he TW atchman,
C. T. ALEXANDER, :
Sok W FUREY." | Editors.
BELLEFONTE, FEB. 20th, 1862.
———
The People’s Union Party.
What party is that 2 We would like to
know ? We have heard the name of Know
Nothing party— Republican party —Ameri~
can Republican party—American Republi-
san People's party—People’s Republican
party, and People’s party, and the d-—1
knows what all ; but before this w2 have
never heard of a party organization in this
town called the People’s Union party.
We have to day seen hand bills posted
upon ever§ corner of the streets, calling a
meeting of the People’s Union party, to nom
inate a ticket to be voted for on to morrow.
The paternity of this new party seems to be
the Central Press, that a year ago claimed
to be the organ of the Republican party.—
Is it possible that the old loved one is dead,
or has the editor of that organ became fickl®
to his loved one, that he now courts a new
mistress ? We very much suspect that it is
only the same old gal- -Know Nothing Re-
publican Wide Awake—with her name
changed, and in a new dress fitted up ex-
pressly to deceive the people. The oid gal
got to be considerable of a prostitute, (her
* Jove for the negro being very strong) and
her beauty has departed, and, therefore, a
new name—the People’s Union party—
{what a nice name !) must be given the old
harlot, to steal away the affections and sup-~
port of the people.
She has deceived them twice or thrice al-
ready. and we have misplaced our confi.
dence if they are taken in again. Fix her
ap— paint and p,wder her old wrinkled face
as you will—call her a saint if you please—
yet she is the same old gal-—the same old
prostitute that has already so often deceived
the people.
‘The sons of the Emerald Isle will recog-
nize in her countenance the features of that
same old Nnow Nothing wench, who sought
to curtail their freedom in 1854, while all
classes will easily discover that she is the
same old wench who, to manifest her love
for the negro, would destroy the Union.
Lilly the hypocrite in Milton, she secks
only to steal the livery of heaven {o serve the
devil in. Beware !
eros Ott
The Spring Elcction.
To morrow is the day for holding" the vas
rious township elections. Alhtough the of
ficea to be filied at this election, are not lus
crative ones, yet some of them are of great
importance to the people. and it behooves
them to look well to the character of the
men whom th y will to-morrow select to fill
the offices for the coming year. The office
of School Director, for instance, is one of re.
ally the most importance of any the people
have to give, and the friends of education
should know, before casting their votes for
any man to fill this important post, the sen-
timents of the candidate as to the length of
time that he will be willing to keep open
the public schools. The Act of Assembly
directs School Directors to keep open their
schools at least four months in the year.—
This time has been found by experience to
be entirely too shcrt, and therefore the
fends of education in most of the town:
ships, have, by electing the right kind of
men for Directors, succeeded in keeping open
their schools from six to ten months in the
year. :
We have been led into these remarks by
the fact that our friends of .the Republican
party in Spring township, have put out their
ticket, and on it we find the names of at
least two men who are known to be in favor
of cutting down the time that schools have
usually been kept open in that township,
notwithstanding their school tax has only,
been three mills on the dollar. Our Repub
lican friends will do well to look into this
matter, aud institute a little inquiry before
casting their votes to-morrow.
‘Green Backs.”
This is the name pretty generally given
‘on change" to the recent issue of Govern-
men? Treasury notes. Hitherto they have
met with a very shy reception from the
Banks. A sensible change, however, has
taken place, and disposition to conciliate is
manifested by the city banks; the ower
denominations are now taken on deposit and
in payment of liabilities, from regular cus-
tomers. This may be an indication that
the war between the Banks and the Govern-
ment is drawing to a close. The banks
have stood out manfully in self-defense a
gainst the proposed further issue of govern.
ment paper, and give way, evidently, at the
clear indication from Washington that the
entire influence of the President and his
Cabinet will be exerted to put the currency
bill, legal tender and all, through the Sen
ate, just ag it passed the House, without
the special clause for the payment of ine
terest. Ifthé time is passed for the further
discussion of these two features of the bill,
and Congress in its wisdom shall declare
such a curreney the wisest and best thing
in the present emergency, it will become
good citizens to give the measure welcome
and as far as possible aid the Government,
the banks, and the public, in giving the mo-
ney authorized as free circulation as’ possi |
ble. ~ Ez.
Oe
_ IZ" The moon, when it is fullest of light
is farthest from the sun; and men when
Qen. McQlelian and His Enemies.
A host of brilliant victories have been her-
alded to us across the electric wires and
through the daily press during the last
week. The Union forces who are fighting
for the preservation of the Union under the
old Constitution, just as our fathers made it,
and for the enforcement of the laws and the
decisions of the Supreme Court, wade in
pursuance and in explanation of that sacred
instrument, have triumphed glariously upon
more than one hard fought and bloody bat~
tle field.
Our successes in Tennessee. have enabled
us to almost reach the heart of the enemy's
country, while our victories a:ound the sea
board have given us a foothold upon South-
ern soil that enables to almost surround the
rebel States with a barricade of glittering
bayonets, which, ere long, when our suc-
cesses are followed up, will enable us to
penetrate the heart of rebeldom, and entire
ly annihilate this monster rebellion:
The plans of Gen. McClellan are being
worked out grandly, and if the Abolitiomst
and demented Republicans in Congress will
only let bim alone, it will not be long ere
the rebellion will be settled, and the Union
re-established vpon the old Constitution,
and peace—that ever blessed Goddess—
reign supreme o'er all this land. But this
they seem determined not do to do, and,
consequently we find the Wades, the Sum-
ners, the Garrisons, &c., backed by the
New York Tribune, and the Republican
press generally, constantly arraigning Gen.
McClellan before the tribunal of public opin.
ion, for his, to them, seeming incapacity and
consequent inactivity in the movements of
our grand army.
A number of these political dyspepéics are
not even satisfied with President Lincoln—
the President of their own choosing—be
cause he does not displace Gen. McClellan,
and put in his pace that political abolition
demagogue Gen. Fremont. The whole pro-
gramme of the war, in their estimation, is
wrong, because it is not intended by it to
effect the abolition of slavery, and they have
become arrogant in their demand thas free-
dom must be declared throughout the land,
and to all the inhabitants thereof—and be-
cause this demand of theirs is not complied
with, they are striving to undermine the
confidence of people in our noble young
Democratic General. As in years not long
gone by—and true to their ancient instincts,
they are willing now as ever to tear the Un
ion asunder, unless their peculiar notions
respecting the black man are carried out, —
They say the Union is not worth saving
with slavery init, and they, under the pres-
ent programme of the war, as Wendell Phil-
lips not long since said, ‘deplore a victory
by Gen. McClellan, because the sore would
be but salved over and it would only be a
victory of a slave Union; and that he
thanked Beauregard for marshalling his ar-
my before Washington, because it conferred
upon Congress the power to abolish sla-
very.”
This is the secret of .their opposition to
Gen. McClellan. He wilt not adopt their
suicidal poliny. which would, if attempted
to be carried out destroy evevy vestige of
Republican liberty upon American soil. He
is not willing to gratify their very singular
love for the negro at the risk of the priceless
boon of white men’s liberty—in short, he is
not willing to destroy the government our
fathers made for us—trample under foot our
sacred Constitution, and issue a proclama-
tion degrading the noble white caucasian to
the level of the serfs of Europe. by bringing
him to a level and into the same i.npartial
freedom that they seek to give the negro. —
This is the sum of his offending, and the se-
cret of fheir fanlt-finding.
Abolition fanaticism, which was first
planted upon American soil by British Em-
issaries, and which has been proclaimed from
the sacred desk by those pretending to be
oracles of God, and the follow:rs of the
meek and lowly Nazarene, was the first
cause that moved secession into life, is still
the same enemy to our country and its in
stitutions that it has ever been. It was the
first to teach secession and advocated at one
time the secession of the North from the
South ; but its croaking for a while was
lulled into repose, in the vain hope that by
abandoning its old idea of going out of the
Union to get rid of slavery and getting its
advocates into places of power, it could
drive the government into its extreme meas.
ures, and thus secure the object nearest
their hearts—-‘impartial freedom with ne-
groes’’—I ut finding itself disappointed in
this, it now seeks to undermine the conti
dence that the people have reposed in Gen.
McClelian—sow dissatisfaction among the
people, and thus diminish the power of the
Government to subdue rebellion— doubtless
preferring the rebels to triumph and estab-
lish an independent Government, to relieve
their consciences from participation in the
“sum of all human villainies.””
Such croaking and fault finding on the
part of any Democrat, would have secared,
castle; where law and juries would never
reach him. But their day is coming—the
indignation of a free white people, and the
scorn and contempt which they so justly de-
serve will soon be theirs. The Union will
be restored —Constitution, slavery and all—
despite their efforts to undermine both, and
an innocent people who have been imposed
upon by the holy garbassumad by these worse
than traitors, will have learnzd to esumate
them according their deserts.
rere Gr eee
I= A wag says ho knows only one thing
better than love, and that it, to be thrown
most abounding in wealth’ are generally far-
thest from heaven
into a pond of mush and milk, with the priv-
ilege of eating your way ashore.
ere this for him, a cell in some sea bound
| 07 Judge Hale has our thanks for a copy
{of the report of the Van Wyck Investigating
| Committee. Of all the Committee Reports
we ever 8aw, this one is the most volumi-
nous--it filling nearly twelve hundred pages
of printed matter—and containing the testi-
mony of over one hundred witnesses, all of
which testify to some magnificent fraud per-
petrated by some of the altachees and ap-
pointees of the party in power. To give
anything like a detailed idea of" the tremen-
dous frauds that have been committed upon
the tax paying peoole by this ‘very virtu-
oug and all honest Republican party” thro
its representatives, would take too much
space, and to boil it down into a decent size,
would make such a strong decoction that
everybody would stand amazed. and feel
like taking summary vengeance upon & host
of Republican political theives.
We would, therefore, advise everybody
who can, to obtain the whole unabridged
Report, 1t will be more interesting to read
these long winter nights, than even Shak-
speare’s plays. The most prominent char-
acter who figures largely upon the stage, is
Simon Lochiel —probably the same that the
Wizard addresses thus in Shakspeare :
Lochicl, Lochiel, beware of the day,
When the Lowlands shall meet thee in battle ar-
Fora field of the dead rushes red on my sight,
And the clans of Culloden are scattered in flight.
This version of the ancient bard (slightly
changed) is appropriate to the ‘‘Lochiel” of
to-day :
Simon Lochiel, beware of the day,
When the people shall meet thee in battle array,
For a mountain of fraud looms up grim in our
When Eons of rebellion shall be scattered
in flight.
Old **honest Johnny Covode,”” with his
report, is nowhere now —the feather has been
knocked out of his hat, and the poor old fel
low will soon be forgotten.
These magnificent swindles have capped
the climax. and Mr. Van Wyck carries off
the palm. What a howling the mongrel or
gans of Republicanism would have set up,
had these been Democratic swindles. “Ten
cent Jimmy," as they used to call him, is
not responsible this time—but the Republix
can Simon Lochiel Cameron.
nemo
Facts for Sober Minded people to
Think Abour.
Specie—gold—already brings a premium
of four per cent in New York!
U. 8. Treasury notes bearing seven and
three;tenths per cent. interest per annum,
are offered by Philadelphia brokers, at‘a
liberal discount !’’
Over four millions of specie have been ex-
ported from the port of New York, since the
1st of January, while, during the same time
in’ 61, the export was only one hundred and
seventy thousand dollars !
The Banks are asking for legislative auth-
ority t3 increase the amount of their issues
of small notes, and, in some places, private
establishments are making arrangements to
issue 50 cent, 25 cent, and 10 cent notes !
Such are already some of the effects of the
financial policy of a Black Republican Con
gress ; and there is great reason to fear that
the worst and most ruinons are yel to be
experienced,
vee
A Rebel Camp Broken Up.
_CuMBerLAND. Md , Feb. 14.
Gen. Lander made a forced march on
Thursday night, surprising and breaking up
a rebel camp at Bloomery Gap. killing thir-
teen 1ebels and capturing seventeen commis -
sioned officers and forty five privates and
losing but two men and six horses. He Jed
the attack in person. at the head of the First
Virginia regiment of cavalry. This opens
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to Hancock
again.
[OFFICIAL FROM GEN. LANDER. |
WasniNgToN, Feb. 15. —The following
official dispatch from Gen. Lunder, has been
received at Head Quarters ;
Paw Paw, Feb. 14 8 o'clock, P.M. 70
Maj. Gen, G. B. McClellan.—The railroad
was opened to Hancock this morning and
also the telegraph. We had an important
forced reconnoissance last night, which was
completed to day. We broke up the rebel
nest at Bloomery Gap; we run down and
captured seventeen commissionod officers,
among them colonels, lieutenant colonels,
captains, &, We engaged them with four
hundred cavalry —our infantry were uot
near enough to support the cavalry, aud the
enemy were retiring. We have in all
seventy five prisoners, and killed thirteen of
the ecnemy. We lost two men and six
horses at their first fire. I led the charge in
person. It was a complete surprise. Col.
Carroll commanding the Fifth or Eigth Ohio
regiment made a very daring and successful
reconnoissance immediately afterwards, to
Umger's Store. Major Frothingham is enti
tled to great credit for building under my
direction in four hours in the dead of night,
a complete bridge across the Great Cacassion
at an ‘mfrequented mountain road. Two
columns, two thousand men each, have
marched thirty-two miles, aud one column
forty-two miles, since 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, besides bridging a river. Papers
that were taken from our prisoners, and my
own reconnoissance to the south, prove that
the count y is clear, and that Jackson and
Loring are in Winchester. We occupied
the Bloomery Gap and Point Mills on the
belicf. by information from deserters, thas
Gen. Casson’s Brig:de was there.
Gen. Dunning has just arrived at New
Creek from Moorfield, thirty miles sonth of
Romney. He has captured 225 beef cattle
‘and broken up the guerilla haunt there.—
Two of his men were badly wounded, and
we killed several of the rebels. The enemy
has thus been drivin of this department
(Signed) F. W. LANDER,
Brig. Gen. Commanding.
A Voice From “ 0ld Hickory.”
“The Constitution of the United States
unquestionably intended to secure to the
people a circulating medium of gold and sil.
ver,
*¢T am and ever have been opposed to all
kinds of Government paper currency’ let it
be derived from exchequer or otherwise.
¢ A national paper currency 1s a great
curse to the laborer of the country. for its
depreciation always falls upon the laborer.”
ANDREW JACKSON.
GREAT VICTORY!
Surrender of Fort Donelson!
Capture of Gens. Sidney John-
ston, Buckner and Pillow.
FIFTEEN THOUSAND MEN TAKEN
PRISONERS.
Flight of Gen, Floyd.
The Rebels Accuse Him of Treachery and Gow-
ardice.
Terrible Slaughter in the
Battle.
REJOICINGS IN CONGRESS.
REBEL ACCOUNT OF THE SURREN-
DER.
Fortress MoNroE, Feb. 16th, via Balti-
more, Feb. I7.—By a flag of truce, to-day,
we hear that Fort Donelson surrendered to
General Grant yesterday (Saturday).
Gens. Pillow, Floyd, Buckner and John-
ston were taken, together with 15,000 other
prisoners.
We are also informed that fighting has
been going on near Savannah and that that
city has probably been captured.
FEDERAL ACCOUNTS.
Cincinnati, Feb. 17. —Fort Donelson was
captured yesterday, Generals Buckner and
Johnston, with 15 000 rebels. are prisoners.
THE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
Sr. Louis, Feb. 17.-— Dispatches received
from General Grant to General Halleck an
nounce the surrender of Fort Donelson with
fifteen thousand grisoners, including Gens.
Johnston. Bucknel and Piilow.
WasaiNngroN Feb. 17.—Gen. McClellan
has received a dispatch fully confirming the
news of the capture of Fort Donelson.
LATER OFFIC1AL ADVICES.
Sr. Louts, Feb. 17 —Further official advi
cos from Fort Donelson say that General
Floyd msde his escape during the night, and
tue rebels in the fort denounce him as a
black-hearted traitor and coward.
The enemy were known to have had 30,-
000 troops, 15 000 of whom are our prison-
ers, 5.000 escaped, and the rest are report-
ed to be killed or otherwise disabled.
Our loss 1s not stated, but the slaughter
in our ranks is mentioned as being terribly
severe.
Scene in the House of Represent-
atives.
WasniNGToN, Feb, 17.—On the opéning
of the Hall, Mr. Colfax, of Indiana. asked
and readily obtained permission to make a
statement relative to the capture of Fort
Donelson. :
Ile stated that a dispatch had arnved at
that place this morning bringing the news
of the capture of Fort Donelson yesterday
by the land forces of the United States ar-
my. with 15,000 prisoners, including Gens,
A. Sidney Johnston and Buckner.
Floyd ran away and succeeded in making
his escape.
The loss en both sides is very heavy.
The news was received with great ap
p'ause, and langhter at the announcement
of Floyd's eowardice.
Amid a profound silence he then announce
that Gen. McQlellan had authorized him to
inform the Housc that he had just received
a dispatch from Cairo informing him of the
arrival of the gun boat Carondelet.
Mr, Colfax was surrounded by members
to hear farther news.
Mr. Washburn (TIL) —T want the gentle.
man from Indiana to know that Gen. Ulys~
ses S. Grant. who commanded the land for
ces that captured the Fort. is from [llinois,
and trom Galena, in my district.
Mr. Mallory. (Ky.). in view of this grati-
fying fact, moved, but the House refused, to
agjourn.
Mr. Colfax said that he had further news
from Donelson, from Rebel sources. [Cries,
lets hear it.* Go to the desk and read it.—
Read it loud]. Intense excitement prevail
ed
The Speaker called the House to order,
and deep silence prevailed.
Mr. Colfax then read the dispatch as bro’t
from Norforlk by the flag of truce. [Ap-
plause on the floor and in the galleries. ]
Mr. Wright (Pa). moved an adjournment
which was disagreed to. .
Mr. Mallory moved to discharge the Com-
mittee on the Conduct of the War, as from
the good news of this morning, there seem
ed to be no further use for them. [Laugh-
ter and cries of agreed —good.]
FROM WASHINGTON.
WasHINGTON, Feb. IT lhe announces
ment of the great victory at Fort Donelson
the most intense excitement.
In the Senate the galleries were crowded,
and the mass of spectators rose and gave
one tremenduons cheer, which was followed
by other shouts of applause.
The Vice President said that such degnon
strations ought not to interfere with busi-
ness.
Great laughter wa~ caused by the fact
that the thief Floyd was statedto have stolen
a march on the oceasion of the battle, and
escaped from the Fort.
The news has reached the Departments
and has become known in the streets crea-
ting an unparallelled excitement and joy.
Bosron, Feb. 17.—The news of the cap-
ture of Fort Donelson creates an immense
patriotic and jubilative furore in this city.
There has not been so much joy manifested
iin Boston since the days of the old Revola~
tion.
New York. Feb. 17.--The city is jubi-
lant. Flags are everywhere displayed, and
there is every demonstration of joy.
Particulars of the Fight at Roanoke
Island.
Fortress Monroe, Feb. 13
The gunboat Stars and Stripes arrived at
noon from Burnsides with bearers of dis~
patches for the Government She reports
the rout of the rebels complete —three thou-
ling the encounter which ensued.
sand prisoners captured. all their gunboats
burnt or captured except two. which escap
ed in the canal. The Federal loss killed
was 42. and wounded about 140. The rebel
loss killed about 30, and their wounded less
than 100.
The advance from Hatteras took place on
Wednesday morning, the expedition con-
sisting of about sixty vessels. The fleet
anchored off Stumpy Point that night, and
next day proceeded to the entrance to Croa-
tan Sound. After a reconnoissance, the at-
tack wae commenced on Friday wcraing,
lal their troops for a discovery of stolen con-
| traband property and fugitive slaves.
|
|
| the Underwriter leading the column, the
rebel flect was attacked and dispersed in
half an hour by a portion of the navy, while
the remainder attacked the land batteries,—
The fight continued until dark. During the
night 10,000 men were landed, and on Sat-
urday morning 7,000 were advanced. A
masked battery of three guns was soon dis-
covered by the skirmishers, and was attack-
ed in front and on both Hanks. The 21st,
25th, and 27th Massachusetts, 9th, and 51st
New York, and 10th Connecticut were par
ticularly engaged. The 25th Massachusetts
and 10th Connecticut suffered the most se-
verely. The fight lasted only two or three
hours, when the battery was abandoned.—
Qur troops pursued, and surrounding the
rebel camps, took nearly the whole command
prisorers.
O. Jennings Wise was wounded, and was
shot twice while endeavoring to esi ape in a
boat. Col. Russell, of the 10th Connecticut,
was killed at the head of his regiment. Lt.
Colonel Vigier De Monteil, of the D’Epinuel
Zouaves, whose services were voluntary,
was also killed. No other officers were
killed above the rank of Lieutenant.
Qur total loss of killed and wounded is
less than 200, and the number of killed is
less than 50. We took between 2.000 and
1 8.000 prisoners. They were about being
sent to New York by the S. R. Spaulding
and other steamers. Among them are
about twelve or fifteen Colonels and Ma-
jors.
On Sunday afternoon a fleet of fifteen gun-
boats started for Elizabeth City ; the place
was shelled, and having been evacuated and
partially burned by the troops, was occu-
pied.
All the rebel fleet was sunk or burrt, ex-
cept two—the Roanoke and Beaufort, which
escaped up the canal The Sea Bird, which
was the flag ship of Commodore Lynch, was
i run down and boarded, and the Commodore
essaped by swimming to the shore.
The news from Elizabeth City arrived at
Roanoke Island on Monday evening, and the
Stars and Stripes lft on Tuesday morning.
She stuck on the bar at Hatteras on Tues-
day night, but started again in the morning
and arrived here at about noon to day.
The Stars and Stripes brings the bearer of
dispatches from General Burnside and Com
modore Goldshorough She will take a
cargo of ammunition and will return imme-
diately.
Gen. Wise was at Nagg’s Head, and suc-
ceeded in escaping to Norfolk.
The rebels made no fight after being driv-
en from their entrenchments, which was
done by Hawking’ Zouaves and the 2lst
Massachusetts. :
Young Wise resisted the storming parties
until he was wounded. wken he was carried
off and his command retreated with the oth-
ers to the upper end of the Island, where
they laid down their arms.
Elizabeth City was about half burnt by
the rebel soldiers. The people sent oft a
deputation to Com. Goldsborough, asking
nm to send a force to assist in extingnish-
ing the flames. .
{ Edenton was taken possession of on Wed-
{ nesday by Com. Goldsborough, no opposi
| tion baing offered.
| The Norfolk and Richinond papers attrib-
{ ute the loss of Roanoke to the blundering
inefliciency of the Navy. They persist in
asserting that nearly 1000 Federals were
killed. They charge some Roanoke Island
farmer with having deserted and piloted the
Yankees to the only point where they could
effect a landing, the Island being flanked on
all sides by an extensive marsh.
Dispatches from Memphis to Norfolk admit
that the Federal flag was cheered on the
Tennessee river bv the people. and assert
that the Federals neither seized or destroyed
| any private property—not even cotton.
I" Governor Letcher has issued an order for
| the formation of home - guards for Norfolk,
Petersburg and Richmond.
Messrs. Ames and Fish return to Balti
more, the rebels refusing to receive them,
Four hundced released Federal prison
ers will reach Old Pont on Friday or Satur
day,
Another account says .—The enemy were
pursued for several hours, and two complete
regiments on their way to reinforce the fort
were captured, not knowing of its surren
der. Every road was lined with guns,
knapsacks, clothing, and with the wounded,
dead and dying.
Ex-Governor Wise escaped from Nagg's
Head, but his son was shot throngh both
legs and lung. He died the following day.
Acting Brigadier General Hill, Colonels
Shaw, Jordan, and (ireen were captured,
with a large pumber of subordinate offi-
cers.
When the result of the ficld fight became
known, Forts Barton, Blanchard, Forrest,
were evacuated, and the floating battery on
the mainland blown up. The rabels block~
aded the channel around Croatan Sound by
driving piles and sinking vessels. The ene-
my fired the town on retreating.
The Federal gunboat Commodore Perry
ran down the revel flag ship Seca Bird, hav.
to Congress by Gen. McClellan, has caused { ing on board Commodore Lynch, cutting her
Our men boarded her pell-mell dur
A portion
of her officers and crew jumped overboard,
others had their brains knocked eut with
the handspikes which were freely used on
the occasion. .
Later rebel accounts state that Lynch has
not yet been heard from, bemg probably
drowned during the fight.
From Missouri.
St. Lous, Feb. 14.
[Special to Democrat.] —SPRINGFIELD,
Mo., Feb. 13, via Bear Creek. 14.—Our
troops took possession of Springfield to-day
without firing a gun. Price evacuated the
place yesterday afternoon, Jmarching out on
the Fayette road, *
[orFiCAL.]
Sr. Lous, Feb. 14. —The following dis-
patch was forwarded from lleadquarters
this morning to Gen. McClellan, at Washing-
ton: . ;
The flag of the Union floats over the Court
House in Springfield, Mo. The enemy rex
treated after a short engagement, leaving a
large amount of stores and equipage, which
was captured by Gen. Curtis. Our cavalry,
is in close pnrsuit.
(Signed) H. W. HALLECK.
[SECOND DISPATCH. |
St. Louis, Feb, 14.—Gen. Halleck has as
apart.
| signed Gen. Grant to the command of the
i district of West Tennessee, and Gen Sher.
| man to the district of Cairo. Commanders
| of districts. divisions, brigades and posts are
divected to have an immediate inspection of
General order No. 3. issuedin 1861, will
be stricty enforced, and any offizer who has
permitted it to be violated by his command,
will be arrested, tried for neglect of duty
{and disobeyancs of orders.
Stone and Patterson,
The old. fashioned “method of first estab-
lishing your theory and then trying to make
our facts agree with it, was _supposed to
ave been permanently overturned by the
Baconian method of first collecting * your
facts and then deducing your conclusions. —
It, is, however, frequently resorted. to at the
present day, when convenient to serve a
turn. Gen, Patterson's. accusers, in their
criticisms on his military operations. always
adduced his not having followed the advice
of Colonel Stone, that ‘‘gallant and loyal
son of Massachusetts,’ as the highest evi-
dence of his disloyalty. The Washington
correspondents, on the 25th of July, 1861,
telegraphed through the country—‘“Calonel
Stone, one of the most gallant and experi-
euced officers of the service, is open in his
expressions of sorrow at the course purswed
by Gen. Patterson.” When, therefore, Gen.
Stone was arrested as a traitor, we suppose
that the assertion that Gen. Patterson, had
not followed his advice would have induced
the reflection that he probably acted judi-
ciously in not doing so. Not so, however,
for the dispatches from Washington, of ves
tesday, tell as that “Gea. Stone was fore-
; most in leading Patterson into the retreat
from Charlestown.” So that while Stone
was an object of eulogy, Patterson was con-
demned for not being led by him ; now that
he is denounced, Patterson is condemned for
following his lead. What the facts in the
case may be— whether Stone’s advice was
asked, followed or refused—seems quite im-
material. The theory that General Patter-
son did wrong must be sustained, and the
agsamptions necessary to support it adopt-
The above exposure of the course pursued
by certain maligners of Gen. Patterson, we
take from the Philadelphia North American,
a paper which, unlike some other Pennsyl-
vania journals, has never joined in the hue
and cry against a Pennsylvania General. —
The assaults upon Gen. Patterson have pro-
ceeded from New York papers like tho 7T'r:-
bune and Evening Post, which habitually
look with an evil eye upon every prominent
General from this State, and are now engag-
ed in despicable business of impairing pub.
lic confidence in Gen, McOlellan by insinuat-
ing that he is no longer in fact Cewmander-
in Chief of the army.
Gen. Patterson some time since delivered
a short speech in Philadelpbia, in which he
took oczasion to disclose enough of the his-
tory of the three months’ campaign to satis.
{y most unprejudiced minds that his move-
ments were dictated from head quarters and
that he acted in strict conformity to orders.
Having bad an opportunity of examining
4hese orders, we know that Gen. Patterson,
from cousiderations highly honorable to him-
self, withheld much from the public tending
to his own defence. He has been blamed
for not advancing upon Winchester, and yet
he was the only man who, in the council of
war, convened for the purpose of determin-
ing upon the practicability of a forward
movement, voted in favor of an advance.—
The experienced officers in his division, in
whose judgment he placed great reliance,
protested against 2 movement upon Win-
chester as certain destruction to his army,
and he did not feel justiffed in acting against
the advice of men who had made military
science the study of their lives. John Sher
man, who was a member of Gen. Patterson's
staff, fully approved of all his movements,
and when on a recent occasion he called
upon the War Department, by a resolution
of the Senate, for the correspondence be-
tween Gen. Scott and Gen. Patterson for the
purpose of disclosing facts of which he was
fully cognizant, the Secretary of War re~
fused to comply with the request, on the
ground that ic was incompatible with the
public interest.
the public interest ? Not because it would
disclose matters prejudicial to the reputa-
tion of Gen. Patterson, but because it- would
show that accumulated years spent in the
service of his country had impaired the,
judgment of the Commander-inschief.—Pas.
triot and Union.
rr AA pent
From Tennessee.
; Bavtivorg, Feb. 14:
The Richmond Dispatch says that our.
Tennessee exchanges give us gloomy pros-
pects for the future in that part of the Con.
federacy. Several leading journals intimate
plainly that there is really a threatening
state of affairs in East Tennessee, growing
out of the idolatrous love of many of these
people for the old Union.
The Memphis Avalanche states that the
condition of the interior counties is not ime
proved by the lapse of time. The people
apprehend an immediate attack of the North,
men, and traitors to the Sonth manifest
their joy mn every village and neighborhood.
The Unionists are making demonstrations
in many of the northern counties, aud even
at Memphis there were exhibitions of joy on
the arrival of the news trom Beech Grove.
Armed bands of Johnson's and Maynard's
followers are prowling about in all directions,
through the mountains, and in remote coun
ties many persons have been shot at might
at their own homes, who adhere to the ~
tunes of the South.
Sgoessra Jokrs.—The New Orleans Delta
jokes pleasantly enough of the hard times,
and seems disposed to put the best face on
bad matters, In alate number it says :—
The old table of school days, ‘ ten mills
make one cent, ten cents one dime, ten
dimes one dollar” is played out, A dime or
a dollar in hard spelter, is a sight good for
diseased optics, and a five minutes survey
of ten dollars in specie would cure the most
peless case of Asiatic cholera. But we have
new table ot currency, and it is published
here free of charge, for the benefit of those
who choose to cut it out and paste it up for
reference. -
10 omnibue tickets make a half a dollar.
5 Schelk’s beer tickets make a drunk if
invested in lager
plaster. ;
1 handful of shinplasters (with the pic-
tures worn off) makes a man cuss.
10 half dollars make a fool of a poor man.
handful of shinplasters and nary half dollar,
we should like to know what ‘will.
Why incompatible with
10 Krost’s beer tickets make one city shin:
40 beer tickets, 10 omnibus tickets, 1
makes an honest man steal. If they don't, , . i