New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-10
THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

/ Special CoTrespondeuee Of The London Times.
! wnHINGToy Sept. 10, 1861.
! 1t nav be the peculiar influence Of the climate,
affecting the operations Of reasoning the grounds
Of belief it may be the nature Of the nitrogen or OF
toe ozone in the sir Of this continent which, witty
ing the imagination and turning fances and surmises
into accomplished facts, puts all mankind here into
condition of oTeduty and expectation; but really
do think that something will turnup" very speedily
I When man lives in an atmosphere into which a
sort of m,th-making gas has been pumped 10y mil
lion.borse power press he must eventually succumo
TO the agency and lapse into q stale as regards bis
ability TO distinguish truth from falsehoOd by the
usual tests very similar TO that which mesmeric
patient experiences in the attempt 10 discriminate
between reality and illusion. Ears and eyes are
assailed necessarily, and, as laughing gas makes
man imagine he ia giant in strength and that all
the world is rose color this curious lying gas ct
last forces one TO believe in that which is not,
when il il held 90 ones nose and forced down
every organ Of sense from the moment one opens
ones eyes till they ere closed NJ L1zlt. IL
has not yet been made punishable oilense to
doubt that Mr. Jefferson Davis il dead, and here
fore we may take il for granted that the map VINO
saw General Beaureg4rd lying IN siate III chaTies-
ton after be was killed IN Fort MolIie ana beheld
Of the works after the Bonbsrdmeus OF Sumter, Is
the same "reliable" person who " announced poti.
lively tuat Presid. Mt Davis died on Monday night
last at 80 O'Clock How this gentleman Obtains
cIedence, except the gas Ia omniPotent, and can
never be resisted in places high or low, though
the utter worthlessness Of such reports has been
proved by the events Of each succeeding day. lie not
easy to comprehend. But at the CommaDder-in-
Chiefs quarters the story IVES fully credited lsst
Saturday afternoon and one Of Gen. SCOTS side-de.
Of md ~
honor, told me that tie intelligence OF Mr.. Davis
| Gee ease CAGE 10 them from person on whom they
Ilaced reliance aud who had come III from the Con-
Tolerate camp with tie news. IL was believed III
the public departments, aud IN the offices OF State
! slsO, and went over tie whole Union. There has
been terrible fight to-day At the other side, ssid
an EDgsLman to me last week. " The Federalisis
bave lost 1000 men, and have taken twenty
FIVE pieces OF cannon T. Why. have been
examining the whole position, and saw nothing
of the kind. There was plenty Of smoke from
Burning the forests, but no firing. who told yon
30 2" "Ob, there can be no doubt Of il. friend
Of mine contested with the principal hospital told
me be saw 90 wounded men brought IN fon the
other ride in less than an hour" And 30 on. On
Saturday received letter from gentleman who
arrived in Philadelphia from Washington tie pre-
vious day TO tell that all the people We're IN the
streets CetiegiDg the Newspaper ofhcet, which "ee
i,suing bulletins OF great battle at that moment
ragiug aroun the Capitol. Vuh deetp', decptot. ~
is tie motto ii tue SensatOnitr aud aud tie steady,
respectable truth-teiing JOufnais-Buch, for eA-
ample, rs The hatoHak IHt7iigeH'er Of til, city
IN which a man may depend on everything be stes
! being a ia T. are rioiculed as being dfcadfuiiy
&" slow" aud slupid. People must however, grow
weary Of thete sick mems drains in type. As a
sgn Of the resistance 20 the gas which is made now
aud thea srnd these remarks il American paper,
TIE Pistsbgrgh Democrat, which handles the matter
very delics,ely witbal:l
be D.W,p.ier corr,pondept, n I'M Wessn NrginA srs
very souIy very any st Of fellows Ever ard suon
have exciting rumor which at edit ~ TO paint
lug most alarming pe,urss Of the Danger impending to Pia
bufsh-her totally ihcefensibe couoon, &C. Now
story Of total rOu Of fOioes Cro's L6bs then q
grand hight whch the newspapers then
cont sdciD hen affirmation; finally matter
osct which exhibits neither hight 81
fonuDsse escaye from dsered dsfest next hSi tibet
has .aIIegnaed Ro.eersp.bee that Koee.si b. Lee
be surrender bag AID bsgAge or hgh
rounded Next Col CSs,niAIh IepnseaI Lhen he tu'n
proves be that be found IN tho place where
LED wounded and missing on each s!ds Agsn, We
hear Il ge. gathering u rebels somewhere ee and roop
fools Grand 50 goes all through tie days AID week. and
nontbs nothing pofsb done and the result or viii be
that coming from that quarter will be behe'e cd unless
iDdo sed officially, "a perhaps should be the case"
But ,bese remarks true Of other places well.
New-York was moved TO indignation few days ago
by the story Of thirty soldiers being poisoned on
their march in Mary land by 4 woman who gave
them water. On investigation, il turns that the
men had helped themselves to buttermilk at farm
house and tLat the fluid would not rest their I'M
accus OuIed stomaehs and made them little sick.
The ritter further STATED that the Maryland Briu-
yiers was shot by the ehasperated, &c.i but, Of
course even III marli al law times aud lauds women
are not slot because their buttermlk does not ugree
with the soldiery.
Having thus cautioned my readers somewhat not
10 trust too much TO me il venture upon prophecy,
because Of the force Of my "suroundinge," and 70
tske me az med de In lettre only as TO what | zee
now or have seen and know, 1 proceed 70 state the
grounds Of my belief that are on the eve Of wit
Messing warlike operation OF magnitude. On En-
day morning General Bea uregard, who had advanced
bis pickles within compile OF miles OF the federabt
out posts all the way from Alexandria 10 Great
Falls, and bad occupied Mupson's HILL beyond Ar
lnQton House and Bale Cro.s Roads 10 front Of the
Chain Bridge opposite which he had shown cavalry
the previous day, absolutely struck his tents, packed
mp his baggage, and made every preparation to
march his army TO -. Where w, If at all That
was tho que ton II has not yet been answered.
Is II feiut--s it intended to draw the Fedeialiss
out OF their intencbed and fortified poblion, and 70
invoke battle with the view OF making more OF VIC
tory than he did before ! Ii 30, the stTatagen
was not successful. Perhaps 1t was only ~ dis
tract the attention Of his enemy, and 10 perpleH
hin BY doubts as 10 the real direction OF
the attack Again, Geu. Beauregard did not sue
coed. Then il be really breaking up his force OF
quasi investment or attack and directing 1t on some
other points above and below the rlyeF, leaving at
Manassas and tie points covering the rOads 10
Richmond sulicieut TO resist any corps which Me-
CleLm could spare from Washington to move on
the Confederate capital To DO that be must be IN
very great force and il certsinly leaks out from the
Southern papers that the Cou1ederates were al the
time of the Hatteras expedition directing the march
of every man they could spare to Virginia. Thus,
we read that certain regiments which were actually
on their way to Beaurepaid aud Johnston we're or
dered 10 stand ast 90 return for the deienre OF
the met aced coasts, but as the movement was UNI
varal all over the St tes Tho con inVents of those