Daily National Intelligencer

From the Montreal Herald, Oct. 1.

In drawing conclusions on this campaign we cannot view things in a very favorable light; nothing can be effected for a length of time having at all the character of decision. Gen. Izard has gone to Sackett's Harbor with 4000 men, and those, Chauncey may either take by water; or they may be ordered by land, as the naval and military commanders suggest. Chauncey has been, and will be cautious; he will not venture upon the Lake; he knows our hundred gun ship, the St. Lawrence, is ready; this vessel, in close action, would destroy all the American heavy vessels. Therefore Izard's troops will have to march by land; but they will make the enemy superior on the Niagara Frontier. This is the result of the wavering measures in some quarter; measures which may protract the war for several years longer than it otherwise would had 'savage generals' commanded, who never think it a sin to kill an enemy. We, however, still think, that the Niagara Frontier will be defended, and the superiority on Lake Ontario be secured; and Kingston saved; but that in November, things will not be much better than they were 12 months before; notwithstanding an addition of 10,000 of the best troops. Past circumstances fully justify this conclusion. On this point we feel no fear of censure from any other press of liberal principles.