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From the New York Herald, Sept. 11.
The elections for members of Congress,
which also take place in November, de
mand the undivided attention of the coun
try. tVe regard these Congressional elec
tions this year as of more importance than
1 any elections which have been held for
the paatfifty years. Upon them depends
in a great measure the integrity, the very
existence of the country. The radical
Congress now- in power taught us most
thoroughly, by the bitter results of its last
session, the power and the influence of
Congressional action during a crisis like
this. This Congress, during a single ses
sion, nearly accomplished tlie ruin of the
nation. There never was collected a
more rvicked, silly, revolutionary body ot
crazy fanatics. When they at last ad
journed the whole country gave a deep
sigh of relief, and thanked God that the
worst was over. If Jeff Davis himself had
drawn up the measures which they passed
they could not have done the Union cause
more injury. By their diabolical intrigues
they have brought upon the country ev
ery disgrace and disaster which has visit
ed our arrfiies in the field. Under the
lead of Sumner Wilson, Fessenden, Love-
joy, Chandler and the other abolition rad
icals, they succeeded in befooling weak
members of the Cabinet and imposing up
on the simple good nature of the President
until they had marred the plans andinter-
ferred with the commands of our ablest
and most patriotic generals. This Recom
piled, they deliberately proceeded to stop
enlistments’, and thus enabled the rebels to
.outnumber onr armies in every important
engagement during the war. Again and
again they interfered to prevent the cap
ture of Richmond, and at last left McClel
lan's army to melt away in the swamps of
the Chickahominy, while they purposely
held back reinforcements which were not
needed elsewhere, and which would have
saved the Army of the Potomac, and given
it triumph which it could almost reach, hut
was not strong enough to completely se
cure. A crime like this can never be for
gotten or forgiven.
they were not fitted to carry on the gov
ernment.
♦ * • * *
Mr. Seymour then stated the position
of the democratic party. They had and
they would continue to loyally support
the laws and authorities of the country.
They would,give the President all the
men he called for to uphold the govern
ment, execute the laws, put down the re
bellion and £ain an honorable and lasting
peace. The democratic party had been
and would he loyal and obedient to the
laws and constitution of their country, not
from.fear, hut patriotism. He warned, he
implored the republicans not to mistake
the patriotism of the democracy for fear.
The democratic party had hearts and arms
strong enough to sweep away the cohrveh
Brigadier General Branch, of North
Carolina, killed.
Brigadier General R. H. An
derson, wounded in hip, not danger
ously.
Brigadier General Wright, of
Ga., Hesh wounds in breast and
leg.
Bjjgadier General Lawton, in
leg.
Brig. Gen. Armstaed, in the
foot.
Brig. Gen. Ripley, in neck not
dangerously.
Brig. Gen. Ransom, of N. C., slight
ly.
Col. Alfred Cummings, in coin-
system of terrorism and threats which in and of Wilcox’s Brigade, slight-
seemed to be held over the heads of the
people. The security of the public is in
the loyalty and intelligence of that party, Soldiers’ I.etttr*.
and upon that party the government can at | Oneo f the deprivations the most diffi-
al. times re y^ * * * ‘ cult to hear by our soldiers, which isen-
j tailed on them by the advance of the ar-
lien order was once more restored, j n ,y beyond the regular postal arrange-
Ioud cries were made for “Fernando | men t8 of the Confederacy, will be the im-
VV ood, . who, in a brief, spirited, eloquent j possibility of procuring letter's from home,
and patriotic address, endorsed e\ery w ord , >^ 0 Qne w j 10 bas no j. experienced it can
that Governor Seymour had given uttei- i mide rstand the intolerable longing to hear
ar.ee to, declaring that the time had come j f r0 nihome felt bv a young man who has
when the people could speak their minds, j bcen nurtured carefully and lovingly, and
l. nder the present administration a man j t0 snch an one nothing equals the satis-
Ihe Present Aspect of the War—
The Position of the Worth-Crisis of
Life mod Death.
Such is the headiug the New York
Herald gives to one ol its leading
Washington he must keep his left
well up the right bank of the Potomac,
thus extending his line and weakining
it proportionately. Besides this, he
must also leave strong guards at each
editorials on the war. The Herald [ ford or ferry, as he passes them, to pro-
readily admits that the present aspect
of the war is “painful, humiliating and
alarming,” and says:
After eighteeu months of war by
land and water involving the wasting
of an immense army and the expendi
ture of a thousand millions of money,
what is our position? Disgracefully
defensive. As the opposing armies
of the war stand this day we cannot,
without a sense of shame and humillia-
tion, contemplate the contrast be
tween the immense forces and resour
ces of war at the service of our govern
ment and the pitiful weakness of our
rebellious States. We 'have a loyal
population of 23 millions, against S
millions serving this rebellion, and of
these 8 millions nearly three millions
are African slaver. The white pop
ulation of New Y*rk and Pennsylvania
is graeter than that of our rebellious
States. Our manufacturing establish
ments of all descriptions render us a
self sustaining people for all the re-
heretofore, if he spoke (he truth, was sent f ac tion with which letters from home are i inurements of peace or war; and with
to Fort LaFayette, and the only security recfe ; ve d. or ,i ie disappointment when
for him against imprisonment yras to give . t } iroug h the fault of the mails or other
utterance to lies^ lie pledged that the j causes the friendly missives are not re
city of Yew I ork would give thirty thou- ce ; ved- \y c may imagine then, that to
sand majority for Horatio Seymour, and ^j ia ^ part of our army in Maryland every
that nothing could prevent him (Mr. Sey- ■ thins wears not the brightest colors, for
moitr) from being the next Governor of the
great State of New York-
and out of
they are in a strange country
reach of Post offices.
How to write to soldiers, and who should
write, are points that everybody thinks no
advice is needed upon. But a few hints
From the Richmond Enquirer.
Authentic Particulars.
A Decisive but Dcarlj Bought \iclory. may not he amiss. In the first place,
We have received authentic particu- write often —have stated times for the du-
lars of the sanguinary battle at Sharps
vent the enemy from crossing in his
rear. Lee and Jackson are, therefore,
waiting for our army to come within
striking distance, and when it does
their blow will fall, but whether
towards Baltimore and Washington
they will only decide when the mo
ment arrives.
Another correspondent, who claims
to have “some secret information of
the designs of the rebel forces now in
Maryland,” says:
The destruction of the splendid and
costly iron bridge over the Monocacy
is intended to deceive the Union Gen
erals, and to make the latter believe
that they are going to retreat. But
they do not intend to retreat; and
neither do they intend at present to
The Muttering* of the Storm
The fierce m titterings of the terrible
storm that is destined to sweep over
the North are becoming day by day
more threatening and more audible.—
A Washington dispatch of the 11th
inst.. to the Chicago Tribune,
says: .
The New York Herald . to-day - has
an article more fully indicating the
plots for the establishment of a milita
ry dictatorship than anything else that
has yet found its way into print. It
compares McClellan’s position now
with Wellington’s oil the Spanish
peninsula, when the British cabinet
was opposed to him, and says that
McClellan ought to insist on a recon
struction of the Cabinet to purge it of
the radical taint which may again in
fuse its poison over the whole. It
continues, “now is the time for Mc
Clellan to prove himself not only a
great general, but a statesman worthy
of the occasion and of the responsihili-
give battle to the Union troops.— j tv which he has assumed. The safety
burg, alluded- to elsewhere, and oon-
But the damning record of the present j cerning which so many painful ru-
Congress does not end here. During all mo rs were afloat on yesterday. We
this time its members were exasperating
even the most unwilling rebels, and inten
sifying the treason of the rebel chiefs by i - ... , , , ,
} p - - about . one of the most complete victories that from a sensitive mind, and to keep th
has yet immortalized the Confederat
The hall was opened on Tliur
have the gratification of being able to
announce that the battle resulted in
ty, and let no other business stand in the
way. A dreary feeling that lie is forgot
ten at home comes over the soldier when
his letters arrive at long and uncertain
intervals through the remissness of his
correspondents. Not all the bustle and
gayety of the camp can vanish this leeli
unceasing harangues and debates
the inevitable negro; and they completed
their mischief by the passage of an uncon- arms
stitutional confiscation and emancipation
hill, the obvious and immediate effect of
w hich was to transform every Northern
man into a fiend in the eyes of the rebels.
Even after their adjournment, these Con
gressmen did not cease their bloody work,
hut incessantly harrassed our generals in
the field, and prevented Pope’s reinforce
ment when he was battling with the whole
rebel army iti desperate endeavors tc
check the advance upon Washington.—
And now, when the rebels have invaded
the border States, these Congressional de-
day evening about six o’clock, all of
our available force, about sixty thous
and strong, commanded by Gen. Rob
ert E. Lee in person and the enemy
soldier cheerful and contented, the best
recipe is frequent and regular letters.
Write cheerfully. The soldier sees so
much of toil, sorrow and pain that the
small grids of home folks look very insig
nificant to him. His toils, dangers and
. ,1, i i i privations are real and weighty, and he is
about one hundred and fifty thousand ^ pt to undervalue home troubles and to he
strong, commanded by Gen. McClellan
in preroii, being engaged. The position
of our army was upon a range of hills,
forming a semi-circle, with the concave
towards the enemy; the latter occupy
ing a less commanding position oppo
site, their extreme right resting upon
mens of discord are again at Washington, i hej ht commanding our
to inveigle the Secretaries of M ar, of the I, ; ,,. rnn(rpm „ nt nf
extreme
x , i . • , left. The arrangement of our line
1 reasury and of the Navv, and to gam , ,, ^ T . .
the ear of the President,'who could as' wasas loIlows: Gen. Jackson on the
.safely listen to the counsels and advice ot j extreme left, Gen. Longstreet in tne
the arch rebel himself. A more infamous ; centre, and Gen. A. P. Ilill oil the
record can be shown of no men since the j extreme right.
time of Judas. The question is, are these I The fight on Thursday evening was
wretches to be sent hack to Congress to
repeat their exploits ? The people have
the opportunity to answer this question at
the ballot box in November. If it he an
swered in the affirmative, then nothing
short of a stnpenduous miracle can save the
country. If it be answered in the nega
tive, then conservative men will he sent to
Congress, who will do as much good with
their powerful opportunities as the radi
cals have done harm by their intermed
dling, intrigue and evil legislation. Fpon
the next Congress hinges the fate o+‘ the
republic, and its action will probably be
decisive one way or the other.
vexed at their recountal. If the cows
get in the cotton patch, or if. his favorite
dog dies some fine morning, there is riot i
much occasion to mention it, and if his
sweetheart has got married during his ab
sence, tell him all the gossip of the neigh
borhood, hut above all things don’t men
tion that—lest in his rage he take his re
venge out of the newly made husband’s
“substitute” aud thus get himself in the
guard house.
Who should write. Women are much
those advantages we retain all those
of an unrestricted commerce with
foregin nations. Our rebellious States,
on the other hand, with only a few
insignificant manufactories of arms
and materials of war, textile fabrics,
leather, Ac., lia/e been cut oft'by an
encircling blockede for fifteen months
from all those supplies upon which j
they had depended from the North j
and from Europe, in the way of arms, i
munitions ofwtr, clothing, medicines,
and many of the essentials of subsist
ence.
The rebellion is without the vestige
of a navy, except a straggling ship or
two, while ours in this war is equal
to a laud force of three or four hun
dred thousand men. Our revolted
States are nearly exhausted of the I
commonest articles of food, while we
oi' the loyal States have a super
abundance of all the essentials and lux- j
uries of life. Our troops, rn mas.se, :
are better armed, equipped and sub
sisted than those of any other nation,
while those of the rebellion are arm-
i ed with all sorts of weapons, good,
bad aud indifferent, clothed in rags, fed
upon half rations, and yet advancing
upon our borders,.they threaten the
invasion of Ohio and Pennsylvania,
and the occupation of our national
capital.
From the evacuation of Corinth
They intend to hold and occupy for
the present and for some weeks to
come, all that part of Maryland west
of the Monocacy, and to make it their
base of operations northward. They
occupied Hagerstown yesterday.—
of the country is entrusted to him
and he is bound to see that no insidious
enemy lurks about his base of opera
tions. He is master of the situation.
He ought not to rest satisfied till he is
assured hv facts, not mere, promises
They are massing troops at Romney that his plans shall not he interfered
with hereafter. The game is now in
his own hands, and unless he plays
his best trump* and disposes effectu
ally of the radicals as he has the power
to do, they will soon dispose of him
by striking him down on the very
crisis of the campaign now opened in
Maryland.
The Herald ostensibly demands the
to-day for an attack on Cumberland.—
They are said to he advancing on
Gettysburg this morning* With Cum
berland and Hagerstown in their pos
session, they intend to advance into
Pennsylvania at ohee and capture
Harrisburg.
The People Must not have Arms.—
The New York World has an article
, ,, , , expuslsion from the Cabinet all but
denouncing the present clamor among ,,
. r . -vr I., -• c ° i McClellan men, but what it really
the people at the North for arms, from ; . , „
.A, *- - , ,, , means is to urge & coup d efat on the
which it; is quite evident that tne , .. 0 ... ,/ ...
r , • , } , • , , , , part ot McClellan like that which over-
Government stands m almost as much f, ... .
f threw the republic in Prance,
fear of the people as it does of the Con-I „ ,.*■ ... ,, ^ .,
c , , J. 1 i Commenting upon this, the Tribune
federates. It says: ' , 3 1 • .
Vir i i ji i i *i I ienjark& •
\\ e regret to seethe clamor which , T ,, „
• r- 3 . f i The New York Herald calls tor a
comes from every quarter for a gener-i ,, T „ , , n
, • ,• J 1 , .• \ coup defat.—It urges General MeGleil-
al arming of our population. It is oc-l 1 - 3 - - -
casioned by an unmanly fright, and ’ au ^ e P 0St
down to this day, our armies in almost
every encounter have
Horatio Seymour lias been nominated
for Governor of New York, in opposition
to Morgan, the present incumbent, b}’ two
Conventions—the one a sort of Constitu
tional Union Convention, at which
Brooks, of the ‘Express,’ was a performer,
and the other a Democratic Convention,
subsequently held at Albany on the 10th
inst. The ‘Herald,’ of the 11th, contains
the proceedings of the latter. The follow
ing are extracts:
Mr. Purdy then moved that Horatio
Seymour, of Oneida, be unanimously nom
inated by acclamation the candidate of
the Democratic State Convention for
the Governorship of the State of New
York-
The mention of the name of ‘Horatio
Seymour’ had an electric effect upon the
Convention Every member started to
his feet, and cheer after cheer resounded
through the hall. The scene of enthusi
asm and excitement is beyond descrip
tion.
The motion of Mr. Purdy was carried
amid a perfect tempest and applause, and
the unanimous ‘Aye’ of the Convention
rang through the hall amid the most deaf
ening calls for ‘Seymour,’ ‘Seymour,’
‘Seymour.’
It seemed as if the Convention would
never become quiet again.
Mr. Seymour soon appeared upon the
platform, when another outburst of enthu
siastic cheering took place, lasting for sev
eral minutes.
Governor Seymour, when order became
sufficiently restored, addressed the Con
vention in a speech of unusual force, bril-
liancv, eloquence and boldness. After
better letter writers than men, as they 11 , > , , -
„ . ii i ... ■ J buck by overwhelming
are a great deal better in many other re- i J -®
spects. AVlien men have good advice to
kept up until 9 o’clock at night, when give they give it in such a way that it
it subsided into spasmodic skirmishes f? u , 3 ndghtiiy like scolding—therefore,
■ ,i v iir i i - if the soldier son needs reproof or advice,
along the line. Wednesday morning , ., ... y - ’
° ii/-, t i ^ letthe mother give it, not the father; her
it was renewed by Gen. Jackson, and gent i e influence and words will be more
gradually became general. Both arm- effective than all the formal preachments
ies maintained their respective posi- of the paternal parent—he will always
tions, and fought desperately through- write as if the boy had already fallen into
out the entire day. During this vice, she as if it were impossible that snch a
battle Sharpshurg was fired hv the enc- good son could ever go astray—his dogma- j trifling. We are in the very crisis of
mv’s shell, and at one time, the enemy Gsm will irritate and not correct, her con- life or death to the country*.
obtained a position which enabled love wfil wm and shame him to v.r-
.. 1 u i • tue, it he has deviated. 1 he man who
them to pour a flanking lire upon a does not i ove his mother and vield to her
portion ot oui leir wing, causing it to influence, is not of the right stuff to make
waver. At this moment, Gen. Starke, a patriot of, and has no business in a pat-
of 3Iiss.. who had command ot Jack- riot army. All of us love our sisters aud
been pushed
forces of the
enemy, and so now, while Washington
is menaced by a great rebel army on
both sides of the Potomac, the clothing
stores and pork houses of Cincinnati
are threatened with a visit from the
hungry and ragged battallions of a
rebel army column all the way from
Tennessee.
We have no more time to waste in
son’s Division, galloped to the front of daughters—most of us in the course of oui
his Brigade, and seizing the standard h ye8 have loved other people’s—but we
rallied them forward. No sooner did “ever love but one mother:
u . r, i .i i - lo wives we have no advice to give,
the gallant General thus throw him- they understand ^ subjects they ha £ e t0
se.f in the van, than four bullets pierc- fl ea l with, and nobody knows as weli as
ed his body, and he fell dead amidst themselves how to manage them—to them
his men. The effect, instead ol dis- we however repeat our advice to write
couraging, fired them with determin- cheerfully and avoid recounting petty
ation and revenge, and they dashed troubles.
forward, drove the enemy back, and These hints are gratuitous and they are
kept them from the position during
the rest of the day.
It being evident that the “Young
Napoleon,” finding he could not force
his way through the invincible ranks
of our army in that direction, had
determined upon a Hank movement
towards Harper’s Ferry, and thus
obtain a position in our rear. General
Lee, with ready foresight, anticipated s t a ( es that Mr. John Hannah and family,
the movement by drawing the main 0 f Merriwether county, have all had the
body of his army hack on the soutliside small pox for the last four weeks. Mr.*
11 Hannah died of it some ten days ago.
The remainder of the family are conva
lescent.
Two soldiers of that neighborhood—
John McDaniel and Wm. Owen—spent
Sunday at Mr. Hannah’s house, when Mr.
H. was at his worst, just before his death.
Tuesday following they started to Virgin-
little likely to be valued, still we Hatter
ourselves there is something in them, and
we hope when our soldiers return to the
domains of civilization and Mr. Reagan,
our counsel will be remembered and fol
lowed—Chronicle if Sentinel.
Small Pox spread far and u-idc !—Look
out.—We have before ns a letter from Mr.
Andrew J- Berry, of Newnan, which
of the Potomac, at Shepardstown,
Virginia, whence he will of course,
project the necessary cambinations
for again defeating his adversary.
The enemy’s artillery was served
with disastrous effect upon our gal
lant troops; but they replied from mus
ket, howitzer and cannon with a rapidi- ia to join their company. They go
ty and will that carried havoc amidst far as Staunton, where McDaniel was too
the opposing ranks. The battle was i sick to go any iurthcr. He went into a
one of the most severe that has been j hfphab and Owen went to wait on him,
fought since the opening of the war.- | \ vhere lie ^on broke out with small pox.
Many of our brave men fell. At dark As s "“ “ Md;, * mel **’ *«» e "°” eb *•
the firing ceased, and in the morning
stating his unwillingness to accept the i (Thursday) our army were ready to re-
ofiice under any other circumstances than
those rendering it tLe duty of every man
to do what was in his power to rescue the
countiy from its present difficulties, he re
ferred to the Democratic Convention held
less than two years ago in this same hall,
to exhort the dominant party to submit
the‘Crittenden Compromise’to a vote of
the people in order to avert the war. Mr.
Seymour then reviewed at length the
course of Congress, which refused the pe
tition of the democracy, and traced the
history of events from the first battle of
Bull Rundown to the pledge, made by Con
gress to prosecute the war for the restora
tion of the Union and the preservation of
the Constitution. He then drew a picture
of the subsequent action of Congress,
wlach disregarded the wist)^ffi of Solo
mon, ‘that it is an honor to a »an to cease
from strife, but a fool will be meddling.’
He alluded to the assaults made by repub
lican journals on the administration, which
administration they charged with incom
petency, corruption and unfaithfulness.
He showed bow the course of Congress
had tended to unite the South and distract
the North, for the Republican party had
evinced a spirit of insubordination towards
the administration ofits own creating. He
reminded the Republican party that sla-
verv wr.s not the only thing in the consti
tution. the overthrow of which would bring
ufitold misery aud suffering on the coun
try. He argued that although the repub
licans were not intentionally dishonest,
commence the engagement, the enemy
having been forced back the evening
before, and the advantage of the battle
being still on our side.
Firing was consequently opened
upon the new position supposed to he
held by the enemy, but no reply
was obtained, and it was then discov
ered that he had disappeared en-
ti rely from the field, leaving many
of Ins dead and wounded in our
hands, and about three hundred pris
oners. The report current on yesterday
that a truce occurred on Thursday
for the burial of the dead, was unfoun
ded. The prisoners stated that their
force was more than a hundred thous
and strong, and that McClellan com
manded the army in person.
Our loss is estimated at 5,000 in
killed wounded and missing. The
prisoners state that their ranks were
greatly decimated, and that the slaugh
ter was terrible, from which we may
infer that the enemy’s loss was fully
as great, if not greater than our
own.
The following is a list of commanding
officers killed and wounded in the en
gagement:
Gen. Stark,* of Miss., commanding
Jackson’s division, killed.
travel, he was sent back home, and Owen
i along with him. Soon after leaving
Staunton, Owen was taken sick on the
cars, and in a short time broke out.
They both however travelled on via
Knoxville, Atlanta and Newnan, leaving
tbe train six miles below there on the 10th
inst. They were aiming to go to Luthers-
ville, Merriwether county, but the guard
took them in charge and carried them to
Mrs. Hannah’s house to be kept until
they are entirely well.
Their trip from Staunton was on the
12tb, 13th, 14th. 15th, and a part of tbe
10th instants; and everybody on the cars
with them on those days is liable to take
tbe small pox.
Such is tbe substance of Mr. Berry’s
letter. He concludes as follows:
“Tbere can be no doubt of its being
smallpox; for Mr. H. P. Arnold’s negroes
contracted the disease at Hannah’s, and
all the physicians say it is genuine.”
Will the people now come in and be
vaccinated.—Atlanta Confederacy, 2\st.
A trilling captive.—Among the many
prisoners taken by the Confederates here,
not a few seem happy to return to their
homes on parole. An amusing instance is
related as follows: A Confederate soldier,
exhausted, laid down by the roadside to
rest, and falling asleep, was left some dis
tance behind the army. When he awoke
be found a Yankee soldier sitting by his
side fanning off the flies, and patiently
waiting to be taken prisoner. Of course
he was accommodated.—Knoxville Reg.
Every day we stand upon the de
fensive contributes much to strengthen
the rebels in the articles of subsistence
and clothing, which they are gathering
up from the farms, mills and stores ol
northern Maryland. They should at
once be driven out. If Gen. McClel
lan is not yet strong enough to do
this without danger to Washington
from the rebel column on the Virginia
side, a hundred thousand strong, what
is there to prevent New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania sending down
to his support a body of fifty thousand
militia within tin?next ten days?
We have the opportunity, now to
put down this rebellion at our doors.
If we lose it we may lose everything.
We may bo broken up by our rebel
armies and our infamous political
factions, not into two Confederacies
but into two or twenty petty repub
lics of the South American school,
electing each a dictator every year
at the point of the bayonet, and all
incessantly fighting each other. We
must save our country, or no man in
the land can say that his surviving ch
dren will not be outcasts under rule of
ruffians and robbers. Now is the time
to save our country, and to bring this
rebelion to an end, while •Europe
is yet debating the question of inter
vention.
These positions of the enemy’s
forces would leave hut little conjecture
regarding his plans, even if they were
not from sources of information hither
to always found reliable. They are
altogether strategic, and success is
anticipated without fighting more than
one battle. They have made the
Monocacy the line of operations against
both Baltimore and Washington, and
have arranged their stores so as to
concentrate the bulk of their army, in
the smallest possible time, either for
offensive or defensive action, and at
tl^e same time hold u line of retreat
across the Potomac. The cities of
Fredrick, Baltimore and Washington
from an equilateral triangle with sides
of forty miles. Making Frederick the
point of operations, by occupying the
line of the Monocacy, they threaten
both Baltimore ai d Washington, Mc
Clellan, engaged in the double task of
defending both, is compelled to stretch
his army along the sides of the trian
gle between the two, thus giving them
an opportunity to rush a superior
force upon either of his wings. Jack-
son at this moment could make
the attempt to overpower with eighty
thousand men his (McClellan’s) right
wing towards Baltimore, and leave
Lee with forty thousand to menace
his left, and, if necessary, fight it with
nearly equal numbers; or the two
uniting could dash on his left, and at
tempt to crush it by overwhelming
numbers. But such is not their plan.
They are waiting for a surer thing.—
As McClellan advances his army from
i an to depose the administration and
i i x j * j • c. -i j - I place himself at the head of the gov-,
, s calculated to do ud.mte damage m ^ t without further delay. This of despotic and lawless power,
withdrawing men irom useful and ( . . , . . . ‘ •
, ,. 3 ,. , 1.J.1 - lisa scheme which has seemed to be
productive occupations, to spend‘then |, <■ ,. m • . •
G - , - / , Uj. m brewing for some time—ihe mb is
time m trymsr to be poor soldiers. Ihe P t u! ,,
r , * •'. A i r i -HI somewhat greater than the Herald
Government lias called lor and will J 3 *. . , c . , ,
i -n I supposes. Before the melee is finished
receive all the troops it needs or will .
, , , ^ j 1 . . w , , we opine that the Western soldiers
know what to do with. What we f . , , . .,
a - • , . will take a hand m it. They can hold
reallv need is not more men, but com-
our military strength and the force of
our political position, and of dividing
the South. 3
But there is something more than
this demanded by the crisis, and
which would be effected by the influ
ence bf these great Democratic States
asserting their position as the advo-’
cates of constitutional law!
On every side we hear of proposi
tions to disregarded the Constitution.
The rights of the press, ofindivduai
liberty, and of pvperty. are treated
with contempt by a class of demagog
ues which now proposes.to establish a
military dictatorship. The men who
make this proposition, for the most
part cowards and criminals, seek to
shelter themselves from, the outraged
law, under the cover of some military
usurpation. Weak-minded and fearful
in this crisis as they have been wicked
and blind, id every antecedent step,
they seek to find retuge from then-
own folly and vascillation, in a despot
ism, no matter how odious.
They know not what they say. A
dictator ship means assassination, and
absolutism means anarchy. There
can he no revolution without counter
revolution. The Mira beau of to day
will he followed by Danton, and Dan-
ton displaced by Robespierre and a
reign of corruption and imbecility
must follow the reign of terror, before
we are ready for a Napoleon.
The men who now invoke despot
ism in the name of order invite anar
chy, as when a while ago they pro
posed to usher in the reign of liberty
they proposed an absoluteism. There
cen be no such thing as the overthrow
of constitutional law and order without
civil war and anarchy. The man who
ventures to lay his unlicensed hand on
the Ark of the Constitution, even to
steady it lest it fall, will be struck
down by the hand of God!
It is for this we need a restoration of
the Democratic party—to restore once
more the reign of constitutional law,
and to revive the sentiment of loyalty
to the Constitution, and of abhorrence
It is
with this conviction that the people
will unite to place again in the ad
ministration of office that old and
loyal party, which has already given
proof of its capacity to administer
this Government, and with which a-
lone we can achieve success, in war,
cannot conquer the South with one, b , , , , c ,
■ n . 1 - • • , ii a. -.i not ready to ht* put up for sale at a
million men, it is quite clearthat with , .- 1 .*
v i ti i praetorian auction. Anv transactions
two millions \Ve shall only conquer 1 1 -
ourselves bvexhausting the country’s
resources.
Indian Jugglers.—His attendants
having removed the cutlery, he called
me to examine his eyes, which he
opened very wide and rolled about in
every direction. They were clear,
liquid and expressive. He then closed
the lids, put his hands upon his hips
gave a strain, then opened the lids and
in place of his natural eyes were two
balls as of finely polished steel. He
closed the lids again, strained again,
i of that kind made wil
by reason of the inability of the parties
to deliver.
We understand that there will short
ly be a meeting of the governors of the
loyil States. Never was there a time
when a meeting of our executives was
more imperiously demanded by exis
ting facts, or by the voice of the people.
The government has been breeding an
anaconda, which has clone the rebels
no harm, but has wound itself around
its creators in a manner quite too fa-
milar and att’ectionnate for health and
comfort. The subject demands early
itlzen of the Confederate States and
true friend of the soldier, to expose the
i system which was practiced last year in
come to naught | reference to this business. We believe
opened again and the steel balls were
gone, and a pair of burnished brass &n»s investigation and prompt actiou.
in their stead. Once more lie dosed! On the same subject Wilkes’ New
the lids, and on re-opening them look- j York Spirit of the Times has an article
eclat me with the eyes I had just be- entitled “The Philosophy of the C’n-
mro ovnmlnpil. Dnrintr the ncrform- sis—High 1 reason in our Gamp. It
fore examined. During the perform
ance of this trick he never took his
hands from his hips, and I was the only
person near him. On raising he called
to his son and made him stand before
me. He then asked me to inspect very
closely the youth’s left side, to press
my hand heavily upon it, to rub it
upward, and to be sure that there
was no lump below the skin. I did as I
was told, and could feel nothing but
Gamp
is destined to attract wide attention,
and if we mistake not, will prduce a
profound sensation in the public mind.
Wilkes declares “that when the Presi
dent was dragooned by the assumed
clamors of the soldiers, and in opposi
tion to sentiments of the intelligent
and patriotic classes of the people, to
reinstate the man that lost the Penin-
snla campaign, and whose minions
a great deal of the sickness that has been
in the army this year was caused by the
so-called bacon and beef that was put up
last winter. Many a soldier is trow in his
grave, owing to the food »hat was furnish
ed him. We speak knowingly on this
subject, and will be able to prove every-
thing we shall say. We intend to give
this subject a thorough overhauling, and
if the same thing is repeated this year,
the fault shall not be ours.
The President and Secretary of War
ought to know, and it is the business o!'
tlie public Journals to state these facts,
and to show what outrages were cominit-
tq^l in the purchase of so-called beef cat-
! tie, and the manner in which hogs were
slaughtered and pretended to be made ba
con of. We call upon all good citizens
who have sons and relatives in the army,
1 or who expect to be there themselves, to
give their testimony against these things,
in order that similar outrages niay not be
committed again this fall. We speak par
ticularly of what happened in Middle
Tennessee; what happened in other places
others can, and we hope will state.—Chat
tanooga Rebel.
the ribs. The father then placed his j sacrificed Pope, the civil liberties of
finger on a particular spot, and with j this poor couttry passed beneath the
an instrument like a lance made a slight | sword, and a virtual military distator
mincture, and got hold of a piece ofl shi P was inaugurated, the en<
coarse thread, which he drew forth which no man can foresee.”
besmeared at intervals with blood. He These evidences leave the fact no
to draw forth the thread, in longer in doubt that the North is
Items of. Yankee News.—A letter from
on board the L*. S. steamer Bibb, gives
the report that Charleston, S. C., has
been completely invested and Fort Sumter
has already received “a preliminary dose
of shell which resulted in serious damage.”
* p j The Philadelphia Inquirer, commenting
on this Munchausen, says it is an event
contmuec
one pigee, until 30 or forty yards lay
upon the ground, and said he would
go on as long as I wished, or that I
might draw it out myself. I declared
myself satisfied, and he then clipped
the thread close to the skin, gave the
place a rub, and nothing remained to
show that any operation had been
performed.—George Thompson in the
Dial. .
President Davis.—Success throws
a halo of glory around him who
achieves it. .Those who have been '
rapidly developing itself into two
great antagonistic parties, the first of
which may he termed the Conserva-
tiveor Monarchial, and the other the
Radical or Aiarphial.—The first ren
der the plea of military necessity, the
idea of preserving the government,
good order and an efficient prosecution
of the war; will resort to strong meas
ures, while the latter, composed of
all the isms a:id radical elements of
society, will make its appeal in behalf
of popular rights, Constitutional
guarantees and the red-republican
which has been “long and anxiously de
sired by the people of the United States.”
The funeral of General Reno, who was
killed at Sauth Mountain, was to take
place in Boston, Friday. Com. John Per-
cjval, U. S. N., died at Roxbury, Mass.,
last week. About 1,400 Confederate
prisoners arrived in Baltimore Wednesday
night.
Dralh of Colonel Dougina*.
We have received no item of personal intelli
gence from the battle-fields of the present revolu
tion that gave us more sincere sorrow than the an
nouncement of the death of the gallant comman
der of the Thirteenth Georgia Regiment, Colonel
Marcellas Douglass. A special despatch received
last evening from Richmond, brings the unwel
come tidings of his fall in the recent battle at
Sharpsburg. Georgia had no better man at borne,
'Pfooi/Li.ii- nGIl I c VP . 1 I no braver, truer man in the field. With great
complai nn ol the. 1 resident Mill now i sympathies ot the people. As yet we j personal worth, he combined talents of a high or-
be the loudest Ot ins eulogists. The yjm only see"<the seettungs and heav- 'l° r - which gave him an enviable prominence at
3 the Ear of his State, and marked him out as ihe
recipient of distinguished honors in the future.
signal victories of the seven days’ battle 1 ings 0 f£he distant storm-cloud, hut its
lefore Richmond, served to silence his | mutterings are plainly heard, and the
Manas-| direful ijiry of the tempest itself must
soon be felt.—What shall he visible af
ter the storm lias passed must be left for
further development.
enemies ; the second battle on
sas Plains, will force them to shout
praises in honor of our glorious chief.
Yet, had the late battle been followed
hv defeat, President Davis would have
hem no 1m. a patriot and statesman , » olmcalnpriitos at Kort l,.
than lie is to-day. \\e feel that we j
ourselves have fallen into the very The Albany, [N. 3.,] Argus (De-
enor of hastily condemning some of mocratic), in an article on the ap-
our public men, because in the admin- j preaching elections at. the North, says
istration of interests immediately un- Yhe Middle States will insist upon
der their control, disaster seems to have I resuming the power they once held and
been the invariable rule'. If we shall I which has been filched from them by.
find reason, hereafter, to think we have ! New England. It says :
spoken unjustly, we shall not hesitate! It is in vain that the voice of the
to acknowledge our fault. In regard to | press, of public meetings, of formal
the President, however, our opinion ; deputations, is beared impldring the
formed at the beginning is unchanged— ! President to give-efficiency to his
that, like Washington, he was sspecial- administration. The instruction of
ly raised up and qualified by God to i the people is needed ; aud that must
bring the 8outh gloriously through her j be given at the ballot box. We have
present troubles. May God give him ; reached that stage of political crisis
health and longlife. May lie be permit- i wherein our position resembles that of
ted to see this great nation enjoying j the British Parliament, when a revolu
the peace, prosperity and happiness of
a free and independent people ?—
Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Observer.
Gen. Humphrey Marshall’s hearlquar-
terr are at Cynthiana, Kentucky. Every
where the people are enthusiastically re
sponding to the appeal of General Smith,
and rushing into ranks in greater num
bers than guns can be furnished.
tiou of- political opinion dictates a
change of ministry and a modification
of governmental policy.
Instead of a policy vague, vascilla-
ting and destructive, we want one
which shall be intelligent, resolute and
effective. The resurrection of Demo
cratic influences in the North would
have the double effect of consolidating
!n Western Georgia, the section of bis residence
and where he was universally known, no man was
more cherished and beloved. His death,' in the
prime of his manhood and usefulness, addsanotb-
rr to the noble offerings that have been laid on
(•the alter of our liberties. How can we cherish
! enough the political .fabric whose fonudatioa
stones are cemented with the blood of such men’
[$ar. Rep.
A correspondent of the Richmond En
quirer sends the following estimate of a
soldier’s outfit, every article of which is
indispensable for the coming winter. Ye
hope the Government will supply the
clothing or money: One cap, $0; one
jacket, 825; one pair pants, 830; one pair
shoes, SIS; two pair socks, (wool,) 82,50;
two shirts, (wool,) 810; two pair drawers,
88. Total, 898,50.
A Caution.—We were shown yes
terday by Col, E. P. Holcombe, a
very well executed fac simile of the
five dollar green body Confederate note
printed an Philadelphia. It was brought
by a returned prisoner of his com
mand, who states that they wereon’er-
ed in quantities very cheaply. The
imitation is so good that an experienced
person could easily be deceived by R*
People had better keep their eyes open
for it is possible that some of them
may have found their way Souta,
through hands less honest than that
sho\yn us yesterday.
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