airo would have been taken by the rebels, and
perhaps St. Louis. He returned to St. Louis on the 4th of
August, having in the meantime ordered two regiments to the
relief of Gen. Lyon, and set himself to work at St. Louis to
provide further reinforcements for him; but he claims that
Lyon's defeat can not be charged to his administration, and
quotes from a letter from General Lyon, dated on the 9th of
August, expressing the belief that he would be compelled to
retire; also, from a letter written by Lyon's adjutant general,
in which he says 'General Fremont was not inattentive to the
situation of General Lyon's column.'

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A daily cotemporary, in an onslaught on Emancipation, contains the
following:--

Delaware has recently had a proposition before the legislature
to abolish the scarcely more than nominal slavery still existing
in it; but the legislature adjourned without even listening to
it, though it contemplated full pecuniary compensation.

Yes; and the legislature of Delaware, a few years ago, legalized
lotteries,--one of the greatest social curses of the country,--and made
itself a hissing and a by-word to all decent men by sanctioning the most
widely-destructive method of gambling known. The Delaware legislature
indeed!

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We are indebted to a friend for the following paragraph:--

It is deeply significant that since the late Federal victories, the
Southern press, even in Richmond itself, speaks nervously and angrily of
the Union men among them, and of their increasing boldness in openly
manifesting their sentiments. A few months since, this belief in Union
men in the South was abundantly ridiculed by those who believed that all
the slave-holding States were unanimous in rebellion, and that therefore
it would be preposterous to hope to reconcile them to emancipation. Now
that the Union strength in that region is beginning to manifest itself,
we are informed that we shall lose it if we do aught contrary to
Southern rights. And this too, although the Southern Union men have
never been spoken of by their rebel neighbors as aught save 'the
abolitionists in our midst!'

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The following communication from a well-known financier and writer on
currency can not fail to be read with interest by all:--

THE SINEWS OF WAR.

These are, men