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              v .1 .1' A. - - - - . --- h . " . - . I fl I I I i I - i "S. I J J I I t I I I I II I 1 ' 7 -" J V X if 1 111 I I II I I II 1 I f 11 i i VOLUME XXV. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO : TUESDAY, OCTOBER m 1861. NUMBER 27, .at ii 'a i I . i v i . - i i t ii ii i ". it i. ii i ii i i i ii i i ii i i ( rvsLiiHBP ihit ToiiDir iouui, Df L. UAH PER. Ofls in T7oiiTtrd'i Block, Third Story ' K RMS Two DolUrs par tnnum, payable in d r e; 92.50 within six moaUu; ,00UMr ux plr tion of th y er. OUR COUSTBY. On primal rocki tba wrota bar name; . Her towen were reared on holy frarei ; The ffoldea fdd that bora bar cam : Swift-wicga J with prayer o'er oeeaa warea. The fortet bowed hi solemn ereit. And open flung bit aylran doora ; Meak Rivera lad tba appointed Ouet To elp tba wide embraoinjr abaraa; ' Till, fold by fold, the broidered land To awell her rirgin rettmenta grew, While Sgef, itrong in heart and hand, Her Tlftne'a ery girdla draw. O exile of the wrath of kings ! O Pilgrim Ark of Liberty I The refuge of dirinait things, -. Their record must abide in thee ! First in the glories of thy front Let the crown jewel, Truth be found ; Thy right hand flung, with generous wont, Lore's bapy chain to farthest bound i . Let jartire. with the faul tiers scales, HM fast the worship of thy sons; Thy C mn-erca spread for shining ssils M'hera no dark tide of rapine runs. So link thy ways to those of Qod ; : . go f')ll-w firm the heavenly Jaws, Tbst stars may greet thee, warrtor-browed And ctvra sped Angels bail thy cause T ' ' - - - 0 land of measures of our prayers, : Hor of the world in rnef and wrong, Ba thine the tribute of the years,-The gift of iaith, tba crown or ang ! Atlantic Monthly for October. :-. TO DEATH. - Why is it. Death, that thou dost euU ur best loved and tba beautiful, ; To swell tby list? But Cometh on, with step profound, . -And all the weary senses drown In sorrow's mist. . "Why is it? in the morn of life, VThen some, just arming tr the strife, Are strickeD di wn ? Ere they have girt their aruiur on, - Into thy cold embrace be drawn. - To wear thy cruwu ? Why is it -light froni beaming eyes,-With hues like some bright kis, : So soon is qiienchci T . And those who in my b'om lie, '. l"orwhom (to save them) we could die From us be wrenched ? Why is it that the yonnr, the fair. And thM that bavmiur warmest prayed, - 1 CUtril n nm.) And taken Vom tao luviux Leart, And sut by the rcHior'-le8!lart, To meet tL.lr Jouiu ? Mortal I question not thepnwer, That sent me in Jhat darksome hour, : To do "His Will." But trusting, l-jun upon his arm. For be will h eld them from tno storm; Then ''Pease be still." I coma not, then, as Terror's Kin, To make the earth with sorrow ring, but to release The soul from the prison-house of clay, Where it has lingered day by dy Thou art the Prince of Peaee." Aad to the desolate and the weary, When all earth looks dark and dreary, I theu come To them, a welcome messenger. Relieving thm from toil and care, And bear them home. The best loved and the beautiful, ; From tfe .nU.I often cull, - Though many a tear be riven ; For where toe heart is, there's the treasure, And thus, (iod teaches you with pleasure, - To turn your hearts to Heaven, AN APPEAL FOR OLR ARMY. IT bat Is Wanted for winter. The Sanitary Commisiion to the Women - of America. The army Sanitary Com mission has issued the following appeal to the Woooeu of America it behalf of the soldier of our army. The approach of the cold sea ton require the immediate adop tioo of mea ur.a for the protection of our troop gain! the discomfurU of a wioler campaign, and this appeal will, we l rust, awaken a hear tj response from the people. To the Loyal Women of America. Tueasuur' Bcildixg, Washington, ) . October 1, 1861. J Conntrywomeo : You are called upon to help take care of our sick aad wounded soldier and aailor. It is true that government undertake their -care, but all experience, in every other country a welt as oar own, show that govern men t alone aonol completely provide for the humane treatment of thoe for whom the duly of providing a well a poasibU i acknowledged. Even t thi period of lb war, and with a much smaller pro portion of sick and wounded than i to be expected, there i much Buffering, and dear live are daily lot became, government cannot put the right thing is lb right place at the right time.-No other government bae ever provided a well for its soldier -soon after the breaking out oi a war of this gnitude, and jet it remains true that there I much suffering, aad that death n ascessarilr occurs from the im perfect nea of the goverameot arrangemenU. Tbiais parti owing to the Ignorance, partly to lha indolence, and partly to lha inhumanity aod knavery of various agents of govern mnt, as well M to tba organic defects of the system. ., Bat humanitj to the sick most, to ft certain extent, b sacrificed, aoder foveraaaat, to the parpoea of securing lha o fbost possible strength and efficiency to the milt iary force.-" " " - . ' - ' , Whatever aid is to be given from without must atill ba adtaiautered sstemaUcallji aod in perfect sabordiuatioa to tha general sjstem of ad' raiaUtratioa of the goverumeat, To hold iu jeoU la an degTaa rapaasibie fot tha daties with which the are charged, government must protect them from the interference of irresponsible persons. Hence an intermediate ajrency become necessary, which, without taking any of ike duties of the regular agents of government out of their hands, can, nevertheless, offer to them means of administering to the want of the sick and wound ed much beyond what could be obtained within the arbitrary limit ofSupply established by government, and in strict accordance with the regu lations necessary for maintaining a proper ac countability to it. The Sanitary Commission, a voluntsr and unpaid bureau of the War Department of the Goverouieut. constitutes such an aeency. Uuder it present oi ganizatioo every camp and military hoepital, from the Atlantic to the I'laiua, is regularly and frequently visited, its wants as-certaioed, aaticipated as far as possible, and whenever it is right, proper, and broadly merciful, supplied directly by the Commission to the extent of its ability. For the means ot maintaining this organization, and of exercising through it a direct id tiueoce upon the officer and -men favorable to a prudent guard against the dangers of disease to which thy are subject, which is its first and principal olject, the Commiseiojo is woolly dependent upon voluntary contributions to i s treasury. -For the mean of administering to the needs of the sick and wounded, the Com mission relies upon gift offsprings of their own handiwoik from the loyal women of the land, receives not one dollar from Government. A Urge proportion of the gift of the people to toe artoy hitherto have been wanted, because directed w.thout knowledge or discrimination. It is oiily through the Commiiaiou that such gif can reach lb army with a reasonable) assurauce that they will be received where they will do the ULOt good and the leajt barm. lis oauitary uommiaatoo. - baa established its right to claim the confidence of the nation. Th crevremf j hi r Bdu air! T Uertplal aitClellSB : - it - -j if ' r-, . have both receutly acfcouwiedgt-d. in the arme8t ermg, the advantages wi.ich have already result ed Iroui its labors, aud the direction and skill with which they have beeu hitherto directe.1 i advice has been Jreely taken, and several jib portaui particular acted; uwib. favorably to the healiri ot the army, by the (joternmeut. There has scarcely been a compauy of volunteers irt the eld wberem some defect, error, or'neeliiren re. enduTitje beaith. has uot been Doihied out hr lis agents, and ltd removal or abatement effected' 14) ere has uol beeu a single instance js which i;e ee vices or auvice, onerei tnroujrti an us varioi.a agencies, havn heeu repulswd ; a sinale com plami baa been received of its euibarrasoing an oni .er iu u:s duly, or of it iuterteriug wiih dir-ciplme iu the slightest degree I s labors hnve been chiefly directed to ludui e precaution again. 1 a certfciri clasa of diseases which have scurued almost evtry modern Euriptao army, which decimated our army ia Mexico, aud which, at one time, rendered nearly half of one of our armies iu the war of 1812 unfit fur service. It is a ground for national gratitude that our present arttiies have pnssed taroutrh the most trying sea on of the' year. oiiderfullr esiaoine this dinner. labors o? tie LjSi uiimiimi cannot be omibted, but that, among human agencies, a large share of credit for it should be jziren to th labor, it is neither arrojaut nor unreasonable to assert. In this, ansuraiice, what contribution thitt - has hitherto' been made to the treasury" or to the store of the Coiumissioo is uot' received back ajtain tenfold hi valun? : More thau fifty thousand article have been received by the Commission from lbtr countrywomen. It is not known. that one sent to i hem has tailed to react) us destination, nor is n.r one that cannot be accounted tor. It is PunS-deud.v believed that there has not been of laie a rule case of severe illness in the army of the Poiomac, uor wherever the. organization of the Coiitmissioii has beeu completely, extended, in which some of these articles have not udioinit-teied to the relief of suffriti?. After au iutimaie and confidential conference with the Secretary of War, the commander 01 1 be Army of the' Potomac and the Quartermaster (ieuer.il, there is reason to solicit with urt'eney a lurge increase of the resource at the command ot the Cotniuisioti, especially of that eUss ot. its resourced upou which it must chit fly draw fur the relief of the sick and wounded. The experience ot the Com mission ha ao well acquainted it with ihe earnest wih of the women of the North to he allowed to work in the nation a) cause, that it is deemed unnecessary to do more t lan auiiounce that there is a real and in-rnediate occasion for their, best exertions, and to indicate convenient arrangements for the end iu view. - : It is. therefore, suggested that societies be at once f rmed in every ueijfhborhood where they are uot already established, and that existing so-Cietie of suitable, organization, as Dorcas Societies, Sewing Societies, Heading C obs nnd S cieiie9evote themselves, for a lime, to the s;i-cred son ice (f their country; that energetic and respectaole committees be appointed 10 call from house to house and store to store, to obtain con-iribuliious in materials amiable to be made up, or money for the purchase of such maierii ; that collections be made iu churches aud schools and factories aud shops, for the same purpose ; that cotanbution boxes b placed in posti-ffices newspaper offices, railroad and telegraph office, public houses, steam boats and ferry boats, and in all other suitable places, labled - For. the sick and- wounded and all" loyal women meet at such . conveuieut' time arid, places sr . may be agreed upon in each neighborhood rr social circle, to work upon the mslerials which shall be prp-cored.Every woman in the country can, at .the least, knit a pair if wooleu stockings, or, if not, cau purchase them. In each town let there be concert on this ufj-'Ct taking care that three or our sizes are provided. Fix upon a place for receiving, and a date wbeu the package shall be transmitted, and send it as soon as possible to the most convenient of the depots of the Commission. Descriptiok or articles Most Needed. Blanket for single beds ; quilt of cheap material, about ieven feet loug by fifty incbe wide; kuit woolen socks; woolen or canton-flannel bedgowns, wrappers, under shirts and drawers, mall hair and feather pllows and cushions for wounded limbs; slippers. Delicacies for tba sicksuch as farina,arrow-root, coro-atarch, cocoa, condensed milk, and nicely dried fruit can be advantageously dib-tiibuted by the Commission. Jellies should be careful) prepared to avoid fermentation, and moat securely packed. &aov articles of clothing have beta ioiored, in packages heretofore seut to tba Commission, bj "ae breaking , of jara and bottles. Over aver veau! coouinieg jelly strew whita sogar to tha depth ot half aa inch, and pasta stoat paper (not brand ied) aver tba mouth. Jellies sent in stone bottles arrive ia best condition, anl there is bo difficult ia removing 'the contents for use. Ever bottle, Ac, containing jellies should be labelled. Aromatio spirits and waters, light, easy chairs for convalescents, nicely made splints for wounded limbs, chequer and backv'uaooa boards, aad like article to the amusement of wounded meu, books for desultory reading, and magaaiaes, espacially if iilustra ted, will ba asefaL .-' All articles should ba closely packed Jo wood ( aa box as. or la very atroag ' wrapped balsa, aid clearly directed. Ob tha top Of tha content of each box, uuder the cover, a list of what it coo tain should be placed ; a duplicate of this fist abouid be sent by mail. Arrangement for free- transportation should be made, or ireigbt paid 10 advance. The express companies will gen erally convey goods for ibis purpose at a reduction of the usual rales. Packages may be di" rected and sent as is most economical, from any point to any of the addresses below ("For the (J. Sanitary Commission ) Office of the Women's Central Belief Association, Cooper Union, No. 10 Third avenue, Hew York. - . Care of Samuel and William AVelsh, No. 218 South Delaware avenue, Philadelphia ; Care of Dr. S. G. Howe, 20 Urootnfield street, Boston ; Care Soldiers' Aid Society, 95, Back street, Cleveland, Ohio; Care of Dr. W. H. Muasey, Cincinnati ; Care of Dr. C. D. Griswold, Wheeling, Virginia'; ; Care of F. L. Olmstead, 211 F street, Wshmg too, D. C. - . ; ,' Atkuowledgments will be made to all those who forward parcels, atd a 6nal report to the Secretary of War will be publUbsd, recording the names of all contributors, sc far as they ehali be k non to-the Commission. HENRY W. BELLOWS. D. D., President. Prof. A. D. Bache, L. L. D. Prof. Wolcott Gibbe. George T. Siror.g, M. D, Fred, Law Olm-, stead, Elisfaa Harris, M. D, George W. Cullum, Samuel G. Howe, M. D. U. S. A. Cornelius K Agnew, Alexander E. Sbiras, il. D U. S A. J, S. Newberry, M. D . Il-bert C. Wood, M. D Horace Binney. Jr. U. S. A.. lit. Uev. Tbos. M. Clark, D. D., William H. - Van Buren, M. D.. Commissioners under autbotity of the Secretary of War. Fred. Law Olmatead, General Secretary, Washington. A. J. Bloor, Assistant Secretary, Wash i eg. ton. . - - J. Foiter Jenkins, M. D., Associate Secretary for il e Army ot the Potomac. . J. 11. "''Douglas, M. D-, Associate Secretary for the divisions ui.der General Banks,' General D;x and General Wool. J. S. Nea berry. M. D .Associste Secretary fur the Western Armies, Cleveland, Ohio. The SaiiUnrv Commission is doing a work of great huuiamty, ai.d of direct practical value to the nation in this tune of trial. It is eu'itled to tfie pratitude aid the cot.fi lerce of the per pie. ana l trust it wni be ceuetousiv. -sut'Dorted. The e is no agency ilirough which 'voluntary of-, ferinps of patriotism (in V n.ore effectively made. A LINCOLN. WiN FlKLD SCOTT. tVashii gton, September 3D. IhUl. Number and Location of tha OMo Segi- . . -. menu. The following tatement of the numbers, com manders, place of service or location in camp of all the Ouid regiments, - will be of i uteres l to a large maj irity of our readers : . First Kesimeut, 1J,. F.S'Juitb Colonel. Cam d S-eond. L. A- Harris. Colonel. IC-ntiicky. Third, J. H. MtrroW, Colonel, Westeru Virginia. ;f - Fourth , J jho S. Ma?on. Colonel, Western Vir riiia. Fifth, S. II. Dunning, Colonel, Western ;Vii-gima. . '- '' " . : Sixth, W. K. Bosley, Colonel, WesternVirgin ia. " . -' Seventh, E. B. Tyler, Colonel, Western Vir. ginia. . lvgbtb, II. G. DePuy, Colonel, Western Virginia.Ninth. I.'jbt. L. McCoijk, Colonel, Western Virginia. Tenth, Wm. II. Ljtle, Colonel, Western Vir-gifia. '."- ".'"'''" E'eventb, C. A. De Vi lifers, Colonel, West ern Virjrinia. Twefftb, C. B. AVdite, Lieut. Colonel, Western Virginia. Thirteenth, Wm. S. Smith, Colonel, Western Virginia. . Fourteenth, Jan. B, Steedmao, Colonel, Jven-tu ky- ' -: - -" Fifteenth, Moses R. Dickev, Colonel, Kenluc- ky- :r ; Sixte nlh, J Fttzro D'Courcey, Col., Camp Titlin, Wooster. v Seventeenth, J. M. Colonel, Colonel, Kehtuiky. Eighteenth, Ti R. lau ley, Coiouel, Camp Wool, A the. 6. Niiieteeni i, Samuel Beattie, Colonel, Camp Foid, Alliance. - " Twentieth,- Chas. Whittlesey, Colonel, Camp Chase, Columbus. ; Twenty-first, Jesee S. Norton, CoioneT, Kentucky, ' Twenty-second, Win. E. Gilmore, Colonel, Camp Worthington. Chillicothe. 1'weinj-ihird, E. P, Scammou, Colonel, Wes tern Virginia. Twtgji) -fourth, Jacob Ammon, Colonel Western Virginia. . T ven u -fi fi b, James A. Jones, Colonel, Western Virginia.:.;.. Tweuty-sixth, Edward P. Fj ffe, Co'onel, Western Virgiuia. Twetitj-ieventh, Jo .n W. Buller, Colonel, Mi8Huri. Tweiity-eighlb, August Moody, Colonel, Western Virginia. . . Tweiity tiiiilh, Lewis P. Bradle, Colonel, Camp Giddiugs. Jefferson. Thirtieth, Hugh B, E wing, Colonel, Western Virginia." . Thirty-first, Moses B. Walker, Colonel, Kentucky.Thirty-second, Thomas U . Ford. Colonel, Wes teru Virgiuia. Tniriy third, Joshua Sill, Colonel, Camp Morrow, Portsmouth. .Thirty fourth, A. Saunders Piatt, Colonel, Western Virgiuia. ; Thirty-fifth, Thomas Vandervier, Colonel, Kentucky. - Thirty-sixth, Geo. Crook,, Colonel. Western Virginia. Thirtv seventh, Edward Sibert, Colooe), Western Virginia. - Thirty -eighth Edwia D. Bradley, Colonel, Kentucky. . Thirty ninth, J. Groesbeck, Colonel, Missouri. Fortieth, J. Cranor, Colouel, Camp Chase Columbus.Forty-first, Wm. B. Haxea, Colonel, Camp Wood, Cleveland. Forty-second, J. A. Garfield, Camp Chaserf Columbus. . ' Forty-th'rd, J. L, K. Smith, Colonel, Camp Chase, Columbus. f : - - Forty-foarth, Colonel, Camp Clark, 3priogfieUL. " ; - Fort j'fifih, A. C Voris, Lisut. Colonel, - Forty-sixth, T. Worthingtoa, ColoneL Camp Lyoa, Worthingtoa. - ' Forty-aevenib, F. Porschner, Colonel, Westera Virginia. , ' ..,-'"-,. -.. ....... ... Forty aighth, P. U Sallivnn. Colonel, Camp Densiaoa, ., . . . ; -. . .. ' Forty-aiath W. IL GibsOBa. CoIousL Kentucky. . FiAiatb, Uichaal C. Baa, CoIomI, Camp XXamilton UaraUtaa. Fifiy--Brst, E. McCleaa, Msj jr," Camp Meigs Canal Dover. : f Fiftj -second, Camp Dean isoo. FiftyHhird, I. I. Appier, Colooel, ColooeL Camp Diamond, Jxkon- Fifty -fourth, T. K. Smith, Lieutenant-Colonel, Camp Dennison. Fifty-fifih. Gorr H. Sffwd, Lieutenant-Colonel, Camp McCMlan, Norwalk. F.fiy-sixth. Peter Kinney, Colooe 1, Camp Mor row, Portsmouth. Fifty-seventh, Wo.. Mangeo, Colonel, Camp Venre. Find lay. Fifty -eighth, V. Bauseavein, Colonel, Camp Chase, Columbus. Fifty-ninth. James P. F;ffe, Colonel, Csmp Ammon, Ripley. . . ' Sixtieib. Wm. H. Trimble, Colonel, Camp Mitchell. HillsboroV ' - Sixty-first, Newton Schleich, Colonel, Camp Medill, Lan aster. T Six.y-seeoud, Lucius P. Marsh, Colonel, Camp Goddatd. Zanesville. oixty-tnira, w iiuam vraig, uoionei, Uamp Pui nam. Marietta, v Sixty-fourth, John Sherman, Colonel, Camp Buckingham, Mansfield. - Sixty-fifth, i , Colonel, Camp Buckini. bam, MAiisn-ld. . iiixty-sixih, James U. Dye, Lieutenant-Colon el. Camp McArthur. Urhaua. Sixt; -sevtnih. Isaac. Mi Uatnaway, Colonel, La op fjlivpr, loledo. Sixtt- eighth, Samuel 0. Stephenson, Colonel, Camp Latta. Napoleon. . Sixrj-iiinth. L. D. Campbell, Colonel, Camp Hamilton, Hamilton. . ' '- . r Seventieth, J. R. Cockerill, Colonel, West Union. ' - v ... Seventy-first, , Colonel, Camp Tod, Troy.--- ' -' - ' - :-- ' ' Seventy-second, R. P. Buckland, Lieutenant Lot.inel, Camp Croghan, hremont. - Seventy-third. Or land Smith, Colonel, Cahr.p Worth ington, Chilicothe. ' . Seventy-fourth, A. S. Ballard, Colonel, Camp ijowe, veni. Seventy-fifth. N. C. McLean', Colonel, Camp Mi Lean, near Cincinnati. - - Seventt-sixih. C. K. Wwfcrl, Colonel. Newer k SeventT--eveiith, J. Hilddbraud, Colohel, Canip ruioam, oiarietta. Military Plans of the Kebels. Il is clear that the rtbel..d not mean to figh oo anytl.tng.Iike equ-I terms. We shall not baU any great battles unless a are rash enough u. butt our heads against strong intrericliroeiits, Br at Manassas. We have already seen enough of the military operations of the rebel to get a tolerable idea of their style, aud all goes to show that the plan they have deliberately adopted f.r conducting ibis war, is to exhaust our resources and weary out our patience by compelling us to keep large armies on foot without giving us - portuuitie to keep up the military spirit of the people oy important victories. Wneu luov cn pduuee ou an infeiior furce,r lure our troops into an ami uscade, '.hey wist fijbt W .u, a uejr ..-ornroov equal t.uuTtcra they tuber retreat behind iuirenchrnent or scatter arid - run. They made a hasty retreat from Fairfax Court House previous to the battle of Buii 11 in ; they retreated from Munsoc' Hill wheti they surpeii-ed that Gen. McClellan meant to atti k them there ; Johnston retreated from bef re so ut.ei.ter prioii g a commauder as General PaHerstn "; ihe brisk campaign iu Western Virgi ia has. bet i little else than series of rebil retreats followed up by federat pursuit ; iu Missouri, wheie th- defeated Ljou and captured Mulligan by over- ahelming Vuperiority of i. umbers. Gen' Price -1. . ' 4 . .".. .. r . . .' . . jt j - .' i ' m ' . i iiiuuuui Lteaiuuioo hiiu uiviues u:s l. rft 8 Hie uiouieul he learns that Frtm?nt is advaiiciiip' ii tee neau o an army, jt is a settled principle in rebel strategy not to" fight except when thet have the natiuual troops at a d lead vunt age. i uia poncy is uiciaeu oy llie Known 'interior - it J of the military resource of the rebels." It they lose a large arnsy they cannot replace u ; and so they have deliberate) decided i.ot to incur any Serious ri-Ls. They will runke iioag-gressive u.oemei.tH into states where ihe whole population 1 loyal, for tbey thoroughly "undet- siand lUo tiisadvauiages ot. couducliitg nuhtarv operations amid hostile population, 'i'bey ii. leud that our army shall encounter these disad vantages at, every step. Tbey mean that we snail consume our strength iu fruitless and harassing marches through section of vouniry wi h which we aie imperfectly acquainted and wbete every inhabitant I an enemy. .. Tbey count on the impatience and discontent that will pVrvade the North, when enormous preparation ai.d heavy, expenses are followed by feeble r;au It. By ma king demonstrations aloiijr a ibnimauj miles of frontier, they will attempt to confine the cuu'em to the Dorder states, where they a-ill protect then,-selves gainst defeat by alwavs declining to fight on equal term. There will be no great and decisive battles, if thejebela cau help it, ixcept by th impru Imtce. of our coin mander. ? This being their plan, our method ofconluct-mg the war must look not so muth to the iu-ning of great battles as to the seizure arid holding of important strategic and commercial points. We must advance seawaid and transfer our most active military operations to the cotton " spates If we c n take Charleston, Savannah. Mub.le. and New Orleans, and , open these ports, maintaining a vigorous blockade elsewhere on the southern coast, we can afford lo leave tha rebels in other respect to the natural conseq lences of i. S 11 a a " ' - . . tnew ioiit. iney wuuta, in that case, be enm. pelled to withdraw so large a part of thir forces from the border states that ihe defense if the frontier would r comparative) easv: whiU the necessity of attempting to retake t a cbif cotton shipping cities, which had been wrested irom inem. Won Id bnnr on battle the hs of which b vhs. rebel would ba fatal to their hope. -(Ml! World. - . ; The Protectorate cf Hexleo. - Tha telegraph has made frequent mention of late, of the expedition which the Eiglish, French and Spanish governments ware fitting out against Mexico, but little has been givea of the details of the plan. From tha London Moraing Post, tha orgaa of the British MioisU, ao4 therefore' official, we gather the fullowiog items regarding it. The three governments named ' have long bad.heav claims against Mexico, which the have been aaable to collect, althoah the claim that Mexicor has had funds anongb to liqaidata them if sba had chosen. v They therafura'.are fitting oat a formidabla naval expaditioa for the Gulf of Mexico. . Arriving there, tbey will propose negotiations with; Mexico, hy wbiclTtbeir Cooiuls- shall baestabliahed St the principal seaport towns, Vera Crus, Tsmpico, &c. . The thftU retsvin ntaiulf of ibdi9 lit. eole'oid, -f i M - . for tha benefit of their fwearameata, and pay x ovar lha other half to Uexico. Tha Eost sajij this will probably be readily acquiesced in by the Mexican government, but if no', it will be carried out by force, actJ a stfiScient amount has been collected to satisfy their demands. To meet any such emergency, it says the British gov eriitxieut has now upon the West Iudian and North Americas station, twenty-six vessels if wsr-mounting five baudred guns aod carrying sixty five faucdred men. So far a Mexico ia concerned, I hi plan is not a very formidable r.or daigerous one. It is, iu fact, but a repetition of a plan once already adopted : with success and good feeling in the same country by England. If the scheme should be found to embrace any part of our own country, then it will need closer watching: The N. Y. Times thicks the extensive preparations abiib are being made for the expedition in the three countries named, and especially in Spaiu, indicate eomething further than a mere amicable blockade. SlaUsmrn. Sketch of General Eeynolds. Joseph Jones Reynolds is a native of Kentucky, but recently a citixen of Indians. He entered the Mil liry Academy at West Point at an early age, and graduated iu ...1839" with the highest hor.-ors. .On the lt of July, 1843, he was brevetted becond Lieuien&tit in the Fourth Artillery, was transferred to the Third Artillery, in May, 1S4G, and promoied to a First Lieutenancy in March, IS47. From August 1846 to 1847, Lieut. Reynolds wa Acting Assistant Professor of Ethics, lc., in tLe Military Academy at West Point, and. Acting Assistant Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy to August 1849, and Assistant Professor to 1853. He was afterwatds ProfeBsor pf Natural Philosnjhy, tc. at the WashiLgioii University, at St. L-iuis, M ., nd held that "rositiju until I cob. Oji the 28 b of February. 1857, he resigned from the army, and from that tune we have t o record of him u til the 17th of My of the present year, when Te was created a Brigadier General, and assigned to duty in. the' division eF General llosetran-. where he commanded the Indiana troops. . II is achieveiuents iu the late engSgemect at Cheat Mountain, hTe he defeated the rebels General Lee, are yet fc-rh in the menjory of our read era. ' .-. .- . ' A Picture of the War. ; "( fij era of the fl -tilla stare fri.'ni Alexindria to the ItHpf-ahai in; k river a disiai.ee f nearly l.() niileM- not m soul is visible nti the Virginia I ' ' ' 1 I -. .1 i r sn-re, i tie w noie rr.in.irv : t eoting ine n.aiK oi (leso'Hiioti.: -- No hiires. t.o entile, or ariinals ot mil kVi-d are m i n. nil i 1 1 a ; ailit le t f emoke .o note the- h,-tC-t j.C.e.''aivjli'.?.!..'-nJ-?S 'f.ei vilr, a .'-ib ble exiet.i ot "country . a-- tbOilg.ll' i I id l-e, . d. VSh'H'l d ti t. f ' t i" The Mysteties of New Yoik Legislation : A Chapter of Political Corruption. I Vi the Dutluit I'ft.-Th in vstei ies of 1'nris have Hot been republished; we hnv$ so neihng tefer before the juli he t be ':. m. s-eriei ot New Yoi k legirlHtion, of New Yolk R pu'dicau b "giblal inn, revealed by tlte Prince vf Rr pi.hiicHi.iMii. the white-crite(l "ph'irosopliei.'of'.the'- T. Hunt, "L t us not shv that i bat bud has lou'. d hi own nest ; for the soke of the revelation, we cau alford to be charita ole. -'. ' "- -'.;-. - Mr. L'ttl-j .hn. the Speaker of that immacit tHte Leoisliiure ol 1 8H0, has sued the phil ttopher lor.a iibel ui)n his chi racier. The philos-'pher 1 b ud-, and in bid d fen.se be stirs "tio that fit I V pool of legislHt.ve coiiupiion ihaii which no" fi-diier one fun be f" ui d in the annaU of American lgisiatinu In ijoijig- l Ii is. ih pliiloaopher sbt.Wji ihe ciinpny he h a kept Mtiil. a grie(ul puv:lic will give hnn the credit ut smne virtue for Hie. revelation though. he S'hm'Is in the anomal. ills iMisi.riini d' giti.i.ir S-aie'a evidence again-l the R.-publicaii party.; We will recur - to some of these "gmaiittt! trauds ot which tbe good people w trie iTipire oire nave ne.'n mane me vie lima. 1 hey will teach us to hate and to atmiliil-la e that cancer upon the bodj of Americanleg-ialat-itiii. theb-ibby system, and to purify that which ought to be kept pure. That corruption existed, we have the word of Horace Greeley thiougS his. paper, an "' Gov M'.rgan thrnigh his veto inen-age, who said that eighty ineujteis i f that Legislature received J iiri-neyr..r ther voie ; ir in t.- woroot tire ne C. Bionsou, speak'ng tu the West Washington Mttkrl Case, aud from John Mi Kean and .Win. Curtis Noye ; and thes men only spok- the uuiversai voice of the press of New i'ork, Hepub-lican aud OeuiOi-raiic. Amiiiig the fi'st charzps of corruption made Wnt that .f ihe Brokl)it Ferry Bill, The fare between New Yoik and Biooklyu waa tw c"i ' : Hie people ot Brooklyn appropriated $20 000 through ll e Com in m Council, for engineeritig a bill thro' the Legislature to leduce that fate to one cenU Tina money. und ubtedly, went to purchase the aeveuly-six votes necessary to carry that ineaeure. The Ne York City Railroad scheme was the gigantic corruption. - Their Sixth, Seventh and Kigbih aveuue railroads traverse the city up and don. fbe car seat forty, but for morning and evening travel .are cowpelieit to Carry sixty or seveuty, at great personal iii-k and laconveiiience They are said to double iheir mve.iment every six months, and tbey are the tnosi profitable investments in ihe country." iWe'-d own f 60 000. and Geo. Law tbe greater part of the rest. The necessities of the city demand that other mad should be built, but it is lor tbe iutere.ts of Lw aud Weed thai tbey should not be built. The people of Ne w York had been trying for some to get bills tbroufb for the building of i the r road, fhia was pot pleasant to Weed Law & Co Mr. Lw goes to Albauy with tbe 'Gridiron Bill' iu hi pocket, a consolidated bill em bracing-the right to build on all he available routes in the city. The object of 'Law, Weed & Co. was to get this bill passed, s tbey couldeommand and build the other roads or not, as they pleased; that they could occupy tba route by their legal right, so as to prevent others building them, aud injuring (heir vested interest in tbeir roads. How should they do ii ? Under the State Con stitaiion of 1845, in order to protect the people against monopolies, no grmt could be made to corporation, j an t stock com pan or com ny having the rigbts of a joint stock company, which the Lejrislato re could aot again ta ke a way.. These gentlemen must ev de this provis'foa of the CorMti'uiioo and this possible action of fj-tare legislature. Tbey bethought them of that provision in the Constitution of fhTUnited Stares, thai no State 'shall make a lew impair;rt2th obli atioa of contracts. Therefore if tbey con Id Wfll tU VI 1.V.M1WV-. .- - I1C m9mA9 lbi, right of the Lerilatura to nal grants of franchiies to corporaiioas or eoapsa ies, so that it cauld become a grant in perpetuity to to holders or their assigns, their great cl ject would- te accomplished. Mr. Law originate the scheme has tba grant tnaae to A, b, C, D,and their ains forever, wdicb is Let a grant lo any corporation or moneyed moiiOpoly, but to the people. ;;"";: The next point is to find this A, B, C, D, &c, who will be tools tor the purpose, and who, for a consideration, will assign their interests to par ties designated. Then these parties can get themselves erected ioto a corporation under the general act cf 18o0, and order these tools to make an assignment- the franchise to the corporation, wbkh'would hold them ia perpetuity, independent of the Legislature, of Constitutional contentions, of all power sava Revolution, or change iu the Consmuiiou ot the Uuited Slates permittifig States to impair the obligation of contracts. Ouly one ot these bills contained the repealing clause, aud uuder this one it was de-signed to form tbe corporation. So the Gridiron bill passed the Legislature hy tbe dereliction cf tt.e member, to tbe injury of the city . aod to the (.erpelual benefit of Law, Weed LCo, their representative aiid afsigns. Governor Morgan vetoed the bill, pointed out the fact that ihe grafts Were perpetual, ibal nothing short of revolutrbn could annul them that if the graD-tor or assign did uot choose to build the roads, they would uol b built, aud the people could uot help themselves. The vetoed bill waa passed oier4-he veto of the Governor. There were re pousible men in New York who cOV red guarau-tees to bu Id the roada, proposed to pay millions for the privilege, and c fie red to coney the passenger -tor three cent instead of fie, as now paid. This was wejl known, and urged upon the: Legiidature. - Speaker Littitjohn had great iu-fiueuce in that Legislature, and counsel. was cou fiiient that be could prove that $120 .1)00 bf the stoi k of the e roads went (o the Litilejoha family ; Mr. Speaker Littlejubu weul from hi chair to the Ujor ol the Uoue, to aid iu passing that bill over tht. veto ct the Governor. " Here is another, from the same fertile source, called the West Washington Maiket Bill. Some years since, pier aere run out .into North River upon the property of the state ; they were ub-8qieml fi.U d up and made laud by the city, bich laud is w,nh-;. $2 000 000. The re-ts were worth $1(18,0110, auuually, which mooey the city" received, wbeu it cLouId have beeu paid ttt the State, Taylor & Bretiiian apply to tbe Land Commissioners fur the lease of the prop erty, aad for the buck rent from the city to "the State, offering to pHy $o,0U0 a year fi-r the rents, and to iudemisily the btate against any cost in collecting ihetu, T iu getting possession of the !ri periy. Tbey succeeded in getting judf merits J iir tHt k rents aai'iiat the city-ot Inew York Tor ftJoU.OOO.' and a covenant for quiet enj oyment of i he premises until tbey were disposed of by tbe Siaie. The tiext iniug was to get those judgments paid Bv some nieaus tbeir judgments be came dependent upon the i.ction of the Legislature; so that the railroad nien supported tbe iament of the jt Igments, and the judgment tw-ti c.rcoure supported the granting of the Iranchise to the" railroad men; both the bills side by sid-, were J assed. vetoed, ai d triumph-inly repassed over the veto" of the Governor. that thoe." judgments were fraiiduh-n, void, i d ought not o be paid." and they wer ef wside for corruption. The whole "mttr-was.fi-n illy coin.ri;t d, tbe ci'y payintr f :5000 000 to the SiHle for the land worth $2 000 Oi.O snd Tty lor and Bietiuau r taininp- i'GO.t OO tl.cy hud r . lei tid for reins, and rtcen.i.g JHO'J.OOO for tht ir releMNe i f judgments. Thus Taylor t fereucau pui $3G0 UU0 in ibeir pockets. Iu st hemes like these il is said that more than a million dollars were pent in and about the Legislature. Governor Morgan talk out and sajs "eighty members of the Legislature received money for tneir votes." A reporter look a lift nfaeiei.ty nieu to Cot.klin, and told him that he kne that every one t them bad received bribes at d Mr. (Joi.klui had reacon to Leliev it. . With a corruption in our Legislative halls with lanaiiciMii iu tl.e rfti.Le of ihe j eriji1, and with heir naiuial and legit imate cliux-.in iil war we certainly have need of political purifiw-ation. Kow is the Time. We are .'fig but g-the rebels at the South with all our lorceJ and very day with increasing force. What are we doing tor the Union meu at the Souib ? True, if the rebelliou be deetroyed, the Liiion men will be saved, but they are au element of power that we need on the aide of tbe Government and the Union. What are we do usr to aid tha Union meu 7 What weapon are we putting into their bauds? Muskets and Sword would be useless to them, for iLey are iu a hopeless minority of physical force, and this specie of weapon would be at once wrested Irom their grasp. Besides, we cannot get such weapons to them. -But voices, ii.fiueuce, tbe abi-biy to convert their neighbors, to bring back old fi lends to the Union party, arguments in favor of a alaveboldiug coiumuuily liv,ug iu uniou with a uou-i avch ddiujj, these are tbe forces v hich we must aid, aud lo enable theui lojuse these we muel supply weapons. And low t the tine for it. Ihe Noith should make its vou't heard by ti e UuivJn men of the South. Jt should nable them to aay "The North have cut loose from Ab-oliliouisla let us cut loose from secessionist." Iu North Carolina, iu Georgia, in Louisiana, throughout the Southern Slate, Uuion men ebbuli be encouraged and streegthened at occe. Ibis idea ought uot to be iol sibt of for anin-aiaoi. The liue must be drawu dutiucily between meu who are for the Union and the Couatiiutiou aud meu who are tor aboiitioc in spite of Union or Coustituliou, If the North shows, what is beyond doubt the truth, that the ovei whelming majority here is forttiejid I7 iua a it was, agaiost aUdisorgan-isers, emancipationists aud pseudo reformers, if we cau scud southward a about ot victory over our owu revolutionists, which shall be heaid in the heart of tbe South, we shall do more to dethrone rebellion than all the threats of freeing the slaves will accoeplih ia a generation. The Union una of the Southern Stale are looking anxiously from hour to hour fr arguments iu f. or of thi Uaiou by whiob they can overcome ihe auemies of the Oaaulry. The only cry. is, ihe North i abotitioeist, aod we cannot unite with abolitionist. Ji is bo time for as to dis cuss whether they have any ground for their assertion. Let o frankly acknowledge that there has been mnch aboluiooism at tha North, and now, with oue heart, drive it oat of our midst. Then we can tell tha friends of Goeerasneat at the South, ihe North is with yon, ta put dowa every species of rebellion and revolution among ourselves or yon. , We will protect yoar rights as firmly as our own." ' Now is tba moment to do this, whea even ia Massachusetts, the bead-cjuatter cf abolitionism, the leading Republican ps per and voter are caaiing off their abolition alias, and seem o iovite the co-ep ration efihe Democrata The mbvemeert that i begun may be judiciously carried en -; oli jibe entire Nena wiil aa for unka with the Uuion seen cf the South- The a we hope to so a eooervati par. i ty arising and advancing ahead of our army, froia the Lakes to the Gulf, a party that will be so trs-mendous against secession and abolition before nett spring that tren wi'l say the country is an-auimous. 2f. T. Jobr. rf Com. crarg tsccllaiijiw Coics of tha New Testament. bt James ros3 ssowdcs, oibbxtok r Tfii tf. 8, SflXT, VuiLsOCLPBIX. '' "And when he had agreed with the laborers fori penny a day, be sent them iate hi Vicsyard," -IZatt. xx. 11. v A penny a day seems a small compeesatiotl for a laborer ; but the coin In Jaestvou was aot the penny of the present day, but was sssrloM a silver coin, the intrinsic ra.'ue of whiIN." fifteen cents. This gives one a better idea of . the value of labor at that time. Aod it showi that the good Samaritan was more liberal and generous than the usual reading of tba text rfould indicate. Luke x. 33. He gave tha pootf man that felt among thieves two silver coins dt the value of thirty cents. We have reason ta believe that silver was at that period ten times- as valuable as it is at present; in other words, ' thirty cents would buy as much as three doHari . would now. It thug appears that the Samaritan besides tbe other valuable things, wins aud oil which he bestowed upon the irjured man, gave the "host" money enough to pay the board of his guest for some tit e, perhaps for severs t weeks, because this interesting event happened - in the bill country cf Judea. between JerosaJeat - and Jeticbo, where the charges at the ion wsrJ probably quite moderate. Thus a liberal provision was made for the intervening time which would els pse before the 'benevolent man would return from Jerusalem. And in case be should be delnjed iu hi return, he said to the inn-keep- er, "Take care of this man, and whatsoever thoat spendeth more, when I come again-1 will repay thee." This generous and neighborly couduct ot the good Samaritan our Lord commends, with the ii junction, rGo tbpu and do likewise." v.37 The ointment with which Mary anointed our Saviuor, is said to have been "very costly," John xii. 3. and "verv Drecious.,'Maik xir. 3. "Sum had indignation wilhiu themselves, and murmur d against her, bacause her ointment might have beet) sold for more than three hundred pence md the money givaa to the poor Mark xiv. 4, 5,- ' Ihe propriety of saying that it was very cosily, and very precious, appears very clearly wbeu wt - ascertain lLat the pi ice at whuh it is said it , might have been soid, wa equal to forty-Sra JU,. .e -T ' j - - - -tm- --. -- . .. m. rjfjrtj a val i-lle oae intriasica If ; but much more so as she wrought a "good woik, which is -poken of throughout the whole world as a memorial" of her love aud demotion to the Saviour,- v. 0. . Again, when tbe five tLoossr.d persons were miraculously fed, we are told that the disciples asked, "shall we go aui buy a hood red penny worth of bread, and give tlem to eat ?" Maik-, vi. 37. The preseat value of a penny is about two cents. Ii would seem to be very unreasonable to talk of feeding such a multitude with f or hundred cent wonh of bread. But when wa kuow that two hundred pence were eqoal to thirty dollars of. our money, we cau readily uuder- A stand how, wi.h'that sum, bread enough might have been purchased not only to enable "every ... oue of them to take a little" John vi. 7 ; but if tbe proportionate value is considered, the money-would have bought a loaf of bread for each ens' of the great multitude that were assembled.; fbe greet Master of the feast, however, preferred to feed them by II is creative power, and thus the five barley loaves and tha two small fishes were miraculously increased ; "and they did all eat and were filled ; and tbey took np twelve baskets of fragments. Mark vi. 42 and 43. ' Wit and Wisdom. Songs without words Thuse of that blessed baoy. r j iutyonr money into a box if -you like, but uol a utce-box. Books are embalmed minds. Fame is a flower upou a dead man' heart. A be best penance we can do for envyieg another' tod it, is to eudeavor to surpass IL Il i astonishing how keen even igooraat people aie ia discovering imaginary affronts, lhaiuiau can uol be, your friend who will sot ariloW you to teach him auy thing. ' Wanted to kuow ahethtr the volume ofsound has yet bvco touud. Ii i e not follow that Home waa built ia tha uihi, btcause it wasn't built iq the day. Ml diseaoe speak lo ua solemnly aud eloquently, except the UumU ague. A rich youug Udy should .be an archer, for that can beud her beau as she pleases. L rge men are less quarrelsome than littleocea; The largel of all oceans is the I'acific. A puoiic speaker, like a buntitig-itg, should give careful alleution to his point. - Teneyson say thai every a-a ia foil cf life. lie should have excepted the Dead Sea, Treat your eueuaie as if the would sometime or other be your friend. - Jt is only those that have done nothing, who-can fancy they can do everything. Fancy raus uot furiously when a guilty eota acieece drive it. It i wiih love as with apparitions. Every onst talks of it, bhl lew have ever seen it. Very few persona havasfc&sseuough to despis) ihe praise of a ftol. No taao has a right to is as he pleases, except wbeu he please to -do right. . Love ie a compound of hjney and gall, mixed in various proportions for customers. Fashionable people are spt to starve their hap-pines, te odr to tee t tberr vanity. Kelig ie of tb heart may truly and jostl b called tbe bean of religion. Jt seem a hard case that, when a man diaahii better half ia entitled lo only a third. 7 A man ia most likely to fall down opon the icV whea ha veaia.-ea.apon it slip-shod. The pebbles ia xr path weary as and maker as footsore mora thaa tha locks. : Moat book io these days are lika soma iiniU - of trees a great many leaves aod o fruit.- 1 ' - tOf The last CdXoIic TkUgrovk kar-tisrLi. r lowing: ', Wbat eyes tat General Rosecfans i;xedoBr, Floyd ?' Buckeyes, lo be sura. Tbe only shoe that aevtsr HUxi OuWTl. rich Irish brojue1