'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.
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