E 3 the Maui - selisition Preohnnetlitn; } winter" give you an extract from a regiinental physician 06 ate allihkrin s Virsinia. "Pomocratie principles lion her doe tritie" niell3lier wko, heart is in the right plisoe i can sikp soundly . , bat must be.carefal and not talk in his sleep, for fear of(eontrary to order) I saying anything against old Abe's nigrertbiii,- the expressing himself in re_ard to the policy- of the war in , . . ._ • ; Alklil ittrrr ; hot :been issued' .i' ' . thaidne he areal' here, posi tively f. .:(rfifigitthe expression of _uair sentiment in- ,oppisoition to the policy of the war.. It it were not for the etteringlititellicts, which I see in - the not very far future, 1 could al most wish- / had never borne the name of an American citizen, but the peeplti are rapsiag trtmetheirstuper, are becoming `alive to the danger by which they ~tie surrounded; the sestet are dropping from, their eyes, and ticipia.fetise every hill and dale eball go eP the glorious shout, "De mooracy Triumphant !" Then, and sot till then, can we expect perma nent peace. Fight on, ye noble sons 'of Little Greene, you are accomplish ing quite as mueh in the army as at home. Hundreds came here any- , '-tifiiiig bat Pemocratti, are now sound 1 _ is i the 'faith, 144 mpg", Republicans are ,now redqopied,' filetyed t ,anti lift their right mind. There is now a :strong fait of ' our Battalion going - to'. Texas ' with Fremont, but it only Minor. Far my part, I want noth- Ing,ticati with any of the nigger wo r'-ehlppere. As long as they confine the Near to its legitimate ooject, it mattered not to me where I was or `.l.dered; but now, every movement or dered goes amazingly against the grain. There is but one sentiment prevailing among the men, a determ ination never to fight side by side . settirs 41aeltey,," • .. • -I will not, disclose the name of this '%un patriot; sells nilght 'be arrested fnefivason. Mese& Editors, let us see who it is that are the true Union men. Did- Oa erer know Union men express fteekatelveti its the following men have dove. ' The New York Times, a lead ing organ of the Republican party, sad well .posted in reference to all the ends andttims of its leaders, "lifts 1 ;the curtain?' "The react' °nista may talk as they please about the Union acitsris, they cannot have it. The Ihittsr is ax absurdity." At the open ing of the session of Congress in De ibeill ber last, Mr. Conway, Republican member from Kansas, amongst oth er disunion sentiments offered the f ligkr_wing resolution : • 1 , " 11 .Refelvelf, That the restoration of c iOilitifinsifit existed prior to the .I•lffen - wirtild qe a greater calami ;4' than the rebellion itself," -es it • weuld give new life to the "indispen sable conflict," and entail upon the sllion another cycle of bitter, con tatin -. • is and civil war." 1 ~ • __V, Connsy is to be regarded Xftilliemsn!lent of Republicans loc e.4ti 0, what has the- nation to hope 'Crush out the rebellion, and *eases no country yet. The trou ble his but commenced, the,restora litm °nib,. Vaion is it was is to bring on &greater "contention and civil war." • . Eitrly in January , the Washing- Republican, a semi-official_grgan IS'', administration, in an editor relative to the rebellion wound With these words : • "the bilker of•knaves and fools, (the Union IRS* lIIIIIJIIIIII reasagod the common sense of tallb egailirrf Wog enough The Union as it was hutted ins grate which there is no resume . Mo. r lle Unidu ii bow possible, except of free *State About the same date, during the discussion in the House on the bill o'divide Virginia, and admit the nesliern half into the Union as a Akita;fir: Stevens. Chairman of the Consfaittee of Wave and Means, nude the :following declarations : •, Hinstattner arwrotnio rag Woes ar it ash sour VIZ CONSTITUTION as it is, is ONIC Or TER ASISPRIATIES Vila I have heard repeated ' mat atom beams about rick ttf it. The Union .mitititmer be restored as it was. There are ermey*ae which render much an event i in posiable. Tit UNIOD SHALL ELVER WITH . 1111 • ER airmen rnitort , rss Cortorrivrroa to. WITS narlaut TO El PROTECTED RV IT. JILIEWPOing to my principles, I can vote for the t'll 'on the ground that the revolutionary States, belligerents, are not entitled to the priv , sif the Constitution. With my consent eke *rim east now b restored as it was, under its firierw''' ii MI it is, with slavery." Months ago the Tribune, in con . motion with Wendell Phillips and :. Parker rillsbury, commenced pre ! *ngand leading the minds of the publicans in this direction. Said ' "Tribune, in an article carefully - cunningly prepared : fti t • Speaking of ourselves, we can honestly say avalbssiat that oldlrnibn, wbicn was kept in ex - faience by Irsettiltitt. menaces and northern con . fiesillpit, weimito le regrets and no wish for ..sig bpcilisJitraction. Who wants any Union - Ivre .NIC beitiV i preserved by systematic , Irma; and takti sal blunders I Who wants any whiallle nothing but a sena. mete to leaker Fourth oriel orations withal I • • If we are in the p of God, to be • delivered from unmeant, all daces—if the Jan 'Pale silwery, rimed all over with frosty feu 'Alehtl. is no longer to chill by unman s! em brace. the May of human hope, who is there wile!' or wicked enough to forbid the righteous divorce I" Stripped of hi artfully arranged expletives and flourishes, the avow al of the Tribune, in plain words, Ae Amply this: tbatits conductors i l no mrets for the dissolution of ths.eid Union, and no wish for its 1 josteration ; that it was an unnatur :al alliance—kept in existence only breouthern menaces and northern 4 ionnefieions, and that deliverance I Aiseinsfrom was a "righteous divorce." wheels no one could be weak or wick- ~ugh. to forbid. The cue of Oise Tribune, if cue it needel. on I Shineubjent, waft taken from an ad ifibrwmi just previously delivered in AIM ifilig and elsewhere, by Wen . Pkillipe t whe said : . , theltforst eau be* to the Constitution Ohs eastansas a second time , afresh, in . it khan.' reisseanthr for slavery. 4'4 .4e( * whit ha Counts .,- *I 44 = 1 ;:• w ale ••, , 0.4 . ~.- . 1 ., im e • • • i„„ .0 , ,, ' irotlvitr ---: mum ter tint web , et • , ':, till itarif=iittl rite: t hait Y r i s i tilho WOW t II yea i . S . P il " 4 1 1 40 . 110 ' 1 . 0011 , I . 3 o,ieleer• Er., $ .141 1. TO lallif, isr MOW Itehre k * IPS " Pa r 111111* 0.. Innt . . iO4 cutlet, I 1 '••••lkftPtiser - of - itreonfeddritec - Pir= i er Pill4tt , W also,in an address pow pa. itr , eihivilitioti, la lbany # , e * . prmliattf4i. of Adf ;sl4irtior;on,,the sabjeet, in these midst, , f 41 do not wish to are this government pro longed another day in its present form. 012 the contrary, 1 have bees for twenty years at tempting to overthrow the present dynasty,— * * * If Ido not misjudge the Constitution, whatever may have been its real character, it was never so much an engine of cruelty and crime, as at the -present tour." -pet as lout ,briall.l l r'S/ 13 4 3 , P Virt eron, Beeretatry war, mpon one stand. Let him bear his testimony -for the Union. On the sth day of January, 1862, •at a meeting of the Pennsylvania Soldier's Relief Society in Washington, he delivered an ad dress in the cause of which he said, "There can: be no reconstruction, nor can you talk about reconstruc'- tion. You cannot- „ reconstruct a house of rotten and sound timber.— Mendell Phillips said in an address 11 Cincinnati that he had been a dis unionists for thirty years, day and night. I ask, in conclusion, are these the men, are these the principles that are to prevail ? Are these the men that are to restore the Union as it was, the Constitution as it is ? Are these the Men that are to carry the old flag, the old Stars and Stripes into the rebel States, and replant !them on every capital and fort from whence it - has been torn by the foul hand of the enemy? I say they can not lo it. They will not do it. If we can credit what they say, it is not their intention to do it. Such men as the above are already in re bellion. All they need to carry out their plans is arms and men. They talk to us of government. They say to us you must support the govern. ment. I understand perfectly well what is-meant by this cry, "support the govtrameut.” It means, if it means anything at all, that we are ta, ‘ support, the administration right or wrong. This I cannot consent to do, I am for my "country right or wrong." I am not willing to subscribe to the dogma, that the Bing ,can do no wrong. Depend upon it' in Such a contest as this is at the present time there can be but one end, and that will be despotism for ourselves and our children. The only hope in my opinion is in a return to peaceful counsels, and to secure the return of those counsels, the cry should go forth, from one end of the load to thesather, "We have had enough of this death struggle." But what is to be done, they may say, after you get a cessation of hostilities. Allay the passions which war engenders and we shall not be at a loss to find a way; it is not by force or arms that we are to make another Union, but by force of rearm. "Reason hides it self in those days,"—a poor naked and shivering thing amid the pelting of the storm. Go to our army and they will tell you they have had enough of slaughter—brave men will tell you this. We should ever re member and never forget that the men on the other side are our kind red. ; It Is for freedom or it is the work of Cain in a multiplied, vast, and fearful form. "The pulpit may push it on,.but the words of Christ shall rebuke the pulpit's thunder."— "Blessed are the peace-makers, for they shall be called the children of God." If we recall the mission of William .Penn, we will be apt to conclude that peace men and peace measures after all are not so very bad. When he came to the banks-of the Delaware, he found a warlike tribe butchering, scalping, and knock ing out each others brains. What did he do? Did he encourage them to fight on No, his peace ineas urea, prevailed. Involuntarily they laid,doivn their arms, they buried the hatchet, and forever after ceased to make wars upon each other. So mote it be, Peace in the Union; not out of it ! Yours, &c., WM. A. PORTER Wpaynesburg, 'March 23rd, 1863.- For the Messenger U. S. ARMY, GRNIRAL HOSPITAL, FORT SCHUYLER, NEW YORK, March 14th, 1863. COLS. JONES a JENNINGS—Dear Sirs: —ln the course of human events I, with stew more Greene County boys, landed at Fort Schuyler Hospital for medical treatment. I can say but little of the Fort, except that it is said to be the strongest in the United States. It is situated on the east side of East River, sixteen miles from New York City, and six miles from David's Island, and strongly commands the entrance to New York Harbor, via of East River.— It is mounted with four hundred guns of the largest calibre. Should the Naval forces of Louis Napoleon or Johnny Bull get tog saucy and come that way, those four hundred guns might possibly give them a warm reception of leaden hail.— The Hospital buildings are located a few hundred yards from the Fort, on the same side of the giver. There is a main or cen tral building, having rooms for the Sur geOa in charge; sod fourteen rooms, one for each Ward Doctor, besides a number of other buildings for various purposes, such as clothing rooms, reading and gam lug rooms, &c. • The reading room is also need as a library and chapel room; di vine service being held every Sabbath day and two evenings each week. There are thirty-four wards, the most of them are 210 feet in length, and about fifteen feet in width, Each ward has a kitchen or eating room attached, large enough for all the patients to dine at once. There are also two other large kitchens,—one called the general, the other the ladies kitchen. The general kitchen is where most of the food is cooked"and distriubted to the sev seta wards. The ladies' kitchen is where . the mitre dist is cooked sad given to than who ere very sick sad cannot eat the rougher food. This Wise' hitches is a 81$06 ailhkir, bass piton up with* b lie f of lWisf Jusioul Jeres pets of tii essitob7. sr. lose sea st*lktitsreslise tits iftsoo lisaadte wiping from the heroic asussolooso of 0 - - • fe* 11111irircid'irk3irelr them in their notile'cause. The Hospital r iteapoible of holding two thousand pa tient& There are near one thousand here at present.. There ie it large room at headoarters, fitted up as a chapel, where service is held twice on Sabbath, and three times during the week. There is also a large lihrary in the chapel, given by voluntary contribution, consisting of papers, magazines, novels, historical and eaigntific wale. -Thalsooks, e2clueive of tit papers, magazines, - PrObably amount to fifteen hundred. Running en tirely around the circle of the wards is a wooden borridor, having a track of rail ing, with numerous hand-cars, - constantly carrying to the several wards provisions, coal, clothing, &c. Everything pertain ing to the 'construction of the several , buildings strongly partakes- of the utile duke. The surroundings of the place are marked by many features of both the pic teresque and sublime. East River is but an arm of the great Atlantic. The tide of great ocean ebbs gnd flows dayly. Many times I have stood' et the windows of my ward and watched, with glowing interest, the , heaving and surging of the tumultuous waves of the briny ocean. Near this place lies the - mouldering bones of one of Greene Counties noble soldiers, Dunlap, of Capt. Hughes' company, 18th - Pennsylvania Cavalry, He passed quiet ly from earth to Heaven, confidently ex pressipg a hope that he was passing to a country where the clangor of arms is no heard and peace reline triumphant. Corporal Bazil White, of Company K, 7th Va. Regiment, and myself, are the only two Greene Countians here at present. We would he very much pleaded if you would send us a few copies of your valua ble paper. Yours, truly, X. P. STILWELL For the Messenger A LEAF FROM MY DIARY. MARCH 17th, 1863 Morning rather more pleasant than usual for several days past. Having beard on yesterday that Sergeant John I. Dowavy and Lieut_Farm were quite unwell in the hospital, I concluded to em ploy this morning in visiting them. Ac companied by Sergeant W. A. Brown, a few minutes rapid walking found us at the Quarters of the 123 d, P. V. Enquiring of the first one of the Greene County boys whom I saw, how Downey and McFann were ? what was my surprise to learn that the former was dead. Taken sick with the fever ou picket, only one week before, he immediately upon reach ing cainp, became delirious, the disease baffling all the ef forts of the Surgeons to arrest its course.— He lingered until this morning, when un consciously and seemingly without much pain, he breathed his life away. His loss is deeply felt in camp amongst hie com rades, as it will doubtless be at home. I n him we have all lost a faithful friend,— our country a noble patriot and true sol dier,—society one of its brightest orna ments. • Leaving the camp of the 123 d, we di rected our course towards "Division Plain" where the Irish Brigade and "all the rest of mankind" were joyously cele brating St. Patrick's day in an old-fash ioned, genuine English steeple chase. The enelclsure around which the equestrians sped like an arrow, leaping the bars and ditches that were placed at proper inter vale, I suppose embraced over one hunt!. red acres. At one side of the race track stands were erected, which were occupied by the bugler, who sounded the signal to start, the brass bands, distinguished offi cers, and the ladies. Prominent amongst the mounted officers was Gen. Meagher, dresbed in old English, or rather Irish style, who seemed to enjoy the occasion hugely. On the stand General Hooker stood witnessing the whole scene, fre quently applauding the successful rider, 'and in turn being hiinself vociferously cheered. The crowd of soldiers was im mense, embracing every grade, from the lowest private in the rear rank to the "two-starred gentlemen," commanding a Corps. As I looked upon the scene I thought of the stories which I have read of the field sports of "olden time" in "Green Erin" and "Merrie England," a-here the race, the chase, boxing, and throwing the bar, were the manly and ath letic sports in which the youth engaged. What contrasts-this world of ours pre sents ! Midnight and noon, light and .darkness, are, not more opposite than some of its scenes. I had just left a scene of death and misery, and was now merged in one of life and pleasure ; one was all sorrow and sadness, the other all mirth and joyousness. 4 o'clock, P. M.—l have now returned to comp. The news has reached us that there has been some firing on the right, up the Rappahannock, and that some of our cavalry, including the 16th, have crossed over into rebeldom. Just now an order has reached us to have all our men in camp immediately, and to get ready to "nova. MA moments' warning. J. JACKSON PURMAN, Ist Lieut. Co. A, 140th, P. V. For the-Messenger Wil !HE TOWNSHIP• The Democracy of Wayne tp. met at Phil lip's School House on Saturday, the 48th of March, A. D., 1963. The meeting was organ ized by calling Richard Phillips, Esq.. to the chair, and appointing David Spragg and Simon Strosnider, Vice Presidents, and Peter Coe gray and Spencer Stewart, Secretaries. John I. Worley, Otho bpragg, Simon 'Coen, Jacob Kasha and Hiram Nichols were anointed a Committee on Resolutions to report at next meeting. A abort but an appropriate and wealthosi . Mob wee tielkomni by Otbo Opal* /*A ntiotion, the suatlieg ot§slinted to teesOliptis esreettimbir &sada of Apra swa, si Op 40- doe, P. LIMA* slips Owe. oosalAY, PIM= ATNIV AST, ewes UUiPoEmii fliminsusaa,lack 24t108111. Mae pas. Norroase—Thiit law-makers of the good old Keystone Steak have been quite active in the transaction of business per taining thereto for -the last two or three weeks. We have had an-immense amount of local legislation to do this Session, and the Clerks say that, have dispatched business as fast as any previous Legisla ture that has met for a leas time. Tlie . general Approprierellon Bifi Auta passed 'the House, considerably altered in the appear ance it presented when reported from the Committee of Ways and Means. We will pbas s bill, in a few days, relative to the emigration of "American citizens of Afri can descent" into our own State, but I presume it -gill fail in the Senate. There being a majority of negro worshippers in that body'with that pink of political per fection and paragon of Abolition excellen cies; George V. Lawrence at their head, what &Age can we look for? The action of the whole Republican party is directed to the benefit, of the negro- more than to that of their white brethren, at.d, of course, the whites must not look for beneficial legislation whilst they are in the ascen dency in any of the departments of our State gov3rnmeut. But their day of mis rule is nearly overL.the -hand writing , is upon the Wall—onion Leagues will not save them--they mustgo under. They tried the L'ea'gue movement in the Municipal contest in Harrisburgh and failed. Im mense•sums of Money was brought to their aid, and the old Winnebago was aroused, exerting himself to his. utmost, but it was so go. The people have their eyes open and swear, by the God of their fathers, they will suffer no more. The bill passed by the House, a few days past, taxing al l the Railroads in the State, still hangs in the Senate. Ido not know what its fate will be there, but I am assured that it meets with more favor from that body than one to restore the tax upon the P C. R. R. alone would ;—the latter would have beep killed immediately in the Senate. 1 voted for the bill to tax alt alike, and tin der the circumstances could not vote oth erwise. My feelings were tor repealing the Conithutation law of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, but after listening to the discussion, I soon found that there was a more profound question involved in the matter than I had imagined. Therefore, instead of attempting to say anything upon the subject, I determined to become a pa tient and an attentive hearer of the dis cussion; in fact to act the part of a sworn juror and to form my judgment in accord ance with the law and the testimony, which I did, and voted for' that measure which, I thought, was nearest right, and would suit the people beet. It is conced ed by all parties that the final adjustment of the whole matter is a question fur the Supreme Court to decide. Why not take it there at once 1 is a question that has not been answered by those who favored the passage of a law merely .repealing the Act of sixty-one. A prol.osition of this kind was submitted last winter by Mr. Pershing, of Cambria, who expressed his entire willingness to support it this winter, and thus take the question at once before the proper tribunal and have it legally adjudicated and ended. Now, sirs, I look upon Pershing as the Logician of the Leg islature, and decidedly the ablest man in every way in either llouSe, and if his ar guments were answered by any one op posed to him, I confess I luive not been able to perceive wherein. We have car ried the city of Reading for the first time for years, and indeed all the towns and cities around in which municipal elections have been held, have gone Democratic.— Caution the people to beware of the so called Union League,—they are a sequel to Knownothiugism, intended to deceive, headed by the most loathsome, besotted, and bigotted politicians of the radical Re publican school, whose whole object is to be continued in power in order that they may be enriched by the continued suffer ings of the people. These men care noth ing about the Union of our Fathers—they have for their polar star filthy lucre, negro love, and continuance in place. Yours, &c., A. PA'rfON. The Rebels on the Rappahan nock Falling Back.-111bort Ra tion Reports Confirmed. . PHILADELPHIA, March SO: A special to the New York Herald, dated at the headquarters of Hooker's army March - 29th, says :—All is quiet over the river. The main body of the en emy lies fifteen miles back -of Freder icksburg. A large body has beer. sent to Port Royal It is ascertained by reports of deserters that the rebel army is suffering terribly for want of supplies. •The daily ration had been reduced to half a pound of flour and a quarter of a pound of meat. Deser tions from the enemy are frequent.— A strong cold wind is blowing, and the roads are rapidly drying.up. Important from Lake Providsee' e. Reinfortments soot to Skersoaa CINCINNATI, march 30.—A special to the Gametic, dated Lake Providence, La.. Marsh 224, via Cairo, says; A gentleman arrived from Young's Point ssya there are indication' that hot work may soon be ex pected. Farraguen fleet had passed the batteries .tt Port Hudson, with the loss of the steamer Mississippi. Six steamers succeeded in getting by, sod are below the month of thir-oanalto Yesterday morning heavy and eontinons firing swa heard up the Yazoo, the re ports being mostly-those of light artille ry, with occasional heavy guns. 1, 48 t, night an *moat dunsnd for reinforce ment came, abd to-tay a ; division is to be sent to fibermsueil assistance. MO Xew 11141TINMe 411111M11110y. Secretary Moe is ittpkily pWog forcard tae work itotAlas 110*#11C- Molest ourreety letiklittri~teien tine experts ic,f, dellsaistry eopper-pisite, , , • Cod paper astiug. f tboi " ?mimed win be awe becittinti pia• soy yetetaws , WO by besb-Dote sigarres. awnw WEL= Xstas of tie gag. The Bun* of Moog: Ste lug The Late Fight Near Milton. CINCINNATI, March 28.—The Com mercial has advices from Paris Ky., to the 22d, which say that the rebel Cot Clarke; ieinfbiced by Jack Way, surrounded Mount Sterling with eight 1444ra pen at two* o'clock On Sunday' morning. Our force the* amounting to two hundred, including a lientenent, fought them four hoUrs, commencing at eight o'clock, but were finally defeated, and all ta! - en prisoners. The rebels then burned the town. An attack on Pa. was apprehended that night. Specials give the follo - ving account of the fight at Milton, on the 20th.— Our force consisted of the 105th Ohio and the 123 d Illinois, the 101st Indi ana, section of the 19th Indiana bat tery, and one company Tennessee cavalry, under Colonel A. S. Hall it was on the return to Murfreesboro and seven miles west of Alibtr• and was attacked by two hundred and fifty mounted men under Morgan. Colonel Hall, finding himself out-num bered,'retired to a crest of the bill, shelling the enemy to check his atl vance. The rebels then opened a fierce fire of shot and shell from their battery, and advanced in strength on both flanks. Our artillery, however, forced him back, and at length occu pied the hill. Col. Hall formed three separate lines of battle, so disposed as to command every approach to the Hill. At this moment of the fight, the rebels made most stubborn attempts on our right and left. but were driv en Nick repeatedly with fearful slaughter. Our artillery was so handled as to do splendid execution. One of the enemy's field pieces, a rifled six-pounder, was shivered to pieces, while a shell killed the gun ner belonging to another. General Morgan failing to accomplish any thing in flanks, made an attack in the rear, but there also was repulsed..-- Again and again the rebels persever ed, until at length, it being two o'clock and the fight having lasted three and a half hours . , Morgan withdrew hiscommand,and in half an hour ho reappeared in our front with reinforcements, a regiment having arrived from Woodbury. He made a fierce attack again, but withdrew this time in the utmost confusion, leaving behind him on the field scores of killed and wounded. During the fight Col. Hall dispatch ed a courier to Murfreesboro for rein forcements, and Col. Minty, with two brigades of cavalry and one of infant ry and a battery, made a forced march, but arrived after the action was over. He 'reconnoitered the country thtt night and the following day but fund no enemy. Morgan bad retired several miles beyond Lib erty. We had six killed and thirty one wounded. The rebel surgeons, who came in under a flag of truce to look after their wounded, admit the loss of three captains killed and two wounded ; three lieutenants wounded —one mortally; twenty-eight men killed, eighteen mortally wounded, and one hundred and fifty seriously or slightly injured. Morgan's course in the affair is seriously- criticised by the rebel surgeons, and they assert it will cost him his command. It is reported that the rebels have recrossed Duck Creek in force. Gcn. Johnson has taken command. At Tullahoma the rebels made a reconnoissance in force on Rosecrans' front on the 21st, but were driven off with a loss of 260 prisoners. The CommerciuUa dispatch, dated near Fort Greenwood, March 11th, says that the army aobarked at Beck's Ferry to move overland to Greenwood, a diAance of one It met with heavy skirmishing, and stopped for reinforcements. The na val fleet moved on to attack the bat teries in front. The. rebels are ob stinate, and promise to make a de termined stand. The ram Lioness overhauled the steamer Parallel, loaded with 3,000 bales of cotton. The Parallel was crowded so close that she was com pelled to be run ashore and burned. The river is filled with cotton. A dispatch dated the 15th says : There has been no fighting since Friday. Important from Port Hudson-- Iton-cladx Hound for Yazoo River. WASHINGTON, March 25.—The fol lowing dispatches were received at the Navy Department this morning : --CAIRO, March 24, 1863.—H0n. Gid eon Welles, Secretary of the Navy: -1 have just received a c)rnmunication from Lieutenant Commander B. B. Breeze, dated Black Hawk, Marc .i 20th:—The Hartford is below 'War renton. Admiral Farragut's Secre tary came on board this morning, en route to admiral Porter. It will take him a week at least to communicate and get back. He says the Hartford passed the fort at Port Hudson, but the other - vessels wore repulsed, and one they saw in dames. It is believ ed that the Mississippi was the ship destroyed. [Signed,) A. M. Pracsocx, Fleet Captain, Com'd'g Squidron, CAIRO, ELL.. March 24, 7:50 P. M.- Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy: I have just received a commu nication from Lieutenant Corn. R. R Breese dated Black Hawk, March 19th. .Tbe Admiral has got through Steel's sod the Black Bayou with five iron-clads and the Price &Win to Deer creek. and is making all haste for Yazoo river. Doubtless he is there now. thmeraj Sherman and his troope are following him up. [l3ived,"l it. X. Pinotoon, floes Captain *n4 Coopepador of Station. lii . fit :," 1 "' : eat of e Cow.. - aaription. ~. The aint - went of provostal shatis th ighont the United States to carry ' t the enrollment bill will be• made fia rapidly as possible. TWO will be one in every Congressional district, and when the district is very large two or three will be appointed as the case may require. In addi tion to each district, there will also be one 'olTilliaa and qtke surgeon, to ,b 0 Mid PO 11 8404sut. -silty:goon of cav alry, except the rations, etc., leaving about $ll3 per month. This will constitute the enrolling board, whose duty it is to divide each district, into two subdivisions and to appoint for each ah enroling officer, whose spec ial duty it will be to make the enroll ment . Immediately after his appointment, the enrolling officer of each sub-dis trict is to proceed to make the en rollment. in such manner that each class shall be enrolled separately, and the age of the person enrolled is to be set down on the list as it will be on the first day of July succeeding the date of the enrollment. That is, if any person is not now twenty, but will be on the first of July next, he is 'to be placed on the list.; or if any m—ried man is not thirty-five now, but will be on the first of July next, he is not to go in the first class, but in the second class, or if' any person liable to duty is not now forty-five years of age, but will be on the first day of July next, he is not to be placed on the list at al!. All persons thus enrolled are to be subject to military duty for two years from the first day of July after the enrollment, and if called into the service, shall continue during the re bellion, but not to exceed three years. But, the persons of the second class shall not, in any district be called in to the service of the United States until those of the first class shall have been called. Whenever the President shall make a requisition, be is authorized to assign to each dis triet the number of men to be ftir nislied, and then the enrolling board shall make a draft of the required number, and fifty per cent. addition al; and shall make a complete roll in the order in which the names are drawn. The drafted men are to stand on the same footing with the three years volunteers, in respect to advance pay and bounties as now pro vided by law; and the President, in assigning the required number t..) each district, is authorized to make allowance in respect to the numbers already furnished by such district during the war. After the draft is made each person whose name is drawn is to be notified in writing within ten days, and be is to repair to a designated place of rendezvous: but before the day of as sembling he may furnish a substitute, or he may pay to such persons as the Secretary of War shall select, a sum of money in lieu of a substitute, which sum is to be made uniform by a gen eral order, and is not to exceed three hundred dollars. Every person fail in'g► to report, in person, or by procur ing a substitute, or by paying the stipulated sum, is to be deemed a de, serter. Some of the -Eastern papers are of the opinion that our State may not be called upon, if a draft is made, as Pennsylvania has already furnished more troops than any other State. Rebels Retreating from Ken tucky. Col. Carter in Hard Pursuit—Disgrace— ful Treatment to Paroled Prim Gaeta. LIXINGTON, Ky., March 28.—The rebels are in full retreat to the Cum berland. Their artillery passed through Lancaster on Friday even ing, and their rear guards this morn ing. They will try to cross the Cum berland south of Somerset, but may be overtaken by Carter, who crossed Hickman's bridge early this morn ing, and at last accounts was only seven miles in their rear, One hundred and fifty rebels of Chenault's regiment, under Major Stcele,crossed the Kentucky near bhe mouth of Red river last night, on a boat procured up Red river. Pegram paroled fifty-six Federala before leaving Lancaster. They reported his command at between three and four thousand. They were treated well by the privates, but the rebel Col Ashby, of the 16th Tennessee, stripped them of their arms, money, watches, and everything but the clothes they had on. Pegram had no supply train, and subsisted upon the country. He took off some horses and cattle, and whatever grain and bread he could get in wagons impressed from the peaple. His forces were in a starving condition. Lt. Co]. Adams. of Wol ford'a Cavalry, captured at Danville, is a prisoner. The Yazoo Pass Expedition. The despatch to the President from Cairo, announcing that the Yazoo Pass expedition had probably proved successful, wasfollowed, says a Wash ington despatch, by another from the same trusty hand, dated Columbus, Ky., and received yesterday. This latter says, upon the authority of a rebel Captain betraying to JoEn Morgan's staff, that Fort Pemberton, defending the Tallahatchie Pass, hag been taken, with a few prisoners, by our army and fleet, which have for so many days been painfully making their way toward the roar of Ticks burg. Despatches from Admiral Porter indicate, in consequencB of the necessarily slow progress of the expedition, moving isometirttes not more than a mile a day, and the pub licity given to it, the enemy has made such ample preparation for reastence that General Gr. at has found it tw elfth to degatoh reinforiovaants to overcomeAthai Fortier also fbe Lail g t It a 4. "grititt at lbr wont of suppften Au rs l llllilscetal Surrealist. Nashville dispatch of the 25th Kos :—A elinfederate cavalry force, er Fores, Wheeler and Wharton, °kissed Harloth river this morning, six miles abtlie Franklin. Past of the rebel force attacked our troops at brentwood, nine miles from Nash ville, on. the Franklin road. Our troops, under command of Lieut. Rloodgood, consisted of parts of the 33d Indiana, 22d Ohio, and 19th Wiseeasin---in ail three hundred nom.. After A feeble resistance, with 014 one man killed and four wounddd, they surrendered to the enemy, and all the Government property was captured. General Greene Clay Smith, whd was sent to Franklin, came n pwith the force, and pursued them six miles west of Brentwood, then he met the entire Confederate force, numbering 5,000. With only 500 men, he succeeded in retaking all the wagons and amnian4idn, tut,, being attacked by superior - liittitiers, was compelled to destroy them. " then fell back. When reinforce ments reached him, the rebels had decamped. We lost about one offi cer and about fifteen men killed, wounded and missing. The rebels lost some ten killed and wounded.— Over fifty rebel prisoners have-been brought in. The Confederate cav alry have been within four miles of the city, on the Harding and char loac, pike, to-day. Where the Draft is to be First. We publish on our first page a let ter received by the United States Dispatch Agent of New York, from the State department, explaining the. order recently published, requiring a military bond from persons liable to draft under the enrollment act.— He says the Lc t has been revoked, except in those States which have not yet furnished their compliment of nine months' militia. Therefore we conclude that there wilt be no draft soon in Pennsylvania and the other States which have furnished their compliment of i!riqPr the grgt and second calls. Garibaldi. Garibaldi is now able to walk to the seashore, with crutches. He speaks continually of Poland, and writes to the Italian patriot commit tees to - do what they can to aid the Lisurgents, Compromised. A mr.n in Niagara e6tinty N. Y., having been mulcted in damages for breach of promise, concluded he had better perform the contract. and the lady being willing, they were made one flesh on the Ist inst. grutocratir Vrimarg elution. To be held on the last Saturday of May. Terms .f A chi( Candidates. senator and Prothonotary, 115;--7[egister and Re. corder. Commissioner, Treasurer and Assembly. SC; —Auditor and Poor House Mentor 11 ,00. To be paid in advance. ORDERS for announcing candidates and gaiithsgaklis eta MIST BE ACIt 0111 PA lED WITH THE CASH. ASSEMBLY Messes. Joars Jc 361141NOO:—Yon will please an nounce Col. NEWTON S. of Cumberland tp.. as a candidate for Assembly, tinldect to the decision of the Democratic Primary Election. and oblige MAP Y DEMCCRATS. We are authorized to announce Dr. ALEXANDER P ikTTON, of Morgan torrnship, as a candidate for As. tosiblY• sultieet to the decision o' the Democratic pri mary election. PROT lIOROTART, Democrats of Greene County, I offer myself a calla date for the office of I'rothonotar•, subject to the de. cision of the Democratic Primary Election, to be held in May next. Should ihe your choice, and beelectAtd, I promise to make you a r stient.ve and faithful officer. Eurross Measxmoza:—Please announce ELJJAM CHALFANT, Esq., of Whiteley tp., as a candidate firs. Prothonotary at our next Primary Election, sub** to the decision of the Democratic party. MANY DEMOCRATS OF WHITELY. TREASURER. To the Democracy of Greene County: At the urgt lit Polkitation of many friends in different portions of the County, I r ffer myself as a candidate Ilia TR EAs UHER, subject to the result of the Primary election Phouldt he PO fortunate as to be nominated and elected, Isbell discharge the duties of the alters w ith strict fidelity and impartiality. JAS. S. JENNI4GO, (Erecter known es "Btu Jtac."l Masers. JOaLe & Jan:limos t—Please announce Maj. .s. H. WISE. of Morgan tp., as a candidate for County Treasurer, subject to the Decision of the Dem ocratic pt ty at their Primary election, and oblige many Democrats in the EAST END. We. are authorized to announce WM. LANG, of !Delhi!l township, as a candidate for Treasurer, subject to the decision of the Democratic Primary Election...; We are authorized to announce JEREMIAH STEWART. Esq., of Greene tp.,.as a candidate for Treasurer, subject to the decision of the Democratic Primary Election. MEases. EDITORS I—Please announce the lam of Titus. 1/.111:4 or Mo. is township, as a candidate for County Treasurer, et our next Primary elettieu, sub. je. t to the decision of the Democratic party. • MANY rEMOCRATS of Greene Emanny, We are authorized to announce WILLIAM RET. NOLLIK. of Morgan township, as a candidate for County Treasurer, subject to the decision of the Des. °matte Primary election We are authorized to announce ABRAM REIM of Centre township. as a candidate for Treasurer, subject to the derision of the Democratic Printery eiectioa. COMMISSIONER. T.. the Democracy of Greene County : At the request of many of my friends in different pals attic County, f offer myself as a candidate tor Coun ty Commissioner, subject to the result of the Primary Election, and if so fortunate as to be nominated and elec ted, I pledge myself to take strict can of the interests: ..f the tax-payers, and to discharge the duties of** Mike to the beat of my ability. JACOB SHRIVEL W e are authorized to announce JOHN G. MORE, Eeq of Richhill township, es a. candidate be C ., unty Consinjestinitor, subject to the decision of tin Democratic Primary election. We are authorised to announce DANIEL DONLMIG Esq., of Dankard townekip, as a candidate for Camata Commbeioner, subject to the decision of the Deist. crane Primary Election. REGISTER & RECORDER, *We are aethorized to announce srepnEN N. WitIOTTS of Cumberland tp., ite a candidate fric Sell - and Recorder. subject to • the decision of the Des ocratm party at the Primary Election* W. are authorized to announce NORMAN WOR LEY, of Marion township. sea candidate for Regielleir Sc Recorder. sul,ject to the revolt of the Demecrafie Primary Election. We are authorized to SalliollllllCe Wm. H. RV= of Washittron township, as a candidate ter aud Recorder, subject fo the decision of ibe Derieeeneb is primary Electiou We are authorized to annomince PETY.II_IIIIIOWi f Marjon townsbip as a candidate for degiouir and Recorder., subject to ad decision pf Olt Denaersilla Primary Dleetibw AUDITOS. Sesame Eames :—Please aaanoaca JOUPI`CLAT- ToN.Emuf ai li r t= sa raailip, as a paitablot am& date for biart in at declines at die Dealoaary at *air i;latar., amis. 'WIT /.Mr. we ate so asoossoso WS. GWYN. .‘ Adresse. or sesordesst Off OMNI" Alidien. lubilt . et to at decode erase 0 1 01110•Cratic ?smog der PO9S ZO'CIS V013C7011. SIBINIMMI DA OM Ininagap 41 . 11 + sastoidleis for Pew am , se Ow Oiwwwillis SI am Sri. =lb Aim, =Ed
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