TM AOSDON TIMES ON THE AMERICAN
WAR.
The following U the leading article of the
London Time on American affaire, taken
from the latest issue of that paper received
from Europe ;
MrOMIBILITV OF RMTORINO THE UNION.
. Ver England at this moment to announce
to the world its intention to make the speed,
teat possible conquest ol France, or were
France to mike the same declaration as to
Eng'and, the world would laugh at the egre
gious foil? that had inspired the design and
prompted the boast. The world would grant
that, supposing either people to he infatuated
enough and obstinate enough, it could inflict
enormous and irreparable injuries on the oth
er, but only at a cost ot equal injuries to it
etf. The ball, once started, fortune might
befriend this side or that; it might give to
either great victories or periods ot advantage;
it might even place one eventually over the
bead of the other, but still onlj at a cost ut
terly out of proportion to the value of the
miserable result. Now, that i the case of
the two Confederates serosa the Atlantic,
where the surviving half of an effete Federal
Union has undertaken to reduce the other
half to its Federal duties.
We say that this is the else, but before
we proceed a step further, it is necessary to
state that the case or the Northern A men
can is in some important respects more dif
ficult ihan our would be. They are not so
4i n i ted a we have always found ourselves in
war. Their border Stales feel a divided al
legianee. They have to protect more than a
thousand miles f land frontier, including
one closely beleaguered position surrounded
by foes or ill-affected adherents. Speaking
the same language as their toe, they have no
means of excluding spias from their lines, or
even traitors from their ranks. They have
to make a tundirg army and a fleet. 'They
bave to learn the first elements of tactics.
And even military discipline. They are with
out soldiers, or officers to command and to
train them. Their revenue, at its best, be
fore the war, was only just sufficient to meet
the interest of the debt likely to be incurred
by two years of the war on the present scale.
That revenue, however, is, to begin with,
maimed by the loss of the secedert and by
the stoppage ol trathc, so that it is question-1
Able whether it will be possible to do more
than repair that loss by the new taxes now
imposed.
American credit is not so rood as British,
or is the credit of a Federal Union in pro
cess of dissolution likely to be equal to that
of a nnited people. Lastly, war, which chang
es its character according to circumstances,
establishes special rules of probability for
different localities. The one rule establish
ed by all American warlare is that the ad
vantage is ob the side of defense. Our of
fensive operations always failed against for
tified positions; against breast-works thrown
p in a night; against forests full of invisible
foes; against heat, hanger and thirst; against
the ever imminent (tank attack; against the
certainty that every step diminished the
number, the strength and the munitions of
oar men, snd increased those ot the enemy
The present war might, for its incidents, be
M chapter of our own disastrous wars oa that
oil. The Northerners have advanced upon
A fortified position, but a day's march from
Washington. They have arrived at the point
with a lorce nearly melting away, far short
of the liat on paper, beaten with heal, hon
rer, thirst, and a long march, and surprised
oo both flanks by the sudden outpourings of
railways, while this has occurred in Vir
ginia, almost within eight of Washington, a
columa of 8,000 Federalists, advancing a-
raiost a foe thrice their nnmber, has met
with the stme fate, no doubt for much the
name reasons, at Springfield, four or fie
hundred miles to the west as if in order to
warn the Northern Siates that what has hap
pened is 10 accident, do result of peculiar
circumstances or personal lauure, oat oy in
ei table rule.
There is but one enterprise which can be
compared to ibis, and that is the First Napo
leoo's gigantic, but inlatuated, attempt npon
Russia. That was a case of great political
Alliance, as grand as a Federal Union, com
prising the best, the wealthiest, and the most
popuioes part, and the best soldiers on tne
continent of Europe, advancing into a terri
tory, the epsrse and poor population of which
carcety surpassed that ol the invading host.
Winter might be the immediate cause, bat it
was also the apology of the tremendous rout
th.t ensaed. It any one will attempt to com
pare the means ot the Federalist with those
of Napoleon, he will find them far inferior
la ever? respect, while there is no doubt
that the Southern States are far more able to
defend every point, every position, every
line in their territory than the Russians were
ia theirs. They have mountainous ranges
instead of steppes; they Have a population
Accustomed to carrying arms, and only too
glad to ne them; they have railways and
Abundance of food and other necessaries of
star. I bey are ev mentiy seper lor in gener
alship, sad in the social organization beat
Adapted for war.
The result is that that far they have shown
they caa dispute every inch, and keep the
invader always under the apprehension of
being either outflanked or driven back upon
hie owa capital. Against all this it can on
ly be Mid that the Northers Kutei have the
reponderance ia white men, ia money, and
m credit. These, indeed, would be impor
tant considerations if the Soothers Mates
were invading the Northern, and seriously
preparing to drive every armed northerner
lau the 8U Lawreore. They weald be im
portant if this we re the ordinary caae of two
countries at war with one another. But it
is aot The northerner are engtged i the
red actio of the southerners. They are act
ing oa the offensive against a foe which, oo
its twa land, is content te act oa the defen
sive, expecting only that, should the oppor
tunity occur, it would advance its line of
afefence te include the capital. Eiptrience
ahowi that, under ordinary tircemtt.ce, a
comparative email population, who little
money and ol wai, is sufficient lor a
Oeiv rood defense.
We are in a condition to offer advice. We
can advise the Northern Stales of America,
as we can advise the legitimate princes and
the despotic courts of Europe. Let the
tateaejea at Haahmgtoa only do what Eng
land has done before a hundred times, UmJ
hat all Europe haa done, is doing, and will
till do. It M aot "Old World "advice. It
Is not of the leaven that Washington and
Franklin felt it their mission to extirpate, it
is the very latest and newest lesson of hu
man anairsi much newer than steam, tne e
lectric telegraph or Northern rifled cannon.
Uo the States really belong to tne mew
World, or are they only a bit of the Old
World, with all it pride, its bigotry, and its
tyranny, stranded on the western shore of
the Atlanticf ine advice we give inem. is
what they have taueht us before, and we on
ly isy to them, aa many a son may say to his
lathe r, fractice w:iat you teach." uti tne
Northern Stales "accept the situation, as
we did eiehty years aeo upon their own soil;
as Austria did two years ago at Villafranca
and Zurich. Let them count the coat beinre
they inarch to drive half a million armed
men a thousand miles serosa their own coun
try intn the Gulf of Mexico. Let them con
aider whether they can do what Napoleon
could not do in the plenitude of hie power,
with many times their number, their stores,
their credit, and above all, their military skill
and experience, his school of general, and
his supply of veterans. What they propose
to do and be is not only to be as good as the
southerner, or a little better, but overwhelm
ingly superior. Are they? Is not this an
overwhelming opinion of themselves? Can
they drive the southerners like a flock of
sheep, smoke them nut of their own nest
like wasps, ferret them like rabbits, and bag
them like game? -, . , i
Let them just look forward a little, and
consider the prbble state of things next
year, and the year after, and twenty years
hence. Even we who sang such songs of tri
umph in 1814 and 1815. felt that we and all
Europe would have done much better to
think what we were about in 1793. It a clear
foresight shows, and must show, that there
must be two federations, and that oa no oth
er footing will peace ever be made, it will
be much better that it should come to p
after one year's war than ten or twenty. It
is not as if the Union or two Unions were the
only alternative. A the war proceeds, no
man ran tell what new powers and combina
tions may arise, and particularly how far the
Western States will endure taxes and finan
cial obligations necessary for the war. The
advice we offer is only what the Americans
have given to the world. It i a hank of their
own cotton a pipe ot their own tobacco.
Let them consider what they can do, and
what neither they nor all the world can do.
At present they Are only giving a triumph to
many a foe, for there ia not a circle of old
absolutist statesmen and diplomats who do
not retd the story of their difficulties and re
verses with a bitter smile. They will hear
with at least respect, perhaps with disap
pointment, that the North and South have
agreed to part friend.
VIEWS OF THE; OHIO CONSERVATIVES.
We are indebted to Mr Crockett, of the
Powhatan Rifles, one of the twelve Rich
Mountain soldiers, who returned here last
Wednesday evening on parole, for a copy of
the Columbus (Ohio) Crisis" of the 26th
September, from which we make the follow
ing extract. The " Crisis" is conducted by
Samuel Medary, who was for more than
twenty years the editor of the Columbus
"Statesman," and a distinguished leader ot
the Democratic party of Ohio. The article
in the "Crisis" doubtlea express the views
of the "conservative" men of Ohio:
KRTISfcXT QltfTIOSS.
The Cincinnati "Gazette," speaking of
affairs in Missouri, say si
"In view of the situation in Missouri, the
Federal forces having to contend against treat
odds, we may inquire why it is that West
ern troops continue to be ordered to Wash
ington. Cannot the East defend the Capi
tol? When will Washington be considered
safe?' Are our brave soldier in the West
to be sacrificed a they wer at Springfield ?"
These are very pertinent questions, and
deserve the notice of the Government. We
are a little inclined probably to be captious.
yet we are very slow to nnd fault with mili
tary Generals. Their labors are great and
precarious, and a little jar, mistake, or fail
ure in an order may derange or defeat the
create! of military projects. History is full
of this, and history should not be overlook
ed at this time, and we have withheld our
pen from the pper, often, when oor mortifi
cation would have prompted u to expose the
short-coming, not of our military men, but
of civilian, who, it seemed to us, were
wholly ignorant ot their duties, and suffered
oor soldiers to rest under mortifying results
when the cause was not their own.
Rut a the "Gazette" has opened a very
important question, we hope to be excused
for intruding a remark that will be found in
time to be not out of plce. If Pennsylvania !
and New York alone cannot furnish soldier
enough to defend Washington City, then we
are in a war that we are unable to prosecute
ssrcewfulty. This may seem like a bold ex
pression, but is it not to ?
We have up to this time been incredulous
as to the Confederates eer meaning to at
tack Washington. I he southern people msv
fcsve desireJ H, but those who control mili
tary and civil matters South, certainly knew
that they could make more out of the sum
mer eain')'ri by drawing ail the forces of
the North to thai point, than by any other
course. Time, with them, wa everything;
and bave they not gained it. and at the same
time literally overrun the SeU'hwesl?
The Wetter Virginia campaign is still
more fruitless. It has been little else to ei
ther party than a conquest of mountain
and deep'vslleys, from which both armies
mast retreat oo the approach of winter, and
that it bow close apoa .
Geo. Lyon fully comprehended his expe
dition, as he was familiar with its importance,
and bad some attention been directed in that
quarter in time, instead of to Fortress Mon
roe snd Washington city, our Western af
fair would bow be ia a very different atti
tude. It ia true that Gee, Pillow made a
demonstration on Bird's Point and Cairo,
but it waa essily to be seen that it was a
mere feint to draw Gen. Fremont's attention,
while Gen. Lyou and his brave band were
made the victims. So sensible were we of
this, for we know that country well, that we
solicited some one here, whose wore wouia
have authority, to telegraph Fremont te let
Bird' Point alone, and look after Grn. Ly
oa, adding that "any General who bad Note
enough to cross the Mississippi with hit ar
my had too macb sens to attack Bird'i Point
and Cairo."
Some two week followed, and Gen. Lyon
was the victim, and his deaclmated army on
the retreat. Bird's Point was not attacked,
and Gen. Pillow retired to Tennessee. ,
Now where are we? We have scarcely
the courage to tell our readers where we are.
Had the money and time been spent In sand
ing aid to Gen. Lyon, that have been spent
in a humbug flotilla, Gen. Lyon would now
he in possession of Fort Smith, holding all
Missouri, Kansas and the winds Indian coun
try in check, instead of in Ins grave in Con
necticut. Now all is for the present lost, and
Kentucky likely to give us at much aa we
want to do lor a tew weeks. : i
Less than two hundred thousand men caa
not now do what twenty-five thousand might
have dene two months tan., As much as we
have objected lo the manner in which this
war wss brought upon us, and as great as
was our desire to see the whole power, patri
otism and intellect of the country put in mo
tion to test, first, a peaceable solution of our
most sad national trouble; yet so far as was
necessary, and to the extent to which we may
be forced into it, (and we should have persist
ed in being nn the side of "being forced,")
we desire it conducted so as to be, creditable
to our army and honorable to our people, for
we have a reputation to preserve as well as
acquire, and at the same time a country to
save. ...;.-.''
i We should carry with us the power of
public sentiment, as well a the power ot our
arm. The danger is in failing to do either,
unless our authorities correct many mistakes
they are frequently making. A little more
freedom of the press will work good in some
ol these.--.. ..... . . , -
From Missouri we have the most exciting
news. Gen. Price has, after a sere re con
flict, and with a loss on his side (so say the
latest accounts) of 800 men, taken. Lex.
ington and the whole of Col. Mulligan's com
mand some 2,500 men, The Cincinnati
"Gazette" says: ,
" We should not forget that, besides pri
oners, a large amount of material of war, a
thnusaud horses, and two boat with ammu
nition which hid been sent to his relief, have
fallen into the hands of (he rebels. The loss
of this important point and of this army by
an overwhelming force, when its march on
Lexington was known ir. time to have re-in
forred it, and when the means fur renl'orcing
it undoubtedly existed in the Western De
partment, demands a formal inquiry into
the reason and responsibility of this disas
ter."
This is truly a great lot fa at, and ea Jan
gers Booueville and Jefferson City.
General Price released on parole all but
the commissioned officers, and 2,000 of them
have passed home to Illinois, thus closing
their campaign for this war, a they cannot
again take op arms. How many of ('ol. UI
ligan's men were killed ot the 2,500 is not
stated. ' " " -
It is verv difficult to tell where all the
troops in Missouri are stationed, of either
the Federal or Confederate armies, as all the
news we get comes very scattering through
St. Louis, and a vast amount of it coming
from lip te lip until it reaches the newspa
pers, and va-tly improved generally by the
imagination, or diminished, a the case may
be.
Kentucky, most unfortnnate Kentucky, has
gone mm the war trouble in great earnest.
Her position of peace and neutrality ha on
ly, from all appearances, whetted fier appe
tite for bitter contentions. Armed met are
already forming in every pari of the iSUte,
hostile to each other. Louisville is already
a camp, anu an wnn many other towi,. vv
quote again from the "4zeite :"
If, a reported, Ruckner and hi forre
are at Oeb"rou;h, K., ihey are in a posi
tion most threatening to the lower counties
of Indiana, and should ihey Dot be driven
out, can control the navigation of the Ohio
river. Owenborough is the eoul of Davie
county, and lies nut far from half way be
tween Paducali and Louisville. Rock'port.
the nearest important town on the Indiana
shore, i but nine miles dtsiaol. The pres
ent it no time for delay. Toe enemy i at
our very door!"
Doth the Ninth and the South have paed
taw confine sting the proj-eit of each oilier.
'Hie very thing of all other in the way of
war measure they should never have done;
lor whatever may be the end of this most an
fortunate conflict, those eoi.fi stioo act will
leave the longest scores lo settle, unless the
war ends in I lie ul'er exteiinintioii of one
party or the other, which few believe or few f
detiie shall he the result, and which foreign
natiun evidently will not permit if both par
tie here should attempt such a ci.Vinr uu of
the sorrowful scene.
-.mm
Jtff. I lionip.on was called out by the cit
izen of Memphis on Weinejay evening
last, and made a speech liom the balcony o
the Gay-sa Hou-e. He assured hi hearer
that a large majority ef ihe people of Mis
souri would show themselves for the South
whenever their voice could be hesrd, and
that the ultimate polilicat association of the
State with the Confederate State wa lo hi
mind a certainty. He also impressed upon
hi hearers (hat lo aid the people of Missou
ri in their straggle with Federal power was
the best mean of securing Memphis and tl.e
lower Mississippi Vttley from iovssiort. -
Fro Iho ft t Yarn Tub, Hep. J.
THC JsAVIOATKMf Of THB OHIO THRBAr
, CM0.
The rebel Statet of Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Tesas, Arkansas and Tennessee,
according to the official report of their de
partment, have pat into the field 140,000
men. Of these troops there are about 90,
000 in Virginia, mostly m General Beaure
gard's army. This is a low estimate if be
commands near 800,000 men, for it would
require that he should have 141,000 drawn
from the Statet of Georgia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Florida, Virginia aad Ma
rylanda number they can hardly yield.
But allowing for Virginia 39,000 men, drawn
from the Suteaof the lower Muwitaippi Val
ley, it will leave 11,000 tropt in the field
fur home de fence of the rebel States, and to
operate apoa Miweuri and Kentucky, which
the i-oaleueratet are timing te sever I rem
! the Union. Let a take oft 20,000 lor home
, service torcoaei guaro ino garrison oaty
ina we nave Cl.uuo rebel troop left lor ol
Uoaive operation aa-sinst Missouri and Ken-
lucky. A very large proportion of their
force wa recently in Missouri, under Pil
low and Hardee. But these men hate all
been transported to Kentucky, leaving in
Jiatouri only the regiments that Kcompsny
$en. McCulloch. It'll not known how mi
ny he hat, nor indeed ii it known where he
it at present. . but. u is, we inina, an entire
ly reasonable cslculation, that the Confeder
ate! have, either upon Kentucky toil ori
ready to be precipitated npon Kentucky, fit
ty thousand troops, in the main well drilled,
equipped with artillery.and altogether formi
dable in the field. ui as tne collision in
Kentucky becomes more shsrp and absorb
ing, all possible reinforcements will be
thrown forward by the Confederates. They
well know that their hornet must be protect
ed on the Kentucky line, or pot at all ; and
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so every ngnting man mat can oe apareu
from Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and
elsewhere, will be pushed forward to Ken
tucky to prevent the invasion of their own
homes. The Confederate army to be met
and opposed in Kentucky, will amount,
therefore, in a very short time, to not less
than 80,000 men. It may, in any emergen
cy, be run up easily to 100,000 men. And
such an army in the hands of Gen. A. 8.
Johnson, will be a powerful and dangerous
adversary, requiring the best strength anu
ablest generals of the government to nppose
it luccessluliy. ii tne invasion oi Kentucky
is no,t met with all promptness, and with all
the power of the government, no earthly pow
er can prevent the victorious march. of Gen
eral Johnston into the Ohio valley, and tb
wintering of the grand army in the cities of
Louisville snd Cincinnati.
Kentucky will be' a giant in the fight; but
Kentucky is not armed. Gen.'.Vndersnn is
a hero, and will " die the death" in the field.
if need be. But ben. Anderson a health 1
exceedingly infirm, and many think him fa
tally, impaired in vigor by his suffering in
Sumter. Under these circumstances it is
incumbent on the Administration to look
viiilantly into the movements of the enemy
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n rvemuiikj. iisi iiupcuui mere i nvi
duel between loyal Kentucky and rebel Ten
nessee. It is a battle between the Titans
the fiercest fighting men of the Confederate
States in full force, under their very ablest
generals, (Beauregard to the contrary not
withstand.) against the most gallant and res
olute race of men that the Union can boast
of the yeomanry of Illinois, Indiana. Ken
tucky ami Ohio. Hut the rebel force are
in the field armed, drilled and in motion.
The Unionists are not. They are just rally,
ing, without arin. without discipline, and
without a leader, Ihey need Ihe instant
care and pciul aid of the government.
They must h-ive it, or the Ohio river will be
as effectually commanded bv the rebel a
the lower Mississippi i and that before
Christmas; and the provision now carefully
stored in the grauariet of the Ohio valley
will go lo leed traitor.
THS POTOMAC BWK KADE,
The correspondent of one of our Southern
exchange, from the seat of war near Manas
sas, writes on the subject of Ihe Potomac
blockade as follows:
The Yankees hae discovered at lat t'at
the Potomac i blockaded, and that their pi
ratical ships will not he able to prowl op and
down that river a heretofore. They seem
to think a grrai deal about it, and coofeo
the navigation i stopped, unless they take
the batteries. Ihey will not nnd lliat o
easy, and will hardly attempt such a hazard
ous enterprise. Their attention appear to
be directed only to viathia foint, below
Arquia ('reek. They will find there is an
other formidable battery between Acouia
Creek and Washington, capable of arresting
the piogress of any flee. They can neither
get ep nor down. M e have the river closed
for a distance of some forty miles. Our Ma
ryland friends need Bt be ataid hereafter.
in cring the riser, of Ihe P-twtiee, or any
oilier of Lincoln's ships. lnle there be an
army occupation all along the shore, there
will be free communication between Mary
land and Virginia. These were masked bat
teries in reality, for Ihey have been con
structed secretly and behind a creen. The
Ysiikrra have talked so mack about masked
baltrrie whrrc there have been none, that
Ihey will now realir.e the troth of the fable
about the cry ot wolf. The value of these
works n s sfiairgetic oiul ot ticw, as affect
ing ihe gem ral persiioM of ihe war on the
Pwtnir, and with relerenre lo the iibrration
of Maiyl.ud, cannot be well over-estimated.
THE 8H00Tt.N0 Or 400 LINCOLN TROOPS.
Nothing ha come to confirm this incredi-
)h'ery. except that the Richmond Dispatch
ha rereid ii-frma'ioo from a "rrlistile
" ' t""' r'siment were ra.re.
! . ....
t-i change their arm, whereupon they muti
oied. end Gen. MUIltan surrounded them
ith five r-e'inrnis. - A melee with stone
and brickbat then commenced, and lo quell
tln riot Mrt'lellan g the order lo fire.
The laughter i represented to have been
fearful."-
The' tor probably grew oat of a riot at
Tenallytown, a few mile from Washington,
here e drunken toldier was ejected from a
drinking shop, and thereupon a great number
of Ihe 6th Pennsylvania regiment beat Ihe
shop keeper and threatened lo bora or tear
down hi house. Three companies were call
ed oat to tup pre the riot, and were several
timet ordered I Dre, bet did not. It it tup
noted thit they might hate killed 400 if they
bad fired.
Another great riot occurred at New Yoik
a lew daya ago, when Col. Lazier, ot the
Fire Zouaves, cttempted lo mutter his rei
ment for transportation to Old Point. 500
of them assembled according lo order, but
without uniform or arm. A meeting wss
held, at which a luge majority determined
that Ihey would not go, whils't a few said
they would go ii first paid for their former
service. The Colonel threatened to publish
the names as deserters; and nest threatened
to punish them deserters. But these
threat bad no effect. , A scene of grest con
fusion and disorder ensued; several person,
including one reporter, were tossed ia a
blanket, and then beaten merely, la ron
sequence of some of the men accusing each
other of cowardice st Ihe Hull Run battle, a
desperate fight resulted, which wai quelled
by the police, fteveral of Ibe Zouivei hid
their head snd faces badly cat. . The police
deemed it tiseleai lo make my arrests. ,
Col. Lozier ordered all those who desired
to serve their rountry to follow him lo Pier
No. I, North river, where a steamer wai in
waiting to convey them to Old Point. About
twenty-five followed the Colonel, while ihe
remainder tauoied then for hat io obeyed
ny orden till they were paid.
The Zouave attempted' an attack upon the
Elmira Regiment, but desisted when the men
were ordered to charge , upon them. The
sentries were provided with ball cartridge,
and ordered to shoot any person who forced
the guard. The attack was aot renewed.
This it the substance ot the t ribune s ac
count. It is a significant fact that the police
made no arrests. The civil authority is
prostrate even in New York.
THE WAR IN KENTUCKY -PROCLAMATION
FKOM UfclM. JOHNSTON.
Gen. Johnston, having assumed command
of the forces in Kentucky, has issued the lol
lowing proclamation. ' Its tone is in keeping
with the course marked out and strictly ad
hered to by the Confederates towards Ken
lucky in the position assumed by her I
Jl'htrea; The armed occupation of a part
of Kentucky bv the United States, and the
preparations which manifest the intention nf
their bovernment to invade the confederate
States throagh that territory, have imposed
it on these last, as a necessity of self defence,
to enter that state and meet the invasion up
on the best line for military operations; and,
whereas, it it proper tnat the motive ol tne
Government ot the Confederate Statet in
takinr this step should be fully known to
the world i Now, therefore, I, Albert 8
Johnston. General and Commander of the
Western department of the army of the Con
federate States of America, do proclaim that
these Statea have thus marched their troop
into Kenturky with no iiottile intention to
ward its people, nor do they desire to seek
to control their choice in regard to thir un
ion with citner ni tne uoniederacies, or to
tubjugate their State, or hold its soil against
. i . . .1 i
tneir wisuca. un me contrary, iney oeen
it to be but the right ol the people of Ktn
tucky to determine their own position in re
gard to the belieerents. It is for them
say whether they will join either Confedera
cy, or maintain a separate existence as an
independent sovereign Stale. The armed
occupation of their soil, both as to it extent
and duration, will, therelore, be strictly urn
ited by the exigencies of self defence on the
part of the Confederate States. These Stales
intend to conform to all the requirement of
public law and international amity, aa be
tween themseUe and Kentucky, and, accor
dinglv, I hereby coinm.nd all who are sub
ject to my orders to pay entire respect to
the rights ol property and the legal autnnri
ties within that 8tte.so f.r at the same may
be compatible with Ihe necessities of sell
defence.
II it be the desire of the people of Ken
lucky to maintain a strict nd impartial neu
trality, then, the effort to drive out the law
less intraders, who seek to make their State
the theatre of war, will aid them in the at
tainment ol their wishes. If, as it may not
be unreasonable to auppose, these people de
sire to unite their fortunes with the Confed
erate States, to whom they are already bound
by so man tie of interest, then the appear
aoce and aid of Confederate troop will as
sist them to make an opportunity for the Tree
and unbiased expression of their will upon
the subject. But if it be tree, whirh is not
to be presumed, that a majority of those peo
pie desire to adhere to the United States
and become parlies fo the war, then none
can doubt the right of Ihe other belligerent
to meet that war whenever and wherever it
mav be waged. Bui harboring no auch sus
picion,' I now declare, in the name of the
government which I serve, that its army shall
be
thdrawo from Kentucky so soon as
there shall be satisfactory evidence of the
existence and execution of a like intention
on the part of the United State.
Ry order of the Pre dent of the Confed
erate Statet of America.
A.S JOHNSTON,
General UonwrModinf ihe Wexara Deps'townl of
lbs sim j l tht Cftinfnlvrsie 8iia of Aaxiir.
Xereetlfy of Cotton noppljr la
LaglatMt.
from lb Lswdao Tux. August JO.)
Thetupplyandtliecontomp
tion of the last two year have been unex
ampled. All the market are glutted with
cotton good. W are expecting an im
meme increase from India, and the extraor
dinary trp of the detention of the next
year cotton crop in the United State need
nave no other ellrct than to reduce our cob-
umption, for one year, to two-third of the
late averge.
The great fact we have to deal with i one
independent of tariffs, of blocktde. of com
bination among merchant! or manufactur
er, and of every artifice for ttemming or
meeting the tide ol calamity. It i the
great tact of the war itself. That war must
employ, on both aide together, at least half
a minion men. there is not far from thai
number already under arm, and the cry is
continually for more men. The apology for
every reverse, is the want of reserves to re
lieve Ihe long engsged, to protect the gun,
to save the position from being outflanked,
and to keep ep the numbera to the program
me. Battles to deride the future of a whole
continent, and to figure, New York pi
Dr vtinlv hoisted, amons- the derisive
vie tor ie of the world, are not to be fought
wim division oi zu.uuu men. nonunion
il not so easy j glory it not o cheap.
The American have to tcrew an their
Kile of idea much higher than thin. How
they are to raise the men and money i an
other queiuon, oat tne men must be raised,
and if the eloquence of the New York jour
nal i worth the villaineu paper npon
which it ia printed, Ihe men will be raited,
and we thall see every mm capable of bear
ing ermt responding to the call. But all
that will be so much itrenrth and o many
band tsken awiy from all the productive
Industrie of America, from cotton, augar
and tobacco, among the rest. W here the
disarrangement of labor will atoo it ia not
eay to ay. Fngland and the neighboring
countries of Europe hive aeen trade and
manuiactnrei rise and fall tie or to more
tolerant shores, or better affected popula
tion f flourish and disappear. Who shall
ay whether the United State we used fo
admire, and even envy, may not before long
be a page of history
It i not our province to appeal much to
the enterprise of minufartaren and the cu
pidity of capitalist. Were we .to advise
our moneyed or mercantile reiden to M hold"
cotton, loud indeed would be the insinui
tioni, if cotton were to fall. We cm p
peil, however, aa the Manchetter Cotton
Com piny hii appealed, to the recognized
utiei of the State, and to the public in
which inspires and assists it The St
has accepted the office of collecting infor
mation tor commerce, oi iinuuuiiug us way,
and rendering more substantial assistance
where none is to be expected, now it the
time for ttraining every nerve to develope
the cotton cultivation in India and other
soils pronounced favorable. So long as this
duty seemed to depend on the problemati
cal and unfriendly assumption that Ameri
ca might one day keep her cotton to nerseii,
in order to destroy our manufactures, Gov
ernment might be eicued,from interfering
in the matter. We are now called to act,
not on a bare possibility or unwarrantable
suspicion, but on a plain matter of fact. At
this moment the export of cotton from the
United Mates is actually prevented snd el
fectually hindered by the presence of crui
sers, as well as by measure! taken by the
belligerents directly for the purpose. Both
tidet believe it to be necessary to prevent
the tale and export of cotton in order to
ttarve out the foe, Into the wiadom snd
practical character of thit proceeding it ia
uteleis to inquire. It it it least a notice to
ut to take care of ourselves, and if the Gov
ernments of North America are takinr
measures to keep all their cotton at home.
the British Government surely baa an equal
obligation to procure it elsewhere. Ia con
cert with the Manchester Cotton Company,
it is arranging for the immediate comple
tion ol roads, the construction oi lanainr
and shipping piers, the erection of cotton
gin factories, pressing houses, omcea ana
stores, the scientific investigation of the
cotton districts, the opening up of the God
a very, and, by the way. aa increase of the
cultivation ia" Egypt. The Manchester peo
ple are strong in hope that India only wanta
a little attention to supply every possible
gap in the American supplies. In behalf
ol the state, we loins; we may aay that an
the tcruplet tsainst interference in mercan
tile affairs will be waived when the prosper
ity of the country and the subsistence of
millions are at stake. If the merchanta
and manufacturers only know and aay what
ought to be done, there will be no wen ol
will to do on the part of the government.
Arrival of en Iron Clad Vttttl with Muni'
IWtl JOT lit .WW A, ,
A few day since we received private in
telligence of an important fact in all re
spects similar to the following, (which we
copy from the Forsythe, Oa., Journal.) but
for prudential reasons, we declined to pub
lish it at the time. As the matter hat leak
ed out at laat, however, no further harm can
come of ita republication I
" Several dayt tince in iron-clad ateamer
from Liverpool, with 6,500 riflet and 18
cannon, blankett, and clothing for soldiers,
landed safe at Savannsh. The blockading;
vessels wa aot in sight. Thit it a new
steamer, incased with sheet iron an inch
thick, and i now the property of the Coo
federate State. Our informant saw the
vessel himself, went on deck, talked with
the captain, who told him that there were
three or foor more vessel of the tame sort
on the wayt and aa soon as the steamera
could be manned under the Confederate
Government the blockade of Abraham I.
would be blown to the " lour wind."
" He said that the arrival of this vessel
had caused considerable activity among the
merchants ia sending off the coffee, tea,
salt, A.C.. to country merchants, while these
j articles are at a very high figure. He heard
the opinion etprctsed by some "knowing:
ones" that in less than forty davs Rio cof
fee could be bought in Savannah at I2
cents. Large quantities are stored in Cu
ba, awaiting the removal of the blockade."
rmtxa or a collmbiad axd nra-iiA.
RIME BITTERY AT HEW ORLEANS.
The New Orlram Picayune, of the 14th
alt.. ajtt There wa a targe crowd assem
bled yesterday afternoon at the Lake end of
the Ponchartrain Railroad to witneti the
letting of an eight-inch columbiad, weighing
about 12,000 pound. Thit gun wtt cit it
the iron work of Metir. Bennett tt Lorget,
corner of Magnolia and Erato ttrctt. It
w catt aolid, and afterward placed ia a
lathe, turned by tteaic, the bit, or intirumeat
with which it wa bored, being lilionary.
It wai citt ander the supervision of Mr.
Daniel Bratill. the foreman of Messrs . Ben
nett & Lurge, according to the moit approv
ed pattern, and i pronounced on of the fi
nest foeee of ordinance that ha yet been
lamed not in the South. The time oceapicd
in boring thi eon wa two week.
It wa letted under the direction of Lieut.
Beverly Kennon, of the C. 8. N., and Chief
of the Naval OnUance Department, with M
pound ahell ander the general role IW teat
ing cannon, and it wa estimated the thell
wa thrown to a distance of two mile, with
out alraiaing the gun. Lieui. Kennon ex
pressed himself highly satisfied it the results.
The Charleston Courier wyi that prepar
ation are making in tkat city to maaufac
lore locomotive for Ihe Southern roadi on a
large Kile. It ia a good move, and we wiah
t tuccesi. We tincerely hope ihtt the
Kouth ha paid her last dollar to locomotive
builder in PhiUdclphi. Paterson, and oth
er Northern town. We caa baild them at
home if we ran'l, we doo'i deserve lo hive
a home. Let Baldwin, Norria and Athera
build for their own country and lei a build
for euraelvet. We teppote two millioat of
dolUri ire tpent annually at IN Sooth for
Northera made locomotive led ttationiry
engines. Let thil be kept at home. We
hail with delight every effort making the
Sooth to render at Mrptndent In fact ii well
at nam. Aug lirmUU.
Pat Yri Saul Dxm. Thi is gnorl
advice, and there never wa a time when it
i a more olemn duty. When the amafl
debt are paid, there is a general confidence
among oor home people, and the wheel of
trade move on regularly and easily. Be
sides, it ia the small debt which cantml all
the big one, and which mott materially af
fect trade. None ire piying to our enemiei,
but all should mka a tpeeial effort to pay
their amid debla to their friend, if lor no
other reason that It diffuse good spirit,
given confidence and greiei the oheeli of
trade, all which are nreersary and indnpen
sibl at the present time. Let all pay up,
and all will feel better and thai promote ihe
common west. , Fay op, but etpecially pa
all .mill dtbti. ' ' f ' nJ