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Alexandria Co., Va. Dec. 16, 1861 §
Messrs Liditors :—Being a subscriber to
the Watchman and off to the wars, “Thinks
I tomyself’”” I'll write to you,that your
readers might hear occasionally from this
side of the Potomac. .Perhaps you don’t
It
don’t make any difference whether you do
or not this time, I shall bore you with a
reading of the correspondence, No. 1, and
ifit does not meet your approbation, just
let it out and we will hold our pens hereaf-
want an “Our own Corr dent.”
‘i
ter.
Here we are away down South among
“¢ Secessioners” and we have many a merry
The boys of the 53d, known as
the Young America Regiment. are all right
JY are
5 jing of
AY
wont” in the
Our encamp-~
ments located on the ground where Ells-
worth Fire Zouaves had the skirmish with |-
at Clouds Mills.
The fence rails were penetrated by hund-
reds of balls, and the old mill that shielded
the rebels bears cvidence of very rough
time of it.
and spoiling for a engageme
situated on the extreme s-
the army, the second post
great army of the Potogns.
the rebels last Spring,
work.
We have any amount of alarms by the
This day week we
were ordered to march with three days ra~
We laid on our
arms two nights, but the crder was counter.
Most of the men
were disappointed ; they were eager for the
Our Col. Juno. R. Brooke, it a young
pikets being driven in.
tions in our carpet racks.
manded on the third day.
fray.
wan, but full of energy. Alive to the in-
terests of his men, he leaves nothing un
done that can be done for their comfort:
can be said of all officials.
sanitary measures.
ciate his motives, and respect him accorad-
ingly Yea, they love him and where Col:
Brooke leads his men will follow, e'en to the
cannons mouth. Our Lieutenant, Col. Dick
McMichael, is termed by the boys, old War
Of our
Major, Thomas Yearger, we cant say so
Horse, and a good old fellow is he.
much. Hes aregular pealgarlia. Why,
sirs, the other day one of our number re-
‘ceived a telegraphic dispatch that his wife
was dead and that he should come home 1m
mediately to see his children. His Captain
went to the Major who was the only man
that had: any spare funds, to borrow ten
dollars for ten days, and he wanted to charge
3 dollars for the use of it. The boys
heard tell of it and went to work ainong
thewselves, and iA quarters and halves
raised the amount and returned the Majors
ten with their tender disgusts. Our Adju~
tant, Chas. P. Hatch is full of vim, but gen
ticmanly and courteous to the officers—oc-
casionally he iranscends his seniority and
gets into the highfalutings. But he is young
and wants a li'tle more experience, with all
this he is a good fellow. We now come
down to Quarter Master General Rice, better
than whom none liveth ; he feeds us well,
clothes us well, and treats us well. Through
the Col. and Q. M, Rice, we have received
our uniform coats and pants, which many
regiments that have been in the service since
last Spring have not received. Three cheers
for Rice.
I cannot take time to describe our Cap-
tains. ButT desire to notice the officers of
Company D, known at home as the McCann
Rifles, composed of the hearty sons of old
Centre and Clearfield counties. Capt. Jno
S. McKierman, 1st Lieutenant, Jas. S. Hall
and 2d Lieutenant, John Howe.
McKicrman is an old soldier and yet a
young man. Ile served in Mexico under
Scott, mn California during the Indian war
and through the three months service. His
experience as a soldier is of the best and
his ability is beyond doubt. [eis one of
the first in the regiment. Young, active en
ergetic and able he must make his mark if
opportunity offers. Lieut, Hall is known
by the peopie of Centre county ard it is un-
necessary to say anything in reference to
him. His future will be sufficiently seru-
tinized. Lieut. [lowe is also a resident of
Uentre county, and a worthy man, Ie pos-
sesses the good will of the men, and with
care will make a reliable officer.
In this regiment emancipation has but few
friends. The officers will resign if the war
is made a tirade against slavery, and I find
that three fourths of the men and officers
with whom I have conversed are opposed to
A general indignation is felt
by the army towards all such as Sumner,
Sumner’s bill.
Lovejoy and like creatures.
I visited the 1st Pennsylvania cavalry,
Company E, Capt. Lipton the other day and
found them allin pretty good health and in
excellent spirits. Also the 5th Pa. R. corps
company E Capt. Larimer. The Captain has
been very poorly for a considerable time
but is fast recovering and will soon be ready
The command now de-
to command again.
volves upon Lieut. Petriken. Also th
49th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company A
Capt. J: M. Green.
erally well.
More anon. A LaMopE.
S—————
(7 When you see a yong man not asham-
ed to carry a parcel along the streets. you
can make up your mind that, with a half
chance, he will come to something.
———
C7 John C. Fremont, in a speech mad
by him at St, Louis, on his arrival there
from Bpringficld, said that his confidence
already.
in our Kepublican Institutions was
wavering,”’ What a pity!
of
the sick, he is especially careful, more than
Of the cleanli-
ness of the camp he is ever watchful that
disease may not be engendered for want of
te is kind, almost to a
fault ; at least his seniorsin office think so,
but the men and officers under him appre-
The boys are having
exciting times on picket duty, and are gen-
Send a copy of the Watchman.
@he TWhatchman.
C. T. ALEXANDER,
JOE W. FUREY,
BELLEFONTE, DEC. 26th, 1861.
To Correspondents.
M. J. M.—Your poetry is received, but unless you
send us your real name, we cannot promise to
publish it. Ttisa rule with printers never to
publish anything without knowing the name of
the writer.
Editors.
J, P. M.—Your communication came too late for
this week’s paper, but we shall be happy to
publish it in our next issue. We are sorry it
did not arrive sooner.
N.—Your poetry is most respectfully declined.
Better try again and choose some other subject
The * American Eagle’ is about worn out.
Democratic State Fxecutive Com-
mittee,
A meeting of the Democratic State Exec-
tive Committee will be held at the Buehler
House, Harrisburg on Wednesday January,
15. 1862, at 3 o’clock, P, M.
Democratic papers in the State will please
copy. Wu. H. WeLsh, Chm’n.
Tre New York WeekLy Arcus.—We
have received from the publishers, a copy of
the above-named paper and from an exam-
ination of its contents, we think we may
pronounce ita very good journal. It is
Demcecratic in its politics, and, as such we
feel like recommending 1t to all those in want
of a good New York Weekly. We do not
recollect of ever seeing this paper before,
but from the tone of the issue before us, we
dub it worthy of patronage. Terms $2.00
per annum. Address Comstock & Cassiday,
Corner of Broadway & Park place, N. Y.
es Priore
Our READERS will find in another column,
a card from the Editors of the New York
Weekly Caucasian, in which they explain
to their subscribers the reason why that
paper has, of late, failed to reach them
torough the mails.
Office Department, has issued his imperial
decree that no more issues of the Weekly
Caucasion shall be circulated in the mails;
because, foorsooth, its editors have had the
manliness to oppose him and his abolition
crew, in their emancipation designs upon
the * peculiar,” but constitutional institu-
tion of the South. Really, things are coming
to a pretty pass, when the word of one fa-
natic in high station, is sufficient to inter-
rupt and destroy a man’s business. It is
full time such high handed outrages upon
the liberty of the Press should cease ; else.
some day, when this war shall be over, such
meddlesome anl tyranical officials as Mr.
Postmaster General Blair, may have an ac-
count to settle with the people, which will
be found harder to adjust than they may
possibly imagine now. in the day of
their prosperity and power, If we are not
mistaken, the Constitution of the United
Statcs, guarantees the liberty of tho Press,
and the right of free speech to every citizen;
but if this sacred provision of the great
charter of human rights, is to be thus tram-
pled and spit upon, with impunity, we may
as well say ‘“good-by”’ to the Republic, and
submit our necks to the yoke.
We are told that Mr. Lincoln is a con-
servative man. 1f so, we are glad of it.
But if such be the case, it is a wonder to us,
how he is able to preserve his conservatism
in the midst of the horde of fanatics who
surround him. Our best wish for him is
that he may be able to resist their evil in-
fluence, and stand firm iu defence of the
Constitution and the Union, in these
troublous times, when the nation has so
much need of patriotism and firmness in
its Chicf Executive Officer.
“Trg Ping AND THE PALM ”—We have
received from New York a copy of a paper
with the above title, published by an asso-
ciation of colored gentlemen, who, like Mark
Tapley, must be jolly fellows, because they
come out strong. A supplement accompa-
nies the issue which is filled by a lecture
delivered by Wendell Philips on Tuissaint
L’Ouverture, the St. Domingo colored Gene-
ral. A portrait is given of 'T'uissant, who
looks like an upper-crust well-fed individu:
al of the old school, with his cap filled with
a profusion of feathers. Ofcourse W endall
makes him a hero, and invests the terrible
massacre of St. Domingo with all the ro-
mance of real battle. His next lecture will
probably be on Faustian 1. and his court,
when the crooked-shined hero and his court
His Royal Highness the Duke of Marmalade
ferociously. Here is one of thew
which has very sombre appearance.
hope that when th: white vaceis swept off
the face of the earthin order to secure the
freedom of the slaves, some few of the white
race will be on hand to see how it is done.—
Read :
If freedom can only prevail through the
’ | agency of vengeance, so be it ; if the Tem-
ple of Liberty can only stand securely on
the corpses of slave holders—so beit ; rather
let the white race be swept from the face of
the earth, \han endure the perpetuity of
negro bondage. We would hesitate at no
conceivable attrocity : we would spare
neither parlor nor cradle, neither age nor
sex—did we believe that they must perish in
order that negro slavery might perish with
them.’
We should like to know if negro impu.
dence and assurance can go much farther
hero at the nerth without receiving a whole-
some check ? — Patriot and Union.
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It seems that the bigot
who presides over the destinies of the Post
and the count d’lhighcockalorum, will each
receive a niche in Wendell’s gallery of fame !
The dark-complected gentlemen who do
the editorials of the Pine and the Palm write
items
We
Not Abolitionists.
How persistently some men will deny the
truth and shock the understanding of all in
teligent people, by their repeated declara
tions that such and such of our members of
Congress are not Abolitionists, is fully shown
by the Central Press of this, place. Not.
with8tanding that many of the members of
Congress, whose love for the sable descen-
dants of Ham has grown so strong that even
they are compelled to admit that they are
Abolitionists, yet many of the little country
newspaper gentry still argue either that they
are not Abolitionists or else that they are
not Republicans. But while contending
that there is a wide differenze between the
two, they never attempt to enlighten the
public as to the extent of that difference.
Abolitionism is, we know, different from
Republicanisn, in this: that the one favors
the immediate and entire abolition of the in-
stitution of slavery ; while the other seeks
by confinement within its present bounds to
eventually crush it into non entity. The
first would play the bold and dauntless hang-
man, and in an instant would pull the fatal
cord and hurlit into perdition; while the
other, pretending to show a little more mer-
cy, would play the jailer and place it within
a prison’s walls, there to starve and eat it-
self to death. The end to be accomplished
by either method, isin the end, the same.
It is not strange, therefore, that the advo.
cates of these two theories have become so
confounded, one with another, that it is very
difficult to distinguish which is which. Es-
pecially 1s 1t rendered more difficult from
the fact that the party organization of these
two DISTINCT theories is one and the same
Up to 1856 cach of these theo:ies was rep-
resented by its own politica: organization,
but the leaders, in order to strengthen them-
selves for the contest against Democracy,
compromised upon (en. Fremont, the lead
er of the Abolition faction; and from that
day to this, the one political organization
known as the Republican party, has contain.
ed within itself, these hitherto distinct the:
ories and blended them into one beautiful
harmony, so that they are now ‘‘ one and
inseparable.”” Therefore, until there is a
public avowal of a dissolution of the co-
partnership between them the one as a party
must be held responsible for the misdeeds
of the other.
Owen Lovejoy, of Illinois, was elected io
his present position by this combination, and
of course we must call him a Republican
until his acts are disavowed by his constitu-
ents. Senator Wilson, who has taken ap
a great deal of the time of the present ses.
sion by the reading of his petitions and the
pre-cntment of bills for the emancipation of
the slaves, is another, elected by the same
political organiza ion. Lane, of, Kansas,
Wade, of Ohio, Fessenden, of Maine, and
Covode, Stephens, Wilmot, Cowan and
lickman, of Pennsylvania, all of Whom are
constantly doing all they can, whenever an
opportunity offers, to effect the emancipa-
tion of the slaves have been clected by the
same pohtical party. Are they Abolitionists,
or are they Republicans? We know that
there isa great many honest Republicans who
have never until the presentday, seen ‘heir
affinity to Abolitionism; that are unwilling to
acknowledge these men as Republicans. To
such then we would ask the question, where
and who are your Republican leaders?
Echo answer where ? Common sense an-
swers no where. The trath is that Aboli-
tionism has swallowed up the entire Repub-
lican party, and owns the whole concern.
We do not, however, wish “our readers to
infer that all Republicans must therefore be
necessarily Abolitionists, becaute we do
know a great many good and true men in
this county, men who love their country
better than the negro, who heartily detest
Abolitionism, and who hav: acted with the
Republican party heretofore because they
believed it the embodiment of the trae prin
ciples of Republican Government. But they
now sce the duplicity that has been practiced ©
upon them; that the principles for which
they contended and voted, have been laid
aside by the men they selected, in good faith
to represent them in the councils of the na-
tion ; and im their stead the detestable and
destructive theories of Abolitionism are ad-
vanced and advocated with a surprising zeal
To these, we would say, behold where you
have been carried by the Republican car-
rent. Deny your allegiance to it and assert
your independence ; Sever the ties of a party
that bind you to it; dissolve your co-part-
nership entered nto in 1856, and rush to the
rescue of your country, ere it is irrctrieva-
bly ruined.
The Mason and Slidell Affair.
an apology could be made without reflecting
any discredit upon the Government, were it
not that a majority of th Cabinet have not
only endorsed, but applauded the act of
Capt Wilkes. They have thus virtoally
made his act the act of ‘he Goverumeat, and
we can not now back down without dis-
honor to the nation. That the act was wrong
in the first place, is generally conceded, but
the American people do not feel very much
like cowering and retreating under the growl.
ing af the Bntish Lion. There is, therefore,
a first rate chance for a “muss” of no small
dimensions, with her petticoated Majesty.
A war with her is, at this time, especially
not desirable, and the matter should be com-
promised, if possible, without dishonor to the
nation. How it can be done, we must con-
fess we are unable to see; but we suppose
some of our violent Emancipation Congress-
men, who appear to be the soldiers of the
day, will manage to back out someway, ev-
en if it should not be quite as honorable as it
should. They are not very great sticklerg
for honor at best, and we will not be a bit
surprised to seea number of these great-
big-fighting-stay-at-homes advising the Gov-
ernment to get upon its knees and beg her
Majesty’s pardon, We shall see who will
be the first to cower.
The Black Republicanism Age.
This is undeniably the age of Abolitionized
Republicanism. When renegade reverends,
downright charlatans political monstrosi-
ties and stupendous quackery has the ascen-
dency. The real living statesman of the
age, like so many lost vpleiads have faded
from the political heavens, and tickering
will-o~the wisps dancing up from the rotting
fungus of a political quagmire, appear to be
leading the nation at a break-neck speed
among the bogs and fenlands of a fanatics!
morass, where, like the huge mastedon wi
life extinct, they would have its bones sti
to amaze the historic adventurer of a coping
age. First in the line came the Rev. Zienry
Ward Beecher, his satanic reverergy Mr.
Greely, the Rev, Mrs. Harriet BeecZer Stowe
with co-equals subs and imit>srs who
have preached negro equality, woman's
rights, free loveism and is to the Con.
stitution until the nation ha eemed to rel
ish the galvanized theolog tf Abolition ran-
ters and the general wre? and smash up
of everything sacred ang'dear to the to ling
millions of a free cofgftry, rather than a
continuance of peace, /prosperity and hap-
piness. Next among those who contribated
to draw the nation from its onward and up-
ward progressive path, came the slippery
political financiers, whose every idea of
statesmanship found rest in persinal pro
motion, fat contracts, and a full treasury. —
Having hung pretty generally to the trcasu-
ries of their respective States, motil nothing
of importance was left, they Scemed simul-
tantously to relax their hold and fasten up-
on the treasury of the general government
to which they will stick until shaken off by
the determination of an indignant people.—
Next come the political monstrosities, the
Hickmans, the Grows and the John Covodes
all to be followed by the resurrected quacks
of the Thadens Stephens and the David
Wilmot order. The former of which at one
time wished to ¢‘thréw conscience to the
devil,”’ and the latter of which was never
in possession of so ‘* troublesome a custom-
er’
Who can wonder when such men figure
in the counsels of our nation that we have
fallen upon evil times. It makes atonce a
factional and conflicting element which all
the firmness of the President and all the
true patriotism of the country, are called
upon to hold in check in order to maintain
and execute the provisioas of the Constitu-
tion. If the North were united in maintain-
ing the Consuitution, and 1n the policy of re~
storing the Union as it was, upon its origin
al basis of State equality, we should have
far less trouble in subduing the wicked re-
bellion of the South. The greatest national
want now, is good statesmen at Washing-
ton: Ignorance and fanaticism have been
at the bottom of all our troubles and disas-
ters, and we can never hope fora change un-
til the people send conservatives and g tates«
men back to the national capital. Let them
prepare for it, and push forward the good
work which has this fall been begun, until
the last ranting humbug that treads the
aisles of the national capitol shall be left in
infamy and seclusion among the inland ham-
lets of a country they have only lived to dis-
grace ard ruin.— North. Co. Dem.
eel A Ap.
Jessie AND MR. Bram, SeN.—The Cin»
cinnatti Press tells of the following good ’un
by Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, while on
‘ner recent visit to thc capital, to ferret out
Whatever may be the consequences that
will finally grow out the arest of Mason & Sli-
dell while under the protection of the British
flag, one thing is certain ; our Governmeng
will find itself placed in a very awkward
and contradictory position. Judgmg from
the tone of the Enghsh Press, her British
Majesty’s Government is highly offended at
what they deem an outrage upon their flag
and will demand that we make an apology
for the indigmty, and deliver up to her the
bodies of the two important personages ta-
ken by us from off her ship as contraband of
of war. Incas of a refusal on the part of
our government to comply with her terms of
pacification she will declare war against us
and pile in on the side of the * detested slave
owners,” to aid in the destruction of ous
overnment. The manner in ‘which these
arrests were made would, perhaps,
render an apology necesssry, provided
we wished to be governed strictly by inter.
national law. The arrest was made, it is
said, without orders ; which/ being the case
the origan of the hostility which has mani~
fested itself toward her husband. Atone of
| the interviews with the President, Mr. Blair,
| sen., fa her of the Postmaster-General and
| Frank P. Blair, was present. Mr. Blair
| turned to Mrs. Fremont and said:
«¢ Mrs. Fremont, allow me to say to you
that in my judgement, madam, your proper
place is at the head of your husband’s hous-
hold at St. Lous, ~nd this intermeddling with
the affairs of the State is, to say the loast of
| it, in every bad taste on your part. And in
| conculsion, I wish you to understand that
here is where we make men and unmake
th m.
To which Mrs. Fremont instantly re-
plied:
| © Mr. Blair, permit me to say to you that
I have seen some men of your making and if
they are the best you can do, I advise you
to quit the business.”
a
He who knows his ignorance, is the pos-
sessor of the rarest kind of valuable knowl
edge.
rae Pree nn m
* + Don’t you wean to marry, my dear sir
the rib’s I've got than to take another.”
«No, my dear widow, I'd rarher lose all|
To the Public.
“ When a man thinketh he standeth, let
him take heed lest he fall,”” is a sentiment
never more forcibly illustrated “than in oar
own case. Last week we explained to our
readers the grounds upon which THE Cavu-
CASIAN was admitied to the mails, and ex
pressed our confident belief that no further
trouble need be anticipated. This week,
however, our business has been again suds
order from the Post office Department pros
hibiting Tre CAUCASIAN frei circulating in
the mails. With our paper in type and the
press waiting, we determined rhis time to
proceed to Washington and gain by a per.
sonal investigation the reasons, if possible,
for so strange a proceeding, We have the
gratification to state that there is no charge
that we have violated the terms of our let.
ter to the Postmaster in New York, or that
we have not acted in entire good faith in
the matter. And more, there is no charge
that we have oppesed the war—that we have
advocated secession or laid ourselves liable
to any charge of disloyalty, unless it be dis
loyal to oppose negro freedom. . Our only,
our sole cause of offunding, so far as we can
learn is, that we have advocated the subors
dination of the negro to the white man as
the normai order of American socity and con-
tended that the relation of the races as it
has come down to us from the founders of
our government, is right. This being simp-
ly a questiou of political opinion, we had no
suspicion that it advocacy could fall under
the ban of the adminstration. It is simply
the idea or basis of the doctrine that this is
+¢ white man’s government,’’ as proclaimed
by SenatorfDouglas, Chief-Justice Taney and
many of the most eminent northern Demo~
crats the striking down Tar CAUCASIAN, the-
erefore, has a deeper significance than any
previous act of inteference wi h the press. —
It is simply a refusal to allow us to defend
the decisin of the Supreme Court of the land.
This, to after we have relied ubon the per.
mission of the department that Tur Cau-
CASIAN, should be sent through the mail, and
expended a large sum of money, which is
now all lost. in attempt to get it started.
Finally, rather p¢han have onr buisness
broken up, oures "lishment idle, ourhands
thrown out of em, ment just at the be-
ginning of winter, we proposed to publish a
paper containing merely the news of the day,
and extracts from other journals that were
allowed to circulate in the mails, and without
any opinins of our own in it. Our subcribers
we thought, might accept this as a temp.
even this was refused!
It would be useless for us to try to find
language to express to our readers, the bit-
ter, burning disappointment we fee! over this
last unparalelled act. The loss of money,
which we could ill afford, is bad enough, but
the sense injustice, of wrong, of cruelty,
wnich must be felt to be appreciated is all
most unendurable.
Our readers may inquire, however, “what
will you do now ? Do you intend to give
ap ? We answer, NO! The principle that
we are contending for it is the vital clement
of our very national existence. It is the
doctrine of multitudes of Democrats in the
North, and with abundant confidence in the
grand truth that this is « government of
whate men! and none others, we shall never
forsake it. as long as there are people enough
left who will support it. THE CAUCASIAN,
will be continued for the present at all events
and can be orderd through news agents.—
There is no objection to our continuance of
the paper, but only that our subscribers
shall not have th: privilege of receiving their
papers by mail.
We ieel sanguine that this subject will not
be allowed to rest here. The matter, we
have reason to believe, will soon be brought
before Congress, and we trust that the ex
clusion of the Caucasian from the mails will
be only temporary. At all events, we ask
our subscribers to have patience, and they
may rely that every effort we can use shall
be made to remove the difficulties that now
surround us,
Van Evrie, Horton & Co.,
Editors and Proprietors of Tue CAUCASIAN,
J. H. Van EvRig,
R. G. HormoN,
T. B. Case.
New York, Dec. 7th, 1861.
TO OUR EXCHANGES.
As we have no means of reaching our
readers to explain to them the causes of the
stoppage of The Caucasian, by mail, we
shall feel under renewed obligations to such
of our editorial brethern as will copy the
above in their columns. We shall also es-
teem it a great favor to receive exchanges
as usual, during the interdict upon us.
Eps. oF CAUCASIAN.
Mason and Slidell's Protest.
WasmnGToN, Dec. 9.
Among the important documents just
transmitted to Congress by the Sécretary of
the Navy, is the protest of Messrs. Mason
and Slidell against their arrest. It is quite
long, and narrates with great precisicn eve-
ry meident of the capture. It opens by
stating that they took passage on the Trent
at Havana, paying their passage money to
the British Consul ; that when arrested they
were under the protection of the British flag,
and were taken by an armed force which
they fecble resisted, commanded by a per-
son in the ‘naval uniform of the United
States.”
They state that the passengers, who were
indignant at their arrest, and who showed
some resistance, were kept back by a charge
of fixed bayonets, in the hands of a squad
| of marines. An officer of the Trent, named
| Williams, in the naval uniform of Great
| Britain, said, m the presence of Shdell and
Mason and the United States officer: * that
| as the only person present representing the
| Government of Great Britain, he felt called
upon in languge as strong and emphatic as
he could express, to denounce the whole
proceeding as a piratical act.”
They close their statement with a respect-
ful request that a copy of it may be sent to
the United States Government,.together with
Capt. Wilkes’s report.
They make no allusions to themselves as
being anything but simple passengers on a
British steamer going from Havana to Eng-
'land, during the passage of which, they
were taken from the steamer by a United
States vessel.
| The statement is signed by Slidell, Mason,
| Eustis and Macfarland-
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Pp ee ne
T's life’s contradictions are many. = Salt
water gives us fresh fish, and hot words
| produce coolness.
| ele Pl
Ir is easier for the generous to forgive
| than for the offender to ask it,
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denly and most unexpectedly arrested by an |
orary expeudient, but astounding to relate, |
THE VL.
six o’clock, a portion of Gen. alls Di
vision proceeded ia the directi rpg
ville on a foraging expeditic Jp oq or the
purpose of making a recor noe in" that’
locality. Drainsvilleis =.»
tween McCall's Head, ua
On arriving in that vicinil,
tered the enemy, who had foul,
Inianisg, composed of South,
Alabamians and Kentoglgos, i.
tery of six pieces and g A
under command of Gen. Stew 4 y.
Pen
giments of
rolinians,
The only troops on our
the affair at Drainsville, ,wer Gon. Ora’
Brigade, the First Regimen ] Bre os
Easton’s battery of four guns. ~~.
At four o’clock, after the uy
Call sent two officers to cou *?, > Me.
who were killed and wounded, the rebels
ascertained that they left on thy ».
seven killed and twenty -twi field fifty-
three of the latter died on i Wounded-
making their loss sixty killed removed —
gaged. in
wounded—and they no doub,’ killed and
many more. They also left; carried oft
killed or,disabled. [ine horses
The enemy were completel i
fled precipitately after a fight grouted, and
a half, leaving two cannon and *° hour and
small arms, blankets, great ot Quantity of
than our troops could bring gt etc: more
__Qnr.men also brought in {0°
besides the wounded, me Lhisoners
Oyg. loss is, as near as cal
at ‘present, abou ben kill
wounded. -
T'he expedition returned té .:
Langley’s at 9 o'clock to-ni ind Dp»
Gen. McCall, in a despal !
Headquarters to- night, says
cannot be given to Gen. Ord,
condast and skill throughoat {, g,
Easton's battery was ad i
and did good hy fesly_ served
The Rifles also behaved fin;
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. Further from Port ,
econnoisance t i
na Raion ateh ind Re
pression of the South— Gry, ‘Necro In-
surrection in Mississippi. ° 70, on
New York, Dec. 20. —Ag;
steamer Atlantic state that 4
on the I6th, crossed to the un inland toward
the Charleston and SavannaWig i104 and
encountered a rebel force of ggg yb 0
treated after firing a volley whos; effect.
The Fourth New Bo Regiment
had gone to Tybee Island. “he balance of
Gen. Wright's brigade would folio.
The special eorresponc + Bq New
York Tribune from Port Royal jeg a Ta~
mor of the defeat of the rebel i
ascertained
and fifteen
received at
much credit
r his gallant
ces per the
of our men,
Hollins, and the siking of his: §;° by the
Massachusetts. ]
Universal depression is rej ittough-
out the South. New Ocleansfi pasticalasly
depressed.
A great negro insur rectior Yis reported in
Mississippi, by which an gar amount.
of property vias destroyed, i cluding $150,
000 worth on the Quitwean eyq¢o alone.
cn
Settlement of the Mason dell Affair.
New York, Dec. 20.—A
cial despatch
from Washington to The W,n0 says the
Government despatches con; g ‘the Ma-
son and Shdell difficulty will yo of a digni-
fied but most conciliatory nf{yre. They
will satisfy the English Oabintfi that no in
sult was intended, and thely ig not the
slighest doubt but that the fair will be
speedily, honorably, and amet arranged.
Fort Pickens again Opes Fire.
Barummorg, Dec. 20.—A “%spatch to a
Richmond paper states that (Fort Pickens
had opened fire three times up; Fort McRae
since the 23d ult., but” with {hat effect is
not known. On the 30th ulti'an incessant
shower of shells was thrown its the fort by
Col. Brown. ! fer
Fightin
Sr, Louis, Dee. 20.—Infor
ed from the West, this morn
fect that in addition to
Gen, Pope against the enent:
Clinton, the county seat of {(enr “county
another part of his forces, uffer Qol. Davis
and Major Marshall, surpris another camp
of rebels, on the afiernoon of the 18th, near
Natford, a little North of Wiirensbure.
A brisk skirmish ensued, Fhen the rebels
finding themselves surroundfi surrendered.
Col. Davis took thirteen Wadred" prison-
ers, ineludmg three Colonels seventeen Cap-
tains, 1000 stand of arms, 6} wagons, 1000
horses, a large quantity of tants “baggage
and supplies. Our vas Ivo killed and:
eight wounded. The Rebel gq is not yet
known. i Jat
Information fro Glasgowtstates that our”
troops have captured abod! two tons of
powder, buried on Claib. Jadson’s farm.
Major Hibbard captured bixty Rebels a
day or two since, in Johnso? county.
Good news is expected {rol Kunsas, the
troops having been moving(briskly in the
last day or°two. Bae J
[7 New Year's dayis
mas now is past and gone.
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gy aol
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/ The A. of the
Successful agement wu
Fight at ~Drainsville —.
Os is Dension Engaged— .
- Ord— Enemy Complet
“wo Cannon Captured — 0 fa fe > 9
my Seventy-nine Killed aud 7-2.» ”
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. hi] ood at
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wounded ; a total of seventy-ni]d Micieen
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