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EiTtJEDAT.MAT 10, 1883.
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The hobble of Southern independence of
the North is buret, never to be revived
seain. Her statesmen now. stand face to
toce with the reaction of their ffivontc
theory of non-intercourse. We cannot tell
UKshalf of the misery it has already in
flicted on their people: for they permit ns
to know US little of their destitution as
possible. But the feet of widespread
suffering for want of Northern pro
ducts, leaks out from every quarter.
Non-intcrcoursc by land and sea is doing
ita perfect work. The French Minister, in
his recent visit to Richmond, was every
where shown only the bright side of the
picture; hut the Captain of the James
Eiver steamer was unable to furnish him 1
with a cup of tea or coffee. Some British j
ladies of rank, gntsls of the wife of Gov
ernor Pickens, recently left Charleston.
Their hostess frankly acknowledged the
sad effects of non-intercourse, by begging
them as a personal favor to leave be
hind their needles and spool-cotton. The
socks and drawers sent to Federal prison
ers at Richmond, were filched by rebel
officers. If this be not proof of extreme
destitution, it is proof of amonomamator
stealing, Which has no pamhclmthc his
tory of human depravity. Every danger
i£ braved, every dishonor incurred, m this
struCEle to obtain articles of Northern man
ufacture— those very articles, the purchase |
of which was said to be impoverishing the
South'. The rebellion has exploded many
bubbles, but none more completely than
the bubble of Southern independence of
Northern mechanics.
We hope that the harder State Senators and Rep
w*of.ntstire« and all conservative members, ivul
SSri*S« a rnomerU to retort, if it becomes two
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TOcifcthe ECBtlmcntß ofDemocrats of this Sta£-. If
J Jeot time for the Government to lavits strong
taud on thh JnfcmoM sheet and to treat it ar the
■Sew York JVf >w , Freeman's Journal and at. Louts
'Christian AiaraUntm treated, then we cannot
see why apologies and damages are not tee th l ;
pTpprietotaof those papers. Itlshlgh time this
oxn encouragement to treason was stopped.-
Quitictls-lS- HfpuhUcaTi.
Hie eagerness -with the 2 ima
ctatched at the rumor above referred to,
sod the gleaming satisfaction with which j
it spread it upon its columns, was entirely
true to itself and its sympathizers. The
men whom loyal Detroiters frightened
into the semblance of decency, jast af
ter ho bad threatened that the Dmon ar
mies would find “a fire in the rear,” is
lust the one to esnlt in so dangerous a to
ken of disaster to the Government as the
violent disruption of Congress. The Gov
ernment, according to the Chicago Tam,
is the Slave Power, and to that alone is it
loyal. The only dangers it sees in the
present time are perils to the institution of
Human Cbattelism: and in that Congress I
■will not sell itself to the behests of the
slave drivers. The Times fervently prays for
some nigger-whipping Cromwell to dis
solve the Assembly and clear tbe Capital.
"We need not state here that the story is
utterly without foundation. The state
ment, originally made in a Ne « York jour
nal, that the Border (slave) State members
of Congress ate deliberating upon a propo- !
apon to leave Congress and force upon the
country a new issue, or a new revolution,
is pronounced by them to be false. Among
the slave State members, every one ot them
pronounced a fiat denial to tbe story.
It answered the purpose ot the Chicago
Time? just as welt, however, as if it had
been true; and inasmuch as an unmasking
ofsncliscceesion sympathizers in our midst
is useful, so the public are the gamers by
the rumor.
U3f The New York World is abusing
Secretary Stanton for “having opposed a
request ’’ of Gen. McClellan for more troops.
It assails him for refusing to send the whole
of McDowell's corps to Torktown to rein
force McClellan. Ho did consent to lot
half of it go, (Franklin’s division), and left I
McDowell with hut 20,000 men to guard
Washing-ton from a coup dc main. It is
alleged by the World and its echoes that
the failure to send the remainder of Mc-
Dowell's corps prevented the capture of
the whole rebel army at Yorklown! The
Chicago Times and its ally copy and en
dorse this absurd story and pitch into the
truth is, the President himself I
peremptorily refused to strip Washington
of all its defenders. He gave McClellan
considerably more than two-thirds of the
whole Potomac army. Banks’s column,
operating from Harper’s Ferry south along
the Shenandoah valley, and half of Mc-
Dowell's corps employed to guard the
National Capital and the line of the
Rappahanock are all the troops retained
from McClellan of the 230,000 men of
which the “anaconda" army consisted.
The President thought that more could not
safely he spared, and that he had enough
to drive the rebels before him, and the
result sustains his judgment. The rebels
retreated from their strong position with
out risking a battle—thereby admitting
their inferiority, and the news now comes
that they have suffered a severe reverse at
Williamsburg at the hands of the advance
guard of McClellan's force.
The Secretary of War concurred in the
opinion of the President, and all the at
tacks made upon the former are equally
made on the latter. Had the President
dispatched all of McDowell’s Division to
Torktown he would have been obliged to
withdrew Banks from the Shenandoah to
protect Washington, which would have
given the rebel General Jackson a chance
to have crossed the Potomac and made a
dash on Baltimore. As the case now
stands the columns of Banks and McDow
ell not onlv shield Maryland and the Capi
tal from rids, but are menacing the rear
of the rebel position, and rendering
Richmond untenable. It can no
longer be defended by holding the
peninsula against McClellan’s army. The
rebels are caught between two fires, and
instead of becoming the assailants on the
Potomac, are placed on the defensive. The
next news will probably bo that they have
abandoned Richmond and retreated up
the Blue Eldge to Danville. The enemies
of the vigorous Secretary of War must try |
some other point of assault upon him than
Ids concurrence with the President in de
clining to strip the line of the Potomac of
soldiers for no other reason than to add
half an army corps to a force already far
outnumbering tbc opposing enemy.
-wanted to bbnx.
Wanted to rent immediately from the
dale of their completion, five hundred good
tenements at an annual rent each of from
kSCO to S4OO. Also five hundred tene
ments to rent at from S2OO to S3OO. Also
one thousand homes for mechanics and la
borers, at from five to twelve dollars per
mouth'. The advertisement is bona fide.
These tenements arc really wanted, and
that they are not forthcoming is an injury
to the city. And these three classes of rent
houses include the range which is Ctrmore
important to our city than the structures
in brown stone and marble, We want
them forthwith and this year. The old
time wooden buildings, at present tene
ment houses of the cheaper class, are a dis-
grace to civilization. Their owners who
year after year receive the full value of the
house in monthly rent, if possessed of a
gense of shame, should begin to blush
■when once the tenements they lease
come in view. "Were the case ours, we
should go through some other street, unless
■we were to sharp chase of some delinquent 1
tenant. IVhat is wanted in the first class
named, are homes for the middle class of
tenants, and let us whisper it in your ear,
these are the best and most stable class.
These are they who less frequently break
up house-keeping, go off into sharp pursuit
of style in twelve hundred dollar taber
nacles, with a full eruption of minors, rose-
■wood and brocatdlc, and then subside
away in an auction. The middle class
once located, only hang ont the ted Sag of
the auctioneer when it signals some family
change, after the old, old fashion—death, or
a distant removal. Once in houses that
meet their wants and are adapted to their
convenience, and the lamp post at the cor
ner is not more a fixture in their part of the
city. For these good people want what wo
have not yet, five hundrcd>eat, compact
city-built homes in enduring brick. A
door-yard isa good thing for the family,hut
we mnst begin to surrender them. One
cannot live in a door yard. We know of
some of our readers who are not much
better off. The city dwelling of the middle
class, not suburban, must fill the front of
its lot, and let ns pray that a law may he
passed (it is good common law now), for
bidding, under penalty, any front of less ,
than twenty feet to be called a lot and
treated as such. We know of several ami-,
able families very miserable m marble
houses for the lack of a restnetron of
this kind. Twenty feet, then, to each
house—and still better twenty-five. Go
on -mod architect, and lay ont the;
premises. Let us tell you where ;
to begin. At the very centre of the home—
the kitchen. Give us that liberal, with ah
the ofilecs well arranged. Cut off, if
you dare, one single inch of wall that
shall lift the ceiling high aloft. Remedy
at once and at the outset the cru
el fallacy that a kitchen is something to be
ashamed of and slid away into insignifi
cance. Dish-cupboard,-pantry, sink room,
lay them all out, and liberally, and keep
vour pencil from a single stroke at the other
part of the house until this is done, so,
well now a dining-room, and then the par
lors- and in the houses of which we are
writing, and to which city homes must
come, we reach these by a flight of stairs
We are not to go through the house
hut we do implore that it he not finished
until it Ms a closet in ntry room. If guilt
were measured in proportion to the nnhap
piness caused the human race, and were
vice its own reward in making the guilty
miserable, there are not a few house build
ers and arcliitects who must he the most
■wretched of men.
"We want five hundred of these houses to
rental from $25 to $40 per month. We
suggest them as a sure and safe investment
for capital. And the same is true of the
next lower class in the tenant scale, the
small families, the prudent young couples
just embarking in matrimonial life. What
has Chicago to offer to these that would not
astonish new comers from older cities, used
to tenements cheap and neat withal Y
What would Boston or Sew Tork or
Philadelphia say to the dingy little taber
nacles on our —street,or - street? (the
TJnnkß may he filled in numerously from a
liberal list.) We must have something
better, and the capitalist who leads the way
in Chicago in providing cheap tenements
will strike a profitable vcin,andheapublic
benefactor, two results not always so close
ly united.
And then in the third class : What en
couragement has the manufacturer to locate
here, where his workmen cannot live and
bring up families and maintain their self
respect. When few houses that are habitable
can be found at a rent less than $l5O, and
the mechanic from Lowell or Manchester,
or some Eastern city has been accustomed
to a pleasant home for half that stun, what
is the inevitable effect but to drive away
the mechanic with pride in his family, and
hang out a premium for his more worth
less fellows who vegetate, homeless and
dissipated.
Therefore, finally, wanted all these homes
at once. And as fist as finished they will
be filled. It is a reform in the domestic
Vile of out city that is greatly needed, for
we have become a hy-word with more fa
vored but less prosperous communities
where it is no marvel to find a landlord
whose pride is in comfortable and
tasteful tenements, am},- the species
is far more valuable to any city
than that which we begin to fear is
far more common in Chicago, which has a
pride in gains wrung from squalid and
pinched houses growing worse year by
year. Shall we have the houses called for ?
Many of the city readers of the TnrausE
will say Amen __
gg- The London Timet says thia coun
try trill come out of the present struggle
■weakened and impoverishtd, and that it
■will never regain Us former strength. False
prophet —ungenerous enemy! There is no
durable greatness which has not been tem
pered with trial. The oak gains strength
under tie harsh storms of winter no less
than under the genial suns of summer..
Perhaps vre needed a lesson of hardship
and adversity. Perhaps we were growing
too fast for our good—expanding without
hardening.
gome men insist that because no
allusion was made to slavery in organizing 1
the Territory of Dacotah, it should also be
omitted in the act organizing Arizonia.
But the conditions are not the same in
both cases. If slavery be not abolished in
the States, Arizonia would bo in danger
Dacotah would be safe. A commander
need not fortify an impregnable natural
barrier; but he should be cashiered for
withdrawing the guard from a vulnerable
pass.
The Sterling and Bock Island Bail
road,
Our readers arc aware that the Sterling and
Rock Island Railroad la to connect Sterling,
on the Galena Air Line, with Rock Island, and
it is claimed to he by several miles the shortest
rontc between Chicago and Rode Island. The
road has for some time been nearly all graded,
tics were provided and all it needed was the
iron to complete it. Most of that, it was
understood at one time, was purchased, and
the toad, according to promise, ought to have
been running many months ago. Bnt some
how the matter fell through and the road was
not completed. Of course the Galena Com
pany was supposed to be largely interested
Id ite completion, but, us iu ottxor cases, lv
was perfectly willing that others should spend
their money for their benefit.
The annual meeting for the election of Di
rectors wss held at Sterling on the 7th, when,
to the astonishment and confusion of the
Galena interest, stock to the amount of over
$350,000 was found to be in the hands of the
friends of the Chicago and Bock Island Bail
way. The friends of the Galena Company
charged that the stock referred to wm fraud
ulent, that they would have no fellowship
with It, and withdrew from the meeting. Of
course the friends of the Bock Island road
claiar that there ia on fraud about ifc It is
probably tho beginning of a very pretty fight
for the lawyers, the results of which will ha
reached in the distant future.
The friends of the Rock Island railroadkcpt
the polls open from ten till two o’clock and
elected the following Board of Directors:
Wm Pratt, W. L Bt. John Chas. W. Sfarhury,
John P. Babcock, James It Monitors Pianos
Bradley. E-W. Jones, John T. Trscy, Elisha P.
Reynolds.
During the day the friends of the Galena
Company elected the following Board:
Thomas D. Robertson. Nelson MMon, Wm.«
Kilm-nr, J. F. Anthony, Henry Sstdones, John Q.
Wynkoop, C. C, Teats, Justus Row. Augustus
Rice.
Whatcvcrbe the actual merits of the quar
rel it is plain that on the start the Galena
Company has been pretty effectually ouchered.
Tor that kind of management they have long
since become famous. Masterly Inactivity
cost them to the nice little matter oftheSr-
Charies AirLine, the snug sum of slv hundred
thousand dollars. A few monthsmore of the
same policy will be very likely to render value
less their Air 1-ine to Pulton, by turning the
business of the road from Clinton across
lowa into some oUiet cbaaoel. Tbc road
from Clinton to the Missouri legitimately be
longs to the Galena Company, and by doing
their share towards hollaing it they can have
it forrJl time to come; bnt probably with two
months more Of this mulish inaction, It
will be lost to them and their Pulton
Uno as an investment will be forever after
otteriy woTtSsleae.
tub rant can Alliance.
■ The coalition is at ah end, and the unholy
alliance of the three great powers for the ad'
ministration on tbs effects of the Mexican
sick man, has ended premstrirelj; The Span
ish troops hare been withdrawn, the Spanish
Commander General Prim refining to be »
party to tie Preach scheme of imposing an
pb&oztouft gOTetnaea* on Mexico.' Sfrtko
troops of Spain arc on their way to Havana, 1
and the field left free to France. During the I
conference which preceded the disruption of
the alliance, the representatives of France de
clared that it was their determination not only
to inarch on the Mexican Capital, hut to enter
into no negotiations with the Juarez Govern
ment: and the same diplomats, in their nmi
festo from Orizaba, notify lag the Mexican
Minister of the Intention otErance to at once
commence hostilities, call the Liberal party an
“oppressive minority,” who would lain per
cJae Europe that they are the sole element
of order and organization that can be met with
in the Republic.”
The Cum of tie Emllle St. Pierre—A
* ne c xale for the Martaci.
A pleasant little story is told in English pa
pers about the way in which the British ship
Emelie St. Pierre, a prize ot oar blockading
squadron, made captive her captors, and sail
ed into Liverpool the other day with all sail
bent and colors flying. The vessel in question
was seized under suspicions circumstances,
Off Charleston, on the 18th of March; and a
a portion otthe crew having been removed,
and a prize crow, numbering one Lieutenant
and fifteen men, substituted, the ship wasi or
dered to Philadelphia for condemnation. Three
of the original crew were left on board, the
Captain, the steward and cook. These three,
before Cape Hatteraa had been passed, exe
cuted a bold and ingenious scheme for recov
ering possession of the ship; and the circum
stances of an insufficient night watch invonng
them, actually succeeded in overpowering
and confining the watch, wounding one, with
out alarming the crew, and in placing the
hatches over the crew, who were asleep be
low before any suspicion of the attempt had
been excited. Enough ot the captives to nav
igate the vessel and carry her safely to Eng
land were subsequently released upon parole.
The “heroism” of the attempt, and still more
Us success, obtain the nnqtmliflcd praise of
the British press, who are quite enraptured at
the entire transaction. Wc, however, who
remember what the colored steward, John
Tillman, did single-handed in the same line
of business last July, when be brought the
piizc 8. J- 'Waring into Sew York, must
needs award the palm ot superior gohmtty to
the American negro.
But the “ exploit ” has already become the
subject of diplomacy, through a formal de
mand, made by Minister Adams, for the resto
ration of the vessel, to be tried In the regular
rray—to be condemned if found guilty, or ba
released and damages paid, if innocent And
this request, so in accordance with interna
tional law, the British Cabinet will hardly
flare torrfnsc. The English press has crowed
too soon-as wc did over Mason and Slidell.
Had the Emiile St. Pierre been the vessel of
a belligerent, her recapture would have been
protected by the usages of war. Bnt as the
vessel ot a neutral, it was bound to submit to
the judgment of a Prize Court, without re*
resistance or hesitation. While this point is
perfectly clear itself, it becomes still clearer
In view of the fact, that after an act of war,
namely the confining and wounding of those
legally in charge of thclvessel, a Lieutenant
and sailors Of the American navy were carried
as prisoners of war Into a ncutral port. This
phase ot the transaction has no circumstance
justifying it under International law. It is
unquestionably an exceedingly neat little
piece of business, and it will require from
England reparation as complete and satisfac
tory as that wc finally rendered in the Trent.
The credit of surprising and treacherously
caging men, who, confiding in known princi
ples of maritime law and honor, were wholly
unsuspicious and unprepared, those English
heroes may freely enjoy.
m, mint, the French Financier, Ac
qnlttfiui
People on this side of the water have known
something of the Mires transactions in France
which a year ago formed the topic of the
Bourse and the Paris press. He was charged
■with abstracting 5,000,0v0f or $1,000,000 of
corporation funds in his possession. In ISS6
he organized a great land company, with a
capital of 25.000.000f, made up in popular
shares of 260f; and later he added to these
10 000,000f debentures or bonds. From the
aggregate pile he abstracted 5,000,000f, and the
speculation collapsed, a miserable failure. In
IS6O he was arrested and his boots sealed up
for judicial examination. He was sentenced
to five years imprisonment and the Court of
Appeals confirmed the sentence, but at the
eatne time strangely eliminating one of the
charges against him. This brought it to the
1 Court of Cessation, which sent the case back
to the Court of Dona! for a now trial. And
now, in this Court, Mirea has been acquitted \
and walks the earth a free man, "What gives
the case mere Interest is the probable secret
interference of high officers of the Empire on
■befcalf of tlie prisoner. It was a great mystery
What became of the five million francs. Mires
confessed it f. as gone, and always hold fore
most the threat that he would, if driven to
close quarters, tell who got It. But all the
Courts that have tried him have steadily
avoided such a confession, and at Douai the
Judge ordered silence when theprisoner arose
to give the great secret, and immediately
thereafter quashed Ml proceedings against
him. The correspondent of a London paper
writes: The consequence is that the strange
mmora which circulated a year ago are now
revived, and persona who may really he inno
cent arc brought once more under suspicion.
An allegation of the kind, so long as it rests ]
unexplained, hangs over almost every one
supposed to possess influence, as It would
only he to such that a man like Mires, cn*
gaged in so many speculations, would think
it worth while to present a sum of 5,*00,000£
How that ho is acquitted and restored to lib
erty it is not likely that he will make disclo
sures which, apparently at least, were meant
to intimidate the persons menaced, bnt who
now hreathe more freely.
A Home Buff for Bull Bud BunsoU.
The Bonbon Times ol the 241h njh, in an
nouncing the retain of Us special correspon
dent to England, states that President Lincoln
would not permit him to accompany the army
of the Potomac, and intimates that his pres
ence was earnestly desired by the Metal
troops, “who wished to have with them an
historian whom the world would believe.”
The Times must design to wilfully misstate
the sentiment ot the Union army, as well as
I oi the entire North, as it long since has boon
made aware of the unpopularity of its special
correspondent, who during his sojourn In this
country, has attained the unenviable notoriety
of being the most malicious and mendacious.
attaehe of the foreign or home press that has
ever written upon the military, political or so
cial affairs of the United States. Wewill ven
ture the assertion that had the President con
sented to his proceeding with the srmyto
Yorktown, the‘soldiers would hswnhsisted
upon bis immediate expulsion as a slanderer.
Sr. Nathan Bangs.
Tbe Methodist Church in the United States
baa been called to mourn the demise ot Bev.
N. Bangs, one of its historic men in the Uni
ted States and Canada, prominent for more
threescore years in Ita pastorate, literary
positions, missionary movements and church
councils. 'HOUred ftH of years and honor. A
discourse commemorative of his life, labors
and character 'will be preached to-morrow
(Sunday) night at the Wabash Avenue M B.
Church, by Bov. Robert L. CoWer, the paator.
4Sth Beglment—Not the 47th,
The Hat of casualties in the 45th Illinois
(Lead Mine) regiment, contained in Friday
morning'a paper, was incorrectly given as the
47th regiment
|sg- The dividends ot nearly all the banka
ot Philadelphia, whose capitals amount to an
aggregate of nine millions seven hundred and
fourteen thousand one hundred and nlnoty
flvo dollars, have Just been declared for the
last six months. The largest has been that of
the Fanners’ and Mechanics’ Bank, which di
vided sixty thousand dollars, and the smallest
has been that of the Tradesman’s Bank, all
thousand dollars. The total amount of divi
dends la over six hundred and twenty-seven
thousand dollars, which snm will thus ho put
in circulation.
jn fifty-four years there have been 6,279
deaths in Philadelphia of small pox. The
heaviest year was 1881, In which there was *SB
deaths ot this contagion; and the lightest
year was 1859, when there was only 2. The
proportion of sores wsa about equal, and
about threc-fomths of the number have been
children ■
gg- The Springfield (Ohio) Seat says that
Major Ben. Piatt Enntlo, of the 13th Ohio, re
ported killed at Shiloh, la alive and getting
jOohg web. Ho via hit seven times, sud is
minus seven teeth, a portion of his jaw and
tongue, his great toe, a shaving from his heel,
a bole through each cheek, and a brush on the
shoulder. ■
Associate Justice James E. Wycho, of
’Washington Territory, has decided the
“ eapit&l question,*’ that Vancouver and not
Olympic is thereat of goYerument, sustaining
the act of the late legislature for the removal
to that place. • • '
®“Goy. Johnson, of Tennessee, has ap
pointed' -Joeeph 8. Fowler, late Prealdent of
toe fewd Femalelnatttuto at Gallatin, State
Comptroller.
ODB KANSAS LETTER,
THE MILITARY HISTORY OF
KANSAS IS THIS WAR.
A Glance at What Pro-Slavery Officers
have Dobs and. Attemptci
[From Oar Special Correspondent.;]
T.T.fcVKOTrofltH* K. T., Hay dtb.
attention haa been more especially
called to the military administration in Kan
eas, by tie gross outrage upon Col. C.B.
Jamison andLlent. G. H. Hoyt, of the Fust
Kansas cayalry. The circumstances which
have environed that State since the day when
it was thrown open to settlement are such as
aronse a jealous regard for the rights of its
citizens in the minds of all who love liberty
and hate oppression. It was confidently ex
pected when the rebellion flrat lifted its front,
that the men of Kansas would not be found
backward in defending the insulted majesty
of the Nation. The expectation was more
than realized. The quota of volunteers called
for by the President from this youngest child
of the Union was 2,700. The response came
in the shape of eight £bll regiments and one
battery for the three years service, in ad
dition to the gallant Second regiment of the
three months service, which iought at Spring
field and was afterwards disbandad and reor
ganized. Of the men in service from that
State, there are at least eight or ten Hilnois
companies, who, last summer despairing of
seeing service elsewhere, and attracted by the
radical warfare there, joined these regiments.
Cok Graham, now commanding the Bth regi
ment, was formerly editor of the Moline (lit)
independent. The Illinois volunteers are mem
bers of this regiment and CoL Jamison’s cav
alry. Of course the natural result of this
patriotism would come to bold deeds and a
marked result upon the war. Kansas was
most certainly admirably situated to effect
such a result: Rebel Missouri on the East,
the Indian Territory, Arkansas and Texas,
South, and on the West an open border invit
ing the attacks of prowling Indian tribes.
Certainly too, while the State was in danger
from proximity, it was also well placed
for a wise offensive movement Southward,
which the long training and thorough
knowledge of the foe to be met
would render serviceable. Hitherto
nothing of a nature commensurate with
venera! expectation has been accom
plished. ' It is true that the Kansas volunteers
have done gallantly. Carthage, Forsythe,
Hug Springs, and Wilson Creek, tell of the
First and Second regiments; while Dry Wood,
Osceola, Morristown, and the long summer
marches on the Missouri border under Lane,
subduing rebellion and destroying the cause,
tell ibe work done by the 3d, Mb and etb
regiments; and still more emphatically the
vigorous fall and winter campaign of Cok
Jcnnison in the border counties of Missouri,
tell how completely the First cavalry under
stood the most effective method of closing the
warand subduing the rebels.
Still the fact is apparent that all who have
watehed the war in that section have to alarge
extent been disappointed in the results at
tained. There is a failure somewhere. No
one believes it to be in the men, anff the weft
known reputation of the leading officers pre
clude blame attaching to them. IV bnce then
does this hindrance proceed? From one or
two causes which a proper statement will
clearly elucidate. We propose to do this be
cause it is necessary that the Nation should
understand how the most earnest patriotism
has been thwarted, and the best fighting ma
terial on the continent m 3 tic of little value.
One reason why Kansas lias not garners!
as large an harvest as the field promised, is
in the inadequate support given by the Ad
ministration. The rebel policy was essentially
continental in its character. The Federal
•Dolicv has been essentially local, when an
eruption occurred, the Government has ener
getically applied local applications, but have
hardly yet reached the point oi prescribing for
the disease itself. , , .
Another, and, after all, the mum reason, for
the state of affairs in Kansas, was in the char
acter, antecedents and opinions of the men
■who had control of its military adnunistruuom
It is well known that all of the officers sta
tioned at the military posts there when the re
bellion broke ont, were of thogonthernstnpe.
Many of them hive since joined the rebel
army. There were of course honorable ex
ceptions, such as Gens. Barry and Van \bet
of McClellan’s staff. The control ot these
posts has only passed into the hands of men
no less Southern in their proclivities, only less
courageous, and more treacherous to free
principles even than those who openly desert
ed the flag. Fort Leavenworth especially
seems to have become a hospital for a sot of
incapables whose “soldier’s honor’ wqnld
not allow than openly to espouse rebellion,
but proof of whose loyalty is thus set forth,
hy Capt. Boy’s, now A. A. Commissary Gen
eral for that district. This J. P. Boy is a Vir
ginian and a Captain In the Second Regiment
oft! S Infantry. He makes ne secret ®t hi*
declaration that he would rather resign than
ioin his regiment on the Potomac, because
then he vsnud have to fight against hisoion State.
So he has a snug place as Commissary, which
might better be filled by some of the late ap
pointees from civil life, while his regiment is
hot half officered.
Forts Leavenworth and Riley aro the prin
cipal depots for all army supplies in the fur
"VV est. The former is quite an important post.
Ml of the volunteer regiments had to ha out
fitted at that point. Every officer there last
summer Was intensely bitter and pro-slavery.
Most of them had had personal connection
with the Border Ruffian factions. It is
still but little better. There are no w a couple
of Republican Paymasters, and a Butler ot
the same stamp at Fort Leavenworth. The
people of Kansas are 90 oat of every 100 of
the radical stripe- They were earnest, even
revolutionary la their warfare, and meant
to hurt somebody when they fought.
This did not suit the officers who talked of
their “ Southern brethren, cursed the “ AboU
tionists,” and whoso cblef evidence of seven
ty w-as to swear in rebels, letting them go
to scourge the community.
The only decent period m military matters
which Kansas has seen since the rebellion,
was during Gem Hunter’s administration.
That true man and loyal soldier allow
ed no truckling with the slave power.
In all tic branches of hie deportment he
maintained the strictest watch over the in
terests intrusted to him. It having been
brought to his knowledge that in the Quar
termaster's office, men aid procure contracts
and otherwise mnkc money ont of the Gov
ernment, whose loyalty was very doubtful,
Gen- Hunter immediately issued an order re
aniring all employes, contractors, etc., to take
a stringent oath of loyalty. He set rebel
prisoners to bard labor on the fortifications,
and dropped all paroles and passes to rebels.
Hearing of some over-anxious action or talk
of Mai. Prince in sympathy with kidnapping,
the General soundly scolded- He took the
Provofct Marshal to task for laxity In relation
to the same evil, and directed him to issue an
order forbidding the passage from Missouri of
carries unprovided with parses.
* goon as Gen. Hunter left, a change came
over affairs. A glance at the number and po
sition of troops in Kansas will be necessary w
order to illustrate this. In addition to the
thousand Kansas soldiers, there were in the
department three Wisconsin regiment*, In
fkntrv averaging 800 effective men each; one
{Simeit oTcaW, having 1,100 effective
men, with two batteries of six sons each, one
from Indiana, and one from Ohio. This, m
addition to the four guns and two howitzers
at the Fort, und the four guns attached to toe
8d and 4th Kansas regiments, making a force
of nearly 11,000 men with twenty guns; of
which about 6,000-were cavalry, the remainder
being infantry and artillerists. An ample sup
ply "of' Commissariat and Quartermaster s ‘
mires was stored at Fort Leavenworth, there
being not lets than enough rations for 20,(»0
men lor ninetv days. It is true transportation
was very deficient, there being- bat one wagon
for each company allowed, and two for the
field and staff StUl this could have been
remedied by pressing into service the fim®
trains etc. The above force was distributed
wheif Gem Hunter left as follows: The Wis
cousin and Onto regimentsi were at Lww
worth; the Ist, sth and 6fh Kansas at Fort
Scott; lie Ist cavalry at Humboldt, with the
Ist battalion of the 10th: the Sd on the border
in Linn county; the 6th at Ossawatomie;
Forts Riley, Leavenworth and Kearney, doing
garrison duty; the 4th at Wyandotte; and the
-5d and 9lb (now the 3d consolidated) at Qom
daro. Three Acting Brigadier Generals had
bffin appointed; Col, I> e itzler of tbe l 6 t
Kansas: Col. Jer.mson of the 7lh. (Jat Cj*
airy.) and CoL Doubleday of the Ohio 3d
Cavalryand aligned to command, the tirat
and last at Fort Scott and the second at Hum
boldt. Near The latter place were encamped
about 6.0C0 loyal Indian refugees, whom vt
was understood Jennieon was to protect and
restore to their homes. The Fcdral
army of the Southwest was pushing
into Arkansas, through the adjacent
section of Missouri. Fort Scott was with* o
three days’ march of Cross HoUows, and who
in six or seven of Fort Smith, Ark. anm
boldt was 50 mile? west of Fort Scott and 5J
north of the Indlm Territory, to which the
Neosho Valley would have been the natural
path. Fort Gibson was 150 miles south-east
of Humboldt Here the rebels had a force of
two Indian regiments and some guns, ittea
aengere reached Fort Scott from Gen-Curtis,
taking Hunter to advance to his aid, he sup
posing the Kansas forces to bo on the march.
Gen. Hebzlerscnt the dispatch by express to
Leavenworth. Major Hatpin, who was in
command, as chief of Gen.- Hunters
staff. Immediately ordered the Wiscon
sin *nd Ohio troops by forced marches to
Fort Scott. This was done. They arrived
and there remained for more than.three weeks,
part of the time on half rations, from the
neg’cct of somebody to provide supplies.
Finally, after Currie and Sigel had fought the
battles of Cross Hollows and Pea Ridge, at
great disadvantages, and this fine body ox
troops lay chafing in great uneasiness, the lat
Kaneae and 13th and 18th ■Wisconsin were
ordered to Lawrence, thence to proceed to
Hew Mexico. At Humboldt no force was
sent, as Gtih. Hunter had promised, no ord
nance stores and no artillery was reedved, and
the Indian warriors were left no armed. The
transportation was taken away. and the Ut
Cavalry lay six wccoka in camp, the lime
employed in perfecting their
drill it is true. It was then ordered to New
Mexico. In the meanwhile the Governor had
again remoulded the remaining
tfiat the 3rd and disaDpCMed and became
ahe 10th. under CoL Cloud; the 18th became
the 9th, under CoL (State Seiutor)
the 9ti and 2nd became the 2nd, tiooer LoU
B, B. Mitchell, now Brigadier General; while
SSd afttr the department was merged Into
Oorgapntaimyna
der Curtis and Sigei nad to meet overwhelm
: ingodds, whentheymJsbtlKVV^eiimflterLd
ly aided by tie forces fbjm Since
the two Generate named wachfidtliat Dte^ct,
they Imre done nothing except--the one to
issue a sounding order agatost Jay hawking,
and the otherw arrest Col.Jennison and
Lieut. Hoyt, in which
hornet’s nest that will not easily he allayed.
* All of this disgraceful delay and shameless
inefficiency arises from the want
with either people or war on the com
manding administrative officers.
might he multiplied showing the pro-slavery
sympathies of nearly all the tf r SS
officers stationed In Kansas, but enough has
been brought toward to prove where the trae
. Ml ore of active operations lies in
• ter. Ehnsas demands and people support
it that this class beremoyed, and that at least
men not hating the people or politically o *
noxious to them, be put m their place. It is
time something nation can
not afford to lose the services of 10,000 floe
soldiers through the intense pro-stevemrfn of
a few martinets who hate freedom and its sup
; porters.
FROM THE TENNESSEE ARMY.
[From- oar own Reporter.]
CA3£P Shiloh, May 4. 1862-
Artillery firing was beard in the front for a
short time last evening and thereat all the
camps became considerably excited, every
man expecting that a general engagement had
certainly commenced. The great man of an
army does not appear to reason; with them
excitement and passion take its place; and
all become animated with bat one idea, either
that which they hope for, or that which they
dread. For the past few weeks they appear
to have settled down to the idea that Corinth
wonld he evacuated without a struggle; ask
any officer why this should be, and he could
not give yon a reason tor the opinion that
wonld be worth a rush to military, or even a
man who simply exercised unreasonable de
gree of common sense. The "firing yesterday
was cansed by a battery of Gen. Pope’s artil
lery shelling a position o£ the enemy before
he made a further advance. His division, or
rather the advanced brigade oi it, has now
reached a position on the Corinth road, via
Monterey, some three miles beyond that place -,
so that onr advance is now within sis miles of
Corinth. There is yet, however, a good deal
to be done before a general action takes place,
unless, as I have heretofore said, it is brought
on by the enemy himself Oar siege guns
must be conveyed to the front. This is now
bein'' done-, but it takes time to move some
score of twenly-fonr. thirty-two and sixty-four
pounder guns. At least eight Joke of oxen
are required to each gnu, and the way chains
are snapped in two, yokes broken, carriages
damaged in the mnd-holes, Ac., is a caution
to teamsters generally.
With regard to a general action, it must be
remembered that the country between this
point and Corinth is very thickly wooded and
also intersected by ravines and gullies, for the
most part, filled with an undergrowth of tim
ber and hrash, in itself almost impenetrable
to infantry, except in Indian file; anything
like deploying into line of battle is out of the
question at least until the brush is cut away,
and a clear space thus prepared. As to cav
alrv monteuvreing in such a country, it is
utterly impossible. They may be made use
ful as scouts upon the roads, and to a limited
extent in harrassing an enemy’s rear in
a tenoral retreat; but as to charges
in battalions, or otherwise, such are not
to he thought of for a moment. Corinth must
therefore he regularly approached, and no
doubt it will bo as regularly defended. Three
deserters from the enemy came In yesterday,
and were taken to headquarters. They are
Pennsylvania men, and one is from IViscou
sin They confirm all the accounts I have
heretofore heard, and informed you of in my
letters, as to the great strength of the place.
They say the number of troops there cannot
he figured down below one hundred thousand,
and that the rebels place the figures as high
as one hundred and fifty thousand. They say
that the fortifications are from four to live
miles in extent, from right to left; that they
consist of siege guns in position, supposed to
be twenty-four and thirty-two pounders, some
rifled- that there are also embrasures for field
pieces, bastions, breastworks for infantry,
lunettes andrifle pits in advance of the whole.
There are works as extensive and formidable
as those of the far-famed Manassas; but wo
arc gradually feeling our way towards them,
and indeed are literally compelled to do the
latter as nothing can he distinguished in this
country a mile ahead. This feeling of onr way
can only be done by strong reconnoissances,
as was the cose yesterday. Gen. Pope threw
forward a brigade on the Corinth road beyond
Monterey. Ho found the enemy about five
thousand in number, strongly posted at a
hamlet called Farmington. Ho opened fire
upon and drove them before him. It was an
artillery action principally. We lost fifteen
men killed and a proportionate number
wounded, while the enemy left thirty dead
upon the field and carried off all their wound
ed. We retain possession of Farmington, and
so have advanced another step upon onr te
dious and perilous journey. The obstinacy
with which the enemy Urns contest the ground,
inch by inch, will give some idea of the ter
rific nature of the grand final struggle to come
off within a fow days.
Onr cavalry must number from ten to fif
teen thousand, say a figure between the two.
It is commanded by, from all I hare heard of
him, a roost gallant officer. He is evidently a
man of great energy, dash, and of known
personal courage. Gen. Andrew Jackson
Smith chafes under the restraints of Jus posi
tion, and is most eager to do something to
bring this heretofore most expensive and
most useless arm of the service into
nUv If anything can bo done
with the force hare, I have no doubt he is the
man to do it. Were I permitted, I me h{ pro
von my idea of the way Gen. Smith will em
t>loy this force in the coming action; and that
he will employ it effectively, if possible, I atn
confident. When the attack in front com
mences, Gen- Smith will take np his
oorition with at least ten thousand mounted
men—the largest force of cavalry ever bro oght
into the field on this continent, and tho blow
that he will strike if bis men come up to the
expectations of their General, will not be the
least effective of the general engagement.
■With this force of cavalry, over throe hun
dred pieces of artillery and one hundred thous
and infantry surely something worthy ot
the great army of the Northwest, will be ac
complished. . , , _ .X
There is a great deal of sickness here, as
Savannah, there arc 2,800 men in the hospitals,
regiment sick and unfit for duty. This woold
wilder, in all, nearly nine thousand men out
of thia army m hospital or sick. Ton can
imagine what will bo the increase of thunum
herwhen the wounded, after a general action,
- S In the last action, from all thatlcan gather,
at least 12,000 of our army were placed Ann du
combat in billed, wounded and prisoners.
"e«n thousand small arms thre™y
bv bur soldiers, have been sent om to Bt.
tbnis by Capt. Bnnk, and ho Ims still 3,000 m
his 'hands. He has TOO raptured from Jbe
enemy. I have heard of some thirty guna
captured by us from the enemy, bntl havenot
seen them yet, nor do 1 believe in the
ment.
1 have seen some two or three that appeared
to bo Confederate guns, together with a lot ot
some seven or eight Parrott and smooth-bore
tuns, lying on the levee. They are ail spiked.
This Via lone cither by ourselves or the ene
my. In either case they have been rendered
useless for the present. There is no doubt,
then that the flint tclegranhin reports of this
battle with which the country was flooded
were manufactared ont of whole doth, and
that somebody is responsible for them. 1 M
cmeeUcm arises,.who id that somebody? The
tnith is. the battle of Shiloh was a surprise
and defeat to ns—a most terrible blow infilct
od by the enemy, from which that portion of
onr army engaged in it has not yet fully reoor
trTtio 10th Missouri, Col. Samuel A, Holmes,
a regiment principally recruited in Illinois, ar
rived here yesterday. On their way up lio
river nod when within fonrmUesofSavwmah,
the boat was fired into by a party of some
one hundred and fifty rebel troops, aud two
men of the regiment slightly wounded. The
U-Qj returned the compliment by firing a.vol
ley, acd, it is supposed, unhorsed some of the
cuc-nllas. Could not a portion of the Urge
lorco of cavalry la this camp be employed in
scouring the woods in that vicinity?
Gov. Yates is hourly expected here onboard
the steamboat Champion, with supplies lor
tick, and wounded soldiers.
EldttftpplDg in Kapgag-Xhe BUtaoarl
For several months, following Urn tide of
negro emigration into Kansas, kidnapping
parties have been of dally occurrence, and
have been tolerated by each magnitudes aa
Sturgis and Denver, now dethroned. General
Blnnt Trill,' however, pnt a atop to It The
Leavenworth Cbnseredtfwrelate* that:
On last Tuesday night (29th nit.) bat^ 6 ®* 1
twelve and one o’clock, » party Of blood
honuds-came from Missouri into
conntyi and committed the idburnm
of kidnapping twelve negroes, most 9*
were children, and
distance ttomthe town ln«a»oUted-PjwjJJ
alarm was given until the made
their escape with their PnforrouaW T?2S!£
Oneo\dwoman,howerar, fc,usC «S S^kcfc 0 «
w her escape, and as soon as the “fl
made knowrlin tbfl neighborhood a nnmbCTOf
eitizena started out to prosnit of*
■pers; but Ike country being ““‘“j
and aa the villains come midnight <» e
time forsuch a dliboUeC
enabled to carry out their ncWsn oesnsa-
Sato parties living m that oelghborbood
of aiding and anettin, to
this work of kidnapping. Stepa have Been
taken to investigate the 01 iutr-r, and if they
are found guiltythey »0l be httog to the near
eetlimh, ,
Ol« WASHINGTON IiEXXEBi
riv? i&aeuation of Virginia — A Consegticnee ‘f
theFoEofSea Orleans—Sans ]mm. O-iriHth
Hmxted—Eastern Connections—The Oinfisca
tSnJliU—Too many Lawyers in the Semite.
[From out own Correspondent-}
TfisHESaios, May 6,155 a.
The great rebellion is coming to to
end. Naught bet an interposition, ot rrovi
dcnee can now stay the downfall of the oli
garchy which has ruled the country with a rod
of iron for the last thirty years, and at last
sonahttoflrethe temple of freedom and de
stroy the world. The capture ot New Or
leans has convulsed the whole framework of
the Southern Confederacy. All the evidence
points to the conclusion that the resolution to
abandon Virginia was adopted by the rebel
government immediately on receipt of the
news of Com. Parra gut's occupation of the
Crescent City.- The vehement ond indignant
articles in the Eichmond papers gave the first
token; then the sudden adjournment of the
i rebel Congress; then the falling hack of
“Stonewall” Jackson’s army; and to illy the
I quiet abandonment of Yorktown —so quiet in-
I deed that their departure was not known till
our sharpshooters crawled hy slow degrees np
to the enemy's trenches sin hours afterward,
and found them as silent as a churchyard;
»and nobody in Torktown hut General Coffee.
There is a mystery about the behavior of
the rebel forces at Yorktown, which can only
be explained on the supposition that they had
predetermined to evacuate Virginia. There
were actually 73,000 of onrtroops within range
of their gnns the whole of last week, so close
ly encamped that a shell could not have fallen
among them without killing a greater or less
number. The very works which were being
constructed to demolish the rebel fortifica
tions, were within reach of their cannon, and
yet not a shot was fired lor the purpose of
preventing their completion. Considerable
powder was wasted in sending projectiles of
one kind ond another over and around our
forces, hut not at them, and hence the only
lives lost daring the “siege” were those of
the Vermonters in the murderous affair ot
Warwick Creek. The conclusion is irresisti
ble that Gen. Lee did not wish to bring on a
decisive engagement, hut rather to gain time
for the removal of his army and hU more val
uable stores and equipments. It is not prob
able that he will remain at Chickahominy
Creek longer than may be necessary to secure
on uninterrupted retreat out of Virginia.
Nevertheless,that army must be overtaken and
destroyed somewhere. The war cannot bo
terminated, peace cannot he restored, till it is
done. Hence, all gratniations about General
McClellan's success in “avoiding the effusion
of blood,” are out of place.
There isageneralhelief in Washington that a
great battle is now io progress atCoriuth,which
stall decide the file of the Mississippi valley;
and the utmost confidence is felt both in Gen.
Halleck’s abilities as a commander, and m the
I unsurpassed valor of his troops, who ha.e
never yet met the foe hut to drive him head
long from the field. , ,
tLc House has been engagedfor several days
nan on the Pacific Railroad bill and to-day
nai c cd it hy a majority of more than two to
one Mr. Arnold ot Illinois, Mr. V, dson of
lowa, and Mr. Aldrich of Minnesota, secured
several important changes to the original bill,
relating to the connections ot the eastern ter
minus, which are of mterestto the Northwest.
The main line of the road is to commence at a
point not designated on the Ukd meridian of
longitude, (wSch is the western boundary of
Kansas'),and run thence to the western bound
ary of Nevada Territory where it mU connect
with the Central PacificEailroad of California.
The eastern connections are as fellows;
1 Prom Kansas City to the 103 d meridian of
ionritnde; 3. Prom Leavenworth to a point
on this' line not more than fifty miles
from the Missouri river; 3. prom 3t. Joseph
to a point intersecting this line not more than
one hundred miles west df the Missouri rivet;
4 Prom a point on the western boundary of
lowa, on tue most practicable route, to an in
tersection with the mam hue not farther than
the 103 d meridian of longitude; o. From
Bions city, lowa, to a point intersecting with
one or other of the above lines not more than
thiee hundred miles west of theiJlssouri river
—lbis branch, however, not to be constructed
till a railroad shall have been completed
through Minnesota or lowa to Sioux city. Mr.
Arnold moved an amendment, which was
adopted, providing that in fixing the pomt of
intersection of the mam track with the west
ern connections, it shall be fixed at the most
practicable point for the construction of the
lowa and Missouri branches—tans establish-
; Q rr tke ijrestiilipUoii, other things beiD£ equal.
Sit thl Sstern teminns of the main ime
shall be about on the parallel of Burlington,
IO Se bill proposes to give the 6 per cent
bonds of the United States, to the amount of
sixteen thousand dollars per mile, to the com
pany ns fast as sections of forty miles oieh
are completed. This provision applies to the
main line and all its branches, and the Gov
ernment has a first mortgage on the road.
I Through the Kooky Mountains imd tho Sicrni
Kavadas the amount oi bauds to bu Usaea
shall be forty-eight thousand doltarePP r
and between those ranges thudy-two thou
sand dollars per mile. Tne Mgtegate’ amount
of debt io bo thus incurred I have not taken
the trouble to calculate, but it is safe to say
that it is too large to warrant one in enter
t.ininVthchor°lhat the bill will pass the
I Senate at this session. If ft. were not tor our
1 tremendous war, with its frmhtinl cost and
j towering debt, we could bmld the road with
i comparative ease; hut there is no prohabmty
1 that the scheme will be attempted—at least
until the war is ended, and the ability of the
1 nation to pay taxes under the new revenue
i bill accurately ascertained.
1 It is difficult to keep the run of confls-
I cation bill, and of Us claims of passing the
! Senate. They are hardly so good as they
were a week ago. The fact is _ there are too
1 many lawyers in the Senate. You can hardly
! , fiDdAwo*- eminent jurists who hold the
same opinions on this question. Judge Col
lamer 6 said to be a great lawyer; Mr. Cowan
j, o«M fn tja a great lawyer; Jodge Hirns
I to be a“&je/; Mr. Clark of New
| Hampshire is said to be an able lawyer, Gar
-1 rett Davis is regarded as something.of a l-«-
1 yer is Kentucky; Judge Trumbull is to™ to
I be a great lawyer, and the Senate in rcoogm-
I tion of the feet have nfide him Chairman ot
their Judiciary Committee. Now all those
gentlemen, leeroed in the law, eminent at the
Bar or on tic bench, havemtrodneed confisca
tion bills differing from otte m e;*ea:
tial particulars. Mr. Sherman I
omitted him from the list—has
another. Now all thesegentlemen differ from
each other, more or less widely, as to the con
stitntional power to confiscate, or tde (:ansu
tntional method of confiscating, although
Sere is this marked difference between the
two classes of bills, and the two eUsses of
Senators, that one is in favor of a bill which
will do something and the other m favor of
a bill which wßi do nothing. It woold he
strange if a measure so bedeviled with emi
nent jurists and constitutional scroples should
ever be enacted into a law. Still, its friends
bopo for the beat.
Crew* at WorK.
OPINIONS OF THE ABMT.
TTpitent Officer# and Soldier# on Con
fiscation and the Vir—Only Two
Parties—I*oyal and Disloyal*
fCorrcepondcnco of the Chicago Tribune. j
Waukeoas, May 6,1853.
Having spent 'ten days at Pittsburg Land
ing and Savannah immediately after the battle
of the 6th and 7th of April, I wasvcty anxious
to learn what effect the war and the late severe
hal tics were haying on our officers and soldiers.
I ■went in company with the late andlamentcd
Got. Harvey of Wisconsin. The Governor all
the time up to his death, was an anxious en
quirer after the real opinions of the army. I
had frequent conversations with him and. with
many of the memhets of his suite on this sub
ject. X sought every opportunity to converse
with the officers and soldiers and learn what
their feelings wero, and what they considered
the cause of thc'.war, the results it would pro
duce, how it should be prosecuted, the effect
it would produce upon the domestic institu
tions ofthe Southern States and how, in their
opinion it should ho finally settled. It®
give yon tho opinion of one of tlio Brigade
Snrgcons-rßargeon of tire First Brigade in
McClesnand’s Division, I thins. X spent one
whole evening with him in conversation on
this subject. He is a man about CO years of
age, had lived in every one of the Southern
States, and was now from Florida. I asked
him in bis opinion what the course of our
Government should be. Whyeir, said he, from
my acquaintance in the South and my experi
ence in the army, 1 have no doubt what that
course Should bo. First: The Government
should confiscate the property of the rebels,
real estate, negroes and all. Second. Reduce
the States to Territories and give them a Ter
ritorial form of Government, the only form
of Government that they art qualified to en
joy, or that should be granted them; andlaatly
but not least, the entire abolition of slavery—
the only cause of this unholy and unnatural
war.
Perhaps, said he, it would, not be beet to
abolish slavery immediately, for if the slaves
or the rebels were confiscated and set Cue that
would he as many as should be liberated at
one lime; bntitmnat be died and settled
that the Institution of slavery shall die out,
that it never again can he the means of bring
inganch destruction on our otherwise content
ed and happy land. The lands of the rebels
be would advise to bo given to oureoldlora fo
fighting theiicountrrj’a battles. Bat tbatthe
Institution of slavery must. anonWandwoul
be abolished he had no doubt. £he same
similar sentiments, I Jf£f
erased by the officers and aoldlersoi
vmy. This sentiment In the gtayof
?SsS SSgSSggag
political or party etxbjeeta hereof
every Instance tie officers end Sif there £ not
bnt one opinion, and that waa,tl» laaa.
?£“£t£St£r p£y madly bent on
an acquaintance of mine.
wounded, why not go home until reco
"9 t -will tell von sir, said he, 1 naTe uvvu
Democrat all my life, I never Total
tickettmt the Democratic ticket, X chMgea
an the trouble between the Ntrtta eoa ine
South to the Abolition excitement and uwtt
I have been a strong defender ofthe
rtahla of the South, and excused andaP o '®'
glid for her alleged wrongs as,!“® b r \Se
Shit, of the party to which I have
belonged. Now sir, I find my mistake. That
thellolilionistshave done Wpfe’Sat
wre‘wrong, there can be no doubt, but that
they were the cause of bringing this war upon
onr nation is the height of absurdity.
Now sir, said he, the real cause Is slavery,
and Se Sse whieii Southern tyrants and
Northern doughfaces have made of that insti
tulion to accomplish their tyrannical and un
principled designs, and besides, sir, I have
Emorantly aldet In bringing thia ararupou
nation. I ruefully repented of the wrong
that I have done, audam t? p s H
and fight it out, and conquer an f “4
laatinfr r>eace or lay my bones on the field
battle. Tails* to me, said he, about the Demo
cratic vxttri the Whig and Republican par-
aswSrtalh to me about any
otherthing Si the past. They don t exist, nor
never w3h There are but two parties—the
Union party and the Rebel party. ,
This was the sentiment that I heard cxpres?ed
daily while at Pittsburg Taming,
our wounded officers and soldiers at Savaimah-
Xow, sir, it grates harshly on my ears to hear
the Chicago Tim& and private individuals ac
cusing the Abolitionists aod the Republicans
I of'being the cause of this jwr,
They have tom that sacred o
shreds, and trampled It in the dm,!, and for
feited every right but one guaranteed to them
by that sacred instrument, and that n_nt is
the right to be hung, and I expect the time is
not tar distant wlen the leaders bo
fnlly and effectually protected in that right.
God speed the time, is my earnest P ra T®t- p
FBOM auction.
great BARGAINS
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
For Nett Cash Only.
100 Pieces Good all Wool De Laines
For Two SbilUnst a Tard.
50 Pieces Fine Silk and Wool Chatties
FOB TIIBEi: SHttMSGS,
25 Pietes Extra Quality lupins Bomiazlara
FOB SIX SHILLINGS.
50 PIECES WIDE, HIGH IHSTHED
fall Boiled SLAGS SILKS,
FOR SIX SHII.MNGS.
SPEUTG STYLES PLAID SILKS
FOB IBBEE SBIIUSeS.
esika heavy
Doable Fated Blaet and Colored Figured Silts
FOB OSB DOlit-IH.
Beal Trench Ginghams for 1 Shilling
CHOICE HEW STYLES
Full Uladder Calicoes for Ten Cents,
Black and Whlu Checked Wool Valentins for Onfl
Shilling.
Fine Purs Linens tor Tvo and Sixpence.
plilouT Case Linens lor Three SWUtosa.
In fact our Btore Is foil of bargains in all kinds o£
Goods.
LAHGE DAILY AIiIUVALS OF GOODS
iatj* ABCTIOB, WWORTEBS MO WfcHOFtO
TBBtBS DIRECT.
Oimtlre stock la bought for nett ca*ataJArxo
Dipcotmt from Eegaiar Ibices, making every piece of
Goods to out stock a bargain.
KOW LN' STOCK, all the latest novelties to
SBEIBa CLOAKS, SAftOES AND MAKTLES
Of SUL aad all fashionable materials. Also,
PATTERN CARDS
Of High Novelties in Dress Goods,
Oa board steamer HAHSi. WilcU WllUe la store la a
few tlays.
w. M- R9! S&CO.,
167 & 169 take Street.
mL2QpS4D3m- -
JF YOU WANT TO
BOY
SPRING & SUMMER
clothing
YOUR OWN PRICES,
GO TO THE
New York Clothing Emporium
NO. 98
Bandolpli Street.
No Charges iav Showing <3-ood;
DRESS
GOODS
COKSISTISO OF
fmkt moms, chalues,
MOZAMBEQUEB,
Lavellas, Organdie.
lONDOS OBEYS,
fancy checks and plaids
Persians,
Printed Cambrics.
Lawns, Brilliants,
THE LATEST STYLUS,
VI3UV CHOICE.
At Prices as low in Propor
tion as Staples.
Notions, Cloves, Hosiery
SIOOP SKIBTS,
BRESS BBA.IDS, PlttiSOtS,
And other Seasonable Goods
at Eastern Prices.
BOWEN BROTHERS,
IMPORKRS AKB JOBBEBS,
?4 fe 76 LiRS 8T»
PRICES REDUCED.
WE ARE SELLING
iron cabh,
to 10x14 Bj.t C£*rco*l Xio ||.J|
||no S a»g H “ “ i?;So
vxmx SIXES IS PKOPOBTIOS.
& larse and coraptete itoclc ol
GOODS FOR TINKERS USE,
Shelf and Heavy Hardware,
SAILS, CLASS FARMING TOOLS,
AND FENCE WIRE,
At the lovrwt tasrKetPricea,
TUTTLE, HIBB&Rte A 66..
mJ B conun- of Bate lea _
dby goods
For i 862.
W.R. WOOD & CO*,
158 & 155 Lake Street,
-Englisb, Frencb an* American
prints,
. The Chofcest Aaaortmtttf In Marie*.
BEHiIAHTS. GIHSBAMB AHD PEaOiISS,
CbaUies, Delayies. &.C.
jMaotue beat Mortmeot of senersl
dress goods,
asp ATLOWBB PBIOEBTK4* EPEE BEFORE.
Clanks 111 Stock am* BJndet® Order,
iidClootlne araiorSol
GiOVES, HOSIERY, EIBBOHS,
Embroideries and tace Goods,
At aßEa®a|iy low prices.
W- xt. WOOD & CO.
WT OOIr TWINE MANUFA.C
yV tued.aad sold by SA.TSSBIBL WHXXB, W
SomhWat'T Btr«t
BUTTER FIRWNB,
BIC® OAK B3CKOET BOITHD ÜBSUTB
nadforadlfi at 85 Boat* W*t^fltT66fc
KATHiSIBh WHITBi
ygy^— : *if» la TToodeS mrt WIHoW lfut>
•ege-pTSUn
smftoUsale l^ottgeg.
p RATES & IRVIM
M acw oScrln* «. tie *«*. FOB SETT CASH.
SKIRTS
COESETS
*nd Notions, at xawathat
Cannot be Surpassed.
CHAVIS * ntVIUB, 78 Lafce Street.
SPRING OF 1862.
WHOLESALE
DRY GOODS.
Davis, Sawyer & Co.
40 sfc 43 LAKE STREET,
300 Bales Domestics,
Ss© cases Trints,
300 “ Staple Cotton Goons,
50 “ Assort’d Dress Goods,
Comprising the most popular and deslraoie goods O
the aeafioo, and the
NEWEST AND MOST AT
TRACTIVE STYLES,
PCBCBASEP FOR CASH under fUo
recent depression of the Eastern Mar"
kets; all of which. will be sold
AT LOWER PRICES
Than many similar goods* of OIDEB
STTIES, now offered In this and
Eastern Markets.
Envers, OJTE .1® ALE, arc earnestly Invited
to examine oor stock, and compare goods and
prices, without regard to published quotations.
DAVIS, BAWYBE & CO.
OorfirmlnELLoolsto I
AMI. C. DAVIS & CO. >
1862. SPEIHOTBADE. 1862.
H. W. HUNT & CO.,
SS and SS Late street, CCp-Stalra,
CLOTHIKa
CLOTHS,
Cflisimfirea Satinets, Cottonadee, Vestings, Tai*
lex’s Trimmings, Gents’ Furnishing
Goods, &o. &c.)
OmrttcttttoaKayMjeg W*at martet rates.
pLOAKS, SACKS, MAS TILL AS,
OF THE LATEST
ASD MOST APPROVE®
SPRING STYLES,
torC,eab<,re
S3 TO @2 5,
MADE OF THE BEST HARERIAL,
And in the Most Substantial
Manner,
Under our own Supervision.
They willbc found adapted to the tastes ofalL
DRESS GOODSI
FOR SPRING AND SUMMER WEAR,
-AT
tlotsetm Aleiftnder’* KtdSj Ribbons,
C and Hoop ftkJrts in Endless
* Variety.
SUMMER BALMORAL SKIRTS.
Ilonery of Every Description.
Delaines,
Fancy Prints,
AlfiO,afaHfitoct of
HATS Da STOCK
6»lf 'VAEISTT ; LIAO,
At MumUcto*®’* Prices.
Hare in store and now receiving
ft pl'D 503*313
Mfmctsctnrera and jobbers of
,*nd dealers In
Of Our Onm Manufacture
In Grreat Variety.
tee sbw styles of
Broche, Cashmere and Stella Shawls
.XUST OPENED,
Allot the aiboTepotidiwcareoffdtlng at tbo iiowest
Prices, Call and Bee, at
STRYKER & CO.,
141 Lake Street
fap2S-p613 2wJ
FENCE WIRE.
AMERICAS
NOS. 8 & 9,
Warranted tones, of flirt quality, In
good lengths, and tn tood order, for
— 1- In large or maUlott, by
VAHBEEVOOET, DXCK2BSOH & CO.
No*. 199 & SOI Randolph St,
ap»p633Sm
J£ARCH, 1862
BiMMEUB.
Are prepared to offer to buyers of
CLOTHING
their usual extensive assort
meet. "We have many styles
which we can sell at
Old® PRICES!!
MO. 23 USB STREET.
PRINTS.
DAYIS, SAWYER & CO.,
40 & 43 Lake Street.
Prints and Domestics of all
popular brands, together with,
a complete, fresh* and well as
sorted stock of staple and fan
cy Dry Goods, at New York
prices.
DENTAL
Dental Chairs, spittoons, lathes.
Furnaces, BoHJng amis, VaJcanMnjf
machines, and material for Vnlcanlto
Work.
DEPOT.
Oram and Armstrong and 8. S.
smite’s Teetbi Gold and Tin Foils,
Gold, Silver and PXatlna, plate and
Wire, and every other article need by
the Profession, constantly on hand
and for sale at New Xorfc price# by
J. EL HEED & CO..
144 and 146 I,skestreet.
IF-Bamo oil Btjle Deals! ®la rorWlOTerjß^-
E noch woods. kcsa9 ißirosj
iro. 180 USB STREET,
ns
Gn Tael?erv^>t P^B£ “ l^ lnS
AND WH.ITARY COODS,
Powder and Shot,
AT WHbIiBBAIiB ABB BBTAtL.
M#pxi-iT
Rouses.
groceries.
a c. cook & co.
16 A 18 State Street, Chicago.
yft offer to Merchants, and the Trade, a lArge and
general assortment of
GBOCEBIBS,
COffSXBTISG IN EAST OF
Sugars, Teas,
Molasses, Coffees,
Spices,
Syrups,
Fish, Dri’d Fruits, W oodeu
Ware, Etc.
■WHICH WB OFTEB AT THE
lowest friges for CASH,
And W Whica tne attention of aT
CLOSE CASH BUYERS
IS ISTITED
c. C. COOK & CO.
I: TiSSa. [mhs-n2SS-2m] l! SwSSstept. jb
1864 —-Spring frade. —1861
CLOTHING.
Martin & Brothers,
Hate Remoted to the Laeob
iIAEBLE WAREHOUSE,
NO. 44 LAKE STREET,
■Where they arc Becelrtog and Open-
ins »
LABGE ASP COMPLETE STOCK
Spring and Summer
CLOTHING.
traders
ym do wen to call asd examine cmr Stoct before par
elsewhere, m the BTIXE, QUAUTT AND
PSICE, wc ere determined shall b® sailafacWry to aQ
Manufactory, 882 Broadway, S.Y.
MARTINT & BROTHERS,
No. -11 lake Street.
ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. mM-gaCla
WHOLESALE
Hat, Cap and Straw Goods House.
E. P. L. BROOM,
SUCCESSOR TO
E. K. KKLLOGG At CO.,
50 lake Street, Chicago,
a !ar* e and
Hats, Caps and Straw Goods,
of ail kinds, vhlch hare boca bought for cash 8la««
tbe p'eat
JBrclinc in Prices,
Andwtlch-wlllticsoltHorcaafc, or to prompt paslftS
Trade at _
NEW YORK PRICES.
Having engaged with Mr. BaJox, IhcpeUiee my
old frl» naaftDdcaatomf're. and sliftU as tieforo do ay
best m fllUni their orders.
spit-pS^ra
1862. SPSIHQ TBADE. 1882]
WEBER, WILLIAMS & YALE,
WaOUtBAIX SXAXXS3 is
HATS, CAPS,
Straw <5-oode, Parasols*.
Umbrellas anil Palm leaf Gooda,
SE I.AKE STREET, CHICAGO.
H»re how In stoki s linen »nd dMtrrtW snx* 1*
ptrpTgq Tead* wblcli will be offered at
Eastern Prices
c a Bg or approved abort obsdit.
GORE, WILLSON & CO.,
54 Late Street, CMcagOi
A UCTIONEE3W AN® COMMISSION
BUSH CHANTS,
POE THE SALE OF
BOOTS AND SHOES
,/r H’HOl£S4ifc.
liberal Cast Advances made on
Consignments,
yf e arc continually receiving I»a
EASTERN MANUFACTURERS#
Consignments or detiraMeißtfee of Boots »»4 BhOflH
vw & which win be sold »t
Auction* to pay Advances,
In lou to Bnlt cnstomOT, every Wnortroirnt **
“ at privnto mio dnrtn* taa woet
held, jbeaedicx &co.,
34 & 36 Lake Street,
Are now opening & large and weQ assorted stocS •
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES
AM> YESXISTGS,
Tciretiier silt all toe vsrtocs stj lea oC Good! IflT
1 b MEN'S WEAR, such m
Corduroys, Satinet*,
moleskins, Cottonade*,
Velveteen®, P. and M. Cass,
Planter*’ Prills, Queens Cloth,
planters’ Pucks, Span’ll Xilnena*
merino Cass, Strap P’Etat,
Kentucky jeans, Itai’n Cloths*
Fancy Unens, Tweeds.
Too vUI always And la oar assortment *U c&e d«**r
able series is the mar* et, vticb wil! be eo'd at «stis>
factory srtoea. Atoll sSooJtot Taaore* Trtmniißca ti>
says on band. *p7 plla lf
tayScSMm
•yAKDEBVOOBT, DICKERSON &00,
m A Ml Etadolpi Street, ffliose,
mrOBTBES OF
TIB PLATE, SHEET IRON, ic., 4a
Tinners’ Stock.
agents fob
Howo’s Improved Soalss*
SPRING (862.
COOLET, FIRWELL & CO.,
42, 44 A 46 WABASH ATOTOK
CHICA&O,
Are bow offering s Urge mi attractive MMitmest s
DOMESTICS,
Prints,. Ginghams, Be Utan,
notions, fancy goods.
WOOUSSS, and a cbolce •eleetfoo of
CBESS (1 OODB.
Meesof oarheavi Cotton QooAs BMtoz Wap®*
inducements to tae trace. _
We irOlmaianwa oormiceato be thfllowamnsps
to to* nrtsSfor tt Kew YQik> adotPSfreigat, and is
wte sB clore buyers to a esr*ni exszßsa«ea<* wa
•toetheeorepardiitinc. _
Tobacco,
Bice,
E. R. KELLOGG.
DSALSBS IST
Caogg-MMyl
COOLEYt FAHWEhIi ft GO»