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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-07-04
"stand Firm by the Old Flag"

IfBethel covered our faces with our hands
rather than our heads with glory, and
Vienna was not particularly brilliant VIC
tory for the record of our historic muse, the
cases of individual noblencss which have
been elected by these ill-encounters, by their
addition Of moral force, may go far to bal
ance the loss of Physical prestige suffered by
our arms. In the one we have not triumph
to be sung, but we have Greble and Win
throp to be remembered. In the other,
though we boast no military success we may
congratulate ourselves on such heroic faith
and patience. 5l .,.....t ...
Look at this case, in which the brevity Of
the telegaphic dispatch becomes q subimel
kind of epic for the occasion. No labored
eulogy could melt us like these six lines
about that lone man who leaned on his CUR
against tree, and was scolded by his lieu
tenant for not falling promptly into line
when he answered simply, / wish | could
look at my arm, which was dangling shat
tered at his side. He uttered no complaint
That man died this morning from loss o.
blood. ea' i'0 WI
| And what harangue Of trumpet-tonguet
speaker could so rouse us out of the sham,
Of ineficiency and the bitterness of repuls'
as the remembered words which our brav,
boys whispered as they lay dying among tn,
rocks of Vienna: Stand up for the Union
boys and stand firm for the old flag |!
were expressions uttered in their last mo
ments by several heroic fellows who wer
Il nsortally wounded" aaau lu ~ b
i One Of the Ohio boys, John R. Barnes, Q
the Cleveland Herald, Is he lay dying, faint
ly said to Q comrade, ssSing the STAR Spans
| led Banner;y but he fell asleep in th
eternal shadows before has request could b
complied with. n.Lnl ~
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-07-04

LATER FORM FORT PIcKENs.-A private
letter Of June 6, from the Gulf blockading
squadron says:
have visited Fort Pickens, and it is i'm
pregnable, although Bragg has one hundred
guns in battery bearing on it. From man
who escaped from Pensacola to the fort we
have learned that two thousand of Bragg
army have left him, having been starved
out already. Also that the Zouave regiment
from New Orleans is going to leave to-day.
This will reduce his army to about six thou
sand, and with nothing to eat they canno
hold out long. Col Brown daily expects ar
attack on Fort Pickens ~. t..ar
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-07-04
Brownlow on the Secession in Ten.
neaae

The Knoxville Whig of June 18th, which
has just reached us, contains the Editor,
view Of the vote of the 9Th, by which the
State seeded, and its declared future policy
After characterizing the election in middle
and west Tennessee as perfect farce, he
says:
We have made, as both parties will bear
us witness, the best fight. aye, the most des
perate fight we could in favor of the Union.
and OF the constitutional means TO perpctuate
, 1t inviolate. We have done this because we
want no better Government. no better Con.
stitution, no higher political destiny. nc
more honorable civil position, no greater
liberty, and no more privileges than arc
guaranteed, (by the fundamental law and
which all sections have heretofore enjoyed
in all their richest plentitude. II is folly
for US to fight longer, and therefore we shall
devote our columes to the publication Of
literary, agricultural and miscellaneous mat
ter, including the current war news of the
day. In doing this we take back nothing we
have said against Secession and Southern
COnfederacy, and in favor Of the Govern.
ment Of the United States. Nor do we aban-
don a single principle we have advocated. in
connection with this great question. We
are opposed to Northern Republic. and a
Southern Confederacy, Central Govern,
ment, and Northwestern Empire. We are
not for Hrty;four nations, but only one ma.
tlon-one great, grand, and glorious, free
and independent nation, extending from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Gulf
to the Lakes. Hence, we shall die in op-
position to Secession, and in favor of the
Uniun, and even or war intended to per-
petuate it inviolate.
The hopes and purposes of the Union
party in East Tennessee have been run over
by a lawless mob God in his wisdom and
justice, may be chastising US for our sins, or
in His mercy, may be leading us, by way
we know not, to higher and more enduring
inheritance Of political prosperity. All we
have is in East Tennessee, and whatever
may await US, our interests and those of the
people ofthis end Of the State are inscparably
bound together. We are devoted to the
Union men of East Tennessee, and we are
willing to share the common anxieties and
dangers by which they are surrounded. We
shall be with them-not to dictate what
they ought to do-but to render any services
in our power, either in counsel or in action,
and to partake with them whatever fate may
be in reserve for our patriotic citizens, noun.
tains and valleys, rivers and streams, and
fertile plains!
Here we might close this article, but We
deemit proper to add remark that will not bt
misunderstood. Ifthe Legislature shall deem
kikproper to pass into law the infamous Ac
abbn its table, defining and Furnishing
/ Treason" it will then become the duty the
Union men of East Tennessee to rebel, open
ly and notoriously, though such rebellion
shall cost every man among US our lives!
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-07-04

GENERAL SooTT TAILOR. General
Scott is beyond all question the best tailor
in the Union. He has cut out rebels at
Washington, hemmed them in at Harper's
Ferry, and run them together at Manassas
Gap. He is about ready 10 haste them at
Norfolk, fell them down at Richmond. and,
if nothing else will answer, rip them gener-
ally to pieces elsewhere.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-07-04

THE BURcH DIVORCE Chicago
journal Of Tuesday states that "the motion
for new trial in the celebrated Burch di.
vorce case comes up for final disposition to.
morrow, before his Honor, Judge j. 0.
Norton, at Joliet. The case has been con-
tiuued from week to week upon applications
for each party, but will be finally disposed
Of tomorrow.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-07-04

The DOUGLAS FUND.-Ata a meeting ofthe
Douglas Committee, held in Washington
Friday evening, the following auxiliary com.
mittee for Ohio was appointed:
OHIo.-Hon. George Z. Pugh, Daniel p
Rhodes, Hon. s. P. Chase, Judge Henry
b. Paine, John w. Gray, Hon. John Sher
man, Col. McCook, Hon. John A. Gurley
Hon. 8. s. Cox, Hon. d. Tod, Washington
Mclean, James B. Steadman. .is.T
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-07-04

Col. H. Foster announces himself as an
unconditional Union candidate for Congress,
in the first district of North Carolina. He il
brave, fearless man, and although for
mer supporter of John c. Breckenridge, we
hope he will be elected.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-07-04

TIE War Department has Just finished a
complete list ofthe ndnlberof MEN sw6'n in
to the United States service since the fidl Of
Sumter the number amounting to l235,0
Such volunteer armywas never seen be-
fore.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-07-04
The BARBARIANsATTHEIR WORK. THE
North Carolina Wing has the following:

Timothy Hainey, man Of white face,
but nigger by nature, was hung by q mob il
Shelby, in this State, on Friday night, the
10th inst. We presume Mr.. Hainey ha,
seen the promised land by this time. VIZ
have no sympathy with such men. Oul
devil thinks all is well enough when such
men are disposed Of in such way
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-07-04

PRENTICE, in his paper of yesterday gets
off the following: # ''p s.,'e ~
One of Gov. jackson sorgansin Missouri
says that it pities the u. s. troops. It seems
that Gen. Price pitied them at the battle
near Boonville. His bowels were moved for
them. lHtHh
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-07-04
A KENTUCKY GENERAL. THE NewY Y ork

A KENTUCKY GENERAL. New'f ork
World says; Il
Gen. Josiah Harlan, who is to command
the Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, is a native
Of Pennsylvania. For nearly twenty years
he was actively engaged in military opera
tions in India, having assisted in organizing
the forces Of Runjeeth Singh, Prince Of the
Puniaub, and afterward performed the same
service for Dost Mahomed, Of Cabul. Du-
ring the successful campaign against the Uz.
bee Tartars in 1889, he distinguished him.
self as commander OF division Of the Cabul
army. While resident Of India he paid q
tribute to his native land by raising the starr
and stripes over one of the highest passes o.
the India Caucasus, $4,000 feet above tn.
level of the sea, and at the same time free
national salute. ~. sg- ,.. ..''
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-07-04

WHAT the Southern Confaderscy asked
three months ago-"Let u. alo TO-" What
the Southern Confederacy asks nov, ,--"Givs
us loan. 'rl..slH EF -c-t sft3
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-07-04
A Secession PRAYER.

Mr.. Russell, 'our own correspondent" Of
the London Times, writiL 6 from Montgomery
May 9, relates how he was admitted to seat
in the Confederate Congress, and what he
there saw and heard. He says:
''Seated in the midst of them, at q Sena-
tors desk, was admitted to assist, " in
the French sense, at the deliberations ofthe
Congress Mr.. Howell Cobb took the chair,
and white. headed clergyman was called up
on to say prayers whichhe did outstanding,
with outstretched hands and closed eyes, by
the side of the Speaker. The prayer was
long and sulphurous; one more pregnant
with gunpowder never heard, nor could
aught like it have been heard since
"Pulpit, drum ecclesasc,
Was beat with fist instead OF stick"
''The reverend gentleman prayed that the
Almighty might be pleased to infict on the
arms ofthe United States such defeat that
it might be the example of signal punish.
ment forever-that this President might be
blessed, and that the other President might
be the other thing-that the gallant, devo.
ted young soldiers who were fighting for theil
country might not suffer from exposure te
the weather or from the bullets Of their enc
mics; and that the base mercenaries who
were fighting on the other side, might com,
to sure and swift destruction, and 50 on. +"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-07-04

RICHARD HILpRErII Of New York has
been appointed Consulto Trieste.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1861-07-04

"Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic,
Was beat with fist instead OF o sticl
The national Republican., 1861-09-13
ANOTHER OFFICIAL REPORT.
CONTINUATION OF GOoD NEWS!
Gen. Pope in Pursuit. Of Green
DEFEAT OF THE REBELS l
RECAPTURE OF PROPERTY!
ST. LOUIS, September IL, 1856

ST. LOUIS, September IL, 1851.
The report Of General Pope today, Tom
Hunneville, is as follows: General Pope made
night marches on Green, last Sunday night, who,
however, got notice Of his approach, but was
successful in continuing the dispersion Of the
three thousand rebel force, leaving behind
them much baggage, provision, and forage
also, the pnblic property captured by Green al
Shelbina.
General Pope's infantry, too much fatigued
failed to pursue. The horsemen, however, fol-
lowed in pursuit ten or fifteen miles, until the
enemy scattered.
The railroad east Of Brookheld is open, ant
no more secession camps will be made within
twenty miles.
General Grant teegraphs that the nrst guI
is in position at fort Holt, Kentucky.
: J. G. FREMONT,
Major General Commanding.
Col. E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant General.
The national Republican., 1861-09-13

GREAT ROBBERY AT LINN CREEK, Mo.-Sll0,-
900 Worth Of Goods Stolen by the Secessionists.-
Information reached St. Louis, on the night Of
the sth inst, from Linn Creek, of the robbery
of the extensive dry goods and grocery store
of McClurg, Murphy, & Co., conducted under
the name OF Torbert & Co. They have been
in the habit Of supplying all the surrounding
counties with goods, and some years their busi-
ness has been half q million dollars. They
own two steamboats,, to WHICH they gave en-
ployment in the navigation of the Usage, and
.he transportation Of goods and produce up
and down that river.
This establishment the secessionists resolved
% sack. Accordingly, on Thursday evening
about four o'clock, o company Of about one
hundred and fifty men appeared at the ware
house and commenced the work Of plunder
They represented themselves to be from Ar
kansas, but some OF them were recognized AT
Missourians and were commanded by preach
,r named johnson, of Lanes Prairie. During
the afternoon, they took away fifteen wagoE
,oads of goods, stationed guards around lh'
.tore and in the neighborhood, and promised
to return 10 the morning for the remainder O
the stock. Every one connected with the stor
was captured, and held as prisoners. In
amount of stock In the store was valued o
$4,000.
Col McClurg was absent in command q
regiment at Jefferson City. 1t is said that tb
whole Of this part of Missouri is being lai
waste by secession robbers.
The national Republican., 1861-09-13

COMMODORE BARRoN's CoMMIssIoN.-On the
death ei Commodore Barron's father, who died
In the naval service, the captain then hut about
three years of age, received from our Govern
ment warrant as midshipman, in consideration
of the merito,ious conduct of the father and the
destitution In which he left bis family.
Here, then, is o captain In our navy, who
from three years Of age, has been fed and clothed
aud warmed and honored by our Government
now turned traitor and in arms against the
kindest parent he ever had. What does sucf
q man deserve? Hanging by the heels to Q
yard-arm.-G Grand Rapids Eagle.
The national Republican., 1861-09-13
Gen. M. Weston. Editor.
Friday, September Is, 1861.
AROCT COTTON.

The Lowell Mass Ne,os says that the Mer-
rimac Manufacturing Company has on band
five thousand bales of cotton, upon which the
advance from the prices paid for it is one hun.
dred and thirty thousand dollars. This is an
advance of only twenty.six dollars per bale,
whereas many New England manufacturers
purchased cotton when the price was fifty dol.
lars per bale less than 1t is now. Their stocks
are even yet considerable, and they have been
working up cotton during the summer obtained
at the comparatively low prices of last spring.
Their profits by the rise in the article have
been enormous. They are to be reckoned, no!
by hundreds of thousands, but millions.
At the South, when cotton is sold at all, for
the rylimited consumption of the few fac
tories In that region, the last quoted price
which we have noticed was five cents per
pound. Whether more than that will be real
ized for the crop now being gathered, depends
upon circumstances, and very much upon The
time when II gets access to the markets. L
that time is postponed until the period Of th>
next crop, or near II, so as to throw two crop!
upon the markets at once, there must be glu
and marked fall. Many suppose that tw,
crops thus thrown together would not ylel'
more money to the planters than one. On
effect must be very great rise in freights. !
the transportation Of sotton across the Atlanti
Of two years. cotton is to be compressed int
one year, or even into fifteen or eightee
months, It can only be done by such an increas
in cotton freighs ss will attract the necsssar
number of ships into that business. The nav
CATION interest Of New England has suffered
good deal by the rebellion, and the require
nents Of poetical justice will be satisfied if
obtains eventual remuneration at the expens
Of the cotton planters who have caused Il
rebellion.
Everything is now working admirably
crush the cotton-producers Of the United Stat
Out Off from the markets of the world, they 6
no benefit from the high prices Of cotton viii
prevail. Those high prices both diminish CT
sumption and draw new supplies from rem
regions, thus preparing the way for glut q
low prices for the period when the South'
planter will be permitted to sell.
The national Republican., 1861-09-13

ANEW GOVERNOR GENERAL FOR CANADA
Sir LdwsId Head, the present Governor Gen
erai Of Canada, is soon to be Displaced BY VII
count Monck, whose assumption Of authority
in the Provinces is to b. accompanied witt
reinl orcemeut OF tie military powers nov
in Canada, Of twenty-five thousand five hu"
dred men,
Lord Monck is descended from very aucien,
family, some OF the members Of which sta"d
forth prominently In the history Of El-land
The founder Of the house was William L.
Moyne, VINO was Lord Of the Manor Of Poth.
eridge, in Devon, England, in the year 1906
and from whom came, IN the reign Vi Edwart
the Sixth, JOhn LIE Moyne. tn ancestor Of Gen
eral George Monck, the reslorer Of tn. mon
srchy in England, who was created Duke 0
Albemarle, by Charles the Second, and r.
warded with large grants of land both iu Eng
land and Ireland"
Lord Mcnck is forty-two years Of Sge; i
1874, he married his cousin, Lady Eliz4bet
Louisa Mary, fourth daughter of the Earl {
Rathdown, by whom he Los one son and tw
daughters. The family seat ls at Charlesvill,
county Wicklow, Irelsnd.
The national Republican., 1861-09-13

GALLANT LITTLE RHoDY.--Seoretary Seward,
in acknowledging to Governor Sprague, Of
Rhode Island, the patriotic efforts Of that State
TO carry on the war, pays but just compliment
TO that State when he says:
"Ths President feels assured that when, in
after times, II shall be asked which Of the thirty
four States were most loyal and most effective
10 saving our country from ruin In Its present
peril, the State Of Rhode Island will have no
fear that her traditional fame will suffer in the
answer that shall be given"
The national Republican., 1861-09-13
Official Report of the Action
near Summerville, Western
Virginia!
FLIGHT OF Ex-oov. FLOYD!
The Traitor Severely Punished!

The following h the official report received
last night at the headquarters Of the United
States army:
HEADQUARTERS ARMY UNITED STATES,
CAMP ScoTT, September IL.
We yesterday marched seventeen and half
miles, and reached the enemy's entrsnched
position in front of ConiAx Ferry, driving bis
advanced outposts and pickets before US. We
found him occupying strongly entrenched
position covered by forest too dense to admit
Of its being seen at distance Of three hundred
yards. His force was FIVE regiments besides
the one driven in. He had probably sixteen
pieces Of artillery.
At three o'clock we began strong recon-
noisance, which proceeded to such length that
we we're about to assault tho position on the
flank and in front, when, night coming on, aRd
our troops being completely exhausted, I drew
them out of the woods and posted them in order
Of battle behind ridges Immediately in front Of
the enemy's position, where they rested on
their arms till morning.
Shortly after daylight, runaway contra
band came in and reported that the enemy had
crossed the Gauley, during the night, by mean'
Of the ferry and bridge which they had com
pleted.
Colonel Ewing was ordered to take posses
sion of the camp, which he did at about sever
O'Clock, capturing few prisoners, two stand
of colors, considerable quantity Of arms
ammunition, and subsistence, with quartermas
ters' stores, messing, aud camp equipagc.
, The enemy having destroyed the bridg
: across the Gauley river, which here rushe
through deep gorge, and our troops beinl
, still much fatigued, and having no material 70
). Immediately replacing the bridge, 1t was though
l prudent to encamp the troops, occupy the fsrr
= and the captured camp, sending few rin
: cannon shots after the retreating enemy, t
produce moral effect.
. Our loss will probably amount to twent
killed and one hundred wounded. The enemy
1t loss is not ascertained, but, from report,
Is must have been considerable.
W. S. ROsECRANs.
To E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjt Gen. Com.
The national Republican., 1861-09-13
PATRIOTIC SENTIMENTS OF AN AMER
ICAN LADY NOW IN LONDON.


We have been permitted to read and make
the subjoined extract from letter wntten by
lady, native of this city, but now, and for
two years past, residing In London, whose elo-
quent pen has clothed the creations Of glow
ing imagination in language so appropriate and
rich as to win for her fame coequal with that
of any living author. Her love for her native
land seems to have been intensified by absence
from 1t 10 this Its hour Of trial, and thus she
expresses herself upon secession and It's stand
ard bearer:
Regarding slavery as a hindran0e always,
and as destined ere long, perhaps, to become
an utter blight Of the full fruition of our po-
ltical hopes, and dear to me as are the prin-
ciples of the Republican party, would sacri.
fee those principles TO the preservation Of the
American Union. There is nothing that
would not concede to the South to win her
back to the General Confederacy. But If the
utmost concession should fail, there would be
, nothing that would not do to coerce her to
return. And hold that man traitor, by
whatever party name be may be called-Whig
Democrat, or Republican L hold that man q
traitor who would not do as much. The disso
| luton of the American Uuion Is the wantor
D uestruCtiou VI 'no peot hoPee nuu iuVoieso7, Nv
of our country only, but of the whole human
race. 1t is q national tragedy at which mil
d lions of patriotic hearts must break, and myr
# aids of eyes shed tears of blood. The hope
n that will die, The evils that will be born Of it
a destruction, defy all human calculation. w
. feel the great coming woe without being abl
n to define Its proportions. As for Jefferson
|. Davis-but no. l will not write OF him; for
It | did, it would be to call down curses upon hi
d head, and l remember One who said, Bless
i and curse not" But oh the burning sham
- that must cleave to him forever. Hencefortl
j. when these quarrels shall be ended, as the
1t assuredly will be, the name Of Benedict Al
e mold will not stand alone in the pillory
political infamy, but our children must blus
alike for Benedict Arnold and Jefferson Davis
The national Republican., 1861-09-13

Horse AND MULE CoNTRAcroRs.-We are
assured by a person who appears to be con.
versant with the subject, that gross frauds have
been perpetrated upon the Government by
certain horse and mule contractors in the vicin
ity of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Disclosures
ventilating these corruptions it is understood
will be made In the right quarter.
The national Republican., 1861-09-13

The surveyor Of the port Of Baltimore has,
in the last week, caused the seizure of the
schooners Ida May, valued at $500, and Fair
fax, valued at $1,000, alleged to belong to par.
ties residing in Virginia Catharlne, valued at
81, 900; Ontario and Mary Cramner, each
valued at $4,000, alleged to belong to North
Carolinians.
The national Republican., 1861-09-13
DEPOT QUARTMRM AsTER,s OFFICE,

u WAsHlNGToN. u. y. Sepf. 1851.
Sealed proposals will be received at this office
til L. O'Clock M, goth instant to furnish the troops
in this city and Its vicinity north Of the Poomac
RIVER within (b) five miles of the city of Washing
ton, with wood for (') six months, Commencin ist
day Of October, and ending on the sltt day Of
March 1882 The wood to be OF the best quality Of
oak or hickory and to be dei'ered at the camps or
quarters Of the troops in such quaint ties and suoh
times as the Depot Quarter master may direct.
Good security will be required for the fulAlment
of the contract.
he bids to be for 10 much per cord Of wood, CON
sistng of Q2S) one hundred und twenty eight cubic
f et Ard to be endorsed = Bids for WoVd and the
names of the ,ecurty to be stated In the bid.
The undersigned reserves to himself the right TO
reject all bids that may be deemed too high.
Payments to be made at the end Of each month, oy
returning the orders drawn on he contractor, OF
contractors, with the receipts Of tn. regimentsl OF
brigade quartermasters Of regiments, brigades, OF
CORDS endorstd the back of said orders Tor the
| amount Of wood delivered.
d. ii. RUCKER,
sept ltd Quartermaster U. 8. Army.
The Baltimore Americdx will please publish, snt
| sand bill to this Ofic, for payment. d. Il. X.