Zhit geraiti. CARLISLE, PA. Friday, Feb 13, 1863. S. M. PICTTENGILI. It• CO., N 0.37 Park Row, New York, and 6 State St. Boston, are our Agents for the linnron In those cities, and are authorized to take Advertine ments and Sunseriptiona for us at our loweSt rates. WHO DID IT P 'Lincoln was elected and we have bloody times, Lincoln was elected and we hsve plen iy of work such as wading in blood to the knees, digging graves for our young men and taking care of the maimed, wounded, willows rend orphans. Lincoln was elected and the expense of g overnuiew is one hundred times greater. Lincoln is elected and we have pa , per and rac for a currency and billions of debt. Lincoln is ebteted and instead of econo my and reform we have had stealing and wholesale plunder unheard of in any age 'of the world, Lincoln is elected and instead of coming to any policy of our fathers, we are coining to taxation, national bankruptcy and unmistakable ruin.— robintrer. We ask the attention of our renders to this extract. It is a fair statement of the condi• lion of our country, and at the sonic time a contemptibly mean and dishonest in-innation as to the cause of our suffering and misery. It insinuates by the very strongest kind of implication, that the President:and the party that elected him are responsible for all the death, statring, devastation and - misery caused by a wicked, unju.tiliable and inexcu sable Slaveholders' rebellion. A Donoc,ti: making a charge of this kind presents a spec tacle at once as silly, amusing, absurd and wicked, as would an antediluvian, who had contributed by his wicked acts to provoke the Almighty to drown n world, by charging Noah with being the cause of the deluge, by gping into the Ark. What caused this war ? By whom was it c monenced ; and by whom is it waged? We call at tent inn to a few forte t hot. even a nonTheralic E ruor rhr...q not deny A courederat ion wa. , foruitiii, during a lifirn ocralie by n number of slatcq which hAve c.l -t Democratic tics, which Iht I fur IL3 rljrct 11 two l'oM lour pose. First to give p, , tion, importance, and power to a s.2t of men win have boon for the last twenty years the cool and spirit of the Democratic party, and secondly, for the pur pose of extending and perpetuating a system founded on opp . r;ssion and injustice, a system opposed to the very p1.,in,•:.-. , t.i.rinc4les of hu manity and Cnri,tianity nod one which has bean discarded and abolii.hed wherever true oivilivition and religion are known. The (;,.,v- ernment of this confederacy was corepo4c,l of Denv , raire you ticlans , who were, while schem ing for their positions, drawing their pay to Officer:3 of tio• United St tte , + to which positions they had hcen n'eeted by Democratic rot es. 'The states composing the new confederacy Itad governors and legislatures elected by the organizations known as the Democratic party, and their election was a theme for rejoicing and political thanksgiving by lAa cry pver front zyllich e t.trnci is ' , pied. Thi , , confederacy proceeded to orgAni4e an army composed of 11 hi,,crat, from M rr General, down to the foive.,t man in the t Corr) rays 8141;1. Tho money neces , ..ary to defray the expenses of this entire undertaking was stolen from the custom houses ,and mints be longing to the United States, by Democrat, who were afforiled•nn excellent chance for operations of this kind by the criminal imbe• oility or connivance of a Democratic Admin istration. The arms and munitions of war necessa . ry far their army were stolen, by Dem ocrats, from forts, navy yards and arsenals, belonging to the Government, where they had been accumulated in vast quantities for (his very emergency by two Mmorratic Secreta ries of War, who were among the instigators of the conspiracy, one of whom is now the ;lead of the confederacy, the other a Major 'General in its service. As soon as their plans were perfected, these trai:ors nit only de. declared war but auscually Cs': :muncel lots tilities bocu'.ll oil ca p turing Fort Sumpter. This act of cowardice, vi.iaiuy and treason was en !cursed by the Dett-scrary of Virginia, N,:111 Carolina, Arkansas and Ten nessce. These stat es wcre taken by their Democratic: managers from their allegiance to the Government solar which they haul ac quired all their wealth, power and influence, and by them hitched on to that conglomera tion of Democratic villainy, treason and op pression, called the Southern Confederacy,— This same school of demagogues tried the samo game on the remaining states that oast Democratic majorities, Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky and Missouri, and would have suc ceeded in their treasonable purpose, had it not been for the presence of a large and de termined element in those. states opposed to tho Democracy, and for the prompt and deter mined action of tlio Government. Not suc ceeding in getting their States to Lake up arms in support of treason, they determined to give .the cause they loved, the benefit of their in •dividual asudstanoe. Stich Democratic pa triots as Magoffiu of Kentucky,. and Jackson, of Missouri, degraded their high official position by inaugurating a civil war within the bor odors of the very states which had entrusted them with the execution of their laws. John C. Breckinridge, the idol of the Democracy and its candidate for the: Presidential office, felt constrained by his convictions of duty to this country, his God and his Democracy, to lead en annoy of rebels into his native State, and make it a scene of carnage, devastation and bloodshed, in order to prove the oft re . pooled' Denioeratie prophesy: "If Lincoln is eleoted Otero will he a CIVIL WAIL.' •This is a fair statement of the facts con• .nected with the rebellion, and shows beyond doubt who coMmenced and who are still waging this unhoLy war. Let us, in the light of theSe facts,, examine the statement of the Volunteer with regard to the condition of our affairs, and the justness of his insinuations as to the pause of our troubles.' "IV° hare plenty of Wory_aueli as wading in blood to tho knees." liow• fearfully true is this assertion! We are wading iu the blood of slaughtered patriots who have taken up arms to defend the Government against the unprovoked assaults of Democratic traitors.— The hills and plains of our country are stained and her clear streams are reddened with the bleed of our loyal bons - and brothers, - shed by traitorous hordes, who move in quick obedl• once to the orders of Democratic Colonels, Generals and Presidents. Every drop of blood shed since the beginning of the strug gle has been in consquence of the treason of Democrats. Every boar the contests lasts, is in consequence of the determination of Democrats not to submit to the legally consti tuted nuthoritys of the country, until they have "found the last ditch." "Digging graves for our young men." Yes enough of that too, heaven knows, digging graves for young men who have been cut down by sabers wielded by Democratic hands who have been brought home ghastly corpses, bruised and mangled by shot and shell ..fin/en from United Slat cc Arsenals, by Democratic mobs led by Deinocratic politicians, and fired upon the defenders of our Government and our homes, by democratic soldiery command ed by democratic officers, For such young men, slaughtere'd in the noblest of eauSes'. by the bak.et. of all villains arid traitors, we have r nan'y (11:1." And so long aq a single trace of the stone, that now marks the taint, of a dead soldier, remains: so long will men shudder• when they tilink (jibe death, ruin and 'misery caused by that_ legitimate child of American De- IIIIICrMy" and .\ merican slavery—the slave holders' rebellion. We arc coining to tax ation, national bankruptcy and unmistakable ruin," Lee:Illso Democratic leaders have determine d that such a result shall be reached before Giey submit to a edivernment to which they justly owe their allegiance and support, - Little Mac and tho Meeting flouse From an artielit in an .1:,-!ern nrulur the caption wo vxtra , t the fallowing cliarateri...tic an 1 :111111-ing iilci:lent or the redoulita'lle :11.1.e an:l the IVar cretary : :Next we hid 1,111;e Yiixe„" 11.5 he I.e4ins to lie V 110.11111,1,1 with un nriny i o n iii Western Ilere he iiiingincs he come t..) I.ecii down noise insurrection of blood thirty ni.groes, who lie aditioni.lii•s Llist he will put them down with 1111 iron /111.11,1 If Ilit2) Stir. As the negroes do not stir; he next seems to imagine that his cneampriient is of thu :\lotloAist sort, for re'igionq porp. - ises. It is it literal histiuy, thtl eon he test iti,2 , l to, that once when the Seerviary Witt• was very buoy, on or two per,ons Ltit.r present is the ‘Var Secretary's room v.-nil rite s t Li•rot:lry emcee 1 to re.l,llli:n from General lerlellitn, then is We- , t Vir ginia. The ihsparch real rerl,,itim. tol lows: "The people or this place, will furnish the gross.] and the units, if tho g,vernwent will lurnisli the pl udc io build a 11 ship for the What =ha I do'." him to go to hell ' ()Wit! I the Secretary, and wsnt on with his work. The privato Secretary, being a more pions man, tele graphed hack to pious "Little Mao,"—Thp Lord's will be done, Kentucky's Protest Against the Se cosh cry for Peace. - (Frain 4-he Frnii4 1,41 (10111111i.lIvirt.rt1tb, Feb ) The Secesh nre now all for pe. iee . Th ey love pence. The South hogon this contest by variou4 sets of war, seizing forte, vessels of war and custom houses, and even the troops sent to defend their own firesides from IA savage. All this while the Government fore hero—didn't even offer to defend its property, until at last the insugents poured ow. their artillery upon Fort Sumter, upon Nfabir An derson and his little band of hereo4, under the old flag The war was fur months all on one side. Now we should like to learn why it is th it these Secesh love pence so well and at the same time feel such a fondues for the men wh o made the war, find who still insist on war. Let there go to their friends and talk peace. The Union Merl want war never did want it. They are ready fur peace any day. None will go further for pe tee.— None have goho as far. But what does this cry for peace mean now ? One party can make war-it takes two to make peace. If we withdraw the army of the United States will 111. , fthtn-hue h ur im,tio-a solution el t.,e Union? Still the liovernment give ttp I;“ntu •1:y. Mirylan 1, 1114-,oori ito West Vie ? it give up the ? Shall it, in chart invite the Repels u take what they wlnt tar the curios of peace, out ucky warily 1, a luruti hcl, °uteri; I I Southern States net. to briv : ; these cAlatniti29 on us and t bent They spurned our advice. Thoy,rat the same time, teld their p e r i pl e Idiot the war would not disturb thorn; that it would he on the banks of .Lhe Potutoric and Ohio. Kentucky homes ad,d firesides were to be dos • elated by war, ivhilo the driminals who began it were to escape. They have tried to wage the war here. They have partially snorter:dad ; but not at all to their satisfaction. They have destroyed our property and robbed our people. As our worst enemies they have scut their hostile band into the Stale to plunder and murder in this COMM onwentliti. We wish the Peace party would make their dear ['Monde in the &eroded States keep the peace in Ken tucky before they cry peace. • Their cry of peace means simply to stiffen der to this rebellion ; that is all of it. lt 1110 , 1118 to sell out Kentucky to her mortal enemies, whO will never forgive her resis!anco lo the wicked schemes of ambition in the Colton States. Let those who wish such a destiny for Kentucky cry peace. We shall submit, to it when all are subjugated. Tomes LA PIIRDICTION.—The Wraillingloll (Pit.) Reporter, in his first b.sue of the New Year, puts upon record for future reference, the following predict ion that, in coining years, when peace is reslored throughout the land as by God's blessing,. and in spite of Loco feces, it will be—these men in the North, who, in this terrible crisis of the nation's history, have uttered no word of encouragement to the Oevernment—whe have raised no voice in condemnation of the rebellion, but, have do ueuueed the powers that be, and openly ur covetly dtiolared their sympathy with the South, will aver with.eureing and swv.rittg, that they sustained andsuppoeted the Govern ment all the way, through. Mark vtlie pre diet id; and remember it , Tell an' American 'hey'of the present day Nat his gramifather was a tory in- the-revolu. fietmeytiniesi'atiddie will resent. thoimpeack. 'nsenrivith indignation, Itiour - heraldry, the brand of tor,yism,like.the bar of bastardy, is an ensign of dishonor, and it will be so hero after. The tory father or to day will transmit the disunite to' their posterity, and their -Children's ohildron will be taunted_ivith it to the the third and fourth generation. The words of di:;leyalty 'ffithred oy them to-day spill be bitterly denied but they have been engraved on the metnery of living witasses, and cannot, be forgetteus.'. The sentiment of their party, uttered through the press, have been enbalmed in printer's ink, nod will come forth as witnesses agninst them before tho great tribunal of histm'y. CONGRESS Lillie United Slates Senate on Thursday last, after the morning hour, the bill for the encouragement of enli , t mends arid for enroll ing and drafting the militia came up as un finished business. The motion to strike out the fourth section, which provides that any person drafted as a collier shall he deemed is in the actual service of the United t . itat,'S awl subject to the rules awl articles of war, was rejected—yens 12, nays 28. The hill was finally recommitted to the Military COllll - it tee. In the House of Represenatives the legis Wive, executive and judicial appropriation bill was reported back with the Semite amendment g, some at which were concurred in, and others rttjeeted. A resolution author. icing the c iilifying of the mute laws was Tie N, ou .t Appropriation bill wits con.iiiilere I in Committee of the Whole, and several amendments adopted. The agereeste a t tprttpriattons el the bilk :i'tti8,000,000• in cluding one item ttl *13,ca.t0,1100 for iron-clad war steamer 3. :coeral unimportant bills were pas-totl The Cnited Stales SiIIIMC Was cagaige I On Friday pribcipttlly with ptivate 1.6119 ttntl Dis trict Itu:titie,;-t The Committee of Finance. Were instructed to inquire as to the expeilien cy of repealing the duty on printing paper. In Ilse llonqe the Senate amendments to the Past oilier Appropyiation, bill were taken tip, and some concurred in awl others reject The bill to constmeL a Slllll C:111111 11•0111 111,.! M.h.aissipill Firer 10 site fur the enlargement ul the Erie iind (),Avego ()anal:: Was 1 11:1 '11 4 ,11 , 0, 1.111 not acted upon. In the 1:111',1 'lairs Senate, on Sat Uld Twtitiati was pla,cut:ed for the toltak-ion of (. ' ,alokatdo territory as it State. Al-11. ono 111:1t legal tender note- , 11,. 1112(11,11 . 01 remit it 101 ; r: 11 '1 1 /11:S; Tin . ..111. 1 . 1 ,1111 11111:1,11C111:111,111 1,111 5 1 :11 5 111. k. 11 111, .\n nui,'c lolvnt lippropria ling twenty live to:llians of doilari 1 V: 0 re jeeir 1. 1111 , 111 rX1011‘1111( , 1110 111111.1 et etitatioilol , hoCto 11tri, )v•lr-Civas reHtted. The bill Iva , : flu'ther , li=en•+r.l,ercnt 11lig.111, arid the 1 .-- . ' ena i r ~oljourned at nudiuglit , lstth mit tul.ing n rote. In the !louse of P,epre , entaitves Illy Now York Canal Pull unit zain to men up lengthily debited. .k rail for ill , m . evioas 111 ,1 11,-1 3;141 11.11110.11.11.1 . 1 1111' 11.111. 1 1; a Ijourl - c I la il.e e, nit lay, 1110 ropt , rl of 1110 V• • 1 , 1 . 1' 1,1101 1 ,1, t-itouung ha: irnoll. tier • 1 1. I :IN 1 1 1 :11:11 11'Crr• 11 , 1, :1111,11w 11 , . 1-1 o', 1 .1 ;1. 1 'llll Ord 1,/ lota:ed A 1 ., , , 0atti01l c 1 ing, 1”1' /I ' , Till -lilll.l ; • !;‘,v(1•Nill , 111 r;11 11:11 :-' l l.l 111 s ., ll s' ,tTi..te lire lUaelsa lo of ! . . , atuhot n poc'.., d :.H eireotasi.in eta; af!..aeh :idol 1. , 1 re.itte,t,o;.: the it hal \NMI thc lie intertaat:, to c untatinta oe the Cliqr11111: 1 1 1 01 the 1-31111;'1 1 ,11 , 111r1 1,1 1 ...1r by C ~ unit Meleler :1 , repro-eal.itive of 111.1 1 r 111•11 governmeat, and .1.1 Hi n. I.P ly t , a1111,..11 11111:1 1 fr. I,t 1110 ~ , ,$ve111;114. 1 11 or 11,:” 1 , •1:11 . 3 . SI•ilo 10 Iht. 1 . 1. , '1 11 OrLIC:•, N L lion ` I ' I:. I.Lkon ur anteadotent I irk..‘re nl Cirl:lo3:lng Currency to 011 co hniudio"l ion dollars. A:1 tog hanks. In I rr unc :1.-'01 : 1:111.1 , iti 1111 , 1, the proviiwn, ,I the :te was ji,1111,1 l'x coutive session was held, and the ;male jortened.. i n the il oti :e of Representatives an adverse report was made in the C: 4 l.`i of John It. Rodgers and Lewis I.el:enzie, elltroing srnlY •frour.'retittessee Virg-irtnr re , treurire , y.- 11te New York can.tl hill rct, 1::1;e'n up mid di.elt , , , e I itnt;l hi ir oct ht.r a v ,,.e. rt,le wls t al:en, and the w,..; I •, • te I - .3.etts-61,•flayt:,i-11....-'l.line The Sol(lie , s' Right to the Toi•eu. =SI This fril.ic c t is ,til! exciting the atte;ltion of tie ! , 01dieis and the p - Jople We give clew the sul,htantial parts or one of the petitions which officers of Pennsylvania regiments have forwarded to the Governor of this State, and which states inn few words what we may sup. p-e to he the feelings of the officers and soldiers in the regiment‘ , of every which are now serving in tit , . .\ rmy Nrrional Union. This petition .11ted “Ilead.plarters 151!-.t. P.cgiment, P.mns)lvania Volunteers,' and is addre.,,ed to the I i 9 veritcr of this State : "The under. , i.rned citizens of Pennsylvania, now officers of toe 1, - dst. neeiment Penn..,ylvs • Ilia Volunteers, respw•tfully submit to your Excellency the following memorial. It.touch. es a grievance which is deeply felt by many who love their country, and who prompted by that love, have taliell np urine in defende of its Nati,iml ~W 0 it to the social ao I uhf try .a .. a". 2 in VA: VV.] in a =MI ME nt, t! viz EMI IMIM NV( . ! our that it aid uevcr li , en i .1, :biuitto lu:on ion of die framers of our St 'to. Clow,litution i) thus it iiiitrilty upon yet it tilt impose it pl•nnily ipon pitriun:n, but it ()tiers ft pr.niiitim to 11s:dice:jun. The lirHu:rill effects is ,111 , it /IS if the , i stuto of Petiti-iylvania were to inuniunce u her s:ins "Von who go In fOd. for your politirni rights i rod your rights. You who 1) g o fight for your poilt le ii rights 11'11'0 ,our 1 , 01111C:It crea4gl. thron '4ll the al,oico of 1 hose who In go. Thole of pat whniwoke any sacrifice, who offer even life ikelf, in rapport of the (lovora meet, shall for t hot reasoa be deprived of your former shore in the (19_,yernment Those of you who.cnoke nn sacriiieo in kopport. of the Cloverneent shall have a gronfor share in the (loverninent th.ltt ever, by reason •)f the absence of lin defenders in arms. "Stich may it pleose your Excellency, we are persuaded wik not ihe intent of the from. el's 01' our Stab' Constitution. Anil yet such, praotioally, the divedt elicit or listranchis iq'g the citizen in the field to inquire, as fol• "Is it possible that we love our country 109, and are we less wort.liyao hn, iustruated by it than before we took up ttrnis' to 'Mena it ? Is it possible that we, who have offered to fight for the 13overnment, deservea less of it' than th0. , 0 who have ,aayed at hone? "AIL of us know teen in our respective coun ties Who, so far, front enlisting themselves, have dissuaded (Abel s front enlisting. How hard it is for the so'dier to think that the die aifected citizens at home retain a power 112.11 lug. the government which is taken front those who have gone forth to battle to uphold it ? “In short, may i 1 ploase yourl',.xcellency, we submit that, thr the (1,) v °rumen; to ;leprive one citizen of the riisht or vooog b‘.‘cattsu hr illl5 drawn the sword to tlefeua it, is to punish patriotism, to foster treason, and to , practice suicide. "If it were only the undersigned who wore disfranchised it would be little more than to Personal matter to ourselves.. But iOs proba ble that not - loss than one hundred , thousand Totero in the tingle__ State .of, rimusylvania Were prevented from voting at the late elm,- lion. And they were'deprivel of voting for no other crime tlian that theyliyU bered.thelr bosoms to the bayonets of the Common . enemy of all, "To traitors, or those who sympathize with pers say that the news of the great expedi treason, we make no appeal for redress, or lion to attack that place, as brought by the even for a hearing. But can it ho doubted 'English frigate Cadmus, had caused great that every patriot at home, every patriot mem- fright and excitement there, and the citizens ber of the Legislature, every patriot member wero leaving is fast as possible. of Congress, who wishes that legislature should _'The Queen of the West is giving conga]. have reference to the public opinion of the °table trouble on the Mississippi, between State, will desire to know something of t he 1 VJ ch,burg and Port Hudson. public opinion of that great mull lode of The steamer John Atkins, while proceed patriots who are now in the army' . ' ink up St. Mary's river. Florida, a short 19 friend , both of the soldier and the eiti '''. , ;time hince,'was attacked by a body r, 1 re h . i°°. may it please your Excellency, an I so as '‘" I w ho attempted to capture h„ by board Blond of our republican system of govern ' merit, we respectfully petition your Exollen- nig. Th r ee companies ey 0,,,, you .1. ~ will kullu„lL LI% fuel , to ,huo CAIIOIIIII \ OltitT or, wore Oct board, and Legislature, to see it some way cannot 1,, de fought bravely, driving back the rebels, and vised by which to correct.Ma great political soundly whipping thom. The captain of anomaly of depriving those patriots of the 1 the John Adams was killed right of voting, who, ins defence of that very right, brave hardships, (lingers, and oven death it stlf ' —The nhove iq the appeal by the officer 9 of the 13Ist Pennsylvanta ArolnntverA to the gov ernor of this Slate. It is signed by Lieut.. d P. Mok'nrlan.l‘; by Chaplain Me ('link; by Gnpts. Gray, Onoms, Stone, Boltz and Grand ill ; by Lieutenants Merkle, Potts, (liver, Wodget, Ilnllenhaok, Reber, and 1MIleS(111; by Sergeant. Mnjor,Tucker. and by Sergeants [hick, Wade, Momley and Stov er. Tue PRO111:1M uS P,:sll'l,(ilNti Tti F. EM.INCI Doubt le,s tido iii a difficult one, but we are not entirely without a 011ie In ins solution. A New Orleans „letter gives the following instructive fact: ••I h lye :ILIA, met an old friend, whom I not only filo! a loyal 111,1.11, 111. e actively en gaged in aiding the government. Ills father owns the estate On the river below the city, knout as the 'Magnolia estate . —the largo brick hording. with the sugar mills, like a village i,u the hanks of the river as we came up Ile says lie is hiring the negroes by the month, and, they work day tun.' night in the O toe in this, the nimst driving of plantation work. They need no urging, they work too much. Ile - says the large hospital lie has for sick negise , , which was always sure to tie tilled at thm - season, , is now - withaut a 1011110, 211 M all were over'-anxious to work mud need nu urging_" PATE! , \ VE9 rA - l ; ‘,_ In the New York . State, Senate, on Thitrsd ty, the re , olutions emlrsingllre , ident Line 'cll. cm 1;161 at ion 70 . 00,' 1111,11 iOll \very t C:ert ivhen a ;:tilestPlute lor the original enc. , w is adopted by ;L vole Or nineteen y e a.. to , even nays. Tho resolot nuns adopted "late, lii ,iii.srance. that the war sh , tll 110r0:1110r. ;1 , 111 . 1 • 0 0101'0, lie 11:1111011 011 101' (00 re.lonl.li "r the, ruion, and that, the emaneipation proelam.ition 1' . lo , : i liable IL , a w.Lr measure, and morns ills , tipport, or all lu , ynl people. A tid.vaiinali ,lispAtelt of ihq I,i. ~talt, !hat th:tl 41n v 111,c true-ci,td 110 u,tnl: t•,!,e , ,vwi the awirl«III F.ll t )1,. Anislor. and Illat th.• pttrapet :runt Ava..; .1.•moli,itt(••1. The Iron-c:.t.l \t - nY, an t li.n S .••l V':' 14 01 t 11)! hrt.„ ti;•‘ hitt was iulnrr,l. 3 1, did nut jilt to tit.. slit..; thr h.rt. when : etiriwz. Allis:Linut day an iron hal tury cu H.• up t.) hurt Thundei bolt, 111 . 11 5 s from Savaintali t "!. atter iirtng tw.) shots, retir,..l. We tit . • •••• - nn ratiuny to be merely prelll, ..y and elliet• IXAesign ea to tcst the flowers and the effect ni Die slint l'rent iron-clads. :1 , 1 1 1,11/t . I The r Lul drsluuch copie 1 from n Itich mond Taper, mid dated ttt Chattanooga, 'fcrnnos c, .!unwary ttn, stating tlytt \V heelers rubel cavalry hail it iclietl n heel five tntrisporlS Oil the CUM p, jut a-1% the 2301 ultimo, is Dow kuuwn to be lake. het-mute we have news direct from which states that the fleet wide!' arrived there comtisted of twonty-live steamers.— Thus. were attaclse I, as the rubel ace etint statett, on Friday; but, beyond a shot which tia,sed through the It li. Hamilton, and a few bullet holes in the Commerce, nt, inm age 110.5 dour , :111,1 the entire Mutt arril cd safely at Nashville. We have a b r i e r aee,itint or a brilliant ar lair at Fort Dont:lion. Die rebels made attack 011 Ike furl with three to tour thousand men, and ci!.pturcd luar wins. Our b , ys rallied and drove the rebels out, repiking the guns, hillitrg one hundred :11111 thirty live 01 the cnetny, ;Ind wounding. tint', taking lirty Inure. The rebel cavalry General, Forrest, was reported. to he wounded. Clid. McNeil wait killed. (4.n. has issued an oriler highly Ciirciiran awl his c.'m nilunl fur thi•ir luncrry nml SlM , mis at llm Ite MI the Itlacl<\rati•r,wl,irh ho robot -1-val n•r :1. to (11.i...a tor. !lir ivo I ,11. t. 11141 Clore w,ook r ut tto.o o•oot b u t the di] !Jul, ot: $l,ll - the channel. One thooKantl negroes w,•rc to he scot from ,NletnithiB to work. nu the canal. The .\ rmy of the with little hover on the Pence Demo crats. Ooliecrs and men unanimously de nounce &forts to get up peace conventions or armistices. =Ell It appears that the repulse or the rebels under hlorrest nt !Fort Donelson was most complete. Au Mlicial despatch' received at Cairo states that they met with COU bi , lurable loss, and 'that the National loss was from forty to filly. The rebels have also failed in their demonstrations at island No. 10. There are now three thousand eight hun dred GI Jeff. Davis' men nt Camp Douglas. On Thiirsday, a lecble attempt was made by a few secessionists of Chicago to rescue Die prisom'ri 10 they were being conveyed to camp ; but a few pricks from bayonets in the hands of the guards were arguments sufficiently strong to cause them to hill back. littinmation has been received at head. quarters in Louisville, to the effect that the rebel John Morgan was at Salem, a point on the Cumberland river, between Nashville an d Clarkesville, a few days since; and that he had a large force under his command.— At its present stage, his cavalry could not cross the Cu nberl.ind without great ty,.and it is probably his object to co”operato with Forrest in em:,arrassing the navigation' of the Cumber and river. The wor): on the Vieksburg canal is being pushed forward, - It will have to be cut to the lull depth required for the "channel, as the water will not be sufficient to make one l'ur News from Vicksburg to Monday week says that CD that morning the U. States rain Queen,of the West, ran the gauntlet of the batteries at Vicksburg,. although more than a hundred guns were playing on her.•', She also ran lute and crippl,'!d a steamer that tired upon her, She is now between Vicks burg and Port-Hudson. Gen. Rosecrans announcesAhe victory at Fort Donelson iq nu official despatch to the General in-Chef. A•aiMoO88 - ial.and important fecOn noissanco has just boon made beyond the right wing (IC the A riny,LiC Lhc Poloincic, hit beyond this intelligoni6 the telt:gra:ph is dumb. li,ispittLALes fiutn Cluttleuton in rebel pa. WAR NEWS. Late Southern News We gather from late Richmond rapers, a very interesting budget of Southern news. We especially give credence to the ev idenees of :trifled opposition to the Rebel Gov ernment in northwestern Georgia and parts or North Carolina, to Governor Vance' ap peal to deserters to return to the ranks. and to the confessions of a Raleigh paper in re gard to arbitrary arrests and I,he 'confine ment, or prisoners at s:th,bou, North ('ito ling. It is frankly slated by a paper which defends the action of the Rebel authorities in . the matter, that there are in the jail at, that place prisoners from every State in the Rebel Confederacy, only one of whom has consented to take the oath of allegiance in order to oh tain fteedom What, do our disloyal nyntpa. thi7.ers here, who are Constitutionally tender hearted on the subject of arbitrary arrests and the oath or 1111Cg1111100, nay to this? We auqpperir Will be another exemplifieatimief the dor,roo, as to whose ix 18 gored, and what is rank tyranny in Abraham Lincoln, will be wisdom and justice, in Jellerson U ivis. po^ Infurnnliun wanted on the following points: 1514 1T:1 , 1{11g sometime ago in n certain rebellwas shed publiblied iu your It.trough, 1 helleve ihey eqll it by that huge misnomer— :kin-I'M:in oitnl , r In due _season I. IV. Hughes, Vallantlighain, I:right , would he elected 6enati,rs from the Siate.t of Penns) ivituta, ()ilk) Imiiana, re -peolive!y," e \,,w sty, 111,, 11 , 1 !Ili I'll • I 41] i Ill)1 tin l ill` 11.1.:111 , lii • lauac ill T, (HI n ut . Eliwr .11,m, how ,111.7)111. ti It little all' Lir in New lork lttc 1)1.1 the ;.-;0.•,...11 Dem,Tau et their ..' , 1. , •.t.1;er, or del they elect a LT. S. Sena- Lar whatli they were so sure id Fur,her, wily do the modern Llitemerittie 1,11111,'l 1115 to ollgly 11;0;1' (_;v1.1121:LI reprar,,i: Are they Sr Ull " Napoleofl - 11)10 lilt dun r."44-oe.- 145 yet to -reeutuuterol hint fur the Pre:34.leliey: mei do they out ov.wt 111111 IV 11%1Ve ,1001114•1' .1,1110, 10 place cup 011 tile 1:11.1- 11:Leit, 01 rwile" !lie expert col' others. •' Little Mn-,a" the ( iotn,l Pell :Lllll lIIP utt . rndrtl 111/1/11,0 , 111 till. Illirlit•rn )01110t.rtlf•V, 1'1)0 Wl' 11 the 01111'4 1 . 1:01.1ri . I) .111411:falW A -;;ociitl.toit att N. Yolk cite, who are tr)ing t i Its,nlve this tuel wouhl. )11.e to Ititve it re ,, ,':/ , ta!/:- 1 , / in 5111•11 ;L manlier as to -let Ne (the liraio, of North America.) out in the cold ? a/o,'o , Ihrni, why is he now electioneering," through the EII.SCII States'? Once ?floret—Wit:lt doe.; the "].night of the Shovel and Pit•k" want to do awn) , out a...; far ai the State of .Kaine, and that, too, pinta to is ico - ir:11 , 1 We are ,Ure his lion. is thlt, out there, neither ant th. re; Inn theat iternaps, he it; Ott. CL,Lt w,elill be much pit4se,l if the 1 ,:11,1 /c.f.i . ' would furnish us the dei-ittettl infortutt tuttt. AVALANCHE. Letter from a member of the An- dorson Cavalry We :Lro permitted to make the following ex tracts Iron' private letters from JOHN C. FLEmr‘m, formerly a citizen of Carlisle, who joined the Anderson Civalry while living in Philhdelphia. Mr. rhumtNo Wit one of ilk , not•le few, of chat petrel rogimem, who ,lis dained to , leseit the emple, of hi. country in her , tern hour owl zdtliough :miler. ing severely from nu injury lit Inn went to the lirl l in an ambulance, an d ren d ere d the hest servioo in hiv power. The story of his treatment while a prisoner, is enough to Li stir th 3 bluo even a hal tornut crat.. give Ittit,:trige The .lay lu the regiment left I.) ;i•- vine loit-e fell with MC, all-i injured my Lack IV.I , t:‘ , llll,i:eitto get in. to Lit ionimlitne- until we ariiwed at B aw l ing (free)), when it het:auto so p.tharti! that they sent mo to Nashville ill iiiivauce or the regr• Whitill strive l day before Chridlinas Rosecritos scene l to take Murfrees boro' hod or hired our regiment along. About OM of them munitied, and refused to go -- fleing unutterably oppii-hl to such act 1011 at such :t time, and thinking; I might be of NUUIC s e rvice in ease any Or our boys shout I get wounded, I got into one ur Our ambulances and :darted for the fief I. The next day we had a skirmish with sumo Texan rangers, in which we ht!lei ft or ti of therm and captui ed in field gun, we not losiug a man. On Mon d ty, our two .Majorg, with all the men who were with made a ehargo upon a rebel battery which witS supported by a regiment of infantry posted behind a fence, whom our , 11 , 1 nit discover until we were upon thorn. Major Rostingarteu had his horse shut from under him, when ho mounted tho fence and with sword in band, thee - red the boys on, when he felt pierced by three ur four balls.— Tien Nlajor Ward came up, and he also fell, shot through the limp, the ball coining out under his left'shoulder. Some eight or tell of our boys wore killed and more wounded The dead were left on the field, and the wounded carried to a house near by. I was left, with Major Ward to 1121100 care of. On Tuesday in company with a comrade, I started after the bodies of Meier Iteseugarten and the rest, which we found, loaded them on a Wagon which we started to Nashville, in charge of some of our men, where they safely arrived. I then went to a hospital near by, at which -100001 wa s captured. On the next day thoy marched me with - somo others, for RjX. between an armed force of Texan Rangers, h.. Murfreesboro' and put no into a jail yard un til morning, and in the evening they gave us each a pound of flour and nothing to cook it in ; wo had to eat the flour raw and drank water to Wll9ll it down. The next day they started us to Chatannoega in hog ears so full of manure, that it made quite a cushion to Sit on; and there they gave us some corn meal, .abort as tine ns saw dust,. and nothing to._ cook it in, so wo made some thick • paste and _stuck it on sonic boards-and halted it before a tiro. From Chatannooga they took us to Atlanta Georgia, kept us a 'day there, and 'from there to ' Montgomery Alabama, and there gave us somo crackers and stinking meat,.aud the next wo wont to-Pollard Flor ida, when the officer in -charge received a de ,spatoh to take us hock to Richmond Va., for could not OXellatlgo IN at Vicksburg, as they were thou lighting there, so they took its to Richmond and put us in Libby Prison and kept its there twelve days. Here the stench was sickening. They fed us on soup, sour bread and stinking mess beef. They would not oven allow us to look out of the windows, one of the gilard levelled his gun at me for looking out. At last: the word came that we were to be sent across our lines, and I can't describe to you my feelings, when I saw the boats at city Polilt with the American flagon them to take its away. We bade adieu to the Prison and got on our boats and arrived safely at Annapolis, where r DOW atil. (fur sufferings at Richmond beggar 'do set iption. They would not allow In to open the windows and it' you the first thing we would see would be a gnu pointed at us, with , a curse, that if we did not put our heads in , they would shot us. to you may imagine how pure the air was when we land :350 men in One recut and no ventilation in ii, and a ll the employment we hail, (which was enough h.iril work at that) 11:0 in licking the lice off tut' clothes, face, hair F , and then you con!d not keep clear of them for the floor iv is hill of Chow. "etc of the hues :my they found 1 on their backs. I tell you [ n in for 710 give ihein notlli lout the Imllet until they lay their arms ,hewn, if it itito.t lie, efr , rininifte in now for. almost any 111,1 , 1.1 re 10 Whip them, lint No GotraomisE, I don ' t , 4 no how they can hold out, for they have hardb% anything to est, fir lithe was wn , of Iho gu itd told liar that had gone for six li e '. svithoul anything; to cat, because they dot nut have it to give him. The 1• , 11• , Wir1.,,r, 'N n lit of prices of the coin tiece-mrie= or lit, in the liebel con federmv : $lOO per lb. Molooses, and I'm g s :Al„ Tea, tiny price to ask, you comld get per lb., common, *1.. - ai per IL , 1110 to iisi2 Jai pe r lii .11 , 1 about the ,iJIC of an egg, iter th , / , a Oft small pu 11:idu appearituce of the building is that of neatness and byauty, and retleeti great (redit upon the projector, Col. O. N. Li i t., tinder whoic, ollicicnt and careful si'd,-llt'neu the working of the Cuttite'r \ y byaydnic a provci lr h \V I T.: II; Pro-i , l -It. (:ottrral try :1111.1 . ..ip1 , Ir ,. r, L! 111 . 1,1 110,01 11 . ,L6 Lc 11;11 I:I 11.:1!.'.1, :1 , 1.1 1 , 4 Irrnlits 1,01 , 1 - 11 e SO . rt:6ll. illat I S!t)ei:, even :LI tLc eIIOrIOOW9 111 , 111H1 , 1 It (• ( . 11.1 q(•:lrCely 1/0 11111* \Vt. flr,• 11 , ,V pri:1611,..Z 1110 .k 111111:11 •;ooli as finislimi Nvill lay I , 1,, 1 . 0 r.. 3 .10rs al) , .traer ,- 01 . last year's opt:rat...J:ls. ME Tres NC; lorg, as there Wll,l tillatlOW ui eXCLISO in :eason for the issuing of in. icidual protni -I.es to pay in lieu of money. we forbore any strictures upon the practice,—Leing content to bide tlre thine when a plentiful supply of government currency would crowd 'rill other• out of circulation. That time has now ar rived, and we would be re,-.rcatit to a public duty W VC we to remain longer reticent upon the subject. If there ever was such scarcity of small change as to justify the utterance of the shinplasters, the no,st ardent advo cates of that measure must admit that that. emergency 1,1 1,, since passed.'‘ the emergency has, 9 small notes Or the government t‘ow exist in such abundance as to supply all possible demands or trade. The ohjections to our prejent'system of shinplaster issue: are an hundred fold. Suf fice it for our purposes, to give the most weighty and self evident. let. Their issue is without the color of law, and consequently they are utterly .worth less in a legal point of view. 2d. As they are issued without iwtriction ,of any kind, any boot-black or barber 111 ay turn banker; and without a dinie of capital, flood distant communities with totally irre deniable promises to pay. 3d. They arc generally poorly executed, upon miserable paper, are 'easily counter feited, Did . 'lll a very short time become filthy rags. 4th. Every patriotioreitizenowes it as a duty tq his oountry,' to give her all the ben FI.I:AIINt I:1,1 The fii,t nriti I trgest, o ldta t wtcatli containing 250 favorito Ti,is e,,:»plele work rite tWrs. -A L,..(0,1 MEM