, 1861-09-21

Especial Correspondence Of the chioa9o Tribune
WARRINGTON, Sept II, 1851.

10 MAKE an EN1c10 &cc0aEE. 6eCo4d
he is enough Of = military man to ID.
dress such dispatch to tho proper off,
certhe A6jutant General Of the Ua1ted
States, But Ruaos puton his boots, and in
short time We had reports that General Scott,
deemfrg himself slighted BY NOT having the
Dispatch addressed to him, bad resigned hia
ceumiesion; that Gen. Mcdowell felt that the
remsrf, " We shnI haye no more Bull Run
atfat1s, "Was = arefleetion upon him a military
commander, when 1t waa only hearty praise
Of the conduct OF our truope, sud that he was
going to have satisfaction; TINT In conse-
qnence Of all this there had been i long Cab;-
net consn snltatton, md there VA danger OF in
stant explosion. Following upon the heels Of
this was the advance of tie rebels towards
Mount Oli7et Church, and their vandalism,
which hlIed the city with alarm. On Friday
there Wa3 heavy cannunAoe over the river.
artillery practices, which brought al Washing.
the great tnttle. On Sunday morning we had
sixty thousand rebels, across the Potomac at
Poulsville, in rapid march for Baltimore and
Philadelphia!
Ottriches can swallow handful of nails
now and then, It 10 said, without injury to
is Impossible for community to have gooo
mental or moral health under such pabulum-
Yesterday I beleYe nothing occurred, and
everybody said, II How dull It is." In add
tion to all this, there Was report that Ere
mont had been superseded, which set every
body In fever equal to that which some
tines conyu!ses little country community,
when half dozen gonjfa over their tea-cup5
discuss the character OF respectable young
lady who stands high In the affections Of tbs
community, snd suddenly premise that she Is
no better than she should be! 30 we 60.
2hat7 rra$x u EF1F
be possible to cool our blood, and become ac-
custcmed to plain, substantial fare, or are we
to go Oh forever, like the cork legged burghez
cf Amsterdam, increasing cur sped, our love
Of the excitsble and marvellous
Is it inae parable with advanced civilization
that we should thus keep up to fever nest?
I doubt If The lIdia1s know anything about
Ecnif, and excitement Epnn from nothing
Nalprslists inform us that if spiders oLce lo=e
their thread, or, Ia other words, if the rzser-
vcir which Nature has given them once be
comes exhausted, it is all up with them-they
can spin no web; but not 60 with tbs nimble-
legged vermin which infest this city-they
spin Wtb Of lies every night ont Of nothing,
acd spread it over the whole country. To be
here in the den, and to see what is going On,
with fmpctent hands, is weariness, and
causes kone sometimes to join with Ccwper II
30 for lodge In some vast wtldernessr'
TEE REBELS.
Things Lave not changed very much acsosi
the Hver Hl1ce NY last. The rebels seem II
be restless. They more from place to place
a. i t15 lrg to find the Weakest spot in McCle!
lah's lines. Let them look whEre they will
they Will not ind very weak place. Wha
are they to do? They have devoured the cou1tr,
around Manassas; they have made It sickly b;
their lorg occupation, and every days delay
! If We can rely upon the statements Of Southern
papers, Is weakening them. They have larg
s1my-Eithout doubt, one hundred and fit
thsus=rd, and perhaps two hundred THOUSAND
men. Their supplies must all be brought b
1al1. The outbreak Of the war early in th
spri1g, and the concentration Of troops a
Manassas, prevented great agricultural prep.
rat:ons in the counties bordering upon th
Potomac, and from what ssT OF desolstio
when the army advanced to CentreVille,
kEcw that by this time the rsgio
must bear some resemblance 10 Egypt afEe
the locusts occupied the land in the time
that arch rebel Pharaoh Mcclellan e7idenh
understands that they are devouring then
selves, and that he can afford to walt fe
days longer, till he gets bis green cavalry IN
ARTILLERY men little acquainted with the
duties.
sKIRMIsHEs.
We lave had several skirmishes of Int, I
every instance brought on By the rebels, aud
every instance they have had the worst Of
Our pickets according to instructions have fAl
; En- lack Cpcn their reserves, which, 4 see By Il
, Southern papers, Is evidence Of 3 rebel vict
n. By looking at Southern papers receive
> here, eating from the 1st to the 9th Of Il
present month, 1t appears that in these e
: geetments We have lost six hundred kllle
! Twelve hundred wounded ard about two tho
j. sand taken prisoners They have lost in ea
!, Elf agt mert two OF three killed and b:
= deem wounded. Does not that remind 70
= Mt Editor, Of ycur imaginary battles in ba
= hecd (pcrheps sou we're not Inclined to mi
= taIy imFghlngs, but Know Of one who VA
;. in which you always routed the British
eth great slaughter, without losing a ma
= Or pe1hans you inculged in tttown meetings
. . allowing your Imagination to run to po,iti
In which yo1r Candidate was suret be elect
: ty lsEge msjo7ity; the principle In eth
:. - Gaze is the same. though doubt II there
: the Southern papers. Nc, secession is all 0
i Et5s:-dsesiF' Eios: hapd' e''F'p:''"' dsn'F"'h
. SECESSION MORALS.
= This brings me to speak Of an instance
"a secession morality. A friend, q gentleman
H. yezacity, informs me that last week he pass
Ii an evening in company with intelligent ladl
h WHO a1e for accession. As the discussion
M tansd sA' tsres lima 81 0ts e 0ste sse1re
n. ends contemplated by secessionists it
nj right to throw trains from the track,
Eh in Missouri, right to poison wells and Il
n c8uEe the deefh of soldiers, right to Viol
III 81 osth Of a1le glance! This Ia true, st.a!
40 ard unaec. unable, though it may seem.
to This is the legitimate fruit Of secession, v
on u the scheme succeed. is before us, but
ID faIism Of the blackest hue? Where is ci1
IL zaticn? Where Christianity Where
a. manity? Oh, what record for this count
"a what blot in the history Of our country!