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CGSrWDKKATB INPSFBITDSIIOB.
' From the Loodon HoraW.
Tluit nftn inuBt b6 endow®4 with *n almoit
Ameriean credulity who oontinnes to doabt that
the independence of the Confederate Stat«8 is
an aoooQipli8h''d reality. If, at the outset, Mr.
Seward himself had been aaked how long he de
manded for the aeoomplishment of the enterprise
his Government had undertaken, he would cer
tainly hare been aatisficd with a single year; and
would have been oontcnt to allow that, if at the
end of that period the Coniederatos could still
keep the field in Virginia, the European Powers
would be entitled to recognise their indepcndecoe.
Three years have almost elapsed since the first
defeat of the Federals, and daring the wholo of
that time the Coufcdcrates have fought, not a?
Spain fought agkinsc France during the uneasy
reign of Joseph Bonaparte, not as the Spanish
ooionios fought a^nst Spain, not even as our
own ATnoric«n ooicnies fought against the armies
of George 111., but ii> Russia fought Napoloon in
1815, or 88 Prcderick II., defended himself
against Austria in the Seven Years' War. The
war has been waged for the most part on
Southern soil; it has, sj far, not been a war on
equd terms, that the one party has fought for
erop’re and the other only for independence. But
it has in no way partaken of the character of an
insurrectionary, as distinguished from nn interna
tional, war. The Confederate Government has,
from first to lant, held a position of perfrct equal
itj with that of the Northern States. It has ad
ministered, with undispnted authority, the af
fairs of its own country; and the Federal Govern
ment has boon unable to exercise any other han
* military povver there, and that only within the
territory covered by its own anries.
The Sfate Governm*nfi» h*v»» « as regu
larly ap ever; the administration of the civil law
is as pcrfect in the Sonth ’s in any Europear
country; and while in the Northern Statos the ne
cessities of an aggressive wsr have been held to
require the exercise of a military authority pupe
rior to the law, the civil autboiities have never
been overriddt*n by martial law in any Southarn
district not actually invaded or threatened by the
enemy
Tf» deny such a go'^emment the status cf inde
pendence accorded to Nicaragua, or to Greece,
certainly se^'ics the height of absurdity; and this
imprestiion is not ’weakened when we look to the
military operations that fcave taken place It is
true that at sea the Federals have been able to
maintain a decided sTiperiority, and that a block
ade, efficient enough to impose very serious diffi
culties in the way of the export of any bulky com
modities, has been maintained at every port which
has at once so good a harbour apd such means of
coBUQunication with the interior 9S to be avail
able for commercial purposes; but it is also true
that the Federals have hardly gained a single na
val success, and have sustained several naval dis
asters.
It is true, also, that they have been able to oc
cupy several points on the vast extent of Southern
coast which are commanded from the sea, and to
obtain the control of a considerable portion of the
inland waters of the South. They have also pene
trated at various points the long and indefensible
frontier line, %nd pushed their armies far into
Southern territory. But they have not be?n able
to conquer a single State; and the chief fruit of
three years of warfare, besides the disputed pos
session of Tennessee, is a wide-spread devastation
and a considerable havoc among the laboring popu
lation of the Sonth. Hundreds of homes and
farms have been destroyed, and thoTisands of
negroes stolen.
Tbe Southern armies have sustained no great
disaster iu the field; they have inflicted ha'f a
score of the most terrible defeats recorded in his
tory. Their capital, with a sort of bravado, was
p\amt«d no«T their most endangered frontier; army
after army, to the number of several hundred
thousand.4, has been burled against it and com
pletely shattered; a quarter of a millioD of corpeos
are manuring the plains of Virginia, and with
this result, that Richmond is row stroteer than
it aver was, and very much safer than Washing
ton, and that, ioste^ of asking whether Grant
ean take the city, men, both North and S'uth,
are cxpectine to hear that Lee hac« ^aken Grant’s
•amp, and thafctt^Brd x>i the invading army hai^
been left i»» theof the victors Sherman
has followed up lofMcd costly march wh'ch
last year had broogkt Federal army of the
West to Ohatt»aoogB;.4ike it not so very far from
Atlanta; but while no fears for Atlanta, all
th« friends of the North tremble f^r Sherman and
his army. Charleston has been attacked in vair;
and af^er crushing repulses, the Federal besiegers
are driven to amuse themselves by a bombard
ment which, though it succeed in killing now and
then an innocent child, or murdering a bride at
the altar, might be continued for a hundred years
without bringing the city any nearer to a surten-
* der. ♦ * *
Under these circumstances, it seems perfectly
absurd that the policy of Euronean Powers should
hf. influenced by an aficctation so palpable hb that
of unoertaiuty u to the issue of the war. No
sober politi'san oowiders that the independence
•f the South has yet to be achieved; it is only in
diplomatic dispatches that statesmen speak of tbe
Oonfederate States as a merely inchoate nationali
ty; but, unhappily, it is by diplomatic language,
and not by expressionfi of personal opinion, that
Hurope can inflaenoe the feelings or the conduct
•f America. If Lord Bussell could speak to the
Ooafederate Government as every one speaks of it,
he would secure for England a warm and faith
ful ally, whose friendship would do more than an
army of fifty thousand men to protect the fron
tier of Canada. If England and France would
■pa^ through their Governments the opinion of
their people—if they would aeoord to the Gov-
•mBeat cf B.iehmond that recognition which it
haa reeeived imu the public opinion- of Kuropc
—they would do very much to bring the war to
a eloaai and parc the lives of tens of thousands
whd WMt otherwise perish before the North will
consent to confess itaf>lf beaten. The ill-will of
the North toward this country is already so bitter
that we ean hardly exasperate it.
The United Statea would go to war with us now
if they dared; they will not be the more likely to
dare it if we prove our contempt of their menaces
by recognising tbe South. On the other hand,
if we wait to recognise the Confederates till we
ean not help it, we shall have no elaim on their
friendship, and no right to their assistance when
the North does find the courage to quarrel with
«s. Recognition, then, so far from tending to
precipitate war, is the best possible guarantee for
permanent peaoe between ourselves and the TT
nited States; and if either Parliament or the Ad
ministration were capable of a courageous and far
sighted policy, Mr. Lindsay’s motion might have
a chance of being carried, and of rendering ma
terial service to the country and to mankind.
Rut to submit such a motion to a house which
has just approved Lord Russell’s betrayal of Den
mark, and in which the authors of our Polish and
American policy have an obedient majority of
eighteen, is simply to invite defeat, to give an a'l-
vantage to the Northern faction in Parliament,
and to counteract, by an adverse parliamentary
vote, whatever effect may be produced by the
manifestation of English feeling out of doors in
sympathy with the South, and in confident expec-
imiion of her complete and speedy triumph.
millw ii at onoe a miller and
•pper.
THE AMEBICAH QlJBSTIOll.
From the London Times of 1 S.
The people on this aide vatch with unfitiling
hopefulness /or th* Ifasf K^mptnm that may pro
mise to be the beginning of the end of the Amer
ican war. If a few outsiders, drifted from the
mid-tofcnt of war or faction, have made a cast
for peace (>r laid a trap for a I'resident on the
neutral bank of the Niagara; if the Proppero of
finance ha.'« at last cast his wand to the bottom of
his own abyss of insolvency; if a general has ex
pended a hundred thousand men with tiiaiply no
returns, or Abraham Lincoln has called to the
winds for another half million, wo invoke once
more the swoet dream of tranquility and .=ay,
“Surely this horrid state of things cannot last
possibly much longer.” In the course of June,
however, the Congress of the Confederate Statea
agreed to a roanilesto, in the form o^ a joint reso
lution of the two houses, which, though drowned
in the din of war at the moment, ought not to be
forgotten.
* * * The first move of the Confederates
in this case was practical and entitled to respect
It was a request that four of their public men
might have a safe conduct to Washington in order
to negotiate, not for any definite and one sided
proposition, but for peace, which both sides pro
fess to desire. The reply to thi.s was in Abraham
Lincoln's curtest style, to the effect that he will
not permit the approach of anybody who does not
come authorized to agree to the integrity of the
Union and the abandonment of slavery. That,
of course, is submission, and means that the Cab
inet of Washington will not hear of peace nnless
upon its own terms. As this, is not the teuipf-r
which the IcKaons of t'avp taught u.s of the
Old World, we cannot be expected to sympathize
with it. We shall be more apt to observe that
“Pride comes before a fall.” and to anticipate'
that the republican despot will only show on a
new stage the fats of his legitimist models.
Where, however, sdvice utterly fails, and is not
even taken kindly, a providential instance may
be allowed to speak for itself. The great les
son we wiph to impress on the Cabinet of Wash
ington is, that litigant.^ are not fit judges of their
own quarrel, and will, therefore, if they are wise,
take advice, accept umpires, or bow to tribunals
Here is a great and lamentable instance in the
(juarrel of Denmark witl\ (Jermany. Let it not
be said that Denmark did really avail herself of
the good offices of neutral.^, for tbongh she did so
in form, she still acted for herself, and has suf
fered the usual conscqnenees. The Amcrican.«
are only doing what the Danes have done to their
cost. It would not be an easy task to arbitrate
between the North and South, nor is it to be ex
pected that any po«8ible award will give either
satisfaction or avert all dangers. Bnt anything
is better than an indefinite prolongation of the
war on its present scale. 5Tor can the war be
conducted on a smaller scale, for hitherto its fail
ures have ari.‘;en from the deficiency of men, ma
terials and ships at the point of attack. It is nev
er found possible to complete the line, to protect
the flank and rear, to keep up the communica
tions, to follow on a temporary advantage, to de
tach a corps, without entailing an attack at the
point weakened; in a word, to keep up the num
ber to the required mark. We ask the wisest
etateimen and the best tacticians of Washington
whether this will ever bo more possible than now.
The nsen—the men must fail, aa they have failed
in all wars. Even Ireland is a reservoir which
must be exhausted, before long. That race, im-
pulsiv« and unwise as it comes to a stand-Btill
at last. If it rebcli several times in a century,
its rebellioni never Inst long. James II, the
French republicans, Mr O'Connell, Mr. Smith
0’Bri«n, and many others, have found to their
cost that it could awake from deltision. So a dav
will comc when Ireland will not shed its blood
like water for a purclj" Ameriosn iu»rrol. n/>r »;n
the Americans themselves Streets fuL ot crip
ples, orphan:- and widow.a, ficldr; till*d by women,
and trade pa.«»jng into the hands of newly arrived
foreigners, will be a terrible coiamcnt on tbe
successive calls for millions. A goneratif»n will
come that will say it bad no hand in tbe war, it
is no act of theirs, it is the folly of their wrontr-
hf'aded and •bstinate fnthers. So they will not
fight, nor will they pay for the fighting. To what
comprouiise or suhraission they will come at la.et
it is not ours to conjecture; bnt they will one day
be glad to accept something that new their fou1»
would abhor. r -
77ie Ohj^rt of the war be.-ran,
so it has continued. The North has fought to
suhjugate tbe Sooth if she eould, to devastate it
*f sho could not The South has fought solely in
self-deferce. There has never been a moment at
which she would not gladly have aq^ted peace;
there has nev«r been a moment at^nich prace
was in any sense within her reach.-x'^rec times
the Cotifederate government has attempted to ne
gotiate, acd three times its envoys have bo^n in
solently repulsed. It has never done any act cal
culated, by retaliating on Northern soil th« crimes
and cruelties perpetrated by Northern troops in
the South, to make negotiation difficult or peace
unpopular. The Southern people have shown the
world that their subjueation is impossible. They,
have maintained their independence and protect
ed their capital against enormously superior num
bers: and without sustaining a single defeat ap
proaching the character of a disaster, they have,
on half a doien distinct occasionf, inflicted a total
and crushing overthrow upon the main armies of
the North. With every y*ar of the war their
strength hag increased and their couraerehM risen;
their determination grows daily more stubborn
and their devotion more perfect and unanimouN;
and, in the words of the manifesto, the world
must sec that such a people cannot be conquered.
The hopelessness of the Northern cauee is rec
ognized by all except its mf’st devoted partisans.
At the same time, all tre aware th«ii in rests with
the North alone to torminate tbe struggle. Vic
tory docs not increase the demands of the South
any more than defeat could reduce them. She
asks onlv to be let alone; she wiehes for nothing
except the withdrawal of Northern troops from her
soil and Northern cruiBers from her waters.
Peace, therefore, requires only that the aggres
sors should abandon the hope of reducing free
States, inhabited by an Eoglish population, *o a
hateful servitude; and it ill boeomes ^he Euro
pean Powers to on courage that hope, and prolong
the war, by withholding a diplomatic acknow-
ledgKicnt of the universal conviction that the in-
dep’ndenc0 of the South is virtually an accom
plished fact.—London Standard.
Small Fot.—We regret to learn that the small
pox is spreading in Caswell Co. A friend writing
UE, says, “The small pox is raging in onr midst.
It made its appearanee two months ago in mild
form, and was pronounc^'d chicken pox. But
little attention was paid to it, until it has spread
to a fearful extent, and 1 fear has beoome an epi
dcmic "—Kat. ^'hriMian Advocate.
I ob ONr
‘he ^'.cr.r.iag Poet,.,Jal7 28'
On Monday nigjtit Mr. Linsdaj' inquire# it
was the intention of the GoTemrnont, in o^rt
with tho other powers of Europe^ to use thit'en-
de»*vor8 to brine: about a suspension of howies
in America, and Lord Palmerston replied in
tho present state of things, it was not tA^ht
there would beany advantage in such a stcp.^his
incident forces us to ask how lonj? it is realfpro-
bable that this impracticable, ain Je.ss^opeli|waT
will last. Is it at all likely that it wiil survp the
present campaign? It cannot seriou'^ly bofic4>scd
that the Northerners will go on fighting forf^r at
the cost of national bankruptcy and universl^uin
and tho desolation of t?cir hcmi:8, not onlj ith-
ont any tangiHe profit or advantage at p|e’"t,
but even without any prospect of poasibM
fit in tho future We speak of tho deaolafert of
Northern homes, bccaose, as the loss in •lle'^
and wounded is at least thrice as great on the^idc
as on that of tho Confederates, there muii oon
be not a single family in the Pederal Stat#bnt
what will hav.« to mourn the death of ooe or tore
of its memlH’rf, nr to witnr«« the sad spectriof a
hn!baRd, n brother, n sop, paif^fullv drKg?iD|iim-
(»rlf about » eripp!e for life. 1b it eredibU^ s il
cor ceivnble, is it even prsf^ible, that the F(^rala
should con^inije such a '^ar longfr? *|heir
doing fo reslly so.oms to bt incon ristent with tfci na
tu’-eofaa?'undof ♦h’ngs. Manisno^ven to’uin
himpclf ^gtematically for nothing. ^V^ar oemot^
he ciarricdon upon nationalbankrtfptcy. Thefjiun-
fains of debt which the Federals axe piling n» like
Pelion upon Ossa, must ere long f >.'1 with a
dcus ^
roiBS. Fron? the number ei repiJnenfs wfaiVfi %r«
ccntinually marching home on the expiry of thrir
term of strvioe. ard leading the armies in tbe
verv nrisis of a battle, it is evident’ tnoagh that
t^Ofe who 1‘Rve had>>re teste cf the ww will not
enter the ’•anks a sceor.d timo. Those who have
not "trvrd O'ay, by the br?T e of high bonntice, bv
kidnnppirg. by en'istjcg them whpn dnnk, and
other notable American devices, bo induced to go
forth as ford for powd.»r But »t this rate, all
the n’nl#* yopulation having gwo throigh the
ordeal either as “hundred days' men” or for a
lorper term, there will be no inexperienced
civilian's left to bring within the net of the con-
seripticn. This leads to an important ccBclusion.
Even the civilians themselves, who have had no
taste of the realties of war, and have been ac
customed to view it on its hrigh^ and rrmfntic
side, have resisted the draft by force n more
than one locality What, then, will be tie effect
when it is attempted to press trained solfl5r8 who
are thoroughly sick of campaigning? There will
Bo another civil war in the North. It has been
lightly said that immigrants from the 01^ World
will fill the Northern armies, hut thi* will not
bear serious examination. If tho North is to de
pend upon mere foreign mercenaries, the war
will come to an end very speedily indeed) and if it
could be carried on by srch means, it woild be far
more formidable to the Government at Washing
ton than to that at Richmond. But, at a’.l events,
mercenaricB or patriots, foreigners or natives,
there must be money to pay the troops; there
must be money to satisfy the contracto. , whose
war thi** has now really become. That a finan
cial collapse is imminent does not admit of the
shadow of a doubt. No soldiers, American born
or aliens, will Ight; no soldiers can fight without
money for tho neoessariee of war. No contractor
will supply these necess.-\ries without money.
When the crash comrs, and come it must, and at
no distant period, soldiers and contractors, Ameri-
can enthusiasts and foreign mercenariea, will leave
the war to take care of itaelf.
Sinrular hvrial.—In the Burial Register of
Lymington, Huuts, there is the following entry:
“12th August, 1722. This forenfK>n the body of
Samuel Bald ,»in, late inhabitant of this parish,
was conveyc I in a vrssnl off to sea, and was com
mitted to tho deep off the Needle Rocks, near the
Is!o of ” “This appears to have b'-en
done,” s&jH a Httmrshire paper, “in accordance
with the wish of the deceased, to prevent his
wife froru dancing over his grave, which afae
I threatened to do.”
The Tnnhet- Dfht —Republican papers estimate
their national debt, in round nnmbers at eighteen
honest, state that on tbe tth of March next, tbe
debt will cxcecd twenty-six hundred milliorp.
The World compares this debt with that of Great
Britain, which is known to be the largest in the
world On tho fllst of March last, the Briti«h
national debt waf. 7W,%2,Wft pounds strrlinz;
or, reckonine five dollars to the pound, $8 POO,
OlO.GO.S—the interest on which at S per cent., i.«
?119,070,320. The entire wealth of the Erglish
nation, afcordirp to the ofScial returns in April
l^Gl, was 831,.‘SOO,000,000. Tho yearly interest,
thorcfore, is at the rate of ono dollar for $202 .'>0
of the valuation.
Including fonr million slaves at Southern valu
ation, the entire wealth of all the United States
andTerritoriesin 1S60was?in,l50,010,00;^. The
public debt of the North, excluf-ive of State, muni
cipal and other liabilities, will be, in March nr-it.
82,^53,427,101; all of which is to bo funded and
draw 6 per cent in gold, Abich is ?159,20.5,^20.
Therefore the yearly interest payable in gold, is
at the rate of one dollar for 8101 50 of tho valu
ation, which is more than two and a half times
tho debt of Great Britain.
But, with gold at 250, payable in I’nited States
currency, the/ate of interest will make the yan-
kc'i debt more thtin xij' »nd a quarter tmu'f
lar ger than th^it of Great Britain! and that, too,
as compared with the resources and. valuation of
the whole United States in 1800. Deduct the
wcjilth of the Seceded States (slaves, land, proper
ty of all sorts) and add tho outstanding and ac
knowledged liabilities of the Government, and it
will be seen that th(^actual debt of the United
States at this moment is, relatively, not less than
twonty times greater than that of Great Britain.
A year more of war will mako it forty times
greater; the constantly acoolerating depreciation
of money would, at tbe expiration of focr vears
more of the war, make it not less than a hundrc •,
and, perhaps, a thousand times creater than
Great Britain’s debt.— Chnrl^fon Mercury.
The terms of servicc of G0,000 eoldicra of the
Yankee army expired In August; the terms of
7H.000 expire in the present month; fil,000 in
October; in November, 58,()(j0, and in December
51,000, making 311,000 whose terms will have
expired between the 1st of August and the last
of December. These figures represent the num
ber originally enlisted whose t«rms weuld have ex
pired in the months indicated if all had remained
in the servicc. But it is reaaonablo to suppose
that at least two thirds of them have been killed,
deserted or been discharged from servicc, which
would leave about 103,000 to be discharged be
tween the 1st of August and the last of December
To this must be added tho number to be killed in
battle, to die of disease, desert, and be captured
within the time mentioned, which will probably
swell the numoer to one hundred thousand more.
f'l'attanooya Rebel.
Brxtish Aat-y.—The navy list shows the
British navy to contein at present in comniiasion
^40 steamships of all sizes, from the stately three-
deoker down to the tiny gunboat: These mount
t by
about 45,0U0 men and boys, and are propelled bv
a steam-power exceeding 60,000 horses nominal
In addition there are 48 sailing vessels, mountine
upwards of 600 guns, and nmnncd by about 6 500
men and boys. The sailing vessels are naturally
only fit for harbor duty and training-ships They
are never intended to go to sea again, and there
fore should not bo regarded aa belonging to the
effective naval force.
BrownloVs paper says that the late Federal
j’ury Bitting at Knoxville found six hundred and
nxty bills of iniiietment for traaaon agshnt rabals.
KB8ULTS OF THE CAMPAIGN
FrMi the Riohmoad Examiner
The capture of Atlanta marks an cpoeh in the
campaign of 1864. The enemy promised him
self much by this* achievement. He seamed to
think that the possession of Atlanta would sunder
the South into two additional parts, as completely
distinct as the divigions east and west of the Mis
sissippi He will soon realize his mistake. At
lanta had a peculiar value derived from tho Tail-
roads which conv«'rged there. But it* ohicf value
was lost when the road leading into Easter»> and
Western Tennessee was cut off at Chattanooga and
Knoxville; a thing that wis done as long ago as
December last. The only spocial importance
which then attached to the place was its being on
the roost direct line of roads from Richmond to
Montgomery. ThcRC roads are now blockaded at
that point by tho enemy; but other roads remain
open, and the way is not shut even by railroad
oommunicatioQ. The truth is, no particular in
land t->wn in Georgia or the interior country, if
it embraces no collection of foundries and factories,
poseessc” any vital importance in a military point
of view
Thp great neceseity in Georgia is the preserva
tion of an army capable of making head against
Sherman, and prepared to strike a decisive blow
if ever he attempt to detach his forces in differen*
directions for tho purpose of general occupaticn
and tubjngation The business of a Confederate
army there is to watch Sherman and compel him
to a cautious concentration of his troops. The
situation even in Georgia, the only field in which
it presents an unfavorable aspect, is by no^ means
^ X. . .mm^ .My nf
means, cucrgy and men, the enemy have reached
th« centre of North Georgia; but if we compare
the cost of this expedition with the reeuhs real
’Bed. we find nothing to warrant d^spondcncy.
He has had to give up East Tennessee end leave
nearly all of West Tennessee open to Confederate
iccurpions. Ho has had almost to abandon Mis
sitsippi acd Alabama. Even Kentucky has been
left unprotected, and tbe North bank of the Ohio
has been threatened. To maintain his long line
of ccmmunication and make headway into Geor
gia, hfc haH had to evacuate immense districts of
corntry already overrun, which would have yield
ed him a thoi:sand times more value than the re
gion of Georgia which he has desolated. Like the
dog crossing the stream, he has let go what was sub
stantial to pluEgo after a shadow. It will cost
him more men and money to maintain himself at
Atlanta than it would to subjugate and possess
any two States which he had occupied, and has
BOW abandoned. If the Confederacy bad the
election of his policy, it would gladly choose that
ho sheuld continue his campaign in Georgi*.
rather th»n employ the eamo army in many en-
teipripes which she would have infinitely more
difficulty in thwartiner. If we maintain our army
intact, we have but to bide our time and the re
sult will take care of itself. If the season of
winter and bad roads sets in, finding Sherman
still in Georgia and our own army confronting
him in force, we should soon have no reason to
regret the loss of Atlanta.
On the far side of the Mississippi the situation
is peculiarly favorable. Texas is free from
Federal troops; the greater part of Louisiana is
delivered of their presence; AtkaBsas is no longer
in thraldom; and Gen. Price is marching with a
considerable force into Missouri. In virtue of the
concentrated efforts of the enemy in Virginia aid
Georgia, we have gained much lost territory or.
this side of the great river; but we have wo*'
back much more territory on the other side by
aotual cocquest. Except the channel ot the
Mijsei-oBippi and the land bordering the rear com
munications of Grant and Sherman, the Confede
racy now holds most of the ground it lost in 1863
-VIg,!!! ^11 cisuMiB nrrr-reaturL rr
seriius discouragement. Bverywhere else ii, thf
FfiOM THl VAI.TTt.
Th* RiehmoBd Sentinel of
d'^struotive propensities
fiendish spirit than ever. u
The aetual amount cf damage done by tne
thieves and incendiaries is yet not fully
ed; but it is stated that, as they retreat^ through
Wit;,hofltor, thoy carried off droves of cattle--
milch cows, ealves, sheep, hogs and horses—M
adl the chickens, ducks, t«rkeys and
doon alone were the “luaky dogs ” They burned
every ham that had a head of wheat *0 e^ry
stack of straw and hay, one or two mills, a« »
number of dwelling bouses. They dwtaroy^ t^
maohinery of a nunrbar of miHs, but did
more than ono merohant mill. They
ter’s wooPen factory last week, and a part ot
town of Smithfield, in Jefferson county, Ih/*
burning of a portion of Smithfield, however, w
supposed to have been accidental • j n
In Clarke county, they arrested and earned on
every male citiien of Berryvillo (the eounty-sw;
except five—acd they burned the fine mansions
of Cel. Ben Morgan, and Messrs. Province Mc
Cormick, Carter Shepherd, and Wm. Sowers
They arrested Rev H. Suter and paroled him
and they went into his house and destroyed and
cai-ied off everything he owned, leaving his
fftaoily pPTfrctly iestitnte cf all their pcrsonsl
effeetfl They treated ^Rev, Charles White and
family, (who resido near BerryviHe,) in a similar
manner. Before they applied the torch to Mr.
McCormick’s house, Mrs. Brown (his daughter)
gtartoH T!i> stfdrs to get hor infant, when she was
forbidden, with the remark that it mifrbt as well
burn up, as it would make one rebel leps. But
she eventually was permitted to get her child
not, however, until they had bruised her arms
and nearly torn off one of her fingers in the at
tempt to take therefrom a diamond ring. Th^ir
nreseroe ?nd actions at tho residence of Dr
Shepherson, caus^'d the death of his estimable
and aecomnlished wife, ^who was ill at the time.
It would be almost impoFsible to attempt to
nprrate. pays a ctirrespondent, all the brutalities
and enorroities committed by these vandals. Thev
went to the residence of Mr Daniel W Sowers
and after having burned his grain, hay, bam
corn house, Jro , were about applying the torch to
bis carriage house, when, it is reported, Mr. 8
commenced singing a Southern song, which seem
^d to convince the ecoundrels that fire would not
(|Uench his Southern feelings, and they walked
off and refrained burning any more of his property.
We are happy to learn that Andrew Hunter,
R«q , has been released, and was in Winchester
on last Tueaday, 80th ult. On that day Gen,
Early's headquarterp were at Bunker Hill, and
we had possession of Martinsburg
From (jtorgin—We learn from a gentleman
who left the front after our lines were established
at Lovejov’s, that the rumored dcmoraliaation of
the troops is untrue, and that our gallant soldiers
though not at all elated at Sherman get^ng pos
session of Atlanta, are nevertheless ready and
w’lHng to again meet the foe. Intrenclimenti'
are being thrown uj* at Lovejoy’s, and the Army
of Tenaeasee, defiant as ever, otands ready to in
terprto between Sherman and the heart of Geor
gia. The yankees will find their further pro
gress as obstinately contested, aa was their march
from Palton to Atlanta.
Tbe situation, though critieal, ia by no means
f*» dark srae of enr contemporaries assert. 1/
t>A Oavernment.at Richmond will hut awake to
the ^mergecoy and send the cavalry whioh
«c?.ttered over Alabama and Misn’paippi, to the
roar '•f Shfrman with^'t^t delay, we may yet have
the pleasure of c’^ionicling the s^w>lute failure of
Sherman’s oampaizn. and the «*ptt'r» n/ « lararo
|P. > > fUB ^
T' onr 's critical, that of the enemy is
nrno the ^
Sept »,-Th« main
anny is within the fortifi-
^ AtUnta. Sherman is reported ereci.
rf wrta from AtUnto to Point,
‘'■‘..•"'“I
every «ro»-tie .nd broke ov.r, r.,1 fbr 15
West it h«s vastly improved since winter. Ho i ri.'.no the Icpff so, and it re^^uires but the rapid
stands tho case in Virginia? Sheridan iti tt»av -0»’cettr.'’t'^" cf ot?r entire cavalry force upon
off on the border of the Potomac, on a line fitty t *hcrrusn u une of communication to place the ar
to a hundred miles farther back than the eccToy | ^7 Cnajberlai*^ in a a.nch more periLu.!
held at tho opening of the campaign; and Grant, | '^''"i^ion thun :he army of Gen. Hood has ever
haring abandoned Richmond and the nortbsi»^e. \ t>een. Lot For*._st, viti> overy oavalryman he can
at loa*(t for a time, is desperately threatening our j ; AlibxrT* a»'d Jlissis&ij-pi, strike the en
southern communicationa. He has reduced us to ' botwes'n Atlanta and Dahon, atd
tho necessity of waroning such supplies a.s wo ' ^a^’’™an will ho compelled to retreat. Wheeler
may desire from the Weldon railroad, a distance j i^terfericg with hie eommuniaation
of twenty-five miles; and he i.*» scckiug to Hwinp
still farther around on our right to cut the South-
side railroad. In other word.-}, he is attempting
to besiege Richmond ^»vm a distance of twonty-
five or thirty miles, ..though ehc has all the
ocuntry ea.«t of tho Blu« Ridgo to subsist upon,
and possesses an untouched railroad coromn; i*i-
tion with Western Nor*h Carolina, which it
would cofit him another army to take.
It is plain that the situation has greatly im-
prcvcd for tho South sinco tho campaign onenod,
and it is perfectly certain that neither Grant nor
Sherman ean maintain themselves where thev are
without f uch heavy roinforcemcnts as will require
the enemy t5 leave other portions of tho Coni'ede-
rac^ unmolested.
Thr IjTiit Poh'xh Reoolt.—The war in Poland
is over. Tlie Poles arc completely down ouee
more. Five principal insurgents have been hang
ed: two hundred tiiousand condemned to go to Si
beria. Wi? have the details of one melancholy
procession of three hundred, sent in ono band to
their dreary homo. They ware men and women,
mostly ot tho highest rank; they walked, chained
two >»nd two, with their heads shaved; many fell
down and perished, through fatigue and sickness;
the women tore their faces aad disfigured them
selves 80 as to destroy all trace of beauty, lost
they should t^empt their brutal Muscovite guard.
Such is the fate of those who live toseo their eoun-
try discrowned, dethroned, her flag dishonored'
tho stranger sitting on her judgment seats, at her
gate# the Htrauger watching.—liich. Mrnmimr.
I)enmaTk''n4 Kiyland.—Referring to tho lato
settlement of the Danish war, the Richmond Ex
aminer says:—
“Denmark, for her pan, resigns herself with
dignity and in silence to her bitter humiliation.
By one significant act, however, sho has marked
her sense of the conduct of England, and of the
estimate she puts on the place now occupied by
that Power in Europe—she withdraws her &m-
bassador from London; not with any sulky ex
pressions of resentment, but quietly remarking
that now with h-’r diminished resources, she can
no longer afford so many foreign ministers, »nd
having to economize in the article of ambassadors,
she naturally retrcnohes tko4^ oao: Danmark thus
intimates that she is not likely to have any more
business to transact with England, and that Eng
land, indeed, appears in no position to do any
body much good or harm for the futuro. This
being tbo case—if any little matter of business
arise to bo attended to in London, the Danish
minister at Paris can attend to it, through some
subordinate. This is cutting.”
Lott Life hy Railroad.—An ingenious
writer, in a recent number of the Rfivue des Deux
Mondes, computes the average yearly loss of life
on railway journeys as one in 7,000,000 travellers,
whereas about 2,300 in the same number of trav.
ellers would be no more than the fair proportion
to the annual loss of life in former days among
travellers by land and sea.
Two hundred thoussnd acres of land in Ireland
have boon permitted to fikll to waste and sterility the
past yw.
, ^ — ^^ations north of
Chattanooga, and if Forrest is but ordered to hit
immedia*'' rear, we may confidently look for the
happiest rcsultp.—Macon ('onfed. F^pt. 1th.
y rncs from, Kentncky —Capt. S. P.
CunrintrhaiS of C''I. JohnBcn’s command, arrived
in the city yesterday from tho new 3Iilitary De-
I ariment of Southern Kentucky, bringing the
War I>epartment the most cheering reports of
tho practical results we have recently accomplish
ed in that quarter, and the bright prospect that
^whits tha progress of our arms in tho entire
State. Co). Johnson’s movements have been de
nominated by the enemy a mere raid, and from
the absence of direct advices we have been under
» like impression heretofore. It appears, howev
er, ♦h.'it a regular military Department has been
creoted in Southern Kentucky, comi'rising an
area of eight populous counties. It is self-sup-
pi>rting and daify extenilii;g in boundary.
Rceruits pour iu from all quarters of tho
State—how many it would not be prudent to say
just now. It may be remarked, however, in
this eodnection, th^t the bold colonel is now a
brig«dicr.
The State is represented as ablaee with revo
lution. The inauguration of Sherman’s coloriia-
ing programme is the feather that has broken the
back of “neurraUty.” A thousand citiaons have
recently been arrested, shipped down the Missis
sippi and g«nt to Yucatan. There was not an
able bodied man among the number, and the old
men, helploes women and children, who are the
victims of this horrible cruelty, must perish of
starvation on the iuhospitable shore of Yucatan,
from the fevers of that deadly climate. Instances
are numerous where men have been seiaed at
dead of night, forced into tho Federal ranks, and
their iainilios baQibhed without a moment's warn
ing. Frequently the husband is sent to Canada
iind the wife to Yucatan, or vice versa. No limit
is sc* ’vv the Federal suthoritics to the fiendish-
aea^ of Payne and Burbridge, who have already
become, under the tutelage of Burnside and ex
ample of Butler, the most accomplished seoun-
drels in anti-Christendom.
Ihe Bristol Gazett« of the 1st, says: Yester
day twenty odd Kentuckians psssed through this
place, direct from Kentucky, to join our forces
Helow. They report great excitement in their
State, on account of the approaching draft to be
made on the 5th inst. Hundreds of others are
expected out in a ftw days. These were from
Fleming county. We learn further that many
of the merchants in that State, bordering on our
lines, are packing up their goods, refusing to sell
them for greenbacks. That a hundred dollar
“Confcd” will buy more in that State than three
hundred will here.—R>'ch. E-nquirer.
Jacqwet and Gilmore.—In perfect consistency
with the yankce character, the above named in-
di’^iduals, who have gained a wide-spread noto-
rioty by their er>nnection with tho recent peace
mission to Richmon*!, left for yaniteedom, we are
inforn^ed, without paying their hill at the Spots-
wood House. The Secretary of War, consequent
ly, WM forced to foot it, and Tetains the receipt
no d«mbt, as a yankee souvenir. ^
RitkvMnd Whig.
every
^iles on the Macnn’and Western Railroad^ (^r
extend 6 miles bcyend Jonesbow’, with
in
tiui n%s.—Mobile, Sept. 9.—It» eur.
^ Memphis that tho Confederates
r."v»
,na Donl’s Bloir. A Fedrral repmenU.. been
.nd irat to p.«e. Do.r Rookport,
Missouri. _
mL, T).afh of Om. Richono, Sont,
w» botray^ by . Mr. WU-
I-' lit whose house he and his staff put up for
Cniglt AftTrthe latter had retired, Mrs.
Willi«ms mounted a horse, eluded the picket*,
rode to Buira Gap and guided a party of yankees
lo her houso. Morgan tried to escape by cutting
through the yankees, but was killed hy a shot
*^"Slm8BURO,^^pt. 9 -The New York Hor-
*ld of the 7th contains a dispatch from Alvie
Gilpin at Bell’s Gap, Tennof^ee, statin? that h„
Sirprised Jack Morgan on the 4th, and killed
hii^ capturing 75 prisoners and one piece of ar-
tillery.
YanT^lt*m% —The Washington Chronicle of
the 6th says Lincoln has iseued his proclamation,
nsoaesHnir tLanVajdvinc to be nfferod nart Snn-
day, in all places of public worship in the United
States to Almighty God, for preserving onr na-
tional ’existence, also prayer for Divine protection
to our soldi«'rB, for blessings and comforts to the
sick and wounded, acd prisoners, and widows, and
omhans of those who have fa\ten in the service
of their country; and returning thanks to Farra-
gnt, Canby and Granger for the reduction of
Forts Powell, Gainea »nd Morsan, and to Sher-
m»n and men for the capture of Atlanta.
Immense demonstrations were held at Saratosa,
Troy, Boston, Buffalo, New Xondon, Rochester
and New Haven, over the fall of Atlanta. In
roost of the places a hundred guns were fired pnd
speeches made.
A U. S Frigate has seiaed the rebel pirate
Georgia, 20 miles off Lisbon, put her crew aboard,
and sent her to New York.
The U. S. frigate Brandywine was burnt at Old
Point on Saturday. Loss over 81,000,000.
Grant takes decided ground against the Chica-
sro platform, and in favor of Lincoln, savs the
Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press.
The Chicago Journal says Vallandigham wrote
the Chicago platform.
Sherman says his army has been fighting con-
tinuallv since May and needs rest.
Yankee papers of the 7th sr.y that the Repub
licans carried V ermont on Tuesday last by an in
creased majority.
There are prospeets of another convention at
Buffalo, under the auspices of Wade and Davis,
to nominate a new Republican ticket.
Taleerams fW)m Washington say that enlist
ments in the federal army for the last ten days
avcraxe 8,000 per day.
It is said an anti-republican ticket is formin»
in the West with Chase for President, Prank
Blair, jr.. Vice President. Fremont will with
draw in ten days.
A larse force of rebels are in Mi.'souri
The Herald says the World and News declare
that the fall of Atlan^’a amounts to nothing.
Vfhe«lcr’^^^oveyn*n*».—Memphis papers of the
5tl say that W’heeler was in fi miles of Nashville
on the 22d, and fighting was going on near Le-
verne, and 4 miles of the Railroad w*is complete
ly doptroyed south of that place The Confede
rates occupy Franklin and Lebanon. There
great excitement in Nashville. All government
err.ployeeg were under arms. Rousseau had gene
out to meet Wheeler.
According to the’Xew York Herald of the Ttli
Rousseau telegraphs that W heeler had crossed
Duck river and joined Forrest, who, with Roddy,
were retreating on Florence
From We.ifern Virginia.—Capt. Hill, ef Gen,
Imboden's command, recently went to Hnttons-
ville, Randolph county, Va., and captured at that
place 96 horses an^ mules, and ^0 prisoners,
whom he paroled, not being able to brin? t-cm
out with him. On his return he captured 12
more prisoners at Greenbrier river. These ltw=t
with the horses and mules, have arrived at the
headquarters of the command —- Kngvirer.
From Texcif.—Gov. Lubeck, of Texas, passed
through here on Saturday on his wav to Richmond
He has reoently been appointed aid to the Presi
dent and ordered to the capital, ^he Governor
gi'^es a pleasant aoconnt. of the condition of affair®
in his State. He says they are not annoyed b^
yankees and every man is under his own vine and
fig tree with no one to make him afraid.
Governor crossed the Miseiesipppi on
15th of Aufirust. At that time no troops had
crossed to this side, but it was expected that Tay
lor’s troops would cross at an early day, and h*
supposes they are over before this,
Chattanooga. Rehel^ hth.
Mo^e Negro Degertert.—Friday two regro de
serters ft’om Grant’s army came into our linos, and
were sent to tho Castle. Their names are Geornre
Harris, of the “Fifth Colored N^gro troops/’ and
Ben, belonging to the same organieation. Both
admitted that they were slaves of B. Martin, Esq.,
of Chesterfield, and de.sir«d, above all things, to
be returned to slavery again as it exists under
Southern masters, preferring it vastly to slavery
in the Yankee army under “Useless” Grant They
will be returned to their xa^ttvr.—EttquireT.
The Indian War againnf the V. States.—Late
advices from Fort Riley say the Indian outraae^
have increased. A dispatch from St. Louis s«yf;
On the 19th a train from Santa Fe to Leaven
worth was attacked at Cummerian Spring, 10 men
killed and all the stock captured On tho 21 si
200 Indians attacked several trains, including
one belonging to the Government, 60 miles west
of Fort Larned. One man was killed and nearly
all the stock captured. Large b.inds of Indians
are congregating in the neighborhood of Fort Ly-
on, and outrages are of daily occurrence.
"he section of country traversed by the sava
ges extends from the Platte to tho Arkansas riv-
about four hundred miles^ from east to west
Our present force is entirely inadequate for the
work before xt, and immediate reinforcements are
absolutely needed. Over 2000 persons have been
murdered on the Platte route and 100 on the Ar
kansas, the head waters of the Smoky Hill and
Kepubhcan forks, and three hundred thousand
_ 011^8 ^orih of property destroyed or capturad,
Tj 500 mules and 2000 oxen.
IUho and Montana are said to swarm with
disaffected and disloyal men. It is estimated
that 20,000 men of this class have gone there in
the past year and a hall.
Col. Speer.—We learn that Col. Speer, Sena
tor dect from the Yadkin District, b badly
wound^ not deai as heretoiore published
m the plpora of «ie Sl^.—Wakskman