Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1861 — Page 2

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WEEKLY SENTINEL.

MO! DAY iECEJWER 30 The Irrepressible Conflict. Said a laboring man the other day, who has sei in Ü.e haiit t v r.un the Republican -"I begin to see to tee where the 'irre is to be, if this war is made an Abolition er. It will be between the white laborers of the North and the negroes turned loose to compete with them." And so it will be, of course. If these but tea are overrun with wandering and half civilized negroes, com jelled to work aim ply for their bread and clothes, the price of labor will naturally run down to a low figure, and the white laborers will feel the first So says the Albany Argus. Hear Douglas. Mr. Doiolas, in his great speech before the Legislature of Illinois, a few days before his death sad: I will never acquiesce in any warfare upon the constitutional rights or institutions of the South. If any attempt is made to invade their rights or incite servile insurrection among them, I would be the fir-it to rush to the rescue. He declared, during the session of Congress nut winter and who will question his reliability? that the abolition cabal in the Senate was just as intent as the Southern secession leaders upon breaking up the Union. The same eabal is in the Senate now, and is banded to prevent any termination of the war that shall not "destroy slavery." Tlaion and Sllslell Surrendered to (lie British liovprnmrnt - Their Arrest Derlared b jr our Administration 'Simply an Inadvertency. ' The circumstances attending the arrvst of Mabo.t and Slidkll are of such recent date, and are yet so fresh in the minds of all, thst a recapitulation is unnecessary to the understanding of this remarkable case. When it became known that these "persons," as Mr. Skward terms them, had proceeded upon a mission from the Davis Government te Europe, it was announced to the country th it several of our war vessels had been dispatched to arrest them if y msible. The San Jacinto, on her way borne from Africa, stopred at a West India port, and her commander, Capt. Wilkes, learning the anxiety of our Government to arrest the rebel Commissioners, and hearing that they had taken passage on the British mail steamer Trent, concluded, if possible, to overhaul that vessel and secure them He succeeded in so doing. When the fact of their arrest, under these circumstances, was pub.ished to the country, the Administration was as much elated with the exploit as a kitten with its first mouse, and cut as many antics over it. Not a doubt was expressed by Mr. Lincoln and his constitutional advisers, and other Republicans equally learned in international law, as to the entire legality of the act, and the only regtet manifested was that the vessel had not been condemned and seized as a lawful prize. At the time we stated that Capt. Wilces wait no more justified in making the arrest of these persoos upou the deck of a British vessel, a neutral power, and pursuing a peaceful voyage, than he would be if he had forcibly seized them in the streets of London. But the Republican leaders, official and unofficial , took an adverse view of the imenion, and talked valiantly of an issue of arms with the arrogant British power rather than a surrender of the captives. When the news of the arrest reached England, a growl was heard from the British Lion. To these defiant notes, our Republican friends responded most valiantly that the right was on our side, and that war wad preferable to yielding to the arrogant demands of our ancieut enemy. A formal demand came from the British Government for the restoration of Masox, Slipkll and their companions, and an apology for the insult to its flag. Suddenly the Administration discovered that discretion was the better part of valor. Mr. Sewakd, ranked by his political friends as the most eminent statesman of the country, profoundly learned in the policy of the Government from its foundation, suddenly became a student of international law and our foreign diplomacy. In his researches new light burst upon his intellectual and diplomatic as remarkable as that which overtook Savl of Tarsus. In his researches he discovered that Mr. Madison, in 104, in his instructions to Mr. Mox koe, then Minister to England, had laid down principles which became the traditional policy of M Government and which exactly covered the demand ol Earl Russell. Marvellous discovery and just in the nick of time. Strange, is it not, that our eminent Republican statesmen, until now, should have been in blissful ignorance ot our own well settled foreign diplomatic policy? We suppose that the Republicans, one anil all. will sing hosannas to the ingenuity and deep research of our distinguished Secretary of Slate and swear as earnestly that tbe surrender of M a aus and Slidell is juu what should be done, as they did forty eight hours ago th it their arrest was strictly in accordance with na ional law and that war was preferable rather than suffer national dishonor by giving them up. But it now turns out that the arrest or in the language of Mr. Skwabo, "what has happened has been simply an inarletTtencu," without "wrongful motive" on the part of Capt. Wilkes. If such is the proper view of the case, why were not Mason andSnto.u. promptly returned on their arrival upon our shores to the jurisdiction of the British flag? This course would have been dignified. It would have disarmed Great Britain, ami the magna nimity of the net Would have struck a heavy blow at the rebellion. But no. Our wise and sagacious Republican Administration knew nothing of British rights in the case until that power made the demand for reparation, and now we suffer national humiliation a degradation which every American man, woman and child must keenly feel in accenting Mr. Sewabd's pretml view of the ease, by doing an act under a threat, that tbe Administration had not the courage to tie as a matter of right, promptly and in advance of such a demand. Mr. Sew ann, in a grave diplomatic paper, p ronounces the actof Capt. Wilkes "simply an inadvertency." What a galling reflection and sarcasm is this conclusion npon his Republican friends. Mr. Welles, the Secretary of the Navy, in his annual report to the President, which must have been read by him and received his sanction, if it did not that ot the entire Cabinet, not only justified but applauded tbe act of Capt. Wilkes. More than this, he addreaaed that officer a letter Congratulating him npon his gallantry and thanking him in the twine of the nation for the arrest of Masox and Slidill. Was this action oil the part of Mr. Wilkes "simply an inadvertent yt" , on the first day of its session, unam end a vote of thanks to Capt. Wilkes foi his gallant exploit Mr. flrwaso, by his dispatch, pronounces this another " inadvertency." Mr. Colpax, M. C. from this State, offered a resolution in the House, which was adoptpd, requir ing She Administration to confine the captives from the Trent in a felon's call. Mr. Sewako inres tbia suggestion of Colkax, and its by Congreas, another simple " inadverCales Clshimo, in a three column opinion, oronounced the arrest of Masox and Slibkle to be sutboriied by the taw of nations. Mr. Slvaep, placing hin fine digits to his wasnl i, Ally tells Calm that 1, too, the most ui in tha nation, is troubled with " in advertency.'' Old Gea. Cass, who hs saude diplomacy and international law the study of his life, justified tins arrest of the rebel Commits ton-

er. Mr. Sr.WAr savs this is another iDdver i a i

tencr " That highly rpecUble organ of th AOmniti uun, tue ivaswaat inmrnnorncer 10 opinions of learried wordbnnd ponderous length, demonstrated most aatisssetorily p the Cabinet, i that Mason and SunatL were captured strict! t ' ' I to law. But ail tbia re . and learning Mr. Seward brushes away Seward brushes away like a cobweb and pronounces it " simply an in-, advertency " Come we now dowu to lessee lights at borne. Tbe Journal, with a redundancy of words and an affectation of panning, gave judgment iu favor of tha actof Capt. Wilkks. and said that we bad whipped England twice and rather than surrender the arch rebel t hin her aam And ! n 1 her bidding we would .. r, ... ' even our very energetic Governor, with ... . , . . , , . v. ! owlish wisdom, declared the arrest in perfect i ' i ' harmony with his knowledge of the law j of nations. Bat such wisdom is all vanity as i thin and uncertain as a bubble, for Mr. Sewako declares these two celebrities simple "iuadverten cies." And all these doughty knights will lick the dust ana praise Sewako for his Yankee sharpness. Tbe Republican Administration, with twenty mill mi of freemen to sustain the Govern ment upon t question of national honor, tamely and very courteously compromises with a foreign power it evidently fears, upon a point which has intensely excited tbe national sensibilities, but it has neither (he sagacity or magnanimity to com promise points of difference with our own bretbran. Rather than yield an inch to strengthen the

Umo.. snC restore the fraternal feeling which Contingents M. Mooney, Jacob Snyder, F. won independence from the British Crown and Whittiagtou, Smith Jones, John B. Hamilton, national griatness, it wages a fratricidal war which j Thomas Essex, Iwis Essex and Isoiah Wad not only threatens to result in the destruction of ' 't'n9the Union, but to exhaust our national resources ! n motion of 001 U Demoorato present and entail burden, upon ourselves and those who l the St,te Convention from Bartholomew councome after us, grievous to be borne, and which tT "ct d'gate -ill r-H.K.. ,w fmn, .h. rvnod mnk nf on, of the ' B. F. Jones was unantmously recommended as

i first powers of the earth, to a secondary if not a more inferior position. Such is Republicanism, and is it not most true, to use Mr. Seward's ex pression, ency?" it has become "simply an inadvett"Govrrnor Norton and tbe WarTax," A communicaliou appeared in the Teri e Haute Express, a few days ago, evidently from the pen of Hon. Joh.x P. Usiiek. Attorney General bv , the appointment of Governor Morton, highlv , - , , ., . . laudatory of the "arrangement it is reported His Excellency made to defer the payment of the j direct tax assessed by Congress at its special see- j ' sion in July last. The writer admits that the ; nvn,., k,. hi. ...tiw.riir i ti,a matter, and that the arrangement" is bevond doubt violation of both law and good faith towards the purchasers of the war bonds, but justifies the action of His Excellency on the ground of unanticipated necessity and altered circum stances. He says, in reference to the laws au thorizing the war loan: In the tiist place, this law was passed by our legislature on the 4th of June, one month betöre Congress met. and no man then eveu dreamed that the Government would have to resort to this direct tax, as a means of raising a portion of its revenue. It the legislature had ex petted this, j it would unquestionably have shaped the law dil I ferent in this oarticular. . . . . i Now what right has the Governor to supervise, modify, or alter the laws of the State and the ! poiicv adopted bv the Legislature? The Consti j union of the State m.,kes it his duty to "see thai ! the laws be laithtully executed. Instead of , j doing his duty in this regard, the Governor is , i using his best effort to avoid or prevent the ' . ... a j j i i faithful ox.ecut.oa of the laws. And m doing ! this it appears he has the aid and sanction of the !

Attorney General. It was the disregard of insurgent Slates a proposition of compromise and " i f f obligations and law that brought Iik of the Crittenden compromise, ja: ui ,i . . or sme other similar proposition, that will rethe present difficulties upon Urn country, ami the , harmonv in WT dtelei Governor is faithfully adhering to this ruinous 4. We have no sympathy with Northern Abopolicy which threatens as one of its effects to de- litionism, and that we denounce the attempt now stroy the National Government. But the writer 1 'nK l,he. Abolitionists to convert the . 1 . . , , . present unnatural civil war into a war for the in the Expre$ not only justifies wrong doing, but ' m;in,.itwtion of th, sUrea. Iw-lievimr that such a

attempts to show, in the following argument that such a policy will be of great advantage to the State. He says: Look at the benefits of this arrangement. The expense of an extra eioti of the Lecislature is avoided, and tbe Stale pays a debt, with one due her, and the result is the same as it would be if the direct tax aere assessed and collected The people are relieved of the expense of calling an i extra sess.on .d the Legislature nd ot collecting ; this tax, which has saved to the State thousands 1 . , ,, c , , , , ot dollars, and e are satished that whatever indirectness there may be. in regard to the law, in making this arrangement, the people will indorse ; the action ot the Governor in '.his matter, and thank him heartily lor so doing. As to "the benefits of this arrangement" we will r it 1 f e c ,if 11 ! let one set ol Kepublic ins. who are lor latthlully adhering to the law and redeeming the public faith, answer the Governor and his Attorney General who propose to riolaleboth, if they have not already done so. The Madison Courier thus responds to the Exjtrett writer for his apology of the Governor for his disregard of law in his "arrangement" with the Secretary of the Treasury and the plea that it will bff Q saving to the Suite: A week or more ago we printed in thee columns a bold assertion of the Indianapolis Journal that the State would save half a million of dollars by the success of Gov. Morton's policy in regard to the payment of the State's quota ot the national tax; that Gov. Morton had induced the Secretary of the Treasury to offset the quota of Indiana against moneys doe the Stute by the United States for equipping volunteers. It was stated also that the success of Governor Mortoa would render a session of the Legislature unnecessary. How this vast sum was to be saved was not, nor bas not been, stated. A half million of doi lars saved! How saved? By getting the United States to refuse to pay to Indiana's creditors money jnstlv line. Indiana has not a dollar of this money in her Treasury; the taxes assessel, nmouutiiig to aliout a million of dollars, have rot been half collected, and to obtain the money to advance in the United States, she must borrow. Indiana has borrowed, is borrowiui; all she cm. Nearly a million of dollars have been borrowed from parties in New York, who have the pledge of Gov. Morton that they should be reim bursed when the United States refunded the money advanced by the State. The first half mi. lion received from Washington was used iu I that aay. 1 he party or parties ot whom money was borrowed in New i ork are now in W ashington, protesting against toe unfair, unjnst, and dishonest poiicv ot the Governor, who now wishes ' to repudiate their just claims, for the purpose of providing lor a debt which has some five mouths to run, and for the payment of which no appropriation has been made by the General Assembly of the State. The people were told in August that the State would not lo.-e more than ten thousand dollars by the war. Now they are told they will save half a million of dollars, and that there will be no necessity for a session of the Legislature. How much would the people s.ive by abolishing the ; Legislature, and appointing the "le uned pundits" at Indianapolis "directors, "dictators" or "Consuls for life?" Francs has only the semblance of a Legislature; Spain, Russia. Turkey, c, have none at all. Why should Uhrer, surnamed Morton, be hampered and controlled by a Legislature? It the assertion of economy proves anything, it proves that Legislatures are useless and expeufive, and that with such s Governor as Mortou, the people would be bettet served it the Executive and Legislative departments were Iiised into one. But, uu fortunately fur the assertion th.it a great saving is to be made, and tbe argument ad duced theretrotn against Legislatures and in favor of Executive usurpation, there is no more truth in die reported saving of half a million than there was in the silly story iu August that the war was to cost the people only ten thousand dollars. As we have stated, the State has but two ways of obtaiuiug money by taxes or loans. The levies of the last year are nut much more than half paid, aud every dollar she borrows costs her a dollar and a quarter. Indiana war bunds are now selling at 80c. or lass, and to sell these bonds obtain tue uiouet to pay the National tax (less than fifteen per cent, discount allowed by the United States; will require a sale of over a million of dollars, at a loss of s quarter of a million. The questiou can be worked by a simple rule of arithmetic: Indian owes, say $W),0W; to pay that, she sells her bonds to the amount of

The "Mfcg" turns out a 101 OH. C , a uc uw a ifuvCT nai ui uwuj vitiligo m iu- . Msr Tha Lecislature is hated bv "the Ex aeu-ive: he cnntiot forget the expo-tire of his 4tn in miration in the Tattle and M n -ur affair "P"". ejrf fears rfmilar expose in the nmnaireTnmit r t the military denartment mice. Tbit H mmkmm forced 'noon a. A session of the Legislature is estimated to coal Legislature is estimated to cost thirty thousand dollars, and that is the extent of all the earing that ran be made by refusing to call one The good a Legislative session might do is incalculable at this time. But, we will have a Legis a year hence in spite of all opposition. Democratic County tonimlion, Flov d Cot tt The Democracy of thiecounT t'r Convention on the 30th inst., and re I - A- II soiveu as ioiiows: On motion of R. M. Weir, the delegates to the Q. ' . .u o.v 'r i . e State Convention on the Bth of January nixt from j, county are instructed by tbia convention to use all honorable means to prevent the makiug V nomination by that convention or the aunpuon 01 resoinuons 01 a partisan cnaracier. and to prevent any indiscrete and hasty action by the same, and to procure an adjournment thereof to a future time On motion of M. C. Kerr, all Democrats of the county are appointed delegates to tbe State Convention, with power to those woo shall attend to determine among themselves who shall occupy seats in the convention. Baktholehkw Oousry The convention was held on the 31st inst., and the following delegates were appointed to the State Convention: Reason W. Prather, Samuel Taylor, James Howe Samuel Stuckcy, Cnl T. O Lee. Joseph a suitable candidate for Secretary of Stale, Oscar B. Hord for Attorney General and M. L. Brett for Treasurer of State. We quote from the proceedings the following: After the business was over, Hon. Joseph E. McDonald was introduced to the meeting, who made an eloquent address to the Democracy of the county, showing the cause of our great na i tional troubles, and that the only hope left was in the wisdom, patriotism and virtue of the Dem j ocratic party. He appealed to them to maintain the:r organization as the only hope of our preser ration. The stieech was received with great ap8t JfOT CovNTY DT. j,.., Mthi Stover. T. J. Garrautte. Robert Cook, William Taylor, and John Brownfield, are delegates from tlii- county to the State Convention. Hi NTiXGTox Coixtt John R. Coffroth, L. P. Milltgan, Geo. W. Helms, Samuel Emley. Samuel McCaughey, and Samuel W. Winter, are delegates from this county, and they are instructed to vote tor Dr. James S. Athox for Secretary of State. ForNTAijc Coi ntt. The Democracy of this county, at their Convention on the 14th inst., adooted the following resolutions: Resolved, By the Democracy of Fountain county, in Convention assembled: 1. That we are in favor of adhering to the time honored principles and organization of the r' y ' IT. T" th supremacy ot the Constitution, the integrity .f f Union, now so sadly impemlled by sectional rule. 2 Xhitt we are now M we ever have been devotedly attached to the Constitution and Union. that we cannot conseut to the overthrow of tl,e ü,,e 0 tb -olulion of the other, urs-n any pretext, for ativ cause, or under any circum gtancejl whatever. I . . C m. F . .'!. That we, as a part of the Democracy and patriots desiring a restoration of the Union, and a -ettletnent of the present unhappy difficulties wh-di wv m 0,ircountrVt JJ if N the duty of the Federal Government to tender to the war will unite the shive-holding States and drive r . - - r - from us every vestige of aid and sympathy m those States and make the Imnler free Suites the scenes of active warfare instead of the border slave States. And hereby approve the action of President Lincoln for bit modification of the Abolition proclamation and removal from r-ommanH (if Tpnr:tt .Tnllli O Vremont ami aim denounce immeasurably the recommendation of Secretary Cmeron for the emancipation and arm , s Uves. . ., . , - The o lowing selection was made for represen- . tatives in tbe State Convention. Delegates Wm. D. Kerr, George Glascock, James W. King, Isaac Ornhood, Charles Stafford and Harris Reynolds Contingent!" Joseph W. Newlin, John Wil1 nr vr . 17 .11 i..: r.... u inns, o m. mcrau, i iici jirf, iipw .u;wvni TV. ,7, aiiH IT .1 I - 1 . jrA tr wiiu a. . v . vnoi-vota. The following resolution was unanimously adopted : Rrtnlrrd, That the delegates from Fountain county be instructed lo recommend the Hon. Jos. Kistineto the State Convention as a suitable person for candidate for Auditor of State, and to use all honorable means to secure his nomina lion. Clark Cousty. The following are the repre sentatives from this county to the State Convention: Delegates Thos S. Bellows, F. H. C. Hon psms, M V. McCann. W. B. Hülse, John A. Bower, Fielding Coombs, C. P. Ferguson, Thos. J. Howard, James G. Caldwell, and Asa Abbott. Contingents. R A. Peck. Cornelius Bottortl', H. H. Combs, A. J. Fisher John Haulm, Kit Burt, Thomas Carr, John F. Read, J. G. Howard, and A. J. Work. Shklbt Coi ntt. At a meeting of the Democracy of this county on the 21st inst., on motion, two delegates from each township in the county were appointed delegates to the State convention, as follows: Jackson Jacob Mutz and Wm. M. Phelps. Washington Thomas Clayton and Wm. Patterxin. Nble Wm. Major and Edward Cooper. Liberty Aaron Lewis and Kimbal E. Midkiff. Addison S L. Vanpelt and Jas. M Sleeth. Hendricks William Shaw and E. L. Davidson. Sugar Creek John McConnell and Philip Hoop. Brandy wine Isaac Odell and S. J. Lewis. M moo Apolis Kinsley and Wm. K ister. Union John M Brown and John Gunning. Hanover J. G. Woll and Henry Buck. Van Buren George W. Davis and George W. Kimble. Moral J. J. Fowler and Francis Arnos. On motion all Democrat in the county were invited to attend as advisory delegates. The True Interests of Black and White. We commend the following considerations, which we copy from the New York Journal of Commoree. upon tbe true interests of black and white, to the careful reflection of all who have a just regard for the future prosperity and progress of the whole country North and South, East and West: While we are duseossing the aspect of the rebellion, and tbe means of suppressing it, we axe in danger constantly of losing sight ol the grand object of all government, the ultimate prosperity and good of the subjects. la our anxiety to remove the present, danger, we are liable to forget wholly th future. Some men have Uud down the doctrine that it were better that this entire generation of men should perish than that the rebellion should not be suppressed; and others have taken the next step, which is to assert that they would rather see the entire nation destroyed and the country plunged into one common ruin, than see the success of the Southern Confedersey. We shall not attempt to reason with those who hare gone to this extent of madness. But their insanity may well be a warning to all of us that in our desires and oar patriotic imj adsee we should not be led to overlook the great questions of the future good jf die nation. We make the remark now with special reference to the relations of slavery to the war, and the at temp which hare been made to substitute the abolition of slavery for the restoration of the Uoton as the object to be accomplished. The question which the advocates of this policy hare

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plaead before the American people is this: shall we restore the American Union as it was, with ikee States and with tbe slarery institution on touched, or shall we abolish slavery at once by popular decree, an I then fight to restore the Ueion without aleeervT This is the mildest way of stating the question. There are some men, some clergymen, even some respectable clergymen, who bare said publicly that they were opposed to tbe restoration if slavery were to exist in tbe Union! To such persons we have uotbiug to

saj. 1 bey are worse enemies to their country

than Southern rebels, because they tight to keep of our ability to make a business of putting down the States out, which their country is fighting to the rebellion, and to whip England for amusebrtiuf ia. j ment Acts always speaks louder then words . Hut we state tbe question as it occurs to however, and the acts of the Administration

the minds of some reasonable men. and to them we propose to submit tbe remarks we have to make. And we say that it is evidently more desirable that the Union should be restored with slavery existing as before, than without it, unless a form of labor be at the same time substituted, which shall save us from ruin We have not drifted into tbe folly of forgetting our principles, because there is war in the land. A year ago, no thoroughly sane man in America would have consented to a decree of absolute emancipation, if such a decree could have been msde. The reasons are unchanged. To restore this Union with four millions of unprotected blacks on the coun try, free to work or not, with their old men and wojnen, their sick and their children unprovided for, would be to curse the race with the worst abandonment they have known in their entire bu miliation. To restore the Union with the slave States suddenly deprived of the institution which has Ins been the loundation of their prosperity, and on which we depend as much as they lor the very prooucuons 'vnicu maae mem vaiuaoie members of the Union, would be to perpetuatetlie very evils we are now uufleriug. No blockade would effectually stop tbe export of cotton; no war would so thoroughly impoverish the tamiiies of tbe South; no degree of confiscation would so thoroughly annul the prospect of collecting for eign debts; 110 invading armv would so wholly depopulate the plantations of the South, and no devastation t-f the sword would so totally destroy

me soutn as a commercial cqrrrespoiHlent ol ; these two gentlemen, on refusal ot which deine North, and a purchaser of Northern com mand, Lord Lyons is instructed to ask for his passmodities. ports. This intelligence comes from a very high Let no man say this is a base and sordid view 1 quarter. A circumstance which gives it a color of a questiou of personal freedom. It is not so. ' of plausibility is that all day to-day reports have We say nothing in favor of the perpetuation of j been industriously circulated, (traced with a modslavery at' an in-uitution. If any man will devise era te degree of certainty to the State Department) a substitute lot it which will take care of the U the effect that that the Administration has black families alone, to say nothing of tbe white, decided that, if the alternative is presented of

he will do the age a service. But immediate emancipation is an idea that all of us regarded as the ruin of both black and white a year ago; and some few, in the excitement of war, have forgotten that sach emancipation by the war would be as fatal ic its effects as if it bad occurred in times of peace. M-n imagine that the only thing to he done is to make the blacks free, and that then they would be naturally employed as free laborers at a rite ot payment that would make them comfortable; and that the Southern countries would go on calmly producing and selling and buying as heretofore. The idea is chimerical. Tbe history of the world pro.es it. In no tropical country on earth will the human race work lor any more than the bare support of life, except on com pulsion; and unless the reformer can, with his emancipation scheme, introduce new and superhuman industry, economy, thrift and persever ance into the negro, it will result that he will not earn a support tor himself alone, much less for I113 family; that he will often beg, steil, or starve rather than work; that the old and helpless will be abandoned, that children will be cast out to suffer and die; in short, that ail the ills which attend poverty here will at once attach to ngro poverty there, and that the Southern system will change from oue of forced labor with good pay. to one ot no labor and no pay Men may well propose to take now, as some have proposed, a hundred or a thousand, ormany thousand negroes, and pay them wages for their labor. But will the same men take t nein, with their families, old aud young, sick and insane, and contract to furnish them, instead of pay in money, abundance of food, clothing, medical attendance, and the necessaries of comfortable life throughout life with all its chances? Who will make the proposal and agree to let the negro work as a freeman, and be the judge of his own hours and time, and leave when he pleises without carr iug his dependants with him? Philanthropic u em lernet 1 may send in applications for "contrabands," but they are very careful not to say an v thing about contrabands' wives and children; and old parents and sick sisters, and all their helpless relations Men may be willing to contract for the stout, 6turdy negro, who can do work and earn six dollars a month, but will they hire the old "mammies and daddies," and par them a support and clothing till they die? The proposition to make use of the war for the purpose of emancipation, is virtually to plunge the Sonth into the depths of poverty, of both white and black. What then, ia times like these, would be the desire of true statesman in managing the affairs of his country? Wo.ild he seek, as a means of putting down rebellion, to destroy the very country which is in rebellion, and with it destroy our own prosperity? Would he seek to plunge the black race into ruin with the white? The politiciah who does this is blind to all questions of public good, and must have his mind fixed on one idea, to the exclusion of all good reasoning. He would seek to restore the Union to its ancient prosperity. He would endeavor to bring back the revolted States with their institutions intact. He would treat slavery precisely as he would treat cotton growing. Both are institutions!, both are sources of wealth and prosperity; the abolition of either would abolish the other, almost if not wholly. But would he forever for bid cotton growing for the sake of frightening the cotton grower into submission? Would he forever forbid slave owning for the sake of com polling the slave owner to yield? In either case he would strike a deadly blow at the nation's prosperity. On the contrary, he would desire labor to restore the Union, precisely as it was, prosperous and having a vast population of happy whites and happy blacks, and then he would set himself to work to devise a war of ameliorating the condition of al! the laboring classes . .' men, and if he could find a substitute for slavery which would take care of the black race, he would urge its adoption, or possibly he would endeavor to remove that race from the lan 1. Who can douht that the American Union is more valuable with four million of slaves, as well cared for and well provided as they are. with the possibility of improving their condition, and, perhaps, substituting another form of labor for aboiute slavery, than it would be with four mil lion of free blacks roaming and poverty-stricken South? through a desolate The Kna-lisli I inbroglio. The intelligent correspondent of the Chicago Times presents the following view of the difficulculty with England, the position and action of the Administration thereupon and the probable result of the det iaud of the English Government for the surrender of M ason and Slidkll: In spite of the assertions of some of the Eastern journals to the contrary, there is a serious ap prehension on the part of the Administration of a war with Eugland. The news from England by the last two steamers is regarded by all the members of the Cabinet and by most of the members of Congress as significant of certain, inevitable war, iu case out Government upholds Capt. Wilkes, avowes his act and refuses to deliver up Messrs. Mason aud Slidell. It will be observed by the readers of the Times tnat the special organs of the Administration are careful to set forth as important the fact that the matter was not mentioned at ali in the President's message, and that thus the Executive is left free to act iu the premises iu whatever manner is best for the coun try now. The cunning astuteness of Mr. Seward is here disclosed. In the origiual drift of the message, the affair was related, and in terms that left no room fur doubt that tbe President and tbe heads of the State and Navy Departments cordially approved of the conduct ot Captain Wilkes. But Mr. Seward objacted to the affair being mentioned at all. He said there was no Itnowiug what complexion it might take; aud by assuming a non committal attitude theu, it would leave us free lo act as circumstau ces might require hereafter. Another curious fact in relation to the affair is tbe pertinacity with which the administration organs set forth tbe circumstance that the dispatches and papers which tbe Goverumeut hoped to secure with the persons of the rebel ambassadors, entirely escaped the vigilance of Captain Wilkes and Lieuienaut Fairfax, and were safely carried to their destination by Mrs. Siideii. This fact (so damaging to tbe reputation for cleverness of these officers, since it proves lliat they did imt naif accomplish what was expected of them) was carefully kept out of sight at first, but now it is blazoued forth as a very fortunate circumstance. The administration, speaking through these organs, virtually- says "Mason ami Slidell are uothiug to us. We did not oh re so much about seizing them. It was the papers and dispatches they carried that we were after. So long as we have not got the latter, it matters lit tie what becomes of the former. Wod not Fear the results of a war with England; bet ?uch a

w.tr would be a litt! inconvenient at this time. :i.ra we have much on h-ma" at home as we can attend to. If we can avoid this foreign war then, by giving up these men, it would be

to do so. ch. I say, are the real sentiments of the ad tion. So far from beine avowed, however. they are carefully concealed. Every member of the administration, from Uncle Gideon, who strokes his venerable beard with a fiercer air than is his wont, up to the Piesident himself, talks loudly of "tbe idle threats of Great Britain." and show that they do entertain the most serious apprehensions of a war with England. The letter of Mr. Seward to the Governors of the Northern States, some weeks ago, shows that he kuew, even theo, that such a war was by no means im probable. But it is tbe affair of the Trent that will apply the match lo the train, and, if the fire thus alighted be not extinguished by the efforts of diplomacy, the explosion will certainly take place. Very little has as yet transpired as to the exact nature of the dispatches from our Minister in London, which were received by the State De partmeut yesterday. This much, however, is certain; that the couise of our Government will not be affected so much by tbcm as by those brought to Lord Lyons by the Queen's messen ger. Mr. Adams's dispatches on this occasion, when published, will confirm what I have more than once said of him that he is very far from being up to the mark required of an American Minister at tbe Court of St. James. Mr. Adams has been unable to give his Government the slightest intimation of the tenor of the dUputc&es borne bv the Uueeu's inrmwaii The Government, however, has received from private sources intelligence which, if true, will lender it necessary for New York, Philadelphia, Boston aud Baltimore to be put into as com plete a defeuse as Washington now is, if the Government intends to retain Messrs. Mason and Slidell. The tenor of this intelligence is, that the demands f the English Government j are nothing less than the immediate release of a war with naigland or the surrender ot the rebel envoys, they will choose the latter as by far the least of the two evils. A gentleman whose relations with the President and Mr. Seward are of the most intimate character, said to day, after calling on them both, that Jeff Davis would desire nothing more ardently than that we should keep his Envoys; for that, by doing so, we would make it necessary for our own army to be withdrawn from tbe South, in order to defend our own seaports against a foreign foe; that to surrender the traitors Mason and BieMl would be a bitter dose for Old Abe; but that he was patriot enough to swallow a still more bitter dose, if bv doing so he can preserve our peace witli foreign nitions and prevent them from inter meddling in our domestic affairs. All these ideas aud suggestions are of course thrown out as "leelers,"' in order to ascertain how far the temper ot the American people agrees with the necessities of tbe administration. It is said that the French Minister has received no instructions from his Government in regard to the affair. However this may be, it is certain that the French Legation in this city is better in formed as to what the course of England will be than our own Slate Department is. The intelligence which comes here through well-informed channels intim ites that the recall of Lord Lyons, 11 that event laues place, wili not necessarily proj duce a war, but that it will certainly be iollowed bv the immediate recognition ol the independence of the Southern Confederacy by England, France and Spain, the raising of the blockade ol the Southern ports by the combined fleets of all thtee uaiions, and the seedy export in Freuch vessels of the tobacco purchased and paid for in Virginia months ago; and that a fleet of English merchant shiio will, at tbe I same time enter the cotton ports of the South under cover of the guns of their fleet, and remain there till they are loaded with the precious commodity. In this connection ought to tie mentioned a fact of startling significance. It is that a considerable decline in the price of cotton has suddenly taken place in Liverpool and Manchester. This fact, occuring at a time when tbe price of cotton was, up to that time, steadilv advanc ing, can only be accounted for on the supposition ' that the belief prevailed among the great cotton kings of these cities that it was considered cer tain there that the southern ports would, in a short time, be opened by decisive action on the part of the English government. I cannot leave this subject without referring to the enormous preparations which England has been quietly making for the last five months, apparently in anticipation of such contingency as present. 1 only need to refer to them, because the readers of the Times have been duly apprised of them from time to time. In Canada alone, Great Britain has now 20,000 troops, and their numbers are being steadily augmented. They are not raw volunteers, but regular troops, armed with the best modern weapons. The steamer Persia, and another steamer of the like enormous capacity, have just been chartered by the English War Office "to carry troops and cannon to America." From the Cincinnati Price Current, Dec. 25. rinanclnl and Commercial Nummary for the Past Week. The advices brought from England by the America, which arrived at Halifax on Saturday, and the Arago which passed Cape Race, and the unexpected return of Gen. Scott by the latter steamer, from Paris, have been the absorbing subjects of discussion for two days, and rather gloomy conclusions have been deduced. The general impression is that Gen. Scott, having perceived that there was great danger of a rupture with England, has returned to irive his advice and counsel, or that he has been placed in possession of important intelligence regarding the designs of the French Emperor, which can only be imparted in person. Il the feeling of the English people against the United States is as bitter and malignant as the leading papers of that country indicate, a war between this country and that is simply a question of time. Still we think it is not possible that an immediate war will take place, simply because England is not prepared for it on the one hand, nor does this country desire it on the other, and will use every means in the power of the Government to avoid it. The news had a depressing effect upon business generally, and merchants and bankers are greatly agitated. The question of suspending specie payments has been discussed bj the New York bankers during the week, aud it seems to be pretty generally admitted that in order to prevent the export of specie, which has already commenced, since ster ling exchange went up to 110, this m tut be resorted to sooner or later Importations of foreign goods will rapidly fall oft under the present state of uncertainty and insecurity, so that should the export of specie continue, it will be the result ol" fear rather than the laws of trade. It can not be denied that the cloud of trouble which has settled over our country grows thicker and darker, and the contemplation of the future sadder and sadder from week to week. The demand for money continues light and for short paper the market is easy at 10(0.12 percent. Long contracts are avoided. The demand for exchange has been moderate, and tbe market rules steady at premium selling rate. Au increased demand for gold, and rates are up to l prem. selling rate. We quote: Buying. Selling. New York par. 4 preru. Gold J"1" 2I prem. The specie in the New York banks is rapidly decreasing. Some has been shipped to Europe, bnt the great bulk of the decrease has been with drawn by depositors. The reduction of specie for the two weeks endiug last Saturday, is seven million dollars. Oo Monday, a bill reported from the Committee on Ways aud Means, increasing the duty on eofTee lc per lb, tea 5 pet in, m . lasse- 1 c per gallon, raw sugar o-- per lb, rehued do lc do, passed the House of Reriresencatiies, and wiil, no doubt, pass the Seunte. This increase will make the duty on coffee 5c per lb, on molasses 6c per pallon. on raw sugar 2lc per lb and tea 30c per lb. An advance has been established in all these articles more than equal to this increase of duty, partly iu anticipation of this, but more especialiy oWiuw to the anticipated war with England, which would stop our foreign trade effectually, and produce a large advance in the prices of all foreign goods. The positiv assurances given by the Secretary of the Treasury to the Kew York banks that there would be no war with England, consequent upon the Tre.it affair, excited an assuring influ ence iu business circles iu New York last week, but the news from England nud the return of Gen. Scott, to which we have already referred, have more than counteracted this. In the forepart of tbe week the temperature

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and since then has been as ta orable as i e been desired. Large receipt- anu the warm weather depressed prices to 43; t v hen I the weather :en me cool the receipts tell off, and (bis decline has, in part, recovered Yesterday the receipts were light and the weather good, but there was no life in the trade, and the market closed languid, at $3 10(23 30. The sales were:

300 averaging 2 lbs at 3 20 6) 176 " " 3 00 502 " 260 " - 3 U 100 - 215(3230 " 3 10 250 IMP " 3 15 150 " 340(3245 " " 3 15 350 240 ' 3 15 400 212 " " 3 10 250 340 " 3 30

The receipts for tbe week and tbe season have been as follows: Total for the week 68.8I9 Previously reported 213.8H Total for the season 32.700 Same time last year 263,363 M e s Pork declined to $9 in tbe forepart of the week, but subsequently advanced to $9 35 for the boat city brands, second class selling at $9. closing dull and heavy at these rates, and good city bran-is sold yesterday at $9. The demand has been chiefly speculative, though there bas bees a good deal taken for Canada and tbe East; the market closed heavy. Lard declined to 634(7c. the latter rate for prime, but the demand improved toward the close and 7c for prime in tierces and 7'c in battels were the rates asked, but at the close it was bought at 7c in barrels and 6JBc in tierces, and more sellers than buyers at these rates. The closiug rates for green meats were 2 and .T4e for shoulders and hams, and buyers not of fering over 3c for hams, at the close. Linseed oil is very firm at 75, under the advices from New York. Flour verv dull and hardly anv demand. Superfine $3 9u4. and extra $4 U5($4 10. The higher grades are not waoted, as the army de mand is for superfine. Oats declined to 39, and closed dull. Cora, 38. Wheat declined 3c vosterdav, and is dull at c2(::-5c for red and !7(a,"9 for w'hite. Whisky closes at 132. There was a good deal of buoyancy in sugar and molasses at the close, and an impt wed de mand. Molasses is now held at 45 and sucar 1 ,r higher, raw ranging Irom IU to choice parcels 11c is asked. 103,. ad ,ur Au additional advance of one cent per lb was established in coffee, since our last, ander advices from New York, where the specula'ive feeling continues to run high, based upon a great anticipated scarcity, consequent upon a failing oft j in the importations because of the risk inenrred I in the disturbed state of affairs between this coun : try and England ; and, not only this, but it is j stated that iu case of war between Mexico and ; Fiance and Eugland, the lormer will issue letters I of marque, and render commerce in English ami I French vessels in the South American trade, I more exposed than it is now in United States vessels. Prime Rio went up to 20c in New York and to 20?421c here, but toward the close of the w eek x.,v ot this advauce was lost in New York and :4c here. Still no important decline is regarded probable, and indeed what has taken place, is more the result of tbe rapid advance than any loss of confidence in present prices. Molasses and sugar are held with more firmness, as the stocks of both are small, and the demand has been a good deal better. A further advance has been established in prices of spices, and importers are selling sparingly at the advance. rat riotic and .Sensible Speech ol the lion. .Ylr. article of Virginiat4n the nited Mates Senate, upon theSlave ) Question. Mr. Carlisle (Va.) I imagine, Mr. President, that the Senate and the country, after the speech of the Senator from Kansas, will be convinced that the I'tesideiit of the United States has made a very frreat mis'ake. Bv the Constitution he is made the Commander in Chief of our armies, and he selects the commander who is to lead those armies m the field, and the mistake is that he did not select tbe Setiotor from Kansas as that com mauder. It is very easy for brave gentlemen in their private rooms, or on the carpeted floors of the halls of Congress, to criticise military movements. But, sir. I think there is one principle which, if not good military sense according to the Senator from Kansas, is at least good common sense, that is, that where the advantages of a victory would not half compensate for the dis asters of a defeat, we should hesitate long before we give battle. I believe if detested now, the consequences of that defeat would be more disastrous to the country than any benefits which are likely to be obtained from any impatient onward movement. I believe that tbe great bod v of the people throughout the nation are willing to rely upon the wisdom and discretion of the executive power, and lo wait until they are ready to move. But, sir, I was surprised to hear from that Senator that twenty millions of loyal people are unable to contend with the five millions now in re beilion, counting all the whiles in the rebellious States, wiUiout liberating the four million slaves in those States. Sir, that is a contess:-n of weakness. I am unwilling to make. We were accustomed to language like this a year or two ago, and it now comes from the same gentleman who told us then that these four million slaves were an element of weakness; the same gentleman who then laughed at the thre itencd dissolution of the Union, and said that the South could not be kicked out of the Union. Sir, this is an effort on the part of the Federal Government to suppress insurrection and put down rebellion, and while it is our duty to put down rebels it is equally your duty to protect the nnocent and unoffending citizens. You cannot wage an indiscriminate war upon the people of the slnTeholding States without trampling under if bot the sob mn obligations of that Constitution which binds tne Union together. I have sat here, sir, ane been mortified, and my heart has sunk within me in seeing the precious moments consumed in slavery agitation in this body. May we not reasonably charge to this unwarranted agitation of this question the very troubles which are now staring us iu tbe face? This rebellion had its origin in motives beyond and outside of this question of slavery. 1 know it has been used as a pretext by those who originated this rebellion, iu order to obtain the physical power necessary to enable them to attempt the accomplishment of their unholy purposes. If this is to be a war for the liberation of slaves, it will not be a constitutional struggle for the maintenance ot the Union and of the rights of the people of the States under it. But it will be a war ft; the overthrow of the Constitution; it will be an n. human and unholy crusade against American constitutional liberty. Convince the loyal people of this country that this is not a struggle for constitutional liberty, and not for the Union, but that it is an effort to prostitute the powers of the Government for the pnrpose ot de stroying the rights of the people of the States, and depriving them of all rights guaranteed by a common Constitution, formed by a common ancestry; convince them that your army is to be turned into an army of negro thievej, and you will see that army disappear as rapidly as the snow melts away under a Southern sun. The charge was made wheu the attempt was made to organ ize this rebellion, that a person has been elected . who would make war against the Constitution ! and the rights of the people under it. Establish I this line of conduct, wnich is now sought to be ; inaugurated in this chamber, and you will make that charge true, and you will alieniate the hearts ! of loyal people all over the country. This is an honest struggle, and an honest Pres ident teiis us that it is not to oe prostituted into a i j war upon the rights of the people in the States, i I and not to be used to rob and plunder citizens of I their property acknowledged to he such by State ' authonty. But it is to be, as it was originally declared to be, an effort to put down wicked men who hare banded themselves together, and used iU ,innr ,,f the Slate (Govern ment. afainst the oeoDle. which had been placed in their hands in a time 01 proiouna peace w oc usco ior me uuiic cood. If the Union is ever to bt restored, it is to be done through the action of loyal people in the rebel Slates. Relieve those people by vour 1 armv and vour Uniou will be speedily restored. But if you attempt the exercise of an uuconstitu tional power, by tbe liberation of their slaves, you will strike dewn every loyal man in the .davcliolding States, and there will not be one left to tell the story of the Union. I am willing to trust to the President as an honest patriot, who told us in the beginning, and who tells us now, that, by virtue of his oath, lie must preserve, pro tect ami defend the Constitution. Mr. Lane (Kansas) Do 1 understand the hon orable Senator to express the opinion that it is the constitudonal duty of tin.- Government to main tain the slaves of rebels and traitors in arms, and restore tbem il they escape? Mr. Carlisle My opinion as to what the duty of the Government is goes just as far as its constitutional obligation, aud no further. At the time of the adoption of that Constitution twelve States were nominally slaveholding. and the ex igeucies of the times demanded thai they woald

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e slave w h :. JltM ho wicht 1 I , uld :x a:' was the duty of the iron to deiiver to his owner, whether lovai r re e . ie other band, I should the duty of the araiy . I ve enlisted in Hst cause I still, and I hold it lo citizen to whey the laws not a sarin tkat t net reardOui eittt' ' - ho h of our Country as citiien be tbe dutv of every gOo! of th land. From the hour we sat lure, met I bid posed to aid by such constitutional ie .1 t.ne exigencies ot tbe coen ing peace to this distract delayed with anti l.nrerv t resolutions, aid rations, at d com as one man to aid the Kepubac in death struggle, we ate to h come here as partisans and sect tons list Night ly party caucuses are called, weave Senators sad Representatives are engaged in plotting for party success, although it may he over the prostrate men humanity, to say nothing of parioUsn. would hart suggested that in the midst of the scaae by which we are surrounded, the croaking voice of party should have been hushed Sir, I know no party but the party of die Union, no cause but Jie cause of my country, ami I will attempt by no doubtful war power to abolish institutions secured by plain constitutional provisions. I have perilled all all. You can not realize what it is to separate from friends, from kindred, from sec t ous, and from early and dear associations But the path of duty was on the one band, and feel ing on the other, and I did not hesitate to uke ray stand And if gentlemen from the non rlaveliolding Suites would but talk to their constituents who have I ase it in in no offensive sense cr.uy notions on this question, and if they would risk hut one tithe as much as the loyal citizen- of the slaveholding Slates have done to correct public opinion, we would have an era of good feeling that would give peace to every part uf this dis tncted country. Mr Carlisle closed by asking what would be done with the four million slaves? contending that it would be barbarous to send them out of the country, and claiming that Sens tors ought not to throw obstacles in the way of the loval men of the South. "Ulnar) iteuss. The Indianapolis correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette is responsible for the following: Brigadier General Duroont has been ordered to Bacon creek, and Brigadier General Wood, now acting Major General, has assumed com mand of the forces at Bardstown. He has about 10.000 men, which number is to be increased to 30.000 An order was, or will be issued, from the War Department at once relieving Gen. Smith of his command at Paducah, Ky. His loyalty is sua pected. Dr. Samuel Charlton, of Sevmour. is appointed Assistant Surgeon of the 6th regiment, vice Parka, resigned; 0 S. Rankin. Quartermaster of the 10th regiment, vice Steele, promoted; and J. K. McCoy is Assistant Surgeon of the 49th regiment IxniAXA ArroiXTniNTs Alfred Curtis, of Indianapolis, has been appointed Second Lieutenant of the 19th regiment, regular army, and George W Armeutrout, of the same city, Acting M Nhiptnan in the navy. Col. Brid gland s second Indiana cavalry which left Indianapolis a week : r ten days ago, to come by land, has. we bear, gone into winter or some other ouaiters. near Bedford Ijou. Democrat. A Naaaow Escape. A late letter from the ; 25th Indiana regiment sa thst Col. Veatch had been taken a prisoner by the Secessionist while absent from h;.' command on a tour ot observation , but had been releise I through the representation of a rebel who had known Colonel Veatch in former years, and who, for the sake of "old acquaintance," concealed his rank and persuaded tbe Secessionists to let the Colonel off. The Kvansville Jnttrnal says hat he had a narrow escape, and will doubtless be more prudent in the future ,V. 4. Ledger. A correspondent in yesterday's Jottrnal, writing from camp Hamilton, near Fortress Monroe, under date of December 30, 1861 , states that an attack had been made upon our men by armed negroes. Seven hundred uf these Africans, he says, are in tbe field in that vicinity, ready to do bloody execution upon the soldiers of the Union. This is outrageous, and, as tbe correspondent truthfully remarks, is a new feature in the war. Let these negroes be captured at all hazards, and immediately emancipated and degraded to au equality with the correspondent of the Journal. Col. Jeff. C. Davis, now acting Brigadier General in Missouri, has been ordered to Washington to resume his former position, that of Captain in the regular army. Dr. O'Farrell, of Lafayette, has been ap pointed Surgeon of tbe 40th regiment, and Cpt. F. A. Jones Assistant Surgeon of the 2d Car airy. Capt. Harris, tbe Quartermaster at Louis ville, has ordered twelve hundred teams to he ready at the earliest possible moment for the field. That looks as if Gen. Buell meant busi Brig. Gen. Wood has been assigned the com mand of the division that will move forward from New Haven, Ky. The Journal reports the arrival of Gov. Morton in the city back from Washington. His great achievement dcring his absence is stated to have been the procuring the acceptance of the Indiana Arsenal by the General Government. GovMorton has done well. This is about the fifth trip he has made to Washington for this purpose and when he returned the first time we announced it accomplished. We fear very much thst he will have to go again with reference to the Arsenal. Colonel Wheatley, of the 36th, is in thecity looking fine. The Louisville correspondent of the Chi-ago Timet get off the following: Something unique in the matter of "taking the oath" came to my ears the other day. It may not be more authentic than the story of the spy related above; yet as it possesses, like the spy story, merit independent of authenticity, I'll e'en give it to you. Immediately Iter tbe loinbardmeat of Fort Sum ler, there were (so runs the story ) some fifteen or twenty men in and near Franklin, Indiana, who were rather Southern in their feelingsdid not keep pace with the general public indignation. They were regarded as men of doubllnl loyalty, and their neighbors having gathered in stromr force, armed to enforce the demand, required them to take the oath of allegi ance. 1 here was no room for dodging, and they swoie to support the Constitution. "Time rolled on." Fremont was removed from his high rom mand, and some of the rery patriots who had thus administered the oath to tbe "Southern sympathisers" grew obstreperous. Tbey declared they would seize their guns, repair to Washington, and depose Old Abe. "Now's our time," said the semi secesh; and, suiting the action to the word, they armed themselves with shot cutis and rifles, and, having "surrouuded" a number of the excited Fremonters, they made them "take the oath " If this is all true. Franklin mast have an "oath -bound" community Nine of the Colonels of Wisconsin are acoaesd of taking $1,000 etch from the agents of railroad companies to give the roads represaated by said ageno the transport uo of their men We have the names of all these Colonels, and shall publish every one who ahall be convicted It is a shame that men should make merchandise of patriotism. The Colonel Terry who was killed while : commanding the Texas regiment in tbe recent engagement nt the Oreen Kiver Bridge, it I tuck;. , it is -aid. by those who are familiar with the people of Texas, to be a brother of Judge Terrv who killed Senator Broderirk. EjtrmsflioF QranrEMtASTEa. Habt The Lafayette Courier says: The exchange of yuarterinster Hart, of the 39th Indiana, for Lieut Grimes, captured at Hat teras, has been arranged. Mr. Colfax has been endeavoring to arrange an exchange of all the 30th Indiana (risoners for rebels taken at Hatte ras, and is sanguine of partial success. Captain M. C. Garner, Assistant Brigade Quartermaster, bas been ordered by tbe War Department to report himself at Louisville, and we presume he wili be rl aaewUy stationed ban. AaarcxiTio. No leas than one hundred and forty fire tuns of ammunition wan received in this city on Sunday and yesterday by tbe Cm niiinati niil VmU. Ijom Jour. 4