New-York daily tribune., 1861-09-04

rnrkablo fact, coneldsfmB ttI P""""'eo
IA aegradation. Their faculties appear
10 have something Of the unerring quality
of instinct. They eco further ard better
in the night than whites, aud are hngo'ariy cJn-
ming in elad.Dg the patrol, aud IN prose cutting
and eoneealing Their continual thoVeriet' Smoke.
houses are robbed Of their bacon, .6anaries Of
their corn, even burglaries are Elected, aud de-
lection rot utterly at nanght. In one instance,
il popuOUs town, a store was entered and O
heavy IRON safe bodily distracted BY gang Of
them, no traces Of which We're ever aiterSafd
found, or the slightest progress made toward a
discovery Of the bold offenders. They are great
dissemblers, ana their duplcity rivals the shrewd-
est Machia7elliopism of political intrigue. Yet
they are the best cOnfdants in the world, and
their narrow brains hold many fearful secret.
II seem natural to them to keep dark
The Government did not cut of the Express
facilities for sending information to the rebels one
day too soon. The great majority OF letters 10
the South however, have not for months past
paid revenae 10 any public or private postal sys-
tenn. The employment Of invisible ink by spies
in Washington and elsewhere at the North had
made many an apparently harmless missye which
could run the gauntlet of even pretty severe
official scrutiny, the medium Of reasonable conf
municatop. 4 iew lines, written in large, Doid
hand, wtb ordinary ink, and upon some merely
business or domestic affair, pass letter along as
all right while tho recipient finds great deal
of fine, close cl lrography occupying the rest OF
/ ~ h. md
which, in this very innocent communication, was
never suspected by the yigilant supervisor oi
epistlcs The clsndestine writiDg.hlid used by
these adrOit correspondents is not altogether OF
that commonplace sort made to do service 10
the lovs-letters Of our gsndmothers, and which
required only strong heat TO make II egioe'
but such as TO require chemical application 10
| bring out it's secret characters. lhe COneder-
ates also boast openly Of their underground tele'
graph aud railroad by way Of Washington, and
declare j. impossible for the Government to sup
press or even interrupt them. Great stress is
laid on the efficacy of brides, and l actually
heard one incredible story that some person high
in the confidence Of the Administration had
agreed, in consideration of bonus Of million
dollars, 10 furnish prompt and definite iniorma-
ton Of intended military movements.
| In addition TO the gross e1aggerations and
monstrous fasehoods about the ofenses OF our
soldiers. disseminated az the South for the pur-
pose OF inGaming the hatred of the Southern
people 10 the Northern, outrages of the most
shameful character have been perpetrated upon
their own people by the rebels under the guiso
Of Federal troops. The costume OF our Louayes
has been resOrted to for theso fenli'h purposes
on more than one OCCASION
believe that the extreme limit Of the rebel
resources, both of men and mesDs, it already
reached. Their army can never be much larger
or better appointed than at present. Cou'erip'
ton aud foreed contributions, applied with how
ever great severity and system, cannot do more
than Keep their military meterid at it' present
point, and the probabilities are against even this
for any extended period.