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0cmi-tocckhj Sentinel. aj&SKH&3K " To THK KITHU" AND PK11MANKNUV Ol' YOl'It IKlOX. A OoVKIINMUST Will THK WIIOI.K IS imh.siv,:hviii.k.'' Waridnyton, .JACKMOXVirjTiM.OItKOO.V. SATI.'KIIAV KVKXIX- MAV P, 1S61. Head Drailbiiry fs Wade's new mlvcr tiscincnt. Also, Win. H. Anderson':!. Rom: ItivKK is higher now tlinn nt nny time during lost winter, in coiwiptencu of the snow inciting' in the mountains. Our runners uro hnppy nt prospects or nVcr-nbundnnt crops or nil hinds or cetoals and jmuswp. Tho wet nnd wnrnt Spring has ken very favorable to vpgetntion. We uiulorfltatitl Unit the independent military company to lie orgunizptl nt Afu huiil today, numbers nliout seventy-live men. Good Tor the loyal Ashliiiidera. - -" T. 0. 0. P. The eights nunnnl commu nication o the Grand Lodge or Oregon, L 0. 0. P., will beheld in Corvallia on the third Wednesday or May. There arc fiftcoc hundred thousand men liable to be con?cribed under the new law. of the first elass. That is, between twenty and thirty nnd unmarried ! PiiOMOTnb. Mr. L. C. Bond, formerly Deputy Sheriff or Linn county, has received the appointment r '2d Lieutenant in the Oregon Cavalry. lie will open a recruit ing office in Albany. lion. Judge Prim started far Rowburp on Thursday last, to hold the Mny term of the Circuit Court for Douglas county, lion. I. 1). Hiincs nccoinpanied him to attend tlie meeting of stockholders of Ctlli yon Road Company. Five-sixth of all tho cattle consumed by tile rebel nrmy, nnd minimis or dollars worth ol' Iviglish goods have been placed in tho storehouses or the Confederacy ilirough Texnoi The supply from that Stnte has been lately cut oil'by our rtrmie3. IlnuoK TitiKvm. A couple of noisy Secessionists disappeared from Flla'nix last week,, about tho time that several horses were missed from tho neighborhood. The " highbred .Southrons" were trucked to the mountains, tho horses recovered, and their cquipngo confiscated ; but. un fortunately iho thieves escaped. Quite a number or horses havo lately been stolen from tho upper portion or our Valley. Our town was visted during the week by quite n number or soldiers from Cump Jtakeri who, wo nro happy to say, behaved themselves admirably well) considering the amount or bad whiskey they drunk. Wo hnvo not learned or any arrests having been made by tho Marshal, and with the excep tion of one or two, they were all ablo to navigate. Yesterday we did not observe nny in our streets, and our town roll back uguiii into the even tenor of its way. Sauoastio. Tho liicftmond Examiner (John Mitchell, editor) is waltzing in ufler the Mylo of that erratic individual to its ancient friends. In a recent number it thus ridicules tho speech of S. S. Cox. an Ohio Copperhead, who tried to seduce South Carolina from her Confederate alle giance by promises of Democratic sjm pathy ! "The. seductive song or the impassioned swain means : ' Help us, Carolinn, to n Democratic ticket Tor next Congress, and lm shall have part of the stealings. Have Have we not always, Oh, child of tho sun, lived and loved, and stolen together? How often have our hands met in tho same pocket of the innocent public, and fondly pressed one another? Williaul our dear Smith, the Democratic party tan plunder no more. Without thee, that once untcrrified party pines in solitude nnd despair ; it is one blado of a pair of scissors : it is the half of a hook and eye.1 So sin&rs tho pww of Ohio. Wfll 'Carollua harken to the gay seducer?" The Conduct of the War. ri'rom the S. V. Hulletln of Mny IMS In D.-cember, 18(il, Congrem uppoliitertl n. Joint Goinmittee on both' jiuiim in in vei-tigute the Conduct of tho war tovpui down the Slaveholder' Kclit'llioti. The Commit wo consisted ol' three St-nnlorB nnd four Rutin selitntivw. irtl their icpnrl. ! which wns published eaily in April, has just been reeei veil Here, n wouai "tyi at IcuhI a page and a hall' or the Bulletin, nnd vet. considering the ground it goon over, 'it is n couch) narrative, telling plain ly the lontr and bloody story, with only such brief document.", or portions of them, woven in as are iiceiwnry to convince the reader that the iiiTiTfiices he drnwa arc well bused. The report is signed by Sena tor. Wade of Oliio and Chandler of Mich igan, and llepiiscntalivi'S Goooh or Ma s'licliusetls, Covndc of Pennsylvania, Julian of Indiana, and Udell ol" S'ew York. The last niitufil is a Democrat all tliu other nrc Republican?, The toi-t'mony accom panying this rejiort may well bu volumin oik since nearly two hundred witnesses were examined, almost nil of them men in the military service of the Government, mid about 100 of them generals who had no short slory to tell. MeClellnn bad been some five months in command of the Army of the Potomac when the Committee was appointed. They bepan their inquiries, back of that date, and upon the battle, panic and rout of Bull Ituu and the disaster ot Jiaira Jiitiu, mane ! separate reports. This new report em t braces n history of tliu doings and disas ters or tliu Aruiv or the I'olouiac fiont the time ol its organization under aleUclIiin until Uuruside had leave to retire from its j command after the slaughter on the Rap i iiiilmnnock. Hays the report: "In the history of that army is to bo found all that , I is ni'ei'sary to enable your Committee to i lliid'ri! of the ' conduct or tliu war.' Jlurii ! ihu't nrmy fulfilled all that a geueinus and confiding people were justified in expecting I from it. this icbclliou had long since been j crushed out, niul the bhssiuas of peace ice- lored to the nation." If that is true, it be-' comes the great question of tho times to I ., - -.-, -- whom is chargealili! the lailurc ol thai army? The judgment or thu public has outrun the licul nnd faithfulness of the ! Cnnniniilto and found its answer. Nor t wc Miqicet lias the answer of the public , I ....... Li... ,t. .liM'..ir.1 fire.i.it iiilll flm,l tllilt flfl j the Committee, upon l lie main matters. I though upon minor issues tliero may be ! some disagreement. Wc can do no more ' to-day than indiculo the inrerencea that the I Committee would have thu readers ol' the icport and testimony draw, for upon some I points of great interest they slutu no dell , nite conuclusious of their own and find no verdict. General McCIellan was summoned to tako command of tho Army of tho Poto I muu soon olter tho battle of Dull Run, at ' tention being turned to him and confidence in him inspired by thu success of his cam I piiign in Western Virginia and General ' .Scott 'a favor. All resources wcic lavished 1 on him. and when Conines? assembled in December, 18(il, his atmy numbered 18:, 000 men. Thu Committee- :nred, and the President mid .Sect clary or War concur red in urging, the General to oigaui.i' lliisi beaut fit v cdiiuiiied nnd cuircr iiody ol soldiers Into corps d'armee, but McCIellan objected, and nothing of that sort was at- 1 tempted until March, and then only in pur- 'sauce of tho Picsidcnfa repealed orders, to be suspended naaiu temporarily in May. Tho sticiiffth of "the enemy wus nt this .time estimated nt from 70,000 to 210,000 those who formed tho highest estimate bnsiti!; their opinion on information re- 1 ceived nt heiidqurters. .Subsequent events nrovo that tho lower estimate lur outnum bered thu actual Inico of tho enemy. It was ilinnulit Hint from fiO.000 to 80,000 men ought to bo left fur tho defence of Washington. Tho Committee say thu ex pensive fortifications about the capital nev er were properly manned, and when the movement of the tinny commenced in March they were entrusted to raw and in experienced troops. Tho blockade of the Potomac was deemed a great disgruco and the imvv essayed to remove it. For this jpurpoMj thtfv asked the co-operation of 1-1,000 troops. McCIellan promised the I troops but never forwarded them. dipt. Craven threw up ins command in disgust, ( and the Potomac blockade remained until ll... ....Iwiln lfi.llllllnl.llll iitli,inil It ' lllu ILLIUIU , l.llill.tl.. lljf .lliu.lt. A forward movement unon Manassas Junction was ordered by tho President in lammrv. 18(12. McCIellan objected to going .South by that route, pretuinn An - --,-.-- .. - . napolisaud tho Rappahannock, and inas- gated bullets, mnilo by h. l. illiaois, re iniicli us ii cuuncil of war backed the Gen- ewly adopted and gradually being brought oral's proposition, tho President gave tip his plan. Rut. before MeClcllun started, tho enemv evacuated Manassas. Then Mc CIellan, abandoning his own plan, moved his nrmy towurd Manassas, but halted the greater part of it near Fairfax Court House. On tho liUh of March McCIellan telegraphed to tho War Department that a plan of operations laid been agreed Upon. The Secretary replied, "Whatever plan has been agreed upon, proceed at onco to exe cute it, without losing an hour for my np proval." Tho President approved the plan nnd wrote : " At all events movo in pur suit of the enemy at onco by some route" stipulating only that Manassas bo ictained beyond contingency, and Washington left secure Then commenced tho Peninsula cam paign. To make Washington secure Mc CIellan vouchsafed 18.000 troops instead of ilw 65,00 that the Commanders in coun ell advised, and the President Jnterfertil so fir as to order McDowell's corps to rrmain und save the capital from danger. McCIel lan arrived'oti'tlic PenliiMila on- the 2d of Anrll. au llilWII tO a lOlfllllir siCtfO Of Yofli- town, thontrll'the testimony now shows that but 20.000 rebels' were' there to oppose him. President Lincoln wrote hint--" Tho country will not fail to noteis nnllmj now that the present hesitation to move on an entrenched position ! but the slory or Mtinnssiis repeated.'1 McCIellan wrote for men. more transportation and more nimt. Tim President on the first ot May answered him, " Your cull for Parrot t unns from Wiishiugton alarms me, clueiiy ue eniisfi it iirL'ttes inileliiiilo nrocrustitmtiou. lstinvlhingto Ire done?" .lust ns AleUlelliin wn renoy 10 ( open fire Iheenemv evneuated Yorklown, in the niirlit atnv lldV and without loss. Then camo thu battle or Willimburg. won by FfntiUcr, and the march up the peninsula, and more calls Tor more men from McCIel lan. and especially Tor McDowell's corps. Hut bv that time Jneknii was chnsintr Hanks 'down the Shenandoah Valley, and the President telegraphed to McCIellan ' ir McDowell's forro was now beyond our reach wc (at WnshitiL'ton) should bo ut terly helpless.'' .So McDowell was not sent to the Peninsula. On the .'list or May we lost the battle nf Seven Pines, nnd on the 1st of June gained tho field of Fair Oaks. Hooker pushed hi scouts to with in lour mill's or Richmond on the 2d. and ho testified that then if McCIellan had been n-ndv for an advance the mad to tho rebel rnpiinl was open. On the 20th of June McCIellan had 1G.838 men in his nrmy. vet ho telegraphed that the enemy outnnm-1 Wed him. Hesiiinltiff with the 2(5th ofl June, the terrible Seven Days battle lo-1 gnu to rage, when-lit the Army or the Po-l toinac covered itself with glory, n with ' sear", vet their beloved commander hud lost j confidence in them ! The Committee com ment with severity upon tho fact that these I battles were loiicht. anil mo troops iiunmen by the Corps Commanders without direc tions Horn McCIellan, nnd the evidences in their possession that nolhiig but the heavy rain, which made it impossible for the enemy to bring up their artillery, saved the a nny from utter destruction whilo it lay huddled at Harrison's l-ir. We find mim-lvi-M not half ll.rnu.fh- the Committee's report, but must pause here to resume at J tin enrlv day tho study ot inese reunion which throw into such deep shade those movements which in common with the ' whole loyal people wo struggled hard ns j tl.nv uwp ti-luifrunhfd to iw in outlino to believe brilliant strategy and the result or military genim. So far tho Committee produces much to tho honor of tho men, l.tlle to thu credit of their commanders, and least of nil. to that of tlioir chief Com mander, McCIellan. Profkskop. Paiwoxb ox Slavery. Prol'essor Parsons, or tho Catnbrigo L-iw School, has published ti very interesting pamphet on ' Slavery, its Origin, Influence and Destiny." The subject is surveyed from n point or view both or tho moralist anil jurist. Wo give a single paragraph as illustrating thu tenor of the work : The preservation of our nationality will 1r. nneessarilv. at some time and in some wnv. the death of slavery. For tho heart ' and essence of our nationnl existence is the principle of freedom. Thin principle has grown in development nnd strength beyond thu principles or slavery, not by nny ncci dent, but because it could not lie other wise in a nation rounded as ours was, and characterized and circnmslttnced as ours lias been, and is. and must continue to be 60 long as we uro a nation. Thu South felt this. The Southern mind has become essentially n slave mind. Many persons tliero uro probably unable to form a con ception of nationniity or civilization with out slavery; ard some hnvo avowed this. Their hatred of thu " accursed Yankee' is only nn expression of lovo or slavery ; Ynn keeistn being with them tin impersonation or non-slavery. They saw plainly, or they felt instinctively, that slavery would perish if our nationality Fliould continue. The death of slavery seems to them thoir own doath. They arc fighting for life. They aro fighting to destroy' our nationality, hecauso if our nationality lives slavery must die. In nil this they are not mistak en. The onlv stranso thing is, that we do not see this as plainly ns they do. Ti'.vs or Rn.urrs. Tho army of tho U. S. used, during the year 18G2, 1(5,000 tuns of bullets. By an improvement in clou- lino I no service, sacu a mniuiion in mu weight is elected that it Is calculated that a saving of six million dollars n year will bo made In th? expense of metal and trans portation. It will savo to tho army of the Potomac alone 200 ammunition wagons. A New Hampshire Captain says ho has in his company forty-livo men, nine-tenths of whom voted tho Democratic ticket, when nt home. So intense is their opposi tion to tho recent movements of boiuo of tho leading Democrats, that tho privates would about as soon shoot u ' peace" Dem ocrat us u rebel. Thk News. Wo publish in full the tel egraph news received hero on Thursday and Friduy nights. To Union men tho news will be " a cup of joy dashed with vinegar," -- NEW TO-DAY. Fifty ThowmntVDbllnrs in Coin $60 000 'in1 Greenbacks. TvWlNG td my hnvlng, resolved upon U making a change oP'tinsu line. 1 will Oh' Saturday next, May 16th, nt 11 o'clock a.m., sell at public miction, all of my camp eiiuipagu ami commis-ary stores, consisting of a ol'a, chairs, I rocking chairs, 5 chillis' chairs, dining tables, cent' r tables! bedsteads, building, bureaus. 8 out puts (mot three-ply brussuls), 2 cooking stoves and furniture, 2 heating stoves ; Iv.t elicit, dining room and table furniture, table linen, skirls, pillow-slip", blankets; pulu. wool and straw mattresses; mirrors, Hour, oncoii. pickled pork, potatoes, salt, sugar, e.oll'ci;, candles : and many other things to numerous to mention. WM. II. AXDRRSON. Jackson vlllo, Ogn.. May th, 18li:j. M. A. BRENTANO IS NOW SELLING J5JT1 CoST Ills stock of 0"wl m JLc3iaM9 FAMILY GROCERIES, ETC., ETC. All who wish to oblnin RAROAINS will do well lo call. m it i absolutely his inten tion to dispose of said stock and -nvTiir.- JTirst Day of June ffezt. Jacksonville. May U. If fill. nPIIH undersigned give nolleo Hint from L and after tho llrt day of June net, Ihev will rhnruo twenty-live cents per ton on nil goods left in store, which are snlifeot to orders. Dl'fJAN'.tWALL. Cru'ccnt Cily. April :, IWijI maytir Q. W. GREER. PHYSICIAN AND SURGKON. OIlUc nt his KcoldciK'c nn Oregon .St. JACKSOXVIl.t.K, OnKOO.V. Where all llitw knowing tliemselves In di'bted to him. on note or book account, will please call and settle up. or their ac count will bu placed for collection in thu hands of my attorney. My old i olron will still find inn, an cirr, ready to attend to my professional duties. May ('., 18li:i. mayn't f A.T COST! AND GOING NORTH. Ho IMqoih Oilers to sell his entire stock of MERCHANDISE WITHOUT RESERVE All those desiring JJnr gaiias should cull Im mediately, as ho will close out forthwith. All who think that they have heretofore paid too much for Goods, should call nt II. HLOOM'S STORE nnd get even. COME ONE, COME ALL Now is Your Time TO GET As ho positively intends SEIXINa OFF AT COST Jacksonville. Mnrcli 18. 18fi!t. WE havo this day sold our stock of mer clinudiso to Air. Max Mui.unt. From our friends and patrons wo would tolioit for Mr. Mui.i.Kit a cutitimiano of their lib eral patronage. J. A. JiUUNNEll & UHO. Jnuksonvllu, July 1 Villi, lHll'J. 'jj B GMA)UK AND PltODUCK taken in ex- chungo lor Merchandise, nt July 1 !). 27 M AX M ULLKR'B. C LOCKS Different styles, good time-' J pieces, to bo hud at tho October 2-4. VARIETY STORE. BRADBURY & WADE, JACKSONVILLE, lC7f7tla.oleaM.lo cto R.ota.11 -IWAI.KIW IX- DRY GOODS, CLOTPiiisre, BOO'ffS & SHOES, BASTGY GOODS, HAT .A-HNTSD A.3IP3, GROCERIES, " PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, Tobacco & Segars, PRODUCE, II ARD W ARK. (J L ASK W ARK. QUKKNSWARK. WOODIONWARI-:, MINERS' TOOLS, All of which will bo .old nt low prices, for UASII.ordwiniblu PRODUCK. BEADBHRY & WADE ARK NOW RKCKIVINfi A Largo & Well-Selected STOCK OF Spring & Summer goods, NEW STYLES DRESS AND Millinery Goods ! Fancy and Staple CARPETING, Oil Cloth, Wall Paper, MEN AND BOYS' Spring & Summer CLOTTrlZSTGh, HATS AND CAPS! AND ALSO A Fine Assortment of Ladies, Men and Boys' Boots and Shoes! 0VU PIWKXIX AAD ASIILAff D Will bo supplied with n Good Asssorlmcnt -or- STAPLE AND MiW GOODS Which will bo sold at JACKSONVILLE PRICES. P IIOTOGRAPH ALBUMS nt UUADUURY & WADK'S. SAN FRANCISCO Woolen Mills. RlunketH, OvershirtB nnd Army Cloth, at RRADHUUY& WADK'S. STATIONERY & RLANIv HOOKS at URADBURY & WADK'S. F INK CIGARS AND TOUACCO ut URADBURY & WADE'S. W OOD AND WILLOW WARK at BRADBURY & WADK'S. TMNK TKAS nt BRADBURY A' WADK'S. " t nrr r nnAnt.itiiiLi . 1 niMniMTIrV X.UMlUVfi. MlUtPUU iVl IV II 4&-r4 - I 4
