. . ..- , • . _ " -Z., : - . , • • -, : (.. • • •°j -,., t. - :'''_-' ' '.l . ,---: ' . ' - - , . , • ' . -' -'• --- 7 - 7 . -......, _ , .. . . - . , , __ .. - - , , . - i , . . ' , . : . 7• 7, • - i . . . . 1 • - .., ..- ..- :-. (--0 1 , , . A . It •. , . ~ - 1--- A, , . ,-- . _ ..... _ , . . . 42 BY M' CLARE & STONER. tradliu rAvvoiforg. GAIIBLEUS AND ; 1111EIR PANICS• The,good people of Franklin county, who 9dd steadily to their wealth by honest industry snalrugality s know but little of the millions of Money gambled upon the stock boards of the leiding cities. With every revival of business stock gambling becomes epidemic, until it in 'v olves an ahnost incalculable amount of capital Ili& great whirlpool of ,speculation. It is manifested at first only in limited circles; bat it steadily seizes upon the more'-', , substantial monied men in the cities and leading towns in the country, until the great business operations of the 'Cities become mere betting upoit the prices of stocks. All go into it, and yet all will adintt, when their sober senses are aPpeal ed to, that it is hazardous, and in the end overwhelming ruin must come; but each hnpes •to get out in due time tb leave the fury of the 'storm fall upon their neighbors. Any intelligent observer who scans the re, ptirts of stock sales in the city journals, need not be told that almost every class' of stocks are daily gambled off at priced far, very far beyond their actual value. The Stock of the Bank-of .01tambershurg sells at about $7O, solely because it is intrinsically worth it. EveriShare sold is " , actually delivered and paid for,vand every share bought is wanted by the purchaser because he has inOiley to infest, and he believes that he ottniint invest it' to bptteradvantage: It stead ily pays ten per cent, dividends out of actual .profits; and has a . surplus of over $50,000; It •is not difficult therefore to calculate its value. :13nt'on the steel boards ,:of the leading cities, Reading - Railroal stock fittetuates-from $6O to although it has never, at least within twenty `i'ears, paid a cash dividend; has never earned actual cash profits, and in ordinary bug -. nessthnes, it cannot be expected to earn enough to pay a dividend upon its immense capital. 'Philadelphia and Erie sells at $35 to $4O, when it cannot possibly pay a dividend of any kind within the next five Years. All manner of Oil; Gold, Silver, Copper .and other mining stocks are gotten up and bulled upon the mar ket until they are pushed into the hands of in. ruicent victims - , vhen they naturally enough ex plode and the loss falls upon the verdant ones who were Jeremy Diddled out of their money by dazzling promises of rapid fortune. . . The "bulls" aro those I, , itio.are iotereated'im inthiting prices. ,They haire everything at stake in adyaneing the value of the stocks they are operating in. The "bears" are interested to reducing priees,And go in to prostrate them ' when.a Ith;ince offers, and make their money by "v" selling short." Some operators are con , spicuous as .'bulk" anilothers as "bears;" but most of stock gamblers operate for ; - Mall opfor a. rise in the market, just as seems most pro - mising. Whets the country is prosperous, capital abundant seeking investment,the"bulls" reap their harvest; but when the army is suc cessful, Eurnpean , crops reported as promisitg, or pay other 4 causes transpire calculated to ren, dace prices, the ,"bulls" are ever ready to throwthemselves into the breach and "corner" the unfortunate until the very last attainable dollar is wrung from them. ' All such Operations ere very properly called gambling, because they are not bona ,fide busi ness transactions. Sales of millions of 'stock are reported daily, while in fact not one-twen t tieth part of the transactions reported are ac- tual sales. Hundreds 'of thousands of gold are reported daily as sold and bought, while perhaps not one of the sales are actual purchases einbra, clog delivery of th 6 gold and payment therefor. The dales are simply the lulard of the gambler upon the price of gold the next hour, the next :day or the next week ; and when the time is up, the difference in price is paid or received, and the transaction is closed. The same men might with equal honesty, in a moral point of 'view, stake theirmoney . upon the turn of a card at or the thimble-rigger's little joker, for it is but -a hazard to win or lose, with this difference .in.thror of gambling at cards—that it .wrongs none but the victim, and those depen dent upon him, while stock gamblibg, by its wanton inflation of prices, has made the whole Nation pay tribute to itaraaduess: When stocks are rising and money abundant, the stock gam- bling fraternity combine their skill to make the rise as rapid and high as possible ; and by just such gigantic gambling have juices of every, thing, including even the neeessmies of life, been advanced far beyond what they should bo today. The actual demand for gold would not make it worth over 30 per cent. premium rem it bought and soltionly when absolutely Warted; but as it is confessedly the standard of fill values, and as its, rise in the market prodtMes corresponding rise in prices generally, it is borne Upward by all manner of speculative corn, binatione, , and immese nominal sales are made without One dollar of the precious mtital ehang lug hands at - all. Thus—John Smith sells John jades $lO,OOO of gold, and the sale is reported as that amount of gold sold, say at $1.70, with perhaps _the .Addition of " h 20 days"—whicli means ." buyer twenty days ;" that . Mr. Jones can call upon Mr. Smith—not for the gold, but -for the difference in the price at any time with ifftWenty (loyal or if it is not called for in the - ,'ffine' specified, at tho„expiration of the twenty days the pities are bound to settle, and if gold is•sl.7l, Jones pockets his $lOO, or if it is $1.69, be pays Smith- $lOO and.' the matter is closed." The plain meaning of the transaction is that Jones wagers Smitft . thitt withip twenty days gold will be worth over $1.70, ;sidle Smith „stakes his money on the ha?.ard that it' Will fill below that figure. Perhaps: neither. has ore dollar in gold, or it may be. 'that both together are not worth $10,000; bid they-simply put up the "_margin," which may be stout 10 per cent., and thus on a capital 'of sx,ooo they gamble to ' file extent of $lO,OOO. Of count' Jones wants 'gold up, so that the profit may be large as pos 'sible and he: "bulls" the market; predicts the failure of the army the derangement of the currency; the prostration of National, credit; inagnifies the rebel forces ; declares foreign . intervention just at hand, and rejoices at cop- perhead riots and captures and massacres like Fort Pillow. -On the other hand, Smith"bears" at the boards, and is intensely loyal; promises an easy victory for'Grant and the capture of Richmond within thirty days ; and is ready to pronounce any man a. traitor who does not con sider legal tenders as good as geld. And se goes stock gambling to the extent of millions daily. - —The, end is ruin,-inevitable and terrible in its Completeness and scope, for the higher the inflation the lower the revulsion when the crash comes. All knoW it; ,but all hope,to be out in time; but the gambler's infatuation is usually stronger than- .his judgment, and those - who acquire wealth -4 the fickle smile of for.: tune, are, In the main, those who lose it by her sudden and Meatless frown. Occasionally there are mutterings of the distant storm, and one weak man gives over; he knocks down a dozen in his fall, and they in turn, between short accounts and panic, send thrice their nuin her to the wall: Thus, on Monday of last week, speculation was on a rampage; gold was up to 78 per cent. premium, and operators confident:* ly counted on sending it np-to-100-before-thirty days. - But Secretary Chase wants money,—he must have it, and the sale often-forties does not supply_him. Ile goes to New York, induces the Banks to take ten millions in two days, arid, itis,said, that he sold some thirteen millions of gold. liedid not g.unble in the price of coin; but he.sold to deliver, for he wanted the money. The resnitwas that he took from New York nearly thirty millions of currency in a feW days. Of comae such a draft even upon New York, made the banks demand their call loans Which were out in every imaginable species Of gambling, and hundreds were caught "short" in cash; were compelled , to dispose of their gambling contracts to irealize, and with Mr. Chase's gold thrown upon the market, and the gathering up ofturrency .to pay for it and the bonds sold, stocks toppled down, and panic seized the whole brood of gamblers. On Tues day of last week the contracts on stocks and gold in the hands of gamblers depreciated so that the loss, to the parties carrying , them, on that -day, would have been over twenty-five Millions. Several, leading stock gamblers failed, eras the commercial phraSe goes, gave notice -that they could not meet their engagements— .that is pay.the winnings tO the parties playing against them—and asked- extensions.. Weak `and over-loaded operators went under; but those who could possibly carry themselves ever the panic did ssO at eyetisacrificeAoping, for an early re-action. In gambler's pahres; like that of last week, the Banks are compelled to exhaust themselves to save the gamblers, for their interests are so ir4rwoven with their borrowers, that they must Five all that can be saved. 'The "bears" of course go in herivy in • such a crisis, and Make all possible combina tions to hammer down the prices' to the lowest ' • point. When the "bulls" are "cornered'? and wrist "sell short," triey stand aside and decline to buy, while the crippled "bulls" generally can afford but little aid to the "lame ducks' of the flock; and so the gamblers' panic is pressed mercilessly by systems* and skillful efforts until the bottom is reached. Any day in the earl} , part of last week the leading brokers' offices were crowded with ju. bilant "bears" who were struggling with.all of a heartlyss .gambler's ferocity to make the , little storm a deluge ; anderippled " bulls" were racked with intensest. anxiety to save them ',selvesfrorriutter ruin. The offices of Jay Cooke 0. Co., E. W. Clark & Co. and Drexel &Co:, in Philadelphia, would have passed for densely crowded lunatic asylums, with an assortment of the most frantic patients. Men would rush in and Out in as if possessed by 'forty fiends, and with distended eyes, blanched cheeks and hag gard faces, wearing ever} - insignia of woe, they would run from place to place to procure irelief before "the fatal hour when accounts 'must be made up. In New York it was worse, if : pos sible, and one house went under with unadjust ed liabilities of several millions, and was of course followed by others. They were but scotched however—not killed. It was but a gambler's panienot a great revulsion brOught about by legitimate channels of trade, for with all the losses and failures and excitement, the legitimate business never was more prosperous and solvent. • And so it will be again. The les , son if last week is already forgotten ; 'the `wounded are in again to retrieve ; the dead are ; entombed, and millions are gambled daily as Ibefore. In the mean time honest industry is Iwell requited ; prosperity smilesi upon all legi timate branches of trade, and the thousand jsinews of labor are gathering rich, harvests wi th lout feverish brains or fretted tempers; and the people look with sublime indifference upon gamblers and gamblers' panics. ;WE have received the 'Valley Sentinel, a Dem ocratic journal just started in Shippensburg by our old friend Wm. Kennedy, Esq. It is very neatly gotten up, is intensely. Democratic, and is conducted with spirit and ability. - By the way the Shippensburg papers, in point of energy and vigor eclipse the Carlislu papers. The News is by odds the most spicy and earnest Union paper in, the county. Tim question of increasing the salaries of Members was voted on in our Legislature, last week. The Union men, with five or six excep tions, voted against the increase, while the "Democrats," with one or two exception, voted for the increase. All honor to the - Union mem bers for this defeat of the planfor i tukirr tpiek out Ofiour . depiete4 State :treasury' to put into the gaping 'pockets of office-holders. CHAMBOISBURqi PA., W ED1094 APRIL 1864, QUOTAS OP.TIIE 16TH DISTRICT. We givc , herewith the, official quota of each sub-district in this Congressional District, ascertained on the 15th of April. —lt will be seen that' they are based on the aggregate of 1100,000 men, embracing the call for 500,000 made a few months ago, an the late call for .1%00,0000 made on the 14th of March, and the quotas are thus increased "considerably- beyond 1 the table we published prior to the last call. The credits given in the subjoined table are not claimed as 'correct -by - the government.-- They do not embrace any veterans re-muster ed, or those credited to the, district at large. Veteran enlistments were -made' by the Com missaries of Muster in distant fields, and there fore have not been returned to the Department promptly, us have been the - credits for musters made by the Provost Marshals and detailed re cruiting officers. - Thas-Geilford is charged - with a deficiency-of 65, while 56 veterans were , regularly supplied by that towaship, the bounty paid to them, and the credit will of course he Made. Capt. Eyster, the Provost Marshal, is authorized to hear the claims of sub-districts for credits and to take the proper steps to do justice to ail. Most of the district's are entitled to such credits, and they ihriuld apply to Capt; 'Eyster through committees of their citizens. • —The'druft i postponed for the present, and may be ordered at any time.' Wesubjoin•tho tuble : _ ADAMS COUNTY Toten.h . ps Berwick township Berwick Boro' Butler Conewago. Cumberland Franklin - - - Freedom Germany Gettysburg Boro' Hamilton ban Huntingdon - I imore .......... ......... .; iacn~a►ften Mount Joy Mount Pleasant • Oxford Reading Stmban Tyrone Union BEJ)VOILD COUN Touraskips Bedford Borough Bedford township ' 1 Broad Top - Colerain Snake Sprin— g Bast, Provident.° Harrison Hopewell Juniata.. • 'Liberty Len don clerry !Middle, Woodbury I Monroe Napier Sehellsburg Boro' ' !Southampton !South Woodbury St. Clair Union West I'rovidenco. Bloody Run Boro' zxl 1 FRANKLIN' COL:IiTY Tmonahipp. :;- . Antrim ,- • , 433. :Greencastle nom' IRS Charab'g. N. M oro' 356 Chamb'g. S. Ward 202 Fannett j 257 Green 320' Guilford ' ' 287 Hamilton .. ..... .... ' 145. Letterkenny . T2O Lnrgan 1:M, Metal ' e 140' Montgomery 358 Mercersburg Born' ....... ...... 116, eeter: , 271 Qnincv ' 584 St. Thomas .. 181 Southatunton .. 118 Warren 78 Washington 281 Waynesboro' Borg' 1,53. El FULTON COUNTY Tolenkhips Ayr - Belfast Bethel Brash creek. ...... ....... Dublin Licking Creek 31*Connellsburg Taylor. 'Thinnwon ,Todd Well,' SOMERSET COUNTY ..'",- 1 1, 4 .;•41 ''=, .. ~.?; vf... 1 '- r • 1 4 4. 4: 111,:3, ITow-oohing.. 1 '''' a -. I.' '. '''..l - I'4 7 i : V ....m k. ..1 '-.Z 1 Z' --.; l— —l - 9 53 151 01 43 70 ( Allegheny 1109 32 27 71 !Brother's Valley . 113 1691 50 42 71 1 4erlin Borough . 711 21 81 7; 14 72 Cavern:trier '.133 , 40 31; 9 73 Elk Lick 113 341 10; 24 73;',‘; Salisbury Borough 37 11 41 7 7,1 Greenville 5 , 3 5l 12 75 'Jefferson ' -1.00 80 71 a 3 70 Penner 218 85 241 41 77 ; Lorimer 55 113 - 21 14 78 ;Lower Turk eYfoot 191 27 91 . 18 79 ;Middle Creek 80 -24 4 83 IMilford ' 102 48 13. 35 89'2 1 :New CentrerDle B - 22 7 11 81 .INorthampton , • 601 20 17 1 1 ;Paint 99 30 13 17 83 IQuemahoning 1271 38' ; ',. 9 83 1 .4iStoystown Borough - - 301 11 81 3 84 "Shade 1661 60 131 37 83 Somerset Borough 110 33 17 ,16 93 Somerset township 317 95 . 24, 71 87 Southampton 77 231 4 19 87 1 / 4 , Wellersburg.Boro' 17 .5 5 88 [Stony Creek ...,..„„ 181 54 41 13 89 ISummit 142 42 2ti 10 90 Upper TnrkeYfoot, ....... -.-- 104 31 17 14 —— • 1 30391 907 337. 570 I Gov. Cu r ti it in Washing-tan—llls 3les sage on the Reserves and Payment or military Damages —The Claim Bill - sasportant:Legislailon—,The Southern Pennsylvania Railroad: , , - Corresponileniie of The Franklin Fainisitoii:, • . • HARRISBURG, April 25,1864. Goit.„Curtlia went to Washington on Tuesday evening last -to !urge the payment of the last ; State millitia. „ While he was there, Mr. Stevens called it upl but it was hot disposed of. l It is believed, however that the appropriation will be made;, Gov. Chrtin negociated a loan from the Banks of the State an! his own repot,: ' sibility to pay , these troops,, who were called! out under a•litter from the President pledging! the general government to equip," subsist mido pay them. -'The, State legislaturd will maltS provision for paying the Banks if CongresS Should fail; buetheelaim upon the general goy.' ernment is so clear and just, , that it can hardly; fail to recognize it. Yesterday GOV. Gurtin left for Washington,' on a special train; but what important business called him back so suddenly is not known.' It is probablshoWeVer that it has Some reference to a call for the militia, to perform special ,ser4 vice,:or garrison duty while Grant makes-his movement tMstrard Richmond. Gov. Curtin init repented' i ty tendered volunteer, militia to .ths! general government for special duty when tlit Army of the, POtomac was about to move; and if such forces, are wanted now, he will have them in, the Nqa with commendable protnp,b., ;less. , P2 MO r - ii'. - e0 ~s a 5.4 a,. The : Governor sent a message to the legislar, ture!on the 15th inst., relative the Penna. Reserve Corps:, Its - term of service will soon expire, and it is probable that as now organized it will not, as a body, le-enlist. He urged upon the legisTature the propriety of re-orgari izing the Corps as a neucleus.t for State defence, and'hroridly ;wattles that aa l the State is bound in lion6r and good faith toren - itinerate Otiose, citizens by, the- enemy, the': true measure of economy is tt) defend the State. In • the mes sage he says,:- "Such a corps would give effective security to the fieeple of the. border countiesagainit future midi. They have alreadyinffered greatlY by rebel deOre dationi.and inttunueh as the State wiittlaubtiese, af ter the conelueina of the war, if corwietent with the maintenance of her etjedit, with he r tretWom ed 1 0- eraiitu, make co . /up:natal:4n .for the toNge-8 t h us sue mined, it may be tt question whether true econonly would not he observed by, adopting the policy of maintaining a force sufficient to prevent furthbr Josses of the same character." Several members from the border have ben in consultation with the - Governor already to prepare a bill to secure this gallant and battle scarred corps for the defence:Of our State, and it will pretty certainly pass.: The claim bill has not yet passed; but it will prObably yet be passed authorizing adjudication of ,the claims. • The disturbed condition of the finances, imathiuncertainty of future damages, make the legislature unwilling at this, time to vote indemnity for losses, lest the credit of the State should be periled and future depredations - swell beyond the power of the Commonwealth to meet. It was , considered in the Senate on Friday fait. Clyiner spoke kindly for the bor der people ; but Wilson- ind Lowry opposed it . earnestly - and St Clair made a coarse assault upon the people of the southern counties. He said that he met five miles of them running away from the rebels with their' property, and now they were howling for pay because some of theirgoods were taken or destroyed. If you will find the valiant Doctor's war path through your valley, you will doubtless find it thick with , nameless tombs of his - rebel dead_ Judging `from his speech he' certainly, could not have de molished less than a brigade himself. 166 137 169 138 161 152 El 6E' li.,i. b- 1 182 200 256 197 109 E Fl2l EM rt* PS The, apportionment and appropriation Bills are about ready to pass,• and will not be mate rially changed.•= The bill providing for the payment of interest in currency is a law, and both branches have passed ,a bill to colleetthe money. due the State for UnPatented ,lands. The revenue and' militia bills Will probably be im proved yeN before the close of the session ; but it is hardly• to be exiected that the herrie I disposition of, so many important bile juat at the Lieels of the session, can give us very well Matured lawS. The Connellaville and Southern Penns}llva nia Railroad bill with the bill resumin the charter of the Connellsville East and So* of that point, have passed the House, and will Pass the 'Senate. They promite you- a Southern through line from Chamhersburg at an ,arly day. It look riow as if the legislature not adjourn this week.. • 'lloitagE. • SVIIMARY.OF WAR NEWS. - 89 51 584 EMI UM ! • 1 h'sz•• ~, :::- . ..4 I 4 - r '-'l` 147 = 44; .181 77 231 01 14 2 11 5, 611 13, , 48 681 204 •f 1 16 84 25' 8' 17 77 ; 23 1711 6 66 i Z ) 0.1'4 11 86 261 1 . 4 15 82 244 3 21 '5O 15; 1 14 78 8, 13 1020 3041 . 1211 183 —ln Newberit, worth Carolina, recruiting fer Coloreft regitn'ents,is going on briskly. - =Military affairs are very active in the 'Nest. Large numbers of recruit's are leaving fO,r the front daily. 1 , —Maj. Gen. C. C. Wasliburne has been or dered to the command of West Tennessee, and • 1 1 has Ircit Washington for 'femphis. ' ---(::Rosecrans has designediklaj. GeU. fred PleaSanton to duty as second in command the department; with 'his headquarterso Louis. ••••••The people - of - 117;es'tern North Carolina - recently hang, several CoritCderate officers and soldiers for attempting to mforee the esonherip tion act. —Brigadier Gen.-Pringe, who comintirided a • division in'the former COrPs of ,Geb. Fiend), bhsliden sent to the militdry district of.Paircab, Columbus,>and Cairo, • • bythe steamer Fnitori, frOrti Port I Royal, at _Fortress IrloOl.oe, state that large number of colored• troope from Annapolis have arriued atHilton ' -I-The - Rebels in front, cif our.forees around -Chattanooga are, very, inlet. YrobahlY their ranks have been "so 'depleted for the ieinforeg ment of Leo that they can do nothing'moi.e than quietly await the advance of Gen. Sherman. nARItiSBURG. I--Slitters and citizens have all left th e Army of the Potomac, Mid will not he am ed tort turn before next autumn. The e chanc • s :ire the army will then be in another place. - —Memphis desratches state that Ferret is retreating into Mississipri. Chalineis and Mc- Culloch were passing Tallahatchie, and dm Grierson is rep"orted to be pressing Forriat's columns: " —The War Deptirtment has notified the Gov. ernor of New York that the State troops wilt be received by Gen. Dix, for guard and other duties around the harbor and forts OfNew Yor - luring the absence of the volunteer forces re cently_ stationed there: —A despatch frbm Cairo gives a statement of another Rebel barbarity on the Mississippi. A Mr. A. R. Allison, of Illinois, was captured by a'band of guerillas on 'one of the abandoned plantations, taken some distance and murdered, after being compelled to dig his own grave. —The report that Gen. Gillmore isto be re lieved from the command. of the army betere Charleston is true and is not true. He will re tain command of a bulk of the troops now ser ving under him, but in what field they will operate is a problem for the enemy to solve. —lt is understood that the Spring emnpaien is now to.be commeneed. We have indications trat the Rebels are massing a large force in Virginia; and that the diversions in Kentucky and elswhere are only intended to cover the 3oncentratibn of Rebel forces against Grant. -An officer who left Bull's. Gap. East Ten nessee, on the 4th instant, reports that Long street had withdrawn his forces,'sending his infantry regiments to Richmond, and lealiig three cavalry brigades. numbering 2,ooo•rnen, and an equal force of infantry, to guard the salt -works near Abingdon. Va. —Deserters who have dome into the lines of the Arniy of the Potomac report that Gen• Lon gstreet's Corps has joinedd. Lee's army, and is at Orange Court House. The whole Rebel army is said to be not more than fifty thousand strong: All tho sick of the Army of the Potoinae have been sent to Washington. —The Union forces dt Baineaville, Kentucky, under Col. Gillespie, have defeated Hodge's Re bel Brigade, capturing seventy prisoners: two hundred••borses,, four hundred saddles, three -hundred stand of small arms, and all tbeireamp equipage. ,Eighty-five Rebels wAre killed and wounded. • One' hundred _Rebellgi:isoners,bad, reached Catletsburg.-- • • ' —Previous to Gen. Kilpatrick leaving his old command, a-,communication was received by him frcnu Gen. Robert E. Lee, by aftagoftrice, through the army headquarters, inquiring of Gen. K. whether the orders found upon Col t Dahlgren, as published in the Richmond papers, were authentic and antherized by him.• Tpe reply was a bitter andindignantdenial. 'There is little doubt that the reason why Col.'Dahl gren'S belly . is not 'given up, is becanie of its shameful mutilation and'uncbristianburial. •• —ln regard to, the Red Griner expedition, Fleet Captain Pennock telegrapb.a to the Secre tary of the Navy that he has received privite letters 'stating that Banks' army met with a reverse on' the Bth, near.Mansfiehl~ and fell back to Pleasant Rill. The next day the rebels at— tacked our forces, and were handsomely whip ped. The Chicago Rvening Journal publishes extracts from private letters, saying that on the day after the ,disaster to the Thirteenth Army Corps the Nineteenth Corps engaged the enemy and defeated them, capturing twenty canon and two thousand prisoners. • —There has been almost- extensive opening of eyes among the stuff' and other officers of the Army of the, Potomac since Gen. Grant assum ed conglnd of that army. The first thing he did was to intimate thatstaff officers mustspend less time in Washingtoin ; the next was that the balls in camp must he_giVen up; then came an indication thattransportation would not be fur ished for articles, of luxury for the camp-; then' came the order that there roust be more scoot ing and. greater vigilance , on picket ; and -so -onb after another of the deleterious customs and practices:of the army are to be done away and life introduced. Go on, Gen. Grant. —Further details of the affair on the. Red river have reached Ili from Cairo. The battle on the Sth was -Sought at Sabine Cross Roads. The Rebels were commanded by Gens. Magru der,-Holmes and , Taylor,. under the chief com mand of Kirby Smith. The -fight on the second day, was at Pleasant Hill, where Gen. Andrew Jackson Smith lea the Union forces, Gen. Banks being - in chief command. The loss of the enemy on the first day was about fifteen hundred, On the second day they lost heavily—two - to our one. Among their killed were three Generals, Marten, Parsons and Greene'. The fleet had advanced up the river ,to within eighty miles of ,Shreeveport, when Wren. Tanks, finding his ra tiorni running Short ordered .it back. On its way down it was attacked by the enemy on both sides of the river. A brisk fight ensued which ended in the defeat of the Rebels; with a lossof nearly six hundred killed null a large number wounded. It was in action that 'Gen. Greene was .killed, his bead luring been bloWn off by a shell. -' A CORRESPONDENT _writing to the Cincinnati. Christian'Advoeate, March 23,1964, says: • Patent medicines are like tioctOrs: some good, some good for nothing, but all: hating their_ friends to recommend them, and each receiving a share of public favor. For instance, thecon stitution Water advertlied in your paper I hap pen' to. know is a reliable article for some ofthe diseases for which it is recommended;'. Ihave conversed with several intelligent druggistii; some of whom are physicians, who speak in high praise.nf it for the care of diabetes ;, and without the kno*ledge.or .ftekinaintanes of the, , proprietor I can say-tO such as have Oat troutt lesoine and fatal:disease; try it. It haiielratik able virtues Withont a d6iitit, ' Fostoritqa. W S. LUNT. * VOL 71.....WR0LE' NO. 3,6 4: , BETEL SAIFASEItY. We have already given a brief account of t "he inhuman brutality practised by the rebels - Upon tie troops f -Fort Pillow afttir it bad bum" Barrel ; but the detailliperease in liorr4l` as they are developed. The_ negro treois fought most gallantly until • overpowered; but they were outnumbered immensely and were overcome. A correspondent thus deseribis the scene after the rebels got possession of the Port: ', , _ After the rebels were in undisputed possession of the fort and the survivors had surrendered, they commenced the indiscriminate buteheri - iif alt the Federal soldiers. - The colored soldiers threw down their guns and raised their arms In token of surrender bat not the least attention was paid to it. They continued-to shoot down 'all they found. A number of them finding " nos. quarter was given, ran over the bleir to the. river, and . tried to conceal themselies undir the bank and in the bushes, were pimmedly the rebel savages, and implored them to spare their lives. Their appeals Were suede in vain, and_they were all shot down in eold-blood, and in full sight of the gunboat. I poised up the bank of the river and counted fifty dead strewed along.- One had crawled into a hollow log and was killed it it; another had got ovet the bank into - the river, and got to' board thit ran out into the water. Ho lay oh it oh his face, with hie feet in the water. He laid there when exposed stark and stiff. Several had , tried to hide in crevices made by theTalling bank, and could not be seen without - diffihulty, but they were singled out . and killed. From the best information I could k.et the white gel diera were, to a very considerable extent, treated in the same way. One of the 13th Tennessee on board D. W. Harrison--informs me that after the surrender he 'was below the bluff, and one of the rebels presented a piatolto shoot him. He told him he had surrendered and requested him not to fire. He spared Miry; and directed him to go up the bluff to the fort. Harrison asked 'him to go before him, or`he would be shot by others, but he told him to-ko along. He started, and had not preceded far before he met a rebel who presented his pistol. Harrison begged him not to fire but 'pahng no attention to his request, he fired and shot him through the shoulder, and another shot him in the leg. He full, and'while he lay unable to move, another came along and was about to Ere = again, when Harrison told him he was badly wounded twice, and implored not to fire. He asked Harrison if he had any money.- He said he had a little money,and a watch.' The rebel - took from him his match and ninety dollars' money, and left him. Harrison is probably fatally wounded. Several such cases have been related to me; and think, to a great extent, the whites and negroes were indiscriminately murdered. The/rebel Tennesseans have about the same bitterness against Tennesseans the Federal army, as against the negroes. I ens told by a_febel officer that Geri. Torrest sliot one of hiii.imen and cut another with his saber for shootids doWn - prisoners. It may be slidint he is resit:male for the conduct or his min,' and Got. Chalmers stated publicly while oh the Platte Valley, that though he did not encourage • or countenance his man in shooting down negro captives, yet that it was rightand.lristifilible. likE AiimoAciitaf a CAIIIOPAION. It is hard, doubtless, for editors, as well •as other people, to refrainfrom a little anticipatory campaigning in these days of military-prepara tion and Virginia mud obstruction. We find, accordingly, on Saturday,' the, New York Tim er indulged its well-known proclivities, to the ex tent of an editorial column, in tracing out the possible, or probable, plan of operations 6r (len. Grant' in the manner yellowing—hutlire will only quote a paragraph : • ' • "It may be considered certain, it says; that 'Grant's plan of operation,'whatever it may le, will be one, which; like his superb operatirins at Vicksburg' and 'Chattanooga, Will complet* startle the rebels—that it will be one which nobody expected, and that willtake the country as well as the enemy, by surprise. His eatn paign may be'in 'Virginia, it may be in Georgia, and -it may be in neither of those States, even though it be intended to bear upon one or both of the great armies•of the rebels In Virginia, he might adapt one or other of the plans that have heretofore been tried, or, discarding them all, he might adopt the palpable one, often die cussed, of debouching an army at some Point south oftheJames, and marching by Petersburg towards Richmond. Not less than seventy thousatd men, we suppose, could be thus threh.t. ening Richmond 'from this direction. At the same time, eighty thousand, underGon. Meade, press Lee's lines on the Rapidan. - Lee should, of course; fallback under cover of the Richmiti Works. Here he world undoubtedly havd a very advantageous central posithin forstriekihg either invading stripy. His relation touttrfories would be somewhat to that of Napoleon during the invasion of France by' the• antis before his banishment to Elba. Bel, Lee - hi:11ot a Napoleon, and - its we • have learnt, lost more than his right arm itiStoneWalljackson'sdealh. His force would be inferior to either oftheinia ding, armies, so that Grant need violate no' le of strategy in this dduble invasion. The draly backs on dur side would be the Spring rains and the malaria, which would weaken our ruts, and the raw character of many. of the regiments moving from Fortress Monroe as abase.: But the great • attack must be byMeado's veteran army. The chances of battle are proverbially uncertain, but we do not see how Lee'coilld comfortably survive under tbd,grindiriss of this upper andneither millstone. He might, it' is true, evacuate Richmond, and make a new line in the southern part of Virginia., Butthenßieh-- inond•would becoine our base, ' and the same game might be tried with a rear movement;on our part from Newbern and Weldon." STATISTICS OF MISCEGENATION.—Thete were 411,613 mulatto slaves in the soutli of whom 69,979 were inVirginia,43,2Bl in Ken tucky, ,and - 36,900in Georgia. These numbers are considerabbeyond the legitimate pro portion of thoie -States. There were also x 76, 739 free Mulattoes in the United:States - iiilB6o,, of whom 106,770 belonged to the southinn469, 969 to the free States. Of the : free nitilattoes Virginiaemitained 23,485, which number, in, to her slavo- ,mulattoes makes a total of inis`ce. genated population of 93,824. Her mulitto, slaves alone exceeded the total number ofmulat, toes in the free States.' The whole'-muniber 'of 'mulattoes, slave and free, in the' *Union, in 1860; was 588,r4 of whom 69, 969 belonged to the free States,. and 518,383 to the slave States--a number' - Odder than the 'combined white'population of A.rk'iin- - - ns, Delaware and Florkfa—greater 'than'the white population ofislaryland—almostkurieo as. great as that of Smith' Carolina, and twice - as great as the•eimbinqd• populations ofDelaVinre and Florida, T-ke 'mulatto population of Vir, ginia alone exceeds the number ofwhitesitfeele, aware or Florida. i . . 1 IN
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