Eta ntootuger. R. if. JONES. JAS. S. JENNINGS,} Editors. "One Country, One Ccmetitution, 4 one Destiny." 1n5,14%§741 1 4%, NQ WEDNESDAY, DEC. 7, 1881 MONEY ! NONETI ! The current expenses of a newspaper office in these war times are enormous, and can only be met by prompt pay ments on the part of patrons. We are now paying over TnnEE TIMES as much Itor paper as we did three years ago, and conwsponding advances Rave been made in the price of other printing materials. lasiddition to all this, the wages of labor *re higher than ever before since the - ealabliahment of the paper, while the cries of life command equally ex- .travagant rates. Under these circnm- steno es,. we must insist on our subscri- burs remembering us in a substantial - way, by making prompt payments. Will every patron who knows himself to be in arrears on our books immedi- ately mill and settle his account l It "ill - relieve - us from embarrassment and give na some heart for our work, which at best pays but a trifle and nothing like as well as any other business pur - rID2I Friends,' lose no time in SETTLING UP. filer's New o,cleans Plunder. Judging from the account given in another column, we think it probable that the re movable property for plunder which is found t to exist among the supporters of the .ad ministration, is• likely, in the case of Gen. Butler, to find a healthful correction in the counts of New York. The civil troubles to Which we have been unfortunately subject, for the last three or four years, have given occesion for many shameless attempts to pluuder.and rob the government, as well as individual'. The case of Butler has scarcely parallel in history, except in the instance oflorn Clive. Butler at Orleans and Clive in India, will be equally conspicuous in the future history of such transactions. Butler, before the war, was the most ex treme of among Northern politicians in his support of southern men and suthern meas ure, including slavery. We do not recollect how many times be voted, alone, in the Charleston Convention, in favour of Jeff. ' , Davis. He afterwards supported Brecken ridge against Douglas. After the war com menced, he became a convert to Abolition ism and has since gone the extreme lengths in support of the administration. He was convicted by a congressional committee of plunder in raising his first regi ment for the war. But this was so com mon an agair at the time, as almost to es cape notice. But this last of the pleasant things which followed the possition of pat ronage and power, was amply gratified by the much wider and richer field for plunder opened by Farragnt's conquest of Orleans, to which Butler was assigned as a sort of pro-consular ruler. In consequence of the distance of the central government and the money questions which necessarily absorbed its attention, Butler had almost unlimited sway. The immense wealth wLieh had ac cumulated in that city, over which he was Placed as Military Governor, with scarcely a shadow of superior control of the govern ment at Washington, was too tempting to Butler's cupidity, not to draw him from the path of rectitude. Complaints soon began to assail the eats of the Government which become so per sistent as to compel attention. Reverdy Johnson was at length commissioned to visit Orleans and examine Butler's doings, upon a report of which he was removed, and remained some time without employment. The account contained in another column, is a fair specimen of the mode in which the subordinates of this administration exercises power, and may afford a significant illustra tion of the reasons for the conversion of Gen. Butler, from the extreme views former ly entertained, to those to which he seems now to be so devoted an adherent. orGen. Sherman's movements are still somewhat in mystery. We hear from him only through Rebel sources. He seems to have captured and then abandoned Milledge line the seat of Government of Georgia.— Ile die, not go to Macon, as it'now appears, nor yet to A ugusta, but would seem to be drifting towards Savannah, or some other point bn the Southern coast where he could_ probably have the co-operation of.the Navy. The Philadelphia Age, whase military criticisms are usnally very accurate, thus epeaks of the military "situation :' "Gen. tihermati's movements :an now be explained much more clearly than hereto fore. Gen. Slocum's column, which was marching on Macon, turned eastward, joined Kilpatrick, crossed the Oconee River, and, en Nov. 22d, was marching to join Howard, who was fortylniles west of Augusta. On Nov. 20th a confederate reconnoissance was sent from Macon northwest towards Atlanta. It went to Griffin, thirty miles south of At lanta, and reported that no Federal troops were to be seen anywhere. Gen. Slocum's army bad all marched east of the railroad. On Nov. 22d Slocum'a rear guard had cross ed the Oconee river and was reported thirty tulles east of Macon. The expedition'agaiust Macon had been "given up. Milledgevill was abandoned by its Federal captors and was again in Confederate possession. General Beaureguard, with the Confederate advance, arrived at Macon on Nov. 22d and at once marched in pursuit of Slocum. Gen. For rest led his advance. On that day General Howard was encamped forty miles west of Augusta. A large force of Confederates had been collected to oppose his progress and for some he had been intrenching.— Gen. Bragg was in command of the depart• ment, but Gen. Ewell, who had brought a considerable force from Virginia, was report ed to be in immediate command of the ar my opposing Howard. Slocum was forty five miles southwest of Howard. Sherman's principal aim appeared to be to join his two columns. They were pressed in both front and rear and a junction was a necessity." Delayed Ballots from Soldiers. The evidence is accum ulatiug in all parts of the state that the administration, which pretended to such honest indignation at the concocted frauds on soldiers ballots of its stool-pigeons in Baltimore, in reality was engaging in a wide-spread system of such frauds itself. The Seneca Observer says that 200 sol diers' ballots, four-firths of them from Dem ocrats have been received in that county since election day. It gives the names and regiment of the soldiers who were thus cheated out of their votes. In Seneca Falls, 120 of the same sort were received too late. Other counties and Wwns, torough the pub lic jonrnals, are making the sam e complaint. We ourselves received score of letters from Democratic soldiers informing us that they had mailed their ballots to our care to be deposited at the polls ; Two ballots, no more and no less, have reached us from • that time to this. This is Mr. Lincoln's "gum-game," as he facetiously terms it. He has taken the trick ; but there is an old proverb which says : "The game is never out till it is play ed ont ;" and there is another which says : "Cheating is not thriving." Veterans Called For. The order of the War Department, em powering General Hancock to enlist twenty thousand recruits who have already served two years in the field, is a curious move ment. It shows several things : 1. That the administration has urgent need of more trained soldiers, and that it cannot await the slow operation of a draft, which would only supply them with the raw recruits at the end of fifty days. 2. That the volunteering of two-years vet erans will be going on simultaneously with the operations of the fothcorning draft, which will be rendered the more severe by the abstraction of legal substitutes. 3. That the administration has discovered it is a tearful waste of money to call out one year recruits, as they are of no military value when pitted against southern soldiers of several years' standing. As it is now patent to the most sanguine Republican that Mr. Lincoln's re-election secures us several years more of war, we may expect that the next call will be for three-year conscripts. It is not economy to call men into the field for any shorter term. We hope our supervisors will take advan tage of this last call to help fill our quota. It will be a heavy drain on our population when it comes, .and we cannot have too many recruits ahead of our credit. Hood's Movements in the West. The news that the rebel army, utidor Hood, is in the immediate neighborhood of Nashville. pressing General Thomas back, will probably convince the most sanguine supporter of the administration that the re bellion in the West is not quite over. It must be a very formidable army, in all re spects, that can march so far north and Menace such formidable positions as Nash ville and Chattanooga. It was probably this unexpected exhibition of strength on the part of the confederates that put up gold yesterday, and it is barely possible that there might be some bad news in town known to operators supposed to be conver sant with government secrets. There can be no reasonable doubt but that Hood's movements are in some way related to those of Breckiuridge in East Tennessee, It would seem as if an effort was making to bring the two armies togeth er with a view to permanently interrupting communications between Knoxville, Nash ville and Chattanooga. But we do not see how the rebels ean pos sible succeed. This is a very different and far more hazardous movement than that of Sherman through Georgia. flood's and Breckinridge's operations against fortified strongholds, with a movable army of veter ans, under General Thomas, to oppose them; while Sherman's path is through an unfortifi ed country, with only militia and and an improvised army to contend against. Des pite the unexpected nature of the news, therefore, we incline to the belief that Hood's operations will have no. military result, and that Sherman will reach the sea-coast in safety. Mind Your Own Business. The Times is trying hard to lay down the "true functions of au opposition party." It had best bestir itself till it discovers what are the functions of an administration par ty. It is ludicrously ignorant of both ; but its duty lies with the latter, and it will pres ently discover that the discharge of its own function is more than it is competent to, without prescribing the functions of others. Ever since the election the readers of these government organs have been treated to essays on . other peotle's duties. It is high time they began to attend to their owti duties. Pastors sometimes theOheir pious inculcations fruitless hecattee each hearer applies them to his neighbor. But a ser mon to one congregetion On thii 'duties ot another congregation. will hardly be heard till the Times writer puts on - banoncals. Whenever he ceases to meddle politics, and takes to muddling theology, his congregation will be entertained of a Sunday morning with a sermon proving that there are no Christians except in his sect, and dealing latnnatkm around the land to the sinners of every Other persuasion. In the afternoon he will preach a sermon on the 'ditties of Christians ot other cominuuions. The late campaign was conducted with utter and reckless mendacity by the abolition organs. They falsified history and law, the objects of their own party, the purposes of ours. They falsified the condition of affairs, and the prospects before us, and no career was too honorable, no name too spotless, for them to slander and besinirk with their vile calumnies. If their bold on power could be tightened by it, they would open the sluices and let loose these filthy torrents again to-morrow. Hat it is of their inter est to contain themselves just now, and so the opposition hears nothing but honeyed words, from the President-elect down to his last dinner-table deifier at the Metropolitan Hotel. Mr Lincoln who sent Butler to New-Yolk, suppressed the Democratic pa pers of Maryland, and managed in 'my way' in Tennessee before election, now takes no pleasure in triumphing over anybody. Mr. Seward, who at Auburn had the effrontery to impeach the loyalty and the intelligence of more than three-eighths of his fellow-citi zens, at Washington insults nine-tenths of them with assumption that the contest was in all minds what it was in his own—a mere scamble for the front seats ; and says, "per haps we did do injustice, and were too se vere." One Lincoln organ, the //crag proposes an era of good feeling in the interest of the sharks of abolition and the jackdaws of shoddy, another Lincoln organ, the Tribune, invites the Democratic press to advocate forcible abolition by federal authority be cause slavery is dead; and the third Lincoln organ, the rims*, lays down a scheme by which the Democratic party can at once ful fill all the duties of a constitutional opposi tion and at the same time entirely please the administration ! No, gentlemen of the administration, we "traitors" and copperheads propose to stand aloof. Prove your own capacity as engin eers and omit your lectures on engineering. You discharged as of responsibility by de feating and defaming us. Our schemes for saving the nation, you, with the power and autl.ority of the government at your back to make it safe, booted as "treason ;" now go on and see what you can do with your "loy alty." There is absolutely nothing to be done by a people or a party in sustaining an administration which we have not shared in the liberal doing of. We have helped you with all the men and all the money you have so much as asked for. Finally we have "assisted" at an election which gives you the control of the federal and about all the state governments. That empties our ca- Facity to help you. Don't potter now about our duty. Attend to your own. We are at war. Bring peace. The Union is lost. Save it. Gen. Butler's Gold Case. Interesting Develop*tents in Court-77te New Orleens Gold not in the United States Treasury—The Argument in the Case. [From the IC T. ffews.l COMMON PLEAS-SPECIAL T ERA Nov. 30.—Before Judge Cordozo.— Samuel Smith, et. al , against Benjamin F. Butler. The argument on the or- j der to show cause, granted in this case, why the action should not be removed to the United States Circuit Court, and which has been adjourned from time to time, came on to-day. The application' was based on the act of 1789, providing for the removal of action to the United States courts, which have been brought by the resident of one State against the resident of another State of the Union. Johu K. Hackett, in behalf of the defendant, now applied for an order tin der the act of 1789, to remove the easel to the Federal courts. This act pro vides where a suit is brought by a oiti zen of one State against the citizen of another State, the latter should be at liberty to move the cause into the Uni ted States Courts. Counsel read the affidavit of Gen. Butler, in which he set forth that he was a resident of the State of Massachusetts, and plaintiffs resident of this State ; that the suit was for more than five hundred dollars, and came within the language of the statute. Ex-Jndge Pierepont opposed the ap plication. He said : As there is no law upon which this motion can rest, and as it was directed by the defendant himself, I in fer that it is made not for justice but for notoriety. I proposed to Gen. Butler in writing, that he should select his own court and his own counsel, and that I would bring an amiaciable suit in any tribunal of his own choice, to deter mine the rights of this case. He de clined any offer. The action was thus commenced in this court, where I venture to predict it will be tried before twelve good and lawful men, whose verdict will be satis factory to all who respect justice. The action is to recover damages, laid atone hundred and fifty dollars, for a trespass committed by Gen. Butler, in the spring of 1862, by entering the banking house of the plaintiffs and tak ing away by force some sixty thousand dollars in . gold coin, belonging to the plaintiffs; and in appropriating fifty thousand dollars of that coin to his own use, which he has kept to this hour; and for breaking up and destroying the business of the plaintiffs, by thus forei bly depriving them of their large cap ital. The action was commenced in the usual way, and the Sheriff has attach ed the funds cf Gen. Butler in this city. Why the defendant seeks to remove the cense from this court does not appear, and we can imagine but two motives—: delay or. maturity. So Gen. Butle r has had our money ever since May, 1862 ; we object to delay ; if maturity is the motive, we will throw no obstacle in his way, simply remarking, that we have known in our time, instances where imaturit7 had some little offaets to the ntoximting charms. Notwithstanding that our capable and ever-discreet fellow-citizen, Gen: Dix, was in command of this department, it will be remembered that just before election, Gen. Butler made his grand entry into this city, and succeeded to admiration in keeping seventy thousand Democrats from cutting each other's throats, while they gave a majority of 38,000 votes for McCllan! In this magnificent achievement the General was entertained with ovations, fihtter ing speeches and untold adulations.— The food was so spicy that it excited the appetites, and if you will look at the newspapers yon will see that this suit was paraded with impudent effront ery and more falsehood. The General departed for Washington on Sunday, Nov. 15, and on Thursday morning, un der the head of telegraphic news from Washington, appeared the following : BENJ. BUTLER'S GOLD. The Copperhead attachment for pen. Butler's New Orleans gold will have to pen etrate the vaults of the United States Treas ury before it will be forthcoming—every dol lar being in the keeping of that department. [From the Times.] THAT COLD. Concerning the attachment applied for against Gen. Butler in New York, on behalf of the parties in New Orleans, to recover $6O 000, in gold, seized by Gen. Butler in that city, it is proper to say that the gold referred to is in the Treasury of the United States, and that the plaintiffs must seek re dress, if they feel aggrieved, against the Government• and not against General But ler. [From the Iterahl.] TEIt ATTACHMENT AGAINST GEN. BUTLER The parties who have brought the suit in New York against General Butler, for gold seized in New Orleans, will find that,it is the Government, and not the individual, they have a claim against. The gold in question was condemned by a military commission as the proceeds of the robbery of the United States Mint it: New Orleans, and was ac counted for in the War Department, in whose custody it has since been. General Butler has at all times been ready to pay over the money claimed, whenever an order of the War Department should be present ed. How many other telegrams were sent to other journals, df am not advised, but it so happened that I foilowed Gen. But 4 ler pretty closely on his visit to Wash ington, and arrived there on the very evening of the day when the above no tices appeared. The next day, I thought I would ascertain whether Mr. Smith would "have to penetrate the vaults of the United States Treasury before it will be forthcoming—every dollar be ing in the keeping of that department ;" and-I found that the statement was wholly false, that not a dollar of this gold had been paid in to the Treasury, and that not a dollar of it was then or ever had been in possession of the War Department. That the other state ments in the telegrams are equally false, wilt appear from the affidavits which I now read : Court of Common Pleas, for the City and County of New York: Samuel Smith and Andrew W. anith agt. Benjamin F Butler. city and County . of tiert-York, sto, Samuel smith one of the plaintiffs above named, being duly sworn, on solemn oath, deposes and says : That some twenty years ago he lett the County of Saratogs, in this State, where he was horn, and where his aged mother still resides, and went to New Orleans, without any mPans but youth aad hope, to seek for better fortune, Ify severe economy', cotrxtatit toil and the unremitting industry ot long years, he and his brother Andrew logether i succeeded in acquiring a considerable property, and they became extensively engaged in private banking the very nature of their business compelled them to make constant advances ot money on Southern credits, when the war broke out they were extended, and it was not possible for them to collect in their claims without much delay. The state of Louisiana seceded—deponent opposed the secession, and quietly remained to liquidate !!i, affairs, and save what he could, It is easy for those who were safe in the North to talk bravely of their pwriotisrn, and to boast of what they would have done; but had such been where we were, they might have thought differently. On the 24th of April, 1862, news came that Admiral Farragut had passed the lower Forts. The great consternation prevailed. All who had any money wished to conceal it. The tear was of the wild mob and the soldiery in case the city should be given up to pillage. Deponent had about sixty thou sand dollars in gold com in his safe, which he had been collecting together, and which he had hoped to save. In this frightful eonsternation, deponent took 5:54 000 of his gold coin, and secreted it in the air cells around his safe, besides a small amount be longing to some of his customers. Admiral Farragut's success left Now Orleans at his mercy, and General Butler entered the city on the first Of May, and the rebel soldiery fled, and there was no pillage of the town. Forthwith General Butler issued his procla mation, dated May 1, 1862, and direcred every man to return to his business, and promising the fullest protection, and ex psessed himself in these words : "All the rights of property, of whatever kind, will be held inviolate subject only to the laws of the United States. All the inhabitants are en joined to pursue their usual avocations. All shops and places of amusements are to he kept open in the accustomed manner, and services are to be held in the churches and' religious houses, as in times of profound peace." Deponent did not suppose that this sol emn proclamation by a general of the United States was intended as a delusion and a snare, and opened his banking house in the fullest confidence that the General would not violate his plighted faith. The secreted coin could not be reached without tearing down a wall of solid mason ary, and deponent being unwilling to excite notice by tea-ing down a heavy brick wall and withdrawing com, when the city was in such a fearful state, let it remain for a few days to await events. General Butler soon began to examine in to the affair, of bank, bankers, and men sup posed to have money, for what public end no one could understand, for what private end many were made to know. On the 10th of May, General Butler or dered deponent to open his safe, which he did •, but the General finding but six thou sand dollars in hand, demanded the conceal ed coin, which deponent refused to give up; telling eneral Butler that it was concealed, and the object of the concealment, but de- Wining to reveal the place where it was se creted. The General then ordered deponent to prison and threatened to confine him in Fort lof the United States Mint," .they will Jackson until he revealed the place of Coll- l be properly met and the courts w cealment. Deponent was powerless ; with out the protection of law and at the mercy of pose il of the like. despotic force, after being imprisoned in the is motion, as a matter of law, must manner above described, deponent revealed be dewed—the authorities are all clear he place where his gold was concealed,— I upon this point. Counsel cited author- Gen. Butler tore dawn the masonary and ites to show that where an attaching carried off the $45,000 in gold, beside the paintiff was a nonsresident and the money in the safe, and after a few days be defendant was also a non-resident, the returned to deponent the six thousand left in the safe, and four thousand dollars of the cause could not he removed, and the art concealed coin, keeping fifty thousand ot Congress did not apply, Lars In gold, which he has retained from de- Mr. Hackett said he was surprised at ponent to this hour; the General then let counsel's course. It was totally out of deponent go, despoiled of his hard-earned order and without the rules of praetice.l property, and with his business broken up They are not here to try the cause on and destroyed, and now when deponent its merits, but simply to make an ali seeks in a lawful way to obtain redress he is p p met with these false telegrams from Wash- cation which the law, in his opinion, ington. The statement tjeat "this gr.fd was gave the defendant :Isla matter of course: condemned by the Military Commission as When the merits of the case came up, the proceeds of the robbery of the United and at the proper time and plue, Gen. States Mint at New Orleans," is in every Butler would be prepared to meet the !. syllable basely false. I statements of counsel put in the affida- Every dollar of it belonged to the plain- vit of clients and answer all this tirade tiffs ;it was the proceeds of long and patient . ' , of false teleua amsnothing' There was toil ; not a penny of it ever belonged to the - Mint or to any Confederate State officer or in the ease except a pure naked question department thereof, and the military coin- of law. mission so found and the one who ordered The Judge took the papers and res that false telegram sent, knew or ought to erved his decision. have known it, Deponent makes this affi davit with a true copy of that commission and report before him. That commission was - composed of three able and upright men —Governor Shipley, the Hon. Tho. J. Du rant, and Dr. Mercor—and their report was made in June, 1862, and proves the shame less falsity of these slanderous telegrams. Deponent took the oath of allegiance, the amnesty oath also, and is as true and loyal a man as he who by military force has taken away deponent's property. Deponent respectfully submits that this false charge about copperhead attachment, and these false and slanderous charges that deponent's gold "is the proceeds of a rob bery of the United States Mint" published in the newspapers through telegrams from Washington while Gen. Butler was there, and for the purpose of deceiving the public, and of prejudicing their minds before the trial of the cause, (which cause had been legitimately commenced tinder the order of the court) deserved the rebuke and severest condemnation of every Judge and right thinking man in this community. Deponent is not a citizen of the State of New York, nor is his brother, the coplain tiff such citizen, nor have either of them been citizens, or residents ; or votes in this State for more than ten years last Oct. De ponent has been here and in Washington not for the purpose of prosecuting this claim against General Butler, and has temporary sojourn both here and in Washington for that purpose 3 but he has not been at any time a resident in any other sense, or in any other sense known to the law, but is sow and always has been a nun-resident. And when his . affidavit kn. this attachment was drawn, deponent expressly stated to his at torney that he was a non-resident, and had the affidavit drawn explicitly stating that deponent was a non-resident, as will appear from the orig'nal paper, now here in Court, Deponent is informed by his attorney that the clerk, in making a copy, mistook the word non for now, and wrote "a now" resi dent instead of "non" resident, The plaintiffs being both non-residents of the State, having given security and com menced their action, and seized property of the defendant within this State and miller the jurisdiction of this Court, and have per sonally served General Butler within this city, and they have a right, as they are in formed, to try the cause before the tribunal which issued the attachment, and they sub mit that the defendant has no power to de prive thou of that right, nor to oust this court of its jurisdiction. Sworn to this 29th of . Noveintrer, 1864, before me, Fred Smith, Notary Public, 'New York. Judge Pierrepoint resumed. If the false telegrams about Copper head attachment and statements that this gold was the proceeds of a robbery of the Mint bad not appeared until Gen'l. Butler was in Washington, or if he had denied their truth on his knowledge of their authorship, (to do which he has ra4l ample time,) this exposition would not have been made. I venture to sug gest that this cry of "robbery" to divert attention, proves the real robbery will not be successful, and that in a com munity where the laws are administered, it will not be very safe to repeat :it. Fifty thousand dollars in gold is a comfortable thing to have, and General Butler has kept it so long that he does not like to give it up. There is nothing new in this reluctance to part with gold long kept. Clive and Hastings had the same keling when the robbed the Princes in India. I would suggest to General Butler that be hasten the trial of this cause be fore the Court and jury, and consent no more to try it by telegrams sent to the newspapers. We will keep him to an early trial, and until that trial comes off there will be a suspicion that all is not right ; our people have a very direct, common sense way oflookinc , at things, and our government is puzzled' to know why General Butler has kept this gold for two years and a halt. If it belongs to the Mint or to the Treasury ? These are ugly questions which our inquisitive people will ask, and which our govern ment has always asked. Gen. Butler has 550,000 of Smith's gold, which Smith earned by the honest toil of years. Smith was a poor boy, who, many years agn, wont down to New Orleans to seek his fortune, and when the war broke out he was caught there with his earnings, and could not get away He is not a rebel : he is a true Northern man, and has suffered for his loyalty. Butler can't keep this ( - Told, Justice is often slow, but she is always . Enke ! I think the newspapers not a proper tribunal in which to try a cause pending in court, but if the General in sists on that mode of trial, he shall be gratified. As Mr. Smith's counsel, I have pre pared this cause, and I have all the documents; they are in writing. Our people are, in the main, a just people, and they get a right view of things in the tong run—they admire smartness. and give full oredit to ability in public men , but they will want to know why Butler keeps that Gold ; why he does not pay it over to the Mint or Treasuay —why he took it all—why he has suf fered these lying telegrams, which were sent from Washington the other day when he was there to remain uncontra dieted. Gen. Butler shall have a fair trial before the court and a jury of his coimtry, and he shall have a fhir trial before the public if he courts it ; and if any more false telegrams come from Washington, stating "that this gold has been paid into the treasury ; that this is a copperhead attachment, and that the gold is the proceeds of robbery. The Times. we are happy to see, is priming articles and testhuouy as to the condition of our prisoners at Anderson ville. Too much cannot be said on this subject. We have frequently al luded to it, and Would have pressed its consideration upon the public more Fitrongly but for the eonviciion that our advocacy did more harm than good. The Itepub.ican press having established as a rule, that no doubt or deny any position of the administration was ev idence of disloyalty and attorneyship fin rebels, the interest we felt in the pris oners absolutely injured their condition; and as we could not lament their fate without pointing out that the exchange was stoped by an untenable position of our authorities, we perferred to be si lent. This misery is main* due to the fact that the administration has undertaken to compel the C. S. A. to admit that a slave taken by oar fbrces, and used by them as a soldier, shall not be restored to his original status when recaptured. We confess to the (perhaps) bad trill ion of consulting precedents bef-ire firming an opinion, and, as we found in the decisiom4 of the Sepreme Culla of the United States that an interest ac quired in war by possession is divested by the loss of possession," we could not regard the claim of our authorities as sustainal But the doctrine being accepted by our Republican neighbors, that after the United States had taken a position tiny could not without loss of dignity :Wan don it, we could see no - further use in discussion. We contented ourselves with expressing - the wish that, the con federate authorities would, in the inter est of humanity, yield the point of pride. There is a radical difference between us and the Republicans upon the man ner tit conducting this war, which those gentle Men, with their usual urbanity, St . ) le disloyalty. To our view, the army is merely the minister of the law, and function is to overefome opposition, not to propagate ideas. So the function of the administratiou is to establish the authority of the law, and nothing more. 8.134 SMITH The administration has chosen to at tack the institution of slavery as "a mil itary necessity." We think its action a military blunder. It was perfectly nat ural that it should do so f having been brought into power for the purpose of attacking slavery, which we thought and still think a political blunder. We now urge upon the Times and Tribluae that course which we urgea before an exchange of prisoners, man for man, re serving as hostrges a sufficient number to offset the slave s eldiers captured. It is not only bad thith to our soldiers, but had calculation, to do otherwise. Whether a foreigner's obligation to the service extends beyond the term for which he is enlisted, may be well doubted ; butbetween a prison at An dersonville, and service under Pir CLE-• grim, the ordinary mind will not be opt to hesitate very long. Dugald Dal getty would not have balanced on it a moment. In the name of common jus tice, common sense, and common hu manity, let all Democrats and Repub licans alike recognize no duty more sacred than the restoration of our gal lant soldiers to liberty and ther homes, Milledgeville Evacuated on the Approach of Sherman The State Archives Removed. FORTRESS MorinoE, November 27—. The steamer Herman Livingston, Captain Baker, arrived here last evening from Port Royal Harbor, with seven hundred and fifty released Union prisoners (since arrived at Annapolis.) The Livingston is the last steamer of the flag of. truce fleet, under Col. Mulford, that has arrived, and was detained at part Royal, in consequence of having been run ashore on an oyster bank, where She remained fast for several days, but tinaly got oft with very slight dam age. The Savannah News, of the 22d, in an editorial mentions that Miiledge 611c was evacnatA, and the archives, and all valuable government and per_ sonal property has been removed. The columns are filled with anathe mas against the invading force under Sherman, and with proclamations from generals of high rank and emi nent men, calling upon the citizens of Georgia to levy ea inasse, and to sacrifice all interests in one desper ate effort to crush and annihlatc Sherman in his so far unresisted ad vance. Grant Reported Moving on Richmond. NEW YORK, December I.—The city was filled with rumors last night that Grant's forces, in conjunction with the navy, were moving on Richmond; that the fleet had passed up the Dutch Gap Canal, and that an important movement was makin g in the Shenandoah Valley. Nothing has been received confirmatory of these reports this morning. Our Prisoners. New York Incendiaries at Work. Destructive Fire—Loss $lOO.OOO. NEw Yous - ., Nov 30.—A fire broke ' out this morning about 41 o'clock, which, it is said, was clearly the work of meet,- diaries, in the lumber yard of Ogden .t.; Co., in Hubert street. One third of the block was destroyed. Among the suf ferers were a number offiunilies who 00... espied the dwellings adjoining. Loft estimated at $lOO,OOO. Phosphorus was used, mid it is stated that the in tention was to destroy the Government warehouse adjoining, wherein immense quantities of army clothing are stored. SEcoND Disey•rcli.—Tim Mahogany lumber yard of Ogden Co., which' was almost totally destroyed by fire this' morning, below Ilubert and Beach, and extended through to West street, occu pying the above block, on Hubert be tween Washington and West street. The yard was filled with an immense stock ot mahogany and valuable timber, valued at $150,000. The fire was dis- - covered in the center of the yard, b? . Beget. Marren, who at once gave the alarm. 'li origin of the lire is still en veloped in mystery, although from an investl! , ation made, there is no doubt but that it was incendiary, and but an other act in the recent diabolical plot to lay the city in ashes. There are no lights used in the yard, which is strictly watched and-oguard6d, It is supposed that seine combustible material was thrown by the incendiary into the midst of the lumber. In the Nicinity of the lumber yard,- within half a block, is an immense gov- - eminent warehouse, one of the largest in the city, and it was conjectured that the object of the incendiary was to de stroy this, but no access could be gain , ed to it, there being an armed.. guard constantly on Ittty. By setting tire to the lumber yard, the whole block, including the ware= house, wasM2opardizetl, and it wa,t ap pn,aching iniruele that any portion Nv:t: saved. Strenuous efforts are being made to di scover the incendiary, lit no clue has keen obtained that may lead to his iden tification. GEN. SHERMAN'S MOVEMENT. The Pirate Florida Case. Lai" Yon K, November 30.—The Cum,h-rcia/ .-I , roTtisGr's Washington epees ial says that Pryor's report of the ear ture of Macon is nut believed, as Gen. Sherman has cut the connection at that pl ace, and the rebels at Richmond could have no infOrmation of the matter. Sherman probably avoifled Macon and Aut,usta s and is thought to be marching to the sea coast, The Rebels are doing all they can to inn a4le his progress. The E,,t's Washington special sayer that the Uichniond papers of Monday are silent respecting Shermaa's move-- ments, but they show the rebels to be in great trepidation. There is every ma* , on to believe that Sherman is making his Avtly triumphantly to the sea coast. Roger A. Pryor arrived here this morning, mid was taken to Fort Lafay ette. lie contradicted the report that he had said that Macon and Milledge ville had been captured, but said that Augusta probably had fallen. He says Sherman is the ablest officer in our army, and that the South has more to fear from his movements than those in progress elsewhere. As to the Southern refugees in this city he said they had acted disgraceftite I Y. A reTtionstrance has been received by the Chamber of Commerce, from the' merchants of Bahia, against paying the' 45500,000 reward for the capture of the Florida. From the Army of the James.—The Gunboats Supposed to be Engaged. WA SI lIN(TrON, November 30. —Then mail steamer from City Point report that heavy artillery and musket firing was heard early on yesterday morning on the north side of the James River, in the vicinity of Dutch Gap. The gun boats were also supposed to be at work. Firinc , had - nearly ceased at 11 o'clock. No particulars have been received. NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—The Herald', army of the Potomac correspondent says : More firing than usual was in dulged 'in on the 27th. In the evening the rebels fired from the advanced point of their new line just beyond the famous Bermuda Hundred tower. Our gun boat;-; replied and the affair was termin ated On the morning of the 28th fir ing was quite brisk, the musketry par ticipating, but no battle ensued. Rebel deserters report that Gen. Ewell's corps has gone South. Throughout all the 27th the rebel fir ing on Dutch Gap canal was uncommon ly heavy and penstent, but no damage was don& and for au hour iu the after.. noon they delivered a severe fire upon Fort Brady. No damage was done there. Gen. Butler has issued an order that Major D. B. White, of the 81st New York vohinte rs, cannot have the place of sutler in his army. lie says field of leaving the service voluntarily cannot take the place of boot blacks here. If have no more respect for the service they have left, they will find th e officers have. White was sent out o f th e department. Although in some instances the turkeys, ctsc., did not reach the soldiers in time for dinner on Thursday, they did the next day and the soldiers ate them with full as much relisleand thankfulness. Capt. Hall's Arctic expedition has, been heard from. In August Capt. Hall was at Rowe's Welomne, bores up. The vessels from :Hudson Bay are, all in fix- this year. No further tidings is expected until September. The Mon ticello will water at Two Brothers Bay , north of the Chesterfield Inlet, and the schooner at Marble Island. To-day the attachment against Gen,. Butler was up before Judge Cordckgo, on motion to transfer the case from the State to the Federal Court. but the motion was opposed by Judge Pierrint for the New Orleans plaintiffs.
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