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HARVEY 9ICKLEH, Editor.
ISUNKMAKNOCK., PA.
Wednesday, March 4, 1 863.
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Close of Congress,
Before this article reaches many of our
readers, the present abolition congress at
Washington will have closed by constitution
al limitation. The majority of those com
posing that body have been engaged, during
the dast two years, in puliig down and de
stroying what three generations of men be
foro them, have Been laboring and bestowing
their talents, treasures and blood to build up
and establish—a free Democratic furm of
government, limited by a written constitu
tion and founded upon the consent of the gov
erned. The fanatics and desiruciioniat-. com
posing it have repeatedly, willfully, and in
tentionally violated not only their oaths to
support the constitution, but the most sacred
and inviolable rights guarantied by and en
joyed under it. Private property and per
sonal liberty have, with nil their safe guards,
been violated—a worthless paper currency
has ken substituted and declared a legal
tender in lieu of gold and silver. Negro
emancipation acts, and acts taking the bread
from the mouths of thousands of white wid
ows and orphans to buy feed, and clothes
worthless vagabond negroes have been enact
ed. Laws confiscating property without tri
al, have heen passed. Freedom of speech
and of the Press have been violated. The
writ of habeas corpus has been suspended.
The right oi trial by jury has been denied.—
The list of outrages upon the liberties of
this people which have been perpetrated bv
this abolition congress, would till volumes ;
to which might be added the useless sacri
fice of thousands upon thousands of lives and
millions upon millions of treason. The whole
forming an epitome of crimes, wickedness
and folly, without a paralell in the history
of nations.
The wisdom of tho revolutionary Fathers
in making one branch of the government
amendable to the people, at least every two
years was never more clearly demonstrated
than at the present lime. Had we yet to en
dure two years more of Abolition miss rule,
the last spark of constitutional liberty would
be extinguished and the dark cloud of des
potism which has for a time brooded over us,
would for ages rest upon our shore. God
flave the people from the scourge of another
abolition President, cabinet and Congress !
A writer iu the last Republican, who sub
scribes himself " Chaplain of the 171 st Jiegt.
Pa. M.," after quoting the following from
our paper of some weeks since:
" John Webster, who joined the militia
from this county, as a substiiute for George
Harding, a drafted man, has returned to iliis
place, having lost his right eye, through the
ignorance, or carelessness, or both, of the
Surgeon of the 171 st Kegt., to .which he was
attached."
Says, we arc " too personal" and if we
" wish to keep out of difficulty we had bet
ter attend to our own business," and thai
the article is " basely false. Ac."
This Reverend sneak is hereby notified
that we are now, and have been in times past
attending strictly to our own business, and
that his threats of getting us into difficulty
we look upon as we do their author ; with the
most supreme contempt.
We have the authority of Mr. Webster
the victim, (which we regard as far better
than that of any abolition, white handker
chiefed horse-jockey preacher in the amy.)
for saying that the article is strictly true
If some other man, than the regular one was
at the time, acting surgeon .of the regiment,
this does not disprove what we have said.
One fact is apparaat, John Webster entered
the service with two good eyes, before he
left it, one of them, had run out ( f his head
and the other was only saved through the
most skillful treatment, after his return, lie
says that a foreign substance—ashes, got in
his eyes by accident—slight infiamation re
sulted ; and that in treating it, by the surgeon,
hie eye was burnt out, by nitrate of silver or
lunar caustic. It matters little which sur
geon did it, an acting assistant, or chief.
The eye is lost! and no brainless quack Doc
tor, nor abolition hypocrite of a preacher can
restore it.
We may hereafter, have something to say,
in regard to this class of men—preachers who
have been engaged for the past quarter of a
ceDtury, in preaching treason and nigger
ism, instead of the gospel of Christ; me n
whose bowlings from the pulpit and the
•tump have brought on this war, and who
have now entered the army, as non combat
ants! with no other object, than the pay, and
plunder incident to their positions.
_4*.
"NEGROES PREFERRED." —The House of
Congress recently made an appropriation ot
$52,000 for medical attendance medicines for
the contrabands now in the hands of the Gov
ernment. How happy many a poor white
man and woman in the North would be if
their doctors and medicines could be provided
by Uncle Sam.
JCST A family in Lowell sold the cottou
contents of their, mat trasses last week for
S6OO.
Loyalty.
The word loyalty, as defined by the Abo
lition administration, is about as vague and
uncertain as its definition of treason. To
gain the reputation of being loyal it does not
seem to be necessary that one should be un
conditionally for the war. Else this Aboli
tion administration would hold the following
extract, taken from a speech lately delivered
by that arch traitor Wendell Phillips, as dis
loyal
" Now I would accept anything on an an
ti-slavery basis ; 1 would accept a separation-,
I would eccept a compromise; I would ac
cept a union ; I would accept peace, and pay
the whole Confederate debt at par on an an
ti-slavery basis."
So it does not seem to be an element of
disloyalty, if one with Cameron believes that
the "Southern Confederacy will re-estab
lished," nor does it seem to be a " disloyal
practice" for Wendell Phillips to say that
" McClellan's guns never hurt any body,"
nor does it seem to be "discouraging enlist
ments," when Wendell Phillips publicly and
advisedly slanders toe whole Army of the
Potomac in language as follows :
" Not that I distrust Hooker ; he is a brave
man and means to fight. But with that ar
my two-thirds McClellanized, he will do all
that is possible for a brave man to do. J5
On the contrary, language of this kind
seems to have the special sanction of tins
miserable Administration. For lias not
Wendell Phillips lately been at Washington?
Was he not there closeted with Old Abe ?
Was he not a short time ago introduced on
the floor of the Senate to A ice-President
Hamlin and entertained at the house of Speak
er Grow ? Fresh from Washington he
seems to be the special mouth-piece of the
administration to parade its views before the
country. Soo too if one dares to express
what he cannot help believe that the Eman
cipation Proclamation is a violation of the
Constitution, or that negroes are unfit for
soldiers and ought not to be placed side by
side with white men in battle, or that the
confiscation bill is unconstitutional and im
polite, or that the consription bill can never
be enforced, or that the establishment of
Western Virginia as a State is not according
to law, or that legal tender notes are not the
best money in the world, or that the Presi
dent cannot supersede all .law, arrest men
without war rant, suspend the writ of habeas
corpus and hold them in durance vile until
it suits his pleasure to let them off, or if one
is opposed to b tying up negroes wholesale MI
the District of Columbia, in Western Virgin
ia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, or :f
one expresses the opinion that the war is mis
managed, that Cameron is corrupt, that Old
Abe is an ignora nus, that Stanton does not
wield tho sword of Gideon and that Welles
is not dead but sleepeth—all these express
ions and opinions are traitorous and rebell
ious in the extreme. The Woolly heads ar
rogate to themselves all the patriotism, ail
the loyalty of the country. It does not seem
that fidelity to the Constitution is required,
nor an honest purpose of restoring the Union
desirable. On the contrary, it is the rankest
treason to taik of the Constitution as it is
and the Union as it was. Thad. Stevens is
an intense loyalist according to the adminis
tration definition ; so is Wendell Pnillips ;
so is Henry \Y ard Beecher ; so is Charles
Sumner; and yet they openly oppose the
restoration of the Union as it was ; they call
the Constitution a useless parchment ; and
they th;nk-our forefathers were egregious
fools for adopting such a form of government.
The key to admittance to this precious set
of loyalists is the negro. Whatever other
opinions a man may hold, if he will but join
the shout of the noble arn^'of contractors:
" Great is Old Abe and the idols lie has set
up for us," then in truth he is a loyalist and
need have no fear of bastiles, chains or prc
vost marshals!
There is however a large class of men in
these Northern States—sometimes called
Democrats, sympathizers with treason, trai
tors, Copperheads—who don't join in shout
ing Te Abrahamutu Laudamus, and who are
for the " Constitution as it is and the Union
as it was." They are quite a large class of
men and are said to have carried the elections
in New York, New Jetsey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indianna, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Del
aware. They are found in large proportions
in the army and navy. They ate said to
have filled the Lincoln bastiles because they
exercised the right of Iree speech and free
press. They are peace men, since the war
has been turned into a negro crusade, and
hope to re-unite the disevered States by en
forcing the Cons'itntion in the spirit which
originated it and the decisions of the Supreme
Court interpreting it. Of course Woolly
heads call them traitors. The army of con
tractors name them Copperheads. The pimps
of administrative favor look upon them as
sympathizers with treason. Yet they still
live and move and have their being. They
intend carrying the elections in New Hamp
shire ami Connecticut. They keep step to
the music of the Union, and their flag has no
fifteen stars erased ; but its azure field and
glotious str pes remind one of 1770. 1812 and
1840, when it was the escutcheon of the nob
lest, bravest, freest, best governed people on
the face of the globe. Although much per
secuted of late ; their presses destroyed ;
their leaders imprisoned ; their families inti
midated ; their private papers seized ; yet
they are the very law-abiding people ; and
in atl their trials have dared their prosecutors
to give them a fair and impartial hearing
And it has so happened that where thev have
obtained such hearing, they have been ac
quitted, redeemed, and disenthralled ! Their
loyalty is to the constitution and the Union.
They do not believe that Abe Lincoln is a
Moses resuscitated. In their huuihle opin
ion the government of the United States, as
it came from the hands of Washington, is of
more worthy adoration, than this same gov
ernment as usurped by Abe Lincoln. Their
shibboleth is " the Constitution as it is and
the Union as it wa," " liberty and the Ua-1
ion, now and forever, one and inseparable, '
free speech, free press, and free men. Wool
ly 4 heads call this disloyalty. Cot them make
the most of it.— Carbon Democrat.
Afraid to Trust the Government.
Evidence, abundant and conclusive, pre
sents itself on all sides, that the people—men
of all parties—have no confidence in the Gov
erntnen under Lincoln's Abolition Adminis
tration and are afrain to trust it.
If it is not so, why does it require $172
ir Lincoln greenbacks to buv SIOO in gold ?
If it js not so, why is it that inonied men
are unwilling to loan money to the Govern
ment at 0 per cent, interest ? Thousands
and millions of dollars are being loaned to in
dividuals, corporations, and States at 5 per
cent, inteaest. There is now on deposit in
the banks of this country nearly a million of
dollars—more than half a million in the B nk
of Chester County—the most of it belonging
to. Republicans who know that the Govern
ment is begging for money, but they will not
loan it a dollar ?
Why, John Hickman, himself, who has
contributed, by his speeches and votes, t<>
push the country int its present ruinous
condition, will not loan to the Government a
red cent of the thousands he has poketed as
a member of Congress. He votes for laws to
draw money from other people, but his own
he prefers to invest in West Chester Gas
Stock, where he has hope of getting it back,
to letting it go to the Government, which he
(ears will never pay !
These Jacls speak for themselves. So far
as Republican inonied men are concerned. they
show them to be acting most hypocritically
towards the public, and disloyally towards the
Government. As honest and true ni n, they
should at once plant themselves on constitu
tional ground, in favor of Peace and Union, r
come forward and loan their money to enable
Lincoln's Administration to catty on the war
on the emancipation programme. Their con
duct seems to say : " J he c >untry has gone to
the deal; tcc are trying to save ourselves !"
This is truly an alarming financial condi
tion of things. 1.-sumg more " greenbacks"
will not, cannot better it. Lincoln and his
Congress cull for men, but men and 110 mon
ey will not auswer. "The last man" will
be of 110 avail without " the l ist dollar.'* Why
not, then, take money as they take men by
consci ipthn 1 It is just as certain that there
are millions of money as there are thousands
ol men. And what i 3 money in comparison
to human hie ?
Is it not time fir rulers ar.i people to
awake, when it is evident that the monied
men ol the land, with millions lying idle, are
unwilling and afraid to trust the Government?
Oh that God would inspire the minds of rul
ers with true wisdom, and tie hearts of the
people with the patriotism of the Fathers,
tl at the country, the whole country, may be
saved, and ail the Stales be in umsou as at
the beginning. Thee no 0110 will be afraid to
trust the Government.— Jeffersoniau-
Pardoning a Mob.
"The quality of mercy is not strained," it
seems, in the hands of Gov. Curt in. when he
was called upon to exercise the pard ning
power for the benefit oi a gang of abolition
mobiles. Last summer a number of these
last worthies in liloonisburg, maltreated and
ahused an old man by the name of Ever, who
chanced to visit the seat of justice of hi
county. He is a Democrat, and in a time o!
fierce excitement, that was a sufficient cause
to warrant them in chasing him with a rail,
a rope, and threatening him with various
01 her indignities unbecoming good and peace
ful citizens. Mr. Eyer, after being thus
roughly treated, appealed for redress to the
law. lie bad all of the gang that he knew
prosecuted, and at the last session of the
Columbia Court they were convicted of rioL
and sentenced to pay a fine of SSO each and
the costs. The Bloomsburg Republican ra
ther exulting says, '• The facts were forward
ed on to Gov. Curtin, who at once made out
and sent back an unconditional pardon."
Can this be possible ! Is Gov. Curtin the
guardian and protector of riots and mobs in
Pennsylvania!? Every newspaper in the
Slate ought to publish the outrage. If Gov .
Curtin is thus going to interfere and defeat
the ends of justice, and destroy personal se
curity, then there is no means left but for
every democrat to prepare to defend hitn<e!t
when thus assailed. Curtin's term of office
ex [ires next fall, nr.d he will be the last of
his kind.— Democrat, Sunbury.
A Significant Appointment.
On the 15th of last month, the President
nominated to the Senate, General John W.
Phelps to the office of Major General, to date
from December 4, 18G1.
The inquiry very naturally arises, what
gallant deed did Gen. Phelps perform on the
4th day ef December, 18G1 ? On turning
back to our files, we find that this is the date
of the memorable proclamation issued, by
this officer at Ship Island, in which he an
nounced these sentiments :
Slavery is as fit at this moment for the
lumber room of the past as wete, in 1793, the
landed wealth, the exclusive privilege, etc. of
the Catholic Church in France.
It behooves us to consider, as a self gov
erning people, bred and reared and practiced
in the habits of self government, whether we
cannot, whether we ought not, revolutionize
slavery out of existence, without the necessi
ty of a conflict of arms like that of the French
Revolution.
So extraordinary and ill advised was this
document that the President was constrained
to disclaim it, in the following emphatic lan
guage
" 1 need hardly say that the issuing of any
proclamation was neither suggested nor au
thorized by me, and most certainly not such
a one."
Does the President now propose to endorse
and adopt the views he then repudiated ?
Well may the anxious pasfengers in our no
ble ship of state inquire, "Where are we drift
ing ?— Ex-
Soldiers as Politicians.
The Second New Hampshire Regiment is
now in the Park barracks in this city, on its
way home to recruit its thinned ranks up to
a full complement of men. This veteran reg
iment deserves to be received with honor in
every city and town it passes through, and
we hope it will not be forgotten or neglected
by our citizens. The Second New Hamp
shire hai been in all the noted battles in \ ir
ginia, and the record it has made is a proud
one. Its departure from the army fc:ys, hu.w
ever, we regret to learn, occasioned among
tiie other old regiments, The Pennsylvania
Reserves hive actually mutinied, both men
and officers and on Friday last refuse ! to do
picket duty. They claim that they wore In
the held as soon as the New Hampshire
troops, and are even more reduced in num
bers than they. The reason why the New
Hampshire troops have been sent home in
preference to other regimen s is, it seems,
because of the election soon to place in
that stale. The officers an I inr-n are to he
used to help the adininistr*' :->n candidates.
A very different rest.lt will, we firmly be
heve, follow. Proud as the people of tlie
Old Gianite State must be of their gallant
representatives in the field, it w ill he regard
ed as litile less than in insult that soldiers in
the pay of the administration are to be used
f>r merely political purposes. Military pipe
laying of this kind must he discountenanced.
Soldiers are officered, drilled, and paid to
light battles and capture military posts, not
to turn the scale or influence improperly
peaceable political contests in a loyal state.—
The atiempt to do so is fraught with mis
chievous possibilities, and we hope that in
the coming election the people of New Hamp
shire wiII give the administration a lecture
on this subject it will not soon forget. —N. Y.
II orld.
Minister from Huyti.
This Administration and Congress are go
ing it loud on the nigger question. They
have not only put Sambo on an equality with
our brave white private soldiers in the army,
but at New Orleans they have Captains.
Lieutenants &e., of the same color. The lat
est novelty in this line is the announcement
that a darkey Minister and S cre t a r V of le
gation, from Hayti, -arrived at New Y -rk
1 Ins is quite a.v, innovation on y!<l establish
ed cus'ouis. Fancy abg darkey among the
'.uVored diplomatic corps, paying Ins respects
to Abraham 'tie First, while "the white
trash'' must stand back until "discolored
gemmate' retires. This last attempt to pile
on Cuffec, don't go down so well, hence it is
hinted tbat the abolition managers aie keep
ing these representatives ot the Pine and
Palm hack in some corner of New York City,
fearful that if they trot them up to the White
House at Washington before Coi giv-s ad
journs, that it might complicate difficulties
in the National Councils.
The Fredericksburg Massacre.
The feeling throughout the country against
all to whom blame attaches for the useless
slaughter of brave men it Frederick-burg is
intense. Almost every county in this .State
lost some i f its best sons in that fearful
bloody massacre, and a feeling of vengeance,
we fear, is cherished against the authors of
the revolting tragedy. The Greenbiirg
Democrat publishes a list of the names of
killed and wounded from that c< >uuty, and
then remarks:
" The lives of Lincoln, Stanton. Ilalleck,
ami Buruside are no more valuable than the
lives of those whom they marched out lo
needless slaughter and misery. Why, then,
should they be permitted to live and murder
our people wnhout mercy? 4 [ mean to
make the Army of the Potomac go to Rich
mond, if they have to go on crutches,' .s the
heartless declaration of a black-hearted mur
derer and scoundrel who is unworthy alike
of the respect or regard of men >r the mer
cy or blessing of ILaven. We wish to God
that the me t who caued the hell's' L ot--ery
at Fredericksburg had been atjing u vic
tims.
"The lives of some of our relatives and
friends have been sacrificed in this unholy
war—unholy because for the God accursed
nigger—and we have no mercy for their mur
derers. May the vengeance of Heaven Earth
and Hell 4 forever follow, rest upon, and
abide with them.' "
—
The-olil Joker in a Dilemma.
We heard it remarked in conversation,
tliej other evening, that since Jeff. Davis
had issued a certain proclamation, tn which
he commended the interests of the South to
the care of the Almighty, we had not gained
a single victory. This somewhat siartled ns,
and we temarked that Father Abraham had
intrusted the interests of the North to the
care of the Almighty, also, and we could not
understand why Jeff Davis should have the
preference. A friend sitting near solved the
mystery by remarking that " G.d did not
know whether Abe was in earnest, or only
joking—Ex.
Col. Thomas 11. Ford, who was
cashiered for his disgraceful conduct in the
surrender of Harper's Ferry, has been rein
stated by the President. The President, on
reviewing the testimony, reversed sentence iu
his case, and permitted hun to resign his
Commission. The man who lost us Harpers'
feriy, and 11,000 men is restored—while
Gen Fitz John Porter, the hero oj ma .y a
well fought field is cashiered! The differ
ence between the two men is that Gen. Por
ter, is a Democrat, while Col. Ford is one of
the ranting abolitionists of Ohio. What is
this but polit.es in war ?
CASSIUS M. CLAY GOING TO RUSSIA. It is
stated that Cassius M Clay has finally deter
mined to abandon his major general's com
mission and to return to Russia. He will
start in a short time and will ut once relieve
Bayard lay lor, who has been acting mini-ter
since Mr. Cameron's departure. Mr. Camer
on it is stated is aleo relieved.
Letter from the Army.
CAMJP NEAR BELLS PLAINS, \a. )
Feb. 14th 18GG. $
DEAR FATHER :
I received your letter
about two weeks ag>, and was glad to hear
that you were all well. My health has been
poor for some time. lam a little better to
day., I hope to le entirely well, soon, for it
is a hard place to be sic* down here, lying
on the ground with no one to take Cnre of me.
A sick man is not noticed here, as long as he
■1 • 1;1
can stir. 1 will tell you what 1 think about
this war, and the Usage the poor soldiers
1 down Iteie., When I enlisted I was to
have one month's pay.in advance, and then
t'be-paid everyi two months. It has now
been over live months stride I enlisted and I
huvir't been paid one cent, except our boun
ty. Who would blame a soldier tor desert
ing, who has a family at home starving, for
want of six or eight months pay due from
the government? Would it. not lie better
to p y the soldiers the money the govern
ment takes to pay and Clothe the negrres and j
send them back where they belong to liicii
masters ? 1 am no abolitionist. 1 came
down here to put down the rebellion, but
tliar is not what we are fighting for novr.—
When our President took his seat I thought
him ? good Union man, hut the abohtt mists
have hmi now under their rule. The war
will never end as long as t here is so many <>l
them in Congress. 1 say, let i'nose who
want the negroes free come and fight to In e
them. The soldiers say if they had known
that they were to be used to free negroes,
they would never have enlisted I hear that
another draft will be made in the spring, but
f hope the men in the north have got awake
enough to stand for their rights and not suff. r
another dralt to be made, in such a war as
this. No man can write half of the iniqui
ties of tins war or tell of half of the wrongs
suffered by the soldier Good bye to all.
Fi otn \ our son
EMS HIXKLCY.
Napoleon did no; mvrge the
publican into an tm; ip j re at one buM gtruke
but gradua \y alu j surt .|y | ie t j„i |,} B Work . —
Leitry the Eighth did not absorb the liberty
of the English people into ins kingly preroga
tive openly and at once ; but slowly and can
ntngly he accomplished his purpose. " His
tory repeals itself; ami a glance at the past
may sometimes throw light oa the future.—
Ewe tange.
It cannot be done in this country. The
people at e wide awake, and jealous of their
rights, and as each returning election comes
ihev will u cast out Devils, 1 ' and "pelorni
other wotnler.nl works." Tee cur-e.; whtcn
followed old John Adams' Administration
will be in c unptrison to those which will fol
low this one, oniy as a inoie lull is by the side
of a mountain.
£.-27* An upstart captain undertook 'to drive
from bis seat att oiil gentleman muffled 111 a
cloak, in the cars between Washington and
Baltimore, not long since. The old gentleman
bore the leilow's insolence as 1 ng as he could,
when he threw >tf:iis cloak, revealing a major
general's rig. and ordered the captain tin ier
arrest for tit.gentlemanly and unsol iieilv cm
duct. The oi l gentf man was Gen. Couch.
STILL IIANRKKI.NI; AEIEU rue NEGRO.—
W hen the aruiy apptopriation hill, which
amounts m toe aggregate to ovei S7O, OOU/iOO
W.is before the 11 -u-e of Jiepr. -en'.a : it es, Mr.
M dlwj\, of ly.oifucKy, i fi'-tx-d tne to.iuvviug
aim. minient :
lirsoicttl mat no part of the money appro
priated stiaii be > 1 expended a> to encourage
the escape of slaves iruin their masters, or to
support and maintain slaves that do escape
froiu tfietr masters, or f.r any purp. el
emancipation or c ionization, <-r f..r any o her
object than re-t stabiishmeni of the authority
of tne Constitution and the laws of the I til
ted States over (he Rebels.
This was opposed by he Abol tionists in
that body and deleatcd by a vole 0} GG nays
to .j,J yeas. So it seetns t hat we are not yet
dolie paying taxes to keep niggers.
£ y* Some of the Abolition papers advise
the Lincoln Administration, to have a secret
police appointed over the whoie Country.—
They alleged that 110 Biack Republican is
safe at his own fireside. The Democrats,
they say, have all Lee nne members of some
secret association, and ly.fights vre piowiing
abut to gobble up innocent Abolitionists
who may lie out after dark.
We have no idea that the advice has been
taken but still some fellows try to get near
to listen whenever they see two or three
Democrats Hiking together. They watcn
where they go, and what they do Tuese
Lincoln spies are contemptible but harmless
beings. What if Democrats should practice
such a contemptible business?
►
THE CHAIN GANG. —Last evening some
thirty captured deserters, chained together in
Couples, were marched to the depot under a
strong military guard, and put on board a
tr<in for Washington, fn 111 whence they will
be sent to their resp ctive re.iinents. There
is something humiliating and disgusting in
the exhibition of soldiers ou the public street
manacled like so many criminals, and the
barbarous practice ought te be dispensed with
—Patriot Univn.
The Republican papers have not a word to
say about this, but were the same thing to
happen at Richmond they would injure their
crazed imaginations in attempts to tnagutfy
the tyrrany of the South.
The Richmond Whig of the 20th
inst. urges that not a plant of tobacco he rais
ed litis tear in \ irginia or North Carolina, as
to support their ariuie- in these States it is
absolutely necessary to cultivate the whole
tillable aera of such in breadstuff's, &c.
TRENTON, N. J., Feb 2G. —The Democratic
caucus continued in Sesseon till midnight, and
on the 22D ballot, nominated the Hon. Win.
W fight of Essex county, for six y ears from
the 4th of March. He was subsequently
elected by the Legislature.
SCRAPS OF WAR NEWS
From the Daily Papers.
IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE W A
ISSII'PI. ,H *
PLAN TO ANNIHILATE or
FLEET.
RESIGNATION OF GEN- JOHN COCHRANE.
THE VICKSBURG CUT-OFF COMPLEX
TUB GUNBOATS PASSEO THROUGH.
The Capture oi the *• dueeii of the West ••
The Ship Jacob Bell Burned at Sea by th
Florida. '
LOSS—I,SOO,OOO.
CAPTURE OF THE U.S. IRON-CUD INDIAN
OLA.
FORTRESS MJNRIE, Feb 28
The British frigate Petrel arrived in Hamp
ton Roads last night from Charleston. y >ie
officers report that the rebels have a strong
net work across the channel to the entrance
of Charleston haibor, and that the net-work'
is filled with torpedoes, designed to Wow
any of the federal fleet that may attempt ♦
enter the harbor.
The resignation of General c
has been accepted be lije p resl( ] ent) f )jf
reasons bv ';/„ nse i f Btate(K He desi?ns m
m other fields to c mtmuo his support of the
war for the Union. The officers of his bn->.
a<ie accompanied him in a body to the ctrsn
Falmouth on his departure.
NE.V Y OKK, March I.
The Me rat rig has a special dispatch fr, Jla
Cairo, of yesterday's date, containing the f o [.
lowing items:
Cain i> full of startling rumors. It j s
stated that on the 2Gth the Vicksburg cutoff
was c -mpleted, the dredging machine having
been at work for several days. It is asserted
that the gun boats have a!! gone through and
the transports are preparing to follow, after
the rebel batteries at Warrentou are reduced.
The whole force is to be sent agiiust Port
Hudson.
It in also stated tbat the small gun boat
fleet have reached the Yazoo river, via Union
Lake, and are playing mischief in the rear of
Yicksburg. It is also reported that the boats
have gone into Red Iliver, via Lake Provi
deuce.
CAIRO, Feb. 28. Full despatches in regard
to the capture of the steatner Queen of tin
If ml. by the rebels, have been received.
On the day before her capture she went
down below Chafalava a few miles, and cap
tured a rebel train of seventeen v.agous. Up
on returning, those who captured the wagon
train were tired upon by guerrillas near
Se nimes p' >rt.
On the next morning a force was landed,
who destroyed ail the buildings in the vicini
ty.
Toe Queen vj the West is said to have been
considerably damaged by the Rebel fire.
I He steamers wtnch a ceo upauied Iter wore
1.1 evil up :n order to prevent them from fall
ing mtu the hands of the Rebels.
DISUKAC'EFL'L AFFAIR NEAR STRAS3CRG \'A.
WHEELING, March 1.
Tin c urespondent of ihe Wheeling Inlelli
g> net 1 at Wo.ciit -ier, un.'er date ot the 2Cih
OI\I s the following particulars of a disgrace
lui all'.iir between a pot lion of our troops and
the Rebels. Oil 'he 2olh the Rebel cavalry
>coui. eighty strong, came inside of our pick
et> <ai the Stru&hurg road, and after a skir
mish with the infantry, two were wounded
on either side, retired, capturing a cavalry
picket of twelve men. Five hundred of the
Tlurteen'h Pet.nsy Ivania and First New York
Cavalry were sent out in pursuit, and recap
tured. beyond Strasburg, rno>t of the prison
ers and horse-, and also took a number of
pt tsoners.
The commander of our detachment trail
-c-nded Irs .11 b rs and pursued them beye* d
Wo >ut< ck, after driving in the Relit! pickets,
w here he stood pailejing, without guarding
against surprise. The enemy returned in
free, and charging our men, threw them into
confusion, killing and capturing two hundred
in their flight of twenty miles. Our nt n
made no stand, though outnumbering the
enemy.
On the I2th of February, in lat. 24, long. OS
the Fioi da captured and burnt the spip Ja
cob Bel' hound from China for New York.
The J Cob Bell bad sixteen hundred tons of
tea on ooird. Her passengers and ercw were
transferred to a Danish vessel and arrived at
St. Thomas on the 12th of February.
WASHINGTON, March 2.
The Navy Department had advices ftoai
Cairo that intelligence has reached there tbat
ihe rebels have captured the iron clad Itidi
anola. 'I he dispatches are contradictory as
to tiie imnnorin which she was cipture-l,
but there is no doubt of the entire truth tf
the matter. It is needless to add that the
disaster iias created considerable alarm at the
Capitol, occurring as it does so soon alter the
more than sufficient calamity embodied in'-ho
loss of the Queen of the West. Sp°cn!ation
is rife as to the d n. consequences which ti l3 . v
result to all our undertakings with reference
to the opt ning of the Mississippi. The pro
ject, which previously looked so feasible, of
opening a passage to the Red river by way
of the Tensas, is now regarded quashed, for
the reason that ttie two iron cladi below are
transformed from friends to enemis, against
which the lighter fleet of Monitors to tie
floated through the new passage will find it
impossible to compete. Thoughts of ttie rb"
er south of Port Hudson are also full of anxi
ety. \\ )at havoc might be caused among
our inefficient Southern Mississippi fleet by
the onslaught from above of the two splendid
rains that have just come into rebel posses
sion ts a theme ot serious and popular discus
sion. Only one of our rams, the Essex,'®
known to be attached to Farragut's Act' l
against which the Queen of the West, the
Indianoia, and the Webb would bo over
whelming antagonists.
There are rumors of other and greater dis
asters, of which no particulars have been re
ceived.