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T55E COPPER III2A1S.

Who are the men who"cl:unor most Against the war, its t-uuxe and cost, -Rv. And who Jeff. Davis sometimes toast?

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The Copperhead*.

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'Who, when hv wrctched whiskfy tight, Hiss ont in rape thoir venomod tpite, AVho crawl and sting, but never fight^?— t*

The Copperheads.

AVho hold nnaeo meetings, where they pa3S l^ngthcy resolves of wind'and as, _Much like ibe -bray of Balaam's ass ?t

The Copperheads.

AVho when falso faction i? forgof, -•"When patriots keopTv cotnmnn thought, Ha?o discord and distention taught?—

The Copperheads.-

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The Copperheads. ,%

AVho hate a freedom loving Pre*?, The truth, and all who it profess AVho don't believe in our succsss? 'The Copperheads. lff

A*nd who when right ha? won the day, AV ill take their slimy selves away, And in their dirty holes will stay? -.The Copperliends.

And who will be the'hiss and-scorn yl Of generations yet unborn, llated, despised, disgraced, foresworn

Tho Copperheads.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Truth about Arizona.

[From tho Philadelphia North American.]

Any time during the last thirty or forty years, the vast regions lying west of the Missouri river have been

SAveep-

ingly described by geographers, travelers, and explorers as immonso sterile tracts of desert Ava^te and impracticable mountains, unfitted for human settlement in any

Avay.

The progress of

time however^is gradually dissipating this delusion. Kansas and Nebx*aska have both established numerous and flourishing colonies on the easternmost part,6f.%nat used to be called the great plains, and the arable district is found to bo so broad that the dimensions of tho dreaded desert are amazingly reduced. Gold, the great civilizing agent, has planted a prosperous colony in the heart of the Eocky mountains, and spread out the settlements over the valleys at the eastern base, thus cutting off still more of the grGat desest,which used to be supposed to stretch from the Missouri border to tho mountain crest.

The great Utah basin was once re-ga^ded-as an impracticable

Avaste,

but

F'fenftfnt-fcExplorations opened tho way and thVMormon enterprise provod the land to b$ fertile and habitable. So it was wftlrNevada, Avhich a foAV Mormon settlers "first showed to possess rich valleys and upon "which tho silver miners are noAV founding a thriving State.— Thus four separate and successful invasions of this great Avilderncss have shown us that the desert is, very much Qf it, no desert at all, and.people are, beginning to think that the entiro region,haa been misrepresented, perhaps intentionally, for tho purpose of preventing the .establishment of many freoJStates in this vast country.

Arizona was persistently held up as a desert, aii'd now that Congress has erected it into, a territory, attention:is directed to'theVreal state of the case. Many of our contemporaries ccto^iri'ie to represent that it is entirely uhiuit-

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x£m&n ,*c3gSt .aiWfl

ed to cultivation. As iin,.,answer to tli escsstateniouts we append the loll owing ii-oin llie.JoumaLof Commerce: "Undoubtedly the newly organized territory of Arizona.is among the moat valuable of our acquisitions on the Western side of tbo continent. Ifcris rich in precious metals, .and has .l^rge tracts susceplibl,e of high cultivation,? generally found in the ceutral parts, near Santa Cruz and neighboring valleys, and on the, lower Gila..? Thesp facta are proven by the existence of mines, long ago abandoned on account of the inroads, of .hostile Indians, and by the remains of ancient towns, once populous and flourishing. Over a hundred years ago the.Spanish Jesuits were attracted there, and formed mission and scattered settlements all along the foot of the mountain toward the Rio Grande. The church of San'Xavier del Bac, of the Santa Cruz mission, is a large and Imposing structure, still erect. Ample testimon}7 as to the resources of Arizona is afforded by the survey of Major Emory and other authorities. Hon. J.

JR.

Avhich

^nstsoK^mnxXi!

Bartlett says of

the valley of the Salinas, one of the northern branches of the Gila, that it will alone supply food for a great State. Capt. Whipple, in his report of the exploration for the Pacific llailroad, gives a glowing description of the region watered by the Salinas and Bio Verde, lie found clear rivulets, with .fertile vnlleyfe and forest trees, the whole belt of the country along the iiio Verde to the Gila.giving evidence of a country once populous, and Avorthv of becoming so again.' The. establishment of flats by the U. S. Government has, Avithin the last few years, served to restore order and invite emigrants.— Lieut. Howry, Avhose address a few years :igo' before the American Geographical and Statistical Society will be remembered, says the sun novcr ulione upon a finer grazing country than the three hundred miles Avest of the liio Grande. The traveler has before him thronghout this entire' distance 'a sea of grass' of a very nutritious quality, ifinety miles west is the ilimbres river arid valley, wide and beautiful, which at no distant day will support a large population. The Sonoita valley.

opens into tho San

ta Cruz, is almost entirely taken up by an active American population, engaged in agriculture, the produce being used for the supply of troops and the Overland Mail Company. Two crops are often raised in a year from tho same land. Twenty miles east of thi 3 point is one of the richest silver regions ifi Arizona. The. Wachupe mountain, according to Lieut. Mo wry. is 'believed to be inexhaustible' in this metal.. Among mines lately opened is one yielding, besides a large per ccntage of

[From the Foolscap.'} silver, hitv-three per coutago of lead, purchased by the various mining companies for use in reducing the ores. "Though the territory south of the

Gila to the Colorado river is generally an irreclaimable desert, the valley of "the Colorado is fertile and will produce all the tropical fruits, as well as the cereals. The remains of extensive irrigating canals shoAv that it Was once occupied by a large agricultural population. The land cultivated by the Pimas Indians on the Gila seems inexhaustible in fertility. The same crops are grown on it j'ears in succession, Avithout any signs of impoverishing the soil. "Theso aro only a few of the most attractive localities. Mines of silver and copper are found interspersed over vast tracts, many of them celebrated for their richness in former years, and doubtless capablo of being made once more productive. All that is needed, apparently, is to reclaim it from the Indian tribes, and by affording the protection of Government invite capital and emigration. "In giving a synopsis of numerous facts, some of which are incorporated in t.iis article, Lieut. MoAvry arrives at the'following conclusions: 'That while Arizona cannot be called an agricultural State, she has a sufficiency of arable land to support a largo population that as a grazing and pasturing region she has unsurpassed advantages but her great Avealth is found in her inexhaustible mineral resources.! Tho prediction is made that if she did not contain a single acre susceptible of cultivation.'her gold and iron, and lead, Avould some day make her one of the Avealthiest States of the Union."

The problem respecting the capabilities of this region will soon be in process of solution, as the officers of the territorial government are able m^n, possessing much experience, the Governor,John A. Gurley, being from the Avheat district of Ohip. All the foolish projects respecting the enlargement of Arizona by an acquisition of territory irom. Mexico are., ended by the manner in which the boundaries of the

neAv^Sterritory are laid down ^Thepe,. previous to its capture.

inrii imUuWiii»^Wan

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as Ave have previously stated, place Arizona wholly west of NeAv Mexico instead of south of it, "'making the dividing line a meridian of longitude instead of parallel of latitude. This leaves a wide stretch of country'betAvcen 'fexas and Arizona, and will pre^ vent it lapsing into the .hands of slaveholders,' as the Journal of Co'mjm,erce seems fondly"to hope it may.^-^ .no

Rebei Sentiment in Wcslcrn Louisiana—Groans Over Consciiptlon—Appreltenslonsof Famine.

The Planters Banner published at Franklin, La., the headquarters of General Sibley, is not at ail cheerful. Its views of Gov. Moore and.his conscription plan are thus boldly expressed:

GOA7-.

Avant

From the beginning of tho civil Avar Avhich now rages with such ferocity in the country, tho South has been passing through alternate bright and darkperiods. Hopes and fears, sunshine and storm,

Aveal

and

VOL. XV.--N0.31.R" ~r ... CRAWFORtifVILLE,^IND-, APRILJ6,-1863. .:- :iWH0LENQ,766

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Avith.

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Moore appears to bo a perfcct.

stumbling block to the State. All that Jie did to.Avards the defense of Xew Orleans was thrown away—he Avas always a little too

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or halted at ex

penses, on the "penny-wise and proudfoolish'' plan—he disbanded our militia a few days before our defeat on the Lafourche, and now he wishes to take all tho planters, overseers, gardnors, physicians, teachers, and every other useful man .that ho can reach in the State, put them into camp to starve, or sutler for

of materials

Avhich

cannot furnish, and leave plantations, negroes and the country at largo to take care of themselves, and probably when most Avantcd, and ho has done all the harm he can, he

Avill

be likely

to take a notion to disband them all, and send thom home. Ilis principle object appears to be to protect Eed river and his plantations there—tho lower part of the State he cares but little about. We would bo glad to see Ivirby Smith or somebody else, abolish him as a military nccossity. If he has done the State any .good for the last IS months,

AVO

have not yet loarned the

particulars. x^o inconsiderable portion of the Banner is devoted to the ,discussion of the dark prospects of the South, and the expression of fears of famine. It says:

Avith

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have suc

ceeded each other as though ordered by Providence as Heaven's programme of the revolution. Let no one fancy the South has seen her last dark period. The next part of the programme may be famine and its horrid accompaniments. Thfe enemy aro now at work endeavoring to produce these results. Too many of our planters sleep on the brink of the yawning precipice before us. The enemy are stealing all of the field hands they can from inside of tho Confederate lines, and are pushing their armies to cover as much of the bread growing regions of the South as possible. Then they

Avill

attempt

to cut off the beef trade of Texas.— Why Avill not every planter in th6 country open his eyes to theso facts, and do all in his poAver to increase the supply of corn and provisions, and help avert the evil that

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Again it says: If

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Avinter

threatens

us? We fear that we are about entering upon a terribly dark period of our national existenco. The opposition to the Jjincoln Administration at tho .North cadnot avert the calamity. The planters of the South, aided by/Providence may save us.r vtro

have a drouth this and

Iseason,

such a thing is probable,

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can the

South food tho .Northern and Sonthern armies and her own peoplo? If they succeed in cutting off tho supply of boef from Texas, and destroy the crops and demoralize the slaves as far as their armies extend their operations, Avhat will be the condition of tho South another

if the planters and cul

tivators of the soil inside of the Confederate lines do not apply thoir entire energies and labor to the raising of bread-stuffs and provisions? ,We learn that in some parts of Texas and Louisiana cotton planters, carried aAvay Avith the hopo of selling their cotton after the Avar for fifty or soventy-five cents per pound, are making arrangements to make all the cotton they possibly can, and are pay-

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ing but little attention to corn. If such a spirit should prevail extensively, the South will yet see such sufferings as she has never yet seen before. Wre may as Aveli look these facts fairly in the face. ,•

J8®" At .the battle of Somerset the Seventh Ohio cavalry,captured, a, flag from Scott's rebel cavalry, made from a silk dress of one.jof Humphrey M»arshall's, daughters and presented by her to ilie^rebels only about three Avcojis

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Latest Advices from Admiral Iu\tr ':j lont. "i- -:"v,WASHINGTON, April 12.

The steamer Flambeau arrived here this P. Mi Afrith dispatches from Admiral

to the Government.. The

reports ftom the several commanders bad not been received up to the time, ibf*the''departure--of the Flambeau— •Wednesday night. From, otherthah [official sources it is ascertained-' that' the vessels"coniposing the fleet'aSyaiiced up^n Charleston on the 7tE iri th$ following order:

•.

Wehuwlren, Captain Rogers Passaic, Captain Drayton 'Montauk, Captain Word en Patapscd, Captain Am men, Ifonsides, flag-ship, Commodore Turner,

Admiral Dupont.and staff

On'

board riext followed the Catskill, Capt. George Rogers Nantucket, Capt. Fairfax -Nahant, Captain Downes, and the Keokuk, Captain Rhend. In this order they proceeded up the main channel, arrived 1.700 yards of the forts^ Tho Ironsides, became unmanageable, OAving to tho tide and narroAvness of the channel, and Avas thoreforo obliged to drophnchor to avoid drifting ashore. Owing to these circumstances she "signaled her consorts to disregard her motions. .Tho remainder of the squadron continued on their course, and soon came within easy range of the rebel fire from all points. The obstruction of the channel from ifort Sumter to Moultrie interfered

Avith

tho pro

gress of our ships. In conscquonce of this and the position ot' the Ironsides, as above stated, the plari of operations

and space for manoeuvering being only fr'om 500 to 1.000 }Tards' the vessels Avero obliged to prepare at once to engage tho forts and the adjacent batteries. The signal, had been made for action at half pa3t ono p. m.by the Ironsides, but the rebolB had previously opened fire on tho leading vessels.

The contest is represented as in tho highest degree exciting, presenting a fearful scene of firo belching from all points on land and sea, and a continuous roar of cannon. In the course

30 or 4Q'iiiinutes the Keokuk was in a sinking condition and

obliged to

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draw from fire andscck an anchorage

bcloAV

range of tho enemy's guns.

A few minutes oftenvards all the vessels

withdreAv

from a signal from the

flag-ship, it being deemed impracticable to continue any further hostilities. The Keokuk

Avas Avithin

Awards

batteries Avithin

500 or 000

of Fort Sumter .and.

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pletely riddled—struck, from

N"EAV YORK,

com*

all

the

ranr*e. •,

JPurllier Particulars from Charleston.

12, 12 M.

April

Tho folloAving dispatch has been received from a gentleman on board the steamer Alary Sanford:

1ST.

Morehead City,

10,

C., April

via

12.—We

Fortress Monroe, April

pass

ed through the fleet off Charleston on Thursday, tho 9tli, at

A. M. Weath

er clear and pleasant. The Monitors Avere ranged along tho beach off Cuming's Point, all in good order. 'We Avere boarded by one of tho pilots of tho expedition, who stated that the Ironsides and seven of tho Monitors attacked Fort Sumter on Tuesday, and passed some distance above the forts, received somo

300-

shots:- A pointed

shot of English manufacture penetrated tho iron-clad Whitnoy battery Keokuk, and sho sunk in twelve hours after, near the boach. The other ironclads passed through a shower of shot & shell uninjured, or

Avith

As regards further movements reports are conflicting. Ono of the pilots who boarded us stated that the Monitors wohld withdraw over the bar, and further action would be suspended. Thi« Was Bubsoquently 'cor-

oborated by a report of a JSIew Yorkpaper.

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An officer from the 'James Adger Avho previously boarded us stated that tho engagement Avould bo renewed about 1 P. M., and added that the Admiral expressed his belief of success (No torpedoes arc reported to have exploded:- We loft the fleet at noon. Whon aboiit twenty^five miles we heard heavy firing.

The above was a private message addressed to Col. Sanford.

child at home," says the Mobile Register, "with a yard square of ground, scratch it and-put it in corn.''

That is very good advice, but if follOAved would makethe South a nation of "small farmers," forwhom the chi valry havo always expressed profound contempt.—Nashville Union.

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Some Excitement.

I Quite a flutter-

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The persons thus arrested were Leopold Locwonthal, Cyprian Pre/ston, DK D. Keller, David Milieu:-, Lute Smith: •and Jumos'Rogers.: '.The .arrests wei*e.madeuhy Col. Rose, U. S. Marshal for .the State of Indiana, assisted by Sheriff.Wolfiin.

The parties arrested all gave bailfor

fMV in TT £s TVflfriri

thcir appearance in the U. S District Court, at Indianap'oJis, in May. The store of Locvvcnthal & Co. wais closed and placed under a guard of soldiers, and an officer appointed to take an invontory of the goods.

The excitement caused by the arrests was quite lively for a time, and an attempt was .made by parties not at'all interested to scre.ato some sympathy against the Government by circulating a report that Col. Rose refused to make known the cause of tho arrests.

This falsehood was easily exploded by the. fact that-the-warrants upon which the arrests were made .were shown.to each of tho parties.

What the particular grounds for the issue of the Avarrants may have been, of course Ave do not knoAv- The facts will doubtless all bo deAreloped before tho Court,—Evansville Journal, 9th.

In addition to what tho Evansville Journal

Says,

wTo learn that tho course

this contraband trade had been pretty

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deranged,

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divined by United States Marshal Rose, Avho put a dbtcctive on the track. Representing himself to be engaged in purchases for tho rebels, ho bought Jargelyof tho Evansville dealers, &has turned over the goods and the bills to tho United States authorities. This leaves no chace for the guilty parties to escape. Tho matter has been admirably managed in overy detail, and too much credit cannot bo given to Colonel Rose and his Assistants for the skill and energy with which they have worked their scheme for entrapping these traitors. The parlies arrested arc regularly indicted, and will have their trial at tho May term of the District Court.

Another band of smgglers at Amontown ,Kentucky, has been broken up by Colonel Foster, four of them being under arrest.

While returning to Henderson. Col. Foster surprised a band of smugglers at Corydon, Harrison county, Indiana, tho leader of whom is W. B. Pentcost, who Avas arrested by Colonel Fosterlast fall, and released upon his bond and oath. It will doubtless go hard with this old sinner. A considerable amount of Confederate money

More Caiitm cs.

ASHINGTON,

Avith

trifling dam-

ago. Tho casualitiesreported Avere very few. Capt. Rhind, of the Keokuk, was slightly injured by a ball. Tho third master and six mon on board the Nantuckut wore killed.

cargo. She

arm

OiIlciaIlA?qatcl»

produced in our

city yesterday morning by a report of the arrost of several prominent citir zens upon warrants issued from-the U. S District Court, for aiding tho rebellion!. f-wii,'-.

amunition

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Avill

criptive

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found upon his person. These disclosures implicate a mercantile house in Henderson, whose proprietor is under oath and bond. Ilis store is under guard. They also implicate partios and merchants in other cities.—titaic Journal.

April 11..

The Navy Department has been informed of the capture, by tho Huntsvillc, tho British steamer Surprise, of Nassau,

a confederate cloarance

from St. Marks, Fla.-, and bound for Havana,

a cargo of 307 bales of

cotton, mostly Sea Island. I Tho Octox*ora captured tho Confederate schooner Five Brothers, with 31 bales of cotton, and an English schooncr John Williams,

Avith

an assorted

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a notorious blockade

runner.1 Tho Tioga captured "the" Schooner Florence Nightingale, with a cargo of 100 bales cotton. Tho Tioga also cap turod tho English schooner Brothers.' with a cargo principally of liquors, modicines, and other contraband articles.

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OAvn

"Let every man, woman and

,^v T' tf

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rW't) WV-'-'W^Jt'MPWf'i'PBiglliWWl.**

'i#^py'A,Nt:E

lrombcii. Gran-

-v* •j.?: od a S^'m,£ j,' "j J,- "-rrc-! A I .. WASHINGTON,

April

12..'

Tho folloAvrng has-beenTccoived af^ Headquarters:

''1MU'RFREBS^OKO*,

April

11^,.^

To Maj. Gen., Halle.okrf .r-T ^u-v-# Van Dorn made his promifeod attaolf^ to day at 1 o'clock,- directly'in froht' and opposite the town. The-infantry3 on guaiHl'in th^ town, AViththe ry .joiiikpis ,/h el im~at b^jmUl-tiuurv

.. ..

exhauste£.. T^e dense*,

pmoke &c., favored their* operation^, enabling them to approach very near without our being able to observe them. Our siege guns and light batteries* opened with murerous effect, literally strewing the ground with men and horses. I had halted Stanley- four mile south on. tho Murfrecsboro road. He at one crossed his forces over at Height's Mills vigorously attacking. Forest's division moving downon tho LcAvisburg pike, capturing 6r pieces of -artillery and some 200f prisoners, but owing to the unfavora-1 ble nature of the country was unable? to hold them, being atracked by great-, ly superior numbers, outflanked and nearly surrounded. Our loss in killed, Avoundcd and prisoners is less-than 100 Avhilc the enemy's cannot be less than three times that number.

They Were repulsed on all sides, arid driven until darkness prevented tho' pursuit. Capt. Mclntyre of the 4th regulars took the battery and prison-' ers, bringing off 30 odd of the latter.'

Signed, G. GRANGERS ,» Maj. Geni -yste $£ni •. 8 1$

jtST Adjutant General Thomas, has issued the following ge.neral,.order con cerning

WAII Ddeserters:

GEN-'

EPARTMENT,

DJCT

ERAT/S

OFFICE,

Washington, March 24,'1803?

GENERAL ORDERS, NO.

'Commanders of regiments, battalions' not included in regiments, independent companies of batteries and detachments. surgeons.in charge of hospitals and detachments, and all persons in the military service commanding or controlling commissioned officers, or enlisted men on special or detached service, Avill report: upon the last day of cach month to Col. James B. Fry, Provost Marshal General of the United States, at Washington,

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The Charleston Mercury thinks the South can raise an almost unlimited revenue by an export duty on cotton the experience of the last.-twO years has proved that tho world must still depend on tho Southern States for most ofc'its cotton, 'and cotton is yet to be king once more. And the Mercury has no doubt that if the Lincoln Government succoeds in sujugating the South it will pay its

immense war debt

in just this way an export duty of five cents abound on cotton would realize a hundred and twenty-five millions per year, and this with an equal amount raised by duties on import would soon liquidate the debt of the United States. That would be both poetical and prac-tical-justice:

The greatest ^of human chang

es can beexpresSed in one word—Death.

jgrThe soldiers' voting bill passed the Ohio Legislature on Saturday last.

C., tho

names of all deserters from thoir respective commands, who have deserted since their last reporter Avho have not previously been reported.-.-Theso reports

be made in tho form of des

lists,

sotting forth,

can probably bo found.

the caso

of each deserter, his name, rank, regimont or company, description, place of birth, residence, occupation, place of enlistment, dato of last payment, amount of bounty duo, dato and place of desertion, and tho place

Avherc

Avith

such oth-

or remarks as may be pertinent in tho matter, or may:aid in tho arrest and punishment of the offender. Where no desertions have taken place during tho month, the regular form of descriptive lists

be forwarded, and

the fact will be noted upon it. The lists will, in aliases, be made in duplicate—one copy will be forwardeddirect to tho Provost Marshal General, and the other through the ordinary* military channels, to the Adjutant Gen-"" eral at Washington, who Avill refer tho same to the Provost Marshal General. When lists aro rendered by Surgeons, one copy will be sent direct to the Pro-J vost- Marshal General, and the daplideate through the regular channel," to*1 the Surgeon General,

Avho

will refer

the same to the Provost Marshal General. By order of the Secretary of War,

THOMAS,

Adjutant General.

Cieu. Foster Reinforced, »•». m.is fc -NEW Yoitk, April 10 The Boston Journal says lotjLprs re-^J* ceived there dated NeAvborne,r'. Aprili| Oth, 1 P. M., state that news has justr+ been received there that Gen. Foster had beea reinforcod, and driveil tho rebel's back.

Bigt Agood story is told of Prcsi-^ dent Jjincoln. A personal friend said^ to him:j"Mr. President,' do you really^ expect ^to end.,. i,his war during your.^ administration?" Tho President (in^ reply)—:i Can't say, can't say, sir."— The queristr—"But, Mr. Lincoln, Avhat do you mean to do?" Tho President —"Peg away, sir peg away. Keep pegging awayl" -^a

^5^",Castius M. Clay sailed for,,Liverpool in the steaiiier Asia, which left New York oh Wednesday last.

A talkative m:ari heither"1iVars

nor is haard. IIo won'tjisten to others nor fucy to him.