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Cien. Van HoriiS Expedition.
Bui little has been published of Gen. Van Dorns
recent cavalry trip into the enenrys territory. It
leexns to have been much more extensive and im
portant in its results than has been generally pub
lished. A writer in the Mobile Register gives
rather a floiid account of it, from which we ex
tract the following-
Gen. Van Dom started from Greneda on
the 10th of December, having first supplied his
cavairy command of 2,700 men with fifteen days’
rations, and a bottle of turpentine and a box of
mutches each, to enable them the more effectually
tu cairv out their intended work of destruction
upon Abolition property. Striking out north-east,
the command passed through Pontotoc, and hav
ing no time to devote to the Yankee marauders
who were at the time south of them on the Mo
bile und Ohio Railroad, having much more impor
tant work on hand, Van Dorn’s force march on
through New Albany and started out on the Rip
ley road, in older to perfectly deceive the enemy.
Tv.o hours after the force passed through Ponto
toc, 1,100 Yankee cavalry, which had been on a
raid down the Mobile and Ohio road, returned
with a train heavily laden with the plunder they
Lad stolen. They were informed that Van Dorn
had only passed an hour before with ] 5,000 troops.
Taking a few minutes time to destroy their train,
they took the shortest route lor Corinth and left
on fear impelling wings. Meantime, Van Dorn
left the Ripley road to the. left and took a by-way
and meandering route through the swamp, and
came within eight miles of Dolly Springs in the
evening, where he bivouacked bis force until two
hours before day, when he moved cautiously into
town, leaving the Texas brigade upon, the heights
outside as a reserve. As our forces dashed in
from all siden, the entrance proved a complete sur
prise, the breaking streaks of daylight showing
the i ankee tents with their yet undisturbed sium
berers. A charge was ordered upon them, and
the torch applied to the canvass which covered
them.
The rapidity with which the tents of the enemy
were vacated was marvelous; and impelled by
burning torches and rapid discharges ofrside arms,
the Yankees took no time to prepare their toilets,
but rushed out.
The scene was wild, exciting, tumultuous.—
Yeui-t ea running, tents burning, torches flaming,
Confederates shouting—a heterogeneous mass of
excited, frantic, frightened human beings presen
ted an indescribable picture,
The surprised camp surrendered I,Buo men and
ICO commissioned officers, who were immediately
parolled. And then commenced the work of des
truction. The extensive buildings of the Mississ
ippi Central depot, the station house, and immense
stoic houses, the engine houses were filled with
supplies of clothing and commissary stores. Out
side the barrels of Hour estimated half a
mile in length, oue hundred and fifty feet through
and filteen feet high. Turpentine was thrown
over this and the whole amount destroyed. Up
town, the court house and the public buildings,
livery stables and all capacious establishments
were filled ceiling high, with medical and orduaucc
stores. These were all fired, and the explosion of
one of the buildings, in which was stored one hun.
dred barrels of powder, knocked down nearly all
the houses on the south side of the square. Sure
ly such a scene of devastation was never before
presented to the eye of man. Glance at the gi
gantic estimates :
1,800,000 fixed cartridges and other ordinance
stores, valued at $1,500,000, including 5,000 riHes
and 2,000 revolvers.
100,000 suits of clothing and other quartermas
ters stores, valued at $500,000 ; 5,000 barrels of
lour and other commissary stores valued at
$500,000.
$1,000,000 worth of medical stores, for which
Invoices to that amount were exhibited, and 1,000
bales of cotton and $600,000 worth of sutler’s
stores!
While the capture pf tto vauip, paroling of the
pt isomm) nnd ocstroyiug of the stores were going
on, tue Texas Rangers, comprising the yth, 6th
and 3d legions, became engaged with the Michi
gan cavalry, uml drove them pell mell through
town and run them off north with a considerable
loss to tiie Abolitionists, and a loss of thirty killed
aud wounded on our part.
The ladies rushed out from the bouses, wild with
joy. One lady said : “The Yankee Oommaudaut
Os the Pofiu is in my house ; come and catch him;”
atiil a search itas instigated, but without success,
when the noble woman insisted that he was there,
concealed ; and finally, after much ado, the gal
lant Colonel Murphy, the intercepted Yankee Com
mandant of Holly Springs, was pulled out from un
der his bed.
The Provost Marshall was also taken.
Our attention was Riven to Grant’s headquar
ters, which he had left twenty-four hours before.
Ail bis papers, charts, maps, etc., was eapturad,
together with his splendid carriage, which was
burned. Mrs. Grant was also captured, but no
iuilignity was ottered her.
pearly every store uu the public square was
‘ilied w ith sutlers stores, and after out men had
helped themselves, the balance ol the goods were
burned.
When our force first reached the depot, there
was a train about leaving. The engineer jumped
ott and run away, and oue of our men took his
place, shut the throttle, valve and stopped the
tr dn. Sixty cars and two locomotives were then
fired and destroyed.
Alter the complete destruction ot all public
property about the place, and alter each man had
s ippiied himself with a suitable quantity of cloth
ing and boots, at six o’clock in the morning the
march was renewed, and Davis’ mill wa3 the next
pla :e attacked. Here the enemy were entrenched,
and sheltered themselves in a block house and
Tort formed of cotton bales. The cavalry were
commanded to chaige, and attempted to do so,
but the swamp and intricate lagoons breaking off
iii front of the enemy’s position would not per
mit it. The Yaukees opened fire with some effect
irom their fort, and were supported by a
nine pound rifle gun mounted on an iron clad
railroad car, forming a railroad battery. The Tex
ans were again ordered to charge, and Major Dil
lon, of Van Dorn’s stall, whose gallantry duriug
the expedition was particularly conspicuous, at
tempted to lead them to the attack, but the men
refused to follow, believing the way impassable
and the position too strong for cavalry demon
stration alone. Col. McCullough, of the Missouri
cavalry, was ordered to get in the rear of the rail
road battery, cut the track to prevent its escape
and capture it. I belive he succeeded, in cutting
the road, but our forces were compelled to with
draw, and the steam battery was not taken. The
force then pushed on to Middloburg and Bolivar,
and attached both places, but found them too
strongly defended and garrisoned to succeed iu
taking either of the points.
When the command turned back after its un
successful attack upon Bolivar, the enemy sent a
force of 10,000, comprising the three branches of
the service, out alter Van Dorn, aud made great
efforts to flank and cut off his force, but this dash
ing officer whs too wary for them, and succeeded
in returning with TOO head of captured horses aud
mules, laden with spoil? taken from the enemy.
The entire number of prisoners captured aud pa
roled during their raid is 2,100 privates and 175
commissioned officer.
A Bio Business. —A private letter to a gentle
man of this city from a relative iu Bortsmoutb,
gives a specimen of petty yaukee tyranny that is
characteristic. A party of little girls were rolling
hoops in the streets wrapped with ribbou, “red,
*hite and red,” when they with their hoops were
iirrested aud taken to the office of the Provost
Marshal, Some young ladies who witnessed the
disgraceful transaction, aud very properly called
it “ a filianje," were also placed under arrest and
arrted before the same dignitary. The latter, no
doubt, feeling that tha whole proceeding was
*hatot'ftt>Ai ßni i(jg the vyith a promise that
it »b%uid be investigate 4
The Abolition Kitid into the ha* ourche
Country, l a.
Arnont the many abolitiou raids to be recorded
when the sad history of our civil war is written,
none will disgrace its pages more or stand out in
blacker colors, than the recent one into the La
fourche country, La.—both for the vast amout of
property destroyed and the insults offered to the
ruiued inhabitants. Bayou Lafourche, one of the
mouths of the Mississippi, begins its course at the
old French town of Donaldson, and flows seventy
miles to the Gulf, passing through some ot the
most beautiful and flourishing parishes in Louis
iana. The banks of the stream are thickly lined
with magnificent sugar plantations, in a high state
of. cultivation, and very valuable for their rich,
fertile lands, and for the large number of slaves
engaged in working them. A lady, herself a great
sufferer from Federal barbarism, and the wife of
one of the most distinguished Generals in the Con-
has published in the Mobile Ad
vertiser an account of the affair. From her letter
wt* make the annexed extracts :
On the 25th of October, a Federal force, four
thousand strong, under command of Brigadier
Gen. Weitzel, landed at Donaldson, and dividing
into two columns, marched down both sides of the
bayou. Our forces being inferior in numbers were
compelled to retreat.
Then began the horrors of the present system of
warfare, revengefully adopted by the Lincoln
Government, and only too effectually carried out
by Butler and his officers. Since they have found
it impossible to conquer a brave race by civilized
means, the Abolitionists have determined to de
stroy their property —make a wild waste of their
estates—strike a vital blow at the very source ot
Southern prosperity, the sUves, and to free them,
not from fellings of a false philanthrophy—for
which Europe mistakiugly gives them credit—but
fur veugcancc and the gratification of hatred.
The negroes on all the plantations along the
route were incited to commit all the depredations
in their power on the property of their masters,
destroying or carrying oil’ everything possible.
Arms of every kind were taken from the inhabi
tants, even to tbe pistols ot the women, and they
were thus left to the mercy of the negroes turned
loose upon them. The sugar and grain crops were
seized and sold by Geu. Butler’s agents, and a
promise of compensation given to those who would
take the oath of allegiance, aud could prove their
loyalty.
The slaves have all been declared free by a
proclamation from Geu. Butler; ami in the La
fourche country alone, the Uuited States has
twenty thousand negroes to cloth nttd feed, or to
leave them to nakedness and starvation.
The last bitterest insult to a Southern planter
remains to be told. A negro rcgiiueut was placed
in command in Lafourche wbeu the white troops
were removdd. The -laves of that district were
rapidly being organized to form another brigade,
and the men were induced to enlist by the promise
of a liberal bounty of a farm of 1.60 acres,on their
maotcr’s plantations.
Outrages of every kind were of frequent occur
fence, flamers, for attempting to protect them
selves ot their families from insult, were beaten
and handcuffed by their former slaves aud dragged
by them before the Abolition authorities. There
were yet darker deeds, where woman was the
fearful victim. That more were not committed is
due to the lingering fecliug of respect and attach
ment still existing in the breast of the slave. But
to those who know the negro character well, and
the great danger of casting off all discipline aud
restraint, it needs not a prophetic eye to foresee
the rrvilc war so exultingly and fiendishly de
picted by the Abolitiou journals of the North.
The exiles who go broken-hearted and penniless
wanderers from their once lovely homes on the
banks of the Lalourohe, shudder at the still more
terrible lata that menaced the land there and else
where in beautiful but God forsaken Louisiana.
From the Chattanooga Rebel of the Bth.
The Situation.
We begin to get a micoroscopial peep at the
Middle Teunessee campaign.
As the smoke ol tbe t.nc cattle clears uwuy
and the'"confusion incident to all battle-fields wibl
sides, wc are enabled to arrive at some estimate
of the results of the last two months and a half of
activity iu front of Murfreesboro. The actual sta
tistics of the combats of Wednesday and Friday
last, may be summed up as follows, in round num
bers.
Prisoners taken 5,000
Pieces of Artillery 61
Small arms 7,500
Wagons destroyed 950
Enemy’s loss in killed and wounded...... 9,000
Our loss—killed 1,000
Wounded 3,000
RECAPITULATION.
Federals killed 3,000
Wounded 6,000
Captured 5,000
14,000
Our loss 4,000
Balance 9,500
But for the unsuccessful assault of Friday after
noon the disposition of figures in our favor would
have been much greater. Besides these statistics
an enormous table might be spread out showing
the quantities of provisions and supplies’ which
have been procured in Middle Tennessee—amount
ing to millions of rations und months of subsis
tence. The branch of the campaign, which made
Murfreesboro’ its depot has closed, leaving us
everything to hope for aud to be grateful for, aud
nothing to deplore but the temporary sacrifice of
, a portion of our territory.
Geu. Bragg made a speech to his army on Mon
| day. He was received with approbation, aud
! spoke briefly of the late conflict, lu concluding,
he assured the troops that he would fight Rosen
er.iuz aguiu, and not far from the sceue of the just
closed action. This sentiment inspired great hope
among all classes and especially among the sol
dier-.
SurKLiiiHG in England. —A correspondent of
the New York limes, writing from Loudou undci
date 21st November says :
The distress iu Lancashire deepens. The boun
ty of a nation will be exhausted in palliatiug the
suffeiing. Surat cotton come?, but it c&uuot be
woiked to piolit. The English arc begioulug to
see that Lancashire is ruined and the cotton trade
itself, unless they oau get cot ion tiom America.—
Ueucc the protest against the war—hence the
protest against the abolition poliey ol the govern
ment. England is icsd abolition than she wus a
year ago. Never was any measure more univer
sally denounced than that of t.ne proclamation.—
The freedom of the slaves iu America is the ruin
of the manufacturing interest iu England. Lan
cashire has built up aud extended slavery. Cut
off from that it is ruined. Sentiment is a very
fine thing; but Englishmen kuow the beeuties of
bread, of beef, and beer. They blubbered fieelv
over Uncle lota’s C.ibiu, but never bought one
bale of eofton the le«s, and are ready to take all
they cju get. Manchester i» the centre, heart,
and sou! of American slavery. Manchester has
grown rich on its profits, and participates iu its re
verses. Can you expept sympathy fronpMauchcs
ter iu an effort to destroy it? If so you reekeu
without your host.
Citi*cii»* ol Baltimore Bring J*uit for I'alae
f Mipriamiuieut.
The Charleston Mercury Icarus from Baltimore
that Messrs. Henry M. Warfield, Chas. Howard
and S. Teakle Wallis, who were recently released
Irom confinement in Port Lafayette, hare recently
instituted proceedings iu the Superior Court of
that city, each to recover fcdu,ooo damages for
false imprisonment and detention iu Portress Mon
roe from Gcu. Wool,Jwho was commander of that
post at the time of their arrest. The same par
ties, with others iu Baltimore, have instituted pro
ceedings iu the same Court against Hon. SimoD
Cameron for alleged false arrest aud imprison
ment. It is stated that attachments have keen
issued against the interest held by him in the
Northern Central Railway Company, consisting of
stock, in order to secure the payment of a large
sum resulting from the anticipated verdict in the
several cases.
the Blockaok. —There is now
lying in the harbor two of those long narrow
steamers, all funtael, paddle and engine, which
seem to be the favorite conveyance tor a certain
class of goods to aYV eat India port. One is called
the Peal, the cither was the Iv’orthumbria, but at
present must ie styled the Anonymous, as her
name has beerixrubbed out. She hails from Glas
gow, and ha 9 ,mt ia here to coal. None of her
men are allowed to quit the ship, probably be
cause they might imitate tbe trick of the Pearl’s
crew, some of whom endeavored to desert. Both
steamers have two funnels, and. from the quantify
of coal they carry, are sunk almost to their spon
sons. Their freight is one which stores in a smali
space, and is at present in great demand in the
Southern States of America.— Cork Framinrr.
Foster’s Loss. —An officer writing in the Ral
eigh Progress from below, whose means of in
formation as to the movements of the Yankees
is very good, says they admit a los3 of twelve hun
dred in killed and wounded in the late raid upon
Kinston and the railroad, and insist that ours must
have been twice as many a*’ theirs. We doubt
not but they approach very near the truth as to
their own loss, but know they are mistaken as to
ours. We hardly think Foster wilt repeat his ex
eurtion up the Neuse again in a hurry. He has
gone to Washington to report to bis master, and
the Herald writes him down as a failure. Poor
Foster, your sur sets with that *bf Burnside. —
fiicfu/io/td-Ditpatch. m
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Butler the Outlaw.— The Northern papers
publish a lengthy diplomatic correspondence of
the high-handed acts of “the Brute” upon foreign
citizens. The correspondence comprises notes
from the French, Spanish aud Belgian Ministers,
and their respective Consuls, with Seward and
Butler. The whole has been published by the
Washington Administration,and so published, cons
titutes an indictment of Butler, upon which Lincoln
was bound to proceed to trial and judgment. In
deed iu tbe correspondence itself, Butler’s acts are
disavowed. This explains the removal of Butler
from the theatre of his indecent tyrannies, not
only over “Rebels,” but over people who accepted
his test of loyalty by taking a forced oath, and
over foreign subjects whose Governments were
on terms of amity and peace with his own.— Sav.
Death uk the Chief Raubi ok Jerusalem.—
I’he Jewish Messeayer contains a letter, written
from Jerusalem, November 7th, announcing the
death of the Chief Rabbi of Palestine. The fol
low ing is an extract:
> On the night of Tuesday, tho Chief Rabbi of the
Perushitu received a call from Heaven, and he re
sponded, “ Behold, here am I.” You, reverend
sir, who have known and corresponded with him for
so many years, you can partially enter into the feel
ing which pervades all the communities in the Holy
Laud at the loss they have sustained, but you can
have no idea of the gloom his death has cast o’er
Palestine. “lie judged isreal” thirty-five years.
During the whole of that period he devoted him
self to the study of the law, the practice of
good deeds.
\\ ilkes Once Moke.—Wc learn by a private
letter from Nassua, that it is stated there upon the
best authority, that the British Government has
formally demanded of the Uuited States the re
call of Admiral Wilkes from his present station.
Our readers will already have noticed that the
English fleet iu that quarter has lately been much
increased. There can be uo doubt that the Yan
kee Government will back out in this as meanly
as it did in the case of the Trent.— Charleston
Courier. *
Moke Yankeejsm.— The Petersburg Express
says;
U A gentleman from Western Virginia states
that two or three young ladies are imprisoned in
the jail in Wheeling, and tied to the floor, on the
charga of disloyal sentiments and practices. Such
ontrages upon humanity call for the prompt action
of our Generals in the West, not upon women,
ia^iyS a our a ¥.anX s ’'’ f T>W ~ nt
Eighteen Rebel Ip.on-Clads. —A letter from
London to the Rochester Union savt* :
I know beyond peradventure that not less than
eighteen iron:clad Bteamers of various kinds and
dimensions, are being built in England and Prance
for the Jeff Davis Government. Some of these
vessels are nearly finished, and will be launched
and abroad doing their work of devastation be
fore the new year.
Cotton BrRNT. —The Memphis Argun says, on
the authority of a gentleman who witnessed the
conflagration, that the Confederate cavalry burn
ed three hundred bales of cotton at Sardis, Panola
county, Mississippi, on the 16th ult. It is said the
quantity was worth $76,000, and had been collect
ed by parties who designed carrying it to Memphis.
Life in Norfolk, Va. —Not content with
the tyrannicil rule of Butler in New Orleans,
Lincoln is placing men of bis stamp over
other Southern cities now in possession of
the Federal*. Norfolk, Va, is one of the
places doomed to feel the iron hand of the
Northern despot. A letter from that place
to the Portsmouth (Va.) Dispatch says:
Yankee rule is ever the rule of the tyrant,
and we are suffering from that in a degree
that is scarcely bearable. The General plac
ed over us is not backward in imposing re
strictions that are as abhorrent to freemen
as they are disgraceful to him and his Govern
ment. * * As an example of the fiendish
malice with which those in our midst who
are on the side of the North, huut their vic
tims, their conduct iu regard to the small
pittance given by the city authorities to the
starving women and children whose husbands
and fathers are in the Confederate States
service, may be cited. Unwilling that even
this portion of our population should be spar
ed, these uufeeliug hounds inveuted a lie for
Washington ears, and a report went up that
brought down an order that not another
cent should lie given to these poor suffering
creatures.
Norfolk has been the scene of one or two
riots lately—all however, aiuoug the Yan
kees. Oue oi these took place at the theatre
the other night, iu which Gen. Y iele was
roughly handled—-oue blow was given him,
and his better half tightly squeezed. Many
arrest? were made, aud the offender will
doubtless be severely punished. Desertions
arc numerous aud frequent, and there are
150 in Fort Norfolk at this time, who have
been caught. Some boldly declare that there
would be but few here, could they reach
home by land.
The depredations upon the property of our
citizens arc going on as usual, reeeving the
countenance aud support of Yankee officers.
Negroes and Unionists—l name the blacks
first, as boing best of the two—are unre
stricted in cutting wood, aud hordes of these
lazy aud dishonest creatures are engaged in
au indiscriminate onslought upon the forest
surrounding the city. The destruction is
terrible. Thus is the promise to “protect
private property'' realized.
In the New York Chamber of Commerce
on Friday, the subject of the steamer Ala
bama was taken up, when one member said
there were fourteen vessels searching for
her, and that on the forthcoming raising of
ot the blockade at Wilmington the blockade
squid r <d join in pursuit.
MAC ON, GEORGIA^:
Wednesday, January 14, 1863.
THE FIRST REGIMENT GEORGIA REGULARS,
Commanded by Col. McGill arrived here ou Mon
day rdght, and will go into quarters for the present,
in the vicinity of the city. This vetran corps has
probably seen more bard and active service than
any other in the arruv. It went into the field
about one thousand strong, and returns v.iih one
hundred and eighty Besides being in numerous
shirmiaheS; on their well worn battle I lag »s in
scribed the names of ten pitched battles in which
they sustained a conspicuous part. These battles
are—
Manassas .Vo 2,
Savage’s Station,
Peach Orchard,
Rappahannock, % #
Garnett’s Ford,
Thoroughfare Gap,
Sharpstuig, - •
Boonsboro,
Malvern Hill,
Fredericksburg.
An entertainment is now prepairing by our oiti
zens as a welcome to these war-worn veterans,
wb icb will probably come off to-day.
FIGHT AT MURFREESBORO
Taking all the circumstances together of the
fight at Murfreesboro, the loss of the enemy in
killed, wounded, prisoners, Artillery sdJ other
arms, military stores Ac. it was any thing but a
victory to them. Although Gen. Bragg has re
tired a short distance to a better position, they
are so crippled that they cannot pursue if so dis
posed, and it is believed that the main part of
their army has retired to Nashville to obtain sup
plies that had been cut off by Wheeler and Whar
tou, and to re-open their communication with the
West.
It is now reported by passengers, that our ar
my has re-occupied Murfreesboro’. We should
not be surprised if this were a fact,but its occupancy
has become so much a vexed question that we
will not ask belief to any thing with regard to it.
GOV. SEYMOUR’S MESSAGE.
There have been various speculations with regard
to what this message would be and of what it really
is. We think it can be comprised in a few’ words.
He will be governed only by the Constitution—
that the liberty of the press of speech, and of the
person shall not be interfered with—and that if
the President and the North violated the rights of j
the South as guarantied by the Constitution, the
South had a right to rebel. He wishes to preserve
a constitutional Union.
Sale of Coffee amt Salt in Charleston.
The Charleston Mercury of the 7th says :
Mr. John G. Milnor sold yesterday, at the es'
tablishment of Messrs. Chamberlain, Miler & Co.’
on Mei ting street, 500 bags of Rio Coffee and a
lot of Liverpool Salt. The Coffee brought from,
$2,40 to $2,80 per pound, and the Salt from $55
to $65 per sack, and a second t parcel from 22 to
24 cents per pound.
This is a considerable falling off in the prices,
from 50 to 70 cts to 23 to 24. The tendency of
! the market is dowuward. Let it be so. Those
| first in the game can afford to bleed out their ex
iorbitant profits, from the soldiers families, me
[chanies, and t>u> —/>i a s« of ibe com
inumty. i.ei the public account be balanced with
them, if possible. But the speculators of the tail
end of the game will find a Mill-stone upon them
which, if not, as the Scripture says, “Shall <?rind
them to powder,” will prove a worse burden to
1 them, than did the “Sack” carried by Bunyan’s
I Pilgrim, to its bearer. Salt can’t save every
thing it conies in contact with.
P. S. At a later sale In Charleston, Liverpool
Salt brought from 16* to 28 cts* per pound.
Salt is now offeriag in this city at 25 cent* per
ipound.
Plant Corn. —The Charleston Courier has this
paragraph, which we hope will be adopted by
planters generally, as we had better be ou the safe
side with regard provisions both for army and peo
ple.
! “There is a disposition, we fear, founded upon
j the supposition of an early peace, to plant less
I corn and more Cotton this year than last. This
| should not be so. Better discard the idea of
j peace altogether and plant corn and raise provis
j ion 9. It would be well to do so in any event.”
A Rub&'L Son.— A Nashville correspondent of
a Northen paper says :
Gen. Rosencranz sent a flag of truce yesterday
with a verification of prisoners’ rolls. Major Clar
ena Prentice was the rebel dag officer. He desired
us to notify his father, the editor of the Louis
ville Journal, that be was well, fat, ragged, sauc?
and rebellious.
t3T The premium on gold is unchanged in the
Richmond market. Southern Bank notes are sel
ling there at the following premium : Virginia
Bank notes 26 per cent; North Carolina, 26 per
cent.; South Carolina, 30 per cent.; Georgia, 85
per cent.
English Goons.—The Camden (Ark.) Herald
ssy» it has credible information that seventy tons
of English good* for soldiers’ clothing, ha3 arrived
at a landing on Red river, through Mexico, for the
Confederate States.
The Wilmington and Weldon Kail
road.—A telegraphic dispatch to Col. S. L.
Engineer and Superintendent
of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad,
dated at Wilmington, North Carolina, Jan
uary 7th, says : “ The bridge over the Neuse
river, which was destroyed by the enemy,
has been rebuilt, and the trains now pass
over it.”
A Visitor Expected.— The Mobile Reg.
ister of Sunday says :
A British war steamer is expected to ar
rive in our bay to-day; the object of her vis
it being to communicate with the British
Consul, and to receive the interest on the
Alabapu State debt due to foreign bond
holders. The amount is £40,000 sterling,
and is ready for payment in gold.
Lincoln has signed a bill erecting
the forty-eight counties of Western Virginia
into a State, to be culled “ Kanawha.” It,
is reported that, in announcing the fact, he
iaid he had “Laid aside his overcoat and
gloves, and intended to be President for
awhile.” '
In the New .York Chamber of Commerce
on Friday, the subject of the steamer Ala
ha out, was taken up, when one member said
there were fourteen vessels searching for
her, and that on the forthcoming raising of
the blockade at .Wilmington the blockade
squadron there would join in pursuit.
iVapolcon to Intervene Alone*
The Intervention question agaiu occupies
much of the space of the Tanker press as
weli as of the foreign journals. The centres
from which the new rumors radiate are Paris
and Washington. The Philadelphia inqui
rer states that the rumors from \\ ashing ton
are of the most conflicting character. A
correspondent of the New York Herald
quotes Seward as authority for the statement
that the “Government has never, since the
war began, stood so well with foreign pow
ers, and tho 4 intervention at present is not
among the possibilities.
Per contra, a letter to the Tribune, writ*
! ten from Washington upon tbe same day as
j declares “that the late foreign news
j confirms the oelief that the French Emperor
: designs to persispin bis mediation scheme,
even if he has to proceed alone.” So well
informed does this later correspondent pro
fess to be, that he gives the propositions to
be* presented in tffe letter of the French
Minister with considerable particularity.
The proffer of mediation by Napoleon, be
says, “will be accompanied by a letter from
Prouyn de L’Huys, stating in substance that
j the Emperor believes tbe proposition of an
armistice an act in no way injurous to the
interests aud honor of the United States, but,
|of the contrary, eminently useful; that it is
j not his intention to press it upon the Feder
al Government, which alone can determine
the time when the friendly office of France
may be accepted; but that the President
must be aware that any protracted refusal of
her offers would necessitate the Emperor to
listen to the Southern representatives, whose
propositions for recognition have hitherto
been rejected because he has always enter
! tained the hope of seeing our difficulties am
micably settled and the Union restored.—
The official communication will conclude by
I stating that tbe French Government expects
that Mr. Lincoln, will maturely consider the
peculiar situation in which it is placed, and
also take imo consideration the uses and
! customs established in the casses referred to
1 in his proposition by writers on internation
al law.”
The Inquirer says that the u concluding
sentence of the foregoing paragraph has quite
a diplomatic twang. It is very courteous
yet very significant. Mr. Lincoln is expect
ed to take into consideration the uses and
customs established in the cases referred to
by writers on international law/ That is a
conclusion very like the termination of a
hostile note according to the code of honor,
where a polite request for explanation winds
up with a referrence to the ‘usages and cus-!
toms recognized among gentlemen !’ It is
as much as to say if 31 r. Lincoln does not
accept Napoleon’s mediation, he must look !
out for consequences.”— Richmond Enquirer
6th.
The Connecticut Legislature Com
mitted on tlic Fredericksburg
Disaster.
The following is an extract from a letter
| to the editor of the Waterbury American, of
December ‘2G, 186*2. Hon. 1.. W. Coe, one
of the Republican committees sent by the
[Connecticut Legislature to
| after t.l>« Lottie, to look after the* dead and
wounded from that State.
The letter is under date of December 21st,
from hospital headquarters :
You have no idea of the depression there
is in the army at the result of this third
attempt to go to Richmond. That it is a
complete failure no one can deny. The
causes cf it may be an opeu questiou ; but
one thing is certain ; that there will be dif
ferent management, or we shall not be a na
tion much longer, and shall have Jeff Davis
to rule over us. I dare not write what I think
to you from what I can gather in the limited
time l have had for observation end thought ;
but this is certain : that the President has
got to stop acting Commander in-Chief, aud
a part of his Cabinet be removed, and anoth
er mail placed at the head of the army, poli
liticians in and out of Congress silenced, and
more thau all, the people take hold of the
interest of the country, stop carrying on the
war for selfish ends, and also all keep quiet
and let the army alone.
I find but one opinion in the army about
the merits of Generals. The army, almost
to a man, are for McClellan ; and if you ex
pect the army to conquer a peace, you have
got to give them a choice. It is as clear to
them as sunshine, and that, too, with the
best friends of Burnside, who is much re
spected by ah, but lie ha* not the capacity
tor the moving of an army of this magni
tude.
All the sick at Belle Plain, and down to
the regiments coming here, and all the
wounded who could be moved, were sent to
W asbington before my arrival, aud that you
will find from other sources.
L. YY. Coe
Bold Talk in the North-west.
Two Illinois lawyers, Johnson and Sher
man both Democrats—were lately released
from Fort Warren, after many months of
incarceration as “suspected traitors.” On
their return to Chicago they were serenaded
by the Democrats there. Johnson made a
speech, in the course of which he said:
Talk to me of the bastiles of France, and
of the tyranny of Austra, I tell you there is
no country on the face of the earth where
the same moral depravity is exercised in
controlling innocent men and depriving them
of their freedom. (Loud cheers.) ff you
undertake to justify the acts of this Govern
ment, and to defend its usurpations of pow
er, God made you a slave in advance, and
you are not fit for the freedom that belongs
to man. (Loud and continued cheering.)
Sherman concludes his speech, as follows:
Gentlemen : I thank you for this demon
stration you have made to-night, and hope
that the revolution in the popular sentiment,
which took place here in November, will
continue. It liberated us, who were bound
in the bastiles of this country, and I hope it
will still go on. I know you are determined
that it shall, until every Abolition violator
of the law, from Abraham the First down
to the meanest reptile that crawls,
have - ceased to pollute the land with tffijr
vile unnatural deeds.
There was an attempt to mob Henry
V\ aid Beecher at Elizabeth. New Jersey, on
the sth. '
Inauguration op G ov . , .
DEFINES HIS POSITION,—Gov g"'"-St
New York, was inaugurated on S?' 4
The following is the substance oU “■*
gural address : *-
,“ T have solemnly sworn to protect n
stitution of the United States, w ; lh , *
grants, restrictions and guarantiee * 1U
will support it. I e o ;indl
the Constitution of the State of X .3 Virt
with all its powers and rights and I*?-
uphold it. i Uave sworn to a; s „r „ 11
duties of Governor of the State*'and**
with your aid, I shall faithfully U*- r ’’
cording to the Constitution and La
for the guidance of our official condmf 1
our protection and weliaie. The fi* i
recorded for my observance is that i •
that it shall be the duty of the
maintain and defend the sovereign- sr l
jurisdiction of the State The
injunction of the Constitution is qq-f
Governor shall take care that the 1-1- i
faithfully executed ; and so help n*e
they shall be. I would not dwell ‘on
present occasion on national affairs n
position as a State has been happily attend
toby my predecessor. My view*
subject were laid before the Legislate *
In conclusion, he said that, while knov •
his position give him but little control ov
national affairs he ventured to trust that b
fore the end of his term of service 4
country would again be great, glorious and
united, a« it once was.
Gov. Seymour had ordered the hV c
commissioners to appear before him. tc an
swer complaints for arbitrary arrests aU
imprisonments, in violation of the Coastal
tion.
“Punch” on the War —Through the
kindness of some unknown friehd we are 4
I* ssession of a copy of the London PuqcU
which gives its accustomed attention to
American affairs. It has a very excellent
cut representing Jeff Davis and Lincoln at
a game of cards,;oa a barrel of gunpewdw
Old Abe, with furious aspect and hairiest
like the quills of the fretful porcupine, ha*
his last card—the black Ac* —raised on high,
whilst Jeff, with elbow on the board and
the corner of his can! resting on his no?*
gives his antagonist a most wicked leer from
under the front piece of his cap, appearing
to say : “Play on old fellow ; the last card
can’t help you out of the scrape.” Another
cut represents Old Abe’s perplexity with
the negro. He is seated in a room of the
YY r hite House, with his hands resting on Lis
knees and a most woe begone expression on
his face, whilst a big buck negro in his shirt
sleeves and bare-foot, with arms folded, head
thrown back and one foot on the table, in
close proximity to Abraham’s nose, inter
rogates him as follows: “Now den,
Jonathan, what you goin to do wid dischild ’
Eh!”
The Outrages In Fredericksburg—A
letter in the New York Tribune, dated Fred
' ericksburg, December 12th, says:
| The old mansion of Douglas Gordon—per
haps the wealthiest citizen in the vicnity—
iis now used as the headquarters of Gen
Howard, but before he occupied it every
room had been torn with shot, aud then a
the elegant furniture and works of art broken
and smashed by the soldiers, who bur.-t into
the house after having driven the reb!
sharpshooters from behind it Y\ hen I en
tered it early this morning, before its oc« u
: pation by Gen. Howard, I found the soldier
of his five divisions divesting themselve
with rich dresses found in the wardrobe?,
some had on bonnets of the sash i nos last
year, and were surveying themselves kfoi
mirrors, which, an hour or afterward?, were
pitched out of the window and smashed to
pieces upon the pavement; others had elegant
scaria bound around their heads in the form
of turbans and shawls around their waist?
YY r e destroyed by fire nearly two whole
squares of buildings chiefly used for bu.-dif.s
purposes, together with the fine residence
of O.Mc Dowell, Dr. Smith, J. H Kellys
A. S. Cott Wi]Ham Slaughter, and many
other smaller dwellings. Everj store, 1
think, without any exception, was pillaged
of every valuable article. A fine drug steie,
which would not have looked badly on Bros--
way, was literally one mass of broken gk
and jars.
Two State Regiments. —The last M
ledgeville Union says: “YVe are infortnei
that three companies, fully organized, La
been tendered and accepted, and that sever
others have been tendered and not yet»•
cepted because not fully organized accorh-i
to tha General Orders of the Adjutant £E-
Inspector General, and that a number - 1
companies are being formed. The two rq
iments will be completed, it is believe! ia
a short time. It is said the
has been somewhat delayed by obstructs
attempted to be thrown in the way fcy 1 r '
federate enrolling officers in this State,
seem not to labor to promote harniony-
While the Governor desires perfect harmed
with the Confederate authorities, and '
no reason why it should not exist, he v. -
permit no interference by any enrolling
cer with any company or individual wbe*
mustered into the service of the State; * -
will he permit the State officers to interff
with any one who is in the actual service
of the Confederacy. He will carry out ■■■
instructions of the Legislature, and form q
regiments out of any of the militia
State not in the actual service of the C
federacy, and out of any other able-l •
men who will volunteer.
Steamers for the Blockade
is now lying in the harbor two of those . ! V j
narrow steamers, all funnel, saddle anu l
gine, seems to be the favorite convevanc
for a certain class of goods to a W est u
port. One is called the Peari, the et
is called the Northumbria, but at I ‘
must be styled the Anonymous, as her ;.au
has been rubbed out. She hails Irom u I
gow, aud has put in here to coal. . _ j
her men are allowed to quit the ship, P r I
bly for fear they might imitate the tne j
the Pearl’s crew, some of whom endeav ,
tmdesert. Both steamers have two lon
aim from the quantity ot coal they can} I
sunk almost to their sponsons. Then ‘r I
is one which stores in a small spae-e-V I
at present in great demand in the o*
.States of America. —Cork Lxo. •