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THE FIEMSB.
romnazzt DAILY, (BUI DATB ZEOMPTIID,)
BY JOHN W. FORNEY.
OrriCE NO. 417 CHESTNUT STREET.
THE DAILY PRESS,
"rllllllLlrl OMNI% PER Was', psyable to the Osurrfor
Hailed to Subscribers out of the City at Six DOLLAU
ens ARNIM, FOUR DOLLARS FOR SIGHT MONTHS, THUM
DOLLARS /OR SIX MONTHS—invariably in whine* for
lie time ordered.
THE TRI-WEEKLY PRESS,
Naftali to Subscribers out of the Oity st Tani HoL•
Ella Pat AmN, in advance.
MILITARY GOODS.
S 1 BIAT CASSIMERE,
FOR NEW ARMY REGULATION PANTS,
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OF A SUPERIOR QUALITY,
FOR OFFICERS' USE
FOR SALE BY
ALFRED SLADE & CO.,
40 South FRONT Street, amt. 39 LETITIA. Street
fel-St
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS
VINE SHIRT MANUFACTORY.
.12 The subscriber would invite attention to Ids
IMPROVED CUT OF SRI iITS,
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etantly receiving
NOVELTIES FOR GENTLEMEN'S WEAR.
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Four doors below the Continental.
CLOAKS AND MANTILLAS.
G
REAT BARGAINS
IN
LADIES' CLOAKS,
To close out,
At the
ARCH-STREET CLOAK AND MANTILLA STORE,
E. W. ooruer TENTH sod ARCH Ws.
sit El-em JACOB HOBEFALL.
; C OLAKS--
Handsome styles of well-made, serviceable gar
ments. The beet made, the beet fitting, and the best
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del4 S. E. cor. NINTH and IdtIIKET.
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The Largest, Cheapeet„, and Best-aseorted Stook
to the city.
HOUGH & CO.,
No. 26 South TENTH Fittest,
Opposite Franklin Market.
COMMISSION HOUSES.
SHIPLEY, HAZARD, &
HUTCHINSON,
No. 111 OHNSITICT STREET,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
POl TRI PALS OP
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GI 0 0 D S.
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MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS
LOOKING GLASSES.
OIL PAINTINGS,
FINE ENGRAVINGS,
PICTURE AND PORTRAIT FRAMES,
PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES,
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS,
CARTE-DE-VISITE PORTRAITS,
EARLE'S eALLERIES,
• 816 CHESTNUT STREET,
PHILADELPHIA
GROCERIES.
,cliAll-APPLE CIDER,:
OLD CURRANT WINE,
OUR USUAL SUPPLY,
.VCIST RECNUND.
ALBERT C. ROBERTS,
DEALER IN FINISIWOBBLES
jab-tf Corner of ELEVENTH and VINE Ste
MACKEREL, RERRIiitl, BRAD,
SALMON, £c.-3.000 bbla Mesa Nos. 1,2, and 9
-.OLSIGSBBBL, large, medium, and small, In snorted
gisokagea of choice, late-caught, fat fieh.
6,000 bbla. New Halifax, Naetport, and Labrador Bare
dogs, of choice enehtlee.
6,000 boxes extra new 'milled Herrings.
3,000 bozee extra new No. 1 Herrings.
5,000 boxes large Magdalihe Herrings.
660 bbl,. Mackinac White Fish.
30 bbla. new NahotilY Meat ShaL .
26 bbis. new Halifax Salmon.
1,000 quintals Grand Bank Codfish.
600 boxes Herkimer County Cheese.
In store and landing, for Bale by
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nob No. 146 NORTH WHABVBS.
DRUGS AND
WHITE LEA I
orr,
Bed Lead,
- White Lead,
Litharge,
Sugar of Lead,
Copperas,
Oil of 'Vitriol,
Calomel,
Patent Yellow,
Chrome Red,
Chrome Yellow,
Aqua Fortis,
bturiatic Acid,
Epsom Salts,
Rochelle Salts,
Tartaric Acid,
Orange Mineral,
Soluble Tart
Sub. Carb. Soda,
White Vitriol,
Red Precipitate,
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OF
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The repugnance of mold patients to COD-LIVER
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them answer in special cases, but more often the vehicle
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them, feeling assured their use will result in benefit end
deserved favor. Prepared by
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EYE AND EAR.—DR. JONES, of
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.2.I3BUILILI, Pa., from the 20th JANUARY till the loth
NERRIISItY, 1862_
Dr. JONES cures all curable diseases of the EAR and
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Dr. JONES straightens Creased Eyee In one minute.
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F. BROWN.
COPY-RIGHT SECURED.
Prepared only from the Original Prescription of the late
PROFESSOR .11IUTT ER.
AT FREDERICK BROWN'S,
Northeast corner of FIFTH and CHESTNUT Streets,
Philadelphia.
This Remedy is a safe and simple preparation from the
- receipt of the late distinguished Professor Matter, with
whom it was a favorite prescription. That he used it in
bp, extensive practice, insures to the timid a certain
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- • - to prescribe only such remedial agents as should secure
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, and in cases wherea medical adviser is not at hand, it
'way be used with safety, according to the directions, in
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N. N. corner of FIFTH and CHESTNUT Ste.
ocl9-s/kw 6m
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BEAD THE TESTIMONY.
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"B. KEITH, M. D."
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vole *gent for Philadelphia. Trade supplied.
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IVINCHEEITZIVEI
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ail Specific Remedy for the treatment of
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among the thousands who are suffering from Pulmonary
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White Precipitate,
Lunar Caustic,
Narcotine,
Suiph. Morphine,
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Acetate Morphine,
Lac. Snip.,
Ether Sulphuric,
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Corr°. Sublim,
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Chico ide of Soda,
Wetherill's ext. Cincha
Tartar Emetic,
Chloride of Lima.
Crude Borax,
Refined Borax,
Camphor,
Resin Copavia.
LL & BROTHER,
Macturing Chemists,
North SECOND Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
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EXPRESS COMPANIES.
ARMY EXPRESS CO.,
337 CHESTNUT STREET,
PHILADELPHIA..
This company having established an agency in this
city, is prepared to forward
ALL KINDS OF GOODS
TO BALTIMORE,
WASHINGTON,
ALEXANDRIA,
ANNAPOLIS,
FORTRESS MONROE,
NEWPORT NEWR,
PORT ROYAL,
THE SOUTHERN BLOCKADING SQUADRON.
ALSO,
TO NEW YORK,
BOSTON, AND EASTERN CITIES.
Heavy Goode should be delivered at DEPOT, corner
of BROAD and PRIME Streets, before FOUR O'CLOCK
P. K., where our Clerk will give a Bill of Lading.
SMALL PARCELS SHOULD BE LEFT AT OFFICE
331 CHESTNUT STREET.
FREIGHT AT 'VERY LOW RATES DELIVERED
IN WASHINGTON.
Goode for the EASY at our Office in CHESTNUT Street.
DAVIS, BELDEN, & Co.,
MANAGERS.
PRINCIPAL OFFICE IN NEW YORK, 32 BROAD
WAY.
D. GREENE,
SIIPERINTANDENT OF THE COMPANTY.
ia2o
UNITED STATES ARMY AND
NAVY SUPPLY AGENCY AND CAMP EX
PRESS.
TO MANUFACTURERS, MERCHANTS, and IN
VENTORS, and those wishing to forward Packages to
the Camps of the Army, or Naval Stations of the Coast
or Galt:
Raving secured especial privileges for visiting all the
departments both of the Army and Navy, and all the
Wald! of the verietni raflitarY stations, and the naval
posts of the Coast and Guit; for the purpose of introducing
and selling to the Departments, Military Storekeepers,
Commissaries, Quartermasters, BMWs, Officers and Sol
diers, and also to Naval Agents and Paymasters of the
Navy, all.articles required for the use, convenience, com
fort, and necessity, both of the Army and Navy, we have
organized the above-entitled AGENCY AND CA MP
EXPRESS, with its headquarters in the city of Wash
ington. Under this arrangement—entirely complete, and
extending through all the departments both of the Army
and Navy,—we can offer unequalled facilities to Mer
chants, Manufacturers, and Inventors, in readiness of
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extensively-organized system of agency, can do so by
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packages for camp delivery marked to our address,
Washington, D. C. All goods, inventions, wares, or
merchandise of whatever nature, ordered by this
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will meet with prompt attention.
Agents well referred, with small means, can find pro
fitable employment in this organization. A few are
wanted. Office No. 211 PENNSYLVANIA Avenue, op
posite Willard's Hotel, Washington, D. C.
REFERENCES!
GEORGE LAW, New York. ERASTI7S CORNING, Albany
MOSES B. GRINNELL, 44 NORTH A CHASE, Plißilde.
SHIFLIN & BROS., " J. H. TAGGART, '
ADAMS' EXPRESS, 44 ALEX. CUMMINGS, ~
Hon. BENET WILSON, Massachusetts.
Blocs & Co., Bankers, Washington, D. C.
3a7-lm JOHNSON, SWEETLAND. A CO.
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THE ADAMS EXPRESS
COMPANY, Office 820 °OESTRUS'
Street, forwards Parcels, Packages, Merchandise, Bank
Holtz, and Specie, either by its own lines or in oonneetke
with other ErpressCompanlea, to al RINI principal Tempt
and °Elea of the United Matta
CABINET FURNITURE.
C ABINET FURNITURN AND BIL
LIARD TABLE&
MOORE & CAMPION,
No. 261 South SECOND Street,
00nneetion with their extensive Cabinet Buidnees are
tow manufacturing a superior article of
BILLIARD TABLES,
Sad have now on baud a Pull aunpli, fluiened with Um
11.00 RE & CAMPION'S IMPROVED. CUSHIONS,
which are pronounced, by all who have need them, to be
mPerior to all others.
For the quality and finish of these Tables the maim
actureorrefertc- their ntimerons patrons throughout the
%lion, who are familiar with the character of their wort.
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LEG-AL.
ESTATE OF JOHN POTTER, DE
CEASED.—Letters Testamentary upon the Estate
of JOHN POTTER, deceased, having been granted by
the Register of Wills of the city and county of Philadel
phia to the undersigned, all persons indebted to said Es
tate are requested to make payment, and those haying
Claims to present the earns for settlement to
STEPHEN A. CALD WELL,
1112 GIRARD Street.
HENRY C. POTTER,
425 MARKET Street, Executors.
Or to their Attorney, JOHN B. CHAPRON,
ja27.w6t 204 South FIFTH Street.
ESTATE OF JOHN F. EPPLEA
SIMMER, A LUNATIC.—First account of
WILLIAM H. HORN, Committee of Person and Estate.
COMMON PLEAS OF PIIILADELPIILA COUNTY.
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
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5,1862.
THE REBELLION.
GALLANT CONDUCT OF TWO UNION
SOLDIERS. •
THEY HOLD TWENTY-FIVE REBELS AT BAY.
A Speech from General Lane at
AN ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA
The Expected Advance of Gen. Thomas
AFFAIRS AT FORTRESS MONROE.
The Health of General Kelley
&C., &C., &c.
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.
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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,