atal)kr anteitigmar.
u Tfikprinting presiei shall be free to every=
person . who undertakes to evam hie, the pro.
Peelings of the legislature, or any branch of
government; and' no law shall ever be made
to restrain the right thereof. The free commu
nication of thought and opinions is one of the
invaluable rights of men; and every citizen
may freely speak, write and print on any.sub
pet ; being responsible for the - abuse of that
liberty. prosecutions for the publicatien of
papers investigating the official conduct of offi
cers, or men in public capacities, or where the
matter 'published is proper for public informa
tion, the truth thereof may be given in evi
dence,"—Ceratteution Pennsylvania.
~,Change: of .Pablication Day.
The,Trepkly Intelligencer will here
after be issued on Wednesday morning,
instead. of Thursday, as heretofore.—
This is done in order to meet all the mail
connections throughout the county, so
that our subscribers can receive the
paper at the earliest possible hour after
it is issued. .
Our Duty as a Party.
Every Administration newspaper is
now busy in claiming that the result of
the recent election shows an overwhelm
ing pOpular endorsement by the people
of the policy of Mr. Lincoln. It is no
such thing. Out of the whole number
of votes cast, he will scarcely be able to
clam a majority of five per cent. When
we consider the means employed to se
cure his re-election; the majority receiv
ed by him must be regarded as small in
deed, and anything but a strong popu
lar endorsement of the policy of his
Administration. This claim is loudly
and persistently made for the purpose
of influencing Democrats, hi hiding them
for the time being, and as a preparatory
step to pave the way for future lids
deeds.
Many. Of these journals are very gi
dons and exceedingly mild-mannere
just now. r„They ha to a trreat extel
abandoned the use of the vile epithet
they bandied about co freely during tlic
canvass. General _McClellan i , nut a
traitor to-day, but aftcr all a 1 'II ion mall,
a good general, and a patriot. 'l . lie Dein
ocratic party really i= at heart for tli
Union at all hazank. tilo bur
thenof the .song . 'low sung by the more
respectable Republican papers. Vve
Forney's Piece and bis Washin,zto
Chronu•le have honey on their lip,
There is a purpose in all
is we cannot fail to sue
The Denmeratic party
cordially invited to lay aside its ono,.
tion to the policy of Mr.
to unite with him and his party it)
future measures to he adopted. This
they cannot and' dare not agree to do,
until they know what is to I the future
course of the President. The Demo
cratic party stands as widely apart in
ideas from. the Abolition party as the
poles of the earth are as-under. The
leaders of the Abolition pnrty ,intid in
complete antagonism to the he-t in
terests of the nation, and they rite no
more to be trusted to-day than they were
at any time in the past. We cannel
and dare not take it for granted that
their future course of action will he an
improvement upon the pa,4. It is , t
to prediA that the party Nv Iiii•11 has
•jt
re-elected Liucoln will yield t(,
policy in the future rstlppoSillg that
policy to remain unchanged the ,unit
blind adherence us in the pa-t; that
they will support him in all his usur
pations of power, and endorse all the
wild and impraeticable schemes cliieh
maybehatched in the half addled brains
of the half crazed tianal his about hi
Believing that there ! , oeit
reason to hope for the pri , valenee
of a wiser policy in the !Mare,
the Democratic party would' trot
only be very foolish, hot entirely 1:11,o
to the best interests of the nation, it.,
either by word of promise or 1 y acts, it
unconditionally pledged itselr to units
with the party 110 W in power. This it
cannot and dare not do, except condi
tionally. Should Mr. I.incoln see lit to
change his policy, should he show evi
dence of returning reason by shaking
off the wretched advisers about him,
and by calling to his aid sound states
men and wise counsellors, and engage
honestly in an earnest etihrt to re-es
tablish the Government upon a Consti
tutional basis, he would have no tirmer
supporters than the members of the
great Democratic party, which, even
though defeated, has so abundantly
shown its power in the recent election.
Until this is done by Mr. Lincoln, he
cannot expect to be endorsed or supimrt
ed by the Democratic party. It must
stand in opposition to him and his
party; not in factious opposition, but
prepared to canvass every measure pro
posed by him, and to set its seal of ap
proval or of disapproval upon it, as wis
dom and statesmanship xhall dictate.
The Democratic party understands its
position and its duty. As an opposition
party it will scan closely the acts of the
party now in power. Whatever is really
wise, whatever is truly for the good of
the country, that it Will endorse and ap
prove. Mr. Lincoln and the party will
find it ready to unite with them in any
measures they may propose which wis
dom can sanction and true patriot ism ap
prove. But, they will find it always
ready to insist upon its right freely to
canvas every act of the President of
the President and of his party, approv
ing what is right and supporting it, lad
condemning and opposing what is
wrong.
Heretofore, the Republican party has
as utterly refused to conciliate or com
promise with the Democratic party, as
it has with the South. We have no as
surance that it does not still intend to
repudiate the only policy by which the
North can be united and the South di
vided. It has the whole machinery of
the government in its hands, and upon
it rests the entire responsibility of the
future. The Democratic party will
sternly hold it to its pledges. I laving
promised the people a speedy end of the
war; and a restoration of the it
shall make its promises good, or bear
the consequelices of its deliberate and
gross deception.
Having triumped by its loud and
boaStful professions of Unionism i t sh all
not cheat the people. If events con
-spire with .the incompetency of our
rulers and their secretly cherished dis
unionism to break down the Union at
last, then the contrivers of disunion
shall catch the curse of disunion. The
responsibility shall be put just where it
belongs, and they who have pierced the
nation's heart shall be .mitten with the
nation's wrath. Our duty as tin opposi
tion party is plain, and before us lies a
great work to which we must address
ourselves with wisdom and energy.
SEir All the States have gone for Lin
coln but New Jersey, 'Delaware and
Kentucky. We shall, give the official
resultas soon as it can be obtained.
General Meade
The) Inquirer's special Washington
corespondent gives this item of news :
'GENERAL 3IEADE TO BE REMOVED
- -
There is a rumor in town that General
Mead is smelt° be superseded by General
Thomas, now commanding the Army
of the Cuinberland at Nashville. It is
likely enough that Meade will lose his
plade for the failure on the 27th. So
great; a disaster must not be excused.
Before the election, " the failure of
the27th" wascalled "abrillantsuccess."
. Robert Faries, chief engineer of the Phila.
teiphia and•Rrie Railroad, died at his resi
dence, Williamsport, at 5 o'clock on Satur
dick,morning.• Ire was about 60 years of
age. He bad -,been for a long period con-
Sleeted with the railroad, and bore a very
1414 reputation e* a civil engineer,
The Beault—lts Consequences.
Mr. LINCOLN has been re-elected to
the Presidency ; not by fair means, we
verily
.frauds on the electiVe'liarOxiSe, of
. most outrageous and flagrant chitiractei.,
But, nevertheless, beix elected ; : and
the result an apparent majority of*3
people of the Northern States:fiave
liberately decided in favor of a contin
uance of the war, bloodshed, devasta
tion, conscription, taxation and all the
terrible calamities which are yet in store
for us as a Nation. They have decided
I that all the acts of his administration so
far are right and proper, and have vir
tually given him a carte_ blcenche. to do
what he pleases.in the future. No such
power wa.s entrusted to a ruler by a free
people before in the history of the world,
and Mr. LINCOLN would be more than
human if he did not exercise it in the
most despotic manner. Our fathers,
wisely as they thought, hedged in ,the
Executive, and prevented him from en
croaching upon the liberties of the peo
ple by Constitutional enactments ; but
those barriers have been overthrowh by
the present Chief Magistrate, and the
people, with loud acclaim, have endors
ed his acts and are willing to patiently
submit to any yoke, no matter how
heavy, he may place upon their necks.
Time was in the history of the Republic
when such conduct on the part of the
Executive would not have been sub
mitted to; hut that time has gone by,
anti we now show ourselves, in every
respect, unworthy descendants or the
tnen of the Revolution.
The past four years have been dark
days - in the history of the Nation; but
the four years that are to ensue will be
still darker and more terrible in their
coueiluem•es. We greatly fear the
hdays of the Republic are nuutbered.—
Notlting, save and except a mereiful in
terposition of Providence, can save us
from anarchy and despotism, and the
awful consequenees which are certain to
follow in their train. But a majority of
tile people have ,willed it to he so, and
the minority inust submit to the stern
necessity of the hour. The day will as
suredly s c ow wlu•p the people will re
gret their action on Tuesday last; but
it will conic too late. The die is cast ;
the• Rubicon is crossed, and nothing but
gloom and ` , lllrerill'2; looms up future us
as a Nation. We would that we could
speak otherwise; hilt the troth must be
told, no matter how harshly it may grate
upon the public car.
Shocking Calamity
welt is the heading under whielt the
Philadephia announces the cap
size of :k small yacht in the Delaware
river, by which four persons lost their
It was a s ail and a shoeking occur
rence. Put to-day, or to-morrow, or the
HON day. the ' , dine paper will announce
the destruction of four hundred or tour .
thousand lives in battle as a mere mat
t(r or course ; and thousands who read
the sieltiining details \VIII do wI :111110,4
WititOld shudder or :In emotion of
pain. It has got to lie a mere matter
of routs)'. \V t. look for it. battle in
which thousands are not saerifieed is
hUt 11, etnall matter, scarcely noticed
now-a-days. A mere skirmish in which
twenty, or fifty, or a hundred men are
killed passes almost without notice.—
There is a hurried paragraph, a short
telegram, very lifler mention VVoll of
oirleorS, 110110 at all of privates, awl the
thing is over, forgotten. We are be
indiruted. Our estimate of hit
inan life is uyiting to be very )'heal)
indeed. It is it little thing to us, almost
nothing. We do not think that for
every one who thus falls a wide gap is
made in some onee happy hunt', 0111
deep sears cut on more than one loving
heart. It dots not muelt us personally,
and what need we care. We can howl
war, and call for the last man to he
sacrificed, so long as we are safe our
selves. Wind matters it that the hest
young blood of th, nation is rapidly be
ing poured out, that thousands Of stal
wart men, the pride and the power tlf
each section, are being sacrificed. Is
there not personal ambition to he grati
fied, are not fortunes to he made out of
shoddy, is there not fanatical hide to be
glutted, is there not sectional animosity
to he gratified, are there not still some
f negroes to lie set free, and
have not the people decided by el,,ting
Lincoln that this human liutehery must
go on, On with it then Let the war
he made bloodier than it ever was be
fore, let our hearts be steeled to every
cry for mercy, let him who pleads for
peace he accursed, let us revel in
slaughter and roll the garments of the
nation in human blood. The war is
not a iialamity, a battle in which thou
sads are slain without any advantagie
tieing gained is not zi calamity—hut the
capsize of a boat - , by which four men
are drowned, is' «,hocking rn Lu,, if,i'•
The Next Congress.
The next Congress of the rnitcd
States according to the estimate of the
New York . Ike ('lrl withstand as follows:
IZeptil)lHtn
heilmunit
Itepublican
The Political Complexion of the New
oppo,,it;o»
Stu t es
olifornia
lllinoik
Indiana
I OW a
N
Maryland I
Massachusetts 15
- Michigan
Missouri
Nevada 1
New Jersey
NeW - York .II
Ohio Ii
irogon. -
Pennsylvania
Vermont
Virginia
Wisconsin .
Virginia
Slates Yet to Elect
New 1 la in pshire
'onnecticut
Ithode haul
Kentucky
'Pond ti
Probatilo administration majorit)
\C hole number id' inendiers
The two-third constitutional vote
vote over the two-thirds 5
/e seen from the above state
t the Abolitionists will have
ina. There will lie no check
mion them. For the measures to be
adopted they will be alone and entirely
responsible to the country. We
scarcely dare to hope for good sensor
and a proper regard for the true interests
of the nation from them.
th.publien
It will (
merit t
frill
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The Democratic Party
There were not less than four millions
of votes cast for President, of which
McClellan received almost two millions.
In other words, there are two millions
of copperheads in the army and in the
Northern States. These are as much
interested in the safety of the Union as
Republicans can be, but they are con
demned because they think that a dif
ferent policy would have ended the war
sooner.
2:C&• The Mobile Tribune says the
valuable property belonging to Uriah P.
Levy, an officer in the Yankee navy,
and known as the " Monticello estate,'
has been ordered by the Confederate
States Court to be sequestrated, and the
receiver authorized to sell the same at
public auction. This estatewas once the
residence of Thomas Jefferson.
"Give the Screws Another Turn!"
' The abovesentiment is the headingaf
the leading. editorial in MiednesdeS
E per. 4 1 , - !;,"otAatistied w. t itp the violl k
tio*COf...*A7oll:":4tikutiolOteao I,er
trued bt)the AdiVnistOtionejn
pr tug libeo - oqiiipee(TO andt#f
thellressiihe editkAirgoW'Mr.rtlNcoti
to - oommenee atin'w his I3iratiffical Ots, ;
by stopping the publictition,of the lead
ing and most influential of 'Democratic
j o urnals,;.ind winds up his infamous
article in the following strain:
"War still I•N ists. and the great work in
hand into crush the Rebellion :LS speedily'
..and as effectually as pp.--414c. .This cannot . .
he done so long'as such newspaPers as`th
Age. [he might as well have included in his
black list the _baciligeacer, for he really
meant that] are allowed. tlay after day, to
vomit forth the most pestiferous treason,
doing all in their power to embarrass the suc
cess of our armies, and the ronnuander-in-
Chief [does he mean M.LINCOLN?]
in directing their movements. We there
fore hope, and the loyal people should in
sist, that President Lincoln treat
these
alders and comfort t-rs r.f the enemy lust as
I ;emend .I:teksmi would have dom., and as
General Butler has dime. There is not sm
other governaluni nn the face or the earth
which would tolerate such license in the
midst of a great civil war. There is no
reason why ours should longer do so.' .
The plain English of the above ex-
trait is simply this. The malignant
scoundrel who edit: , the .E.ip, - cs.s, re
gardless of the plain precisions both of
the Constitution of the ['tilted States
and of the Constitution of Pennsylvania,
would he pleased to see Mr. Lincoln
attempt to muzzle every press iu the
land within Irr t h e manly courage to
stand up and boldly defend the cause of
the people. He hopes Altrallant Lin
coln will proeeed omit to "give the
screws another turn - in that direction.
The vindictiVe neVer slops In'
iliqUire as lio of Mr. Lin
coln to do this. It rum ter,: not to him
that the right= of the people freely to
discuss all the acts of their rulers one
of the essentials in a republican form
of government, without which there
cart he no freedom of political thought
or action. nowing the base means by
which his party has succeeded in car
rying the buing aware
of the multitudimiu-t lies by which they
hate Ilintinigoil In deeeice the people;
dreading the ri•Vtil,ion in fad,
hi. sentiment w Melt must speedily
come; fearing the power of a lice press
left •at liberty, to expose the follies
and (Times the :o!lllilliStration, the
editor of the call , upon his
master Ui gi t• the -(rear another
w e tin nut think :ill. Lineoht kill be
tool enough to to . it. NVe imagine he
has been taught a lesson in that respect
even by the recent election. If he has
ordinao - iiuellet t, and the least s piel:
or prudence, it' lie is not even more Bunt
plotel~ a foul ;11111 a 111Z1.1111:111 111:111 WC 1
hate L.
I,c, he till not al
tentpl to lay his hand violently (111 a
single constitutional right of his politi
cal opponents here iii the North. A
minority l'reidilent \, hen lie itssuitted
the otlice ti It i 1•11 Ill` hots a thousand times
disgraced, lii is only 1 . 12-lleCiCll a_mm
paratively t-1111t11 majority of the itettple
even of the i Niirth. There is no titan in
the land, not even the editor the Ex
press, teludoes not very \veil ktioNv that
it the election hail been left as free as it
should hate been, Mr. Lilll.olll iv(11111.1
have been defeated ntt last Tuesday.—
\Vhen the entire vote ill the loyal States,
inclttiling the I>ordty States, comes to he
sunntted up, it trill puzzle even the -
j,resi, to cypher out any very formidable
majority for Lincoln 1111 the vote Zl,;
east. 'rite friend, of lotterul :\leClei
ian trill he found Ic) he :dm...4 one
half or the tell population in the
loyal States. A\ ill Air. Lincoln dare
to lay his rude hand violently on
one of Ilse best est:WU:idled mid most
sacred rights of Iliis great mass of
men We think ilia. e know he
is far front being ttdse, but we tint
I" he vt'rY a
fool a- to d.tre t, , aid , of
iyrtutny. There i, a point 'wpm , ' tchich
endurance cannot \Vt think the
(nen who once re-titled to the
of a lon, cloak ,ieotch cup, Will
undertttlting to
inilict the la-t crowitite_t - indittnity upon
one-lullf the freemen .bone-half this.
sweat country, Ichil , theN\ hole popula
tion of the other half are arrayed in
arms atutin-t the fun:die:ll doctrine, and
mail policy of lii, purt\ . It NV , IIIIII 1.0
Si) 1111 , Zat• l•NIWIsi1111 . 11t 11:11 \Vt . Ctillll, , t
heilt•Vl` Lincoln ( . 11111 , 1 heI(II rayed hat)
it even he the iniltiential exhortation,
of the There I. no tellimx
thoturli. Tht• fook Will (0511
where ini2ol- liar to old,
one, and oriel, hew, proven to he
I rue.
or (me :!re very stir.' IWW
4`ver. 7'h , lh qlll,
t•,71
They will boldly and Crcely discuss
measures of policy : kill ch,sely scruti
nize every eel ,0* the President, and of
those under him in nut Will
lafinna:llll 'what they consider Mist: and
right, and emHlenni what they re ! , :ara
as unwise and wroog. Their liberty in
this respect they hold at t h e \VIII or
option of :\lr. Line4dil, or of any other
man or set of men, hut In Virtne of their
inalienable rights as rretinien, rights re
affirmed, and' solemnly enacted and
proclaimed Ity the COnSlitntion of the
United States, and I. the Constitution
ofl'ennsylvania in the following; express
and most emphatic WOrdS :
" The printitn4 presses shall be free to
every person who undertakes to ex:tinily ,
the he lea.islature, or ;111\-
branch of a;oicrt intent ; and no law shall
ever to Mad!: to re , traill the riilht thereof:
Thefreeeenininnieniien , d'lltonviil :11111 01110-
ions is one fit' the invalnahle rights ()linen ;
:111,1 every eitix, , n nOic fr,vi V ,peak, Write
and print on :111t re,pOnsi
cOr the or lion pre,e
elltiOnS for the pulan,,,, iou ~ 1 . 1 1,11,,n, inves
tigating the official vtoallict
men in public c.pa,nies, L,r where We (nat
ter published is proper nit* public informa
tion, the truth thereof mny he given in evi
dence."
By that rule' f action, mid by no nar
rower or less comprehensive one the
fatqlificiicc,•, at- least, will always be
governed. We •shall at all times hold
ourselves ready to answer before a pro
per judicial tribunal for any statement
we may make, or any sentiment we
may utter ; but, while doing so, we
shall also claim the right guaranteed
by the Constitution of justifying our
course by giving in evidence of the
truth of \Oat we may utter. That, and
that alone, shall be our broad rule of ac
tion. We shall refuse to be awed into
silence, but shall always speak to the
freemen of this State as a free press
should. 'awning, sycophantic hounds,
malignant curs, like the editor of the
Express, may follow such other course
as best suits their base and degraded
nature.
The NelrhAngport Ifr fo id concludes an
interesting history of the various substitutes
for the large and costly pipe organ with the
following well-deserved notice of the Cabinet
Organ "All these inventions were, how- i
ever, but little more than a series of expert-
moots, a striving after an ideal, which should
combine all excellences and reject all im
perfections, which, according to the univer
sal testimony of the greatest musicians
throughout the world, has at last been
attained in the 'Cabinet Organ' of Mason it
Hamlin. Those who have had their ears
painted by the thin, brassy sound of the old
flishioned seraphine, in which the wind was
forced instead of drawn through, or who
have.tried to be thankfnl for the improved
melodeon, but wishing there was more of
it, can hardly realize that an instrument of
the same class should be capable of such
power, richness of tone ; and surprising 'ef
fects as the Cabinet Organs. It is fortunate,
too, that their expense is to low as to place
them - within the means of almost every
family in ; the land,.; and their- influence
will, we doubt not, be unbounded in must-,
cal, a .sthetie, and social culture." ' '
Abide by Principle.' . .
41
le tical contest of the 'Stb, *as
a neq l struggle. t { ,I one side was,
a eat,P.rinvt, trot
. .q ,
.rtY,s„C,all:!:ll.3:
b lieari*tlif#l4Fahn ..- h;liibplt*.
bitilf citpure .VloftVprit,Oles4 ot
adifress i, itselft tha-yeas,j4,:i of to
niiilses jig an 114 , of wild cAtiteniAat
and inOli:..e4oirputae*_ InOtion.slt
hoped to see the people of the United
States rise superior to the blandishments
of .power, superior to the threats and
the widely extended influc4tees of ar
, bitrary and almost slespotie rule,
su-
Pcrior to all the corrupting' influences
-of money lavished withlearhil profusion
•
to controll an important ejection. It
hoped to see right, and Atstiee, and
truth triumph over falsehood, over
force, over fraud, and over ((irruption ;
but it very well knew there . !• , as no hope
for the country in this the-drkest hour
of its history, except in the calm and
dispassionate exersise of sound political
3udgment by the people.
What wise men feared has come to
pass. For the first time in our history
we have struggled with all theeombined
powers of an administration, resolved
to perpetuate itself in oftiee.)Dy any and
every appliance, whethef right or
wrong, usual or unusual, higitimate or
illegitimate. We have seen: not armies
of officeholders alone, now grown so
numerous that they darken the whole
land us locusts did the land of Egypt,
controlled, moved, and :tmarshalled
against the cause o the peqple: but we
have known and felt that; the whole
power of the multitudes of harpies, Who
have been fattening on the spoils of
Wa r , piling up money smined with
Mood, huililing palatial Mausious in
which there k Dot all In:mest hriek,
oat roll ing iu all the lux uriOs splendor
of illy acquired wealth, wittig out of
the miseries of the people,;.od gathered
from amid the decaying wren: and the
crumbling ruins of the country was
arrayed' against the course, - of right.—
These stuffed and gorged public mul
torts:, Who have fed to repletion on pub
lie plunder, whose purses have grown
wonderfully plethoric front the more
than abundant accumulations ofshodily
contracts were ready to bleed freely ;
ready to furnish any amott nt of money
tsuch stuff as it is,; to L'illuence the
the election of vestertlay. ;Alen in their
employ were forced to vote its these
wretches dictated.
Ilut this was not all. Int' army,
raised by the people, composed of the
people, and intended to li' employed
only for great and legitimate military
purposes was transformen . into a mere
political machine. In rilany places
soldiers, picked men, tools willing
to do the bidding of a villgar tyrant,
( were sent to intimidate tlw people, and
prevent a fair and free (ix - pression of
their siivcreign will.
These numerous appliances of a des
potism „which lurving milled our once
glorious eountry, isresolvfiil that it shall
not escape without-This last and crown
-ling disgrace, were found sufficient, if
we are to believe the rep4rts of yester
day's election. to overcor4e the cattiest
desire or every true patriot in the hind,
and for the time being at least, to ex
tinguish the liberties of the people. The
heavens are dark above -Is, and from
our political sky no star of hope semis
forth a single glimmering ray of light.
Before our country, anl face to face
with us let this dread 1100', Stand' , the
grim form of the gigantic:ocl monstrous
war, which has already .gulped down
the deep draughts of blood drained from
the hearts of more than tv million sons
of the people, who have gone forth to
worse than useless slaughter. Still.this
red !Moloch, unappeased thirsty as
ever, demands, and will continue to
demand more blood. That will be the
cry from this hour. dlloofi! more blood !
new victims for the slaughter! thous
ands, and hundreds of tlmusands more!
'Plie very elements of nature seem to
sympathize with us. A ltday yesterday
the sun struggled in vain to pierce the
thick clouds that hung like a dark
funereal pall over this wretched land,
while to-flay the cosy heavens weep.
'rite finances of the nation, zdready
almost irretrievahly involved, will he
compelled to stand the lost of the most
enormous strain within tile short period
oif six months. rides:: tfhe laws which
have heretofore been procn to be inex
orable, and without the: shadow of a
change, should itxhiliie a flexibility
which can in no wise he expected, we
shall, long before a year has elapsed,
stand face to lac, with. monetary prol•-
Wm most inexorably demanding a solu
tion, and \-,lfich, from a 'fair estimati• of
our resources, cannot possildy lie decided
in our favor. National baphruptcy stares
us squarely in the face; .tnd there is no
reason to hope that the rtiseralde
quackery of our nesent treasury
doctors will be aide to :Ili ade
quate remedy.
Turn we, which - Way We may, all is
dark, and the future Of our nation seems
tobeenshronded in impenetrable gloom.
1 n vain shall we struggle with desper
ate energy.. Each convulsive effort that
we may make under the rule of the fa
natics now in power•, NVill be but the
gasping and convulsive '-..1 - troe or a great
tuition in its dying agoify.
But dark as the pictti:re is, sad as is
the present, and hopeless as seems
the future, there is one great duty
which now presses horny upon every
right-thinking and patriotic citizet
While fanaticism and mad folly revel
in their illy gotten triumph, while the
enemies of the nation rejoice in the
ruin they have wrought, while an in
cendiary crew plunder the ship of State,
there is a plain duty inenmbent upon
all who really love their country and
wish it well.
Truth never eliangvs. The great
principles.of political p6liey remain the
same under all mutations. Popular
folly cannot reverse them, despotic
power cannot crush them out of exist
ence. They will rise up amid any eon
ceiveable possible wrec4c of government
and demand to'be recognized. Woe to
that nation which refuses to embrace
and apply them. Its '4lestiny, if it be
a republic, is written; in the record
of history ; the shores ')f whose broad
sea are strewn with tlili broken relics or
such governmental structures.
In the present crisis of our political
fate, the duty of the great Democratic
party is very plain. It derives its ex
istence from great principles. Possess
ing the true theory of this government,
acting on such a policy as gave to it all
its past greatness, ready to rush to the
rescue of our imperilled nationality, its
duty is plain and manifest. It must
preserve its organizatidn intact and un
broken ; it must at once begin to pre
pare for the great coining strtiggle; it
must be ready at a monient's warning to
seize the helm of the'Ship of State,when
amid the coming storm the fanatical
crew now on board shall be driven from
the position they are unfit to hold.—
That hour may come very speedily.
Already on every side tre seen the signs
which indicate its near approach. It
cannot be long del4ed. Then will
have arrived that great opportunity for
the Democratic party which it must be
ready to embrace. If out of the general
wreck of our once &lions structure
any thing worth preserving is saved, it
must be done by the ;great and time
honored organization Of the Democratic
party.
Its duty then is plain. The duty of
every individual mar ifL its ranks is
plain. We Mug "abidz • firmly, by the
-
greatprinciples of ourparty. They are
the principles upon which this govern=
meat of ours was 'founded, and whether
or 'defeat they remain un-
I • and unchangeable. Defeat
o ers them dearer to us, only *-
t ear obligations fstruigleJor,
fi - i
t*ir, arantual success. On their` tri
raplic on our final triumph as a:
'Veirtyoepend all the best interests of
the Let no man falter; let no
one despair!
We walk the wildenies9 to-day
The promised land to-morrow.
What is the Pulpit Doing.
All wars, are demoralizing in their
tendency. Civil wars such as ours are
• .
more so than any others. It impossi-
We that such a strife as that in which
we are now engaged shoUld long prevail
without its being attended with a great
increase of crime. A spirit of lawless
ness is necessarily engendered and fos
tered, every evil passion of the hUrnan
heart is stimulated, the restraints of so
cial life are loosened, and even the con
trolling influences of religion relax their
hold on the minds and hearts of men
At such times, above all others, it be
hoves the Christian ministry to be es-
Pecially watchful. The young of both
sexes in our land are now - tempted as
they could not well be in calmer times.
We see evidences all around us of a loos-
ening of the restraints of home. Boys
astonish grown up men by their pro
fanity and their precocity in every spe
cies of vice; and even girls seem to have
lost, not a little of that shrinking modes-
ty of demeanor which should character
ize the sex, whose chief ornament it is.
On all sides, all about us, at morning,
at 110011, or at night, wherever we may
look we see most abundant evidence of
the wide spread demoralization which
has been produced by this war. It is
the legitimate, if not the inevitable re
sult, of our political condition. ('amps
have ever been schools of vice, and it
was not without sonic show of reason
that the elder 'Napoleon is reported to
have said, " the worse man the better
soldier." The influence of the camp is
felt all over the land. There is a spirit
of recklessness, a disregard for the nice
proprieties of life, a refusal to be con
trolled by ordinary restraints, a disre-
gard of law civil and divine, an effron
tery or crime whidi is enough to make
and• thoughtful man among m: tremble
for the fate of his vountry
And, sad it is to say, that, while this
is the condition - of affairs, the ordinary
nmral agencies .seem to be, if lint sus
pended, almost completely diverted front
their original purpose. Drunkenness
abounds in the land as it never did be
fore ; hut who hears of a temperance so
ciety, or even of any eflin•t being made
to stay it. Profanity no longer seems
to shock any one, Ilia even our modern
divines. It is doubtful whether Paris
can any longer rival our cities in one
species of crime ; yet, who hears a word
about any of these things, except it be
occasionally front the secular press.
'What is the American pulpit doing?
Is it making the etlifft it should do to
stay the tide of sin and corruption that
is sweeping over the laud" Where are
the watchmen on the walls of Zion, the
men who profess to believe that they
stand as special agents between (lod and
dying, sinful men, to lift up their voices
in solenm warning, and in earliest en
treaties and expostulations ? Do they
really believe that, with the terrible in
crease of crime all about us, men and
women arc being hurried to hell in mul
titudes infinitely more numerous, and
with a rapidity naleh greater than ever
before ? ‘Chat are all those men, whose
duty it is to point the rout to Heaven
and lead the way," about ? Does any
one need to ask Surely no one who
has had the fortune (misfortune, per
haps we had better say) to listen to a
sermon for months past from any /riga/
minister Have they not all been busy
preaching; polities ? Are not the pulpits
of our churches converted into partisan
hustings, from which have been heard
from Sabbath to Sabbath, not warnings
to sinners, but distempered political
harangues ; not the words of the glo
rious gospel of the (bid of peace, but
the hoarse bellowing,: of Moloch, the
bloody tlod of war ; not utild entreaties,
lieseeching met professing to be Chris
tkins to dwell together as brethren in
unity, but vindictively bitter denuncia
tions of all who ditb'r with them, de
livered in tones which must. make the
very devil laugh with fiendish glee.
The hireling ministry of the days are
a curse to society. Thousands of them
have sold their birthright in heaven for•
a pitiful mess or earthly pottage.
itudes them stand as stumbling
blocks in the way of sinners, who are
falling overthein into hell. They are do
ing little to prevent thealmost universal
prevalence of the milldew of vice and
'rime which is spreading all over this
lamb Infidelity is abroad, and reaping
a Hell harvest. Vital Christianity is
almost dead. Skepticism is now the
prevailing creed. God is dishonored in
those who profess to be his servants.
The churches of the land have almost
lost control of the people, apparently
almost ceased to care for• their eternal
welfare. society is rapidly
becoming as reckless, and as vicious, as
was that of France, wlnin Cod was de
throned, and a decorated and crowned
harlot :set up to be worshiped as the god
dess of a reckless nation, which had
rioted in blood and wantoned in wild,
and unrestrained passions, until all sense
of shame was lost. (treat crimes have
almost ceased to shock us, so frequent is
their occurrence, and the wide-spread
prevalence of vice no longer• seems to
alarm us. And, amid it all, very many
members of the Christbm ministry, in
stead of lifting up their voices in solemn
w a rnioss and earnest appeals, are only
adding fuel tothe ;lames, as, from Sab
bath to Sabbath, they substitute dis
tempered political harangues for gospel
sermons, and insult Cod, whom
they so irreverently address, by inject
ing a "stump speech into nearly every
prayer they make. Many of our modern
American Protestant Churches hav
ceased to lie aught else than mere politi
cal eonventieles.
It is true, 'there are many and noble
exceptions. There are many true Chris
tian ministers who feel the dignity and
the loftiness of their calling, pure and
godly men who refuse to descend from
their lofty position, and disdain to be
draggle their robes in the filth and mire
of polities; but many, - very many, so
act as to dishonor religion and bring the
cause of Christianity into disrepute. It
is high time these men saw the ten
dency of their practices. While infi
delity and crime are rapidly spreading
throughout the land, these men am
doing little or nothing to stay its tide ;
nay, in many instances they are only
adding to its volume and increasing its
fury: If God keeps any account of the
doings of men, there will surely come
a day when these unfaithful stewards
will have to give a reckoning for their
deeds, and if the Bible be true, a ter
rible one it will be for them.
: , 4.7 - 1". For Coughs,' Colds, and Throat Dis
orders, use " Brozrn's Bronchial' Troches,'
having proved their efficacy by a test of
many years. The Troches are highiy rec
commended and pOscribed by Physicians
and Surgeons in the Army.
Judge Cild, rebel Commissioner of Pri
soners, with the assent of the rebel Secre
tary of War, bus asked permission of Gen.
Grant to have thirty-thoustind pairs of
blankets purchased in New York for the
rebel tirisoners in our hands. He also asks
permission of this Government to pay for
ihem witha cargo 'oreotton; to be shipped
from Wilmington.
McClellan to be Offered a C .; mold-- •
The Deniocracy to be. Hone ogled.
The Smiday..elfereury of yes rday has
a c tiftraphic despAtch from ' -ashing
pheoln ill refuse
to axiceptthe ofFered:tesigpatlim of Gen.
MeOlelbiri,lini - willY),ller him 'a
high po
sipon gf command' in the : army. We
cart icareely believe that report "to be-!
correct, even in the face of the reason
assigned, which we know is now ope
rating powerfully, both on Mr. Lincoln
and his, adherents. The ..if - rrcrow's de
spatch says that Mr. Lincoln is anxious
to harmoniseall parties in the North,
and that to accomplish this he will pur
sue a conciliatory policy toward his op
ponents, and treat much as will stand by
him to a fiiir share of Government pa-
tronage
That is not the way for Mr. Lincoln
to attemptlo approach the. Democracy.
They cannot be purchased or bribed into
an endorsement of his war policy, which
has. been up to this hour such a complete
and most disastrous failure. There may
be afew mercenary men among us yet,
prepared to sell their birthright of prin
ciple for a mess of potage, but we alma
' bend they are scarce. Most of those
who were influenced by no higher mo
tives are with Mr. Lincoln already.
Those who remain have been tried and
not found wanting.
The war • policy of Mr. Lincoln and
that of General McClellan, as laid clown
by himself in clear anti statesmanlike
terms, are utterly and irreconcilably at
variance. ;eneral McClellan could not
now accept of a command under Mr.
Lincoln without completely stultifying
his record and making himself au object
of scorn and pity. We do not believe
Mr. Lincoln would think of insulting
General McClellan by making hint any
otter of the kind at present; we are sure
General McClellan would not degrade
himself in the eyes of his friends and
of the world by accepting it.
If Mr. Lincoln wishes to have the
support. of the Democratic party, he
can secure it ; not by honeyed phrases :
which mean nothing, not by offers of
bribes of place and patronage—all such
overtures the Democracy will scornio
accept. They are neither to be soothed ,
by plandishmentsnorseduced by bribes.
They stand upon principle, and in po
litical
ideas are as widely removed faun
the A built ionists as the poles of the earth
are assunder. If Mr. Lincoln wants
our co-operation he must change his
policy. tic hue" run the machine „ on
the track of fanatical ideas long enough.
The guage of that road wont suit the
Democratic engine. It would be worse
than useless to try to make it run on it.
It now stands on the old track,firm, iind
well ballasted, on which were safely
carried for many years, without an acci
dent, all the best interests of this great
nation. It cannot and shall not be
switched oft upon the wretched track
on which Lincoln has been "running the
machine." 1.'”” many terrible accidents
have already happened on that line,
and our conductor, "history teaching
by example," assures us that, he has
been at the farther termi ti us of the
track, and that it ends in a steep in
clined plane, of a declivity so great that
after a certain point is passed, which is
not very many miles ahead of the Lin
coln engine, neither puling on the
break;4 nor reversing the locomotive
can save the whole train from being
precipitated over a tremendous preci
pice, at the base of which lie the ruins
of more than one once proud Republie.
If Mr. Uncoilt insists upon running the
governmental machine on' his track, to
certain eventual ruin, he must excuse
the Denioeratic party, if it should refuse
to have any hand in bringing about the
final catastrophe.
The Coming Draft and the l'haint . es in
the Law.
The 'Washington correspondent of the
Detroit Fire Press writes as follows,
under date of October 20th :
It is generally concede'd that the next
m.ission MCOllgreSS Will, oil the recommen
dation of the War I tepart ment, materially
amend the existing tionseription law by
striking out the provision allowing drafted
Olen to furnish substitutes. It will lie re
membered that this was attempted id the
last session of Congress, and was approved
by the Military Committees of both the
Senate and House. It was adopted in the
Senate, and failed in the I louse only on ac
count of the approaching elections. • It was,
however, strongly urged liy Schenck and
other leading Abolitionists, and on a test
vote received the support of lift y memlierS—
all of the Administration party, including
lleaman, i)riggs Longyear, and Kellogg, of
:%lichigan. It WILY , t,penlv avowed then by
leading Abolitionists, that if the election
this fall should result in their favor, they
would not hesitate al the text session to vote
in fityor t h e sulst itttle 141111.5 V
ii . the present law. This the
intention. It eves thoroughly understood
before the adjournment of the last session.
The Provost Marshal Geneital, it is said,
will renew his recommendation Mr the
abolition °tithe clause, ;Intl that it will lie
approved by the War Department, and in
all probability - will beVOlllu a law before the
litißl of.lunuary 111 , N1. 'lbm - sool, lllVl , afler
a call for several hundred thousand men
(principals) will In. made vor 1,11,1er, 11
judge.
It is also contemplated, I undorAluid,
strike out that provision in the net of July
last requiring the President to give tiny
days . notice befog.' a draft can Ito n lade, so
that the conscription machine can lie put in
operation at any time Without- ally notice
Whatever lo the people, who may Ilion con
sider themselves tinder sentence of death,
to be executed at thi.• pHISVIrc Of Ilk EIKI1A
; 1,211 Cy, .k. Lincoln.
There is not the least doubt ill the
world' that this is the programme, or
that it will be speedily carried out.
Yellow Tickets
Numberless were themeaus, not right
in themselves, to which the dominant
party resorted in the recent presidential
election. In Clay township, in this
county, the Abolitionists used yellow
tickets. That color, somewhat appro
priate as indicating the in iscegenetical
principles of ,hose using them. was re
sorted to in order that men having De
mocratic laborers in their employ might
be able to influence their votes. An in
stance of this kind occurred which is j
worthy of notice. The proprietOr of a
manufactory of rifle barrels, a lucrative
business in these war times, and one
which would not flourish half so well
if the work of wholesale human slaugh
ter should cease, insisted that each of
his employees should vote these mulatto
colored tickets. One of the men, re
volting against the indignity thus put
upon his manhood, refused to vote the
colored ticket, at the same time avow
ing his willingness to vote a white
ticket with the Lincoln electors on it.
This he was permitted to do, but the
very next morning he was discharged.
Call you that freedom of election? There
is no doubt but that thousands of poor
men in this State and elsewhere were
forced to votv against their honest con
victions, on pain of being turned out of
employment to which they were accus
tomed, and forced to seek a livelihood
in some other business, of which, per
haps, they had no knowledge. No one
but the poor man, upon whom that kind
j of pressure is brought to bear, can tell
how much he must sacrifice in ease he
refuses to yield to the wish of his em
ployer. His daily labor is all his family
have to depend , upon to keep them from
actual want, and it is no light thing for
him to be discharged and compelled to
seek employment and a home elsewhere.
The use of tickets of a distinctive color,
or with a mark upon them, by which
they can be distinguished, is one way
in which rich men are able totyrannise
over the poor, and a very mean method
it is.
The United States steamship Weehttsett, ;
Captain Collins, arrived at Fortress Mon
roe
on Friday last, with the captured rebel
privateer 'Florida in tow. The Wachusett
bronght as Passengers Mr. Thonias Wilson,
our Consul at Bahia, Brazil.
The Northern Eleetton-d . —The, United'
States Surrendering . its Liberties.
(From the Richmondlnspatch,-.146v28.]
esterday will he long remembered in the
annals, of kind., 'On vOtetilay.twenty
.Milliorta of huniim beings, brit fotir veers ago
esteemed thefreest pripulationiMearthonet
at various points of assemblage. tbr the pur- :
- pose 'of making reformat surrender of their
liberties—not to a great military tommerer;
'not to a renowned statesman ; not to a fellow 1
' citizen who has done the State services that
cannot be estimated in worldly wealth; not
to one who has preserved the State from
foreign tromny, or increased its glory and
its greatness at home; not to a Ca'sar or a
Napoleon, the glory of whose achievements
might be pleaded as an apology for the ab
•ject submission of the multitude; but to a
vulgar tyrant, who has. never seen a shot
tired - anger, -who has -no more idea of
statesmanship than as a means of making
money; whose career has been one of un
limited and unmitigated disaster; whose per
sonal qualities are those of a low buf-
Mon, and whose most noteworthy con
versation is a medly of profane jests
and obscene aneedotes—a creature who has
squandered the lives of millions without
remorse and without even the decency of
pretending to feel for their misfortunes.
who still cries for blood and for Money in
the pursuit of his atrocious designs. To
such a 'lion, yesterday, the people oft he so
called United States surrendered their lives,
their liberties, their persons, &lid their
purses, to have and to hold the same for at
least four years, and for as much longer as
he shall choose. For it is plain that if he
so will it, he may hold on for his natural
life, and transmit the sceptre to his de
scendents. There is nothing in the world
to prevent hint should he feel so disposed,
and there is no reason to think that thus
disposed he will not be. It seems strange
to us that he should have condescended to
submit to an election at all, and we are eon
vinced lie world never have done so, had
he not been convinced beforehand that d
would result in his favor. How McClellan
could ever have been so infatuated as to
thrust himself in his way, we are Unable to
eone..i ye. The lightest punishment lie had to
expect, was to be crushed, Mr he might
have felt assured that even ,had he been
elected, he would not have been alleyeed to
take his seat.
All the preparations of Lincoln indicate a
determination 1.. take possession of the gov
ernment by farce—his military arrange-
ments ; the stat bating of soldiers about the
polls ; the arrest 01' the New York commis
sioners; the prohibition against :tny tickets
lint his own in the debt ; his jealous super
vision of the voting in the army—all these
indicate a deterininathin to coinpier by the
ballot-box it possible, lan in tiny event to
conquer. Ilow could McClellan expect to
weather such a storm as his adversary had
it in Ins power lit raise at. tiny Iliontellt of
11a. day' Even the grand resort tit tyranny
in :ill :to - 0 ,, hes not been overlooked in this
ease. Rase eonspirancies are discovered;
designs to burn whale cities ; to overthrow
tile best government under the sun ; to shoot
Lincoln ; to stuff the ballot box : to assist the
confederate arm.: to do every tiling that is
lawful; and just ill tile very nick of time—
just in time to imprison influetwial friend ,
of Ale( lel lan, and to keep the body of
supporters from going to the polls.
Anil this throe is to be called art election;
2111,1 l.ivavbt seated- upon his throne at
Washingt..n by the bayonets of his troops,
as decidedly as the First Nopoleon was seat
ed upon the imperial throne of Franey by
the military powers of the nation, still re
tains the title of President, and adheres to
the forms if a republic, :is Augustus and
Tiberius had themselves regularly elected
consuls and tribunes lung after they haul
coneentrated all power in their own persons.
We are prone to believe that every nation
191 . '1)y:4 t h e exact propOrtioll of fret‘iloill to
it 1110 Yaliket , hart ,
lost their liberties, therefore, wethink it self
evident that it is because they never deserv
ed to have them. If they are slaves, it is
beeause they are tit for the situation. Slaves
they have lieen years all the base pas
sions that arc indicative ,if a prolligate and
degenerate rare: and 'When natiOnS adValive
to I lint point t t rousiulltation bondage
cosh brit it single sl e .,.
surely, Ibo surrend , r which the Yankees
made ..11 yesterday ~r their liberties to the
:ick Pudding. Afwaham Lincoln, is in its
way the mint remarkable event of which
history makes mention. Surely, the Yan
kee n:ition, tint the greatest, is, at least,
the most interesting of :ill oNiStilig
How the Election was Carried in Mary-
land.
Front the New York Express.j
The following letter addressed to an ox
mein! or of Congress in this city, and from
one of the most prominent public nu•n in
the State, shows how the election in Mary
land was carried lin• Linenln and Johnson.
According to the Administration presses.
" INlarylaind has none nobly. - Let its see
what she has done :
WASH IN(iTON CO.. 11d., Noy. s,
.Mv DeAtt'Sin: It is due to the friends of
Ileneral Mellen:in that they should know
of the outrages which were committed to
day in this State at the ballot-box. l tun
dreds of legal voters were, everywhere, de
nted the right to vote—men who have voted
for lictfy - years, and of the highest character
and wealth, upon the flimsiest pretexts, had
their votes refused. You are douhtless fa
miliar with the oath imposed upon us by our
new Constitution. Odious as it, was, our
people were still willing 10 take it, bill this
was not deemed sufliffient, and the most silly
and vexatious f mestions were added, with
out the least shadow of law. For example,
one gentleman who had taken the oath, and
answered satisfitetorily other questions, was
at 'last asked if the two aunties were engage,'
in battle, which would he desire to be victo
rious ? Ile answered, „ That.which was
right in sight oft loft ;" find this reply was
deemed sufficient to establish his disloyalty,
and his vote was rejected.
others denied their right simply because
they frequented certain houses, or assoeia
led with partieular persons. ( tuff other was
rejected upon the testimony of :L volunteer
witness, that he had heard him say, when
army passed through Hagers
town, in I sill, that they would never re
turn.- The largest majority, however, of
those whose Villa's were refused were lint,
perntitt , •i I In silent at all, tar ni offer any
(widen., of their loyalty, or fidelity to the
Constinitifbi. The mere filet openly MI
, 'looming elf liar . .\l,4.leitait was
enough to lkirn.n. his Vol,. In What 1 have
already said 1 have attempted to give Von
soot, ilk, of tin• cotalurt of the sworn
, judges. The outrages, that were permitted
be armed ruffians around the polls were
equally inf a mous; it was almost impossible
to approach the polls without great risk.
The returns will perhaps show the largest
majority for Lincoln in this county'of all
others in the State, yet I could make oath
with a elear consvience that McClellan, with
a fair election, would have, large majority.
Strengtl► of the De►noeratie Party
In the election last Tuesday the num
ber of votes east for President will not
fall short of four millions. Of this num
ber Mr. Lincoln will have a majority of
less than two hundred thousand, not a
a per centage of majority on the whole
vote of five per rent. Who will say, in
sight of these figures, that the Demo
cratic party is annihilated ? Who can
help admitting, not only its great vital
ity, but, its enormous power when Ile
reflects upon the fact that direct mili
tary interference controlled the voting
in Maryland and Tennessee ; while else
where, throughout the whole country,
all the power of au administration dis
pensing the vast patronage of one thou
sand million of dollars annually was
brought to bear against it? We num
ber in our ranks almost two million
men ; honest, true hearted, patriotic
men; men who can neither be corrupt
ed by bribes nor intimidated by arbi
trary power ; men who love their
country, and whose chief desire is to
aid in securing its happiness, its pros
perity, and its greatness. The future
will find us employment. The time
must come when the people will turn
back to the Democratic party, demand
ing that it should be reinstated in power.
Then will begin its second term of rule,
which will be longer than the first, and
that lasted, almost without interrup
tion, for a period of more than half a,
century.
Latest from the Richmond Papers
N YORK, Nov. 13.—The Richmond pa
pers of the 10th have been received.
In the Confederate Semite a resolution
was offered that it. itisound poliey to employ
negroes in the army in all' positions except
as soldiers.
In the I louse thene was a sharp debate on
Mr. Foote's resolutimr, denouncing Davis'
recommendation to repeal the exemption of
editors and newspaper employees from
military service. The resoltnion was finally
referred.
The ltichmond Enquirer pronounces the
recommendatian of Davis as the first step
toward a dictatorship.
Governor Brown, of Georgia, in pis mes
sage, advocates the right of each State to
negotiate a peace for itself.
The Whig criticizes Davis proposition to
employ slaves in the artily and navy, and
wants him and the rebel mithorites to mind
theiz own business, which is to enforce and
execute the military laws they now have
It says his arguments are the arguments of
Seward and Sumner, and, it true, slavery
is wrong, and the sum of all barbarism.
The latest advices from Hood represent
him " across the Tennessee, and everything
going on as the heart could wish. Hood
enters upon ,his campaign with the finest
army . . ever marshalled south of Virginia.
It is larget in numbers and has better gen
erals, and the troops are in finer spirits
than was ever known before."
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On Tuesday last, the day of election,
Sheridan's army was encamped at Cedar
creek„kist northofStrasburg. .4.ll:the gar
risoned posts south of that had been given
up. 'A re,!onuoissance sent out on Monday
discovered the Confederate picketsjust south
of Fisher's Hill. It returned on Tuesdav,'
and as it came into camp rain began to fall..
This was the beginning of the heavy storm --
:which lasted nearly all of last week. Gen.
Sheridan was at Winchester, and had been
very sick. During. election day news was
brought to Winchester that a large Confed
erate force had out-flanked the camp at
Cedar Creek, rind was 4 wiftly marching ,
northward on the west side of the North
Mountain, to get to Winchester and kn. off
tlio supplies. Sheridan at once rode down
to Cedar Creek., and issued orders for a re
' treat. At daylight on WednesdaY .
the
camp was broken up and the retreat
' began. The infantry marched in front
and the cavalry protected the rear.
The day's march was about fifteen miles
and in the evening the armyencamped eight
miles south of Winchester. Rain fell in
torrents all day, and it was with the'greatest
difileuity that the wagons and artillery could
I be brought along. Many wagons broke
1 down and had to be abandoned. On Tlmrs
-1 day at daylight, in the midst of the rain, the
i march was resumed. The troops reached
I Winchester. A stroll! , garrison was left
there, and the main body turned westward
towards I larper's Ferry ; marched about six
miles to the opequan, and encamped on its
eastern bank. The Confederates made no
attack during this march. Now Sheridan's
main hotly is east of the tMequan. Win
chester is at his outpost. The Shenandoah
1 Valley has been given up to the enemy.
Between Winchester and 'Martinsburg the
guerrillas air sot hick that that line of supply
I will have to he given nib Supplies Nvill now
i be drawn from 'Harper's+ Ferry. A train
from there was attacked on Monday by forty
of .11tisby's men, plundered, a . titl' eight
prisoners carried 011'. Inn dace ilf the
the train guards escaped.
General ;.;lierman's movement, are still
involved in sOll.lO 111VSlerV. On Iliaolier '2.3,11
Ile WaS al tjaylesvilie, Alabama. 11, , then
started eastward, and marched to the limi of
the Chattanooga and Atlanta Railroad,
striking it at Resaca. Then turning soul ll
\yard, he marched toward Atlanta. Ott :No
vember 4111, he Was a reW Miles north of
:Nlarietta, and about twenty-eight iumh of
Atlanta. Ile was still marching; southwar , l.
on Monday last he is believed to. have
reached .\ tlanta,:mil,joining Slocum's fort.,
to his own, had live corps under his vont
mand. (m Nlonday the I 'onfetlerates made
a slight attack upon the Federal pickets,
an d I wo or t h r ..,, wer ,• kill e d an d w o unded.
(la Tuesday liw election was held in A t ilia -
ca. and Sherman's:lolly was still there. On
1 Wednesday morning another attack was
made on the Federal pickets, but no impres
sion was made. Shertnan's army wits in
.ktlanta on Wednesday morning last, when
a Party left for the North 11110er cavalry
escort,:mil safely rear heel Nashville, whence
they telegraphed the news. Since Own we
have heard nothing. There is neither rail
-1 road nor telegraph to Chattanooga, ;old
I nothing can be heard except from the par
, ties who occasiotlV Manage 1 ,, I'oo aaor , ll , 't
Orgilerrillas, :01,1 get North.
t Sherman hatlseareely started. when Ht..'
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nuirched in pursuit of 1010. 1 loot! is 1,-
lieved to have recrossed the 'relines., Iti \ -
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or at Guntersville, about November itli.
1 On Tuesday last Wheeler and Forrest with
drew from all the oitintry north of John
sonville, and on 'Tuesday night Johnson
ville wasevaeuated. tin IVedniisdity morn
ing it was re-occupied 1,3' the Feiltiral Croons.
Wheeler and Forrest will not go much
farther smith than the Tennessee State line,
and will then halt to hold the vast section
oceountry rectintl3 , retaken 1 . 1.0111 the Fed
eral troop , in North Alabama ;mil East
Tentless... lien. A.. 1. `4lllllll's Feller:11 di-
Vision, I . l'olll Memphis. is :d Paducah. Sher
man is believed to havt• Hindi` sonic move
ment from Atlanta tql Wodne.hty last,
though Where is tot acelll'alety 1:11,,W11.
General Met has resigned his com
mission ius Senior I\ lajor General of li ,
United States Regular . \ oily. The resignit
lion was sent to Washington on 'Tuesday
i n ,„ 3 l, when it Was not known whether he
resigned to laii•oniti a 1'e51,14 , 10 ,:r li, laa•itit.
a I,l'iVate cauZeli. it has not yet been ac
cepted.
Everything is quiet at Petersburg. Tia•
Southern journals speak of a contemplated
attack upon Willinington by an overland
ninth by way of Weldon, of part of t ;rant's
army. As Grant is too weak to make any
impression tin Petersburg, he is nit, weak i 4,
send any one to Wilmington.
The Confederates are said to have three
or four heavy rams up the 1 hal lit Ver. They
are 110 W daily expected to cotta 414iwn and
attack the Federal fleet in the Mississippi.
Plymouth, North Carolina, ens entirely
destroyed in the late contest. There is a
report, not very reliable howtiver, that 11 fly
two cannon were captured. Plymouth is
now held by the gunboats.
General Sheridan haseertainly withdrawn
to Winchester. II is farthest southern out- -
post is 1141 W 1110.1 . 011 r 11011 , s solidi or W in
elleSter, :0 :I place called Keariaaown.
Daring the retreat, a severe skirmish was
fimght near From. Royal, in which the Fed
eral loss is reported to have been very
heavy. The Federal cavalry eaptured two
cannon, and tune hundred anti fifty prison
ers from the Confederates. kiheridan , s ,
troops are now intrenched at Nearnstown
There is no lighting reported front Peters
burg. The I 'olifederatesare said to be again.
massing 4,11 the \Veldon Railroad, :out an
attack is feared. The Sialtherir newspapers
state that ; Admiral Porter's iron clad acct
has been brought up the .1 atiMs, inch is now
at anchor just below the Dutch (nip Canal.
It is to assist in the attack on - Richmond,
which is anticipated when the canal is com
pleted. The greater partof Sheridan's army
is now believed to boon its way 10 artist's
vaini,.
The 001, , h11 report of the capture of Ply
mouth has beam received. The 10\111 \Vas
entirely 414,1 ri,Vial. TWelay two cannon
and I hirt v-stiven Confederate prisoners wore
raptured. The Federal loss isnot reported.
t ien. Canby was shut SOlll, , time since by
a guerrilla whilst sailing tip IVhite River,
Arkansas. ile is thought 10 have been
mortally No winded.
Sherman has no ?communication with
\Vashingion. There is very little doubt
that he evai•nated Atlanta in the latter part
of last, week. Where lii , wont tri is not
known.
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The ('“iirecierate steamer lierida Lns
arrived al Fortress :\lonr“, kith the Wzt
idni,olt.
Running in a Rut
The A holition mind is I the I l'orhP. ,
description of iNlr. Seward's. It runs in
a rut. It looks over the broad round.)
kith its twenty six millions ~1 whites,
and only sees negroes.
'rite results of this war are to it only
connected with sonic benefit to the black.
It is as unconscious of the white race as
Mrs. Jellaby, writing to the Borrioboolah
Wu mission, was of a neglected house
hold, a dispirited husband, and of chil
dren running to seed, morally and
physically.
The first year of the \Val' is marked to
it not by the defeatof Bull Run, and the
victories of Fort Donelson and Mill
Springs, but by the suppression of the
African slave trade in the United
States.
The second, not by the :.olvanec to
lliehmmot, the stubborn tenacityor the
, •even dny , ' lights, the disasters of
and the redeeming victories or south
Mountain and Antietam, but by making
"the negroes the soldiers of freedom."
The third is distinguished, not by
Vicksburg and Gettysliorg, but by the
abolition of slavery in the District of
Columbia, anti the fourth by the aboli
tion of slavery in Maryland.
All these immense and valuable re
sults at the expense oh three thousand
millions of dollars and half a million of
northern lives.
What an infinitesimal Piece of bread
for the Whites, and what an voonnoos
quantity of each Mr the blacks.
We do wish the Expreßs would
quit its bad habit of stealing editorials.
In its issue of Saturday We notice an
an article from Forney's Washington
Chermic/f, , clone up as original politica I
matter. Its superiority in point of sty I e
to most of the leaded matter in the
columns of our neighbor might have
led us to conclude it was cunningly
clipped. even if we had not read it be
fore.
It is an insolent appeal to Democrats
to abandon their opposition to the mad
p o li c y of Mr. Lincoln and his fanatical
advisers. This they cannot, dare not,
and will not, do. Believing honestly,
as they do, that it can only result in
ruin, and au eventual forced recognition
of the indepeucence of the Southern
Confederacy, they
.aro in duty and in
honor bound to oppose it. This they
will do persistently and to the end. The
nation may be destroyed by the radical
set now in power in spite of all we can
do or say, but it shall not be done with
out our most earnest protest against the
means by which it is even now being'
rapidly accomplished.
Ser A contemporary attributes th e
frequency of railway accidents oNate,
to the fact that employees on trains are
often engaged in political discussions to
the neglect of their proper. duties. If
COrrect, railways will be Safer hereafter