k;; ~'~~ ilryi[,scnocr no other reason - , out of respect to the "One Country, One Constitution, One memory of those who have died tbr the Destiny." country—out of sympathy for those who still weep and mourn, and out of decent regard for the Christian sentiments of the truest patriots in all the land, there will be no Presidential inauguration 'ball this year." -•- c .1 /": 7 ;:k1 ::. - 7*. , :$ ---1 I V 4 •i- -441AA1 ' ...„---• - • 10 5.... ..., ,: - . • 1 p ..p' ••g• . oass". f•: .- , • ~. . . 4 ',..,' ~,, -,..-:: :4. , e',. •••-' --•,_ i ir e . - k-,- -• .: =- , ~.. .„.•-• -, -,,e . "z ... , - :,• -,•.- : ,':.:,-,--."---, 2i ~ I ask. • ,, CA .. ,, .„,.. •.. • ~-.A.._,,,.--7,-.A-...... . ....._, - ~ A - , 4 . I.', •Sat, ..;. .• .-: t. A 'i2^‘ ... --,,,,,A,' .." -';',-''' ' • ''''s, . l- A . • • ~:X.f ' ,c,..ia..!5.',„ \ ‘,..4-:' .--•.,;:''t ._,___,..' •: 1. ‘ ;;;•• - ,e - j i ',) '?') , ..V.,.. ' (t 11)'•V.,,.;i',-;4',• ‘..- - K.: •i; .:(4 ';&'•••••'-‘4;•.'•,-'.‘ --.-.'-';' t . . I '. . ~l'f' 'e'7llZ- 'V.-W... ' . -.. ,- ',. .- t - s g ; 417 •••- - •5 ; - ` - ; , X4.:..)' 4 :i-•', -- $0„; '''. -- .--1' gil''' , #,,:•. ,- # .,- -e‹ , i,-- ifiCiil ~~►`~~►~~'~~J~G, '~~~z WEDNESDAY, MARCR 8, 1865. 'DEMOCRATIC MEETING. ITherti 414 will be a Democratic Meeting at the %out House, on TUESDAY _ evening,othe 21st day of March next, as , business of importance are to be attend -ad to. The anna3raey a invited to :turn out in their strength. The battle for the Constitution and the Union, yet demands the active ef forts of every Democrat, as wt , ll as the just protection of personal liberty and plicate property, from the usurpation of power r. -.Fellow Democrats and all lovers of the prosperity of the country, we may well be proud of our association with 'the party that his arnoug its hyhts anti ixanders the author of the Declaration 7'kdindepenl . nce, and of the Constita 4oh; a party whose wise alml.nistration acqnired all the WI littonal torrit ory all el 1 ,40 the original thirteen States—the p )1- '4 'of whose Statesmen formed, and 'established the national character at time and abroad, and at whose loss of 0 , 3 • :.power and place the country sfas *rated. The American character lost-- -;4and the prosperity of the country ruin .ell—and the power of the Government to enforce a just oSedience to the laws of ,tbe lead throughout the whole Union irn: .:paired—as well as the indentity of the 'States lost in the usurpations of the Fe ,d -„feral Administration. Oars is the only +arty that can save the county from her present imperiled condition. A. A. FURMAN, Chairinqn Diq. Co. Coin., Constitution of the United States. The so-called amendment of the Con- siltation of the United States, says the Jeffersonian, has been ratified by most Hof the Northern States. Delaware has rejected it. The fanatics and dis-nnion- iBtB, who desire the destruction of the American Republic, and who favor the it establishment of a central despotism will -rejoice at this. , s - The constitution earful's upon the gen .eral government delegated or jimited o pot absolute power; all other rights were reserved to the States. Hence an amend- went must come within the scope of gen , eral authority to make it legitimate.— ; The amendment professes to abolish sla very in the United States. There is no slavery in the United States, properly `speaking. Thlt is a domestic, institu- tion—a reserved right, over which Con . ,gress has no Constitutional authority.— A right reserved to a State cannot be .taktn away against its consent, without bsolute violence co the fundamental law .4)f the land, which guarantees the peace . able enjoyment of that right. - Mere is no legal tribunal that would •recognize the right of a majority in a joint ,;partnership for a given purpose, to inter s** with the private rights of one of the firm. So of the "amendment" to the : Constitution that professes, to abolish v. right -reserved, and is not such an ounendinent as the Constitution contem- Tinter; it is revolution, and meets the 'entire disapproval of all good union-lov ing, law-abiding democrats. It is a -.4ngerous,movemetit for which there van 'be found no reasonable excuse.-- -Dangerous because it is a stab at the vi be principle of our republican form of government. It establishes a precedent that may leai to the worst results. It virtually gives Congress and a majority of the States the ligt.it to interfere with the internal and domeatie affairs of States, and being the work of Xanatics, it is iin possible.to tell what the next "amend ment will be, or where the innovations end. Views of Ex-Senator Foote. One of the New York papers gives what purpo7ts to be the views expressed by the rebel Congressman Foote while in that city Hope for Butler. last week. We quote: The pious friends of Gen. Butler to New . "Being questioned upon the power of re ,.............=................. • ,aistance of the South, het ex-rebel Senator .„,.. - The inauguration Ball. England are consoling themselves from the said that in all probability Charleston Wil follow ing patenge of -Scripture that his re- inington , Richmond and Mobile would be t ia. asnoltnced, in Washington, that moral will be Only temporary: i evacuated, for there were not men enough . • the "Inailiaration b 411" will surpas any Genesis xi. —"And it came to pass after iin the South to light the Northern armies on .. 0a...b4r stf - that character ever these things that. the Chief Butler of the as equal terms as they had hitherto done __ .____ • IS, __..- . - rre • , Ti King of I.,gypt had offended his Lord the . Still he cud not believe that the evacuation r il 111.11 - " lulini g t°l / 1 .- I ne Z ion 's 8 ll ' er. King of Egypt. And • Pharaoh was wroth •of these -cities would be the. signal or the akilMetkotitsl):expcltnlates .earnestly against the chief of the. Butlers. And4oseph I . caving in of the Confederacy, which, he said. agifnlitiltd - firoposea inancritration ball at said unto him, this is the interpretation of I could resist for several years to come. Of ‘' ' the dream; Within three days shall ph * . course, 14t to hersalf,and without assistance Washingtfikott given in the Patent,' rotth lift lip thine head and restore thee unto 1 from abroad. ehe ; Ins bound to perish; but 011olani4ipg. -A says: " While - we re- thy place," 1 the hour Of her death was very remote." ....... .-i • - S I "Mr Foote left for Earope . Ssterday last, _ Ott iilkt . kilo Matt!, tune , on such an : of . aeting as a vo'.nntary occasion • . for the nation's officiaty to con- I or . _Creit„.3l4bila, ntreceivea one 1ni.... 1 . awk.tp. W ith intention foreign powers. I[:s idea ...- . ___:, . 1i .. .m, eight hundred , and thirty Oonsana is to Induce England and France to act as 1,1•01try:4 - 4 1 e*T 2 Inm ' o no hwfdred and eli.".vdti votes Or Presi- • mediators in the preseat conflict, and to stop a st i l l : AO itall'Air•lo l o":filit - :.- 1 Ali -' - What an 'aftny of "disioyal" l if he can;', ,he shedding ,of bloc, I ,on both .on it at this tiftteAkairlrblitillch4 -. voters . .. . - sifles.". - • ' - AD to God .and men. We therefore hope that good sense and better judgment will prevail at Washington, and that, it' tor The War Progressing. The Confederates. have hat a streak ot had luck running through the last tee• months—indeed ever since General Sherman commenced his triumphant march from Ten nessee into Georgia, through the heart of the latter State to Savannah, and from thence into South Carolina. First Atlanta was evacuated—then Savannah—then Co lumbia—next Charleston (the cradle ot the rebellion)—and last but not least, Wilming ton, in North Carolina, if it Las not already fallen. All of these important place& have been surrendered to the Union forces almost without a struggle, and it looka•now as if the military strength of the rebellion was being concentrated in the neighborhood of Rich mond preparatory to a final and decisive con flict with, the combined armies of Sherman and Grant. Indeed it is supposed by many that even.tle later city will be evacuated, as Its .permanent occupancy, it is alleged, does not enter into the plans of the new Commander-xi:Chief, General Lee. If this be so, the great conflict which cannot be much longer delayed, will take place some where farther inland—perhaps near the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina, or in the neighborhood of Lynch burg, Va. A few days or weeks at farthest, must bring about the fearful collision, and it is useless, theretore. to speculate upon 'he occurrences likely to transpire in the near future---especially as the line of policy adopt ed by the commanders on either side may be changed by circumstances beyond their con trol. Negro Equality 1--Tha Whole Thing Out Ins late debate in the Senate of the Unite.] States, Mr. Sumner indicated quite distinctly, that the object of himself and fiends in their efforts in behalf of the ne gro, will not cease till pertect w i n:slay is effected—hear lam : Mr. Hendereon (Rep., Mo.) advocated the proposition, holding that both Houses ought to admit the members from Louisiana, each without consulting the other. in the course of Mr. Henderson's r.marks a short dialogue took place between him and Mr. Sumner. Mr. Henderson inquired of Mr. Sumner it he believed the Soathern Sates were out of the Union. Mr. Sumner (Rep. Mass) said he did not. They bad never been out of the Union. Mr. Rendersons(Rep., Mo.) inquired R' that were sc, why pot let.Lonisiant be rep resented in Congress 1 Mr. Sainner replied because the govern ment of the State had been subverted, and there was really no government there now. Mr. Henderson said the Loyal men of Louisiana had recognized the existing gov ernment. Then why should not the Senator recognize it ? Mr. Sumner (Rep., Mass.) said when the loyal men, white and black, recognized it, ho would do so; but not until then. Mr. Henderson (Rep., Mo.) Does the senator from Massachusetts assert that Con gress has .the right to interfere with the right of suffrage. Mr. Stunner replied that under the Con stitution a R4mblican form of government was garanteed to the citizens. of every State It Has the duty of .Congress to guarantee perfect and complete freedom from all op pression and equality before the law to every Mr. Henderson said that if no State gov ernment was Republican in form that did not permit negroes to vote, then the major ity of the States in the Union were not Re publican in form, and Mr. Sumner ought to move for the exclusion of the Senators from Connecticut, New York, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland, and many other States. lie (Mr. Sumner,) would have a very small Union before he got through. While 11r. Henderson was speaking of the rights reserved to the several States by The Constitution, Mr. Sumner said: May I ask the Senator it he remembers the words of Georg Washington, when he transmitted the Constitution of the United States to Congress, when he undertook tc uicclai•e the desire which the Federal Con gress had nearest its heart, to see these States consolidated into one. Mr. Henderson--" The Union is consoli dated," lie said, "and that is the Union I am in favor of." Mr. Samner said the gove-nment in Louisiana that,Mr. Henderson was in favor of was ao oligarchy, and he was opposed to any such thing as this : The trouble in Lmi,iana was that all the .loyal citizens were not allowed to vote. Mr. Henderson —What does the senator mean by all the loyal citizens? Mr. Sinner—ALL THE BLACKS OF THAT STATE. After further remarks by Mr. Henderson, the Senate. at 10 o'clock, adjourned. The New Republican Plank. Constitutional Amendment . .. AP- The right of freed negroes to vote is the . The amendment of the Constitution ahol new plank in the Republican platf i4:ing slavery hts been approvel and ratiti- Wendell Phillips declares that "this liberty ed by the Legislatureß of the fifteen States according to the northern interpretation." George Thompson, the Englishman from whom Republicans learn how America sh o uld be governed, says : "I agree with "lips that your Constitution .needs two "amenhnents, one prohibiting •slavery every "where throughout -tho'truion, and another "forhiding the States to enact laws which "shall make any distinction among their "citizens on account of race or collar. I "desire to see the negro enfranchised, pro "tected by the ballot, placed upon a looting "of absolute civil and political equality with "the white man. I believe that it this "country is to be saved, it mast he saved through the negro, and for the negro." Frederick - , Douglass, tuaintnini the fitness of the present hour for insisting upon the tight of the freed negroes to citizenship , says : "This is the hour. Now is the time "to press this "right' ; and William Lloyd Garrison chimes in as tollows : "Glory, Allelubt, An and Amen." Upon all the above the Independent comments thus "We think the above extaracts are good "readwg---hearty r goodtempered, sound and ''durable. If any body differs with us in "this opinion, let him sponge away from his "mind the stain of old time prejudice against "the excellent men whose names we have "quoted, and whose 'good,' we trust may "now cease 'to be evil spoken ot.' " The Independent is certainly right in de manding that the true leaders of the Repub lican party, Phillips, Thompson, Garrison Fred Douglass, the men whose ideas guide and rule it, shall have recognition for their rightful authority. They have always been one step in advance of the tune-servers, the politicians, and the rank and file of the party; hut these have never yet failed to keep step with them and follow closely on. - The Times, for example, is just now spitting on this plank as it used to spit upon the aboli tion plauk, before it became the most en.• ,thugiastic abolition sheet of all. But it will have only its trouble for its pains now as then. :It must walk up to the scratch and toe it within a very few months, and Free Suffrage for the Free Negroe will be its fu ture cry as sure as the sun rises and sets. Indeed, the Republican caucus which was lately held at Washington made no bones ot the matter. It was there resolved upon that the.vote of the freed negroes of the rebel states was an absolute necessity to the dwindling Republican party at the North ; that, with the negro vote secured, they could hold on to power for an indefinite tam of years, and, by keeping up a large military establishment after peace is declar ed, hold down the whites of the South, and retain a secure hold at the North on the contractors, manufactuers, and those who profit by the war expenditures. Free Suffrage fur Free Negroes. This is the new article in the Republican creed. Republicans l hear, and obey :--- World. eirßeverdyJohnson, in the able speech, strot,g in sharp logic and legal lore, deliver ed by him in the United States Senate, the other day, on the bill professedly to regu late commerce between the States, but real ly to put the railroads of the country under the 6 ntrol of the general government, took the following view of his duties which must have surprised many of his colleagues: "We were sent here to take care, among others, of the rights of our States. ()tn. oath to support the Constitution of the United States is not merely to execute all the pow ers which it confers, but to abstain from ex erting any powers which it does not confer. It is an obligation, therefore, to preserve all the limitations upon the power of the Feder al Government, in order to protect the in herent and original and undelegated powers which belonged to the States before toe con stitution was adopted." It wonld be well f4r all the members of Congress in both branches to remember that they have duties of omission as well as commission, and that they are bound to pro tect the states as.well as the United States. Connecticut. The:Democracy of Connecticut 'wive re ! nominated Judge 0. S. &valour for re-clec tion as governor. The following, resolutions were adopted not only without dissent, but with the heartiest, prolonged applause: Resolrei, By the Democracy of Connec ticut in convention assembled, that the cor ner stone of our liberties is to be found in the great principle of state sovereignty, and therefore we.solemnly reaffirm the resolves .of the. Democracy of this state enunciated by its several State Conventions hell during the present deal war, and hereby assert with renewed fervor otrr devotion thereto believ ing as we do that-tile Union constructed by our fathers, now menaced and endangered by the tell spirit of discord can never. be restor ed except by a strict and rigid adherence to the letter and spirit thereof. Besotted, That the recent so called.amend ment to the Constitution of the United States passed by Congress and submitted to the Legislature of the several States, is a covert attempt to overthrow and destroy the great Democratic idea of "State Rights" and was, iu our judgement, designed as another step tp consolidated power, an insuperable obsta cle to any propositions for a peaceful adjust ment of the difficulties now existing between the North and the South, and as an eternal i barrier to the Union. azi 1 ws 1. Feb. 1. 11w:ie. 2. Fe':). 2. Micliil.;an—S , .nat.v auld :3. r,t l l. 1. ),;,:‘,; 3 1 4. F.. 4). 2. 11 1 10 It- Nand—S2ll:r4- an 111 rise 5. IV , . 2. N(?.‘• ; 3.1 Ashly. 6. Fob. 3. .11.1;,sach.lotts :La 7. Fab. 3: Pennsylv:ini:l—SaaJe and II mi - •e. 8. Feb. 7. IVist "Virginia—Sena :El and House 9. Fob. 7. MiAsoari—tionafe anti 10. Feb. 8. Maine—Senate and Holse. 11. Fob. S. Ohio —Sonate and IToise. 12. Feb. 8. Minnesota—Senate awl IT•mae 18. Feb. 8. Kansas—Senate anti fl'utse. 14. Feb. 10. Indiana—Senate and House. 13. Feb. 10. Nevada—Smate and H )use. MIME 1. Feb. 8. Dale•,cnr,P—Senate and fitne 6TATEi tEI TO TOTE Connecticut., Vermont, Jersey. Kentucky, l'enuessee, Norili Carolina, South Carolina, Ce )rgia, Florida, Traitors Ti:e follow lag is a list of the traiior.= to the old Constituti9a, vi . llo voted lur the abolition amealalent. Pass them roam?, that the reop]e may knoY W:2O. they a:-e Jos:ph Bailey, Penns: ivania ; Augustus C. Bddwin. Michigan ; Alex. 11. Coffroth, Penns:.lvauia ; James E. Eag j Ij, Pennslcania; John B. Ganson, \::w York ; John A. Griswold, New Yolk Anson Herricl:, New York; Wells A. Hiochins. Ohio ; Austin A. Kimr, - Missouri ; Archibald Petins)lvahia ; Homer A. Nt.2.I,GN. - New York ; 31 is F. Odell, Ye:, York Wm. Radford, N e w Yu: ; James S. Rollins, ; John B. Steele. New Vork .Ezra Wheeler, Wisconsin. Har.cock's Corm Ilxsock's Veteran C.r•pi I.:I/Lily filling. up. The er,or!nons pay 01 three years' vol unteers in this corpi Glvenune ,t, ty $500; local bounty, monthly pay, $l6 per month, $576 ; cbohiu h accou n t, $42 per anr.,um, $126; total. $1,733. Death of Jaclob F. Flamer The following is at ea.tract, of a letter re ceived by Us jamin F. Rimer int...ming him oft he de:s?L of his son, Which we a; re- qnested to Pr To' C WELT Vt. Fehrtwry 16, 1865. DE • R rRIEND :-"With heart full of sorrow I write the sad intelligene of the death of your brave and noble s4or, who departed this life in Of.- rebel orison, et S.disherry, North Carolina, on the I.sth of Nov. 1864. When I remember the many blood stain ed fields hpon which JAcon F. FAmtm, so gallantly fought to save this unrivalled Gov ernment from falling into rite hands of proud and relentless t . )rams, I feel overwhelmed with sorrow - . and more so. when I reflect that this sad neus will he like a dagger to your heart as well fIA to that t f lira wtlttertifis friends. R assured that not m)self, but the entire regiment most deeply lament the toss of one so noble, brave and kind.— The country Las lost a brave soldier, and you a son oh whom any father might be nrond. Although he toll into the hauls of the enetny,and wa s ! l a ced int o a filthy pris o n, tostarve, languish and die, his priceless spirit liveth and leis taken its fil L rlit to lI deed. I. MURDOCK. Co., A. 17til Va., Vol. General aleCieilln in England. (From tho Li vc Courier, Feb. 4.] General McClellan the well known Northern General, and (rte of the late candidates for the Presidency of the ISTnrthern State., arrived in tiveri.:c•ol yesterday morning true Ne on the Cunard `steamer China. accompanied by his wife, child : - wd FY7- vant and will, it is understood sp, nd the year in traveling over Europe. for the doable purpose of recruiting his wife's health and of studying European mili tary science. The General. and his tinnily are staying ;.;..t the Adelphi Pram the 1,-,n(h)n Star, Feb. 7.] The visit of General McClellan to Liverpool has been of a very short du ratior.. After landing nririt ing he proceeded at uric, to the A,lOl - Hotel, where he dined with the Uniterl States Vice-Contml, the Consul, tlr. Dulley. being absent in Lmi,ln fit the time, and in the af ern o too:: a rr.nible tliron , di the town, a ; •- conipanieJ„ we understand. by the Vice Consul and M. An : , nst LMinont the well kn. - iwn Northern Democrat mil agent for the It )thehills in America. Ye-terday (Monday) morning the Gil:- end, wile, child and servant left Liv erpool for Llndon, en roltf f_n. Paris and Rome. The Promised PZ3O3 T: 7reatest boon the Administration is now capable of bestowing upon t.! e country is peace. We were promised it speedily it' Lincoln was re-elected. Ile scetutA hi,: re elec.; ion in some way, hut there is t:;, yet. I/ he NI secure it t , .) ferL , ivo him every folly he hr.:: committed, and Heaven know; they have been 11-; on: eron , ; as the sand:: noon the sea shore. Shall We have leave' The honest, intelligent la borittg- masses of the country are becom ing deeply interested iu the solution of this questiou. They st.e the war was criminal, unnecessary, awl choire to get out (fit before becoming embroiled in a war with other nations. Shall we have peace with the South giving to her all her ri : -;hts, or shall we have a five or ten years war with England and France! CONDITION OF CIIA ru.rsToN. —A cor respondent says that that portion of Charleston expos;•d to our shells is al most in ruins, and has long been aban doned by its occupants. The buildings were either entirely demolished or so much destroyed as to necessitate entire reconstruction. Toe streets are filled with rubbish, and here and there a shell or solid shot exhibits the agent of such lestruction. The Cbiengo Tribune, one of the most ultra of the Liix.oln Abolition sheets, has the following article. It says: All fast livers, speculators, as well as those beginning to prick their ears for a start towards extravagance in expendi tore, should give heed to the words of wisdom. The feehno• is pervading all classes in society• A' paper dollar, says our cotemporary. is depreciated.to forty four cents, gold value. Currency is plenty. and growing plentier. Come easy, go easy. is the prevailing feeling. Bat soontat or later the preset 'abnormal condition of things will terminate—per haps gradually, perhaps suddenly. The values of all commodities, .including money. are tearthlly ''watered " But when the crash comes the water will be bailed out. leaving only what is repre= seined by the gold standard. Men are walking on high stilts,lnd are making long but insecure strikes. .3nt all dismount one of these days .and come down until their feet touch die Garth Many will be precipitated headlong whO now towN• aloft on their stilts. ‘Vise and prodent men will prepare- in time for the inevitable change. -The classes who will suffer by the 'termination of - the war are those in debt A merchant with a stock of goods on hand, worth sty. $50,000 and half paid 'for, will not realize therefrom enough to pay what he owes. When the goAs are all sold, he will find himself still in debt for them five or ten thou,and dollars, and this debt he must liquidate. principal and interest, with gold or its equivalent, or go into bankruptcy. The consequence of the end of the war on the debtor classes will be to increase every man's debts above 123 per cent. An obligation of $4,000 will hecome, in practical effect, $lO,OOO. That is, it will require property or labor now worth in currency $lO,OOO to pay it, A note outstanding drawing ten per cent. interest, would then draw what would now be equivalent to twenty-five per cent.or thereabouts, to say nothing of the principal of the note, the difficulty of whose payment will swell into a cor responding ratio. Our advice is for every man to pay off his debts,. and contract no more new ones ; to lay cash for xvhatever he buys, and if he cannot do that, •to .go without the ar tele. Do not spread too much sail.— I Kee., plenty of ballast in the hold, and see that the aneho7s are ready to let her go when the hurricane comes, and there by prevent your vess?l from capsizing, foundering and dashing on the breakers of a lee :hore. ME W 'Neon Cal iIo: ui;:, Oregon Arkansas , , Louit.land, Alabama, Ml•ssissippi, TC X ft. S.- 18. The following extract frem a Norfolk letter in the Philadelphia Press, a leading Republican paper, would seem to show that General Butler.is to ) thrifty a man ager to let a good opportunity - to make money slip: A singular circumstance connected with Gen Butler's.cotton speculation has come to light. it seems that the chief of Gen. Shepley's staff, G. H. Johnson, resigned several months since, to enter, as Butler's chief agent, into the business of buying cotton from the rebels in North Carolina. lie remained in this long ern:ugh to make over $250,000 as his share, which be deposited in the 'First National Bank of Norfolk. A few days age the military commission instituted by General Grant to investigate the pro ceedings of General Bader relative to cotton, got wind ot . Mr. Johnson. lie heard that they would call upon him soon, but, not intending to be outdone by them, he drew all his money from the bank, and decamped in the Balti more b,,at. They telegraphed to the authorities at B themoiei to arrest and send him back to Norfolk, but the shrewd Johnson did not, go on the boat further than Fortress Monroe. where he took the Washington boat, and landed at Annapolis. No one knows his where about', although lie is anxions!y wanted here. Inc commission has proven that Butler received two-thirds of all cotton I:rocight here, his brother-m-law out fifth, and middle men, of which John, son was one, two-fieths, the government gettine• but one-half of that which was rightfully du.: it. You may expect even more astotheling revelations than these. Tice gigantic rascality here described ought t mike the defenders of General Butler blush, if they are not past blush ing. If they bring these charges up in Con: , res.:. they v, ill perhaps find it for his aivantage, in the case to), to pariade, without previous notic a mass of doc urne:its f trnished by Bader himself, to wdhili of cour.se nobody can make cir cumstantial replies on the spot. "lie "that is first in his own cause," says the -Good Book, seemed) just; but his “neighbor ccaneth alter and seartheth "him " L9id Byron once sail : "The me anie; an I working,rnen who can main tain tin it families are, in my opinion, tae happiest body of men. Poverty is wretchedness, but even poverty is pre ferable to the heartless, unmeaning dissipation of the lii!rh orders." Anoth er author says : 'I have no propensity to env? any one, least of all the rich and gre ; but if I were disposed to this weakness, the subject of my envy w; mild be a healthy young man, in full possession of his strength and faculties, going ftirth in the morning to work for his wife and children, or bringing home his wages at night." re.ir-A woman named Sarah.Cavan agli, the wifr ot a soldier in the Federal army, (lied of starvation the other day Brooklin—"the city ot churches"- leaving three children- boy and two girls. Henry War(fßeecher had better take from his eye the telescope with , i NEW !roux, March 3 which he beholds the "suffering" of dis- The /Li-Ads Sixth Army Corps' C3r tant well fed negroes, and with the nak- respondence, dated March Ist says : ed eye search out the miserable cases of Through deserters who have just come want and starvation existing beneath in, one of whom states he was in Pe the very shadow of his magnificent tersburg yesterday, where he saw de church spire. Think of if tO . ,wife of tails ot men at work burning the tobac a•brave soldier of the 13egublic dies of co and repleving all heavy guns. The starvation within the very walk of duty guns were marked Danville and Greens of a "nzinister of Christ" Who is paid bore. twelve thousand dollars . a year to preach ! Sherman is reported to be about fty negro equality and mongrelisq. Is it wiles from Charlotte, and rapidly not horrible'. yancing, The Corning Crash. General Butler. Who are tho Happy ? Cr One million eight hundred and for ty three thousand six hundred and thir tyseven dollars is acknowledged by A. T. Stewart„ Esq., as his net income for a single year. "Whew'?" says the read er, as he writes down the immense sum and ciphers out its relation to months, weeks, days, hours and minutes, in order to comprehend its vast proportions --- One hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred and forty-s'x dollars per month, thirty-five thousand four hun dred and fifty-four dollars per week; five thousand and fifty one dollars every day ; two hundred and - ten dollars per hour; three dollars and a half each minute --- Awake or sleeping, in every passing mo ment that brings Mr. Stewai t nearer to eternity, his gains are equal to the day's work of a skillfid working man. cel) Victory in the Valley SHERIDAN DEFEATS EARLY. THE REBEL ARMY ROUTED. Capture of Charlottesville I GEN. EARLY A PRISONER Ills ENURE ARMY ,CAPIURED DISPATCHES FROM GENERAL GRANT. SEC'Y. STANTON'S BULLETIN. OFFICIAL WASHINGTON, March 5 70 Gen. Dix Noe, Yoik The following despatches in relatian to the reported detect and capture of Gen. Early by Sheridan, and the cap ture of Charlotteville, have been receiv ed by this department. General Sheridan and his force com menced their movement last M.mday, and were at Sta ton, when last heard from, Maj. General Hancock was placed in charge of the middle military division, during the absence of Sheridan at head quarters at Winchester. (Signed) E. M. SrvYrox. -era POINT, VA., March 5--11 A. M. ;Hon. T. Stanton: Deserters in this morning, report that Sheridan had routed Early and captured Charlottesviiit , . - They report four re2i ments •having gone trom here (Hicli mone.) to reinforce Early. (Signed) :U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant General. CITY POINT, March 5. Hon I:. M. Stalitow—Dcsei tern from every point of the enemy's linos confirm the capture of Chailottsville by Sheri dan. They say he captured Gen..E:uly and nearly his entire force, consist in, of 1,800 men. Four biigadcs were reported as being sent to Lynch burg, to get there before Gen. Sherman it possible. 17. S. G13.1.NT. Lieutenant General. CITY POINT. March 5, 4 P. 31 E if. Stanton: Refugees confirm the statement of deserters as to the capture of Early, and nearly his entire forces.--- They say it took place on Thursday last between Stanton and.Charlottsville, and that the defeat was total. (Signed) U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant General NEW. YORK. March 5 The Times. says a letter from • Win chester states that on the 23th nit. car•- elry reinforcements and pontoon trains arrived there, and on the 27th Gen. Sheridan starred with aboutlve4thous and cavalry, it is said to operate in the direction of Lynchburg. Some say Sheridan and Sherman will meet and act tolether in,that , lirection Gen. Haitcock assumed command at Winchester on the departure of Sheri din. From Late Reba Papers. Fetltlal NrovPwilts in Nor ttr.Ca rolira GEN, SINGLETON IN RIOIDIOND, Union Movement Toward Stiunton A Washington dispatch to the Bulle tin, says : Richmond papers of yester day have been reeei:ecii. The Ifni contains a Raleigh Dispatch from Fay etteville. N. C., stating that the ledera forces ha - e advanced in that direction from Wilmington. The ihispote.'t says that Singleton has arrived at Richmond. It adds : His mission is a commercial one, and pro-' posing to exchange Macon fbr cotton All the other rapers intimate it is of a private character. Congressman V. C. Rives of Vir ginia, has resigned his seat. The Dispatei of yesterday says: A Union cavalry force moved down the Valley, towards Staunton. From Army of th 3 Potomac. Burning of Tolaacca at Peters3urg GUNS BEING REMOVED SOUTH. Gen. Sherman Near Charlotte, N. C. Ws Force Rapidly Advancing. Capture ofGeter-als—C—ro-o—k—rid Kelley. A correspondent to the Cincinnati Coviutercitl gives the best account we ha% e yet seen, of the capture of Gens. Crook and Kelley, at Cumberland, on the :21st inst. We extract the tollow log : Lion the morning of February 21, a bcdv of picked cavalry, seventy in number, mounted upon horses selected for the purpose, crossed the river at Brady's Ferry, nine miles from Cum berland, they having traveled during the afternoon and night from beyond Moorefield, in Hardy county, a distance of thirty-five or forty miles, and moved in the direction of Cuniberland, on the road called the New Creek Pike. Ap proaching the picket post, they were halted, and, upon their answer to the challenie that they were friends, one was ordered to advance and give the conflict sign. While he was adVancing, the picket, who had mounted their ,horses and had given notice of a party advancing„ saw the main body quietly separating„ and moving forward, for the purpose of suirounding them.— They at once commenced firing, but a sudden dash of the enemy overpowered and disa nn.d them. The inner poait consisting of infantry only, was captur ed in a similar manner and was at once disarmed. The party rode without halting into the town, and quietly want ed while two men each, went forward, dismounted, to capture the guards in front of the headquarters of the two Generals These men succeeded in getting the guards and disarming them, though both were watchful, and challenged the advancing party, but in darkness, the reply heing relief," they were deceiv ed, and were quickly quieted with threats. The mounted party coming up at this moment, with led-horses, hur ried up to the reonl of the two Gener als, and very quietly compelled them to dress, when, without further noise, • they mounted their horses and left the town, striking a rapid pace immediate ly after getting out of the streets. No other captures were attempted, except Captain Melville, the Adjutant GeneMi of General Kelley, who was sleeping in , the room adjoining General Kelley, and who they were compelled to pass to get to the General's room. No oth er persons were disturbed by them, nor any property destroyed, except the tel egraph office, which they tore to pieces. A few moments after, the officers of ' General Crook's staff, thinking they heard footsteps, and, fearing fire, got up, and finding the General's room open, and the General gone, became suspicions, and upon inquiry, found General Kelley also missing ; went to the telegraph office and learned tom the operator. that the rebels had but that moment left. Steps ,sere immediately taken to re pair the wires, and put the lines in working order. This required about au hour. In the meantime, a body of lon y horsemen, belonging to the escort of General Crook, were ordered out, and in an hour and twoity minutes star ted in pursuit. As soon as the wires were repaired, all the cavalry at New .Creek was ordered to mount and move for Romney and .111Gorfield, and, if pos sible, head the rebe!s off at those points, and even further ordered not to spare their horses, but to push forward with all possible haste. Genw•al Sheridan being notified, sent a body of cavalry at once, flow Winchester, in pursuit. Thus everything was done within an hoar and thirty minutes that could be done The rebels rode rapidly. They ,had replaced their horses by fresh ones taken from stables daring their stay in town, and were ready for another long ride. Our men atter them, but, with an hour's start and comparatively fresh horses, they succeeded in getting away. This is the plain history of the cap ture of General Crook and Kelley. It was a bold and daring attempt, success fully carried out, by men selected fur the purpose, who came to capture the Genertils, and having captured them role quietly away. They calle , l at the Adams House and inquired tbr General Hayes, but finding that he was not there, left the house, though some other officers were there. That they were assisted by citizsns, and by int;irmation gained in that man ner, can not be doubted, knowing as they did, so correctly the situation of everything' , the rooms of the Generals, and number and stations of pickets and guards they would have to encoun ter. • 80,000 Negroes Exterminated. The following is from a speech of Mr. Senator Sau!shory, of Delaware. who says he has the following- from a letter from a distinguished gentleman in New Orleans to a personal :mil political friend of the President, in this city: "A few days ago I was shown an official report to the military head of Olio department, General Banks, exhibiting the ghastly return of eighty thous slaves having perished since the occupa tion of the smaller-moiety of this Corn 7 munwealth. This is equal to fifty per cent. of the entire slave population'a the si'ction of country embraitetl'iii return.!' This sort of extinguishment is goiric on . here about Washington on a smaller scale. The negroes of Maryland ate rushing here, and rotting like sheep.--: They work a day or two in the week, no . more, with exceptions certainly, and perish in hovels and earthen'dttg-outsi The women are drunkards or worse.— Oh Liberty, what horrible 'crimes are committed in thy name.—Correspondence N. Y. Erprcss. Kier When Rl:ins Coate described the Re publican party-s "a party which knows only one hall of America to hate and dread it, and from whose unconsecrated and revoln titulary banner fifteen stars are erased" he told but half the - truth, very truly remarks another. It was not merely the Union---it was the system which had rendered Union possible— the government of laws--of checks and balances---of safe guards and precedents --which the abolitionists hated; and it was to destroy that they began, and it is with the same object that they still continue, the pre=ent war 1!1!ff=
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