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Job-Printing—Such ns Hand-bills, Posting-bills Pimphlcts, Blaulfs, Labels, &c. Ac., executed with nuracy and ait tho shortest notice. ■Htfltellaiitoua. A ClElMittAlV’S TALE. A REMARKABLE RESCUE. It is many years-ago, probably about tbo date of your birth, my average render, that I learned -what -I am p.buut to tell you. At Ihiit-tiiiie, ‘l lierb sloodon tbo northwest coast -of Ireland a building'Kfcbyvn as Kyarlin, Cas tle. The greater part ot it was very ancient; and tbo ■ remainder had'bean built not loss than one hundred and fifty years.. I had commenced that pursuit, the taste for which ■remains with mo to this day— namely, the fcenrch after antiquities capable of thr(;\Viiig light on the early history and customs of Our ancestors. It happened, that while I was talking with a man who had been collecting ■kelp on tbo beach, he pulled out a piece of greenish-looking metal. To a man who re garded it with an uneducated eye, there was nolhing in the appearance of it to give it any ,rT Value; but I saw at once it was no axe of the bronze period. finding he had picked it up on the shore, I spent ns much of my lime as I could spare for some weeks afterwards in making search beneath the cliffs for other relics of a similar kind. I was one day so absorbed in studying the appearance of cer tain stones that lay on the boaoh, and which, for reasons X will not go-into now, I thought wore the remains of one of the most ancient of tbo Celtic edifices that have been diseov- croil, that I did not notice how high the tide had risen, till it came washing among the stouGfl I was examining. I looked round quickly, and saw, with a very uncomfortable sensation, that the sea already reached the •cliffs I had passed.' To escape that way be- ] fore the tide.would carry mo'off my legs, was, | I knew, impossible. .Hope ay in going on* wards, and finding an opening in the cliffs before (lie tide had risen much higher. I stumbled along as fast as I could go over the slippery sea-wccd ; but the sea was surging and foaming against the rocks so strongly tlmtJ found-it difficult to make any progress at all. ahead. I could see no sign of a break in the cliffs, and was about to resign myself to death, when I arrived opposite a cave which deemed to have been rrorp 'by the waves dArin’g etornifl. “Looking into this lit tle cave, -I observed that the lino of sea-weed on the,fragments of rock indicated that dur ing ordinary tides it -was-not-gllod by the sea. To go forward, seemed certain death, to re main here gave at least a hope of escape.— Hastily deciding in favor of the cave, I en tered,and to shield myself from the srtrf as hmch as‘possible, immediately begat piling up the pieces of rock and eoa-weed so as to Juako us effectual ‘barrier ; tis fcao in tny puwer between me and it. -After enduring a long .period of painful I saw with fervent thankfulness the setting in of the ebb. 1 was calculating the chances of my being ildo to Qcaeh -acertain point hi -the cliffs by which I mightascend from the beach before it became dark, when I was suddenly star tled by hearing a -voice, which seemed to be it oiy elbow, say: “ Here is another blanket fcr you. It is more than you deserve ; but I will not deny you any physical conifOrtl per - toil myself to enjoy.” t A weaker voice, but also that of a female, replied: “ 0 my lady, let mo but see the blessed sunlight again, and, will not care fdr ; clothes or food. Think of the years I have Buffered in this dark place.” To which the first speaker answered in a iwsionato tone; “ And what have your suf ferings been compare to mine? Have I any hope of escape from mine; you wretched .wo* toan ? Nuy, docs not every day iidd .to ihy Weakness aud increase the pains I suffer, by baking me feel more acutely the want of | sympathy of 'which have been deprived j igli you V* ' I 3 dull sound of a closing door, itml a low | k\g which followed, .was all that I heard ; vavde. ’To find words which could give any idcra of my utter astonishment, is mi bio. Though dark, the cavity was so i at the upper :'cnd that I could satisfy If. by feeling,-almost without stirring the spot whereon I was seated, that i was no opening from it, and certainly no other person was present in it besides If. After much reflection, the‘truth he fo-dawn upon my mind ; -the only build dong tlmt narfc of the coast which lay to the edge of the cliff was Kyarlin Cas aod that the voices came from jo ts of that •building, I was the more in d to believe by the words “toy lady,” di, though they did not imply that the ou addressed .bore that title, yet showed 'vas a person of some distinction. Of you think I at once opened a convor }n with the person imprisoned ; but I did ‘tog of the kind. At that time, every fa ? of the least influence livitig in the re parts of Ireland had individuals hang-, thom capable of any act of violence -lie slightest intimation from any member bo family, or even from aconfldential ser h that it would be agreeable to them. In case, caution was especially necessary, aa ba tho minister of the small proportion of ‘“habitants of the eurronnding district 0 professed Protestanism, atfd was there -3 wore than usually obnoxious to those 0 adhoro to the creed I considered it my J to do my utmost to supplant. Moreover J", n .°t know how far 1 might be acting J u ym aiding the escape of the imprisoned on.. For the present, therefore, I aetor- l on doing nothing; and crept as quietly possible out of the cavity, and walked e * The next day I returned in the same c ‘o&; and when I reached the castle X mn down,,and pretended to pick up a • Tvhich I threw down on the beach;] f J r ftonel threw down I had painted home’-ao that! shoflld distinguish Q‘ y among those which lay on the shore. jph.il J? P^ ace I walked* slowly on till I 6 cleft by tvhich I had ascended Ed f V *l lls evot| ing. down which I scram vq ni eac *‘» and’ turned back to the 080 on trance I found the cal ittb 0n °* confirmed my conjecture Qe excavation adjoined an apartment) in Kyarlin Castle. I went in with as httlo noieo as possible, us it was now low water and there was no sound to drown which I might chance to make. I listened, but all was silent. At length I determined to risk a qnestion; and putting my head close to the loose stones at the spot from whence tho voi ces seemed to issue, I asked, “Is there any body shut up there?” A low cry followed, and a woman said:— “Oh. do, for Heaven’s«ako, lot nioout.” There was such tin expression of eager en treaty in the voice, that,..joined to what 'I had heard the day before, decided the on assisting her to escape, and thus giving ‘her-ft chance of appealing to tho law for protectin’, or, on the other Hiand, of compelling those who had imprisoneddior hero to continue her puhlsfi ment in a legal manner, if there were any just grounds for inflicting it.. After a few more questions I told her I would come back at tho ehb of the tide that evening and, r®’ 1 •lease her, Tho operation was not a difficult one. The removal of some loose stones made an opening into a coll on a level with the beach, and through this I dragged her. The night was dark enough to make walking along the shore difficult; but .it screened us ‘from observation if any one happened to be abroad in the neighborhood of the road wo were obliged to follow to get to my cottage, which'was- the only place to which I could take her. Hero I gave her in 'charge to Es ther, the old woman who had waited upon me. I followed them into the kitchen; but though there was hb light there beyond that given by a tallow candle and the turf fire, the stranger covered her eyes with her hands from inability to endure the pain it caused.'. She was a woman in appearance about forty years of age, with a complexion so intensely white that 1 was remidded of Lot's wife after her conversion into salt. I asked no ques tions‘that evening, and what J subsequently learned from her was confirmed by Mrs. Merrick of KynrbVCastlo, upon yvbom I con sidered it my duty ’to call with the aim of in ducing her to make some provision for the poor victift of her pasoion. From other sources, too, and at different periods, I hoard other-matters relating to the case, which en ables mo : to give the .following narrative-in a connected-form': Catharine "Mostyn was the danghtcr of a man who had succeeded to a largo but en cumbered estate, and by a continuance of the same careless extravagance which he had been accustomed to see from his youtli up wards, he had, by the time his daughter had completed her seventeenth year, reduced him self to a condition in which he was scarcely anything hotter than the steward of the es tate nomiu'ally his own.* Just about this time, Henry Moyrick returned from St. Gmer, whore he had been for several years living with a priest, who had been his instructor from i\is youth. Ills age was thou twenty two, and having neither father nor mother, it was supposed that hoswould not long re main at Kyailin as the man who had been appointed by the execu tors to manage the estate attached to it had proved himsclfboth honest and able. Shortly alter his return to Ireland, Mostyn, as one of his nearest’ neighbors, and who had known •him before ho had been sent to France, called on tiim and invited him to his house. Here, ot course, he became acquainted with ICato Mostyn. She was remarkable for her excee ding loveliness, which was almost equalled ’by her pride, end the cold severity, almost sternness of her manner. Much of this lat ter may have 'been engendered by poverty, tiding on, a naturally proud and haughty character,-and the continued discontent aria- ino- out of a comparison of her actual condi tion with what it might have been. Henry Moyrick soon became so deeply attached to bar, that nobody was surprised when it was announced that the day had -been fixed for tlieir marriage. When this eV6'ii‘t took place, they went abroad for a few months, Mrs. Meyrick having -iVover been out of Ireland previously, They had hot Jong returned to Kyarlib 'OAstlo, before it was a matter of com mon talk that ho saw only with her eyes.— ■Childishly fond as Mr. Meyrick was of his wife, /md submissive as this led him to be to be to all her whims and fancies, ho was not altogether without’firmness of character in, his dealings With men; and if ho had re mained a free man three or four years after his separation from his tutor, instead of fall ing in love immediately, and marrying shortly afterwards, he might have acquired experience, which would have prevented the occurrence of the eVils which wrecked his ovn and his wife’s happiness, and cruelly in jured one I firmly believe to have been an innocent victim. Mrs. Moyrick was devotedly attached to her husband, hut she was exacting in the ex treme in the testimonies of his affection, and jealous of every woman to whom he paid the slightOßtattcntion.- Her attendant was about the same age as herself, an English woman she*had’engaged iri’London on her way to the continent. The girl being of lively and engaging rrtanhbre,-and very -pretty, was d groat favorite with her mistress, add for this reason was treated by her master with a de gree of familiarity not very Burpfitiing, con sidering their youth, and the extent to Whipli .circumstances had compelled all-three of thorn to associate in their journey on thooontibont Intimacies of such a kind are always danger ous, even if only from misconstruction ; and it was exemplified in this instance. "Mrs. Meyrick had sent her maid to her husband’s Btuily fora book she wanted; but directly after the girl had left the room, she changed her mind, and decided on reading some other. Going to the study, blio opened the door and was about to enter. Moyriok was there and the girl;- but what it was which made Catha rine close the door again and turn away with a face so deadly pale, she never told anybody, I believe, unless it might have been her spi ritual adviser. She wont back to Her room, and locked herself in, and when her husband came to her, she would neither open it nor answer him. Finding she remained obsti nately silent, he loft the castle, and did not return that night, perhaps thinking hd would rthda bring her to her reason. . It strongly fa vors the opinion that Mrs. Meyrick was has ty in her conclusions, since her maid did not show any reluctance to go to her mistress when' she-rang her boll, who* however, fused to allow her to enter the room,, and rang again for another Servant. That night* Jane Wilmot, her maid, disappeared. The day was still yoring whdn Henry Mey riok returned to the castle, after a night spent on the sea-shore. Ho was almost as white as his wife when she turned away from lm study-door on the previous day. Walking wearily along the prissdge leading to bis room he told the irian wiio followed him to’bring him some coffee; and throwing his bat into one corner, he was abouVto sit down, to his writing table, when ho saw lying on it ri let ter or rrttbor a small packet, addressed to himself in liis wife’s handwriting. Hastily opening it, ho saw, not an offer of forgiveness, for the paper it contained was a blank sheet, but something which seemed to act upon him “OUR CO"UNTRY—MAY IX ALWAYS BE RIGHT—BUT EIGHT OR WRONG OUR COUNTRY.” like tho fabled head of Medpsa of old on those who looked on it, "When tho man en tered with the coffee, which was quite half an hour afterwards, ho saw his master take something from the table, and thrust it quick ly into the breast pocket of his ooit, and then leave tho room without touching tho coffee, or speaking a single word. , lie wont straight to the elables, put n saddle and bridle on tho first horse he came to, without heeding or seeming to hear'the offers of a groom to do it .for him, and rode off. Tho groom said after wards that his master looked like a man that had seen a ghost. A few days afterwards, his steward received a letter from him, direc ting him to forward a certain sum money at specified periods to a bank in London.; and this was the last communication received from him. , The sudden disappearance of Jane "Wilmot excited a great deal of tfc»)k in the country round?' ’•VitritfOs rumfrrs "wore'of course, in circulation to account for it, but that which recived the groatestourrency, and, for a time was must generally credited, was that Mr. Moyrick had taken her away with'him, grad ually, as the circumstances under which he had left became known, this opinion died awav. , - Years passed away, Mrs. Moyrick never left the castlo for a single day, and showed herself so cold and stern.to all who visited 'her, that nobody curse) to repeat their visit, •and it was not long before she was’left with out a single person to converse with ; even -her father being treated, by her in such a ’manner that ho died without ft request to see her. This was the things at the timo when X assisted the woman to escape from her dungeon. Her ttory was a very pitiful one, and in substance wassoon told. On the night of the day on which her mistress had taken s'rtch offence at Jane Wilmot, the girl went to bed, and thougl: much grieved at what had passed, soon fell Intoa sound sleep, from which she suddenly Awoke, and found her mistress bonding over her in the act of tying a handkerchief round her nock. She was s'6 frightened by the expression'in her face, that she wanted to cry out, but before she could utter a sound, the knot of the handkerchief was forced into her mouth, ami she was made dumb. She tried ,to raise her hands to pull it out, and found that her ftrrna were fasten ed at the elbows-behind tier back. Mrs. Moy rick then turned her on her face, and drew the cord tight till her elbows 'touched. Hav ing rendered her entirely helpless, she order ed her -to get out of bed and come with her and this in a tone that made the hopeless girl get up as quickly as she could in bee condition, and accompany her, all undressed as she was, : to the coll from which I had rescued her. -Her mistress locked the door, and went away, leaving her in darkness, and trembling w-rth fear and cold - . In a few minutes she returned with her ser vant’s clothes, and tnrew them on the Hour, and then the girl saw a naked knife in her hand. Almost dead with fright, the terrific woman threw horaelfon herkueos, and entrea ted her mistress to spare her life. The lat- ter replied not a word, and for a minute stood staring at her with eyes so widely distended and a face so white and expressions, that the poor creature before her, who was .begging for her life, was seized with new alarm, bo- loiving that her mistress had suddenly gone mad. At this idea, fresh horrors laid hold of her imagination, and the words she was uttering for mercy and pity were frozen on 'hpr tongue. Hud I not myself seen the ev- idence of the mutilation, I should hesitate to tell you wliat followed. The mutilated part, with the ear-ring still attached, was what had so strongly excited the horror of Henry Mu rick, who, bcloiving that it signified th« death of the poor girl at the hands of his wife,could see no other course before him but escape from the country. In the wretched cell in which Jane Wihnok was thrown, she remain ed two days without food or clothing, for though her clothes lay on the damp Hour, she could only partially cover herself with them in consequence of the way. in which her arms wore fastened. .Boloiving that Mrs. Meyrick was insane, and that she. would be left to die of hunger, the girl gave way to despair; and when at ladt her mistress returned with food arid cut the cord* which bound her arms, she was so weak and helpless that she had not a thought of resistance, and dressed herself and ate with thankfulness. Year after year, and in total darkness,-except at such times as Mrs, Meyrick brought, her food, the unfortu nate creature suffered in this cell, or in a lit tle, one* adjoining, wlnvo she slept. As for. food, she needed so little, that, slip was nevov in actual want of it; nor; indeed, did she suffer from any deprivation except that of liberty. v 'On hearing her storV, I was natvnrally so excited at the cruelty with which she had been treated, that I did not lone an hour be fore setting out for Kyarlin Castle. Here, after sortie obstacles‘had boon thrown in my way, t had an interview with Mrs. Meyrick. I reproached her for her cruelty to jane wil njofeio severe terms, and insisted on her ma king reparation to the -extent of her ability. She feildily adopted all ixiy suggestions; and when I compared her present haggard ap pearance with ivhat I bad heard or her won derful beauty a few yeard pevioualy, I could •udt'help feeling sorry for her. As a minis ter of the gospel, I thought it my duty to try and bridg -about a reconciliation between her and her husband; tind when ! spoke to her of this, shd b’owod her head, and sobbed bitterly. As goon a£ she had recovered suf ficiently to answer rrty cjubstions, she, at my request gave mo the address of the bank in London to whihh the steward forwarded the remittances for bis master. On my return home, 1 wrote a full account of what I had learned, to Mr, Meyrick, the liberation of Jane Wilmot and the desire of his wife to bo I reconciled to him. Some months had paas- I ed when I received an invitation to dine with Mr. and Mrs. Meyriek, at ICyarlin Castle; and in the.mean .time Jana iVilmot had re turned to England, too crushed and onfeeble od, bodily and mentally, to entertain a fear of bringing her persecutor to justice. I pro cured for her nil the pecuniary compensation alio could require, but ■at the same time I carefully abstained fr bin advising her what to do, thinking it was a matter for. herself to decide, imd that it was not for mo to urge her to accept money in ,!ieu of justice.—Cham tier's Journal. (£?■ Alonso T. Sanborn, of Meredith, a liid of fifteen years, in the spring of IS6I, pur chased a sheep,’r nd its Innib of the former year, for four dollars. lie has now a flock of eighteen sheep, worth at least $2OO, and $B4 in cash as the results of that purchase, and some subsequent traffic, on the capital inves ted and its profits. ‘ Ho has deducted the value of his own time; paid his traveling ex penses, and allowed $4 a year for keeping Cadi shepi and has realized a net gain of $2BO in three years on an investment of $4. The gross income of one, he now owns was $l9 lost season. CARLISLE, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 21 THE LATE NATIONAL HU MILIATION. REVIEW OF THE RECENT INVASION. STINGING ARTICLE FROM THE NA TIONAL INTELLIGENCER. What it Costs to Disregard General McClellan’s Advice, ARRAIGNMENT OF THE ADMINISTRATION. [Prom tho National IntgUigonccr.] Tho Valley of the Shenandoah has more than onco been the bottle of our national hu miliation. After more than three years of gigantic war, our military udmhusfration has nut learned to apprehend tho relation of this valley to the defense of Washington, and tho enemy, safely presuming on the ignorance and shiftlcssness of thatradministration, has learned to practice in this quarter a weavi somemonotony of movement which only serves to show that he deems id*Bafo at any time to hope for success by counting on our official a standing for his pov erty of invention, «• Talleyrand was wont to say that it is al ways better to rely on the folly of your an tagonist than on your o\Vn sagacity, and it is certain that the enemy, in the use he period ically makes of the Valley of the Shenando ah, has shown :hic own sagacity only in pre suming always on our official want of that quality in the conduct of the war. Physical geography has ordained that tho occlnsion, or at least the vigilant observation, of this approach to the city of Washington, shall be u prime element in. any campaign which, starting from IVastif.gl.cn*, has the city 'of Richmond for its objective point. . And yet, with a want of foresight which, ip tho ab sence of all concoiyable motive for tho wilful Betrayal of a grave public trust, confounds the reason of ordinary mortals by its .magni tude and by its inveteracy, our military au thorities have for four successive summers permitted this Valley to bo used by the-ene my at his pleasure for the purpose of bring ing confusion on the wcil-laid.plaus of all our Generals operating against Richmond.— Whether it be at one time from failing to sta tion id this valley a capable commanding officer; or at another from not retaining a sufficient force under his command ,* or at still another from not occupying tho proper points of observation to destroy the approach of dan ger in lime to guard against positive mis chief,* ai* whether, as at some limes, it be from committing all these blunders at once, cer tain it is that the military administration, in giving the country much sad experience of inefficiency, lias no where made that ineffi ciency more egregious and deplorable than iu this quarter. • The 'campaign of Gen. McClellan was ar rested and . frustrated by . the incursion of Gen. Jackson into this valley in the latter part of May, 1803, compelling the abrupt re treat of Gen. Banks; thl-oWhig uiir military authorities here into a niost abject panic, and preventing the contemplated junction of Gen. McDowell with Gen. McClellan by the Fred ericksburg railroad—he being diverted Prom this lino of march to engage in what he know to bo the impossible chase of Jackson ; and Jackson, in the riiean time, after dis tracting all our combinations, succeeding in hurling his whole column against'Gen. Mc- Clellan’s forces around fUehmoud ilt the kery moment when our military authorities, rely ing on the reports of Gou. Fremont after the battle of Cross Keys on the Bth of June, sup posed him stiH to he detained in the valley by the threatening presence of tlnit officer. Then came the brief campaign of Gen Pope,-in -which, after k.A.-ing his flank re- peatedly-turned and his communications'with Washington broken liy nn attack in his roar, lie win badly repulsed; and driven into the defences of Washington, while-tiro'enemy. with leisurely comppsure, turned from the pursuit of his broken nnrl mishandled forces to proceed through this same valley, and make the formidable irruption into Mary land which was repelled by Gen. McClellan in the battle of Antiotam on the 17th of Sep tember, 1862. Wo need not pause to describe the dis- graceful event!}, which prevented the occupa tion of Winchester by the-onemy at this time, or which attended the surrender of Harper’s Ferry—-results "all due to the incapacity which placed incompetent officers in impor tant positions j and which, in the -cS.se of. Carphr’s Ferry, was mode’ doubly conspicu ous on this occasion by tbo retention of -Col. Miles at tliat post, under ordere freni C-on. Halleck, after the military-avaiia.biiity of tli o position was entirely neutralised by the turn which events had taken, dffioial inca pacity in Washington -thus combined with military inoompetenay at tie post to erect anew at the entrance of this valley the Cad dine forks of an unspeakable humiliation, which largely modified the exultation justly produced by the victory of Antietara, and which, in all ganorotis minds, wits intensified by tile attempt to throw on Gon. McClellan the responsibility for tbo untoward events which he had the sagacity to forseo, but not the power to prodent after his advice 'in the premises had been contemned by the Goner al-vn-OljJ'ftf. A-fJd nffisl, ih the summer of 1863, more than a mdnth after tho disaster, of Chaneel lorsville under Gen. Hooker, the Confederate commander proceeded to p'vqjcot a now inva sion of the' North', via this same valley of tho Shenandoah. From a failure on the part of our -military authorities to occupy in tins quarter proper points of observation, and from thoir failure to place in the positions ao tually occupied tho requisite military talent 1,1864. and skill, the country was again called to blush at the disgraceful stampede of Milroy which preceded the irruption of the enemy into Maryland, Winchester was evacuated with John Gilpin speed; find eighteen field pieces, 5,500 muskets, and a largo quantity ; 6f ammunition were left behind by the fugi tives —a valuable gift to the invading enemy. After such repeated experience of the mil iary relations hold by this valley to the safe ty of Washington and to the success of im pending operations against Richmond, it might have been supposed that military di rectors with as little perspicacity as ours have shown themselves to possess, would, not for the,fourth -time permit mismanagement in this valley to lay a ..atnne. of and rock of offence in the way of the campaign. And yet the illustration wo have just had of thowant of forecast which has been signal ized by the conduct of the war in this quar ter surpasses in its proportions any thing we have yet been called to witness. Lot ua an alyze the elements of the invasion which has just ended in the raising of “the siege of ■ Washington.” It is obvious to the most unmilitary mind that in order to guard tho side approach to Washington yia the Shenandoah Valley, a post of observ&tionifirouM be selected at such a point in hr near tho valley as shall enable the forcc'which occupies it to discern the ap proach of danger in time to guard against the descent of the blow and- to calculate its probable weight wherever it may fall. Be fore starting out on the campaign against Richmond in the spring of 1802 Gen. Me 'CUilUln Was careful to take precautions on tins score. Under date of March 10th, in that year, ho wrote to Gen. Banks (who had been selected to w&tch the valley) ns-follows : “ Your first cure will be tho rebuilding of the railway from Washington to Manassas and. to Strusburg, in order, to open your com munications witli thb valloy of the Shenan andonh. As soon as the Manassas Gap rail way is’in running order entrench a brigade of infantry, say four regiments, with two at or near the point tbhere (he rail way crossesihc Shenandoah. Something like two regiments of cavalry should be left in that vicinity to Winchester, and thoroughly scour tho country south of ike railway and Up the Shenandoah Valley, as well as through Chester Gap, which might perhaps be advantageously occupied by a de tachment of infantry, will entrenched. Block houses should be built at all tho railway bridges. Occupy by*grand guards Warren ton junction and Warrcnton itself, and also some little more advanced point on* tho Or ange and Alexandria railroad, us soon as tho railway bridge is ropaired. “Groat activity should be observed by the cavalry. Besides the two regiments at Ma nassas, another regiment of cavalry will be at vour disposal, to scout toward tho Occo quan, and probably a fourth toward Lees burg. “To racapitulato, the most important points which should engage your attention are as follows : "1. A strong force, well entrenched, in tho vicinity of Mannoses, perhaps even Cen trerillo, and another force, (a brigade,j'Wso, well -entrenched, near Strasburg. “ 2. Block-houses at the railway bridges. “3. Constant employment of tho cavalry well to tho front.- ' "4. Grand guards at Warrcnloh junction and in advance-as far as tho Rappahannock, if possible. ■ "5. Great earo to be exercised to obtain foil and. e'drly information as to tho enemy. “ C. The general object is to cover the lino of tho I’otumaeand Washington.” We all Know bow these prudential arrange ments of Gen. McClellan were broken up by tho military powers which Undertook tho di rection of the war after ho had been removed from his previous control of He operations.— And since tliat date these prudential 'meas ures, as respects the Shenandoah A’alloy, have never been re-established, for no other reason, as far as we can perceive, than that to re-establish them might bo construed by somebody into a tribute to Gon. McClellan’s military sagacity in selecting a point of ob servation like Chester Gap, midway on the eastern border of tho valley, where the ap. proaeh of danger would he perceived in time to meet and.cheek it at HarpeFs Perry, in stead of some point on' tho Upper Potomac, where, with snob officera ad tho military ad ministration habitually- stations there, the approach of danger is known to tho country only by a stampede of our forces froth Win chester, Williamsport, or Harper’s Ferry; and by a panic of tho authorities iu Wash ington, who, knowing nothing with regard to the movements or magnitude'of tho inva ding forces, lull nn -easy proy to every 1 idle and vagrant rumor which vexes tho atmos phere iri a tithe o'f alarm and uncertainty.— Tho unknown is always portentous. In tho abocrice of tlib definite configurations reveal ed to the niind by assured knowledge, the’ startled imagination, while blindly groping in the diirk,.peoples all space with “ gorgons, hpdraa, and chimeras dira.” Even so bravo a heart as that of King Richard, in tbo play of our Great Dramatist, was appalled by “ shadows,” ns ho exclaims: “ By tho apostle Paul, shadows to night Have struck more terror to tho soul of Richard Than can tho substance o’f tohthousond soldiers Armed iu proof.” , , Arid so, daring trie last few days, wo have soen tho Administration starting at spectres, uttering panic cries of alarm,’and with its liands palsied by imaginary terrors, simply because it had neglected to take the most or dinary precautions for properly watching and occluding tho Shenandoah valley. Incompe tent officers have been stationed at points ac tually occupied, and points which should have been occupied for - purposes of observation have been left without any guard whatever. Military incompetence on the Upper Potc nmo has been re-enforced’by military incom petence in Baltimore, as illustrated by Major General Lew. "Wallace, who is retained in command just long enough to lose the battle 1 of Monooaoy, and then superseded by a oapa- blo officer in the field; while he is needlessly retained in command of tho Department as if only to multiply,tho chances of confusion by the possible intrusion of his alacrity for blundering, and that too wheh„st is no secret that in his “civil capacity” ho has, by Ins il legal proceedings, brought down on his head, as wo understand, the gravest censure of tho Attorney General of the United States. "What wonder that under such an adminis tration of our military affairs a paltry squad-’ ron of two or three hundred bold riders can, with-entiro impunity, out railroads between Harrisburg and Baltimore, andßaUiraoro and Philadelphia; or that a mere squad of ton men cnn’approach within four miles of a city containing "200,000 inhabitants, garrisoned' by- 26,000 men, and burn at their leisure the mansion of the Governor of Maryland ; or that five hundred men should, by simply sit ting down before one of .the forts of Wash ington and establishing a weak skirmishing lino, succeed in placing the capital of the na tion under siege, cutting its telegraphic coin- municdtiona with Baltimore, burnrfig tile bouse of a cabinet nHnistcr within six miles of the city, and reducing the Government to the necessity of relying on river and sen nav igatiou for its connections {lie. great N r orUi? And all this, bo it remembered, happens in the fourth year of the war, with men by hundreds of thousands under arms ! And now wc p.sk, the whole nat ion will ask, who is responsible for such humiliations ? Is it the President, the Secretaryol War, the Chief of Staff, or can it bo that our military affairs arc still loft at such loose ends (as wc know them to have been before) that somc- ;iruca one and sometimes the other of these functionaries assumes to exercise the direc- tion of the war, selects ille -points of milita ry occupation, and assigns the officers to their several cbnimands? In the uncertainty res ting on this subject wo think there is no doubt about one thing, and that is, that if the President' cannot discover and correct the scarce of those blenders', the people in the approaching election will not bo slow todis-. cover oho method by which they can put an . cod to this reign of ihilitary incompetence in Washington. No respect for the President’s “honesty of purpose,” and no admiration, for the purit} r , intelligence, and administra tive skill which they may recognize in the other Executive Departments of the Govern ment, will stand in the way of ridding the War Department of the incubus which now visibly,rests Qn.it under its present manage ment—making it a shame and a reproach to the nation. And in so sating we intend no particular personal allusion to Mr. Stanton, for wo do not know to-day that he is respon sible for these things. It may bo that lie ootincs himself strictly to tho-civil details of bis office, and does not meddle in the matters which somebody under him or above him brings to bu.ch confusion. But wo do know that somebody is responsible for tliehite gross malfeasance, which must ever stand in our military annals as a national disgrace, so long as posterity shall revert to the time when, five hundred men laid Washington under siege for two days with ton or twenty thou sand meu behind its defences ! Such is the penalty which a nation pays fur being ruled in any department by its ignorance rather than its intelligence. Nor does the evil end with the disappear ance of the late fright. "Who; after auoh an exhibition of military incompetence in our counsels, can repose any conlidonco in tiro military administration so long as it shall re main subject to its present directors ?. What security can any man feel when the watch men from the walls of our national 'capital lift up their voices only to expose their own ignorance of the nature and extent of the peril from which they call the people to save them? What (Governor of vrhdt State will be prompt hereafter to respond to the tap of the drum in Washington if it alarms are bea ten with most vehqmence when there is the least known dbodt the nece ty for distur bing the country? An immon o clamor has been raised without cause during, the last few days. Who is sure that while the condi tions of our ignorance remain as they are the next clamor may not come with cause, and •find the War Department as 1 ttlo prepared to meet teal danger as it has proved little prepared to face an imaginary one? Let all loyal people lay those things ‘to heart, but, above all and first of all, lot the President of the United Sates ho assured that fur these things his countrymen will hold him to a strict account, and that they will exact full atone ment for great indignity which the nation has just sufiferSd ir tho eyes of the world. Tho President, wo know, is ambitious to earn not only tho good opinions of his fellow citizens, but adso to receive thoir votes at the nest election. If ho would receive them ho must 'bo careful to deserve thorn ; and if he •Should in this way vindicate his claim to the renewed confidence of tho country, we are sure that wo could sincerely rejoice in his success, not from any interest wo tako in his personal fortunes any more than in those of any other man of any other party, but be cause we desire the best welfare of the Re public in this day, ivhen she requires the highest statesmanship and tho most exalted capacity to conduct to a wise conclusion the affairs of the State. Ilia merits and his pro tensions are now trembling in,the balance, held by tho hands of a confiding and much enduring people, who have continued long to hope against hope under tho military misrule of which they are only too painfully con scious, btft to tho patient endurance of which there is a limit sol, equally by physical ne cessity and by political prudence. The pro traction of tho war, long-drawn out by divi ded military counsels, by injudicious civil .. .... ~•~'.. 'r'.~ :I~' = policies, and by incompetent officers in thd field, is seen by every body to be the precur sor cither of a Disunion peace (rendered a physical necessity by the military imbecility which is breaking down, the giant-strength af the country) br of a change in the Admin istration which shall at least afford to the peo ple one last hope of saving the country* whore if things remain as they are, there is now none.. If the President does not apply a cor rective, at once timely and radical, to tho evils of which tho loyal States complain with just reason, they will not hdaitato to apply the only corrbctivo which lies within their reach, through -the ballot-box. Wcdonol so write ruider any inspirations havc used earnest words because the time called for them. Wc snpprcss even the utterance of that indignation which wo feel it would ho righteous to cherish in view of the recent abuse of the confidence reposed by the peo ple in their civil rulers. We speak simply as to wise men. tet wise men judge whrt we say, and we ablclc their verdict, in the full assurance that they will pronounce ua to have spoken words of truth and soberness in a day when paltering and levity, whether in office or out of office, are certainly out of place. A Touching Incident. —Mr. John Sey mour’s recent report contains many thrilling incidents. \Vo extract the,following which transpired on the battle-field of Gettysburg: A rebel prisoner asked a clean shirt fur bis comrade whose fresh, but blood stained ban dages, told of a recent amputation just above the knee. One of the Sanitary Commission gave the shirt, but said the boy must first bo washed. “Who will do that?” “Oh, any of those women yonder.” A kind looking woman from Philadelphia was asked if she was willing to wash a rebel prisoner. “Certainly,” was the i prompt reply, .“I-have a son in the Union army, and I would, like to have somebody to wash him'.” ■ . ,W*lh -towel- and'wafer' ln a tin basin she bhedrfuly ‘walked through the mud to the tent. Careful not-to disturb .the amputated leg, she gently rci£Qyed-tfio. old shjrt and be gan to wash him.; l)ut the. tcndern.css of a. mother’s heart was at work,and she began to ciyover him saying that she imagined she was washing her own son. ’This was move than he could boar. Ho too, began to weep, and ask God to bleso her tor her kindness to him. The scone was too much for the by standers, and they left the noij-hcrn mother and outhern son to their sacred-giief, wish ifi that tears could blot out the am of this unnatural war. ** Punctuality.— When Hamilton was Wash ington’s Seoretary-'ho was-ordered'to meet the Commandor-iri-Chief one morning at sun rise. Washington was first on..the spot, and waited five minues before,Hamilton appeared. The Secretary apologized by, saying that “ something was the mutter with his watch;” Anuother made,‘for the next morning which.was similarly broken. Ham ilton again covered his negligence with a complaint against bis watc , to which tho punctual soldier replied : “ Then* sir, you must cither get'a new watch or I niuat get a new Secretary." On one occasion tho first Emperor Napo- Icon invited his staff of tho Marshals of Franca to take dinner with him nt 2 o’clock. The emperor at the moment the clock struck sat down to tho table alone, lie was a quick eater, seldom appearing at, the fable mors than-ten minutes. • At tho end of the timo his,staff (ippeared. li° arose to meet thorn dnd said :. . . “ Messeurs, it is now past dinner, ami we will immediately proceed to business whereupon tho Marshals were obliged to spend tho whole afternoon in planning a new campaign on, empty .stomacha. ’ ■ ■ A 'tAKGE Cemetauy.— The largest cem : etery in the known world'is the state of Vir ginia. Prom the Potomac to the North Car olina line, and from the Chesapake Bay to Kentucky and Ohio, it is one vast charnel house. Fire and the aword have done Uio work of death, most admirably. * Family ties broken, fathers and brothers dead, mothers made widows, children made orphans, prop erty destroyed, the country made a desert and all for what ? Fcho answers ‘ v for ■what?'! Blood must flow like unto rivers, and.death, and destruction must devastate the land, for the purpose of endeavoring to plabo the negro on an equality with the whites. # A few cra zy fanatics, with this hobby iu view* led thousands by the nose, under false pretences up lo the ballot box to vote for“ Honest Abo. and. of course, naturally got us into oorpros cnt.torriblo and bloody predicament. Se.vsihle MAXisrs.—Never taste rot afoul when you are not hungry j it is suicidal. Never hire servants who gp in pairs as sis ters, cousins, or anything else. Sever sneak of your father as tho "ca man.” . . , . „ . , . . , Never reply to the epithet of a drunkard, ji fool or a fellow, • • Never speak contemptuously of woman kind. Never ahiiso one who was once your bosom friend, however bitter now., . . . Novcr-smile at the ex* enso of your religion or your Bible. Never stand at the corner of a street. Never insult poverty. Never eat between meals. (C7* Going, going, just a going !” onod out by an auctioneer. “ IVhoro are you go ing ?" asked a passer by. “Moll, replied tho knight of the hammer, “ 1 am going up to the Zoological Gardens, to tell the mana gers that one of thoir baboons is loose. ’ Comparison op the Sexes. —Women are said to have stronger attachments than men! It, is not so. A man ia.often attached to an old hat; hut did you over know of a woman having an attachment for iih old bonnet?— Echo answers, “ Never!” Jj®“ If wo had not within ourselves ins principle of bliss, wo could hot become blest. The grain of heaven lies in the breast, os the germ of the blossom lies in the shut seed. . 017“ A correspondent of the New York journal of Commerce coils for a movement to make General McClellan a candidate for tljo Presidency, without regard to party. Wanted.— Another Antietam, A very good General, named George B. M'Clellan, is particularly requested to apply at onoo.— N! F. Herald. NO. ?!
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