Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-14
ARMY BUDGET.


countering real difficulties, and fighting real
battles against equal foes No doubt the
difficulties are self-created, and the battles
aie fought with one another. The Union has
divided itself and gone to buffets-but the
result is the same, The nation is passing
through the crueible-it is being purged as
by fire. All the tests of National strength,
Of individual hardihood, Of administrative
ability, and of public spirit, to which we in
the Old World have been subjected over and
over again from our youth upward, ara now
suddenly applied to our American brethren
III the full tide of their wealth and enjoy
ment. In their turn they have to discover
by hard trial whether they possess generals
who can command, soldiers who will fight
ministers with ability to organize, and ma
ti1DRl spirit loyal enough to redeem the
heavy burdens, the chilling disappointment,
and, above all, the wearisome delays inevi-
table in state of war. II is, indeed, but
improbable that the struggle may serve, not
only 10 prove, but to produce, the virtues it
is most desirable to find. 1t may be proof
as well as test of the American character,
From the pending contest the Americans, as
q nation, may retire in the end exhausted
and impoverished. But any temporary sac
rifce of money or territory will be amply
repaid if the National energies have been
trained, and society in every circle has
learned to set due value on the possessions
which have been gained, or preserved, at a
heavy cost of blood and treasure. If such
should be the result of the war, it will have
proved the heppest event that ever happened
to America. The Americans mag be peaker,
poorer and eUen disunited by lis occurrence,
but the loss a0iU be far oUerbalanced by the
gain. They a1iu hare acquired better tile
10 respect from other nations. A6oUe all, Mey
aciU haze earned better hoV to respect them
seiUes.
A LETTER from HopkinsvilleF Kentucky,
states that Buckner reached there with about
three thousand Tennessee, Mississippi aud
Kentucky soldiers, who went into camp at
the Fair Grounds and on Col .Campbells s farm.
The troops went down from BowliugGreen 10
Rochester, q d then across the couatry by
way OF Greenviile.i The, Home Guards, unpre-
pared for resistance, either dispersed or re-
treated toward Henderson. Buckner's troops
arc in sorry condition, armed with rusty
flint lock muskets and seemed to be a very
rough and ignorant set generally-real hard
customers. Since their arrival ruffianism
has exhibited itselfin the searching of houses
and seizure of property, the citizens being
compelled to submit in silence. 1t is under
stood that about one thousand of these men
will remain at Hopkinsville to form the nu-
ceus for a recruiting camp the rest will 90
back to Bowling Green, and some have al
ready taken their departure. Alfred G.
Burnett, member of Congress from the First
District, is raising a regiment for the rebel
service.
THE PROOF OF THE DEATH OF SOLDIERS.
Many inquiries have been made of the
Second Auditor in reference to the proof of
the death of a soldier, requisite to enable his
heirs to procure his pay and the $l00 bounty.
Sufficient proof of the death is furnished by
4l r,1I oh Il ,;E rs16
the Auditor. 1t is unnecessary for the ap-
pointment of an administrator, except where
there are many heirs 80 scattered as to create
inconvenience in making several applica-
tions When claim is made by father,
mother or widow, it is unnecessary.
THE EMBARGO ON COTTON.
In spite of JEFF Davis's order for the trans.
portation of cotton into the interior, little of
1t has yet left the seaboard. Recent adyices
indicate that the cotton can not move for
want of sufficient rope or mating. For the
most part, it is slowed where picked. Great
Britain recently entered into negotiations
with Egypt for expectation from its ports
and transit across its territory of cotton from
the East. Our Consul General at Alexan-
dria W. s. Thayer, getting wind of the ar
rangement, secured for the United States all
the privileges accorded to England.
KENTUCKY GIRL.
The Louisville journal gives the following
Captain Claypool, living about ten miles
from Bowling Green, is commander of a
company of Home Guards. He had the
guns of the company at his house, out, on
hearing of the arrival of General Buckuer at
Bowling Green, he sent them to Colonel
GIiders camp in neighboring county. The
next day a squad, dispatched by Buckner,
called at his house, and, finding only his
daughter demanded the guns of her. She
ansW cred that they were not there, and if
they we're she wouldn't give them up. They
handed her General Buckner's order for the
weapons, and she tore it up before their
faces. They went to the bucket and took
each drink of water, whereupon she threw
the rest of the water out Of the bucket and
commenced securing the dipper.
The most thrifty of all vocations in these
hard times is that of soldier in the service
of the United States. The soldiers are about
the only people that are now making live
lihood. The Government pays most liberal
wsges-$l3 per month, board, clothing and
doctor-bils paid. Over and above all this,
the soldier, when the war is overland we
sincerely believe it will be over soon-will
have a hundred and sixty acres of land
wherever he chooses to locate his warrant,
and, if he shall be injured in the war, mu'
niticent pension for life.
Thus setting aside all the lofty consider
ations of patriotism, even the pecuniary in
ducements 10 enlist at this time are very
| powerful. Who is there that's making a;
much in profession, trade, or any mechsn
| ical or agricultural pursuit. as the United
| States Government offers TO its soldiers fol
their services2-LouisVitLe Journal.
APPEAL TO THE LOYAL WOMEN OF AMERICA.
An appeal to the loyal women Of Americl
has Just been issued under the auspices Of thu
sanitary commission at Washington, asking
on behalf of the army:
Blankets for single beds; quilts of cheaI
material, about seven feet long by Fifty inche
wide; knit woolen socks; woolen or Cantor
| flannel bed-gowns, undershirts, wrappers
and drawers small hair and feather pillow
and cushions, for wounded limbs; slippers
&c.
The Richmond Dispatch states that tn
militia in Berkeley County, Virginia, having
refused to join the army, peremptory order
were issued from the military head'quarter
to force them in, or TO treat them as deserter
or alien enemies,
Sixty regiments in all have been authorizes
by the Governor of lndiana.
The Richmond Examiner says:
A Yankee prisoner named N. @. Buck,
member of the Seventy New YOr
Regiment, confined in the lower prison, nea
Rockets, was shot and instantly killed abou
one o'clock Saturday morning, by one of tn
sentinels who kept watch over the building
The latter observing the Yankee TO approac