The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-07-29
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
No Respect for Military Consressme,


| Under the head of "Our Greatest Misfortune "
the Boston Daily Advertiser puts forth the follow
! ing:
| 1t appears that with little more promptness in
the charge of the rebel cavalry, "Gen. Schenck's
entire brigade. with all the civilians, would have
been entirely cut off" The country would have
mourned the capture of Gen. Schenck's brigade
but If all the civilians had been taken with sm
there would have been full compensation. This
tdrdtness an the Southern charge may be termed our
greatest misfortune of Sunday.
To which the Courier of the same place, adds:
When it is remembered that large number of
members OF Congress, of both branches, com
pretended In this pious expOsulation against the
too slow movements of the Southern cavalry-inclu-
ding both the Massachusetts Senators-multitudes
Will feel what a gain 1t waud have been to have
met with their loss. Their capture would have
been one OF the most efficient of settling the
whole controversy. But alas! they were only on
the outskirts of the battlefield, nearly i've miles dis
tant from the actual conflict, and like the lame
Vermont captain, on another occasion, thoug bit it
falr to start first. With such advantage in
distance, and display of agility said to have been
entirely unparalleled cavalry could be speedy
enough to overtake these chief promoters and ear
liest tugitives from the war.
No Confidence in the Raw Recruits.
The New York Times uses the following language
in regard to the new levies:
We are willing to be chrered as ANYBODY can
be, by the animated dispatches that the W ar De
partment at ashington is sending to the coun-
try. ga fresh army OF so, 900 men, from the differ
ent States, has been accepted" 1t reads we'll, but
Mr.. Secretary Cameron might as well have stated
IT little differently. 1t might have been said that
eighty tenders of regiments have been made and
accepted. This would have left safe margin for
the reasonable discount at must follow, when the
eighty would be -coIones of the regiments who
have telegraped to the Secretary of War, come to
muster in their enlistments and go into camp.
NO NO doubt eighty new regiments of volunteers
will be obtained by the National Government
But they will not come by telegraph; nor in one
week; nor in two weeks; nor in a month. And
most likely they will not go to Washington under
one in ten of the self-apponted cOnnels who have
teiegraphed to the Secretary of War rendering
their services. And even when they reach Wash
ington they will be merely raw recruits and will
require months OF drilling and camp and field dis
cipIine before they will be fitted to march into
hostile State, and protect themselves in front and
Hank and rear, and well from panics as from
powerfully iutrenched opposing armies
Want Peace--FoIly of Eniisting More Elem.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Times writes as follows:
It the state of things in which we have lived
hitherto is going to last, permit a man who knows
what armies are, and what they must be, what the
deences ct country must consist of, what are the
requirements and eventualites of war, to tell you
that there is no use for you to send any more men
to Washington. The best thing we can do is to
make peace with the South, and as honorable II
pedCe ds we can. You know well, from what !
have already said in the Times, that | have some
right to advise, and you may testify to the truth
OF that on which | have repeatedly insisted that
our army was not properly organized, and, conse-
quenty not ready to march; that Notifications
were insufficient; that soldiers ought not to be
sent under fire before being prepared, by three
months, at least, of and thorough drilling:
and that 1t was useless to undertake a campaign
unless there was hOmogencity, cOmpactness aud
unity, between the different branches of the army
Would Not Take the Oath,
The Philadelphia Ledger says:
The U. S. steamship Seminole, Captain Thomp-
son, sailed from the Navy Yard yesterday, Friday
afternoon, and stopped at the Fort to take in pew
der. Previous to her leaving, comm ander Lardner
visited the ship for the purpose of administering
the oath of allegiance. One lieutenant, two mas
ter's mates, and seven of the seamen refused TO
take the oath; they were Immediately removed to
the receiving ship.
Comprehendins the South.
The New York Express thinks that the late bat
tie should serve as lesson to the North, and re-
marks:
For the first time since the creation Of ard
success of, the Geographical party OF the North,
we begin to hope for our unhappy country. The
Bull Run disaster has checkmated and senced
the madmen Of the North, and reason and sense
will now begin to have sway in the Northern mind
The South is being comprehended-its force, its |
earnestness, its power, lis fanaticsm, eveu
derstOod. 1t is not treason any longer-as it was
in March and Apriltn tell our people, the South |
will fight, means to fight, fight! 1t is not trea
son to say that this is terrible war, and long
war, in and that to wage it successfully, all
the men we can muster are necessary, ard all the
means we can raise not alone through imports, but
by direct taxes! 1t is not treason any longer to
doubt the intalIihility Of adminstration-of Presi
dent or Secretaries, to discuss points and prin
ciples, with the view of demonstrating wnaJ Is
best for the whole country. The question OF dis
ssion WV, ,s5 of policy-but pOIicy often as
an yb lilo pha pf
but provoke men to discuss. Events, alas too fa-
tally, but demonstrate the sagacity and foresight,
and second-sight, even, of the New York Ecpress
for these ten years past--and hence as we recOrd
history now have but to ask our readers to re-
read back files, for in them they have the existing
history.
Newspapers.
The Chicago DemOcrat Ohm WentwortE's pa
per- has been suspended for three wears, cor for
the war" and the editor is about to go to Europe.
The Troy Union and Troy Budget are to be con-
soldated.
The People and the New York Tribune.
We are informed that in one of the towns in this
vicinity, where there recently club of fifty
subscribers to the New York Tribune, all but two
have stopped their subscriptions, in their indigna
tion at the course pursued by that paper towards
the Government and the Commander-in-C Chief |
Boston Adrertiser.
Horace Greeley and his Paper.
The Boston Courier says Mr.. Greeley is in the pilIo
ry, ard every dirty Republican paper in the country,
from the New Bedford Standard to the best KIN
sheet of the party, is throwing mud at the disap-
pointed office seeker. Even the Worcester Spy,which
the deeds of murderer in verse,
points its long finger at the unhappy old man.
and prays to "God to forgive him for the injury
he has done" 1t is quite fixed that the Tribune
has done more to debauch the morals Of the Ameri-
can people than any other publication in the coun-
ry.
The End of Greeley.
A party of Union men hung Horace Greeley last
evening, in eligy, in Washington square The
white coat and hat were seen. this
morning, suspended by rope one of the trees
in the parade ground. The etiigy remained there
until 10 o'clock. A NJ. to-day, attracting much
notice. large placard was attached to it, bearing
the inscription -
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