A Visit to the Battle Field.
A correspondent of the Chicago 7'imes,
writing from Fort Donelson, Tenn., under
date of Feb. 17th, says:
1 wasinvited on Sunday mo ning, by Gen
McClernand, to tnke a ride over the battle
field. It would be difficult to describe, in a
few words, the scenes which have met my
view. The battle ground was chiefly con-
fined to the space outside the rebel fortifica-
tions, extending up the river bank a distance
of two miles, to the point where General Mec-
Clernand’s force rallied from the retirement
which they were at first forced into by the
impetuous charge of the enemy. It must
be remembered that it was here that the
grand sortie was made by the rebels up the
river bank, with the intention of turning our
right flank and cutting their way out. Some
ten or twelve thousand men composed the
force sent out for this purpose, They ads
vanced under cover of a deadly fire of artil
lery, and steadily drove Gen, McClernand’s
force before them a distance of fifty or sixty
rods, Our troops here made a stand, and,
being reinforced by one or two regiments,
began the assault before which the enemy
were forced to retreat. The ground was
contested with desperation, and the slaugh-
ter on both sides was immense. The whole
space of two miles was strewed with the
dead, who lay in every imaginable shape and
form.
Federals and rcbels wee promiscuously
mingled, sometimes grappled in the fierce
death throe, sometimes facing cach other as
they gave and received the fatal thrust,
sometimes ying across one another, and
again heaped in piles which lay six or seven
deep. Tcould imagine nothing more terri-
ble than the silent indications of agony that
marked the features of the pale corpses
which lay at every step. Though dead, and
rigid in every muscle, they still writhed and
seemed to turn®o catch the passing breeze
for a cooling breath. Staring eyes, gaping
mouths, clenched hands, and strangely con-
tracted limhg, secmingly drawn into the
smallest compass, as if by a mighty effort to
rend assunder some irresistible bond which
held them down to the torture of which they
died. One sat ageinst a tree, and, with
mouth and eye wide open, looked up into
the sky, as if to catch a glance at its fleeting
gpint. Another clutched the branch of an
overhanging tree, and hung himself suspend
ed from the ground. The other hand grasp-
cd his faithfal mustket, and the compression
of the mouth told of the determination which
would have been fatal to a ‘oe had life ebbed
a minute later. A third cling with both
hands to a bayonet which was buried in the
eround, in the act of striking for the heart
of a rebel foe. - Great numbers lay in heaps,
just as the fire of the artillery mowed them
down, mangling their forms into an almost
undistinguishable mass. Many of our men
had evidently fallen victuns to the rebel
sharpshooters, for they were pierced through
the head by the rifle bullets, some in the
forchead, some in the eves, others on the
bridge of the nose, in the checks, and in the
mouth. This cire. mstance verified a state-
ment made to me by a rebel officer among
the prisoners, that their men were trained
to shoot low and aim for the fuce, while ours
as g general thing, fired at random, and shot
over their hes le
The enemy. .n their retreat, carried off
their wounded, and a great many of their
dead, so that ours tar outnumbered them on
the field. The scene of action had been
mostly in the woods, though there were two
open places of an acre or two where the tight
had raged furiously, and the ground was
covered with dead. All the way up to their
entrenchments the same scene of death was
presented. There were two miles of dead
strewn thickly, mingled with firearms, ar
tillery, deaq horses, and the paraphernalia
of the battle field. It was a scene never to
be forgotten—never to be described.
—l ea
The Old Flag.
The Philadelphia Sunday Transcript, of
the 16th, says :
The air is filled with exultation, and every
heart thyobs with joy. The Old Flag—thrice
consecrated by the mariyrdom of freemen,
and hallowed by the blessings of the just
and good of every clime—waves defiantly
and trinmpbantly in the wind, over the trait-
or soil of Southern Kentucky, Tennessee,
and North Carolina. Burnside and Golds-
borough on the seaboard, and Grant and
Foote in the West, have inked their names
to immortality, and a nation’s gratitude will
descend, like a holy blessing, on their heads
forever,
Their trinmphs fill an ever glorious niche
in our country’s history—but the grandest
feature of them all was the heart warm
greetipg which the Old Flag met, as it float.
ed in the air far down the Tennessee to Tus-
cumbia. On that winter day, there were
old men tottering to the river’s bamk and
weeping their welcome with a grateful joy —
there were tender women and little children
to waft their blessings as it passed along —
and, on every side, *‘idolatrous love” for the
Old Union and the Old Flag leapt wadly
from myriads of hearts.
All of these people, too, were martyrs as
well as patriots. Their homes had been
given to the flame, and the oppressor's hand
had been firmly fixed upon their throats —
Driven forth from their homes. hunted like
wild beats, despoiled of their possessions,
but true to the faith of their fathers and the
country of their birth—the Old Flag came to
them like a fulfilled hope, and their hearts
grew strong once more, until the air and the
heavens vibrates with their shouts.
We can well picture the scene which the
Old Flag inspired, and we thank God with
earnest hearts that, after all that has been
written and said to toe contrary, there is
still a long. strong, warm and enthusiastic
devotion still existing in the far South for
the Union of these States. - Let us foster this
love with a tender care, and, when the Gree-
lys, the Sumners, the Cheevers, the Loves
joys, the Gurleys. and the rest of that like
preach to, and endeavor to pursuade us into
the commission of acts of injustice towards
these men—acts of violation and in abroga~
tion 0. the Old Constitution, let us all point
them with patriotic pride to the privations
and the wrongs, to the oppressions and bru
@he Td atchman,
C. T. ALEXANDER, :
Sok W. FUREY, | | Editors.
BELLEFONTE, March 6th, 1862.
Dears of (ieN. Lanper.—The country
will be pained to learn that Gen. Lander,
one of the most gallant and impetuous offi-
cers in the U. S. Army, died. on the 2d inst.,
at his camp, in Virginia, of congestion of
the bra. Ilisloss will be severely felt,
both by the country and in army circles.
Dea in tae Winte House. —President
Lincoln's son, WILLIE, aged 12 years, died
on Friday afternoon the 21st ult. His dis-
ease was an termittent fever, of a typhoid
character. The people of the country will
sympathize with Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln in
their great bereavement. The President's
third son, who has also been very ill is re-
.
covering.
i eevee
INAUGURATION OF JEFFERSON Davis.—
Jefferson Davis was inaugurated permanent
President of the Southern Confederacy, on
Saturday, the 22d ult., at Richmond. Itis
said that there was not the least enthusiasm;
in fact, that the affair was of rather a
gloomy nature. Mr. Davis, in his inaugural,
speaks cheerfully of the affairs of the Con-
federacy, and is firm in his belief that
Southern independence will be, eventually,
achieved. We shall endeavor to make room
for his inaugural in our next issue.
Mr. Davis has been sworn into office for
six years. Whether he will be allowed to
filll out his term, time alone will tell. From
present appearances, it is highly probable
that his presidency will not last six months.
esses
Tie News,—-There has been no news of
much importance since our last issue. The
Government bas assumed a military super-
vision of all the lines of telegraph in the
country and will allow no news of any an-
ticipated movements to be published.——
Nashville is in undisputed possession of our
troops, and the Confederates have evacuated
Columbus and Murfresboro..——Hon. An-
drew Johnson, of Tennessee, has been made
a Brigadier General, and will be made pro
visional military Governor of that State un-
til a new State Government can be organized
Gens, Buell and Grant have both been
made Major Generals. ——It is said that the
Union sentiment at the South is gaining
ground, and that wherever our troops pen-
etrate they are gladly welcomed. It 1s
said to be clearly understood between the
allied powers that a monarchy in Mexico
will result frow the invasion of that country
notwithstanding the assurances given to the
United States that they would not seck any
political object there. It is believed that
they nave disposed of these assurances by
saying that the monarchy will be established
by the free choice of the Mexican people,
just as the Empire was established in France
by the free choice of the French people.
A prem
A New Phase of Abolitionism.
Various as the ingenuity and the wiles
of Satan himself, are the schemes of the Abs
olitionists in Congress and out of it to effect
the abolition of slavery. When we look
back over the history of the last nine months,
and trace through memory the changes of
position upon the war of these enemies of
our country, we can scarcely credit what we
see and know to be true. .
When the war was first inaugurated on
the part of rebels and traitors in the South,
by their assault upon Fort Sumpter, the po
sition occupied by them was, that the war
power of the government was amply suffi
cient, and that 1t must be exercised to effect
the abolition of slavery—thus ignoring for
the time any power in the civil government
to effect this object, and trusting it wholly to
the military arm of the government. Bat.
unfortunately for them, the rising star of
General McClellan would not move at their
bidding—he was a Democrat—a Constitu
tional Union loving man—and conld be nei-
ther led nor driven from his purpose to put
down rebellion and still preserve the Union
with the rights of the several States in the
Union unimpaired.
They indulged the hope of driving him
into this extreme measure until a very late
period ; but finding at last that their efforts
were unavailing, they sought to sow dissat.
isfaction among the loyal people of the
North, by arraigning him before the tribunal
of public opinion for tardiness in his move
ments and incapacity to discharge the duties
of bis command. They do not even hesitate
to hurl their angry darts at President Lin
coln—the President of their own choosing—
because he defers to General McClellan, and
declares that the war should be conducted
for the purpose of preserving the Union and
the Constitution, and none other.
But the soldiery ani the mass of the peo-
ple having unlimited confidence now ir both |
the President and McClellan, their efforts in
sowing dissatisfaction have utterly failed, to
their great discomfiture. They at last have |
given up all hope of accomplishing their {
cherished perpose by either of these means, |
ceiving flags of truce, in exchanging prison-
ers, in protecting property, &c., have recog-
Army Correspondence. E
nized the Southern Confederacy as a bellig~
erent nation, und that thus having recog.
Roanoke IsLanD, Dep'r N, U.,
Feb. 15th, 1862.
nized them ag belligerents, by according to
them the rights of belligerents in war—
therefore the Union is broken. and that the
Southern States are therefore out of the Un-
ion, and nor entitled, after we shall have
conquered them, to any of the rights enjoy-
ed by them prior to the act of secession, but
that we must hold them as conquered prov-
inces or territories.
Then holding the same doctrine advocated
by them in the campaign of 1860 —that Con-
gress has the power, when a territory ap-
plies for admission into the Union asa State,
to decide whether it shall be admitted or not
as a slave State, they expect in course of
time, as the people of the vast. territory of
the South become tired and worried of terri-
torial life, to admit them back into the Un-
ion, with such Constitution as they, the rul-
ing power, shall *hink meet.
theory now adopted to get rid of the institu-
A little calm reflection will be sufficient
to convince any intelligent, unprejudiced
mind of the fallacy of their argument, and
the error of their position.
the principle be true upon which they base
their argument, then indeed is secession a
possible thing, for if it be in the power of
any portion of this people, by an act of their
own, to dissolve their connexion with the
rest of the people of this government, it
must have been so from the beginning. and,
therefore, sanctioned by the Constitution--
if it be sanctioned by the Constifution, then
we have no right to compel those by force of
arms to remain in the Union, who choose to
avail themselves of that constitutional right,
to leave the Union, and, therefore, the war
would be an unconstitutional act of oppres-
For instance, if
They do not carry their argument quite
this far ; hut it is the inevitable conclusion,
logically drawn from the premises they lay
down as the basis of their argument.
conclusion at which they arrive 1s, that all
the rebellious States, after the war shall be
over and peace again restored, will not occu-
py that position of equality as sister States
of the Union heretofore occupied by them ;
but that they have forfeited this right by
tneir own act, and are now nothing bat a
conquered province or territory, or anything
else we please to call them.
If this doctrine be true, what will have be-
come of the glorious old Union of thirty-
three sovereign States, which we shall have
expended so much blood and treasure to
two States, instead of thirty-three. One
Epirors or WATCHMAN :—The pleasant
privilege of writing you again has present-
ed itself. My last was penned on steamer
Cossack, on the waters of Pamlico Sound,
but a few hours previous to our sailing for
this point. What has transpired since then
is, no doubt, familiar to your readers, and a
repetition of the same would be uninterest-
ing; sol will not note affairs peculiar to our
glorious victory and our successful occupa
tion of this highly important point, but at
once proceed to other matters.
We were agreeably surprised this morning
on receiving orders to have prepared three
days’ cooked rations, and to be in readiness
tu again embark on board steamer Cossack,
preparatory to another forward movement.
The point to which our next operations are
to be directed, will be, in all probability,
within the Sound. The naval force, under
Commodore Goldsborough, have stormed
the batteries at Elizabeth city and Edenton.
The former battery had 12 guns and the lat-
ter four. Our suceess has been great, and
its effect in bringing the State of North Car-
olina back to her former allegiance to the
Union, will soon be apparent. General Burn-
side is pursuing the true course to bring
about the desired effect. He is affording ev-
ery protection to the inhabitants within hig
power, and has issued an order guaranteeing
to every loyal citizen due respect to his per-
son and property, and giving to those who
take the oath of allegiance, a safe-guard,
punishing with death every one who dares
to commit any depredation upon them what-
soever. The result of this course will ~oon
be apparent, for I assure yon many of the
North Carolinians are heartily sick of seces-
sion, and await, with throbbing hearts, the
hour when they will be free from the powers
that control the rebellion and desecrate their
soil by its contaminating and blighting curse.
If the old North State, with her fine har-
bors,.abundance of lumber, and her great
resources, was to hoist the Stars and Stripes
upon her goil, she, to-day. would have the
prospect of being the greatest commercial
State of any of the Southern Common-
wealths. Ier ports would be open to com
merce, her products yield a large and in-
creasing revenue, her mineral and agricul~
tural resources would be rapidly developed,
and her soil and citizens freed from the yoke
of tyranny. She has all the elewents ne:
cessary to make her one of the brightest
stars upon the proud escutcheon of our na-
tionality. On the other hand if she persists
in pursuing her present course, her ha bors
will be closed. her commerce destroyed, her
products yield nothing and her agriculrural
and mineral interests amount to nothing :
her citizens will be bound down by heavy
taxation, her fair soil laid a desolate waste;
her citizens will lose all protection for their
homes and property. and her nationality will
be forever destroyed. If her citizens are
not blinded by fanaticism, they will spurn
sceession and look to their interests, the
protection of their homes, their firesides,
their all—and come back ander the proces-
tion of that flag, of which it has been sung,
We will then have only twenty |‘ where breathes the foe but falls before it.”
I have been in conversation with many of
third of the States comprising nearly one the prisoners, and when away from their
half of all this beautiful land. will have
have accomplished a part of its purpose ag
1east, viz : the destruetion of the old Union. | X
and the doctrine that a State can dissolve
officers they say that they want to see the
y dl Union preserved. As an example of the
ceased to exist as such, and the rebellion will { \way the
re forced 1 will give you an in
\ rn News. The edi
is become very un-
oubl become more
tance
I 50, as the typoerapher has been drafted into
s : : I
the Union by self destruction, will be es. | the service. The foreman and hands all the
tablished as a precedent for future cases ; if | same. 1 am compelled to drill three hours
one State in this way can commit self mur- | ® day: and perform picket duty, and be edi-
der, so can another, and another, and so on
tor. foreman. compositor. mailer, and all the
duties in detail of the office,
The paper
until we will not have one State left to con | must suspend..” [If such be the way the
stitute a union with another.
press is to be treated, way the cause for |
But this doctrine is based.upon a delusion | Which they fight will soon fail to the ground.
and misconceives the very fundamental
The health of the Regiment is good. not~
a ; ; . | withstanding the changes which this climate
principles upon which this government is |g subject to.
Yesterday .oorning [ was
based The Union was originally formed by awakened from my slumbers by the singing
the will of the whole people, and nothing of the birds on the trees i~ the rear of our
but that will can destroy it. No act of se-
cession of any one State or any number of |
States can destroy this Union.
quarters. The air was pleasant and balmy
as in June. The Regiment took a march
down the road to the beach and returned at
No act of 4 P. M. At 4:30, a chill North Easter com
almost, already engaged, seemed unmindful
of danger.
General Burnside congratulates the troops
on their bravery, and says he accepts it as
an omen of future success and victory. All
the regiments on the Island are to have
+ Roanoke Island, Feb. 8th, 1862.” inscrib«
ed on their flags, Our flag gets it on.
Our valued friend, respected and discip-
lined officer, brave, true and tried soldier,
Capt, A. B. Snyder, has been obliged to ten-
der his resignation in consequence of ill
health. The Colonel said to me this even-
ing that ‘no one coald appreciate his servi~
ces and gallant conduct better than he
could ; that he feared he had continued too
long in the service consistent with the state
of his health.” When I spoke to one of his
men about the Captain having gone home,
the stalwart soldier, who had met the enemy
upon foreign soil, and was ready to brave
any danger, flushed in the face, and a tear
rolled down his chesk as he turned and
walked away, unable to restrain his feelings.
Though the Compan and Regiment have
found worthy representative in Lieut. Blair,
whose daring and courage are never doubt-
ed. still, the tear of sorrow fills the eyes of
many who knew Captain Snyder but to
honor and love him.
My letter has grown unusually long. [
close by returning to my couch at the still
hour of midnight. Yours,
‘ROANOKE.
A
The Lamentations of the Duped.
The Richmond Examiner, of a recent date
which has heen forwarded to us by our For-
tress Monroe correspondent, contains an
« editorial leader ”’ which commences with
the following words :
¢ From the valiant Senator down to the
timid seamstress, the question on every
tougue in ichmond is, whether the enemy
are likely to penetrate with their gunboats
to this quarter ?”’
It is very obvious that the very vigor of
the recent military and naval demonstrations
lof the Government has produced ** a panic
terror’ throughout the ranks of those who
in the seceeded States. have heretofore been
most forward in promoting the project of
disanion. The complaints of the press, at
once loud and bitter, are visibly aimed, in
many cases, at the anthors of the war,
though uttered in the guise of criticism on
the *“imbecility /’ of its conduct by the Con-
federate, authorities.
As in Richmond so also in Memphis, at
the latest advices from that city. And if
there were murmurs and lamentations bes
fore the fall of Fort Henry and Bonelson, we
may easily calculate the popular dissatis-
faction likely to ensue in the presence of the
mpending calamities brought on the people
by the Secession agitators. The following
extracts from the Memphis Argus of Janu-
ary 5th is very significant under this head :
++ We spoke and speak of the ill conduct
ing of this war, which has now taken from
| our homes some three or four thousand of
| our best and bravest, which has paralyzed all
| business, save that which puts the money we
can so illy spare into the pockets of the
creatures of said President and Cabinet. —
Of this war we spoke when we said so
! much might have been done in it that has
| been left undone. Those at the head of af-
| fairs were leaders 10 the war. We ask how
[they are lsading THROUGH 7t ¥’
Or the following jeremiad from the same
numberof the same paper:
We have been made to stand still
and take such coffs and kicks as the North-
erner chooses to give, when and where he
pleased. We have heard our Generals
| bhued for not doing what it appears they
| were not permitted to do. The smothered
| report of Beauregard has made that truth
| clear enough. We have for months and
months been told that England would do
our fighting for us on the seas.”
And the Memphis Appeal is equally des-
pondent with the Memphis Argus. The
| former says:
| «The blockade is unbreakable by us yet.
In one word. we're hemmed in. We've al
lowed the moment of victory to pass. We
were sp anxiously watching the operations
of England that we stand aghast on turning
our eyes homeward again to find ourselves
|
i
rebellion can put a*State outof the Union, | menced sounding a requiem through the : ten fold worse off than we were ere the com-
and let Aholitionsts in Congress and out of | 1¢*VS of the pines and o1ks and around our | mencement of Price’s last forward march,
it rant as they will, still the Union, when
the war shall be over, will remain as of old, fiercely, sending the rain ag inst our win
with the rights of the several States unime | dow glass with a force anything but agreea-:
paired, otherwise the war is not waged upon
our part to preserve the Union but to blot
ble.
To morrow is the Sabbath. Gereral
Burnside has issued an order requiring its
out at least cleven States and thus destroy | strict observance, with divine serv ce in all
it. No, no, we are not fighting to destroy | the regiments which have chaplains. He
the Union by dismembiring it, but to pre~ | SAYS that during his campaign, (unless a
srve it in all its glory as a whale. Fhe
archest traitor of the South never advocated
necessity prevents), the day mat be obsery
ed sacredly
The Regiment formed this morning and
a more heretical doctrine than ‘his, as this | went down the beach aud visited all the
is only the doctrine of secession in another
The leaders of the 1ebellion have not!
changed their relation to the government. or
annulled the law by their treason, but have
made themselves amenable to the law and
should be punished by it, and not by this
new law of modern date, fitted up by Aboli-
tionists to carry out their one idea.
old law of treason is sufficient for the case
in hand. as it will operate only upon the
guilty, while this new law, if carried out,
would fall equally upon the innocent and the
guilty.
et Os.
Andrew Johnson,
Forts. The first we came to, we marched
through, and the Colonel ordered three
cheers for the flag ; the second, three for
the navy, the Expedition, the any and eve
ry body. There was a general shouting. By
the time we had plodded through the Sound
to the last fort, a distance of six miles, but
by the sand and back siips. about seven and
a-half, we were satisfied to return and
partake of something to satisfy the inner
man. A more genial smile covered the face
of the soidier as he looked at his bacon and
hard crackers, than could be seen when
looking at the forts we had stormed for five
hours.
The offlcers—prisoners—have all been
sent North. The non-commissioned officers
and privates are still here, awaiting the ac-
tion of the General. I think an exchange
Thatnoble old hero,the Honorable Ax-| Will be effected here, saving. as it will, much
DREW JOHNSON, of Tennessee, in the course
of his remarks in the United States Senate
the other day, said :
cost of transportation to the Government. I
think special dispatches have been forward
ed to the Goverament respecting it.
This evening I visited the hospital, where
Iam a Democrat now, I have been one sixty of the Union soldiers lay of wounds
all my life ; I expect to live and die one ; received in the engagement of the 8th.—-
and the cornor stone of my Democracy rests Some were shot in the Tungs, shoulders,
upon theenduring basis of the union.” Dem- arms. hands, &c. I came up to one spright
ocrats may come and go. but they shall nev ly looking fellow of the 10th Connecticut,
er divert me from the polar star by which I | who was talking to a friend who had called
have ever been guided from early life—the | to see him. I said, ** Well, my boy, what
great principles of Democracy upon which | ails you?’ < [lave a buck-shotin my an
quarters, sending the chills a creeping over ‘and that aecursedly used sensationism, the
us. At the time of writing the wind blows
arrest of Messrs. Mason and Slidell. Day
follows day, and, in lieu of being weakened,
we find the Federal armies at all points be
ing strengthened, almost every article of
manufacturing and domestic necessity quad
rupled in price, and our money wili soon be
exceeding scarce for lack of paper and
pasteboard wherewith to make it.”
If this was the condition of Tennessee
before the recent disasters, what must it be
to-day ¢ And the question recurs what has
Tennessee or any single Southern State
be gained by persistence in the infatuation
which promted that suicidal policy 2
rs it
Tre LATE Mr. PENNINGTON. —A Strange
Story. —The death of Ex-Governor Penning-
ton, of New Jersey. last week, is said to
have been the result of his taking eight
grains of morphine hy mistake. He had
been complaining of typhmd fever, which at
times affected him so severely as to cause
temporary aberration of mind.
Sunday morning he appeared to be no
better, and a prescription was written for
quinine, and sent to the drug store of Dr. C.
W. Badger, on Broad street, Newark. The
prescription, directing powders, was dis:
i pensed and labelled “-quinme.” Shortly af-
ter the powder was administered to the Gov-
ernor In the course of a few minutes it
was discovered that there was something
wrong, and on examination the powders
were found to be morphine, eight grains of
which had been taken. The sad affair will
be fully investigated, when the particulars
will be made public.
—— Pee
A ReLic.—The Columbia Republican has
still standing at its head, «* Free Speech =
Free Press, Free Soil and Freedom’ This
is the only freedom squeeching relic that we
know of now in the State. Two years ago
nearly every republican paper had such a
motto, but it has of late become such a flaun-
gained by the act of Secession? What can |
War News,
Death of General Lunder.
WasaINGTON, March 2, 1862.
General LANDER. who has been anwel!
for some time, diedto day,at4 P. M., of
congestion of the brain, at his camp in
Northern Virginia. His wife, formerly Miss
Davenport, an actress of celebrity, is here
and learned the sad intelligence about 5 P M.
He was not considered dangerously ill till 1
P. M to day, and his wife received the firs
tidings at two o'clock, and of his death at
five, by Secretary Stanton in person, who.
with much feelng and delicacy, acquainted
her with the facts. She is at the Nationa}
Hotel, and is prostrated with grief. CC
Secretary Chase and other distinguished
friguds subsequently visited her in her.afflic-
100. $ a
Gen. Shields succeeds Gan, Lander in
command. gue
Evacuation of Columbus.
Commodore Foote telegraphs from Carro.
that this morning hesent a party on a re<
connoissance down to Colnmbus, and found
that the Rebels have been several days
evacuating the place. All the infantry have
gone but the cavalry were still there, keep
Ing up appearances. Their barracks, and a
large number of stores, have been burnt.—
The guns on the bluff have been taken, but
those'on the water batteries still remain,
On learning that the Rebels have been
using flags of truce for several days, to
cover their retreat, Commodere Foote orders.
ed out his fleet, and sent them down to take,
the place and whatever has been left,
Evacuation of Murfreesboro’
Gen, Buell telegraphs that the Rebels are
evacuating Murfreesboro’ and are fleeing
across the Tennessee river into Northern
Alabama. He has not had them surrounded.
or sent them any such notice as the report
er of the Chicago Tribune sent from Cairo.
In a few days Middle Tenneesee will be
elear of them. Gen. Buell cannot catch them.
on account of their having railroads to run
on, and they take all the rolling stock with
them, destroying all the bridges,
Mr. Seward’s Novelties.
_ The spectacle of an army avowedly hostile:
In 1t8 mission passing to its destination over:
a soil it proposed to.invade at the first blast
of war, would be something novel in the
history of States. Imagine Russia asking
permission of England to make Malta a depot
forits navy during the Crimean war, or Franc
transporting its troops for the Italian cam-
paign by way of Salzburg, Vienna andi
Trieste '— Evening Journal.
Mr. Seward is the fruitful inventor of nov.
elties.
The ¢ irrepressible conflict,” which pro
claimed that free and slave States could not -
live together in the same Union, was a nov-
elty of Mr. Seward’s. No statesman from
ge days of Washington down, ever dreamed
of it.
His speech to the duke of New Castle,
«we must insult you,” was a novelty.
Lis threats against Canada were novelties.
THis promise to the South €Caolina Com-
missioners, that Fort Sumter should be
peaceably evacuated, was a novelty ; and its.
falsification was another.
His prophecies that the war would be over
1n thirty days was a novelty ; as have been
all his prophecies since. The fulfilment of
‘onc of thems would be an. agreeable novelty.
His invention of the idea of blockading
one’s own ports was a novelty in interna-
tional law, and his treatment of rebels as
foreign enemies, while denying the belliger
ent rights was another.
His letter to Gov. Hicks, sneering at the
representatives of monarchies, was a novel -
ty in deplomacy.
His circulars to the governors of States om
the subject of frontier defences was another
novelty.
His declaration, that the recogmtion ot.
the South:by European powers would be re-
sented by us by a general war upon all En
rope, is & novelty in doctrine, and would be
a greater one in practice.
His arrest of loyal citizens, wn loyal States:
by telegraph. is a novelty which it is tv be
hoped may return to plague the inventor.
His i=vention of a passport system. with-
out law, which annoys loyal citizens and
gives free scope to traitors, 1s another novel-
ty
His long reply to- a demand never made in,
the Slidell and Mason case, and his dexter
ous proving our right toseize and our duty
to surrender those envoys, is a novelty also.
His countenance of universal corruption:
at a time of great national necessity. is a
great novelty in the minds of all true patri-
ols.
His setection of such diplomatic represen-
tatives as Giddings, Helper, Burlingame &
Co., is another novelty.
His proposed surrender of the right of:
Divstesting: without an equivalant, is 2 noy-
elty. :
His abandonment of the Monroe doctrine
is a novelty. bid
His irritating despatches. to foreign courts.
are novelties in manner and temper and sub-
stance.
His invitation to England to send her
troops to Canada, through Maine, is mania-
cal novelty. 4 §
Finally, Mr. Seward, acting asa states:
man and managing the affairs of a great na-.
tion im a great crisis, is a novelty that the
world has never yet seen the like of, and:
probably never will again.
Reviewing Mr. Sewards labor for the last
vear, we doubt if Dumas or Walter Scott, or
the inexhaustible Sylvanus Cobb was half
as prolific a novelist as Wis. 1. Seward, —
N.Y. Argus.
The pay ofthe United States army ig
mostly greater than any ether in the ‘world.
The Russian soldier receives only thirty-six
dollars a year as pay, and his rations consist.
solely of black bread. The soldier in the
French aymy receives fifty-six cents a month.
The pay of our soldiers” is twenty times
greater. 1t costs the United States nearly
three times as much to maintain a soldier
that it does the British Government—and it
is to be-ren.embered that the British Govern
talities endured for many long and weary this Government rests, and whi { * i notto. « 1 >
: . 8 g S, ich cannot be | kle, sir, but as lame as I am” —pointing to | ting lie when compared with their tar and ment can get money at three per cent, inter-
on bythe) Saiilin) gg and and have resorted now to a doctrine fraught | Garis} out without the preservation of the fo the prisoners were—¢I can whip. og ae An, and their attempt to | est, While it costs us six per cent or more.
s S» YL) y with as much danger to p s | Union of these States. { a ti f v s i
blessings on their lips, welcomed the Old : nar Pagans | j 3 : a three of them at a time, and soon will be at | dests oy the freedom of speech, of the press
the doctrine advocated by the vasest rebels | Nee
Flag in Tennessee and Alabama, as the har
binger and the hope of a restoration of the
Old Union and the Old Constitution, as they
existed ere patricidal hands attempted their
destruction,
7 It used to be the case that when men
were convicted of stealing they were pun
ished by imprisonment. Now we are more
likely to send them abroad as foreign minis-
ters-
of South Carolina. They unhesitatingly as- |
sert now both in and out of Congress, that |
the government, have forfeited all their |
rights under the Constitution as members of |
the Union ; and in support of this monstrous
theory, they advance the argument, that be- |
cansc our government, in sending and re-!
the Southern States, by their act of secession | of $1,500 to the widow Jenkins. They boast
and their attitude of open rebellion against | Of it as a free will offering, and that it goes
177 We observe that the Abolition papers | wounds of the soldiers, the Doctor in charge
are making much ado about the alleged fact | thinks they will all recover.
that Jim Lane made a New Year's present |
to show Lane's liberality.
As we were coming up to the battle, the
! balls raining through the air above us, an
{orderly sergeant of the 10th Connecticut
regiment, came rushing back, having receiv-
This he may. well do after shooting her | €d 8 wound in his head, taking off the skin.
husband, and afterwards sheating her and
He met the surgeon, who exammed it and
said, ¢ Oh, it wont amount to anything !”
em again.” Notwithstanding the serious and of the people, that they, to avoid the
glaring inconsistency have, we believe the
Republican excepted, taken down the motto.
To maintain consistency they ought now to
putup ‘ Free Mobs, Free Plunder. Free
Despotism and Free Nigger.” —Sunbury
Democrat.
a ame
T= It is supposed that the reason why
Secretary Welles has not yet left the Cab-
her children out. of all the real estate they | So. oft he goes on a ** double quick” to ‘en
owned in Kansas,
I gagein the scene of conflict. Every wan,
inet 18 because there is no foreign mission to
give him.
GeN. Jim Lane. —A few words will dis-
pose of him. His past history proves him to
be nothing less than a nigger- stealing horse-
stealing, house- burning, woman and children
butchering vagabond ; and no causecan
prosper which seeks him for an ally. His
only friend and supporters and endorsers are
the rabid abolitionists of the north, who do
nothing but stay at home and gnash their -
teeth at the south, and abuse the loyal wen
of the uorth. The devil take Jim Lane and
his sympathizers,—Cass County Union.