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' SATURDAY, DEC. STH, 1863.
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Dir. Vallaadiglam•s Address.
;Whatover differeitoes of belief our read
ers may . ontestain regarding the peculiar
views of Mr. Vallandigh am upon the war,
there can certainly be but one mind as to
the merits of the address which we pub
lish in to-day's paper. As a - classieal . ; pol
jibed and statesmanlike production it
his few equals, and there are none that
surpass it. The tone of dignified intelli
gence which pervades the address will
oommend it. to all classes of people, and
few persons will read it to the close, no
matter what their political creed, with
out feeling a stronger respect for its auth
or's abilities than they did before.
The Union as It Was.
...o.o*
It is one of the significant facts and
sigrui of the times that the party - in the
North which claims especially to be' ti'
Union party is the old avowed and un
doubted disunion party. Its public spea
kers are mostly men who in the past have
not been ashamed t 6 proclaim themselves
disimionists, its newsplpers were accusto
med as late a.i the campaign of 1860, to
speak of the value of the south to the
Union with cot)terupt, its principles itre
thoroughly antagonistic to Union, and
only its party platforms and professions,
got up to catch the people's votes, contain
hollow assertions of devotiou to the
Union. The expression, 'the Union as it
was," has become excee tingly offensive to
these pretenders, and the most severe and
violent lenunciations are hurled at any
one who declares a love 14 that old
Union.
The men at. the South who are rowing
rich out of the war are numerous and
powerful, and their influence is vastly im
portant. They and their allies do not
want the war to cease, nor the UniOn re
stored. And at the North, politicising who
foresee in a restored Union the loss of
power and profit, do not want to see the
end of the war with a Union as it was.—
Sweep these persons on both sides out of
the way, and the end of the war with a
united country would soon be visible.
The whole policy of the present Adminis
tion has been controlled by this class of
unscrupulous schemers. To them is to
be attributed the duration of the conflict,
the receding instead of approaching pros
pect of a reunion of hearts. 'l'o them' is
due the fact that the country looks today
for peace only to the end of a bitter
struggle on battle-fields, instead of a con
vention of patrioti to talk over the sec
tional ditfiarences and adjust them on the
great principles of American liberty and
government.
What is true at the North is true at the
South. A total change of leaders is de
sired there, welave reason to believe, by
a vast:majority of the people. The men
who plunged them into war are not the
men to lead them cmt of it.
lt is a subject of astonishment; that both
at the North and the 'South the contest
should be conducted by men who have al
ways been determined that we'shall never
again have the Union as it was. The
American principle of mutual accommo
dation and concession does not please
these people on either side. They wish
to rule absolutely. We began the war for
the Union, we have carried it on for that,
and now the fact stands out for the peo
ple and the-world to consider, that the
dominant party whir% controls the war
end its policy, is as decidedly opposed to
the old Union as are the leaders of the re
hellion. Shall we try this for four years
longer? That is the question now press
ing on us with immense force. Is this the
k way to conduct a war for the Uni4i, with
leaders who hate the Union, and who,
when we express a desire for the l Union
sa it was, tell us we can't have it ?
- We deny the false and foolish idea-that
the Union as it was is an imposslbUty.
If, in the mercy of an overruling' PrOvi.
deuce, the politicians who control affairs
on both sides of this war, were removed,
anywhere out of the way, the people
would find no difficulty in restoring the
Union as- it -wait: And then we should
have the good old times of peace and
prosperitY,Of mutual labor and sacrifice
for mutualood, and the land would have
rest until politicians again plunged itinta
trouble—a distant day, we hope -and be
lieve, for this lesson should last a century
or two.
From the Army of the Potomac.
We have had e countless .variety of die
patcheii from the Army of the Potomac
within the last week, but if any one can
"make head or tail " out of 'them we are
free to admit that he has a hatter faculty
of unraveling the difficult mazes of` "spe
cial correspondence," "ass(!)ociated press
dispatches," and "reliable intelligence"
than we have. We are inclined to take
the opinion,of a shrewd friend at our el
bow, who thinks that they are " mostly
" tale." Lee bp. been slowly retreating to
wards Richmond, followed by Meade, and
a number of skirmishes have taken place,
in which neither side appear to have
-• gained very great advantage. The en
gagement of the Third corps on Friday
is said to have been greatly exaggerated,
-especial as to the number of prisoners
taken. Our loss in killed and wounded
is harthan tour hundred, and the num
ber of prisoners will not be more than
one,. hundred. The Richmond Witig has
dispatches dated November 29, which say
that a rain storm prevailed on Saturday.
which retarded the movements of both
armies. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, the rebels
claim, had driven our cavalry across Rac
coon Ford and Morton Ford on Saturday.
On Friday, according to the same author
ity, Moseby fell on the rear of our wagon
train near Brandy Station, burning thirty
tenons and capturing one hundred and
thirty mules and horses.
Our latest advices are to londay noon,
at which period the two armies were rep
resented to be confronting one knother on.
opposite sides of Mine Run, a stream
sowing nearly north and south, crossing
st 'right angles the turnpike and planks
roads horn Orange Court House to Fred
ericksburg, and emptying into the Rapi
dan some three miles west'of Germahla
Jells Ford. Lee is reported strongly en-
> I
trenched cm wooded heights It is prob
able that a flank movement is in progress,
and hence the delay in bringing on a gen
eral engagement.
Was stasseyfir Abulltlostsui the cattle it
the Warix
General William Henry-Harrison, in a
letter which he wrote in 185), said :
-I am and have been for many yeanisio
much opposed to slavery, that I will nev
er lire in a slave State. But I believe the
Constitution has given no power to the
General Government to interfere in this
matter, and that to have slaves, or no
slaves, deperida upon the people :in each
State. But, beside Me constitutippal ob
jection, lam penruaded that the obvious
tendency of such interference on the part
of the States which have no slaves with
the property or ttie , ir fellow ettizens of the
others,hA i to produce 3 state of discord
anal jest sy. Olaf eO.l prvee
to the 17n;0n."
Tut oleetioo ha New York cit
day, paned otr quietly, a larger vote be
ing polled, however, than in the recent
t election for State offirert. The indepen
dent Democratic calididate. Mr. Gunther,
was elected over the regular Democratic
1 and Republican nominees, by a large ma
jority, the vote standing as follows :
IC. Godfrey Gunther, Ind. Dem.,.. 3.942
F. I. A. Boole, Reg. Dem. , '22,355
orison Blunt, Republican, 19,442
Mr. Blunt bad the support of the live
most prominent Republican papers in the
country, the Tribune, 'Ames, Post, Sun and
Coinniereia/Aduertis;y, and yet failed to re
ceive one-third of the votes cast.
A uADICAL print., talks about the change
01. opinion iu Maryland. This change is
like that or the individual unexpectedly
robliettby "1 did not think
riveting a robber here," observed the
victitu,,as be banded over bis purse. "Do
you call me a robber said the ruffian,
presenting a pistol. "06, no, that argu
ment convinces me you are a very honest
gentleman." was the answer.' After this
fashion, if ak„all, Maryland ranks among
the convert/ to abolition.
Tun Louisville Journal asks: "Why
should those who supported the Admin
istration when its measures were right
be denounced for inconsistency for sot
apporting it when it has repudiated
those measures and adopted contrary
ones': If you are true to a man when he
is true, does it follow that you should be
true to him when he is false?'
B. F. Taylor, army correspondent of the
Chicago Journal, in one of hie letters from
Tennessee says.
“I shall never be done admiring the patri
otic faith and undying devotion of the loyal
women of thi land, but I must tell you that
the rebel woman of_the South are worthy in
everything but a sacred cause of their North
ern sisters. There is nothing they will not
surrender with a smile ; the gemmed ring, the
diamond bracelet, the rich wardrobe. They
cut up the rich carpets for soldiers' blankets
without a sigh ; they take the , fine linen s from
their persons for the bandages. , When 400
of Longstreet's men came up to Nashville,
prisoners of war, about the roughest, dirtiest,
stildest fellows the sun ever Skirts on, and a
flight of stairs in the _building they occupied
fell, killing and wounding a large number of
them, you eleuld have seen the fair young
Iraitoressea came forth from the old aristo
cratic mansions, bearing restoratives 'and
delicacies in their hands, mingling in the din
gy crowd, wiping away the blood with their
white handkerchiefs, and uttering words of
cheer , ; should have seen them doing this, with
hundreds of Union soldiers all round; and
smiling back upon the rough blackguards' of
rebels as they left. But fa All there was a
defiant air, a pride 'in their humanity strange
to see. Of a truth they carried it if grandly.
And almost all these girls were in mourning
for dead rebels, brothers, lovers, friends,
whom these same girls had sneered into tree
eon and driven into rebellion, and billowed
all the South with their graves, and the least
they could do was to wear black for them and
flaunt black from the window blinds. Clothed
be their souls in sackcloth ! I said they were
worthy their sisters at the North in all but a
righteous cause, but I said wrong. There id
a bitterness, there are glimpses of ,the Pytho
ness, that makes you shrink from them. But
they are fearfully in earnest ; they are almost
grand in self-sacrifice, Oh ! that they were
true and loving daughters of the old flag.
LIA:1111i .) 411[0.
CRAWFORD CO.-16 one of the cases tried
at the Court last week, in which a small por-
tion of land, worth at the outside not more
than $4O, was in dispute, the costs amounted
to $250. This was exclusive of attorney's
fees, which would_ considerably swell this
amonitt.-4 Hiss - Kelly, of Hayfield town
-ship, was accidentally shot on Baturdai last
by a gun in the hands of her father. The
wound is a serious one, but Ms thought she
will recover. De. Lukens '4 in atiendsace.
—The stook for the first National Bank of
Conneautville has all beet taken, and an or
imitation has been effected by electing Hon.
J. 13'. Patton, President, and D. Williams,
Ceshier.-4Republican.
ASHTABULA Co., 0110.7-A number of our
exchsuges. have published a - "big thing" on
the, Squirrel Hunt in Jefferson, in this county.
Thily make out that there were three thousand
squirrels killed in the aggregate_ Such was
not the case. The parties agreed 'that so
many robins should equal a squirrel, and
other birds and game had a relative value.
Conneaut Reporter.
Losnos.,—The city of London covers an area
of 120 square miles, and contains a popula
tion of about three million souls. Its populs.
tion has increased sine. 1860, at the rate of
1,000 per week. It far surpasses any other
city on the face of the earth in wealth and in
human misery also. One in six of those who
leave the world die in the public institutions
—workhouses, hospitals, asylums or prisons.
Nearly one in eleven,of the deiths is in the
workhouses. Every sixth person dies a
pauper or a Crintinal. Erie City has not
so much wealtli ‘ as London; •but it esoapso itey
crime and misery; while it enjoys the advani .
tags of having located within its bounds the
cheap grocery store of Palmerf & Bliss, an
..inteitution" which ovaryliiddy should patron
ise. ,
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I
WILL WO RAVI ANOTII/111 Dalirf.—The Phil
adelphia Aye disks stiotbsr draft is isevitstil
in ibis city, $a so ussaashave bees taints to
prevent U. Ths seas ls true of Eris. If the
quota of the city is filled by volunteoriug pre
vious to the 61,it of January, ell put deficits.
cies will be wiped out; but if it is fond re.
quilts to resort to 'Gothic draft, tbes soy
deficiencies wbiob way have occurred in pre
vious calls will Wadded to the number to be
dream. The nut drift will, is eons
tracts, it is said, exhaust all those earollod as
Snit ass. cossoripte, besides taking a anus ,
her who see Glossed is the mooed division.
, on 'lnea-
Rebel Wows.
LETTER 'FROM COL. TRUESDAIL.
erste:Naas% 0., 'Nov. 13, 1863,
To the Litter ortAe Waslaogfon drookle : ..
Sti:•Upon My al-rival in this etty frost(
Chattanooga, I few.day 4 iaince, nifatten
tion was called to an artittle in your paper
concerning myself andllie Detective Po
lice of the, Army of the Culiberland. A
temporary but severe •IlaSss has delayed
my reply until this time. ; Your article
appeared on the 24th of l muther three
days after the public iitiouneement of
the removal of Major-ti T ueral Beeper:um
In your' paper 'of' October 30th. nowbee
fore me, you remark, inlyisply to the in
dignant articles of the Cincinoati Gazelle,
the Louisville Journal. l and. the Boston
Post, and others : "Our account of the
secret police arrangements of the army,
has been copied all over the' country,
and, although the CArcatisle is called by
Wetly harsh adjectives, for publishing it,
none of Generel Roseortune friends have
beet, bold euougb to deity its truth."
You and myself are to l each other en
tire strangers persenally.l At least, you
are so to - me. You can have no possible
motive for assaulting 7144 31' , an individual.
You can, it seems to pie, have had but
one of two motives in lvievr in bringing '
forth your article—first, to injure General
Rosecrans ; second, to isipose what
„you
believed to, be great frauds and outrages
committed in our army. !That you brought
forward your charges at that particular ,
time, exposes you to suspieion of hostility
to General Rosecrans, until& desire to stab
his fair reputation, threigh another. But
of this motive I acquit yu, in all charity,,
as 1 can see nor learn o 'no earthly cause
for it, as between him aid your:. elf„and
also }snowing you both ,to be ardent
friends of the Union and the Government,
each laboring earnestly in ; his sphere for
the suppression of diet rebellion. I am
i bound to believe, therefore, that your far
ticle was incited by that patriotic fervor
which should always incite the faithful
sentinel upon the watch tower to sound
the alarm. t •
Your remarks were ostensibly occasion
ed by the appearance of ;ilie book entitled
•‘The Annals of the Army :of the Cumber
land," 'and it may belhat you . will deny;
any intention of attacking General Rose
crans, and that he wit" dot at all, impli
cated by your article, only "s.o far as he was
responsible to the ,country, for the miscfm
duct of his army polica. If you do ad
vance this claim, I shill most certainly
place it to your credit. ißut it is a singu
lar fac4, nevertheless, that 'upon the in
stant of the appearance of your Article,
the telegraphic wires conveyed the news
abroad, and the daily papers of the 'land
laid the intelligence upon thousands of
breakfast tables the next morning, that
your article bristled with "treasons for the
removal of Gen. Rosecrahs." - The extract
from your paper of the Nth, above quot
ed, couples Gen. Rosecrlins so firmly with
this matter, as to lend additional color to
the idea that the appearance of the Army
Book proved more a pi•eiict thati a prime
cause for your article. Yet, 4i...withstand
log this, inasmuch as ybu tali: of a book,
and of myself, I will 'Address myself to
the precise points you raise.
Respecting the "Annals of the Cumber
land," you intimate that l am concerned
in its authorship, or, if riot the author,
that 'he is a friend of ' miss. Your first
intimation is quite groundless. and your
second, I hope, is true.) That work, I be
lieve, stem& upon it, own ground, as
stated in the author's Preface.
I pre aume the authlar heartily thanks
you for the stir you !have created over
the work. Of any mention of myself in
the book, I Will simply add, that the au
thor hod free sweats tol the , police records,
and that I presume he wrote from his
honest convictions. I ! . .
To come to the points' raised in your
article: You first givci an imaginative ac
count of my acts in Mississippi, under
Generals Pope, Rosecrans and. Grant.—
Your charges 1 will nut repeat, but will
proceed briefly to their answer. While in
Mississippi, at an early peCiod, i was for a
short time connected with a -firm ot cot
ton purchasers which firm operated
openly, and honorably, '
upon precisely
the same terms as others.
Your statements that I used the "Army
Police" as an aid to ,purchase cotton, or
to trade 'in anywise, fin Mississippi, is no
entire mistake ; and your charge that I
enjoyed or used any: exclusive privilege
to purchase or to bring in cotton at the
expense of the Goveimment, is an utter
fabrication. Your intimation "that Gen.
Rosecrans was countenancing and foster
ing a brigade of cotton thieves," I leave
you to reconcile with! the !public appreci
ation of the honesty, the-wisdom and
shrewdness of that! officer. And your
statement, in concluding your imaginative
episode, that "so satisfied was Gen: Grant
that the whole affair- was 'a great abuse,
that he turned the whole or the operators
out of the army." leads ,to a most false
impression ; for it was not until some time
after my leaving his department that his
restrictions were placed upon trade.
j Having thus introduced myself, you
proceed in the following animated style: '
1 "Truesdail would probably have_found
1
his occupation gone', had not Gen. Ro- P
crane about this time been placed in com
mand of Buell's artily. The ' chier no
sooner heard of this' than he hied, hint to
Bowling Green. llii was promptly rein
stated as `chief of the army police.' When
the army of the Cumberland arrived at
Nashville, 'Colonel"fruesdail took a house
' at theporner of Church and High streets,
and did a quiet, and, we suspect, a pro
fitable business for a few weeks. By that
time his force was fill!) , organized, and his
1 ambition rase accordingly. He removed
I his office to a house owned by &Alice&
I fer's daughter, while for his own head
quarters lir
j e e ni nn h i e ng t s ool l E oca tt d el a erx e mansio e n r
o o;
High and Cedar streets, and thenceforth
the Chief of the army police was second
only to General Rosecrans."
These several errors I will very briefly
correct. I was invited by Gen. Rosecrans
to join him upon his assuming the eom
mend of the Army of the Cumberland.
I "took" no house in Nashville. The
provost marshal general furnished the po
lice quarters in flaw, then empty Zollicof
fer's house. For a private room in the
Dr. Jennings' house, hired of its inmates
for a period of thrso weeks, and by them
freely offered Wale wheat' was quite ill.
I paid a liberal pri4e. YOu continue :
"Ilis detectives I had fOund their way
into many private families. The bearing
of his officers, alike to loyal and disloyal
citizens,• was often insulting in the ex
treme. They would ride through the
streets in a manner perilous to life and
limb, and carried! themselves so offen
sively that earnest remonstrances were
addressed to Gov. Johnson, who him elf
appealed to Gen. !Basecrans to have Vie
nuisance checked.' fhe general replied
that the governor must apply directly to!
Gen. Truesdell for redress; but that gen-.
tleman had long !since ceased to be ap
proachable by civilians. He had taken
the ground that neither his acts nor those
of his agents were to be questioned."
I summer, the policemen, scouts, .kc.,
rode fast when they had business. They
thus rode through the darkness of night,
and amidst storms and dangers, while
their detractors were cosily in bed, no
doubt. The employees were instructed
to be courteous tolall. That complaints
against the policemen were not listened
to, is a charge that Gov. Johnson Will not
make, nor will any *did citizen of Nash
ville, conversant with police affairs, be
lieve. You continue: , 1
1 " Bre long, and without the issuing of any
Cl a i
o r, the chief demanded and seized all the
brokers'crate money in the banks and
o at' Nashville. :The right of the Chief
of Pollee to do thiswas maNWioned by GOT.
Johnson, who addressed Mr. iTruesdail upon
the subjed, but melted no reply. Elated by
his enema in this roamer, his next maim
plated, • seizure of LW, banks 1 tkeukaalves sad
conducting them nadir his own supervision
his "judge advicate" counseling him thereto.
jlisikily before he took the step, he mentioned
.+~ -
his purpose to the Secretary of State, Mr.
East. who !'jive hint apiece of his_snind" of '
such weighty pesportleas Illisfi the discomfited
"chief' aboadesiskthat .Opseulation. How
ever, he consiledidieseltlakou afterrwarls by
inaugurating septets atmatimaticiti, which '
he successfully cerrried ea ter. asaritbs.!'
The rebel money was seized by express ,'
order from the General commanding, and
his action was subsequently sustained by
the authorities at. Washington. i ioe. ,
Johnsen never addressed me upon that
subject., The seising the Nashville
never!
was eWerf contemplated,.but inquiries
weemada,„•by. military altrection i as to
their issuing new money, in such unquiet,
times, and wben it was notorious that
they bad no deposit:, in their vaulti.—
Time has since justified "that prebaut inh
ail step-4lw bank issue' of Nashville,
then s,per oent. above greenbacks, are
now at 4fi cents iliseount. ' I never
spoke to lir-r.ast on the sublect. The
pollee made no ernfiseations—they seized
good. upon orders of their superiors—
the provost marshal-general - in all cases
ordered confiscation after examining the
parties - or evidence. To continue i
.. H e w as also Inv/sited with authbrity to
give Pews, which pciwer wee withheld from
all legitimate commanders. He seized goods,
arrested whom be would, on a charge of troy, ,
eon tried them in his own court, convicted
them, sent them to prison,, and confiscated!
their property." •
I issued passes only to the policemen,
and to scouts. To enable me to do so at
all hours the' provost marshal-general
furnished me with passes signed in blank.
I was responsible toshirn for there: Where;
I knew good men, and worthy objects, I
recointnendedlhe giving of pusses, as did
Gov. Johnsen and other Union mom --
The wildest charge of all your article, Mr,
Editor, is involved in . the last sentence of
the above quotation. _That .1 arrested,
tried and set to prison citizens "on a
charge of tren," of my own 'authority
i
and 'direction is utterly false. • In most
io
meet the traitors of Tennessee were ar
' rested upon charges made by Union citi
izens. They were eXamined, the evidence
:40tIlitleil to tile General commanding,.
and upon his express order they were int
prironed. their property confiscated, &e.
Your multitude of assertions, that I
now became "General ' Truesdail," is a
bluster of assumption, nod that -"some
officers openly . chargiel Truesdell with dis
honesty, and Rosecrans with participating
in it," &c., itc., may pass for thir,ir current
value. They are not worth a denial. Nor
will I. pause to explain your misstatements
concerning Captain Temple Clark. You
complain of "favoritism and partiality be.
ing shown in the police records". of the
artily book in question. For . the first
time, you are here correct. The author
of that work has shown parnalee in pass
ing,by cases of fraud and corruption de
tected in our-army, from a generous im
pulse to save the patriotic heart of fond
friends at home. You say :
" But what we complain of in "The Annals"
is that favoritism and partiality are shown' in
the selections from the Pollee records, It be.
comes our duty, as it happens to be in our
power, to describe other doings of this great
organisation. Soon after Chief Truesdail Mil
moved into Zollicoffer's liciuso, tt, negro sp;
peered at the office of Gov. Johnson, repro.
sent tug that he had run away from his mas
ter, and had brought with him a horse valued
at $1,006. The tioverpor ordered him to hand
thehorse over to the quartermaster, who would
return it to the owner, if he was a loyal man.
It turned out that "Major Russell" had got
possession of the horse, and when the negro
presented himself with the tioveruor a order
for the horse to be transferred to the Quar
termaster, Hessen put him In prison'. Re
monstrance - .from Governor Johnson only
brought a rely from Truesdell that tie obeyed
no order except from General Rosecrans."
The truth in this case is simply this :
A alaveman came into Nashville one morn
ing, riding an elegant bay stallion, with au
officer's saddle and equipments complete.
A rebel officer had called upon his mistress
late at night, and the negro seized tbe
horse while thus enpged, mounted and W
rode to' Nashville.' When near the city,
a white man advises him to go at once to
Governor Johnson. Soon after, a negro
advises him to go to- , the police. When
near my office, a policeman twee Lim on
the fine animal (said to be worth $2.000)
questions him, and enters the office with
him. - The negro's statement Was taken,
and I ordered the horse to he sent to
Capt. Irwin's stable, the quartermaster of
the post. Governor Johnson soon after
entered the office. and requested the man
and horse to be sent to him. To this I
cordially acceded, sent a policeman sfter
the horse, and both negro and horse were
immediately sent to him its requested.—
The negro was not imprisoned, but kind
ly treated. No "Major Russell" was in
my employ; The whole matter Wilk thus
accidental, and did not occupy an hour
of time.
The several other instances of fraud you
have related, Mr. Editor, as the misdoings
of the army police, areas wildly misstated
as is the above instance, and the extent
to, which your credulity has been imposed
upon as enormous. You have not space,
had t the inclination to ventilate the facts
in the case of the "Irishman and his one
hundred bushels of potatoes," the loyal
woman with a "rebel son,", and - perhaps
others. They..are so utterly distorted in
statement as to be no cases at all, but
rather fiction. most feebly founded on
fact. Lastly, I will quote from your indict
ment as follows:
"Mr. yruemlial superintended the pressing
of negroes and horses, and In the latter work
he was once caught handsomely. He was
sending otf two splendid animals he had
pressed for the cavalry service, but instead of
sending them to Murfreesboro' he ticketed
them for St. Louis. As his word Wllf , law
they went safely until therarrived in the de
partment of Gea. Boyle. who 'sized them and
turned them over to the proper authorities."
I never impressed a horse or negro in
the army. Nor was such power at any
time given to me. Impressment wan only
made by commissioned officers, , under
orders Irom the General commanding.—
Policemen were at times ordered 'by such
officers to aid in collecting the horses.
I never, seat or tried to send "an animal"
of any kind to "St. Louis" or elsewhere,
for my, personal use.. It follows, of course,
that Gen. Boyle never seized any of mine,
and that your, statement is utterly un
founded in fact. The following circum
stance may have given rise to re ports upon
which your assertion may be based :
I was ordered by Gen. 'Roaecrans to
send six .horses to Lebanon, Kentucky,
fo- the use of a party of telegraph, opera
tors, who. were about to proceed to Cuiu
berland Gap. The horses were not put
off at the proper point on the railroad,
through inattention of the an in charge
of them; they arrived at Louisville, where
they were properly taken care of by the
qtia rtermaster of the poet. These are the
only, horses I ever sent out of the depart
ment.
Thus having disposed of your- state
ments, and which are mainly reiterations
of Nashville street reports, which lived'
and died there, months ago, permit me
to add a few remarks respecting the army
police. 'This organization was attached
to the Provost Marshal tienerars Depart
ment of the Army of the Cumberland,
and to which it was in alt things--subor
dinate. Much care was taken in the
selection of good men for the police, and
they were invariably given written (or
rather printed) instructions, were
under an °theist oath. and were held lo 'A
strict accountability.
All seizures of contraband goods, with
the attending facts, were reported to the
provost Marshal general and by his
special or general orders, were turned
over to the proper departments, and to
the custom house °Blows. The eraunina-
Lion of all arrests and seizures of property
was made by the properly appointed ofti
cers, and the facts were presented to the
provost marshal general. The chief of.
policedid not confiscate property of any
kind; he, had no authority to do so. No
man ever Mae to me with complaints,
and was, refused a hewing ; and where
the clamps made were in any wise true,
i I
1 took all possible care to ;make ample
restitution and to preveet their future tic
'ctlrrenve. , Such, complaints were -vet) ,
few. and mainly of ttivial itteportance
Having thus disposed of L the char i t i ezi
iigaioit the army police, Mr. Editor, .I itlill
i cliwe with a brief allusion its good/re
, sillta..`The disordered state Of society,and
affairs at Nashville %ben I 'arrived thero,
i. known to all. The city. Wits invested
by ft rebel army. The State Howie and
public streets were barridided by'eat ;
ton hales. The city was mi., by:desper
ale people, tuna :Ties aliil . smugglers.—
Prom a small beginning the army police
business grew speedily ift considerable
proportiotis. The city politio proved pow
erless in Micuuutering the ;evils. and an
army police was &necessity. My stteml
ing the army mails and the.shouting (spy)
service, in ;connectidu withV the police,
probably lave to the latter a greater
appearatice to the casual observer than it
really merited. That I sho.ild meet with
much misrepresentation find obloquy I
'had no doubt. My work *rot of a public
character, and I well kritv it must and
shonld undergo the elo3eiterutiny. For
this I have been at all tintei..and am now,
fully prepared. But., Mr. 'Editor, that a
respectable newspaper. friendly to the
cause of Like Uniou, should . originate or
ail in cir cu lating such au unfounded and
absurd hue afel err as yod have done, I
had no ream to expect.; Had you , in
your repress nitwit of thearmy police,
shown any .d esire to portray the good
work ni•tiomOished fly! it, you'r ease would
DOW be bette'r for you. My, army police
work extended during aortic fire months
of lio - winteo and spring. ll resigned the
riaiticia of Chief cil Policii in July last—
! Why did yod wait until ;this particular
time to brim,; forth your charges? When
the Army Volice was do i ng its heavieet
work. none Were more loud in praise than
the Union mien and presslnf Nashville,--
As regards it 4 expense to the Government,
my organization saved thousands of dol
lars to the cOuntry; in orie case it thus
saved • all amount greater than its entire
cost. No other department. of the Army
can present such a self-suitaining record
as this. As tor myself, I ivVill only add,
that I have labetained from all private
business pursuits whatever, while m this
service, and that I - have always, and do
now, court investigationi respecting the
Army Police! and my tonnection,with it.
Very respectfully. your obedient'servant,
NILLIAM TRUESDALL,
Formerly (Allier of Polio, Army of the
Pumberlimd. , •
Latest War News.
—More than 500 rebel prisioners at Camp
Douglas. Ill), have wadi. application to
take the oath of
—More than 4,2.t.:00,000 ;pounds of solid
shot and shell, and civet+. 315 000 pounds
of powder have been expended on Sum
ter by General G s batteries. Uncle
sam's bill for ammunition used against
the rebel stronghold alielidy amounts to
over SGO4),NIO.
—The Rebels report a victory in the
Valley of Virginia, at Mount Jackson;.
Where 800 lankees were whipped by a
handful of C4nfederate.4, and lost 12 killed-
Is wounded and 11 Prisoners. Among
the killed they report a Coirespondent of
!lie Baltimore American
,knewn as "Grape
Shot." All :this took
,place on the 16th
inst.
—We hay. 4 ailvices front, Charleston to
last Sunday.i iin Friday morning, atone
o'clock, an attempt was made to land a
storming party, in boats, upon Fort Sum:
ter. The party tired; tfevtiral volleys of
musketry into the fort,l but the enemy's
shore batteries opened fire, and they with
,drew. On Friday ten hell were thrown
'into Charleston ; on Saturday, none ; and
on Sunday morning, between twelve and
two o'clock,l eighteen.l ISesieral buildings
were struck but no one . , was injured. The
bombardment of Sumter onnuntied with
out intermission. The enetny's gre in re
turn was spirited. 1 1
..
—Oh Safunlay a ',naiad Of Wheeler,s
Rebel cavalry were encountered by our
I men-at Cleveland, Tenn., and completely
. routed, after a'. severe tight
—There 4ras no fighting ihy Grant's ar
my up to 'Friday. Bragg's terms were con
centrating near Dalton! and below there,
intending to make a Istanci. An order
I from Bragg on the 2C)iii . recalled Long
! street froini before Knoxvilje, and he is
~now trying to,get to Dalto4by a rounda
bout road. : The situation l the, way from
Knoxville, :to Bridgeport is all; that our
side can desire.- News' from Burnside is
to the 2, - 41.1.1 The nertln, part of Knox
ville- had Veen burned. Gen. !Burnside
was cheerful and confident .1 • ,
----On the night of the 2.lth:ult., a party of
Rebel ginerrilhis made,'s raid near? orfolk,
'Va., and run oil about
_lOO negrees ; They
were pursued but not Overtaken.
—Btownlbw's Knoxville Whig charges
that since !the Federal. army !occupied
EastTenneesee Rev. Mr. Bownman, Rev.
Lewis Cartel!, Rev. Hiram Douglas, Rev.
Mr. Blair, apd many Other citieens have
' been murdered by- armed rebels, because
they were fnion men. ,
—While 'en. Grant's lc as of guns has
IA
been very rivial, he has captured within
1, the past a yen months four kiingiredaail
I we're rebel annon, namelj: fifty two on
1 his advance to Vicksburg, three hundred
at that placo, end sixty this week before
Chattanooga. ~
1. —John Morgan, anti six 61 his,oflicers
-Capts. Bennett, Taylor , Shelton, Haines,
Hockersm4. and Mage.eescaped from
the Ohio Penitentiary on S'aturday morn
ing, between t wo s o'clock j and , daylight.
John on r4tiring, change 4 with his bro.
ther Dick from the tali cell to the lower tier,,
and dug hip way out I under the wall of
the jail. Morgan is reported to-be at Tor
!
onto, Canada. , - ;;
—Surgeoti Ir. 31. Myers of the United
States steamer State.ol Georgia, who was
captured on the 14tli, of May list, by a
handful of North Catnlina rangers in the
Chesapeake and Albemarle Canal, and for
, along timeiclosely confined 'as a hostage
for one Dr. Green of tie Rebel army, has
I just made ab official report to Secretary
1 Welles. F'4r a 'while he says, he had ee
-1 cess to ties hospit4s where the Union
1 prisoners were confined 'and since, the
I battle of Chickamalga the mimber of
deaths average some pet da,f,' the most
! prevalent diseases bii' g those of the re
-1 spiratory and digestive organs; Lately
they have increased !alarmingly, caused
by the bad food given, as rations and ,
, insufficienticlothine and shelter. The,Nisi•
see coming from Belle Island-to the tios
• pital all argue starvation. Ten per cent of
I the prisoners are sick men. Bread and
sweet potaboes form the only food given
to the sick, and very little of that. In
one instance the amb ulance brought six
teen to the , hospital, and during the night
I seven died.i It is a aid (scene tirlook at
the gaunt and sharp4isaged prisoners.
—By the] arrival ,orthe maillteamship
Geoige Washington) from , NeW-Orleans,
with dates to the 214, we have news re
lative to 1.10 movements of ,Gen. Banks's
Texas. ! in lCorpus Ghristi ; was ca ptured _
lon the 15t1Ainst. by Gans. Banks and Vans,
j who marched upon that place overland
1 from Brownsville.rkaustia City was al
-1 tacked, 'mid taken lifter a very brief re
sistance, One hundred prisoners and three
guns were taken. The British brig Dash
ing Wave !was captnied by the gunboat
New-Londcin off the Rio Grande, with i
cargo consisting of $700,000 in gold, and
a large quantity of clothing and medicines
intended fin. the Rebels. The dispatches
from Getil Franklin, in the Teobe dis
trict, Western Louisiana, report a gallant 1
attack ,of Oen. Lee; 'Chief of Cavalry in I
that department, upon the Rebel Camp
Pratt, on , the 19th- inst., in which the
Union troops captured 100,of the enemy,
and killwl[4o. taking all their arms and
equipage. In New-Orleans; building used
for a eoloreil school had b4h birrned by
Rebel inceidiariu. : ~ .
—Dispataltea from Knoxville to Mon- ,
day show Unit Longatreet still mimed in
the work of ie clueing the place. NO en
ema! attack as yet been m'sde, it being
thought that L ing.treet would await rein
forcements from•Vireinin berme making
it. cm Tues.lay a detachment of the Sec
ond Michigan had a briktt with the un
furl..luta ,wer,. compelled to NH bm-lc
with 'considerable log-.. Ito Wednesday
the owernfituadesoliversion upon our pc
'Won melt the and, after nil hour'.•
was drive hack. Since,then anima
have been rompartivelv quiet. The •1,1-
tat adrices from Cumberland •ettp would
seem to imply that General Loncsiteet
- hail received orders to raise the siege of
Knoxville, as it k MAO that all our
available force *1 been Ont to intercept -
Ida retreat into Virginia. The•bame
die
p givezi an account of the capture of
WbeAlltr's rebel i brigade of .1,001) men, in
40 attempt to errevt the river from Knox
vine CM Sun sty.- As yet 'we have re
ceived no confirmation of this statement,
which, if true, indicate" a very important
captor...tins cavalry haying been of great
eeryice to the eu'my during the last c.tm
paign
Palattsuary Coasiia Curable Disease !
C D
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not ussiersivad having w restored to b. an In
sfsw week., by a very simple rernsAy.ifter baring suffered
Senna 'oars with a wars lAA narei4 6l 4 and that dres' t
Mamas, Consumption—le 111411011 A to make known to bin
fellow-sufferers the means of curs. '
To all who 'denim It, he will geode py otitis pro
etriptioo used (free of charge), with the directions for
preparing and uslog the aims, which they will end a
wag Cure for COXICIIIPTION. ASTHMA, BILONOSITPIR, hr.
The only object of the advertiser to sending the Prercrip,
Son Is to benefit the . afflicted., and spread Mfuroutlou
which fieconcelres to be invaluable, and he hopee every
soarer will try Ids remedy, se it will tort them nothing,
and tray prove a Wraling
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Willlainabcrgh, ,
octii E 63—im kings County, New York
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of bloating after meals, dullness, dtoweinees, and cramp=
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ONE, OF MANN CASES.
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J. I C. COOK, publisher of the Slate iisseer, Benaln-
toe, YL, saya He was attacked with DYSPEPSIA; and
sadered so severely from ,it that not a partic'e of (m]
could bs swallowed without ocessioilsig the meet un
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sagered from this dreadful complaint, when he vend
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ben *t him meek, bat the second produced i cbaece,
sad by the time be bad take -A six bones, a COMPLKYE
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elpel 011 as, 294 Canal Street, New York. •
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rir CAUTION. Au spurious Lyes are offered also,
be medal and only boy the Patented article pat up lo
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weed your Linienaat, and m ade
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wan and others, wbo suffer from Nervous Debility, Ea'
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bag sad queekery. kly enclosing a post-paid eorelopo,
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bETTEhS of Administiation have been
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prom*. satigadloo la quality and prie .
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