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FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. 24, 1862.
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THE NORTHERN ELECTIONS.
The telegrams ha*’e, alter all, verified our
conclusion that the strange and imports^ is-
fies before the Northern pe >plc would evoke
decisive voice from the ballot box, one way or
.e other. The vote shows a tremendous pop
»ar revulsion, particularly where, as in Ohio,
COTTON.
It is evident that the tender spot in the minds
i of those who argue for a combination to in—
i crease the price ol corn, is a fear of ls^H-lative
aelmu to tiirc^nrage cot or growing. Habit
■ seeuls to Have go juibqiinl 1 the miiul* of our
I people in this single wealth-producingchannel,
I that it Set ins impossible to divert them to the
, thousand others which the war is opening^
: Cotton must be well nig'i valueless until the
I ports are opened, and nearly every thing else
. bears an exhorhitatii and increasing price.—
. Look at wool—three to lour dollars per ]>ound
—at ab kinds of animal lood—at sugar—at all
f’ublic questions have been discussed with any- | t h e small grains—at, in lact, almost every thing
thing like freedom or universality. We have a man can grow except cotton, and explain to
heard of no such discussion in Pennsylvania, j U s why it is that planters stiou d adhere so
To the best of our belief there is no press in I obstinately to a crop of no actual value, and
that State which has had the hardihood to ut- thu sale ol which at any price must depend
ter a protest against Lincolnism. There was upon the contingency of open ports ?
one, for a short time, in Harrisburg, but it ' •———
was immediately stopped and the Editor im-I Bkoox’s Srsici.-This is a document that will
prisoned, and we have heard of no opposition ! I*** «** ri wle • •“ *>* * j»‘ «Ut .vry remarks
speech, or meeting, in that State, except the | ol ll “* “dense^ excitement
single one in Philadelphia, which was inter
has
rupted by the arrest of Chas. J. Ingersoll.
The same is mainly true in Indiana, with
the exception ol the outspoken proceedings ol
the democratic State Convention there, which
we published some time ago. There, too, the
leading democratic elector was imprisoned and
his paper stopped, and the efforts of the Lin- i
coin government to suppress discussion were
in a great part successful.
But in Ohio, the opposition broke loose from :
all restraint. Medary’s “Crisis” was stopped
and Olds and others imprisoned ; but the bold
and gallant Yallandigham.il.. tied tbe V ashing
ton tyrants and slumped the whole State,arous
mg the people by piain and faithful expositions
of the public demoralization and danger. We
see the effect of these iu the vote. Black Re
publican Ohio, a State regarded almost as fan
atical as Massachusetts, piles up a majority
against Lincoln of 28,u00 votes, while conserva
tive Pennsylvania gives but ten thousand,
and Indiana but eight thousand.
No people under the sun are more profound
ly ignorant of, or careless about the lundauien
tal principles of civil liberty than ibe Northern
masses. Talk about any legislation which af
fects trade and they will comprehend you; but
every thing else was all Greek and moonshine^
until they began to learn by actual experience
that there were actually higher personal inte
rests to be vitally affected by government than
even those of trade. But these considerations
been aroused in New York in this election.
The HVedericAbu::
Stbkv ation.— The FrcdericWburg Herald
sins that north of the Rappahannock not an
acre has been ploughed and Seeded tor wheat
this fall, and in all the counties south of the
river and adjoining the Rappahannock valley,
but a lew acres have been put in cultivation.
The must ler'ile part of Virginia will hereafter
be an unproductive waste, until the close of the
war, ami tbe experience in all tbe cotton States
shows either an incapacity or unwillingness to
produce their own food in sufficient quantities.
King famine w ill soon develope the majesty of
his greatness in the Confederate States, and
perhami bring us back to the Lot ol a people
who aft: able to produce food, without milking
a great fuss about it.
A NEW LEAF IN HISTORY.
.bdin Van Buren, during bis recent speech
in New York, brought forward lor the first
time, a letter addressed by Gen. Scott t) Lin
coln on the day previous to hi -• inauguration,
which not only dispin^r'iiraoidinary sagacity
and sound judgment upon the part of General
Scott, but bolds bun up as an early and strong
advocate tor peaceful measuies—for compro
mise, if possible ; but it not, then for a peace
able separation. We take the letter as We find
it reported m the speech, prefaced, interlarded
and concluded wiili the remarks ol Mr. Van
Buren:
On the 3d of March l*i evident Lincoln about
bad to be impressed on a people who had yet to be sworn inio office, Inuml hnnsvU in I he city
.. c . . . ; Ol Washington, having reached it in disguise
if tree government—to be W , , , ® .. , ' ,..
ht ° rt.-1 Laughter) covered with a >cotch cap—(K
f* :
to learn the ABO of free government—to be
indoctrinated into a f^n-eption of their own 1 w '“
inalienable rights under thu constitution, and
taught how far and wherein these had b4en
assailed by the Lincoln tyranny.
All these points which are so familiar to the
Southern freeman, it may be of inferior gener
al information, are comparatively strange sub
jects to the genera! run of Northern voters,
whose politics have turned on labor, land, tern
perance, abolition and moral relorm questions,
to tho exclusion ol ail strictly political topics, i prophecy and extraonliuan judgment, as well
d laughter)—and wrapped with a biue
cloth c ouk—lor the first time in the history of
this country, the President found himself a'
the seat ol Government Ami it w as through
be aedve exirtions and great discretion of
Gen. and Gen Wool that he was enabled
even to lake the oa'h. And on the 8d cl y of
March, a< he wa- about entering upon luese
duties, before be took tile* oalii, a letter w T as ad
dressed to h.iu which I now pr .pose to read to
you, and I ask you to notice (because I have
not time lo return to it) tiie wonderful spirit of
This accounts in pan for the stupid indifference
of the North to high hand ’d invasions of per
sonal liberty and Constitutional rights. The
result in New York, where bold, spirited snd
intelligent discussion of these questions is now-
going on, will perhaps still lurther illustrate
this point.
But cut bono ? What will be gained to the
South by these opposition victories? We an
swer, whatever free discussion may gain in
bringing to a close, an indefensible war. With
this demonstration, that the Lincoln adminis
tration and party are in a minority, bastiling
must stop, speech gagging and press destroy
ing must cease. If they do not, another revolu
lion will confront the tyrants, and if they do,
all tbe reasons why this war should cease will
go before the people. Take either horn of the
dilemma, and good will come of it. The dem
ocracy knowing that they are backed by a ma
jority of the people, will no longer submit to be
penned like sheep—or to tie gagged and aM
their organs of communication Willi tbe peo
ple suppressed.
When wo recollect that in the whole North
there is now but one newspaper free to speak
i s mold, and that one outlawed from the Uni
ted States mails and not allowed to be trans
ported by common carriers on tbe public high
ways, shall we he told that nothing wiH he
gained to the cause of peace, which is the
cause of truth, reason and common sense, when
the opposition press is unfettered and allowed
to address its convictions to ihe people ? But
you say it will not be unfettered. Then, we
say tfoerc’ll be a fight before long. A majority
will not be ground down by a minority. But
the minority wield the power of the govern
ment. Granted. The majority, however, will
soon wield the pow^. of seme of the most
powerful Slates, and when a citizen of these
Siates, illegally deprived of his liberty or de
spoiled of his rights or property appeals to a
friendly' government lor redress—a government
sworn to protect him, can it turn a deaf ear to
his prayer ?
For example, if a citizen of New York be
seized without warrant ol law by Lincoln—and
the courts of that State decide, as they must,
that the imprisonment is unlawful, how can
Gov. Seymour and his three or four hundred
thousand State militia refuse to see him re
dressed? There must at once spring up an
issue of force between the State of New York
and the unconstitutional tyranny of Lincoln;
and it is an issue that thousands ol New York
democrats will be glad to make any day.
But tbe truth is, Lincoln will take the back
track. There will be no more arrests—no
more stopping papers in the North. Free
speech and a free press will soon assert their
fullest license—the 1st January emancipation
proclamation never will be made and a great
Kilkenny cat-fight will soon arise in the North,
which will be more embittered between the
belligerants than bct.veen either of them and
the South.
The extent to which it will cripple the field
operations against us may not be great, but it
will have a tendency both to embarrass and to
terminate them ; whereas, if the Black Repub
licans had met with an overwhelming success
at the polls, they would have crashed all do
mestic opposition ami wielded the entire aDd
united power ol the North against us with a
concentrated energy.
Some of the editors say that the democrats
are as much a war party as the black republi
cans, and, therefore, their success !3 of no con
sequence to the South. If this were true, we
would much prefer the democrats as antagon
jsts—for they have some sense, reason and
humanity about them. But it is not true. The
great body of the democrats are we believe for
peace—peace with union, if possible; but peace
without union if it must be. They are utterly-
opposed to the conquest and subjugation pro
jects of Lincoln—have no sympathy -in, but
an utter contempt and hatred of the abolition
schemes of the Lincoln administration, and we
s unquestionable patriotism, that animates*?
ry word and every line of Uns letter. I would
say, however, that I was not authorized-by
Gen. Scott to make the idler public. The let
ter was in lorn: submitted to Secretary Sew
ard, but was iaid before tbe Prt.-lih.iit, ami
reached h'm thus in a proper official mode:—
\V asiiington, March 8 1661.
Jtcar Str: Hoping that in a d v or two the
new President will have happily passed through
all personal dangers and find himself iu.-y.nl tod
an honored suc cessor of the great Washington,
with you as ihe chief ol Ins Cabinet,' I beg leave
to report in willing, what 1 have 'eforu said
lo vou (Tally, ibis supplement to my printed
“views” (dated in Oelolier last) on Ihe highly
disordered condition of our (so late) happy and
glorious Union.
To meet the extraordinary exigencies of the
times, it seems to me tha 1 I am guilty of no
arrogance in limiting the President a field ol
seb clion to one of the four plans of procedure
subjoined:
1. Throw of the ojd and assume a now de
gignation—the Union pel y. sdu.pt the con
ciliatory measures proposed by Mr. Crittenden
nr tbe Peace t'(invention -| ipplnusej—and my
life upon it, »e shall h.cV" no new case of se
cession ; but, on the contrary, an early return
of many, if not all, of’the States which h >vc
already broken off from the Union. Without"
some equally benign inea’suie tlu remaining
slavyholding S’nte■; will probably join the Mont
gnuiery Confederacy in le-s ll an sixty days,
when ibis city being included in a foreign couu
try, would require a permanent garrison ol at
least 36,000 Hoops to protect the Government
within it.
1 slop here to call your attention to the fact
that Maryland did not join the Montgomery
Confederacy, and yet with Maryland on our
side to night it u-quires a garrison of 15<>,000
men to pmtect Washington. [ Applause.]
2 Collect tho duties on foreign goods out
-nle the |atrts ol w-iich this Govermuel l lias
Inst lie commaiei, or close such ports by acts
of Congress ami blockade them.
( And this, unhappily, was the course enter
ed upon.)
8. 0 nqnrr the seceded States by invading
armies. No doubt this might be done in two
«T three years by a young and able General
—a Wolfe, a Dosaix or a Hoche, with 300,000
disciplined men—estimating a third for garri
sons, and the loss of a yet greater number by
skirmishes, siegps, hattjes, and Southern fe
vers. The destruction of file and property' on
the qllier side would he frightlul, however per-
ledt the moral discipline ol the invaders.
The conquest completed at that enormous
waste of human file to the North and North
west, with at least $250,000,000 added thereto,
and cut ln>nof Filteeti devastated provinces,
not to bo brought into harmony with their
conquerors, but lo be held lor generations, by
heavy garrisons, at the expense quadruple to
net duties or taxes which it woulu be in.jros i-
ble to extort from them, followed by a piotec-
tor or an emperor.
4. Say to the seceded Stales—wayward sis
ters, depart in peace.
In haste, 1 remain very tiuly yours,
Winfield Scott.
Hon. Wa H. Seward, Ac, .Lc., Ac.
General Scott on the 3d of March, having
put the President in a condition to be sworn
in—and being perhaps the only' man in the
United States who could have (lone that—noti
tied him that if he entered upon an attempt to
conquer the seceded States that, in the first
place, be could not do it; that it would require
a young general, like a Desaix, a llochc, or a
Wolf, that he who had, not many years before,
marched to the capital of Mexico with ananny
of twelve thousand men, fighting nine pitched
battles on the way, meeting no check and
conquering an honorable peace, was unable,
with 300,000 men, to attempt to conquer the
seceded States in two or three years. He was
informed, that it would require 300,000
men, and to-night, when we are only half
way through in point of time, we have
1,500,000. He was told that it would add
$250,000,000 to the national debt: anil to-day,
wheD we are only a year and one half through,
that debt probably exceeds, 1200,000,000. The
Secretary of the Treasury reported it last May,
at 490,000,000—double the amount it was then
feared would be required to complete this con
quest Now, fellow-citiz ns, with their eyes
open, so far as they could be ojiened by' this
great soldier, this attempt was ujtercd upon
to conquer the seceded States.
BATTLE OF PERRYVILLE.
The following is Gen. Buell’s official report.—
There is a wide discrepancy between hit accounts
and ours, lie says the “enemy were every where
repulsed,” but our tide say the Federal lines were
every where driven back three to five miles, with
the loss of all their artillery, oue battery alone ex
cepted:— ‘
“PKBRYV1LLK, Ky., via Bardstown, )
“October 10, 1862. )
“To Major General Hallcck, General-in-Chief:
“I have already advised you of the movements
of the army under my command from Louisville.
More or less skirmishiug lias occurred daily with
the cnemy’4_cavalry. Since then it was supposed
the enemy would give battle at Bard-town.
' “My troops reached that point on the 4th inst,
driving out the enemy's rear guard of cavalry and
artillery. The main body retired towards Spring-
field, whither the pursuit was continued. The
centre corjes, under General Gilbert, moved on the
direct road from Springfield to Perryville, and ar
rived on tbe 7 th iu-t. within two miles of the town,
where the enemy was found to be in force.
“The left column, under General McCook, came
upon the Nashville road about ten o’clock yester
day, the 8th instant. It was ordered into posit on
to attack, and a strong recoanoissance directed.
“At four o’clock, I received a request from Gen
eral McCook for reinforcements, and learned that
the lelt had been severely engaged for several
hours, and that the right and left of that corps
were being turned and severely pressed. Kein-
forcepicnts were immediately sent forward from
the centre.
“Orders were also sent to the right column, un
der General Crittenden, which was advancing by
the Lebanon road, to push forward and attack the
enemy’s left, but it w as impossible for it to get in
position in time lo produce any decisive result.
‘•The action continued until dark. Some light
ing also occurred on the centre. The enemy were
everywhere repulsed, but not without some mo
mentary advantage on the left.
“The several corps were put in position during
the li ght and moved to the attack at six o’clock
this morning. Some skirmishing occurred with
the enemy’s rear guard. The main body had fall
en hack in the direction of Uarrodsburg.
“1 have no accurate report of our loss as yet.—
It is probably pretty hea\y, including valuable
officeis.
“Generals Jackson and Terrill, I regret to say,
are among the killed. 1). C. BUELL,
“Major General Commanding.
VIRGINIA SALT.
A letter from Mr. John M. Sharp, of this
county', dated at Saltville, Va., the 12th, inst.,
where he was wait’ng lor the delivery of a lot
of Salt purchased at fourteen and fifteen dol
lars a bushel, says it was at tiiat time ranging
at sixteen to seventeen, and by the 1st of No
vetnber would be at twenty-five dollars. He
says there was a great rush for Salt in the
place, particularly from Georgia, but there
would fie plenty for shipment as st^ft as the
contract with ihe Government for bi*00 bush
els should he completed, and it was fast being
filled.
Meanwhile, However, we sec from the Vir-
|i'i a papers that Gov. Letcher, was on his way
to Saltville to enforce the recent Salt act of the
Legislature of Virginia, and seize upon all
Salt in private hands owned out of the State.
We presume n arrived in time to outwit our
friend Sharp, and take his pile. The Virginia
i papers say the excitement at the Salt Springs
threatened a violent outbreak.
The course of Virginia iu this matter of Salt
is not calculated to elevate her character or
raise her in tho estimation of her Confederate
Sisters. Long ago the subject was pressed up.
on her, and t: le necessity of measures to in
crease the yield ol these salines strongly urged
upon her attention, but in vain. They were
held m her possession against the enemy by
the Confederate troops, and were surcoptible
of an almost indefinite supply. But nothing
wa- done, and finally, Virginia beginning to
tear distress beiself, does what the Federals
failed to ,1 >; drives away the Confederates from
lice Springs, and tells them you shall have on
ly wiiat we choose to leave when wo are sup
plied. This conduct seems to us neither cour
teous, friendly norjust, the highest de-
<«EN. BRA<
i&U attention i
gree illiberal and selfish.
Tho Derby Organ cn Reconstruction.
We append below fro’-: the London Herald,
of the 2iMh Sept., some very remarkable para-
grap is upon reconstruction, to which we wish
to draw particular attention. While the Hor
al-. embodied in #iese -md in forcible
and burning words, the precise ideas of the
citizens ol the Confederate States upon the sub
j 1 *'-1, 'in-1 displayed a wonderful familiarity with
the at recites of abolition, they are evidently
written for political effect:
We should think ill of the Confederates if,
< n any terms whatever, they consented to ac
cept as fellow-country men tbe mercenary
hord - of ruffians by whom tbeir country has
l>ecn desolated.
And the acceptance of Northern submission
W'sil i be as contrary to sound jcolicy as to
right foiling and patriotic instincts. The Union
can only be reconstructed by giving certain
powers, however limited, to the Federal Gov
ernment, and binding over tbe Northern States
to observe terrain conditions of the Federal
cm pact. They cannot be excluded from all
-hare in the Federal power; sooner or later,
pit)fifthly within ten years, they um-t rec ver
l>y force of wealth and numbers their ascen
dency at W.i-biiigton ; and then the work of
the two last yeat- wofod have lo be done over
again.
If any paper constitution, ifainy guarantee*,
if any oaths could bind the Northern States
to Oie observance of tbeir Federal dtr ies, and
preclude them from interfering in the internal
affairs of, their neighbors, the old Constitution
would have sufficed. That Constitution they
violated habitually and systematically. Tbeir
preachers inculcated the duty of perjury ; their
lawyers defended treason; their statesmen
formed political parties to override the law;
their citizens assembled to resist it by armed
force; nay, armed murderers from the North
invaded Virginia, assasinated sleeping citizens
in tln-ir beds; and, when hanged for their
crimes, weie honored as martyrs in Now En
gland What guarantee can be given by such
a people which would be worth more than tbe
paper on which it was written ? What worse
folly Could there be than to throw away- Ihe
fruits of eighteen months of endurance, ofblood-
shc d, of glorious achievement, by re uniting
with a race by which no obligation, however
solemn, has ever oeen respected a day after it
had the power and the temjitation to violate
it? Of such madness wo cannot believe that
the able statesmen who guide the destinies of
the Confederate States will ever be guilty.
A Salt Trade with France.
The Mississippian is informed that certain
arrangements have been effected between our
government and certain parties of the French
government to supply this government and our
people with salt in return for Cotton. Tbe
French parties having secured the permission
of the Federal authorities at New Orleans to
land the salt at Mancbac. No particulars are
stated, except that eight sacks of salt are to be
exchanged lor one bale of Cotton. The Mis
sissippi expresses the opinion that the ar
rangement will be highly beneficial to our peo
ple, and hopes that the transit of the Cotton,
when it is forwarded for this purpose, will not
be interrupted. It also thinks that it does
not behove us, in our present necessities, to
inquire too nicely into the part which Yankee
officials play in the matter, or what direction
the cotton lakes after it is delivered, one main
object being to secure a sufficient quantity of
salt to guard against future emergencies.
We cut the foregoing from tho Memphis
(Granada) Appeal, of the 17th. Of course the
trade, it started, is a Yankee trade. They get
by it Cotton at sixteen dollars a bag, although
Will Secede.—A few days ago Governor lbc s; a it if not i.ouuneJ, of which we should
Morton, of Indiana, made a speech in A\a-li- ’ , .. , , ,,
mgton city, in which he declared that if th,•• want stronger guarantees then federal oaths,
South succeeded in this rebellion, it would be is worth here, according to present prices,
AGG’S RETREAT.
We call attention to the Knoxville Register’s
'other side of the picture.” The retreat ol
Bragg Mini Kentucky has turned a portion of
the Southern press upon him—some in strong
ly denunciatory language, and others in studied
deprecation of the “we told you so,” kind.—
Out in the streets, the Jeremiahs of the war
are in full tide of lamentation, and turn up
their eyes like ducks in a thunderstorm. All
this is too bail—^s actually discreditable. We
may conjecture what we please about the situa
tion of atl'airs in Kentucky—w hat state o I tacts
has led to this retrogade movement; but it is
truth that we know absolutely nothing. And
are we prepared upon mere conjecture, to pass
judgment upon such men as lead our anuy in
the west—upon Bragg, Buckner, Polk, Kirby.
Smith and others—wboare familiar with all the
facts, and determine their course upon an in
timate knowledge of the strength of the enemy
—the character and resources of the country,
and their own numbers and condition ? We
may have our own ideas of what ought to have
been done, but they must necessarily be very
untrustworthy—founded in almost total ignor
ance of what it was possible to do.
It is an almost universal lault with us that
we raise our anticipations too high—some of
them, indeed, to so sublime a height as to be
ridiculous. Forgetting our relaGve weakness,
it is the fashion to talk of all Vw-i-i to over
whelm the enemy as disgi'aceni^Eiffiibftions^i
imbecility, and of all retreats ug^Uumitiating?’
Our papers project invasions of the North and
triqmphant, all conquering inarches upon
Philadelphia, New Yolk and Boston, through
regions which can turn out a million able
b died men, with forces of less than a hundred
thousand, and they already opposed to double
their number already in the field! Can any
thing be more ridiculous ? And yet, in such
a state of facts, we gravely talk of taking the
great commercial cities and dictating peace at
the point of the bayonet in New York City
Hall Square.
As the weaker party our war must be, in the
main, of a defensive character. We must of
ten avoid battle and seek the aid of all thu
natural defences of the country. A retreat is
not, in itself considered, “humiliating.” And
a tender of battle would be many times mere
madness, ’lime was, about four months ago,
when we hoped by a prompt advance move
ment, the enemy would have been temporarily
expelled lioiti Tennessee and Kentucky, while
his force was apparently not much superior to
ours. That, however, has passed ; and at best,
we could only have kept him out of those States
for a short time. With the Mississippi river
for his base, it was only a question of force with
him, to select his own time to push his army
into Tennessee and our rear, if we occupied
Kentucky. We must be prepared now, for a
time, to leel the etiectof his superior numbers;
but let us remember that we have had many
reverses, and still felt secure of the ultimate re
sult.
impossible to bold the remaining States togeth
er. The inference is that in the event supposed,
the south-west will exercise the right ol scces-
about a thousand dollars. It is a shrewd idea,
on their part, and the recent operations against
boilers on the gulf coast, may be in
THE IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT.
We have had now seven years of the “irre
pressible cunfiict.” It is about that time since
an undying war of sections was first proclaimed
by the North, and the controversy has spread
like a prairie fire in Autumn. If, six or seven
years ago, some prophet of evil had stood up
in the congregation of (he people and pro-
ciaifued This conflict, now for the first solemn
ly inaugurated And declared in so many words
snail in six short years sever all your religious,
political and social ties—rend your national
Union in sunder—array section against seetii n
in armies of unprecedented magnitude-—dis
charge the tempests of its wrath on moie than
a bundled battle fields—concentrate all the
energies of the Northern States into the single
work of murder, robbery, spoliation and de
vastation, and consign half a million human
beings to bloody graves, while the shrieks and
groans of the outraged, the murdered, the
plundered, the bereaved, the wounded and the
dying, shall be heard in almost one unbroken
and horrid chorus from the Potomac and the
Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico-—we say, if such a
prophecy had been uttered it would have been
held as the mere ravings of a mad man. No
human being would have given it a moment’s
thought or credence. And thus we see that,
so far, in the history ot this “ irrepressible
conflict,” results have exceeded the scope of
human credulity. No man would have believed
what has happened, though an angel from
heaven had told him.
Now, are we to judge of the luture by the
past, or shall we, in our cautious forecast of
wbat is to come, cramp our anticipations by
the probabilities of ordinary history ? This
contliet has, we believe, developed its worst
consequences upon the South; or, if there be
still bitterer dregs in the cup, we can see the
bottom.
But now conies the turn ol the North—and
will it be one whit more strange than what has
already occurred, if, after all, the irrepressible
conflict shall develope itself in the North
with a more unsparing fury than it has upon
us ? No hostile armies may deluge her fertile
plains ai d fair cities in fire and blood; but
more fearful still than the fury ol a foreign loc,
is the demon of domestic discord and violence—
when the foundations of public order and pri
vate security are broken up, and the fearful
chaos of Anaichy broods over the land. This
is a fate which the sagacious mind of Mr. Ste
phens sets lowering over the Northern horizon-
The whimpering t the miserable time-server
and trifler of the New York Herald plainly in
dicates an apprehen. ion of such a calamity at
no distant day.
The recent elections prefigure the fiercest
collisions—both parties threatening the per
sonal safety of each other, and both said to be
armed for protection against mutual violence.
The horrors of the French Revolution may al
ready be yawning to engulph the North. It is
clear that results, so far, have reduced the Lin
coln tyranny to a most awkward and dange
rous dilemma. They must either stop in their
career of despotism, or go on at the risk of
popular revolt Fearing to go on—will they
yet dare to stop ? Can that hideous travesty
on Republican government bear the exposure
of free speech and a free press ? Can it endure
the frowns of public odium evoked by a free
canvass of its crimes—its follies and its blun
ders. Will nbt the “irrepressible conflict”
complete its work by rendering upon the North
a retributive justice commensurate with its
bloody deeds upon the South ?
The Ohio Election.—The telegrams yester
day stated there had been a gain of fifty thou
sand on the democratic vote in Ohio since the
Lincoln election. When we temember that
out of seventy-five or eighty thousand Ohio
voters now in the Federal army and disfran
chised, probably nine-tenths are democrats
we shall be prepared to appreciate the extra
ordinary political revulsion which has taken
place in that State. It is unprecedented in the
history of this continent, and it amounts to an
overwhelming declaration of Ohio against the
SALT MAKING.
W e rj-.v yesterday, Mr. Brown, of Putnam
county, - ho has been for the past three months
engaged in superintending the salt manufac
tures of a Company in that county, and was
returning fora brief visit to his friends. He
reports a gratifying success. With sixteen
operatives, four of whom are engaged in cutting
wood, he is turning out thirty bushels of sa’t
per day, and will deliver this salt to stockhol
ders of the Company at a S:ost to them of less
than three dollars per bushel. This salt is as
pure and as white as snow, beautifully crystal-
ized, as dry as powder, and evidently perfectly
pure. It weighs about fifty-six pounds to the
bushel. Mr. Brown called upon us for two
purposes, the first was to suggest greater cau
tion to the press and its correspondents in re
gard to the specification of localities where salt
is made. He fears some mischief from what
has already been published. Another object
was to persuade the planters generally, partic
ularly those ol Southern Georgia, to take their
kettles, go down to the coast at once and make
their own salt. This is tbe only way in which
the country can be supplied, and in this way
the supply will be abundant and cheap. The
talk about impure salt, which will not save
meat, applies only to that which has been hur
riedly and carelessly made for sale. A little
pains taking and experience will euablu any
man to produce pure reliable salt and to make
it cheaply, instead of pay ing thirty to fifty dol
lars a bushel lor it to speculators. Any man
who will take his own domestic kettles to the
seaboard, can, in a tew days, make himself in
dependent of the world for salt.
DESCENT UPON THE CAROLINA COAST.
It will be seen that the Astronomer Mitchell
has already tried his hand at a movement upon
the Carolina seaboard preparatory to a descent
upon Charleston or Savannah. So far, it seems
to have been a failure. The enemy have been
foiled in both their assaults upon the line of the
Charleston and Savannah Railroad. But the
iuipression is universal all along the coast that
an attack in lorce is impending, and that it will
undoubtedly be of a very formidable character.
The operations ol last winter disclosed precise
ly the kind of preparations needed for the en
terprise, and they have b^en elaborately made
during the summer. We have been informed
that the opinion is entertained and expressed
by both Gen. Beauregard and the authorities
at Richmond that Georgia and South Carolina
are likely to be the great theatre of war during
the winter’s campaign.
THE LATE NORTHERN ELECTIONS.
The Richmond Examiner of the 17th takes, in
the following observations, we think, not an
overstrained view of the important bearing of
the late Northern elections upon the future con
duct of the war, and ihe question of peace:—
Many anxious moments have passed since
the commencement of the war. The fortunes
ot a naliun have several times seemed to de
pend upon the turn of a single chance. Yet
it is doubtful whether any period has yet oc
curred more burdened with suspence than the
present
A large portion of the Northern people
evince the disposition fora return to the ordi
nary ideas of civilized society. If they can
prove themselves a party sufficiently strong to
secure their own safety, they will establish
something like sane politics in tho Northern
States, and render their Government amenable
to the laws of reason. Under those conditions,
it is possible to see a termination to that Car
nival of the Devil, now in full blast over the
North American continent. But if the move
ment is shortly crushed out, measures will
certainly be taken by the Abolitionist tyran
ny to prevent a recurrence of such menace to
their power, by measures like those through
which the leaders of the first French Revolu
tion maintained their hold on a nation long
disgusted with their crimes.
This is the matter to be decided at the next
elections in New Y’ork and other Northern
States, now close at hand. If the men whose
bold attempt to recover the ordinary liberties
of an Anglo-Saxon people can elect tbeir can
didates, and so establish the fact that they con
stitute a majority, the t.V^nj)' ijjt ^Yashington
will be rapidly reduced to insignificance. We
know bow quickly the mass of the people
in the Northern States, and indeed everywhere
else, rush to tbe winning side, and we can
have no doubt hut that Lincoln and Chase will
have no other supporters of their usurpation,
after such a defeat, than tbe Abolitionist fanat
ics, who were wont to vote /or Gerntt Smith
and Garrison ia the old elections in the United
States. A reaction of public opinion, as irre
sistible as the tide of the sea, would be swiftly
commenced; the principles on which American
Government is founded would rc-appear, and
the instincts which have animated the race,
with rare and temporary exceptions for a full
thousand years, would resume their sway over
the conduct of the nation. Then, and then
onlj, will -tbe possible to stop the torrent ot
blood, and reduce the present war of extermi
nation to an ordinary issue of arms.
It is difficult to believe that the majority of a
people, sprung from free nations, and having
at least a large admixture of Anglo-Saxon
blood, can be resolutely bent, and deliberately
decided, on Government at home not less abso_
lute than that which Russians prefer to free
dom, with the concomitant perpetuation ot a
war abroul such as the subjects of Ghengis and
Timour could only delight in, hitherto. The
people of the United States have given, in the
last two years, every evidence necessary to
prove that they are such a people. But, as the
reader now sees, some bold men have dared to
utter in their land the words of freedom, law,
and order, once most familiar to the ear. We
shall soon know whether those words have still
an echo; and we may well listen anxiously,
for on the answer depends the duration of the
war.
Per contra, to show what a difference there
is between doctors, we quote the following from
the Savannah Republican of the 21st:
Northern Elections.—Since our outside
went to press, we have received farther ac
counts of the Northern elections, which indi
cate a better prospect for the Democracy. It is
all though of but little avail. The Democracy,
as a general rule, are as fiercely our enemies as
anybody else, and were it otherwise they will
only succeed, at best, in enlarging their minor
ity in tbe Yankee Congress, making it enough
to wrangle, but too few to do good. As we said
before, the cause of peace would have been ad
vanced by a complete triumph of the Black
Republicans at the polls everywhere in the
Norih.
J-f?" The New Y'ork banks increased their
loans and discounts nearly five millions of dol
lars last week.
Interesting from New Orleans.—We have
late private intelligence from New Orleans to
the effect that Butler has left New Orleans for
Pensacola, with the design of attacking Mobile
by land and sea. The people of New Orleans
who, up to October 10, hud not taken the oath
of allegiance to the Yankee government, were
forced to make an affidavit, ot which the fol
lowing is a coertificate :
Provost Marshal’s Office, )
September 30, 1862. )
This certiSes that Mr. has rendered a
statement of his property in accordance with
General Orders No. 76, and claims to be an en-
enemy of the United Slates.
C. H. Conant, Provost Marshal.
It is said that some of the Tories in East Ten
nessec are circulating a report that the emanci
pation proclamation recently published is a for
gery by the Secessionists. They deny that
Lincoln has issued such a document.
One hundred and fifty bags of prime
cotteesold in Baltimore, on the 14th, for twen
ty-five cents per pound, cash. Ofepmion Rio
234; Laj'uyra 20 cents; Java 31 ccA. Market
WE U AM NOT LIVE TOGETHER.
Archbishop Hughes, in a speech which he
made to the Irish Bishops, declared that the
unity of the States was the vital object of the
present struggle—unity under the present Gov
ernment, or it that could not bo accomplished,
unity under the Southern Government was
preferable to dissolution. This, wc believe
was substantially his declaration, though we
have not now his speech before us, and the
same idea has been expressed by several other
Northern men.
There are those who put no faith in these
avowals; but we are inclined to think that they
are sincere, and that rather than give up the
benefits of the Union, the North would be
willing to be whipped, and unite again upon
such a Constitution as the South would pre
scribe. The London Herald seems to labor
under apprehensions of the possibility of such
a result, and justly concludes that if the South
was not safe under the old Constitution, it
never could be under any framed by human
hands. The South never asked a better Con
stitution than the old American Constitution,
and yet it proved impotent to save her from
the spirit ot New England fanaticism. Her
rights were every day violated with impunity
and her institutions threatened with overthrow,
more gradual, but as inevitable as that which
Lincoln has openly proclaimed.
No paper guarantee, however plainly and
explicitly worded, can bind men who have al
ready proved themselves faithless to all paper
engagements, and who have parted with their
own rights under the old Constitution for the
purpose of depriving their neighbors of rights
guaranteed by that instrument. After the ex
perience of the past we might safely dely the
wit of man to frame a Constitution which Pu
ritanical ingenuity, greed, and fanaticism would
not subvert. Nor, after the sacrifices which
the South has suffered at Northern hands,
could she ever consent of her own free will to
live under the same Government with that peo
ple. The blood of our murdered children
would cry from the ground against their fathers
if they could ever be guilty of such unatural
and monstrous ingratitude. II the South has
given her blood without a murmur to this con
test, it is not because she does not value that
blood, but because she values freedom more
than file, or any earthly possession. Precious,
more precious than ought else save her honor,
are the jewels she has laid upon the altar ot
liberty, and never can she consent to shake
hands again under one Government with men
who have made so many vacant places in South
ern hoaseholds, and whose steel is dripping
with the blood of our brethren and children.
Henceforth we are two people. If conquered
if forced into provincial vassalage, we must
bear our condition with such fortitude as we
may. To that which is inevitable, to that
which involves no culpability of their own,
the best and bravest men may submit. But to
voluntary debasement, to willing paternity
with the robbers and murderers of our ne t Jt
—never, never. The South has no ainlti ». j ,
to govern the North She is fighting fo?5
such object. She only asks now what shleecn*.
asked at the beginning, to be let alone. We' ' f “
desire not to make slaves, subjects, or fellow
citizens of deadly enemies. We must, live
apart.—Rich. Dispatch.
By Electric Telegraph
FROM THE NORTH.
Richmond, 20th.—The Baltimore American
of Saturday afternoon has been received, it
says all our information, as well as dispatches
from Headquarters, indicate that the army of
the Potomac has commenced its grand advance
into \ irgmia. The advance upon Charleston
from Harpers Feny commenced yesterday.
Gen. Woodbury’s division also crossed the
Potomac, an t encamped Thursday night near
KearneysviUe.
The indications are, that the enemy will not
have to wait long before they are again met
by the army ol the Potomac.
Gen. Schofield has telegraphed to St. Louis,
that he has driven the Rebels into Arkansas.
Capt. YVm. L. Hudson, U. S. Navy, died
Wednesday night in Brooklyn.
The loss in Rosseau’s division at Perryville,
was four hundred and sixty-five killed, four
teen hundred and sixty-three wounded, and
one hundred and sixty-one missing.
4 oorhecs was re-elected to Congrees in In
diana, by twenty-five hundred majority.
In New York, Saturday forenoon, gold was
130(^1301 A further decline.
FROM BRAGG’S ARMY.
Chattanooga, 20th.—-The last we have
from Bragg’s army he was at Loudon, Ky.,*
falling back in order towards Cumberland Gap. ‘
Buell has a very large army. He endeavored to
flank Bragg while at Camp Dick Robin-on,
which was prevented by this letreat. Buell is
yet endeavoring to tiank him, and there may
be a battle any day.
The report of taking a large number of
prisoners at Perryville, by our army proves to
be untrue.
FROM MISSISSIPPI.
Mobile, October 21st.—[Special dispatch to
the Mobile Advertiser anil Register.] Holly
Springs, October‘20th.—The enemy from Cor
inth, made a reconnoisanoe of our lines un
der a flag of truce. The pretext was to su
able ul the prelendetl ill treatment of their pri
soners, in our hands, and remonstrate agam-t
the guerilla system.
Nothing reliable regarding the reported evac
uation of Corinth. Upwards of 6u0 prisoners
taken at Colt"'ived at Jackson to-day.—
ur wounded are at Corinth
the loss on each side in
Vance will call the Legislature ot that State
together in advance of the regular session,
for the purpose of taking measures to put
down the speculators or put them in the
army.
A gentleman just from New Orleans informs
the Grenada Appeal, that the order directing
all persons to make a return of their property
and take the oath of allegiance is being rigidly
enforced. Those who do not report person
ally are registered as enemies, and sent be
yond the Yankee lines.
Major General Magruder has been assigned
to duty in the Trans-Mississippi Department,
his district comprising Texas, Arizona anil
New Mexico.
A terrific fire occurred on the 8th inst., jn
the oil wells at Oil Creek, Pa Several refi
neries and 80,000 barrels of oil were burned,
besides a great many buildings. The fire ex
tended over half a mile. Loss—from $100-
000 to $200,000.
The grain crop in Texas from the Rio Grande
to Red River, this year, is said to be the lar
gest one ever known in that State. Occasion
ally small patches of cotton are seen, but this
is planted for hone use.
The Literary Board of North Carolina met
in Raluigh last week and ordered a Fall Distri
bution of one hundred thousand dollars to be
made for Common School purposes. This sum
is nearly ten thousand dollars larger than any
previous distribution, and it is thought that
the amount can hereafter be increased.
An officer of Gen. Forrest’s Brigade reports
to the Chattanooga Rebel that reinforcements
are flocking tp Gen. Forrest at Murfreesboro’
from every portion of Tennessee. The people
say that Nashville must and shall be taken be
fore the Cumberland is again naviguble for
gunboats, and that the coffer-dams must be
destroyed at once to prevent the ascent of this
little stream by such boats.
A writer in the Richmond Whig gives the
following account of a visit to the grave of Gen.
Ashby:
We reached it just after sunset, while the
rich glow was still upon tho autumnal forests.
I was much moved ; and, witli a tenderness I
did not think I should feel, laid some roses on
the sod which covers as good and brave a man
as ever lived on earth. He lies at the foot of
a large pine tree, which seems to bend over the
grave in gloom. The burying ground is in the
midst of a very beautiful wood, and the sigh
ing of the trees sounded as'if tor him, they
were chanting an eternal requium. While we
were there, the moon rose gloriously ahovo the
mountains. The stillness and the beauty of
the scene moved my very soul.
A PRAYER FOR OUR ARMIES.
BV BISHOP GREEN, OF MISSISSIPPI.
Almighty God, Whose Providence watcheih
over all things, and in Whose hands is the dis
posal of all events, we look up to Thee for Thy
protection and blessing amidst the apparent
and great dangers with which we are encom
passed. Thou hast, in Thy wisdom, permitted
the many evils of an unnatural and destructive
war to come upon us. Save us, we beseech
Thee, from the hands of our enemies. Watch
over our fathers, and husbands, and brothers,
and sons, who, trusting in Thy defence and in
the righteousness of our cause, have gone forth
to the service of their country. May their lives
be precious in Thy sight Preserve them from
all the dangers to which they may be exposed.
Enable them successfully to perform their duty
to Thee and to their country, and do Thou, in
in Thine infinite wisdom and power, so over
rule events, and so dispose the hearts of all en
gaged in this painful struggle, that it may soon
end in peace and brotherly love, and lead not
only to the safety, honor and welfare of our
Confederate States, but to the good of Thy peo
ple, and the glory of Thy great name, through
Jesus Christ of Lord. Amen.
guard
The North Carolina Coast. The Raleigh
Standard states that President Davis ha* appoint
ed Gten. Walter Gwvnn to take a recoanoissance
of the Eastern Counties of that State, with a view
to their defence.
ABRAHAM IN A “MESS.”
It seems that “honest Abraham” is still much
annoyed by importunate office seekers. A late —— * *** wv * i,wuk * wt. »». u. oicttca m uic *«
Northern paper gives the following account of e g&de Tennessee Oavairv, is reported killed
an interview between Linraln nr»iJ ««« 1 ■ •«« « - , ,
i—r o —— •* “fo “Lvuuut ui
an interview between Lincoln and one of his
“supporter^:”
“A suppliant for office, of more than ordina
ry pretensions, called upon him lately, and pre
suming on the activity he had shown on Mr.
Lincoln’s behalf during the election that raised «. u
him to the chief magistracy, asserted, as a rea- toinac.
son why the office he desired should be given
to him that he had made him President. “You
made me President, did you?” said Mr. Lin
coln, with a twinkle of his eye. “1 think I did,”
said the applicant “Then a precious me«
McClellan Endorses the Proclamation.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Cooiiucrt
writes home that he has the very best auihoi
saiu me appiicanu men a precious mew f° r stating that Major General McClelli
you’ve got me into, that’s all,” replied Mr. Lin- heartily and unequivocally endorses the rece
coin, and closed the discussion. proclamation of President Lincoln, as does
coin, and closed the discussion.
It is reported in Cincinnati, on the au
thority of a gentleman from Lexington, Ken-
lucky, that Gen. John H. Morgan was badly camp,
trmtmlpil urhilp hfirmSRinir tlm L 1 /.^ i i it.,
----"v* — — "ucgta was oauiy camp, A'nicu icu iu im»
wounded while harrassing the Federal army of by General McClellan, ut course they *
Gen. G. W. Morgan, during his recent march yield./ They are too mercenary and fond
,front Cumberland (Ju> to thttJJljio river. powei* to make principle any consideration.
REPORT.
;’s official rt pot t,
’fcntucky, October 12th,
says that General Polk commanded the Con
federate forces at Perryville. The engagement
x . . _ VARIOUS ll’E'-lS. became general about 1 o’clock, and was Con-
North Carolina papers say that Governor ... , , ,
fance will call the Legislature ot that State t,nued lurlou ^' that time to dark; our
troops never faltering, never failing in thiir
forts.
For the time engaged it Was the severest and
most desperately contested engagement within
my knowledge. Fearfully outnumbered, our
troops did not hesitate to engage any odds, and
though checked at times, they eventually car
ried every position and drove the enemy two
miles.
We had captured fifteen pieces of artillery
by the most daring eharges.
We killed one and wounded two Brig. Gen
erals and a very large number of inferior offi
cers and men estimated at no less than lour
thousand. The ground was literally covered
with his dead and wounded. Our own lo.-.- is
not less than twenty-live hundred killed, and
wounded and missing.
FROM THE WEST.
Chattanooga, Oct. 22.—The Rebel ha- a
dispatch from Murfreesboro’, dated 21st, which
says our pickets attacked the enemy from sev
eral points near Nashville at daylight this
morning, driving in their pickets, killing si >%-
al and capturing fifty prisoners on the Mur
freesboro’ pike.
We also killed W. B. Stokes, Col. of the ren
egade Tennesseeans, and another Col. on the
Lebanon pike. Also driving their forces into
the entrenchments at Nashville. There is no
evidence of an evacuation of Nashville.
Our pickets captured private letters which
represent the state of the city as intolerable.
FROM THE NORTH.
Richmond, Oct 22.—Northern papers of the
20th instant, just received.
The troops under Generals Hancock and
Humphreys, who recently crossed the Poto
mac, have returned to Maryland.
Several prominent politicians and business
men have been drafted in Pennsylvania.
Gen. Morgan dashed into Lexington on Sat
urday morning and compelled the Federal Gar
rison to surrender.
The Democratic gain in Ohio is 50,000. The
Democrats have a majority in the Legislature.
Indiana and Pennsylvania securing two Sena
tors in place of Bright’s successor and Wil
uiot.
Gold 29J to 30 on Saturday.
FROM THE SOUTH CAROLINA COAST.
Charleston, S. C., Oct. 23.—The enemy
advanced yesterday morning in two columns—
one against Coosahatchie, and the other against
Pocataligo. He was repulsed from Pocataligo
by our forces. At Coosahatchie he succeeded
in gaining the Railroad, but before he could do
it much damage, our troops came up aud drove
him off the Railroad, and the telegraph line is
now mended and in working order. The ene-
m .v s gunboats are anchored Coosahat
chie.
Mobile, Ala., Oct. 23.—A special despatch
to the Advertiser & Register, dated Charleston
22d, says the enemy after several hold recon-
noisances, have landed in force at Mackay s
Point, six miles from the Charleston A Savan
nah Railroad, against which he is marching.—
The enemy have landed another column at
Coosahatchie, another point on the Railroad
Our forces are hastening to meet them
warm work is expected to day.
FROM THE WEST.
Knoxville, 22d.—Forrests’ advance _
yesterday drove in the euemv’s picket- upi
every load around Nashville, whipping the
into their entrenchments, killing many and ca
turing thirty-two, including a Major and a Ca
tain ; also Lieut. Col. W. B. Stokes ol the rei
am
Our loss one killed and one wounded.
Richmond, 22d.—An order has been issue
under the late Conscription Act for the enrol
ment of all able-bodied men, between eight.-e
and forty years of age. All quiet on the Pi
proclamation , _
large majority of the generals of tile art: y 1
the Potomac. A few murmured at tir-t, 1
says, apd attempted to get up a discussion
- i ~hi C h led to the publication ol the ordi
Of course they