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BY S. J ROW
CLEARFIELD, PA.. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1863.
VOL. 9.-TVO. 25.
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ABKlF HISTORY OF THE TIMES.
Chronology cf the Rebellion, etc -
Jan. 1. 18G2. Mason -and Slidell left Fort
barren fur England . . . Cannon fight at Fort
Pickens. - r- s
Jan. 2. Skirm ish near Port Royal.
Jan. 7. Ex Got. Moorhead, of Kentucky,
released Irotu Fort Warren. . . '. Rebels rout
ed at Clue's Gjp. Va. .
Jan. 8. Rebels routed in Randolph coun
ty Missouri.
Jan. 10. Waldo P. Johnson and Truslen
Folk, ol Missouri, expelled Irora the U.S.
Seuate. . . . Humphrey Marshall defeated near
Prestonburg, Kentucky.
Jan. 11. Gnnboat action near Columbus,
Ky. . . . Rebels burn the bridges on the Lou
itville and Xashvi He Railroad.
Jan. 12 Burnside's advance 8 tiled from
Fortress Monroe.
Jan. 13. Secretary Cameron resigned. Ed
in M. Stanton appointed.
Jan. 17. Burnside arrives at flatteras.
Jan. 18. Gunboat reconnoissance up the
Tennessee River.
Jan. ID. Baitte of Mill Springs, Ky.; rebel
Geo. Zollicotler killed.
Jan. 23. Stone fleet sunk In the channels
ol Charleston harbor.
Jan. 28. Fight with rebel guuboats near
-Savannah.
Feb. I. Skirmish near Bowling Green, Ky.
Feb. 3. Rebel steamer Nashville ordered
To leave Southampton harbor; the U States
steamer I uscarora endeavors to follow, but is
stepped iy an r-nghal. rrigate.
Feb. 3. Jesse D. Bright, of Indiana, ex
pelled frm the'U. S. Senate.
Feb. '6 Fort Henry captured.
Feb. 7. Gen. Lander Union forces occu
py Komney, Va.
Feb. 7 8- Battle of Roanoke Island.
F-b. 9. Gen. C. P. Stone arrested and sent
to Fort Lafayette.
Feb. 10. Elizabeth City, Va., surrendered
to Burnside forces.
Feb. 13. Springfield, Missouri, taken by
the Unionists.
Feb. lo. Bowling Green evacuated by the
rele!s.
Feb. 16. Capture of Fort Donelson ; rebel
Generals Buckuer and Tighlman taken.
Feb. 17. Battle at Sugar Creek, Ark.
Feb. 18. Skirmish at Independence, Mo.
Feb. 19. Clarkesville, Tennessee taken by
Com. Foote. ... Rebel Corigr.-ss meets at
Richmond.
Feb. 20. Wiiiton,X. C, burned by Union
forces.
Fob. 21. Union troops defeated at Rio
Grande, Xvw Mexico.
Feb. 22. Jwtl. Davis inaugurated at Rich
mund. Feb. 23. Rebels evacuate Nashville, Ten
nessee. . . . Gen. Curtis captures Fayetteville,
Ark. . . . Gen. Buell occupies G ilatin. Tenn.
Feb. 27. Rebels evacuate Columbus, Ky.
Feb. 28. Cbailestowu, Va., occupied by
i mon troops.
March 2. Gen. Fred. W. Lander died.
Gun boat light at Pittsburg, Tenn.
March 3 Union troops occupy Columbus,
Ay. . . . Uen. .Hanks occupies Martinsburg.
. . . r-fgasremeni at jew Madrid, Mo.
March o. buanrcgaro. takes coinuioiid of
ti c Mississippi aimy.
March G-S. Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark.
March 8 9. Attack on our flout by the reb
el steamer Merrimac ; frigate Cumberland
sunk, and frigate Congress surrendered.
.March 'J.foint Pleasant, Mo., taken by
Liuonisis.
March 11. Gen. McCIellan relieved of chief
command ; Geu. IJalleck assigned to the Mis
sissippi Department : Gen. Fremont assigned
to the Mountain Department.
Maveh vz. Jacksonville, Fid., occupied by
Uiiiou troops. Winchester, Va., occupied
tiy Oen. Banks.
March 14. Battle of Xewbern, X. C. .
New Madrid, Mo., evacuated bv the-rebel.
March 16 Rebels defeated at Cumbeiland
.Muiintaio.
March 18. Rebel steamer X'ashvillc escap
ei from Beaufort. . . . Rebels evacuate Ac
quia Creek.
.Marciui. Oen. Butler arrives at Ship Is
land. . . . Gen. Burnside takes possession of
Washington X. C.
March 22 Keconnoisance in force to Cum-
oeriand tiap.
March 23. Battle at Winchester, Va. . . .
tort Macon invested.
March 27 Skirmish near Strasbnrg, Va.
March 28. Battle near Santa Fe, X. M. . . .
Nupping Point, Va., occupied by Union
troops.
April 1. Gen. Banks at Woodstock, X. C.
April 2 Uniouists occupy Thoroughfare
April 3. Apalachicola possessed by Union
jrces.
April e Battle of Pittsburg Landing or
Jsliiloh; rebel Gen. A. S. Johnston killed.
April 7. Surrender of Island o. 10.
April 10. Bombardment and surrenderor
rrt t'ulaski.
Airil 11. Iluntsville, Ala., occupied by
(en. Mitchel.
April 12. Engagement at Monterey, Va.
April 14. Bombardment of Fort Pillow.
April Jo. Union troops left ship island for
-""" Orleans. . . . Engagement at LeVs Mi
ills,
ur lorktown.
April 17. Geu. Banks occupies New Mar
ket and Mouut Jackson, Va. ... . Gen. Reno's
expedition left Xewbern.
April 18.Rebels repulsed in a night at
Jac upon Union troops at Yorktown. . . .
fmbardmeut of Forts Jackson and St. Phil
'P, below New Orleans.
April 19.-Battle at Camden, X. C.
April 24. Dismal Swamp Canal destroyed,
si p ion Sects run past Forts Jackson and
Philip; the Union gunboat Naruna sunk.
Great destruction of properly at Xew Or
leans by the rebels.
April 25 New Orleans evacuated by the
rel8 . Fort Macon surrendered.
April 27 .The Union flag raised at New
ur'wns Skirmish near Xewbern, X. C.
April j 28. Forts Jackson and St. Philip sur
rendered. Altbam.29'-Rebel8 rUted at Br,d8ePrt'
A)My 1 Gen. Mitchell possesses Hantsville,
May 2. Union troops at Pulaski, Tennes
e. captured by Morgan the guerrilla-
GlouL4rBt,e of WIHiamsbntg, V.'.,.
joucester, Va., taken.
P 7,6 Union troops occupy Williamsburg.
r'dcnt Lincoln Tr.it, Fortress Monroe. . . .
York
May 8. Attack on Sewall's Point by the
Monitor and other Union gunboats.
May 9. Battle at Farmington, Miss. . . .
Gen. Hunter issues his emancipation procla
mation. ... Ponsacola evacuated by the reb
els. . . . Bombardment at Fort Darling, James
River.
May'lO. Surrender of Xorfolk. . . . Gos
port Xavy Yard burned by the rebels, and
Craney Island abandoned. ... Gunboat battle
at Fort Pillow on the Mississippi.
May 11. The rebels destroy their ironclad
Merrimac.
Ma 13. Gen McClellan's advance at White
lloiise, Va. . . . Skirmish near Cumberland,
Virginia.
May 16. U. S. transport Oriental wrecked.
May 17. Rebels driven across tl:e Chicka
hominy at Bottom's Bridge.
May 19. The President revokes Gen. Hun
ter's emancipation proclamation.
May 23 Part of Gen. McClellan's army
crosses the Cbickahominy. . . . Fierce fight
at Front Royal, Va. . . . Rebels defeated at
Lewisburg, Va. . . . Rebels driven from Me
cbanicuville. Va.
May 24. Gen Banks retreats to Winches- r
ter. and next day to the Potom ac.
May 26. Gen McCIellan takes possession
of Hanover Court House.
May 28. Rebels retreat from Corinth. Miss.
May 30. Front Royal occupied by Union
troops.
May 31 Battle of Seven Pines and Fair
Oaks. Gen Pope occupies Corf ntb.
J une 1 Continued fighting at Seven Pines.
Gen Fremont drives the rebels from Stras
bnrg, Va.
June 3 Union troops land on James Island,
near Charleston.
June 4 Rebels burn their works at Fort
Pillow and leave.
June 6 Unionists occupy Memphis fierce
gnnboat fight there. Fremont attacks the reb
els at Harrisonburg. :
June 7 Rebel batteries silenced at Chatta
nooga. Tenn. A rebel executed for tearing
down the American flag at New Orleans.
June 8 Battle of Cross Keys. Va.
June 9 Battle of Port Republic, Va
June 10 Battle of James Island, S C
June 13 Rebels t:ut railroad and telegraph
at Whit ; Huuso, in McClellan's rear.
June 17 Battle at St. Charles, Ark.; explo
sion of the Union gunboat Mound Citv.
Juue 18 Union troops occupy Cumberland
uap. Smrniishing before Richmond
June 20 Union forces occupy Holly Springs
lUISSlSKippi.
June 25 Commencement of the seven days
oattie oetore Kicbmond.
June 26 The rebels destroy their gunboats
on me Mississippi. den Pope assigned to
me commana or me army of Virginia. Bit
tie of Mechanicsville.
June 27 Bombardment of Vicksburg. Gen
fremont relieved of his command. Battles
orGa ines' Hill and Golding's Farm.
June 28 Battle of the Chicahominy.
June 29 Battle of Savage's Station.
June 30 Battle of White Oak Swamp. U
nbn troops occupy Luray, Va.
July I President decides to call for 300.
000 volunteers Battle of Mahrern Hills, and
close of the seven days' struggle. Cavalry
engagement near iioonesville, Miss.
July 4 Rebel gunboat captured ou James
Kiver.
July 7 Rebvls. repulsed at Bayou Cache,
Arkansas.
July 11 Gen Ualleck appointed comtnan-
aer-iu chief.
July 13 Rebels capture Mnrfreesboro, Tenn.
July 14 Battle at f ayetteville, Ark Gen
Pope takes command of the army of Virginia,
July 10 Rebel gunboat Ark. runs through
ttie union fleet and reaches V lcksburg: has
a flght with the gunboat Carondolet.
July 17 Rebels take Cynthiana, Ky.
July lo The traitor Gen Twiggs died.
Battle at Memphis, Mo.
July 22 Rebel raid into Florence, Ala
July 24 Gen Halleck goes to confer with
Gen McCIellan.
July 2-3 President's proclamation warning
toe reoeis ot tne oonnscation Act.
July 28 Rebels defeated at Moore's Mills,
.Missouri.
July 29 Guerrillas defeated at Mt. Ster
ling, Kentucky.
Aug. 1 Fight at Ncwark.Missouri Rebel
Government declare Gen Pope and his officers
not entitled to mercy.
Aug. 2 Skirmish at Ozark, Mo.
Aug. 4 Secretary of War orders a dnft for
300,000 men. General Butler assesses New
Orleans rebels to support the poor.
Aug. 5 McClellan's troops occupy Malvern
Hill. Gen McCook murdered by the rebels
while wounded and defenceless. Battle of
Baton Rouge.
Aug. 6. Gen. Hooker abandons Malvern
Hill Rebel ram Arkansas blown up.
Aug. 7. Guerrilla fight at Kirkville, Mo.
Skirmish near Wolftown, Va. Rebel ad
vance crosses the Rapidan.
Aug- 8. Writ ot Habeas Corpus suspended,
and orders given to arrest those who discouf-
age enlistments. No more passports to be is
sued Skirmish near Orange C. U.
Aug. 9. Battle of Cedar Mountain -Guer
rillas defeated at Stockton, Mo.
Aug. 11. Independence, Mo., taken by the
rebels Skirmish at Cedar Mountain Guer
rilla fight near Williarasport, Tenn.
Aug. 13. Steamboat collision on the Poto
mac ; 0 soldiers lost Drafting ordered to be
gin 1st of Sept.
Aug. 16. Rebels attempt to cross the Rap
idan, but are driven back. Evacuation of
Harrison's Landing t-y the army of the Poto
mac Cols. Corcoran, Wilcox, cct., reach
Fortress Monroe from Richmond prison.
Aug. 17 Uen McClellan's advance reaches
Hampton ; the rear guard cross the Cbicka
hominy Gen Pope's retreat begun.
Aug. 21 Rebels attempt to cross the Rap
pahannock.
Aug. irrana reception ot uen oorcoran
in New York Rebel attack on Calett's Sta
tion. Aug. 23 General battle between General
Pope's forces and the rebels.
Aug. 25 Skirmish at Waterloo Bridge,
Va Rebel attack on Fort Donelson.
Aug. 26 Rebels get possession of Manas
sas Junction Fight at Haymarket, Va U
nion gunboats demolish rebel works at City
Point. . .
Aug. 29 Battle at Groveton, Va.
Ao. 30 Second battle of Bull Run; our
troops defeated, and retreat at night Battle
Rebels horn their small gunboats on
River. ,
May 7 Battle of West Point, Va.
near Richmond, Ky A fight at Bolivar,Tenn
Sept. 1 Severe battle at Chuntilly, Va.
Gens Kearney and Stevens killed General
Burnside's army evacuate Fredericksburg
union troops evacuate Lexinston, Ky.: rebel
attack on Louisville expected ; great excite
ment in Cincinnati Fight at Britton's Lane,
Tenn.
Sept. 2 Gen McCIellan assigned to com
mand the forces for the defense of Washing
ton Fight near Fairfax C. H. Engagement
at Plymouth, N. C.
Sept. 3 Gen White arrived at Harper's
Ferry.
Sept. 4 Rebel steamer Oreto ran blockade
into Mobile Skirmish at Cumberland G ip.
Sept. 5 Rebels cross at Point of Rocks,
and begin the invasion of Maryland.
Sept. 6 Rebels occupy Frederick City.Md.
First capture by the pirate Alabama (the
whaler Ocmulgce). Up to Dec. 12 there had
been 8 ships, 6 barks, 1 brig, and 6 schooners
destroyed by the Alabama, and three other
vessels robbed and relensed. v
Sept. 7 Union advance occupied Bowling
Green, Ky Gen Pope relieved of command
of the army of Virginia : Gen McClellan's
command absorbs this army.
Sept. 8 McClellan's array at Rockville,Md.
Rebel Gen Lee issues a proclamation to
Maryland Fight at Poolville, Md Restric.
tiocs on travel rescinded.
Sept. 9 Rebels evacuate Fredericksburg.
Sept. 10 Levy en masse iu Penn'a to re
pel threatened invasion Fight at Gauley.Va.
Sept. 11 Union troops occupy Newmarket
Va. Hagerstown, Md. occupied by rebels.
Sugar Loaf Mountain occupied by Union For
ces Bloomfield, Mo. captnred by rebels ; also
Maysville, Ky.
Sept. 12 Gen Hooker occupied Frederick
City. Md. Skirmish at Maryland Heights.
Sept. 13 Rebels demand the surrender of
Momfordsvill, Ky.; a fight there next day
A charge on the rebels at Middletown, Md.
Sept. 14 Battle of South Mountain Rebel
attack on Harper's Ferry.
Sept. 15 Harper's Ferry surrendered
Rebels attempt to blockade the Ohio River.
Sept. 17 Battle of Antietam Union troops
evacuated Cumberland Gap Mumfordsville
surrendered to the rebels Fights at St.
John's Bluff, Fla.
Sept. 18 Rebel army evacuate Sharpsburg
and recross the Potomac.
Sept. 19 Battle of Iuka Rebels leave
Harper's Ferry.
Sept. 22 President Lincoln's Emancipa
tion Proclamation issued Battlo with Indians
at Wood Lake, Min.
Sept. 24 Convention of loyal Governors
at Altoona, Pa Fight at Donaldsonville, La.
Sept.27 Augnsta, Ky. destroyed by the
rebels. .
Sept. 29 Gen. Nelson shot at Cincinnati
by Gen. Davis.
. Oct. 1 President Lincoln visits McClel
lan's army, and urges an immediate move
ment across the Potomac Gen. Pleasanton's
cavalry crosses at Shepardstown Gen. Buell's
army leaves Louisville.
Oct. 3 Battle of Corinth An expedition
up St. John's River, Fla.-, takes the tort on St
John's Bluff Gen. Morgan concludes his re
treat from Cumberland Gap RebelAvacuate
Frankfort, Ky.
Oct. 4 Defeat of the rebels at Corinth
Gen. Buell reaches Bardstown.
Oct. 5 Union forces occupy Galveston.
Battle at Uatchie River. Rebels routed at
Fayetteville, Aik.
Oct. 6 Gen McCIellan ordered to cross the
Potomac and give battle to the enemy.
Oct. 8 Battle of Perryville, Ky.
Oct 9 Rosecraus recalled from the pursuit
ot trice and van Uoru. Bragg's rebels re
trat to Harrisonburg, Ky.
Oct. 10 Stuart's rebel cavalry raid into
naryiano. auu rennsy ivania.
Oct. 11 Rebels in force threaten Nashville,
lenn. skirmish near Lagrange, Ark.
. Oct 12 Stuart's cavalry recross the Potomac.
Oct. 13 Gen Bragg evacuates Camp Dick
Kobinson.
Oct. 15 Drafting in Boston and Baltimore
Fighting near Lexington, Ky.
Oct. 18 The guerrilla General Morgan oc
cupies Lexington, Ky.
Oct. 19 Skirmish near Nashville.
Oct, 20 Morgan (rebel) captures a wagon
tram near Bardstown, Ky.
Oct. 21 Attack on the rebels near Nash
ville. Rebels leave Western Virginia.
Oct 23 Bragg's army at Cumberland Gap
Battle at Pocotaligo, 8. C.--Rebel suit works
in Florida destroyed- Gunboat reconnois-
sance up Broad River, S. C
- Oct. 23 Rebels defeated at Maysville, Ark
Oct. 24 Gen Buell deprived of the com
mand and Gen Rosecraus put at the bead of
the army ot Kentucky.
Oct. 25 Skirmish near Manassas.
Oct. 26-Advance of M'Clellan's army begun.
Oct. 27 Battle of Labadieville, La.
. Oct. 29 Great fire at Harper's Ferry.
Oct. 80 Gen Mitchell died at Port Royal.
Oct. 31 Skirmish at Maysville, Kentucky.
Xov. 1 Artillery fight at Phillsmont, Va.
Nov. 2 Union troops possess Snicker's
Gap. Gen. Foster's expedition left Xewbern.
Nov. 3 Upperville, Piedmont, and. Thor
oughfare Gap in Union possession.
Nov. 4 Ashby's Gap occupied ; engage
ment at Markham, Va. Gen. Grant's army
occupy Lagrange, Miss. Salt works in Geor
gia destroyed.
Nov. 5 Order issued for the removal of
Gen. McCIellan. Engagements at Chester
Gap and Xew Baltimore, Virginia.
Nov. 6 McClellan's advance occupy War-
renton, Virginia.
Nov. 7 Gen. McCIellan removed from com
mand : Gen. Burnside appointed. Gen. Ba
yard attacked by rebels at Rappahannock Sta
tion Negro troops engaged at Port Koyal.
Xov. 8 Skirmish at Little Washington,
Virginia. Gen Bayard holds Rappahannock
Bridge. Cavalry skirmish at Gaines' Roads,
Va. Galatin, Tenn., reached by Rosecrans'
army.
Xov. 9 Rebels routed near Moornelds, V a.
Gn Butler's sequestration order issued. ..
Xov. 10 Gen Bavard's cavalry dash into
Fredericksburg. Geu Rosecrans arrives at
Nashville. Great Union demonstration at
Memphis. . t :
Nov. 12 Gen lialleck visits the army oi
Potomac. Gen McCIellan arrives at Trenton.
Nov. 13 Skirmish near White Sulphnr
Springs, Va. Holly Springs, Miss., occupied
by Union forces.
Nov. 14 Gen Stabel's forces pass anics-
er's Gsd. . ..-; - ... -
Nov. 15 Artillery flght at aycttevme,
W Rebels evacuate Warrenton.
Xov. 16 Order issued for observance of
the Sabbath in the aimy.
Xov. 17 Burnside's headquarters at Cat-
lett s Station. Artillery skirmish near Fred
ericksbure.
Xov. 18 Gon Burnside's left wing advance
reacnes r aicuoutn opposite Fredericksburg.
oKirmisn at Jiural mil, Tena.
Xov. 20 Skirmish at Charleston. Va.
Xov. 21 Surrender of Fredericksburg de
manaea, and notice given to remove non-com
batants.
Nov. 22 General order for the release of
all state prisoners.
INov. 2o Raid of rebels into Poolevillo
Md. Rebels attack Xewbern.
iNov. 2G President Lincoln visits Burn
side Gen Sherman's forces leave Memtdiis.
-fiov. Battle of Coue Hill. Ark.Burn.
side visits Washington.
Xov. 28 Rebel cavalry cross the Rauna-
bannock and capture two companies of Union
cavalry, not far from Fredericksburff.
Xov. 29 Union expedition a few davs be
fore invaded Mob Jack Bay, Va.,and destroy
ed reoet salt works. Rebels defeated at
ranklort, West Virginia; 108 captured.-
Dec. 1 A rebel battery captured near Suf
folk, Virginia.
Dec. 1-3 Rebels in Tennessee and Missis
sippi retreating before Gen Grant's armv.
Dec. 3 Gen Geary takes possession of Win-
cnester, v irginia.
JJec. I Battle of Prairie Grove. Arkansas.
Dec. 11 Bombardment ot Fredericksburg
commenced ; our troops cross the river in the
course or the afternoon.
Dec. 13 Battle of Fredericksburg.
Dec. 15 Gen Burnside's array retreats" to
me norm side of the Rappahannock.
Dec. 20 Gen Foster returns,to Xewbern,
aner neieaiing mo renels in four battles, ta
king Kinston and Goldsboro, and destroying
several bridges and miles of the track of the
V ilmington and Weldon Railroad.
THE ENGAGEMENT AT CHARLESTON.
Particulars of the Fight.
The Captain and Pilot of.the Prize Steamer
Princess Royal escaped ashore at night, and
communicated the intelligence of the captnro
oi me rrincess Koyal, ana also carrying impor
tant despatches of the rebel Government. The
Unadill carried the Princess Royal to the
side of the Housatonic : she lay there -until
daylight. The thunder of the guns was then
heard. It was thought our fleet was engaged
in making captures, and that tbe Alabama and
Florida were endeavoring to effect an advance.
Two rebel iron-clads were seen at daybreak
slowly eoming from the direction of Stono In
let toward our fleet. They first attacked the
Mercedita. One ram struck her on tbe water
edge, Keeling her over, at the same time firing
a shot, which entered one of her boilers, and
caused tbe death of three persons, including
the gunner. : Then the ram hailed tbe Merce
dita. Captain Stellwagen lowered one of bla
small boats, leaving one of thep'ugsout, so
as to allow the water to enter. The ram an
swered our bail by replying "Confederate ram
Palmetto State. Do yon surrender?". This
was repeated thrice. Captain Stellwagen each
time answered, "I am in a sinking condition."
The rebels replied, 'God d n you to hell, if
you don't surrender I'll blow you out of tbe
water." "Send your boat iboard." The boat
which Capt. Stellwagen lowered then convey
ed bis lieutenant and executive officer to tbe
side of the rebel rani, and asked to be admit
ted aboard. This, however, was refused. The
lieutenant then repeated St-dlwagen's state
ment, that. "We are in a sinking condition."
The rebel officer replied, "You can't sink
lower than the rails. We cannot take you a
board." The officer then gave his parole, as
demanded, and returned to his ship. The
rebels were entirely duped as to the condi
tion of the Mercedita. and, thinking her in a
sinking condition, did not capture her. She
lay in shoal water. Hence the reply that she
could not sink lower than her rails.
The ram then steamed towards the Key
stone State, sending a shot through ber steam-
drum, and causing the death of twenty-one
individual., who were scalded by the steam,
and twelve shot. Fifteen were wounded.
They are now at Port Royal, dangerously ill.
In the meantime the United States gnnboat
engaged the other ram. The engagement was
most frightful and terrific ; all engaged were
in one whirl of excitement from first to last.
Loyalty on one side ; and treason on tbe other
met each other in bloody and decisive combat.
The reverberating thnndersf the carnage. the
devastation which each missive of destruction
effected, was only equalled by the sublimity of
the courage with which our men fought. It
was the usual scene of blood and agony and en
durance and death it was the usual scene of
patriots dying to maintain those rights for
which they only cared to live. The ram was
finally defeated and driven away, and about
half past six o'clock in tbe morning both rams
left the scene and proceeded np to Charleston
in a disabled condition.
During this attack on onr fleet, the Princess
Roval, which laid near the Housatonic, and was
chief the object of the prise on both sides,
succeeded in getting off mainly through tbe
energies of Third Assistant Engineer. Thrus
ton, who piled into her fires all the inflamma- i
ble material at hand. Her escape is chiefly j
owing to his endeavors ,as well as her safe '
arrival at this port, notwithstanding a severe j
gala which prevailed during her passage from i
Port Koyal. Although she was built to use
the soft Scotch coal instead of the Antharcite
with which onr navy is snpplied, she made
ten knots an hour on her trip with ease in
the heaviest storm. Her usual rate is fifteen
knots. .....
The fiVht occurred before davliffht. th
Princess Royal lying directly abreast of Fort
Sumpter. The pilot boat E. G. Blunt gave
the alarm. It was half past three in the morn
ing when she was captured. The : Princess
Royal is a magnficent steamer and a valuable
prize. She is built from an improved English
model. Her capture was one of the most bril
liant feats of the war. !
Somebody, who writes more truthfully than
poetically, says : "An angel without money is
not thought so much of now-a-days, as a dev
il with a bag full-of gineas. '
A man who covers himself with costly ap
parel and neglects his mind, is like one who
illuminates the outside of bis bouse and sits
within the dark.- 5
"Too much of the good thing," as tbe kit
ten said when she fell into tbe milk pail. ;
A Democratic Broadside for the Union.
Speech of Gen. Butler, at Lowell, Mass.
On the arrival of General Butler at his home
in Lowell, Massachusetts, he met with a cor
dial and enthusiastic reception. A meeting
was held, which was presided over by trio
may oi of the town. Hon. John H. Goodwin
made the welcoming address, and was replied
to by General Butler. After thanking them for
their kind reception, he said :
1 have heard, but cannot believe it, that
some are faltering in this hour of their coun
try's peril; that the faith of some in tbe na
tion's triumph in this unhappy war has for s
moment given way. Do you believe that
there is a just God ? Whoever believes in
Him, must believe that the cause of right and
justice and truth must necessarily triumph.
Upon that subject never permit yourselves to
doubt. We may have to peril more treasure,
to lose more sons and brothers in the cause of
tbe country, but ultimate success is sure. To
doubt this is, in my judgment, atheism of
the worst sort.
I have heard it said, my friends, that I have
changed in some of my ideas and thoughts on
political questions since I left you. I have
changed in some of my ideas, I grant you,
because I have learned something ; applause
but that 1 have changed in a single principle
I deny. I stand before you the same Demo
crat who for so many years battled for the rights
of the people at the North, and now battle for
tbe same rights in the South.
I have found that this rebellion is a rebellion
against the working classes, without distinc
tion of color; and I have stood upon that
question where I have ever stood, and where I
shall ask you to stand as I know you will.
The rebellion was begun and is carried on for
the purpose of creating a landed aristocracy,
which shall give to four hundred thousand the
government of eight millions of whites and
four millions of blacks. It is for tbat Jeff
Davis and his confederates have undertaken a
rebellion which they claim is to secure the
rights of tbe people. .
uo you think, if it was a rebellion of the
people, it would be necessary to resort to eon
scripnou to raise tneir armies r Did our
fathers bave to conscript men 1 Did not our
fathers willingly go forth? At this time, I
may say that more than one-half tho army of
tbe South is composed ot men driven into it
at the point of the bayonet. Did anything of
this kind ever succeed before, and will it suc
ceed now 1 Xo ; unless tbe laws of nature are
entirely reversed
Now let us look directly at your interests
and your duties ; for I am speaking now, hav
ing just come from the cotton regions, where
interests and duties for once go hand in hand
Would you wish to be at tbe command of
those masters at the South who could make
you do as they said by cutting rff the supply
of cotton ?It is for your freedom from those
masters tbat we are fighting to day ; that the
people of the South may not claim to be our
masters, bnt our brothers; that w may place
ourselves where they will foel us to be, as we
know we are, their equals not their inferiors,
It is to correct this idea that the Northern
man, with red blood, blue eyes, light hair, and
all that God gives to this image of himself, is
not equal to the slave-drivers, with their thin
lips and pallid brows-r.it is to correct this idea,
I say, that we are engaged in this momentous
struggle. That is tbe question before us ; and
he who does not side with us on that question
says that be desires to kiss tbe feet of those
masters.
I went to Louisiana desiring to do every
thing to restore it as it was to see if by any
possibility I might bring the principles, the
laws, and tbe institutions which govern that
State into harmony with the Union ; but I
found there no disposition to bave tbat done
I found tbat the aristocracy looked upon us as
their enemies, and I found that the working
aud middling classes looked upon us as friends.
Within the first month 14,900 of those who
compose tbe bone and sinew of Xew Orleans
bad taken tbe oath of allegiance, not by lip
service only, but from their hearts ; and from
tbat day I found no man owning slaves who
would take tbe oatb of allegiance, except for
tbe purpose of saving his property. That was
the rule; there were some exceptions. I
found the working men true to tbe Union, and
I found tbe slaveholders false to the Union.
I dealt kindly with the working men, and I
dealt harshly with the slaveholders. Loud
applause. .
I recognize my fi iends and my enemies, .and
I made as wide a difference between tbe one
ana" he other as there was between Dives and
Lazarus. Applause. I understand tbat you
bave sent forth your sons and brothers, not for
the purpose of making peace, but war, where
ever they found enemies. I believe tbat you
Bent your sons and brothers for the purpose of
insisting tbat tbe flag of tbe United States
should wave everywhere in sympathy with the I
powers of the United States ; and upon these'
I bave acted.
I encouraged tbe laboring men. A thou
sand were employed every day by the United
States; 34,000 were fed every day by the
United States, and over 17,000 of these were
foreigners, whose consuls assumed to repre
sent them, but who did not represent them
truly jj because tbe consuls represent ' com-
merce and property, not men. Thirty four
thousand, as I have said, were fed every day,
and precisely the same action was taken to
ward men who needed this assistance as would
be taken here. - ; . . , " . . "
..But those men had no voice in tbe newspa
pers abroad or at home, and the consequence,
was, their thank s and their applause were nev-
I er heard, while tbe complaints of the property
men, who felt that when they were struck
slavery was struck, flowed all over Europe and
the North ; and every misrepresentation that
the malice of enemies and traitors could devise
was resorted to, in order to embarrass, apd
if possible defeat my plans. But there is one
thing I bave a right to say and 1 thank you,
sir, for adverting to it and that is, that from
the first week when our soldiers entered Xew
Orleans until! left there, it was as safe, as
quiet, and as convenient to attend to one's
business, by day or by night, as ever it was in
the best governed cities of tbe Xorth even
our own. Loud applause.
Remember this: that while we may feel this
war is hard for us, it is the effort of despera
tion for thorn. I bave seen the conscript law
of the South taking the boy of sixteen and
tbe old man of sixty Ibe schoolmaster not
excepted and force them into ranks. While
it costs us effort, it costs them desperation.
While it costs us labor, it costs them life
blood. I wish that they might bo won back
without this; but so they have not chosen.
As long as life lasts, as long as any power re
mains, we must stand by the Union, one and
indivisible. Applause.
Every traitor, every man, every stream, ev
ery lake, every river, every mountain that
ever belonged to the flag of the United States
must still remain under tbe flag of the United
States, cost what it will, cost what it may.
Enthusiastic applause. If, asyou flattering
ly observed. I shall go back to another field
of duty, I shall go back with the determina
tion never to give up, never to compromise
renewed applause, never to have anything
but that flag of ours as the symbol of our na
tionality. Whoever differs from that, let him
go South of Mason and Dixon's line he has
no business here. rApplanse.1
: We may.have no means of dealing with him
here, but they are plenty at tbe South who
will receive him with open arms, for the rea
son that he is their friend, not the friend of
the country. Who proposes to give np the
tomb of Washington 1 Who Yorktown ? Who
tbe honors won by Jackson at Xew Orleans 1
Who proposes to have anything less than that
which belongs tons? Who proposes to give
op our fair claim to Mexico, if it comes to
that Xo one proposes to give up the rights
oi this Union.
But let me repeat because I hear there are
some who falter come what may,whether veal
or woe, there is ono thin? which wt will not
los, and that is.the supremacy of this Govern
ment over every inch of our boundary.
I desire a single word on the qnestion of
emancipation. On that questien, you know, I
have held certain opinions. Those, opinions
hasre received, in some degree, correction.- I
I bave views to-ofb-r which I think will com-.
mend themselves to the judgment of every oue
of you.
Is there a man here who doubts that iomo
timb or other, in the providence of God, tba
negro is to be free and that sojue day tho
protection of the laws will be extended oyer
bira, aud tbat be will become free 1 Xo man
doubts that, and all desire to guard against
the evils tbat may arise from that chaqgo.and
which cannot be made without disorganizing
our political system. It is my opinion that
all this has been sent upon the nation for somo
great object ; and it is my opinion that it will
be easier at this time to settle this question
than to leave it to be settled hereafter.
Is it not evident to every mind, that the day
and hour have come when all men, so far as.
this country is concerned and it is the last
refugo of slavery on the globe shall be in
political rights free and equal, as they were
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I Appiause. Ler no man oe concerned about
no man
the question of social equality. They wj U be
just so far equal as God has made them equal,
and no more and no less. Take care lest we
bo found figLting against God.' , If He bas not
made them our equals, they will not be our
equals. But He bas made them free. God
willed them free. God will have them free.
And let His will be done ! '
A certain divine who was more eminent in
his days for the brilliancy of his imagination
than tbe force of his logic, was preaching W
the Ministry of Angels," and in tbe preco
ration he suddenly observed ; "I bear a whis
per !" The change ot . tone startled the dea
con, who sat below, from a drowsy mood, aud
springing to his feet, -he said, J guess itV
some of those boys in tbe gallery " 1 '
Never did an Irishman utter a better bull '-.
tDn did n honest John, who being asked by i
friend : "Has your sister got a son or a
daughter ?" He answered : : "Upon my life,!
I do not yet know whether I am uncle or auntPi
If the storms of adversity whistles aroupd
I yoo, whistto as bravely yourself; perbapt the.;
two whistles rpy make a melody.
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