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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-27
coLoNTxsNG TnR rRuRDuEN.


The emigration OF an entire people from the
country Of their birth is a spectacle never ex-
hibited in modern times IL was Il common
one in barbarous agcs, but as civilization ad-
yanced, so the national hives became content
with merely throwing of periodical swarus.
No voluntary exodus Of an entire community
is recorded in the history Of this continent.
Whenever the aboienes migrated 1t was by
ccmpulsion. The Acadiaus were driven from
Noya-Scoiia by the bayonet. Ii the Western
population, il required many years Of gradual
migration from various natiOuallties 10 accom-.
pllsh the trans.er. II that migration has been
successful, tina. j.. beneficial to the emigrants,
il is because they went voluntarily and gradu'
ally. Tho exodus from Ireland TO this country
has been the greatest movement Of modern
times, but it was the gradual work of nearly
half a century. The cmigrants exchanged OPP
preston and national fquoor for freedom
and higher civilization. They abandoned o
country where there was no demand for labor
Tor one where employment is never refused 10
such as are wiling TO work. Hence, vast az
was the emigration it was Immediately alb
sorbed, with benefit both to The immigrants
and to US.
Bnt the sudden removal Of three or four
millions Of people from country IN which
they were born, to one in which they are total
straugers--irOm civilized to barbarous
regon-is well calculated 10 attract the worlds
attention. IT would be so even il the emi gra-
ton were voluntary but being compulsory, il
will DO likely 10 excite not only attention but
surprise. The history Of colonization il
written ia the failure Of multitude Of at
tempts TO remove Il people from an old country
to new one. IL is now proposed 10 coonize
>, 200, 900 Of American Freedmen in Costa
Rica, taking them from civilized country
when their labor is insre urgently needed than
at any previous time. and settling them in
wilderness where neither they nor their labor
is wanted. The fate most likely to attend al
enterprise 50 crude and premature may be in.
ierred from that OF other similar undertakings,
even when supervised by Government au-
thority, and literally sustained from the public
treasury.
Tho most disastrous attempt 1t Wholesale
emigration which modern times has witnessed,
was dat made few years ago to colombo
Australia. The BRITISH Government undertook
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-27
WEST VIRGINIA.

The People of West Virginia, composed OF
the forty-eight northwestern counties OF Old
virginia are memorializing Congress for a
prompt admission into the Union US State.
They have indicated their intention TO change
that section Of their Constitution which
relates to Slavery 30 that it shall reed AZ
follows:
THE eii.i5ea Of ,lsyr bou within e Links o. ti' ',s"
A. rr IA, day O! Mach, 1863 fha lt ic-. ard tst az
Tyc. ilin IL, ,aii State Who sha o. is ne aio e'oi
under tie ef tn yesf' sna DO rec "ne thy
thr ag~ Jf tsontyone .e4t sni OIL = ''s "f1i 'eD -
uuder .euy yesrs thi. ne '" "Aoa if aF" a. W
a.e ell, tvoa rye y'sr', snd no a.e 50. 10 -i'e' 20
come ato thu for reraneat reid ~ er"in
Although We believe It decidedly better Tor
all coucorred that the Constitution should slmpl!
declare all adults residing in the said State ol
West Virginia FREE from tho ratification
hereof by vote of her citizens, We do not
tainh it well 70 arrest the admission OF the
STATE on that ground. West Vir.ia wDl be
an An,-Sluycry stte from the start, and VIII
no. have f,e hundred .lGyes within her lin Is
the dag after the Rebellion is put down. Let
US keep to what is practical. Sac has always
hated and resisted the traitors. she has many
regiments now in the War for the Union. She
wants 20 b. State. The ioya! authorities OF
Old Virginia assent that size shall be. Now -
the time to adm. her for obstacles may be
interpreted IN another Congress- We trust thai
no attempt wil. be- MAIDS 20 load her down
with the Shenandoah Valley. which is Rebel,
bu. that sine may be admitted at once, aud on
her own terms.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-27
THx FRxNCM PROPOSAL OF ME-
DIATk0N.

We publish this morning full copy OF the
French dispatch on mediation, the most i'm
portant European document respecting our
affairs that has been issued since the outbreak
of the rebellion. Of course, it will be read
and scrutinized with the intensest attention
and interest by every reader of an American
newspaper. The author of the circular has
obviously anticipated this. No State paper of
France has been more guarded and cautious
in its language. and it is evident that the En-
peror wishes to appear most DESTROYS to avoid
giving any ofense TO American feeling. and to
DO regarded by the American people as their
true friend.
The regard thus shown to the Government
and people of the United States cannot fail to
make a favorable impression. Whatever the
language OF some semi-oflic;al and aristocratic
papers of Europe may have been. the Govern
ments observe with regard to us an attitude
quite different from the one which they have
observed with regard to the Mexicans. There
is very little in the circular to which any
one can raise 4 direct objf elton as being hos'
tile TO our cause. 1t is true, It's reference to
the possibility of servile war and to the
spreading of Peace Sentiments accords sub
stantially though not in Forthwith the iaii-
guage of cur bitterest enemies in Europe, aud
differs very widely from the sentiments
of those who have always ayowed cordlni
sympathy with our efforts to break down the
rebellious Slayc.Power; of men like Garibaldi,
Victor Hugo, Count Gasparin, John Bright,
Stuart Mill, and of all the leading liberal
papers of England, France, and other European
countries. Still, whatever the animus of the
writer, or rather of his Imperial master, who
dictated the circular, may have been, who can
object to friendly advice Ii it should be
offered as mere advice, with O friendly inten-
ton, it would be received by our Government
aud our people in f.endi! spirit.
/ But it would, OF course, be declined. An
everybody, is equal to an abandonment
of the war, aud therefore to 8 reccgn-
ton of the South. To this the present
Congress is almost unanimously opposed;
and even most Of the last Democratic
State Conventions have again assured the
Government of an unfnching support in the
crushing of the rebellion. Our Government
therefore, if the proposal for mediation were
actually made, would be obliged 70 decline it
without q moments hesitaton-in a friendly
spirit, bat, at the same time with the utmost
decision.
Then the gravest question in connection
with this mediation scheme, would arise. If
We decline the proposal OF mediation. 'riH
France maintain her strict Htdfrdtfy or does
sic r,serre to herseJ other MEASURES for aiding
ia bringing this ,qr to a close? On this point
the circular is not as explicit as every Amer
lean would have wished It. And yet this is
the great point on which We demand iuiorma-
ton, and about which our Government should
not fail TO inform itself and the country at the
earliest possible opportunity. On the solution
OF this question depends tie nature of our
future relations to France.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-27

TmiY Snow THKiR CoroR'.-A correspondent
informs US that "A body Of Secesb cavalry OF the
y mocraic stamp, made a sudden raid on Croton
Fail. Village n Ia Suut, ON the night sf the pm
instsnt They hoi,,ed thsr ieg, the r'ars ana barr
on TIE Union nag ,taG cheered fr Stuart JET.
DAVIS, seymour and the Knights Of the Golden
Circle. gyrat,d around TIE railroad station few
lines med their ls,ois aid dcn -k, 90 died before
the inhablaui. bad time to collect and give them the
thrashing they deserve. The Rebel fagis in The
hands If tho citizen WHO hauled it down. Il viii
no, bee ale Tor them, probably, to repeat the expr-
meai.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-27

H.w.,. ms,sri.y er,r both.

In ike manner the late election cannot be
taken as u criterion OF tie December vote.
Should the same influences govern the minds
OF voters in the ensuing election. We see no
reason why we should not look FOR the same
result. So Of Mr. Bradford. lie has always
enjoyed, as lie deserves. in ON eminent degree
the esteem OF the best men of New York, aud
whenever he has been before the people as q
candidate. he has always been ahead OF his
Ticket
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-27

Tofn EuT.E OF rHz MooS.-tarly in the
morning OF saturday Dee 8, prof., there will be
O. total eclipse Of the moon Throughout The United
Srats. The moon. however, will be iainfiy visible,
r. lc-s, and ia color resembling copper disc Az
the eclirss here occur at mcknight, the moon viii
be bis. and 1T Gu q uc... SIC 1eLl1. Il VII tAhe
ulirs - follows.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-27

As this day is set apart by the Governor as
a DAY of Thanksgiving aud Prayer, "e sha'l
omit our usual erening editions.
Should. Aouerer, any important intelligence be
ree.ired from the seat Of ,esr, It rN be imme'
dofsly issued in an Extra.
THE TRIBUNE miA appear to-morro,c morn
ivy as usual.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-27

OFFICER WALLS iSD PETEK FrSK.-Police
Officer Well. LAS returned 10 hi- old heal on Broad
way, and makes himself u.oial by watching the
parties Nlo purchase watches az the MOCK auction
tlops. lie doe. not prevent iA,r gong into these
shors. because tn injunction stands III hls wayi bu'
when they cone out, be make digestion, Which
sends the customer back Tor DO. money! wi,h the
hint that police officer -tnde ready to as-is lin IN
recovering Il. In thin way he las returned u rgr
umomt OF money to persons who have beer d.
frAuicl.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-27

several yen-s 10 come. In June there will be obc
visible 10 Europe.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-27

WHAT II MrANs.-People have someiimoss won
dered Why Democratic journals placed roostor At
the head Of their papers Ms On emblem 0. victory
But Parsou Drownlow fully explains tho matter IA
follows;
"a the cr, ing Of hs cock followed thr b.tmys o. hl
t f.ts 90 nl 1901. .hs COCK uf0Ns alter ne b'i 'l ''.
vi ia vleuis.'
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-27

Tur IruIAN Socrrr.-rhc Iiaiian Society
who.o MOTTO IL " Union auG brotherhood" met lasl
night at tie Cooper Institute, Prof u. Ainielli Ia
the clair. a lu.ge number o. Italians " ere present
cmhrciu, professors, doc.ors, n~.cr', artists, nier
cAru.s, rcclanic., g.. Several propositions wor'
dis-ussed and dcc.dod. The most exciting part oI
the discussion vas that which related TO tie election
OF Con. Gar.bald and Ayeuaua as honorary mem
bc,s OF ,he S1,,iy. The oij,c. u luis S5ciciy !.
mutual improvement. There are i've or siN thou
-nnd Italians IN this city, who are invited TO ayai
Themselves of thc advantages of this association.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-27
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

No notice can he tsken Of ANONYMOUS Commandments
Whatever INTENDED for insertion must oe auiheuee.eo
ard address oi wrternot necessarily iO
publica tion but ss sRuSianty for ms good iAiin.
We cannot undertake return rejected Coununcsl, A..
All business letters Or once should % s9aieS'oa y"
"raB 1KIBUNY." New-}orS
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-27

TuE NEW STAFFORD PHOJGcTILEs.-A trial OF
Stnilords projec.ile WAS made on Monday Mt the
Washington Navy Yard, resulting in II complete
triumph over all former artillery fcats. The target
uscd Tor the occasion was composed Of seven inches
Of iron and twcnty.ono inches OF oak. IL ies III
front OF the Merchants ENclnnse, in Wal street,
perforated Will holes, and noary shattered 10 rag
nents. Such an exhibition speaks fol iso!i.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-27

LtcrrRys FoR SIcE AND WouSpED SoLpiEHs.-
A coure o. Literary Lectures tor the cn'er'ainmenl
OF fich and wounded soldiers in our hcspi,als has
been sugsest-d by few Of their friends IA tH city,
aud several popular lecturers have aAenoy voui.-
tecrcd their services. The irt meeting will be held
on Saturday evening mex, in one OF the ao' itals.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-27

Sour Low.--M-. Crook The poruar saloon keep.
err in Chatham street. yesterday baked barrel 81
-four into single loaf r. Tee, long, feet wiae and
inches thick, Tor the poor opIc Of the Five Points
Msson. Il will be taken 10 the place OF distribution
this morning.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-11-27

The opera Of Dinorah was played last night, and
will be repeated on Friday, IT lilo Academy.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1862-10-22
Miscellaneous News.

The whole number of prisoners cap
tursd BY General Stahl in Warrenton and
vicinity, recently, is one thousand and
thirty-two. The official list has been sent
TO headquarters by General Sigel. These
men were wounded at the battle of Bull
Run, and The greater portion Of them had
ls9' and arms amputated.
A destructive fire occurred on tie 4th
instant at Fulton, Oswego county, N. Y.
village on the Oswego river. The loss
is estimated at a quarter of million.
An official dispatch from Gen. Grant,
dated Jackson, Tennessee, Oct. 6, states
that on the day before Gen. Hurlburt
came upon the enemy, and after seven
hours fighting drove them five miles
across the Hatchie river toward Corinth,
capturing two batteries, about three hun.
dred PRISONERS and many small arms
A Washington dispatch says that it is
ascsFtained that large supplies of cotton
Tor ports of Europe are obtained on the
Mo Grande. Mexican vessels are sngag.
cd in supplying foreign ships. Its siis-
pectsd that Texan planters convey their
cotton to Brownsville, Texas, whence the
article ia clandestineiy carried to the Mexi.
Can border. On the 9Th ofSep.ember there
we're twenty vessels there waiting for
eargoes, including an English steamer,
which had 96o, 600 with which to purchase
cotton.
The Sd New York State Militia arrived
mere i..t evening and proceeded to camp
at Hampton. sd
g Capt. L. +. Wells of Boston, Mass,
with 20 divers, 800 men and whaleships
arrived here yesterday for the purpose of
raising the sunkcn vessels at Hampton,
Newport News, Gosport and James River.
Thor contract compels them to raise the
Cumberland whole, but Capt Wells in.
tends to rails the Merrimac whole, if pos
sible. .t-s sss
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WooDsFIEID MONROE COUNTY, OHIO OCTOBER 22 1862

on Tuesday evening to friend, he remark
ed that others might do as they pleased
but for his part he had enough to do with
the damned niggers.
The vie o. a person. prominently con-
nected with the post-oiice, is another VIC
il tim Of blackened circumstance. She has
ltill lately kept couple OF girls to do the
housework, and has generally managed to
keep things in pretty decent order through
their aid. Last week she took fancy to
three newly arrived negresses, and think
ing that the three would surely do as much,
and as well, as the two white girls took
the darkeys into the kitchen and discharg-
ed the Others She soon found out that
she had failed to make any thing by the
exchange. An order was given to prepare
a meal. The family waited long and un-
easily, till, at last, wearied beyond en-
durance, the lady descended to the neither
regions, and found the three girles fast
asleep What followed needs not to be
described 1t is unchristianlike, as we'll
as unladylike to swear, so we will charita-
bly, suppose that nothing of the kind was
INDUCED in.
Another man took one of these contra
bands last week, and conveyed her home,
but had no great faith in her capabilities,
. so she was not set to any work of any re-
tsponsible character, lest she should make
kSal Miller, S mistake, of washing and dres-
sing the kettle, and boiling the child for
breakfast" She was Therefore sent up
stairs with a broom and ordered to sweep
out the bedrooms. She did it with a
vengeance. A bottle of pure tokay, kept
convenient for sudden attacks of night
sickness, first attracted her attention, and
its contents were quickly abstracted to the
amount of abouta pint. She then started
down stairs with vase in one hand and a
gold watch in the other; but slipping,
reached the bottom sooner than intended,
smashing her cargo into smithereens, and
cutting herself severely.
The above mentioned, cases are trivial
and unimportant except as indicating what
may be expected in the future; but the
business assumes serious aspect when
viewed in the light of an attempted sub
stitution of black for white labor Scatter
the black race over our prairies, introduce
the negro into our workshops, and, if he
can be made to work at all, the dignity of
white labor is forever gone. The work
ing classes Of Chicago are alive to this fact,
and are determined to discourage and dis
countenance the employment Of blacks in
their several departments of labor. Hun
dreds of men are at this moment without
work in this city, and if these Abolition
sympathizers go on as they have begun,
hundreds more will ere long be thrown
out to beg, to steal, or to starve, for the
purpose OF, making room for the now more
than ever almighty niger.
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Frem the Urbana (Ohio) Union
A TWO-EDGED SWORD.

i
The decree of emancipation is sustained
on the ground that the war power and the
military necessity override all civil law,
and among others the laws of slavery.
Granting this, when martial law ceases
the civil law revives and slavery is re-
established.
Foreseeing this, our new-light politi-
clans take the ground that after the re-
bellion is suppressed, the army must be
kept among them to keep them free by
making martial law perpetual.
Now, suppose Major General Halleck
should be Mr. Lincoln's successor, ard
should find this martial law Sin full force
and virtue, keeping the slaves free.
Suppose he should come to the conclu-
sion ii was much more important to free
the country from the corrupt and cruel
politicia MS, and should send Wade to Fort
Pickens, Sumner to Fort Morgan, Greeley
to Pulaski, and the military Abolition
ists' and county leeches throughout the
country to work on the Dry Tortugas
would not the army rejoice to see theil
own 'sinvention come back to plague
thenl,9 and would it not cry out in deri-
sive niockery like Gratiano, when Shylock
was caught in the trap he had set for the
unlucky merchant?
Q wise and upright PRESIDENT o glorious
martial law ~ @
We thank you, politicians, for teaching us
that word. lNed 5as
Gentlemen politicians, remember you
have the blood of this war upon your
skirts-that you are blistered all over
with corruption, and all that protects you
from an outraged people is the Constitu
! ton you have urged the President to dis.
regard, and the laws you have treated with
contempt whenever they stood in the way
of your corrupt and selfish ends. IS
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NUMBER 33.


II promise" he murmured family, and
fell in a swoon.
On recovering he found proclamation,
neatly .engrossed, and wanting only his
signature, on the table before him.
0reeiey was gone. A sulphureous at.
mosphere peryaded the apartment.
|1he PRESIDENT wrote his name With
tremuious fingers.
This little story accounts for the-eoks
in the milkonut.
Since then the President rides from
Soldiers Home to Washington aud Back
escorted BY detachment of cavalry He
is change IMAM
But he doesn't think good deal Of tbs
Proclamation.
1t is the same with others. 9AI
Tout a tol, McARoNI.
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FROM OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
In THE ELECTIONS.
Correspondents OF the N. Y Express.
Nav HAVEN, Oct. Sth,s 1862.

The Abolition journals, and the fSls.
graph under the control of Abolitionists,
give the people no news in regard to the
elections which took place in most of the
towns in. this State last Monday You
may not have heard anything about these
etown meetisgs,' as We call them. 4 send
you the 20 Register = showing the result,
which, in briefr may be called politseol
reUolutios, IN Cfoanreticus, and is an index
of what is going on throughout tlieI End
where the people are permitted to Speak
through the ballot box Towns herto-
fore Republican have in this recent
turned q complete somerset.
Here is one instance to the point: The
town of Derby, which usually, has given
fer number of years majority Of say
$50 to 800 against the Democrats, elects
this year Democratic officers. i might
mention similar eases. write this to1call
through yos the notice of tho. Conserve
tive journals in the city to the change
that is goin on in sihs s.sland of-steady
habits.
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THE NEW "RlOMAN MUY
DOLOROsO." .a1
4 svery Nournful Ballad on the Lat
Contention at Altoona. a
BY MERRY ANDREW OF MASSACHUSETTS.

BY MERRY ANDREW OF MASSACHUSETTS
MCCLELLAN still rides up and down
Potomac's banks, despite my frown,
Leading our army by the nose,
Triumphant Ger his party foes.
Woe is me, Altoonal
Letters from headquarters tell
How, with hurricanes of shell,
He the rebels overthrow, aa
Knocking abolition, too.
Woe is me, Altoona!
Though I've labored sans remorse
To upset him on the course, 5
Still, as Luck and he were twins
Stands he firmly on his pins.
s'9 Woe is me, Altoona!
Naught's by the convention gained,
= .Vainfy l Fremont sustained,
Vainly SPRAaUE with me took ground
T'other Governors warn sound. 1e
Woe is me, Altoona
Rare FREMONT, my god of war,
Anti-slaverys shining star;
In coach and four, the plain
You will never scour again. ts'Ha
Woe is, me Altoona!
Is your country not aware
That when wanted you are "there"?
Will the time ne'er come when you,
Cabinets, not duns, shall sue?
Woe is me, Altoona!
Loudly, when / had the floor,
Did [ tell your merits DER;
What's the use?-they wouldn't sing
To my tune-that gathering.
Woe is me, Altoona!
Pathfinder, twas all ssno co.
Vainly did "puff z and g blow;
CURTIN, BRADFORD, TOP cried, .sHold!
All the rest, save SpRAGuE, were cold,
aaf q Woe is me, Altoonal
TOP, Ohio's proxy he,
would he were in Owhyhee,)
2 Swore that Mac, the iron-nerved,
OF his country well deserved
'st s5 at Woe is me, Altoona!
Allis lost! Groan, BEEcHER, groan;
LLOYD and WENDELL, make you moan
FREMONT lies upon his back, ~
Cry, for him, the Coronach!
eo Woe is me, Altoona.
Bind to each left arm the Grape,
Brethren in this mournful scrape;
And by each be sung or said,
As defeats hot tears we shed,
Woe is me, Altoona!
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WuAr ronE GA1aEng-Is fhere an,

WHAT is TO BE GAINEp?-Is there any
one who can tell what will be gained by
an Abolition victory at the coming cleo
ton? Do the people want the present
state of affairs to continue? Does any one
doubt that two years more of Abolition
rule will rnin the nation2 Is it possible
that az change can be for the worse? It
will be starnge, indeed, after the events Of
the last eighteen mouths after the people
have seen how the Abolitionists have gov
erned-if any considerable number Of them
will vote the Abolition ticket.