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On the coats, the operations were being
pushed on with equal vigor. Gen. Gilmore
had effected landing on Morris Island,
whence, with his long range siege guns, he
was able to batter down Fort Sumter. leav-
ing that memorable stronghold, whose re-
auction by the rebels was the first overt act
of the war, mass of ruins. Assisted by the
cooperation of the iron clad feet, the works
on Morris Island-Forts Wagner and Gregg
were also reduced, and they with their arm
ament fell into our hands. The possession
of Morris Island has enabled our feet ever
since to keep up blockade of Charleston
which Theoretically seals that place.
Leaving out of view the single exception of
that brief period during which the Napoleon
ic war involved all Europe in its conaagra-
tion, you will search all history in vain for
parallel Of that great battle summer, whether
as respects the vastness of the theatre of war,
the proportions of the contending forces, or
the substantial greatness of the results. Dur
ing single period of thirty days embraced
IN this titantic epoch, not less than 10000
prisoners were captured. The losses to the
enemy in this respect, added to his prodigi-
Gus sacrifices in killed and wounded, left the
Confsderacy at the close of the year bleed
ing, PROSTATE, and exhausted.
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Bursting of Clouds.

sad disaster recently occurred in Nevada
Territory on the eastern slope of the Sierra
range OF mountains, near the line Of Califor-
MIA. A party consisting of Mr.. A. ". Glen,
his wife ard three children, his father, Mr..
p. H. Medley and wife, and M George
Weston, left the town of Aurora on the 2eth
of July, for trip TO Bridgeport, where they
expected 10 arrive at 5 p. NJ, and where a
portion of the party were TO attend ball in
the evening. They started in 4 wagon drawn
by four houses. The morning was fair and
beautiful, but rain commenced falling Al
three o'clock the team was travelling I'D a
gorge or gulch in the hills about Twelve miles
from Aurora. At this moment cloud burst
at the head of the gorge and emptied itself
into it. filling il 10 the depth of fifteen feet
almost instantly.
When The party saw the deluge coming
they jumped out of the wagon and attempted
10 escape, the vehicle being covered DELAYING
hem some. Mr.. Glen, Senior. succeeded in
reaching the side of the hill and clung to
SOME bushes until the torrent passed by,
which was in about half an Lour, leaving no
water in 'ir- gnlri, Nj Medley threw his
left arm around his wife and supported her
until the resisiless torrent tore her from his
grasp, and her body was att-rwarl found
lodged in tree SIX feet from the ground
Mr.. Glen held up MS little girls, five and
eight years old, until be vas dashed against
mass of rocks and stones, when both were
lost and Glen narrowly escaped. Mrs. Glen
was The last TO leave the wagon. She Jump
sd for the sid. al ,hs hall, having child Is
months old IN her arms. Weston, who Was
at that point, seized her and attempted 10
drag her up, but her dress giving way she
was swept away and drowned with her child.
The body of the mother was found near the
spot, but the children were swept mile down
below. The impetuous torrent bore along
in IFS course large trees and rocks weighing
a ton. The wagon was dashed into small
pieces and the four horses killed or drown
ed.
The locality of this occurrence is from five
TO seven thousand feet above the level of the
sea, and the papers from which this account
is condensed express the opinion that the
cloud which burst, either came in collision
with another cloud or with the top of the hill.
AT sea, when there is danger Of their engul-
fing ship, they are burst by means Of can
non. A similar case occurred year or two
since in the coast range of mountains near
Los Angeles, California, when two or three
persons persisted. The historians of that
State make frequent mention of cloud bust
ing. In Wilson's beautiful sketch entitled
The Baptism, in Lights ard shadows Of
Scottish life, an occurrence of this kind is
noticed, where some brutal soldiery who had
come 10 arrest or murder the Coyenaaters
we're swept away.
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Satisfied with the Terms.

a certain good -natur.d old Vermont far
mer preserved his constant good nature let
what would turn up. One day while the
black tongue prevailed in that state, one of
his Een came in, bringing the news that one
af his red oxen was dead. "Is ne ?" said the
cd man d" well, he always was breechy
sass. Take his hide of and carry il down
to Fleicher's; il will bring the cash. An
houl or so afterward, the man came back
With the news that " lineb back and his mate
were both dead. "Are they ," said the old
man; well, took them Of h -, TO save 8
debt that | never expected to get. 1t is lucky
that il am the brindles. lake .he hides
down to Fletcherss; they will bring cash.
After the lapse Of another hour the man
came back to tell him that the nigh brindle
was dead. Is be ," said The old man well,
he was a very old OK Take of his hide and
send 1t down 10 Fietchei's. il is worth cash
and will bring more than two of the others
1 Hereupon his wife VINO was very pious soul,
taking upon herself the Officr OF klphaz, re-
minded her husband very seFerelyoi his sins,
and asked him If he was not aware that his
loss was The Judgment OF Heaven for has
u;ckssn.ss as il ?" said the old fellow :;
~.rsl. If fEey .riH take The Judgment an cat-
,,e. II rs the easiest iray I can pay at
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WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 1864.

THF COURSE AND CONDUCT OF THE WAR.
A wise maxim of the greatest General OF
antiquity prescrihes that We should esteem
nothing done till all is done but it is prob
able that its intent is rather to point out the
Danger Of that indolent dwelling on the deeds
Of the past, which shuts out Of view the du-
ties and demands of the present, than to
discourage especially when great task is
laid upon nation) such retrospect Of what
las already been ccompshed as will inspire
courage for carrying it through to the end.
The country has lately passed through that
;-yag experience which history shows is
she 70 come upon a people plunged into
gregt war--a period when. the first popular
-0'aus;a m having died out, the burdens and
=, heredvemeuts cf the war are brought
s-ehly home to all. and reaction OF general
dependency results. In this mood of the
public mind men forget that, while they have
suffered, the .nemp also has suffered in al
et4. or even greater degree, and that, too
perhaps, without the same ability to sustain
t, 0sses they forget, while dwelling on
!asIr own defeats, that every victory they
have won has been an equally sore defeat to
lhe enemy. When this time comes, then
comes the test Of the mett!e OF a people. |!
weak, they sink under it; but the great
minded rise up stronger for the ordeal.
There is no higher duty, therefore, thar
!or patriotic men to fortify themselves and
others by the consideration of all the ee
nsnts of hope and confidence which retro
s'ect of past progress and survey of the
present. situation inspire. Such a survey
llStJties the conclusion that the end of the
|ar-the crushing of the armed forces of ths
rebe.lion-is not only not far of, but that i
s near at hand.
Il will show the outlines of war cont
mental in ts proportions, waged on theatre
equal to the size of all Europe.
l. VII show armies the greatest the worlt
ever saw, raised and sustained by the spon
ta"'"aS patriotism Of fee people.
II VIII show how, " the progress of ou
arms Ihs area of the rebellion has, step b.
step, been sAoFa Of three fourths Of its pro
portions.
1t will show the insurgent territory cut o
from communication with the outside worl
by a blockade which dNarfs anv on record
and at the sans time he most perfect Of an
On record.
It will show how every stronghold on y,
coast has either been captured, or is no.
1osey invested.
Il will show the interior of this territol
c4t up by our great lines Of conquest, bisec
ti .a,erally and longitudinally, and the d
n.lion Of the CoRfederacy left kingdom
'1r~1s and patches.
Il will show a succession Of battles of c
'ossaI magnitude, in thres-fourths of whi'
TIE Onlon arms have triumphed, and all
"alch, whether victories or reverses, in
purely military point of view, have redoun
sd 10 the advance of the great cause.
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~ar TOR more than thirty years." 1t is a
thread-bare story how Buchanan's infamou.
secretary had, for the last twelve months of
that administration, bent all his energie. to
furnish forth the rebels with all they needed
for their premeditated treason. Itisa mat
ter of official record that by the robbery of
forts and arsenals, and by purchase from
abroad, Floyd had distributed at various
convenient points throughout the South,
100000 stands of arms and 100000 revol-
vers. Even before Mr.. Lincoln's inaupura.
ton there were 10000 men nder arms in
the South; and two days after that inaugu-
ration the Confederate Congress passed
bill to raise an army of 100000 men. And
this, bear in mind, was at time when the
United States Government had not under its
control an organized force of 5000 men.
10 enhance the difficulty of the task i'm
posed on the Administration, the theory of
the war into which it was driven by the very
nature OF the contest, was that of the Often
sive. Now military history is replete with
illustrations of the enormou. advantage
which people has when able to stand at bay
covering its own communications and hold
ing interior lines) and await in chosen posi-
tions the attacks of the enem5.
[Chapter Ill gives graphic account Of
the great uprising of the people after Sumter
was bombarded- estimating the number Of
men in arms under all calls to be one million
and a half-or three times as many as the
French raised during their great revolution.
Chapter " gives a history of the first year
of the war, which was mostly Bull Run ard
Mcclellan sitting idle before Washington
with an army of 100000 men, completely
headed off by the wooden guns at Manassas.
The writer next comes to
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securing battle asg. For quite while af-
Ter charges and cOuntercharges we're made
on ho'h sid.s. in which ue battle a,ss
.-ps t, -, ~

f'' a.. -.t--.s -, g. E.rsa
-A'silii DIVISION iyo1. ,l., mt L..
OF our cavalry line hitched ON To the lefr of
the infantry ine-Crook's ts,hl oorps Con.
slant fighting, charging. &c, then became
frequent all along The line.
At one and the same lime Schoonmalsr's
brigade of Are-ilrs division charged and
took high hill (fortifed) in view of the
town tof Winchester Powell's brigade of
Averill's division was making and receiving
charges under very heavy fire from Fort
Jackson, one Of the forts around Winchester
and the main one; Wier's 9TH United States
artillery was engaged in shelling a rebel bat
'ery out of redoubt in front of Winchester,
10 she left of the pike; Merritt's division was
keeping up heavy demon stration on the
let OF the pike, and slightly to the left of the
reoouot referred TO above Crooks corps was
advancing and attacking the rebel field batter
les on the opposite side of Red Buo creek ;
Emorys corps was pouring rapid fire in on
the left of CroOke; Wright's corps was doing
the same thing on the left of Emory, and VIII
sons cavalry cutting in towards the enemy's
rear, far to the other side of the Berryyille
pike. Before night Early had left Winches-
ter, retreating on the Strasburg road with
our victorious troops in close pursuit.
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An AMENDMENT PROPosEp. The New
York Tribune says that the following mes
sage was sent from tina, city by awar demo
crat, after he had read the platform OF the
democratic national convention:
Hon. James Guthrie Amend your res
oiutions by adding one apologizing to JEFF.
Davis and his bloody cOnspirators for orr
conduct toward them, and al viii be COM
ple,e.
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VIII.

GROUNDS OF COURAGE AND CONFIDENCE.
After such a glorious retrospect of the
glorious achievements of our army and navy,
have We not a right to ask, with much en-
phasis, Of those who complain of the slow
progress Of the war, and fear its indefinite
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WY e ~ ""o y! ehe uaSnlncent series
OF successes that illustrated the Spring o.
1862, that the rebel line on stretch Of ove,
five hundred miles was pushed back front he
Ohio to the Cumberland, and the whole stat.
Of Kentucky and third of Tennessee were
recovered to the dominions of the Union.
Simultaneous with these operations the
waters of the Mississippi were lit up by the
splendors Of Farragut's astonishing ccmba,
below New Orleans with the forts, eunboats,
steam-rams, floating batteries, 6re-rafts, OBJ.
structions, ,booms and chains which the rebels
had prepared for the defence of the grea,
metropolis of the gulf, ending in the fall of
that city, which capture the London Times
doubling, with its usual eynicism, its posi-.
bility, had declared would be putting the
tourniquet on the main artery of the Confed.
eracy."
After their retreat from Columbus, the re.
bells under Polk took up a position on the
Mississippi, at Island No. Ten. This strong
hold was able for many weeks to hold out
against all the operations directed against it,
till finally the gunboats ran the gauntlet of
the batteries and the stronghold, with hun
dred heavy guns, fell into our hands. From
this point fell back to Memphis, only to be
compelled to abandon that city, which in
June following came under control of the
Union forces.
After the retreat Of the central army of the
rebellion from Nashville, it took up strong
ly fortified position a Corinth, under Beaure-
gard. There he was besieged by the Union
army under Halleck, whose siege operations,
pushed on to such point as to make the
capture OF the whole force matter of high
probability, compelled the evacuation Of this
position also.
The result of the victories of 1862 was
thus:to leave the situation in this gratifying
position:
Butler was at New Orleans, Curtis was
pushing his way to Little Rock, the capital
of Arkansas, the chief points on the coast
were in our hands, Haleck was at Corinth.
the Union flag waved overMemphis and Nash
vile, while Mitchell in Alabama was advan-
cling from victory to victory.
This was glory enough for one year; for il
We turn our eye to the theatre Of war in the
East, We are presented with the spectacle of
a campaign toward Richmond, in which the
finest qualities of heroism in the army, gain
ing victories wherever it met the armed enc
my, and driving him back to his capital,were
neautraized and rendered frui,less by the
imbecility of its head. Turning upon McClel-
Ian, Lee terminated the offensive campaign
by himself assuming the initiative, and carry
ing his army for the frs, time into the terri
tory of the loyal States. The issue was at
length tried out at An,ietam, where the alb
sence Of directing generalship could not pre-
vent our soldiers winning a victory of which
their Commander had not the capacity to
take advantage. Nevertheless, the first in
vasion of the rebels ended disas:rousy by
their retreat into Virginia.
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THE THIRD YEAR OF THE wAR-THE BATTLE
SUMNER.

SUMNER.
The frs. day of the third year of the war
US63) was signalized by the battle Ct Stone
River or Murireesboro, fought by Gen. ROsess
Grams on the Union sice, and by Bragg on
the part of the rebels. The most desperate
battle of the war up to thai period, it insug
urated the army in Murfreesboro, with the
prodiglous loss to the enemy of IA $50 men.
This was to be followed up from this base by
brilliant campaign in Tennessee, destined
to culminate in the possession of Chatta-
nooga, which had long been recognized by
military heads as the key to the whole the
atre of war in the West.
In the meantime Gen. Grant was drawing
his lines of investment, around the last great
stronghold of the rebels off the Mississippi,
at Vicksburg. After many attempts against
this point, he finally, BY an audacious stroke
of strategy, unparalleled save by Napoleon's
passage of the Splugen, crossed his army over
the Mississippi at Grand Gulf and, dividing
the army of Johnston from the possibility of
reinforcing the garrison atVicksburg,beat the
rebels in half dozen battles, and ended by
throwing his army as besieging force around
this position. The siege Ct Vicksburg will
take its place in history as among the most
wonderful engineering operations on record.
1t was crowned by its unconditional surreI-
der on the 4th Of July, with 1920 prisoners
and 234 guns. At the same time the garri-
son at Port Hudson surrendered to General
Banks, thus adding 1000 prisoners and 4O
pieces of artillery to the account. The effect
of these two victories was to restore the ma
tional authority along the whole vast stretch
of the Mississippi, and that great continental
highway was thrown open to its embouchure
in the Gulf of Mexico.
At the very time that the right wing o.
our immense line of battle, stretching from
the Potomac to the Mississippi, was thus en-
gagged, its left wing-the army of the Poto
mac-was maneuyering to meet Lees secont
invasion of the loyal States. The rebel arm!
was brought to bay at length at Gettysburg
where three days's battle, the most collos
sal of the war, was fought, ending in the ut
ter defeat of Lee, who was faiD again tt
make good bis retreat into Virginia, with
. loss of 90, 900 in killed and wounded and 6,
900 prisoners.
The centre of Our great line, held by Gen
, Rosecrans, was at the same time on the ad
rance. By magnificent series of fankin
: movements, that Commander drove BrasI
g from his two powerfully intrenehed position
at shelbyville and Tulahoma, and iadvancin
2 from this point, planted his army, at on
: splendid stroke, in the central citadel Of tn
t South-Cbattanooga.
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From the New York Times.
TIE WAR FOR THE UNION,
Military Operations of the Armies
Of the United States.
The Struggles ana Triumphs of Our Sol.
diers and Sailors.

ne FIRST. SECOND, THIRD AND FOURTH YEARS
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