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CARLISI,E, PA.
Friday, May 22, 1863.
S. DI. PETTENGIIIa It & CO.i
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NO. 37 Park Row, New York, and 6
BtateSt. Boston, aro our Agunts for the HERALD
In. those chins, and are authorized to take Advertise
ments and Subscriptions for us at our lowest rates.
Gov. SEYMOUR (Dem.) of New York has
vetoed the bill allowing the soldier to vote by
proxy. Of course—such "Democrats" hate
the soldiers just as they love the Rebels, se
cretly.
ANOTHER REBEL GENERAL DEAD—EarI Van
Dorn, one of the rebel Generals operating in
the South-west, was recently shot dead in the
streets of a southern town for the crime of
having debauched the wife of a prominebt ell
izen of the place. This man was a conspicu•
lie had not a particle of moral
principle, deceiving alike, friend and foe.—
Otis traitor
He was false to his country, his God, and
his fellow men. A violent death was the
natural consequence of a life stained all over
with violence
rre„.The President's Proclamation in refer
ence to thaConscription orrather that portion of
it notifying all aliens who have declared their
intention's—to consider themselves subject to
the Conscription or else leave the country with
in a specified time—meets with the heartiest
approval of the great mass of the people - . It
is but right that those who enjoy the protect
ion'of the Government should aid in its preser
vation, when, as now, it is threatened by
traitors and rebels. There is a deal of nonsen
sical talk here and there, about appealing to
foreign consuls and ministets for protection,
but the sooner that is done with the b otter.—
Fight, pay„ or emigrate. That's what all
hen Is have gut to do, and the sooiier the
better.
Moux r 11r:sp.—The Feeticlek (M tryland Ex.
aminer says that the bold peak in the South
Mountain, near the " Mountain House," on
the border of Frederick and Washington coun
ties, whet e the gallant and accompli he l
Gen. Reno fell, is named and announced by
the inhabitants of that vicinity n9'` Mount
Reno," iu honor of the lamented hero. This
is a befitting tribune to his memory, and no
nobler monument could record his fame, than
the everlasting mountain which was the oc me
of his martyrdom to the cause of Liberty.
THE ASSAILING PARTY
The (2uppel heath+ assail us al every i urn.
They garble cvcty btalenieul, ntl.scousl rue
every act, condemn the 41 minis tral my izi •
pat hize with trea.ioti, obstruct the various
channels through which success slntultl come,
thraW all manner of olistaeteB in the way or
loyal men lo etnharrills them and eriiwningly
advise reisteue . e to the euri,ttittie.l authori
ties. Copperheads do this; pitiriots du the
reverse. There is no difficulty in .11.stinguish.
ing the traitor from 'he I,yal man. Ile. that.
is ever doubting and blathering and prating
about the ['mutter utconduoiirt this, timd the
performance of that, is not to be trusted ; is
ter - be - regarded—with Tuspieion: There- wa+-a
time when men could for mere partizan ch irle•
tanry thunder for effect against those who
were in power that they might thereby' rid
vance the cause of their own particular
friends, but ho who sees his country rent
almost front center to circumference and who
knowingly and willingly endeavors to mis
represent misconstrue and villify the only
power in the land which can save the liber
ties we have enjoyed since our iueurporation
into the family of nations, certainly must be
a rebel or their accessory, because he must
know that his course is just so much advan
tage to their cause. If this is the case, and
no one can doubt it, what right have these
men to complain if they are treated as cue
rules of the best interests of our country?—
What right hove they to complain if true pa
triots condemn them and class them where
they properly belong? They say in self-jus
tification that the Constitution has been
trampled under feet and their liberties
abridged. Ho the supreme Court in a single
Instance pointed-out a violation of the Con•
stitution by deciding that any of the mews•
urea were unconstitutional ? No, iu no in
Eitauce. What liberties have been abridged?
The privilege to excite the people to subvert
the government, this alone ? A 'very singu
lar liberty indeed from which to be disfran•
Chised! If there are any others when the
rebellion is crushed, we will go as far as any
other man living to correct this abuse, but
first crush the rebellion that we may have a
country in which to enjoy liberties.
The assailing Party is the rebellion in
words, while the Ittbels are the rebellion in
arms; there is truly very little difference, if
there is any, it is in favor of those An arms.
What General Stoneman Acoom
t- pushed.
The following is a summary, in tabular
form, of the work accomplished by General
Stoneman's expedition in Virginia :
Bridges destroyed,
Culverts destroyed,
Ferries destroyed,
Railroads broken, places
Supply trains burned,
Wagons destroyed,
Horses captured,
Mules captured,
. .
Canals broken,
Canal boats burned;
Trains o 4 cars destroyed, '
Storehousee burned . ,
-- Telegraplrstations burned, ------
- Wires out, places,
Depots burned,
Towns visited, '25
Contrabands liberated; 160
—Besideti the destruction of largo piantitia-s
-of pork; bacon, flour, wheat, corn, clothing
and othor•artieles of great value to the rebel
army.
CAXULY THEISI BOA YQUIL DEYENB6.,--A box of
Bryan's Pultuonio :Wafers.
,can be carried in
your vest poclpt; They stop a cough in five
miiiiites,and sore throat in au":hour, and cure
a cold la ono day, 25 cents a box. At B.
Italland.igham.
From the tenor of o. telegraphic dispatch
from Cincinnati , it appears that the applica
tion of the Copperhead yallandighani tor a
habeas corpus, to relieve him from the juris
diction of the Court Martial which, had his
case under consideration, has been refused
Mr. Vallandigham htis appealed to the law,
and the law has settled his appeal summari
ly by remittaing it to the it ilitaryauthorities.
The result will scarcely please the venomous
enemies of the United States whO burrow in
the North, and are ever ready to wound and
strike at every effort of the Government to
maintain the integrity of the nation. We
shall, no doubt, have new,outbursts:of rage
from these foul-mouthed apologists for trea
son, and we shall hear a great deal about
"the - freedom of speech" from those who, in
their vituperation, forget that they are exer
cising inuch more " freedom" than has ever
been allowed to enemies of the country at
any previous period in our history.
Vallandigham is a very proper person to
be made an example of. He has been the
great Mumbo Jumbo of the Copperheads—a
saint whom they looked up to in• veneration
—an oracle whose words were devoured by
his abject followers as vermin feed upon cor
ruption. He has been tolerated td a degree
which has becoine intolerable. He com
menced with carping at the efforts made to
preserve the country. Iris endeavors were
directed in Congress to the embarrassment
of patriots, to the disparagement of every
measure for the maintenance of our institu
tions, to the sewing of the seeds of dissen
sion and to the enco iragement of rebellion.
Out of Congress he has become bolder. Ile
now bids deli ince to every restraint which
his supp:,s , d duties as a citizen should im
pose. Ile has been of late not only an a
pologist fur rebellion, but an euloz,st of t
ail
_men Juid have__
drenched the n ition in blood. 'fuer° is a
point at which forbearance ceases to be a
virtue, and that point Vallandigham has long
since reached. We are willing to bear much
in the name of Liberty, but there is a boun
dary beyond which licentious liberty be•
comes detractive to peace, good order and
law. That boundary Vallandigham passed
long i 3 wonderful that he has been
suffered to outrage every patriotic feeling as
lung as he has done.
At the • South men who are considered
false to their section are tortured, whipped,
hurtled and hung. Sack his been the fate
of hundreds who reiided in that unhappy re
gion, who h sulTn-e. I upon the mere sue
piciou
that they did a of he smile approve of
the Southern cause. At the North we do
not punish men who think • treason. It is
t.t . en - said that we have n o power to punish
those who couns(d it and who in words per•
form the Overt act. If this assertion of the
Valladidighamian Copperheads is true, then
it is time to resort to the military law. Our
institutions are worth nothing if t :ey may be
undermine I and destroyed by the disloyal
without our power to prevent them accord
ing to law. M trtial law, then, becomes a
necessity, and whether it sentences traitors
- to lire Dry - TJrtogas — cir -- Ttr hihomil., — every
goo I citizen, every patriot who values our
institutions, will not only approve the pun
ishiuent, but sustain those who shall carry
it into ell et.
The cha . racteristie wail of our Carlisle
club of copperhead traitors, over this calam
ity to their high priest b - rtits their feelings
admirably. If Booker's army were to de
stroy the rebel Lee's to-morrow, the same
spirit which their disgraceful resolution 0 4 r;.,.
the arrest of Vallandigham evinces, would
impel them to rim.] fault with our army, and
condole with their lord, Jeff Davis.
Will Negroes Fight?
The enemies of the country have seized up
on no more powerful lever to create prejudice
against the war than the negro. Knowing
the prejudice that exists against the black man,
they have seized upon everything connected
with him to inflame the public mind, by say
ing
,that white soldiers were to be brought
down to'thc level with the negro—he would not
fight, was too thick bedded to carry a muSket,
would murder the whites intac — rrininately Ste:,
&c , to the end of the chapter. Thank heaven
the people at home and the army in the field,
see through their devylish schemes to paralize
the nation in this particular. The following
otter is from Admiral D • Porter's fleet Surgeon,
an officer who has always entertained strong
southern feelings :
" U. S. FLAG -Snit , 131.‘tett 11/kwlc,
" Above Vicksburg, April 13, 1863.
" Yoh ask me whether a negro will fight.—
I answer moil, emphatically, yes. At Fort
Hindman, when our storming party was form
'mg, the first man who stepped forward for the
scaling ladder was a contraband. All our
spies are negroes. A contraband saved our
expedition up Deer Creek. We sowed the des,
patches in his cap, nod sent him twenty miles
for reinforcements ; and when I saw his black
face emerging through the smoke of the ono•
My'n fire the next day, and yelling " Your
people is comin' !" my opinion of negroes went
up 'five hundred per cent. Let a nuiik tell me
the negro is a coward, and I'll tell. him to his
face he lies. thave seen enough of slavery,
and , I am' en abolitionist of the very worst
kind."r
122
200
101
104perheadism in Illinois.
Tho Springfield (Ill.) Journal limns that
about 800 . rebel sympathizers, fully armed,
met'at Dobsou's Prairie r •about twelve miles
.arn__l9 - aritlalt„in _C ler IC coma _ on_ May_ 9,
for the purpose of drill and parade, , They
were instructed in the exorcise by two men--
one belonged to Morgan's gang, and the other
to Oen. Price's army—and gave evidence that
they were fully acquainted with military tuo
tics. Parties of Cupperheads have been hold.
iug meetings and drilling at Castlefin, six
miles north of Martinsville. The meeting on
Saturday seemed to be a concentration of the
forces for parade, &o. The . same paper no
tices the arrival at Springfield of John Amburn
and G. IV. Sampson, living near Athens, in
Menard County, who had been arrested for
treason, by order of General Arnaten.
PLEASANT.-:-The 'weather.
A 31toat Righteous Sentence.
The bold and frandulent means used
,by the
copporherds iti . the'eity and county of Philadel
phia hus , ot. least met....its proper , reward.; ,
Ong the last election the return judges pf the
24th : . ward toolt it upon themselves to' dinilaro
the : ninn Who had received the lowest number
of votes elected to the city council, and by this
fraudulept transaction tliky obtained a majori
ty of one in the city council, and by that ma•
jority the council tilled the various city offices
with their own friends. These frauds wore so
plainly proven in court. that an honest jury
.convicted them of wilful fraud. Notwithstand
ing this conviction, Isaac Leech, who had been
fraudulently returned as a member of council,
continued in office and discharged a duty for
which another gentleman was elected.
Desperate efforts were made to evade a
conviction of these return jud g es, but the
evidence was so plain that even a Philadel-
Thin jury was bound to convict them. After
this conviction an attempt was made to ob
tint. a new trial, but thanks to an honest
faithful judge, the motion was overruled.
The Ercaiity Butictin of last Tuesday eve
ning gives the fullowiv, proceedings of the
Ca,l., VI/.
This morning, in the Quarter Sessions,
J decided the motion tor a new
trim i; the ease of William Force, Frederick
Ostellilt, James Torhet and Thomas A.
Return Judges of the Twenty-fourth
Ward, convicted of misdemeanor in illegal
rettiticate declaring Isaac Leech a member
of Common Council. The motion was over
ruled and the defendants called up for s.:n
tence. All were present except Logue, of
whom a physician's certificate was received
respesenting him too ill to be removed from
his bons , . Judge Allison, iu passing sen
tence, Said:
You have been convicted of a violation of
your duty and oath of office as judge's 01 the
election held in October last. The facts
proved on the trial, anti the consequences
resulting from your action, renders our:, a
ease remarkable as an odd and daring viola
tion of the law, , wh: se -plai u est., commarolyou
knowingly violated ; disre:gradot r the legal
evidence of the expressed will ul a majority of
the voters of one of the, 11'ards of the city
which you It i l l in y - Our hands at the time,
you by official resolution voted to -glYe cer•
tificates of election to persons having nut the
h.{ hest out the lowest number of votes
polled. This rot thought proper to do after
having sought advice (referring to a visit
paid. by tits; Aln_lendants. J edge Ludlow,
before the perpetration of the Itawl,)
had you regarded, woohl have saved y
from your present condition and would have
protected the community from the wrong in
dicted upon it by you—a wronr , '
which staints
unredressed to this day, and which, in its
nature and effect, is at war with - the funda
mental principle on which our entire govern
ment rests, and which is a reproach upon
the exercise of the election franchise.
The law romirds your crime as most
It /Oh XeS 10 it the penalty of a dis
ability on your part to huh! any office of •
or,•trust ur profit in this Commonwealth fur
the period ofseven tears, and takes from you
hoc the same pe Mil the power of exercising
the elective franchise. This is no more than
just, for mimes of this character must:cease
or, as a consequence, violence will take the
place of the peaceful operation of law. It is
to be hoped that this will be the last carp of
the kind in which it will he nee,—;sari-to itn
pose a punishment fur a cause like that for
which you stand convicted.
The sentence of the Court is ihat each cf
. •yon paya line of irs2oo z Hint you pay the
costs of prosecution, • arid tLat
undergo an impriiootnent of six months in
the County Prison.
Practical Infidelity
I can understand that every ignorant Ache
isle should be hopeless regarding this w at.—
But pe. , ple who hive a kuowiedge of this
world's history on the one side, or of God on
the other, are without excuse. Tint e, leaders
may be incompetent, generals may blunder,
avarice, jealousy, greed, and all manner of
selfishness, may seem to push our cause on to
certain shipwreck Aut. do you suppose that the
Lord God Almighty is going to be stopped in
WS course by the non arrival of a pontoon
bridge? I am astonished at the amount of
practical infidelity developed among Chris
tians. Fr.,m the manner in which many talk
and look, it would seem as if God was not in
all their thoughts. Nobody expects (line•
servers to look higher than Tammany for
machinery and results; but the people who
profess to worship God, the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth, might be expected
to possess their souls in patience. It seems to
us that the God whom many of us worship is
after our own image and likeness—a God
sufficient in peace, while everything goes
smoothly, but rather taken aback by a budden
Outburst of war—A.o°d adequate to the gov
ernment of the ?arid in ordinary times, but
quite out of his reckoning these tumult uous
days. We can trust him to give us day by
day our daily bread, but we have not the least
confidence in his ability to cope-with Stone
wall Jackson and Lie I know that God works
by means, and if Gen. Burnside should say,
"God will take care of his cause," and should
thereforeiot post pickets, or watch the enemy,
ha would deny the faith, and be worse than an
ialiJol ; or if we should say it, and therefore
cease to pray and to work in every possible
way for the cause, we should be'llhe same; but.
I, and moat of those who read this paper•, have
no more influence over the management of
troops at Vicksburg, the disposition of forces
is Virginia, the furnishing of plans or mate
r i,ti anywhere, Win Daniel had over the lions.
We have the same call for trust in God that
he had.
'ruins undoubtedly looked very dark when
the lsrutiliies stood !Touting the 800, •with the
Egyptian cavalry lilted atter them ; but the
sell returned and covered both chariots and
horsemen. Things must have looked dark to
the Jews when the Assyrian host set down
before their city, but in the morning they
were all dead corpses. Those were Bible
times, miracle limos; but is the Lord's arm
shortened that he cannot save, or his.estrhen.vy
that ho cannot hearl True, we cannot be
sure that he been our side,,ibut we can at least
be sure that we arc etr has:. We talk of our
country, and it is ours—just as Paul's house
wait his. The earht is the Lord's and the full-
Doss-thereof _. ce unt ry—belottge - -to=Go -
It was his' whoa a forgotten people held it—
his when it passed into the hands of the In
dians—his when our fathers dwelt here, and
'his today. If the Lord can afford to let it go,
I rather -think we eau'. li-his-- cause can be
bettor nerved by giving it,over a while to dead
tuen!s bones and all uuelealiess, it shall be
given. Possibly, God sees that the only way
by which we will be led to the truth is a re.
docile ad absurdum. Ile will lotus have ituoth
er, pull at slavery, selhstiness, and winked
prosperity, or perhapi let us try anarchy and
divisions and humiliation• a while,-till weshall'
be ready to return to' him. I hope not. We
ought to strive that it may net be necessary,.
I only say that if • worse comes to worst, we
should not put on mourning, ns iP the ohrth were
orphaned .of its .Aluker. —Gait llainaton.
Corrooppodonoo of tho llomld
ARMY LETTER.
•'`'CAdiP;oB TUE Isi PyVIBION,
IST ARMY CORI% NEAP. FitpDNR-
ultrientina VS:: May 170, 186J.}
. Civilians have no idea of the hardships and
privations that soldiers endure. Poetical peo
ple call camps " tented fields" and romantic
girls think that life there must be 'really
splendid. la there much of the romantic or•
poetical in waking up some night and finding
,yOur rag-house blown away and yourself ly
ing in a cold rain. Long and wearisome
marches, hot suns, nauseous water, and rca•
ignation of Personal liberty, are 'the common
lot Of the ()dicer and private. To the solder
battles ore not_ such dreadful affairs; they
break the monotony of his existence are soon
over, and give him something to discuss with
his comrades. The civilian is oareful of his
own health, and watches with anxiety that of
his family, should his feet get wet he imme
diately changes his stockings, end takes every
precaution against" catching cold," while the
soldier is frequently wet day and nighp*oui
hettd to foot, and his clothing dries mildin.
In what town or city could fifty persons be
induced by offers of money to stand iu a field
while a cannon tired but one shot at them;
but hoe fifty thommml stand amidst a shower
of death, untlincliwit unhesitatingly. The life
of a soldier rei,.).:rs him reckless; and his
chances of escape In battle are like chances
in ti lottery where the price of the ticket is
his worldly po.lsee.nAle, happiness, and body;
and w here all the blanks are death or wounds,
and the prizes glory, therefore after the pay
masters visit.
G A MIMI NG
is very prevalent and its cause mast be at
tribute) to the uncertainty of his life. and
the feeling that while he ItTes he will taste of
any cup th it affords pleasure for the moment.
Only a few days ago un a hill side near my
quarters, sot perhaps two hundred officers anti
Uteri gambling, away their pay. A guard was
sent to arrest all h tads, tail stn.:verde(' in tak
ing about halt. It was amusing to watch the
inanwurer by which_they were en trappoil.—
Thu ntriatl, bayonets fixed, separated, into
two parties one of which went around the
base of the hill where the gatobler4 sat s •
itbsorbodiu the genie that the approach of
duard wiff — tii,r`unticed Until they—began
to deploy a line near them—Then a general
scramble fur the money took place, followed
by a skedaddle, but before they went far the
rest of the squad suddenly debuttched how a
woods and surrounded them.. The rogue's be
fore ,this loot coop de guerre thought they had
escaped and were jeering the squad that first
appeared 1.1 was well performed, and in the
language of the modern penny .abiners, •it
44,11tieitml much ClT4ail. uoua the. officer whose
skill enabled him to pl.tn, and whose saga
mous energy enabled him to execute the cl/use-
went.'
SUM 'I Ell QI'AILTEIts
From our protracted stay, hod the rapid
decrease of our riumbers by the daily depart.
ure ot t,he two years and nitre months uteri,
should not be surprised if we spent the sum
mer here, in the pretty valley ot the Rap,
pahannock.' This probably the best place
"that cin be selected fur the put pose us the
land is forrilr, and the scenery agreeable in
the eye. Theo see the benefits that will he
delivered to the whole world b, doing so, fur
we will encourage . the Agricultural Depart•
went of Waßhingion by notLepting packages of
g.trden nn I by trying eXperiments upon
the growth of Early York. The man Who
raises the most cabbage can make the most
sour kraut, mid the one who produces the
finest specimens will icke tbe first piize and
have the distiuguished honor ot having his
dill length picture mu Itirper and Frank Les
lie accompanied by a. minute liCeollla of his
sayings and doupAs during the sultry summer
amaths.
nffl=!
The hospiial of our division is in the house of
Mrs Flizliugh near th 't river. She with her
family live in p•.rt of it while ihe rest is tilled
with the wounded. It is reported that her
husband was killed in the last battle of Ft ed•
erieksburg
To a soldier the hospital for wounded turn
has wore terror than a conflict. A day ur
two ago I accompanied the chief Surgeon oil
a visit to the ono above mentioned. As we
passel through the rooms we s•tw the assist
ants dressing all kinds of horrible wounds
and stumps. One young man of exceedingly
interesting appearance was lying on is truss
of straw with his right hand, and right leg
both off. Ile was cheerful and hopeful
A boy of the 147th New York Volunteers
was lying on the flour dying from a wound in
the spine from n fragment of a shell. hits
respiration was growing shorter and shorter
every instant —lle was perfectly calm, and
heroically stared fate in the face. Au at.
iendant as I passed beside the boy said aloud,
that. it. was a sorrowful sight to see him die,
for ho was such a fine lad, and had borne his
sufferings so patiently and bravely. No fe•
male. was near him, no minister to pray with
him—,Perhaps his friends at home were un
conscious of his condition and Ittucied ltim
well while they wondered why he did not
Nfrito.
The surgeon told me that he was about to
operate ou a man who had lost his leg two
weeks before, but that the bone protruded
and rendered another amputation necessary.
They laid him on a table in the entry When
all was ready—lle was a man of unusual
nerve and made a jest of this second opera
tion. Before commencing he asked the Sur
geon to saw off the bone nicely so that he
could make rings of it. I watched the effect
of the chloroform on him. • When ho first in
haled it ho became very talkative and calling
the Surgeon by name'ivildly cried " six it up
right,—do it so well that I can jump ten feet
in the air and light on it without : being hurt."
Soon the color faded from hi 4 cheeks and he
assumed the pallor of death and then became
totally insensible. I sat on the stairs horri
fied at tha . grating of the saw—While the sur
geons were at work a video from the rooms of
the wounded sung,
" I ',could not the always ; no, welcome the tomb,
Slime ale 014 bath laln there I dread not Its glooni;
There sweet be my rest, till he bid me arise
To ball Mai in triumph descending the skies."
Lthoright of the dying boy at the head of
the stairs and ilsoutided like the voice of a
mother singing her infant; to sleep. 'IC was
his lullaby to eternal sleep. I felt very. sad,
and when I thought of his friends a tear trick.
led down my cheek. '
STOW EWALL JACKSON,
Mrs. Seddons, the wife of a Major on Jaok•
son's staff, lives near our camp and gave me
The particulars of his getting, • wounded. He
•ntitutaitio4ottheir picicetlineAnf_edonint.
tre our position and on his return was not,
recognixed by his own men who tired wound
ing him in the left arm and: the palm of the
right hand. Ho lotit his left arm and expired
ou the following Sunday.
At Galesville, at Bull Run, at Antietam,
and twice at. Fredericksburg', his troops were
opposed to the division with which lam wary
'lug. We know his qualities, we knew him
only as a reckleSSly brave men, a bold gen
eral, and a troublesome foe. 'We have learned
of his privaio virtue, Obis attachment to-re
ligion, and when the knapsacks of Ails Men
wore opened on 'the battle, field by our troops
a small copy of the new testantent Was inva
riably found, and many of theufbore on the
fly lqaf his autograph. The army feels no
exultation at his death, for we respect the
good man and the bravo foe. •
IN MEMOIIIA7I.
The journalsieetord,tho death of ,Lieutenant
Edward Carlyle Norris, of the 71st ,Penuttyl
v:ania-Volunteers;resnitingfrom a wound re
teived at the battle of 'Antietam. The elder
portion of our,community recollect him as the
eldest son ctf the Tatwor of gt. John's church.
This war has made us fttuilior with scenes of
blood and intelligence of this painful nature,
but this sad news tills us with the liveliest
grief as it removes from earth one of the dear
est companions of our childhood—the boy
partner of our happiest data. lie .was a no
ble boy, a noblevan—one of nature's noble
men, and when Ole ball pierced his manly
chest inflicting its cruel wound, then fell :I
noble soldier. hits pure character, his ever
honorable impuhies, and gener ous heart, at-
Inched him La us -with bands of love which
strengthened with our car. A long period
passed during which we were separated and
ou meeting again we found him a handsome,
accomplished g:utleman. It was`his lot to
linger and Stiller. When his country in her
time of trouble called upon her eons, he of
fered his lite In her defence „and Heaven tic
copied the gift.
Corn:opt...Wu t of . the Iluruld
BANK. CE CITY, I 1.11110 TERRITORY, t
April 2.1, 16(.13.
IhiltALD: — .l. have time to write only
a short and very hasty letter, the first, too,
since my arrival here vu the 2 ( J,li of August
111.41... Your readers, or as many or them at
least, as are interested in such matters, have
already learned front other sources,,of the dis
covery of these mines last sauna r, and their
subsequent .levelopnieut. The experience
and observation of six months warrants time
in repeating with greater assurance, what I
have already frequently stated in letters to
friends, that we are here only upon a corn
paraltvely stittiA spot of an extensive gold
field which is yet to tie prospected it d devel
oped Even this section is just being opened
Nearly evei y week during this winter have
brutignt to light new quartz lodes and fre.,ll
digging-4. There are no mills in tli e, com i t r y.
, A 1 1 ,1.11 impassible to tel how much a curd
OW quartz rock will pay Dui. the decayed
dirt ru 5.11;e of the lodes is etch. The Dakota
is the hest. Time owilevs of discovery and
elaitnA aut,lic vs - von: ATI - IWO Tire - CmAThigThut.
with four rockci from slod ::4 . tit.h./ a day.
B.r digglitgs are tlwse vu the tir:lt bench
front the 1,,,t Com of the creek '•Jiau use's
15.kr" alt, td, ilie be-it )et discovered. 1 11111
not fully acquainted with the privece,k of itcost.
of the claiw., but Eowts & G. whose claim
is atiteng the best, have washed out, in one
with a tutigle vueker, over $.6./0, 11111
they elute near this amount. frevently.
;04.>-a ‘iny Iron, rocker eoutil nen
Cur average of the yield of their claim during
the winter. All the iiiint2to on •• Jimmie's
E.tr" are doing well.
The creek bottom, which. 'm am3mnitted on mill
hands to be the nebeet portion of the times,
has not yet been tow:heti, lorthe reason that
the mules ware struck late in the season, and
lumber could not be obtained with wlttch to
flume. Besides, most of the miners are ig,•
ourant of the manner of working creek claims
and they have found enough goomi pay iu the
b tak. Vs II 1101/1. uunbliug the creek. But auf
copitdl has been taken right out of the
ground since we c tutu here, and much of it
will be devoted to inure thorough, extensive
and symemetnatie MID next aemison
The wittier has been extremely and u11:111-
;illy favorable. and it has been improved in
opening claims and digging, ditches. Uf the
latter there are three, unit completed, the
other two nearly so. The Binnacle is th e
largest a will have the treat work to tin, ___
The lucky owner tot a do/..0 siott cs of the
stock of this company is sure of hie fortune
and need not look further.
Ulniins have been elinnOng Irnn ly prelty
lively, nt front ii•SO.) nn) w•+ ,
k fur- ilia _
prop ietor wilts.! 111111 I lie lit, ail.l ser3lcht•ti
up a handful of from which lie panned
out $l7.
is nal every one wh. It.tv 0 g,,ml claim
or even a claim 01 all. II money t, plenty
and any one who sviihe, to worl; eau g , t stone
ut it. Hanle are t.earee at :zit a ti ,ti, an I
wiges will be Nis doll it's per dty hvtire
month All the hla,lietniths who have tools
and are at work are making abut each
day. Carpenters will be well paid nest sum
men
Person. who wish to come here from the
states tininetimbereq with teams, can elloo.4'e
between two routes, the first up the Missouri
to Fort Benton, by steamboat, mid thence by
wagon or pony buck to this limn/34A City,
320 miles, 2nd from 1.1114114 by Denver and
Salt Like City 11. is 400 miles from here to
the latter place Or the cheapest, longest
and roost wearisome route is by wagon across
the plains from (I,n.tha.
Summation of War and other News
The whole Federal army has heon paid up
to the Ist of Nlaroh, thanks to the exertions
of Secretary Chase.
General Hooker mole a short. visit to Wash
ingion on Friday, and had an interview with
the returning on Saturday.
Thu Nlarshal ui the District of Coldiohla has
seized a large amount of real estate belong
ing to disloyal persons, nod those wtio
for the south ou the hreakiug, out of hostili
ties.
The Mississippi papers take a gloomy view
of matters in that State, aml admit that Gen
eral Grant's movements have deceived their
leadyrs and people. They admit a loss or
10013 killed, wounded and missing a t the bat
tle at Bayou Pierre, including in the list of
killed General Tracy, Lieutenant Colonel Pet •
tis and Major Tuckernian.' They state also
that railroad communiciaion has been opened
between Richmond and Fredericksburg. Ta
ken altogether, Bayou Picrre seems to have
been the scene of the ino'st complete thrashing
the ceufNlerates have yet received.
A Now York paper has reports that Gen •
oral McClellan has asked to be placed in no•
tivo service or to have his resignation accept
ed. 1c is said that neither preposition was
acceded to.
The 'Chattanooga Rebel regards the shoot.
ing of General Van Dorn as a justifiable act.
On Sunday night last, the rebel cavalry
made a dash up to,the Chain Bridge, and then
retired, without doing any dant tge.
Genera Stoneman is at the headquarters of
the Army
.of the Potomac, and Col. Kilpat
rick is ordered to report there.
From General Lees movements, it is be
lieved that ho contemplates making an attack
ou hooker's army inn short time. lie has
detained all theAsurscs and wagons who
companied4,he=-amßulanoo - flans over - Abe .
fords.
• Some excitement has been camel in °rest
Ohio by the arrest of a rebel sympathi
ier. His fronds prepare to effect his ideas()
from-prison,-but the_ appearance- of a, body-of
soldiery. quieted them in a few minutes.
11'e have impOrtatit news from Goa. Banks,
Admiral Farragut *awl Coln. Porter by the ar
filial of the steamer George Washington at
New York with New Orleatardates to the 10th
iust. Admiral, Farragut. arrived at New Or.
leans on the 9th, bringing the important iuti'A•
ligence that Ale4andria; La., wasoaptured on
the 11th inst. by a portion of his lleet and Cow.
Porter's and immediately on its surrender_ the
cavalry of Gen. Banks appeared front the Otlr,
or side and dashed into the city, forming 1/
junction with the fleet. At the latest dates
Gen. Dwight was in Alexandria, and Gene:
Emory, Weitzel and Grover close behitid, The
combined flea, prior to the attack on Alexan
dria, demolished Fort d'Russey, on the Red
river, and captured a `Rebel gunboat:. D. was
rumored at New Orleans that the fleet was
again bombarding Purt Hudson. The 'Rebel
report of Gen Bank s defeat at Alexandria is,
therefore, a canard.
We have also intelligence of the arrival of
Colonel Grierson at Baton Rouge from his•
great cavalry raid through the entire State of
blississippi. lie dashed into Baton Rouge
w.th his nine hundred cavalrymen on the 2d
instant, followed by five hundred contrabands,
each mounted and leading horses, and three'
hundred Rebel cavalry prisoners. They had
burnt and destroyed bridges on every railroad
in Mississippi They also destroyed f eight or
ten trains of cars on the diffeient roads, load
ed with-Govermnent stores; anti at Newton, on
the Charleston and Vicksburg Road they de
stroyed a trait' carrying three thousand load
ed shells for the Vicksburg batteries. The
explosion is described as terrific. They did
nut merely destroy a bridge at one or two
points, but burnt all the bridges on the prin
cipal roads, and at Enterprise, Mississippi, de
stroyed the entensive tiovernment Ordnance
Works. They even went within a few miles
of Jackson, destroying the great railroad
bridge over Pearl river, and tore up several
miles of the track near that city. lu crossing
Amite river, ten miles from Baton Rouge, they
encountered and captured one hundrell and
sixty Rebel cavalrymen, but were compelled
to leave Lieutenant Colonel Blackburn, severe
ly wounded, in the hands of the Rebels.
CARL
A Rubel despatch from Jackson, Mississippi,
dated the 1 DI, states that out: thousand of
General Grant's cavalry had that day entered
h (.1 burnt Chrystai Springs. on the New Or
leans and Jackson It. , tilroad. This place is
twenty six, miles south tot Jackson.
• The Government will soon, it is rumored,
send a strong force into East Tennessee to as
stst the devoted loyalists of that section,
which is also important to a military respeet.
A member of an Alabama regiment writes to
a Rebel newspaper that the vtcinity of Cum
berland Cap isotull of `• bushivaelters"—thoti
is men who are loyal to the'Coverutnont, and
that even buys, many of whom are captured
daily, are iu arms for the Union.
We learn from the Army of the Potomac'
that the estimate of our lose iu the late bat
,
- r 1 '
tics urn - "gVettt yre t.oe . oatg t ba
aggregate will not reatth 11,009.
11e lotve it stated on the authority of the
Climtimooga I:eher, of Saturday, that Jack
son, Mississippi, was then occupied by lilt,
Uoiou furrea ; that the Rebels held out Ite ains.
our 4 ruups all day, but would not hold the
city. it will be remembered that at the la
test accounts the Rebels were driven from
it.Lyiwobi to Mkzoosii pt Spring were they in -
tehriert ro - iirato 5 stiff id: We prosume • that if
the above report he true—and butte stories
come from the enemy's side—they were una
ble to mamt it themselves at that point, and
tell back on Jackson, where they were over
wh•ltiretl by our forces
On Ihe occasion of Col. Cirierson's recep
tion eW t riv sus, after Its brilliantly
successful raid, and the presentation of a
inagnifieent horse, he made the following
remarks In passing through the Confed
eracy I have had a good opportunity to farm
a correct opinion of its strength. That
strength lets been over estimated- They
have neither the armies nor the resources
we have given theta credit; for, and we have
been greatly deceived in regard to the means
and powt..7 of the Itlebels. Passing through
their country (and the passage was not very
difficult one.) 1 fouud thousands ofgeud Union
men, who are ready and anxious to avow
their alle,giansee the: intotnetil they can do so.
with :tafety to 11-NC,`InStICCS and families.—
fbey tally around the. uhf hag by score. , t.
whenever our army udvances. 1 could have
lirooglit away a tbousaa 1 with me, who were
anxious to come—men whom 1 found fugi
tives-frnm-their hirmw ire- he' - swamps
and forests, where they are hunted like wild
beasts by the Nebel conscription otticers with
bloodhounds. Having visited then, in their
own homes, I have founded my belief upon
what 1 heard and saw there„ that the day is
not lar distant when we shall witness the
d.v ball of the rebellion."
Senators Wade and Chandler returned to.
kVashington on Satu-day evening r from a+
vi,it to the Army of the Potomac_ They
report the troops in the most effective con
dition and in the best of spirits. It has been
ascertained by reconnuisances that during
the night of the 14th the enemy threw up
additiOnal extensive earthworks, admg the
ridge of hills in the rear and to the left of
Fredericksburg. Another report is that
every available soldier now on detached ser
vice in and around Washington, Baltimore,
and on the railroads in Virginia and Mary
land, is to be forwarded to General Hooker
—their places to be supplied with Pennsyl
vania militia.
W. C. R
A movement is on foot, which is. strongly
supported by influential mea both iu and:
out of the Cabinet, for the appointment of
General Butler to the command of the De
partment of the West, from, which Genera
Curtis has just been removeil, - and ot which,
Brigadier General Schofield is temprarily in
charge. It is thought that General Butler
is, of all men, best qualified for the work yet
be dune %vest of the Mississippi.
Tho Mississippi Valley--Almost
The gratifying progress that Gen Grant is
making iu circumventing the rebel army in
Mississippi is one of the most hopeful features
of the-war. The West is not divided into
many separate' topographical 'systems, each
ivdepenilent of the oilier, as is the ease with
the Atlantic Seaboard States. The New En
gland harbors niight, be blockaded by an enemy,
and New York harbor might be closed - And yet
the States conduct a foreign commerce without
limit. li. is different in the West. The Mis•
sissippi Valley is a grand unit, and a bock•
ado of its great river at a single point, as at
Vicksburg, acts as a paralysis on the com•
miirce throughout its whole vast extent—from
Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. It is- °Rey
to comprehend, therefore, whaton inspiring
and vitalizing effect will be produced on the
loyal millions of the Mississippi Valley by the
success of Gen. Grant in removing the rebel
blockade from tho Mississippi River.
Once give the Union gunboats complete con
trol of the Mississippi river, and the rebellion
will be more 'than one half exterminated.—
Neither Confederate power, nor any other
hostile power, domestic or foreign, Will ever
be able to recover possession of any portion
of - .that:.ritei titticmalLey.izer - hrovent - the-re-_
Construction on its banks of that Union Whose
foresight purchased it., whose-energy peopled
it, whose arms defended it, and whose free
principles, under the blessing of lleaven, will
.find there 4 hOme for futurtieenturies. It will
animate the West with a now and .noble zeal
to find they have pushed the legitimate s power
of the Government to the Gulf, and thus reeov.
ered .their own natural and' nonstitutienal
rights. And'in the midst of this fay they will
be more ready to offer new armies to the-Re
public.
n et "What ride carries the' MAXIMUM 41,5.
tance?": asked a lady of an . officer. abie
mi,...4. ; .".wa5' the reply.
Redeemed.