Perr Ferr ors will in future be known as the 3rd ard e mea ilits an tar harpers carpers pers lk v ferry ir dispatch pa at eb says A rebel regiment was cap captured turea by our troops lay day before yesterday it is the esth S 0 regiment of Long longstreeth streets corps and numbers about men inen lt it comprises members of some of the first families of the palmetto state the men were all well and comfortably clad sev aral cral officers of tile regiment 0 who were frere captured at the time speak confidently of their hopes of obtaining their independence pen dence deDee capt sloan of the ad penn cavala cavalry W dwle ho laft ft liby libby prison p ritson se september informs the washington correspondent of the times that there are of our officers imprisoned in richmond and at belle island since ar grant ant has held the weldon railroad the danville railroad is the only outlet and is in z danger 0 the rebels dare not transport tran tv aport prisoners south th tile sentiment of our captured men was that they would rather endure sufferings 0 as prisoners prisoners uriso ners than that the rebels sl should eilf up their ranks with 35 or fresh men by exchange e and these nien men under understand stand this is 77 the lie only source of strengthening the rebel armies capt sloan aloan is authorized by brig gen XI ha ayes es commanding the regulars captured in the fight on the weldon railroad to say that breut greut injustice has bas been done shim him ly by the newspapers jad biad his ai division vision commander properly advised him of the movements of the enemy on his right 6 1 lie ho would have baye ea captured aured the rebels instead of being captured by them the c conduct of ool col walker adjutant general to gen is spoken of with great praise ile he too was captured on tile of Au august trust but succeeded in destroying ying h ins is papers and endeavored to e escape by swimming the appo unfortunately fortunately UH however he landed too far up the river and was waa taken by the enemy within SO yards I 1 of the union pil pickets although confronted ed by gen beauregard beau regard lee refused to disclose 10 ISU olour f n w 1 |