have shown no disposition to revolt.—
The whole South is armed and vigi
lant. A general insurrection is almost
impossible. The negroes are ignorant,
unarmed, incapable of combination,
accustomed to obey and closely watch
ed. The slightest manifestation of a
disposition to rise would be punished
with terrible severity. - Mr. Lincoln's
Proclamation is far more dangerous,
in this point of view, to the blacks,
than to the whites. It is not likely to
cause an insurrection, but it may ex
cite the dread of one, and thus weaken
the military power of the South.—
lt is a military measure intended
to produce that effect. It is a mil
itary measure put off as long as
possible in the hope that events
might, render it unnecessary.—
It became necessary to save us from
invasion; from foreign intervention—
perhaps from foreign war.
Let it be granted, however, for the
Sake of argument, that the dauger of
an insurrection, excited by this act of
the President, is serious—that it is
oven unavoidable. It surely- cannot
be pretended that Mr. Lincoln means
or desires to cause such a result, when
-he gives ample notice of the intended
measure, and at the same time opens a
path by which its dreaded consequen
ces may be avoided. The shelling of
a city is a terrible act of war. It ne
cessarily involves the destruction of a
vast amount of property and also of
lives, which even war spares if it can.
The practice, therefore, of civilized
warfare. is, first to demand the surren
der of the city, and if that be,refused,
to give time for the removal of women
and - children, and other non-combat
ants, before the dread alternative is
executed. Mr. Lincoln has given
three months' notice of his purpose,
during which the southern people can
prepare themselves against a servile
revolt. They have prevented one eo
far, in the midst of a war, the object
of which, the negroes believe, is to set
them free. It is scarcely probable
that Mr. Lincoln's paper proclamation
will have such en effect on their minds
that the authorities of the South, fore
warned as they are, cannot prevent
the horrors of an insurrection. If they
continued, indeed, to send forward to
the battle-fields of the'war their whole
available white population, the negroes
might become dangerous, should Mr.
Lincoln on the first of Tanuary tell
them they are free. But let Mr. Da
vis detail as `a home rsuard some of
the able generals, such as Lee, Joseph
Johnson, Beausegari, Stonewall Jack
son and others, and, say two hundred
thousand of the brave troops that have
given us so much trouble, and there
could be no danger. Is it a crime to
force him to do this? Or is it contra-'
ry to the laws of wai'? Mr. Lincoln's
proclamation has been likened to the
barbarous practice of poisoning wells
and springs. But suppose it became
necessary in a campaign to prevent
the occupation of a particular region
which could not be defended, and the
general in command gave explicit and
ample notice to the enemy that the
springs and wells were poisoned.-
- Without admitting any analogy be
tween the cases, would not such notice
take away the barbarism of the act, so
far as the enemy was concerned ?
rfad Mr. Lincoln intended to cause a
servile. insurrection, he would not have
given three months' notice of his de
sign. That the proclamation may, if
it can be carried into effect, break up
the fabric of southern society, destroy
a large amount of slave property, de
range the industry, and inflict heavy
losses on the southern people, is no
doubt true. But such injuries arc
within the legitimate scope of war.
The President has not only given
ample notice of his purpose, but he has
offered honorable terms, by which its
dreadful effects may be avoided. He
demands no mortifying submission, no
payment of the heavy expense of the
war, no security for the future; all ho
asks that they shall send representa
tives to Congress, whose votes may
perhaps control him; that they shall
resume their places in that govern
ment by whose Constitution he him
self is bound to put down insurrection ;
Under which their slaves have risen
from two hundred to one thousand
dollars each in value; under which
they enjoyed for nearly a century,
peace and security, and made such
progress as Africa permitted them to
make. Not very hard conditions, one
would think, to be offered to men who
are attempting to overthrow a gov
ernment which conferred on them so
many benefits, and who have inflicted
on its people so many injuries,
DIRECTORY OF llospirALs.—The San
itary Commission have established an
office of information in regard to pa
tients in the hospitals of the District
of Columbia, and of Frederick City,
Maryland. , By a reference to books,
which are corrected daily, an answer
can, under ordinary circumstances, be
given by return mail, to the following
questions:
let. Is [giving name and
regiment] at present in the hospitals
of tho District or of Frederick city ?
2d. If so, what is his proper address?
ad. What is the name of the sur
geon or chaplain of the hospital ?
4th. If not in the hospital at present,
has be recently been in hospital ?
sth. If so, did he die in hospital, and
at what date ?
Lb. If recently discharged from hos
pital, was he discharged from service ?
7th. If not, what were his orders on
leaving ?
The Commission is prepared also to
furnish more specific information as to
the condition of any patient in the
District hospitals, within twenty-four
hours after a request to do so, from an
officer of any of its corresponding soci
eties.
The office of the Directory will be
open daily from S o'clock A. M. to 8
o'clock P. M., and accessible in urgent
cases at any hour of the night.
The number of patients in these hos
pitals is about 25,000. If found to be
practicable, the duty here undertaken
locally by the Commission will be ex
tended to include all the general hos
pitals in the country.
FRED. LAW OLMSTED,
General Secretary
ADAMS 110 USE, 244 F STREET, t
Washington, D. a, N0v.19. j
Coming—Chrisiinas.
Ely Cobt.
HUNTINGDON, PA
Wednesday morning, Dec. 10, 1862.
W. Lewis, Editor and Proprietor
(
Our Flag Forever
"I know aJ no mode in which a loyal citi
zen may so well demonstrate his devotion to
his country as by sustaining the Rog, the
Constitution and the Union, under all dream.
stances, and UNDER. EVERY ADMINI:,TRATION,
REGARDLEIS OF PARTY POLITICS, .AGAINST ALL
ASSAILANTS, AT MI: k. AND AIIROA D."-STEPLIEN
A. DOUGLAS.
TILE NEWS.
The tiro at Lock Haven on Satur
day originated in a carpenter shop in
the rear of Scott's Hall. The entire
business part of the town was destroy
ed. The loss i‘.3 estimated at $lOO,-
000.
WEicuEsT.En was occupied by the
Federals under General Geary with
3,300 infantry and 12 pieces of artille
ry and 30 cavalry on 'Wednesday, the
3d. Our loss was one slightly wound
ed.
Gar,NADA, Miss., was taken by the
Fedei.als under General Hovey, num
bering 20,000, on Monday, the Ist De
cember. The rebels - fled after burn
ing some 15 or 20 locomotives and
about 100 ears.
TUE rebels under Generals Hind
man and Marmaduke, 25,000 strong:,
attempted to force Gen. Blunt's posi
tion at Cane Hill on Saturday last, but
were driven lracic.
Interesting to Railroad Passengers
and Conductors,
We learn that a case was tried be
fore Judge Taylor in Cambria county
last week, the decision of which is of
interest to the traveling public, and to
Railroad Conductors.
A passenger who wished to come
from Johnstown to Iluntingdon, asked
for a ticket at the office at Johnstown,
and offered a five dollar note in pay
ment. The agent could not make him
the change, and consequently begot on
the train without a ticket. Ile offered
the same note to the Conductor (Green)
who took it to examine it, saying if it
was right ho would give hini the
change. After examining it, Green
declined to receive the note, not being
certain that it was - good, atittP - niroroa
it back to the passenger. Some differ
ence arose between them as to wheth
er it was the same note the passenger
had given him that he offered to re
turn, and the pas , ,enger refused to re
ceive it, and said lie had no other mon
ey to pay with. It was established on
the trial that the note the Conductor
offered to give him back, was the same
he had received from him, and more
over, that the Conductor was mistaken
about its being a bad note, that it was
a genuine note on the Delaware City
Bank.
Mr. Green then told the passenger
that unless he could pay with other
money he would have to put him off
the train at the next station. He
manifested some unwillingness to go,
and there was some difference among
the witnesses as to whether Green took
hold of him by the collar to put him
out, or whether he had gone out with
out Green touching him. He was re
quired to leave the cars, and was left
off at Wilmore Station. He then in
dicted the Conductor for assault and
battery.
The Judge hold, that if Conductors
require it of the passenger, he, the pas
senger is bound to make the change;
that the Conductor is not bound to
take the fare out of a note larger in
amount, and furnish change to a pas
senger ; that what occurred in this
case in reference to the five dollar note,
was not a payment of the fare; and
that if the passenger did not produce a
ticket, or pay his fare in the cars, the
Conductor had a right to eject him
from the cars, using no more force in
doing so than necessary.
The Jury acquitted the Conductor.
MuM's THE WORD.—A special caucus
of the 3/onitor faction was Leld at Wit-
Son & Petrikin's office some two weeks
since, and it was determined that the
Monitor must keep mum on the usurp
ation the County Committee was guil
ty of in the appointment of the two
State Delegates. Since then the Mon
itor has kept mum. Who says Owen
is his own master. He must work as
his masters direct, and they discOvered
that the party must be kept as ignor
ant as possible of the outrage commit
ted by the Committee. The faction
know they can't defend the action of
the Committee, so they have deter
mined to try to "hush up" the question,
if possible, by keeping their readers ig
norant of the dissatisfaction existing in
the Democratic party. The.sneaking
game won't work—Democrats know
theirrights and dare maintain them—
the decree of the Monitor faction to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Its. English and German Almanacs
for 1863, are for sale at Lewis' Book
Store
[➢or the 0101,.]
Governor and Supreme Judge.
MR. LEWIS :-I. read the letter front
MeAlevy's Port, signed " Marcus," in
your last paper, about the election of
delegates to the next Democratic State
Convention, and endorse its senti
ments. I have not been much of a
politician, but lam a Democrat, and
have always understood the meaning
of that word to be that the people are
to govern. The only way the people
can practically govern is to take part
in the preliminary steps to make nom
inations. If the people don't take
part, then they are not governing
themselves: They are letting some
body else govern them. " Marcus' "
letter refers only to the next Govern
or. Now, I want to call the attention
of the Democrats of this county to the
I fact that the next State Convention
will have more than a Governor to
nominate, and the people will have I
more than one State officer to elect I
next fall. Judge Lowrey was here
last summer, and Ito told me his term
as Judge of the Supreme Court would
expire next fall, and that his succes
sor would be elected at the election in
'lBO3. Then the Convention will nonli
nate candidates for bath Govern.). anrt
Supreme Judge, the two highest offices in
the State. The people ought to have a
voice in who they ate to be. Even if a
ConVention should choose the same
two men that tho County Committee
appointed, they may have some in
' struetions to give them about their
choice. No County Committee ever
elected delegates before to nominate
Governor or Supreme Judge, and the
Committee had no authority to do it.
Where is their authority would
like somebody to point out where the
people ever gave them. the authority.
I Thev never did : no resolution ever,
of any Conventio», authorized them to
do it, and it would have been wrong
if they had. The County Committee
is not made to elect delegates. If it
can elect delegates, then the State
Convention might as Well save nil the
Democrats in the State the trouble of
meeting, and just make the nomina
tions at once. And if a County Com
mittee can take this power out of the
hands of the people of a county, why
the State Convention has just as good
a right to take it away from the peo
ple of the State. Suppose they should
try it; why even if I am old enough
to ho fin• out of the muster-roll, I would
be one to join an insweetion against
the tyrants, and go down to *Harris
burg to help disperse the concern.—
Well, now, I ask my follo:v-citizens
whether our County Committee ha , nit
tried to do the very same thing
that the State Committee , would be
cloin:r it' thov should nominate the can-
fOr Governor and Supreme
Judge without a Convention. II eve
ry county in the State would do the
same thing, the people, would not be
heard at all, and it is hard to tell
what kind of duff we might have put
o❑ the ticket.
low, Mr. Lewis. I may not agree
with you in all you have done and
said, but in this thing. you are right.
Whatever may be said about popular
sovereignty in the far off Territories,
the Democrats of this county are de
termined that they will have it at
home, here. They wi'l be the sover
eigns themselves, and have no sover
eign committee to speak for them and
rule them. We are in eat-nest about
it in this place. I have talked to my
neighbors about it, and whether the
County Committee calls it or not,
there will be a Convention called be
fore the State Convention meets, and
we will elect delegates with our eyes
open as to what is before us. We have
no idea of having the highest execu
tive and judicial ollieet.s in the State
nominated by men in whose selection
we had no voice, and we don't intend
to let it be done if the voice of the peo
ple can prevent it. We'll try. any
how, and it' the usurpation of powers
has got to be dangerous in these days ,
we'll begin to look after our safety by
stopping it at home. We can talk,
then, with a little grace about the
usurpations of other parties.
F.un. PLAY
Alexandria, Dec. 6, 1862.
COMPANY F WOWS in fin• another
" spat•" from the able pen of Caldwell's
dog Owen. lie must have a peculiar
Friendship for the " boys " composing
that company. In his last issue he
says :
"Lewis guarded Chambersburg, but
did not go with his regiment to Mary
land. J3ravc boyS!"
Of course Owen means the company
when he &peaks of us remaining as
guard in Chambe•sburg. " Brave
boyS !" We were only a " boy"—the
company were " boys." Owen will
have to be made to smell somebody's
fingers before he can be expected to
treat Company F with proper respect.
OWEN says a man can not be a De
mocrat unless lie submits to the dicta
tion of the Monitor clique, Caldwell &
Co. All Democrats-who will not be
bound by the action of the County
Committee in the appointment of State
Delegates, are to be denounced by
Caldwell & Co. as traitors to the Dem
ocratic party. Pitch in ! The Demo
cracy are not yet swallowed up by such
leaders as Caldwell, Owen & Co.
Elizabeth .Ilawn,
daughter' of Mr. Lewis Hawn, was
drowned on Friday last, by
the canal at the lock near which she
The Fitz John Porter Court Martial.
The court martial engaged in the
trial of General Fitz John Porter met
in Washington on the 3d, when char
ges and specifications were exhibited
against him by‘Brig. Veneral Roberts,
Inspector General of General Pope's
army. They were read in connection
with the violation of the ninth article
of war. He is charged with disobey
ing several important orders of hissu
perior in front of the' enemy, failing to
push forward his forces into action on
the enemy's flank and rear; permitting
one of the brigades of his command to
march to Cenlreville, out of the way
of the field of battle, and there to re
main daring the entire day of the 30th
of August; this at or near Centreville
station on the 29th and 30th of Aug
ust last, &c. He is also charged with
a violation of the 52d article of in
refusing to attack the enemy while
within sight of the field and in full
hearing of the artillery of the battle,
then and there shamefully disobeying,
and retreating from the advancing for
ces of the enemy, without any attempt
to engage them, or aid the troops who
were already fighting greatly superior
numbers,and were relying on the flank
attack he was ordered to make to se
cure a decided victory, &e. To these
charges General Porter pleaded "not
guilty "
The court martial in the case or
Major General Fitz John Porter was
in session again on the 4th, Muj. Gent
John Pope being the witness under
examination. The substance of his
testimony W:l4 that it was his firm con
viction that if Major General Porter
had obeyed his order promptly he
could have entirely defeated, if nut
captured Jack:3oll's army.
IMPORTANT ro Vor.rxz • ceas.—lL has
been decided by the authorities at
Washington that if a soldier• i s dis
charged before he has served two
whole years, or to the cnd.of the war,
if sooner ended, he fbrfeits his 8100
bounty. The back dues fin• wages,
and fifty cents for each twenty miles
travelled from the place of discharge
to the place of' enrollment, ho is cra b -'
tied to on the pay certificates from his
nearest paymaster. If a soldier is
killed, or dies of disea , ,e, before the cud
of two years, or• the close of the war,
he has, under the liberal coastruetion
of the law, served. to the end of the
war, so far as, heis or can be concern
ed. Congress intended by the provi
sions of the law that no one should
have the bounty until the end of the
war. The ,51.00 bounty, by this law,
will be immediately paid, so soon as
audited. •
Under an order and rule of the War
Department, there can be procured for
the witi•e. or hol...iiert, imprisoned in the
South, the monthly wages of the sol
dier, to the date of allowance, except
the last mouth's wages, which the gov
ernment reserves. It'll° wife, the
mi
nor children, by their guardian, are
entitled. It the soldier is'unmarried,
his 'Milo \val. mother• is entitled.
An important decision has been
made by the Secretary of War and the
Paymaster General in effect, that a
soldier is entitled to pay from the day
he enlists, and that he is not to wait
until his company is full or the formal
nosier of the regiment into Govern
ment service.
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IN TUE FIELD FOR TUE SPOILS —A
small crowd of office seekers will be in
Harrisburg at the meeting of the next
Legislature. This county will be well
represented. Patrick Leddy and Jun.
Dougherty are candidates for Sergeant
at-arms. R. Milton Speer, P. M. Ly
tle and David Caldwell will be appli
cants for Clerkships. There may be
others, but we have not heard the
names orally ethers.
Improve Your AS'iyht and Preserve
Your Eyes.—A. BIRNBAU.It, Practi
cal and Manufacturing Optician, takes
pleasure in informing the Ladies and
Gentlemen of Huntingdon and vicini
ty, that he has opened a Store one
door west of Dr. Dorsey's, Atith a large
and variety stock of Spectacles, com
prising Convex and Concave Glasses,
such as Flint, Crystal and Scotch Peb
ble, and particularly desires to recom
mend the superiority of the last-named
Glasses. His theoretical as well as his
practical knowledge of Optics, and his
long practice in the Occulistic science,
enables him to adapt, after an exam
ination of the oyes, those glasses which
correspond with the defect of near, far
or weak sight. Glasses can be fitted
to any frame, of any shape or color.—
Please call and examine the Spectacles.
Ambrotypes and Photographs taken
at all times on reasonable terms.
Also, Sugars, Tobacco and Meer
schaum Pipes constantly on hand.
IsTEws.--The last Monitor informs us
that honest Dave Caldwell, ESQ., had
been absent from town for several days.
We doubt whether he was missed by
anybody but his dog Owen, as the edi
torial columns of tho Monitor have been
very slim for two weeks past.
The Case of the Minnesota Indians,
The following protest against Presi
dential clemency in the case of the
three hundred Indians convicted of
participating in the Minnesota outra
ges, signed by Senator Wilkin , lon and
Itepresentatives Aldrich and Windom,
NVZIS seat to the President. yesterday :
WAsnixoros, December 2d, 1862.
To the President of the United States:
SIR: We have learned, indirectly,
that, yon intend to pardon 0r reprieve
a largo majority of the Indians in
Minnesota, who. have been formally
condemned for their participation in
the brutal mas , acre or our people in
the 100111.11 s of August and September
last. If this be your purpose, as Rep
re,;entatives from that State, we beg
leave most respectfully to prote,t,
again,t, it, and We do so !br the ibllow-
ing rea , -,ons:
These Indians were condemned,
most of ihem, upon the te,timony of
women whom they had carried into
captivity. atter having murdered their
fathers, lim,bands and brothers, and
who were treated by these Indians
with a brutality never known belbre
in this country, not• equalled in the
practices of the most bau•ha ons na
tions. There were nearly ninety fe
male cc plives. They Ivey° the wives
and daughters of our neighbors and
friends. They were intelligent and
virtuous women. Some of theut were
w ves and mothers ; others were young
and interesting girls.
These savages to whom you propose
to extend your Executive clemency,
when the whole country was quiet,.
and the fau•met•s w..?ro busily engaged
ice gathering their crops, arose n•ith
fearful violence, and, travelling from
ono farm Louse to another, indiscrimi
nately mur,iered all the men, boys and
little children they canto to; and, al
though they sometimes spared the
lives of the mothers and daughters,
they did so only to take them into a
captivity which was infinitely Worse
than death.
!kir. President, let us relate to you
some, facts with which, we fear, you
have not heretofore been made acquain
ted.
Those Indians whom (a.; we under
stand) you propose to pardon and sot
free, have murdered in cold blood
nearly or quite one thousand of our
people ; ravaged our frontier for a dis
tance of more than one hundred and
fifty miles, north and south ; burned
the houses of the settlers, and driven
from their houses more than ten thou
sand of our people. They seized and
carried into captivity nearly ono hun
dred wlunen and girls, and, in nearly
every instance, treated them with the
most fiendish brutality.
To show you, sir, the enormity of
the::e outrages, we beg leave to state a
few facts. which are well known to our
people, but delicacy forbids that Wit
Should mention the 11:1111C3 of the par
ties to whom we maw.
lil 000 ”.,tance, bome ton or twelve
of these Indians visited the house of a
worthy farmer, who, at the 6111 S, way
engaged with his sons in stacking
wheat. They stealthily approached
the place where this honest farmer
was at work, and, seizing their oppor
tunity, shot the father and his two
sons at the stack. They then went to
the house, killed two little children in
the presence of their mother, 11'110 Wits
quite Hi of consumption, and then
they took the siek mother and a beau
tiful little daughter, thirteen years of
ago, into captivity. But this is not
all, nor is it the most appalling feature
of this awful tragedy. Its horror is
yet to be revealed. After removing
these unhappy prisoners to a lodge,
Wide!' was some miles away, these
fiends incarnate, placing a guard over
the body of the wearied and exiuttit
ed mother, took her little girl outside
or the lodge, removed all her clothes,
and fastened her upon her back on the
ground. They then commenced their
world of' brutality- upon the body of
this young girl. One by one they vi
olated her person, unmoved by her
cries or it nehocked by the evident signs
of her approaching dissolution. This
,cork Was continued until her licav
only father relieved her from suffering.
They left her deed upon the ground.—
This outrage was committed within a
lbw feet of a sick and dying mother.
There is another instance oft girl
eighteen years of age. We knew her
well befin•e anti at the time of her cap.
tire. She was as l'enned
1111 a girl as we had in the State.—
None had more or heiter friends; no
one was more worthy of them than
she. She was taken captive by these
Indians ; she was taken. her arms were
tied behind her, and she was tied rtst
to the ground and ravished by some
eight or ten of these convicts befbre
the cords were unloosed from her
limbs. This girl fortunately lived to
testily against the wretches who had
thus violated her. Without being
more specific, we will state, that all or
nearly all the women Who were cap
tured, were violated in this way.
Again. there was a little boy brou g ht
to St. Paul (whose father and mother
had been murdered,) whose life was
spared, as a witness of the horrid na
ture of this massacre. His right eye
was cut completely out; it had fallen
from its socket, and perished on his
cheek. His two little sisters, aged re
spectively six and tom• years, were al
so saved, but in an awfully mutilated
condition. Their Lender arias had
been mangled'with the savages' knives
and otherwise fearfully wounded, and
left on the ground for dead.
Mr. President, there was no justifi
cation or pretext oven for these bru
talities. We state what we know
when wo say that, the Sioux agent,
Major Galbraith°, has labored faith
fully and efficiently for the welfare of
these Indians, The Government,, as
you know, has built a house and op'en
ed a farnt l'or every one of these Indi
ans who would reside itpon and culti
vate it. Missionaries. as our worthy
Bishop ern' testify, have labored zeal
ously among them for their spitdtual
welthre. There has been paid to thorn
yearly the interest upon $2,000,000.
Farming implements have been pur
chased and thrillers have been employ
ed by the Government to improve and
cultivate their land',.
These Indians are called by some,
prisoners of war. There was no war
about it. It was wholesale robbery,
rape and 'murder. These Indians were
not at war with their murdered vie
ti
The people of Minnesota, Mr. Pres
ident, have stood firm by you, and by
your Administration. They have giv
en both you and it their cordial sup
port. They have not violated low
They have borne these sufferings with
a patience such as but few people ever
exhibited under such extreme trials
These Indians are now at their mer
cy ; but our people have not risen up to
slaughter them, because they believed
that their President would deal with
them justly.
We are told, Mr. President, that a
committee from Pennsylvania. whose
families are living happily in their
pleasant homes in that State. have
called upon you, and petitioned you
to pardon these IndianA. We have a
high respect for the religious senti
ments of your petitioners; but we sub
snit that it is bad taste, indeed, that it
is entirely unbecoming them, to inter
fere in matters with which they are so
little acquainted, and which relate to
• the security of our own people.
We protest agaihst the pardon of
these Indians; because, if it is clone,
the Indians will become more insolent
and erne! than they ever were befbre,
believing—as they certainly %yin be
lieve—that their great father at Wash
ine;ton either justifies their acts or is
afraid to punish them fn• their et-lines.
We protest ajainst it. because, it' the
President does not permit, these exe
entions to take place, under the forms
of law, the outraged people of Minne
sota will dispo.ie 01 these wretches
without law. These two people can
not live together.
\Ve do not wish to see mob law in
augurated in M`innesota, us it certain
ly will be it you fx•ee the people to it.
We tremble at the approach of Such a
condition of things in our State.
You can give Its peace, or Von Can
give its IaIVIO4S violence. \Ve pray
you. sir, in view of a I that We have
suffered, and of the danger which still
awaits us. let the law be executed—let
justice be done our people.
With high respect, we aro your obe
dient. servants,
M. S. WILKINSON,
UYtiU., A L [MAL
\\TM. W NDO M..
Report of the S3ofetary of th 6 Navy.
Wo have received the report of the
Iron. Mr. Welles, Sccretary of the Na
vy, which is a vol e and inter
esting doc.ament, We can give bat a
brief review of it:
The naval operations and achieve
ments during the paqt, year are care
fully and fully reviewed; and, while
the exploits of the various vessels
comprising the North and South At
lantic and the Ea:,tern and Western
Gulf Squadrons, and the ‘Vcstern Flo
tilla, are alluded to in complim , ,illta”.l ,-
and congratulatory terms, the service
rendered by the vessels blockading the
ports 011 the Southern coast is pre
nouncod to be so cffactive that even
foreign btatesmen, who, a few months
since, proclaimed a perfect blockade
to be a" material impossibility," now
acknowledge it to be. conela-dve and
effectual.
The di,tribution of the naval force.
the gunboat fleet, the Jame' river flo
tilla, the success or the various exp9di-
Lions South and We,t, the ravages or
the " 29J" awl other privateer 4, the
present and paA condition of the Na
vy, the intro faction and imp wt•tneo of
iron clads, the imprtanee and t wc,e,--
sity of a yard and. de l »t for an iroa
clad navy, the advi,ihility eqablish
ing a naval depot on one of the rivers
in the Valley of the Mississippi, the
defences or our harbors, the Naval
Academy, and other subjects connect
ed with the Department, are briefly,
or in exteaso, referred to by the SOCI3-
tarV.
We are told that nearly the entire
seaboard of the insur g ent region—
front Norfolk and the outlet of the
Chesapeake, through Id ' , bloke, New
bern and Beautbrt, N. C., Port Royal,
Tybee, Fernandina, Key West, Pensa
cola, to New Orleans and Galveston—
is practically in our hands, held fast
and irrevocably under the guns of our
Navy, or else garri,oned and governed
by our military force, and but a ,tort
time can elap , o before the few remain
i n g ports which are in the pos,es
sioo uf• the rebels will he reduced to our
occupation and authority.
It may thou bccome a. question for
decision whether our• fleet-3 cannot be
releasetffrom the duties of a blockade.
and the commerce of these ports he
subjected to such conditi,ms.
tints and regulations 115 a wise war
policy may prescribe, and a war power
rue.
The action of the parties who built
:Ind fitted but the 29)," in tit:4l'llla
violation Or British and of Royal
proclamation or nNit,,,iity, in com
mented upon. and the po,sibility of fit-
Imre request fur indemnification from
the British Government for the
destruction of private property by that
vessel intimated.
In reference to the proposed navy
yard and depot for an iron-clad Navy,
the Secretary reviews the action of the
Colmnittee appointed to examine the
most advantageous Sites, New London
being considered the must preferable
hmation by four of the Members of
that Committee, and the others as ful
ly and emphatically giving their pref
erence to League Island, and concludes
his remarks upon the subject by ex
pressing his ofiicial opinion that " While
there are sonic obvious mid admitted
objections to League Island, no place
has been proposed that combines so
many advantages, unless it be the 'con
tracted and altogether inadequate
yard at Philadelphia." Under these
circumstances, he proposes" to receive
and accept for the Government the
munificent donation of the city of Phil
adelphia, unless Congress Shall other
wise direct."
In March, 18t1, there were forty
vessels in commission in the United
States Navy, and in all but seven thou
sand six hundred mon, two hundred
and seven only of whom were in the
ports and receiving ships on the At
lantic coa.4. At the present time,
there are afloat and progressing to
r.ipid completion four hundred and
twenty - SCVOII vessels, carrying three
thousand two littudeud and sixty-eight
guns, and of the capacity of three hun
dred and forty thousand ana thirty
six tons. ; h2ninell and other eta
plorres 'now cm hoart the ve s sels ; num
bet. twenty-eight thousand, while at
the Navy Yards and Stations twelve
thousand mechanics and laborers fire
daily employed.
The views of the Secretary upon the
subject of iron clads are very important.
Ile gives the history of the building of
the Monitor, the . Galena and the Iron
sides, awl of the officering and timely
arrival of the first-named to put a stop
to the ravages of the rebel Merrimac
near Norfolk. A very graphicAescrip
(ion of the scenes connected with-that
ever memorable fight is given by Mr.
After detailing the events of the first
day's evil work by the Merrimac in
which she destroyed the Cumberland
and the Congress, and showing the
precarious condition of the St. Law
rence and the Minnesota, both of
which had grounded, and were expect
ing the renewal of the attack upon
them the next Morning.
" All efforts to get the Minnesota
afloat during the night, and into a safe
position, were totally unavailing. The
morning was looked fur with deep anx
iety, as it would, in all probabitity,
twin:, a renewed attack front the for
midt"tble assailant. At this critical and
anxious moment, the Monitor, one of
the newly finished armored vessels,
canto into Ilampton Roads, front New
York, under the command of Lieut..
John L. Worden, and a little after
midnight anchored alongside the Min
nesota. At six o'clock the next morn
ing, the Merrimac, as anticipated, again
made lice appearance, and opened her .
fire upon the Minnesota. Promptly
obeying the signal to attack, the Mon
itor ran down past the Minnesota, and.
laid herself close alongside the Merri
mac, between that formidable vessel
and the Minnesota.
'• The fierce e millet between these
two iron clads lasted for several hours.
It was, in appear nee. an unequal con
flict ; for the Merrimac was a large and
noble structure, and the Monitor was,
in comparison.
.aitnost difninutive.—
But the Monitor was strong in her ar
mor, in the ingenious inn-elty of her
construction, in the Invite calibre of
her two guns, and the valor and skill
with wide!) she was Itindled. After
several hours fighting the Merrimac
found herself overmatched, and, leav
ing the Monitor, sought to renew the
attaek on the Minnesota; but the Mon
itor again placed herself' between the
two vessels, and re-opened her fire up
on her adversary. At noon the Mor
rimae, seriously damaged, abandoned
the contest, and, with her companions,
retraced to iv anis N orfol Ic.
" Thus terminated the most remark-
able naval combat of modern times,
purimy, of any age. The fiercest and
most ti n •oti.lable naval assault upon
the power of the Union which has ev.
cr been male by the insurgents was
heroie.dly repelled, and a new era was
opened in the history of marithno war
titre."
The report says that <<the time has
arrived w'hen, in order to maintain
ourselves and our true position as a
natiou, we must have a formidablo
linVy, not only of light draught vessels
to guard our extensive and shallow
coast, but one that with vessels always
ready for the service, and of sufficient,
size to h ive them speed, can beck awl
meet an enemy On the ocaan. In or
der ti) obtain the mores 115 steam pow
or to great :peJd, we must
have ves4els ofthe greatest m tguitude."
It is Coco:amended that the Go.i.-ern.
went should eqahlish naval yards, for
the construction lx)1h of iron and \\mod
el) vessels, where also steam machinery,
anchor.;, chain cables, and heavy iroa
work. for the naval service, would be.
manuraetured at the sates establish,
meat to advantage.
west mm depot and establishment
is also reeommended tor the same pur
pose. ea one Of the rivers in the valley
of the " where we now
have a squadron equal in numbers to
the whole navy of the - United States
at the conunencement or this Adioli,
;Arnow," . .
The R Tort gives a view of the pres
eat condition of the harbor defences,
and recommends that a lequate.defen
ces Nould be prepared against any
possible contingency of hostile attacks
upon our ports, though ho seems to
think there is no immediate necessity
:by making estimates from the Navy
Department to furnish vessels fur this
duty.
Tho imporlaneeof having facilities
for docking ships for repairs, is dwelt
upon and recommended.
'tile I'o or_i;anization of the Ddpart
inent of the :Navy, in connection with
the apps intm,mt to the new grades io
ti.; Nav3.., is dwelt neon—.ti also the
condition or the Naval Academy, in
which there 1110 now 316 midshipmen,
leaving 139 yaeancies—the loitering
P•at•e or Conlyess is solicited to this in-
NtituLiou. WWI' 111 otters ore alluded
to, however, :u•e Iluticed iu
brier in the Pre,iilent%; :Ife:AaLte. -
'Pm; B.vxits' Exptatirlos.— rho Gen
Banks' Expedition is now probably at
sea moving southward as thst Ile wind
and steam can carry, it. \j hero it is
going. what its special mission is, and
how long we will have to wait before
we receive intelligence of striking the
intended blow, are questions which
time and eivettnistanc,e alone can solve.
It is well known, however, that Gen.
Banks has under his commund a largo,.
and it might ,be said with propriety,.
select body of troops, fully armed, uni- .
formed and, equipped, and in perfect ;
readiness to enter atonee into active
service. 'Anion:: this fine corps aye
regiments from Maino,New Hampshire
Massachusetts, Connecticut and New
York.
A day on two ago the following con
versation took phtee between the Gen
eral and a member of his staff:—
Staff—cieneral, the,mentbers of your
stuff are desirous of. knowing some
thing about the destination of the ex
pedition, so that they can take proper
clothing with them. '
.General-A. very natural desird , cer
tainly.
§'LttrOdicer—We would like to know
whether we should take light or heavy
clothing.
General- 7 -(With his accustomed gra
vity)—Take both kinds, sir, take both
kinds, and you will not fail to hit the
nail on the head.
Staff Officer—Good morning, • Geno,
rat. . .
General—Good morning, sir.—Front
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