The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-20

II Mr.. LINCOLN was actually embarrassed some
Three months ago by the extraordinary response
which was made 10 his call for volunteers, it is
perfectly apparent that he has no longer any trouble
on that score The eighty thousand three months
men who FASTENED TO Washington, in obedience
10 lie irSt rcquisition, have gone home and the
men VINO We're to have filled their Places and who
were siio TO be eager to enlist for the war, come
forward slowly. There was said to be large
reserve force IN the various camps of instruction
IN the northern States, but we now discover that
II consisted OF only few regiments, and that
lhese, admonishcd by tie series of reyerses that
have betallen the Federal arms, are t,v no means
animated with spirit of confidence in Themselves
IN their leaders, in the Justice of the car,o ,o
have undertaken to defend The fire and the on
thusiasm which were to lead the Grand Army of
lhe Union TO an easy conquest of the South, is
gradually dying out. The battle of Manassa has
dlsslpated good many of the decisions that the
people of the North previously entertained and
has also taught the Northern troops lesson which
IL IS evident they are not disposed 10 FORGET
and has also sensibly cooled the ardor
Vi lhose who at one time were eager
10 volunteer for the war. We were told that the
men whose time Of service had expired would on
home, rcorganze, and return to the war; but
they are quite content to rest upon their laureIs,
ana TO leave Others to dare those perils from which
they, themselves, have happily escaped. The
de5rS of the grand army, disheartened and democrat
zed cannoteven be kept within bounds bv the srin-
gent regulations adopted by Gen MCCLELLAN and
theoretically carried out by the Provost Marshal.
INSTRUMENTATION is known 10 exist to a very seri-
Gus extent on both sides of the Potomac, and in
spite OF all the precautions that have been taken,
desertions are numerous and of daily occurrence.
vi the disbanded volunteers, there are thousands
"hoare now engaged in disseminating, throughout
Tue Northern and Western States, those wholesome
truths which the war journals have suppressed
ana which the Administration has not dared to
make public Many of the men have carried home
WIN them the seeds Of diseases contracted amono
.ne 'o"IthdS OF the Potomac; others are manned
~ AsA2'red Tor life, and but few retain any of
o''ner Loneliness for military career, since
'N h"u experience of the dangers which be-
~, va pioNet duty, and on the field of battle
" l'h ule stores That these men tell of tho hal
SHIPS ana pnVatIons they have nn5orno,o. - A.,
treatment they have met with at tLo ho,sN-
their officers, and of the undaun,ed oo,,-- VI
which they have been opposed at ever Co., Wv" W.
the Coniederates, what wonder is it that the WOO.
like ardor of the Northern people is subsdins
and that they are learning daily to get rid of their
aeosions' and to look at things as they really are
anu NOT as they would have them? It has been
sn.I niuco easier for Congress to authorize call
nnut-anna . ni'lIion of men, than for the War De-
If tbirtv dolIars '1 t Even with the temptation
dollars to each 10 eseh Individual slngly, forty
fen do,Iors 70 cool, 80 ane whole company re-enlis
my aoia'S 70 eaSn IL the entire regiment reenljst
anu an aaai'lonal bonus OF one hundred dollars
at the end OF the war; the re-enlistments have
been few; and, although the pay has been in.
creased to thirteen dollars month, and the most
strenuous efforts are made by the recruiting off
GERS to fill up the new regiments in process Of