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CARLISLE, PA.
Friday, Jahuary 9, 1863.
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THE HERALD.
The present number of our paper appears
somewhat reduced in size, but in other re
apects improved and beautified. The enor
mous advance in the price of paper and
printing materials generally, rendered some
financial change in the management of our
paper absolutely necessary. When this ad
vance first 'occurred, it partook so much of
panic and undue excitement, that we sup
posed we could weather it through without
such loss as would prove ruinous, and ac
cordingly continued to issue our paper at
the same size and price, although this com
prehended a weekly loss to us. The first of
a New Year, however, has arrived, and
brought with it no diminution or promise of
it, of these excessive rates, and we aro re
luctantly compelled to yield to the stern ne
cessity. Haring, been lent the rhoice of only
two expedients, that of reducing the size or'
enhancing the price of the liattm.n, we
choose the former for the followi g reasons
The scarcity of money and fomenti
depression of business, consequent npon the
war, would make all advance in the print ,
hard to bear, and would place our paper out
of the reach of many who would like to
have it.
2d. By car fill pruning and condensing
of all eXtrAneoUs and irrelevant matter. Br
sternly refusing all hall-paid advertisements:
and " dead-hp“ 1" puffs, we will be able to
give our readers nearly, if not quite, as much
reading matter as heretofore.
'lleader, these are the reasons which have
have impelled us to make the change, rind
as we believe that we have no subscribers
who wculd have us work for them at a clear
loss to ourselves, we feel they will he emi
nently'satislbetOry. We: shall continue our
business at the presint rates, until such time
as we return to the old rey . ime, with a run
sonaple 1)1014 on our labor. We purpose no
alteiatiou in the character nr tone of the
pap 'r, but shall go on as ever; combatting
the evils and errors, social and political of
our " day and generation."
We shall continue, as ever, the unflinch
ing opponent of the unholy principles which
had their inception in the birth of that mon
strous iniquity—American Slavery—and
have naturally culminated in this atrocious
Slriveholders' Rebellion, and shall esteem it
our especial duty to expose and defeat their
machinations, whether cuncoc ed in Rich
mond or Pennsylvania.
To our local department we will give in
creased attention, believing, as we do, the
principal excellence of a weekly newspap r
consists in its faithful iepord of town and
county intelligence.
Win - o lour a fftiiCi
and prospects, we commence the New Year
full of hope and energy, and fully confident
that its close will witness our country in the
enjoyment of an honorable peace, founded
on the amutable principles of universal jus
tice and freed on.
ufg * The Volunteer, of thia week Faye the
Preeident's proclamation will draw down
upon him the condemnation and laughter of
the world.
It doesnt inform us whether the whole
world will laugh and condemn at the same
time, or whet..er it will indulge in these
agreeable pastimes by turns. Thus far,
however, we believe neither the world of
Jeff.lotn, or the lesser planet of northern
doughdom, have aeon anything very funny in
it, however much it ex.citea their curses
Possibly it meant that, the sable world would
nachinato, while the proprietors thereof would
cuss. HOW is it ?
The Proclamation of Freedom
The_ Philadelphia Biell,tin in speakingof
the Emancipation Proclamation, .says
"The President's proclamation. declaring
the slaves in the lt, , b,d States to be free
from the first of January, contains no snper
guous words. It is but the formal
,fulfill
went of the intention announced in the pro
clamation of Septetnber 220 d. That paper
inade it - necessary to designate the States
apd parts of States that were to be regarded
as in rebellion; after the first of. January.
Having tondo the designationithe President
says a tow words to the freed men, enjoining
upon them to abstain from violence, recom
mending them to labor faithfully for reason-
Able wages, and 'annohneitt that they will
be received into' the armed seriice of the
United Sta:tdii, garrison forte, ppAtions,.
stations and,ptherplapes;ancl to man yea,
eels 'of al/ ports, Upop r .this act,.
,sincerely
believed to be art ac t qf. j gstice, warranted by
tho Constitution, upon military, necessity he
invgites "lbe.,considerate ludgernent of man;
kind and • the gracious•-favor of Almighty
God)?
We ,are glad. to find that. the President
lute -confined , hirriself •to spinier it statemen t as-this, and" espeelally 41ad 'that 'there:'ivai
no truth in the report's !tomWaShinEt'O'n
gossiPs; that be i'ntendel tq tnohe . ;some al
lusion ea' ,:rpeptit,,,say,u' g p
fosf , b'againo aoPefil PAlrAttil ti!ci oincoris
-Vur,apnY, ffhis would have, been cork
(IteCitisfon,,,un7prthy of,the , head apireat
ftaileft4 . , anttit,rnjght , have been construed Us
a sip t at Prtee:shiestr*:iinA . dtuibt
propriety ~ or., ; the,, e tlecesi "off the - mttaittrev
Ilasink, a ied ptirpog (5, call ,lihat eG4EI I :
'guy' erast_ainalie , the 'farinal"
of the fact, and . - aegkf4tit - fr l o7:l,niftsi of
theAerritory.where , the-proolamation - le-to .
have effect.
The great deed of the age is, therefore,
done: A President of the United States
has had the high cotirage'to do ritt l ad' that
would htoi,e been considered impossible two
yearetage: The executive of a nation whoie
stigma it_lms seen that it tolerated slavery,
and whose wealth and pOwer were impiously
declared to depend upon slaver}•, has had
the manliness to announce to the world that
slavery shall no longer exist, except within
certain restricted limits where it must speed
ily become extinct.
In connection with this great national
document, we are able to publish to day an
extract from the proclamation of General
Banks, on the same subject, to the .people of
Louisiana. This was, of course, issued under
special and recent instructions from the
President, and it is so admirable in tone
and sentiment that it deserves to be care
fully read and pondered over. )t states,
what is literal truth, that the rebellion is the
cause of emancipation. General Banks
rizlitly says:
"The first gun at Sumpter proclaimed
emancipation. The continuative of this con
test then• commenced will eonsuinimou that
end, and thd history of the age will leave no
other permanent traeo of the rebellion. Its.
leaders will have accomplished what other
men could not have done. The bushiest Abo
litionist is a cypher when compared with the
leaders of the Rel.) Ilion. What mystery
pervades. the works of Providence! We
submit to its decrees, but stand coulounded
at the awls! maiirfestations Of it- wisi.ns and
power! The great problem of the ago, app.
rently etivironed with labyrinthie comphea
tions, is likely to be staideoly lifted out of
human hunds. We may control the incidents
of the Qt./West, but we caLtLjut eireumvettt or
defeat the end."
Wi t h suc h alt end to 1114 contest in full
view, let us put forth our whole strength for
its early accomplishment. It wit be worth
all the toil, the, bloodshed and druttsure it
costs us. Let no defeats. delays or dotty
poiotments discourage its. The Reformation
of the Christian Church was a scarcely less
holy wo.k than that we are engaged in, and
it was not accomplished except by years of
civil, ecclesiastical and military strife. But
faith, eticr,zy and perseverance wrought their
perfect work. So it will be with the mighty
work of establishing freedom and restoring
national unity in the American Reeublict.
Let tis give our whole 'souls to the support of
the President, and we shall soon be able to
say, .Finis coronet opus.
The Emancipation Proclamation of
the President of the United States.
WnOwgion, Jan. I, 1863 By the Prepi
ilont,,,O.t the Unite , lBt4 , ot America:
A PROCLAMATION
Whereas, Ott the twenty second day of Sep
tember, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and sixty two, a proclainattou
was issued by the President ol the United
States, containing among other things the,
following, to wit:
"Th. , on the first day of January, in the
year of our Lord ono thousand eight hundred
and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves
within any Stale, or designated part of the
State, the people whereof shall then be in re
hellion against the United States, shall be
be then, thenceforward and forever free, and
the executive government of the United States,
iiricluding - the - military - and naval - 'authority
thereof, will recognize and maintain the tree
dote of such persons, and will do no act or
acts to repress such persons, or any of them,
in any effort that may make for their active
treed, in. That, the Executive will, on the
first day of January aforesaid, by proclama•
thin; designate the States and parts of States,
if any, in whigh the people therein, respect
ively. shall then be in rebellion against the
United States; and the tact that any State,
and the people thereof, shail on that day, be
in good faith represented iu the Congress of
the United States, by members chosen there
of fit eleotions wherein a majority of the
qualified voters of such State shall have par.
ticipated, shall, in the absence of strong
countervailing testimony, be deemed conelu•
sive evidence that such State and the people
thereof are not then iu rebellion against the
United States."
Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, Pres
ident of the U. States, by virtue of the power in
me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Ar
my and Navy of the United States, in time of
actual armed rebellion against the authority
and government of the United States, and as
a fit and necessary war measure for sup
pressing the said rebellion, do, on this, the
first day of January, in the year of our Lard
one thousand eight hundred and sixty three,
and, in accordance with my purpose so to'do,
publicly proclaim, for the tit:l period of one
bundled days from the day first above men •
tioned, order and designate as the States and
parts of States wherein the people thereof re
spectively are this day in rebel:ion against
the United SiateS. the following to wit:
Arkansas, Texas: Lrmisiana, (except the
parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jeffer
son, St Jameir, Ascension. Assumption, Ter
rebonne, Lafourehe St. Martin and Orleans.
including the city of New Orleans,) Missies
ippi, AI Online, Cl 'ride, Georg' t, South C tr.
(dins, North Carolina and Virginia (except
the forty eight counties designated at. West
Virginia, and also the COW!! /08 of Berkley,
Acoenitana, Noithampton, 'Blizaboth City,
York. Princess Ann and Norfolk, including
the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth,) and
which excepted parts are for the present left
precisely as if the proclamation was not is
,
And by virtue of the power, and, for the
purpose aforesaid, I do order pod declare 0141,
all persons held'as slaves within the said des.
ignaied States, and parts of said Siite'tVe:ro
and shall henceforward he free ...- and OA the
.E.F.ecutiye geverrimeut of the Goited•Stateit,
including the military and naval authorities,
thereof, will recognize and miiiutale the free
dom' of said peredns ' ' " , .
And I hereby enjoin upon the people so de-
Oared to lie free; to:abstain from. all violence,
unless iu necessary self-defence, And 1.• reo
ommend to.them that in ,all .oases,.,when al
loWed, tliey' ldbor faiihfnlly for reasonable
-wages. And I further declare and make
k.nown, that iiiiith pertiehil;'Of suitable condi.
lion, will ko,reeelvoti intolhe artupd 'seriice
of the IJ,ol,teti,R.lttlee, , to garrison Iforts, ' , peal
tions,,statlons, ,e ; uti qhor, plane t :li and.to, man
- veaselo - ,,0f all ooris in th9,said,...aerViir. -,'And
Mpon Ode 'iilit,: i iiltiOerely bellettild-ici 'We 'tia aos
of just ice.. Warranted- bk 'ilia Co!iy:itutidit,
..ttpen military necessity, I invoke the calisitf.;'
firatmjadgei,entlopociankkad,Apd the gradient(
;favor of Almighty God.
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United States of America the eighty •seventh.
Be-the ProOdeini:
ABRAHAM LIiiOOLL
W.. 11. SN.rAno, Secretory of State.
Gen. Butler's Address to the People
of New-Orleanit.
•
, • The following farewell address of Gen '
Butler to the people of NeW:Orleans was. on
the 'eveninkef the 23,1 ult , placed in the hands
of Capt: John Clark, with the request that it
be issued in The Delta after the departure of
the Spaulding. We are irillented to Col E M.
Brown for an advanced copy of this last per
formance of the refiring Major General ;
Ctvtzess or New OnLcAss: It may not be
inappi oprint ,, ,:as it is not inopportune in occa
sion, that there should 'be addressed to you a
few words at parting, by one whose nao is
to be 'hereafter indissolubly connected with
your city.
I shall speak in no bitterness, because I am
not conscious of a single personal animosity.
Commanding the Army or the Gulf. I found
you cap , tired, but not surrendered; conquered
.btit not orderly ; relieved 'from the preemie()
o: an army, but incapable of taking mire of
yourselves. So far from it yen had called
upon a foreign legion to protest you from
yourselves. I restored order, punished crime,
opened oomineree, brought provistous to your
starving people, reformed your ourreney, and
give you tone protection, such us you had not
enjoyed tor many years.
While dojo g thIS. 1114: soldiers were subjected
to obloquy, reproach and itimit.
And now, speaking to you, who know the
trot h, I here declare that who ever has quietly,
remained about his business affording neither
aid nor comfort. to the enemies ol the United
Stites. has never been interfered with by the
soldiers of the United States.
The men who hail assumed to prom you
and to- defend your city ill 1111111 having Ile , l,
s nine of your women flouted at the
, prosehoo
of those who came to protein therm lay
simple order( No 28) I called upon every not
dier of th 1 , 4 runny to treat the women of New
Orleans ris geollemen should deal wait t to , sox,
with such effect that I now call upon the just
entitled ladies of New Orleans to say whether
they have ever enjoyed so complete protect on
and calm quiet or themselves and their f tot
ilies, as since the advent of the United Slates
troops.
The enemies of my country unrepentant
and implacable. I have treated with merited
severity. I hold that rebellimi is ue 1,11/11.
per.isted in is death. attkittiy punishment
, :Mort of that due 11 gives so much elesr
gain to hint from the clemency of the Goverii
ineut. Upon this alerts It tee 1 administered
the authority of -the lillllo , l States, because of
which I am not unconscious of e anplaint
I do not feel that I nave erred in too touch
harshness, for that harshness has ever been
exhibited -to disloyal enemies to niy country
, and not to loyal friends 'l'o he sure I might
have regaled you with the amenities of Si-a
toll ciiilizatiou, and yet been within the sup
posed Jules of civilized warfare You might
have been smoked to death in caverns, as
Were the Covenanters of Scotland by the coin
maid of a General of the Royal House of Eu
gland; or roasted like the inhabitants of
Algiers dutiog Lilo French campalgn ; your
wives and daughters might have been given
over to the ravisher as were the unfortunate
dames of Spain in theTettinsolar war; an you
[night have been scalped and tomallawked as
our mothers were at Wyoming by the savage
allies of Great Britain in our 'evolution ; sour
property could have been turned over do itt•
discriminate "loot" like the palaces of the
Emperor of China ; works of art which adorned
your buildings might have been sent away
like the printings of thoPatican; your skin;
might have been blown from the mouths of
cannon like the Seposs at Delhi : tin-1 yet. all
this would have been within the rules of civ
lilted wqrfare as practiced by the most pal
ished and the most hypocritical nations of
Europe. For such acts the records of the do•
logs of some of the inhabitants of your city
~,toward the friends of the Colon, • before tny
coming, were a sufficient provocative and jus
tification.
But l have not so conducted. On the con •
trary, the worst punishment inflicted, except
for criminal acts punishable by every law has
been i banishrueut with labor to a barren island,
where I encamped niy own soldiers before
marching here.
It is true I have levied upon the wealthy
rebel.s'lnd paid out nearly half a million of
dollars to feed 40,000 of the starving poor
of all nations assembled here, in .de so by this
war
I show Illat this Rebellion was a war of the
aristocrats against the rnidlliug men; of the
rich against the poor ; a war of le landowner
against I lie laborer ; that it was a struggle for
the retention of power in the hands of the few
against the Litany and 1 to Cud no conclusion to
it olltto 111 the subjection of few and the disen
thrallment of the twiny. I therefore felt no
linAtation in taking the substance of the
wealthy, woo had caused the rear, to feed the
innocent poor who had suffered by the war
And I shall now leave you with the proud
consciousness I hat I carry with me the,
blessing of the humble nod loyal under
the roof of the cottage and in the cabin
of the slaves and so am rpt tie content to incur
the sneers of the sago' or the curses of the
rich.
I found your , trembling at the terrors of
servile insurrection- Allduoger of this I have
prevented by so treating the slave that he
had nu cause to rebel
I found the dungeon, the chain, and the lash
your only means of enforcing obedience in
your servants. I have them peaceful, labori
outs, controlled by the laws of kindness and
just ice.
I have demonstrated that the pestilence can
be kept from your borders.
-
I have added a million of dollars to your
wealth iu the form of new laud from the bat
ture of the Mia.issippi.
I have cleansed and improved your streets,
canals. and public squares, and opened now
avenues to unoccupied land.
I have given you freedom of elections groat.
er than you have ever enjoyed.
I have, caused justioe.to be administered so
impartially, that your own advocates have tin
apitneSly oomplitueuted the judges of my
apPoluttnent.
-You littio'seen, therefore, the benefit to the
,laws and justice of the Government against
Inch you, s have rebelled. . •
Why, 'then, will you-not all return to your
allegiance to that. Government, not with lip
'service, but ; 744:J.11o:heart .
I conjure , you, if you desire ever to see ro.
:newed prosperity, giving business to your
streets tied:wharves, yott hope to see your
city become again the mart of, the Western
World, fed by its rivers for.-more than three.
thousandMlles,diiring,the emrimeree of a coon
try . greater than the mind of mum bath ever
conceived return to your allegiance.. •
If you desire co leave to your children the
inheritanee, yeti received of your fathers—a
stable coast itupenal clevernraent; if you desire
UAL, they OhOnl , lin the future be a'partion of
the greatest •'tuapire the sun ever .sbone•upon
—rtitilrn"to your allegiance.
'Theraiti.hai One thing that, Stands in the
' la n hist oho thing Mat -at' thin. hour,
Btan4a - betioraupou,und tha,_Goverumety,- , and
that- fa' &Oar": .
The Wolf-awn. cursed of G.id,..v.thioh- . has
its oft its • refugo,lterti,in-Hto-prpvidettou
out" as the tares from the wheat,
Yltht ugh tho wheat-be torn up-with
barpiiiiin much thought to thin 'Anil:Oct,
„. .
T chine' among you, by teachings' , by habit
of mind by political position, by social affinity,
inclined to.eustain your domestic laws,” if by
possibility t they tuigbt be with safety to the
Union:
,
fOnthr of experience and of observation have
forced the conviction that the existence of Slavery
is incompatible with the safety either. of yourselves'
or of the Union. As the ,System.has gradually
grown to 118 present huge din:motions, it. were
best if it. could be gradually' removed':'bdt it
is better, far bettor, that it should be taken
out at once than that it should longer vitiate
the social, political and family relations of
your country. lam speaking with no pillion
thropic view as regards:the slave, but simply,
of the effect of Slavery on the master. See
for yourselves.
L.nik around you and say whether this sad
diming, deadening Influence, has not all but
destroyed the very framework of your society
I am speaking the farewell words id' one
who has shown his devotion to his country,
at the peril of his life and fortune: who in
these words can have neither hope nor inter
eat, save the good of those whom he addresses:
and let me here repeat, with all the solemnity
oi an appeal to Ileaveue to boar me witness,
Ibet soon are the views formed„upon me by
experience.
Come. then to the unconditional support of
the. Government, Take into your own hand E
your own institutions, remodel them accord
log to the laws of God, and thus attain that
great prosperity assured to you by geographi
cal position, only a portion of which was
horetuforo yours
BENJAMIN F. BUTLER
WAR NEWS.
Army of the CuMberland
Great Victory in Tennessee -Rebel Gen Rains
Killed (!mein! Cheatham Wounded and a
Prisoner - Eniany Driven from his
Genii Sill and Willich t a iled —Gra ,11rCia.k
Injured—Great L'ouraye f lio.ccovix and his
(hurrah Oenerais ;r 1 Kirk, and ran
Orre. Iromlitled (lens Rua:watt, Painter and
Stanley IFounded -Thr I',xx heavy on bath
oat', ltrport of .llaj Oen, Ituseroins•
Null iietada of Me it title—The Enemy in
Full Retreat
Ilmelquartertt of the Fourth Army Corps,
Department of the Cumberland, iii nom
of Murfreesboro, January 3, via
NABIIVILLP: January
To Gen. W. II 1.1 I heck, Cominnnder in Chief:
On the 2t3iti of December we in ache i trout
Nashville in three columns, Genet at M Cook s
corps by the Nashville Pike.
Den. Thomas, from his oncamFunent on the
Franklin pike, via. the Wilsui pike. and Gen.
Crittentleit's on the (NMI Mug freemboro pike.
The left and centre inc with a strong resist.-
once, such its the u•tiore of the country,
rol
ling or hilly routes skirted by eel tr thickets
and farms anti intersected by small stre.iins
with rooky bluff banks, forming serious ob
stacles. .
. .
GOO McCook dro•e Hardee's corps a mile
and a half ft um Nolinsvitle, and occupied the
place.
In. Crittenden reached within one mile
and a halt of L tverene. Gen 'PIIUM:IS reach
el the ‘Vilsou pike, nice ing with no serious
oppo-ition
Oa the 27th alt Gen McCook drove Har
dee from Nulinsvil e, and posned a re onnui
tering dtvt.ion six miles toward. , :41tedhyville,
and toand Hardee Had retreated towards Mur
fre4bure,.
Geu Crittenden fought and drove the ene
my before him, occupying the line of Stew
Aril's Creek, cupiuriag some pri,eners with
slight loss . •
oeueral Thomas occupied the vicinity of
Nodn,ville, where he w.rs partially surprised,
LilrUWO into I;unfus.on and ‘liiven back
Genet al Sheri lan's division repulsed the
enemy four times. protected the tl ,nk of the
centre. which not only held its own, hut ad
vanced This untoward event, compelled me
to..rgthin die, left wing to _support the right,.
until it should be rallied and assume a new
position.
First, The reb 'IA opened by an attack on
us, nod were again repulsed.
Second, skirmishing along the front with
threats of atttick until about three in the lit',
ternoon, when t lie enemy advanced itt a small
division thrown across Stone river to occupy
commanding ground. %Voile reconnoitering
the ground occupied by this division which
had no artillery, I saw a heavy force einerg
ing from the wood+ and advancing in line of
battle three lines deep. They drn.e of r tit
tie division before them after a sharp C.,1110 , 1.
in which we lost 70 or 80 killed, and 373
wounded, hut they wore repulsed by General
Negley's ivision and the retnaining troops ou
the left wing headed by Morton's pioneer
brigade. and tied far over the field amt he
yolid their eutrenihtnents The officers nil
lying them with great difficulty. they loot
heavily We occupied the ground with the
lert wing last night. The lines were complet •
ed at thor in the morning This occupied my
time until four o'clock. and fatiatied t he
troops Tue commencement of the retreat
w as known to me An seven o'clock this morn
ing.. 0 .r ammunition train airived during
the night.
It 'lay was engaged in distributing the
ammunition, burying the dead, and collecting
arms trom the field of battle.
The pursuit. Vr 4 S commenced by the centre.
the two leading brigades arriving at the wee!
side of Stone River this morning, The rail
road bridge wits saved. but in *ltatf,tiondition
is'hot known. We shall occupy the town.
and push the pursuit to morrow Oar melt
oat director estimates the wounded im I lie hos
pital, at 5 500, and our (lead at 1.000.
We have to deplore the 10:38 of Lem Col
lairsche, whose cap icy and gem lem lily
deportment had already endeared him to all
rho officers of his ootactaa.l., and whose wit
burtry ha the Geld of battle excited their ad
miration.
(Silincd) S Rft-ECRANS.
Nig" ' 'nnndiug
PRONE TELE du J WEST
Great 11 tttle at Vicksburg, Dliss,
The Enemy Driven back After a
Conflict of Five Hours.
THE REBELS POSITION CARRIED
Canto, Jan. B.—Despatohes from General
Sherman, dated on the battle field of Vicks
burg,.were received at Helena on Saturday,
the 27th General Sherman debarked his
force on the lo t bank of the Yazoo river ten
milei alitive the mouth, and, forming in lino
of battle, advaneed towards Vicksburg. 'Afitir
passim: beyond the range or our gunboats,
our troops' encountered the ' enemy, who
awailvd them in - foroo. A _terrific conflict
ensued, which lasted for five hours. The en
etny'rWas driven back by our'shell beyond the
bayous that girt the relit! of Vicksburg, mid
from their entrenclied'works which 'here sta•
Mooed on a hill t: •
On ,§alttrAtty, night the two ormirs lay on
,their Owls. two ,b.tyoee interveruna btu weeu
the hostile forges. Oaring ituAlight pootoeue
were constructed. 'ho'tyill hetaruliog terrific
fire watt , pourt , d-iipen . tonr•men'tly the' ettetny
under tho cover of un.lergr“ wih. At daylight
On unday,, aeo:ntierleil , tdiatice wee mode by
Obeerei - ah eruzan's - Jui ti re - : Geri:
cortitnandieg.tle left wing &forgot) coil
, Blair the °mitre, and' 134118. A. I. awl 14, LI
Smith , the right, •
General Steele sueoeded in turning the
enemy's right, so as to communicate .with
tlorgan'a division, whioh had been separated
by the swamps runding at angles to the main
front.
By sunset the Whole force was engaged,
and up to 10 o'clock the musketry and artal.
ery firing was very severe. The rebel army,
in front of Margins and Smith's divisions,
were entrenched on high rising ground.
This position wits finally carried by storm
Our gunboats did not co-operaifi with the
laud forces, but the gunboat Benton engaged
the fort fieations on liairres.Bluff. during the
action. Several of the crew of toe Benton
were killed, and Captain Gwiuno, her com
mander, was mortally wounded
In the action on S..turday, the Fifty eighth
Ohio. &gilt Missouri nod Second Kentucky
regiments sustained considerable loss.
Gen Banks' force with Parragtit's fleet wore
expected to co oro•rate with Gen Sherman in
the attack, but, they had not arrived.
GLORIOUS NEWS !
Capture of Vicksburg!
NEWS FROM REBEL SOURCES
HOLLY SPRI:gOB, Miss., Jan. 4.
Getz llallech, Commander in Chief;
Despatches from Ueneral Sherman and the
Naval commander were received on the 31st
The gunboats were ehgaging the enemy's
botterie-, and General Sherman was inland
three inilea Irum Vicksburg, and holly en,,
gaged.
From rebel n , urces I Irani that I he Grenada
Appal of the 31, ..m3m (hat the Yankees have
g 4 possession of Vtrkshorg
U S. GRANT Major General.
ITSADilt:knTEl4ll:Oth Itegt. 'ram.
Its Met; in NEAit. FAtAtotITII VA.,
Dec. 21, 11162.
BEAR it CRAI.I) Frequent and rapid marches
together with the Want of facilittes, have hith.
erto prevented me from chronicling the move
mints of this regiment. niece the march from
Harper's Ferry, to Warrenton. From that.
point, the army moved as you are aware to
here our Bri g ade was detached
for lit gee duty. and guar ding stores al Belle
Plain a landing on itti inlet of the Petunia°
Et miles below Aqiiia cheek. Here we remain
ed anal ine GU) of December, when we were
ordered imm joie the Division at. Falmouth.—
before, there had been mi heavy storm
of rain and snow, the roads were in wretched
condition arid the men marched with midi - lenity
through Ole mud and slush The county
through which we poised had a most wintry
aspect, and at night fall, when vie reached our
entoitopmetti. the men had lo scrape away the
suuw mud leaves to get places to sleep; as
we h.‘tt no tents we were forced to Mewl me on
lie Irwin] ground, with uur hianketsalotio for
shelter. Go the I lth we were under arms at
an eat ly hour, anti look up the line of march
for Fredericksburg, leaving the sick and in
vends to the number of about one hundred,
it) camps. The sun rose red and tirey through
the dense mist., as we marched over the crisp
rind frozen grog d,' but the booming of the
o noon on the hills to our right, and the busy
nine of preparation among the troops we
passed, Jett us but little leisure to contem•
pia e t me beauties of Nature.
On tingeing within about a mile of Fred
were halted and remained tin
eel near everting. As we lay in the woods
awaiting the order to move, our ears were
si !toned with the cannonade from our batter
ies on the heights opposite Fredericksburg,
and the reverberations among the hills
wllioh—
line the limappalianno k, kept up a continuous
sound of heavy thunder. Dere we learned
that our Ii 'glover corps were engaged in lay
lug a pontoon bridge across the river, that
the rebel eliarpsh 'eters concealed in the
houses on the bank. were picking MI the
workmen mind that our batteries were shelling
the houses fur the purpose of driving them
out. lately in the afternoon, thick columns
of smoke rising from the city, the spires of
which could just - be seen over the - hills; roll
us in unmistakeable language that no child's
play was being enacted. Toward sundown
we were ordered to move and th.it night we
encamped at the —.Lacy House," a tine pal
atial reetileticit ocetiFiying a high fluff just op
postilo Fredericksburg, and owned bye Major
L icy, now in the rebel tinny; it is a very
imposing structure, having extensive wings,
with a t reseed garden sloping to the river.
The view from this point was grand, some
twenty buildings were on tire throwing a lit
rid glare on the river, while the shouts of ex
cited men. and the motile of musketry, showed
that the rebels wore contesting the possession
of the city, with a bligmtmle 01 our troops who
had crossed in boats Tlt it night our Few
ment was detailed on fittigite duly. to 118si8t
in the erection of a second pontoon bridge,
close by toe first. Next morning, the entire
army corps pissed over and lay alt day in
the streets The scenes in the town beggar
description—The whole appearance was that
of tiller desetation. Houses closed and de
serted by the citizens. some still burning, and
others nearly shattered to pieces by the botu
bardtnent. 'The soldiers roamed through the
streets broke into houses and appropri 'toil to
their own use whatever they lanCieit, some
were seen staggering under boxes of tobacco,
others with baCOll, .3:10k8 of flour and every
description of eatimbles, to be found in the
kitchen and pantries Besides demijohns of
liquors were brought from t lreirdliding places,
aid choice iv nes and brandies were drank
that day, from full canteens. Had they con
fined their operations to the confiscation of
provisions there cduld have been ou'ohject tun ;
but, from pillage to outrage the Iransuion
wits easy ; lium'eaus were broken and ran
s-itiked of their contents. ' bayonets driven
through Pimmtios, while costly books, pictures,
in trifle ornamettis and looking glasses were
destroyed or o mrrie I mill °lily to be given or
! thrown away, when the holders gai tired of
them. In so antiquated house, once time
property and residence tit the mothbr °I Wash
immg on, t. iurnitut e was nearly all broken
Or defaced; in auoi her, owned by a Mr. Lit
tle, our boja reeogniz Mb:portrait of the Rev.
'l' V. DI iore, forme; ly of our 2nd Pres Church,
and in f ia third, known as the Episcopal Fe
male charity Sehool, a shell has destroyed
their ea Mum of rniuersle, and a round shot
imi the upper stories had played- - sad 11101,0
with the mmetistoads Of the for Mer occupants,
and now lay harmlessly otrone of the beds.
I never before realized the idea of- a sacked
'city. We hear ultiell of the soareity in the
South; but, there was certainly Ito evidenee
of mild in - Prederie,ksbura; and their libraries,
furniture &e . showed that they possess an
'nominal degree of taste and retinetneut. It
was sod and mortifying to see such. wanton
destruction in a eqy, whist* had once. con
Mined so many oherished .tomes. The scene,
melancholy as it was, in some aspects, was
as ludicrous iu ogitertg. One fellow had
thrown away his fatigue nap and sported'
General a chapeau of the style of twenty years
ago,
, tieigihy !rimed with gold lace end ;but
bon. atiotm.er had formatted himself with .4
stovepipe hat and seemed quite proud 'of his,
' new aequisit ion, a third wore a liidY'si• ( Joeliv
ey," and a Garth had robegi•bionself in a de•
hate dress arid , was atieoilog,all the airs of- a
prinoe—swhile to good natured looking, Allow
who had furnished himself wigt_soyeratii.tipti,
-1104.61" V ti vpuio,":pro . pouring
it, in' dopious'shewers,ou ••heads: of his
comrades; - That niglic'"oompaity . 1;. oceupled
,two rooms of a howl° wlttott" lead • -bete a - ho'
tel, it
,was entirely lgattant, and the walliwere
ehag tered'by, the-balls from our batterles . 042
wornpait4ed
the doors of Dhansliors
"Haien for the- government of
the moseessential of which wet
cored, as we left the next morn fit
settling our bills." r,
On the morning of the 13th ,*,
It \
elered under arms at daylight, V . .'
hours everything remained quiet it
thick fog which enveloped the *I
o'clock the fog lifted, the batter*
I f
play on each other, and the trate ir
idly moved to the front. About •
regiment reached the outskirts o
and rapidly gained our position n
i t ,
the rebel batteries through a tort
shot and shell under 'which' men 'Ei
like lead, as column after colum ''...
ward. It is unnecessary to atte
you any details of the fight. as -4
I familiar to your readers Our re
bored, when we reached Frede ~
little over 300 men, out of these ;iit
kited. 71 wounded and 5 tnis4 ti, I
the killed were Col. Zinn, the co 'A •
the Reg't., Capt. Laughlin of Co.''
1.1
Torbert of Co I, and Philip Forb I ' .
of t his company, the wounded wet
‘
Thayer in both hands, Sergeant
in the head. Wm Fiester in-the shout 4 •
Heagy acid Johnston Evans slight c ''
and Courtney Early and Wm. O. -
slightly in the forehead, the three la
again on duty, lieagy has been detailm ,t .
ty. at one of the hospitals, and Thayer, M„,
wood and Fiester are at the Elkingt on Hos p .
tel. Washington, all doing well.
That night the scattered remains of the..f-1
regiment slept in the cellar of the house wof
hod occupied the night before, the upper part
having been taken up for a hospital. Sunday
and Monday the regiment was stationed on
the bank of the, river, in the lower part of
the town, where we remained until Monday
night about. 8 o'clock, when orders came that
we were to fall in quietly arid cross the river.
The men obeyed the order with alacrity, and
crossing the pontoon, we took up the line of
march for our old camp, which we reached
about 11 o'clock that night, 'happy in the
prospect of is sound night's rest. after four
days of constant excitement -and fatigue
So far, it. may he said, that the 150th Itog't.
has had a " rocky" time : but, the men aro
in good spirits, although they 'justly com
plain of neglect on the part of the Pay De
partment, of the Government. They were
promised, when they enlisted, a bounty of
25 dollars, and one month's pay in advance,
as soon as I hey were mustered into the ser
vice They have now' been nearly five
mouths in the service, and have not, received
a dollar of pay or bounty. Tlli9 boars hard
on the lotnilies of men whose sulisistenoe de•
pentled on their daily labor, and calls lett Ily
for immediate redress
Truly Yours, P.
(fawn anb &ruing Riattas.
BEEL. A despatch front rapt nonEttT
dated Nashville, says that all the
Carlisle members of the Anderson Cavalry
are safe and at Nashville.
THE GAME LAW.—Any person shoot
ing a partridge from the 3lst of December
last until the 15th of October, 1863, is liable
to a,titie office dollars for every such offence.
There is also a penalty for trapping partridg•
es to kill, at any season. Sportsmen should
govern themselves accordingly.
m_ A t ITAVEIIHT/OK'S afore Call be
so , n a beautiful painting by a young lady
residing near Carlisle. It is a fancy sketch
of a basket of fruit, and in our poor judg
ment, is very well executed. The picture is
for sale, and when we state that the proceeds
are to be devoted to ameliorating the condi
tion of our &deli anti wounded volunteers, we
know that it wi%not be long until a purcha
ser appears
VAN DA LIS:II EXTRAORIA NARY.—We
have just heard of the most remarkable case
of devilish and wanton vandalism. Mr A.
itt.mn is building a fine residence on
South Hanover street. The building is al
most completed, and when finished will be
quite an ornament to that portion of our
town. Within the lest month, and always
(luring the night. some wretch or wretches
have been visiting this house, and with knives
or axes, have been hacking and hewing at
the sills of the windows and doors. splitting
off pieces of casing, and in every way that
malicious ingenuity could devise, have de
faced it Such conduct as this is almost be.
yowl credence. but the evidence is too plain
to be questioned. The fiend who could be
guilty of such beastly spoliation as this, de
serves to be tarred and feathered, and drum
med out of the community. Nothing short
of this would reach his case. We sincerely
hope he may yet be detected, and would sug
gest that our town council offer a reward for
his or their apprehension
BTil OF JANUARY.—l r esterday, Janu
ary Bth, was the 460 anuiversary of the bat
tle of New Orleans, when Gem Jackson, by
n brilliant. victory over the British farces
under Pacicenham and Gibbs, closed the war
, •f 1812.
Years ago, when the "Old Hero" was in
the zenith of his lame and power, "the Bth"
was always ushered in amid the ringing of
bells, the firing of cannon, and sundry other
noisy demonstrations; during the day, pro
cessions, civic and military were had, and
the n;ght closed with bonfires and illumina
tions. Oar Democratic friends always wound
up with a supper, whereat speeches were
made, and to sts laudatory of the "Old
Hero" drank. Rut now, the day is suffered'
to come a. •d go, " unhonored and unsung,""
and many, very many, never bestow a pass
ing thought upon the memory of Jackson
and his victory. The reason probably is,
Jackson is dead; old Hickory no longer can
beyaw 'executive patronage. Yesterday'
"not a drum was heard," nor a banner dis
played. Indeed, but few, if any, of our de
mocratic contemporaries made mention of
the day. Although the celebration of the
battle of NoW Orleans has become obselete,
neVerthelesai . ." it was a 'famous victory."
. . .
Toachora' Xastitiites.
Tim NetAttie of 'Newton Township met at Locust.
Grove echOol house on Seturday, December 203 t. at 10
o'clock, A. M. The ProsidewLidr. D.. 1 McKee, in the,
chair. The minutes 0t th • last meeting read anti
adopted -= Tlice Prusldent. then...impala led a committee
on prograinutp; consisting of ?demo. Nate and
Koons: Mr. D P. Miller lectured on Gramma*: 110
gave We metito . d•rif tesehing it, and who Of theittillot
tovitcotenmnsittinx, i well the Orst — prlnciplea — The
teacher nbould see that the pupil understands 3 as he
proceeds. spoke of the origin of, the part et °Weed',
and the beauties interguage, • The
highly
of the
stitute appeared eted and highly pleased with
the lecture.
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