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The Aev- laib World »« tin'.eU'iPwlB-
tun t ion.
Tl>c New York World Jins a long arti
cle on Lincoln’s oniancij niion proclnuna-
(ion. It says that bo has “swung loose
from the constitutional moorings ot bin in
augural address and bis messages at tlx
opening of ibetwo successive sessions oi
Cor.giess under bis administration, and is
fully adrift on the cuirent of radical fan
aticism.” Front the article wo extract
tbe following :
He lias been coerced by tbe insan-’tv ' f
tbe radicals, by the denunciation A then
presses, by tbe threats- of their OOternors
and Senators that be should r h ig’ 1 * 111,0 a
proclamation which, on it' f ate - ' |0 -..tts
tbe Constitution, is contra-.• ,u *be getier-
al current of civilieatio’ the conunet of
war as it has run sine- *‘ 1C Y rusades, is in
opposition to tbe sc’cnm declaration made
by our Government that this was no! to
ben war of RiAjugntfon, and in manifest
obstruction c*' the re union of those States
for which the nation lias fought, and is
ready t« lavish its blood and treasure.
We demand to be inhumed whence the
J’residf-nt derives his power to issue any
such proclamation as he has now publish
ed? Not from the Constitution stuely, for
it is in plain violation of some of its lead
ing provisions. Not from the laws of war,
for the lawn of war tolerate no such pro
ceeding. Not even from the so-called con-
fiscatb ii act, which the President was
doubled their squadrons in the field. We
may leant from our enemies. 'J hey wilt
lejo’ice. The leaders will make of this
proclamation their chiefest moral weapon,
it is powerless n our hands for good—in
ibeirs, it will hr »oteut for evil. Ottronly
-alvatio* now is in the ballot box. To
i hat it yet remains possible for the people
to resort. There the battle lost to-day
may be won to-morrow—there alone the
nisiilicd majesty of the Constitution may
be vindicated by the people against its
iaithless custodians.
L«mi of th«“ Two Armies—TIse BnlBocf
Sheet.
The Richmond Dispatch contains a long
and interesting exliii.it of the losses of the
two armies fiom tbe crossing ot the Rapt-
dan to tlte ciose ot recent operations on
tbe Potomac. We give an extract :
1 he government has accurate fits of our j d d , as the great scarcity offoo
killed, wounded and miss,ng. brom the afl / clotljin ^ in tbe toutb, coupled wit
Rapidan, all through the campaign to rlar- -
per’s Ferry,they iiumhered about 11,500
\t Slmrpshurg our Joss was about .>.000.
Rut suppose w-e had lost 30,000, as Mc
Clellan’s lying reports indicate. Sup-
IC i pose, too, he lost no more than he allows,
i that is to say, 14,79(5 men, at Sliarpsburg
^ ! and in the preceding engagements. Still
his campaign is an unprofitable one, for
his losses aie nearly as great as ours, even
At Harper s
•y in* lost li.ouo; at onarpi-burg 14,-
j«79G; at Harper’s Feirv again, 3,000,
i killed, wounded and drowned, and 500
; prisoners, Heie bis looses are 29,790 cer
tain—part ascertained from his own state-
Tlic AtMrrn of V^ojnl Governor* to fl
Frfiidrnl.
Address to the Pics/dent of the Unite
States, adopted at a Meeting of Gov.
ernors of Loyal States, held to talc* > ,. , ., ■ .
• r _ ,. accordintr to this statemeiit. At liar
measures tor the more ochre support of,,, , e , ... - o.ircr
, tI ., . , ... T ' J , * berry he lost ll,o00; at oharpsourg
the Government, at Altoona, Pennsytra- : _
j nia, on the 22d day of September, 1S(52.
| After nearly one year and a half spent
; in contest with an armed and gigantic re-
i hellion against the National Government ' nient.part from the statements of our Gen
iof the United States, the duty and par- I erals—and he does not claim to have in-
posr of the loyal States and people eon- flj ctcd nn us a loss of more than thirty
i tinuo. and must always remain as they i thousand—balance in his favor, 204 men.
were at its origin, namely: to restore and pre
serve the life of thenation. Nomatter what
From tbe Macon Telegraph.
SPErCl.ATJOX AND EXTOBTIOIV,
THE TOWN AND THE COUNTRY.
There is nothing—not. even the enor
mous armies of the Northern oppressor
which tills us with so serious concern,
(some times sinking almost to the point ot
• ■ • *■ food
thing in the touth, coupled with
he grasping avaricious spirit displayed
by many who control these small supplies.
When we look at the sbamleess displays
and grinding and oppressive effects ot this
ling to do all—bear alt—spend all—suffer
all for our country. By such a spirit we
may at last save something—without it.
we are doomed to lose everything-
It is a terrible reproach to us as a people
that after such incentives to production as :
we have had, the 1 iie are
still so scarce. We ought trtliide our
heads in shame at our imbecility and sloth.
A great farming region—with endless re
sources of broad acres—with every facili
ty for the production of bread, flocks and
herds, still after two years of war, suffer
ing for meat, for bread, for wool, for leath-
From the Sanawha Valley.
COIgOREBBIOlgAT,
A correspondent of the Lynchburg i Richmond, Oct. 11.—In the Senate to.
Republican, writing from Charles- 1 .Y’ t * )e House bill re duce the rated
ton, Kanawha county, Va., Oct. "iterestofthe funded debt of tbe Co nfed
J foerate States was passed with an amend
' r - • ,. n . ,, - , i meut fixing the rate of intetest on lJi
.£ en - Lornigustill at this place—J tt , b « issned at seven instead of d|
spirit, we can only feel grateful that the |
there should be such abundance as to defy
speculation? O, ir is a terrible shame.
country has thus far escaped entire de I c . r complaining of _ speculators when
lie claims 13 guns. We took 73 at Har
per’s Ferry. Balance in onr favor, GO
consequences are involved in our fidelity, ; guns Taking the whole campaign, even
; this work of restoring the Republic, pre
! servipg the institutions of democratic lib-
| on this statement, from the liapidan to
Winchester, it is enormously i i onr favor.
nscati* it aci, which w.cjijo. u «ii «. erty.and justifying the hopes and toils of; Still more is it so when we look at it
one time on the point of vetoing, for the .!’ not ,0 4 b , e perfoiTned. ! through the medium of other statements,
1 h - And we pledge, without hesitation. to ■ • 1 >-•
proclamation does not confoitn to its pro- I , t>„„ U ,p t- jo. ,
*. . „.. . , . . 1 ■ tbe 1 resident oi the l mted States, the
visions. 1 bis proclamation is made in , -. , , ,. , , .
■KnpHHp
jitirsuance of that liiglier law—that is to
say, that open defiance of law—which has
distinguished the tribe of pestilent aboli
tion agitators from the beginning. r l heir
moral noriohs are so sublimated and trans
cendental that they do not recognize the
obligation of a compact, or ibe binding
force of an oath, or the authority of a con
stitutional Jaw duly enacted. r J hey ac-
wfiose rightful authority and power, as well
as the constitutional powers of Congress,
, , . . . , must be religiously guarded and preserved,
knowledge no law out their own umcgula- , • • • ° - - - 1
combined with his.
Let us see what will be the result if we
most loyal and cordial support hereafter, l t ab p our own statements for our losses and
as lioictofoie, in the exercise of the fnne- their statements for their losses,
lions of his great office. We recognise in ! Our loss in the whole campaign, from
him the Chief Executive Magistrate °f! the Rapidan to the recrossiirg ir
the Nation, the Commander-in-Chief of i ia . was> acc r, r ding to the Staten
the Army and Navy of the I nited .States, j (Iroehor, about.! 1.500killed, wounded and
their responsible and constitutional bond, t missino-. The Yankee loss at II
moralization and disorganization, and pray
God that in some w-ay, to us as yet undis
covered, we may be saved the catastoplie
in the future.
The first distinct proposition to lapse
at once into a system of social war and re
prisals was published in our paper a few
days ago and emanated from a planter in
Houston county. The second we publish
to-day , from another in Quittman county.
The scheme is a combination of planters
to withhold corn from market in order that
its price may go tip to a point commensu
rate with what the town extortioners are
charging the people of the country for
goods and supplies. It is the practical in
auguration of war and a system of retalia
tion between town and country, which
would have no other result than the ruin
of both. We lay out of account altogeth
er the question whether such a combtna-
: tion is practicable, or could he made suc
cessful in its object, and address ourselves
solely to the spirit and feeling in which it
originates. It. is this which constitutes
our danger and threatens town and country
Every man’s face should sting when he
thinks of it. But so it is, and now noth
ing remains, but that each should stand in
his lot to relieve suffering—instead of plot
ting schemes and combinations to inctease
it.
The Great “Iron-Clad’’ Preparations
in the United States.
The ship-yards at New York are
alive with the building of the iron-clad
fleet with which every city of the
South which has a water approach is
to be destroyed. There are 5,200 men
at work in them, and an equal number
per
The army is erfclftfiped dn the* rivUPfeent.
below town. Part of the force is] Also, the House bill authorizing the
at Buflalo, some seventeen miles from i mation of volunteer companies in j
,i... ! rl5stnVt K fm- Wnl f ^^I”>SPd
the Ohio.
The Yankees made a dash on Gen
eral Jenkins’ command, a few days
ago, at Buffalo, supposing he was nap
ping. The attack was made early in
districts for local defence was passed wi t |
amendments. 11
Also, the House bid to relieve the armv
of incompetent, unqualified and disabled
offieers, with amendments.
At 3 o’clock the Senate
took
the morning by some 500 cavalry and , until 6 P.M. “ lecess
infantry, while the valley was covered j In the House, the Senate bill to punish
with fog. They approached close ] and suppress the importation of counter-
enough to he seen, when Gen. J, let 1 • reasury notes passed, with the a
loose upon them with a howitzer, j men d ,nents °f Senate t° the bill con-
whicli scattered them like chaff, t >ur I ce,n,n ^ ,nferest 0D t,,e fuaded d «*t.
forces pursued them about nine miles,
but owing to the dense fog thought it
Also, the bill in relation to incompetent
officers was concurred in.
prudent to stop pursuit, for fear of
falling into an ambush.
Recruiting is progressing very rapidly,
many of the old infantry companies
having been filled already and cavalry
companies forming without num
ber.
It is reported that our cavalry have
engaged in iron-foundries and mills in three steamboats blockaded at the
the \ lemity on vtoik intended foi j mou th of the river, or near Guyandotte.
them. The New \ork Jf o)hl y of the j ^j ie Yankees run them aground on the
. .. . i
1 ° Vt’," ! alike with irretrievable ruin,
ti.cut o . r - j Now the first point in considering all
1 quarrels aud misunderstandings is to get
Tbe Planters
, • al f C i 8 1 at the facts of the case.
Terry was according to tlieir own acinus-1 , , . . . ,
n , ,, i i „ here complain that the towns are extorting
sion, the same. J liese two, then, balance! v , ,, L £ h
ted impulses. Sectional hate, party spir
it, political passion? inflamed to diabolical
fury—these are the “higher law” of these
wretched zealots, in comparison with
which the sacred obligations of the funda
mental law of the land and the public law
of nations arc as light, in their estimation,
ns the feathers of a gossamer’s wing. In
obedience to this higher law of unreason
ing passion they undertook, many years
ago, to annul one distasteful but minor
provision of the Constitution ; now they
give loose reins to their fanaticism, and
drive with a coach and six through the
very body of the instrument.
The Constitution confers on the Federal
government no power to charge the do
mestic in titntions of the States. This
policy makes changes of the most violent
and sweeping character, changes which
even the Republican party, in its National
Conventions, disclaimed any intention of
making, and admitted to be unconstitution
al. The Constitution protects the proper
ty of all citizens from forfeiture by civil
penalty without trial and conviction; this
policy inflicts heavy penalties without
even the pretense of a trial—inflicts them
on all the citizens of whole States, with
out even the pretense of any discrimina
tion between the innocent aud the guilty,
blending them all into one indistinguisha
ble mass, without any regard to whether
they had borne arms against the govern
ment or were non-combatants, or whether
they had gone into the rebellion volunta
rily, or had been coerced into it by the
/Terrorism which has prevailed at the South.
The Constitution describes the crime of
levying war against the United States as
treason, and makes certain broad regula
tions respecting its punLhmcnt; but the
policy in question assumes to punish levy
ing war in a different v, ny from what the
Cor stitution allows it to he punished, by
punishing it tinder some other name. A
man cannot be constitutionally punished
as a traitor till he has been first tried: but
this policy attempts to circumvent the
Constitution by inflicting the punishment
under some other form than as a penalty
of treason. A universal confiscation of
the private property of non-combatants,
throughout whole States, without trial,
without any attempt to distinguish be
tween innocent and guilty, or between the
property of full-grown male citizens and
tliatof minors and orphans, held by guar
dians or Irustees, is alike contrary to the
Constitution and to the laws of civilized
war, which respect (lie private property of
non-combatants.
If we descend from the Constitution to
the confiscation act, we shall find this ex
traordinary proclamation indefensible c-ven
oti the principles of that act. That law
does not act on the gross population of
areas of country ; but on individual per
sons. The forfeitures it denounces are con
fined to persons in rebellion against the
government. IVhat can Ue more prepos
terous, nr a more monstrous perversion of
each other, and all the rest is clear gain ]
for us. First, they admit a loss of 3,000
at Cedar Run ; (they actually lost more, j
nearly 7,000.) -Pope says they lost in the
battle of the 29th of August S,000. The
Baltimore Sun (or American, we do no-
. . . , recollect which, hut we published the
have been or which may be duly enacted, j statement at the time) says they lost 17,-
ns the condition on which alone our form
of government and the constitutional
rights and liberties of the people them
selves can be saved from the wreck of an
archy or from the gulf of despotism.
In submission to the laws which mar
aud to the lawful orders of the President,
co-operating always in our own spheres,
with the National Government, we mean
to continue in (lie most vigorous exercise
of all our lawful and proper powers, con-
fending against treason, rebellion, and (lie
public enemies, and, whether in public life
or in private station, supporting the arms j Antietam
of the Union, until its cause shall conquer, ’
until final victory shall perch upon its
standard, or tbe rebel foe shall yield a
dutiful, rightful, and unconditional submis
sion.
And, impressed with tlio conviction that
an army of reserve.ought, until the war
shall end, to be constantly kept on foot,
to he raised, armed, equipped, and trained
at home, and ready for emergencies, we
respectfully ask the President to call for
such a force of volunteers for one year’s
service, of not less than One hundred
thousand in the aggregate, the quota of
each State to be raised after it shall have
filled its quota of the requsitions already
made, both for volunteers and militia. We
believe that this would be a measure of
military prudence, while it would greatly
promote the military education of the peo-
Ple-
Y e hail with heartfelt gratitude and en
couraged hope the proclamation of the
Pipsiueiit issued on the 22d instant, de
claring emancipated from their bondage
all persons held to service or labor as slaves
in the rebel States, whose rebellion shall
last until the first day of January next
ensuing. 'I lie right of any person to re
tain authority to compel any pottion of
the subjects of the National Government
to rebel against it, or to maintain its ene
mies, implies in those who are allowed
possession of su h authority the right to
rebel themselves; and therefore, the right
to establish martial law or military gov
ernment in a State or territory in rebellion
implies the right and the duty of the Gov
ernment to liberate the minds of all men
living therein by appropriate proclama
tions as assurances ot protection, in order
that all who are capable, intellectual!v,
and morally, of loyalty and obedience,
may not be forced into treason as the un
willing tools of rebellious traitors. To
have continued indefinitely the most ef
ficient cause, support, and stay of the re
bellion, would have been, in our judgment,
unjust to the loyal people whose treasure
and lives are made a willing sacrifice on
the altar of patriotism —would have dis-
, criminated against the wife who is com
pelled to surrender her husband, against
; the parent who is to surrender his child
to tlie hardships of the camp and the per
ils ot the battle, in favor of rebel masters
: permitted to retain tlieir slaves. It would
have been a final decision alike acainst
00() in the campaign up to the second bat
tle ot Manassas, which would give G,000
for tlie battle of ibe 2Sth. Pope, we be
lieve says they lost 7.000 men at Manas
sas. (Gen. Lee, bv-the by, paroled that
number on the field.) McClellan says
tliev lost 14,796 at iSouth Mountain and
Lastly, at the crossing, when
they were attacked by A. P. Hill, they
lost 3,500 killed, wounded and missing.
Total, in round numbers, according to
their own statements with regard to their
own losses, 42,000, clear balance in our
favor.
But the real loss was far greater. Gen
eral Lee paroled 7,000 prisoners on the
field of Manassas who captured by us,
had not their wounds dressed on the third
day after the battle. Every man who
saw the field says there were at least five
dead or wounded Y ankees to one Confed
erate- Every man who saw the field of
Sliarpsburg says there were five or six
Yankees lying there to one Confederate.
A correspondent of the New York Tribune
says. McClellan lost 29.000 men there.
This, we have no doubt, is within the
maik, for McClellan lias never yet ac
knowledged the half of his loss on a single
occasion. His loss on the 14th all Con
federate accounts put down.at at least 5,-
000. Here, then, is a statement of what
we believe to he very neatly the loss of the
Yankees since Jacksou crossed the Rapi
dan :
From the Rapidan to 30th Aug. 20,000
Battle 30ih Aug. 27,000
Battle 14th Sept, 5,000
Battle Sliarpsburg, 2S.00i*
Battle with A. P. Hill, 3,500
Capture of Harper’s Ferry, 11,500
upon them, and they propose to get up a
| combination, so that the country can make
themselves even by extorting upon the
towns. Is that or anything like it. the
true state of the case? Y hat constitutes
extortion? It is not. mere price, recollect
that. If A pays a hundred dollars for a
sack of Salt aud sells it to B fur $125 the
price is enormous, but is he therefore an
extortionerl No more so, .certainly, than
he was when he paid $1.00 and sold the
Salt at $1.25. And now we will venture
to assert that in four-fifths of the cases
;30th, says.
The Weehawken will probably be
the next iron-clad vessel launched.—
She is building at Colwell’s foundery
in Jersey City. Planking has already
begun, and the - deck floor is being laid.
On the upper part of the hull the lirst
iron plates were laid yesterday.—
They form, with the wooden portion
of the bulwarks, a defence quite as
wide, and far stronger than the gener
ality of “stonewalls” so common in
the suburbs. The lower part of the
hull is being painted and prepared for
the mail. It is expected that by tbe
first proximo the Weehawken will be
afloat. On the same yard w r ith this
vessel, the Camanche, intended for
California, is being built. She is all
iron. Yesterday the different slabs of
paid.
r I'iie real extortioner is he who bavin
possessed himself of goods at low prices,
withholds them from the market in order
to raise prices and enrich himself by
the increased valuation from scarcity.—
Another extortioner is lie who takes ad
vantage of inadequete supplies to ^xact
justice, than to make the guilt or^innocence | humanity, justice, the rights and dignity
of an individual depend on whether the j 0 f the Government, aud against sound and
State in which he happened to be born
shall have representatives in Congress or.
the first day of January? It would he
sufficiently monstrous to make a man’s
wise national policy.
The decision of the President to strike
at the root of rebellion will lend new vigor
. . „ . , . , , , . ! to Bie efforts and new life and hone to the
right to his pioperty depend on his own ] lear ts of the people. " ” "
exercise of the elective franchise. Never
was there so degrading a satire on repub
lican institutions as the compulsory voting
required by President Lincoln. But when
a man’s property is made to depend not or.
whether lie chooses to vote himself, but on
whether bis fellow-citizens choose to vote
and whether the number voting under this
executive compulsion happens to be a ma
jority, we are lost in astonishment tiiat a
chief magistrate of a tree country should
undertake to make citizens perform what
ought to be their freest act under coercion
and to convert the ballot box into a crim
inal tribunal. AYbat lias the number of
votes oast in a particular election to do
Total, 95,000
Such we believe to be very nearly the
true state of the case. We believe that
killed, wounded, drowned and taken pris-
ouers, the Y’ankees have lost, in the cam
paign from tbe Rapidan, at least that num
ber of men, and we crivo onr l-enwons above
for thinking so. How many more they
may have lost from disease we cannot
say ; but that the campaign has been to
them a terribly destructive one does not
admit of a doubt. They pretend to have
w-oii a gieat victory at Sliarpsburg. If
so, w-liy do they not follow Gen, Lee and
destroy his army ? They boasted of tlieir
intention to do so, y'et they have no.t tried
it.
ANOTHER Ritti.UANT AI FAEK.
The Enemy driven across the Potomac—
Official Report of General Lee.
Cordially tender
ing to the President our respectful assu
rances of personal*and official confidence,
i we trust and believe that the policy now I
inaugurated will be crowned with success,
will give speedy and triumphant victories
! over our’enemies, and secure to this nation
and this people the blessing and favor of
Almighty God. We believe that the
j blood ni the heroes who have already fall-
i en, and those who may yet give their lives
to tin ir.country, will not have been shed
j in vain.
r J lie splendid valor of our soldiers, tlieir
patient cnchuance, llieir manly patriotism,
and their devotion to duty-, demand from
and from all their countrymen th
wi.h the question whether a particular j homage of the sincerest gratitude and tbe
OlflTatl 1C /rmltir / i\ I . - 1. . ,.1.1 1 i • *’
citizen is guilty of treason? Why should
women, minors, and orphans, be deprived
of their properly in consequence of the
neglect of citizens to vote?
This extraordinary proclamation will
bring no ail vantages to the negro lace at
all proportionate to the. obstructions it j ference.
throws in the way of re-union. It is cer
tain that the Union will never he restored
till this ill advised action of ibe Govern
ment is reversed. It converts every in
habitant of tbe Bouth into a zealot, whose
all is embarked in the success of the re
bellion. 'I he idea that they will suc
cumb to threats, that they will vote on
compulsion, that they will feel terror or
misgivings, or anything hut increased in
dignation. at suer, a proclamation, shows
small knowledge cither of human nature
or of the temper of the Southern mind
Such a proclamation cannot possibly he
enforced, and its only effect will be to
strengthen the determination of the rebels
to fight to the very last. They are shut
up to a lane which has notnrning. When
the military power of the rebels is broken
w.i have laid before ourselves a still hard
er task to perform. At the very crisis ol
the contest of arms the President has re
inforced them as effectually as if he bad
rlcdge of our constant reinforcement and
j support. A just regard for these brave
, men. whom we have contributed to place
; in the field, and for the importance of the
duties which may lawfully pertain to us
hereafter, lias called us into friendly con-
And now present’ oitrNa-
tional Chief Magistrate this conclusion of
i our deliberations, we devote ourselves to
our counfry’s service, and we will surround
the President with our constant support,
tiusting that the fidelity and zeal of the
i loyal .States and people will always assure
! him that he will be constantly maintained
| in pursuing with the utmost vigor this war
tor the preservation of tile national life
I and hope of humanity.
A. G. CURTIN,
JOHN A. ANDREW,
RICHARD YATES,
ISRAEL WAsHBRRNE, Jr
EDVV’D SOLOMON,
SAM’L. J. KIRKWOOD,
O. P. MORTON,
(By D. G. Rose, his representative,)
W’M. SPRAGUE,
P. II. P1ERPONT,
DAVID TOD.
N. S. BERRY,
AUSTIN BLAIR.
Headq’rs Ar.mv of Northern Ya., j
Camp on \V a string ton’s Run. >
Oct. 2d, 1SG2. )
Gen. S. Cooper, Adj’t & Insp’r Gen’l,
C. S. A., Richmond, Ya.
General:—The enemy’s cavalry, under
Gen. Pleasanton, with six pieces of artil
lery'. drove back our pickets yesterday, in
front of Shepherdstown. The Ninth Vir
ginia cavalry, which was on picket, re
pulsed the enemy several times, by vigor
ous charges, disputing the ground step by-
step, hack to the main body. By the time,
his artillery- reached him, Col. N. H. F.
Lee, who was mi command of the Brigade,
was obliged to place it on the left hank of
the Opequon, on the flank of the enemy
as he approached Martinsbnrg.
Gen. Hampton’s' Brigade had retired
through Martinsburg ■ on the Tuscarora
road, when Gen. Stuart.arrived and made
dispositions to attack. Lee’s Brigade
was advanced immediately, and Hamp
tons ordered forward. The enemy’ re
tired at the approach of Lee along the
Shepherdstown road, and was driven
across the Potomac by the cavalry, with
severe loss, and darkness alone prevented
it from being a signal victory. His rear
was overtaken and put to flight, our caval
ry charging, in gallant style under a se
vere fire of artillery, touting squadron,
after squadron, killing a number, wound
ing more, and capturing several. He w as
driven through Shepherdstown, and cross-
the river after dark, in no case standing a
hand to hand conflict, but relying upon
artillery, and carl ines at long range for
protection.
1 regret to add that we lost one Lieu
tenant and seveial privates.
I am, most respectfully,
Your ob’t serv’t.
R. E. LEE,
Geu’l Com’dg.
Official—Chas. Marshall, Maj. and A.
D.C.
E^Send us some money or something to eat
those who owe us know that, we have to pay cash
lor everything we buy. We can't live on air.
ly Money is the root of all evil, but no money
(o these times it ih» evil with * d prefixed.
acl
unreasonable prices for his labor or bw fa
cilities for production; and again another,
is the man with big or little capital, who
goes about engrossing and forestalling, in
order to benefit lritnself by- an artificial
scarcity wbieli he himself produced.
Now, make any r reasonable estimate of
the number in these classes, and we say
they’ compose comparatively few of the
population of any town. The town, as
such, is guiltless of the charge of extort
ing upon the country,—nay more; it is the
victim of the extortions of both. The great
bulk of the town people pay not only the
extortionate and high prices of which all
the country people complain, but, quite as
bad, they pay the extortionate prices
which the country people exact for family
supplies—they pay seventy-five cents a
pound for Ham, seventy-five cents for
Butter, sixty to seventy cents for Eggs,
seventy cents apiece for chickens, &c.,
&rc. We repeat, then, so far from its be
ing true that the towns are the extortion
ers and the planters the victims, nine peo
ple out of ten in the towns are victims to
a double extortion, three fourths of which j
at least tlie people of the country escape.
Salt, shoes. &c.. are very important items
in family supplies, but they do not com
pare with the hourly recurring wants of
the table, for the most of which tbe towns
man pays his country’ friend three times
the old price or more.
Now, then, can it be claimed with truth,
that the tow-ns are warring upon the
country’—the former extortioners, and the
latter victims? Wherever the plea of
“scarcity” can be urged, is not every com
modity lrom the country vastly increased
in price? and in tw r o of the articles com
plained of—leather and shoes—where do
the bulk of both come, but from the coun
try itself?
We see, then, that all this fabric of pure
town extortion and pure country suffering
—mercantile wolves and planting lambs,
is baseless. There is no ground of quar
rel between town and country so far
the g eat bulk of both is concerned; but a
community of suffering, in which the un
fortunate town people are compelled to
bear the larger share, inasmuch as the
country people generally are able to sup
ply their own table with flie greater part
of tlieir food, while the town people are
compelled to buy. Instead, then, of mu
tual war, there should he mutual sympa
thy’. Both are alike afflicted and harass
ed hy r the speculators and extortioners,
who are not yet, thank God, a representa
tive class of either. Tlio great bulk of
the people in town and country have
hearts in the right place—heating warmly
with the love of country, ami despise with
equal depth, and vigor of detestation, the
sordid wretches who are almost literally-
coining the heart-blood of our sons, broth
ers, and dear friends, poured out upon the
battle field without stint for the com
mon safety, into dollars to put into their
own pockets. We envy’ not tbe men who
are racking their brains for heavy profits
and large dividends at such a time as this.
But we have such men and we can’t help
it. They are in town and in the country;
and the more of them there are, the great
er the need that the true sons of the South
should r.-illytoa higher and purer stand
ard of morality and patriotism.
When “Quittman” would call county
meetings to “place the price of planters’
productions at such figures as W’ill corres
pond w-itli those of speculators,” and in
vokes the people to act promptly in this
way. “as in the sight of God” we must
conclude he has vastly mistaken the ori
gin and source of his counsel. It came
not from God. God says follow not the
multitude to do evil. It is the counsel of
passion, of mistaken vengeance—mista
ken iu the degree and source of provoca
tion. If followed, let Lincoln come and
take the country, for it is not w-orth de
tending. When wo have such a war of
classes and interests inaugurated, any
change would be for the better and could
not be for the worse. Our ruin would
have been accomplished—if in no other
w-ay’. in the very paralysis such a state of
things would inflict; but our only hope is
in standing shoulder to shoulder in hearty
co-operation and patriotic liberality—wil-
where the planters complain of extortion, i that metal arose in half circles, stop—
] the charge lias no better foundation than | ping at what is to be the top of the
! price. He has paid a big price and thinks] hulL The intermediate slabs will be
| himself swindled but he never inquired ] pnt on ( ]av by day until there is room
w hat Ins merchant has paid. ^ | for UQ mo “ e> ,^ d / he ship ig hashed.-
She is in sections, and when complete,
will be taken apart and transported
to the theatre other future operations,
as is already explained. *
Greenpoint is like a human beehive.
Ears are worthless, when once you get
inside the Continental Works. r l'he
greater part of inquiries and answers
are pantomimic. Montauk, Kaatskill
and Passaic, of the nine Monitor fleet
and the Onondaga and Puritan, of the
special fleet, are in hand. The Passaic
launched and “engined,” is preparing
rapidly for sea. The Montauk an
Kaatskill will be afloat in a month.
They are so like tlieir sister ships that
Mr. Ericsson says the same hole would
answer each of them. The Puritan is
the Great Eastern of the lot, being
nearly as large as the three combined.
She is only in the eariy stages of exis
tence, and will hardly lie manned and
equipped before the close of 1SG2.—
The Onondaga is further advanced.—
She is all iron, and will have two tur
rets. The 31 organ Iron Works are
getting up her machinery. There is a
considerable difference visible between
her and the other vessels, she being
built on a somewhat seperate plan,
although the chief principle involved
in her conception is tiic same as that
which brought forth Monitor Number
one. The Dictator is going up at the
Delameter Iron Works. Her ribs are
ship-shape, and several parts of the
monster begin to look recognizable.
Hitherto, an unimtiated person would
not know the skeleton from the foun
dation platform of a lunatic asylum.—
Over a thousand men and engaged on
her.
Mr. Whitney’s iron ship is more ad
vanced than any, savetiie Weehawken.
The Moodtia is the name given to her
by Mr. Welles. The hull is finished
and a good portion of the armor on.—
The “shell” of the vessel is complete
and, il it were wood, in launching
condition. The turrets will be two
in number, and are nearly ready. I>
lore the expiration of October the
Moodna will be ready for floating out
Mr. Webb’ s ram has just been com
menced. *She will be 7,000 tons bur
den. All other ships on the iron sys
tem will be mere catamarans, to her.
She will be a double ship, she fiotbe
ing iron but wood. At present sh
looks too unlike anything to be de
scribed. In two months she will be
great ram able to go to sea and ac
commodate a larger ship’s company
than the Niagara. Her name has not
been mentioned vet, but people think it
ought to be “Washington” as we have
man-of-war with that name.
The Fort Henry, an iron-clad gun
boat, builtat Carondelet, was launched
there on Thursday, the 24th inst. The
Choctaw, a vessel purchased some
time since by the Navy Department,
and subsequently converted into a
ram, was launched on the previous
Saturday. The Fort Henry, a sort of
sister ship to the Essex, is 2£0 feet
long. 40 feet wide, and 11 feet deep.
The Choctaw is 225 feet long. 34 feet
wide and 10 feet deep. The Fort
Henry will carry eight guns, and the
Choctaw six. The latter is a mere
ram, the former is more of a gunt^at.
Each boat’s ram measures two feet of
bell metal. Porter’s India rubber in
vention is carried on these two vessels
which is said to be better than three
inches of iron.
opposite side of the Ohio, where they
now are, in consequence of the low
stage of water, unable to get them
loose, and our forces too small there to
take them.
This is all the news of importance
from this section of the C. S. Army.—
Weather dry. Streets dusty.
The Salt Works are doing a splen
did business out here at present.—
Hundreds of wagons are loading and
going east.
There was a meeting of saltmakersa
few days ago, for the purpose of estab
lishing a uniform price for the article at
SI.00 per bushel, when they have
been glad to send it to Cincinnati and
other river ports, heretofore at from 20
to 25 cents, according to the state of
the markets, and now refuse to let our
Eastern people have it for less than
SI.00. But I am happy to say that
there was one man unwilling to go
into this meeting, and his name was
j Fry. He lms sold and continues to sell
at 50 cents per bushel, saying he can
afford to sell to the Southern Confed
eracy as cheap as to Yankees; Parties
have been trying to buy all he has on
hand and all lie can make at his own
price, but be understands them, and
refuses to sell to speculators. Mr. Fry
is making large quantities of salt, which
he is disposing of very rapidly or as
fast as lie can make it.
There is great distinction made here
by the citizens and merchants between
Confederate money and United States
money. Persons having anything to
sell will dispose of it to you, always
prefacing it with the remark, “if you
[»ay me in United States money, or
gold or silver, you can have it for so
much, (old prices) but if I have to take
Confederate money, I must have so
much,” generally from 100 to 400 per
cent higher than they were selling the
same goods to the Yankee soldiers. So
much for the good feelincr here for
Southern soldiers. ~ *
The Senate bill prescribing a yaal f or
the Confederate States was reported back
from the committee on Flag and Seal wit)
a substitute which was adopted. Tie
new device is an armed youth, attired i n
a thin classic costume, beneath whom a
woman is clinging, the whole surrounded
by a margin of Rice, cotton, tobacco, su
gar cane, with the motto of “Pro Aris Et
Frocis”—(For our religious and civil Lib
erty.)
The Senate then took a recess until
seven.
Richmond, Oct. 12.—Tbe evening ses
sion of the Senate re-assembled at 15 o’,
clock, p. in., with closed doors until 1 0 '.
clock a. m.
On Sunday a bill, from the committee
of Conference, increasing the compensa
tion of all oflicersand employees of the
several Executive and Legislative De
partments, employed in the city of Rich
mond was passed.
The Senate adjourned till 9 o’clock a.
in., on Monday.
House—Senate bill for the relief of the
Confederate Bible Society passed.
The amendment of the Senate bill au
thorizing the formation of volunteer com
panies tor local defences was concurred
Government Receipts and Expen-
ditcres.—During the quarter ending
the 30th of June, the receipts of the
United States Treasury amounted to
$238,14(5,227, and the expenditures to
$194,030,777. Among the expendi
tures were SI GO,434,843 for war, $14,-
S18.G0G for the navy, 812,056,498 for
interest on public debt, reimbursement
lor temporary loan, &c. Among the
receipts were $1S,9-30,170 from cus
toms, 81,795,331 from direct tax,
849.55S from sales of public lands, 813
825,925 from three years’ bonds, 813,-
990,600 from 5-20 United States notes,
844,252,979 from certificates of indebt
edness, and 84(5,1S7,704 from tempora
ry loan.
The Conference Committee bill increas
ing the compensation of officers passed.
Richmond, Oct. 13.—The Senate pass
ed the House bill authorizing tbe Presi
dent to suspend tbe writ of Habeas Corpus
in certain cases.
Also the House bill extending the
term of office of certain war tax collec
tors.
Also tlio House bill authorizing the
President to appoint twenty general offi-
eers in the provisional army, and assign
them to such appropriate duties as hemaj
deem expedient, with amendments.
A motion to take up amotion to recon
sider the vote by which the House hill in
creasing soldiers’ pay was passed, was
negatived.
The bill fixiug the Seal of the Confed
erate States was referred tp the Commit
tee of Conference, who reported that they <
were unable to agree.
A. message from the President was read
announcing bis disapproval of the hill for
the relief of the < ’ont'ederate Bible Socie
ty, on the ground that Congress has no
power to bestow or divert any portion of
the sequestration fund —the faith of the
Government being pledged that it sliaU
be used to indemnify loyal citizeus tor
losses sustained by confiscation &c.
I he votfe was again taken, aud the hill i
rejected
Tbe amendments to the House hi!/ to
punish the importation of counterfeit Con
federate Treasury Notes was concurred
in.
Also amending the bill awarding medals
or badges to soldiers for gallantry and mer
itorious services.
In the House nothing of special interest
except the passage of the bills above men
tioned. . -
A message was received from the Presi
dent vetoing the bill to reorganize the
medical department of tbe army. The
bill was postponed until next session.
At five o clock, P. M., both Houses ad
journed sine die.
Attempted Escape from Prison.—
A number ol the tnen confined in Cas-
'tle Thunder entered into a plan a
few nights ago to escape, by digging
their way through the wall enclosing
the eastern side-of the prison. The
noise made by them in getting out
the bricks gave the prison authorities
the first intimation they had of the
state ot affairs. Soon alter which a
guard was stationed in the stable
immediately over the spot where the'
parties would have to make their
egress. To reach the level of the sta
ble floor'from the. “hole in the wall”
below, the parties had to burrqw
upwards over four feet, through the
debris formed by the ruins of the old
East India warehouse, which adjoins
Greanor’s factory. I t r • V^were
two days in making preparation for
their flight. "When the first one emerg
ed from the hole into the stable (about
6 o’clock Wednesday night) a pistol
was presented at his head, ami he was
told he would be shot it’ lie made the
slightest noise. In this way thirteen
emerged through the hole, and were | Friday last. He is in good health,
captured. Ore fat fellow stuck fast,' ”
Bid the noise made in getting him clear
ilarmed all the rest.The captives were
taken before the commandant of the
orison, who ordered them to be put in
the dungeon, and fed on bread and
water.—11 ichmond Dispatch,
What the Rebels are Doing in-
Lexington.—A Union man who has
escaped from Lexington,Ky., and arriv
ed iu Covington on Friday/ states that
by a recent order of Gen. Kirby Smith
all the stovesin the city have been
seized and carried to the foundries,
where they are cast into shot and shell.
The refugee thinks that the rebels
are making preparations to evacuate
[ that city at an early day. They will
make a desperate stand on the south
bank of the Kentucky river, where
they have had a large force at work
for several weeks, fortifying. Every
yard of jeans in Lexington, George
town, Versailles, and other places, has
been taken by Kirby Smith to clothe
his soldiers, who are now in pretty
good condition, having been living
off the fat of the land for a month or
more. The rebels are kept well posted
in regard to the movements ot the
Federal armies, by daily arrivals at
Lexington ot Southern sympathisers,
from Louisville, Maysville, Covington,
and other cities and towns. The daily
papers from Louisville and Cincinnati
are received one day after the publi
cation.—Louisville Journal, Gth,
Hon. Wm. L. Yancey.—This distin
guished Senator was in our sanctum
a few moments yesterday afternoon.
He is on his way to his home in Mont
gomery— having left Richmond on
•H
Love and Beef.—Love is an i-
dea—beef a reality. The idea you can
get along without; the beef you can’t.
We are needing money at this office. Say
not to us, wait. We have waited two, three, five
years—it is waiting that has nearly ruined us.
EF*Any subscriber who is in debt to us, can
send us three, five or ten dollars. We will send
kin a receipt, and thank bin toe.
Instead of grumbling in general
terms about nuisances, it is often
best to come out plainly with theieme-
(, y*
Jas. Hart of Floyd County, Ga.,
issues the following notice :
To ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN—I
hereby give notice to each and every
person, who lias, and isstifl issuing in
dividual sliinplasters. and who will not
call them in by the 15th of this month,
that I intend to prosecute the last
mother’s son of them, that the laws
of this State will reach, in Floyd coun
ty.
Jas. Hart.
^ e are glad to learn, as we do from
him, that a hopeful feeling pervades
the people, the members of Congress
and the officers of the Government
at Richmond. There, where more of
the movements of the army, the con
duct and intentions of the Northern
Government, and the feeling of Euro
pean powers towards us, «fcc., &e., is
known than we do at this distance
from the ceutre, all are cheerful aud
hopeful—even ofa termination of the
war at no very distant day. [Iniclliffi”'
C 'J•
—
It is a fact worthy ofnote that there
were more men lost at the battle of
Shiloh than in the seven days battles
before Richmond, Virginia, notwith
standing the great disparity of num
bers at Shiloh. The carnage on both
sides, according to the numbers engag
ed in that battle, never has been
exceeded by any conflict in modem w*? s
faro.