THS
DEATH OP CHIEF JUSTICE TANET. | office of President ot tbo United States to uo Ifss •
Ffotn t’le N:« York yer»ld {than nine inoumhents of that cffio«', n*: Van i
Th« llak that bouod t*-e prcBent geueration j Baren, narriaon, Tylor, Po’k, Taylor, FiUaacrn. |
wi'h *h»t 6f t:ie 8t4tetaion arid patriots and^groat Piorce, Buohanaa and Lincoln. His last impcr j
Jurists of the Hivoluiioo i;* b.oken. The eao- j tent offio>sl act was to adciinieter-tho oath t> snp-
id drad. lloffer IJrotke Tane>, Chief Jchti«e cf | has passed c-vray wife - tiio last breath of R jgcr
the S'jpreine Ooaft, died in \Vs«i^iingt jn at 11 i Brooe Taney. iM«iy hh rust in pcace.
o’crlooit on Wednesday evening, Ootobcr 12. j - - _
Ja l >9 Taaey wm born in Calvert eounty, Mary- I Trr^tment of our Fr.j,oner, --W^ have con-
hnd o"i the IT.h of Muroh, 1777. He wua ;
.hi.0'ndoJ frja an Ue^aa Catholic faai- ‘f ivom prison A.l irer^ •-reed
Uv who miiiratci t> Maryland in the sevcntonih i K^ovoa^ error tcto tbe Sc^'dVv-
wnfiry. In the reUgioas faith of hi8 anoertors »ad vath-ritics hate of inippos-
he lived and died r’'‘3'>aer'
Jadtfe Taoev rcoeiyed his ediv^atioa in Dick- ®‘'«
ias'D Colle^f’, Pcnnsi Irsnia, wncrc ho gradu-.ted *»•« Sc^rmd. A few ounces of sali, p-rk aud
ia 1795 lit* ojinioeaood the study of the law »oar bread per d»iy, and once a f irtiiight one wary
ia Ana^poiis in 1706. aid was ad.uitted to the to each ni*D, is now their ai-ovsnce.
bar ci Maryland ia 1799 In 1816 ho wasebot-
ed R Siil« y«5DaU)r^*nd apoa rttiri g from that of-
Scs, iii 1^22, he removtd to Baltimore, which city
he iPide hi.-« p^aoe of actual reaidenc^? uotil hi*
d?Oi«‘-e. In 1S27 be WkS elected to the office of
Atto'ney GeQor»l of the craf.c, notwithstanding
bi! polilic^l views, which wcr.) strangly Demo
crtio, >»er3 opposed to oi the Cirovoraur and
Co’moil.
Ia the saniaifr of 1831 oommenoed an iitpor
taut p»r5 ot tho pjbliu c.*recr of this remarkable
inta. lie was then appointed by President Jack-
■00 AtiOJ^ney General of the United States, suo-
ceodiog Mr Ihrrien. Jackson Had hii policy
tnapptd oat Tjiney was his oouDdjGtitl adviser,
knew all his pUaa, compr*iiendcd tbe diffiouities
rarroaadigg the attempt to oarry them ou», and
realizU the Dccessicy of standing by the old he
ro, come w'at or oome woe. Jack;on dismissed
Daaac, Se^’retary cf the Treasury, b«cauto Du
ane would not cbey his orders and “remove the
deposits” from the U. S. Back. Old Hickory
solectod T»ney to ut£e the place of Daane, acd
the di'p'^slts were romoved forthwith
The Sjn3e at this time was opposed to Jack
son and refused to eonUrm the appointment of
Taney, the Looiination being sent in on tho last
day of tho sessi jn, ia June 1834, by a vote ot 28
to 18. The appointment being rejected, Mr.
Taney resigned uSce and retired to Baltimore
to resujic t;ie praorice of the law. But in alou:,
a ye&r froji tbii time a vioancy oocurred in the
Sipreme Ccurt, ov,caaioned bv the resignation of
Associate Justice D aval I, and Jackson nominated
Taney to fill the vaoancr. Tho Senate bad not
vet foTgottcQ their animosity for the President or
'ir. Tafioy, and postponed the matter of con-
fi'm;ag the nomination luarfinitely. This was
cq'uvalcnt to a lotal rcjecMon. Not long after
this tbe nation wa.! overwhchncd with grief by
the loss of one of its moat brilliant lights. Chief
Jastico Marshall, than whom a more worthy
ciia nevfr assumed the jadi’ial ermine, was call
ed froia hi^ distinguished labors on earth to his
rest. Jackson, who had stood by his friend
with the firmnpfs and tenacity of a Rouian, oall-
od Taney to fill the impor-iant pest of Chief Jus
tice, ut’oo a beaoh where psrtisan rancor would
not alio-» hi'»i to nit as A.‘s)ciate Justice. In
5!»'ch 18315, the Senate, which had, in tbe mean
time, changed its politicd oomplezkon, contirmcd
tbe Eoralnttion of Judce Tiney. and he has sus-
tr.incd thr: paMtiiu yf Cfeief Justicc of the United
B'accs wi h dignity, imcarJiaUty, capacity and
fi;mQC3s, up to ti-e ponod /*i his death—covering
the pt.>b:5gei space oi »>nid 2S ycurs. During
his oircer, hii moat impor'ar.t decision was in
•h» oi Di’oi Sc«>tt, wh v.'b wiii forever stamp
hiu M a man ».t’ character and uawaver-
io£.i:ti2ruy. aithouih il Vim tAct the settled op-
p widjo of a large and pc *6rtul party since it
was deliv?roii.
It has been a matter of wonder that a man of
iO feebla a frame coaid so I mg have survived the
trnub' iua times in which he has lived. But a
few wof'ls will ezpliia the reaa'^a. He was con-
stituu^nally a man nos unlik? the prominent men
who flourished ia his middle age end later iays.
Like John Hindolph, Caihoua, J4cksoa and Clay,
he was lone, thin and wiry, vrich nerves of steel
^tid a head aildisturbed bj the “hoc and rebellion
liquors" which !vave rui*'cd men of capacity in
eve’^y a^o cf the worid. He was, however, an
invste;ate sjijier, but was careful, otherwise, of
bis health, as a con pie of arieoiotes will d«*mon-
strato. It :a some twenty yfara since a gentleman
of our ac^uaiauuca was a visitor at tha White
Silpaar t:?pria,?^, in Frederick oo., V'a., a locality
oaib'aead ii th« late battle ground on the Ope-
qmo, n'ar Maacbester, and be was .“truck by the
losg, shalo»y, skeleton figure, And feeble ap
pear^rce of an ageJ personige who arrived one
moraiGg at the springs. Oir informant inquired
cf a iricj 1 who tfiat remarkable individu.'il was,
an f rsceived in reply, ‘*Tnat is Judge Taney, of
tho Uf.itei Swtes Sapreme C*»urt. He comes
Many of the afSoem from Johnson Lsln^d had
fiU5taiaed !ifa by eating rets 8it'k i*er> i»ive
ide:\»ioaliy t^e same quantity and quality of fo^'d
allowed well men. Wnen & ns*a falls f^ick hi®
fatJ* is scaled. Even the stroni^ost constitutions
ar® beginning to succumb, and a year more of
this br.rbHrity will en’pty ever? No^'thern nrisc'n.
There will be no victims to torture D.‘a^h wii!
reign in soliUry rinmph o^er every yankee Bas
tile.—Kichmond iner.
^4 new (,rtvre ^or Rebe's—A Northern paper
has this barbarous paragraph:
An iron ccll hta been manufactured in Ken
tucky, for the u"e of rebel prisoners, on board
Government vessola It is seven feet long, i*ix
feet wide, and six and a half feet hisrh.
fOR rWE OBSIIiVER.
at tb-F cM Ro';r5is' - i! ■‘t* room n?
Auitu't. ifoui d>* wee v 3 5n lac c en.i^rablu o'v r?r
«t Rft'ir-s’s Sfation. the fveninf cf tha "5 h, 8fr;i’t A
J. ,VcPc,«.v!l, 0 * D 46‘n N CTroors Attb« c
mea‘. t lao vw pntsrcJ wita frn»L z I - ri n *-r'-
the service as a private He was a parlieipa;it in all
tHe marches, fatigues and ^niragem^ntu that bis com
mand WRs in Not a marmm* wm bp'rd from the tr%Te
you-g h«art. Wherever doty called h^ni, with a viHiag
mind and a rbeerinir bf>*ri he responded to th^ oail.
After the eBeciy hal been eatirily r :nted at Hcaaia’s,
and wh«n our foro"s were pursuinf t'^e fl^ein* hosts, he
was foramost in t^p rnrsQit, and irhsn ha arrived a> the
railroad acd mounted the banks thrown up there, ae re-
(^Ived a wound in the bowe!s. It was hip“.^ for scm>
lice that hfl lEirbt 'ecovtr, tat earW on the ra.'ruicj
of the 2filh, he hrfathed his last H? exnres§^d fnl:
co^fi.^f*^l^e ia Christ aad ber;e”ed his el?e-.iou sare.
“Father, thy WiJl ba done,” waa his deo'.».ration.
86rjr’t VePhaul 24 jears 9 montha a*)d 1 d*y old.
Hf leaves an aged father t,ni mother, f«ur sis'ers aao
three brothr’s to »*’onm his anMmsly d»a*,h No braver
hr»“t or purer blnad hw bren ecc’’ifircd npo:^ tbe tlon-
fede.'ate aU«r, ‘ Dulce est ’nori pr-j pntria ’—Amors.
roR TUI 0Bfe]iavs&.
Ra"COTa O Hswl»y. sen of John Hawley of Sampsos
03cu‘y, N. U . volanieeretl May 2d, 1861, in Co '*,iOta
Rejr’t JN r. T. aal wa** opinred by the en«roy in the
'VildfrncBS on M*v \2>a 1S64, and carried t-> Point
Lpotont, where t:csn-.ds uai awa tjok him, o.- Jaij
14ih 18t4, Ire a all h^riships, tiiaii^, privatinDS, d»a
gers i»ai Buffering. Ha iras a v-.rj ooadietcnt laeiaber
of the Faptifii eautoh and wm nzao'i oeiov;d as a z.eii;
her of church and neighbor lie aa alf-ot oa-
ate son and kind trother. ile ha.8 fovirht many bc«tlee
uid It is h.'>p?d he aow tpj jys i.h" rich cciuipany of the
Captain of ois salivation. ‘'BiesBsd are tne deal who
die in Lard ”
here every saoi iier fi>r the benefit of his health,
acd tho tew weeks he remains give him strength
ecouga to keep up until the ntxt summer. He
ha3 been a cocs'ant visitor here for twenty year.^,
and duriag all that time be has been pretty much
03 jjfl SCO aim a )W—j’.ist holding on from one
Eummor to another.’'- This conversation, it will
bo obicrved, ocourrel twenty years ago, and with
tho adiicioa cf tho tweat/ years’ experience of
our infjrmaai's friend, it would appear that Judge
Taney h.i3 boon a very feeble individual, tottering
on his last leg'^ from summer to summer, for a
period of forty years.
Again, as loag ago as 1810, a gentleman in
M.vfylacd, luvia,^ some interest in a disputed land
cas', ia which there was considerably more feel
ing thin money involved, inquired of a merchant
in 13ilt.m re for the namo of some able lawyer
to be employed. Tne name of Mr. Taney was
given. '«.’ae £,cctlemM called on the latter, but,
j^itcr talking with him awhile, declined engaging
servic38, giviag afterward as his reason that
n3 int"ud;d hia case should Bta;y in court at least
five years; that Taney would not live half that
time, (.nd then he would have to engage new
counsel. Fifty years have passed since then, and
ten years ago that individual and all the other parties
to the proiractad suit, a3 well as the lawyers on
both sides, and the jiidgts who tried the cause,
were all dead, and Taney was as hale and hearty
AS he hal ever b3t;n, bat still moving about with
his apparent fecb'eness.
It was for tie robe of this eminent jarist that
Judge Caleb Cushing wa'ted impatiently during
tne whole term of President Pierce's adminiatra-
tioB. II3 was expected to drop off hourly at one
lime', but he did o«t. Sd wi:;h Baohanan’s ad
ministration. Some favorite of that venerable
functionary waited, like Patience 9U the Balti
more monument, cxpepting to take the seat of
Judge T^ney as sooa as he should be summoned
to his fathers. But death had not yet marked
him for his fold, although it was confidently so
reported one night in Washington. And for
nearly three years of Lincoln’s administration,
JMr. ChasJ, of Oaio, was czpecting the position;
bn^a di.'^agreemcut in Liiaoolu's cabinet ocoarred,
Chas3 retired and was counted out of the ring for
the Sipreme Court bench. Judge Taney, how
ever, is now dead, anfortuoately-^the entente
cordia’e has been resumed between Lincoln and
Chase—and the latter may still be rewarded if he
behaves properly until the first week in Novem-
bT next, by the mash coveted seat upon the Su
preme bcDch.
Jadge XuKj tel adaiiuiteitd the o«th of
#©B THB OBSEaV.^ll.
Ccrpl Jcbn J Record, a me i«sr o' Oo G, 25.ij N ■ T,
vaj killfd ou tae mcntiog of the 2ist oi Aaga=t, f.Hiit
cua'gf-g.k.'-e eaogjy’g ukirmishera. In Jl-H)! luir
jcuLg ma volu^tecTci, and w*» one of tua firaiooa,
po8e the haiaam Boys ’* H* pariicipat'^.l ic bja.n;
aard fignta aal l5cg ii*»rchv;s, all witacat a ii.ur.:.ur.
and eacipel avhaTta-d umii tin utal 21st of Anguat,
vfhon a ball pa«»a ihrouj^U h.s hfal, which oaus? i»i
dtaih in a tew houn
Amaog the ui^ny ■who have }riv«:» their livoe to i *cir
country, none was miire geaercus &ad g«t>ant t*ian Jao
J R“0Drd, and uooe will be more deeply lai&ent>d by a
large circle of fnjnda. In hia conipany, w!l^^e «c vfat
known and appreciaisJ, hia memory wiil bo long cher
ished A. J A.
roSi Tan OBbREYKa.
Died from ha tlf cl of a wjutd rcc.ivcd n.ar Qroacd
Squirrel Church, Vv cn the llih of 18G4, Oi;ton
Newel a membar of Co F, 2i N 0 agea aC)ou
3u years Luring his ihroo yasrs’ eernoc no was e^tr
procapt and ^aitniui la «he pirr raianje of evt,f/ cu.j
•.eaigaed him. Ua brave Uie ^ravs^i, aad mo ■
the alfjoiion of his oomraies a>.d tu^ respect cf ni8 ^11-
o^rs by his gonorou: aua uobie quahti.d. He ieA*es a
wile aud onudrvn, faihvr, iiiotaer, brothers aud rit,irr.,
to ri oura their urepa ab e io6d. David.
Biblical tveourdvr ana Fru»l>>teriftu pl.-aoe Cup/.
B'0£t UU2iiiilV.tt.tf.
Henry T. C. Chiifloe, a pr.vaie m -^o E, 40th Rcg'i.
N. C r , doa of oua-cis au' wife, uud at i:\ri
H.linea on t!;o luit, vf T/p-otd jcvtr, ag.;d ' U
jeara 4 moaifta \ui y 1, yj. oa.y » u o
aia pareat-s. aiaca *uj ^et;,t5a3i cy m
upoa waom :"ty as;,vU-.t j fir as-na^uuce ...d ^rout-
tiOn ia LaSir i;o. Bat u.»,i BJdij.*!’’ *,r.
eantiiy proapeols Im•forced, aui we lii't to laoura vu
aoocuut ol ata*ppj'.iiuauc. Bui. in in g ca:^s wj art
n.it toft to (aouiu ^ (tiw'ie w:o ha*a u. hopj. Adju
uue ui'j(i:a b-t\)rc iiia a.->a.a ag ad..r.tiajvl u le t r l t
Kfitor iafor3ii£.g him ti*t Oji for Cjrtei’s
DU 8iuu tUai U'.2ctjLrcv2 uxj A«nic tiirijii-
ttU on me C urju bivk. .'\Ui.t one of jumrat s i
armsiaforji3 as t^ai uo xaiaiiia d ;as curia i*u a
to lae liSi—-lUd ff*a aoie lo a^y t-' i.ij Us; wjed, ,tu*i
na Wis uoi atratU lo ai«. Tjorteloro wo (juouli o^la.1^
and p.tiinuy submit, io lai 8*i 'hspauai >ju of Gjj’a
pioviuenoj, »nil s-y, tao wili of ias Luru ov done.
Sieop Hjnry, caail- 11 tay ntsi,
Aaaid taot>' ji»iug tijirora,
Wiuie we airird a^‘e*k liie wards,
(iod s Will be njt oars.
Th >MA.a 9ib8c».
jfOA riid UUijSiAVJiti.
M\8jnic tiALL, F*/ettcvi;i9. Sept 15.
At a meeting o( i*iiuea;X tiajgj -o. 8, aai luis day,
ihe tallowing iCajiacio.:9 ajoptoJ, ti wi^:
Wiicreas, tho Arsmt^o. of ino Uiiivjffle h&viag,
ut Hia iaasrutau e proviclcn"a, reuiovoj I'om amoug^t
ua ODr wormy and ejieemvd Brother, Aiex’r tipauue,
and plaoad luai, aa wd flopj, m » si*ta o! bii3sfa» aud
eterakl duration:
Keaolved, laat while we bow with ; uinb!e aubmia-
aion to His all w.do decree, yei we moura wun ddep t^t
sorrow tae sad liooidoat. by waioh tau Loige nas b«en
deprived of one of us uio*t *jal ms m.moers, and i,he
coainittaity of a wortiy ani ladmtrioua o;- ajo.
Heeo.vea, That wo leaUer to tue affl jtad family of
our ueoeasod lirotksr our biacera a/m)>»t&y au i uejkrt
f^t ooadjleuce; ever praying tuat Hd wao has thua
affliotcd tijam nay, in ana tvma, softd cimfort aud cjn-
BoUiion.
Uesolred, That in token of onr oeteea fcr the raany
Virtues of our deottaaed Brother, the members of this
Lodge will wear the ujual uadga of mjarnuic for the
space of tairly dayo
A. IS? CAMPBELl,, ]
JAS. O. COiJK, Icomauttee.
XH08. STiSPHKNS, j
iHon-ffliable iloniitt."
500 Million Loan.—Sale Coiitinaeii.
NDME«0U8 applications having been maUe at the
established price «f f 1»6 and interest, nnder ciroum-
aiAnces that eatiile Uem to fa»ofable oousidvtatioa, it
has been determined to continue the sale until furiaer
Wiice. AUO. W. ertiEL,
Ag’t for sale of Confederate Bonds.
Fayetteville. Oct. 22. 7d i3m
F4 per cent. Certilicates.
OR sale, 5iOU lu 4 per canta, w.iiaa will be sold at
par, of the face ) Apply at tnia Otfise.
Oct’r 20.
R£.7IO ¥/!£..
The undersigned have reitaoved from their old stasd
oa Water Street, to ro. 7, MARKET 8XREEX,
wbere they cxpeot to ooatinae the
General Commission Si Orooery Business.
Prompt atteation will be given to all erdars and oon-
sigaawta entnuttd to oar oare.
L. 0. UNSRIRRT * 00.
Wflrtaftoa, H. 0., OtL le. T»-ttep4
UNDKROnOUND ATMO'PHERIO RAILWAY
Tho London oorresp^ndont of the New York
Ilf raid, dating Sept jmber 3, gires tho folk>wirg
acc *unt of a new and importent phase of railway
f r/rgt oss:
Tlii? vrcck has been niuda memorable by tho
r-ost impartisnf ex:>priuiout in locomotion since the
first opcr Jog >f a rail wav. I’his has been the
^uc.•c;’sful c!)inu:0ticcn:.'-'nt of a n'-w railway—one
to be w:rkcd -fiihjut horsos, locomotives, station
ary entities or T?at.*r power. And wbat power
'he •? you ffiiiy n;k Whyj the pneumatic, to be
—the ?.-!r;otiphfiic air aa a T^otor.
I will no' 5? > CO f’»’* as to prodiot that the days
•if iMCOTjiotiv'^iS aro c^vi'r, o“ S'jou to bo amoag tho
thinss that were; but one thing seems certain, and
tha' i», t^^-at for short lines, where a large twffi-i
i.s reqaitid, iuiee in a*'tioe and lines under rivew
and up and doAn steep ascents, the poeuroatio
prnpu/sioa mu^t take the place of both looomo-
tiv.V and horses. As a power, under suflh oiroum-
6ta.-oes, is is more economical, m-"® efficient,
more eomfortabU, and will give travels an al
mo.^t euurc iiamuaity ircm accidents aad oasu-
akies.
'1 oe pneumatic principle—iwiog air as a mo
tor—is not new; hut this method of applying it
to railways is quite new—tho patened invention
ofTi>o.iias W. llimmcll. Esq , of Bridge street,
We.^imm.Nter, a C'vil engineer of high sfaiidiag
Fcrmer pueuuntic, or “atm'^pheric,” railways,
as tjey were termed, vfere worked by means of a
cyiiadcr and continuous pistan, some twenty
iQ^jbpp ia diameter, under tho aarriages, ^tween
tho r?.ils Tile rower was connected to fte train
by a valve and slot; but it was impoe-flibre to pre-
vott great Io.hs of pow**r by leakage, and aflerone
or » wo trials it was abandoned. In Mr. Kam-
uiell's pnwumatic rrilway the “o»Imder” is the
raihvay tuonel, and tho ?*iston is the train itself.
One carriiiid, (or car,) known as “tho piston car-
rikge,” h«i a projection or disc of metal, the outer
cdg) of it being u soft substance, like a brush of
lri*:''!r;’, and thi' comes in contact with tho brick
work or other material forming tho inside of the
railway tunnel, touching all around, sidfts, top
and bottom, and thus excluding the air. It is
not ac'aaliy air-tight, like a piston rod in a pis
ton, but practically the leakage makes no material
loss of pover.
Then the pneumatic machine, or grand wheel
of EjIue, that “raises tho wind,” is stalion«td near
one end of iho railway tunnel, and is moved by a
small stationary engine, or any other power. The
!irst pnea; latic railway experiment on this princi
ple, you are AWs>rc, was a small line, about three
leet la di.imctor, for rarryiug mails and parcels,
and that lias been in operatioa from the Easton
(London and NorthwiStrrc) Kiiiway termians to
tho Northwest Di&triot Post Office, iu the North-
we.*»t part of L^'orfon Tha*’ has been in eucocsi-
ful u^cratioa, cwrying tha mails twenty or thirty
timc!’ a (lay, f’oi over a year and a half.
NiXt, a line lor go tdcs and mails, about five
feet in diameter, has b?en built under the streets^
like the smaller one, to oirry the rnai].-’ to and
from tho generai poat oifioe, bt Martin's Ic Liraud,
and that is soon to be op.^nf'd It will alsj con-
noct the Loudon and Norih western tail way wiih
'hapiin & lf >ru's (the great railway oarrifirs)
iiremi^ef. iu lir!.'.'iam street, near the Baak oi‘
England Tuat line, besides carrying the Lon-
doa mails b>'t Aeeii tae post office and tiie ra’lways,
'j^ill traaaport ore thouaand toos oi gooJU a day,
betweea tae heai-t of the city and huburban rail
way Pi‘iiion, ((’siiiieatowo,) iin-a ull thraairh a sin
gly c.ut ir .a tu.* , and wita oti ’sta iocary engine
Tht* pj .-oi-'gcf iiae Opened ttiis week i.s ahuut
six huutlr.i'i \ari.s—hay a rbird of a mile—in ta *
(’ry-'tal Pulaca Park, and u between tea and
eleven foot in diameter—not nine feet by ten,
■« oTronecusly Stated by some of the nawBpapera
—and vrill take ia a gr.iat. ..-estarn (broa gmge)
fraiu, in** trarsport it from one ead to the otU«r.
i'he line haa been purpjStly 0.ic3tructed with all
h« ’is‘%dvautui_'es that any railway is Ii.'ib'o :o—
neither straight nor level, bat with a vt^ry 8aarp
curve, and up a H«e>per lacUue (one foot in fit-
tv^en) tl'an i^ praoucablo lor auy locomotive to
work
The tr\io3 are b'ovrn througb in one uiroctiua,
a>id th.n :^Uwkci buck on their return, tbo power
worlciufj eqaalij wcil in caju direcdoa A grcai
deal 01 uo..:)cn&o is talaed and written about the
pi.cuuiati.: railwuyrt, like tse trains be'ag “ hot
»hr- ugh,” or woikmg in a vacuum. Now, be il
known, once for a'l, that a ‘•vacuum” in wo'iiing
a pucuma.ic railway m bota useies-j and impossible.
T.ikfc the tr Ja wuen it i.s sack}d through, and
what is th« process? Wny, precisoly the same as
:i.a.' of A hoy suoKing a pea or a buliet tbro.igh a
u.j'aovi' rCwd Taa tr-.u ntaads at tho farthsr ead
•J- he lur.nfi or tune, a quarter of a mile from the
pj. uitiatic mac*ii!.e. Ttieo the air is sucked by
IS po#^erfal t»pp.iratui out of the tunnel. 01
ars^‘, a-5 tho arv is «radually drawn out—the
o itor ead of the tube being oloaod by the train—
tiij at.awp.iare bacooios rarelijd, or attenuated,
aui t’ .s proo.'ss goa oa a second or twi' till the
r iQ tue tunaei i.j mado thinner—rarefied—by
a^out oje p.;r ceaf, aid tlia pressure of tne sur
rounding atmospheic oucside (equal to fourteen
pouatld t^J tfid tqu^iic iach) tfica presses or drives
cno train into tae tunnel, aad the sucking proccss
gjiag on ail the time, tae train ruas its t drd ot
a milo ia Kome fo^'ty eight or fifty seconds—eigh-
teea to twenty mik*s an hour- On lines of any
i'^agtb, fifty miles an hour wiii be attained witli
case.
The carriage is lighted by lamps that give a
t>riihant light, and, haviag nono ot the ara^es or
smoke, or the heavy joltiug tuat attends the pas
sage of a looomoUve in a tunnel, tue passengers
glide along witn the most luxurious ease imagin-
aaie.
The ventilation, of course, is perfcot, the wh.)le
train being swept by a gale ot pure atmospheric air
every tim*) a train pasaos.
This solves the problem of underground rail
ways fully, and Parliament is to be applied to this
winter for power to Duild several lines under Lon
don—one to go under Oxford street to tho Bank
from the West End.
This invention gives you the way to solve the
great problem ot tho city traffic in New York. A
paeamatitj railway undir Broadway is entirely fea
sible, and can t>o made at once the cheapest, most
comfortable and roost rapid mode of transit from
one ead of New York Island'to the other. I will
give more r" the mcchanioal details in another let
ter.
N-w (^(Jld) 6W/mg.~The Telegraph
and Confcdoraco get"; off the following on tha
subject of the recant change in spelling introduced
by the Examiner:
^ The Richmond Examiner stirs our ambition,
lhat print goes back a century in its orthogra
phy, and Ulks of honour, and favour and publick
and democrati«k. Now we have half a mind to
ante-dase this a hundred years or more We are
suddenly seized with a desire to be truly venera-
ble and antique, and this is the result:--
Ye recent news from Kennooticutte indicates
tnat ye democratique partye have played heUe with
ye Blackque Kepublicanne leaders. We honor
thoir spunke. Ye Southerne publique will oon-
sydre their ignuminie with due rejoicynges.
We thiak wo have seen the Exam^oDr’a one
century and gone two better.
“Never j udge from mMners7>^Bi;^d Byron,
;for I have had my pooket picked bj the court-
^ Ueit gentieivan I «Ter m% witb.**
THE YANKIE«f AND OKN. EARLY.
From the Richmond Examiner.
In the condition of news, j»c are compelled to
give a place in thtso columns ti> *he election bul
letins of Secretary Stanton and bis model General
Sheridan. But there is enough intelligence among
our reader^ to distinguish the outlines of truth '
throujrh their glaring colors. Nobody in fact does,
because nobody need, feel discouraged in the lea.«!t
by tbe news of auother*Bheridan victory in the
•Valley. We have become accustomed to the
chances of the war, and especially when they ap
pear in the form of rever.ses in t*’e Valley. Jack
son endured many, and Early endures more. But
neifher sustained any decisive defeat. The pre
sent, it is true, forms one of a rather long series.
Bat it is not half so bad a« Winchester. Then
Stanton and Sheridan told the world that Early’s
army was destroyed, and that he would pursue
the scattered fugitives to Lynchburg or Kich-
mond. Yet Early gave him battle iu a few days.
THE BATTLE C THE VALLTtT
From th* R^dbmncd Examiafr, ^4 h l?et
From oflBc-ers of Genaral Early’• army
■who
in tim** to repulse an attack ol the en»iiiy,
was handsomclv done at atont 1 p. m. . i 5T
after some ch^rj cs of *br ctvaby
X
After each of the suoeossivc fights the same story
was repeated; always Early has lost his last can
non—yet he has fifty pieces more to lose. In the
meantime no solid result i.s obtained. Sheridan
never gets as far up the Valley as Hunter—in
deed his tether is no longer than Milroy’a. He
ha3 forty thousand, men; he has ten thousand
picked cavalry—this is the official admission. Yet
that great army has been held, throuprh the cam
paign, in two counties of Virginia. Here, in this
month of October, the whole plun of his opera
tions has to be changed. He has been compelled
to abandon the road to Lynchburg which ruas up
the Valley; ho must come over to the plains of
Piedmont, for a new base, aad advance on Gor-
donsvillc. To accomplish this purpose, he forti
fies a position near Winchester, so that a frag
ment of his army may bold Early in check-, and
aecp him out of another invasion, while his main
body crosses the mountain. But before he is
ready, that beaten Early, that dispersed army,
whose sole remaining cannon was last seen “flying
over Kude’s Hill, twenty six miles off, in a keen
run;” those troops which had ceased to exist, ex
cept in the shape of deserters and fugitives in the
mcuntains;—that army suddenly attacks him,
Sheridan and his forty thousand, captures the en
tire artillery and camp of two corps, routs those
two cnrps, seizes and sends here to Kichmond fif
teen hundred and sixteen prisoners, while four
hundred more are on the way. Now, may it not
be douSted whether Sheridan is indeed “Ma.ster
of the Valley,” when “no-army-at-all” can do that
to him in the midst of his fortifications’
It is true that a very complete victory was lost
iu the pursuit of too much. The Confederate
force attacking was but tan thousand. The in
fantry it attacked numbered thirty thausai’d, with
eleven thousand excellent cavalry on their flanks.
We lost most of our captured cannon in the defile,
aad twenty three pieces of our own. But we lost
few or no anvounded prisoners, except the team
sters and cannon drivers, while we have, and hold,
nineteen hundred ua wounded prisoners taken
trom tho enemy. We have and we hold them
Oar retreating troops left miles ot dead and wound
ed jankces behind theia, and tho enemy who
brags of tho splendid” victory, did not
pursue.
Clearly tho victory is not so entirely conclu
sive as the yankee readers of Sheridan and
Stanton supp'>se, nor ia the camoaign la the
Val'ey a finished thing. Either Early and hi>
army can cnpport a superhuman amount of beat
ing and cannon taking, or Sheridan is a Liar.
His maste*’ at Washington has soma percapfion ol
logic and the coherence of words—ho feels tee
n^oasaity cf aooounting with the publio for the
discrepancy of his bulletin!—and of showing
how an army that has so often been out to pieces
could come together again; how a ftp»M»rai whn
has 60 oftfn lost all his cannon couUl still have
fifty piect*^ more to Ljee. His key to ihe riddle is
the supposed arrival of Longatreet in the Valley
—Lonsrstn^el and hii whol" corps, artillery in
eluded;—that was th© p*rty that broke loose oo
Cedar Creek. But it is a public fact that Long-
street CvWmands his oorps oa t''C lines of Kich
mond Early fought the battle; fought it with
out re-iDlorocments—fought with the ?ame army
and the same cannon which havj held Saeridan
and fotty thousand vctoian troop.^ in constant buai-
aess for half a year. Perhaps ha it ay give more
business yet to do—perhaps he may fight ‘’im a=
mauy times again. Apple-braady i.» a deeper
drink than ^‘shorris sack’' after all. He has out
been a lucy General—but his dcfeata in the lat
ter half of the campaign are more easily forgiven
than the gloriou.= opportunities lost in its begin
ning—for he ha.4 one quality of a commandet, that
he recovers from disaster with amazing rapidity.
l\'o$pert ot a (i-nfrul IFar in Eurtpi.—Tbe
Berlin correspondent of the New York Heraid
closes hio letter of the 5th inst., as follows:
‘‘Altt^gethor the situation is extremely curious;
Rusfcia is on the bast posaibla terms with Prussia,
and at the same time marries her Grand Duke tu
the daughter of the King of Denmark, whom
Prtissia uas already stripped of two-fifths of his
dominions, and threatens to depriv4 him of the
Dalance; Eagland, in ail other respests tbe anti-
po.ies ot Kossia, oo operates zealously with the
Caar in patronizing Denmark, and would gladly
bring on a coalition against Prussia, whose CrowQ
l^rince i« the husbind of her Princess K)yal.
Austria sccks tho alliance of Eagland to protect
her from the f'.nmity of France and Itily, and
England is ondravormg to persuade Austria to
join France and Italy against Russia and Prussia.
What will be the end oi this imbroglio it is im
possible to forete-'l; but if it does not result in a
general war it will only be beoaose the finances
of at least four of the Powers oonoerned—Austria,
Russia, Fr«C0 and Italy—are in so dilapidated a
condition that they would not be able to carry on
war for three montns without declaring themselves
insolvent.”
Subjugation of the Taeping Kebellion, —Iu-
telligenoe from China is to the effect that oa the
19ch of August the city of Nankin was captured
by tho Imperial forcds under rdajor Gordon, an
English officer in the Emporor's service^ This
victory is a very severe blow to the eause of the
Taeping rebels, which has steadfastly declined for
some time past. The Chung-wang, it is supposed,
will endeavor to recruit hia fortunes by withdraw
ing ^o mountain distriots, from which he can issue
forth to plunder.
This great victory over a strongly organiied
schism has been effected by Amsrioan, English
and French officers, who have revolutioniied the
Chinese army and int'oduced the European im
provements in fighting.
The paoification of China te now believed to be
nearly completed.
Agricultural Jmplemenft.—The farmers will
be gratified to learn that the Western Nortb
Carolina Railroad Company have determined to
add to their extensive shops in this place a de
partment for the manufacture of Agrionltural
Implements. The scheme will be put into ope
ration immediately, and will doubtless fill a very
important publio want—Silithury Watchman.
Forty-five thousand families of Poles have been
banifihM for merely being neahral in the late Re
bellion.
Friendship requires aetion^ love requires not
so muoh proois as expressions of love. Love de«
mands little else than the power to feel aod to
came down with the yankee prisoners, captur«d i lefttt>rhi) n^ht flaok. f atta»KC(l -with P"
at Cedsr Creek, wc jrsther some particulara of! driving ^nd r'^uiiag th ■ on'-n'x R’ fJ C3p urinij|afr •
tbe lat^i fight in the Valley. On Tnwrd^ the ; cording to 'ast lort":- iiirp . y-eoftn ^ii
18th, Early lay at Fisher's Hill »rith two corps cf j l«>ry »Di vevy maay pr5.>i.{>c = i ,'.o at*?. }'t
Sheridan's army in his front tbe unrth side of j the atiiu*cr 'f :..r 'ho • fl
Coda' Creek. Auother corps,th*? Sixth, (WriKnt’n , fj:cmy Waer i trainf, .o d
old Corps) was between Middletown and Newton. | ia larcc numb-^rs are in our r s.s. i
Shcridao himsoif was at Wisehester, and h‘ia »’so ba'ise ’ernio of th, t.. in UfiRi
cavalry a little withdrawn from the front. The is a pns^ner in our ha^dp, aj.n -vrr. pcJ n;«
two corj.^ on Cedar Crack wars heavily fortified ; u,ort'lly. wjuric’.
on the Irtt (looking towards Middletown) of the I have to the - f yulr .1
turnpike, but their warka on tho right of tho tilled, .^nd (K nf-'R'J* V/.ii?.' . n aad R»^:k
road were incomplete. *tt3 vrrus-iorf; Gtn. Wrijrht rtlli.htU-
This baini? the situation, Eirly determiacd lot Affair*--at tim-'s lo. kcd lu\ f 1
attack and, if possible, to surprise the fares on I Unfry «"f ;«r brave ofBoers snd n.m. d vseer
Cedar (3reek. Accordiugly on Tuet^day, at nisiriit-i beca o^-nverfed into a spl.'‘Ddiri fie^ ry
fill, he marched out of hie works at FiHherV Hill | p&s* again inrerv^ocd to shut • tf «rei>tf>' i *alt.
to tbe stone bridgs, wbioh cresses the littlt; atrea • \ 1 now oecupy St’’SJ*burff.
at the font • f the hill. Here his araiy was divi-I As sojn as o’tamed I v'l' s. ei! v. u 'nrther
dcd, the larger column moving ti»tfac right of the ! partir'ilai.^ P. H St:EttiDAN,
turnpike, the lesser to tho left —the obje-’t being
» si*uulfaneous attack ou ^o'h flankc of the enrmy
In fTd;*r tj flank tbe enemy’s work‘d oa th" right
(their lefr) of tne rcad,*it was necessary to ma*ch
the larsrer colunon throngh a narrow i»a^s in the
tnountaios, wlipre two men could not walk ab'CJst
Thus, marching in single file, the whole night
was oonsumcd btf->re the large column found it
self in proper p^'»ition to make tho attack Mean-
t’ms th‘> column which had ni,oved to the left
having 4 good road to march on,
dostiaation much sooner tn&n that On Tne nsrht,
and the cK>mmander, iu’pitien*^ ot delay, ordered
tho assault some t*n or tw»»aty minutes btf'^re the
other wing of our ^rmy was ready to co-operate
Bat for this, the capture of prisoners would have
been very much larger As it wa.’*, the enemy
were taken completely by surprifc; two divisioas
stampeded without firing a gun, and not ose of
the eighteen captured cannon was ^ischarged
The who'e camp, exo edinsrly rich with ^poil,Vns
caotured, and this abundant booty seems to have
had much the same effect on Early’s men that
tae fat camp at Shilon had on Beauregard's.
Many of them lagged behind in ordef to p'.ucder,
and those who pr-*^sed forward at Early’■ trder
cast many a lingering look behind.
The »nemy »ttempted oree o? twice to make a
stacd, but were driven in utter rout to Middletown,
leaving tbe ground ecrewn vritb th^ir dead and
dying, with countlesa guns, knapeacks, blankets,
eto Sheridan r turi.iog in hot haste fr^m Win
chester, threw forv?ard the Sixtii eotp.'j to the re
lief of the aJ:attei**d Eighth and Nineteenth, just
a® Early was in the act of withdrawing his ex
hausted men from Middleto^vn. At the same no
m^nt he hurled bis cavalty upon both our fianka
Our Use gave way, aad tho turi'p'*ke beirg crowd
ed with cacnon, they were abandoned The xe
treat continued rapidly tu Cedar Creek, two miles
froiii Mid'^letown, and there ended, the enemy,
bei’ig too much worsted to make a vigorous pur
suit
Oar principal loaa waa in cannon We lost a
au“ ber of prisoners, but they eonsisteJ, almost
«".chcut an exception, of woundtd men and a few
teamsters and cannon drivers. The enemy were
soundly ihiashed and they kaow it The nudden
reverse iu »ur fortunee is attributed to the over
eagerness of pursuit, tha exhau-tcd condicion cf
our men, the want of dicoipline in a portion of our
cavalry, at:d last, bu' not least, the allurements of
tha eneaiy's nob camp. Wo att.^apt«'J to d>> too
much, that ia all. It wr bad witb i.'dwn at two
o’clock, instead of four o’clock, the victory would
have proved the m.>st brilliant that has ever been
achieved ia tha Valley Early’s vieu by uo means
feel defeated, as Sheridan may discover before
v(»rjr manv d«ya _ H*maour mmj mortally
wounded and has since died in the eB«tny’s hands
Gen. Battle of Alabauia was wounded in the leg,
and is tiaw in Kiohmond. 1500 prisoners trken
in this battle reached the city yesterday morning;
sad 4UU more arc said to be on their way.
Fr tu tiic Ri^ii!uoo.: Ecqa.t-er. 24>h in.*^.
0 r information respoeting the battle near
C;)Uar Creek, on Wednesday la^t, assures us that
oae of the most brilhaBt victories of the war had
been gained by our troops, but tnat in an evil
hour, when a pordon of our men were plundering
the property tu«y had capturod, a suiall force of
yausce cavalry appeared on our left flank, the,
plunderers took frigbt, and the words “we are
fiinked!” passed rapidly along the line, tie left
gave way, and the rest followed, panic stricken
and demt»ralized, iu a moment. Tbe enemy's
infantry before then was in no condition, and
(vere without the disposition, after iheir defeat ut
the moraing, to attack, and, nhen the panic seized
upon our men, were entire'y innocent of ueiug go
muoh as aceomplioes to the faci. Tl e victory of
the enemy, if such an affair can be dignified with
a name wtiich suggests the clash of arms and the
glory of a gallant coufliot, was achieved solely by
a small and iusignificskut band of cavalry, which
had doaatlons acc.dont^lly gotten oa our flank,
and might have been captured. It wj^s a great
scare, waich rescitod in a great temporary d.s
aster to the mo'-ale of the army, tn-v lo3s of 23-
piecj.^ ot artillery and a few stragglers. In the
whole day’s operations our losses lu men—killed,
wounded and missing—did not excced 1,100
The enemy admit a loss of 5,000. The story
neralded in the Northern papers of Sheiidaa ar
riving on tho scene and ‘^snatching victory rom
defeat,” is merely hutubug. Saeriian arrived
near the uceno ot the battle, bat neicaer he nor
the best part of his army were within several
liiiles of the “rebels,” wh>n the latter too^ 'a no
tion that they ware “fl;inked” aud mizzled. All
the oapti^rcs made by tho enemy were cff-'oted
by that band of cavalry we have alluded to, and
nobody else. Tha Federal iafantry had nothing
to do with it. Sherida-i and they were well off
to themselves, cbagrined with detect and discom
fiture, when the news OAme that the “rebels were
retreating." The atteiupt of Sheridan to make a
hero of himself, aad to put up this aff^iir (dis-
gracetul though it waj to us,) as the mast mag
nificent victory of the war, suffiaiently shows him
up as a complete military eharlatan.
From tae Dispatch
1,429 prisoners, captured by E irly on Wed
nesday, arrived iu this city oi Saturday night.
Persons direct from Gan. Early’s army say that
the Confederate cavalry in their retreat and panic
came pouring down upon our arliUery in the
streets of Strasburg, frightened the horses, threw
everything into oontoaion, and rendered it impoe-
sible for the infantry to afford the gans anv pro
tection. Gen. Rossar, however, after nightfall
by his personal exertions, ooUeoted his cavalry
and brought off some of the guns. The enemy's
5000” to a low of
THE YANKEE OFFICIAL AOOODNT.
The following official report of his victory was
received from Maj. Gan. Sheridan;
Cedab Cbbkk, 10 P. M. Get. 19, 1884.
Lt. Gen I Grant, City Point:
1 have the honor to report that my army at
^d« Creek was attacked this morning before
daylight, and meet of my line was driven in
confusion, with a loss of twenty pieces of artil
lery. I hastened from Winchester, whore I was
on my return from Waahington, and found the
Middletown and Newtown, hav- It is oo diagiaoe not tobeRblotodoeverythi^it;
been dnven back about four milea. I here but to undertak**, or pretend to do, %hat yon ar*
took the iu hand a-id quoUf aatt«d the not made for, is not only ihameful, but extreoMilj
a bMtie, 4uit|troiiUiiwi
MOVEoF OliN ‘.4 •!> 8
Cor • -r os V:jc*!i T**lc.-r> T ;■ h. d»--i
jACKSO^'iril.Ll!, Al.V . Ojt IT,
At the* ai.ae hope "had di. J a '•.'.y in flto i»,f g
ot njcn ffOHJ WuOm ’*ad ^ iij;!t to »..rp.c? .c-
duranco to the dose, Qen II >o i ro«e’ to tho f*'!
grandeur ^nd glory «f *he lead r of a S)u h-p-
army, and ordered Lis army t -r‘>a^d 'ih: -.r..
n^y titood still in Atla nta c..!jEciou^ ^f.c-.cuj
•s^ilst * e cro~3od the i’battaho chov ani tlrcw
the whole Ktrenyth o b>s c;:rT S thi TiSff
No soocer -t’d th? men re^t'isc ilie i^rder ro 'or.
ward t^ an tb? wild- i-r eoihna); la ran fr a ra,.k
to rank aad fr in brigsd^ tu co’r.^ Gfti. H J
W5S thm in ooxair.End, aa it M' a ae’*
The road was fi«s; Mrne^ 6hi.?e Mar.'frttn, i j
commuuieadon with Arlanta fro'" tha ’vuy to rhu
ceas^'d At Altoona Gen. Fr«pca mado au hlIot
taubte attsci He lost mnny m»n and won no
tiling.- H«» was aent thoire urdor the iaiprccaien
that the garrison eosfiist^d of onh 300. when ?o
ording to Sh»^ra)an, tbote waij a whcle corv*.
Had he been a Genera: of tho proper eapacifj he
would have quickly learned the mistatf* of hit
oorps commender and drew ff. Tue reason thst
the place was not captured was because that would
have interfered with the comraanding Genera”•
plan, which was to accept no enrngctri''Ht of ito-
portance, to a;lac^ no f?trot!e garr’son, but to ra-
sarve tho whcla streng-th of th« a ooy for batll«a
beyond the border? (f (i‘org a
From Aitoona a detcu" was ni'^e to the lafl,
and the Co-osa orcss^d at several (liff rent placet.
The c?cfou''del Yankees ^bouErht then thfv
would BOt a general'battle near Rome, on lait
Wednesday. 8ur j3erj. H *od atrus^d tb''in Jf -.th.
a gquadron of c'%val»'v while he pawed oi> to D?.l-
tcn Shertj'^n came upon the c*valry. acd, thiak-
ing tVo wbol» r^bel strength was be^-'ind them,
made bia dippoe!iioat for a pital;rd battle Th«
cavalry skirn and fopght b’m for two ua*?,
and fin.Hlly drew off, wor^tf'd, it i? t;ue, ncd f
courpe, but invaluable time wsts gained, for oa that
day, (Tl ur»day,) Gen Rood seat in a fl^gof truce
to Col. Johcatou at Dalton, and e&ve Mm f.f#
miautes ro l-tul dojvn bis e- lora This pcr^D^ftcr
Ty dcuiand oiongb.t the ColoT^el to oar General in
pprson, and he b g^ed a^d plead for tcrais Bus
Gcp. H'.od told him trat if he wa#; in c.n aund
of white men in^-tead of slavrs he ehcald h: a«>
treated; bat that he ^'OuU i^rcbt him no t-ruir
Tne Colciiel haul d a iwa an**
surren'^fr^d 80t> '^rgr't's, ’‘iiite m.:n, 1 eoro-
pany of cavalry, 1 battery of attillery and a great
quaaticy of stor-p, besides 10 or 12 colors Not
b gun was fired.
I rbculd have mentioned that on the rout« to
J)altoo, Tilton was t^iken with i'-s garrison oi tarca
Lnodr^ $nd fifty From Dalton arnry pT>
ceedfd up the railroad except one or t-^o ^ivi
sions, which went to Resaoa for the purp.«o of
making a deioorstration There wiii be ‘Ifio a
demonstra'ioD made upor^ Chattanooga, but navd-
ly a r^al atteek.
Lei the people hold up theii heads a;iu icj uo«,
for, tLB Macdade ^aid be dreamed, a D'as h»s come
up from the Sou^h to dcpJroy tad aonihilale the
enemy Hood seeaM to be f'dlowiog tbe t^rcc
grand principle? of war: 1 To match cpm the
interior line 2. To throw his whole btnnpth
up^n the* weakest point of the enemy And,
thirdly, to cut him tff froin his base of fupflies.
It is fishionable to attiibute tho af
this great Texas hero to others Bat Gen Joi'in
ston, Prcsi?iont D^vis and Gen. Bemrcgard h*ve
nothing to do with the planning oi this catnpiign
and have precious li'tl“ to pay ab' ut its execution
TTif views oj N^pr.Je n on the e P is-
d*n’i'il f^/'CtwH. -Mr Pennington the Sfcreta
ry of tbe United Siates Legation at Paris, hss
juit returned bome from that city Tho Heiald
gives the following result of his oiservatiins:
“He r**p'.rtfl to the Gi'vsrnm''nt that the Em
peror of Fr.JDce t>k> s a d^ep inter'st in our pres
ent Presiuential coutcst, and watch.s it e-tp'-ci »ilv
in the endeavor to find in the roiiu't the true ex
pression of the Amsrican people, and the real
s'atiments of the country upoa the quept'oas of
union or disuiian, war or pcace. Tae Eaip««ror,
it is said, wiil regard the re-eieatioa of Mr Lia-
cola as the determined aad uiiquilified decjira-
tiou of J;he American peopla ia favor of the
Uaion at every ii.*air^ and through all tbe
p'Waibilities of war. He will icgard tuat re
-iult is a oo&fit*mati >n, tlirectly fr tha pf'cple, of
all the statemeats that our Government has mad«
to European Fovvers to that effsjt. Oa tbe other
hand, it is said that he will reg-ird the eleciioo
of G-.jneral McClellan as aa expression of re^di-
n^.'jr on the part of the people to make ter Jis with
the Southern States; to make a pcaoe even that
will admit .he independence of those States. In
short, that he will find in the election of Grnoial
McClcllan, and in the temper that he will suppose
it indioates, that very opportunity which England
and Franoo haie waited for—the opportunity for
intervention in favor of the South.”
Arrival of Prisonert.—Thirty four commission
ed officers, and thirteen hundred and eighty-two
n'n-00iumissi0ned offic'n end private.s, capturci
by Gen. Early in the Valley, on the 19th, arriv
ed at the Libby y«sterday.--i?t'A- ISentinel, 'ZAth.
Northipettem Virginia.—We have accoun*# ot
a great change having taken place in that portion
of Virginia West cf the Alleghany Mountains. A
great number of reerui-s are joining the Confede
rate army, and many of tho citis^ns, heretofore
oonsidercd frijnds of the Uaion, are giving aid to
our cause. They have had enough of yankea
rulers —Rich Sentinel^ 24^&.
(hi Can'vcell —We are pleased to learn t^at
Lt. Col. Edward Cantwell, of this city, has been
appointed Judge of the Thiri^Army Corps, Ar
my of Northern Virginia —Ral. Omjederate.
Condition of *he 'Galley —The work v*f desttue-
tion goes on apace in the unhappy Valley Barns
and mills are burnt to the ground v herevcr found,
and everything that walks the hoof is slaughtered
or driven to Alexandria Bat it is a norable fact
that whatever else may be destroyed, the ttUh
which have fl^t'td^d the Valfey w-th apple brdndtf
are invMribljf tpa-^ed.—Ricti’d Exami ner
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