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SOUTHERN fffrlSv i A. W. BATSMAN, Edltor f * Saturday, September 20, 1862. fty-Tha <• Southern Aslt" hm a More extended cir culation among tbu initllifonl Ikrmera and buaiaeaa men of Harford, than any other paper la the county. N 6 * Lock Hospital" or other obaeona or “ Lottery” adver tiaemanta will appear 1% our cotuuika kb any pdlde. A large number of our aubacribera pay for their paper in ad ranee, and eonaequenlly are Juat the qlaaa adverUaera de aira to reach. jr f, f ' 11* ‘ The attention of respectable and legitimate advertisers la directed to the above facts. To Cdrrecpondant*. All coaimnnleailona lor puhlicatlue must be aecou panlod with the teal name of the author, or no atten tion will lie paid to them. The real name of the author will not he publislied unleae desired, but we cannot consent to Insert communicatiuiia unless we know the writer. ■ - ■ ,vl It ! WAR NEWS. The intelligence from the sent of war in West ern Maryland *ls'highly important. Brief des patches from Qen. McClellan report a severe bat tle Araght on Sfanday last at Bolivar, resnltAg ia the defeat of the Confederates with heavy s,‘ they retreating towards the river, followed by the Federal troops. The battle commenced in the afternoon and lasted nntil nightfall. 'Rie Federal loss is not reported, but the commanding general thinks that it cannot be heavy. Oeh* Reno was among the (filled. This officer whs a graduate of West Poiht, and was former)jr'frt command of a division hhder Qen. Burnside, but was recently transferred to the position of Qen. McDowell, now absent from the army on leave. The town of Bolivar, in the vicinity of which the battle occurred, is b'h the road from Middletown to *Hagerstown, and between the first named place and Boonsbbro’, about four miles distant from each . It appears that the portion of the Confederate army which recrossed the Potomac at Williams port, co-operating with a part of that remaining on the Maryland Side, attacked Col. Miles’ posi tion on the Maryland Heights and obliged hilh to move over to the e’htrtCchmente at Bolivar Heights, about one mile behind Harper's Perry. It is reported that the Confederates were plant ing gons to bear on Col. Miles’ hew positioh.— Later advices report that Ilghtlhg*had been go ing on at Harper’S Ferry, hut that Col. Miles still held his position. A despatch reports active operations in West ern Virginia. Cft Wednesday week the Confed erates attacked” the Federal tropps at Fayette ville, in Fayette county, but after a desperate fight, in which they lost one hundred in killed and wounded, the Federal troops escaped to Qauley. An dhfo regiment atid three compa nies of Virginia troops have beeh cut off at Sum merville, in Nicholas county, and nothing has been heard from them. Col. Lightburn was on the Elk river on Saturday last, maintaining his ground against the Confederates, but 'subse quently moved to Ripley. The despatch con firms the report qf the batnlng of Charleston, by the federal trdops. All was quiet at Cincinnati at lat&t advices, 'fhe Confederates are reported to have fallen back four miles below Florence, bh accohnt of the scarcity of water, and* ate ’supposed to be awaiting reinforcement. All business was re gained in Cincinnati. At the latest advices frbfn Cumberland Gap, Qen. Morgan was supplying his army by fora ging in the neighborhood, and was confident that he could hold ont till help arrived. A Confederate force was still in his front, but those in his rear had left to join Kirby Smith before Cincinnati. Since the aboVe was written it ii'stated that the Federal force at Harper’s Ferry^' variously estimated at from eight to twelve thousand, was surrendered to {be Confederates on Monday.— Col. Miles, the officer in command, is 'said to have-been killed. A despatch has been received stating that Gen. McClellan had come np wkh tide rear of the Confederate army at Sharpsburg, and a great battle was in progress. The portion of the Con federates under Qen. Jackson had recreated the Potomac, so that their whole army was in Mary land engaged in the battle. Sharpsburg is in Washington county, one mile from the Potomac river, nine miles southwest of the scene of the battle on Monday, And ten miles'north of Haiper’ a Perry. The Federal forces at Bloomfield, in Stoddard county, Missouri, were attacked by the Confeder ates on Thursday last and forced 4o evacuate the town, two of their gons felling into the bands of their enemy. The next day a Federal force from Greenville shelled Bloomfield and retook the place, after a short engagement. In the first fight the Federal less was three killed and five woun ded. The lore of the Confederates is not known. The latest intelligence from Cincinnati is im portant. It appears that foe Confederate forces have not abandoned the siege, bat on Monday dfpre in the Federal pickets two end a half miles south of Florence, showing an intention of occu pying their old camping ground in sight of the Federal lines. Florence is ten miles southwest of Ctoriwratl. A Infer despatch says that the re port of the advance of the Confederates was er roneous, hut they ora represented as extending themselves below Florence, where they have den. Hobs* phrey Marshall. A ightrsmoily ooesred at Cold water, Mar- Ash qspßty, Miss., betwaen a -body of Federal eavSlry and a force of Confederates, resulting in the defeat of the latter, with a loss of eight kill ed. Then were no casualties on the federal side. ’ .-.ra, A frote Hktooad, pibMkd la the tfcodef 1 ' C3ec Pillow h&s been ordw- Omgrxm recall The lateet advices from Western Virginia re ports that ill the Federal forsps had,.reached Ra venawood, on the Ohio river, on Sunday evening, . bringing their baggage train sn safety. jtEixajraoM iiiqal w. wan. The following letter from Col. James W. Wall, of Burlington, was read at a Democratic meeting at Philadelphia in re ply to an invitation to attend that meet- Tfon. F. fa. Hughes, ' (Thairrkdn 6f the Democratic State Central Committee : Dear Sir :— I sincerely regret that it wifl nofcbe ip my power to accept ytmr' Invitation to be'present and Hd'dt&s the meeting of the Democracy to be held in Independence Square on Saturday even ing I regret it the more, because at this mo raebtous 'period of the country's history, I believe be the sacred duty of every patriot to aid with voice, pffn and every in advancing and re-establishing 'those great national principles upon which the Democratic party rests. That'party is one of no mushroom growth. It was borq with the Constitution, and can only perish when that Constitution shall be come the sport of unprincipled factions, add cease to be considered as the expres sion of the national'will, for the protection of the equal rights of all. It oame into power almost Wirii the birth of the pres ent century ; And with rare intervals con tinued ia power until, weakened 'by dis sensions, industriously fomented by a cun ning and unscrupulous political organiza tion, it was thrust aside to make'Toom for a sectional revolutionary section, whose advent to power has unquestionably inflic ted upon the country the curse of civil war. The triumph of the principles of the Dem ocratic party could never have produced revolution. By the wisdom of its keen, far-sighted policy, the Democratic party, when id power, bad enlarged ohr borders, given unexampled prosperity to the coun try, and labored to imbue with its own spirit cf nationality our councils and our legislation. The catholicity of its views banished forever the’fell spirit of section alism from its midst. Its efforts were al ways to maintain, inviolate “the original compacts of the Constitution, preserving intact the legitimate rights of thic States, recognized no geographical distinctions, and introducing no disturbing forces to in terfere with that constitutional equilibri um whose’preservation was so vital to the continued harmony and regularity of our political system. It was the disturbance of this equilibrium, by the introduction of the antagonistic forces of sectionalism and fanaticism, that produced the revolution, It is only by the triumph of £he Democrat ic party that such equilibrium can be re stored. Many honest, right-thinking men won der that the party now bearing rule can treat so'lightly constitutional obligations, and trample on the most isadred guaran teed rights of freemen ; but such abnor mal action is inseparable from its nature. Its very organization was unconstitutional —its tendencies revolutionary in the very throes of the agony that gave it birth.— In (he formation of this geographical par ty Was recognized the advent of that time, against whose approach the good Wash ington warned his countrymen. In the formation of that party, designing men succeeded in exciting a belief “that there was a real difference of local interest and local views.” ‘'The helfrt-bnrnings and jealousies springing from misrepresenta tion’’ accomplished the fearful work, and succeeded “in rendering alien to each other those who ought to be bound togeth er by the ties of fraternal affection.”— sach an organization as this can never ac knowledge the sanctity of constitutional ob ligations, fofit wohld ho entirely abhor rent toits vety nature. You might as well expect the devil to recognize the sanctity of holy water. As long, therefore, as it holds sway, men may expect to bear of these high-handed outrages upon the constitutional rights of the citizens, and to read in its leading journals that the Con stitution is suspended, and may be set aside altogether, whenever the salvation of the Republican party demands it. It is for those of us who recognize the obligations of that Constitution as binding on the nation and its rulers in war as well as in peace, to labor for the triumph of principles that our fathers gave us, and if the nation had only adhered to them, we should this day have been a united and a happy people. Those principles are still alive. Not all the horrors of civil war can extinguish them, and not all the threats of power can alarm true men from publicly avowing their devotion to them. I consci entiously believe that the salvation of this country from its present most fearful perils depends upon the final success of that great Constitutional party at the ballot-box, and so believing, I shall labor boldly and en ergetically to that end. Remember what Webster said —“Constitutional liberty must never permit power, and least of all, etcctttive power, to overstep its prescribed limits, either in peace or war, though be nevolent,' motives and patriotic interest come alone with it. The spirit of liberty is jealous of encroachment, jealous of pow er, jealous of-men, At all times it de mands checks; it insists on securities; it entrenches itself behind defences, and fori titles itself against the assaults of Ambi tion and Passion.’’ Det every good citizen in such fearful times lav these noble words to heart. i fhanUtf you for the invitation, 1 1. t.i*(, Tour*, my traly, ■ • ■ ■■• James W. Wall. From the Journal of Commerce. THE CONSTITUTION. Tie Moat foundation-stone of our na tional existence is a terrible obstable in the way of radicalism, and every possible effort is used on the part of the “progres sives” to destroy it, The plan of attack is uot bold nor is it courageous. It con sists in plot* and tfitfks to undermine the popularlove and rekpect for it, dejfrivfc it of defenders, and expose it to the malice of its enemies. These who maintfeih the cause of the Constitution are pronounced traitors. It is not uncommon to hnar radical men declare every man a traitor who talks about the Constitution in these times. If the Constitution stands in the way of a yet radical project, the old sav ing is revived that it is a league with death and a convenant with hell. If a loyal man opposes a fanatical scheme because it is unconstitutional, the vials of ridicule are poured out on him. The Now York Tribune gives a notable instance of its en mity to the Constitution by ao elaborate article proving that though it may jae un constitutional 'to kill Southern blood hounds, still circumstances may justi fy it, and thyrefrom derives the moral that slaves of the Southerners may be set free in spite of the Constitution. Per haps no one sees the connection, but that is the Tribune’s business and not ours, and if this is not the moral of the argu ment it has none at all. The efforts of the radical branch of the last Congress to n ullify the plainest pre cepts of the Constitution present a sorrow ful picture in our history. Every effort was made which ingenuity could devise to entrap the Government into attacking it and setting it at defiance. The people were misled by a thousand sophistries, the boldest of which was that the rebels had no rights under the Constitution. This no tion is still iterated and reiterated by radical newspapers, in face of the plain fact that we have no right to punish them as rebels except under attd by virtue of the Constitution. But argument ava’iled nothing against the tempest of the pro gressive shakers of the country, and they pursued their work of destruction with varying prospects of success, up to the hour of the adjournment of Congress, spreadingin all directions the pestilentdoc trine that the Constitution itself was tfeas onable because it stood in tho way of their plans of emancipation and anarchy.—- There is now ho radical man who professes to have respect for the Constitution. It is a bye-word and reproach in their mouths. The Ifibune ridicules • the idea that a man should be tried by jury before ho is hung, or that his property should be held inviolate so long as he is unconvic ted, and therefore possibly an innocent man. The programme of radicalism is to introduce the French Revolution plan at once, and establish commissions and guil lotines in tho North and in the South. Let us regard for one instant the state of our country under radical rule. 1. No trials by jury for any one suspected of trea son, but a short rope and a sudden execu tion for every one who shall be denoun ced by a newspaper or a citizen. 2. No protection to the property of any one sus pected, nor any defence of his wife and children against marauders, but when any one says of any one else that he is a rebel, descend like a whirlwind on the man's house, burn, kill, and destroy, so as to strike terror into other men’s hearts. 3 Proclaim freedom to slaves, place arms in their hands, inform them that no rebel House or man or woman is protected by any law or order, and send them out on a , mission of “subduing the rebellion.”—• Every one of these three prepositions is deliberately urged by a radical newspapers, and opposition to these plans of blood and rapine is ridiculed as kid glove manage ment ! We have no space to speak of their plans for the North. The church is to be reformed by the halter, the State to be governed by the saints of the Aboli tion school. Every man who defends the Constitution is to be declared a sympa thizer with the rebellion, and every State which claims any relics of State sovereign ty is to be regarded as contumacious, and reduced to a territorial condition. Long distant be the day of the Abolition millennium I In contrast with these mad schemes, the vast majority of the American people are determined to stand by the Constitu tion and defend it, with blood and treas ure, agaipst Northern and Southern foes. They are determined that the victory in this war shall be the victory of the Con stitution and the laws, and to that end they are determined that the Constitution shall be respected, as Washington taught, and as all the long line of patriots down to the present day have taught. The Con stitution is the Union. The triumph' of one is the triumph of the other. Let every man diligently study each proposal of radicalism, and if be finds in it an attack on the Con stitution he may regard it as an attack on the Union. To strike one is to strike both. To defend one is to’defend both, and the only loyal defenders of the Union to-day are those who defend the Constitu tion against that “irregular opposition” which Washington pointed out, and also against those “specious pretexts” which he foretold, and classed with the plans of open traitors. WT The Ohio M. £. Conference has voted against lay delegates-—ayes 24, nays What We HaVe Learned. The Albany Evening Journal, the great organ of the Seward party in New York, in its issue of Saturday last, contained the following rather remarkable editorial: “The war has been a stern schoolmas ter to the people of the loyal States. — It has given us a flood of light upon many subjects that were dark and doubtful. It has enabled us to see ourselves, to see Our enemies, to see Europdht large, as we nev er saw or suspected them before. It has opened to us a new world, set us to ex ploring new paths of knowledge, sharpen ed our vision, intensified all our faculties. It has taught us the opportunities and dangers of our situation, and warned us against much that might do us harm. We have learned the folly off underrat ing our enemies. We have learned that they are equally brave, equally hardy, equally quick witted, chdowed with martial qualities with ourselves.— We have learned that they aro terribly in earnest in their efforts to achieve their ends, and that they are desperate ih their resolve to divorce themselves from us, that they are determined to resist our efforts to conquer them 'lo the bitter end. We have learned that they are as wary as they are unscrupulous, that they are as cunning as they are depraved, that they are quick to take advantage of our weak ness, our blunders and indecision. We have learned that they are fully our peers in military capacity, and that as soldier's, they make up ih dash what they lack ih solid hardihood. We have learned that the very despotism that exists among them, gives them a compactness and unity which we dp not and cannot possess. We have learned how little active co ooeration we arelo expect from the “Union element” pf the extreme South. We have learned that that element, even where most prevalent, is timid, torpid, doubtful, negative; lhat it “needs watchers” to sit by and nurse it; that it is often treacher ous and counterfeit; that in many in stances it is rather a stumbling in our way rather than a prop or auxiliary. We have learned that by little and little, the poison of secession has spread among the people-—that little by little it has posses sed and crazed them; until public senti ment has, in many sections, become al most a unit. We have learned the folly of expecting sympathy from foreign governments and foreign peoples. We have learned that we are hated most cordially where we had reason to look for support j that we stand tb-day apart and isolated, without a friend or backer in any power on earth. We have learned that we must not only fight the good fight unassisted, but under the shadows of the frowns of Europe. SHODDY. Shoddy is found everywhere. ’ It is the stock in trade of the whole world. Bet ter material is only kept for samples, for shoddy forms the woof of public and pri vate life. ' tin times of peace and tranquil ity We have leisure to discriminate and re ject that which is shoddy, or if we use it, it wears comparatively well. But when great public commotions burst suddenly upon 1 us, we are inevitably cheated. We have crowded upon us shoddy clothing and shoddy office-holders. If we raise an ar my it is cheated with shoddy uniforms and shoddy generals; and there are al ways contractors who tell us, even while these articles of the shoddy material are tumbling to pieces, that they are the true army blue, made without regard to ex pense. The last National Government was a cheat of the contractors. The peo ple supposed they had hit upon' the best article in the market, having rejected the apparent shoddiness of tho Pathfinder for President. Buchanan bad wtfrn long— alas! too long, for nothing bait sboddy re mained. That administration left the country out at tho elbows and the knees, and broken at the seat. We were glad to have another opportunity to mend out* na tional breeches —and to that end we have been laboring and paying and fighting, so that we may be able to appear decently before the world. Shall webe cheated by shoddy again ? There is a place already worn threadbare on the Peninsula—that surely must have been shoddy. “Patch it and mend it and patch it again.”— Good cloth might have rotted out in the Ohickahominy swamps. It is getting thin in Kentucky and Tennessee. Something is needed there, or we 'shall shbw our nak edness. But sboddy is not confined to the army. Congress is a grafad shoddy factory, and it turns out more than all the injb.e World, except the grand “mill’’ between the Union and Secession. Senator Simmons, .of Rhode Island, might have passed for honest, but the Contract Committee rubbed him gently between the thumb and finger and found that he was shoddy. Those Senators who helped to make political generals were shoddy.— Those who, with an eye to next election, procured discharges for hundreds of able bodied soldiers, turn out to be shoddy of the most deceitful and pernicious sort.— AU those who have had a finger in con tracts, swindling the country while it is straggling for existence, are also sboddy. The people must sharpen their wits and look out for shoddy. Make every man show his texture, and put him to 'the proof. If be has any suspicion of shoddy about him, throw him away—he Can do you ho service. • Shoddy is an ally of the enemy. Had it-not been for shoddy, we might have lived together in peace and amity and brotherhood forever.— Cincin nati Press. An Extraordinary SpeOoh. We extract from the New Bedford Mercury the following report of a fobbt extraordinary speech by Gov. Andrew, ts furnished to that jiiaper by its corres'pdhd ent, at a camp meeting in Martha’s Vine yard. He remarks: I send you only a sentence or two, that you may see the tenor of his address. — After announcing the correct do6ttfne, that all right government is based oU 'the “will afad reficmhgs of dlVine truth," ‘in stead of that atheistical, dogma, that “gov <*rnmtet dcAves' its authority from the consent of the governed," he said : “We stand where the ways divide.— There is such a thing as wearing otit 'the Divide favor. There must be a time when forbearance ceases to be a virtue, in heaven as well as on earth. The rebels have taken their choice. They had cer tain rights as peaceable citizens of the Republic. They have chosen to tfftbw , them up for those of belligerents, fie was a peace man. He abhorred war But as the Executive'of the Common wealth; he' Yad called on his fello'w 'citi zens to lift up the arms and doctrines of the old Ray State, in/ the belief thit when the Rebels’ power was overthrown, that of the depressor would fall with’ it, and four millions of fellow-beings rise up from their enslavement, disenthralled, redeemed.— He hacl nevef expected this war to end without this object being accomplished.— He was not superstitious; but h'c could | not fail to recognize the' fact, that ‘from the day that the government turned its back on the proclamation of General Hun ter, the fortunes of the war bad turned against us. Till that day standard moved steadily on to victory. With our aid or against it, God has determined ‘to let the people go.' But he htid faith in the success of the Isßu3. He cCUId not think that the prayers, tears, labors of the fathers were to be all lost," etc., etc. A Tribune Wail. In his letter to Horace Greeley the President says : “The sooner the nation tional authority is restored, the stodner the Union will be the Union as it was." There is much ambiguity in this ex pression. The “Union as it was” is a cant phrase invented by the infamous - Vallandigham, and fathered by his dirty tool, Dick Richardson. The meaning they attach to those words is well under stood. Rut such a Uhrbn loyal men do not want to see restored. They a Union as it ought to be. Whaft ■"patriotic citizen desires the restoration of the “Union as it was” under Buchanan’s ad ministration ? If that'is the Union to which Mr. Lincoln refers he shblild dis miss his present Cabinet and send for Cobb, Floyd, Thompson and TJUcey to come back to Washington and '•take the places of Chase, Stanton, Welles and Smith. His next step would toaturally be, to summon. RrdOkinridge to the White House, resign in his favOr, and turn the Government over into -the hands of the secesh Democracy. In ‘this way the “Union as it was" might be it least approximately restored. As the'President cannot mean such a Union, be was unfor tunate in the choice of words. It is never safe to adopt the cant phrases of ■ pro-sla very politicians. —Chicago Tribune. Which is the Traitor ?— The Re publicans denbunce Vallandigham as a traitor, and eulogise Righam as a patriot. They are both representatives from Ohio y and during the last session of Congress they gave Expression to their honest senti ments as follows : Mr Vallandigham Mr. Big Lam said : said: “It is in the “Who, in the name restoration of the of Heaven, wants the Union os it was in cotton States, or any 1789, and continued other States this side for over 70 years, of perdition, to re tbat I am bound to mam in the Union, the last hour of my if slavery is to con political existence.’’ tinue.’’ Pray, now, which is the traitor ? Will some Republican answer ? Millions foe tIEFENi&.-’-'A.ti enter prising New England Yankee 'Offers to build a ChihCse wall along Mason’s and Dixon’s line for six hundred millions of dollars. This' would seem to be “millions for defense." As we already have a “Stonewall" between Virginia and Penn sylvania, perhaps he would takeHhe con tract rather less. —"Phila Inquirer. If Hoofland’s Balsamic Cordial - will ’hot care, in the last stages of Consumption, we know from experience that it affords great relief. Baltimore Markets. Fwoa.—Super, $6.75a56.00; extra, $7.60; City Mills super, $5;75a6.00; extra, $6.50a8.00. Corn Meal, $3.40 per bbl. Bye Flour, $4.00a 4.25 per bbl. Grain. —Wheat—fair, $1.30a51.60; prime, $1.56*1:63 per bushel. Corn—prime white, 0a 68c.; prime yellow, 60a66c. Oats—Md. 32a430.; Penn. 40a43c. per bushel. Rye, 60485 c. per * bushel. Guano.—Peruvian, $76 per ton; Mexican, S3O; White do. S3O; Navassa, .S4O: California, $42; Manipulated, $47; Phosphate, $45. Bone Duet, $45. Hat and Stbaw.— Baled Timothy <slß*3o i per ton, loose $18*19; Clover, baled $11*12; loose slo*ll. Rye Straw slßal4;‘ Oat straw $8*9.00; Wheat do. $8*9.00. Wool.—Unwashed, 35a40c.; washed, 60a56c.; polled, 44*47c.; common fleece, 40a46q. Provisions.—Bacon aides, 6a6£e.;shoulders, 4jasc.; Hams, 7a11c.; Lard, Baloc. Cams.—Prime, $2.62a54,60 des’ tOO lbs.—- Sheep, $2.604.50 per. 100 lbs. Hogs l Hive l -$5.00 *5.26 per 100 lbs. t