geraid.
CARLISLE, PA.
Friday, January 8, 1864.
S. N. PETTENOILI. &. CO.,
No. 37 Park Row, New York, and 6
State St. Boston, are our Agents for the HERALn
In thoso cities, and are authorized to take Advertise
ments and Subscriptions for us at our lowest rates.
PASSPORTS REQUIRED.-All persons here
after leaving New Tork by sea-going vessels
are required to be provided with passports,
which can be obtained without difficulty by
any one whose loyalty can be vouched for.
FORTUNATE MAN.—A coal operator in
Carbon county, has sold his lease on some
lands there, with the machinery thereon, for
seven hundred thousand dollars. A few
years ago the' same operator was bankrupt.
lie is now almost a millionaire.
vas
STATE AND U. STATES INTEREST. —The Phil
adelphia Dial says the Girard Bank, paid on
the 21 inst, the semi-annual coupons of the
State, due January 1, 1864, in gold, amount
ing to some $20,000 of interest. The only
interest paid.hy the Commonwealth, the let
of January and July, is that of its coupon 6
per cents. The great bulk of the S(ate inter
est is payable Ist February and August, also
in gold, at the Farmers and Mechanics' Bank
It is proper to state, however, that the gold
fund from which the interest is paid is real
ized ratable from all the city banks, as per
arrangement with the State authorities a year
ago.
=II
tte„, The United States is a great solar
system and the Constitution is the sun around
which that system revolves. Far down into
the intricate depths that luminary flashes its
light. It is surrounded by States which are
worlds in themselves, hut. the light of whose
glory is reflected from the contral sun,
-upon
whose existence theirs depends. The L'itited
States feels confident that titre is nothing In
the future or in the past to titaine ur to this
may In her treatment of the nations of the
- earth -- she is influenced by neither fear -nor
favor, and she sanctions her Executive in
every public act of his momentous life. The
United States is a great machine ; a wonder•
ful piece of ine.lattism. The work it turns
out is bunion freedom. Some peopla s.ty that
it is grown rusty, and needs oiling. The
truth is that thereis a screw louse down South.
But that Kill soon be put to rights, nud we
shall go on smoother than ever.
-- M - COLELLAN - STOCR - A 'A litsmi-NT.Last
week a convention of self-appointed dele
gates, and styling itself the "National Con
servative Convention," met in the city of
Philadelphia and nominated Gen. George B.
McClellan for the Presidency of the Unittitl
States. By way of a feeler for the public
pulse, a serenade was got up on Thursday
evening, in honor of Amos K n kill, the re
presentative of the convention who was stay
ing at the Continental lintel. This proved
to'be one of the most amusing scenes wit
nessed on Christmas Eve.
• The Conservatives probably selected the
evening before Christmas as the most favor
able time for the farce to come off, thinking.
doubtless, that from the immense crowd
which would throng Chestnut street, a suffi
cient number of friends and adinirers o
"Little Mac" might be found to participate
in the affair. About eleven o'clock the hand
arrived at the hotel, and at the first note
hundreds of promenaders rush° I to the Con
tinental, where they listened with apparent
pleasure to the sweet strains. The selection
finished, a figure was seen to glide to the
front of the balcony, Rnd it was announced
that a speech was to he made. In a moment,
cheers for President Lincoln rent the air'
huzzas for Grant, Meade, and other gallant
Generals were given with a will ; and hisses,
with other manifestations of disgust fur the
miserable coterie which had assumed the
authority of nominating a candidate for the
suffrages of the people of the whole country
intermingling with the plaudits, made the
scene one of the oddest and most ridiculous
we have ever witnessed.—Phiia. Dispuich.
A Year's Change in Sentiment.
Much as the case of the Union has gained
the past year on land and by sea and in for
eign countries, it has gained even more in re
novated public sentiment. The moral revo
lution of the last few months will be the won
der of future times as it is of the present
A few months ago, it was somewhat fashion
able-to visit with about an equal amount of
imprecation the Abolitionist fighting to sus
tain the Government and the traitor fighting
to destroy it, and to talk with charming face
tiousness about hanging them in pairs. A
few months since, “the Union as it was,"
which meant simply slavery restored at what
ever cost, to the throne of social despotism
and political domination, was time popular
rallying cry of a great Mind successful putty.
A few months ago, ninny seemed to melsure
a man's love of country by theuillignity of
his hatred and the intensity of his contempt
for a race already blighted and overwhelmed
by injuries innumerable ; and a few mouths
sinoe, a fearful amount of political power in
even the loyal States stood arrayed in deter
mined opposition to the Government.
But the current of affairs has not loft us
stranded upon the beech, uor idly whirling iu
some slow eddy. Many have accepted the
logic of events who have been proof against
all other reasoning. Many are beginning to
consider that no nation over did or over can
pass through an experience so fearful as ours
and come out unchanged, and that to clamor
for "the Union as it was" is as idle as to call
upon France to roomoss the bloody abyss that
separates her present from her. past, and be •
come what she was before the revolution, or
to demand that Europe shall return to the
statue of the times before the groat Napoleon.
The name of Abolitionist, so long abhorred
and loathed, is now proudly claimed by moo
who three years ago would have shrunk from
it us from tho touch of leprosy.. Strong in the
might of a renovated punt; sentiment, the
loyal States, free and slave, stand shoulder to
shotilder in support•of the Olovernment an i its
policy, and the proclamation of freedom is the
rallying cry of all. And so, with profound
gratitude and devout thanksgivings, let us
leave the old year and with renewed strength
and hearts of hope enter upon the new.
CHANGES OP OPINION
We have reliable information that thirty
two men have enlisted from our Borough on
the preSent requisition. This is encourag
ing, and leads us to hope' that our entire
quota will be filled without drafting. There
is one thing connected with this enlistment
which strikes us as being rather singular.—
Fully three-fourths of these recruits are col
ored men, veritable "niggers," and yet we
don't hear a single complaint that our coun
try is disgraced or our brave soldiers degra
ded by allowing negroes to assist in saving
our nation's life. We have always approved
of the policy of employing all the means
fairly within our reach to crush this rebellion.
We believe that every man, no untter what
his position or complexion may be, should
be allowed, nay invited to join the armies of
the Union and to assist in any and every on
dertakiug for the overthroW of treason and
the restoration of peace and order to our
land. And having never been afflict, d with
any special admiration for the chivalric sons
of the south who have bean the willing dupes
of treason, and the champions of oppression
and alalery, we never felt that we were un
der any obligations to exhaust our white
population in order that their refined sensi
bilities might receive Ile sir ()elf from being
forced to encounter men of an inferior race.
We thereto's° cordially approved of the de
termination of the Government to employ
negroes, and we have no fault to find that
so many of thorn are now entering the s sr
vice.
But what have become of the objections
of our Democratic friends to these dark col
ored enlistments? What has wrough such
a marvellous change in their opinions with
regard to the constitutionality and expedi
ency of employing 111;grfti3 lIS SfildkrB
Less than six months ago every democratic
politician we net denounced the measure in
the most violent oiannir. It was degrading
to our 00d 10 allowIlegr 0 r'S 11.4 . 1 it for
us; it was an insult to our brace soldiers
that a Ida. 12 man sho 11 I wear the sane , - uni
Logo they di ; it wit, unconstitutional to
ton! ley negroes to fight against men who had
di s carded ourconstituflon and were fighting
to destroy it; it, would have -a tendeney to
exasperate the South and destroy the union
sentiment there to which alone we could look
for the overthrow of the rebellion ; ;tool final
ly it was converting the -,var into a struggle
fir the eleva.ion of the negro over the white
man. Then again the whole s heme was
absurd. Negroes never wouldliglo. They
could not Lo induced t, eater the service,
and if forced in, it )voul I require three white
mien to keep earditneg,ro to his plarct - - fhey
never could b,) drilled or disciphned. They
Lad neither copacity, Courage nor endurance.
They wh cultist dissension and discord
through nit the entire: service, and their ell
iSt 1 , 0 the very mends of ensur-
I:iv the complete triumph Or OW Huth
Now we ask again I)liat have become of
thc , ii objections? ,ve not have a few
of them now , just for variety? l i t can't he
pos•ilde that ,s geittlemen whi)
so elo-picotly last suinitolut against en
rolle I with tie.groes,a-e now allowing negroes
0) enlist to prevent Ut it getting a chance or
going into the service or paying their coin
tatiall. We will 111)t ivrung them by r•u
t rutin:mg the idea for a moment. We know
that their urelotibted courage, their pure pa
triotism, their disinterested sJlicittole con
cerning the disgrace negro soldiers would
bring upon the country precludes and' SUCh
suspicion. Bat What muses this profouud
silence am iig them now when the "di grace.
fur' enlii!ment is in full progreHs ? If watts
men were degraded hy hitting negroes
en
ruled on the same list with themselves, does
it lessen the Alegrad ition to have these ne
groes enlistel? flow will our n !hie wlote
soldiers, (all democrats too, at that,) hear
the disgrace forced upon them by being coin
pelted to light for the same cause fur which
negroes fight 7 And will no one interpose
to prevent the consummatioe of this out
rage ? Couldn't we have a Democratic
meeting for the purpose of devising means
to prey! it these enlistments, and cannot
some of our eloquent Vends in that party
favor us with a few denunciations of this
"miserable abolition scheme 7" Will nut
some high-minded patriot among them pro
pose to repeal the law authorizing these en
listtnents, and enact one forbidding the ac
ceptance of any recruit whose complexion
is not of a whiteness so unsullied as to be a
fit eMblem of democratic purity ?
Never has there been a more striking il
lustration of the inconsistency of democra
tic leaders, or their uttN• unscrupulous! ess
ill appealing to any and every prejudice in
order to obtain power, than is manifested by
their course with regard to this measure.—
From the very first it encountered their
fiercest opposition. Their denunciations of
the men who proposed it exhausted even
their immense list of disgusting epithets.—
But now that the country needs men, find
there is a chancy that they may be called
into the service, their objections to negro
soldiers have disappeared and they rejoice
over every announcement that one has en
listed. But this inconsistency, shameless as
it is,. is only characteristic of the n. Their
shrieking about violations of the constitu
tion, BUSpaasion of the writ of Habeas Cor
pus, suppression of. fr. o speech, and the un
constitutionality of the Conscription, is as
caueelsss and groun rest as their opposition
to negro soldiers. llow long will a commu
nity he credulous enough to listen to the
pratings of these soulless deinegOgues 7
New Youtc. ( - lawn) c D.—The livening Post
remarks that never, probably, in the history
of New York have there been so many 'peo
ple in the city as there are at present: It is
well known that besides an unusual influx
of northern and western strangers, a vast
number of southern refugees are in town a
waiting the conclusion of the war. Alto
gether it is estimated—though it is impossi
ble to say how correctly—that they are at
least one hundred thousand strangers tem
porarily residing in town. Not only is it
next to impossible, to find a house to hire,
but it is'eyen veryolifficult to secure orlivary
sleeping apartments. All hotel and board
ing-housOkeepers have raised, their prices,
and yet are daily obliged turn away appli
cant:64er board and lodging.' .
The fsTational Banks--Their Advan-
tages
The subject of National Banks is to us,
just now, the most interesting feature of
Secretary Chase's financial policy. When
the idea of such associations was first sug
gested it was opposed by many very able
and very worthy men, who thought they saw
in it a determined attack upon existing in
stitutions. In his speech in New York, we
find even the present manager of the sys
tem, the efficient Comptroller of the Currency
—Judge McCulloch, confessing that "he
was opposed to the National Currency Act
be//ire 178 jol.s . Belye. " But, he says, "after
the bill had become a law lie examined it
with care," and instead of finding a `• dread
destroyer," found it to be a necessity for the
times—a thing demanded by the rEOPLE.—
" The people had demanded of Govern
ment," he says, " protection against the im
positions to which they had been subjected
by the uncertain value of local bank notes;
and the National Currency Act was passed
to satisfy their demand i to furnish a circu
lation which should not only he secured be
yond a reasonable doubt, but which should
be of nearly uniform value from the Atlan
tic to the Pacific; which should know no
State lives and b." the means of binding the
people, to he G.overnment by the strong and
enduring ties nil pecuniary interest."
Such a renu't is most. &sir:tilde, and if it
be achieved it will prove that even seer " is
without its compensations." We confi
dently believe in the possibility of such a
result ; further, from the indications of the
present Comptroller's thorough fitness for
the post, apparent throughout his report—
now before us—we believe that under hi.
management of the National Baal system
such a result tril/ he attained. In this report
Mr. VcCu'loch very sensibly argues that a
Nation's currency must snit itself to its COW-
The cintinterce is national, there
f c.orteuct. tiatiial, and the
tiatittual currency will he t; at the
nail )11 of rilirelr II roltr, , A,•ats the unity.
11,1 , 1urs tti the Nation al Itittd:
MINE
he eo o mitoi.s. "can never lose by any 1111S
r11,111ilg)111011( tbe MfAirs of partictibt_r,
Link. If the hanks fail, and the bonds of
the goy, roment !Ire in the market,
the flatus of the National Banks must still
In' redeemed in full at the treasury of the
Limited States."
More is good authority for the value of the
notes. Willi notes sq Nearly- apprnachiy
gold in rain;, wnd doubt not that the Fir?“..
Nationtd Bank of Carlisle will 110 properly
appreciated by this tonulunity. We learn
that - k• - is - rn`l rereive from — Govern-
m e nt o f the very first issue. A few days
thew will end our truubles from a mixed and
changing currency. Counterfeit deteeturs
and 'shavers, then u(licti.
Rebel Refusal to Exehango Pris-
MESE
if a single drop Iva' veawing of any ingro
licnt In to the brim the cop of abomina
tho slave 11.)ngering barbariom
‘,r 11l }mond long ngo for it v,l.lrico,
nt h r!10 11:i -I lilt has
d now, iF out' t. 1.112•7, cll7
r ly r.•perl the dent le 1,4 the rebel een
P.; irators relative to the ex,•li!tige of pri,otterg
It is im1:121, —a:J.l 113 it entirely aceordo
with the long-since published threats and
thoorivs of these brigands, wo see no reason
to discredit the statement,—that after ex
changing r,OO rebel pri,wneri. sent up to City
Point by Gen. lit rbmtt, fur 500 union prk.
'• the rebel government refules any
fortitor npleco all goe , tions are
!!iven Hp, upon our Government Iris
Urea ,:.)111(.11 ling, and their lows in regard to
the olii..era an i soldiers in negro regiments
are reco,_!ni7e.l." It is further billed—' that
they reuse to receive the flog of truce from
General lit rbmt, or to negotiate with hint on
the sub . p.el, of exchougo, beoaut+e of JEFF
ptoc!attiotion outlawing BUT•
I.Elt last year."
ME
Very properly d ics the telegraphic corree
p.m lent go un to remark the inconsistency
that renders this attempt to take such a final
position on the question, ludicrous and futile,
beyond all possibility of description in bur
guago, and equally beyond all parallel in hu
mla experience—except we resort to the
records which curious psychologists have
somas Imes male of the phenomena of insani y.
And, alter all, what more natural explana
ti in of the conduct of these rebel brigands
cut be offered than just this—namely, that
their hatred, which has now grown so as to
include not only thirse old objects of their ma
"the Yankees,',.' but all maultind, at
one fell swoop,—their desperation as they
look around at the shivered pile of their once
high built schemes of successful revolt and
personal aggrandisement,—their bitterness,
or agony, or whatever we may call the unut•
terable feeling of disappointed ambition,—
have at length actually driven them to mad
ness. So mute it be.
Some of the Reasons in Favor of
letting the Free States roes :tit
their quotas in the Rebel States.
We have at home ono half the tocent oull
who con well be spored without derunge
client in any of the branches of industry.—
These consist of returned volunteers, and
young men who want to go, but who are hold
ing back for higher bounties, or fdr' the draft
Lo come on, raising the price of substitutes.
Nothing will start this large class so quickly
as seeing that we have another resource,—
another racket to draw front. When they
see the streams moving from other sources,
they will come in a'l the faster. The experi
enee of all who have reoluited men will con
firm this view. •
Od'ours of experience consider the masses
of tho whites in the rebel Stales, when mixed
up with Northern troops, practically safe
enough soldiers for us, so that if wo should
draw some privates from the ranks of the en
emy, there would be no danger from them
With good food and clothing, and regular
pay, they would not want to got back. It is
oven thought that our high bounty of $725
would dep'ete the rebel armyl The strong
est argument for It is that it gives the loyal
and rersecuted East Teunesseeans, North
Carolinians and Texans a chance to 'cocain)
from the despotic rule of the slave aristocra•
oy, and to enlist under their own colors.
As to the blacks, the great objection will
he that the large Northern bounties will give
the nogro too muoh money for his own good.
This may be met, however, by limiting the
bounties.
In addition to the above mentioned reasons
no one can now fail to see the immense ad
vantage aeoruing to the North from recruit
ing the whites and blacks of the South,—thus
not only securing them on our side, but also
taking Ghent away from the armies which they
are etipportin g . And oven allowing the black
not to be as good a soldier as' the white, in
securing him we intltot a severe blow on the
labor syi,teru of the South, and in time, when
our high brunties become known, we may
hope speedily to end the Rebellion by merely
abstracting from its foundation, Slavery.
President Lincoln's Proclamation
in the Rebel Congress.
In the proceedings of the Rebel Congross,
publish( d in the Richmond Enquirer, of Do
comber 113, we find that President Lincoln's
amnesty proclamation was under considera
tion in that delectable body of traitors. Their
wrath waxed exceedingly hot at the docu
ment, and they could only bud vent for their
indignation in the un st vituperative epithets.
Mr Foote presented the following preamble
and resolutions:
WnEREAs, a copy of the truly characteris
tic proclamation of amnesty, recently issued
by the imbecile and unprincipled usurper who
now sits enthroned upon the ruins of consti
tutional liberty iu Washington city, has been
received and read by the members of this
House ; now, in token of what is solemnly
believed to be the altnoqt undivided sena.
went of the people of the Confederate States
lie Thai there has never been a
day or an hour when the people of the Coo
federate States were more inflexibly resolved
than they ore at the present time, never to
ro:inquish the struggle of arms in which they
are cog:iced, until that liberty and indepen
den 'e for which they have., been so earnestly
comending'shall have been at lit achieved,
mod mud nice and stendf , ist, beyond even
the prJ:iahility of a luturo ikngor ; nn I 111,1 t
in spite of the tevervce which hove htely hp
billet. our trillion iii several quarter., and cold
ant ?olti-di indifference Om , far, for clic nio,-1
port, evinced in the noti ,n of foreirn powers,
the eleven million:A of enliglitetied freemen
IJOW I,ti heroin:oly for nil that can nnilie
existence ile,irsn!i•, arc iullc pruTared, alike
in !Till; tub resnw cca , to rt,t nnter tl Inge's
f.tr :tre•ittr titan which
tolnre hritvely met. :Ind to !-tl' Cron!
rr -scrifices w hint! they hate here
tofore Po click tinny ienc. , nter, .3, in prefer •
qms: iu 14. ally_ r i iA„.42viiii ul. celat4,
!ion with ii.governinent and poophe who have
tint u t iniiNly proven thein-elves ennteinptantzq
ly regsrWeew of all the right a Mill
which ht , :o;:g to II state of civil fr e edom. ns
well as of alt the nom! %,cere,l usages of mil
ize.l war.
11ile , s regret!, ,1 HIM the getlilornatt
front Tenneesue had int] oduced such a l'PbU
-11111011. Tlit• true and u;d; trhttlient which
that an I t 41 t.!1 , 1 ( Liu
Cl. 1 1 .1! :o I 1110 111111.1-1 of Ihi=
tea. -ilea! an.l iintititig.ctk i I ),,tortipt
'1 his t t•=o!iition wL.u , 1 a ppo.ir to &gaily a pl.-
per, catanatilig_fr,',:a w rat alu.:d And det.es ,
not folly only r , ceivo the ridtcule
the civilized v.uti t. Ito inu%o.l to lay the
in the tahle
Foot,; w.,a wi;!:,,,Lr that thy prvatat A le
and resolution ilt• tin
dor , atiding that i; woi.ll
I (...:,',1111.; of t ht. If it k f ., r A r h1(:1
I, 1 ftt.d his 11:1
sai 1 tl, re \cot!!! 1,2 110 IniFun
derstan ah ut that
unaniinotpily minptr 1.
S:12.11 I. J 1
of M 11110 W ly.
Sp 11,1'11, 'l 7 . I its venmu
•tlino , a , A , 1!•: ' cop' I to
woe from L.. to tae of n vonelave of t.: , p
rheads. Ilat ii Innl<s very 'Hoch to us like
whistling to keep their courage up. II is
MOT I' than likely that quite anus her feeling
besides that of indignati.m seized hold of
them, else why resolve ngqin that the pay ple
of the Confederate States slombl continue to
fight on. ''ready the Amnesty proelanut
lion is making vast inroads upon their wan
ing power, and they how it well. In Ar
kan,as:, Tiuts, Ei , tern Tennossee,
pi, I,ouisiaeft and Virgink, it is steadily
w , rking ilO irresistio'e way SIM Itt 11,
pt , plo. An I these Rebel vildiers of
nt see the hand wri;it g on the wall,
and they tremble at the fearful doom which
is hanging over tlitn.
REPORT OF GEN. McCLELLA_N
Abstract In Advance of Publication
A Washington correglinedent of the New
York! Cominercut .I , lrertis,7r furnishes that
paper with the following digest of the
pages constituting the report of General Mc-
Clellan, which, he says, ''is full of points on
which controversy might be 'made, and, when
ever time shall be ripe, in doubt will be
male," but he contents himself at present
with the main facts and !nest interesting doc
uments which contains
'The roport it dated New York, August
4, 1:;63. It begins with an allusion to the
results of the victories in Wtstern
which, we learn, were won not at all in con
nection with any general co•operative plan
of action ; and then goes our to recite the ar
rival of the General at Washington tiller Bull
Run ; the organization of the Army of the
Potomac ; the grand plan laid out for the
general eitinpai,gu of 1861-2 ; the final inva
sion of Virginia in 1862; tits Peninsular
m iveinent ; the seven days' battles; and the
chart but glorious Maryland campaign of
September, 1862.
On the Ist of November, General Mc-
Clellan was appointed to the chief command
of all the forces of the Union, and at once
began active °per-lions.
The llientre , of the war luta now extended,
about the whole circumference of the South;
and it livealaq!nice.eiary, us well as prael
cable, to plan a large 1:11.1 tvweeping couilii
natioo of milli:try operatiwis.
An organization of NewTland troops
fur occupyiag the coast line of the South on
the middle Atlantic, which h a d been sag-
A.-este,' by General McClellan in September,
IS6I, tuck shape in January, 1862, as an
expedition General Burnsido, design
ed to Meditate the movements of the mai
body in Eastern Virginia by an occupation
of the coast line of North Carolina—Gener
al Burnside being mdered, when be should
have seize Newborn, to occupy and destroy
the Weldon and Wilmington railroad as far
west as Goldsboro', and should circumstan
ces favor, to push as rants Raleigh. Wilming
ton being, however, his ultimate objective
point. "Caution 111)0111 proclamation" waa
recommended, t h e General being urged "to
say as little as possible about politics or the
negro," and to state merely "that the true
issue for which we aro fighting is the pre
servation of the Union and upholding the
laws of the general govetninent."
At the stone time letters were sent to Gen.
llalleek (appointed to the cmnmand of the
Department of Missouri,) to Gen. Buell (iii
command of the. Department of the Ohio,)
to Gem Sherman (eommandidg iu South
Carolina and Georgia,) and to Gen. Butler
(commanding the Department of the Gulf.)
Gen. Lialleck was charged with the duty of
`reducing chaos to order' in his department.
In respeet to nrillttby operations, he was
ordered to hold the State by fortified posts,
and concentrate his force on the Mississippi.
Gen. Buell was instructed as to.the -rest
importance of the military occupation of
Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. In Ken.
Lucky itself he was advised, 'the conduct of
our political affairs is perhaps more impor
tant than that of our military operations,'
and he.was urged to bear in mind that we
shall most readily suppress this rebellion
and restore the authority of the government
by religiously respecting the constitutional
rights of all.' In accordance 'with the feel
ings and opinion of the President' GA- Mc-
Clellan requested Gen. Buell to assure 'the
people of Kentucky that their domestic in
stitutions will in, no manner be interfered
with ;' and 'allow nothing but the dictates of
military necessity' to cause him to 'depart
from the spirit of his instructions.'
In respect to Tennessee, Gen. Buell was
ordered to throw his troops 'by rapid march
es by Cumberland or Walker's (lap, on
Knoxville, in order to occupy the railroad at
that point,' and 'cut the communication be
tween Eastern Virginia and the Mississippi.'
Gen. Buell was further con gelled to avoid
'widening the breach existing between us
and the rebels' by 'causeless arrests and
persecutions of individuals.' 1 have always
found,' adds Gen. McClellan, 'that it is the
tendency of subordinates to wake vexations
arrests on mere suspicion.'
Gee. Sherman was advised that the favora•
ble monient for a coup de moon against Sa
vannah had iieen lost, and that the best course
before him would be 'to isolate and reduce
Fort Pulaski.' But the 'reduction of Charles
ton rind its defences' was held up as the great
moral advantage to be sought for, and this
was stated to be no object for which Gen.
McClellan was actively ma'uring his combi
tuions Gen. Butler was instructed as to
the obstacles to be encountered in reducifig
New Orleans, and was ordered, as soon as
possible alter the fall of the city, to meize all
the approaches leading to it. from the east,'
and part:col:lily 'Jackson, in Mississippi,'
with 01l tilt:in:lie view as well to the capture
of Mobile as to the opening of the Mississippi
'fire instructions Ilium issued to the goner
nls mined comprehend the entire scope of the
plans of Gen. McClellan, of which plans the
move omit of Ole Army et the Potomac under
disown erdiirs w.l- (lie central feature. It was
Conni.lered hr dim beeess.ity to the tWeee,B
or these plan , that they 'rho ill he Carrie I out
sneult.toricusly, or ft-) tient ly so as possible,
and the stl,,nee of the ['wont is army up.m
Richmond by the lower It tpp•dminock Nqa ,
licpt it, hand by him, to be delivyred us fire
Meal ins blow 111 eoll . .lllllettoll With all the rest
of the senor it movement.
P.t•sing ni.er Gen. Met leilitn's fel Mid
el l,,,eztte of the ecirsultati ,no and
eimitius wliteh ;nee. the a•leamie to Nla
Nlareh 11, 1862, we find that this ad-
V was intended by him mere:y to eecitiiv
for trocq 4 doting the prep :trait ms for the
eater !Tit, then fol.y decided tip 'II.
t"f • ti - fflrry'i_el - ert` !1 - r' )19-if t1q , 41.R -en- 1 3.4 c . r h n - qT , d
at 115,.;0:', with 3:10 field guns. null siege
goo".
Gen. ;dc(:;e1):In reached the l'enirn , uln with
5:01.t.) tII,.IIIVCr eat ly tr. Al,: I:. 110 EIVC ,
I‘,t• not n•n.,1111:i;), , ,
uTlit2v - ru, the hurtle Wtri.tun,
hurt, 1, Gen Ilatre,ck.
and'r, citc, for advance to 11,oldnond. TIIC
city n.lrrled at length, and.
tne ciclnge .4 I).k , c," 'w,th attend int
1,01:e , 1111111 toug!tt June 2r
Nl.Llvcrn lIIIt. ftly,4.ht .I.lly 1, 186.2
" Thii \leCicihtn, " the
TrTr , l - tile'T — tnt c Mttnnirrt Trom — thi ,
enerii tit l!i.• :2Gth a. tteriei of
erigq.nniiinits thi! ,
co;)iii,en: for determiwition itnkl vlmaishter on
I.th r . i,l-s."
Jul). .1, t (ienortl teh gra i d,,,l In the
I'tt ,c,•Lii.le I at 1111 ri?on's bar
* which clu!,l be ettr!n... , l cult'.
g
'lnv -pi! the ti.ld '•
exce',l.•nt ; i.z.1,•,s :tn. , tin I,u % t•wir ,
I t th , " I r>l r--
,1111 4 111, t:10
.or I no` 1 , 1 - 10 i 'I 11] , li4ll :
" I t• nil , l Xl.ll'l , tr, :toy i , ia . ii•ncr.t
r ; I.u; wt•l e :,-; In al Lily
c. i• ot. 11:11‘10!by their
ni 'rho iiit3 I„.ni the field
‘v,. h ~,, uoi i•pt sweaty live on
ti.•: I ut I.rulr, iwenly one WC;
tiny gl‘lll,r, Ur tIl'H division undiir
tiny \N i twit nll thy
circa: nstauces of the 011.,u aro known, it will
be acknowledge I by all coinpeteni judgee thlt
the movement just coot; loud by our army lo
war. Under the
ot eitctioniitlnce4 vio have pre
tiervol lir (I'.llllS, our guns, our tuateri.ll, eutl
above all our honor."
I )1 the 7111 1(.10,9'1).1w:1;
4' It n t, aly I tdrlll 11 ,
Them. Fl t, ulli er l;ubbiburolig,b ii conli,lerkt
Ito cat: b,ei, on n my co:n.ll , 2:HcatiJoi by the
Jamrti "
Early in the army wis ordered to
A •iplia. The ,ondtihin of ail 11rs at Wash
ington doting the c tuiplign of Pope is graph
ically St•pt 2, the l'resident di
reefed Gen. McClellan to Like command of
lie own and Gen. Pope's armies and fin I the
enediy. On the 18th of September Antietam
was fought, South i\lountain and Cr:1.1111001 s
Liap having been already won by us. N
a single gun ur color was lost by us in these
battles, and our total 10,,0 iu 11112.11 at Autiettin
is stated by Gen. NleClellan at 12,41 d)
The advance into Virginia aftor. Antietam
is related, with an account of the onuses by
which that advance was delayed. Oa the
night of Nov. 7, l; MXIOIIIIII was relieved
and the command transferred to Uenertil
Burnside."
McClellan thus describes his own re
port :
"This report is in fact the history of the
Arany of the Potomac. During the period oc.
cupied in organization of that army, it served
as a bearer against the advance of a I tidy
victorious enemy, while the fortifications of
thu capital was in progress, and under the
tti4eipttue which it then received, it acquired
oduetiti , m, and some of that experi
once which is lieee,iry to success in active
opera ions, and which stab ed it afterward to
sustain itself under circumstances trying to
the 'nest heroic mon. Frequent skirmishes
occurred along the lines, conducted with great
gallantry, which inured troops to the realities
of war.
The,army grew into shape but slowly, and
the delays which mien led oil the obtaining of
arms, continued late Into the winter or 1861
—2, were no less trying to the snl.hers than 10
the peo;rlo of ch. , country. Even at the time
Of the r cgaMirition of tire trim-subt eamnaign,
seine of the finest regiiirmus were without
rifle'', nor were Ore minuet exert:o na OIL the
military ;vim' itics uthalurite to overcome
the or.st.reler' 'rr murvc r-cir,ree
When at ~aide the arm, was inn condition
to take the Held, the peninsula eanipaign w.rs
planned rind entered upon with enthurrilm by
officers and men. llad this campaign been
followed up as it was de,ig11 , 2.1, 1 cannot doubt
it would have resulted in a glut ions triumph
to our arms turd the permanent restoration of
the power of the Government. in Virginia and
North Carolina. if not throughout the revol
ted States. It was, however, otherwise or
dered, and the army of the Potomac was re•
called front within sight of Richmond, and
incorporated with the army of Virginia.--
disappointments of the campaign had not
dampened their ardor or diminished their pa
triotism. They fought well, faithfully, gal
lently under Gum Pope: yet were compelled
to fall back oh Washington defeated and al
most demeralizpd. The enemy, no longer oc•
copied in guarding his own capital, poured
his troops northward, entered Maryland,
threatened Pennsylvania and even Washing.
ton itself.
Elated by his recent victories, and assured
that our troops were disorganized and die
piritod, he was confident that the seat of war•
was now permanently transferred to the loyal
States, and that his own exhausted soil was
to be relieved from the burden of•supporting
two.hostilo armies. But he did not under
stand the spirit which asimated the soldiers
of the Union. I' shall net, nor can ',Jiving
forgot that when I was ordered to,,the corn•,
mand of the troops for the defence of the onp
ital, the, soldiers, with whom I had shared 0
much of the anxiety, and pain'und suffering
of the war, had not. lost their eon fideno lame
as their commander. They sprang to my call
with all their ancient vigor, diseiplitA and
courage. I led them into Maryland. Fif
teen days after they had fallen back defeated
before Witshington, they had vanquished the
enemy on the rugged flights of South Moun
tain, pursued them to the hard fought field of
Antietam, and drove him, broken and disap
pointed, across the Potomac, into Virginia
The army had need of rest after the terri
blo experience of battles and marches, with
scarcely an interval of repose, which they had
through from the time of leaving the Perlin
sofa, and return to Washington, the defeat in
Virginia, the victory at South Mountain, and
again at Antietam. It was not surprising
that they were in a large degree destitute of
the absolute necessaries' to effective duty.--
Shoes were worn out and blankets lost ; cloth.
ing was in rags ; iu short the army was unfit
for active service, and an interval for reel and
equipment was necessary
When the slowly forwarded supplies came
to us I led the army across the river, renova
ted, refreshed, in good order and discipline,
and followed the retreating foe to a position
where I was confident of decisive victory ;
when in the midst of the movement, while my
advanced guard was actually in contact with
the enemy, I was removed from the command
lefttead of reporting a victorious cam
paign, it has been my duty to relate the he
roism of a reduced army, sent upon an expe
dition into an enemy's country, there to aban
don one and originate another and new plan
of campaign, which might and would have
been successful if supported with apprecht
Lion of its necessities, bat which failed be
cause of the repeated failure of promised sup
port at the most critical, and, it prdved, the
most fatal moments. Its illustration must be
left for the pen of th'e historian in times of
calm reflection, when the nation shall he look
ing hack to the fats. from the midst of perce
ful days. For me now it is sufficient to say
that my comrades were victors in every field
save one, and there the endurance of a single
corps accomplished the object of its fighting,
and by securing to the army its transit to the
James their, left to the enemy a ruinous and
barren victory.
Gen. Meade's Account of his last
Campaign
Hs' ti, IL 13 111, of 1) ver, S. 11., recently
Nilite.l the Army f tied 1 . Jt01113.2, 1111 , 1 C +llotl
Upon (feat. le lie I),slce.l the general to
explain I.'n! 1.14 t campaign , ant the general
was I,lrni en , nigh to ) sO, 00 follows :
" I went over the river to fight, and if my
orders It i I ke:•t: obey..l 1 :MI ////111/ lent that
's my :night 1,21.11 /11.tiellte/1 My
17) Iv is to cross at I; F mil, take the
t C.,urt IHa and push on rap
-../.l,Let.,l4tYltl-1,1 soict-illrlloe4 'tit/DR/11M;
/ hint in F.,1T0 311 I .lestr if that portion
of los army bef.)re he could concentrate the
of it to oppu-e toe. lion one of my
cot corn:min lore I.ule I I'le. Ile sy.t.s cum.
manded to march at ti o'clock in the morning,
hitt dol not move trot.! H o'clock ; lie was di
rected, if Lee sent farces to oppose him, to
attack at once: di I send Ewell down to
()range I' otrt 11.:uh , ..• road, just 119 I eXI/1/Cll./1,
but my general stood and looked:at him all
:lay, and .Inl not fight So we lost twenty
fmir hours, and that gave Lee notice and time
to c :net:rotate his army, awl take so strong a
pol...trryn that it - rmilri -norhc - carried• - wit ham
great los , rind t tok of 10-ing our army. Suell
a light would have dam gr././.1 119, and eneour
a,ted the rebel-, and I:rultuged the war, and
I 1 41100 the order to retreat. 'The corps coat
under referred to mat (leneral French, who
‘l . q/1 probably too drunk to know or do his
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CONFUSION IN NAMES
people are puLLled by Lear
in..; or i.c.1,1:r.g tl.at ).1r Smith, Mr. Brown, or
Nle J has sAb..l or dune , omething in Con
hin!l 1:r c Sul I but. belteve said Smith,
Brown er Jones w mild do, lie fails to cone
s;.l, r that there may be lucre than one Smith,
that men of Like name are not neeesearily
of like politico , For the benefit of a large
elaes, we volunteer the information that:
There are thiee Brcums in the present Con
gress—lS. Grate of Missouri, in the Senate,
or Virginia and j amies 8. of
Wn.ccusiti, in the House. Only the la tis a
Ccpperlie•sl.
01 there are two 7,a:lp - trial' of
:11iehigan, in the Senate ; Lucius II of old
iii the house, beside John W.
in tier, ul stir city Lucius II , by the
w.tj Ims u.l yet been a lolittml, but, we pre.
some, will be. oit Cli tim tier is a bad egg,
politica ly ; while the one that hails from
Michig.in is as good as can be
01 Ct.irAs, this Congress rejoices in the pos
ces-ion of three—Daniel of New Hampshire,
in the Senate ; Ambros . W. and Freeman, both
of this S ate, in the House. All three are
80t111 I.
GI the wile spread family of Davis, Garret
(lSo,der State) represents Kentucky in the
Setrite, whsle Henry ‘Vtitter of Mirylaud-aud
Thomas T. of our State are iu the Iluuse. If
you hear of anything said by a Davis that a
loyal man stunt d not say, you will attlibuto
it, of couise, to Garret.
Of DLetni.v, llle3 (Senate) hail from Con
nection!, ivhi:e S,uhsu F r..presents Western
Rhode 1.-land. Both good.
Uf Hole 4, John I'. of New Hampshire is in
the Senate, .Inures T. of Pennsylvania in tits
House ; Both Union.
The name ut Ifirris is unu•ually well rep.
re,enied in this Congress —lra representing
our State in the Senate, while Benj twin U of
I.avylan I and (.diaries M. of Illinois have
seats in the )louse. If you hear that, "Mr.
!fot•els" has said anything loyal and patriotic,
you may safely credit it to Ira.
Of Ruhr' UldB, A. V. from lowa, John H.
from Connecticut, are both in the House, to
gether with Calvin T. !hatpind of our Stale
If Rebellon or Slavery derives any aid or
comfort from anything IL Hubbard or Hulbuid
says or does, be sure it is sunlit one not iu Cu❑
gross
Of .I).axmis, there are lieverily of Mary
land in the Senate, Thilip of Pennaylvanta
and 11Olimut of Oitio in the Howe. lUverdy
was elected Ha a Umuniat, but w•e don't brag
on any at them.
(1! K,1',.05. there aro two—Francis W. of
and (),•Ity.,do of ottr Sla.;c—bulb in
the II ,11:40, and both as g')w.: Unionisls as they
I:tahe I,:ty whet'
there are two—Henry of In
J...l:tes 11. of liansis--ho:h to the Ben
u:c urn both Union.
Of JIM/yrs, but true appear—Samuel E. (Un•
ion) of our State; William 11. (Coppery) float
Pennsylvania.
Of Morriqs, Lot M. is a Senator front llaino
Justin .1. a It•Treschtative front Vcrinout—
both sternly Union.
The name of Morris belongs to Iwo mem
hers— (Union) of our State; James it.
(Coppery) trout Ohio. Etch is in the Homo
So Myers is the common appellation of Amos
and Lemarl of that ilk—both front Penn
sylvania, and both Union
Of O'Neills, Charles (Union) from Penn•
sylvania: John (Copper) from Ohio : both are
iu the Mousse.
Of Pomcrop, Samuel C. represents Klinsas
in the Senate.; Theodore M. is. (TOM our St4to
—hoth thoroughly Union.
There are two Randolls in the House—
Samuel J. of Philadelphia and William IL of
Kentockyl:- Of these, the latter is Union, bdt.
of the Border-State pattern ; the other is of
the Copperhead persuasion. Curious as it
may seem, they usually vote just alike.
The Smith family were scandalously over
looked in electing to this Congress.' , ' But one
of them—Green Clay of Kentucky—was
chosen. Mr. Smithcrs of Delaware just es,
coped being a Smith. Both are Unionists.
• Of Steels,- there are John B. front this State
and William O: of New Jersey—Copper fast
ened, Va)l, and both in the House.
Tim house of Rollins has two .R.eprosenta
tives--41dwartd.U. of New-Hainpshiroja true
Unionist,) and James S. of Missouri, who .
ought. to be.ithe some, but isn't. lid some
-how stoipls aloof from parties, but hie heart
11CCMFI to Icing for lho tlosh•pots of the compro
mising era.
Of Washburnes, Illinois S ends Elihu 8., and
Massachusetts Williatu 8.--both strongly
U.ltioll .
Of Irbiles, Chilton A. and Joseph W. (both
Domocrate) complete the catalogue.
Of Wilsons, Henry of Maesachusette is in
the Senate, James F. of lowa in the House—
both largely Union.
Finally, we have two lroods—Fernando and
Ben. both of New York city. tho yolitics
of one of these nro better than those of the
other, we should like to know which is the
good one, or how nny one can be worse than
either of them.—N. I: Tribune.
WAR NEWS.
7:l3rigadier General Gerrard has relieved
Generul Stoneman front the command of the ,
Cavalry Bureau.
Full particulars of the recent engagement
of the gunboat Marblehead with a rebel bat
tery in Stone creek have heeu received. The
Marblehead was struck twenty times, and is
very badly injured. She had three men
killed and four wounded.
A dispatch from Leavenworth, Kansas,
states that on the 18th of December the rebel
Quaturell, with a thousand men was attacked
by aix hundred Union soldiers in the Chero
kee country, and was completely routed, leav
ing fifty de.d and wounded on the field.
Gen. Reseerans' otlictal report of the battle
of Chickamauga has just been published in
Cincinnatt. As a portion of it intimates that
the bit le teas lust through the actions of
Gen. T. L, Wood, that olligor publishes a re
ply, is scotch ho shows that ho simply obeyed
positive orders given him duritij, the engage
ment.
The Army of the l'Jtotriic is enjoying its
New Year s fetivities in peace and in mud.,
Heavy rains were tailing for several days,
seeing; out thu old year in the 8:11110 delight-
Xi/Cell:need here. ()lifers are
hastening home in large numbers on fur
lough to revlsit their families at this soasort
oi to Lintel' The etthstinents in the veteran
regi.u....u's continue to proceed vigorously.
b oce.aile runners at Wilmington haver
not been so successtut Lit I-tte The Navy Do
parintunt recetvel utli tnl totormatiou from,
11erutwIu to the mucct, that 1110 titeaaier Co
quette rut urn,2l there in the 13..1, having.
been among the b:ocka ling tree , . elf Witting
ton, but ciul l lIJZ gel to lee ~ t..trricr Rut
ger, winch lett on the l i It wait a full cargo,
ulna returav I , not hivin g hoea able W matte
her way thiough the Ilia.
The fates nowt from Western Vir,;inia la
d itch ;Mt G !net htd re
ceived inform:Limn (rein Liethral Sailivau that
General I:1y, with lime thouJ.tuil rebels is
bet weiiti-
General lto oer al a 11.13 seven hundred rebel
troops and Genet id Inthuden hlteeu hundred.
tuen. Great is exist
among the Doser ers lecture that If
the l're,ddent's pruclaimition could he distrib
utc.i ircMy among the rel el troops thousand
would at once cuter our ices. They say the
prue ama'ion IS kept trim the 1110 n, although
the h:ll..•er, !Live received it
despntclius Irmo Chattanoo
ga o', IVudnusday that a rebel force, under
Ciineral Wheeler, dia I captured on; of our
tiains 011 the 26th (huitud iur I(nuxvillel at
Cfnirluston, o', Me .vouch Leah the Ilia -
W 11.3512 but Colunel Lung pursued the enemy
and (I,ll•Ate,l hi n t, capturing one . huudired.
twenty prisJhers.
REBEL OPE.t.k IN TIIE SLIEN-
VA1.1.1 , ,1
The rulnors of the enmity's designs and
operatirms bt the Shenaindialt 1 . 11.11cy are
FiLdiugh Lec's cavalry, of
perhaps 1000 nittm, supported by - Early's
three invagre brigades ell . toot, wdh Imboderd
told other local leaders with small detach •
meats, numberim, all told, t 100..) or 7000'
men, a I.: n , •ar Woodst , ,:k awl M O Ol l l jack
:3oo wig it tut occasional dash as lar itortllast,
Winchester.
The latest indications point to the Moore
head valley, if not west of the mountains, as
their scene of operations. Certainly they
have not appeared as yet in sight of the
Baltimore and Ohio Itailroal, the trains of
which are all running regularly and success
fully, with large quantities of freight and
many passengers.
GE N. GRAN L; coNoRA.TUL&TORY
olt DER To HIS ARMY.
IlcAnQuiarniti Mimithity Invisiox
of TUE Misstsstret tS Tut: Fixt,o,
CnATTAxoutis, Tenn., Dec. 10, '63.
The General commanding talc s this op
portunity of returning his sincere thanks and
congratulations to the brave armies of the
Cumberland, the Ohio, the Tennessee, and
their comrades from the Potomac, for the
recent splendid and decisive successes a
chieved over the enemy. In a short time
you have recovered from him the control of
the 'felines:lee river from Bridgeport to Knox
ville. You dish lged him tro n his great
stri tighohl upon
,Lookout Mountein, drove
him from Chattanooga Valley, wrested from
his determined grasp the possession of Mis
sicnary Ridge, repelled with heavy loss to
him his repeated assaults upon Knoxville,
forcing him to maise the seige there, driving
him at all points, utterly routed and discom
fitted beviind the limias of the State. By
your noble heriosin and determined courage,
you have most effectually defeated the plans
of the enemy for regaining posses ion of the
States of Kentucky and Tennessee.—You
have secured positionsTrom which no rebel
lious power can drive or dislodge you. For
all this the General commanding thanks you
eolleetiiely and individually. The loyal peo
ple of the United States thank and bless you.
Their hopes and prayers for your success
against this unholy rebellion are with you
daily. Their faith in you will not be in vain.
Their hopes will not be blasted. Their
players to Almighty God will be answered.
You will yet go to other fields or strife ; and
with the invincible bravery and unflinching
loyalty to justice and right - whicir have ehar
neterized you in the past, you will prove that
no enemy tan withstand you, and that no do
tent es, however formidable, can check your
onwAr I zuareb. Maj. Gt n. U. S. GRANT.
Sour TEA FUR SECE,IILte.—A loyal
I,,tyl‘n.icc, IV;18 louking with gratification
at the review of n regiment of colored troops,
when n Socesh c tight or, Lunch excited, broke
in I.IIPOII his p ensqru with, There, now, Can'
you eland can you stoad seeing those
nwers trainc Ito go duwn South to tourdor•
our ehito brethroo ?"
Well, I confess the fellows look as if (boy
could fly/it—they make n pretty show—much
handsomer than when you and I used 10 see
then] going South, handcuffed togetber, with
a long chain to lteep them in line.'
liut think of the object! Those follows
aro trained to cut white men's throats, and
imurder white women and children. Can you
standthai:?
.",Look hero, now ; since you want an an-'
ewer, you shall have it. When you and I
were boys, and ate all kinds of green trash
until wo got the collo, our mother would dose
us whit root tea. It was black and awful
bitter, and tut ugly dose ; but it.oured
yes, it cured us pretty effectually. Now our
Southern brethren'—our white brethren
down' &nit 10—have been feeding ou trash, and
have been terribly windy for many years, and
have an awful colic, and if soot tea will cure
them, I say, for one, give it to them strong as
you can make it, and black as you can getlit 1"
--Secesh went into his house. A. D. G.
NEVI COUNTERFEIT NoTo.—A 'counterfoit
twenty dollar note, on the Pottstown Bank,
of Pottstown, Pa., was circulated in Phila
delphia on Saturday. The vignette is the
representation 'of a rolling-mill. On tha
right',. end is an engraved head of Daniel
Webster, and on gio left a picture of a man
drinking, with 'a woman and child near bim.