Peninsular News And Advertiser (Newspaper) - November 15, 1861, Milford, Delaware VOL. 25. NOVEMBER 15, 1861. WHOLE NO. 233. Improbability of Foreign There are two classes of persons in tbe Northern States who have hoped and endeavored to either directly or the interference of England in oar domestic that is best represented by the New York an earnest desire for the tri- of the and the des traction of the Union the from the expectation that such an interference either through the additional of a foreign or tbe dread of compel us to come to terms with tbe The first which the Herald is the though enemies of the Union the other are merely short-sighted aud and indulge themselves in the vain hope that some sort of compulsory Compromise might prove a lasting at any wonld restore the quo ante the condition of and harmony we before rebellion broke it op. Bat the tions of both classes are more than ly to be and their labors to come to We are to have no war with England on- any pretense we shall show such and want of energy in pressing the rebellion that both England France shall as a sort of national police to keep the peace among a people no longer capable of taking care of But when reach that it doesn't matter much what happens to as. The tone of the public press in as well as private assure that this danger has passed for the It is not unlikely that the re- lations of parties there may have thing to do with this new aspect of as neither Whigs nor Tories may feel strong enough to assume the ity of a war by which nothing conld be attained but the expenditure of an im- mense that might better be used iu relieving the from poverty and want of certain to be felt this even though peace should not be There are other and stronger than merely political by which this change may be accounted The war in this country seemed three months ago to be of importance to Western Europe only as related to Cotton In England it was people are dependent for their daily bread on a full supply of that and the interest of France in the question was second only to that of The Cotton was here the problem was in the face of a blockade and the peaceful tions of the three to take that which was so much needed but the mere taking thereof was to extend aid to the rebels on which they had re- lied to insure their But events have solved and settled it The Southern crop is no longer the necessity of France aud England What they need is the Northern There are good sons for believing with the cotton on hand and the supply tbat may be con- counted upon from other tries than the United England has all she will use for many months to if not for the whole There is no on the part of land and to break the blockade our Southern and involve themselves in a war with this Their only motive in doing so wonld be to liberate Cotton and it is not at all certain as and cannot be for that the Cotton may not as well for any use they have for in Charleston and New-Orleans as in Liverpool and But what they do want is and the question presses home upon fighting is likely to re- store those they have lost or open new ones Will forcing the blockade of Southern ports compel the importation of and other articles of luxury and into Northern ports This is quite as practical a at as the expected dearth of Cotton was sup posed to be three months About one-third of the export both of Great Britain and has been to this Tbe rebellion has put an end to it in a large War will not bring on the war will destroy what little there may be left of and will not be likely to leave us in a condition to restore it very it wilt be affairs have put on an altogether changed It is enough if the weaver not enough for his it is still if he cannot sell what he has and at the same tbe the the and some hundred of thousands of not be able to sell their all be put upon the country that hitherto one-third of oil their ihe take them no is a bad state of things at best bat it is aggravated by the in and the probability of a famine in j unhappy and tbe possibility short crops in France Both tries must look to this to in their necessities in War more help DR to activity in an in our than it will be able to force ns to reopen an import trade that we have dropped we not want poods in such times BB KB have no money to pay It has become evident TO the in London and in cabinet end in counting that the best attitude run ie us as iv fight It out in our own in the mean own troubles as they best can. Even the London Times has grown comparatively decent under this new aspect of when it finds that our which it thought it conld safely insult and abuse ns bearing fruit tbe bitterness of which England will be compelled to Y. Tri- George B. The resignation of General Scott has placed the Union armies upon the ers of a remarkable This is not only in common but tbe original acceptation of the McClellan has always been a remarked And now when tongues speak of And the bleared sights are spectacled to see a brief review of bis past life and services is as much a duty as a pleasure to every citizen who helps him carry the weight of our threatened George B. McClellan was born in Philadelphia on the 3d of 1826, his father being an eminent cian of that At the age of or in 1842, he entered the West Point and in 1846, at the age of was graduated second in his On the 1st of July of that year he was brevetted second lieutenant of By an act of Congress passed during the May a company of and was added to the engineer and in this company Clellan was commissioned General Chief commanded by General speaks of energy in that His exertions in came into his prepared the arduous labors of Mexican were With the aid of but two other officers he succeeded so in drilling the seventy-one raw men who bad come into his hands only two months that on the 24th of September they sailed from West reported by General Totten iu a state of admirable discipline During the war this company was re- to forty-five effective men and two of whom was HB is repeatedly mentioned in tion with the corps as exhibiting mate patience and His company never once lost its and formed some of the most toilsome duties of the war under trying General Totten makes especial mention of tht labors performed by Me Clellan before Vera He speaks of him as his corps by his own devotion and of unsurpassed intelligence and zeal with which he took bis share in the direction of the At McClellan was selected with another engineer to reconnoitre the strong breastworks of tbe They bad their horses shot under and barely escaped capture by Mexican When the action commenced McClellan was with While it was still doing splendid its was McClellan immediately took command of and managed it until it was ly with such success as to tain all its previous al immediately presented his name for promotion to General after showing consummate bravery in the action of which took place next be was brevetted first In the next Molino del his behavior was so gallant that he was elevated to a He de- to receive and continued tenant on the day of when General Scott mentions him as the admiration of all about He was the first to enter the Alameda with a company which he aod during the tbe assault repulsed a body of Mexicans greatly outnumbering his own with a loss of twenty to the He continued in active service from the commencement of his company's until General Scott occupied ihe city of He returned from the war with the raak of captain and the command of tbe now greatly of and Between 1848 and 1851 he translated from the French a manual of bayonet which has become tbe text book of the In 1851 he the tion of Fort In 1852 be ex- tbe Red Captain nnd surveyed the harbors nnd rivers of Texas as senior on the staff of General In 1853 was employed on the survey to ascertain the best rente for a railroad between tbe Mississippi and the in the exploration of and forty-ninth parallels of north His report gained the commendation of then of For three more was j variously employed After ME a secret in the tr a commission in the United he pointed one of fi of officers to proceed to the Crimes snd Northern for observation on the conflict end hie report on The of Ar i find Operations of if M by officers a raoM j the peaceful condition of the try seeming to demand his services no to take a place in the ment of the Illinois Central Railroad as its vice-president and After three years of work upon that road be became general superintendent of the Ohio and Mississippi He was ing on that post when the rebellion broke Governor of applied to him to undertake the of the volunteer forces of tbat state; but he had previously accepted a similar offer from In the assembling of the forces of the latter and in ing them upon an efficient war he exhibited so much of that tion and which had his former services in that he was appointed Major-General in the United States with the command of a which included Ohio and Western Virginia Since that time his record is not is the pre- General McClellan married within the last two or three a daughter of Captain under whom he made his Red River Y. The Balance of Im- Specie and The resumption of the export of cie from England to the United States occasions much remark among financiert at this in consequence of the rapidly diminishing stock of bullion in bank in London and and the in- uneasy tone in financial circles So long as our gold flowed over to Eu- rope in millions it was considered as the natural and healthy condition of com- regardless of the depleting cess toward of the frequently ring revulsions and of tbe financial and prostration inevitably But no sooner do the tables and England and France suffer from exportation of specie to pay trade than tbe London press begins to see the inconvenience of such a Well may they consider this spectacle as hardly less extraordinary than the in- war now raging for it is new both to ns and totally un- expected as to amaze How long it is likely to continue is the If it should last three years the fect will be In that space of time the English and French would be sorely the wealth of both countries enormously and the manufactures and general wealth of tbe United States in- creased beyond all The idea of the London Times that this country is likely to be ruined because we have a war raging and have lost the cotton trade is merely not We were not the owners of the It belonged primarily to the which has seceded and a portion of it was shipped through northern we did not own except in such coses as we bought and paid for it. The free States cannot be held to have lost what they never Most of the cotton was shipped from the sonth direct to What came north was chiefly for consumption and that which was not we were merely the carriers English financiers and merchants have generally controlled the cotton crop of the When these things are borne in mind the great phenomenon now visible in commerce will appear less and the prospect of ruin very re- Our provision crops are our grown on our own When we sell them to foreign nations the money goes into our own they have been relieved of southern demand and furnished with a European whence arises the necessity for paying as in specie because of the falling off in foreign When during the long reign of pence we imported gantly from and exported and tobacco to pay for those crops not being the property of the free there was a continual against ns which we had to meet by a steady and ruinous drain of While the sonth consumed quantities of European and northern it was well able lo do so being a flourishing cultural it bad exports more than sufficient to pay all its Hence the New Orleans banks jad relatively more specie than any others in the They represented fairly tbe actual strength of the cotton States in a business point of The free while ly the whole bulk of supplies and the greater part yet exported own only to a United All a Southern crops no ger to us for mid we now send abroad own latter c much re- in price by the loss of U e southern and the increase in our our stimulated to in a cram is without ibe of French arid English is a matter for serious At yet we see no indications of a general re- vival of the foreign import It may come next spring or full as the tiral result of wealth and in the free but only to a limited extent and to supply our own wants It must be borue in mind that the whole amount of foreign goods we have heretofore sold to the south is now cut and that at the same time uur own no longer engaged in making goods for the southern are to a far greater extent at liberty to supply our The capital invested in these factories cannot be suffered to lie idle and adapting itself to the it has prepared to duce goods suitable for the north and west rather than the the Merrill afforded so much encouragement to domestic tbat the prospect for our own improves while that fur the foreign manufacturer decreases If foreign imports thus rule tbe balance of trade will be heavily in our favor in case our exports of breadstuffs and provisions should continue to be Our English cotemporaries say that the European demand is and that at ihe worst il can only be Supposing this to be tbe reduction of our exports would bring down prices here to scch an extent as to enable our merchants to ship grain and flour to Europe and compete with other producers in that market This is the grand test. vided we can supply the foreign demand for bread at lower rates than others we always be sure of these fads il appears the extraordinary c of our trade does as the London Times upon a forced prosperity arising from the expenditure of vast sums of money for war but from circumstances totally independent and arising from the peculiar na ture of the If the expenditures were to cease that even conld not affect the balance of if it had any effect i would be favorable to because the great number of factories now in work for the war would then devote their energies and capital to the ordinary avocations of As regards tbe stock of con- as the basis of trade and the representative of it mast be borne in mind the current of commerce being in our this stock of specie increases and with it the solid and enduring wealth of the before this being one of the principal products of th just like coal and a large item of export to meet the deficiencies in our foreign But since these deficiencies have ceased to our gold product is no longer ex- and for nine months past all the treasure sent hither frora the mines of Oregon and Washington has remained with menting oar ID this way our banks are becoming their specie snd the currency of the country We have im- ported from Europe about thirty millions of dollars in and from anr own gold mines about fifty so that our gain is about eighty millions of From the whole of the gold regions we have such extraordinary reports of new discoveries that a general rush and an immense overland emigration is expected next We reasonably look for a large increase of our product of and hence of our It has been supposed that the war would pot an to foreign but if the ican trade be lost to Europe to the ex- tent that it has been this there must arise next year a for from the unemployed operatives of Great France and and the revival of the rosb to America On the whole we consider tbe present commercial and financial condition of the country perfectly sound and and likely to If government will initiate a comprehensive system of by which the national revenues will be equal to our present expenditures a recourse to there need be no fears for the It is to that Coi press should at its session direct its tamest attention enues must be provided sufficient in lo our Singular Disturbance in The Emperor of Russia has his bands fully occupied at and there is no prospect of his reposing on a bud of ro- ses during the approaching winter Poland is in a state of many of the churches been by the Romish in consequence of their desecrated by the soldiery and the people are gloomily awaiting in nous silence an opportunity to strike for national Then again the serfs and the nobles are jarring with each and the good intentions of tbe monarch in the decree of emancipation fail of being Another element of confusion has and one which bids fair to en- danger tbe peace of the and to involve a large number of the of Russia in serious The sity of St. has been a number of the students have been ar- rested the commotion connected with proceedings has extended to Ka- nnd it is probable tbat at this ent time University education is ed all over the Russian Tha Universities of Russia have been founded by the the of supporting thp Professors and the these institutions was defrayed from the The students contributed almost nothing in the way of hence a large body of youth found their way into the classes from families whose means would not have enabled them to defray the cost of academic It seems that for several years past the great desire of the Russian Government has by means of University to produce a race of educated young men of con- servative in the same manner as Oxford and Cambridge have moulded ihe of It was known in Russia that the English Universities had up as democratic that the Government seldom interfered with that management lay in the hands of the members j and for generations a were fumed for their conservative men from all parts of the dom and from different classes of with widely views and varied entered Ihe halls on the banks of the Isis and the Cam nnd yet tbe result was always the The Russian Government then believed that all tbat was necessary to accomplish was to erect the endow chairs for the dency of learned and collect the consequence of the which the Government conferred on and which they could not fail to it was turn out models of loyalty and filial It tbat the result has been altogether The dents have brought all the impulsiveness of with them into their class In intercourse they have freely dis- cussed the leading questions of the in with and other exciting and their deci- sions have been such as to indicate a tendency to ultraism which tbe ment is uot prepared to sanction In these tbe Emperor ed tbe course of imposing a moderate fee to be paid for and although the amount was forty dollars per the excluded a large number who were ble to such a A lar of a semi military had also been worn by the and this uni- form they were called to Forthwith a storm arose and raged with fury the They had not the liberty of meeting in a public assembly to criticise the conduct of the yet they violated the law and met. The character of mny be easily The chief officer of the University at St it an who had distinguished himself on the China estate is felt to be that attach ment to national institutions be displayed by the youth of the ire which it. is ihe desire of the to with discontented serf's unsettled in a transition and contending with the former with tbe youth of the land in fiery nnd Poles prepared for ihe of all ibe Russias may join with tbe and say lies the head that a crown Hie New FLOATING THE leaves are afloat on the river This snuny autumnal Now now tossed by the Or down in the eddies at There are some that are crimson in There are some that are faded and old Yot alike are they all passing onward As fast as the moments are adown Life's magical river Our forever and Like those leavea of the chill frosty Are floating and gliding For time is the fast-flowing And the waves are the hours of the They are drifting ns are floating forever They us down to the To fathomless And my heart thrills with dread While I dream what the future may Shall our barks some moment If we're Be by the waves of And we and our frail barks be lost f Or shall we glide safe to the And enter the haven of And with Life's toilsome voyage all Find a home in the realm of the 1SC1. When a conflict has occurred it is some times conceded that fought like well report of the the New Orleans the story of ihe attack on avcs at Santa Rosa of the embellishments which the South side annals of tbe again reliable ever aud start up in various from New Ym or with stories of are truly to some of these veracious reporters t ihe Savannah the districts are raving for emploi the poor throng the in frenzied the shops and ces of business in New York city nearly all trade is utterly and it is a common thing to eeu well dressed young meu iu the streets begging But the high sublime of deep ab- is attained iu a recent ment by a Richmond editor that he is informed of Lincoln's purpose to issue a proclamation of divorce be- tween all Secession husbands with Union or Union husbands with Secession and that henceforth all marriage contracts with Secessionists shall be con- null and This is a sweetly suggestive h What a felicitous prospect fur restive Benedicts and their pining were but true All other tions might be peccadilloes if this enfranchisement were and and socially With what haste would the fly to Secession ir and Union ism if or for the sake of the manship rested its luver on matrimonial It might be belter for the South thebe were Tbe enemy they picture would be con- to meet and easy to An army cruel yel senseless The Inventive Genius of the celebrated once but combining the frenzy of ics the imbecility of fighting and next to him is a military as a triumph of the culinary tbat be had invented a sauce which wonld make a man experience nothing but de- light in eating his own We our Southern friends on a similar sance being moral rather than Having sat down to a secession banquet of they have garnished it with a precious com- pound which disguises its trne arid imports a hot and spicy flavor that deceives and stimulates and both those who concoct and those who j swallow it. No cauldron ever seethed with more ingenious poisons than those ineffable fictions which daily en the pages of some of the Southern aud are handed out to tbe de- multitude as positive truths Tbe North can no longer boast cf an exclusive monopoly of One j patent at belongs to the I subjects of Kinp Their is certainly Tbe quickness of the ful assurance of the ness of illustration which they either improvise or premeditate a and trans- mute an abstract conception into a tive evinces a high poetic which himself might have If they adopt a small fact to it by their artistic so and as to resemble the original no more than a Sheffield razor resembles the crude ore from which it was They have long implored and waved their handkerchiefs across the water in hopes of a responsive nod from the of Eur We only hope they will be recognized in the transparent blaze of and written down in the annals of We do not know whether their is encyclopediacal all tbe subjects that it touches chieftain occupying n position somewhat similar to the of an En- i and he had been v noted for bis services in the They were obliged to such men generally move with promptitude find tbe youths requested to send a to A was nnd as soon as d themselves to the authorities they were arrested and thrown into the doors of the University were and commotion spreading to and to other public a tbe rapid of tn be- in Under our I lhe of hare lhc ln nnd ID be io ibe of while at the imports of fallen to very low in consequence of the low of tbe the of of the boosts in it the inability of the free to bay as as heretofore for their own con- fun ion will change I similar course and for OF NEWSPAPERS i the time University education has is the Mim that is patronize n been suspended in Russia itu The has overlooked the fact -In and tbe Universities have It made lhc alumni the conservatives ts fill a thc worrd knows the English nut that is themselves to the subscription Every j They enter spirit of son is from home at ism deeply seated tn their er they ore the sons ef of or of country gentlemen of ed they all feel that they have 1 a Flake in the and innovation 1 or They all foon learn thai chances and families that bj trade this fts rapidly 11 whose hern in the it is altogether different until of n ro d- I I supply him with a piper I remember what o there was those of my I school mates who and who had not hare 'n fame time oor who the rational forces at battle of Wild Cat is and a the PuteM where the of Mr the of i aie treated without partiality or we have specially noted the and tact of their statements tbe Union troops and the general state of affairs in the loyal In the first the or as the ad- herents to the Government are cally are j j and fit to serve the true masters and real rulers of this of are the subjects of i Davis The only of the war is tbe emancipation of the philanthropy for the debased and incidentally the live love of and booty j ever the Union forces they mark their route with thereby the indignation of nil or neutral and hatred the It is that any army FO corrupt should brine for of its i members fortunate to be taken invariably Uglify to their of the their of their for this tion From the we a few months via Richmond that i Lincoln of the up in the of two or three hindred was hourly tit hn IT i firs i for fanaticism and not for for personal gain and not for national would readily fly before a brave armed and fortified by a steadfast But they have no such isls 10 deal The multitudes who are enrolled in latest and most rious have highest and bent their hopes on ihe preservation of according lo lhc Loving and their they stand reudy to personal and life In this They seek neither revenge nor nor interference any or They go forth lo save the from its and to protect if need from mistaken Tbe bulwarks of moral and and vast resources await their command insult will not harm them and they can well afford to smile at tbe hoods whose puerile malace only reacts on the narrators SQUIBS FROM YANITY for Military ihe places furnish tbe most men for the 1 Because every oue goes thut to John an eye tc Too Modest Savannah per says that ihe secession leaders are true as That is too modest They far surpass af A Regiment of York thinks a of ted Hotel Keepers would be very efti cient they're so fierce iu thei be well AFFECTING said a horticulturist to bis love one yon conld only see my Isabella How each day she developes new over me so honey so sweet lo the taste Angelina suddenly fell to the floor like a she love ar- and swooned I killed the jumping up ar u his You for tbe didn't mean only grapevine An- gelina recovered nre too fit to die in Tbe Brf o' and ent. ore carefully to these come those of thc cabins ara ruder inch or tnr of lite and en cks on may be eludes wish no other tbe impress of hot tbe and are of rarely a by fit very to To a Ici 1 ro t Mr. n
