, 1864-06-21


car,hworks on either side. Besides, this
would neccsaltate his forcing passage Of the
C1ickahotufny at Rottom's Bridge. which
was found to be impossible. or at least to In
volve euch q loss Of lifc as would make the
ate with its cost Gen. G1aut crossed below
Fort Darling, es my man with grain ofmil-
itary experience might have expected.
In the meantime, Generals Hunter, Aver1u,
and Crook, and, It is also supposed, General
shs1aan aye evns the rebels gssSat dsal
beside intlfctlng irreparable damage upon
their railroads. factories, mills, &C. Lee has
been compelled to detnch 8 force to rout
them, or at least hastily collect the militia
Of the district to prevent their penetrating
east Of the mountains. Gen. Hunter Is on q :
bis success SO far proves that he is 1.-The
right man in the right placer
CONGRESSIONAL.
Since my last regret that tho joint reso-
luton providing for nn amendment to the
Constitution, abollshing slavery, has been
pected By me. The copperheads voted
against it in body, % knew they would.
Why, what would be their occupation were
slavery deetroyeds Some very ablespeeches
were made in favor Of the resolution, among
them one by Hon. E. G; IngeIsoll, OF MI
was Mr.: 1ngersolps maiden effort In the
House, and was delivered {not ready with e1-
cellent effect. hlr. 1neersol1 has splendid
face, and his action and the spirit which he
threw into his subject attracted all present.
Every thing was stilled in the hall, and Nil
listened nttentively during Its delivery. A.
the close the speaker received the congritu-
1atiops Of members from both sides of The
House. and d large number Of copies were
taken by members for distribution. The
Illinois Lincoln Club Of this city has sub
scribcd for ten thousand copies.
Yesterday Mr.. Washburne's amendment to
the stocks OF whisky On hand was defeated
in the House by twelve majority. The spec.
ulators proved too strong for the honorable
member from Illinois, who is their great bug
bear. understand that even If more votes
were necessary to defeat the amendment
they could have been obtained. In tue SEN
amecdment, probably because there were
fewer members In that body upon which to
operate.
stranger story day Or two since. There Is
proposition before Congress to pay certain
individual large sum OF money US bonus
for a very useful scientific discovery. learn
that this proposition has great strength IN
Congress-, because the man who is to get the
donation 'is to pay large part Of It over TO
certain corporation to indemnify them for q
large robbery committed sometime since by
one Of its employees, and for whom this do
nation man in expectancy was in some way
or other security.
TIE THREE HUNDRED DOLLAR CLAUSE
Will not be stricken out. thiuk you may
set this down us certain. The Copperheads.
now vote in body against striking 1t out,
and enough Union men will 60 with them to
Kill the motion. It Is proposed instead Of
striking it out, to cali out one hundred day
or Elk months men, fixing rate of bounty.
TIE CoPrERnEADs AND THE CHICAGO con-
yENTloN.
The distress among the copperhcads re-
speeding their candidate at Chicago ts very
great. Twelve days ago Grant would have
been the man. He Is now considered mn
valuable, and the eastern wing of the party
has returned to Mcclellan. its t. first love-"
Mcclellan and Guthrie is the ticket Of the
New York. Democracy, headed BY August
Belmont. But they anticipate much trouble
| from the Wcsto n or peace branch Of the fam
| lily, which is really opposed to the war or to
any man who has shed blood In it. Sam Cox
| holds up his head again and asserts TINT slit
| tic Mac" has the inside trsck.
| vALLANDIGuAA RETURNED.
But new element has entered into the
ca cult tion, much to the apparent disgust Of
val!apdigGam TO Ohio. Coz, Voorhees, and
some Of the Illinois s'tlsh5" democrats
| swear like .sour army in Flanders at the
great aeitator. They assert that he has taken
| this step without CONSULTATION with them;
In fact they accuse him and Fernando Wood
of entering into compact with "Old Abe
for the deteat OF the party; they add that
Val1andigham has had intimation from the
President, that he might come back If he
choose and he would not be interfercd with.
In short they positively denounce his advent
as trick to defeat the democratic party: Now,
l aa-.A III ,o1 xSf Il tnrP nj
the "grent martyr" mean, shabby, sneak
ing way. Bill Morrison, Bill Allen, Sam
Cox, and others Of that kidney, may trJ to
make believe that Mr.. Lincoln has had any
thing 10 du with the banfshed rebels re
turn, but the people won't believe them
Bnt the elephant means to present himself H
trunk and ill, to the managers Of the Chica
80 concern. The question Is: Wll they DART
ignore the "noblest Roman Of them ALL"
t1ow not Tour correspondent, month";
since, predicted the return of Val1andighem
The whole afIair is plot OF the peace WIN!
of tho party, to get up "a t3sa In the rear II
aid of The rebels.
OUR WOUNDED.
regret to say that among our Woundst 5s
here great mortality hus broken OUT An'
deaths average sixty day. Az that ca a
should be removed to more eai99rions ~: q.
.. phoid fever accompanied by dysentery) i
carrying off great many, and has eVe'
stized Upon the hospital attendants and som
OF the lady nuzsos. Shocking to state som
ct the wounded in the battles Of the Wilder
! ness last month hobb1ed into Alexandria
! few days since, having walked all the way Of
: : improTised crutches, &c. But the most hol
rjole part of 1t Is that many died on the baf
tie field of want Of care, md 1t is even charge
Of absolute starvation. Who Is to blame 10
this shocking state Of thingsg
RATIFICATION MEETING.
: A very fine ratification meeting was bel
) night. The Office was splendidly illuminate
4 and decorated with banners, DC. Anon
The epeakera were: Judge Edmunds, Of Mfcl
4 gan; Judge Kelly, Of Pennsylvania Ex. Go,
Randall, Of Wisconsin; DEMO. (the 1liino]
g brick layer; Senator Lane OF Indiana; Ao1
]. ", Patterson and others, There WEI
| anme ten fbongand neople present. Il.