0 tht Itoot4). IL W. JORES,`fvir JAI. s. Oh "One CONI.'S One Constitution, One ;,,Destiny." 111WASS%144111 Fit) 244, 1884. la - • , fi)pßiggi a ilENTAN 2 .4 11 1,11 NUM& B..IIIIcCIELLAN, loodoilatioarlDeeisien of 'Ole Democratie Na- : . • tiOxet earet,ilvtliot ' l 9.ll4'hillafftle army it fighting, you as Cit- Wilialnia OWL the war is prosecuted for Ott: 9f the Union and the Conatmetione end of your nationality and yet*" ritelni as eitizens.” • Atutu..s. IideCLELLAN. , • • latriThe cAdeuvusp Ikud qae irmioakt jttets ttirAlliret If they 14.'1'4, thts oft hegetkiert • tr they call, they immoomprstaier.m...,aniiel -Webster. *WY COMMON. In - otnloinity \ilth the luau - fee of the Party, a Convention will be halt IheriOt House, at Waynes hmAst,-,: Tammy etilding, March 22, 1864, hsisg.imee wAiek of Court, for the titlireult. selecting aChairrnan and 401:410;*tee for the ensuing year, 00:6 etordither two, the protniety of oar ; ; Pernperatie Clubs in the vaihehirtmmush* of the County, and, Wahl. 't4? the trail:section of such asp:iliovistenes Amy bc. deemed (fin . fetVeriOlie • is:**Nded .1.1011 Go. *S. Wu.- meu eimuty t uad several other abbe *Ohms will. address the eonven tioti. • D. 'CRAWFORD, ElOpilaftof tJ a Central Committee .41:04111verA911 of. tlie Democracy of Gresoe conetyviObekeld et the Court Effiliet*, on sAnrft- OitrM im - Ar OF MARCH Xlitijtt jargivigirpose of selecting n osiegneeae Mend the Mote Convention *Aids tesial.cotivene Roladelphic on ite l 2ilti°Mit* st 12 Veleta, M., of thSOW• _ • It le dowel necessary to oral s spe cieldinesoilioe flikW PurPbge; w 9r l6l. toliattit:6outt; le met to tl3/2e. to :Aue4a the COn velopit,444 -Ore reopeetinily urge a .frout parte of the 1 1). VRAWPORD, t)(M*l* - ' of A* 'central Committee '. 4 7106 tidos as it Was." **i t' 7f/4 to, new Ire a r e in favor of tine litreion ma it was ender the Celietleation as it is ?" • If the Lieu toil& had ebeeit Indf ae constant and diVikkieoer the "Nifi4enger" as helpheski Jove been, 11E would have fold wit, bag trit: ago, we were in freer otoilhat same; identield thing, as artrili true patriots atpa Demoorsda.--t- InAblikljnion and under that C9nstitti aim ilekatilained 0 growth and enjoyed a ininimiaity without a parallel in the lefilitititts,. , =the States were all okfitititi }Vets ewereigney, and fogainr. tkvidielotellie inatitationa to therekilliffaliclattlated their do 'ineseteriobtieo*in astir oar way. baiisitlll#.:o4oL! basis of the onbulisok, )kiititima aultuing traisibarehis Jos kime will folly de. nunidtribt linkodt• ofpisseti' midi a II t% WOO% N i r o, lA wow —Ammo. List m imosa• at" aoliority fiefs thirikitwimit ectitotiaatt all poker in Goterninent, if not in the F 411117 1 ?e g "trea soialaiskarder,R-nr Email says it is, and foradgbibittie kiWiCt , The eontrary it ma3i4 'Vs 66,denin . it , 1 4340 inpn ~ka , 44stite l * IA?* it , 7 - 4 404 ,wiholuksna and sieneurias :the laisusissaileeksluittiukaifleth lx . 'traitortiliV 'Onbititt&s. that "saUstie(.4osl; " anottiffiraeritly emit, neighbor t'Nor will you Waist in your next paper, w y swig miry lind?- 4 4 , abo t Ci aV j/1/ 1 4 404 4 (C 1 0 10 7 is *ORO WiNAIPP . SPI Ned thinA-P - an eied..ollo 6 4 lll °. 41 . 1111441 , 11116 ,' ki3 lll aK,Ai President Lincoln's Reconstruction Theory...--A ,Vigorous IReinibliCen Assault. ire "ipiesold*e opls!ion in these columns a lkwitiumbetre - ti\eit, tiat the schema mir ed out in Presidisit Lincoln's Reeonstruction ti4lok, WA s a Shrewd effort to re-elect *men, and perpetuate the power of the Re- Ptibliallal party. We are gratified to find these opinions sus tained:by so vigorous a' . Wifte'r, and se ta- - questioned a friend of the Iresident us Dr. 13rpwason, editor of kite quarterly Review. tie regards the assumptions of Mr. Lincoln in this Proclamation, as wholly indefensible on the score of any known American princi ples of government, or constitutional right. He states his objections with a skill and force of logic which we regard as irresistible. We have barely room for a few extracts from this most conclusive protest against the President's assumption of more than kingly pc,wer. He characterizes it as the ."plan of the pol itician rather than the etatesman,"—that it 'looks more to the next Presidential election than the real welfare oi the nation." lie of to "putting forth such a plan with such a view' and as a scheme "cunningly de vised and admirably calculated, to make .the Excutive pravically the government, and even the State, and to open the door to wboleiale political comptien," and express es his "honest belief" that the plan is "un constitutional and fraught with hardly less danger to our Republican institutions than the Southern Rebellion itself, and all the more dangerous, because it is not unlikely to enlist in its support so large a portion of the most fearless and devoted (!) friends of the rnion." He regards it an "attempt by J• xecutive action to forestall the action of Congress." He enters his energetic protest against the doctrine of the President that be ing "clothed with the war power of the na tion," that that power is "unlimited" and that while the "war lasts he may do any thing he fudges proper ' But we liasten to furnish the few ex tracts tram this admirable article, fur which we can find room "The chill organization of government can not be done even by Congress under the war power, and if done at all, must be done un der its peace powers, as specified in the Con stitution. The seceded States are still States; that is civil and political organizations in the Union, or they are not. If they are, the ex ecutive, neither under the war power nor other power, has any authority to estab lish military or any other iTovertuneats with iti'their limits. If they are not, their_ reor ganization is the work of Congress under its peace powers. The 'executive has then, in either ease, nothing to do with their civil re organization till Congress has acted, and then only to carry out the law of Congress. Congress is competent to reorganize them with the peisee powers of the governm't or it is not ) for under the war power only military governMents can be instituted. The institu tion or reorganization of civil governments is always the act of the supreme political power, of the sovereigns authority of the State or nation, and is the work of peace, not of war. The President, then, when he tells Congress it must hold on to the war power, as the power under which the rebellious States are to be reorganized, forgets that neither he nor Congress can reorganize them naderthat power. The moment we come to the civil reerganization of conquered terri tory the belligerent rights have ceased, and only the rights of peace are in operation. * * We said we objected primarily to the exe cutive plan, because it is an executive plan. Every, feature of it is marked by what seems to us an extraordinary assumption of power on the part of the executive. The President prescribes the oath, prescribes on what con ditions the States in rebellion may reorganize State governments, and be recognized and represented in Congress as loyal States in the Union. Any one of them, withnot leas than one-tenth of the number of persons who voted in the Presidential election of 1860, may reorganize themselves as the State, and have the fail federal representation in Con gress to which the States nnder the census of 1860 were entitled! Why, the President could easily, by the distribution of federal offices and patronage - in any seceded State, unless there are fewer Union men than is pretended; induce at least one in ten, it as awed of fedetal protection, to swallow With out scruple the preieribed oath, or any num ber of oaths he might prescribe, and eleat State fikid ',Federal officers, whom he may 'choose to prescrihe.Nith the lederal'rep resentatinn of eleven States, who would be his nominees arid creatures, and the number from the other' States he could always com mand the distribution of the patronage of the government, the executive could easily grasp for himself the whole power of the Union, reign as 'an absolute +prince, perpetu ate by re-elections his reign during life, and reduce the functions of Congress to that of simply registering his edicts ; or, if it should now and then shew a disposition to demur, he could, after the manner of Louis XIV., hold a lit de justice. A state with trine-tenths of its population disloyal and exclnded from the ranks of its political people, evidently could not sustain Itself and discharge its proper functions as a State In the tlnion. It would have to be held np and nursed by the government, and tips would be opened the door to political intrigue and corruption, exceeding anything we have yet known, even in this city. Its represertatives in Congress would be virtual nominees of the administration, and the tonal districts would be only so many rotten boroughs" owned by the gov ernment. No, election would or could be free. Besides, with hem and there an in dividual eiception, the men who would take the oath sad be allowed to vote would be the-weakest Ind least energetic portion of the population. The portion ofthe Southern people woo hose the aost.character and are the-best WO to govern and look after the interests of the State er the Union are pre cisely these who would be excluded by the test oath. The : Ansiority of the voters weidd be composed'Of government ~emidoie es, adventorers fred titherlitdies; very ittte honesty ant principle Of any newt - said without any sanent interest be tbeetate or coolotetim 113t.h t -ilere is a gran ems- * * * * irB c i nQ t rafand 11119 ,one Ka* agaffinlSVith Teo -- or !AM ' kittelk3 ukl i*nmt ILr te Ti pp% ote no eosee why they should haven't) , it ak is ile the greet,. the overwhelming majority o f ti lli gmlobon ire la *Whoa "Hit that, bir potiSmily, Asa." The. pie 1 . 10 , tny4,4ofil fit aii i ik r melontfr „. wwm theth ' , sit ro . 11111011111 t, Union, with all their federal rights unim paired ? Moreo*i *Amidst` 1.16 in the eleven seceded States are not•cigimum of the 13 - nited.States. ',They are esumilioa, — and are 'lodated th be se by theaupresse Court in .the Thawitha case, and have heenldnee the 18th of Jul)', 1.8 1, sind their territory is the enemy's territory, otherwise the President could never have placed it under military governors or blockaded the Southern ports. The Supreme Court have decided that the war we are carrying on is not a simple war _against insurgent individtuds, but a terri.- totial civil war, which makes every man, woman, and child in the rebellious territory an enen2y. The interact must be removed from that territory before these Union men cease to be enemies, and that cannot be re moved so long as the law of Congress of the 13th of July, 1861, remains nnrepealed, and the great majority are still hostile, without a gross abuse of executive power. We do not /Mow that even these Union men in the se ceded States are any better than th: Union men in the organized territories under the government of the United States. And why should they, any more than these, have a federal representation and an electoral vote ?" The relentless logic of Dr. Brownson, (re marks a cotemporary) does execution like the knife : a a dissecting surgeon. If there was any life in the victim at the beginning of the operation, it is cut in to too small pieces for any to remain at its close. 1 Evans denies ,being a member of the so-called "Union" or "Loyal" League, hut says lie would "gladly be long to such an order" if he had a chance. No doubt of it, and no doubt he will in due season. As to the "Union as it was," he regards it as "impossi ble," and is of course opposed to restor ing it "under the Constitution as it is," unless that instrument is interpreted as Sumner and other Abolition "newlights" interpret it, and unless it is so amended, at their instance, as to abolish slavery,and unless, in short, "Diggers" are made equal to white men, all over the country, in political rights, privileges and conse quence. This is substantially what our neighbor says, and it is now settled that he is a rabid, rampant, radical Ab olitionist. We misunderstand a large number of the Republicans of this coun ty if they are not unprepared to dance to any such music. But "we shall see what we shall see"—NEXT FALL.— In the meantime, is it not the sublimity of impudence, pretension and effrontery for a fellow like Evans to prate about his "loyalty" who refuses to acknowledge his fealty to the "Constitution," the "on ly bond of Union ?" or to talk of other people being "traitors" and 'copper heads?" In hunting up "treason," such a chap is as badly predicamented as the blind nigger was in a close cellar at mid night looking for a black cat with no eyes. Evans on "Brindle."--"Have we a Neighbor Evans gets off a couplet on • "Brindle," in the last Republican, and by way of encouraging his budding po etic genius, we transfer it, entire, to our columns, hoping it may -add largely to the "poor ditter's" store of provender. We knew the Lieutenant was a "bug ger" of somewhat versatile "parts," especially in the line of invention, but we never dreamt of his being a "poick."— It is now evident, however, that he has slept on Parnassus, and has a Pegasus to ride, if he has no cow to feed, and we trust that, booted and spurred, he will take a trot often on him for his readers' benefit, and Brindle s. Strike your lyre, (liar,) Lieatenant, and get off at least a stanza next time. But here are our neighbor's "floiri' numbers"—lairit they charniiri' and stirrin ? fellow Democrats! no bring on the straw, To satiate the cravings of the starving crea ture's maw." [We beg leave to suggest that those who have "nary straw" can send hay or corn meal. Democrists, to the rescue !] It is a pleasure for us to "break a , lance," now and then, with some of our 1 opponents and with one newspaper ed 1, itors ; but when we encounter one, as is the case with our neighbor of , the "Greene County Republican,".who wil fully, wickedly and persistently misrep resents us, stupidly misunderstands us, and who is so full of partizan bigotry i and malignity, and so contemptibly mean and ungenerous as to be unwilling to do the simplest justice to his oppo -1 nents, merely because they are oppo , nents, a controversy with him is some thing . we have no stomach for. It is only an idle andfoolish waste of time and words, and we shall not ask our readers to submit to any such infliction. It is move than mortal patience and sufferance can bear. Our neighbor, therefore, will `, for the present consider himself "snubb ed,". politely, to be sure, but neverthe. I. l ass snuL4sd, decidedly and enaphatical- Iy,) , and will have the goodness, for a short time at least, to "direct Ms dis course":to somebody else. We are „weary of his AWE= and aank-Pankb7. gir Evans is still .adigaing Gem, McClellan, by hinting tbat be is a ram her of a "treasonable order." Regard for the Lieutenant's long life Awl well bein leeds us to suggentbat itmesdd'rkt he safe for hian to "ay sa" any thins of • :nd dawn among loia!"friends" ia .wormy of the retemee. 4in4 :=7 l I.ll‘ poet among us T' Our Up-town Neighbor. 461,—A , *Pa 4411 aphaimitk oviaiik _ The "Nigger" is Congress. Stunner's resolution 4iiiisaing the Oom mittee on the Distrkt•of )oh/Ma to oOn sider the expeihenei ftf .rgeiliejr . a Ilk granting equal twivileges : ln w.Mte and color ed citizens, was adopted liy a vote of 30 to 10. During the discussion, ,Senator Hen dricks, of lodises, expressed his belief that social as well as political equality with the blacks was to be forced upon the whites by the party in power. girArnold, of Illinois, has offered a reso lution declaring that the constitution should be so amended as to abolish and prohibit slavery wherever it exhitc& The Pet Banks. Th e Gomptoller of the Currency (a new office made to manage the bantlings) has is sued a circular to instruct the bankers, which is causing some merriment. They are treat ed as being a little less than children. The old hen that hatched a brood of duck lings was much alarmed at her supposed pro geny taking to the water as soon as they saw a pond, and manifested the greatest anxiety for them ; but they would follow their instincts. The pet banks will do the same in spite of Mr. McCullough, and smash up at the proper time, greatly to their own profit and the public.loss. The New York World thus hits off the Comptroller's ad vice: "RrLES OF BAN'ZING "By Hugh McCullough, adapted to the 'render' intellects of the rising generation of banks, and to be repeated by the directors and officers just before reciting "Nnw I lay me down to sleep :" ".ow, banks, be good, and do not lend Political or social friend, Avoid renewals, if yon can— Cash is the standard of the man.' If large, square up accounts each day; If small, perhaps a week delay. Pay your clerks well, that they may feel They cannot justly claim to steal, But watch their habits well, to see That out-goes and in-comes agree. Press on, at first, large gains to make, You're chartered for the public's sake ; Think not all prosperous vow, and nice, Bat in inflation 'smell a mice.' " Our Prosperity." The New York Commercial replies to the Tribune, in order to show that the working up of wool into clothing for soldiers, to be worn out by the latter; the transforming of wood, iron and copper into war steamers and iron-clads, and iron into guns and cannons; the consumption of coal by war steamers blockading Southern ports or chasing South ern privateers, do not add anything to the wealth of the country ? It adds : "Are we not, in this matter, simply de ceiving ourselves by all this talk of the great prosperity of the country ? and is not self-deception most dangerous to both indi viduals and communities? Does this not permit evils, that might be avoided if fore seen, to steal upon us unprepared ? " It the issue of legal tender notes and cer tificates of Government indebtedness enrich the community, why not at once .have Con gress enact a law authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue any number of mil lions of them to be divided YllO RATA among the population of the loyal States ? If the issue of these in exchange for the results Of labor is beneficial, will it not be still more beneficial to obtain them without having to part with commodities whiCh certainly con tribute to the well being of the owners and of the community in general?" Calling Democrats Traitors Action- able. We publish the following as a warning to intemperate Republicans, and to show Demo crats that they have the law on their side. We quote from the New Albany (Indiana) Ledger: At the recent term of the Scott County Circuit Court, Clark sued Kimberlin for call ing him a traitor. The facts were about as The Army of the Potomac. follows : "In the month of August last, Per- I Wig. Meade made eshort speech, at the a Democrat, was endeavoring to get ap f eatiou given him in Philadelphia, in a subscription by the citizens to aid in making . oin high-teims of the discipline up a company for the Union army. Army of the Potomac, and as had subscribed fifty dollars, and he t;:' • - ‘: 11.--; 'hardships it had encounter- Ferris were soliciting the persons who simi*. 4t iorice it had done, pointed to the into town to pat down their names far sacliz the commencement of hos amounts as they could spare. Among oth - *lollloo4ls had lost ONE HUNDRKD THOUSAND a r 4 - 0 - l entlaur^ We venture to say that no other ere Ferris approached Kimberlin, Republican, who said he had no money to arest has lost so many' and yet, owing to spare. Some conversation was bad' about thiviateigetwe of Lincoln and his War Sec loyalty, when Ferris said the names on the, retsgrothe fruits which should have been the subscription paper were apretty rod test oil . red mach blood are yet to be gath loyalty. At this Kimberlin became very MP. r er a gry, and jest at this time Clark attempted to speak to him, bat had only,,said the words, 'Uncle Dan,' when Kimberlin turned upon him in a very angry manner and said : if want nothing to do with you,. you are a dis loyal man and a traitor to your country r Refusing to retract, Clark sued him for the slander, end the suit `resalied in a judgment for two hundred and seventy * dollars dama ges and costs. The judgment was based upon the verdict of a jury waved of men of all parties. If every case was tried in which Demo ts have been maligned by Republicans as enemies of their country . , and equally just verdicts with the &bog% lore given in every instanoe, the combined - National debts of Great Britain, Xrance, anithe United States would , pgt beep large as the sum the radicals would owe tee Democrats. " "Loyalty to Air Slaver." This is a naw idea just developed Senator Stunner's evidence in favor of Sena tor lam, an theneensel fee, Mr. H. -had.— Mr. Sumner, in swing Mr. lisle to be a good' hiWyer : g indata Kale% conduct of these (Fugitive Slate) eases showed professional 4 4 11 . . as arloyalty to the slave ; nee was • misled by aby pepileums to forget the re- Viinitzteshre( predOW:e." - • to the daft is a new species el. )1 0*. lordty to Mr. Liao* 411 M. ilterN4mit thineoro Ora paw idea. tio4. - • M44: 1 kirlat - ahort time ago the "loyalists" of Lancas ter, phio, instigated some soldiers to get drank and destroy the Democratic printing office, in that placit Th is so exasperated the Democrats that they rallied and retallia ted by burning the residences of several Re publicans. It is not at all probable that the Democratic press at Lancaster will again be molested. The teachings of the Abolitionists are be ginning to produce their inevitable fruits.— A week or two ago, the wife of ' an honest soldier of the 97th Pennsylvania Volunteers, residing in East Whiteland township, Ches ter county, eloped with a negro, carrying off with her two or three hundred dollars of her husband's money, which he had sent home to her, from time to time, for the support of his family. The little children of this de graded mother were taken to her father's. Mr. Thurlow Weed, in a letter to Senator Morgan of New York, estimates that the war will have cost, at its termination, at least FOUR THOUSAND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, and that three-fourths of this amount will remain as a national debt. He urges the repeal of the Homestead law by Congress, in order to make the public lands a source of national revenue. The Ridiculous Doings in Congress. Congress had passed a resolution which confiscates absolutely and forever all the property, real and personal, of the Southern rebels. Such a resolution is in direct con travention of the constitution, and therefore is mere nonsense. The constitutions recog nizes no cause for the forfeiture of property except treason, and it limits forfeiture even in that case to the life of the traitor. But the radicals, like Thaddeus Stevens, an insane fanatic of the Danton, Marat and Robespiere type, go above and beyond the constitution. Since that instrument gives them no power to gratify their insane spirit of hate against the South, they claim that rebels are outside of any case that the constitution provides for. They go so far as to say that the rebels are not traitors, but foreign enemies, and that their property is therefore subject to the common laws of war. Of course this mea sure can have no other effect than to em bitter and render still more desperate that part of the South that still holds out, and to forever preclude the possibility that any portion of the Southern people can again be come good citizens of the United States.— President Lincoln should veto this measure, if only in justice to his own repeated recog nitions that the Southerners are not foreign enemies, but domestic traitors. He should also veto it in justice to the great sentiment of the conntry.—[N. Y. Herald. It is a common thing these times to hear Republicans denounce the Democrats as `•peace men," and traitors, and secesh sym pathizers. Now this is all bosh—all a horn bug. Can any Republican say that the Democracy are in favor of peace on any other terms than the Union and Constitution ? Can they point to a single resolution adopted at any of their Conventions which asks for peace on any other terms ? We say they cannot do it, and we know whereof we speak. Is the Republican party willing that peace should be restored to the country on the above terms? We claim they are not, hence the issue between the two parties— The Democratic party wants peace restored on the old Union and the old Constitution, and will accept of no other; while the Re publicin party wants a New Union and a xew Constitution, founded on the abolition policy. Which now is the loyal and which the disloyal party.?-[Easton Argus. The Baltiinore nays: "1 com pany of Ohlo eninley, commanded by t3spt. Bennett, of Manta % 900; has been appointed a body guard to the President. They are quartered on 'the gmmde south of the Presi dent's house." The country will be glad to learn that our royal master is taking proper precautions against any contemplated out rage upon his sacred person. Long live Dictator Lincoln—long live Madam, her roy al highness—long live Prince Bob—and may their shadows and the shadow of their body guard never be less. The Coming Man. The conservative; Union-loving and law abiding portion of the people seem to be set tling their preference upon Gen. McCutudar As their neat candidate for the presidency.— The Abolitionists are beginning to tremble ; and some say that old "Abe," the honest old soul, now thinks aboatt retiring at the end of his term. Let Derriocrats hope on, and striate on—believing that, "A country's never lost that With one man To wrestle with the tyrant who'd enslave her."' —[(Jrawford Democrat. ter- liewy Show, a re-eolistei Coll ocation*, *tither oh farlotigh that his wife in s Sit of jeskomaiy, at • a &sr sligiaa ON" aed then Wow * 1 !5 16 4 owifTba dead WM Wi tOg g i al 4 *- I ! 4 ‘ alli l ooo ll l 0410 • lita* '," = Ilik• ha • • In (sop- pre • "~.~-. "Turnino the Tables." The Fruits of Abo I ition ism. Only $4,000,000,000 ! The Difference. The f4eeidarnpliiiio Guard. - - • Latest free Charleston. Bonne, Febraary 13.—The Herald's Folly Island correspondent says that the rebels have tried several times lately to reinforce the almost worn out gar rison of Fort Sumter, but have failed. Most of the men in Fort Sumter, now are slaves. Twenty or thirty are killed daily. Night before last, it being somewhat hazy, two of the rebel rams, in company with a cigar shaped torpedo boat, or in fernal machine, left Mt. Pleasant and proceeded down the creek in the rear of Sullivan's Island for the purpose of going out to make an attempt to de stroy the gunboats Housatonnic and Gi79ie, which were doing guard duty that night in the channel near Berth Inlet. When the ram and infernal ma chine had got ready to make a dash out of the Inlet it was found that the ma chine was in a sinking condition. She was turned back into the inlet, where she now lies. She went down, carrying her crew to the bottom. This put an end to the attempt to destroy onr ves sels. This is the third infernal machine the rebels have lost. A few days since, a guard of ten reb el soldiers, including a sergeant, escaped to our lines They say that starvation stares them in the face iu Charlesb;n that all civil laws are at an . end, and military rules have lull sway over the civil authorities, that they are becoming desperate, and they will resort to every means in their power to force the blockade here. They report the city badly damaged from the effect of Gill more's shells. The Mississippi Expedition--Grant's Army Moving. Caro, ILL., Feb. 15.—The reports from rebel papers of a fight near Clinton, Miss., on the 4th instant, are confirmed by officers just from that point. Our troops charged the rebel batterries and lost 15 killed and 30 wounded. Among the wounded is Colonel Rogers, of Ill inois. The enemy were driven off, and our forces proceeded towards Jackson. The cavalry expedition under Grier son and Smith crossed the country from Corinth, moving southwardly. It is understood that these columns are in tended to act in conjunction—the one to attack, and. the other to cut off Polk's retreat and disperse the cavalry of Forrest, reported as scouring Ceu tral and Northern Mississippi. There is no reason to doubt but that a great flank movement on Johnson's army is intended. The Army of Chat tanooga is by this time in motion for Tunnel Hill and Dalton. Its move ments may have been delayed by cir cumstances unknown, but it is under marching orders. The Florida Expedition. A dispatch to the New York World gives the following particulars of the expedition, to which we referred yesterday : A formidable expedition left Port Royal on Friday the Bth instant, under command of General Seymour, the destination of which was Jacksonville, Florida. The expedition consisted of three brigades, with one light battery. The transport Saxton arrived at Port Royal on the 9th, from Jacksonville, and I learimplikat the expedition landed at the above mammal place on Monday morning, the Bth instant. The second officer of the trans port, ypneral Hunter, while engaged in taking 4,e vessel's lines ashore to make her fast, was sl*litly wounded in the arm from one of the rebel pickete. No other casualties. The expedition, it is reported, will psh on to Tallahassee. Major General Q. A. Gillmore and staff sailed on Sunday morning, the 7th inst., in the transport Cosmopolitan, to join the expedition. Interasting from Chattanooga, CHATTANONGA February 13.—The statements that ;he enemy is in force at Tunnel Dill are: false. They have posi tively sent a large force to Mobile.— They are not fortifying Dalton, as tele graphed. The hospitals are being cleaned, the town policed, and every thing indicates the early- opening of the campaign. Look out - for interesting news from a quarter least expected.— Gen. Logaipenetrated forty miles from the river. About Sand Mountain he met the enemy and took about forty prisoners. His excursion to Sand Mountain was quite an ovation. The people were very loyal, and rushed out with flags and cheered the forces all along the route. Rebel women at Huntsville have been detected in at tempts to smuggle goods into the Con federcy. Escape of Union Officers from Rich- mond. The following dispatch has been re ceived to day from Gen. Butler : Fourams MONROE, Feb. 15. —I have received a telegram under date of Feb. 14th from Oen, Wistar, _which states that Col Streight with one hundred and ten officers escaped from prison at s.ich mond by digging a tunnel. Col Streight with 17 others have come in. (Signed) BENJ. F. BUTLER, Major General Commanding, Arrival of Union Officers at Fortress M. Pommes Memo" Feb. 16.—Twenty six Unions (dicers arrived this forenoon' having seseped from Libby prison on the 10th-inst. The following list of officers are re ported as having arrived at Williams burg. Col. Streight; Col. McCreary, 21st Michigan; Lieut. Col. Hobert, 21st Wisconsin; Capt. Wallace, 51st Indiana Lieut. Harris, 9th 13hio. Sateen other °Seers have also arrived it Willianui barg, but their nausea 4.11 not reported How the Unren Prisoners Escaped. A &patch from Washington of the 16th:—Capt. Wm: Wallace, of the 51st Indiana, originally Item Pennsylvania, who escaped from• Libby Prison through the tunnel, arrived to-day and was on the floor of the House. He came near ly due north from Richmond until he reached our lines. He says they began digging the tunnel on New Year's Eve and only finished it the night before making their escape. The work was .carefully concealed, even from the .btilk of their brother officers, for the reaaon that rebel spies are believed to be arnolig them, clothed in our uniform, and.pro fessing to be prisoners from some of our regiments. The working party were all sworn to the most solemn seertcy.—: They began at the back of the stove in the room on the ground floor, where a pile of ashes enabled them to conceal their work. From this they dug into the chimney, and so on down into the cellar. This cellar was filled with old rubbish, and also contained a pile of straw. They began their tunnel from this cellar, digging through the whole night, relieving one another by turns, and piling the dirt taken from the tunnel in a corner of the cellar from which they had removed the rubbish. Every night before closing their work they would stamp this dirt down to. make it occupy as small a space as possi ble, and then cover it with straw. They would then carefully black their boots, and remove every particle of clay froth their clothes, and after morning roll call spend the day in sleeping—for tin. double purpose of gaining needed rest, and of avoiding conversation with others Col Ross of the 77th Pennsylvanif>, acted as chief engineer in managing the direction of the tunnel. They continued this way night after night until the evening before malting their escape.— Some negroes who were in prison wait ing on the prisoners, discovered what they- were doing, but loyally kept 'the secret. They dug in this way under an adjoining street, and finally came to the surface in a vacant lot, fifty yards distant. At the point where they went under the street they were only about four.feet below the surface, and nothing but the tenacity of the soil prevented the tunnel from crumbling. Towards the close they became alarmed about a pile of dirt which had been excavated, and in order to make it occupy as little space as possible, they only made a tunnel large enough for a medium sized man to crawl through on his belly. When they came to attempt the passage,- several of the men stuck fast, and it was with the utmost difficulty that some of them managed to work their way through. Owing to this de lay it was that comparatively so small a number escaped. As it was, as many got out as possibly could, till daylight came to check their operations. !any, however, started without any provisions and being compelled to stop at houses for food, they were discovered. To this and their weakness from long continued privations, the recapture of so many is attributed. Col. Streight is expected here to night. Capt. Wallace leaves to night for-his home in Indiana. The Spring Campaign--Another Penn sylvania Invasion Hinted at. NEW YORK, February 17.—The Times Washington dispatch says : Army officers from the front express, the opinion that within ten clays the roads will enable the rebels to move, and that they will initiate the spring campaign. Two opinions prevail as to their movements : one is, that they will attack square in front and endeavor to drive Meade within the defenses of Washington. The other is that Lee will again go rapidly up into Pennsyl vania and transfer the war to the North, plundering vastly more than he did last year—Oghting pitched battles only on a line of safe retreat into Virgihia. Capture of Yazoo City, Mississippi. NEW Yoai, February 15.—A &- patch from Vicksburg to the Herakl says that Jackson and Yazoo City are in the hands of Gen Sherman. After slight skirmishing, which was attended with very little loss to our forces, Generals Hurlbut and McPherson took pos session of Jackson, while Yazoo City was occupied by Col. Coates, after a short fight at Sartaris, where the ene my made some show of resisteace, and killed a few of our men. Refused to Re-enlist in the Rebel Army. There was a serious disturbance in John ston's army, at Dalton, on the 9th instant. The 'Ed Kentucky regiment refined en masse to be conscripted for the war in the rebel . service, and they were placed tinder giant of the 39th Alabama. Col. Woodv. - ard, Maior Lewis and three captains of the 2d Kentucky fired their revolvers into the Alabama regi ment, killing andiwoundieg forty-two men? Both regiments then pitched into each other in a general fight. PuNrinze.—The Louisville Democrat of Saturday report, that the guerrilla bands under Hamilton and Hughes, who captured and pillaged Scottsville some days ago, were pursued into Tennessee by Major Johnson, with a battalion of the 63d Kentucky, who overtook, attacked and routed them, killing forty, capturing twenty and re covering most of the goods stolen froni citizens of Scottsville. isa-The Richmond Examiner contains General Lee's report concerning the late Federal reconnoissance, which states that the Federals lefttt seventeen dead and forty-six wounded in rebel hands.— Their loss is four killed and twenty wounded, and a Lieutenant and twenty five men captured. One Federal Cap tain and thirty-nine privates were cap tured. Iliiirhust as a - train on the Grand Trunk Roamed was approaching one of the highest bridges on the line over the river (lredit, war Georgetown. on of the 'wo of. fee; storis, roo4
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