Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-09-27
Editorial Correspondence
No. 5.
SANCTUM,


Wednesday, Sept. 25, 1861.
Dear Readers:-Again among our nu-
merous exchanges, We will try to ab-
stract the current events which they
chronicle.
The report of the surrender of Col.
Mulligan, to the superior force Of the
Rebels at Lexington, Mo, is confirmed.
After fight of five days: in which
thirty -seuem Union men were killed, and
no wounded, and eight hundred of the
Rebels killed and wounded, Col. Null
ligan was forced to surrender for want
of water. He was confined to his in
trenchments, for the last two days, being
surrounded, and his supply of water
wholly cut of. His men fought until
famished with thirst, in hopes Of rein
forcement, but none arriving, he was
compelled to surrender. His force was
about 1000. But we can stand the loss
of few thousaneB volunteers, provided
no Rebels szare made his escaped And.
we presume that matter was attended to :,
Ross Winans, the celebrated Balti-
more Traitor who made the steam gun
for the Rebels, and who has been under
arrest for some weeks at Fortress Mon
| roe, was ':sworn in" and let loose.
Gen. Fremont will probably be super
ceded, or be compelled to resign. He
has succeeded in arousing such an en-
thusasm in the West as renders him
dangerous in the estimation of many.
The people evidently have too much
confidence in him. He struck chord
in the popular heart by his proclama-
ton, that might lead to the suppression,
not only of the rebellion, but of it's
cause. And then, what would we have
to "compromise?' And what ould
become of all ''compromisers?'
Kentucky is, we believe, prepared to
step at last to the emusic of the Union. )"
Surely, and steadily, her Legislature
seems to be coming to The true position.
They have already come so nearly right
that the Traitors, not only in that State,
but in Ohio, are denouncing them as a
'nest of the most fanatical Abolition
ists!'' just elected on a Union plat
form, by an overwhelming majority Of
the people, they seem, disposed, in good
faith, to come to the rescue Of their
homes, invaded by the hosts-of the Reb-
els. In doing this they necessarily sus-
tain the Constitution and Government
of the United States. And in doing
this, of course they will be denounced as
a bolitionists!" 1t does seem strange,
however, to see partisan papers in the
Free States, attempting to make party
capital by denouucing the Legislature
of Il Slave State as ''fanatlcal Abolition
ists!" Perhaps it will win!
1t is said that ''there is nothing new
under the sun" And it is certainly GU
rious to see how history repeats itself
age after age. A curious instance of
this is found in the parallel between the
cases Of Aaron Burr, and John G. Breck-
inridge. A writer in the C5mmerciaL
runs the parallel between these Traitors,
up to the fight Of both, and the coinci-
dences in their histories, are very remark
able. We trust, however, that if Breck-
inridge should be caught and tried for his
treason, he may not get of as easy as
his guilty fore-runner.
The CyEthiana (Ky.) Ne'os, violent
Secession paper, deliberately recon-
mends d universal resort to assassina-
tion of Union men! 1t says the "Ital
ian dagger and the "stilletto" do good
work in Italy, &C., and adds-''These
instruments are the terror of tyrants and
those who sustain them, and 1t IS hoped
they aoiW not be forgotten IN this, the day
of terror and usmpation, &c. There is
the genuine spirit of Secession.
The last New Y ork Herald, fEom
very long and labored review of the
forces Of the Rebels, sums up the num-
Der Of Secession troops in Eastern Vir-
ginia alone, at 2O6,270. This is GER
tainly large force, and will require
the utmost strength of our opposing
columns to crush it. But it must be ut
terly crushed out or the Union is gone
forever, and the experiment of Free
Government is gone with it.