Weekly Wabash Express, Volume XXI, Number 18, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 April 1863 — Page 2

WEEKLY EXPRESS

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WEDNESDAY APRIL 1, 1863.

IMJLON JIASS CONVENTION. A Union ma83 meeting will be held in this eity (3$ Saturday the 4tb of April. The moat^digtinguisbcd statesmen of the whole West have been invited to be present and address the„.people. The .names of those whcnrccept the invitation will be dufjr announced. We call upon our TTriion friends ,. •?-. of Adjoining counties to come to tniscity on tbafday, and re-pledge their devotion to tWe Union and Constitation, and their deterinin ation to sustain both, now and until the Sonflic! ends. The Union papers throughout {-he 7th Congressional District are requested to give the patter publicity. mM

GEN. CHAELKS CEBFT will address his fel-low-citizens this evening at the Couat House. Wo trust he witl be honored by a large attendance.

AMONG the speakers who are expected to be Herd on Saturday, to address the people, ar|~ Hon. SCHCTLKE COLFAX, Hon. D. E WILLIAMSON, RICHARD J. RYAN, Esq., of In dianapolis, the Irish Orator, and thd Hon. H.*P H. BKOMWELL, Of Illinois. *. tfnion men! come to this city on that day anjfhear tEcse distinguished m6n, in behalf of our glorious cause.

In another place will be seen a very interesting letter from Hon. DANIEL S. DICESNsojr of New York. He has for many years been regarded by the Democratic party as its ablest statesman. His views as set forth in' this letter are entitled to much weight.— T&e Democracy, both East and West, have long confided in him. His acknowledged ability, political integrity, and a life time devotion to the party to which he belongs, combine to mako his views on this rebellion matters of much interest. We trust our Democratic friends will give the letter a careful and thoughtful reading.

IT Beems that the Democratic leaders of this county are holding protracted meetings in the different Townships during this week They are making a most desperate effort to elect their candidates on Monday next, in order that they may claim a Democratic vie tory, and as a consequence allege a change of public sentiment in favor of the policy of the peace party, should their tickets succeed over tho whole State.

The Union men.also,.we trust, will not bo lacking in zeal in this matter. Unconditional Union men should be olectod in every Township in the State. To effect this purpose it is only nocosaary thaAthey should go to tho polls on Monday and cast their ballots. The duty of voting is important now and every Union man is called upon to d^charge his duty faithfully at the ballot-box. We trust no emergency will keep them at homo on t^t day.

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The Draft.

The Military authorities have decided upon the manner in which the conscription law is to bo carried into execution: First, all deserters are to be returned second, a draft will take place in those States and districts .which have failed to furnish their quota under the calls of last year and third, such of tlio States as have furnished more than their proportion of volunteers are to bo credited for the excess, and.no draft will probably be ordered in such States until tho number ot tho troops furnished by the oevoral States shall havo been equaled by drafts in the delinquent States.

The draft should be made at the earliest moment possible. The rebels should be allowed no time to relieve themselves from the heavy pressure now upon them. Thoir resources are rapidly declining, and if tho whole strength of the government is brought to bear upon them, the coming eight months will cause the American rebellion to fall not to rise again for a century to coma,

The Election on Monday Next... On Monday next, tho people of the difffrent.townships vote for Township Trustees, Justices of the Pcace, Supervisors, &c. The democrats, as they oall themselves, are making very great exertions to secure tho election of their candidates. Meetings are being held-by them in almost every precinct in the county, aqd arrangements are being made to poll the full vote of that party. The election of these officers are matters of local interest it is truu, and will have no particular •bearing on State or National politics, yet it is certainly iucumbent on the Union men to

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active, and vigilaut, and make their candidates successful. We suggest to the Union pjon of each township to put on .their ticket -the best aud truest men, and then go to the polls and vote for them. The friends of the

Government and administration should not lack diligence even in matters about whicn these suggestions are made. If tfe are BUS ^cessful iu each township, we cannot as a -consequence fail in the State. "If the pennies are cared for the dollaffl will oare for themselves," is a maxim in which there is much good .sense, and we might say that if ihe township elections are cared ifop the 'State eicction when it comes will caro for itself.

We trust tho Union men of Vigo county "will not sleap whilo their opponents are wakeful and vigilant.

THE Netrs Sheet of yesterday has" the following In regard to tho nomination of candidates for election on Monday next:

A few men in secret conclave nominate ••candidates aud present them to the people for their suffrages. Is this saving the Union, we ask honorable men We had thought that tho day for oath bound political societies had passed "away iu this country, but it seems that we were" mistaken. Lot the people arouse and rebuke, at the ballot box, these secret plotters against the rights of the people and the peace and good order of the

State. A cause that can not declare itself openly and above board must be a bad one. and will, ultimately, receive the utter condemnation of the masses.

The News Sheet is again changing front. The oath bound "political society," known as the Knights of tho Golden Circle was exclueively a democratic organization. When before thid, did the News Sheet ever suggest that the "day for such an organization had passed away in this country It is iin oath bound organization of the meanest character. It is known to exist, and more than one hundred of its members have testified on oath-, that it is oath bound, and does in fact exist in almost every precinct in the whole State. But it has keen exposed and its purposes have partially failed and as a consequence the News Sheet is very indignant, and thinks the day has passed away for the existence of suoh organizations:

It would be a hard matter to find evldence of moro political virtue than the above extractjexhibits. The editor, having fought under the banner of that organization for the -v past year, all at once sees,his folly and deounces its members as "secret plotters against the rights of the people and the peace is of the State." In this matter he is clearly

right,

and we trust he will continue to de-

Ififc HOiince the members of that treasonable organization as "secret plotters," etc, His

WOrde

»av possibly have a good effect.

The Rebel Katlroads.

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at which point it connected with Atlanta,

.and at that-point with roads fronj Charleston and Savannah, which there cdnvefg e. But for the distance of nearly five hundred miles, the Richmond and Chattanooga road has no road which intersects it. The people of either of the Carolina?, who desired to reach

rail to Richmond or Atlanta for that purpose. The Southern States were tiefieient, in those extended lines,""'and" perfeet net-^work of ¥op,\Js Vliich aire seen "ft the North add which mark the enterprise of our -people.

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This fact is significant, and represents the desperate condition of the roads. They must be bad indeed when tho rebel government is reduced to the alternative of letting women and children starve for want of the barest necessities of life, or of lacking transportation for its army. Of course it chooses the former alternative. What are the lives of poor Women and children to the demagogues who dominato over the rebel States? But will not He to whom thoy cry in misery, at sofne early day, turn His own mighty hand against the heartless authors of their wrongs and sufferings?

If this be tho condition of their road?, they must rapidly loose the advantages of their positions. Their interior lines of com* munication are invaluable if sufficient for their wants, and well supplied with rolling stock. If however, they begin to lack the means of transpoi tation on their roads then they lose in that proportion their strategic advantage over us, who move OH longer exterior lines.

Viewed in overy aspect of the caso, the tables would seem to be rapidly turning against the bad Rebel cause. They are approximating to that point where they must stand atbay for the last time courage, patience, Union, and tho long strife will end, and we shall see our old flag waving proudly its glorious folds in the sunlight of victory.

&r The Martinsville Gazetto says "Some of tho Copperheads of this vicinity, who sympathize deeply with the Green township guerrillas, are circulating a contribution paper to raise funds to pay the fines of guerrillas. It may be generosity to give for such a purpose, but it is not right. These men committed a high crime against tho government, and were punished a fine, and they should be allowed to suffer the punishment. The Copperheads are mighty sly about it, as they only present it to their midnight, darklantern order."

Conunrfrcifcl Relations fcfetween East and West.

Inm^tdy .1^ tte onteaA of Ite re-, tartiliiie, in

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zen of Halelgh, Worth Carolinla, wishing to make Memphis, Tenn., would need to go east-

ward to Petersburg and Richmond or to Goldsboro, 'Wilmington, and Oharl«ston. At! the inauguration of hostilities, Ihe want of a better system of Roads exhibited Itself plainly, and is at this time a matter of the most serious character to the Confederate government. Their roads constitute their lines ot communication, and in a War of the present magnitude thoy are totally inadequate to meet the emergencies which it has brought about.

The destruction of the bridges on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad proved as selious a disaster to the, rebels as would the lots of a battle. It interfered with transpor tation of soldiers, munitions of war and supplies, betfc for the army and the people. The prices of all articles went up at once as a consequence, and the worpt feature of the case is, that prices have not been reduced since the reconstruction of those works.

The news from the South, as it finds its way here through their papers, reveals the defects of their roads, at a time when they are indispensable to the success of their armies, even on a small scale. Some lines of road have been entirely abondoned, and the rails have been removed to supply the means of defence to fortificatiors on land and to vessels afloat. This manner of obtaining supplies argues a hard state of affairs with the roads as well as with the rebel Government. The rolling stock of the roads has also failed and cannot be repaired.

That there is such a lack of engineers and cars becomes more apparent, from the fact, so often mentioned, that the Rebel Government has monopolized the railroads for its own purposes. The Richmond papers complain bitterly that food which might be brought to that city, is hindered in its transit from this cause, and that the price of what is in the city goes ever up, as the stock grows less. The Savannah Republican, recently had a very doleful item on the same subject, showing that the Southern line of railway, from the seaboard toward the west, is in no better condition than that which goes to Richmond. It says: "Many poor women and children in this city are suffering from want of food. They cannot get even enough of corn meal to supply their wants, because the railroad transportation is monopolized by the Government."

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The Indianapolis Journal says Sel-

man K. Hannegan was biought before, the Circuit Court on Saturday morning, and ar~ raiuged to answer an indictment for an. assault with intent to kill Samuel Oyler, policemen, on Thursday last. He gave bail in the sum of $1,000 for his appearance.— The trial will probably tako place this week.

Hundreds o-hogs are now running

at large, in violation of the city law, aud doing much mischief in undermining fences, going in at open gates and creating trouble generally. Swine owners should^ pen tnem up at onco. If that is not dohe the city authorities ought to 'pound them—the hogs, not the owners!

Coe'fi Drug Store, ou Main street,

appears to be the place most people resort to when in need of drugs. The proprietor, Mr. A. J. Coe, has been engaged in the business for many years, and therofore has a practical knowledge of his business. You will find him ever ready to attend to the wants of customers. Give this house a call if you stand in need of anythiug in his line of business.

The South Bend Register hits the

Sentinel right-between the eyes in this manner: "Last Satrtrday's State 8entinel says that if the soldiers in that city are to be allowed to veto at the municipal election, "it will be nsetan for the Democrats to nominate a ticket at nil." The Sentinel has repeatedly declared that a v»ry large majority of the soldiers are Democrat?, that they are opposed to the further prosecution of tho war, and that if they had a chance te vote they would vote with the peace at-any-price Democracy. The Sentinel has repeated the statement often enough to have some little faith in the truth, bnt it appears that it ha3 not a particle. It has tried to deceive others, but itself it cannot deceive and hence the faintest idea of soldiers voting throws it into despair, and it wailingly predicts that if ihey do vote, the Democracy are doomed, and they might as well save themselves the trouble of making nominations."

The President ha? de*!gnated That*

day, April 30th, at a of Fasting and Prayer.

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the impression thatIhe West, will

nje compelled to*in the Sotth-fo^the pres-

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., nu wrvation of her commercial interests in the

event of the success of the rebellion. The ground upon which this question is argued is, that the Railroads running East are not ade-, quate for the transportation of the bulky products of Western labor. And as a conse-

oC.tl»-:WralHBtfUW. freight, ™.I» hir.™»d U* price of tmMpo,-

tation to such aper cent that the farmer is compelled to sell his grain, etc., at ruinous prices or not sell at alL— They hold, therefore, that unless the West can have the free navigation of the MisMissippl—which would not be the case should tne Rebellion succeed, jmless it joins the Southern Confederation—its agricultural in terests will be ruined and its commerce utterly destroyed. This argument, of course, is intended by those who use it to have its

We have not yet the returns of the amount of Western produce transported East during the past year. TV adopt those for 1860 for the sake of comparing them with those Dy way of the Mississippi for that year a period of profound political quiet, and of great commercial prosperity at the South.-— The amount of Western produce delivered at tide water that year by the Erie Canal, New York Central, Erie, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore & Ohio Railroads, was 2,493,171 tuns. Of the articles of which this vast tunnage was composed, 1,907,563 tuns were vegetable food, and were delivered through the Erio Canal, New York & Erie and Central Railroads. The value of this tunnage was $95,378,150. The same routes delivered 437,759 tuns of animal food, valued at 551,800. If we add to the above aggregate the tunnage coming East over the Pennsylvaand Baltimore & Ohio routes, the total rlaue of Western produce reaching market over the five, that year, was fully $200,000,000.

Against this movement on the Eastern routes, there were received at New Orleans, in 1860, by way of the Mississippi River, according to the returns in the New Orleans

Price Current, the standard commercial journal of that cily, 965,860 barrels of flour, 13,116 sacks of wheat, 1,722,037 sacks of corn, 659,550 bushels of oats, 216,523 barrels and 1,874 hogsheads of pork, 83,922 barrels of lard, 44,934 barrels and tierces of beef, and 82,819 casks and hogsheads of bacon Reducing the flour to bushels, the total number of bushels of grain received at New Orleans, was 5,687,399, against 71,384,143 received at tide-water over the New York lines, or at least 85,000,000 bushels ovor all the fire great Eastern outlets. The

of animal food received at New Orleans in I860, was 95,700, against 437,759 by the Now York routes, or, adding the tunnage of animal food brought by the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio railroads, against probably 525,000 tuns on the five Eastern outlets of the great valley.

The exports of the abovo articles from New Orleans, in 1860, both foreign and coastwise, wore as follows:

Exports to Flour. Pork, Bacon. Lard. Beef. Cora. Bbl3. Bb'a. casss. Bbla. Bbla. S'ks. New York... 10,862 869 2718,918 9,878 37,2*3 Boston 41,624 2,097 91 1,061 1,099 22,410 Phlladelp'ft. Baltimore

0wi8ePon».247,9Sl

45,672 28,666 7 396 3,019498,910

Great Br'tn. 6,P4t *9 7,840 6,495 51,44* Cuba 6,478 1,307 1.45137,380 735 27,065

°p"ts^?!.n 74,115 3,120 305 S.481 803 14,288

Total... .386,611 »3,(J50 30,693 70,852 21,699 65*370 The value of exports of breadstuffs, from New Orleans, for 1850, beyond the Gulf of Mexico, did not exceed $600,000 the value of provisions exported did not exceed this amount the aggregate value of the two articles to Eui opean and Eastern ports did not exceed 1,200,000. In fact, the Mississippi had'almost entirely ceased, long before the breaking out of the rebellion, to be the outlet for the products of the great food-growing districts of the interior, which embrace the entire belt of the free states, including Mis souri tho artificial routes had completely superceded the natural ones. The same process would havo gone on till t^e entire export trade of the great valley bad come to be monopolized by Eastern routes to Eastern markets. The Western states luve no more dependence upon the Southern than upon Mexico or Central America and uothiug can be more preposterous than the assertion that to gratify pro™ slavery demagogues they will undo, to their certain ruin, that which has cost them BO much to achieve, and which is the cornerstone of all their prosperity and greatness.

Jgg*" The deserter. Reuben Stout, who recently killed an officer while attempting to arrest him at Delphi, in this State, has been arrested and lodged iu jail a^tbat place.

THI LAST DAY OF GUACE.—To-morrow, the 31st inst., is the last day of grace to deserters from the army. Those who come in and report themselves to proper military authorities on er before ^ednesday will be dealt leniently by. Those who by their perverseness or from bad counsels, porsist in absenting themselves, will be shot to death. Coaxing ends witti Tuesday night, and shooting commences afterwards. DE sorters might as well make up their minds and "come down" at once, or, like Scott's coon, they will be made to do so.

WHEBK THE DAAFT is TO BK FIBST.—The New York Evening Post states that tho United States Dispatch Agent of that city has received a letter from the State Department, explaining the order recently published requiring a military bond from persons liable to draft under the enrollment act. He says that act has been revoked, except in those States which have uot yet furnished their compliment of nine months' militia. Therefore we conclude that there will be no draft soon in Indiana and the other States which have furnished their complement of militia, under the first and second calls.

Sol. Hushaw, a wealthy citizen of

Fountain county, put an end to his existence Thursday evening last in the following manner: He was in the town of Attica during the afternoon, and, in conversation with several of the citizens, stated that he belonged to a certain secret political order, the first oath of which he could conscientiously take, but the second and third were treason and, in consequence of having divulged some of the secrets of the order, he feared they would kill him. He finally concluded to pnt an end to bis existence, and, with a pistol, shot himself through the brain on the stree

To the Editor of the Wabash Express: Sis: Half a century ago, I aided through the Garland Republican, (in Mew York) in opposing the treasonous course ©f the Peace Party, against the Democratic Administration of JameS Madison ted and the gallant armies then-engaged hi the second war for American Independence

For the last 4tj yearn. as tn editor, and sometimes as a correspondent for other papers, I have labored, to promote the general interests ol «edqcatiou. morals, -agricultural, manufacturing, internal improvements, and to enforce the vast interests of "preserving," in our Government tha "prestative landmarks" of The fathers. In ail those efforts I have been persistently opposed, by those who are now teaching the rlariruie-i ul peace, compromise, and resistance to the laws of oar State and National Governments.

Durieg this period I have traveled exclusively in Western Indiana, and watched the movements of those demagogues, and the tendency of their stratagems to convert this into a slavo State, and prepare the minds ot tho people, to join in this rebellion. In the

.weight in destroying whatever attachment cf year of 1824, I battled against calling a cona commercial character may exist between the East and the West.

THOMAS A. HXNDRICKS seems to have fathered this doctrine in Indiana, and it has been, and is now defended by politicians ot the democratic school in the Western States. A very brief examination, however( into the geographical and commercial relations of the West will speedily dispel the show of plausibility to this argument and relieve the public apprehension in reference to the interruption of the present commercial relations between the Eastern and Northwestern States:

veutiou to chango our Constitution. At various times I called attention to a confederation ot foreign emissaries and domestic traitors to sever this Union—which lead to a com binatin against me which assa.led, and prostrated my pecuniary interests, leaving me in the winter of life to struggle with penury, or eat the bread of dependence..

At the commencement of this rebellion, I issued "The Stars and Stripes" at Sullivan, to contend against a spirit of treason, with which the leaders of the Peace compromise, and disunion pirty were rampant. In defiance of all their efforts, however with traitors from abroad, and their "traitorous" organ to aid their, thiiteen companies, comprising as large a proportion of patriotic and brave men, as has gone from any county in the State, marched to the rescue of our Democratic Const tution and Government. By falsehoods, circulated before and after my first issue the opinions of many were forestalled against my publications, and, the tremendous drain upon any patronage, by the volunteering of loyal men—together with a loss I sustained by fire and the rise in printing materials, and various other impediments, iu one year and nine mouths, I became unable to keep up the contingent expenses, and was compelled to suspend my publications This could have been avoided, only, by an organization of the friends of the Union, and a little aid from abroad bnt my immediate duties in the office, would not admit of a diversion of efforts and, my labors, anxieties, and mortification, induced a disease, which has held mo fast from tho time of suspending my publications until the present. Some of the loaders, who stripped mo of my pecuniary so illegally years ago, are now dissuadin our fellow citizens, from sustaining or obeying the laws of the land, and endeavoring to

lead

them into ruin, by uniting in bringing on a collision of £arms at home. Many of

those

those are credulous, and maybe led astray by traitorous leaders, and the circulation of their traitorous organs at home, and kindred publications from abroad, many of which are gratuitously circnlatcd. As in other counties, many of these men, liable to be misguided by the Confederates of Southern usurpers, are the descendents of my old Pioneer companions. They are my acquaintances, and many of them my personal friends.

By placing the admonitions of loyal Democrats before them, they may be brought to a knowledge of the truth. The appeals of the two Democratic leaders, at the commencement of, and during this rebellion, have had a tremondons influence, in and of the recruiting service, and were the means of driving the 8th of January Peace party, leaders, to the declaration that they were war Democrats. But the appeals of Douglas, Andy Johnson, Joseph A. Wright, &c., &c., &c, are held here as strictly contraband, by traitor leaders and their ororgans, as they are by those of Jeff. Davis' minions in the South. The masses of rural citizens seldom get to see the appeal, admonitions, and arguments of the loyal and true democratic leaders. They need "more light that they may be "warned of approaching danger."

It is from no vindictive or egotistical principles that thus refer to mv past labors, and endeavor, through your paper, to place the freemen of Sullivan county and vicinity right, before their fellow citizens. And the desire to serve them more effectually, and do all I can in the defense of my country, together with returning health, makes me more than anxious to resume tho publication of the "Stars and Stripes," and »o leave the enjoyments of home, and return to my post, and labor dilligently, patiently, and perseveringly, until this war is closed, laying the appeals and admonitions above referred to— as well as those from our gallant and loyal armies—contrasting them with the hypocritical prolossions and traitorous doctrines ol the leuJers of the peace, traitorous, disunion confederation of the North, whose every effort is put forth to create rebellion at home, aud civil war and bloodshed among their fellow citizens, force Indiana out of the Union, and crush out the liberties and rights of the nihgses beneath the iron heel of a Southern despotism.

That I have never been the tool or hireling of any party organization—those who have known me from my early manhood will testify—and there are hundreds such in the Wabash valley. But now I am forced to assert ray affiliation with those who are uncompromising Union men, determined to '•fight on aud fight ever," until the last rebel shall bo compelled to bite tho dust, or lay down his arms in submission to the Constitution and laws of this democratic government.

I now say, that I know of position wherein I can be more useful to tho cause of my country than the one I propose, 1 therofore say to my friends in Sullivan and vicinity, that I shall look to them for an effort to as certain the amount that can be raised in their neighborhoods to defray the contingent expenses for another year, and also appeal to the whole Union party to ascertain what can be raised for the same purpose, in all this region, to susta'm this enterprise, and let me be fully informed by the 30th of the ensuing month. The cause is a common one, and light scattered in that region may be more beneficial to the residents of other sections, than though my labors were performed in their immediate locality. All the means furnished shall be strfctlv appropriated.

Daniel

S.

J. W. OSBORN.

Woods' Hill Station, Vigo Co., Match 26.

THE Tna Fiiro.—The point of time when Bragg's rebel army at Mnrfreesboro fonnd itself defeated by Gen. Eo6ecrans, is fixed with precision bj this circumstance On the afternoon of Friday, bodies of rebel troops, were hurriedly passing in the rear and through the town, and seeing the slightly wounded of the national troops, at the windows of the academy in which they had been placed by their captors, hailed them with the significant language, "Good bye, Yanks, we are trotting again."

jy A gentleman in course' of converse» tain with Gen. Hooker lest week remarked that he had a son in his army. "Before ninety days," replied 'lighting Joe,' 'yon will be prouder of that fact than of any fact of your life.'

Dickinson on Democracy and the War.

Mr. DiBkfnson net be'nr^l«l^*S«m^ the great Union Meeting at Toledo, wJtfte the tfrtldwing lett$L_t J£

ALBAS*. March*ft, L^B.

Gentlemen: I wish -X -could frespo^fd to jour generous invitation of the 5th inst., by attending your meeting of the 18th in person, bnt I shall be unable to do so, -and can only {send you my acknowledgments and the assurance of mj^sympathy.ip tfyia Iwaty note.

Of all human problems, tl» oms'fo toe most difficult of solution I®, how a loyal mind, outside of a penitentiary or mad house can, in any manner, under any pretence, to any extent, or for any purpose, aid, 'kssist, countenance, wink at,' or apologize for, the black and murderous conspiracy and rebellion which are engaged in attempting to destroy our holy hope—the Union.

Our brave soldiers who are engaged in this struggle, ten-feld more important than that which was waged for American Independence, deserve and should receive the love and thanks of every man and woman and be cheered by the united voices of a whole people, regardless of age, sex and condition, or political designation or opinion. But we must blush to own that the rebellion they aro resisting In battles of blood upon the field, dying amidst the malaria of marshes and enduring the privations of camp to crush, is justified, stimulated and encouraged by politicians at home, and that., too, in the sacred name of Democracy

O Democracy I Democracy! How many abominations are practiced in thy name!— Thomas etterson was a Democrat, for he evolved the sublimo theory of man's equality 1 Andrew Jackson was a Democrat, for he waged a war of extermination upon monopoly and privilege, and strangled the first serpent of secession by bold and inttepid measured, and by the startling ennnunciation that "The Union it must and shall bo preserved." both these great lights remained faithiul to the creed they cherished—they went to their rewards full of honors, and like the setting sun, seemed greatest as they sank to rest. They fought the good fight— they finished their course, they kept the faith. But, if Jefferson had finally changed his theories of man's equality to the advocacy of a government based upon the foundations of negro slavery and if Jackson had sought the destruction of tho Union by armed rebellion, or had justified or apologized for those who did'fjo',' they would havo better represented Demonology than Democracy, and their memories would have been scorned and execrated instead of being embalmed in a grateful nation's' heart.— Judas, so renowned in sacred history, breaks upon us as a disciple and follower of his meek and lowly master but be was BO no longer when he became copperheaded and copperhearted, and botrayed his lord to the Confederate Priests. Benedict -Arnold was the proud associate of Washington in the early history of the Revolution, and his name was upon'every tongue for military skill and intrepid daring. In an evil moment,, like modern Arnolds, he became "dissatisfied with the prosecution of the war and tha administration of tho government," seceded from his high estate, aud was a Revolutionary patriot no longer, but— "Left a traitor's name to other times, "i.inirad with one virtue aud a thousand Crimea."

More manly however than his copyists of our day, this illustrious wretch did not content himself with apologizing for and justifying those who robbed, and pillaged and murdered hii countrymen but ho entered tho service to which he had sold his polluted being, and was first and foremost in the work of havoc and destruction, with his blood-red band. And yot Judas could pass-for a worthy disciple and Arnold for a distinguished patriot, with those who believe it is good citizenship and true democracy to resist or embarrass the Governmont in its efforts to crush the rebel lion which seeks our destruction as a nation.

I am old fashioned and adhering Democrat, and believe in its su blime creed to-dav, as 1 have through a long and somewhat eventful life. But Democracy, like ooiu, may bo counterfeit, and as the true is valuable, the spurious is vile and worthless. I believe too, that no party, as such, can or should act together in the grand accomplishment. I by no means include in my sweeping and conscious designation, the great rapk and file of the Democracy, whom I know to be true to the Union; who have been misled by self-constituted and fussy leaders, by appeals to their partisan pride and prejudices, and creeds and traditions for such are as mistaken as they are honest, in clinging to their partizan stondards, and attempting the political car in the old ruts and grooves worn in

time of mere, party conflict, as though this intestine war were a bloodless cahvass for 'h# Presidency, and to be disposed of by platform and regulated by resolutions. But the selfselected leaders, those who invoke party strife, wTto direct tho partizan machinery, and would jeoyard and divide our Union if not madly di*troy the best government on earth, for the gratification of maliguant feelings and unworthy aspirations—they have my permission to take the highest nicho in the temple of infamy to which a world's opinion has assigned them for their baseness—for to day they are the mainsprings of the rebellion by promoting strife at home, and they give jit its chief aliment, and life and hopo aud endurance. They have beon by a common consent, designated Copperheads, and no name could be more appropriate. Strutting under their borrowed plumes and vain conceits, claiming officially to speak for democracy to whose creed they aeem as strangers, they boast of the many reproachful names the jdemocratic party has in other days been able to carry away triumphantly, and declare their ability to make this one reputtble and popular. But they forget that it was that democratic party which professed and practiced the principles of Jackson and Jefferson, which wero thus success ul. That it was not incumbered by treasonable leadeis of tho whole of the halfblood—that it did not attempt to uphold conspiracy and rebellion against the government, aud that so long only as its doctrines were popular and acceptable could it laugh at reproachtul names. The true democratic party might at any time havo withstood successfully the mere designation of Copperhead, but it has never sotho day and God grant that it never may, when it could endure such leadors as these, and carry ovof a murdered, crucified and dissevered Union, both a brazen head and copper heart.

An aucient fable tells us of a serpeut—it was doubt'ess a Copperhead, which gavo up the lead to the tail instead of the head that in attempting to crawl through a wall it got stuck, and remained there, indulging in outcry, too wilful to recede and unable to progress because of changing to the front its tapering tail, and such seercs now to be tho position of the party which u«wr bears a serpents name, and is executing a serpents mission—its chicl hope—its maligu and mischievous co-worker and supDorter, has already .had its day, and indications.are abundant that it is to be abandoned to its fate by those it has, by iis snaky influences, betray ed into so grave an error .ly* to apol ogize for treasou and murder, iu this attempt to destroy tho Union.— Thcj Te Deums,. so recently chanted to rebellion upon a high key, by tho sweet singers of secession, are LO louger within the compass of their voices, and they are evidently about to lower their tone, or, iu military as well as musical phrase, effect a "change of base." As spring opens, we shall see many who havo boasted of their designation of Copperheads, crawling quietly out of their political snakeskins and taking sides with tho loyal masses in crushing out the rebellion forover. Let us thon be of good cheer, ind of unfaltering purpose, and God will enable the seed of the woman, not only to bruise the head of .this political serpent, rebellion, that has wound its scaly folds into our political Eden, and thus preserve our cherished Union for coming generations.

Sincerely Youra, D. S. DICKINSON".

Messrs. H. 3. Walbridgeand others.-

Copperheads and FQtnre History. It.waa well said by Mr Brady his Brooklyn speech, that "the time will surely come when the m$n who oppose this war will be deemed more infamous than the. Tories ot the Revolution." If this fact were fitly realized, we doubt whether there are ten persons in this cflmmunity who would quietly rest a day under the name of feeing, at this crisis, in favOr of peace with the rebels. No member of society is so abandoned aa to court infamy understandiogly. When it comes to that, he is no longer a member of society—he is simply an ontcast New York Times. A it-vV.

THE STAMP ACT.—A soldier dying of a lung disease in one of the Washington hospitals, had a blister applied between his shoulders by the surgeon. The poor fellow looked waggishly at the doctor, aud grimly asked If a tpaa bad to have a stamp on bim before he could be allowed todie.

From the Wellington Chronic}*

Jefferson on Slavery.

The following,tater/tom Thosaaa Jefferson has be«n sentms by valued correspond dent, who informs \uiniat it has never be fore been published. A more complete refutation of those sopmsts who have' endear^ ored to enlist the jro«ls.and writinga of one of the greatest fathers of the Republic in the cause of slavery cpuld scarcely be found.— The terseness and vigor of the styl®, the prompt and unequivocal testimony in favcr of freedom, are characteristic of the great Trainer of the Declaration of Independence, 'and bis thoughts are singularly applicable to the piesent time:

Mojmom®, August 25,1814.

DEAR. SIR: Yeur favor of July 31st was duly received, and was read with peculiar pleasure. Tho sentiments breathed through the whole do honor to both the head and heart of the writer. Mine on the subject of the slavery of negroes have long sioce been in tho possession of the public, and time has only served to give them stronger root.— The lov« of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a mortal reproach tb ns that they should have pleaded it so long in vain, and should have produced not a single effect, nay, I fear, not much serious willingness to relieve them and ourselves from our at condition of moral and political reprobation. From thdse of the former generation who were in the fullness of age when I came into public life, (trtrich was while our controversy with England was on paper only,) I saw that nothing was to be hoped. Nnrsed and educated in the daily habit of Beoihg the degraded condition, both bodily and mental, of those unfor* tunate beings, but reflecting that degradation was very much the work of themselves and their fathers, few .minds had yet doubted but that they were as legitimate subjocts of property as their horses or cattle. The quiet and monotonous course of colonial life had been disturbed and no alarm, and little reflection on the value of liberty. And when alarm was taken at an enterprise of their own, itwas not easy to carry them the whole ength of the principles which they had invoked for themselves. In the first or second session of the Legislature, after I became a member, I drew to this subject the attention Of Colonel Bland, one of the oldest ablest ani most respected members, and be undertook to move for certain moderate extensions of the laws of the people. I seo onded his motion, and as a younger member was no more spared in the debate bnt he was denounced as an enemy to his country, and was treated with the greatest indecorum.—

From an early stage of revolution other and more distant duties were assigned to me, so that from that time till my return from Europe, in 1789, I had little opportunity of knowing the pro-

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of public sontimenthere on this subject, had always hoped that the younger generation, receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty bad been kindled iu every breast, and had become as it were the vital spirit of every American, that the generous tcmporament of youth, analogous to she motion of their blood, and above the suggestions of averice, would have sympathized with oppression wherever found, and would have proved their love of liberty beyond their own share of it. But my intercourse with them since my return has not been sufficient to ascertain that they made towards this point the progress I had hoped. Your solitary but welcome voice is the first which has brought this sound to my ears, and I have considered tho general silence which prevails on this subject, as indicating an apathy unfavorable to every hope. Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing in the march of time. It will come and whether brought on by the generous energy of our minds or by the bloody process of St. Domingo, excited and conducted by the power of- our present ettemy, is once stationed permanently within our country, offering asylum and arms to the oppressed, is a leaf of our history not yet turned over.— As to the method by which this difficult work is to be effected, if permitted to be dono by ourselves, I havo soon no proposition so expedient, on the whole as that of emancipation of those born after a given day, and of their education and expatriation at a proper age. This would givo time ior the gradual extinction of that species of labor and substitution of another, and lesson the severity of the shock vhich an operation so fundamental would produce. The idea of emancipating the whole at once, the old as well as the young, and retaining them here, is of those only who have not the guide either of knowledge er experience of the subject. For men, probably of any color, but of this color we know, brought up from their infancy without necessity for thought or forecast, are by their habits rendered as incapable a3 children of taking care of themselvos, aud aro extinguished promptly wherever industry is necessary for raising the young. In the meantime they are pests in society by their idleness and depredations to which this leads them. Their amalgamation with the other color produces a degradation to which no lover of his country, no lover of excellence in human character can innocently consent. I am sensible of the partialities with which you have looked to me as the person who should undertake this salutary out aitluous work. But this, my dear sir, is like bidding old Priam to buckle the armor of Hector, "trementibus aevo humeris et inutile ferrum eregere.'1 No, I have outlived the generation with which mutual labors and perils began mutual influence and confidence. This enterprise is for the young for those who can follow it up, and bear it through its consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are tho only weapons of an old man. But in the meantime are von right in abandoning this property and your country with it I think not. My opinion has ever been that, until more can be done for them, we should endeavor with thoso whom fortune on our bands, to feed and clotho them well, protect them from ill— usuage, require such reasonable labor as per formed voluntarily by freemen, and led by no repugnances to abdicate them and our duties to them. The laws do not permit us to turn them loose, if that were for their good, and to commute them for other property is to commit them to those whoso usage we cannot control.

I hope, then, you will, my dear sir, reconcile yourself to your country and its un« fortunate condition that you will not losseo its stock of sound disposition by withdrawing your portion from the mass that, on the contrary, you will corac forward in the public councils, become the missionary of this doctrine, truly Christian insinuate and inculcate it softly, but steadily, through the medium of writing and conversation associate others in your labors, and when the phalanx is formed, bring on and press the proposition perseveringly until its accomplishment. It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, it duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end. We have proof ot this in the histo ry of the endeavors in the British Parliament to suppress tho very trade which brought the evil upon us. And you will be supported by the religious precept, "Bo not weary in well doing." That your sue cess may be as speedy and complete as it will be honorable and immortal consolation to vourself, I shall as fervently and sincerely pray, as I assure you of my greit friendship and rescect.

THOMAS JEFFERSON.

EPWAHD COLKS, Esq.

THE Savannah Republican, of the 19tb, contains tho following, which is another 'item of evidence going to show the alarm on the food question prevalent in the South:

To the Officers and Members of the General Assembly: I am satisfied that developments have clearly shown the necessity for further legislation, at an early day, to secure the use of all our productive labor this year, in the cultivation of our lands in grain and other articles nt oessary to sustain life, and not in cotton, tobacco, or like productions, and to prevent the destruction of food by distillation.

As the public exigencies do, therefore, in my opinion, require the General Assembly to oonvene at an earlier day than fixed for your meeting when you last adjourned, I issue this my proclamation, requiring you, and each of you, to assemble in your respective halls in the Capitol, in this city, on Wednesn day, the 25th day of this present month, at ten o'clock A. M.

Given under my hand and tho great soal of the State, at the Capitol, in the eity of Mill edgevillo, this Uth day of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixtythree. JOSEPH E. BROWN. By the Governor:

N. C. BsyKETT, Seeretary of State.

MT Archbishop Hughes, when oalled on by the Assessor for his return of silver plate, liable to tax under the United States Revenue law, rendered twelve thousand and forty ounces, with the remark: "You need not exempt me forty ounces the country require# all the ta*."

T8, Cot-

National Retribnlioas—Iroa too. It would be a singular instance of relribu" a a

tive justice if tbopreaent civil war, which was undertaken in the interest ofthe cotton trade •hoitld result not only in the low of that trade to the Sooth, but in lecunng ta the North a much more valuable commercial monopoly—the international iion trade. It seems, however, now certain that these two consequences of the rebellion must follow. While the blockade of Southern ports is suspending, if not ruining the cultivation of cotton in that section, the necessities and efects of the war are developing rapidly, and to a vast extent, the iron manufacture of the North, which promises at nor remote period to give to the loyal States* 6f the American Union the oontrol of the iron trade of the world. That such must be the ultimate result will be apparent to him who properly measures the importance of these two facts, viz. that the new uses and applications of iron to war purposes suggested, or whose utility has been demonstrated by this contest must vastly increase the demand for this material and, secondly, that we possess greater resources for its production than ull the other nations of the world combined.— The effects of these new uses of iron in war will not bo either temporary or local, aa might at first be supposed. Every new invention or improvement adopted by one country, especially of a military character, becomes necessary to and Is adopted by other countries—belongs, in fact, to the civilization of the age. For intance, the vast increase of our navy, in so large a proportion of iron and iron clad vessels, with their novel and wonderful resources of attack and defence, will be followed, as a measure of self-defence, by the proportionate increase and reconstuction of tho English, French, and Spanish war marine, and ultimately of the navies of the world. So also American ingenuity is developing new uses of iron, by improvements in military engineering, as in tho protection of forts by iron plating, which must soon be generally adopted, and otherwise by illustrating the great advantages of this material of construction for barracks, storehouses, ship-yards, docks, marine and military hospital, bridges, aqueducts, &e.,

These new improvements in and consequent new uses of iron will increase its consumption, as it were, in a geometrical ratio, and must soon create a demand for its product ion which enly the loyal States of the Union can supply.

The following speculations upon the future of the iron trade we extract from a paper upon the statistics and geograpbv of the production of iron, read by E. S. Hewitt, Esq., before the American Geographical Society in 1856. They will be perused with a strange interest at this time: "I have been at great pains to trace the increase of the consumption of iron by the world, and to form an accurate idea of its future demands. I have called your attention to the fact that even cow the resources of Great Britain have been so taxed to meet the existing demand as to increase the cost of iron, (I do not mean the price,) becauso the miners aro driven to less favorable localities to produce adequate supplies of the raw material. If the production of three and a half millions of tons per annum has made each ton cost more than it did when the production was only two millions, the addition of another million must have a corresponding effect. But the world will want and must have the other million, and two of them, aud three of them, and unless other countries aud in the supply the price will rise far above our present cost of production. It seems to be the inevitable conclusion from the facts I have just stated that this day is not far distant." * * * "If so, it becomes interesting to inquire from what quarter of the globe the surplus is to come in the main. I think that I shall be able to satisfy you that but one nation can fill the required elementary conditions, and that country is the United States. "But abundance of iron ore does not suffice for the cheap production of iron. Mineral coal must be also abundant and easily accessible. In order to indicate the relative position of the leading nations of the globe in this respect I have copied a diagram from

Taylor's great work on coal, showing the available areas of mineral coal in each country, by which it appears that the United States stand first on the list, that out of 184,073 square miles of coal area our country has 133,132, or nearly three-fourths of the whole amount, and sixteen times as much as Great Britain and Ireland together. It is to be observed that this coal exists in noarly every State of the Union, or where it does net exist it is readily accessible to the main deposits of iron ore in the non-bearing coal States. At the most important localities for the purpose of making immense bodies of coal exist above tho water level, whereas in England it has to be veined and raised from the depths of the earth. Measuring by tne coal areas, and iron ore being equally abundant it is the true standard, the United States can produce 50,000,000 tons per annumwith as little drain upon its natural resources as Great Britain can produce three and a half millions of tons."

The same author informs us that "from 1746 to 1855 the production of iron has increased seventy-fold. (It now amounts to seven millions of tons per annum.) If the same rate of increase should prevail for one hundred and fifteen years to come, the annual make would reach 490,000,000 of tons, and it is to be observed that the ratio of increase is an increasing one ior each period of ten years since 1740, and uot a decreasing one."

About one-half of the present product is consumed by non producers, or by those who do not produce it, aud forms the basis of the international trade. Assuming that the same relations of production and consumption shall continue, and estimating the value of iron at $50 per ton, as pigs, liars, and plates, and every arithmetician can calculate for himself the future value of the iron trade which is about to fall into our hands. Suffice it to say that facts and figures conduct the judgment to conclusions which startle even the imagination of their grandeur.

THE following dispatch from General Saxton forms the moBi important contribution yet made to the solution of the problem offered by the rebellion. It should be remembered that Gen. Saxton is a thorough military man, not originally exempt from the prejudices of other officers, of the army, and that it is purely as a litary man that he bears this testimony to the .triumphant success of the policy of arming escaped slaves "ifibAuroaT, S. C., March 14,1863, "To Hon. E. M. Stanton, Sec'y of War: "Sia: I have the honor to report that the expedition which I sent up the St. Johns river, Florida, consisting ot the first regiment South Carolina volunteers, Col. Higginson, commanding, and a portion of the 2d South Carolina volunteers, under Col. Montgomery, captured and took posisession of the town of Jacksonville, on Tuesday the 10th inst. "As 1 stated in my last report to you, the object of tho expedition was to occupy Jacksonville and 'make it the base of operations tor arming the negroes, and securing in this way possession of the entire Stato of Florida. It gives me pleasure to report that so far the objects of the expedition have been fully accomplished. The town is completely in our possession, with many prisoners. There has been constant skirmishing goiog on for several days, and in daring action the negro troops have behaved with the utmost braveiy. Never in a single instance can I learn that they have fliucbed. It Is my belief that scarcely an incident in this war has caused a greater panic throughout the Southern coast than this raid of of the colored troops in Florida. The negroes are collecting at Jacksonvilo from all quarters, "lam, sir, with great respect, "R. SAXTON, "Brigadier General Volunteers."

Th« Lafayette Courier says: "Au honest soldier of the 40th Indiana regiment, whose mind had been poisoned by the treasonable teachings of the Cincinnati Enquirer, one day came to headquarters and Inquired of Colonel Blake if greenbacks were really going down. 'Greenbacks will go down,' replied the gallant Colonel,'when you go down. The blue coats and the greenbacks are in tbe same beat, and must sink or swim together.' «"Then,'said the soldier, 'a discount on greenbacks is a discount en ns?' "•That's it exactly,' said the Colonel 'and aa long as we win victories in the field, greenback will be worth a premium.'"

|3y The discbarge papers of Daniel W. Dwire, of Company I, 43d regiment, who died near Memphis, Tenn., February 11th, 1863, have been sent to E. B. Allen, County Auditor, to deliver to his relatives. Hut relativet, if residing here, will pleaae oall ind get tb«M pipers.

[from the Atlantic Monthly tor April.] Th« Cait and the Weit

phta poem wa» written bjr Theodore Wlethrop seven jeara ago, and after tots death was rcona among bia unpublUhed papers.] We of the Kaat spread oar sail* te tha w»,

Ton of the Went stride over the land Both are to icaUer the hope* of the Free. As the www fheda golden grain from hand.

Ha oare to circle the stormy bends *24 Of a continent, yoara Ita ridge to croea We most double the capes where along world end*,

Lone cliff* where to llmltleaa oceans tosaThey meet and are baffied 'mid tempest and wrath,f Breetea are tklrmlthiag, angry winds roar. Wblle poised on aome desperate plunge of o*r P*1"

We connt np the blackening wrecks on the shor*. And jron through dreary and thirsty »*)', Where river* are sanaa and wtaoe ar» dwt, Through sultry nights and fevertah days. Ji "Tore westward still ae the aaaset must Where the worthed air quivers along the slopes,

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Where the slow-footed cattle lie down and die. Where horizons draw backward tilt bafled hopes Are weary of measirelesa waste ani sky* Tes, our* to battle relentless gales,

And yonrs the brave and the patleat way

Bat we'hold the storms In oar trns ty salt*, And for you the life giv(t:g fbnatali Ins play. There are star* above ns, and stars for you—

Rest on the path, calm on the main: Storms are bnt zephyrs, when hearts are ti us: We are no weaklings, quick to complain. When lightnings flash bivoaac Ores Into gloom,

And irith crashing of forests the rains alreet down— Or when ship* plunge onward where night-cloafs loom,

Defiant of darkness aud meeting its frown. These are the days ef motion and march Now we are ardent, and yonng, and brave: Let them that come alter ns bnlld the arch

Of our triumph, and plant with the laurel our grave Time enough to rear temples when heroes are dead

Time enough to tin pxana after the flghI Prophet* urge onward the ftitnre's tread ,,,, We—we are to klnll? it.* beacon light. Our sires Ut torches of qncnchleaa flame

To illumine our darkness, If night should be Bnt day is a friend to oar standard* an1 shin* Be onrs, if we win not a victory I Man is nobler than men have been—

Sou!* are vaster than eonl- have dreamed There aro btoader oceans than eyes have seen, Moons morr.glowtng than yet nave beamed. Creeping hadows cower low on onr land

These Jhali not dim our grander day Stainless knights must be these who stand'' Full In tbe van of a world's array I Wh»u shall we cease our meagre distrust

When to each other our true hearts yield? To make tho world an Eden, we must Fling away each weapon and shield. And meet each man as a friend and male, ^.Trample and spurn, and forget onr prld*. Ql«d to accept an equal fate,

Laboring, conquering side by side.

Putting the Thing Right. Some weeks ago, there appeared in the State Sentinel, a card, purporting to have been sigped by many of the soldiers of Company F, 14th Regimeut Ind. Vols and alleging that the resolutions adopted by that regiment in regard to the prosecution of tbe war, and censuring the Democratic members of our late Legislature, were not, fairly voted upon. The card afterwards appeared in the News Sheet. It turns out that tho card was a false one as tho following card from the soldiers referred to, which we take from the State Journal shows -.

Camp of the 14th Reg't Indiana Vol's Falmouth, Va., March 15,1863. } Ed. Journal: "We, the undersigned members of Company F, 14th Regiment Indiana Volunteers, have observed with displeasure that there appeared in a late number of the Sentinel (March 5th) a "card" purporting to have been signed by us, which totally misrepresents our feelings, and places us in a false position toward our comrades in arms, and we desire through the medium of youpaper to set ourselves right before them and our friends at home.

We therefore unhesitatingly denounce the aforesaid "card" as a batch of unmitigated lies, which places Col. Cavins in the false position of a political schemer. Nothing could have tended less to bias the minds of the soldiers than the action of Col. Cavins, who simply said to them, "if you like these resolutions vote for them, if you dislike them vote against them," and except the remarks of Sergeant Richardson no speech on the resolutions was made.

We emphatically deny ever having signed such a statement as appeared in the Sentinel, or authorized any one to sign the same for us. We profess to be men of common sense, who know our own minds, and do not require any one to think or act for us, particularly one whom evidences show to he disloyal to the Government. R. K. Kirtly, John M. Jones, F. W. Butler, Mills Senny, John Gannon, Wm. Huff, John Lencus, Jehiel Fisk, Chas. Henderson, Henry Martin, Ed. B. Wreth, E E Jenkins, Abner Prather, Henry Slusaer, J.E.Thomas, Wm. Summers.

Ma. EDITOR: I certify that this is a correct copy of an article over the same signatures which appeared in that paper aa stated above, showing plainly that the article in the Sentinel (March 5th) was a base forgery.

Very respectfully, NDB. SHE GARLAND

LLEDY.

Oapt

Co. F., 14th Ind.

Bounty to Discharged Soldiers. In response to several correspondents who make inquiries concerning the recent act ot Cengrtss on the subject of bounties to discharged volunteers, we give the text of the act itself. It may be found by those who have access to official copies of the acts of the late Congress, in the sixth section of an Act "to promote the efficiency of the Corps of Engineers, and for other purposes," and it reads as follows:

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"Section 6. And be it further enacted, that all payments of advanced bounties made to enlisted men who have been discharged before serving out the time required by law for its payment in full, shall be allowed in the settlement of the accounts of the paymasters at the Treasury, but hereafter, in all such cases, the amount so advanced shall be charged against the enlisted, unless the discharge be upon surgeon's certificates for wounds received or sickness incurred since their last enlistment."

It appears from the above that those who are discharged sick or wounded are to have the benefit of their bounty advance, without deduction, and that all other discharged soldiers are to have the advanced bounty deducted from their pay at the time of final settlement.

[From Correspondence Cleveland Fl&ln Dealer.] Au Elopement in Baltimore. Something so good transpired here tbe other day, that I can't help telling you though the names are high-wrought and fictitious tbe facts are unalloyed. Mrs. Brown (husband living) fell in love with Mr. Jones, bnt could not enjoy his company, because MrBrown was too much at home. Therefore Mrs. B. was induced without muoh coaxing, to elope with tbe lover Jones. .All was arranged to leave, 011 tbe early Washington train last Friday.* The buaband got wind of the affair, went down to the depot, on the morning designated, and unobservedly 'ocated the two, then went down the traek a few rods, and waited for the train to pass. As it came along,(she hod the window open —women always have windows open when they should be closed), Mr. Brown took off his hat and waved hia handkerchief, while yelling at th« top of his voice, "Goodl Good!'I'm glad vou're going—hurrah for me—good riddance/' &o. Mrs. Brown at first looked amazed, then sneered, then made very ugly faces, then shook her fist and head at Mr Brown—then outsiders lost thier view, and insiders relate that when Mr, Brown was no longer visible tc the faithless wife, she turned fiercely upon her seducer and. almost pounded the face off of bim. He was glad to get iu tbe smeking car. At the first station, Mrs. Brown got off and walked back to Baltimore, a repentant if not a better woman.

Siqptov—Tho

again.

Browns are living together

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ScAacrrtr or FOOD IM TH*SOMIU-TA.letter received in Boston from a lady living in South Carolina, says thegreateat scarcity of foods exists in the State. The grain crops laat fall were not up to the average, and it was impossible to obtain sufficient supplies in consequence of the occupation of various points by the Federal troops. The writer predicts that long ere the coming of another harvest the seareity will be so general and severe aa to be productive of the most terrible results.

Our dispatches yesterday morning from varijOi sources,are in ull confirmation of this,and •how that the rebels are suffering greatly for the want of food and the actual necemriet of lift. W fer./tV,