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movement must be speedy, too. Our mission would be of effect in view of the possible re-election of the present Congress. He says: "I do not pretend to say whether the movement will be followed by any immediate effect; whether France will take the lead, with the expectation that England cannot do otherwise than follow; or whether both will at the same time. I only know that France is convinced that the present moment is the most opportune for united action." He insinuates that Lincoln and some of his advisers would not object to some gentle pressure. The London Times editorially continues to point out the Union prospects as more gloomy; but the London News combats such views and speaks of Northern policy with continued confidence. Most of the London journals allude to the financial crisis in America, and reiterate their strictures upon the false financial policy of the Government. Even the Star charges the Washington Cabinet with the most deplorable ignorance
Administering the oath. Wherever the Federal power has a foothold in Northern Virginia, they are attempting to carry out the odious order of Pope requiring the citizens to take the oath to sustain the Government. In Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson, and Clarke, and perhaps other counties on the border, proclamations were issued, fixing a day in the early part of last week for the assembling of the people at their respective county seats for that purpose. Of the result in Frederick and Berkeley we have not heard, but learn that in Clarke and Jefferson not one man was found so bankrupt in character as to respond to the summons of Lincoln's unprincipled agents. In Jefferson they were required to appear at the Methodist Church in Charlestown, and early in the morning the Commandant of the Post and two Lieutenants repaired to the Church, where they remained until night, when the books were closed without the name of a single disloyal Virginian being registered upon them.
the Federal Administration calling for 600,000 more troops to put down the "rebellion," and levying a heavy draft upon the people to make up the same, has created great alarm at the North; and so rapid has been the stampede of the citizens, that Lincoln has been compelled to issue coercive orders to force them to remain at home till the draft is filled. From McClellan's army we have little of interest. The latest dispatches represent his forces as having withdrawn from Malvern Hill. From the ground that they are practicing an art necessary to military operations, and which, being known to comparatively few persons, their places cannot be supplied. The reasons for the draft. The following are the chief reasons which prompted Lincoln to resort to drafting: First. The representations of New York bankers and capitalists, repeated by one Committee after another, from week to week, and of late with special urgency, that the finances of the country could not stand the slo