The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-08-12
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| were also the following
| Resolved, That immediate steps should be
| taken by the Federal officers who have III
charge the destinies of the country, to estab.
lish sus pension of hostilities, to the end that
| a National Convention of al! the States com
posing the Confederacy may be had for the
| purpose of devising means for such amend
| ments to the Constitution will guaranty
! the rights and equality of each and all the
| States, and thus bring peace and harmony to
our people. and, If possible, reconst ruct now
l discovered Union.
| ResoLced, That the Democratic State Cen
| trail Committee be requested to call a mass
| meeting of the Democratic Electors of the
| State, at the earliest possible moment, that
| their conservative voice may be heard touch
| ing the great questions which now agitate the
| public mind, and to devise and recommend
/ such measures will promote the best in.
| terests of the people OF this and the other
States.
| The resolu tons were elcquently advocated
by several speakers. and unanimously adopted.
/ The Hartford Times says:
This meeting shows the deep-seated feeling
| that is pervading the public mind in favor OF
| peaceful settlement, especially among the
| mixing and reading people of the agricultu
| raj towns. The meeting was the largest ever
assembled in the town, not even excepting
! those in the excitement OF Presidea tial cleo
| tOns. NO expression was made, and be-
/ lieve sentiment was enter tanned oy any
| man present, that was not friendly 10 the
Government of the United States and the
l Union. But the idea that a suffering people,
! in honor, and by all the reasons that are en-
l braceC IL the consequ ences OF ruined bust
l ness, aid the want OF proper means to snip
ply the needed comforts OF families, demand u
pedct. ut settlement of existing troubles, per-
| VideQ the assembled masses.
AT 4 similar meeting at Rockport Me-, the
/ following reso buttons were unanimously
| adopted:
| ReS0lUed, That we will vote for no nan at
| our coming ection who is in favor OF this
| unnecessary, fmpoiitIc, unhoiy, and tratri-
| cidal war.
| Resotued, Thai we view with extreme re-
greet The tact that presses, always considered
reliably democratic, ana Individuals, who
! have heretofore acted with the Democratic
party, nave been Influenced. either by inter-
eSted motives or deluded by the sham cry OF
| patriotism, TO yield their support to d Black
| Republican, Abolition Admins tration, W hicn ,
if successful, must result in shedding oceans
OF blood, and i'll the es establishment OF a mill
/ tary GeSpOtism.
hes0ived, That we will on all occasions,
when and where we please, comment freely
| on the misconduct OF our rulers and freely
| express our opinions on ali subjects relating
| 10 the awful situation of our saifering cOun-
try, on Republcanism, Abolitiooism, "uni-
| yer sal liberty, impartial freedom. white mig
| gers and black" the threatenings ard mena-
| ces OF Black Republicans to the contrary not
| Wlthstanding.
ReS0toed, That it is with the deepest feel.
| OF orr country, which for more than eighty
| years has waved over the happiest people on
| earth, now desecra ted by being used TO hide
| the cioven foot OF black abolitionlsm.
THE PoNoaoxE EXPEDITION.
The Old Point correspondent OF the Penn
| sylvania Inquirer, who accompanied the
. Federal expedition 10 rccomoke river, admits
| that they We're driven on three times by the
Contederates and finally compelled TO retrea1
| TO Fort ress Monroe. The Fanny Cadwalla,
der, OF the gun boats, got aground and
| marrow WHY escaped capture. The narrative
however, abounds with lies. A letter. pub
lished in another column of the DiSpat,h
! gives ali the facts.
"PLAYED OUT"
Under this caption, the Baltimore South ex.
poses the falsity OF the representations com
ing from Washing ton III regard to the filling
up of the depleted ranks OF the ''grand army.
After giving the causes which reduced tina
! army 70 its present condition, and showins
| that the Government is forced 20 resort 10 fic
! titious means 10 keep up an excitemeu
among the people, the South says:
While the army Of the Potomac has beer
| undergoing steady drain from these causes
, the fresh material which Is being supplied t
| fill the places made vacant by the enemy =
| cannon, Dy the refusal OF regiments 10 e-en
| list for the war, and by the deserton Of iud
viduals, is of the most trifling and worthless
| description. With few exec options, the new
, reg irsents that have passed through this city
| on their Wayto the Capital, are regiments tn,
formation of which was commenced soon afte,
| the 18th Of April, but Which-thrOugh want O.
| means the incompetency of their officers or thu
| dSrepu table auspices under which they were
started, ianguished, never reached their proper
! complement of members or were rejec ted byth;
. | Union Defence Comm ttee of the Government
For the rest, the Government has been com
! PEELED TO draw npou General Butler for tn.
means OF keeping up the army in Washing tor
| TO anything like its fermer numbers, and re
| placing III Baltimore the regiments which
| have gone home. The forces under Butler:
| command, by consequence, are reduced TO les.
| than 2. 800 men, and that portion CT the Gov
| ernments plan of conquest and subIugation
which contemplated an advance upon Rich
mond from Yorktown, will have 20 be ''inde
finitely postponed" From similar cause,
| "Gen. Banks coiumn"-so called, probably
Il from the fact that the General is always il
marching order, prepared 10 fit at q moment
notice from Jshnston--has been reduced n
| to compel the evacuation OF Virginia by th
| Army of the Shen andOah,' and Il retren
| into the loyal precincts of Frederick county
| All this, il will be confessed, does not loOl
much like an early capture or Richmond, O
the speedy subjugation OF the South.
APPRBHgNsIoNs OF AN ATTACK.
The Washington correspondent of the Baiti
more Exchange, writes:
| The fear OF an attack from q an. Beauregar(
| still prevails with the officials of the Adm is
| tratior, hence all the cannon at Harrisburg
| owned by the State of Pennsylvania, has beer
! ordered 10 be transferred to the banks of tn
| Potomac. The same feeling of dread, be i
| said, does not pervade the people OF this dis
! trict whole.
| From the number who are daily imprisoned
as suspected OF sympathzing with the Confed
| crates, II is only reasonable TO suppose tina
| they would hail the advance of the COnfade
rate armies IL this direction as a step for thel
| deliverance from the thraldom which is i'm
| posed on every man IN the free States who doe
| not choose TO hold the opinions OF the party il
| power.
Operations at Arlington are being carried o.
| vigorously. Five thousand axes are emf lOye,
| III Telling trees in the rear OF the mansion, be
tween il and Balls Gross Roads.
The following is from the same letter:
| The present arrivals of troops in this cit,
shows but too plainly the difficulty which tn
| Government already experiences in enlistin,
new recruits. Instead of coming by regi
| ments as formerly, you see companies, an,
| even squads, OF the most filthy, Gepra we'd an(
ignorant m en- TO be found on this con tinent
| Most CT them look though they had Jus
! been liberia ted from the prisons, Or i'm presse,
| from the pauper iIstitut ties OF the cities of tn,
| North.
WALL STREET IN AGONY.
| The New York CORES pendent OF the Phla
delphia Ledger says.
| Wall street is painfully exercised TO day b,
| that ill-natured money article IN the Londo,
| Times, warning Brother Jonathan not To en-
ter Lombard street with his new loans TO
war purposes-inasmach Lomb bard stree
| locks upon the Northern Jonathan, as we'll al
his Southern (Secesh) brother, as an iucorri
gible repudiator.
The talk is, that the writer of the money
article for the Thunderer is an individual
whose sympathies and interests are all w th
Jefferson Davis, and against the North How
all that may be, l cannot say !; but do SAY
that the cold water the Jupiter of Prin ting