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. XIX. NO. 18. SHELBYVILLE, IND. J ANUARY 22, 1863. WHOLE Na 057

'THE SIIELliY VOLUiS'TEERiTo'lhc Freemen of Indiana.

la pBfetiabsd every Thursday r.ornin; t Shelby tills, SheIVy County, Indiana, l.y REUBEX SriCER. TERMS: .5 0 .1 VJ&2iZ, 01 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. , Jf stftld mnlil tliexpirat on ef 6 months, .. )C M4 paid, antil the expiration ti year,... iiJTUee ieniis will be rigidly adU-red to. 1.75 V.OO RATES OF ADVERTISING : jyrline Nonpariel or Its equivalent in space ronautNa a square. 0 m I 1 y'r square. 1.0(1 .'.IK I 4.1)0 ".00 minimi, t t 7.tV7Ti'.!.h R.noT SV.o'o" eulomiu I I - ! 3:7o 7(l70 enlnmn. ,277Ntices in the speci-d notice c-haran will be charged ?. ar cent. In addition tj-'the a'love. rat", t All trasuiodt alvertUrmenU must re paid for in adftnc. fTr Lerd advertisements mut W paid for In a lvar.ee. r tM responsitde person entrant the payneiit of the si-re IB tTTfratin. I-eval advertisements will cliarjed fifty nati a square for each inrtion. , , , JT77 Annawint or nwrriJ-M and d-cHs rratis. 'fhfdertiiipj rates will 1 chars t for all obituary Marks. ,TH Annoancicg candidates for oOSce 2 always in adfrj A divretionary liberality will be extended to all .Hoe of a rH;rions and chari table nature. TTP Advertisers will be rcstriotel to their legitimate JOB PRINTING ! The special attention or tmsines men. and all others re atria; any spoics vt Job Trintiug, such as . , Cards, ... Circixla-rs, . ITantllills5 Inositol's, Blanks pi all Icincls,, I?n.iiipli.letw, &:c, :' ts catte! to the fact that tlt VOLUNTEER JOB OFFICE , been redtled with a Full and Complete assortment of Plain and Fancy Job Type, Borders, dc, f the Latest and Mart Approved Styles, which, in the hands ..t ,irtnnMi. enables nie to extent- any variety f lob Trintiinr the community r.wy be pleased to order, in a ttyU unsurpassed fr neixtni-ss, on short notitv. and at prices JfinRCimi)etition. A tn:l is iepectiu.i.v sonoiieiu An ample assortment of Cards, Cap, Letter, and colored apef always on hand. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. MISCELLANEOUS Shclbv Co. Auctioneer. a' f AVISO t iken out a lieense under the.NaUoiml F.xctse XX Law as Auctioneer for Shelby Coiir.ty, 1 am prepared to attend to all Imslm-ss it that line, and hereby notity all ......r,. ...Hi,.,, at imidie outerv without license, f.vept as .provided in ud Ut, tliat tuey pnaHyof$G0. Address lay tlwmselves liabk to JKUKY WEAKLLY. Sheyrille.Pee. 4. P.a)rs In ' Drug. Wici:ies, Taints, Oils, U'.a?s, ranc.v Oowls, Dve Stuffs. Pcrtnmery, Hooks, St Uionary, W ai fafier, Tt'rttslies, Tes. Concentrated Lye, Tobacco, Cigars. A.C. North side f ublic Square. i PROFESSIONAL CARDS. MAKT1X .M.UAV, TUO'S W. WOO LEX, 1'i anklin, lnd Slu I'.jyvU'.e. In l. ( RAY & WOOLEN, &ttovncijs nt au), INDIANAPOLIS, I.M). WILL PRACTICK IX FEDERAL AND STATE COURTS. On or the othea of ihenf will al-vays V fjnnd at t'seir fflee.Nos. 10 St 11 New & Talbotfa Building, South of l'ost mce. . 1 Nov.6-ly rut Mi u:nxK, Attorny at Law, Notary Public, AND ' ' GEXEK A L CO I LEC7LYG A GFXT. Office over Forbs' Store, rear rf Mayor's OClce, SllELHY VILLE, 1NI. - : ; H. F. love, AT TOUCHY AT LAW, Ofice North-West corner l'u'dio Square, over Forbs1 Store, SllELBYVULE, IND. Prompt attention given t tlm collection of claims, inclu Ains Soldier Claims lor Bounty Money and I'sumohs. Alio, UN E Y AT LAW, WAMUXi lOX. 1. V. Will prosecute Pension', lVmnty Lands, and all otherclaims i aninst the Uovrtme:tf. 1 OrFICE, No.' 30, LOUISIANA AVENUE. Rtttrsscb Hon. C-B. Smith, Secivtary cf the Interior. THO. A. MRtNt. ' 4. LO.NGINL'S MONTGOMERY. rn'FAici.Axn & novruojiriTY, A T T'O 11 XBVS A T L A IF Vrm practice In the 4ih fctul 5th J u lfbial Circuits, and Com mon Pleas Courts thereof, also in tlir Supreme and Fed erat Courts. Siecial attention civcntotlie ctdiection i f rUra. Omce over l'r. IUhhus Drug Store, siieiiy ville Indiana. . ..-...." MABTl M. RAT t -,-. a v A ik ft 'was BE.N. r. DAVIS, ATTOUNlvVS AT LAW; Cfflce in ILvy House, Shelby vi lie. lU Trompt atcention given to Uie collection of claims. JAJIES llAIUCISO.V, A T T O R N E V, A T; LAW. k-A. V- -Oiflr ocr f nrbes nre,t78 SHELBYVILLE, IND. k n.i. stock ro, m. n., T II as permanently looate-1 in Shelby ville, in the practice of OSanl ke4"e oh Waytntton street, Ix tAeea T. &. C. UK. lepot ami rui'iie 'iure. Persons UlHirinf udr any form of Chrxuic fieaie will find it w hir advaaUe to gie me acalL X charge for aaminatloji't . , IfJT. Alt pers-nis Inflected to m. who5eaccounthaveleen rnnin one year or over, will please call and settle. ...JIIGHAKD ..S01UUS, Cottiity Surveyor, rAIUL-AJfD, SIICLDY CO.LMD. . i f- . v - V. n. "AA14b1s it TatrlaaJ, or leave order, atth R. Hcr't Oim la Sbcltrrille. ro-Uoj '.

lhis Committee, in October last, had the honor to address you at some length,

bv war of review cf the controlling cau ses; and congratulation upon the auspicious results of the late elections in our ?Mate. fciince that date, other and powerful States have nobly responded to and imitated your example, in condemnation of the radical and revolationary measures then inaugurated and threatened hy th? administration of President Lincoln. The most gratifying evidence is apparent everywhere, that the people, the true source of political power, and the only safe custodians of political and religious liberty, are becoming thoroughly aroused to the magnitude of the danger which threatens to overturn and supplant the rule of the Constitution, and the integrity of the law. They have acted on the solemn truth that "Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty." In contemptuous disregard of the re cent expressions of opinion by the people of this and other States, the party controlling the Federal Government continue to persist in its radical, revolutionary and dishonest career, and refuses to accept the popular rebuke as addressed to them, or worthy to secure their consideration. It stands defiant before the voice of the country, and deaf to the verdict of condemnation hurled at its head. Its advocates and apologists attempt, by all manner of disingenuous argument, bas ed upon lal.se premises, ami scarcely attaining the dignity of respectable pretexts, to explain away or qualify, or utterly tc ignore, that rebuke. That party is daily hastening on events of the most mischevious import, the injurious influences of which may not ceae to operate for a century to come. Thev deenlv imperil the present and future prosperity of the nation, and the very existence of our most cherished rights and liberties. The Executive of the country, as if in solemn mockeiy of constitutional limitations upon his power and ambition, and of the plainest dictates of justice and humanity, has declared "free" three millions of a subject race, and invited them to assert their freedom become the guests of the nation, to be harbored and protected, and fed at the expense of the people of the loyal States. This gift of freedom to that race against his own declaration of wanttf power will become fruitful only of idleness, demoralization and misery to the negrc a most pestiferous and disgusting burthen upon the public charity, or the helpless victims of the exhausted patience of the white race. In his vam attempt to elevate the negro, the oppression and degradation of the white laboring man will be the wicked result a policy which cries to the nation for a bold, manly and unyielding opposition. Men of Indiana! You condemned that scheme of plunder of yourselves and your children at the balbt-box in October, but your servants at Washington have dared to overrule your decrees. Will you submit to the "Abolition Confederates," whom Douglas denounced, and will von allow a degraded race to share the soil consecrated to the dignity and glory ol the white race? The decision of that question is yet, thank Heaven, in your own nanus i From the beginning of this rebellion, the President and his advisers have iitterley ignored and neglected the great du ty of pacification or honorable adjustment. Nowise government, founded on the sovereignty of the people and the sovereignty of the States, can long disregard this great conservative principle of the public peace. " 1 he count rary principle has teen pursued by Air. Lincoln, and, with unvarying "passion and resentment," every avenue to compromise has been closed in the face of the people in both sections. Everything has been done to produce greater irritation and es trangement, and to unite and strengthen the people of the South in their rebellion Against the Lnion, to an extent which else could never have been attained bv them. Here we pause to contemplate what, under similar circumstances was the lan guage of a true statesman and patriot in lbbo. hen the nulhheation act of South Carolina was passed, and Nation al Government was preparing to enforce the tai ill laws unuer Gen. Jackson's ad ministration, Henry Clay, then in the Senate, stepped forward as a 2ac,ficxtvr and to provide for a peaceful settlement of our then existing difliculties. With his heart full of kindness and sympathy for all the States, he appealed to the Administration to stay his hand till both parties could talk over the unfortunate disagreements. That illustrious man thus invoked the spirit of peace to his beloved country. "If there be any who want civil war, who wart to see the blood of auy portion of our country spilt, I am not one of j them. 1 wish to see war of no kind ; but above all, I do not desire to see a civil war. When war begins, whether civil or foreign, no human sight is competent to foresee when, or how and where it i to terminate. But w hen a civil war jdiall be lighted up in the bosom of our own happy land, and armies are march ing, and commanders are winning their victories, and fleets are in motion on our coast, tell me,if you can, tell me if any human being can tell its duration ? God alone knows where auch a war would

end. In what a state will our institu

tions be left ? It what state' our liberties ? I want no war, and above all no war at home. . ; . Has not the State of South Carolina been one of the members of this Union "in the davs that tried men's souls ?" Have not her ancestors foucht along side our ancestors ? Have we not conjointly won together many a glorious battle ? If we had to go into a civil war with such a State, how would it terminate? Whenever it should have terminated, what would be her condition ? If she should ever return to the Union, what would be the condition of her feelings and affections ? What the state of the heart of her people ? She has been with us before, when her ancestors mingled in .1.1 .rt..i' , t . me inrong oi name, ami as i nope our posterity will mingle with hers, lor ages and centuries to come, in the united de fen so of liberty, and for the honor and glory of the Union. I do not wish to see her degraded or defaced as a member of this confederacy." We place in opposition to the insane cry of "No compromise no peace," the noble words of Kentucky's lofty patriot, the gallant old Whig leader ; and if the idiots and madmen' who rule this hour have the power to ruin their beloved coun try, in tne race ot ins solemn warning, let posterity judge who has been guiltyol this great national suicide. Via desire to see no State "degraded or 'defaced as a member of this Confederacy." We are for the Union as it was, aud those who are not we denounce as traitors to the hopes of mankind. The nation is already well nigh bankrupt by reason of the necessary expenditures of the Government and the unpunished plunderings of its officers, agents, contractors aud stock-jobbers, and yet it is proposed that we shall become the purchasers of another million of the negro race in the Border States, at an expense of many hundred millions of dollars more. In short, the war, in its inception, professedly- prosecuted for the suppression of the rebellion upon principles consistent with the Constitution and common honesty, has become, to a disgusting extent,' a war for' the abolition of slavery, prosecuted in the spirit of 'passion, " rather than true patriotism, and characterized by vacillating imbecility hitherto unprecedented in the history of civilized nations. In this great emergency of our country, we beg leave again to appeal to the peop'e of all shades, of conservative opin ion, to come to the rescue, and aid, m every possible ami riglitlul manner, to snatch from impending ruin our country, her sacred institutions, and the liberties of the people. To this end, we respect fully but earnestly urge you to assemble without delay, and to re-assemble fre quently in county, town and neighbor hood meetings, and, like men ytt free, consider the condition of your country, and what its welfare demands from you and your servant, tlw President. Give such public expression to your convictions as shall entitle them to considera tion. Organize yourselves into Democratic Union Clubs or Associations, for the cultivation and dissemination of cor rect political opinion and intelligence. Procure such documents as shall be useful in producing a healthy conservative sentiment, and actively in favor of up holding tha Government of your fathers against the destructive tendency of the Abolition and tyranical doctrines of the so-called Republican party. Have qualified speakers to address your meetings, and let even' member speak himself. These Clubs should be the rostrums of the people the school houses which shall send forth, from the humblest walks of life, orators of constitutional freedom. Have your meetings open to all. Invite your opponents to attend your meetings, and give them a hearing. Let your discussions be free and open to all who will participate in them. Truth needs no concealmcut. The Government is upon vour shoulders, People of Indiana, and if your Union and Constitution is rescued from the ruin which impends over it, the People the unpurchased freemen ot Americamust be the architects of their own political salvation. GEO. McOUAT.Ch'm. Democratic State Central Committee Indianapolis, January 8, 1863. Army Bread. A correspondent of the Springfield Re publican says that the bread dealt out to our army on the Rappahannock, was packed in Mav, o2, but must be much older : "During its Peninsular campaign, the bread became inhabited by a very lively species of insect of brown color and amiable disposition. Various stories are told of these crackers in camp, some of which are malicious fabrications. One was that -i . , . tne insects were purposely put in tne bread to save mule transportation, and that when the , commissary wished to transport the bread, he simply whistled and it came itself. Another was that four of these crackers were seen on bat talion drill one evening, going throngl the evolutions with great precision. One of the boys had a lot of bread so thickly settled as to be uneatable, and brought it down to the commissary to be exchanged He was told to lay it down and Ukeoth ers, when he very honestly asked, 'Hada' I better hitch 'em V "

Lawlessness Among tho Troops. ' A correspondent of the Cincinnat

Commercial with Grant's army, after de tailing Rome atrocious outrages upon cit izens some of them helpless women by our soldiers, asks : When is this system of wholesale robbery to be stopped ? When is this indiscriminate pillaging and plundering to cease ; Have we an army of robbers If so, it is about time to end the war, for it would be far preferable to have aland of traitors than to have one of shraeless robbers. Gen. Grant hs issued orders upon the subject. So have his subordi nates, denouncing in the most emphatic terms this crime which is demoralizing the army, and vet it continues. After the example made a few weeks ago of an Illinois regiment which was guilty of these outrages, it was hoped that it would have a beneficial inlluonce on the balance of tho army. But still the evil continues. and daily grows more alarming. The existence of a few of these hardened, bare e i -it. ... lacen villains, in our organization, is stigmatising us as a lawless soldiery, and aredoing more for embittering our ene mics against us than live times their number of avowed rebels. As the orders issued have notlthe proper effect, it eviueutly needs more vigorous measures. Let them be adopted and adhered to. If a General orders that maruders shall be punished by an assesssment, kc, let the order be executed. But little difficulty is experienced in detecting them, as I am aware that, daily, dozens of soldiers are arrested outside of our lines. Their pur pose there is evident. Therefore, as long as we are capable of apprehending them. et them receive tha deserts due them. Ir respective of the divisions they belong to, or the Stato they hail from, lot them be summarily punished, as an example to their associates, as well as an evidence to the country that discipline is enforced in the ami)-, and that an army of bandits is discountenanced.." Unquestionably the evil thus denounc ed has become one of the greatest magnitude, and it is a most serious question as to what shall be done to put an end to it. examples swift and terrible will doubtless have to he made of some of those engaged in this work of pillage and robbeiy, before it will be stopped. Still the soldiers are not entirely to blame for the state of things which is now demor alizing our a.imy and making it a byword and a reproach m too inauy localities. We heard of few or none of these dis graceful acts during the first few months of the war. The men went into the army for the glorious purpose of fighting for the restoration of the Union and thereestablishment of the Constitution. By and by, however, demagogues began to cry out that our soldiers were "employed in guarding rebel property," thus sowing the seeds of discontent among the mon. Then they were told that "rebels had no rights which loyal men were bound to re spect, and that they (the rebels) had forfeited all their property by their treason. lnese things were constantly pre sented to the soldiers' cars and eves. They heard it from the halls of Congress; they saw it in the columns of the radical newspapers ; it was whispered into their ears by many of their own officers. Is it to be wondered at that many of them came to look upon rebel property as their le gitimate prey ? Is it to be accounted strange that in time some of them came to regard the war as one of robbery and pillage instead of one for preserving the Union ? Is it remarkable that demoral ization and disgrace should follow in the train of such ideas and such teachings ? There are bad men in the army, doubtess many of them. But they would never have dare to venture upon the com mission of acts so atrocious as wesccdaiy complained of in army letters, had it not been for the encouragement they have received from radical speeches and radical newspapers. X. A Ledger. Saltixo Meat A. French professor denounces the use of saltpetre in brine in tended for the preservation of flesh for bod. That part of tht saltpetre which is absorbed by the meat, he says, is nitric acid, a deadly poison. He ascribes to this chemical change, all the diseases which are common to mariners and oth ers, who subsist principally upon salted meat such as scurvy, sore gums, decay ed teeth, ulcers, kc, and advises a total abandonment of saltpetre in pickle of beef. tc. : the best substitue for that ar ticle being a small quantity of sugar which renders the meat sweeter and more wholesome. - TeaBkaxds and their Meaxiso. The following will interest housekeepers : "Hyson" means '-before the rains, or "flourishing spring ;" that is, early in the spring ; hence, it is often called "Young Hyson." "Hyson Skin" is composed of the rsfnse of other kinds, the native term for which is "tea skins. Refuse of still coarser descriptions, con taining many stems, is called "tea bones.' "Bohea" is the name of tha hills in the recion wnere it is couccieu. "i esoe or "Peco," means "white hairs," the down of tender leaves. "Pow;hong." "folded riant;" "Soucliong." "small plant.' "Twankay" is the name of a small river in the region where it is brought. "Con igo is:rom a term signuying "laoor from the care required in its preparation

Vows ( V Loctport IT?. TIiq way they did in Now Orleans. New Orleans, Dec. IT, 1SG2. Mr. Editor : I feel strongly inclin ed to say ' there is a Goi in Israel." The why may ba inferred from the fact that on Sunday evening last. Gen. X. P. Banks came to this city, and yesterday at noon took command of the "Department of the Gulf," and placed (it u rumored) Gen. Butler and his beautiful brother under arrest, with criers to report to Washington by the first steamer. That fact is enough to make an ascetic

resident of New Orleans wave aloft his sombrero with exultation. Not that Banks has been ordered here, but that Butler has been ordered away. If I recollect, in a former letter I spoke of the two Butler s speculations in sugar. The sugar on hand yesterday and held by these two busy B's, has been seized by (sen. Banks, as has also other property. too numerous to particularize. One instance of the manner in which Gen. Butler carried out the wishes of the Government in his official capacity I will particularize, to give you an idea of near ly a'l the others : Some weeks ago Col Butler went to all the liquor stores in the city and bought wUh Confederate money .all the whiskey on hand. That secured. Gen. Butler issued an otlicial document, pro hibiting auy of the distilleries in his de partment from manufacturing any more whiskey, or selling any they then had on hand. Col. Butler had a grocery full, which sold rapidly in this whiskey-sub-m urged locality, at an enormous advance on the purchase money. So also with Confederate money. Gen. Butler declar ed it worthless, and it was prohibited under penalty from circulation. Col. But er opened a broker s desk in his grocery, and bought it, realizing in two weeks a rofit of $00,000 on the amount he was enabled to gather in. Widows and poor people had it in small sums, and they went to Gen. Butler with prayers and en treaties and tears, telling him that by a stroke of his pen he had mode them penniless, and deprived them of the means to get a loaf of bread. They were referred by another person (ready at hand for the occasion) to the aforesaid broker, tho C1., where they could get their money changed. These are only trifling evidences of the way millions have been stolen from the people here by these agents of our government. The impression is that Banks cannot possibly be worse. Phe tumult rmong tho officials over this change is tremendous. The most of them have been living here at a rapid canter, and the sudden stoppage of the government fodder has thrown them on their faces. I passed by Gen. Beaure gard's resilience this morning, wheroone of Butler's staff has been revelling in lux urious pride for several months, and he s moving out. All he had to move was his trunk. I did not dare look in the house, for I have already seen the furni ture in these palaces of wealth and comort so foully abused by our epauletted upstarts that one more such sight would havo been revolting. The Debt Wo are Filing Up. The Now York Christian Advocate comments on the National Debt which this rebellion is creating as follows : They tell us of an expense of nearly seven hundred millions in a vear. Can we appreciate such a sura 1 How little do we know of the distance to the sun ! Ninety-five millions of miles ! Start a railroad tram for such ajournev. Let it stop at no planet for wood and water, or passengers. Place on it a little infant. rhe infant becomes a man, and reaches the alloted age of man ; but the sun is not reached. Let another take his place, and ive his three score vears and ten ; anoth er and another and still with no pause or repairs, or to cool its burning axles, and yet the journey's end is not attained. The fifth man's dying eyes are looking orward millions of miles for the journey s end. But we are here talking of seven hundred millions not of ninety-five. For a hundred years and more church es have been gathering property in the united States. Subscriptions have been nobly deeded ; dying men have left their accumulations to their loved churches ; and in all this time the evangelical churches have got together about fifty millions of property not enough to pay the price of victory for one month. We have a missionary society. It gathers each year from nearly a million of people. It throws its influence mto nearly every part of the world. But its whole yearly revenue would endnre the draft of the United States Treasury but a sintrle hour. Seven hundred thousand men are drawn from the pursuits of industry. It is far more impoverishing than if half a million of paupers were thrown on ustosupport. for then the labored and producers would remain at work. Now they are far worse than idle. Their weapons are costly i equipments ; but harvests perish, and cities arc ruined by their presence. England is contributing fearful amounts of want and starvation to swell the price of victory ; France loses the sale of twenty-five millions of its wares; and interior Europe aud parts of Asia are paying portions of this stupendous cost of victory. A boy who was told that the best enre for palpitation of the heart was to quit kissing the girls, said : "If that i the only remedy which can be proposed, I. for one. say, let,rpalpitatt.,i

' Voice from tho Tomb. In Harvey's life of General Fraxci Marion, of Revolutionary memory, published in ISIS, tho authoi says that thai grand old patriot made tlw following remarkable declaration before his death : "Ambitious demagogues will rise, an I the people, through ignorance and love of change, will follow them. Yat arm

ies will be formed and bloody tattle fonght. And after desolating their country with all the horrors of civil war, the gniltv survivors will have to bend thvir uecks to the iron yoke cf some Kteru usurper, rd like beasts of burden to dt unpitied those galling chains which thty have riveted upon themselves forever." The people of the United Slates w ill, we confidently hope, long coiitinue to resist all usurpers, whether they come in the disguise of Presidents, Cabinet. Ministers, iusane members of Congress, or military tyrants. While the ballot box and a free press are vouchsafed tt the citizens they w ill take raic that th "iron yoke" shall not be fastened upon their necks. Tlu events of the lat lew weeks have shown that the frantic trick of demagogues and the usurped power of those in authority must have a bpee iv end. The vox po.ouli has been heard throughout the land. Will our rulers heed that voice ? Sentinel. Milk, Tea and Coffee. In Prof. Loomis's article on "food." in the last Paten; Oliico Report, he thus fpeuks of milk, tea and con'ee : Milk contains iu solution not only a due proportion of carbon, hydrogen, ox ygen and nitrogen, as befoie mentioned. but all the other elements necessary for the construction of bone, nerve, tc, and hence is always a proper article of food food in all circumstances of health. Tea derives its beneficial qualities not from its direct supply of nutrition, but from its alfbrdi:ig a peculiar substanca called theine, the effect of which iu the system is to diminish the waste ; thus making les9 food necessary. Tea thus has a positive economic value, not as supplying, but as saving nutriment. Coffee, though of a taste so liitle allied to tea, derives its value iu precisely Ihv same manner and from neuily the hume substances. Its value and cifect in tho system are therefore the same as those above stated. It is hence evident that milk, tea and coflVe are valuable articles of food under all conditions of teropciature. Tho Whito Man Not a3 Good as tho Negro. The popular notion that 'the white man i as good as th negro if h-j behaves himself," is a delusion. The discov ery has just been ma le at New Orleans, and the fact is proclaimed in the editorial columns of the New York IVHtuue of New Year's day. It says : "An officer in one of the colore! regi ments in Louisiana says in n recent letter : 'You would be surpiWd at the progress the blacks make in drill aud all the duties of soldiers. I find them litter disposed to learn, andmore orderly and cleanly, loth tn their persons and quar ters, than the whites. " There you have it. The white man is not as good as the negro. In mind, manners ai:d personal cleanliness the negro is superior. The Tribune says so, and ot conrso there can be no question about it. Thus we have simultaneously a proclamation from the warrior and statesmen of the White House declaring the negros free, and another from the editor of tb white coat, alarming their superiority over the hitherto dominant race ! Glory to the negro ! AUo, to Messrs. Liucola and Greeley. Rochester Uuion. Ax IXDEPEXDEXT CONTRABAND. A COrresponJent from the headquarters of Buinside's army, relates tho following anecdote : On our onward march we came across some 'darkev-M,' working ;n a field. An officer asked a likely looking "chattle' if he would go on with our troops. The darkey said, with a cunning leer, 'Well. 1 guess not, ir.assa, jist now : wait till yer come back I You'll be back this way in a day or two. and then I'll think about it. YouVe been this way before, and you came back, and I guess you'll coma back now.' And, with a chuckle tha impudent contraband resumed his work. As Abduction by ax Ouang Outaxg. A recent traveler in Borneo relates an abduction cae, which exceeds ia novelty anything which has occurred among tho fat population of our large cities. A monstrous female orang outang, taking a fancy to a poor Muret gentlemen whom she taw bathing, dragged him by force to a tree, which she compelled Lim to climb, lodged him in a warm nest, watched him with feminine jealousy, fed him with fruit and palm Cabbage, aai forcrvl him to travel from one branch to another instead of treading the ground. Tho tale is a tragedy, for the ungrateful Muret not only ran away at the first opportunity, but afterwards shot the foret sy ren with a poisoned arrow. C3T The . Sunday School book aays that in the time of tha Patriarch Abraham tha people dwelt in tents. A good many of thm are doing the same thia ia the time cf the modem Abrahas-