Zile :111410tunger.
It. W. JONES, ) mon.
JAS. S. JENNINGS,c
. 4 061,1Nmar y , One Constitut len, One
Destiny."-
StslliSobinSl4)
WlllllllO, MR 0, 1864.
FOR PRESIDENT IN 1864,
SDI. GEORGE B. Iyk9CLELLAN,
*Jed to the Decision of the Democratic Na
tional Convention.)
'Wblk the army is lighting, you as cit
izen* see. OW the war is prosecuted for
=licrv.4l4o3) of the Union and Ike
ow, and of your nationality and
?Air *ghat ap
CINA).B. MicCLU.T.LAN.
Pirrlie Conotitatke and the Union
ohm Opilloastker. If they stand, they
milt Aqui together; if they fall, they
MN* iMll together"..Dattiet Webster.
Mr CONVENTION.
,In conformity with the wonoz,es of the
Dim loon* rio•rty, a Convention will be
held in. the Court House, at Waynes
inuig, on
ZlP** evening, March 22, 1864,
being *e first week of Court, for the
iinipose of selecting a Chairman and
Cents*Committee for the ensuing year,
state esesider upon the propriety of
- thprizbig Democratic Clubs in the
yam townships of the County, and
with a view to the transaction of such
other Wines* as may be deemed of in
*crest to the party.
it is expected that thel4. S. B. Wa
iles, -QS Beaver county, and several other
•mbis spotters will address the conven
tion. D. CRAWFORD,
Chairman of the Central Cpmmittee
CONVENTION‘
A Convention of the Democracy of
* Chew* county, win beheld at the Court
in Waynesburg, on SATUR
DAY.= 12TH DAY OF MARCH
kutir, for the purpose of selecting a
delegatoto attend the State Convention
forkisik will convene at thlddelphia, on
hike Mho( March, at 12 o'clock, M., of
that Mt,
it is deemed necessary to call a ape
eal for said purpose, prior
to limb Court, in order to give the
&haste maple time to attend the Con
vention. And we respectfully urge a
foil attoadmice from all parts of the
soonty. a CRAWFORD,
Mairerken of the Central Committee
vie > 4l4Mined* and the Presidency.
The Abolitionists are just now engaged in
betuitiftA fight over their next candieste for
the Pkiiiikcy. Lincoln is forestalling the
settns oetheir convention by securing the
entibisment df .Abolitio i Legislatures wher
tger hem, end is evidently determined to
tarifa* immense patronage of the govern
ment to effect his re-nomination. Those
facts ire iindering Chase and Fremont's
triends'both indignant and desperate, and
tlurformer have issued a' manifesto against
"Old Abe," urging objections to him and
p%*tinkliistiefeat if put on the track again.
* nixitiMillidly in the latter notion, and are
of the impression that it will be just as easy
for dtitde Mac" to thrash either Chase or
Fmarkij
1 114 fifisari radicals of Detroit at a late
lielheringo passed the following Preamble
nadcfasOldigme
The Administration of Abra
ham Lineal has neither shown sufficient ca
pacity nor honest desire to guide the desti
nies bf this republic in accordance with a
dittindaind proper foreign or home policy,
Con tub principles as are laid don in the
ellemslatd pitOorm, therefore be it
'Biditked, sWisße we will support the
prebestadrainistnitton in-tis efforts to over
awe* !ha reboil*. with all the means at
eeitollPßoaelMiit She ' MOO timetwe a,
pm* the reznomination of brnb Un
a:l7l,ol, k , etliditte for the Presidency..—
.Mowed. ft*, choice is Fremont or Butler ,
ritelailiairiiveithelein inclined to unite
upon
'
nedibilfalhabiteXhase, Norton , &e., if it
nestaeavy at the next convert
mllroe#o-q, A. Lincoln. should receive
aa in Olt . 2 lomillri m of the Bepublican party,
apinsidirtin not to vote for him.
The AyS State Committee of the
AewiNiFogi MOP ,Aposintion hie also
IN/SW/k 11014011 -111 zerialgikonek , Pret"ng
dossesstltke somboation of Mr. Lincoln in
, bitirer ' WOW = -
'lthetihese riteenshne among our oppo
nents gill ripen into irreconcilable rtipturee
the isle their Ceihrenties sisseibies at
1416 1 0111M I Tine; we ba little doe& hi
the ~..; - let the Dernatiacy Preserve
pierown upon 064'411W to
40 4 4 9 the
.party, KO' !meow
410 111 /4 0 C - fiertatt,
• MOP% waramaisodaranagi d . d,.
Sew lierk, for pag ler grand . d,
047.tatnequoinghs old, by g i ving it vitr iol
Another Amy* upon tie Roe.
striation theory of President Lin,
1,3
coin (ki t fl . • • en.
Werqiir 'Nis sign,. theirportions,
40 the Be Pan, *selflll'ewakflOit
lip the deeirrellele corn* andiricked effort
at JAB 111 ,idtglt to ttsslect himself by the
Rotten Borough System of reconstructing
the rebel States. Recent events show the
gresmd work of this sudden earekeuing to
danger. It is beginning to be found out by
other aspirants for. the ,Presidency, in the
opposition ranks, that Mr. Lincoln's sohrne
looked beyond the mere perpetuation of
Republican ascendancy, and that it has in its
bowels a nice little scheme for his own re
election, and hence their outbreaks.
Mr. Wuirsu. D.tvis, the able but radical
Representative from Maryland in Congress,
a few days ago, let drive his shaft a this
precious scheme of the President's, with a
vigor unexpected alike to Democrats and Re
publicans. The occasion which gave rise to
the speech was the admission of a member of
Congress from Arkansas, elected by some sort
of hocns, pocus, inaugurated by the friends
of the President in that unhappy State.
Speaking of re-organization Mr. Davis
said, "It must not be done under the procla
mation of the President, which so far as it is
anything more titan a State paper, is a grave
usurpation upon the legislative authority of
the people of the United States." ,
As to the practical working of this scheme
he used the following language :
"In the course of next February, the seat
which you, sir, now occupy will be occupied
by the Vice President., and we will be com
pelled to count the electoral vote for Presi
dent and Vice President of the United States.
Suppose a state government be recognized
by one branch of Congress and not recogniz
ed by the other, or be recognized by the
President and not recognized by Congress ;
and suppose the electoral vote presented from
that State should determine the Presidential
election- '
who will decide that political ques
tion ? Yet that question is involved here, as
the mere incident to the right of a gentle
man to a seat on this floor."
And again :
"I wish.the House to understand that they
do not merely pass upon the question wheth
er the gentleman who is the claimant had re
ceived so many votes or whether somebody
else had received so many votes ; but .they
pass upon the question whether a small pro
portion of the small population of Arkansas
shall send here a representative to help control
the residue of the nation ; whether they
shall be entitled to send senators to the other
house of Congress; whether they shall be en
titled to send electors of President and Vice-
President, possibly to turn the ,balance of
the presidential electors. Those, are the
questions invlived, and the discussion• has
developed ahem to my satisfactlnn."
'He makes the following allusion to this
scheme as being worked out in Gen. Banks'
department :
"Let me refer to the proclamation of Gen.
Banks, I refer to it became dangerous doc
trines are gaining a, hold upon the public mind,
in my , judgment, touching the foundations of
the republic. No man has a greater regard
for Gen. Banks than I have ; but I shudder
when I find his proclamation summoning the
people Louisiana to an election under a
declaration that martial law is the funda
mental law of the State or Lousiana."
He then returns to the case in band, with
a force that should shame these wicked
schemers and silence forever the brazen
advocates of this most wicked usurpation
upon the rights of the people of the other
States of this Union
And here in this case what do we find ?
The provost-marshal at Fort Smith, Arkansas,
issues this paper :
"This is to certify that Volney V. Milor
is a duly authorized commissioner of elections
in and for Sebastian county, in the State of
Arkansas, and is a duly authorized acting
commissioner in and for the congressional
district of Northwestern Arkansas, appointed
as such agent by the Union Association of
the State of Arkansas."
A provost-marshal certifies that a political
caucus, getting together in a corner, authoriz
ed a man to erect a state in Arkansas If
there were no other ground, Mr. Speaker, I
would protest against referring this paper to
any committee.
Mr. Dawes—Letjne say to the gentleman
from Maryland that the certificates of all the
representatives from Virginia for the last
fifty years have been signed by a commission
er of elections, and the gentleman has never
been shocked thereat till to-day!
Mr. Davis, of Maryland—The gentleman
from Massachusetts does not perceive the
point. It is not whether the law of a state
may prescribe one apecies of certificate or
another, but it is that it appears on the face
of the paper produced that the only authen
tic certificate is that of a provost-marshal,
the marshal of a camp, the executive officer
of a military organization ! That is not the
law of Arkansas. And he does not certify
to the election, but he certifies to the fact
that this man Milor was appointed "as such
agent by the Union Association of the State
of Arkansas." Is the Union Associction a
state ? Is it, as a body of men,. known to
the law ? Is it a government ? Is it any
thing excepting a caucus collected together,
sanctioned by the military authorities, to send
members to this House ?
Now, in reference to another point made
by the gentleman from Massachusetts I
respectfully say that a "military governor"
is appointed under no liw or the United
States ;- he has no assigned functions. It is
a mere name created in an office in Wash
ington, and given to a man who is not charg
ed with any legal duties. A general is
known to the law and has a right to exer
cise all over the rebel country within the
limits of his command the authority of a
military commander ; that is, to remove
Mors, to suppress violence, and to exer
cise th• ordinary police powers in time of
war. Beyond that he has no power."
The New Pension List.
Theexpeneesof tills war are not even
guessed at. The estimates of the Treasury
Department do not nearly represent it.—
When they come to be added up, the ag
gregate will astound the country.
"A visit to the Pension Office reveals the
consequences of this terrible war. The
claims for pensions already filed by widows
and mothers exceed one hundred and fifty
thousand. It is anticipated that about half
that actually exist have been presented. The
claims already audited and allowed amount
to about twelve millions of dollars per an
num. Suppose, then, but half that exist at
this thee have been presented, ft a fair in
*rem* that it will require twenty-five mill
ions of dollars per annum to pay our pension
roll aiose ip the years that are to come."
•
Wit is alist, 644 — 01 e l! to be
MINA eat
kW * thielleribi 3 ia
deid phew
tend*d.
sr No immim por t is tei
Th e Abehudiels k 110. - held in
the *per Y a few even
ingebe* at libigh 100 1 45 1030
a deliver
ed her, famous :Abolition Lecture, circulated
a pamphlet through WI-crowd assembled de
lineatielt and expounding their (dd iiloctrine
of AMALGAMATION, under the more learned
and less offensive name of."lfisosesNATloN,"
a combination of Greek words which means
to MINGLE and GENERATE.
This pamphlet seems to have met the ap
probation of the learned doctrinaires of the
Abolition School—male and female. Theo
dore Tilton, the Editor of the "Independent,"
(which publishes the laws of the Milted
States "by authority,") has long been a con
vert to the doctrine that the white race
would be improved by amalgamation—we
beg pardon, by "miscegenation"—and has
openly advocated it. Wendell Phillips, Mrs.
Stone, the New York Tribune, the "Anti-
Slavery Advocate" and the "Anglo-African"
have each given in their approbation, more
or less direct, to this abominable doctrine, to
say nothing of numerous lights of the Aboli
tion party, as Parker Pillsbury,lLueretia
Mott, William Wells Brown and others,
who are openly and directly engaged in its
propagation.
But to return to this curious pamphlet.—
It has for its motto:
"The elements
So auxin in him that Nature may stand up
And say to all the world, this is a man r
It defines the word thus : "Miscegenation:
The theory of the Blending of the Races,
applied to the American White Man and
Negro." It treats the subject under the fol
hawing heads :
1. The Mixture of Caucasian and African
Blood Essential to American Progress.
2. 'Row the American may become Come
ly.
3. The Type Man a Miscegea—The Sphynx
Riddle Solved.
4. The Irish and negro first to Commin
gle.
5. Heart Histories of the Daughters of the
South.
6. Miscegenetic Ideal of Beauty in Women
7. The future—No White—No Black.
The following are the conclusions to which
the pamphlet comes, as having been estab
lished by its reasoning :
1. "Since the whole human race is of one
family, there should be, in a republic, no
distinction in political or social rights on ac
count of color, race, or nativity.
2. The doctrine of human brotherhood
implies the right of white and black to in
termarry.
S. The solution of the negro problem will
not be reached in this country until public
opinion sanctions a union of the two races.
4. As the negro is here and cannot be
driven out, there should be no impediment
to the absorption of one race in the other.
5. Legitimate unions between whites and
blacks could not possibly have any worse
effect than the illegitimate unions which
have been going on for more than a century
at the South.
6. The mingling of diverse races is proved
by all history to have been a positive bene
fit to the progeny.
7. The Southern rebellion is caused less by
slavery than by the base prejudice resulting
from distinction of color ; and perfect peace
can only come by a cessation of that dis
tinction through an absorption of the black
race by the white.
S. It is the duty. of anti-slavery men
everywhere to advocate the mingling of the
two races.
9. The next presidential election should
secure to the blacks all their social and po
litical rights; and the progressive party
should not flinch from conclusions falsely
deducible from their own principles.
10. In the millenial future the highest
type of manhood will not be white or black,
but brown ; and the union of black with
white in marriaftwill help the human fatally
the sooner to maze its great destiny."
An apology is due our readers for intro
ducing this disgusting subject to their notice.
But "Miscegenation" is the legitimate result
of the rnocinEssivs doctrines of Abolitionism.
Cause and Effect.
The late election in Spartz township,
Crawford county, furnishes a useful lesson.
A few days prior to the election the Aboli
tionists held a meeting, and among other
proceedings adopted the following resolu
tions : •
1. Resolved, That we will vote for ao
Democrat for any office.
2. Resolved, That we will support the ad
ministration, MG' or WRONG.
The effect of these resolutions, says the
Democrat, was to drive quite a number of
considerate and conservative Republicans
away from their party, and the election re
sulted in the success of the Democratic can
didates by about seventy majority Last
fall Woodward's majority in the same town
was but
. two. The proscriptive and fanat
ical ideas of the charcoal radicals were
emphatically repudiated, as they will be in
every community made up of intelligent and
patriotic men.
Organization of the Senate.
-On the 29th ultimo, the Senate—after a
two months dead lock—was organized, Dr.
St. Clair having taken his seat. Consider
able excitement existed in Harrisburg, and
it is said that fully four thousand people
were in and around the capital. After
reading the returns, the oath was adminis
tered tosthe nets Senator, when that body
proceeded to business. Mr. Johnston moved
to take up the bill allowing soldiers to vote
at the next October election. The yeas and
nays were called by Mr. Clymer, and result
in 17 ayes and 16 nays. On motion to pro
ceed to the election of Chief Clerk, an
amendment was offered that the Senate first
elect a Speaker. The amendment was lost,
and the following officers then elected :
George W. Hammersely, Chief Clerk ; G. S.
Berri, Assistant Clerk ; John S. Morton,
Sergeant-at-Arms; Transcribing Clerks, Jonas
R. Butterfield, George M. Semmer, Theo.
Hill ; Doorkeeper, Joseph Riblett ; Messen
ger, Philip H. Ohs& The Senate adjourn
ed.
Wanted.
We beve a cottaidarable amount of white
vnuthiu' g to de at this office*, which we would
lite to lave done lennedletoty.:77lZeneedlle
114
trait
.Cessier mika iftif
..0 0 ,44.,..4 4 , 4 „. tae anninlo
aiasariatopasibarn a like am* far tie
astir* abolition party in Ohio.
Mee the Money Goes.
•
Never was money spent by any %van
ment so laNiably andgecidlessiT as by ours to
day. Fabiloon prices kfhve been paid for
everything furnished to the army and navy,
and still the prodigal waste goes on.
"The War Committees at Washington had
Mr. Knap, formerly of Pittsburgh, now of
Newark, New Jersey, before them on Thurs
day. He testified that he was in receipt of
one cent per pound royalty on all heavy guns
manufactured. Colonel Rodman, the in
ventor of the Rodman gun and the process of
casting cannon hollow, was before the Com
mittee on Saturday, and testified that he re
ceived oue cent per pound royalty on every
gun manufactured for the use of the Gov
eenmeot. As some of these guns weighs
over 60,000 pounds, it needs no great knowl
edge of arithmetic to discover that both
Mr. Knap and Colonel Rodman are making a
"big thing" out of the war.
"Slavery is Dead."
The Albany Argus, commenting upon the
oft-repeated assertion of the administration
that "slavery is dead," and the "backbone of
the rebellion broken" very truly observes :
"The Abolition leaders have proclaimed
that the war should be prosecuted until sla
very was destroyed. If that result has been
accomplished, why is it prolonged ? In the
same strain that the above announcement is
made, we are told that the 'backbone of the
rebellion is broken,' that 'thousands of the
people of the rebel States are returning to
the Union, and great numbers of their ar
mies are ready to desert to our lines as soon
as the opportunity occurs; and yet the
President has just issued a proclamation for
a draft for five hundred thousand more
men ! If 'slavery is dead,' and the back
bone of the rebellion is broken, as is asserted
by 'all the Union papers in the loyal States,'
where is the necessity for this extraorUinary
demand for men ? Is it to pile up the na
tional debt another thousand millions of dol
lars to' enrich shoddy contractors and ac
commodate place-hunters, or is it to per
petuate the present imbecile and corrupt ad
ministration ?"
Gen. M'Clellan Among the Soldiers.
Gen. relellan was present at the recep
tion of the First New York cavalry on the
18th, and was received by his old comrades
in-arms with the most lively demonstrations
of respect and affection. After the shouts
of welcome had somewhat subsided he ad
dressed them as follows :
"MY FIiIIINDS AND COMRADZO: I came
here not to make a speech to you, but to
welcome you home, and express to you the
pride I have always felt in watching your ca
reer, not only when you were with me, but
since I left the Army of the Potomac, while
you have been fighting battles under others,
and your old commander. I can tell you,
conscientiously and truly, I am proud of
you in every respect. There is not one
page of your record—not a line of it—of
which you, your State and your country may
not be proud. I congratulate you on the
patriotism that so many of you have evinced
in your desiLe to re-enter the service. I
hope, I pra and I know that your future
career will be as glorious as you past. I
have one hope, and that is we may yet serve
together some day again."
At the conclusion of Gen. M'Clellan's
speech, di.; enthusiasm of the military pres
ent became very demonstrative. They
crowded around him eagerly, endeavoring to
grasp his bands, and to salute him, and only
by the utmost exertions of himself and of
some personal friends was he enabled to de
part from the scene.
The Report Garbled.
The New York Journal of Commerce, in
speaking of the Congressional edition of Gen.
McClellan 's army report, says :
"It contains not less than fifty errors and
omissions, some of great importance. In
one instance a page aad a half of the mania
scriptreport is left out of the printed edition."
Now, is this not sufficient to open the eyes
of honest, conservative Republicans to the
monstrous guilt of the present national ad
ministration ? It was not enough to mani
fest a willingness to sacrifice McClellan and
his whole army, by withholding reinforce
ments, when confronted by a vastly superior
force ;it was not enough to keep back the
report for more than year after it should
have been published ; it was not enough, to
appease pirty malignity, to displace the most
skilful and successful General of the army ;
but all this must be folbiwed by garbling his
official report, and thereby suppressing the
truth of history. We believe this is the first
occurrence of the kind that has taken place
since the formation of our Government.--
What do the people think of such work ?
A Curious Coincidence.
At the Presidential election of 1860 four
teen thousand three hundred and forty-seven
votes were cast in the State of Florida. Ac
cording to Mr. Lincoln's proclamation, four
teen hundred and thirty-four converts to
Abolition would suffice to bring the State
back to the Union ; but while he has failed
to get that number as yet, and may there
fore lose the electoral vote of that State, the
killed and wounded in the last expedition
just about amount to it—the Tribune's es
timate being fifteen hundred. It will be
singular if, when the accounts are corrected,
the number should be exactly fourteen
hundred and thirty-four.
Mmlocratio Victory.
At an election recently held in the borough
of Northumberland, the Democrats • carried
their entire ticket by a handsome majority.
Both parties had tall tickets in the field, and
the Abolitionists were more than usually ac
tive. The result is, that the borough of
Northumberland this day presents the proud
spectacle of not beving one single individu
al of nigger worshipping proclivities in a
municipal office.
Hew Hampshire Beetion.
The New Hampshire adicer-holdera at
ilfashiarto, n are Asking. hods to carry the
iihrte for the Lineohiceracy in March.—
Preparation are trade to send hicene all
*We* OM's* harm es, etc., to Tote.
'he posoaragy st Ihtif atop ate
groat eon/to aaW lbw ilitobilOotil,
but t paioquitt troolooloot ozoloo he
everoalM 10.111110111. Awl C0 M11 4 . 011110 4 0
resorted to by the Alibolitiosiott.
Make Your Vaunting True,
When General Gantt,--the "loyal Lin
colatte who, "did" the '!whining Wilkes" so
handsomely in Arkansas, for expressing "in
cembuy"-sentiments—was in this city, he
delivered a speech in which, as reported in
the press, "he declared that he had in pos
session the names of the Pennsylvania Dem
ocratic leaders who had encouraged the
South to rebel by offers of assistance as
soon as a Southern army was put in the
field to assault the government." If he made
this assertion in earnest he is, or ought to be,
able to substantiate it by producing names
and the facts or circumstances going to
establish the guilt of the parties. We now
call upon him to do so. Nay more, we defy
him or any of his-co-laborers in the field of
treason, hypocrisy and calumny, o success
fully implicate any leading Pennsylvunia
Democrat in the crime he falsely attributes
to them. The Abolition press and party
having substantially endorsed his assertion,
he or they must now produce the proof or
stand before the public in the light of con
fessed culumniators.—[llarrisbutg Union.
Unfortunate affair at Lancaster Ohio.
We learn that an unfortunate affair took
place at Lancaster, on last Saturday, in which
two men, and perhaps three, lost their lives.
The particulars we have not learned, but
the following is the general outline of the
affair as reported to us. A young man, the
son of a citizen residing near the city, had
some high words with a couple of soldiers
in a saloon, who both made a violent as
sault upon him.
The father of the young man was at the
time on the opposite side of the street, not
knowing that his son was in the saloon ; but
hearing a noise he crossed the street to as
certain the cause. Entering the saloon he
discovered his son attempting to defend
himself against unequal odds. On the im
pulse of the moment, the father drew a re
volver and fired at his son's assailants, killing
one of them on the spot, and wounding the
other so that he died shortly afterward.
The father and son lett the city immedi
ately. The son was overtaken by some
soldiers, who tore him from his horse, threw
him on the ground, and beat him and
stamped on him till they left him for dead.
Re was, however, living at the time our in
formant left., though his recovery is ex
tremely doubtful. The father escaped, and
was not to be found. Great excitement
prevailes, we understand, at Lancaster, and
a sort of • "Reign of Terror" has been in
augurated there.—[Ohio Statesman, 23d
inst.
The Two Rival Candidates.
A Washington special says :—An interest
ing correspondence has taken place between
Chase and Lincoln on the subject of the
Pomeroy circular. Chase sent a note to the
President saying he had not seen the Pome
roy circular until published, and that he was
disappointed in it; but that, nevertheless, at
the solicitation of his friends, he stood in the
attitude of a candidate for the Presidency,
and he submitted to Mr. Lincoln the ques
tion whether such an attitude was incompat
ible with his riations as a member of the
Cabinet. The . President replied that he had
not seen the Pomeroy circular, and as to
whether Mr. Chase's candidacy was incom
patible with his position as a member of the
Cabinet, that was a question for him (Mr.
Chase) to. decide.
Passions, like wild horses, when pro
perly trained and disciplined, are capable of
being applied to the most noble purposes,
but when allowed to have their own way,
they become dangerous in the extreme.
Nigion of pour.
Receipts on Subscription since Jan.
6th, 1864.
Ain't. Vol. No.
Jacob Arnold,. 51 00 6 10
Wni. fleaton7Jr., 4 00 5 29
Sol. Gordon, 1 75 5 50
Isaac Taytor, 2 00 6 18
Thome@ Ritchey, • 5 00 6 03
G. W. Bell, 200 5 45
A J Mallet 2 00 1 50
Cyrus Billingsley 1 50 6 31
Al Gilbert 160 3 25
David H Johnson 2 00 6 50
Josephus Johnson 1 00 6 31
Jas Merdenall 1 00 6 09
Daniel Eaton 1 00 In full
John A Patterson 2 00 1 50
El J Wilson 200 6 31
Andrew /Inglis' 4 00 6 26
J Carpenter 1 23 In full
Th, man Scott 3 00 6 21
Jes/ is Mundell 2 00 6 32
Canis him 2 00 6 32
John Gsmbett 7 70 5 43
11 P Bayard 100 6 05
Wm Maud 100 6 05
8 Burk 60 5 45
Joel Harris 1 30 4 25
Jona Mlllumpby 4 00 5 50
W. J. (siseray I 00 6 32
' Hiram Stephens 4 00 5 50
James Scott 2 09 6 31
John Fanner 50 5 40
A J boughuer 9 00 In lull
Writ Penn 2 00 5 44
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Gen. Sherman, at Selma, Ala.
Junction Formed with Logan's forces.
The Object of the Movement.
WAsnmozoN, March I.—Gen. Sher
man is reported, at the War Depart
ment, as having been at Selma in Ala.
This is in accordance with his instruc
tions. He left Vicksbnrg with twenty
days' rations, in light marching order,
and intended to march twenty miles a
day, and make a lodgment on the Up
per Alabama river. It was left to the
option of Gen. Sherman, whether the
depot should be established at Selma or
Montgomery. He chose the former po
sition on the Northeast bank of the riv
er.
It was agreed that Gen. Logan should
move from Huntsville and form a junc
tion with Sherman; in Alabama. Sher
man moved promptly at the appointed
time, and outgeneralling Polk, threw
his forces between Mobile and Polk's
army, and falling on the forces of the
mitered General, scattered them and
moved on to Selina.
The War Department has trustworthy
information that Logan's cavalry has
made a junction with Sherman's forces
at Selina. Gen. Johnston is being
alarmed for the safety of Mobile, and
has sent one division of his army to
that city. As Sherman's orders are to
destroy the Mobile, Montgomery and
Atlanta Railroad, it is poatent that John
ston will also be cut off from Mobile, and
must, if pressed, fall back to the-Atlan
tic coast or to Lee's army in Virginia.
The army of Gen. Sherman is of suf
ficient strength to warrant success in case
of an attack by the combined forces
of his present position, and reinforced by
Logan's corps he may safely attack John
ston's army.
The movements of Thomas to Dalton
i s adding strength to Sherman's position,
and threatens the rebel position at At
lanta.
The expedition into Florida is in
tended to attract the enemy in that di
rection, while Sherman and Thomas
moved into the heart of Alabama and
Georgia.
There is the utmost confidence here
that the movement into Alabama will be
a success.
Disaster to Gen. Smith's Expediton
---Its Return to Memphis---Heavy
Fighting and Forced Retreat.
Advices from Memphis to Friday last,
report the return .of Gen. Smith's ex
pedition at 11 o'clock the previous
night. An officer of the expedition
furnishes the following summary of its
operations, from which it is evident the
expedition has returned very much cut
up :
On the 18th the expedition reached
Okolua, on the Mobile and Ohio Rail
road, seventy-five miles south of Cor
inth and one hundred and thirty miles
southeast of Memphis. Here they
heard that Sherman had captured Meri
dian, and was advancing east.
On the 19th the expedition marched
to Egypt, a station on the Mobile and
Ohio railroad, where was captured and
destroyed a vast quantity of confederate
corn. One column went through Ab
erdeen, the other went to the west of
the railroad, concentrating at Prairie
Station. The Aberdeen column, under
Gen. Grierson, had considerable skir
mishing near that place, and destroyed
over 100,000 bushels of confederate
corn at Prairie station, also a large lot
of confederate cotton.
On the 20th the expedition broke up
camp. At .5:,,30 Forrest was reported
in force at West Point. At 11 a. m.,
our advance skirmished heavily with
the enemy. At 3 p. m., we halted
within a. wile of West Point. We
lost one lieutenant killed and five men
wounded in the skirmish, and killed one
rebel captain, capturing a rebel major
and one private.
On the 11st we moved on West Point
and found Forrest, Lee, Chalmers and
Roddy combined against us. They
tried to cut our columns in two, but
without success. Very heavy fighting
occurred both in the rear and on the
advance. The 2d lowa had a number
killed and wounded in a gallant charge.
From 200 to 300 rebels hovered on
each flank, while all the heavy force in
our rear was constantly charging. We
here lost three field pieces (4 pounder
steel gims,) which were spiked before
captured, All their ammunition was
saved.
.Smith now fell back slowly, our
troops ambushing the rebels as they ad
vanced. The rebel loss was quite
heavy. Smith burned every trestle on
the Memphis and Ohio Uailroad, and
destroyed miles of the track and large
quantities of corn as we fell back. - On
the 22d we broke camp at 1 a. tn., after
resting only two hours. There has
been severe fighting in the rear all day.
As the roads were ambushed at every
available point, volley after volley was
poured into them at short range as they
advanced; but having so much the
largest force they continued to press
our rear heavily ' • the rebel column mov
ing on each flatilt with the evident de
sign of reaching the Tallahatchie in ad
vance of our force, and forming a jiinc r
tion to prevent our crossing ; and cap
ture the whole command ; but by
forced marching Gen. Smith passsd
both flanking columns, and marching
all night, crossed safely at New Albany.
23d, noon.—The rear guard has been
skirmishing all day. 24th.—Skirmish
ing is continued. 25th.—We march
ed fifty-two miles, arriving at Memphis
at 11 p. in. The most of the expedi
tion, however, stopped at Colliersville.
The following is an estimate of the re
sults :
The expedition destroyed over a mil
lion bushels of corn, tore up and de
stroyed miles of the Memphis and Ohio
Railroad track,. burned many bridges
and trestles, captured and brought in
over 1500 mules and horses, about 2,000
negroes, and over 300 rebd prisoners,
It is impose% to give our toss, but it
is awe kw then the enemy's.
The evaiiissa . . was saaasisail at every
ana In every pudeug ar ere
et,
importaat one of mak*, a ' l"uthsn
.4161116 brdwitiv . viikek 14 our itpsa
minty tif the inovensea*
New Jersey s 4 Ptansylvania cavalry.
regiments, which caused a week's delay
in the starting of the expedition. The
retreat was not at any time a rout, al-_
though there was son* straggling.
General Smith's. Cavalry Ezpedition.
Mencius, Feb. 32.—The diary of an
officer attached to Gen. Grierson's col
umn, Gen. Smith's Cavalry expedition,
furnishes little of importance beyond
what was previously reported. Out loss
in the attack on the enemy at West
Point was forty killed and waunded,—,.
We drove the rebels out, and destroy
ed a number of cars, culverts, the depot,
several miles of Railroad track, and a
large amount of corn and cotton. •
In this fight our loss was about 100,
mostly prisoners. Our total loss during
the expedition was about 150. This
column burned about 3,000 bales of con
federate cotton, and over a million
bushels of corn, and captured over 100
prisoners, over 1,000 mules, and a mul
titude of negroes. Owing to so large
a portion of our force being required to
guard the trains, captured property and;
negroes, we were greatly outnumbered ,
at Okalona by Forrest, whose effective
force was over 5,000 strong.
Cotton, dull and lower, good mid
dling, at 61a63 ; Strict, do. at 60.
Words of Wisdom.
The subjoined extract from Daniel
Webster's great oration on the comple
tion of the Bunker Hill. monument,
June 17th, 1843,,may be profitably read
and consiered by all goodcitizensat the
present time, especially if taken in con
nexion with the flagrant outrages per
petrated by the military in the recent
elections in the States of Maryland and
Delaware :
•°A military republic, a government
founded on mock elections, and sup
ported only by the sword. is a move
ment, indeed, but a retrograde and dis
astrous movement, from the regular and
old fashioned monarchical system. ' If
men would enjoy the blessings of repub
lican government, they can only hope to
do so by reason, by mutual counsel and
consultation, by a sense and feeling of
general interest, and by the acquiescence
of the minority in the will of the majori
ty, properly expressed ; and above all,
the military must be kept according to
the language of our bill or rights, in the
strict subordination to the civa authority.--
Wherever this lesson is not both learned
and practiced there can be no political
freedom. Absurd, perposterous it is, a
scoff and a satire upon free forma of
constitutional liberty, for forms of !gov
ernment to be prescribed by military
leaders, and the right of suffrage to be
exercised at the point of the sword."--
Works, vol. 1, p. 98.
Ififer. The Indians of Idaho are the Sulfites,
Bannocks, Flatheads, Blackfeet, Nez Perces,
and other segments of once great but now
fading nationalities. The Government has
coacluded a treaty with them by which for
$200,000 they surrender a large portion of
their rich lands. •
stir The number of rebel prisoners
of war now in our hands is upwards of
forty-six thousand—about three thous
and commissioned officers and between
forty and forty-five thousand non-com
missioned officers and enlisted men.
,:tte lzz i;
Latest News.
A Riot occured at Dayton, Ohio,
the
other day, commenced by a squad of
soldiers attempting to destroy the
Empire newspaper office. Some thirty
shots were fired, and one man was killed,
and two wounded.
Gen. Sherman is back from his ex
tended reconnoissance, and did not go
near Selma, and never intended such a
thing
Gen. BRAGG has been appointed -
Commander-in-Chiet of the Rebel
armies. He is the most unpopular offi
cer in the Confederacy, but a great pet
of Jeff. Davis.
Our loss in the late reconnoissence
from Chattanooga toward Dalton, Ga.,
did not exceed two hundred in killed.
wounded and missing. The enemy's
loss was five hundred.
GEN. KILPATRICK'S RAID.—New York,
March 4.—A special dispatch to the
Herald says that, on Wednesday, Gen..
Kilpatrick had reached Hanover Junc
tion and got ten miles south of that
point. He destroyed forty miles of the
Virginia Central Railroad from Betty&
Dam to the Junction,_ thus cutting off
Lee's supplies from Richmond.
Thp Richmond and Fredericksburg
Railroad, from the Mattapony Bride to
the Pamunky river, was also entirely
destroyed.
Gen. Kilpatrick evaded as far as pos
sible in his raid, a, cohesion with wor
large force of the enemy, but son*
skir nishing with Gen. Hampton's caval
ry was carried on upon his right flank,
north of Spottsylvania Court House.
WASHINGTON, March 4.—The Presi
dent has received a dispatch from Gin.
Butler, stating that General alpalnisk
yesterday K
arrived within our lines, with
a loss of Something less than one hun
dred 4.nd fifty men, having had skirmish
es on the way. Among the missing
are Cols. Dahlgreen, Cooke, and Litch
field. Dalgreen and Cooke are supposed
to be prisoners.
Gen. Kilpatrick destroyed a large
portion of the Virginia Central Railroad,
and several mills along the James river,
as well as other valuable property. He
Pmitligkid to the suburbs and outer for
tifications of Richmond.
COLORED SOLDLERR Hmeo.—By order
of Gen. Seymour, three colored solikars
of the 55th Massachusetts regiment,
named Lloyd, Cloak aisd Smith, were
h!tall last we s *art VA* tr
vio'ating the. woman
: woman
who lived int la V •-• ' 4l4*' eiNIP Mil
ligan. The, _ ed to haft,
4 hours, as al to 'P'"U
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