St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-07-25
The American Rebellion.
From the London News,

Oy tue last uCCOUIto AEOm htuerlC8 Wo
learn that the two contending parties were
large masses of troops in the
of Washington.
It is believed that the Northern armv
under the command Of: General Scott.
to sixty thousand men, and that
the enemy has in the field force winch
is supposed to range from seventy to nine.
ty thousand men. The former, if We NAV
Judge from the recent affair near IT. Mon.
roe, appeared i'll disciplined and inefic-
ientlY commanded. The regiments which
we're dispatched, under the command Of
General Pierce, who, it is stated, ''lost his
head" or to the disinclination Of the raw
Northern levies to face masked batteries
aud to stand "the.galliug Ere of riaed can.
non" The military operations which
hitherto have taken place in America.
seem to European nations to be- utterly
In this country we know
comparatively Little or nothing of the or.
ganizatioa Of the Southern forces.
It is, however, clear that, both in tho
attack upon Fort Sumpter and in the re-
cent affair at Great Bethel, the Secession.
lists were we'll provided with artillery, aud
that their troops were sufficiently we'll
handled to secure success. We suspcct
that the delay and hesitation which have
marked the policy Of the Federal Govern
ment are to be attributed mainly to the
that General Scott, an able
and experienced officer, knows that militia
regiments cannot, in the short space Of
two months, be converted into well.trained
and efficient soldiers. General Butler.
who directed the disastrous movement
from Fort Monroe, was the other day a
practicing lawyer, who, Of course. cannot
be expected to become general BY ,inspi-
ration. The Northern army appears to be
in great want of officers owing to the cir.
cumstancc that the great majority of the
officers Of the regular army have thrown
up their commissions to take service with
the Southern insurgents.
Hitherto the prestige Of success, has
been altogether on the side of the South
"a matter of the greatest importance at
the commencement Of a campaign. Mr..
JEFFERSON DAVIS appears to have a well
supplied, we'll oficered and we'll organized
army; whilst Mr.. LINCOLN and General
Scorr have under their command raw lev.
les more formidable on paper than they
are to an enemy in the field: Actual war
fare, however, is sharp and quick in
structor, and the Northern population have
only to initiate the energy aud activity Of
the Southern insurgents, to learn those
habits of discipline aud to collect those re-
sources upon which success depends, quite
as much as upon enduring courage and =
good and righteous cause The two
armies were approaching each other, and
the fight which seemed imminent at Ma.
nassas Gap will in all probability decide,
not the fate Of the campaign, but whether
the North or the South is to become the
invading party.
In the House of Commons, on the 24.A
of June, Sir J. FERGUSON called attenti,
to the recent augmentation of the militia
forces in Canada. He expressed hope
that the present unhappy dispute in the
United States had had nothing to do with
tho decision of. the Govern
ment IN TINS respect. ne House OF Com.
mons had wisely decided not to enter into
any discussion on the state Of affairs in
America; but the course adopted BY tiss
Government would haze the effect Of pull
ting an end to that feeling d neutrality
sohich such decision, had created. The
iu which the troops had been, or
were about to be, despatched was likely to
cause increased importance 10 be attached
to such step. The troops were to tbs
sent off in hot haste, in Il be largest and
fastest weasel at. the; disposal Of tile Gov
ernment, and not in the@fainary mode ~
transports or ve.selslofwar: Il ,oould, g.
knopn uN over Es,gpe aszt t'te Gorers-, ,
n.ent o. this country lat aso4ghtst neces- :
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