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THE DAILY JOURNAL. . COfXPSHAT WATTS OF AMXhfca. wTuroroToa. a. Vn trip it, dkt a. i, iwa. Cxiaj cum, uff aod conquered. Duu and Fos ret came, saw, plundered, got whipped aod M tkedad iia,". M . Ttrycame iplika fctagrj wolves, marking tbeir path by desolation. Ruined homes, desolated Urma, wrecked baUdinge, btroed bridges, stolen negrcee muk Ihelrtmk. . v lfcej plundered belpleeg women an J children tbrj lava beeo driren back by far Inferior numbers of arm cd men. Tbey bare tbowed themselves to be robbera ana toojus, noting; eren in toe courage that history ascribes to those aooargr a of the Soman Empire,or popu lar oplulop connect with the Image of the bold high wayman. ' Eat pethapa, after all; the Abolition forces did what tbey were tent for carryln; oat their programme in full, desolating the country, exhausting its resources, and hopiog to make men partizins of eabmiaaion by cawing them to feel the miseries attendant upon a war waged for Independence. In this tbey will not aacceed, while the will embitter the leelioga ot all aod make them eren more adverse than ever to tha reconstruction of a -Union that would join them by an no natural bond to a til, which goes three times a week. Or why can't we get eren the Fayetteville papers. . We thick, indeed we feel confident that cmr isolation will soon cease, oar rd be repaired, aod oar communications restored, bat jast now, at the thicg stands, "oar sufferings is intok ra people that they hare seen gnlltj of inch atrocities, and from whom they bare aafferrd so many wrcngs. Bat although the Yankees have disappeared from the front Of onr forces near Goldnboro', there is no certain ty as to where they hare gone. Some even go so far as to think that they may bend tbeir way in this direction. Ws do not think so. They will never attempt inch a marca oj laou ajien iuuwj wey ue crazy, blu uauki Is not crazy, although no match lor Uustavus W. Bum In military knowledge or capacity. . Alter all the flourish of trumpets .made ovir tbe Bajtks' expedition, we are inclined , to think that, in coming to Beaufort harbor it reached the point for which It was intended to sail, bat that in failing to reach Uoldaboro', it did not reach the point aimed at, and tailed to accomplish the main object in view. u- k... Am ..-u i: ... .:.,,. ... ui uj miv uvuo uubu iujuij iu Hi,aic 'both belonging to Individual! and to corporation!!, and In doing so they have no doubt carrtal out one part ol tbeir programme We expeet to hear something of them aoon. At pre sent It is doubtful whether they are going toNewbern, nnna K lo fin wna moo rer. ociTt them before tbey do roach more barm We trnrt mat weir jinai uesunauon may oe tneir immediate acs tination. P. 8. Since wriliog the aboveTwc have seml-cffiji&l Information that the enemy beat a rapid retreat towards Newborn on night before last. It is supposed their . next effort willl be to take Wilmington. We are sure arhun thft ftttamnt la m iita. fkn arill mwt with ft tnnrm reception, equally as warm as at Kington and Golds boro', if not a little mors so. , They have made their boast that they would occupy this place on the 25th Inst. Wesbaliaee. .- Tut Yaskkbs are informed, so tbey say that the roads leading to Wilmington from the sea coast are all mined, tr filled with masked batteries. They propose to get over this by putting Confederate prisoners in front and making them point out the situation of such mines or other works, or at any rate rua the risk of the explosion or draw the lire of the battery. ' Now that U a proposition that would disgrace a Tartar or a Hindoo, and yet it is gravely made and shameless ly avowed through the columns of a leading New York paper, an, (organ and supporter of the Lincoln adminis ; tration and presumed to reflect its vie S and to be aware of its policy. W have nothing U say about the mines or batteries alluded to. We can't quite Inform our Yankee cotem poraxks, but no doubt if they attempt to march upon Wilmington, they will find out whether or not tbey have beeo correctly informed. Tbey may possibly find also that the taking of prisoners is a- game that two can play at ' . ; ' , ' : We don't want to see the enemy attack the Cape Fear, bat if they will come, we opine they will find some little opposition. There will be an uwilliogneas to let them come lb, which may result in keeping tbcm " out lathe cold." Wilmington nray be taken that is the fortuneof war, but that it will ever be surrendered we do not believe.- Wi learn that on yesterday morning about an hour before day, the Steamer Kate McLaurin, with some six ty passengers on board and a heavy freight, sunk in the Cape Fear River about two miles below Elizibeth- town. "" 8o far as we can learn, the accident occurred from soma aegiect to the working oi the pumps. The steamer was run up to the bank, where she lay with her lower deck completely under water. All the passengers got safely to shore, though with some diffi culty. A large proportion of the freight consisted of salt, which was melted, and we suppose lost. The bag gage of the passengers was generally wet and damaged. The Ices will probably exceed twenty thousand dollars. Tax election held, yesterday for Commissioners of Town resulted In the choice of the following gentlemen, being the ticket advertised to the Journal: Altred Uartln, 8. D. Wallaee, Wm. A.. Wright, O. O. Pars ley, B. O. Worth, Miles CostinO. D. Ellis. Owing to the public excitement in reference to the wari ins vote was exceedingly small. ' . Caxxot our 8tate exchanges be sent to us by tom'i rente or routes ? As for Instance, why cannot the Bal- e?;h r?o be sett either by way of Charlotte and Co- h-VJi ifiil m iVavm L o at. il. .a m. 1 i ! miiTfti nr a t tii w-a A&uua ft. i in et iti t n np n w ins iin rrm ftyvwaaif w m j bwv aftw U Tijtttsrn, and so by the steamers or by the walk Tat Iron Steamer Cornubia with govermeot stores, shoes, blankets, medicicrs sod iron plates, has arrived at a Confederate port ' - By thia arrival the London ladtz of the 30th of Oc tober and 6th of November have been received. We have no time to-day to make extracts, but will endea vor to do so at the earliest moment. The Index is strongly Southern it Its tone. To ism Tail o. Nicbo'as Smith, a Norfolk merchant, charged with bringing Yankee goods in the Confedera cy in violation of law, imprisoned for several days past in this city, by order of Brig. Geo. French, was sent to Petersburg yesterday under guard to be tried for the offence alleged against him. ' Richmond Diipatch, 12th intt. an sxeura oriMioM or BCTua's bclb is ksw ohm si. (Prom tba London Times. Nothing is more clearer in law and ethics than that an oath extorted by unlawful coer cim is void. It is a horrible outrage for a wretch like this Butler, who probably ba never in his life done one act pf mnnbood, to drive op the whole population, nndtr the muzzle ofcunnoo and under threats of being utter lj despoiled to comtnit a sortof white perjury. These people bad all no doubt taken the oath of allegiance to the government of tbeir choice, and tbey bare now swallowed by force an allegiance to a government they bate. Even Butler cannot suppose tbat an oath thus extorted eao give him any further right, moral or legal, over these people. It is a senseless humiliation aod a useless insult no more. It is only an set of tjranoy but an set of tyranny without an advantage. I he Northern people riujfht to be ashamed of themselves for keeping this stupid ruffian In such a post. While this miserable creature is in command, New Orleans can serve for no other cause but as a warning in all Southern cities what subroifsion to the North involves. TBS zmjuih rasas o mediation in amsbic an affairs. From the London Times. The world is now acquainted with the motives which have prompted one rovernment (France,) to propose and the other, (England,) to decline an intervention Jo the American quarrel. The general purport ot Lord ItueaeU's answer is tbat, though a time may come when an offer of mediation may serve the cause of humanity, tbat time baa not yet come. I bat this is true, no one in this country will doubt All of ns feel that the pro posal of the armistice by England would just now be used bv the war oartv in America to excite tbo passions of the people and to regain the power which is rapidly passiog from them. Toe peaceful proposals or tbe two powers would be rejected in an Insolent dispatcn irom Washington Nothing then would be left but either to abstain completely, whatever might be the miseries brought on America or ourselves by tbe war, or else to adopt a tone aod a conduct in our next interference which might compromise us seriously. Tbe course which the Queen's ministers havj chosen will, wo think, satisfy not only the English public, but even the reflect ing men in France, and the hmperor himself. f From the London News. 1 Tbe course which appears best in the eyes of .the British Government is, to watcb carefully tbe progress of opioioo in Ameiics, and to take advantage of the first favorable opportunity o BY red by a change to ten der friendly counsel. We think tbat, with tbe excep tion of a few thoughtless people who would plunge us into a war, people of all opioions will think tbat Ibis in tbe best answer that could have been made by tbe British Government without entering unnecessarily upon a dipcussion of the merits of tbe case. An acceptance of the French proposition at the present time, perhaps at Sny time, woud tmburk us in a dark and d.fficnlt course, of which no one could predict the issue. Tbe American case itself is one which tbe wisest mlms'er might well desire to be excused from taking ir. hand. (From the London Rriew.) Mediation, would be equivalent to recognition of the South, and to a declaration of war with the North. The benevolent profession of putting a stop to useless bloodshed could scarcely be disconnected from tbe avow ed intention of obtaining cotton for European looms. Tbe fflerine occasioned by tbe blockade may, perhaps, hereafter justify forcible intervention ; but Euglish opin ion la almost- unanimous iu holding tbat tbe time has not arrived for overruling international law on tbe grouud of expediency. TBI GR0WIKO DISCONTCMT XX TUB K0RTR THE PBOMfiCS Of THE TANK IKS TO TAKK BICBXONP TUB rBOSPICT ril WINTER CAMPAIGN. From the London Times. The discontent of the Northern people are, however, only beginning. The feelings indicated by the rise in gold and exchargp, by the cessation of immoderate boastings, and by tbe calmneBS which the prospect ol European intervention is discussed, are likely to extend during tbe ensuing winter. Until within a week of our latest news tbe public were amused by continual reports of a speedy advance of McClellan. Tbe drama of " On to liichm jnd " was to be performed a second time in tbe season of 1862 ; only this time tbe march was not to be Irom tbe point ot a promonatory in tbe Atlantic, but along tbe valleys and over the bills of Virginia. . The new t ederal levies were to be harried across tbe Aile ghanies, and to clcsa the campaign by the capture of tbe enemy's capital. But as tbe season advances these expectations seems to be again passing away. Of course, we cannot know what acts of military folly th impatience of tbe people and the weakness of tbe Wash ington Cabinet may nrge General McClellan. but this we do not know, that no Geoeral with ordinary know ledge of his profession would advauce in such a country, at such a season, with a lorce in such a condition. W e most refer our readers to our American news for tbe means of judging what are the chances of a Feder al victory over Gen. Lee before the winter closes in. And it is not so much to our own correspondence tbat we woold direct bis attention as to tbe extracts from the New York World and tbe New York ?imct, the latter a strongly Republican journal, and till lately a noisy alerter of the 90 days' theory. The state ot the army, tbe weariness and disguet of tbe officers, the de moralization of the men, the want of common necessa ries, tbe deficient clothing and bedding and the conse quent difficulty of an advance, are told with a candor which is itself a sign of the times. Then the prospects ot a winter campaign may be understood from the de scription given of tbe country end the weather. The rainy season had begun, and there were in tbe last half of October heavy rains nearly every other day. " These I narrow mountain roads and dt files," says the World, difficult of passage in the bent weather, are almost im passable to wet weather, aod if oar troops move tad now have a fight it will need as it alwajs does after a battle, a re-iaaoe of supplies to make up for losses." - Tbe army," aaya the same writer, - will be sunk al most irretrlevawy in demoralization u it stands still on til another setson. With all our immense levfe?, six months hence will not find us practically a whit strong er than we are now." - The Abolitionist New York It ma is equal! despond ing. M All patriotism seems eaten out of tbe hearts of the regular army men," is its comment on the diflike which the best officers notoriously feel for the war. 01 tbe men it is said tbat plunder, license, abanlooment of self-respect, and general demoralization are sufficient ly wide spread to be alarming.". And tbe accounts given in tbe World of tbe material deficiences of the army are folly corroborated. All these things combined give cs reason to hope that the ligbt of reason and humanity is dswning again in America after a long observation. It is not that Gen eral McOlellan's army is unable to take tbe field, and tbat tbe men of whom it is composed ere quarrelling, plund ering and deserting in preseno of a victorious enemy, but it is tbat men dare to speak out, and tell us that all this is going on, and tbat there is little hope of its amendment. Evidently tbe reaction from tbe freozy of tbe past eighteen months has begun, and we may cher ish some hope that tbe wont is past. From tbe Lynchburg Republican. High Pile and LagtaUtlVft Prohibition. We observe that tbe South Carolina Legislature is attempting a very absurd and a very impossible thing. It is Mttemptinp to legulate the prices of marketable commodities by legislative enactments. Since the war commejieedweave observed all such legislation, both on the part of tbe States and tbe Confederate authorities, aod we have yet to see a single instance in which tbe evil which it was sought to cure was cot great intensified. Some time last year tbe Governor of Georgia authorized the seizure of all tbe salt in the bands of speculators, and prohitited its transportation Irom the State under heavy penalties We endorsed the act, because we thought, without re Auction, that it would be of service to tbe people, but it was just the reverse ; tbe trade in salt was broken up in Georgia, tbe article became higher and scarcer,' and the people were the soSerers. Tbe Provost Marshal of Iticbmond attempted to fix the price of such articles as batter, eggs, poultry, beef, Scc, in tbat market, aod tbe consequence was that the hucksters refused to tupply the market at those prices, the people became the suf ferers, ant tbe Provost Marshal bad to annul his arbi trary ordinance. For a long time the Confederate au thorities attempted to fix the price of wneat, flour, sugar, ptovender, tc, purchased for the use of the government. The peop'e would not sell at those prices, speculation ceased, and the government bad to resort to impreit mint for supplies. Tbey soon found tbat this was not only a system of public plunder on the part of the gov ernment, but tbat it failed to furnish them the necessary supplies. The re. ult was that tbe absurdity of making and controlling prices was abandoned by tbe govern ment authorities, and now tbey come into market with the people npon terms of fair competition. We might allude to numerous other instances in which 8tate, cor poration and Confederate authorities, have attempted to regulate and control tbe prices of articles of consump tion, but the same inevitable failare has attended them all, and the evil been vastly increased by tbe remedy. And such in the very nature ot things will infallibly be the result o; such arbitrary and loolisn legislation. Tbe reason of this is obvious upon a moment's re flection. Nine tenths of the people have mistaken tbe cause of high prices. They seem to think it is some arbitrary and tyrannical tariff of charges fixed by a merciless set ol speculators and extotlonera. If it were not for the epecu'ators, say they, prices of everything would rule low. 1h?re never was a greater mistake upon earth. 1 bey put the cart before tbe horse. They nrgbt . just as well denounce the ridiculous proposition tbat vultures drew tbe carrion, for it is a demonstrable fact that were it not for the bigh prices there would be no speculation ! Make sugar ten or twenty cents a pound, and there will not ba another barrel brought to Virginia during the war, and never another speculator engage! in tbe trade. Fix the price of salt at five doN lars er Back, and not another speculator will go after it, and the people will have to do without it. Cut down the price of calico to ten or twenty cents per yard, and not another yard will run the blockade. Fix tbe price of shoes at three cr fire dollars, and not another pair will be made, t ix tbe price ot wood at five dol lars per cord, and nobody will sell. Reduce butter to twenty-five cents per pound, aod we will have to eat greaaekss bread for five years to come. In short, put down nign prices, and you wiiugrall down speculators ; and put down speculators, and(ou will impoverish the the markets and starvrond free 23 tbe people, These truths are so &f-evident, that it seems aston ishing they should rail tc4secure the sanction of the least observant and thoughtless amongts us. No man spec ulates tor tbe mere pleasure oi tbe tnmg. He speca lates to make ' money, and be will speculate on those things of which he can make the most money. This is human nature and common sense. It has been so from the beginning of commerce, and, will be so to the end of time, in peace and in war. Uestroy speculation, and you at once sweep the white sails of commerce from tbe seas, and arrest the course of trade npon tbe land. Every man would have to be bis own merchant, his own sales man, his own manufacturer and bis own banker. Uizh prices therefore, make speculators, and if we are asked what makes high prices, we answer emphatically tu tear, and its concomitants. High prices, great profits, and immense fortunes attend all wars conducted upon paper issues, r rices nave gone up part pat su with the increase of the currency and the demands of trade, and they will come down in the same ratio precisely as the currency is curtailed after the war, and the demands of trade cease, and not before. Tbe war has made paper money abundant- far too much so for ordinary trade, and it has made nearly everything scarce and in greater demand. Mad we no war we should have no blockade, and without tbe blockade we would get calicoes at twenty cents per yanl, instead or two dollars. Tbe war bas made salt scarce, by cutting us off from various abundant sources or supply, and salt is now selling at tbe fabulous prices of seventy and eighty cents per pound. 'This is too high, do doubt, and there is as little doubt tbat those who make salt have extorted upon the people and made fortunes. But . supply and demand are fundamental laws which control all trade, and while, like any other wholesome laws, they may be, and doubtless are, abus ed to tbe injury of tbe people, it is equally as certain that no law can control or correct tbe evil, any more than it can affect tbe laws of gravitati9n. Fteelraderis the best hw and the only law whiclrcan regulate the prices and govern commerce ; and the leg islator who attempts to tinker with and upset the fun damental principles of all political economy, and reverse or arrest the natural course ot things under an ordinary er extraordinary state of circa msUaoes, only renders himself ridiculous and multiplies the ctSs which hi seek to remedy. . ' From tha Chicago Tittee. A F.ftrfal Chapter lit CiUnl niaiMy. The criminal court at CasUin, In Pome rants, (Prus sia.) has for a fortnight been occupied with a case which may be said to be without a precedent in the annals of I tuasiao crime. A workman named K rl Maascb has beeo accused of having been concerned in the commis s on of thirteeo murders and many hundred robberies, of which be confesses himself guilty. , Tee number f his trsnsgressions is, v'.owever. probably, lar greater than tbat indicated in the crowded list already mads out against him. Among modern criminals, Dumollard alone,, who was expected some months ago in France, can be compared in the enormity of bis crimes with the monster Maasch. Not only was Maasch. like Oamal- I 3 Sift. 1 ft I a . . . ' ru, guuiy oi me most coia-Diooded cruelty Ja tbe num erous murders which he seemed to take a fieodisb de- llfvkt In nMinat,AllAA knt I. I. : J . . iu ut iiu.uuj, uui me uiueuua ma oner id wnicn he treated tbe still warm bodies of bis female victims sinks him far below the level cf tbe savage or tbe brute. Karl Maascu was, it appear, tbe leader of a bind of wretches, consisting of himself, bis brother Martin, bis mother, an old but active woman, and two laborers named Liebeg and Kohlscbmidt ; and all these persons were placed at tbe bar. Tbeir burglaries anij murders naa tor nve years kept in almost continual alarm tbe population around Sodlin Pyriiz, Lansburg and Star gardt. One of tbe most horrifying atrocities which they committed was on a night in May, 1861, when Karl Maascb and some ot his band broke forcibly into the house of a miller named Ranmgart, at Carsdorf, murdered tbe miller and bis wife, bis daughter, two sons, and a maid, and robbed tbe bouse of everything ..LI 1 1 ... . . Y urn wh wiwuwauu Turnsole, lociuuirg, it is oenevea, a considerable sum of money. The murders, too, were committed In a manner so atrocious as to arouse tbe population into a frenzy, and the most persevering ex ertions were made to obtain a clue to tbe guilty par ties, . .1..., r..i? . .i . a Lie iiijLiiraL uctrcLivu m ueriin wt-rf. ipnr. ri din fr.a. local police ; but the only person to whom suspicion pointed ss assistant who slept io tbe bouse, and wbo was the only one who escaped death, was at last set free, under the conviction that be was inntvent A strange incident, however, at length occurred. Two farm laborers, of tbe village of Warain, near Stargardt, were one morning walking together on their way to tbeir work in the fields, when it came on to rain. For tbe sake of greater shelter against tbe wet, one of them proposed that they should proceed to tbeir destination for tbe rest of the way by a path leading through tbe woods This being agreed on, the peaeants bad not Knon ton wnittntaaa t w t Ka rVMA ftVAN 9 4 wvu av-u uiiuumi iu iuv auiiroijft nucu vug ui ujcui CDLMVvl at some distance through the trees tbe upper half of the body of a man sticking up out of the ground. Their hearts leaped to their mouths. One immediately start ed off with all the speed be could put forth, while tbe other, more self-possessed, retreated more slowly, keep ing his eye fixed on the object in question, which grad ually sank out of sight into the earth. 1 be peasants instantly made known to the owner of . 1 . . .L -. . l. ? iL. 1- i mi iuc co low: iuc Birauge imng mey ua wuncsseu. me police was sent for, and a number ot persons, with all dispatch, proceeded to the mysterious spot which was pointed out by tbe laborers. At first it seemed as though the men most have deceived themselves or were carry ing on a practical joke ; for at tbe spot indicated there appeared to be nothing like a hole in the earth, as the grass covered tbe ground all round about. On closer investigation, however, a slit was found io tbe grass in tbe form of a square. It was the top of a trap door covered with turf. On forcing this opeo and descend ing, a large cavity was discovered, from which, how ever, the late occupiers bad already flad. The hole itself, which was roofed with trees overlaid with turf, was divided into two rooms, the walla lined with boards a stove, two or three beds, a ladder, vic tuals, and cooking utensils being present, and making a rerv annv Bnfforornnnri rfvpllincr In aAAftnn (Kooq ' O - " - articles, there were present quantities of objects identi fied as having been stolen from various homes in the neighboring country, in which burglarious robberies and murders have been committed. Axes, firearms, and other weapons, as well as a considerable cumber cf thieves tools, were likewise so fcund. 1 ne police now round tnemseives on tbe right track. Various circumstances the description given by the peasants of the occupiers of tbe cavern, as well as indi cations found in tbe cavern itself led to the suspicion tbat the perea so seen was none other than the noto rious workman, Karl Frederick Maascb, who was con jectured to be the leader of tbe band of robbers who had so long In tec ted tbe neighborhood. Against bim and his crew the search was henceforth specially direct ed. Maasch had beeo for some time a laborer on the estate of Deazon, near Pyritz, in which neighborhood be was born, lie was never married, and bad been pub lished frequently for theft. He was a scoundrel of tbe lowest modes of life, Ind sprang from a family heredita rily criminal, lie bad Bed Irom tbe place mentioned above on account of the discovery of new thefts com mitted by him, and bad not beea seen lor several years. At first tbe efforts of tbe police to take bim were com pletely foiled, and be was strenuouslyraided in bis con rpalmpnt hv the rent of the band. eonHiatirvr .for rhomnat part of his lamily. ' r rr: ..J k..iU. Vf..:. f I T l - l lilt uviiki WIU UIWU1CI (lUIUfUL i. .ciiiCr Bfc Scbonon, Pyritz, about six English mLom the re treat in the forest They and MartinT, wife were speedily seized and thrown into prison on suspicion. - In tbeir dwelling were louna an axe, on which traces or blood were still discovered, aod a quantity of articles belonging to the same robberies as did those found in the hole in the woods ; so that at length those wbo had committed tbe Baumgart murder were in the hand of iustice, if we except tneir leader, Karl Maascb. Oj a micruBcupiu cAftiuiuauuu vi me wrce axes, irum iuc hole and tbe fourth found at tne bouse of Martin, un mistakable traces of this horrid six-fold murder were perceived. On one axe, stuck a small portion of human main ; on all four, human hair, miogled with clotted blood, ine nair agreed completely with tbat or the, murdered persons, and tbat ot tbe servant maid was identified with particular clearness. . .' Onpne of the axes ibere still clung fed woollen threads, precisely similar to those of the material of which Mrs. Baumgart's night-cap was made, and which she wore on the night ot the murder. Another axe till retained traces of tbe children's bedclothes. The wile ot Martin sealed her guilt by hanging herself io prison, after having been accused of participating in the Baumeart murders. Tbe principal party, however. still remained at large ; be bad been driven from tbe tioldio country by the exertions made to capture him. What, however, tbe police could not achieve with tbe Btmrjst endeavors was again left to be accamnlUbed bv a happy accident. One beautiful summer's evening a citizen ot Frankfort on the Order observed a drunken man in the publij streets behaving himself in a very shameless manner. On addressing some words of in dignant remonstrance to him, be received an answer of tbe very coarsest description, and was compelled to call police sergeaat.
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