Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1861-08-13
NORTHERN NEWS.
We find the following in the Cincinnati
81 no,,irnri nf Aupust Cd.

LIZ nc ISGutiO oby
of the danger Of the hour, and of our duty to
the country, it would be found in Lincolns
ovation speech at INDIANAPOLIS, after he lett
home for Washington. He proclaimed the
obliterntion of State lines and the whole vicious
doctrine Of Capitalization. He saw no .dlter'
cnce between counties and commonwealth
between Sangamon and Illinois; and felt that
the Union was not q Union of Statos-not
United States-but o nation, 4 consolidation;
it was o unit of fractions, and not a multiple
of integers. Such q rule as ne would establish
among US is simply Mohammedan, and, for our
parts, We shall not accept it.
The Presidential heresy is, Of course, re-
peated in every conceivable shape by his off,
GERS and organs. And as for Cameron, the
present Secretary of War, from Pennsylvania,
lie seems to consider the nation already dead,
and he the administrator who is to make tho
most of its effects for himselfand his followers
1t would be q fine affair for the Democracy, and
more especially for the people in the State Of
Ohio, to fall into such ranks; obey their watch
words, and assist in robbing the people of theil
money by The Treasury contract abusesin every
army article, Of food, clothing, arms, transpor
t~ations, and even gunpowder; but We do no
intend to give our consent There IS no suct
national peril as to demand the prompt abdica
lion Of our senses, and the abandonment of the
Constitution.
BEN. WADE AT BULL RUN.
"A good one is told Of our distinguish
ed Scntaor. Benjamin Wade, who, wher
the panic first broke out, sought in vair
for bis conveyance, until the CLEAN of the
rebel sabers, rising upon the brow of the
hill dazzIed his bewildered gaze, when off he
dashed at a pace that would havo dismayed
even the celebrated american Deer"
It CHANGED, at this time, and near the same
spot, a drove Of cattle belonging to our army
broke loose, when an old bull, who, like Sena'
tor Benjamin, had never before witnessed the
,umult of d battle field, made O break down
the back track, and in the same direction with
the illustrious Senator. Reader, were you
ever chased by one of these bovine monsters
We have, across a four acre field, and but for
the timely intcrpoSition Of q fence, over which
we turned 4 somerset, we should have received
an inglorious charge in the rear. Well, there
is no doubt Of the running capacity of a scared
bull, and as L. fair start was had between him
and the Senator, those whe were not too fright
ened TO enjoy the race were enabled to report
progress. 1t was for the first half mile a dead
heat, the pace rather upon the increase, and
so continued until at double that distance 4
short turn in the road hid the three pair Of
legs from view, when the Senator, having the
inside track, took the lead"
Thomas Butler King, one OF the rebel Com.
lnissioners now in Europe, has written !
lengthy letter to the French Minister of Com
lnerce, which be desires him to submit to the
Emperor. The letter is o bid to the European
nations to come and carry the and
trade of the South. 1tsays nothing about the
question, bu: much about the tariff,
which he seems to regard as the weaker side
upon which European nations are to be ap.
preached. The letter is one Of considerable
ability.
We suppect General Fremont looks for
warm work shortly, and is making ready Tor
it. lie telcgraphed yesterday to PittsburG for
three batteries of rihed cannon, to be sent
Immediately by express. On being telegraPhed
the ccst by express and the ordinary mode of
transportation, he replied: Immediately by
That would seem to confirm tho
rulnors Of the gathering Of rebel forces in
Missouri 30 as TO menace Cairo.
The people arc becoming heartily sick and
Disguised with the sensation newspapers, who
have treated the war rs if it was 4 political
campaign, and who have sought to make up in
violence, denunciation and i'll temper what was
required in cool, calm, passionlcss discussion.
We are in a state Of peril, when thought and
reason arc required in the newspapers, and
not silly vehcmance and passion, that only
weaken our side.
GOVERNMENT CREDIT.
The delay in obtaining the S., DOC, 600 loan
on sixty day Treasury notes is tho Bull Kun
the Secretary of tho Treasury, and a much
more serious aifair.-N. 7. World.
AFFAIRS IN wAsnISoToN-rEuDs AMONG THE
NEGROES, &C.
The Washington correspondent Of the Bal.
timore Exchange" under date OF July 3lst,
There are a number Of suffers now here
who were unable to cross to their regiments to.
dav, their old passes being of no account
Forts Corcoran and Ellsworth arc fine earth
work structures and strongly garrisoned. The
former was constructed by the Goth New York
regiment, and the latter BY the Fire Zouayes.
Fort Ellsworth occupies an acre of ground and
is surrounded by u moat forty feet wide and
feet deep. It's armament consists OF three
heavy guns, %(Dahlgrecn,) and four field how
itzers e. !bs).
A war between the negroes Of the District
is e.npending and, should the influences which
have caused this enmity not be removed, there
will probably be a pugnacious contest which
nero police cannot quell. This feud has
been caused by jealousy, induced by the su-
pcrtluous Intervention of the Northern soldiery,
and exists between the free blacks and slaves
of this city. The soldiers have so petted the
free negroes here, by promising them protec-
and better times when. the war shall have
been ended, that they have become exceeding
~ saucy and impairment
These darkies 20 into their camps, work dill
gently and are fed with the soldiers. Many
them expect to 90 North with the regiments.
Many Of the Federal troops treat these negroes
boon companions, and, in many instances,
the most disgusting intimacies are formed.
The slaves Of the district bitterly hate the
troops, and those Of their own race with 9hom
they are familiar, and avoid their presence
The result of the feeling on both sides has been
the generation Of a vindictive feud, which be-
more general every day; and if the dis.
ciplinc Of the army is not amended in this par
there is every roason 10 believe that q
serious strife will cnsue. \ number Of the free
have been committed to jail for various
offences, some Of them capital ones, within the
past two weeks; and yet, by scme neglect or
wifi. laHity of duty, they are allowed to es.
,ape. Il has been but a few days since that
Of these black ~rasca!s cut three men with q
knife, one or whom WIS killed on thespot, and
yet the criminal was not, I believe, in confna-
uent forty hours. Another of these free
insul,ed grossly the wife Of a worthy
and upon the husband attempting to
punish or reprlmand the black, be killed him
IN the spor;< and yet l believe this brute has
the justice which should have been
neted to him.
Sixty-four clerks il the Departments, who
we're %arraigned at the inquisitorial tribunal
Mr.. Pottcr's) sitting in the "Star Chamber"
No. s. have refused to take the oath of ale
glance.