Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-10-17

THIS Is JAMES Russell LOwELLs graphic
description of the crowd that nominated Nc
Clellan;
"Thc convention was rag-baG of dissent.
All the odds and ends of personal discomfort,
every shred of private grudge, every rag
shipped of by official shears, scraps OF rebel
gray, the leavipgs of Union blue had been
gathered, as If for the tailoring of Joseph's
coat. That Hebrew should be chosen to call
such motley collection to order was a matter
of instinct"
SOLDIERS VoTE AT FoRr DELAwARE.-The
soldiers stationed at Fort Delaware, guarding
rebel prisoners, voted as follows Union vote,
l49; Copperhead vote, >. Union majority, 14G.
THE VICTORIES IN PLATTsBURG.-The Union
men of Plattsburg fired hundred guns on the
reception of the news of the great Union VIC
tories in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana.
"sUNsET Cox," of Ohio, having failed of a
reelection to Congress, will have leisure to
write " The Buckeye at Home" as a sequel to
his Buckeye Abroad"
EVERY TRAITOR AND REBEL SrMrATHIsER
at the North will vote for Mcclellan. He is
the chosen candidate of the disloyal, the dis.
affected and the sorehoads. There is not a
lackey Of JEFF. Davis from Maine to California
but labors for the success OF the "gunboat
General"
LILLIrUTIAN MAcK's DETECTIVE Memory
There arc many remarkable instances of do
fcctlvc memory but the most remarkable on
record is that of Gen. Mcclellan, who "does
not recollect" whether he was on shore or on
the river while the battle Of Malvern I'LL was
being fought
TEE CoPPERIEADs are attempting to swear
nff fhn nh - 81.
on board the Galena, by proving an Glibi. But
II is no go. The evidence Of the guilt of the
culprit is overwhelming.
JEFF. DAVIS Is unfortunate in his cxcur.
sions. The Montgomery Nail bluntly says, in
commenting on his Macon speech, that his
visits 10 the Wcst are usually the prcludes of
disaster" The Richmond EnqHiTcr admits 5
that hls statement of the serious depletion of
our armies will read badly at the North and In
Europe" and gently scolds him for his sensi-
tlveness to the charge that the rebel calamItlos
in Georgia are due TO his incompetency, rash
ness and dominecring temper. "Let us all be
friends" the Eaqutrtr soothingly sings, thus
admitting the existence of serious Cnmities
among the happy family" of baHlcd pcrjurcrs
and apostatcs.
WHAT PENDLEToN WANTs.--It seems i'll
justice has been done Mr.. Pondleton in de-
ClhTlny MN Hu HO5ONtc ulsunlOnlAt. The
Cincinnati HitquRGr says that mo one would
labor harder for restoration of Tie old UOmted.
eratiOH," than he.
OK THE 10Th INSTANT, vote was taken on
the Eastward-bound train, Ohio Central rail-
road, with the following result Lincoln, 81;
Mcclellan, II. On the same day the vote on
the Eastward train, Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road, was as follows Lincoln, IS; Mcclellan,
22.
The CHICAGO Jomra! says: On Tuesday last,
at Camp Douglas, the members of the 9th
Ohio battery, as we are officially Informed,
voted as follows; Whole number Of votes cast,
232i of which there were Democratic, IL,
Union majority, 220. For Highland county,
Ohio, In which this battery was recruited,
there were given 7S votes-every one for the
Union, and against rebels and thcr sympa,
thizers.
THE MCCLELLAN rARTY go for the "Ordcr OF
the Sons of Llberty"-Lhc Lincoln party 20
for the "ordcri of General Dlx-"lr any man
attempts 10 haul down the American flag,
| shoot him on tho rpnf."