Year: 1861

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tives are not flung back into slavery at the
South, 1t is significantly noted that they
are not given their freedom, nor treated
as men, but are condemned to labor under
the category of articles contraband of war
Every mail is now watched with intense
/ anxiety Many persons still believe that
there will be no actual war, but that a
/ compromise disastrous to freedom is to be
framed The action of Congress, men
/ fear, will not be favorable to freedom.
THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR


The conviction is general that the only
possibility of success for the Government
and people of the United States in the
war, should it be CARED on, is to make it in
behalf Of justice and of Gods law for the
oppressed. Otherwise, the North will be
disastrously beaten, and will deprive them
selves Of the good will of other nations in
the conflict, and in the end lose even the
patriotic object they propose to themselves
in regard to the Union and their own lib
critics. For the time has come when God
Will demonstrate, on large scale, the
question so often put to us: &c If ye have
not been faithful in that which is another
mans, who shall give you that which is
your own?" If the United States show no
sympathy in behalf of the enslaved, but
conspire to keep them still in bondage.
how can they expect Great Britain or any
other Government or power to feel or ex-
hlbit any sympathy for the United Statesf


a Peep into the War Department.


A correspondent of the New York Hoa7d
gives the following description Of move
ments in the various bureaus of the War
Department at Washington. After speak
ing OF the quiet and gloom which usually
pervade the war office in time of peace,
while all is hustle and activity in the civil
departments of the Government, he says:
When battle Is upon US, however, the war
office eclipses its rivals and becomes the
centre of affairs. And never SO much as
now; since never before has it ruled
campaign so wide, yet so close at hand,
demanding such resources and growth of
the army, and so transforming US from
commonplace to military people. The
change which in an instant came over tha
lethargic old office, when the first shrill
blast of rebellion rang through the land,
was as great as that which awoke The
sleeping Palace, when ''the fatal fairy
prince y wound the mystic bugle and broke
the charm of Merlin's hundred years.


" The charm snapt,


There a noise of striking clocks,


And feet that ran, and doors that clapt,


And barking dogs and growing cocks


A fuller light illumined all,


A breeze through all the garden swept,


A sudden hubbub shook the hall,


And sixty feet the fountain leaptH'


Nor is the change confined to the build
ing known, par eminence, as the war Office!
| Opposite to its western end, across the
street, are three houses, formerly private
mansions, now devoted to department. bus
mess, and at the present time 5ustling
with activity. TIE largest, called, Win
der's Building" is occupied by Colonel
Ripley, chief of the bureau of Odinance;
Col. B, T. Larned, Paymaster General
Major Finley, Surgeon General; General
Totten, Chief Of the Engineering Bureau;
Colonel Albert, Chief of the Typographical
Department; with their multitudinous as
sistants and clerks. The edi6ce is a comb
of military honey. From it exude all sorts
of orders for shot, she'll, guns, Paixans,
Dahlgreens, and Petards, pay, plans, roads
and hospitable supplies. Next door are
the headquarters of General Mansfield,
chief Of the Department of Washington.
Business commences here long before the
red tapists get to work Of mornings in the
war office itself; in fact it never ceases by
day or night The sun is not long up be-
fore Mansfield, who stands so high in the
confidence of the army, is az his desk,
ccurteously bowing his white hairs to those
who come for passes and protection, and
receiving reports from, and giving orders
to, hundreds Of spruce young officers who
ride clattering up to the door. A dozen
of their horses are always standing in front
Of these quarters, gay with trappings and
fresh from the outposts of those purple
Virginia hills across the Potomac Not so
many crowd to the building still further
along its entry is sacred, not to be trod-
den by every epauletted youth, for it leads
to the 50 Headquarters Of the Army of the
United States" and the rooms Of Lieut.
Gen. Scott himself People have already
heard of the late and early labors of the
veteran. Cabinet officers defer to his
knowledge and fame. The President HIM
self can receive no more respect Some
times the old lion rises to his feet, and
walks slowly from his lair to council with
the Secretary of War in the latter's own
apartments; but more often the minister
compliments tie years and greatness of the
soldier by paying the visit himself and
matters of grave and thoughtful import
follow the greetings of each day.


THE LoUIsIANANs DON'T LIKE Ir-Tha
New Orleans papers of the 25th betray
good deal Of uneasiness, if not of alarm, at
the audaGity of the ''Lincolnites' in coming
so near them with their ships Of war. A
few days ago the blockade cut off their
communication with Mobile, and now they
cannot even communicate with Texas, an
a ship Of war, mounting eight guns, (name
not mentioned is showing her teeth at
the mouth Of Burwck's Bay, Gan inlet of
the Atchafalaya-) Up to this time tbere
has been a line Of steamers plying regularly
bo4,roor, Parrri.lv o,l Ga1xoctor o~xo.