Shelby Volunteer, Volume 20, Number 39, Shelbville, Shelby County, 2 June 1864 — Page 1

Vol. XX No. 39.

SlIELBYVILLE, ISO, JUXE 2, 18G4. WnoLE No. 1033

ME JSIIELUV VOJilWTEEL Xl pabliihel every Thurs-lay morning t Snu.arviLi.1, SUel'.y Cutiii'.y, Ia.li,ua, 1 J RE U BEX SPICE B.

TEEMS: 01.50 .1 YI2.1K9 INVARIABLY IX ADVANCE. wit paid until theexj.irati in "fij months, 1.7 not r ti l until th epir.uio:i "f the year, 2,t) These terms trill lie ri,'i Hi' adh-red to. BUSINESS DIllECTORY. MISCELLANEOUS. Shelby Co. Auctioneer. HAVINi tkn out a lere under thNs.tional Excise Law as .luotmiwr f ir sh.-l'y County, lam prepare! , t iutea.1 to all business i t ill line, and hervl y notity all persini tellmir at pu' l.c outcry without license, exi rpt as provided in s ud Uv, th it they luy themselves liable to a penalty uf Stiti. Address JERRY WEAKLEY. gheIbyvil!e,Pec.4, lc02. RICHARD XORRIS, Count 9 Surveyor, Mir.LitYvii.Li:, nu. Special attntion iriv-n to the drawineup of DecdOlort tragus, andallcjnreianccs, wherein a description of land is .-ouired. N.B. When a1 sent orders ir.ay be left at the Recorder's: Of!- in the Coujt House, i j : j " j j PROFESSIONAL CARDS. ' KTjI. II OK D, Attorney sit Ijsaw, OSce over TostOdice Dm? Store, SUKLliYVllXK, IXD. r.rticular attention pi ven to the collection of Soldiers claims, Pension, Hi' lt Pay. li .u.ty, i.c. JAMES IIAUlCISO., ATTORNEY AT LAW Oaicoeorner Ilirrison an I Franklin Streets, second story Euntranoe tirt d or North of Post Olhco. 7818 S1IKLBVV1LLK IND. NEWS DEPOT A.111I Xcvioclictil BOOK STORE OPPOSITi: TIIC POST OFFICE, HARRISON ST., SHELDYVILLE, '"T'llEKE you will find oorstantly on hand all of tht most Popular lVridit-4l, Mmithlii's, 1'ailivs, an. Weeklies. Also, an as.rtm-!,t "f i'lliOl. BOOlCS.lteadUsMMK SEKII'.S OF ll K WMi.lt a larire assort ment of TOBACCO AND CIGARS, whichUr era of tlie e-d irc iiiiti'il t call and try. LIST OF BOOK?, PAl'LU.S&c. Weeklies. J?ew Toik Irfil-er, fcewYork Mercury, New York Weekly, Fla ot Our l iiion. The True Fl u:. The Welcome (iu ?t, The Police lia.ctte, Harpers Weekly. Frank Leslie's Ulutrtted, cw York Illustrated News, Wilk's Sp;rit of thr Times. Porter's Si irit of i'v Tuiirs. !UMHUS. Yankee Notions, X .c Na, Comic M inthlv. Frank Leslie's Ifu.lretof Fun .'. P. K. June's "els, Kmer?on Bennett's Novels, Capt. M.irrvelt'j " 'h i" Pickenx " P:iid Uattlehead " i. W. M. Kev nold's " T. S. Arthur's " Ku'ie!ie Sue's " X. Y". Clipjier, acientihe American. Vanity Fair. '4itfo JOHN MOiaus.tN, Jr., Proprietor NEW CASH STORE IVcAV O oods, Yo, 2, Hay House FWIIK citizens of Shelhy countv are re-sp'-ctfully ruUified I thatat thi al.ove l'H-ation they will alnaitlj.ia full assortment of of every ai iiole pcrtaiiiins to the BUY GOOBS Trade, bousrhtat the Lowest Uas for cash, and w ill be sold lor the same. I shall aiui to ktcp my st.ck of LADIES DRESS GOODS CLOTHS, CASSDIEUES, TWEEDS, 1 Jl 11 11 o 1 s , Sc 13 . nil and complete. TT ivinl ad a nu-nN-r of y w rxnerf tnce in the trade. I profess some knowledircof the lm-ine aud exercise the same in the selection of n;y ir-ods, and it ia eldoui thatau inferior article ii almel upon me. I have on hand the remnant of a Iai-.'e st x-k of READY-MADE CLOTHING. which was purchased Ivfire tho raise. and will positively l old at first cost, to cioe out the stck. A full line of BOOTS Sz SHOES, XInts nucl Caps. Don't be deceived, hut call and evvmine mystoek lefore furchasine elsewncre. icuit-u.icr tne piaoe. -o. ivaj blouse li uck. 5i PEUUY I1ITTEL. NEW STOCK JUST RECEIVED AT THE TOST OFFICE MUG STOKE HA VIVO purchased the stock and fixtures herete'oe kept by S. W. Morgan, and having largely incre this th same. I am now prepared to say to tlie citirens rfrio-i city and Shelby county that hereafter I w ill he enahle.1 to ivcomm.Hiate m v customers witkevery thine belorsine to the various branches of the PllUG A. A POT II EC A RY TR Al'E. Particular ottent;n ciren to PRESCRIPTION'S Nicht nd day this part of the bu-ineM we can attend to i n cou section with principles of Science and Chemistry. PHYSICIANS will tind my stivk full and complete, and prices as low as the lowest. Theol j.-et in m.v business shall t to taii-fr the war.u and wUhca ul'.ue puliiic, and not the money. A Cill ia soUc.ud. mtellj .XL.. IEEFERS.

Eye and Ear Infirmary.

J. W. PARRISH, M. D., Oculist and Aurist, AND ! GENERAL SURGEON, ; Inrii..ixy on ILirrin Street, Ileiss building, South of j 0'jra"s Hardware store, upsuirs, j tllU.BVVILLk. lsD. , T JIREAT; a'.I diseases of the Eye and Ear. He will oper- , JL ateor. Cataract. Artificial Pupil, I'terygium, Strabismus ',cro-s Ejf.-), and ill treat Cojes of Sora Eyes, such as i UruLiiilat-.-l Li I-. 1'uruktil Utlialiuiar1, Opacities of Cornea, ! tc. All forms of CHRONIC DISEASES Treuled nn Scientific Principles. rriotIi Extracted With mure skill and LEiS PA1X than ia usual in this de partment of Surety-. fc'Jl tlo SHELBY COUNTY BRANCH OV THE ational Claim Agency OF WAsIIIXGTOX CITY, D. C. COMH'CTED BY IIAHVEY. COLLINS ds BRACE, General Government Agents and Attorneys, 475 Seventh Street, West, Washington City, D. C. ! ims Presents and Prosecutel before the Departments and Court of Claims. Pntents. Pensions. Bounty and Bounty Lands secured. JjjGeneral Bufiness Transacted, Fred. L. Hrvet, Jso. F. Collins, Jrurs Brack, of Uaau.iig ton city. ofXew-York, of Cincinnati. We rive personal attention to procure PENSIONS, BOUNTIES. BOUNTY LANDS. BACK PAY, fcc, accruing to Soldiers who have leen wounded, contracted disease, er the families of sucj as hare died or lieea killed while in the disj charge of their line of duty, as such, during the present or ; any previous war ; claims against the Government for injeeinnity for private property taken for puhlic uses, or for ! damages to such property ; collectinc, suhsisting, drilling ana oi jrajuzini volunteers ; and for horses lost in the service. ..Vl ctarge in "v cf. imlexs fvcefu1 . 1IE.JA?1I. F. DAVIS, ATTORNEY AND COI SSELLOR AT LAW, Feb.26,"C3. AGEXT, Sheli.jTille, Shelby Co., Ind. BOOTS and SHOES AT bLD PRICES. ! flnF. undersirretl tak.s pleasure in gayinirto the people m 01 .-"en s in.; i nai r.e nas opened in tne room occupied I y C. J. MURK ISOX as a Jewelry Store, a large and well se'ectej stuck of Boots and Hlioe rH KB. HATS AND CAPS, Bouv-ht direct of the manufacturer and before the late heavy advance thervfoi c I can sell poods in my line from 10 to SiO per cent Cheaper than any one that bought recently. Call and Examine my Stock, which embrace every vanity of Boots and Shoes, Ladies Walking Boots, Gaiters, Balmorals, Rubbers, Hats and Caps, Hosiery, Suspenders, &:c. I mi jlit er!.i i:e upon the merits nf my merchandise, hut prefer that my irooOs shall tell their own s-torv, and as to rr.n is. 1 .n!y cue to siy that I can oiler Mine Iwreains which wouM tempt a mi-er. Come then and exchange your Okklmu- ks f..r things that will f ive y u more pleasure, aud at the tV-m.e time tctifv ti vur uood taste. 1 s.-.v to nil. I will s.11 as UliEAP as. orCHEAPER than any oil" r h. ue in t'ris pla.v. r.nd I rm?anjiit what I say. lleiivuiK-r tt.-j la.v. S' nih s..':e of the Public Sniiare, two doors st oi FAsiLABi.s. Air.W-0.u J. D. S.1IITII. FOR DYSENTERY AND DIXON'S AliOJIATIC. Blackberry qarminative Is the only safe and sure cure. It contains no opium or deleterious drugs, no mineral or other injurious compounds common to remedies generally sold for this class of disease. It is so efficacious that Physicians very generally use it in their practice in all chronic and dangerous cases. rir" Use no Cholera mixtures or doubtful compositions, (many of which undermine and ruin the constitution.) when you can obtain an unfailing remedy as simple and safe as Blackberries themselves. Ask for Dixox"s Blackberry Carminative, and see that the proprietor's name is written on the outside wrapper of each bottle. Prepared only by SoU Proprietor. CIXCIXVA TT For sale by all respectable druggists. Price, (old style, 35 cts.) 25c, 50c. and 51, per Bottle. Dentistry ! DU. J. K. JAMESON 0ffr5his professional services to the community of Shelby. ville and viciuity. llavini had atumher of years practical experience he feels confident of his ability to five entire satisfaction to all who may favor him with a call. FLAT!: WOUK. TEETH FILL,l.r. E.XTKACTIXi, A:., , Dom on short cctice and in the most appro red manner. Offie on Harrison street, a te iogxi Xofji f K-lHott ft. Ik.' ir iiiikiti lioase. ecl3-U

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ATT IMPORTANT ARTICLE J"LUJ- iUUIUilUi

Tho Radical Against Mr. Republicans Protest Lincoln's Renomination An Arraignment ot his course. . From the New York New Nation, (Fremont Radical Republican organ.) May 21st. ' FOIt CLEVELAND. ! The time has come in the language of he 1 call for the Cleveland Convention for all J independent men, all who are jealous of the j national liberty and greatness, to unite in a common effort to oppose an insurmountable barrier against the flood of shame and ruin that is pouring over the country from Washington, and threatens to bury even the American name. Inaugurated in error and cowardice, the present Administration tended inevitably to the painful end which we have before our eyes. Error as to the true bearing and character of the contest ; error as to its probable duration ; looking only upon compromise as a possible solution of the struggle, and protecting in slavery the very

source of the conllict, the Administration of j jieriment of a generation will hardly cettle j lollows : Mr. Lincoln could only and inevitably tertni- jthe question. So far the nero has suffered! "A contract for the surrender of the transnate in the half measures whicliYrnlin! the worst of calamities under the process, i MisMasippi country to the United States was crises and never conclude them ; cowardice i He is enticed or forced into the armies to I made between the Government of the United in dealing with foreign powers, which did I fi 'ht for a covernment that has not been his, i States and Kirby Smith, commanding the

not uius.li to assimilate tnemseives to revolt-1 ed criminals under the name ot belligerents; cowardice in dealing with England imperiously demanding the Trent prisoners, notwithstanding the open manifestation of the popular will; cowardice in dealing with Louis Napoleon, who insolently treads the Monroe doctrine under foot and slaps us in the face with its fragments, stained with Mcxican blood; cowardice toward the whole world, in suffering, without reprisals, oor commerce and our flag to be insultod in every sea by pirates issuing Irom the ports of powers which make war upon us under the shelter of neutrality ; every where cowadice. Americans! is this the device which our fathers left us ? Is it this which we shall

leave to our children? Without energy for: suffer, but their position at last will coinpengood, without force against evil, and without sate for it all.

intelligence to foresee and to direct, what j nas oecome oi our liberties, and what has j become of the immense resources of every kind, put by patriotism at the discretion of our executives Our liberties! wehaveseeu them succumb, one by one, without a murmur, without a single popular protest to vindicate right and justice outraged; military pro-consuls have every where replaced the law by caprice, and the Judge by the Provost Marshal ; the habeas corpus no longer exists, and the capricious bell of Mr. Seward sends, without power of resistance, the best citizens of the Kepnblic to dream in a dungeon over our lost liberties. There is not a citizen tc-day who can be secure in going to sleep at night, that he will not awake acrirninol not by the law, but by the w ill of a pro counsul or his agents. That which England would hate defended to the last drop of her blood, that which is the most glorious appandago of the Anglo Saxon race, its prida in, and its attachment and respect for the liberty of the citizen, we have abandoned without a protest. Are we descendants of those sturdy Saxons who never knew how to Lend their heads, or are we the effeminate sons of the Latin race, of whom servility is the distinguishing characteristic ? In fighting for universal liberty, are we going to surrender our own ? Our national wealth is following in the wake of our liberties. The resources heaped up by a century of persevering labor, that prosperity which was the envy of the world and cur just pride, is flowing off at the rate of four millions of dollars a day, into the pockets of contractors, scattered and wasted by incapacity on the battle-field, and by corruption in public transactions, l'rostrate, ruined, and dishonored. have we at least the consolation to see all i these sacrifices crowned by victory over our enemies? Judge for yourselves. After three years of voluntary impotence, aftor having steadily drained our wealth and our blood in such a wav as iust to carry our ex

istence along far enough tobring us exhaust ? and taken care of by the latter just as he ed to the moment of a Presidential election, j has been. Hight or wrong, as Abraham the Administration drawing together for a j Lincoln says, there will be the end of it. supreme last effort all the force of the nation. Present experiment may sacrifice the instakes its existence on a last card in order to . tt rests of thousands of this generation, and perpetuate itself in power, or, il it falls, to j many of the negro race may be destroyed leave with its sueessor only a ruin and the j Thousands may be free, in a "state of poverty remembrance of a greatness destroyed for , ;.nd destitution. The mas will serve the aver. j w bite man as before. The question ofth All our resource arc engaged, not in thoe ! slavery of the black race will settle itself.it c mbats of civilized people where modern j last in spite of parties. If the North and

science wins victory while it spares life, but . t .1 l-r. 1.1. iu a human hecatoiut , like the recorded struggles of barbarian autiquity, where masses take the place of intelligence, and where exhaustion and death take the place of victoTV !V muiiii'ii ui uamuifj loci jiih , un " .11 1 -.i u 11 j ' .1 .-ir- trill murk with her lilooiiv nnirer tins ferocious butchery, a shame to humanity and a stain upon this age of civilization and pro gress. We have, lost at least 40,000 men in lesj than ten days; we push forward even our militia, what afterward? Is it enough to pay dearly the ignoranceof those who instead of leading our men to victory lead them to death? The imagination refuses to look at the consequences of a disaster in such circumstances. Under this Administration, sold to foreigners by fear or by interest, we have seen that saddest and most incredible spectacle of the work of our ancestors baffled and overthrown before it had yet reached a century of existence, but which was also a centurv of unexampled prosperity. Shades of Washington, of Jefferson. of Jefferson, nf! Monroe and Jackson, of AJams, ot Unv, of Webster, and of Benton, tell oyr countrymen if you recognize that Jvepublic which you knew how to make so great! Bioody shade of the heroes of independence, you w ho founded the Republic by heroism aud suffer ing against the numbers and the treasures of England, rise up and tell us it you recognize your battles of giants where energy and valor supplied the place of numbers, in these human hecatombs where patriotism succumbs under incompetence! Come forward ! Touch with vou finger the bodies of these contractors swollen with the people's gold, mocking at the devastation and smiling over the national ruin : touch and tell us if your antique virtue realizes the existence of these human vultures! People! There is yet time for you to rise up. There is yet time lor you to pass in review the acts of a guilty Administration, which has betrayed your confidence, and to arrest its course The moment has come to launch out from the new world the great truth tb.it administrations are maia by the

I rP and frr the people, not tue people jor the administration ; anj that howsoever

'great may be their forbearance for their serivants, howsoever long may be their forgetfulness ot their interests, wiien the measure is full the people declare that they alone are sovereign and chance their Administration. The time has come to change that which for three years past has occupied the White House; the time has come to clean out the Augean stables and to select the Hercules charged with that task. On to Cleveland ! Negro Question. There are some things that the higher or lower law can't manage. There are natural necessities more conclusive than military necessities. The negro question is one of them. ! Power enough can release the negro from his iiMkter: but power can't make the make the negro a cipation, if the ne - n himself amongt white man. After emanc white men, by whom ho will be eurrounaea, thf-n there would be a success : but the exand in which he must tate a suuorumaie .place, if the history of the . . , ! past is to oe any rmde. lie must risk his life and shed his i blood at the instigation of the white man, who will ouly regard him as a negro after his service. Thus hundreds of thousands have been seduced from comfortable homes to Buffer all sorts of destitution; to perish of hunger and jdiwase. The details of these thincs ar shocking, were it not that they are negroes, and the up roar amongst white men throws all the pass ive suffering and misery of the negso into the back ground. After a generation ot suuering, we are told that they will do better. In passing from slavery to freedom they mu9t Almichtv God may require martyrdom of man. lor He controls all things at present and to come; but who has "riven to man the authority to martyrize one generation for the good of posterity ? We understand that a man may of his own choice make a martyr of himself from his own sense of duty, or for tho benefit of others; but we have never heard that it was his right to impose martyrdom on another. It is not ours to sacrifice this generation of negroes to benefit the next. ' 1 he future destiny of the race is not in our hands. We have no more right to promise the negro that he will better the condition of his race by following our counsel thon the Devil had to promise all the kingdoms of the world for service to himself. We can only guess what a change of the status of the negro will produce on his fate. 4 ' 1 ' .C It is certain that the transfer cf the negro to this country has been a great blessing to the race. The discipline of slavery has elevated him in the state of being, so that after its operations for generations, the race is now far superior to what it ever Iias been in the world. The fact of their rapid increase shows that they enjoy a full share of the comforts of life. I t remains to be proved that he can live, improve and multiply under any other system. Emancipate the negro, and one of these results will follow: He will maintain himself in competition with white men, or he will perish under that competition; or he will fall back into a system similar to the one from which he emerged, or fn in w hich the white man tried to drag him. The first, emancipation zealots begin to see is impossible; at any rate .just now. The second might happen but for -the white man's interest. The negro can be made useful, and, therefore, he will be cared fr, and hence weconvlude that, in spite of higher laws or lower laws managed by man, after this cruel and bloody experiment is over, tho negro will be th servant of tlie white man; to be employ- . . . . . outh were agreed thev could not produce much change in the status of the negro. - j Louisville Dtmocrat, Loyalty. . . t-i-i f i It i 10 ihe Editor of the ISostun Courier : I j " " A rather amusing incident happened at on? of our hotels recently. Some gentlemen were discussing the result of the recent sword vote at the Metropolitan fair in New York, j a loud talking ra-iicai was auaung on j te votes ot tne lotaicv; 1 orsers iorurani, and said McClellan kept company with trai tors. Ac. Aouiet individual offered to bet $100 that the radical could not give the definition of the word loyalty by any dictionary published in tho English language. The rad ical squirmed and hesitated, did not bet money, fcc; but finally the gentleman offered to bet him wine for the crowd, which he took reluctantly ; and then tho radical undertook to give his views of loyalty, and said it meant one who supported the Government, c. 1 he landlord was caiiei upon tor aaicnon . ary. and proauceu .i.mnson a. wwr a combined, published ia Boston in lio3, which j gives L.oyai UDCdienc, irue 10 inc prince, uiuuful in love, true to a lady, or lover. Loyalist One who professes common adherence to a king, with fidelity to a lover. Loyalty Firm and faithful adherence to a prince, fidelity to a lady or lover. The company unanimously decided that the radical had lost, and it cost him a half, dozen bottles of Madame Cliqnot ; and he went away a wiser, if not a Letter man. Uxiox. It may also be proper to here add that there has never been but two classes of men in America claiming to be loyal the Tories of the devolution who adhered to the idiot King, George the Third, and their direct dej scendants the abolitionists of to-day, who ad here to the Buffoon President, Aba the First, Thev are identical ia de.ign and sentiment,

! DOln honS a Republican formcf government' ni stminr. the one to retain and the ether .

to ereate. a despotism and titled nobility. i An Extraordinary Statement. i The TJ. S. Government Contracts with Kirby Smith for the Surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Country-: Proceedings of Cotton Plunderes : Breaking up the Arrangement. j From the Missouri Democrat ( administration Taper ) j Information of a peculiar and grave char- j acter, intimately involving the welfare of the, country, comes to us from a highly responsiI ble source, and is of such a nature that we' should not be justified in withholding it from l.u - i,.. i i L. e i J,ubllC;, sonalIy knowm nothing of vw "c Btiriucui m lh.e. language iq which it is made to ui, as f i r..i . i ,l" .' uicfs west oi me -u9is5ippi itiver, v-uscy unu uuuer oein tne agents ot both ponies in matins the terms of ncreement Casey is from Chicago, and Uutler was form-! erly State Treasurer cif III the confidence of the Administration. "The information is derived direct from Casey himself. "The terms of the contract are as follows: ' Kirby Smith agreed to retire from the country with his crmy and then disband it; he would destroy no property, but on the contrary, surrender all Confederate cotton to the United States Government "la order to increase the amount to be thus given up, he was largely engaged in its purchase from private parties, "paying for the same double the amount offered by the agents of the rebel government, and then branding it 4C. S. A.,' that there might be no difficul ties in the Wav of confiscation nii.liinra liW tllA t'niloil S'lntna I ; . w .... v. vu .v .1, "In return, the United States Government agreed to guarantee the sole exit from the country to Kirby Smith and his officers, and pay for all cotton surrendered twenty cents per pound in foreign exchange; with which money Smith & Co., were to retire to Europe. The government also agreed to respect private property and to prevent devastation and plunder by the troops in their iuar;h into the interior. "Casey asked whether private parties might not engage in the business of buying Smith's cotton, and replied that the matter had gone too far with the government "Brigadier General Ellet, commanding Marine Brigade, knew the fact of this arrangemant, but it is not certain whether Major Jjeheral Banks was aware of.it fr nor. f , . "When General Pinks started on his expedition up Ked Kiver, Casey expressed a fear tiiat Banks would do some act that would interfere with the fulfillment of the contract. "It appears that General Banks and Ad miral Porter had colluded in a gigantic cot ton speculation and swindle. They have been seizing all the cotton they could lay their hands upon, and if it belonged to private parties they would brand it 'C. S. A.,' and then confiscate it; and they were also plundering the country iu both acts grossly violating the terms of the agreement between the United States Government and Kirby Smith. "Kirby Smith seeing his hopes ol a retirement in ease and wealth thus dashed, and the cotton he had boucht with his pritate means, together with his prospective riches thus snatched from his grap, was driven to madness and desperation : instead, therefore. of retireing from the country he was making as much resistence as lay in Ins power, and was burning the cotton he would otherwise have gladly delivered to tho United States Government "Major General B.mks may have been ig norant of the contract aforesaid ; but it an pears he has abandoned his duties as commander of an army, and neglected the real points of the campaign for the purpose of lining his rockets with cotton thus sacrificing the efficiency and safety of his army and tha success of the cause to his own personal profit Had he been successful he would have defied the anger of the Administration, which his interference with their plans will excite, and have thrown himself upon the populace, who will ever judge of a man's actions by the degree of success. A Picture from tho Past. Allison, the historian, has given a picture of the state of things resulting from the paper money system of England, adopted to defray the expenses of the war against France at the close of the last and beginning of this cen'Jury. The following paragraph from his history tells the story : "The employment of paper money by Great Britain, was permitted, no doubt, only in order to carry on a continuous war, and to maintain for years the largest armies ever before raised by a nation. But to this system must also be attributed the final results, which are as disastrous as the first effects were ben eficial and glorious, ihe augmentation of prices, the diminished value of moner, the in crease of expense6, the propagation ot ambitious ideas, and extravagant habits amongst all classes of society, reckless speculation, prodigal living and frequent financial reverses, immense wages, a general appearance of prosperity and demoralization among the laboring classes, a fluctuation of prices without parallel at any period of the world, the creation of certain fortunes and the destruction of certain others, in fact, a universal ditorder, which in its consequences is almost equal to the disaster of revolution." A still more graphic sketch is given by the illustrious Cobbett in the official letter, wherein he reviews the causes of distress, without precedent and without remedy, by which England expatrated its ephemeral opulence of the preceding years : "The progress of our ruin has not been as rapid as was expected by some, still the num ber of our poor has been increasingjince the year 1 tyi. 1 he tanners and merchants had the appearance ot prosperity, but it was a delusive appearance, produced by the bloated paper money. The increased taxes, and

the pauperism itjcnt&iled, carried destractioa tJ the very heart of the conimuniry. Th small farmers have become day laborers; th day laborers have gon one after the other to the poor Louses. The little iarma. formerly the witnesses of so many sctnes of frugality, industry, morality anl Lappiness, haye seen one after the other the misery of their occupants ; the land of which they irere formed Lave gene to swell the domains of the large proprietors of the parks of the lately enrich ed. The cottages of the laborers hsr become sheds for cattle or have fallen to ruins ; meanwhile the roofs of the bouses of charity am to be sen throughout the corintry. Daring the reign of Pitt and of his successors there was an immense insrease in the mansions and villas around the metropolis, tut during the same period how many thousands of peaceful hamlets have been abandoned All this has come from the pernicious system, of taxes and paper mony. ' A Moity of Truth. "Cleaveland," the Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, is unquestionably one of the best informed and fairest writers now corresponding for the newspaper press from that Galconda of lies. Under data of the 26th, in freaking of the movements of Gen. Sherman, in Georgia, he writes : The Administration continues, if we may believe the rejorts,- to receive the most glorious and encouraging news from the army of Geneial Sherman in Georgia. He certainly is making a rapid advance into the interior of that great State; the rebel army falling back before him. Every thing would appear to be going on swimmingly, but being in company with some military men last evening, 1 heard apprehensions expressed ot different character. It was feared that Sherman, with Lis natuaral impetuosity, was going t h) far from his base of operations, and that when bis lines became so extended as to require a large -onion of his force to keep opeu the communication, the rebels would fall upon his weakened line, as they did upon General Uosecrans at Chicamauga, and inflict a terrible disaster upon it Defeat to General Sherman, in Lis present position, would be almost ruinous. In speaking of the operations of Grant ho says : Since the defeat of Butler's columns on th James, and Sigel in tlie Shenandoah Valley, the whole contest for the poesion of Bicnmond lies between Grant and Lee. As I intimated in my last. General Grant has been compelled, by the force of circumstances, to change his base of operations and seek another road to Uichmona. Even his iron will at last recoiled from driving an army up to the assault of Lee at SpottsylTania, and recognized the fact that after all the bloody sacrifice of so many thousands of men and gallant spirits had been, and probably w iild continue to In, vain. Thi change of programme will be widely heralded by a prostituted telegrarh and by base and lying pens as a wondrous feat of military strategv. It will be claimed that it was a splendid flanking movemo.t, and that every thing has b en gained by it Nothing is thought t k great for the credulity of our people. The exposure of a deception to-day only leads to the perpetration of a more monstrous one to morrow; and it is believed by some friends .f the Administration that they can go on forever cheating the public and yet be believed. I do not know but that they can, for we Americans are a generous and impulsive rather than a reasoning people, and are always disposed to believe according to our wishes and ho', rather than to our judgment and cool reflection. the ruoPi;ALiTr or ghat. There is soine quiet criticism made in radical Republican circles uj-.n Genaral Grant for his prodigality and extravagance in the destruction of men. The more discreet among them say that be errs as far upon the side of rashness as Gener.fl MeCleilan did upon that of prudence and timidity. It is claimed that

he would soon exhaust the resources of one hundred millions of people by the dashing intrepidity with which he leads the soldiers up to the enemy's works and to the assault of strongly fortified and impregnable positions. They declare that while they wanted a man of boldness and energy, they" wanted it combined with more prudence and discretion than he evinced in leading Lis gallant soldiers up to hopeless slaughter before the intrenebments of Spctrsvlvania, where they were mowed down like grass before the siythe. and where success was utterly impossible THE LESIONS OF THE ADMI7TTSTEATI0X. He foreshadows the heretofore suepectesl designs of the administration to effect a permanent dissolution of the Union : It is a great mistake to suppose that Mr. Lincoln desires to entirely destroy the Southern Confederacy. He wants enough left to accommodate all the disaffected intno border States (a Botany Bay, as he occasionally call it.) so reduced in population ani territory as to insure her good behavior in the future. This policy is" forshadowed in the apparent indifference of the Government to military matters in the Cotton States. Nearly the whole of that country have a few prominent points useful for cotton speculation are now in the hands of the Confederates, and they will be abandoned when peaoe i mad.- upon the line of So: 30. Some of the leading men of the Administration party have urged from the start that thereshouli be two Confederacies or Governments, the one f r those who believd in the justice of the Southern cause, and who have raised their arms to destrow the Union ; the other for those who favored the cause of the North. They urge that it will be then demonstrated the superiority of a free over a slave Kepnblic, of nnitv over secession and dxsnnioa This policy would, in my opinion, raise th 1 Administration and the Government in the credit of the world. It would L regarded by all Christendom as one of the most magnanimous and christian acts ever performed by a Government to a .defeated, mistaken, but nevertheles, brave and gallant people, struggling for nationality. To. Yolcvteer.- Please permit me to tna gest the name of Dr. J. S. Athon, the present noDular and efficient Secretary of State, as a. j most suitable person for our next Governor, j subject to the decision of the fctate Conren- ! tnn. JoaxM. Bmwi.