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THE PREt
ruziantzu DAILY, (1512111 DAYS ZIOIPTIOD4
BY JOHN W. FORNEY.
101/TIOI NO. 417 CHESTNUT STREET
THE DAILY PRESS,
reltamma Outten Paa WREN, payable es the Meth*.
)Walled to Bubscribere out of the Oity at t3a DOLLARS
.pas MINTS, Vont. DOLLARS TOR lit ORR NORTH'S, THUS
:DOLLARS TOR 811 NOINTRS—IRT(iTiRbIy in Advance for
be:time ordered.
THE TRI-WEEKLY PRESS,
Nailed to Subscribers out of the City at TIMM Hoz,
Slew Pas ANNIIM, in advance.
MILITARY GOODS.
:SKY-BLUE CASSIMERE,
TOR NEW ARMY REGULATION PANTS,
OF A SUPERIOR QUALITY,
FOR OFFICERS' USE
FOR BALE BY
ALFRED SLADE & CO.,
40 Sontb FIIONT Street, and 39 LETITIA Street
GENTS' FURN ISRING GOODS
"OATEN 1 4
McCLELLAN TIES.
PATENT
McCLELLAN TIES.
PATENT
McCLELLAN TIES.
PATENT
McCIY.LIAN TIES.
PATENT • MCLELLAN SCARFS.
PATENT
bIeCLELLAN SCARFS.
PATENT
McCLELLAN SCARFS.
ea J. A. ESHLEMAN'S ! AT J. A. ESHLEMAN'S
AT J. A. ESHLEMAN'S ! AT J. A. ESHLEMAN'S
AT J. A. ESHLEMAN'S ! AT J. A. ESHLEMAN'S
&NJ. A. xsinsivays I AT J. A. EaHLEMAN'S
NORTHWEST CORNER OF
SEVENTH AND CHESTNUT.
SEVENTH AND CHESTNUT.
SEVENTH AND CHESTNUT.
-THE ONLY CRAVAT STORE IN PHILADELPHIA.
THE ONLY CRAVAT STORE IN PHILADELPHIA.
SHE ONLY CRAVAT STORE IN PHILADELPHIA.
THE ONLY CRAVAT STORE INPHILADELPELLL.
P. B. The above articles, being PATENTED. cannot
E* obtained elsewhere.
P. S. No. C. Men's Furnishing Mods, in every variety.
P.S. N 0.3. PATENT ENAMELLED COLLARS,
10 FOR A QUARTER.
der-stuth3..
VINE SHIRT MANUFACTORY.
al: The subscriber would invite attention to his
lALPSOVED OUT OF SUPITS,
Which be waked a specialty in big buninea& Mini con.
ellaptly receiving
NOVELTIES FOB GENTLEMEN'S WEAR.
J. W. SO( )TT
GENTLEMEN'S FUR:NT:4EIEG ' STORE,
.No. 814 CHESTNUT STREET,
ja9-ff Four doors below the Continental
CLOAKS AND MANTILLAS.
G REAT BARGAINS
IN
LADIES' CLOAKS,
To close out,
At the
itECH.BIBEET CLO TENTH MANTILLA. STORE,
N. W. cornerand ARCH Ste.
JACOB ROBSEALL. •
V Handsome etyles of well-made, aervieeatde gu
ll:Lent& The beat made, the beet fitting, aid the beet
Materiala for the price. A large stock from which to
IN elect. COOPER At CONAN%
del& S. E. car. NINTH and MARKET.
gi I, OAKS!
IV The Largest, Cheapest, and Best-assorted Stock
111 the city.
HOUGH & CO.,
No. 2.5 South TENTH Street,
Opposite Franklin Market.
COMMISSION ROUSES.
SHEPLEY, tEAZ&B,D, &
HUTCHINSON,
Mo. 111 ONEBTNIIT BTBIZT)
VOMMLIBSION BLEBOHANTO
VOX THII BALM Or
JPITIII.A.DEI.I 2 IIIA-MADE
GOODS.
LOOKING GLASSES.
JAMES S. EARLE & SON,
MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS
LOOSING- GLASSES.
OIL PAINTINGS,
FINE ENGRAVINGS,
,PICTURE AND PORTRAIT FRAMES,
PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES,
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS,
CARTE-DE-VISITE PORTRAITS,
EARLE'S GALLERIES,
816 CHESTNUT STREET,
PHILADELPHIA
GROCERIES.
caAjl-AppLE cip.cA":
OLD CURR4NT WINE,
OLII USUAL SUPPLY,
itrST RECEIVED.
ALBERT C. ROBERTS,
DEALER IN TINE GROCERIES,
laft-tf Corner of ELEVENTH and VINE Sts
MACKEREL, HERRING, diLM),
SALMON, &c.-8.000 bble Mese Nos. 1,2, said
IIinCESBEL, large, medium, and mall, in assorted
issokagea of choice, late-carkght, fat fish.
1,000 bbis. New Halifax. Eastport, and Labrador Her.
MP, of choice anal/See.
1,000 boxes extra new sealed Herrings.
MOO boxes extra new No. 1 Herrings.
5,800 boxes large Magdaline Herrings.
ISO bbis. Mackinac White Fish.
60 bbla. new Economy Mess Slut
'Nibble. new Halifax Salmon.
~000 quintals Grand Bank Codfish.
SOO boxes Herkimer County Cheese.
in eters and landing, for sale by
KIINPNY di KOONO.
not No. 148 NORTH WiIARVIS.
DRUGS AND CHEMICALS
t'WHITE LEA 1
OIL.
Bed Lead,
White Lem,
Litharge,
Sugar of Lead,
Copperas,
Oil of Vitriol,
Calomel,
Patent Yellow,
Chrome Red,
Chrome Yellow,
AQUA sortie,
Idurlatic Acid,
Epsom Salta,
Rochelle Salts,
Tartaric Acid,
Orange Mineral,
Soluble Tart.
Sub. 'Garb. Soda,
White Vitriol,
Bed Precipitate,
WETTIER
Detiggietc and Ma
Boa. 47 and 49
JalB.tf
MEDICINAL.
G LUTEN CAPSULES
OF
PURE 0013-LIVER OIL-
The repagnaneo of moat patients to. COD-LIVES
9/L, and the inability of many to take it at all, has in
*lced variona forms of disguise for its administration
that are familiar to the Medical Profession. Some of
Silsm answer In special cases, but more often the vehicle
lantralisee the meal effect of the Oil, proving quite as
unpalatable and of lees therapeutic value. The repug
nance, nausea, ne., to invalids, induced by disgust of the
Oil, is entirely obviated by the use of our CAPSULES.
COD-LITRE OIL CAPEXLES have been much used
Nobly in Zurope, the experience there of the good re
volts from their use in both hospital and private practice,
naldo from the naturally suggested advantages, are auf
&lent to warrant our claiming the virtues we do for
zest, feeling enured their use will result in benefit and
,served favor. Prepared by
WYETH & BROTHER,
1412 WALNUT Street, Philadelphia.
IYE AND EAR.—DR. JONES, of
N. T., will Practice at HERR ' S HOTEL, ft AR
ti.gusdi, Pa., from the Roth JAIIIJARY till the 10th
lIIIIIABY, 1862.
cures all curable diseases of the EAR and
ti t and perform, e•lf ormariene for the reetoratiell of
NI; and Hearing.
JONES straightens Crossed Eyes in one minute.
JONES inserts Artificial Eyes (to move and appear
Mal,sl) without pain, no matter whether the Eye be
111 . 1 .::7 or entirely out.
J. JONES introduces artificial Ear Drums, which im
ame the bearing immediately.
Dr. JONES has had the benefit of a Medical Education
the Medical Colleges, Hospitals, and Eye and Ear In
stitutions of America and - Europe. His Diplomas hang
fn his Oike. .1102-12 tat
kitS. JAMES .BETTS' CELEBRA-
Ira SUPPORTERS FOR LADIES, and the
I Supporters under eminent medical patronage. La
. ea and 'Wadden' are rospoOthdir roltierted to call only
P a Mrs. Betts, at her residence,los9 WALNUT Strees,
Philadelphia, (to avoid counterfeits.) Thirty thousand
{mom have been advised by their phyeicians to nee her
Whams. Time piny ore genuine towing the United
Mau / coppight, labels on the bon, and lignetUrelh and
oleo on the Supporter& with testlmonlids. oold-tuthadi
41§T SAM DUCK and CAN-
Tam, of all lumbar' end brands.
does Dock Awning WIN ,of doooriptiona, far
44 Moping% Trunks, and Warn Coven.
//la, now Kaordaotarerot Drier redni, fr
1
Mb& Tarpardind, BollthibfAM
JOHN W. a 00.
in MIN MI6,
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67 PIECES NEW SPRING PRINTS.
New 4-4 Shirting . Prints.
New Oil Chintacs at UN cents, worth 25.
New Import.l Gingham.,
COOPER k CONARD,
fe3 NINTH and MARKET Streets.
, DRY AND IN
White Precipitate,
Lunar caustic,
Nareetins.
Bulph. Morphine,
Morphine,
Acetate Morphine,
Lac. Sulph.,
Ether Sulphuric,
Ether elitric,
Sulphate Quinine, _
Oorro. Su
Berrarcotited
Chloride of Soda,
Wetherill'a ext. Mocha
Tartar Emetic,
Chloride of. Lime.
Crude Borax,
Relined Borax,
Camphor,
Beata Copavia.
lA, 4 BROTHER,
nufacturing 01145thilised,
'North SECOND Street,
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VOL. 5.-NO. 156.
RETAIL DRY GOODS.
BLACK ALPAOAS.
One auction lot 37x, worth 5l cents.
One auction lot 25, worth 31 cents.
Fine Black Wool De'alma, 37x costa.
COOPER Sr CONARD,
fe3 %unload corner NINFR and MARKET
LINEN GOODS.
Medium and Fiue Fronting Linens.
Heavy Shirting and Pillow Linens.
One lot Ned-berdered Fringed Towels, 18% cents;
cheap.
Linen Sheeting, Diapers, Napkins, Doylies.
Damask Table Cloths, Blay Linens, ,te.
CVOPER d 4 ONARD,
lea fontheast corner NINTH and 111 alltliliT.
SPRING GOODS FOR LADIES'
WE AR .—The Subscribers are receiving their usual
assortment of Richardson's and Dunbar Dickson's Golden
Flax Linens, Long Lawns, Linen Cambrics, etc. Also,
French and English Cambric Long Cloths, and all de
scriptions of White Goods, Hosiery, and Embroideries, et
the newest styles and most celebrated makes, at Importers'
prices.
SHEPPARD, VAN HARLINGEN, ,k AIIRISON,
fol-6trp MS CH EST NU P Street.
NEW LINENS AND FURNISHING
GOODS.--The largest assortment in the city of
Flemish, Irish, and Barnsley Linen Sheetings.
Table Linens, Table Napkins, Doylies,
Golden Flax Shirting Linens.
Superfine Fronting do.
Towels, fringed and bordered Towelings, etc.
Blankets. Quilts, Table and Piano Covers.
Curtain Goods, Lace and Muslin Curtains, &c., &c.
SHEPPARD, VAN HARLINGEN, & ABELSON,
fel-6tap 1005 CHESTNUT Street.
MUSLINS BY THE PIECE.—Not.
veliLetandiug the great rise in Cotton anode, we
will continue to sell our entire stock at last week's low
prices. We offer bleached Medina by the piece at 6%. ;
bleached Muslin, 61fc. by the piece; bleached 8111311119
i}jc by the piece; bleached Muslin, 23% inches wide,
Sc. by the piece; bleached Muslin for 10c. by the piece;
bleached Muslin for 11c. by the piece; bleached Muslin
for 12c.; bleached Muslin for 12303. by the piece; 40
inches wide, 12%c.; he tvy, lit yards wide,l4j4c.; 311(
yards wide, 31 ; unbleached Muslin, gc. by the
piece' unbleached Muslin ion.; unbleached Muslim;
1034 c., by the piece; unbleached for 11X c.; unbleached
(extra good) Muslin 12%c. by the piece; unbleached
Muslin, 23‘ yards wide, 31ile. by the piece. We will
offer the same print that is selling for 14% and 15c., for
12X c. by the piece; the same colored Canton Flannel,
that is selling fur lie., for 12%c. by the piece; un
bleached for 12% c.; Leavy colored Drilling 12%c. by the
piece; white Drilling 121‘c.; yard wide black Flannel
37j(c. Embraeed in this stock will be found every de
'Amble make and width of Shirting and Sheeting made.
We invite an examination of this stock by storekeepers
and others, and will guaranty to sell any make of Mus
lin at a less price than they can possibly be bought at
any Wholesale or Retail Rouse.
It D. & W. H. PENNELL,
ja29-6t 1021 MARKET St., below ELEVENTH.
GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES
OF MANY STYLES OF WINTER GOODS FOR
FIFTEEN DAIS LONGER, BEFORE TAKING
Tani INTO STOCK, wiz:
Figured and Plain Merinos'.
Plain and Gay Long Shawls. •
Dark Dress Goods, Poplins, &c.
Plaid Flannels—Pink, Blue, and Brown.
Ladies' Scarfs, reduced 30 per cent.
One lot of L. C. Hdkfs., at 15c.
Two lota do., at "2.5 c., a bargain.
Ono lot of Linen Diaper at $1.25 a niece.
Hoop Skirts-75, 5734, $l, and $1.12.
Nice assortment of Ginghanis. •
Ladies' Merino 'Vests, all sizes. -
Missea' Merino Yeats, all sizes.
Gloves and Hosiery of all kinds.
Gents' Silk Handkerchiefs, splendid assortment at
J. H. STOKES',
,Itt2s tf 7Q ARM Street.
AMILY DRY GOODS STORE.
F
EYRE & LANDELL, FOURTH and ARCH,
have in store a tlientoek of
GOODS FUR FAMILY CUSTOM
Good plain colored Silks.
Fashionable figured Silks.
Durable black Silks, plain and figured.
Linen Shirting. end Linen Sheeting..
Beet makes Long Cloth Shifting Muslin.
Table Linens and Damask Towelings.
Blankets, line quality and large size. _
Marseilles Quilts of ail sizes.
Cloths andhCassimeres for men and boys.
White goods, a very full stock.
Black goods of every description. ja23
BARGAINS IN BLACK SILKS AT
H. STEEL it SON'S,
No. HS North TENTH Street. above Hostas.
licit Black Silks at 70 cents,
1 lot Black Silks at 75 and 81 cents.
1 lot Black Silks at 87, 90, and $l.
1 lot Black Silks at $1.1231 and $125.
1 lot Black Silks at $1.31, $1.31A, and $1.50.
lot pick Silks. yard wide.
tat - a:kik§ fitill'sor SILKS.
We are closing out our stock of
Fancy Silks at a great sacrifice,
preparatory to takin.. , stock. _
Fanny Bilks at 60:56. 67.34, 75, AT, and SL
Superior qualities of Fancy Silks SII2X to $2.
Also, our entire stock of
DRESS GOODS,
ja22 at less than cost prices.
MUSLINS ! MUS LINS ! MUSLIN'S!
PIRISLINS BY TIM- PIECE—MWSLINS BY
THE .13416.L2.—N0w is the time for housulumpers to buy
their Sheetings and Shirtings, as all kinds of domestic
goods are rapidly rising, and there can be no possible
diminution of prices. We still have a few boxes of
Wanasutta, Williamsville, Black Rock, and other popular
makes. Good Muslims at 8, 9,10,11 cents. The best 12-
cent Iduslin in the city. Our Pillow-Case Mullins, and
our 10-4, 11-4, and 12-4 Sheeting, purchased some time
time, are from thine to four cents cheaper than pan be
found elsewhere. COWPEUTHWAIT .k CO.,
ja22 N. W. cor. EIGHTH and 111.4.11KET.
SHEPHERDS' PLAID CASHMERE.
One case just opened.'
Black and White Checks, double width.
Fine All-wool Cashmeres.
jaat SHA.RPLESS BROTHERS.
NEW BALMORALS.
Four hundred imported Balmoral Skirts,
At prices lower than before offered.
ja2l - SHARPLESS BROTHERS
RUSSIA CRASH,
In • •
mediam. and fine qualities.
Scotch Crash and Towelling.
SHAMPLESS BROTHERS.
EMBROIDERED MUSLIN OUR
TAINS—At very low prizes, to sell the stock.
SHARPLESS BROTHERS,
ja2l CHESTNUT and EIGHTH Streets.
- PYRE & LANDELL, FOURTH and
ALI ABCH, open today, a fresh assortment of
Double-faced Black Figured Silks.
Solid Colored Brown Figured Silks.
Blues, nodes, Green, and Purple Bilks. [jail
EIRE & LA.NDE.LL keep the very
heaviest
Plain Black Dress Silks.
Reavy•bordered Stout Black Silks.
Widow's Silks, without gloss.
Bich Plain Silks, for city trade. jab
$2,50 B . ALMORAL SKIRTS, full
Balmorals Wholesale.
Dalmorala Retail.
jail EYRE & LANDELL.
CABINET FURNITURE.
CABINET FURNITURE AND BIL-
MOORE & CAMPION,
No. 261 South SECOND Street,
u eounectkon with their extensive Cabinet Badness are
saw manufacturing a anterior article of
BILLIARD TABLES ,
Ind have now on hands full supply, finished with the
1100113 & OAMPION'S rhfPROVRD OUSHIONB,
which are pronounced, by all who have used them, to be
superior to all others.
For the nualitr and finish of these Tables the menn•
Simmers refer to their numerous patrons throughout the
Onion, who are familiar with the characterof their work.
au2l-em
VSTL AC K'S DIPTHERIA AND
.L.A SORE THROAT LOZENGES,
A aide and efficient remedy in Dipthoria - , Sore Throat
from ecarlet Fever, Quinsy f Clergymen's Sore Throat,
InSammation of the Fences and Palate, Membranous
Croup, Enlarged Tonsils, Catarrh, Influenza, Asthma,
Hoarseness, or any Bronchial. Affections from Colds
causing pain, swelling, or redness in the Throat, render
ing respiration difficult.
Prepared only by T. ESTLACE, Jun., Druggist,
No.lBoo MARKET Street.
And sold by DrUggists generally. ja3l-6t*
EVERY LADY WHO WISHES TO
BE BEAUTIFUL should purchase HUNT'S
COURT TOILET POWDER. It is used by the Court
Beauties in Europe, and it is the only Powder that will
not injure the skin of rub off. Price, 12, 25, and 50
cents. HUNT'S BLOOM OF ROSES, a beautiful, na
tural color, for the cheeks or lips ; it will not wash off or
injure the skin, and remains durable for years. Price
gl. These articles are quite new, and can only be ob
tained of HUNT Sc C0.,133 South SEVENTH street,
above Walnut. All kinds of Fancy Soave and Per
fumery,
(TO THE DISEASED OF ALL
a_ CLASSES.— Professore BOLLES & STE-
VENS, Medical Electricians, 1220 WALNUT St.,
Philadelphia, invite all diseased - Forams to call ;
young and old, who have failed of being cured by
quacks, old-school physicians, and nostrums. We
warrant all curable cases by special 0441360 i KA
charge nothing if we fail.
Consultation free. A. pamphlet of great value
given to all. free of charge. ja2o-1m
IFTIERRAPINS, OYSTERS STEWED
11 AND FRIED, AND CHICKEN SALAD.--Inyi
tuition Cards and other notices will be distributed in all
parts of the city, with punctuality,
The =dandy/0d le at all times prepared to preen; for
the impaction of Ladies and Gentlemen, a list of the
things necessary for a large or soma enter tainment, as the
ells may be, thereby avoiding all unnecessary profusion
and waste; and flatters himseif, that by his long expe
rience in business, he will be able at all times to give, se
heretofore, entire satisfaction to all who favor him ith
their patronage. HENRY JONES, Caterer,
No- 260 South TWELYTH Street, above SPRIION.
oel.dm
HANGING VASES.
Ornamental Flower Pots.
Parlor Vases for Growing Flowers.
Baskets for Jardiniere.
Pedestals with Vaae for Flower*.
Antique Vases for Mantels.
Vases Bensimance for Parlor.
ihnetle arid Terra Cotta Vases.
Lava Flower Pots and Vases.
•
Garden Vases and Pedestals.
Brackets for Busts and Figure*.
With a great variety of articles suitable for Christ
pm presents, for sale retail and to the trade.
Warerooms 1010 olizmuT street, Philadelplda.
deli B. A. HARBISON.
RAIBINS.-300 boxes Layer Raisin?, •
800 half boxes Laver Robins;
800 boxes M B Bunch Baiting
800 half boxer 31 B Bunch Beisine.
Mew and choice fruit, now landing and for sale by
MURPHY & 1100N13,
167-1 f No, 140 NORTH WiI&RVI&
A NTI-FitICTION METAL,
Superior quality ,
For ado bp
JAMES YOO4ll, %TR.,
DI%IIIKEZI'B AWAY.
Uila•auw eat. Front sad &mond, JhaVa and Axial $0
Vrtss.
ITUESDAY, FERRUARY 4,1862.
THE REBELLION.
INTERESTING SOUTHERN NEWS.
A Rebel Picture of the Rebellion.
AFFAIRS IN TENNESSEE AND TILE
COTTON STATES.
THE CONDITION OF THE UNION MPS IN
EAST TENNESSEE.
THE SUFFERINGS OF ANDREW JOHNSON'S FAMILY.
Parson Brownlow's Whereabouts.
AFFAIRS IN BUELL'S DEPARTMENT,
THE SPIRIT OF HIS ARIIY
r:•: . • : •
LATE Berns.
The Rebel Gen. Crittenden•s Proclamation to
the People of Kentucky Before the Battle.
The Federal Advance in Missouri
Concentrating at Lebanon.
AFFAIRS AT FORTRESS MONROE.
HEAVY FIRING HEARD AT NORFOLK.
&c., &c., ecc.
FROM THE REBEL STATES.
A Picture of the Rebellion.
THE REBELS MOURNING OVER THE FRUITS OF
[From the Norfolk Day ]Book, January 30.1
We are pained to learn that the Hampton sol
diers are still suffering for the want of many essen
tial articles of comfort, and that they suffer not only
in body but in mind. Their physical ills have'
been borne with heroic fortitude ; but what lan
guage can depict the intolerable anguish these
brave men have felt to see their families suffering
privations which MOM of them had ever seen en
dured by their slaves I We know few sadder pic
tures than this in history, and, painful as is the
task, we shall hold it up to our readers to-day, with
the hope that after gazing upon its forlorn aspect,
they will inaugurate some mode of alleviating the
distress of which we speak. Eight months ago,.
Hampton stood (=bosomed in its green trees, as
fair a type of-rillage-quiet, and picturesque beauty
as we . could wish to look upon For more than
two hundred years, it has adorned the banks
of the placid river beside wide& it was
seated. There the Virginia navy was or-'
ganized, and there the Barrons,'whotio deeds are
worthy the pages of romance, planned their bold
adventures, and sailed thence to put them in exe
cution. • The town was rich with its Colonial and
Revolutionary 'histories; not only rich in histories
and traditions, but_rich in all that can adorn and
embellish life. Its inhabitants had something more
than the memory of their ancestors' defence when
the Indian massacre swept the colony. They WA
something more than the - history of the capture of
the British - ship Oxford. They bad something
more than the recollection of the repulse of Capt.
Squires, Dunmore's lieutenant, charged with the.
destruction of the town. They had something_
more than the fact that the church service was,
for the first time in Virginia, read beside their
beautiful Afar, Something beside traditions and
histories. They had peace, plenty, abundance.
If you will turn to the Auditor's report, you will
find that the old shire of Elizabeth.city was rich in
all the elements of material prosperity. That re
port (p. no) shows .an ii. g ,:z :; :ate_amountro , t: alma ;
two ndllions and a. half ($2,.500,000,)
really have been better represented by three and a
half ($3,500,000,) inasmuch ,as the taxation esti
mate of property valuation is always short of the
real market value of any species of estate, real or
personal. In corroboration of this view, the census
returns show a valuation of three millions two hun
dred and fifty4even thousand five lihndred and
ninety-five ($3,257,5050 and- a populatinn of five
thousand seven hundred (5,700.) No more conclu
sive evidence than this could be offered of the sub
stantial comfort of that unhappy community than
is exhibited in the stern prose of the auditor and
census taker. And now all this may be represented
by zero. The fertile gelds are growing up in
brambles . ; the pretty country houses are
deserted, even if still left standing ; the cattle have
been slaughtered by the enemy ; the ebony-hued
slaves driven into worse bondage than the Jews
suffered in Babylon ; and the town itself stands a
mournful heap of ashes, to attest, with 'pathetic
eloquence, the devotion of the.pFople of Hampton
to the name and fame of Virginia—to the honor
and interests Of the South. Out of the male in
habitants of that devoted county, the Confederate
States have today six companies in service. The
Old Dominion -Dragoons, who have furnished guides
to Magruder's army,-the Write Rifles, the Lee
Bangets, the Hampton Grays, Smith's artillery,
and one company of militia ; all of which were or
ganized before the war. Nor is this all; mustered
n for six months, they have volunteered for the
war with alacrity, and only ask that they may be
allowed to strike in defence of the honor of Vir
ginia until the last hostile foot has been driven
from her borders.
Surely hero is a picture of devotion, of heroic
fortitude, which might moisten the eye of a stoic,
and do no discredit to his philosophy. But, alas!
the picture lacks its saddest coloring. These men
have wives and children tenderly reared, dearly
loved; wives and children, for whom each one. in
his allotted sphere, has toiled, finding his labor
sweetened by the reflection that it was for them.
Now, what think you are the emotions of these men
when they pass their solitary limits on guard, or sit
by their camp-fires in ragged coats this wintry wea
ther, knowing, as they do, that their wives and
little children have not wherewithal to make life
tolerable ? When the sleet drives into the sen
try's face, would you blame him if it mingled
with a hot, despairing tear's When he crouches
by his watch fire, is there any wonder that his face
looks prematurely old ? No. But is there no
wonder that the sufferings of these gallant - men, of
their wives and children, have hot.ellgaged more
largely the sympathies of theit•Mintry . men ? We
cannot give the same answer, for it is a wonder
and a shame that they have been thus neglected.
That they have been cruelly neglected, we
propose to 'show; that they may be relieved,
we shall endeavor to establish. Up go this time
they have not received so much from all quarters
as the city of Norfolk contributed to the Charleston
sufferers. And here we pause to make a remark
which is worthy attention. The people of Hamp
ton and Elizabeth City suffer because Virginia's
cause was their cause, Virginia's honor their honor,
Virginia's will their will. They marshalled them
selves under her flag, sad elected to live or die
with her or for her. This determination brought
with it suffering. They have borne it like men.
But, in Charleston, the suffering was not traceable
to any grand, heroic temper—grand and heroic as
that city is—it was the work of accidental fire.
And yet our legislators make an appropriation—
our citizens vie with each other m munificent
donations to the Charteston sufferers, while those
of Hampton are left to meet their terrible dis
tresses as best they may. As we make the contrast
we feel bewildered at the eccentric charities of our
fellow-men, who, forget the Greeks at their own
doors in contributions to those at a distance. Do
not misunderstand us, however. We rejoice to
know that the Charleston sufferers have met with
generous sympathy, but we do distinctly affirm that
the people of Jianipton have erecter claims upon
us than those of any other community in the South.
How much longer, then, will these claims be disre•
garded ? All their town was burnt, fired by the
hands of the once happy masters of those once hap
py homes.
This was in the heroic temper of the Russian
when be made Moscow one of the most sublime
pictures in the pages of universal history. And
again we ask, how much longer the heroic devo.
tion of those men to the cause of Virginia and the
South will go unnoticed. Are we all Levites?
Are we all priests, that we should pass by on the
other side ? For the honor of human nature let it
be hoped not. What, then, you may ask, good
reader, can be done? The answer is very simple.
We will receive and receipt for any contribution
you may choose to make be it small or great. Nor
is this all. Let a committee be organized among
our merchants to make a collection, and let it be
done without longer delay.
Affairs in Tennessee and the Cotton
The Cineinnati Gazette, of ftturday, says;
A gentleman who formerly resided in this city,
but has lived in the South for eighteen months past,
arrived in town yesterday from Memphis, which
place ho left on Sunday, January 19. In an in
terview with him we learned the following facts :
Business in Memphis is completely prostrated.
Twathirds of the business houses are (dosed alto.
gether ; the others keep open from 9 o'clock in the
morning until three in the afternoon. The streets
are desolate, and not more than one half of the
dwellings occupied. Shortly after the breaking
out of the war about 2,000 men left for the North.
Since then nine-tenths of the able-bodied men of
the city have enlisted in the Southern army. The
women are very zealous in the cause of Se
cession, and have formed more than twenty
societies for the manufacture of wearing
apparel for the soldiers. Provisions are very hig_h
in the South, as our readers are already aware. In
Memphis flour sells from $9 to $l2 per barrel ; ba
con brings 35 to 40 cents per pound. Fresh pork
is sold at 10 cents per pound—the lowness of the
price being accounted for by the fact that salt is so
scarce is to command $ll per 'sack. Coffee is sold
at from 80 to 75 cents per pound, and would be
dearer still but for the plentitude of substitutes,
which are so freely used as to make the demand for
the genuine article very small. The leading men
of the South have so long been accustomed to the
use of rye, that they find it easy to take instead of
Rio.
Unless the blockade is raised very soon the
Dixianic provinces will be resolved into one grand
state--a state of Egyptian darkness. Candles are
in demand, at $1..25 per pound, and theca a very
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1862.
poor quality. The scarcity of coal has compelled
the manufacturers of gas to mix a great deal of
rosin with the black diamonds. The consequence
ia, that the people of Memphis see through the gas
darkly, and are constantly crying for it light more
light!" Soap is another scarce article. It sells as
high as candles; not less than $1 per pound. In
boarding ileum, as a consequence, one lather has
to subserve the purposes of several faces. But the
article which the Southern heart most feels the
need of is whisky, and that has gone up to $3.50
per gallon, hardly to be had even at that.
. Clothing is very dear. Overcoats, such as can be
obtained here for $l5, are sold in Memphis for $45
to $5O. Pantaloons and othirr articles in propor
tion. Boots, such tsar° sold hero for $7, command
$2O there. In the way of "notions" there is a
great dearth also. A paper of noodles, worth ten
cents here; cannot be had for less than $1.25 there.
Confederate notes are taken at par in payment
for goods and debts. They constitute the principal
circulating medium. Southern bank ThAt are aISO
taken at par. Shinplasters flood the whole coun
try, and pass current everywhere. Gold and silver
are scarce, the former at a premium of 45 per oent.,
the latter at a premium of 35 to 40 per cent.
It is a great mistake to suppose, notwithstanding
all these troublous indications, that the people of
the South are not in earnest in their efforts to over
throw the Goverment. There may be a little of the
dormant Union spirit in Tennessee, but it seems to
have no desire to burst forth. The Southerners
are confident that success will crown their efforts,
and they have united to make a bold struggle. One
thing that serves partly to keep up their spirits, is
the unflinching disposition to lie evinced by the
Secession newspapers. In Memphis, they have
heard of but one Federal victory since the fall of
Sumpter—the battle of Rich Mountain. In all the
other engagements the Federals, according to the
rebel journals, were routed and killed, in numbers
ranging from 1,000 to 10,000.
- There is a great scarcity of printing paper all
through the South. The proprietors of the Mem
phis Appeal recently visited all the large cities of
the Confederacy to buy op what paper of barge Ohl
they could End for sale. They failed to obtain any
of the right dimensions, and were obliged to curtail
the 46 area" of their sheet in consequence. The
telegraph has not operated very well lately, for
lack of the necessary battery supplies. This offers
no great olistfuition, however, to the enterprise of
Southern journalists, as they usually have more
"specials" when all the lines are down than at any
other times
A severe censorship is exercised on all the pa.
pers in the South. A. R. Cazanran, formerly con
nected with the Enotrer of this city, now editor
of the . Memphis Argus, was before the Military
Committee on two or three different occasions for
publishing articles condemning the course of the
Confederate Government in certain military mat
ters. lie was warned each- time that unless' he
moderated his tone the dirgas would be sup
pressed. • A similar sentence - has been passed on
several other editors and journals.
Our informant, as we have said, left Memphis on
the 19th of January. He went by railroad to
Clarksville, Tenn., thence by stage to Hopkins
vine. In order to obtain a pass to leave Memphis,.
ho was obliged to testify before the Military Coin.'
mittee of that city that he was in delicate health,
and wished to visit Uniontown, iCy., to see his bro
th, r. At Hopltineville the Confederate Commander
—General Clark, of Mississippi—refused to pass
him beyond his lines until be telegraphed to Mem
phis to know whether he was "all right." A reply
in the affirmative being received, no further diffi
culiy was experienced.
When our informant reached Hopkinsville—on
the rid of January—General Clark was expecting
an attack from General Crittonden, and feared the•
worst in case it was made. The Confederate forces
at that point number about five thousand, nearly
one-half of whom are on the sick list. Six hundred
sick men were sent to Clarksville, between the 17th
and 23d of last month. Of the Seventh Texas Regi
ment, stationed there, ono hundred and eighty
eight privates, twenty - eight non-commissioned offi
cers, and four commissioned officers are in the hos
pitals. Of a Mississippi regiment, also there, one
hundred and sixty-three privates, twenty non-com
missioned officers, and three commissioned officers
are sick.
At Feliciana, twelve miles from Fort Henry, on
the Tennessee river, there are 2,700 cavalry. In
Fort Henry there are 3,000,
Our informant gives us the following items of,
news in regard to the strength of the Confederates
at different points:
At New Orleans there are 20,000 ; at Lake Borgne
there are two batteries of artillery ; and at Lake
Pontchartrain there are three. .
At Mobile there are 12,000, in-command of Gen.
Walker, ex Secretary of War.
Between Charleston and Savannah, on the rail
road line, there are 12,000.
At Pensacola there are between 15,000 and
20,000.
At Columbus there are 15,000.
Jeff Thompson is at New Madrid, in command of
1,200 men.
General Floyd is at Scottsville, 25 miles from
Bowling Green ' with three thousand men. It is
believed in the South that he left Western Virginia,
Pecat!s? be Was defeated i llµt lionaill/9 o f MO
; - _ - •
scare.ty proN.,.ons. say hie men. lived on
boiled cheatnuts and dried apples for two .nConths
'previous to their retreat from Virginia.- •
Ben. McCulloch is in command of a regiment of
cavalry near Manassas.
General D. BE Frost, of Camp Jackson notoriety,
is at Jaeksonport, Ark., recruiting a brigade. .He
has roisecllso mep..thus fax, or, rather, that num
ber was raised for him in Memphis. '
There are no troops whatever in Memphis—
nothing that looks like war, except the manufac
ture of army clothing, &c.
It was reported, and fully credited, in Memphis
and New Orleans, a few days befell OUT illfOrldaUt
leftthe former place, that the rebels had evacuated
Galveston, Texas, and had gone to Houston, and
that the Federal ibroes had taken possession of Gal
veston.
-AA to: the efficiency of the Southern army, our
informant says the men are poorly clad and poorly
armed, but well fed ; they have plenty to eat, and
cannot be starved out. Few of them, he thinks,
will re-enlist after the expiration of their year's
service. The resignation of Gen. Pillow was a
source of disappointment to a great many. Pillow,
it appears, wanted to reinforce Bowling Green, and
Gen. Polk declined to let him leave Columbus.
He then threw up his commission in a fit of indig
nation. He is now at Bowling Green as a " spec
tator;" but it is thought he will again enter the
service.
The 'Southern people are confident that - their
GOVei - bieent will be recognized by the foreign
Powers before the first of April. They are in great
glee over the "masterly inactivity" of our army,
and believe that nothing but a consciousness of our
weakness prevents us from making an attack upon
them.
This is especially due from Norfolk. Hampton
was a commercial dependency of ours, and in times
of peace paid us a rich tribute. Let us now, of our
greater abundance, give back something to allevi
ate the bitter necessities of' her citizens. Lot this
be done at once, and notvinly here, but throughout
the State; that the history of their unheeded dis
tresses may not appear hereafter as a stain
upon the escutcheop of Virginia. Meanwhile
the Legislature ean-hid materially in this great
charity. The Convention could not, but the
Assembly can. The:, former body, endowed with
every other attribute of sore/wig/Ay, could not
vote a dollar, but sat, and sat, upon the Trea
sury, like a vast vampyre, and paid itself money
which it never earned. The Legislature has power ;
let it be exercised, and in this way. The seques
tration act is designed to reimburse losses sustained
at the hands of King Lincoln's Huns;let the
claims of the unhappy Hampton people be audited
before an investigating committee of both houses,
and on suitable evidence, copied from the Ales of
the State Department, let the State advance on
those authenticated claims, say one-half the amount.
This will not be a donation, and yet will be received
with all the gratitude of a gift.
Here is a simple process; but let it be borne in
mind that individual aid will reach them long be
fore the legislative action can possibly be had, if
indeed it is ever obtained.f,i, Think, oh reader, of
their sufferings, their silence, their heroic fortitude,
their filial devotion to Virginia. Look 11k1011 that
sad heap of wives, the Magdeburg of America, and
of your abundance give to alleviate their wants.
Interesting from East Tennessee
The Louisville Democrat publishes the following
statement from a gentleman who has just arrived in
that city from Nashville. The Democrat is confi
dent that his statement is a true story
He left Knoxville, East Tennessee, in which vi
cinity he lives, two weeks ago to-day for Nashville,
intending to work his way into Kentucky, as he has
business of great importance in Washington. Ile
was in Nashville on the day the battle of Logan's
Old Fields was fought, bat left before any report
had reached that city. Taking a boat at that point
he travelled up the Cumberland to Gainesboro, and
thence worked his way into our lines via Burks
vile. In passing from Gainesboro, he met, at dif
ferent times, a large number of soldiers flying to
their homes. They were in squads of two and three,
sometimes five or six, and their story was almost
word for word the same. Among them was a son of
Judge Goodall.
They reported to him that Crittenden ordered an
advance, relying upon the Information his moats
had brought him,
that there were only two regi
ments of Federal troops to be met. Zollicoffer en
deavored to persuade him to recall his order ; but
be refused, saying that he never recalled an order.
Zolliooffer then replied that he might as well take
out the men and shoot or bang them; but, as he
was ordered to go, he would do so; and the team
stood in his eyes as he spoke. The attack was
made, - and the two regiments they had been ex
pecting to meet fell back for about half a mile.
They, thinking the victory theirs, pursued, and
only learned their mistake when they were attack
ed from both flanks as well as in front.
When Zollicoffer fell, Crittenden, being not seen
on the ground, a couple of colonels whom he did
not know took command until Colonel Cummings
ordered a retreat. Some one cried that the day
was lost, " every man for himself." Then they
threw down everything that could impede their
flight, and rushed for the entrenchments, and then
for the river. The rush for the boats was so great
Wet bundrods wore crowded into the river and
drowned; the cavalry pushed into the swollen
stream pell-mell, and many of them were also
drowned. The lowest estimate any of them put on
the rebel loss was I,ooo—some saying fully 1,500
but they stated that the majority of them were
drowned.
When asked what the Federal force was by which
they were hemmed in, they replied that it could
not have been less than thirty or forty thousand.
They had no idea where General Crittenden was,
and their estimate of the Federal forces was the
strongest evidence of the panic under which they
fled.
By this gentleman we learn that Parson Brown
low's health is very poor. His on stated that he
doubted if his father would live to reach the Fade-
rat lines ; and, if his health would permit, he did
not believe the rebel guard would lot him go. Itis
to be hoped, however, that the defeat of Crittenden's
army, the death of Zollieoffer, and the panio which
evidently now prevails all through East Tennessee,
together with General Thomas' advance, will open
the way for the safe arrival of the Parson in a land
of freedom.
This gentleman is on hisway to see Andy Jot:m
oon and reports that the rebels have seized John
eon? a house turning it into a hospital, and confia
°sting all Lis property—that in order to save his
mother from the most fiendish persecution, one of
Johnson's sons has taken the oath to support the
rebel cause, or at lewd not to furnish aid and com
fort to the Federals. Another son is hiding among
the hills, and has been.sinoe last December, looking
with eager, longing eyes for the approach of the
Federal forces, and the relief from a life of wretch
edness.
We sincerely trust the news is trae that General
Thomas is advancing into Tennessee, and pray he
may not stop till he has taken possession of Knox
ville. Thousands will flock to his standard, and
the great avenue of communication between the
East and West will be thus broken np.
GENERAL BUELL'S DEPARTMENT.
Death of a Member of Zollieoffer's Staff.
Loutsvim,E, Feb. 3.—Captain H. M. Fogg, of
Nashville, a member of Gen. Zollicoffer's staff, who
was wounded near Somerset, is dead,
Major Offer, surgeon of Zolliooffer's brigade,
taken prisoner at Somerset, is hero, and will be
sent to Bowling Green, on Tuesday, to be ex
changed.
It is thought that Gen. Buell will arrange for
the ozomPlion of all surgeons from arrest -here
after.
The Spirit of Gen. Buell's Army at Mtm
. fordsville.•
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Times writ
ing from Munfordsvillo, relates the following incl.-
dent to illustrate the spirit of the Union army in
Kentucky : ,
A rumor.prevailed' yesterday that the rebels were
advancing from Bowling Green, but it was without
foundation. Aa"the best illuStration as to how they
would be received, I will relate a little incident.
Late in the afternoon I had walked down to the
railroad bridge, and was standing on the north end,
looking far down into the green waters of the ever
beautiful stream. Sentinels were near me, guard
ing the approach to the bridge. A regiment had
just crossed to enter upon picket duty on the other
side of the river, and one relieved from that duty
was returning. One of the latter, who had the
knapsacks of several comrades, relieved himself of
the load and sat down near me to rest. Directly a
fanner-looking gentleman approached, and address
ing the soldier, .
" And this is the bridge the rebels burnt"
" It's the bridge, but it wasn't burnt, but it was
blowed."
"No ! What villainous critters them Secesh are."
' "Do yoti reside in this State ?" asked the sol
dier.
" No. Indiana's my home."
" That's my State, toe. What part did you come
from?
;I Up North. You gee, my eon's in the army, and
he got sick and telegraphed me to come on, and
that's how I'm here. Lhoered the rebels were a
Orman' this way. Is ibid. so?"
As the question was asked, several soldiers going
to the river for water were passing, and they im
mediately stopped. One of them, a muscular, eagle
eyed young follow, instantly said
" Corning !: Well; let 'em come. If ever they
get across this ever we ought all to be, shipped to
Botany Bay."
" But they say," paid the farmer, " that they
have got an immense army."
" I don't care a d—n how many they have,"•
replied the soldier, his eyes flashing fire. " I'd
rather die right here than that they should cross
this river. I don't }rant to go back one step, so
long as the infernal traitors are in front."
" That's the talk," Shouted his comrades, and
one could see that they felt it.
Th this strain the Conversation was continued some
minutes, and finally the party separated, the • out
going picket gatheriffk up his load of knapsacks,
the old man going to see his sick son, and the wa
ter-carrying party running down the bluff bank,
with a about, as their camp kettles rattled beside
them.
Every day and every hour in the day I hear such
conversation among the soldiers in this camp ; and
as I hear them, my heart- grows proud, for I feel
that the spirit of '76 has descended to the present
generation. There are, of course, among the vol
unteers, some who have entered the army through
excitement, and others from personal interest, bat
the large majority are animated by a fervent love
for the Union, and an unyielding devotion to the
free institutions of the Republic. And when they
meet in bloody strife tb.ose who have disturbed the
peace and interrupted the prosperity of the Union,
they will die on the field rather than yield an inch
of ground to the traitors. Mark my prophecy.
When this army of the West moves,Mill Springs
will be repeated on every battle fied, if, like the
gallant McCook, the commanders will permit the
troops to charge the enemy. That style of fighting
suits the Western character, and is in tone with
Western feeling. -All the Western troops ask is the
privilege to "go in."
Rebel Movements in Kentucky.
Rid believed that there are other rebel generals,
beside Crittenden and Zolliooffer, who are driven
by the rebel impatience at their desperate pros
poyit aggr mire Ineruenti- p stipend
coat some time. last Week - Bueiner startea irom
Bowling Green Witi,6oo.mem toward the north
west, to attack Gen. Tom Crittenden, in the Green
River valley, but found the roads so bad that he
turned back. Now it is said he is moving a heavy
force by rail to Clarksville, and thence to Fort
Henry, on the Tennessee river, either to intercept
-our expedition fromEaducah np that river, and
prevent Columbus from being taken in the rear, or
to attempt an advance north to the Ohio.
The Proclamation of the Rebel General
Cnttenden before the Battle of Mill
Springs.
The Louisville Tournat says: Below is Major
General Crittenden'a proclamation to the people of
Kentucky. What a document to go forth under
the name of CRITTENDEN ! Read it, fellow-citi
zens, and experience anew the strange power of
this rebellion to derange the hearts and heads of
men. The proclamation was taken from the forti
fied entrenchments near Mill Springs :
PROCLAMATION.
DIVISION HEADQUARTERS,
Mill Springs, Ky., January 6, 1862.
To the People of Kentucky :
When the present war between the Confederate
States and the United States commenced, the State
of Kentucky determined to remain neutral. She
regarded this as her highestinterest, and, balancing
between hope for the restoration of the Union and
love for her Southern sisters, she declared and at
tempted to maintain a firm neutrality.
The .conduct of the United States Government
towards her has been marked with duplicity, false
hood, and wrong. From the very beginning, the
President of the United States, in his messages,
spoke of the chosen attitude of Kentucky with open
denunciation, and on the one hand treated it with
contempt and derision, while on the other hand he
privately promised the people of Kentucky that it
should be respected. In violation of this pledge,
but in keeping with his first and true intention, he
• introduced into the State arms which were placed
exclusively in the hands of persons known or be
lieved to be in favor of coercion, thus designing to
control the people of Kentucky, and to threaten
the Confederate States. Then the Crevernment of
the Confederate States, in self-defence,. advanced
its arms into your midst, and offers you their assist
ance to protect you from the calamity of Northern
military occupation.
By the Administration of your State Government,
Kentucky was being held to the United States, and
bound at the feet of Northern tyranny. That Go
-vernment did not rest upon the consent of your
people. And now, haying thrown it off, a new Go,
overnment has been established and Kentucky ad
mitted into the Southern Confederacy. Can Ken
tuckians doubt which Government to sustain? To
the South you are allied by interest, by trade, by
geography, by similarity of institutions, by the ties
of blood, and by kindred courage. The markets of
the North do not invite your products—your State
is, to the centre of its trade,
society, and laws, but
a distant province, despised for its custom and in
ititiaionyour heroic lineage forbids association in
arms with their warriors of Manassas, of Leesburg,
and of Belmont ; and your former devotion to the
Union must intensify your hatred towards that sec
tion which has, in its Abolition crusade, broken to
pieces the Constitution, and which is now vainly
endeavoring to destroy the liberty of the Southern
States
At first you may have been deceived as to the
purposes of the North. They talked of restoring
the Union. Do you not see that it is hopelessly
lost in the storm ofwar, and that, while the rotten
Government of the North is shaking over its rains,
the South has erected out of them a new, power
ful, and free constitutional republic!! And now,
indeed, the mask is thrown off, and you find the
North, through its President, and Secretary of
War, and public journals, and party leaders, giving
up the claim of Union, and proclaiming the ex
tinction of slavery and the subjugation of the
Smith. Can you join in this enterprise ? The South
would never in any event consent to a reconstruc
tion. She is contending with unconquerable spirit,
with great military power, with unbroken success,
for constitutional freedom and for her own national
government. Where is your spirit of other days,
that you do not rush to her victorious standard ?
Shall the sons of Tennessee, Virginia, Mississippi,
and other Southern States, with whom you have
gathered the laurels on other battle-fields, win
them all in this war of independence, while you
are intuitive and lost in slothful indolence ? May
the proud genius of my native Kentucky forbid it.
an these IntAritilitte, where freedom anti patri
otism stir the human heart, can you sleep with
the clarion of a glorious war ringing in your ears ?
True; you have refused to bear the arms and wear
the livery of Northern despotism. Their base
hirelings have been among you, but have not se
duced you into their ranks. Will you stay at home
and let noble bands of soldiers, armed in your
cause as in their.own, pass on to battle fields, on
your own soil, consecrated by no deed of your
valor ?
Raving assumed command of the forces of the
Confederate States on Cumberland river, in south
eastern Kentucky, I make this appeal to you. You
are already assured that we come among you as
friends and brothers, to protect you in your per
sona liberties and property, and only to make war
against the Invaders of your home and our com
mon enemies. I invoke you to receive us as
brothers, and to come to our camp and share with
us the dangers and the honor of this struggle.
Come to these headquarters, as individuals or in
companies, and you will be at once accepted and
mustered in with pay and arms from the Govern
ment of the Confederate States. At first many
Kentuckians entered the army of the South for
the great cause it supports; now this has become
the cause of Kentucky, and it is your duty to es
pouse it. Duty and honor unite in this call upon
you. Will you join in the moving eolumns of the
South, or is the s_pirit of Kentucky dead ?
GEO. CRITTENDEN, Major General.
The Flight of the Rebels after the Battle
on the Cumberland—Their Condition
while Running Away—The Property
they Lost, and that which they Saved—
Bow Hungry they were—They Eat
Soap Grease—Throwing Away and Bell,
ing their Arms—East Tennesseans Wait
ing for us.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial,,
'friths from Columbia, Adair county, Ky., under
dais of 47, 1682, Says
A gonalotnan, living twenty-two' miles oath of
the late battle ground of Mill Spring, on the main
road leading South, gave me quite an interesting
account of the flight of the rebels, and the manner
in which they conducted themselves while in Wayne
and Clinton counties, which I now furnish you.
My . Informant resides in Wayne county, and re
mimed at home during the time the rebels occupied
that part of the State. He is a reliable gentleman
of good sense. He says the Confederates had about
10,000 infantry, well provided with guns, but of an
indifferent quality—squirrel rifles and flint
lock muskets principally ; 2,000 cavalry, well
drilled and welt armed, and quite efficient, all of
them being armed with guns and pistols ; eighteen
pieces of cannon sixteen brass pieces, and two
Parrot-guns. The rebels admitted that they were
completely routed, and that General Zollicoffer
was killed. On their way back to Tennessee, there
Were 'fractions of brigades going in a body, and
with some order, but the remainder were going
in squads- of from one to . twenty-five, or more.
They passed informant's house with about one
hundred and twenty-five two-horse wagons, and
four pieces of artillery, under General G. B.
Crittenden, and he was said to be drunk. They
were throwing away everything that impeded
their flight, and were selling blankets at $1.25
apiece, and pistols (navy revolvers) at $5 and $7,
in Tennessee or Georgia money. lie says that
about five hundred cavalry went back on horses,
the remainder were either captured, killed, or
lost—at lent one-third of the men who went back
were without guns, or anything else, the other two
thirds bad their guns, and some of them other ar
ticles; all of them were in great haste to get along,
and committed no depredations on their return,
other than to take horses, or mules. or something to
eat. So hungry were they that they adually eat
the soap grease that his mother had laid aside to
make soap. The rebels say that they lost in killed,
drowned, and missing, from 700 to 1,500. A large
number were drowned in crossing the Cumberland
river,
and this is attested by other persons seeing
their bodies below Mill Spring in the river. Bailie
Peyton, Jr., was also killed in the fight and is now
at Somerset. Jas. S. Crisman was a candidate for
the rebel Congress; and had his handbills out a few
days before the fight. He left with the rebels, his
family being at Sparta, in Tennessee. The night
of the rebels was se precipitate, that no election
was held in Wayne eounty, on the 22d inst., (the
time fixed for electing rebel Congressmen.) Shelby
Coffey, Jr., late-member of the Legislature from
Wayne county, was wounded -in a skirmish
a few days before the battle, and is now ly
ing dangerously, if not fatally, wounded at
Dr. Longs, in Clinton county; the general
opinion is, that he has hisrights" to his heart's
content. He was making up a company of cavalry
at the time he was wounded. The rebels lost from
six to ten a day with sickness during their stay in
Kentucky. A large number of those who were in
the fight said they wore going home to stay there,
and none of 'them would re-enlist at the expiration
of their term of service—all, or nearly all, of them
being twolve-months recruits, their time will ex
pire in February, March, and April, 1862. They
took large quantities of corn, wheat, ,ba., while
in Wayne and Clinton, but generally paid for it in
Tennessee, Virginia, or Georgia money, or Con
federate scrip. Quite a number of the leading Se
cessionists left with them from Monticello and other
parts of Wayne county. They left, perhaps, one
hundred troops in Wayne and Clinton, who are, or
have been, sick or wounded. Clinton and Wayne
counties are now clear of Confederate soldiers who
are able to do mischief, and great is the rejoicing
of the Union men of those counties.
The Federal troops are crossing the Cumberland,
and it is to be hoped that they will keep on to
Knoxville_ A Tennessean here, from Green
county, Tennessee, gives much information of mat
ters and things - in that locality. Re says that
10,000 East Tennesseans] are waiting for the Fede
ral army, to join it whenever they can do so and
get arms for self defence.
One regiment of Gen. Boyd's brigade is at
Greensburg, and two others at Grasy Creek, on the
Cumberland river ; the others hereabouts.
ADAIR.
F. S.—l enclose this letter in an envelope that
was taken in the Mill Spring battle, or from some
one who had been in it. T. T. A.
GEN. HALLECK'S DEPARTMENT.
General Davis and General Sigel Marching
to Lebanon
Sr. Loris. Feb. 3.—Advices received last night
by the arrival of a train on the Pacific Railroad say
that the brigade of Gen. Jeff C. Davis was at Ver
sailles, Morgan county, on Wednesday, proceeding,
it is conjectured, to join Gen. Curtis, at Lebanon.
Gen. Palmer's brigade was at Larmine, and re
porta4 to be under marching orders for Kentucky.
gen. Sigel left Rolla yesterday for Lebanon. The
balance of his division will follow.
The Situation of Columbus—What the
Mississippi Expeditio4 has Before it.
The Cincinnati Pflies says :
Columbus, Kentucky, is situated on the southerd
slope of a high bluff, on the east side of the Miss
alibEDDi 117kk, and is in the midst of a heavily
tinihired region ; and the rebels have carefully
availed themselves of all the advantages which. the
forest presents for facilitating the defence of the
place.
Few places in the South are capable of being
more strongly defended than this: and nothing has
been left undone to render it impregnable. In
formation, which is deemed reliable, fixes the rebel
force in the aity at about 30;000 men; the greater
portion of whom are enlisted for the war, and are
well armed. The sixty-days men are few in num
ber, and generally have old shot guns and hunting
rifles.
The fortifications are well supplied with cannon,
three of which are one hundred and twenty-eight
pounders which are placed in such a position as to
command the river, from the highest part of the
bluff, which is elevated at least seventy-five feet
above low-water mark. The number of guns cer
tainly does not fall below eighty, and probably
reaches one hundred.
The first fortification which an attacking float
will encounter will be a battery of fourteen guns,
generally thirty-two-pound rifled cannon, and the
battery of one hundred and twenty-eight-pounders
already referred to. As the former is situated on
the river bank, it can be reached by our shot with
out any greater difficulty than was experienced at
Hilton Head and Hatteras; but the latter will cer
tainly be silenced with the greatest difficulty, and
only at a great distance.
On the northern slope of the bluff are two light
batteries, and a rifle pit, one mile in length, which
are designed specially to protect the place against a
land attack from the north ; while on the summit
of the hill is a strongly entrenched work, command
ing all directions, and manned by eight cannon.
On the south side—and to protect the town from
a rear attack—is a small battery of four guns, and
in the river to the north of the town, is the cele
brated submarine battery, which is to explode and
destroi our fleet—if we take the word of that vera
cious Individual, Commodore Hollins. But subma
rine batteries never have been effective means of
warfare, and it is doubtful if they ever will. The
time and money expended upon them have always
been thrown away.
The floating battery of twenty guns is now sta
tioned near the southern extremity of the river,
lint will probably be moved to the most exposed
points. It is doubtless a very formidable engine
of. warfare.
A church near the centre of the city is used for
a magazine ; but why so exposed a position should
be, chosen, we are unable to conjecture. When
Commodore Foote made his last reconnoissance, he
could distinctly see the garrison removing the
powder to a locality farther south, and out of the
reach of the shells. Whether it has or has not
been replaced, wo aro unable to say.
Itwill bo seen by this that Commodore Foote and
General Grant have a heavy contract before them ;
but they are both men of energy and skill, and if
furnished with the necessary means, will speedily
reduce the city. The Commodore has manifested
great desire to get mortars for the expedition, and
at length his wishes are about to be gratified_ Ship
=Ma have already commenced; and it will not be
long before each of the boats will receive its arma
ment.
All of the works, with the exception of the bat
tery of 128-pounders, are within reach of our rifled
cannon on board the gunboats; but this formidable
defence can only be sucoossfully assailed by our
forty-two mortar boats, at a long range. 'When
they all commence throwing huge shells thoSe who
man the rebel guns will find their places anything
but comfortable.
It is probable that the fleet will not be in readi
ness before the Ist of March; but, when once
manned and armed, there will be no delay. Com
modore Foote and Generals Grant and Halleck are
not the men to waste their time in idleness when
anything is to be done, and they hare the moans at
hand to do it.
Interesting Account of Matters and
Things in Springfield.
A correspondent of the . Missouri .Democrat,
writing from Rolla, Mo., under date of January 29,
says:
I am kindly permitted, by General Wyman, to
copy the following report from Major Wright, giv
ing full, late, and the most authentic intelligence
of spatters and things in Springfield yet received:
HEADQUARTERS WRIGHT'S BATTALION,
January 26, 1862.
GENERAL f I am again in possession of reliable
information from Springfield and vicinity, including
the country southwest.
Price's force does not exceed eight or ten thou
sand men—all State troops. Pries has bean nett=
fled of his appointment as major general in the
Confederate army, but the appointment has not
been confirmed, conseiluently the Confederate forces
decline to reinforce him. They say to him that
they have thirty thousand troops ready to join him
when they receive the offßial notice.
Mclntosh has gone to reinforce the rebels in the
Indian nation.
Most of Rains' men have gone home ; the balance,
some 400, are at Sarcoxie and Granby, it was said,
to run the furnaces. It is said, however, there is
plenty of lead in Granby.
Last Thursday Captain Hawthorne notified Gen.
Price that the "Fedora's" were moving against
him in force from Rolla. Price at once called in
all the foraging parties. The news caused peat
excitement in the rebel camp.
Price expects his appointment will be confirmed
within the next two weeks, after which he will be
reinforced by the: Confederates from Arkansas.
Unless he can take command of the Confederate
forces he will be obliged to retreat, He is making
desperate efforts to rally his friends.
Ile has a large number of wagons, and is rutting
everything in readiness to decamp. He intends
falling back in the direction of Pinosvillo, unless
speedily reinforced. lie has a large number of his
men on the sick list. His foraging parties are cap
turing a great many Union men, and destroying
their property.
There are no oases of small pox in Springfield,
but the contagion has broken out in Rietaville.
Supplies are getting scarce in the immediate vi.
oinity of Springfield.
Price has about fifteen days' supplies on hand: •
Mcßride, Rains, Parsons, and Steen are all ab
sent at present.
Price's headquarters is In Gravia' house.
Jim Rains makes his headquarters at Dr. Robin
son's house. -
dol. Bailey mikes his headquartecs at Dr. Bal.
Jars house. .
Cot Mitchell mike's his headquarters In Major
McEtheney'e house.
TWO CENTi3.
Price will undoubtedly escape us, unless the ca
valry and artillery Is pressed forward to hold him.
Ile is in a critical condition.
The party at Bolivar bas• been withdrawn.
Each rebel regiment has an organized corps of
their best marksmen, to pick off the field
OZARK WRIGHT,
Lieut. Col. Commanding Wright's Battalion.
To J. B. Wyman, Brig. Gon. COmmanding Post at
Rolla.
Sigel's Flan fora Great Western Cam-
paign.
A gentleman in New York, who hag been in Of
respondence with General Sigel, has made public
some observations contained in the General's let
ters, which are published in one of our German
cotemporaries. On the 18th of December, 1861,
Sigel wrote :
' The whole affair weighs so heavily upon me
that I have had enough of it. It must be •astly
improved if I am to retain my interest in it."
Succeeding this, after he has drawn a vary sor
rowful picture of the military status in Missouri,
he continues, and expresses his opinion of further
operations :
" Were my advice asked, my plan would soon be
fixed. I would leave from 15,000 to 20,000 good
troopkwith a correspondingly strong body of ca
valry, in order to conduct the guerilla warfare upon
a larger scale, pursue the enemy without giving
them time for rest or shelter, and to protect the for
tified cities of St. Louis and Jefferson City. All
otter troops I would as expeditiously as possible
lead to kentucky, form a junction with Buell
-100,000 men strong—and press forward upon Nash
ville and Columbus, toward the Tennessee river to
destroy the comniunietttien between Nashville and
Knoxville, and threaten Memphis. This move
ment must be supported and flanked by means of
a corps to manoeuvre toward the Southeast, and
by another smaller body, between the Tennessee
and the Mississippi. Such an advance move
meat as this, with 100,000 men, would render
all successful opposition impossible. The enemy
would be compelled to evacuate Columbus and.
fight a battle at Memphis ; for Memphis
is but ill-fortified and poorly garrisoned.
Our troops must, of necessity, have advanced
far, and attacks upon our flanks might well be
feared. Nevertheless, were the movement carried
out with promptness and energy, it would throw
the enemy into confusion, and distract all his plans.
Besides, a man must venture something in order
to succeed ; and if this movement is tot fat, the
direction' can be at any moment changed toward
the East, and our troops appear between Columbus
anti Memphis."
MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS.
From Fortress Monroe
FORTRESS MONROE, Feb. 2, via Baltimore.—
A flag of truce was sent to Craney Island to-day,
but brought no passengers or papers. The crew of
the rebel boat reported that heavy firing has been
heard at Norfolk for the past two days.
The gunboat Daylight sailed to-day for the
mouth of York river to release the Young Rover
on the blockade in that vicinity. The Young Ro
ver will proceed to the mouth of the Rappahan
nock, to relieve the Dawn, which will go to New
York for repairs.
The steamer Mystic is still off the Rappahan
noek.
The troops of the New England division, who
have been encamped on the beach for the last two
weeks, were re•embarked on the steamer Conststu-'
lion this afternoon. The Constitution is still
taking in coal, and probably will not sail before
tomorrow morning, The health of the troops is
improving.
The bark John Trucks, with the D'Epineuil
Zouaves, sailed for Annapolis this morning.
From Washington.
Wesintravon, Feb. 3.—So vast an army has been
marshaled in this district that no proper arrange
ments have been made for even a decent interment
of those who die in our hospitals. Their bodies
have been often hurried to the nearest place of
sepulchre, where they have been promiscuously
buried. Many relatives and friends have, conse
quently, made fruitless visits to the army of the
Potomac to recover the bodies of their deceased
friends.
This state of things has arrested attention in Con•
gross, through the exertions of Representative
Dawes, and a committee is now charged with the
duty of considering the subject of providing a Na
tional Cemetery for the soldiers in this neighbor
hood, where all our fellow-citizens who die in the
national cause may find a resting-place, their graves
beeome twitters of record ) end leave no doubt alma
the identity of individuals. Rrom the general tits
pOsition manifested, there seems to be no doubt that
an act for the purpose indickted will be passed.
The result of an examination recently by the
telegraph interest is, that the number of messages
over all the lines during the past year was-2 3 800,-
000, yielding a total income of $1,422,000. Should
Congress, in the new tax bill, impose three cents on
each message; an income -of -a. little over $84,000
would be realized from that source, or 54 per cent.
OR the aggregate amount of business.
The Butler Expedition_
A Washington despatch to the Now York Tri
bune says:
There is reason to believethat General Butler was
assured, before he left Washington, that he should
have a major general's command as well as title.
He will rand several brigades at a point on the
Southern coast, not now occupied by Union soldiers.
The capture will be more important than any yet
made. Secretary Stanton insisted that General
Butler should have what he wanted, although Gene
ral McClellan disapproved.
The Relief of Oar War Prisoners.
Twenty-fwe thousand dollars were placed to the
credit of Commissioners Ames and Fish, on Fri
day, for the purposes of their humane errand to
our war prisoners in the South- Their departure
to Fortress Monroe was delayed to give members of
Congress opportunity to make up lists of captives
among their constituents to whose wants they de
sire particular attention to be paid.
The Federal Prisoners in Richmond.
Corporal Merrill continues his experience in• the
Rochester Express. We quote:
PROMOTION
Shortly after my removal from the hospital to•
the prison, I was permitted, through the agency of
Messrs. Ely and Huson, to visit the officers' quar
ters during the day, but at night was required to .
return to the second floor. This peculiar privilege
was granted me till, at the request of the commis
sioned officers generally, my name was transferred
to their own list, and I thenceforth became a per
manent occupant of the lower room.
There ware tativecii alt and seventy in this
department of the prison, ranking from colonel to
lieutenant—the only civilians being Messrs. Ely
and Huson of Rochester, Mr. Engler of Virginia,
and Mr. Taylor of Ohio.
HOUSEKEEPING
During the first two or three months of itheir im
prisonment, the officers enjoyed few conveniences
superior to these of the privates; bat after obtain
ing remittances from the North, a considerable im
provement was effected in this regard. Tables
were erected, cots and blankets procured, and
knives and -forks were added to the facilities for
eating. Thexclubbed togetherin messes, and lived
chiefly at their own expense. Privates were em
ployed for the culinary work, and everything, with
the exception of the meat (which was prepared in
the yard), was cooked ever the gas•burners. The
ptbon Wes furnished with one cylinder coal stove,
which answered only for heating purposes. ••
NIGH PRICES
The standard bill of fare consisted or beefsteak
and bread, which wore furnished by the Confede
racy ; coffee, Ladulterated with corn, at $1.25 per
pound ; sweet potatoes, $1.50 per bushel. Our su
gar eost fifty dents per pound. Soma of the MOWS
obtained butter, which, if I remember correctly,
cost seventy-five cents per pound. Eggs were
scarce at five cents apiece ; nutmegs, for an occa
sional pudding, ten cents each ; wh isk y , on physi
cian's "prescription," fifty cents a p int; common
molasses, twenty-five cents per quart.
There was a great scarcity of provisions in Rich
mond, and " Lincoln's blockade " was denounced by
the rebels in unraeliatived terms. salt sold front
$lB to $26 per sack; boots, from $2O to $2B per
pair ; clothing was fabulously high, and very little
to be obtained at any price. Ordinary note paper
cost two cents per sheet, and buff er velopes ditto.
In short, ruinous prices were demanded for every
thing but cotton, and for this there were no callers.
TER PRISON ASSOCIATION
The origin of the Richmond Prison As.gociation
iffie a inegtilig of the °Mon to devise plans for
their comfort. It resulted in the election of a
president and secretary, and the organization of a
society under the above title, whose regular meet
ings were held weekly. Hon. Alfred Ely was the
presiding officer, and Mr. Edwin Taylor the secre
tary. The first order of business was the election
of candidates, who were formally introduced in a
iipoeoh bow, the t , page," (Lieut. Hart ) ) and were
afterward requested to respond, which they nsaally
did by recounting the manner of their capture, &e.
The "test question" was then put: "What did
you come down here for ?" and then the fan com
menced in earnest.
The following song, eomposed by the 1, page,"
Hart,) was sung in the prison every evens
log, to the tune of the "Poor Pilgrim :"
Come, fellow-prisoners, let's Join in a song;
Our stay in the prison, it won't be long ;
Cuonus—Roll on, roll on, sweet moments, roll on,
And let the poor prisoners go home, go homm,.
Ourfriends at home have made a demand
To have returned this patriot band.
(Chorus and repeat.]
The public press they are bound to obey,
For from the people they receive their pay.
[Chorus and repeat.]
Congressman Ely is first on the list,
He'll soon be there, our friends to assist.
[Chorus and repeat.]
Arta give to hie mina its wildest range,
To ii abroad himatdrt on the theme of exehango.
((horns and repeat.]
This is the way I long have sought,
And mourned because I found it not.
[Chorus and repeat.]
If you get there before I do,
Look out for me, for I'm coming too.
[Chorus and repeat.]
or now that the thing has got a start,
2 hey have concluded to send old Hart.
Roll or, roll on, MA WWI% roll on,
And let the poor prisoners go home, go home.
The enchanting effect with Which this eloquent
and affecting production was rendered by the united
voices of the asdociationi usually attracted a large
crowd of citizens to the prison windows; and it was
the generil conviction of the inmates that the pa.
Lion bad lost a brilliant poet In winning a gallant
moldier.
The meadow of the society were highly eniestain•
lug. Mr: Ely, I undermtand., has in him pealeggitet
it to • ALVA PIO k W:3=ll
Td Wax Pllllllll will be watt to otsbocribora by
wall (per sanam_la advaace) at 119.01
ALree Ooplee " ua 11.411
Ti,. a so u COO
Tow " 46 12.0
War Cube will be aliened al the muse Feta, Mee s
10 espies! will colt $24 ;AO cos ee will ewe $OO i eel{
100 (*plea $l2O.
fora Olub of Twenty-one or ever, we will send $
Beni Clapp to the getter-op of the °tub.
sir Padmasten are requested to sot se Agouti In
Tin WAR raise.
iv" Advertisements Inserted at the tumid ratet
lines constitute a ware,
record of the proceedings taken by himself, inelud
ing Fketches of the speeches, &a.
LOVE AT BIGHT AND WITHOUT SIGHT
I have before stated that some of the private sot
frOM the upper rooms, were employed in the
officers' quarters, a service which
.they gladly ac
cepit'd as affording superior rations, Among these
was corporal of New York, a young man of
wealthy' parentage, of attractive manners, good in
telleetua: endowments—and withal "handsome as
Apollo."
At. the rettittest of some of the officers, he was oo
essionelly remitted to visit the loiter floor, and,
upon one occation ' was permitted to leave the pri
son on parole, for the purpose of purchasing sup
plies. While thus passing through one of the maim
thoroughfares, M—n was accosted by a little girl,
who presented him with a kouquet, at, the same
time, pointing to a young lady, on the opposite side
of the street, as the donor. The corporal acknow
ledged the gift, by a polite how, and pFooevded
upon his mission. The lady, apparently fascinated,
followed him at a distance to the prison, and, as he
entered it, she reciprocated his bow, and leisurely
walked away.
For some inexplicable cause the corporal was not
again permitted to go out, and a negro—l should
halq) Potation(' that quite a number of servants
were in the prison—was despatched in his geed.
The negro had not proceeded far when he was met
by the young lady referred to, and the sequel to
the interview was developed in a package with
which he returned to the officers' quarters, and de
livered to Corporal M—n, It was found to con
tain a new suit of clothes, and upon one garment
leas pinned a small card, neatly inscribed with Ott
TOMO tI hi 3 beliductrcas
. Only this, and nothing morn."
Corporal M--n instantly addressed himself Go
the task of epistolary composition, in which he
gracefully acknowledged the receipt of the gift, and
expressed his heartfelt thanks. This was delivered
by the negro on the day following, and he returned
with a package eontaielpg a number of pocket.
handkerchiefs, socks, and shirts!
As in the first instance, the only communication
which accompanied the gift was the donor's card.
The corporal again . acknowledged his obligations by
a polite note, which was duly delivered through the
same medium.
Thenceforth the corporal was in daily receipt of
the choicest dainties, and a regular epistolary ow
respdidence wag carried on u nt il the day of Ms re
lease, which occurred on the 3d of January. A
matrimonial engagement had been made during
the interval, with the understanding that the
parties would meet in Baltimore ou the Ist of March
next.
I have omitted to state that the corporal had
been sent back to his old quarters, but having as
certained that his fair inamorata daily promenaded
within view of the aloe& quarters, he obtained
employment as a cook, and was thereafter unfail
ingly at his post to reciprocate the loving smiles of
his betrothed.
She had sent him her daguerreotype, which he
frequently exhibited to me. It was a lovely image,
and one that would have required no 4 g collateral "
inducement to carry cap ive the most frigid and
lethargic fancy. I learned that she was of a wealthy
family, and of as good blood as was to be Ogg!
FLlntmg the F. F. 17.'s,,and her letters, I was as
sured, evinced that she was no lees intelligent and
refined.
When the glad tidings of our release came, the ,
name of Corporal M—n was found in the list.
The intelligesoe was quickly conveyed to his yearn
ing admirer. We saw nothing of her, however,
as we marched through the streets of Riehmond,
though the corporal's longing vision was strained
at every animate object.
But when a halt was ordered, a fine carriage,
driven by a negro, suddenly made its appearance,
and halted at a short distance from our ranks. A
lady desoended—there was a brief, but earnest col
loquy
the
the Confederate Agora of our guard,
Ana the next moment the enraptured twain (Cor
poral M— and his affianced} were Loa to face I A
few words, the first they had ever exchanged In
person, were exchanged in subdued, yet melting
tones ; their faces were for a moment lighted, as
with aflame—the engagement was sacredly renewed
—there was a fervent, thrilling pressure of their
hands, and they separated.
A circumstance Is connected with the dagnerreo=
type above referred to, which deserves a passing
notice. Before it left the prison, the picture watt
taken from the case, and a small slip of paper,
closely written, and addressed to General M 9..
Ciellan, was deposited therein, and the daguerreo
type then replaced. It was safely delivered to the
oommander-m.ohief, a meeting of the Cabinet wag
called, and the day following there was a leak
stopped—a mysterious leak, from high official circlet,
and which had inestimably benefited the rebels for
many months.
Advance on the Centre.
[For The Frees.]
As an advance movement on the Potomac is said
to be entirely out of the question—the ability eyes
of conveying the sick to the hospitals, and suppip
ing toy the diterent camps with their proVlsiolie,
being doubted by 'sane Of the newspaper carte
spendents owing to the mud caused by the unpre
cedented weather of the last few weeks, and, esthete
is said to be an abundance of amber in all that
part of Virginia that the Government has military
occupation of, it is suggested that it be formed into
roads by cutting the timber into lengths of ten feet,
splitting it in halves, and laying the fiat side down,
straightening the edges so as to fit them neatly to
gether forming a continuous track or road ten feet
wide, on which a team of four mules will haul with
ease and certainty at least one ton, over an eleva
tion of fifteen degrees, which is perhaps a greater
elevation than the topography of the country will
require.
Now for the details for the execution of the
work. Any man, at all accustomed to the use of
the axe, will cut, split, and cord up one cord
wood per day. Now, a cord of wood is eight feet
long, and four feet high; consequently each side of
the cord presents a copt surface 'of thirty-ttre
square feet, making, both sides together, sixty-four
feet of chopping as a day's work for a man, be
sides the splitting and cording up. Let ua suppoes
that a soldier will cut and split in halves twenty ,
logs one foot in diameter.-he will have ant less by
one third than when he cut his cord of wood per
day; yet be has cut enough for laying at least two
rods of road, after a liberal allowance for waste its
straightening the edges of the pieces.
Now, suppose one hundred and sixty men out of
each regiment base employed, and we have prepared
the tiniber for oho Milo of road by each regiment per
daY ; let another gang, of the same number of men,
prepare two rods each of the ground for the road,
by merely smoothing the surface on the slopes, and
by digging a slight ditch, and raising the road bed
on the flats ; (and, if necessary, on the flats, let them
bed in string-pieces.} Now, let this last gang be
followed up by a third gang of equal number,
whine duty It shall bo to . stialglte6 the edges
of the pieces, laying them, and completing the
road, making one mile for each regiment per day;
with all the men of each regiment, over four hun
dred and eighty left for carrying the timber to the
track, if near, and for assisting the teamsters to
load and unload it from the wagon, if remote.
the difficulty of hauling does not apply bore, II
we begin the road in the woods, giving the loaded
team the benefit of the road. from the start.
As it is known that calculations made on paper
can very rarely be carried out in practice, although
the task assigned to each man, in cutting and lay
ing the timber, is entirely within the limits of what
each man can easily perform, the preparing of .the
roadbed, and conveying the timber thiiroto, wiin
vary with circumstances, which cannot be judged
of at this distance; hence, it may not be safe
to assume that each regiment will complete
its mile in less than two days, at which rate
it will require but very few days to connect the
most remote camp with the pavements of the 04
of Washington ; putting the .groat supply-depote in
speedy, certain, and cheap communication with the
camps, independent of all weather influences ; it
will be, also r a reliable road for the heaviest field
artillery ; besides, whenthe Government confiscates
and sells the adjoining lands, the enhanced pries
will snore than pay their entire cost, for, if wee
made, the roads will be of use five years hence.
In 0011C11131011, why is it not practical to construed
such roads parallel to each other, from the front of
our present position, in the directioe General Mc-
Clellan wishes to advance, on which to bring up our
heaviest artillery in front—to blaze away with
shells and clear out all rebel obstructions for three
Or ;four miles in advance ; then continue the COW.
otruction of the roads until resisted by the rebels,
when the large guns can again be brought up, and '
the rebels again be driven out of their reach. This
may not be a speedy, but it is a sure road to Rich
mond ;. becalms, even if we fail to drive them, we
can, in time, cause them to exhaust their supply. of
Ponder. TIMBER.
361, 1862.
LOCOMOTIVE BuiLniao.—Mossrs• M. W.
ikddwin d Co., at their extensive establishment,
North Byead street, have just completed, and are
Now preparing to ship to the southern part of Cuba,
an eight-wheeled connected engine of beautiful
9nieh. It is styled the Jaibo (pronounced IIibo),
and is intended for the Guantanamo railroad. This
class of locomotives is now coming into general
favor in Cuba. They are not so much used here,
however,
their advantage being the capability of
drawing heavy freights rather than the attaining of
great speed. They are used exclusively, we learn,
iya the Minehlil railroad.
Messrs. Baldwin have built a considerable num
ber of these eight-wheeled connected engines.
Their peculiar feature is a patent flexible truck,
which permits the turning of very sheet curves with
safety. The Jaibo will run about ton miles per
hour (with her wood, water, and load), will weigh
54 / 111 " ) Poundal and worth itwent $9,090 but
is now the only engine in their shop intended to
burn wood, and has been built thus on account of
the Guantanamo section being extremely woody.
In addition to this,.the firm are building a passen
ger engine for Cuba, and also engines for the Penn
sylvania, Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore,
end Northern Central Railways, and have seven
hundred hands employed. Eighty-two engines
were turned out at their works in 1860. The pre
sent season is one of unusual activity, the orioles
months of the year . "being generally the dullest.
This activity of the 'business is the more singular,-
from the fact that many of the Eastern shops have
closed from lack of orders. And we are assured
that in case of an adjustment of the war trotibles,
the prospect of an increased trade would be still
more auspicious; as most of the railroadoompasiew,
, being indisposed to invest more .capital in rolling
Ma while theflellt IMO of dirafft abntifrar
have endeavo redto matte their power "hold ontiT
WWI something tt tom up." '