ARRIVAL OF THE "BOMBAY," WITH ENGLISH MAIL. IMPORTANT AMERICAN NEWS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 317, 25 December 1862, Page 5

ARRIVAL OF THE "BOMBAY," WITH ENGLISH MAIL. IMPORTANT AMERICAN NEWS.

c RUMOURED INTERVENTION OF o j f ■•■.; : :i"."-.i,;,.. ENGLAND. ;-■; '; "; -' \ '. ABDICATION OF KING OF GREECE. la J IMPORTANT ENGLISH NE^VS. gr CRISIS IN PRUSSIA.: " 1C GREAT FIGHTING IN AMERICA! el I ■ \■' -. . . -"—;:■ ■.■■.•.'::■■• ■ ■•'■- re The Royal Shepherd, with the Tasmanian °* [ portion of the English Mail by the Bombay, . arrived at Launceston yesterday (Sunday) \ morning with the following message for the tl I Advertiser: — . V I Adelaide, Dec. 12. tl Bombay arrived at St. George's Sound on v ■ the 7th instant. She left Galleon the 23rd , j Nov., via Jubal. : ; ' London, Nov. 6. : 1 Jubai,, Nov. 7th, 11.25 p.m. ' '. > Mediation of the Great Powers in American • affairs is rumored. . , si The Queen's sanction to her son's marriage c i [ is gazetted. . 9 [ Parliament meets on the 13th January. *' Deposition of Italian Ministry expected. P ; Bavaria claims sovereignty of Greece. p Earthquake at Fayal. y, 1 The wool sales commenced on the 13th ; ultimo. The quantity offered was 60,000 £ bales. Probable advance of l£d per lb. V Sailed—" Vernon" and "White Eagle." J Suez, Nov. 5. !i Lancashire distress increasing. ~ The bank f t forgers have been apprehended. f 1 Jessie M'Lachlan, Glasgow murderess, has '* been respited. * # t Trevelyan succeeds Laing in India. t M'Clellan continues inactive. State Elect itions pending, involving important results. I A conflict has taken place between the * Austrian and Italian troops. , Arrived—Strathl dden. i Sailed—Damascus, Spray, Cordova, and 1 Loeiiia. : '' Bank rate discount 3p. c. Consols 93. ! ■ s London, October 27. , Fearful gales in channel; 100 ships wrecked; ( 500 casualties occurred, attended with fright- , < ful sacrifice of life. ' Ministers and members of parliament ' t starring in provinces making speeches about Italian and American questions. Gladstone's' speech on America indicating disposition on; part; •of - the government ta recognise the Southern States, seriously affected the cotton? trade. Gladstone explained that he had saidnothing more than that he believed the sub-j j ugation of the' South was hopeless. \ Cobden, at Manchester, proposed formation; of a League, to procure abolition of blockades of commercial ports by beliSfierents. j Distress in Lancashire increasing daily.Collections made on fixed days in every Church in England and Wales. PubMc meetings held in favor of Garibaldi in Hyde Park and Birkenhead. These meet-; ings irritated Roman Catholics, serious^riots occurred, gross outrages on person and pro^ perty, committed by the latter. , '■ Two shocking railway accidents on Edinburgh and Glasgow, and London and Dover line. Several killed, two hundred severely injured. , * _ ', AMERI C A . : Gold at New York has gone up, premium 32 per cent. . . ; The Confederate Government have bf?en empowered by Congress to procure a million bales of Cotton and to sell to foreigners for the benefit of the Revenne. Federal army under M'CleUan entered Virginia, and advanced on Charleston. Some severely contested undecisive battles in Maryland and Kentucky, between Federals and Confederates, generally in favoi of latter. .Confederate General (Stewart) with 3,000 men made a dash across the Potomac into Maryland and Pensylvania;*re-crossed in safety, capturing 1.000 horses, large quantities of stores, making entire circuit of Federal army without their knowledge! This daring,feiat caused profound sensation at New York; McLellan could not follow the Confederates, *| who re-crossed, the Potomac in. safety and order, taking all their materiel with themV " Stonewall" Jackson conducted the retreat. Lincoln has issued a proclamation for the emancipation of all slaves, and'it lias been condemned generally in America, and universally in Europe, and has produced intense sensation in the South., , The Confederate Congress has conferred power on Davis to take retaliatory measures; putting all- Federal officers to bard r labor,, I hanging all who are in command of? negroes. r J I - Lincoln lias played hi* last *ards* there will soonbe^cwadininistration. and peace, "w,ith dissolution of on\oji«\ ~ '/ '" M *' •' " > - Confederate successes are such^ak to justify them ia*making proposals for a Peace*, and Commissioners,' it" is« said, proceeded . to Washington.".fat th^ tehqr^Teauiros «o%-

Wilkes,. of "Trent" "notoriety, i'eported'l-ora blockading Bermuda. The English^ Admi* i* 01 ralty ordered "two additional vessels of war. Ho jf ' proceed to that station. . The Expenditure oi the Federal Govern- ing tnent for 3 months, ending 30th June last, is ccii at the rate of 160. millions sterling a-;year.., r rtli? Butler commanding at . New Orleans, has Unordered all persons refusirig'to take the oatji am of-allegiance to be registered as enemies of wa the United States. , ma An ' attempt is shortly to be made by the th* Confederates to re-occupy New Orleans.*" J,[] Butler has told aU women avlio apply for Bu passes^ that while he is fighting the enemy in ag* suburbs, he will deliver the town to the mercy P* of 20,000 soldiers, and if obliged to evacuate ad' the town will leave it a heap of ashes. JJJ Washingtm Star says Bank's will succeed hoi to the Secretaryship of War. tei , Hallop returns to his old command in the tH£ We*t. Po The command of McClellan's army to be given to Hooker, and McClellan will succeed r ;f Hallop at Washington. an , m« FRANCE. wl Thouve'nel is replaced by Drouylin D'Luys, fj who declares that the policy of the Govern- q 0 ment in the affairs of Italy remains-unchanged, nn This, however, occasioned much alarm in a Turin. Probable resignation of Ratazzi !J rumouredi | Ja PRUSSIA.' * as' Political crisis has ended in the King vio-, '* lating the Constitution, declaring that he zjl stands on his kingly rights, and that an army ha lie must .and.will have pn. tike scale'proposed ra' in the Budget. / • : ~-.'• '..:' : %/ by ;."Kiin<; has dissolved Parliament, and caused t!l the utmostc-xsitement.' ■'-' -, ; •!'■? lie volution broken out in Greece. : ,11 ProvisionalJ^bvernmeut, foriiied, Otho ab-; ,'m dicated and fled. •■•; ~■ ~ - . '. English squadron at Malta ordered: to. h Piraeus. Bevolution caused a stir, lest-it M* should lead to difficulty between England y and France. ,•< ■ : ... : • ,/'"',.- "*: i ' ;';; ' • **■ Health of Garibaldi declining.; His friends :d< entertain great apprehensions of the result, r M c h i,tf.-■■ a.v■■■'■•v ■■■'■• '■■'■ i::?:.:->i\:f The Allied.Forces.haye.niacle successful expeditioris against the Taiping rebels. The^ Itc have captured Jung Wya and Kail Dmg-r-two t« of their strongholds. ;i ■.. .'•• ..■ >r :;.v.-■'_ \<\ ■: The Allied Army still remains at Kah v Ding. ', :." .■;:■■■'■■•;.; ■■■■■■■. ■'■/:'" '" : ' : '"> * i'here is- no particular iievvs from the ports of Japan.. .' j ■ ' ' '.' ' '/ ' , ■*'■•■'■'■ -■- ■. '-. ,yj - r .; ENGLISH COMMERCIAL. 2 Tobacco—Shipments somewhat receded, owing to f< last month's exports >md advancing rat-s. o Spirits oii ati average; 'wine* to Sydney increased; d beer in bulk, and gla«s freely shippeii to Melbourne, r. \ " Malfc and hop 3on the iucrea3e;also; provisions and -^ groceries.' ' ' •" ''. •:' - • ■■■• :•.■ ■:'-■..,•■•.; •.;■::'. ;I iidtter and candlesideclined. ■ ' ;.■■•■ •..■:.. ": c Oils—La^t snles' of colonial double compass. L 43. 10s ; .single, L 42 10s. ' . , ,t ■ Sperm oil is cheaper. :. ■■■ ]V 13ark—Scarcely any. Mirao3a on oflfer. •'..Sales s chopped at £16 ss; ground at £14 12s 6d. v 8 Whalebone, in more demand at ah advance. f On the passage of ■" Kent" she euouotered very t. rough weather off Cape Horn, 100 tons of copper a ore and flour, and 28 tuns of oil thrown overboard to * sive the ship. . . li The above was published yesterday-■from f this office in the shape of an Extraordinary. r We take the following fuller intelligence from t the Home News, a copy of which has reached c us by the courtesy of Capt. Stantoh:— I : AMERICA. \ THE SXKUGOtB IN MARYLAND. t The campaign in Maryland, the progress of which I was being watched with so much anxiety at the date t of pur last publication, was brought to a close more < suddenly than had been expected. Befoie a week 1 elapsed after that date, w received the news that the i Confederate army had withdrawn, or retreated, into 1 its own territory of Virginia, and that the military j positions of the opposing forces had returned to neavly < what they were in the last days of August. The main I points in this short but not unimportant episode of the 1 war may be briefly related. ] I It will be remembered that on the 30th of August General Pope was so utterly defeated by the Confede- ] rates that lie was compelled b<> take reluire within the > entrenchments around Washington. So complete ; seemed tlie dustruction of the Federal army to Gen. '] !Lee and Jefl'eKOii Davis that they at once determined i fto cross the PotHJinac, nud to carry the wur into Marylaiid and Pennsylvania It has been said indeed that the Confederates intended nothing more than a mere raid; but the fact . that they entered Maryland with a considerable I force, and issued a proclamation to the inhabitants of the State, show3tliat they probably entertained more I serious views. Nor is there any doubt that they acted upon v^ry reasonable grounds. The occupation of Maryland was of very great consequence to the Confederate cause, and it might well seem impossible that the Federals couid within a few diya make any very serious opposition to the progress ti'an invading army, but those reasonable hopes were,doomed to disappointment. Scare, ly had 'JVl'Cldllaa assumed the chief command than he got togethei\every man he could muster —organised them into an ai'my, aud set out from Washington to meet the enemy.wnerever he could find him. His force has been e-rtimated at. UO,OOO ineu, but in truth there is no sort of evidence as to there 1 numbers of the army which he sue-, eeeded in taking into the field.- . Befor , or so>n afc.r, MCI Han left Washington, tiie Cotit.dtjrate troop*' tinder Le;, as our readers will recollect, hail crossed in to Maryland. They occupied Frei rick City, which is so;ue 60 miles noith-west: of Washington and 10 miles north of the Potomac,, which comes down from tli*j nortn-vest; towards tlje, capital. Having done this, they advanced from; Frederick Uity up to^ Hagerstown, a distance 'of-twenty-five"'mill's, • and threatened to enter; Pens\lvauia. - M'olellan, reached ••; fretlfrick City oh September 12, having marelied.some GO iiides, and oc'upied that wvvn without opposition.,, About..two mile* tieyond FreJerkjc the roaU-crosses a ri ;ge walled, the Kittoctau IViountaius, and after .yawing.;th'rough'. Middle town, which lies in a. Valley, crossesanother ridge cfJled South M Ountairi. .Tins.-., last. ridge i$ pierced by two roads; the more northerly passes through Turner's Gap, aud is the, ruaiu turnpike road to Boonesboro and Hngerstown; the more southerly; distant from the former, about five railed paste 3 througli damp'on's Gap, and then turning uortuward joins the road to Boonesboro and Hagers- ' town.' " ■ '■■■■■■' -.■■_•■ ' ' .-■ ! ■■•.-• ■ ■ ■-'■ ■:: .■•; ,:-, ~.. eu^h being t^ie fl:ld operations^ the event? wluch took place from the i2:h.September^ when M'Clellan reached Frederick City, .are readily intelligible : Having left Fmieiick: City in Jiis prpgi 1. ss westward, he croaked the Kitt run Mountains, descended into the valley, passed through Middletown, and neanid the Soutb Mountain, ue «r Turner's Gdp. This the Confederates occupied. Il was Sundiy, the 14th September. - The same day M'CleUau attacked bpth sidts of the gorge aud carried it. The Confederates retreittd the next morning towards Boonesboro. But it ia clear that only part of the Confederates were p esent ,at Tuiner's Gap. We hear of Longstrept coming back from Hagerstownj, and it is known that w Stonewall' Jackson had been engaged iv taking, Harper's Kerry on Mondßy, the 15th {September. The truth probably is that General Lee thought it impossible for MHJlellan to collect a sutfiewnt force tyeiujlilehim to make his way through a mountain gorge hel 1 by his , troops, WClellau, however, drove the, Confederates from theii- position. Tim fijhf ng w^s coati^ued wtth | doubtful success on 'Monday, the 15tb. . . The 16th September, as (General M'Clellan Bald'inone of his despatches, ♦* was pUfetiy piesed J» deployinpjiiis forces and gaming po«Stwu* I'^rppar^nff ,m fact, foi the real contests which place on the 17th. 3y that time " StoneWAU",. Jacfesori, baying, liberated tha prisoners whom.He.tpok.at^Hat'pejL'^ Ferry on parole, and. haying acsordiog to the Nmtf York Tribune, captured 10,000 Ptand^f arms. 40' ca-4 non, and cartridges and stores/ hod recrossed to the north side of the Potomac, (wtivjoioed thn ,C^afederatcs. What, nambew were engaged t onthe' 17th on both .sides , is, s not , stelied, hut the conflict, appears to Juave y ,been, yerj obfctinate. It contiouei from dawa till dusk, and' as General Bl'Clellan estiawtes the, low oa owo^iJe to have been irom-6,000 tcr 10,000 msn* tho J^e must have raged fiercely the wfcple day., JtekjM', we may assum*', put au «ad ..tojhfl, haggle, ,^ hJ&, two avmiea i-emaiued nearly oo thg^KTOiind |«.ey f ,oecu-. iied,- Tue fietd'w^'thej-6U»n»g^uad 4 upr«|iWirJ&«»a Bduftiwartl of Antietam Ureek* Aa PMa? iuao; *' On the nitfht of the JlUth .a ,6tW>n6, Federalj di* vWon ' had'beea- pttslifid. across si-Ue, ere&t.flWi'** Hooker; t» attack the enemy's Jefy TJje other, point of assault was to<ba^ ,Stoqe >rid^m#«^ Buttsidewasto cross, tateflauk. pgfKer* botaraAnd^ and wjtka graattfli-Adva^cg, .McntWfff!! by ineifr'despeMt^JljsJUalag', ngsWtance. TUw aivAsee^ ferojught, t|»J^«9«W* *?«R "the thifik WwJaat ibnjtmjrt *w WJfPi Ha U«^«duc!eiU|«ktfa?lWßW£^u USS *«IM«'iiM 't>|^a«d ! |if9» ! owm>J»i»<l iPllflpm

.orceu -back r ;orgr ,%^|T'qjina. ibgy T had. moni and, -; ffiir* 'ftronnfr' xn '*'front ""' I>f the wood was lost, gained, and once more lost, as fiesh troops came up, eras those ~engaged falUred beforethe marksmen of the South. It was in wresting the cover from the Confederates that Hooker received hisTirouad, and that so many general and comrtussioned officers -lost their lives. But the '* Hougor morit M of the Mai ylr.n 1 ratt-'e vrhs again Relinquished at 1 o'clock in the day, and again retaken by the Maine and-Vermont men at a later period, not to be afterwards surrendered. By tins rime Burnside was making his advance, after a continued cannonade oa the Federal leftj and hai won the *tone bridge under a desperate five. .The delay that ensued hereled probably to Hookei's difficulty on the light; for, while BurnsiJe had not crossed, Lee could tpare forces against hiray Burhside \va* not < veri.be creek till 3 -.. p.m., arid once beyond-it M'Clellan sent;bitn word to , , advance amHake the batteii s in front of him at any cost.; Alongfour miles of battle-ground at this time ! heavy artillery was in constant discharge,under the ■ hotst'enioon sun/- Burxi-iUe tnok the nearest bat- V teirf, anfl thef; Confederates withdrew the farthest of - the two opposed to hiio, thus yielding an important .'• ' point pn their ritiht; But thi; point was iavmediat ly assailed again; fiotn freh positions, by the Southerners, • | /who'massed infoxve/ nud pressed tfurastle with rh» • nile and bayonet. Such ft raiment was undoubtedly an ■ , anxipusoat'fOi*M'C]ellan,wiiohi',ho\yeveijStilils,lOJ weir in reserve under Porrer, IMiecorraspoiideiit whb^e; account we fo low, t'm3 describes the crisis as an eye •witness. " BurnsMe's messe;:g<ir rides np; . 'His message-i3.' 'I waattroops and;guns. Ifjou. Oo not jserid them I cannot fool;'my position for hat fan hour.' ;M'C:<?llan's only answer for the 'moment is .- 'a g ance. at the western sky. Then he turns a-id "sp'eakj. very slowly. -Tell (ieuoral Burndde that this is the battle of. war. He must hold his ground 111 jlaik!at any cost. I will tend him Millerfu battery, lean donothing more. I have no iufaulry.' Then,, ■". as T the messen^cT was riding: away, he. called him back; • T.ell birn if lie cannot hold his pro nd, then tiie'biidjre, to the last inan'. :lways the briijie !If • fchfe budge is 10.-t, all is lost/" Assistauce seems to haye been Bent to Bumsuie; faucl with the rotii'etn?,nt of the Confederates the battle was put an cud to by nightfall; The right -iuid fcean thereii rd hel<J, and the bridge, und, the advance ievonri made £oo<l.; but no* more imihediate*w c .-as. could be claimed for t-iis har.i;fought* day; Both si.ies had.,co:itested it with - desperate valour; and botii discontinued ie with euovmoui losses. '-:-; ■/'•■■■ -,:■'', v ;v; .■.'.■-.- ,-:W , ; , '; "■./. On tlie IBsh Sept. little occurred-beyond skirmishing, lat'.least; on the Federal side. -It-appearsthat.the day was -employed by the '-Confederates"'in making .their .retread, southwards- in good order and-amsnoles--i .p'n;'Vth:e.;'in()rninig\(jf''the' < te,l.j, 18tli M'Clelian perceived,that his pppoyentvwer*} moving';' but lie cvi- .? '. dent y could iiot tbljovy them c!o-e]y'enough to ascer- , tain in. what "direction they Ayere going. "<(I:do not -. \-kjick' f ''.l#e fiefd him spying in a despatch written on tl\emorning;.of.the 18th; "if-the e:iemy is falling back to sm iiifevior position, o? crossing the rivtr." <■ . He .added, however—"We may safely claim the vie* . , tory for-burs:""''. It was only in a' later' despatch, writ- ' ;ten after, he,had discovered the direction the Confederates had.tajten, tiwthe ventured to anuouuci? the " ; " .victory aa eoraplets, cb sei vihg, ■*-' The driven . bacikinto./iVir^inia; Maryland and i?ennsylvauia are! .no^'s'afe." .'.',.. -;.; . ;;;.-, ' -":' ;■■''■• '- :■. . It will be seen that all the engagements by which . Marylarid was recovered from the Southern mvasion. were fought'within a limited space of grouud. * fthe 20 counties into .which the State is divided, the Confederates 6eem never to have In4d more than portions of ttvo-rless" than half the county of. Frederick ..and: corner' of its north - western , neighbor, v which, to add to the " confusion ■of American topography, bears the same name as the •Federal capital, Washington. - The- road from Fred- . . crick.City to Hagerstown and the Potomac, runnirg with many curves, but in it^ general direction paralh I .to the road, are the limits of the part of Marylaid . into .which the Southern army advanced.; It is a strip, about 24 miles long and 10 -miles broad, a very small fraction indeed of the whole territory. But. from Harper's Ferry northward are the upper fords of .the Potomac, by which the river can be easily crossed at several points. The battle of the 17th was fought near Sharpsburg, and it w.tsbythe bridge at Shep- : herds-town and the fords above and below it that the • Confederates, recrossed the Potomac into Virginia. Th£ distance of these points -from Sharpsburg isonly four miles. The army, it is stated, began to pass ths river early on the night of the 38th. But if its numbers were' as large as they have been described the operation must have required mauy hours to . complete. It is probable that"the Confederates were crossing during the whole day of the 18th, while the skirmishing spoken of was kept up in the rear. The pursuit could not have been closely pressed, as it was only "during the night" that M'Clellan " advanced . a battery, and shelled the Confederates" from the heights on the river. But he saw only the skirts, of , the retiring enemy. "Stonewall" Jackson, who conducted the retreat, had got the whole army across the Potomac with but slig-it loss—in the retreat itself, we presume—of men, waggons, or artilleiy. The list of casualties on the Federal side iui-ludel so many officers of high rank that it created a leeling of dismay even in the first flush of the success. (General Mansfield was killed, and no less than 13 officers of the same rank were returned by name as wounded. A special correspondent of the Times, who write 3 from Baltimore, refers to the terrible scene presented on the 18th September by the field of bat'.le :— Seldom, Bince the world first witne sed the ravages of war, has such a fecene of appalling1 carnage and suffering1 mutually appealed to heaven. It is probable that within an area of tivesquare miles at least 30,009 dead and wounded nwn, the victims of the politcia-is of the United S fates, lay in eve« y conceivable attitude of agony and pain. Every bush, every crevice of rock, every furrow of every field had its pale and bleeding tenant, while the mangled but still living sufferer, with faint and piteous wailing, demanded water to supply his exhausted life-blood, and harrowed up the soul of the*anaruished observer. After seeing the hospitals at Washington and taking stock of 6ome 20,1)00 sufferers in that devoted city—after recognising the many shortcomings and deficiencies of the provision for the sick in every hospital I have seen, the thought that at least 12,000 additional Federal sufferers, and many hundreds of Confederate wounded, thrown into Federal hands, are added to the bloody record ot Washington, Baltimore, and Phila'U-lphta, might well freeze the heart with horror and disainy. 1 will not -pause to call attention ta the sufferings which .must ,'avrait the Confederates, although it is some 'consoiatfo'i'. to> think that imra«ns« medical supplies fell into their hi nils uftcr the second hattie of Hull Kirn. It is marvellous in the face of this unutteralrle'aggregation of suffering and woe, that men with , human Hearts' and'flesh ami blood and bones of tha same stuff as that which is this dny writhing and quivering in every building; and bam within twenty niilesof the battle-field, should not endeavor to put some stop to an effusion of blood which has never been; • paralleled .< in times known, to history. But ■'■'• Mr i: Seward is ; described as being in rapturous spirits and never to have been more light-hearted or gay. It is to the honor of American woomanhood that Miss Dix and some companions have not been deaf to y the-., appalling cry of agony going up from Antietam Creek, but have repaired to the Hcene of action to do what they can. Bufc if every surgeon ih America had Iweij ou the spit last Thursday, there would have been .-work for th«m a,ll. : fn the nnmediate vicinity of Hottyaville an immense • hole was rapidly filled .with amputated limbs, -..incidents of lronwr enough to fill a volume, much as their insertion is discourfiged in ail Northewr journals, meet the eye at every"turn, t• Ci>ald quote from the. nupt-n before me; calumn after column descriptiv«. of such B'-enes as.would be heart Hen ifng even if they related to transactions enacted a thousand years ago. The Southern journals claim victory for ths Confederates in the ereat tattle at; Antietam Creek. They furnish a number of details which modify, in some respects the history of tho Maryland campaign as narrated from Federal sources. The Tinuv refer* 'n a recent loader to these supplementary details :— Tha invasion of Maryland, > and the story of the military successes which rendered it possible, can now for the tiisb time be collated from the accounts of both, parties." In a private letter from an officer ia " Sjonewall " Jackson's corp«,. which we extract today frtm a Southern paper, tue story wye vividly and circumstantially told, and is brought dowa to th.c 6th September, when the Southern forces were in possession of JFredericksbur^. The reader cannot but fol'ow wiih interest the mpid and perilous advance of Jackson and his ragged, slioeless follovrers, marching five-and twenty miles a day, burning railway car.-?, breaking down 'bridges, heatxl of from time to time by poor puzzled .General Pope, and thought by him to 'be' n cavalry liarty whioh ft brigade > of itifautry might easfly Barround'j tbfin-scattering this brigade and biting ravenously upon the spoil which it had.brousrht in jt? train: Two hundred carloads pf JaooUi and cpats. "toothbrushes, candles* ■ «offee, ancl loiter balad-ra«d amid all th'elrVafuablo acquisitions they remcail»er *thßiast luxuryl with'especial relishv-Hrowarded tho ' audacity of these hungry ,'lialMaA wamaw^rNocespUy is the mother of audnolty m wellof invention. It ,Vte" ptttbabiv' much lew* -by. 4b.e , ?pee4?he3 of \he Ji'praiting fools- in the-' ".Eonthem-t^ouso o£v Representatives, than it* by ,; Hie naked', feet ' of' his ~ wen ijtbot jLiee^, was induc&Lto 5 cro«r the Potomao^. tPhe; '.Stonewalls" r « I»ad been living on roastedebm. t Tiity had.^wag. i&oh»f*, 'were'l3,ooo m^n slandirtß betwceiu&e $ «&t »r«l«es of >Spc%ad M»TJlelfaiii,buriJiiiig> and ,4^oyiogjwhat <they Jc6dl4>«o.t s eariyAway^ AJwUfeasUng^Biiaeft feast 'jfhen^h>y3cn(jvr they ar^j in all pn%abaw ,uJ»b^j;lmj tiu>^<^nM«*t»^ v efi%^^«r • . ifr&twrK;i'a»diin)u'««^Curio^-i«i^p^>jatnot '

dou )'e 1 Lrfit of tiv« )-,v3 as ovite it now ap »ea?i car- i t iiu tli it v Wis ,t <\ghb won yy fie Oi>iifal«siat» unne- \ ra s mtlrjiy Uy Mipenor <-tr r«"gv agn'rur emm -er Mi Oil«n ; t"^ »i en on w» h&.d s fi sriux wirh equal vilot* an I tiHclplmc, nnd i.j/ht p e^'rvui^ th, Fe J«ia s f.-0.-n, a mtnl rout. W« mu«t, probably, wait ash >rt time before we have^asimUa.* opportunity ofcampa'inj? or »ontr^ting the Woitfiern and Southern versions of tho Maryland battles. What Southern accouuti we hive, s^en to iht rait? thnt the stratagy of Genera! L c was n >fc d'*ivot<i I to the carrying out of the po'icy f>im;hb 6> be i»po-el iiouu him by the Ojngru**. «if R ciimoml. Hiwl3 hir !ly im ieil*'.l by t|i i will df.?i-c*i of ravaging Pt-n >sylVHnh a »d making thi North the seat of war.; We are told by the orresponden«e of the Soufhern p:»pew thufc, while " saemingly moving his troop* in the direction of Pennsylvania, he wai really j raparing an important movement into Virginia" .\s this statement,was made previously to the last great battle, it may, perhaps deserve some credence; and, it may, perhaps, be true that the Confederate generals have accomplished on the other Mdc of the Potomac all they ever hoped to do there. When we read of the privations endured by the Confederate troops, we cm well understand that to vetictual, reclothe, and rearm such a force in the enemy* country, and jn a great measure at the enemy's expense, is in itself a most irapo. tant military success. Moreover, the captue of the force and po*t at Harper's Ferry would hardly have been accomplished by a less aggressive style of tactic 3. The Confederate-* t-laim that by this great cowp they paroled 11,000 privates and 425 officers; took 2,0 0 negroes, obtained 15,009 stand of small arms! 40 pieces of cannon, 500 horse3,and many military stores of which they were greatly in need. If, as the South* ra a( C'junts seem to imply, the invasion of the North to intended-only for thr accomplishment of these ohj-cts and if General Lee had all along determined as his ultimate object to retire when he had drawn tho Federal army from Washington, and to attempt to lure M'Clelbn once more acr.;s3 the Potomac iv pursuit of him, then the Confederates plan has thua iar succeeded, and General Lee and his caarlju'tore are not open to the criticism which a deliberate project of carrying. the war into Pennsylvania must La/t* brought down upon them. The lat'.ie at Harper's Ferry, above referred to, commenced on the 12th, by an attack on the Federals on Maryland Heights. Tne F-iderals sent reinforcements fom Harper's Ferry to Maryland Heights, and the engagement coutirmed during the 12th and 13th The .Federals evacuated Maryland Heights on t"he 15th, and crossed ou a po itoon bridge to Harper's Ferry, preyious'y spiking the guns on Maryland Heights. On the 14fch the Confederates assembled on L n ion Heights, and opened their batteries from tha jo'nt, and also ir m M«ryUnl Heights. Skirmishing cor.fin led dm ing tie 14 h. During ihe niirbt of the 14ih the Confederates planted additional batteries on London Height?, and another battery on the opposite side of the Potomac to the ri^ht of the Federal position, thus enfilading the whole of the Federal entrenchmpnts. The Confederates opened lire from these batteries on the morning of the 15tH, when a Federal council of •wir was held, and a white flag displayed, Dudng the hoisting the white flag a shell struck Colonel Miles, who commanded at Harper's Ferry, wounding him mortally. The Federals surrendered to General JacKson on the following term?:—Officers and men to have rea:ly parole. Officers to retain their side arms and private property. All United States' property to be turned- over to the Confederates." The Confederates paroled about SjOO1) prisoners; and the New York Tribune correspondent says they captured 10,000 stand of arms, 40 cannon, und cartridges and stores. Fifteen hundred Federal cavalry succeeded in escaping previously from Harpoi'.s Ferry, and captured en route Confederate Genvr.il Lonjrstreet's ta,'«age train. On their retreat back into Virginia from Maryland, the Confederates .evacuated Harper's Ferry, having first destroyed the Government stores and a portion of the railway bridge. For about three weeks after the battle of Antietam Creek the Northern aud Southern armies continued quietly 'o occupy thy opposite banks of the Potomac ■witbi.i but a short distance of each other. The last mail, however, brings intelligence of another invasion of the the North by the Confederates. It appeurs that (ieneral Stuart, with a small ibrce of 3,000 men, crossed the Potomac at Hancock, a place about 30 miles west of Hajrerstown. At tlus point the fltrangr-ly-shaned State of Maryland is at its narrowest;, tlic fton ier of Virginia being only some six or eight miles from that of Pennsylvania. General Sr.uarf; pushed acrors the Maryland territory, entered Pennsylvania, marched to Chamber3burg iv all a distance of some 40 miles. Chanibersburg surrendered, the Confederates kstroyed the railway station, :ind oiiptured 500 hor^s. The latest news received o*'i hem was that they were marching on Gettysburg, a place to tlio eastward, with the design of destroying the bridge and preventing the approach' of General M'Ulellan. Whether this inarch of General Stuart bo a mere raid or a feint, or is undertaken with the settled design of carrying the war ngain into tho North, it is impossible to sny. It is probable, however, thstno regular iuvasioti of Perui.sylvania' on a large swlo is intended. The Confederates probably desire cither to interrupt the communications between Washington a-id the West, or to force General M'Clollmi into some movement from whioh they h-;pe to gain an advance. Uub the incident is in iWlf so «trail ire, and shows such b>lino.-s on the part of tiie Confederates, that we can well imagine that the new.-* wa-.i received with the greatest astonishment in Ncav York. The Richmond Whip has information that the entire Confederate loss in all tha en^agvmente which have recently occurre-1 ia Maryland is from 5,000 to 7,000. t;is campaiun ir ihe west. hi fclie Weifc the war comtinues to be prosecuted with eve-varying success. The principal incideutof the month was an enpn.«ement, foup;ht on tho 3»l and 4th October, at Corinth, I Mis«»is?ip|ii, between the Confederates under Generals P-riv. and Van Dorn, and the Federals under General Rosoncrauz. The number of the 'Federals is not civen ; that, of the Confederates ia stated at 40,000, W.neral Rosencranz officially reports that there Was great slaughter, that bis loss,. particularly id officers, was v«ry large, and that the Confederate loss waa much larger. A despatch of the 7th states that the Confederates were driven baak five miles and lost all but their small nrms. The Federals took two batteries and 800 prisoners. Sunh at least was the substance of the Federal reports which reached us about a week -ago; but we confess that in the accounts brought by the last mail we fiiid no confirmation of any very decisive victory. The troops which were represented as reIreating in such confusion appear from these accounts not to liave as yet laid down their arms. Indeed, in this battle of Corinth, it seems that the Confederates suc-eeded iv reaching the main public square in the city before they were compelled to retire. The Federal pursuit, we are told, was followed up for some miles; but as the telegrams are silent respecting any captures effected or damage done, we are compelled to conclude that the Confederates retired unmolested. In Kentucky also there has been a good deal of sharp but apparently indecisive fighting, After Murufordsville had been taken by the Confederates and retaken by the Federals, and after a long series of manoeuvres in the neig tborhood of Louisvillp, we hear of a desperate collision at Perrysville between the Southerners under General Brags? and the Northerners under Weueial Buell. The battle of Perrysville, which occurred on the Bth October, was, as far as we can learn by putting together the various telegrams, fought between Bbout 17,000 Federals and a Confederate army supposed to be of equal strength. One of the accounts represented tho Confederates as remaining in possession of the gronnd • another affirmed that they had been driven seven miles by the Federals. The New York papers reported, ou the morning of the 11th, another battle at Perrysvitle; it was short, but desperate ; the Confederates broke and retreated South, with the Federals in full pursuit. But by the evening, this report seems to have been disproved. A later telegram announces that the report of a battle having been fought on the oth at Perrysville was incorrect, and ths official despatch of (General Buell merely announces that the enemy was repulsed, after having gained " some momentary advantage on the left." v " Fr tm these discordant announcements,'1 says the Times, *' we can easily gather that fighting of a severe but desultory kind is going on in Kentucky, and that the unhappy Stats is torn by the warfare- of the two ! contending armies, neither of which is able to expel the other from its borders. There seams, indeed, reason to believe that in these Western States a war of this kind might go on for years without leading to any result. Although the Confederates, with their originally smalt army, were compelled to retreat, they no soduer raised a great forco by means of, the conscription than they re-entered Kentucky, and now hold by far the greater portion of the State. The Kentuckians thamseives, as far as can be ascertained, have generally joined the Confederates. It is impossible to account for the success of the latter in overrunning the country without assuming that the population are friendly; that the army ot General Bragg is willingly supplied with provisions and transport by the people it has come to liberate ; and that both he and General Kirby Smith have been largely reinforced within the limits of Kentucky. In such circumstances it h possible that a contest over so vast a field might be prolonged indefinitely. The power of one army to expul another from a certain territory^almost ceases when the region fought for is of groat extent, the means of locomotion few, the shelter for beaten armies auuudiuit, and the p >pillation soa wustomed toth-Use. ol arms thate.-uh ma lis 8o;nt tnrned' iuro a soliiie'. We Inve uo exportation uf h: tiring thateither si c has won any decisive sm eews iv the Kauruckiaa .'caiapaigu. l'tie inovfcnient of the armies is almost impossible ia sucii a country, nnd; these bodies of 10,000 or 15,000 wen on a side mayjght bloody battles month after m«»ath withoutbringing the eaiupaiguto a" close by either of thf-ra^exp«i)iDg its opponent The Confederates liave>ihovv,ey.i?r;« so far succeeied ia detaching: Keqtuclcy/from^^ a go*eriior.of(Hieir>own,, and general Bragg has thought his position strong enough to warrantiTim ia $mn& iijuon ttte Worth-we»>tem States to exerciss

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VtHA.VCIX'L "dIPPICUT/TU'S Mr Clias* li i, j wf p ih'ished an official statement of the expenditure <>r the Feiuil Government for the three month* ending on the 3OtU June last. Ifc is nearly L39,Oo'U>oo or ar the rate of U60,000,000 a y^ar. The total receipts for the ta'ue qua ter are above L47.000,0')0. But m)re than hdf of thU sum i* obtained by reckoning the paper issues of tin Go-v-n nment a* revenue. The I gil tender notes and the cert fi-ates of in<te'itodn<>ss of the Treasury maVeup m;>re t!| in L 8,000,000 of what is put down a>i;ic >inc. In reality, it is tutun; debt, to meet which nothing has .yet been raped by direct taxation. ; The Times of October 23' says,' in reference to the financial, position of; the North:—" Gold1 ha? now rism to 29 pr«-iaium, bankers' bills to 141£, and the New York Mo?,ey-Markefc has ;at last begun really to feel the dangers which" threaten the country. It should be noticed that the advance of gold to 29 occurred on, the. morning of the 10th, and before the news of Gen. S tuart'a capture of Cambersbiirg reached the city. Ifc must therefore be taken for granted that economical laws which are so little understood in America are now beginning to make th-smselveV felt, and that the excessive issues -of paper money are rapidly tending to depreciate the whole Federal currency. Oti the 10th gold advanced to 29 premium, falling: again to 27£; on the evening of the 11th it is announced that money is tighter, and exchange is advancing. The price of gold is not given, but it is impossible fo doubt that'it ha 1 advanced with the exchange, and wa? at least as high as the day before. ".We may. then, conclude that now, with not a single State of the Confederacy conquered, or likely to be conquered; with not one cent, yefc levied by direct taxation at the North; with an immense host of raw recruits to be pail their bounty money, arme.l, clothed, and supported ; with a gigantic mass of materials to provide for another invasion, the Federal government finds ifcs paper depreciated not far fcoai a third in its value. In the worst time 3of our war against Napoleon our notes never sank so low as the American greenbacks have sunk withia the second • year of the war. On the 10th October 100 dollnrs of Mr Chase's currency were only worth 71 dollars in gold, and no one can doubt that this depreciation, which increases the expense of the rwar in a manner fearful to contemplate, is only now beginning1. Of course, the wave may alternately advance and reeedtf^md we may hear that gold is down agiin to 24 or 25; but the tendency is upward?, 'and there is really no reason wiiy the pries should not rise until the state of the Federal currency awakens even Mr Chase from his illusions." [On one point ie the above, the Times commits an obvious arithmetical blunder. According to the rule of three, gold being at 29 premium, 100 dollars of Mr Chase's currency would be worth, not. 71 .dollars, but a fraction" more than 77£ dollars in gold.] THE SOUTH. A resolution of considerable importance has just been introduced into the Confederate Congress, authoThing the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase 1,000,000 bales of cotton at a fixed price, and to send agents to Europe to sell it. We must wait to learn the details of this scheme, and whether it has been accepted by Congress, before we build any argument' upon it; but, if it be correctly stated, it seems to indicate that the Confederates have yielded somewhat of their obstinacy on the subject !of i selling cotton before their independence ;is _ secured, and th:it the fabulous prices ■which prevail in Europe have tempted them to replenish their own exchequer by ministering to the wants of Europe. But how the precious fabric is to be got out of the Confederate ports while the blockade remains is not explained; nor how the planters are to be paid when, they export through ''p.'irfcs occupied by the enemy." It may be, however, that the Confederates expect to raise the blockade of one or more ports during the ensuinc: mouths, and.that the resolution is for the purpose of legating the expected traffic. The Confederati Congress some time ago adopted a resolution to make a proposition to the' Federal. Government to treat unon the manned of conducting the war so as to mitigate its horrors. A bill was lately introduced in the Confederate Congress to facilitate obtaining letters of marque, so as to render privateering more efficient. A resolution was likewise passed recalling Messrs. Mason and Slidell; The Oviato lately ran the Blockade at Mobile, and for allowing, her to" .do so Commander Preble has been dismissed the United State* serv cc. General Beauvdgard has fixed' his headquarters at Charleston, in command of the department of South Carolina and Georgia. In his address he states that his duties at an early day may i/ivulve the defence of two of the most important, cities in the Confederate States—Charleston and Savannah—and calls upon the ardent patriotism and the intelligence and unconquerable spirit of officers and men to snpport him. Heavy Federal reinforcements are being sent to Hilton Head and along the shores of Broad River. It is supposed this is preparatory to an attack upon Charleston. General Butler has ordered all persons refusing to take the oath of allegiance to have their names registered as enemies of the Dnitod States. Those taking the oath immediately will be recommended for pardon. STATE OF NEW ORLEANS, The journals publish a private, letter from a female pen, in winch a lively, but probably an exaggerate.i, .picture-is traced of .the present condition of New < rleans. Amid the horrors described in the subjoined extract it will be seen that a touch of the grotesque v not wanting: - " As war absorbs all my thoughts, T shall naturally write of nothing else— in fact, we never speak ot anything eUe. The excitement and expectation we are constantly in are enough to wear out body and mind. For time weeks past we have daily, I nmy say hourly, expejtei New Orleans to be attacked by the Confederates. The "Xankees have thrown down every house in the remote suhurb3, iiicluJing the tov/n of Carrol ton, and thrown open the country to the lake, that the Confederates may have no shelter from their fire, and may be seen many miles off. IVy sleep under arms, are are piepared at all times for an attack. In the meantime, Butler refuses every one a pass to leave the town unless they take the oath of allegiaice, and amuses himself by telling all the women who apply for passe* that while he is fighting the enemy in the suburbs he will deliver the town to the mercy of 20,000 negroes, and adds that he will leave the town a heap of ashes if obliged to evacuate. • He finds that the women are not to be shaken iii their devotion to their country's cause by the threat of rapine and murder, and is thoroughly exasperated with the sex. He says the women were the entire cause of secession, that they tabooed and sent to Coventry every man who would not fight, and that even if they took the cath he would not give them passes. It is true that we recognise no man who has remained at home, and is able to serve in the army You cannot conceive the -horriWe positions we are plac din here. I will endeavor to give you a faint sketch of what we have to«xpect. In the'first place, we are now subject to the caprices ot our servants. Imagine an army where the officers were punished with fine and imprisonment for even enforcing ordinary discipline, such as preventing their soldiers leaving for dtys at a time, or resenting not only imperfci nence but personal violence! This is the case with us; we are invariably told that the testimony of a rebel, and no assertion they make a^-iinsfc their masters is too absurd to obtain credence. la the presence of these facts we are disarmed, nob being permitted the smallest weipons to delend our houses or persons. Foreseeing that many would nob comply with this order, Butler excites the cupidity of the slaves first, by offering a reward for every weapon they may find, and uext'by ofhring liberty (which they have a'ready) if they will denounce their masters. This has proved such an inducement to perfidy, that many have hidden weapons in the house, aud then denounce! their master and mistress. Some of our most respectable citizens have been sentenced to one year's im-risonment with hard labor, dragging a ball and chain, for having re-< tamed, some a sword-cane, others a revolver, or boivie knife. While w - are unarmed, Butler arms all the free colored population, while Phelps drills the negroes in camp to be ready at a moment's warning. Is it not dreadful? They endeavor to excite the revengeful passions of the slaves by continually reminding them that the hour of retaliation is come. You hear the creatures iathe'streets boasting they will "wade knee deep in the white man's blood/ The fear of fire is now addelto ;ll these horrors. Three-days ago all the operators of the fire telegraph were removed, on the ground, that they had not. taken- the oath. The first day the Yankees.had possession two large fires broke out in the heart of the business part of. the-city; the flames had made great havoc before the telegraph gave the alarm,.and the citizens .whoran to extinguish the flames were kept back by military. Since then, fire alarms continue, arid we feel apprehension that they intend gradually to .burn the town. On the 23rd of this month (September) the Confiscation Act comes into force.- The government organ the Delta,, has spread consternation through the community by publishing the construction to be put upon the terms *' aid, abet, or countenence the rebellion." According to their construction, there is not sue creature of the age of reason who can escape the confiscation of his property. Butler says it will particularly reach the women, and that they should be turnei out of their: homes and made to work for their daily bred, thus depriving them of the time or disposition to be turninir up their not very pretty noses at Uniou soldiers. To give you an idea of the alarm and despair among the timid ami Wivermgis more than! aur able to do. We all know. . what th« reasonable eou3truetijn of the law would be, but Butler h:is unlimited power and wiii use it. He is appiauded by Hits poy v ace iv trie jfyjrui. for ,iiis merciless treulaieufe of '* Southern rebyw.'', lie ha* an eye to &u;iiext> Presidency, aud Is elated a.ud flattered by the popular! »y bis course seem iugly gives him, and he will spare ■-nofcbiiig'.i---:': H.ia'- brother, ; Cqloaei • Butler, who is at the head of the Commissariat Depirtment, was formerly a negro trader j he has realised a colossal- fortuneby speculating upoa -"du'r'miseries.; He made us pay 40 dollars a barrel for eflouiy and when the po tof New Orleans wa* opeu to 'commerce hewould uot permit the ttoy^umeut tyw Mats to bring any y«aseJs up the Aiias^ppi, the

prfeSraibar thai Jo-e^eni -aithgitji^ of>wliich:Hwy-:j wereiu^n^r by pasa.^ of the Wiir...: Tii»s,- f- it *Qnie fci me,-fiie^co>tii:n^i7t»l kee ( p the market' iCK%owirhamJ3, lietl>=i^n^ iti psft^ J!ierehip? wi|h iiik bmth^ctii^geuejrai^ :|i!t;iJ}e sitmev time, through, the newspapers, he appeaied to/tKe ba(l" prisons of the poor, Jis3uriu> themt, at the richer closes were the entire cause of We- .learness of provisions and of their m series/ <\mfiscatiou hakfcw ferro,-ti for us. We: bud long roa !e uprcurminils^ :t > 1 sf a i for our country- ; The Wor^tf.iattti-e of it i« that we;-ihainot be |)enuitte,l to g.o iato-t&VUoufe le-' rafy where fiead* abniadr but inu*tstarve in -the: stotsof tliij wrjtehel town. Thee is a;'ww fear haunting us; every hour; .the Mack population ! There is no 1 >nger a doubt that th y "are armed, and we are defenceless Last night ttiey had a Union meeting.of the free blacks; slaves, of course, cotaposed thenrnprity. I hear they discussed the wholesale massacre;of the .white population. It is enough to ' render us maniacs to live as we are now doing. '" v'PfIOCiiMATIOU OF E3tANCIPATIOH. Even in this crisis of the war the most important} part of the intelligence O f the pasfc month refers to a political, not a military movement. President Lincoln has issued a proclamation declaring' that in'all btates which shall not have returned to the Onion on Jan. 1 > 18G3, the slaves shall alter that date be free, fhis proclamation, which k dated Sept. 22, rnni as" follows:— . •■■■-.■■•• ' . ■:,-.:■■. - ■/■ _ "I,: Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of: America, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring Me constitutional relations between the United States and the people th-reof, in which States that relation is, or may be, suspended or disturbed ; that it is my p irpose, upon the . next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all tue. Slave States, so called,' the people whereof may not then ba in rebellion against the United States, aud which States may then have voluntarily adopted, or thereafter may. voluntarily adopt, the immediate or gradual abolishment of slavery within their respective limits; and that the efforts to colonise persons of African descent, with their consent, upon tiie continentor elsewhere, with the previously obtained consent of ihi Governments existing there, will be continued j that on the Ist day of' January, in the'year of our Lord 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State, or any designated part of a State, -the people whereof shall tlien be in rebellion against the Unitel Stat3s, shall be then thenceforward and for ever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and; naval authorities thereof, will recognise and maintain the freedom of such persons, and, will do no act or acts to ie r res3 such persons, or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual free-lorn; that the executive-will on the Ist day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against' the United States: and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Con-" gvess of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections : wherein a majority of th-3 qualified voters of such State shallhave participated shall, in the absence or strong ecu ltervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof have not been in rebellion against the United States. That attention is hereby called to an Act of Congress, entitled " An Act to make an additional Article of War," approved March 13, 1862, and which act is in the word and figure following . - . \" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Eepre- | sentati es of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that hereafter the following shall be°promulgated as an additional article of war for the Government of the army of the United States, and shall be obeyed and observed as such : "' Article.—Ail officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpusa of returning fugitives horn service or labor who may have e3caped from any pei'Sons to whom such service or labor is claimed to be due, and any officer who shall be found guilty by a court-martial of violating this article shall be dismissed fom the service.". " 'Section. 2. -And be it further enacted that this act shall take effect from and after its passage " *• Also to the 9fcli and lO.tii sections of an act entitled i ' An. Act to suppress insurrection, to.puuish treason j and..rebellion, to seize and confiscate property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, • 1882. and which sections are in the words and Ibureo following : -:' , - • "Section 9—And-, be it. further enacted that all slaves of persons who shall hereifter" be en°"ageJ in rebellion against the government of the ° United States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the Jin.s of the army, and all slaves captured from such persous, of de-erled by them, and coming under the control of the government of the United Slates, and all slaves of such persons found on (or being within) any idace occupied by rebel'fbreas, and afterwards occupied by the torces of the Unite-i States, shall be deemed captures of war, ami shall ba for ever free of their servitude, nn-1 not ai?ain he'd as slave?. " Section 10.—And be it further enacted that no slave escaping into any State, territory, or the district of Columbia, from any of the States, shall b* de i erecJ up,«r in aiy way imported cr hindered of Ins liberty, except for crime or for some offduce against the laws, unless the person claiming said fugitive shall first make oath that the person to whom the labor or service of such fugitive is alleged to be du3 is his lawful owner, and has not been in arms against the United States in the present rebellion, nor-in any way given aid and comfort thereto; and uo person engaged in the military or naval service of the United States shall, under any pretenc; whatever, assume to decide on the validity of the claims•■ of any person to the service or labor of any other person, or surrender, up any person to the claimaui, on pain of being dismissed from the service." And I no heie"by enjoin upon and order all persons engaged in the military and naval service of the United States to observe, to obey, aud enforce within their respective sphere of service the act aud sections above re.'ilel. And the executive will in due time recommend that all citizens of the United States who shall have remained loyal there-o throughout the rebellion, sh ill, upon the restoration of the constitutional relations between the Unite 1 States .and their respective States and people (ifthe relation shall have be>m suspended or disturbed), be |wnp. mated for all lo3<es by acts of the United Sta.ea, including the loss of slaves. In witness whereof I have hereunto sst my hand, and cause the seal of the Uuifced States to bu affixed. Abraham Lincoln. %Done at the City of Washington, this 22nd day of September, in the year of our Lo;d 18J2, and ot the independence of the United States, the 87th. By the President, ' William H. Sewaeb, Secretary of State. ' The governors of 16 Union States assembled on the 34th September, at Altona (Pen<ylvanh), anl aljournsd on the 25th to Washington, where they pre- !■ sen ted an address to President Lincoln, expressing their determination to supper', his constutional authority, approving the emancipation proclamation and suggesting the expediency of raisin» a reserve force ot 100,000 men. Tiie Governor of Maryland objected to sign the address approving the emancipation proclamation. The Louisville Journal declares t;iat Kentucky will never acquiesce in President Liucon's proclamation. The New York..Republican State Convention express profound satisfaction at the President's pr jciimation. * - President Lincoln was serenaded on- the nighi of 24r.h September, and ia response made a =hrief speech :— : Fellow-Citiz'ns,—l appear before cyou to do little more than acknowledge this couriesy you pay me, and to thank you for it. I have not been distinctly informed why it is on this occasion you ; appear to do me this honour, though I suppass —- (interruptions) — it is because of the proclamation. (Crie3 of " Good," and applause.) I was about to say I suppose I understand ifc. (Laughter.) (Voices—" That you do, you thoroughly understand it.") What I did "after very full deliberation and under a very heavy arid solemn sense of responsibility. . (Cries of "Good, good,". " Bless you,"- and', applause.) I can only tru^t in God 1 have ni"ade<no*mistaike.' (Cries—" No mistake—ali right -you 'have/made rip mistakes yet. Go ahead, you are right.)'* ieKall imake no attempt on this occasion to sustaia;what»l have done or said by any comment. (Yoiees'—'frTha^'is'^unnecessary— we understand it.") It is; Bo^foKthe cpuritir and the,world to pass judgmentorf it^ahd, may be/take action upon it. '} 1 will say no more 'on the subject. \ In mv poaitioa lam surrounded with difficaltiej. (& voice, " That's; so") Yet they are scarcely-sa-great as the difficulties of those who, uoon the b ttle-field, are endeavoring to purchase with their blood and their lives,; the Jfuture happiness and prosperity ;of this country. Applause,! long and continued!) Let us never forget them. Oh the 14th and 17thi; dayV of the pre-erit? month there : have been battles bravely, ski! fully, and successfully fought. (Applause. ) We d» n>fc yet know the pprticuiam Let us besnre that in'civiag.praise to particulariniindua!*we <16----no. injustice JonthPiU. ' i only ask yim, at tiie cbn^ <^lusio!r »f tha*? fn\v remarks, to siiv • three hear-ty eh-ers t \h nil ~ goixl and bnive o^eew and men who fought: rhe iucces^f cd' Rattles;; V- 7r. ,:\'; •!' :•'.. * %' f % ',:■ ■;; President Lincoln's pr^lamafcioit"will simply drive negroes to their d :structibhj: They^ are cheerful' an<i Jjappy now, but Lincolnplot^ th&r fl^ath i'forltheij? iosurrectioh i^iilielr swiftdestruedoni^^lease^ffbjn; hejffiii:&&fa<sj/9 l iiffi ra^rice.: wliich :driyes: yWmi'toi Aestractipn Is?imafatesl hinx to ex;e^^pii?;iiiilitarf pper|^iphs ? forward to assume a gr^efiamet^^ problem, tiestroysaU ter^ be^we<BA w^^tbi »e#

|--;:ch>rac'iX'r^^^ jx,; Th^ jmjvr'n :wUya?M-0;?>^ >xp~!.*r eu »* diffioultto co^c[uur tha South,; atiii'evi-uts jrvl ;piQV3- the proclamaiion^ to be the:gpceateit mistake of the waiv;?! ■-■-;';■;". vi-i'-H-:^ -':': C>. i->\ ■■ "

:■?. The -eception which President Lincoln's proclim-i-----tioa.-bas met with in the South is su jli as-niio-ht have been anticipated; The Confederate Congress have pase la.resolutiorii declaring the ra^isa-e to be contrary ;^ th^usitsesesf warlnnddeserviiig of tli!» exeera^ioa of mahkiud/ Retalhtion is mors than hiute 1 at. :S«7 : -»ra.l;memberi spr>ke in fevor of hohfi»g a .black flag, and declaring every "pi;iybri in the South«»;n domiuions a soldier, wish full authority to slay all Fedeifils found in.arms against the Confedei-acy. it is worthy of remark th«t this extreme proposal has been referred for future consideration. A report: is "cun-ent at.: Washington th-»t the Southern (ruvemraeht has propo :ed to emancipate and arm 40.000 ne'groe* with' the intention of using them against tiie North. The majority of the committee in tbe Confederate Senate his reported resoi ution * that, after January next, Fesh r d commissioned or non-commis-sioned officers, whe.i captured, shall be kept ibo hard labour until the termination of the war, or tiie repeal >of Presideat Lincoln's proclamation. Federal white officers training or commandinsr negroes on military enterprises against the Confederate States, or mcitiDg slaves to rebellion, or pretending to free them iind'T Lincoln's woclamatior, shall, if captured, suffer death. President Davis i i authorised to adopt such retaliatory measures best calculated to repress the atrocities of the enemy. The report of the iminoiity urged a war of extermination against all invaders. Other resolutions were introduced, offering rewards to negroes for killing any open enemy, and providing that all officers and soldiers circulating counterfeit Confederate money shall suffer death oa conviction by.a military court. The Confederate Congress has passed a new Conscription Act, to include all able-bodied men between the ages of thirty five and forty five. •