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t Frcut the Army Correspondence of the Savannah . send half woolen or cotton socks; and bo j iiiin. Iu dog days, when the cell door j with under clothing, coats and pants.— 1 And it blankets are not to be bad, then i substitute comforts, made of dyed osna- burgs stuffed with cotton. Anything that , will keep off the cold will be acceptable. ... ... Even the speculator and extortioner might possible for me torejora the army for the , f or 0 t | je ; r ,r n jiis f or a season, and unite piesent. I was not prepared for the hard-, - n t , |ig re]igioHS duty'. If they neither Republican. 2* Our Artur. I«» «“ "• »«<■•- i,m ’ 1 ' ,ia,N ’ i,B Knfl'rin?-. nu.l it- Peril* in «hr lulurt Winchester, VA.,Sept. 20, 1S02. JIv condition is such as to render it ini- ships, exposure and fasting the army has encountered since it left the Itapj.anan- nock, and like many a seasoned campaign er have bad ot “fail out by the way ” in deed, 1 can recall no parallel instance in history’, except Napoleon’s retreat fiom liloscow, where an army has ever done more marching and fighting, under such great disadvantages, than Gen. tree’s, has done since it left the banks of the Janies river. It proceeded directly to the line of the Rappahannock, and moving out from that river, it fought its way to the Potomac, crossed that stream and moved on to Fredericktown and Hagerstown, had a heavy engagement at Boonsboro’ Gap, and another at Crampton Gap below, fought the greatest pitched battle of the war at Sbarpsburg, and then ie crossed the Potomac back into Virginia. • During all this time, covering the full space of a month, the troops rested but four days! And let it always be remembered to theii honor, that of the men who performed this wonderful feat, one-fifth of them were baicfooted, one half of them were in rags, and the whole of them half famished. The country from the Rappahannock t.> the Potomac had been visited by the ene my’ w ith fire and sword, and our transpor tation was insufficient to keep the anny sup plied from so distant a base as Gordons- vi!le;ar.d when the provision trains would overtake the army, so pressing were the exigencies of their position, the men sel dom had time to cook. 'J'lieir difficulties were increased by the fact that their cooking utensils in many eases, had been left behind, as well as everything el.-e that would impede their movements. It was n> t. unusual to pcc a company’ of starv ing men have a barrel of Hour distributed to them, which it was utterly impossible for them to convert into bread with the means and time allowed to them. They could not procure even a piece of plank or a corn or flour sack, upon • which to work up their dough. Do you wonder, then, that there should have been stragglers from the anny? That brave and true men should have fallen out of line from sheer exhaustaiion, or in their efforts to obtaiu a mouthful to eat along the roadside? Or that many sea soned veterans, and conquerers in the Val ley’, at Richmond and Manassas, should have succumbed to disease and been forced back to t lie bospital/I look In bear a great outcry’raised against stragglers. Already lazy cavalry men, and dainty staff’ officcis and quartermasters, who are mounted and can forage the country for something to eat, arc condemning ;lio »-cnrj private, -who notwithstanding bis body may be covered with dust and prespiration, and bis feet with stone bruises, is expected to trudge along under his knapsack and car tridge box, on an empty stomach, and nev er to turn aside for a mor-el of food to sustain bis sinking limbs. Out upon such monstrous injustice! That there has been unnecessary straggling, is already admit ted; hut in a large majority of cases, the men have only to point to their bleeding feet, tattered garments and gaunt frames lor an answer to the unjust charge. No army on this continent has ever ac complished so much or suffered as much, as the aimy of Northern Virginia within the last three months. At no period du- j ling the first Revolutionary war—not even at Valley Forge—did our forefathers in 1 arms encounter greater hardships, or en- [ dure them more complainingly. Rut great as have been the trials to j which the army has been subjected, they j are hardly’ woitliy to be named in compar- j ison with the sufferings in store for it this winter, unless the people of the Confede rate States, everywhere and in whatever circumstances, come to its immediate re lief. The men must have clothing and shoes this winter. They must have something to cover themselves when sleeping, and to protect themselves fiom the driving sleet and snow storms when on duty’. This must be done, though our friends at home clothe, the naked nor feed the hungry, who ; are fighting for their freedom, and foi ! their homes and property, what right have they’ to expect anything but eternal dam nation from God and man ? If the army of Virginia could march through the South just as it is—ragged and almost barefooted and batless, many of was shut, and the door and window leading to the outer apartments were closed, the atmosphere was stilling in its character, while the vermin ran riot over the nufortiniate victims, who could neither lie down nor sit down from very agony, sometimes impioring in Heavens name to be let out, if only ‘or a few moments. In the hottest weather oftlie season three persous have been confined in the cell at once, two of them sitting on the board and the third lying at full length on his face upon the Hoor, and all evidencing them limping along and not quite well of j untold horror and misery, their wounds or sickness, yet cheerful and j Sergeant Young lias often given not willing to abandon their places in the ; direction to have the prisoners taken 1__ iL.* .1 .1 Ull. l .. fil 1..1I 1 I . . - * ranks—their clothes riddled with balls and their banners covered with the smoke and dust of battle, and shot into tatters, many of them inscribed with “Williamsburg,” fSeven Pines,” “Gaines’ Mill,” “Gar out at night, and allowed them to lie round on the Hoor of the outer room. The individual above alluded to who nett’s Farm,” “Front Royal” “McDow-! would not give his name, was put in ,, .. .. , .. . I V’ , rri .1 ,1. . .11 i...* ell fields •Cedar Run,” ami other victorious j No. —if this army of veterans, thus clad j and 4. The door of the cell was shut bolted, and the other door was shod, with tattered uniforms and banners could march from Richmond to the Mis sissippi, it would produce a sensation that has no parallel in history since Peter the hermit led his swelling hosts across Europe to the rescue of the holy sepulchre. 1 do not write to create alarm; or to pro duce a sensation, but to arouse the people to a sense of the true condition of the ar my. I have yet to learn that any thing is to be gained by suppressing tbe truth and leaving the army’ to suffer. Ifl must withhold the truth when the necessities of j the service require it to he spoken, I am quite ready to return home. There is nothing new from thejVont. It is reported that Jackson crossed the river incarceration wi at Williamsport, n tea- days ngi> to repair a ioad, which he might have occasion to use closed also, although it was one of the hottest days of the season. In fifteen minutes his cries were heard, the door opened, and he was found in a profuse perspiration with the vermin crawling over and tormenting him. “For God’s sake let me out of this,” he said, “and I will dp anything you want.” The man or beast that Number 4 cannot tame is beyond the teach of the most ingenious torture. Every delin- '• quent who is alluded to as an atrocious • viliian is wished no worse late than till its vrn118. “Num ber 4" is a by-word among the officers and frequenters of headquarters, and The Military Achievements of the Conic derates--lie cognition to be Won by Themselves. From the Loudou Times, Sept. 10. The people of the Confederate States have made themselves famous. It the renown of brilliant courage, stern de votion to a cause, and military aehi&rc- nintfs almost without a 'parallel, can com pensate men for the toil and privations of the hour, then the countrymen of Lee and Jackson may be consoled amid their sutic-rings. From all parts oj Eu rope, from theireneniies as wt^las their friends, from those who condemn their acts as well us those who sympathize with them, comes the tribune oj admit a- tion. Wnen the history of this war is written the admiration will doubtless become deeper and stronger, for the veil which lias covered the South will be drawn away and disclose a picture of patriotism, of unanimous self-sacrifice, <f wise, ewl firm administration which vie. can non only see indistinctly. The details of that' extraordinary national effort which has led to the repulse and almost to the destruction of an invading force of more,than half a million of men, will thea become known to the world, and, whttever may be the fate of the new nationality, or its subsequent claims to the respect of mankind, it will 'as suredly brgin its career with a reputa tion for genius and valor which the most famous nations may enry. Within a peri od of eighteen months a scattered pop- ultiou, hitherto living exclusively by The Latest Slews From The North. New York papers of the 80th ult., contain the particulars of the ninrder at Louisville, on the 29th, of Major General Bull Nelson, by Brigadier Gen eral Jeff. G Davis, of Indiana. It up- | pears that Davis, had been deprived of his command by Nelson, and order ed under arrest, but had gone to Cin cinnati, and upon laying his case before Gen. Wright had been reinstated. A dispatch from Louisville says: There are many conflicting accounts of the shooting of Gen. Davis. About a week ago Nelson placed Davis in command of the Home Guard forces of the city. At night Davis reported to Nelson the number of men working on the entrenchments and enrolled for service. Nelson cursed him for not hav ing more. Davis replied that he was a general officer, and demanded the treat ment of a gentleman. Nelson, in an in sulting manner, ordered him to report at Cincinnati, and told him he would order the Provost Marshal to eject him from the city. This morning Governor Morton, of Indiana, and General Nel son were standing near the desk in the Galt House, when General Davis ap proached and requested Gov. Morton to witness a conversation between him- planee.) We have already buried 400,- 000 men, or more, and saddled the coun try with a debt nearly equal to Great Britain’s. There was'a time, when, it a few men had been treated for their attempts | r . at destroying the labor and pence ot this country,as loyal men have since been treat ed by imprisonment, this might have been ■ 1 uact lot limiseii to ad prevented. [Applause] The claptrap j Vuiley arc confident, knavery of the. tSecretify. of State is- donble-tongned, like the serpent. lion lie utters anything, he shapes it iu such a It is evidently the design of McClel lan to laud a large force—probably raw recruits—at Fmlricksberg, with a. view of retarding or operating a - inst the movements of General'Le,. in' that direction, and thus open the road for bimseli to advance down the however, that ample preparation has been made for him even in that quarter. Gen. Lee has already given too • */ rs i >- m veil UJ() waythat.it the party lie belongs to tarns mauy as g ura hces of his ability aided „ i.„„t- to mmrnw he can swear , r • . j’ aJUC,J a back somerset to morrow he can swear as well by his intepretation as he can by the position of the party to-day. When - . imprisoned in Fort Lafayette he was oiler- every fieid, for us to entertain fears or t*d his freedom on condition of taking a ! doubts now, and we therefore feel war- certain oath, which closed as follows : j ranted in saving that, when he strikes “And you do further swear that you will j McClellan and his “grand army” will never, by writing or public speaking, j again be beaten back in unter discont- i>y his gallant army, to thrash the invaders of our homes, on any and throw any obstacle in the way ot what ever measures this Administration inav j see fit to adopt. [Laughter and hisses.] j ’ He refused to take that oath. (Great ap plause.) The time is coining when he would re venge himself. [Cheers] Remembei that free speech will not bo crashed. [“No, never.”] Imprisonment may begin again, but at last we will be triumphant. Men must tleoend upon public orators and the public press, and they must judge how- near thev are right. God Almighty liini- fiture and confusion. Definitive Treaty of Peace(1?S3) j BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF Ameu- ; ica and His Britannic Majesty I “Act. L His Britannic Majesty ac- ; knowledges tho said United States, j namely : New Hampshire, Massaehu- j setts Bay, Rhode Island and Provi- j dence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, self and Gen. Nelson. He demanded of Nelson an apology for the rude treat- j now, amidst the moral, and civil, and po ment he had received last. week. Nel- j Ihical chaos of our country let the battle ittle deaf asked him to | of . tb . e ^ Dernoc , ra< T b , e ’ “ Let be self, when amid the darkness of chaos He | Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North laid the stagnant waters in order, said. j Carolina, and Gerogia, to be free, “Let there lie light.” [Applause 1 1 son, being a speak a little louder. Davis again de light.” [Cheers.J If the free Northern white man is to lose his liberty in the atro- riculture, and ae< urtomed to ’trust j T’ 1 ° g 5', S?" tTf? • *• *«««>■««•«»" and then returned. I.see nothing, liowev- j 8 promised as a sort of bugbear to er, to change the opinion heretofore ex pressed, viz: that the heavy work of the campaign is over, unless McClellan should seek us on the south side of the river. This some believe, public opinion at the North will compel him to do. It may lie so; though I doubt it. I had made arrangements to procure such inmates of detective offices as be have themselves unruly. One of the individuals who had been arrested for some criminal offence, upon reading an account in the papers ofa rebel victory, laid the paper down as if in disgust, and remarked, “That’s [full official lists of the casualties in the the way with our boys, just prick’em j Georgia, Alabama, and Florida regiments, I - — j as well as some account of the performances ! of the troops from those States, and regict : that sickness should have prevented me ; from carrying them out. P. W. A. Enforcing the Craft in Kaw "STork—A New Inquisition with the Old Hor rors—Cell No. IV. The New York World contains an account several columns long of the of conducting operations at the inode Provost Marshal’s offieo there. When a man is arrested for supposed disloy alty he is not allowed to send for wit nesses, but his “affidavit” is taken and sent to Washington. A bell is then struck, and a soldier appears, who, upon the “That’s all sir” of the Pro vost, collars the unhappy prisoner and takes him into a cellar below—which means under the building. When the man will be again heard of is a matter of conjecture alone. 'I he fol lowing is one of the cases related in the World’s account: An individual was brought in for refusing to give his name to an enroll ing officer. I Provost Marshal—“What is your ! name, sir ?” Unknown—“Well, I declined to give my name there, and I think I shall here.” Provost Marshal.—“Oh, you think so. Now I’ll tell you what I think, I think you’ll give it before you’ve been here a great while.” lie springs the bell again. “Here is a man who won’t give his name. Take him down and give him number four. He will prob ably give his name before mauy hours.” The voung man, who was not above and they run.” The words were *! reported up stairs, and the order came down. “Place him in number-four. He will be pricked where he can’t run.” The history of this awful receptacle for prisoners can never probably be fully told ; and we have only briefly sketched it to show some portion of the machinery used in conducting the business of the Provost Marshal’s office. agriculture, ana acuusiomeu to ^ j ^n.i,,, and slapped him the face- Da- art and manufac- , , , , , , , ,- for every product of tures to the North, lias into a self-sufficing State, able to raise an immense army, and conduct what is now an offensive war. It is satisfactory to find that we are not alone in our opinions, that we did right in refusing to meddle in Ameri can a flairs, and that the people most nu ix.anu.no-1 • , , , , - , hi^equal, then it is h , , ,1 vis stepped back, clenched ins list, and p, n to mv been turned! . V , , , x - lr , Mv again demanded an apology. Nelson , the partj slapped him in the face, and again de nounced him as a coward. Davis turn ed away, procured a pistol from a friend and followed Nelson, who was going up stairs. Davis told Nelson to defend himself, immediately thereon The ball penetrated the left I. time that we he- estigate whether the teachings ot y which is bringing about this firing. breast deeply interested—namely, the Con-1 , f , X J, r , . , , , , , 1 - i ,, and Gen. Nelson died in about twenty federates themselves—art quite ot the! - J same opinion, There is nothing in the damnable result are right or wrong. The doctrine announced by bimon Cameron, the great Winnebago plunderer, who iras robbed the Government coffers more than any criminal that ever disgraced the an nals of a court of justice, as the only plan by which he could save his ill-gotten gains, was the obliteration of State lines and tbe elevation of a man of perpetual power, should have to wear cotton and sit by the ! 20 years ol age, seemed like a person fire. The army of Virginia stands guard I hardly compos. He was pale-faced this day. as it will stand guard this winter, \ and gant-looking, was seedily dressed, over every hearthstone throughout the and had the appearance of having just South. The ragged sentinel who may come off a fight or debauch. He was pace his weary rounds this winter on the bleak spurs of the Blue Ridge, or alon the frozen valleys of the Shenandoah an Rappahannock, will al»o he your sentinels j ,-lve his name. taken down to the detective office and [j interrogated, and again declined to rny fxiends at home. It will be, for you and your household he encounters the Give him number four,” said the officer in charge: and he was at | From the LaGrange Reporter, 3d. Planters’ Salt Manufacturing Com pany. Hon. B. II. Bigham, President of the Planters’ Salt Manufacturing Com pany of this county, who has been at the Virginia Salt Works for some time arrived home on Sunday night last— having left Saltville on the 2('»th ult.— L’p to that time, he informs us that the company had made 10,000 bush els of salt—averaging from GOO to 700 bushels per day when the water supply was plentiful. He states that, for six days before he left Saltville, the water supply was short; hut that, on the day he left, the parties who are bound to furnish the water had made repairs to their pumps, and that the fur naces of the company were In full blast. The works under the contract made direct by Gov. Brown were doing well—making o00 bushels per day, with a prospect of early increase.— The Georgia Salt Manufacturing Company were progressing with ener gy. In a short time they will be able, it is hoped, to make as much as 300 bushels per day. The works are now yielding some salt—say 75 bushels per day. These, altogether, constitute Geor gians only hope for salt from the Virginia works. These works at best, cannot tying the necessary supply by’ far ; and we should not conceal from ourselves the fact that mauy con tingencies and uncertainties necessarily rest upon these enterprises. In view of these facts, we urge the people of the .State to u«e every effort to get salt 6tockingson his feet? Is it not enough that lie lias written down his patriotism in crimson characters along the battle road lrnm the Rappahannock to the P-. tomac? And must his bleeding feet also impress lie prison hulks of the revolution could compete with ceil number fom at police headquarters. Under the reign of the Marshal, it lecame part atm their inaik of fidelity upon the snows of! the machinery of the office, the coming winter? I know what your answer will be. God has spoken through the women of the South, and they are His holy oracles iu this day of trial and tribulation. It is not necessary to counsel violent measures; but it is not expected that any person will be permitted to accumulate leather and cloth for puxposes of specula tion- The necessities of the army’ rise up like a mountain, and cannot, and will not be overlooked. It was hoped, at one time that we might obtain winter supplies in Maryland. This hope was born after the army left Richmond and has now misera bly perished. The Government is unable to furnish sujiplies, for they are not to be had in the country. If it had exercised a little foresight last spring and summer, when vessels were running tho blockade, with cargoes of calico, linen and other ar ticles of like importance, a partial supply at least of hats, blankets, shoes, and wool en goods might have been obtained from England. But foresight is a quality of the mind that is seldom put in practice in these days. But whatever may be done by the peo ple should be, done immediately. Notone moment can be lost that will not be maik- ed. as by the second hands of a watch, with the pangs of a sufferer. Already the, hills and valleys in this high latitude have been visited by’ frost, and the nights are uncomfortably cool to the man who sleeps upon the ground. Come up, then, men \ and women of the South, to this sacred du- | ty. Let nothing staud between you and the performance of it. Neither pride, uor pleasure, nor person-1 ease and comfort, Provost paicel of and was used, as occasion called, to hold fast the worst classof the prisoners arrested, or such as were considered the most flagrant cases. Passing through the outer room of the detective office in the basement, you come into the sittingroom—a close badly ventilated chamber—the larger half of which is underground. Midway in the room at the right is a small half-glass door cut in a partition, through which you enter upon a nar row corridor facing four small cells.— They’ are numbered, beginning at the South end: one, two, three, four, the later being at the extreme right as you e.iter the corridor, which is scarcely wide enough to admit the passage ofa man. The sides of cell number four are sealed up with boards to the top. It is about three feet wide by six in depth. A stationary board fifteen inches wide is put up on the right hand for a sleep ing pallet, and a three cornered pine block, fastened at one end of the hoard serves as pillow—there being neither bed clothes, mattress, or straw. A water waste and dipper in one corn er complete the fuuiture of the cell.— The sides of the place are thickly coated with whitewash in the vain effort to purify it. The door is com- posed of iron bars about one inch in width, and a quarter of an inch in should withhold your hands from the holy thickness arranged crosswise so .as to intersect each other at every two and a tk. The supply of leather and wool,, we all know is limited; hut do e.-fiat you half inches. At the top is a small can, and all you can, and as soon as you : aparture eight inches square. •an. If you aanoot tend woolen aocks, [ Jhe entire place ewarme with r»r- ' an enterprise begotten up to go beyond tint Mississippi in Texas and Arkansas which, although somewhat perilous, may prove successful. We urge upon tin- people to use every possible means to secure salt whereever it can be had. We can get some salt from Goose Creek and Kunawha, if we act promptly. Unless our people act promptly and energetically, many will suffer for the want of salt ; and the sooner they are made to understand this fact the better wiil it be. Tbe sickly season on tbe seacost having comparatively passed, our people can work there and largely increase the supply. Let no one who can engage in this work of humanity fail to do his duty. Let capitalists and men of enterprise go forth at once iu this work. The . no time to lose. Salt is already brim.! g -one uudred dollars per sack, and sem: tie supply will be so shot t. . to make it impossi ble to get any. Y\ oat is to become of the poor in this particular, we can not tell. Richmond Dispatch, which we publish ed yesterday, but what may be tho roughly agreed to by every English man. The design of the writer, seem ingly, is to show that the European nations must either carry on a war with all their strength against the Federal States, or refrain entirely from inter ference. Jf England and France will land a hundred thousand men each, and drive | bad. the Federal armies, it will lie well ! enough ; but less than this will only prolong the strife, and add to the diffi culties oftlie South by rousing all the passions and what remains of the pat riotism of the Federals. This is precisely the reasoning which lias caused every sensible man in Eng land to reject the idea of breaking the blockade, or making any other weak and half-and-half demonstration of dislike to the continuance ot' the war. The name of England especially would fill the recruiting offices of the North better than -all the eloquence of an Everett, or the military fame ofa Cor coran. The war, which may now at any time come to an end through the re turning good sense of the Federals, would probably become more desper ate than ever, the chief enemy being no longer the Confederate, but the Britinhor. Then the multitude of men who would be thrown into idleness and want by the breaking up of com merce would add to the military force oftlie Federal States. “If the Northern seacoast was blockaded,” says the Southern paper, “and the seaport cities captured, the North would have more soldiers for her armies and few idlers to support. If the North was without a mercantile marine, several hundred thousand men would be disengaged from their accustomed pursuits, be without employment, and burning with revenge .and indignation against the enemies who had thrown them helpless on the world.” On the other hand, the writer remarks that “it is chiefly because the South has been blockaded that she has exhibited such v underfill power. If the Southern blockade were raised, half the people would be diverted from the industrial pursuits necessary for conducting the war to selling tobacco and cotton and money making.” It may be suspected that in the cause of this Southern writer the grapes of European intervention are, sour ; but whatever maybe his motive, j he lias uttered good sense on this great question. An armed interference in the quarrel would be a fatal mistake for any European Bower. When the South has expelled the enemy from its soil if may be entitled to as/c for recognition but its frontiers must he both won and kept by its own exertions. minutes. Gen. Nelson requested to see like the arbitary Louis Napoleon, or some his old friend, Rev. Mr. Talbot, rector one backed up by the Abolitionists, like that monstrous jackass, John Charle emont. [Laughter and applause. of Calvary Episcopal Church, who was M 18 then at the Galt House. Mr. Talbot ^ administered the sacrament according 1 to the forms of his church. The Gener al repeating the service after the min ister and refused to talk on any other subject; he regretted that he had not the paternal example, adopts the gennfluc- lotig a<?0 turned his attention to rcli"- i tion, and submits until at length the chains he experience of history teaches us that Oct. 4. whenever, from generation to generation, you bend the knee of the laboring classes of a country to a power beyond their reach, in a little while the child, following sa:u.; Qj r olina, *^ m sovereign, and independent States: that lie treats with them as such; and for himself, his heirs and Successors, relin-'uishes all claims to the Govern ment. propriety, and territorial rights of the same, and cyery part, there of.” - It will thus be seen that our inde pendence was not acknowledged as a Nation, but the sovereignty and inde pendence of each seperate State, and that the King of Great Britain treated “with them as such.” This State sovereignty has never been given up, but was reserved in the Articles of Confederation as well as in#ie Consti tution of the United States, and all attempts to substitute the word National for Federal were resisted and defeated.—Mobile (Ala.) Adc. if lie The New York World, noticing the affair, says: The deceased was a brave man and are bound upon it without any chance ol breaking- It is almost the history ol poo, Ireland. It is the natural effect ot till- operations of tyranny. Mr. McMasters made a few remarks at a good subordinate General, but he the close, and the audience separated quiet- failed to pttv any respect to those cour- ’ ly. At the next meeting Richard O’Gor- tesies, not to say decencies of life, man will speak, without which ability and bravery are j _ , useless in a military leader. He was blasphemous, indecent, and abusive beyond all precedent in bis conversa tion and deportment towards his equals and inferiors in rank. If one half that Su;rviLtt S a links —A few days ago wa made a trip to the salt works at this place to see how Hihu-s look in that direction, and try to learn something of onr prospects for salt. From what we could learn the daily amount of silt prepared ready for market, is about as fol lows. •Stuart, Buchanan &. Co. M. S Temple A: Co... Planters’ Company ol Get- Mc<lluno. .Jacques A Co.. North Carolina Company-. Other manufacturers aro inform • 1. w ■■ p--r cont or more. (bushels)., ..3,000 500 j . An Opinion From Massachusetts about Lincoln's proclamation.—The Newbury- port (Mass) Herald (Republican) has an article, written before the issue oi , . imu uirtt . Lincoln’s proclamation, ort the propri- is reported is true, it is a marvel he .... 1 , . . 1 J - . 1 ’ i ety of issuing such a document and its Aggregate Ail of which, we creased one hundred the old works of .Stuart. B i ;iianan &. Co. We understood, white there, foat they had sunk a well to the depth ot three hun Ire i feet, bat had niltd to jfct water. Tiiey info.mod me that in joreinsr the well they pus i 'broagU a solid rock of salt fifty feet in f-iiekness. Grceiiclte (Tcin.) Dinner. was not shot months since. Such a . , . , , , , . , . , , , ! probable effect. It sa\s : man, no matter what his claims, should r , , • ,• . : , , , . . \ The first objection to sue! not have been permitted to remain m bjectiou to such a policy , , .. , , is that it would be absolutely inopera tive army a month.—He was perpetu- Tr • i i - J 1 r !tive. Ilow is it possible to reach the ally violating that most essential of the army regulations which insists on population designed to be effected by , , . . tt j it? A proclamation is a simple piece oL conduct becoming a gentleman. Had paper ^ and in our opinion it would an-] ! swer the same purpose if it was lie been displaced lor this cause it would have been worth a victory to our armies in the warning it woul have been to the mass of our officers, whose decipline in this respect is very defective. Democratic Hireling in !Vew York.—I.in to In Droclanisition DcuoiiBieed. A meeting was held at the Democratic head-quarters, in New York, Monday night, at which about 1.000 persons were present. lion. Janies Brooks, of the New I oik Express, first addressed the meet- i blank paper cast upon the winds, as it i would with any words that might be j written upon it and thus sent to the j world, so far as the slaves are coneern- i ed. If it would produce an army to do its work, give arms for them to fight with, and bread to feed them, it would amount to something. For the Presi dent and his Cabinet to resolve that negroes shall be tree, would be like eight boys resolving that the man in the moon who has been chained to his ing. After denouncing tho emancipation position since time begun, shall be free, Tiie Great Kanawha Valley.— The value of the acquisition of this region, which has followed the expul sion of the Yankees by Gen. Loring is comprehensively and concisely stated in the following extract ol a letter from an officer in the army to a member of the Virginia Senate: “We have the country from the mountains to the Ohio, and from the Kentucky border to the Little Kanawha. The prospect is most favorable for raising five or six thousand recruits for the’army. The chance is greet for the South arming the people. We have 20,000 bushels of salt in our hands, and are making 6,000 bushels per day. The growing corn crop is enough tofeed our armies her® this winter.” VALLANDIGHAM ON THE STUMP.— This gentleman is busily engaged in canvassing his old district, preparatory to the election to b© h©lJ on Tuesday next. The Middletown (O) Journal says that in a speech at Post Town, he declared the President wasadisunionist. said the “sun; moon and stars would turn to gore before the North could conquer the South,” and spoke of the army of the Union as carrying the black flag.” The Journal says: He exhibited a five dollar gold piece and said that when Democrats were in power that was the currency ; but now this is the kind (holding in view an old Continental bill), and five hundred of them will not buy a loaf of bread, and in one year the man who has a pocket, full of “green backs” will not be as rich as the man who has twenty-five cents in his pocket to day. From Frcdricksbi ru —We yesterday re- reived papers from Frederieksbnrg dated the day previous The News says,that for several days minors ot Yankees at Dumfries, Evnnsport. Tackett’s Mills, Eilis’s, Warrenton function, &c , have caused prophecies that they would renew their expensive sojourn in Fredericksburg. Ii turns out that the cannonading heard Monday and Tuesday was the noise of two gunboats on the Potomac, blowing np tho fortifications left by our forces at Evausnort last spring- They fear that we may blockade tbe Potomac again this winter. proclamation lie then spoke of the second proclama tion, saying to the people, if you agitate this subject you shall he put in Fort La fayette. (“Let them try it.” Laughter.) It was a proper corollary to the first. The provost marshal (hisses) of the State or city of New York is made the judge of our loyalty, and any’ personal enemy may obtain the incarceration of any one of us. There are two points in the proclamation. Tho first is, the suspension of civil and the establishment of martial law, and the second is the suspension of the habeas corpus. The right which our English fathers have lir.d since the dark ages is annihila ted by a proclamation, and citizens are arrested without knowing why or where fore. (“Infamous.”) Never, never did the revolutionary fathers, who struck bright and free the spav-ks of liberty, del egate such power to the Executive. Could they tell that for his speech he should not be in Fort Lafayette to-morrow.* (“No, no.”) If it was not a period of war we should have no hesitancy in saying, “Re sistance to tyrants is obedience to God.” (Tremendous applause.) The ballot-box is the remedy. Foim huge processions, bearing the red cap of liberty, and pro test, beg, and implore a return of our lib erties. (“You’re right.”) Read the Con stitution of the United States, securing to every man freedom of speech, trinl by jury, and protection in his person and pro perty. (Cheers.) He did not propose ever to give up the Constitution or surrender to the rebels. (Appl uuse ) But he [imposed to carry on tho war on a different principle, and taking a sword in the right hand, and the Con stitution in the left, .and save the country through the Constitution. [< beers.J He would surround the rebels and leave trea son to sting itself to death. This geo graphical idea of overrunning the South ern territory with unacclimated Northern men is a theory -that must fail. He ab horred secession and abolition equally. Jeff. Davis is a rebel only two years old ; Wendell Phillips is bv his own confession, a rebel twenty years old. [Applause.] With the exception of the little Republic of San Marino, ou a peak of the Apenines, we are the only Republic now in existence, and we are working out the grand pro blem. Tyrants in Europe are now using all their power to subvert onr principles. More than ever now is it necessary to im press upon the Northern mind that “Lib erty, liberty, libertv.and Union, now am! forever, are one and inseparable.”— [Cheers.J Mr. Schnable, who was imprisoned in Fort Lafayette, then addressed tbe meet ing. * Mr. Lincoln, he said, will be supported by all when acts constitutionally. (Ap- j or that the spot on the sun shall b< | wiped off. First boys, invent a way j To reach the moon and the old man there ’ in to reach the sun, and have your big mop placed upon these spots. Now, we have been a year and a half attempting to penetrate this negro country where the slaves are, and everybody knows how much of that couniry we hold to control its institu tions. Wherever we do hold we have emancipated without a proclamation to the same extent we could with one. A proclamation ! a proclamation for emancipation ! is the cry. Mr. Lincoln tried one proclamation on his first com ing into power. He proclaimed that all the rebels should disperse within twen ty days! What did they say'? “Let him come and disperse us!’ Now, ii he declares that all slaves shall be free in twenty days, what will they say but—“Let him come and free them !” It would amount to that—all of that— just that, and no more. Mr. Lincoln would still be in Washington, and Mr. Davis would still be in Richmond, and white men would be free, and black men slaves as before. From tho Richmond Enquirer, Oct. 4. Prom the Army— SS-aaora! See Ad vancing - . Passengers by the Central cars, last evening, give some additional informa tion iu regard to the movements of our army and those of the enemy. The stragglers had nearly all returned to their different commands, and the army is now reported in excellent con dition and spirits. The enemy, in force, was at Martinsburg, with his left extending to Harper’s Ferry. Gen eral Lee, with a strong force, was rapidly moving towards Martinsburg, and there was every probability that a desperate battle was about to be fought. Persons of intelligence from Win- From Ocr Army in Northern* Virginia — Th-re s-’ems terbp a gt-aeral impression ihitour '•nvu torces i tho.e of file t>u rny in the virili ty of the Potoin ic, ate on the eve ofa deterjain-J ila-ijn. This im tr.-ssion is strengthened h- - ho sTatements pastier-• I from passengers who am--down by the Cent ral train from rftaantim \stenlny fafternoork Front these we leant nr.lou Thnrtdiy last tin enemy, in caasijer ible -roe. advanced from It o ner s Ferry as tar as ."It arlestown, sit iiinp mat place from a point ft >ut one tntle and a half oast of the town — Ascertaining tint tilt t >wn vv is unocenp -d oy our forces, they moved up and took posses- On Wednesday evening our cavalry pickets at Martittshnrg fell back, and reported the advance uf a cu.uina of the enemy on the Williamsport road. The force of the enemy in and around flnr- per’s Ferry is s.at-J to be very heavy. The tli- vision coni'll m b i by Gen. Geary occupies the Loudoun Heights. If. ts supposed that th*-ir m ntt force has crossed, or intends to cross at rc Ferry. The force which reached Charles town Thursday is b-dievud to be the advance of thi-i - army. From all accounts the condition of oar army ts excellent. d’h-t barefooted have been re- ■ntly shod by large arrivals of shoes, and the commissariat is now abundantly supplied The -.rriurglers h ive all* been g-.toerol up. and the whole army is in bn jy.aot spirits so l coniidentiy anticipating another brtllimt triumph. T!m- Efevcr. Forty new cases are reported as having oc- Titere were ten burials iu -x hi bit as near as may be, for the lasr seven davs. ^ is given correctly for reports furnished to ths compiled from the inter- v, and such other means mid obiaiu. It is possible, T rt-iore, that part of tit t mortality of one day tay he set opposite another, but none are couuttd cun*-i] yosterday. Ti OakiTa Ie Cem.-ury i Hid imnt t his morning The f-ilioA-iiig wi! l f'S ;>« P“ •gross of the il iis-. I be m i.nber of new or each ti ay from t: 113 1 Mayor The 4 • iths nr( Hi tits ! It 011:J if- (J : 3) •: ..f infer mation as we coi rice, so that tbe regate resuit is the Saturday, Sept. Sunday, Monday, ■ . Tuesday, “ Wednesday, .Oct. 1st — - 3 rfiursday, “ ‘dd — .34 Friday, 31.... It) New cases. 27th... 2'J 23 h.... 43 3.1th....41 Deaths. 13 211 14) estimated 8 11 13 82 i 3J per how- Tom! 2b7 Tins would exhibit a mortality equal to cent of the reported cast s It is probable ever, that a large proportion of the deaths occur suiting the old cases, as those taken llus week are generally reported upon more favorable terms. We are not certain that we have reported all the deaths, but think we are iu the main cor rect. Skillful medical 'attendance with good and Cfirelnl nursing, may an 1 do uiiri»rate ttie severiiy • >l tiie disease, bn- while tbe weather continues' as it is, we doubt whether its spread can be otherwise restricted than by tbe want of iu-tl to f- Cd upon. VV^ have board ofsixd-aths since onr issue of v?sU iday.—C Wilmington Jturua.. 4th. War Debt of The North.—The New York “Herald,” of the 30th, in an editorial upon Northern finances, says: “During the- war with Napoleon the English debt increased from one to eight- hundred ntillionsof pounds sterl ing, and tiie outlay of the Government was about four thousand millions of dollars. Our war debt is already two thousand millions, and in two years more may rival that of England. Thus we are crowding into a few years the Chester state that McClellan cannot! expenditmresol a quarter ofa century avoid an engagement, unless he withdraws his army across the river—a move which it is next to impossible or hint to make, as lie was evidently >eing urged forward by the Yankee Administration and the clamors oftlie \bolitionists. For him to retreat now n the face of an enemy who had thrown lown the gauntlet to him, would tend ilmost as much to demoralize hisarmy m would a defeat. When this war ceases tiie collapse wiil be fearful. The machinery of business will be again jarred out of kelter, as it was when tiie war began ; but much more disastrously, as we have more steam on and®re going at a more vio lent rate. The crisis of IS37 will he child’s play compared to that which will follow the end of this war, unless our financial framers are more fortun ate than formerly.”