ALTOONA, PA THURSDAY, MAY 22. 1862. The Harrisburg Telegraph and the Blair County Whig. Hon. Lotus W. Hall, late Speaker of the Senate, has been and still is the object of a most malig nant senes of attacks in the columns of the Blair County Whig, until the manner in which be is as sailed,' begins to attract the attention and the disapproval of the Republican press of the Com monwealth. Ex-Speaker Hall has surely been guilty of no act in-the least meriting the censure heaped open him by the Whig, while on the other hand ids conduct in the State Senate, during the three sessions of his term, was of a character to win for him the esteem and confidence of his op ponents, and the hearty commendation and grati tude of his friends. To a mind comprehensive, and a clear judgment of what is right. Speaker Hall joined the tpost enlightened views on all pub lic aifiura, so that he at once became the speaker mid leader of the Senate. His integrity here was never doubted. His purpose of pore and lofty pa triotism was never questioned; and therefore we are pained and disgusted with the persistent man ner in which he is assailed by the Whig. If the editor of that journal has a privkte pudge to sat isfy, he should remember that while ne attempts to realize that satisfaction by bis present course, he perils the party and principles for which he pro fesses attachment, and also lays himself bare to the charge of engaging in the slander of a man whose character is without reproach in the highest social and political circles of the Commonwealth. We trust, for the sake of truth and decency, that these atucks will be suppressed for the future. We are not surprised at the above, which appeared in the Harrisburg Tele graph of Friday morning last. We pre j some the editor of that paper did not know ! that the Whig had changed hands, and that its present editor is the notoriously : corrupt John Brotherline, whose past life has been so marked with acts of meanness that his attacks on Mr. Hall are viewed, by honest and high-minded men, of all parties, in this county, as a futile attempt to levy black mail, in which the Whig edi tor, we trustj will ' never succeed. This corrupt and stupid trickster issues, week after .week, his sheet filled with a repeti tion of the stalest falsehoods and the basest lies, so ridiculous in their character, so false on their face, that they bare then own refutation and stamp the author os a liar and villifier. Ex-Speaker Hall is far above the harmless shafts of this pilferer of the Govennent. • No man, of any party here, but respects and esteems him, and the force of Brotherline’s silly attacks on him, and the value of his influence will be demonstrated by the people if chance ever offers of sustaining Mr. Hall. We know no surer way to popular favor than for one to have the opposition of the present editor of the Whig. His influence would consign to oblivion the most popular man in our community. It is notoriously known that while Brotherlihe was engaged in fleecing Unde Sam, at Washington, he took it into his head to be appointed to a paymaster ship in the regular army, and that he boasted that Mr. Hail could get it for him and that he would force it by the power o, the press!! We give what we know to b the opinion of everybody that knows tii man, that if Secretary Stanton shoul. make such an appointment there would g. up such a howl from this district as would prevent one vote in the Senate in favor o; endorsing it. If Mr. Hall .desires to can y a dead weight that he cannot shake off, let him attach his fortunes to those of thi,- Horae Contractor. We assure the Tele graph that the people in this “neck o’ tim ber” understand the Whig and its moral, high-toned editor. They are disgusted with his cpurse and his endeavors to bring the “ hard cash.” “ Ceage, viper, ye gnaw at a pile.” fg-We need not tell our’readers this week that the stars of Jeff. Davis’ “ Con ferate Government” are like the lost plei ade»—enoffed out —gone under—or ske daddled out of the earth’s orbit intounknown regions of space. If we were dealing with a generous; foe instead of the gang of trai tors, thieves and incendiaries which com pose the leading politicians of the South, we should feel some compassion to see their pride so suddenly humbled, and wish, perhaps, that they might be let down easy. But the confounded impudence of the fel lows in stealing our forts, arms and public money, and territory that we had bought and paid for; and then fighting us with our cannon, and trying even to steal the Government itself, (as they did in the first instance,) has put them out of the pale of sympathy from even the most tender among us. If a vote could now be nine-tenths of our citizens would decide to hang the fellows the moment they are caught j but we suppose that extreme measures will be waived in consideration t&r .branches f Congress, au.i now stands au authentic, defini e ml solemn propositi of the Nation tot the State ml people most immediately interested in the suit er matter. To the people of those S;ate= I now ■ irncstly appeal. Ido not argue. I beseech you o make the argument for yourselves, you cannot fyou would be blind to the signs of the times. I 'ieg of you a calm and enlarged consideration of hem, ranging if it may be far above personal and lartizan politics. This proposal makes common cause, for a common object, casting no reproaches upon any. It acts not the pharisee. The change it contemplates would come gently as the dews of Heaven, not rending or wrecking anything. Will yon not embrace it ? So much good has not been done by one effort in all past tjme, or in the provi dence of God, it is now .your high privilege to do. May the vast future not have to lament that you have neglected it. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to' lie affixed. ■ Done at the city of Washington this nineteenth day of May, in the year of,oar Lord, one thous and eight hundred and fifty-six, and of the in dependence of the United States the eightv-six. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President.; * William H. Seward, Sec. of State. The Associated Press’ Army Correspondent sends a dispatch from White House, Virginia, dated Sunday, in which he says that the advance guard of our forces on the main road to Richmond, by way of Bottom's Bridge, drove the enemy across the Cickahominy river, at that [stint, on Saturday morning. When oar troops arrived within half a mile of the Bridge, which is burned, they were" opened upon by a brisk fire of artillery from the opposite side of the river. Xo one was injured.— This Bridge is fifteen mites from Richmond. At this point our troops will experience considerable difficulty in crossing, as the country is low and swampy on both sides of the river. A reconnoisance was made on Saturday by one ■of the gunboats, with two companies of infantry under Major Williams, and one section of Acre's battery, up the Pamunkey river, a distance of twenty-dive miles from here. At a point known as Russell’s Landing, they found the steamer Logan, one propeller and one hundred schooners on Jire. — They were laden mostly with com, which was being unloaded. Some contrabands on shore stated that when the rebels saw our gunboats coming they 1 commenced putting the com on board again, so as The Chubch of Shiloh. —The Tennessee cor- ;to insure its destruction. A few shells soon dis respondent of the Chicago Times says the proper j persed the remaining rebels in that locality, when name for the recent battle in Tennessee is the Imt- | the gunboat returned to White House, tie of Shiloh. He says:—The title- arises from I The roads for the past three days have been next the presence on the battle field, in close proximity |to impassable, owing to recent heavy rains. A to the point of the first attack, of a little church of division train was thirty-six hours in making its unpretending appearance and considerable antiqui- way jive miles, with teams doubled, together with ty. It was the plice of worship where the fen - in- assistance furnished by a large number of troops, habitants of the surrounding country assembled to The advance of the army from this point must hear the Gospel expounded, and, it is hoped, to necessarily be slow. From here it loses the benefit better, by precept and example, their morals and : of river transportation, requiring all the supplv politics. It was built about fifty years ago, by a ; trains at the disposal of the Quartermaster's De- French Huguenot, who, being an enthusiast, and partment to furnish so vast a body of men with something of an anchorite, left his home and subsistence. The bridge between here and the founded, in the wilderness of Lower Tennessee, a : enemy has been destroyed, and every imagin community of his sect, whose influence should in able obstruction placed iii the way of our advance, time extend over the limits of the Xew World, _ The Richmond Dispatch of 'the 12th has a and, in a measure, defy its progenitor.; He lived : lengthy article on the evacuation of Norfolk and in solitude, his humble church being hishoipe, ! Yorktown and the conduct of the war generally, and the little field beyond the means of his suhsis- ;It says : “By abandoning detached posts, which tence. Some time afterwards, however, the little are within Teach of the enemy’s fleet, and whiqh it is church became an unlawful trysting place, undone therefore impossible to defend, we are enabled to morning he was found weltering in bis blood.— concentrate powerful forces upon essential points For vears _ afterwards the untutored inhabitants and to baffle the enemy in every attack of vital im looked at the blood stain which marked the spot poitance." The same paper makes mention of a ter where he jell, in superstitious awe, but time washed ; riblo panic in Richmond on Friday on the approach it out, and the. church of Shdoh again became the ;of our gunboats. On Sunday, the Array of the place of worship. ; Potomac ceased its labors. The troops remained in camp enjoying a day of rest. far General Scott says: —“Davis will not l>e caught.; He will probably escape through Texas : (£3“The largest ship-owner in Great Britain, and into Mexico. To the more prominent traitors who | in fact, in the world, is Bolph Brocklebank, Vice may be taken, I would mete out a system of judi- | President of the Boyal Insurance Company, who cions but liberal hanging,” j has afloat nearly six hundred sail of vessels. The Blair County Whig and the Penn’a Bail Bead Company. We are well aware that many of our readers may be displeased at our noticing the repeated and silly attacks of Brother line on the Pennsylvania Rail Road Com pany. We do so in this instance at the request of a leading and influential coal shipper, who resides in Hollidaysburg, anjl who is largely engaged in the ship ping of coal from Gallitzin to that point. He desires us to say that there is not one word of truth in the assertion of the editor of the Whig that the Penn’a Rail Road Co. has increased the rates on coal be ; \ tween those points. So much -we say to oblige our friend and so much as to windy article “Ko. 13.” We might further truthfully remark, for the benefit of Mr. Brotherline, that a condition of the repeal of the Tonnage Tax ♦as, that a reduction to that amount should be made on the freight, and that in no instance has the company violated the act. Coal was not inclu led in the condi tion, as the Legislature, six years before, had repealed it as to that, How silly, vin dictive and false must the Whig articles appear in the eyes of all sensible men.— He seems to be determined to try to injure the business interests of his own town. — From his opposition to the repairing of the canal down to this latest and meanest lie, his motive is so transparent, that any man with half an eye can read him. So ridiculous was this last canard that he was forced to add a “P. S.” stating him self that there was not a word of truth in what he had written; We think this should have satisfied oiir Hollidaysburg friend, but at his request we again show up the truthfulness of “Honest John.” The Southerners, So far as our armies have penetrated the South ern our soldiers have found but little Union sentiment among the people. It may be that ma ny who are really for the Union are afraid to avow their sentiments openly, lest, should the Union forces he withdrawn from their localities, they may he subjected to outrages from the rebels around them. But we have an idea that love for the Un ion is a scarce comodity in the cotton States. The question here arises, can we hope to bring back the people of tiie Southern States into the Union f We answer yes. Although they have been accus tomed to lord it over their negroes until they themselves cannot bear restraint they will, never theless, be forced into the Union traces, and if they do not like the treatment they will receive, they can pack up their duds and ' leave. As one of the Federal officers said at Nashville, we shall bring the soil of the revolted States back into the Union, and if the people don’t like it, they can leave. A large portion of the rebel territory, in cluding New Orleans, has been purchased and paid for by the United .States, and it is absurd to sup pose that we shall consult those who have robbed us of it as to the expediency of taking onr own again. If, then, we find no Union feeling at the South after putting down this rebellion, we shall gradu ally manufacture it by promoting a military emi gration from the North. Very few of our soldiers who go South will want to return here, aud thousands will be found eager and ready to follow them. We are told that the rebels are resolved to convert their territory into a howling wilderness sooner than yield us peaceable possession of it. Be it so. We will.soon send plenty of hardy pioneers to re claim it, after the fashion of Western settlements. Af er all, this would, perhaps, be the very best thing that could happen the South. It would in fuse a new life in o the country by teaching the Southerners that the labor'bf oneindustrious white man was equal to that of about a dozen lazy ne groes, and cheaper by far. From McClellan's Army, PEN AND SCISSOBS. <3* What is that which makes all women equally pretty ? Putting the candles out. fyTTnn Charles J Ingcrsoll died at his ;resi dence in Philadelphia, on Wednesday of last Week. ■py A little boy. three years of age, son of Mr. Wolf of Johnstown, was drowned in the basin, at that place, a week since. erit is no misfortune for a nice young lady to lose her good name, if a nice yonng man gives her a better. The women of Portland have a watchful eye over their daughters, and make them wear little bells on their persons, to denote where they are and what they are about. gaTComraodore Foote is a very religious man, as is well known. Some one says that the rebels, who are feeling his bombs, must think he belongs to the “hard-shell Baptists.” -> An Irishman has always an answer for any thing. A Corkonian, on being asked at breakfast how he came by “that black eye,” said that he had “ slept on his fist.” Anatomists say that man changes entirely every seven years. If so, would it be lawful for a man to attempt to collect a bill of over seven years standing. The debtor, according to anatomists, is not the man. • gy “.Tiilious. why did Gen. Grant rest uneasy de night fore he took Fort Donelsonf” “ Dunno, Massa Johnson ; spose he did’nt feel sleepy.”— “ No, sah! Twas ease he ’spected. to get a Pillow and only got a slip. g3*At Fredericksburg, Virginia, on the ap proach of our forces, the rebels destroyed no less than twenty-two boats, several of which were good steamers, and burned twenty thousand dollars’ worth of cotton. 43" The Philadelphia and Baltimore Kailroad has placed five refreshment cars on their road, to be run with passenger trains. They have been leased by a Philadelphia firm at §2,500 each per annum. horrida, bella! Being in want of gun metal, the bell-igerent rebel leaders demanded the Secesh church bells for Bell-ona’s service. Can this giving of bells to Bell-zebub, for beli-icose purposes, be reconciled with any religions ordin ance. Gen. Burnside has invented a new engine of war, to be termed the Railroad Monitor. It is a locomotive completely covered with railroad iron, and so constructed as to carry two guns—-one on each end. It is designed for sendee op the rail road from Newbem to Beaufort, to prevent the rebels from destroying the track. 43“ A pious minister after lecturing a Sunday School class in the most edifying manner, proposed to close the exercises by singing “Jordan,” mean ing the hymn, “On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand." The worthy man was horrified by hear ing the school strike up “Jordan am a hard road travel I believe.” are over thirty special correspondents of various papers throughout the Union now with Gen. Halleck's army, to say nothing about a num ber who accompany divisions. This is the largest representation of the press ever assembled to wit ness a battle, and between them all what the pub lic don’t learn about the forthcoming conflict—if come it docs—will hardly be worth knowing. , 43“ In Upper Egypt, Illinois, they have some of the hardest shell preachers. A friend writes that he dropped in the other day to hear one of them preach. After announcing his text, the preacher began: “My dear brethren and sistern, I solicit your prayerful and undivided attention while I cite your minds to the passage of Scripture I have just read. In which remarks I shall try to do you good as doth the upright in heart, provided my text don’t throw me.” Naval Engagement before Richmond On Saturday last, the iron-clad gunboats Gale na, Nangatuck and Monitor, accompanied by sev eral other gunboats made an attempt to pass up the James River to Richmond, but were repnlsed.. A special correspondent of the Press gives the fol lowing account of the engagement: Fortress Monroe, May 18 —P. M. —The Ste vens batten - , known as the Xangatuck, has just arrived here from the scene of action in front of Richmond, and I have some interesting details of the important operations of Commodore Rodgers' fleet in the upper waters of the James river. It seems that our iron-clad sloop-of-war Galena proceeded up the river, leading the fleet, and sileneingjhe minor batteries that lined the shore, until the fleet had arrived at a point in the James river about eight miles below Richmond, where there is a bluff, upon which a series of strong bat teries have been constructed up to the city. These batteries were found to be mounted with superior rifled guns of very heavy calibre. The Galena was moored in close to these shore batteries yesterday morning, and opened a terrific fire npon.’them, the Monitor, Nangatnck, and other vessels assisting. At first, the shot of the rebel gunri-rolled off the sides of the Galena, making only dents falter mail, but gradually after five hours’ fighting, it was found that the steel-pointed balls used by the rebels were piercing her. Thirty shots struck her and lodged, whilst two went entirely through her, tumbling out on the other side. A shell burst in the Galena during the engage ment which unfortunately killed seventeen of the crew and wounded nineteen. But even this sad accident did not dishearten the brave Captain Rod gers and his crew. They fought on until dark, and until their ammunition had nearly given ohK The Jfangatuck was ably handed by Captain Constable, but, after firing seven magnificent shots, her splendid bow gun burst, killing two men and wounding three others, including Capt. Constable, who was struck in the head by a piece of the firing metal. We are happy to learn that he is not seri ously injured-. A flaw was discovered in the metal, and this was, no doubt, the cause of the explosion. Lieutenant Morris, in command of the gunboat Fort Royal, and late of the Cumberland was slight ly wounded. \ Commodore was wounded painfully, but not seriously, in the left check. These are all the casualties heard of up Jo the sailing of the Naugatuck for Fortress Monroe. The slaughter among the.rebels in the batteries is said to hare been terrible, although they had the adrantage of onr gunboats in having the batteries situated on a bluff. The fight will be renewed shortly, when Com modore Rodgers hopes to silence the rebel forts, and if he can pass the obstructions known to be placed in tho river above the batteries, he will take the city. A mortar boat was greatly needed daring the action, as with it the batteries could have been taken quite easily. The Monitor was at last accounts ahead, no ball yet fired by the enemy baring any effect ttpen her iron-clad turret. The Battle at Williamsburg. There seems to be considerable doubt as to whether this battle should be called a victory or a defeat for our arms. It is now. however, gener ally admitted that although the commencement of the contest was badly bungled, and although the loss was very and needlessly heavy on e repulsed, at ten o’clock started back and rode in person to Gen. McClellan’s headquarters, a distance of ten miles, to solicit his immediate presence on the field. There can, however, be no doubt of one thing, that in this action the Eastern troops showed as ranch pluck and doggedness as have ever been displayed in the West. One of the regiments whiclt suffered roost!severely, was the First Excelsior, or Sickles's Brigade, which can be taken as a sample. It was ordered to hold a position on Hooker's left, and remained without reinforcements, and exposed to the several regiments, until ordered to with draw. Two field officers, twenty-one company officers, and four hundred out of eighteen hundred men were killed or wounded. Its Colonel, Wm. Dwight, a Massachusetts boy, was repeatedly urged by subordinate officers, and once commanded by a brigade officer to retire, but replied, “ My orders are to hold the position.” When his regiment was at last relieved, Gen, Heintzclman uncovered as he marched by him, and his command gave nine cheers.. Col. Dwight was left on the field for dead, having received three wounds, and was then taken prisoner, but released on parole. Raymond has been again carefully over the ground trying to weigh the battle and its conse quences, and the result of his investigation is that it was a very: important battle, and very injurious to the rebels.! When Gov. Sprague brought word to McClellan how matters were going, the latter started right off and arrived on the field about two F. M. He saw the state of the case at a glance, and found our troops on the left exhausted and withdrawn to a field half a mile in the rear for rest. Raymond then describes how General Smith’s division of five regiments crossed over a swamp and ravine by a route three miles around, and took the rebels in the flank. How Gen. Early’s brigade came at them and was repulsed and routed by our heavy infantry fire and Gen. Hancock’s bayonet charge. Our men pursued them—bayo neting many whom they overtook, and taking some two hundred prisoners. The rest fled across the field, and carried their own terror into the rebel ranks. It is also known that When about 2P. M. the action was against us, the news of our defeat spread beyond Williamsburg, and an immense body of rebel troops were recalled from the front, and reaching Williamsburg, were quartered in the houses and located about the streets and squares. Raymond then describes the subsequent route, which was complete. He says in the space of five miles he found over fifty wagons abandoned. Be sides this were left blankets, knapsacks thrown away, muskets flung aside, camps abandoned, with all their equipage, artillery broken up and left in the road, wagon after wagon stuck in the mud or buried by the side of the highway—horses dead, or dying half buried before life had left them in the deep thick mnd in which their dying bodies were imbeddeid—all of these things bore emphatic testimony to fhe haste and hopeless recklessness of the rebel flight. Late from Port Eoyal New York, May 17. —The steamship Atlantic has arrived, with dates to the 14th instant.— Among her passengers is General Gilmore, who commanded at the reduction of Fort Pulaski. The steamer Planter had arrived from Charles ton haring been run away with by a contraband pilot and crew. She brought papers of the 12th, and had on bpard seven heavy guns and one eight inch rifled gun, intended for Fort Ripley, being constructed on the middle ground. Charleston harbor. The steamer Planter, which was run away from the rebels by jher pilot, Robert Small, isa new tug boat employed about Charleston harbor, which was seized by the Confederate Government, and convened into a gunboat, mounting a rifled gun aft. She has been in the habit of running out to sea to reconnoitre, and was, therefore, no unusual appearance near the forts guarding the entrance. Small, who was the helmsman and pilot, conceiv ed tbe idea of running away, and plotted with several friends, slaves like him, to take them off. On the evening of May 11 her officers left the ship, then at the wharf iti Charleston, and went to their homes. Small then took the fireman and assistant engineers, all whom were slaves, in his confidence, had the fires banked up, and every thing made ready to start by daylight. At quarter to four on Saturday morning the lines which fastened the vessel to 'the dock were cast oft', and the ship quietly glided into the stream. Here the harbor guard hailed the vessel, but Small promptly gave the countersign, and was allowed to pass. . The vessel nnw called at a dock a distance be- where the families of the crew came on board. When oft port Sumter the sentry on the ram parts hailed the boat, and Small sounded the coun tersign wi h the wliisde. three shrill sounds and one hissing sound. The vessel being known to the officers of the day, no objection was raised, the sentry only singing out, “Blow the d—d Yankees to h—II, or bring one of them in.” “Avc, aye!" was the answer; and every possible effort was made to get below. Hardly was the vessel out of range when Small ran up the white flag, and went to the United States fleet, where he surrendered the vessel. She had on board seven heavy guns for Fort Riplev. a fort now building in Charleston harbor, which were to be taken thither the next morning. Small, with the crew and their families, sixteen persons, were sent to the flag-ship at Port Roval, and an officer placed on board the Planter, who .took her also to Commodore Dupont’s vessel. Small is a middle-aged negro, and his features be tray nothing of the firmness of character he dis played. He is said to be one of the most skillful pilots of Charleston, and to have a thorough knowledge of all the ports and inlets on the coast of South Carolina. An Important Proclamation of Gov. Johnson of Tennessee. On Friday last Gov. Johnson, of Tennessee is sued the following proclamation : ’ Executive Office, 1 Nashville, Tenn., Mav 9,1862. j Whereas, Certain persons unfriendly and hos tile to the Government of the United States, have handed themselves together, and are now going at large through many of the counties in this State arresting, maltreating, and plundering Union citi zens wherever found: ■Sow, therefore, I. Andrew Johnson, Governor of the State ot Tennessee, bv the virture of-the power and authority in me vested, do herebv pro claim, that in every instance in which a Union man is arrested and maltreated hy the marauding hands aforesaid, five or more rebels from the most prominent in the immediate neightiorhood shall lie arrested, imprisoned, and otherwise dealt with, as the nature of the case may require. And further, m all eases in which the property of citizens lovai to the Government of the United States is taken'or destroyed, lull and and amide remuneration shall be made to them out of the property of such rebels in the vicinity as liave sympathized with, and given aid, comfort, information, or encouragement to the parties committing snch depredations. This order will be executed in letter and spirit. All citizens are hereby warned, under heavy pen alty, from entertaining, receiving, or encouraging,' such persons so banded together, or in anv wise connected therewith. ’ By the Governor, r- ANDREW JOHNSON. Edward H. East, Secretary of State. From the Setcbm i Progress, M, n/ j () Glorious News Prom the Old N o m State. , ° nh The information which we give below is ing tothe lover of his country. North (' iruli. J at last begins to awake to the fact that ,). Davis', Co* have been making a cat’s jiaw of tl u . ** North State to poke their chestnuts out of amt refuses longer to submit to the disgrace i bnrdon which has been imposed «j>on her l, v scoundrels at Richmond. The old patriot!,• which burned so brightly at Alamance and Jlivt lenburg arc rapidly developing themselves, anj ’ trust will burn with an increasing brillinncv m', the altars of liberty. North Carolina is in „,£? way of being regenerated from the thraldom of Jl and rebekloiu. We trust Shat this may prove the harbinger of I tetter days, and that bright prospect are ahead for our beloved country. We obtain news by way of Washington, and direct from fo. leigh. The arrest of Mayor Respess, of Washington N G., who was seized in the night time in the nn*t summary manner and hurried off to Richmond in irons, is creating a most intense excitement m tf . Stale. The Governor of the State, (who is no . j prison, as reixirted.) backed, by the Convention sent a peremptory demand to the Richmond au thorities for the immediate delivery of the person of Mayor Respess, who was kept in close confine ment. His trial was in progress when thev re ceived the demand and the authorities at Rich mond informed the committee sent by Governor Clark that there were a few more witnesses to ap pear in the case, and they desired to complete the trial. The committee informed the authorities at Richmond that the person of the mayor must he delivered up forthwith, otherwise North Carolina would send a force to back up the demand of the Convention. Mr. lies]moss was delivered over to the committee, and went to Raleigh rejoicing,— He. was set at liberty and is now on his wav home to Washington where the Union citizens are pre paring to give him an ovation. This committee was also instructed to, and did, deliver an order to the Virginia chivalry that North Carolina was ca llable of managing her.own affairs, and that no more of the citizens must be taken out of the Stair, in connection with this matter we also leant that J. Davis, a few days since ordered Governor Clark, to furnish them a’ll the means of transporta tiori and defence possible to aid them in the pas sage to and through the cotton States, and also tor additional troop. Gov. Clark, hacked bv the Convention, informed him that he had received all the aid from North Carolina that he could expert, and that hereafter no more troops would be per mitted to leave the State, and has ordered all the North Carolina State troops home. Gov. Clark informed the rebels that thev could use the railroads in retreating homewards, and that they would run their own risk of being inter cepted by a Union force at any part of the State. The above information comes from a member of the Convention. From the Davenport ( Iowa ) Gazette, Mai/ 13. A Brave Woman Kills a Scoundrel Private letters received in this place give the particulars of an affair which recently happened at Cape Girardeau in which a lady of this city bore an active part. Mrs. Kendrick, wife of Captain Frank Kendrick; of the second lowa cavalry, had been staying at a hotel in that village for some time when she was aroused one night by a man at her room door, who desired admittance, which of course refused, and on his persisting, she called for help. He then fled, but came the second time when she again raised the alarm, and he ran off. The landlord of the hotel then gave Mrs. Ken drick a pistol, and advised her to use it in case the scoundrel came again. He did so, and she then threatened to shoot him if he disturbed her again, when he left. Two or three nights after she was again awakened by the rapping at her room dour, she opened it and asked him what he wanted, and if he remembered what she told him. He replied that lie wanted to come in and see her, and gness-i she wquld not hurt anybody with an empty pist.i and then he tried to push her back into her roos. so as to enter and close the door, liaising her tol; she fired, the ball entering the neck near tb jugular vein, and he fell dead on the spot, lit proved to be a prominent citizen of the town, a wealthy man and a leading secessionist. Whea the news became known about town, a crowd uf his fellow secessionists mobbed the house ami threatened to hang Mrs. Kendrick, and it is not improbable they would have tried to cany out their designs if a guard had not been placed around the house by the commander of the federal forces at the Cape. Mrs. Kendrick promptly made known what she had done, and went before a magistrate, who, alter an examination, gave her a certificate of honora ble discharge; it is also said that the wife of the deceased, who leaves a large family, expressed her approval, under the circumstances, of what Mrs. Kendrick had done. The citizens also presented her with a pair of elegant pistols, as a mark of favor. Mr. Kendrick shortly after joined her hus band in the army on the Upper Tennessee. In this net, melancholy as is the fact that an; man should thus bring down upon himself such punishment, Mrs. Kendrick exhibited a determined heroism, combined with true womanly dignity that docs her much honor. Her act will lie ap plauded wherever it is known • and were there a few more examples of this kind, there would be Su less libertines'in the world. . Affairs at Cumberland Gap. , A Correspondent of the Louisville Journal wim from Cumberland Ford, on the Bth, that Gen. Mor gan had sent out nine regiments on a reconnoh snnee to Cumberland Gap. The advance met the enemy’s pickets and had a sharp skirmish with them, in which two rebels were killed, three cap tured, and fonr of our men wounded. All neces saiy information was gained, and the expedition returned. Ever since there have been regular daily details of regiments for pioneer duty, and it is said that they are engaged in hauling up cannon to the summit of a mountain in reach of the rebel fortifications. Gen. Morgan is also awaiting the arrival of more guns before commencing an at tack. Captain Myers of the Ist Tennessee Union regi ment, who has long been a terror to the rebels and wi object of their peculiar hate, was recently cap ’Bred by them, and they resolved to hang him, in solently sending word' to Gen. Morgan, stating their, intention And offering their pledge of honor that if he wanted to. he might come alone and the pleasant exhibition undisturbed, and ho al lowed safe conduct- back to his quarters again.— This word was brought under a flag of truce to Morgan. The General replied that he believed their pledge of honor so far that he had no doutc lie eonld go there in safety to sec the execution, and conld come hack safely, and therefore they must also believe his pledge of honor, which U seiit them; “and," said he, “I give yon my won. of honor that, if Captain Myers is hung, I hang every officer ! capture from this out. and a dozen privates on the day, he is. if I am cashhm by return express from Washington." The nos took these words back; and, as Morgan is con ceded by the rebels to he a man of his word, on - by every one else, too, the hanging was indefinite!.' postponed. 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