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This Vile War.

We give the following from, The Concord (N
H. Standard Of the Sd, as the article which
caused tia; paper to be mobbcd:
Men Of New England tits war waged
against your interests, your pockets, your fiji.
turc prosperity. the welfare of your families.
tho future of your wives and little children.
Tue sad loss of life at Bull Ruu-nay, the
thousands Of brave hearts which are yet to be
sacrificed if Black Republican dcmagogncs
and treasury plunderers are permitted to car
~ out their programme Of blood-are but as
feather in the balance when weighed
against the Generalization. the prostration.
the crushing destruction, which this internal
war will surely bring upon every New Eng
land homo. Fathers God protect your dear
wives and helpless children who will have
to suffer most from this Infamous, fratricidal
war.
Rich ren-tiose Nho are reputed to be
snch-where is your iancicd wealth? What
is your real estate worth to-day? Where
can YOU find purchaser for it. at anything
like its cost? Where can you find one at any
price? Will yo1r incomes pay insurance
and taxes, if this miserable war continues
until next May?
Men Of moderate means. Where is Jour
income to day? What store keeper in Con-
cord has made enough for the past fortnight
to pay his business expenses, 10 say nothing
Of those Of lis amily9 Have your profits
paid the grocer, the baker, the butchcr7 If
they have, then the deserted streets Of this
city, for the past fourteen days. have lied.
and yet y1u have only begun to get peep ct
the beginning Of the end. Ifthis cursed mig
ger war continues another twelremonlhs.
grass will grow in Main Street. Even the
government tax.gat!lcrcrs will not lie able to
tread it down, for by that time, may be. you
will have ceased to be able to pay their de-
mands. and their occupation will be gone.
You must then repudiate, willing or un-
willing. Mechanics You like TO read abou.
tic war. perhaps in the unreliable sensation
city press. You would have reiuiced over
different result at Ball Run-cxultcd at
successful Northern forward march to Rich
mond. But reflect Il moment scr'ious'y'-re-
fleet! Would that have done more tlan
crafty your sectional pride, CT political ami.
mostly? Would it have tended to revive
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sign to make union by force, 1t INA, r.,r-.-
for a struggle the result Of which will leave
the Union very little to fight !ar. More of
the ':battle" in ny next. pity the public
across tke water; but they must be the vic
tins of hallucination and myths it is out Of
mi power 10 dispel or rectily just now.
Having told So long IL story, can scarcely
expect your readers 10 have patience. and 60
back upon The usual diary Of events: but the
records, s"ch as they are, Of is cEira"rdi-
narv replllse, must command attention. 1t is
impossible to cxagec.ate their Importance
No man can predict the results Or pretend TO
guess al them.
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What q Traveller says.
. N;ininntnn .InMWai saws:

The Wilmington JoaMa' says:
"Dr. s. s. Satchwell, of this county, who
H., been ab.ent in Europe t;,r some months,
which time he spent mainly, il rot exclusive
IT, in Paris. in the hospitals and disscetns
rooms, adding to his stores Of professional
knowledge, arrived here Yesterday via l'o"'s'
vi1ln and the West, after hard scnllc to get
,bronch at ALL The fact is. that nowhere in
Europe, not even in Russia, is the espionage
50 ,nnoyinr. nor the searches of person and
borrage so ofiicious as they are now at the
North. France is a free. civil Government,
compared with the military despotsm Of
Abraham Lincoln, and strangely, or what
might have been thought 50 some months
since, the focus, the very heart and centre OF
all this may be found in the great liberal city
of New York-'hc city that grew fat of
Southern trade, that boasted fits cosmopoll-
tan character, and its freedom from loca'
prciudiccs. Neither Massachusetts, in general,
nor Boston in particular, can hold candle to
New York in raucorous bitterness. Such ap'
pears to be the result ofthc doctors observa'
lions, and the conclusion to which he has
come is also affirmed by the experience oil
others.
"Hut the winter is coming on, and tho
vas, bordcs of the unemployed and thriltles'
and charactcrlcss floating population OF New
York, whom no charity can long keep re-
lieyed, will be threatening The property Of
spcculators, the storehouscs of food, and the
repositories Of clothing, with sack and conils'
cation. The whole artificial scaffolding upon
Which the bloated bulk Of New York CONNER
cial supremacy has been raised so high is
tumbling down, and her merchant princes
are become desperate, mad, reckless"
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Ql0l[ QQl0l[ar s1f(atters,
From the Correspondence of the London Times
Mr.. RmsselI's Letter Describing the
ri4hf mt Manassas and the ROut
of the Linc0lnites.
Y ASlIlNGTON, July u.

WASHINGTON, July -.
sit down to give an accornt-not OF the
action Yesterday, but Of what saw with my
own eyes, hitherto not often deceived, and OF
what | heard with mine own cars, which in
th;s country are not so much to be trusted.
Let me, however, express an opinion as TO the
affair of Yesterday. In The first place, the
repulsc of the EcderaliStS, decided as 1t was,
mirbt have had no serious effects whatever
bcyoud the mere failurc-which politically
was of greater consequence than 1t was IN Il
,n;;tarv sc1,se-but for the d:sgrace!ul con-
duct Of the troops.
The retreat on their lines at Centreyl'e
sr.ms to haze ended in Il c0wardly rcut-u
miserable. causcless pa,.r. Such scanlalous
b.l;;vior on the part Of soldiers | should have
considered impossible, as with some expert
cncc Of ca,nps and armies lave never, even
in Ylar.ns among Camp followers, seen the
,;l.uf il. IIow far the discrganizati1n OF
N, troops extend, / know not, but it was
co,ouleto in the instance OF mere than one
regiment.
Washington this morning is crowded with
soldiers without officers, who have fled from
Centrcvillc, and with three months men,
who nrc going home from the face uf the enc
INV on the c. piration of their term of enlist
ment. The streets, in spite of the ram, are
crowded by people with anxious faces, and
groups of wavcring politicians are assembled
at the corners, in the hotel passages and the
bars. If in the present state OF the troops
thc Confedcrates were to make march across
the Potomac above Washington, turning the
works at Arlington, the Capital might fall
into their hands. Delay may place that event
out of the range of probability.
The North will, no doubt, recover the shock.
Hitherto she has only said, $50 and fight for
the union.o The South has exclaimed, " Let
nc fiuht for our rights" The North must put
rs hest men into the battle, or she will III
ei.a5ly fall before the energy, the personal
hatred and the superior fighting powers ot
her antagonist. In my letters, as in my con
vcrsatiou, have endeavorcd to show that the
task which the Unionists have set themselves
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GES. MISUNDERSTANDING he is as terrible
il. battle as lion, he is as mcrciful as wo.
man to his olon people. That is the Kind Of.
humanity ace like. When an enemy murders
women and chidren-when he proclaims in
advance, rape, handouts, halters and confs-
cation-tben, by all means, let us ererc,se true
humanity 10 ourselrcs, which consists in gisi-4
ting upon those who have made themselves.
pirates and enemies Of society, the pirate'a
doom. 80
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Nhnt ,yr May ISxncct.

4 correspondent of the Mobile hrgisit,' Il.
.tarertixey, at pensac"la, gives the following
as probably the Federal progran,me for the
prosecution OF the war:
Alter the great reverse which the Lincoln
ties have met with ut Manassas, we must not
suppose that they will he par;slizel or rem
derc.l inactive That reverse will, no doubt,
arouse them to i greater exertion. Let the
South, then, he yisilant.
think-Qet the opinion 60 for what it is
worlh)-tlat Scott will attack us in several
w.ys. lie W Il probably attack by fleet, ron
tanning nM iorcrS, Wilmington, N. g.; Sa-
vanuab, Ga. st. Augustine and Pensacola,
Fla; Mobile, Alabama Galveston, Texas and
New Orleans, a., simnl;ancously--making
his grcut attack on New Orleans. He will
hardly attempt 10 force Charleston, having
son.c experience as to the Inrce and dcadli-
ness Of It's batteries lie will doubtless, at.
tack what he Considers our weakest, and, al
the same ilrc, most important and most as
saialle points; such as Mobile and New Or
'eaiis At lli,. same iin!r, he will send Il !iect
OF >tcalnla;.ts down the Mississippi. lie will
probably, also send i land :orcc Of some Two
or three hundred thousand men throug the
intcrior-prolably and most probably, through
yirninia and Tennessee. Let us not deceive
ourselves If the Lincoln government re-
solves to prosecute the war, they can COM
mand men, and many Of them brarc men.
The South must make up her mind to lonr,
fierce and deadly struggle. 1t is useless to
talk OF peace. The Lincnlnitcs-the Black
Rcpubcans-have no notion of peace. II
, would he the ,lealh-blow Of all their aspira-
tons and of all their expectations. The only
peacc We can have, is that gained at the point
OF the bayonet. Let lis cast aside all expec.
tation of any other.
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Selttteb 4oetrp,
Archidamia.

(Pyrrhus next advanced against the city.
was resolved to send the women into Crete, bu
they demonstrated against it: and tho Queen, Al
chidamia, being appointed to speak for the res
went into council hall with sword in hor hand
and said that they did their wives great wrong
they thought them so faint-hearted as to live afe
Sparta was destroyed.
The chiefs were met in the council hall,
Their words were sad and few:
They were ready to aght, aud ready to fall
AZ tho sons of heroes do.
And, mOorcd in the harbor of Gythium, lny
Tho last of the Spartan fleet,
That should bear the Spartan women awny
To tho sunny shores of Crete.
Their hearts went back to the days Of old;
They thought of the world wide shock,
When tho Persian host like an ocean, rolled
To the foot of the Greecinn rock.
And they turned their faces, eager and pale,
To the rising roar in.tho street,
AS if the clank of tho Spartan mail
Were the tramp Of the conquerors feet.
1t was Archidamia, Spartan queen,
Brave as her fathers steel;
She Stood like the silence that comes between
The fash and the Handicapped.
She looked in the eyes of the startled crowd,
Calmly she sazcd around;
Her voice was neither low nor loud,
But it rang like her sword on the ground.
"Spartans" she said-and her woman's face
Flushed out both pride aud shame
"I ask, by the memory of your race,
Are yc worthy of the name:
aye have bid,lcn us seek new hcarths and graves
Beyond the reach of tho foe:
Aud now, by the dash Of the blue sea wa.es,
We swear that we will not go
SIS the name of pyrrhus to h!anch your check
Shall lie burn, aad kill, and destroy?
Are re not sons OF the dcuthlrss Greeks,
Vic fred the gates Of Troy!
"What though his feet have scathless stood
In the rush Of the Pnnic form
Though his sword be red t, the hilt with the blood
That mas beat ut the heart Of Rome!
"Brothers and sons we have reared you men,
Our walls arc the ocean swell?
Our winds blow keen down the rocky glen
Where the staunch Three Hundred fell.
Our hearts are drencbed in the wild sea-fow,
In tue light of the hill and :''c sky;
Aud the Spartan women, il need be so,
- u 1T leacn the .neiI.sso sso-s:8--o.-----
owe are brave mems mothers and brave mems
wives,
We are ready to do and dare;
we are ready to man your walls with ou7 lives,
And string your bows with our hair.
"Let the young and brave lie down Tonight,
And dream of tue brave old dead;
Their broad shields bright for the morrow's light
Their swords beneath thoir head.
"Our breasts are better than bolts and bars;
We will neither vail nor weep;
W. will light our torches ut the stars,
And work whilo our warriors sleep
"We hold not the iron in our blood
Vilor than strangers gold:
The memory of our motherhood
Is not to be bou:h ut or gold.
"Shamo 10 the traitor heart that springs
To the faint, soft arms OF peace,
TT ,bo smnn eaylu shook his wings
At the very gates of Greece.
Ask not the mothers who gave you hirth
The bid you turn and neo;
When Sparta ID tramplcl from the earth,
Her women cun die and be free
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A Turtle on the Battle Field.

The Richmond correspondent of the n. o.
Dciht bells this good story about James Jack.
son, q man we'll known on all the Southern
fields where horse flesh is put 10 the test Of
bottom and speed. Jackson was at the Ma
nassas races, and what helel him is thus re-
lated:
flames Jackson, of North Alabama we'll
known in New Orleans, particularly to the
turtles thereabouts, volunteered as private,
and joined the 4th Alabama Regiment, which
suffered so severely on the 2lst. On The first
charge of that gallant regiment, Jackson was
shot through the lungs, and when the regi-
mcnt was pressed back, he was left amongst
the killed and wounded. Shortly after, g
Yankee approached him and said: "Fricnd
you appear to be badly wounded, what can T.
do for you?' Jackson replied, "some water,
for Gsd's sake" The Yankee, in giving MIN Z
the water, noticed fine fob chain hooked IL.
his vest, and said, "Yosng man, see yoi
cannot survive, give me your watch and
will serd it to your mother" Jim looked
him askant, and said, "horse, that game
played out; I know you will take the watcl
from me; and / want to make trade with
you if you will place me in the shade and
fill my canteen with water I will give you the !.
watch" The trade was struck in minute, |
and after placing Jim in shade and filing
his canteen until It gurgled over, Jim told d
him to unhook her aud draw her out, and be-.
fore be left, Eaid to him, "that If ever 10
should make match race, and wished to
know the speed Of his horse, to time him
With that watch, for he had given s2s5 soE 1t
1t Liverpool, and there never better
one turned out from the man. JimS..
5 getting well, having ls;. f{andssE :;
;bout 10 o'clock before he Va, u4s., and ds.it1.
:larcs that his watch trade wa 5e:s:hs Z
:ver had made since he hac 1.r-"2 a. niaa
,state.'
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Tie DOVE AND TIE Olive BRANcH.-Thcse
cmblems of peace are printed upon envelopes
lust issued by a firm in Hartford, Conn.,, and
are now being substituted by the friends of
peace in that State for the warii.Sc symbols
rsccntly so common on letter envelopes.
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AK AWFUL FuruRE.-A man named Will
liam D. Kingin, who had committed most
atrociors murder in Michigan a short time
since and been convicted Of the crime, was
sentenced to the State Prison for life. Last
weck lie entered his drcary abode-a solitary
dark cell, with but small dim light from
above, there TO remain as long as his life
shall last-never to write word to. or hear
from, his family or any other individual
never to know anything that occurs in the
world outsidc-having nothing to divert him
self hcncelorth, as long as life shall last, from
reflection upon the awful crime he committed
and its terrible retribution. lie entered his
dismal cell with full realization OF his COR
dition, and with scarcely sufficient strength
to maintain all erect position. Could deal h,
come in any shape, TO mind capable Of q fu| y
appreciatipg its approach, be more 1le
than such one Us that?
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TIE CoLouED DRIVER who drove Prince
Napoleon to the Confederate camp at Manas-
SAG. is said to lave been Lincoln spy, and
Immediately after his return to Washington
he was taken TO the White House aud closet
ed for long time With Mr.. Lincoln,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-09-04
For the Advertiser.
Song Tor The Times.
HkGrns.-Eun. Yankee. run.

CkGrH:. .-Hun, Yankee. run,
Eeaurrgard II catch go
Run. Tnnkec, run,
On foot you're all lie f.
De Yankees 'miiiel suicide
In 'lrctins Abe thuir King,
Wanted Dixie to abide
In dc ncfarous thing:
Dixie wild native galIuntry
And noble Southern pride
Seeded right maucul!y
Which cannot be denied.
So run, Yankee, run. &r.
Dis cause dc ole Gabbonn
To feel 'stremely sore,
So be aXcd ole Scott
Go cohoot in IL war;
Down to 'Nassas they Went
Our Beauregard to mesi-
De pooty part of dc battle
They fout wild ler feet,
81 run, Yankee. run, &c.
Scott fetched Zig gun,
Ely toted champagne
To 'zult md have fun
To de helf of our slain;
But our boys with cold steel
Made de pale claret run
Gushing fast as Yankee heel
Vanished Mt de Bulls Run
So run, Yankee, run, dc.
De towards they fed
Cos de teamsters they say
Got mighty skaered
And de horses run away;
They lef do big guns
And all de champagne,
A big mount of treasure
And ten thousau slain,-
So run, Yankee, run, &c.
.DT,n nI-
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The New York Herald THINKS that before
the war and its sequel are over the public
debt Of the United States will probably ex-
coed thousand millions. .<
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How TO CLEAN :, Gry.--Nl 20 s:ooss!ss
put away gun without closing, act aysa
it has fired but one shot, ti!aI nc harTel
should be cleaned. Frst, ta4c The ", Offs,
Tie stock, ard immersc chem il L. eF
about four inches deep. 1t-4l
stout cloth (tow clings to The !s.
leaves particles in them. ab ii L.ie ie@
rod, so thick that you wi te" Us
""tS"--I"-a - - = into Il .'.,,.s.
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Sit;cs all over ard then pu. tat

FORCED SENvlcE.-Two re.
of the United States army
ti::s city OF Monday, who s.
into service against their nat;
,iass;,s. They had just returne
mands in tho West, AID w
command Of dragons in t,
olst. They rendered their
these were declined, and tho
to 20 into the battle against
They were not ordered u
tic bsttlc until nea: its clio.
lid not fire 4 gun, but eiglte
killed aud wouuded. After
applied for 4 il'rloush, whie!l
when they went TO Louisville:
forwarded their designations, t
tolerate service. They have
nond.-Nashyille Union.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-09-04

General Grattin, in command q
delences OF the southern portion |
Carolina, has been appointeda Brig 3 3
erai in the Confederate Army. Tho,
ais former appointment was under theN'
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up into the field ont of the road, ard went
on rapidly towards the front. Soon met
soldiers who we're coming through the corn
mostly without arms, and presently saw fire.
locks, cooking lins, knapsacks and great coats
on the ground, and observed that the contu'
sion and speed of the baggage carts became
greater, and that many Of them were crowd
ed with men, Or were followed by others who
clung TO them.
The ambulances wcro crowded with SOL
dicrs, but it did not look as if there were ma
ny wounded. Negro servants ON led horses
dashed frantically past; men in uniform,
whom it were disgrace to the profession Of
arms to call soldiers" swarmedby on mules,
charges, and even draught horses, which had
been cut ont Of carts or wagons, and went on
with harness clinging to their heel. as fright.
ened as their riders. Men literally scream
ed with rage and fright when their way was
blocked up. On rode, asking all, "What
is all this about?' and now then, but rarely,
receiving the answer, "We're whipped" or
"We're repulsed," Faces black and dusty,
tongues ont in the heat, eyes staring-it was
a most wonderful Sight. On they came Ike
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Iie;WldiS still a iurlvu, ~~. !,

jie;Wid is still furious -
I.;rcolns Cabinet ami lis interesting abolition
contemporaries most numerically. The letter
d. DR.. Nogya. ole of the released Federal
prisoners, (an extract from which we have
pablishcd. seems to have melted Eennett's
i.car:, and we find the Herald rot only over
flowing with sympathy for the lIcssiaas who
were left by their cowarlly companions "to
rol in Soulhcrn jais,; hut it comcs out and
squarcIy advocates recognition ol the South
crn Confrdtracy. Says the Aciuid:
"Wc hold that there ought 10 be an ex-
change Of prisoners at once, including the
crews OF The privateers, who, after all, are
only enemies at sea, as the Confederate troops
are enemies on land. Many Of the latter
have been rrlcasc! bv General Mcclellan, in
Western Virginia, on their PROMISE not to
take up arms again agpinst the United States
Government; and some cavalry Of the enemy,
prisoners nj Washington, under the very eye
Of the Government, have been sci free on the
1
same condition, together with an oath Of ale
glance, which is Of very small consequence.
Why, then, hesitate {" apply the same rule t"
the privatcrrs? IIangil,s is tue worst us'' I"
which men cam be put. TAm Me I"Mjr'frT'
nirx are catiHel 10 be recognized as bIligrr-
cnts, Mry horc Themselves rrorrd al Mtnds&HS,
and Tic best way is 70 can''''tIy admit the
fact, instead of standing npon point OF rt'-
qucltc which is imrraciicablc. Ihr British
Government, when il wage'l wara5ainsl these
States, at the time that they were its subject
colonies, proposed IN hang the prisoners VINO
fell into the hands Of It's generals: but Wash
ington, in a brief letter, convinced them that
this was not for tlicir own Interest," and they
abandoned the idea. The coiIrsc orr Gov
crnmcnt is pursuing in this matter is, as DR..
Nuryal observes, hostile tn every pr'nc:rIe
OF civilized warfare" The old idea OF hang
ing men l"r political offences is now obsolete,
and when we have succeeded in putting down
the rebellion, tie Union will be restored more
by our humanity than even by our arms.
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Who having turned round goes On,
And turns no more his head,
For hc knuwcth that Il fearful fend
Doth close behind him tread.


Doth close behind him tread.
But where was the fiend looked in vain.
There was, indeed some cannonading in front
of me and in their rear, but still the firing
was comparatively distant, and the runaways
were far out of range.
As I advanced the number of carts dimin-
ished, but the mounted men increased, and
the column of fu5itives became denser. A
few buggies and light wagons, filled with
men, whose faces would have made up a
"great Leporello" in thc,shost scene. tiled
to pierce the rear Of the mass Of CARTS which
were now solidifcd and moving on like q
glacier. 1 crossed small ditch by the road
side, got out on the road to escape some snake
fences, and, looking before me, saw there was
still a crowd Of men in uniforms coming
along.
The road was slrewn with articles Of CLOTH
ing-lirc. locks, waist-bclts, cartonch boxes,
caps, great coats, mess tins, musical instru-
ments, cartridges, bayoncnts and shcaths,
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HONE CuunrEslEs.-Onc Of those whose
lot in life las been to go into an unlfiendly
world at an early age, says: "oF nearly
twenty families in which ! made my home in
the course Of about nine years, there were on
ly three or four that could be properly dcsig-
mated as happy families, and the source Of
trouhblc was not so much the lack of love, as
lack of care to manifest The closing words
of this sentence gives lis the fruitful source of
family alterations. Of heart-aches innumera-
BILE, and of sad faces and gloomy home cir
clcs. "Not 50 much lack of love, as lack Of
care to manifest it. What world of mise.
ry is suggested by this brief remark. Not
over three or four happy homes in twenty,
aud the cause SO manifest and so easily rem
edicd Ah in the small sweet courtesies
of life," what power resides In look, a
word, tone, how much happiness or disqui.
ctudc may be communicated. Think of it,
reader, and take the lesson home with you.