tut 4erald.
CARLISLE, PA.
Friday, January 27, 1866.
O. M. PEITTENGOAL dr, CO., ,
o-ZIO. 37 Park Row, Now York, and 6
State St.Doston, are our Agents for the HERALD
Igo eities, and aro outhoriso4 to take Advertise
• uts ad 9unsoriptfcrns for us at our low eat rates.
neirTho louse of Representatives on
Monday so amended the tariff laws as to ad
mit paper used for printing books and news
papers, on paying three instead of twenty per
cent duty. The paper manufacturers tried
hard to defeat the bill, but it passed the
Rouse by a vote of 97 yeas to 40 nays. It
has yet to pass the Senate, which we hope it
will without delay. •
Wo see it stated in a Western paper that
the manufacturers have bought up the New
York papers to oppose the repeal of the duty,
by giving them their paper at 20 cents a
pound, while country papers have to pay 23
cents.
COPPERIIEAD DOCTORS DISAOREEINCI.-
Sunset Cox, of Ohio, made a speech in the
House of Representatives on the Constitu
tional amendment. Ho would not vote for
the amendment, but contended that Con
gress had a right to do what the resolution
proposed. Pendleton, the defeated copper
head candidate for the Vice Presidency, on
the other hand, contended that Congress had
/so such power.
Dee- The fall of gold has put long faces on
the gold speculators. Those of them who
have for months been investing, and gener
ally at high figures, are mostly of that wise
class, who expect to see the day when a 'dint
full" of greenbacks can be got fur a gold
.dollar. They pass in the Community for
''copperheads," and have for four years
prayed if they tor pray any, that the rebels
would succeed in establishing the Southern
Confedetliey. That. being the liopa of their
hearts, they came to believing it would be
so, and bought gold, to hold as an invest
ment. But when gold went down and
greenbacks up, they were in core tribulation.
Losing both their money and their reputa
tion as sharp financiers and prophets. The
love of gain, the ambition and hope of mak
ing money, induced many persons to specu
late in gold—that is buying, and selling eta
higher price and pocketing the difference.
But your copperhead, bought to have it,
when a gold dollar would command a "hat
full" of Greenbacks. Some of them are just
beginning to think, that perhaps the rebel
lion will be put down after all, and they are
quietly selling gold at a lose, and this has
helped to bring down the price of the arti
cle.
TERMS CASH I
We clip thp, following sensible and sea
sonable article from the Typographic Adver
tiser, published by L. Johnson & Co. Phil
adelphia.
AY I that is the word for these times. Cred
it is nowhere, comparatively. It is well for
all that it is so. Cash forms a splendid basis
for business. Witness these particulars:-
1. It is safe.—Whet is made is surely made,
and the Profit and Loss account may almost
be banished from the Ledger. At the end of
a Year you can tell whether you have really
tpede anything. You have tangible evidence
of the fact in your bank balance, or in goods
ana.proilerty. Your earnings are not in the
pockets of other men for six months or a year.
The bird is in your hand.
2. It is pleasant..--Pleasant to the buyer
as well as the seller. The cash-buyer comes
up to you with a frank and open face. Ho
feels independent of you. He has no favors
to ask, for he intends to pay on the spot for
all he buys. Ho chats with you without re
straint on equal terms. He has your confi
dence, and you treat. him with cordial re
spect. Both are happy. His business con
cluded, the hand-shaking is mutually pleas
ant and satisfactory.
a It is healthy.—The business breast is not
perturbed nor anxious in regard to the char
acter and standing of a new customer. You
do not look at him askance, nor dues agita
ting suspicion prevent your friendly compli
ments. When you sell a bill of goods, it is
not at the expense of a fit of dyspepsia.—
Your mind is placid, for you know the trans
action is safe. Good digestion is a prerequi
site of health; and, with a placid mind to
boot, the seller for cash ought to gain in sub
stance. Doubtless.
4. It is benevolent.—On the cash plan, the
purchaser takes only as much as he can pay
for; and he consequently has no worriment
by day nor tossings at night in devising ways
to meet engagements for goods inconsider
ately purchased. He looks before he leaps ;
and so he comes down softly. The sheriff
never peeps x in at his door ; and ho gets a
good cktarp or among his neighbors, and
some rich man probably makes him his ex
ecutor. The way is open to him for places
of trust and honor; and who can say that
he may not become an alderman, or a sena
tor? The same health-considerations that
happily benefit the seller equally bless the
the cash buyer. Yes, surely the cash system
is sister to the gentle quality of mercy, "that
blesses him that gives and him that takes."
The inference that:wo draw from the above
points is, that the cash plan is a good plan
all around; and, winding up emphatically
with Latin, we exclaim, Esto perpetua I
IT Is W4:IIIDEICED.—We frequently hear
it wondered if the Old Public Functionary,
who resides not very from the city of Lan
castor, and who for four years resided in a
place at Washington, called the " White
House," now occupied by'‘one Abraham
Lincoln, who has been requested to contin
ue therein for four years longer. We fre
quently, we say, hear
, it wondered, if the
Aforesaid functionary is still of the opinion
that he " was the last President of a United
Republic." It looks to us as though Grant,
Sherman, Thomas, Farragut, Porter and
our brave army and navy wore fast sending
our old deftinct public functionary down in
history as an imbecille old man, responsible
for every , dollar of dobt and every life lost in
the War. on both sides. We hear soldiers
wonder if he can realize that • his weakness .
and Complicity with traitors has caused all
She woe the country has suffered. Ile Would
have left the Union. slide; and the North to
day, would have been condemmed and des
. pieed all over the world. The South with
Jeff. Davis at tho head would have been the
only nation on this continent deserving of
consideration. Wo would beim gone Into
hhitory %as a weak and , Cowardly pecide•
, • -
But the American pepple said Noi • Abra
hftni has led' thank tifrough the tar
riblo ordeal which* .James 'Buchanan could ,
haye_with 'ono Jacksonion stroke of his pen'
averted. And. Jaines Buchanan has iidon
tilloWed to live and see hitaself clisgraccd
and &spilled by ail mankind 7 -erpn- by the.
rebels.—Lan.! Examiner.
THE FENIAN BROTHERHOOD.
This vastly extended secret organiza
tion, says the Pittsburg Post, is causing
no little trouble and alarm among our
neighbors of Canada. Its prime object
is thought to be the dissolution of the
union between Great Britain and Ire
land. Its membership is composed main
ly of Catholic Irishmen, and embraces
probably millions in Ireland, Canada and
the United States. A convention of the
order is now in session in Cincinnati, or
was a few days ago; but what they have
been dieing has nut transpired.
Its object is political, not religious.—
We believe that some of the priests of
the Catholic church favor it, while we
know that others oppose and denounce
it. A tremendous excitement was occa
sioned at Skibbereen, in Ireland, recent
ly by the burning in effigy of the parish
priest of that Catholic community, be
cause he had denounced the order from
the pulpit. The clergyman who was the
object of this outrage was the Rev. D.
Cotr.rNs, parish priest of Rath. 'The
Cork Exam Inc). states that " during the
famine, he assisted to rescue hundreds
from starvation. In the streets of Cork
he beg:-ed from door to door fur the per
ishing people of Skibbereen; in the lobby
of the House of Commons ho implored
money on their behalf; in the cabinets
of Minister:; of State lie supplicated for
assistance in impassioned accents; in the
boardroom, in the press, he fought the
battlefer these poor creatu-res, who were
then helpless -as children."
It is but, a few weeks since a priest in
Jersey City was assaulted in the streets
for a similar cause. We may infer from
these and other similar occurrences, that
a new power is rising in the bosom of the
Catholic church which the church can
not control—a power rife with the spirit
of mischief, but which has in it, so fir
as we can discover, no element, of good.
To effect their object—the dismember
ment of Ireland—they 'are laboring to
embroil Great Britain and the United
States in war by every means in their
power. Their organs in this country
profess loyalty to the Union; but in Ca
nada they and the rebels are nut nifeAy
working in concert to breed trouble be
tween the two governments. This thing
is something akin to what is called Red
Republicanism on the continent of Eu
rope—a spirit of discontent- and violence,
arising front a feeling that something is
wrong, but a profound ignorance of what
that something is. The Celtic Irish, fiir
example, are sure that their condition is
not what it ought to be, and they attri
bute all the evils, real and imaginary,
under which they are suffering to the
union of their country with England;
hence they are restless and discontent
ed, and every now and then they are
making efforts to throw off the yoke.—
All their past eiThrt.s to effect that object,
however, have been miserable abortions,
and only reS*Ulted in intensifying the evil
they sought to remove.
The Protestant portion of the people
of Ireland are quite as loyal to the gov
ernment of Great Britain as are those of
Engl,and itself; and, so far as personal
freedom and political privileges - go, are
just as well off and as well contented.—
It is only among the Celtic portion of that
people that this spirit of discontent is
found. Indeed there is a strong simila
rity between the hostile spirit which pre
vailed among our slaveholding population
prior to this rebellion towards our own
government, and the bitter hostility which
has ever filled the mass of the Celtic
mind of Ireland towards the British go
vernment. In the latter case it has its
origin partly in race and partly in dis
similarity of religious creed; and although
this Fenian organization is not religious
in itself, it is, so far as we can perceive,
confined almost exclusively to Catholics,
as Red Republicanism on the continent
is found only in Catholic countries.
It is simply a disturbing element out
of which agitation, and possibly war, may
spring, but which has in it nothing that
promises to promote either the freedom
or happiness of the race. It may bring
Ireland into trouble; but we think there
is too much good sense in the American
people to suffer themselves to be drawn
into a quarrel by such an organization
as this. Many thousands of these Fe
nians have, during the past two years,
solemnly sworn allegiance to the Queen
of Great Britain before our Boards of
Enrollment, in order to avoid bearing
their part in our great national struggle,
!Ltd no men 'have done that thing more
eagerly and impudently than these Irish
Celts. Now, if they fancy a quarrel with
the royal lady under whose skirts they
are not ashamed to crawl, when the
country which, for years, has given them
shelter, protection and employment,
needs their services, let them fight it out
themselves; but let us not suffer ourselves
tohbe drawn into it. Some Celtic Irish
men have fought bravely for the country
of their adoption; but the number of
these bears no proportion to those who
-invoked the protection of the British
Queen against the call of the President
of the United States. To no people on
the earth, therefore, do we owe less, as a
nation, than to the Celtic Irish
BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES are wide
ly known - ds an - established remedy for
Coughs, Colds, Biionehita, Hoarseness, and
other troubles of: the Throat and Lungs.
Their good reputation and extensive use
have brought out imitations, and similar pre
parations represented to be the same, which
are generally injurious. OBTAIN only
"Brown's Bronchial Troches."
, ~,
The London spestafor said, a aripntkago:
"There it not n thmeral now alive in Eu
rope who, if Sli'ernianch4cceeds, will' not re
cognize the addition'of ono morn man to OM
short list of.iirst-chwa leaders of armies:"
Physician bai•;diseoiTred Abut this
night-mare in nine cases' out, of ton is pro
duced by owing a bill for n• nosyspaper,.
that tile , beSt pare is to pfts,.l4P-„::
THE SECRETARY, OF WAR
[Prom the St. Louie Democrat.]
Secretary Stanton must experience very
comfortable sensations, in view of the results
of general military operations. At all events,
the country is in excellent humor over the
course things are taking, and.grows daily
.stronger in its confidence of a successful ter
mination of the war. The results 'of the .
movements of Sherman and Thomas have
been brilliant, while those operations which
have not realized all that was expected of
them, including the Wilmington affair, can
not, in a single instance, be entered in the
chapter of serious disasters. The public is
inclined, in its proneness to hero-worship,
to give all the credit for successful achieve
ments to the Generals immediately in com
mand, while in cases of failure it it equally
inclined to throw the blame on those having
the general charge of , military affairs. This
is manifestly unjust. While Sherman and
Thomas, and Sheridan and Grant, should all
have a full measure of praise, no small por
tion of the results, which have thrown such
brilliancy over their names can be traced
back to the officer in the war office at 'Wash
ington.
If any ono doubts this fact, he has but to
refer to the clamor which has, on ono or two
occasions, been raised against Mr. Stanton,
when our military affairs seemed to be going
badly. There was n time when it was popu
lar with certain journals and people to talk
about the removal of Secretary Stanton, but
that time is past. It seems now to be accept
ed by universal consent, that no ono is going
to interfere with his position, unless he sees
fit to relinquish it himself. In all the lists
we hay s e seen written up for the Cabinet un
der the incoming term, their is no clurnge
Imposed for the War Department. The fact,
is, that everybody now concedes that Mr.
Stanton is master of the situation, and eve
rybody is led to believe, in view of his past
record, that ho will remain master of the
51111M:ion.
It is fair to infer that Mr. Stanton is
as little governed by selfish considerations
as any man in the public service, from the
ostentatious and uncompromising mannerin
which he has discharged the duties of his
office; but when he contemplates the wag
nifteent out-come of his long and ardurous
and often extremely embarrassing labors, he
cannot hut experience an uncommon degree
of gratification. His olicy stands vindica
ted by the verdict of results, after being sub
jected to the moat thorough trial to which
the plans of men can be exposed.
There can be no question that history will
attribute a large share of the credit for the
success in this great struggle, to the manage
ment of the war office under his supervision.
However the people may have at times de
sponded, it is evident that he never lost heart.
He worked on with equal persistency and
equal faith, whether the Bourse of events was
marked with intelligence of victory or de
feat. The quiet fidelity with which his offi
cial ditties have been prosecuted, would al
most indicate the consciousness of a mission,
drawing its inspiration from an assurance
which the present seldom affords. Certain
it is that no man in the war has done more
efficient work, or more of it, than Mr. Stan
ton, with less appitient regard to Popular ef
fect. lie furnishes a rentarkable instance of
a man working hi 'ltself i nto popularity, with
out seeming to have a care for it. The just
conclusion undoubtedly is that he has been
more than ordinarily governed by a higher
motive.
The entire freedom of Mr. Stanton's offi
cial career from any taint, or nny appearance
of the arts of the demagogue, is doubtless
owing to the fact that he is NO politician. To
this circumstance can we attribute the re
markable phenomenon in American politics,
that ho should hold a place in the Cabinets
of two consecutive Presidents, of different
politics, and so radically at variance in their
policies as Buchanan and Lincoln. This
could never have happened with a decided
partisan. The circumstance is, however,
only the more creditable to Mr. Stanton as
a moan turd patriot.
The Duty on Paper
A dispatch from Washington , ays :
A large delegation of paper manufactur
ers were before the Ways and 3leans Com
mittee to-day, for the purpose of urging
upon them not to repeal the duty on paper.
They laid before the committee facts and
statistics showing that it would be very in
jurious to their interests to repeal said tax.
Of course, it would be very injurious to
the monopoly interest to repeal the duty on
paper ; and of course it is the duty of Con
gress to protect the interests of this monop
oly, at whatever cost to the people. The
interests of the country at large, in having
cheap newspapers, are not once to be thought
of in connection with the interests of the ra
pacious paper-makers.
The New York papers have been induced
to withdraw their petition for the repeal of
the duty. The manufacturers contracted to
supply them with paper at 20 cents a pound,
while charging all others 20 and 27, imagin
ing if they could thus get the metropolitan
press out of the way, the au peal of all the
other newspapers in the country would be
unheeded. The arrangement, however, is
only another argument in favor of repeal.—
The price at which paper is now furnished to
the New York press is aVout the price at
which foreign paper can be imported free of
duty, and if the man ufacturers.elps, , afford
to supply New York at that-rate', utiB with
out loss to themselves, they can' supply tl ti
whole country at the seine late, and the pa
per duty is not q therefore needed for their
_
protection.'
AratcA.—Over WM' hundred alid Ilfty
churches have been built on the Western
coast of Africa. Nearly two hundred schools
are in operation; twenty thousand children
have been instructed in English; twenty
thousand baptised persons aro members of
dithrent bodies of Christians; twenty-five di
alects have been reduced to writing. Between
sixty and seventy settlements have been form
ed—the centres of Christianity, civilization,
agriculture, and commerce. Lawful Com
merce has increased from $lOO,OOO annually
to between fifican and twenty millions of dol
lars ; and yet, though so much has been done,
it is very little in comparison with what yet
remains to be done' n the "Dark Continent."
These sixty or seventy Christian settlements
are but as many beacon-lights on the coast,
while the vast interior is still shrouded in
midnight darkness.—Episcopal Recorder.
GETTING MARRIED IN HASTE TO REPENT
AT LEISURE.-Up the organization -of the
141st Pennsylvania, a resident of 'Hawley en
listed in CompanyG, Captain .litumford, and
went with the company to Virginia. -At the
battle of Chancellorsville he was reported kill
ed end a comrade sent, as he supposed, a pocket
book and a lock of his hair to the soldier's
wife. On such evidence she regarded him as
dead, and some two months ago married
again. Among the'prisoriers who were re
cently released front Georgia prisons was the
supposed dead husband.' • Upon hie arrival
at - Annapolis he immediately obtained a fur;
lough and started, to see his . faniilp.. Our
readers can .imagine, hie
,surprise at finding
his wifetmarried and hers at"behold
ing,,as she supposed, •her'dead , husbanst—'
This - war causes • many curious scenes to ,be
enacted.—Honestia/e Republican. ' •
LADrEs',Funs,: - --Purchasera may rely on
getting the best furs;at Charlea Cakfordok
Sons, Continental
.qm
The l eper Question Again
The New York Post continues, with the
utmost ability and good sense, to discuss the
duties on paper, and show the evil resulting
therefrom. In Wednesday's issue it remarks:
"In keeping up the present duty on print
ing paper, the Government virtually address
es the paper-maker in this manner:— ,, 'Dear
sir, we present you with the gift of twenty
per cent. on the value of all the paper you
make. It comes in part from the renders of
newspapers, in part from the parents of chil
dren attending the public schools, in part
from poor scholars, in part from the Govern
ment itself, which puts it into the tax bills
and collects it from the people. Receive this
tribute from a generous country, which cheer
fully imposes upon itself these great sacrifi
ces on your account. Put it quietly in your
pocket, and do not trouble yourself to make
your paper any better or cheaper, unless you
take a particular fancy to do so. If any per ,
son should be so unreasonable as to grumble,
Mr.'Henry Corey will assure him that itc is
all right."
Nevertheless, we suspect that if the duty
be left hs it now stands, there are a good many
persons in the community who will think that
they have quite enough on their hands if they
carry the Government through this war, and
answer the calls of the almost innumerable
charities which the war' makes necessary,
without being obliged in addition to build up
the fortunes of the paper makers. It would
not be unlike them if. Ahoy should be a little
troublesome in appealing to Congress to spare
them this terrden while the war lasts, and
until the national debt is paid. "But," asks
the champion of the prohibitory duty riff pa
per, alarmed 'not the chance of printing paper
being admitted from abroad, '‘ can any man,
proprietor of a newspaper, doubt that the
'great capitals' of Europe will at once be sot
to work to crush out American competition
for the sale of this great commodity, an
abundant and cheap supply of which is now
more important than it has been at any pe
riod of our history ?"
We do not merely doubt that any such re
sult will follow, but we are as confalentdts
we can be of any future event that it will
not follow. There are not paper mills enough
ip all Europe to defy and , overcome Ameri
can competition in the paper market of our
country. Six or seven years since we man
ufactured nearly as much paper in America
AS was made in Client Britain and Franca
put together. In Humans' Cyclopedia of
Commerce, the amount wade in this country
in 18.58 was estimated at 270,0(10,0UB pounds,
and that of Great Britain and France com
bined at only 291,200,000 pounds, giving but
a -
Moderato excess over our own proddet of
paper. Probably we now make_morc_paper
in the United States than in both those coun
tries. The paper-makers of Great Britain
and France will not ruin themselves by seek-
ing to ruin their own class in America. They
will not, they cannot divert into a new chan
nel the immense capital required .sueeessful
ly to rival, in our own market, n set of cap
italists as powerful as themselves, and draw
from other industrial occupations, in which
they are now profitably occupied, the thous
ands of workmen necessary to supply four
or live hundred million pounds of paper an
nually to the consumers in the United :States.
It is the extreme of folly to apprehend Any
such consequence; it would be the height of
frenzy on the part of the European paper
makers to make the apprehension a reality.
Peace and :Freedom
There is no blessing which the People so
much Covet, just. 110 W, sayt- the A Ther it)/ Rern
ieg Aurual ,as a righteous PEACE. Thy
are weary of War--very weary. Every
hearth-stone in the land has been wade des
olate by it, and thotHands of Michaels are
'• weeping fur their children, bccall , c they
are not."
- - •
And yet. those who have suffered m 0 4 .4 are
w illing to suffer more rather than that &mice
should come without Ju sr CE, and rather
than that the Sword should be shorshed
before that has perished for whose perpetu
ity the Sword was drown.
We do not know upon what those Who
(officially or otherwise) are attempting to
initiate negotiations for Peace expect to base
sueli negotiations. But This
that nothing less than immediate or li-res
pective Fr edom fur every human being
within the broad area of the Union will
either satisfy the People, meet the demands
of inexorable Justice, or constitute a fitting
compensation for all that the War has cost
in blood and treasure.
There have been periods in the progress
of the war when less than this would have
satisfied the mass of the people. The gage
of !male was accepted simply to compel obe
dience to the lawful authority of the gov
ernment. Nothing more was demanded :
and an early nequiesence in the demand
would have brought Peace with Si , very.
But Providence had a higher and a grand
er mission for those who went out to battle
than the mere achievement of a hollow truce
With Slavery. The end would 11SVC consti
tuted no sufficient return for the great sacri
fices which it would have cost ; and the per
sistent madness of the Southern leaders, com
bined with the two often developed imbecil
ity of those entrusted with the direction of
our own armies, have united to protract the
contest, until now there is scarcely a dissent
ing voice to the demand that that which
caused the war shall dice through its agency.
Any proposition for Peace, or any scheme
looking to the cessation of hostilities, which
contemplates less than this, will, therefore,
full short of popular expectation, and fail to
enlist the sympathy of the popular heart.—
For public opinion has becoine more exacting
with every drop of Northern blood shed in
theattempt to put do vat nholy rebellion.
Those whose tears ke i .ist the graves and
the memories of those who have fallen, will
seek in vain fur any consolatory coMpensa
tion if some great end is nut achieved by
their sacritice c —if LIBERTY is riot vitalized
and streng,thbned and expanded by their
blood 'Il •
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144 1 ililtn T ;oZO LI GY.:N o z ir . GONE.—One 407 W I LeI;
inap':iigeut purchased Cron' an old lady,
named s Stifger, residing intliis place, the flag
which float4.4aver the residence of the Bri
tish copimaAdant of Fort Bedford, before
1,110 , 1 :• itiOnary war, for the trifling sum
'of =i+7 'he tingle a line specimen of silk
m) , . ' cture in the days of the Georges. The
history of the flag, as near as we can learn,
runs thus: When the Revolution broke out,
a small garrison• was stationed here; the sol
diers became patriots, and the officers beat a
busty exit. The 'flag of the commandantfell
into the hands of a Mr. Naugle, then a citi
zen of Bedford, the father of Frederick Nau
gle, Sr. After his death and the death of his
wife, it became the property of his sister-in
law, who was married to a gentleman named•
Stiffier, the father of Anthony Stiffler, Into
of this place, by whom it --was inherited, and
upon his death, ti year or two n o, it became
the sole property of his wife, who sold it, as
above stated, for fifty dollars; hardly its orig
inal cost. For many years after the Revo
lution the Old citizens were wont to meet on
the anniversary of its capture, and drink
flowing bowls and indulge in patriotic toasts
over the happy event which transferred the
British authority to that of the Continental
Congress. It has been displayed on a num
ber of important occasions, ,and was always
admired for its beauty and richness. It is
undoubtedly over ono hundred years_old.—
Bectford Inquirer.
Ipsr
net
rebel Gen Lua has been made,
by the'fiat of the rebel Congress, Command
er-in-Chief of all the rebel forces; in other
words, Military Dictator—and is thus placed
beyond the power or control of the rebel
President _himself.-- HOOD has been,remeved
and,Jogwarort reinstated. There is a serious
Misunderstanding among the rebel
portending •therdownfall which is approsch
ingt The Charleston Mercury is very bitter
against DAVIS, and declares everything is
"going to the Plogs," in consequence of hip
obstinacy - , and 'incompetency. It, says the
rebel army in South Ctirolina`and Georgia
is utterly demoralized-, being made up of
thieyeit and
,cut-throats: Things are coming
to a pretty palti among 'them.
DEPRESSION AT THE SOUTH.
We present below a few extracts from
Rebel papers. They do not betray a lively
131132
[From the Richmond Dispatch of the 17th
The disasters which we have suffered of
late are slot only not irreparable, but they
are not so great as others wo have suffered
on other occasions. But the people have be
come more depressed by their than they over
were before, because they had been flattered
by hopes of peace by persons who well knew
there could be no, peace short of submission
and enslavement. This fit of depression has
been longer and more violent than formerly,
because' they see Congress, to Which they
naturally turn for encouragement, trifling
on the very edge of the abyss, with a reck
less disregard of their situation which prompt
the rulers, when theship is about too down,
to brealc opsethe spirit room, and, drown
their fears In - liquor. They see little hope in
that quarter. Congress is, in fact, assisting
the enemy by encouraging a disposition to
croak, which seems to have besot the whole
country.
TIM DIAL Or WRATH.
[From tho Richmond Whig of January 17.]
The vial of wrath seems not to have been
completely exhausted with the fall of Sa
vannah. Fort Fisher has also fallen. The
Confederacy can survive the loss of Fort
Fisher, and. of Mobile, and of every other
seaport in its possession, but it cannot sur
vive the decay of spirit and the kiss of deter
mination on trip part of its people. That is
a thing which it has . more'cause to fear than
all other things put together.
[C,ornispondonce of tho Ch;Heston Morcury.J
Our hopes of seeing Gen. Lee made Com
mander in Chief are, from alt accoun s, in
danger of being frustrated. Indeed, it is now
said that Me Executive never contemplated
anything of the kind. The story that Lee,
Davis and Johnston met some days ago, and
that there was a reconciliation between the
latter two, is pronounced unfounded. How
it conic into existence is A mystery.
A signillennt article appears in this morn
ing's ,S'entinet. The authorities are admen
islrbd not to lot us fall into 010 hands of a
Yankee master ; any other master were bet
ter—the'inferenee being that we are in dan
ger of being forced to accept a master of sonic
sort.
In times of disaster, a certain clan always
talhi or handing over the Confederacy as en
appendage of the crown of France or Eng
land. What if they refuse . 1 A people will
ing to glee themseires away to anybody are
not worth haring, especially when the price
of the gilt is sure to be a wacw . iiit a pqwer
which is now more formidable than France,
and nearly as formidable as England on the
sea.
Sherman has con' meneed moving. If
yesterday's snow did not arrest him, we hope
men will do what snow cannot. Some nien
you have already; you will have others soon,
for the sufficient reason that you must bare
Them, sr we muse girt up Richmond.
SllOllllllll activity will be responded to by
neliae measures in Congress. The negeors
will utmost certainly be called out, since the
Administration and many Generals are in
favor of it. But 1 hear of one (tem - nal, who
says if General Lee could travel the country
125 touch as he has done, he wntuld find plen
ty of whitu num, and no need for w!gr4)o , .
11 . negroes arc used, they should be used as
slaves, or else we abandon the principle of
the struggle.
(Vrom the Richmond Examiner, Jan. 17. J
The loss of our best port by the fall of Fort
Fisher will be no evil in the end, if it serves
to spur the country on to deebdve action.
'Nothing. can be 1110 re inglori o us and deplor
able than to sit still, barinoniotedy re-igned
and hopeful. while I,llr resource.; and arinie6
are gamided away in full view by a weak
, but presumptuous official. Nothing 0101 ,
' absurd than to make believe "good cheer' ,
and buncombe " confidence" in the face of
; manifest and fatal Illi,munitgrinent. All the
I eloquence and all the blather in the world
will not alter the facts or prevent people
from thinking on them. Are the people
I this country lighting fur the glory of Mr.
Davis from Misskiippi, or defending their
liberty, lives, and property'' If they are do
ing the last named business, they' cannot jus
tify themselves to their own conscience or to
posterity, in abandoning their affairs any
longer to the unlimited, uncontrolled and
-lineon tested discretion-of-per,ons -who—daily
i . .ankh new proofs of umd:illfulness and bad
judgment and defective eharacter.
n the next few week , Ittrairn 1111.1,t he do
finitely arranged. If the sprin g campaign
tinds Johnson at the head of what Hood left
in place of that magnificent army of 6-i,OOO
men turned over to hint six months since; if
Lee is tint chief conimanderof the whole inil
itary power of the Confederacy, independent
by legislative enactment of till control and
re-trietion and havrr,v,i,4 , —with authority
to assign general, and other officerigpto com
mand, tran•fer armies, and to give unity of
plan tied !dill to the whole operation, of the
war—the full force of the people will re -tip
pen F.
there shall he no real change of men,
but only a idiom alteration, only n repetition
of the old dmilieity, by wlrch the power lin ,
remained in Um some puny hands, while tho
responsibility of nil the misfortune they have
worked has been qltifteil over to Bellllrol4ard,
to Jiolinson, and lately to Gen. I.Cls; the
struggle mmt still - e mtinue—for neither
comtiremise by the North, nor , o l an i„..io n
by tim South is possible, and in one tray or
in another the war must he waged ; but it is
certain that, under these latti•r conditions,
we will enter on the coming compaig,n with
faded hope, diminished energy, and ci fore
boding of at continuation to that series of dis
asters which has been uninterrupted since
the removal of the only general who has
commanded with profit the army of the Cen
tral South.
[From the Richmond Enquirer. Jan. 171
Fort Fisher has fallen, arid the port of
- Wilmington will be closed. Blockade stock
is at a discount, and no more cottons goes out
of the Confederacy. On the other hand, we
have net. our last port by which we received
supplies from abroad. Another disaster is
added to our long list of defeats, and croak
ing has received another impulse. B t not
withstanding all this, the end is not yet by a
great dent. Now, for the first, we are thrown
really on our own resources, and compelled
to turn our attention to Manufacturing what
we need and to bringing down the shame
less extravagance that has disgraced our
people. Now “the comforts and happiness
of civilized life" will be ,denied the people,
as they have been the army, and avarice no
longer blight our hopes with its corrupting
influence. At last our liberties will receive
the undivided labors of our whole people.
A Speech by Vice President John
son
Vice President-elect Johnson, in the Ten
nessee Convention made an eloquent speech,
which concluded as follows : "If our Gov
ernment passes through this ordeal, it will
survive the third and last trial through which
every great and enduring nation must soon
er or later pass—birth, foreign attack and
domestic insurrection. We have breasted
every storm hitherto—we shall not go down
in this. In our free domestic institutions..is
our strength—in them we shall live, and by
them we shall conquer. The haughtiest
monarchies of the old world bear witness to
the truth of this assertion. Alexander on
his throne had converted twenty millions of
serfs into free men, that he might add their
mighty strength to his own, and be able to
prevail upon the turbulent and rebellious
nobles of his empire. The unerring instinct
of power told him that so far as ho admitted
these masses to hold a part and lot in the
government of the land, to that degree did
ho attach them to it, and insure its preser
vation against allassailants. Let us not fail
to leara_the lesson afforded by his example.
The unchangeable fiat of the Almighty has
gone forth that the African slave of this
country should return no more to his bond
age and his chains. If Abraham Lincoln,
and Jefferson' Davis, should meet in nn un
holy alliance, and put forth their ',Combined
strength, they could not again.hind his limbs
about with the shackles. The Maker of the
universe has given fortluhin decrees, and let
us not bo found fighting against it,
.but let
us acquiesce in, and further • it Recording to
- our ability: - - Let us, like the crafty autocrat,
hesitqte not to summon, to our aid against
'the troubles of our 'petted the assistance which
Aliest; humble children of toil will gladly
bring us; if only we will permit them. Let
us, at All'ebsts and'at any sacrifice, get quiet
and stability for our' country, Let us estab
lish order and law
,throughout our border Si.
.so that every man may -sit under his '6Wni
vino and fig trop, -with none to molest. Ten
nessee is a great State- r a :noble State, it* is
only the slip of per :N ople that, have brought
us distraction. We shall receive God's bless
ing, if only we hang some rebels. The lead
ers only, he meant o mpt the rank and file—
Ahoy should be pardoned and forgiven.
Treason must be made odious ; traitors must
be punished and impoverished ; and that
impoverishment should be conducted in such
a way that'it should contribute to restore to
the thousands of suffering poor the little
substance they have lost by the devastations
and burnings of this war.
WAR NEWS SUMMARY
The capture of Fort Fisher, North Caro
lina, by the Union forces has been officially
announced by both the War and Navy De
partments. An Assault by the land forces
aided by a battalion of marines and sailors
was commenced on Sunday afternoon the
15th inst., at 3 o'clock, and by eleven o'clock,
that night the Union army has obtained full
possession of Fort Fisher, and according to
the latest official accounts captured seventy
two guns Auld 2,500 prisoners, including
General Whiting and Col. Lamb; the com
mandant of the fort, both wounded. Many
of the guns are injured. The fighting is rep
resented to have been of the most desperate
character, and it was foot by foot that the,
works weru carried by the Union infantry.
No estimate of the Union casualties is given,
but the loss is said to be severe. General
Curtis and Colonels Pennepacker and Bell,
the commanders of the three leading bri
gades in the attack were wounded. 'Lieu
tenants S. W. Preston and Porter of the
United States Navy were killed.
Tho assault on the enemy's works on Sun
day afternoon was preceded by a heavy bom
bardment from the fleet for three hours.—
From seven o'clock on Friday morning un
til after dark Fort Fisher was constantly
bombarded by Admiral Porter's fleet.—
Juking from the holes in Fort Fisher, it, is
stated the navy lire on the work mica have
been terrific. A reconnoissance was made
on Saturday by Gen. Terry's troops before
it was decided to risk an assault on Fort
Fisher on the following day. Salutes have
been tired by the Army . of the Petomac and
in Washington in honor of the victory.
An recount of the fall of Fort Fisher con
tained in the Riehmo:id Whig of Tuesday
morning last, has been transmitted to the
War I. epartment. It says the news had no
casioned in the community at Richmond a
sensation of profound regret, as the fort was
the main defense of the entrance to the Wil
mington harbor, and in future the arrival
and departure of blockade runners will be
prevented. (4,n. Bragg reports to the rebel
Secretary of War that Fort Fisher was fu
riously bombarded all day Sunday by the
fleet; at four o;elack in the afternoon was
attacked by the Unien infantry, and at ten
o'clock - P. M. was captured, with most of its
garrison. The Secretary of War last night
had received nothing later from Gen. Terry,
commanding the expedition.
The Richmond Whig also says that Mr.
11. S. Foote has been set at liberty, the rebel
House of Representatives having declared
that under all the circumstances of the ease
it was expedient that the military authorities
should discharge him from enstedy.
Gen. Bn.ekinridge, it- is said, has been
made the rebel Secretary of War.
according to the reports of de
9erters, was at Bristol on the 4th inst., with
70.1 n e and Breckinridge, with tits com
mand, is reported to have gone to the Valley
of Virginia. Throughout East 'Tennessee
quiet b, represented to prevail.
1\:1,1611g-ton paper of _Monday last,
states that parties from Sharp.shurg and Ha
ger,town, :Sut - land, say that sense uneasi
ness exists in IrVestern -Nlaryland owing; to
rep , rte.l IlloVolllollts el rebel troops in the
valley, and the appearance of rebel scouts
al o ng th e . river, some of whom, it is said,
have crossed the riser, and are scouting in
Pennsylvania.
li.E•rt.nN 01' Me. Mints FROM Itt lIMON D.
1)“ is Reportrd 11 lig
P. I'. Ifhiir , Sr., returned from
Itielintond on Tuesday, reaching ‘Vashing_
ten in the afternoon in the , teanier 1). n.—
'l "Star" gives the folloss
ing Recount of his reception:
On the Don eonting into I.btek, C•.nirnalt
der Carr went on board and escorted 2.1 r.
Blair to a private earriag,e.
Nothing wit", known on board of the Don
as to the result of his
but it was iiiiiu.rveit by soma that Mr. 8., on
the pas . sagt , ii \vas ih a rcniarkiil,ly rood
humor, hi(h fart Will no louht bu v.:11,1:1-
(.I'l.d bt "onu• signifying that hi::
tnet With
I>on, it «ill bt• repastubered, b•it th e
ytir(.l a M. yek lltSaturday, and it (vas then
siti,l that she left here under orcier,,
and it is probable that Mr. Blair \vent dawn
tin her. At any rate the I)on was at A il:en's
I.andintr, on the James.river, 1,11 Monday
last. and ri , ntairied until Stittinlay last.
In 1' , 01111 , ,q14 , 11 it';l11 (hi, 110,1 important
subket ,
till Il llunin l'rma the Ith•h m ,, n d
Saturday the highe.t inte
rest.
The IZichnlonil Examiner of Saturday
state, that Jlr. Blair, on hi, arrival, ;in
11,:itoei,d to Jill'. DaNii that Ii had no cre
dentials Ii in ('resident 1.i1e . 0111, but 11 . 0l11(1
he glad to meet him as nn old friend; that
I)avia grant e d an inter.% iew to Nil-. It air,
and th a t :11r. 11., told I)aVk lie could have
I eel, on the bnsis of gradual emancipation.
Mr. Davis said he was willing to receive
three commissioners to trust on peace, or to
send three to Mr. Lincoln, provided he
could have. any guarantee that they would be
r,:ceired.
The Richmond Dispatch of Saturday week
annoumms that after an interview between
Jell. I)avi, and Blair, the former placed
a lett. r in the hand, of tile latter, offering
to send to Washington or receive in Rich
mond, commissioners to make an mineable
settlement or our present difficulties.
Admiral Porter's official report of the
capture of Fort Fisher, N. (2., has been for
warded to the Navy Department. It gives
details of the op. rations on Sunday up to 10
o'clock at night, wh e n the occupation of the
fort by l'nblh troop, Wile signalled, and the
lire of the fleet ceased. Later than that no
oflieiul account, have been received. Fort
Fisher, at the time of the assault, was gar
risoned by 80,) tnen, and in the upper forts
there were 503 oleo. Besides these, a relief
of about 1,500 had been brought down the
river on Sunday morning.
The struggle on Sunday is represented to
have been a terrific one, not surpassed, Ad
miral Porter says, by any of the events of
the war. Fourteen hundred marines and
sailors were pent from the Union fleet to
participate in the assault. They attacked
the fort at a different point from the infan
try forces, and met with the most vigorous
resistance, being mistaken by, thecnelny fur
the main body of Gen. Terry:s army, and
were repulsed, with a loss of 200 in killed
and wounded, including a number of offi
cers. Tho wounded wero to have been sent
North on Moliday
In addition to Admiral Porter's report the
Baltimore papers of Thursday morning last
publish further details of the assault, ob
tained from unofficial sources, together with
an account of events that transpired early
Monday morning. The magazine at Fort
Fisher is reported to have exploded, occa
sioned by-tho citiolessness-ofsome-of-thesol
diers. By the explosion it is stated two
hundred were killed and quite a number
wounded. A number of the Union gun
boats were sou up the Cape Fear river on
Monday morning, driving before them the
rebel steamers Chicamauga and Tallahassee,-
which are said to have taken part in the con
test on Sunday.
A dispatch from the Army of the Potom
ac mentions 0, report, brought in by desert
ers that the Danville - Railroad, over which
Gen. Leo's army receives its main supplies
from Richmond, has been extensively dam
aged by the recent rains, to repair which
would require some time and a large force.
For the want of sufficient provisions for the
soldiers, it was thought some important
changes would transpire in a few days.
Advices from the Army of the Potomac
up to Tuesday evening report no firing had
occurred on any part of the line of the Union
army for several days, and that the enemy
appeared to be busy moving from place to
place, ,as if preparing (Cr a change of some
kind.
Intelligence was brought to FOrtresis Mon
roe on Thursday last r iby the arrival of, a
steamer,' to the effect that Fort Caswell and
-other minor works defending the entrance;
M Cape Fear ,river had been blown up by
the enemy soon after the: surrender of Fort
Figher. The Bundler vessels of "Admiral
. Porter's fleet wereengaged in searching for
torpodos in the CapaYear river, preparatory
'to an advance on Wileiington, Admiral
Porter,ln" .diapetch M. the, Navy Depart
ment, dated:en- Monday,-states. that the en
:enty shad destroyed the ,works on , ,t3Mith's Is-
RMEMMI
. .
land, and that if they did not destroy Fart
Caswell an attack on it would soon be made.
Wilmington is announced to be hermetically
sealed against blockade-runners. The Ad
miral reports that seventy-five guns were
captured at Fort Fisher, many of them heavy
ones; and that the . naval casualities in killed
and wounded amount to about three han
dred. By the explosion on Monday morn
ing it is estimated that one hundred men be
longing to the fleet were killed and woun
ded.
An arrival at New York yesterday from
Port Royal on the 17th inst., reports that on
the day she sailed the monitor Patapsco,
which was doing picket duty off Charleston,
was destroyed by a rebel torpedo. Forty
or fifty of the crew, it was thought, were
lost. Tho enemy's fortifications at Pocotall
igo Bridge contained, when captured by the
17th Corps, twelve guns, which had been
spiked. The Union loss is said to have 6bon
forty in killed and wounded.
NEW YORK, January 20th.—The United
States transport Fulton, from Port Royal on
the 17th, and Fortress Munroe 10th, has ar
rived. The monitor Patapsco, was destroy
ed off Charleston at 2A. At., on the 17th,
while doing picket duty, by a rebel torpedo.
Forty or fifty of her crew went down with
her. Their name were not ascertained up
to the sailing of the Fulton
On the night of .the 14th, the 17th Corps,
commanded 11 General Hatch, advanced on
I'ocotaligo Bridge, on the Charleston and
Savannah Railroad, and captured it, togeth
er with the fortifications there, containing
twelve guns, losing in the action only 40
men killed and wounded. The guns were
spiked and the enemy evacuated the place
during the night and fell back to Ashepo
river, towards Charleston. It was thought
the enemy "would make a stand nt that point.
Commodore Porter, in his detailed repot
of the attack on Fort Fisher, gives the total
number of naval officers killed and woun
ded and missing, including the exp.osion of
the magazine, at 30.
He states that the Rebels have blown up
Fort Caswell and the steamers Tallahasse
and Chickamauga, and we will be in Wil
mington before long.
FORT MONROE: - Jan. 20.—The frigates
Minnesota, Wabash, Colorado and the great
er portion of the heavy draught vessels of
war,eorn prising Admiral Porter's fleet, re
cently operating against Fort Fisher, N. C.,
have returned from there and are now rut
chored in Hampton Roads.
The steamer Den. Lyons, Capt. - Ward
commander, arrived here this afternoon,
with 5110 of the 10th North Candi nit regi
ment captured at Fort Fisher.
be taken to Fort Delaware.
On the evening of the 18th inst., Col. Ab
bott, commanding a brigade of troops, start
ed out from Fort Fisher on the way to -Wil
mington. A general forward movement of
our troops against the town was daily antic
ipated.
Our gunboats are actively engaged in re.
connoitering along the banks of tine Cape
Fear River, and in searching for torpedoes
and in removing tine obstructions which af
forded a serious obstacle to the navigation
of these winters.
C VITEN: OF FIN" E„.I3LOCKADE RUNNERS.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 22.—The United
States steamer Massachusetts, from the South
Atlantic blockading squadron, left Charles
ton liar on the evening of the 'eighteenth,
and ear Wilmington on the nineteenth.
All of Porter's fleet are in Cape Fear riv
er.
On Wednesday night five blockade run
ners ran into Cape Fear river and were ta
ken by the fleet—Hamra not ascertained.
The Massachusetts brings 201) invalids
and discharged soldiers.
The Explosion at Fort Fisher
Mr. Blair's Visit to Richmond—Senator
Foote Ref uses to be released —Pirate
Semmes in I?iehmoncl—Colunel Grierson's
Raul through Mississippi.
N ENT YORK, Jan. 23.—The 7'ribitne's Fort
Fisher correspondent says : The explosion of
the ni:o4azino w:o; caused by the carelessness
of our men, who wore, indiscreet enough to
go in %mit lighted segars, and lit candles
while inside. They were cautioned, but
paid no heed. The total loses (luring the
light will not exceed four hundred, and I hose
by the explosion about one hundred ; more
Must be added for the navy. Colonel Alden,
of the 1 h New Yorlc, was mortally wound
ed by the i,plosion oI the magazine, rnd has
since died.
NEN'. Yoms. Jan. 28.—The J/rrafa's
Washington siweial has varimi- tuin.,Nout
cerning Mr. Blair's visit to Richmond. 'One
is, that Blair brought autograph letter. from
Davi-, to Lincoln, saying he was ready to
treat for peace, and that a communication
from Lincoln has been taken back to Rich
nomd, expressing a willingness to send or
re.wi% I' commissioner , . .lain' well inn,n,
washin, ; tmi look for important
results from Blair's second N i,it to the rebel
capital.
A , igniticant article appear, in the Rich
mond Examine/ of last Thur.day, which
says: After every manly effort the rebel,
may fail, and policy and intereq would in-
Cline the rebels to submit. to the United
States rather than to England, Prance or
Maximillian. In joining their military
forces they could then ~ w eep this continent,
and the: hide their shame, while America
will become the colossal power of the world.
On the other hand some Richmond editors,
in view of the fact that they have lost all of
the seaports of any consequence. make great
efforts to prove those disasters a bles , ing.—
They say the war is thew sole business, that
the ,•onseription must be vigorously enforced,
and that every one, who can lutist light.
;rho Richtitund Whig sap that the Legroes
i the prim: of life will make better soldiers
the white men over fifty.
Gen. Joe Johnson, in his late speech at
Columbia, South Carolina, says he is out of
the service and regrets that he could not
serve with the rebel soldiers.
Senator foot© refuses to he released, and
insists upon's trial to shoe• the CIU/S0 of his
arrest.
Capt. Semmes has reached Richmond
The herald's NeW Orleans despatch gives
the particulars of Grierson's Into great raid
in Mississippi. They confirm previous re
po, is of his great success. They marched
400 miles, lost less than 100 men, captured
600 prisoners and-brought in 1,000 contra
bands and 1,000 horses besides destroying
100 miles of railroad.
-
Preparations Making for Evacua-
ting RichMond
Shenandoah Rebel Purees Suffering.—Resig
nation of Brig. Gen. Powell.
New Yonx; Jan. 22.—The Herald's cor
respondence says An intelligentgentleman
of Madison county, who recently visited
Richmond, states that he conversed with
government officers, who told him the hold
ing of Richmond for any considerable time
wss despaired of by Davis and Leo n.: The
public archives not necessary for immediate
use are being sent into the interior. Num
bers of fan ilies have removed to North Car
olitia and - Georgia. On hints from officials,
the city is said to be in process of mining,
and Davis declares that Richmond shall not
fall in our hands except in a heap of ruins.
News from up the Shenandoah Valley re
ports great suffering. The rebeLforcos aro
still near New Market and Stanton.
Tho good conduct of the citizens in Sa
vannah, after coming under the old flag
again, has had its effect upon the inhabitants
of Winchester and elsewhere. People who
had before been warm supporters of the re
bellion have shown a great change.
Preparations have ocen made to make
Harper's Ferry - a great military . depot.
`ln .consequence of family affliction, Brig.
Gen. Wm. H. Powell tendered his resigna
tion some time since:' A protest against its
acceptance was sent to Washington, 'but the
necessity was so groat that the War Depart
ment has accepted it.
GRANT ON SHERMAN. -
The following letter from Gen. Grant was
read at a Sherman Testimonial mooting at
Columbus (Ohio) last week:
11DQRS ARMY OF ThE
bity. Va., Dee. 22, 1864 Jf
-
-E, H. 111J1V1;16.,"D: TA.Lmat.A.DaE,. deux.
T. BRASEE.—Dear Sire: I have juit .this•
.moment received your printed letter in re
lation to 'ye& proposed . movenients in ac
knoWledgement of ono ,of i Ohio's greatest
wrOtLi only yesiorday to my father,
who resides:in-Covington,' lity.,,on the same
subject, and. asked him to inaugurate - a sub-.
scription to Present Mrs. Sherman with a
fuliaislica house in the City of Chiclitnati
.•
Gen. Sherman is eminently entitled to thii
mark of consideration, and I directed my
father to head the subscription with $6OO for
me, and half that amount froth Gen. Ingalls,
Chief Quarter - master of this army, who is e
qually alive with myself to the eminent set
vices of'Gen. Sherman.
Whatever direction this enterprise in fa
vor of Gen. Sherman may take, you may
set me down for thel'ount named. I can
not say a word too highly in praise of Gen.
Sherman's services from the beginning of
the Rebellion to the present day, and wilt
therefore, abstain from flattery of him. Suf
fice it to say, the world's history gives no ,
record of his superiors, and but few equals.
I am truly. glad for the movement you
have set on foot, and of the opportunity of
adding my mite in testimonial of so great
and good a man. Yours truly.
U, S. GniNr, Lieut.-Gen.
General News And Other Items.
Cavalry Fight Ncar Columba:, Kentucky
CINCINNATI, Jan. 23.—The Commercial's
Cairo dispatch says that Lieut. Nesley, in
command of a company of Tennessee Caval
ry, left Columbus, Ky., on the 18th, and
when ten miles out encountered two hundred
rebels. A fierce, fight ensued, lasting half an
hour. The rebels had two killed, one wound
ed, tind five taken prisoners. No casualty on
our side.
It ie reported that from five to ten of For
rest's command come and take the oath dai-
Assault on Judge Kelley
NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—1 t appears by a.
Washington special that Mr. Field, one of
the Lonisina delegation seeking admission
as Congressman, last Friday night assaulted
Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, with a knife,
for remarks made in the 11 use. The Judge
was only slightly cut in the hand. Field
was held to bail.
A Canard
TonosTo„Tan. 23.—The Globc to-day has
a special from Quebec, saying the report that
the English Governiuent were about,to send
a fleet of gunboats to Lake Erie, is a canard.
From the West
It is stated that the lenders of the rebel
army in Arkanstl, design to abandon that
State entirely. They are said to be concen
trating their troops at Camden for the pur
pose
movin g southward into Louisiana
and Tex - as..• Even the rebel citizens in Ar
kansa¬ in the army, have been ordered
by:\ingrudor to remove to the south side of
Red river. Guerrilla gangs, however, still
infest the mullion, section of the State. Two
detachments of national troops recently went
from Rolla and Pilot Knob, Missouri, into.
the north and northeastern parts of Arkan
sas, for the purpose of hunting up these
marauders. They came upon and broke up
several gangs, and killed and Captured a num
ber of their members. The statement is re
iterated that President Line“ln will revoke
the torders of Generals Canby and Reynolds
for the evacuation of Fort Smith by the na
tional garrison.
A Little Mixed
The celebrated speech of Sir Boyle Roche:
Mr. Speaker, I sun a rat; I see him float
ing in the air; but murk me, I shall yet. nip
him in the bud — was evidently the model
upon which a writer in Kansas framed, the
other day, some remarks upon the recent
election. The Lea yen worth (.1,1 serve lice
says that, by the result of the election, "the
fall of corruption has been dispelled, and the
wheels of the State government will no long
er be traintnelled by sharks that have beset
the public prosperity like locusts."
MASSACHUSETTS
The pro-slavery and half (or wholly) dis
loyal fanatics who hate Massachusetts, and:
who have found their fit mouth-piece in tho
late Governor of New York, have done their
worst during the last year to disseminate
prejudices against the chief New England
State. Gov. Andrew's Address to the Leg
islature opportunely and authoritatively dis
po-cs of the two most generally circulated
falsehoods : first, that the State has not tilled
her titu tas ; second, that she tilled them with
imported. mid worthless recruits.
1. Th, GOVcrlitle nt, of the United Staters
has called upon Nlassachusetts to furnish
during the reliellein 117,t i 1.l men. Mass
achusetts has furnished, uri to Dec. 22. 1864,
and by the War I fepartment is credited with
125,4:37 men ; u surplus over all calls of 7,-
813. But this is far from representing the
number of emu whom the State has actually
furnished. To arrive at the official credit,
the Men who volunteered for three mouths
or for one hundred days are win Ily omitted,
while the service of the nine mouths and of
the one and two year men is reduced to fi
three y,:tr, , tandard: Chat the above num
ber 125,437 represents in fact the number of
three ycaN volunteers. The whole number
actually sent into the field by Massachusetts
in respen , e to calls for 117,024 is 153,480
men. It appears further, by comparing this
11111111wr of enrolled militia in the State S r
lbO4, that more moil have been sent into the
errs lee than are now le be found in the State
between eighteen and forty-five ; and 20,000
merit than are now liable terdo military duty.
Anil, filially, under the last call of Dee. 19,
1801, for 300,0:10 men, the number to be fur
nished by Massachusetts is but 835 men ; and
even the se are duo not from the State nt
large, but from two Congressional districts.
Were the State counted as a unit, instead of
each district, Massachusetts could not be call
ed on for a single man under this last re
quisition ; for, as a State, shelnts a surplus
of thousands. So much on that point.
11. It is charged that Massachusetts hits
tilled her quotas by imported recruits. Gov.
Andrew sacs: "It is true that I have deem
ed it important to the public welfare that the
employment of persons capable of increasing
the masculine industrial and military
strength of the Conunor wealth should be
favored. To that end, whenever opportuni
ty utleied to obtain good recruits for the
army from auloeg persons desiring to come
hither to rod the defence and to enjoy the
blessings of a tree Government, I have al
ways accepted them." And what proportion
of recruits belong to the "imported" class
During the year, Massachusetts contributed
altogether to the United States armies 45,-
446 recruits, of whom 1307 were "imported ;"
and these, says Gov. Andrew, were divided
among four regiments, and include some of
their best soldiers !
Still further, counting also all the colored
recruits, there were, not merely during last
year, but all told, 4,731 credited to the State.
And it' to these finally be added the enlist
ments in the Veteran Reserve Corps—of
course themselves veterans and most valua
ble soldiers—and in the Regular army, the
total foots up 10,672 soldiers, in four years,
of foreign birth credited to Massachusetts,
out of 125,437 in all 1 Wo wait to see what
disingenuous slanderer shall hereafter ignore
or falsify this statement for the sake of a
fling at Massachusetts.
As to colored troops, Gov. Andrew says
with justice:
"If we have accepted colored volunteers—
who have come to Massachusetts for the pur
pose of becoming soldiers—and turned thorn
over as soldiers to the United States, it is be
cause when we began to accept them,
,and
until we had raised the equivalent of two•
regiments, no other opportunity for them
existed in the country. We .believed in
colored men—others did not. We obtained
permission to try them. We assumed the ,
hazards of the enterprise, but the country
reaps the reward of its brilliant and assured
success."
The subject is not exhausted ; but we will'
keep the rest of the filets till somebody 'ham
disposed of those already stated.. Till they
are disposed of— till the records are proved
false—till the War Department and Goy.
Andrew are found to ho in collusion till, in
a word, some other .basis for late slanders
than narrow and unpatriotic hate of a noble
and most generously 'loyal State has been
found, lot the above stand as a final answer
in, behalf of Massachusetts. N. Y. TAbuyo.
P.ETROLEtt . NI is now found in the Canadas,
Ohio;Pennsylvania, Western Virginia, In
dianar California, Kentucky, Illinois, Alia
souri, Michigan, Kansas and Colorado. Dr.
Williams, Professor at Meadville', locates 4114
true geographical centre of the oil territory'
at Cincinnati, the Kentucky and Western
Virginia developments being of a more prolix...
ising character than any'heretofore discov
ered. article is to bo found in greiitor
or less qUantity throughout the whole •vas%
area of tlie.coal basin, of,NorthArdetketi