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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.