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
<ff the fact that so -large a portion of the
Southern people sustained them in their
criminal folly- They will not probably
be htmg, but we hope they will be com
pelled to leave the country.
Proclamations of Gen. Hunter and
President Lincoln.
The daily papers of Saturday last con- •
tained the following proclamation, purport
ing to have emanated from General Hun
ter, now in command of the military di
vision : of South Carolina, Georgia, and
Florida. Some doubt the authenticity of
the document, and we have no positive in
formation as to its genuineness. The Presi
dent in Ins proclamation, issued on Mon
day last, in reference thereto,: evinces a
doubt as to whether such a proclamation
has really been issued, but, “ taking time
by the forelock,” he embraces the occasion,
to give his views in relation to the issuing
of such manifestoes by military officers,
showing them clearly that it does not be
long to their duties, and that he . reserves
to himself the authority and responsibility
of issuing such documents incase it should
become indispensibly necessary to the main
tepance of the government. The Presi
dent has envinced more nerve, since this
struggle commenced, than many gave him
the credit of possessing. He fears not to
speak his opinions and carry out his views,
no matter who stands in the way or who
may he effected thereby. The radicals of
both parties alike find him their opponent,
and one that cannot be moved by any
pressure. Knowing the right he main
tains it.
The following is the proclamation of
the President, embracing that'of General
Hunter;
By the President oj the United States of America:
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, there appears in the public prints
what purports to be a proclamation of Maj. Gen.
Hunter in the words and figures, to wit; :
Headquarters Department op Sotrrßfp
Hilton Head, S. Cl, Mav 9, 1862. j
General Orders, No. ll.—The three States
of Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, com
prising the military department of the South, hav
ing deliberately declared themselves no longer un
der the protection of the United States of America,
and having taken up aims aghinst the said United
States, it becomes a military necessity to declare
them under martial law. This was accordingly
done on the i’oth day of April, 1862. Slavery and
martial law in a free country are altogether in
compatible : the persons in these three States—
Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina—heretofore
held as .slaves, are therefore declared forever free.
(Official,) DAVJD HUNTER,
Major General Commanding, ‘
Ed. W. Smith, Acting Assistant General,
And whereas, The same is producing some ex- |
Citement and misunderstanding : therefore, I, Abra- j
ham Lincoln, President of the United States, pro- I
claim and declare that the Government of the i
United States had no knowledge, information or i
belief of an intention, on the part of General Hunr i
ter to issue such a proclamation, nor has it yet any
authentic information that the document is genu
ine, and further, that neither General Hunter or
any other commander or person has 'been author- j
ized by the government of the United States to make ;
a proclamation declaring the slaves of any State j
free, and that the supposed proclamation now in j
question, _ whether genuine or false, is altogether J
void so far as respects such declaration.
I further make known, that whether it bo com
petent for me, as Commander in chief of the Army
and Navy to declare the slaves of any State or
States free, and whether at any time, in any case, j
it shall have become a necessity indispensibie to i
the maintenance of the Government, the excuses j
of such supposed powers are questions which under |
my responsibility I reserve to myself and which I !
cannot feel justified in leaving to the dielsion of i
commands in the field. These are totally differ
ent questions from those of police relations in
' armies and camps.
On the 6th day of March last, by a special mes
sage, I recommended to Congress the adoption of
a joint resolution to be sub,,: anti ally as follows;
Resolved, That the United States ought to co
operate with any State which may adopt a gradual
' iholitionmem of slvaveiy. giving to such State pe
■itniary aid to be used by such S ate? in its diree
ion, to com|vnsare for the inconveniences of pah
rc and,private lasses prod need by such a chang; of
ystero.
'The resol'i i m in the language, above qno-c.l
as adopted by large m ijori ies in )>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 <mr side,
vet that it ended in a decided victory, and accom
plished important results. One thing seems to be
conceded Hooker was not properly supported,
though there were troops within easy reach that
- had mot been brought into action, and Raymond
fixes the blame on Gen. Summer. Gov. Sprague,
who was jiresent, seeing that our men was at a dis
advantage, and that they were likely to l>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.
Olt is reported from Fredericksburg, Virgin:-!-
that the merchants of that place, who are largcb
indebted to the Northern houses, are selling ■'
their real estate and personal property, with ■ '
avowed intention of defrauding their creditors-
$3“ The New York lawyers complain of ve ?
dull times at |he bar, and sav that not fitty or -■
three thousand there are making a living.
O” Col. Coffin says Opothleyoholo told him : ‘
hei-wos starting for Fort Leavenworth, "kou mn- 1
bring us down some wagons that shoot
19*1* is stated that Lewis Washington, of H- ir
per’s Ferry notoriety, died of fever in Bichmon- 1
last week.
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Di e streets, opposite Superintendent s Offl. o.
local items.
A Woman’s Tuocouts on Bonnets. —The
net is the frame to the picture. A pretty
wants the setting to odd lustre to its lorelhifc
A homely one hopes, by a happy combinatio
tints, to soften its ugliness, or to suggest a be
which it does not possess. The present hot
look Uke coal scuttles, and will hardly snecet
making any one look handsomer. I n their ant
to grow aU of a sudden, they have burst out
hind as before. They may be decidedly sty
but are not graceful. A high pointed shelf
trading over the forehead, and a bag of lace hi
ing out of the crown, large enough for a «
anything but artistic. Still, it is reft
ing to see heads crowned with flowers instea
feathers. To us there was always an incougt
in robbing poor ostriches and smaller birds of t
pretty tails, in order to trick out feminine ht
But flowers are a natural ornament. Donb
one of the first things Ere did was to knot flo
in her hair, and to this day flowers and rare in
tation of flowers make the most simple and b
tiful adorning of her multiplied daughters,
most graceful spring hat worn is the simple st
void of the silk or lace crown, trimmed with 1
ded green or violet tints.
Ocb Fix Always. —We have either a fca
a famine in the way of locals. One week wi
scarcely find time to write up all the items or
them a place in the local department, and
next week we may hunt the town over and
our brain to distraction and not got up cnou|
fill a column. We wish things in this line t
he systematized a little, it would be a great
to local reporters. If the dearth continues w
tend to vacate the tripod ere a week, take the
Mail down the valley of the Bine Juniata, pt
at the “scenes of our youth,” shouldera flshit
and tackle, seck some sequested nook in close ]
imity to the haunts of “ speckled beauties,”
them a fly and line, and if they are foolish en
to take a bite and hold on, wc shall take pic
in elevating them in the most approved nn
and according to the latest improvements o
Isaac Walton’s principal occupation.
DißTisomsHF.D Vis irons.—Within the
week we have been the recipients of visits frui
of the heroes of well fought battles, viz:—
Alex. F. M’-Kinney, of company A, Ist Jfcb
regiment, which participated in the battle c
DouelsOn, and C. D. Bowers, of Company
the “gallant three hundred” of the 84th 1
reg’t, which made the famous charge at Wit
ter. Capt. M’K. has been ill for some timi
from an attack of typl id fever, which set i
mediately after the battle of Fort Uonelson, ,
also suffering from the effects of army, or ct
diarrhoea, which he contracted. We are pi
to learn, however, that he is gradually retovt
Young Bowers was wounded in the knee, at
cheater, and taken to St. Joseph's Hospital, 1
delphia, where, under the care of the excellent |
clans and nurses of that institution, be soo
covered, and is now ready for sendee again.
Temperance Lectoui:,—The friends of
perance and the public generally are hereby
lied that an address on the subject of tempe
will be delivered in the Division room of Ai
Division* S. of T., second story of Masonic '
pie, on Saturday evening next, at 7J o’cloc
D J. Neff, Esq. Those who have heard Mr.
lectures heretofore will not require urging to 1
their attendance. To those who have not
him we would say, attend if you possibly ca
we assure you that you will not be disapp<
bat on the contrary receive a rich treat,
open to all and every comfort afforded tb
room will permit. Remember, Saturday e
next, at 7J o’clock.
Thebe abe no Trifles.—There are m
things as trifles in the biography of man.
make up the sea. Acorns cover the eart
oa ks, and the ocean with navies. Sands m
the bar in the harbor’s moutlt, on which
ere wrecked; and little tilings in youth accu
into character in age, and destiny ineternit;
the links in that glorious chain which is in
around all, we can see and admire, or at le
nut; but the staple to which all is fasten*
which is the conductor of all. is' the thi
Deity. .
Onward! Ever Onward! —See adverti
under the above caption in another column,
of our citizens are acquainted with the ad
uud remember when he opened a small s
the corner where Foust & Etnier how do b
% frugality, perseverance, and selling g
reasonable prices be has prospered. He
success qnd secured it. His stock n
races almost everything in the line of m
Give him a call friends, his goods
Important Battles Pending.—We aw
impatience the result of the approaching b
Richmond and Corinth, and scan the dail;
olosely to find out the movements of our ti
ou «“> get the principal daily papers and
form! weeklies, together with humorous
•rad monthlies, at Andy Clabaugh’s. A
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