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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hundred and twenty-jive thous and nun: while Lee" as this correspondent believes, has sustained no loss that has not been replaced by the young men arriving at military age and entering his army.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. «• 2117 t