gh t tostmler.
it. W. JONES, 1 - &lltOrs.
J/8. 8. JENNINGS,'
"One Country, One Constitution, One
Destiny.o
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1684.
FOR PRESIDENT IN 18.6*,
GEN. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN,
(Subject to t?Fo Decision of the Donocratic Na
ttonat Oir.tventiott.)
•4While the . atiey is fighting, you as cit
izens See that the - war is prosecuted for
the preservation of the Union and the
Cobstltutiow t}nd of your nationality aid
your riglou qt elti4~ens. 99
GEt). B. hicCLELLAN.
''The Constitution and the VIIIOII
I place. hem together. if they stand, they
sand stand together; if the:: fall, they
most fall tegether."--Dasici Webiter.
The Meting lust Saturday.
the Democratic meeting at the Court
Rouse last 'Saturday_ was altogether one of
the most pleasant and harmonious gatherings
we have witnessed in the county, and the
Republicans who attended it, hoping to wit
neel wranglings and discussions, criminatons
and recriminations, were prodigiously dis
appointed. Perfect good feeling prevailed,
all the expressi6ns:wg heard were• good,lna
tured and fraternal, and the sentiment,
"union and harmony, everything for the
cause, nothing for men," seemed to be that
of every Democrat present. All manifested
entire willingness to subordinate their pref
erences for candidates and their minor dif
ferent:ea of opinion to the single patriotic
and important purpose of restoring to power
the only party that has ever, in the history
of the country, successfully administered its
affairs.
The speakers were all happy, and ably
vindicated the doctrines and policy of the
National Democracy.
The meeting was presided over by that
Joung, earnest and tudetatigable Democrat,
DAVID SPRAGG, Jr., of Wayne, a member of
one of the &kit, largest and finest Dedno
wade Wallies in the county.
The Prevailing Sentiment.
The Roston, Pennsylvania, Argus expres
ses exactly they feeling that has become TlM
venal arnonggt Democrats, in its comments
epos certain recent outrages upon the rights,
Amon and property of those whose only
crime is that they scorn, loathe and denounce,
with the nnreserve and boldness of freemen,
the corrupt, infamous and treasonable Ad
ministration of Lincoln. Any man worthy
of the name- of American citizen will not,
can not, fail to denounce the attempts, plain,
palpable, almost avowed, of the party in
power to subvert our republican institutions,
to change our form of government to an
autocracy of some kind, probably to that
most odious of all tyrannies, a military des
potism. AU men who do not choose to close
their eyes, must see that this wicked purpose
le entertained by the Abolitionists--it is
clearly deduciable from their acts—it i 3 es
tablished as by a cloud of witnesses. ,Ind if,
seeing it, they have the manhood to openly
swear eternal hostility to the traitorous
criminal in the presidential chair and his
satailiteß, and are assailed and outraged for
such manifestation of their devotion to civil
liberty—then justly, righteously. may the
people invoke the lex talionis—then will
come mitt obedience to the suggestion of the
"first law of nature"—then must follow
prompt acquiescence in the necessity of obey
ing the natural impulse of every manly heart,
to "STRIKE BACK"
&ys the Argus:
The . men who committed these out
rages were, of course, put up to it by
Black Re'pagiietin politicians. These
should be made to suffer. The day
when Democrats should quietly submit
%o outrages of this character, has g one
by. If the law will not protect tile in
their rights of property they must protect
themselves. And it is the duty of the
Democrats everywhere to stand by the
newspaper publishers, not only to defend
their Property but to strike back.—
STR I cs. BACK we say. See how the
Deinocrats behave in the Western State&
There they retaliate by “carrying the war
into Africa." There is no use of preach
ing to a pack of heathens about preserv
illg the public peaee and respecting the
law. That is throwing pearls to swine
• They are deaf to all such appeals. Cou
only remedy for these outrages is in our
strong arms.
How Very Disloyal!
Is not the following sentiment beyond
immure treasonable to the Government?
"Yon cannot foreibly hold men in this
Union, h.r the attempt to do so, it seems to
me, would subvert the first principles of the
Government under which we live."
It was not Long, nor Bright, nor Val
hndigharn, who uttered se. rave a piece of
heterodory, but—shall we my
Belli. F. Wade, Republican Bonator from
Obid r emit will be found in the Coe.
g eu **Vglebe, 57th Congress, third
pip 6
•
The ktossiShant
Think of if,
Below otil be found a letter just rectivied
from a number of on!: gallant lads in the.
Army of the Potomac. It needs few Words
of preface, as it "speaks for itself," attest
ing the unfaltering attachment of its authors
to the political faith of their fathers,—the
creed of Jefferson, Madison,' Jackson and
Polk. The example and petty persecutions
of superior officers, the denial of furloughs
to them at election times on account of
their political opinions and afflciations, the
blandishments of power, and the eppro
bious epithets of their Abolition opponents—
all. these have not been sufficient to drive
them from their convictions. All honor
to them for their fidelity and fearlessness:
and may their admirable example be emu
lated by all their comrades-in-arms. But to
the letter:—
CAMP NEAR STEVF.NSRURG, VA., 1
April 28th, 1864: j
Messrs. Jones 4 Jennings;—We, sol
diers of Co. A, 140 P. V., wishing to
let the people of "little Greene" know
t1;:t we are still Democrats, and wish
ing to have a paper that defends the
rights of the private soldier, and that
speaks as well at least of a soldier as of
a negro, have conic to the conclusion
that we could not do better than to send
for the "Messenger." We can assure
yon that "Co. A," is almost unanimous
for "Little Mac." We don't think
that there is more than six or eight ne
gro worshippers in our company. We
see by some of the Abolition papers,
that they are trying to make the peo
ple believe that the soldiers are all in
favor of having Old Ahe as president
for four more years. But if the sol
diers get a vote, they will find them
selves very much mistaken, for the
"Army of the Potomac" will certainly
go for its old chieftain, unless they let
the officers do the voting, as they now
do the talking. All the soldiers ask is
a chance to pay Old Abe off for trying
to make a nigger equal to a white man ;
and if you will nominate Gen. GEORGE
B. Meaur.t.aN, the soldiers will give
him two votes where they give Old
Abe one.
Sergt.—Mark G. Spragg.
Corp.—Chas. T. Hedge,
Commissary.—J. S. Herrington.
Privates.—Geo. W. Wilson, Benj.
Dunstan, David Frays, Geo. Freeland,
Origon T. Walters, Job Smith, Ehud
Steele, J. R. M. Green, Samuel Roupe,
Wm. Ogden.
Hon. John L. Dawson.
In the House, Friday evening, during the
discussion of Mr. Stevens' substitute for the
bill to provide a republican government for
States overthrown by rebellion, Mr. Dawson,
of Pa., replied to a speech heretofore deliver
ed by Mr. Moorhead, his colleague. He was
sorry that he could not regard it as an ar
gument. The Democratic party had acted
with a magnanimity of purpose never equal
ed by any other organization. They endeav
ored to avert a civil war, the greatest of all
national calamities, and opposed the fanati
cal movements of both the Abolitionists and
the Secessionists, but when hostilities broke
out they freely gave their blood and treasure
in defence of the country. lie maintained
that the Democratic party was the true friend
of the soldiers, and had struggled with united
effort to increase their pay, and supply their
physical wants and comforts, as well as those
of their wives and children in their absence.
As often as he, (Mr. Dawson,) as Chairman
of,the Democratic caucus, had offered such
propositions they had as often been ruled
out of order or defeated by the gentleman
(Mr. Moorhead) and his friends.
@e-The New York World, in reply to
the slang of the Tribune, enumerates some
of the classes who will certainly support the
Republican candidate for the Presidency, as
follows :
1. All the howling, - blood-thirsty, fanatics
from Maine to California.
2. Every blaspheming infidel and atheist
in the country.
2. The filthy practicers of the doctrine of
miscegenation ; every one cf them.
4. Every idle and dissolute negro.
5. All the thievish shoddy contractura-r.
the vultures who fatten on the public waste
and offal of the State.
6. The army of corrupt office-holders.
7 The great stock gamblers without ex
ception.
8. All the speculators and extortioners
who are running up prices at the expense of
the poor.
Q. The men who pay poor sowing-wo
men starvation prices for work on army
clothing.
This list might be extend indefinitely,
but it will suffice. How does the Tribune
like this application of its own argument
tir The New York Herald says, that for
some time a number of treacherous and in
comprehensible diseases have been making
serious ravages upon the health of that com
munity. They take the form of typhoid,
and even the more virulent stage of typhus
fever. The inquiry is made "Can it be that
a shoddy plague is creeping into our midst,"
and the following extraordinary statement
is made: "We hiare it on the authority of
one of he managers of a prominont shoddy
factory in Pennsylvania that the shirts, blan
kets, and even the bandages, of the woun
ded, dead and diseased, both on the field
and in the hospitals, are received there ac
tually moist with blood and corruption, and
in this state ate torn into shreds in the ma
chines, and manufactured into shoddy flan
nels, blankets and cotton material : If this
be. true, then the shoddy manufacturers out
vie in teeir h;deous but profitable trade the
exultation of the wretch Chowls in his sub
, ter' anean orgies, as Ainsworth describes him,
during the I !ague of London."
serThe Davenport Democrat publishes
a private letter from the Western army, in
which it is stated that all the German sol
diers are for Fremont, and refuse to take
such Lincoln papers as the Illinois State
Zeitang and the Cincinnati Volkeblatt, and
that. the American soldier*. eien are getting
tired of the Lincoln tdmileisimilfa.
1611M4 .'"''.4 alV
•
Tht liepublicau. or Aboliiion Convention
Met at the COOitlootni:in thiaplace, on Mon
day,
the 9th that.; and placed in nomination
we . andertdand; the following ticket:—
Assembly.—Zadock Gordon, of Centre I
township.
Prosecuting Attorney.—Win. E. Gapen,
Esq., Marion tp.
Sheriff.—Thomas MIL of Franklin town
ship.
Commissioner.—Benj. Way, of Morgan
township.
• Auditor.—Aaron Shelby, of Dunkard
township.
Poor Rouse Director.—Joshua Ackley, of
Richhill tp.
The Delegates also; we understand, in
structed for Geo. V. Lawrence for Congress.
J. A. J. Buchanan, Esq., addressed the
meeting.
Charitable and Consistent.
We observed with pleasure, in the Legis
lative reports published yesterday morn ing,
that even the small sum of two thousand dol
lars to each county had been appropriated by
a vote in the Senate, for the support and ed
ucation of the orphans of soldiers who had
died in the service.
We are informed that in the afternoon
session this orphans' mite was sought to be
withdrawn. The Black Republicans did not
like the state of the record; there was too
large a majority of Democratic votes in favor
of this (truly sanitary) provision. The sol-.
Biers, after all, might thus discover they had
more Democratic friends in the Legislature
than was consistent with the teachings of the
negro party leaders. So Mr. M'Oandless
(Rep.) moved a reconsideration—when every
Black Republican in the Senate but two
voted to reconsider, and then AGAINST the
measure! Now for a commentary:
In the same appropriation bill there is a
provision—but there, of course, by a party
vote—giving, a very considerable sum for a
poor house for NEGRO CHILDREN in Philadel
phia. A new thing, but very consistently
presented. Starve the wnrrn orphans of the
soldiers, but clothe the NEono babies in pur
ple and fine linen.—[Patriot dr. Union.
McClellan's Sword.
A few patriotic individuals—the ardent
admirers of Mai. Gen. McClellan, have got
up a dollar subscription for the purpose of
purchasing a sword, to be presented to that
distinguished officer.' We are much pleased
with this movem43t. There is not a com
mander in the Army of the United States
• more justly entitled to a present of this kind
than the hero of Antietam. He is the sol
diers' friend and the peoples' iiul, and had
justice been done he would have received the
sword bought by the funds of his admirers
at the New York Sanitary fair. It is but
nst, therefore, that ho should have a sword
in the place of the one he should have re
ceived upon that occasion, and he will have
a better and costlier one before one month
transpires, bought with the free-will offer
ings of a party who have not yet learned
the slight of hand management in secret
ballotings—meo who are able and willing to
po justice to all our worthy Generals with
out fear, favor, affection, or distinction of
party.
What They Promised The People.
[From the Somerset Democrat.]
Remember that if Curtin is re-elected this
war, in all probability, will be brought to t.n
honorable and final close in a few months.—
[Herald & Whig, Oct. 7th, 1864.
Vote for Curtin and Save the Draft.
October 11th 1863, Curtin elected. -Majori
ty 15,225,
October 17th 1863, Draft Ordered for 300,-
000 Men
February let 1864, Draft Ordered for 200,-
, 000 Men !!
March 14th 1864, Draft Ordered for 200,-
000 Men !!!
Whole number called since Curtin's election
700,000 Men!!! !
.The New York World says, "it is a fact
known yet to very few, that a movement has
been in progress for some time past in vari-,
ous cities of the United States, and which
promises to center itself in this city, purport
ing to have for its object the liberation of
Mexico from the thraldom of the French
power. This movement, according to our
informant, who is an ex-officer of a New York
city regiment, now mustered out of the ser
vice, and who was approached on this sub
ject with a view of procuring his co-operation
in the matter, has been in progress for some
months in other cities, and is about com
mencing fn New York.
Several members of the Pennsylvania
Reserves aro under arrest fot conduct grow
ing out of a dissatisfication in refer ence to
their term of enlistment. They entered the
State service in May '6l, but were not mus
tered into the U. S. service until July. They
claim that their term expires in May—the
"Government" claims otherwise. The Leg
islature ha vo interfered and unanimously
pased a resolution soliciting the President to
discharge them as they desire, in May.
liSk..A German writer says : "Thieves are
so scarce in that country, that the authori
ties are compelled to offer rewards for them."
Lincoln, we should think, might •• spare 40,-
000 of them from his party without the least
inconvenience. He is sadly in want of rev
enue. Why not sell a few thousand of his
thieves to Germany, and pocket the re:
ward ? •
WANTED.-A EM Poster—A wag in
speaking of the "one hundred thou*and
copies of the Proclamation of Amnesty,
printed in handbill form, to be posted up in
conspicuous places in Dixie," says, "The
only thing now in the way of crushing out
the rebellion, is to find a competent bill
poster !"
kirAcbording to the N. Y. Tribune the
34th Mass, (colored) regiment has gained a
big bunch of laurels for itself by the capture
of a boat at Port gm*, S. C., COntainini
sixteen **lc
onititinicatuntoi
4olifiees getters .
We might fill a page of our paper
every week with letters of soldiers, if
we published all we received, like some
Abolition prints. But this is simply
out of the question, as we have neither
the space to spare, nor the hands to put
the letters in type, Occasionally, how
ever, we shall make. room for one, and
append hereto a swible and outspo
ken epistle from one of our brave and.
faithful boys. It has the right ring, and
shows he has not "defiled" his politics.
CAMP OF THE IST PA., CAVALRY, )
"WARRENTON, 'VA., MARCY( 14, 64. j.
MEsens. JONES & JENNINGS : —We are still
in our old quarters near Warrenton, but how
long we may remain is uneurtain. As there is
but little military news to communicate, I
will devote my space to a review of the issues
now before the people. And first, I would
ask, what was the OBJECT of this war? The
view that tqks3 of our national difficulties
that fanatical abolitionists in the north and
fire eaters in the south brought on this strug
gle; that the South resorting to "the last
argument," the sword, fired upon our flag,
denounced the rightful authority of the gov
ernment, and resolved on the dismember
ment of the Union. At this critical juncture
I with thousands of others, offerd my services
to assist in putting down aimed resistance to
the Constitutional Government and to the
Union of our fathers.
• The basis of this Union is the Constitution,
and in order that one should be preserved
the other must be adhered to, both inUetter
and spirit. had the constitution been ob
served our present difficulty would have
been avoided. One portion ot the aduiiuis
trationists claim that they have never viola
ted the constitution, the other, more honest,
admitting that they have transcended that
instrument, plead that they were compelled
to do so by "military, necessity." The
Emancipation proclamation I regard as un
constitutional, and a great injury to our
cause. It was never claimed that the aboli
tion of slavery was intended as a PUNISII
mErrr ot the traitors—that is rcerved for
them after subjugation. The object of the
war was and stiq snomo BE for the restora
tion of the Union, awl : anything more than
this is a usurpation of power, unnecessary,
uncalled for. It the rebels return to their
allegiance they will certainly demand their
rights under the Constitution, and any
measure conrtsry to this will make them,
more determined in their opposition, and
will incur the condemnation of the conserva
tive northern people. Such a measure as
this is the proclamation of Abraham Lincoln.
That which we wish to maintain we must
not disregard ourselves. As far as our ar•nies
have advanced, just so far has the slave been
releosed from bondage; and this was the
legitimate consequence of war, and so th•
rebles themselves regarded it.: .Ten thousand
proclamations would release no. more negroes
than have been released; why 'theli was any
issued if Artourtox was not the policy and
object of the administration? It was with
regret that I read of the rejection by the
abolitionists of the resolution of non: J. L.
Dawson, requesting the Preident to nithke
MORGAN re., May 3, 1864.
Mew,. FlEtors.:-ohe annonneement
of my name, in your columns, as a can
didate for the office of Sheriff, was
made without. my knowledge. lam
truly grateful to my friends for this evi
dence of their regard ; but, I do not
desire t,, be a candidate ; and, even if
my inclination were otherwise, my
business would not permit Me to canvass
the county. •
Thanking thOse who have tendered
me their support, I withdraw my name
from the liar of candidates.
L. D. NGIIRAM.
to . r the ilessenger
Democfatie County Meeting.
At a Democratic meeting held at Waynes-
Wit 1149 , 7, 1884, On niiiticit D. A. Si *too,
Jr , was called to the Chair—.-and G. W. G.
WADDLE appointed Secretary,
The meeting being organised, A. A. PITE
MAN, Esq., was called on for an address, and
responded in an able and argumentive speech.
He traced the onnfticting principles of the
parties from the formation of the govern
ment down to the present time ; exposed
the corrupt and u nconstitntional measures
of the Administration, to facilitate its de
basing ends, and advocated the hciples of
free speech and political rights, as expressed
in the Democratic platform.
W. A. PORTER, was then called upon,
and responded in a telling speech. He said
he was not in favor of the opposition cheat
ing us out of one star.
G. C. COOKE, followed in a brief and tell
ing speech.
Trios. Ross also, made an appropriate
speech, and enunciated the principles df
Democracy very clearly.
The following Resolutions were then offer
ed, by lfoaGaN R. WISE, and unanimously
adopted :
/Zesohted, That this meeting endorse
and approve the action of the late
Democratic State Convention, and art
o•ur, from the , harmony of the proceed
it)
lugs, the success of the party in the
"Old Keystone," at the approaching
Fall elections, as well as throughout the
country.
Resolved, That we pledge our cordial
support to the candidates and our con
currence in the platform of principles,
put forward by the Democratic Nation
al Convention to assemble at Chicago,
on the 4th of July, 1864, satisfied that
the selection made will be judicious,.
and the doctrines enunciated, wise, or
thodox and patriotic, in unison with the
truth, and with the convictions and
teachings of our time-honored party,
faithful now, as always, to the "Union
as it was, under the Constitution as it
is."
On motion, adjourned.
D. A. SPRAGG, President
G. W. G. WADDELL, See'Y
Ninety-nine Vet es Lust•
The following is an extract from the
letter of a soldier, dated at Newbern,
N. C., April 11, 1864: "I must now
tell you how our Republicans started to
go home to vote. They left here a week
ago Thursday night. The orders came
a little after we got to bed, for certain
ones to pack thew knai and filly
equip, "just as soon as ..focl would let
them." Tnis caused a good deal of ex
citement in camp. Some thought they
were going on a raid,and they were ta
ken sick at once and "could not go,"
and onepid himself in a hay-mo'v, and
he was left behind. B ut all at once some
one said they were going home to vote.
Then the sick were all well again.
we learned that none but itepr,
were going, we knew that th , y w
ordered on to vote. Ninety-nine fio;::
our regiment started. They goi 02.4
Hatteras, when they turned round and
came back to Newbern. The sea was
too heavy for them to go any farther.
They were gone six days, all the time
on the water. some were sea-sick, and
had a pretty hard time. Most of the
soldiers had been home before.
Enormous Taxation.
SEcnrrany CHASE'S letter to the Chairman
the Senate Finance Committee, dated on
o 12th iust„ will open the eyes of the peo
to what is coming. lie says that "noth-
, short of taxation to the amount of one-
If our expenditures" will save the govern
mt from bankruptcy and ruin• Now, as it is
nitted on all hands that our expenses are,
the very lowest estimate, one thousand
ilions per annum, it is easy to perceive
at, according to the Secretary's published
inion, the enormous sum of Five Hundred
Mons a year must be raised by taxation!
the country stand this, is a pertiuent
.tstion? This would require an average as
',tent of $25 per head for every man, wo
ad child in the loyal States. Is this the
Lertainment the people were invited to
ten they were asked to vote for ABRAHAM
CON.—.Lancaster Int.
Burning the Constitution.
Says the reverend, shining light of Abo
ionism, Wendell Phillippe :
"The Constitution of our fathers
mistake. Tear it in pieces and make
better. Don't say the machine is out
'order; it is in order, it does what its
lers intended—protects slavery.—
aim is disunion, breaking up the
.!s. I have shown you that our
k cannot be done under our institu-
Again he said :
"No act of ours do wo regard with
'e conscientious approval or higher
Isfiaetion, none do we submit more
ifidently to the tribunal of Heaven
the moral verdict of mankind, than
ten, several years ago, on the 4th of
ly, in the presence of a great assem
,, we committed to the flames the
istitution of the United States."
Miscegenation.
It seems the Minesota Legislature has
•Ileroded the President himself in
toting the interesst and advance
d of the miscegenation doctrine
.ty have recently passed a law fining
teacher or board of trustees fity
Ars if they refuse admission on to
public schools to any negro child.
seems that the Democratic township
of Rose, in the country in which St.
Paul is situated, had the unpardonable
audacity last fall to exclude all negroes
from its schools, or at least not to admit
them en an equality, with the white
children. This, it seems has been the
occasion for all this magnanimous legis
lation of the Minnesota Legislature.
,-The New York "Day Book". says it
don't believe in the watercare, and gives as
a reason—"there is Mr. (naming a noted
political editor) he has been lying is hie
damp sheet (or twang . ..years, mad WA.
worse now than ever."
FROM NORTH CAROLINA.
The Evacuation of Washington.
Another Rebel Massacre
NEW YORK, May 4.—Newberu advi
ces to April 30th confirm the evacua
tion of Washington, N. C., by order of
Gen.. Butler. After the spiking of the
guns and destruction of much property
that could not be carried away, it was
discovered that the enemy had left for
Virginia, leaving but seven companies
in front of the place.
The rebels have already commenced
massacreing all who have accepted
Prsident's Lincoln's Amnesty Proclama
tion, and pressing into their service all
capable of bearing arms.l
Gen. Peck is ordered to report to
Gen. Butler's Headquarters for such
light duty as his health will enable him
to perform.
It was rev;rted that the rebel rani
Roanoke, now at Plymouth, is delay
ing tbr the purpose of mounting the
200-pounder Parrot gun which fell into
rebel bands there. it was generally be
lieved in the interior, ithat the fall of
Plymouth and the evacuation of Wash
ingtdn, will enable Gov. Vance, the se
cessionist candidate, to Necure his elec
tion.
The Latest from Ger. 6-Ik.s--The
Condition of Affairs Bad Enough.
The following interesting news from
the Red river country is contained in
a special to the Cincinnati Gazette, da
ted Alexandria, La-, April the 16, via
Cairo, May 1 :—The steamer Black
hawk arrivta from Grand Ecore this
morning, bringing the latest intelligence
from the front. General Banks' army
remains at Grand Eeore, on the west
side of the river. Whe forces that cross
ed over on Wednesday to the east side,
were the 15th army corps, under Gen
eral Smith. This force was sent to si
lence the rebel battery on the ricer op
posite. Genral Smith returned yes
terday to Grand Ecore, having skir
mished with the rebels considerably.—
The gunboats silenced the battery on
Thursday. The tl6et of gunboats and
transports are as high up as Toggy
bayou, about one hundred miles above
Grand Ecore. At this bayou the
steamer Falls City, loaded with brick
and stone, has been sunk in the channel
by the rebels, completely blockading
the river.
General Banks' army is fortifying on
the west bank of Grand Ecore, tailing
trees and throwing up earthworks all
around the place two miles out. Gen.
Banks has placed under arrest• several
counnissioned officers for cowardice on
the field. We have captured five or
six hundred prisoners in all. In both
fights it is said that the rebels lost 600
killed and 1,500 wounded, in all making
loss of 2,700. We lost in all
of artillery, according to
the Chief of artillery.—
wounded and miss
i at from 3,000
to time time we left Grand
Ecore returned there.
Later--Banks said to be at Alexandria.
Steamer Afissietippi, Ji.fouth of Red Rirer, April 24,
The latest advices from our troops in
this vicinity are that General Banks' ar
my has fallen back to Alexandria with
out fighting. The gunboat fleet is at
the same place, sonic above and some
below the falls. The Red river is low
and tailing. The Ouachita and Texas
are filling from Lake Providence. Pa
pers are not allowed to publish any
more Red river news, excepting official
dispatches, in which General Banks
claims a victory. Guerrillas are becom
ing more troublesome on the eastern
banks of the Mississippi. General
Steele had opened communication with
General Banks.
Report on the Fort Pillow Massacre . .
The report of the Committees on the
Conduct of the War, concerning the
massacre at Fort Pillow, has already
been prepared, and will be made to
Congress as soon as the evidence, which
it briefly sums up, can be written out.—
The Sub-Committee, Senator Wade
and Representative Gooch, visited Fort
Pillow, Memphis, Cairo and Mound
City; and took evidence at all places,
examining fifty-seven witnesses in all.
The testimony all goes to prove that
the atrocities committed by the rebels
are much worse than any published ac
count indicates, and that their officers
are fully responsible for what occured,
having encouraged, instead of attempt
ing to restrain the soldiers on the
day when the Fort was carried by storm
and when two or three hundred of the
garrison, who vainly asked quarter,
were murdered. The next day the reb
els returned to the Fort, and killed in
cold blood the wounded and all others
they could find, white and black, wom
en and children, as well as men. The
hospitals were burned and the wounded
men in them. Men were nailed down
to tent floors, and the tents then set on
fire.
A black boy who was carried off by
one of the rebel soldiers with a view of
his re-enslavement, was taken from him
aoout four miles from the fort, by order
of superior officers, and shot. Witness
es testified that Forest admitted in their
hearing that the rebel loss was three
hundred in the various assaults upon
the loft. Gen. Hurlbut testified that
he found Fort Pillow garrisoned when
he assumed command of the district, as
it had been, with the exception of fi re
or six weeks, since it was taken posses
sion of; that he simply continued things
as he found them, having,no orders and
not feeling at liberty to make a change,
and that three regiments on their way
to reinforce the fort, were ordered by
Geneaal Sherman to Chattanooga
The faminein the Capede'Verdes
group of Islands, noticed some time
since, has increased in intensity. Jn
the Island of St. Jago it has assumed a
frightful shape, and numbers of the'rm
futtallata lakalsitauts are. said to IA dy-
I ing daily in the streets.
cv„
EntO.
From the .New York 9bserver
The H. S. Twri H d Mir r
furhtre.
percent: Loan.
This Loan is liinited to two hundred mil
lions, and is being rapidly subscribed for by
the people. A modbrate portion of this
amount has been taken lcir Europe, and any
responsible portion of the remaining amount,
that the Secretary of the Treasury might be
willing to designate, could be placed on tie
other side, with or without making the in
terest payable in London instead of New
Fork, on highly advantageous terms, thus
giving the command of a large ,amount of
sterling exchange (10 per cent. better than
gold, as rates are calculated here,) through
the . Summer months. Ile has never yet
tertained such propositions for his popular
loans. Iris preference is that our own peo
ple should have the entire advantage of the
gold interest which they bear, or else the
premium on their Bonds, such as now can be
had on the 5.20 s when bought for Europe.
The present object, theretere, is PornA
DISTRIBUTION AT HOME, at par, on five pot
cent. gold interest,equal to i or S per cent,.
incurrency with, gold at 150 ( 160 per
cent.
The Act of Congit , ss specially previdelr
that the principal of these Bends shall be
paid in gold. If paid off after ten years with
the economical views of re-borrowing at
three 'or four per cent. interest —for after
the war of 1812 this government borrowed.
money in Europe at three per cent.—tho
payment will be made in gold.
On this and all other funded stocks of the
United States, there is a specific pledge of
the Custom Revenue in gold, for the con
tinued payment of the interest in gold.
The customs and duties, thus pledged for
the payment of the interest and gradual ex
tinction of the principal—through annual
for the sinking fund—of the funded
public debt of the - United States, constitute
a system of indirect taxation, to which the
people are and always have been accustomed.
It falls upon the poeple only in proportion to
their ability or inclination to consume for
eign wares and merchandise, upon which
these duties are levied. As they elect to
forego the use of foreign luxuries, so they
lighten their own burthen of the public debt,
even while investing their means in it at
rates and on a security superior to any
other stock, for uniform and assured income
(free of local taxes), in the whole country.
The last fiscal year, to June 30, 1863,'this
source of revenue amounted to $69,059,642.
The gold interest on the public debt then
amounted to only $24,729,846, and the prin
cipal of the old loan of 1842, $3,250,000,
was paid off in gold, in addition.
The present fiscal year ending on the 30th
of June, 1864, will show at least 40 per
cent. increase in gold customs, say $96,683,-
398, on a gross importation of less than 20
per cent. increase over last year. The gold
interest on the present funded and fundable
debt, for the current fiscal year, will not ex
ceed $47,735,650, leaving a surplus of nearly
fifty millions in gold from customs over the
specific charge for interest upon them; part
of which surplus the Secretary has readily
disposed of at 165 per cent. for green-backs,
the principal as well as premium of which
will go to the benefit of the Sinking Fund;
and to the reduction of the currency interest
ON the unfunded or temporary debt, such fie
one year certificates of indebtedness, certifi
cates of deposit, &e.
That this statement may not be seen over- ,
drawn, we annex a schedule of the funde4
debt and 7.30 per cent. treasury notes, mood
passed into fended debt by voluntary conver
sion, on which gold interest is now being
paid
Famded debt of the United States to Merck 2, 1681
R•TR.
6 per cent.
7.30 per cent,
5 per cent,
0 per cent,
5 per tert.
6 per cent.
5 pet cent,
6 per cent,
Lotus.
Popular :1 , - 2tl Lnan.
7.30 por cent. Loan,*
Loan of ISO, July.
Loan 4411.161. Feb.,
Leans of 1b5.9-00.
I.namc of 1817.45,
I.nati,of
OregUn Loan, 1661,
Tntn I,
Annual interest in gold,
*A - 6 per cnnt..Bl tack after 1864.
This interest charge upon the same amount ,
of funded debt will be reduced the next fis
cal year in the sum of $1,798,524, by the
cony ersion of the 7.30 per cent of 1864, in
Angu st and October, into the 6 per cent of
1881, leaving the interest charge upon the
same $76,065,000 only $45,937,126, for the
next fiscal year, when, under the increased'
rates of custom duties now immediately
contemplated by Congress, the gold reve
nues, on the same volume of gross importa
tion as in 1864, will be raised to $llO,-
000,000 or $115,000,000.
The End of the Danish War.
We have important news this morn
ing (per last steamer) that Duppel, the
most formidable and strongest position
in Denmark's possession, was assaulted
and captured by the Prussians on the
18th of April, together with eighty-three
cannon and from 2,000 to 3,000 prison
ers. The Prussians are said to have
lost, in the assault, two Generals,' sixty
officers, and six hundred privates, and
the Danes between eighty and a hun
dred officers, and four hundred men
hors du combat. It is reported that the
Prussians had occupied the Island of
Alsen and that the occupation of the
whole ofJutland had been resolved upon
This battle will likely prove decisive.—
Duppel was the great Danish stronghold
and was considered impregnable by
them. Its capture is a sad blow for the
Dimes, and a great cause for pride and
rejoicing to the Germans, who now go
into the conference on the Danish-Ger
man question, which was to have com
menced on the 20th, in the very best
possible plight.
Melancholy Suicides.
In the last Saturday's issue, says the
Ottowa (111 i.) Republican, April 30, we
gave an account of a singular suicide
committed by Daniel Sheaman, stating
that it was supposed to be induced by
his late marriage to a different girl than
he intended, parents having interfered
to compel the marriage. But the sing
ular and deplorable 'drama was not des
tined to end with his sacrifice, for his
young wife, distracted by the dreadful
event, sought means, and finally aceom
phslred by poison. Pro
curing at a drug store; some corrosive
sublimate, She attempted to swallow it
dry, the poison mostly sticking in her
throat, and causing her head and neck
to swell to a tearthl size, and produce
death in a few hours. It was a melan
choly affair all round.
A Rebel Massacre.
The Fort Sniith (Ark) New Era says
that a squad of twenty-one guerrillas,
in national uniform, surprised on the
6th inst. a party of ten men of the Ist
Arkansas cavalry, guarding some pub
lic stock, near the battlefield of Prairie
Grove, and after shaking hands with
them, fell to slaughtering, and only tone
eseeped . to tell the tale. „Six were kill
ed and three woneded. •
ion
El
LEO
EE=ll3
5510,174,000
138,348.01.0
51,652,0130
18 415,000
27,022,000
18,213,090•
3,415,000•
1.018,010•
768, 965,000
$47,735,650