Year: 1862

By reference to our telegraphic column, it will be seen that Jackson and Joe Johnston have each driven tbe enemy before them. Gen. Johnston has given Mcclellan most serious check at Rich- mond, while old Stonewall Jackson has utterly de- stroved the grand army under Banks, and followed up his success by all invasion of Maryland. Again we hear the cry at the north that Washington is in danger-Jackson is seriously threatening to cap ture it.

 It is hardly possible to calculate the effects of these successes. Flushed with victory, Gen. Jackson's army has broken into Maryl land where it will meet with friendly reception and large Inducements. All Maryland will rise and join him, and not an opposing obstacle exists between him and the federal capital. The call for new re- cruits and the militia of the northern States not be responded to in time to save it, while Gen. Johnston is pressing Mcclellan so hardly that it will be impossible for him to send It relief. Me Cleans army in front of Richmond is in that po- stion that it must be victorious, it will be de- stroyed. It can never retreat--t cannot even spare endorsements for Washington city. Me Clean with all of his vast numbers and boasted preparations, has met an opposition in his march to Richmond too stubborn to be overcome. De feat, the total loss of his army, and irretrievabe ruin now stare him in the face. It is impossible, except by divine interpositon, that he can ever recover from the check his main army has received before Richmond, and the total overthrow and de struction of his right wing under Banks. The blow would be staggering one to a general of more ability and resources than Mcclellan possesses.

 The question with the North now is, where to obtain force sufficient to oppose the victorious march of the indomitabe Jackson. Mcclellan is too closely pressed by Johnston to spare any of his troops and Halleck is too far distant to send relief in time. The only resource of the federal go- vel nment now lies in the recruits and militia of the States, and, in their present unorganized, undscipined and unarmed conditOn the opposi- ton they could make, supposinG they could be col would be feeble and unavaling before the veterans under Jackson, animated as they are with victory and burning desire to avenge the wrongs of their country. Besides, Washington is surrounded by country friendly to Jackson, and bitterly hostile to the federal government. Maryland has been kept under only by the bristling bayonets of a powerful force Her people have chated under the cruel restraints and prosecutions to which they have been subjected, and have always shown an eager ness to rise and throw of yoke so galling. A more gallant or patriotic people than those ol Maryland do not exist upon the globe, and Gen Jackson will receive at their hands g warm vel come and powerful support. We cannot put il up otherwise than that Washington and Baltimore and, as a consequence, the State of Maryland must speedily be wres.ed from the federal govern ment, ard subjected to Confederate authority-a consummation most deyoutly to be wished.

 The gloom and darkness of the night are past and the clear, bright rays of glorious day begin to appear. Our cause is upward and onward. Oul march to victory will henceforh be uninterrupted Our enemy are disprited and dishealted, and theil | power is broken. They have ta3ked their i'm mense resources to the utmost, they have raised fabulous armies for the field, and they have ever whelmed their government in debt, and yet they | have made no advance whatever towards sulu gation of the South. Our people are as deter mined and defiant now as a. the beginning anC our armies are threatening the capture of theii capital.

 But with all of this brsh. picture before us, wC must neither give up tie contest or ilaS in ou efforts. Let every regiment be at once recruited to it's full compliment of men, and let every ctizeI put his shoulder to the wheel With one might, and united effort by our people, and we will con quer peace in less than ninety days. Let ever, man in the Confederacy now do his duty, and pu forth his strength, and our dsenthrallment iron the yoke the northern vandals would impose upol Us will be speedily and forever secured.