The Rebels Feel The Desperation Of Their Situation

Kiiiin Itfchmnii'l Km.hiïiht. Vvh. 4. We havo n thoiisund proofs tliat tlie dnutlioru people are not sufficiuntly nlive ] to t!ic iicccssity of exertiou in the Etrug ! gle thejf are involvod in, Our vcry viet oricn havo brought hijrtty Opon the cause by teaching us tn despi.se tho public dveríttryí The immense magullado of his preparations fflf ttttf subjiigation luía ex eited ut) nppn'liánsioii, Mid bad liltlo oftct ui routing ua to rxevtion. Wc repose (uirt'.y in ifcfl lp of security whon cvoïj facul'y rif uur imiui'i's rliould be ruttáüd tu ao'imi. The evidencié of tlic prcvailing ! timent nve iiuitiifuld. Tliey ure provcd by Hie cl of ilion vlio aro elected to re[poirirtbte pnsitiuiis. M n df palliativea, oxpedients irtid p:irti:il niea.surcx control in our pulilic councils. Mou who could liOt peivc.ve the coming storm tliat is now upon üs, kvú who contiiiued to cry peace, wlieu poaro liad consed to bc posfible, iro those who roceive the 'argest support for controlling stations. The government is nlmost turucd over already to these pnssive cbaracters, who look upon oonBscition as barbarous, aggression as impolitic, nnd vigorous war as ik policy to be lu'okled, beeausc tendhig to inceoso the e;iemy againft US. TIn! men who deseried the cloud of war when it wu no bigger than a man's hand, and who t-an now sec no peftee but ns the resvilt of vigorona measures, nnd renewed and ri-pented victories, are relegated to subordínate pneitious; and thair views being a burntiig rebuke to the utatcsmeti iu positiod, they are laboriug under the woight of itnplied censure - 'Jo Win R figlit by an aggressivo movement is to incur a sort of obloquy ; and to lose a battle in a brave push upon the foe ia to provokc a chuckle of satisfactiou, and the taunt "l tcld you so.:' Ketter to fight at the risk of losing battles, thnn remain inaetive to fill up inolbrions graves. JJetter tliat governinent and peoplo sbould bo roused to du t3' by dt-feat. than tlmt the anny should go to slc-ejv the govermnent dose and the people gTow Srowéy, in the very jaws of dertructróu. To fill our public councils with men of passive nu'asures, who would achninister war on homeopathie principies, wlio would whip the cnemy by eowardice and slotli, is to paralyze the government nud enérvate the people. The people nro aüve to the demanda of the crisis ; hut if Congress ppews upon theni they grow tamo ai:d crouching. Iu the midót of rcvolution no greater calamity can befall a people than for tbeir affairs to pass iuto the control of men who could not understand it in the beginning, and are inrapable of apviiecia ting the deinands of the crisis as they irise. The Freiu-b, iu iheir revolution, had n easy way of getting rid of such charucters- they chopped off tlieir bsads. Tbey feit it necessary, as all subsequeut opinión has acknowiedged, to push their revolutiou through to a climax, at any cost, and, thougli often with tears aud sorruw, thoy guülot'mcd the public men who leaued back against the baroesa. - Tlioir revolution suceecded, and owcd ts euccess solely to their excesses. Thoy passed to the proiniscd laod through a red sea of blood. Oíd iustitutions, abuses and cnormitics werc swept away, with efery relie of opinión that uphcld thein. Franco becamc a tabula rast. upoii which a iiew destiny was to bo writteu. All Europc moved agniust her more formidably than the nortlieru hordes are bolcaguring our own country; but such was the fiery earncstness of her leaders, and her people, that the gathering hosts of invasión were seattered to the four ■winds. At last, it must be eonfessed that the subjugation ot a nation is not to be deftMted so mueh by aruiies and guns as by the fierce resolution of its rulcrs and people. vAn unconquerable will and fierco combativo purpose are moro effective than invincible anus. - Djcs such a fiery purposc blaze iu our goveruinent, impartiug its hot flame to thu hearts of our people? Therc are two things needful for the onrlv extinction of this war. We must first banish f rom the couutry every strangtr iu it who caunot give a satisfactory account of his purposes and objects here. Tuis riddance oi' spies is a measure of importance, but coinparatively of minor importauce. The uext thing requisito is for the wholc community to throw themBelves hoart and soul into the war, and practico all the selfdeuial that the crisis deinauds. AVhy should tho couutry be taxed with the support of the hundreds of hack teams employed iu Ilicumoud, when, if eacli gentleman would conueut to walk a few squares, hursca euough for a dozen or two batteries, well broken and well conditioned, with a complement of teamsters, could be tbus securod to tb.2 army? This is but a single instance to show what might be accomplished by a general spirit of patriotic self denial. - What a vast system of expenditure, now cxh.iustcd upon mere luxuries, might be turued to advantagc iu the war, if the pampered classes of society would but consent to a temporary acrifice of useless pleasurc ! lio who will take the piins to ru:i through the whole catalogue of items which eould thus be turned to valuable account in tho war, will be astoowlied at the extent aud valuo of latent resources which the country affords. - Tho inoat efficiënt class to bring out tha men aud resources of the couutry iu tliis war have been its woiten. In the great struggles of Dation, Hke that in whiuk we ure engügod, tlioy sbould Iiave qucecs for thcir rulers; fur it 8 woman alone who is proof against the perguaions of tiiue-scrvers and the sin of backliding. There has beea but one Lot' wife iu all the tide of time. EaRTHQI.AKE IN CONMBCTICDT. - On Suaday eveuiti" of last week, about 8 )'clock, the ghoek of an eurthquake was ïoticed at several localitios in .New Loulon county, Connecticut. In East Lyme ind Old Lymc it was perceived, lasting hreo or four seconds in tftiu latter place. t Colchester it was quite severe, and xeited uo little alarm in the village. - congregation iu oue of the churches jut short the service and ran for the loor, accomplishiug the completo evacu tiou of the building in the quiekest time ver made thnre iu going out of meeting. ít sccmod rcully probable that the house might'be thrown down, so violent was Llio heaving of the grouud thcro as well nu in all the ueighborhood. People fled rrom their dwellings in terror and sought the streets. Such a sceno waa never before witnessed ia Colchester. Thia is not the only recent occurrence of the kiud. ün Tuesday, the 28th uit., about half-past 7 o'clock in the morning, a smart shock was feit at Saybrook, Essex, Chester, and other localitics iu MiddlewiX. county. It lasted but a few seconds however, and was nothing like so violent ks tho ona which seems to have made (JükUcstar tliü eeutral poiut of lts operatious. I3p TUc pílotg of tho Kssex, scalded to death, are Marshall A. Ford, of Pitts Imrgh, and Jóseph MeJJride of Cincin Bati, both old and retirod river pilotg who, iu a spirit of patriotiitn, proffcred their service to the governmeut when the eunboat ünterprise in the west was kiüa'ted. They botl Uave largc families