Polynesian., 1861-09-14
No. 20.

this, mind you, from the lips of men who are
staunch republicans, and won't like 10 be reminded
OF it next week, when they are cool-a pack of
jobbing contractors-Congress, q Rump Parlia-
ment, etc, etc; and the whole ought to be wiped
out with I" Col. Pride's purge" Shut I'D eve
ry newspaper, if they talk or give word of war
news not authorized BY the military authority
Give q military Dictator, and suspend all Con-
stitution and law farces till the rebellion is crush
ed-that was the talk everywhere yesterday; and
so in backness of gloom such as never saw, and
with streets utterly deserted that they felt chilly
and awful to you as passed-seeming to be walk
ing where great plague had Just gone before you,
the afternoon and evening of yesterday wore away
To-day things begin, however, to look up. We
are mercurial, and can't stay killed crushed by
anything but the day of doom. We start to-day
to our feet and swear revenge or death. Five
thousand more troops are hastily under way from
this city, or will be as fast as clothes and arms
will let them. The Seventh National Guard goes
back to Washington. Our militia cavalry regi-
ments are under orders from the Brigadier COM
manding the district, and two or three troops have
already moved on the road to Washington Our
new regiments of volunteers are all to be accepted
the Empire State, in short, is to give sixty
thousand more men, and will do it-and we are
going in for such line of battle as will make Gen.
treville and its one hundred and twenty-five thou
sand men sing small and show as nothing but an
affair of outpOsts. Hurrah, boys that's the true
spirit. Never say die. We can whip them, and
will. This Centreyile defeat will do us q heap of
good, for now we shall fight like soldiers and not
militia and shan't undervalue our enemy again
to the extent of trying to whip him one to three,
with fifteen miles Of masked batteries against us
into the bargain.
ALL THE Fools NOT DEAD YEr.-The following is
from the New York correspondent of the Sacra-
menfo Union
Wars and revolutions always develope the most
prodgious style of human humbugs, and dispose
communities to tolerate, and weak minded people
to believe in them. Our grandest development in
that line is DIR. Newton. You have of course heard
all about his public life. because it has been news
paper talk for a month but / have had closer
look at the man and his modus operandi, and he
and it are worth paragraph. This Newton char-
atan has fixed himself in Eighteenth street, a few
doors east of Broadway, and whenever pass the
corner Of q morning, as often do, | see his door
steps crowded and the throng Of waiting fools COW
ering all the sidewalk and extending out into the
middle of the street. There they stand hours,
many of them, sweltering in the fierce July sun,
and waiting their turn to be cured OF some malady
by the miraculous touch of Newton. For the fel-
low has the blasphemous impudence to call himself
second Messiah, and pretends to work miracles of
healing upon all who come to him with faith as
large as q grain of mustard seed. And what an
awful commentary is it upon our base humanity
hundreds who have not faith enough to trust the
God who made them have more than enough to
trust greasy, gaping scoundrel, whose ignorance
oozes sensibly from every pore of his nasty body,
and who only exceeds them in natural capacity
by being greater rascal than they are fools. Yet
even such man as Charles E. Brdsall, late Judge
of the Marine Court, and clever lawyer, was moo
die enough to go to him. Birdsall had the rheu-
matism in his right arm. lie went to Newton, and
Newton went into a semi-cataleptc fit, first by way
of getting up the steam Of his divinity and miracu-
lous power-he always does so-and then he went
into Birdsall, rolled him on the sofa and pounded
him almost to a mummy in an ecstacy of curative
power. The result was that Birdsall had q lump
raised on the side of his neck as large a hens
egg, came very near dying and had to send for his
family physician, DR.. Lewis A. Sayre, and with
shame and confusion of face confess his unpardon-
able folly. Sayre has set him up again, and
don't think he'll go into the Newton miracles again
in hurry. This is only one case out of hundreds.
Meantime Newton is coming money out of his dupes
at the rate of $500 day Yet our optimists say
that the age we live in is an improvement on the
twelfth century. BAH
The N Y Journal of Commerce-well known for
its secession sympathies-in reply to q correspond
ent who is anxious for peace on honorable terms,
makes, among others, the following suggestions:
Let an armistice be agreed on between the two
beligerents for three months.
Let the Executives of the two powers, by means
of envoys, arrange for a convention Of delegates
from each of the thrty-four States, now, lately
the American Union; said convention
to be held at Louisville, KY, at such date as may
be agreed on, it being understood that the election
and sending of such delegates shall in no way pre-
judee the claims of either Of the belligerents in
case the convention should fail to come to any
peaceful arrangement.
The business of the convention should beTto de-
vise if practicable, some plan of reunion under
modified Constitution, such as they may agree
upon, whereby all the thirty-four States can CO.
operate with each other for the common defense
against foreign invaders for mutual free trade be-
tween themselves; for uniform duties upon i'm
ports from foreign countries for q common post
Office and mail system, etc.
Ifa reconstruction should be found impossible,
then arrange for peaeeable separation and pro
rata division of the common property, with recip-
roeal treaties of amity, commerce, mails, etc.
Whatever plan, either of reconstruction or sepa-
ration might be adopted by the convention, should
only become binding upon the States, after being
ratified by threefourths of the eleven Confederate
States, and also By three-fourths of the twenty
three United States. The suppression Of hostili-
ties for three months, and the turning of mems
thoughts to plans for mutual benefit instead Of
mutual destruction, would be almost sure 70 open
the eyes of both sections of the country to the
enormous wiekedness of the war, on one side or on
both and to result in its speedy termination This
alone would be great point gained, and would
probably lead TO a satisfactory arrangement Of the
main question a. no distant day.-Buzstia, San
Francisco.
An INSURANCE COMPANY ON DEsPoTIc PAT
rERN.-A Frankfort correspondent announces in
the Courier des Dnnaneie that Russia and Aus
tria have been reconciled That is to say, they
have formed an Insurance Company against the
risks of the Hungarian and Polish questions. The
news lack confirmation; buteven were il 30, there
is nothing disquieting in il. similar insurance
company was formed By oil the European Powers
against the risks of the French revolution. The
Company was obliged to 90 into liquidation, how
ever, and 50 it may prove this time.-Eeho da Pa
ifc.