Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 12 September 1861 — Page 2
THE JOURNAL.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, IS61
•i Whoever is not prepared to sncrefice party organizations and platforms on the altar of his country *:docs not deserve the support and countenance of honest people. How are we to overcome part iznn antipathies in the minds of men of all parties so as to present a united front in support of our country?
Wo must ceasc discussing party issue?, make no allusions to old party tests, have no criminations and recriminations, indulge in 110 taunts 011c against •the other,- as to who has been the causc of these troubles.
When weshall have rcscucd the Government and -country from its perils, and seen its flag floating in triumph over every inch of American soil, it will then be time enough to enquire as to who and what has brought these troubles upon us. When
'••wo
shall have a country and a (Jovernment for our children to live in peace and happiness, it shall lie timo for cach of us to return to our party banners according to our own convictions of right aud duty. Let him be marked as no true patriot who will not abandon all such issues in times like these. —[Douglas at Chicago.
O N I N NEWS.
CAIHO, Sopt. 11.
The gunboats Conestoga and Lexington, reconnoitering clown the Missisippi river to-day encountered a battery of sixteen guns at Lucas Bend, on the Mississippi shore, and two rebbel gunboats. They silenced the shore ..batteries, and disabled the rejjol boat -Yankee, and would have captured her had she not been supported by tho batteries near Columbus. One of the
Conestoga's men was slightly injured. Loss of the rebels not known. Twenty of our scouts to-day were '•driven into Col. Oglesby's camp by 200 rebels. No less than 15,000 rebels are in camp at Columbus. They were largely reinforced yesterday. /, FRANKFORT, Ky., Sept. 11.
The House this morning adoptod a resolution directing the Governor to issue a proclamation ordering the Confederate troops to evacuate* Kentucky soil. The vote stood 71 against 26.
The House refused to suspend the .rules to allow another resolution order•"ing the proclamation to be issued to both Federals and Confederates,
EKD OF THE 13TII VOLUME.
"With this number closcs the Thirteenth. Volume of the "CRAWFORDSVILLE -JOURNAL." Three and a half years -have filnpsorl since we Inst took charge of the establishment and we would be doing violenco to our feelings were we not to give expression to our gratitude •••tfor the continually increasing patronage extended to us during that time.—
Our object and aim has been, and in future will be, to render the Journal a medium of useful and interesting initelligence—an acceptable family newspaper. If we have thus far succeeded, we are content. In entering upon the new volume, next week, we shall have no promises to make further than we noiv make, namely: that the Journal will continue to advocate such principles as wemay doom calculated to promote the best interests of our country •unsevered, a vigorous prosecution of the war, a suppression of rebellion, the supremacy of the Federal Government, and the elevation at the end of a rope ,of all traitors, when legally tried by the flaws of our country, and convicted ••-•'therefor :.. If the advocacy of such principles shall prove distasteful to any whose names are enrolled upon our •books, we ask them in all kindness to call and settle, and order the paper discontinued, We do not wish nor desire •aid and comfort from the enemy— -would rather suspend the publication of- ouf1 pnper than to be kept afloat by itraitors, or their tender-footed sympa.'thizers of tho North.
In conclusion, we take this occasion, thinking it altogether a proper one, to ^remind some of our patrons who have omittfcd (unintentionally doubtless) to »G&11. on us during the past four years,
fithat
now, at the close of the volume, is a very appropriate time to make settlement and wo hope those knowing themselves thus in arrears, on subscription or otherwise, will call. A man who is always embarrassed financially, so as to be unable to pay tho Printer without stinting his family, should make one settlement and order his paper discontinued Wo want no man to take tho Journal unless he is able and willing to pay—Ave need no^uch 1 "encouragement." We have now, as in past 3rears,sinceour connection with the business of publishing, a great Vnumber of punctual paying patrons, humane men, men understanding what hit is to do business, and who are willing to live and let live. Such men sustain the country press and to such we owe our success.
Company "G."
A few able-bodied men areyet wanted to fill up Company "G." 10th Regiment Call at Col. Hanson's Drug
Store, and enroll your name if you .'wish to do service for your country in -the ranks of the gallant Tenth. The
Regiment will probably be full by the Close of the week.
Democratic Union Meetings The Democratic Union meeting held at tho court-house in this place on Saturday last, was largely attended, by citizens from all parts of the county.— Speeches were made by Col. S. C. Willson, the chairman Col. M. D. Manson, and Jas. F. Ilarn-ej', Esq. Wo were not present, but learn that the resolutions passed by the convention wore highly conservative and patriotic strongly urging an undivided support of the Government in her struggle for the suppression of rebellion and treason. From the feeling manifested among the throng after the adjournment of the meeting, we judge 0 resolutions gave very general satisfaction.
We have not been favored with a copy of tho proceedings of this meeting, consequently cannot give the resolutions, as wo desired to do, in this issue. They will appear in our next.
OIR COUNTY FAIR.
The officers of tho Board of Directors of the Agricultural Society of this county, we are pleased to notice, are now making almost superhuman efforts to make the coming exhibition—(which will be held on the Fair grounds near this city on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 1st. 2d, 3d and 4th days of October next)—surpass in many respects, any previous Fair of our county. If the farmers and mechanics will but take that interest in this matter, that we think is clearly their duty, for the prosperity of the county in connection with the exertions now being put forth by tho Board, there will be no such word as fail in the undertaking. Then let all feeling a desire to keep these exhibitions up, go to work, and when the time comes, we will have the Fair of Fairs in this section of the State.
Circuit Court.
The September term of tho Montgomery Circuit Court is now in session in this city Judge Cowan, presiding. Among the legal gentlemen in the city from abroad, we notice Hons. Dan. Mace and R. C. Gregory, of Lafayette A. Daggey and D. R. Williamson, Esqs., of Greencastle Col. J. R. M. Bryant, and Jas. Park, Esq., of Williamsport Wm. II. Mallory, of Covington Jos. E. McDonald, Esq., of Indianapolis and our young friend R. II. Harrison, Esq., of Lebanon, the efficient Prosecutor of this Judicial Circuit.
iCg""The Lafayette Journal understands that the guns for tho 10th Regiment, Col. Manson, would arrive at
On nip Tippecnnoc on Wednesday
and
that the flanking companies of the regiment would be furnished with the Enfield rifles.
lltii Regiment.
The 11th Indiana Regiment, Col. Lew Wallace, left Indianapolis on Saturday morning last for St. Louis, going by tho way of Lafi^-ctte and Springfield. The regiment was thoroughly equipped and armed with the most approved guns.
i£3r01d Abe sticks into Govcror Magoffin, in the remark, in the letter published elsewhere in this paper: "It is with regret that I search and cannot find, in your not very short letter, anjdeclaration or intimation that
3*011
en
tertain any desire for tho preservation of the Federal Union."
COE. MANSION.
The Greencastle Banner tells the following about Col. Manson. It is a little okl, but it is good, nevertheless:
Manson, the brave and gallant Colonel of the 10th regiment Indiana volunteers, is no more bravo than he is generous and humane to tho men under him. While on his recent expedition in Western Virginia, the regiment at one time were short of breadstuff. The Colonel, fruitful in expedients, and ever mindful of the wants of his men. came to a water-mill near Buckhannon which had just been deserted by an old tory, with some eighty or ninety bushels of corn in it. Although late in the evening, Manson, having had a previous knowledge of the milling business, set the "masheen" in operation, and by morning had the corn all ground into meal, which in due timo was sent around to the different companies composing his regiment. That morning the boys all had corn bread in great abundance.
Seminary School.
We wish to direct the special attention of parents to an advertisement to be found in another column under the above caption. Mr. A. W. Lemmon, the principal, is a thorough scholar, and has had an extensive experience in teaching young -'ideas to shoot." His school will be opened on Monday, 16th inst., in the frame seminary building.
J&gKWill our old friend "II." bring us tho load of corn promised? The time has expired sir, and we need the article, now.
jft^Gen. JtfcClellan has taken three German officers from Gen. Blenker's staff and give to each the promotion of a grade and attached them to his own staff. He did this, as he said, to show that the foreign and native born had equal rights, as well as duties, in the suppression of this rebellion, and that the adopted citizens, so far as he was concerned, should share with the native born in the honors as well as the dangers of battling for the Republic.— Louisville Journal.
Hear Prentice on the War. The Louisvillo Journal of Tuesday, 10th inst., says: "There is war in Kentucky, but by no fault of the Union men, and by no fault of tho U. S. Government. The Union men have done everything" in their power to keep peace in this State, and the U. S. Government has dono nothing to mako them change their position or to change it for them, lthas respected thecourse adopted by- them, and promised to do nothing to thwart them in it. "For months past, there liavo been Confederate armies all along tho lino between Tennessee and Kentucky, the avowed object being to watch the movements in our State and make an incursion into it and take possession of its strong points the moment such a step should seem necessary or expedient.— The expense of those armies has been borne not by our neighboring State in which the}* have been established but by the Sojithcrn Confederacy. Their presence hits caused heavy amounts of money to flow into Tennessee. It would have boon madness for us of Kentucky to remain unprepared whilst threatening hosts were thus hanging upon her verge ready for the work of devastation and subjugation. And it was not to be expected of her that she would maintain at her own expense armies numerous enough and powerful enough to confront successfully the forces sustained upon the Tennessee line by tho Confederate Government. Our people or a portion of them, native Kentuckians and Kentuckians by adoption, thought proper to organize for self defence at the expense of the Government to which they owed allegiance, and, in doing this, they proclaimed authoritatively that they contemplated no invasion of any State whatever, no aggression upon the rights of any section or any party or any individual, that their whole purpose was to stand upon their own soil and protect themselves and their loyal fellow-citizens. "To charge that tho Kentucky troops that have organized under these circumstances and with this view, have hereby committed any violation of the loyal neutrality of the State or any wrong upon Tennessee or the Confederate States, is absurd. It is worse—it is a falsehood.
The
Confederate troops
have invaded Kentucky and seized our towns, but, when they allege that they have done this because Kentucky has violated her neutrality or permitted a violation of it, they are guilty of tho most outrageous hypocrisy. Tkoir invasion of Kentucky is without justification, palliation or excuse. If Kentucky were to submit to it, her name would be a word of scorn upon the lips of men. She would not submit to it. She will, if the olden strength of her arm is not paralyzed, sweep tho invader from her soil as if her very breath were a whirlwind of flame. The foul pollution of an invaders foot is upon her, nnd no true son of hers will rest while that pollution remains. More than fifty thousand swords, if need be, will leap into the air to repel and avenge tho atrocious wrong and insult. "This is the first invasion of Kentucky by tho armies of a hostile Government. rf Kentucky in this exigency proves herself to be what thewhole world believes her to bo, the perilous experiment of invasion will never be repeated till the memory of current events shall have passed from the mi (ids of men And it is strange, it is passing strange, that, even in tho present crisis of Kentucky's destiny, when her power and her old renown are at stake, there are people within her borders, calling themselveshersons, whose hearts and weapons are in the cause of her insolent invaders! They deserve to be transfixed with the keenest arrows of the vengeance of earth and heaven."
From the 15th Regiment. The Indianapolis Journal of Tuesday says a special dispatch from General Reynolds, to Governor Morton, last Monday night, says: "Lieutenant Colonel Owen, of the 15th regiment, had a skirmish this morning, killing six of the enemy. One of his men was wounded.
j&gjgrThe Memphis Avalanche thus rejoices over the blockade proclaimed by Jeff. Davis. It reads particularly rich to reflecting men: "COUNTER BLOCKADE.—The Confederate Congress, with masterly policy, has prohibited the shipment of Western produce to the South. It has thus anticipated the rumored intention of Secretary Chase to remove the blockade of the Mississippi, so far as to permit the farmers of the North-west to sell their surplus produce to the famished inhabitants of the lower Mississippi, in exchange for gold, sugar and other commodities."
We are exhilarated by this. We are cheered and strengthened. We have fallen upon a new idea, and we hereby issue our proclamation to all, and sundry especially in the Southern States, forbidding any of them to send us five hundred thousand dollars.—Jjouisville Democrat.
BSrA Missouri paper recently informed its readers that the "wife crop of Gasconade county in 1860 was 25,000 gals." The next paper corrected the error by putting "wine" in place of wife.
Ex-Ministcr Wright. INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 8. Hon. Joseph A. Wright, Ex-Mitiister to Berlin, arrived home on Saturday. Ho was greeted at tho depot by a l£trge crowd of citizens, and escorted to the State House Square, where he was welcomed in a patriotic speech by Gen. Dumont.
Mr. Wright in his response said he did not come home to talk about parties, or political platforms. When the institutions of the country were assailed he had nothing to do with them.— The constitution must bo sustained, and this great rebellion put down.— He Avould sustain Mr. Lincoln and the administration in every effort to sustain the government. Ho would never agree to a division of this country. Wo must be one people. Ho was for the country first, last, and all the time, and for the prosecution of the war to a successful termination, and for such a purpose be would put forth every exertion.
A Kentucky Opinion of Fremont's Proclamation. The Louisvillo Democrat does not much like Fremont's proclamation, regarding it as unnecessarily severe. It says, ncvetheless:
It is a part, however, of the fortunes of war. When the negro property of Union men is confiscated by secessionists, expect nothing else than the Generals of the United'States army should feel at liberty to do the same. It does not affect the Union feeling either one way or the other in this State, and is regarded rather as an act to be expected in war than commended. ^igi v.y 8®* Two gunboats had an engagement with a rebel gunboat off Hickman Illinois, yesterday afternoon. Two batteries on the shore and 1.500 men supported tho rebel boat and fired upon us. None of the shots took effect. Our boats returned to Cairo in tho evening, being fired at on tho way. what damage they did to tho enemy could not be learned.—iV Trrbune. •-.§ —Why won't'these New York papers try to learn something about Western geography?—Hickman is in Kentucky not in Illinois. Making a town in a free State fire on a Goverment vessel is rather a hard proceeding.—Indianapolis Journal.
B@„Andrew Johnson, of Tenn., says the Cincinnati Gazette was asked the other day what he thought of that part of Fremont's proclamation relating to the forfeiture of property, and the manumission of slaves belonging to armed rebbels of Missouri and replied, that it was just right—that "a man who will fight against the Union shouldn't be allowed to own a dollar or dollar's worth."
ARKS FOR THE INDIANA TROOPS—WE find the following in the Missouri Dem-
ucruC.
The Springfield musket and Enfield rifles, telegraphed by the Governor of Indiana, to Colonel Sanderson of the 23d regiment as having been purchased by that State for the use of her soldiers arrived on Saturday directed to Colonel Rose, Quartermaster for the State here. Thero were four thousand of them— two companies of cach regiment to be supplied with the Enfield ride, and eight companies with Sprinfield muskets. These guns are about the same weight and carry one thousand yards.
They were purchased in England and came by the way of Canada.
B@-Mrs. Fanny Burrows, aged ninc-ty-threej a native of Groton, Conn., who was twelve year old at the time of the battle of Fort Griswol, and assisted in making garments for the Revolutionary soldiers, and is now knitting socks for the Rhode Island Volunteers in Providence.
PATRIOTIC WOMAN.—Capt Myler, a wealthy and patriotic citizen of Spencer county, is now in Camp Vanderburgh with a company enlisted for the war. His company having been ordered into camp before it was quite full, his wife with all the zeal of our revolutionary matrons, started out to recruit for her husband, and enlisted five the first day. The company will soon be full under the efforts of so exellent a recruiting officer.—Evansville Journal.
The Louisville Journal sa}Ts we have no doubt that Gen. Grant's presence in Paducah is decidedly unplcasantto the secssion leaders there. Why don't the Vigilance Committe of the town wait on him and give him three hours to leave? Why not treat him as they have treated hundreds of other worthy men?
A BIG LETTER.—A young lady of extraordinary capacity addressed the following letter to her cousin:
DEER KUZZIN— The weather whar we is air kold and I suppose whar you is it air kolder.
We is all well, and mother has got the his Terrix, and brother Tom has got the Hopkin Kaugh, and sister susan has got a babee, and hope these few lines will find you tho same.
Rite sune. Your aphfectionate Kuzzen.
PRICE OF NEWSPAPERS.—Low-priced newspapers are either dying out or increasing their rates to living figures.— This is one of the signs of the times.— Printing offices can't live without profits, no more than other business establishments. The Chicago Times, which has
been
furnished to subscribers cheap
er than the other city papers, has just raised its price to the rate of the other papers—15 cents per week, or $8 per year. The low price has never paid its publishers, and never would if they were to continue doing that sort of business for a hundred years.
Many of the large newspapers at the East have been constrained to both increase the rates and reduce the size of their papers. It was a necessity on their part: "Up with the price, and live—or stick to the low price, and die!
Chicago Jovr.
Patriots and Traitors—Wright & Bright. Tho Madison Courier of Friday last flays:
A cot-respondent of tho Cincinnati Commercial, at Jeffersonville, Indiana, writes imploringly and dolefully to that paper to ascertain the whereabouts of Jesso D. Bright. This one of the Jeremiahs will not be comforted he begs, protests, scolds and tries to bribe Jesse to come back promises Jesse a warm reception among his constituents. For the information of the Jeffersonville Jeremiah, wo state that Jesse is. as near as wo can guess, at his home in Warsaw, Kentucky. We wish the editor of theLouisvilleDemocratto mark what we say: Jesso is at his home near Warsaw, Iv3r. It is rumored on the streets here that ho contemplates a visit to his friends in this city next week. When ho comesvlic will have a magnificent reception. The ovation the people of the state will give exGov. Joseph A. Wright at Indianapolis to-morrow will be nothing to it. Bright and Wright! Rather familiar names. Wright is welcomed with joy he has the respect-of the people. Bright does not dare to show himself to the people he has cheated, and whom he misrepresents. Lo3*al Indiana republicans, democrats and Americans rall3* around Wright to honor him there is noplace their gift too high for him. Lo3*al Indianians will rally around Bright if ever he appears among them, for a different purpose though it may bo to elevate him!
Result of the Ilatteras Inlet Victory. According to our latest special advices from Fortress Monroe, the recent brilliant achievement of Commodore Stringhamand General Butler at Hatteras Inlet has resulted in the most important revelations to the Union cause. Tho rebels at Ocracoko Inlet, taking the alarm from the capture of their confederates at Ilatteras, had spiked their guns and abandoned their position, so that the two entrances from the sea into the extensive waters of Albemarle and Pamlica Sounds are now in possession of the government forces. This not onl3r locks up the State of North Carolina, excepting the port of Beaufort, but it enables tho Government to overhaul any stray privateers detained in Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds, and will compel the rebels to fortif3' or abandon every landing, town and village along the shores of those waters.
It is, therefore, not very difficult to believe the news that since our occupation of Hatteras Inlet, "over eight hundred men, women and children" have come to that place "b3* land and by boats, asking protection from the rebels and taking the oath of allegiance to tho United States," that "a large majority of the men wish to fight for the Stars and Stripes that "several hundred come in daily and take the oath of allegiance, and*offer their services to the Union and that assurances had buen received from Ncwbern that if our flag, supported by a proper force, is raised thero, it will bo sustained b3* a majority of the people. Newborn is an important commercial town, on an arm of Pamlico Sound, and deals extonsivety in the exportation of the
3-ellow
pine used in shipbuilding, and
in pitch, rosin, tar and turpentine, and doubtless the good people of North Carolina engaged in the preparation of all these important shipbuilding articles are rather anxious than otherwise for the reopening of their old, profitable channels of trade with the loyal States "and the rest of mankind."—iV. Y. Post.
f/y The Irish Regiment. The State Sentinel saj's, "we learn from Lieut. Col Ryan that this regiment is rapidly filling up. It has been but a few da3rs since the organization of it was begun, yct manj- are so absurd as to express their surprise, knowing the glorious traits of the Irish character, that it is not already full and marching to the field. It has taken three months for some distinguished Colonels that we know of, but whom histoiy will never hear tell of, to get fairly started, under immense difficulties, with their thousand men. We venture to sa3T that from tho timo the field officers of the Irish regiment were appointed until the last man has volunteered, affairs with regard to this orps will have progressed quite as rapidly as the most sanguine, in their happiest and most enthusiastic, ever expected. At least, that's what the3* tell us."
"Col. Corcoran in Irons." This is the lat.est information which tho rebels have vouchsafed to the friends of this gallant Irishman, whoso reputation is now as broad as tho land. They would release on parole or with some privilege of prisoners the native officer, but the Irish Colonel is put in irons. This distinction is an honor to his loyality, and it will be the proudest boast of his posterity, when the war is done, that their ancestor fought so gallantly, and maintained his lo3ralty so firing, that the rebels put him in irons. Maj'be the Irish who are in the army, or are now entering it, will recollect their brave and devoted countryman when the next fight occurs, and pay off the rebels in cold steel. We rather think they will. —Indianapolis Journal.
Contraband Gunners.
A large number of Fort Monroe "contrabands" sailed with the Naval expedition which captured the Hatteras forts. They were chiefly employed as coal heavers, firemen and cooks on board the fleet. But their loyalty and fighting propensities were partially gratified by allowing them to work and fire one of the 32-pounders on board tho steam frigate Minnesota. It is reported that the "darkies" handled the piece in excellent and efficient style. What great reason is there for not allowing more contrabands to lend a hand in defence of the Stars and Stripes? Negroes are employed by thousands, in the rebel armies, to fight against the Union. Why D.pji.let "nigger" fight "nigger?"
Jeff. Davis on Kentucky Neutrality. The following is the reply of Jeff. Davis to Gov. Mjigoffin regarding the neutrality of Kentucky:
RICHMOND, .Aug. 28, 1SG1.
To the Hon. B. Miigcjfin, Governor of Kentucky, A'r-: SIR: I have received "your'letter"informing me that "silit-c the commencement of tho unhappy difficulty 3rct ponding in the c-ounf iy, the people of Kentucky have indicated a steadfast desire and purpose to maintain a position of strict neutralit3T between the belligerent parties." In the same communication you express your desire to elicit "an authoritative assurance that the Government of the Confederate States will continue to respect and observe tho neutral position of Kentucky.
In reply to this request, I lose no time in assuring you that the Government of the Confederate- States of America neither intends nor desires to disturb the neutrality of Kentucky.— The assemblage of troops in Tennessee to which 3*011 refer, had no other object than to repel the lawless invasion of that State b3r thcforccs of the United States, should their Government seek to approach it through Kentuek3* without respect for its position of neutrality. That such apprehensions were not groundless has been proven by the course of that Government in the States of Maiyland and Missouri, and more recently in Kentucky itself, in which, as 3-ou inform me, "a military force has been enlisted and quartered b3r the United States authorities."
The Government of tho Confederate States has not onl3r respected most scrupulously the neutrality of Kcntuck3T, but has continued to maintain the friendty relations of trade and intercourse which it has suspended with the people of the United States generally.
In view of the history of the past, it can scarcely be necessa^r to assure your Excellenc3T that the Government of the Confederate States will continue to respect the neutrality of Kentucky so long as her people will maintain it themselves.
But neutralit3r, to be entitled to respect, must be strictly maintained between both parties or if the door be opened on the one side for the aggression of one of tho belligerent parties upon the other, it ought not to be shut to the assailed when they seek to enter it for purposes of self-defense.
I do not, however, for a moment, believe that your gallant State will suffer its soil to be used for the purpose of giving an advantage to those who violate its neutrality and disregard its rights, over others who respect them both.
In conclusion, I tender to your Excellency the assurance of 1113* high consideration and regard.
And am, sir, very respectful^*, Yours, &c., JEFF'N DAVIS.
[From the State Journal.]
Stations of the Indiana Troops. The following arc the stations of the Indiana troops in active service outside of the State. We shall correct it from time to time as the several regiments move from one place to another.
INFANTRY.
11th Regiment—Col. Wallace—St. Louis. Missouri. 12th eg men t—Col. Li ck —IIvatts town, Maiyland. 13th Regiment—Col.Sullivan—Cheat Mountain, Virginia. Headquarters for letters for the regiment—Huttonville, Randolph count}*, Virginia. l-lth Regiment—Col. Kimdall—Western Virginia. 15th Regiment—Col. Wagner—W estern Virginia. Direct Letters and papers to 14th and 15th regiments the same as to the 13th as above given. 16th Regiment—Col. Haclcleman—
Il3*attstown,
Maryland.
17tli Regiment—Col. Hascall—Western Virginia. Direct letters to the same post office as given for the 13tli regiment.
The 13th, 14tli, 15th and 17th Regiments are scattered at different points among the vallies and bights of the Cheat Mountain rango. Tho post office address for all these Regiments is Huttonville, Virginia. 18th Regiment—Col. Pattison—Jefferson Cit3*, Missouri. 19th Regiment—Col. Meredith—Kolarma Hights, Washington Cit3*. 20th Regiment—Col. Brown—Cocke3Tsville, Maryland. Cockeysville is the headquarters for this regiment, but it is stretched along the railroad between Baltimore and Harrisburgh for eight miles or more. 21st Regiment—Col. McMillan—Locust Point, near Baltimore. Post office address of tho Regiment, Baltimore Maryland. 22d Regiment—Col. Davis—Jefferson City, Missouri. 23d Regiment—Col. Sanderson—St. Louis, Missouri. 24th Regiment—Col. Hovey—St. Louis, Missouri. 25th Regiment—Col. Veatch—St. Louis, Missouri. 26th Rgiment—Col. Wheately*—St. Louis, Missouri.
CAVALRY.
Capt. Bracken's Compan3r—Western Virginia—Post Office address, Huttonville.
Capt. Stewart's Company—Western Virginia—Post office address, Weston. Lieutenant Colonel Scott Carter's six companies of the 1st regiment of Indiana Cavalry—Baltimore, Md.
Col. Baker's eight companies of the 1st regiment of Indiana Cavaby—St. Louis, Missouri.
ARTILLERY.
Capt. Frybarger's Company—St. Louis, Missouri. Capt. Clause's Compaq'—St. Louis, Missouri.
DAT TO BE HONORED.—On the 17th day of this month the Constitution of the United States was finally adopted by the Convention. The Indianapolis Journal suggests that it be kept as a general holiday and we second the proposition.—Chicago Tribune.
FROM KANSAS.
The Forces of Gens. Lane and Rains—Erection of Fortifications—Employment of Indian
Warriors,
The Chicago Times publishes the following extract from a private letter' dated
MOUND CITY, Kansas, Aug. 26 ." Things look gloomy at this time,and even in the distance. Since tho battle at Springfield there are five rebels 011 our borders where we had one before. You see by the papers how they are coming up again in the north of issouri. It is much worse here
Gen. Lane and staff passed here ft week ago, and aro now in Fort Scott and on the Osage. Lane has onl}* 1,G00 men, all told, with one cannon (a six pounder) and one howitzer while Rains is just below, with from 3,000 to 5,000 men and an3r amount of artilleiy^ He came •within twent3'-eight miles of Fort Scott five da3~» ago, and all that saved Southern Kansas was tho report that the brave Sigel was making forced marc-hcs in his rear to cut him off, which at that time was not true.— They retreated back to Springfield, and to-da3* we have the glad news that Sigel is really after them.
This week Lane will got his artillery and probabl3' 4,000 men, when wo think we shall be comparatively safe.
Let me sa3* here—and this is ahead of the newspapers—that within six weeks tho Government will be compelled to throw 75,000 men into this corner of tho Union to sustain itself.— The3* are throwing up strong breastworks and cutting deep ditches on tho Osage, at Jewell's Mil), nine miles below here. They will commence tho same here, Tuesda3r, the 27th, on Sugar Mound also, 0110 near Paris,on Big Sugar.
Within fifteen da3*s 3'OU will find all the Osage and Cherokee Indians in arms fighting for the Government, under Ross and Little Bear. If the rebels will emplo3T such forces, we must also.
Kit Carson Coming.
[From the Washington Correspondence N. Y. World.]
I met to-day an intelligent Englishman who is on his way back to his na-' tive place, after ten 3*ears absence among the Indians of our western frontires. During all this time he has been engaged in trapping, hunting, and all the adventurous advocations of the pioneer. For the last three 3*ears he has been the friend and companion of Kit Carson, whose fame as a huntsman is world wide, and consequently has laid up a store of incidents connected with their adventures in the West. At the time he left Salt Lake City, Kit Carson was busily engaged in raising a corpse of mounted rangers, composed not of half breeds or savages, but of shrewd practical trappers like himself, who have spent their lives on the prairies, and knew of no enjoyment but that which comes from wild adventures and vicissitude. With these Carson proposes coming eastward and offering his services to the federal government. He selects his men himself, and accepts of none unless qualified b3r long 3-ears of experience 011 the plaii:r. They" will be mounted on the swift Mexican mustangs, and will be armed to the teeth with Colt's revolvers, bowic knives and Sharpe's rifles. At tho time of my informant's departure Carson had alread3* enrolled one hundred and fifty men, but seemed unwilling to depart until a larger number should have been raised. The value of such a corpse cannot be overrated for our grand armies need the aid of crack ri-fle-shots to act as scouts. I presume General Fremont will claim tho service of Carson and his men, for ho will, doubtless, advert to the timo when ho crossed theplains. and became acquainted with 'the sterling qualities of Kit Carson.
Horrible Tragedy. BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Sept. 10.
A brutal murder was committed about two o'clock this morning upon the person of John B. Cox, his wifo and four children, living about seven miles cast of hero. Reliable particulars aro hard to obtain, but as near as can be learned thc3* arc as follows:
Tho father and mother of tho murdered family were awakened about two o'clock b3* screaming in tho direction of their son's house, but a short distanco from their own, and upon going thero, stumbled-over tho body of their son who was horribly mangled about tho throat, though not quite dead, and beside him was l3Ting an infant uninjured with which he had tried to reach his father's house. Upon reaching tho scene of the murder, they found tho wife and a little girl, three 3'ears old, with their throats cut from ear to ear, and both dead. Two other children, tho oldest 12 years, were cut in the same manner, though with some symptoms of life. All were cut in the same manner, apparent^' with a heavy, sharp knife. Neither the father or the two children can survive.
Two men strongly suspicioned have been arrested andconfined in jail. Tho wounded man is positive as to ono of them, and thinks the other was also there, and says there were four in all. The two arrested have hitherto borne good characters.
Fremont's Proclamation. The Cleveland (Ohio) Plaindealer, ademocratic paper of unquestionable faith sa3Ts:
We hope Gen. Rosencranz will see the card Fremont has play-ed and follow suit in Kanawha. Let the sword scruple not at an3' means necessar3* for our success in putting down treason. There is little danger of any permanency in the abridgement of freedom, so jealous are we of our rights, and so strongly anti-despotic are our feelings. For the good of all we are willing to see all the power used that can be made available for the complete subjugation of this brutal, uncalled for and unnatural rebellion.