The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-20

II Mr.. LINCOLN was actually embarrassed some
Three months ago by the extraordinary response
which was made TO his call for volunteers, it is
perfectly apparent that he has no longer any trouble
on that score The eighty thousand three months
men who FASTENED to Washington, in obedience
10 'he hrSt rcquisition, have gone home, and the
men VINO We're to have filled their places, and who
were SAID 10 be eager to enlist for the war, come
forward slowly. There was said to be large
reserve lofce IN the various camps of instruction
III the northern States but we now discover that
IT consisted OF only few regiments, and that
these, admonishcd by tie series of reyerses that
have betallcn the Federal arms. arc nv No means
animated with spirit Of confidence in themselves
IN their leaders, or IN the justice of the cause tbev
have undertaken to defend. The fire and the on
thuslasm which were to lead the Grand Army of
lie Union to an easy conquest of the South, is
gradually dying out. The battle of Manassa has
disslpated good many of the decisions that the
people of the North previously entertained, and
has also taught the Northern troops a lesson which
IL Is evident they are not disposed TO FORGET
and has also sensibIy cooled the ardor
OF those who at one time were eager
to volunteer for the war; We were told that tbe
men whose time Of service had expired would 90
nome, rcorganlze, and return to the war; but
they are quite content to rest upon their laurels
ana TO leave Others to dare those peris from which
lhey, themselves, have happily escaped. The
0e5rS OF the grand army, disheartened and democrat
lzed cannoteven be kept within bounds by the strin-
gent regulations adopted by Gen. MCCLELLAN and
theoretically carried out by the Provost Marshal.
characterization is known TO exist to a very seri-
Gus extent on both sides of the Potomac, and in
spite OF all the precautions that have been taken,
aeSertlons are numerous and of daily occurrence.
vi the disbanded volunteers, there are thousands
VINO are now engaged in disseminating, throughout
Tue Northern and Western States, those wholesome
truths which the war journals have suppressed
an! winch the Administration has not dared TO
MAKE puohc. Many of the men have carried home
with them the seeds of diseases contracted amono
,ne 'o"I'hds OF the Potomac others are MANNED
ana dishgured for life, and but few retain anv of
:, FORMER tondness for military career. since
at IL. "u eAperIence OF the dangers which be-
III P'.Ne' DUTY, and on the field of battle.
i''' lhese men tell of the hard
''--a pi-'"',0H' 'iiey have Undergone of the
lucy nave met with at the hands oe
their officers, and of the undaun,ed courage with
which they have been opposed at every o,o,, H.
the Confederates, what wonder is it that tho ,u..
like ardor of the Northern people is subsdina
and that they are learning daily to get rid of their
oeoslons' and to look things as they really are,
anu not as they would have them? 1t has been
1ounu much easier for Congress to authorize call
.oi nun million of men, than for the War De-
Of thirty do sus 'nem Even with the temptation
do,,or. 70 aoaS 20 70 each individual sngly forty
eoilass ~ ea'n II the whole company re.enlis1
my aoarS 70 eacn Ii the entire regiment reenlist
anu an auui'lonai 'onus o, one hundred dollars
been few; and, although the pay has baer :.
creased to thirteen dollars month, and the No.
strenuous efforts are made by the recruiting off.
GERS to fill up the new regiments in process Of