Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1862 — Page 2

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J t.M'AKV r, The Inion it must be preserved. Oenecrattc Inlon täte Convent At a called meeting the Democratic Suae Central mauw J m aaaniioously raatoleed, in pursuance of the ms-honored Swage 1 of the party, that the Demo-racy of Indiana be requested to appoint delegates to a St ate Ce -renüon to !e Held on Wednesday, the KKiRTH DAT OF of tke country and adopt oea action In regard to the nomination of candidates for State efBc r. to be elected in Ocr nest, as may be deemed aftvuaMe. The Committee i a basis of representation m the Convention, that oty ih uld be entitled to one delegate for every two hundred and fllty rote cast against Mr. Uscoui at the Presidential election of 1M0. and one additional delegate for every fraction of one hundred and twenty-live rotes and over. The Committee cordially invite all cithtena of Indiana to participate in the election ofdelegatea to the Convention, and to take part In tta proceedings, who are opposed to the political policy tthe present Adwiinistrati-rti all who are m faror of tke . establishment of the Colon an it waa and the lupremacy of the Constitution aa made by the fame r of the Republic By order of the Committee. 9- ti. PAUIEK, Chairman. Indianapolis, October ft UC1. The following is the apportionment of delegates to which each count) it entitled: E1.K.ATKS 4 13 S 10 1 5 4 Lawrence Madison - 8 Marion 15 Mar. hall Martin 4 Monroe 6 Montgomery 1 Morgan Newton 1 Noble ft Ohio. 3 Crawto'dDaviess-. OrangeOwen . . . . 7 . 6 . ft . 4 4 . T . ft . ft . ft . 7 . 7 . 3 . 8 . . 1 . ft . 3 . . 6 . 10 . 3 . 3 . ft . ft . 10 . 5 . ft . 7 . ft . ft . 4 . 3 . 4 .640 Pike Delaware . Dnhnt..... Elkhart. .. Payette . . . Floyd Fountain . Fulton.Franklin. Oibann.... (traut Greene. .. . Hamilton Harn -on.. . Hancock. . Hendrickf Henry Howard. . . Porter. Posey Pulaski Pntnan Randolph Ripley Rush Scott Shelby Spencer Stark St. Joseph Steuben Sal'traa Switzerland Tippecanoe Tipton Union Vanderburgh..-. Vermilliou Vigo Wsbash Warren Warrick Washington. Wavue Wells White Whitley Huntington 6 Jackson H Jasper. .. . J Jefferson.. Jennings. . Knox Kosciusko Lagrange. . Lake La porta . . . Total From WnnHington. It gives i; great pleasure to state, according to the latest accounts, that Washington is still sate, and that the President and his Cabinet are in :i high state of composure in view of impending events. The army on the Potomac has not yet made an onward movement to Richmond, and it is now occupied, as it has lcen for the last six months, in watching the Capital. Affairs in Kentucky. In reference to the reported advance movements of the Federal army in Kentucky aud a sanguinary battle at Green River, the Cincinnati Gatelte of yesterday remarks from information derived from the "highest authority:" "There has been no advance on our side; no attack from the enemy, and of course no battle. Further, it is not probable the Federal troops will move forward for two weeks to come. General Bcell returned from Green River to Louisville ou Wed nesday. where he has since been quietly attending to his business." A Republican Witness). The Cincinnati Commercial is very indignant because we published a communication referring to the causes of the war and says " the meanest lie of the age is that the Republicans party made the war." Judge Campbxlx. a man whose integrity has never been questioned and whose statement has never been disputed, says the three Southern Commissioners left Washington in April last with the assurance of Mr. Slwarf that F i t Sumter should be surrendered. If this understanding had been carried out in good faith it is not at all probable that the rebellion or " revolution," as Mr. Seward and the Commercial terms it, would ever have assumed its present magnitude, nor would it have been attended with the frightful cost of blood and treasure which has already followed the war. In retard to the causes, character and probable results of the fearful strife in which the Government is now engaged, we desire, for tbe instruction of the Commercial to produce the opinions of Mr. Seward, the premier of the Administration and the brains of the Republican party. In his instructions to Mr. Adams, the Minister to England, dated the 10th of April, three days before the fall of Fort Sumter, and the day the Southern Commissioners withdrew from Washington, Mr. Sxwahd used these precise and remarkable words: "The President willingly accepts the doctrine a- 'rue, that the Federal Government c;m not re duce the seceding States to obedience by cou quest:" And adds: "Only an imperial or despotic government could subjugate, thoroughly, diaaffected and insurrectionary members of the State." H thinks the only remedy a National Convention "to remove all obstacles to reunion," and dei-fare-;: "The- President will not aggravate existing evils by attempts atcoercitm, which must isrun e the form of direct war against auy of the revolutionary SLites." In the light of this policy and the deliberately expressed opinions of tbe Pre ident in regard to the attempt to "subjugate thoroughly disafl' ami insurrectionary members of the Sute," we inquire of the Commercial whether it is injuring the oaue of the counry to discuss the causes of the war, it effects upon the Government and the means to be employed to terminate it? Does tlie Commercial regard Mr. Li.voln "a scoundrel" for publishing, "in these times," the policy and opinions ot the Administration in April last and which furnishes no pleasing picture of the future to tlie true Republican ami patriot? Causen of the War. The Cincinnati Commercial says that if "a man ot ordinary intelligence" charges "that the Republican! made this war knows that he is cweolatinp lies which are cilculated to injure the cause of his country," aud for publishing them ' is scoundrel." Iu the same paper wr find a puff of Tu m low Weed in connection with the republication of one of his letters from Europe. This same Mr Teed, who has long been one of the most prominent landers in the Republican aud Whig parties, discussed the causes of the war and attributed them to the perversenes and short sightedness of the leading Republicans. According to tlie Commercial's standard of judgment Mr. Wtrn nvist therefore be a 'scoundrel" ami haseir culatnd "lies" "calculated to injure the caue of Iii country." That ihe recollection of the Cammer cmi may be i sti asBai1 as to tbe fact, we copy the following in reference to Mr. Weed's opinions from the Chicago Timet. Thurlow Weed ooce in a while blurts truths which are miserably unpalatable to his partb trieuda aad agtjr testimony against tbera when they are brought up for trial before the country, for example, certain party friends of his have bean arriving with all their might to ca.-t from their own shoulders all responsibility for the commencement of the war, and fasten it upon southern secean.-n leaders. Right here let us pin them with testimony of Mr. Weed. We presume no one denies that it was in the power of Congress which met ou the first Monday in Decemlier, 1MB, to avoid war. They could have avoided it by tbe pasoagc of either the Crittende.i , or Bor

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or sny similar proption- Mr. waa ist I t vor of tlie pis .ge t some bat he could og oi these sets ot propositions. induce oht party mends in them, the spirit by which Congrats to my of them were an i mit ted having found expression in a letter of one of their number iu the words that "thia Union would not be worth a rash with out a little blood letting." It wis after the war had begun, and after Mr Weed had comprehend ed something of its prospective magnitude, that iu bitterness of soul, he uttered this testimony against his party friends. "Congress adjourned having done and said notn'ng to strengthen and the Union men of the Bonier Stutes. K The great and powerful Sutes ol u-giina, North i Carolina and Tennessee were lost to the Union, I while three other States, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, are struggling to maintain their positions in it, because trie Republican press aud the Republican Representatives were beguiled into the popular idea that they (discharged their first and highest dutv in standing on tbe Chicago Platform." Dispatches have been sent all over tbe coun try, saying that the amount expended abroad for Arm since the rebellion, is fÄ.oou.iK". I fiis ran hardly be true. Such an expenditure would involve an aopalling amount oi profligacy and theft. The loregoing we copy from the editorial columns of the Cincinnati Commerciol. We inquire of that print whether the Republicans who have been guilty of thia ' profligacy aud theft,' would not be scoundrels enough t bring ou a war for the purposeof robbinz the public treasury. The Constititiox and the Union mi'st Fall or Stand Togethe. In 1HÜ1-2 Daniel Webster uttered the following, which furnishes a lesson for the times: "If I have attempted to expound the Constitu i lion, I have attempted to expound that which I j have studied with diligence and veneration from i my early manhood to the present day. If I have endeavored to defend and uphold tbe Union of ) States, it is because my fixed judgment and my unalterable affections have impelled me. ami still ; impel me, to re-rani that I nnm ; the only se curitv for general prosperity and national glory. 1 es, gentlemen, the constitution and the Inton: i 1 plare them together. If they stand, they must ' stand together; if thev fall, thev must fall toSpecial Correspondence of tbe Chicago Times, iron Washington. Mr. Seward Settlement of the Trent Cane Sew ! and Perplexing Qiientian ready to arine with ! England (' ntuccetsfttl attempt of Mr St tcard to procure Jrom nnymtf some routruenf for the Surrender tre hare made Faint prospect of m change in our Foreign Relation Washington, December 30, lUl. The telegraph here has sent all over the coun tjy the Hiiiio'iin ement that the Slidell affair has been settled in a maimer honomble to this country, and that by this settlement a war with Lug land has been averted; and, furthermore, that tin.' terms of the settlement are a matter of congratu lation on every hand. You will remember that some mouths ago the telegraph here was placed under the surveittame ot the Government, and nothing allowed to pass over the wires that was not approved by the Government. A Government censor was appointed, under whose eye all dispatches hud to pass. By the orders ot the Government he suppress .' everything that would have convex ed to the public anv intimation that the Government had met with any rev rse, either in the held of battle or tlie held of diplomacy. Mr. Raymond, tue editor ot the New York Timet, has nlaced it upon record that on the night following the battle ot Bull Run he wrote a dispatch to his paper and placed it in the telegraph office at Washington, announcing the true result of the engagement, and that the Government suppressed it, and sent to the country instead the statement that the result was a victory. The same tiling has been done on nutnl-erless ocsasions since. The telegraph here only sends such intelligence as it is agreeable to the Goernment officials it? read. Hence the announcement alluded to in the beginning of this paragraph. Tlie Trent affair is "settled" so far as it in the power of Mr. Seward to settle it. But no sooner has this question been disposed of than anoth er springs up in its place, which will prove equal lv perplexing, and may result in what England hoped, would result from the Trent case, namely: an open rupture with this country. I refer uow to tbe closing of the harbor of Charleston with unken vessels filled with stone. England, hav ing taught us one lesson in international law, is now about to teach us another. Such is the tone and language which one now hears in all the totetgn legations in this city. Truly, never was the national flag trailed so low in the dut as at present. It is now openly declared here, on good authority, that the English government regard this unique mode of destroying a harlior in which ev ery commercial nation on the glotie is interested not only as a palpable violation of international law, but also as a confession on our part that we have not the ships necessarv to maintain such a blockade on the southt-i n coast as is alone recognized by the laws of nations as a valid and effectual blockade. It is said that the Rritish Minister here either has now, or will have very soon, in structious from bis government to announce to ours that toe former can no longer regard the southern ports as blockaded in the manner required bv the rules of international law, namely: bv tlie actual presence of ships of war; and that they intend to raue tbe blockade forthwith. It j is said also that this announcement is to be made ; jointly by the repre-entH lives in Washington of j the three grett powers of England, France and Spain, all of whom have a joint interest in the matter. I need not say that this arrogant tone would never ha e been assumed had it not been for the unconditionn' surrender of the Confederate Am bassadors at the demand of England. There is a great 'is)al of feeling excited by this unexpected termination of the negotiation The members of the Cabinet, particularly Welles and Cameron, assume a confident tone in defence of tlie act of their colleague. The papers suppose-1 to be in the support of tlie Administration do the same. But almost all the 'members of Cougress, and all the leading men here from all parts of the countr , condemn the indecent haste aud shameful i alacritv willi which we have been made to crim e before the horrors of a foreigu war. It is no ecret here that, in the conversations which to.,lt place before Christmas between Lord Lyons aud Mr. Seward, the latter endeavored to obtain from the former some equivalent for the great concession which he intended to muke. The letters of Lewis Cass and Caleb Cushiug had proved to a demonstration that we weic justified in seizing and holding the rebel envoys. The brood of the nation was up, too. There is no question that the whole American people would have rallied to the support of an administration that had manliness enough to rayiet an arroguut demand that would never have been made liad it not been for our internal distractions. Thus fortified, Mr. Seward agreed to give up the rebel envoys, provided England would accede to the American doctrine on the right of search, and would, furthermore, promise not to interfere iu the contest between the North and the South. But Lord Lyons insisted that what tlie British Govern mem demanded was the unconditional surrender of the men who had been takeu from under the protection of her flag: and he would make do terms wh never with Mr. Seward. And ou this basis the affair has been "settled." It is no settlement, however. The only effect of Mr. Seward's meek acquiescence in the arro gnnt demands ot England will lie to convince that nation that we are too we tk to resist any demand tint she may see proper to make nnon us. The readers of the 7'imrs may depend upon it, we have not vet seen the end uf the affair of the Trent. You will be glad to leirn that the expediency of making a clean sweep of all onr foreign Ministers, aid supplying their places with men qualified for the business, is being seriouslv talked of among tbe members of the Cabinet The proposition for making the change is said to have emanated from a Western member of the Cabinet, the last man in that body, indeed, judging from his position, who would be suspected of wishing to meddle with foreign affairs. But the shameful manner iu which tlie country is represented, or it. her misrepresented, in all foreign nations, is now Ke-on, utr -o painfully evident that no one can be blind to it. This in another of the sin for which the Seretaryof State will have to answer. That functionary, by the way, is making a fine record for himself for the future historian His eagerness to lop off the right arm of our naval strength by offering to give up the right of privateering Iiis appointment as foreign Ministers of men ignorant as babes ot the very elements of diplomacy his obstinacy iu refusing to acknowledge that we are at war, or to accord to the Southern States the rights of belligerent even so far as to exchange prisoners his letter to the Governors of the States, poblishins; to the world tbe defenceless condition of our eaporr town, and regarded iu En. i and as a meuaie and a threat and to crown all his unconditional surrender of the rebel envoys solely ou tlie ground of present expedieucy ; these, to use the mildest form of expression, ara not the marks of a great statesman. It is a singular tact that the-.e are a

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You meet them everv w hare: .it Will.ird's. on the avonoe, in the galleries of tht balls of Congraja, at the restaurants and at the reviews. It if aaausing.jor it would be it it were not irritating, to hear tem ulk afoul the Slidell affair. They believe that Britannia rules out only the waves, but the land also, and that whatever demands she makes will be "cheerfully" accedad to by Mr. Seward. Tlae Trent Af I ai r Specimens ef Lofty ;md Ground Tumbling. We orescent, for the instruction of the render as . ' 1 ' ' ' few specimens of a wonderful change of opinion upon issues of public policy and international law. i which could be extended so as to include the Republican press of tbe country generally, if proof j of that kind was necessary to show vith what fa j cility the apologists and supporters oi the Ad- ' ministration can jump from one extreme to another to adapt themselves to the exigencies and j circumstances of the day, without reference to the principles involved therein: THX SURRENDER OT MASON AND SLIDELL ABSOLUT!LT OUT OF THE QUKBTIOX. From the New York Herald, Dec. IT. The surrender of those notorious traitors, MaI son and Stldell, into the hands of England, u 6 folutcly out of the question. It is difficult to be lieve that England will disgrace herself by a de- ! mand so utterly impossible of fulfillment as this. land, as an ultimatum, so extremely offensive. ! Limited as are our ideas of the dignity and bon I esty of the British Government, it seems to be absurd to suppose that upon a shallow pretext -lie can be prepared to plunge into a wasting, profitless and dangerous war, as the ally of the most scandalous rebellion in the historv of mankind THE RESTORATION Of THE REBEL EMISSARIES MR. SEWARD DIXTHAROES 11 IS DU TT WITH 8AOAC1TT, DIQXITT AND DECORUM. From the Herald, Dec. 29.) The ultimatim of Engliuid upon the Trent affair, iuvolving fee restoration of our rebrl emissaries Mason, Slidell, MacFarland and Eustis to the protection of the British flag, ha heen acceded to, and the clouds of a foreign war which were gathering, flashing and muttering iu our eastern horizon have vanished as suddenly its the m'-mic thunders and lightnings of the stage. The official correspondence, facts and arguments on both sides are before our reiders. The record of our Gov en i Dient is clear, consistent and satisfactory. Mr. Seward has discharged his duty in this matter nith eminent ability, tiagacity, diguity and decorum. . MK. LINCOLN WILL NEVER MAKE REPARATION OR APOLOOV . rFr-m the Iii i lade I phi a Press, Dec 1ft. On this subject one sentiment is as good as a hundred. If we know the feeling of the Presi dent, the Cabinet and the people, the required apology and "rejwratiou" will be made never! What Captain Wilkes did was justified by the law of nations, by the law of England, as laid down by Lord Stowell and other of her eminent jurists; and. more than all, by the practice of England. Under such circumstances we hesitate not to say that, sooner than humble the nation by yieldiug to the insolent demand oi imierious and faithless England, we shall yield to the last neces ity, and battle with her on the question. MR. LINCOLN ALWAYS IN KAY Ott OK REPARATION AMI APOLOtiV. From tlie Press, December 30. It is well known that when Mr. Lincoln was informed of the arrest of the traitors on board the Trent, he anticipated the trouble which has grown out of this proceeding, and signified his w illingness, rather than increase surrounding per lis and impending difficulties, to send them forward ou their voyage Even amidst the acclama lions that applauded the act he declared that he regarded their capture as utterly itisignificaut in comparison with the great interests that miht be damaged by their imprisonment. He has now taken the responsibility, and he will be sustained for doing so. CAN NEVER BE SURRE NDERXD. From the H. T. Times, Dec W. One can easily see how the matter may be so handled as to make infinite mischief. But it can hardly be expected tint our actions are to be influenced by any such factitious consequences. On the other hand there will undobtedly be a good deal of genuine smirtin under what may be looked upon as an insult and an injury. Let us allow something for this. It is just to leave a margin tor tci-ling natural to a proud ana imperious nation. Local sentiments and associations are always more potent thanaeneral con victions. But, m iking due allowance for this, we take final stand on the acknowledged rectitude of our position. If popular passiou is to be allowed to contravene a right in the law of rations, we accept any issue that may result. Of course the status can Hktt be re-stored the Confederate emissaries can never be surrendered. THE ACK.NOWLi.DQED RECTITUDE OF Ol POSITION A MYTH. From the Times, Dec 30 Mr Seward's masterly dispatch demonstrates very clearly that, whiie we might have justified the act oi Captain Witkes by British precedents, it would have been at the expense of the great principles of maratiine law to which the United States have always adhered, and to which tbev would long since have secured the assent of the whole world, but for the opposition of Great Britain. Those principles are worth to us a i thousand-fold more than the persous of Mason j and Slidell. If- O . 1 - . .1 jir. otw ako s :oug argument ui ine case amounts to nothing. No result is accomplished by it. England demanded the surrender of the "four gentlemen" upon the ground that their arre-t had been made under circumstances which violated maritime law and insulted her flag Our Government surrenders them under this demand, or after an intimation that such a demand would he nude formally. The British Minister receives the "gentlemen," regardless of tlie motives or considerations which influenced our Government to surrender them, and without being committed to auy construction which our representative placed upon the laws of nations or tlie oast issues I et ween the two Governments. England has gained the oint she made, the surrender of the prisoners taken by violence from tinder the protection of her flag by nu American armed vessel, and we have surrendered them without any concession on the part of the English authorities to the construction we placed upon the issues iu volved in our past controversies upon national rights or to the reasons which we presented as having induced their surrender. The result is that we have gained nothing, and we lose the reliels not only, over whose capture there was such great rejoicing, but at the same time our national self-respect. Taxation in the Future. The Chicago Time says: "Hitherto the most onerous tHxes have been for State, county and I local purposes. Ttie taxes for Federal uses have been imperceptible, because they were indirect This will not lie so hereafter. To meet the future permanent wiuits of the Government, tbe Secretary of the Treasury estimates that at least two hundred and ten millions of dollars will be neces sary, only forty millions ot which will be from in i direct taxes. The remaining one hundred and seventy millions must be raised by direct taxes, . and it is proposed that this shall be done by a levy of one er cent, on all real and personal I pro -er ;v and six per cent on domestic manufac I MMs. fll addition, it is suggested that, for contingencies, a poll tax af one dollar on each voter ! shall be levied. Taxes will, altogether, be some thing to think of in tlie future." DaAfT the Negboes. There is one way in which Congress could get rid of the offensive petitions which tbe nigcer-tus Republican-Abolition ist are sending to that body. Pass a law requir lag the signer of every free nigger petition to be drafted into the army, and made to perform guard aud picket duty iiics.-.uiti, and allowed to hold iutercovirse with no no one but niggers. This would rid the national legislature of a dirty nuisance Tliese nigger vorshipers are not in the army to any extent, unless holding commission, and some plan ought to be adopted whereby they could be compelled to render the country a service, instead of being a disgrace to tlte age tbey live in Macomb Eagle. .1, aviso, Cou.tTT. In the proceedings of tbe Democratic Convention of Jennings county, as published iu the Sentinel it should have appeared that, upon motion of Thomas J. Riley, tbe dele gates were inetructe.1 to vote as a unit. By accident thi- motion wns overlooked by the Secre tary who reported the proceedings for publication in the Sentinel.

OurArmjr Csrrenpondrncr-Tlte Fenr seventh Indiana, at tioum Tht Thought! off n aldicr. Roncrr. Dec .28, 1 Ma Editor: You kept your proeaiasi am sorry ss much can not be said of all your profession. Would inform you how tbe Phillipiaus received the compliments paid them in my letter, but our regiment left before they were advised of my kmdne-4 toward them. We were sorry to quit our comfortable quarters for the uncertain accommodations awaiting

us here, but if wa were sorry then, we were both sorry and angry upon our arrival in Romney, where we are slowed and packed away in dirty ami disagreeable holes, recently quitted by the lowest order of the late inhabitants of this vil läge. The capture of Romney has been three several times chronicled by the press of the country, but you must excuse me for saying a greater falsehood has never been uttered. We have now Quartered in and around the i

town a largt force with none "to molest or make is spoken of as one of the most eloquent meu of us afraid,' but nevertheless, Romuey is uutaken, any age or generation, but unfortunately bis uncaptured, uusubdued, but remains as disloyal towering genius was of little avail to himself or as before the sound of the first Union musket country. He died of dissipation, was echoed along the river bank and through the I Bardatcm also boasts of able and eloquent dimouutain gorges. The men of stout hearts and ! vines, among them Rev. N. L. Rice, Bishop Da-

I strong arms are gone to swell tbe ranks of the j vis. Bishop Flaget and Bishop Spaulding, and secessiou army, but the old and feeble, the wo- ; this is the birth place of Bishop McGill, of Rich j men and children, remain to hiss reason in our mond, Virginia, and whose family yet reside ears, and insult the Union soldiers with sneers i here. The celebrated John Fitch, from whom it , aud taunt.- which make the blood boil. Tbey ' is said Fulton derived the idea of steam uavigai severally occupy their respective homes, and if tion, is buried here. His will is among the re j an Uuion officer or soldier seeks a lodging or j cords of the county. This is also the native place j meal, although ready with Union gold to my for j of James D. Nourse, author of "The past and its ! It, the doors are rudelv closed, except b such as Legacies" a work which proved him a philosoa . . . J n . . A I. I I VI. l.S anas.

are dnveu oy want to receive you. -no tney ao u pner. tie wrote several otner works ol notion, with an insulting apology, that it is ' humiliating "The Fitt Knight, or Early Times in Kentucky" to them to take boarders," reminding you at the ' was his. He removed to St. Louis and was dis same time of their departed aristocratic ele tinguished as an editor ot the St. Louis IuteUigengance cer, where in 1854 he died ol cholera. John Why are people suffered to remait. in honses, ! Young Brown, the young man eloqueut. reprejostly forfeited to the Government, when they are ' sented this district in Congress in 1859 and i860, wanted lor protection to soldiers without tents? J He is sharing in the hopes and fears of the South and why are they suffered to say it is a disgrace I em Confederacy and may share in its destiny, but to feed an Union soldier for pav, even, and re j his historv is yet to be written. Louis Phillippe

main unmolested? Why this great tenderness for the families of men who swell the ranks of the rebel army? There is a better time coming. Ger.. Reynolds has been appointed to command here, and when he arrives he will understand a soldier's wants t.nd know how to provide for them, so long as he has Hoosier soldiers and Hoosier bayonets to enforce ins commands and demands. The verv house which shelters me while this is written, is kept by Mrs. Canfielo, whose husband, a Connecticut Yankee by birth, is now a rebel Captain of artillery, and retreated from the town when our troops entered. Their youngest child, a boy about eleven years old, when asked where his father has gono, replies, "Down in Dixie, fighting the Yankee? " and the very bread which hi wile and children eat is bought with Union puld Htid the house which they occupy is protected with Union bayonets, while miserable accommodation is hired to Union officers at the rate of $4 M ier week, and at that rate, the very fire wood which is burned in the house, for all purposes must be furnished them by the hands of the Union soldiers, and without charge Instances might be multiplied until this letter would be lengt'.iened too much, of families in like condition. Why not occupy such houses by our troops, and give to both officers and men the opportunity of comfortably providing for themselves? But as bus already been remarked, there is a better time coming, when a due and proper regard to the wants of our soldiers, I such as a common humanity prompts, will not be I regarded in high places, as cruelty to traitors und ; to the families of traitors. A time is coming when Union soldiers will not ' be told by a Provost Marshal, clothed with a j -little and very brief authority," that he has t beeu invested with his office expressly to protect priratt property, the private property of men who ! would cut our throats. When will the pubiic ;.nind I be educated to the point of declaring to those in . . - ft. k L. I 11 power tnat "traitors nave no ngnts wnicn suouia or ought to be respected." Such things as exist here are enough to dampen the ardor of Union soldiers and OkMOVaCt them in their efforts to putdown rebellion and protect the Government but again let it be said, "there is a better time coining." This country for many miles around abounds in all the products necss;iry to subsist an army, but if rumor can be believed, passes have lieen given to parties to dnve their cattle beyond the lines of our army toward the enemy, that they mav be out of the reach of the Federal soldier, and serves to feed our enemies. It is also currently reported that persons taken with arms are only required to take au oath, tobe allowed to go their way again, under protection of a pass from the authorities, tlie old fare again, of "swearing the rattlesnake not to bite anybody and turning him loose." Does anybody believe that the Confederate authorities would allow such men to respect such an obligation, forced uhii them, even if tbe parties themselves were inclined to do so? But wait a little while and a change will occur traitors will be treated as traitors should be and the Union soldier will feel tint when he risks his life to capture a rebel, he will have some other guarantee than an oath; that he will not be required to do the work over again then will he spring with life and zeal to the contest, and always return from it victorious. Hut enough of grumbling. The signs of the times indicate that the Gov ernment must disavow the arrest of the Confederate Commissioners and return them, or else Great Britain will take a part in the contest. To disavow that Commodore Wilkes was directed to make the arrest, is easy enough, if the facts war rant it, but return Mason and Slidell to a British vesael or to the Confederates never. As a Government we should always have the courage to do what is right, however often it compel us to acknowledge our error, but we should not even do right upon threat of compulsion. A distinguished Kentuckian once said: "Heoould not be compelled to say he loved his own mother, but would promptly give the lie to any one who denied that he dkl." The application is easy. The English Government, with many professions of kindness for the American people, stillsmarts uiiC'T the recollection of two unsuccessful wars with our people, and for years past has manifested an increasing jwdousey of our growing power and prosperity. We are regaided as the rival ol England, and when English pride is hurt and English cupidity assailed, we must expect an English growl. True it may reluctantly be followed by a declaration of war. but disastrous as a foreign war at this time might be, better let it come thai, forfeit our self-respect and the respect of the whole world for our nationality, by the surrender of known traitors into the hands of anti-American sympathisers, and that, too. under compulsion. The very act of surrender would givegreater impetus to treason and greater continence to traitors than a dozen "Bull runs." Better stand bv our I position and our principles, let success or defeat J follow, and if perad venture defeat shall follow, i let us feel that we have at least maintained our eif reapOBt and are entitled to the respect of the i civilized world. Such is my say. iou are not asked to endorse it. Yours, Ate., Hoosier. Our Army Corrcsion(lencc - Bards town, Krnturl.) , ftjo Attra.ctiansa.nd Historical Keiniiiiacencen Bardstown , Kt , Dec 25, 1861. Editor Sentinel: Bardstown is one of the most remarkable places in the Weht, famous for its eminent meu, fine churches and educational institutions. From inquiry I learn that Bardstown was lo cated in 1788 by the Legislatureof Virginia. St. Joseph College, a Catholic Institution, was incorporated in lf24; its patronage has been derived principally from thj Southern and Western portions of our own country, but materially also from Mexico, France, Spain. England snd Sonth America. It was founded by Bishop Flaget in 1819, and is now under the control of the Jesuits. Senator Foot, Joe. Holt, and other men of national celebrity were educated at St. Joseph. The church of the same name was one of the first Catholic Churches established in the West a magnificent structure ornamented with fine paintings by celebrated European artists. Naxareth w as founded iu 11Ü and incorporated in 1829; it is perhaps the largest leuiale school in the West ..ml under the control ol the tsisters of Charity. Its building is situated two and a half miles from town on the railroad. The buildings are iarge and commodious and the location one of the finest I have ever seen; connected with the college is a tract of land of about ene thousand acres. The records ef this institution allow the D imes of many of Indiaua's daughters. There ift a brauch of Nazareth in town. There is also a Methodist Female Academy located here both these institutions are even now in successful operation. The Bardstown Female Academy, a Presbyterian cfcool, at a acts deserved attention by its extensive and commodious buildings nd beautiful situation, but the school is temporarily suspended and the i admirer of the external beauties turns away with

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ii the corpse of one voung, xajfele and no) . . -ra ve, in battle and beautitul in de.th. The St. ThosHU Orphan Aftyluoi ind Tfcooiogical Institution located three and a half aeles from town, is also a Catholic Institution, aad at tached to this also is a large tract of land. Wh v do we not improve by tlie suggestions ol our Ca'holic friends and learn that human nature can never learn to love mere brick and mortar? Besides all these there other respectable educational institutions in and near this piece. The bar of this place has had roan of the most ' skillful lorensic gladiators ol Kentucky and some - excelled but by tew in this conntrv. Amopc them and prominent are Felix Grundy, John Pope, John Rowen, Ben Hardin, C. A. Wickliffe (the present member of Congresa) Governor Helm, Benjamin Chapey, Joe. Davis, John Hays, and John Allen. James Guthrie wa born in this county, was educated and studied bis profession here, but early in bis professional career moved to Louisville, where with great and knowu success he has continued to reside. Allen a:d Davis both fell in battle, Davis at Tippecanoe, and Allen at the river Rasin. Havs died about the vear 1830. was in Bardstown several mouths during his exile from France. A large portion of the citizens of Bardstown and the county, perhaps one third, are Catholics, mid by far the most loyal, were formerly Whigs, but during the lawless "Know Nothing" tirade united their fortunes with the Democratic party, where they still stand. Tlie people generally are quiet iu reference to the rebellion and not disposed to violate the laws, but I think a iarge majority of them, to say the least, are Southern in their feelings, yet there are many warm Union men and some very active. Bardstown is a very pleasant place to live and whether native or denixen. permauent resident or temporary sojourner, any one may be thankful for an abiding place where there is much of interest and much of kindness and hospitality. Respectfully, J. V. Blmis: w r k Democratic C ounty Conventions. MoNTooatERT CocsTY. The following gentlemen were selected to represent this county in the State Convention held in Crawfordsville on the 21st December: John Britton, Joseph Allen, D. A. Shannon, Alexander Harper, John Corbht, James Wilson, J. F. Harney Andrew Loop, Levi Curtis, Wm. Walter, Wm. C. Vance. SPKNcaa County. The Deraocracv of this county at a Convention on the 21st December, selected the following gentlemen delegates to the Sute Conveution: W. B. Richardson, J. W. Lemonds, J. P. Jones, R. S. Hicks T. H.Lvnes. J. J. Cavin.H. G Barkwell, W. II. Blount, G. H. Balsley. John Pullen, R. L. C rosier, C. Jones. Thompson Blunt. H. Yerhoeft. Seth Barrows. W. H. Daniels, Green B. Taylor, Edward J. Evans, W. L. Kanzler, Michael Wagoner, Joseph Wiaman, Wm Rust, Michael Sp.ud, Joseph Gentry, J.M. tirillith. Dr. Alsop, James H. Martin, Dr. J. f. Gualtiiev, M. C. Jones, John Wollen, Jake Snaid. and Dr John Hohl. IIaruisox County. The following resolutions were adopted by the Democracy of this county, at a Convention hold on the 28th December : Risolred, That we recommend Hon. Benjamen P. Douglass as a candidate for Auditor of State, as a gentleman well qualified for that position. Rctoloed, That all Democrats of this county be appointed delegates to the State Convention at Indianapolis on the 8th of January. Clay County. At a meeting of the Democrats of this county, held on the 28th tilt . the following delegates were appointed to the State Convention: G. D. Teter, A, Donham. J. M. Ellington, E. Cooprider, U. M. Thompson, John B. Neea, Joseph Dial, W. F. McCullotih, E. Pressnell; and M contingents J. H. Modi.mtt, D. Wheeler, J. T. Foreman, R. Horton. J. Murbar-:er, 8. Stigler. W Slack, A. W. Knight, F. B. McCul lough, and James Ferguson. The following resolutions were adopted. Reolr,ed, That all Democrats attending the State Convention from Clay county, are hereby duly authorized as delegates. Resolved, That it is tlie duty of every Demo erat in Clay county; it within their ability to do so, to patronize, first, their home organ, the Clay County Dcmocrut, and secondly, the Terre Haute Journal, und the State Sentinel. Franklin Colntt. The Democracy of this county met on the 21st December and appointed a large number of delegates to attend tbe State Convention. The Democrat says: The call of the Central Committee brought a goodly number of the noble-hearied Democracy of old Frankiin together on Saturday last, al though the weather was cold and inclement E erv town-hip in the county was represented by a good and true Democrat. The proceedings were characterized by great harmony and good feeling, giving unmistakable evidence that whilst the lie) uulican party is broken into factions, the Democratic, the good old party, taking for its guide the Constitution and the laws, is still fresh and vigorous and making preparations to hurl from power those fanatics ami one-idcad men, who now, in a great measure control our Go v ernment. Sullivan Cocxty. The Democracy of this county held their convention on tie 21st of December, and selected a number of delegates from each township to atteud the State Convention. The following resolutions were adopted: Whereas. The Abolition wing of the present Administration and of Congress favor the emancipation and arming of the slaves, as a means of suppressing the rebellion; therefore, Resolved, That we as Democrats, loving the Union and the Constitution above any other consideration, condemn such a policy, and will never sustain the Administration in its execution. Elkhart County . The Goshen Democrat says of the convention held in this county on the 28th of December: It was truly a representative convention, being composed of t ie most reliable men in the ranks of the Democratic party, and to a great extent of old citizens and of farmers whose only interest in political matters is to secure a faithful and economical administration of public sflairs. It is a peculiarity of the present movement for mainturning the organization of the Democratic party, that it is everywhere the work of the people and not of politici ans. The following are the delegates to the State Conveution: John D. Elsea, Matthew Rippey, Ira B. Woodworth, Samuel R Miller, David Logan, Sr.. O. H. Main, James H. Schell and John J. Gunner. From the series of well prepared resolutions which the Convention adopted we extract the following: Resolved, That we view with the worst apprehensions, the attempts of certain demagogues and politicians, to convert the present wai for the L'nion into a crusade against the institutions of the South; that all such projects should be met by all Union loving and conservative men at tht threshold and crushed in the bud; that we consider abolitionism a twin brother of seceviomsm, and the advocates of that doctrine equally with the rebels of tlie South, enemies to the Government. Resolmu, That the proposition to am the slaves of tbe South, is an insult to every Ameri can citizen, and especially to tlie brave men who have sacrificed the endearments and comforts of home to to forth and battle for tbe Union; that he adoption of a course so barbarous would be an acknowledgment to the world that tbe white men of the loyal States do not possess strength and patriotism sufficient to enable them to pre serve the inatitutious handed down to us by a noble ancestry against tbe mad attempts of recreant sons to destroy tbem. Resolved, That we invite the Union loving and conservative men of all parties, who are in favor of the prosecution of the war fot the sole purpose ol' preserving tlie Uuion, and who are in favor of

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am national affairs, to unite Srith us Tipto.N Cocttt. The democracy of this -county met the th uaeember, snd adopted tbe following resolutions: Resolved. That the safety of tlie liberties of this nation depends upon the maintenance of the Constitution of the United States as a sacred in strument, by strictly enforcing its provisions, aud limiting the sphere of the Federal Government to the powers conferred by it. That beyond this the Federal Government possesses no power, and the exercise of power not delegated to it, is treason to the people. Resolved, That we view with alarm and indignation the exercise by the present Administration of the power to arrest privat citizens without legal process, convey tnero to prisons iu other and distant States, confine them without a charge or hearing, aud denying them a public jury trial; to violate the freedom of speech and the press, and the Executive suspension of the writ of habe a orpu The Constitutional guarantees ae personal liberty, the freedom of neecb and the press, and the right of the writ of habeas corpus, are necessary to the existence of a free Government, aud without them we are slaves. Resolved, That we are opposed to the emancipation of the slaves in the Southern Slates, either by the action of Congress or that of tbe military power, upon cay pretext whatever. That the ; consequences of emancipation would necessarily 1 be the Africanization of tlie South and the destructiou of iu political aud commercial value, the inauguration of a desolating servile war, and fillllo. tili .irthril Ssr .fiw m-itli a .1iImia.1 ,.nirr,i ' popolation, corrupting the morals of our jeople. increasing our public burdens and cheapening and degrading labor. Resolved, That the attempt to compel our gallant army, wlio entered the service of their coun : try animated by the high, patriotic determination : to lay down their lives if need be for the maintenance of the Constitution and the restoration ' of the Union, to fight for tlie mere purpose of freeing the negro and the consequent enslavement of themselves, should meet with an emi phatic protest from every true man. Resolved, That one great mea:s of restoring I pence aud prosperity to our destracted countrv ! lies in the extinguishment of the Abolition party i of the North, and in disregarding and crushing j out their suicidal policy of making this a war for ! the negro instead of the white man. Retvlved, That every Democrat in Tipton I county is appointed a delegate to, and is requesti ed to attend the Democratic State Convention to meet at Indii i apolis, on the 8th of January, Io-J; that the delegates .-o attending, are author ized to select the delegates who sit upon the floor of the Convention, and direct and control their action. Wabash Coukty. The Democracy of Wabash county met at the Court house in Wabash ou Wednesday, January 1st. lHi2, and organizedby calling A. M. Early to the chair, and appointing John McCrea and J. C. Osborn as Secretaries After appointing delegates to attend the State Convention to be held at Indianapolis on the 8th of January, 1H;2, and a county committee to serve for the ensuing year, the following resolu tion was read and unanimously adopted: Resolved, That we will support this or any other Administration in sustaining and preserving the American Union so long as war for that purjsse is carried on within the limits of the Constitution, but we can not sympathize with Abolitionism or secession in any section. On motion, it was resolved that as we have no county paper, that tlie proceedings of this con veution be published in the State Sentinel. Hancock Democratic Convention. In pursuance of the call of the Democratic Central Committee, the Democracy of Hancock county assembled in mass Convention, at the Court house, in Greenfield, at 10 o'clock, P. M., on Saturday. January 4th. lt-6'2. The Convention was called to order by Montgomery Marsh, Esq, and upon his motion James Tyner, was appointed President, and Elijah S. Cooper, John 1 Banks. Samuel Barret and George Tague. Vice Presidents. On motion, George M. Sample, and Bryan C. W alpole, were chosen Secretaries. Montgomery Marsh explained the object of the meeting to be to appoint delegates to the Democratic Union State Convention, to be held at Indianapolis, on the tth of January. On motion of James L. Mason, two delegates from each township were appointed, consisting of the foJIowing persons. Blue River Township Augustus C. Handy, and Simpson Chandler. Braudywiiie Township John P. Banks and James Tyuer, delegates and Wellington Gallier, and A. Potts, contingents. Brown Township Thomas Collins and M. Marsh, delegates and James Dougherty snd Wm. Garrell, contingents. Buck Creek Township John Collins and Joseph Wright. Center Township James L. Mason and B. W. Cooper, delegates, and Levi Learv and Jacob Slifer, contingents. Green Township Elijah S. Coope." and David Keller. Jackson Tow:,ship. Noble Harrison and Burd Lacey. delegates, and B. F. Caldwell and George W. Sample, contingents. Sugar Creek Township Keuben Barnard and J. B. Lipscomb, delegate-, and Robert Brown and Earnest H. Fout, contingenVermm Township. Wm. Caldwell and Richard Stakes. On motion, every Democrat in the countv who ! mny be in attendance at the State Convention may j be advising delegates. On motion, the delegates were instructed to cast the vote of the county as a unit. On motion, the delegates were instructed to cast the vote of Hancock county in tavor of W. H. Talbott, of Marion county, for Treasurer of State, and Thomas D. Walpole, of Marion coun ty, for Attorney General. Ou motion, a committee of one from each township was appointed to draft resolutions. A. B. Shaw, from the committee on resolutions, reis ted the following: The resolutions are omitted for want of space in our columns. It was ordered that the proceedings of the conventiou be published in the Greenfield Sentinel. Hancock Democrat, Indiana State Sentinel and Cincinnati Enquirer. Whereupon the convention adjourned sine die. JAMES TY" E R , President. E. S. Cooper, J. i'. HavkSaml. Bakkett, Georue T agues Vice Presidents. GWe W. Sample.) or.t. Bryan C.WalpoU, Henry Count)' Demorratiritonrriition Tlie Democracy of Henry county. Indiana, met in mass meeting m the Court house in Newcastle, on January the 1st. 1862. The meeting wa organized by appointing Mr. E T Hickman, President; John Hunt, Sol. Carter, Vice President, and L Fnrley, Secretary. The object of the meeting was then explained by Colonel E. Johnson, to be for the purpose of appointing delegates to the State Conveution to ! be held at Indianapolis on the 8th inst , to noni i inate candidates to fill the vnrious State offices. Mr Johnson discussed the momentous issues of the day in an able, eloquent and patriotic speech. The following gentlemen were selected as delcates to ti e State Convention. F. Hoover, J H. Ice.D. Milikan.C T. Gongh. . and E. Johnson, and as contingents, E Kesler, J. Smith. J. Pearson, Jesse Paul and W. L. Brown, which was adopted. On motion all the Democrats of Henry connty were declared delegates, who should be in attend ance upon the Convention. The following persons selected a Central 0m ! mittee to serve for one year: I George Deer, E Milikan, E. Cooper. J. Melle, Alspaw, Gc.wge Tarvin, If. ' Mowrer, James Beard, George Whitelev, C. T. Gough. John Stanley. George Ball, F. Hoover, ' Nick Mowrer and A. W. Bowslong. On motion it was ordered that the proceedings be published in the Richmond .hfrrtoman an-i State Sentinel. L r aki.ky, Sec y. Tlmt Secret Society. Tbe Indianapolis Journal makes a lame and impotent attempt to sustain the imposition it endeavored to practice upon the public in charging that secret societies had been organised in this city snd elsewhere for treasonable objects. It professed to know positively, that such societies were in operation, and more than this, that the names of members were known to it. We stated that if it had such information the editor oMttat print was under obligations as a good citizen to make public that knowledge. We again call np on the Journal man to publish the evidence that such societies are in existence in the places where he savs they have been organized. If he conceals such information, provided he has it, be becomes equally guilty with the parties whom he charges being organized for objects hostile to the Government, and treasonable in purpose. There is a crime of misprison of treason, and if the

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MTesees to hatfftbe is saiswiable to rutushment irr UrnU otfwse. We call epoo the Journml prcan r. U) tin charge, or thev nil bocome disgraced in the public et. malum tor Publishing an itilamou slander, mode out of hole cloth, for malicious rmrposes, which h.va-i.ot yet tieen developed. This is tlie dilemira of the J oir mal. and it caa not escape from eaeral nemnation unless it makes rood thn revel which it published ss true of its owi knowledge. The New Albany the Journal Now we must be permitted to say that this looks to us verv much like a monstrous emmard a tremendous piece of humKiggerv, gotten to serve some purpose vet ucknowu It is unroaI sonable to suppose tint suet a society . ha .ng for I its objects such unpalnotc and unlawful purposes, couid exist in so many difleteui places I fkhoat being at once exposed in me one of them. So tar so the osBocraüc party are con I rented, the attempt to render it odious by conj necting it with such secret society as this is pretended to be will be futile, if, indeed, such an at- , tempt is to be made at all. Our readers may remember that a few weeks ago it was charged that numerous lodges of the Knights of the Golden Circle existed in Oh'-o. j But when the facts were investigated this was found and admitted to be II humbug. Such we j believe, will be the result in this case But if i anv persons professing to be Democrat have been, or are, engageo in stich treasonable work us i- .''.ere charged, we hojie they will be at once exposed to the gae of the world, so that they may he known and shunned. No such meu can be. or will lie. permitted to speak for the Democracy or fellohip with them Military Items. Col. Willich has buried fourteen of his men up to this date, since his fight on Green river. Since Gen. Dumont issued his proclamation at Bardstown, Ky., Gen. Buell has iniued a General Order, prohibiting proclamations or other similar addresses to the public, by Generals or other subordinate officers in his Department. Tut Lati Fight at Allcchkxt. Wc give the following letter, published in the Logans port Pharos. It seems to be an impartial account by a soldier : Chxat Movstaix Si mit December 15, Ml. f Axon Chilcott Dttr Brother: 1 received yours ot the 3d to day. I was glad to I tear from you. and to know that you were all well. 1 am well, but almost worn out with fatigne and expo sute. We have just returned from the bloodiest battle that has been fought in this campaign. We started at 4 o'clock P. M. to stuck the rebels on the Allegheny Mountain, about thirty miles distant. We marched to the Green Briar camp, where we halted until 11 o'clock P. M . when w again fell into line, and proceeded ou our long and tiresome journey. Our force consisted of 1 Mi) men, and no artillery. Tne ;th mihI two hundred of the 3d V irginia attacked them in the rear, ander conmand of Colonel Moody and Major John Milroy. General Milrov attacked them in front with part of the 25th and III Ohio and 13th Indiana We attacked them on Friday morning about eight o'clock. The 9tn charged on them aud almost reached their breastworks, when Captain Madden of Company A, who was landing the charge, tell mortally wounded. The rebels then opened fire on us so furiously that our Colonel ordered us to fall flat on our faces, which suved, I believe, hundreds of lives; not witluitanding. several ot our men fell, some killed and some wounded. The fight lasted six hours, during which timet we!. e of our regiment were killed and about bitten wounded. The Virginians fought bravely and suffered considerable loss. I suppose the entire loss on our side iu killed, wounded and missing, will amount to one hundred and fifty. Several ol our bovp fell within a fe feet of mt. It was a horrible sight indeed The balls flew around as thick as hail. J. Hanta and I both escaped unhurt; but perhaps we are only spared until the next engagement. Let this be as it may, I am ready to follow the stars and stripes up to the cannon's mouth or into their forts. I felt that I would fall when we were advancing, for I did not see how I could escape their balls. They shot well, and had we not fell down we would undoubtediv have been kilted, I think. The rebels lost more men thau we did. We killed two of their Colonels and number of their officers. We were obliged to retreat tlie best we could. The rebel force was shout 5,000 We never closed our eyes to sleep from Wednesday night until Saturday morning at 4 o'clock. J. Chilcott. The great American eagie has come out of the Slidell controversy like a chicken cock after a rain storm head down and tail half mast. Eranrritle Journal. We concur in the above and will add that it looks like a whipped cock with his comb feathers up, squaking with fear and hunting for a place to hide in. Terre Haute Journal. The regiment of Col. Mullen is comfortably quartered in the large building of Keyt A Strader, on Water street, where the rest of the regiment will be gathered just as soon as the companies are full. We regret to learn that Col. Mullen's health has been poor for a few days; he is now, however, better, and is addressing himself with vigor to tlie completion of his command. Madison Press, 1st inst.j The Etansrille Journal say; "Col. Bndgland's cavalry regiment, on its way from Indianapolis to Kentucky, did not stop at Bedford for the winter, as reported. It is moving, and will strike the Ohio river near Leaven worth." -Cheebimg News. A special dispatch, dated Washington, January 2, says: General McClellan is better this m-'irct-g. He sits up and attends to important busine. Gun. McClella s Disease. Gen. McClel lan's fever is a bilious remittent one. His physician thinks he will be iu the saddle in a fortnight. A Purr rom McClella. A Washington correspondent of one of the newspapers says it is known that Joe Johnson frequently said, within a tew years, that McClellan had more elements of a great General than any other man in the army. Faox Foktsbs Mo.nrox. We make the following extract from a letter to the Lafsyette Courier, dated Camp Hamilton, Va., December 29. miü This Sunday morning, about 6 o'clock, as the Newport News boat was on her way to tlie fort with a schooner in tow, and about half way be tween the two places, she observeda gunboat, u king it for one of ours, and paying little or no attention to her, until, to the surprise of all hsnds, there came a shot from her directly over the b w of their boat, then another directly over her, between the chimney and pilot house She cut loose from the scliooner in order to save her self, when a third passed over her stern, all with out any damage. Those left on the schooner put off in tbe small boat for tlie shore the gunboat coming up and fastening on to the schooner and taking her off a prize This seems strange work to be perpetrated in the midst. 1 mav say, of a powerful fleet and almost under the guns of one of the strongest artificial forts in the world, but it is nevertheless a fact, as it was witnessed by thousands of others as well as myself Then the fun commenced. One and then another, snd firmllr in all eight gunboats gave chase, ami for sn hour or more the tiring was very interesting. But the bird had flown, and perching herwe'f under he guns of Sewall's Point, bid ours defiance There were some two hundred f hot fired in all, and the dam age not worth mentioning. So ends another of their sharp tricks. Fail particulars nay vary some from this bet not much Ixdiatva Tnoors. Indiana has now in the field not less than sixty six thousand men. There are thirty regiments in Kentucky. Th entire number in the field exceeds our quota by 31,000. Ito other State iu tlie Union has done as well. Bully for Indiana Lmf Charier. Stewart's cave try companr, now utidei command of Capt Kirtly, is Ideated at Point Pleasant, a small town at the month of the Kanawhs, in Western Virginia. Liewtenaut A. G. Crane, tot snarly oi tht i dinnapolb Guards, and recently of the Kith 1 1 j dna, his, we learn, been tendered a Captaincy j in the regular army. Cashibwv d Si asae EaaroacK Tbe Pres ident has restored Surgeon Kew of tbe 7th Indi ana, cashiered for selling whaky belonging to tbe hospital stores, to privates, the evidence of crim inal intent being considered ttianmeiem.