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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1803
New Books.
'When Thomas Paine denounced the Bible in his
"Age of Reason," and took pains to declare that ho
believed in nothing but disbelief, it was exactly
what the world expected at his hands. The world
expects that a Chriatiali prelate, writing about
the Bible, will not attack it—will not take pains to
weaken the public belief in what it records or
teaches, In 1953, the Bishopric of Natal, in British
Africa, was founded, and the, clergyman appointed
to that see was John William Colenso, then aged
99, a highly educated man, educated at Cambridge,
(where he was second wrangler and Smith's prize
man,) formerly mathematical master of Harrow
School, and a rector in Norfolk, where he was made
Bishop. Ile was an author, too, but only of Me
mento of algebra" and other educational books. In
due process, Dr. Colenso was consecrated and pro
ceeded to Natal. Thence, not long ago, came a
Charge to the clergy of his diocese, in which he con
tended that polygamy among the Africans was
perfectly consistent with their Christianity. The
surprise caused by this declaration had scarcely sub
sided, when there appeared, also from his episcopal
pen, a volume entitled "The Pentateuch and Book
of Joshua oritically examined," the object of which
was to discredit the historical truth of the first six
books of the Old Testament. This volume was pub
lished in London, but breasts. Appleton of New
York have issued a neat reprint of it.
The Bishop's preface is remarkably plausible; it
is even autobiographical, to some extent. It relates
how, with the aid of intelligent natives, he had.
translated all the New Testament, and several parts
of the Old, including Genesis and Exodus, into the
Zuld language, of which he had also published a
Grammar and Dictionary. Now, this work brought
him face to face with questions which had caused
him some uneasiness in former days; how, while
translating the story of the Flood, a simple
minded native posed him by asking whether he
believed that all created beings, from hot coon- .
tries and cold„ came by pairs into the ark
of Noah, who gathered food for them all, for the
beasts and birds of prey, as well as the rest; how
he [the Bishop) knew, on geological grounds, that
an universal deluge could not possibly have taken •
place in the way described in the Book of Genesis,
not to mention other difficulties which the story
contains ; and that, therefore, he, as a servant of the
God of Truth, could not ask his brother min to be
lieve as a true historical narrative what he himself
did not believe, and knew to be untrue. Instead
of abandoning his teaching,Dr.Colensp stuck firmly
in hie episcopal chair, and sent to Europe for the
works of certain disbelieving German Rationalists,
from which he purloined the materials for his book,
in which the Pentateuch and Joshua are denounced
as containing a great number of false statements.
That is, he assails parts of the Bible, yet continues
a bishop of the church whose doctrines are based
upon the Bible! Ile promises to assail parts of the
New Testament also.
Of his volume, which it was our duty to read be
fore pronouncing en opinion upon it, truth compels
us to nay that the Preface is the only part of it above
mediocrity, and that because it is largely personal,
and therefore more readable. Dr. Colenso's arrows
are nearly all drawn out the teeming quiver of Ger
man Realism. Tom Paine's assault upon the Bible
is better, in its way, though he was not a learned
man like Bishop Colenso—more plausible, more ad
, caplandunt. The Bishop arrived in London, last
autumn, to publish his book, but it appears that,
under the ecclesiastical law, he is not Subject to any
legal censure, punishment, or deprivation by the
Church. Bishop he is, and Bishop he must remain
--Queen, Parliament, and Hierarchy notwithstand
ing—until it pleases him to resign his mitre. The
English Bishops have forbidden his preaching in
their dioceses, and the Church Missionary Society
has expelled him from membership, but, though be
Rosalie the Word of God, Dr. Colenso continues
Bishop of Natal I
An "Answer to Dr. Colenso" hasbeen written by
'Dr. Mahan, Professor of Ecelesiastioal History in
the General Theological Seminary, New York, and
also published by the Appletons. It is called "The
Spiritual Point-of-View ; or The Glass Reversed,"•
which is a silly, round-about title. Dr. Mahan, like
most religious controversialists, is so mush in earnest
'that, ever and anon, he forgets himself, and plunges
into positive abuse of Bishop (Totem. This is the
more to be regretted, as Dr. Mahan adduces a great
many arguments, well arrayed, which annihilate the
feeble pleas put forward by the Bishop. Dr. Mahan,
In a word, has effectually answered the Colenso ob
jections, and thereby done a good service to the
cause of Religion. Both books are on sale by W. P.
Hazard, Chestnut street.
Messrs. Harper have published, in an Bvo. volume,
'Dim Oliphant's very at - lking "Chronicles of Car
lingford," containing the Short tales of " The Exeau
"tor " and "The hector," with the longer atories of
"The Doctor's Family" and "Salem Ohapel,"—the
/latter only just completed in the last number of
Plackteoad'a Magazine. It is by far the most power
ful story Mrs. 0. han yet written; framed, too, out
of such scanty materials as a few characters, chiefly
in middle life, in a country village. The incidents
are worked up with wondrous skill, and the work is
more thoughtful, philosophical, and suggestive than
fiction has lately been. Received from T. B. Peter
son.
Carleton has just issued two volumes, by New
York editors, which we have received from Peter
son. One is " The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers," by Mr.
R. H. Newell; the other, "Sprees and Splashes," by
Henry Morford. As before, Mr. Newell's book is a
reprint of amusing and satirical eccentricities from
the New York Mercure, an able and popular weekly.
The old dramatis persona arc here; the redoubtable
letter writer, with his Gothic steed Pegasus, Captain
Samyule Sa•mith find Whim Brown, and the im
mortal Mackerel Brigade. Though much superior
to "Artemus Ward, his Book," this second collec
tion of Orpheus C. Kerr's amusing epistles do not
strike us as being equal to the first. It appears an
inevitable law in literature that a second series or a
'continuation never is admitted to have equalled the
original—probably because it is but the carrying out
of an old idea. We hope, ere long, to meet Mr.
Newell in some other department of letters. He
has capacity, wit, and poetic feeling. A book
that you can take up at an odd leisure
hour ; that you can read in steamboat or railway
oar when you do not want to talk ; that you can
laugh over, even when the grave cares of business
press heavy on your mind; that you can safely put
upon your parlor table, as one which every one is
the house may safely road—such a book, despite its
too demonstantive title, is a volume, by Henry
Morford, to be published next week by Carleton,
New York, and called "Sprees and Splashes; or
Droll Recollections of Town and Country." The
author, a New York editor, is a dramatist as well
as a critic, which accounts for his stories being the
atrical. They have the advantage, too;' of "be
:hag founded on fact." Some of them we know
to be true, and even the most eccentric has a cer
tain irratremblance in it which mere invention could
scarcely supply. "Editorial Phrenology at
.Mid.
might" is true, though handsomely costumed. So is
the opening _sketch, vulgarly called "Billy Bur
ton's Botheration"so are the famous "Long
Branch Murder," the lively incident entitled
" Extra Drumming at the Old Broad
way," ,(which, indeed, the writer of this
motice had the' pleasure of participating in,) "Fun
among the Boot-blacks," and, most dramatic of all
in execution and denouenient, the lively story,
' , Paying oft' a Partner." One story here, "The
'wo-Forty Funeral," might have been advanta
geously omitted. There is a comic frontispiece,
end a vignette portrait of the author graces the
title-page. The book ought to sell. We
take leave to suggest that, after these shorter
',lights, wherein he " may he said to have tried
the strength of his pinions, Mr. Morford set
clown to write what he is capable of producing—
at good novel—still better, a stirring romance of
tnedern American society. Had Poe lived and won
a little leisure on which to write a sustained end
extended fiction, the result would have been such
Si tale of fact and mystery, incident and character,
Ile is yet to be written. Let Mr. Mefferd seriously
apply himself to this, not with a hurried pen and a
!rapid mind, but with an artist's care, and wo shall
Rot dread the result.
PRITADELPEta CITY Dritscrortv, Fon 1863.—The
annual volume has just been issued by Mr. McElroy,
'With his usual regularity. It Is published by Biddle
454, CO. It contains, in alphabetical arrangement, the
Lames of the inhabitants of Philadelphia, with their
occupations, places of business, and residences; also,
a business directory, arranged according to occupa
tions, lists of newspapers and periodicals, oT city
and county officers and offices, of banks, corpora
tions, railroads, schools, literary and art associa
tions, colleges, libraries, market companies, benevo
lent societies, insurance companies, hospitals and
'dispensaries, United States and State Legislatures,
streets, lanes, alleys, cud avenues,. with the usual
large variety of miscellaneous local information.
The names of subscribers are printed in capitals. It
Se an indispensable business volume.
NEGRO SAILORS AND SOLDIERS IN THE
'WEST.—Rear-Admiral Porter writes from the Nils
rissippi that he is tilling up his crews with negroes,
'who are flocking to him to enter the service.
General'Ourtie has organized one negro regiment at
iielens, and is rapidly filling up more.
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VOL. 6.-NO. 160.
STATES: REBELLION.
IRE LATE AFFAIR AT CHARLESTON.
Official Despatches Sent to Nassau.
RECOGNITION AGAIN LOOKED FOR.
NO 1-101= 3 1 7 1. POll, Pr.,131.CM.
THE REACTION IN GEORGIA AND NORTH CAROLINA,
Alßatch-of Bohol Proclamations.
AttXCU upon Port McAllister.
Surprising Reticence or the Richmond Pa
perS on the Recent Engagement in
Charleston Harbor—The Late Bat
. tle on the Blackwater—Slaves
in the Rebel Forts about
Richmond—ll ighlyln.
[cresting Items front
nil the Southern
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States,
&e., &e., &c.
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We make the following choice extracts from Rich
mond papers of the Ist, 2d, and 3d instant, and from
other Southern papers covering dates from January
25 to February 2, inclusive..
THE AFFAIR AT CHARLESTON
It is a little remarkable that neither of the Rich
mond papers of the 3d of February print a worn
about the affair at Charleston published by the Dts
patch the day previous.
The following is the Dispatch's editorial on the
subject:
THE FUTURE OF THE BLOCKADE OF
CHARLESTON.
[From the Richmond Dispatch, February 2.
The blockade of Charleston has been broken—the
Secretary of State has given notice Of the fast to the
British and _French consuls—by the strict rule of in
ternational law, the Yankees must give sixty days ,
notice before they can re-establish it. The question
is whether or not the Yankees will be bound by that
law, seeing that they affect to regard us as rebels,
and therefore not entitled to the benefit of interna
tional law, and whether or not Lord Russell will
allow their claim of right to exclude us from such
benefit. We have no doubt that the Yankees will
make the claim, and that Russell will submit to It.
The whole - conduct of the man, during this war,
leads us to this conclusion.
In the beginning it WAS maintained by the London
Times, and no doubt by the English Ministry, that
DO nation had a right to blockade its own ports, and
that if the Yankees insisted on blockading the Con
federate ports, they must acknowledge them as no
longer theirs. In other words, the blockade of our
ports was insisted to be an acknowledgment of our
separate existence. This was soon given up by
Russell, if, indeed, he ever insisted upon it in Par
liament, which we believe he did, though we are not
certain. Nor was it all that he gave up. By the
treaty of Paris .in 1856, it was decided that a block
ade, to be respected, must be efficient. When called
on to explain what he considered to be an efficient
blockade, the Palmerston Ministry established the
rule that the entrance and • departure of five ships
Into and from a blockaded porn was evidence that
the blockade was not efficient. .
Now, instead of five, five hundred. vessels have en
tered and left the port of Charleston since it was de
clared to be blockaded. .Yet, the complaisant Bri
tish Minister for Foreign Affairs still regards the
blockade of Charleston as effetive. If, therefore, the
Yankees restore the blockade without notice, we
have no doubt that he will look with perfect noncha
lance upon the capture of any number of British
ships that may attempt to enter. lie is quite too
polite to give offence to the Yankee Adams.
Beside the glory of the deed, therefore, and the op
portunity which the dispersion of. the Yankee ships
affords to merchant vessels to enter the port; and
these considerations are of great moment—we do
not see any permanent advantage is to be derived.
We have no idea that Lord Russell would take it in
ducivon were the Yankees to capture, any number
of English ships without notice. We must keep our
ports open by the strong hand. Our seamen will do
it If they are only permitted.
ANOTHER BRILLIANT ACHIEVEMENT OF
THE CONFEDERATE NAVY.
[From the ratereburg . Exprow. Peb. 11
The glorious and exciting intelligence from
Charleston which we publish in our telegra phic columns this morning, will produce intense delight
throughout the limits of our young Confederacy.
The tidings first reached , here Saturday afternoon,
and were immediately placed on the -Express bul
letin. They spread throughout the city with the
sapidity of electricity, and caused a thrill of joy in
every heart. The achievement is one worthy of our
glorious little navy. Its_ brilliant accomplishment
will render Immortal the Palmetto State and
Micora, and form one of the brightest pages in the
history of the ivar. The Yankee Government had
no less than fourteen formidable vessels blockading
the port of Charleston. To have destroyed por
tion of such a squadron, and vanquished the remain
der, with a half-dozen boats, would have been a
great victory, but when we know that the work has
been done by two small iron clads, the affair reads
more like a romance than a terrible reality, which
It has proved to be to the Yankee pirates.
Of all places on the face of the globe, Charles
ton has been the most deeply and intensely hated by
the New England Yankees. In the beginning of
the war, goaded to madness by the skill and energy
of Charleston pilots, who used to run by the block
aders whenever it pleased them the enemy wickedly
attempted to close the port by sinking several stone
laden vessels in the main channels. But "man pro
voke and God disposes." The obstruction of one
channel only served to wash out another of far great
er depth than any before known. And it is a notori
ous fact that the blockade has been Vass eltictent at
,Charleston since thb erforts of the enemy to
destroy the harbor than at any other portin the Con
federate States.
e may expect to hear a howl throughout Marcia-
Ousetts and other Yankee States, such as has never
before come up from their Puritanic throats. Their
impotent rage will find vent in imprecations loud
and deep. Let them rave. They have seen but lit
tle so far. The South is just waking up.
In a few months more our preparations will have.
been completed, and our iron-clads and rapid sailors,
will sweep every vestige of Yankee commerce from
the bosom of the deep, and send to the bottom every
blockader that dares obstruct our harbors. The
"good time" , so long looked for is coming fast, and
the instigators of this develish war may prepare to
confront his Satanic Majesty with all the nerve their
dastardly and wicked souls can summon. There
will be "walling and gnashing of teeth" among
Lincoln, Seward, Greeley, and all that ilk at no dis
tant day.
The expedition against the Charleston Blockading
Squadron ,vas commanded by D. N. Ingraham, a
gallant officer, who entered the service of the old
navy on the 18th June, 1812. He is a native of the
glorious Palmetto State.
The Chicora is commanded by John B. Tucker.
Her assistant surgeon is Dr. Win. Mason Turner,
formerly of Petersburg, Va. We have been unable.
to learn the names of any of the officers on the Pal
metto State.
HAS THE BLOCKADE BEEN BROKENI •
CF: cm time Richmond Examiner.]
The convention of 1801, between Great Britain and
Russia, ad art., sec. 4, declares :
That in order to determine what characterizes a
blockaded• port, that denomination is given only
where there 18 by the disposition of the power which
attacks it with ships stationary or sutnciently near
to create an evident danger in entering.
Queen Victoria's " Waiver of Rights," on the 28th
of March, 1864, describes an " effective blockade' , to
be such as
May be established with an adEquato force against
the enemy's forts, harbors, or coasts.
The Paris "Solemn Declaration," of April 18,
1556, declares
• 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be ape
/ire—that is-to say, maintained by a fo rce sufficient
really to rnzvz..yr access to the coast of the enemy.
The rule of the armed neutralities of 1780 and 1801
declared that:
lie port should be considered blockaded unless
where the power attacking it should maintain a
squadron constantly stationed before it, and suffi
ciently near to create an evident danger of entering.
"The doctrine of Sir, Walter. Scott," says Mr.
Wheaton, "that a blockade may continue during a
temporary absence of the blockadinf squadron, and
which gives to the diplomatic not fication et the
blockade once made, and even to the notoriety of
the pretended fact, an effect independent of the ac
tual presence of the blockading squadron is contro
verted, on principle, by the French publicists, who
contend that it must cease' by an absence, however
occasioned, and whatever may be the formalities
under which it was instituted; that a nation can
only execute its laws within its own jurisdictional
limits of the enemy, and where their squadron is
stationed, has been conquered, and that the block
ading squadron has succeeded to the occupation of
the homer possessors that its interference with the
navigation of neutrals can on principle be mAin
tabled."
Sir Roundel' Palmer, the solicitor general, defined
a blockade to be
"A bona fide blockade by a force sufficient to main
tain it on the spot, and there must also be a sufficient
notification of some kind or other of that blockade.
These are the true principles."
Above we have treaties, proclamations, solemn de
clarations, publicists; and -the solicitor general, all
"defining effective blockades; and may we not ask: if,
upon any principle or declaration laid down in any
of the above extracts, the blockade of the port of
Charleston can now be held to be an efAcilue blockade,
or anything more Than a paper blockadeovlth a
sham force to maintain it I The naval squadron of
the United States,
constituted of a few old hulks,
has not been able to prevent the establishment of a
line of communication so regular and certain be
tween that port and the port of Nassau that it - may
almost be said to be a regular line of steamers. It
has neither been " stationary " nor "sufficiently near
to create evident danger of entering," since, week
after week, vessels enter and leave without ever
being seen by the blockading squadron. The few
that have been seized were captured by the accidents
of a dangerous navigation, and not by the vigilance
of the blockading squadron.
That the bloclinding, force has not been " adequate"
nor "sufficient really to prevent access," la now-de
monstrated—first, by the defeat and dispersion of the
squadron by the Confederate gunboats, and next by
the fact already mentioned of steamers entering and
departing at regular stated intervals.
But the fact can be no longer disputed that the.
blockade is not now endive, since- having - been"
raised by Ping-officer Ingraham, it no longer .exi.sts,
and should ft be renewed will be liable to the 'same
accidents any dark night._ .
This gallant exploit of Fla,g-officer Ingrahanrwill,
we sincerely hope, attract such attention to this
sham blockade that neutral nations, whose " solemn
declarations" stand recorded, will no longer submit
their rights to the annoyance imposed upon them by
the weakness of the United States, its miserable
old hulks, both afloat and sunk in Charleston har
bor, have played bug-a-boo long enough. It has al
ways been ridiculous, and will become criminal if
longer permitted.
In connection with this gallant naval victory we
would call attention to the law as laid down in Whea
ton's Elements of International Law, where a block
ade has been raised, and the effect of that act upon
the commerce of neutrals. In part /V., chap, 3, the
author says:
" Where an enemy's port was declared in a state
of blockade by notification and, at the Same time,
when the notification wasissued , news arrived that
the blockading squadron had been driven' elf by a
superior force of the enemy, the blockade was held
by the Prize Court to be null and defective from the
beginning, in the math circumstance that is essen
tially necessary to give it legal Operation; and that
it would be unjust to hold neutral vessels to the ob
servance of a notification accompanied by a circum
stance that defeated its effect. This case was, there
fore considered as independent of the presumption
arising from notification in other instances; the
nof !neaten being defeated, it must have been shown
that the actual blockade was again resumed, and the
vessel would have been entitled to a warning if any
such blockade had existed when she arrived off the
port. The mere act of. sailing for. the port, under
the dubious state of the actual blockade at the time,
was deemed insufficient to fix upon the vessel the
penalty of breaking the blockade. See Robinson's
Adm. Rep., vol. 0, p, 0.5 . . The Triheten.
in the above case, a question was raised, whether
the notification which had been issued was still
operative; but the court was of the opinion that it
could not be so considered, and that a neutral
Power was not obliged, under such circumstances,
to presume the continuance of the blockade, nor to
act upon a supposition that the blockade would be
resumed by any other competent force. But in a
subsequent' case (same reporter, page Ile, The Buff
mong), where it was suggested that the blockading
squadron had actually returned to its former sta
tion off the port, in order to renew the blockade, a
question arose whether there had been that noto
riety of the fact, arising from the operation of time
or other circumstances, which must be taken to
have brought the existence of the blockade to
the knowledge of the parties. Among other
modes of solving this question, a prevail
ing. consideration would have been the length of
time, in proportion to the distance of the country
from which the vessel sailed. But as nothing more
came out in evidence than that the squadron came
off the port on a certain day, it was held that this
would not restore a blockade which had been thus
effectually raised, but that it must be renewed again
by specification before foreign nations could be af
fected with an obligation to observe ft. The squad
ron might return off the port with different inten
tions. It might arrive there as a fleet of observation
merely ' or for the purpose only of a qualified block
ade. On the other hand, the commander might at
tempt to connect the two blockades together; but
this could not be done; and, in order to revive the
former blockade, the same form of notification must
have been observed de novo, that is necessary to esta
blish an original blockade.
From these extracts it appears that the renewal of
the blockade must be attended with notification of
the fact, as was required in establishing the original
blockade, and this notification must be resorted to
every time the squadron is driven off and reappears.
So far as any rights of the Confederate States are
concerned, this raising of the blockade amounts to
nothing, but when it is remembered that neutral NTS..
808 may sail for Charleston without incurring any
danger of capture, there can be no doubt that many
will avail themselves of their rights and steer boldly
for that pot t, taking the chance to dodge inuf the old
hulks should still be lying, uncertain and uneasy, in
theotling. Au impetus to our foreign trade will be
given that must result in increasing our present sup
plies very much It must not be supposed that
because of the raising of the blockade at Chaaleston
that that port is open and must remain open for any
particular time. The enemy may reappear and re•
establish the blockade at any moment. Their right
of capture is suspended until the expiration of a time
from their renewing the blockade equal to the time
given when first established. The blockading squad
ron must for that time, say forty or sixty clays, warn
off vessels, and cannot capture. A vessel may sail
directly from England for Charleston, and cannot be
captured, even though her papers show her destine,
tion to be Charleston. This may not appear any
real advantage, but it is of the utmost importance,
and this action of Commodore Ingraham will bring
more real, practical benefits than any other en.
gagement, land or naval, during the war. All hail,
therefore, to the gallant Ingraham and Tucker, and
their brave crews.
THE AFFAIR IN CHARLESTON HARBOR.
The Richmond papers very naturally are in high
glee over the rose-colored reports from Charleston
harbor, and hasten to demonstrate that the port is
now open to the world. It is a very noticeable fact,
however, that the papers print nothing on Tuesday
additional to that published on Monday, nor in their
issues of the last named day do they so much as
allude to the matter. This may leave room for the
supposition that later news from Charleston was not
so encouraging to the rebels as were the earliest
despatches.
The following are the remarks on the subject
[From the Richmond Dispatch Feb. 8..1
The Secretary of State has notified the British and
French consuls of this city that he has received offi
cial information of the opening of the blockade of
Charleston.
A steamer was despatched from Oharleaton, after
the raining of the blockade, to Naaaau, to convey to
the British authorities there the announcement of
the fact.
It is understood that official notice being given of
the opening of the blockade, it cannot be renewed by
the enemy until sixty days' previous notice has been
given to the neutral maritime Governments.
NO CHANCE FOR PEACE
[From the Richmond Rxeminer. Fob. 3.]
Peace between the two belligerents can only be
safe where it is an agreed and settled peace. The
war between the North and South may relapse into
merely nominal lioafilities ; lighting may cease alto
gether, and, by a tacit understanding, the greater
portion of the belligerent armies may be disbanded
or furloughed. The population of the two countrias
may earnestly desire peace, and even enter upon a
mutual commerce ; every indication of the cessation
of actual war and the abatement of mutual rancor
may exist; still, no reliance could be placed upon
the existence of peace until definitely settled and
agreed upon by the two belligerent Governments.
Herein consists the great obstacle to a speedy
peace. The pride of the North, the obstinacy of the
Puritanic race, the stubborn malignity of a baffled
and defeated Abolition Administration, are difficul
ties arising on the very threshold of the subject.
Then, there are great intrinsic embarrassments be
setting the task. Where is there presented so mag
nificent an empire as that which must constitute the
subject of division? The Americans are a people,
above all others in the world, greedy. of land. The
acquisition of land has been the passion of the people
and of their common Government from the beginning
of their career. . Nor was the sacri auri fames more
universal or intense in the corrupt days of Rome than
has been the greed for land amon" the American
people through all the existence of the American
Union. Vie original emigrant abandoned the other
continent chiefly because he was there debarred, by
various circumstances, from the acquisition of ever
FO few acres which he might call his own. Since
the Norman conquest the lower and middle classes
of the Anglo-Saxon race had been strangers to the
privilege, the natural right, and the peculiar plea
sure of owning land. Our continent was settled in
the first instance by a race famished, by six. centu
ries' deprivation, for the possession of land. From
the disembarkation at Jamestown this has always
been the ruling passion of the American popula
tion, almost exclusively agriculturists as they were.
The peat draw6ack to the agricultural develop.
meat of 'our country has - been their hunger for land,
each farmer peridstently cultivating three times as
large an area as his force of labor. would justify,
and therefore, bestowing only a third of the pains
which was due upon what.he cultivated -
This passion for land be collective, as well
as individsd. - - sv ashington And Patrick. Henry were
..
E r...„-ian cormorants, but not more greedy than
their cotemporaries. Arid these great men made
land-getting one of the leading ideas of the great Go.:,
vernment which they established. Jefferson, though
a moderate land owner individually, exhibited for
land the appetite and digestive powers of an ana
conda in his official capacity. He caused the great
Western plains to be explored, the Rocky Mountains'
to be penetrated and the shores of the Pacific ocean
to be visited, discovered, explored, and claimed, in
the name of the United States of America. He
crushed, with a high hand, the incipient conspiracy
for an independent Mississippi empire. He pur
chased Louisiana.
Even John Quincy Adams, the representative
man of New England, the leader of weavers, shoe,
glove, and ready-made clothes makers, clock pedlers
and travelling tinkers of that den of scoundrels,
even he caught the inspiration of land acquisition
while Federal Secretary of State, and purchneed
Florida, though he surrendered Texas.
The sectional quarrel which grew up between
North and South originated partly in this thirst for
land. One of the objects of the abolition agitation
was to exclude the South from the vacant public do
main and to secure it all for the North. The imme
diate quarrel on which the Union was split asunder
was the quarrel over Mexico and Kanwis,coMmenced
by the two sections in 1650.
There Can be no settled, agreed peace between the
two belligerents in this fearful war without an ami
cable division of the magnificent domain which has
heretofore been held as the common property- of ,the
Union. Is itfaryland to go altogether to the North,
or to be divided according to thepreponderance of
popular sentiment in each of its divisions? • • The in
tegrity of Virginia can never be yielded either by
the Commonwealth herself or by the Confederacy
which has guarantied it. Will the North insist upon
having the new State of Kanawha as a sine qua non
of peace? Are time-serving Kentucky and heroic
Missouri to be given up by the Confederacy, as they
are impliedly given ue by President Davis in his
message 1 Or will the booth insist that the territo
rial position of one, and the popular will of the other,
render their possession by herself a sine qua non of
peace 1 The two great questions. whether States are
to be divided at all, and whether they am to be
transferred entire or in parts to the one or the other
party, with or without reference to their own elec
tion, will not be more difficult of settlement than
theimportant question, how shall the vast domain
lying west of the Mississippi be disposed of?
Europe was for many centuries settling questions
similar to those affecting her own communities and
the settlement cost her millions of lives and rivers
of blood. She has at length established a policy
and a set of principles which serve in some sort tos
relieve her peace negotiations of the embarmsments
which must beset those of new communities on a
new theatre in settling the affiiirs of a new con
tinent. Nevertheless, all previously-settled princi
ples of international pacification were set aside in
Europe' tthe downfall of Napoleon the Great • and
the leading European Powers under the hypocritical
title of the Holy Alliance, set to work with callous
indifference to all national instincts and traditions,
to establish boundaries, create Governments and
dispose of peoples with a single eye to providing
effective checks and balances of power.. Since,
however, the arbitrary arrangement of 1815, the
public polities of Europe has again been conducted
with reference to what are there accepted as princi
ples of enlarged and enlightened justice; and little
difficulty is' experienced now in adjusting satisfac
tory terms of peace on the conclusion of the brief
wars which now rarely occur among her Powers,
great and small.
But on this continent we aro without a system of
public politics by which to arrange the terms of a
pacification. 'The pride of either party to the ex
isting 'conflict can lind no excuse for concession in
any great public principles of general acceptance.
The necessities of either party, requiring their per
sistent adhesion to obnoxious demands, can find no
support in rules and precedents which have been
established by other States alike circumstanced in
previous negotiations. . The difficulty of adjusting
the terms of a peace mutually satisfactory in such a
cane and under such circumstances of onus are very
great, and years may elapse after the cessation of
active hostilities before they can be definitely de
termined.
THE GREAT REACTION IN GEOUGIA,ALA.-
BAIIIA, AND NORTH CAROLINA.
APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF NORTHERN AND NORTH
EASTERN GEORGIA AND SOUTHWESTERN NORTH
CAROLINA.
GENERAL ORDER—No; 1;
Ile.ionuarmens, DAuLassoi, Jan. cc.
The general commanding thls department, having
been .reliably informed. that there are 4 a number of
deserters,lories, and conscripts resisting the laws in
Northern and Northeastern Georgia, and in. South
western North Carolina, has despatched a force un
der my command to suppress any insurrectionary
movements, to Capture' deserters, and generally to
restore tranquility to this part of the country.
This 1 desire to do " peaceably if I can, forcibly if
I must" But while f .am fully prepared to carry
out the orders of the commanding general at the
point of the bayonet—having a well disciplined,
thoroughly equipped and provided force under my
command, yet I am clothed with plenary Rowers to
offer such conditions as may prove conciliatory, and
insure a peaceful return to duty of every man now
occupying a hostile attitude to the Government.
And I shall pursue the latter course if I am co-opc
rated with.
I hereby desire to assure all malcontents that it
they will report tome at these headquarter% within
ten days, that I am authorized to put them into'com
panies, battalions, and regiments, upon the coast,
that arc not filled up to the maximum number,,or to
organize them into additional companies for the post
at Atlanta.
In all cases where they have not rendered them
selves obnoxious to the charge of having perpetrated
violent infractions of the laws of the State or Con
federacy, a free and full pardon will be granted. •
if, on the other hand, these malcontents persist in
arraying themselves against the laws of the land and
continue in .open treason, I will pursue them into
their fastnesses, and use all the power and means at
my control to arrest and bring them to condign pun
ishment. My men will be ordered to fire upon them,
and at all hazards to capture the last man, until this
treasonable movement is Completely suppressed.
I appeal to you an to close in with the overtures
of °tinted amnesty, and array yourselves under the
banner of your country, to rally to her support in
her hour of need, and to prove the Southern blood
that flows through your veins, by upholding the au
thorities of your country, by repelling the rapacious
invaders of your soil, by pushing on the car of revo
lution to its destined ultimate success, that future
generations may inscribe your honored names upon
the roll of the noble and patriotic defenders of liberty,
and that you may bequeath to your children a name
to cherish, of which they shall be proud to the latest
posterity, and not a memento of shame and disgrace.
It will be a fruitless attempt to war against the
PHTLADELPETIA.. •SATcTIZDAY, FEBRUARY 7. 1863.
Government, and must resulin the most disastrous
(... cleat to all who may be so Minded as to attempt it.
The late victories in Virginia, Tennessee, and
Mississippi, have most triumphantly established
the fact that the arnie of the Southern Confederacy
will be crowned with success in the end.
The country is much better - prepared at this time than al
the commencement of the war, both in arms and men, to
contend successfully with our enemies abroad and put
down treason at home. Earnestly anxious for thegood
of the people of this section, and feeling, as we all
should do, a profound solicitude for the welfare of
the Government in its hour of patio I am con
strained to urge you to accept the tents I now offer
you. lam authorized to pay to each man mustered
into service bounty and commutation money, the
same as all other soldiers who have been or may be
mustered regularly into the service.
I am pleased to note the efficient aid rendered the
Government by the " Safety Committee" of Dah
lonega, and cheerfully tender my acknowledgments
to them for the timely assistance they have given
me as commander of this expedition.
I refer to the patriotic proclamation of his Excel
lency Joseph E. Brown, in which he clearly portrays
to you the sad penalty dare those who violate the
laws of the State or of the Confederate States.
While he nobly exhorts you to return to your duty,
and offers his Influence to secure your pardon, he
will promptly co-operate i' suppressing all treason
able manifestations and sanction the punishment
'which will certainly' fall upon all such as shall con
tinue in insurrection.
Enrolling officers and all good citizens are request
ed to aid in carrying out the Meets mentioned in
these orders,
and are assured of prompt assistance
should it, in any case, be necessary.
G. W. LEE, Commanding.
• •
AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF ALABAMA..
EXECUTIVE BER A ItTKENT,
-- . MONTGOAIERV, Ala., Dec. 22, MD.
In view of the anticipated effect of the conscript
law upon the militia system of the State, on
the 12th day of May last I invited the able-bodied
men of Alabama, not subject to conscription, to form
volunteer companies. That invitation did •not re
ceive the attention it merited. The Legislature has
adopted no law for the improvement of the militia
organization of the State. he impaired condition
of that system leaves no means of making the re
inaining military strength of the State available or
its proteotion and defence except by the formation
of volunteer companies. .
The State is now threatened from several direc
tions. Olfr unscrupulous foe has collected alt_ his re.
MIMS for one stupendous Wort to subjugato•totd en
slave us. Ile can never repeat the effort Ile *tes it
the crisis of his cause. If foiled in this last dmpaate
struggle, exhausted and dispirited he mast yield the con
test. Our brave people may congratulate themselves
upon the opportunity to hasten the achivement of
peace and independence, by an exhibition ef forti
tude and courage necessary to defeat the enemy in
this last great and convulsive effect. The ultimate
triumph of our glorious cause is now clearer-than it
has ever been. There ie no reason for desoidency.
Our people will not shrink in this their final trial.
The splendid victory at Fredericksburg will be
followed by still more decisive results upon other
fields. By repeated shocks the enemy's vastly no
cumulated power will be broken. At no disbud day
we shall enjoy, in the blessings of peace, add good
government, ft reward for all our suffering. Alabama
must be true to herself anti do her duty in the emer
gency. She must be ready to meet and quell the do
mestic and social disturbances which may spiing up
as the tide of war approaches; .to resist hos
tile raids; to protect her people and their
Property in any assailed quarter; to give death to
every wanderer from the lines of our invading army,
and if need be to„ increase the strength of the Con
federate forces fighting upon our soil in its defence.
For the accomplishment of these objects she looks,
and can only look, to the voluntary movement of a
patriotic people, too brave to sutler their cities and
towns to be sacked, their homes to be desecrated,
and their country to be desolated without striking a
manly blow in their defence. I therefore call-again
upon the men and youths of the State, exempted
fi om the service of the Confederate States by reason
of their age or other cause, who are capable of bear
ing arms, to speedily organize themselves into com
panies, to constitute a reserved force, sularect:to ser
vice in this State upon the call of the hatecutive.
They will be called into service only when necessity
requires it. Their services may never be needed;
but it is the part of wisdom and manly courage to be
ready. It is the part of folly and cowardice to wait
' until the enemy's foot is upon our soil, and his mus
ket gleams in the Minds of brutal soldiers at 'our
doors. Shall I call in vain upon Alabamians to pre
pare to stand and fight upon their own soil in its de
lence Alabama has given freely of her sons to qur
country's cause, but her warlike strength is notrt
exhausted. 1 send to her people my warning, an I
leave it for tjiem to decide whether, in the hour, of
trial, which may be before us, they will be ready with
as much of the remaining military strength-of the
State as may be required.
People of Alabama ! I must appeal to you for sour
aid 10 the Government in another matter. It is 4ue
to the great cause in which we are engaged; it is
just to those now bravely enduring the.trfalslnd
Perils of actual war, that all within the „lies yre
scribed by the act of Congress known as - the con
script law should be in the service. A ecinsidersble
number of persona in every part of the State; tab
officers and privates, who belong to the armyjind
are fit for duty, are lingering at home -on , Various
pretexts, while their more manly and patriOtic com
rades, with ranks
contest.thinned and weakened. by tele
absence, bear the sigpck of an unequal cot. So,
too, a large number of persons subject to cons rip
'
Lion are shrinking from the toils and perils which
those of like age are bravely enduring, and hiding
from the enrolling officer, to whom . initriotisal
requires that they. should promptly report theml
selves. Now, when the last great struggle of the
war is upon us; now, when there is an opportunity
to share in the closing triumphs of this groat eon
test; now, when our soldiers in the field, standing
with fearless resolution amid sufferings and dangeri
which would appal men less noble and brave, can
upon those of like age with themselves for aid and
relief; now, when every strong right arm is needed
to strike the quick and effective blows.which are to
give us peace, it is a shame and an iniquity that
those two (Misses of, pawns mhould-troddes`efuth ,
evade the two,
they owe to their eCuntry.:- Remy-,
community owes it to its own reputation. and- ne I
the eountry_ to give no sheitersto those who belong' i
to the two classes above described, and to_dtd , c - f
-1 f MUG LU , .thst_Tukt-h0...1‘,5-pUnislittlent&E-raUHC scorn, I
to their proper places. I call upon all the officers,
civil and military, of the State, and upon all good
and patriotic citizens, to give all their influence,
personal or ofihrial, to constrain those persons into
the path of duty and patriotism,• arid I especially in
voke them to give their aid to the proper officers in
arresting and coercing those who yield to no gentler
means. It may be a disagreeable task, but the evil
is great and ruinous to our country's cause, andit is.
the part of the patriot now• to shrink from no task s ,
however disagreeable or dangerous it may be, when
the country calls. It is the pride of Alabama that
her soldiers never falter upon the battlefield. ..Let
us hope that none will be permitted to hide under •
cover of home from their appropriate duty
In testimony whereof, 1, John Gill Shorter, Go
vernor of the State 01 Alabama, have hereunto set
*my hand anti caused the great seal of the State to be
affixed, this the ead day of December, A. D. 18S2,'and
of the Confederate States the second year.
JOBIT'GILL SHORTER;
- . Governor of Alabama.
By the Gcivernor : .
, .
P. H. BIUTTAN, Secretary of State.
AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF NORTH
CAROLINA. I -
A PROCLAHATION BY Z ERULON U. VANCE, GO'VERXOR
OR THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. t.
Whereas, it has been. made known to me that a .
large number of soldiers front our armies are absent
from their colors without proper leave in tate, the .
hour of our greatest need, and it being confidently, be- -
tiered that a huge majority of such were impelled
to this course by a natural and almost irresistible
desire to see their homes and friends once more after
so long an absence,
and not because of a cowardly
determination to leave their brave corny/Ideal to
share all the dangers and hardships of the libid
alone; and whereas, Major General G. W. Smith,
in command of the Department of North Carolina,
by consent of the Secretary of War, has publis ed
an order declaring that all who may voluntarilyte
turn to duty by the 10th day of February next a
be received into their several commands with 'fro
other punishment than a forfeiture of their pay for
the time they have been so absent without Wake;
and declaring further that all who do not so retire
by the said 10th day of February, shall, when appre
hended. be tried for desertion, and, upon conviction,
be made to suffer death : .
Now, therefore, I, Zebulon B. Vance, Governer
of the State of North Carolina,Ale issue this, my
_proclamation, to all soldiers from this State aervinA
in the armies of the Confederacy, who are now
illegally absent from their cobra, commandidgg.
them to return to duty with their comrades, ard
exhorting them to avail themselves of this oppor
tunity of - saving their friends from the disgrace and
infamy which will clingforever to the name of the
deserter from his country's cause, and themselves
from a felon's death. Many, after carrying their
country's flag in triumph through various blocky
conflicts ) and making themselves a name of whith
their children's children might have bean justly
. proud, have forfeited it all by absenting themselves
• at a moment when their own State is invaded arid
about to be desolated by a brutal, half-savage foe;
Now is the time to reinstate themselves by a prompt
;return to duty. I appeal to them to stand by their
-country yet a little longer, and not 'to sully by de,
,
aertion the .bright and glorious reputation of the
State, which they have helped to win on a hundred
hard-fought fields. And I appeal to all good and
„loyal citizens throughout the State to give their hal
, iluence to induce these men to return. Let no one,l
patriotismunmoved by this appeal to his and himor,
supposes that he can remain at home with impunity.
' The full power of the State authorities, aided,- ii•
• need be, by the Confederacy, shall be put in force to,
arrest him and bring him to punishment after the''
10th day of February next; and there shall be no rest
' for the deserter in the borders of. North Carolinal
And let none excuse their . desertion by declaring,
that they go home to take care of theirfandlieso
They will add nothing to the comforts of their faml-'1
lies by hiding like guilty men in the woods by day,
' and by plundering their neighbors by niebt rthey i
only bring shame and euffering upon the heads of thet I
innocent, and their little children, when gravy-headed'
old men, will have .the finger of scorn pointed at I
them, and the bitter taunt will ring in their ears : ,
" 'Y our father skulked in the woods to keep from
fighting for his country."
The State is now trying to provide food for your
families, and each county is making a similar pro
vision ; and, as your Chief Magistrate, I promise
you that the wife and child of the soldier who' is in
the army doing his duty shall share the last bushel
-of meal and the last pound of meat in the State. If
...every patriot in the land assist with all his influence
in the execution of this proclamation, our victori
ous ranks will again be filled and our country soon,
be rid of the enemy. •
-.:- In witness whereof, Zebulon B.*Vance t our Go.
vernor, Captain General, and Commandertn-Chief,
bath signed these presents and caused the great seal
of the State to be affixed. ' •
Done at our city of Raleigh, on the 26th day of
January, in the year of our Lord UM .
. Z. B. VANCE.
By the Governor: . .
R. H. BATTLE, Jr., Private Secretary.
' OPERATIONS IN NORTH CAROLINA.
, (From the Wilmington (N. C.) Journal. Jan. a 3'
The enemy evidently contemplates a simultaneous
• advance upon all the lines he has selected for an at
tack, andthis at 4. very early day. - Under the impres
'don, perhaps, that Longstreet. has gone to Tennessee to
- reinforce Bragg, thus weakening Lee's army, as, well
' as that the same army has been-further weakened
for- the purpose of- strengthening our lines in - this
State, General Burnehle thinks the time has - Come
for striking "the rebellion" a mortal blew on the
Rappahannock, and in order to make that blow ef
fectual Foster is :to try his hand in North Carolina,
In the way of cutting off railroad communication,
and raising the blockade of Wilmington by cap.
turing the place. About this Foster expedition,.'
or these Foster expeditions, there has been agood
deal of mystification, 'Either the weather, or trouble
in-their own camp, or news of the means provided
for their reception ht the different 'threatened
points, bas delayed their movements, perhaps,
with the view of providing additional means of of
to counterbalance the additional means of de
fence which they have ascertained to exist. One or
all of these , causes May have operated-to prevent
their moving as per programme,' or, they may have
I been only making feints, so fax ; but we cannot dis
guise from ourselves thereat that within a few hours
sail Of Wilmington the enemy has the most formida
ble land and sea force lie has yet sent out against a
-
single seaport, numbering over one hundred trans-.
polls, at least two "Dionitors,” and, possibly, other
' less formidable iron-clads with some eighteen or
. twenty heavily-armed wooden vessels-of-war—the
transports being sufficient to carry twenty-five thou
-sand men at least, while a similar force may be sent
overland. This latter supposition, although highly
probable, is more conjectural. May we not, in view
• of these facts, expect the enemy's feigned movements
to be soon changed into .a real and formidable at
tack I Have we any assurance that the storm, when
it'does burst, will not buret upon tuil .On the mt-
trary, have we not every warning to put our house
in order and be preared for whatever may come,
not indulging in a faleeeecurity because the attack
has not already come, and, therefore, felicitating
ourselves with the notion that it cannot or will not
come at all 1
We do . not say that the formidable preparations
now made or making at Beaufort are certainly de
signed for the capture of this place, or that they
may not possibly receive another direction. They
may have reference to Charleston, but the appearance of
things reliantly gives a Orono preponderance of weight to
the opinion that indicates. This point as at least their first
destination.
No doubt the enemy would much., prefer to get
possession of the railroad at Weldon, or even at
Goldsboro, but he has found that, with our troops
moving on an interior line, we can alwnya concen
trate a sufficient forte to repel him at any point dis
tant from his base of operations and of transporta
tion, to wit: his fleets. Hence is rendered probable
his attack on "Wilmington, since in such attack he
may expect to receive the assistance of his navy.
This same co-operation of ships or gunboats will
determine the character and direction of the.apring
campaign in the Southweat, now that the rivers in
that section are' or will soon be in boateble order.
'We may expect the enemy to make all the use of
this arm that he possibly can during the next three
months and a half, and hence we may look for sea
board attacks and river raids.
. Let us hope for the heat. The night of our fierce
trial draws towards a close and day is at hand ; but
once more, for a short time, the gloom may close in
apparently thicker and more impervious than ever.
But out of this darkness will groW light, which will
grow brighter and brighter until the perfect day.
PERSONAL LIBERTY.
The North Carolina Legislature having taken
action on resolutions against the power granted Sett
Davis to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, the Ra
leigh State Journal says:
The Confederate prison at Salisbury contains men
from all of the Confederate States; men charged with
treason end with treasonable practices, and &ay,
many of them, no doubt, and yet no one voice m
raised in sympathy for them or for their comfort or
releftee, except by the faction called Conservatives,
In North Carolina; the only faction, thank God, to
be foubd anywhere in the Confederacy. Let the
people mark this.
It -we were to charge that the traitors who have
compasirekthelives of ouetroops in this State, and
the lives and.property of the loyal people within the
reach of the enemy, have friends In the Legislature,
it would give rise to another series of resolutions,
and to much.abuse of our humble self.' - Therefore,
we will not make the charge. We will Content our
self with reminding the Legislature that, when they
complain of the poor prisoners" at Salibbury
being compelled to sleep upon "a board, ,, or on
"straw," they should remember first the bravo sol
diers In the field who have neither board nor straw
to sleep do. And if they do not know the fact, we
will tell them that their sympathy is misdirected
when-applied to the "poor prisoners" at Salisbury.
Do they know that out of the whole number con
fined there some two or three weeks ago, only one
man out of about three hundred, could be found who
was willing to take the oath of allegiance to the
Government of the Southern Confederacy .This
a fact which cannot be truthfully denied.
Novi we do not charge the Legislature with trea
sonable purposes or proclivities. We give them
credit for all the good intentions they claim.. But
we do charge them with a purpose to. quarrel and
conflict with the Confederate Government ; and we
tell them they are instigated to it by men who are
traitors, but who have not the courage to avow their
treason,
We call upon the people to watch the movements
of the faction controlled by such men. .
NORTH OABOLINA LOYALISTS.
(From the ChaWon Mercury. 27th ult. I '
Lieut: Gen. Polk was in Columbia a portion of
Setutday, and left in the evening train for his corn
, nand. Ile had been on a visit to his family at Ash
' vile, N. O. It was learned from hini that the to
rtes who. had been depredating in Madison county,
in that State, had been routed and dispersed. A
force of 1,010 men, from Gen. Kirby Smith's divi
sion, aided by companies collected in North Caro
-1 line, attacked them in front and rear, killed many,
captured . a number, and scattered the rest. The
country is now quiet.
MOVEMENTS AGAINST VICKSBURG.
(Telegram: to the Jackson (Miss.) Appeal. I
Telicsnuno, Jan. 23.
The enemy has been landing troops from his tran
sports below Young's Point all day, and some twenty
boats are now lying a mile and a half above the mouth
of the canal. 'Troops can be seen from the city, and
tent and camp tires are also visible this afternoon.
Occasional shells have been thrown from our bat
teries during the day.
(Correspondence of the Amal.)
VICIESSIIIM, Jan. 23.—The arrival of the Federal
army above this city is now reduced to a certainty.
For several days past there have been rumors and
other indications of the approach of the fleet. On.
Wednesday movements among the gunboats in the
distance apprised us of their presence, and a con
tinued augmentation of their number was apparent;
and yesterday it was announced that a fleet of fifty
transports and twelve gunboats was near by. So
distinctly can the dark columns of smoke be traced
toward the mouth of Old river that there is no long
er any doubt about the enemy being again upon us.
From all that can be learned, it appears that the
Yankees have adopted a new programme for the
next attack, and that the gunboats will not wait for
the land army to fight its way into the rear, but will
at once commence to shell the city, under the pre
tence of engaging our river batteries, by which
means they hope to create a panic in town, and
perhaps to silence some of the batteries, when a
• landing of the troops could be effected, and a lodg
ment•in the city secured as a base for their opera
tions.
Yesterday afternoon a part of the fleet was re
volted to be moving up the Yazoo, but nothing re
liable of their manceavrea has yet been ascertained,
and the probabilities are that none of the boats
have yet ascended that stream, or we should have
had information of it by this morning. They are at
present engaged in reconnoitring the country bop•
dering on the - Alisaissippl, their experience along the
banks.of the Yazoo - during the Christmas holidays
having satisfied them of what kind of a country,
,:4kal f la -which they found in the vicinity of Haines'
This Morning a large fleet is plainly In sight of the
town above the cans), at which they seem to be en
gaged. A large force yesterday was engaled in re
coenoitring that famous ditch, and a smal number
of citizena who were making their way across the
bottom on the Vicksburg and Shreveport road were
captured. It is believed that the enemy is trying to
work some of its light artillery across the peninsula
to some point below for the purpose of intercept
' ing our steamers, and cutting off communica
tion by the river between Vicksburg and Port
Hudson. The range of sonic of our beet guns has
been tried this morning, but the wary Yankees are
• still too far oft' to be reached. There is no dotibt of
the intention on the part of the enemy to push mat
. tern with great haste, and a general and ferocious at
tack upon the city is looked for in a day or two.
Yesterday a flag-ot-truce boat was reported at the
point above town, and much speculation was had as
to what could be its mission. But this morning no
confirmation of the report can be obtained. Great
activity prevails among the military, and every pre
paration is being made to receive the enemy.
THE AFFAIR ON THE BLACKWATER.
(From the Petersham Express, Feb. I I
Immediately after the arrival of the eight o'clock
train from 'Weldon, Saturday morning, a great many
rumors of an engagement between Gen. Pryor and
the enemy, which it was alleged occurred on Friday,
found currency in our streets. These rumors gene
rally gave out that our aims had met with it sad re
ream 3 but as they could be traced to no really trust
worthy source, little credit was given them. Satur
day afternoon a courier from Gen. Pryor arrived in
the city, bringing a dispatch for headquarters. This
dispatch we have been permitted by the Command
ing General at this poet to copy. It will be seen
that so far from Gen. Pryor's command meeting with
anything like a reverse, the advantages of the fight
were all in our favor. The following is a copy of
Gen. Pryor's official dispatch
CAURSVILLV., /SLT: oA WIGHT, Jan. 30.
Brig. Gen. Colson, Petersburg, Va.:
Gm:KRAL : This morning, at four o'clock, the
enemy, under Maj. Gen. Peck, attacked me at Kel
ly's store, eight miles from Suffolk. After three
hours severe fightin,,c , we repulsed them at all points,
' and held the field. Their force is represented by pri
sone re to be between' 10,000 and 15,000. My loss
in killed and wounded will not exceed tifty—
no prisoners. I regret that Col. Fong° is among
the killed. We inflicted a heavy loss on the enemy.
Respectfully ROGER A. PRYOR,
Brigadier General Commanding.
From a member of Capt. Wright's battery, which
is composed chiefly of volunteers from Halifax
county, Vs., and who were in the fight, we have ob
tained a few additional particulars.
Some two hours or more before the dawn of day
on Friday, our pickets were driven in by two regi
ments of mounted men, and a few minutes thereat
teethe enemy's artillery opened on our bivouac fires.
We immediately replied with guns of Capt. Colt's
S: C. Battery, and one section of Capt. Wright's.
The enemy's shell fell thick andfast in our immedi
ate vicinity, anti our boys stood, manfully to their
guns, and gave the vandals as much and as good as
they sent. - •
At daylight the artillery duel ceased, and the fight
was then maintained with musketry for about one
hour, when the enemy ceased firing and fell back.
We held our position, but the enemy not advancing,
and showing no disposition to renew the tight, Gem
Pryor retired to Clarrsville, eight miles from the
Blackwater river, where, he remained undisturbed
at last accounts.
The following are all the casualties that we have
been able to obtain:
There were' four killed in the sth Virginia Regi
.ment. Among the number is Col. Poage, of Pulaski
county, a gallant °dicer, who distinguished himself
in the Western Virginia 'campaign, under General
Floyd. Col. F. was struck in the thigh by a frag
ment of shell, which severed the main artery, and
he bled to death in a few minutes.
Capt. Dobbins, of the 27th Virginia Battalion,
from Floyd county,ivas killed by a minnie ball.
In Wright's battery Capt. W. was slightly wound
ed In the left leg by a piece of shell. Lieut. Wat
kins was also slightly wounded. Chas. W. Hughes,
of Halifax, had a leg broken, and was also wounded
in the hip. Geo. R. Watta,'of Halifax, was slightly
wounded.
The bodies of Colonel Poage and Captain Dob
bins reached here yesterday morning on the train
from Weldon.' They will be forwarded to their
friends for interment.
Two of Captain Colt's 'battery were slightly dis
abled—one having been spiked by the breaking of a
, priming wire, and the other becoming useless from
the lodgment Of a ball, which it was found impossi
ble to remove. • -
General Pryornoirbecupies a strong position at
otirreille,tand.is prepared for the enemy, let him
come in any force he may.
Since the above was put in type, we have been
favored with the following private despatch re
ceivCd in this city :
Fnarocitit, tia., Jan. 31.—Yesterday morning,
'about eight miles from Suffolk, we were attacked
by the enemy in great force.' A surprise was at
-
- tempted, but we were prepared, and repulsed the
enemy decisively, holding our ground, and losing no
'prisoners.
, Our loss comparatively small. The -enemy re
';ported to have sutibt•ed severely.
}ABLE-BODLED OFFIOBROLDERS TO BE PUT
INTO TUE ABAIY.
< lir. Brown, of Mississippi, has submitted the fol
lowing to the rebel Senate, which was ordered to be
printed:,
A bill to be entitled 'An act fluther to provide for
the public defences.'
"The Congress of the Confederate States of Ame
rica do enact, That it shall be the duty of the Secre
tary of War, immediately after the passage of this
act, to cause all white male persons, between the
ages of 18 and 45 years, now in the employ of the
Government, and who do not belong to either the
army or navy of the Confederate States, to be forth
with enrolled as conscripts, unless such persons, or
any of them, have been heretofore enrolled. '
" And it is further enacted that it shall be the duty
of the Secretary of War, and he is hereby required,
to cause the offices and places now filled by persons
liable to military duty, to be filled as rapidly as may
be by competent persons who are not liable to mili
tary duty,• and to enable him the more effectually
and speed ily to perform his duty in this regard, it
is hereby declared to be the duty of all officers of the
Government, both civil and military, forthwith, or
as speedily as possible, to supply the places of all
persons in their employ who are liable to military
duty with competent persons who are not liable, and
immediately thereafter to report the names of the
persons whose offices or places have been thus sup
plied to the Secretary of War; and on receiving such
report, it shall be the duty of the said Secretary to
cause such persons to be assigned for duty to some
regiment in the field."
SPECIAL LEGISLATION FOR THE SOL-
Mi. Conrad, of Louisiana, introduced into the
House the following resolution:'
"Iteeolution to provide a homeetead for the oat-
ears and privatea of the army of the Confederate
Statea.
4, Resolved, That the President be requested to as
certain, as Boon as practicable, on what terms and
conditions such of the Confederate States as may
own public domain would agree to grant to each
commissioned and non-commissioned officer, private,
and musician of the Army of the Confederate States
who may serve during the war, and who may not al
ready be possessed in his own right of a homestead,
one-quarter section of land. ,,
SLAVES IN DREWRY BLUFF FORTIFICA
TIONS.
RIOHMOND, Va., .Tan. 12, 1863.—Mrt. Miami: Let
the owners of Olives know that they are all well
near Drewry's Bluff—in flno spirits, and cheering for
;Toff Davis and the Southern Confederacy. Their
rations are short—new corn meal sifted, and bacon.
Owners should join and send enough for one ration
a day to the respective overseers, to the care of John
Tyler & Son, Richmond. JOHN WALKER.
ATTACK ON TORIES IN EAST TENNESSEE.
A band of tories, says the RichmOnd Dispatch,
about seventy in number, under an outlaw named
Taylor, were attacked on the 23d, In Johnson court;
ty, Tenn., by forty of our men, under Colonel Folk.
A letter says :
"The tory cavalry and infantry were parading in
a field near Fish Springs. Col. Folk ordered his men
to swim the river and charge them. The tories see
ing this abandoned their horses and took shelter
upon the summit of a large ridge. Folk's men were
then dismounted, and • charged up the ridge, com
pletely dispensing the torlcs. All of their horses
were captured. Four of the toriea were killed, and
a number wounded and captured. The captured
*ere immediately hung, by order of Col. Folk. Tay
lor was killed."
• SEIZURF. OF GOODS.
The Lynchburg Republican learns from the corre
spondent at Charlottesville that Capt. Mallory,
captain of thepost, seized on Wednesday about
$20,000 worth of goals, hoots and shoes, dry goods,
hats, and 400 pounds of bicarbonate Bode. The goods
were in three wagons, unloading at the store of a
merchant, when they were seized. The owner of
the goods and wasons had the permit of Col. Eppa
Hutton, Garnett, and Stuart, "to bring shoes, hats,
And other .Things out of Loudoun county, for the
soldiers." Oapt. Mallory, being satisfied that the
goods came from Baltimore through: Loudoun
county, and that they were brought to Charlottes
ville for speculation, and not for the use of soldiers,
seized and holds them to the order of the Secretary
of War.
SECESSION OE KENTUCKY
The Lynchburg Republican oft he 29th ult. says that
a gentleman who lelt Knoxville on Sunday last re
ports that the Kentucky Legislature had passed, by
a majority of five to one, an ordinance of secession
from the Abolition Union. Re further States, as
soon as this decision was announced, the Legislative
Ball was surrounded by a regiment of Pennsylvania
soldiers; and every member of the• body arrested.
The Republican adds: "We are not prepared to ex
press an opinion 813 to the truth of this report, but
the indications all point to an early move of the
kind, if it has not been made as stated."
DEATH OF ST. GEORGE TUCKER, OF VA. .
The Richmond Whig of the 3d instant 'announces
the death of St. George Tucker, brother of Beverley,
at Charlottesville, on the 24th January.
THE REBEL FINANCES
The rebel authorities appear to be greatly troubled
in regard to the financial policy. in view of the
long duration of the war, it is recommended that in
ducements and coercements to funding shall be ap
plied. Anything tending to contract the present
condition of the currency is deprecated. An expan-
Eton is strongly urged, and else; El provision• consti
tuting treasury notes legal tender.
THE TOBACCO. MARKET.
• The Lynchburg Republican of the 2d inst. says that
movements in manufactured tobacco during the
previous week were very heavy, prices stifremng as
the stock decreases. Quotations were from 55 cents
to $1.55, according to grade and quality.
THE PRIOE OF GOLD /N MORDIOND
In Richmond, on the 3d lost., gold was said to be
advancing. Brokers were asking $2.25 premium.
Sterling exchange is quoted at $225 and Northern
exchange at $1.40 premium.
TILE REBEL CONGRESS
A resolution to inquire into the causes of the New
Orleans disaster was laid upon the table in the rebel
House of Representatives,.by a vote of 97 to 40.
A bill had been introduced in the rebel Senate to
enrol as conscripts all white males fit for military
duty between the ages of eighteen and forty-tire, in
the employment of the Government, and to till the
places they vacate with competent persona unfit for
such duty.
DESPATCHES FROM GEN. BRAGG.
To Gen. S. B. Buckner
Gem Wheeler, with a portion of his cavalry bri
gade, after burning the railroad bridge in the ene
my's rear, pushed forward for the Cumberland river,
where he intercepted and captured four large trans
ports. He destroyed three, together with all the
supplieaon board, and boarded the other to carry oil'
the four hundred paroled prisoners. He was hotly
pursued by a gunboat which he attacked, captured,
and destroyed, with the whole armament.
BRAXTON BRAGG.
Torz.Alroarn., Jan. 21.
After the captuie of transports and gunboats, our
cavalry made a dash upon a large fleet of transports
just below Harpeth Shoals. They threw overboard
their cargoes of subsistence, ordnance, and quarter
master's stores in immense quantities, and escaped
by a hasty retreat.
Our troops, in the midst of ice and snow, crossed
to the north side of the Cumberland river by swim
ming their horses through the angry torrent, much
swollen by recent rains, routed the guard, and cap
tured immense
. quantities of subsistence stores just
loaded for transportation to Nashville by wagons.
BRAXTON BRAGG, Gen. Commanding.
KIRBY SMITH GONE TO TEXAS.
[From the Charleston Mercury27th ult.]
Lieut. Gen. Kirby E, Smith has been ordered to
the command of the Department of Louisiana and
Texas. His headOuarters will Probably be at Alex
andria, Louisiana. He and his stalrare now, doubt.
less, on their war thither. Itlaj. H. L. Olay, his
- • a
'n0.11..1.11 gent-nil, 1114 .111111.11Cantly - Mawr m
breaking of his thigh last. summer to accompany
him. A recent letter informs us that Maj. Clay is
able to walk with a cane, limps but little, and would,
with his wife, leave-Macon for the West on Satur
day last.
A PLANTATION PURCHASED BY JEFF
DAVIS.
It may prove a matter of some interest, to our
readers to know that President Jefferson - Davis and
his brother, Col. Jo. F. Davis,• have recently pur
chased plantations in this county, and removed their
slaves to them. Col. Jo. E. Davis has purchased
the plantation owned and occupied for many years
past by Dr. J. ()etchings, the latter gentleman
having removed to his plantation in Sunflower
county. President Davis has secured a place ad
joining his brother's, being the same owned and oc
cupied. for twelve years past by James P. Smith.
These plantations are between two and three miles
from Bolton's Depot, on the Southern Railroad,
and nearly between 'Vicksburg and Jackson. As
both gentlemen own very superior plantations on
the river, below Vicksburg, we presume the lands
just purchased are designed merely as places of refuge
for negro property until the close of the war.—Hinds.
County (bliss.) Gazelle.
OFFICERS OF THE FLORIDA (ORETO.)
The Charleston Courier gives the following as a
full and correct list of the privateer Florida's officers :
J. N. nranit, commanding, Georgia.
S. W. Averett, lieutenant and executive officer,
Virginia.
J. L. Hoole, Alabama; C. W. Read, Mississippi;
S. Stone, Alabama—lieutenants.
Garrestston and Grafton, surgeons.
Lynch, paymaster.
R. S. Floyd, Georgia; George D. Bryan, Charles
ton, S. C. ; G. T. Sinclair, J. Dyke, le irginia—mid
ehipmen.
J. Spidell, —Jackson, C. Quin, B. H. Brown,
engineers.
L. Vogel, captain's clerk.
William Wilson, purser's clerk.
E. Wyman, master's mate.
AFFAIRS IN RICHMOND.
[Correspondence of the Charleston Mercury.)
Rionmortn, Friday, Jan. 'II, 1863.
We are disturbed about the action of the North
Carolina Legislature. Have we not trouble enough
with the Yankees, without wrangling at home
Our hope is that the good sense of the people of
North Carolina will avert the impending trouble, and
keep that powerful and patriotic State in line with
her sisters.
Officials think it was the Florida, not the Ala
bama, that sunk the Hatteras.
The quartermaster general , s report shows that we
have 200 generals, 163 brigade quartermasters, 100
brigade commissaries, 600 chaplains, 320 companies
of artillery, 16 regiments of cavalry, and 4SI regi
ments of infanry. In the navy we have 4 admirals,
10 captains, 21 commanders, 100 first lieutenants; 25
second lieutenants, 20 masters in line of promotion,
12 paymasters, 40 assistant paymasters, 22 surgeons,
15 passed assistant surgeons, 30 assistant surgeons,
1 engineer-in -chief, 12 engineers, 20 passed midship
men, 6:c., and 600 seamen and ordinary seamen,
landsmen, boys, firemen ' and coal heavers.
The loan tendered by French bankers is seventy
five millions of francs; the terms are not yet di
vulged. Some think this loan, if received, will
abet the price of real estate.
General Lee, it is said, has gone to North Caro
lina.
RICHMOND, Saturday, Jan. 24,1863.
Neither House is. in session to-day. The secret
session of the Senate is continued so long, not on
account of the French loan (which good authority
tells me amounts to this, that we can get as much
money as we please on excellent terms, but, in con•
sequence, probably, of a discussion which has grown
out of a Bents of resolutions, drawn with much
ability by Mr. Wigan, in which the true theory of
our Governmental system is explained, the fact that
the independence of the several. States was recog
nized by European Powers at the close of the first
war against Great Britain is established, and it is
declared, that in resuming the powers delegated to
the Federal agent, we retained all foreign treaties,
have, therefore, sent ministers abroad, who will be
*recalled if the exposition of facts in these resolu
tions fails to secure the rights so long denied us.
The Examiner concludes a lengthy article on Mr.
MeraingePs report, by saying that it contains the
germs of some measures which may, if assisted by
the good sense of Congress, avert the evils which
beset the Treasury, and establish the finances. The
same paper fears that Mr. Benjamin's _suspicions of
French designs in Texas may offend • and estrange
the Emperor. •
The repeal of so much of the exemption law as
relates to persons in charge of twenty slaves passed
the House yesterday by a unanimous vote, and it is
thought will go through the Senate as easily. This
feature of the law has occasioned more feeling in the
rural districts than city people have any Idea of.
Other modifications of the law will be made, but to
what extent and in what directions is not • yet
clear.
The subject of retaliation also occupies the atten
tion of Congress. Mr. Moseley, of the Wlll9, makes
some remarks on retaliation, and closes by saying,
"it is one of those subjects which we should prefer
to be determined, if possible, by the officers of our
army. Aseivilians, we would be silent."
The grand total of the produce loan is $7,631,614.
This embraces only the cash substriptions and the
sale of produce, consisting principally'of cotton. In
addition to this, about 5,000 bales, estimated at $250.-
000, have been purchased by the Government for
bonds. So the entire amount realized to this time
from subscriptions to the loan is $7,882,644, or nearly
one-third of its whole amount. The cost of collec
ing these subscriptions has been only $10,600, or less
than one-third of one per cent.
The report on the war tax shows that the per
eentage allowed for collection (10 per cent) in States
that have assumed the tax is too large. Thus, in
Mississippi, which has not assumed the tax, the ag
gregate of collectors' salaries is less than $.10,000,
while the average in those States that have assumed
it is $2.20,000 or five times as great as the cost of col
lection in Mississippi.
• THE CONFEDERATE CONGRESS.
RICHMOND, Wednesday, Jan. 28.—1 n the Senate,
Par. Phelan, of Mississippi, introduced a bill for
condemnation to the public use of all cotton within
the Confederate States. Referred to a select com
mittee.
IIIISOELLAN'EOUS REBEL NEWS.
Brig. Gen. Win, N. Pembeton, the chief of artil
lery in the armies of Gen. Lee, in Virglnia,.lsn
Episcopal minister. He like Gen. Polk, say the
liffssisseppian was a gr a duate of West Point, and . .
became a minister but divested himself of the sur
plice in the beginning of this, ar, and, as captain of
artillery, distinguished himself at the first battle at
Manassas. Step by step he has risen to the highest
position in the artillery service of the Confederacy.
Among the novelties which this extraordinary
war has produced are the , instances which have re
peatedly occurred of late of cavalry capturing gun
boats, A. friend suggests that our horses should be
titled out with sails and rudders in order to facilitate
their amphibious operations. The gunboats, it must
be admitted, have fallen amazingly from their origi;
nal prestige. At one time, they had, nearly scared
the South from its propriety; but they are now
manifest humbugs,.which even a few troopers can
explode. The gallant cities of Vicksburg and Rich
mond deserve the credit of having first shorn the
gunboats of their terrors. From the hour when
Drewry's Blue demolished their iron-clads, they
have been gradually sinking to their proper level.—
Richmond Dispatch.
Several Yankee gunboats went up the Nassau
river, Florida, a few days since, to get some lumber.
The lumber was burned by our people, and the' boats
were attacked by our troops, and about thirty of the
Yankees killed. No loss on our side.
The Yankee Congreea hail on foot a scheme for
building a military road on All air line from Wash
ington to New York, the road to be completed in
eighteen months. By that time, we fancy, they will
have small use for any such road.
At Christiansburg, Va., on Saturday last, the 17th
Inst., two negroea—a man and n girl—were sold for
the round sum of AGM The man brought $3,150,
the girl $2,610. These are the highest prices ever
obtained in this or any other country.
Deserted from Company A, Twenty-ninth Georgia
Regiment; stationed at Lawton Battery, on Savan
nah river, Sergeant W. Atkin, 27 years of age, 6
feet 6j inches in height, dark complexion, dark eyes,
and black hair; an Irishman by birth, but appears to
he an American. He has n very soldierly appearance,
and is remarkably well drilled in infantry and artil
leiy tactics; was enlisted October 29, 1862, and de
serted January 21, 1865.
Robert Haywood, 45 years of age, 6 feet 9,16 inches
in bright, dark complexion, darn eyes, dark hair;
an Englishman by birth and general fappearance,
and cannot sound the letter H correctly; was en
listed October 29, 1862, and deserted January2l,lB63.
3 - otin Rose, 22 years of age. about 5 feet 7 inches
in height, complexion a brown black. He is a free
negro and an excellent drummer ; was enlisted Oc
tober 10, 1861, and [deserted November 13, 1862. He
is at present concealed in Savannah.
The above reward will be paid for the apprehen
eon of theec men, or $2O for either one of theta.
Capt. Comd'g Lawton Battery.
The partnership of Tyler, Wise, & Allegro, pro
prietors of the Richmond Enquirer, having been dis
solved by the death of 0. Jennings Wise, terminated
on the 3d inst. The paper is now owned by Messrs.
Tyler & Allegre.
The following items are from the Richmond Dis
patch of the ad lust
There was a considerable mettle among the pri
soners in the city jail during Sunday night. After
beinglocked up on that night they, by a precon
certed arrangement, commenced doing all the
damage they could to the cells and other pans of
the structure within reach, and by yesterday morn
ing had succeeded in effecting considerable mischief,
besides liberating a number of scoundrels. When
the jailor went yesterday morning to open the gate,
as usual, they offered violent opposition, declaring
that the first one who attempted the operation
would be killed. It was found necessary to call in
the aid of the city battalion, by whose assistance the
ring-leaders were secured and bucked. The jail is
now, and has been a tong time, tilled to overflowing
with an arsortment of the grandest scamps in the
Confederacy.
An Instalment of Government goods that had run
the blockade having arrived in Richmond, a store
was opened yesterday on Fourteenth street, so that
they could be disposed of to the soldiers at cost. The
vicinity was crowded during the day with army offi
cers who happened to be in Richmond and took the
opportunity of procuring cheap uniform cloth.
A Yankee boat having reported her arrival at City
Point, Gen. Winder will today send off; by way of
Petersburg, seven hundred and fifty of the Hessians
captured by Gen. Bragg in Tennessee, this number
being all that the boat has capacity to take away.
Some four or five hundred will still remain, who
will be carried off the first available opportunity.
Since the days of Paul -Tones there havo been no
achievements of a single ship in naval warfare as
brilliant as those of the Alabama. Captain Semmes
has won for himself and his country imperishable
laurels. The Florida, which .has just put to sea,
under her gallant commander, bids ( air to rival the
renown of the Alabama. The wavy Department
and the Confederate Congress ought to devote their
utmost energies to putting more ships afloat, and
giving an opportunity to our gallant naval officers
to distinguish themselves and render service to the
Confederacy.
The ocean is the only arena upon which we can
crrry on aggressive warfare against the Yankees,
and touch them in the ;vital spot of both their pride
and interests. The extreme sensitiveness mani
fested in their commercial circles to the operations
of a single ship, the Alabama, shows up their weak
spot, and we should strike at it with all our Dower.
With all the boasted prowess of the Yankees upon the
deep, we believe that a Confederate navy can be
built up which will make the sea as uncomfortable
to them as the shore, and (hive their commerce,
the source of all their wealth, from the face of the
ocetur.—ltiehin end Dispatch.
TULLAHOMA, Jan. 17
The editor of The Columbus Sun, in some remarks
upon Mr. Vallandigham's late speech in the Yankee
Congress, says the speech has much of " Yankee
ingenuity "in it. It may be that he is supposed to be
a Yankee by many persons in the South. Such,
however, is not the fact. He wasborn in Maryland,
and is of the beet of the old Maryland stock. The
purest Southern blood courses his veins, and there is
not a single Yankee idea or instinct in him.
• We are personally acquainted with him, and have
the history of himself and his ancestry from !his own
lips." He is a man of high character, pure morals,
and is a giant in intellect, with a mind richly stored
with the treasures of history. As a profound thinker
and a statesman he has but few equals and no supe
rior in America, considering his age, for he is quite
n young man.
BAN THE BLOCKADE.
[Fran the. Charleston Ili:unary, Jan. 29.
The British steamship Flora, from Nassamets f r.
piece she left - on sonars-iewt,,,,,pgeaux
terday morning. She has an assorted eargb.
_PCLITARY CHANGES.
— Gide - rillKirby Smith - liiiTatiff; - who ware in Rich
mond last week, and had started for his new De•
pariment of Texas and Louisiana, returned on Sa
turday, having been called back by orders. General
Smith will be either assigned to Frederlcksburg ‘ or
North Carolina. Brigadier General Diniel S. Do
nelson will succeed General Smith in commend of
the Department of East Tennessee. We are advised
that his Department will also embrace Southwest
ern 'Virginia and that portion of Middle Tennessee
within cur lines.
ATTACK ON A YANKEE GUNBOAT.
iIAnDEETILLE,.Tan. 27. —Captain Earle , s artillery
today attacked a Yankee gunboat at Buckingham
Ferry. No one was hurt on our side.
We have obtained the following additional par
ticulars of the affair referred to above: On Tuesday
last a section of the Putman Light Artillery took
up a position in the neighborhood of Buckingham
Ferry, with the view of practicing with a rifted
cannon, and, not wishing to waste ammunition,
they determined to make a Yankee gunboat the tar
get. About noon a Yankee craft steamed up, and
when within 1,200 yards the firing began. The vessel
was struck several times, but stood nearer in, shell
ing the light battery, but without damage. When
she had come within range of. a 12-pounder howitzer
Captain experimented with a few shell, with
some effect. The steamer then stood off. Reports
represent the Yankees as more Retire within the
last week or two than nt any time since the death of
Cl en. Mitchell. A large number of transports - and
other vessels Were on Sunday and Monday la the
°ding et Port Royal.
An Unsuccessful Attack on Island No. la—
The Fight nt Fort Donelson-0111eial De--
spate:les—What the Rebels Proposed To
Do—Prisoners to be Sent to St. Louis, Mo.
CAIRO, Feb. 3.—Sunday night, about 11 o'clock,
an attack was made on Island No. 10 by a large
number of rebels, probably two thousand, com
posed of cavalry, infantry, and artillery. They
had crossed Obion river in fiat-boats and skiff's,
and stationed themselves on the Tennessee
shore with three 6-pounders. Transports with
'troops were passing just as they arrived, and were
fired at and compelled to come to. The light-draught
gunboat New Era arrived, and with six 24-pounders,
stationed at the island, immediately returned the
fire, and shots were exchanged for some time quite
freely. After one hundred rounds were fired the
enemy gave way and beat a precipitate retreat, since
which time they have not shown any disposition to
renew the attack The transports, of course, were
released from their clutches. No casualties are re
ported. The troops on the island did not participate
in the fight, there being but a small garrison, and no
opportunity to effect anything. The New Era con
tinued to shell the Tennease shore until yesterday
evening, and convoyed passing boats.
The iron-clad gunboat Eastport, thickly plated
and heavily armed, went down yesterday morning,
to remain at the island, and, with the New Era, will
sufficiently protect the works there, and keep the
enemy at a respectful distance.
The following is a despatch concerning the affair
OoLumnrs, Feb. 3.
"Brig. Gen. J. N. Futile, commanding post at Cairo:
"Island No. 10 is attacked by rebel cavalry and
artillery ) numbering 3,000 to 4,000. Send the steamer
United States down with the troops, as stated in
your last telegram but do not expect troops from
here to-day. I need them at the Island.
"ASBOTII, Brigadier General , "
At 4 o'clock this afternoon the following despatch
was received :
THREE CENTS.
NINETY DOLLARS REWARD
THE CONFEDERATE NAVY
VALLANDIGHARt NO A YANKEE
ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE.
PADUCAH, February S.
J. AL Mille, Brigadier General:
The rebels came in sight of Fort Donelson about
ten hours ago. A force went out to meet them.
They are still lighting.
GEO. STILLMAN, Operator.
Nothing further concerning this action has been
received up to 7 P. 111. Colonel A. C. Harding, of
the 83d Illinois, is in command of the fort. It is
supposed these two parties of rebels are under the
command of Forrest,. and they intend another raid
on the M. and 0. Railroad.
As a large number of prisoners are continually
artiying, and have to be sent to other places for
quarters, this order has been issued :
WASH/NOTON, February 3.
GenerelJ. N. Tuttle:
Orders have been eiren to the quartermaster at .
St. Louis to erect barfacks for prisoners.
W. 11OFFMAN, C. G. P.
The steamer city of .Alton brought up forty Con
federate officers ..tiu.s morning, en route to St. Louis
as prisoners. .
ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND.
position of the Rebel Forces—Crnelty and
Unpopularity of Bragg—The Tennessee
Soldiers Ready to Desert—Horrors of the
Conscription.
Multrinmanorto, Tenn., Feb. 3.
The : following is the latest news from the rebel
army In front :
There are two divisions of Folk's corps at Shelby
ville. Cheatham's and Wither's are both on the
other side of Duck river. McCown's division Is be
tween Shelbyville and Tullahoma. The enemy have
recently been moving artillery southward, appa
rently indicating intentions of abandoning the line
of Duck river altogether. There are no fortifications
at Shelbyville; and notwithstanding the rebels are
endeavoring to create the impression that they are
fortifying there, it does not appear that they are
making any formidable preparations for an attack
at Tullahoma. • The only fortifications are those
erected by our troops last summer. Hardee's corps
is at Tullahoma and Manchester.
A doubtful rumor has it that ClepbUrn's division
is coming to Shelbyville.
The rebels are erecting fortifications at Bridge.
port, and will doubtless fall back to the line of the
Tennessee river. In that ease, it is said that nearly
all the Tennessee soldiers in the rebel army have
announced their intention to desert and come home
at all hazards.
The soldiers are all down on Bragg. The severity
of his discipline increases every day.
Three men were shot, for desertion, at Shelbyville
on Saturday last
Brag is making desperate ettbrts to enforce the
conscription.
Pillow is chief of the conscription bureau, with
headquarters at Columbia.
The woods throughout Bed ford and Murray coun
ties are filldti with loyal citizens, endeavoring to
escape . conscription.
Tworegiments of, cavalry ate engaged:day and
night in hunting them down,
THE WAR PRESS.
Iva WAR Papas will be sent to smbectibers br
mall (per annum in advance) at 8(.00
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Twenty Copies" 3:3.00
Large: Clubs than Twenty will to charged at the
came rate, 51.60 Per COPY.
The money must fatocw6 acconspany the °rein-, anti
in no in,sfanee can theBB term* be deviated from, a 8 the/
afford very tittle more thou the cog of the paper.
Sir Postmasters are rec,acsted to net lig Agents for
Tam Wes Passe.
iar To the getter-up of a Club or ten or twenty', sa
extra copy of the Paper will be gives,
Defence of Rev. I. J. Stine—lmportant
Testimony. .
SHlrrnwsßuno, Pa., Feb, 6 , 1863
To the Edilor of The Prow:
: The following letter, which I have received
from Captain Palmer since his return, will explain
itself.
The story of my betrayal of him is known, as also
the facts of my arrest and imprisonment on that
charge, with which, however, two others were con
nected.
You will oblige by publishing this very important
testimony to my fidelity to Captain P. I am pre
paring a defence in full, which I will send you in a
few days. If I have suffered wrongfully, the satis
faction of having been useful in the service of my
country, even for one brief but auspicious week, Las
been something to me. The week of rebel despotism
in Maryland, and the rout of the invader, have
marked an epoch in my life, as in the history of the
"great rebellion." lam satisfied. " All's well that
ends well." Very respectfully,
I. J. STINE.
GERMANTOWN, Jan. 2d, 1863.
nee. 1. J. Slime. Shippensburg, Pa.:
DEAR. SIR : I take the earliest opportunity, after
my return from rebeldom, to write to you. Nothing,
during my confinement in Confederate prisons,
caused me more regret than the report that you had
been arrested anti Imprisoned on the charge of
having betrayed me into rebel cantivity ; and I bike
much pleasure in saying that there never existed
the slightest foundation in fact for the charge re
ferred to. The services you rendered our army at
the time of the invasion of Pennsylvania were of
the most important and useful character; and, in
my opinion, there is not a more loyal man in the
State than yourself.
Allow me to add, that, for the disinterestedness
you manifested during your Imprisonment, and
since your release on parole, in not mentioning any
of the particulars connected with my capture, pre
ferring rather to suffer awhile longer under the im
putation of being gdilty, in the hope of my return,
than to imperil my safety, by attracting further at
tention to my case, you have my profound gratitude.
I have written to the Secretary of War, request
ing him to discharge you from your parole.
You are at liberty •to use this letter in any way
you may see fit for the vindication of your character.
Yours, respectfully, Will. J. PALMER,
Captain Commanding Anderson Troop.
W. BILLOPP
A Historical Parallel to the Court Martial
The battle of Minden was fought on the let Aug.,
1759, between the French and the combined forces of
Pruesia, under Prince Ferdinand, brother to Frede
rick the Great, and the English, under Lord George
Sackville. During the engagement Lord Geo. Sack
who commanded the cavalry, received an order
from Prince Ferdinand, the commander-in-chief, to
march to the left, so !aril to form a cavalry line of
support for the infantry in the charge they were then
making on the enemy. This order was borne by
Prince Ferdinand's aid-de-camp, Captain Winchen
rode, and was quickly repeated through Lieut. Col.
Ligonier. Very-soon thereafter, Col. Fitzroy deliver
ed him an order to move as before directed with the
English cavalry. Lord George affected to regard the
orders as contradictory, and made a show of not un
derstanding how to obey. The testimony, however,
left no room for doubt but that this was a pretence.
and that the true cause of his hesitancy was alarm.
He managed, through the difficulties suggested by
him ' to delay his march for between twenty and
twenty-live minutes after he had received the first or
der through Captain Winchenrode : so that it was
three-quarters of an hour before he reached the
heath on which he had been directed to form his
troops, he having ordered a halt on the way.. Brief
as had been the delay, the auspicious moment
had passed. It was proved" that had the infan
try been broken by the enemy, in the absence
of Lord George's cavalry, that the effect would have
been absolutely fatal for want of proper support.
An it was, the allies- achieved a victory over the
French but this victory, it is alleged by a writer of
authority, would have been " a complete rout" had
Lord George promptly obeyed the orders of hie com
manding general. This opinion was evidently enter
tained by the judge advocate, who,
in explaining the
nature of the charge to the court, "observed that,
by his lordship's not advancing with the cavalry,
agreeably to repeated orders sent him by three aid
de-camps, a signal opportunity was lost of entirely
ruining the French army, and the cavalry were
thereby prevented from gathering the laurels which
the infantry had prepared."
For this offence, Lord George, who was a lieute
nant general and comrnandenimehief of the British
forces then serving under Prince Ferdinand, was
tried by a general court-martial. The charge against
him was disobedience of the orders mentioned ; and
this disobedience consisted in his failure to march
for between twenty and twenty-five minutes after
the order reached him, and in his having ordered a
brief halt after the movement began. The court was
composed of the following distinguished officers :
Lieut. Gen. Sir CHARLES HOWARD, President.
Lieut. Generals. Major Generals.
CARRELL, CARR,
LORD DELAWAR, EARL OF EFFBNOHAR,
CHOMONDELT, Lonn ROBERT BEETLE,
STUART,
EARL OP PANNURE,
EARL OP ANORAK,
EARL OP ILA RRINGTON,
AM:RU.BOIIIHE,
EARL OF ALISEP&ARLE,
LERIIITON,
LORD 1:01FT. DIAXWERS.I
The following is the sentence of this court mar
tial, with the action taken thereon by the King :
"This court, upon due consideration of the whole
inciter before them, is of opinion that Lord George
Sackville Is guilty of having disobeyed the orders
of Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, whom he was
by his commission and instructionjulireaM,tivahvi---
as 7BlNPlV'J!LNhV'tflither — T - iciiiiiion of the court that
the said Lord George Saukville is, and he L hereby,
adjudged unfit to serve his Majesty in any military
capacity whatever."
Which sentence his Majesty has been pleased.. to
confirm.
"It is his Majesty's pleasure that the above sen
tence be given out in public orderle, that officers ,
being convinced that neither high birth nor great
employments can shelter offences of such a nature;
and that, seeing they are subject to censure much
worse than death, to a man who has any sense of
honor, they may avoid the fatal consequences arising
from disobedience of orders.
"A true copy : RICHARD COX,
" Secretary to Field Marshal Ld. Vice Ligouier,
" Commander-in-Chief of his Majesty's forces.
"At the Court at St. James, the `lsth day of April,
1.160 ; Present, the King's most excellent Majesty in
Council. This day his Majesty in Council called for
the council book, and ordered the name of Lord
George Sackville to be struck out of the list of privy
counsellors.”—Washington Chronicle.
The Dixon (Dl.) Telegraph states that the Rev.
M. lonic, for many years Catholic priest of that
city, died at Freeport on Tuesday of last week,
leaving a request that his remains be carried to
Dixon, and placed by the side of those of Father
Tierney in the cemetery. At the funeral in the
Catholic Church of Dixon, on Saturday, Father
Burbert, in behalf of himself and his people at Ster
ling, demanded the body for burial there. The
numerical strength and determination of Father
Forde , s flock was too evident to the Sterling priest
people present, and the remains were properly
busied. During the night following about sixty
men, armed with shot-guns, pistols, knives, ant
bludgeons, came from Sterling, exhumed the body,
and removed it by rail before the Dixon people were
aware of the movement.
—A detailed account of the life of Gen. Hooker
when a boy, living at Hadley, Mass., has been pre
pared, which: hows that the General was known as
a good and honest, but not remarkably bright boy.
It was through the advice and Influence of the late
Giles C. Kellogg, of Hadley, formerly Register of
Deeds for the county, that Hooker entered West
Point Academy. General Hooker
,has an aunt by
marriage—Mrs. Henry Seymour—living in Hadley
at the present time, but the nearest relative that he
has living, excepting his three sisters, is the widetv
of the late Pliny Russell, of Northampton, who was
a sister of his mother, and Is the only one living Of
the Seymour family.
When thelmarriage of the Princess Pia with
the King of Portugal took place, various Italian
cities sent to. Victor Emmanuel • congratulatory al
bums. That of Venice has just reached Turin; it
consists of a beautiful volume, tilled with exquisite
sketches of thelCity on the Sea, interspersed with
graceful verses. Every page of this album was sent
separately from Venice in order to baffle the scrutiny
of the police, and so that, if any were seized, the
whole book would not be lost ; the binding was sent
by itself, and the wholewas put together in Turin.
Several persons were arrested in 'Venice merely on
suspicion of having been engaged in the preparation
of this present, and every effort was made to sup•
press it—all, however, without avail. •
Last week, unusually solemn funeral services
were held in Trinity Lutheran Church, at Lancas
ter, Pennsylvania. Two members of the vestry of
this church were buried at the same time ; the one,
Mr. Keller, eighty years, the other, Mr. Frick, more
than seventy years of age, and the former the father
in-law of the latter. Mr. Keller was the brother of
the venerable clergyman of this name. The several
Lutheran ministers of Lancaster took part in the
services, the pastor of the church, Rev. Mr. Conrad,
preaching the sermon.
Says the York (Pa.) Press: Major General Win.
B. Franklin arrived in this place on Saturday eve
ning last, and immediately repaired to. the residence
of hie brother-in-law, E. H. Weiser, Esq. On Mon.
day evening he was serenaded by the Worth Infantry
Band, when a large crowd of people was brought to
gether in front of Mr. Weiser's residence, many of
whom took occasion to take the General by the ,
hand and welcome him home. He is in the enjoy
ment of good health and Is in the best spirits.
Fontenelle lived to nearly a hundred years old..
A lady of nearly the same age said to him one day
in a large company, "Monsieur, you and I stay
here so long, that I've a notion Death has forgotten
us." " Speak as low as you can," said Fontenelle,
"lest you should remind him of ueby
—A Mr. Stokes, of Trenton, N. J., lately sued
Judge Nar, of the True American, for daMeges,for
having put his marriage among the deaths. Al
though the editor offered to make it all * right by
putting Stokes' death among the marriages, the in-.
dignant Benedict would not accept the• amendc
honorable. Damages, six cents.
Six of the Beecher family are in the army—Col.
and Rev. James Beecher, of the 31st New York;
Chaplain Thomas K. Beecher, Lieut. H. B. Beecher,
Lieut. Fred. B. Stowe, and a eon each. of William.
and Charles Beecher.
Miss G-. Mead, sister of Larkin G. Bleati, Jr., of
Brattleboro', the sculptor, was united; in, marriage to.
William D. Howells, Esq., American consul at Ve
nice, at the residence of the - American Minister at
Paris, on Christmas ere.
—Mr. Marsh Heathcott, a cotton manufacturer of
Paterson, N. J., has succeeded,m spinning yarn from
the fibres of milkweed. Mr. H. eatimatea that an
acre of land might yield $l2O. worth per annum of.
this product.
The Havre Journal talks of a diamond Just
found by a negro in Brasil, far exceeding in dimes,
alone the famous Kohinoor. It adds that Sainte
means to establish with the proceeds of it a settle
ment for free blacks,. • •
The President says of General Booker, that in
every position he has been placed he has equalled
the expectations which his self•eonfldence has in.
--
A delegation of Chippetvaa, headed , by, that
fanunui gi big -I,ugun," Nalvgaw-taah, will: 0904 1. 1 1)
Rit ) 9.4(l the limp of Watihiugton.
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(PUBLISHED WEEKLY.)
of Con. Fitz John Porter.
PERSONAL.