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repulse were gathered this morning.— Poor fellows! who could Mama them?— Their own Colonels had (Inserted tliem, only leaving orders for them to reach Arlington Hignts ns soon as they conhl. A few miles farther met Montgomery swiftly pressing to the rescue, and reported the success of Lieut. Brisbane's efforts. And as I rode along, as well as my wearied horse could carry me, past groups of straggling fugitives, l'o Fairfax, whore Colonel tVoodhury was cxpccting, and guarding against, a flank movement of the enemy, and on again to Long Bridge and tiic Potomac. Hut the van of the runaway soldiers had made such time that I found a ho6t of thctn at tin- Jersey entrenchments begging the sentinels to allow them to cross the bridge. To-day we learn of the safe retreat of the main body of the army that they were feebly followed by the reb els as far, as Fairfax, but are now within the Arlington linos, and that McDowcl, a Btunncd and vanquished General, is overlooking the wreck of his columns from his old quarters at the Custis mansion.

OUR LOSSES.

The list of killed and wounded in this wide spread action will not be found proportionate to the numbers engaged on either side, and to the duration of the conflict. The nature of the ground, and the fact that the struggle was confined to attacks upon batteries and ambuscades, made the whole affair a scries of licry skirmishes^ rather than a grand field encounter. Men fought with a kind of American individuality—each for himself —and the musketry firing was of the most irregular character. There were few such heavy volleys as those which made the hills echo last Thursday.

It would not be surprising if our cntin loss in killed and wounded should prove to have been not over a thousand men. The rebels must have suffered twice ns much from the terrific cannonading of our artillery iu the forenoon, and from the desperate charges of the Zouaves, the Sixtyninth and other corps which were especial ly distinguished in the engagement. The Zouaves dhptured two batteries, fought hand to hand with the Carolinians in a furious bowic knife conflict, routed the famous Black Horse Cavalry, and only broke'ranks when victory became hopeless.

THEORY TLIK DEFEAT.

The disastrous result of the action was perhaps inevitable—even though no panic had occurred nt the close—from the three causes against which the noblest soldiery can never successfully oppose their daring. First, the enemy's forces had been largely underatcd, and nearly doubled our «wn in number second, the onus of the attack rested entirely upon us, and the natural and scientific defenses of the reb#ls, made their position almost impregnable third, many of our leaders display ed a lamentable want of military knowl •dge. There was little real generalship rn the field. There was 110 one mind, of the Napoleonic order, nt once centralizing and comprehending the entire movement of the day. There was no one to organize our regiments in strong-moving columns, and hurl them powerfully against the foe. Nor were the generals of division more competent to their work. They exhibited personal braver}', but advantages gained were not secured. Important points were abandoned as soon as carried, ond a reckless, fatiguing pursuit preferred, until Beauregard and Davis, who commanded in person, led us on to positions thoroughly available for the attack of their final re-cnforcements. As for us, no one had thought of providing that reserve absolutely necessary to the scaling and complction of a battle's successes. It is the fast conflict of the day that decides the victory and defeat. We had 110 cavalry to rout our retreating foe. Our artillery was not rendered efficient iu the afternoon.—

General Tyler neglected to guard the rear, and to check the pushing forward of his trains. As for the colonels, many of those who were not wounded or killed in the engagement exhibited not merely inefficiency, but the pusillanimity which I have beforo recorded. To conclude: before we can force our way through a country as well adapted for stragetie defence as the fastnesses of the Picdniontese, the defiles of Switzerland, or the almost unconquerable wilds in which Sehamyl so long held tho llussians at bay—before we can possess and advance beyond the scientific intrenclnncnts with which the skill of dis-

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loyal officers has made those Virginia forests so fearfully and mysteriously dcathful •0 our patriotic soldiery, we must discover tho executive leader whoso genius shall oppose new modes of subduing a novel and thus far successful method of warfare, and whose alert actiou shall carry his devices into resistless effect.

THE COWARDLY FIENIUSHNESS OF TIIK REBELS.—The Boston I'ost speaking of the Bull's Run battle says

But where shall we find words, in this enlightened age to reprobate the infamy of their conduct, after their success, to our noble soldiers Are soldiers turned butchers Is this boasted chivalry a mockery Who can read without a thrill of horror the loathsome reports of their brutality. ThL wounded are fired into while mangled and lying on the field— the bleeding soldiers nrc tied to trees and baroneted—the weapons of the fallen soldier ia taken from him and plunged into "him, dead and dying. A union soldier takes up tho wounded rebel, ministers to him a cup of cold water, nnd the dastard dispatches bis benefactor in the act! Such acts of inhumanity make every man a soldier. Americans! is there one drop of blood in your veins you will not spill iu 'such a cause Is there one dollar of treasure you do not hold in trust for the good work

AN ESTIMATE OF OUR Loss AT MAKASSAS.—The New York Herald publishes the following as tho losses of our army at Manassas, basing its statements on "high military authority:" Killed Wounded Wagons with provisions lost.... Cannon spiked and lost Small arms dropped (about)....

S80 500 25 17 000

Of the wounded, fully one

hundred

were very little injured though 6truck, and of tho 6mall arms dropped on the route, one half were picked up by the ordnance wagons next day.

9&~ Mr. Russell of the London Times (•uecccdcd in forwarding a report of the Baltic at Bull's Run by the last Boston steamer.

CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND Saturday, August 3, 1861.

I'rinlrtl nntl

I'lbliaM rvrrj

Til It STABS AI\p STIUPE*.

The Democratic pole raised last fall in front of the Court House, now sports at its top a beautiful American flag, purchased by our citizens at a cost of some thirty dollars. It is jponc of your calico burlesque with the thirteen stars upon the banner of the Great Republic, but genuine bunting, with the thirty-four stars, the flag that is bound to wave in triumph over the secession rag of the traitor Davjs.

omi nitAVK The Tenth and Klcvcnth regiments have returned to Indianapolis, where they will ho discharged in a few days. A number of the boys comprising the companies raised in this county came over on. a visit on last Tuesday and Wednesday, not waiting for their discharge from the service.— They all looked well and hearty and many of them avow their determination to enlist for three years. They will return back to Indianapolis for their discharge to-day, and ou some day next week, of which due notification will be given, they will all come home together, on which occasion our citizens design giving them a handsome reception.

PRRTINKNT QUEMTIONN TO WECEM-

HIONIMTM.

The New York Daily JVctcs.n hot seces sion paper is reasoning that war will not restore the Union, and that the more killed the greater on both sides will be the re pugnancc tore-Union. "This may be so.' remarks the Express of that city, in re ply, "but the News fails to point out what can be done. Shall we clear out from Fortress Monroe, and see go up the seces sion flag 1 Shall we abandon Washington to a frontier foreign country, on whose bights artillery planted would bombard down the Capital'! Is Mount Vernon no more to be ours Arc Monticello. Montpcllcr all to be abandoned Is New Or leans to be to us as Havre or Naples, or Gravescnd on the Thames Are the millions of New York, Pennsylvania, the great West, and the greater Northwest, to be shut off from following their own waters through the mouths of the Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico Is Key West to be given up Is the Tortugas to be abandoned Are we to be at the mercy of foreigners en route to California Are we, by sea, to go through a foreign Gulf of Mexico, or overland, through foreign country Are we to show passports as we cross the Susquehannah, or as we go down the Mississippi Is every State—if it will—to peep into our merchandise and levy taxes thereon

CIJ.nBKKI.AKU'N CAVALRY COMPANY.

A few more men are needed to fill up this company. Here is a glorious chance for those who wish to go to battle on horse back. Every member will have a chance to make a Murat of himself and exccl the Mamalukcs of Egypt.

Col. Wallace's regiment has been

recruited for three years and will leave for Washington next week. Lew is spoiling for a fight.

We had the pleasure a few days

since of shaking hands with Mr. II. II. Dunlap, one of the party of scouts belonging to the Eleventh regiment, and who so distinguished themselves in routing and killing some thirty-three of the rebels.

tST We publish in another column the resolutions of a Democratic meeting held in Grecncastlc, on tho 27th ultimo. The resolutions are right to the point and placc the Democratic party right on the record.

Our streets are becoming notorious

for dirt and filth. Will the Marshal turn his attention to this matter

cor.

Kalardny Mom-

A E S O W E N IV. LO, tirrrm Utrrcl.

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I.AUCF.K THAN ANY I'AI'EK I'lJHMSHE!) IX f'rnwfontarillc A'lvcrtiTr*. c.ill "i nnI examine our List of '.rj^Cn^CIIIBKKWcO

TIIKTIMKTKENTII VOMHE.

This week we commcnce the publication of the thirteenth volume of the Review.— As in times past, we shall continue to advocate the cause of the Democratic party, believing that the principles of that party arc the best suited for our form of government, and under the fostering care of which the country has flourished in prosperity and happiness. The unfortunate condition info which the country is now plunged, is the result of a departure of the people from the teachings of that conservative party. We shall advocate the speediest means of bringing the present unfortunate war to a conclusion, honorable to both sections of the Union. It is the duty of every good citizen £b yield obedience to the laws of his country, and to assist iu putting down the rebellion and at the same time to watch with a vigilant eye that no usurpation of constitutional laws is attcTnpted by government officials.— The party in power is not of our Choosing, but as long as it confines itself "to the simple execution of thft Jjws, we consider ourselves bound \o respect and obey its authority expressed through flic federal constitution. With these suggestions our democratic friends* may know the coursc we shall pursue in the future.

2WAMSOW AT

HOME.

Col. Manson, of the famous Tenth Indiana Regiment, returned home on Thursday evening last. His arrival becoming known, a large number of our citizens repaired with the band to bis residence in the west part of town, where a serenade was given the hero of Rich Mountain.— The gallant Colonel responded to this manifestation of his friends and admirers with a highly interesting and graphic account of the battle, and paid a high tribute to the soldierly conduct of the men composing the Tenth regiment. He stated that at present it was not fully determined as to what coursc the regiment would pursue after its discharge on next Monday, but that he thought it would be re-organized and go in for three years.— At the conclusion of the Colonels speech, in which he thanked our citizens for the honor shown him, the crowd quietly dispersed, after giving three rousing cheers for the brave Colonel, the gallant Tenth, and Company of the regiment, which was composed entirely of our own people.

WEI.CO.HE TO THE BRAVE.

We suggest that on the return of our brave boys who have so nobly gone forth to assist in the great work of crushing this unholy rebellion, that a salute of thirty four guns be fired and that the bells of our churches be rung on the occasion.— Let us show our appreciation and devotion of the heroic conduct of these patriots

B®~ The weather is intensely hot with a brazen sky and no indication of rain.

IVEW FI.OUKIIVC

Craig & Brother arc now running their new flouring mill, two and a half miles west of town, 011 Sugar Creek, where they are manufacturing a very superior quality of flour. The attention of our farmers is called to this fact. They arc prepared at all times to exchange flour for wheat or grind for toll.

CST* The Accommodation train on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago R. has been taken off. Only one train a day is now run over tho road.

If you want a splendid article of

Tea, go to Blair & Cumberland's, res*

METTLED ONE THIltO.

The great battle at Bull's Run settles one question mathematically and beyond por-adventure. It shows that the Sout. is entirely at, the mercy of the North. It explodes the oft-repeated boast that one Southerner is a match for five Northern men. Our troops have driven an enemy outnumbering tliem two to one, from his own batteries, carefully and completely fortified. There is no question about that. That our forty-five thousand soldiers wearied by a day's hard fighting, retreated before ninety thousand of the enemy, twenty thousand of whom were fresh and imtircd, does not invalidate this conclusion. That a panic caused the precipitate flight of our over fatigued soldiers, does not affect the case. The logical fact still remains, that if our troops can beat those of the South against such heavy odds, we can beat them man to man. We have only to send the men, and our success is inevitable. There is the consolation and remedy for this defeat.—N. Y. Herald.

THE ARMY HEATEIV TO SAVE THE RE1»C1IIICAN PARTY.

The Washington correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce, after stating the fact that the late miscarriage, defeat and disgrace of our army at Ma nassas was caused by General Scott being compelled to move before he was ready by the incessant clamor and importunity of members of Congress, and the threats and abuse of a number of Republican papers, iidds "Members of Congress privately came sniveling to the President, and declared thai the parti/ was ruined, and that it could not be kept up unless he would order a movement against the enemy. The President yielded to this appeal, as he had done on a remarkable occasion before, when he gave an order which inaugurated the war. General Scott yielded to the order of the President, though against his own inclination and judginont. The movement was an entire abandonment of General Scott's plan of the campaign,"

So our brave men were slaughtered, the country humiliated, becausc the step that led to that result was regarded as necessary by the Republicans to save the party from ruin. The country was to take the frightful risk, in order to benefit a mischievous party organization, The Presint and Cabinet have shown all through a much greater regard for party than they have for country. The Journal of Commerce pertinently says "The question now is, whether the Executive is to be ruled hereafter, as heretofore, by infatuated and interested partisans, and whether the war is to be put under their conduct. If so, no capitalist, at home or abroad, will contribute to the war funds: nor can an army be raised and kept in the field for six months, much less for two years, which is the shortest time in which the rebellion can be subdued. Secretary Chase, it is known, has taken a firm stand against this political interference with the conduct of the war but members of Congress will be able to coun teract his influcncc."

THE COMET.—It has been discovered that a few days since (the exact date wc have forgotten) the earth came within two hundred and thirty-one millions six hundred and ninety-four and a quarter miles of passing right through the center of the comet. Oh, what an escape the people of that cclcstial fillibuster had!

A SCYTHE REGIMENT.—A regiment of Germans is forming in New York City, to be armed with scythes. Similar regiments were engaged in the Polish Revolution.

Aft ELOqUEIfT APPEAI. TO KEV lachf to qnMI kr the ITataa.

The moat desperate efforts are being made by the active and leading secessionists of Kentucky to induce that State to take the mad and fatal plnnge into the dark and yawning gulf of disunion. We have every confidence, however, in the good sense and patriotism of the great majority of the people, which they have, in their past history and in all their recent elections, so signally manifested. We were about to make an appeal to them to arouse and defeat any machinations of this character, but we find it so well and eloquently done by the Hon. Joseph Holt, in a late speech at Louisville, that we adopt his peroration, and commend it to the consideration of every Kcntuckian. Mr. Holt said "I will only add, if Kentucky whishes the waters of her beautiful Ohio to be dyed in blood if she wishes her harvest fields, now waving in their abundance, to be trampled under the feet of hostile soldiery as a flower garden is trampled beneath the thrashings of the tempest if she wishes the homes where lior loved ones are now gathered in pcacc, invaded by the proscriptive fury of a military despotism, sparing neither life nor property if she wishes the streets of her towns and cities grown with grass and the steamboats of her rivers to lie rotting at her wharves, then let her join the Southern Confederacy. But if she would have the bright waters of that river flow on in their gladness if she would have her harvests peacefully gathered to her garners if she would have the lullabies of her cradlcs and the songs of her homes uninvaded by the cries and terrors of battle if she would have the streets of her towns and cities again filled with the hum and throng of busy trade, and her rivers and their shores once more vocal with the steamer's whistle— that anthem of a free, a prosperous commerce—then let her stand fast by the Stars and Stripes, and do her duty and her whole duty as a member of the Union. Let her brave people say to the President of the United States, 'You arc our Chief Magistrate the Government you have iu charge and arc striving to save from dishonor and dismemberment is our Government your cause is indeed our cause your battles are our battles make room for us th irefore in the ranks of your armies, that your triumph may be our triumph also. "Even as with the father of us all I would plead for salvation, so my countrymen, as upon my very knees, would 1 plead with you for the lite, aye tor the lift?, of our great, and benefieicnt institutions. But if the traitor's knife now at the throat of the Republic is to do its work, and this Government is fated to add yet another to that: long line of sepulchcrs which whiten the highway of the past, then my heartfelt prayer to God is that it may be written in history, that the blood of i's life was not found upon the skirts of Kentuck v."

THE UETUICVIIVO V01.I.V5'i:i:lt.*. Tho Eighih New York—three months'— regiment had a most enthusiastic reception in that city ou Friday. On the same day the gallant Sixty-ninth—the Irish regiment that stripped before going fairly at work at Manassas—passed through Philadelphia on its way East. The Press says:

Prominent among the returning veterans was Thomas Francis Meagher, (pronounced May-her) the Irish orator and poet.

He stood the brunt of the fight as calmly as if the hero of a mimic battle. All parties speak of him as a true soldier, and being pointed out, yesterday, a great crowd pursued him from place to place. He was reported dead, but escaped with a slight wound upon his upper lip, a bullet having grazed his nose, and cut off part of his nioustaehc.

Another noted soldier of this regiment was the hero of the Italian campaign, where he served in the famous "Pope's Legion," but on the receipt of the war intelligence from America, worked his passage over the seas and joined the Sixtyninth just as it was leaving New York city for Washington. He escaped unharmed, and was lustily cheered yesterday, bis tall agreed to. form making him an objcct of general at- I he bill passed, tention.

This regiment is composed chiefly of Irishmen, and was known among the Southerners as the "Bloody Sixty-ninth, sharing the reputation of the campaign with the Fire Zouaves. In the fight at Bull's Run it was exposed to a galling fire of musketry and cannon, and out of the whole number of men about one tweuticth arc missing.

To hear their adventures told, one is reminded of the tales of Lever for many of them are simple "soldiers of fortune," like Maurice Tiernay. Their language is frequently of the richest Milesian, touchin and earnest, with now and then quaint bit of pathos or sentiment obtruding, so that the listener is ever between a grin and a tear, and always infatuated.

Did you sec anythin' of Jimmy Dalbaine said a bystander, in our hearing, yesterday.

I did sir," responded a soldier, having a great scratch under his eye "he fought beside me durin' the action, sir, and saw him fall dead at. my fate." "He was a good feller—Jimmy was." "You may say that, sir. A braver man never walked iuto action, and God bo wi' him

Then there is a finger put to the eye, and the features are drawn up woefully. to relax on the instant, at a friendly invitation to "come over ami take suthin' in a glass."

Wc asked one of the men to state his opinion of Southern courage. "Ay that, sur," said he, "wc could say nothin' in the world, for iu the whole action not above a hundred did wc sec. They wos a dodnn' in and out av the timber, aud

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there wcr no come out in cm.

8©" It is very evident that the men who have been driving the President and his Cabinet, from the day of inauguration, into evil measures, have been g-ven to understand that they must stand back. The disaster at Manassas has broken their power. Greeley is on his knees, asking pardon of the country for the sins he has committed. We understand the Blairs will have to take back seats. The President intends hereafter to rely implicitly upon General Scott. The Manassas disaster has done that much good. We shall not look for better things from Washington.

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Official dispatchcs just received from Gen. Cox, commandcr of the Federal forces on the Kanawha river, states that the Kanawha Valley is now froe of rebel troops.

Cox's rapid pursuit of Wise's forces resulted in the capture of 1,000 stand of arms and a large amount of gunpowder.

There was no chance for a battle as the rebels retreat faster than pursuit can be made.

Their force is stated to be 5,000 or 6,000. The enemy burned all the bridges in their retreat.

Gen. Cox adds that he now fully occupies the valley and that the people arc returning to their homes, from which they have been driven by the rebels.

Great rcjoicing has been made on the Kanawha river at the retreat of Wise's forces.

It is rumored that Gen. Wool is to be immediately called into active service. He will assume command of Ft. Monroe in place of Butler, and that the latter will be ordered to co-operate with Gen. McClellan.

It is also reported that Gen McCall, of Pa., will go to Harper's Ferry. All is quiet in the Federal camps on the Potomac.

The heavy rains here have raised the stream so that it is impossible to ford it. Sixteen officers of the Garabaldi Guard, dissatisfied with their experience and incompetent to discharge the duties, have resigned and returned to New York.

FORTRESS MONROE, Aug. 1.

A special dispatch to the N. Y. Post from a resident of Washington, now in Richmond, says that recruits for the rebel army are smuggled down the Maryland shore of the Potomac from here, and then taken across the river by vessels in the employ of the enemy.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.

Capt. Rowan of the Pawnee has received a letter from Alexandria, stating that the Confederates had taken all the upper works off the steamer Page and put six guns aboard of her.

All the flat boats on the Rappahannock have been brought over to the Potomac. There is :id to be a great many at Aquia Creek.

Tho Pawnee has been ordered to Aquia Creek in consequence. The Government has arranged with four manufactories, to have sixty 'rifled cannon turned out per week, one firm contracting for three hundred.

SANDV HOOK, Va.. Au»». 1.

No important movements have yet transpired. 1 WASHINGTON, 81.

HOUSE—Tho Senate bill authorizing the appointment, of aid-dc-camps, in adition to those allowed by law, by the Prcsi-

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A colloquy ensued between Blair aud Richardson, in reference to a coversation between Gen. Scott, and the President, as reported by Richardson, as to the disaster at Bull's liuu.

Adjourned. SENATE—The bill to punish fraud on the part of officers making contracts for the government, which was returned from the House with amendments, was taken up.

Wilson moved a reconsideration after discussion. Wilson withdrew his motion and the bill passed.

Wilson made a report from the committee of conference, on tho bill for the better organization of the army.

After some discussion the report was

of

The bill for the suppression rection was taken up. Mr. Fosscnden made a report from the committee of conference on the loan bill.

The report was agreed to and the bill stands passed. The consideration of the insurrection bill was resumed.

CLEVELAND, Aug. 1.

Lieut. Burgiss of the 7th regiment, correspondent of the Plaindcaler, writing from Bulltown, Ya., under date of the 28th ult, says Col. Tyler reached Bulltown that day, and found the rebels had fled.— Col. Tyler advanced to Flatwoods, the rebels still fleeing.

Hearing there that Gen. Cox had driven Wiie from Charlestown, Col. Tyler considered liiiu completely surrounded.

LOUISVILLE, Aug. 1.

A dispatch from Nashville to the Courier, saj's McCuIIough defeated Sigel in southern Missouri, killing 9,000 and loosing (500.

The report is not believed at the Courier office. The Richmond Enquirer of the 20th ult., says a Penu. regi uont has been captured by the confederates.

V. K. Stephenson, in a card in the Nashville Union, this morning, says Judge Catrou will not undertake to hold a federal court in Nashville again, uo matter what may occur.

CAIRO, Aug. 1.

Scouts just in report Jeff. Thomson with 5,000 rebels encamped 30 miles soath of Birds Point.

There are 3,000 between Charlestown and New Madrid and 7,000 at the latter placc.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.

Prince Napoleon will be the guest of the French Minister while here. Mrs. Gen. Gaines returned here from New Orleans a strong Union woman, she considers the Southern Confederacy a failure, and such was the general feeling there.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.

Mr. Grimes gave notice that he should introduce a bill declaring unconstitutional the act making retrocession of a part of the District of Columbia.

Mr. Saulsbury moved to tako up tho resolution of enquiry in reference to the

sending of arms to tho State of Delaware, be said that Delaware was as loyal as any State in tho Union, but that persons attempted to make it appear that they were disloyal there too. I

Passed.

WASHINGTON, August 1.

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Mr. Wilson introduced a bill making fortifications. The bill provides for $100,000.

Passed.

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The bill to promoto the effioiency of the volunteer forces of the United States was taken np and passed.

Adjourned. :*_y' 7 CAIRO, Aug. l&f Scouts just in from tho south report the rebels at New Madrid well drilled and armed.

They have five batteries of 10-pound field pieces, which are officered by foreigners.

They have two regiments of cavalry, well equipped. Gen. Pillow has promised Gov. Jackson to place twenty thousand men in Missouri at oncc.

He has issued a proclamation, full of bombast, to ths pcoplo of Missouri, declaring bis intention to drive the invaders from the State, and enable her people to regain their rights, so ruthlessly taken away by forces who march under banners inscribed with "beauty and booty" as the reward of victory.

MEETING OF THE DEMOCRACY OP PUTNAIH COUNTY. At a mass meeting of the Demooracy of Putnam county, held on Saturday, July 27, 1861, at Grecncastlc, Indiana, James D. Scott, Esq., chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, reported the following, which were unanimously adopted: "We, the Democracy of Putnam county, in mass meeting assembled, publish the following as an expression of tho sense of the meeting: "Resolved, That wc are still, as heretofore, unconditionally in favor of the Federal Constitution, the Union of all the States both North and South, upon tho principles inculcated and agreed to by our forefathers of the Revolution, tho maintenance of the Constitution in its purity, the enforcement of the laws by the legally authorized agents, and the defense of our common flag by the strong arm of the military against all opposcrs of the Constitution. "Resolved, That we sincerely and honestly believe that the present difficulties of our National Union might have been honorably settled, and to the en tiro satisfaction of every section of the country, at the last session of Congress, by the adoption of the Crittenden, Border State, or some other compromise of a similar character, and it is our full conviction that the people of I lie Northwest were, by immense majorities, in favor of some such plan of settlement, and adjustment, because it would secure to them that Union they EO much love, and would leave them that prosperity with which honest industry has heretofore rewarded them and wc condemn the conduct of his Excellency, Governor Oliver P. Morton, and all others, who directly or indirectly plunged us into

dent, on the recommendation of Lieut, 111is unnatural war with our brethren, unGeneral Scott and of the Major General, til every peaceable means was fairly and was passed. I honestly tried, aud failed: believing that

Ihe bill was passed appropriating SI,- lour fathers intended, and that civilization 000,000 for the purchase of ordnance forj:m,l Christianity alike require, that war

Uiair, of Missouri, at some length, defended himself from the charge that he had counselled the late advance, and was therefore one of those who were responsible for the late disaster at. Bull's Run.

use of the navy, ice. should be the last, and not the first resort of nations, and we declare that, as heretofore, we are still in favor of compromising upon terms alike honorable to all the people and all the States.

Resolved, That while we arc in favor of defending the flag of our country, and maintaining the supremacy of our government, by the aid of tho military, wc do believe that ultra ianatieisiu North as well South, has brought about our national troubles, and we are desirous to maintain our national Union, without the loss of a single star from the glorious national galaxy. Wc will therefore vote for men and money to suppress rebellion, be it North or South, so long as the military shall be needed for that purpose, but when perverted so as to interfere with the constitutional rights of any of the people of the several States, wc will then vote against men and money and the prosecution of the war.

Resolved, That we condemn the

of

the President

Conduct

of

the United States, in

usurping the power of Congress "to raise and support armies," and "to provide and maintain a navy."

Resolved, That as there is an honest difference of opinion among the American people in regard to the subject of slavery, as enunciated in the Constitution therefore, wc are in favor of an amendment to the Constitution that will expressly state the right of the people in regard to the subject, and put to an eternal slecj) the nigger question, which has agitated our country for the last twenty years.

Resolved, That the right to a free interchange of thought and opinion, and the power to speak, write, and print freely, on any subject whatever, arc constitutional rights which can only be preserved by their free use, and eternal vigilance in their defense, and arc formidable to tyrants only.

Resolved, That the Democratic State Central Committee be requested to call a State Convention of the Democratic party, at an early day, to take into consideration the condition of the country, and what action the Democracy of Indiaua should take thereon.

Resolved, That the community, cn masse, be requested to turn out to welcome our brave soldiers to their homes and friends on their return to this place.

ARCH. JOHNSTON, Pres't.

II. W. DANIELS, Secretary.

BST" The Boston Courier, in speaking of the pressure that was brought to bear upon tho President by the bad men who have been having their own way at Washington since the 4th of March, says of it: "It became, as we have seen, irresistible by those who were subjected to it.— Tho President yielded, and, at length, even General Scott. It was impertinent, importunate and obstinately intrusive.— There is only one thing to be said about it—if this license of manners and proceedingu is not brought to an end, the wheels of Government would be completely clogged. It is anarchy fearfully begun. If it continues, the Government cannot be carricd on. The most rigorous reformation is needed at Washington in this particular. The barbarous horde must be kept at a distance. Tho President must stiffen himself up and meet his responsibilities for himself, or we are indeed lost

Correspondenc* of th6 New York Jovntl of Commerce, THE liATI HA+TJt-JJ-FITTIJIIK

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Neither tho oity, nor Congress, nor tho Administration, nor tho army, hare recovered yet from the ill effects of the disaster of the battlo of Manassas. There is less, however, of apparent paralyisis than at first. The defeat was not really to ib* astrous as was apprehended. We lost many gallant officers and men, but that loss the patriotism of the country could have borne. Tho loss on our part was of ihe prestige of the Federal power. Tho mail packet for Liverpool that left your port yesterday, will carry out exaggerated reports of the disaster, such as appear in one or two of the New York papers, and tho demand, by one of thom, for a chango in tho Cabinet. The Federal cause will thus bo temporarily, perhaps permanently, prejudiced abroad.

It begins to bo seen, that but for the" malconductof some officers and individuals on the field, there would have been no retreat, or, at least, no panic and that tbe Federal army might, at least, havo kept their ground at Centrovillo. But for that panio it might havo conceded that tho affair was a drawn battle. But in the Senate Mr. Wilson declares it to havo been a total route. In that way it will appear to the world, whatever explanations may be made.

The disaster which the Federal causes has sustained can bo retrieved but only in one way. The battlo of Manassas must be fought over again, and the preliminary strategy must be left under tho untrammclcd management of Gen. McCIcllan. That young and promising General will not attack Gibraltcr with a pocket pistol. It must be observed that our grand army of invasion never penetrated to tho chief works of the Confederates at Manassas. Wo were defeated by the advanced works and advanood columns at Bull Run. Tho next time, we have only to poss the batteries on the outposts, but to attack tho hornet's nest itself.

Congress and the Administration and tho State authorities aro all oarncst and zclous in preparing for another attack on Manassas. Somo say it is to come off in a fortnight. Tho Confederates oxpcct it, and have been busy in preparation.

Gen. McCIcllan will inspire fresh confidence in the troops. Ho can have any amount of material. Ho will, no doubt, advance with an immense siege train, and assail the enemy's batteries in succession, GO as to give the infantry a fair ohanco to enter and take them. Ho ought to havo two hundred thousand men, iu order to invest Manassas on cither wing, while with siege cannon he makes regular and gradual approaches in front.

Those who ruled Gen. Scott ou the late occasion, thinking themselves better, though younger soldiers than he, undertook by a coup dc mdin, to tako fifty batteries, and to do it with twenty-six thousand men, in opposition to sixty thousand jn.

After all the preparations of the Federal Government for this war, after nil tho contributions of money by the loyal-States, after uli the manifestation of public zeal in support of the Union, it must he confessed that the Confederate army at. Manassas was superior to our army in numbers, in material and in organization. What is most remarkable about this is, that they raise and support such armies, without any money or credit—according to our news-./ papers. 'So much the bettor for tliem, aud so much the worse for us.

"There was no rejoicing in Rich­

mond ou Monday." "A general gloom prevailed at Savannah." "Carolina is in mourning." Such aro the words that come to us over the wires from the South, and wc have no doubt they are true. Tho army of the revolutionists ivon a great victory, hut in view of the long list of distinguished and undistinguished dead, even the victors have little heart to rcjoico. We think it more than probable that the killed and wounded on the rebels is greater than on the Union side, but we, too, though wc have lost none of our Generals, arc: called to mourn the death of many a bravo defender of the Union. Many a household in Minnesota, iu Michigan, in New York, and in New Kngiand is clothed in mourning for the lost. At the North and at the South hundreds will be clothed in the habiliments of woe for fathers, brothers,' husbands, sons, from whom they parted with high hopes, and bid aduc with fond words, but a few weeks ago. And yet, notwithstanding all this woo ami suffering there are men so heartless—so lost to every impulse of humanity—as to dcnounce as criminals those who w^uld, by honorable means, put a stop to this strife —New Albany Ledger.

AN INCIDENT.—The following touching incident is given in a letter from a young officer in the 2d Rhode Island regiment: "After the battle was fought, I went into a grove where the Secessionists had been concealed. I found the ground covered with the dead and dying. The sightwas one that I pray I may never see again. One poor fellow with his leg blown off called ine to him and asked me to shake hands with him. He then asked ine if I. had any ill feelings toward him. I replied, "No but I am sorry that brothers should be obliged to slaughter cach other in this manner." The poor fellow burst into tears and said he camc from Georgia, and that they would havo shot him in his own house if he had not come. I saw many heart rending scenes, too numerous to mention."

THE BATTLE OF CARTHAGE.—The official list of the killed and wounded of tho Federal troops, under command of Col Sicgel, iu the Carthage battlo and during the retreat and all of the fight, sums up 12 killed, 32 wounded and three missing.

8@"Tho State of New York has furnished 50,000 troops for the war, all of them being now in tho field and a further call is made on the Governor for 25,000which will not lack of an immediate res. ponse.

BSSF Troops aro pouring in at Bird's Point from Illinois and Missouri. Tho Dcsmoines left St. Louis on Sunday with a large load of Zouaves.

fgy Upward of two hundred thousand fresh troops havo boon tendered to tho Government sincc tho battle at Manassas.

tfar The carriage that Senator Wilson rode in at Bull's Ran had tho poorest load that was trundled from the field