THE Pk S.
YODLIOHID DAILY, (81114DAY8
BY JOHN w. FORNEY.
if 017101 NO. 417 CHESTNUT STBENT.
THE DAIL V PRESS,
TEEM 013te6 Pan Wilt, ,payable to the Carrier.
/Med* , Subscribers oat of the thty at dm DOLLA RI
Psi Amon, POOR DOLLARB FOR MOH? MONTHS, TRAYS
DOLLARS FOR Su Morens—invariably In advance for
be L lime ordered.
THE TRI-WEEKLY PRESS,
Maned to Babecribere oat of the flits at Tanis Box.-
sale fla Annum, in adv./mai
EXPRESS COMPANIES.
ARMY — Ex.Ts co.,
szci tRESTNUT STREET,
PHILADELPHIA
This company having established an agency in this
deity, is prepared to forward
ALL KINDS OF EIOODB
TO BALTIMORE,
WASHINGTON,
ALEXANDRIA,
ANNAPOLIS,
FORTRESS MONROE,
NEWPORT N N we,
POET ROYAL,
THZ SOUTHERN BLOCRADTRO SQUADRON
."E0 NEW EVEN,
BOSTON, AND "EASTERN CITIES
Heavy Goode should be delivered at DEPOT, corner
.0f BROAD and PRIME Streets, before FOUR O'CLOCK
P. M., where our Clerk will give a Bill of Lading.
6MALL PARCELS SHOULD BE LEFT AT OFFICE
837 CHESTNUT bTREET
AVREIGHT LT VERY LOW RATES DELIVERED
IN WASHINGTON
-Goode for the EAST at our Office in CHESTNUT Street.
DAVIS, BELDEN, & Co.,
- DRINCIPAL OFFICE IN NEW YORK, 32 BROAD
INIPENINTINDENT OF THIC OOMPANYY.
e.5:1 unrflGt
THE ADAMS EXPREEB
dirtMg- COMPANY, Office 820 ONESTMOT
10treet, forwards Pamela, Packages, Merchandise, Moak
Motes, and Slade, either by its own lines or in oonneotko
vita other Marna Companies, to al Rho "rind* Tama
am anima al lbs UMW Mem
7.8. BANDFOBII,
lalg gmend Rinwlntexidest.
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS
WINE 13HLR'f MANUFACTORY.
The subscriber would invite attention to his
IMPROVED OUT OF SRIKTS.
Which he malice a specialty in hie business. Aleo, oon
stantly receiving
NOVELTIES FOB GENTLEMEN'S WEAN,.
J. W. SCICYTT.
CIENTIEMENT FURNISHING "BTOMII,
No. 10.4 CHESTNUT STREET.
ia9-11 Four doors below the mintinental.
CLOAKS AND MANTILLAS.
,RBAT. BARGAINS
LADIES' CLOAKS,
To 'close out,
At the
AEOH-STREET CLOAK AND MANTILLA STORE,
N. W. corner TENTH and ARCH Ste.
ainta-as JACOB HODSFALL.
CLOAKS me --
Handso styles of well-made, serviceable gar
ments. The beat made, the beat fitting, and the best
materials for the price.. A large stock from which to
select. 000.PZB s tfi./NAJfild,
dell B. E. cor. NINTF and IMLABILET.
LOA K 8 !
The Largest, Clhespeet, and Beet-ateorted Stock
to the city.
noon & 00.,
No. 25 South TENTH Street,
Opposite Franklin Market.
COMMISSION HOUSES.
,SHIPLEI, Hit74AIVD,
HUTCHINSON,
No. 111 WITSTNUT BMW,
OONMINISIONI 1117.110HANTO
YOB TEI OLIO OF
pHTT.AI)ELPHIA.-MADE
GOODS.
aeS3-Our
LOM/IN G GLASSES_
JAMES S. EARLE & SON,
XAMILITAOTURERS ABM IMPORTERS
LOOKING GLASSES.
OM PAINTINGS,
FINE ENGRAVINGS,
PICTURE AND PORTRAIT FRAMES,
PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES,
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS,
OARTR-PE-VISITS PORTRAITS,
EARLE'S GALLERIES,
810 CHESTNUT STREET,
PHILADELPHIA
CABINET FURNITURE.
CABINET'FITRNITURE AND M
LIABD TABLICE).
MOORE & OAM.PION,
No. 3a South SZOOND 131Teet.
connection with their extensive Cabinet Bushows are
Sow g mannfacturin a superior article of
BILLIARD TABLES,
, -
wad have now on hand a full randy, finished with the
MOOSE & CAMPION'S IMPROVED CUSHIONS,
which are pronounced, by all who have used them, to be
superior to all others.
for the quality and finish of thew Tables the mann-
Chalmers ref& to their numerous patrons throughout the
Union, who are familiar with the character of their work.
anl6-am
GROCERIES.
40RAB-APPLE CIDEN
OLD CURRrINT WINE,
OUR USUAL SUPPLY,
JUST RECEIVED.
ALBERT O. ROBERTS,
DEALER IN FINE GROCERIES,
jeg-tf Corner of ELEVENTH and VINE Sta
T AB,D AND GREASE.-50 tierces
.IE-A prime Leaf lard;
60 tierces White Grease,
iJireot from the Wed, And in store. For sale by
MURPHY & KOONS,
No. 146 NORTH WHARVES.
MACK I MEL, HE.O.
bbl. Mom SHAD ,
SALMON,
111kOKIBIL5 Wm medium, and one& In mewled
packages of choice, late-caught, fat OA.
1,000 blob. New Halifax, Hastport, and Labrador Her
; rings, of choice qualities.
0,000 boxes extra new scaled Herrings.
0,000 boxes extra new Ho. 1 Herrings.
8,000 boxes large 'Mesiah= Herrings.
bbb. Mackinac White fish.
60 bble. new Economy New Shia.
96 bbis. new Halifax Salmon.
1,000 Quintals Grand Bank Oodlisb.
SOO boxes Herkimer llonnty Clean.
la stars and landing, for sale by
MURPHY Ss KOOllll,
146 NORTH Wil•BP111.
DRUGS AND CHEMICALS.
IROBERT SHOEMAKER
& CO.,
Northeast Corner FOURTH and RACE Streets,
PHILADELPHIA,
WHOLESALE DRUG-GISTS,
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS
IN
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS.
MANUFACTURERS OF
WHITE LEAD AND ZINC PAINTS, PUTTY, Ac.
AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED
FRENCH ZINC PAINTS.
Dealers and consumers supplied at
VERY LOW PRICES FOR CASH.
•
felt-2m
it HITE LEA )
OIL.
Bed Lead,
White Lead,
• Litharge,
Sugar of bead,
Ckopperaa,
Oil of Vitriol,
Calmed,
Patent Yellow,
Chrome lied,
Chrome Yellow,
Alma Perth,
Muria& Acid,
Zagora Bane,
Rochelle Salta,
Tartar's Acid,
Orange Mineral,
Bauble Tart.
Bob. Garb. Buda,
White Vitriol,
Bed Precipitate,
WETHBR I
Druggists and Me
Moo. 47 and 49
*WC
s ABINEL-300 boxes Layer Raisins
800 half faxen tam Bahama;
300 boxes If B Bunch Raisins;
800 half boxes B Bunch Balsins.
ow and choice fruit, now landing and for natio by
MURPHY k HOOFS,
Fa 146 FORTH WHARTRIL
• ill BAKE. DUOS sad OAN
.
vas, at number. and braisith.
linvon'a Duok Awning Twills of all dasolipilosi, tar
Awnings, Tombs, and Wagon Coma
Also, Piano lanneseineers , Debi Vela& from lin 11
widA Tansiding, Belting, Bail TwNANine, Sus.
JOHN W. BTIB & 00.,
dia ldi JOXIII Mies
MANAGERS.
D. GREENE,
, DRY AND IN
White PreMelba%
Lunar Caustic,
Narcotine,
['Mph. Morphine,
Morphine,
Acetate Morphine,
Lac. Su'ph.,
Ether Sulphuric,
Ether Nitric,
Sulphate Quinine,
Corro. SubLim.,
Deuarootixed Opium,
Chloride of Soda,
Wethecrilra ext. tlincha.
Tartar Emetics,
•
Chloride of Lime.
Crude Borax,
Relined Borax,
Camphor,
Becht Commis.
L Ac BBOTHEB,
tifacturing Ohmic*.
orth SECOND Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
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RETAIL DRY GOODS.
B LACK SILKS BY THE PIECE.
Black, Oro de M&
ine
Black Gro do Brilliant.
Black Corded Gro Grain.
Black Figured Double Faced.
RYER k LANDELL,
fen FOURTH and ARCH Street&
'PYRE & LANDELL, FOUR T H
ad ARCM are , spaia for ihring
4-4 Rich Light Ghintzee.
4.4 Light Spring Brilliants.
New Spring Style &amine& fen
IYRE & LANDELL, FOURTH and
ARCH, are opening for Spring
Napoleon Blue Plain Silks.
Select Shades 'Brown Silks,
Solid Colore Figured &Ike.
VYRE & LANDELL, FOURTH. and
ARCII, are opening for Spring
Fine Plaid Drees Silks.
Fine Plaid Bonnet Si[kg.
Black and Whito Shepherd Plaid. fel3
NE W • HOUSE-FURNISHING
J.-1 GOODS, LINENS, &v.—The largest assortment in
the city of
Fine Flemish, Irish, and Barnsley Linen Shootings.
Dunbar Dickson's and Richardson's Pillow Linens.
Golden Flax Shirting and Fronting Linens.
Table Linens, 'Table Cloths, Napkins, Doylies.
Towellings and TOwels of all descriptions, for the bath,
chamber reentry, kitchen, and nursery.
Quilts and Blankets, of all sizes, for cribs and beds.
Table and Piano Covers, and Materials for covers, by
the yard.
Furniture Chintzes, Furniture Coverings, etc.
Rich Lace and Muslin Curtains and Curtain Materials.
Plain and Gold Bordered Shades, in all colors.
SHEPPARD, VAN IcARLINGEN, A ARRISON,
felo 1008 CHESTNUT Street,
CHEAP MUSLIN 8 AND. FL AN
NRI.9.-11ming made large - purchases of Hullos
and Flannels
FOR CASH,
(Not from Bankrupt Merchants, but from merchants
who are not Liwarep4,) we are able to null them much
below the present retail prices.
Williamsville Muslins at 17 cents by the piece.
Rhode Island Water Twist at 15c " "
Black and White Rock at 14c o
Lebanon Long Cloth at 13c It . tt
Good Qualities at 123(c.
8 comae Good Muslims at Bc.
2% yards wide Bleached Sheeting at 31c.
2% do do "do do 33e.
S do do do do woic
lINELRACRED lIIIISLINt. -
8
bales Stark Mills yard wide, very heavy, 15a.
2 bales Portsmouth 1X yard wide, very fine, 14c.
1 case Unbleached Cotton Flannel 11c.
1 bale 28 inch Ballard Vale Flannel.
1 bale 7.; Ball ad Vale Flannel.
1 bale 4-4 Ballard Vale Flannel.
STEEL t SON,
feB No. 718 North TENTH Street. alum Coates.
USLINS BY THE PIECE.-WE
M
will sell the balance of our stock of Muslim at
last months' low prices, by the piece. Storekeepers and
others are invited to examine this large stock of Domes
tics, as we guaranty to sell any make less than it can
possibly be bought, and have in store almost every make
made. We offer a bleached Muslin for 7c. per yard by
the piece; bleached Muslims for Bc. by the piece; bleached
Mullins for 83(c by the piece; bleached Mnelin for 9c. ;
bleached Muslin for 10c.; (this is first rate, such as other
stores are selling for 123( c. by the piece •) bleached
Muslin for 1136 c. by the piece ; bleached Muslin
1.9..g0. by the piece bleached Muslin for tie. by the
piece ; unbleached Mullins for B%c. by the piece;
unbleached for 8%c.; unbleached for 10c.; unbleached
for 10%c.; unbleached for 11c.; unbleached for
11)4c.; unbleached for 12X c. these are first
rate. Two and a half yards wide 814 c ; 40 inch
wide, bleached, 12%c.; 45 inch wide, 14%c.; 2% yards
wide, Sltic., and twigs other width, cheap. Good un
bleached Canton Flatel 12Xc. per piece; colored 12gc.
by the piece; colored Blunting, Drillings, Calicoes; 9.4
Dimity Quilts for 50c, usual price $l. We have now
open a large lot of Linen Goods which we are selling at
a bargain. . . . . . .
R. D. & W. H. PENNELL,
fel2-6t 3021 MARKET St., below ELEVENTH
CIREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES
ILA OF AUNT STYLES OF WINTER GOODS FOR
FIFTEEN DAYS L(M 4 -$ll, 11EYOZGH TARING.
THEM INTO 'STOCK, *in:
Figured and Plain Neritioes.
Plain and Gay Long Shawis. .
Dark Drees Goods, Pop Mei, &c.
Plaid Flannel Pink, Blue, and Brown.
Ladies' Scarfs, reduced 30 per cent.
One lot of L. C. Hdkfe., at 15c.
Two lota do., at 250., a bargain.
One lot of Linen Diaper at 81.25 a piece.
Hoop Skirt-75, 5734, $l, and $1.12.
Nice assortment of Ginghams.
Ladies' Merino Vests, all sizes.
Misses' Merino Vests, all Sizes.
Gloves and Hosiery of all kinds.
Genie' Silk Handkerchiefs, splendid assortment at
J. H. STORRS',
jab If 702 ARCH Street.
MUSLIN'S ! MUSLIMS ! MUSLIMS !
HUBLINB BY THE PIECE—MtSLINS BY
THE BALE.—Now is the tone for housekeepers to buy
their Bheetings and Bhtrtings, as all kinds of domestic
web are rapidly rieing, and thaw can bo no possible
diminution of prices. We still have a few boxes of
Wanssutta, Williamsville, Black Bock, and othn popular
makes. Good Muelins at 8,9, 10, 11 cents. The best 12-
cent Muslin in the city. Our Pillow-Case Minding, and
our 10-4, 11-4, and 12-4 Sheeting, purchased some time
since, are from three to four cents cheaper than can be
found el.where. COWPERTHW&IT & CO.,
.R 142 N. W. cork EIGHTH and H.AENICT.
67 PIECES NEW SPRING PRINTS.
New 4-4 Shirting Prints.
New Oil Chintzes at 18% cents, worth 25.
Itew Imported Ginghams.
COOPER & COWARD,
feS NINTH and MARKET Streets.
BLACK ALPACAS.
One suction lot 37,4, worth 50 cents.
One auction lot 25, worth 31 cents.
Tine Black Wool Delaines, 373 i cents.
COOPED. & CON&BOi
fe3 Southeast corner NINTH and MARKET
LINEN GOODS.
Madiuns and Fine Fronting Linens.
Heavy Shirting and Pillow Linens.
One lot Red-bordered Fringed Towels, 1.8% cents;
cheap.
Linen Sheeting, Diapers, Napkins, Doylies.
Damask Table Cloths, Blay Linens, &c.
COOPER & CONARD,
feS Fontheast corner NINTH and Id tILICET.
SHEPHERDS' PLAID CASHMERE.
One case just opened.
Black and White Checks, double width.
Fine All-wool Cashmeres.
Jan SIIARPLESS BROTHERS.
NEW BALMORALS.
Four hundred imported Balmoral Skirts,
At prices lower than before offered.
Js2l SIIASPLESS BBOTHERS
RUSSIA CRASH,
In medium and fine qualifiee.
Scotch Onset' and Towelling.
Jan SHABPLESS BROTHERS
EMBROIDERED MUSLIN CUR
TAll'id---At very low prizes, to eflu tho stock.
SHARPLESS BROTHERS,
CHESTNUT and EIGHTH Strants
WINES AND LIQUORS.
PURE PORT WINE.
DUQUE DO PORTO WINN, BOTTLZD
PORTUGAL IN 1820.
Physicians and invalids in want of a reliable article of
Pure Port Wine can be supplied by inquiring for the
above wine at CANTWELL & KIEFFER'S,
Southeast corner GREMANTOWN Avenue
and MASTBIE Street.
HI NNESSY VINE-YARD PRO
salmon], Main% Trieache & Co., Mann, Pinet,
and other approved brands of COGNAC BRANDY, Air
Ude, in bond and from store, by
CANT WELL & ICEFFDR,
Sontheset corms 01111/MANTOWN Avon*.
(414. DOTER Met
QTUAILVB PAISLEY MALT Win&
ob.) ET.
Buchanan's Coal IlaWhinks
Old Tom Gin, Old London Gin e
London Cordial Gin, Bohlen's Gin,
In bond and store-
CANTWILLL & HEIITER,
Southeast corm GEBRANTOWN ATOMS
and MASTER Street.
ZOUAVE CHAMPAGNE.—A new
brand—an excellent article. Imported and for rale
at a price to suit the times, by CANTWELL A NAN
FEB, southeast corner of GEBNAIITOWN Avenue and
KASTEN Street.
RUDESHEIKER-BERG, LAUBEIC
[MIXER, and HOCICHEIKKIt WINE, in oases
of one dozen bottles each •; warranted pure. Imported
end for sale low by OANTWELL & south
east corner G/LTIKANTOWN Avenue and IdABTAB
Street
191MMAN'S DRY CATAWRA
.--Tble approved brand of Cincinnati wine,
the be article ontlfor cobblers," for male pure, bot.
tled and in own, by OANTWNLL & KREERR, south.
oast corner GERMANTOWN &w ens and MASTEN
Street. 5024-Ont
PROPOSALS.
A . RMY
° CLOTHING AND EQUI-
PHILADELPHIA, January 29, 1862.
Sealed Proposids will be received at this office until
FEBRUARY the 15th, for supplying the Schuylkill Ar
senal with Packing Boxes in munch quantities as may be
ttee3e4 Until Juue 30, be. They will he Bulged to in.
apeman on delivery at the Schuylkill Arsenal, where
samples and sizes may be men.
G. H. GROSMAN,
Deputy Quarturmeeter General.
ja3o-trels
MARSHAL'S SALES.
MARSHAL'S SALE.—By virtue of
IVI a writ of sale, by the Hon. JOHN OADWA_LA.
DER, Judge of the District Court of the United Statee,
in and for the Eastent District of Pennsylvania, in Ad
miralty, to me directed, will be sold, at public sale, to the
highest and beet bidder, for Cask, at thejMERCHANTS'
EXCHANGE, on THURSDAY, February 211th, 1862, at
12 o'clock DI. the five. sixteenths part of the Schooner
ELLA, her talckle, apparel, and furniture. Being the
interest therein of WILLIAM IL FOWLE, en inhabi
tant of that part of the State of Virginia lying oaet of the
Allegheny - Mountains. The vessel is now lying at Horne%
wharf, Richmond. • --
WELLIAM MILLWA.RD,
13. S. Marshal E. D. of Penn's.
PHILADELPHIA, January 14, 1861 felt-6t
ABUY AND NAVY PAY 00L
LECTRD.—Alsp, arrears of : pay for realigned,
discharged. supernumerary, and deceased officers—Boun
ty money—amens money—Contractor& pay—Discharges
—Extra pay—Land warrants.—Pensiome—Prize money—
Recruiting Expenses State Ray subsistence and
Transportation, procured by
ALBERT POTTS' Army and .Navy Agency,
N. E, curie! of TRIED end WILLOW Atreeti.
jass-iin*
RIZE MONEY PAID "TO OFFI
a. WEBB and MEN of the Ban Jacinto, Constetta-
HON, Dart, /Ohioan, Mystic, Brooklyn, SIONAT, sad
other .reeeele.
ALBERT POTTS' Army and Navy Agency,
N. E corner of THIRD and WILLOW Street,.
Ja22.4.mir
SHOVELS AND SPADES.
GEORGE HALFRAN,
BLIIIIRIVAOIIIIIIII4
CORNER OF EREAD AND QUARRY STRRRTB,
pl3-Bm# Ret. - Arcil sad Nag% UV/ 13000114 and Third.
( Cit Vrtss.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1862.
THE REBELLION.
Important from Fortress Monroe
and Norfolk
NORFOLK UNDER MARTIAL LAW.
AN ATTACK ON THE CITY HOURLY
EXPECTED.
THE VICTORY AT ROANOKE ISLAND,
THE REBELS ASCRIBE THEIR DEFEAT TO
THE TREACHERY OF THE NORTH:
• CAROLINA TROOPS.
Rebel Newspaper Accounts of
the Battle.
GEL JOHNSTON'S ADDRESS TO THE
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. •
Affairs in Gen. Buell's Department.
PO:i:01)34:):07,011R1:Kihk0:t4;0001
INTERESTING FROM GENERAL HAL-
LECK'S DEPARTMENT
A Gunboat Expedition Against
Fort Donelson.
THE STRATEGIC POINTS ON THE CM.
BERLAND AND TENNESSEE RIVERS.
THE ALLEGED TREASON OF GEN. STONE
&c.. &C.. &C.
Latest News from Fortress Monroe and
Norfolk.
FORTRESS MONROE, Feb. 12.—There was no flag
of truce to-day, and the expected steamer from
Hatteras, with the official despatches, has nht ar
rived.
As the steamer Express was coming down from
Newport News, this morning, on her regular trip,
a man wee picked up, in a small boat, who left
Norfolk yesterday morning, and made his escape
from Sewell's Point.
He confirms all tho previous reports, and adds
that Norfolk has been placed under martial law,
and volunteers to defend the city are called for in
vain.
Work on the steamer _Merrimac was suspended
on Saturday, and she is now at the navy yard, but
draws so much water that she could not get out if
she was ready for sea
The greatest alarm prevails at Norfolk, and an
attack is momentarily expected.
There are said to be only about 2O troops at
Sewell's point.
A rumor is circulateil at Norfolk that the defeat
at Roanoke Island was owing to the treachery of
the North Carolina•troops.
The Sawyer gun, at Newport News, burst yes
terday afternoon while being fired. Privates
Josiah Jones, of%ompany D, and James Shepard,
of Company B, Twenty-ninth Massachusetts. Regi
ment, were instantly killed, and W. W. Bowman,
of Company I, of the same regiment, was so se
rionly Ward that it remory it not oxpooted.
Jones belonged to *eon Point, Long Island, and
Shepard to Lowell, Massachusetts. Their bodies
were sent North to-night via Baltimore.
Four ot five other persons, who were in the vi
cinity, were injured, but none seriously.
Rebel Reports of the Victory at Roanoke
Island
The following " very latest" we copy from the
Norfolk Day Book :
(From the Norfolk Day Beok, Feb. 10.]
It is saitthat the enemy Caine up in their boats
on the south side of the island, and hy means of
their boat-howitzers effected a landing in the rear
of our batteries, and that after landing about fifteen
thousand on -all parts of the island, they marched
up and flanked the batteries. It is also reported
that, notwithstanding our small force of twenty-one
hundred men against about fifteen thousand, on
some parts of the island the resistance was of the
rnoitt deeperete nature, and a hand-teizhand contest
lasted for a considerable time, shofring the most
desperate courage. This is said to have -been the
case particularly with the Richmond Blues, under
command of Captain O. Jennings Wise. Captain
Wise, we learn, fell bravely urging his men on.
(Special Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.]
NORFOLK, Feb. 10, 1862.
With inexpressible sorrow 1 announce the fall
of Roanoke Island, after a spirited and heroic re
sistance by our brave troops. This occurred be
tween twelve and two o'clock on Saturday, and the
news was received here with every indication' of
regret and indignation. We gather the following
particulars from a young man from the Richmond
Blues, who participated in the fight, escaped in a
small boat and rowed to Nag's Head, where he
wbs taken up by one of our gunboats and brought
to this city. Ile is an intelligent lad, and I believe
a son of your postmaster. The enemy's ships, he
says, opened fire on our batteries, at Roanoke
Island, about 7 o'clock in the morning, and kept up
an incessant fire until 7 o'clock is the evening, do
ing, however, but little irjury to the island. About
9 o'clock the next day (Saturday) the Hessians were
allowed to land on a point to the east of Roanoke
Island, where they marched upon that point. The
booming of heavy cannon in the distance
_heralded
the enemy's approach. Our brave troops prepared
to meet them, supposing their numbers to be about
5,000. Gradually the seende came nearer and
nearer, and the shell came thick and fast over our
entrenchments. Confident of their own strength,
our troops moved rapidly forward, when, in a few
minutes, the ball opened and the] terrific contest
ensued. Bravely did our boys stand up to the
overwhelming forces of the enemy, and not till
nearly every man was dead or wounded did they
leave their stand. Nothing remained but retreat,
which our men did, constantly turning and giving
them a shot. Finding it useless to hold the island
under such overwhelming numbers, the order to
retreat from the island was given, and our remaining
troops retired, leaving their stronghold in thehands
of the enemy.
It will be a pleasure hereafter to record on the
page of history the heroic fortitude of our gallant
troops. Nobly and well did Captain 0. Jennings
Wise, of your city, stand up with hie men to the
fierce encounter, when, suddenly, he was shot
through the side, and instantly fell. One of hie
men asking himif he was much hurt—. Not much,"
said he, " but fight them yet." He was borne from
the scene of action in a blanket. About SOO of our
brave boys fell, and nearly all thereat were either
wounded or taken prisoners. The enemy's loss is
laid down at 1,000. .Four of their ships were sunk,
they doing. but little damage to any of our boats.
CommoderwLynch and other parts of our fleet did
noble service, his ship being among the first to open
Are the enemy's shipping. At last amounts they
were in pursuit of Commodore Lynch.
In the midst of this terrible struggle it will be
regretted that General Wise was seriously indisposed
at Nag's Head. Both he and his son are expected
here to-day. lam sorry to say that but very few
escaped from Captain Wiatee company. Large quan
tides of essimenitioe Were saved by our troops.
The women, children, and a number of negroes are
reported now on their way to our city. The enemy'
will be successfully checked from getting posses
sion of our railroad in that vicinity. Active pre
parations have been made here regarding this dim
ter, which it may be imprudent for me to mention.
The news fell upon the ears of our citizens with
fearful significance. Many would dare shut their
eyes against the fact had not dread conviction come
so direst: Every man was at his post, and our de
partments here were engaged in sending despatches
to the various encampments. The alacrity with
which every officer executed his orders is a theme
of public praise, and especial praise is due to the
Young Guard, of our city, for their service on the
occasion. At a very late hour military move
ments were going on, and everything is in great ex
citement.
Nonvorc, Feb. 10, 1862.—The intelligence of the
desperate and unequalled contest at Roanoke
Island, and its result, has doubtless reached you
by telegraph. Of course this is the principal sub
jeet of conversation here. Considering all the cir
cumstances attending the fight, a more favorable
termination of the affair could scarcely have been
expected by those competent to judge. Our force
on the island at the time of the attack was but small
in comparison with the'heavy and numerous force
of the enemy. Of the bravery and gallant conduct
of our troops too much can scarcely be said in com
mendation. That they were overpowered by greatly
superior numbers, after fighting with a recklessness
and desperation never surpassed, is a fact already
established, and which will be placed upon the
truthful pages of history.. -
I send you herewith such particulars of the bat
tle as I have been able to gather. A true account
cannot be given now. We know enough to cause a
deep sigh of grief for the brave men Ado, and the
gallant sons of the South, who are now captives in
this cruel war—of homes rendered desolate, of
hearts wrung with anguish, and ties of love and
friendship severed. But who believes, except the
delnded and revengeful Yankees, that the South
will ever yield to them? that the great cause of
Southern liberty, and honor, and humanity is not
still onward ?,
True, the news comes that the hospitable town of
Elizabeth City has been shelled and burned, and
that the vandal hordes are desolating the pleasant
places of the Sound coast. But they cannot go far
into the interior, and the day is coming when these
Northern minions shall be driven back in disgrace
to their inhospitable and barren soil.
General Wise, though still sick, is, I learn, on
his way to this city. Captain 0. Jennings Wise
was dangerously wounded. Major Lagoon, Lieu
tenant Miller, and Captain Coles, are reported
among the killed. The enemy lost In killed and
D o a I I t. 1 I It. I P UARY 14 • 1862.
wounded one thousand ; our loss three hundred,
LeAides snore than two thousand prisoners. We
must be nerved for a vigorous resistance, and Pro
vidence will assist us as heretofore in the cause of
honor and truth and human rights.
[From the Richmond Dispatch, Feb.ll.]
The exciting occurrence at Roanoke Island,re
suiting in a reverse to our arms, was the theme of
conversation yesterday in our city, to the exclusion
of almost every other topic. The fact that some
of our Richmond companies were engaged in the
light occasioned an intense and painful anxiety,
particularly among those who had friends or rela
tives among them, which could not be well con
cealed. It is but a short period since the Wise Le
gion, after an arduous and toilsome campaign in
Western Virginia, left here for the coast of North
Carolina, and though now defeated in one of the
most desperate conflicts of the war, it is at least
consoling to know that the men fought with de
termined bravery, against overwhelming odds,
and WQ)I for themselves the proud appellation
of heroes, of which their present situation can
not deprive them. The Light infantry Blues
(Company A of the Legion) date their organi
zation as far back as the year 1793, and num
ber among their honorary members many of our
oldest and most venerated citizens. The history of
the company is so well known that we need not re
peat it here. Capt. 0. Jennings Wise was' elected
commander a short time before the war broke out,
and the corps was one of the first to .respond to the
call of the country. Capt Wise is reported badly
wounded. and LtietitO. Fred. Carter and Charles P.
Bigger are taken prisoners, with, it is presumed, a
majority of the men. The Jackson Guard and the
Light Guard, both attached to the Legion, were en.
listed here after the commencement of the war.
Capt. Hiram B. Dickinson, of the former, and Capt.
Gus. Wallace, of the latter, reported captured by
the enemy, ere well known citizens of Richmond;
Lieut. Miller, of the Jackson Guard, is said to be
mortally wounded. Major Hugh W. Fry, who is
among the prisoners, has- many friends her e, _who
regret his misfortune, but who are proud to believe
that he sustained himself gallantly in the light ;
and the same remark applies to Frank Johnston, of
the Blues, as brave a young man as ever shouldered
a musket.
The telegraph informs its that our killed and
wounded amount to 300, while that of the enemy
reaches 1.000. The reader will find some-further
partieularsof the affair in our Norfolk papers, from
which it appears that the infamous scoundrels have
shelled and burned the pleasant little town of Eli
zabeth City, and are threatening Edenton. Their
operations in that quarter, however, will be limited;
and instead of depressing the spirits of our people,
sueh acts of vandalism will serve to make them
more determined, and rouse them to thrice vigor
ous resistance.
Personally we regret the loss of our accomplished
correspondent "Bohemian," whose letters from the
Potomac acid other points have for some time past
adorned the columns of this paper. Dr. Shepherd
eon is well known throughout the South, and in his
captivity (which we trust will be brief) he has the
sympathy of a vast number of friends.
The Campaign in Carolina.
[From the Richmond Dispatch, Feb,ll.l
Until within a day or two past, the capture of
Roanoke Island by Burnside nets considered a
foregone cnicluston. A fleet of nearly a hundred
sail, and an limy of fifteen or twenty thousand
men, with guns and equipments in profusion, were
esteemed equal to the capture of any exposed piece
of water-bound land like the island in question.
But the brave resistance offered for nearly two
days by our troops, and the hopeful terms in which
they spoke of their prospects, led our people to lm
lieve that the island might be held. It, has, how
ever, been lost, and we are compelled to resign
ourselves to the conclusion which a day or two of
hope—we confess not strong in our own case—had
unsettled.
Burnside has landed, after a hard fight, on a
seaboard island, not as Alvantageously situated
nor encompassed by as rich surroundings of country
as Beaufort. His object is supposed by some to be
Norfolk ; but if we are to believe the recent out
givings of Northern journals, his leading rums is
to make a demonstration against the Weldon and
Wilmington Railroad, with a view to cutting our
great line of Southern communication. That thing
seems, for the present, to be the special aim of the
enemv In every quarter. His movements in West
ern Rentucky and Tennessee seem to have that
single object, for the present, in view; and it has
been repeatedly declared by Northern journals that
Burnside's primary purpose is a demonstration
upon our railroad. It remains to be seen whether
such be his real design, and with what success he
will prosecute it. The experience of Sherman in a
Similar undertaking may possibly be his own.
The assault upon Norfolk is the only object nest
after the railroad enterprise, commensurate in im
portance with the magnitude of the expedition.
In such an undertaking the enemy's vessels could
be of little use. The water approaches to that city
from North Carolina are too narrow, tortuous, and
easily obstructed to admit the use of vessels ; and if
the enemy attempts a lend attack the charms in
our favor of 'repelling him are two or three to one.
The reduction of Norfolk would be the work of
months, and could only be_effected by a large in
crease of Burnside's forces, an increase which the
Yankee exchequer is not able to afford for an ope
ration stretching through a protracted period,,No
thing at all can save their treasury, and . nothfug
can keep the war on foot, but rapid operations
and decisive successes. Yet we do not see wherein
the Burnside Expedition promises these results
more unmistakably than Sherman's did, which
landed in November, nearly three months ago.
Measured by its cost to the enemy, not even the
capture of Norfolk, if it could be effected, would
compensate him for his outlays, and this at last is
the true atendard by which his sued eta ea should be
estimated. The South need not expect, and cannot
rationally expect, that these huge expeditions,
fitted out at immense expense, should fail to effect
any achievement. Fifteen or twenty thousand men
landed anywhere upon our seaboard must succeed
in getting possession. It would be idle to expect
otherwise, and imbecile to be discouraged by the
fact. The true consideration is, whether such sue
cessedrepay their cost.
Measured by this standard, the achievements of
the Burnside Expedition are not likely to be very
important. Its cost cannot have been leas, in the
first instance, than ten millions of dollars, and
its charges every day are at .16ast a quarter of a
million. It has been thirty-one days prosecuting
its career to the point of capturing Roanoke Island,
a feat which has cost the Federal Government
several millions, independently of the first outlay
in the enterprise, and the losses incurred by the
storm. If the expedition should succeed in cap
turing the whole Carolina seaboard, and even a con
siderable slice of the country besidem, together with
Norfolk, still the fifteen or twenty millions of Fede
ral money laid out in the whole operation would
not be reimbursed by half.
We are not of those who suffer discourage
ment from occasional successes of the enemy.
They have far overtaxed the resources of the North
in bringing their prodigious forces into the field.
The effect may he to damage us considerably, but
they are damaging themselves much more. The
injury they inflict upon us is local and remediable ;
that which they bring upon themselves in debt and
taxation is general, universal, and enduring.
They have chosen a gigantic and expensive pro
gramme, which must break down, and which no
allegefae@, 'however great, can compensate the coat
of.
NEWS FROM THE REBEL STATES.
Pen. Johnston's Address to the Rebel
Army of the Potomac.
The following is a copy of GE2I. Johnston's ad
dress to the army of the Potomac
HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF -
NoßmtuaßN VIRGINIA ; Feb. 4, 1862.
SOLDIEU! Your country again ooly you to the
defence of the noblest of human causes. To the in
domitable courage already exhibited on the battle
field, you have added the rarer virtues of high en
durance, cheerful obedience,_ and self-sacrifice.
Accustomed to the comforts and luxuries of home,
you have met and borne the privationa of camp-life,
the exactions of military discipline, and the rims
of a winter eampaign. The rich moults of your
courage, patriotiam, and unfaltering virtue, are be
fore you. Entrusted with the defence of this im
portant frontier, you have driven back the im
mense army which the enemy had tent to invade
our country and to establish his dominion over our
people by the widespread havoc, of n war inaugu
rated without a shadow of constitutional right, and
prosecuted in a spirit of ruthlasa vengeance. B y
your valor and fi rmness, you have kept him in
check, until the nations of the earth' have been
formed to see us in our true character—not dismem
bered and rebellions communities, but an empire of
Confederate States, with a Constitution safe in the
affections of the people, institutions and laws in full
and unobstructed operation, a population enjoying
all the comforts of life, and a citizen soldiery
who laugh to scorn the threat of subjugation.
Your country now summons yon to a noble and
a greater deed. The enemy has gathered up all
his energies for a final conflict. His enormous
masses threaten us on the West; his naval expedi
tions are assailing us upon our whole Southern coast;
and upon the Potomac, within'a few hours' march,
he has a gigantic army, inflamed by lust and mad
dened by fanaticism. Ent the plains of Manassas
are not forgotten, and he shrinks from meeting the
disciplined hefoes who hurled across the Potomac
his grand army, routed and disgraced. He does not
propose to *Hook this army so long aa ..it holds its
present position with undiminished • numbers, and
unimpaired discipline; but, protected by his forti
fications, he awaits the expiration of your term of
service. lie recollects that his own ignoble soldiery,
when their term of service expired, "marched
away from the scene of conflict to the sound of the
enemy's cannon," and he hopes that at that criti
cal moment Southern man will consent to abate
with them this infamy. Bxpecting a large portion
of our army to be soon disbanded, he hopes that his
immense numbers will easily overpower your gal
lant comrades wbo will be left here , _ and thus re
move the chief obstacle to his cherished scheme of
Southern subjugation.
The commanding general calls upon the twelve
months men to stand by their brave comrades who
have volunteered for the war, to revolunteer at
once, and thus show to the world that the patriots
engaged in this struggle for independence will net
swerve from the bleediest path they may be,called
to tfead. The enemies of your country, as well as
her friends, are watching your action with deep,
intense, tremulous interest. Such is your position
that you °Mt act no obscure. part. Your decision,
be it for honor or dishonor, will be written down in
history. You cannot, you will not, draw back at
this solemn crisis of our struggle, when all that hi
heroic in the land is engaged, and all that is pre
cious bangs trembling in the balance.
Scramble for Office at Richmond.
As the time approaches for the meeting of the
permanent Congress of the Confederate States, the
contest is getting animated for the °Mom connected
with the organization of the two Houses. For the
Clerkship of the House of Representatives the most
prominent candidates are Mr. McDowell, associate
editor of the•Riobmond Whig, Mr. MoOltuilly, of
Tenvenee, and Mr Dixon, at preen% the 'reeding
clerk of the Provisional Congress. For the secre
tary of the Senate thaw moat frequently spoken of
are Johnson J. Hooper,• Esq., secretary of the Pro
visional Congress, John R. Thompson, formerly
editor of the Sonthern Literary Messenger, and
A. K. Dawson, ofiGeorgia.
Home-Made Cannon
The Rome (Ga.) Courier eaye
At this foundry they are now completing, on an
average, 686 cannon a day, and in the manufacture
of gun-carriages, caissons, do., are fitting up a bat
tery of six guns once in three weeks. With a fow
other establishments as active and energetic as are
the Nelms. Noble, the Confederate States would
soon be supplied with abundance of cannon of her
Own isanufacture_ We are glad to learn that these
guns lave been proved to be of the very best she
rfteter 'of iron ordnance. The famous Cutt'g bat
tery, that did such distinguished service at
Dranarville, we are told, was from this establish
ment.
The Stone Blockade.
[From the Charleston Mercury, Feb. a.]
Witbin the last few days a large quantity of
wrecked material, consisting of blocks, spars,
have been picked up in and near this harbor. These
articles have undoubtedly come from the Lincoln
stone fleet sunk near this port, and which the winds
and waves have been gradually breaking up.
Many of the smaller specimens are being distributed
oger the eity, and will, in time, be among the curl
(Mies of the Lincoln war. Others, that are more
valuable, are being sold by the wreckers.
Home:Grown Celine.
The Charleston Courier says : "We have been
favored by a friend with a sample of cotton seed
coffee, prepared by DI,. 11. Ravenel, of Pooshee, St.
John's, Berkley, which we had served up at break
fast yesterday inertibig, and found very palatable:
The aroma isjery like that of coffee, and in flavor
it is similar to coffee, but rather more like brema.
We have little doubt that a mixture of one third
or one half coffee, and the rest of ground or pow.
dered cotton seed, would easily pass for good, if
not pure coffee."
Sugar Superabundant.
In consequence a the large .crop . of sugar and
molasses inlAuisiana, a movement is on foot among
the planters to plant only half a crop of cane next
year, and turn their attention to other products.
It is stated that at least one-third of the present
crop will be on hand at next planting time. The
planters complain of low prices.
Mississippi Manufactures.
Tile number of atitton looms in operation in Mis
sissippi is 11 f - Eijm.BostJackson, 40 at Grenada, and 35
at Bankston. - Bach loom is capable of turning out
sixty yards of oloth per day for the full number of
working days in the year, (3130 which would give
a product of 3,435,740 yards per annum. This ag
gregato will not near supply the wants of the Stata.
Re-enlisted.
The Florence (Miss.) Gazette is informed that
the Ninth Mississippi Regiment had re-enlisted for
the war. It participated in the recent heavy bom
bardment of Fort Pickens, and also the subsequent
attack upon Billy WRAmea camp on Santa Rama
Island. The regiment is now at Corinth, Miss.
The Wheat Crop. -
The Harris county (Ga.) Enterprtze says : It is
useless to speculate, at so early a day, as to the
probuble yield of the incoming wheat crop, yet it
is a common . remark among the planters of this
section that the young wheat presents an unusually
flattering prospect.
Cotton and the Blockade.
The cotton planters of Nachitoohes Parish, La.,
bare. in public meeting, resolved that no planter,
no matter what may be his foree, should plant or
raise more than five bales of cotton, of 500 pounds
each, in 1862, unless the blockade is raised before
the first of March.
Confederate Bonds.
At Richmond, on the 23d ult., Confederate bonds
of the $15,000,000 Jean were cold at 101 and in
tent ; of the $100,000,000 loan at 100 and interest.
North Carolina bonds at 87, and Virginias 854.
- GENERAL BUELL'S DEPARTMENT.
The Depredations of the Rebels
The Louisville Journal says : The rebel General
George B. Crittenden, in his recent proclamation
to the. people of Kentucky—dated from the camp
through which, in less than two weeks afterwards,
be fled, panic-stricken, with all his forces before
the avenging might of the insulted nation—had
the assurance to say : "We come among you as
friends and brothers to protect you in your persons,
libertiesand preperty, and only to make war against
the invaders of your homes.' Such are the pro
- misee held out-„by the leaders of the Confederacy
to induce the people of Kentucky to join their
ranks, but we have repeatedly shown that these
promises are never realized.
It seemed to us that the measure of this seces
sion *lekedneser and lying hypocrisy had been
filled to the very brim, but we have heard of some
recent transactions which, in base turpitude, assume
a blacker hue than any antecedent ones. Mr. E.
K. Owsley, well known as the proprietor of the
`hotel, at the Mammodiseave, has, on many °sea
ohms, been lulled upon - by foraging parties of the
rebels, who took what they wanted, giving him re
ceipts therefor, and telling him if he would come to
the camp in two days he should be paid. -A colo
nel, major, and two captains pledged themselves
that he should not be molested. He therefore
went, and handed his receipts to Major C. W. Phil
%lard,- who professed to bo his friend, and said he
would see to getting the money for them, instead
of which he fafterwards denied that they had been
.entrusted to him, and Mr. Owsley never received
eine.elint from that quarter..
.Shortly after this he was served with a no
tice in the handwriting of . General Hindman,
signed R. C. Newton, A. A. G., to., and
direeted to Lieutenant J. B. ; Bradford, First
Arkansas Cavalry, warning him to leave the.
Matitmoth Cave Hotel, and remove his family and
household effects, or it would be burned down on
the 24th of January, at ten o'clock in the morn
ing,. Mr.- Oweley Bent his people to some relations,
and had all his effects placed in the Mammoth
Cave. On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of
the week of warning gangs of rehabi went to the
Cave in numbers of from fifty to one hundred and
twenty, and each man went away loaded with what
be fancied or could lay his hands upon, like the
"notorious satellites " of the tyrant Dionysius,
" high heaped with arms and plunder " from the
sack of the citadel of Syracuse. Everything was
swept away—blankets, coverlets, silver and plated
wares, wmes and liquors, and what they could
not carry off they destroyed in wanton havoc.
We must do justice, however, to the honor and
magnanimity of one of the rebels, a lieutenant of
one of Morgan's company, and we regret that we
have not his name to record on the lasting page of
history. This man, like Pierre in the Venetian
Conspiracy, was "a gay, bold-faced villain," and,
as he was " toting" off about five hundred dollars'
worth of Mr. Owsley's valuables, he handed the
owner a one-dollar shinplaster of the Bank of
Tennessee in payment. We have this memento of
the truth of the adage " Honor among thieves"
in our possession, and shall prize it highry, as il
lustrative of the
_fate of one of Milton's fiends or
fallen angels—
Utter darkneas hoe place,
Ordained without redemption, without end
The hotel had not been burned when Mr. Ows
ley left home, but we do not doubt what its fate
will be before the rebels fall back upon Bowling
Green, as they most certainly will do before our
advancing army, without making a stand to fight
anywhere outside ' of their entrenched camp, but
desolating the entire country as they retreat. ..These
facts fully exemplify, the hollow perfidy of the Crit
tenden Proclamation. The 4, friends and brothers"
who were to protect the imrsons, liberty, and pro
perty of Mr. Owaley, and only to make war against
the invaders of his home, have exiled his person,
restrained his liberty, stolen his property, and
made war, with threats of incendiariam, upon his
home.
Billet, the above was written. we have reoeived
full intelligence from the Mammoth Cave Hotel,
which has been burned to the ground, after scenes
of wanton destruction whieh'would difigraee a tribe
of savages. We have before us an intercepted let
ter from a rebel to his nieces, written upon the
"bill heads " formerly used at the hotel, which
says, in choice language : "We are camped olost to
the Marootb Cave—go thear eery day. Everything
in that fine Hotell bas bin hid in the cave, the Hotell
burned] we are stealing everything ; we got all
them suntan and then mashed that grand piano ;
drank the whisky and eat all the. good. Tit
.
tals."
We give some further extracts from this epistle,
after rectifying the orthography -
Camp Ash, at Bell's tavern, is the headquarters,
Geneial Hindman in command. When I left you,
you,olaimed•-of me frequent correspondence. At
that. time neither yen nor I had the faintest idea of
wknt q few tkayiNfould bring forth. You know by
Onetime, that Green river is the hone of conten.
tion. Well, we are South, they North, and • here
we stand like two great monuments of destruction,
one refusing to advance and the other afraid. We
are encamped about seven miles from Buell's pick
'l6, Mad Mil= miles from Green river. We go
scouting beyond their , pickets, run them in, fire
across the river, and then come back to camp, no
one hurt, and we not scared. But, perhaps you
ask, why don't yop_go over the river and whip
them ? Now thats the rub. I can't_ answer the
question. I know your seal and geed feeling for
the Confederate canoe ;• I well remember your
enthusiastic shouts when the Manassas victory
was won, but did you ever dream. for a moment
that it was guy last grand victory . God forbid,
and yet it looks so. A Zollicoffer has fallen;
a Marshall has had to retreat; Johnston has
fallen back ;•:' Hardee -is mum; Buckner has
gone to the sunny South, and we, with Hind•
man, are loafing around the camp and Barran
county stealing everything thfit we can lay our
hands upon. I don't wish you to understand that
Gen. Hindman steals'. in person ; not so, nor would
I have you understand me that all his men steal.
But when I look around me to see who to excuse or
whom I shall name—hard is the fate of a poor
soldier • herd ' is the Confederate service. I love
the genial South ; her fair women and brave boys,
her salubrious clime and not the lass her luxurious
fruits, but I detest her programme of war, 'can't
admire her chivalrous generals. I hope they are
good South. ROW long will they luxuriate in fine
hotels and we on straw heds and mud, and half ra-
Goes, not good at that ? Why not turn us loose, we
can whip the d—d Yankees, and that quick. But
I Weary yen, Mid then [my stolen paper Mt well NI
ink is about extinot—l've, had no supper, my little
vamp-fire is out, and it's too cold to get more wood
Wouldn't AM like to see your old uncle squatted
on an old greasy camp-stool, writing by are:light ?
Hard is the fate of the poor soldier, in sight of home
and yet can't get there. Coffee is $1 per pound,
soda 90 cents, pork from the hook $l3 per hundred,
.butter 75 cents, ens 30 cents per dozen. a common
Ean coat $23, and - good-looking girls 37i per duen.
xcuse the last, with, that exception every syllable
• is correct. Your devoted uncle till death, which I
hope ieW come by a Yankee. B.
Thettffiove is a rough but correct picture of Con
fedoride camp life, " old undo" writes to his
two nieces * unreservedly, and ninfeesee :that the
rebel army is nothing but a gang of thieves, kept
together by constraint, anxious to get home, but
unable to do 80. He cants a little against the enor
mity of stealing, bot does not hesitate to use stolen
paper and ink, andhe draws a little upon his ima
gination to make his description graphic and pie
ttlferlirle, by saying that MOllOl9 camp tiro is out
but still be is wnting by fire light! But the ex
pours made by this letter of the vandalism of the
!abed so evmplete a refutation of the objects of
the Confederates, as proclaimed by Gen. George B.
Crittenden, that nothing could more eloquently
convince us that Kentucky is to be ground under
the iron heel of despotism unless her invaders can
be driven from the soil they have too long polluted.
Nothing has oecurred since the inception of the re
bellien mere woolen and fiendieh than the ineenr .
diarism of the Mammoth Cave Hotel, and the
stealing or destruction of everything it contained.
How Nashville Union Men Love Texas
Rangers.
The Louisville correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette, writing under date of February 9, says
Some of our " conservatives"—hypooritical he
eentionists—affect sometimes to discredit the fact
that there are Union men in Tennessee, especially
in Nashville. Speaking by the card, as 'I
do, I can
assure them there are more Union men in Ten
nessee- than Secessionists—throwing in with the
more honest Secesh such copperheads as the afore.
said hypocrites. If disguised traitors in that State,
braced and strengthened by the wicked and adul.
terous platform of neutrality, sent over from Ken
tucky, bad not gone before the people in February,
1861, with an unctuous lie in their mouths, but had
preached the truths that Etheridge preached in the
House and Johnson in the Senate, there would have
been a majority of one hundred thousand for the
Union, instead of sixty-four thousand. In spite of
all the dust their false teachers could throw in their
eyes, they voted a majority of twelve thousand
against a Convention, though the sheep-skinned
wolves of neutrality urged them to vote for a Con
vention. Davidson county, which contains Nash
ville, voted against a Convention, under the nose
of Governor _Harris, with two oily-tongued lawyers,
each in the first rank of his profession, and at the
head of the old party with which he had acted,
pleading for a Convention ; supported, too, tor that
portion of the press which pretended to be loyal.
The other day I was not a tittle pleased to hoar
an eyewitness tell of a scene which occurred while
the Texas brigands were galloping about the streets
of Nashville, on the eve of their departure for
Bowling Green. Two intelligent gentlemen were
entering a door as some of the Rangers dashed by
with lassos in their bands. Said one of these Union.
ists to the other : "Great Jupiter, what aspectacle !
Texas Rangers!—Texas thieves and blackguards !
going to Kentucky with ropes to catch honest Ame
rican citizens !" A bystander, himself a Union man,
chided them, with this interrogatory : " Gentlemen,
are you not afraid gems one will inform on you for
using such language, and have you arrested ?"
Thereupon the two embraced, and declared they
could cheerfully die on the spot for their country,
were " the old flag" but waving baron them.
"White Money" in the Southern Con.
ftderik - f.
Union men hi the South have a facetious habit
of calling Confederate rags "white money," be
cause the common paper upon which they are print
ed, and the indifferent engraving, give them a white
appearance. Though it is intrinsically worthless,
ragaoioue traders know what to do with it—keep it
moving. An inveterate Unionist in Nashville, than
whom few understand better the value and stabili
ty of currency, drew another Union man aside on
a public street not long since, when some news of a
Federal advantage bad reached him, and said:
" give 'ern yet, It detnint matter if we
are compelled to take this white money. We can
buy everything we want fer it, except liberty. We
can put it of
One circumstance related to me shows the esti
mate Secessionists place upon the pledges of their
c , Confederacy." An old Secesh farmer alighted
one day from his vehicle at a tradesman's door,
leaving his better-half to mind the "critter," and
proceeded to offer for sale a considerable lot of
woollen socks, which he said were intended espe
cially for soldiers ; yet he ivas careful to demand
the highest price for them. A trade was effected,
and the merchant stood indebted to him twenty dot
lars. Just as the bargain was closed, another ens
tomer paid the buyer a twenty-dollar Confede
rate bond or note, drawing interest from date at
eight per cent., payable six months after the esta
blishment of Southern independence. "Now,"
said the tradesman, " here is the very best money
in the world. You can just put it in your pocket
book, and it will grow all the time, like California
yeast. I know you want this." The farmer en
dorsed all that was said of its superior value, and
enlarged upon the certainty of ' independent Dixie.
When he had fully;dilated upon the great cotton
empire, our trader laid before him a twenty-dollar
bill on the Bank of Tennessee, which is about the
worst bank currency now extant, and said : " Here,
then, give you your choice. Yon can take this
eight-per-cent. money or the Tennessee bill, as you
like." After a little hesitation, the Secessionist re
marked : " For my part, I'd greatly rather have
the Confederate paper. But theta's the old wo
man's socks, and she's sort o' curious ; so I'll just
step out and ask her." He returned with orders
to take the Tennessee bill.
A Cheap Way of Getting Gold.
in Texas, especially, if a man refuse the Con
federate money as a legal tender, a mob can be
raised in five minutes to force him. At one of the
villages in that State a party of four, who had no
other currency with them than gold, as they were
on their way to Mexico, closed a bargain for stage
fare at twenty-five dollars each, and were beginning
to draw forth the glittering metal. A fifth party,
standing by, who bad a hundred-dollar rag, stepped
forward, winked at tne travellers, and said to the
stage contractor : " Here, I have a hundred-dollar
Confederate note; I'll justtake these gentlemen's
change; and pay the entire bill." The travellers,
anxious to humor tho joke, hastened to place the
gold in the hand of him who made the proffer ; and
the contractor was afraid to refuse the bitter bill
He cast his longing eyes at thegold, bit his lip, and
shoved the rag into hie drawer.
Incidents of the Battle between Col. Gar
field and Humphrey Marshall.
The following incidents, although several weeks
old, will help to show the material which the rebel
soldiers in Kentucky have to contend against.
They are copied from letters published in the Ra
venns (Ohio) Democrat:
One
One poor fellow, whose thigh was broken by a
Minis ball, (his limb has since been amputated,)
killed two rebels after he was struck.
Sergeant Irish, of Captain Bushnell's company,
was bringing his cartridge to his mouth, when a
ball cut away the powder and left the lead in his
fingers. Turning his body between the gun and
the enemy, as he put in the next cartridge, he said,
" There. see if you'll get that." Mother Men
took oui a cracker, which a ball shivered in his
fingers ; he ate the remnant, and fired away !
From a letter, written immediately after the bat
tle by S. R. Freeman, Jr., the following items are
extracted :
As the men were retiring from the field at night
fall, a member of Co. F, who stood near Captain
Williams, after going a little way, said he could go
no farther—that a spent ball had hit him on the
belt, and knocked his breath out of him and made
him faint. Captain Williams told him to let him
have his gun and go back. Ho insisted upon
going on, but soon gave out, and came near faint
ing. When his belt was taken off the blood spirted
ont, Upon examining the halt it was found that a
bullet had passed through it, and the hole closed
up again, making it look like a dent.
Another man from Co. F thought his pants chafed
him, but when he came'to sit down, found a musket
ball under his akin. He said he didn't know it—
he thought some one Innithrown a stone at him.
David Hall, of Freedom, was wounded, the ball
gang in at the arm end passing through the muscle
of the shoulder blade. Sherman Leech, from
Hiram, was wounded, a ball going in at the knee,
and lodging in the calf of his leg.
Leech, after be was wounded, saw a fellow reach
out and shoot from between a couple of rocks.
Next time Secesh peeped out, Leech drew a bead
OD him, and both fired at the same time. As Leech
was carried down the hill, he quietly remarked,
"Sh-sh-sh-shot the infernal cuss that hit me."
Next morning Secesh was found with the whole top
of his head blown off by Leech's rifle ball.
The only man killed on the field was a Kentuck
ian, who hadlhot from a tree five of the enemy at
six shots. As be was climbing over a rook he re
ceived a ball in the forehead, which blew out his
brains.
So hot was the fire thatmen had their clothes cut
through and through by the balls. One man' had
three ball holes through his "cap k others through
their boots, pants, and straps.
Col. Garfield bad his canteen straps put by ft
musket ball.
One fellow sat on a log : his hack to a tree, where
he loaded and fired. Just as he was raising up to
fire—for the fiat time, it proved—a ball took him
in the left eye, and blew his whole forehead off; he
settled back in his seat, keeping an upright posi
tion, and thus we found him.
GEN. HALLECK'S DEPARTMENT.
A Gunboat Expedition for Fort Donebon.
ST. Lours, Feb. 13.—The Democrat learns that
Com. Foote, with the gunboats St. .Louis, Louts.
veils, and Pittsburg, left Cairo for the Cumber
land river at 10 o'clock on Tuesday night. The
Carondelet was expected to join them at Paducah.
In consequence of the high water, and an unusually
rapid current mail the rivers, the fleet was not ex
pected to reach Fort Dynelson till this =caning.
As it is presumed that the attack will not be
made until there is asiomplete readiness on the part
of both the land and naval forces, the news of the
result cannot be expected before to-night or to-mor
row morning.
The Republican of this morning states that Gen,
Hitchcock has not yet accepted the appointment of
major general, bat that he will respond when the
commiasion is received.
Strategic Points on the Cuniberland and
Tennessee Rivers.
TUB MtMOSER RlVtiti.
The Tennessee river has it course chiefly in the
State of Tennessee, and is the largest tributary of
the Ohio. Its most remote sources are Clinch and
Holston rivers,. which rise in the Allegheny Moue.
tains of Vi rginia. It has half a dozen other
branches, which uniting form the Tennessee pro
per at a point forty-flue miles southwest of Knox
ville. From Knoxville it pursue! a southwest di
rection across the State, and enters Alabama, when
it pursues a westerly eitittivo for 150 or 200 miles,
and then turns north and enters. Tennessee again,
crossing the State and the western portidn of Ken
tucky, and entering the Ohio eleven and a half
miles below the mouth of the Cumberland. and
forty-seven and a half above the mouth of the Ohio.
The whole descent of the river from its meat remote
eouree to its mouth is about 1,700 feet. Its whole
length by the course of the river is 1,200 miles. It
drains a surface of 41,000 square miles. There are
no perpendicular .falls, and few rapids which ob;
struct navigation through its whole course. The
greatest obstruotion is at Muscle Shoals, Alabama,
257 miles from the mouth, to which point steam
boats eacend. A canal thirty-six mil'e's in length
has been built around these shoals, and above the
navigation for boats is unobstructed for 250 miles.
The river being rapid, is chiefly favorable for navi
gation down stream.
FLORENCB, ALABAMA
This town, which the Federal gunboats visited
in their dulling exploit up the Tentacle% after the
capture of Fort Henry, is at the head of navigation,
three hundred miles from Paducah, and contains
about two thousand inhabitania. -It is at the foot
of Muscle Shoals nearly opposite Tuscumbia, and
two hundred &111:1 fifty miles northwest of Mont
gomery, the whilom capital of the Coufederaoy. It
TWO CENTS.
is about three hundred miles from the mouth of
the river. The river here is about half a mile wide,
and is crossed by a fine bridge. The route of the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad is within a short
distance of the place. It has several public build
ings, including three large brick churches.
' The moat important feet in connection with the
town is, however, that it is the principal shipping
point for the produce of the country and the adja
cent parts of Tennessee. Tho amount of cotton
raised is the vicinity is very large. Lauderdale
county, of which Florence is the capital, produces
from ten to twelve thousand bales of ginned cotton
of four hundred pounds. Franklin county, on the
other side of the river, produces over 15,000 halos.
Cotton is also produced to some extent in Tennessee,
on the line of the river. There are two large cot
ton factories on Cypress creek, three miles from the
place, having a capital of $15,06 each. Shoat
creek, nine miles distant, also gives motion to a
cotton factory which cost $60,000. The hospitable
and cordial greeting given to the men on our gun
boats in this vicinity, although due to same extent,
no doubt, to fear, , may yet be considered as not
wholly affected. It was known that Northern Ala
bama, together with Eastern Tennessee and West•
ern Virginia, were the last to assent to the heresy
of secession, and were only driven into it by the
mob spirit everwhere prevailing. They illustrate
the lines--
that consents against his wilt
Is of the same opinion still."
would appear, from tbe fads quoted above,
that one of the moat eligible places to open a
61 Cotton port" would be at Florence, as the
principal shipping point of a large cotton-grow
ing region.
EXPECTED ATTACK ON FORT DONELSON
We expect momentarily news of the attack on
Fort Donehen, on the Cumberland river, sixty
miles from its mouth, and fifteen miles southeast
of Fort Henry. It was intended that the attacks
on the two forts shonld be nearly simultaneous.
The last news that we received was that General
Grant had surrounded it with several batteries
of artillery, and that the attack would be coin
menced shortly. It was ponstrupte4 sem time last
summer, together with Fort Henry, to prevent the
advance of our forces up the Cumberland, as Fort
Henry was built to prevent our advance up the
Tennessee. It is the counterpart of Fort Henry,
and these two forts in our possession, we have the
key to the positions of the rebel armies at Bowling
Green and Columbus, and can easily prevent them
from effecting a junction, and can cut off their Cota
iiitibidiAkti with the South, unless they abdicate
their positions speedily and retire furtherinto the re
cesses of rebeldom. Fort Donelson is situated on
the west bank of the Cumberland river, where that
stream washes an acute angle at Dover. It is a
fortification of earth. It is at the intersection of
acme seven or eight post roads, and but four miles
north of the Memphis end Clarkeaville Railroad.
The position is important as controlling the river as
far up as Clarkeaville. Clarkeaville is thirty miles
distant, and is the site of extensive and formida
ble rebel works, which have been in construction
for four months peat, to protect the bridge crossing
the Cumberland en the railroad route to Haahrillo.
The capture of Fort Donelson is considired only as a
matter of time since the taking of Fort Henry.
THE CUMBERLAND RIVER
The capture of Fort Donelean will give us a very
strong hold on the Cumberland and become a base
for operations further on, extending in time, pro
bably, to Nashville. the capital of Tennessee.
The Cumberland river rises in the Cumberland
mountains near the boundary between Virginia and
Kentucky, and pursuing a westerly or southwest.
eriy course enters the State of Tennessee. After
an extensive sweep to the south it turns north.
westwardly and northerly, and enters and mom
Kentucky, entering the Ohio ill miles east of the
mouth of the Tennessee river and 59 miles above
the mouth of the Ohio. The entire length of the
river is about 600 miles, and it drains a territory of
17,500 square miles. It is navigable for large
steamboats and vessels to Nashville, 203 miles from
the mouth, and for boats of 15 tons 300 miles
further. At certain seasons of high water, vassals
of 400 tons can descend the river 400 miles to the
Ohio, and for half its length boats may navigate it
at all seasons. It is the second river in size which
enters the Ohio, being inferior only to the Tennes.
see. Below Nashville, the river is deep and nar-
row. There are on the borders of the Cumberland
nineteen furnaces, nine forges and two rolling
mills, producing annually 44 ; 50(1 tong of #913, Mod
at sl,bia,ooo.
In a short time, if our armies progress in the
Weet as energetically as they have done of late,
Nashville will become a place of interest as con
nected with our movements up the Cumberland.
It is connected with Bowling Green by railroad.
Nashville is situated on the left or the west bank
of the Cumberland river, some two hundred miles
by the course of the stream from its mouth ; two
hundred and eighty miles northeast of Memphis;
two hundred and six miles southwest of Lexington,
in Kentucky ; and six hundred and eighty:four
miles from Washington city. Many of the private
residences are erected on a scale of palatial mag
nitude and splendor, and the public buildings ox ,
bibit a corresponding character. The suburbs
abound with picturesque scenery, enriched with
beautiful groves of cedar. The city was originally
laid out in lots of one acre each, with a reservation of
four acres for public buildinga. The boundariea
have since been enlarged. The now capitol, which
stands on a commanding eminence, 175 feet above
the river, is one of the most noble, magnificent, and
costly structures in America. The material is fine
limestone, which was quarried on the , spot, and
nearly resembles marble. The dimensions are 240
feet by 185, and the estimated cost $1,000,000. It
is built, as it is stated, entirely of stone and iron,
without any wood about it, except the plank on
which the copper roofing is fastened ; the floor and
inner walls are of dressed stone. A lunatic asylum,
on a large scale,
has recently been erected in the
vicinity The State penitentiary at this place is
313 feet 11 50, containing 200 cells. The University
of Nashville was founded in 1806. The medical
college connected with the university . was opened
in 1851 ; it occupies a spacious building, and has
upwards of 150 students. There are also a number
of female seminaries, the largest of which is attend
ed by more than 300 pupils.
There were fifteen newspapers published here, six
Of tent daily, Nashville OOrtillinS .three banks,
with a total capital of $5,182,500, and fifteen
churches, representing the various religious de
nominations. The mineral cabinet of the late Dr.
Troost contains the largest private collection in the
United States. The city is lighted with gas. The
Cumberland river is crossed by a magnificent wire
suspension bridge, built at a cost of $lOO.OOO.
Water is supplied by being raised from the Cum
berland river. Six railroads now centre at Nash
ville, affording communication with many desired
points. It is the terminus of the Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad, 150 miles long, which was
finished in 1852, at an expense of about $3,000,000.
The road is built in a very substantial manner,
and completes the connection with Charleston and
Savannah. The dohimei-oe of Naahville is very ex
tensive, amounting annually to over 5,000 tonnage,
composed of steamboats navigating the Cumber
land river, engaged in the conveyance of passen
gers, and the traffic of goods and produce. Exten
sive manufacturing establishments are in successful
operation at this place, among which may be men
tioned the Powder mill, the rolling null, the Ten
nessee Iron Works, just below the city, on the Cum
berland river, which are as extensive and equal in
capacity to any in the United States ; foundries
and machine shops. The population of Nashville,
at the present time, is about 26,000.
MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS.
Arrival of the United States Storeship
Supply from Ship Island.
NEw YORK, Feb. 13. The storeship Supply hem
_
arrived, bringing Ship Island dates to the 29th ult.
She has on board the captains and crews of the cap
tured rebel steamers Anna and Lewis, and the
schooner A. J. Pierce, taken by the New LOwion,
off Florida.
Nothing new at Ship Island. The troops are
healthy and the worka progressing rapidly.
The United States frigate Niagara, gunboats
New London, Hatteras, Itasca, Coon., Pamper° ,
and ship Black Prince, and brig J. P. Wetherill,
were anchored off the island.
The Supply boarded off Florida, on the 30th ult.,
the British schooner Samuel Hart, of Liverpool,
wboso captain amid ha was bound from Liverpool to
Cardenas, but having no papers, and being on the
route to rebeldom, the schooner was taken by the
Supply. A crew was pat aboard and, she was
brought to this port. Her cargo is supposed to be
arms and ammunition.
From the Upper Potomac.
FREDERICK, Feb. 13.—Rumors are current of
the oon'eentration of the rebel forces near the river,
between Point of Rooks and J.leesburg ; also, of the
erection of batteries there, but as yet no authentic,
intelligence of this movement has been obtained.
The Occupation of Romney by the Fede
ral Troops—More Particulars.
The Romney correspondent of Ole Cincinnati
Commercial, writing under date of February 7,
There is, perhaps, no town in the Union of equal
unimportance over which there has been so mach
contention as Romney. It is again occupied by
Federal troops, the advance guard of Colonel Dun
ning's brigade. The rebels, by burning the bridges
over Patterson's creek an d South branch, have
made it a worthless position to either party, as it
will prevent any demonstration by them on the.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, from New creek to
Green Springs, and increase the difficulty of trans
porting supplies to any force that may be stationed
there by the commander of this division.
The " Secesh " ladies of that town were " kan
tankerous " when our troops left there, a few days
ago. They spat in the fates of the men, and by
other demonstrations equally refined manifested
their -baled, They must be in despair WWI for
Jackson's ragged army is worn out and dispirited,
and such of his troops as have reached Winchester
are exhausted and useless, comparatively.
One of our scouts bad a conversation with a sur
viving 'Union resident of Hampshire county, who
saw Jackson's troops when they advanced to occupy
the town. He says that the pantaloons of many
were rotted or worn off almost to the knees, and
that some had patched them "fore and aft" with
coarse smith that looked to him like coffee-sack
ing. Their su bsistence had to be hauled a distance
of forty-two miles, over terrible roads. The county
could not support them, as its supplies were pretty
thoroughly tabulated some time ago.
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severe weather, with considerable snow, overtook
them in the mountains ; some froze to death, some
died of exhaustion, and the suffering was general.
It is reported here, though' with what correctness
I am unable to state, that Jackson hasbeen ordered
to report himself for court-martial, before which
be will have an opportunity of explaining whether
The Omen attending were, as is
alleged, the result of nesligenoe on his part.
IV bile Romney was being occupied, the advance
guard of Gen. Lander's command were pushing
eastward, and the Baltimore and Ohio Road isagain
under guard of Federal troops as far as Big Caco
pon. In fact, it is held as far coat as llanoook, and
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the company are busily engaged in rebuilding the
bridge at Little Caeopon, for which the timbers and
other material are ready. It will require but a short
time to put the road in /tinning order.
So far, Gen. Landevis combinations have been
worked out successfully, and so satisfactorily, that
Gen. McClellan has, I understand, complimented
him in warm terms. Ilia movements were delayed
by the rise in the rivers anti the impassable condi
tion of the roads, so that the rebels effected their
retreat. It is po,mil)l4 some of them mat , be caught
in a trap before the problem is worked out. Lander
conceals his plan's, or at least their ultimata object—
a good quality in a general, you will say. Whether
he merely contemplates simply the opening of the
Baltimore and Ohio road, or an advance upon Win
chester, can hardly be surmised from the present
indications, and it will probably be woad before
his plans will be fully deveioped. At nil events,
the road will be opened through to Harper's Ferry.
The Alleged Tremson of Gen. Stone—A
Serious Charge Against Him.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Tzpyune says :
TlThe Wien regarding Gen. Stony ho slit
prise among those who have been familiar with his
conduct the last six months. The ,developments
in regard to him are only another illustration of
what we have been so slow to learn, that friendship
to slavery is hostility to the Republic. General
Stone's wife is notorious for her Secession tendencies,
while his own course has made him an nbjegt, of
quite general euspicion. The discovery of his
treasonable communication with the enemy is said,
on good authority, to have happened in this wise :
A soldier in one of the New York regiments, who
had procured his discharge, and came to the capital
for the purpose of getting his - pay, mentioned to s
gentleman in one of the public offices that there
were suspicious circumstances connected with Gan.
Stone's movements, and related the following inci
dent:
While he (the soldier) was on picket duty near
Edward's Ferry, some time subsequent to the Ball's
Bluff affair, Gen. Stone rode down near the Ferry,
accompanied only by a servant. After some little
time be went to an unoccupied house near, and
bringing out a spy-glass looked moss the river. He
then remounted and rode away, but shortlyreturned
to the same house, and again brought thelass into
requisition, and seeming to discover the object of his
search, waved his hat as though communicating a
signal. Directly about a dozen horsemen came out
of the woods on the opposite side of the river.
General Stone, going to our pickets, remarked that
theie 'Eisen bidet want something, and suggested
that some of them should cross, and see what it
might be. Five men volunteered to go on this ser
vice, and on reaching the Virginia shore, the rebels
proposed that they should remain as hostages while
an equal number of their party crossed for the pur
pose of having an interview with General Stone s
which proposal was accepted, and the rebels ati•
cordingly crossed and met General Stone. They
withdrew from the river bank near the house above
named, and remained in Conference for some time.
A soldier at the ferry observed a sealed packet pass
ing between the rebels and General Stone. One of
the rebels rebuild/ad to bba of the . Men who re
mained as hostages, that they "had come down by
appointment." The one who headed the rebel
party was Captain Porter.
It may be asked why it is that these fads did not
come sooner to the knowledge of the proper au
thorities. One reason is the difficulty, if not the
danger, involved in the making of charges by a
private against an officer of high rank. Still fur
ther communication has been as far as possible pre
vented by Gen. Stone between the men of his com
mand and the capital. He is said to have mani
fested a nervous anxiety in regard to this, as though
fearing that some one who might come here from
his command might know something of his doings.
Rumors of his disloyalty have for a long time been
current, but have seemed to lack any more sub
stantial foundation than the well-known rebellious
proclivities of some of his relatives by marriage,
and the fact that he manifested anxiety to protect
known Secessionists in their right to property in
human flesh—a fact so notorious that, since the re
cent article in the Tribune on the 4 , ffiarylaud
Overseer," he has been generally characterized by
that title. •
Depredations of the Sumpter.
A letter from Gibraltar, dated January 20, says :
You will have already heard by telegraph of the
arrival of the Sumpter in this boy. On Friday
night a message was reeetved here, saying t6i►t
bad left Cadiz, but that her course was not known.
As the wind was favorable for the passage of ves
sels through the Straits to the westward, it was
thought not unlikely that she would steam for
Gibraltar, with the object of intercepting the many
Union merchantmen homeward bound,
On Saturday morning signal was made front the
look-out on the summit of the Rock that the Sump
ter was six miles to the eastward, capturing two
large Union ships. The news, .as may be imagined,
caused the greatest excitement, and everybody
rushed out to catch a glimpse of the privateer and
her prey :
The seizure was accomplished simply enough ; no
defence could be made. A boat's crew was sent on
board, the Federal flag hauled demon, and the thing
was done. The cruiser was evidently used to her
work. No time was lost in searching the prizes,
the few valuable effects were removed, the match
was lighted, and in another moment the blazing ship
was fast drifting away with the current. When
evening closed the flames were still visible, darting
upward in fitful fleshes on the eastern horizon. The
first ship taken was laden with sulphur, consigned,
as the master endeavored to make out, to Baring
Brothers; but, as Captain Semmes afterward re
marked, sulphur being the principal ingredient of
gunpowder, and its exportation from England being
just at this time prohibited, it was considered as
well to destroy it, especially as the master had no
papers to show.
The other vessel taken, a large bark, proved to be
laden with an English cargo, so she was released,
and came in here yesterday.
In the evening of Saturday the Sumpter an.
shored In thin bay. On sunday I wens on board,
most anxious to see the celebrated craft that has
led the Federal navy a dance over so many miles
of ocean. When going alongside I could scarcely
believe that so poor a vessel could have escaped so
many dangers. She is a screw steamer, with three
masts, a funnel strangely out of proportion to ber
sizes and a tall, black hull, so high out of water
that she gives you the idea of being insufficiently
ballasted. Your tbirtytwo pounders peeped from
her sides, and a large eight-inch pivot gun was on
her main deck forward Before she was fitted for
her present work she was a passenger ship,
running between Now Orleans and the Mea
ns. Iler 'unsightly appearance arises from the
alterations that have beer. maths is her dielia.
ID order to afford more accommodation, and to
give more cover for the engines and guns, a light,
temporary flush deok has been built over what was
originally the only deck of the ship. This raises
her an additional ten feet out of water, and, at the
same time, dwarfs her masts and funnel. She is
crank and leaky. Her engines arc intAlatly Above
the lower deck, and with the object of preserving
them from the effects of gunshot. they are sur
rounded by cylindrical easing of six-Inch wood
covered with half-inch iron bars, a very poor pro
tection against an eight-inch shot. Her officers and
crew number ninety in all. The latter are a hardy,
devil-may-care set of follows ready for any work,
men who would stick at nothing. They are of all
nations; even the Irish brogue was among them.
The commander, Captain Semmes, is a reserved,
determined-looking man, whose left hand knows
not what his right death. Ho received me most
courteously, and took me over his ship.
The Aabar, of the 22d Mat o a paper published
at Algiers, has the following
On Monday last, between ten and eleven in the
evening, an event occurred opposite Point Pescade,
which will, doubtless, soon be explained Moan
while.we have received the following details :
About 10 o'clock a heavy cannonade was heard
at sea distinctly by the inhabitants of the village of
St. Eugene. It was also heard at Algiers. A fish
erman, who bad been out late, was for a short time
in danger from the projectiles of the two vessels en
gaged in combat. It is supposed thgt a naval corn
-
bat was taking place between the two American
ships, the Sumpter and the Iroquois.
The Moniteur de I'Algirie says:
On Monday, between 10 and 11 in the evening, a
well-suatained cannonade at sea netted the Davi
la/lion of Algiers. Two police agents were imme
diately sent to Pescade Point, in which direction
the auns were heard. The Coast-Guard officer on
duty gave the following report : " Two vessels,
about six miles out at sea, were engaged in combat.
When the fight was over, one of the vessels hoisted
a flag on her mizzen, and went out of sight. The
combat lasted about one hour)?
Today (Wednesday) a steamer, with a red fun
nel with a black stripe at the top, was signalled off
Cape Matifou. She has three masts, heavy can
vas, and stern deep in the water. On reaching
Cape Matifou she suddenly tacked, as if giving
chase to some vessel and was lost sight of. She
was again seen in the evening off Point Pomade.
This vessel has all the appearance of a pirate. She
appears to mount about twenty guns, and she looks
like a trader turned into a vessel-of-war. She
hoisted no flag while cruising in the Bay of Algiers.
It is generally believed there that she is the Sump
ter, which left Cadiz on the 17th, and whiett gaga
obese to the vessel she attacked on Monday eve.
ning.
Mr. Yancey and the Commander of the
Tuscarora
The following letter appeared in the London
Nornang Star of the 29th ult; ;
The injured Mr. Yancey - had made but one
speech on the African slave trade," and " cannot at
this day Nay what he did or did not way in that
speech." If Mr. Yancey had said that his speech
bad occupied nine years instead of " nine hours." he
would have come nearer to the truth, as his voice in
public life has never been pitched to any other noto ;
and as to what he "has or has not said" on the mule
ject2 we Gan readily believe it to be very Won
ventent to have it remembered at this period,
and in this country. It is remarkable,'how
ever, that he should expect to make En glishmen
belieVe him to be opposed to slavery, and the hor
rors its trade entails, or that " all of his speeches
and letters have been made and written to show
that he was not in favor of the African-slave trade."
Are the public such poor, deluded fools as to believe
that the 'ravings of a madtearl have any other
meaning except the exact reverse of the language
and arguments used? It appears, however, by
Mr. Yancey 's own showing, that his friends and
admirers, too, were so much deceived as to his mo
tives as to have elected him champion or " orator "
of a society called the " African Supply Labor
Association," or, as we underetand it, a slava-trade
company. So, while he, poor man, has been all the
while deluding himself with the belief that his ar
guments were opposed to the slave trade, hie friends
and kindred have been wonderfully deceived in
regarding him as the great exponent of the right of
that abominable traffic.
Ha Elva he doesn't knot tws palls rasa
South of anymoto who advocate the African slave
trade. If this be true, of whom did that " African
Labor Supply Association" consist? We aro left
to conclude that " the president" and "orator"
were the only ones known to him. It is no doubt
very inconvenient, very unpleasant, to have his
speeches, thoughts, and writings, too closely ex
amined at this fishattliti
When. the devil was sick, the devil a saint would be ;
When the devil was well, the devil a saint was he.'
I am, sir, yours respectfully, '
T. A. CRAVEN. Coral. of the Ty.arora.
Southampton, Jan. 2a.