The Alleghanian

The National Cause.

The New York Tribune, of Saturday gives the following item of news:

Though journals very properly avoid the publication of all news which might be made to convey intelligence to the enemy, and only general intelligence respecting the movements of the National armies is made known, we are most happy to be able to assure the public, from facts beyond dispute which have been communicated to us, that at no time since the commencement of hostilities has the National cause been so strong or so hopeful as now. In point of numbers, organization, discipline, and efficiency, the army of the east under General M'Clellan, and the army of the West under General Fremont are immensely superior to their highest previous condition. Of what Gen. M'Clellan has accomplished we already know something, and are also aware that he has inspired both the forces under him and the country at large with that confidence which is one of the first requisites of successful generalship; but of Gen. Fremont's progress we are, from the fact that his theater of action is remote from us, not so well informed. On his head, however, a single fact can represent many; and when we state that the three-months volunteers of his army have re-enlisted for the war we say enough to show fully the popular feeling of the great West toward both the General and the Union of which he is a champion.

We think we are giving a piece of information that is not generally known when we tell our readers that the Democrat & Sentinel is a Union paper-or at least pretends to be one-and has not the faintest idea of coming out openly and above board for Jeff Davis and the S. C. This may hardly be credited, from the fact that that paper is in the habit of endeavoring weekly to stir up all manner of dissensions and difficulties in the minds of the people of the North, and attempting to thrust party issues and party platforms upon an unwilling people-but it is said to be nevertheless true. Union? Bah! An editor who cannot, in this hour of deadly peril to our country--when unity of sentiment is everything to our cause- sink the partisan in the patriot, is as dangerous an enemy to our common interests as the most blatant and broad-mouthed rebel who sails under the "stars and bars" of Secessia. And so we all say.