Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 21, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1863 — Page 2

WEEKLY SENTINEL

MONDAY, - - OCT. 26. Arnif Chanfti. - - Rosicaaxs has been superceded bv Gkaxt. The Utter is now Cotnrnander-in-Chief of the Southwestern army, and his lines of defense, and may say of offense, extend from Cincinnati to New Orlean. The most important command of tbewar has devolved upon Gen. Grast, and bis success in the past is the best guarantee '.hat the new trust confided to him will be wisely -iministered. We understand that Gen. G&axt's .eadquarters will be at Nashville, but he will Htical fanaticism is not at a premium with fanat ics when uususlained by fighting qualities, and the displacement of a General who lud achieved so much reputation as Roszcaass for superior military ability, U the best evidence that the ex igencie of the couutry demand the services of soldiers, for it has already politicians enough. Tht wound that Gen. Roseceans receives is from the bouse of his friends an enemy could Dot have devised a more stinging rebuke. , The Teachings and. Purpose mt f be Hadical Itepnbllcant. The. New York Commercial, a Republican print, says: The paper of Senator 8umner on "Our Domestic Relations," which has attracted so ranch attention, and been so strongly denounced by Postmaster General Blair, has been reprinted from the plates of the October Atlantic Monthly, and widely circulated by the Massachusetts Re publican State Central Committee. Thus the doctrine of Charles Scnxra, proposing to wipe out all vestige of State existence at the South and territorialize that half of the Union, overthrowing our whole system of gov urment, is formally adopted and used as a party lever by the Republicans of Massachusetts. This i i the doctrine of which a high Cabinet officer said: "Simultaneously three leading organs; the Chronicle at Washington, boasting a sort of official sanction; the Missouri Democrat, the ultra abulisher of Fremont graft, at St. Louis; and the Atlantic Monthly, which lends to the parent stock at Boston, all it can boast of literary strength and eloquence, hare struck the keynote of revolution, the sheer alntlition of Slate constitution? in the region suffering under the rod of rebellion." Not only is Scxsut's theory endorsed in Massachusetts, but it is claimed to have been endorsed and adopted by the Republican triumph in Pennsylvania. The Washington Chronicle, to which Postmaster General Blair refers, is owned und Ii ted by the Clerk of the United States Senate, Mr. Jons W. Forxey, nnd that gentleman in his congratulatory speech to the Philadelphians, the k-bt after the election in Pennsylvania, gave this direct slap to the members of the Cabinet: You have declared that whether in the Administration of the Federal Government or out of it, do man that belongs to the Union party slill dare to set himself up against the Federal Government, or agaiust the policy of that party. Whether that man be a ward politician or a Cabiuet officer. This menace comes direct from the most corrupt and villainous tool in the employ of the administration. lie speaks by the card as to the purposes of his masters not to tolerate any difference of opinion as to their "policy." He ar.d his associates write and speak and labor to carry elections under the false pretense of Union, when, as Postmaster General Blair tells us, they strike, the key-note of revolution and Di union: and having thus carried elections ostensibly for Union they now boldly proclaim the result as a triumph for Disunion for the abolition of St ite constitutions" wiping out of State limits, and even threaten Cabinet officers who dare to staud up against Northern Abolition as well as Southern Secession attempts to dismember our political fabric. The radical Republicans claim to be the exclusive friends and supporter of the government the only friends of the Union, all others being -cop-. perheads" and "traitors." There is "no party" in the thing at all, no selfishness, no nothing but -unconditional support to the administration and this Union." But let them triumph at the polls and they will tell us: you have declared in favor of the draft; you hare declared in favor of the War Office management; you have declared in favor of the entire policy of the administration; jo have declared that no man who belongs to the Republican party, ''whether that man be a ward politician or a Cabinet officer," shall dare to set himself up against the policy of that party, as the Chronicle at Washington, Democrat at St. Louis, and Atlantic Month! at Boston define it. A Three Thousand million Debt. Mr. Dawes, Republican Member of Congress from Massachusetts, estimated the average cost of the war at $3,000.000 per d .y. One thousand days have nearly elapsed since the war commenced, and it cannot be doubted that the whole expense thus far is fully equal to 3.000,000,000. Albany (N.T.) Argus. The Rochester Union in commenting.upon the above, states that the New York Times, a Republican orgau, sets down the national debt at the present time as no mure than twelve or thirteen hundred millions. But the discrepeocy between these two Republican authorities may be ery readily accounted for in this manner: Mr. Dawu' estimate included the whole cost of the war; while the Times dispatch refers only to that portion of the cost of the war which haa been audited and for which the Government has given iu obligation that which appears on the books of the Department. Now, anybody possessing a grain of intelligence knows that that portion of the public debt embraces but a comparatively small proportion of the liabilities which have been incurred by the Government in the prosecution of this war. And all thee liabilities will sooner or later assume the form of a Public Debt. Under the most pains taking administration of the public fiu inces, , it will take year to settle up and give notes for the ten thousand varieties of valid claims upon the Fed eral Treasury. The process of auditing or settling and putting into the permauenl form of goveru ment stock, these various forms of public debt, is an exceedingly slow one. Hence we legitimate the conclusion announced in the outset, that the twelve hundred millions referred toby the Treasury dispatch to the Times is but a comparatively small portion of the rggregate of the public debt for which the Government, or rather the people, are liable to day. If we subtract half a million a day from Mr. Dawm carefully prepared estimate as the actual cost of the war, the liabilities of the Government . (which constitutes the real pert of the Govern ment) to day are about two thousand five. hundred millions of dollars. And we believe that distinguished Republican member of Congress is not more out of the way than that. The aggregate wealth of the country prior to the war, was estimated at fifteen thousand million that of the Northern Slates at about ten or eleven thousand millions. Indiana is about one twentieth, of the old Union in population and wealth. If the war wsa terminated to daj in a rejtoratfc.i of the Governaaea as it was, Indiana's portion of the public debt (throwing off fire hundred millions from Mr. Da wis' estimate) would be about one hundred mm J twemtfji millio me' of 'dollar. But If this debt wis to be paid by the North alone, the proportion which would fall to the State of Indiua would amount to about fie hundred mnd twtlee million, the interest upon which, at b per cent per son um, would be more than the entire present public debt of the State.

Again; deducting five hundred Bullions from

the estimate of the Massachusetts member, the public debt is to day equal to one sixth of the whole property of the thirty-four States; or equal to about one fourth of the aggregate wealth of the free States. These figures are given on high Republican authority; and our purpoe in setting them in array is the same as Mr. Dawes haa in view when he published them to keep the people posted, in order that they may hold their servants to a proper accountability. Rut we may say in this connection that the neeestary cost of a war waged for the preservation of the Union and the system of free government which the Union was designed to secure, should be cheerfully borne by the people- Were we - compelled to choose between submitting to a severed Union on the one hand, aud giving one half instead of one fourth of all we possess to assure its preser ration and permanency, on the other, we should unhesitatingly and cheerfully choose the latter alternative. Indeed there is no conceivable alternative which a man of sense and patriotism would not prefer to a dissolution ot the Union. Yet the people should gee that the war be not prostituted to purposes of fanaticism and base personal ambition; and that their wealth, which they pour out so freely, be not used to enrich the unprincipled favorites of power. Our Paper Money Breakers Ahead. James Gallatiü, one of the priocipcl financiers of New Yoik, and the son of one of the most eminent of American secretaries of the treasury, made a epeecb in New York on the 6ib, before the Clearing-house Association, in which he warne merchants and others against the vortex of financial ruin and bankruptcy into which the nation is drifting. The following is an extract from his remarks: The Secretary's plans are defended on the er.iund that thev have saved to the country the interest on his issues of paper money, but the increased prices of supplies are enhancing the value of the war. and increasing our uational debt to a much greater extent thin the saving of this interest; aud as the proposed further issues by the new bauks can only aggravate the evil, without saving to the Government the interest on the proposed increase of circulation, it becomes the duty of bankers as well as the people to look earnestly as patriots at the consequence of this new description ol paper money. Does the country need it? Will it save the Government from increased expenditure? Will it save interest to the Government? Will it bring us nearer to a specie standard? All these questions, in my humble juJgment, demand serious investigation. If they are to be answered in the negative, what then is the possible use of this new currency? Centralization of monetary power at Washington is one. Is that desirable? Is it judicio'is to place the whole volume of security for the entire paper money of the country in the hinds of one man at WasMiingtonT Images of grandeur and power may be floating in this one man's imagina lion ''those meteor lights, a Inch are exhaled in the stormy atmosphere of a revolution to allure the ambitious and dazzle the weak " Among all the deplorable consequences of in creasing the price t commodities ov tins pro posed iucrease of paper money through the new bank', none is so injurious to our national w ealth as the transfer of our public debt into the hands of foreign capitalists at the most extraordinary low prices. rersns not conversant with financial affairs are shamelully deceived and misled on this question. Because the storks of the United States are quoted at or above par, no matter what may be the price of g )ld or other commodities, they consider our financial policy to be founded upon the wise tetchings of experi ence. Now, for example, let us take a case, similar to those which happen every day in the street and in the New York Stock Board. We will suppose gold to be at fifty per cent, premium, as it has been more than once this year, aud a capitalist residing in London or Paris wishes to buy one thousand dallare' worth of our government stock say "five-twenties. This stock is at par in our paper money, one hundred dollars in "green backs" bei n ir worth one hundred dollars in "five twenties." The capitalist has sent one thousand dollars in gold (or bills of exchange payable in gold) from London or from fans, and this sells in New York for about fifteen hundred dollars in greenbacks, there being a slight charge for ex penses, so that every thousand dollars sent from other countries, when gold is about fifty premium in New York, buys about fifteen hundred dollars of our government stock, bearing eix per cent. interest in gold; and in realitr Mr. Chase gets less (in real value) than one thousand dollars for his fif teen hundred of stock, because his issues of paper money have increased the prices of everything so much that the fifteen hundred dol lars he would have received in paper, in the example idst relerrvd to. would buv lar less in commodities than the thousand dollars under a specie currency, tie pays interest on niteen hundred dollars annually in gold, being ninety dollars a year, although he has received in real Value only one thousand dollars. In this way every loreign capitalist, when gold is at fittv premium, gets our Government securt ties at about sixtv-six cents on the dollar, so that his capital vields him more than nine per cent. interest, while our poor people, as well as all persons having fixed incomes, are made to pay fifty per cent, more for the necessaries of life, and our own capitalists are compelled to pay fifty per cent, more than foreigners for our national securities. To impoverish a nation, and dis courage the labor and savings of its people, no system is so effectual as this of paper money; and it is this system, so ruinous to the nation and the DeoDle, which we are requested to render active and efficient by admitting its engines into the C!e rih:-house, that they nny destroy the specie paying system upon which our 2iew x ork city banks are founded, and establish upon its ruins that of the notorious John Law, which has ex ploded in every country which has tried it. leav ing a succession of awful warnings and admoni tions, which are to be read in almost every chap ter of the his'ory of nations, duritig the last and present centuries. Address of the llon.C L. Vallandlg ham to the Democracy of Ohio on the lleanlt of the Election Democrats or Ohio: You have been beaten by what means it is idle now to inquire. It is euotigh to know that while thousands of soldiers were sent or kept within your State, or held in active in camp elsewhere, to vote against you, the Confederate enemy were marching upon the Capital of your country. You were beaten: but a nobler battle for con stitutional liberty aud free popuLr government never was fought bv any people. And your un conquerable firmness and courage, even in the midst of armed military force, secured you these first of freemen a rightsfree speech and a free ballot. The conspiracy of the fifth of Mav fell before you. Be not discouraged: despair not of the Republic. Maintain vour rights; stand firm to your position; never yield up your principles or your organization Listen not to an? who would have vou lower vour standard iu th hour of defeat. No mellowing of your opinious upon any question, even of policy, will avail anything to conciliate your political foes. 1 hev demand nothing less than an absolute surrender of your principles and your organizotim. Moreover, if there be anv hope for the Constitution or liberty. it is in the Democratic party alone; and vou fel low citizens, in a little while longer, will see it Time and events will force it upon all, except those only who profit by the calamities of their country. I thank you, one and all, for your sympathies and vour suffrages, tie assured that though still in exile for no offense but my political opinions and the free expression of them to you in peace able public asemblv,you will find me ever stead fast to those opinions, and true to the Constitu tion and to the State and country of my birth a U. Li V ALLAXDIGÜAM Wixdsor, C. W., Oct. 14. im. What the XVmr Has Accomplished. . The New York Tribune says of the war: It has saddled as with a debt that will' take bread from the mouth of every laboring man's child for generations, and send millions hungry to oea . But then, it has freed the negroea! Can't the laboring whit man's child afford to hare the bread taken from its mouth and go hungry to bed r .l . a i t . . iur man am yet we und laboring men sop. porting the policy of beggaring themselves and their children to put negroes on an equality with themselves. fcf? The Constitution and the Union! I place .a v a . mem togetner. n tney stand, tney. must stand together; ir they fall, they must fall together, m.-i.i nr.i..i

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from Washington Rktbkat or Lee from Cclpefper Toward Washixgto Advance or Meade from the ' Raffahaxxock to Fairfax The Admixistratios admits the ' ixprkqx ability of Charleston.

Spec al Correspondence of the Chicago Times. ' " Washington, October 17. ' In the brief note which I wrote to you yesterday, I simply stated tie great disaster that has befallen the Army of the. Potomac. But to day . it is evident that the reality is even worse than it appeared yesterday. If it were possible to cover the Administration, with deeper load of infamy than that under which it has long stage ered, the events of the last week would do it. Every day the Government organs have contained assurances that Meade bad the advantage of position; that Lee had been foiled in his designs; that the kirmitht that had taken place were of no importance at all; that we had come off best in every engagement, aud that our own army h id g iiueda brilliant victory. Well, here is S itur day. aud bow does the case stand now? We have had a fight, more or less severe, every day this week. We have not had the advantage of position, for we have been driven successively from every position we occupied. Every dsy. along the whole of the long route from Cul pepper to this city, our l.ttlearmy mane a galant stand, and fought a desperate battle. And everv day we nave been driven further and urther back, until now our weary troops, find shelter and rest under the defenses of the cap ital. Oen. Lee has not been foiled in bis design. What bis ultimate designs are is not vet developed Rut, un to this time, be has succeeded in gaining possession of the gaps in the Bull Run Mountains; in pouring his troops through those gap; in defeating Meade's srmy at least eight engagements on as many sue cessive dj?, and in driving our forces from Culpepper to vVarrenton Junction, from Warreti ton Junction to Manassas Junction, from Manassas to Ccntreville. from Centreville to Fairfax and from Fairfax to Washington. And this, too, with such precipitation on our pxrt that we were compelled to leave our dead and wounded in his hands. The engagements were mportant, for thev hare resulted in the com plete defeat of Oen. Meade's army, an I its re treat to the national capital; which capital Oen. Lee is now able to besiege, and probably will besiege. If we have gaiued "a brilliwnt victory" these are its fruits. At the time I wrote mv letter of the 15ib inst , Gen. Meade's army was, as I then supposed it was, at Centerville. Meade's good generalship had enabled him to gain that position, as the re sult of the action of the previous day, and so far be had the advaotnge ot position, nut of what avail was it to him? On Uvtt day Lee moved his array from Manassas Junction, across Bull Run. around Meade's right Bank to Chantillv. with the ntent to reach and occupy Fairfax, and so get in Meade's rear. And he would have done this, too, if Meade had not uetrated his design atiJ pre vented its execution. As it was, the only way bv which Meade could prevent his armv from thus being cut off from Washington, was by quitting his position at Centerville and occupying airfax before Gen. Lee could teach that point. Gen. Meade did this But Fairfax is a position utterly untenable. Having got his army there, nothing remained to be doue but to move them to the lines around Washington; nnd hereaccordnjrlv they are. Gen. Lee, in the meantime. occupied Centerville. and there. he is now, with his whole army; that is, with all except those of hi troops who ace at the West. Skirmishing is going on to dar between reconnoitering parties of the Confederates and our troops, all along a line from Lee-burg nnd Aldie on our right, to Fairfax. Fairfax Station, and the mouth of rohick Cieek on our left. I his line represents, as near as can be ascertained now, the debatable territory between the two armies. But there is every indication that, in the course of the day. nur line will be still more contracted, at least on the right, and that the enemy s pickets II be thrown forward to Draiueaville and V ienna. mere is no probability mat uen. L.ee will either cross the Potomac or attack Washington at present. Even if he has so many as 80,000 troops and I think it doubtful that he has so many he would not be strong enough for either enterprise. II he is rejoined by his lour divisions now in the vV est, he may essay an attack on the capital. If not, it is at least in his power to re main at Centreville during the remainder or the fall and coming winter, even with an arroj of 60.000 men. He will probablv do that, if he does nothing more. So that the probabilities are that when Congress meets, they will assemble in a beleaguered city. So much for the situation here. Now for a word about Charleston. The Gov ernment's fine promise that Charleston hbould be speedily taken have at last dwindled down to the following statement, as given in the official organ of the Administration: "The obstructions in the harbor of Charleston are of such a nature that they cannot be remoted by anv appliances of ours; and they nre of too formidable a char acter to justify a hazardous attempt bv our iron clads to penetrate further into the harbor and within range of the rebel guns Is not that a humiliating confession for the Administration to make at this late day? Have, then, the nature of these obstruction been just found out? Why. was this important discovery not made before? What has become of those "appliances" those "devils," as they were called upon which such fabulous sums were expended, aud which, it was confidently asserted, ould pull up the obstructions as easily as a dentist pulls a tooth? "Too formidable a char acter! Perhaps, after a while, the Government "will discover that the job of taking Charleston is also of too formidable a character" "A hitzardous attempt by our iron-clads!" Our iron clads, then, are never to engage in any ente prise that is in the least degree h izardons. They were made, it would seem, to be kept out of danger; for we are here officially informed tint they are not to be expec-ted to go "within rnge of the rebel guns " Oh, fortunate iron-clads! For bearing further "sarkasm," however, let meinti mate to your readers that this official announcement is perhaps a "feeler," to prendre the public mind for the abandonment, for the preseut, of the siege of Charleston. It looks very much like it. X. Prosperous 'Mme.' There has been a good iletl of tr:h circulating in the pnpers recently respecting the prosperity of the North, notwithstanding the heavy burdens of the war. It is true that money is easy; that the opera and theatres are crowded uizhtlr, and that high priced goods secure a ready sale; but there is another and less pleasing side of the picture which it would be also well to bear in mind. The prices of the necessaries of life have advanced enormously, and persons with small, fixed incomes and salaries were never so straitened for means as now. Contractors, storekeepers, money changers, stock operators, all who had goods to sell, have done exceedingly well for the last two years; but not so clerks, small property holders, mechanics, all in fact whose incomes are fifteen hundred dollars a yearor less a classification by the way, which includes five-sixths of our whole population. The poorer classes have not as yet experienced actual suffering, as there is an outlet for able-bodied men in the army; but the struggle tor life, or rather food and fuel, was never so hard as it has been for the past year. Coal, for instance, which was abuudant a year since at five dollars and fifty cents per ton, is now nine dollars and fifty cents; mea; that could le bought for ten to twelve cents per pound is twenty to twenty two cents; flour that was sold at five dollars is now eight dollars per barrel; and the same proportionate increase holds good for every ptrticle of clothing, food a J I fuel purchased and consumed. To talk of prwvrity and good times when starvation prices like 'hese are the rule, is fl it nonsense. The truth is, the evil days are upon us financially as well as politically, and they are getting no better very fast. Secretary Chase seems to hint that the time may come when a breakfast will cost a thousand dollars, and we think it likely if we go much longer at the present rate But let us hear no more about prosperous times New York World. How the New England Siatm Fill Their Q lotas or Troops The seventh company (D) of the 1st Connecticut cavalry regiment- was mustered into the service lat week in Baltimore. The company is romposed entirely of rebel prisoners from Fort Delaware, who have taken the oath of allegiance! This is the way in which the New England States respond to the Government's call for troops. Thee rebel prisoners, but recently soldiers in the reoet service, fighting against the Government, are now accepted bv the Administration as part of the quota which the State of Connecticut calle' upon to furnish! But New York, umfer an obnoxious conscription, must be comptlled to furnish her every man from her own citizens J3fWhy are troops kept in New York idle troops with nothing to do? What need has Fifth avenue of a regiment or two of regulär T Of what u?e Is a Wisconsin regiment, in that land of "milk and honev." known aa Gothen. I Orange county. New York?. New York Ex-

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From the Cincinnati Trice Current, Oct. SI. Financial and Commercial Summary for the JPaat Week. It is charged in the New York papers, that the

advance in gold was the result of a plot concocted by a company of capitalists, and not the conse quences of any alarm regarding disasters to the Uovernment. it is stated that an amount or gold was contributed, equal to about four millions of dollars, and about the half of it shipped to Eogand, and the remainine half kept at home, the intention being to draw against the amount shipped as soon as gold would advance. The arge purchase of cold iu the first dace, nnd the large shipment iu the econd place, were well calculated under existing circumstances, they knew, to excite the market and put up prices, and tbey were coirect- If . ibis be true, and it has been stated with great positiveness by the New York papers, the meals engsgid are guilty of combining to injure the credit of the Government, and ought to be banged. It is stated that in order to avoid suspicion, they managol to have the gold shipped by regular houses. It is possible that the whole story may be untrue, but it ooks plaus:h!e. It is well known that the bal ance of trade is now, and has been for some time, against this country; during the month ot September it took over three millions of dollars to make up the balance at New Yotk alone, which, however, is the chief port, and the deficiency the current month will be vastly greater; so that aside from the war causes, we may look for a high gold premium, unless some change should take place to turn the balance of trade in our favor. As soon as our farmers learn that the present high prices of domestic produce cannot be sustained, and that the failure of the corn crop is not so bad and so gen eral as is supposed, prices of produce will come down to an export point, and this evil will be remedied to a great extent, w e will have as much pork and lard to spare, to ship to Lurope, as there was last season, and have enough lei t for home consumption, notwithstanding the falling off in the crop this reason as compared with last. There is also an immense surplus of wheat, and all will be taken if prices suit; of this, there can be no doubt, even though unusual large crops iave been gathered in England and elsewhere. The fluctuations in gold, during the week. have been frequent, and Wee; at one time, it was down to 143 in New i ork, but advanced quickly to 151. On the whole, there has been an important decline from the closing rate a week ago. In our market the price of gold, as usual, flue tuated in response to the New York market, with a general disposition on the part of outsiders to pell, and there was, therefore, an unusually large amount bought by the dealers. The supp'v of exchange was largely increased. heavy amounts having been sent here from Chicago, Toledo and Clevel and, and then the heavy amount drawn against the shipment of Govern ment cotton sold here on Mondav. All have swelled the amount beyond what had been antici pa ted, and the market was extremely dull at the close, and dealers were selling at five twentieth of one per cent, premium, and refusing to buy at par, excepting from regular customers. We quote the selling rate at 1 51 lOih premium Currency has become quite close, snd there as a good deal of inconvenience experienced yesterday in consequence. The large amount paid to the Government for the cotton sold, and which went out of circulation, tended largely to this scarcity, as the whole amount of cotton sold was closely up to d,tü bales, the proceeds of which were not fr from SGoU.OOO. Kentuckv bank paper has been more sought alter during the week, and in round sums sold at lc prem. Indiana is rather easier. Certificates und Quartermasters' vouchers ruled a shade lower. W e quote: BCTINO. SELLING, Jfew Tork Oola Silver .... par. l-5(l-10 prem. . ...4A49 prem. 5Ual prem. prem. prem, De round note, Kentucky bank notes. Indiana State not. .. 4?va4! prem. prem, prem. pan, prem. Orders on Ws.-hlngton, Cer lficates. 1 dis. Quarte rraasttrs Yoachi-rs, city 9SS9A Flour and wheat have been very dull, and prices are lower. Corn and oats ruled a shade easier, but have been in fair demand at our quo tations. Kve in demand, and firm. Barley in good demand at full prices. Whisk v declined tic per gallon, but at the close last evei.ing Icof this whs recovered, the market closing firm under the New iork news. There has been quite an active demand for old mess pork, and prices advanced to $13, but closed weak, with no buyers at these rates. There has not been much done in lard, but prices were hijiher; prime in tierces brought IÜ4C. Bulk meats arid bacon have ruled quiet. Hardlv a word said about hogs. The Mens of feeders ate so high that packers or jobbers have settled down to the conclusion that there is no use in attempting to make contracts. Indeed, at over $5 packers generally think it hazirdous to enter into anv engagements Verv little preoa ration making to pack for the foreign market, which is 111 sinking contrast to the state of things existing at this time a Tear ago, the truth is, ex ceptitii! to a limited exient, the present prices asked for hogs preclude the possibility of shipping pork to any market iu Europe, and this is. the general op;mon. 1 he corn, which was cutoff by the August frost, will all be fed to hogs or cattle and wiil make fair pork; no other disposition can be made of it than this, so that the price of merchantable corn cannot influence the result and as tock hogs are unusually abundant throughout the west, and in good condition, they will be brought to matket from the districts where the corn is moat injured, but fatted better than is expected. It is inconsistent to suppose that because as great a number of hogs -may not be brought to tnirket than was list setson. there is to be a scarcity of poik, and this, too, in the face of the fact when there Is the product of hal an ordinary hog crop of last season's meat on hand. The grocery market is fair but quiet 1 here is a fair jobbinü dem in, I. From the Des Moinen Statesman. The Election In Iowu.Hniv .boti tion .Majorities Were Secured. We have met several persons from the country who, in discussing the result of the election, ac count for the large incre ase in the Republican vote by stating that men voted in their townships who were mit known as residents of the township Men who hive lived in the county for fifteen tears, and supposed thev knew eerv voter their township, were surprised to find strangers voting with lliein, and, when challenged, were still more surprised to find them swearing their voles in Several in thia township were un known to the oldest inhabitants; but, nothing daunted, when challenged, demanded to have the oa'h administered to them. We believe it is conceded that the vote in this country mid throughout the State is larger than ever cast before, notwithstanding we have sent from the Stale nearly fifty thousand men to the field, and our population was depleted very con siderably bv last springs enot;r.ition to Pike i I'e ik and California. How is this increased vote to be accounted lor, unless 11 no 11 the hypothesis that there have been gross frauds practised on the ballot box? From the Keokuk Constitution. J As every citizen of Iowa and of the wlu '.e country are interested as well as 6ursclres in the result of the election in this city, it becomes our duty, as a public juurnalist, to make known the facts which transpired here on yesterday in refer ence to the election At the opeuinz of the township polls, the sol diers from the hospitals began to congregate around and take an active part in oor township election by peddling tickets out to the cmzens This continue! nil the forenoon, but without any acts of violence. At the opening of the pol! after dinner, a band of music was stationed in front of the entrance to the ballot-box, and but a few feet therefrom. At this time the whole front of the place of voting was crowded by soldiers, who commences seizing the Democratic tickets in the hands of the canvassers, and destroying tbem This was rontinued during nenrly the whol afternoon, while the voting was going on. Demo era is V ere not allowed to peddle their tickets at the polls, or to keen them in s'ght for the use of voters, while both Republican citizens and sol diers stood around with bnndsfull of Republican tickets, urging tbem on voters as they came to the polls, and, in several instances, forced those tickets on Democrats, who voted them through fear. Democrats finally left the field to the Re publican soldiers and citizens, who had every thing their own way during the greater part o the afternoon, when several hundred votes were polled. We have ciren the facts in rel '-.Ion to the elec tion here yesterday, in their mildest form tha the eirni Distances will admit of. We mi? here after refer to it azaln more in detail. Whatever Tii v be the result, a'ter counting the votes there is no earthly doubt but that Jncksoti town ship. Including the city of Keokuk, is Demo cratic, and would have given a majority (or that party on yesterday, if sohrers from the hospitals who never lived in the county, had not inter fered a' the ballot-box. It must not be forgotten that Gen. Tcm, War Democrat, was ruuuiog for Governor of Iowa as the Democratic candidate. .

STATE ITEMS.

The St. Joseph Conference of the United Brethren has been in session at Lafayette this week. It paid more attention to politics than religion. Says the Shelbyville Volunteer: Treasurer's OrriCE Entered'. On Saturday or Sunday night, the Treasurer's office of this county was entered by means of false keys, and pretty thoroughly rumaged one of the drawer iu the desk opened by means of false keys, aud the wood-work over the bolt ot the other cut - way, but there ws no money taken, simply be cause there was none there to take, and as far as scertaiued the enterprising burglar or burglars cot no other reward for their daujerous venture than a gold pen. J. A. Berry, Esq., ceases his connection with the Stark County Press as editor and publisher. he paper will hereafter be conducted by James H. Adair. The Press, under the management ot Mr. Beret, has been an able and faithful ad vocate of Democratic principles. The Indiana Baptist State Convention holds its annual session in Logansport this week. Catholic Mission. A mission was held in the Catholic church in this city several days last week, and closed Sunday night. Services were held four times each day. Much interest was manifested bv the members of that church, and a large number of persons were confirmed by the LSishop at the close of the Mission, Sunday night. Liogansport i haros. The barn of Washington Runs, in Noble township, Cas county, was entirely destroyed by fire on Monday night last, with all its contents, consisting of six hundred bushels of whe it.a fine pair of mules, a valuable stallion, forty tuns of hay, a mow of sheaf oats, and all his farming mplement and harness. The entire loss will be over I'J.UDO. supposed to be the work of an incendiary. Bot Injured On Monday a bov named Riley, about twelve years of age, was run-over by a locomotive at St. Paul, and his right leg and right arm taken off the leg close to the body and the arm some six or seven inches from the shoulder. There is but little hope of his recovery. His father was drowned in Flat Rock it er something like a year since. Shelby Vol unteer. EXTKAOItDIXAItY It EBEL, NEGO TIATIONS LSI FItAMCE. Pioeramme sf a European Coalition with jefi. itixvis Southern Confederacy to be Established In Order to-wjevtrojr Itie ICtslng Power of tbe I'nited Mate A.c. Ac, Ac. Loxdos, October 19, 1863. James Gobdo Bexmett, Esq.: Sir A piece of intelligence of a most mo mentous character, as concerns its bearing tiooii the future of tbe Uuited States, has just come into my possession. Plans have been for several months maturing for a European alliance, which is to have for its aim the control of the destinies of the American continents. A "tlrictlg confidential" correspondence was commenced as early as last May, at the instance of an influential (though not powerlul) Western sovereign, between most ol the Cabinets with respect to the feasibility of the measure; but the l olisn question assumed so erave a form occa sioning new and unforeseen complications that no considerable progress was made toward the consummation of the scheme. Then came the terrible reverses of the relels, which, until the last fortnight, endangered the probability of the success ol Michail undertaking without an imme diate declaration of war, inasmuch as it was leared that after all Secessia might be hemmed in and resistance to tlie union stilled. But the holding out of Charleston and the more recent disastrous defeat of Rosecrans to gether with other rebel triumphs in Louisiana, Texas and elsewhere have caused negotiations to be renewed; and they Hre now going on with the utmost ac-tivitv, and with every prospect of an eariy completion. 1 011 will see in the short speech of Maximilian to the "Mexican deputation" a delicate allusion to the projected alliance. He took occasion to remark: "I must make tnv acceptance of the throne dependent upon a plebiscite of the whole country. On the other hand, it would be my duty to ask lor guarantees which are indispensable to secure Mexico agaiust ihedangers whLh threaten her integrity and independence." Maximilian has been well advised. Uis sagacious father-in-law, King Leopold, the Nestor of sovereigns, has been his faithful mentor. The parties to the contract at first, if it shall he per feet e , will be Rome (as the head of the Latin church), Austria, Spain. France and Great Britain. Italy hesitates, but there ate influences at work which, it is believed, wiil cause Victor Emanuel to yield his .is-ent; and it is believ ed that Prussia, unwilling to isolate herself still farther from the three Powers mentioned, may even so far break with Russ'a as to give in her adhesion. It is understood that the Richmond government has indicated its readiness to enter into a treaty, offensive and defensive, with this embryo alliance agaiust the United Stales, upon the condition that the durable independence of the thirteen States which are represented in the Congress of the Confederacy shall be guaranteed, and that M m land in which the District of Columbia, as iris a put of her soil, is to be included shall, aa one of the conditions of peace between the present belligerents, be allowed to disuse of herself io ;o Aiorth or go booth at her own option atcr all the Federal troops have been witlnlraa 11 Ir-'in h-r limits, in order that no undue iutluence may be brought to bear upon her final choice. ... The Confederate States, on their part, are to expressly stipulate that thev will never attempt to Nimrx anv portion of Mexico, Cuba, or Porto Rico, afid th ;t they wiil contribute all in their do er to rcsi't the annexation of any portion of the ftritish possessions in Anienc , to the United States, as well as to aid in repelling any armed intervention of the s ii i United States in Mexico adverse to the dM-irine of the "Latin rare." or in the Spanish West India colonies. This is a brief statement, in ontl'iie, of the project. Intelligent Europe, as is alleged, is shocked at the wil l liMofiMo, oci ilii-tic t!ie r!es of the Northern abolitionists, and the' titter demoralization of written public I w by a nsnrpring govern ment, which is exclusively under the control of the ? miners and the Cli tses, the Clieevers and the Parkers. It'is feared bv al calm, observing men that seeds have been sown at Washington, which if not speedily uprooted, will produce a state of anarchy in fact, a defiant outlawry which will react injuriously if not ruinously to the preservation of order, not only in continental Europe, but also in this realm. The Immense foreign population in the army ferociously antagonistic to the governments of the old world will be the medium, it is apprehended, by which such a result is not unlikely to be effected. Of one thing you may be assured: that it is not from Inve of the South that this strong alii ancewill be formed with her. but from excessive h,ired of the North, and fiom a settled determin ation to dieck her general disorganizing tenden cies. Some way or some how it has got into the heads of all political circles that it the admimstra tion of Mr. Lincoln should conquer the South, the party which it represents would not only un derbike to rule all America by the sword, but that it would eventually consider the whole civilized world too contracted a sphere for the field of its ambitious operations. If there was anything in the councils at Washington that could bedignified with the designation of even third or fourth rate statesmanship, it would at once occasion a pause in the hostilities prosecuted against tbe South, propose terms of pece. and thus make ti.e most of a virtue which ia speedily to become a necessity. A sagacious President would not hesitate' a moment in employing all the means at his dis pos t! to forestall the European alliance while it is yet unperfected, by proposing terms to Jefferson Davis that he would not decline to accept, lie would put an end to the existing belligerence, while he mav yet do so without disgraceful humiliation. He would acknowledge her independence In the sense in which it will be scknowl edped by the alliance. He would say in the truthful consciousness pf his heart: ' Come, come, my old confreres; I hve employed such forces by land nnd by water, and such other means as no belligerents ever employed before, and never will perhaps employ again, to coerce you back into tbe old Union. Tou hare resisted them with a constancy, a resolution and a dauntlessuess which tin belligerents ever displayed hefore, nor perhaps ever will display again. Let us shake h ands and be friends henceforth and forever There is room rongh for as both in this hemisphere. Let us bt sister republics, in fact and hi truth, and enter npon the high career of working out for the benefit of cotemporaries, and all future ages, the problem of man's capac-

ity for rational self government each emulating the other in its benign progress for the attainment

of this ennobling eud." This, you may be quite confident, is beginnmg to be the sentiment of the more moderate citi zens of the United States sojourning in Western Europe many of whom until recently were cor ial supporters of the war. Unless a measure of this kind is adopted, and adopted promptly, mark my words, darker days are awaiting the Union than ever developed themselves to a nation in modern times. The people will become more nd more divided against themselves npon such surpations of power as the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus and the enforcement of the conscription; and the prty resisting will sniela self under any authority which nny be present 1 for the recovery of a portion of its lost liberties. You may rely upon it, sir, tint if vou will eraploy vour powerful influence in behalf of such a policy vou will take the initial step to win for yourself the glorious appellation of "Benefactor of your country. Millions or pens will be em ployed forthwith and millions of voices raised for the benign consummation. The niulr-lIlow-Clie Inibrof lio. General Blair haa published a rejoinder to the speech of Mr. Blow, his Congressional colleague, from which we take the following extract, relative to Secretary Chase and his river policy: Mr. Blow thinks th ttih ive capped the climax Lof audacity by the manner in which I have spoken of Mr. (Jhase, the 2ecretary of the 1 reasury. 1 am unconscious of anv unusual boldness, or au dacity in speaking my opinion of him. Mr. Blow seemsi to be inspired with a kind of awe as he ap proaches that august figure enthroned upon greenbacks. Men who possess as much patron ace as Mr. Chase seldom find themselves with out followers, ready to shower upon their heads as much eulogy as Mr Blow his been able to scrape together. Mr. Chase has purchased printing press snd made as mnv greenbacks as were authorized bv Congress, and the soldiers and the people have rereived hem because they ave faith iu the re-eaiahlishment of the Union and the solvency of the Government, a faith founded upon the valor of our troops, the in;xustable resources of our country, and the un conquerable energies of the American people, and not at all 011 Mr. Chase s printing press I know Mr. Chase tolerably well With very trreat ability, and all the good looks, polished manners snd gentlemanly bearing that air. blow claims for him, he is as thoroughly selfish and narrow as any public man in the couutry. He was a candidate for the Presidencr before the last Chicago Convention. The Ohio delegation s divided between him and old Ben Wade Wade's friends supported Chase until all hope of his nomination vanished. It was then believed that it Chase would permit his friends from Ohio to vote for Wade, so as to give him the entire State, he could get enough votes to secure his nomination. It wss refused on the ground that Wade was from Ohio, and that if he was nomin a ted his successor could not well be taken from the same State; and as Mr. Chase was from Ohio, this would be nn obstacle in his way. 1 his one act illustrates tbe character of the Secretary of the Treasury When the rebe'lion broke out, Mr. Chae held this lan&usse: "The South is not worth fighting for." Several gentlemen of high position in the country heird him utter this sentiment, substan tially. He was at that time Secretary of the I reasurv. Jen. Davis exclaimed, as h lett the Senate, "all the South wants is to be let al .ie. and Mr. Secretary Chase was, in effect, declaring "the South is not worth fishtttig for. Jeff. Divis said "let us alone." Chase said let them aloue.' The difference between them, in fact although their motives are wide apart, was the difference det ween tweedledum and tweeJledee One wanted a Southern and the other a Northern Confederacy, each believing his own chances best in that sort of a divi-ion. The scheme for annihilating the Southern States and reducing them to territories, lias its origin with Mr. Chase, and grew out of the same sentiment. Tie was determine! that if the North would not submit to have the territories of the republic curtailed, the Mississippi river cut in two and twq hostile nations established to make per petual war upon each other at any rate the Southern States should be deprived of their elec toral votes, which he was satisfied would net be cast for him. Hence this scheme for punishing the States for the treason committed by their in habitauts. This plan was grave'y submitted to Congress by a gentleman known to hold conn dentist relations with Mr. Chase, and was drafted by Mr. Chase himself. It was known that the plan was in opposition to the views of the Presi dent, but his Cabinet officer was found to retain his office while concoctin? schemes to overthrow the policy of the Administration under which he held office flow are such transitions ordinarily regarded? This is onfy in keeping with Mr. Chase's persistent effort to make use of the slavery question in such a war as to make division amonir the Union men of the country and create a distrust of the President among the extreme radical anti-slavery men, because he, for the very safety of the Government itself, was and is compelled to recognize snd confide in all Union men alike, regardless of their opinions of slavery. To intrigue against the President under whom he held position, has been the constant employment of Mr. Chase. The President, un like Mr. Chase, prefers that he should iutrigu against him personally rather than embar rasa the Government This is my explanation Is it a Kupposable case that such a man' as th Secretary of the Treasury would omit an oppor tunity of eularsinz his electioneering machinery by the appointment of a whole army.ol agents deputies, aids and boards of trade on the banks of the Mississippi, especially if by any possibility h could throw the odium of such a step upon Gen Grant, and profit by the power and patronage o such a measure over the business of the whol aorthwestT I knew that tue instant he wss as sailed for keeping tip the blockade of the Missis sipni river, he would cover himself behind th military authorities, attd Mr. Blow" speech justi ties mv anticipations, wnil.-t it clearly falsifies th Secretary's pretext. The letter of Oen. Orant quoted by Mr. Bloi .docs not justify a single step taken bv Mr. Chase. Un thecontrary, Mr Chase 1 measures are at complete variance with and defiance of the advice tiven by Gen. Grant Gen. Grant is for free trade or no trade at al Mr. Chase is for restricted trade trade that wi be entirely in the hands of his agents, and will enable him to employ a small armv of hi strikers, with "restrictions" which, as Geo. Gran savs,"if lived up to, make tbe trade unprofitable and hence noue but dishonest men would go into it." I quote Gen. Grant's letter entire: . HctDQCABTcas DicrABTMKvror tsr Tbxxcsskk, Vicxssraa, Miss., July 31, 1863. ) Hon.. S. P. Ch itf, iiccrttarf nf the Treaenry: Sia. Tour letter of the 4th Inst., to me, enclosing copy of letter of same date to ilr. Mellen, special agent of the treasury, is Just received. My Assistant Adjutant General, by ilium 1 ball nd tbis letter, is about starting for Washington, hence I i-ball be very short in my reply. My experience In West Tennessee h convinced . me that any trade whatever with tbe rebeliiocs States U weakening to u of at lea-t ihirty-tbre per cent, of our force. No matter what tbe restriction thrown around trade, if any whatever f allowed, it will be tbe means of supplying to tbe enemy what tbey want. Kestrictiona, if lived up t, make trade unprofitable, and hence none but dishonest men go into it. 1 will entore that no honest man has made money in West Tennessee in tbe lat year, whiUt many fat unci have beea made there in that time. Tbe people af tbe Mississippi Valley are now nearly subjugated. Keep trade out fr a few months, and I doubt not but that tbe work of sui Juration will be complete tbat trale can be opened freely with the States of Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi tbat tbe people of these State will be more anxious for tbe protection and enforcement of our Iis than the people "f the loyal State. Tbey bare experienced the fortune of being without them, and are now in a aott happy condition to appreciate their blensing. No theory of my wn will ever stand in the way of my execution In good faith, of any order I may reeeive from tbose in authority wer me; but my position has given me an opportunity of seeing what would not be known by peron sway from tbe scene of war; and I venture, therefore, to suggest great caution In opening trade with re nein. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient fervant, C. 8. GaaT, Major General. Mr. Blow quotes this letter furnished by the Secretary to whom it is addressed, for the purpose of throwing the odium of his own policy on Gen. Grant, and then Mr. Blow excltims, "so says Geu. Grant and so says your Secretary of the Treasury." We shall see. Gen. Grant says, "no matter what the restrictions thrown around trade, if any whatever is allowed, it will be made the means of supplying the enemy." Secretary Chase therefore makes a lot of rerulatious, and throws restrictions around tmde, although Gen. Grant says "it will be made the means of sup plying the enemy." Is this doing what Gen Gr nt asks? Grant hits, "keep trade out for a ft-w months, and I doubt not but that the work of subjugation will be so complete that trade can bfl opened freely," etc. " This letter bear date 21st July. I8G3; (a few mouths have passed.) and if Grant's advice had been taken by Secretary Chase, the merchants of St. Louis night have had free trade instead of "restrictions, which, if lived up, to make trade unprofitable, and hence none but dishonest men go into it" new bundle of which "restrictions" Secretary Chase issued on the receipt of Gen. Grant's letter. Yoa will observe that Gen. Grant refers particularly to his "experience In We?t Tentiesaee" among Chase's agents. He knows them well, and so does every officer in the army.

Since my ipnorance on this subject has been made a matter of rebuke by Mr. Blow, I trust that I may be permitted modestly to refer to the letter which I bad the "presumption to write to the President," and point to the identity of sen timent between it and that of Gen. Grant. The only difference is that of "a few months" in the

time in which free trade should be opened. The paraeraph with which Mr. Blow intro duces the letter of General Grant (above quoted) is worthy of being put on record at this point of the discussion. Here it is: "But, my fellow citizens, 1 do nt Intend to leave this persecution here. General Blair is ander the command of a War Democrat, and we love War Demcsiata. Hia superior officer is tbat a-allant, successful and truthful General wbo has nade oar anas illumrtoas by bi wiMtntn and his volor, snd wherever this night in tbis wide extended country a loyal heart i beating with pride for western success, the Dane of TJlysses a. Uraat is embalmed in that heart. Bear what he says, aud spread It through the loyal States of the Union." Would any one believe that Gen. Grant (that plorious War Democrat so deeply loved by Mr. Blow,) has at this moment, in bis possession, a etter asking for his removal from the bead of the Army of the Tennessee, upon information furnished and vouched for by Henry T. Blow, in which that "War Democt" is charged with the grossest improprieties, which I will not name, bat which, having served under his command, I know to be false, although vourhed for by Mr. Blow. Mr. Blow, following in the wake of tbe Mis souri jjemocrat. has something to say snout sacrificing "the best interests of tbe country for few bales of cotton. meaning therebv what the Democrat has said more bluntly, that tbe merchants of St Louis, who wih the 'Mississippi river opened to trade, are willing to sell the gov ernment for cotton. Since when has it become so ignominious for merchants to engage in the cotton trade? One of the proprietors of 'he Missouri Democrat, a certain Thomas O'Reilly, who was also an agent of the Secretary of the Treasury, did connive at and procure the release or certain cotton seized in Helena by the Government, and did receive therefor $3,001) in money and promissory notes. (Full particulars of this transaction can be found in the testimony taken before Gen. McDowell's commission to examine into the cotton frauds ) Wat it this transaction of the Democrat's prorrietor, and Mr. Blow's fellow radical and Mr. Chae' Treasury agent. one which entitled them to sneak of the merchants of St. Louis, who desire free and honest trade. as "copperheadsT My time is too serinndr employed just now to allow more than this ha-ty replv to Mr. Blow. Kespectrully. Fbakk P. Blaik, Jr. Onr Armr Corre aondmee - Frem Chattanooga. Cbattaxooga, October 12, 1SC3. Editob Sesti.ml: I am sad yes, I may Fay melancholy very, liut this condition of my mental faculties may rot be iurprisin. for who is not so overbite disastrous events of the last few dayst A great battle is lost by this army. Thousands of good, true and brave men swept oft" the earth, sone to their final reckoning, nnaneled ('tis tnie.) but not un mourned, unwept or unsun. A half nation of Christian and intel ligent people mourn and deeply deplore the sad fate they have met, whilst I add mv sincere con dolence to theirs. I hare just parted sadly from comrades and friends, with whom many days of toil, privation and dinner have been passed. Our voices have been mingled in the calms and storms of nature in camp and on the march, as our hearts' best feelings have in our social reunions, or in the fierte onsets amid the din of arma and carnage of mint hloody battles. We have seen our comrades fall like leaves around us, snd now thev too have fallen I can scarcely aprreciate the sad reality of their ab&ence. Enterintr upon my daily duties their images (though spectre like, ) oft sweep by me. Their voices yet float upon the still winds of the twilight, or on the midnight air, as I stand my weary vigils on the lonely outpost. But their places are. Tacant in the mess; the old tin cud and plate lays uele-g by. whilst I am oft constrained to ask for John, when closing around our simple meal; the act is smothered by the upheaving sigh, which fill my breast with pain and my eyes with tetrs. I rise to resume my daily duties, half forgetting my recent cause of sorrow, when I pass or observe some remaining relic of my absent friend. I fold it carefully and lay it securely arwav. thinking the while of the parental sigh 'and tears, the sympathies of pure love, the deeo pimngs of the dispairing widows, the ardert affections of innocence and yonth, that may be awakened by tbe sight of these sacred mementoes of departed worth. God rest them, and comfort their bereaved friends. In my sorrows fcr the fallen braves I cannot omit to notice the absent living They too. with whom constant daily association of more than two years, amid the wil l excitement of the field and camp, has formed a bond of sympathy never, perhaps, to be obliterated or tarnished by even the wasting cares of time, (claim my present special considaration.) And when the finrer of enmity designates a män who hs grown popnlar and great by meritorious conduct within the limits of mv personal observation, a man who has been as a father and faithful friend to his soldier? then I have a risht to speak, and I would he derelict of a sacred dnty not to uphold the friend and comrade of my past and recent toils. In brief, then, let me say that in General McCook we have had a faithful, able. and. as far as my humble sbüities go, an efficient commander one that we all loved and esteemed, and we will cherish his memory, no matter how fast adversities thicken around him. Let enmity snd supercilious arrogance seek to degrade him; let desicning treachery scoff at him there are hundreds of warm and honet hearts left in his old division that will never, till death, cease to beat in sympathy for their gallant commander and faithful friend, and whatever fate befalls bin) in the trial he has been recently called to undergo, the faithful men of his M division who hare escaped the enemy's deadly bullets, mav be relied on as the true snd tried supporter, and defenders of General McCook. There has been but litt'e fighting here since my last, mnch to mv surprise, as the position ocen pied by the rebels on the front and flanks of ovr army appears to give them great advantages, which they have left unimproved, except, perhaps, to prevent Roecrans from making any forward mavement a thing which, owing to the disirganixition of the srmy, could cot have been thoncht of. The chief object of the rebels appears to be, at present, to keep Rosecrans' armv shut up in this place while thev operate unon his rear. A few days ajo the rebels captured a train of three hnn dred wagons between here and Stevenson. The train was loaded with supplies for the army, sanitary goods and medicines, all of which articles were greatly needed, as the wounded are suffering for food and luxuries, which cannot be ob tained here. The wsgonr were burned cpon the road, and the rebels got drunk on the whisky, (f which there waa a good supply In the train,) which rendered them quite indifferent to their fate, and many of them were captured by Col. Wilder's brigade. Our outnosfs snd those of the enemy are now within hailing distance of each other. Frequent exchanges of papers, tobacco, and sometimes whiky take place daily upon the lines. Tha social intercourse will continue only a very brief period. Stirring events are coming, concerning which your readers shall hear in due time. Yours, Wikdw. Itemoral mt Iloaeeratia. IVe find the following in reference to the rerooTsl of Hostcaass in the special Washington dispatches to the Cincinnati Commercial: The Washington Chronicle gives considerable prominence to apparently an authoritative statement relative to Rosecrans removal. It says: "We are in receipt of astounding Intelligence in regerd to the removal of Rosecrans. The whole country will be stirred at what we shall chronicle. It is that three charges have been made against this late popular commander. The first is preferred hy Crittenden and McCook. to the effect that Rosecrans left the battlefield during the crisis, nnd fled to Chattanooga, and reported to officers there that the day was lost. It is reported that subsequently, through the influence of opium, he became insensible. The second charge, it is rumored, is made by Government to the effect that his orders were to remain at Chattanooga until reinforcements should arrive. The third charge, as rumored, is to the effect that he declined to move from Murfreeeboro in Jon last, when ordered to do so by Government, as an opportunity was offered to crush Bragg, i large portion of his army having been withdrawn to succor Johnston, who waa operating against Grant." A New York paper makes the iweepinjr, cctt sation that during the battle of Chickamangw Generals Rosecrans. Crittenden and McCook were asleep it Chattanooga. We learn, icmi. officially, that in regard to Crittenden this statement is false, and that nothing haa warranted tbe circulation of euch a paragraph. The bltme connected with the failure at Chicka manga will fait wholly on Rosecrans. tSTTThe State of New Yoik haa 2,710 miles of railroad.