, 1863-10-03
THE WASHINGTON STATESMAN
SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. 8 1868.


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THE News The dispatches this week
contain news Of a rather startling nature.
The Vice President of the Confederate
States it is reported is in Paris making ar
rangements with the French Government
for its Intervention in American affairs and
its alliance with the Confederate cause
and cooperation against the Federal Gov
ernment. 1t is not at all certain, however,
that Napoleon will ''take hand" and we
are of the opinion hat he will be in no
hurry to do SO.
The news of the great battle in progress
near Chattanooga, is of absorbing interest.
Chattanooga IS of vital Importance to the
rebel government and all the available for
ces it can muster are being concentrated
there to get possession of the place 1t is
of no less Importance to tue Federal Gov
ernment as point to operate against the
heart of the Confederacy and our troops are
being forwarded from all points to swell the
army Of Rosecrans So far as the battle
has progressed the rebels appear to have
had the best of it; but we feel pretty con-
fdent that our troops will come out victo-
rious in the end The falling back of Rose
Grams upon Chattanooga, we think, is not
so much attributable to defeat as that the
move was necessary in order to keep
Bragg's army from the possibility of get
ting in his rear cutting off his supplies and
preventing reinforcements from joining
him. If Bragg could have effected this
plan he would have had Rosccrans in a
tight place. As it is, the reinforcements
will join the federal army and it will be
Bragg's turn to fall back next. The srug-
gle there will most likely be long and des-
perate and it will be death blow TO the
rebels if they lose their grip this time.
EMPLoYmENr.-We are happy to learn
that large number of the emigrants re-
Gently arrived from the Atlantic States have
already obtained good situations, both in
this city and surrounding country. Some
have found employment as clerks in stores
and hotels others as farm hands; while
many men and woman have gone as domes-
tics in families. This is as it should be it
will thus enable those who have braved the
thousand and one dangers and inconveni-
ences inseparabe from long journey across
the plains, and whose purses no doubt are
by this time pretty we'll exhausted, to save
something during the coming winter where
with to start anew in business on the open
ing Of spring.
The honest-minded yonug man or maid
en- who has Just arrived here from the East,
will necessarily find "matters and things"
in these primitive parts decidedly different
from what they are at home. The more ac-
tive temperament of our people made SO by
necessity and the application of "hald
knocks" may for a while startle their phleg-
matte predispositions and cause them, for the
time being to show symptoms of restlessness
and anxiety; but they will settle down in
to this new phase of life, (which for the
first time, looms up before them, and
learn to take things as they find them
Again they mustnot be surprised if, al times
those acute sensibilities which they bring
with them are now and then "roughed"
somewhat by the way-side. In all new
countries, struggling for existence, it is OBJ
servable that the finer part of our natures is
too often ignored and rendered subseryient
to the mercenary and material Those that
are full of energy and have force of charac-
ter, may for season be compelled, by cir
cumstances, to rub up against uncongenial
elements, and, for charitys sake, to bear
with them; but, in the progress of events,
the time will surely come when the indus
irious. conscintious, upright and worthy will
find their proper stations whether fate
throws them in the mountain gulches, to
delve for gold, or in the productive valleys
below, to till the soil and share the richest
treasures of Ceres.