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VOL. 1. The Great Union Victories. [From the N. Y. Tribune, Oct. 15th]. * The returns of Tuesday's State Elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa are all alike. All these States but Iowa went opposition last fall; all of them now go Union. In Indiana, only County officers were chosen ; but the result is such as to leave no room for doubt that, if her Members of Congress had been chosen this year instead of last, the Unionists would have had seven or eight of the eleven instead of four. Iowa is of course all right?more so than ever before?and Pennsylvania, though desperately contested by the Copperheads, who have polled immense majorities in all their strongholds, has still gone Union by an ample majority. Gov. Curtin is re-elected over "Woodward by a majority ranging)' from ten to twenty thousand. Judge Lowrie (Dem.) is beaten and succeeded on the Supreme Bench by Daniel Agnew, of Beaver County, who was assailed as having voted for Negro Suffrage in the Constitutional Convention of 1837-8 ; and wo have no doubt that the Legislature Is 2.I30 right. Had the Soldiers been at home Curtiu's majority must have exc^Br ed fifty thousand. S Tiie Ohio result surprises us laws overTvas a more arduous or diligent canvass than that made in behalf of Vallandigham. Wo knew that the Soldier voto would beat hici?as it would that of a Copperhead candidate for Governor in any loyal .State?but a majority of fifty thousand toiiJioul tho soldier vote is an astonislier. "Peace" candidates are henceforth at a discount in the States which ad lore to the Union, as aspirants will henceforth understand. Yul.'s-martyrdom is a lesson which all who run may read and will heed. Fellow countrymen! the American Union is fully resolved not to give up the ghost. It will not commit s.if side to please anybody. If anybody fancies it wiii. let him just mount the Valiaud'ghsro plat.01 :i and run for older anvwhere. One o::perli n:t lit wiii: ati'Oy him. [l'ro:. tLu '?*. V. ITcral;! I'-iV . 1 The general results of ill ;i o.ir \y\7i \ an-: Ohio if vti- ns ar> s'ynl e.xnt, important ar.cl highly cncoyj-Hng to tl.e::a tiosal cans'*, an I crpeciui y iha myO.de, dec. Ivc and overwhelms ? i ;iion v.ftjry in Ohio. 6 * The issue in that Sfate yon distinctly \ 1 * it t t% i ' : nt . . an i 7i?. voi* jir. been in any layftl Shite an is sic more i fcirJy :iud unequivocally presented t.> the people than that 1^t.veen ^nhn Br ya^rr and Clement L. VaSabdighiim, the one as the war candidate, f*tho other as Ihe. jjeaee candidate, for Governor. The. result in both.Ohio and Pennsylvania rc-affirms the fixed resolve of the loyal States to subdue the armed forces of the rebellion by force of awns ; to furnish the adininistaalion all thgynen. money and materials required to do this work, and to cast out all political factionists who stand in the way. The administration is thus encouraged to push on the war with renewed energy, East and "West, by land and water; and let it not fail to meet the expectations of th? people, that the war is now to be brought to a speedy conrdasiort and a glorious peace. rT\.?~ V V Thn^ 1 IV1U VUC 4l, A. A VVV. 4</tU.J The result in Ohio and Pennsylvia ought to give faction its final quietus all through the North. The canvass was conducted on different grounds in the two States, and alike thoroughly in both. Its similar termination in both ought to be taken \ as a demonstration that the struggle of the Northern malcontents is as futile as ' the struggle of the Southern rebels. If | any additional proof is needed, New York j wil! soon furnish it in a shape' that will! satisfy the most incredulous. But the man must be stone-blind who cm mot dis?eover already that Copperhradism has had its day. T;.i:o what form it may, the pro3>Ie recognise h, ami pat rim::* had upon THE FREE SOUTH, SATUB Cotton! Cotton!! Free Cotton!!! Not King Cotton. We believe that now we can truthfully assure our readers that the great question of cotton and freedom is solved. It has been demonstrated that they can grow and develope in harmony. It will be remembered that last February or March the Sea Island Cotton lands were, for the first time, opened up to free and unre strained labor inspired by private enterprize. . This opportune experiment was afforded through the tax sale of rebel lands, and among the many fortunate adventurers, (if so they may be called) was our friend Bobbins, who purchased a plantation and has spared no pains to tost the correctness of his judgment and the efficiency of his plans. Behold the result! we yesterday saw the first bale of cotton (we believe) ever produced by free labor on the " Sea Islands," of world-wide celebrity. "We examined it carefully, and its long silken fibre, its snow white purity, its delicate, almost volatile, material commanded our / admiration. Tjjis^ootton is the first sample>*f f/?e production, raised by cheerful f^wcat, on the brow of paid laborers. Mr. Bobbins planted broadly, and is harvesting abundantly. ?3 Bmrror.t, S. C., Oct. 22, 13G3. Mn. Editor :?Are we, who are anxiaiicIv ntruifinnr flin > nf fnn T. I 'UU1J l?1f W?4V> KVblW V/X ll*C 1 J. I I I li | Commissioners,. to l>e victimize,! again, (and the government itself swindled as well,) by seeing the sale deferred until all cliancc of a cro)> of cotton next season is forever gone ? CiTlcs, such are the beauteous prospects to-day. Cannot the necessary advertisement be prepared, and, while it is doing its legal work of sixty days in print, let the surveyors do their work, and thus give \ all who wish to become settler* on tin.so i lands, enriching the world and ' her.iuhves, j as well as directing the labor of a large number of lYeeiiiuen, buddiug the latter comfortable hous > hv.? in, ei*, sj..ic sort of clianco to I d), r intjiligen'iy. Last Spring <::hv .- be it :.uc, ii wis : given owner.. Lo pr< p .r : hub fo- I nHDhsi". iimnrj ;,t. cit vntl t ' tedious, thus ret udicg rv- ,?is . t .? > \i;z- jj cyvmoa of LuiVb i . a.', an ;ro- i I (liicln^a on:-thir.] era . an| i L numerous pv.ua:. in bred, jfe might bo J I i . o 'viUi'iuii .y 'y i.,! i iifi 'V. : <l.: s v'.V.'.'JC.i oi'.r C- t.u 1 SiWiUC Wi'c.lS sillC.'t plVCC i 1 V.'II? :t , mir.g ''mt, :? !?;,;> r the town ; j on 4J:? lip-toe of exneaUtayr, i? C tylwro ; ! is the ;uh\^\.?cmeut V Sixty days mu'.t i before a single farm can be sold. I I 'wj are to wait till spring is upon us, i j Government receives ie:;? than half as j i much money from its sales and loss oc- j L curs 0:1 every hand. Sarely. a little en-! I ergy iu this matter can properly be dp- j innmlcd by a tax-paying community, ' v.hich includes every man north?dwelling I | there or here. Pirn uoso Posltoo. j We.cannot enlighten our coirospondent 1 on tliir: subject any further than to state that one of the Commissioners, (Judge Smith,) ivrived here in the early part of September, but has been unable to pro- j cccd with the business connected with : the commission, on occount of the continued absence of the two other Commission era When a quorum shah be at their post of duty tlic work will probably go on. Ita^Lieut. -CoL Ulysses DoubleJay, brother of Major General Donblcday, of Fort Sumter fame, has been assigned by the War Department to the command of the 3d U. S. colored troops, at Morris Island, and has joined his regiment Col, D. is an accomplished artillerist, and Ins ap- . pointmeut will give general satisfaction. , r r .. fi?** It appjars that the rebel steamer E. E. L"je, now at Halifax, with several officers of the rebel navy, on their way to England to bring out the vessels building ' there, did not mako her escape from Wilmington withoutsome danger. She was . discovered and drcd into bv two o: onr biocfcaders. One shell passed into her j and exploded forward, doing some dam- ' age and wounding three of the crew. J A sistcr-io-law of e:*-ri:rih.il liene, of oiltirori, has be e tu-.l'wod ron:':, bavin:; 1 Ikvu tictcetod in corr.v <ending with the ; " dels. : DAY, OCTOBER 2*, 1863. Important from tbc Soudiuext. Memphis, Oct. 12, 1863. Forces of rebel cavalry and artillery, reported at from eight to fifteen thousand strong, have been threatening the Mem phis and Charleston Railroad for some days. Gen. Hurlbut's forces have been constantly skirmishing with them, defeating every attempt to do serious damage. Buggies, Chalmers and Lee are said to be in command under Joe Johnston. On Sunday morning several culverts were destroyed in the vicinity of Germantown and Collierville. At ten A. M. an attack was made by Chalmers with cavalry and artillery, reported five thousrnd strong, upon the garrison at Collierville (consisting of the Sixty-sixth Indiana infantry) driving them into their fortifications and burning their cantonments. During the fight Major General Sherman and staff, with a detachment of the Thirteenth regulars, arrived upon the train, en route to Corinth. They disembarked, engaged the enemy, and repulsed him with heavy loss. The regulars lost nine killed, twentyseven wounded, and niue missing. Col. Anthony's loss was about the same number. or two of his picket posts were j captured before the fight GenCarr, Swopny and Hatch are pursuing the retreating rebels toward the Tallahatchie river, and will punish them severely. The railroad is repaired and trains passed to-day. Iro:u .Uft??ourf. ? Sr. Louis, Oct. Id, 1853. J Dispatches from the western part of the ! state represent that Shelby's rear was j overtaken on Monday, near Coonevillo. ! and a running light kept up for several . mil^s. rcsnltincrin the death of many rebels. I Oil Monday night an artillery light o> | <r.invd at Dag Ford, in which tlio rebels were defeated, wir.li a loss of twenty killed, j The rebel?t!*>n divided into four squads ?one going towards Lexington, an ither j toward Scdulia, and the other two on the j intervening rn.uls. Gen. Brown was light- j iug the S. .alia squad, Phillips .an I Rose w?-ro going towir.l Lexington, .and M.ajor I Laur i'i the centre. Colfey is reported | bad!'.' WOia ldd. Toe -f'oel.j plundered everybody 111 f jj 'V ie. an 1 stole all the liors -s along ? K> . e, ! v.vlny none for oar troops V dl-vVe'i Iron Gen. Brown, dated "'a ': L.dino e. ii'Uy, PV'ihis!., sa\*s: A hoar's ligV, we have whippy i ; I . 1c >tnrii:g t 'ie:r art ilery, a large <if ...nail an..a, p .rt o. their train, ' a id k !'.ir; a Dry. nu.r.ber. * Dtvub.v.e? say thai Brown's foree is ' j> .rsii.ng te. 1 r n.x.s .11 a.I directions on do-i'L b?.-lie the buttle. Oar casualties. are unknown, Insportou. .tL/.t ?...i.. a. ' St* Arm j, * KnoxviL .ll, Get. 11. l-'ih Gee, Burnsi.'e a lv; need toward Green- , vilio along i'.in !h* of the Gasfc Tomirssee [ and Virgin! 1 Railroad. during Thursday i and Friday. He overtook rue rebel force under MuIw.vi oaelxsoa and Gen. V.hl- ! liams on Saturday morning at Blue Spring, j ?i .. ... A n._ XT:..AI. .,..0 'P...U ?!. ' V/iUTi* :: ij; ..iiiiu <vua j. ?v.-i. . :i ^ corps engaged in skirmishing with thy enemy daring the d or. The rebels occupied a strong position ? covered i>v the wo j,Is and undergro ~th outside the village^ to the oa.stw.ir 1. Ha was suppose:! to number :it least six thous v.M Our cavalry held the advance until tbive. P. iM., when the First division, under Gen. Fervero. several times charged tire rebels. Tiic firing w;u sharp and somewhat destructive to our men. The rebels used only one bactery. They were driven from the field at sundown, but darkness rendered pursuit impossible. We have lost some sixty in killed and wounded. Gen. Burnsiae is pursuing the retreating rebed force. Everything looks encouraging in East Tennessee. The weather is very fine. Tub Americay Harvest.?Wo hear nothing to discourage our previous prospects of great abundance of all the necessaries of life this year iu oil the loyal States. The great Western corn crop, though light iu some localities, on the whole is a good one, while iu this State and adjoining ones, and indeed all over New England, corn never promised better. Hay, on the whoF, is not as light a crop as was anticipated, and the autumn J feed is excellent, insuring plenty of meat, < butter and che- w. Wheat, rye un l oats wo know aro all sulneieut !'?t tiio coantry, niil great crops of baekwheat aud turnips re now growing liceiy. Apples are no.' plenty, b;is snfi-rient. Potatoes :;:j goa- < /r.:.'y goo 1.? 7r r. \iUS * -j il 1 vy a ravelin* (??:V. 1 o :o Aip'.tj r. t 1 '.!: .ail. iii 4 HvJ NCX 42. Would not sit with a inairou.?A few /Iawa AM/V A 1/I Tf ?t*na 4/\ / lUftjo IOAIJ na>cuu^ w v>iocuuiuf Ohio, in the cars, when a man took a seat by her side and commenced a conversation, during which he said he was going to a Vallandigham meeting, and gave utterance to many copperhead sentiments in relation to the war. When the conductor passed through the car the lady stopped him and asked him to remove the man from the seat. Said she, " I have two sons in Rosecrans's army, who may .. have both been killed by this time, and I will not sit in the same seat with a man who says that the cause in which my boys are fighting is unholy, abominable and atrocious. I cannot sit with a traitor." On Tuesday, 6th inst., a laughable incident occurred among the working party in Fort Gregg. A certain John Merrick, of Company D, 67th Ohio Vols., in the act of trundling a wheelbarrow full of sond, had his equipage smashed and splintered into firewood by a falling fragment of a shell from a rebel gun. Shaking a liandle of the barrow shillelah-wise in the direction of Fort Moultrie, John exclaimed: "Bad luck to yes, ye ill-mannered tliaves 1 ye can't do that same again. If ye think ye can, shoot over a new wheelbarrow, and nieself will stand here to resave it!" Admiral Porter hns issued a very stringent order, with the view o? jfrotcciing the government vessels an l other pro;nr.y from fire by the incendiaries. Strict guards are to be k ?pt, aud all sentinels aud watchmen to be*armed with muskets and revolvers. Tugs arc constantly pos$ting in the harbor, If - Gen. Foster Alports as the r^:if^>! th# recent expedition uuder Geu. Wistu* after guerrillas iu Matthews county, Va., the destruction of about 15'J boat* and schooners, the capture of eighty head of beef cattle bound to Richmond, aud four rebel officers and twenty men made prisoners. A substitute w is bought in Portland on Monday for twenty dollars by a broker, whom lie sold to a conscript-for thereby pocketing a cool 8130 By the op ration* The sub. was a newly imported Englishman. The Leavenworth Conscrralir ? siys that the K msas cotton crop has been n cem pie:; success, ana 11 is no longer iioioriul that the climate and soil Oyth it rcite are such that cotton can be profitably raised, there. ?Xi; u'-f! inir.i* G'l'more ha-* or I >: '1 a; !ar;; a v.nb v'i l?r > 12.1 n 1?U :> b *. ?: ? 1 tared for ores s.t^tions to in *vC;.n.l moii; > ?;m sot "it::-.; v;ho hi/a <: ciu-p.Ahed t:: vis i.' s in she late cnapaipu. Tii: I:'low v.ho lift 1 ih < wls.l irvn (ire \v;>v>;ci:l i'otir thinlc* t'l t, n i i.; ii-.-sl a>:i t-rs ?r, h sh mid .v.- *.>: i i?)j lir.t i nv ofi si * . Anvbody il r a pootny pleasnro vaeht c 11 ? >.'.* thy G-reit K-utccu. She is for sal at aheLibit. TliS Lu.bn TTw'f calls the Ttxss'm r.iplv to France a eiap on the i-x net sing else. > The secret ba Ig.e of the hlemphis rebel wa n is 110 hoop* ! O.ir exports daring the last fiscal year were some million larger term oar imports There are fi.teea taoiH. nl lawyers iu Huglaul. Mmie? At ths Mfes'in II ?:is? n?.inf'>rL ort. II l?v i;-v. .1. Freucii. C.npluin, L:. S. A., WiLUAvl .tlcCSvi, Serp' int 1st s. e. Vols., aul NAXCY Me .'ilei.1., bjlh from. I'ihtka, n.t. aI?/> a v' JliPU' iv n?.v...i i-? a n r?u ami i'AI'.Si. 11JKKAY, both fro ti'.'a-kK1 jSE Oct. Tth, Private W. li. Daw, Cc. I. 4tla .M-usiu;.-* setts Vols, Oet, u^a. Trivate W. II. PiUmjr, Cx E, !lfi Mis?. Vols. Oct. 17th, Private Matthew Sha/yrs, A. *2?1 S. C. Vol?. Oct. lit a, Priva'e Milton if. Tuples, E, lilt*. N. Y. Vols. ' ' Lixt of Letters remaining in the Peat Or'Fi' K it Beaufort, Jj. C., ou the week ea^uig uct. 2-th, IS63. Armstrong, Westley B. Montgomery, Capl. Chas. J?. lilake Win. Mch'ass Daniel Block John O. Mulligan, David Make, Mrs. Dianah Mouait, Charles Bartlett. Mrs. Rath Petit Henry 'torn well. Tyra Parker, John Jr. Brown, Mary Ann Peare, Dr. Giles M. Barnwell. Miss It Pacdon, Timothy Llostello, Michael Rugan, John [ assidv. F. incis f. Russell Jamcs ['hapliu, Pliebe Mrs Rohinson. Dorcas Dewing, Martin Jteny, Ptisan Dingley, Charles P. t-mil h. John Klliou rargaon A. 4. .1. I?. ! 'ripp, .Vn?. Lydii Symonett. Wm. II. IVtd*. V>rs>. s. rih s-yb-l. Chirk* or:i:i7, Michael St'td'Iard. Altai'1 ar.cn. *nck Snitku Abn<TC. rnk.-s ''a iii'j W. Turner.s*i. -Snrj. ?T. W!irl.S4tlo.HO1i \V.tolf Snmnel iiuiVtaril, ormnulel M. Wesnlebt " Jam .? rs. m. .y \\ .rd . olm I.twia liiru-i V>: eLi i on, "ana f ^ r.i] for my o. -x iD.ilui'.' Idii'TrJuS. JU4.N C. . > o.