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1U-m r^' T ' ^* le
t nliYiJ -’.of looting the
r the Confed-
m Northern
alive of oid King Cole
il. of Nashville, Tcnn., recent'
• hundred dollars for the pur-
a Missouri Legion,
i Paris Moniteur announces the ap-
of two vice Admirals, three rear
ten Captains and forty Lieutenants
ft of war, and fourteen Captains of fri -
The Portsmouth Transcript says that
Bates, of the lid Regiment Georgia Vol-
fYuiiti-i-rs, recently gave a Sliak-pearean Read-
in that city, which was attended by an ap
preciative audience, and was entirelv success
ful.
POST MASTER GENERAL’S REPORT.
Some friend has sent us a copy of the Report
Hiram Fuller's Xaectnre in Zaondon on the
American war—He Advocates the Oanse
of Post Master General Reagan from the 30th [from the London Post (Government organ. Dee. SO.]
June last The document gives us a debit and j Yesterday evening Colonel Fuller delivered
credit account for only one month of the ser- an address, in St James’ Hall, on the civil war
*t to s*» ri
ask, why so anxious about
fill it stop the war ? No !—
false the blockade * Not necessarily,
n- solicitous about it, in the first place,
i moral effect as a formal acknowledgment
the intelligent powers of the world that we
jve achieved and can maintain our mdepend-
Such an acknowledgment will have a
Powerful inliuence upon the North, and if re
cognition resulted in nothing more in respect
to the war, would hasten its termination. Sec-
COL. FULLE
The reader will be
note the general
ler’s lecture, deli
a synopsis of whi
LECTURE. •
[ised and gratified to
fairness of Col. Ful-
London last month,
Y to-day. The Col
onel will have a serious account to setfli
his Northern friends when he gets h<
NORTHERN NEWS—THE INCH'
The story that the Federals arei
send South their prison felons ap.
to fire the Southern tnanufacto^ - 1 ^
shops, originated in the revelatioi. 1,lst ' an , CC1 '
- , „ . , * ot then
man just trom the North to the Memphis - Ava
lanche. He professed to have derived it from a
theiiflikJF* desire for the Confederate States the : Federal officer in Louisville, who denounced
tire v, leavfiSnd status of an acknowledged inde-
ihe timber Pmnvernment Thirdly, and most to
musketry. "•e are persuaded- the recognition
'oine thirt n »'» d c will be followed at once
Hik place ou the ' _ , „ . ,
Cvpt. Anderson, aiA from *' rance and En 8 ,and
Broun, and con, parade. The recognition itself
otlurs, whose po ,Un the face of a formal declara-
diolii the 1. it, »^ r( ] that wa rwith the United States
ol day had jiu>' , , , ... r t-\
-»j,, ,|\- u iL "'-ne result of such recognition. lntni\,
fen soiacince of an issue thus formally tendered
it« wivance, it is hardly to be supposed that
I-'ranee amt England will hesitate to avail them
selves fully and immediately or every advanV ,
tage which should result to them from recog- ,
nition. They will not wait upon Mr. Seward
to explain whether hid announcement to Mr.
Adams that recognition must necessarily in
volve war was a threat or
the policy. The following statements arc also
from the same source:—
He says that the object of the ultra Repub
licans in desiring to supercede McClellan is to
makf rx politieal General, feeling assured that
the lI eral of this war is to be the next Presi-
cClellan, Sherman, Buel and Halleck,
moment McClellan
resign. This is
he refuses to
ig to the ap
etts, or ~
vice, to-wit: last June, during which the De
partment expended #200,937,97 and received
#92,387,67—showing an excess of expenditures
amounting to #108,653,30. The Post Roads
established are 2,579—Postmasters 8,300—
Contractors 2,579. The Post Master General
says there arc ninety-one Rail Roads and
branch Roads in the Confederate States, of
whom only fifteen have entered into postal
eontract Orders have been given to suspend
payment to all roads which will not make con
tracts after the 1st day of next June. The
Post Master General explains the irregularity
of the mails by alleged carelessness and want
of system in the newspaper offices—difficul
ties with mail contractors and the pressure of
army transportation on the Rail Roads—all
which, he says, “have rendered the mails so
irregular as to make it an accident now, instead
of a rule, to have regular connections between
any distant and important points.” In the last
part of his report he defends at length his poli
cy of prohibiting all mail matter from being sent
by Express, because it will deprive the Depart
ment of revenue on the thoroughfares, while
it leaves the Department the expense of trans
portation on unfrequented routes. In this re-
spect, too, it would be an unjust discrimina
tion in favor of one class. All should be made
to pay alike and take the service as they find
Mr. Reagan Inmself admits it to be the
rest kind of service, when he says it misses
'tener than it hits, and that is another imper-
ve reason, we suppose, why the people
should be forbidden to choose a different mode -
of carriage. Mr. Reagan'* mail will not, as he
himself admits, bear competition.
We hold it unfortunate for the people that
any attempt was made to establish a mail sys
tem by Government Had the whole business
been left open to private competition, the Con
federacy would, in our opinion, by this time,
have been much more completely and regularly
served with mails than it is now.
DARK DAYS.
Our January rains are come, and for the past
forty'eight hours, have been going on in an ir-
aud desultory manner. The nights are
mere opinion.—
They will pronounce against the blockade at
once and put themselves in position to accept
the alternative of war, which Seward has al
ready tendered as the necessary result, in his is gaining ground.
judgment, of mei e recognition alone.
universal business prostration—upon the back
of the enormous tariff, and theiV heavy State,
County and Municipal taxes, will test the pop-1
uhirity of the war in a remarkable degree.—
The result of the operation will kill the war
and the credit ot Lincolnism at one and the
same blow; for the excitement and alarm it
will create, will prove that direct taxation can
never be relied on in the North as a perma
nent resource for sinking a large national debt
—a debt which in the progress of twelve more
in America. Although the capacious hall was
far from filled, there was a rather large audi
ence, amongst whom there were some of the
most distinguished Americans at present resid
ing in this country. The chair was occupied
by Dr. Charles Mackay, who briefly introduced
the lecturer as a Colonel in the United States
army, and formerly editor of the New York
Miror.
Colonel Fuller, after a few introductory re
marks, said that when, on coming to the con
sideration of the fratricidal war which now rag
ed in America, he avowed himself as a follower
of Webster, the great admirer of the Union, he
should not be accused of too great a proclivity
to secession. In discussing the subject, on
which men so warmly and so widely differed,
he proposed to deal wi'.h facts without obtrud
ing opinions cr hazarding predictions. He was
well aware that he ran the risk of giving sec
tional offence in speaking on a question which
twenty nillions on the one side and ten millions
on the other were disputing at the point of the
bayonet, and which rendered every drawing
room a forum and every bar room a battle field
The South asserted a right which the North de
nied—the right of secession. On that he had
little to say —it was a question on which the
greatest statesmen differed. It was enough to
say that the South had a religious belief in it,
and most assuredly they had proved their faith
by their acts. The causes of disunion extended
far back, reaching even beyond the foundation
of the government In the first place the A
mcrican system was an incongruous system.—
The universe itself could not remain entire with
two supreme powers at the head, and how could
America with her seventy-four sovereignties ?
The first movement of the practical assertion
claimed by the South was the taking of Fort
Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, and the
voluntary union was dissolved, whilst the new
doctrine of coercion was proclaimed at Wash
ington ; and that new doctrine was now preach
ed by Federal cannon and Federal bayonets.
The c^use of the secession dated far beyond
the uniori of the old thirteen States—beyond
even the doctrine of self-government laid down
in the cabin of the Mayflower, and signed by
thirty fugitive Pilgrims. The North was set
tled by the Puritans, the South by the Cavali
ers; and in this radical fact lay the seeds of
perpetual antagonism. Next to the primary
differences of religious and education came the
differenoes caused by climate and occupation.
In the North men worked for a living. In the
South labor, which was seldom a luxury, be
came less a necessity. Manual labor was there
not only irksome, but degrading; and thus,
250 religions and only one soup”—(laughter)
—to which a Yankee journalist retorted on
France by saying, “My God, what a nation— ;
250 soups and no religion." (Renewed laugh- i
He would not attempt to unroll the hor
rible panorama of this fratricidal war, the
bloodiest picture ever painted by the hand of
time where every gain was a. loss and every
victory was a defeat. Mr. Russell, of the Times,
was a most powerful and impartial historian of
the war. When he wrote from hearsay, he
was entitled to only hearsay credit; but when
•Our own Correspondent” concluded his letters
with “All this I saw and was part ol,” then
the reader might rely on him. After seven
months of bloodshed and slaughter there were
no indications of peace, and the only hop« of
settling these differences seemed to be a sort
of latent faith in mutual exhaustion. The
North taunted the South with stealing North
ern property. The South replied that when the
colonies broke from England they had done the
same, and had even converted the leaden statue
of King George, which stood in the Bowling
Green at New York, into bullets for the slaugh
ter of the King’s subjects, and had made no
restitution—(laughter)—but that when the war
was over the South intended to take an inven
tory of all property and to strike an equitable
balance. They further said that they never in
tended to take Washington after the battle of
Bull Run, because the public property in that
city would form too large an item for settle
ment. (Oh, oh! and laughter.)
SURPLUS WESTERN BACON.
The Cincinnati Gazette estimates that there
will be a surplus of 89,000,000 pounds of ba
con in that portion of the United States this
year should the Southern markets not be open
ed. This will involve a loss of about $7,000,-
000 in the item of bacon alone.
The Preble—Late Northen accounts state
that the U. S. steamship of war Richmond was
at Key West repairing damages sustained du
ring the late action at Pensacola. It will be
remembered that she was one of the block
ading vessels at the mouth of the Mississippi,
and received considerable damage in the action
of the U. S. fleet with our mosquito squadron.
We are thus particular in recurring to this ves
sel because the Yankees have labored ever since
enough, but the day is little belter than ‘ while in the North the majority paid the pen
toenA ||s i - ti|
This, %M°Tdr^
a line from ocufei lo^ce
they call an hoVorable p?>ri*.
He says the ultra Abolition
weaker every day, and that the
misty twilight. Above, all is
fog and cloud, and beneath, all puddle and
slop. It isjust the kind of weather to enjoy at
home—put on dressing gown and old slippers,
a good hook and an easy chairhv a bright
If one cannot enjoy such this
there is no enjoying it^g^^V.'i’utside,
/nose shall be blue
and the shivering fjac/ i.i, l > /rates boots
garments. You shall look - iVi vain up and
ally of man’s disobedience, earning their bread
by the sweat of their brow, in the South they
earned their bread by the sweat of their negro
Another cause was the widely different legis
lative policy. The North sought for the pro
tection of her manufacturing interest, the South
was for free trade—open markets with all the
world.
This was rather a financial difficulty, and in
every Congress were found tariff and anti-tariff
men fightii g for their own pockets. He would
now come to the more direct and immediate
m
VA LLANDIGHAM’S SPEECH.
Below will be found the stirring speech from
Yallandigham in the Lincoln House of Repre
sentatives, which has been heretofore noticed
in the Telegraph. Read it:
THE SETTLEMENT Or THE TRENT AFI'AIK.
In the House of Representatives on the 7th
inst., a motion having been made to refer to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, the papers in
the Trent affair, which had been communicated
by President Lincoln, Mr. Vallandigham, of
Ohio, said: I avail myself, sir, of this the
earliest opportunity offered to express my ut
ter and strong condemnation, as one of the re
presentatives of the people, of the act of the
administration in surrendering up Messrs. Ma
son and Slidell tc the British Government For
six weeks, sir, they were held in close custody
as traitors of the United States, by order of
the Secretary of State, and with the approval
and applause of the press, ot the public melt,
of the Navy Department, of this House, and
of the people of the United States, with a full
knowledge of the manner and ad the circum
stances of their capture, and yet in six days
after the imperious and peremptory demand of
Great Britain, they were abjectly surrendered
upon the mere rumor even of the approach of
a hostile fleet, and thus for the first time in
our national history have we strutted insolent
ly in a quarrel without right, and then basely
crept out of it without honor; and thus for the
first time has the American Eagle been made
to cower before the British Lion.
Sit, a vassal or fettered and terror stricken
press or servile and sycophantic politicians in
this House, or out of it may applaud the act,
and fawn and flatter, and lick the hand which
has smitten down our honor into the dust. But
the people now or hereafter, will demand a ter
rible reckoning for this most unmanly surren
der. But I do not trust myself to speak of it
now as I propose some day to speak. ! rose
only to put on record my emphatic protest
ag&inst it, and to express my deep conviction
that the very war which the other day might
have been avoided by combined wisdom and
firmness, is now inevitable.
Sir, the surrender may be no fault of the Sec
retary of State, but he has sown, I fear, the
dragon’s teeth, by this, his fatal despatch, and
armed war will spring from it. In the name of
God, sir, what does England want with Mason
and Slidell ? It was a surrender of the claim
that memorable action to impress the belief up- .
on the South that it was the Richmond the Ma- i of t>ie right to seize them cn board her ships,
nassas struck, and not, as it really was, the
Preble. In proof that the Preble was sunk, on
under her flag, that she demanded, and yet
this is the vehy thing that Mr. Seward pertina-
that occasion, is the fact that all the other Yan- j ciously refuses, and he only condemns Captain
kee vessels have been heard of, and no mention ^ dkes because he did not enforce this asserted
made of the Preble, as far as we have seen— | right with greater severity against the offend
and we have scanned all the Northern news
with reference to this subject. The truth i»,
the Preble went to the bottom of the riv«r, with
probably all on board, human or otherwise.—
Immense pieces of timber and copper from her
hull can be seen in different places in this city.
ing neutral ship. Why, sir, upon the princi
j pies of this despatch, if a merchant vessel, as
. at first intended, had been employed to carry
| these men out from Fort Warren to England,
she might to day have been arrested on the
high seas and they dragged from her deck,
CONGREt :■ NAL PROC
Suspected. D-isUnjalty nf the not
tor—Mr. VaUanduthatn and the
dell Affair.
Washington, January 7.—Both
Congress re assembled yesterday. In
ate, the credentials of the new Senati
Oregon, Mr. Stark, were presented by
league, but Mr. Fessenden moved that
ministration of the oath lie suspended,
credentials and certain papers in his posj
impeaching the loyalty o‘ Mr. Stark, b
ed to the Judiciary Committee. Aftc
discussion the papers were iaid on the
the present.
The documents for the State Departn^i
lative to the Trent affair were recciv
made the special order for Thursday ne
Mr. Pomeroy and Mr. Chandler pi
petitions for the emancipation of the slav
Mr. Chandler also presented a petitioi
vor of an exchange of prisoners.
Mr. Wilson, from the Committee oil*
Affairs, reported back the hill in regAl
appointment of sutlers, with amend® jl
Ordered to be printed.
Mr. Hale offered a resolution that th<
CouiRiitt'-e he instructed to inquire h>.
practice prevails in the Navy of makiri
chases through other than recognized |h
and if any such had been made, and w
larger prices were paid. Agreed to. V
Mr. Hale also gave notice that he s»
introduce a hill to furnish funds on the,,, 1 j
ury.
Mr. Powell introduced a hill to aboliA
franking privilege. ^
In the House a message was receivt
the President, with the documents in ref]
to the Trent affair. •
Mr. Yallandigham took occasion to f!
his dissatisfaction at the course pursued
Government in delivering Mason and •
remarking that in less than thrqe montf
will be war with Great Britain, or cls»s
tamely submit to the recognition of tlti
em Confederacy, and the breaking it
blockade. . ,
Mr. Hutchins replied, saying |#at K
league had heretofore been opposed to ci
as to the South, while now lie Is agaif
delivering up of Mason and Slidell. Tl
tion of his colleague was liable to.the nil
that his belligerent attitude »as one ■
would benefit the rebels by getting up>
between England and the United States^,
which the South flesired with-that view.J
The Judiciary committee reported irut
Mr. Stanton's right to a seat in placef(|
Lane, the member from Kansas
The Pension appropriation bill was rj
She was a sloop-of war of 16 guns.—N. O. provided only she were forthwith brought bg^j
Paper
ligham, but Pendleton, of Ohio,
rot the IVace party, and thinks
| hut Yallandigham had offered
k^ect for a knot of congenial gossips Mse of , tlle American disunion, and he pro
J 7 Os i t * nouncedit m one word—Abolitionism. Abo
GROANS OF THE BRITONS.
We publish to day some frightful groans I 10 1° surrender
..... . ; would hare been passed.
from the North over an empty treasury, and fee , ing exjstjng bet ^~ n U)e Abo , itio0f Un —
some piteous appeals to Congress to lay on a ; an( j ]> eace parties is represented as intense.—
direct tax and raise a hundred and fifty mil-1 The whole West is opposed to the Morrill tar-
lions in this way at once. The whole South i ttt and the entire East sustains it.
will earnestly second these appeals. A tax of j nrTuncBT vrws
seven dollars and a half each upon every man, j ()ur w ish friend w atU f nR , ol the CiUh-
woman and child in the.North, at a time of, ^ %hone forth again on Saturday
with, and every hasty pass-
caught the mood of the
close »s his own
«te silent and de-
their gloomy depths
solacing himself
perchance
last, having suffered a temporary eclipse, by
reason, as he states, of a press of job work—
| some of which we judge by his frequent com-
plaints, has not been paid for. The safest rule
is “cash on delivery." The latest news in
Cuthberi is set forth as follows:
Outhberl is the most quiet and peaceful
place on earth. The reason is, there is nothing
here worth uiasing a fuss about.
Meat is selling here at twenty five cents a
bite.
Ledger.—
,‘sponds with
for business
Iking about.
. Buying articles for five cents and selling
mouths of hostilities, will make this enormous t] leln f or twenty-five cents is the order of the
war tax a matter of annual necessity for twenty | dav.
years, or until the war debt of the Lincolnites
is paid. The result of the first collection will
show every man, with two ideas in his head,
that the question whether the Lincoln obliga
tions arc really worth a dimj in the dollar or
uot, is simply a question of putting an immedi
ate stop to further war expenditures. We have
no doubt it is the game of the Herald and the
other papers which are hounding on the Lin
coln Congress tQ levy this tax, to kill the war
in this way. We are of opinion that the
Northern war party, just now, numbers niany
thousatid apparently zealous members who are
watching for a chance to tn*p it up, and thia
direct tax is as promising a scheme for that
purpose as ever was conceived.
serted, «
and you w*
at a tire in the farthe:
poring in unsatisfied
That occupation now
the state of the atmos;
in such days, that is nt^ 1
There is none going on. ^ ne Xery cotton buy
ers themselves, who in lively times are ever ea
ger for a trade, take such days to mope, whit
tle, sit on the stool of repentance and prophesy
and forebode ill luck for past operations. '1 here
is nothing to he gained abroad but coughs,
colds, pneumonia. Go home and keep dry.
GRAND EXPLOSION IMPENDING!
We may now hold our breath for a while and
wait for a grand explosior of Northern valor
and gunpowder. All at once the Hessian pa
pers advise us that the tiine-of inaction is over—
the plot is all arranged—the actors in posi
tion—the magazines are placed—the trains
People can yet he made to feel rich at the
same old price. Whiskey is stjll selling at ten
cents a drink. So we learn through an indivtd- | la ; d _ th , loat ehes lighted. ‘ and between the I V 0 " 6 ' and -^ ing i,n P licat< ; d in its constitution-
mil in ef fr/in< the* rrrt u vr i’ ° . <1 ..... .... 11 ” Cn .......... 1 .
litionism caused the war—Secessionist!! preci
pitated it This peculiar form of Abolitionism
was political, not social. It was the freesoil
party and not the philanthropists of Boston
and Exeter Hall, which had driven on seces
sion.
The Free Soil party was opposed to the ad
mission of new slave States, not on moral
grounds, hut because every State added two
members to the Senate, who acted as a check
on the laws enacted for the aggrandizement of
the Northern manufacturers. Sentimental
Abolitionism had very few advocates in the
Congress, and none in the Cabinet. South
Carolina wanted the manufactures of Franee
and England duty free, and desired to pay for
them in her own cotton, without having it clip
ped at new York on its way to Manchester.—
Slavery was too great a questiou to be flip
pantly disposed of at Exeter Ilall, or to be whip-
ed away by those who shed tears over the im
aginary wrongs of fictitious “Uncle Toms” and
impossible “Little Tobeys." Slavery had ever
existed in some form or other. The South
profited by it, and retained it.
The negro, who could sleep like the black
snake beneath the burning rays!of a tropical
— | sun, could alone work profitably in the sugar
i- I fields of the South. But “slavery,” says the
philanthropists of the North, “is a grievious
ual just from the grocery.
FROM KENTUCKY.
A gentleman recently from Kentucky ex
presses an opinion that no important military
movements can he made in that State, at pres
ent, owing to the muddy and almost impassa
ble condition of the roads.
We have, however, news of a considerable
engagement near Prestonhur in Floyd coun
ty, in Eastern Kentucky, between Humphrey
Marshall’s Brigade and a force of Federalsesti-
| mated at eight thousand nten—in which the
, latter were severely handled and made a retreat
in Bull Run style. The action is stated to have
| occurred in a narrow gorge, which probably
allowed the enemy little advantage of his gupe
rior numbers. Prestonburg lies about midway
Mason and Slidell, finds bet ween the Northern and Southern boundary
item of news by the Can- ,,. . , . , .
MESSRS. HUNTER AND BRECKENIUUGF..
The report that Messrs. Hunter and Breck-
enridge were despatched to Europe immediate
ly after the arrest of
color in the following item of news by
ada:—
of Kentucky, and cannot be inure than twenty
, miles from the North Carolina boundary.—
The Paris Presse says that new rebel Com- , „ , ,, A , , ,
^ in nl.ee of M»snn and Siniell had I Ma,aha11 I‘ro».»Gly encountered one of the col
missioners, in place of Mason and Slidell, had
arrived at some German port, and were en route
for London and Paris, but it does not mention
the names of these emissaries.
If this be true, it seems at least probable
that our government r' - -«it have had assurances
i f some important resmt to follow a mission
urged with such promptitude,
all the Northern goss p about speedy recogni
tion is not without foundation.
umns destined to penetrate East Tennessee.
GEN. Bl ELL’S ARMY IN KENTUCKY.
The Cincinnati Commercial says that it is
reported that Gen. Buell writes to Washington
that his army in Kentucky is an armed mob,
It may he that * * nd * ,e have time to work it up before he
makes an advance. A correspondent of that
paper gives the following description of Gen.
Buell’s lorce :
Gen. Buell will take the field with probably
no less than 80,0(»0 men, of which 70,000 will
, ,. . . . ... ... ... , . . he infantry and the remainder cavalry nnd ar-
mg of salt, to state that the salt ottered for sal. tm J f the in f antr y about one half, inclu-
■u #7,50 per sack, is not the salt/.c««/i for the ! ding 3,000 regulars, the 6th, 32d and 37th In
ii'.- of the army, but is some of the salt pur- diaua, 1st, 2d and 41st Ohio, and the regiments
chased by the State for army purposes. The from the same two States that were so well
Salt.—We are reqested by Mr. D. W. K.
Peacock one of the State’s Agents in the vend
erira charges are put on for transportation,
storage, etc, etc. etc.
seasoned in Virginia, the 19th, 24th and 34th
Illinois, 1st Wisconsin, and 1st Minnesota and
the Louisville Legion, and a few others from
1 ” Ohio ind Indiana will prove effective, while
Mi \ allanoigiiam.—In the Northern House the other half only tolerably so. Ol the car
of Representatives, on the 7th inst., Mr. Yal-jalry, there area number of independent corn
Undigbam, of Ohio, made a strong s[>ecch on P a,, i es from Indiana and Ohio that have had
the Tr%t affair, in the course of which he said:
to say that the moment,
tepped upon the deck
would have con-
; wth J*. the en-
,r >*hi8 remark of
little regular drilling, hut a good deal of scout
ing during the last three months. The same
can be said of some ot the Kentucky cavalry
j regiments. The auvalry arm of the service is
. ' n ■ *** • - “V .v —- — —• — *
your prisoners ol rC p resen tcd in Gen. Buell’s department by
Mime to he 12.000 men. But three fourths of
the-c are too raw to admit of immediate em-
iirnigmzed inde- payment in active service. The aggregate
number of horsemen likely tc be attached to
the several inlantry columns will not exceed
red *again to say 13,000 men. Of Held artillery, I presume, an
' "‘■‘fver came from aggregate of hardly less than a hundred pieces,
limn ...... 1. . l. I...— l
i. wetnod to us like
’ (lad to see the posi-
- ,/e. The British gov-
|uar. u jA B
aa *Bu. lP. eU-ed iheM- gentle-
|adors, hii^ts neutrals en-
fhej
sk, of Arkan'
including Parrot, rifled and smooth bore brass
guns, (the rifled largely predominate in num-
lier,) will he distributed among the several dt-
visions. The guns are excellent and plentiful,
hot the same cannot he said as to the gunners.
With the exception of the two regular batte->
rias nnd those from Ohio and Indiana that had
experience in Western Virginia, the artillerists
of the army of the Ohio a ill not do much in
the way of good shooting. They have been
very systematically drilled during the last
four weeks or so, but then good marksmanship
in this ann is not acquired in a month.
Keleass or Gov. Mokeuead. — Northern
dates of the loth state that Ex-Gov. Morehead,
of Kentucky, has been released from confine
ment at Fort Warren, Boston harbor, and has
gone on to New York.
jL- “We ARE IN THE MIDST OF A REVOLUTION,"
5d j but for all that the newspapers are dry, end
I very littla is going on.
15th and 25th of this present month the storm
of war is to hurst upon us in all fury from ev
ery point of the compass, in one grand, com
bined movement of victorious I.incolndoin,
which shall crush the rebels and their rebellion
in short order. In less than six weeks, says
the New Vork Herald, Richmond will he ours.
These announcements are “stunning.” The
South was just coming to the conclusion that
the war would fizzle out in time without anoth
er important battle, when all at on;e we are
aroused with an announcement of this grand
explosion. Let it come, if it will, and we trust
it will lie the finale of the war. Perhaps it had
better end in a grand prrotechnical burst up |
than iu a slow and protracted fizzle.
Tha signal for the general advance it seems j
is to he the landing of the Burnside Expedi'
tion, and from what the Northern papers drop j
upon the subject, we are led to believe that al- j
though the movement up the Rappahannock
he abandoned, the Expediti- n is still designed
for some Hlrategetic demonstration in the rear
of our Virginia forces. It is probable, how-
ever, that we shall get something definite about
this Expedition before going to press.
The Lincoln press tacitly concedes that this
grand combined demonstration is their last
card, and if ft misses the game is up. This
admission of theirs,‘ho * - ever, is unnecessary,
for it must be obvious to every one th it <he
war in the North cannot survive another seri
ous disaster. The monster is already begin-
ality, wo will root it out.” So they waged a
fratricidal war that four millions of Africans
might be set at liberty, to work, wander, steal
or starve.
He could testify that a happier, healthier,
better fid or more lightly tasked class oflabor-
ers than the slaves he had never seen either in
Europe or America. The master who will ill-
treat his slaves was everywhere detested and
avoided, and evm the women who did so were
sent to Coventry, and yet the Christians of the
North refused to hold fellowship with the slave
holder. Antagonism ripened into hatred, and
the result was open war. The malignant anti-
slavery policy of the North became organic
when Mr. Lincoln was elected President—he
who declared that “the State must be all free
or all slave States.” From the moment of his
election to the Presidency secession was a fore
gone conclusion.
Having drawn a vivid picture of the state of
popular feeling in the North and South after
the taking of Fort Sumter, the lecturer prbceed
ed to say that from that moment he had never
heard from man or woman in the South a single
word in favor ol reunion. On the other hand,
they showed a Spartan determination to spend
their last dollar, and to shed their last drop of
blood to resist invasion, and even )he women
stripped themselves of their jewelry to equip
the army of their defenders. The. Southern
army was composed of all classes. In some
regiments it was not unusual to see three gen
erations, grandfather, father and son of the old-
esWamilies; and, perhaps, no army ever went
into the field with so large a proportion of well
educated and wealthy gentlemen. Men like
these went into battle as if they were entering
on single combat; and, perhaps, no .truer con-
, , . . , . » . ... ception of the state of feeling in the South could
rung to shake with paralysis, and it needs but , ^ g a ; ned t | ian ( r0 i n the words, “the spirit of
little more evidence of the futility of the inva- resistance is up to the duelling point.” Wo-
sion, *o effectually cripple it Let the grand
explosion coiue off, then, as soon as it will.
Tue Burnside Expedition, according to the
Norfolk Day Book, consists of one frigate, two
gunboats, 2 side wheel steamers, and a number
of transports, twenty-five in all, which shows
that it was intended for a military, and not a
naval expedition. We mean it was not intended
to attack a fortified port, hut to land troops to
march into the interior. This idea is also sustain
ed by the assurances of the Northern papers tha
there will b* disappointment in that section
when the destination of the expedition is known
but very important results will follow it. All
this, being interpreted, means, peradventure,
that the landing is to be effected at some unim
portant point, and the great objectYs a strate-
getic movement into the interior. Suppose, for
example, it was to sail up the Aibermarle Sound
and move against the rear of Norfolk and Ports
up to ttie duelling point,
men, priests and bishops, were enlisted in the
cause, and even the slaves asked permission of
their masters to go and fight the Yankee aboli
tionists. The Southern States consisted of
seven States, with a territory of 770,000 square
miles. All hope of reconciliation had passed
away., Section was arrayed against section,
father against son, brother against brother.—
There were Irish, I. ench and German regiments
in the North ; and there were Irish, French
and German regiments in the South. It was no
question of race, blood or religion that divided
them. Let him no.v refer to the elements of
the different armies. In the North there was a
manufacturing and a trading; the South was
peculiarly agricultural. In consequence of
emigration, the population of the North em
braced every nation, tribe and people.
There were three swarms of convicts, pau
pers and refugees, and there the right of free
suffrage gave a power which was a dangerous
element in the State. Unrestricted suffrage
was the fallacy. When Pontius I’ilategaie the
franchise to the people, they elected Barabbas,
mouth. But facts will soon take the place of j a " d lrolu that to this there were thousands
of instances to disprove the popular dogma that
conjecture. ^ “the voice of the people is the voice of God.”
WAR CLOSED ON KENTUCKY. T ho weeded States were comparatively free
The Herald of the luth v says that Green from the admixture of onugners. There 400,-
, . , ! , / /. , .i,. 1 000 white men held 4,000,000 slaves. The con-
Rtver bridge is completed and had ere that . gtitution of the Confederate States as granted
time poured over supplies to enable the Na- was f ar superior to that of the Federal States,
tional troops to take the ro*l to the Capital of It was particularly so in two respects. There
Tennessee. It thinks the army there almost
equal in numbers and disnplineto that upon
the Potomac, and the General (Buell) worthy
of such a command.
At Cairo, that paper states, there are seventy
was an extension of the Presidental term to
six years, with a prohibition against re-election;
and the appointment of all Confederate officers,
except Cabinet Ministers, was for life, or during
good behavior. Thus there was a check on of
fice seeking, and on the clamorous hounds for
eight vessels of all kinds, many of them of the t P| ac ®- system of place hunting the
YnHn noil Ik/i/iAmo m nslion A f v\a1 111 Ala no tl* 1 f II _
most formidable character as armed vessels,
are now reported as about ready, and late ac-
North bad become a nation of politicians with
out a statesman being left, and thus it became
worse than was conveyed in the description of
to the port of Boston for confiscation.
But more than this, England needs, l^
say wants, a war, but sk
and this administration"
ginning as if it was their purpose t?
in it to the utmost. Look into your
induct of Thr'Presidenk 'th'e”*Congress^**aTid i correspondence. Look at your stone' fleet
Gen. McClellan is severely censured. The Com- j B “» let P -,SS- " ho - 1 ask ' amon K tne
MORE FAULT FINDING.
The Cincinnati Commercial, (a Black Repub
lican journal) has, in a recent issue, a lengthy
at tide on the conduct of the war, in which the
severely
mercial says:
here is something and somebody wrong
and stupid at Washtagton. Is it Gen. Me-
Cleltar, or the Congress, or the Cabinet, or the
President ? So far as we are concerned, we have
treated General McClellan with the highest con
sideration. We are not inclined now to charge
the blame for the infinite stupidity which pre
dominates
the world,
We must have deeds henceforth,
wait tor any more tinkering, either in reviews,
or artillery practice, or reconnoisances.
The army of the Potomac and the army of
millions of this country, or even in the House
or Senate, or the Administration itself, in the
midst of the dead calm of stolid security which
seems now to rest over all, has reflected for a
moment upon the significancy, of the events of
the passing hours ?
A British man of-war bears to the shores of
England, there to be received in triumph and
1 upon him. ‘ But he must go back to 1 wi ', h sh ° u * of exultation as martyrs and heros,
1, or be admitted to full communion.- 1 and wU ‘‘ lhe 6 US,<)S ° f u the P u0 P lc ® f England
We cannot and 48 t “ e proteges of their ministers, the very
men who, hut for the rash act of Captain Wilkes
and the still more rash endorsement of the Ad
ministration and the country, would six weeks
the Ohio must move and must tight, or the a S° have been T uletl y land , d fr0 ' n a sbl P
country is irretrievably ruined. It will be im- j L? ( f u,el security as rebels and retugees All
possible to maintain the credit of the Govern- ! Eu®>pe echoes now with their names All Eu-
ment through the winter, with Washington for r0 P e wdl r, , se “P to d ° them honor, and yet you
the lounging place of our great army. The | surre " dered ** J® u ’ *° £\ ca P' tbe f re ‘
people will not maintain the monster if it | cognition by England of the Confederate btate.,
devours everything and does nothing. They i . ,
don’t want such an elephant. The Secretary I f‘»" at ‘ on sto.c ph.losophy, cJlmly rejo.ces
... - r - - - - y 1 that the effectual check upon and waning pro
portions of the insurrection, as well as the com
parative unimportance of the persons concerned
happily enable the administration, after six
weeks experiment, to cheerfully liberate them,
and thus to remove the teterimi cauti belli.
Sir, give me leave to say, that the moment
they (Mason and Slidell) stepped upon the deck
ol a British man-of-war, your prisoners of state,
whom the other day you would have consigned.
I and your Secretary of State, with Christian re-
of War talks of seven hundred thousand men in
the field. What are they doing ? The Secre
tary should have been thinking on that point
when writing th* tail of his report, which was
so effectually driveu up by the President with,
his uiodilying uiaul. The Secretary boasts of
the prodigious power we exhibit in placing a
vast number of troops in the field. The truth
is, thus far our boasted numbers have only ad
vertised our incapacity. The Chinese and Hiu- . rl , ,, , - - . , , ,
does can heat us in numbers, and we have not | t< ^ f ^ lon . a 1 ^ heC * a * 'envoys and
heard the Asiatic powers ranked among the
great ones of the globe. What tiave we done,
ambassadors of a recognized independent State,
and I predict here tO'day, in spite of this deep
UlCiii utica UI me stjuc. 1* uat uatc n fc uuuc. ,i . .
aside from the Port Roval bombardment, to national humiliation, or rather perhaps, because
show that we are more entitled to the respect ** and * n s f, t . e ’ l °°- ofthe , sarrenQe f r .
of the military monarch.es of Europe than the out protest, of the Monroe doctrine, for forty
i _* ** ycftrs til© cherished and proud policy of this
Asiatic.
The Commercial then alluding to the negro
question in Congress, proceeds:
How long will it take the swarm of third rate
demagogues and second rate fanatics in Con
gress, to learn that a passage of m lew resolu
tions will not end the war ? The whole batch
of resolutions before Congress on the slavery
question are not worth the paper they were
written upon ; and yet there are persons who
think that the war would he ended by a rote of
Congress declaring the emancipation of slaves.
What we want is not Congressional interven
tion but military activity. It is bald nonsense
to talk of freeing the slaves, until we have at
least broken the iron crust of flfc Confederate
contraband blackbeny pie. Where are the
negroes gentlemen propose to free ? Behind
the bristling armies of the Confederates.
It then asks the following very reasonable
qut ition :
Hadn’t the armies better be whipped before
we emancipate the negro V
Tub Cotton trom Port Roval.—The New
York World says:
The value of the cottsn brought by the At*
lantic is about #60,000. The greater part ofthe
staple was picked on tho plantation of Dr. J enk
ins, tne remainder on the adjacent plantations.
On account of the great haste necessary, the
cotton brought by the Atlantic is packed in
balt^i of various sizes ; about half of it ginned,
and the other half os it was picked from the
bolls. It is Sea Island cotton, and the samples
of it shown us are of fine fibre and in good condi
tion. The cargo is consigned to Col. Tompkins,
of the quartermaster’s department.
| years the cherished and proud policy of this
government, in less than three months you will
he at war with Great Britain, or else, in the
meantime, will have basely submitted to the
recognition of the Confederate States, and the
breaking up of the blockade; and if at war
then, with hearts unstrung and hands unnerved
by. this very surrender.
Courage! courage ! courage 1 sir, is the best
and first of peacemakers. I know well, of
course, sir, that like all other similar predictions
for some years past, in regard to our public af
fairs, you will treat this on* also with scoffing
and incredulity ; but, nevertheless, 1 put it on
record here to-day, “The prudent man lore-
seeth the evil and hideth himself, but the sim
ple pass on and are punished.”
nrciellan'a Orand Combined Advance
Movement—Strength ofthe Yankee Land
and Naval Force*—Health, Casualties,
Etc.
The Washington correspondent ofthe Cincin
nati hnquirer gives the following interesting
account of McClellan’s intentions and the con
dition of his “Grand Army:”
The Commander-in-Chief has determined on
a simultaneous attack, and is so drawing tho
cords, by distributing the troops, making ready
the transportation supplies, etc., that a grand
forward movement of 435,000men will be made
simultaneously, the immense column extending
from the Potomac through Virginia and Ken
tucky to the Mississippi. The Army of the
Potomac are now ready for that movement:
Genera' Banks, near W inchester, is also ready.
Generals Rosencrantz, Buell and Uallack are
not yet ready. Commodore Foote is not ready
The utmost diligence and industry are being
The Cotton Famine.—Late accounts from \ exerted to have a complete preparation. Ros-
Liverpool state that the stock of cotton on hand encrans will be ready by the 20th, BueHAy the
on tho 14th of December was 697,000 bales.—
Of course the supply will not be exhausted by
this day, and the stock on the 31st of December
would vary very - little from last year. It is es
timated, in intelligent quarters,that the stock in
England, with what was in the hands of spin
ners, would not be entirely absorbed by the first
of May next. It this bo so, it is not likely that
“the cotton famine” w 11 be felt much before
April. It would be tao late then for our plan
ters to determine the coarse they intend to pur
sue in regard to the planting of seed for the
coming season.—Richmond Examiner.
E-ifThe Houston Telegraph, of the 1st inst.,
learns from good authority that a steamer has
15th, and Halleck and Foote by the 25th.
The Burnside expedition leave in about ten
days on a mission that must necessarily te
highly successful; while a fleet of boats will
come up the Potomac, McClellan will advance
steadily on Manassas. Banks and Rosencrar s
will take the enemy in their rear ;Cox will
strike out toward Lewisburg; Garfield will
move toward Cumberland Gap; Buell, with his
four divisions, toward Nashville; Halleck, Wal
lace, Grant, Foote, and others toward Memphi s
overland, and down the Mississippi river, with
the forces at Fortress Monroe and Beaufort and
move inland to take the enemy in the rear.—
Gen. McClellan will not “forward” until ho is
entirely ready, so that a sudden and triumphant
arrived in a lexas port, within the past week, ; victory may be the crowning result of his pa-
under British colors, bringing forty five tons : t,i en ce and preparation.
of cannon powder, a large amount of rifle pow- 1 The health of the army here is exceedingly
der, 700,000 army caps. 5,000 primers, and a j good, and but few deaths are occurring, com-,
considerable amount of coffee, dry goods, bag- I parei i with the immense number of soldiers in
ging, rope, etc '
The Lynchburg Virginian regrets to learn that
the Hon. Wm. Ballard Preston is lying danger
ously ill at his residence in Montgomery coun
ty, Vl
the field. By returns in the War Departmect
up to the 22d of December, I learn that the
mortality in our army since the war broke out
will reach 22,000 men. The number killed in
battle, skirmishes, etc., is about 11,000, and
the number wounded 17,000. Thesa figures
may appear startling to a great many, but
they are reliable. The number of prisoners
South, and soldiers deserted and missing, in
about 6000. Ihe entire strength of cur army
Pater Manufactories.—The importance of
establishing paper mill* throughout the South
is at once obvious. Thousands upon thousands
of dollars invested in printing materials are i , _ ... «i>..
now lying idle and unproductive for want of £sby returns in the Adjutant General s office
paper. Noether branch of business in the ] foo £[ “P &21 . u0 ° 5 about 480,000 now reported
South has suffered moro than the printing bu* 1 M or * ervicc - >t ,
siness, and that mainly for the want of paper, | ty The Mexican cotton manufacturers are
and this too when the manufacture of paper ! - their co(ton from Texas at the low ratt
trnnm th** mrmr. nnni'j* r nnititnh p micinncu ° °
counts from below show that Columbus once the Frenchman who, having visited the United
passed, Memphis must tall an easy prey.
States, exclaimed, “My Goa, what a country—
would be the most princely profitable business
imaginable The ends of rope, waste cotton,
pieces of bagging, and other articles used in
of nine cents per pound.
Hon. C. J. Faulk ler has entered the
be cheerfully and gladly^ given.—Richmond j stone-wall notoriety, now m command of Win
Examiner. Chester, Va.
^ber of Abolition patitio'J
Iso one praying for
i»rm j imported fg*.
'V' 1
relations
of
V the
l: t a t o n s,
p<
his intimate
acquamt^^^g^n leading - Euror^
men.
The speech is looked for with!
admiral milne’s hostile instruction^
IS TO BE DONE ABOUT THE INKFFKCTIVEl
ABE
[rrom the London News, Dec. SI.)
The Parts Patries of the 10th inst.,
from Lendon the following information
it states to be “news —If the answeJ
English note should not be favorable
Lyons will leave Washington in thrif
and will transmit the orders of his gg
to Admiral Milne, who .will in that
diately leave Jamaica (?) with htaj
take up a position at Norfolk,
ou the confines of Carolina, whicl^
basis of the English naval operations
we are assured, wili maintain an atQ
armed neutrality. Admiral Milne wijj
Havana a division of frigates destic
part in the operations against Mexij
ships of war, recently armed, havl
started one after the other for the
and it is thought that all the vessels^
to reinforce Admiral Milne will he at
from the 25lh to the 3oth of Decembefl
case the Washington Cabinet should sj)
the prisoners taken from the Trent,
will, of course, be settled ; “but a ne\i|
will then be raised by Lord Lyons, vizf
the blockade of the Southern ports ij
and negotiations upon this Doint wi)]|
:arried on. These negotiations t
different character from the flrsl
bear upon a question effecting tfij
interests of all the powers.
LATEST FROM THE NORI
The Confederate Cause id
THE MESSAGE OF GOV. A]
SALES OFt
■Sc., f -ernor Letcj
Com Governt.
[Special Diapav. the
Norfolk, Jan. 7.—Tli
ed the New York HeraldT
ENGLAND.
The Asia, from Liverpool on thev
has arrived at New York.
The Adriatic and Paraffn left Liv|
the 20th December, with troops for i
Warlike preparations are active inj
When the Asia moved out from
New York, the bands were pL
thus showing a strong Southei*
FRANCE.
The Paris correapondent of the
Herald, dated the 18th ult, says th
ern Commissioners are working ai
the North, and with increasing i
Only one journal in Paris (thel
tionalc) is friendly to the North.
The Tuilleries Cabinet denies tj
had any official mission to cat;
to America.
France will acknowledge the 1
fedcracy if England does. Nap!
unfriendly to the North, but rilU
hostile manner towards them.
FROM LINCOLNDOM , -
The committee appointed to
Stevens iron battery have decidd
and the work thereon has been su!
Gen. Kelly has been relieved frorn^l
mand at Romney.
Sales of 300 bales of cotton were ma\
New York on the 3d inst. The closing pa
were 36 and 37—Middling pland comi: "
ing the outside figure.
The Legislature of Massachusetts conv^
at Boston on the 3d instant. The Governol
message says that the expenses of the war!
that State, so far, have been nearly #3,385 t
It recommends that the State asssurno the i
lection of a direct tax to furnish iu propoiL
of twenty million of dollars authorized by <1
ffress to be levied upon the different State!
MassachusetU has furnished twenty-nine i
menu of infantry, six batteries of anil!
two companies ol sharp shooters, aud fi Vt . *
battalions.
Gov. Andrews says at the close »f his m
sage that “the great rebellion rfist
down and its promoters crushed leneath tt
ruins of their own ambition, fie vreafe f
crime of history must receive a «otn "o swf
and sure that the enemies of poalar Koa L
ment shall stand in awe whilahoy
plate the elastic energy and con^ trt '
er of the democratic institutions „
pie.”
—The Ordnance Report to the Y”
Department, from the fleet at Port R«
the following to have been the qua,
unions expended in the cipture of
erate works on Hilton Head and U4
22,980 lbs. of common powder
shells, 64 10 inch shells, 508 9-iiieh si 'd
8 inch shells, 704 32-pound shells 128
Dahlgren rifle projectiles, 56 12-poun
gren howitaer projectiles, 60 30 pom in
projectiles, 2 68-pound solid shot 75 1
•olid shot ’