Pleading for Kb Old Maatcn.
The adherents'of the old Locofoeo De
mocracy, now called Copperheads, who for
many years followed with spaniel-like do
cility the lead of the ruling class of the
Houth, now rebels, are bitterly opposed to
the oath of allegiance prescribed in the
Presidents Proclamation of Amnesty.—
See what the Pittsburgh Post says on the
subject:
" With here and there an individual ex
ception, the men who would take the oath
and be allowed to vote would be the weak
est and least energetic portion of the pop
ulation. The portion of the Southern
people who have the most character, and
are the best Jit to govern, and look after
the interests of the State or the Union, are
precisely those who would be excluded by
the test oath."
If the editor's object had been to ex
press his sympathy tor traitors and armed
rebels; if he had sat down to write out a
full confession of all that we ever charged
upon his party of base subserviency to
the men whom it invested with the power
to tear t*e Union to pieces ; if he had
set about to make an expose of that cring
ing sycophancy which inflated those arro
gant wretches with a pride and ambition
so boundless that they went mad. he could
not have succeeded better than he has
done in the above paragraph- See how
contemptuously he talks of the loyal men
of the South—the men who own few or
no slaves, but who earn their bread by
honest industry, by the labor of their own
hands! He oalls them " the weakest and
least enegetic portion of the population
and then see what he says of the slave
holding, ruling class, that class who re
gard labor as dishonorable, and who call
the working men of the North " mud
sills." Yet this man cabs himself a. dem
ocrat !
But to say that the non-slaveholders of
the South—such, for example as the no
ble loyalists of East Tennessee, who htjve
suffered and dared more for the Union
than any oJ,her community in the country
—a ciass of whom Gov. Johnson, of that
State, and Parson Browulow, are repre
sentative men—arc '• the weakest and least
energetic portion of the population" is
simply a lie. That they have long been
wronged and abused, and deprived of their
just rights, and privileges, and weight in
social and political life, is very true, but
they arc, nevertheless, a brave, hardy, and
energetic class; and now they are begin
ning to assert their just power ; and when
they do become the ruling class, as they
soon will, good-bye to slavery, treason and
copperhead democracy. Thiß the Post
knows, and hence its rage.
Does the Post wish to take back the
rebels into the Unicn with all their enmi
ty to our Union, Constitution and Plag,
without even an oath of fidelity 1 We
freely admit that they would make very
good members of its party, and we doubt
not that but the poor copperheads would
be overjoyed to have their old masters
back again ; but would they make good
or safe citizens ? Think of Jeff. Davis
or Toombs returning, just as (Lev are to
the Senate ; and think of the life that
such Southern men as have stood true to
the flag of their country through all this
terrible rebellion would have under the
restored rule of secessionists and rebels.
But will the Punt tell us why any man
in the South except a few officers of high
grade, need be " excluded by the test
oath 1" Is there anything in that oath
of which any honest man need be either
atraid or ashamed '< If so. what is it?—
If any man who takes it has at any time
favored the rebellion in any way, it is a
confession that he was wrong in so doing,
and it is a promise that he will do wrong
in that way no more. Perhaps the Pout
regards such conditions as too humiliating
to its haughty old masters. Well, well,
if that be so, let them stay out. The
country can do very well without them,
even if the copperhead democracy cannot.
We know very veil that that party will
die unless those choice old democrats, who
are now at the head of the rebel govern
ment and its armies, can be got back
again, with their old principles and their
" niggers." We know that it is impossi
ble tor the " Democracy" to survive the
death of Slavery; and it is equally impos
sible for those men who " are the best fit
ted to govern," to do so after they shall
have been deprived of the only thing that
ever gave them any importance. The
country, it is true, nan and will be gov
erned very well after slavery and aristoc
racy shall have ceased to exist; but alas
for copperheadism in those days ! This is
what troubles the Post — Pittsburgh' Ga
zette.
REBEL INVASION OF THE NORTH.—A
Washington dispatch says:—Gen. Hal
leck. in conversation with prominent pub
lic men. has expresseJ his belief that the
Kst grand and desperate effort will be
made in tin. ensuing spring by the rebels
to trauxfer the real fighting to Northern
Boil. They cannot subsist their armies in
their ovn desolated region, from all the
most fruitful parts of which slaves have
been withdrawn into the interior Cotton
States. Ir is difficult t > determine wheth
er their new campaign will be due north
Into Pennsylvania again, or aoross Ken
tncky into Ohio, using Longstreet's pres
ent position as a base of operations. All
the secret advices received at the War
Department show that a Peter-the-Her
mit crusade against the North is now be
ing preached throughout the Confederacy,
and that they a.e conscripting into the
ranks with ruthless violence everything
human that is able to bear arms.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—The follow
ing dispatch was received this morning at
headquarters of the army :
Headqnarterg Military Division of Mis
sissippi, Nashville. Jan. 29.—0n the
morning of the 25th inst, the enemy Bix
hundred strong, attacked our garrison of
about one hijudred, at Athena. After
two hours' fighting the enwu was repulsed
fcnd driven back. OUT Tb«« is 20, but
that of the enemy is much greater.
On the 27th, Col. Miiler had a severe
fight on this side of Florence, repulsing
the enemy. Our loss in this affair was
fifteen killed ond twenty-five wounded.
JOHN A. RAWLINS,
Brig. Gen. and Chief of Staff.
Mr* The knitting-mills at Seneca Falls,
New York, now turn out Uxt thousand
pain of army hose a day.
Rebel Plans and Projects.
A letter from a Washington correspond
ent of the Yew York Tribune, who claims
to speak on good information regarding
rebel designs, has the following: .
"It has been decided that Longstreet
shall be recalled from East Tennessee,and
placed at the head of a new army which
is to have its basis at Suffolk, and operate
on the south side of James River, in ex
pectation of an attack on that side by the
Union forces.
Kirby Smith, well acquainted with the
ground now occupied by Longstreet and
with the people of Tennessee—which de
partment he commanded when Tennessee
was under rebel rule—has been appointed
in his place. This choice of the Rebel
Government has been determined, it is
said, by the popularity which Kirby Smith
enjoys in all parts of Tennessee where the
rebels contemplate, as I have told you, a
great movement for next Spring. It is al
so surmised that their army now located at
Uodgcrsville, having been advised that a
strong body of Kentucky troops were ad
vancing to reinforce Knoxville, has been or
dered to move southward in the direction
of Nashville, as a preliminary step to its
junction with Polk'sforces. As this move
ment uncovers the Tennessee and Virgin
ia Railroad, Early has been advised to
keep close watch in that direction, by de
fending the approaches of the Shenandoah
Valley.
The advance of therebelarmy in West
and South Tennessee, although an article
of faithamong most of the Richmond pol
iticians, is not, I apprehend, so certain as
people affect to believe. I am, on the
contrary, assured that Longstreet or his
successors have no idea of so soon giving
up the safe position he occupies for one
not presenting the same advantages. It
may be even doubted whether he will feel
strong enough to venture upon an isolated
expedition either in Tennessee or Kentuc
ky. where he has a thousand chances to
one to be surrounded and captured. It
is for more probable that his army, now
located in Rodgersville, is there for the
purpose of threatening the flanks of Gen.
Grant, of interrupting his communications,
and of cutting off his supplies, and for
that alone, until he feels strong enough to
inarch upon Knoxville, and take that city.
Until this is done the Rebel army in East
Tennessee is simply to remain on the de
fensive. All its efforts at present are to
prevent Knoxville from being reinforced
and supplied. The attack upon our train
at Charleston, in which he was repulsed,
that of Martin at Talbot's Stat on, and
that of Vance at Mossy Creek, in which
the latter was made a prisoner, are all un
mistakable indications of one and the same
design, the capture of Knoxville.
It would not, then, be astonishing to see
the rebel army in East Tennessee march
before long, wi h the additional re-enforce
ments it has recently received, upon the
latter city, and attempt to carry itby storm.
Indeed the critical position in which Long
street is now placed forbids him to stay
long in a passive attitude. As the Rich
mond pitpatf h of tJieliGtij in#t rsays. ev
ery day spent in inaction, to his weak
ness, and increases his danger. Placed as
ii6 is between two Union armies, one of
which, that g£?herimrat Cumberland (lap,
is only waiting forreinforcemcn!" to march
upon him. Longstrect has no other alter
native than to push forward upon Kuox
ville or to fall back upon the Tennessee
and Virginia Railroad, which has just been
putin running order by the repairing of
the Wasauga Bridge, on the Wasauga
River. But as a retreat at the present mo
ment would materially disturb his plan of
operation, if not destroy his prestige, the
probability is that he will attempt a for
ward movement before he is compelled to
fall back by the advance of the Union for
ces.—Pittsburgh Gazette.
THE TAX ON SPIRITS.—The investi
gations of the Committee of Ways and
Means on the taxation of spirits has de
ve oped much interesting information.
The annual consumption of spirits, as
shown by the New York trade, is about
100,(TOO.000 of gallons. By the census
of 1850, 86,781,557 gallons were pro
duced in the l<Tyal States alone. Under
the Excise law, tax was paid up to Octo
ber :W. 1864, on 32,610,000 gallons.
This is, of course, largely below the
years consumption, and is to be explained
by the confusion incident to the earlier
working of the act, and particularly by
the difficulty of discriminating between
stock produced before and after Septem
ber 1, 1863. The monthly collections of
revenue have steadily increased and forthe
months of July, August, September and
October,-1863, the receipts on spirits av
eraged 8822,992.23, or at the rate of 89.-
875.907.96 pcrannum, representing $483-
795.40. Por November and December
the returns were much larger.
SENATOR COWAN'S RECENT VOTE.—
Speaking of Mr. Cowan's recent vote on
Mr. Sumner's • lesolution in the case of
Senator Bayard, of Delaware, the Phila
delphia Evening Bulletin very justly re
marks :
Mr. Buckalew, of this State, was of
course in the opposition : but we are sur
prised to find his colleague, Mr. Cowan,
voting with him. The course of Senator
Cowan has several times excited surprise.
He has disappointed the high hopes that
were entertained at the time of his elec
tion, not only by his eccentricities in vo
ting, but by his failure to show the dis
tinguished ability as a statesman and a de
bater, which his friends declared he pos
sessed. He has carried the ideas of the
Greensburg bar to Washington, and he
lets a legal quibble weigh more heavily in
his mind than a great politif*l principle.
If he had done any great public servioe
as a Senator, or had in any way acted as
a worthy representative of a State like
Pennsylvania in a situation like that into
which the rebellion has brought us, we
might overlook his professional propensity
to vote on technical grounds where na
tional questions are to be decided. But
there has been no such compensatory ser
vice rendered by him. and for all practi
cal purposes, Mr. Buckalew is about a.
good a Senator for Pennsylvania as Mr.
Cowan. But the large majority for Mr,
Sumner's resolution shows that Mr." Cow
art is harmless in the Senate.
Da?" Bishop Simpson has gone to Chat
tanooga to look after tUe interests of Meth
od i«m.
I £hc 3Umi(an Cittern.
THOMAS ROBINSON,
CYRUS E. ANDERSON, f Edltorß -'
~ ~~ BUTLER PA.
WEDXESDAY,;:;FEB. 3,1804.
O**"Liberty and Union. Now and Forever. One
and'neeparabte."—D. Webtter.
FOR PRESIDENT IS 1864 :
ABRAHAM HXC'OLX.
JDay Breaking.
The dead lock that has kept the State
Senate inactive so long, is about to be re
moved by a special election in the Indiana
district, which has now been ordered, and
the people of the State may feel relieved
at the thought, that the time is at hand,
when the factious copperheads, can no long
er prevent the passage of a Resolution by
the legislature of our own State, compla
menting Gen. Grant, and his gallant ar
my. which they did a few weeks ago.
The Call for .100,000 Wen.
In our issue of to-day will be found
the call of the President for the above*
number of men. When the intelligence
reaches rebeldom that half a million of
men in addition to the veteran army now
in the field, are coming upon them, it will
strike terror into the rebel ranks, and
cause their wicked leaders to tremble for
fear of the destiny that must shortly come
upon them. They will now be able to re
alize the fact, that our government is real
ly in earnest and intends to crush the unho
ly rebellion which has been instigated and
carried on by rebels and traitors.
The hand writing is visible on the wall, j
The decree has gone forth, and will, ere
long, be fulfilled.
The Opening Campaign.
The Democratic State Central Com-1
mittce met at Philadelphia, on the 13th
of January last, and after attending to
some preliminary matters, appointed a sub.
committee on resolutions.
The resolutions are such as might have
been expected from a committee of which
" Uecf lligler," was chairman ; and rep
resenting, as it does, a defunct party—
soured by repeafed defeats. As is com
mon with " conservative" resolutions, we
notice the absence of any expression that
might be construed into a declaration of
decided disapprobation to the coulee pur
sued by even tl»e loaders of the rebellion, j
The most they ever do in that way, is to
draw a comparison between the Loyal peo
ple of the nation, and their chosen rulers
on the one side, whom they arc pleased to
call Abolitionists, and the rebels at the
South, including Jeff. Davis & Co., whom
they gently term secessionists.
When we look at the frequent and stun
ning rebukes which that cowardly party
has received at the hands of the people,
for its treachery to'the Government, and
its almost unmasked sympathy with arm
ed treason, we are astonished at its fool
hardiness, in again going before the peo
ple on issues that have been' already deci
ded against it.
But they assume to believe that the last
election was carried by Military power,
and fraud on the ballot box. Shame on
them, thus seeking to evade the weight of
the verdict, which they," in their very
hearts know was rendered against them.
Was it military power that beat Vallan
digham in Ohio, over 100,000 ?
But the most important declaration in
these resolves, is to the effect that
if the Administration atWashington,don't
get frightened at them and at once aban
don its policy of bringing back the rebel
States by a vote of its loyal citizens, in
stead of allowing " their friend*," the reb
els, to participate—that then they will re
sist the Government by all " the means
that God and nature has placed in their
power." It is to be feared this threat
will be too much for the Administration,
brave and patriotic as it is.
Shame on any party, thus attempting to
annoy a patriotic administration in its ef
forts to save the unity of the country, but
more especially a party like that which
now claims to represent the conservative
elements of the country, that cannot boast
of having the control of a single State
from Maine to California. Keep cool gen
tlemen. Remember your attempt to re
sist the Government in New York, De
troit, and elsewhere. Thanks to the over
ruling Providence, that sustains as, we
are not dependent upon that class of trai
tors and fogies, for our future national life.
Persons who may wish to be post
ed in the doiugs of the Legislature during
the present session, should subscribe at once
for the Harrisburg Daily Patriot <fc Un
ion. It is a well conducted, neatly print
ed journaJ; gives full reports of the Leg
islative pooceedingß. and handles the Ab
olition, Wolly-head Worshiping Shoddy
itos, iu a proper manner. If you want a
good paper subscribe for it. Terms, five
dollars per year.— Herald
We can well resiember seeing a copy of
the above so emphatically endors
ed by the Herald, issued immediately af
ter the fall of Sypiptfr. The President
having called out seventy-five thousand
men for the defense of Washington, an
editorial in the Patriot & Union, declared
that the Democratic party could have no
sympathy with the government in the war;
that not a Democrat should Shoulder a
musket or pull a trigger; that was the ex
tent of that Journals patriotism at that
time. After two years of war almost ex
clusively on the policy suggested by the
Democracy, the rebellion was still defiant
and the loyal millions discouaaged. At
this time a change of policy was being de
bated. It was proposed that, instead of
detailing a portion of the Union army to
suppress the slave insurrection and pro
tect rebel property, thfc should
be used for one single purpose—the over
throw of the rebellion ; leaving rebels to
take care of their property and negroes
too. It was also proposedUiiiiriteall who
were willing to do serviee tor the union,
under the old flag, into our armies with
out restriction as to color. It was at this
period of our own troubles that the Patri
ot & Union establishment-gained still more
notariety by the issuing of posters calling
for themusteringof negro soldiers at llar
risburg, hoping by this means to get up a
prejudice against the policy, which, if
adopted, was sure to strike astunningblow
to the rebel cause.
One of its editors suspected of complici
ty with this act, was arrested, and for a
time, imprisoned, but on fiirtherexamina
tion it was found that he was not the au
thor of this cowardly act of treason, and
he was therefore released. Ue afterwards
denounced the act; left the concern, and
the Party, and took the stump for Curtin.
It is quite naturnal that the llerald should
recommend such a sheet to its readers.—
" Birds of a feather flock together."
The Beaufort Dlitrlct, 8. C.
This once opulent and productive por
tion of the Sea Island region of South
Carolina, is undergoing a strange transmu
tation. Previous to the Itebeliiou it was
occupied by the proudest of the aristoc
racy of the South, whose many broad
acres were covered with thousands of those
anomalous beings who were regarded and
treated partly as men and partly as things,
and whose labor in the cultivation of sea
island cotton, the most valuable variety of
that staple, enabled the proprietors of both
the acres and the chatties to riot in wealth
and luxury.
Now those cotton princes are poor,
homeless wanderers, made so by their own
folly and wickedness, and their magnifi
cent estates arc being divided into small
lots and sold for unpaid taj.es (not con
fiscated) under the 'auctioneer's hammer,
to the soldiers and sailors who wrested
them from their retßWMmors, and to the
very slaves whose unrequited toil had long
been expended upon them. A new and
strange, but far better civilization has suc
ceeded the cruel bondage and barbaric
pouip of former days. On this compara
tively small tract we see a beginning, ah
epitome, of the mighty change which has
uc£UU to pass over the uouia'n of slavery
ami cotton. Let us hope that a pure
Christianity and an intelligent spirit of
law-abiding Liberty will maik the pro
gress of this great revolution ; and thatall
classes there will be lifted up together, so
that no one class shall ever have either
the will or power to get their feet upon
the necks of the others.— l'itts. Gazelle.
GEN. BANKS has made a change
greatly for the better in the program
me he set forth in his recent procla
mation. The election , for delegated
to the Convention to alter and amend
the State Constitution is not to be
put off till April, as at first proposed.
At the instance of the Free-State
General Committee he has ordered
that an election for Delegates to a
Convention to frame anew State Con
stitution, as well as for State officers,
shall take place on Washington's birth
day. This will considerably hasten
the restoration of Louisiana to her
proper place as a State of the Union.
IIUNTSVILLE, ALA, Jan. 31.—Just
arrived here from Chattanooga, and
before leaving Gen. Palmer had re
turned from a reconnoissance to Iling
gold and Dalton. The main force of
the enemy had undoubtedly left, Gen.
Palmer thought towards Longstreet,
with the purpose of invading Ken
tucky.
Since arriving here I have obtain- j
ed information which satisfied me that ;
Ilardee has reinforced Mobile. An
attack was undoubtedly m ideon Mo
bile within five days past. Persons
here have solicited permission togo
through the lines to attend relatives
wounded at Mobile. Positive inform
ation may be soon expected of an at
tack on that place, and its probable
fall.
IlAttßisncßQ, Feb. 1,1H04. —A letter
of resignation from Senator White has been
received, dated Libby prison, Nov. 1803,
and addressed to John P. Penney, Speak
er of the Senate. It was placed in the
hands of his father-in-law. who withheld
it until all hopes of his exchange was
gone by. It is oloquently written, and full <
of patriotism. A writ for a t]iec:al elec
tion has been issued. Senator White is
now in Salisbury, North Carolina. He was
brought away by an officer under should
straps. Mr. Warfield, of Baltimore, who i
went as special Commissioner to procure
White's exchange, brings back a reply ;
from Commissioner Ould, declining an ex
change of Major White peremptorily.
m i» i
NEW YORK. Jan. 80. —The Herald \
says the bombardment of Charleston was i
goiug on quite briskly up to the .'sth. ; ■
On that day tweuty 'shuts were fired into 1 i
the city. . i
Ihe llerald gives some very interesting
accounts of the state of atia,rb in Chsrlei !
ton, from a lady refugee. Nearly one i
half of the city is damaged and abandoned I
in consequence of Gen. Gillmore's bom- i
bardment. <
Jefi". Davis' lloilj Servant.
Our W.u-lrngtou dispatchesh.ive -.lrea
dy given the iuoie important B'arements
made by Jim Deumson, the negro botly
servant of Jeff. Davis, who recently made
his escape from Richmond to Washing
ton, where the information of which he is
the bearer has seemed of such importance
as to have occupied many hours of the at
tention both of Oen. Ha Heck and of the
Secretary of War. Afterall, the most in
teresting of his statements is that toueh
ing the weakness of Lee's army, when
Meade made his late advance movement.
It seems Lee had but 3d,OUU men to con
front at that time to the whole army of
the Potomac. The following additional
items, however, will interest our readers:
The cupola roof of the President's hou e 1
leaks badly, he says, so that during the re
cent rain storm all the tubs froiiuie kitch
en had to be taken up to save the celling ;
of the lower floors. Airs. Davis, who oft
en says that if they had known how it was
going, they never would have left Wash
ington with her consent, was calling Mas
sa Davis' attention to the.state of the roof,
and asked him to send to the Quartermas
ter's Depa tmeut and have it repaired.—
Massa Davis, who has grown very petulant
and irritable of late, replied : '•! reckon
we will be out of this before another rain
storm. Don't fuss yourself and me about
these trifles."
He says that Jefferson Davis, in private
conversation, is unreserved in urging the
abandonment of Virginia, as a line of de
fense no longer tenable. That he has
heard Mr. Davis, in conversation with con
fidential members of the so-called Gov
ernment, deel tred frequently that Virginia
had been used for all it was worth, that it
had proved a shield id' immense value, in
fending oft' the devastations of war from
the rice and cotton States, which were the
heart aud body politic oUthe new govern
ment. Steps have been already taken on
various pretexts of their labor being need
ed on the public works to send all the val
ue able-bodied negroes and breeding ne- i
gro women from Richmond along the rail
road to Lynchburg, and also south into i
Georgia, which Mr. Davis declares to be
the next base of operations. Hut General
Lee, whom Jim declares as looking very
old. with his hair now snow-white, is per
emptorily opposed to the abandonment of
Virginia, and declares that Virginia sold
iers will lay down their arms, if their
State be given up to the Yankee despot
ism.
The talk is not about going to Colum
bia, South Carolina, but to some city in
Oeorgia. Jim heard gentlemen ask Mr.
Davis at the table, where Alexander
Stephens was. who has not attended Cong
ress this session, and who is said not to
have visited Mr. Davis' house or ofli< e for
over a year. Davis replied, that he had
heard that Stephens had gone to Kurope,
but had not thought it worth while to in
quire what of him.
Jim accompanied Davis in his recent
tour around the Confederacy, and describes
the following scene as having occurred on
;he summit of Lookout Mountain. Look
ing down one bright day from the lofty
eminence commanding a clear view into
four States, and a very distant view iuto-a
fifth, Davis saw the Yankees beneath his
feet, across the valley, work ng ike beav
ers oa their fortifications. "I live rhein
n >w," said lie. "in just the tlap 1 tot fo)
them." To which L out. Gen. I'etuber-
I ton. who was sitting on !i >rsoba< k beside
liini, rep ied. ''.Mr. I .'avis, you aie Com
inander-m-l hief. an I you are lie e. "U
think the enemy aie in a trap, an t can be
captured by vigorous assault. I iiu ve been
blamed for not having ordered a general
attack on the enemy when they were draw
ing around their lines of circumvallation
at Vicksburg. Do you now order an at
tack upon thoso trooj s down there bo low
us, and I will set you my life that notone
(I—d d—m man of the attacking column
w 1 overcome back a-- o-s ihatva-loy, ex
cept as a prisohcr."
When I lav is was passing through North
Carolina, he only stopped at Wilmington
to consult with Gen. Whiting. While
there he was pressed by a numerous dele
gation of Confederate office-holders to stop
tn Raleigh for consultation with Governor
Vance. This he angrily declined. It ap
peals that the health of .Mr, Davis is rap
idly breaking down under his nouralgy
attacks, in so much that lie can no longer"
use his only good eye by candle light.—
lie continues his old habitafter dinner of
stretching himself on the carpet before the
fire in a room otherwise unlightened, and
it is fast becoming dangerous for any one
to approach him.
Always of a violent and fretful temper,
he is becoming greatly aggravated by his
misfortunes, and Jim describes him on one
occasion as flinging about the chairs and
furniture when so disturbed. About four
weeks ago a pistol exploded in his room
when he was loading it, and the whole fam
ily rushed up. Yeeling confident that, as
they had long decided, he had committed
suicide.
Jim says that Mrs. Davis, in conversa
tion with fonialo friends, frequently talks
of the Confederacy as hopeless, andisloud
in regrets for the lost pleasures of Wash
ington.
There is no forage except in the Missis
sippi Department, and the allowance for
Mr. Davis' two horses is two quartsof corn
each per day.on which, says Jim. they
are growing thin. Not long ago Mr. Da
vis received a present of twenty turkeys,
the food for which now comes from the
corn rations of tho quadrupeds, making
theiu still thinner. A turkey, says Jim,
lasts the family three days—roasted or boil
ed the first day. cold the next, and hashed
the third.
Mr. Davis receives no company—hxs no i
wine in his cellar, but has several kogs of
brandy sent from blockade runners at Wil- !
mington. Jim says that Mr. Davis told
him that the Yankees had killed all the
people whom they found on his Mississippi
plantation, and that they were all found
lying pigglety piggelty in a hole, their legs
and anus cut off, and in some cases, their
heads bloody and beaten, protudins from
the ground. Jim says he believe! . h
story, until one of h ; s fellow c crv iiiv. wii
could read, t .!•: h »nit w, t.t . c
them. 'lben Jim determine !to euv-,-.
When he did leave he was hiatien n a
hole in the eaiih at CharlesCity for ihreo
days before he was found by his wile, the
last female slave owned by Mr. Davis iu
the Presidential Mansion. Jim wore au
overcoat, aud iu it the autograph name of
| Mr. Pavis. and the date 18fJ0. "Ho# do
\ u Wp v Mir eo i* «■> -"O " «ve iske I
h'tit. tie ..istv 'Oil, y. Ma -i
| Davis gave ittj me a yea.-ago, audi knew
; 1 might never get another, so I took eare
of it." He had on his feet new but very
coarse brogans of untanncd leather, which
' Massa Davis got from the quartermaster,
and he told me to take care of them for
they cost him 550."
j The utmost distress preva'ls in Ricli
! 111 aid for fool, there nit being more than
' two or three beevcsJjiHe I in the city pei
I day for private eon Wnption. Ire h leof
was about SI a pound when he left. For :
a str'ng of three perch, we : .ching less than
tLpound etch., he paid 813. O , sier wore
8 ?5 11 quart, as they coal 1 only be ol tail
I ed in the night on account of the Yankee i
occupation of the lames Uiver w.th giui
| boats.— l'itt-lmrg/i (la ette.
I i -*
JfKW S ItV TKIJXItU'II.
• Special l>Hp.Ucb to the i'itl-iburgh Gnscttw.
Washington, Jjiu. "JO,
BOUNTIES AND CLAIMS.
The lly c Military Committee to-day,
agreed upon the followmg as the proper
disposition of a great number of claims
j for bounties re>erred to them :
WHEREAS, Doubts have arisen as to
the intent and meaning of the 3d section
of the act approved July 17, 1802, enti
tled an act to amend the act calling for
the militia to execute the laws of the
Union, to suppress insurrection, and to re
pel invasion, approved February 28, 1796,
an act amendatory thereof, and for other
purposes. That said act shall be so con
strued as to entitle men who are called
out under the provisions of said section,
whether enrolled as militia, or volunteers,
to a bounty of twenty-five dollars, as pro
vided in the aforesaid section, and tlie
proper accounting officers of the (Jovcrn
luent are hereby authorized and directed
to pay the said bounty to all who have not
yet received the same; the said bounty
shall be paid out of any money appropri
ated for the paymeut of bounties to vol
unteers.
ARKANSAS STATE GOVERNMENT.
The following is the President'# order
for the reorganization of Arkansas gov
ernment :
RXfCOTITK M INStO*. "1
W.umixnTON, .tan. an, IMI.J
To Maj.-Qen. Steel: Sundry citizens
of the State of Arkansas, petition me
that an election may be held in that State,
at which to elect a Governor—that it be
j assumed at that election and thenceforward
that the Constitution and the laws
of the State as before the rebellion
are in full force, except that the Constitu
tion is so mod tied -.s to declare that there
shnil be lie tlier slavery nor involuntary
servitude, except in the punishment of
crimes, whereof, the party sh ill have been
: dulv convicted'. That the (Jeueral As
sembly may make suuli provisions for the
freed people a.' shall recognize and declare
their permanent freedom, and provide for
their educi.ti,n. jnd which in >y yet be
construed arrangement,
su : tab!e to their present c< nnition >n a la
boring, landless and homeless class. That
said election shall be held on the 28th day
of .March, 1864, at all the usual places of
the Sta 0 for tilt euch v >tcr< .I*l 111 v at
ten iIW 'hi pti po.-o. \i. iii: •• -or
1 ' ten ng.it etch pliee.it e tr c i.fe 111
j 'ho mini ng of sa d day 111 r, •li .■ ejudg
I • •andele ks ol' clc tiun, to lia u|<> e
li t ail jici'm 11 <| .a. fio.l t>y . id c usi
j uti nan I laws, an . tak 11 h • oath pre
! e:i e I tithe I'rc-i leiu's pioi .itn iiion ol'
• ct.cmbcr Blh, 18U;{, either before or a',
the election, anu uone eve, may Le vo
ters. That each .-:ct of judge md cleiks
may make returns directly to you on or
before the day next. That iti all
other respects said election inly be con
ducte 1 according to said modified consti
tution and laws, and that on the receipt
of sa d ietun, when 5,1 (1 votes shall
have been east, you can rcce've such votes
and ascer a n who shall thereby appear 10
have been elected. That on the day
of next, all per- n< so appearing to
have been elected, who shntl appear be
fore you at Little Rock, and take the oath
to be by you severally administered, to
slipjiort the Constitution of the United
I States, and the modified Constitution of
j the State of Arkansas, and be declared
j by you qualified and empowered, to imme
; diately enter upon the duties of the offi
| ces to which they shall have been respec
j tively elected.
I You will please order an election to take
place on the 28th of March, 18(14, and
returns to be made in fifteen days there
! after. A. LINCOLN. •
GEN. ROBECRANS ASSIGNED TO DUTY.
War Department, Adjutant General's
| O/fi'-e, Wathington, Jan. 28,1801. — Gen
eral Orr/rr No. 28.—8y direction of the
I President of the United States, Maj.-Gcn.
: W. S. Hoseerans of the United Slates
Yolunteers. is appointed to the command
of the Pepartmcnt of Missouri. Mujor
i General J. M. Schofield on being relieved
i from his command by Maj.-Gon. Itose
j crans, will report for duty to Maj.-Gcn.
| Grant at Chattanooga, Tetm.
j DESERTIONS FROM THE REBEL ARMT.
J Deserters from the rebels still continue
Ito arrive at all points of our lines. They
express great dissatisfaction with the state
j of a Hairs in the rebel army, and are both
willing to take the oath and enter the scr
i vice of the United States.
REVERLLY JOHNSON ON SLAVERY.
Reverdy Johnson remarked in Conven
tion to-day that the abolition of slavery
was foreordained- Some men supposed
j they vere d-vng all the w irk to ge' rid of
it, while rftilly it w:u the waik of God.
! lie was rejoiced to see this day.
GEN. GAUFIELU'S SPEECH.
! The members of Congress have
I scribed for an edition of twenty-five thous
j and copies of Gen. Garfield's speech—
considerably the largest number yet or
dered, of any speech this session.
FROM LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
Private intelligence from perfectly re-
I'uVo ,i • 0
( State.
A DRAFT FOR IIW,OOO M! N ORDCRED.
\. AV..I .. ,i.u, -'ihe : .e, -
den has issued the or.
Executive Mansion, \YatAiatg!on, Feb
ruary. l«f, 18(54.—1t is ordered that a
draft for 500,000 men. to 9erve for three
years or during the war. be made on the
I'lth day of March next. for the military
serv tool the Uu'ted S a es, crelitinj
and ueductmg therefrom so many as may
have been enlisted or drafted into the
service prior to the Ist day of March, audi
not heretofore credited.
Signed, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
WASHINGTON,' Jan. !io.—The follow
ing dispatch lias been received at the
Headquaiters of the army :•
]L■ailynartrrs ty' th Military Dili ion
<>J tilt -'/■/». An -hit ll>. / hn,, .
A)— Major :'uu. i.!•'•...< e . luieguiphs
from K ll ixv.l e. J enri. an er dare ol -Jan.
_'Sth. !> m., a tuiliuvs: I hive the
honor to e;oit that he cvl _v ;tu e
(Jen Stu La ne i 1 Ice de vie- ry
over lilt; enemy jres'er lay near Fa'r (Jar
dens, ten 111 >!o*- east ol Zieversvilie. (Jen
M'Cook's division dn ve he cm'my back
two miles, after a S'libbom fight, lasting
from day-light to four o'clock, |>. 111.. tit
which time the division charged with the
salne and with a yell, routed the enemy
from (he field, and captured two steel ri
fled gum. and over two hundred prison
ers. 'fhe enemy's loss was considerable,
them be tig kille 1 and wound
ed. We charged Gainard and Wolford's
divisions, and came up after a forced
march in time to be pushed in pursuit.—
Although their horses were jaded, (Jen.
Sturgcs hoped to be able to make the rout
complete.
Signed, JOHN A. RAWLINS,
Prig ficnerul and Chief of Staff.
NKW YORK, Jan. 28. —The federal
steam corvette Kersage is cruising in
the llrest TJouds. The corvette Flor
ida is still in that port.
The Hartford (Conn.) Timet: says
that it is understood among military
men in that city, that another call for
troops will be made about the first of
February for 400,000 men for three
years, # and 400,000 for nine months.
This information is said to come
from sources entitled to credit.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. —Tho Erm'mj
Republican Ims tlie following: It is now
certain that a serious e-mii/e occurred in tho
roftel cam]>. near Stevensburg, on Satuar
day last. Heavy muskefty and artillery
firing was heard in so much that n mes
sage was sent to the cavalry pickets from
the headquarters to ascertain what was go
ing on. Deserters who come instate that
a regiment had attempted to desert, and
a serious affair occurred. There wus souio
firing on Friday, and the insurrection in
the camp came to u crisis on Saturday.
The cause of Jeff. Uavis is getting more
and more shakv.
OKN..KIW.VSII>K TO I.OCATK AT IIAH
| RISHURO. —Gen. Hurnsidc's Aid-de-Camp
; arrivod at Harrisbr.rg on Saturday, and
is now arranging (fflairs preparatory to the
arrival of the oencra4 r who is about lo es
| tablish his headquarters in Harris burg,
I where he will receive recruits to the num
' ber of f>'t,oUo for the Ninth Army corps.
WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. 2'J.—HOUSE.
—Mr. Stevens, of PounsylvntUi', from the
Committee of Ways and Means, reported
the judicial executive and legislative ap
! propriation bill.
Mr '""a •*" n .if Tov.a. introduced the
tt • iii , tiie Se'i i ? .c cmcur.ng,
' Conge hu- c1 wih ilii profound
.wt IJ h.! .i.orin.itioti if the j .*r
: ! .sc en eria ned l>y rt'rta n European pow
I eis to fubvert the no gl»oring republic i i
; Mexico, and to inriose upon the people of
I that repu" li un J . hei fluene ail n n
ace of beiiiguro i arms, a monarchic
system of fovc:i.u:ent, ] Tactically un
known to the people of North America,
and alien to their principle, customs and
usages ; and be it further
Ri'-olccit, That Congress regards this .
proposition w ; lh the deepest regie;, and
expresses its covx-ton t li tt such an enter
prise wil 1 be universally regarded in Amer
ica as a menace to the dignity and pernia
, nonce-of popular governments, and that
I it will only result in adding a new life to
| the causes which have retarded the pros
perity of that republic, and will provoke
complications continually perilous to the
j tranquillity of this continent.
The death of Mr? Noel!, of Missouri,
I being announced,\he Ilowe adjourned.
NASHVILLE, Jan. 27.—Information
\ from Gen. Dodge at Pulaski, Tenn., uu
j der date of 26th, says that the enemy
crossed the Tennessee river last night, at
tacked Athens this morning and were de
feated. Ihey are now trying to get back.
The troops at Athens had mostly gone to
Florence to attack Johnson's force cross
! ing there, and Col. Harrison with six hun
dred rebels, and two pieces
; took advantage of their absencewere
badly defeated.
Still I M!lT —Advices say that Dodge
badly whipped Johnson at Florence. In
all probability the raid is at an end.
GINCINNATTI, Jan. :i'>.—The Cummer-.
cinf» special, five miles north of Tunnel
: Hill, Georgia, on the 2!tth, says :
Gen. Palmer, with Davis' division,
moved here yesterday on a reconnoissance
1 The 2Nth Kentucky and 4th Michigan,
drove in the rebels' advance pickets, and
! captured a company of rebel cavalry.— _
The rebels retreated from Tunnel Hill du
ring the night. They lost 32 killed and
wounded. Our loss is two wounded.—
The object of the reconnoissance was ef
fected. «
Claiborne's division is above Tunnel
Hill, on the Dalton road. The balance of
the rebels have disappeared. They have
j probably gone to Mobile or East Tennes
; see.
LOUISVILLE, Jan. 30. —The Journal
has further advices about the Scottsville
affair:
Capt. Gilium, of the ISth Kentucky,
was commanding at Scottsville with 150
men. Hamilton, with 300 rebels, attack
ed him. and a desperate fight, Gilium
- - ■ c ■ id.-
j t vitirt Ho i!, <•'«• r.'Vtu . ''''l tha public
roles . his i u 1 ■
SoiiiO ot our uie ej) .ills u.-ve ki-t re
ceived further information that 11 amil
; ton's men robbe-J several stores.