Cie (globe.
HUN-TINGDON, PA
Wednesday" morning, Jan; 27, 1
W. Lewis, Editor and Propriotor.
Our Flag Forever.
" / know i of no mode in which•a loyal citi
•ben may so well ilentoristrate his devotion to
Als country as by sustaining the Flag the
Constitution and the Union, under all circum
gatlCCJl, and USD= EVIAN ADMINISTRATION
'REOARITL2BB Or DAM POUNDS, AGAINST, ALL ,
SIDAILANTS, AT HOUR AND ABROAD."--&IICDR 2N '
A.. Downhe.
TAANIO3.—GOV. °lntim will accept
our thanks for a copy of his message
in paniPhist form; and Me ors. Bene
dict, Itouseholder and Etnier .for
doeufnents. •
W. W." Stewart, Big., of California
will also accept.our'Oatilis for totem
Sacramento,papers.
- -THE State Senate is still at a dead
"lock, the "VallandigimMitte yofusing
Eto recognize an organization.;
„On Momlay a week,. the Senate re
fused by a tie Tote; to go into Conren•
-lion' with the House.to elect a State
•Tre:isUrer, contequently• tbero was no
'election then, and the old offieer. holds
.on, rind will hold on until a law is pas-
Bed appointing another day for. the
.election, which may not be done this
- winter if the Senate continues at a
dead' lock. Nothing has yet , been
heard of Senator White, "and it -is
'doubtful whether Jeff will agree to ex
ihange him. • .
The Jlouse cannot do much. until
the Senate is organized, and willing
to'proceed to business. Who is to'
lilame Y Jeff and his friends of course.
Tun Pi XSIDENCY.— & large meeting
of the Union men of Harrisburg was
bald in that place on Thursday - even
ingof last, week, which unanimously
recommended the renomination of A
braham Lincoln for the Presidency.
The Union League of Philadelphia,
ila3 also recommended the renomina
tion-of Mr. Lincoln. •
Similar meetings are being held iu
roomy cities, towns and counties in the
loyal" States, andtve notice that in two
or three - of the States claimed by the
rebels, the Union men tare in favor of
thare-election of old Abe. A Ken
tucky paper nominates President Lin
coln for President, and Andy Johnston
for Vice President. •
Ser'THE SIIPRE ! ME COURT Of this
State has reversed its decision on the
4onatitutionality of the - Conscription
Act, made:•when Lowrie, Woodward
and Thompson wore the Majority on
the.l3ench, and now affirms its consti
tutionality. This decision is owing to
the displacement of Lowrie by Judge
Agnew by the people at the last elec
ton. The, Court now stands politi.
.411 y, three Union and • two Copper.
heads. The great sticklers for the
constitutionality of everything calcu
lated to save the country will be
thrown'somewhat aback by this decis-
The Filling up of the Iltinks •of the
- Army in the Field.
The following address of Maj. Gen.
Conch will be read by the people with
great interest. It concerns matters
of the highest importance, and we
trust that it will meet with a practical
response:
HEADQUARTERS,
. Department of the Susquehanna,
C'hambersburg, Pa., Jan. "20, 1864.
To the People of the Department of the
Susquehanna:—.l very cordially invite
'the attention of all persons within the
Department of the Susquehanna to the
tuldress recently issued by Major Gen
oral Mat:mock, Commanding. Second
Army Corps, in which that distin
ghished officer announces that he has
come to Pennsylvania, under authori
ty of the War Department, for the
purpose of recruiting his corps to fifty
'thousand mon, with a - view to special
;Service
The gallantry and military ability
'of Major General Hancock, and the
Courage and discipline of his Corps,
bavo.been tested on many battle fields
and have justly won the admiration
oftbe people. Those who shall'erilist
under him will find comrades with
whoin it will be an honor to be con
nected, and a leader whose past career
gives the assurance that he cannot fall
'short of the lull performance of his
duties as an officer, a soldier and 'a
-gentleman.
Having been associated with Major
General Hancock on - many trying oc
casions, I heartily commend him to
the patriotisni of the people of this
Department, and earnestly advise
those fit for military duty to embrace
this opporttinity of taking a position
in which they will gain honor and dis
tinction for themselves and render es
sential service to their country.
D. N. COUCH,
• • Maj. Gen. Corn. Dept.
• Gular'natorial Appointments.—The
Governor has appointed Hon. Wm. M
Meredith, Attorney Genera), and Hon.
Zit Slifer; - Fieeietitry of the Qemmon
s4ealtb, for•the ensuing term. The Se
cretary hao appointed hon. Wm. H.
Armstrong ae Deputy Secretary.
The War-Power of the Government.
The principal ground on which a
certain set of politicians professedly
oppose the war policy of the Govbrn—
ment is, that the warts now.proseen
ted for the abolition of slavery. We
think this is a false view of the purpose
of the President,
_at leait, though it
may be honestly entertained. But
suppose it were -true. What then ?
Neither the Rebels, nor those who
sympathize with them, would have
any right to complain. They who _M-
I itiated the war tire responsible for all
its legitimate consequcn2es.
Every Government that is worthy
of the name must protect itself, when
assailed, against either foreign or do
mestic enemies,' And the law of self:
defense, whether applied to individu
als or States, IS necessarily . absolute.
No written Constitution can possibly
sot definite limits to the authority and
power of any Government todefend
itself, because no. human . intelligence
Can foresee to what means a Govern
ment might be forced to resort for its
own preservation. - Hence, the idea
that the Washington Administration
is restricted, in its efforts to put down
the Southern Rebellion, by constitu
tional limitations, is grossly absurd.
Its real war power can be measured
only by its right
..to preserve itself a
gainst any aggression, and that right
is essentially unlimited, save by the
character and extent of the danger
which threatens it. This is the corn
mon,law of England and this country,
as to the privilege of every citizen to
save his own life, whenever it • is put
in extreme peril; and it would be
strange, indeed, if a larger liberty of
action were allowed by the municipal
law, in defense of the life of an indi
vidual, than is granted by the politi
cal law in defense of the life of a na
tion.. . • . -
. .
We assume, therefore, that every
Government, whether a Constitutional
Government or not, has an unbounded
right-of self defense; and, consequent
an unlimited and illimitable defen
sive war power.
This being so, it follows, clearly,
that those who put the Government
on its defense, cannot justly object to
any measures which the
. Government
may deem it necessary to employ. for
its protection. The people of the
slave States" are engaged in. an•armed
insurrection against the National au
thority. 'They have waged the war
for nearly three - years with great ob
stinacy and vigor. They have been
powerfully aided by their slaves, whose
industry has not ; only .supplied the
Southern armies with food and- ena
bled all the able-bodied whites to serve
in the ranks of the Rebellion, but who
have even been employed in building
Rebel entrenchments and fortifica
tions. To strike, therefore, at Slavery
in the Seuth,rwa's to aim .a stunning
blow at.the Rebellion itself. And was
not any measure; that would destroy.
Slavery—nbolish the power of their
masters over the staves—justified, es a
defensive war, measure on the part of
the National Government?
• Anything less than' a proclamation
of absolute :emar.cipation to all the
bendmen in the South would have been
useless, or, at least, only temporary in
its effect. The Government, therefore,
i - n . dealing with slavery as both a cause
and an . aid of Rebellion was bound to
crush it out utterly—to destroy it, root
and branch—to remove it forever as a
source of domestic disturbance,* For
this war is carried on, not only to put
down a present insurrection against
the General Government, but to pre
vent, if possible, any future Rebellion.
Therefore, slavery must not only be
deprived of its powerto hurt the Gov
ernment now,' but it Must, by entire
and final extinguishment, be prevent
ed from ever endangering and injuring
the Government hereafter.'
The rebels do not, of course, like
this interference with their local inst
tutions: Why, then, did• they rise up
in arms and attempt to overthrow a
Government which had always protec
ted them in their State rights and in
terests? This war is their war-4-they
fired the first gun in it, and they surely
cannot justly claim, in• tffoS midst of
war, the protection of the very laws
against which' they have revolted.--
"Inter arma silent leges," is a well es
tablished legal "maxim, nor can those
Civil conditions which aro changed or
destroyed by war, be reclaimed by
those who have provoked and been
vanquished in the conflict.
Slavery in this 'country is virtually
dodmed. No,satisfactory, because no
enduring' peace, can be made, unless
the institution is completely wiped out.
But for the Rebellion—but for . the in
sane efforts of the SOuthern politicians
to perpetuate it by commencing a
war against the Government which
had protected it—the institution might
have gone on in a slow process of ex
tinction. But the means taken for its
preservation have precipitated its de
struction, and the civilized world till
not regret the fact.
We believe,
indeed, that even the
Masses of Southern people will, in time
come to rejoice in their deliverance
from an evil and a curse which, but
for this war, might have encumbered
and afflicted„thern for an indefinite se
ries of years. Whatever may be the
future fortunes of the freedmen of col
or, this, we think, is certain, that the
whites- of the South will eventually
find their social and industrial cond
tion greatly improved by the abolition
of slavery, and that, as experience for
ces this conviction upon them, they
will become reconciled, and oven
grateful, to those who have relieved
them from so serious a nuisance.—
Philadelphia Telegraph. - ,
A. Rebel Raiding General &old- hie
Staff Captured,
Washington, Jan. 20.—The follow
ing despatches have boon received at
the Headquarters of the Army in this
city : •
igasheille, Jan. 17th,
General Halleek, General in chiof:
On the 14th instant General Vance
micle a raid towards Tonisville anGI
ea, tured a train of twenty three wag
ons. He .was promptly pursued by
Col. Palmer, who recaptured the wag
ons and took one ambulance loaded
with medicines, one hundred and fifty
saddle horses and one hundred stand
of arms. •
General Vance, his Assistant Adju
tant General and bib Inspector Goner
al are among the prisoners captured.
Maj. Gen. Tr. - R. GRANT.
Terrible CatnstrOithe in Mtn.
Church of the Jesuits at - Santiago De,
strayed fiy Fire—Over Two Thousand
Women and Children Burned to death
—One Hundred and Fifty .Wagon
Loads of Unrecognized Corpses Ex
humed, etc.
One of the most horrible calamities
that has ever fallen upon any people
occurred in the city of Santiago, the
capital of the Reptiblic of Chile, on the
night of the Sth of December last.
Tho church of the Sesuits, in which
wits being celebrated the Immaculate
Conception of the Virgin, was destroy
ed by fire, and with it were burned
and suffocated over two thousand wo-
men and children.
Ono can hardly realize the terrible
catastrophe that has fallen upon the
people of Chile. Whole faMiliCB have
been swept away in an instant, as it
were, and there is hardly a home in
Santiago that has not been thrOwn in
to the depths - of woe. The battlefield
has its horrors; but they are the inci
dents of war. In this case it has been
womenland children who have been de :
stroyed. and none were able to render
them any aid. Husbands, brothers
and fathersliaveliad to stand by and
witness wives, sisters and children pe
rish in the flames and not be able to
render them assistance. I give you
the full account from the Mercurio del
Vapir of the lith ultimo, which has all
the details; also remarks from that
paper concerning the catastrophe, all
of which aro of deep interest :
One of those awful visitations which
from time to time afflict nations with
eternal mourning, took place on Tues
day, December Bth, at the "liitival of
the Immaculate Conception, in what
was the Church of the Jesuits in the
capital. A magnificent temple reduc
ed to ashes, hundreds of dear lives sac
rificed, the whole city weeping its lost
ones; such is the picture Santiago of
fers since the fatal night, the anniver
sary of another mortal catastrophe—
the battle pf Longsmilla. On the com
memtnoration of the Immaculate Con
ception, the last of the festivities of
the month of May, the most popular
and frequented of all our solemnities,
thousands of fair devotees thronged to
the last performance, which was to e
clipse all that had preceded. At six
in the evening the spacious steps and
part of the open place before the church
swarmed with ladies in veils, frantical
ly struggling toienter a temple, where
not one more could be made room for.
A few minutes before seven, and
when the religious performance was
about to commence, they ware still
lighting the last lights in the chancel,
when the portable gas in the half-moon
of canvas and wood that formed the
pedestal of a colossal image attic Vir
gin Mary, began to burn 'one of the
extremities of that apparatus. Some
one rushed on the rising flame and
succeeded in smothering it, but by a
fatal rebound the gas, compressed by
the
. effort, burst out With redoubled
vigor at the other extremity of the
false half moon. Immediately a fierce
flame rushed up. Tho persons who
thronged the chancel flew towards the
sacristy crying "water, water," whilst
the women ; who filled the nave, arose
in tumultuous confusion screaming
for help. •
The fire spread with wonderful ra
pidity to the reredos of wood and hang
ings, and thence attracted by the cur
rent of air that always circulates be
tween the upper boarding and the
roof, rolled through the church. In a
few moments all overhead was a mass
of flames. In the• meantime the men
had succeeded in escaping; for in this
church the sexes were separated by
an iron grating, and the women had
fled as far as the middle of the church
in a state of the most terrible confus
ion. But the headlong hurry, the
fainting, the obstruction of the bell
shaped dresses, and the frantic eager
ness to gain the street, formed an im
penetrable barrier before the two doors
which, by a culpable imprudence, gave
access to the free air only towards the
open space in front and the small court
of the west side of the church. That
obstacle was the barrier of death.
And now what appeared most hor
rible, was that seeing the salvation of
lives within the reach of our arms,.it
was impossible to save one of the vic
tims piled ono upon another on the
very threshold.
Hardly . had the noble men who de
voted themselves to save lives at the
peril of their own, seized by the arms
or the clothes a prostrate form than
the other women, mad with terror,
from the nearness of the fire, clutched
the victim about to ho saved, and in
some cases dragged those who came
to help them into that fiery vortex.
It was almost impossible to extri
cate even ono from that Leap of de
spairing wretches and undo that
ghastly • knot. But the fire accom
plished that which burned man, and
the passage into the doomed church
was not cleared until thatimpenetrable
phalanx of precious, beautiful life was
a handful of cinders.
At midnight the smoking ruins of
the fatal temple, so sown a silent char
nel house, was visited, and by the light
of a lantern every slip showed to the
appalled gaza fearful groups of carbon
ized corpses, that pl.eserved still the
supplicating or despairing attitude of
their frightful martyrdom.
In another• account from the same
paper is found more of the sickening
details and fuller particulars. I give
it entire:
A dreadful visitation has fallen upon
us: Truly this is'a day of trouble and
rebuke for blasphemy.. The voice of
lamentation is heard all over the land;
the bitter weeping of fathers, brothers,
husbands, and lovers, for thotfe who
wore the joy and brightness' of their
life, that refuses to be comforted be
cause they, are not. Hundreds of
young girls, only yesterday radiant
and beautiful in the luxuriant bloom
of the fresh, hopeful spring of life, are
to-day calcined, hideous corpses, hor
rible, loathsome to the sight, impossi
ble to be recognized.
The Bth of December was a great
triumph for the elergy, of the Church
of the Jesuits'in Santiago. An enthu•
Mastic 'audience filled every nook,—
There were hardly any men there; bnt
three thowiand women, comprising the
flower
- of the beauty and fashion of-the
capital, were-at the feet of the ecoleei
astics, very many against the will of
flithera. and hubbandii ; - Ent that; - or
course. only showed forth the power
and might of the Gospel. Never had
such pyrotechny . been seen before;
twenty thousand. lights, mostly' -cant
phene, in long festoons - of colored
globes, blazed the Church into a hall of
fire. But the performance had pot
yet begun when the oreseent of fire nt
the foot of the gigantic image of the
Virgin over the high altar overflowed
and, climbing up gni muslin drapery
and pasteboard devices to the wooden
roof, rolled a torrent of fire.
The suddenness of the fire was aw
ful. The dimes mass of women, frigh
tened out of their senses, numbers
fainting, and all entangled by their
long, swelling4resses. rushed, as those
who know -that death was at their
heels, to the one door, which soon be
came choked up. Piro was every
where. Streaming along the wooden
ceiling, it flung the camphoric lamps,
hung in rows there, among the strug
gling women.
In a moment the gorgeous church
was a sea of flame. Michael Angelo's
fearful picture of hell was there, but
exceeded. Help was but impossible;
a Hercules might have strained his
strength in vain to pull one from the
serried mood frenzied wretches, who,
piled one above . another, as• they
climbed over - to reach the air, wildly
fastened the grip of death upon any
one escaping, in order that they might
be dragged out with them.
Those who longed to Save them
wore doomed to bear the most harrow
ing sight that ever seared human eye
balls—to see mothers, sisters, tender
and timid women dying that dreadful
death that appalled the stoutest heart
of man, within one yard of salvation,
within one yard of mon who would
have given their lives over and over
again for them. It was maddening—
the screaming- and. ringing of hands
for help as the remorseless flames came
on; and then, while some already dead
with fright' :were burned in ghastly
indifference, others, in their horrible
agony—some in prayer—were tearing
their hair and battering their Ihecs.—
Women, seized is the embraces of the
flames, were seen to undergo trans
formationots though by an optical de
lusisn ; first dazzlingly bright; then
horribly loan and shrunk up, then
black statues, rigidly fixed in a wri
thing attitude.
The fire, imprisoned by the immense
thickness of the walls, had devoured
everything combuStible by ten o'clock;
and then,' defying the sickening stench
people canto-to look - for their lost ones.
Oh, what a sight the-fair, placid moon
looked doWn upon Closely packed
crowds of calcined, distorted forms,
wearing the fearful expression of the
last pang, whose smile was mice a Ilea
ven ; the ghastly phalanx of hlack sta
tues, twisted in every variety ofagony
stretbhing out their arms as if implor
ini mercy ; and then, of the heap that
choked_up the door, multitudes with
their losi er parts entirely untouched,
and some all a shapeless mass, but with
an arm or foot unscathed.
The silence, rifle,. those screams were
hushed in death, was horrible. It; was
the silence ( it t , Olo grave, unbroken but
by tho'bitter wail or fitinting cry, over
two thOusand souls had passed through
that ordeal of fire to -the julginent
heat Of God. - •
Heroic acts of sublime daring have
not been wanting. Enduring grati
tude has been excited in every Chris
tian heart by the gallant efforts of Mr.
Nelson, the Minister of tho United
States, his *countryman Mr. Meiggs,
and several other foreigners. There
were generous men who defied the fu
ry of the flames to save lives, and
some of these died martyrs to their
noble hearts.
An Englishman or an American, it
is unknown which, was seen to rush
through the 'flames, to seize in his
powerful arms a lady, stride with her
a little way,and then, with his hair in
a blaze, an choked with smoke, fell
back into the volcano never to rise
again. A young lady named Ocello,
having in vain implored Some bystan
ders to save her mother, rushed in and
shortly afterwards miraculously issued
firth with her parent in her arms,
saved. A young lady of the tiamo'of
Solar, just before the:smoke suffocated
her, had the presence of mind to tie
her handkerchief around her leg, so
that her body might be recognized.
The writer now continues to speak
of the cause of the fire, and to whom
the blame fey the catastrophe is attri•
butable. He handles the clergy in the
most severe manner, and says :—Tho
population-of Santiago, so' supine and
so priest-ridden, are fired with indos
cribablo_indignation at the monstrous
conduct of the priests. The public
conscience holds them guilty of the
death of all these victims, and particu
larly the mountebank Ugarte, the in-
Venter of - the Virgin's Post Office im
posture (see extract from the "Review
of the Fortnight,") because by collect
ing together all the material most like
lyto produce a tire—a countless num•
bee of lights, pasteboard scenery and
muslin hangings —and admitting • a
vast crowd and covering the one door
open ,with a screen, they took every
pains to bling about it tragedy. When
the fire brUke out and people wore es
(taping- by the sacristy, they blocked
up this door to devote themselves the
more undisturbedly to saving their
gimcracks.
- The list of things saved makes one's
blood run cold. What the priests
- saved, what they put away in segar
shops and the Houses in front, arc, a
gilt image, some wooden saints, a sa
cred sophe or two, some hooks, chali
ces, silver candlesticks, and a great
deal dammed matting and carpet.—
After saving their trash, them) speci
mens of good shepherds, who give
their lives for their sheep, fled away,
in company with the owls and bats
that intifsted the ancient walls—except
that one priest fitvored the agonized
victims with his absolution, and Ugar•
t 43 requested them to die happy, be
cause they twilit direct to Mary..
.WhIE STATE Agricalltural Society
held.its annual meeting and election
for officers, at Harrisburg, on Tuesday
last. Thos. P. Knox was chosen Pres
ident. Tobias Barto,-Vito President
for the.Bth district- - The 27th, 28th,
20th and 80th days of Septomber'next
were fixed for the holding of the annu
al 'exhibition—the place to remain
Open for the . best Offer. •
Real tho nose Averticomento
DEPARTMENT OF THE - GULF,
Late and Important Yews from Texas
--=-The Union - Sentiment—Magruder.
Pazzled—Holies and Fears of the Re
bels.
[From rho Yew Orleansh Inst.)
We have just received a call from
Rev. Mr. Mcßae, of Port ittl.V9(qt, Tex
as, the occupation of which place by
our forces having enabled him as well
as several other professional gentlemen
of that place to got away. Mr. M'ttae
is a native of South Carolina, and all
his relatives, save 'his wife and chil
dren, and one brother, aro bitter and
uncompromising Secessionists, who
would probably assist to hang him up
on the most convenient tree if he
should be so unfortunate as to fall into
their hands.
The information which we have de
rived from Mr. Mcßao fully confirms
the previbus statements of an over
whelming Union sentiment in West
ern Texas, where a combination of U•
nion men exists. - Three prominent U
nionists, Messrs. BuldWin, Peebles and
Zinko, having exposed themselves to
rebel fury by writing.and publishing a
book entitled "Common Sense," have
been imprisoned by order' of Magruder,
who has also suppressed the
The prisoners are confined at San An
tonia. Fears for their safety are en
tertained, especially as the "Sons of
the South" - have voted to hang them.
Much mutiny exists among the rebel
soldiers in Western Texas. They are
sick of the war, and begin truly to re
gard it-as , "a rich man's war and a
poor . man's fight" All the negroes in
the Slate, from Sixteen to fifty, are or
dered into the service, to work in the
entrenchments, &e.; to such great neg
lect of the plantations as to create pre
dictions of a famine:
Magruder is said to
,be very much •
perplexed to divine Banks' plan, and
hardly knows where to guard against
the next blow, which, in the opinion
of our informant, should be struck as
soon as possible. , Magruder is concen
trating his forces or. the Brazos river,
thirty miles from the coast, in Central
Texas, where he is' throwing. up en
trenchments.
The Natchez Courier says that a
prisoner just escaped from Tyler,.in
Texas, says that large gangs of slaves,
frequently numbering five hundred,
were constantly passing westward to
the interior of the State. Many of the
Texans are looking forward to the time
when the French would reduce Mexico
to subjugation and make it a slave
country i so that even if the. Union
were restored, they would have a place
of refuge for themselves and their ha
man, chattels.. •
Headquarters' 12th Army Corps.
Tur.,LAnomA, TENN., }
Jan. 15, 1804.
EDITOR GLOBE :—The "sunny South"
has been visited by breezes hyperbo
rean. Creeks, ponds, and rivulets
have been ice -bound; lingers and toes,
and ears and noses that have endured
something less than a hundred Noi•th
urn winters have been sadly frost-bit
ten. A half frozen hero from Chattan
ooga says "it, was terriblr, told there,
Mercury very low, sir,—Ho'low that it
actually disappeared from the bottom
of the tube. Thermometer's 'entirely
useless, sir!' We can imagine what
suffering there was in the rudely im
provised huts of the soldiers. Even
at headquarters, where we consider
ourselves more fortunate, we may long
remember our winter in a Summer
house—an edifice raised three or four
feet from the ground to give the air a
free circulation beneath, and so con
structed as to leave a thousand cracks
and crannies for the winds to introduce
themsel:es. It may be a very pleas
ant residence at the proper season, but
would hardly be occupied at this time
if a mono comfortable place were to be
found in Tullahoma. But the winter
is half over now, - and we may hope
that it will riot again, be cold enough
to freeze thO ink on our pens as we
write. Gen. Rossoau's division, lyin g
north of iffurfhesboro,, has been ad
ded to the 12th corps. Gen. Slocum
has, therefore, control of our entire
line of communications, and all the
troops between Nashville and Bridge
port, Ala. This increase and exten
sion of his command appear to have
been made in acknowledgenmit of his
merits as an officer. This corps has
really abcomplished wonders since, it
came Tennessee. At Wauhatchie
it defeated the rebels and "relieted the
Army of the Cumberland from the ne
cessity of subSisting on half rations.
At Lookout Mountain it drove' the
hosts of Bragg from their thl'eatening
position, and gave the army an oppor
tunity to breathe freely again, which
it had not done since the battle of
Chickamauga. While this was being
done by Gen Gentry's Division, Gen.
Slocum was rendering invaluable ser
vices in defending and fortifying the
Nashville and Chattanooga railroad.
So efficient and vigilant have his exer
tions been that not'a rail has been.ton
ched, although raids on different points
of the line have at various' times been
imminent. The road is now in a con
dition to bo defensible against any
force that is likely Co attempt its de
struction.
There recently occurred near this
place ono of the most shocking brutal.
ities of which a human being could bo
guilty. 'The particulars are perhaps
well known. A foraging party went
out into Lincoln county, when four or
five men belonging to it ventured a
way from the main body without arms.
They were attacked and' captured by
guerillas, who treated them not as pri
soners of war, but subjected them to
the most horrid barbarities. Their
hands were tied behind their backs,
and they were then mutilated,
killed by bullets. In this wounded 'and
helpless condition they were thrown
over a precipice into Duck river to
drown. Three of them actually euf
fered death in this manner. It has
been ordered by Gen.-Thomas, that
every effort, be made to apprehend
the authors of this inhuman deed, and
that they be executed if caught. Gen.
tilocum's escort, a company of tho"4-th
Tennessee cavalry, has been scouring
the country, and has brought in a num
ber of men, who are now - under guard
and will no doubt be given a trial. Gen.
Thomas had also ordered that a fine
of thirty thousand dollars be laid on
the inhabitants within ten miles of
the pace where the murder was com
mitted, the money to be given to the
'hinnies of the three men. This order
is to be executed by Gen. Slocum.
Darin the last two weeks comm.
niewion - with the North has been par
tially interrupted by ice in the Ohio
river. To day, however, he N. York
and Cincinnati pavers came through,
so we conctude.that navigation is a
gain open: • .
Teti regiments have re-enlisted in
this corps, and areabsetft on furlough.
When these troope . , return the gallant
twelfth will truly deserve the name of
Vetiran. • , - 31. S. L.
. .
CAMP
,PAttoLE, January 15, 1864
Thinking that a word .from this
Camp, -might not he uninteresting to
you, as well-as to your numerous rea
ders:and especially to that - Portion of
them who may be so fortunate as to
draw a prize in Capt Campbell's lot
tery, who knows but thefittes of man
may allow some of them to became
sojourners here for a season.
It is called Camp Parole, on,aecount
of its being selected, and fitted Up. by
the government as a receptacle or
rendesvous • for all Paroled and
exchanged prisOners of war, who
arrive from • the prison - a .: in . Rich
mond, Va. They,. are organized here
and prepared-after exchange t-) join
their respective regiments in -the field.
College Green Barracks near Annapo
lis is the' depot however at which they
first land, and where they undergo an
examination. The siek.are -sent from
thence to the Gent-Hospital in the Na
val school ' buildings. 'The conVales
eenta after-undergoing a certain tho
rough ablutory process-'sd as to • tho
roughly divest them of all the super
fluities of life, which I am informed
are acquired with Out-an effort in -the
prisons of'Richmond. They' are then
taken,' comfortably clothed and sent to
Camp Parole. The Camp is located
about fit() miles from the city of An
napolis, the Capital ollffaryland, The
government has leased forty acres of
land and erected thereon a series of
frame buildings or barracks..Toore are
forty Barracks in all,'each sixty feet
by seventy and fitted-up with double
rows of bunks and the -necessary ac
commodations for- one hundred and
seventy-tiVe men. The forty buildings
can eumfb”tably quarter about seven
thousand men. The Barratiks are
built in rows of ten with 'wide ; tsreets
between each row, also offteers!, quar
ters, buildings for the quarter masters
and Commissary departments, ,two ve
ry neccessury appendages to all well
regulated Camps. In addition to
these are the cook Houses, wash Hous
es, Ste. The buil lings are all,w wa'sh
ed and present quite it neat and trim
appearance. The Camp is divideff in
to four wards'or battalions, each -un
der the Command of one or more com
missioned offieers. Cul Root the com
mandant - of the camp has taken -great
pains to arrange and melee every
thing as convenient and comfortable
as possible for the men. We , have
about twelve hundred paralodor unex
changed men here now; a portion of the
last five hundred Men who arrived
from Richmond, - have been sent to join
their Regiments in the west, being
most of them in pretty petit health.—'
Prom what I have learned from those
who last arrived,
- they, did not suffer
so much from the lack of food or the
bad piality cd:it(although.bad enough)
as from impurity ana filthiness of their
prisons, bad ventilations and .a lack. of
the necessary means for washing and
clothing themselves. It is to he hoped
that Gent Butler will succeed, in cut
ting the gordon knot and that we may
soon see our brave boys amongst • us
• again.
There aro many reminiscences dale
past in this part of Maryland, which
would be fruitful and interesting
themes-for the pen of a ready , writer.
The fund upon which Camp Parole, is
located, is a part of the old Carrol
grant, held by patent from Lord
Baltimore; and within a few rods of
the lines of the Camp may still be
seen it very unostentatious: grave,
where repose the remains of the elder
Carrot, father of Charles Cam) of Car
rolton, and upon this farat the patriot
Charles was borh and spent a portion
of. his youth. How changed, this Once
virgin soil, the heritage of palr:ots
bath been contaminated with the tares
of secession. The present - oirtiers are
said to be rebels.
The EPiscopal Church iu the city is
perhaps ono of the oldest Churches in
the country. It was built in Queen
Anne's time. The hCll which still gra.
ces its steeple was' presented to the
Church by her. I am also informed that
until a few years ago the Church had
in their possession a beautiful sot of sil.
vor communion service also predented
by her royal highness to the vestry.—
They however as dutiful and, zealous
christians, and no doubt in compliance
with the command, "that old things
shall pass away and all things become
now" had this beautiful hair-loom sent
to the refiners fire and fashioned in
accordance with their more madam
notions; a worthy example of humility
truly. lam told however a portion of
the Church could not see it. •
Thu State House in which tho Ma
ryland Legislature is in session is,also
worthy of note. The Continental
Congress hold their session ofl7Bl in
this, building. I believe it. was during
this session that Washington resigned
his Commission as Commander in Chief
of the Continental army. A compari
son between the then, and present oc
cupants would not be the most favor-
From what I saw oftheir man
ner ofdespatching business, I you d
for that a few copies of Zeigler's man
.ual might be of serviceAo them. (Per
haps the Penna. Sdnate could Ivor
'them with a few , copies.) The eman
cipation question was before the Sem
ate. A large majority appeared' to fa
vor the general idea of ethancipation but
differed materially as to the mode,
some for immediate, oth'ers fbr gradual,
some for a compansated, emancipation
by the Gent Government. Others - be-
IRived that the owners of slaves would
bo sufficiently remunerated. by the
new order of things the enhanCed value
of real estate, &e. Several very `good
speeches wore inade:,A grave -old sen
ator arose, he said ho. arose to calm
the troubled waters, and cautioned Sen.
atoms againft the terrible tualady,nigger
on the brain; he said he had had. it
once told • during the proxism had
lammed five Niggers ono Sunday
morning before breakfast, went to
church to take'sacrament, blit fell
,out
and lam Med his , lits§ leader for presu
ming to intefere in his domestio affairs,
which cost him Twenty dollars.—
Since Which time he has not had the
maladyin so, virulent form.
But I must conclude this rambling
and already too lebgtby letter. '
ItTNIATA.,
NEAR Tin.vsapx,
• - Jan. tk PgB4';'
DEAft G LOBEL —Thinking a feWitems
from here might Interest your oytatirti
I will- write% few lines to day: „
`The' th f o'er regitriorit'his head
excellent , for'several months; out of 59
men and'dilietire iu (air Ca. ; Only one
is unfit for duttand he !Ms only , been
sick a few days. A'year ag,o nearlY :
half our•regitnent: were sick; and-the
balance almost discouraged': 'noW - the
troops are in excellent bealtli'and spir
its confident that the war will sone be
brought to a close, and the Union
stored. The - forces in and aronm.t
Nashville are being reorganized.:•-• -
Ours is the first brigade of the 3d, Di,
vision of the ariny,of the Cumberland;
it consists of the 102d;'10,5th, 1291 h, Eli,
19th-Ohio, andk7Oth-Indiitna c CoLlßen
Harrison Comdg. brigade and, Gun,
Comdg., ( Dtvision; it is generally
helievcd that as soon, as - the- spring •
opens we will go,forward-to the front;_.
trains run regularly op .:the'
and.ohattandoga R plies, and - recruits n fOrivaktand
mg - back, - furloughed • 'Veteran"
'wants, &c. , - .;
So fitr as I can learn - from- con'
thins with 'the People-9f 'different.
Mons Ofthis Sfe.to they_aTre-yeadyi t
anxious to retn rn! - thew in legia nt~,
to the general -government and to r'd.
establish a loyal-State government. Of
course a: diVeraity .of prevails
in-regard to. the peculiar: institution,
hilt I believe they may,,be trtistedcwitlt
thO management of their-doniestic-in.
stitutions without danger. So far as I
can learn all To,lllo.4SelillS ofgood prin.
ciple, are determined to. leave. the- re
bel army - assoon as-possible but 'there
is a class of desperadoes , who take to
bushwacking or hr plain terms to rob.
bery and murderAs'soott as theyleaVe
the arMy: ' •
On ,the evening elite; 21st Deo.; its
Dr. Stanway, our 2nd Surgeoni::and
gapt e Wilson,of co. lil'i-were returning
from it stockade on Milt Creek; in,pas . -
sing a.cedar!thicket about-six; - miles
from camp, they were halted-by a doz
en bushwhack ers;:ref ng tQ;;Bn run.
der they were, fired on, they. returned
the fire, ivolindingtwo-orthree. -The
Doc ter, wait' sh of; i rfth o, left: leg' break
ing the bone above the-knee; his horso
followed the Captain, who after "lim
ing his thee grazed - and . his beard
- opt
by balls, broke.back, toward the stock
ade, but his mare being . ' Wounded; he
*was forced to leave her and take to
_the thickets;:after being-purseed about
a mile and _a: b fi• lac r_. won nding the
Doctor, they robbed him of his. watch
and what valuables-be had about him,
stripped off, his overcoat and dress.
'Poat,• /MCI Wit lion and hat, after
threatening to kill him. They alloived
the neighbors to take him to a house
and seed .fir a Citizen doeter; fortit•
nately he had left his money in - camp.
As his wound was too 'painful to' bear
moving to' Calitp, a guard was detailed
to stay.with him; he is doing well and
we hope to see him doing -duty with
the tegiment.again in a fhty months,
as heis_it great favorite With the boys.
The- guyrillas were: deserters-from
'Pores t'eco i‘ r M e' 7 6
-them at:.3
in confiewnont, and Aluerest are scat
tered; there has' been no .depredations
committed since, except' horse steal
ing; which ha's , become a 'dangerOns
business of late. The weather-has
been extremely cold for this hititude
for several weeks, the thermometer
has been below zero several degrees
some mornings. I visited the, State
Lunatic Asylum a fhwstlays ago; it is
located on the Murfreesboro pike; six
miles from Nashville and although it
has Buffeted to.somo extent, in conse
quence of the war, it is still in work
ing order; there is a fine spring that
supplies the institution with whole
some water, besides supplying a fine
pond; the buildings are hosted by
steam, as are the green horses con•
taining a fine collection of plants,
shrubs -and
. d r a
owes; one contains
large stone basin in which grow the
Victoria Regis, (I believe that - is . tho
name) one•of the largest-and, rarest
water plants in the world; the basin is
alive with gold fish. The grounds are
tastefully arranged and, well kept, but
of' course at this-season Ao met: show
off to 'ad van tage; there is ai late br
-1 chard of choice fruit on the farm. The
patients or those we saw, appear to
he. well cared Sor, and enjoying-.them
selves as well as their _mental condi
thin will allow. -
'Ou our way baek we took. dinner
with a Mr. Dennison, a cousin:of - ex-
Governor Dennison of Ohio. .His son
is in the rebel army sick; or be would
have come home with some 'of bis
neighbors, who crossed the TonneSsee
river on an old log and reached the
Federal lines. We called on 'Squire
Shave, father - of the recorder.in Nash-
Ville Ole is a soldier of the`Wa'rof 1812
and kept;liiti _rifle in disregard of king
Isham's Ordefs."Hels'ae - old - man, but
ho says one man canna' take•his,-Title
frtim him. But enough for this time.
Years; &o.; - D.T. P.
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