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Ma.,1;paper Wore flames,! fHE NORTHiRN CONGRESS. |<“
under lit*r burning stare.
“Quick ! ’ .sire repeated, “order his
release, or you die.”
It was loo much. Prince could not
stand it. lie bade her lower her in
ternal weapon for God’s sake, and the
•adv frankness, interspersed with 1 >»oy should be forthwith liberated,
anecdotes and illustrations.- - the order liisi,” she replied
Duting the stay of Col. Jones in
Nashville, we have had the pleasure of
many fireside talks with him upon af
fairs in the West, which he discusses
w nli re
many aiu-cuoies aim i.iiisiiaiioiis.- |
These stones have led us to believe
that, tints far, Missouri has the heltoi I
of other seats ol hostility for the real
romance ol war. Most assuredly the
light tlu ie has been waged with fiercer
earnest than almost anywhere else.—
The iemote geography of the country,
the rough, unhewn character of the
people, the intensity and ferocity of the
passions excited, and the general na
ture of the complicity reduced to a
warfare essentially partisan and Iron- j
tii r, gave to its progress a wild aspect, I
peculiail> susceptible to deeds, and
suggestive of ttmughts, of lotnantic in
terest. None ol these struck us more
forcibly than the stoiy of Norah Me-
U’artey, the Jennie Deans of the West.
She lived in the interior of Missouii
— a little, pretty, black eyed giil, with
a soul as huge as a mountain, and a
form as frail as a fairy’s, and the com
age and pluck of a buccaneer into the
bargain, llerfalhei was an old inno-
a secessionist. She had hut a single
hiother, just growing hoiu boyhood li.
youllihood, hut sickly and lamed. The j
J.uiiiI> had lived in Kansas during lliej
Doubles of’f>7, when Norah was a men
gnl ut fourteen, or theieahouts. Hut
i vcn I lieu lit** beauty, wit and devil-
in.ij i aie sj»iiit were known far and
wide; ami many vveic the stones (old
- the ! ml del t. I 111 -1 S.|\ IOCS and
i!i lie's. Among other eliaiges l.n.l tv
In i dxv.i, it is said she bloke'all the
In-ails ol tiic v on tig bloods lai and wide,
and tiudition does even go so lar as to
ai: *-it that, like Hob Acres, she killed
a man once h week, keeping a private
church yard lor the purpose of decently
burying her dead. Hu this as it may,
.he w;e then, and is now, a dashing,
line looking, livc!\ giil, am! a picttici
liciuim- than will he lonml in a novel.
rise. Leesburg was imnninated
that night—illuminated by parricides
and rebels, and another Joul laurel was
added to those ol Bull Run, Big Beth
el, tbejdockade.of th.e Potomac, and
i'tiie fame surrender of our navy yards
The Battle of Ball’s Bluff or Lees
burg—luteresliug Discussion ou the
War.
The terrible character ol the defeat .pnJamagazines. Such was the battle
which the Yankees received at the
iininov t>i.
And the oidci was given; the lad
was himiglit out ; ami drawing his arm
m hers, tin; gallant sister marched out
of the place, with one hand grasping
one ol his, and the olliei hold ot her
trusty ivory handle. She mounted her
horse, bade him gel up behind, and
rode off, reaching home without acci
dent before midnight.
Now that is a fact stranger than fic
tion, which shows what sort of metal is
in oi i women ot tin.* much abused and
traduced nineteenth century.—Aa'i
ville Danner.
1 ...in ihe Mubilf Koj.;inlei A. AUvcrlift-r.
The ll tvl and East-
It is impossible hut to eoneludc that
the tlisiiicinheiinent .ol the late “Great
Kepuhhe." will licit end with the sepa-
latioii of the South from the North.- —
Jin- «lc: tiny ol the West can licit he
union with the Kaslt rn States’, loi the
most ooiniti.imling ul publico econo
uncal icasoi.s. As an agricultural it'
gioii, the polic\ ol the West must be
lret* trade 1 , hi a near approach to it,
land the piotectivc system ol (lie Eas
tern maiiulactuiiiig States, which will
wield the povvci, will he an insufferable
huidcii to it. It will he oppressed with
taxes lor suppoil ol a navy, ami with
charges lm the pioteetmn ot shipping
UitcicSts, 1 he existence t>I jijoSprjity til
licitiici ol which :•> ol the least minor
'.tnee to it, an in!.uni country without
a pint.
Tilt: piosperity of the ngiicultural
West is aiiuilulateil by the loss of the
Soiithein maikct,aml upon the heels of
t.ns disastei conies the establishment
ol the c\ticine pioteelive system of the
East, Imcing the Western tanner to
pay largely increased puces for maim
telured liu iciiamlisc, while Ins own
a . Will he seen it the good li.itlilcdj
ii .nli i has a immi to lollow us down
.In- Imttom of this column.
Not dong alter the Fcdcrals eame
into her neighborhood, and after they
had forced her lather to take the oath, | . U| | ulu> > | u . c i j
.hie’h lie did partly because he was a | can .
‘See wli.il awfully desolating results
\v is! tire secession ol that e- un-
I piodiic’tions'do not yield half piieo.—-
1 he West la hot only cut oil Iroin its
best inaiket, Gut liom its best load to
olliei luaikcts. 't hese tacts are veiy
Joreihly put by that bitter and unseru-
the St. Louis Republi-
hav c It
luei'ce.
h»- Western St.it
ii pi- a;c tic.hiding aide! it.
Ninth, imiii.' lit.ii ii v hcnctitlcd ny a de
maiid for anny supplies, dues nut leel
it, as it will by ami by. But sttivey
the West —vvitli no choice oi an outlet
to Europe save through New York—
its products at half their former pi ice,
ami all its purchases at double that
puce. In tact, the larsuers it the Wi lt
call seaicclv raise produce at current
l’hc g.c
- o| Eu
Uni own I provided.
to
vciv out man, unable to take the field,)
ami Imped theichy to save the secuiity
oi Ins hoiisehoid, and partly because j
he could not tieip luiiiscll ; not long I
aitci tin e two impoitant events ill tin- j
hi:-1oi v ol oiu hciuine, a bodv ot men j
Inin died ii|i one evening, whilst she j
wa nn a visit to a neiglibor’s, and ar- )
tested her sickly, weak brother, hearing
him oil to Leavenworth City, where he |
was lodged in the military guard house. |
It was neatly night before Noiah
it ached home. When she did so, and
discovered the outiage which had been
|. i i pet rsited and the gild ot Ini old
i.ilhci, ltd 1 .ii',* klleW no hounds. Al
though the mists wen: tailing, am! the | [ j, ( ^
night was closing in, dark and dieaiv,i . - ( ^j-
slic oidcli d hei horse to be le saJdlcd, j
put on a thick ru.tout, belled a sash j , |ia , Nl , ut „ industry,and the
.ouml lic waist, and, sticking a pair ol v( ,|.ern eommeree with
nory handled pistols in her buMim, - |( . t , M . „. st ut ifie United States.—
•t.otcd Oil after the snldieis. 'I he post , u ., ||S • V( , sunP ,. re dii to the men,
w ., many miles distant. But that she \ w1uj> ,^.fining a system which,
,l,d m,t icga.d. Ov. i lull lluoiigl. | lluit|;il| l ia;; hc'hi
mai Ii, under cover (it the darkness,
:.'ic galloped on to the li
! He cliclny . At
11y luini'dit hei to ii stand, with a
hoaise—
‘ Who goes there ?”
‘•No matter,” she replied,“I wish to
•ee Col. Prince, your commanding of
In ci, and instantly, too.”
Somewhat awed by the pirsciice ot
hands of the Virginians and Missippi
aiis under Gen. Evans at Lecsbur
affords quite a harrowing theme fin
buncombe to the Yankee Congress
men. On the Gth inst., a Mr. Conk-
ling, of New York, introduced a rest*
lution calling upon the Secretary ol
War fin an investigation into the cause
of the disaster of the battle ol Ball’s
Bluff. The proposition met with vio
lent opposition, many ol the members
evincing a disposition to shirk the re-
puusibilily, but the motion was finally
rained bv a small niajouty. Thu dis
mission assumed a wide range, and
brought out some of the most promi
nent lights of the Black Republican
party to their feet on the subject ol the
war and slavery.
We give below an inteicsting sketch
of the proceedings in legard to tins
matter:
Mi . Roscoe li. (’oiikling, (Rep.) ol
New Yoik, i sing to a question ot pm
liege, called attention to the tact that,
mi the second day ol the session, a
resolution was adopted with iclcreiice
to the battle of Ball s Blulf. The res
olution proposed no investigation into
any future transactions whatever; it
simply requested the Sceretaiy ot War
to inform the House whether any steps
have been taken to ascertain who was
responsible I u the disastrous affair at
Hail’s /fluff.
The House will have some idea ol
the rapidity if tiaii poitatioii, ami will
be picpared to do justice tu the la
mented Baku, who is no more, when
they trail to i dud that, long before lie
had cominan 1 of the expedition, Col.
Devin was otdcied the night before, to
cross over fo ii companies of tl e .Mas
sachusetts Kiltcemh. 'J'liis the officer
in question commenced to do at two
o’clock iii the iiioining, and ii was
suniise Leton he could take up Ins
line ol iiiaieii, showing lli.il upwaids
ol an hour was necessary for the
throwing over of a company from the
Mary land shore to Ball's Bind. Baker
received ordcis at two o’clock in the
morning, and immediately eommeneed
his progress v iiliout a wharf to land at,
or a rope or l.awser to stretch across
theiivci to b isten their crossim*' —
Ncitl.ei rope, hawser or a\e had been
Nucii wcie the coudiinaton
t eirciimstam cs against him, that it
was not until eleven o’clock that lie
began to cries. Then the rebel lire
commenced the slaughter of the de
tachment first anded, and the oouts on
their side began to pull to the island
wi.h the bleeding and the slain, and
the hospitals then began to till with
of tfall’s Bluff- Such if stands to-day
on the page of history. The States
, j whose soldiers most severely suffered
in it nm.v. be named-—New York,Mas
sachusetts and PennfeyIvania. In the
name of the brade and lamented men
who fell that day, out of regard for the
living and the dead, out of regard for
the great interests to be effected by an
investigation, I think all the circum
stances connected with the planning
ami execution of the battle ought to
|, t . brought to light. 1 hope they will
lie. 1 hope the committee appointed
!>! H*i
Wtill!
tlu* 1 ill I
MJ Nulltlit 1 li trade. Men
n y of .ill those theoiics
’ * ’ I spai mg oi
icai quartets ol , ' .-
> j lUO'IllClIV
i Mu: call ol a sen
a v ciiiiig I'Muale
hoi
k at dial
aiin*, cannot compel
iciicwcd union
■ le Imnr, and peilnqis struck by hei j w ii| t j),,. South, die' West may piolta-
ipeiious tone ot coiumand, the Yan 1 |,j v ., ,.p union with us Ly friendly
j the dynig and the dead. But still the
\ n !d oi Ins farm eiussing went an, till seven thousand
:.c wage:, ol the bands | 1V u bundled tneti, aecotduig to Stone,
ii:a- it. No pad ol the | were thrown over. But oi these, not
s mure alllictcd !,y the j more than eigl icen luimiied ever saw
the field, ’l'hcy had to climb the mud
of the blull, dragging their dismounted
arms after them, before they could
reach the field, whiefi they could not
but suppose would open to them a fair
fight, ii not a scene ot victory. But
ibis dillc n't ascent led them to no field
ol Ian or equal w ar, but to a slaughter
pen —to a men* trap, a horrible Gol
gotha. The position ot tin* enemy was
screened fioui view or aim by a thick
growth of timber, and to tins hmial
ground, as the boats, one by one,
brought them over, went up the devo
ted and doomed, Pending those tracks
to the lion’s den, all pointing in one
duectiori, atid showing no it-Puning
footprints. Behind them rolled the
liver, deep ami broad, and which they
vveie never to lepass. Before them,
up to IIII-
liunqhnve made that system
c ol so many and iMi at bulle
tin’ vvillidiavval ol them lias
and tlelublmg thlollgh the
Ills, that
sent tear
nations.
The West is fighting now to retain,
it possible, the advantages it possessed
in niii' ii with the South. It hears no
love to the East, and li-els- m> fraternity'
with it. Win n it r. deini'iistiated that
I tc on,ml, without hc.-.i'alion, coiiduct-
t 11 it-1 into the fortifications, and thence
• o the quartets of the Colonel onm-
nvaiiding, with whom she was left
alone.
“Well, madam,” quoth the Yankee
officer, with bland politeness, “to what
am I indebted for the liunoi ot this
v .-.it
’ Is the t o!. I*inn'f* replied the
brave giil, quietly.
“It is, and yourself r”
“No matter. 1 have come here to
inquire whether you have a lad by the
name of McCartey a prisoner?”
“There is such a prisoner.”
“May I ask, lor why ?”
“(Yitainly, for being suspected of
tiea'.nti.ible connecliiin with the ene-
m v.”.
“ 7'/ raxoinible connection with the
< in my ' Why, the hoy is sick and
lame, lie is besides my brother; and
I have come to ask his immediate re
lease. ’
The Yankee officer opened his eyes;
was sorry he could not comply with
the request of so winning a suppliant ;
and must teally Leg her to desist and
leave the fori less.
"1 demand his release’’ cried she, in
i.piy.
“That you cannot have.” returned
he, “the boy is a rebel and a traitor,
and unless you retire Madam, 1 shall
ho forced to arrest you on a similar
suspicion.’’
“Suspicion ' I a lehel and n
Pailor, too, if you wish. Young Me-
Ga’P y is my brother, and 1 don’t leave
this tent until he gees with me. Order
),j.s instant release, or” here she drew
one of the aforesaid ivory-handles out
of her bosom and levelled the muzzle
of it directly at him, “i will put an
ounce of lend in your brain before you
can call a single sentry to your relief.”
A picture that!
There stood the heroic giil; eyes
Hashing fire, check glowing with an
earnest will, lips firmly set with reso
lution, and hand out-stretched with a
loaded pistol ready to send the con-
t ents through the now thoroughly I
irightened, startled, aghast soldier, who 1
to investigate into the conduct of the
war, will iK't overlook the battle. 1
hope no apologies and no private in-
t,.lusts will dissuade from an investiga
tion into it, by any statement that the
revelations of the whole truth yvill be
detrimental to the public service, come
from what quarter that statement may.
I do not think that, after the publica
tion of the repoit of the adjutant gen-
er.d, in iHeiciiee to the division of
General Fremont, the publication of
; ,iiything can he injurious to anybody.
Jji any comt of justice, at least ac-
cu|c mg to the well settled principles of
equity ami justice, the military au-
thoiiues who oppose this investigation
and the publication of the facts, would
be stopped from setting their votes
against it. At all events, the House
yViiJ he sale in ventilating the authois,
and holding up to public view, too,
tl.c authors ol the gicatest national ca
lamity and disgrace which has yet been
talked ol m Gath and published in the
sheets of Askalon. 1 want it to be
distinctly understood that
matter on the attention of live nouse
and the country on several points,each
of which call loudly for an explanation
ii an explanation he offered. In the
first place, the division of Gen. McCall
was on the one side of the river vvitli
Li esbtirg, within a few hours’ march,
and yet was not employed in the at
tack, but another division was selected
lying ou the opposite side of the Po
tomac. Secondly, the crossing place
selected was one of the worst and most
dangerous that could have been found.
Third, there was a want of Pansport a-,
tion, inasmuch that means of crossing,'
absolutely indispensable, were wholly
unpiov ided, although they might have
been easily procured. Fourth, the
number ot troops sent over to Ball’s
Blurt was wholly insufficient, and this,
though more than the needed number
were close at hand. Fifth, no rein
forcements reached Col. Baker, altho’
aside from the command of Gen. Mc
Call, there were troops and artillery on
Loth sides of the liver,within four miles
ol the field <>t battle.
All these grounds of censure may
be explainable ; it so. j* is but just to
tlie nig • . <le.«n that an o|q>ur-
tunity should he atloided. ll they are
not susceptible of explanation, for
higher reasons enquiry ought not to
slumber. \Ye should watch, with jeal
ous eye, the light of wholesome enqui
ry. The enquiry related to a gieat
national calamity ; to the most atrocious
military minder cvci committed in our
history; to the most humiliating tii
iiiuph ol the H-hellion ; to a blunder
so gross, that every man can see, and
muu has ever dared to deny or defend.
Besides the defeat and the large loss of
arms and munitions of war, there was
a sacrifice ot six hundred and thirty
men. If Col. Baker was responsible,
most lamentably has he suffered. If
Gen. Stone is responsible, a greater
weight of guilt never restc
other man than on him.
incensed God. We arc not true to the
principles of justice and {ruth, and
those of human equality—namely :
“liberty throughout all lands, and to all
the inhabitants thereof.”
Mr. Wickliffe, (Union) of Kentucky,
called Mr. Lovejoy’s attention to the
resolution passed by the House in
February last, declaring that neither
the Federal Government nor the pen
pie of the North have the light oi pm
pose to interfere with, or legislate on,
the subject of slavery in the South.--
This was voted for by Mr. Owen Love-
jov. Are you the man ? (Laughter.)
Mr. Lovejoy responded, “I am tin
man,’’ and continuing bis remarks, In-
said he believed the people were de
termined to carry on the war in such a
way as to put down the rebellion in
the speediest manner, lie had m>
doubt that the government would yield
gracefully to the popular sentiment.
He repeated, we have no tight in time
of peace to interfere with slavery in
the Stales. When that resolution was
passed, for which he voted, all the
States were loyal, and had not broken
out in rebellion.
Mr. Richardson- Had not tin* Star
of the West been tired into. (Voices
on the Republican side “No,” “no.”)
Mr. Lovejoy (resuming) asked Mr.
Wick litre whether lie piefi-m-d the pci-
petnation of slavery- rather tli.in tin-!
Union?
Mr. Wickliffe replied that he was
fur preserving Union under the
Constitution, regarding its obligations
imposed on every citizen, State and
section. He was not violating the
Constitution when it was essential to
the safety of the Union. He would
preserve the institution of .slavery tin
del the Constitution by the principle:;
declared by the House, and voted fox
by Mr. Lovejoy and other represent;!
tiv.es, and also declared in the inaugu
ral a^Tlr^p of tVe Bresjdent.and in the
latte'MtwcKnessa^es. If these prinei
pies are carried out he had no fears
for the Union and the institution ot
slavery. . . ,
Mr. Lovejuv asked j I the ship must
be saved by the throwing overboaid ot
a portion of the crew, which would the
gentleman preter ?
Mr. Wicklitle responded—“I would
prefer throwing the abolitionists over
board.’’
Mr. Lovejoy said that was tanta
mount to saying the gentleman prefer
red the Union going overboard rather )
than siaveiy.
for preserving the Union ami the Con
stitution with the great object for which
they were established—namely, with
freedom. He demanded in the name
of God and justice, that slavery shall
not stand in the way of our success and
triumph.
Mr. Stephens, (Rep.) ot Pennsylva
nia, said if they were to believe in the
horrible doctrine of Mr. Richardson, it
was nothing less than tills, viz: That
the House dare not impure into the
manner in which the war is conducted,
and U’helllei :«*: uxy many tiui
tors or not. Had it come to this, that
the House is a mere register of execu
tive edicts, and is only to vote men and
money? He protested against such a
doctrine, it having no foundation in the
Constitution.
Mr. Richardson offered an amend
ment to Mr. Conkling’s resolution, that
tlie Secietary of War also report to
the House, if compatible with the pub
lic interests, who is responsible fut the
defeat at Wilson’s Creek, near Spring-
field and Lexington.
Disagreed to—49 against 81.
Mr. Conkling’s resolution was adopt
ed—yeas 79, nays G4.
very thing that Mr. .Seward pertina
ciously refuses, ami he only condemns
Captain Wilkes because ho did not eu
force this asserted right with greater
sev.etity against the offending lioutrnl
ship. Why, sir, upon the principles
of this despatch, if a merchant vessel,
as at first intended, had been employ
ed to carry these men out from Fort
Warren to England, she might to-day
have been arrested on the high sens
and they dragged from her deck, pro
vided only xlo* wore idrlliwitli brought
back to I lm port ol Huston for confisca
tion.
But im>r« than t tii a. lxni;l:iiiit needs,
l do not say wants a war, but she
must and will have, it, and this admin
istration has acted from the. beginning
as if it was their purpose to oblige her
in it to the utmost. Look into your
diplomatic correspondence. Look at
your stone fleet. Hot let that pass.—
Who, I ask, among all tlie millions of
the country*, or even in this House or
Senate, or the Administration itself, in
the midst of the dead calm of stolid se
curity which seems now to rest over
all, has reflected for a moment upon tlm
signiiicancy of the events of tho pass
ing hour ?
A Hi it ish man-of-war bears to tlie
shores of England, there to be received
in trilimj.li and with shouts of exulta
tion as martyrs and lieioes, ami with
the gustos ..f the peoj.le of England and
jasjuot.-g. . •>! their ministers, the. very
men who, init fur the rash act of Caj>
tain Wilkes and the still more rash en
dorsement of the Administration and
tho country, would six weeks ago have
been quietly landed from a private sliiji
in quiet security as rebels and refugees.
All Kurojie will rise u|> to do them
honor, and y.-i you surrender them, did
you, to escape the recognition by En
gland ol tlie t’oolederato States, and
your Secretary it .State, with I'lnis-
tian resignation or stoic, j.liilosopliy,
calmly rejoices that the effectual check
upon and waning proportions of the in
surrection, as well as tlie conq.aiative
unimportance of the persons concerned,
liajqnly’ enable the /SlminisUation, af
ter six weeks of experiment, tN^,Sitep>
fiiHy liberate them, and thus tjkummvc
this let ta unt <n:mt Lcl/t. x
give me leave to say that the
moment they (Mason nr.d .Slidell) stej.-
pod upon tho deck of a British inatrot-
war, your jnisqjiers ol state, whom the
other day you would have consigned to
felon’s cells, became indeed the envoyT
and ambassadors of a recognized in-,
dependent Slate, and I predict lierc
to-day, in Epite of this deep national hu
miliation, or rather perhaps because of
it, ami in sjiite, too, of the surrender,
necessary in itself, to perpetuate it with
such feelings and motives would he to
surpass the larbaiity of the most re
morseless savage.
Latest From (lie \ortli.
Richmond, .fan. 17.—Tho Richmond
Examiner’s special Norfolk reporter
sent the following dispatch at a lato
hour last night.
The Now York Herald, of tho loth
inst., lias been received. It states that
Secretary Uamcron had resigned, and
that T. M. Stanton, of l’cnnsylvaniu,
is hi,; successor. Cameron, it it is said,
will pi as Minister to Russia.
Gen. McClellan is up and attending
to business.
It is rumored that Secretary Glraso
intends to resign, and will accept a
j scat in the Federal Senate.
Col. Kearney, of the Federal, army,
is dead.
Tho Federalists claim a victory at
I'roslnnshiirg, over Ilrimpliry Marshall.
Col. Ciatfield reports that Gen. Mar
shall was repulsed, and was fleeing in
great confusion, carrying off numbers
of his dead and wounded. Tiio Feder
alists found 27 Confederates dead upon
the. field, and took 2d prisoners. Tho
Federal loss was 2 killed and 25 woun
ded.
Thu Federal If .use of llcprnsonf.v*
j lives Jurd passed a bill abolishing tho
l tlie franking privilege.
The appropriations fi.r the. army for
the year ending next June amount to
$150,000,000 !
The Board of Bankers of the prinei-
jjal Northern cities met tho Finance
Committee of Congress at Secretary
Chase’s residenco on Monday last hut.
with no favorable result. The confer
ence lasted four hours. Chase, threat
ened high taxes, hut the hankers were
inexorable.
Commodore (loldsliorough left For!
tress Monroe, with the loth Massachu
setts regiment, in the. steamer Spal
ding, said to be bound to Fort Royal.
Goldsborongli is to command tlie tlect,
and Burn side tbe, land operations.
-In tjieM< : uRjuiauU?ifi. l ' a,e > oi)., Tuesday
11;iskit.m 1 lVvas passed discharging the
fugiiivc slaves who have been jailed in
tfh( District of Columbia.
Thirteen vessels in Hampton II,ads
went to sea on Thursday last.
The steamship Constitution, with the
Mtoine and Massachusetts regiments
on Board, arrived at Fortress Monroe
on Thursday last.
Lnte from kcutucky-
Nashvillc, Tenn., Jan. 17th.—The
i . Bowling Green, Ky., correspondent of
. f .. ... without protest, of the Mtfiiroo doctrine,) tj lt . Nashville Union N* American, says
As t‘»r ntniselr, lie was ^ iorfy years the chcrislnfl and proud j t j, at General Hindman, with a detach-
poli'-y ol this government, in less than | men ^ 0 f 900 Confederate cavalry, went
three months, voa will ho at war with 1
Great Britain, or else, in the. meantime
will have basely submitted to the* rue
ogniliou of the Confederate States, and
the hi caking up of the blockade •, nnd
if at war then, with hearts unstrung and
hands unnerved by this very surrender.
Courage ! courage! courage ! sir, is
the best ami first ot peacemakers. 1
know well, of course, sir. that like all
other similar predictions for some years
past. in regard to our public affairs, you
will treat this one also vvitli scoffing and
to Rowlett’s Station, three miles this
side of Green River, a few days since,
and burned the Station House with all
of its outbuildings, as also Horse Cane
depot, and the buildings attached, with
the hotel and the adjacent houses at
Cane city. Onpt. Morgan’s scouts
burnt a mill within a quarter of a mile
of the Federal lines on Green River.
It was used to grind the wheat, corn,
vVo., of the encinv. It is thought that
any
l,1 v seek union
measures. Thi ; cannot, ul course, he
granted. \\Y cannot admit into our
peculiar Confederacy the elements of
discoid which would come with the
admission of the Northwestern States.
The UVst will then, probably, set up
an independent establishment by a se-
fi-s.sion from the East, and accomplish
her objects of free trade tluuugh our
In i tiadc poll: and leniloiy.
This intercom se will engender rela
tions of amity ami reciprocal interest
between the South ami I lie West which
will ensure the neutrality of the latter
in any future difficulties with the North
and Fast, and even its alliance, if we
desire it. Thus the politico, action of
the South and West seems destined
to l.c m unison, and they will wield so
dominating a slicngih on the western
continent as to defy any power within
ihs borders. They will be mastus ol
North America, and able to make the
eastern Atlantic States comport them
selves with apprehensive respect—more
decisive masters of the
“situation” than Fiance
Britain aic in Euiope.
C
:ont mental
ind Great
and surrounding them on every side,
glared their skulking and shel’ered foe.
Into the deadly trap they went, too few
to remain,and too many to come back.
It there had been more of them, they
might have held their position and dis
pensed with means tor crossing the
river. If fewer, they might have es
caped in their boats ; but there being
seventeen Iniiuhed there was nothing
lor them but to stay, ami perh.h. No
bly did they fulfil their destiny. Their
desperate stubbornness, their calm
front, their heroic courage, served only
to gild, with the tints of glorv, the
bloody picture of their murder. ’ Their
movements had been stealthily watch
ed from the first. Tim least of death
had been prepared for them, and the
number desired to he present ami par
take of it had been calculated. When
the doomed number had been diifted
over, the bloody revelry began. In an
hour, or less than an hour, the deadly
fire of unseen foes hedged them in on
every side, and they melted away be
'il Ultra/ //:>' JYoiih PeedicleJ.—
In a leltci dated at Wasliingtoiq Nov.
29lh, Mi. W. 11. Russell says;
“The North is now threatened with
a civil war in which speeches and
newspaper articles may lead to blood
shed.” As evidence supporting his
statement, Mr. Russell introduces Clias.
Sumner's New York lecture, the pre
sentation of a sword to General Fre
mont, and “ I he Cincinnati demonstra
tion,’’ in which iclcreiice was made lo
“a standard higher than (lie stars and
stripes,” and to ihe “infamous, sneak
ing, crawling policy” of the Adminis
tration.
Sal>.—W'e published last week *a
notice of the death of Mr. D. D. Duke,
of this place. Since then his wile and
grand son have died. Thus llnee
persons in one family have passed
away in one short week.— Ilotne Sout/i-
erner, IGth.
As cvci y thread of gold is valuable^
so is every minute oj time.—Mason.
. all the public bouses between Glasgow
iuciedtilily ; but nevertheless. I put it j u|lclion aml Rowlett Station will be
destroyed. The Railroad and Turn
pike between those jdnees arc utter ly
ou record hero to day*. “Tho prudent
man forsoeth the evil and hideth him
self, but tho simjdo pass on and arc
punished.”
fore it. fhe fight was lost before 'it
began. It was a mere sacrifice of brave
men. From the fust there was not the
slightest hope of escape or promise of
victory. It was only a wonder that
any escaped. The charge and dining
of the Light Brigade, described by the
poet, is alone applicable to the devoted
heroism of these men on the fatal field
of Ball’s Blull. There was
Cannon to tho right of them,
Camion to the left of them,
Cannon in front of them.
Into the jaws of hull rushed the six hunthed.
Those who did not die on the field
were forced down the sleep hunk of
the l’ivt’i, and line, to save their arms
from falling into the hands of the ene
my, they threw them into the stream,
and many, alas, how many, sought
and found a watery grave. The last
act of this terrible tragedy and gross
blunder, if not (he saddest, was the
most sickening and appalling of them
all. The miserable flat boat, on re
turning to the island, was laden with
the mangled, Hie wearied ami the dy
ing. The quick ami the dead were
huddled together in one struggling,
mangled mass, and all went down to
gether in that doleful river, never again
Mr. Colliding offered a preamble, re
eding the resolution heretofore adopt
ed and tlie response, concluding with
a resolution that the answer lo it is
neither responsive nor satisfactory to
the House, and that the Secretary of
War he directed to return fa ffurthei’
answer.
Mr. Richaidson, in opposing the re
solution, said this was not a matter of
proper enquiry here. If there is one
point moie prominent than another, on
which the country is agreed, it is that
those who fought and fell with Gen.
Baker, displayed as much gallantry
and courage as has ever been display
ed on ill’s continent. But these things
ought not to he lugged in here. Sup
pose anybody living is found to he in
tault, what will you do with him ? Dis
cuss him in town meetings ? Is that
the way you conduct the war? We
must trust something to the proper de
partments of the government. The
men who have committed blunders
and acted from errors ol judgment will
not hereafter he entrusted with impor
tant commands. If dead, we should
cast no obloquy on their ashes or dis-
[ grace their memory. The time has
come when there should be a move
ment. The troops ought to be drilled
ami prepared with this view. Gentle
men of the army, somewhere or ano
ther, knew quite as much about atlairs
as any member of the House. The
House should do nothing below its
dignity. This was not the proper place
to investigate battles. He was oppos
ed to tlie whole resolution. It was a
subject with which they had nothing
to do,'and the sooner they stopped the
proceedings, as now proposed, the
better for the country.
Discission in the House of Represen
tatives on Hie Settlement of the
Treut affair.
Wasiungton, Jan. 7, 13G2—A
message was received from the Presi
dent, communicating the papers in tlie
Trent affair,
Motion was made to refer them to
tho Committee ou Foreign Affairs.
Mr. Vallandinghaui, (opp.) ol Ohio,
said :—1 avail myself, sir, of this, the
earliest opportunity offered, to express
my utter and strong condemnation, as
one of the representatives of the people,
ot the act of tlie administration in
surrendering up Messrs. Mason aud
Slidell to the British Government.—
For six weeks, sir, they were field in
close custody as traitors of tbe United
States, by order of the Secretary of
State, and with tbe approval and ap
plause of the press, of tbe public men,
of tho Navy Department, of this House,
and of the people of the United States,
with a full knowledge ot tliu manner
aud all the circumstances of their caj»-
ture, and yet in six days alter tho im
perious and peremptory domnnd of
Great Britain, they were abjectly sur
rendered upon tbe mere rumor even of
the approach of a hostile fleet, and thus
for tbe first time in our national iiisto-
Terible Deniincialioii of Hie Stone
Fleet Expedition by the Boston
Fourier, ail Old Line-H Irig Organ.
The Boston (\airier, an opposition'
old-line Whig journal, has the follow
ing article :
The criticism to which the plan of
choking up the harbor of Charleston is
subjected by the London Examiner, on
oiii first page, with which we perceive
other foreign journals coincide, de-
seives much more than transient con
sideration. We may find the carrying)
out of this delendn est Carlhaga policy a
much mote serious cause of hostility,
and even of hatred toward us among
ill civilized nations, than any devia
tion from a doubtful principle of inter
national law. We had supposed when
we have glanced at the accounts of
preparation for this expedient, and un
til quite recently, that it was only in
tended for a more effectual but still
, 1 , . , the present expedition, left here this
temporary blockade that could wed he j aftt . r , noon> lalul J d thc troops at Fort
Jefferson and then returned. They
put in force by other means; but wi
did not imagine that the object was to
hange the very geography of nature
in a point so essential. We can only-
put on record against it our unavailing
remonstrance. The scheme is more
than heathen. When old Cato repeat
ed at the end ol every speech his per
petual formula, even in a Roman Sen
ate, there was a Scipio always to re
Mr. Lovejoy, oflllinois, believed the
military should be subordinate to tbe
civil power. The regular military offi
cers are more in thc way of a:r advance
than any other class. We are waiting
in the fruitless hope that the rebellion
will put itself down. The idea is, if
we don’t hurt anybody the rebels will
return to their allegiance. The fear
in which we stand of injuring the twin
relic of bar bat ism paralyzes the whole
army. The reason why we are not
successful is, that we stand before an
for tho firBt time has the American ea
glo been made to cower before the
British lion.
Sir, a vassal or fettered and terror
stricken press or servile and sycophan
tic politicians in this House or out of
it, may applaud thc net, and fawn
and Hatter, and lick the band which
has smitten down our honor into the
dust. But tbe pooplo, now or hereaf
ter, will dernaud a terrible reckoning
for this most unmanly surrender. But
I do not trust inysclf to speak ol it now
as I propose some day to speak. 1
rose only to put ou record tny emphatic
protest against it, aud to express my
deep conviction that tbe very war
which tlie other day might have been
avoided by combined wisdom and firm
rioss, is now inevitable.
Sir, tbe surrender may be no fault of
tbe Secretary of State, but be bus sown,
l fear, the dragon’s teeth, by this, his
fatal dusputeh, and armed war will
spring from it. lathe name* of God
sir, what does England want with Ma
son aud Slidell / it was a sumutdor
of tho claim of the right to seize them
on board her ships, under her Hag, that
she demaudad, and yet* this is tbe
impassable for artillery, without an iir.-
mense amount of labor.
Movements of tlie Federalists.
Nashville. Jan. 17.—Private dis
patches nccivcJ here report that the
Federalists arc landing in force this
morning between Fort llcinv and the.
Tennessee river. There was some,
firing on the part of the enemy - } but
their balls did not reach the fort.
Advices from Fort Donaldson state
that Gen. Tilgham feels confident of
his ability to defend that fort, as well
as fort Henry against the attacks of
the enemy.
A special dispatch to the St. Louis
Republican, dated at Cairo, III., Jan.
9lh, says: The great expedition is
now ready to start, and will do so to
morrow. The licet, it is understood,
will ascend the Tennessee river some
distance ; but its final destination is not
known.
Cairo, Jan. 10.—Several steamers,
conveying a part of the troeps forming
will go down the river again in the
morning, carrying the rest of the troops
to Fort Jefferson, a point on the Ken
tucky shore, five miles below Bird’s
Point. The cavalry had been previ
ously taken across to Fort Holt, and
will join them in the morning from
Bird's Point. A considerable number
of regiments will be taken at Paducah ;
tort “And my opinion is that Carthage l ml ^> bout (;0() lrool , s marc hed from
should stand. there this morning who will join the
ry have wo strutted insolently into a
quarrel without right, and then basely „ f
crept out of it without honor; and thus nuss * l *' ls choking up forevei
We hold with Scipio, not with Cato.
But even thqj purpose of the cruel old
Roman was nothing to this. A hos
tile or rebellious city, destroyed by or
dinary means, may be rebuilt, and be
to other generations, if not now, thc
seat of comfort, prosperity and lrappi-
nattiro’s channels ot life, intercourse
and plenty,” is a measure dictated by
neither wisdom nor nfiy feeling with
with which Christain principle could
have any sympathy. It will make ns
expressly execrated as it becomes
known by all tlie civilized world. Nor
is it to be overlooked that other na
tions may allege with a reason which
we shall find it difficult to answer:—
You can blockade your ports and ex
clude us for a time for your advantage
or from your necessities, from com
mercial benefits ordinarily free to all
mankind. But you have no right to
change the ordinance of nature, so as
to deprive us and all mankind forever
of those benefits. If you do, we can
no longer regard you as of the family
of nations—but rather like some savage
beast retiring to his den, whom those
who are able have the right to assui
and destroy—after your own example.
As for the article quoted from the
New York Times, there is a depth of
unearthly malignity about it which we
do not remember ever to have read in
any composition. Even were the deed
expedition at some point in the interior.
Federal Natal Movements.
Richmond, Jan. 18.—A special tel
egraphic dispatch to the Richmond
Examiner yesterday from Charleston,
reports that all the Yankee vessels had
left Port Royal, probably to co-operate
with Burnside’s expedition.
Wilmington, N. C., Jan. 17.—A let
ter received here from Newbern, N. C.,
from a reliable source, says that a Con
federate steamer had arrived from Pam
lico Sound, reporting -13 vessels at
llalteras, the supposed destination of
which fleet is Roanoke Island or New
bern.
Expulsion of Federal Senators.
Nashville, Jan. 17.—A dispatch to
thc St. Louis Republican, of Jan. 11th,
says that Senators Johnson and Polk,
of Missouri, were expelled .jrom the
Federal Senate, on the 10tb inst., by a
unanimous vote.
Death of Ex4?retfdeniTyler.
Richmond, Jan. 18.—Ex-President,
John Tyler, died 'here during laat
night. Tlie flags on the Capitol are
displayed at half-mast this morning-
Release of Ex-Coverupr ff!*rehcad,
of Keuiu«Jvy./
Nashville, Tcitn., Jnn^47.—A dis
patch dated Boston, January 8th, says
that Ex-Gov. JMoorehyad, of Kentucky,
has been released oty parole.