ing; and it is said they have determined to burn the city if they have to leave it.
Outrage of the Federals in Louisiana.
A correspondent of the Lynchburg Republican gives the particulars of the treatment of Major S Roberts, a veteran of 1812, at his farm in the vicinity of Baton Rouge.
The enemy learned that his two sons, one captain of a guerrilla company, and the other a regular Confederate soldier, were at their father's house.
The letter says:
Collecting a body of his men,
Knowing too well what would be their fate, they determined to die rather than surrender.
Seizing a gun, Josiah was about to make the best of a defence, when he fell at his father's door, pierced by several balls.--Major S. Roberts, a veteran of 1812 and 1815, and
upwards of four score years, grasped the gun from the hands of his dying son, and shot down Colonel McMilton.
The officer next in command then ordered his men to charge bayonets upon and murder the "d — d old scoundrel." The o
somewhat larger.
In the campaign of Friedland (1807) the military strength of the Empire approached 800,000 men, and in the campaign of Wagram (1809) it quite came up to that figure.--All these campaigns were eminently successful.--That of Russia（1812) was a failure, from causes not at all dependent on the strength of the invading army.
The distance from home, the climate, the rugged resistance of the Russians, the difficulty of procuring supplies — and other causes might be enumerated.
Charles XII, one century before, failed quite as badly as Napoleon did in 1812, and his army was little more than one- tenth part as large as that of the latter.
Decisive battles are usually fought by a very small proportion of the entire force.
At Austerlitz the French numbered 80,000 men, while the strength of the Empire was 651,000.
At Jena, 126,000 French only were engaged.
At Friedland 80,000 French decided the fate of the war. although there were in Poland nearly 300,000 French soldiers
he two battles which crippled his force were fought on the 7th and 19th of that month, and on the 17th of October he surrendered at Saratoga.
Washington performed the long march which brought him from the banks of the Hudson to those of the York in September and October, and captured Cornwallis and his whole army on the 19th of October. The battle of Brandywine was fought on the 11th of September, and on this very day (8th September) Green fought the desperate battle of Entaw.
In the war of 1812, the battles of Lakes Erie and Champlain were fought in September; the one Sept. 10th, 1813, the other Sept. 11th, 1814, both on Sunday.
Brown made his famous sortie from Lake Erie on the 2d September, 1814. On the 12th of the same month the British army was repulsed in its advance upon Baltimore, and the next day the bombardment of Fort McHenry took place.
On the 8th of September, 1847, our troops gained a victory in front of Mexico, and on the 14th, (the anniversary of the entry of Jerusa
nment.
The National Rifles, of this city--eighty rifles strong — have also tendered their services in the field for the defence of Washington.
A Government transport arrived this morning from Fort Columbus, New York, bringing 170 deserters, in charge of Lieutenant Carpenter, of the 17th infantry.
They are from nearly every division of the army.
They were all sent under guard to the Old Capitol.
I hear, also, that Colonel Williams, of the organization of soldiers of the war of 1812, has suggested at the War Department that if their services are needed they will be forthcoming, and the proffer was graciously received.
Gens. Halleck and McClellan were closeted yesterday, and the latter at once proceeded to join the army of Gen. Pope, where he was received with great acclamations.
It is said that from the capitol dome long trains of Government wagons may be seen across the river, and immense masses of troops.
The Confederates have followed up closely, having come do
The late Judge Lomax.
A purer character than John Taylor Lomax' whose lamented death we have lately chronicled, never graced Virginia in her best days.
He was born on the 19th of January, 1781; studied the profession of law, and obtained the first rank in the courts in which he practiced.
In 1812 he joined the army and hold the rank of Colonel till the close of the war. At the solicitation of Ex-President Jefferson; he was appointed Professor of Law at the Virginia University, a post which he filled with signal honor and usefulness.
In 1831, he was appointee, Judge of the Fredericksburg Circuit, and a few years thereafter was made Doctor of Laws by St. John's College at Annapolis, His legal works, published about this time, received the highest recommendations from the jurists of the old Union.
He was thrice elected to the office of Judge, and for more than twenty-five years wore the judicial ermine with a dignity, ability, and reputation rarely equalled.
An honor almost une
with his wounds, but he left a very short time before their arrival.
Fire.--The houses in Fredericksburg occupied by the Messrs.
Richards and Mr. Haydon were burnt on Tuesday.
Court Records Destroyed.--The fall term of the Circuit Court opened at, Spotsylvania Court-House on the 6th instant.
The record room exhibited the marks of the vandals.
The room was more than knee-deep with papers and records, mutilated, torn up, and destroyed.
We believe that all the important papers from 1812 to the present time had been removed before the Federal visited the county.
Price of Corn.--The high price of $10 per barrel has been paid for corn in the upper part of Spotsylvania by a Government agent, but it was only because of a pressing necessity at the time, when such a price ought not to have been demanded.
$7 per barrel is about the ruling rate for corn in the section of the country we have named.
It does not command this price in Fredericksburg, we believe.
Affairs in Ki
and abducted many slaves from Long Island and elsewhere, and carried these slaves to Nova Scotia or to the West Indies, there to be re-enslaved; and in the war of 1812. Great Britain exercised a like power over this slave property of the United States.
John Quincy Adams, at a Minister to England, as Secretary of State of the Uniuage of John Quincy Adams, in his correspondence with the British Government upon the subject of slaves emancipated during the war of the Revolution and the war of 1812.
Under this remonstrance, and through the treaty of Ghent, one million two hundred thousand dollars were paid by the British Government to the Southern slaveholders for property thus abducted and emancipated during the war of the Revolution and the war of 1812.
[Applause,] Hence, as the proclamation is not right under the Constitution, it is no more right under the laws of war; nor is it right to the loyal men in the disloyal States of this Union.
No negro-government Partnerships.
Rebels and buccaneers
It is amazing to observe the facility with which such terms as "rebels and buccaneers" fall from the line of Yankee rebels and Yankee privateers men. The chief and only glory that ever attached to the Yankee name was its "rebellion" against a tyranny which was mercy itself compared with the despotism of Lincoln; and the achievements of their own privateers in the war of 1812 have afforded them an inexhaustible topic of collegium and self-gratulation.
The ink is scarcely dry on the paper with which they vindicated privateering against the world, be are they discover that it is piracy, and denounce our gallant naval officers as buccaneers.
Rebels and buccaneers!
We never before realized the atrocity of our conduct.
Rebels against Yankees and rebels of this and it reminds us of the man who many years ago, for some misconduct, was ordered to be drummed our of a company of military in this city, not then composed of the best materials.
They their comrade,
cher.
He had taught them, and knowing nothing else but what they had learned from him, they presumed, as a matter of course, that he must know everything.
There had never been a war on a grand scale in the country, and they had never had an opportunity of seeing war on a grand sealed abroad.
We can now look at the exploit's of Gen. Scott through the medium of the mighty military transactions that have taken place within the last year, and truly they seem very diminutive.
In the war of 1812 he was second in command in the battles of Chippewa and Lundy's Lane — hard-fought engagements between some eight or ten regiments, the sum total of the forces on both sides — on neither occasion reaching ten thousand men. It does not appear from any account we have read that there was any manæovering — anything calculated to bring out any other quality of a General than stu been courage.
Yet his services in these little affairs made him, in the eyes of a people unused to war upon a large sc
down.
There are two candidates for the place of Commander in Chief--Fremont being urged by the Radicals, and McClellan by the Conservatives.
The Herald says Chase may be Premier, and R. J. Walker Secretary of the Treasury.
The Herald says it is believed that neither the people nor the army will submit to Fremont in place of Halleck, or to the retention of Stanton; and adds, that if such a course be pursued the newly elected Governors of six of the great States (Imitating Massachusetts in 1812) will recall their troops from the field, and demand a change of policy.
It also says, in the present posture of affairs the alternative is presented of forming a new Cabinet upon the emancipation platform, or of adopting the conservative policy of Mr. Seward--in the former case there is danger that New York will abandon the war, in the latter case, the entire force of the Radicals will be brought to bear against him. The most intelligent observers, it continues, believe the proclamation wi
