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The Auditor appointed by the court to audit, settle, and adjust the said account, &c., will hold the first meet ing, for the purposes of his appointment, on MONDAY, the lath day of February, 1862, at 4 o'clock P. M., at his office, No. 702 WALNUT Street, in the city of Philadel phia, where all persons interested may attend. ja29. wfm sttt EDWARD WALN, Auditor. MARSHAL'S SALES MARSHAL'S Si.LE.—By virtue of a writ of sale, by the Hon. JOHN CADVIAt,A -' DER, Judge of the District Court of the 'United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in Admi rally, to me directed, will be sold, at Public Sale, to the highest and best bidder, for cash, at Derbyshire's Store, No. 108 North WATER Street, on WEDNESDAY ; rebruary 12, 1502, at 12 o'clock If., the tollowirig MOP" chandise : 17 bags coffee, 22 rolls bagging, 5 tierces hams, . 1 bbl do., 15 coils bagging rope, 3 do., and 1 do., 5 boxes raisins, being part of the cargo of schooner GEORGE G. BAKER. NVILLI/181 311 - LI,VTAMOJ, 17.8.31arshalfi..]).of Penna. PHILADELPHIA, January 31, 1862. fel-at MARSHAL'S SALE.—By virtue of a writ of sale, by the Hon. JOHN CADWALA LER, Judge of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in Ad miralty, to me directed, will be sold at Public Sale, to the highest and best bidder, for cash, at CALLOWHILL- Street wharf, on MONDAY, February rf, 1862, at 12 o'clock M., the schooner E. WATERMAN, her tackle, apparel, and furniture, as she now lies at said wharf. Immediately after sale of the vessel, the cargo, consist ing of 131 Fags o corm b me, cOntAining 50 tenth boxes and 9 quarter boxes cigars. Can be examined on the day of the sale, at Derbyshire's Store, No. 108 North W..TEB Street. WILLIAM MILLWARD, S Marshal E. D. of Penn'a. PHILADELPHIA, February 3.1862. fe4-6t COPARTNERSHIPS. DISBOLUTION.=The Copartnership formerly existing between the undersigned, under the firm of VANDERVEER, ARCHER. & CO.. was dis solved Dec.3l, 1.861, by limitation. The business will be settled by B. F. ARCHER and F. B. REEVES, at No. 46 North WATER Street. C. P. VANDERVEER, B. F. ARC FIER, F. B. REEVES. Philadelphia, January 10,1862 COPARTNERSHIP NOTICE.—Th 4 siadersigpied hare this day formed a Copartnerehip, ender tho tlrm of ARCHER & BEEVES, for transaction of a WHOLE SALE GROCERY business, at the old stand, No. 45 North WATER Street and No. 46 North DELAWARE Avenue. BENJAMIN F. ARCHER, FRANCIS B. REEVES. Philadelphia. Jan. 10, 1862. jal3-ti COPARTNERSHIP RAEL MOBBIB this day retires from our firm. His sons, THEODORE H. MORRIS and FBEDBBIGIC W. MORRIS, are admitted as partners i and the busi ness, will be caritirdiad an kididatorit. MORRIS, WHEELER, & CO., Iron Merchants, 16013 MARKET Street. Philadelphia, Dec. 81. 1861. LIMITED PARTNERSHIP J-A NOTICE.—The subscribers have this dayformed a limited partnership mider the act of Assembly in such cage !add ti Onti proridcd, tauter the firm of DAVID 6CITLL, JR. The general nature of the business tobe transacted is that of buying and selling wool. The ge neral partners interested therein are David Scull, Jr., re siding in the city of Philadelphia, and William Baxter, in the city of Camden, N. J., and the special partner is David Scull, residing in the city of Philadelphia. The amount of capital in actual cash payment, which the said David Scull as special partner has contributed to the common stock, is fifty thousand dollars. The said nart. nership is to commence January let, 1862, and is to ter minate March 31st, 1864 DAVID SCULL, JR., WILLIAM. BAXTER, • • General Partners. DAVID SCULL, Special Partner. Philadelphia. 32 rna. 31st. 1301. 12t VSTLAC K'S DIPTIIERIA. AND SORE TIEROAT LOZENGES, A Rafe and efficient remedy in Diptheria . 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General Halleek has issued an order directing "commanders serving in his department to take immediate measures to aseertain what men of their reepeotive commands desire to be transferred to the gunboat service. " Care will be taken to see that no company would thereby be so reduced in numbers as to ren der it ineffective ; and preference will be given to those men best fitted for such service." Gallant Conduct of Two Union Soldiers —They Keep Twenty.five Secessionists at Bay. The Rolla (Mo.) correspondent Of the St. Louis Republican, in a letter dated January 31, says: A fight took place in Texas county lest Saturday between two men belonging to Captain Hackney s company, of Major Wood's battalion, and a party of twenty-fire BeeessioniStO, under Captain Colo, man, of the rebel army, in which the most gallant conduct and determined bravery on the part of our men was manifested, and which, as a matter of history, if for no other reason, should be placed upon record. I have received the account from one of the men engaged in it, who exhibits over his left eye a decidedly convincing mark of the correct ness of his story. In substance it is about as follows : Several men, some eighteen or twenty in aunt ber, belonging to Captain Hackney's company, went home to see their families, who reside in Texas county. - When they reached their own neighborhood, they, of course, separated into smaller companies ; yet, knowing that the country was in fested with straggling . bands of rebels, they still held together in sufficient numbers to be able to defend themselves if necessary. John IL Bezoni, John Widdle, and Orderly Ser geant Mack were, on Saturday, at the residence of George A. Bezoni, a brother of Jahn H. John Widdle, with a son of Oeorciv Bezoni, went to the spring, a short distance off, for water. While re turning to the house, Widdle was hailed by a band of rebels, who ordered him to halt. Instead of this, he kept on toward the house, when the re bels fired at and shot him, the ball striking him near the centre of the back. WiddlefeU about four rods from the house, and the boy was takenrrisouer by the Scout. In the meantime, Bezoni had gone out of the house, and, seeing what was going on, commenced firing on them, and saw one man fall from his horse. The rebels then dismounted and separated, a portion of them ooming up a lane to ward the house, and the balance taking shelter elnong Scene timber to the left, as they also dp. proached the house. The two men—Bezoni and Mack—then fought them, Bezoni firing upon those in the lane and Meek on those in the timber. E. B. SANDFORD, General SnDerintendest - Just as a volley of musketry was being fired at Bezoni, be ran into the house, and thus, doubt less, saved his life. When once in the house, with the aid of the family of George Bezoni, who were present. they succeeded in making portholes through the walls, with a large auger. Having made six, they were prepared for the siege, which was kept up for near one hour, our brave boys maintaining themselves manfully, while the hot shot were flying all around them, (the walls being of plank, and of course too thin to stop' bullets,) when the rebels ceased firing, and sent the boy whom theyhad taken prisoner at the spring, up to the house to treat for a Surrender. Bezoni sent him back with the word that if the officer in command would come to the house disarmed, he would talk with him. The officer, Captain Coleman, did so. When he ar rived, he told Messrs. B. and M. that if they would give up their arms and take an oath to support the Southern Confederacy, they would not be hurt. To this our heroes replied that they would do no such thing—that they were prepared to defend themselves, and, if he saw fit, they would fight it out. Capt. Coleman returned to his men, and just at this moment George Bezoni rode up in sight. John Bezoni immediately hailed him, and told him to go back and bring more of the " boys," seven of whom were about five miles off. Turning his horse, be immediately started back on a gallop. Jain pcspni and Mack then returned to the house and prepared for another siege, but the rebels did not renew their firing, and after a short time sepa rated. When the reinforcements for our men came up not a rebel could be seen. The number of rebels engaged in this attaek was obtained from Captain Coleman himself, while hold ing the parley referred to. Ile stated that he had twenty five Men . The boy whom they had prisoner counted twenty-three. After the fight, the wounded man, John Widdle, was duly cared for, and, I am told, will recover, though his wound is serious. All the horses, sad dles, guns, and sabres belonging to our men, were saved, and some three or four Secesh blankets were found and taken possession of after the engagement. I neglected to state in the proper place, that, during the firing, Mr. Bezoni received a wound over the eye. It happened in this way ; At one time, while Mr. B. was exposed to the fire of the rebels from the timber, he saw a man behind a tree aiming his gun at him. Watching his opportunity, when a portion of the rebel's body was exposed, he took deliberate aim at his breast. Both fired at the same instant. The rebel fell, and as Bezoni turned his head, a ball struck him just above the left eye, and glanced off, without serious injury. Mr. B. says that these men were in uniform, and were mistaken by them for United States soldiers, until they fired at Widdle. Many interesting incidents of this affair might be enumerated, but I will mention only one or two. While the firing was going on, Esther, a daugh ter of George Bezoni, aged thirteen years, took the cartridges from the boxes and placed them in rows on the table, in order to facilitate the loading of thecarbines by the men. A little boy named Alfred, or " Tip," as he was commonly called, only four years old, having sought safety by covering himself up in bed, picked up a bullet that had penetrated the wall and fallen by bis side, and holding it towards his uncle, said : "Hare, Uncle John, is a bullet." The captain (Coleman) who commanded the rebels in this unequal contest, was formerly a citizen of this puree. He fled from borne en the first approach of troops, last summer. He is now, with one hun dred men, said to be prowling through Texas coun ty, and his present whereabouts having been ascer tained, I learn that Major Wood's battalion will start this morning on an expedition for his capture or extermination. Affairs in Halleek's Department. THE GUNBOAT FLEET AT CAIRO. Leavenworth AN IMPORTANT REBEL MANIFESTO into East Tennessee. GEN. HALLECK'S DEPARTMENT. Making Ready the Gunboats The Gunboat Fleet at Cairo. The gunboat fleet at Cairo is thus described by a correspondent of the Chicago Post: The Iresteni gunboat fleet consists of twelve gun boats, comprising an armament Of one hundred and twenty-six guns. The statements which have ap peared in the New York papers in relation to the armament of these boats are all wrong. The fol lowing is correct: Benton,l6 guns; Essex, 9 ; Mound City, 13 ; Cincinnat, 13 ; Louisville, 13; Carondelet, 13; St. Louis, 13 ; Cairo, 13 ; Pittsburg, 13 ; Lexington, 9 Conestoga, 9 ; Taylor, 9. These guns are all in battery, and none are less than 32-pounders—some are 42-pounders, some 64- pounders, and one (on the Essex) throws a shell weighing one hundred and twenty-eight pounds. In addition to these, each boat will carry a Dahl gren rifled 12-pounder and howitzer on the upper deck. Several of the larger guns on each boat are rifled. Navy officers, however, regard the 16-inch Dahlgren shell guns as their most efficient weapons. The - BC7IIOIZ carries twe of these guns in her for ward battery; the others carry one each. The boats are built very wide, in proportion to their length, giving them almost the same steadi ness in action that a stationary land battery would possess They are constructed upon the same principle as the famous iron battery at Charleston, the aides sloping both upward and downward from the water line, at an angle of forty-five degrees. The bow battery on each boat consists of solid oak timber twenty-six inches in thickness, plated on the exterior surface with iron two and a half inches thiek. The side and stern batteries are somewhat thinner, but have the same thickness of iron over that portion covering the machinery. The Benton is plated all over, but with- iron of unequal thickness, that covering the upper deck (or - roof over the gun deck) being common boiler iron. The other boats are not plated on the roof, which consists of two-and-a-half-inch plank. Of course, a shot falling upon this deck, even at an acute angle, would go through, and a heavy shell so entering would blow - up the boat; but the chances of this occurring are not as one in a thousand. Indeed, unless the rebels improve in their gunnery, their chances are very poor for hitting the gunboats at all. Capt. Porter, of the Essex, after paying them his respects some time ago, declared when he next went down he would carry along a horse and go ashore for a gallop. "But where will you carry him ?" "Put him on top, sir; he will be safer there than in the hands of a Cairo quartermaster!" The rebels, however, did succeed in hitting one of the boats. The shot glanced from the iron surface as harmlessly as a pistol ball would glance from the blade of a shovel. The Mate are intended, in action, to be kept at bow on;" hence the superior strength of the bow battery. Broadsides can be delivered with terrible effect while shifting position. To facilitate move ments in action, the engines and machinery are of the most powerful kind. The boilers are Ave in PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1862. number, constructed to work in connection with or independei.tty of each other. In case of damage done to nay one or More of thorn, a valve closes the connection between the damaged and undamaged boilers, and the latter operate as if nothing had hap pened. The most dreadfully-savage contrivance upon these boats is that to prevent boarding. Each boat is supplied with a number of large hose pipes for throwing kot neater from the boilers ! with a force of 200 peones pressure to the Ltiiiitke %ob. Any human being who shall encounter this terrible stream of hot water will be boiled in an instant. Against these formidable river monsters the for tifications at Columbus cannot long stand. Their effective range is said to be from two and a half to three miles, a distance at whioh the rebel guns will prove comparatively harmless, Let our laud forces be posted to out them off in the rear, and the rebel Bishop at Columbus will speedily be brought to look upon his flock as lambs doomed to slaughter. There is not a rebel fortification on the river that, in my opinion, cannot be easily taben by the co operation of the western gunboat fleet with land forces. GENERAL HUNTER'S DEPARTMENT. ~ Gen. Lane's" Expedition—A Speech by the General it Leavenworth. The Leavenworth Conservative, of January 29, reports a lecture delivered in that city by General Lane, for the benefit of the Mercantile Library As• !iodation. His subject was The Daty we owe to our Government in this her hour of direst ex tremity." He said : This Government of ours coat more than any other Government; more blood and treasure were spent in establishing it. A handful of men, only four millions, unprovided with arms and munitions of war, undertook to fight the first Power of the world; and but for the fact that God smiled upon them, encouraged and titled them, they must have been defeated. In examining this question we should inquire, where is the Government on earth that has more fully protected the persons and property of its subjects than ours 't Now, any Government is entitled to all the efforts that its sub jects can put forth. While the citizens of other Govern ments give all, we should give more than all. The American citizen should be willing to offer up himself and everything upon the altar of his country. This Government that bat so blessed us is now threat. ened • the danger is imminent, and where does it come from ? Who threatens the existence of this Government? I wish to God that I could say to-night that it was threat ened by a foreign foe. No; it is threatened by the very people whom it has most protected and blessed. When I think who caused this war, I feel like s fiend. When I think that the men who have bees the Cabinet officers, the Senators, the Congressmen, the generals, the colonels; when I think that the very men who, for twenty years, have fattened on this Government, are now raising their hands to strike it down—l feel like taking thorn all by the throat-IMo throttling and stran gling them all. For a quarter of a century, l have been an actor in public affairs, and, during all that time, I have seen twenty [Willem at the North governed and controlled by six millions at the South. And no matter how ex travagant the demand made by any one of these lords of the lash, he had only to rise in his seat and say: "Air. Speaker, nnlees this request is granted we shall secede," and the hotepnr gaited a submissive acqui escence. I eaw, day before yesterday, a speech, said to have been delivered in the State of my birth, by a man called Abraham Hendricks, in which he said this war was caused by the radicals in the Northern States." Great God! I wonder the earth did not open and just let him through ! Such a speech, at such an hour, by a man pro fessing to be a loyal citizen! _ what did immediately preince the war? I hope there are Douglas Democrats here, and I want to say to them that the Douglas Democrats, at Charleston, brought on this war. It was they who had the nerve and the courage to stand up for the principle that the people of the Territories had a right to govern them selves. If they had consented to give up that principle, the Charleston Convention would have nominated Stephen A. Douglas. an 1 he would, in all probability, have been elected and alive to -day The Eolith; having failed in conquering Kansas, in making it a Wave State—failed, just a little—having failed to protect slavery inside the Conetitution, deliberately and coolly went to work to establish its empire outside the Constitution If any one should say to the South, tr We will acknowledge your independence," would it secure peace to us for a day'? Never. But I will tell you what it - would do. It would write coward" in burning let ters on the forehead of every freeman, and hand over to our children a war which we ought to end ourselves. My children may call me everything else, but they shall never call me coward. War, war, perpetually, until the North is conquered by the South, or the South - is conquered by the Nottb. There aro a class of persons who want to close this war, and permanently, but they want to fight in such a way that the slaves shall not be free. To carry out this policy, you must fight without killing anybody. Tor, if you kill a master, the slaves will escape. until the last ten days, the policy has been to so fight as not to Burt slavery. The only way to close this war is to fight, and tight .1 everything that stands in the way. Gruen I remember well, shortly after the battle of Buena Vista, report came into the camp that a party of Mexican men, women, and children, had been butchered in the mountains. I was ordered out with a detachment of men, and brought in forty or fifty mutilated bodies, and reported to General Taylor that they were butchered by the Comanches. No one ever questioned Gen. Taylor a goodness of heart, or I his akin as a soldier, but he replied, " The Carcaucttag Seem to be lighting on the same sidwe are. Wo won't,;! interfere with them." Now, barbariim of the most ter..., ribli character has marked every step of this war, waged by the rebels. I don't say. I would all in the ', Catnanclies, but I do say It would not pain ine to see the, negro handling a gun, and I believe the negro may just j as well becon e food for powder as my son. For twenty years I was a respectable member of the Democratic I party.— • ; A voice. " Not ysry rcooectitile:iv . . Well, I mean as respectable as any member of fliat party can be. Even in 3852 I was still a Democrat, when our party at Baltimore declared that all other subjects might be agitated, but slavery was sacred. We might "agitate" the Word of God, "agitate" His law, "agitate" the golden streets of the golden city—but before slavery we must bow our faces in silence—it was too sacred to be talked about. I have lost that reverence, and so much progress have I made that I would not give one drop of the blood of the humblest soldier within the mind of my voice to save slavery from eternal perdition. We have lost just men enough for the preservation of slavery, have made widows enough, orphans enough. Go yonder to that fierce fought battle ground at Springfield. There, out of twelve hundred, five hundred and seventy killed and wounded Kansas has offered up enough blood to this Moloclh and so has every other State. And 1 thank God our Government is satisfied that the wee has gone along far enough in that direction. Who feeds this rebellion Four million slaves. Who clothes this rebellion 'l Four million slaves Take them from that side, and put them on this side. [Applause.] If they were armies, you would do it in a minute. And yet I think a man is worth more to the enemy than a mule. One of the Cabinet 'Ministers asked me the other day how many slaves I could profitably use in a column of 34,000 men- I replied 34,000 besides the teamsters. I told him I wanted to see every soldier a Itnight-criaiit, and behind him his squire to do all his work, so that I may use the soldier just to shoot traitors, and send them to that home prepared for them from the beginning. I would like to have the rebels killed by a gentleman. Let the soldiers go on with their killing, and the squires go on with their burying. Ana if the squires get guns, I don't propose to punish the negro if he kills a traitor. Now, I may lose my standing in the Church, but I tell you I take stock in every negro insurrection, and I don't tate Low trolly there are. If they don't want to bekilled by Degrees, let them lay down their arms. The new Secretary of War has Owned over a new leaf. A healthy public sentiment, created by God himself, com pelled that statesman to publish to the army, "Hence forth your business is to attack, purstie, and destroy the enemy." No more taking of the oath; no more swearing in the rattlesnake. Why, to my certain knowledge, the rebels over here in Missouri have been sworn over live times, and they are rattlesnakes yet. The true Way to close this rebellion is to detach the four million slaves. A roan says, i'Lane, if you do that, went you make them free!" Great God! what a terrible calamity Every slave within this Government is destintd to be free. God has so determined. [A.pplausej [Ger. Lane then fully answered the question, that the liberation of the slaves would work iDjustico to the North ern laborer. Instead of diminishing the wages it would increase them.] The chains are to be stricken from every limb. Free dCM ie to Ito the battla.ery from North Lo South, from East to West. The negroes are much more intelligent than I bad over supposed. I have seen them come into camp (occasion ally ) looking down .as though slaves. liy-and-by begin to straighten themselves, throw back their shoul ders, stand erect, and soon look God stt eight in the face. They are the most affectionate, impulsive, domestic be ings in the world. No one loves mother, wife, children, mere than the negro, and they are altogether smarter people than we give thpm credit for—l mean, we Demo crats After a long day's march, after getting supper for the men, after feeding and cleaning the horses, I have seen them out, just back of the tents, drilling. And they take to drill as a child takes to its mother's milk. 'They soon learn the step, soon learn the position of the soldier, and the manual of arms. Yon can see that in the innermost recesses of their souls the "devil is in tbem." General Washington did not lie when he said his negroes fought as well as white men. General Jackson did not lie whop, be paid that noble compliment to his black soldiere at New Orleans. Give them a fair chance, put arms into their hands, and they will do the balance of the fighting in this war. So terrific is the crime of these traitors, I care not who involves [them in ruin and death. Let us teach them treason against this Government is crime against God, as well as against man. I care not whether the punish ment is inflicted on the battle-fleld, on the gallows, or from the brush of a negro. Death, death, that crushes out this terrible rebellion—let our children remember that the punishment of treason is death. Why, eee here j it almost unmans me to hear people talk about the " constitutional eights" of Piste. le re bellion, of States outside of the Constitution. The " con stitutional rights" of South Carolina! Great God! I wonder how long it will be befote Kansas is called upon to return a fugitive slave to South Carolina, to Missouri. When the Kansas man is called upon to return a slave, let him remember the 670 dead and wounded at Spring field, now charged up to the account of the State of Mis souri. Do you love Kansas, love your wife and home? See to it that Mibeollii is free. If you love these things, bee to ii that Mei.) is not a slave left there thirty days hence. There is this Cherokee country, down there. We want Kansas a square State with as much front north and south as east and we st. The Cherokee country just gives us that If there are slaves there, they must be treated as we treat them in Missouri. Then add that rritory to Kansas, and we can raise our own cotton and carry on our own manufactures ? and if hereafter our children are stricken with the secession disease, they can secede and sustain themselves. I believe it is the business of Kansas exclusively, with the gallant assistance of Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, and other States soon to be represented here, to free all slaves west of the Mississippi. Oh, what a thrill of de light would run through the country to hear Kansas de clare that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the boundaries of Toxic, and, having made the declination, to light it through: That little colony, planted here in freed llamas, then Oberokee, then Texas, then Arkansas, then Louisiana, and slavery was blotted out, crushed out, west of the Mississippi. That's the business of Kansas ' assisted by the gallant West. I em authorized by the Government to say to every officer end private that I will feed a slave for each one of you, and 1 don't care how soon you catch him. In conclusion, let me tell you that the only way to serve your Government, and to serve it effectually, is by declaring that you are soldiers of freedom; to take up the glove the traitors have thrown down ; answer their chal lenge by boldly proclaiming the battle- cry of freedom. With that,. oh! how certain are we of our loader. God himself marches before, and, for my part, I would just as soon follow him as any other leader. . . Farewell, and when we meet again may it be in the piping times of peace. FROM THE REBEL STATES. An Important Southern Document—An Address to the People of Georgia, FELLOW-CITIZENS: Tn a few days the Provi sional Government of the Confederate States will live only in history. With it we shall deliver up the trust we have endeavored to use for your bene fit, to those more directly selected by yourselves. The public record of our acts is familiar to you, and requires no further.explanation at our hands. Of those matters which policy has required to be beard it would he improper now to speak. Thie address, therefore, will have no personal referenca. We are well assured that there exists no necessity for us to arouse your patriotism, nor to inspire your confidence. We rejoice with you in the unanimity et* our state, in its resolutions, and its hopes. And we are proud with you that Georgia hail been " illustrated," and we doubt not will be illustrated again by her eons in our holy struggle. The first campaign is over ; each party rests in place, while the winter's snow declares an armistice from on high. The results in the field are familiar to you, and we will not recount them. To some important facts we call your attention. First. The moderation of our own Government and the fanatical madness of our enemies have die- parsed all illtfareticee of opinion among our people, and united them forever in the war of Indepen dence. In a few Border States a waning opposition is giving way before the stern logic of daily-deve loping facts. The world's history does not give a parallel instance of a revolution based upon such unanimity among the people. Second, Oar enemy has exhibited an energy, a perseverance, and an amount of resources which we bad scarcely expected, and a disregard of Consti tution and laws which we can hardly credit. The result of both, however, is that power which is the characteristic element of despotism, and renders it as formidable to its enemies as it is destructive to its subjects. Third. An immense army has been organized for our destruction, which is being disciplined to the unthinking stolidity of regulars. With the exclu sive possession of the seas, our enemy is enabled to gr throw upon the shores of every State the nucleus of an army. And the threat is made, and doubtless the attempt will follow-in early spring to crush us giant'sawliotnhgaourtire b ord ers, en by a simultaneous movement Fourth. With whatever alacrity our people may rush to arms, and with whatever energy our Government may use its resources, we cannot ex pect to cope with our enemy either in numbers, equipments, or munitions of war. To ,provide against these odds we must look to desperate daring andiativersal self-aacrifice. AM, The primped of foreign interference is at least* remote one, and should not be relied on. If it collies, let it be only auxiliary to our own pre paration for freedom. To our God and ourselves alone we should look. These are stern facts ; perhaps some of them are unpalatable. But we are deceived in you if you would have us to conceal them in order to deceive you: i The only question for us and for you is, as a nation, and individually, what have we to do ? We itheesier t First. As a nation, we should be united, forbear ing io one another, frowning upon all factions op. ili poson and censorious criticisms, and giving a tr Vol and generous confidence to those selected as it leaders in the camp and the council chain be.,l ~ Second. We should excite every nerve and strain every muscle of the body politic to maintain our financial and military healthfulness, and, by rapid aggreasive action, make our enemies feel, at their nritri firesides, the horrors of a war brought on by themselves. The most important matter for you, however, is your individual duty. What can you do ? The foot of the oppressor is on the solid' Georgia. He comes with lust in his eye, poverty in his purse, and hell in his heart. He comes a robber and a murderer. HOW shall you meet him? With the sword at the threshold! With death for him or for yourself! But more than this—let every woman have a torch, every child a firebrand—let the loved homes of youth be made ashes, and the fields of our heritage be made desolate. Let blackness and ruin mark your departing steps, if depart you must, and let a desert more terrible than Sahara welcome the Vandals. Let every city be levelled by the flame, and every village be lost in ashes. Let your faith ful slaves share your fortune and your crust. Trust wife and children to the sure refuge and protectibn of God—preferring even for those loved ones the charnel house as a home than loathsome vassalage to a nation already sunk below the contempt of the civilized world. This may be your terrible choice ; and determine at once, and without dissent, as honor, and patriotism, and duty to God require. Fellow-Citizens; Lull not yourselves into a fatal security. Be prepared for every contingency. This is our only hope for a sure and honorable peace. If our enemy was to-day convinced that the feast herein indicated would welcome him in every quarter of this Confederacy, we know his base character well enough to feel assured he would never come. Let, then, the smoke of your homes, fired by women's hands, tell the approaching foe that over sword and bayonet they will rush on to fire and ruin. We have faith in God and faith in you. He is blind to every indication of Providence who has not seen an Almighty hand controlling the events of the past year. The wind, the wave, the cloud, the mist, the sunshine, and the storm have all mi nistered to our necessities, and frequently succored us in our distresses. ifs -deem it unnecessary to recount the numerous instances which have called forth our gratitude. We would join you in thanks giving and praise. "If God be for us, who can be against us?" Nor would we condemn your confident look to our armies, when they can meet with a foe not too greatly their superior in numbers. The year past tells tt story of heroism and success, or -ohlotz o gar nation will never be ashamed. These considera tions, however, should only stimulate us to greater ‘deeda.and_noblexilfforts. - An occasional reverse we must expect—such as has depressed us within the last few days ; this is only temporary. We have no fears of the result—the final issue. _You and _me may have to sacrifice sur lives and fortunes in the holy cause, but our honor will be saved untarnished, and our children's children will rise up to call us " blessed." ! HOWELL Conn, R. TOOMBS M. J. CRAWFORD, THOMAS IC It. Conn The Experiences of a Richmond Prisoner. WASHINGTON, February 1. 1862. To THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS—Sir: I have beets a prisoner in Virginia, for the last eight months, under peculiar and I think harassing, cir cumstances, and some statements I may have to make may be interesting to you. Having been pretty well known as a practitioner of medicine, in different parts of the country, what I state will not be questioned by my numerous acquaintances and friends Having about $lO,OOO due me in Virginia, and two or three unfinished jobs near Scottsville and Lynchburg, and intending soon to return to Buffalo, Now York—where I formerly lived—to bring my family to 'Washington and a sister and her son on to a farm I had bought in Fairfax county, Virginia, I left Washington, about the first of May last, to try and make seine collections, and arrange my busi ness, before going North. I pursued my journey without interruption until I got seven miles above Lynchburg, when I was arrested and taken before an examining committee, (as they were established all over the country at that time,) and, after an ex amination, was referred to, and taken before, the mayor of Lynchburg, the next morning, by a large and well-armed guard, where I was met and sur rounded by a number of drunken rowdies. The mayor said there was nothing proved against me worthy of notice. I had proved myself to be a peaceable man, when I was put into a back room until the crowd was dispersed, as it was feared they would commit some violence upon me. For my own safety I went to jail until the next morning, when he would try and get me off on the early train for Richmond, The excitement was so great that I was kept there twenty-nine days, and-then sent to Richmond to Governor Letcher, expecting to get a pass to come North. When he examined, my pa pers and letters and made many inquiries, &e., he proposed that I should take an oath of allegiance to the Southern Confederacy, which I refused to do. He tore up my papers, and said I was capable of doing them much injury if I was so disposed, and that I could not be released during the war. I proposed to take an oath not to render any aid or comfort to the enemy while a resident of Virginia, and not to bear arms against the Southern Confede racy. He finally released me, and gave me a pass to go, to a number of places in Virginia, but not to cross the line of the army. When I got to Lynchburg, I was stopped, de tained, and examined as a spy. The Monday suc ceeding, two of came from Palmyra with a warrant for me, and, it being court week, and many thinking it a great-curiosity to see a live Yankee, and hearing that I was to be exhibited, the court yard and streets were filled with men, women, children, and negroes, waiting my arrival. I was taken to Palmyra, and examined in the court, making an elaborate statement. My case was pit over until the arrival of my papers, when all was found to be as I had stated ; and I was honors. big discharged, after two days' confinement in the county jail. I then returned to Richmond, and got another pass from the War Department to go to my farm, &c., but not to cross the lines. I then went to the farm on Monday before the first battle of Bull Run. The next day I was marched into camp, as the New Orleans Tigers, a South Carolina, and a Virginia regiment were encamped on my farm, and, after examining me and my papers, I was again released and started for home, when I was soon followed by a Mr. Newman, who said he had driven forty Yankees out of the county ; that he was soon going into the army, ana that he would shoot me before he went ; but, meeting two or three on the way, he was persuaded to defer it, and re turned. The next day the troops all left for Bull Run, except one wounded man, and the day fol lowing two of the Tigers came and compelled me to take him to the hospital at Manassas. I went, and after I bad got five or six miles on my way home I was again taken into custody, and marched down to Bull Run to camp, where they were burying their dead—said to be eighty or ninety—and again re leased after considerable controversy and delay,when I started on again, and got two or three miles. I met a rcgiment of militia, from Loudoun county, Vir ginia, who took me out of the buggy, regardless of aly Way, and put me in the Met:nal% and Lambed melmek to Manassas. Here I was taken before Dr. Boyle, provost marshal, formerly of this city, who, learning that I was a botanic physician, said, in a most abrupt and ungentlemanly manner, that I would be taken to headquarters or hung, for any one who was fool enough to take botanic medicine ought to be. I said to him I had much rather die on the gallows a martyr to true medical science than be poisoned to death by allopathic physicians, when - he sent me to the guard-house, where I remained seventeen days, with eight or ten other citizen pri soners, and, most of the time, from forty to one hundred and fifty prisoners-of-war, in a hovel, the ends all open to the gaze of every one, and nothing to lie upon but a piece of board. There we were tormented, insulted,-and abused by hundreds. We suffered exceedingly from hunger and thirst, for one half the time we only got half a loaf of ba ker's bread and a Slice of baked ham once a day, and what little water we did get was thick witk mud_ I took a violent cold and had a bilious diar. rho3a most of the time I was there, and a severe cough, all summer and fall, the effects of which, with many other exposures, I fear I shall never recover from. A few days after the last battle of Bull Run, I was visited by four females, who said they had a great anxiety, and had walked four miles to see the man that had made that awful prayer just before the battle; when, atter repeated assurances that I knew nothing of it, and request• ing them to tell what they heard it was, they said I prayed that h—l fire and brimstone might be showered down upon the whole Southern Confede racy, and destroy all the Secessionists root and branch, and that speedily, and without benefit of clergy. I observed that it was an awful prayer truly, but as I was not the man who made it I was not responsible for it ; but an old lady said to me, 814 the 4hais, but wo did not expect you would own it," when they departed. After this I was knows as the Preacher. Soon after this they reported that I led on the Northern army at the last battle, when I was known as the " Spectacled Yankee," the " Spy Preacher and Pilot." - On the day of the last battle of Bull Run I could distinctly hear the yells of the dying, and about sve or six o'clock in the afternoon, messengers came in in great baste, and said the enemy were coming, and they were retreating, &a., &a., when the greatest excitement and confusion prevailed. But soon the Beene was changed. It may also be relied upon as a fact, that the Southern army were far superior in numbers, and lost double the num ber of the Federals in the Wittle, alter all the ad vantages they had over them, by their numbers, freshness of their soldiers, fortifications, masked batteries, de., do. ; yet, strange as it may seem to some, they were badly whipped, and retreating, when they were reinforced. On the 14th or sth of August we were sent to Richmond, where I was again abused in the street by the offieers and guards, who said I was well known, and would soon reap the fruits of my labors. In the next morning's paper it was reported that seventy-four prisoners of war, six citizens, and a preacher, arrived the day before, from Manassas. The citizens and preacher were put into a small room in Hospital No. 2, where there were from two to three hundred wounded or prisoners, but had a right to go through the building occasionally. The prisoners were in a distressed and destitute condi tion, having been robbed of their money when taken prisoners. Their treatment by the physicians was unkind and cruel. I cautiously applied for and obtained leave to assist in dressing and taking care of them. When I left, they gave me the following as a tes timonial of their gratitude : "RICHMOND lIOSPITAL, A. D. 1861.—W0, the undersigned, do hereby tender our most sincere thanks to Doctor George Gross, for the timely and valuable treatment he has bestowed upon 'us and our friends, in his professional capacity ; and we consider him one of the most thorough and attentive, as well as careful, skilful, and sympathetic physi cians and surgeons we have ever mat with, and we desire, if we are removed from here, that ho may be permitted to accompany us." This was signed by eighty whom I attended. From there, we citizens were removed to the To- bacco prison No. 3, where there were about 500 prisoners of war, where we were all confined in the building, without room for all to lie down in comfort, and not allowed to put our heads out of the windows. seven or eight have been shot, to my knowledge, for doing, or attempting so to dolma! two of them in the prison I was in, who were not within eight or ten feet of a window, which was down. They fired into that prison au or seven times before. I have often heard the Seceah soldiers say they come to fight the Yankees, and they would not go home until they had shot one, and that their , c gals rit" them not to come until they brought them a Yankee scalp. They have three or four regiments of negroes in the army of the Potomac, with many Indians in other places; and they say, if it becomes necessary, they will put all their negroes in their front ranks. They say it is a disgrace to civilization that they should be obliged to put their gentlemen soldiers in conflict with such a worthless and degraded set of beings as the Northern army. They are very in temperate, and being kept constantly replenished with whisky, are, as a general thing, more demons than men. Our rations were half a small loaf of baker's bread, with a small piece of beef, at from 9 to 10 A. M ; and half a loaf and half a pint of soup, from sto6P. M. This was all our rations, and many suffered with hunger, as their money was taken from them when they were taken prisoners, and they lay upon the boards without bed, pillow, or covering. After writing five or six letters, I finally got a bearing, and there being no real charges against me I was released on the 12th of December. with a pass to Norfolk, and a line from General Winder to General Huger, to send me North if he thought proper; but he did not feel so disposed, and sent me back to Richmond. I then got a pass to Fair fax Court House to go to my farm, and. when I got to Centreville I was again put under guard and sent back to Manassas, and from thence to Rich mond, with strict orders to keep entirely , away from the lines, at my peril. Soon after this I received a letter in answer to the one I wrote at Norfolk (and the only one I had received from the North in nine months), saying that my wife's health was very poor, and failing daily, when I went again to Gen. Winder. by whose influence I succeeded in obtain ing a pass from the Secretary of War to oome North, they thihhit% that my property there eras a good indemnity for my release. I have lost all my clothes, gold watch, patterns, models, machinery, and I ex pect my team and everything on the farm, besides $lO.OOO due me in Virginia, and my health is very much impaired. Some of the Southerners have treated me - very kindly and respectfully, but very many others have treated me yery anicindly and inhumanly. Very respectfully, GENERAL BUELL'S DEPARTMENT. Indian Rebel Deserter--Zollicipffer's Re- latuns—cien. nousseau [Correspondence of the Louisville Journal.] MUNFORDSVILLE, Ky., Jan. 31, 1842 I have just seen and conversed with an Indian deserter from Bowling Green. He is a half-breed Cherokee, and speaks good English. He states chat the rebels are suffering terribly for money, and that provisions are daily becoming, more and more scarce. In reply to our inquiries concerning the number of Indians with the Texans, he stated that there were only two or three Indians now at the rebel camp, and that most of the Texan Rangers are composed of New Mexican peones, who were willing to hazard almost anything to escape from the clutches of their masters. He also stated that these Mexicans, though desirous of quit dog their new masters, were held by the fear they entertained of summary punishment for deserting. It may not be amiss to remark here that I have frequently had occasion to observe the greaser cha racter, and at best but little confidence can be placed in either their loyalty or valor. As interest dictates, so they act. Ignorant and superstitious by nature and education, they make, at the best, poor friends, or, at the worst s cowardly and treacherous enemies. The remains of Zellicoffer arrived here on the morning train yesterday. They were conveyed to Gen. McCook's headquarters, where a guard of honor was placed over them. Gen. Rousseau also returned to camp upon the same train. The Expected Advance of Gen. Thomas to Knoxvaille—The Rebel Gen. Critten den—Position of Col. Garfield—Affairs in Tennessee. A Louisville (Kentucky) correspondent of the New York Times says : It is here predicted that General Thomas will be in Knoxville by the 15th or 20th proximo. I am told his division consists of the brigades wider Behoepff, Boyle, R. L. McCook, Manson, and Car ter, with five to ten batteries—each brigade avera ging 5,000 or more men. His command may ba made still stronger. lam satisfied that in the bat tle of Logan's Cross Roads he did not have on hand but four regiments of infantry, 300 horsemen, and one battery. They did the fighting, and won the day. He will not move to Tennessee without all his force at his disposal for any emergency, with abundance of cavalry and mounted sharpshooters for scouting, skirmishing, chasing,. and capturing. An apparently official statement gives our loss, on the 19th, as 162 killed and wounded. Geo. Crittenden hits proved himself a general of no military account at all. This rebel major gene ral is a notorious, habitual drunkard—was cashiered for drunkenness when in the United States army. Gen. Thomas has nothing to fear from him. Se cessionists here say our victory will amount to nothing ; that Zollicoffer was really no general at all ; is better dead than alive, and his death is for tunate for their cause; that he alone is responsible for the blunder of attacking us, and Crittenden was not in the fight, and had nothing to do with it ! Colonel Garfield's headquarters are at Paintville. He has there two Ohio and two Kentucky regi ments, and two companies of cavalry. He and Northeast Kentucky are reckoned safe. "Fal staff," they say, brought up at Pound Gap—per haps like George Crittenden, at Monticello, to take another big drink of rifled whisky, and then " fall back" further, shouting to his fellow forces, &neve quG ene i t. peu General Wood is understood to be constructing a military `road from Frankfort to Somerset. Many inhabitants ) even of 'West Touncesee, won't submit to drafting. The rebel organs own that "considerable evidence of disloyalty to the Con federate Government has been manifested in some of the counties in West Tennessee since the call upon the militia." The disaffected in Carroll, Weakly, (Etheridge's home,) McNairy, and other counties, " positively refuse to submit to the detail." Like the Unionists about Rock ingham and Lynchburg, Virginia, "they will not submit to a "draft." In East Tennessee, George Crittenden's proclamations have as little effect as in Kentucky. The mountain boys will not come to his camp: They will not rush to his " vic torious standard." He rebukes them for staying at home, being inactive, lostin slothful indolence, and sleeping while the clarion of a glorious war rings in their ears. They heed him not. When their time comes, they will not " sleep ;" then they will rise and sweep the Secessionists and rebels forever from their soils Then the Tennessee press will speak out with unqualified condemnation against Jeff Davis & Co. Even now the Memphis Arpcs and Appeal brand them as sultans, illegal wielders of authority, usurers over the people ; confessedly stand against at necessia's prospects, and own that the Confeds lack everything, from a shoe-latchet to a steam engine, and that all looks darker and darker for them, day by day. The bope is entertained and expressed by thou sands of Kentuckians, that on the 12th of April, the first anniversary of the war's commencement by the firing on Sumpter, we may see the war ended, the rebellion quelled, the Union sentiment of the South liberated and revived, the Southern heart cooled, the Southern mind enlightened, and the authors of all this terrible strife brought to punishment by a majority of the very people whom they 1111Y0 so grossly deceived and inhumanly outraged. PONTIAC. MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS. From Fortress Monroe FORTRESS MONROE, Feb. 3, Vitt. Baltimore.—The steamer Chippewa, which left the blockade off Wilmington, N. C., arrived here this morning, and reports everything quiet in that vicinity. The Chippewa encountered westerly gales during the whole passage. She passed close to Hatteras, and saw a large fleet of vessels inside at anchor. She heard no Sling. The steamers Hartford and Monticello were met off Albemarle Sound. The Monticello left here yesterday for the blockade of Wilmington. The Constitution is dill here, and will sail as soon as possible. It has been raining hard Mt day. A flag of truce went out this afternoon, but had not returned when this letter was mailed. From the Army of General Banks. Fnanzamr, Feb. 2. Captain J. D. Bingham, of the regular iiituy, ind rot (Tao liat nix months twehst ant quartermaster of General Banks' diviaion, has been transferred to Gene al Buell's army, in ken tacky, where he will perform the duties of quarter master. Captain liolahird, whe haa p9Ol/ tltio Chief quartermaster from the time this division has been Orgaal;!ed, will 6ohilibue in the same capacity. On the 31st ult., Paymaster Davies visited the camp of the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania, and paid that regiment. Today, Paymaster Bannister visited the Maryland Rome Brigade, Colonel Maulsby, for a similar purpose. The second general court martial, of which Lieu, tenant Colonel Atterbury, of the New York Ninth, is president, will close its labors this week. It was instituted on the 27th of September last, and has tried and disposed of from sixty-five to seventy eases, many of which were of great importance. There are ten more oases on the docket. The court consists at present of Lieutenant Colonel Atter bury, of the New York Ninth, president. Members—Captain Theodore P. Gould, New York Twenty-eighth ; Captain Charles E. Prescott, New York Ninth ; Captain James Savage, Mas sachusetts Second ; Captain P. J. °lessen, New York Twenty•ninth •, Captain Lewis C. Kinsler, Pennsylvania Tweatrninth; Captain William L. Poulk, Pennsylvania Forty-sixth ; Lieutenant George Davis, New York Twenty-eighth' Lieute nant Joseph McGuigan, Twenty ninth Pennsyl vania; Lieutenant Robert B. Drown, judge advo cate. Second Massachusetts. GEORGE GROSS, M. D TWO CENTS. Clerks—Corporal Frisbee, Company B, Penn sylvania Forty-siath ; and Corporal Withers, Com pany F, Nnwrork Ninth. General court martial, No. 3, was organized last Tuesday, and has already disposed of fifteen cases. It is composed as follows President—Lieut. Col. T. J. Lucas, Sixteenth Indiana. My:hers—Capt. T. B. Park, Michigan First Ca valry;_ Capt. J. I. Yellott, of the Maryland Rome Brigade; First Lieut. S. D. Kempton, Indiana Twelfth ; First!Lieut. Loring S. Richardson, Massa chusetts Thirteenth; First. Lieut. Robert G. Shaw, Massachusetts Second ; First Lieut. Hasbrouck Reeve, First Michigan Cavalry; Second Lieut. Walter Herbert Judson, Massachusetts Thirteenth ; Capt. N. B. Shurtletr, Judge Advocate, Massa chusetts Twelfth. Sympathy with the Rebels at Nassau. N. P. TEE UNITED STATES GUNBOAT FlAlilltEktl AND rumn [From the Boston. Post, Feb.l.l It is to be hoped the people of Great Britain are not as bitter in their feelings towards the United States as the inhabitants of the Provinces and of the British West India Islands. Captain Creston, of the schooner Eureka, of Portland, who was wrecked on Elbow Key, on January 10, and afterwards spent a week at Nassau, N. P., leaving there on the 20th. has arrived in Boston, aeal informs us that the hostility of the people there is extreme. A Union man, known as suoh, can with difficulty walk the streets without being insulted. It has been staled that the United States gunboat F/ambeens was prohibited from taking in coal at the depot established there by our Government, while British and Southern vessels, engaged in running the block ade, enjoy every facility in obtaining all the sup plies they wish. . While these facts are fully confirmed by Captain C., he asserts, positively, that Lieutenant Temple, commanding the F., is unfit for his position. lie laid at anchor at Nassau, doing nothing (the vessel needing no repairs) from the 14th to the 19th of January ; and had also spent a week there only a short time previous, the vessels running in and out in the meantime, loaded with cotton, firearms, de., apparently disturbing him but little. During his last visit there, the steamer Caroline, from Charles ton. S. C., came in (on Saturday, January 18) with a cargo of one thousand bales of cotton. She ran alongside of ship Eliza Bonsall, a fine vessel built at Bath, Maine, but now owned at Charleston, and bound to England, and discharged the entire cargo on board of her. (The E. 8., it will be recol lected, brought out arms and ammunition from Europe, which formed the cargo of the steamer Isabel. quite recently arrived at Charleston.] Capt. C. states that he saw the Caroline for an hour or two before she entered the port, when some six or seven miles outside. The weather was good, and had the Flambeau been on the alert, a valuable prize might have been secured. Lieut. Temple afterward expressed his mortification at her arrival, while he was at anchor, accompanied with some comments on the impossibility bf ids af fective blockade. On being informed, in the pre sence of Capt. Creston, that the ' Caroline had dipped her colors to him as she came in ' he regret ted that he had not noticed the fact, that he "might have returned the compliment." The American consul, Samuel Whiting, Esq., objected to this re mark, and advised him to resign his commission and return home, adding that he " would do less harm in South Carolina than on board of an Ame rican vessel." Timothy Darling, Esq., a well-known merchant at Nassau, formerly of Calais, Maine, informed Captain C. that, at a dinner at his house, Lieut. Temple said that if I - wain - AA to neain. in the temperament of Charleston, be "should obey, but with the same feelin.s as he should obey a com mand to fire on the city of Boston." This may have been only "after-dinner talk," not deliberate language, and Lieutenant Temple, who sailed on the 19th for Port Royal, South Carolina, may be able to prove himself a true Union man at heart: Captain Croston states further, that it was not ne cessary for the Fialialrg to go to Roy West for coal. She could have anchored outside of Nassau, alongside of the coal-laden vessels, and taken it on board with perfect safety. As to the Southern blockade, vessels were occasionally arriving at Nassau, but they were small, and escaped with difficulty from the Southern ports. A schooner ar rived about the 20th, which had been three weeks in getting out of the harbor of St. Johns, Florida. THE BURNSIDE EXPEDITION. The New York Times, commenting upon the news from the Burnside Expedition, says : The captain of a vessel, which has arrived from the coast of North Carolina, reports that on Tues day, the 28th ult., he heard heaVy firing in the rear of Beaufort, N. C., and again, two days after, as he proceeded northward, he heard heavy firing in the direction of Roanoke Island. If this firing was from our fleet, as it certainly must have been, it would seem that Gen. Burnside, after getting his vessels safely within Hatteras Inlet, had divided his fleet into two bodies, one of which was despatched southward and the other northward, and operations had been begun in both directions at the points indicated in the despatch. We may have to wait a day or two yet to learn what success attended our action; for it is unlikely we will receive any definite or reliable information until a despatch boat arrives from our fleet. Appearances indicate, however, that the action was unfavorable to the rebels, for the last passenger who arrived at Fortress Monroe (on Friday last, two days after the last.mentioned firing) from the South by a flag of truce, was accompanied from Richmond by a de tective, who was instructed not to allow him to carry any papers with him, or to hold any commu nication with anybody on his way. It was the man's belief, from what he saw, that something had occurred which it was not desirable should be known here. If the news had been in any way unfavorable to us, it would undoubtedly have been promptly transmitted, well colored with exaggera tions and falsehoods. Beaufort is a small town of about two thousand inhabitants, in Carteret county, on the southern coast of North Carolina, eleven miles northwest of Cape Lookout, and one hundred and sixty-eight miles southeast of Raleigh. It has a safe and spa cious harbor, admitting vessels rquising fauiteen feet of water,and is a place of considerable com. merce. It has a good railroad connecting with Newbern, and hence with Goldsboro' and the North Carolina system of railroads. If Gen. Burnside had, previous to the attack, seized Newbern—as is quite likely—no rebel force could come overland to the re lief of this northern Beaufort, and the rebels have no navy. A short distance from the {Own, on Bogue Point, on entering the harbor of Beaufort, stands Fort Macon, a very strong, regular fortification, which, it will be recollected, was seized and garri soned by Governor Ellis on the outbreak of seces sion in North Carolina. The chivalry of Carolina rebeldom are, no doubt, stationed at this last.named point for its defence. As President Lincoln an nounced that one object of the war was to seize, hold, occupy, and possess the national forts, and other property, it may he that the old flag again floats over that fort—the only one of any great strength on the North Carolina coast. The command which our naval force has of the internal naviga tion of Pamlico Sound, enabled it to approach Beau fort in the rear of Fort Macon, and thus avoid the cannonading which the fort might have given our vessels if it only bad a chance. Roanoke Island is situated in the narrow strait which connects Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds, and is one of the points which it is generally be lieved the expedition was to possess, with the view of operations upon Norfolk and elsewhere. If Captain Ca.vendy's ears were not deceived, and his words be reliable, it is not unlikely that we may very soon learn that we age in possession of the most important points for operations on the coast of North Carolina. ..The Health of General Kelly. The Wheeling (Va.) Intelhgencer says The New York papers hare despatches abeht the doolining health of General Kelly—about his having left his post and come home to die, and a great deal of other stuff manufactured out of whole cloth. General Kelly is in this city, and we are happy to announce that he is recovering as rapidly as can be expected, considering the suffer ing he has endured. He is able to walk about and gi-eot his friends, and if he has coma home to die he does not seem to be aware of it. Fortifications on the Delaware For The Press.] ',During the excitement growing out of the Trent affair, we suddenly found ourselves without any, or at least with very feeble means, to resist a pet of war vessels coming up to our very doors, and de stroying this beautiful city. Every person was as tounded at our defenceless condition. The Govern ment took the alarm, and immediately set about selecting suitable sites that would command the ship-channel, and have been successful in securing ReedySPoint, which is about two miles below Fort Delaware, on the Delaware shore, and by which the main ship-channel runs. This, together with the other battery that is to he erected adjacent to, and above Reedy Point, will make that vicinity a hor. net's nest to any hostile fleet that may attempt to come np our river. But are we to stop here, be cause the danger is rot so apparent, at present, as it was one month ago, and to fall back to our for mer feeling of false security, waiting till some new danger is ?mpg TIM lire times that behoove our citizens to insist that the work of put ting our river in a good state of defence should be carried on with increased energy. There are other equally important posts that should be scoured at once, among them let not Red Bank be forgotten. Ithaa the same strategic points now that it possessed in the days of the former struggle. Let the good work be commenced and prosecuted with energy, until security against any foe is aceomplishod, and not till then will we fool that our duty has been done. Respectfully yours, A Cirtzkli or Dathealmxtus. THE WAR PRESS. Tiw Wu Pull will be sent to subscribers 14 Duel (per annum In advance) at 1119.00 Area ()ogee " as 0,06 Five u u u 13.95 Tos 15.00 Larger Cube will be charged at the limo rate, tbu ; 50 copies will cost SW ; 110 Goatee Will cost $6O 100 monies 5120. For a Club of Twenty-one er over, we will eena es Nitta CollY to the F5 4 4'419! The glob. Ilir Portmastere are requested ie act ea Agents tag Tea Was Pans. sar Advertisements !needed at the usual rates. Sts lines constitute a square. COMMUNICATIONS, Public Peculation. [For The Press.] "At the conclusion of a ten-years war," asked Dr. Johnson, 'show are we recompensed for the death of multitudes of men, and the expense of millions, but by aontensplating the sudde4 glories of paymasters and agents and contractors and coma missioners, whose equipages shine like meteors, and whose palaces rise like exhalations ?" If a certain class of actors in ware for empire and conquest, or in wars waged by one selfish European despot against another, merely, reshape, to avango some petty personal insult, in whiob a people at large may truly be said to have little or no interest, deserved the cutting irony convoyed in the above passage, what style of invective, or what scorch ing terms of reproach and denunciation, may not properly be applied to men in this day and land, who, in their country's death-grapple with &malig nant foe within its own borders, are found lying in wait to plunder its rapidly-depleting treasury To divert from its legitimate channels into their own private pockets the means indispensably ne cessary to the successful crushing out of the hide ous rebellion that now threatens one absolute ruin? Were wretches to be found at some dreadful con flagration actually seizing opportunities to abstract portions of the household goods of sufferers strug gling to suppress the flames that consumed their dwellings, what bitter epithets would not an indig nant public heap upon their devoted heads, and with what execrations would they not be hunted from the community they had thus outraged? Yet, as a city on fire is a trivial affair, indeed, compared with a nation in the convulsions of its mortal struggle for existence, so is the petty thievery of a few street-vagrants, on such an ono sion, a venial offence compared with the cool, dia bolic villainy of those ivil4 can deliberately, and on a large scale, contrive to rob their country In the hour of its deadliest peril. If, thank Heaven ! no such turpitude attaches to men in the higher departments of our Govern ment, yet, in the swarms of business agents, con tractors, commissioners, d - ,c., &c., great numbers are evidently to be found to whom these sugges tions fully apply. To what do such look forward 111 their future career Aro they entirely oblivionS of the estimate that inevitably awaits them when a remorseless scrutiny shall drag their deeds to light ? Let such be made aware that Argus eyes pursue their dallr, mercenary operations; let them be assured that the record of these trying times will be written as with a pen of iron, for the readers not only of this but of a coming generation. At a time of almost universal sacrifice, when patriotic millions are laying upon the altar of their country their treasure and their lives, let him of the itching palm beware and lay earnestly to heart, in all its hideousness, the black comparison that he in his own case is provoking with the patriotic and self sacrificing around hint. . Let such a one, if possible, repress his avarice and shun the delusive error that a flashy palace or a shining equipage erected out of, or sustained by, public plunder, in an hour like this, can. by and by, awaken envy, or attract any thing save the finger of scorn and the contempt of all honest men. The fiery ordeal through which we are now pass ing must generate now ideas. We are even now learning that there is something better than riches —that ruin, not prosperity, may be the result of crime; that those who set aside every principle but that of.selfishness are no longer to be safely trusted; that the active advocates of conspiracy, fraud, repudiation, end murder, fire not the hem factors, but the pests of a nation. Let every mast, therefore, strive now to secure a fair record ; for henceforth patriotism among us will ho held at its full value, or we, indeed, shall have suffered in vain. M. [For The Prom] Ir THE patriots of this country fought like the rebels, the contest would be quick and decisive. The rebels fight with the determination of despair, and that determination infuses energy into their commanders, ferocity into their soldiers, and apnirit of wait.y The above tells the great seeeel of vur want of success in battle. Our rulers, politicians, military men, and editors, have, very generally, taken the utmost pains to convince our soldiers and people that those in arms against the Government " are deluded and mistaken,—that they are misled by a few crafty - leaders," and, therefore, are innocent themselves ! We are also taught that, "They are to be pitied rather than punished, and as little harm should be done to them as possible, in carry ing on this lamentable war !" A most terrible er ror on our part. There never was a rebellion or war more thoroughly understood by nation or peo ple engaged in it, than this is by the whole white population of the South. They have deliberately, and with knowledge aforethought, plunged into it, with feelings of the most intense hatred towards our entire 2. orthern people, under a supposition that we were a nation of cowards, and that they could easily whip us into a compliance with their.will, right or wrong. Not content with this, their edi tors and leaders have used the tllbdt extraordinary efforts to keep up this hatred and inflame the pea eions of their soldiers. And they show good policy in this; or they know that their soldiers can only be made by such moans to fight with energy and desperation: .T-4 14 )k at the English preas and rulers when a war is on hand'or expected with their nation. Witness the immense efforts made to inflame soldiers and people against the Russians during the wee. See, also, the horrible misrepresentations poured out by Government and press against the Ilindoos, during the late rebellion in the East Indies. So, too, against the chinese, during the opium war, And, finally, observe the energy and power with whiolt the people of England have been wrought upon to convince them that we were everything that is perfidious, tyrannical, and overbearing, in view of picking a quarrel with us. While our soldiers and people are taught that they are fighting a crowd of innocent people, de luded by crafty leaders, who keep themselves out of danger, they cannot be expected to fight with the energy and will necessary for victory. Nor can we expect anything from officers who feel thus towards those they are professing to fight. Officers who entertain such sentiments are unfit for their positions, and should be removed. Soldiers who think they are shaatbg Eirld killing innocent men must be taught better before they can be made re liable and effective. G. " Whom the Gods will to Destroy they First make Mad." [For The Press.] it cannot be that England has incurred such Di vine displeasure as to be mad enough to aid, en courage, assist, and consummate, in violation of the laws of nations, the nefarious rebellion in this country. It is impossible that England should be so mad as to excite insurrection or to recognize the separation of component parts of the Republic. It is impossible that England intends to set an exam pie of encouraging the disintegration of nations by bandits, public defaulters, robbers of public trea sury and arsenals, driven from office and public employment by the votes of an indignant people. It cannot be- possible that England can be mad enough to abet or recognize insurrection, with Ireland growling and threatening at her aide, scarcely to be restrained in reluctant subjection, and with India seething with vengeance and ranee- MIS bliire.4 for wronga innumerable inflioted, for hundreds of her sons hanged, scores blown from the mouths of cannon, thou sands shot in battle, princes killed at the gates of temples—a smouldering volcano pregnant with elements of destruction, awaiting only an excite ment or concussion to pour out the lava of inevita ble fury and devastation upon her gpprwpre, lE England furnishes arms to the rebels here, or re cognizes their disorganizing attempt to set up a revolutionary government, infallibly her example will be followed by us, attacking in her most sensi tive and most vulnerable quarter, stimulating the Nana Sahibs, the princes, the sepoys, and the popu lation of India to throw off the foreign yoke, and to strike for freedom; sending them arms and trained forces, with what they are most in want of, gene rals, officers, and engineersskilled.in all the gaieties of modern warfare, to organize and lead on the multitudinous and furious native population. Eng land would have no right to compluio, nor would. the rest of the world censure our prompt and 'Orals tual imitation of her example. C. [For The Frees.] Mn. EDITOR : I send you below an extract from a letter just received from Dr. Dean, the surgeon on board the T uscarorn, commanded by T. Au gustus Craven, as gallant an officer as our navy boasts. J. M. S. CAMDEN) N, J,, Feb, 3, 1862, * Prince Albert, on his dying bed, took a pen and erased some offensive expres sions from the despatch sent to Lord Lyons about the Trent affair, and the last words ho wrote were "Pence via America." When the Privy Coun cil met at Osborne and presented the despatch to the Queen for her signature, she absolutely refused t o Mgt it, De Said, ((AV Ludi, I 43aiiiibt, I will not, sanction such a message to the people who have just so affectionately treated my boy.' " But, your Majesty, our flag has been most grossly in sulted since by the same people," said Palmerston. "I know it," said the Queen; "but I cannot sign such a despatch—it must be changed." She was very averse to the war, and Lord Palmerston is mush censured for forcing the Of* 94 her #ll4 the F.ngiish people. The Nashville is still on the dock, and makes no effort to escape. It is said, if she stays much longer, she will have to be sold to pay her debts. In that ease, we will go after the s`l;tranpler, ow V. Cadiz,
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