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CURIOUS PIECE C 
ON THE 
ANTIQUITY 
CRUCIFIXION OF OUR SAVIOR, 
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Explanation. —The middle Cross represents our Savior’s; those on either side, the iwo thieves. 
On the top, and down the cross, are onr Savior’s expressions—“My God! My God' Why hast thou 
forsaken me?” And on the top of the cross is the following Latin inscription:—“ fiiri Jesus 
Nazarenus Rex Judeorum:" the interpretation is, “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.” Upon the 
cross, on the left hand, is the prayer of one of the thieves—“Lord! remember me when thou 
comest into thy kingdom.” On the right hand Gross is the saying or reproach of the other;—“If 
thou be'est the Christ save thyself and us.” The whole comprised together, makes an excellent 
piece of poetry, which is to be read across all the oolumns, and makes as many lines as there are 
letters in the alphabet. It is perhaps one of the moot curious pieces of composition to be found 
on record. 
ml IJiM-fJote 
NEWS DEPARTMENT. 
“ Wo! wol to tbe traitor who drags to the mire 
The Hag crimsoned deep with the blood of his sire; 
If he rouse up the legions on land and on sea, 
Wo are ready to die for the Flag of the Free!” 
ROCHESTER, N. Y„ OCTOBER 26. 1861. 
THE WAR’S PROGRESS. 
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What the Rebel* Propone. 
We clip the following interesting detail of the * 
policy of the rebels from a late issue of the Rich- l 
mond Enquirer : 
The natural boundary of the Confederate States on 1 
the north is along the Missouri River to the Missis- 1 
sippi; thence along the Mississippi to the mouth of 
the Ohio; thence along the Ohio to the Virginia line; 
thence along the Virginia and Northern Maryland line 
to the Atlantic. The Ohio line is tbe most important 
port ion of this frontier. The battle of Manassas set¬ 
tled the question of the independence of the South 
in the public opinion of the world. All the rest of 
the lighting that has occurred, or that which will 
have to be done, will be a mere contest for boundaries. 
The boundary Is the real issue in Missouri; that is 
the issue also in Kentucky; it is the issue in North¬ 
west Virginia, aud it will soon be the issue in 
Maryland. 
It is a noteworthy fact that all the country for 
which future hostilities will be conducted by the 
South, has become disputed ground by the action of 
its own inhabitants. In Missouri the people were 
divided, a large portion of them espousing the cause 
of the Lincoln Government. In Kentucky the case 
was the same; the counsels and aid of the gallant 
sons of that State were lost to the South by the 
treachery of its demagogues and its Dutch. In 
Western Virginia the Hessian politicians and the 
Hessian men did the same bad work. In Maryland 
the treason of the Hickses and the Hessians brought 
in upon Southern soil the invader and the despot. In 
Eastern Virginia, where Hiekismand Hessianism un¬ 
fortunately had, for a time, full sway, the important 
Fortress of Monroe, which would now be worth a 
million a day to us, was surrendered to the Yankees. 
Southern independence is already achieved; but 
the war cannot be closed until we shall have recov¬ 
ered the Southern territory which was basely surren¬ 
dered to the invader by Southern traitors. Until we 
shall have planted our banners along the- natural con¬ 
fines of our country, the war must go on. Had this 
territory not been basely relinquished the war would 
have already been ended. All the life, and treasure, 
and sickness, aud suffering, which it shall henceforth 
cost our country, will be upon the souls of the base 
men who betrayed their native soil, their homes and 
hearthstones to the invader. 
It is idle to think of peace until we shall have re¬ 
conquered tbe surrendered country lying south of the 
boundary we have defined. Geographically, politi¬ 
cally, and strategically, Kentucky is a part of the 
South, which she cannot afford to surrender to North¬ 
ern control and jurisdiction. We cannot afford to 
have imaginary boundary lines with the Yankees. 
The line of Keutucky and Tennessee i» too intangible 
1 to mark the separation betweeu North and South. 
Without a bold, natural line of separation, like the 
1 great Ohio River, the border population of the South 
would be as completely demoralized through all 
’ future time, as experience has proved it to have been 
daring the events of the last five months. 
the two Confederacies are too dissimilar and antago¬ 
nistic to be divided by a merely mathematical lino. 
While the two populations were associated under one 
political union, even then we had enough of the 
Underground Railroad. We mnst establish our 
separation by such distinct landmarks that that in¬ 
stitution will have no further existence on this 
continent. 
The geographical formation of the country is such 
that a small portion of the boundary — that of 
Northern Maryland—must, of necessity, be merely 
astronomical; but this portion must be as inconsider¬ 
able as possible. It will be far better for both Con¬ 
federacies, with a view to preventing frauds upon 
their revenues, that their boundary will subserve 
the purposes of peace between them more effect¬ 
ually than large augmentations of their standing 
armies. To the security of the South, such a 
boundary is almost, necessary. We can watch the 
enemy better .standing upon the banks of tho Ohio 
than standing on this aide ijf high mountain ranges. 
We should not know how tf trust the Punic faith of 
a worse than Carthagenian enemy, nnlcss we wero in 
a position to watch and foil them. 
We have simply, therefore, to make up our minds 
to conquer a boundary by an adequate forco of men. 
Our Generals in Missouri, in Kentucky, aud In 
Western Virginia, should be furnished with arraieB 
ample in uumbers to drive the enemy across the 
Missouri and Ohio rivers. The South has a great 
stake In accomplishing this expulsion daring the 
present season. To allow the enemy to winter in our 
country is to lose the support of the whole popula¬ 
tion of the districts of country in which he will 
make his winter quarters. In that event we should 
next season have not only the enemy to drive out, 
but the local population itself to conquer. 
Onr true policy of defense lies in a vigorous push 
for the batiks of the Ohio. We can afford to suffer 
raids on the Southern seaboard, If we can succeed in 
reaching, with a large farce, the enemy’s own thresh¬ 
olds and homesteads in Ohio and Pennsylvania. 
Then, if ho lands and ravages our coasts, we will 
invade, pillage, and burn bis villages in retaliation. 
Until we shall have re-conquered the Sonthern terri¬ 
tory that has been surrendered to him, and planted 
ourselves right upon the border of his own country, 
we shall not be safe from his raids upon our Southern 
fourteen miles. The deepest channel is on the east v 
side of Danphin, admitting vessels of eighteen feet u 
draft. Batteries on Horn Island would render the i: 
passage of the western channel a very hazardous t 
experiment. Were Danphin also fortified, and Mo- < 
bile Point and the main laud on the west planted c 
with batteries, Mobile would also be most effectually i 
blockaded. 1 
Beaufort, Soutii Carolina. — The necessity for 
the seizure of this port by the Federal forces has been 1 
often discussed in certain quarters, and has been said ( 
to be a seizure which would be highly advantageous * 
to the Government. It is situated in an arm of the 
sea called Port Royal River, about fifteen miles from 
the Atlantic. The harbor is one of the safest on the 
whole Southern coast, aud has full eleven feet water 
upon the bar, at its entrance. Situated immediately ; 
south of the line of railroad, at. a distance of twenty 
miles, running betweeu Charleston and Savannah, it 
would afford an easy base for land operations against 
either. Either could be much more easily taken by 
land operations than from the sea. Its importance is 
then by no means to be under-valued in any future 
series of assaults upon these hot-beds of treason. Its 
distance from Charleston is less than fifty miles, and 
a little further from Savannah. 
The great desideratum gained by an attack upon it 
is, that it can be taken with little or no loss of life, 
and can be so fortified as to he held landward against 
a most formidable force. The British took it and 
held it for several months during the Revolutionary 
war, deeming it a point of the greatest importance. 
Its collector, under Mr. Buchanan’s administration, 
refused to give in his adhesion to the Secession Dy¬ 
nasty in South Carolina, and was arrested for high 
treason. He subsequently succumbed to force. It 
must not be confounded with tho North Carolina 
Beaufort, more than a hundred miles north-east of it. 
Fernandina.— Much has been said about a pro¬ 
posed occupation of tho port of this name, it is 
located npon Amelia island, a small island lying off 
the extreme north-eastern coast of Florida. At tho 
northern end of this island the St. Mary’s river, the 
dividing stream between Georgia and Florida, puts 
into tbe ocean. The length of the river is about one 
hundred miles, and there is thirteen feet of water 
upon the bar at its mouth. 
Right opposite to its mouth is the harbor of Fer- 
naudina with, it is said, full twenty-fonr feet of 
water— the deepest water in any Atlantic harbor 
south of the mouth of the Chesapeake. Amelia 
island Is about eighteen miles long, and is very 
' fertile. The town of Fernandina has but few inhabi- 
’ tants. 
■ The principal advantages which would accrue to 
> the Government from its possession, would be a safe 
5 harbor for vessels of deep draft, a point of ren- 
r dezvotis for fleets intended to operate upon the 
* extreme Southern coast, and as a safe basis for 
8 operations against Southern Georgia and Eastern 
Florida. 
water and Greenbrier Springs or Bridge, about fifteen 1 
miles apart. The main body, however, of Reynolds j 
is still at nuttonaville, a town near the east fork of ( 
the Monongahela river, the great tributary of the 
Ohio, which joins tho Alleghany at Pittsburg, in onr . 
own State, It is a mere post office village, located 
in Randolph county, aud lies about 200 mile* north¬ 
west of Richmond. 
The point at which tho main body of Lee is posted, 
called Huntersville ,|tb locatedthirty miles south-west 
of Huttonsville, and in the same County. It is bIbo 
a mere post town. It is distant from I.ewisburg, the 
great strategic point upon which Floyd and Lee are 
both falling hack, only thirty miles. Floyd, pursued 
by Rosencrans and Cox, has fallen back to Sewell 
mountain, a prominent mountain height lying right 
across the road to Lewisbnrg. 
General Rosencrans lies at Mountain Cove, a small 
post village in Fayette County. It had, before print¬ 
ing paper was declared contraband of war, a news¬ 
paper of the extreme secession school. But this 
within a month or two past expired. It is thus evi¬ 
dent that Floyd and Leo are retreating npon, or 
rather converging their forces toward, the same point 
—Lewisburg; the former from a duo north and the 
latter from a north-eastern direction. The evident 
intention of tho rebel leaders is to risk a battle in 
attempting to cover the line of the ^ irginia and 
Tennessee railroad, in anticipation of the design to 
strike for the possession and control of it. Its near¬ 
est approach to Lewisburg is forty miles, at a town 
called Salem. 
Ab the tide of victory has uniformly set In favor of 
the Federal arms in Western Virginia, there seems 
to be but little doubt that they are strong enough to 
press Lee and Floyd still further back. The evident 
policy of the rebeht is to retreat, fighting obstinately 
at every point susceptible by nature ot being con¬ 
structed into a strong defence. 
Sewell’s Mountain arid Lewisbnrg are certainly not 
1 so strong as tbe Oauley and Cheat Mountains. Be¬ 
sides, Roaencranshas been strongly re-enforced within 
a fortnight, and must, he fully equal to the exigencies 
1 of his position. The main bodies of Lee and Floyd 
' are not forty miles apart. Their complete union will 
* bo followed by the union of Reynolds and Rosencrans. 
Both unions must be followed by a grand battle at or 
in the neighborhood of Lewisburg. That gained, 
the seizure of tho Tennessee and Virginia railroad 
f follows, and the great artery of Southern supplies is 
r most effectively stopped. Such estoppel would be a 
1 greater material victory than the rout of twenty thou- 
7 sand men. 
It would require an army of a million of men to 
line our coasts in such a manner as to protect them 
from their naval excursions. On the contrary, 50,000 
or 75,000 men penetratiug to the banks of tbe Ohio 
at a few different, points, will effectually secure our 
coaBt from aggression, by giving him alarm and em¬ 
ployment at home, and by putting it in our power to 
retaliate upon him with a vengeance. Twenty thou¬ 
sand additional troops ought to be forthwith Bent 
into Western Virginia, and every available regiment 
and company in Tennessee and Arkansas ought to be 
precipitated into Kentucky aud Missouri. We have 
trifled away two-thirds Of the present season of cam¬ 
paign; let us make up, by earnest work, in the other 
third, for the indolence of the past. 
The Southern Gulf and Atlantic Const. 
The Chandeleur Islands and Mobile Bay.— 
Among the islands said to have been taken possession 
of by the United States forces in the Gulf, are the 
Chandeleur Group. They lie immediately south of 
the point where Lako Borgne debouches into the 
Gulf. They lie full sixty miles east of the mouths of 
the Mississippi, and twenty-five from Mobile Point. 
Tbe group consists of three small islands—the south¬ 
ernmost being the smallest. They bend in the form of 
a semi-circle. Between them and the north-eastern 
point of St. Bernard Parish, which is the southern¬ 
most Parish in Louisiana, lying east of the Missis¬ 
sippi River, is Chandeleur Bay. 
Upon the northernmost island of the group there 
was a fixed light fully sixty feet high. It was of the 
utmost use to sailors navigating those waterB. The 
rebels, with thuir usual vandalism, are said to have 
removed it some months ago. The fortifications of 
these islands, with corresponding batteries upon 
Ship, Cat, and Horn Island*, and at Mississippi City, 
upon the main land, will completely control the 
debouchure of Borgne into the Gulf, aud aid most 
materially in the blockade of Mobile Bay. 
This bay is separated at Its entrance into the sea, 
by an island, called 'Dauphin. At tbe entrance, 
Tbe Army of llie Pofoniac. 
TnF.RK is in Washington a large topographical 
map of the country between the I’otoni&o and James ^ 
Rivers, on which changes are ma4c in accordance ^ 
with the reports of reliable scout»and which shows 
every water-conrso, elevation, and fcfensible position 
between Washington and Richmond. Based upon 
tho official State map of Virginia, it contains the ( 
result of many a careful reconnoiasanoo - many a 
balloon observation — many a report from those who 
have journeyed with baiters awaiting them as spies. 
Into t)iis map is stuck a large number of pins, each 
ono having a tiny label, bearing the name of a regi¬ 
ment—either friend or foe — while smaller black 
pins represent caunon; and as regiments or guns are 
known to change positions, their representative pins 
are takon out, and re-stuck in the new localities. 
Fifteen days since, the map showed that the rebels 
wero occupying Munson’s hill, and wero near the 
Chuin Bridge, but since then the regiments and 
guns of the C. S. have been changed toward Rich¬ 
mond, while in their places arc the troops and bat¬ 
teries of the U. S. A. Every day the map shows that 
the Army of the Potomac is moving forward, and 
intrenching itself as it advances —not moving for¬ 
ward like a tide which is soon to ebb again, but like 
a resistless flood, carrying all before it, and not to be 
checked. 
Before this advanco, the map shows also the col¬ 
umns of Beauregard and of Gua. Smith, with the 
headquarters of Johnson, who have made Manassas 
the stronghold of treason's hope. Tho enfilading 
batteries there, into whose range it is hoped by the 
rebels that our army will march, may not be carried 
by storm, but it will not be a difficult task to flank 
them, especially if some of their present garrisons 
should ere very loug be summoned home by unwel¬ 
come visitors. Meanwhile, Gen. McClellan is a daily 
visitor to the outposts, and every hour during the day 
and night reports come over the wires to his head¬ 
quarters. Yesterday was a busy day along the lines, 
and last night the pins which represent a dozen 
regiments at least, were moved forward on the topo¬ 
graphical map. 
The movements are made by divisions. Each 
division has its infantry, its artillery, and its cavalry, 
forming an independent corps d'armre, which sends 
forth ltd advances, and supports them by reserves. 
While everything promises victory along the lines, 
care is taken to preserve order here. No liquor can 
be taken across the Potomac except by authority of 
Major-Generals, and it is difficult for soldiers to 
obtain it here. The patrols of Provost Marshal 
Porter forco every officer and man they meet to show 
his pass, and last night there were two lieutenants 
and about two hundred aud fifty privates taken to tho 
guard house — many of them rather inebriated. 
Many of the officers of volunteers are becoming 
i very studious, as they dread the result of their 
i appearance before the Examining Board. In some 
f of the regiments from New England, evening schools 
> for mutual instruction have been establishfd at bead- 
f quarters._ 
The social systems and the domestic institutions of I including Dauphin Island, it attains a breadth of 
Position of the Forces in Western Virginia. 
We select from the Philadelphia Press of Satur¬ 
day week the following sketches of various positions 
now held by the federal and rebel forces in Western 
Virginia: 
Elkwater is a very small hamlet on Elk River. The 
sources of this river interlock with the head-waters 
of the Little Kanawha and those of the Mouonga- 
hela. It puts into the Great Kanawha at Charleston, 
where, the great salt works of Virginia are. 
Part of General Lee’s forces lie at Greenbrier 
bridge and Elk mountain. The bridge crosses the 
Greenbrier river, a stream which, when it unites 
with New River, forms the Great Kanawha. Elk 
mountain is a part of a spur which, putting ofl from 
the Alleghanies, forma the highest ground betweeu 
Eik and Greenbrier riverB, and is nearly midway 
between them. They both flow in a southwesterly 
direction, and are, at the points named, viz., Elk- 
Tile Great Naval Expedition. 
One of the most extensive naval expeditions in 
which this country ever engaged, is now in prepara¬ 
tion, and part of it already on the way to a common 
rendezvous. The larger portion of this fleet has 
been fitted out at New York, but several vessels have 
been prepared at Boston and Philadelphia, all in¬ 
tended for the same object. Tho Commercial Adver¬ 
tiser of Monday, the 1 fth, says the fleet has been 
furnished with every necessary, yet all has been 
conducted without bustle or confusion. Merchants 
have offered their vessels, and they have been 
accepted by the United States Quartermaster with 
promptness. The transports have beon rapidly 
loaded at onr wharves, and then hauled into the 
stream or off tho battery, waiting the signal to start. 
Largo steamships that have won themselves renown 
as ocean palaces, have been stripped of their gilding, 
loaded heavily with cannon and death-dealing mis¬ 
siles, and taken into tho ranks of transports and 
war vessels. Tho expedition, as it was composed in 
onr harbor a few days since, presented a Bomcwhat 
novel appearance. The Baltic, loaded nearly to her 
guards, the Atlantic, Vanderbilt and other ocean 
steamers, all bearing valuable freight, lay in the 
stream with saucy gunboats, side wheel and pro¬ 
pellers, and even tho diminutive tug, with a new 
coat of black paint, lay proudly with the war fleet. 
By the middle of last week, this expedition was so 
far advanced that people began to speculate upon its 
probable destination. The very curious did not 
hesitate to take an early walk upon the battery, and 
to devote an hour to the critical examination of the 
fleet, to see if any of them had left during the night. 
The wonder lovorB were gratified on Saturday by the 
departure of the Coatzacoaleos, Cahawba, Roanoke, 
Empire City, Parkersburg, Unadllla, aud Atlanta. 
The Third Rhode Island regiment was transferred 
from Fort Hamilton to the Cahawba, and Col. Ser- 
rlll’H engineers were taken on another vessel. 
Yesterday the Battery was thronged nearly all day 
by a crowd of people anxious to see the departure 
of more of the vessels. During the day the Star of 
the South, Ocean Queen, Daniel Webster, Ariel, 
Arago, Vanderbilt, Oriental and Rhode Island left 
their several anchorages and sped their way out of 
| port. Tho Wabash, and several gunboats and trans¬ 
ports, remain in tho harbor, but in all probability 
will sail during the day. Three ferry boats were 
purchased on Saturday—the Ethan Allen, Commo- 
1 dore Perry, and Stepping Stone, These will be 
dispatched to-morrow or Wednesday. The entire 
fleet will have left this port by Wednesday, and 
‘ probably by Saturday will have received the troops 
’ who are to take part in the expedition. 
We commit no impropriety when we declare that 
the first destination of the vessels composing the 
’ expedition, is Hampton Roads and Annapolis. The 
1 naval vessels will rendezvous at the former place 
while the transports are engaged in taking on board 
1 troops from Annapolis. It is stated, with some 
1 semblance of truth, that there were fifteen thousand 
7 men sent to Annapolis ©n Thursday. We also learn 
s that the Continental Guard, Col. Perry, Washington 
“ Grays, Col. Moore, and three other regiments have 
orders to join the division at Annapolis. It is there¬ 
in fore probable that an aggregate force of twenty-live 
r thousand men will be sent off. These will be fully 
e equipped, armed in the best manner, and supplied 
8 with an abundance of provisions. 
The ultimate destination of the expedition is 
known but to Government and Gen. Scott, aud even 
when the fleet sails, the General in command of the 
troops will probably receive sealed dispatches, 'which 
r ' he will be instructed to open wheu in a certain 
8 latitude. 
n The utmost care has been taken to insure tbe suc¬ 
cess of this expedition, and we are safe in asserting 
e that when the blow is struck, the effect upon the 
■s South will be terrible. 
i- In connection with the foregoing, we quote a 
l, portion of the Detroit Tribune's correspondence, 
dated “Annapolis, Md., Oct. 10,” as follows:—“ Your 
;r readers will be interested to know that the Michigan 
le 8th, in connection with a large additional force, are 
js about to sail from this point upon some expedition, 
;k the exact nature of which we know nothing about, 
in Here, however, are certain data: About 20,000 troops 
-u are assembling at Annapolis; October has come; a 
ly fleet of seventy sail is In the offing; we are ordered 
ly to embark soon, with fifteen days’ provisions for 
k- men and horses. Foot it all up, and say for yourself 
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