Ely Cobt. W. Lewis, Editor and Proprietor HUNTINGDON, PA Wednesday morning, Oct. 28, 1863. Our Flag Forever "I know of no anode in width a loyal citi zen may so well demonstrate his devotion to his country as by sustaining the Flag the Constitution and the Union,under all circum stances, and UNDER EVERY ADMINISTRATION, REGARDLESS OF PARTY POLITICS, AGAINST ALI. ASSAILANTS, AT 1103 S T. AND AIIROAD."--STEPIIKN A. DOUGLAS THE NEWS. The war appears to be more strong ly concentrating in the Southwest.— Corinth is again filled with soldiers, and Sherman's advance, under Oster haus, has had a sharp engagement with the enemy, who are said to be under General S D Lee, General Rod dy, and others, contesting his junction with the forces of Hooker, now at Ste venson, Ala. The rebel General Lor ing was reported at Granada, Miss., ready to dispute the expected advance of McPherson's corps. The remainder of Longstreet's forces are said to have been despatched to General Bragg.— We have a late report that Hooker's forces crossed the Tennessee, and en gaged the enemy. W$ have a special despatch that on Saturday a strong force of rebel infan try crossed the Rappahannock and suddenly attacked and drove back Gregg's cavalry, subsequently engaged two infantry brigades. Major C Taggert, of Philadelphia, was killed The enemy's left now extends from Beverly to Stafford, and crosses the railroad at Bealton. TUN destruction of the railroads be tween General Lee and the Army of the Potomac, and the transmission of further reinforcements to the army under Bragg, is said to be the rebel explanation of the recent forward movement, and accepted by our own generals. Rebel papers state their losses, at the battle of Bristoe, at about fifteen hundred, among which are three brigadiers, wounded. GEN WARREN, of the Army of the Potomac, has, according to rumor, made another considerable capture of rebels belonging to Hill's corps. AN important raid by General Burn side, in Southwestern Virginia, is ru mored. His late operations are de tailed in a rebel dispatch from Lynch bur,"„;. Our forces struck the Virginia and Tennessee Bailroad between Bris tol and Abingdon, destroyed five brid ges, threw one engine from the track, tore up half a mile of track, burned the cross-ties and bent the iron, and burned two engines, and:five cars load ed with salt. AN advance of the forces under Weit zel, near Vermillionvillo, Louisiana, bad a brief engagement, in which the enemy were driven. The village of Morganzia had been occupied by our troops, and was destroyed by fire be fore leaving it, not a house being left standing. The army was consolidated, and General Banks was in command, in person. DESPATCHES from Louisville on the 25th, state that the rebels.burned the trains laden with forage, between Murfreesboro and Chattanooga, which were proceeding South. The guerillas aro actively endeavoring to obstruct the movements of our forces in the Southwest. CINCINNATI, Oct. 26.—A special dis patch to the Gazette from Chattanooga, dated the 24th, gives the following in formation : General Grant arrived here yesterday. Deserters report that Breckenridge's and Hindman's corps aro withdrawing. The rebels are mo ving in large bodies to eur left today, but their object is unknown. Rumors are afloat that Rome and Atlanta have been attacked in the rear by our for ces. The river is high and rising.— The weather is cold and the roads arc in bad condition. All is quiet. MEMPHIS, Oct. 22—General M'Pher son on the 15th came up with the en emy near Canton, Miss. After a short fight the enemy retreated, leaving 200 prisoners in our hands. General Mc- Pherson occupies Canton. The rebel infantry lately there has gone to Bragg Curtin's Official Majority 15,325. This will do, taking into considera tion the frequent assertions of the bo gus Democratic leaders that Wood ward's majority would be overtvhelteing. Hall our soldiers had been at home— or if they could have voted wherever they were on the day of election, Cur tin's majority would not have been less than 50,000. 15,325—that will do until we have another opportunity to do better. nek. Judge Woodward has determin ed since the election to remove from Philadelphia back to Wilkesbarre.— The society in Philadelphia is too loy al for him. It is a pity ho had not re signed his seat us Judge—if he had, he would now be 4 a retired gentleman'. HARD TO PLEAM—The last Monitor is a very fair specimen of what the 'traitor sheets generally are. Its read ing columns are filled with denuncia tions of the Administration and every measure proposed or acted upon to put down the unholy rebellion—but not a word can be found in that traitor sheet against the rebellion or the scoundrels who are at the head of it. A blind man cannot be mistaken as to whore the editors of that sheet would be found if they had the courage to take up arms to defend the cause their feel ings are with. And yet they claim to be Union men. As well might the rebels in arms, who aro a far more honorable enemy of the Government, claim to bo in favor of "the Union as it was and the Constitution as it is." If these traitor leaders of the bogus Democratic party wore honestly in favor of defeating the rebellion, they certainly could find something to say to encourage loyal hearts, and some thing to say to discourage those who are in arms against our Government. They even go so far as to attack the President's proclamation ordering a day of thanksgiving, as if we as a loyal people had received nothing to be thankful for. We should be thankful that such traitors us the editors of the Monitor have not bad an opportunity to receive with open arms on Pennsyl vania soil, their rebel brethren of the South. Wo should be thankful that the rebels of the North have not yet been able to raise an army of bogus Democrats to help the South to destroy our Government. We should be thankful that the loyal people, the good citizens of Pennsylvania, Ohio, lowa, and other States, have disap• pointed the expectations of Jeff Davis and his friends North and South. We should be thankful, that, surrounded as we are by sneaking, slimy, coward ly rebels, we are able to say we still have a Government. If the bogus De mocracy cannot think of anything to be thankful for, loyal mon can, and we hope they will not forget the day named by the President for thanksgiv ing and prayer. THE SOLDIERS.—A howl has gone up all over the State from the traitor sheets, because a few soldiers from the hospitals, and other points not in dan ger of being disturbed by the Southern rebels, came home and voted at the late election. It is not true that Meade's or Rosecrans' armies were weakened by men leaving them for the purpose of voting in this State.— Thousands of them were anxious to come home to enjoy their rights, but they could not and did not. We think our soldiers have a right to vote, and we were glad to see some of their home to give the enemy in the rear a slight hint of how the " boys" in the army would have voted had not Woodward deprived them of that right. Some of the traitor sheets go so far as to say that enough soldiers voted to give Curtin the majority he has. If this assertion of the traitors is true, Curtin may well be proud of that majority.— We would sooner have the vote of a single soldier than any number of votes from the deserters who bid them selves in the mining districts and vo• ted for Woodward. THE traitor sheets could find noth ing good to say of the conscription act, and now that the President has issued a proclamation calling on the country for volunteers, the same traitor sheets find fault with it. The call comes ei ther too soon or too late—the Presi dent must revoke certain enactments before "Democrats" will volunteer— certain members of the Cabinet must be removed—and many other changes must take place before the traitor bo gus Democratic loaders will agree to defend their country against the at tacks of their rebel friends, and a for eign enemy. The President need not expect to please such men—.-he can't do it—they wont be pleased. They are fighting for powqr : ---for the success of their party—and any measure pro posed by the President to cripple their friends in the-South, will be opposed by them. They will not say anything to induce a "Woodward Democrat" to volunteer—not they—they want all such to remain at home to do the vo ting. Offioial Vote for Senator. The following is the official vote in this Senatorial District for Senator:— Counties. Baer. Householder Huntingdon, 2221 3200 Bedford, 2712 2407 Somerset, 1843 2957 Total, • 6776 8573 6776 Householder's majority, ' 1797 This is slightly different from the programme put up by the leaders of the bogus Democratic party. Hunt. ingdon was to give Householder only from 400 to 500 majority—Somerset from 300 to 400—and Bedford was to give Baer from 1000 to 1200—this would have elected Mr. Baer by a small majority, but the slight mistake in the calculution made by Mr. Baer's friends leaves him at home to comfort himself as best be can. TilE Evening Journal, a bogus Dem ocratic sheet, published in Philadel phia, has gone dead. It lingered in great agony for some weeks, but the weight of treason it had to carry to please its masters, finally crushed it out. Union Victories. Onto. The home majority for Brough will be 62,000! The soldiers' vote will probably increase this to 100,000 ! lowa.—The majority in this State will reach from 25,000 to 30,000 ! INDIANA.—Union majorities in 48 counties, 8,166. Opposition majority in the same last year 4,646. Union gain in half the State 7,812. The en tire Opposition majority last year was 9,543. BALTI MORE.—BaI ti more, on Wednes day last, held an election for City Councils, resulting in the success of all the unconditional Union candidates. The good work goes bravely on. Three Hundred Thousand More. The President has issued his procla mation, calling on the Governors and people of the several States for a now levy of three hundred thousand men, to supply the place of those whose term of service expires -next year. The call is for volunteers, and until the 4th of January is allowed to complete the complement required from each State. Any deficiencies after that date are to be made up by a draft. The late draft, it now appeares, has not furnished, by two-thirds at least, the number called for; hence the effort is required to be made to fill up the ranks which will be so largely depleted the coming year by the expiration of the term of enlistment of the soldiers in the field. The rebels in the South are filling their armies with conscripts, taking all the male population between the ages of 16 and 60. As the recent elections have decided that the people demand of the government the most strenuous efforts to put down the rebellion by force of arms, President Lincoln has promptly responded to the demand, and it will be to the interest, as it is certainly the duty, of every citizen of our country, to use every effort to fur ther the object of the government in early putting the new army into the field. Gov. Curtin and the people ofPenn sylvania will, we are certain, come up to the mark. They have never failed to do their full share in tines past, and they will do so now, and whenever again they may be called upon in the name of the Union. There is but one thing to he done; there cannot be more than one government in the country, and therefore, if it takes every man and every dollar, the traitors in arms must be put down. " A Conscription law, which has proved to be so lamentable a failuro.'•' —.Monitor. Not so much of a failure after all.— It succeeded in taking from the pock ets of two of the editors, Speer and 600 they honestly made in furnishing horses for the Government. But now that there is another oppor tunity to fill up the army with volun teers, the public are anxious to know how many of the half dozen able-bod ied editors of that paper will volunteer. THE 300,000 MonE.—lt is not yet known what number of men Pennsyl vania will have to furnish as her quota to make up the' number called for by the President. It is expected that Governor Curtin will issue his procla mation this week, when the fife and drum will again be hoard in every di rection rallying the patriotic young men to the defence of their old flag. Wt hoar a rumor on the streets that the bogus Democratic leaders intend to try,to upset the late election. They say Curtin was not fairly elected.— Perhaps they will secede and start a small Confederacy to include all the mining districts whore deserters con gregate, with Woodward as their Pre sident. Poor devils, they die hard. MAGEE, editor of the Perry County Democrat, was defeated for the Legis lature by ono vote. Served him right —ho was a bogus Douglas-Democrat. Myers, of the Bedford Gazette, should. have been defeated also—he is as near being a rebel as it is possible for a Northern man to be. We did think there were loyal men enough in Bed ford county to defeat him, but secesh was too strong. One winter at Har risburg will, however, lay him on the shelf high and dry, to repent of his sins. Election News from Libby Prison.— An Election was held in Libby prison, Richmond, on the 13th, by Pennsylva nia officers held as prisoners. The vote. stood, for Curtin 95, for Wood ward 18—Curtin's majority 77. CONSECRATION.- The grounds set apart near Gettysburg, for the Soldiers' National Cemotry, will be consecrated to that purpose on Tuesday, the 10th day of November next, by solemn and imposing ceremonies suitable to the place and the occasion. Itdi- Goul. S Miles Green has lately received a letter from his son Joseph, dated Libby Prison, Richmond, Oct. 10th, informing. him that Capt. Harry Gregg and self were well, but dirty, naked and hungry. nla. THREE CollllllllDiaations were received yesterday, (Tuesday,) but too Into for this issue. Our friends will oblige by sending their communica tions in no later than Monday morning. Severe Winter.—Tho weather pro. phets say that the people may look out for the hardest winter seen for years. PENNSYLVANIA ELECTIONS. MAJORITIES FOR GOVERNOR. 1800. 1803. COUNTIIIS. Curtin. Rater. Curtin. litodicard. Adams 76 228 Allegheny 8,689 7655 Armstrong, 776 169 Bearer 907 1001 Bedford, 97 . ' 274 Burke, 3485 6622 Blair 879 897 Bradford, 4,336 3768 Buck. 53 670 Butler 978 274 Cambria, 406 830 - Cameron, Carbon, 208 577 Centre, 341 344 Chanter 1.627 ... .. 2400 Clarion 502 980 Clearfield 265 952 Clinton • 47 301 Columbia, 738 1531 Crawford 2,099 1903 .... Cumberland,.... 90 641 Dauphin, 1.253 1190 Daman" 1,187 1073 Elk 212 386 Bri . 3,144 2099 - Fayette, 174 700 Franklin, 674 166 Fulton 129 261 Forest, 60 33 Green 1476 Hunt ingtion, 950 1093 ...... Indiana 1786 Jetfereon, 393 - 50 Juniata, 38 ...... 281 Lancaster 6359 ...... MG ...... Lawrence 1086 Lebanon 1613 1005 Lehigh 1830 Luzerno, ..... ... 231 ...... 2886 Lycoming 588 451 McKean, 103 ...... Mercer, 830 Mifflin 213 83 Monroe, 2028 Montgomery,... ...... 1580 1251 M0nt0ur,......... 237 ...... 335 Northampton... ...... 1742 ...... 3073 Nertliumberrd ...... 526 707 Perry, 288 32 Philadelphia... ... .. 1886 7041 .. .. Pike, ......... ...... 914 P o tter, 851 Schuyikill,...... 234 ...... Somerset, ..... ... 1605 ...... G 2011 Snyder,. 570 427 Sullivan, 149 34 Sus. uelmnua,...- 1654 ...... . 1202 Tinge 2816 2667 ...... Union Younngo, 449 316 Warren, 940 ...m IVashington,.... 562 Wayne, 73 ...... 941 Westmoreland, ...... 446 ...... 1087 Wyoming 39 York 1343 2557 Total 50.264 12,130 Cortiu'd wary In 1800, 32,134. Curtln'o nvq. in '63, 15,325 TOTAL VOTE IN THE STATE Gov. Curtin's voto, - - 269,496 G. W. Woodward's voto, - 254,171 Gov. Curtin'4 majority, - 15,325 Daniel Agnew's vote, - 267,197 W. IL Lowrie's vote, - - 254,889 Agnew's majority, - 12,308 Curtin leads Agnew 2,299; and Low r;e leads Woodward 718. The Ohio Election. Votes of the onion Soldiers and Rebel Prisoners—Suggestive Comparisons. [From tho Cleveland Herald.) Our brave Ohio boys in the field won their crowning victory on the 13th of October. The official reports have been received from only a portion of the army, but they indicate the rest. It will be seen with pride that they use the ballot in crushing treason at home as effectively as the bullet in annihilating rebels in front. The re ports at hand are as follows: Brom.d.. Vellum Troop , . at Buchanan, Va. 73 none 12th Regiment 450 neon 23.1 Regiment .• 484 none Wisiteie Brigade 1250 Ohio men in sth Ili ginia 2:11 none 011bert's Brigade 15n0 20 Ohio 'tool. at Charlestown. Vs 2733 52 100th Ohio in tinned Tenneeere. 275 18 144th do do 400 none 104th do do . . 457 4 Knnkle'e linttery do 67 none tillielde (lcHil 0.) BittterY. do 06 none 78th Regiment nt Edgefleld. Tenn 413 5 lif.th Regiment at Beverly. Va.—. ......... 1517 Ohio men at Cinrkeburg, Vs 24 11 MEM= Ohio troops at Nashville n2S 25 In two hurp'talt at Nashville 121 nono lintation, Johnson's Island lA3 15 Ohio troops at Cairo f 6 4 In Invalid Corps. landra. :CY ....... ....- CO 1 In Ito.nerans nrmv (in part) 0424 2 .2 Fuller'. Brigade, Momphis 1590 91 Ist Regiment 'Navy Artillery, nt Cov ington, Ky.. . ......... ...... 945 29 Troops at Washington, Alexandria, and Annapolis 651 42 .. Troops in St. Louis hoepltn la Troops in Philadelphia ho•pitnls Mnjority (or Trough, 22,891 'BA is army "glory enough for ono day !" Copperhead soldiers in the ar my are scarcer oven than Copperhead voters in the strongest of the Union townships of the Western Reserve, which piled up an aggregate Union majority of 39,732—nearly one-half the home majority in the whole State By way of contrast, and as a look ing glass for Vallandighammers with long faces, we append the official vote of the rebel prisoners in Camp Chase on the second Tuesday in October: l'allrindigham. Drough 105 1 Webber precinct Butler do 103 none Chose do. 109 none ' Lincoln do 11l none Jim. Brown do 114 none Bunielde do 99 none Bosecrans do 101 none Juo Brourch do 122 none Gilmore do 94 1 Giddings do 110 none . ltlnjority No returns yet from jobn Morgan's penitentiary precinct, Johnston's-isl and precinct, or Windsor, Canada West. They are conceded unanani measly for Val. Let them be so coun ted. Vote of lowa Soldiers The following is the vote of the lowa soldiers from lowa regiments, at and about Corinth, Mississippi STONE, TUTTLE, Regiments. Union. Copper. 2d, . . . 93 13 4th, . . . 294 13 sth, . . . 302 12 6th, . . . 175 9 7th, . . . 359 10 9th, . . . 327 5 10th, . . . 280 37 17th, . . 177~ . • 49 25th, . . . 207 70 26th, . . 162 76 30th, . . . 152 90 31st, y k . . 167 60 39th, 1 11,- . . 348 96 2d Cavalry, . 571 108 Pioneer Corps, . 36 2 Detach% Infantry, 60 3 Ist Battery, . 54 9 14th Infantry, . 252 87 32d Infantry, . 158 25 Min Total, The Burlington Hawkeye, of Satur day, says : "From the returns now re ceived we believe that upon the home vote the copperheads will have eight, no more, out of the ninety counties composing the State. Counting the soldiers' vote, they will, probably, lose every county except Dubuque, but may possibly carry two more. The majority for the 'Union ticket will roach 16,000 in the home vote, and 25,000 to 30,000 in all. TUE RESULTS. The slavebolders rebellion is converting all Southern Union men into Abolitionists. The Late Campaign in Virginia. Full Details of the Movements (Corretipoodonco of the New York Timm' ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, WARRENTON, Oct. 22.—1 n order to be able to draw any just deductions from the events of the past fortnight, it will be well to take a glance at the salient features of the campaign as a whole. On Friday and Saturday, the 9th and 10th of the current month, the designs of Lee to execute a turning movement on the right flank of the position along the Rapidan began to he suspected. The geographichl configuration of tho re gion on the Rapidan peculiarly favors a secret manoeuvre of this kind on the part of the. rebels, for while on the north side- of- the Rapidan, occupied by us, the face of the country falls down to - a wide extended plain, on which every movement on our part could be seen with the greatest ease— the south side, occupied by the rebels, presents a series of high ridges, which in order to learn the design of the ene my sent out cavalry reconnoissances, the details of whose opperations you have already published, and having satisfied himself that Lee was actual ly making a movement , northward from Madison Court-house, the army was on Sunday drawn back from the Rapidan to the Rappahannock, pas sing the latter river at Kelley's and the upper fords. General Meade was still, however, in great doubt as to the real propor tions of the rebel demonstration, so on the following morning, 'Monday, the 12th, at 11 A. M., the 2d, 3d and 6th corps were sent back across the Rap pahannock, and pi bed forward to the vicinity of Brandy Station. Having become satisfied of the reality of the rebel movement on our right, these corps at midnight of Monday retraced their steps across the Rappadan nock. On Monday night the position of the army was as follows: The 3d corps at Freeman's ford ; the 2d, sth and Gth near Brandy Station; the Ist at Kel ly's Ford; Buford's cavalry at Brandy Station ' • Gregg at Fayetteville; Kil pa.trick toward llaytwood. In the meantime, where were the rebels? from Madison Court lionse Lee had pushed directly north to Sper ryvillo, and, on Monday night, while we were at the position justludicated, the rebels were advancing "itoross the fords of the lledgeman River. Thus far the rebels had clearly the advantage of us. We had lost a day by the counter movement. This was clear gain to them. They bad the shorter line, whether to Washington or any point between them and Wash ington. Accordingly, for the next two days—Tuesday and Wednesday— it became a regular race between the two armies which should first reach the heights of Centreville. The 2d corps marched all Monday night up to Fayetteville to guard the road, and stayed there till the whole army passed. On Tuesday both armies were pm,b inw forward as fast as they could, par allel to each other, and seperated but half a dozen mile or less. The rebels _passect_through Warren ton, and citizens here tell me that they occupied the whole of Tuesday in do ing this, their trains being extremely long. We passed some miles to time right, eroshing Cedar Run at a place named Aub Irn, five miles duo east of Warren ton. Al; Warrenton Gen. Lee formed the bold design of sending one ofids corps (Hill's) by a rapid detour to seize the heights of Centreville, while his other (Ewell's) should fall upon our flank and rear. GO nnne 1 60 1=1:111 It was on Wednesday Morning, when our whole army passed Cedar Run at Auburn, Gen. Warren's corps (2d) bringing up the rear. To this com mander was assigned the duty of cov ering the'trains of the army, which were much delayed in the crossing by the pontoons. - The occasion was now an extremely critical ono, Ewell had begun pressing severely on our rear, awl already on Wednesday morning, at Auburn the rear guard became engaged with a portion of his force. A double neces sity was upon General Meade; first, ho must move with extreme celerity to roach Centreville in advance of Hill, who had the start of him, and was on the shorter line; secondly, be must keep back the enemy from his trains in the rear. The army having passed Auburn, pushed rapidly on toward Catlett's.— A couple of miles beyond Auburn Warren received a message from Gen, Meade to hold on to give him time for his trains. The 2n corps accordingly, for two hours exhausted all the resour ces of tactics to keep back the enemy, by forming lino of battle, skirmishing, shelling the woods, &c., the enemy:ma king vigorous demonstrations all the while. 6 The task was boldly and brave and- effectually performed by Gen. Warren. About noon we reached Catlett's and began our retreat toward Bristoe. The latter place was made at 2 : 45 P. M. on Wednesday. Hill's corps had reached Bristoo about simultaneously with Warren— in fact, bad just got ahead of him suf ficiently to form a line of battle, which he did perpendicular to the rail road. The position was the most perilous one in which a column can he placed— marching by,the flank and met by the enemy in line of battle. Gen. Warren was equal to the emergency. The troops wore brought:up at the run— the Ist division (Caldwell's) having. comp up thus for a mile and a half, laden with eight days' rations. The troops which had been march ing on the loft of the railroad were brought quickly over to the right, and Gon. Warren, seeing that the enemy had neglected to, occupy the cut and embankment of the railroad, on the in= stant jumped his men, unseen into it. Moro prudence on the part of the re bel commander, or less sagacity, on the part of the Union commander, would have proved the destruction of that corps. Tho rest of the army had all gone ahead. The,lst corps (Newton's) had already reached Manassas. Tho last one but Warren's, namely, the sth, (Sykes), passed beyond Bristoe, sim ultaneousliy with Warren's coining up; and just as he got engaged with the enemy, he received 11.0 m Sykes the comforting intelligence that ho "was moving off slowly and in good or QM der I" Gen. Warren Thdd formed his troops under cover of the cut, the embank ment of the railroad constituting rea dy-made breastworks. ..On the left he placed a defensive crotchet. Down rushed the enemy, charging on this flank, when suddenly the troops under cover rose up, and at close range poured volley after volley of deadly fire into the advancing and presently retreat ing rebels. After twenty minutes fight the ene my was glad to make off leaving a thoukind dead and_ wounded and five hundred prisoners in our_ hands! It was well that night came on-as it did. for just as the sun set, Ewell, who had been following in Warren's rear, came up, but had onlytime to form - ine, of battle when the darkness interrupted further operations, and the rear guard was able to pass on and join the main body of the army. • The repulse at Bristoe completely disconcerted Lee's plans, so far as they embraced the view of getting on the communications of , Gen. Meade, or reaching Centreville before him. llill proved slow, and feeble, and instead of striking the head of the Union column, ho struck its rear, and got badly han dled in consequence. From this moment Lee abandoned all purpose of givinff ' battle, and never advanced the main body of his army much beyond Bristoc. Detachments were, however, sent to follow up the Union force and make demonstrations. On Friday at 11 o'clock A. M., the enemy appeared in front of Blackburn's and Mitchell's fords, and made a vi cious attack on our skirmishers, but were promptly driven bazic. Stuart's cavalry, meanwhile, was seta by a de tour round northward and westward; but being checked and rephlsed in, all their efforts, they gave up the at tempt. The rebel army was now set to work to destroy the railroad and the effectual manner in which they did their work has already been mention ed. Thursday, Friday and Saturday seem to have been employed in this manner, and then Lee began his retro grade movement—the rebel army pas sing through Greenwich on Sunday, and Warrenton on Monday, and thence doWn across Inc Rappahannock, their rear covered by the cavalry. In the meanwhile the Union army lay at Blackburn's Ford, Bull Run, Chantilly and Centreville, awaiting the development of the enemy's plans. Headquarters were on the Bull Run battle held itself, by the woods through which the regulars - made their charge. On Monday, the 19th. 'the forward movement was begun, the army cros sing Bull Run on pontoons. The 2d corps took the road toward Auburn, the 6th, toward Warrenton, the 3d to ward Catlett's, the Ist and sth toward New Baltimore. Tdesday, 20th found the army on the line indicated; the line of Cedar Run. It had been expected and hoped that we should meet the enemy, but they were far ahead, and nothing but small cavalry parties ap peared. On Wednesday. our cavalry returnin g , gave the intelligence that the rebels were all across the rappa bannock and the Rapidan. In this situation, pursuit was, of course, hope less, and has for the present, been giv en up. - _ In passing judgment upon the con duct of this campaign—even if that be possible at all at this time—we must weight duly all the elements that enter into the problem. Had Gen. Meade been free to operate with no other con sideration in view save those of a mil itary order, u blow mighthave been struck at the audacious invaders that would have proved their death-blow. When Lee's force was massed at Spec ryville, and Meade's on the Rappa hannock, the Union commander was already practically on the rebel line of communications, and an advance on the part of Gen. Meade direct on Gor donsville he would have brought Lee promptly back to attend to the me naced safety of the rebel capital, and lie might have, in a stron g pOsit:on, given the rebel forty thousand battle with double that force. This would have been to repeat the brilliant strategy of Turenne, who, when his opponent, Montecticuli, cros sed to the left bank of the Rhine, to invade Alsace, himself passed to the right bank, and thus brought Monte cuculi hurriedly back to look after his own communications. Turcnnc had no Washington to look after. 'Meade was bound, at all hazards, to cover the Capital, and could not possibly afford to risk a battle with his face to the Potomac. The conduct of General Meade was prudent, arid, under the circumstances, probably best possible; but, in a purely military point, of view, a line of action was open to him which was not only prudent, but, in an extra- ordinary degree, bold and decisive, which, is oftentithes the best kind of prudence. As to the imputation that General Meade was, during the retrograde movement, trying to get away from Lee, and manumvering, throughout, to avoid a battle, it is utterly false. He tried repeatedly to, get a battle, and' would have fought the rebels at Sperryville, at Winchester, at Centre ville, or anywhere ' else in which ho could'have brought his army into posi tion, had not the wily strategy of Lee, ar.d his own exceedingly defective in-' formation as to the position dam ene my baulked his designs and desires. Referring last night as we sat around the camp-fire, to his disappointment at not having been able to got battle out of Lee, he said, to report literally his own pungent expression, that it "Wag like palling out • his eye teeth not to have had a fight." Whether a man of a different stamp would not have been able to compel a battle I know not; but Meade was not only willing but eager to bring such a result about, and did all he could in this view. If the whole truth must be told, it must be confessed - ho was too little aided by the Corps Commanders Too many of them are possessed by the. mere spirit of routine, by an unwilling, ness to go beyond the more letter of orders, (whatever change of action cir cumstances may dictate, and to do ' nothing without orders. It is, not that they do not do what they are told, but that they lack zeal. There is hardly one—l think I um sure there is not more than one—who would take' the responsibility and do on the moment what the highest duty requires. The conduct of that Corps Commander, who, when Warren became engaged with one corps of the enemy at Bristoe and the oter• rebel corps was coming. up close behind, - Sent word, - as 'the' booming cannon plead with him to re turn and aid Warren to engage the enemy and make the action decisive, that ha "was movinoleisurely off," is an illustration of the spirit of the con duct of too many of these General offi cers. Our losses in men during the cam paign have been inconsiderable, and in material very slight; but the horses have suffered severely. Gerieral Pleas onton, Chief of Cavalry, tells rrie that the number Of killed, wounded and broken-down horses during this cam priirr6n will reach thirty-fir:hundred. I conversed on the way back. with several citizens, who had seen and talk ed with Gen. Lee. They say he never looked so well: Ger:. Ewell was with him looking cadavarous and wasted with long sickness. Though minus a leg, he rideS his horse, , and a mounted orderly attends him with a crutch for his use when he dis Mounts. , The citi zens • report that, the -rebel army ap peard in fine condition, physically : and morally—being ,as a general .thing, hell clothed and fed. The cavalry and battery horses are,• however, in a wretched'pligbt, being almost univer sally utterly broken down. The reb els in passing through the country took everything they could find in the *ay of forage •and subsistence, and corn fields belonging to Virginians, which our troops d protected, were uncer emoniously stripped by' the rebels. The rebel army started out with but fourteen days' provisions,. and the heavy rains of Saturday had carried away the railroad bridge over the Rapidan, thus endangering their sup plies; Gen. - Lee accordingly sent all round to hunt up everything in the way of food and forage he could-find.: Should Jeff Davis Arm his Slaves ? Under this,. question the Nashville Union says: - It seems to us that it would_ be a perilous experiment for the South :=to arm 200,000 or 300,000 slaves, and give thein theirlreedem,- ; when a pop ulous and powerful' hostile nation ,would be forever hovering upon her border, fired with revenge, and ready at all times to prompt the blank - army to crush the white traitors under foot. But to waive this point, on which so much might be said, we think the ef fort of the slave aristocracy to deceive the slaves into their defence by the pledge of freedom would be fruitless.— The slaves could not be deceived by this sudden and complete change of base on the part of their old tyrants. They. would place no confidence ih a prom ise extorted by necessity. The fact is that slaves have no confidence in, and no love for, their masters. This is no assumption on our part; we know the fact. -The mass of slaves hate their - mas ters with a fierce and bitter hatred, kind look upon them as their natural. ene mies, whom they must fight from the cradle to the grave. Let Jeff Davis, then, summon his darkey battalions, and arm them as soon as possible.— We pray God that he may; the quick er the better. And we would stake our lives that the first time that they are brought into battle against the Vetter:it army, they will desert the 0.-rate . -rate of_the_Saulltern Con fed eraoy, first raised to perpetuate their own bondage, and rush with eagerness to the national standard. The Removal of General Roseerana. Reported Reasons for the Step WAsurNorox, Oct. 21—The rem-wal of Rosecrans is the subject of much and contradictory comment. The more correct understanding of the causes that, led to it is, that charges were pre ferred against him by (fens. M'Cook and Crittenden of unoflicerdike con duct on the brittle field, ofa panic strick li flight from the field-to Chattanooga while the battle was in its crisis, and of his unsoldierly .and ,mischievous conduct 'in — publicly - 'reportin ,, , on reaching Chattanooga. to both officers and men, that the day was lost. Su peradded to this is alleged Govern mental resentment of his' disobedience of positive orders not to risk ligeneral engagement 'by advancing beyond Chattanooga before ho' was reinforced also, its impatience of his diiposititin and handling his troops on. the field. The reputation for‘courage that he won at Stone _River is; Plead. in _bar. to this imputation of cowardice, in his, abandonment of the battle ground; and.hisfriends attribute it to a mis taken impression that his army had• been wholly whipped, and was wholly on the retreat. The replication- to this is that such a mistake is a complete disqualification for command. The statement acquiring growth that he had an attack of epilepsy (lu ring the battle, and that he 'was sub ject to'that disease, is'nntrue.; but that he was 'constitutionally mid by edirea tiorrsubject to fits of religious depres sion of the profoundest character, is correct, though he was an austere Ro man Cstholic, as is well known. In connection with this it• may not -be un suitable to add that it -is understood that the fourth specification of - the' preferred charge is an excessive use of opium. The relations between Cen. Rose cram and ;the General in Chief, Hal leek, have been bad. A sharp corroi pondence took place between thorn af ter the battle of Chattanooga, and be fore that, the Government- had found fliult with his military conduct Ori Soy.. eral occasions,' and' he had retorted ty` charges of neglect by the Government , and want of support. • His removal has been in contempla-' tion for some time. Eleotione yet tii . Corne off. Elections aro yet to be hold nig Fall by the following States, on the dates named, viz: Now York, Tuesday, November 3. Wisconsin, !Thursday, - November 5. Maryland, Wednesday, . November 4, Delaware, Tuesday, NoveMber 8. Minnesota, Tuesday, November 3. i‘tassachtisetts, - ,Tuesday, Nevember 3, Missouri, Tuesday, November 8. Now Jersey, Tuesday, November 3. Illinois, Tuesday, November . 3. ' In MarYland, Delaware, - and West Virginia, Congressmen aro to be choseir Ohio having 'died her quota under the first call of 1863 for troops, no draft will take place. '+ There is an excess already to be credited to her quota ail the new call.
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