mi Sijc Scffevsonian, THUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1864. NATIONAL UNION NOMINATIONS. FOR PRESIDENT, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, OF ILLINOIS. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, ANDREW JOHNSON, OF TENNESSEE. Union Electoral Ticked SENATORIAL ELECTORS. MORTON AI'iMICIIAEL, of Philadelphia, THOMAS CUNNINGHAM, of Beaver. REPRESENTATIVE ELECTORS. 1 Robert P. King, 13 Elias W. Hall, 2 G. Morrison Coates,--14 C. U. Shriner, 3 Henry Bumtn, loJolin Wistcr, 4 William II. Kern. 16 D. M'ConaUghy, 5 Bartin H. Jcnks, 17 David W. Wood 0 Charles M. Itunk, 18 Isaac Benson, 7 Robert Parke, 19 John Pntton, 8 Aaron Mull, SO Samuel B. Dick, 0 John A. Hiestand, 21 Everard Biercr, 10 Richard H. Coryell, 22 John P. Penney, 11 Edward Halidav, ,23EbcnezerM'Junkin 13 Charles F. Itced, )24 J. W. Blancliard, To be Regretted. We failed, tins week, to enjoy our usu al licarty laugli, over the literary, intel lectual and political gyrations of friend Cotter. For some unaccountable reason ho failed to furnish us with a copy of the Milford Herald. Don't do that again, old boy. We can't do without the genial influence of your lucubrations, no how. The War. Wc this week give up considerable space to a description of the maimer in which Grant, Butler, Sherman, and Sher idan and others are knocking the spots off of the Southern Copperheads, which will nrovc interesting to our readers. It i - is a fact, patent to all who see around them, that owing io au. affinity of senti ment between tbcnia blow at their south ern brethern, has an equally stunning cf feet upon gentlemen of the Copperhead kiducy North. Neither of them like it. Glad to hear it. Wc are pleased to learn that Mr. J. W. Wctherill, who was reported killed in one of the recent battles, was only slight ly wounded, and is rapidly recovering. He is expected home in a few days, aud will be warmly welcomed by his many iriends. lie was wounded by an honora ble rebel in the field and not by an assas sin laying in the brush. K The Army Vote. The Army vote is already beginning to be received. All that has yet been re ceived, coming as it docs from the hospit als, the battle-fields and the camps goes for the Union party by large majorities. The McClellan majorities will uot come in until the Guard Houses, the Military prisons and the llebel lines are heard from. The Elections. The election in this section of country passed off with more than usual quietness on Tuesday last. The result in the county is not certainly known, but there is no doubt but that Copperheadism .has carried everything by a large majority. In the contest for Commissioner the on ly position over which there was a family scramble for the spoils the indications sre that Heffiefinger, ofEldred, is elected. From the State at large the returns are meagre, but are sufficiently full to show that the Unionists will have a re ppcctable majority on the home vote, which will be largely increased by the vote from the army. We have gained at least two Congressmen, and in the result have the assurance that the State will go for Lincoln & Johnson, in November. From Indiana we have the gratifying intelligence that 3Iortion, the Uuiou Cau didate for -Governor is elected by a ma jority of 20,000. We have gained two members of Congress and have a good chauce for a third. The election of Morton, with the soldiers debarred from voting by the opposition ot the democracy, was barely hoped for. From Ohio the news comes that the Unionists are triumphant, by a rousing majority. Of Congressmen we have gained three. Messrs. Hayes & Egglcs- ton (Union) succeed, Messrs. Long & Pen dleton (Copper) in the Cincinnati District and in the Columbus District Shallenber- ger (Union) has defeated S. S. Cox (Cop per) by 1,000 majority on the home vote, which will be largely increased by the army vote. Thus, the October elections settle most gloriously the Presidential election in November. With bullets for the Cop perheads South, aud ballots for them North, the Union cannot fail to be pre served. "The brave and heroic Ileiutzlc man, a son- of Pennsylvania, and a native f Old Lancaster, has taken ground for Abe aud Andy. The Fair. The 5th Annual Fairof the Monroe County Agricultural Society passed off, last week, with credited the management, as well as to the exhibitors. Tlie dis- plny'iu the niain bUildingf 'of farm pro-H ducts, and.of the handiwork of.our ladicsJ was superior to that of any proceeding year. Yliat- farm; i pi plem en ts; an d ina chinery was exhibited was the best of its class, but there was a lack of quantity and variety which we regretted, to sep. Iu the departments of fine arts and man ufactures Jacoby, Ballentyne,. Itustcr, Sontheimer & Herririan, "Brown & Kel ler and others made a very rich display. The display of horses and Stock was not, in . completeness, so good as it should have been: What was there, was of a kind so excellent that we could not but wish that our farmers and others owning good horses, cattle &c, had not been more ambitious to display the richness of their possession. It is only by honorable rivalry in this way that we can hope to improve on what wc have by comparing what wc have with those possessed by our neighbors, and then endeavoring to unite the good points of both Ou the track, the display of fast horses was good There were a goodly, number of first rate horses, aud under skilful driving excel lent time was made iu the contests for the premiums. In the scratch for the S200, premium, the mile was made in 2:26, being the fastest trotting yet done on the course. This was made by n horse owned in Norristown, Pa. a noble ani mal. The attendance, owing to the stor my aspect of the weather, was not, we think, so great as in former years. There was, however, a crowd sufficiently large to show that public iutcrcst in the Fairs nf tlm Societv. had not abate 1. This argued well for our farming iutcrcsts, and we were nl d to see it. The Murder in Price Townhip. A writer iu the last Mouroe Democrat signiug himself Spectator, indulges in a sood deal of merriment over the advent of Mr. William Mostellcr in Price town ship, and his exit therefrom, whither he went for the purpose of serving the noti ces of the draft. The result of the affair has uot, afcr all, proved so merry as the writer endeavored to make us believe it would. A mau murdered in cold blood shot down by asscssins lurking in the brush, does not go a great ways to con vince people that there was nothing but Mr. Mostcllor's fears to drive him from the performance of his duty. Nor docs it so far to induce belief in the writer's veracity, when contrasted with his asser tion, that at a meeting the drafted men. at which he says he was preseut, it was resolved to do no injury to the person ap pointed to serve the notices. But it does go to show that the treasonous preachings of Copperhead Democracy are having their effect that by them men are led to forget themselves, and instead of the qui et, peaceable, well disposed citizens they were wont to bechanged into law-breakers, and murderers of a man totally void of offence towards them. Mr. Deas, the murdered man, was a stranger to .the people of Price. He was there in the performance of a duty in obe dience to an order from his superior offi cer ; and so long as the people remained a law-abiding people, he had no will to harm a hair of their heads. Democracy of to day, however, had done its work. It did worse, it made them, iu the eyes of both God and man, murderers of Lcauder K. Deas. From the bottom of our heart wc regret the deed of the men of Price, and we re gret too, that, as the apologists for the mur derers, Spectator has set himself before the world as au accessary in the deed. He knew, if he knew anythiug, that threats had been made in case any one came to serve notices j he knew, too, that assaults had been made upon the dwell ings of peaceable Union men, and that ri fle-shots had been fired through them; he knew too that preparation, by the pur cliasc of powder and lead, had been made for the damnable purposes for which ihey were used; and yet the driving of Mos tellcr from the performance of his duty is reckoned by him as a fit subject for ribaldry and mirth, and he stands forth as the proclaimist of the malicious lie that no evil is intended any one. For very shame Spectator should hide himself from the "azc of men who have. honesty and love of couutry as the stand ard of good citizenship for shame should he fling away his polluted pen,and in sackcloth and ashes repent of the part he has had in the murder of one who never harmed him, but whose blood in now cry iog to high Heaven for vengeance. 05" Mr. Cyrus H. McCormick, reputed inventor of the reaping machine, is vaunted as one of the eminent gentleman who support the cause of McClellan and Disuuion. The Chicago Tribune proves, however, that Mr. McCormick is neither a good patriot nor a genuine inventor It seems that Mr. Mc Cormick took the most valuable partxtf the reaping machine from Obed Hussey, and that the United 8tates Circuit Court ordered him to pay for it, and enjoined him from-robbing Mr. Hussey thj'fter, in- "ma "Clio." Wo clfp the followlngjpocimen of Bil lingsgate criticism" fromltfce Monroe Dem pcratfriasl , week; over 'the heathemsh nondeplumo-of 'lio." , ) TheJRcvdrend'Donjinia who .'does? tne low politics for his party, and takes notes at Democratic meetings, called' the :rWar of the lloscs.' the 'Thirty years War.' " , CH$is tlie heathen Goddess of-.' history whose special business it was to preside over history and see that its facts and Hafes . were precisely correct. . But- the heathenish Monroe Democrat Clio belongs to a bogus species. For the "Dominie" alluded to does not do the low politics, - nor any other politics for our paper in deed he has never favored us with a sin gle article except notices of marriages aud deaths, toge therewith a few facts and incidents. This modern Olio also informs us that the Thirty years' War "was 'a religious War carried oil between the Protestants and Catholics of the continent' ..What a Clio! For every schoolboy that can spell "baker" with "Ouce trying, knows that that war was waged by the Christians agaiust the, Turks or Infidels, for the pos session of the. Holy Sepul.cher. This bogus Monroe Democrat Clio calls the Wars of the Roses, "War of the Iio scs." Evidently lion. Phil's defender is almost as well posted iu history, as "is Phil himself. But if it be true that when the blind lead the blind they both fall in the ditch together, what wonder is it, that where the blind defeud the blind they both run agaiust a "snag." The "Douionic" alluded tojs both gentleman and scholar of reputation, and hfincc -needs no defense at our hands a gainst the slaug and slander of the Mon roc Democrat's bogus, squirtish Clio. A Converted McClellan Man. Aa officer in the 196th Regiment Pennsyl vania Volunteers writes from Springfield Illinois, to a friend in this city, under date o October 3, 1864, as follows ; "I am going to give you a piece of infor mation, which will make you open your eyes to the fullest extent, I, a rank Democrat warm friend of General McClellan, am go ing to vote for Abraham Lincoln. But one thing has led me to, make up my mind to such a course, and that is one which no one vho has not bcqn out here in the West, can appreciate "In the East wc think we have Secession sympathizers, but here, especially in this State (Iliinots) and Indiana, Secession feel ing, it is nothing else, is rampant, bold, un blushing, and prevalent, to a most alarming decree. They openly proclaim their object peace on any terms, and the recognition of the Southern Confederacy. The existence of this feelinsr is what has decided me to vote for Lincoln, not because he is the candidate of any party, but because he is for war. I consider that in voting for. him I vote sim ply for the prosecution of the war." The 196th Regiment has been doing duty in Illinois for the past two months. The writer of this letter served under Mc Clellan, in the Peninsula campaign, and is still his admirer; but learning, from per. sonal observation, the intention anu prin ciples of those who support him, is forced to leave him. Press. OCT Elect "Little Mac." and what then? Look out for the opening of ihe Sixth Seal for then you may expect the assumption o the rebel war debt, 82,000,000,000, making," with our own, a total of nearly $4,000,000, 000. Elect "Little Mac," for then you may ex pect to pay the rebels lor spoliations, losses confiscations, as much more,, making your national debt S6.000.000.000. Elect "Little Mac," and compromise your troubles by paying pensions to wounded re bel soldiers for 'fighting your own brethren, thousands, of whom have been denied burial by these rebel braves. Elect "Little Mac," and have Lee, Bearu regard, Braes, &c.. come back into the service which they have left in dishonor, and pay them from your treasury the same salaries you pay to the patriot generals of the Union armies. Elect "Little Mac," and have your national currency superseded by localized bank trash, and add 8500;000,000 toyouf debt to achieve this feat. 037 The Chicago Tribune has a word of good advice to our Irish fellow-citizens. Whatever-an Irish-man has which he would not have had if he had remained in Ireland, or if he had migrated.to the Southern States, and worked among the poor white trash in competition with slaves in whatever degree his home is more comfortable, his childern better educated, or his future prospect brigh tcned, he is indebted for it all to those idcaB and institutions of Northern freedom of which Abraham Lincoln is the political re presentative. Let every Irishmun, therefore, read the letter of Daniel O'Connell oh .the duty of Irishmeu to support emancipation in Amorica ; let him reflect on the interest old Ireland has in the preservation of the Union, and let him vote for Lincoln and liberty and repudiate that faction of undmeocratic trait ors which is supported by every aristocrat and enemy of Ireland in Great Britain. 05" The Boston Post, haying observed that the present Administration has abolished one hundred and fifty-two sinecure offices in the New York Custom House, remarks that under a just and economical Government they would never have existed." The Bon gor Whiy responds ; "Very true. They ex isted under Polk, Pierce, and Buchanan. U uder Lincoln they have been abolished," A LETJEIt JER0M GBNWOOL. rr The Origin of the Rebellion. CHICAGO PL ATJPOBM. A SWOED-THEUST AT LITTLE MAC. He Will Fail in His Presidential as He Did in His Peninsular Campaign. . The following patriotic and eloquent letter from Geueral Wool appears in .the Troy Tinics : Troy, Oct, 4, 1S64. "To the Hon. John A. Griswold, Mem ber of the United States Congress : "Dear Sir: Xpu. have my thanks for a copy, of the New. York World, pf the 14th ultimo, containing an .untruthful ar ticle, relatin": to myself. I have not time ;to notice it at the present moment, but may do so at a future, day. Meantime, you will please accept the following re marks: "It is more than four years since a .Democratic Convention mot, first at Charleston and. subsequently at Balu more, to nominate candidates for Presi dent of the United States. The promi nent leaders of this Convention from the South (so-called Democrats) were the po litical disciples Qf John G. Calhoun. As declared by Ithctt, of South Carolina, since 1S30 the purpose was entertained by them, to separate the Southern States from the Union. Their idea was to make c6tton kiug, which, 'in a few years,' said Khett 'would rule the world. Foiled in several previpus attempts to ac complish their object, they determined as a last resort, to divide the Democratic oartv, and run two candidates tor rresi dent, that the Bepublicaus might elect their candidate, Abraham Lincoln, whom thev denounced as 'an Abolitionist. In - - this they succeeded. The faction o the Southern States nominated the then Vice President, Mr. Breckinridge; the faction of the Northern States nominate! Seuator Douulns. The result was the election of Abraham Lincoln to the Pres idency. In the following December the State of South Carolina, assigning the election of Mr. Lincoln as a justifiable ransa for the act. seceded from the Union; and this,, too, without the slight est effort on the part of the President James Buchanan, -to prevent it. "Thus commenced this nefarious rebel lion, encouraged and assisted, by a major- itvofthe Democratic Cabinet of rresi dent Buchanan. John B. Floyd, his Sec retary of War, a defaulter for a large a- uiount in his own State (Virginia), robbed the Northern States of arms and ammuni tion, and transferred them to the South em States, at the same time ordering the "rcater part of the army to the most dis tant frontier posts. Ihompson, his bee retary.ot the Interior, robbed the ireasu- ry, as reported, of eight hundred thou sand dollars in Indian bonds. Toucey his Secretary of the Nayy, to prevent in terfcrencc with the rebel ports, ordered the United States ships of war to Europe aud other distant regions. Cobb, his Secretary of the Treasury, violated hi oath of office, and joined the rebels after nearly bankrupting the Treasury and ru ining ihe national credit. Jjlack, his Attorney General, was friend aud confi dential adviser, and no less guilty iu his encouragement of the South in their re bollious schemes than the President. "Of such men, called Democrats with j ... ... the exception ot ucncral Cass, fcccrctary of State, and Joseph Holt, Postmaster General was composed the Cabinet o the Democratic Prcsidant, James Bu chanan. Mr. Buchanan was himself the devoted friend of ex-Yice President John C. Calhoun, who, in consequence of a quarrel with President Jackson and his Secretary or fctate, Martin Van JJurcn abandoned his party and was the bitter enemy of Jackson. Mr. Calhoun became a nulliGcr, and after he defeated the nom idation of Martin Yan Buren as Minister to the Court of St. James, resigned his Yicc Prcsidcncv and returned to South Carolina, where he was received by the nullificrs with open arms. Then he de clared, having given up iu despair his as piration for the Presidency, that the fact was no longer to be concealed that hence forth, the Southern States, if retained in the. Union, would only be hewers of wood and drawers of water for the North. Io this he would never consent. He pro claimed the scheme of forming a grand slave confederacy that was to make cotton king and 'rule the world. Not long at- tcr military scuoois wore cstaonsntu in the Southern States, secret associations formed, and finally the Knights of the Golden Circlo organized to carry into ex cution the great plan of the Democratic conspirators of the Southern State. Ref erence is here made to Mr. Calhoun in order to show the origin of secession, and establish the fact of the determination of the Southern Democracy to separate the Southern from the Northern States, dat ing back more thau thirty years ago, and also to show that the election of Mr. Lin coln to the Presidency was not the cause, but the pretext, for accomplishing their long-meditated designs. "To aid in, consummating the treasona ble soheme, we had in the free States such Democratic representative leaders as Buchanan, of Pennsylvania; Pierce of New Hampshire,; Cushiug, of Massacha- setts; Scymeur, of Connecticut; the Woods, of New York; Yallandigham and Pendleton, of Ohio; Bright and Voor hees, of Indiana; Gwin, of California, and Lane, of Oregon all prominent Demo crats aud sympathizers with the South. During the rebellion, wo have seen these same mon, with many other Democratic leaders at the North, favoring the rebels and making bitter partisan warfare upon tne uovernment or the United States. The sympathizers and workers for seces sion a,t the North have, done al iu their power to prevent the patriots of the free States from, prosecuting the war for the preservation of the Union, by discourag ing enlistments and encouraging deser tions. 'tft.was these so-called 'Democrats nf the North-who co-ogeratcd. with those of the South, the steadfast friends of Jeff. Davis, but the enemies'of their country, who, under the name of Democrat, in augurated and managed the. Chicago Conr vention. The leaders were counseled and advised by Thompson Sariders, HoH cbmjr&nd Clay, all rebels, having, their headquarters in Canada the confidential friends and agents of the traitor JeffftDa" vis. T,hey presented a platform, which was unanimously adopted, by the Conven tion, for the guidance of its candidate for the Presidency, ,Major General McClel lan, who, having previously approved the platform, accepted the nomination. The acceptance of the nomination from the Convention whose platform was approved if not dictated, by the rebels; traitors m every sense of, the term, tp the Union, nvill avail General McClellan -no more in his race for the Presidency under the cogno men of 'Democrat,' than the appendage to his name of 'Napoleon' aided him in liis Peninsular campaign.. In the latter case the compliment, if such it may be called, did not even inspire him so much with the love of glory and distinc tion, If his officeriTare to be bclioved, as to induce him to place himself under fire to watch the operations of his differeut corps during the many battles in whicu thev were cntraccd. With the unlimited confidence of the President and his Cabi net, having the control of all the resour ces at their disposal, with 'a spleudid ar my' of one hundred and twenty thousand strong, increased to one hundred and fif- tv-eieht thousand, as reported by the Ad jutant General of the army, the goal was within the reach of General McClcltan, W ho knew not how to crasp it. He possessed thc sword of Scanderbcg, but could uot wield it.' He neither compre hended the value of time nor the advan tage of prompt action and celerity of movement. His encamping in tne swamps of the river Warwick, and the mud in front of Yorktown, for a month besieging the place, permitting its rebel garrison to be increased from nine thousand to over one hundred thousand men, as he repre sented, fthe rebels say only seventy thou sand and then allowing thcin to escape from Yorktown unobserved, was no lest fatal to him as a commander than the re sult was disastrous to his army at the same time it disappointed and depressed the hopes of every patriot throughout the L'niou. With advantages that lew Leu crals ever possessed, he signally failed. "Genercl McClellan expects to be Pres ident under a nomination from the con vention whose leaders sympathize with the Southern rebels, and whose platform was dictated by traitors calling themselves Democrats. His friends say he rcpudia ted the platform in his letter of acccp tancc. Can any one doubt, if the leaders succeed in electing him, no matter what he may have said in that letter, that be will be governed by the Chicago plat form ? It appears by the New lork Dai ly News, th(? organ of the peace men, that the platform was approved by the General two months before the conven tiQii met at Chicago. The Editor says: "Early in July last we have it upon the authority of a delegate. from Indiana who was selected by the delegation from his State to act as one of the committee to inform the candidate of the action of the Convention the platform with its peace planks, almost word for word as a doptcd. was presented tcr General -McClellan, and was by him approved both in its letter and spirit. Under such cir cumstances, coming from the source it docs, the truth of the statement cannot be doubted. The General is bound by his plighted faith to be governed by the platform, should he be elected. To vio late it, he would exhibit more courage than most men possess. "Allow me to ask, is there a Democrat who voted for Senator Douglas for Presi dent, that will vote for any candidate who accepts a nomination from a Con vention that sympathizes with the reb els, and which was dictated to by South em traitors in the formation of its plat form ' I hope there is uot one. Al though Douglas was defeated in his elec tion by the Southern Democracy, and a few Democrats m the iorth who co-oper atcd with them, he was one of the first to declare his attachment to the Union, and his readiness to sacrifice all he pos sessed, with life itself, if need be, to pro tect and defend the llcpublic iu its unity and integrity. "In conclusion, I will simply remark that T beloug to no party, whether Dem ocrat, Whig, Be'publican or any other, that is not for the preservation of the Union and the Constitution, without com promises or lines of demarkatiou, and which is not in favor of the prosecution of the war until the rebels lay down their arms, and are willing to submit to the laws and the Constitution of the United States. "Itcspcctfully 3'ours, "JOHN E. WOQL." Geo. William Curtis, the distinguished author, nominated for Congress in one of the New York districts, made the following hap py opening to one of his recent speeches: There is one major general in tho service of the United States who does not believe in an immediate cessation of hostilities. There is one general who did not give the rebels a day to escape up the Shenandoah Valley a general who is never late one of the cariy birds that catches all. the worms. Applause. There is another major general, in the service of the United States whose words of heroic loyalty rang like a but'lo call through the rank of rebellion and se cession; "If any man hauls down thcAmeri-1 can. Hag shoot him on the spot!" Cheers. My friends, there is another major general in tho service of the Uriited States, and he says: "If any man hauls down theAmerican can flag, let us all go at once into conven tion, and exhati5t all the resources of states manship known to the civilized world, in or der to contrive some moans by which we can coax him to haul it up again." OT A Copperhead correspondent sugirests that it would bo well to reduce expenaes.bv removing unnecessary officers: Is this-intended for McClellan I It is hardly necessa- ary tohave a gentjaman in Orange. at a salary ot a major general, to make speeches. GIEATOTTEST. Present quiet ml Grant's Lines. The XteJiebel Assault. They Suffered Heavy Losses. Shcrridan whips Ear ly's Cai'dlryiredes6idfe$tkcmVal ley. Favorable News from Sherman. War Department, ) Washington, Oct., 10, 1864. J The telegraph line-between Fortress Monroe and City Point was broken down,, bv a bis storm and is not yet're'pairtftf . .... II- rt.. ... The latest military intelligence iron there is the following telegraph trom Ma Geri. Butler: - . MWlff Headquarters Department of Virginia V and North Carolina, OcLS, 18 6 L , Lieut. -Gea. Grant: Our success"ys-: terday was a decided one, although1 jthef llebel papers claim a victory. They admit that Gen. Gregg and Gen.- Bratton wcrcwounded. r Gen. Gregg was in command of Field's division. , 4 f The Richmond Examiner of this morn-in- contains an official dispatch from G'ofS donsvillc last night, stating'fhat a Yaii-' kec cavalry force yesterday burnt the rail road bridge over the Itapidan, aud made their escape. , No movement on the Harrisburg. aide No more troops have been over . from, Lcc. The movement ycstcrda was uiadc; under his eye, B.TT. Birrr.Kit, Maj. GcnP War Department, Washington," Monday, Oct. 10, 18644.20 p JT Maj.-Gen. Drx : Telegraphic cnnimlir uicatibn with Gcnf Grant's 1iead(fu:fff3 has been rc-estab'.fehed and in a dispatclr at 1 o'clock this afternoon the General reports as follows : V "L find our losses the other, day- .wortf much less than first reported. Threcr huudred will cover our entire lo?sJn, kill ed wounded and captured. About one hundred and fifty were captured, and a great many dead fell into our hands'. The loss of the enemy could not be lws than twelve liunilreTl. U. SHGuant, Maj.-Gcn." FUDM iiliiUllIDAN. . , r?t(fl Wooi'S'nci?, Ya., Oct. 7, 1861.-4 Lreyt.-Gcn. U.'S: Grant : 1 havethc honor to report my command at-thi point to night, . commenced moving brick, from Port Btfpublic, Mount Craw fjord, Bridgewatcr aud Harrisonburg yesterday ninniin j ill; ji.iiu .iii'i iimxiu in iiMLiiin; 114 these points had -previously been destroy ed. In moving back to this point the whole country from the Bine Itidgc to the Nurlh .'1 UU II UtltJ 11.13 UCUU UUIUU UIHCII.lUlf. un , - rebel army. 1 have destroyed over two thousand barns filled with wheal and hay amVfar tning implements, over seventy-five mills filled with flour and wheat, have driven iu front of the army o?cr fot.'r hcnY'ret .stock, and have killed and is-ce-Wo the troops not less thaii 3,000 sheep. This destruction embraces the Luray Valley and Little Fort Valley as well the Main Valley. - vr A large number of horses trare tbcen obtained, a proper estimate, of which I cannot now make. Liet. John 11. Meigs, my engineer of ficer, was murdered beyond fIa"rrWubtirr near Dayton. For this atrocibusSict'all the houses within tin area of five miles were burned. ' Since came into the Valley from -Harper's Ferry every train, avery-smalparty, and every straggler, has been bu.-diwlyek-e l by the people, many of whom have protection papers from Commanders who have been hitherto in that Valley. The people here arc 'getting .xick of the war. Heretofore they have had no-reason to complain-, brcausc they have- been livinir in "rcat abundance. . , ,., 1 have not been followed by the enemy to this point, with the exception of a small force of Kebcl cavalry th.it showed tjiehi selvessomc distance behind my rearguard today. A party of one hundred of the Sth O hio cavalry, which. I hall stationed at the bridge, over the North Shcnnndoah,Vrrear Fort Jackson, was attacked by iMcNail with seventeen men while they. were sleep, and the, whole party .dispersed or captured. I .think they will all turn up. I learu that fifty six of them had reached Winchester. McNeil was mortally "woun ded, and fell Into our hauds. 'J'hiaVa.i fortunate, :is he was the most'daring'alid dangerous of al! the bushwhackers in this section of country. P. II Sur.iuunA.v, Mij.,Icn. Strasburg, Ya.. Midnighti'Oct. ?f18G4, To Licut.-Gen. Grant, City Point: Tn coming back to this point I iras not followed up uutil lato yesterdajvvYhcn a large force of Cavalry appeared, itumy rear. I then halted my cpmmand t6 of fer battle by attacking the enomy.' bocanio satisfied that it was only all tm Picbel Cavalry of tho Valley commanded) by llossor, and directed Torbctt to attack, at diiylight this morning and finish this savior of the Valley. , The attack was handsomoly madqjQup ter, commanding the ild. Cavalry Diyision charged on the back road, and Me'Trltt commanding the 1st Cavalry. J) tyisign, om the Strasburg pike-'. : MiorfitflcaptHred five nieces of artillery. Custer captured six pieces of artillery, with caissoasVaV- tcry forage, ivc. Ihe two divisioas;op turcd 47 wagons, ambulancos, &c. Among tho wagons captured are tho headquar ters wagons of liosser, Lomax-Wickhaai,- and Col. Pollard. .The, numbev (rf pnsww ers will be about 30. The onemy. after beiner chanrcd bv our gallant cavalry, wore broken, and rah. -They were followed by our mon on the' jump, twenty-six miles, through MoamV Jackson and across the North Fork of the" Shenandoah I deemed it best lot'wake' the delay one day hero, and settle this now cavalry general. The eleven pieces of artillery captured-to-day make thirty-six pieoesoaptured in the Shenandoah Vallev -siheir September. Some of the-artillery a
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