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'j Hi; PHNlMiUi-Aii CaMPaION, UUtl US Ulitecedeuts, us developed t>y the report u: Major General Gi.oftac B. McCixlhak, and otlier published documents* By J G. Barnaul, Lieutenant Colonel of Engineers, and Brigadier General of Vol uuteers, an^cniei engineer intno Army of the Potomac, from it8 organization to the close of the Peninsular Campaign. Mr. D. Van Nosteanp has just Issued a new edition of this work in a cheap form, intended to favor its more general circulation at this particular juncture, when the actions and sayings of General McClellan are being weighed in the ballance of public judgment. Like the ejirlier work of its author, entitled " C. S. A.," this review of the Peninsular campaign is written with a pungency, fervor, and an earnestness of conviction, which gives it a piquancy of style that adds to its readableness, ii not to its value as a military review. PERSONAL.. ?Lt-CoL WooDroBD, Agent of Excnange, has been relieved from dnty and goes North by the Fulton, for a brief period. His duties are very arduous, and relaxation is a necessity. We wish him a pleasant journey. He is succeeded by Lt.-CoL W. T. Benet. ?/ jl. jfiV. vr liieDU^/UL ui tuc 1IU1 XI. Y, Vols., 10th Army Corps, has suffered amputation of the leg from a severe wound. Lt. Alex. F. Newman, of the Engineers, returned in the Futlon, Monday morning, from the North. We are sorry to add he does not enjoy very good health. Surgeon Snow of the N. Y. Vol. Engineers died suddenly at Fortress Mouroe -f' of the bloody' dysentry.** Private Joblyn, of Co. B, 3d R. I. V., wounded at the firing of a salute at Fort Welles some time since, died at the General Hospital, Monday morning. The Navy Department has received details from Admiral Farragut of the sue cessful expedition up I'isti itiver, some particulars of which have already been published. On their return the vessels were attacked from Peter's Bluff, at one of the sharp bends of the river, by sixty or seventy Rebels, who had felled trees across the stream. The fire was returned from our howitzers, and our vessels passed through, with one officer and two men killed on the Stockdak, the smokestacks of which were knocked over, and the boat of the Thutonia was smashed.? Admiral Farragut says he is successfully -engaged in removing torpodoes, and thus far has succeeded in taking up twenty.one. We under obligations to Purser McXaaBS at the Fulton for flies of N. Y. papers, (Captain Crooker and Purser Lockwood, of the Cosmopolitan, for dates to the 7 th. -Vf. would call attention to the very superior atcsk of elegant note and letter paper we hare jwti received. We have as good, If not the best means of keeping our atoejc better supplied than any store in tije Department. And ve ako intend to keep the best stock of fancy goods that can be found. We also keep on haud the latest and moat reliable military works as fast m issued by Vax Nohteavd* ' Will Mr, C. K. Osgood, Jacksonville, plea*** answer pnr letter of 18. ! Rt iniii'kiilili* C'oiiicnMion oi . Diiviw. Washington, ihursday, Oc\ G. The following speech, made by JeLe son Davis at Macon, Ga., Sept. 23d, 1&G4 is extracted from the column^ of t.ue Daily Macon Telegraph &' Confederate of Sept 24: Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends and Fel* i loic-cit'aens : It would have gladdened my heart to have met yon in prosperity instead of adversity. The son of a Georgian, who fought through the first Revolution, I would be nntrue to myself if I should forget the State in her day ot periL What though misfortune has bei fallen our arms from Decatur to JonesI boro, our cause is not lost Sherman cannot keep up his long line of communication and retreat Sooner or later he must; and when that day comes the fate that befel the army of the French Empire in its retreat from Moscow will be reacted. Our cavalry and our people will harrass and destroy his army as did the Cossacks that of Nappleon ; and the Yankee General, like him, will escape with only a body guard. How can this be the most speedily effected? By the absentees of Hood's army returning to their posts ; and will they not ? Can they see the banished exiles ; can they hear the wail of their suffering countrywoman and children and not come ? By what influences they are made to stay away it is not necessary to speak. If there is one who 111 -A. - A. _ 1 1 * wm buiv away ai uns nour ne is unworthy of the name of Georgian. To the women no appeal is necessary. They are like the Spartan mothers of old. I know of one who has lost all her sons, except one of 8 years. She wrote that she wanted me to reserve a place for him in the ranks. The venerable Gen. Polk, to whom I read the letter, knew that woman well, and said it wu characteristic of her ; but I will not weary yon by turning aside to relate the various incidents of giving up the last son to the cause of our country, known to me.? Wherever we go we find the hearts and hands of our noble women enlisted. They are seen wherever the eye may fall . and the step turn.' They have one duty to perform ; to buoy up the hearts of our people. I know the deep disgrace felt by Georgia at our army falling back from Dalton to the interior of the State. But I was not of those who considered Atlanta lost when our army crossed the Chattahoochee. I resolved that it should not, and I then put a man in command *ho I knew would strike a manly blow for the city, and many a Yankee's blood was made to nourish the soil before the prize was won. It does not become us to revert to disaster. Let the dead bury the dead. Let us, with one arm and one effort, endeavor to crush Sherman. II am going to the army to confer with our Generals. The end must be the defeat of our enemy. It has been said that I abandoned Georgia to her fate. Shame upon such falsehood. Where could the author have been when Walker, when Polk, and when Gent Stephen I). Lee was sent to her assistance. Miserable man. The man who uttered this was a scoundrel.? He was not a man to save our country.? If I knew that a General did not possess the right qualities to command, would I not be wrong if he was not removed t? Why, when our army was falling back :from Northern Georgia, I evdn heard that I hud sent Bragg with pontoons to cross it to Cuba. But we must be charitable. The man who can speculate ought to be made to take up his musket. When the war is over and our independence #on,?and we will establish our independence?who will be our aristocracy ? I hope the limping soldier. To the young ladies I would say that when choosing between an empty sleeve and the man who had remained at home and grown rich, always take the empty sleeve. Let the old men remain at home and make bread. But should they know of any young man keeping away trom the service, who cannot be made to go any other way, let them write to the Executive. I read all letters sent me from the people, but have not the time to reply to them. You have not many men between eighteen and forty-five left The boys, God bless the boys, are as rapidly as they become old enough going to the field. The City of Macon is filled with stores, sick and wnnnded. It must not bo abandoned wh'U tnr. a e.it-il. but wuea tue eueiu^ ' n:e i stem o calling upon H xni' i'iny f??, d -.eu t ieoid iu?n iuisi li,i.t t d wle.i tue enemy is dilT.ru le^uu. 'I attuuooga. they too can j-.iu in tii i eoeral rejgici jg. konr pns-?uers iir. -ept us u sort ol Yankee Capiiul. I Lav heard that one of their Generals said that their exchange would defeat Sherman.? i I have tried every means,conceded everything to effect an exchange, but to no purpose. Butler, the beast, with whom no Commissioner of Exchange would hold intercourse, had published in the newspapers that if we would consent to the exchange of negroes, all difficulties might be removed. This is reported as an effort to get himself whitewashed by holding intercourse with gentlemen. If an exchange could be effected, I don't know but that I might be induced to recognize Butler. But in the future every effort will be given, as far as possible, to effect the end. We want our soldiers in the tield, and we want the sick and wounded to return home. It is not proper for me to speak of the number of men in the held, but this I will say, that two-thirds of our men are absent, some sick, some wounded, but most of them absent without leave. The man who repents and goes back to his commander voluntarily, appeals strongly to the executive clemency. Bat suppose he stays away until the war is over, and his comrades returns home, and when every man's history will be told, where will he shield himself. It is upon these Reflections that I rely to make men return to their duty, but after conferring with our Generals at headquarters, if there be any other remedy it shall be applied. I love my friends, and I forgive my enemies. I have been asked why the army sent to the Shenandoat. Valley was not sent here. It was because an army of the enemy had penetrated that valley to the very gates of Lynchburg, and Gen. Early was sent to drive them back. This he not only successfully did, but, crossing the Potomac, came well nigh capturing Washington itself, and forced Grant to send two corps of his army to protect it. This the enemy denominated a raid. What would prevent them now if Early was withdrawn from taking Lynchburg, and putting a complete cordon of men around Richmond. I counselled with the great and grave soldier, Gen. Lee, tipon all these points. My mind roamed over the whole field.? With this we can succeed. 11 one-nan the men absent without leave, will return to duty, we can defeat the enemy. With that hope I am going to the front. I may not realize this hope, but I know there are men there who have looked death in the lace too often to despond now. Let no one despond. Let no one distrust, and remember that it genius is the beau ideal, hope is the reality. [From the Charleston Mercury. J We make no comments upon this speech ; but we cannot refrain from exprising our profound regret that such a speech should have been said to have been delivered by the Chief Magistrate of the Confederate States, for we cannot make up our minds that he delivered it. We hope speedily to be able to deny its authority. I ^ ! The Xcws of .A.tlanta'?* fall in England. A private letter to a gentleman in this citv from an English friend says : ! * We have to-day full confirmation of the fall of Atlanta, and all doubt removjedper China's telegrams to hand this ' morning. We now wait for Grant to go [ and do likewise, and throw down the ! rebels and copperheads together in one common ruin. The Time? this morning makes out that the fall of Atlanta is almost an advantage to the South, or that at all events Hood has so dexterously carried off all stores and materials of war that it is after all no great matter. The baseness of this j aper is a disgrace to the name of England. To thing that the benighted people of Europe read the Times on America, and believe in its accuracy, when the wretched hounds who have sold the paper to the rebellious 1 cause utterly forget their own words. It! is an old axiom that liars should have good memories. CllCLULAK. ' OVKICE OF Sen /UiMtOJ i'B \SBPOHT8, ) i/ii'Aittab.i. iUi.outiil. 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