Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 February 1863 — Page 4

WEEKLY SENTINEL"

MONDAY, - - - - FEBRUARY 'J. For the Iadiana State Sentinel. Oar Count ry Peace the Unly.ncan of lrerviij jf tiie I'nion. MinsRi. Editors: War U said to be the "relic of a barbarous age," and yet we find ourselves, though boasting of a bigh state of civilization, ngnged iu a war characterized by deeds of savage Teri;e uice. Ke:ison is dethroned, and the worst passions- of the human hexrt rule the hour. The cry tor blood in ibia as;e of Christianity comes with a bad grace, and yet we find thoe in our country who still insist on war and all jta attendant horrors. To them the carnage of the battlefield, the s icking of cities aDd the cry of those made homeless by the devouring flames 19 unwonted pleasure. For all such there is a day of fearful retribution a day when the voice of an injured peuple will cause them to tremble and hide tuemselv2a iruru threatened danger. This warof ours is unnecessary. There never existed a cause for its coranienceuient. The plea hat it was commenced and is still waged to maintain the. supremacy of the Constitution and the Union never justified it. War wiil ntver secure thosuprtmacif of the Constitution nor restore the Union. The declaration of war by the Congress of the nation against the ephemeral Confederate Stales only made disunion possible. The Confederate States, left to themselves, would have fallen into ruin of tiieir own weight. The acts of secession were not the acts of the great majority of the people of the seceding States. The majority were in favor of the Union and the Constitution, and thai majority would soou have hurled from power the conspirators against our national unity. H id wisdom prevailed in the counseU of the nation, it would have saved millions of treasure and rivers J of blood, aad the Uuiou to-day be what our lorefathers made it. The appeal to arms and the threatened coercion only aroused the pride of the Southern heart and united the loyal and disloyal in a common destiny. The South and the .North are dependent upon each other, and one cannot prosper without the other. That alone, if war had not followed the acts of secession, would have com pelled a unity of the sections. Interest will more nations and compel friendly intercourse. It has always done so, und ever will. In addition to that, we have a common language, and are linked together by the. strong ties of consan guinity.- These f icts of themselves, compel reunion, and mike separation without war impossible. The history of the world furnishes no example where a people having a common ancestry, peaking- the same l.n;uae and worshipping- the same God, (where there was no great geograph ical barrier) ever divided on the same territory into independent and separate nationalities. Ours is a common ancestry, anl in the revolutionary struggle the blood of the ancestry of the now con tending sections mingled freely upon every battle field; and Liberty and Independence were baptised in the common blood of the North and South. They needed no new baptism, and would have stood the shock of traitorous arms and laughed to Fcorn those who attempted their overthrow in the destruction of the Government. If the union of the States is desirable, (which all must admit,) then pence is the only means of securing it. Two years of war has doue nothing toward a restoration of the Union. It has only widened the breach between the contending section. It may ne continued for years, and millions of human beings sacrificed upon its bloody altar, and yet the day of reunion will be farther off. Est luli.-h l'eace. and the restoration of American nationality is a necessity. Hence the cry for peace.! It is no longer treason to favor peace. Wbj is it that still demands bloody war, and deligbt in its horrors! None but those who inaugurated it. When will they learn that the people demand peace above all things? The cry of thoagtllant army of the republic is. Give us peace. Inquire of the ick and wounded soldiery -in the hundred hospitals, where grim-visaged death reigns supreme, and the cry of the sick and dying soldier is. Give us peace! Visit the heartbroken mother, who baa given her only sou! Go to the house of that widow, with her fatherless children,- whose husband has fallen a victim to the chances of war, and their cry is, Give us peace; and such is the nation's cry. AH are longins for that happy day when peace will gupplant the horrors of war and fraternal blood no longer stain the common soil of our once great republic. Will those in power not heed the public cry for peace? Will they not heed the widow's wail and the orphan cry? Will they still insist on more blood, and still increase the nation's sorrow? ' Will the still insist that the hand of war shall hold blooji revel, and that servile insurrection, fire and s.vord shall convert the land of the free into a modern Golgotha? In the name of liberty, what have not the party in power done? In its sacred name they have forged yokes for freemen, and made them pubject to a tyrant's whim? In the name of the Constitution they have trampled upon its most sacred provisions, and made the tryrant's plea of necessity paramount t' it! In the name of humanity they have made the bondsman free only to in crea?e his burdens Give us peace, and then will follow that for which it is alleged the war is being prosecuted, and save the nation deep humiliation and an ignominious death. Give us peace, and American nationality will be secured and the proud republic of former times put on the high road to that destiny which is ultimately hers. Randolph. Itusli Connty Democratic Conventian. On Saturday last the Democracy of Rush assemble in Convention, and with three rousiu; cheers adopted, without a dissenting voice, the resolutions we give below. The meeting was presided over by George Hibben, assisted by twelve Vice Presidents, and addressed by E. C. Hibben, R. S. Spboule, E. P. ScHLATta, E. R. Moffett, Hon. R. D. Loo ax and othen:. . The Democracy of Rush county in county meeting u-enibled, teisserting and reindorsing the time-honored principles and measures of the Democratic p.irty as authoritatively proclaimed and enunciated since the days of Jefferson, and especially the principles and doctrines embraced in the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions and address of 1 7IS 1J. do, in view of the present crisis, further ei.unciate and declare: 1. That the Federal Constitution and the Union of these States were formed in a spirit of concession, conciliation and compromise, and 60 maintained in peace and prosperity for more than three quarters of a century, and that the primary cause of our present difficulties, culminating at last in the disruption of the Union, is truly and clearly attributable to the unhallowed, wicked and fanatical disregard of the Abolitionists of the North of the Constitution and the noble spirit of American brotherhood which presided at its birth. 2. That the Democratic party have ever held and taught that neither the Executive nor Congress have any right or power beyond the express provision of the Constitution; and we therefore denounce, repudiate and condemn the FederalAbolition heresy that the Genera! Government has anv warrant iu that instrument to declare and wage war for any purpose, or under any pretext whatever, upon a sovereign State of this Linon 3. That we are unqualifiedly opposed to the further prosecution ol this Abolition war; and believing that, in us contiuued prosecution. there await us only the murderous sacrifice of Jegious of brave men, ignominious and disgrace ful defeat, shame and dishonor at home and abroad, public ruin and the serious endanger met it of our liberties, we unhesitatingly declare that we are for peace, the cessation of hostilities, an armistice, and the peaceful settlement of ex isting difficulties by compromise or negotiation. through a National Convention. 4. That our soldiwrs who were deceived and insnared into the army, under the false represen t tt. n that they were fighting to maintain the Constitution and restore the Union, are entitled to our warmest Sympathie, and we pledge them ben our rnoi-t earnest efforts to bring this now avowed Alwlilioii war lor the freedom uf the ne rro to a speed r close. L. That the Abolition proclamation of Abra ham Lincoln, dated January 1, lr63, in which be decrees the emancipation of the slaves in the seceded State, und consigns tne women and chil dren of the South to servile insurrection, assas sinstion, bo.tc.hery, murder, and rapine by a bar barons and merciless race, is unconstitutional, inhuman, disgraceful and contrary to all the nsage of civilized warfare, justly earning for its tiliw.-r the execration of mankind, and loading the name of Abraham Lincoln with nndying in famy on the pages of history. 6. That the p.-opoaiiun of the Administration to sou.uxier the mean ai,d substance of the dco pie ii tas mid project of purchtsing the slaves of the South if unconstitutional, and meet our uj iill fiel condemnation. , 7- Tr at in the Dime of jastice, right and ha inanity we enter here our solemn protest, and register h?r our unrelenting opposition to the j a,-.ieby Congas of any conscript or drafting ac t, w hereby the men of our country shall be Likau 11 otn their quiet home-' and the peaceful

pursuit; of lite, to fight in an Abolition war for the fieedom of the negro, while Massachusetts and the other New Kurland Stiles, which have been enriching themselves at our expense, And are still cl amorous foi the prosecution of the war to the lad man and the lai-t dollar, have not filled their quota, and ate no even taking steps to do so. S'icli a law, so manifestly unjust, unconstitutional mid oppressive, would be null and void, and not entitled to the obedience of a free people. y. That "this Gbveinmem was made on the white basis, by white men, for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever, and that wherever the white man and the negro ccme in contact in this country, the normal condition of the latter is in a btate of inferiority and servitude," and that in our State legislation, we favor such amendments to our laws as will insure to the own era of slaves escaping to Indiana the ame efficient and summary process of recovery as now applies to otITer property. 9. That the purpose of the Abolitionists to swarm the free States with a worthless, degraded, vagabond horde of stolen and runaway negro slaves, with a view to the ultimate political and social equalization of the races, must and shall be resisted at all hazards, and we demand of our , representatives in the State Legislature that they take efficient steps through the necessary legislation to carry out the 13th Article of the State Constitution, prohibiting their immigration into the Stite. 10 That the suspension of the sacred rights of trial by jury and the writ of habeas corpus, the issue of leltret de cachet, the causeless,' illegal, and unwarranted arrest and imprisonment of American citizens without presentment, warrant, affidavit, indictment, or other process of law, whose innocence was afterward acknowledged by their unconditional and honorable release, the

suppression of liberty ol speech and of the press, and theshamcless robbery and plnnderof peaceful and unoffending citizens upon false and hypocritical charges of disloyally, are the commission of so many high-handed, unconstitutional, and infamous outrages that will light the Administration of Abraham Lincoln down in dishonor to the latest generation. 11. That in the l ite elections, the majority of the people have declared their purpose and determination to have and to enjoy, as they have hitherto done, a Government 'Mounded on the consent of the governed," and securing to its citizens, without fear, without restriction, and without question, the liberties, rights, privileges, and immunities they inherited from their Revolutionary fathers, and to this decree of a people who "know their rights and knowing dare maintain them." we invoke the respect and obedience of their present temporary servants. 12. That a crushing public debt contracted in perfidious violation xf the Constitution, in. criminal prodigality and shameless corruption, result ing in a system of oppressive taxation by which labor is robbed of its just rewards beyond a mere meager subsistence, is practically and iu fact the enslavement of the people. 13. That we protest against and denounce as roost unjust and oppressive, that system of sectioual class legislation by which, under what is Known as the Morrill taritf, the Yankee manufac turers of New England are plundering and rob bing the agricultural interests of the Northwest-, and at the same time s.iciificing the revenues of the Government to their insatiate avarice, and that we submit to its exactions nt the present only because we are without remedy. 14. That the division of tire Commonwealth of Virginia and the pretended luImissLm of " Western Virginia" into the Union as a State is a clear and wanton violation of the Constitution, and a bold and deliberate precedent for the destruction of every vestige of States' rights. 15. That we indorse the course of our Representative in the State Legislature, Wni S. Hall, and recognize in him a true, honest and able rep resentative, faithful to the interests of his constituency and 'o the great principles of constitu tional freedom, that are at ouce the basis an I the glory of our Republic 16. That E. H. M. Berry, the Republican Senator from this county, by joining the other Republican Senators in their schemes of disorganization and revolution in order to prevent the election of Democratic United States Senators, has grossly misrepresented and violated the known will of the mjoriry of the people of Rush county, and is no longer entitled to the respect and confidence of any man who prefers law and order to anarchy and discord. From Wsikhing-ton Impracticability of a Wixtkr Campaign in Virginia Pbogress of thk Disintegration of thk Abmt cf thk Potomac Inoigxatiojj AT TORTEU's VNJIRT DISMISSAL TllE ARMY Becoming Weary of tue W ar Another Specimen of Lincoln's Strategy Tue Administration Trifling with General Foster. a Special Correspondence of the Chicago Times. Washington, January 2S. In ot.e of my letters written in December last, I demonstrated the impracticability of making a winter campaign in Virginia. The storm which caused the failure of Bumside's fourth and last attempt to take Fredericksburg furnishes a proof, if any was wanting, of the correctness of that demonstration. The rain which fell in a single night, between the 20th and 21st inst., not only swelled the Rappahannock into an impassable torrent, but also rendered the roads entirely impassable for nrtillery. The cannon were stuck so fast iu the mud that the united efforts of twenty horses and fifty men to each gun were unaMe to extricate them. The gun carriages were in many cases pulled to pieces, but the pieces remained imbedded in the mud. I have ascertained beyond all doubt that, when Burnside discovered this, he proK)sed to push on with the infantry and make the attack with them alone, and that not one, but all, of his Generals declared that such an attempt would be futile. It would have been more lliau that. It would have been leading our troops to a massacre twice as bloody as that at Fredericksburg. As I write a fearful snow storm is raging, and even "Joe Hooker" will not have the hardihood to lead the army against the enemy over such roads as it will make. I will do General Hooker the justice to say that he repudiates the title of "fighting Joe," and that the probability is, that, now that he is invested with the responsibility of commanding such vast army, he will not lead them to useless slaughter. The army must, therefore, remain inactive. The elements insist that it shall be so, and man cannot fight against the elements. What, then, will be the future of the Army of the Potomac? Halleck says it has already ceased to exist, and, if it has not, it is no fault of his. In all probability it will be broken up, and its fragments distributed all over the continent. If the Administration desired to preserve its organization and its usefulness. Gen. Heiutzelman or Gen. Sumner was the m .n to place in the ch'ef command, and not Gen. Hooker. Either Gen Sumner or Geo. He'iitzelman is capable of managing properly the whole army. They, as well as Gen. Franklin, are degraded by having Gen. Hooker placed over them; and this was no doubt the intention of the Administration. The Administration have now caused the removal, therefore, from that army, of Gen. Mc Clellan, Gen. Sumner, Gen. Porter, and Gen. Franklin, beyond all doubt the four ablest Generals in the service, to say nothing of Burnside There are no officers left, except Gen. Heiutzelman, worthy or capable of filling their places, and the Administration will take care to keep him in the shade till he resigns. If the army is kept toget her (and the President's fears for the safety of Washington may lent tum to keep it near the Capital), the probability is that the grand divisions will be abolished, and the army corps remain under the orders of their present Commanders.. This will obviate the necessity of appointing any successor to either Gen. Sumner, Gen. Franklin, or Gen. Hooker. The six army corps would then remain commanded as follows: the 1st by Gen. Reynolds, 21 by Gen. Conch, 3d by "Gen. Stoiienian, 5th by Gen. ßuttei field, Gth by Gen. Smith, and 9th by Gen. Wilcox. Gen. Sigel's Reserves, two corns, nre commanded respectively by Gen. Slocuru and Gen Stahl. From centlemen from II the large Eastern cities, I learn that the indignation and disgust at the unjust and brutal conduct of the Administration towards Gen. Porter are universal, and will not be confined to mere feeling, or the expression of opinion. Lien. Porter is a mm who cannot be put down, extinguished, suppressed, sequestrated and disqualified by such a corrupt Administration. A majority of the court who tried him were hi bitter enemies, and the bitter enemies of Gen- McClcllan, and he can appeal, with confidence, from their unjust sentence to the ver dict of the people. Decnd upon it, the end is not yet. It is stated here on good authority, and believed, that the troops from New Jersey are understood to be unwilling to remain in the army any longer. The retson which it is alleged they assign is, that thev have been deceived by the Administration as to the object and purposes of the war, that they were assured, when they en listed, that the war was a war lor the restoration of the Union; but that, instead ofthat, it has be come a war which will render the restoration of the Union impossible a war for the abolition of slavery in the Southern States a war for the ne-

gro; and thai they are unw illing to be engaged in a wbt which, under the emancipation proclamation, must result in the indiscriminate massacre of women and children, and in all the horrors of negro insurrections. Furthermore, they say that their State, by electing Mr. Wall .to the United Sutes Senate, has expressed its condemnation of the further prosecution of the war, and its wish for peace, which sentiments they approve and indorse. These facts nre significant. It will not be long before such sentiments are entertained by the whole riny, if, indeed, they are not already The story about the President's mitten is actu ally true. On learning, some days aftei it occurred, the real truth about the affair at Fredericksburg on the 13th December, the President declared, in language more forcible than elegant, that he was now going to throw away the mittens, and henceforth, (looking scowlingly at Halleck and Stanton) to conduct the war himst If. "And to show you, gentlemen, that I am in earnest (said the President), I'll begin with Gen. Burnside " And going at once to the telegraph instrument, Mr. Lincoln telegraphed to that oflicer "Make no movement whatever without first consulting me. A. Liucolu." Now it happened that just at that time Burnside had made all his preparations for Lis third attempt on Fredericksburg. He intended to send a strong force of cavalry and light artillery twenty miles up the Rappahannock. They were then to cross that stream and the Rapidan, march on Gordousville and destroy the railroad there, so as to cut the enemy's communication with the. south and west. It was a bold project. Burtiside's idea was that Gen. Lee, alarmed for the safety of his communications, would detach from Fredericksburg such a strong "force to protect Gordonsville that our army could then attack Fiedericksburg in front

with a hope of success. Possibly the plan might have succeeded. But, just as the cavalry got in motion, this telegraphic dispatch arrived from Mr. Lincoln. It -was a positive order from the Commar.der-in-Chief.and Burnside was compelled to countermand his orders, cive up his expedition, and come up to Washington for eiDlanations. When Mr. Lincoln knew what he bad done, and how Cue a raid he had spoiled, he was considerably vexed, as may well be supposed, and begged Burnside Jo return at once and carry out his idea. But it wss too late. Somehow or other the plan leaked out, the enemy had got wind of it, and, had our artillery end cavalrv once et south of the river, they would have fallen into a trap and never would have got back. The Administration still seeks to amnse and deceive the couiffry by authorizing statements to be published to the erect that crent things mav soon be expected from General Foster in North Carolina. There is no reason to believe any sucn statements. 1 ne promises which were made by the Administration to Gen. Foster ..when he was here some weeks a'o. have not been ful filled; nor can they be without breaking up the Army of the Potomac. The country Ins fondly hoped that there was some plan in pursuance of which Gen. Foster was to advance on Richmond irom tne south, while liurnsnlc advanced on it from the north. - There is no such plan Even if Gen. Foster accomplishes what he was sent to do, and I will not state what that Ts, for I believe the euemv have not divined it, it will have no effect whatever upon the progress or advancement of the war, nor will it weaken the enemy either at Richmond or Fredericksburg. X. Our Army Correspondence From the .Tlisstfetti ppi Squadron. Miss'ssirpi Squadron, Jan, 25, lcG3. Editor State Sentinel: We are blockading, in line of battle, the mouth of the Yazoo River, distant from Vicksburg about ten miles, and are hourly anticipating a terrific ;.nd most sanguinary engagement with the Rebels. We have heard he.ix v t- unwinding tVr three days in the direction ot V ick?burg, but have to conjecture its cause. We are in hopes that the news of Fort Hudson having been captured by our forces is true, and that it is Admiral r arragut attacking from below in conjunction with Gen. Banks, l ime will tell. but you may rest nssuricd that the City of Hills Vicksburg is doomed, and when once captured, "delenda est (Jurtpigo, for man s inhumanity to man, und especially the Lincoln Ltnancipation Proclamation party of the army is such that cry aloud and spare not, is their normal condition, unless perchance the Rebels are at tneir heels, chasing then, from a hen roost or a neiiro quar ter, "Degustibus non est disputandum." In other words, there is no accounting lor tastes. I thought 1 had seen the horrors of war yes. of internecine war, in Virginia and elsewhere but McClellan s army oDly approximates it, and has yet to learn war, it pillage, house-burning. murder and robbery, and other things of equally a horrifying character, aro what constitute sci entific and modern warfare; and oh what a mis erable adjunct, what a farce, the comculsorv order of the proclamation, requiring that the of ficers of the iNavy and Army shall take and pro vide tor nil the contraband? that come to them The doing of it retards the progress of this war more than do the Kebels, besides the thing can never be accomplished save in the route of the army, and then not effectually. e shall wait and see. It is very warm lieie, and fire is a superfluity It would be better for the troops if it were much colder than as it is warm, rainv. muddy and ioggy. I he.-e are all drawbacks, but the great est drawback to the armv is the parvenu, upstart doctors, that the disinterested Morton and others have sent out. Ilvgeine and prophylactics nre unknown to them, and in person many of them are as hlthv shall I say lousy? as the poor sol dier who cannot help himscif. Rigid discipline and cleanliness are the verv soul ot an army, and tht doctor is the man whose special duty it is to see that the soldiers' clothes are washed that he haa clean straw, good food, fac. There is a wedding going on to night on the fleet. One of the officers of it is going to be spliced to a beautiful widow, fair and forty, and an out and out secesh. It is a clear case of de cided union proclivities. W. C. F Supreme Court Decisions. January 28, lbG3. The State ex rel. Wilbur vs. Rich, M. Salvers et al. Jefferson C. C. Affirmed. Samuel P. Johns vs. the State. Delaw ire C. Reversed. The State vs. William Curzy. Jefferson C. P Reversed. JANUARY 29. Wm. C. Adams et al. vs Rebecca S iter et al Bartholomew C. C. Reversed. Magdalene Enos et al. vs. James Noble. Frank lin C. P. Affirmed. N. B Edward vs. Thos. Jagerset al. Switzer land C C. Affirmed. Indianapolis and Cincinnati Railroad Co. vs Richard Clark. Ripley C. C. Affirmed The Same vs. Thomas Claik. Ripley C. C Aiinmeo. januart 30. Andrew Gate vs. Elizi Gates. ' Tippecanoe C L. Errors conlessed, and reversed. Jacob klein vs. The State. Cass C. C. Re versed. ajmes Parian vs. The State ex. rel. Mary .M uglier. 1 ippecanoe C. C. Affirmed. Jacob Huber vs. The State. Tippecanoe C C. Affirmed. I he cases appealed Irom 1 ippecanoe county of Gns. Roler v. The State, Anthony Hecker vs. The State, Xavier Machler vs. The State were nifirmed. John W. Quick vs. James Goodwine et al Warren CP. Affirmed. January 31. 1663. Elijah Ranly y. Elizabeth Bush eu al. Clay C. C. Affirmed. Same v. Nancy Jewet et al. Clay C. C. Af firmed. Peter Wood v. The State. Marion C. P. Re versed. FEBRUARY 2, 1SG3. Commissioners of Floyd County r. Cook Day. Floyd C. P. Affirmed. 1 per cent. Hannah Piercy v. John Piercy. Monroe CP. Affirmed. John Piercy y. Hannah Piercy. Monroe C P. Reversed. Robert M. Gallowav y. The State. Monroe C. P. Reversed. Frederick Snyder r. John Studibaker. Wells C. C. Affirmed. Elizabeth Bennett etal.v. Demosthenes Black. Wells C. C. Affirmed. Horace Corl in v. Alexander F. Fl ick. Marshall C. C. Affirmed 2 per cent. Legislative Nummary Tuesday, February 3, 1663. Senate Not in sessson Hoest No quorum In the morning. In the afternoon the time was occupied on Gregory's resolution with regard to the Morgan county nffair. The whole matter was finally reierred to a committee of five to investigate and report. A number of bills were introduced and an amount of business trinsacted 5T"The House of Representatives passed a resolution yesterday to hold a prayer meeting in their Hall on next Wednesday evening. .

CO.KGIlEVSlO.tAL.. Washington. February 2. Senate. A communication was received from the President of the Smithscnian Institute, trans milting a resolution of the Board of Regents, stating that George Badger, they understood, was in the Rebel army, and they suggest that he ought no longer to be a member of the Board. Mr. Richardson presented the petition of Madison F. Johnson, and asked that it might be read. After some objection, Mr. Richardson said that Johnson had been arrested, imprisoned and discharged without any assigned cause. He moved a committee of investigation be raised. "Mr. Anthony said he understood that this man could have been teleased at any time by taking the oath, and that he refused to do it. Mr. Richardson said he did refuse. Mr. Anthony said the Senate had more important business to attend to than petitions of people who refused allegiance to the Government, and moved to lay the petition ou the table. Carried, 22 against 16. Mr. Harrison, from the Committee on the Ju

diciary, reported back the bill to aid the State of Missouri in emancipation. Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, offered a reso lution directing the Paymaster General to inform the Senate what payments, if any, were made up to August 3l.lfc62f and if none were made what is the reason for such non -payment. Adopted The legislative and judicial appropriation bill was then taken up, the question being regarding the appropriation for the agricultural aepartment Mr. Wilson moved to amend by making an appropriation of $8U,000 for the Agricultural De partment. Agreed to 27 to 14. Mr. Lane moved an amendment so as to ap propriate $35,01)0 to distiibute eotton and to bacco. Mr. Anthony moved to increase the amount pnrposed by the Finance Committee from $6(,UUU to $11U,UUU. of which JU.UUU should be ex pended in experiments to procure a substitute for cotton. Mr. Harlan moved to increase the amonnt to $130,000. Mr. Harlan's amendment was rejected. Aves 19, ravs 20. ' Mr. Anthony withdrew his farmer amendment and offered another appropriating $20,000 lor evperiments in preparing hemp and flax aa a substitute lor cotton. The amendment was adopted Aves 26; navs 12. Mr. Lane, of Kansas, moved to amend so as to appropriate $20,000 to encourage the culture of cotton. Rejected The amendment of the Committee on Finance, making an appropriation for the Agricultural Department of $6o,tHX), instead of $1 J.UUU, as in the House bill was adopted The amendment striking out the section in creasing the sulary of the Assistant Secretary of State to $4,01)0. was adopted Iivse The House coucurred in the Senate's amendments to the armv appropiiation bill, with the exception of $5,000 for the survey of the Union and Ked rivers of the North, with a view to improve the navigation of ruch and connect the same by canal The House also concurred in the Senate's amendment to the Consular and Diplomatic np piopriatioii bills The House passed the Senate bill amendatory of the bill providing for the collection ot direct taxes in insurrectionary districts. It alters certain provisions lor the sale of land in cases of non payment. The House resumed the consideration of the bill authorizing the employment of colored sol diers ami sailois Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, spoke in favor of the bill. He said the life of the Republic was of more value than the rights of the most cherished citizen, and infinitely more valuable than those claimed by slaveholders. If gentlemen had labored halt as much to present an ui broken front to the enemy as they had to produce distrust in the Administration, one might look for peace before the next anniversary of American In Je pendence. Mr. Cox briefly replied to a portion of Mr. Wilson's letuarks. A speech he made in New Yoik had bt e;i tni.-iiiterpreted. He caused to be read a paragraph from it to show that the position he took, not only iu New York, but in Ohio and elsewhere, and here, was the position of the Democratic party. He never would, under any circumstances, consent to a dismemberment of this Republic. Mr. Allen, of Ohio, spoke against the bill. He said it was a confession of weakness on the part of the whites; that the President and Republican members of Consress forn erly took gronnd that they had neither the right, intention or Constitu tional power to in er lei e with slavery in the States, butthat they had violated these pledges. After some remarks Mr. Stevens moved the previous question which was sustained, and the min question was ordered to be put. I he Uouso first voted on -Mr. May nurd s mo tion to refer the bill and pending amendments to the Committee on Military Affairs. Lost 42 t.80. The question wa9 theu taken on Mr. Hick man's amendment, which w .is rejected. It authorizes the raising of not exceeding thirty regiments of African or colored persons, or ns many as the President ol the United Slates in his dis cretion might consider necessary. It also pro viles for a line of steamers between the United States and the coan of Africa, as modified by Mr. Si evens, as follows: That the President be, and he is hereby authorized to enroll, arm and equip and receive into the land and naval service of the United States such number of volunteers of African descent as he may deem equal to suppress the present rebellion, for such term of service as he may pre.-ciibe, not exceeding five jears. The said volunteers to be organized according to the regulations of the branch of service into w hich they may be enlisted, and to receive the same rations, clothing and equipments asother volur.tceis, and a monthly P;,y I,0t ,a exceed tint of the volunteers now enlisted, to be officered by whiteor black persons appointed and commanded by the President, and to be governed by rules and articles of war and such other rules and restrictions as may be prescribed by the President. Provided. That nothing contained in the rules and articles of war shall be so construed as to authorize or permit any officers of Alric in descent to be appointed to rank or exercise military or naval authority over white soldiers or men in the military or naval service of the United States; nor shall any creater pay than ten dollars per mo j lli, with their usual allotment of clothing and rations be allowed or paid to privates or laborers of African descent who are or may be in the military or naval service of the United States. Provided furUier, That the slaves of loyal citizens in the Slates excepted by the President's proclamation of January 1. ltti.l, shall not be received into the armed service of the United States, nor shall there be any recruiting offices opened in Delaware, Maryland. Western Virginia, Kentucky, or Tennessee, without the consent of the Governors ot said Slates having been first obtained. The bill passed by a vote of 44 to 15. Adjourned Washingeon, February 3. Senate Mr. Hicks presented the credentials of Hon. Reverdy Johnson, elected U 5 Senator from Maixhmd for six years from March 4ih. Mr. Collamer, from the Committee ou Finance, repotted back the Postoffice Appropriation bill, which passed. Mr. Lane, of Kansas, introduced a bill to provide fir stopping the pay of unemployed army ofhVers. Mr. McDongal moved to take up the resolu tions offered by him some days ago relative to Fiench operations in Mexico. He thought it was tii.ie this gutiject should be brought to the attention of the country. He thought France was al ready m iking war and aiding rebellion by collu a:on with the Southern Confederacy to seize on Texas and ih more Southern States, and gain control of the Mississippi. Later news from France stated that this expedition was expressly antagonistic to the progress of the United Slates in conquering Mexico, and so France invaded a sister republic upon our borders on our weakest side. It was high handed outrage, and should meet the condemnation of every one He referred to the intriguing mission of Almonte to Spain and France, with a proposition to cstxblish a monarchy in Mexico, and claimed that thU attempt of France was the result ot the machinations of Almonte'. Mr McDougall addressed the Senate at length on the conduct of France with regard to Mexico. He contended it was in violation of all international laws, treaty and assurances made to this Government, and to overthrow the whole com mercial system of this country. He declared the ultimatum otTered to Mexico by France a disgrace to any civilized nation, and said that if that Government was unfriendly toward us in this context, it was for the offense that she needed a cotton country, Htid she could find it in New Mexico Lower California was not very loyal, and many disloyal men had gone to Sonora. Today very few arms and little ammunition were left in Cilil'ornia, and France might sei7e and hold that State nt any time within thirty days. He thought the Government was bound to pay some attention to this. There was no reason why we should be afraid of a conflict with France or wiih Spain or England combined. They in C-tli.'omia were apprehensive of the designs of France, and he taought from the

course and policy of France there was ground for

apprehension that rraiice would not withdraw It." troops from Mexico. Teu thousand troops sent from this countrv to aid the Mexicans would drive the French army into the se.i If necessary to co to war, this uoveriimeut would uo it in or der to maintain a great Icndamental doctrine and maintain xur honor. If anything could now bind together this nation it would be a just and holy against a foreign loe. he believed the most of those now fighting egaiist us would join hands against a common enemy. Mr. bumner thought that the adoption of these resolutions wiuld invite war from a great and powerful nation, and bring much aid to the re bellion by bringing to it a powerful ally. He would say nothing ot r ranee, whose friendship he would do all to preserve. The Senators were indeed justly sensitive at seeing the return of Luropeau empire on this comment, but the most effectual means cf preventing it was by the sup Pression ot this rebellion, lie moved to lay the resolutions ou the table. Executive session. Adjournel. House. Mr. Dawes, from the Committee on Elections, made a favorable report on the cre dentials of Messrs." Benjamin F. Flanders and Michael llahn as Representatives" from the 1st and 2 J Congressional Districts of Louisiana Laid over for ftiither consideration. The House took up the Bankrupt bill. Several gentlemen expressed a desire to address the House on the subject, and others wished to offer amendments. Mr. Roscoe Conkling, who reported the bill and who has the charge of it, said its delays could not enter into the vote, which must depend upon its principles. He therefore asked that it receive a square vote and urged prompt actian. Mr. Kellogg moved to table the bill agreed to, 30 to 53. - - I Mr. Conkling, who had changed his vote to the affirmative for the purpose of enabling him to move a recopsid era tion of the vote, made that motion accordingly. ' Mr. Kellogg moved to lay Mr Conkling's motion ou the table, w hich was decided in the affirm ative by 7 majority. Sj the bill wns rejected. The resolution reported" from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, declaratory of maratime rights, was postponed till the third Monday in February. Washington, February 4. Senate. Mr. Howe presented the credentials of Hon. J. R. Doolittle. re-elected United States Senator from Wisconsin for six jcars. Mr. Howard, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported back the bill to change the time of holding the District Courts of the United States. Mr. Ten Eyck, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported back the bill to prevent correspondence with the Rebels. Mr. Wilson, from the Military Committee, reported back the joint resolution to revive the act to secure to the officers and men enfployed in the Department of the West and Missouri their pay, bounty and pensions. Mr. Powell, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported a bill concerning pardons, the remission of penalties and forfeitures iu criminal cases. . Mr. Trumbull, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported back the bill to amend the act to prevent officers of the Government and membeis of Congress from taking considerations for procuring contracts. , Mr. Wilson, ol Mass .called tip the bill for the encouragement of enlistments. An amendment was adopted that drafted men may procure substitutes. Mr. Anthony's amendment was adopted providing that no equipments shall be sold or given awav, and when such articles are found in the possession of any peison not a soldier or officer, they may be seized. Mr. Sherman ollered an amendment, which was adopted, that all officers absent with leave shall receive only half pay, and wheu absent without leave, in addition to penalties now provided, shall forfeit all pay, except when sick or wounded. Mr. Foster offered an amendment, w hich was adopted, that General Orders of the War Depart incut numbered 154 and 1C2, iu reference to the enlistment of volunteers into the regular service, be repealed. Mr. Carlisle moved to strike out the secuon authorizing tiie President to make all rules and regulations for enrolling and drafting the militia. Mr. Richardson said this whs a bill of Tliost fearful importance. It gave the President power over all the militia of the country, to do what he pleased with them, lie might dralt nil Democrats if he chose, or all the Republicans or neuroes. He claimed that two thirds of the rank and file of the army were Democrats. Mr. Harlan said that as far as his State was concerned three-fourths of the men were Republicans. - Mr. Lane said he had been informed that a majority of the soldiers were Republicans; that not a Corporal s guard of Democrats went from Kansas. Mr. Richardson quoted at length from the returns of Illinois legimeuts to show that they were mainly composed of DiJtnocrais. He feared that if such bills as this, and the bill to pay for slaves and place an interior race side by side with the white man, were passed, the country might be plunged into a civil war. Mr. Lane said so far s the Senator's speech related to the negro question, he had heard the same for twenty je;irs,but he prote-ted in the name of the soldiers of Illinois against this at tempt to incite political discussions among them Mr. Trumbull said he was exceedingly sorrv his colleague had made such a partisan speech when there were half a million Bebels in arms against the Government; he wassorry his colleague had undertaken to inquire whether soldiers had voted the Democratic or Republican ticket. It wask.iown that iu making military appointments in Illinois there was no question of politics at all. Mr. Richardson asked if his colleague did not sign a protest to the President that no General be intrusted w ith command except he concurred in the President s policy of carrying oa the war Mr. Trumbull said he would sav tow and for ever, that if he had power no man should lead am ui my who did not agree w ith the President in the prosecution of this rebellion. Mr. Richardsou: If I was President I would call for McClellan immediately to head our ar mies. Mr. Trumbull: II vou supposed Gen. McClel Ian opposed vour method cf putting down the rebellion, would you call him to the command of the army I Mr Richardson: I would select the man whi could win victories. Mr. Trumbull: As to his victories, I uwist con fess lam not familiar with them. If I was hunt ing after a man to conduct the army who had won victories, I certainly should not select Mc Clellan. Mr. Wilson contended that the bill was not open to the objection urged. After further discussion the Senate adjourned House. Mr. Dawes, from the Committee ou Elections, icpoited adversely on thecreJentialsof J. P. McCloud, claiming a seat from the 21 dis trict of Virginia ; and also on the application of his contestant. . V . YY ing. The House, by a vote of 71 against 63, passed the bill reported yesterday, authorizing the Sec retary of War to contract for the construction of a telegraph cable from torts Mcllenry and Mon roe to Galveston and New Orleans and interven ing points. The bill reported from the Judiciary Commit tee bv Mr. Hickman came np. It provides for a board of three commissioners, at a salary of $5,000 per annum, each to revise and codify the General Statutes of the United States. Rejected, 42 to 4U. Mr. Oliti. fiom the Committee on Naval Af fairs, reported a bill for the construction ol a ship canal Irom the Mississippi to L, tke AI ichig.-tti, and for the enlargement of the Lue and Oswego ca nalsto adapt them to the defense of the Northern Lakes. Mr. Dunn, from the Military Committee, re ported a bill for protecting overland emigrants to States and Territories on the Pacific. It appro priates $30, Out) to .be exper ded under the du ec tion of the Secretary of War. Mr. McPherson reported a bill providing for an ambulance corps. The bill was recommended by the Secretary of War and Quartermaster General Meigs, and was so dra i.u ns to avoid all collision among the officers. - Passed. Mr. Veaniaii, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported back House bill with Senate's amendments authorizing 20,000 men to be raised in Kentucky for sixteen months lor the defense of that State. Mr. Wadsworth, replying to a remark of Mr. Stevens, certified to the loyalty of the Governor of Kentucky. Because the bill introduced last session was not passed much blood had been shed and property üestroyed. Iu response to Mr. Dawes he said the weapons would not be taken to the Southern Confederacy; would not betray the flag. The Senate's amendment was agreed to. The bi II has. thei efore, passed toth Houses. The House acted on-the Senate's amendments to the deficiency bill. Mr. Porter introduced a bill, which passed, that the State of Wisconsin be made a portion of the !)th Judicial Circuit of the United States. Adjourned. fThe "anaconda" is to be dismissed from the service, and a black snake employed.

fThe following communication was sent in for publication by a prominent and radical Re- j publican, and who has heretofore sympathized with Abolition ideas and policy: For th Indiana State Si utlt,el.J About Hie cgro. Though I entertain the usual dislike to the negro, which is almost an instinct with the white race, yet I would not cairy this to the extent which" shall be equally ruinous to hini and us.Existing facts call upon every wise man to review his old theories, and plans and inquire whether they are adapted to the unusual and unlookcd for state of affairs mound us. We may not have experience enough to induce stubborn men to acknowledge a change of opinion, yet cerlaiuly the events of the lat twelve months have been such as to require a re examination of our policy and inquire whether it is the best for us at present. Eleven v ears ago the people of Indiana, by a

majority never equaled, voted to prevent the coming of any more negroes iuto our State. If the same question were again before the people it would receive even a larger majority now than then. Nothing has transpired to change public opinion to a more favorable regard of the race, but rather otherwke. But f':ts are different. Then tlave property iu the South was as secure as any other, and the u umber seeking a home among us lawfully was very small. It is otherwise li'.'W. Hundreds of thousands, the bett and the worst, of the black population have been set free by the fortunes of war, or if not fiee bv the confiscation net and the proclamation, they have taken advantage o4" the -unsettled st.iie of the country and escaped, until tiie colored population of Indiana h'.s quite doubled within twelve months, in spite ot our Constitution nnd the law. Atid now it becomes a question how to meet this new state of facts. Our first impulse is to increa.-e the penalties and intensify the law wh'ch forbids their coming among us. This is natural. Abstractly we claim the right to say who uriy and who may not live in our Swte, but practically we cannot. The failure of the present law is not from a want of penalty or from delect in details; it is from the same principle which renders our stringent law against small notes on foreign banks a lailure-'-ils execution is impossible. And any law more stringent will be still more difficult of execution, us it is'inost likely to be revolting to the ideas of humanity which we can but cultivate, however we may abhor the negro. 1 do not lay stress upon thu possibility that military necessities may require the Government Usend large numbers of the freed negroes into the free States, as it sends other piisoneisVif war. Iudeeiiieiit of the proclamation, the movements of our a-my loosen the shves- from their m isters, and when the number becomes too great to be provided for, as now, smut new disposition 'must be made of them. That they may be sent North is possible, at least. Neither do I question the policy, economically, of keeping out laborers, at a time when nt least 75,000 of our producers uie absent, and thousands of acres are to be Iclt un cultivated for want of labor, while the wives of our soldiers and the widows ot those slain in bat tie have to pay exorbitant prices for bread and wood for this very cause. .The dem igogical cry of competition with white labor would more than . neutralize an argument on this point, though there is twice as mucti work to do ns all the te rn. lining whit labor can perform, and the prices enhanced from ?uch a cause fill heiviest inxiii those least able to bear them. What I have to recommend is based upon the probability that emancipated or fugitive slaves will come into the State in spite of forbidding laws. What snail be doue w ith them? Negroes raised among us are bad enough; those who come Vom slave States with erroneous notions of freedom and its imuiuniues will le a great pest unie.-s we can rise bove our prejudices and boldly meet the crisis by w ise legislation. viiit may drive them to labor, for thieves though they be, in a small way, they cannot make a living by stealing w hen having to compete with mote experienced and better cultivated white men. But when left to choice their labor will be oulv Iwful, and there fore unreliable. Experience in every part of the State has shovvu that the new negroes have no correct idea of the sacredness of contracts or the value of money. They work only while their immediate wauls are supplied, or until some one more needy for the moment offers higher waftes. The consequence already is that men ref use to employ them, except from dav to day, leaving them mostly unemployed, and therefore exposed to temptations and probably engaged in vice. Would it not be wise statesmanship io recognize the facts but briefly alluded to, and (nste.d of madly beating the air and vainly wasting our strength on impossibilities, to meet them by a wholesome law? I would suggest that instead of any new provisions to keep them out of the State, we make it the duty of the Overseer of the Poor to take immediate charge of every one thus coming into the State and bind them out to suitable jersons at reasonable wages for their own benefit for a period of from one to five years, and making it a public offense for any person to interlere with the apprentices thus indentured, or to employ any negro who shall have come into the State since the adoption of the Constitution or since the beginning of the war, or from the passage of the act, unless through the Overseer of the Poor. I am not particular as to the details of such a law, only let it consult the interests of the parties. It can nnd will be enforced, and its enforcement will be more of a terror to those seeking a home heie than our inoperative prohibitory laws. This is intended only as a sticgestion. It would be well if me Legislature could quit discussing military men and military matters which they cannot affect and give heed to pressing necessities. Fomenting of this kind must lake place or we are ruined. Better now, while it would be a terror in some respects and every way practical, than to wait until we shall have suffered for years by the influx of this ignorant and degtaded Population. , . M. t WANTED. $75 TO $150 PER MONTH. rriHK LITTLK CIAST SEWING JJACHIXK COMX PANYwpntnn out in each county to solicit orders for their new $15 Machine, with gunge, screw-driver and exira needles. We will pay a liberal Mlary and expense, or give Urge commission. For particulars, terms, Ac, inclose a tump and address T. S. PAO E.Toledo. Ohio. dec31-dlt&--3m General Agent lortbe U. S. RrRÖÄDNÖT IGET ELECTION NOTICE. IP. 4 C. K. K. CO. The n-jrülar annual neetin o the Stockholders of the Indianapolis. Pittsburg and Cleveland kailroa" Company, w l! be held at the office ot tbeC'oiii;ii:y. in ihi city, ou 1 hursday, the 19ih day of February next, at ten o'clock, A. M , f- r the election of Directors for ibe ein-uinir year, adtbe transaction of any other business that may cime before them. janU dltiwat UlWAKD KING. Sec'y. LAND ACENT. ;r.o. v. i Licit, GKSERAL COl.LKCTICX AXI) LAND AGE KT, Garuett, Anderson county, Kansas. T-xe paiJ for non re-i lnts, and all buMiu-s entrusted to my care receive jTOnipt attention. Hr'rr.kKKcr.x Clark, limber Co , Bankers, t-eaven-wortb, 'I homalanipy Co.. llrrcbants, V. Y. Wiley.Indianapolis. And. WMÜare, ImliaiiapoM. der2-5m ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE, TOT.CE IS UKKF.tiY GIVEN Til AT I WILL SELL AT J Auction, lit the ate residence of Allen P.Wiley. rieoe'e 1. Iu Pike tu-n-bi, iiarimi comity, Indiana, on Tut-wi y tbe 10(h day ot l-rbruary, all of hi per sonal pr operty, except what is taken by les idow: Con-i.-tiiiK of one new two-horse wagon, one buppy, two head of horses, three bead i t catil, wheat in tbe granary, corn in the crib, farming nteiiMls, hou-chold and k tch?it furniture, four share of twenty-five dollars (-J5 OU) eacb, in tbe White Kiver a d big Kaele Creek Plank and oravel K"ad Company, and many other articles too tedious to mention. A crtlitof ten months will be Riven on II gr.ru of three do'.lar.H and upw.ird, iba purchaser plvitip note with approved aecurity, waiving all valuation ai.d appraisement lawg. All turns under t'4 00 cash in hood. Tbe corn, also, will be fold for cash iu band. jan'8-wnw JOHN H. WILEY. Adm'r. LICENSES. Notice of Application for License. TTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, TUAT I WILL APPLT J - to tbe Board of Commin.-ioners of Marion counfy, Imliana, at their next term, for licenn; toell "intoxicatinr liquor in a legs quantity than a quart at a time," 'with tbe privilege of allowing the tame to be drank on mr premises.) for one year. My place of hustiieM and tbe premises whereon said liquors are to be sold and drank, are located in Utile' Hotel Building, on EaM Wa.-hineton street, lot 6, square 61, in Indianapolis, in Omer township, Marion county, Indiana. Janl9-w3w ALLEN I'.KOWN. MEDICAL. Ilotcorel dissociation, i'hila., 1 OR THK RELIEF OF THK SICK AND DISTRESS- ' KD, fllictMl with Virulent and Chronic Disease, and especially diseases of tbe Sexual Organs. Med:cl Advice given gratis by tbe Acting Surgeon. Valuable Reports on Spermatorrhea or Seminal Weakness, and other Diseases of the Sexual Organs, and on tb new remedies employed in tbe Dispensary, sent in sealed letterenvlope,fre -frbarge, Addre DU. J. SKI IAIN HOUGHTON, Howard Association, Ko.l South Ninth it., feblO-wly'62 Philadelphia Pa.

Extract from a Letter oa the Battle-Field-This battle (Antietam) has been the most sanguinary of the war, and the only one fought with visible design and upon military principles. The arrangement of ourcorps the overlooking position of the commanding General the sending into action the right and left divisions the closing up of the center and finally f uccesi, excites bewildering admiratiou, and carries the mind to the great fields of Austerlitz and Wagram, fought by Napoleon. Of all this have I spoken. - The heart history of such conflict purchased by the lives and blood of twenty thou

sand men, must be foupd in the hospitals. War has its glories, but it has its teu thousand demons in these human tortures, that make the eye balls ache, the heart bleed, the lips palsy, and the brain reel. The tight is at first positively unendurable. The life blood of some is still trickling away in silent calmness, while the dissevered limbs and maniac brain of others give rise to sounds God grant I may not again witness. But, ye mothers who here seek m son, or wives a husbanJ, or sisters a brother, or sons a father. know and be consoled that even here the haud of mercy is watchful, and better care is bestowed upon your loved ones than might at first seem possible. It was in the hospital where rested the gallant Hooker that I learned the hif tory of those mythical words, so often seen and so little under stood, "S. T. lfcGO. X." Anything alleviating the sufferings and saving the lives of our soldiers is a national blessing. I witnessed some astonishing results from this article. It is well known the efl'ect of burnt guiiowder and excitement is thirst, which, added to the loss of blood in th& wounded, creates the necessity of a reviving stimulant. In this particular hospital the physicians allowed their patients to drink Plantation Bitters, otherwise called S. T. 1860 X, and although the wounded are most numerous here this division having opened the fight at 5 iu the morning the men were mostly composed, and there was very little fainting. The article acts upon the stomach and the nerves in a most iucompieheiisible manner, superior to brandy, and without subsequent stupefying reaction. It originated in the West Indies, composed of the celebrated Calisaya Bark, Roots, Herbs, ic, all preserved in St. Croix Rum, the 5. T. lt6d- X being a i-ecret ingredient, not yet revealed to the public. It is principally recommended lor want of appetite, diserJered liver, intermittent fevers, stomachic difficulties, 6. C. I understand it was somewhat known in the Southern States previous to t'-e war, and it appears an ageut of Jefferson Davi recently applied to the proprietors lor the privilege to m ike it for hospital purposes during tlje war, to which they made the following re,;ly: Nkw York, Jan. 16. l!v"2. Mr. Ageut of. SfC : Dear Sir In reply to your communicttion offering "fiftj thousand dollars fr the recipe and right to make the l'i iiit.itiou B Iters for your hospital purposes during the war." we beg to say your price is a liberal one, considering it would cost us nothing to comply, and that otherwise we can derive no revenue from the Southern States; bu;, sir, cur duties to our Government ahd our ideas tof consistency would not allow us to entertain it. although it niiht pleise us to assuage the sufferings of your misguided followers. We rem lin, very respect full v. vours, P. H. Dbaek &. Co. These gentlemen give the history of certain ingredients of their article for over two hundred years showing that, through all changes of the niedical profession and its practitioners, strength, composure and cheerfulness have been derived from these sources. Dr Woods, in the Washington hospitals, informed me that one patient was fast sinking and crazy, and had not slept an hour for two weeks, until the Plantation Bitters came to his knowledge, when one day's trial gave him a night's rest, and he was now fast recovering. I am surpiised our Government has not equaled Jefferson Davis in energy, and adopted lti2 5t v 1 1 ii ti t .1 a nrtiiila in nil r.iii Kftunitta T weak soldiers tiing to it like a brothe. As a lay member, I can bear witness that it is "good to take," and affords more energy and life than anything I ever tried, success to the Plantation Biiters. But 1 have digressed. In my next I shall speak of gathering in the wounded, burying dead.ic. NICODEMUS. jlO-dlmeo l&2teow C AL E :m uk. si. ei PATENT PLATFORM SCALES A I R B A X K 3 CA'iTLK, HIT, COAL, GRAIN, WAREHOUSE, RAILROAD, TPACK, AXD COUNTER . SCALES, Manufactured only by J F-. k F. FA1RBANK l i--i I i. i'rk CO., St. Jobnkbsry, Vermont. For sale at Mannfactorers'pricetby VT.P. 3ALLUP, Agent, 74 West Washington it., ap21-wly ndiaiiapolis, Indiana. LECAL. Notice. of Application for Letters of Administration. STATE OF INDIANA, SHKLRT COUNTY, SS: la Common I'lea Curt, March Term. lsS3. He it remembered, that on the 6h day of January, A. D. 1S63, I homas J. Stansifer Cled bis complaint in Iba Clerk's ottice of aid Court, t-Lowir.g ibat during tbe year I3j4, one Thomas Stns:(er wai a retidrnt of aid county, and tint in slid year said Thomas Siansifcr absented bimself from the State of Indiana, and has gone to pa' ts unknown, and tbe said Mausiler owned certain property in said County, and owed certain det't, and ask tbat statutory notice be Rivet, of his said appWation for the appotntment of AdmiuiMritor. The said Thomas Stansifer is, therefore, hereby untitled of the pendency of aid application, and that the fame will be beard and determined at tbe next term of the Comm- n Plea Court of said county, on the fl st Monday in March next. Witness the Clerk of said Court I hi 6th day of January, A.D.1H63. ALONZO ELi IK, Clerk. B. F. Lov, Esq., for Petitioner. Janl3-3w NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATIS JY Ute TOTICK IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT LETTERS O? Administration, tn the esta'e cf Allen P. Wiley, te of Marion countv, deceased, bave been granted and i-sued to tbe uuder.-igned bv the Clerk ' f the Court of Common Pleas of said countv. Faid estate is nf p ed to ba solvent. " JOHN H. W ILEY, jan!9-w3w Administrator. EDUCATIONAL. Sis ITIaryN Sriiiiunrv, (EPISCOPAL.) o. 14 IVortU Meridian St. F 1HE NEXT TERM OF THIS SCHOOL FOK YOUNG I Ladies wilt commence on Moi.day, January 2. Kt-ference can be made to the parent and iruardiana at pupils. jnlS-dAw2w Wbv should I buy a box aIi It A N D E 8 TU SSI LA GO, THE WONDERFUL GRANULES. Recae tbey cure Guu b and Colds, for Ji cents. BRANDE'S TUSSILAGO Is good for Public Speakers and Singers, TO CLEAR THK VOtCK. BRANDE'S TUSSILAGO CURES HOOPING COUGH AND CROUP. s14 t7 a11 Druggists. SS ftnu a Voi.