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New-York daily tribune., 1861-09-09
BRnTIsH RRPUDuATI0y.

Every merchant recognizes pecunary punctu-
ality as the touchstOne Of personal credit. A
man who has always paid his debts at maturity
and who still continues to do SO, i. held to be-
entitled to credit. If it were not 30 there would
be no difference between him and declared
bankrupt. The world Of honest men unite 10
this judgment. 1t is the knaves only who deny
ii. Ours is the only known Government which
has never repudated any portion Of its debt, or
failed to pay ia coin all that it owed. The
/ London Times is as well aware OF these bonOra-
bic facts as we are; yet it is persistently, We
might say dishonesty, endeayoring to poison the
European mind with doubts of the ability of the
United States to pay the debt we are now con-
tracing by accusing us, first, as likely to repu-
date, because reputation has been practiced
here, and next as being peCuniarily rotten The
Times knows, while printing these defanatory
TRADES, that they are utterly false. So knowing,
they are not only malicious, but deliberate. Mis-
takes might be forgiven, but the effort to accom-
plsh deliberate wrong 10 objectionable. The
British Exchequer is house Of glsss whose oc.
cupants should be the last to indulge in throw.
ing stones. Its history is stained with frauds
ranker than were ever practiced by Florida or
Mississippi; and We propose to reproduce sin.
gle chapter of them, not only for American but
for British information.
Reputation was an invention of the British
Government; for the first and foulest violation Of
faith TO public creditors known to modern Eu-
rope, was committed by England. Her present
Al III -, 6rat
item is a sum of f664,2 Of three per cents.
The Government had borrowed Gl,32o,526 at
eight per cent, assigning or pledgng certain
items of the public revenue for the repayment.
But the payment of interest was first suspended
for year, and then for an indefinite period.
This was in the reign of Charles H., when
million sterling performed the functions Of four
millions now. The interest being thus repudi-
ated, thousands who had invested their all, were
ruined. Gentlemen were forced into menial
employments to get bread for their families
widows and orphan children were made beggars.
The principal sunk as the interest disappeared,
and the nation was plunged into poverty by the
deliberate villaDy of its own Government. The
unfortunate public creditors knocked in vain at
the doors of Parliament. After starving through
twelve years in the Courts, where the Ministry
secretly interposed delay and litigation, they OBJ
tanned judgment against the Grown. Many Of
them had died in poverty and obscurity during
the interval. The needy survivors, instead Of
being paid, were turned ever to the protracted
agones which the Chancellor was capable Of
nhicting. That officer reversed the decision of
the Courts, and thence their case went to the
House of Lords. Tie delay had been cruel, but
the coats were extOrtOnate. While the Lords
were considering, with prospect Of justice being
done, tho amount then duo was ascertainsd to DC
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commuted for the round sum of 100000, and
this we paid in specie. But the British subjects
to whom it belonged did not receive a shilling Of
their claims in coin. The Government paid them
in deprecated notes. Thus, while we paid the
principal in full, the British Government was
paying even it's interest in irredeemable paper.
1t is unnecessary to reproduce the multiplied
instances in which other European Governments
have sponged out great portions Of their public
debt. We are dealing only with British dcfal.
cations and British slanderers. The latter
alone, Of oil foreign nations, are defaming us.
They have forgotten their own criminalty, com.
mitted only forty years ago. In assuming, as
they do, that because the United States have
always paid their debts therefore they are un.
able to pay now, they are flying in the face of
the great fact which lies at the basis Of all
public and private credit 1t is an insult to the
common sense Of the world. England, not this
country, is the great repudiatOr. To make our
case parallel with hers, we must prohibit our
banks from paying specie, then borrow from
them so largely as to depreciate their notes 40
per cent then proclaim the legislative lie that
there is no depreciation; then, as it increased,
pay the public debt in rags, then compel foreign
ers, as well as our own citizens, to take rag
money ut par, then fine and send to jail every
man who refused or evaded the cheat. In the
face Of this catalogue of English frauds not ono
of which has ever been perpetrated by tho United
States. The London Times impudently talks Of
American disposition and ability to pay. Let it
ook at home. This revelation will enable the
world to judge how shamelessly that journal is
belying the honorable record Of American fnan-
cial history, while concealing with guilty watch
funess the swindling facts Of its own.
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every movement or separation for the success
of the country scheme for party gain.
Let theories unless they ara vitally connected
with the practical questions of the war, follow
politics, and get out of the way aa soon as posi-
bic. We are fighting for life, and must discard
all distractions. We have no fear whatever that
our people will allow any dangerous encrosch.
mentS upon their rights by military authority,
under pretence of public danger. We are too
well schooled in history, and precedent, and
practical experience of democratic institutions to
be in much danger. But in this crisis of our fate
as q republican Government, we must not and
shall not allow nero forms without substance to
stand in our path. If Mr.. Roger b. Taney's
gouty constitutional toes come in our way, we
shall not take particular pains not TO tread on
them. And if John G.. Fremont cuts red tape
with his sword, we shall not object, 80 long as
public liberty gains the victory over dangerous
and wicked rebellion.
And when political squabbles and legal quiddi-
ties have been made to give way, aud we have
come to the conclusion that tho controversy we
are engaged in is one which is to bo fought out
to o successful end at all hazards-in other
words, when we make business Of it, our un-
questioned superiority of numbers and Of re-
sources will speedily bring the rebellion to an
end and reestabIish the authority of the Govern
ment throughout the country.
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A NEW STANDARD.

The equality of men, as TO all question OF nat
ural right, is unquestionably dangerous doc
trine in q community where One.thlrd OF the
people are held as slaves without any legal rights
whatever, except food and clothing enough to
keep them in tolerable working condition That
the South should have discarded it is not only
natural but sensible for it is always best in any
civil pOlity to keep theory and practice in as
near accord as possible. The old doctrine dis
carded it is best therefore, to establish new
one, and this undoubtedly will be done in due
season when the Southern Repubic-if there
should ever be One-shall bring practice and the
ory into suitable relations. There have been
many indications of this determination, and here
is the last one, promulgated by Mr.. John Park,
the Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee, on the
gath ult:
TO THE CITIZENS OF hRMPHIs.
Applications have repeatedly been made TO ME, as
executive officer of the city, Tor protection against
,ntscreet parties who are sent out 10 impress eizens
into service against their will on steamboats,: Many
OF these men have been dragged from their beds
wives and children, but has there been a man
taken rho had on clean shirt. hereby notify any
citizen who may wish pass within the City OF Mem,
phis TO call on me and / will furnish the same ana
viii see he will be protected. One poor man being
sho. yesterday by one OF these outlaws as they may
DO called, causes me TO give the above notice.
Asaas, "a 1881. JOHN PARK, Mayor
This standard of rights has the advantage oil
being easily understood and easily regulated py
statute. The pallatOn of dragging men from
their beds, wives and children, is that tho unior'
tunate wretches 10 treated all wore dir'y linen
or cotton, US the case may be. All men IN clean
shirts arc entitled to life, liberty, and the pur'
suit of happiness, is the new formula aua u
clean shirt may be considered in law a shirt a
day. But dirty shirts have no rights drty shiF's
may be dragged from beds, wives aud ehlldfen'
dirty shirts may 10 impressed, against 1AsF WH'
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rsER LATEST WAR NEWS.

The picket.friDg about Washington, of which
wo have daily heard seems yesterday to have
been confined to Munson's Hill and its vicinity;
there, however, it rose almost to the dignity of
o skirnish in the result Of which much interest
was manifested by the Rebels who crowded their
earthworks and among whom many ladies were
Visible. The number of men on either side
wounded by this firing was small, but the affair
sufhced to enliven the day.
The Rebels are surely suffering severely from
the want Of clothing shoes, and medical stores,
among which quinine is the article most needed
Lee, in Western Virginia, and McCullOch, in
Missouri, seem to be falling back from their
positions, and il is thought that this is done
with tho intention Of joining the Potomac army.
Some accounts, however, speak Of McCulloch as
recruiting for operations in the West. A battle
between Gen. ROsecranz and the Rebels in
Western Virginia is near at hand: the former
has gone toward the latter in full force.
From Missouri, we have rumOr that Gems.
Price and Rains have taken Fort Scott, de-
tsated Col Montgomery, captured all bis stores,
arms, and ammunition, and taken him, with
nearly all his command as prisoners. Reports
have reached st. Clair County, No., TO the effect
that q fight has taken place between Gen. Lanes
Kansas regiment and body Of Rebels under
Gea. Rains, in which the latter were completely
routed, and Rains taken prisoner. This report,
which conflicts with that given above, is said to
be believed by Gen. Price.
The authorities in Baltimore are following up
the traitors who reside there with much yigOr.
a number of important arrests have just been
made. Among these was carriage maker; he
lad finished to order q vehicle so con-
structed as to facilitate the transmission OF
articles to the Rebel country. lie was arrested
Eust as he was about TO drive away from his
shop in the carriage; false floor was taken up,
and beneath 1t was found q large quantity Of
contraband goods, including twenty large sized
Navy reyolvers, much gold lace, some red flannel,
and great package of letters to parties in the
South from well known men In Baltimore.
When tie wheelwright was arrested he tired
the effect of braysdo, but as soon as the police
Vpsaod hls ssers! receptacle, he CRIED OUT ny
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MAKE. A BUSINESS OF IT.

Mr. Hickman's general statement that eighteen
millions Of people are sure to be an overmatch
for eight millions seems very plausible but as
applied to the present relations between the
limited States and the Rebel COnfederacy it is
subject 10 certain limitations. And the first and
most important is that the eighteen millions have
not yet made q business of the war, while the
eight millions have. There is not only substan-
tia unanmity in the eleven seeded States, but
wonderful activity. The unanimity, we know, is
to great extent enforced. but this fact only
enhances the wonderful activity and energy which
the ruling class, the Rebel leaders, have infused
into public affairs. Adverse opinion is absolutely
crushed out in every portion Of these States;
and jefferson Davis only adds hypocrisy to his
other evil traits Of character when he announces
that he shall not suppress Brownlows KnO1riHe
Hhig, because he will not "prOscribe any jour
" nal for opinions sake" or " trample upon the
" innlienable prerogatve Of the press to indulge
" ia criticisms upon his Administration. Pre-
negatives Of the press Why, not only is there
no liberty of the pres. in JeiTdayisdom, but there
mover was, even In the weakest aud pipinGest
times Of peace. No man " dares to say his soul
" is MS own" throughout the length and breadth
Of the Rebel COnfederacy, unless he i. prepared
for instant death, or removal from its borders.
Every thing is made 10 bend to the business Of
prosecuting the rebellion. Stakeholder and slave
are equally active; and the mean. landess and
niggardess white is cOerced into greater activity
than all the others. He fights the battles, while
tho slave on the plantation raises corn to feed
him, or cotton to pay him, and while the slave
owner deyotes exclusive attention to the manage
ment of public affairs, in Cabinet and field.
Every man, woman, and child, is willingly or
unwlIingly compelled to work for the rebellion.
Indeed, from the mere casual observance Of the
signs of the times in the South,
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"God am ruined man An OPINION Al
which those who heard it at once concurroo,
From North Carolina we hear that the kooeis
will probably make stand at fOi1 ''sa,t p.ao
strong work guarding the approach 70 Dealiol',
A prominent clergyman has declared tna' snOuiu
the Government invade the main lana near
Beaufort. 1000 of the citizens of the state
,son,d flock TO the Union standard.
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arw9lprk Dailg gribn,te
MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1861.
tn. nepub,ican State Convention.

The Republican Electors Of the State Of New-1ork,
.d all others willing to unite with them in support Ct the Gov
.nmeut vigorous prosecution Of the war; are requested 10
choose two DELEGATES from each Assembly Dc to meet IN
stste Convention In the City Syracuse WEDNESDAY
the 1th day Of September 1861 II for the purpose OF
reenps candidates be supported for the Offices of Judges Of
tbe Court Of Appeal secctsryOf State Controller Attorney
General State Engineer and Surveyor State Treasurer two
Canal Commissioner and Inspector Of State Prisons by order
ST ths Committee SIMEON DRAPER, Chairman.
JAMES TERvILIIGKR, Secretary.
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-" A child may under,tand
Tie dc II has busiless Oh his hand"

The people Of the loyal States, on the other
hand, have got many things TO attend TO beside
the war. They have not yet been aroused to a
sufficient appreciation of the magnitude of the
contest, and they will not make an end of this
rebellion until they approach, in some good de-
degree, the unanimity and activity of the South.
Why should they not Are not the Union and
the Constitution and the principles of Liberty
worth fighting forl Ten months ago, when the
rebellion broke out, not one per cent Of the pop
ulation in any State, North or South, except
South Carolina, could be made to deny that the
Union was benefcent power and the Consttu
ton model for the imitation of all government.
makers. We remember Alexander II. Stephenss
euogy on both, long after South Carolina "began
"to scrapo lint" for the approaching fight in
Charleston barbor; and Jefferson Davis was
dragged into the contest reluctantly by the action
Of his State, and was, indeed, suspected man,
on account of his Portland speech, for months
before he was chosen President. Yancey used
the true exprcssion--the Cotton States
"preoipitdted" into a revolution; they never
went into it knowingly and willingly. We al.
ways except the uneasy spawn in South Caro-
lina to whom treason and toryism are natural,
ever since Gov. Rutedge and his Council, in
l779, proposed to tho British General Pre-
yost that the State should remain neutral
during the remainder of the war, leaving the
question whether it should finally belong to Great
Britain or the United States, to be settled in
the treaty of peace. The bene6cent character of
our Government being thus admitted on all
hands, il is incredible that men should not fight
for it as heroicay as they fight against it, And
they will do so eventually, and as soon as they
appreciate the magnitude of the contest. The
day Of our unanimity aud our yigOr is approach
ing rapidly, aud from this time forward wo
shall gain upon our opponents in these respects.
We arc gotting rid of our politics; in New-York
and Massachusetts, the majority make broad
and liberal platform, on which all loyal men can
stand, while in Ohio leading men of all parties
combine in Convention in which party names
will not appear. These examples must infect oil
other States, aud tho day of party Conventions
is over until peace and order is restored. What
if Mr.. Scattering, the Rebel candidate for Su-
perysor in some distant township, getS half
score of votes from squad Of Rebel sympa-
thizers in his disagreeable neighborhoOd, this
will not yitate the general harmony or disturb
the yigor with which Legislatures and other
public bodies will hereafter vote supplies and
men for the great work. The rubbish of party
will be swept away aud with it great part OF
our lukewarmness aud inertia We shall by aud
by get SO We can trust each other, aud Demo
era! and Republican wiz not hereafter see in
New-York daily tribune., 1861-09-09

The Hon. Joseph A. Wright, late Minister at
Berlin, made speech at Indianapolis on satur.
day, in which he avOwed his deterpination to
support the Government He said that be had
nothing to do with parties or platforms till the
to0ehon was sup r.ressed.
New-York daily tribune., 1861-09-09
Tho Sunday Tribune.

The following are the contents of yesterdays
Sunday TRIBUNE:
LEADING ARTICLES:
On Trial; Subjugation;" The Charge Of Precintsncy
Editorial Paragraphs.
TgE WAR FOR THE UNION:
eeneFs so1d'S Order: .S51ed G0Rs Rs
els 10 Rags SHARP Work s%ong ficsesi Boldnes:
sg s ss ssSs Of 90fS IN
% B1s sS,. 0 the w gs TR. kanay yfe Ies
lsturei The Rebellion snd the Remedy The Troops
Adyeotures Captures and Fate Of the PrivseeI
JEFF. Davis Lstest from Riehnondj Proceedings Of
the Confederate Congess Union Rally az Bingham
ton; Union Meetings. intsresiios ftom the South
FeoM MISSOURI.
Frora Southern Missouri.
Tug REBELS DEPARTMENTAL CoRREsPoNDENCE.
Letters the Rebel Secretary o: Var Secretary Of tie
Treasury, Secretary Of sssse Com"issary GENERAL
ARMY AND NAVY INTELLIGENCE.
ERw PUBLICATIONS:
Micheefs S,s The Csntilena
OR Flag at Fort Haterss
LITERARY.
PERSONAL.
From Boston.
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
Political.
CORRESPONDENCE:
sionis,s 80 Nev-Yorkj The Palmetto Flag Steamer
Marion; A Defene Of Mr.. Rshuing.
THE STATE OF EUROPE.
Letter from Turin Correspondent
FRANCE.
Letter from Our Own Correspondent
LAW INTELLIGENCE.
LATEST TELEGRAPmC DISPATCHES
LOCAL MILITARY MATTERS.
CITY ITEMS.
BROOKLYN ITEMS.
MISCELLANEOUS:
Muany on Liverpool Ship; Sidney Herbert; Plain
Statement Of toe Psy. Raions. Gle thing and Boun.
ties Given by Law to Volunteers mL HerbeT. KY.
nAston and the Lstns.
MARRIAGES AND DEATHS.
COMMERCIAL MATTER.
MARINE JOURNAL.
Conies IN Countfn1 Thvn.
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MOVEMENTS OF GENERAL LEE.
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Csnts.
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A RUNNING FIRE KEPT UP.
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THE OCCUPATION OF PICKETs.
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THE WAR FOR THE UNION.

EusslKs SYMPATHY WITH TIE ssvEanmsar.
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than thelr illl Vdluei put N.Y. aVOepeu Yibuus
deliberately suppress these monstrous crimes Of
her own, while dishonesty striking down the
hitherto untarnishcd credit Of the United States
While this enormous fraud was being practced
by England on those who had loaned her their
gold her statesmen were deliberately calculating
the profit il would afford. 1t was persisted in
for twenty three years, when the total profit Of the
nat opa cheat was ascertained to amount to
Sl37. 900, 900. All this the fundholders lost
Our record is stained by no such infamy. When
at our gloomest period Of the war with England,
we refused to make paper money legal tender
The Treasury Department declared I" that the
"extremity of that day cannot be anticipated
" when any honest man or enlightened statesman
- will again venture on the desperate eXpedient
"of tender law" We have never passed so
vile a law, nor any other impairing the obliga-
tion Of contracts with the public creditor. Only
the last week, the Attomey.General has decided
that the public debt cannot be subject to taxa
ton BY tho Government. II has agreed to pay
7.3O interest; any tax would be violation Of
the contract. Our courts have never been closed
against foreigners. We have never driven them
to take paper money; neither have we punished
them for receiving it or paying il away. The
only counterpart to British tyranny is found in
what England herself admits to be the most
frightful despotism of tho age, the Southern Con-
federscy. The chief points Of the swindling rule
now being there enacted are precedents from
English practice.
But the contrast between English aud Amcrl.
can honesty is even more remarkable. AT The
very time that England was thus deliberately
cheating her iundhoders, the United States were
paying what they owed to her in gold. BY the
treaty of 1898, we assumed to make good the
numerous debts due from American citizens to
British subjects Commissioners wero appointed
to ascertain the amounts. and We pledged our
selves to pay the sums so awarded in specie,
without deduction. The whole caim was il 1902
New-York daily tribune., 1861-09-09

FROM MISSOURI.
FroIa Southern Missouri.
Tug REBELS DEPARTMENTAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Lstsrs from the Rebel Secretary OF War; Secretary Of the
Treasury, Secretary Of SIste, Commisssry General,
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-04-01


The white population of Hancock coun-
~, by the recently published census, is
A,442, against 1910 in 1850, showing an
increase of 400.
Brooke county has increased in about
the same ratio. She had, In 1850, 4,s23,
and in 1860 rhe has 5,495-an increase Of
soy.
Ohio county shows gain of 1884 over
the census of 1850 She had then pop
ulatiOu of l7,sl2-while she has now a
population of 22,ls6. This is heavier
per cent. of increase than even Marshall
county, which shows an increase of 1856
on her 10000 population of fascinating
her now the number of l2,s3s.
wet1el county has done extravaEaaty
Well-she has increased over City per cent.
In 80 she had 1891, in GO she shows
6,sSI-an increase of 1850. Tyler, also,
has done well. Size had in 80. 5,46s people
and she has in so, 6,4ss, an increase of
l,O92.
The scale commences to go down a little
when you reach Mouongalia. She has not
increased so fast as any of the other coun-
ties named. She had. in go, 1902, aud
in go, l2,sOT; gain OF sl5.
Marion has done good deal better than
this. She exhibits gain of I, 7I7, having
started in the last decade with 10, 4ss, and
ended With la.ese.
Preston falls behind the notch Of Marion
county. She started with II $50. and end
ed with -, jas gain of 1921.
ToylOr has done aae. She has gained
eouSiderably over 81 per cent on her PoPu-
lation Of so. She had then 5. $50 iuhab-
itAnts, and she has nov 1900 a gain Of
2,l7O, which is very handsome. indeed.
Pleasants county, the last remaining one
Of our Congressional District. is set down,
u tOts, Al 2,s2s. her popnlatiou in 1850
not being given, for the reason that then
she was uot u esse. haVing sines t6ea 6eea
formed out Of parts Wood. Tyler aadI
Richie COUNTIES.
These eleven counties feet up total Of
l0I, l5O people. as.iast ss.49l in 1889
being al aggregato increase ~ 1858. Or
triae over tuenty-Ons per esnt in the ten
years, q little upuaras Of TWO per cent
e. auUum