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Now our flag is flung to the wild winds free,
Let it float o'er nur father land,
And the guard of its spotless tame shall be
Columbia's chosen band.
GOOD NEWS FROM THE FLEET
The steamer which left Fortress Monroe on
Saturday night; and arrived at Baltimore on
Sunday, brings information that no steamer
had arrived at the Fortress when she left.—
Information has been received at Washington,
however, through other sources, considered
entirely reliable, that our army has captured
and taken possession of the three forts on Port
Royal, and are now marching into the interior
of the country. So far everything has been
entirely successful, and all points to a glorious
issue for the cause of liberty and the Union.
GEN; FREMONT REMOVED
The President has superseded Major Gen.
JOHN C. FREMONT, the order to that effect
having reached the latter at his head quarters,
at Springfield, on the 2d inst. The command
of the army in Missouri has devolved, for the
present, upon Major General HUNTER, an
officer of reputed tact and experience, from
whom the country may reasonably expect
some more efficient action than characterized
the conduct of his predecessor.
The President did wisely and well in re
moving Gen. FREMONT from that command,
and the country will sustain him in it despite
all the howling of the Abolitionists and the
newspapers under their control. His total
inefficiency, to say nothing of his extravagant
expenditures and other objections, is an ample
justification of the President's course, and the
only just ground of complaint anywhere is
because he was permitted to hold on so long.
Whilst approving of his removal, we must
do Gen. FREMONT the justice to say that he
behaved well after receiving the order of the
President. Upon taking leave of the army,
he issued an address urging the soldiers to
give his successor the same cordial and enthu
siaetic support they gave to him. " Emulate,"
said he, "the splendid example which you
have already before you, and let me remain
as I am—proud of the noble army which I
had thus far labored to bring together."
THE ELECTION RETURNS
The return Judges of the County meet
again today for the purpose of examining the
army returns and completing their labors.—
We trust there will be fair play shown
in this matter, and that, after adding the
army vote, and correcting all clerical errors,
if any do exist, the whole will then be care
fully and accurately summed up, so that the
will of the majority, whatever it is, may be
clearly known and honestly carried into effect.
Errors in the former count, as published at the
time, render another addition necessary now.
ATTEMPTED ELECTION FRAUD IN
PHILADELPHIA-TEIE DEMOCRACY
DETERMINED TO CRUSH IT OUT!'
The Democracy of the City of Philadelphia
held p monster mass meeting in Independence
Square, on Friday evening last, fur the
purpose of taking measures to maintain the
purity of the ballot-box. ROBERT EWING, one
of Philadelphia's most orthodox Democrats,
and a high•toned, honorable and chivalrous
gentlemen, one who would scorn to do a mean
action, was elected Sheriff of that city at the
late election. A few Republicans, seeing that
the army vote of that city had gone largely
for the Democratic ticket, attempted to
foist a false return upon the Prothonotary of
the District Court and the Return Judges,
who meet to day, and this return would defeat
Mr. EWING by a couple of hundred votes. The
Democracy got to hear of this, and hence the
unanimous out-pouring on Friday evening.—
The meeting was presided over by CHARLES
INGERSOLL, Esq., and addresses were delivered
,by the chairman, Col. RICHARD R. YOUNG,
Hon. WILLIAM H. WITTE, and JOHN C. BUL
LITT, Esq. The speakers were eloquent and
patriotic in their efforts, and were terribly and
justly severe on the perpetrators of the at
tempted fraud. The resolutions, read by Mr.
E. R. HELMBOLD, gave' a full history of the
affair, and were eloquent in the maintenance
of the right of the majority to rale, and of the
sanctity and purity of the ballot-box.
In this attempted fraud we are sorry to say
the entire Republican press of Philadelphia,
with but a solitary exception, the Inquirer,
which has nobly and manfully battled against
it, have been ciders and abettors. Well well,
a day of retribution will surely come to these
infamous instigators of mob law and tamper
ing with the ballot-box, for the Democracy
"Know their rights,
And knowing will maintain them."
A BATTLE NEAR COLURBUS, KY
An expedition left Cairo on Wednesday
night, and proceeded down the Mississippi to
Belmont, three miles above Columbus, arriv
ing on Thursday morning at eight o'clock,
and attacked the rebel camp at that place.—
The Federal troops numbered but 3500, while
the rebels had double that force; and yet,
after a battle which lasted all day, the latter
were driven from their fortifications, and fled
across the river, leaving their cannon, baggage,
stores, &0., in the hands of the victors. One
hundred prisoners and their horses were also
captured.
Subsequently the rebels returned with re
inforcements, and attacked our troops, when
another severe battle occurred, in which it is
said that 300 rebels were killed, a Colonel
being one of the number. It is also reported
that Gen. Johnson was wounded. As is
usually the case the disparity of numbers was
greatly in favor of the rebels ; but notwith
standing the advantage, they appear to have
suffered very severely. It is certain that the
war has now commenced in real earnest, and
we may daily , look for stirring news.
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GENERAL MCCLELLAN.
GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN was born in Phila
delphia on the 3d of December, 1826, his
father being an eminent physician of that'
city. At the age of sixteen, or in 1042, he
entered the West Point Academy, and in
1846, at 'the age of t , :iritY, was graduated
teeond in his On'the lit of July of
that year he was brevetted second lieutenant
of engineers. By an act 'of Congress passed
-during the May- previous, a company of sap-
pers, miners, and pontoniers was added to the
engineer corps, and in this company McClellan
was commissioned.
Brevet Brigadier General Totten, Chief.
Engineer of the army commanded by General
Scott before Vera Cruz, speaks of MaClellan's
genius and energy in that. company in the
highest terms. His exertions in drilling the
recruits who came into his company to be
prepared for the arduous labors of the Mexi
can war, were indefatigable. With , the aid
of but two other officers he succeeded so per
fectly in drilling the seventy.one raw men
who had oome into his hands only two months
before, that on the 24th of September they
sailed from West Point, reported by General
Totten " as in a state of admirable discipline."
Daring the war this company was reduced
to forty-five effective men and two officers—
one of whom was McClellan. He is repeat
edly mentioned in connection with the corps
as exhibiting consummate patience and ability.
His company never once lost its discipline,
and performed some of the most toilsome
duties of the war under very trying cireum
stances. General Totten makes especial men
tion of the labors performed by McClellan
before Vera Cruz. He speaks of him as
"animating his corps by his own devotion and
zeal," of " the unsurpassed intelligence and
zeal with which he took his share in the_ di
rection of the siege."
At Contreras, McClellan was selected with
another engineer to reconnoitre the strong
breastworks of the enemy. They had their
horses shot under them, and barely escaped
capture by the Mexican pickets. When the
action commenced McClellan was with Ma.
gruder's battery. While it was still doing
splendid service, its commander, Callender,
was wounded. McClellan immediately took
command of it, and managed it until it was
entirely disabled, with such success as to sus•
tarn all its previous reputation. General
Twiggs immediately presented his name fur
promotion to General Winfield Scott, and, after
showing consummate bravery in the action of
Churubusco, which took place next day, he
was brevetted first lieutenant. In the next
battle, Molino del Rey, his behaviour was so
gallant that he was elevated to a captaincy.
He declined to receive it, and continued lieu
tenant on the day of Chapultepec, when
General Scott mentioned him as " winning
the admiration of all about him." He was
the first to enter the Alameda with a company
which he commanded, and during the day of
the assault repulsed a body of Mexicans
greatly outnumbering his own corps, with a
loss of twenty to the enemy.
He continued in active service from the
commencement of his company's organization
until General Scott occupied the City of
Mexico. He returned from the war with the
rank of captain and the command of the
company, now greatly augmented, of sappers,
miners and pontoniere. Between 1848 and
1851 he translated from the French a manual
of bayonet exercise, which has become the
text book of the army.
In 1851 he superintended the construction
of Fort Delaware. In 1852 he explored the
Red River, under Captain Marcy, and sur
veyed the harbors and rivers of Texas as
senior engineer on the staff of General Persifer
F. Smith.
In 1853 McClellan was employed on the
survey to ascertain the best route for a rail
road between the Mississippi and the Pacific—
also in the exploration of the forty-seventh
and forty-ninth parallels of north latitude.—
His report gained the commendation of Jeff.
Davis, then Secretary of War.
For three years mote McClellan was very
variously employed. After executing a secret
service commission in the West Indies, and
receiving a commission in th • United States
Cavalry, he was appointed ono of a military
commission of three officers to proceed to the
Crimea and Northern Russia, for observation
on the conflict then existing, and his report
" The Organization of European Armies,
and the Operations of the War," is thought
by army officers a most valuable work.
In 1857 he resigned his position in the army,
the peaceful condition of the country seeming
to demand his services no longer, to take a
place in the management of the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad as its vice president and chief
engineer. After three years of work upon
that road he became general superintendent of
the Ohio and Mississippi line. He was acting
on that poet when the rebel:ion broke out.—
Governor Curtin, with his peculiar sagaci y
and knowledge of men, and still recognizing
him as a citizen of Pennsylvania, applied to
him to undertake the organization of the
volunteer forces of this State; but he had
previously accepted a similar offer from Ohio•
In the assembling of the forces of the latter
State, and in placing them upon an efficient
war footing, he exhibited so much of that
determination and originality which had
characterized his former services in Mexico,
that he was appointed Major General in the
United States army, with the command of a
department, which included Ohio and western
Virginia. Since that time his record is not
history—it is the present.
THE. ELECTIONS
Elections were held on Tuesday last in New
York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland
and Wisconsin. In New York the Union
State ticket is elected by a large majority
over the regular Democratic ticket. This was
anticipated, as many leading Democrats in
eluding the Mozart Hall organization, in New
York city, supported the Union ticket. James
Lynch (Mozart Democrat) is elected sheriff of
New York. It is probable that William W.
Wright, regular Democrat, is elected canal
commissioner for the short term, as the vote
against him was divided between two candi
dates. The legislature will be strongly Union.
Governor Andrews is re-elected Governor of
Massachusetts, by a large majority, and the
legislature is Republican as usual.
There was no election for State officers in
New Jersey. The Democrats appear to have
carried the legislature. Essex county elects
a Democratic sheriff for the first time in thirty
years, and the entire Democratic county ticket.
In Maryland, the Union ticket is elected by
a very large majority. Bradford, the Union
candidate for Governor, had over 14,000
majority in the City of Baltimore alone.
In Wisconsin, the Democratic and Repub
lican tickets were running " neck and neck."
The returns show immense Democratic gains,
and the official result is said to be doubtful.—
Milwaukie city and county gave 3,500 Demo
cratic majority.
REMOVAL OF PRISONERS.-All the " State
Prisoners" in Forts Lafayette and Hamilton,
New York, were removed to Fort Warren,
Boston harbor, last week. After they left,
the U. S. Marshal received an order for the
release, of thirteen of them. The prisonhrs,
800 in number, arrived at Fort Warren on
Thursday evening.
GENZIUaTPATTiaIIIOI.
The firmness of purpose which enabled Gen.
Patterson to resist the popular pressure which
would have driven him with inadequate means
to attack an enemy of superior force will, since
the massacre of Ball's kluff,:be probably better
appreciated. He might have obtained the
credit of being " a -dashing commander" by
attacking a large force:in an entrenched peed
tion with his three siege guns, but the loss of
-- his army would have been poorly , compensated
by the notoriety which the gallantry of the ao
tiori would have given his name: He did what
he was able, in saving our own Cumberland
valley from invasion—in freeing Maryland
from danger—in driving the enemy from
Harper's Ferry—in whipping him at Falling
Waters—in forcing him to retire to the only
position-which he could hold, and—great neg
ative virtue—in - not attempting what h e could
not perforin. Whatever the merit a his
tions may have been, they should not be under-
rated by Pennsylvanians whose soil was pro
tected, and whose soldiers, of less experience
than any now in the field, were not subjected
to the useless slaughter which has attended the
only movement which has been made since he
reliriquished the command of the upper Poto
mac.
We cut the above vindication of Gen. Patter
son from the Philadelphia North American, and
commend it to the consideration of those jour
nals, which have traduced Gen. Patterson be
cause of his failure to attack the rebel army at
Winchester and prevent its juncture with
Beauregard - at Manassas. Gen. Patterson has
submitted in silence to attacks upon his char
acter as an officer, and his loyalty as a citizen,
while carrying in his pocket documents suffi
cient for his ample vindication, rather than
obtrude himself upon the public, trusting to
time and experience to demonstrate the wisdom
of his movements even to his personal enemies.
IT SMACKS OF TREASON I
The Abolition wing of the Republican party
have all along been siding with Gen. FREMONT,
and against the Administration, in the trouble
between them. The Lancaster Examiner, for
instance, of week before last, says:
" Gen. FREMONT will CORA out of this struggle
with the people, who are in earnest to put down this
rebellion, on his side. It will not do for the Admin
istration at Washington to cry out " extravagance "
to help carry out the spite of the BLAIRS, when
millions upon millions have been squandered so
near home, without ever striking an effective blow,
except to make Washington safe."
Now, if we had said half as much against
the Administration at any time within the last
three months, we should have been called
a traitor by this same Republican organ, and
threats of violence made against our person
and establishment. But, we suppose, it is all
right and patriotic for the Examiner to do so,
and no Democratic paper has any right to
complain.
FRANCE, ENGLAND, AMERICA
The Philadelphia Press says: All appre
hensions of " the so.called Southern Confed
eration " being recognized by France cr
England are dissipated by the recent intelli
gence received by the Prussia. France will
not, and England dare not, acknowledge the
sovereignty of the South—because that would
be a virtual declaration of war against this
country. At the same time both Powers are
naturally anxious to see the contest ended, a
consummation which will soon take place.—
France and England materially suffer from
want of cotton and tobacco. The duty upon
American cotton imported into France brings
an annual sum of over $3,500,000 into the
Imperial Treasury, and imported tobacco is
equally productive in a fiscal sense. Cotton.
is duty free in England, but there is a duty of
66 cents a pound upon American tobacco.—
Therefore, upon 26,000,000 pounds, which is
the annual home consumption of tobacco in
England, the duty exacted by the British
Government is $23,940,000 each year. Thus,
the Governments of France and England are
deeply interested in getting a supply of cotton
and tobacco. Nevertheless, they will not
make matters better by fraternizing with the
revolted South.
THE CONNECTICUT REPUBLICANS
OPPOSING THE ADMINISTRATION.
Resolutions, sustaining the President and
the Government in the constitutional stand
taken against the madscheme of the Abolition
ists for the conversion of the war into a cru
sade against slavery, were, Tuesday, (October
15th, 1861,) in effect, VOTED DOWN by the Re—
publican majority in the Connecticut House of
Representatives. After unsuceseful motions
from the leading Republicans of that body to
kill the resolutions outright, by indefinitely
postponing them, they were finally tabled-r--by
a vote of 113 to 70.
It was a straight party vote. The Demo
crate voted No, the Republicans voted Yea.
Among the latter there were only found roux
out of a total of nearly 160, to vote for sue
taining the Government, and against Aboli
tionism.
It is a strange spectacle, says the Hartford
Times, from which we take the above, and one
of the many singular results developed by the
exiGting state of public affairs in this country,
that the action of the President in sustaining
the Constitution and laws, is repudiated by his
own party in a Connecticut legislature—while
his position, so far as he abides by the Consti•
tution and the Union, is sustained by the Dem
ocrats, in opposition to the Republicans.
TRUE AS PREACHING
The Erie City Dispatch, a oonservative Re
publican paper, thus speaks of the loud-mouth
ed Abolitionists of our day. It is a faithful
and life-like daguerreotype of that class of poi
..
lumens and we commend it to their. considera
tion :
" The loudest•mouthed Abolitionists have
proved the greatest cowards—and when you
hear a man say that he will not consent to a
termination of this war until every vestige
of slavery is eradicated from our soil, set him
down as a coward, and as an Abolitionist
who hates the Constitution and the laws to
a degree as intense as if be were a secessionist
and a rebel. The fact is becoming every day
more apparent, that if peace and prosperity
is ever again to bless our country, the ad
ministration of Mr. LINCOLN must be sup
ported firmly upon a constitutional basis—
the Constitution must be our guide, our hope
and salvation, and he who accepts the war
upon any other basis, is a traitor at heart
and an enemy to the Government. The time
has passed for the prevalence of opinions,
party tenets and platforms. Ile who is
not for his country is against it, and he who
is in favor of this war upon any other than
a strict constitutional basis, is as great an
enemy to the United States as the men now
found in arms against it. These are our
opinions: they are true, and the sooner we
all think alike the better it will be fur our
country."
Ater' COI. BAKER'S remains reached Phila—
delphia on Thursday afternoon in charge of a
committee, who were received at the depot by
Mayor Henry. A procession, composed of
two regiments of Home Guards and a large
number of distinguished military and naval
officers, accompanied the remains to Indepen
dence Hall, where the body lay in state until
Saturday morning, when it was taken to New
York. Thousands of people visited Indepen—
dence Hall, where the remains of the honored
dead had been placed at the feet of the statue
of Washington.
Z The steamship Arago, which arrived
at New York last week, brought twelve thous
and Enfield rifles, made in Belgium and Ger
many, for the Government of the United States.
She also brought ten thousand snits of clothing
for the , troops of our Government, made in
France at the order of this Government. The
order for these clothes was executed in twenty
days. Four thousand men and women were
employed upon it, with divers sewing
chines, tco.
- 4metiicrAdirii
Hon. Eamon* Woon, Mayor of New
York, recently addressed a Democratic meet
-Osin,that city, in which he used the following
language:
FELLOW CITIZENS—The call under which
we have assembled to !Sight ,decla Ast tharthe
"only hope of the counts : * IS :the *along
democracy." In my judgment thisis!true—:
there is now no other resource. This popular
- element is our only and sole reliance. .It was
thillthat successfully carried the enitonies
- through the war of the Revolcitiodi the us—
tion through the subsequent war with Great
Britain ; through the celebrated whiskey in—
surrection, which was as formidable as this at
its commencement ; the government through
the war which nullification attempted to wage
in South Carolina; and through the war with
.blesieoz r - Ail of - these confliets.were met and:
successfully settled by the national democracy,
acting through agents of like principles.—
I do not wish or intend,•toimpugn the-Innceri
ty or conduct of those who are now adminis—
tering our public affairs at Washington. I
believe they do the best they can under the
circumstances. We must sustain the Presi—
dent in hie present effort with every resource
at our command. Hie cause is our cause;'it
is the cause of the country and of justice, law
and right. I would interpose no partisan op
position to the government; yet, at the same
time, I can never yield the independent right
of thought and manly criticism. The popu—
lar impulses of the American heart are pa—
triotic, and after all furnish the bestsafeguard
against anarchy, rebellion and civil war.—
The most conservative government in the
world has been made up of democracies.—
Democracy has furnished the best statesmen
of this continent. It has carried this country
through every storm, and raised it to the
highest condition of prosperity, of civilization
and of national grandeur. As it has thus
been the main pillar in our political fabric,
so, in my opinion, it is now the only support
the government can rely on. Let us continue
and cherish it. What if the clouds lower ?
As foreboding as is now the political firma—
ment, yet I see the bright expanse of sky
breaking dimly through the distance. Let us
stand firm. Let us sustain the Democratic
party. Its success is certain, and at no dis—
tant day it will have assumed proportions
which will overshadow the nation, and bring
together the divided and hostile communities
which now stand arrayed in deadly conflict.
This shall be done ! The Union shall be
preserved, and all of the States of the Con—
federacy shall once more meet as a commu—
nion of sisterhood.
THE LAW OF TREASON--CHARGE OF
JUDGE NELSON
The following is a portion of the charge of Judge
Nelson of the Supreme Court of the United States to
the Grand Jury of the Circuit Court of New York:
"The unhappy condition of our country, arising
out of the unnatural struggle of the people of a por
tion of the Union to overthrow their Government,
has created new relations among, and imposed new
duties upon the citizens; which have brought into
operation orimes, and guilt, that, to the great credit
of the country, have heretofore been rare ; indeed, I
may say, almost unknown to her laws and judicial
tribunals. .1 refer to the crime of treason against the
United States. Although no case of this description
has been presented by the District Attorney to be
specially submitted to you, it may not be out of
place to call your attention, in a general way, to the
elements oonstituting this offence. it is the highest
crime known to society, and was deemed by the
founders of our Government of such importance, both
in respect to the government and the citizen, that
they specially defined it in the Constitution ; thus,
taking it out of legislative regulation. The defini
tion is found in the third section of the third article,
as follows.
• Treason against the United states shall consist
only in levying war against them, or in adhering to
their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No
person shall be convicted of treason unless on the
testimony of two witnesses to tho same overt act, or
on confession in open court.'
The power to annex the punishment was left to
Congress, which annexed the penalty of death.
" The definition of the crime was taken from the
statute 25 Edward 111. of England, and which has
been several times re-affirmed for the purpose of
correcting abuses that had grown up in that kingdom
in respect to the law, both by the acts of Parliament
and the decision of courts, under the tyrannical
reigns of the Tudors and the Stuarts. Those abuses
were well known to the founders of our government,
and doubtless led to the peculiar phraseology ob
servable in their definition of the crime, namely that
it should — consist ONLY in levying war against the
United States, or adhering to their enemies, giving
them aid and comfort; and to the other equally
stringent feature, that no person shall be convicted
of the offence except on . the testimony of two witnes
ses to the same overt act. The first prohibits Con
gress from making any other acts of the citizen than
those specified, treason ; and the second prevents the
introduction of constructive treason, which had leen
engrafted upon this statute of Edward LIL by judi
cial decisions.
" Under the first clause of the provision—levying
war against the United states—there can be no great
difficulty in determining the facts and circumstances
which establish the crime. There must be an actual
levying of war ; a consultation, or conspiracy to do
so, is not an overt act within the constitutional defi
nition.
" There is more difficulty in determining what con
stitutes the overt act under the second clause, namely
adhering to the enemy, giving him aid and comfort.
Questions arising under this clause must depend very
much upon the facts and circumstances of each par—
tionlar case. There are some acts of of the citizen
in his relations with the enemy which leave no room
for doubt—such as giving intelligence with intent to
aid him in his acts of hostility—sending him provis
ions, or money ; furnishing arms or troops, or muni
tions of war—surrendering a military post, &c. ' all
with a like intent. These and kindred facts are
overt acts of treason by adhering to the enemy.
" Words oral, written or printed, however treason
able„ seditious or criminal of themselves, do not
constitute an overt act of treason within the defini—
tion of the crime.
" When spoken, written or printed in relation to
an act or acts, which, if committed with a treason—
able design, might constitute such overt act, they
are admissible as evidence tending to characterize
it, and show the intent with which the act was com
mitted.
" They may also furnish some evidence of the act
itself against the accused. This is the extent to
which such publications may be used, either in find
ing a bill of indictment, or on the trial of it.
" An attempt was made in the Parliament of En
gland during the reign of James the Second, to make
treasonable words the subject of this crime, but it
was resisted by the friends of constitutional liberty,
and defeated ; and since that time it has not been
renewed."
AN EMPTY TREASURY.-It may not be very
agreeable intelligence to those having claims
against old Mother Northampton, to hear that
there ain't "nary a red" in her " Schatzkam
mer"—in plain English, she is broke. The
Tax g!itherera say.that collecting taxes is slow
work just now—people complain of the hard
times, no money, no work, &c., and the Com
missioners have been paying out over $lOO a
week for several months, to the families of the
volunteers. They allow one dollar a week to
the wife of each volunteer and 50 cents a week
for each child. Over $lOOO have thus far been
paid out in this way and the applications for
relief have of late increased so rapidly, that
$l5O will not reach to meet the weekly pay—
ments. If the war should continue for a year
longer, our County will have something of a
debt by next Summer, including the loans
contracted to pay for the new Court House.—
We hope however, she won't be compelled to
appoint Assignees.
By the way it seems to us that the State
should refund to the several Counties the
amount thus expended in the maintenance of
these families, in order that the burden of sup
purting the War may fall equally upon all.
In this way, such counties as Bradford, Sus
quehanna and others that we might name,
which have sent no companies to the war, are
at no expense in feeding the families of the ab
sent soldiers, and the tax falls heaviest upon
those counties which supply most men. This
is all wrong and unjust. If other counties will
furnish no men, they should at least be made
to help provide for families residing in Coun
ties that do send men.—Easton Argus.
TRUTH WELL SPOKEN
The Hon. ANDREW JouNsos, of Tennessee,
in his speech at Dayton used the following
language:
" I would not be personal, but an Aboli—
tionist is as mach'of a Secessionist as any to
be found in South Carolina. Now, es much
as these disunionists of both classes abuse each
other, they, nevertheless, both.nnite in laying
violent hands upon the Government that never
harmed either. If I were an Abolitionist, I
would break up the Union ; for the disruption
of the Union must inevitably destroy and
obliterate slavery. Hence we are for the
prosecution of the war to save the Government
as founded by our fathers ; for restoring the
Constitution as we received it, without regard
to the peculiar institutions of any State. That
a Secessionist and Abolitionist are on a par, I
can prove by a single syllogism—an Aboli—
tionist is a disunionist; a disunionist is a
Secessionist ; therefore, a Secessionist is an
Abolitionist !
HOSPITAL DESTROYED. —The Government
Hospital at Washington city, erected by Con
gress several years ago, was burned to the
ground early on Monday week. It was one
of the.finest builditige the city.. About 80
_wq 14einte that Were.in at the time, were
safely removed.
ii,114:11 lip 0 :;
THE LANCASTER V OLIINTEERS.—From 8 list
of the volunteers, published in to-day's paper, who hare
enlisted from this county, with the weekly allowance made
byebn - Board of Relief to their t rlllesior persons depend
ant upon them, we Rod that whole number of recipi
ents ie 705, of which 527 are from the city,44 from Merit,
fbialPfrom Ribibridge, 26 from Mount Joy, 20 trim Rafe
Harbor, 5 froln Elizabethtown MAI from Millersville. •
Taking 41.75 per week as 'the avenge allowance, the
RlK4abl out weekly would be $121#2,75, or should the
umber continue in service for the year, the amount
an ly.would foot up the snug sum of sLzty-four thous
and, one Irundred and.rifty-lite dollars.
` • NOT atinouoelinient of the death
of him Hagerty in last week's paper was incorrect. She is
still alive and convalescing, and expects to resume her old
poet at the depot in a very short time. We make the cor
rection with great pleasure.
TURNPIKE ELECTION.—At an election for
of of the Lancaster and Litis Turnpike Road Company,
held on yesterday week, the following persons were elected
resident—Hon. Emanuel Schaeffer.
Manager - illattristian - Keller; John S.
Hostetter Hon. Henry G. Long, George B. Shober, Jacob
Nth:wish:John' L. Sharp.
Treasurer—Jacob B. Tabudy.
•
IN Towx.—We had the pleasure, on Sunday
afternoon, of taking by the hand • our old friend and
"brother chip," Lieut. BENJAMIN H. OBER, who arrived in_
the city that morning from Pittsburg. lie reports time
Capt. Prnta and company left that city for Kentucky on
Saturday. Ben looks well and hearty, and camp life seems
to agree with him wonderfully. Re will 'remain here a
day, when Lieut. JA.1:10B S-Docames, himself and the rest
of the company will leave for Kentucky. They have the
well wishes of every body in this community.
•
Tun MOUNT Joie Bass appears to be in good
odor with its customers. The Direct:Ws have declared a
dividend of three per cent the profits' for the last six
months. At the annual meeting of the Stockholders the
following reEointlons ware adopted:
Resolved, That the statement promoted by the President
and Directors Is highly satisfactory, and exhibits a decided
improvement as compared with the last annual statement,
and the thanks of the Stockholders are hereby tendered
to the President and Directors for their prudent manage•
merit.
Resolved, That the Stockholders especially tender their
thanks to the Cashier, J. IL Loma, Esq., for 11111 efficient
management and his constant endeavor to render satisfac
tion to those having business with the institution.
A DISTRESSING ACiDENT.—OG Thursday
evening a distressing accident occurred on the railroad
NM distance this side of Harrisburg, which resulted in
one of the passengers, Mr. Michael Flannery, losing a limb.
It seems that Mr. F., who resides with his family in Lucerne
county, having saved some money, had been out West,
where be had invested. it in a little homestead. and was on
his return to remove his family to their new home. From
Harrisburg be desired to go to Pottsville, via the Lebanon
Valley Railroad, but accidentally got on the wrong train,
discovering which, the conductor at his request stopped
the train to let him GIL Flannery attempted to get off
before the train bad come to a halt, and fell, with one leg
under the train, the wheels passing over and terribly
crushing It close below the knee.
The hared man was brought on to this city and taken
to the Hospital by Mr. Buckles, baggage agent at the dr.
pot. Dr. John V. Atiee, Jr., amputated the limb above the
knee. Tho operation, although performed at night, was
quite successful, and Mr. Flannery was doing well next
morning, and in good spirits.
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FATAL ACCIDENTS AT .COLUMBIA.—WO clip
the following from Satnrday'a Spy:
TEILILIBLE RAMADA]) ACCIDBUT.-0a Thursday night, or
possibly Friday morning, a fatal accident happened on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, on Front street. On Friday morn.
lag, abonta o'clock, Mr. Mfatin Erwin, when proceeding
to his train standing on the south track. opposite the
Washington House, found the body of a man most horribly
mutilated by the passing trains. Aasietance was called and
the body removed. An examination of the track showed that
the accident had happened opposite the Bellevue House,
the body having been dragged to where it was found
lodged between two of the cross ties. It was only on the
finding of a knife with the name "J. II Arms" on the
handle, which had evidently fallen from the pocket of the
unfortunate man that the body was identified as that of
John H. Arms, a well known Columbian. Although the face
was but partially bruised, there was no likeness remaining.
The body was horribly mangled, being almoetcut to pieces.
It was taken to the warehouse of D. F. Griffith, and there
wrapped up preparatory to removal.
Mr. Arms was last seen, as well as we can ascertain, on
Front street, near the scene of the disaster, between ten
and eleven o'clock,
clock, and may have been mangled by each
succeeding train, some three trains passing over
the same track in each direction during the night. Noth
ing positive is known, however; but there must be some
traces of the accident on the wheels of the care striking
him, which will probably settle tho question as to the time
of the accident.
Mr. Arms was an old railroader, and had met with mate
than one accident In running on the Pennsylvania Rail.
road. He had not been in the employ of the company for
some time. He enlisted with Capt. Herr, in Harlan's Cav
alry, and accompanied him to Washington, but was never
sworn into the service and returned some weeks ago to
Columbia. He was a young man of some thirty-five or six
years, and leaves a wife, but no family.
Ammeter AT TUE COLUMBIA ROLLING JILL.—On Wednea.
. . .
day morning an accident happened at the Columbia Roll
ing Mill, resulting In the death of Manus Malloy, one of
the employees. Malloy ivas about adjusting the belting
on one of the pulleys, when his clothing was caught and
he was carried around the shafting, breaking both lege and
an arm, besides inflicting internal injuries. Drs. John
and Hottenstein were called in, but the case was hopeless.
The injured man died in about two hours. He left a wife
and family of several children.
JUDGMENT FOR A NEW6-PAPER ACCOUNT.—
Among the recent decisions at the general
term of the Supreme Court of the Albany (N.
Y.,) district, was one in favor of Mr. J. Sea—
bury against Bradford 0. Wait, for seven
years subscription to the Catskill Recorder
and Democrat. The decision was in favor of
the publisher; and the judgment and cost,
we understand, amount to between two and
three hundred dollars.
The New York Observer, one of the oldest
religious newspapers in the country, says of
this decision : "It is surprising that so few
subscribers fully understand their responsibil
ities to publishers of newspapers. The law
which governed in this decision is a law of
Congress, and therefore applicable in every
State in the Union. Many subscribers seem
to'regard the bill for a newspaper the last to
be settled, especially the last which the laws
will enforce. Responsible men, even under
trifling whims, refuse to take their papers from
the office, regardless of the payment of arrears,
and when half a dozen more years have been
added to the arrears at the time of stopping,
think it bard to pay the increased bill with
interest and costs of collection."
MR. SEWARD GIVES A COLORED MAN A
CERTIFICATE OF CITIZENSHIP. —Mr. Gerald
Ralston, the noted Colonizationist, writes to
Lord Brougham a letter, in which he says :
I have great pleasure in informing your
Lordship that the decision of the Federal Court
in the ‘Dred Scott' case is practically annulled
by the present government at 'Washington. I
have before me the passport granted to Rev.
Henry H. Garnet, a black man of note, and
of great distinction among the negroes of New
York, given by W. 11. Seward, the Secretary
of State, dated Washington, Aug. 26, 1861, in
which the Secretary requests ' all whom it may
concern to permit safely and freely to pass
Henry H. Garnet, a citizen of the United
States, and in case of need to give him all law
ful aid and protection.' This passport is im—
pressed by the seal of the Department of State,
and signed by the Secretary of State, in the
86th year of the independence of the United
States."
SERIOUS AFFRAY AT NEWPORT NEWS.—The
Philadelphia Ledger says a letter was re—
ceived in that city on Tuesday, giving the
following account of an occurrence which
took place at Newport News, the actors being
seamen of the 11. S. frigate Congress.
A launch went ashore yesterday for a couple
of logs. Two or three of the men got drunk,
and commenced to beat the boatswain and
carpenter, doing them some injury. The
men were at length got into the boat with
difficulty, and the oarsmen pulled for the
frigate. The drunken men then drew their
knives, and run the coxswain overboard, and
one took the master's mate by the neck and
another by the waist, and ducked him over-
K r d two or three times and tore his coat
irfio-a,-- besides blacking his eyes. Ono of the
1 1 t- t i 7' , lAfn men then took the coxswain's place,
iib r ist.a.ded the boat for the ship. The leader
of drunken gang then made at him with a
knife. He ran and jumped overboard and
was drowned. His body was picked up to
day. He was named Chas. Greenfield. The
leader then threatened the first man who
would propose going to the ship, and the boat
,was got ashore again. The Master's mato
now came off in another boat, and a party of
marines was sent ashore. The men's hands
were then tied, and they were brought off to
the ship. Three of them are in irons, and
they will be tried by a court martial.
MR. BRECKINRIDGE'S ADDRESS
JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE has issued an ad—
dress to the people of Kentucky, which is quite
lengthy, and in which be says " there is no lon
ger a Senate of the United States—the United
States no longer exists—the Union is dissolv
ed." In his letter he resigns his seat and an
nounces his intention to exchange his " six
years' term for the musket of a soldier." Un
less we mistake the sentiments of a majority
of the members of the Senate, his term would
not have lasted six days after the first Monday
in December next.
FOREIGN APPOINTMENTS.—James Leslie, Jr.,
of Pennsylvania, Chief Clerk in the War De—
partment, has been appointed United States
Consul to Nice. Mr. Potts succeeds Mr.
Leslie as Chief Clerk in the War Department.
Samuel A. Purviance, late Attorney Gen—
eral of Pennsylvania, who, it will be remem—
bered, resigned some time since from motives
of self respect—intimating that he would be—
come contaminated if he remained longer in
GO,. Curtin's Cabinet—has been appointed
Qonsul GlMoral at Calcutta.
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PaLIADIELPHL4. November 7th, 1861
Mcvvsv Rorroas The shameless frauds perpetrated nion
the people of Philadelphia and the State, in the attempt
to send in false returns of the recent election in the camps
of our volunteers/witb the wiew to . defraud the honestly
elected Sheriff aditotheroffteara of this city of the rights
secured to them at-the hallot-boX, aro exciting much com
ment here among people not given over wholly to repub
licanism and wickedness. What is to become of us all
when so unblushing a piece of rascality is permitted as
the return of a vote polling one thowand strong for the.
Republican candidate for Sheriff, for this city of Philadel
phia, when nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of the
thousand ate Pitteburgbera and Western Pennsylvanians?
Philadelphiaregimenta In the camp polled on an average
three hundred votes - folPtilladelptda candidates, while a
single regiment from a comets pert of the State is said to
have polled three times the number - for the same purpose.
Surely the Republicans of Philadelphia ought to be grate
ful for this extraordinary mark cf interest in their affairs
by men so far removed from-them. But it looks this morn
ing as if this pretty pie would be spoiled. There is a strong
disposition even.among some Republican papers, the In
quirer, for instance, to let justice be done, even should
their dearest hopes be spoiled. We think they had better
- for their future good..
If Republicanism has to resort to such miserable shifts
ae this, it may well be prophesied that its rule In this State
is drawing to an end. Even its wretched excuse for the
postponement of the election from last spring to this fall
will not have worked out its salvation.
- Nearly every day some prize arrives at our port, taken
in the attempt to run the blockade. Some of these have
already been sold for the benefit of the government, but
the majority are still lying about the navy yard awaiting
the action of court. At the yard there is a vast amount
of wink cut out: The building Of. some Vat - vessels, the
repaint to others, and a variety of work connected with
the departnient. now gives employment to over two thous•
and workmen, Taken altogether the poor of the city have
a totter winter in prospect than for many years pact, thus
silencing the croaker, of a few menthe ago who predit ted
exquisite picture, of the horrors of starvation in. store.
Nearly one hundred thousand dollars Continue to be
subscribed every day toward the government seven and
three tenths per cent. loan at the agency of Jay Cooke &
CO. The manner in which our citizens have poured but
their money into the treasury of the Union is cheering to.
every patriot.
We are all waiting anxiously for the news of the blow
which ere this must have been struck at the southern
coast by the great expedition. There are plenty of rumors,
of which we say nothing, as you will have full news ere
long,
Very appropriately for the time Messrs. T. B. Peterson k
Brothel* here, have just published In a little twenty-five
cent volume, "Colonel's Ellsworth's Zanave Drill, being a
Complete Manual of Arms for the use of the Rifled Musket,
with the Manual of the Sword and Sabre." Colonel Ells
worth's proficiency in the art will make this timely little
volume much sought after.
The same publishers issue Pierce Egan's new novel,
"Lady Mend, or The Wonder of Kingswood Chace," one
Ot the most vigorous and. stirring fictions we have met
with in many a dry. Pierce le a popular writer, and his
novels are, read with avidity here and in England. The
present volume is a closely printed octavo of near four
hundred pages, containing about as much reading matter
as five dollars' worth of duodecimo, or about fourteen hun
dred pages, and all for fifty rents!
A dozen articles from the beet foreign sources are given .
in this week's number (910, for November 9th) of our prime
old favorite, "Litters Living Age." They comprise articles
on the Rebellion, on Arms and Armor far Ships, the Writ
ings of Chas. Lamb, Personal Recollections of the Author
of Salathiel, etc., with afine story from the Dublin Uni
versity Magazine. We could not possibly do without the
Age, and rejoice to see it so flourishing.
Fighting bravely on the field of battle, where he fell
aide by side with his brother, Lieut. Citable, of Philadel
phia, Major Winthrop earned the name of a hero, as be
had already won the name of a brilliant and dashing wri
ter by his contributions to the Atlantic Monthly. As is
already well known he left behind him several sparkling
novels of some length, the first of which, "Cecil Dreeme,"
is now published in an elegant duodecimo by those prince
ly publishers, Messrs. Ticknor to Fieldtt, of Boston. From
the spicy character of this lively society novel, it is evident
that the literary, as well as the military, world has lost a
man who was but beginning to make his mark. Three
editions of Cecil Dreeme have already been published since
its appearance, one week ago.
In equally beautiful style Messrs. Ticknor & Fields have
just published Vole. 1 and 2 of Sir Walter Scott's "Tales of
a Grandfather," uniform with their famous Hpusehold
Waverleys. The time selected for the republication of this
grand production of Sir Walter's is a happy one, when to
read anew of the wars between England and Scotland will
nerve our own arms to the contest required of us. Wallace,
Douglass and Bruce are names for the example and emu
lation of American patriots, and our youth especially will
be the better and braver for reading of them now. The
moat picturesque and prominent palate of the great civil
contest are the foundations upon which Eir Walter built
these Tales, and, with the graphic pen which he wielded,
no hirstorian or romancist over drew a more enchantiog
picture. In this beautiful and cheap edition, which will
be completed in six volumes, many an old reader will leap
again with glee as he renews his acquaintance with scenes
and characters that charmed him . long ego, while the
youth who reads for the first time will find a new world
opened upon him which he will never wish to forget.
The nasal eight articles, including the resume of Con-
temporary Literature, in the "Westminster Review," are
very attractive for the current 'quarterly number. October.
The opening article is on the Study of Ilistory. This, with
the following one, on Biography, Past and Present, is full
of Interesting facts and suggestions. Count Cavour, A Visit
to the Mormons, The Apocalypse,Trades' Unions. and The
Rival American Confederacies ( U are other artkles in this
tine number.
We have not space to enumerate the articles In the new
number of the "London Quarterly Review." But there is
one of especial interest to us for its outspoken sympathy
with this country in its troubles. It is in contrast with
other foreign papers on our crisis, in that it has no belief
in the permanent dissolution of the Union. The various
Rides of the great question, and all other questions, should
be read as given in the Eire splendid periodicals republish
ed in New York by L. Scott k Co., (Philadelphia, Zieber,)
and we cordially commend them all to the reader.
Messrs. Gould & Lincoln publish to-day the 3rd and con
cluding, volume of flopkinb' lllstory of the Puritans.
ASSASSINATION IN A RAILROAD CAR --A mys
terious murder took place in a train on the
Grand Trunk railway, between Detrcit and
Ridgeway, on the night of the 24th ult.
While the oars were under full headway a
gentlemanly appearing individual came up
the aisle, and without saying a word drew a
revolver and fired three times at a stranger
sitting on a seat with a Mr. 'McLeod. Of
course he was instantly killed. The murderer
then inquired of Mr. McLeod if he was a
friend of the victim, to which he replied that
he was always the friend of a dying man. The
revolver was then laid down, and the conduc
tor coming along, asked what he did that for.
He said ? " There lies my revolver with three
more balls in it ; take it and do whatyou please
with it. I am satisfied now. If you know
your business you will take this dead man and
myself to Canada, and there you will find out
all about it." The assassin called himself Mc-
Donald, and said that both himself and the
man he had killed were Scotchmen. He ap
peared to take the matter very coolly, pro
ducing a cigar and lighting it as if nothing
had happened. The conductor and another
person took charge of him afterwards while
on the cars. What became of him in the end
is not stated.
FOUR CHILDREN BURNT TO DEATH.—On
Monday evening, the 21st ult., a most dis
tressing accident occurred in Ferguson town
ship, Clearfield county, Pa. Mr. Nicholas
Tubbs and his wife went to preaching at a
school house, a short distance from their home,
taking with them their youngest ohild and
leaving the four older ones at home. Some
time after their arrival at the school-house the
alarm was given that their house was on fire.
On reaching the scene of conflagration, the
rafters and other timbers were already falling
in ; and to their utter horror, they discovered
that the four children they had left at home
were in the burning building. The youngest
was three years of age and the oldest eleven ;
two boys and two girls.
EXPLOSION
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 6th
- Yesterday afternoon two workmen were
killed and one severely wounded by the blow
ing up of a building at the Bridesburg Arsenal,
containing fulminating powder.
The walls of the adjoining magazine were
damagek but no further explosion took place.
About twenty workmen engaged in filling
primers in another building, received slight
injuries from flying bricks, glass, etc.
FROM KANSAS
LEAVENWORTII, Nov. 6
The election yesterday for countyand a por.
tion of State officers passed off quietly in this
county. The officers are about evenly divided
between Republicans and Democrats. There
was but one State ticket.
We have accounts of a devastating prairie
fire in the western part of the State, sweeping
over a greater part of Davis and Dickinson
counties, involving the destruction of fences
and grain, hay, utensils, stook, &c. The fire
was kept away from Junction:City only by the
greatest exertions of the citizens. Rumors of
loss of human life were current.
Stir That most contemptible of all the
Abolition organs, the New York Tribune,
publishes a'statement purporting to give the
number of Federal soldiers in the field from
each loyal State, in which the force of Penn—
sylvania is set down at only 54,000, and that
of New York at 78,000. The truth is that
our State: has already furnished more men
than NeW York or any other State, and the
editor of the Tribune would be compelled to
say so, if tho t;uth was any part of his
character.
TERRIBLE SHIPWRECK.—The storm of Sat
urday week was very destructive to shipping
upon our coast as far south as Baltimore. In
Boston harbor, Saturday evening, the ship
Maritands, from Liverpool, but owned in Prov
idence, was wrecked on Egg Rock, and went
to pieces, and twenty four persons on board,
including the captain, were lost. Thirteen
were saved. The vessel had a valuable cargo
of coal, wool, cotton, dry goods, iron, steel, &e.,
which was lost.
Ale- How events rush on I Thellebellion
is not a year old, and yet what a page has been
added to the World's history 1, A-Republic of
thirty millions of souls "plunged' into Civil
War ; eleven States reveltedTrom the Federal
Union, with three others Arenbling in the
balance ; seven hundred thonatifid 'soldiers in
the field ; and a fleet larger than: the. Spanish
Armada swooping down
_upon the ; Southern
Coast. Truly men grow old rapidly in such
times as these.
ISM. The New York Commercial. states that
the income of the Sheriff of that city will be
200,000 .dollara per year for, 801110 time to
comb l ", An office worth haying,
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From Western Virginia.
012tO/NNATI, Nov. 7.
The Commercial has &dykes from Gen. Rosecrans'
army up to 8 o'clock on Tuesday morning.
. The rebel batteries : commanded from the west side
the river the rout on the east side used by Gem.
Reseorans' supply trains from Kanawha Falls, a mile
and a half below the jonotion of the Gauley and
New, rivers, to General Beseeram' headquarters, at
Tompkins' farm, on the New river, five miles above
the Junction. •
The supply trains of our army were therefore dis
continued during the day, and only ran during the
night.
the rebels had three batteries of two guns each.
One opposite Tompkins' Farm ; one opposite the
month of the Gauley, and one opposite the ICanawha
falls—the latter being the most dangerous. Their
firing was sharp on Monday morning, but very slow
daring the afternoon, and is was supposed that the
rebels were short of ammunition. Oar artillery-re
plied and silenced the battery opposite the mouth of
the Gauley. Two of our men and several horses
were wounded by shells, on Monday morning , .
Nothing definite was known of the strengt - A of the
rebels, but their operations indicate desperation or
great confidence.
On Monday evening General Benham's brigade
Was two miles below Manley, and it is believed they
crossed the river daring the night. A steamboat had
been detained at that point for the purpose of afford
ing transportation across the river.
The troops were ordered to prepare four days'
rations and to be ready to move.
Gen. Rosecrans had just received a battery of ten
Parrott guns, ten-pounders. The troops were confi
dent that they could WOW the river and bag the
enemy, but some expressed fears that such a move
ment had been calculated for and desired by the
enemy. The rebels have possession of the elevation
opposite the.mouth of the Gauloy river; known as
Cotton Hill, which is considerably higher than the
ground on our aide.
Late Southern News.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 6.
The Southern papers say the loss of the rebels at
the Leesburg fight was 300 killed and wounded.
One hundred and sixty Federal prisoners from
Leesburg, reached Richmond on the 24th.
The Richmond papois say that Gen. Evans fought
at Leesburg contrary to orders, and is to be court
martialed, and that the Federal loss at that fight
was 2000 (!) killed and mounded.
Tho Knoxville (Tenn.) Register says the rebel loss
at the fight at Wild Cat was only five killed and
twenty-three wounded.
Colonel \Viottiln asks for reinforcements from
Richmond, and fears that the Federals will out off
Prestonburg, Ky., from communication with Vir
ginia. (General Nelson has already done this.)
Beauregard's official report of the battle of
Manassas says three hundred and ninety-nine rebels
were killed, and twelve hundred wounded ; that the
Federal loss was four thousand live hundred, killed,
weunded and prisoners. lie says his entire force was
twenty-eight thousand ? (128,000,) of which one
fourth only were engaged. -
General Hunter.
Gen. Hunter, the successor of Gen. Fremont, is
about sixty years of age. He graduated at West
Point in 1822, the twenty-fifth in rank in a class
numbering torty,and was appointed second lieutenant
of infantry. Having risen to a first lieutenancy, ho
was, in 1836, made captain of cavalry, but shortly
after resigned. In 1842, he rejoined the army as
paymaster, in which position, wish the rank of major,
the present administration found bins. He ac
companied Mr. Lincoln from Springfield, on his tour
to Washington, as far as Buffalo, where, owing to the
pressure of the crowd, he suffered a dislocation of the
collar bone. Shortly after ho was made colonel of the
Third Cavalry, and then brigadier-general. He com
manded a leading division at the battle of Bull Run,
but was wounded so early in the day that he reached
Washington, traveling in an ambulance, almost as
soon as Mr. Russell. He saw no service in the
Mexican war, nor in any of our Indian wars.
Important from Missouri.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Nov. 4.
It would bo impossible to exaggerate the gloom
which pervaded our camps yesterday, and nothing
but Gen. Fromont's urgent endeavors prevented it
from ripening into general mutiny. ilia quarters
were thronged with officers all day, expressing their
indignation, and the inclination to resign. The
Germans were there en emcee, and, talked loudly
about resisting Hunter's assuming the command, as 7
the enemy are entrenching themselves upon Wilson's
Creek, and nothing was heard of Hunter, and in
accordance with the most earnest entreaties Fremont
finally promised, just at dark, that he would lead
the army to attack them this morning if Hunter did
not arrive. I never saw anything at all approach
the excitement which this announcement created.—
It caused immediate cheering around headquarters,
which spread in all directions from camp to camp,
and there was almost uninterrupted cheering, grow
ing more and more remote, as the news reached the
camps farther and farther away. For two hours and
u half a dozen bands were serenading the General
at once. Everything was prepared, and they were
to start at daylight, and all parading, and disap
pointment was changed into universal joy. Our
army, under that inspiration, would have whipped
a hundred thousand men, but at 10 o'clock General
Hunter arrived, spent an hour and a half with Fre
mont, who gave him his plan of battle. Hunter
assumed command, and Gen. Fremont left for St.
Louis, s'ia Tipton, this morning. if we have a fight
before the army recovers from its last and cruel dis
appointment we fear greatly for the result, but hope
for the best.
Pope is here with hisentire division, and Hunter'
division will be here to-night, when the troops wil
all be up.
All of. Fremont's staff left with him, except Cols.
Lovejoy, Shank and Hudson.
The following is General Hunter's order on assure - -
ing command :
HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT,
Springfield, Mo., Nov. 4th, 1861.
ORDERS No. 1.
The command of this Department having been
relinquished by Major General John C. Fremont is
assumed by the undersigned. Officers commanding
divisions, together with their brigade commanders,
are requested to report to me immediately at these
Headquarters. (Signed,) J. HUNTER,
Major General Commanding.
Bull's Bay.
The N. Y. Journal of Commerce says the report
that the great fleet has entered Bull's Bay will at
once centre universal interest in that hitherto un
known locality. This bay has hitherto been known
to coasters as a harbor of refuge. It is about twenty
miles north of Charleston, in Charleston county.—
The bay is protected on he north by the Raccoon
Keys and the great sweep of the coast out to Cape
Roman, and on the south by Bull's Island, on the
northern extremity of which is the Ball's Island
light house. The anchorage ground is under the lea
of the northern extremity of the island, off the
mouth of the creek or lagoon which separates it
from the mainland. Vessels may carry thirteen
feet of water over the bar and anchor in three and
one-half fathoms with muddy bottom, or by anchor
ing in the open bay a half mile from the light house,
will find six to eight fathoms of water at lowest tidos.
The approach to Charleston by land is over a level
country, and it would appear to be among the possi
bilities that a land advance is contemplated on Fort
Moultrie, accompanied by a naval expedition with
gunboats, which, following the coast, and entering
Charleston harbor by the Sullivan's Island channel,
would be out of the reach of all the fortifications in
the harbor except those on Sullivan's Island. An '
attack on Moultrie from gunboats would materially
aid an advance from the rear through Moaltrievillo,
and perhaps astonish the South Carolinians. It may
also be intended to land a portion of the forces at
Port Royal, which is about as far south of Charles
ton as Bull's Bay is north, and thus advance simul
taneo.usly on the south and north sides of the rebel
lions harbor. The calibre of the guns on the gun
boats, possibly superior to anything at Cummings'
Point or Fort Moultrie, may enable them to shell
those forts at a safe distance. But as the report
which we have received is very meagre, and it is
possible that the fleet were entering Bull's Bay only
for temporary refuge, all that we now write must be
regarded as mere conjecture.
Gen. Fremont's Army Contracts.
The St. Louis News, referring to FREMONT'S
military accounts, says :
" The suect army contracts in this department
is a particularly unpleasant one. It abounds in the
most disgraceful and disreputable corruption, and a
complete report will reveal the fact that many or
sons, of whom better things were expected, have,
while boastingly pretending to serve the Govern
ment, been diligently serving themselves, to the
detriment of the Union cause and the scandal of
their calling."
From the South
The 15th of November has been designated by the
lion. Jeff. Davis as a day of fasting, humiliation an I
prayer in the Confederate States.
_ .
Over $50,000 worth of clothing has been received
at Richmond, voluntarily contributed by citizens of
,the Confederate States for the benefit of the soldiers.
A dispatch from Charleston reports the late stor
as exceedingly violent along the whole Souther
coast.
Western Virginia
A correspondent of the ;Wheeling Intelligencer,
writing from Cheat Mountain Summit, under dateof
25th ult., says :
On yesterday the weather changed very suddenly;
the thermometer fell rapidly, and a keen north-west
wind went howling round the crags and peaks,
causing us to draw our overcoats close about us.—
This morning the ground was frozen very hard and
covered nearly one inch deep with snow. Winter is
near at band, and the Frost King- may become a
pacificator for a little season.
Brilliant Affair oppoldte Columbus,
he Expedition from . Cairo—Seven
Thousand Rebels Defeated by half their
Number--Driven from their Entrelleh.•
ments--Rebel Camp Burned-All their
StoresylCannon and Baggage captured--
Two Hundred and Fifty Rebel Prilion
ers—Loss of Government Troops 3 to
500--Rebel loss Heavy.
CAIRO, Nov. 7.
An expedition left here last night, under-con:lllmnd
of Generals'Grant and McClernand, and landed at
Belmont, three miles above Columbus, at -8 o'olook
this morning. The Government troops, numbering
3500 men, engaged the rebels, whose force amounted
.to 7000, at 11 o'clock. The battle lasted till sun
down. The rebels were driven from their entrench
ments across the river, with great loss. Their camp
was burned, with all their stores and baggage. Their
pannons, horses and mules, with 100 prisoners, were
captured.
The Government troops then retired, the rebels
having received reinforcements from Columbus:
Both of our Generals had their horses shot from
under them. Col. Dougherty, of Illinois, was wound
ed, and taken prisoner by the rebels. -
The rebel loss is not known. The Government lass
is believed to be from three to five hundred.
Farther Particeularg of the Battle.
CHICAGO, Nov. 8.
A special Cairo despatch, to-day, gives the partio
tilers of the fight at Belmont, yesterday • .
Our forces consisted of the following Illinois regi
ments: Twenty-second, Col. Dougherty; TWenty
seventh, Col. Buford; Thirtieth, Col. Foulk ; Thirty
first, Col. Logan ; Seventh lows Regiment, Col.
Lemon ; Taylor's Chicago artillery and .Dollen'it and
Delano's Cavalry,. They left Cairo. on the steamers
Alex. Scott, Chancellor, Ideniphis and .11oytitoria
State, accompanied by the gunboat! Lexington and
.Tyler.. After landing they Isere , forined in 'Mo l d
battle, Chen . t /4913,1iIrriltIA
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