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WEDNESDAY, JAN. 18, 1365.
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:
Friends, losc no time in SMITING
UP.
,I3sitler Dismissed the Service! Hum-
bug at a Discount !
Butler has not been without usefulness to
the administration in, advancing its political,
fortunes, while he his not been unmindful of!
own pecuniary interests. The President
= is believed to have been faithful to Butler to
the last, and it was right that he should, for
no public man, of Butler's capacity, has been
, more shamelessly subservient in his new
•• party attachments than he. Before the war
commenced he was among the most extreme
of our Northern politicians in his fawning
:subserviency to the South. Elected to the
Charleston convention as a Douglas Dale
' gate, he disregarded his instructions and sup
ported Breckenridge with all his power, as
• he did in the canvass which preceded the
• ?residential election of 1860. After Mr.
'Lincoln's accession to power, no one was
* more ready to
"Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee,
That preferment might follow fall tung, '
than was Butler to the new administration.,
- whkh he previously so fiercely denounced.
No one was more prompt to throw off the
principles which he had professed through
his previous life, and step in advance, even,
of many of his new party associates, in the
race of abolitionism. Ile became the espe
cial pet of the most extreme of the Negro
struck supporters of the administration. His
smart practices, and a style of writing sharp
letters, made him 3 huge favorite with the
howling Dervishes of Abolition. He was
speedily clothed with almost unlimited pow
• er in the distant "province" (as the aboli
tionists were wont to call its of Louisiana.—
The rich city of New Orleans, conquered by
the indomitable Farragut, was placed under
his control, and he governed it as a needy
T. . adventurer would, who was almost without
responsibility for a time, to the home gov
• ernment. But complaint soon began to
reach the government, of his extortions, and
after his plundering proponsities were
beyond doubt to the government through
the report - of Recenly Johnson, lie was re
, celled; but to the surprise and indignation
ofevery true friend of the government, he
was shortly afterwards appointed to a res
ponsible military command in the army of
• the Potomac. From thence he got himself
placed in command of the land force of the
Wilmington expedition, upon which so much ..
expense and preparation had been made.—
_ ..
He had scarcely reached the place of debar
cation for his troops near Wilmington, when
he exibited either his incompetency, or his
. cowardice, and suddenly returned to the
'• army of the Potomac, with the en . ecrations
of the sturdy old Comodore Porter, and the
Naval part of the expedition. how lie ever
• came to be trusted with the command of so
important an expedition will ever remain a
prOblem. The lives of our soldiers should be
held in higher esteem by the government,
than to be entrusted to such incompetents.—
It is believed that he is indebted to one of
those spasmodic ebulitions of right, in which
Secretary Stanton, occasionally indulges, for
his dismissal from the army, and his return
to the peaceful shades of Lowel. Rimor
has it that Gen Grant cordially concurred
in this banishment from the army of a Gene
eral whose military taleuts ht held in very
light esteem. Stime of the President's friends
make this excuse for his appointment to the
izead of the Wilmington expedition: that it
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was confi dently expected that the Navy
would be. amply able, of itself to capture
Wiltaingtoccand that cutler_ was sent along
with the expedition mainly to act as Mi11.40-4siry
.40-4siry Goverwerof the eity, after its capture.
.. 41 "111* Stud en fair orilittiet must be' painful
to the pride of one of, .atrogant nature,
and domineering dispOsitioq , hut,that it is
for the advantage of the service, no one
""` .•e••-ior.--y••-•-
whose opinion is worth a copper, will gain-
Mr. Stenten could find no more ready
mode of regaining the esteem of the country,
which his many arbitrary acts have nearly
lost him, than by weeding out from among
our military commanders, along with B.atle r,
such Generals as Bankx, Wallace,
Schenck, and a host of others that could be
named, whc have disgraced the country and
frequently sacrificed the precious lives of our
soldiers; and who have no other claims th
the responsible offices they hold, than their
skill in political intrigue and their proficien
cy in the low acts of the scirvey politician.
The Peace Rumors--The Mission of
the Blairs to Richmond.
There seems to be no doubt that, what
was rumor a week or ten days 'tgo, as to
the Blairs,—father and son,—going to
Richmond, on a mission intended to open
the way for negotiators for peace, is now
redneed to a certainty. That they have
gone to Bichmond—all the organs of public
opinion, in New York and Washington both
Democratic and Republican, agree—and
most of them, express no doubt that their
movement ,„--.. f a-n7ful f _connected with a
for settling nur difficulties. Greeley who
l• figured in the famous Niagara project of
last fall, is warmly engaged in forwarding
this movement. It is said that lion. G. W.
Singleton, a distinguished Democrat et Illi
nois, has lately asked and received permission
to pass through the military lines to Rich
mond, with the same object in view, as i s
supposed. Rumor also has it, that within a
tew days, Ex-Senator Rives of Va. Ex-
Governor Orr, of South Carolina. and Vice
, President Stephens, of Georgia, are on
their way to Gen. Grant's camp, in connex
ion with this desirable movement We trust
these latter rumors may prove true, and
that they may result in bringing the sensi
ble men of both sections of our unhappy
country together anal that through their
means the vi ay may he opened to a return
to our old recce, Unlon ancl prosperity !
We believe that - a settlement of our diffi
culties is practicable, upon the basis of a
restored Union, if the handling of this mat
ter can only be got out of the hands of the
political fanatics, who have controlle El both
sections of the Union for the last four years.
If Mr. Lincoln could consent to cut him
self loose from his rampant abolition asso
ciations now that his re-election is attain
ed through their aid, and act for the People,
all would be well. There is no mistaking
the fact that the People long for the old
Union, satisfied with the old Constitution as
our•fathers made it. We think a proper
regard for his own position in the future his
tory of the country, should impel the Pres
ident to desire to distinguish his adminis
tration by a settlement of the terrible civil
war which is now upon us: To "attempt,"
in the eloquent language of Mr. Cox, of
Ohio, in Congress a few days ago, "to at
tempt by Christian and rational methods to
staunch the bleeding wounds of the body
politic, to save the further shedding of blood,
to stop the increase of taxation, the accumu
lation of debt, the destruction of values, and
the everlasting iteration of penal laws on
our federal statute, and to stay, if possible,
the maiming and killing of men, and the
tears of widows and orphans, the desolation
by fire and sword of our land, and to save
the Union, before it is too late forever,
while it may be worth the sacrifice made
for its salvation."
These efforts at negotiations for peace,
however they may terminate, will serve, we
think, to convince the masses of the people,
both North and South, that nothing but the
ambition and lust of power of their leaders,
stand in the way of peace ; this fact, we
think, will be of incalculable importance to
the Union cause, in the South.
Butler's Dutch Gap Canal.
We find in our exchanges tbe following
description of this famous project of Butler's
which has occupied so large a portion of his
time and that of his troops, since lie has been
on the James River. This canal was in
tended to cut off a large bend of some seven
miles in the river, and thus shorten the
distance, and tender easier the navigation
to Richmond. The river after traversing
this distance, returns to within two hundred
yards of the staring point, and is separated
by a neck of land. The canal was attemp
ted to be cut across this neck of laud, and
is about 560 feet in- length, 110 feet wide,
and aboat 75 feet in depth. A bank or bulk
head was only :WI to prevent the entry of
the water:tit! Ilte work ris completed in
the other parts. This bulk heal was blown
oat, or attempted to be, a few flays ago by
a charge of six togs of powder! When the
rubbish is removed the practicability, or oth
erwise, of Butler's engineering Will be tested.
Our Present Peril.
"Let him that thinketh he standeth take
heed lest he fall." The moment of our surest
seeming national triumph is precisely the mo
ment which calls upon us for the calmest
and wiriest watchfulness in out survey of
the whole field of perils through which we
are moving. Dangers which one, two, or
three years ago we enormously exaggerated,
we are perhaps quite as likely now fatally
to underrate ; and if we do so underrate
them, we shall certainly be without excuse.
From all points of the great circle of our
military operations against the rebellion ti
dings of triumphant progresstow come up to
us. It is unmistakably plain, not only that
our armies are pressing the armies of the
confederates hard along all their lines of
defense, scattering them in Georgia, repell
ing them in Tennessee, paralyzing them in
Virginia, but also that our continuous vic
tories in the field have begun to bear heavily
upon the moral force of the rebellion. Such
symptoms of incipient despair and disiute
.gration crop out all over the South as war
rant the belief that a very moderate meas
ure of statesmanship in the administration
of our national policy at Washington would
.sonn result in the building up of a powerful
party of concession and surrender in the
heart of seceded states.
The aspect of affairs, in short, is such
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that to Democrat can contemplae it with-
out a feeling of thankfulness that, in the
late c-itical season of electicn vouchsafed to
this people, he should have given his voice
and his vote to the representatives of a pol
icy for which all things at the South now
stand visibly provided and prepared—a poli
cy the adoption of which at the polls in No
vember, it is not too much to say, all men
may now see must assuredly have restored
peace and order to the distracted land, on:
1 der one united and constitutional govern
ment, before the recurrence of another an
niversary of the nation's birth. That policy
I was not adopted by the people in November.
It will not be inaugurated by tho govern
ment of Mr. Lincoln.
What is the alternative ?
A most significant article in the London
Times makes the alternative so plain, as it
seems to us, that he is nn true friend to his
country who winks it now out of sight.
For now many months, while the strug fl
-
gling between the loyal and seceded states
seemed to waver to and fro with doubtful
fortune, and the scales of victory inclined
decisively neither to the ono side nor to the
other, we have heard but one persistent
voice from the leading organs of European,
voice eas'oPeie'stii;y 1 4 ..IlSliicv ; That the
diplomatic echo of Carlyle's brier and brutal
"Iliad." Europe and England have declar
e l by it their determination to let the smok
e ingtrauslantic chimney •'barn itself out."
It is childish to quarrel with the brutality
of this policy. To see the American Union
condemned to a weary internecine conflict,
by which, for long years to come, its ener
gies might be absorbed, was manifestly the
interest alike of Eigland. and of France.—
Our importance to those nations as custom
ers for their gods, and as growers of great
staples consumed by thorny wr.s vastly inure
serious four years ago than it t. to-day.
But it did not then move them to exert at , v
influence in favor of American mlity-
the contrary, they went just as far as the
moral sentiment of their people, firmly set
against the Institatlon of slavery, would al
low them to go, in recognition of the "Con
federate States."
To-day the balance of Eiroperat com
merce, disturbe 1 for a time by the shock
of our civil cmnmotions, has red, ',lusted it
self to the new order of things. England
and France, notwithstanding the withdra , A 1
of American cotton fr,nn their man ufactures
and the diminution of their intercourse w ith
America, are richer and more powerful in
1864 than they werr in 1860. Tho com
merce of both countries has increased with
extraordinary rapidity; new markets have
opened to them ; new staples employ their
capital and reward their enterprise.
All the political reasons by 1\ hick far
iighted England and French statesmen, all
fine phrases apart, were intlaenced Mar years
ago to look with resignation, if not with
complacency, upon the spectacle of civil
strife in America, rue tenfold stronger now
than they then were. If they then look
ed upon the disruption of the Union with in
difference only, they have row very clear
and peremptory motives for looking upon the
reconstruction of the Union with concern
and
When, therefore, we find the London
Times, which substantially utters the &cis
ive voice of British (pinion, and habitually
prefigures the course of British policy, advo
cating to-day the "opening of negotiations
in America," and saying th.it "since it must
co:no to that at last, the sooner it does come
the better it trill be for America and the
world at large, - we should be simpletons to
forget that the same Times two years ago
frowned upon the propositions of France
looking to precisely this end, and worse
than simpletons to imagine that the leading
British journal is talking at random, speak
ing out of the abundance of its tenderness
for the "confederates," for whom it cares
be more than it cares for ourselves, or do
ing, anything., in short, but precisely the
thing which it is cluing—forecasting, name
ly, the imminence ot a joint and deiiberato
interference of the two great western powers
of Europe in the "American question,"—
That interference will be veiled, of tour-e,
in the most politic forms. It will assume
the color of a profound consideration for
the welfare ot the whole American people.
But its object will be, and its effect, unless
it is wisely and ably met, will be, to redress
the balance between the sinking rebellion
and the triumphant national arms ; to pro
long the conflict and to prevent alike the
conquest and the conciliation of the South.
Were another national administration than
that of Mr. Lincoln charged with the duty
of the meeting and conquering this new
danger, the long-expected coming of which
we hold to be now close at hand, the na
tion, forewarned, might, we well believe,
hold itself - fully forearmed also against it.
But if the temper of the past is to sway the
present and future of our policy toward the
broken-and reeling rebellion, it is our hon
est conviction that the cause of the Ameri
can people is fast drifting to-day into perils
more serious than any win cu it has yet en
countered.— World.
The citizens of Alleppo tp., Greene co.,
Pa., convened pursuant to public notice at
Murray's School House, to choose a com
mittee to appear before the Board of Enroll
ment, at Waynesburg, Jan. 12th, 1865.
The meeting organized by calling Adam
Wise to the chair, Perry Moore, Sbcretary.—
On motion the chair appointed the follow
ing men as a committee. J. A. McVay,
Monroe White and J. T. Elbiu, which watt
unanimously agreed to. The meeting then
adjourned. PERRY MOORE, Sec.
The committee appointed to ascertain the,
number of men in the service reported, one
hundred and twenty-two.
The plan is now generally adopted,
in Grant's army, when burying the
dead, to place in the grave With the
body a sealed bottle, containing paper
on which is written the name and other
pa► ticulars respecting this deceased.
For the Messenger
January 9th, 1865
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ACCOUNT OF GRIERSON'S RAID.
Strength of the Expedition.
Sr. Louts, Jan. 10.—The Vicksburg
erald of the sth has a full account of
Grierson's recent raid in "Mississippi.
The expedition left Memphis on the 21st
alt. almost three thoustand strong, con
sisting of the Second New Jersey,
Fourth Missouri, Seventh Indiana Cav
alry, First Massachusetts Mounted Ri
fles, Third and Fourth lowa, Tenth
Alisssuri, Second Wisconsin, Fourth and
Eleventh Illinois, and the Third U. S.
Colored Regiment. At Egypt, on the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad a considera
ble force of the enemy was encountered,
when a sharp fight ensued, in which
quite a number of the enemy were kill
ed and wounded and five hundred pris
oners taken. The rebel Brigadier Gen
t eral IlAcomb, commanding, is among
the killed. From Egypt the command
I struck westward, crossing the Mlssis
sippi Railroad below Grenada, detroy
ing thirty miles of the road, several lo
comotives, fifty cars and several exten
sive c' oth and shoe factories at Banks
'', ,• •,u pr o: , d: • c
horses and mules, ana a nunitiel n a
u. L ew
trabands.
Among a number of prisoners re
cently captured are one Colonel, one
Lieutenant Colonel, twenty-five line
officers, and a number of our men who
to escape the horrible treatment of our
prisoners at Andersonville, had joined
the rebel army.
On the night of Dec. 2Gth Ensign
Blume's steamer Virginia cut out from
Galveston the schooner Dollie, from
Nassau, with 121) bales of cotton. The
schooner, when captured, was within
500 yards of the rebel guard ship close
in the shore and protected by shore bat
teries. She also passed directly under
the guns of tw!) forts on ker way out.
Fo: t Smith. Arkansas. advices of the
27th ult. confirm the reported evacua
tion of that post and Van Buren, and
the probable participations of their gar
risons in some movement south, leaving
that part of the country, and it was
feared that Fort Smith and Van Buren
would be destroyed.
Lieut. \VilcDx, of the Chickasaw bat
talion, had an Interview with General
Thayer, on the 26th, under-flag of truce.
It is reported that the object of the visit
was to negotiate the terms of surrender
of his battalion to the Onion forces.
The rerun:l,A of Price's army is at
Boggy Depot, on the Red river. De
serters are very numerous, and the
whole country is tilled with stragglers.
FROM CAIRO AND BELOW.
Burning or the Gunboat Rather
Fighting In tht. , , Vicinity of Mo-
bile.
CMIZO, January 10.—The steamer
Magenta, from New Orleans, brings the
announcement of the arrival of the
steamship Morning Star. with Guneral
T. W. Sherman and staff.
The gunboat Rattler drifted a-iltore,
in the late storm, between Vicksburg
and Natchez. She was tired by a gang
of gurrillas and burned to tho waters'
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A letter from Mobile, to a eitiz..na in
New Orleans says: Fighting was going
on in that vicinity on the 31st ult.
The Rebels were burning cotton a short
distance from Natchez on the 29th ult.
The New Orleans cotton market is
completely unsettled by the news from
N. Y. Middling offered at $1 12
Sugar quiet at 21i for fully fair. Mo
lasses $1 20.
The rebels are sail to have burned the
Court House during their occupation of
Owensboro, Kentucky,
Ovrland ➢Hail Robbed by In-
Ji-LEsnunG, Colorado, Jan. 9.--On
Saturday morning a party of sixty In
dians attacked the Overland Mail express
coach, three miles east of here, and rob
bed the mail express. They attacked
a mule train close by, killing one man
and wounding another. Tile troops at
the military post here, numbering from
fifty to eighty men, having started to
the relief of the
_settlers in the vicinity
and drove the Indians to the bluffs, a
mile back, where the Indians were rein
forced to the number of one thousand
five hundred, and in turn drove the
troops back to tke post. The Indians
then entered the stage station in large
numbers and alter destroying all the
furniture and breaking all the windows
in the buildings, set them on fire. They
destroyed large amounts of telegraph
Material. A well directed fire of mus
ketry, from the troops, at the post, soon
drove them from the station. In arn -
ning fight, in the retreat of our troops,
thirty-five Indians were killed, inclu
ding the principal chief: Nineteen sol
-thers and citizens were killed A gen
eral massacre and destruction of the
whites was only prevented by the per
severance and bravery of our troops, and
an efficient artillery fire. The Indians
retired in a southerly direction. This is,
by far, the most determined incursion
made by the Indians.
Tun DaArr.—The New York papers
of yesterday state that an important
order has been issued by Provost Mar
shal General Fry, announcing that un
der the recent call fiw 300,000 fflocps,
issued on the 19th of last month, the
number specified must actually be
placed in the field, No credits are
therefore allowed fur any recruits under
this call who were in the United States
service at the time above mentioned lk; a
thorough revision of the quotas of the
various districts must now take place.
BRIDGE OVER TILE 011I0.—It is stated
that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company will commence the building
of their bridge across the Ohio river at
Beilair early in the spring. It is esti
mated that it will require twenty-five
hundred men for three years and a half
to complete the job. The bridge, it is
stated, will pass over the town, and
land on the hill in the rear of the city.
The streets are to be arched with heavy
cut masonary.
FROM SAVANNAH.:
Perfect Order Maintained in the
City.
WAsnisGTON, Jan. 12.—The Rich
mond Wing of the 10th has the fol
lowing items from Savannah: The
Au
gustaChroiriele and Sentinel, of the 14th
inst., publishes a number of news items.
derived from a gentleman who left
Savannah on the Ist inst. The most
perfect order is maintained in the city.
No soldier is allowed to interfere with
the citizens in any particular. A cit
izen was arrested by a drunken soldier a
few days since. The citizen knocked
the soldier down. The officer of the
guard, as soon as ho arrived, said noth
ing to the citizen, but had the soldier
taken to the barracks, gagged and sound
ly whipped him for Lis misbehavior.
A drunken soldier, who undertook to
create a disturbance recently, and who
refused to allow himself to be arrested,
was shot
- down at once by the guard.
One or two of the Insurance Cone
panics of Savannah are considering the
project of establishing a-National Bank
for the issue of greenbacks. The Cus
tom House and Post Office are bting
cleaned and repaired, preparatory to the
commencement of business again. Sol
„,iors are not allowed, under any circum
stances NV flat-v.. f.” •
resi
dences.
The ne2;roes, in most cases, are order
ly and. quiet, remainia4 with their own
ers, and performing their customary
duties.
One store, with goods from the North,
has already been opened. Nothing but .
greenbacks were in circulation.
The churches on Sundays are well
filled with ladies. On week days, how
ever, but few of them are seen on the
streets. A majority of the population
have remained in the city. The fami
lies of most of the men who have left still
remain
A majority of the citizens have pro
visions enough to last for some time to
come, but there is a scarcity of wood,
and General Sherman has announced
that he will soon remedy this last diffi
culty by g , .tting wood by the Gulf
Railroad and hauling it to the citizens.
No pass is allowed to any person t ) go
towards the city. All females caught
going towards the city are thoroughly
searched. Eleven hundred loaves of
good baker's bread, which had been
collected for the soldier s of Sherman's
army, but for which authorized agents
did not call, were on Thursday, turned
over to tile Poor Association of Sayan
mill by the committee acting on behalf
of the soldiers' dinner, and were distrib
ted to the poor of the city. It was
truly a kind ani providential gift, fin•
the city is entirely Out of breadstittls of
every kind, and tin' a few days past
have been unab'e to issue a pomul of
meal or flour to the hundreds who were
sorely in need of it.
. HIGHLY INTERESTING,
The Nett' York Press on Peace
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NEW YORE, Jail. 12
It is announced that Gyn. McClellan leaves
for his European tour on the first of Febru
ary. He has declined the offer of a private
vessel, tendere, 1 by his friends. lie leaves
in the steamer China, and will be gone for
two veers.
Nearly all the papers to-day contain edito
rials on the peace rumors.
The World says Mr. Lincoln Las no au
thority under the Constitution, to offer am
nesty by the abolition of slavery, and Jeff.
Davis could not, under the Confederate
Constitution, accept such an offer. Indi
vidual States alone Lave jurisdiction in the
matter.
The Times does not look for any good re
sult from the movement, and thinks the
whisperings of peace only indicate a brief
The Pose thinks the Rebel Commissioners
are on their way to Washington, as reported,
and says they will accomplish nothing. It
thinks such a movement would lie nothing
less than a studied insult to the Rnited
ates Government. If the Government
should receive them it would equplly insult
the authorities of the border States.
The Post Calms to have information that
Governor Brown, of Georgia, is favorably die
posed, and would probably, receive the agents
from the 'United States.
The Hea rid thinks the conduct of Missouri,
in passing the emancipation act, will soon be
imitated by Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee,
and Delaware.
The World says the passage of the ordi
nance was a wise step, resulting ti.oni a clear
sighted perception of a tendency of events,
and thinks if the war were to end to-morow,
and the States to retain jurisdiction over the
subject, all would follow the example of Mis
souri and Maryland.
The Tribune is briefly exultant., but makes
no comment
The Post points on t the advantages posses
sed by laborers and manufacturers under the
new system.
The Richmond Diva te7/ says the new poli
cy of Gen. Sherman is all mildness and con
ciliation, in order to justify harsh "measures
hereafter. It thinks some design is concealed
in the apparent mildness. It says Sherman
formerly declared that the rebels had no rights
whatever, and refers to his response to the ap
peal of the people of Vicksburg, and to his
orders at Atlanta, and thinks his present con
duct is designed to deceive the people of Geor
gia. It abuses the Mayor of ,Savanah and the
people who attended the meeting when the
resolutions were passed. The Georgians are
praised as highly patriotic and the utmost
confidence is expressed that none of them,
except the Mayor and seventeen citizens of
Savannah, would prove disloyal to the South.
A Mobile dispatch of the 7th, says: The
Fort Gaines prisoners have been exchanged
and are now in Mobile.
The Richmond Whip learns from the Lynch
burg Republican that a large number of hands
have been employed on the Tennessee Rail
road, to repair the damages caused by Stone
man's raid. The work will be pushed for
ward with energy, and it is hoped the repairs
will be completed within six weeks or two
months.
F. P. BLAIR GONE TO RICHMOND
Jeff Dolls supposed to be More
Liberal, Sz.ci,
NEW Yornt, January 11
The World's special Washington of
the 11th asserts that Francis P. Blair
has gone to the rebel capital with tall
knowledge and consent of President
Lincoln, and is clothed with all the au
thority requisite for opening negotia
tions with Jeff Davis, with 3 View to
restore peace his instructions as to
terms to be offered are embraced with
in these three propositions, each of
which are final: First, Amnesty to all;
Second, The Constitution as it is and
the Union as it was; Third, the total
abolition of slavery within a reasonable
length of time; and another special, of
the same date, to the Wer/(1. gives the
following rumors, that advices direct
from Richmond represent that deff Da
vis is at this time strongly inclined to
peace measures and wdling to accept
much more liberal terms than first sups
posed lie cvoudd. This demand is most
auspicious for the result of the Blair
mission. Mr Lincoln, on the other
Land, is disposed to be as lenient as
posible, but insists that whatever terms
are agreed upon privately, the first ac
tion on the part of the South must be to
lay down their arms and acknowledge
~,, ,, m acv of the Union. It is re
ported that Blair is autnorized to tender
to Alexander IL Stephens free conduct
to Washington to consult with the au
thorities there upon the terms of peace.
The report is current to-night that
Ex-Governor Rives, of Virginia, and
Ex-Governor Orr, of South Carolina,
are on the way to Washington, as rep
resentatives of the so-called Southern
Confederacy, to confer with the Fede
ral authorities upon terms of Peace and
re-union
WAsuiscaos, Jan. 12
The stories industriously set afloat
within the past three or fliur days, that
an additional tax of fifty cents or of a
dollar would be put on whiskey, are in
ventions of the speculators, fostered and
encouraged, perhaps, by speculative
Congressmen. The Ways and Means
committee regarded the late action on
whiskey, fixing the tax at two dollars.
as a finality, and although efforts to the
contrary may be made, the House will
confirm their judgement.
The builders of the double ender iron
clads are beseiging Congress for relief.
There are already petitions from five of
them before the House Naval Commit
tee, and more arc expected.
General Hoffman, Commissary Gm
end of prisoners, returned from General
Thomas' army to-day. He states that
the number of rebel prisoners captured
in the several engagements near
will aniolint to over ten thousand
Ile estim•ltes Hood's total loss at over
twenty-three thousand nien. Large
numbers of the captives have expressed
a desire to take the oath of allegiance.
Mr. Powell, of _Kentucky, introduced
a bill in the Senate to-day authorizing
the Louisville and Nashville. and the
Jeffersonville and Indianapolis Railroad
Companies, both of which are stockhol
ders in the Louisville Bridge Companv,
to construct a railroad bridge over the
Ohio at tile head of the tails. Said
bridge to be not less than fifty-six feet
above low water mark, and to be pro
vided with three draws, sufficient to
pass the largest boats navigating the
Ohio. The bill also authorizes the
erection of bridges over the Indiana and
the middle chutes, and one over the
canal, all to be recognized as post routes.
FunTnEss MoNnon, Jan. 5
The steamer California arrived here this
afternoon from Hilton Heao, South Carolina,
with Colonel Ewing on board, bearer of im
portant dispatches from General Sherman.
General Sherman's army, since the capture
of Savannah, had been quietly resting upon
their laurels, and no aggressive movement
bad as yet been undertaken. General Kil
tatrick, with his cavalry, was constantly on
the scout, keeping a wakeful eye over Har
dee's forces. The army was rapidly recov
ering from the effects of its long and fatig-
Mug march through Georgia, and was being
reorganized and re equipped, prenaratory,
it is said, to the commencement of a cam
paign which would be as memorable as the
last great exploit.
Miscellaneous News
The following interesting miscellaneous
items are taken from the files of the Rich
mond papers of January 4. In speaking of
the Yankee expansion the Enquirer has an
editorial in which the following occurs :
Napoleon might be startled with another
phenomenon upon peace between the North
and the South. Tt might not be impossible
that a portion of the troops now engaged in
deadly conflict might unite under the same
banner and march upon the invasion of Mex
ico. We forbear to extend this suggestion,
but it is borne out by the history of almost
all nations who have fought with each other.
The people continue hostile ; soldiers will
fraternize in a common enterprise.
Governor Vance, of North Carolina, con
cluded his inaugural address on Thursday
as tonows :
There is one great danger against, which I
earnestly pray our people to be warned—
disunion, distraction, division of sentiment
and aim leading to civil feuds, domestic vi
olence and political death. If crushed by
overwhelming numbers on the field of bat
tle, we are guiltless of unavoidable result ;
but we can surely avoid, if we will, internal
violence and E elf-destruction. There is no
greater enemy of his race than he who
would foment our passions to this 'end. Let
all of our movements, whether of peace or
war be in solid column standing in line of
battle facing one way and together. Then
victory is not only doubly assured, but
thrice glorious, and defeat will be robbed of
half its calamities.
CHICAGO, Jan. 13. will see that nothing can come from these.
The bill against the Chicago and North improper as:. - aults upon. the feeling? and
western Railway Company, to test the legal- rights of others. Rest entire& dila men
ity of the rates of consolidation of the Ga- ,fo tind b •in usy this work of discord me nn - .
I
lena and Chicago Union Company, was filed
worthy of your confidence ataldetOttl Teo;
in the United States court to-day, and the
process is in the bands of the United States stroagest reprobation."
marshal. i Hurrah for Jackson
Narrow Esoape of Wilnititgton—What
would have Happened had Fort
Fisher Fallen.
(Wilmington Correv9rlent of the Richmond
Despatch, Jan. 4 j
The enemy at one time were between
Wilmington and Fort Fisher, and had
cut off communication by land and wa
ter. If he had not been dislodged soon, Fort
Fisher trona hare fallen as _Fort Morgan
did, and w;th its fall, the port of Wilmmg.
ton would hare been sealed. Once firmly
established on the narrow point of sand
upon the outer end of which Fort Fish
er stands, the closing of the river above
would have only been a matter of time,
and then away would go Fort Caswell,
and all the works which defended the
harbor. There has been a gross neglect
of duty between here and Richmond.
There is nothing, in the way of news
now. Affairs have assumed their won
ted aspect at this seaport.
Removal of Major Gen. Butler.
NEw Your:, Jan. 10.—The 'fernier's
'Washington special says: Major Gen.
Butler has been removed by the Presi
dent from the position of commander of
the Army of the James and the Depart
ment of Virginia and North Carolina,
and ordered to report at Lowell, Mass.
The official document in the case di-,
reeled him to turn over his command
to the person named by Lieut. General
GvfnA as his temporary successor.—
General Ord, late!y in charge of the
corps, has succeeded temporarily to thu
important position.
Proposed Recognition of the South by
England.
[From the Liverpool Courier, Dec. 30.].
lc the Federals are driven from Georgia
and Tennessee —of which there is considera
ble likelihood, from present appearances—
the public will not be surprised to hear that
the cabinet have determined to recognize
the indepemlence of the South.
At any rate, we have reason to believe,
that the schieet will he earnestly discussed.
between Lord Lyons and Lord Palmerston,
and as both have southern tendencies, the
upshot will most p:•obably be the recognition
of the confedcracy in the coarse of the ease.-
ing - spring.
Rebel Blockade-Ruiners.
lIALIEux, N. S., January 13
The blockade-runner Chameleon ' late
the Tallahassee, is under arrest at Ber
muda.
The blockade-runner Colonel Lamb
is at Nassau, undergoing repairs.
The following bl , cl;ade-runners
. aro
at Bermuda : the Owl, Stag, Charlotte,
Maria Campbell, Whisper, Susan, Berne
and Dieppe.
Of seventy-one blockade-runners vis
iting Bermuda during the past year
forty-three have been lost.,
Attack on Beverly, West Virginia—
Retreat of the Rebels.
AV 11F:EIANo, West Va., Jan. 13
We learn that the garrison at Bever
ly, West Virginia, were attacked on the
morning. of tlie 11th instant, by a force
of the enemy under General lesser.—
The town and a large portion of the
fiirce defending it were captured. The
numbers of the enemy are not stated.
A later dispatch confirms the above ; but
states that the enemy has again retreat
ed whence tiny came.
Hood Fortifying at Corinth.
The remnant of Hood's army is reported to
he fortifying Corinth, with a view of going
into winter quarters at that place. Thai are
a'e , ) said to be repairing the Mobile and
Ohio I tailroad
Sound Moral, Religious, and Political
Doctrine.
The subjoined is from the Pittsburgh
Presbyterian Banner:
"And in regard to us, as citizen of a free
State, and of the United States, there is a
vAkt ditferenee between Temperance and
Auti-slavery. Temperance, or the means of
intemperance, is within the sphere of our
sociai power. The people of Pennsylvania,
fn• instance, have the matter wholly within
their own hands, to the extent of the State
boundaries. They can choose legislators,
send up petitions, enact laws, enforce laws.
So they have treated slavery to their utter
extermination. And so, if they pleased,
they might treat intemperance. And so to
treat one and the othetc - wa,s, and would be,
Christian and Constitutional.
"But neither Christianity nor the Con
stitution gives us the right thus to treat
either intemperance or slavery in other
States. We have nothing to 'do with their
legislators, laws or institutions. Neither
has Congress any right in the premises.—
We may elect our Congressmen, but we can
not instruct them, beyond their power to
act; nor ought we to send up petitions ask
ing them to do what they have no authority
to do."
8&.-The following is from the farewell
Address of Andrew Jackson
'But each State has the unquestionable
right to regulate its own internal concerns
according to its own pleasure; and while it
does not interfere with the rights of the peo
ple of other States, or the rights of the
Union, every State must be the sole judge of
that measure proper to secure the safety of
its citizens and promote their happiness; 131 0,
all efforts on the part of the people e . 4 .4. t o erc
States to cast odium upon their ' inst a iatio4B,.
and all measures calculate'? to .14%6 their,
rights of property, or ',,nt in *mill their
peace and, internal, tranctuilit,y, am. in, direct,
opposition to tho spirit ha,vshich. the Union,
was formed and mash endanger its Wet'',
Motives of philaatbrcpy may be Resigned
for this unwarrantable interference, and wesk
men may persuade themselves for a moment
that they am inboring in the cause et hu
manity sad asserting the rights of the human,
race,. but every one, upon sober reflectiont
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