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What We Have Learned.

The Albany EUentng Journal, the great
organ of the Seward party in New York,
in its Issue of Saturday last, contained the
following rather remarkable editorial:
"The war has been a stern schooimas-
ter to the people of the loyal States
It has given us food of light upon many
subjects that were dark and doubtful. 1t
has enabled us to see ourselves, TO see our
enemies, to see Europekt large, as we new
er saw or suspected them before. 1t has
opened to us new world, set us to ex-
ploring new paths of knowledge, sharpen
ed our vision, intensified all our faculties.
1t has taught us the opportunities and
dangers Of our situation, and warned us
against much that might do US harm.
We have learned the folly If uhderrat-
ing our enemies. We have learned that
they are equally brave, equally hardy,
equally quick witted, equally endowed
with martial qualities with ourselves
We have learned that they are terribly in
earnest in their efforts to achieve their
ends, and that they are desperate ii their
resolve to divorce themselves from US, that
they are determined to resist our efforts to
conquer them to the bitter end. We
have learned that they are as wary as
they are inscriptions, that they are as
cunning as they are depraved, that they
are quick to take advantage of our weak
ness, our blunders and indecision. We
have learned that they are fully our peers
in military capacity, and that as soldiers,
they make up in dash what they lack in
solid hardihood. We have learned that
the very despotism that exists among
them, gives them compactness and unity
which we do not and cannot possess.
We have learned how little active CO.
operation we are to expect from the "Union
element Of, the extreme South. We
have learned That that element, even where
most prevalent, is timid, torpid, doubtful,
negative; that it "needs watchers" to sit
by and nurse it; that it is often treacher-
Gus and counterfeit; that in many in.
stances it is rather stumbling in our
way rather than prop or auxiliary. We
have learned that by little and little, the
poison of secession has spread among the
people-that little by little it has posses
sed and crazed them until public senti-
ment has, in many sections, become al
most unit.
We have learned the folly of expecting
sympathy from foreign governments and
foreign peoples. We have learned that
we are hated most cordially where we had
reason to look for support; that we stand
to-day apart and isolated, without friend
or hacker in any power on earth. We
have learned that we must not only fight
the good fight unassisted, but under the
shadows Of the frowns of Europe.
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Baltimore Markets.

oFleUR. Super, $5.75a$6.0o; extra, $7.6o;
City Mills super, $5:75a6. 100; extra, $6.5Oas 90.
Corn Meal $3.4O per Dbl. Rye Flour, $4.0Oa
4.25 per Dbl. 4 - a ia
GaAN. Wheat--air, ST.. aOa$l so; prime,
$l.5bal.63 per bushel. Corn prime white, Goa
$780,; prime yellow, 60a66c. Oats--Md. 32a42c.;
Penn. 40a43c. per bushel. Rye, 60a65c. per
bushel M
GuANo.- - Peruvian, $F5 per ton; Mexican, $50;
White DO. $50; Navassa, $40; California, $42;
Manipulated, $47; Phosphate, $4t. Bone Dust,
HAylAND Straw. -I,aled Timothy '$i9a20
per ton, loose $lsal9 Clover, baled $41al2;
loose $l0all. Rye Straw $l8al4 y Dat straw
$8a9.00; Wheat do, $8a90O.
Wool. Unwashed, 35a4Oc.; washed, 50a56c.;
pulled, 44a47c.; common fleece, 40a45c. lsf
PRoyIsloHs. Bacon sides, 6a64 ;4shculders,
4aa6c.; Hams, 7allc,; Lard, Sal0c. M WI
Cattle. Prime $2.62a$4.5O peSHt00 ibs. =
Sheep, $2.b0a4. 30 per 100 lbs. Hogs Give, 90
a6.26 per l00lbss 98
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AM Extraordinary spedoh.

We extract from Che New Bedford
Mercury the following report of q most
extraordinary speech by Gov. Andrew, as
furnished to that paper by its correspond
ent, at camp meeting in Martha's ViKe-
yard. He remarks:
I send you only sentence or two, that
you may see the tenor of his address,
After announcing the correct docttine,
that all right government is based On the
twill and teachings Of divine truth, M
stead of that atheistical dogma, that stgov-
eminent derives its authority from the
consent of the governed" he said:
awe stand where the ways divide
There is such thing as wearing out the
Divine favor. There must be time
when forbearance ceases to be virtue, in
heaven as we'll as on earth. The rebels
have taken their choice. They had GER
tain rights as peaceable citizens of the
Republic. They have chosen to throw
them up for those of belligerents, He
was peace man. lie abhorred war
But as the Executive Of the Common
wealth, he had called on his fellow citi-
zens to lift up the arms and doctrines of
the old Bay State, in the belief that when
the rebels power was overthrow, that of
the dtpressor would fall with it, and four
millions of fellow-beings rise up from their
enslavement, disenthralled, redeemed
He had nevef expected this war to end
without this object being accomplished
He was not superstitious, but He could
not fail to recognize thesfact, that from
the day that the government turned its
back on proclamation of General Hun
ter, the fortunes of the war had turned
against us. Till that day our, standard
moved steadily on to victory. With our
aid or against it, God has determined to
let the people 60 But he had faith in
the success of the issue. He could not
think that the prayers, tears, labors of the
fathers were to be all lost" etc., etc.
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A Tribune Wall.

In his letter to Horace Greeley the
President says: "The sooner the nation
tional authority is restored, the sooner the
Union will be the Union as 1t abds."
There is much ambiguity in this ex-
preston. The "Union as it was" is a
cant phrase invented by the infamous
Vallandigham, and fathered by his dirty
tool, Dick Richardson. The meaning
they attach to those words is well under
stood. But such Union loyal men do
not want to see restored They sprefer a
Union as it ought to be. What patriotic
citizen desires the restoration of the
"Union as it was' under Buchanan's ad-
ministration I? If that lis the Onion to
which Mr.. Lincoln refers he should dis
miss his. present Cabinet and send for
Cobb, Floyd, Thompson and TJucey to
come back to Washington and take the
places of Chase, Stanton, Welles and
Smith. His next step would naturally
be, to summon. Breckenridge to the
White House, resign in his favor, aud
turn the Government over into the hands
of the secesh Democracy. In this way
the "Union as it was" might be at least
approximately restored. As thelPresident
cannot mean such Union, he was unfor-
tunate in the choice of words. 1t is never
safe to adopt the cant phrases Of pro-sla-
very politicians Chicago Tribune.
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-[FV-EE-'
SHODDY.

Shoddy is found everywhere. It is the
stock in trade of the whole world. Bet.
ter material is only kept for samples, fol-
shoddy forms the wool Of public and pri-
vate life. In times of peace and tranquil.
ity we have leisure to discriminate and re-
ject that which is shoddy, or if we use it,
it wears comparatively WELL But when
great public connections burst suddenly
upon US, we are inevitably cheated. We
have crowded upon us shoddy clothing and
shoddy ofice-holders. five raise an ar.
my it is cheated with shoddy uniforms
and shoddy generals; and there are al.
ways contra ctors who tell us, even while
these articles of the shoddy material are
tumbling to pieces, that they are the true
army blue, made without regard to ex.
pense. The last National Government
was cheat of the contractors. The PEG.
pie supposed they had hit upon the best
article in the market, having rejected the
apparent shoddiness of the Pathfinder for
President. Buchanan had WORN long
alas too long, for nothing but shoddy re-
NAMED. That administration left the
country out at the elbows and the knees,
and broken at the seat. We were glad to
have another opportunity to mend out>na.
tional breeches-and to that end we have
been laboring and paying and fighting, SO
that we may be able to appear deceatly
before the world. Shall we be cheated by
shoddy again !? There is place already
worn threadbare on the Peninsula--that
surely must have been shoddy. "Patch
it and mend it and patch it again. 2 -
Good cloth might have rotted out in the
Chickahominy swamps. 1t is getting Chin
in Kentucky and Tennessee. Something
is needed there, or we shall show our max.
edness. But shoddy is not confined to
the army. Congress is grand shoddy
factory, and it turns out more than all the
otbegmills Up the world, except the grand
"mlll' between che Union and Secession.
Senator Simmons, of Rhode Island, might
have passed for honest, but the Contract
Committee rubbed him gently between the
thumb and finger and found that he was
shoddy. Those Senators who helped to
make political generals were shoddy.--
Those who, with an eye to next election,
procured discharges for hundreds Of able
bodied soldiers, turn out to be shoddy Of
the most deceitful and pernicious sort.- -
All those who have had finger in con.
tracts, swindling the country while il il
struggling for existence, are also shoddy
The people must sharpen their wits and
look out for shoddy. Make every mar
show his texture, and put him 70 'tht
proof. If he has any suspicion 'of4shoddy
about him, throw him away-he can d.
you no service Shoddy is an ally of the
enemy Had itsnot been for shoddy, VIC
might have lived together in peace anc
amity and brotherhood forever. Ciacin
ndti 1 fesss3a Jts ssd agg@
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WHICH is THE TRAITOR THE Re-
publicans den6unce Vallandigha,n as a
traitor, and eulogise Brigham as patriot.
They are both representatives from Ohio ;
and during the last session Of Congress
they gave expression to their honest senti-
ments as follows
Mr. VallandighamI Mr.. Righam said
said: cit is id the|sWho, In the name
restoration Of thelof Heaven, wants the
Union as it was injection States, or any
1889, and continuedlother States thisside
for over 70 years, |of perdition, to re-
that am bound tolmain in The Union,
the last hour of myllf slavery is to con-
political existence. 'ltinue.'
Pray, now, which is thetraitbr Will
some Republican answer
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MILLIONS FOR DEFENSE. AN enter
prising New England Yankee OFFERS to
build Chinese wall along Mason's and
Dixon's line for six hundred millions Of
dollars. This would seem to be amillions
for defense" As we already have a
"Stonewalp' between Virginia and Penn
sylvania, perhaps be would take the con-
tract rather ess.-Phi1a Inquirer.
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If Hooaand's Balsamic Cordial win mot cure,
in the last stages Of Consumption, we know
from experience that It affords great relief.
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~ The Ohio M. 3. Conference has
vosed against lay delegates syes2 "a nays
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The latest advices from Western Virginia re-
ports that bill the Federal forces had trcached RAJ
venswood, on the Ohio river, On Sunday evening,
bringing their baggage train throhghsn safety !.
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To C6rrespondents.

All communications for publication must be accom-
panied with the real name OF the author, no atteh
ton will be paid TO them The real OF the author
win not be published unless desited, but canpot
to insert communications unless we know the
writer
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IFTFERFROM JAMES W. WAN.

The following letter from Col. james
w. Wall, of Burlington, was read at a
Democratic meeting at Philadelphia in re-
ply to an invitation to attend that meet
ing: f III f{ / 7 I 7
Hon. b. w. Hughes, t0hasrusah Of The
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-11-20
Respecting Desersi3ns.

indianapolis. Ind, Nov II. 1862.
/. Deserters from the United States
service will hereafter he promptly pursued.
tried. and punished The extreme penal
ty Of the law is none too severe for those
who have secured the Government Bounty
anil then abandoned their conntry's service
III. An immediate detail will be male,
from every regiment at its Post, of Eff.
cient officers and men to -ursne and cap
ture oil ~ho arc absent without leave
Said detail will be reported to the military
commander.
Ill. Soldiers so absent are urged to
re'nrn voluntarily and forthwith to their
companies and their allegiance. that they
may place themselves within the leniency
which may be applied in such cases.
". All citizens wbomsoever are here
by warned against the crime Of encoura-
gipg deserti"n or harboring deserters,
whether the absentees be paroled soldiers
or others. All, alike. are supported by
the Government, and this encouragement
known to have been rendered. must now
stopg Whether the alvice to desert be
covered mp by ingenious constructions of
the cartel for the exchange of prisoners. or
more openly fragrant, is immaterial. The
offenders will, upon sufficient proof, be
turned over to the authorities for such
punishment as the Acts of Congress and
the Articles Of War affix to the offence
Col. HENRY b. CAERINGroN.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-11-20
Programme of the New York Tories

New YoRK, Nov. live are credibIy
informed that clsndestine negotiations have
been opened between certain Democratic
leaders in this city and the head traitors at
Richmond looking to reconstruction on
the following basis: The States now in re-
bellion are to elect members of the present
Congress. who are to present themselves
at Washington, and claim seats in said
Congress on or before the LIST day Of Janu-
AIRY next: Second, the House being SO filled
will at once have q conjoint conservative
and rebel majority. who win proceed to
notify the president that the rebellion is
sui antially ended, that the rebel States
are all duly represented, that consequently
L bis proclamation Of freedom is null and
void, and they are fully under the protec-
ton Of the constitution; Third, Congress
thus reconstructed. is to proceed forthwith
to repeal all acts bearing hard upon tie
traitors of the last two years. and to pass
such others as may be necessary. to secure
perfect immunity. and immunity to them
Fourth, . convention of the States is to be
called when the united conservative, Dem
ocratic and rebel strength is enough to be
overwhelming. and is to be pledged before
hand to make whatever changes in the con
stitution the .slaveholding interests may
deem essential to their own future security
and permanent we'll being. These are in
substance the conditions forwarded from
this city to Richmond by the first envoy
but we do not learn that they were accept
ed. On the contrary we understand the!
wcrc not-thc rebel chiefs still insisting OF
disunion as the basis for peace, thus abso
Ilutely closing the door against further ne
lgotiatiatiops. and according to onr infor
mant. second embassy from our conserve
| tives is now in Richmond. OF is well OF
its way thither. Hence we may expect t.
hear further within few days.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-11-20
Self Condemnation.

We love to see a man condemn his own
acts. when they are of an unmanly nature.
because then we have some hopes Of his
reformation. Some people. however. are
Of such dali and mulish disposition that
You can only show to them the contempt
ableness of their own nature by exhibiting
a like course of action. when they will be-
come Mortified at the reflection of their un-
natural and disgusting traits Of character.
Such specimen is the late editor Of the
Plymouth Democrat.
Some three or four weeks since we cop
led an article from an eastern exchange Of
nearly columns length. showing the fol-
ly Of leaving the rebels in peaceable pos
session of all their slave help in times like
the present. The article was an able and
. powerfully argumentative one. and the
Democrat editor knew by its being publish
cd on the outside Of the paper. that it was
not an original article. but copied one.-
He dared not publish the whole article. be
cause be knew it was of so convincing
a nature that it would brand him in the es-
timation of his own readers as falsifer oil
history and q traducer Of his country, Sc
be published three-line gsrbled extract
and maliciously and falsely credited it t.
this paper. The act WAS exceedingly un,
professional in style and villianess in NOR,
ais. We realized that man who couli
do so little thing with Contemporary
could not be touched by shame or reason
so we gave him . slight touch of the sam'
style in return. justifying ourselves from
such deviation from our ueual habit. or
the principle that "ths end justi6s.h thu
means.' The experiment had the desired
effect. and in last weeks Democrat, IN
der the head of Scientific and Literary
he adnsinisters to as an editorial fggelldfioS
for commating tie ve'y same trick Of sch;e'
he seas gully Tie pesk before. The gudg
con wss caught by hook Of his own bait
ling Out Of his own mouth he rebukct
himself. and denounced his own acts IS IN
gentlemanly and unprofessiouaL We ar
satisfied with. the experiments. The I'D
lverHsemsnt from which we took the ex
tract ives usobjectiosabIe when understood
q the aufboy Intended il should be.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-11-20
From Indianapolis.

INDiASApoLIs. Nov. 1.-THE secretary
Of war has officially notified the State au-
thorities of the exchange of the 18th. 10th,
Goth, list and five companies of the Both
Indiana regiments taken prisoners and pa
rolled at Richmond, Kentucky; the 50th,
Goth. 9th, 6Sth, S9.h and part of the 18th
and 74th, regiments. taken at Munfords-
vile. including their officers. The officers
and men are enthusiastic over the news,
and express a desire to be sent to the field
without delay.
The following persons have been ex.
changed: Brig. Gen. Manson; Col Wilder.
18th; Col. Gooding, 22d; Lieut.. Col
Dunn, Goth; Lieut. Mason. 18th battery
Quartermaster Igal. 35th: Lieut.. Torbet,
9Th; Capt. j. H. Ferry, assistant quarter
master: Lieuts Davis. Both; Pennar. 39tl.
and Coleman, 42d.
The above regiments are all in camp,
we'll disciplined. armed and equipped in a
magnificent manner, and the 9th cavalry
and four batteries of artillery, are all said
to be under marching orders, and VIII
make splendid division.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-11-20
Our Present Military Strength.

The present total effective strength O,
our armies--by which we mean the force
actually in the field-has- been estimated 70
be about 700. 900 men, in round numbers
AT the beginning Of the year there were un.
der arms GAO. 637 volunteers, and &c, 1874
regulars; making a total of 660.97l; so
that actually the tive lsvies since made by
the president, in accordance with. the pro.
visions OF the act of Congress, empower.
ing him TO call out, If necessary, half mil
lion Of men, have, as yet, added but LITTLE
to our military efficiency The first call
for 300. 600 troops, it would seem, did lit.
tie more than fill up the regiments tha,
had been depleted by the casualties of the
camp and field. Before we had really a.
chieved any grand victory commensurate
with our expenditure of blood and treas.
urc, onr hospitals were filled up and con
slant appeals were made to our philanthro
py, on behalf Of the sick and wounded
Perhaps, too. desertion, in a mild form
helped along the decimating process, 70,
our hotels and prominent thoroughfare.
were constantly thronged with gaily uni
formed officers, apparently in good health
and with no valid excuse for their neglect
of duty.
Assuming that the second call for $780,.
QUO men has been fully answered, there
fore, it could hardly raise the numerical
strength of the army above 900, 900 men
from which the large number of those who
after few months trial, would be found
unable to endure the fatigue and exposure
OF camp life, would still have to be deduct
ed. But in reality we cannot assume thai
the last call of MIR. Lincoln has been an.
swered SO as to place the troops at the dis
posal OF the war department. We have
probably 10000 oft these men encamped in
the vicinity Of this city, and not on!y are
they unfit. owing to lack of discipline, for
active service. but they have yet to be pro
vided with arms and clothing. AT several
other points in the State, camps of equal
size have been established. and as yet we
have no assurance that they may be con-
verted into winter quarters. True, within
the last three months many thousand OF
troops. not only from this State, but from
the North and East, have been sent south
ward, but great portion of them have
been required to occupy the defenses oil
Washingtonswhich even now are insnffi
GENTLY garrisoncl. when we consider their
extent and important character.
In view of these facts, the estimate
which places our present total fighting
force at 700. 900 men; is probably very neal
the truth. The total sounds grandly e
nongh to the ear; but when we recolect
that General Mcclellan along the base o
tho Blue Ridge. Gen. Sigel at Fairfax
Gen. Rosecrans in Kentucky, Gen. Pop,
in the Northwest, Gen. Cnrtis in Arkan.
sas, Gen. Grant at Corinth, Gen. Butler al
New Orleans, and Gen. Brannan at Por
Royal. each have claim upon this total
we cannot wonder that it has made sucl
apparently slow progress toward vanquish
ing the most formidable rebellion the worlC
has ever seen.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-11-20

EVANSVILLE, Ind. Nov. IL.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, Nov. II.
The expedition which left Henderson on
Monday. the 10th. under command of Col.
Foster of the 65th Indiana, consisting OF
200 cavalry and 200 infantry. in wagons.
in pursuit Of the rebel guerrilla bands that
have SO long been prowling about in North
western Kentucky. has proved decided
success. The force was divided into four
columns. aud moved forward, all concen-
trating at jacksonville. Each force was
successful.
Major Platter OF the 4th Indiana Caval-
~, came up with. and completely surprised
Halls band of horse thieves at Shiloh
meeting house, killing nine, severely and
MORALLY wounding ten, taking Captain
Quinn and twenty five prisoners. Capt.
Mason and Lieut. Small each captured ten
or twelve prisoners, and Capt. Zelly with
forty men dashed into jacksonville and
drove out Demmitt and Hall with one hum
dred and fifty gGerrillas who did not stop
to fire gun. Zelly's force wouHded a
number and took ten prisoners. The band
taken by Major Platter, are the same that
crossed into Indiana, at West Franklin,
some days since. All the horses and arms
stolen by them there were retalsen. The
guerrillas are panic-stricken. and are CON-
pletely scattered. Our cavalry have been
picking them up through the hills and
swamps since the fight. We have sixty
prisoners, including one Captain and three
Lieutenants. seventy-6ve horses. and a
large number of arms. Our forces are
still in pursuit Of the routed rebels. -