Decatur Eagle, Volume 6, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 22 January 1863 — Page 1

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rr 'WmmilGi r- 1 T s DETATUU EAGLE. 1 fMCtO EVERY THURSDAY HORNING, BY. Spencer & Schirmeyer. FURLI6HKRS AND PKOPRIETOSR. OFFICE—On Second Street, in Patterson', holding, aver tie Drugstore. • Term* of Hnbucrlptwu) One cnny. onp year, in advance, $1 00 jfpaitl wiifiin the y«fi!\ 1 SO If not f>aiA until the year ha* expired, 2 On o*Nd will he ryscontii Tied iiijtjl all paid exeopi. option nl the Publisher. * t«rms of Ailvfirliaiiir: V>ne square,(ten lines) three insertion*, $1 00 Earh «ub sfKjiWMii inaerlion. 25 | TT*No advertisement will beconaideretl less than ope a<pi»re: over one square will he conntad and iwob, two. ah !)free t etc*. fTTA liberal diaeouut, from the above ratep. | ; mad#oi4 tlladr rrr,isementsinserted fora-period , three months. rTThe above rates will be stri*tfy adhered j 'to unch/rall circumstances. , f \lJ oBP RI N TIN We are prepared to do all k inds of job work 1 ina neaf and workmanlike manner.on the meat r«M«oahle terms. Onr material for “the com* plftion of Job-Work, being new and of the lat #st, styles, we feel confident that satisfaction ean be tfivey j - - - — - — taw Biisira c\nos! Tbijut house Decatur, Indiana, M33w ■*«....' U« r ■> Proprietor. Wifi give good attention, and makes reasonable eksjjfe*, n37-VB-|y. D W PIT AM PER, PITYSrCAIIf Sr SUIWEOIf DECATUR, INDIANA..S tTOFFFOE—On the east side of Second St in the room formerly occupied by J. D. Nuttman as a banking office. v DA VID ST I D'UHE ls, attorvky at law, /DECATUR. INDIANA. • * Will Practice in Adam« and adjoining Counticg j tTOFFICE —On Main Street immediately j South of the Auditor’ll Office.—vfi-n I*2 JAMES R DO 80. Attorney and Counselor at Law, j DEC A TUTS, jy DTA SA ITPOFFinE, in Recorder's Office. Will p v actice in the Oourts of the Tenth Ju dicial Circuit. Attend to the Redemption of lAindp. the pav ..ent of Taxes Especial atten ■ lion will be given to the col tap* ion of Bounties, j Pension and all claims against the Government Nov. 28, 1862. vG-r42- j hXrness~Bhop. : n.'.ft >T IHul > j I. J. M elsse, Respectfully in forma hi«ciistomers and the pub- ' lie in generi l, that, he still continues lo carry on | the Harness Business at his mr mm On a larger scale than ever, where he invitee all to call and examine his work; for he flatters himself that he can do a BETTER JOB for j LESS money than any other establishment in j North Eastern Indiana. STRf pairing done on . short dotice and charge?, reasonable.—ti37-v6 PICTI’H EG A LLEKY! ! P. V. SMITH, Ambrotypc & Photograph AntnrTfli'm 9 Having permanently larated in Decatur and: supplied himself with every l King that may he ' found in a First Class Picture Gallery. 'Would call the attention of all who desire good i Picture at low prices, to cell at his rooms in 'Houston’s Building, immediately over the Drug | -Store. nat-ly i HKAI.ES IN CLOCKS, WATCHES, MUSICAL list urn* rs, jeifelry, &c., , DECATUR. INDIANA. Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, Musical Instru ruents, Ac., repaired on short notice. SHOP—Ou Second Street, in Frazee’slsw of flee. v-.Vn.41 Auditor's Notice. Notice iahereViv given thst those having failed to pay the interest <>f,jL]ie Congressional and Common School Fund in anvance. either upon certificate or upon loan, that hv the requiremnnts of the late school law Auditors are r. 01 ired to advertise and aell on the fourth Monday of January in each year, all lands forfeited for the non payment of interest in advance, according to iiiw. T here6>ie,iin order to save cost »<d»xp6n«e all interest doe, must be paid on -or before the Jlst.li day of December neat. w. c spkNckr. Ufoc IM»* .. ** »<R*or.

| In nnd Out of the Rebel Camp ’ Touting’the ‘dark difys’ Af*thertebellfon early in the summer of ’6l Harper s Fer- ; ry wa* occupied in force <ty the rebels au<t ’ rite Government was desrrons to obtain a ; knowledge of the ’status' of affairs there 1 —-an object not easily accomplished on account of the constant and watchful care of the enemy and the sharp severity ac- ! corded by tlie foe toward any one suspee- ; ted as a spy in their camps. A young New England Volunteer, Harry 3 , presented himself to a high military functionary in Washington and proposed to undertake to learn what was going on at that place, i ‘lt is a hazardous operation,’ said the official gravely.’ ‘I am aware of that, hut I take the | chances. ‘Your success shall be amply compen- , sated said the other. -Ifyou are discovred however do you know the penalty?’ ‘Death, replied the youth firmly.’ ‘You are rigid ybunffman. Go then | —and return assured ot reward if success ifill.* - 1 The young volunteer received Ids mstructious; went to camp at the Relay House, and at dark he sallied forth in citI izen s dress passing the outer pickets with the countersign and a ijiaerful good nigh.’ At, daybreak he reached the station from w hich,the cars run up by the Ferry and occupying himself till afternoon, took the cars as a through passenger. Arriving at Harper s Ferry the train did not stop. He watched his opportunity as the train moved slowly around a curve and drop ped C oin the rear platform upon tin; mad side and crept into the woods. Th night was cloudy and Harry had been crouching beneath a thick fir tree a Turn aments calculating what, he should do ! next, when he heard footsteps approachi ing. It was she rob'd guard Th'hj’e ,ywere four of them. They' crime directly j to the side of the tree where he lav con;ixaleil.' Hut It \vhs\ejrv: dark.- He felt "safer w * *' * * ‘Hold on Barker,’ said one. ‘(Hyp us alight. Hatnmrmd scome up to-day. : ‘Of the Third.’ , ‘Yes old Georgy's ali.’e and th<> Third i is out yonder at the foot of the lane.’ j A match was lighted-r-the glare upon j the tree through the branches of which ' Harry could plainly see the rebel s Cu-ltures—-but Ke held Jus breath and his i presence there was not stisjiected. ‘Got the countersign Barker?’ ‘Yes, Old Dominion forever!’ said his • i companions: and they moved on and pasisi d out of sight, Hat'iy had the pass- ! word. Thus armed our volunteer passed | down the lane determined to see ‘Ham-; I mow! whoever he was. i I ‘Halt! Who goes there!’ shouted a sentinel. ‘A friend,- replied Harry, j ‘Advance friend, with the countersign ; ‘Old Dominion,’ said Harry, quite promptly. I ‘Right, Pass on friend,’ was the clieerI ful answer. ‘Which way.’ ‘l'm looking for Hammond. He's down here somewhere I learned.’ ‘Of the Georgia Third?’ ‘Yes,’ said Harry. I ‘Half a mile on you'll find the camp.— Good night.’ I He passed the guard safely, and soon I found Hammond. ‘Some mistake,’ said Harry at a 10-s j for oflier subterfuge. Had you a relitI tiver * j ‘Edward,’ said the rebel. ‘Yes, Ned,-we used to call him.’ I ‘At Savannah?’ ‘Yeisr ‘Did you know poor Ned ” ‘As well as I did my own brother.’—(Harry never had a brother.) j ‘He's a goner!’ ! ‘Dead.” exclaimed Harry, i ‘ Killled at Viena.’ I ‘Poor Ned ’ ‘I would like to have seen him contin- . ued Harry. ‘Well come in.’ insisted secesh. You ! were his friend—be mine. Come in.’ ! And into the little tent Harry pushed behind hi' new made acquaintance, who was very anxious to do the honors to his brother’s friend. What might J call you " ‘Smith,’ said Harry believing that he might as well be called by this as any name. * f ‘Stopping long here, Smith?’ ‘No —no,’ replied Harry, (Indeed lie j intended to get. away as soon as ho possibly could. ‘Take a drink—here’s to poor Ned.’ ; ‘To poor Ned,’ said Harry gulping down the svtfi*key. And then Ifo pump-' . ed his friend Hammond until he lisfeertain • ed the strennslh of that stronghold, who was in command, what was their designs ’ at that time, how they were disposed, and what was their ground plan—and then he Lade Mr, Hammond of tins Georgia 3d good night inviting him lo call npAn him the next day Harry paised

‘Ouir Country’s Good shall ever be our Atm—Willing to Praise and not afraid to Blame.''

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA. JAN’. 22,1863.

the guards again safely crossed the bridge! : walked three hottts before daylight next | morning, met the return train, caine '.down toward the Relay, and on the sec-! , i ond evening after leaving, reached ' our ,! outmost picket*, without a scratch. Next! i day he proceeded to Washington, waited . on the Secretary, laid before him the 1 facts he had learned and onc v week after-1 . wards 1 saw him with first lieutenants j *raps on his shoulders ‘Bravely eahied!’ said the official when • i he presented him his commission. Har-; ! ry B is now a captain in the th 1 Regiment, and has pioved one of the i best and but vest soldiers of the war. : j — in im» ii—- ■ Miscellaneous Items. ] t i A gentleman in Nashville has alive; rattlesnake which he keeps coufincd in a i •: glass box labelled ‘bushwhacker.’ ' j The number of drafted men who failed j I to report for duty at the various camps in ! Pennsylvania, with those who have de1 ' serted is estimated at eight or ten tliou- ’ f saud. 3 Prentice says: The difference between ;an Abolitionist and a pig is that the one's kink is in hie head ami the other’s in his | tail. Between an abolitionist and a nigI ger, that dilfercuoe dotfcn't exist. | AW the English people in India are de- [ scribed as aghast at a gaming scandal just revealed in Bombay whete one officer cheated another out of 2 t.OUO pounds . sterling at cards. The N. Y. Tribune impudently bullies | !! the Presidoht about the West Virginia ■ State bill, telling him that it be vetoes it 1 ! 1 he cannot do lets than ask pardon of 1 JpWn Letcht' 1 ' for hat’ing imbufed that ! potentate's dotninious, and humbly peti tion Mason and Slidell to ntsume their! seats in the Senate. Undoubtedly the ’ infernal radio'd l jrre'^Hf(t* ; ls*'SfcSv6' , .'lifd l j ‘Old Abe' mu.jt gnccuinb. | A Pare lnte'nnadilliiig parsons, one Sloan ■ of New York, and Milligan of Penu.-yl-j vania baye ! ’rocejiily cnjled., on tli_e PreMdent a committed.' from "some kind of , Presbyterian qousytiieucy to urge him to stand by liis em lucipatioa proclamation, j on moral as well as military grounds. Thy printers of Paris who were con-! demited to dul'eifent punishments in oou-| . sequence of a strike have made a unique ; present to their advocate M. I Jerry er.— , j They have printedon vellum the orations I of Bossuet, and liavc prmlucod a book in a style of magnificence said to be unequal | ed for typographical excellence. In or-1 der that no other copy should exist the i forms were immediately broken, up. — H'hi> is «?ul. ; A who man will ! long a- he nan move and hrealho he will ,do something for himself, his neighbor, i or for poster!fv Almost to the last hour i ,of his life, Washington was at work—i iSo were Franklin and Young and Howhanl and No* ton. The vigor of their i 1 lives never decayed. No rust marred j ' i their spirits. It is a foolish idea to sup-1 ; pose that wt must lie down and die Ik>- I j cause »e are old. Who is old! Not 1 [the man of energy* not the day laborer! in science, art or benevolence but he on- ' | ly who suffers his energies to waste awav! j and the springs of life to become motion-: less; on whose bands the hours drag heav i Ily; to whom all things wear the garb of f gloom. Is he old! Is he active? Can 1 I he breathe freely and move with agility? 1 ; There are scores of gray-headed men ! we should prefer in any important enteri prise, to those young gentlemen who fear and tremble at apprrmehing shadows, and turn pale as at a lion in their path, at a harsh word or frown. in—.... How to I’rospej in linsine**- ; In the first place make up vonr mind 'to accomplish w hatever von undertake; i decide upon some particular employment i ;and persevere in it. All difficulties are' ! overcome by diligence and assiduity. ' ■' Be not afraid to work w-ith your own 1 .hands, anddttfigemly too. ‘A cat in i gloves catches no mice.’ j ‘lie who remains in the mill does - the' II grinding not he who goes and comes.’ j '| Attend to your business and never i trust it to another. A pot that belongs' I to many isrill stirred and wbrse boiled. I Be frugal. That which will not make 1 ■; a pot wifi make a pot lid.’ Save the dirties ! and the dollars will take care of them- ! j selves. Be abstemious. Who dainties love 1 ■ | shall beggars prove.’ Rise early. ‘The ■dCCping fox catches ' no wonltrv.’ ‘Uiongh dee>> while slug--1 gards sleep, and you will have norrt to . seirtm'MWip. ,k *»*d» a to mk Treat eVi rv eiv w ith ro«pe'-t ar.d eiviii tv. Everything is gained and nothing 1 lost bF eom tesv. H Above all things never despair. God is where he w as. Heaven fteljrs those who help them»elyes. Lastly, hut not, feast, patronize the i 1 PritrtCr. A wd«C outlay irisufes n quick M( urti.

A Man in the clutch** of ebon is not! I a pli-sasnt spsciacle in the wilds of Airies' j and much more unph hasO'. as it lately 1 w*s, in the Irish town ol Ki*rry, in the ! j midst of » civilized communitv. The: story, as it is told in the local papers, is I to the effect that a lion in Bell’s ilippad' I q tome Circus seized a visitor bv the coat; 1 sleeve, draggad him close lo the cage l and made an effort to catch him by the j j collar of Ins coat. The man, to save himsplf, dueked his head under the i floaring of the cage; the lion then caught I ! him with his paw hv the upper part of his shoulder, and held him for a few seconds. The keeper struck the lion several ' j Wows on the paw which still kept its hold |of t’onrnane, The keeper continued to I plv It is loaded whip vigorously on the! I paw of the lion, which, in a lew minutes, * ! loosed his hold, and Omirnane escaped ! with a deep cut on the back of his hand ' aud a severer one on his shoulder. Unfavorable War News—The news to-day is unfavorable, and does not look 'much like a speedy subjugation of the south. Sherman has beea utterly repul-; sed at Vicksburg, and has reembarked the remnant of his (roops for Napoleon;' Springfield. Mo, has been taken by the rebels; and the federal Geres have been ! compelled to evacuate Giivestnn, with a loss of 25f) killed and 230 prisoners. The | steamer Harriet Lane was captured by. I the rebels at Galveston, and the flag-ship j Westfield was blown up to prevent its I ! Ulling into the hands of the enemy. Port i Hudson, on the Mississippi, belt weep ' ! New Orleans and Vtck-hitrg, is stillin’ j the hands of the rebels, and is very strong ! . Iv fortified, ft is rep >r*e ! tdrat Jeff Davis 1 lis About to a'tack New Orleans.— Ft Wayne Sen Kk VOI.PTf ON A lIY CoUßsg OF TUK InDl- ' ana Senate. —The aboHiionist in th* | j Indiana Senate have bolted, arid by lies ' froying a quorum, prevent any business i from being transacted. They world not ; even meet to receive the Governor’s mes j sage, We hope some steps will he taken lo eompel them to attend to their duty, j or to tesigu the seats th«y are unworthy j lo till. The report that the Governor had refused to send hit message is an on or. h now appears that it was his abolition j friends who refused to receive it. We j call on the democrats Senators to stand firm aud properly rebuke the revolu- ' ijonarv course of iliese traitorous allies of secession.—AT TUnyne Sen. Indiana Leoislatore—ln the Senate ion Friday, Mr Wolf, ~f Hairimn, pres- j . Died ainrmuri.il from V» . H t»nl, iclnim- j ng the seal, ot U.r Diykiivo'i lor the; i Senatorial district compos-d of li*o coun- j 'lies of Noble, Dekalb and Steuben. ' which was referred to the Committee on ! Elections The R-publican Senators have bolted, ; I to prevent the election of United States ' Sen at rs, leaving the Senate without a quorum to transact business. A message was received from the | House requesting the Senators to repair !to the Hall of the House lo hear the ' Message of Hia Excellency, the Gov- j irnor. The roll of the Senate was called, and ; it was found that there was not a quorum ! present. Mr. Williams, of Knox county, was very willing to pledge the Republican : Senators that if they would go to the Hall that no advantage would he taken cf them. They woulj hear the Message and return without transacting any other business. The President said that he ■ would scorn to take advantage of the | Senators visit to the Hall of the House to i go into an election. No such act should be done with hi* sanction. He always op- ! pose, revolutionary measures. A resolution to sind for the absentees 1 , was discussed, pending which the Senate .adjourned In the House, two resolutions con- , cerning illegal and arbitrary arrests of citizens of Indiana wef" adopted; also, a resolution instructing the Judclsry Com-; mittee to inquire into the eXped'eney 1 ; of abolishing the court of Common Pleas. < —Ft Wayne Sen. The Home of Peace—The people of; Kossuth eoiintv [own, boast that for more than (fix vear* past, there never ha* been ■ a horse stolen from the county, and no ! one who has lived in it ha* ever stolen a horse, or even a sheep Moreover, there l has never been a criminal prosecution of ( .anykind in the county. Intoxicating liquors have never been sold in tt.e coun- t 1 1V. openlv. nor have they been kept fur sale at ativ-of the stores on taverns. The political character of the county may bs readily guessed—about seven to one Democratic. - 11 *" * 1 ’ - The rumor prevalent at Louisville; j that 15,000 rebels ara moving on that I citv ; 8 sl ot credited by the military auth-j or i lice.

The Great Calamity. I The country stands appalled at the magnitudejof the disaster at Fredericks- ; burg. It t-xnels every olhtr disaster of the war—so pro'ific of disaster to ear I arms—if we except that which oveiIcame McClellan on the Peninsu'a when i the ed ministration compelled him to ah anoon his well-matured plans and withdraw his army from the trout of Rich ill ond More than thirteen thousand of i our brave soldiers dead, wounded and ; missing is the terrible business, and all ; this human life sacrificed lo no purpose whatever. : The country wi'l not hold Grn. Burnside responsible for the sacrifice. It will i hold the administration at Washington, which has thrust Gen Burnside into a ' position from which he shrank, and crowded him forward into a si uation which he ■ roust have deemed hazardous, responsible (or it. The disaster is fruit of the same incompetency and folly and imbecility which have presuh-d in Washington, from the day Mr. Lincoln entered upon an office for which he has not a single j i qualification. It is fruit ot the same wdd and reckless fanaticism and of the same malicious partisan higorty and ig norance and hate which have coni rolled | tlie policy of the administration Irom the beginning. Bull Run was the first fruit ol | this worse Ilian poison upas, whose powers of reproduction nave no i xiiuplu in | tlie history ol national calamities. We forbear to give expression to lh“ , 1 great,prevailing popular sentiment over : this calamity. UWe should give expres- . sion toil we should denounce tile author*: jot the awlul butchery as tlie most stu , j pendous homicides ot modern tiroes, and we should call upon them to surrender j their high places in tlie government to: ' men whose hands are not all dripping with gore. (Jan they form an excuse i tor their criin-s? iliey furnish one plausl ih|e reason why they sfirculd hurl whole i armies into the extended j >ws of sure land swift destruction? Can they invent jan apology which will tor a single mom I ent reconcile the country to this uew j hefcalonib? They cannot. They are convieted to-dav by the publm judgment and the public judgement (or all tune to come will applaud the verd ct. We have expected scarcely less than this calamity. We predicted it when McClellan was immolated. It was sure to come of the policy of his immolation anil of‘on to Richmind' by a route which lie had pronounced impossit.le. It was sure to come of his degradation and of the i complete prediiminace of the StantonHalleck power in the administration, j What m x>? Unsuccessful Attempt- to Scale the Mtitteihorn. The Alpine climbers went forih, early lin June, to scale the Matterhorn, and . add the Iks' triumph of skill and daring to he won in the Swiss mountains, have again been defeated. The peak 4g!ies all attempt* Mr. Whimper, one of the Alpine Club, reached a higher point than had hitherto been readied; hut. an accidental fall, which may be truly described as one of the most miraculous escapes from instant death on record, caused ; him to abandon, lor the press- nt, nnd perhrps forever, ali further assnul'g on ' tlie virgin summit. (n ascending the mass of ice and snow Mr. Whimper, who was alone, was compelled, in one place to cut a serte* of steps in the ice. Knowing there w »s no luriher dtfffi-uhy of that kind to be feared, he left his hatchet behind him. and on returning from his baffled attempt lo mount, lie found, to j his horror, that his aieps were gone. The sun hadinelted them away! As his ' hatchet could not be recovered, lie Itaned over the precipice and began to pro I ;at the ice with his aipen stock. Some snow gave way, am! he rolled over the leilge, brazing his face and body on tlie rocks nnd ridges, clash, down the side* !of a chasm eight hundred teet deep. By happy chance he was caught in a roughberl of rocks on the crest of a precipice ' scarcely equaled in the Alps, and there remained fur an inslaot, stunned ard 1 bleeding, though not seriously recovering from the shock and Ir.un It's wounds j A few days later, I’ro'essor Tyndal reappeared on the scene of his last year’s adventures. Mr. Whimper’s tools and experience were placed at his disposal ! and the conqueror of the Ritf-1 set off full of confidence and courage. But his courage and endurance were taxe i in vain, i Again and again he risked his li'e. I Higher than any one has everbeen up : the peak he crept and climbed; higher i then Mr. Whimper; hut the s'eeppess of the highest peak r> pulsed him, and the undauted hut unsuccessful mountaineer left the Matterhorn unsealed.— Lun-ion Atkaneum. [ One hour gained in rising early is worth j a month of labor in a Tear. One hole in the fence will cn«t ten I limes as much as *1 will Cost tn fix it at qnca

Which Shall We Lose! '! Tlie people of this country are lasi verging to that point when they *ili be 'called upon tu answer the question. ' Wiiicli shall we lose. New England or ; tlie Southern States?’ Many will answer 1 neither. We will answer so, too unless j a different management of our military affairs is effected, the question, never- ! theless, may be imposed upon us as sn 'alternative. If such should be tlie ca*e, we, wiii answer, let (lie New England ' go, for in that event we will have a last*. I ing and permanent peace Should slavery [he abolished to morion, and this Vexed quesion be forever settled. New Englander* would never rest quiet untill thev had imposed upon the country all their I I heresies, political and religion**, snd had i taken to themselves the entire manage--1 memos the Government. They are not content with being equals. 1 Although they preach for equal ty ol th# 1 blacks wiili the white, it i* with a sin* | isier purpose, and they hope through this i quality to assume a Dictatorship which ■ willmsk* the people of ail other State* slaves to them ( Their policy from tlie beginning of the Government has been to make all other* 1 t>ay tribute to toem; first bv commerce, then by protective uriff-*, and now in the aholiiir.n ot slavery. They will next try i on tlu-ir JJmtarianism, Congregationalism or Indepen lentism ns tlis established ! religion of tlie country, and thus supply | places lor a horde of itinerant religious ! beggars at the expense of the people i Their ancesters lo ibis country because 1 they sould not eimtrol the government of i Engl rod. and when in Holland, fool the 1) itch; and from the day ol their lanoing -at Plymouth until the preaent time, to Igra-p the reins of government and ride I rough shod over all others has been their lavnrite obj-et. If their must he n division then of this i country, let N- w England go by herself; we can get along a great deal better without Ilian with her. In this event we would at least gi t clear ot a prop e whose ' sole disposition is t<- rule, and then cairy ' j on an arganiz-d system of. public atraling under ilte cloak of religion.— P/iila Eve. 1 1 Jour. i General Juekspn and Ihe Suspension of the Hubei** Corpus. i The Giz -tte frequently cites the precedent ol Andrew Jackxon, at New Orleans, who suspended the habeas corpus and declared martial law. as one that L ncoln has followed. We pity its stupidity and despised its dishonesty in the 'reference. Jackson's nnd Lincoln’s sus--1 ot-n«io-i >1 the habeas corpu* and d-elar- | anon id martial law ar« about as much ! alik- as light is like darkness. Jackson proclaimed and carried out unariia! law within the lemitsof a besiegefi-eitv, whose inhabitants were all within Iris military lines Lincoln proriams martial law over the whole Uniied States, outside of military lines, where there are no military opera'ions g ing on and where there is not a hostile tolilier. Under Jackson’s precedent there is not a single place in the free S'ales where it would not be an u«urapiion for Lincoln to proclaim and enforce nr arlial law or decree the suspension of the habeas corpus, D Jackson — when he proclaimed martial law n-nd suspended tlie habeas corpus at New Orleans — then besieged hy the British—— had done the same in hii proclamation lover the whole Uui'-ed R ates—at Nnston ■i Portland and New York —it would have been a move like Lincoln’s Jackson had I tort much sense and patriotism fur lba\— * ' j Cin. Enq ■ | — W . — i Launch of a Gunboat at Carondelet —The gunboat and ram Fort Henry was successfully launched from tlie silip yard at Corondelet yesterday allernoon. i The F< ri Henry i* 28U feel in .length, and : | about 4U Itel in width, and has ‘been in II process of construction, together wi'h ■ another gunboat and rauit( ihe Choctow), at the private Bliip yard at Carondelet, * for three or four mouths past. Itoth boats * wire designed by Commodor Porter, I recently of the Essex, *nd are very pow- ;. er'ully eonsliue.ied. The Choc'aw was aunebed on Saturday last, and suhse- - j quently toned to tlie foot of Carr-street i m tliis city, where it will be clad wirh I iron. The Choctßw is 226 feet in.length, and was orginally designed for a turret, I and two heavy gun*. Tlie Fort H-nry - is lo he ironclad, anil will carry six or eight guns. It seems to’iiave ’f*eeo cun- . struoled more especially the pstrpose of ) a powerful ram than for a gunboat- The r Choctaw will also answer the purposes of f a ram or trnnhoat, The rams on each boa’. * are two feel in length and made ot beiir metal They arc so attached •otho-bo.ata. i and the wood work about them is so solid [and substantial, that they will be able to sustain Ihe most powerful *ort of shocks, 1 Each boat will he cases! entirely in thicknesses of iron and rubber, and will b* ini vulnsrAhl** 10-common balls, so that either t ns gunboat* or ram* they will without dolin' In- superior to any thing »fl"al

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