WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 28
neadling matter on every page
President Lincoln has, of late, been ex
posing himself quite unnecessarily; he has
been t o Norfolk and Fredericksburg ; and
has given out his intention to be present
at the surrender of Richmond. The New
York Times very properly objects to the
head •of the governmebt running such
risks as these visits into the rebel country
!nusii*Vssltrily subject him to, and says,
that "the whole country" has a stake in
preserying hii existence. This is a sober
and I°lol6 truth, for were the President
just now called to his final aceciunt, the
cause of the Union would not long survive
him. He is the only break-water between
the abolition disunienists and the preser
vation of the Republic. Were he gone
and that fierce Abolitionist, Vice Presi
dent. Hamlin, in his place, there would
be no check to the mad schemes concocted
for the permanent disruption of this bleed
ing Uniou. The war would then be speed
ily divested from its original intention.;
Hunter might ,re-issue hi§ prochtmation,
not only giving freedom to a million of
slaves, more than the_white population of
' tiff States they inhabit, but these newly
created freemen might, with impunity, ex
ercise.their freedom, even to the excess
hinted at in Gen. Butler's reputed procla
mation to the women of New Orleans. The
horrors and atrocities of San Domingo
would "pale their ineffectual fires" before
the conflagrations, massacres and outrages
perpetrated by these infuriated negroes.
The scalping knife and tomahawk of the
drunken Indians in Missouri was excusa
ble in atrocity, compared to the bloody
and merciless scones which would follow
in the district mentioned. Two races, a
million eacki - struggling for life and death,
would end only in the utter annihilation
of one or the other. - And, before that
end was reached, what unheard of hor
rorswould
be perpetrated ; the acts of a a
. ruffian soldiery under Cromwell, in Ire
land, violating purity that had taken to the
altar for protection ; the horrors commit
ted by the Moors in Spain; the Roman mas
sacre of the Thracians, •when upon every
cross there hung a gladiator;" the brutal
and bloody scenes of the French revolu
tion, would all be repeated in Georgia,
South Carolinia and Florida, were it pos
sible for Hunter's proclamation to be en
forced.. Truly the nation has a stake in
the liferttf its President, and we fervently
hope that be may not be taken from us,
now...that it so much needs his services..
The whole people are entirely aware of
the intentions of the rebels, and all are
determined to pursue them until rebel
lion is crushed. The President alone pos
sesses the, power to curtail, modify, or de
feat the Conspiracies of abolitionism, which
are equally. destructive and:criminal - as
open, defiant secession and rebellion.
BOUND ON THE WAIL
The Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge is
sound to the core on the prosecution:of
hostilities against the rebel leaders. The
other evening,-in Cincinnati, he delivered
a disconrse upon the condition of the
country, in the course of which he said .
that the war should be prosecuted wit h
slich_vigor and effectiveness that it should
be ktecrible,lesson for all time to come,
and such a vindication of nationality as
that there 'shall be no more. rebellion and
treason in all the future. There had been,
in his opinion, several mistakes committed
in the management of this war, and the
first and most enormous was in supposing
that it is possible to conciliate those who
have banded themselves in arms against
the country. It is impossible to conciliate
them. They have no desire for it, and do
not propose conciliation. The war was
commenced by them to divide and de
stroy the nation, and set up an incompati
ble government. He knew whereof he
asserted-it when he said that the men
now in arms against the Government were
incapible - of being conciliated. The only
way to deal with them is to crush them
Late from Nashville.
The .Nashville Union of the 22d inst.,
publishes the following communication:
Pouszi, Tenn., May 21, 1862.
To ifiv.ifaxdkney, Gov. Johnson
,irinitsly Commission was held here
yesterday, to inquire into the destruction
of the .merchandise of J. 11. Pioner, a
Union man by Morgan and his crew, on
the fi rst of May. The commission assess
ed the damages at $1,262 88, which they
ordered me to collect from the authorities
of thetown, •or Ailing in- that to make
the amount from the sale of the.property
of certainisara to be afterwards
designated. be facts of the case are not
coninniffited. The Mayor and; council
menegiqnsia*Lme to put off the execution
of tikei:ifeit, HOB they could see you,'
whielfa granted.-
YOuli, truly,
CHAS. B. GILLESPIE,
Provost Marshal.
•
Commenting on ihe above; , the Union
says: "This dispatch gives a warning to
guerrilla sympathizers of what they may
expect. Gov. Johnson's proclamation
will prove to be no empty threat.-
D'Oasar's rival, the wealthy Lord Pem
broke, died in Paris a few days ago. He
was "immense" on dress, affecting the se
verely plain, while D' Orsay favored colors
p em b ro k e jiapt k hones and women in
abundinie, spent no end of money in Par
is where heraiidetall his life considering
it only habitable spot on the face of the
An /beiaheteimprCliptund.
,
A Miter from Fort jeffermin, Gulf •of
Mexico,. lbakd the 6th inst., says: -
"4 %
On Mouth 11110,04,.a gunboat brought
in a large . ' pirinarommknown)
with a mike' - , nponder ind 1
gold, valued; it is ' , at' . '.a" lia' lf a will;
lion dollars. She. was Masa- somewhere
here and New r *bile at:,
-It the 64
The Vaasa Was
The Canahlhatier as it fel
THE PRESIDENT.
M` Ciov. Andrel
"The logical consequences of d&ernbr
Andrew's course may be stated Air's' : Ist,
for war purposes the national Government
must only obtain troops by requisition up
on the State governments; 2d, when such
requisitions are made, the Governors of
the States may stipulate in what manner
the war shall be conducted, and rethse
their troops unless the management be
made agreeable to their'views. 'This was
precisely the position taken by the recu
sant- governors of the - border slave States
in the beginning of the war. Responses
came back from Kentucky, Missouri; Ten•
nessee and other States to the effect that
no men would be-furnished for the purpose
of coercion, while at the -same time, those
States desired to be thought in favor of
the preservation of the Union, and
to support it in some way which they .could
have designated. Had we been willing to
make a regular treaty of peace for,the rec
ognition of all Ihe 'absurd . 'pretensions of
the slavery propagandists, we might have
got as many regiments as would have been
needed from these border slave States.
Governor Andrew tries to make the saute
sort of conditions on the other side of the
question. If the one is wrong the other
certainly must be also. if the Southern
border States could make no stipulation in
favor of slaVery, surely the North cannot
make any against it, If Governor Andrew
may criticise the conduct of the war in his
response to the national governMent's de
mand for troops, and make conditions tier
the aid of his State, why may not the Gov
ernors of Maryland, Delaware, Kent neky
and Missouri, most of whom are willing
enough to do it if they only felt free to re
fuse troo or to make conditions, or to
traverse the orders of the War I /epartment?
The precedent, therefore, is a very bad
one, whatever may be the views of Gover
nor Andrew. It strikes at the root of the
national supremacy, and favors that very
policy of disintegration which has prude':
ed this war."
Let Us Croak.
The.money article of the Independent
of this week contains the following sum
mary of the benefits the war has conferred
upon the country:
Ist. Tnegovernment is ten-fold stronger to-day
than ever before.
2d. We are perfectly independent of any and
every other power on earth.
3d. We have au army and navy.
It
feu
gh
hardly twelve months old, equal to that
other nation.
4th The people, having *already furnished
$.500,000,01.* to sustain the government. tied
themselves stronger and richer than when the war
began.
sth. Our government slocki have advanced tea
per cent since the war commenced, and other se
curities in similar proportion.
tith. Money, which was raised a year ago at two
or three per cent. a month, is now only worth
three or four per cent. per annum.
7th. We have an abundance of food, at utneh
lower than averageppeesorith sPleudid prospects
for the coming crop, in even' quarter.
Bth. The wheels of business are beginning to
start in all directions, and cheerfulness again Pre
vails:
9th. Our farmers. tuanufgelurers, welt:inks,
and citizens are no longer idle. No distress is seen
in any goarter.
lOth. The people—the whole North—ore mono
united, more courageous. mid inure .1,4 ersuitled
than ever before. " Victory or death" is the
universal.
llth. The whole financial and busbies:- inpcnts
of the country. notwithstanding our enormous
expenditures, are hopeful and promising.
12th. The people hare a steadily inercuAng
faith that the real prosperity of the nation de•
mends the entire subjugation of the South. and
the overthrow of slavery—the cause of
troubles.
This is a very pleasant view of the pres
ent state of affairs, but is it quite Just?
Is there not a reverse to the picture. Let
us croak:
I. May not. the increased strength ,ot the
government be due somewhat to an abridge
meta of the rights of the.people?
2. We are net independent of any and
every power on earth, as the fears of for ,
eign intervention prove.
3. The French army is 600,0(0 strong,
while ours is less than 300, 3 03. Our navy
is not to be compared to the English for
numbers, though superior
.n ,iono, impor
tant particulars.
4. Spending' money is not the way to
get rich. Every dollar disbursed in this,
war was so much abstracted from indus
trial pursuits, and theretbre, lost to the
world.
, 5. The advance in securities is due in
great part to an Unhealthy inflation of the
currency, for which . .we must pay the pen
alty by and by.
6. The excessive cheapness of money is
an - exceedingly had symptom; and shows a
"rottenness to Demark."
7. The cheapnesSs of food is due to tlw
loss of the Southern market, and the .ecou
milieu it will enforce upon the Western
farmers'will be felt in the trade of this city
next fall.
8. There can be no legitimate reorgani
' tion . - of trade until the war is over and the
burdens of taxation readjusted.
9. Our period of reildistress will come
when the government ceases to spend three
million dollars per day and the paper infla
tion stops.
Bat enough of this. It is well to be hope
ful, but it is better to consider the "situa
tion" from every point of view.— Worb/.
Letter From,ThurloW Weed,
HAItLAEM, April 20.
Ninety-two years ago a rich miser
named Tylaer lived and died' in this city:
His passion for hoarding grew with his
years, and became finally intensified. His
only - sustenance for two or three years
before he died was apint of milk with a
piece of dry bread daily. By a law of the
city, milk
_purchased for servants , and •ta
ken in at the back door, was in a larger measure than that - used for the rich. Ty
leer, therefore, purchased half a pint at
the front, and the same quantity at the
back door. He had been twice married,
but had lost his wives, and never had chil
dren. He lived alone.
But the great day of settlement finally
came to him, as it comes to all. In his
will the estate was tied for a hundred
'years. In amount, competed by weight,
it was eqnal to MIITETY-SEVEN97) TONE IN
oot
n! ills executors were instructed to
expend the interest *in erecting suitable
buildings for the aged and indigent females
of good repute, and in the establiidiment,
and maintenance of a philosophical and
scientific institution for the instruction of
youth and the benefit of all classes.
The homes of the old women are most
comfortable ones, and their inmates are as
cozy and happy, as neat and cheerful as
they could be if they were as rich as the
miser who endowed them.
Several attempts have been made by the
heirs to break the will, butwithont success,
and as in eight years more the century will
-expire, all are now waiting with proverb
ial Dutch patience. The heirs number
some 120, for each of whom, when the
distribution is made, there will be between
thirty and forty thousand dollars.
The Vomito in Havana.
• -
A letterirom :Havana . dated the 17th
instant, just prior to the sailing of the last
steamer, announces the death of Captain
Pendleton, of the brig Amanda, of Sears
port, of black vomit, which is the first case
in Havana this season. In Vent CruArloqt
the disease is committing fearful istrageti
among the Preach troops, having appear
ed early and ins more malignant form
than usual.
THE'
wards of venerable Josiah Quincy, now up
nine_ty years of age, baiting, says
the *ow been confined to his
ht- lac
.10,0146, in consequence ofl
— 4lO hz r,ecovered that
s 'qt andstopp e d
Hewn
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PLANL t'•,r
Proposed lavasiou -Me 1.
Tanis by way •
Irkesolueky aad Ilakiosg- 1
suadeo
.r aid
Indiana by • • •
The following article. - ;:from • thift:4'Shelhy
(Ky.) News of last Wedifesday,r will be
read with deep interest, especially as
throwing so touch light upon the move
mentisof the confederate fizirces* in Vir
ginia. If the statements of the writer he
true we may look for more important
movements 'elsewhere within a few days:
In our issue of last week we renewed a
suggeition that we had on several occa
sions, during the paSt few months, urged
upon the military. board of this State and
the federal authorities, the necessity of
raising and'organizing a military force in
each county, of one hundred to two hnn
d red mounted men, to act iu the several
counties, or wheu ()evasion required to
unite their commands in defined districts.
We monk! again urge this'matter. upon
the attention of those who ha vethe author
ity to carry the suggestion info practical
operation.
There were reasons, nine months ago,
why this plan—or one analogous to it
should have been adopted. At this time
there is an absolute necessity for it. Had
the suggestion been put into practical op
eration, even six months ago, the men
composing the companies would have
been well drilled and thoroughly under
stood their duties. As it is now, however
speedily the companies may be organized,
it is very probable that before they are
sufficiently trained and drilled there may
be need of their services; indeed, to our
mind, circumstances tend very strongly to
induce the conviction that the danger that
would demand their services is now immi
nent. We are no alarmists. We do not
desire to circulate rumors or tears that
will cause excitement or increase the. feel
ing of unrest which has taken possession'
of so many of ottr best citizens. But facts
are developing which show that the trai
tors are determined to carry out, as fur as
possible, their deliberately concocted
plans to keep the seat of war from their
own peculiar soil—the cotton States. That
has been from the first the leading object
of the Southern traitors who lead the van
in the traitorous attempts to overturn the
government and break tip the
Foiled in their earlier attempts to carry
out this darling object, new plans were re•
cently formed, and all the energies of the
traitors are expected to carry these plaits
into operation—partially, if not thoronm's
ly. The measures recently adopted by
the traitors, and which they are endeavor
ing to carry otft, may be stated : thus:
I. Withdraw all the forces trim the Vir
ginia and North orolina celiitits,. and con
centrate the** eentrill pornt in V i r
ginia. Thai foreiclo' tithig
the rebel armg, to be placed in einninand (t
Jogeph Is. Joh nmtnn, andto in vein the .li
reetion of Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania. fhr
Ilse purpose of tarn tin t ,' that Stat e .
2d. Withdraw all forces from the coast
of South Carolina and I leorgia, and con
centrate them at Chattanooga or some ad
*Put point. This division 11 , /in'M huh -
er the rebel a;•01,11. under c.anman.l
tg . Ler 7. and to more in the di
reetb.o t; , ). the latryo:P Of in
radiny i i hn , and! Kent:why.
Withdraw. the forces front the coast
of Horida, Alabama, Mississippi, 'l'-vii
and Arkansas, arid eoncentranne them at
Corinth. This wing to be eniftntantled hrl
G. 'l'. fleauregard, and mote in the-direr
lion of Padnenkiseith the intent of inva
ding :111iWnis anct,lndinna.
'This plan was formed by a full council
of leading traitors. It is unnecessary for
tit to give the source of our intbrulation.—
Suffice it, that our informant obtained it
from a native of this State, now a. resident
of another State, and whose name has of
ten been given' in the newspapers in the
Southern States us a trusted and confided
agent of the traitors against the l'
Socially and politically he stood among the
most prominent behire the rebellion.
The objects to lie gained in (-allying out
the plan was, first; to secure subsistence,
.of which there is none, or ut best but very
little, in the South—not enough to supply a
tithe of the ordinary demand; and second
ly, to force into their armies all the field
ing men. The several comManders were
to push forward their forces with all pos
sible dispatch, and possess themselves of
all the important military posts on the riv
ers and-in the loyal States, before these
posts could be occupied by Federal forces,
and thus, while the union armies held and
occupied the 1,0.081 of importanee in the
States in rebellion; the forees of t h e trait
ors would advaneelinto the very heart of
our country. '
We think' the-reader will agree with us
that the recent movements of the forces of
the traitors show that this development of
their plan is correct.. It is true that their
attempt in forming the middle wing under
Lane, at Chattanoogo, has been, at. least for
the present, foiled, by the energetic move
ments of McClellan; but news from West
ern Virginia "show that Jo. E. Johnston is
concentrating all the forces he can bring
against Bremont's command in that direc
tion---leuning- directly toward Pittsburgh.
And the evidence is overwhelming that all
the forces from those States to constitute
Beanregard's army at Corinth are concen
trating there rapidly, with the design and
kopti of' Overpowering General
army, and if successful in the object then
moving according to their plan. They
will, by thia means ; cause the federal ..an•
thorities to move an army in that direction
to meet them, during which time the
traitors will ra lly, by persuasion, impress
ment, and underthem,conscription law , to
their army, every traitor and rebel in Ten
nessee and Kentucky. l. :
With these facts before us we, and the
reader also, can see why it is that Morgan,
Wood, King, and Scott, with their .ma
rauding bands, are thrown forward into
Tennessee and Kentudky. They are
ready to act in gathering up all :the rebel
forces that: can be mustered, folly enforc
ing the conscription law in the States
whenever Beauregard moves fOrward, and
alSo to cut off the small detachments of
Union forces stationed at various points in
Kentucky anti Tennessee, and small
;bodies that may be sent out. They are,
further, to steal and intimidate arid
despoil loyal citizens, and act in con
junction with the traitors in the varione
communities in suppressing the Union
element, and giving encouragement to
the drooping spirits of ' the secession
traitors.
That all the leading rebels and traitors
in this State, and:we also believe in Tennes
see, are tidy cognizant of the plans and
operations' f then-traitorous leaders, is ev
ident. We need but to refer to their threats
and attempts at intimidation toward Union
men, and theif recent open avowal of treas
onable sentiments. We might refer to the
fact that in this county, NA a few days ago,
a violent:traitor and rebel went to an old
gentlegnan,Ate of the, most deservedly re
elected citizens in, the county, and advised
tum to no longer express his love for the
Union he had fiiught to maintain, and his
hatred of tbe treason that was attempting
to destroy that Union, but, if he could not
and would not take sides with the "South
ern rights men," to keep his tongne still
to refuse-to express his opinion in op
position to rebellion, for it would he but
a short time before the Union men is this
section would be overpowered, and those
who were known as avowedly attached to
the Union siroold be dealt tkith, and as he
had very.great respect for this old gentle
man., hirthiCiot wish to see him .11 1 / 1 010/
, the iptiftitoti titiol v tirid ifikewouV.
keep quoptr)ool4o4o;wpght escape ! Or,"
wO -, miftWesamiktikeLlawate mode 1- • ea
- -
Eget that the abolition taraitors and the se-
cession traitors are wo ' to reach the
same end—the destructio ,of the Union
The s trait d lared the, time
• neer longentimain •
..
th , oOnkr 7#vorr:
th Begrime
thiiie is no n arty :; of jigerring to these
things, ,en. ro,oth ers M like - The
thing is patent to '-very observing person
taut the traitors . are aware of the designa
of the leaders. Their randuet betrays
the fact; anti it. should be received and
acted upon as an indisputable Net hi , the
Union men. •
Guerrilla Bands in' Virginia.
The rebels in the Lihenandoah Valley, in
obedience to the proclamation of the infa-
MMUS Ekeher, are actively engaged in .
forming guerrilla bands for bushwhacking
—or. in other words, for robbing and mur
dering Union men. The Richmond pa
pers contain advertiseme . nta,.earnestly in
viting all who wish to join the •t Partisan
Raugers. — to form themselves into cors.
pane's and battalions. (hie "J o h n seoil,
rampfier county, Captain ('. ti. ad
vertises his intention of raking a carpi of .
mounted riflemen. ti , operate trt - thin the
('Fiettilis lid guarani veS a Inoro
life than Mlk tie the lot of th,• regular
dier.
Another, It. Imhoden, Captain C.
S. A.. — advertises his intention of raising
a corps under the style of the Blue
Ridge Rangers. — and among other things )
he says: "The object of the campaign is
simple; I do not intend to rely much on
military science, but mainly on great ce
lerity of movement, sleepless vigilance.
good marksmanship, and plenty' of old
fashioned rough lighting and bushwhack
ing, to make our country too hot for our
eneiny, the Yankees. I therefore want
men who will march all night or sit behind
a Itusb all day, and a good marksman with
a douide•barrelled shot-gun. Stich a man
can consider all the arms captured so
nou•h clear gain. My head-quarters will
be at Staunton tin• the present, where I
will remain during the organization."
The worst passions are appealed to, and
men are invoked to join this service, not
through motives of patriotism, but to grat
ify their hatred and malice, and fill their
pockets with the proceeds of their plunder.
How far they will succeed in their devilish
designs time will tell; but we venture to
predict that their Wall rauding "within the
eneun•'s lines" will prove the most haz•
ardour busiflesA they ha v.• yet undertaken.
Au Aggressive Policy.
Thor is little doubt but that the desper
tte condition of tl u • rebels, has c,uts,•d
heat to consider the fea.ibility of an ag
, ri•sN'itt Prow the Menipliis Ara
(incite of the edlt we copy the following
gum the idea of such a forlorn under
aking :
"It is said that if the enemy give us bat
e at Coniuth, that we shall first whip and
len eaptqra hi. army; and, these adrant
-1/61 attained, we shall adapt an aggrex
iwli,y/ amt earn!, the wan tat,, the
e S 111.11 I :(ltintry. It WOlllll liar Lieu
well for us if we had adopted this course
long ;since. 1 hit- troops, instead of lead
ing inactive livrs in camp, would have
!Well greatly delighted at the opportunity
of glory on such a field. Still it may not
he too late to adopt this policy now. It
in our opinion, the only way to put an
end to the war. As long as the foderals
can sit quietly at home and escape the
arils I.f the Vblli they inflict 11111111 others,
thl.l'l! i.a 11.1tlittre prribithility of their agree
ing to tiny proposition for peace wide},
does not involve our humiliation. ISM
war at their own doors--au invasion of
their own lamb and 611:4!!1 —eould not fail
to have a beneficial_ indnence upon their I
nunds - towar4s a sprredy peace. Now that
the ideal that; "c o tton is kink . ' has ei
ploded. alter inflicting upon us all the
ill, under whiCh we sutler. it Seems to us
to hi' digs high est dictate Of iSdOiii to
hang , our tactics and ad, 'pi tin aggress'', e
wartitre, We have tried the defensive
policy. and it has rosalied in materially
11#11111gillg . 115. Let ti; now try the aggres
!sive. „Let its try it, too, at ...nee. What •
ever is done should be done speedily : for
there is now less than two months iu which
to turn the tide in our favor, and ',trite a
httlanee.-sheet with the North, before
Europe intervenes.
The Nations And Their Debts
When ME. Wilkins Alieawber was all
io set sail for Australia, in the hope of
repairing his dilapidated fortmies in that
new land, lie favored his friend David
Coppertield the younger with a pieee of
advice, which may be said to have em
bodied the ripe fruits of his experience
on the subject of littinatt happiness and
misery. "Annual income twenty pounds,
annual expenditure nineteen pounds
nineteen shillings and sixpence-- net result
happiness; annual income twenty pounds,
'annual expenditure twenty pounds and
sixpence—result misery."
If the sage maxim of the philosophic
Micawber were as true of nations us of
men, the present condition of the civil
ized
world would be pitiable indeed.
Civilization and debt seem to go hand in
hand, and when we hear of one we may
infer the other, like the standard sailor,
who, when lie saw a gallows, knew at. once
that he was among a Christian people.
The command, "Owe no man anything,"
is so little- heeded- by gOvernments that
there iaiseakeili.***ln of Europe which
does hot 4sinstiatlfiße beyond its means.
We, totii,..!kfilikfrleason of that part of;
our citizens, are far Ced for this year to be
large borrowers. But we may point proud
ly to the fact that our government alone,
of all the governments mike world, needs
not, in even this great emergency, appeal
to strangers for pecuniary support, but
gets from its own citizens all it requires.
It is surely no small praise of popular
government, that when our government
was attacked as no,other government was
ever before, and at a time when it was
utterly defenceless, the people supported
it at once, not only with arms, but with
money. Such, moreover is the univer
sal confidence to its stability that, in the
midst of these unparalleled commotions,
its stocka are worth their face in gold.-
.Evening Pat.
. Security Extraordinary.
. An old money grab in the city of Glas
gow, who discounted bills fitti his friends
on "promise to pay," and who held good
"back" security in the shape of indorsa
tions, was applied to by a friend to cash a
small bill for him,when old "Discount" re
quired additional security. ' The friend,
who little expected a request of this kind,
flew into a violent rage. "Security, air
I'll give you thedevil for security 1" "Well
then," exclaimed the bill-discounter, "just
bring him forward: and as I ne'er ha'e
seen the gentleman get two . decent men
to say that it's really him, and yell get the
siller." •
ARCHBISHOP Hircims, on his way to
I Itinue, had an interview with the Emperor
•Napoleon. After a few commonplaces
- On the horrors , of civil war, pronounced
in the slow and monotonous tone, of voice
peculiar to him, Louis Napoleon abruptly
altered his manner. His glassy counten
ance lit up, his voice rose, and he proceed
ed with marked accentuation: . "But who
then advised your President, M. Lincoln ?
What induced , him rto. receive...those two ,
youngsters tees jeans oowens) into his
army? Ilre'might have perceived that it is
not to his . to encourage pretensions
like theirs bygiviorthem an ;opportunity
. i f getting theanielves talked of. • The
cause of Orleans is not a caustisrbich 'caw
be avowed. I
_bent lie - >tlWwwe vacant.
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THE REBEL DESIGN 0 CAPTURE
BANKS' WHOLE COMMAND.
Iris Statement to the War Departinent
REBELS RETREATED TO WINCHES'
McClellan's Troops Cut the Vir
ginia Railroad at Three Points.
NO MOVE OF OUR ARMY FEAR
RICIIMONIV.
EXHUMED BODIE:4 Niv1"10
coN V EYED Al' Prlll.lc
EXPENSE
WAguisivrox, May 27.--The following
was received at tier Wnr Department nt
II o'clock, p. m.
Wii.i.tamsrotiv, 4v. a., May 27.---To the
President—l have the honor to report the
safe arrival of my command at this place,
last evening at. ten O'clock, and the papa:
age of the Fifth Corps across the river to
day with comparatively little loss.. The losti
of men killed, wounded and missing, in the
different combats in which my Command has
participated since the march from Straus
burg, on the morning of the 24th inst., I•atn
now unable to report. but I have great grat- ,
ifieati on in tieing able to represent that al:
though serious it is much less than might
have been anticipated, considering the
very great disparity of forces engaged, and
the long matured plans ofthe enemy, which
aimed at nothing less than the capture of
our tliree. A detailed statement will be
forwarded as soon as possible.
My command encountered the enemy in
a constant succession of attacks, and in
well contested engagements, at Strausburg,
Middletown. Newton, at a point between
these places, and at. Winchester. The
tl.irce of the enemy was estimated at from
15,m° to '20,000 men, with very strong ar
tillery and cavalry supports. Ny own
force consisted of two Brigades. less than
f,mr thousand strong, all told, fifteen bun
lred cavalry, ten Parrot guns and six
smooth bore.
The substantial preservation of the en
tire supply is a source of gratification. It
unfiltered about five hundred wagons.
On a forced march of Afty-three
thirty-five of which was performed in one
day, subject to constant attack in front,
rear and Hank. according to its position,
by an enemy in full force,: the panics of
teamsters and the mischances of a river
passage of more than three hundred yards
width, slender preparations ibr food and
ferry. it lost not many more than fifty
VatgMlS. A full statement of this loss will
be forwardeil forthwith.
Very great commendation is due Capt.
S. B. Mr:third, A. Q. M., and (apt. E.
Beckwith. rim the safety of the train.
Ihir troops are in good spirits. and occupy
-1.001 sides of the river.
N. P.
Major (eueral Commanding
1:11 son r, May '2..—Private accounts
front Martinsburg represent that only a
felv rebel scouts arrived in town yesterday,
and shortly after retired, without doing .
any damage to the town. The indications
are that the rebels have retreated to I,Vin,
c.l),stor.
WAsuroTrov, May '27
athiees here been received a the War De
psrtnient to-day trout lien. lialleek.
;.tiiktral NfeClelian telegraplis• that his
troops have eat the 1 iriginia Central
Railroad at three points lietween4lnnover
Conit House and the Chiaulahniny.-
Nothing else of interest had transpired.
FouraLss Moxitov, May 21:.—The ad
viers from our fleet at City Point, James
river, received last night, state that no
new attack had yet been made upon the
rebel fortifications below Richmond.
One of the men on the gunboat Port
Loyal was wounded in the thigh, on Satur
day, by a rifle shot from the shore while
on the lookout in the foretop. 'The enemy's
sharpshooters make it dangerous to pass
from one vessel to another, and their balls
frequently strike their sides.
All the inhabitants of City Point have
been forced to move to Petersburgh and
into the interior by the rebels.
No dispatches were received from Nor
folk to-day.
WASHINGTON, May 27.—8 y dispatches
received at the War Department we learn
that a ff airs are quiet at Harper's Ferry and
its vicinity.
A message from Gen. Banks, dated 1
o'clock this morning, says Capt. Callis, of
the Zonaves D'Afrrque, has brought his
command into Hancock, having bad but
two killed. A later dispatch from Gen
eral Banks says all is quiet at Williams
port.
FREDKRICKSBURG, VA., May 25.—A- re
connoissance in force was made this morn
ing ten miles on the Bowling GreenTele. : ,
graph - andPlaiikroadit bjr:Gen.
accompanied by . the Harris Light Cavalry,
Major Duffle iu command. battalion of
the First Pennsylvania Cavalry, Major
Richards also went • out the plankroad 16
miles from Fredericksburvand wen told
by the • Union rnen•that no rebel soldiani
could be found within thirty miles if we
searched the country withirloodhonnds.••
The wealthy planters have all left for
Richmond and their dwelling's are :How,
used as headquarters for ourothms.-
The entire army are' in spleadid,Writt
and are eager to overtake the enemy
The railroad bridge across the Massapona
from. Fredericksburg,' will be ready- for'
operation to-morrow. ,
Gen. Reynold's has been appointe d"
Military Governor of Fredericksburg. • 1-k
Westin:avow, May 27.---Notice is given
by the War Department that the further
exhumation of debtialed'aoldiers,
where public means of transportation
would have to be relied on, cannot be per
mitted and has been prohibited.
•
Late Mexican News.
l* A Sill NGTON, May 27.--A gentleman
who has just arrived here on othcial :busi
ness- from the city of Meiricci, Eaving left
there on the sth inst., reports that towards
the latter part of last .ineoth=the Britinh'
Minister, Sir Charles Wykei 6onelrided• 'a
treaty at Puebla with Sr. Doblado, by
which all difficulties with, the English were
amicably settled, and had it, not been for ;
the sudien' talon Of the French, a treaty
with Spain=-would have- been` coneludet
also by Sr. 'Doblado - auttieuendi PeivatiP
The latter person, however,' let.the ,
1 shores of Mexico on good terms withlini
I Juarez government, and a ministestpill be
sent to Madrid to arrange all matters in,
he President of the 1 ailed : times, in i
reply to a mutation of the'Elopsit Of. Rep
reseutatives, Milting if not' ineouipatible,
with Pf thi ke - Alti3OßA° b 9 Oindiabed i
_ViO
copies of said;-corresi4etieWits piky-seve
been received sinew ' lotteltooollir rd.!'
*To to Ahoetottlidoil - iffidriii 'it
' . d the bretakietimpor
r.r u ltA: , =."100,: . ii
aim
M lIIY
LATEST FROM .
,News.
HANOVER CO
TAKEN.
FEDERAL LOSS BUT SMALL
REBEL MNIINCONSIDEXAB
IN'SILI:EIY, witraliormo -
AND PRISONERN.
NO MORE MEN REQUIRED FOR
LESS THAN THREE YEARS.
I.ate Voreigrai "New,
NO NEWS FROM C4PRISTR.
WASHINGTON, May _,. - -General tiigel
was <eretmJPd to night. An immense
crowd listened to a shirt speech whieh
elicited great enthusiasm. •
The War Department received adrices
this evening from Gen. McClellan of the
capture of Hanover Conrt House. Our
loss is said - to be small, that of the enemy
considerable in killed, wounded and pris
oners. One of their cannon was captured.-
No advices from Gen. Halleck have been
received to-day at the War Depariment: •
• Nothing further from Gen. Banks. •
Cironlar of Governor Curtin.
HARRISBURG, May 27.—Active progress
is making in obedience to the requisition
recently Made by the United States Gov
ernment to organize and forward iwinedi
ately all volunteer and militia force in the
State. Meanwhile the State authorities
have requested the War Department to
modify the requisition, by specifying the
number of men that are wanted. It. is
geWerally believed that in fact a small part
of - the military force of the State will be
sufficient to meet any existing emergency.
The, following circular lies just. been
made public :
To Major Generals Commanding Dirisions
of the Ppinsylvania Main
(ikasmart—lenclose fromgeneral orders
No's. 23, 24 and 25, of these Headquar
ters. In carrying these orders into effect
you will make known to The Volunteer
Militia, and-to such persons as are willing
to form new companies with a view to ser
vice for three months, and that volunteers
for the war will be raised in a different
manner.
1. That all regiments in companies now
organized or that shall be organized under
the requisition from the general Govern
erument shall report to you.
2d. On receiving such return you will
without delay report the same to inn, spec,
ifying the officers of the regiment, number
of companies, names of captains and num
ber amen, or in case of companies, the
names of the captains and number of men:
the United State will not receive any coin
panics with less than eighty men, rank and.
file, that 1 may hand them over the seine
to the United States in charge, who will
ffirnish transportation; tVc., • under the laws
of the United States, to such rendezvous
as may be designated. The State mown-
ing no liability for any expenses whatever.
[Signed). . A. L. RUSSELL,
Adj. Gen. of Pennailiania..
The Now York Seventh regiment has
just passed through this city en
_route tor
Washingttin.
Important Order From Ger.
HARRINBI;B42, May, 27.—The following
eneral Order has just been issued.
Ist. The Governor being notified by the
Secretary of War by telegraphic dispatch
received this afternoon, that the President
will no longer require .any other troops
from Pennsylvania to . he mustered into the
United States service, but those 'who vol
unteer for three years or during the war.
General Orders number .23,24 and 26 of
these headquarters, dated on_ the 26th in
stant, calling on three months.volunteers,
are hereby countermanded and revoked.
•
2d. All commanding officers, Who may
have issued their orders for the mustering
into the service Of.the United, States of
their respective commands, • under the
said orders of the twenty-sixth inst., are
hereby ordered to counterinsind . the same.
3d. The Governor, on issuing this or•
der, congratulates the people of Pennsyl
vania on the information received from
the Department, that the emergency. which
'seemed to the Governinent of the United
States. so imperatively to demand their
immediate service' no longer •exists, and
would also . commend the patriotic, zeal,
and alacrity_mitnifested in every section of
the Commoriwinslth to•meet it. -•
By order of A. G. CURTIN,
Gov. and.Conimander-in-Chief.
A. S. Busseu., Adj't General.
From -Washington.
,
WAISIIINGTOii
. Iday 27,—The President
has sent a message to Congress taking up
on himself and the Cabinet altogether the
responsibility of the;Milainires for which the
• Of ItoPrestuitatives, censured the late
Secrtgary.of Warr, Gen. Cameron It "is
hopa by, him and by the members of the,
Cabinet that
-this measure will he under-
Stood by the public as an evylence4f:their
determination that no i divilions
shall be gotten up in. the inistration.
,The zeal and the mill:dimity of the Ad
mMistriition are , .equal whateier has
existed' here at any time. The' public will
tlzhoPo soon •enough find out from the
dispositions made here, that there is net
-and has not been any such alarm concern
ing this city or its yicinity as has been
elsewhere imagined,ind that : the regi
ments ,called for ire used properly
in view of successful operations' by the
grand armies in the: field, and to give
hem perfect efficiency. •
• .
The peewee etill'ae eigtost Con
;
May. 2? Ths National.
Feremng 16-0/4-11:Prfoge.Sa'
tions =h , :th %l
e eetents again - menace
the National. Capital, saysthat besides
creating a false alarm, they - are unjust to
the military dispositions the government
his made for protection of this city, while
their only effect abroad can , be to produce
a fictitious .impression more complimenta
ry to the militarr.,streogth of the, insur
gents than the Tads Oftbe Care held
.to warrant. Theabsurd rumors • which
gained currency among idlers, : quid mines
and secessiositliiiteril have aid dis
turbed the' equani mity ru of the people of
WaShington. ' • •
Itonstats; May ttli.ii.stotig thoaai
&rationed is . beitraohisted , hythetrnion
Men yeeterdly,. the 'haute Of 'Robert MC,
Lane,"late Muniter to Marie° . was *mil
neonsly given. This is incorrect. we tha t
gentleman was not molatedln
All is gitiet here this morning. A large
force of police is etalotted idaiglialtimore
street, and othsiejiteelitimhfbi prevent tur
bulent gathesiks.
01•1411alatieWs.
Igt===ll
Curtis.
GENERAL ORfiElt, NO. 211
Ohl Dieffemillsw — - -
May 27.—A specialineet
':ouncils was held to-day
the Committee au the
tion ofthe city toconsider
;out of a call of tho'Clov
iiited States and of the
if additional troops from
Wetherill, chairman of
defense, Ate., offered a
ding the City Controller to
countersign all warrants drawn by the
Mayor, in pursuance of the orders-o'th,
eommittee on delense t . Xhis for the.
purpose of properjy,iiegillipill
guards for active service. 0 action wits
tcr . givemint , .
the committand a warmfle •
Finally the reioluti‘a was goat until
Thursday. Vr. thereupon -sesignatiow, i . 1 5, tr• A
, . V p
From Mexico.
dispatches received today, state under
date of Orizaba. May llth, the French
tr,,op s had advanced within three leagnisk
a that city, a le•t:e. they encountered
fgirce of tea thousand Mexicans who at
th, m willisut•ce,,, liltin g Ave hun
dre,l or the hi vaaer:.. It does not seem
from the fuel , : in lin‘ dispatches that Pres-.
:ma his cabinet MO tied from
the cite Mexico to Queretaro as recent
ly ,tated in the newspapers. -; •
Foreign Iliewse,:..!. ' ;,1 4
CAPE RACE, Nay 27.—The ROyidl64
steam pill i p Europa, • i which sailed' 'fiat'
imli t
Liverpool on the lith via Queenstown o
the Isth for Boston vitt Elalifve ! . •
this point this evening. She was
.
4
by the news yacht of the Associated
and the following summary of her -
Which are two day's later (IEII 14144 is
received, was obtained. • ' . f •‘' t.
.*
The Royal Mail steamship Persia .ii
at Liverpool on the lt;th inst. ,•to t
The news from the llnited Stateint Vitil
evacuation of Yorktown by, the: A jnitele ,
which was brought by the steamer Periui,
was received atter 'the' 4egurarliliusiness
hours on the ltlth lost. It created consid
erable. excitement, but the fact -had
_Ant
been developed when the Europivialasi-x'
erpool. , . ...
Atherican securities inuttediatetyt; ;
came firtner.and cotton signs of imiitattirtexa;
Some of the London jean:dein *fftfit:::
oring to diminish this victory: of; the kiwi
of tho Potomac, regard it as a jaw:. of thai.=
strategy of the confederates. , • - .
Foreign commercial intelligenci fiy.the
steamer Europa. .•
Liverpool Breadettits Iliarket=4ltherar
Richardson & Spence and otheiratatholi
ties report Flour dull arat 64104111.11iiiilif '
sales of American at 248 6d(i;3os. Whea;
very dull and declined ad since ;
Red Weaterafia 4uoted•at limlidfgklhat
fled Southern at 108 9511118; White
.11 eatx
ern at 1 Is 6dells Sid; White gt.idli4llo.2l
®
12s lid. Corn is also dull an 'his de - • :
dined 8(416d:.-hlixed 275€0,27s
27a 041; White 22s ad(tt'22ttitiL
LIVERPOOL PROW [SION MAANNT...--MOSaiIIV
Dridgeland, Athyia, and othera,* reptary
beef with a downward tendency; - .lwOr.
quiet and easy;' lard declining!. tallaw.eah
sier, at -12 s 455. ,
litaxt:v
securities are firmer.. Erie R...11 ) ,84v,,,
Penna. s's, 711 and dull: 111. Cent. itqa;t2;
45 per cent. discount; 5'.i140„
7210 , 74: Virginia a i s 5 2(W.54; )41 0 2,..
t;'s '• - •:.ge
Thirty-Seventh trongrenn,,,,.': f .
.
Wssuistrrox May 2 7th.---Hotoirle.
Crislield, of Md., from the ComMitt4:o"
'Public Lands, reported and atfrocatod-ai
bill granting to the State of . C'alifOuilillifti
tract of land known : as.the CAtoirisk"s l ,.
sell, for the purpose of introdnaing,a'•,,j
cktit supply of fresh water owand , :trver
the same. The bill was referred tollia
Committee of the Whole' en . the i State of
the Union.. r' ' ' e-',-;-.2.,,i
'I
•'lhe Speaker laid befOreith Hoy ,a
message from the. Piiiiideist, briefly rear
ringto thee history. of the
of hostilities, and his exer51 4 ,41401,, . ,
powers of the Constinitionto l ' ".
~ j -' •.-
14. 7"
Capital of the country during. , .
of Congress, incidentally with,
~iitntiSif
Mcmgan, Alexander Cutionings;,e(n4 mat_
a view to speedy- and protective nnn . nnah,„
By these means he believes..o.-
wm; prevented from oveithron. j :lo'i•hO,_.... ' .
no knowledge that even a dollar itallott:
or wasted. The President quotsalitinhir•c
resolution censuring Camerori,and : .
that not only_liimself, but all the bea d,. , .:
departments, are' responsible 'with'olos4,„,
roil fin whatever error, wrong orient '
been committed.
Referred to the Committee of thif,llllkide,
on the State of the Uhion. •' , ! , •'''.,. - 1 ,i,..
Mr. Dawes made an exposure : 44W
condition of the Treasury, aid 'ssidAssZii l 3
was to prove that Mr. Voorlitini:
overshot the mark as to expixilliteineslic• - • •
Mr. Voorhees sniritedly,....
_,,„..Milit 11*. I,
Mr. - Dawes'. speech was: 21 1 11 11drutitent- - 4
ence to him. he maintained' his foriiiir• - . t
position. In conclusion he censored the .
Administration for extra' . '`,..„...,.•- - • ended
his position shd,enantoid• • 3-
r'''''. lA' . ro
dueed the - day initsio!, ••, `
The man Who chargedAbehlrith , P - S
.1 9 4.1
or impeached his -- reideoly watt6lse .
in
his teeth, in his thinitilid.Mag Snort
Mr. Vadsworth refeirettitilliistimuluct
of Kentucky during,the-priiienriiiik, say
ing in forty da she iilst . . ps into
the fi eld than though the
latter has twelve repiesentsti* Lige to
the latter's ten. If tin likovekoiggillas
sachusetts is tired of the contest , and will
not freely contrilintitltif liiit'ltrlNNAlß
out conditions, give Kmitirek7 in oppor
tunity to do so. - and, tif.. , late the
hinir; she will : aft -=no: .. . •- ; -
have enlisted for the war ti '
fight it out, and we never ' ' rlr - l'lL''' - o -
our Arms till rebellion is 'essillinj-41
'earth and a ll the'lltatis arCii4lol4„mw,
like. Constitution.
_. •-•• •'i f-x•' i _ iiwtipm
Mr. Dawes, of Mass nipliedinilbst4sisa6ll
bees, saying, among other Cllgotikab it. ..
him the averagee_xpendiiii* - 4641. — 116.4111111 t. 4-
not see it. The Preshiettligiii O
, '
received tn•day. toagooff i esineMro .
upon his•sboulders the loatinieti -
....A:
be corrupt and fraudukiitObr ei'
a 1 1
t T
er,on was:censured by thitfilliiti‘ ; 'it
President entrusted Ales
with the expenditure of 'two islillyte
Jars, and so adiised he did:itight.tirdeclare
Immo
the respontibility,-butwhen the •Presidenti
singled out this one act, he liftgut 'pebetor'
under the condemnatory restibignolifthe
Moine. • •
Adjourned.
.
The French in INlemon, , ch.sa
l e v e A rr s e n sr iN o a nde T e o n s c : o
m f
a Cin y.24 ction ..... ati mi co misel. mm
oi : A
Cpnsul at Manititlan , bearer of - . Mr .! Corr,
win's last treaty with i Meitleii, by which die' `
United States agrees to loan ten stifilitams,
in installments secured by 'mortgage 'of
church propert;;tuit soeforthvtinbilisold
from time to time to satisfy, debt, %yams ;,..
the probability. (Alm French - Mirehjog sue
cessfully to the City of.Meirieb. l 'allafp have
only 7,000 troops but they are the dowers
of Napoleon's, army, vetera n it.tiNtom
seen servi c e in the surd
When arrived at the Mexico Capital their
troubles will but begin. They will be heav
ily reinforced, Napoleon'sagentatlegl
tla aripg,„
that &,000 or 76,000'w-ill besentif W ~
ed bik
hAllen believes there is . a elope comiloa k a ra
etween the French and' the rebels, and
confirms the truth of the report' th at the
latter are operating for the
the of `= -
the States of Sonora an Chiliar'
where there are mines richer than e ib.
'of California, and urges the impo r ttlisee-.
lif the United States stationing suisiwilgAt. a
war eg:thayinas, and landing trooßelhiinsi,
(Waken* there, to, cross Juno A ,
we having the right or tilasit for . inen
maiiitiensnof war' iibilei c llie' tie*,
*"..d 'wine months' ago by C ' ..
or . 1 %50
,an interview , wilt- t m •.; i'„:
mot
he - inspintinitie of
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neat of- k
le n . thieir:46llolo.-
- '
nraei4c outlet.
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