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Friday, Nov. 14 1 - 1862.
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NEW STOCK OF LADIES' FliTo3.—Messrs
Charles Oakford & Son, Nos. 831 and 836
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, invaribly close
out their entire stock of Furs every season,
and consequently their goods are always new
and fresh. Their present stock of Ladies'
and Children's Furs is the largest and finest
they have over offered, and is wholly of their
own importation and manufacture. They
have several popular styles not met with else
where, and owing to their superior
they are prepared to sell at unusually low
prices. See their advertisement in another
Column.
JOTIN ISnnVVN AND JEFVERSON DAVlB.—Jahn
Broivn invaded the Stale of Virginia with
a small band of men, was arrested impri
soned, tried, condemned, and executed; and
all the people said amen. Jefferson Davis
male war upon the national government, and
has slain thous•inds of its loyal citizens, and
has carried war and rapine over a vast region
of country, and those who rejoiced in the exe
milieu of John Brown apologize for the rebel
lion of Jeff. coon Davisotpon the principle 'hat
the murderer of a few makes a villain, and
tho murder of many a hero, who instead of
hemp shuuld he treated to propositions of peace
New A Nude:mos TO Wousns.—A patent
has been issued in Paris for preparation and
application of new agents for the stopping of
hemorrhage, etc , in wounds. rhese con
sist at salls'inade from mineral and essential
oils soluble in caustic potash of soda. They
are made by taking coal oil or petroleum and
stirring it cold in about ono•sixth of its weight
of caustic-soda. It is then allowed to settle
for twelve hours, when it separates into two
different layers, the lower one being millet
phonate of soda. The phenate of soda is run
off by a tap in the bottom of the 'vessel in
which it is formed. Phonates thus obtained
are applied to the wounds to slop hemor
rhage'as' follows ; If the wound has been pro.
(heed by a cutting instrument, several folds
of n surgeon's compress are dipped into the
fluid and applied to..the wound
causes pain nor imitatiou,".says the inventor
The compress is pressed upon the wound,
and the phenate freely applied from the out
side with a rag. A second compress is then
applied, and sometimes four are required, but
seldom more. The phonate coagulates the
albumen of the blood, and stops its further is
sue. If the hemorrhage is caused by a bay
onet or bullet, the plumate solution is inject
ed two or three times in the wound, then the
opening is tilled with lint soaked in the solu
tion. The superiority of these phonates for
wounds is stated to . be due not only to the
property which they posses of 'coagulating
the blood, but ako because of their rendering
the edges of the wound insensible, and caus
ing the injured tissues to contract by acting
upon them in a similar manner to tannic acid.
" IN- THE RANKS OP - , 11.1E• • 1 a-63.5-mm
Browning's beautiful poem on the Italian
boy found dead in the ranks and wearing
the form the .&ustriam.soldiery,whieh
has been, happily adapted to a supposed
similar instance in our country, has reciptly
been realized in real life in Virginia A
efts • has come to our knowledge of a youth
who fell wounded in the rebel ranks at An
tietam, and died at Iluffman's farm, near
the battle field, on the 17th. His name was
Baillie I'e ) tun Chandott, and he was from
Texas, the same State whence we have re•
ceived recent cheering intelligence of an
extended Union feeling.
A corMpondent who spent a fortnight
among the wounded at Antietam, declares
that this poor youth, who enlisted his kind
est care and sympathy, was not at heart a
rebel. He was nineteen years old on the
day his thigh was amputated, an operation
rendered necessary by five wounds which he
had received. A sixth on the neck was less
severe Ile had lain two days on the battle
field before he was discovered. When taken
care of by hospitable Union soldiers, he
said that he was at school when the war
broke out, and that he wished to remain
there, but that the conscription began in
his town, and he was forced to join the army.
And yet all this time his hopes and prayers
were for the stars and stripes. An incident
occurred in the hospital, which shows the
'noble self - abnegation of a Union soldier,
and proves that Chandon was appreciated
by his former foes. After the amputation,
the surgeon sent for a cushion, to place un
der the stump of a thigh. The messengers
returned with word that there were none
left. A young liTassachusetts soldier, who.
two days before had had his thigh amputated,
hearing this put his hand down [tad tailing
his own pillow, handed it to the surgeon,
saying " Here, Doctor, give him this ; he
needs it more than I do."
Was there ever greater heroism ? Wha
was Sidney's cup of water to this? And ye
in our army hospitals such cases of self ab
negation are paralleled every day.
SMISAPASILLA.—This tropical root has a
reputation wide as the world, for curing one
class of disorders that afflict mankind—a
reputation too which it deserves as the best
antidote we possess fur scrofulous complaints.
But, to be brought into'uso, its virtues must
be concentrated and combined with other
medicines that increase its power. Some re
liable compound of this character is much
needed in the community.,-Read the adver-
Unmet, of Dr. Avnu'i Sarsaparilla In our
columns, and we know it needs qp oncomiutn
;from us to give our citizens confidence In what
ho offers.—[Organ, Syracusb N. Y.
THE SOUTII NEAItLY ESHAUBTED.—Tho New
born Progress says that the rebel confe'doracy
gained some 30,000 mon by the Conscription
act in North Carolina alone, and the examin
ing physicians reported more than three•
fourths of them as unfit for military duty.
WATEPL ip , now introduced into San Francisco
through an wineduet extending Co Lake Honda,
a distance of some thirty-two blip. Through
this flume, which is sixteen. by thirty inches
in its dimensions, water flows at the rate' of
three millions of gallons per day,, •
g er vier a aterret comae a oaltat after the
pkow-etrrra, we are having delightful weather.
General McClellan Relieved
The telegraph brings us news from Wash
ngtori- whitti is of ore than ordinary impor
anoe. General[M m OClellan hos again beenro.
ieved of his command. In approiring the ao •
tion of the Administration is this ease wo do
not wish to be understood as censuring Gen
oral MoClollan's military mancauvres and
strategy as blunders, as some have done ; nor
do wo believe that any snob sentiment lice at
the bottom of his removal, .for General Mc-
Clellan has in the publio at largo no warmer
friends than have betn the President and
binding members of the Cabinet. They have
stood by him under all eiroamstances,, de.
fending him vigorously against assaults; and
General McClellan, well knowing the fact,
has relied upon them rather than the Demo
cratio politicians who have
-sought to build up
their own schemes upon his great reputation.
But it has long been clear that however
faithcul to the government and the Union,
however vigilant against the wiles of the reb
el generals, however good as a disciplinarian,
and however popular with his army, General
McClellan's campaigning has been of no pram-
Heal effect in pushing on this war to a suc
cessful conclusion. It requires no argument
to demonstrate this. We have been obliged
to retrace every step of our prpgress in Vir
ginia, to witness the invasion of Maryland
and the capture of Frederick by an itnmense
rebel army, and to see our own State invaded
and one of its most fertile valleys plun
dered by rebel cavalry. To say that this re
sulted from Pope's misfortunes, is an easy
way of getting over the difficulty hut the
successful raid in our own State happened of.,
ter the battle of Antietam, and while Mc.
Clellan with his victorious army lay at Sharps,
burg.
In all the time when vre had splendid weath
er and abundance of men and everything else
needed, our army lay idle, until at length,
when the enemy had repaired.all their losses,
and were stronger than ever, we sot out to
conquer a rebellious State. As the nett re
villa of this polioy of endless preparation, we
have lost some of the beat months of the yOar,
sacrificed an army of twelve thousand troops
and a park of artillery -at Harper's Ferry,
suffered a second Ball's Bluff disaster at Shop
herdstown, had Pennsylvania invaded and
plundered by the enemy, and have now
reached the mountain gaps in: Virginia in the
midst of an unprecedented snow storm, which
brings Unpleasant reminiscences of the fate of
Napoleiires grand army in Russia.
Ono of the excuses for this delay was that
the.men were without proper clothing. In
the midst of au unparalleled expenditure for
supplies, with a Quartermaster General of
most distinguished ability, and who has etirned
a celebrity for his forecast as a provider, with
a prodigality of equipment which has amazed
all Europe, General tNlcelellan's army, we arc
asked to believe, has been suffering for want
of clothing ! Our arsenals are groaning with
the quantity of supplies. Thousands upon
thousands of suits are packed and sent for
ward continually, the Department does its
duty thoroughly, and still this complaint!
At another time the excuse for delay was
" I 6 neil her
that the Governors of the loyal States had
neglected or refused to send forward the new
troops. This was a Democratic dodge, got
up by partisans for electioneer ing purposes.
We do not suppose that Gen. McClellan Was
aware of it, but it was eagerly accepted by
his friends, and made use of to give bitter
ness to the accusations against all Governors
known to be opposed t; his tardy policy.—
Day after day new regiments kept on passing
through Philadelphia to Washington in an
endless stream, from those very States whose
_Governors were accused of withholding troops
Tho losses sustained by our army and by
the nation in General McClellan's campaigns
stt4id in striking contynt with.,their.iueffee•
tiveness and with the gigantic preparations
upon which he always insists!as indispen
sable to his plan. From the day he was first
summoned from Western Virginia to take
command at Washington down to this time we
have been raising men and supplies in such a
manner that the ingenuity of the ablest min
ister of finance our country has ever seen has
been paralyzed for means, and the Governors
of the loyal States, in despair of ever rai , ing
men enough by volunteering for such tre
mendous armies, have been compelled to re
sort to draft.
The North American says we do not, we re.
peat, doubt General McClellan's ability, nor
have we ever done so. Neither have we any
suspicion of his patriotism, and it is a serious
misfortune that any one has ever given utter
ance to such an idea. We think, we can sec
plainly how his troubles all arose. The pri
mary dogma of West Point is the theory of
adequate preparations ; and the nation in this
war, the first ever waged under West Point
influences, is paying dearly for its whistle in
the enormous outlay of money for material of
war, and tLe astounding le•ies and waste of
human life. General McClellan naturally
followed his mentor. Ile was taught never
to commence an enterprise before be was
thoroughly prepared, and in his mind, and In
that of all the young West Pointers of this
war, preparation was the giant vilely compe
tent for the task of subduing the revolt. This
lesson was more deeply impressed upon Gen
eral MoClellan's mind by his mission to Se
bastopol to report on the state of the art of
war in Europe. as there shown ; and the read•
er who will take tho•trouble to refer to his re
port, will find it a labored effort to prove that
on the one hand the allies undertook the siege
without any adequate idea of the magnitude
of the undertaking, and that on the other
hand the Russians undertook the defence in
the eame way. These positions, of course,
disprove each other"; but they will be found
to constitute the whole ground work of his re
port, and they have made his naturally cau
tious and prudent mind excessively given to
the most astonishing preparations.
We do not wish now to pursue an inquiry
on this topic, though we may remark en pas -
sant that we very greatly fear that it is des
tined to be pressed upon us more and more,
and that the continual waste of life and treas
ure will compel us to change our military
system as well as our generals. But the two
most distinguished advocates of this prepar
ing policy wore' Buell and McClellan, and they
have both boon removed. We'regard these
Iwo changes in the light of an approaching
alteration of our military policy, which will
giie our volunteer generals abetter chance,
*a be in -libhighest degree 'benefioial to the
country. It is at length becoming to be felt
that the practical education acquired in this
war by' our soldiers is worth infinitely more
than all the teaching of the schools.
SIMON CAMERON AT . HOME —SiIIIOII Cam.
Mu, our Minister to Russia, arrived at
New Yorlrio,day or two ego, and is now nt
his home. After a few days of repose he
will repair to. WaShington to report his return
officially to the President. ,-
It is understood that General Cassius M.
Clay will be appointed to' the position thus
vacated.
Judge Holt's 4 Letter.
We publish this week, the admirable letter .
- -
of Hott:Jossrn HOLT, to a oommittee of gen
tlemen in New York. This letter was writ
ton previous to the Into election in Now York,
but has not been published until a few days
ago. Had it been made public sooner it
would undoubtedly have 'exercised a.marked
influence upon the voters of that State,
oient we beleive, to have changed the'result.
Judge liovr' is a veteran Democrat,' of the
brdor.state school, and this foot gives pecu
liar signficance to his burning words in favor
of the policy of the Administration. Read it
patriots, nud you will fool refreshed and
strengthened in the support you h'ave been
giving to freedom and the Government.—
Read it sympathizers and hang out your
heads in your merited shame and discomAtttre.
NOVEMBER COURT,
FIRST WEEK•
The proceeding,3 of the Court or eorntoon
Pleas for the first week consisted of but two
cases, which- were
David Long vs, John "N.tiller—Action on a
promissory note. Verdict for plff., $59 30.
Christian T. Strickler vs. Adam Burkhol.
der—Action on a promissory note. Verdict
for defendant.
In the Quarter Sessians,the cases tried, up
to the time of our going to press, were as
follows :
Com. vs.. Alfred Whiting—Assault and
Battery. ignored, and county far costa. .
Corn. vs. Lucinda - Ickes and Wilson Ickes
—Assault and Battery.
Com v.s. John Nickle—Assault and Bat•
Wry.
Corn. vs. Frederick Wencher—Assault and
Batt, ry—Plead guilty, and submitted to tile
court, promising to leave the county if not
harshly dealt with. Sentenced to pay the
costs of prosecution , ind $1 o'o tine. Gillelan
for Commonwealth, Shapley for oefendant.
vs. Teressa Gardner—Pormeation.
Coin, vs. Samuel Woods—Fornication and
Basterdy. Verdict, guilty..
Corn. vs. James Crauly--Assault and Bat
tery on Frank Murray at Bapertown with a
"Billy" and slung shot on the night of the
fall eleciion. Found guilty, repremandod by
the Court, and sentenced one month to jail.
and to pay a fine of $1 and cons ot prose
cution.
Corn ms. George Maurice and Mary Mau
rice—Assault and Battery. Ignored, and
the prosecutor, Margaret Giffin, to pay the
costs.-
Coin. es Henry Fellows—Arson. Burn
ing of a bath in - Shippensbtr - g, tdwifship", fFe
property of Joseph C. Nevin, on the night of
the 10th of September last. Prisoner had
been drunk, lust his handle containing a jug
of whiskey, which was taken by a negro boy
and hidden. Fellows then said if it was not
forthcoming he would burn the barn. Ver
dict guilty. Sentenced 3 years and 6 months
in Eastern Penitentiary, and fined $1 and
costs. Smith and Gillelan for Common
wealth, Shapley for prisoner.
Gila. es. Jacob Culp—Larceny. Stealing
hor's • on the 25th July, IS6I, the property
of Samuel Bowman, of East Pennsborough
township. Value of horse estimated at $4OO.
Verdict guilty. Sentenced 7 years and 6
months in Eastern Penitentiary, •and fined
$1 acid costs. Gillelan hod Penrose for the
Commonwealth. Shearer for detenda• t.
Com. is. George Leephart—lndicted for
larceny of a pocket book and watch. Plead
guilty hilt drunk," and sentenced 1 year
and 4 months to the Eastern Penitentiary ;
fined $1 and costs of prosecution. Gillelan
or prosecution; Shapley for defendant.
Coin. vs. :Crgaret Willard—lndicted for
the larceny of some knives, forks and spoons,
front Mrs. ',Atte)), and found on defendant.
She was trying to sell them, representing
InTself in want of something to eat. Found
guilty in manner and form as she stands in.
dieted, and sentenced to 3 months to jail of
county; pay a fine of $1; return the property
stolen, and stand committed till sentence is
complied with Gillelaa for Commonwealth;
Shapley for defendant.
Coin. f'.4. Alfred Whiting—Malicious Mis
chief for breakin r in the door of another
negro, named Thompson. Plead "guilty
Amt-drunk"'Sentencerl - m - tht - von - ay - jiff!
for 4 months; pay a floe of $l, and costs of
prosecution Gillelan for Curnmonwealth ;
Shapley for defendant.
Coln. to. Kate MePete—lndicted for lewd
drunkenness land blasphemy Plead
and prutnise&;.to leav • the town if a
mild sentence was giye r il. Sentenced 1 year
to the jail of the county ; fined $l, and to
;my the costs. Gillelan for Commonwealth;
McGlaughlin for defendant.
Reported Capture of Rebels at Play-
mouth, N. C
Wash y ton, Kw,. 8 —The Navy Department
has dispatches from For-trees Monroe to the
Gth which make no mention of the reported
capture of three thousand rebels at Plymouth,
N. C.
Counterfeit Treasury Notes
New York, Y. , 0 B—Counterfeit $5O and
$lOO notes, altered from $1 and $2 Treasury
notes made their appearance to day. They
are quite blurred and very defective.
Salute in Honor of Gen. Burnside
Providence, Nov 9.—A salute of 100 guns
will be tired to morrow in honor of the ap
pointment of Gen. Burnside to the command
of Army of the Potomac.
NEWS ITEMS
fuet,.Snow fell at Louisville, Ky , on Thurs.
night.
SerThree hundred Indiana, captured in
the war in Minnesota, and tried for their
crimes, have teen condemned to be hung.—
The confirmation of the sentence rests with
the authorities at Washington.
~The Michigan Legislature is Republi
can. It is believed that the Congressional
delegation will also be Republican.
*.,The Minnesota election has been car
ried by the Republicans with 2000 majority.
jaerA female seminary was burned at
Conoord, Now Hampshire, on Friday night.
The inmates were freightened but none were
hurt.
OS.Counterfeit $5O and 11100 Treasury
notes, raised from ones and twos, Oro report
ed to be in ciroulation. If the people will ex
ercise ordinary care they will not be victim
ized.
Va. The captain of the private Sumpter
has been murdered by the mate, and the en
tire crew have been imprisoned. The vessel
Is in possession of the English authorities.
flei'Gen. Grant's headquarters are now at
Lagrange, Mississippi.
Iltgl.—The rebels aro retreating from Holly
Springs. 'Ou'erillas aro infesting Southwes
tern Tennessee, enforcing the rebel conscrip
tion.
Proposals for 7.30 Enode in Ex
change for Legal Tender Notes.
Proposals for about thirteen, millions and
a halt of sevon.thirty bonds in exchange for
legal tender notes will lie opened on Monday,
the 17th instant, at the Treasury Department,
at noon, up to which time they will be re•
delved: The bonds offered are those yet un
diposed of, of the' data of October 1 1861.
The interest will run from •the dates ol.de
Posit, unieSs the successful bidders prefer to
pay • the accrued interest , from Octoberl,
1862,, dit„ tin,. current coupons in -- coirt, to
reimbursed at • its maturity. .Bidders must
deposit With setne"4ssistant Treasurer
,10
per cent, of the amount offered, and forward
with their bid's tbo geitfic4toa Au& depasita:
REMOVAL OF MoCLELLAN.
Dispateb IsiThe New York Tribune.
. iVAMIIINOTON, Bittladay, NOV. 8,1802.
The following is from your special cor
respondent, dated Gainesville, November Si
4:. la P, M.
Gen, McClellan was this morning relieved
of the minima:id of the Army of the Poto
limo, Gen. Burnside is next in command.
lILLAPAUARTGIIS OF Till Anitr OF 11111 POToIIAO,I
SALEM, Ye., Ver. ,—.12 o'clock. noon.-
. The order relieving Major Gen. McClellan
from the command of the Army of the Polo%
macems received at. Headquarters at eleven
o'clock last night. It was entirely unexpect
ed to all, and therefore every one was taken
by surprise
On its receipt the command was iname
diateky turned over to Uen. Burnside.
Gen. McClellan and his staff will leave
to morrow for Trenton, where be is ordered
to repart.
The order was delivered to him by Gen•
Buckingham in person. ,
His last official act was the issuing of an
address to his soldiers, informing them, in a
few words, that the command had devolved
on Gen. B uynside, and taking an at
leave of them.
There is no other news worthy of mention,
excepting that the army is in motion.
Spacial Dispatch to The N. Y. Tribune.
WAULINUTON,, Nov. 6, 1862.
Some time ago, the President propounded
certain queries to Gen. Halleek, the answers
to which would, it was thought, shed no lit
tle light upon the campaigns of Gen• MC
Clellan ''sitieu Gen. Halleck became Com,
mander-in Chief, Full and clear answers
have been given to these queries, and the
document containing them is now made
public. In this document the problem
why „it is that Gen, McClellan and Colonel
Marcy, his Chiet of Staff, report directly to
the President instead of to Gen. Halleck,
the•Secrctary of War, or the Adjutant Gen.
eral, as military etiquette prescribes, will be
solved:".
Official Report of Gen. Halleck
The Supplies
. /brr the Army of the Potomac
—All Requisitions Promptly
Army Better .smpplied than that of the
West—Gen- McClellan Peratpl!irily Or•
dered to Move 'Against the Enemy Life
Belays Thri•i! Weeks—A Startling Stale
meat of Facts: .
[(mud.' CorreepOndowN,]
HEADQUARTERS 01/ THE AII3IY,
WAIIIIINOTON, Oct. 28, 1862. /
lion. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
SIR : In reply to the general interrogatories
contained in your letter of yesterday, I have
to report:
1. That requisitions for supplies.to the army
under Gen, McClellan are made by his stall
officers on the Chiefs of Bureaus hero; that
is, for Q4,artermasters' supplics,.by his Chief
Quartermaster on the Quartermaster General;
for Commissary supplies, by his Chief Com
missary on the Commissary General, &e. No
suck requisitions have been to my knowledge
made upon the Secretary of War, and none
upon the General-in-Chief.
2, On several occasions Gen. McClellan has
telegraphed to me that his army was defidient
in certain supplies. All these telegrams were
immediately referred to the Heads of Bureaus
with orders to report. It was ascertained
that in every instance the requisitions had
been immediately filled, except one, whore
the Quartermaster General had been obliged
to send from Philadelphia certain artioles of
clothing, tents, &0., not having's, full supply
here There has not been, so far as I could
ascertaiiii, any neglect or delay in any Depart
meat or Illureau, in issuing all supplies asked
for by Gen. McClellan or by the officers of his
staff. Delays have occasionally occurred in
forwading supplies by rail, on neconnt of
t
the cr wded condition of the depots or of a
.s--'`...t years; but whenever noti fi ed of this,
agent. have been sent to-remove the difficulty:
Undet-the excellent superintendence of Gen.
Haupt; I think these delays have been less
frequent and of shorter duration than is usual
Willl....fr.eigh-t--tralna—Ait...army-of- - tho - eize - of
that under Gen. McClellan will frequently be
for some days without thAupplies asked on
account of neglect in making timely requisi
tie no, and unavoidable delays in tor w arding
them, and in distributing them to the differ•
ent brigades and regiments.
From all the information I can obtain, I am
of opinion that the requisitions from that
army have been filled more promptly, and
that the men, as a general rule, have been
better supplied than our armies operating in
the West. The latter hove operated at much
greater distances from the sources of supply,
and have had far less facilities for transpnr
tation. In fine, I believe no armies in the
world, while in campaign, have been more
promptly or better supplied than ours.
3. Soon after the battle of Antietam, Gen.
McClellan was urged to give me information
of his Intended movements, in order that if
he moved between the enerny and Washing
ton, reinforcements could be sent from this
place On the first of October, finding that
he proposed to operate from Harper's Ferry,
I urged him to cross the river at once and
give battle to the enemy, pointing out to him
the disadvantages of delaying till time Autumn
rains had swollen the Potomac and impaired
the roads. On the 13th of October, he was
peremptorily ordered to "cross the Potomac,
and give battle to the enemy or drive him
South. Your army Must move now while the
roads are good." It will be observed that
three weeks have eladsed since this order was
given.
4. In my opinion there has teen no ouch
want of euppliea in the artily under General
noeittllen.aa to_prevent_ Ilia_ cow plitince. with
the orders to 'advanoe against the enemy.—
Had he moved to the south aide of the Poto
mac, ho could have received his supplies al
most se readily ae remaining inactive on the
north.
5, On the 7th of October, in a telegram in
regard to his intended movements, General
McClellan stated that it would require at least
three days to supply the First, Fifth and Stith
Corps, that they needed shoos and other in
dispensable articles of clothing, as well as
shelter tents. No oomplaint was made that
any requisitions had not been filled, and it
was interred from his language that he was
only waltiog for tlie distribution of hie sup
plies. On the 11th, he telegraphed that, a
portion of hie supplies sent by rail had been
delayed.
As already stated, agents wore immediately
sent from here to investigate this complaint,
and they reported that everything had gone
forward. On the same date (the 11th) ho
epoko of Many of his horses being broken
down by fatigue. On the My he complained
that, the rate of supply was ably "150 horses,
per week for the entire army there and in
front of Washington " I immediately dirooted
the Quartermaster General To inquire into
this matter, anttreport why a- larger supply
was not furnished. General Meigs reported
on the 14th ultimo, that the average issue
of horses to General McClellan's. army in
the field and in front of Washington, for the
previous six weeks. had boon 1,959 per week,
or 8,7541 n all. In addition, that large num
bers otmulep had been supplied, and tharthe
number of animals with Gen. MeClellatee
army on the Upper Potomac was over thirty
one thousand lie also reported that 'he was
then sending to that army all the horses ho
could procure.
On the 18th, Gen. McClellan stated, in re
gard to Gen. Meiga's report that he had filled
every requisition for shoes and olething,—
"GetCMeigs may have ordered these articles
,to be forwarded, but they have not reached
our depots; 'and unless greater effort to in
sure prompt transmission - is made by the de
partment et. which Gen. Meigs ie the heed,
they might as well remain in New York or
Philadelphia, eo far as this army is concern
ed." I/immediately called Gee, !quip's at
tention to this apparent neglect of his depart
meat. Oa the 210, 1w reported as the result
of his investigation that 48,000 paint of boots
and shoes had boon received by the Quarter•
maslor of Gen. McClellan's army at Harper's
Ferry, Frederick, and Hagerstown; that - 40, •
000 pairs wore at Alarpor's Ferry depot on
the 2lel, : that 10,000 more were on. their
way, and 15,000 more ordered. Col. Ingots,
Aid-de•Carnp and Chief Quartermaster to Gen..
McClellan, telegraphed On the - 25th, - 4, The
sudering for want of clothing is exaggerated,
I think, and certainly might have boon avoid
ed by timely requisitions of regimental and
brigade commanders," On the 24th he tele
graphed to the Quartermaster Qeneral (bat
the clothirtg was not detained in oars at the
depots. "Bach Complaints are groundless.
The fact is, the clothing arrives and is issued,
but more is atilrwanted. 1 have ordered more
than would_ seem necessary from any data
furnished me, and I beg to romind you that
you base always very promptly mot Dv re
quisitions so far as clothing is concerned.—
Our depot is not at fault. 1t provides as soon
as due notice is given. I foresee no time
when an army at over 100,000 men will not
call for clothing and other articles."
In regard to Gen. McClellan's means of
promptly communicating the wants: of his
array to me or to the proper Bureaus of the
War Department, I report that, in addition to
the ordinary mails, he has been in hourly
communication with Washington by telegraph.
It is due to Gen. Meigs that I should sub.-
mit herewith a copy of a telegram received by
him from Gen. McClellan,.
Very respectfully. your oh . t.. serv't.,
11 W. lIALLECK, General iu Chief
U. S. AIILITARI"fELEGRAPH.
[Received Oct. 22, 1562-9:10 p. ni.]
From AleClolll.ll'B Ileotiquartero.
To BRIOADIER GEN. MEWS: Your dispatch
of this date is received, I have never intend
ed, in any letter or dispatch, to incite any ac
cusation against yourself or your Department,
for not furnishing or forwarding clothing as
rapidly as it was possible for you to do so. I
believe that everything has been done that
could be done iu this respect. The idea that
I. have tried to convey was that certain por
lions of the command were without clothing,
and the army could not move until it was
supplied,
G. B. McCLELLAN, M. 0
HON. JOS. HOLT ON THE WAR
Letter from Judge Holt to Collector
Barney,
Necessity of Sustaining the Government
TO THE EDITORS Or TIM.: EVENING POST:—
The accompanying letter from the Hon. Jos.
Hol.T was written' in reply to a letter from,
me, expressing to him my person I desire
that he would accept an incitation which has
been sent to him by a committee of gentle
men to attend and address a public meeting
in this city upon tha state of the country and
the issues of the tunes. Mr. /Loit wrote the
letter so hastily that he did not think it quite
Pit for publication, and therefore at the time
marked it " private."
But he has just now, at my r - e7qiiest, con
sented to its publication ; and I Thei-efore
place it at your disposal, wi h the remark,
however, that neither in existing circum
stances, nor under any circumstances short
of the absolute inability of the
.United States
Government to prosecute a vigorous war
against the Rebels would foreign intervention
be, in my opinion, defensible or excusable ;
and in such a case there mild be no need
of such intervention, as the quarrel would
be adjusted between the eantending, (-1- parties
according to their relative strength.
11111 AM BARNEY•
New York, Nov. 10, 18112.
Judge Holt's Letter.
liinsims - GTox, Oct. 25, 1862
Hon. Hiram Barney :
I)EA it Sin: Your favor of the 22d instant
bas been received. Au invitation similar to
that which you so kindly 111*Lre, upon inn, I
have lteen obliged, within a few days, to de-
Cline, in Consequence of engagements here
which uecupymvery moment of my rime, arid
I must now make tho same answer to your
sell.
There will doubdess be present with you r
on the occasion referred to, those capable by
their eloquence of affecting all the good that
popular ad Iresses can now accomplish. I
must be frank, however, and say, that to me
it seems that what is at this moment needed
is not words, however glowing, but heroic
deeds., The. tongue of as archangel could
scarcely comfort and animate thi. popular
spirit in the preselrce of the inaction of our
armies
How-tire -Rebellion
After nn unequalled expenditure of trea
sure, and the marshaling of such armies as
the world has never seen, and after sacrifices
which are clothing the land in mourning, at
the Vapirmion of eighteen months (cum the
commencement of the ltvbellion we find it
more defiatrt and determined, and inure sue-
Stihli iu its ice eiuns and sp.rliai , olls. than
at any moment since the struggle b gam—
This is from Inc bu•i: of deyolion I 111 the part
of the people, who have poured out their
blood and tt casure like water, nor vet tr-in
any lack of courage on the part of our brave
volunteers Our soldiers have been every
where panting for a sight of the enemy, while
the great heart of the country, in its solemn
and earnest solicitudes, is like ti ground
swell of the ocean, pressing on our forces
towards the brittle field. A saddened belief
is rapidity spreading that, unless the present
condition of things is speedily changed, our
cau-e will be lust.
Bold and Aggressive Movements
Demanded
An immediate, bold and aggressive move.
ment upon the enemy, following up every
blow struck an I gathering the fruits of every
victory gained, is what is required for our
deliverance. To the accomplishment of this
single object the thoughts, the efforts and
the prayers 01 the whole country should be
directed. If those who are in the front will
not go forward, the public safety will demand
that they be assigned positions in the rear.
_What aru..Abe_ eusibilaies, what -the-reputa
tion, or what the cherished schemes of any
General in the field, as compared with the
life of such a Government and country as
ours? If, with the cloudless skies, and
bracing airs, and fine roads of the autump,
our vast and completely appointed army
cannot do its work, when will it be able to
do so?
If Lee, Jackson and Longstreet can move
with promptitude and dashing celerity, in the
cause of treason and barbaric vandalism,
why cannot our chieftains move ns promptly
and ns fast in the cause of honor and lop
alty ? How much longer will the nation
endure that all its sacrifices be fruitless? Its
conviction that it possesses, twice told, the
power to subdue this Rebellion is not more
complete than, in my judgment, will be its
determination that neither the follies nor
the crimes of men shall render that power'
unavailing.
Torpidity of our Armies the Causq
of Party Resurrection.
It is this torpor of our armies—this hope
deferred for the hundredth time—which has
unfurled that party•banner, whose shadow is
now resting WI AO many of the loyal States.
It is not disloyalty which has prompted the
deplorabledinovement, but a weariness and
discouragement consequent upon the losses,
humiliations and delays we have suffered,
Yet it is the most alarming sign of the times,
and can only be arrested by decided military
successes. It is the law of the very existence
of sucir political organizations, to seek its
strength by assaults upon the administration,
in whose hands, for weal or woe, is the di
rection of those movements upon which no
cessarily depend the preservation of the
Those-assaults will glow in vigor and bit
terness as they progress, and while thus in
'directly affording. " aid and comfort" to the
Rebellion, will make continual, albeit .un•
consciourt, approaches towards an open af
filialion with it. Let those who are called
upon to vote a party ticket - in the midst of
the tragic) events now upon us, ponder well,
before doing so; the disastrous consequences
of sudh a policy--a policy from whose bale
ful tendencies no perity i ..of motive can pos
sibly detract Let_flern'hesiutte long before
they sow the seeds of - dissettylons; whose
bitter fruits, may ho upon the Jiffs of their
children's chjldron. - -Let .thorn not forget
that by'thus presenting a divided front they
degrade Or cf,tnie before the. world, they
paralyze our own strength and add immea
surably to thd'hopes, the confidence and the
power of the enemy. , Already the Confed
erate press is pointing the deluded people of
the South to these rising distractions among
ourselves, in a tone not merely of hopeful
ness} but of exultation..
QQntrovOraie,g
If any man, as,a motive for such a course,
suppose, that he has ground of complaint
against the President, lot bins Nib heed that
his ill-directed hostility does not put in jeo
pardy the Republic itself, • for whose preser
station from overthrow the President is in
cesssistly and loyally laboring. What has
a controversy with the President of the U.
States to do with the question of loyalty to
our country in the midst of such a struggle
as this? If he errs—as the best of men are
liable to do—he is soon to pass away with
all his deeds, but our Government and coun
try should, and if we are true to them, they
will endure foi countless ages to. come. The
President, with all the dignity and respon
subilities belonging to his position, is but a
pilot on the national ship for a single watch
of the night.
Who will be so insane as to aid, however,
indirectly in scuttling the ship, merely be
cause he h,s a quarrel with the pilot, from
whose bands the helm is so soon to be wrest•
ed? Who is willing that a savage shout, as
of victory, shall go up from that army of
ferocious Rebels, whose hands are doubly
dyed in the blood of our people? Who is
willing that a thrill of joy shall run through•
out the entire South, and that bonfires and
illuminations shall be kindled in the city of
Richmond, over the triumphs of the Oppo
sition in the great Empire State ? If such
there be, let him vote a itarty ticket. The
occasion demands the development of the
sublimest phases of human character- If
with the duties to our land and to our race
which are pressing upon us, we cannot rise
above a miserable scramble for party spoils
and power, then the sooner we creep into
our graves the better.
Foreign Intervention Threatened
by Our Inaction., '
Another danger which is threatened from
the inaction of our armies comes from a
broad. The Rebellion is as nhiquitous in
the curses it scatters as it, is foolish in its
spirit. The conflict, from our commercial
and other relations, concerns the happiness
of the civilized World. Foreign nations, with
a forbearance which cannot be too much
commended, have, without interference,
waited patiently, and given us every oppor
tunity to subdue the Rebe lion. But, unless
some decisive denlnlistration soon takes
place, and the South is occupied 'by our
forces, these nations will conclude that we
lack either the will or the power to re estab
lish the Union.
Fearful Evils of Interference
Already a member of the English Cabi
net- (Mr Glailstone),lll46 openly declared that
" Davis has made a nation of the South,"
and such an announclment, from such a
source, cannot bet be accepted as having a
startling significance. If the vast army in
whose pres:•nee, as it were, a half beaten
enemy is leisurely destroying one of the most
important railroads of the•loyal States, does
not do its wok speedily. European Govern
ments must ere long yield to the clamor+ol
their impoverished and starving populations,
and there will come intervention, " with all
its woes." Upon this will follow at once,
intimate entangling alliances'with the South,
to be succeeded by hostilities with us, and,
in all human probability,-by the permanent
establishment of the Rebel Confederacy
What fate might befitll our own institu•
lions amid the bankruptcy and demoraliza
tion and brokenness of spirit conseqtfent on
such a dismemberment, I will not trust my
self to inquire. We cannot hope to escape
from this train of events by any er , ploits of
our navy, however brilliant, occupying the
Southern coast and the cities upon the sea
shore. This, though well and very well, will
be but scratching the extremities of the giant
instead of dealing blows at his heart• That
heart palpitates defiantly in the armies of
Lee and Jackson, which have so rirAntly
ravaged Maryland, and still - from the banks
orthe Pontci to threaten -the capital.
"For All Things that are for the
Union."
----Myfaith - in - ail - this triat et . " i s siiii pre and
briefly stated It is this : For all things that
are fur the Union—against all things that
are against it. lam l'or the Unto. as un•
comhtionally its 1 ton for protecting my own
bcdy, at ev, ry cost and ha;:ard, from the
knife of the assassin. No human institution,
nu earthly interest, shad ever by me be
weighed in the scales against the life of my
country. I.e .st of all, will I approach with
unsandital fret, or permit to be thus weighed,
an iu.,ututi u, the feeding fountain of whose
being—the African slave irade—the laws of
my countrj h .ve for more than forty years
denounced as a crime w.. r thy of death—a
crime not against any particular cede or any
particular form of civilization, but a crime
against the very race to which we belong
Hostas. hamiziti ! gum's, is the designation
which the Christian legislation of the United
States has gIVOII to the African slave trader.
I yield to no man in veneration for the
Constitution, or in determination that its
blessings shall he extended to those who
respect and obey it. The door to all these
blessings is widely open to the Southern
people, and they are earnestly invoked by
the President to enter in and enjoy them.
Interests of the South in its Own
Hands
These institutions and their every interest
are in their own hands. and can be saved
not only from ruin, but from the slightest
injury, by the utterance of a single word—a
word of duty nod of honor. But, if in their
passionate pursuit of separate empire, and
TE — theii . ldind resentments against brethren
1,4ih0 have never wronged them, they refuse
to speak that word, and prefer to perish
themielves, rather than that the loyal States
shall escape destruction—be it so. The
world shalljudge aright. and history will
record its judgment.. But, is it not childish
prattle to say that the South can claim to be
at the same moment the protege and the de
stroyer of the Constitution
Satanic Audacity of the Rebellion.
Does it not require an audaci:y abSolutely
satanic, to insist that the beneficial provi•
sinus of that hallowed instrument shall be
secured to States and people who are hourly
spurning and spitting upon its authority, and
who are leading forward vast armies to over
whelm it, and with it the homes and hopes
of all who arc rallying in its defence ? War
—certainly one like this, in self-defence—is
clearly constitutional ; but, if such a war
has its restraints, it has also its rights and
duties ; protninent among which is the right
and duty of weakening the enemy by nil
possible means, and thus abridging the san
guinary conflict. Never until now has it
entered into the imagination of men to con
ceive that among these duties l ig that of see
ing that the enemy is clothed and fed and
armed betore he is struck.
The Constitution a Charter of Na
tional Life.
In prosecuting the war, while exorcising
our right to weaken the enemy, we may 'de
stroy not only ships upon the sea, and fort:
resses and cities tipon the land, but human
life upon, the battle field But what institu
Lion, what material interest is more hallowed
' than human lik_and what material interest
is there belonging to the enemy that we are
, obliged to spare, even though by so doing
wo perish ourselves ? The Constitution is a
charter Of National lire, and not of National
death. All movements which seek or tend
to the dissolution of the Government created
brit, and - of which it is the sour,are in con'
filet with its spirit and with the ( scope and
end of ifs enactments, and may be resisted
to the death by its express or implied au.
therity. Neither tue keenest vision nor the
• most delicate ear can detect.. .in any line or
letter of that gloridus charter .the faintest
throb - of sympathy with, treason or traitors.
Pardon these hurried words, which aro
spoken in recrimination of none, but in grief
alone. There is, abundant cause for sorrow,
butlione for despair. No man more sin
cerely desires the reestablishment of the
Union than does the President himself. Let
it be our trust that while an October sun is
yet shining, the mind on which all depends
will devise ways and means to overcome
every obstacle to the onstmrd march and
triumph of our armies,
New York has already sent a hundred and
seventy regiments into the flea The mus
kets they bear prtive that they aro uncondi
tional Union men. God forbid that the
lathers and brothers and 80113 whom they
have left behind should, through a show of
dissension at the ballot box, da aught to
weaken their hands or to add to the strength
and courage of the traitors whose swords are.
lifted against their bosoms.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. Bola.
LUTTILR PROIII THE gESBJUVES
The following private letter from a mem—
ber of the ith Reserve we are permitted to.
present to our readers. It will prove inter
esting to friends here as a record of theit
moventern up to the Bth lust
WARRENTON, Virginia lov.'Bth 1862:
I wrote to you. abont, one week ago—trod
the town of Ilamilton. Since that time we.
have traversed, a good portion of the country,
and pulled up yesterday at this place. We
were the first troops to enter it, driving the
rebels out of the town. if yeti remember, we
were here about four months ago, just before_
the 2nd Bull Run fights. We were going
however in a different direction that time.—
Although it was late at night when. we got
here, and extremely cold, in. comps that
stereotyped order—'• Seventh Regt. get ready.
for picket.;" and we had to shoulder our
traps and march about five miles on. picket.
It snowed, while we were there, Loa, consider-,
able depth, from which we had n.o protection
and suffered some considerable from the cold.,
Talk about Revolutionary soldiers, Valley
Forge cannot be compared with this. No
man can itnagine how the troops aro living
now unless he be with them. Justice canna,
be done to it on paper. Day before yester
day we marched twenty Index, froth a certain
point to White Plains, and were on.the tramp
from b o'clock in the morning till II at night.
We came very near getting into a fight on two.
or three occasions. At the taking of Ashby's
Gap we where within reinforcing diStance,
but Doubleday did not need our assistance.—
Just before reaching this place Reynolds, not.
knowing whether they were here in force
or not, sent out skirmishers and made every
preparation for a battle, but the town w.as
only held, by a small force who " skedaddled"
at our approach. The place is full of par
oled rebel prisoners who were captured and
paroled by Sigel.
Snow on the ground and still no signs of
of winter quarters. The question is, will
the winter's campaign end the war. The
-‘-‘
robs" are slowly falling back and will per. . .
haps not make a decided stand until they get
to (lordonsville or Staunton. Whether our
generals will [noes upon them there or go into.
winter quarters is hard, to tell. If the latter
plan is determined upon, Falmouth or Fred
ericksburg will be our place for the winter.
I would like it' you would knit me a pair of,
oue lingered mittens, after the style of last
winter's, and contrive , some way. of getting
&them to me. Probably you could send them
by mail While on picket or guard duty
[hese cold nights, some protection is needed,
for the hands and those mittens are the very
thing. Your Truly,
WAR NEWS
Gen. McClellan has been. removed Atom !hot
command of the Army of the Potomac, and.
I he command has been conferred upon General
A. E Burn,ide.
General ;McClellan was in Washington on.
Monday on his way to Trenton.
Hon. Simon, Cameron has resigned the.
position of Minister to Russia, and is now in,
New York, where he arrived on Saturday.
iii reports thcb the friendly ban iments of the.
Russian nation cow-tune.
In the same despatch comes the information,
that a fleet of rebel iron clads are building in,
England for the attack of New York. •.,
General Hooker has recovered, and *lll4
immediately take the field,. f
General Hunter will shlrtly'leave for the.
Department of the, South.
The Monitor has left Washiugtno, and. g,one.,
• Orb : Ma c flotilla.
Luely a reconnoissance was made down,
the tioor from Helena, Ark., for forty miles,,
but no rebels were •een.
Rebel guerillas are burning cotton and com
mit! mg other tlepredm nuns below Colliersville
and Nletophis.
The hospital ship Daniel Webster, hOund
for Plytooth Grove, Il 1., with sick soldiers,
put into New York on Sunday morning, short
of coal. On her way up she net the light
ship Captain Co-grove, which bad broken her
mourings, and towed her up.
A despatch to the Tribune, from Bowling
Green, says heavy tiring was heard in the
direction of Nashville on Wednesday evening.
Breckinridge menus reported to have left Murf
reesburo' for Nashville with 211,000 men, and,
that lie was compelled to retire. Guerillas
tried to born a bridge near the city, but were
whipped
A late Nashville paper says that Gen. Mc-
Cook was at tlmt city. Uninterrupted com
munication is kept up with headquarters, 'op
menus of couriers.
By a general order, all officers belonging
to the Army of the Potomac, and Osent from
their commands, are ordered to rejoin their
commands immediately, under pain of die.
missal fron the service.
The town of Warrenton, Va., was occupied
on Thursday afternoon, by General Reynolds,
corps. Rebel Longstreet left Culpepper on.
the Saturday before, and is now believed to.
be with Lee's army, at Gordonsville. The
rebel sympathizers in the town declare that
Jackson, with 70,000 men is only ten miles
and that a battle will occur veyy soon.
The - headquarters of the Army of the
Potomac are now at Warrenton, Va. On,
Saturday, our troops had a skirmish with
Stuart's cavalry, arid defeated them, cap
taring three rebel cannon, besides several
prisoners.
At Providence, yesterday, a salute of ono
hundred guns was fired in honor of the elo.
ration of General Burnsides to the commad.
of the Army of the Potomac
Gen, Bayard holds the railroad bridge
across the Rappahannock.
Commodore C. K., Stribling has been ap
pointed to the command of the Navy-yard
here, to till the vacancy caused by the death,
of Commodore Pendergrast.
There is little of interest from Gen. Scho
field's army in Missouri. He has so then_
ougly beaten and demoralized the rebels in
that region that they give him but little
trouble.
A rebel force of guerillas attacked the Bth
Kentucky cavalry lately, on Bud river, near
Madsonville, but wore repulsed and their
colonel was killed.
Beauregard has given notice to the non cm
batants of Charleston who are able to remove ,
to leave the city with slaves and movable:
property.
Tampa Bay, Fla, is being bothbarded by
.our gunboats.
A now Pennsylvania regime nt, the 1484
has arrived at Washington
General Schofield is reported as moving
back to Spingfield, Mo, on account of the,
dflicultk:if,procuring forage.
Nearly „300 rebel guerillas have boon cap
tured in the neighborhood of Gallatin.
° The resent retreat of the rebels from the
neighborhood 'of the salt Works in Westora
Virginia was induced by a spy sent for that
purpose, who gave himself up as prisoner and,
told the rebel general tki awful tale, Ile lt. : ,
lieved it and retreated.
The Riolouond Whig learns of an advaao,
upon Weldon, N. C., by the Union troops:
A movement, was also made from Washington,
hi that State, to a point on tho Roanoke rive 4
nbar Wilmington, and lighting occurred. The
re b e l s Yell hack. As usual, they claim the .
victory:
Gen. Booker has been assigned to the-oom
'mend alba ahoy corps heretofore commanded
by Gen. Fitz John Porter, who bats _been or:
dared to Washington to stand trial, upon tho
charges prolorrod against bite by Clew Popo
for 'misconduct at the battle of Bull Run.
3The U. S. friga.e Sabine le iri ooarah
of the private .41,1n)Intnn.