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DAILY TIME'S,
J. W. WAIIRE', - - - Editor.
COLUMBUS;
Thursday Morning, November 1, 1861,
Grant's Campaign Against Richmond.
We copy from the New York World a letter,
evidently written by someone who (says the
Richmond Whig) is very well informed on the
topics he treats of, that makes some very re
markable confessions touching the forces op
erating under Grant, their losses, failures and
defeats, and the impossibility of Richmond
ever being taken by Orah*’s ~*r,Vegy. The
entire force which has been brought to bear
on Richmond during the campaign this writer
states at 350.000—nearly 260,000 directly
der Grant, and 00,000 in the Valley, being the
aggregate of the armies under Sign], Hunter
and Sheridan. With these immense hosts,
confronted by not more (as he estimated) than
70,000 men utuiei Lee. including as well our
fenced*l n the Valley 13 the arun immediately
under his command, the great Confederate
commander has been able to keep Grant at
l>a_ . ‘‘With this little force,’’ says the
W >rld s correspondent, “General Lee, for seven
meu!u.'i r uas baffled and defeated the designs
of Gen. Grant, with his 260,000 troops on this
aid the 60,000 troops operating in the
Valley.” Two o! the Valley armies, under
Sigel arid Hunter, lie says, have been badly
“and Heated,’ and tiie third, under Sheridan, ;
completely “baffled,” while “in the lour months ;
before Richmond and Petersburg.” with his j
2*> i.OOO men, Grant has made “no progress !
wi.alever towards the capture of either.” Nor
do/- the writer believe that he will ever make
progress, without a change of strategy, m
which he seems.to entertain very little hope.
Put the most remarkable of the confessions
is the enormous sacrifice of life made by
G . it, only to reach the failures he has met
with. Os his more than 200,000 men not
> 100,000 remain, making a loss of over 160,00®,
while the Valley armies have sustained a loss
in the aggregate of 65,00 b men, making the
entire cost to Grant, of an unsuccessful cam
paign, over two hundred and twenty-jive thous
and nun: while Lee" as this correspondent
believes, has sustained no loss that has not
been replaced by the young men arriving at
military age and entering his army. “Lee’s
army," he says, “is substantially the same as
in May," when the campaign opened.
We have no reason to question the accura
&cy in all material respects of these extraor*
dinary statements. They make Grant’s cam
paign against Richmond one of the most stu
pendous and disastrous failures recorded in
history.
I < 'ofrespondenoe Confederate aud Telegraph.)
Jacksonville, Ala., Oct. 26, 1864.
I hardly know where I left off in my last letter
in narrating the march of Gen. Hood. But I pre
sume at Dalton.
Soon after that event the army left the railroad,
and marching around the southern spurs of Look
out Mountain—the right passing through Lafa- -
yett(‘,*and the left through Sutmnersville—entered
Alabama on the Gadsden road. The result of the
campaign up so that time may be summed up as
follows: The total and complete destruction of
nineteen miles of the main road between Chatta
nooga and Atlanta, and four miles of’ the Cleve
land branch above Dalton. The capture of sis- '
icon hundred prisoners, and the killing aud wound
ing of five hundred more. The capture of many
stores, cants m and the material <»f war generally.
The breaking up of Sherman's intention to march l
upon Macon. 1’ .e flanking of his army in its po- •
site n at Atlanta and thereoapture in fourteen days
oi the territory last in six months of hard march
ing and incessant lighting The possession of in
terior lines upon which our army has the commu
nications of the euetny at its mercy, and which
will speedily result in the total withdrawal of all
the garrisons at arid south of Chattanooga;
When the army reached Gadsden, it was neces
sary to let it rest one or two days, «nd bring up
.supplies from Hive Mountain. During that time
the greatest activity prevailed in the Commissary
and Quartermaster Departments. The most inex
orable orders were issned to have supplies up by
s certain hour, and these orders wore complied
with to the letter. Among the supplies sent for
ward l was pleased to see several thousand pairs
t>; shoes :i:.d many suits'of grey.
On Friday night last there was a great time in
ih? Army of Tennessee. Gens. Beauregard, Hood
am! several corps and division commanders as
sembled the soldiers and, amidst the wildest en
thusiasm, announced that the army was to be at
once led a ('cross the river; and that the Southern
staadards would once more be unfurled upon the
soil of Tonne-see. Ask me not to describe the
Frautie shouts that followed this announcement.
It was in accordance with the feelings of every
man on that ground, was demanded by the people
of the wh.de South, including the highest civil of
fers, and meets the approval of the most distin
guished military men in the world. (It the ex
pedition should come to disaster, let us recollect
*ll this.)
Longer' the sunbeam had kissed the mountain
tope on the following morning, the army had left
its encampment on the Coosa at Gadsden, and
e. ith an cla tic tread and a merry heart, was on
the roads leading out to Guntersville. It has al
ready crossed the river and the advance guard
must now he on Jackson’s soil. Speaking of
Jackson. Fiore are none like him in our day and
imo ! Nature seldom produces such a man, and
when she does, she takes a long repose, as if to
rest from the giant labor performed.
But 1 digress. The great Forrest leads the ad
vauce and Cleburne covers the rear. Gen. Hood
leads ihe whole army in boldness, arid there is
Beau tv :rd to supply the highest strategy and
most consummate' military wisdom. No such ar
my as this has ov r confronted the enemy in the
Southw 0.-o. It is. in the first place, superior in
nmnbt i-; anv other we ever organized, whilst
its spit' surpasses anything over known in the
world. It Gen. Hood never gains a battle, he will
deserve the lasting gratitude of his countrymen
for fvh.it he has already accomplished. Assuming
commao at*Atlanta, when that position was al
ready virtually in possession of the enemy, he
fought his annv gallantly, if not successfully, and
that sort of fighting will always, with the South
ern people, cover up many intellectual deficien
ts. Comm iid tie to the man who knows how,
where aud when to die.. At a time when the
ruuntry seemed to sink Jn despair, he boldly con
ceived, and is now executing-a movement without
* parallel for brilliancy in the Second Devolution.
Sherman, in spite of our mightiest efforts, had
penetrated to the very heart of your State. —
But, shade of the mighty, where now are thy
laurels.
T.ot Herenles himself do what he may,,
The cat will mew, the dog will have his day.
And Sherman is “the dog” who has had “his
day.” llis army is now receding and rapidly
threading the mountain defiles of Northern Geor
gia and East Tennessee, running back, with the
celerity of a hare, over ground it had traversed
Tith the pace of a terrepin.
If wifi be ten days or two weeks before a great
battle is fought. The enemy will be obliged to
march hi- men from the garrisons along the road
to the neighborhood of Tallahoma, Marfreesboro
of Nashville before Gen. Ileod will accept battle.
Hoad is still on the interior line with a splendid
army shorn of every pound of surplus baggage,
and it can be moved with extraordinary rapidity.
Sherman has to concentrate and march over rug
ged mountains with an army as blue with hope as
its own uniform. Half starved, all its spring and
summer campaign turned to naught, demoralized,
with nothing of its victories ramaining save the
aovKciousness of having overrun and reveled in
the homes of Northern Georgians like the band »f
Alaric reveled in tbe palaces of Italy, and with
the eons -musness that the Southern army though
proclaimed dead, like Banquo’s ghost, will not
down. That i- toe prospect before them.
Grafton.
Tbe London Post says that many loyal Fed
eruls in England are interested in the block
ade runners.
[From !,f New York World of October I nth ]
The Virginia Campaign.
Review of General Grant's Operations before
Richmond— Where he has Failed ofi Success—
The Three Attempts to Capture Lynchburg
and their Failures.—Our Loss in the Shenan
doah— What Movement of General Grant the
Rebels Fear the. Most—Will there be Another
Raid into Maryland , ,(e.
[From our own Correspondent.]
* Baltimore, Oct. 17.]
THE SEVEN MONTHS’ CAMPAIGN AGAINST RICH
MOND CONSIDERED AS A WHOLE.
. When it ig remembered that the present
campaign against Richmond has now lasted
seven months, and that it has been carried on
under the direction of a single military head,
without interference or dictation from any
quarter whatever; that all the armies in the
service except one, with a few trifling excep
tions, have been concentrated for this single !
purpose : that General Grant has had the co- |
operation of the four armies of Sigel, Hunter, j
\yright aid Sheridan, one after the other, j
consisting, as will be shown presently, of
ninety toousfftid troops, all operating in the :
• Shenandoah Valley, and all threatening Rich- i
mond with iniinent and real peril in the rear, ■
while ire himself was operating in its front:
that General Grant had tinder his own inline !
diirtp command, in front ot Petersburg and
Kit mond, as has been proved by Senator
Wilson of Massachusetts, an■ * General H. M. !
Naglee, over 260,000 mefi, of whom less than
100,000 now survive ; that General Grant's ar
my has occupied its present position before
Petersburg ever since the 15th of June last, j
that is to say for a period of four months; !
that during this long period no progress what- ,
ever has been made Toward Ihe capture of j
either Petersburg or Richmond—when these j
lliinsis are remembered, it is worth while to
consider the reasons that have enabled the j
Confederates, with an army that has been no- i
toriously not one third as large as that under j
Grant to defend their capital successfully, j
and to defeat two, and to baffle another, of j
the first co-operating armies above named. J
,And the reasons, thus considered, will not
ly show what means the rebels have of de
fending their capital; but they will prove al- j
t so that Richmond cannot be taken as long as
the siege ot Petersburg i« persisted in.
THREE ATTEMPTS TO CAPTURE LYNCHBURG. !
It will be necessary first, to recur briefly to
the four co-operating armies above named,
because the same strategy which has been,
used on the part ofthc Confederates’to defeat
them, will continue to bo used agffnst any
subsequent army that may attempt to operate
in the Shenandoah Valley. Three of these i
co-opemting armies, namely, those of Sigei, j
Hunter and Sheridan, have had, in.succession,
the same task assigned to them, namely, the
capture of Lynchburg, in order to facilitate
the capture of Richmond by General Grant
They have all failed, and the failure of each
one, except that of General Sheridan, was at
tended with great disaster, as the citizens ot
Maryland, Pennsylvania and Washington,
well remember.
DETAILS OF THE FORCES WHICH HAVE FAILED TO
% *
CAPTURE LYNCHBURG.
1
.Sigel, who started out on the 4th of May j
with twenty thousand troops, v defeated j
by Gen. Breckinridge before the l.vh of that I
month, with a loss of five thousand men.— j
General Hunter took command of all the j
troops in that military department on the j
18th of May. By the 25th his command had |
been so reorganized that it embraced thirty
thousand troops, including the fifteen thous
and that were left under Sigel. He was or
dered to retain General Sigel in command, and
he left him at Winchester with ten thousand
t roops. He commenced his campaign against
Lynchburg about the end of May, having in
the four divisions of Generals Crook, Sullivan,
Averill and Duffle, fully twenty thousand
troops. There being no Confederate army to
oppose his march, he left Staunton on the 10th
of June, and reached Lynchburg on the 17th. j
He was defeated there on the 18th, and again j
at Salem* just west of the Blue Ridge, on the i
21st For it will be remembered that he re
treated, not to Winchester, as he ought to
have done, but to Parkersburg, on the Ohio
river, at the extreme western end of Virginia. !
His losses, by the time he reached that point, j
on the Ist of July, amounted to fully ten
thousand men ; for, in addition to the battles
he fought, the country at that time was little
better than a desert, as the new crop of wheat,
although ripening, was not yet tit to grind,
and his men were in a state of destitution.
CONSEQUENCES OF HUNTER’S BLUNDER.
If he had fallen back to Winchester, he
would have saved Sigel, and prevented the
invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania in
July last. As it was, however, no sooner had
Hunter’s army begun to move west-ward from
Lynchburg than Early’s corps was sent into
the valley. Early, with fifteen thousand
troops, attacked and defeated Sigel’s ten
thousand ; advanced to the Potomac, crossed
the stream, invaded Maryland, frightened Bal
timore, burned the town of Chambersburg,
and laid siege to Washington.
General Wright, with the Sixth and Nine
teeth cprps, advanced from Washington to
pursue the retreating'rebels, about the 15th of
July. The remnant.of the forces of Hunter
and Sigel, say ten thousand men, joined him,
and he thus had over twenty-five thousand
troops, as he superceded Hunter in command
He lost, in various skirmishes before the sth
of August, five thousand men. But his orders
did not allow him to uncover the capital, and
'on the 6th of August he was superceded by
General Sheridan.
Isl my letters soon after that date I enumer- j
ated the various bodies of troops that were
placed under General Sheridan's orders. They
amounted to fifty thousand men. He was
reinforced before the 18th of September by
ten thousand more troops. His losses between
the 6th of August and the 18th of September
amounted to fifteen thousand men. It was
during this time that he made two “pursuits”
of Early ; the one to Strasburg, the other to
Winchester and the Opequan river. -By the
6th of September, it will be remembered, he
was safely intrenched at Berryville. No state
ment of the losses in' his recent campaign,
from the 10th of September to the 10th inst.,
has yet been made public. But it is said to
have amounted to 20,000jnen.
.General Sheridan has *now 25,000 effective
troops, and .yet the Confederates in the Valley
were strong enough to send a party two days !
ago to attack and destroy a whole train of :
cars on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, near
Martinsburg: and this work they did most
thoroughly. No personal injury was done to
the passengers. The mail was carried off, j
and the newspaper bags and the cars were ;
burned : but the track was uninjured, and the
trains are running again to-day.
RECAPITULATION OF THE FORCES REPULSED IN
THE VALLEY.
Thus there have been sent to operate in the
Valley the following bodies of troops : Sigel’s
corps, 20,000 ; added by Hunter May 15th,
15,000 ; the 6th and 19th corps added by Gen.
Wright July 18th. over 15,000 men : added
by Sheridan August 6th, 30,000 ; additional
reinforcements befor-e September 18th, 10,000
men; total, 90,000 men. The losses hare
been, under Sigel, 10,000; under Hunter,
15,000 ; under Wright, 5,000 : under Sheri
dan, 35,000 ; total, 65,000.
HOW THE CONFEDERATES HAVE BAFFLED THI
PLANS OF GEN. GRANT.
The success of the Confederates in baffling
the plans of General Grant is owing in a great
measure to the accurate knowledge which
they possess of the weak points of General
Grant's military character, and this was as
certained before the campaign had been in
progress two months. By the end of two
months, after active operations had commenc
ed, the rebel leadeis knew that Gen. Grant
was a military dictator, aud that he wouldJ
have the command of men in unlimited num
ber, and of means to an unlimited extent; but
thev were convinced that be was a General ot
very ordinary ability ; that be had no definite
idea of how Richmond was to be tarten ; that
he had formed no fixed plan for the reduc
tion of the city ; that he was a man who would
try one expedient after another, but without
| knowing that any one would succeed ; and that
j the only fixed idea he had about the capture
of Richmond was, that */ he eould starve out
the rebel capital it must surrender, and that
the best way to do that was to capture Lynch
burg; and that he wasaveryobstinate man,and
that he would never abandon any expedition
that be might undertake as long as his Gov
ernment would continue to furnish him with
the men and the means to carry it on.
Such was the view which the rebel leaders
entertained of Gen. Grant’s military character,
and the progress of the campaign has convinc
ed them of its correctness. Ever since the
end of June, they have been convinced of
these three things : Ist. That General Grant
regards the capture of Lynchburg as essential
to the success of his operations before Rich
mond, and that, therefore, he will continue his
efforts for the capture of the former place,
even if he has to employ a portion of his dis
posable force for the purpose ; 2d. he
regards the capture of Petersburg as essential
t to the success of his operations before Rich
! mond, und, there‘ore, that be will not com
j mene’e real operations against Richmond un
| til he has taicen Petersburg ; and 3d. That he
; will not commence real operations agairtst
i Richmond from vhe north side of the James
! river—-that is, from Harrison’s Landing, or
from Malvern Hilis, or from Bimey’s present
base at Deep Bottom—until all his other ex
pedients are exhausted, until every expedient
of which he can think, or which he can de
vise, shall have been tried, and shall have
failed. Then, they think, he may possibly try
to take Richmond from that direction.
WHAT THE CONFEDERATES DREAD.
If Richmond is‘ever taken at all, it must be
in that way. And this fact, and the equally !
important fact that the Confederate leaders
are fully aware of it, is clearly set forth in inv -j
letters of June i Ith, 15th, 18th, 21st, and 27th; j
and August 2d and 29th. Allow me to quote
a few sentence . June 15th : “After all other
expedients have been tried, and have failed,
Richmond, when taken, if taken at all, will
have to be taken, the rebel leaders believe, by !
hard and desperate fighting—fighting comes 1
in at the end of a long and protracted siege] j
and this fighting will have to be done on the 1
north side of the James river.” June 21st :j
“So long as Gen. Grant confines his operations j
to the south side of the James river, the reb- !
efs have no fears for the safety of Richmond, j
What they fear is, - that General Grant, see- ]
ing the hopelessness of reaching Richmond 1
from the south, and the impossibility ©/cutting
them off from their supplies, will again cross j
the James River, and advance on their capi- [
tal from Malvern Hills. If Richmond is ever ;
taken, it will have to be taken in that way.”
Juue27: “What the rebel leaders fear from
our iron fleet is, that it may be used to cover
a movement of our army cn Richmond from
the southeast. The landing of the little force
pf General Foster at New Market, June 21,
inspired real terror at Richmond, because it
was feared that it was only the advance of a
much larger force. The movements of Gene
ral Grant in that direction will be watched j
by the rebels with anxious solicitude, for on |
that field they believe the great contest for the
capital will terminate.” August 29: “If Grant j
should abandon Petersburg, move his whola i
army to Deep Bottom, aud begin a real attack j
on Richmond from that point as his base, it !
would be necessary for the rebels to recall ev- j
ery soldier in Virginia for the defense of their j
capital.”
I arn sure 1 need not apologize for the in*
troduction of these extracts. The facts that
they contain are as true now as when they
were written, and events have proved the cor
rectness.of the views which they embrace.—
They afford, besides, the key to the rebel suc
cess in defending their capital; and they are
particularly worthy.of consideration by mili- j
tary men at the present time, because we have j
now, in the positions held by Birney and :
Ord, such a magnificent base for operations J
in that direction.
NUMERICAL WEAKNESS OF THE SOUTHERN |
ARMIES.
I have spoken of the comparatively small
force of Confederate troops defending Rich
mond It is substantially the same now, in I
point of numbers, that it was in May last, for
whatever losses have been sustained, have
been made by young men who have recently j
attained to the proper military age. it has con
sisted during the whole campaign, aud consists ;
now, of the nine divisions of infantry of Gens, j
Anderson, Picket, aud Fields, in Longstreei’s •
corps, Ileth, Wilcox, and Ricketts, in HilL’s i
corps, and Wharton, Rhodes and Gordon, in
Early’s corps ; besides three other divisions
until recently under General Beauregard.—
Each division is five thousand strong. These**
with ten thousand cavalry and about three
hundred pieces of field artillery, in all seven
ty-six thousand men, constitute the whole
strength of General Lee’s army. With this
little force, General Lee for several months
lias baffled and defeated"the designs of Gene
ral Grant, with his two hundred and sixty
thousand troops on this line, and the ninety
thousand troops operating in the Shenandoah
Valley; in all, three hundred and fifty thou
sand troops. This little force has uot only
defended both Richmond and Petersburg, but
it has also defended Lynchburg, held the She
nandoah Valley for months, and drawn thence
vast supplies ; invaded Maryland and Penn
sylvania; advanced to within twelve miles of
Baltimore ; isolated Washington from the
North, and held it in a state of dose siege for
twenty-four hours.
WHY GRANT IIAS BEEN BAFFLED BY LEEVS SMALL
ARMY.
The following are. the reasons, therefore,
why the Confederates, with a force not one
third as large as ours, have been able to de
fend their capital successfully, and to baffle
all of General Grant’s attempts for its cap
ture ; First. Because our immense force has
not been concentrated in front of Richmond,
but has been divided. Second; Because the
Confederates are not operating on interior
iiues, and have had, in the railroads between
Petersburg and Richmond, and bet ween Rich
mond and Lynchburg, and between Richmond
and Gordonsville, the means of rapidly throw
ing reinforcements wherever they were needed.
In spite of all our efforts, , we have never been
able to prevent them from having tbe full and
constant use of these railroads. Third. Be
cause, by means of the railroad from Rich
mond to Culpeper, and the routes through
the Shenandoah Valley, they have been able
to threaten Washington aud Pennsylvania,
aud this, too, with peril so imminent that it
was absolutely necessary to keep a very large
federal force on the line of the-Potomac.—
Fourth. Because the fortifications defending
both Richmond and Petersburg are so strong
and extensive that be held by a com
; paratively small force at one 1 place, w'hiie the
| main body of the rebels are employed in re
| pelling attacks elsewhere: Fifth. Because
the rebel capital is absolutely inaccessible by
' "water, as I demonstrated months ago, in the
i face of the persistent denials at the time, and'
as has been abundantly proved since. And
sixth. Because General Grant has persisted
| in frittering away four months before Peters
| burg, and in dividing his‘ strength between
that place and Richmond, instead of concern
; trating his forees before the latter city.
WE MUST CHANGE OUR PLANS.
These reasons are in full force now. They
will continue to operate with equal—even with
greater force in the future. And it may safely
be said that Richmond can never he taken as
long as General Grant persists in his previous
policy ; never, until all of our laud forces are
concentrated where Birney is now, and Farra
gut, or some man like him. takes our fleet up
the river, past Fort Darling.
*
absurdity of compelling the EVACUATION of
RICHMOND BY STARVATION.
The idea of starving Richmond into a sur
' render, or of compelling its evacuation by
i starvation, with such a country as Virginia at
j its back, has been proved by the events of she
last four months to be as absurd and ridicu
lous as was the original idea that the whole
j South could be starved into submission. And
j yet, for three years, the latter idea was exten
sively believed at the North. Its means of
supplies are ample. Who believes now that
Lynchburg can be captured? It might be
expected that Sigel and Hunter would have
' failed to take the place, and yet their armies
were large and well appointed, and the rebel
force opposed to them was small. But what
shall be said after the failure of Sheridan ?
Where can there be found a more energetic
and more competent General than he? and
more competent lieutenants than Wright, Emo
ry, Crook, and Averel ? - When can we organ
ize, for a campaign in the Shenandoahyvalley,
a more effective army than the one he started
out with on the 19th of September, and the
shattered remains of which are now probably
at Berryville ? When can there be so favora
ble an opportunity for the capture of Lynch
burg as was afforded last month, when the
peril to the rebel capital was so great that not
a single soldier could be sent away from it;
when it was only defended by a brigade* of
j militia under General Colston, and when the
whole valley was overflowing with the plenty
I that has now been destroyed by the orders of
General Grant?
THE REBELS EXPECT NOW A CONCENTRATED AT
TACK ON RICHMOND.
The result of General Sheridan's campaign
will relieve the Confederates of all apprehen
sions in regard to Lynchburg for many months
to come. The rebel leaders will have sense
enough to know that what General Sheridan
and his splendid' army could not do, cannot be
done at all , and therefore that Lynchburg is
absolutely safe until next summer, at least.
What they will look for now will be a concen
trated attack on Richmond, to be made by
General Grant before winter sets in, by all the
troops that cau be raised for that purpose.
Already the Richmond papers are hinting that
Sherman is sending troops to the east to re
inforce Grant. I need not say that they are
confident of their ability to repel any such at
tack. But let tlie government beware that, in
whatever they do this fall and winter, the line
of the Potomac is not left uncovered. The
Confederates have no troops to spare just now
for a regular invasion of the North. But it
may be written down as a certainty that, if the
line of the Potomac is left unguarded, or
guarded by an inadequate force, and the roads
remain good till the first or middle of Novem
ber, a body of 5,000 or 10,000-rebel horsemen
will dash through the Shenandoah Valley and
visit upon the innocent and helpless people of
Pennsylvania the same needless and useless
cruelties which the mistaken policy of Grant i
and Sheridan led them to inflict upon the in- i
nocent and helpless women and children of
the Shenandoah Valley. Druid.
Reconstruction in the North,
Thaddeus Stevens, a very venomous, old politi
cal hack, of Pennsylvania, but an influential and
representative man, made a speech in Philadel
phia last Wednesday night, in which he gave his
views on the subject of the restoration of the
“Union as it was,” and administered eu passant a
severe tongue-lashing to Seward. We make an
extract:
There are not a few whoso tender consciences
and evil judgment induce to believe that we must
take as our rallying cry, “the Union as it was,
and the Constitution as it is. This is a most
pernicious idea. (Applause.)
The Constitution was a compactbetween the
people of’the United States, binding on all. So
long as this was kept by both North aud South,
it was binding on all our people. But whon the
South threw off its protection and obligations the
National Government was left free to act uuder
the laws of war. and the international code recog
nized by every Christian nation refused protection
to slavery. (Loud applanse.) Thank God! al!
writers now agree that man can hold no property
in man. (Renewed applause.) As we arc bound
a? much as any other nation by the laws of war,
it follows as a logical sequence that when the ob-’
ligations of the Constitution were removed slavery
at once ceased on the American continent. (Long
continued cheers.) Shall we agree, for the sake
of a disgraceful and pernicious peace, to re-cnslavc
four millions of freemen ? [“Never.”] I can make
no distinction between the men in the North who
advocate such a course, and those who ply their
hellish traffic in human bodies on the coast of
Africa. [Loud applause.] If we are men we will
resist such dishonor to the death. [Cheers.]
I know there arc those in the Republican ranks
who have proposed peace on the simple ground of-*
a return of the insurgent States to the Union,- with
no condition on behalf of freedom. 1 know that
among them was the once firm leader in the great
doctrine of an “irrepressible conflict.” These tim
id Republicans were willing even to sacrifice the
great Proclamation of Freedom. But such dis
graceful truckling to slavery should be rebuked by
all true friends of the Union and of Liberty.
[Cbeers.]
It would be base and craven to surrender to
their traitorous masters, to shackles and branding
irons and death, the freedmen of the South ‘(loud
applause), and any man who makes such a sug
gestion, be he Republican* or Democrat, be he
Secretary of State or private citizen, can be naught
else than a miserable coward. (Cheering.) Meu
who are to march at the head of a nation, must
originate ideas. Ido not know how such political
cowardice as that to which I have advretod may
stir your warm blood, but old as I am, it makes
my old blood boil in my thin-worn veins. It is
not by such compromises that great nations are
established or maintained, Where would have
been the liberties of Switzerland if Tell had fal
tered, or of the Dutch Republic, if William the Si
lent had not been faithful amidst defeated armies,
burning cities, and slaughtered citizens? What
would havejbecome of this Republic in its infant
days, if our struggling forefathers had pursued
the course proposed by their degenerate sons,
who would now before the dark demon
of slavery? They are not fit descendants of
Washington, Adams, and Jefferson. (Cheers.)
But amidst all our national perils we have
been saved from destruction by the firm hand
of the pilot at the helm. (Cheers.) Ho has had
many difficulties to encounter. Unfortunately,
his Cabinet was not harmonious. The grand
principles of Chase (cheers), and Cameron were bal
anced by the truokling spirit of Seward, Batds
and Blair. The earnest vigorous Generals like
Fremont and Butler and Hun terJi ad t» give way
to those like Buell, McClellan and Halleck. But
j after trying for long, weary months to please the
Border States, the President began to appaeciate
the duty of the hour, and by his great proclama
tion of freedom severed the Gordian knot. (Loud
applause,] And by his proclamation “to ail whom
it may concern,” he has declared the true basis of
reunion, and won himself the first place in the
■ hearts of loyal friends of freedom despite his many
faults and shortcomings.
Whoever shall propose a peace on the basis of
■ slavery, whether he be in or out of office, let his
name and memory be accursed. [Great cheering.]
This is all very consolatory to citizens of the
; Confederate States, if any such thsre be. who
have a weakness on the subject of reconstruc
tion.
Gen. Butler's Triumph. — The Yankees are
laughing over “ Butler's triumph.” Hear
what the Philadelphia Inquirer says :
So Butler has triumphed. The rebels af
fect to hate General Butler, and they call him
“the Beast;” but “tbe Beast” generally man
ages'to have the best of Jeff. Davis. His re
cent action regarding our colored prisoners
put to work'in the trenches by the rebels has
had its bad effect in Richmond, ifavis sue*
cumbs to Butier, and those Union troops are
released from their perilous work on the rebel
fortifications, and are doubtless to be treated
as prisoners of war. When Gen. Butler re
taliated, by placing an equal number of high
blooded Virginians in the canal at Dutch Gap,
he was determined to briDg tbe rebel authori
ties to terms, and he has succeeded. They
may hate him, and the concession which he
forces from them now will but increase their
hate. This makes little odds to him.
There is no love lost on either side, and the
hatred which Butler holds towards the rebel
lion and everything connected with! it, fully
equals that which the Southein traitors cher
ish against him. Again he has triumphed
over the barbarism of an enemy who has,
through the entire war, presumed on the for
bearance of the National Government. Ip
Butler they find a man of Jacksonian stamp,
a man not afraid to take tbe responsibility of
acting promptly, energetic and decisively.—
Although they may style him “the Beast.”
, they have learned by this time that be is not
to be trifled with. ■ Butler is just/the right
man and he is just in the right place.
The mother of the Italian Princess Anna whose
fortunes are about to be united with those of the
eldest son and heir of Victor Emanuel, was a Miss
j Frazier, of Charleston, South Carolina, whom the
i Prince Lucien Murat married during his long ex
ile in Ameriea; so that the future Queen ot the
new Italian nation will be half American.
TELEGRAPHIC.
REPORTS OP TBB PRHSS ASSOCIATION.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1863, by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s offioe of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
® [Richmond, Nov. 2.—The New York Herald
and the Baltimore American of the evening
of the 21st, have been received. A telegram
from Chattanooga of the 30th, says: Hood
attacked Decatur last night and this morning,
but was handsomely repulsed each time.
Granger captured four pieces of artillery,
spiked two, aud took one hundred and thirty
prisoners.
The rebels are retreating from Decatur, but
is reported to have crossed the Tennessee riv
er at the mouth of Cypress creek.
Prisoners say that Beauregard and Hood
both are with the rebel army. Hood, in a
general order, assures his men that Sherman's
army does not exceed 35.000.
A Louisville telegram says the Journal learns
that parties from Chattanooga report that
Sherman has evacuated Atlanta, and that the
report is discredited.
Gen. Granger is making extensive prepara
tions to defend Paducah,
The Union majority in Pennsylvania, in
cluding the soldier vote, is so far 12000.
Lincoln has issued a proclamation admit
ting Nevada as a State into the Union.
An election riot occurred at Philadelphia
on the oth. Several buildings were injured
by missiles thrown. One man was killed and
a number of citizens and police seriously in
jured. Nearly one hundred arrests were made,
a fThe military of Buffalo were under arms
011 the night of tho 36th, expecting a raid
from Canada.
A. P. Garland has been elected to the Con»
| federate Congress from Arkgnsas to fill the
| vacancy caused by thedeuth of C. Mitchell.
The N. Y. Legislature is in session.
Gold closed at 221.1.
Petersburg, Nov. 2.—lt is reported that
| enemy was busy last night shifting troops
j from the north to the south side of the James
j River, and that there is considerable activity
j within the enemy’s camps. Nothing definite
j as to his future plans and purposes yet devel
j oped. Cold and raining.
Indiana.— Official returns from all but ben
! counties in Indiana give Morton, Abolitionist,
a majority of 21,000 votes for governor.
♦ 4-
It is said, says tne Clarion, that a distin- i
gtiished military chieftain passed through
Meridian in disguise, last week. His destina
tion, or the nature of Lis mission, cannot be
disclosed yet. '
| |The next or second session of the second
Confederate Congress will commence in the
city of Richmond on Monday, the 7th of
November
Subjugation Impossible.
We do not remember to have seen a clearer or
better reasoned confession of the impracticability
of subjugating the Confederate States than is em
braced in the following article from a late number
of The World, a war journal of New York:
No victories, however complete, will bate one jet
of the public burdens until Southern strength shall
aid us in curbing Southern disaffection. If we can
create a Union party in the South, on such a. basis
that it will grow to be a majority, the preponder
ance of physical strength will be on the side of the i
Union. When that time comes, the Union cause in
that section will be self-supporting. But until then
the taking of towns only creates a necessity for fill
ing towns with garrisons; advances into the rebel
territory only consume troops! in holding our con
quest! and guarding our rear. But even the con
quest of the South is doubtful without Southern
co-operation.
Our costly and laborious campaigns are like roll
ing the stone of Sityphqs. When, by groat exer
tion, we have carried it nearly to the summit, it
overpowers our wanning strength and goes thun
dering back to the plain. It would require a pow- j
erful memory to recount the times the military stono j
has been rolled up and has again rolled down the i
Shenjfn loali Valley. If three years have not suffi
ced to give us secure possession of that small dis- I
trict in a singlcState, so convenient to our resour- ;
ccs, how can we expect a permanent conquest of the
whole South? General Sherman advanced to At
lanta; he is now, with the bulk of his army, watch- ;
ing the operations of Hood, nearly a hundred miles ’
back, in the mountainous region about Chattanoo
ga, In the Southwest we advanced into the Red ;
River country only to retreat under the pressure of
disaster.
In Missouri, wo had driven the rebels out of the j
State far into Arkansas; mut the stone has rolled
back, and Price is in possession of a considerable«,
part of the State, The Administration boasts that i
it has reconquered two-thirds of the Southern Con- i
federacy; but if, cannot deny that it has neither ;
had so many soldiers, nor needed so many soldiers,
since the beginning of the war, as at present. And
the greater the area of its conquests the moie men
it will continually need, unless, by change of civil
policy, it shall call into existence a Union party in
the conquered territory.
The Seminole war in Florida, some 40 years ago,
illustrates, on a small scale, the cost, delay and
difficulty of subjugating enemies in an impractica
ble country. The Seminole war ran on for years, 1
and seemed likely to bo interminable, costing tiie
country thirty or forty millions of dollars to con
quer* Billy Bowlegs and a contemptible tribe of
savages, in tbe everglades of Florida The painful
conquests of Algeria by France affords a more re
cent awl more striking illustration. It cost France,
the first military nation in Europe, ar a time when
she had no other war on her hands, thirty or forty
campaigns, extending through half os many years,
to gain complete possession of that petty country in
NorthernAAfricaa —a country not more impractica
ble for military operations than is a great part of
the South, Even now, according to a statement of
; M. Thiers, in his great -peech on the last French
budget, it requires seventy thousand troops to hold
that conquest; a number that would be wholly in
i sufficient did not the inha-plants know that, if they
| should besiege those seventy thousand in their for
! tresses, France has tour hundred thousand more
I constantly under arms, from which she can detach
j heavy reinforcements.
Running the Blockade at Wilmington.— The
| following account of the perils and profits of block
■ ade running at. Wilmington..is taken from an Eng
lish paper:
“From a passenger on board the Flamingo, we
| learn that the blockading squadron iff Wilmington
consists now of one hundred and seventy vessels,
■ so that it. is a wonder that any vessels can escape
! such a close blockade; nyl indeed it is very diffi
cult and dangerous work* There are now about
forty steamers engaged in running the blockade.—
There is plenty of cotton always ready for despatch,
but none growing, as every man between the age of
16 and 60 is obliged to serve in the war.
; The Yankees have removed all the lights ap
proaching the harbor, and everything that will en
| able tha Confederates to find their way into safe
! quarters. The consequence is that besides a pilot
; every Confederate ship has to carry a signal man,
! who works the ship by agreed signs, with which he
! alone of all on board is acquainted. When a ship
; is going to run ih he makes a signal to the shore
look-cuits, who then lay down range lights to guide
the vessels Jin. These only burn for a very short
time, or they would be aids to the enemy as well as
to the friend-
There has been only one man killed while en
gaged in running the blockade. He was a signal
officer and Southerner on board the O and Dominion.
He was down below, drinking a cup of tea in the
steward’s pantry. While there, a shell burst over
him, and took his head off a- clean as a whistle.
Avery large number of the men engaged on both
sides are Englishmen.
It is a most profitable business when successful.—
The officers receive a thousand pounds a voyage.
One officer has run the blockade twenty- seven times,
and he is nowin England with a property esti
mated at -C40.0C0. The ships engaged in running
the blockade are splendid stemnears, which run at
the rate of thirteen to fifteen knot- an hour.
LADIES’ DSE i^OODSi
FRENCH GAITERS,
HOSE, TRIMMINGS,
THREAD, Ac., Ac.
At
no3 2t* ROOM 86, COOK’S HOTEL.
Wanted fin mediately.
.4 GOVERNESS well educated aid with unex
a eeptionabie references. A libera! salary will be
given. Enquire at
no3 12t TIII-S OFFICE.
For Sale JLow !
i >)‘L| ACRES Laii ! near Dover, Russell county,
i ZOU Ala. Good li -e and plenty of wat-r.
I Annlvtf, T. MCKEE,
n®3 3s* C. S. Tannery, Cofumbss, Ga.
THE CITY.
j i■" i*— m _r -g_. WJJ-auttt
S T - J - JACKSON LOCAL EDITOR
! Temperance HalL— Madame Bailini’s operau
; ic concert, Tuesday night, was a perfect success
i throughout, and a musical repast rarely offered to
j the people of tiie Confederacy in these days. The
bill consisted of gems from the operas of Traviato
Norma and Martha, the rendering of whicb, b?
mere amateurs, was simply wonderful. We we*e
somewhat like a Gallic gentleman, who, in a sim
ilar situation, after having said, “ bien ,” “superb* ’>
“magnifique ,” etc., was compelled from mere ste--
ility of language, to express bis approval by a
simple “trts-bien.” We mentally exhansted a’l
our adjectives of enthusiastic admiration long be
-1 foro the bill was half through with. There was a
j general turn-out of the elite of the city, despite
j the threatening weather, and Madame Bailini's
benefit, as it richly merited, was a most handsome
one, and a marked expression of the public appre
ciation of the musical abilities <*f herself and pi;.
1 pils.
—9
The Southern Field and Fireside has been
purchased by Messrs. W. B. Smith <fc Cos , pro
prietors of the Southern Illustrated Mercury. I f
will hereafter be published in Raleigh, N. C.
Auction Sales. —At auction yesterday by i: >-
sette, Lawhon & Cos., the following prices were
i One negro man, about 25 years old,
$4,850 : one negro girl about 20 years old SSOOO ;
| one negro woman and 2 children, $7,100 , flour
from 75 to 85c; one piano $400; salt 70c ; Gold
watch and chain, $1000; one silver do $150: an 1
numerous other articles in proportion.
Heavy Rains.— Wo have been visited with
I heavy rains since Tuesday. Yesterday was very
l uncomfortable.
j A Letter from Charleston. —The following
i . 0
j from Lieut. Mugginhcad is humanly speaking “a
j stunner.” Reader, ponder its contents well, and
( you can then have the satisfaction of knowing
that you’re a wiser, if not a sadder dog :
Dear Times :— I her accordin ter promiss koa
kludid ter wright u a few lines ter lett u no I am
es gud es my worde. i am heer as u will see
frum mi heddin ov mi letir. thoe yankkis maik a
grait deel uv toodo heer—tha r firin ther kanons
reglir, ann er maikin old Charlestin blaiz every
nite. thee devoeted sitty ann the peasfull sitiseni
r a suffrin mitily from that fel destroier, yaler
phever, ann thee tew ann threa hundrid pouu
shels ur thee inimy. O ! hits horibil ter kontem
plait. i berliev awl thee bois r gettin oun toleri
ble. ea fer miself I amm bullio. thee firing £l
- uss for the pressint ann i will konkluod
mi letir bi subskribin miself yore fren til detb,
Jonathan Mugginbkn.
Daring Attempt at Robbery, and Midnigsh
Assasinatijn ! —On Tuesday night at the solemn
hour
“When churchyards yawn and graves give a;>
their dead,”
as our negro pressman was wending his way t 9
his customary “roosting” place, a couple of mid.
night assassins, taking advantage of the alino st
impenetrable darkness, which had spread her sa
ble wings around this mundane sphere—darkness
as thick and heavy as that which brooded ova"
Egypt’s dark sea, —jumped forth from an obscure
lurking place in the neighborhood of the Govern
ment transportation works, and seizing the arc. -
quated African by the coat collar, in Stentorian
semi-tones demanded bis money or his life. Hub
bard’s eye balls protruded some distance in ai
vance of their sockets, and as soon as he had cour
age to articulate, he informed the bold highway
men that in a pecuniary point of view he bad but
little—in fact nothing, and that his life was so
near over it would be but little service to them.
On this showing, after considerable eloquence aal
argument on his part be was permitted to go oa
. his way rejoicing.
Reflections. —We think when robbers can find
no better subjects for plunder in their midnight
sorties than a printing office employee and es
pecially a printing office ’negro, their occupation,
like Othello’s, is about “played out” and the sooner
they change it for one more remunerative the
better.
AUCTION SALES
fly Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
AN SATUPvDAY, November sth, at o’clock
U we will sell in front of our store,
18 Boxes Good Tobaceo;
1000 pounds Fine Smoking Tobacco;
‘ FINE HUM AND WHISKY;
70 Bbls. Coast Salt;
1 Shuttle Sewing Machine.
m Administrators Sale.
At the same time we will sell for and on ac- ur f
of the Estate of L. MANSFIELD, dec'd—
-2 Fine Sett Single Harness;
1 Box Horse Shoes, Sand Paper;
Enamelled Cloth and Enamelle!
Leather;
16 Gross Japanese Flathead Tacks;
16 u Silvered u f *
2J, 21 and 6 inch Carriage Bolts;
6 Gross Traces, Rollers Plated, Horse
Shoes, Buckles, Bridle Bitts, &e.
nov 2 4t $32
By Ellis, Livingston Cos.
yiiMßilSfili ai iot
_A_T .A.TTOTIOIUT I
ON TUESDAY, Bth of November, at 10 Ko’clock,
we will sell in front of our Auction Room,
The Valuable Store, No, 127,
Broad Street, Three Doors Below Hill & Dawson
old corter. The Lot is 22 feet front and 147 feet P
inches deep—Store 114 feet deep—with privilege
the Alley.
—ALSO —
The following very desirable Stocks;
133 Shares Florida Home Insurance (?o
S2O per Share paid in.
100 Shares Eufaula Home Insurance to.,
SSO per Share paid in.
50 Shares Georgia Insurance Company,
$2;3 per Share paid in.
500 Shares Southern Insurance Company.
Savannah, Bringham, President. sl9 per
Share paid in.
5 Shares Importing and Exporting
Company Stock of Georgia, Lamar, Prest.,
SI,OOO per Share paid in.
52 Shares “Great Southern Insurance
Company,” S2O per Share paid in.
5 Shares Bank of Colnmbus stock,*
SIOO per Share paid in. ,
oe 28 lOt $139
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos
A PEI V ATE SALK.
1,500 Acres unimproved Land
Spring Creek,. Miller county, formerly
Early, will be sold at a bargain.
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