the jitootnger. R. W. Jong, tt ßeton. JAS. S. JENNINGS, "One Country, One Constitution, One Destiny." WISINign% 7k4 UNIDO, 'MARCH 23, 1864. VOR - PRESIDICAIT IN 11364, GEN. GEORGE B. MoCLELLAN, ,Sri, te AA* Decision of tke Democratic Na tional Convention.] “INltile the army is lighting. yorn as cit. Susie see that the mfr. is prosecuted for the preservation ,of•the Unioh and the teoldiNsEen, gall of your nationality and your rigliti eltrsenti.” teED. B. MCLELLAN. "The coilelltetlop and the "futon: Lirthemtogether. If they stand, they stand together; If they fatt, they pewit MI liNtelltlisr."..Daniel Webster. The Beginning and End of their Loyalty. Ilia alpha and omega of Republican boy .** is the abolition of slavery. Nothing shoot of it will satisfy them, and they are Wing set* in that direction every day. A Washington correspondent writes : "The tianote Committee .on - Military Affairs are aboulto . repert a bill'endersing the Emend *ion l!rochimation ai'a necessary measure for tlie:ccmrpou defence, and declaring it to 'have "the force and effect of law, anything A' *a the JAM or constitution of any fitate.to Oro contrary notwithstanding." Again : a Constitutional Convention lately ansewhiedat Alexandria, from the small por tion of Eastern Virginia under Federal con trol, has adopted the following as a part of the Constitution of Virginia, to be inserted in name and'under the caption of slavery, or freedine 1. Sl*very and involuntary servitude, except for crime, is hereby abolished, ned prohibited in the State forever. S. Courts of competent jurisdiction may apprentice minors of African de scent, on the cotiditions• provided by law for apprenticing white children. S. Thefleneral Assembly shall make DO law establishing slavery or recogni zing property in human beings. We are told "there was but onditilleenting voice!" and that "one hundred guns were tred In Donor of the event, and the belle rum; throughout the city." Ne doubt .( At, as aetint' g mid gratify *Whin maitonity more than a blow at the lisesliar institution," whether struck fairly K statairly, to the dark or the light. With them the end always justifies the means. An fofatious Calunmr. The Abolition journals, in view of Gen. prospectiVe nomination for the ltteldenci by the Conetivative hosts of the dotintry, have been greatly embittered to ward blia, and are inventing and propagating the most ridiculous and atrocious calumnies concerning him. The charge alluded to in the nthieined paragraphs is one of the multi tads of startling slanders thy have recent ly put in circulation on that gallant and pat riotic soldier. We copy from the "Pittsburgh Gazette," an ultra Abolition print, which in puifiehing the following seems not to be ut terly destitute of justice and decency : The charge against General McClel lan of his having a secret inteniew with Lae attar the battle of Antietam,„ comes from A Marylander named Wal&on, said to be somewhat disordered in brain. Ha has been in the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms since Wednesday agaracbou, but refused to make under o the statement bhe has fur niabsdfor publication. Helms also other Stories of a marvellous nature, one of which is that he was for cause time ern ekkred night and day by Secretary Chase in siding in the preparation of a new finincisi scheme,' which has no foundation in fact. The following is from the Drew York Trainne, which paper brat gave curren eyto this story : "it is stated that the detectives who have had Waldron in . charge have got a emsfession from him in writing, that he was drunk when he told the story of the 'interview between McClellan and Lee, and that he puts on John 13arley corn the entire blame of troubling the War Department and the War Commit tee to investigate the charge." The flovertoor of Kentucky Remon knifes against the Enrollment of Sieves. Faantroser, ICy., Kercia IS—lt is•asuler ktnfd tletetinot iltrlmahitte how addressed earning the President re speedily, tfie iinrollment aid enlistment of Awes Xentheky, and 'has mottled the Prasidenethe4e frill 'execute the jaws of itemiledltf spinet sib 10 attenipt to take skive 1001 their oweriiireriiiheet their Con sent. Theilikilee that Una* bits far -441011.1/10•40014, tbooond of her 8008 to #lBlWheliP,loollloo4 aad ie willing t. *at is allotted to dollow-ipowaim ape , loyalty amid brovast, 41010 0 1110 101110.01r4""Oitidd:- The New Hampshire Election. ;We give below the result of the election in this State held yesterday. From the re turns received it appears that (ov, Gilmore is re-elected by a majority of between four and five 'thousand votes, and the other branches of the government have been car ried by the Republicans by equally decisive majorities. This result is as surprising to the victors as to the vanquished. The Republican managers did not antici pate such a majority ; they were not entirely confident of any victory ; and the Demo crate who were believed to be well informed were hopeful of success, or at least supposed the Republican majority would be small.— But this result, so disastrous to the Democ racy of New Hampshire, and so ominous of the fate of the country, is easily accounted for. Hundreds of Democrats were denied the right of suffrage by Republican officials, and hundreds of men were allowed to rote that ticket by these officials who had no legal right to vote. In addition to this, some four thousand soldiers were brought home to vote, most of them "picked men," or solemnly pledged to vote for Gilmore, while those who would not thus pledge themselves were kept in the field, and hundreds other employees of the Gov &wheat were also sent home to vote—all at the public expense. These, with the numer ous false pretences and deceptive devices, resole to by the Republican leaders to de lude and defraud honest people, were the all sufficient causes of the result we record.— The result reflects no credit upon the victors. —[From the Concord (N. II.) Patriot of Wednesday. Hear Daniel Webster. The Hon. Daniel Webster, no longer ago than 1882, used the following plain and em phatic language in relation to the worthless strips of paper issued by the banks—lan game of indignant denunciation which ap plies with ten fold force to the irredeemable Federal Shinplasters which now delude and will eventually cheat the people : "Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring class of mankind, none have been more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money. This is the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow. Ordi nary tyranny, oppression, excessive tax ation, these bear lightly on the happi ness of the community, compared with fraudulent currencies, and the robber ies committed by depreciated paper.— Our own history has recorded for our instruction enough and more than enough of the demoralizing tendency and the intolerable oppression on the virtuous and well disposed, of a degrad ed paper currency, authorized by law and in any way countenanced by the government." On a more recent occasion he declar ed—"l profess to be a bullionist; in the usual and accepted . sense of the word. lam for a specie basis for our circula tion. and for specie as a part of the cir culation, so far as it may be practicable and expedient. lam for girl:: 0: no value to paper merely paper. I abhor paper, that is to say irredeemable paper —paper that may not be converted into gold or silver, at the will of the holder." A New Paper. The "Weekly Post'• is the name of a new paper just started at Morgantown, Va., by a Mr. RINEY M. Mono.iN. It is respectable In size and appearance, bat for "war to the death," if we are to judge from the conclus ion of the Editor's Salutatory, which is "in the words following, to wit," as the lawyers say: "Then let it rage (the war, of course,) rage though our whole country should be converted into a theater of desolating war; let it rage till the clashing of steel and the booming of cannon shall be echoed from every hill top and valley throughout the land ; till the -wail of the widow and the cry of the orphan shall have pierced the very clouds ; till the tread oisoldiery shall have harden ed every foot of American soil ; till the smoke of battle shall have enveloped the country in one continual gloom; and human blood shall have polluted every stream on the face of the continent ; until we have secured . our honor and saved our country, we shall only cry, war t wAttll WAR Ill" Our intense solicitude for Brother Mor gan's mental and physical well-being leads us to prescribe, in his case, a straight-jacket, an iced bladder to the head and hot bricks to the feet. Will our ex-brother Sturgis see that the above applications are made, and that the patient has tender nur sing ? Mr. Lincoln's last Joke on the Florida Massasre. The President, on hearing of the bad pine:a/ship which, as it first appeared, zharaetarized the management of our forces at Olustee, in Florida, and the heavy slaugh ter which followed, burst oat with the excla manion—"lt seems to me there are no heads down in Florida except dead heads." Of course every one in the vicinity laughed as heartily as the President himself did when Ward Lamm sang for him, as they rode over the-graves and among the burying par ties after the battle of Antietam, the negro melody of "Jump Jim Crow." iThe Richmond Dispatch regards the position of the Northern Democracy as the worst form of Northern hostility to the Con federacy. Well the editor may. Re is for Disunion forever, and foresees that his canee wonl& fail if the Democracy were in power, They had to weaken and defeat that party to be able to get np a rebellion. If it were successful now, all they have done would be lost. 4rTho moat lioirilar development of the times is the attempt of the War Department to "ma the aharches." as the President cans it. Bielwqp Ames is adhering to talcs airiesys Of * Meteroiket ameba is New . Othespit :, sed Belkir ie swim_ the same thir hisidsosemoht. Loyd : .sok maly 4,101111111.1111116111,4001 Whim Os area im .thiteiltvrciptt try stlittral Loyal UoMMef• many perms aye 'deluded by Loral Leagues, goes, and join with them *About any evil intent. These Leagues are simply infernal in all purposes, and will be so in their con" sequences. The National Council of Loyal Leagues is an exact counterpart, both in its construct ion and the functions it.aspires to exercise, of the Jacobin and Cordelier Clubs of the French Revolution. Like them, it is corn posed of delegates from the Provinces : like them, it is established, en permanence at the seat of government ; like them, it is an un authorized, illegal body, having no connec tion with any portion of the administrative power: like them, it assumes to tirectly in terfere with the policy and dictate the measurees of the governing power : like them, it now fills the lobbies and the galler ies of legislation, intimidating with its groans or encouraging with its cheers those men or measures whom it dislikes or applauds : and, like them, unless the American peo ple soon put a stop to it, we will find it taking possession of their floors, having its own enactments, and finally, usurping in form, as it does already in fact, the Legis lative and Executive functions. Then—for men and the passions of men are alike every where—will come here what happened there; and then will those who laugh and mock at what they now call the mobid forebodings of Democratic disloyalty, suffer as those suffered then who, like thorn, had jeered at the prophecies of their coming doom. Spurgeon on Negroes. A London correspondent of the Witness, Indianapolis, sends to that journal an ac count of his interview with the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, and sais "Of course he in quired about the, war in America. Natural ly enough, the conversation turned upon the negroes, whereupon Mr. Spurgeon said: "We in England are getting a little tired of the negroes—we are beginning to find them out. A year or so ago a negro was quite a pet with us, and when one came to us we made much of him ; but now too many of them are coining—they come over in squads, they are very ignorant, and con ceited, we are very willing to help them to be tree, to give them money; but then we do not want any more to do with them. ....Thousands of other people, like Spurgeon, are coming to the conclusion that there can be too much of a good thing, and alter making the negro free want "nothing more to do with him."—(lllinois State Journal. Free Blacks in 1855. The New York Tribvne, Sept. 1855, held the following opinion of free blacks : . "rive-tentkii of the free blacks have no idea of setting themselves to except as the -hirelings or servitors of white men; no Idea of building a church or other serious enter prises. except through beggary of the whites. As a class, the blacks are indolent, improvi dent, servile, and licentious, and Gernitt Smith in a letter to Governor Hunt, com plained that 'the most of them preferred to rot both physically and morally in cities, rath er than become farmers or mechanics in the country.' " livery word of which is as tine to day as it was in 18L75, but the present policy of Mr. Greely being to convert four millions of slaves into this worthless class of free ne groos, it don't suit him to say so. Correspondenoe Wanted. The Cincinnati Enquirer is informed from a reliable authority that very many of the advertisements of "correspondence wanted," published by women I t some of the promi nent papers in Ohio, are answered by con victs in the Penitentiary at Columbus. The convicts append in the signatures, or state in the body of their letters, that they are in the employ of the government. A peniten tiary convict is a very fitting person to hold correspotidence with those women who so I,far forget the modesty and propriety of their I . sex as to advertise for a correspondence with • strangers• A Word to Abolition "Patriots." Mr. Baldwin, member of Congress from Massachusetts, writes to his paper that the erroneous reports of new clerkships has brought an avalanche of applicatibns from young gentlemen upon members of the House, and adds the following "settler":— •'Speaking of clerkships, let me say that there are now on file in the departments, Twenty-five or thirty applications for every appointment that can be made during• the re • mainder of the term of this administration. The rush for these positions is immense." A Patriotic Chaplain. The Washington correspondent of the Detroit Froe Press has the following notice of a patriotic chaplain : "I have another characteristic story to tell you of the Chap lain'ef the House of Represensatives. lie is constantly deploring the troubles of our pow country, and this is the way in which he proves his patriotism.: While holding the position of an Army Chaplain, and drawing pay from the War Department, he holds the Chaplaincy of the House, and draws his monthly psy. Now this Abolitionist knew very well that it was unlawful to draw double pay from the Government, but that did not avail. se- The New York Evening host says that Cully three-fourths of the millions of money appropriated by the city of New York for procuring recruits in their city has been absorbed by bounty thieves and harpies, by which the families of recruits have been rob bed of the means of subsistance. Investiga tions now going on develop° an imount of ; depravity perfectly astounding. ' ,Spaulding, an Abolition memlter of Congress from Ohio, in a late speech againit Indemnifying Pennsylvania for damages said, "Why, sir, the Treasury is now on the p oint at bankruptcy, and it is difficult to find money to pay the volunteers." stem tind width Os hinds at lir. ValkindighlW II %Wee logolag for Mow, la araii#4 nye, swims. to• tiott,ooti:' Abolition Mobs al the Wat-- . -1:11- stniotion . of Domoorotio Nowspi pars—RobNotion—Lotter from Hon C. L. Valiandigimm. firm the Dayton Empire.] There is a very dangerous state of feel ing growing up at the West. The Demo crats are quietly organizing in many places to protect themselves against men• in the uniform of the United States army who are destroying ' Democratic newspaper offices and committing other outrages, not only without rebuke from the military author ities, but apparently with their sanction. The Democrats of La Porte, Indiana, having had their journal destroyed, resolved on the sth inst.- Ist. To resort to civil law to obtain redress, whenever there is any reason to expect that the same can be reached through that channel, and it this shall fail us, then we will assert oar rights by force, in such a manner that they shall be respected. 2d. That those fanatics and cowards who are in the habit of pointing soldiers to peace able and respectable citizens as "copper heads" and li p aitors," will add to their own personal safety by desisting from such a course in the future. 3d. That, in this dbraiinnity, the point has been reached beyond which submission merges the freeman into the slave, and re sistance become a duty ; and that we will resist, by force, all attempts to abridge the elective franchise under any guise or pre text whatever. 4th. That the future peace, prosperity, and happiness of this community depend upon the dominant party ; that, although we have been outraged, we will endure the injuries of the past for the sake of peace in the future ; but they shall not be repeated with impunity. [From the Chicago Times.] The resolutions of the . Democracy of La porte, Indiana, which we print in another part of this paper, are calm, temperate, con siderate, but, to use a favorite abolition form of speech, terribly in earnest. The attitude of the Democracy everywhere must be not one whit behind the spirit and intent of these resolutions. The - Democracy mat everywhere organize and BE READY for any emergency of danger to their persons aid property : for, when such danger comes, the more prompt and signal shall be reprisal and retaliation in every case, the sooner will will there be restoration of law and order in the land. If prompt and signal reprisal and retaliation shall not be resorted to in every case, the present Abolition saturnalia of blood and other outrages will grow and spread, and in a little while there tv ill be no law but mob Law ; Let Democrats take care that they be not themselves the aggressors, in ever so little in any case. Let them stand by the law as long as the lbw protects them. But when it does not protect them— when it shall be violated in their persons and property by organized bands of outlaws— let retributions be swift and sure, and let it tell where if will be most keenly felt. The outrages by roving soldiers, just now so general, are of course by the consent and en couragement, tacit or otherwise, of the officers of that soldiery ; and they are, too, the legitimate conseqnence of the teachings of numerous Abolition generals, politicians, and, almost without exception, of the Abolition press. They could be stopped in a day if the Administration at Washington chose to stop them. They are not stopped, and no intention is apparent of stopping them. Every consideration, then, of right justice, and law justifies the Democracy in falling back upon the power of their own strong arms for self-protection, self-defense, and punishment of the aggressors. Wmnsote, C. W., March 7, 1864. Messrs. HUBBARD & Baas., Dayton, Ohio : Gmmtuale—l read several days ago, the telegraphic announcement o the "rid dling" of the Empire office by "furloaged soldiers." I offer yon no sympathy, for that will avail nothing now or hereafter.— I do express to you my profound regret that you were not prepared to inflict on the spot, and in the midst of the assault, the com plete punishment which the assailants deserv ed ; but lam gratified to learn that some of them did soon after receive their deserts. Bat these cowardly acts cannot always be guarded against. And they 'do not primarily come from the "soldiers." There is, therefore, but one remedy for past and preventive of future injuries; and that is, instant, summary, and ample reprisals upon the persons and property of the men at home, who, by language and conduct, are always inciting to these outrages. No legal nor military punishment is ever iii flicted upon the immediate instruments.— Retaliation, therefore, is the only and right ful remedy in times like these. I speak advisedly, and recommend it in all cases hereafter. It is of no avail to announce the falshood that "both parties condemn it," af ter the destruction has been consummated. The tune has gone by for obedience with out protection. I speak decided language ; but the continual recurrence of these out rages—frequently attended with murder, and always without redress—demands it. They must be stopped, let the consequences be what they may. Reprisals in such cases are now the only way left for a return to law and order. Very truly, C. L VALLANDIGNAM. INPL.The Boston Journal sneers at the Germans as follows : "The Germans who 'fight mit Fremont,' the impractables who will have Chase or 'smash the machine,' and the friends of all other Presidential aspi rants, had better cease their attacks on the 'resident." Lincoln's friends and admirers seem to bear the Germans at unconquerable hatred. 11*-The Ohio illateeasau gives the mobo taila of Columbus notice that if that office is aiudabcd, as has been tiuuntesed, the dociew Ns Aiwa erL tine *OMB *el ape tiy *saw anew Us . 41Bolosiiie bow of estaliatiew ie tweelved upon and wM entoreed vindictively. tommatticationo. LETTER FROM HARRISBURG. Hamaisarao, March 16, 1864. Masan. Eiorrofts:—l have not written a letter to you this Session until now, for the reason that we have had nothing before us, especially of special interest to the people of 'Greene county. But now there is some thing of interest to every citizen of the county. I therefore desire to draw their at tention to the matter through the medium of your paper. The Mouse, after considera ble labor and consumption of time, passed a General County Bill, the provisions of which would suit every township in our county. The Bill having gone to the Senate that body this day amended it in so many particulars that I can give no opinion of it until it is reprinted and sent hack to the llouse ; which seems to be so far in the fu ture that I can form no definite idea at what time it will be returned, and as the time for the draft is drawing nigh, it behooves our people to be moving in the matter, if they desire to be relieved of the odium of a draft, and wish to fill their quota under the late calls of the President with volunteers, and to have the authority of law to borrow money and levy taxes to procure.them, and to equalize the cost of the same. When the Bill referred to above does come back to the House it is very probable that sonic of the amendments of the Senate will be objected to hYthe House, in which case a Committee of Conference will be appointed, which may consume several days in settling the differ ence between the Senate and the House, and thus render the time so short between the final passage of the Bill and its approval by the Governor and the draft, as to prevent the action of the people in the several townships of our county. I therefore think it advisable for the citizens of awl townships as desire to fill their quotas with volunteers to have Bills passed similar to the ore attached hereto.— This Bill I drew up and had passed by the House this day, at the instance of Dr. D. W. Gray, who is here for the purpose, with a petition numerously signed by citizens of Richhill tp., praying for the same. Col. Hopkins, our diligent and very efficient Sen ator, had it put through the Senate in double quick. Now it only awaits the signature of the Governor to become a law; which, no doubt, will be done this evening or in the morning The people of any township can have the same done for them by signifying their desire to me by letter or otherwise.— Henry D. Moore, of Philadelphia, was elect ed State Treasurer last night by a majority or eight over his competitor, Wm. V. Mc- Grath, our present able and gentlemanly Treasurer, than whom the State has never had a more efficient or a better officer. I have just taken by the hand Generals Burnside and Hancock, who are here on a short business visit. Neither of them pre sent more than the ordinary appearance of mankind ; that is, there is nothing striking in their personol. They are both good-look ing men, and lAvt the mien of gentlemen and the soldier. Yours respectfully, I sumrest that you publish the attached act as it is altered by me, which is the Richhill tp. act. A. P. AN ACT to authorize the School Di rectors of Richhill township, Greene county, to borrow money and levy a tax for the payment of Bounties to volunteers. SEcrios 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same—That the School Directors of Richhill tp., Greene county, be and they are hereby authorized it they shall deem the same expedient, to borrow at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent. per annum, a sum of money suffi cient to pay to each person who may enlist in the army of the United States ender the late calls of the President, and to the credit of said township, a bounty of $2OO. SECTION 2. That the School Directors of said township be and they are hereby authorized to levy and collect a special tax upon and from all persons and all property ir. said township, liable to State and county tax, a sum sufficient to pay to each person who may enlist in the army of the United States under the late calls of the President for volun tetra, and to the credit of said township, a bounty of two hundred dollars, and for the purpose of re-paying any money which may be borrowed under the first section of this Act. ARMY LETTER . GREENLAND GAP, W. Va., , March sth, 1864.; MESSRS. EDITOR few lines from the Greene and Washington county. boys in West Va. would interest you at pres ent. We have been in skirmishes at different times and places, but have never given any notice of them, and we .inink we would not be doing the praiseworthy soldiers justice should we let this pass unnoticed. On the 3rd instant, Lt, Denny, of the Patton Cavalry, with a detachment of 16 men of the same company, and 9of the Keystone Cavalry, left Petersburg for Moore field. The rcad the scouts had to travel was through the mountains, in a country that since the commencement of the war has been the rendezvous of rebels. We had been in the habit of going daily in small scouting parties in that vicinity. So they knew our number ; and had their trap laid accordingly. When we were within two miles of Moorefield we were attacked by 35 or 40 cavalry. They charged on us, and came within some fifty yards of us. But we were not the boys to be eared by the. hideous yens of traitors, or • maititutle of 'Wein ballets. We held our petition, and *light them mail our enarmatitiee wee ex few mud wsendise Lech men 'epoLbenes. feneerier mortises emir Meader, we chatted on them, put Sem flight, and would have captured them, but jtiatbat'this time Capt. McNeal, with about 75 men, came up in our rear; and as our firearms were empty we could do nothing but retreat; and our only way was up a precipice, and across a deep ravine in the woods. By the time we had gone a hundred yards the rebels were right among us, shoot ing on every side. Some left their horses and ran to the bushes. The Lieutenant and several others that had fast borses, ran to the river and swam across, while others were forced to surrender. They followed us from 2p. m. till dark, having every advantage, owing to the snow, which afforded them eve ry chance to follow us. But we all got away, except four of the Patton Cavalry, viz : M. G. Moore, T. W. Penny, Wm. Van kirk and M. Sherwood, and three of the Keystone, viz : Wilkie, Davis and -. So, when we sum up the loss,' after being surrounded by four times nur number, we find ours to be ono slightly wounded, seven men and thirteen horses captured, while that ot the enemy is four killed, and a num ber of men and horses wounded. So ended the skirmish on the 3d of March. The following is a list of those engaged in the fight, Nad i :got away :—Lt. B. W. Denny, Geo. Johnston, Silas Cowen, S. K. West, M. 0. Frazer, T. O. .Enocha, T. W. Slusher, J. B. Buckinham, J. A. Prull, Alex. Crumrine, Dallas Lank, G. T. Hammond and S. J. Wil son, of the Patton Cavalry, and Oliver, Woodburne, Mitchell, Sw., of the Keystone. M. 0. FRAZER. fl The rebel Bragg is a brother-in-law of Jeff Davis, which accounts fur his posi tion. "lie that provideth not for his own household is wore than an infidel.', Davis is acting on scriptural authority. goir Old Abe writes to some clergyman in the West that, "it is not the intention of the Government to run the churches." The old joker evidently thinks that the churches are a sort of fire machines. GEN. DODGE TAKES DECATUR.—On Monday last, the town of Decatur, Tenn., was occupied by the federal troops, under command of Gen. Dodge. lie had moved troops more than a week ago to the vicinity of the Tennessee, and having ordered down a large num ber of the pontoon boats, he went thither himself a few days ago to su perintend in person the capture of the place. Waiting for all things to get ready it was not till Monday night last that the attempt was made. The rebels had a considerable force—some two or three thousand—and a battery of ar tillery in the town with some fortifica tions. The plan for its capture was to launch the boats after dark, silently em bark as many troops as they would hold, , and row across and storm the works.— Monday night all was ready. The reg iments to cross were the 63d and 43d Ohio and the 114th Illinois. The boats were all lashed together, and were filled with troops and started over. It was extremely foggy. The flotil la touched the opposite shore without accident, and the troops disembarked and rushed into the town, only to find it vacated. A small force, only, linger ed, with whom our forces skirmished. In the o mrse of the skirmish a rebel lieutenant was killed, and two or three men wounded. The loss on our part was nothing. The rebel force retired to Tuscumbia, where a considerable number of cavalry is collected. NARROW ESCAPE OF GEN. DODGE.- During the fog and dakness of the night on which Decature was taken, General Dodge, Colonel Spencer, of his staff, and a few others, thinking that the troops, who were to cross at another place, had done so and quietly occupied the place, started in a little boat to row qirectly across to the town. The fog was so close that it was impossible to see anything. As the boat neared the Decatur shore, a sentinel on shore heard its plashing, and hailed, "Who goes there r Thinking it to be a Union soldier, the General sang out, "General Dodge !" Bang : went the gun of the sentinel : —he was a rebel picket. The boat was instantly put to the right-about, and got safely away, although fired at by all the guard. The General wisely deter mined not to take Decatur without the aid of troops, and waited until he knew they had made a landing. A. PA TTON We understand that the Spotted Fe ver prevails to an alarming extent in the vicinity of West Newton, Pa.,on the Youghiogheny River, and that already several deaths have occurred from it.— We hear of one case in which two sis ters returned from a party at night in good health, and were both corpses be fore morning. Other Cases equally - as sudden are reported, the victims in nearly every instance dying within twenty-four hours after the first symp toms, which usually are the appearance of small pimples and blotches on the hands and face, with acute pains, swell ing of the head, and enlargement of the glands of the neck. The symptoms, and the swift death of persons, seem to indicate this Spotted Fever to be very similar to the old plague that we read ot. —Chron. On Monday . evening an atrocious murder was committed in Allegheny City. Four young men belonging to Pittsburgh visited the former city, drank to intoidoation, assaulted and injured a number of persons on the streets, and finally commenced fighting among themselves. During the progress of the melee a young man named Howard Hamilton happened to pass along, when one of the party, named James Simms, made a plunge at him with a knife, the weapon catering the left chest in the re gion of the lain, and causing almost instant death. The deceased was only eighteen years of age, and his murderer about twenty. All the parties are re weft* toanected. Mach fir lirtabiLty. Army Intelligence. Shocking Mortality. Murder in Allegheny City. *serener!, Bounties. The ao'verninebt . libunlies, as now paid to YOlunteers will be continued un til April first, `at which time additiOnai bounties will cease. Oh and after that date, $lOO bounty will be paid, as pro vided by the Act al)proved July w, 1861. In the official call of the Presi dent for 200,000 additional troops, as published Thursday, it was stated that the time for paying bounties ha': been extended to April 15th. This was an error, as will be seen by the following communication on the Subject, received to=day from Mr. Copley, Draft Com.= missioner for the 23d, District : Office of the Board of Enrollment, 23d Dis-C' trict, March 19th, 1864. In the copy of the President's last call for 200,000 men, as transmitted by telegraph, and published in all the pa pers of this region; it was stated that "the Government bounties, as now paid, will continue until April 15th, 1864 ; whereas in the official copy just received at this office, the closing paragraph is is these words : "The Government boun ties, as now paid continue until April Ist 1864, at which time additional bounties cease. On and after the date, one hundred dollars only will be paid, as provided by the act approved July 22d, 1861," Tosnpit Comm, Commissioner of the Boards Results of Sherman's Expedition. The New York Tribune briefly 81111a5 up the results of Gen. Sherman's expe dition into Mississippi : Gen. Sherman left Vicksburg with a force•of about 30,000 men. He had two objects ; first to desolate the coun try through which he marched, and to destroy its railways in order to make a rebel campaign in force impossible dur ing the summer; second, to go to Sel ma. In the first object he has succeed ed; in the second he has failed. But be has succeeded so completely in the first, and has done his work with such unex pected and extensive thoroughness that his failure to reach Selma need not be deeply deplored. The Southern Miss issippi Railroad, crossing the State at right angles to the river, is destroyed. The Mobile and Ohio Railroad, running throug the easterly part of the State parallel to the river, hag been torn up and irreparably injured for a distance of fifty-six miles north and south of Mer idian. The immense supplies accumu, lated by the rebels at numerous points on the line of these two roads have been burned, and the mills, manufactories, machine-shops, public buildings—in a word, everything which contributed to the military power ofthe Rebellion—have been annihilated. There are no longer the means of transporting or of subsist ing any considerable force of Rebel troops—cavalry perhaps excepted—in Southern or Central Mississippi. The uninterrupted navigation of the Mississ ippi River and the security of Lousi ana from a Rebel invasion . are results of this Expedition. Between the forces of the Rebellion east and west of the Mississippi, there can henceforth be no co-operation—scarcely any regular intercourse. For all military purposes the State which Sherman has traversed is a desert—its vast territory not mere ly useless to the Rebels, but an impass able barrier between them and the re gion in which they expected to have pursued an aggressive campaign. The Tribune attributes the failure of General Sherman to go to Selma to the failure of Smith's cavalry colamn to join him at Meridian. The Late Terrible Disaster on the Jeffersonville Railroad. Dispatches from Indianapolis to the • Cincinnati Commercial give additional particulars of the late accident on the Jeffersonville road. It was a terrible accident, and the company is severely censured by the public. Wm. H. Her rick, of Newark, N. J., of the Con-- struction Corps, U. S. A., died in a few hours after the accident. Mrs. Mary E. Tucker was instantly killed. Wounded —Maj. Jackson, of a Wisconsin regi ment : Mrs. Jane W. Collins, of Mon mouth, Illinois ; J. B. Vann Denn, of Jeffersonville, head bruised and both legs injured severely ; Mrs. Hays, of Salem, Indiana, very seriously in face and head (doubtful if she recovers; Mrs. Robt. S. Browning, of Lafayette : Jas. S. Mitchell, Adjutant of the 70th In diana, badly bruised and spinal injury : Patrick H. Jewett, Lexington, Indiana, leg broken above the knee, and head cut ; Mrs. C. A. Light, Burlington, la., knee fractured ; Geo. Runsore, Louis ville, Captain Gee. D. Hand, leg, slight ly; John Brooks and llezekiah Griffith, of Columbus, Indiana, the former se verely. Horrible Railroad Acoident. The Memphis papers give the details of a collision on the Nashville and Chat tanooga Railroad. at Anderson, Tenn,, on the sth inst. Two freight trains, with one passenger car each, were both going North, when the engineer of the last train, with the grossest carelessness, ran his train into the other. The pass senger car struck was broken np and; set on fire from its lamps and stove. Four ladies were burned to death and other persons were wounded. The en gin eer would have been lynched on the spot had he not fled. General Kilpatrick's Expedition, Aga, the Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, says: It is offi cially promulgated that General Kil patrick's cavalry have reached Alexan dria by transports. The General him self is at the National. He says that he penetrated to the first line of the de fenses of Richmond, and that nothing but the misdirection of Cot. Dahlgren's column prevented the taking of the city. He had an order for the surrender al ready penned. e Re - Since the first of February three hundred and thirty-eight non-commisioned officers and privates, and five commissioned officers have come into our lines at Knox ville, as deserters from the rebel army, have taken the oath sera been released. The ag gregate during Jan sa was six hund!ed.— Two hundrt4 and seveut7-five Prisoner' were captured daring Aliskacy sad February, of whom 11 have taken the oath,
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