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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST
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JAMES GARDNER
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A BLASTED REPUTATION.
The civilizid world is not so easily duped as
the wily Secretary of State of the United S ates
seems to believe. He has attempted so much
upon the credulity of foreign nations that they
have lost all confidence in him, and learned to
look upon him as an arrant knave and a political
swindler. Alas! what a reputation for the Prime
Minister of a once piwerfuland respected nation
to possess! Bankrupted in purse and character,
doubted and contemned aoroad, and but little
respected at home, what must be his mortifies.,
tion and self-reproach! Really, the man is to be
pitied, were it not that, instead of repenting of
his evil cond ict, ha prefers to sink deeper in the
mire of political degradation, and to earn stil.
more his title to a blasted reputation.
When he wrote his letter to Lord Russell, some
months ago, he little dreamed that it was to see
the light of day. Bat his false assertions were
blazoned before the world, that all “ who rti'.
might read.”
He next attempts to deceive the Paisley Parlia
mentary Reform Association; but if he has sue
ceeded, the intelligent members of that Associa •
tion must have been alone the victims of that de
ception. The London Times, of September 9.h
reviews his letter to that Association, an d contra
diets nearly every assertion in it.
The following closing paragraph of the Times’
review will serve to illustrate what we have said
above, and to show the esteem tn which Mr-
Seward is held abroad:
It may be asked what possible motive can in
duce the American S icretary of State to string
together in an official document a number of pro
positions almost every one of which is notoriously
and absolutely false. The answer is, the motive
is the same as that which induces the moneyed
men of New York to afibet to be sanguine as to
successes to be won by armies which do not exist,
and to conceal the defeats of existing armies
which are scattered and broken almost before
their eyes. The mercantile men have gone so far
with the Government that their interests are ab?os
lute identical, and in trying to make people be
lieve in it they are doing all they can to inspire
or keep up confidence in themselves. They take
the department of the future; Mr. Seward, with
an interest equally strong, confines himself to the
misrepresentation of the present.
ARMY SUPPLIES AGAIN-
The letter of P. W. A., the Army correspondent
of the Savannah Republican, which we publish
this morning, admonishes us that we cannot too
often, or too urgently, refer to the subject of army
supplies. Every letter that comes from the army
of Virginia tells the same sorrowful story—that
our brave soldiers—the men who are fighting for
our homes and firesides, for our liberty—are suf
fering for all the necessaries of lite. Almost
naked, barefooted, and half famished, they yet
Still possess the spirit of gladiators, and fight
with the most undaunted bravery and heroism.
Shall we who remain at home, in comparative ease
and comfort, listen to the sad tidings of the con
dition of those gallant men, as some idle story un
worthy of consideration, or of remembrance ? No;
it cannot, it must not be. It is the duty of every
man and woman in the Confederacy to arouse
himself and herself at once to the importance of
the subject and the exigency of the occasion.
The army must be fed and clothed, or it cannot
be in a condition to fight.
“Wnen chill November’s dreary blasts
Make Helds and forests bare,”
and the rigors of the winter in that northern
latitude of Virginia set in, the effect upon our
soldiers will be terrible indeed. To meet the
crisis, then, there must be prompt and decisive
action. If the Government cannot meet the oc
casion, the people must do it, and that without
delay. Tne capitalists must subscribe liberally;
a fiity or a hundred dollar bill will not suffice as a
subscription from the min who counts his gains
by hundreds of thousands, he must give liberally
of his wealth. The man of smaller means must
contribute his mite too.
If you have no blankets to spare, you can cut
up your carpets and send them to the army, to be
used as coverings for the s ildiers ; you can taxe
osnaburgs, as P. W. A. recommends, and fill
them with cotton, as comforts are, to be used,
also, as coverings.
Those who have spinning wheels and looms,
should go to work spinning yarn and weaving
cloth as fast as poss ble. and send it to the La
dies’ Volunteer Associations, to be made up into
garments. In those counties which are not bless
ed with these Associations, steps should be taken
to organize them, without delay. And, in a few
words, every effort should be made to meet the
urgent wants of our soldiers.
It is unwise as well as unpatriotic to be parsi
monious. We must all contribute freely accord
ing to our means; becauee subjugation means
the worst kind of poverty and social and politi
cal degradation. And it is only by sustaining
our army that we can maintain our independence.
Do not let the mild weather lull you into forget?
fulness of this great fact, reader : but read the
letter of P. W. A., reflect upon what we have
said, and go to work at once, fulfilling your
part of the great duty of the Southern people.
FREEDOM IN THE NORTH
There is no such thing as freedom in the North
—unless it be the freedom to do just what Abra
ham Lincoln permits to be done. The question
of most interest at present is, will the Democrats
of that section now make good their resolves ana
declarations, or will they submit, with the best
grace possible, to the dictates of their master, seal
their lips, and hush their protestations against
his unjust usurpations ? We fear they will; but
if we can judge by the tenor of their presses, we
may hope differently; and if they mean anything
more than words and foolish threats, the words
of Dr. Olds, when he said in his speech that ‘‘he
saw blood at the ballot boxes of the North this
faß,”,may yet come true. Just for variety’s sake, a
little revolution in Yankeedom would be exceed,
ingly refreshing just now.
THE MONETARY PANIC IN NEW YORK
Tue New York Herald of the 25th has an im
portant article on-tbe excitement there in finan
cial circles, and its causes. It says :
The excitement of the day is the terrible flutter
ing, and 'rightful squabbling and quacking among
the lame and broken winged ducks that frequent
the dirtv gutters of Wall street. Gold rose to 119
on Wednesday, and to 121 yeste-day morning*
Blocks, demand notes, and all sorts of bonds
bounced up accordingly. Wall street went frantic.
Such inflation of prices; such a reckless scramble
for money; such immense transactions in gold,
many of which are unreported; such general ac
tivity in every department of financial affiirs,
Wall street has not seen in many a long day* The
transactions were larger than any since last May,
and the excitement was much greater than at that
period. Ttie whole secret of this fluttering, how
ever, is to oe found in the rise in gold. That
caused the depression in real estate. That caused
the advance in stocks, which was in fact only ap
parent, and which is notan increase m the value
of the stocks, but only a mode of balancing the
uew difference between paper and specie incident
to the rise in the price of gold. But what caused
the rise in gold ? A dozen different causes all
working together and assisting each other.
In the first place, there was the President’s
emancipation proclamation. Then, the secret re
volutionary meetings of the New England Gov
ernors, culminating tn the conclave at Altoona,
which we reported yesterday, had something to
do with it. The pause of McClellan’s army on
the Potomac helped it along. The nomination of
Wadsworth—a radical disunionist-«had its weight
The knowledge that there are at least two mem
bers of the Cabinet who are practically in favor of
disunion, and zealously working tor that object,
did not lack its influence. All these and other
similar facts, supporting and corroborating each
other, led the lame ducks of Wall street to fear
, that we could find no escape from our present di
lemma, except in an unexpected prolongation of
(he war for years instead ot months, or in a speedy
and permanent dissolution of this Union. In the
midst of this g'oomy distrust, Mr. Cisco’s offer to
receive gold on deposit for the Government at
four per cent, interest, frightened our bankers,
and ttie flattering began.
We do not see why this excitement will not
continue, and gold—and consequently stocks—
rise still higher. The causes remain the same,
and what should alter the result? Mr. Cisco
must obtain gold in order to puy the specie in
terest upon Government paper; and, whether he
receives gold on deposue or goes into the market
and buys it outright, the rise in gold will en
sue all the same. Neither will it be possible for
him to re r use any deposits over six millions; for
upon such a refusal the gold already deposited
with him would be immediately' withdrawn.
Thus the occasion of the excitement must re
main. and behind the occasion lie the causes.
Evidently Wall street does not believe the asser
tions of the radicals that the war will be over in
thirty days, that Greeley’s nine hundred thou -
sand reserve of abolitionists will enlist, and that
the highways of Massachusetts will swarm with
Governor Andrew’s promised recruits, m con
sequence of the Presiden’ts emancipation procla
mation. Wall street is practical, and cannot rely
upon prophecies and predictions. Neither does
it fail to see that the revolutionary Governors
are obstructing recruiting, delaying the draft,
and holding back soldiers already enlisted, be*
cause of some foul conspiracy and diabolical in
trigue, which has already borne fruit in crippling
McClellan, by depriving him of reinforcements
and assistance, and which may result either in a
dishonorable peace or an unnecessary prolonga
tion of the war.
Wall street cannot understand and does not
like these secret clubs of war committees, these
mysterious movements of Governors, these oc
cult sessions at Providence and Altoona, this in
explicable retention in the Cabinet of two prac
tical disunionists, this renewed interference with
McClellan, this radical bullying of the Adminis
tration, this scheme of giving a large independent
corps or the chief command of our armies to a
man like Fremont, who is odious to all true
soldiers, who is a General, but never won a battle,
and who is distinguished only for repeated in«*
subordinations and the reckless exhibition of that
domiaeeeing spirit which has made many a bet
ter man a dictator, and which may make him one
if he but has the opportunities proposed to be
afforded him. To Wall street, as to us all, these
things bode trouble, and the -consequence is a
feverish excitement and a rapid rise in the pulse
of the street —the gold sales.
Whether the Government has any remedy ready
to cure this fever, or whether President Lincoln
cares to cure it by dismissing his obnoxious Cabis
net and reorganize it upon a conservative basis,
we cannot say. It can be cured, however, by an
earneat canvas of this and all other States in favor
of conservative candidates for Congress, and by
replacing the fanatics who now disgrace that
body by men pledging to uphold the Constitution
and the Union against all attacks, whether from
the secessionists of the South or the radical dis
union abolitionists of the North.
OPPOSITION TO THS PROCLAMATION IN NSW YORK.
The New York Herald, of the 26th, says :
■We understand that there is a good deal of
feeling manifested in this city adverse to what is
understood to be the object and effect of the re
i cent proclamation of tne President in regard to
' slavery in the rebel States; and we are informed
that several citizens claiming to be conservative
have been procuring signatures to a call for a
public meeting to denounce the proclamation,
and have applied to a distinguished lawyer to
preside thereat. We are also informed that some
iof the more advanced radicals of this city,
having got wind of this movement, set to
work to counteract it, and have been trying
to make arrangements to prevent the hold
ing of such a meeting. As it is possis
ble that the carrying out of the original design
might be attended with turmoil and riot, which it
is most desirable at such a time particularly to
avoid, we hope that it will not be persisted in. If
we are to have a public meeting for the purpose of
denouncing anything, let it be to denounce the ac
tion of those State Governors who met the other
day in secret session at Altoona, for the purpose
of thwarting the Government in its prosecution of
the war against the rebellion,and of imposing terms
upon the Administration. But better than public
meetings tor either purpose would it be for our
citizens to go to work and take measures for elect
ing to Congress men who will represent our city
with credit to it, instead of the contemptible poli
ticians and nincompoops who are usually sent to
represent this community in the halls of’ national
legislation.
From the Army or Northern Virginia.—We
have reason to believe that McClellan’s whole
army are again upon Virginia soil. They are
said to have crossed the Potomac on Sunday at
three pointe—Harper’s Ferry, Shepherdstown and
Williamsport. Our forces fell back before the ad
vance of the enemy, and were at last accouts in
the neighborhood of Bunker Hill, a commanding
pos’tion, ten miles north of Winchester.
That General Lee has allowed the enemy an
undisputed pass of the river, when he could so
easily have commanded the fords with his artil
lery, seems to augur well for his confidence in his
ability to draw him on to a selected battle field.
! Another great battle, perhans the decisive conflict
of the campaign, is believed to be imminent. The
| telegraph is in operation between Richmond and
: Winchester, and any boar may bring us the in
telligence that the great struggle has begun.
It the representations made by persons who
should be well informed, are to be credi'ed, our
prospects of victory are more than encouraging.
Our army is numerically stronger an d in ail rea
' spects in better trim and condition than when it
crossed the Rapidan in August, while its pres
tige, heightened by successive victories, is su
perb.
Through passengers who reached here yester
day, direct from Winchester, we learn that on
Sunday last Longstreet’s division having aps
proached to within four miles of Winchester, sud
denly countermarched and returned in the direc
tion of Bunker Hill. The cause or objeet of this
movement bad not transpired.
Richmond, Examiner., Oct. 1.
The Nahsville Courier learns from reliable
authority, through a flig of truca from New Or
leans, that the gunboat Essex is now in dock in
that city for repairs, and that Commodore Porter
has gone to Washington city.
ENFORCING THE DRAFT IN NEWS-A NEW
INQUISITION WITH THE OLD HdRBORS
CELL NO- IV.
The New York World contains an account sev
era! columns long of the mode of conducting
operations at the Provost Marshal's office there.
When a man is arrested for supposed disloyalty
he is not allowed to send fcr witnesses, but his
“affidavit” is taken and sent to Washington. A
bell is then struck, and a soldier appears, who,
upon the “That’s ail str” of the Provest, collars
the unhappy prisoner and takes him into a cellar
below—which means under the buildin/. When
the man will be again beard of is a matter ot
conjecture alone. The following is one of the
cases related in the World’s account:
An individual was brought m for refusing to
give bis name to an enrolliong officer.
Provost Marshal—“ What is your name, sir?”
Unkn >wn—“ Weil, I declined t> give my name
there, ana I think I shall here.”
Piovost Marshal.—“Oh, you think so. Now
I’ll tell you what I think. 1 think you’ll give it
before you’ve been here a great while.”
He sprung the bell again.
“Here is man who won’t give his name.—
Take him down and give hua number four.
He will probably give his name before many
hours.”
The young man, who was not above 20 years
of age, seemed like a person hardly compos He
was paie/faced and gaunt-looking, was seedily
dressed, and had the appearance of having just
come off a fight or debauch. He was taken down
to the detective office aad interrogated,and again
declined to give his name.
“Give him number four,” said the officer in
charge; and he was at once seized and hurried off
to the fated locality.
Horror of horrors! Possibly no place, since
the black hole of Calcutta, or the prison Aulks of
the revolution, ciu:d compete with cell number
four at police headquarters.
Under the reign of the Provost Marshal, it be
came part and parcel of the machinery of the of
fice, and was used, as occasion called, to hold fast
the worst class of the prisoners arrested, cr sueh
as were considered the most flagrant cases.
Pa-sing through the outer room of the detective
office in the basement, you come into the sitting
room—a close, badly ven'ilated chamber—the
la-ger half of which is underground. Midway in
the room at the right is a small haif»g!ass door
cut in a partition, through which you enter upon
a narrow corridor facing four small celts. These
are numbered, beginning at the South end; one,
two, three, four, the latter being at the extreme
right as you enter the corridor, which is scarcely
wide enough to admit the passage of a man.
The sides of cell number four are sealed up
with boards to the top. It is about three feet
wide by six m depth. A stationary board fifteen
inches wide is put up on the right hand for a
sleeping pallet, and a three cornered pine block,
fastened at one end of the board serves as pillow
—there being neither bed clothe?, mattress, or
straw. A water waste and dipper in one corner
complete the funiture of the cell. The sides of
the place are thickly coated with witewash in the
vain effort to purify it. The door is composed of
iron bars about one inch in width, and a quarter
of an inch tn thickness arranged crosswise so as
to intersect each other at every two and a half
inches. At the top is a small aperture eight
inches square.
The entire place swarms with vermin. In dog
days, when the cell door was shut, and the door
and window leading to the outer apartments were
closed, the atmosphere was stifling in its char
acter, while the vermin ran riot over the unfortu
nate • victims, who could neither lie down nor sit
down from very agony, sometimes imploring in
Heaven’s name to be let out, if only for a few mos
meats. la the hottest weather of the season
three persons have been confined in this cell at
once, two of them sitting on the board and the
third lying at full length on his face upon the
floor, and all evidencing untold horror and
misery.
Sergeant Young has often given direction to
have tae prisoners taken out at night, and allowed
them to lie round on the floor of the outer room.
The individual above alluded to who wouid not
give his name, was put in No. 4. The door of the
cell was shut and bolted, and the outer door was
closed also, although it was one of the hottest
days of the season. In fifteen minutes his cries
were heard, the door opened, and he was found
in a profuse perspiration with the vermin crawl
ing over and tormenting him.
“For God’s sake let me out of this,” he said,
“and I will do anything you want.”
The man or beast that Number 4 cannot tame is
beyond the reach of the most ingenious torture.
Every delinquent who is alluded to as an atrocious
villain is wished no worse fate than incarceration
within its walls. “Number 4” is a by-word
among the officers and frequenters of headquar
ters, and is promised as a sort of bugbear to such
inmates of detective office as behave themselves
unruly.
One of the individuals who had been arrested
for some criminal offence, upon reading an ac
count in the papers of a rebel victory, laid the
paper down as if in disgust, and remarked,
“That’s the way with our boys, just prick ’em and
they run.” The words were reported up stairs,
and the order came down,
“Place him tn number four. He will be pricked
where he can’t run.”
The history of this awful receptacle for prison
ers can never probably be fully told; and we have
only briefly sketched it to show some portion of
the machinery used in conducting the business of
the Provost Marshal’s office.
We clip the following paragraphs from
the Ricmond (Va) Enquirer, Oct. 2d :
From Kentucky.—One of the Senators from
Kentucky has receive i a letter which states that,
on the 14th ult., Colonel Woodward, with his
rangers, seized four of the enemy’s steamers on
the Cumberland, at a point opposite to Canton.
The valuable cargoes were saved and the steam
ers destroyed.
The Cumberland River was is our possession
from the Kentucky line to Russellville, in Logan
county.
Buell, on the 22d, was at Bowling Green, on
the Green River. Bragg and Kirby Smith were
before Louisville, with the expectation of taking
it very soon.
The following is a copy of a letter addressed to
a member of the Virginia Senate, by an officer of
the army in Gen Loring’s command:
Charleston, Kanawha County, 1
Sept. 18th, 1862. f
My Dear Sir: On last Saturday we took pos
session of this place. We had a fight at Fayette
Court House, Cotton Hill and here. In all the
fights, the enemy’s loss in killed, wounded and
prisoners amounted to between four and five
hundred. In his retreat, he contested every inch
obstinately.
We captured immense stores and supplies, and
about six hundred wagons. He tried to burn, as
he repeated, but was bo closely pursued that he
succeeded in burning nothing but his own camps
and store houses, one furnace and six or eight
buildings in Charleston. He is now across the
Ohio River, and we have the country from the
mountains to the Ohio, and from the Kentucky
border to the Little Kanawha. The prospect is
most favorable for raising five or six thousand
recruits for our army. The change is great tor
the South among the people. We have 20 000
bushels of salt in our hands, and are making
6,000 bushels per day. The growing corn crop
is enough to feed our army here this winter.
LATEST FROM THE NORTH—BULL NELSON
KILLED-GOLD 123%—SPEEDY RECOGNI
TION BY ENGLAND PREDICTED-FRANCE
AND RUSSIA NEGOTIATING.
From the Richmond (Ya.) Enquirer, of Oct. 2.
A flag of truce from Fortress Monroe arrived
yesterday evening, bringing New York dates to
the 30th."
Bull Nelson was shot in the Gait House, in
Louisville, on the 29th, by Gen. Jefferson C. Davis.
He expired in a few minutes.
Gold had advanced to 123%.
Commercial circles in Europe predicted the
speedy recognition of the Southern Confederacy.
Negotiations were pending between France and
Russia for the same result.
THE VERY LATEST FROM THE NtfRTH
From the Richmond Bitpatch.
We are indepted to Mr. Geo. H. Cox for New
York papers ot the 29 h inst., received by a flag
of truce b at which arrived late last evening,—
Goid’in New York Saturday closed at 121%, and
London Exchange at 133. The following is the
situation article ot the New York Herald, of the
29th :
No impor'ant movements are reported from
the Arniv of tne Upper Potomac. The actions
of the rebels are closely watched, however. Gen.
Griflia pushed bis pickets across the river at
Blackburn’s Ford onThursdiv, and to
a considerable distance up the hill on the Vir
ginia side , but the rebels were not discovered m
force there. His reconnoissance was complete
and s itis’actory. J.
X_Cflicial reports of the killed and wound in the
late battle are telegraphed from Sharpsburg to
Baltimore. The total loss of the Union army at
tae battle of Antietam, in killed, wounded, and
missing, has been ascertained to be 10,001), and
may be divided as follows;
Loss in Gen. Sumner’s corps 5.200
Loss in Gen. Hooker’s corps... 2,619
Loss in Gen. Burnside’s corps 1,600
(Estimated.) io Gens. Bank’s and Franklin’s
corps 1,572
Totallo,ooo
Several reconnoitering parties have been sent
out m the direction of Centreville, but no force
cf the enemy could be found. A tew cannon,
abandoned by the rebels in the neighborhood of
Manassas, were found and brought in. Genera!
Stohel proceeded as far as Brentsville, and diss
spersed a band of guerillas who were lurking in
that vicinity.
The news from the West is important. The ar
rival of Gen. Buell at Louisville had created ins
tense sensation. H*s army is encamped at Shep
herdsville, a few Dries from the city; and it was
reported that he intended to make a dash on
Bragg as he advanced upon the place. Bragg
was at Bardstown. A dispatch from Louisville,
dated the 28th, says :
Some alarm ensued this afternoon from artillery
practice in our suburbs, which subsided on learn a
ing the cause of the tiring.
The military officers of the rebel Confed
eracy rigidly enforced the conscription all
around Lexington and other points occupied by the
rebels.
On s'ridav, about 500 rebel wagons were seen
on ttie road from Danville to Lexington, supposed
to be empty, going m that direction for ’ sups
plies.
The pontoon bridge connecting Louisville and
Jeffersonville was completed yesterday.
A skirmish occurred at Middleton tosday be
tween a Federal cavalry regiment and some rebel
troops. One rebel was killed and the balance
routed.
A dash of Confederate cavalry was made into
the town of Augusta, Ky., on the 27th, about 40
miles from C'ncinnati, and the Federate, under
Col. Rudford, cleared out. The gunboats on the
Ohio river could effect nothing in defending the
place. The Federate escaped into Ohio.
MINERAL WEALTH AND MINING OPERA
TIONS IN DADE.
From, the Macon [Ga.] Telegraph.
Cloverdale, Lookout Valley, I
Dade County, Sept. 28:h. 1862. J
Mr. Clisby: In the physical stores of wealth
this little county surpasses any in Georgia. And
yet it is "terra cognita" in a great degree, to the
people of middle and lower Georgia. I have
thought, therefore, a few words about it might be
interesting to your numerous readers.
Dade is a perfect gem set in magnificent moun
tain surroundings. The noble range of the Looks
out Mountain stretches along its eastern boundary,
while several spires of the Cumberland flank it
on the west. Between these mountain ranges is
locked in like another Tempe, the lovely valley in
which I now write. The Valley averages from
three to four miles in width and its soil is exceed
ingly fertile. So far as I have seen, its soil is the
only one in Georgia adapted to the successful cute
tivation of the Grasses. The finest water and the
purest mountain air, insure to it the inestimable
benefits of health and a vigorous population.
Ridges and undulating slopes covered with the
noblest trees, cut the Valley up into Coves, so
that everywhere the eye rests on the most beauti
ful landscapes. These Ridges and Slopes are tes
selated beds of the richest Iron Ore, and the
mountains on either side are full of valuable Coal
Mines.
Coal and Iron in close proximity—who can es
timate their value to the Confederate States, and
in an abundance to supply every demaud. lam
most happy to vouch for both the quality and
quantity of the Iron Ore. It is the “Red Hema
tite,” suitable tor all uses, whether for Iron Rails,
Boiler Plates, Guu Barrels, or Agricultural Imple’
inents. lam happy, too, to state that three Com
panies are about to engage in this manufacture
of Iron, on a noble scale. Lowe A Co., who are
refugees from St. Louis and New Orleans, are
already organizing their operations and are backed
by strong Capitalists of the latter City. The en
terprising proprietors of the Rolling Mill, at At
lanta, Markham A Scofield, are about to employ
their valuable talents in this fruitful field.
Mr. J. Cowles and his assoiciates, of Macon,
have secured a large iron estate, and propose or
ganizing a company to do work on a large scale,
for the Confederate Government, under a liberal
contract Messrs. Cowles, Elam, Alexander, Asa
Thompson and A.M. Lockett, who are interested
in this last purchase, are known to the people of
Georgia, as a whole team, in the way of enter
prise and capital combined. These companies,
however, cannot supply one tithe of the demand.
Now, tren of Georgia, an iron famine stares you
in the face, and here in your own State you have
inexhaustible quantities of the richest iron ore,
will you come with your slave labor and capital
to dig it out. or will you sing still that death song,
“Cotton is King ?” If so, Georgia will soon be
one waste of red hills, without any of the ele»
ments of Empire, for amongst many other things
far more important than cotton, iron is the civil
izer and master commodity of the world. Your
friend, James A. Nisbet.
P. S. I r o**got to mention that the railroad is
now running to the county town, and will soon be
extended to the coal and iron beds. J. A. N.
LATEST FROM EUBOPE-
From the Richmond (Ya.) Dispatch
The steamer Anglo-Saxon, with Liverpool dates
to the 18th ult., has arrived. The defeat of Pope
was regarded in Europe as a most disastrous Fed
eral reverse. A Pans correspondent believes that
Count Mercier has been ordered by the Govern
ment of France to make a conciliatory attempt
to put a stop to the war in America for the sake of
humanity.
The Pans Patrie looks upon the American war
as “about over.” The Constitutionnel says “Eu
rope cannot wait any longer betore recognizing the
Southern Confederacy.” The London Times says
all Europe, enemies as well as friends of the Con
federacy, will yield it admiration. It has “gained
a reputation for genius and valor which the most
famous nations may envy.” It opposes recogni
tion, however, until the South has both “won and
kept its frontiers by its own exertions I ’.
The London Herald (Derby’s organ) urges in
terference. if mediation is refused. The Liver
pool Courier urges France and England now to in
terfere. It thinks they can no longer refuse the
application for recognition. The London Globe
thinks “revolutionary symptoms are but too ap
parent in the Federal States.”
The news from the Continent is unimportant.
Garibaldi is worse.
The Opinion Nationale, of Paris, Prince Napo
leon’s organ, condemns the idea of an emarcipa
tion proclamation for the negroes in anticipation,
and in very severe terms, while the Dublin Free
man’s Journal (a Union paper) points out the
inutility of such a measure for the negroes them
selves. *
Newspapers Suppressed in Italy.—The radical
journals in Italy are tn a very bad way under the
new system of rules of Victor Emanuel. The
Unita Italians the Mazzinian organ of Milan, has
announced that henceforth it will cease to appear.
The Diritta of Turin, and the Pondo d’ltaha, of
Naples have been seized by order of the Govern
ment —the one tor a revolutionary article, the other
for publishing the protests of the Emancipation I
Society of Genoa now suppressed. 1
THE CHICAGO (ILL ) HUES ON LINCOLN’S
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.
The following are the strictures of the Chicago
Times, which has been for som>> time praising
Lincoln for supposed conservatism.
The President has at last weakly yielded to the
“pressure” upon him about winch he’.hasso bitters
ly complained, and issued his proclamation of
negro emancipation.
It is not yet u month since he aoaounced his
purpose to “save (be Uniou in the shortest way
under the Constitution.” He now announces
his purpose to save it by overriding the Constiitu
tion.
Fur be has no constitutional power to issue this
proclamation of emancipation—none whatever.
The Constitution forbids it by its spirit from be
ginning to end. And the President has no au
thority not derived fr-m the Constitution—none
whatever. He is fnmseif thecieature of the Con
stitution.
Nobody need argue with us that he has the
power under the miutury law. Military law does
not destroy the fundamental civil law. In war,
as in peace, tie Constitution is “the supreme law
of the land.’
The government, then, by the act of the Presis
dent, is in rebellion, and ’be war is reduced to a
contest for subjugation. It has assumed the char
acter that abolitionism has designed from the out*
set it should assume. When the war shall be tin*
ished, whether the South shall be subjugated or
not, the character of the government will have to
be determined, if indeed the military power shall
not have already determined it.
The President has himself furnished some of
the must unanswerable arguments against the
expediency of such a proclamation, and this even
so late as at the interview the other day with the
committee of religious fanatics from this city.
He has all the while maintained that until the
rebel armies should be dispersed, such a procla«
mation would be brutem harmless thun-
der. It be was right in ibis, what other around
can the present proclamation be made to stand
upon except that it is an ac of prospective vens
geance.
We trust it will serve to shorten the war. It
is the instrumentality by which abolitionism has
undertaken that the war should be closed in thirs
ty days at the farthest. Indeed, we have been
told that under it the President would be able to
stamp armies out ul the earth. Let them stamp
at once, for we are. anxious to see the flaming
giants of abolitionism throwing themselves into
the fight and driving rebellion in dismay before
them, as promised. We are anxious to behold
the stupendous and magnificent results which
were to flow, like a mighty stream, from the pro
clamation. Surely, we shall not be utterly and
totally deceived as to the results.
From the Mobile Tribune.
PROGRAMME EXTRAORDINARY I
GRAND NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE,
WASHINGTON CITY.
IN THE BUILDING AT THE END OF PENNSYLVANIA AVES
NUB, FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE CAPITOL.
The company'comprises talent of the most
varied order, and the Proprietor and Lessee has
spared neiiher pains,nor any amount of expert t, to
make the ••brilliant success!”
la the Troupe are some of the most world-re
nowned Equestrians, Aorubats, Trick eurs, Jug
glers, Menteurs and Supernumeraries, viz: Abe
Lincoln, Bill Seward, Jack Pope, Stanton, Wen.
Phillips, Geo. McClellan, Hor. Greeley, Ben. But
ler, Harry Beecher, Ao., Ac.
Proprietor and LesseeUnkle Samuel
Ring Master Seward
Clown Lincoln
Leader of Orchestra, (with
Scotch fiddle)Bennett
Performance will commence, Ist with Grand
Military Entree, the maroejvres taken from the
celebrated battle pieces “Bull Run,” “Leesburg,”
“Oa to Richmond,” Ac., Ac.
Act 11. Ltn-kon and Se-wud—two famous Chi
nese Mandarins —will go through their mirth
inspiring spectacle of the manner the Celestials
“eat dirt”—the dirt obtained expressly for this
occasion taken from the banks of the river— •
Trent.
N. B. This scene has been received with the
highest praise and satisfaction by the first states
men m Europe.
4ct HI. Jack Pope, the unrivalled Menteur,
will exhibit his astounding sleight of tongue
powers, among others making 30,000 men appear
and disappear at command.
Act IV. Solo—Martial Air—with variations on
the Hurdy Gurdy, by Harry Beecher.
Act V. Clown’s great Equestrian feat of riding
his black and white Hobby-horse “Uuion,” with
out Saddle, Bridle, Head, Body, or Legs I
Act VI. Gen. McClellan, “the Young Napo
leon,” will repeat his unparalelled and “most dan<
gerous undertaking of etiangiug his base!”
Act VII. Scene from “Beauty and the Beast.”
Ben Butler will display bis world renowned role
in the character of the Beast,
Act VIII. Conde Song—(original)—by Clown,
to the tune ot "By the banks of the bright Guadal
quiver,”
* I shii; run the machine as I found it,”
and accompanied on the Hand organ, by Horace
Greeley.
Grand Finale.— The whole to conclude with
the new and highly magical Melo-Drama en
titled,
IMPOSSIBILITIES OVERCOME,
OR A METAMORPHOSIS OF NATURE,
In which it shall be shown how every thing can
be fashioned into one certain idea:
Dramatis Personas—
Head Devil Lincoln
Old bcratchemSeward
Big- Inj ins W hiskey- Heap Scott
Young Scratchem . Lovejoy
Guardians of IBeecher
Plutonic Fires )Phillips
Celestial Devils, AaTroupe
Ending with a grand furore chorus of Uuion
Shriekers, with ground and lofty “skedadling”
by the whole company, amidst an immense blaze
ot tire works.
Dress Circle reserved exclusively for ladies and
gentlemen of African descent.
N. B.— A strong Military Police will be in
attendance to enforce the most stringent orders.
Change of performance—as circumstances may
require.
Doors open at 7; performances at. 8 precisely.
[Not printed at the office of the National Intete
ligencer.J
Liverpool Cotton Market.—Anthony Swains
son A Sons’ Cotton Circular, dated Liverpool,
Aug. 29, says;
The market opened on Friday last with a quiet
feeling, at a Id. decline on the quotations ot the
previous Wednesday, the news per Australasian
received the following day gave confidence to
buyers, and the decline was rapidly regained.
On Tuesday afternoon, after the accounts from
Manchester were received of a large advance
there both in Goods and Yarns, a speculative en
quiry commenced in every description of Cotton
the sates on the following day reaching 30,000
bales, cnesbalf of the present stock as shown by
the circular, and we ck.ss the week in a very exa.
cited state at an advance io American descriptions
ot 3d per lb. The week’s speculative basinesa
includes 13,170 bales American. The demand
continues unabated this morning and a dearer
market—the sales will probably oe 15,000 bales.
The prices paid during lhe week were for Sea Is
lands 37a48d. ; Uplands, 18a26d. ; Mobile 19a
26%d„ and New Orleans 18a27d. The estimated
stock of American Cotton at that date was 18 010
bales, against 588,500 bales same time last year.
EsF’ It is reported that Commodore Wilkes
will be assigned to a new and important command
in West Indian waters, with a flying squadron of
a dozen vessels, intended to watch and seize the
federacy Ut ° Ut W * lll arma or 8 00^8 for Con- .