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parts of the company,—" it would bo a pity to separate
such a well matched pair."

" Separate us indeed!" repeated Pat, "I'd like to see the
fellow that would purtind to do it. Arra wisha I jist wait
a bit, 'till I be afther tellin' yeez another slice of a mis
endheerstandin' we had."

THE WAR IN AMERICA.

(From the Times' Special Correspondent.)
BALTIMORE, SEPT. 12.

An extensive reconnoisance for the last three days
in the neighbourhood of Baltimore, from which I
have returned in barely sufficient time to catch the
mail of to-day, has given me much insight into the
secret and inner history of the State of Maryland,
and encourages the belief that the battle of Arma-
geddon, so long promised and so wearily deferred,
which will finally terminate the most heartrending
war known to modern history, is about to be fought
on the soil of Maryland. That the Confederate in-.
vasion of Maryland is not the mere foraging raid
which the Northern press affects to regard it need
hardly be specified to the people of England. The
distracted and despairing populations of the great
Northern cities are encouraged to believe that a few
starving, desperate, and timorous Southerners,
driven by destitution from the desolated soil of Vir-
ginia, and conscious of the hazardous occupation
which they have taken in hand, are clinging mo-
mentarily to Northern soil, waiting until the tre-
mendous army of the Potomac, under such a thun-
derbolt of war as General M'Clellan, sweeps them
from the face of the earth or drives them back
across the river. It cannot too earnestly be incul-
cated and impressed upon the people of Europe that,
even if it were conceivable that the Southern hosts,
which have gained unquestioned victories in every
conflict during the last three months, could now be
routed and driven headlong back across the Poto-
mac by the green levies and demoralised fragments
of regiments opposed to them, this war would be
no nearer its conclusion than it was on the Northern
evacuation of Fort Sumter. That a guerilla war-
fare, utterly exhausting the South, and scarcely less
exhaustive of the North, could be maintained for
many years is very apparent. It is only requisite
for any impartial Englishman to pass a few hours
in Southern circles on this continent to become
perfectly convinced that any amount of self-sacri-
fice and endurance will cheerfully be submitted to in
the South rather than a renewal of Yankee supre-
macy. There can only be one termination of this
war—the acquiescence of the North in the bisection
of the ancient Union. When some day the thick
curtain which has hidden everything Southern from
our gaze is lifted, it will be found that there is no
record on earth of such sufferings and privations as
men, women, and children in the South have wel-
comed and enthusiastically accepted for these last
18 months. What can there be in store for them
worse than what they have previously endured ?
And they would continue to endure for 18 years
what they have gloried in enduring for 18 months
rather than have part or fellowship in a Govern-
ment in which Mr. Seward and Mr. Charles Sumner
are the apostles, and of whose crown Boston and
Chicago and Philadelphia are among the jewels.
It remains for me briefly to state the true circum-
stances under which the Southern hosts are advan-
cing upon Washington. It is known that not less
than 150,000 Confederates are now in Maryland.
It is by some asserted that their numbers are
200,000. At Frederick upon Tuesday last were
assembled no less than seven Southern Generals of
Divisions, with General Robert E. Lee as Comman-
der-in-Chief, and General " Stonewall" Jackson
among the number. A proclamation has been put
forth by General Lee, of which the moderation and
calmness will commend themselves to all. A pro-
clamation has also been put forth by Colonel Brad-
ley Johnson, who is a native of Frederick, and re-
ported to be Provost Marshal of that city. Every-
where private property has been scrupulously re-
spected, cattle and provisions and stores rigorously
paid for, individual opinion unmolested. Union
men by dozens have gone among the rebel troops,
have conversed freely with them, have been allowed
to go where they liked without joining the Confe-
deracy or suppressing their Union sentiments. There
is only one opinion with regard to the discipline of
the Southern troops, and that is that it is perfect.
The men march calmly and steadily forward, look-
ing neither right nor left, with the solemnity and
immobility of marble statues. There is among
them none of the thoughtlessness and levity of the
Northern troops, none of that craving for news-
papers which has always been so conspicuous in the
Federals. Men who have gone through such a
campaign as has lately been experienced inVirginia,
who have been constituent units of that force
which, from its rapidity of movement, is called
" Jackson's foot cavalry," who are fighting for a
cause which embodies to them ideas vastly more
sacred than is "the Union" to the mercenaries of
the North, have as little dross about them as they
have flesh. There is about them the calmness and
self-assured confidence which spring from enthusias-
tic belief in their generals, and from successful ex-
perience of their own prowess. Nothing can be
more ragged and deplorable than their dress and
hats and shoes. But everywhere the cry is, " Send
us no clothing or luxuries. We have no waggons
to carry them. Give us shoes and salt, and show us
a Yankee!' But, ragged, tattered, shoeless as they
are, the concurrent testimony is that they are well
armed and scrupulously careful of the cleanliness
of their rifles, most of which, it is not necessary
to say, have been taken from the Federal& More-
over, there is but one opinion as to the superior
horsemanship of their cavalry soldiers and the
excellence of their horses. It will not be until
long after the Union has ceased to be that the
Northerners will discover that true patriotism cc:
sists, not in giving hundreds of dollars to GeT
and Irish refugees to fight for you,—not in making
echoed
the welkin ring with speeches such as have
in
through the North for many a weary month,--not
encouraging hundreds of venal journals to suppress
the truth and suggest falsehood; but in paying
shoulder-
with your person as well as your pur io
se'
the field. For
ing a musket and going forth to
many months since the commencement of this
struggle fashionable and
struggle it was the affectatie%os to abstain from
refined society in Northern cities
was looked upon
conversation about the war'abstaele to be crushed
as a disagreeable episode, an Sam's progress—a
under the triumphal cartre
Republic which would
phase in the history of
of New York and Boston
fill the historical societiestin _
d specimens, but which
with interesting relies
heck the victorious onward march
was powerless to e
of
nations. k the South
of the mightiest , thef th
_4nase o e people has never affected
superior ear ne.11,,,,e.
The wisest military to palter or
trithe forces placed
has regulated at the disposal
t cen la ized Government; there has
sagacious said
been 'l° murmur heard where men, nurtured in the
f luxury, have failed to
lap oreceive commissions as
officers, but they have eagerly rushed into the ranks
as privates. Whatever differences
of opinion there
may have been between different
generals, or be-
tween civilians and sold. iers,tothing has ever escaped
to scandalize or di • sintegrate the public, or to break
the harmonious unity of the Confederation. Nor is
it too much to say that in this agonizing crisis of a
nation's destinies the Southern women have been
worthy even of those men who now stand on the
soil of Maryland. They have risen nobly to the
level of the
requirements of the hour; fair fingers
once unused to toil have become seamed and fur-
rowed with sewing ; the privations and sacrifices of
the times have been cheerfully welcomed ; tea,
coffee, and every possible luxury have been fore-
gone in order that they might be seat to the army ;
and a spirit which reeks neither of toil, nor priva-
tion, nor self-sacrifice, which is " the nurse of manly
sentiment and heroic enterprise," has emanate"
from
these uncosquerable
wives and ron"
its expressim in the is-- - .Hers, and found
..reds of the men. - Well may i