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I EZ^Jr. Mljicagcr ®vib«nc. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20,1803. THE IKCZZLED WOLVES, 'Wanted—somebody to do the lugubri ous. Wanted—a dozen, a score, a hun dred, a thousand somcoodlcs for the ser vice of the Copperheads—somebodies 'Whose tears will come when bidden, whose Voices will take kindly to the minor key ? and whose powers of describing the terri ble are such as will chill the marrow bones Of the women, and make the boys shiver With affright. The lugubrious is tbe order of the day, according to the Copperhead programme. To picture the hardship of the soldiers life, the bloody agony of the battle-field and the manifold horrors of the hospital— to picture them in such a way that coward ice and selfishness will see in the avoid ance of the necessary and inevitable strife, the highest happiness that the pres ent time can confer, and, in the great national struggle, nothing but tbe dangers and the deaths incident to all war—is now the strong card of those who fight the enemy’s wordy battles in the nrth, Of malignity, falsehood and venom they have more than enough; in the pa thetic they are deficient. Wanted, some body to do the lugubrious! The praise of all the Copperhead press, whatever that may be worth, and the prospect of an of fice, are the inducements offered. Dow many Job Trotters will volunteer for this service? War in any of its aspects, if regarded simply as an exertion of man’s capability to destroy, is always horrible enough- But in spite of Peace Societies, and their ser mons and tracts, it has a beneficent side Which is a compensation for all the pain, misery and death that it entails. It is only an exaggeration, or rather the last appli cation, of the curse by which humanity has been smitten, and which makes all the ways for the attainment of a great sood, wavs of pain and tribulation. And ns human liberty and just governments are the highest temporal rewards for which a people can .struggle, so is the cost of their possession the most fearful that humanity can pay. Wc know not why, but in the ordinations ol Providence, blood has al ways been, as we suppose it always must he, the baptism of freedom and progress. Every new departure of the race from the eirors, the bigotry and tyranny of the past, has been attended by a rising of the crim son tide and the extinction of countless lives. And we of this country need hope for no exemption from the rule that, thus frr, has governed all other nations and peoples. Until we can remove the primeval curse, and earn bread by other methods than by care and foil, we may not look for tv miracle that will give us a great, happy, united, prosperous and progressive Repub lic, without paying God’s price in human blood, agony and violent death therefor. We have no patience with the dealers of the doleful, or the vendors of the lugu brious ; and we have as much respect for the sanctity of human life and as keen a dread of the horrors of war as they. There is something more sacred than the privilege of living; there is an ngony that fur surpasses the throes of mortal dissolution. A nation enslaved, in which slow tyranny does its steady work, or a nation torn by faction only to fall into anarchy, under which freedom, intelligence and rational happiness cannot spring up, is a spectacle compared with which winrows of mangled corpses on the battle-field, or the aggregated horrors of all the hospitals, are a sight that angels would be glad to sec. And men who look beyond the bloody present, with a glance that comprehends the eternal glory and the comprehensive beneficence of the re sults that our armies would attain, may be content to struggle on, leaving to Heaven the ripening and xverfeciing of their work. The cry of horror that bursts from the Copperhead camps is a cry of hypocrisy. Those who have set it up have fio dread of blood. It is only the fear that the rebels for whom they contend may be hurt in the melee. Promise them that the arms of the Republic shall be turned against the “ Abolitionists,” and they would howl like maddened wolves in pursuit of their prey. They arc mean and false be cause they are traitorous and cowardly. the polish: insurrection Poland Is once more in open rebellion against Russia. This unhappy nation has hcen so long under the civil and military domination of its old Arctic conqueror that a Eucccsslul resistance to his authority could only take place, if at all, by a simul taneous uprising of the people, well arm ed for battle, with discipline in their ranks, and brave, competent Generals for their leaders. The present outbreak, although so wide ly extended that it may almost be called national in its proportions, is evidently not well organized, and has no settled design or plan of action- It is rather the spas modic outburst of wronged, maddened and hopeless hearts, stung into retaliation by the unendurable agony of their condition, than a great military insurrection, to drive the oppressor from their soil. The immediate cause oi the rebellion was the late attempt to enforce the Rus sian conscript law, and compel the Poles to fight the battles of their conqueror. We can readily’ understand how utterly revolt ing a law like this would be to a proud and heroic people, who, although their liberties had been trampled under the hoots of the hated Cossacks, were still lovers of liberty, and sworn, by all the traditions and his tory of the past, to hate the Moscovitc as their deadliest enemy, and the murderer of their nationality. • But there seems to have boen no ade quate preparation for for a struggle with the gigantic forces of their oppressor. It is said that two or three regiments of re cruits deserted the Russian camps and went over to the insurgents,but wc’do not learn that a determined stand was made anywhere, or that anything bnt skirmish ing tool: place; although we are told that at one time, Waisaw was in the hands of . the rebels, and that all the provinces swarmed with their sullen and determined hordes. So violent was the opposition to the con script law that & second Bartholomew mas sacre was meditated, and even planned for execution. Every Russian soldier and officer was to have fallen a victim to the fury of Ih® excited populace; but, by some means or other, which do not transpire in the sequel, this dreadful tragedy was averted, and the fiicnds of Poland have so much the less to be sorry for. According to our last advices all was quiet in and about Warsaw, and the con scription had been effected in the prov inces. Wc doubt the fact, however, and believe that the insurrection is of a much more formidable character than the Rus sian journals arc willing to admit. Col- Virions had taken place near Modlin, in the woods of Plock, and near Piolskaw, the * insurgents being worsted in the first two engagements, but triumphing in the last. It was rumored also that some of the best families in the country and in Warsaw had already joined the rebels, and we wait with much anxiety the arrival of the nest mails, for further intelligence. NEW VOBK CANAL TOLLS. The remonstrances of certain resident Kcw Yorkers against onr use of the term “ Kew York Robberies,” when wc speak of the canal tolls of that State—tolls mainly levied and collected upon Western produce —go for naught. Wc arc compell ed to tell the truth, and in telling it to use plain and emphatic language, so that none of our readers, whether in Kew York or in ttfc West, can possibly misunderstand. The tolls now imposed are robberies—no thing more, nothing less —robberies of the worst ’description, sanctioned bylaw, and submitted to from necessity; and as such they should Ikj every where characterized. •The fads Ynd figures by which we have fcs&xs {hade Uiia fihdWT swj’ l'(on overlooked or forgotten; and we re peat them here: The annual report of the Comptroller ot that State presented to Ibe Legislature at the beginning of the session not yet concluded, shows that the . .*;roRS income of thg canals, for the last year, was $4,854,989, a very large propor tion of which must be credited to the Brie and Oswego Canals, over which our grain seeks a market. The surplus revenue meaning the gross revenue, less the cost of maintenance—was $4,031,591, of which all but a fractional part was paid by Western business—one would say a moderate profit in a year’s traflic. But there is n debt of $24,011,770 hanging over the canals, some thing more than half of wliich is charge able to the Eric, the rest being contracted for the building of lateral canals with which the West has no concern. Admit that the grain and pork of these regions ought to pay interest, at the rate of five per cent, per annum, on the entire sum, and New York might he justified in keep ing her tolls high enough to reimburse her for the outlay on that account. She ought to do no more; but the matter rcall> stands thus Earnhigß.... Maintenance. Interest «’t78.598 . 1,900,000 Swindled the West ont of. $*,831,691 In these times of commercial depression, when, in certain districts of the West, com is not worth the cost of transportation to a market, these figures, showing at a glance how greedy aud rapacious New York is, and how much our people suffer by her ex actions, will look large, Indeed. If, every* where in this Lake region, they will have the effect to turn the attention of local Legislatures, of commercial associations and business men, to the advantageslikely to accrue from the greater improvement of the route to tide-water, by the way of the "Welland Canal and Montreal, we shall know that we have done the country good service. Illinois, feeling the impositions of which we speak, not more keenly than Indiana, lowa, "Wisconsin and Michigan, has indicated her policy, hy sending to the Colonial Government, five Commissioners to represent our wants, and to ask the re lief, by the enlargement of the Canadian canals, that New York stubbornly re fuses to afford by the reduction of her tolls. The surrounding States have an interest equal to our own; and their legislators and public men will pardon us if we suggest to them the necessity of warmly seconding the resolution that Illinois has taken. Un less the Northwest chooses to accept com mercial vassalage as her lot, and be content to work for New York City and the Gov ernment of New York State, and get ; therefor such occasional hones as they choose to leave unpicked, it is time that our people were astir. Who will start the ball in the States that we have named? Our Military Governors. The news from Washington is that tie re signation of Governor Stanley,whom thePrcs ident placed over the military department of North Carolina, has at length been accepted. It was sent on about five weeks since, and has been so long under consideration. The coun try will not regret that one who seems to have done his best to thwart the policy of cmanci- pat ion in the district of the South entrusted to his charge, is uo longer in a situation where he can play this game with any effect. It will perplex our readers, wc doubt not, as it has perplexed us, to conceive why there was any hesitancy or delay in accepting his resignation. Those who are most zealous in helping for ward the policy of emancipation have been, in many instances,"summarily removed from the posts in which they had been placed. General Butler was one of this class; he did not tender his resignation, but was only “relieved,” as the saying is, without ceremony. But when a Military Governor, who pursues the opposite course, and sets himself in opposition to the policy ol the Administration, asks to be re lieved, compliance wilh his request is post poned from week to week, as if the executive was unwilling- to lose the co-operation of so useful a public servant. There are mysteries in the conduct of this war. From time to time there occur, In the skein ot our military policy, knots which wo can neither untie with our fingers uor our teeth, and this is one of them. The Attack upon Charleston and Savannah. From present indications the attack of the combined military and naval forces upon Charleston and Savannah will not be immedi- ate. Since the arrival at Port Royal of the Montauk and Passaic, Admiral Dupont has been placed in possession of the means for a rcconnoissaucc in force of tbc approaches to Savannah, and his previous knowledge of the defences of Charleston has doubtless deter mined him as to the requisite amount of xorce to he employed In the first steps toward u re duction of those two cities. Until that force arrives, and is in a condition to operate ef fectively, probably no attackuponeithcrplacc will he made. He has now the iron-dad moni- tors Montauk, Passaic and Wechawken, and the New Ironsides, already at Port Royal. The monitors Patapsco, Sangamon, Nantucket and Catsklll arc yet to arrive, and It Is expect ed that the Keokuk and Galena will partici pate iu the engagement. Of the former named vessels the Patapsco and Saugamon only are (n route. The fleet of “wooden walls” cannot be considered as available In . the Initial attack, and arc intended, doubtless, for the purpose °t 'supporting the movement and passing in when the rebel forts arc si lenced. InXon Meeting at Cincinnati. A call appears In the Cincinnati papers for a grand meeting at Pike’s Opera House, on the 23d iust., for the “ purpose of responding to the patriotic sentiments recently announced at Murfreesboro, and giving assurance that our hearts, like those of our patriotic and noble soldiers in the field, are true to the cause of our country; and that we are united iu our determination to suppress this most groundless and wicked rcbclllonat all hazard, and at any cost; and to restore the Union and maintain our Government and institutions in their integrity. The call le signed by 500 of the leading citizens of Cincinnati. I'nion Meeting. There was a grand demonstration of the loyal men of Southern lowa, at Ottumwa, on the 14lh. Notwithstanding the day previous to the meeting it rained furiously, the place, on the day of the meeting, was overflowing with sturdy patriots. The meeting was call ed at the Court House, but that building would not hold a moiety of the crowd, and a second meeting was called outside, which in cluded the largest share ot the people pres ent. Gov. Wright, of Indiana, made one of Ills most eloquent speeches. Judge Cole also made a speech. From Mexico. Advices from Mexico to the 10th of Janu ary describe continued successes of the Mexi can s. The BoUtin Official of Puebla says that whenever the French attempt to move out of their camps to make explorations, some news is generally carried back to Jalapa in the shape of a horse without a rider, or a companion left dead on the road. It is said, adds the Boldin, that the French have been reinforced at this point by a battery of rifled cannon ; but as a set off, they have had to ship back to France more than a thousandslck men, most ly suffering from the vomito. Over 1,200 mules have been captured from the Fre ch by guerillas, who make sudden dashes from the woods with their lassos and arc off again like lightening with their prey. Since the gov ernment has resolved to pay the soldiers for the animals they capture {heir vigilance and success have been greatly enhanced. £spThe Buffalo Courier , Copperhead, is beginning to get its eyes open. The declara tions of the traitor Mahony, that the Demo cracy of the Northwest are in favor of imme diate peace on any terms is the cause of this. It now declares, if this is the position of the Northwest Democracy, there U fresh cause of alarm for the safety of the Union. So we think, and the quicker the Courier acts upon that thought, and denounces this treason of Mahony and his malignants, the better it will be for all. By* The Robert Peel, spoken of as hav ing made a speech in England against the Sorth, U aMt Ot the late Sir Robert Peel, is simply a nobody, in influence and ability, he bears about Uiosame relation to Us fcthcr, that Jim Clay, now in the rebel army, bears tobis Illustrious stre, Uenry Clay. This Peel has been in Parliament sererai years, but is scarcely known as a statesman. £sf~Tbc Louisville Journal eays that a par ly of thirty delegates from the Ohio river counties to the recent rebel Convention at Frankfort, which was summarily dosed by Col. Gilbert,arrived In Louisville on the 17thby |iiv Ihsir U'j? to Louisville, these delegates 'wore very hilari i Ion?, “drinking In good old Democratic Uylc.” In tbeir potation? Jeff. Davis and John Morgan were duly remembered and hon ored. The Journal prophetically “consigned this prcclons party to Col. Gilbert at Frank fort.” Our dispatches in yesterday morning’s Lsne relate how Col. Gilbert disposed of the “consignment.” REJECTED f.OVEKS. Tlic Wayward Sister" Jilt tbe Cop perhead". Never did dlrl-catera receive such a rebuff as that given to our Copperheads by the reb els. They stuck at nothing in their cowardly longing for peace, aud while they were rank ing offers to Davis, they were assuring tbe loyal people that the rebels were themselves most anxious for peace. Many good citizens were deluded Into believing this; they arc by this time undeceived, lor tho rebels have re plied with scorn and contempt to every bid for their favor made by the Copperheads. The result cannot but be beneficial in more firmly’ uniting the people,for we have now exhausted all means of conciliating an enemy, even the most dishonorable; and it must be plain to the roost arrant coward amongst us that we must fight it out, whether we would or not. All the efforts of the anti-war party have proved just this: that no terms the nation could offer, however dishonorable to Itself, however injurious to liberty, however hum bling to its pride, however fatal to Us prestige with foreigners, however contrary to the Con- Elitution—no terms short of an entire de- struction of the Union can satisfy or gain the acceptance of the rebel leaders. Come back to onr arms, ciy the sympathiz ers, with tears In their eyes and dirt on their knees; name your terms; take what you want; you are the superior race; you ought to rule over us; yon shall rule; we know we are ignorant, Heaven forgive ns! do return and enlighten ue. Andfromßichmondcomes back by return of mall such replica as this In the Dispatch : “If the North will allow ns to write the Constitution ourselves and give us every guar anty we would ask, we would sooner bp un der the government of France or England.” “We demand an armistice,” cry the peace men in Illinois, New Jersey and elsewhere— and straightwayMr.Footereplies, in the rebel Congress: s—“Nor could the government of said Con federate States agree to negotiate at all in re gard to a suspension of hostilities, except upon the basis of a formal and unconditional recognition of their Independence.” “Let us hold a convention of all the States at Louisville,” demand western peace men *, but the Richmond Enquirer answers, even be fore the proposition Is formally put on paper: “The advocates of peace at the North may as well dismiss from their programme the pre posterous proposition for a joint convention with the South. The South cannot, by any moral possibility, consent to a reunion.” We will take the Northwestern States in- to the Southern Confederacy,” exclaim cer tain traitorous devotees of slavery In those States. But the Atlanta Intelligencer meets them with these words “ The admission of any free States Into our Union is not only repugnant to ns, but will only be a continuance of that evil which has brought on the war, and to get rid of which we are now fighting.” “Stop fighting. Make an armistice—no formal treaty. Withdraw your army from the teccdcd States,” —cries Vallandigham in Con gress—and the Richmond Enquirer commends Us xwoposition as “Themeans to a final separation of the States, a total destruction of the Union, and and the triumphant recognition of the inde pendence of the Confederates.” Nor arc the Northern lovers of slavery treated with even common courtesy by their 14 wayward sisters.” The Richmond Dispatch j-peaks of “ the party of which Brooks and Valllndigham arc representatives” withgenj nine Virginian politeness, as “fools enough to believe” certain things; It says they “look only to their pockets when they preach recon ciliation and reconstruction. English coloni zation, French vassalage, Russian serfdom, all arc preferable to any association with the Yankees.” “Wc would not reunite with them if they would, one and all, consent to occupy the eamc position of depredation which they aim ed to rivet on us. >Ve would not consent to hold the Northern States even as provinces. On this subject there is hardly a ripple upon the surface of Southern sentiment,” —says the Richmond Enquirer. And again: “ The seceded States will never voluntarily submit to any terms of reunion which it is possible tor the ingenuity of man to devise,or even to imagine. If the whole -Yankee race should fall down in the dust to-morrow and pray us to be their masters, wc would spurn them even as slaves.” And that eminent Southern gentleman Jeff erson Davis says: “If the question wus proposed to you whether you would combine with hyenas or Yankees, X trust every Virginian would say, Give me the hyenas.’* We have quoted only a few of the rebel re plies to Northern peace propositions; but they are enough to show that the “wayward sisters” not only refuse to be conciliated, but cruelly spit upon the wonld-be concilia tors. What then will these do ? Will they per severe at their dirty work ? Will they stillbc seech the enemy for mercy; still make high bids to him for peace; still, infuturcas in the past, obstruct, by cvejy device they are capa ble of, the vigorous prosecution of the war on our side; embarrass the Government, confuse and divide the people, depreciate the currency and encourage the enemy? Their offers have hcen made and have been unconditionally rejected. Those who repeat them hereafter can do so with only one object; and that Is to force the making of a disunion peace, and compel our Government to acknowledge the independence of the rebels. — AT. Y. lost. Marquis of Lansdow nc. Tbc last steamer from Europe brings intel ligence of the death of the Marquis of Lans downe, in the eighty-third year of his age. lie was one of the most distinguished statesmen of Europe. He graduated at Trinity College, and entered Parliament in ISO 2, at twenty-two years of age, as a member from the borough of Colne. In 1806, he was returned for the Cambridge University. In the former year he entered the Ministry as Chancellor of the Ex chequer, and tilled the position for one year. He continued to sit in Parliament; was ap pointed Home Secretary in 1527; served as Lord President of the Council in the Whig Ministry from IS3O to 1840- He was formauy years the acknowledged leader of the Whig parly, with whose history he was intimately identified for nearly half a century. He was a man of strong intellect and large culture. Pew statesmen were better versed iu political history, and few statesmen had more of the tact that enables the possessor to secure and retain power. Although thoroughly iu sym pathy with his class socially, he was not illiberal iu his political principles. The Kentucky Secession Cou* rcntion. The Louisville Journal, of the 17th, had the following comments on the secession Con vention which met at Frankfort, and which Col. Gilbert disposed of in so happy a man ner. The Journal understood the animus of the men who constituted the treasonable gathering: Wc do not know that the managers of the secession convention, which meets to-morrow at Frankfort, will have the unspeakable effrontery to apply for the use of the hall of the House of Iteprcsentatives; but, if they shall have, as is not Improbable, we think wc do know that the House will not have the un speakable nbjectness to yield to the applica tion. If the application is made, let the House seize the occasion to brand this infa mous movement with the stigma that belongs to it. Not a loyal man In the Legislature doubts that the movement is conceived and prosecuted in a spirit of deadly hostility to the national cause. They all know it. Let them show, then, no mistaken courtesy to this convention. Bather let the whole moral force of the Legislature be launched upon the head of the treasonable conclave. It should receive from patriots at the very least nothing but indignant frowns. Certainly it should receive from them no smiles of courtesy. Principles and expediency alike demand this. To Wnvr Biss Uses.—Mr. W. E. Warner, a Copperhead member of the Michigan Legis lature, from Wayne county, a few days ago .•■aid in the body*of whiclThc is a member: *‘l am, fortunately or unfortunately, among that class who are styled ‘disloyal Democrats’ and ‘Secessionists, 1 and, sir, lam one, and I auiproud of the name," Here is a heavy bid for martyrdom, and the fellow should have it. Bolder axd Bolder,—The Butternuts of Indiana are becoming bolder every day in their treason. At a “Democratic” meeting held on the Tthiust,, at Bloomfield, Greene county, they resolved that they “are notin favor of lumishlng the present Administra tion another man, gun or dollar, for such a htUUh, unchristian crusade." They also pro nounced the national currency “aworthless and irredeemable paper in the similitude of money.” |3y The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune says that instead of there being any disaffection in the command of Gen. Banks, all accounts received from them show directly the reverse. fi&* Gem A, J. Hamilton, of Texas, isgolug to speak in New Hampshire previous to the March election. Gen. Hamilton Is A fine speaker, uud u a yaiyukt FROM RCSECRASS’ ARMY. lu Camp-PajmaMcp and Armistice— Tlic Copperhead" a* °~Ti»o Cowardly crlew for Poneo-T!»o Indi ana «c"olMtlon"-Tl*o Proclamation -Tho Northern Peace Mongers—A Day Devoutly to bo 'lVlshedPor. [Corrcepondcnco of tbe Chicago Tribune.] Caw Siix. nbak Muepueesdoko, t February 10,1853. f There is a positive dirth of anything like j interesting items hero. An air of permanency pervades our camps; a sense of security daily adds substantial comforts to our present habitations; the work on the fortifications is becoming more a sanitary object than a mili tary necessity; hours for reading, writing and visiting are multiplying; foraging skir mishes are sought,for reliefs from the routine of camp and picket duties; victims of camp sickness are taking the places of our recover ed wounded in the hospitals; in short, Rose ciaus' army, throughout all its divisions, has again assumed its Nashville air of waiting for oi ders. Incidents .of the late battlefield have lost their romance and edge by continuous repetition, and It now takes a remarkable ex aggeration of rebel movements in front to provoke an inquiry from listeners. Tet, yon mast not infer fromall this that the character istics of this week’s camp life are indexes of the coming one. The experienced soldier sets down this season of “ dry rot” as the presage of the reign of rumor and credullity—a glori ous time for the smart talker in each mess to mount his cross-legged seat near the company fire and play prestidigitator at will. Tele graphic dispatches and “an old friend of his” in some camp several miles off form the main staples in his budget of rumors; but his main reliance for “hefty yams” is derived from a “real smart fellow” who deserted from Bragg “ only two days ago,” and voluntarily gave himself up on reaching our picket lines. This deserter always knows more and says more than all the u Daily Chattanooga JicbcU" and Federal scouts combined, and his relations need but the classic touch of a “special cor respondent” to make them readable on North ern newspaper bulletin boards. And of such is the kiugdom of telegrams. Probably for lack of better welcome else where, two of our old Nashville rumors have hobbled along the miserable pike and com menced making tho grand rounds of our camps—Paymaster aud Arm Is lice. The former has not yet as sumed very taking hubilamcnts, and tho feet of his having been “gobbled up” by John Morgan twice a week within the past two months during his travels through Kentucky, gives him a Cassius-like look and dejected ’havior which will stand in the way of his im mediately renewing old acquaintanceships or forming new ones. More than ever shy of headquarter’s tents, and positively refusing to enter the empty and airy sntling habitations of hospital fillers, he ekes ont an existence by button-holing some enthusiastic convales cent from Louisville or nearer, who sawsome body that told him that his brother saw a letter to a man in his regiment from a friend of his who has a cousin in some Ohio regi ment, whose Adjutant told his Captain that he heard over at brigade headquarters that Gen. Belief said that he saw it in some paper that Major Greenback had left "Washington more than six weeks ago. Happy convales cent ! I made a second acquaintance with Paymas ter’s former friend, Armistic, soon after the battle of Murfreesboro. So changed had he become in Toice, attire and manners that I should have been ■warranted in turning him over to the watchful care of the P. G’s as an imposter had ho not produced evidence of identity in a display of his well-thmnmed let ters of introduction from Uis old employers, Messrs. “Wood, Vallaudighnm, Bright, Rich ardson & Co. Added to these he has a haver sack fall of preambled resolutions, habeas corpus blanks, confidential letters from Hang man Foote, “one” Jefferson Davis, and a Kentucky “exile” of much obesity subscrib ing himself Hum. Marshall. He speaks in flowing terms of the spirited properties of Jersey cider and 'Western corn-juice, and not arum palace ora whisky doggery exists in Kew York, Trenton, Indianapolis or Spring field, but he knows as familiar!}* and haunts ar- closely ns a butcher’s dog does scrap-cor ner on killing days. Within Rosecraus’ army he is an object of curiosity and scorn, and his presence is only tolerated so long as his actions and disnosition comport with those of a hired spy bribed to play “honest Injun” for both armies. Enough for personification. For weeks we have been deploring the irregularities in onr mail transportation, but if the New Jersey, Indiana and Illinois resolutions for peace or an armistice, form any considerable portion of the journalistic matter delayed or lost, I hope, for the morale of Rosecrans’ army, that it and all to follow will find a prayed-for peace and welcome readers in the bottomless pit. What fuming hell-broth has intoxicated the politicians at home to unnerve and de moralize their absent defenders and cham pions, by now calling. In all the keys be tween a chatter and a bellow for “peace?” What poisonous wed bas outran the irbod, and followed the wall’s line until it found a covert opening into the sacred free-soil garden, there to filch from healing and useful plants their sustenance, and in a night blast the fruits which years of toll and care and the dews of Heaven bad nur tured to bless the Christian husbandman? The .first greetings to our great but dearly bought victory at Murfreesboro, were coward ly encs for “peace.” WHiile we were gather ing together the mutilated bodies of our brave boys, and tenderly placing them in rude-fash ioued graves in the ficla where they nobly fell, members of a legislative body in tbo North were resolving an epitaph for their Slate's fallen bravos, and the sum of their re solving might truthfully be read thus: UKKZ LIES A FELLOW, WHOSE MISTAKEN ZEAL FOP. lUS COUNTRY'S INTEO -lUTT AND HONOR CAUSED nmTO UNCONSTITUTIONALLY SLAT , OUR PEAR, DOWN-TRODDEN SOUTHERN BRETHREN, IN AN UNHOLY CAUSE. What else was the amnmx of the Indiana resolutions, than a mockery of the memory of the Indiana dead ? The foresight of char ity should dictate to these and like peace res olution framers, that the curses they hurl at our national executive must be shared by ever}* officer and stfldier in the great Union mmv. If the President’s Proclamation , calling this army Into the field, were 1 rendered operative by unconstitutional means, and his policy of prosecuting the war , U unholy, by what pica shall the hundreds of 1 thousands of intelligent and brave Union sol diers escape the charge of being aiders and abettors in the great crimes charged against their supreme Commandcr-In-Chiel. Another sequence—the better the soldier the worse the criminal. For recollect every man under Rosecrans. at least, looks upon the cause and policy of this war with as clear mental eyesight as the wisest legislator In or out ot legislative halls. A vindication of our country s honor in the eyes of the world was the main idea which filled the ranks of the first lev}*; the salvation of country and birthright marshaled the later ones. It took years of bloodshed to convince the French that British glory and ambition were not entirely bound up in shopkeeping; and the bloody events crowded into the past year have apparently cooled Southern boast ing and cancelled European sneering. In the eyes of unprejudiced nations we have vindi cated our claim to rank in the world's his tory as a brave, strong and patriotic people, and not a sword should be sheathed until our arms conquer a peaceful occupancy of an irre vocable title to all the land on this great con tinent, to forever hold and possess it against all claimants, whether traitors within or their allies without. Houoria a barren crown un less it be decked with the jewels of conquest. Before the votes were counted which gave Abraham Lincoln undisputed chum to the Presidency, the Southerners rebelled, on the pica that llicir rights would he infringed upon; before the ink was dry on the last page of his Proclamation of Freedom, Northern dema gogues rebelled against it on the plea that ra pine,bloodshed and servile insurrection would be licensed by such a policy. Time has proved both ideas to be false. The parties to the former lie arc meeting only the measurable punish ment which indirectly readies them through our exercise of the civil and military powers, in correcting the evils their causeless rebel lion created. At present wc are girdling, not uprooting, the tree of evil. The President’s emancipation axe maybe keen edged and well shaped, but it is not adapted for present work. A decent jack-kiiile in the hands of Ben. But ler would be of more utility. I believe it Is a general opinion among the officers and soldiers in this army, that all the rant and cant indulged in by Northern peace mongers will result in nothing more serious than a temporary distraction in partisan cir cles. Not a baker’s dozen fighting under Rosecrans hold a single opinion in unison with those uttered by Vallandlgham & Co. Seccsh vengeance and bullets are apt to knock partisan conceit out of the soldier the first time he encounters the Southern pet lambs, mul ever after such a conversion to the doc trincc of justification, rabbits, sheep, hogs or butternut uniforms arc alike legitimate game to draw a bead on at first sight. Put your peace howlers In the ranks lor a month or two, and anything which Lincoln cay say, write or invent to thin the ranks of the enemy in frontwill be acceptable as thrice blessed manna to these hungcrers for peace aud political position. If the Illinois and Indiana legislators would extend their trip on the 22d of February beyond Louisville and come as Cir as Tallaboiua to enjoy a skir mishinggig with their seccsh friends, we will guarantee to send the whole pack home trans formed into howiing Abolitionists. That’s just the difference between partisanship and and patriotism, persuasion and pluck, peace and powder. It Is a consummation which I daily devout ly wish for, that the time will soon come when the armies ot Hooker, Boscsrang, Butler and Grant will be able to do things In “ their own way, subject only to the Constitution.” When that time arrives, distractions at home must cease, steady obedience to “military ne cessities” will be exacted, quartermasters’ re quisitions will take the place of wrap ping paper, a healthier uaricty of ra tions will be secured, the keenest sword and most skillful head will win the commission, and the troops now in the field will enter Into bonds with tlio honest tax payers that In less than a year our enemies in the South and their friends in tkc North will bless the hand that smites them. The hour the military arm puts forth its untrammelled strength, will mark the day which ushers In the lastmgrcign of peace. Force alone gives practical value to the powers ofanation, while concessions arc, at best, cowardly a lolatious of its honor and the spirit of Its constitution. Let the peace pack snarl and yelp In the rear. Hurrah for the hunters who arc in at lUc death. Ca*Tß»»9i GEIV. JOim M. PAIiMEn, HiS DIVISION AT TKc BATTLE OF STONE RIVER. Tardy Justice to a Brave Man, Chicago, Feb. 18,1863. EditOTsCblcago Tribune: Visiting Murfreesboro immcdiatelyafter the great battle, as correspondent of the Tri bune, and remaining there several ■weeks, I became Intimately acquainted witlrtbe details of the very prominent and heroic part which was taken in that action by Brig. Gen. John M. Palmer ol this State, and I at that time prepared a statement of the facts at my com mand, which I attempted to forward to your - office. As that letter, however, failedtoreach its destination, and as among the prominent generals who participated in that engagement, and who certainly displayed no more courage and ability than Gen. Palmer, he la almost the only one to whom public attention has not been specially directed, I wish to allude to him briefly through your columns. The battle of Stone River has been made the subject of several vivid and thrilling des criptions, undLwith its general outlines your readers arc no doubt familiar. Our line of battle, as is known, was stretched from cast to west, about four miles north of Murfreesboro, at right angles with the 'Nashville and Murfreesboro pike, which intersected it a short distance from the extremity of the left wing. General Palmer’s division, consisting of the brigades of Grose, Cruft, and Hazcn, held that portion of the line in the immediate vicinity of the pike. As is also well known, the battle of the 31st of December was commenced by the enemy with o terrible attack on our extreme right, the rebels precipitating themselves upon that point in overwhelming numbers, and with a fury against which that portion of our extend ed line found it impossible to contend. The events which followed in rapid succession, the retreat, the rout, the temporary dis organization of the right wing and centre, ana the hurling back ot the broken, shattered and demoralized fragments of the right wing and centre upon the left wing and rear of our army, are familiar to the reader, and need not be dwelt npon. It is only the position of the line at the moment when the rout was check ed and the progress of the enemy stayed, to which 1 wish to call attention, as necessary to a proper estimate of the services rendered by Gen. Palmer’s division. At that moment, the rebel successes and our own bad luck bad fjone so far that Palmer’s right was coraplete y uncovered. The divisions of Negley, Shcr iden, Rousseau, Davis and Johnson, which at the opening of the engngemcpj had stretched an imposing and splendid line for miles to his right, were now crowding the Murfreesboro pike with a confused and noddled mass of fu gitives in his rear. The entire right-angle which at an earlier hour of the day the ex tended right and centre of onr army had formed with the Nashville and Murfreesboro pike, was now in possession of the rebels who were pressing forward with that terrible momentum which brilliant success always gives to'an attacking army, to change their partial advantage* into a com plete victory. The imminence of the moment may be inferred from the fact that they pressed upon Palmer’s rear, separating him from the great mass of our retreating force before any considerable portion of them attacked him on the flank. The manner in which this at tack was met, and the events which followed mav be best described in the words of his re- port. “I rode to the left tqmakesomedisposi- I tions to meet the coming storm, and by the time I reached the open ground to the south of the pike, the heads of the enemy’s columns had forced their way intp the open ground to my rear. To order Grose to change front to the rear was the work of a moment, and he obeyed the order almost as soon as given, relieving Lis men left so as to bring the ene my under the direct fire of his line; he opened upon them in fine style, and with gieat effect, and held his ground until the en emy was driven back. In the meantime my first brigade was exposed - in front and flank to a severe attack, which also now extended along my whole front. Orders were sent to Col. llazen to fall hack from the open cotton field into wliich he had moved. He fell back a short distance, and occupying the crest of a low wooded hill between the pike and the railroad, he there resi.itei.lhe enemy. At that time, near U o’clock, as I think, roy command wnsall engaged with the enemy, Hazenon the railroad, one or two regiments to the right; fc me troops in the point of woods south of the cotton field, and still further to the right Cruft was fighting, aided by Standart’s guns; and to the rear Grose was struggling with ap parently great odds against him. All were acquitting themselves nobly and all were bard pressed. I could see that Grose was losing a groat many men, but the importance of Ha zeu’s position determined me to expend the hist man in holding it. As soon as Col. Grose was relieved of the enemy in his rear,- he again changed front, moved to the left ana co-ope rated with Col. llazcn. Again and again the attack was renewed by the enemy, and each time repulsed, and the gallant men who had so bravely struggled to hold the position, oc- Icupied it during the night.” li is evident from this array of facts, so pim ply yet so vividly set forth, that at the time this terrible battle was racing along the front, flank and rear of Palmers position, he and his gallant troops held in their hands the safe ty of the entire army. Had they succumbed, and Palmer’s division IxrJta turn been thrown back upon what yet remained of our en feebled line, I shudder to think of what in all human probability would have been the inevi table consequence. The success of the rebel*, it seems to me, would have been complete, and a terribly disastrous retreat would have neen forced upon the army of the Cumber land. Nor can one too much admire the cour age, steadiness and pertinacity of troops of no veteran experience, who, thus involved in a desperate attack from overwhelming numbers of troops flushed with victory, at once upon front, flank and rear, proved themselves equal I to the oppaling emergency. In the modest I lunguageof General Palmer, “thegallant men I who had so bravely struggled to Bold the po sition, occupied it during the night.” | The battle of Inkermau, the assault on the Redan, or the storming ofthe Malakoff, aflord I no instances of courage and determination more brilliant and unflinching than is here ex- I hibited. Probably many other Generals who Sarticlpatcd in the bloody battle of Stone Ivor, displayed qualities equal to those mau- J ifi-sted by Gen. Palmer, but I doubt whether 1 It was the luck of any officers, below the rank of Comnmnder-in-Chicf, to unite equal skill { with equal good fortune, and to exercise on I the final result an influence so commanding and decisive. L. C. Another Toicc from a Copper* head.. • Everybody knows what the New York Ale pro# is—edited by James and Eraslus Brooks— it - Copperhead sympathies ore not excelled outside of the dying Confederacy. James Brooks may be said to be the special champion of Peace-at-any-pricc propositions. But the vehement ecoru with which the Richmond rebels treated the peace programme of our Copperheads, seems to have cooled the ardor of the “friends of peace” iu the East, who have as little notion of letting the South At lantic States go, as we have of permitting the Lower Mississippi States to drop out. Erastusßrooks, writing over his well known initials, and under the head “Editorial Cor respondence of the New York Express"- from Washington, Feh. 13, says: Almost everybody here is looking for some thing extraordinary to lum up, fit the next sixty or ninety days, and some even limit the time for these expected revelations, between now and the 4th of March, close at hand. * * * The enemy hope everything from onr disasters in coming encounters. They know every weak spot in the nation, from this po litical nucleus of the Federal Capital to every failure In the purposes of the Government, In every part of the Union. They hare their spies and sympathizers in all the States, and, besides this, all the aid and support which cemes from the envy, hatred and malice of mankind, the world “over, toward the United States. Avarice, too, Is at work to help their necessities along thousands of miles of coast and river navigation. * * . * ♦ “ Shall the sword devour forever ?” The President answered this question prac tically in his Inaugural Address, two years since. All wars must have an end, and this scourge on our nation with the rest. But the rebels arc not ready for peace, or to close the war, except upon their own terms. They would not even makepeace by surrendering to them the free navigation of the Mississippi, with the independence of the Cotton States. They desire the territory of the Federal Cap ital, all of Maryland, all the territory of the Old all of Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri, and all the forts and arsenals on the Southern coast. They would not only dwarf the old Union, bnt destroy it. Such a surrender would only he pusillanimous and cowardly, but so disgrace us before the civil ized world, that every foreign power would rightfully spit upon us. Better at once be come the hewers of wood and the drawers of water for the Southern Confederacy, than cn- ter upon such disgraceful negotiations. Life would have no charms, honor no home, peace no permanency, Government no solid basis, in a country‘thus debased by its leaders. Whatever mav be in store for the nation, let us, at least, struggle on for the unity of the people in one country, under one Govern ment, with one Constitution. Am Important Arrest of a II cl) cl Spy. [Special Dispatches to The Prcss/M Washington, Feb. 15,1563. Colonel Baker, Provost Marshal of the War Department, arrested this morning T. T. Tunstall on the charge of being a rebel spy. Tuuslali was appointed by President Pierce Consul at Cadiz, and bold that office until after the inauguration of Mr. Lincoln, when he was removed. After being removed, he went to Tangiers (Morocco) in company with Lieut. John Snith, whose real name was Henry Myers, and who was appointed a pay master In the navy, from Georgia, in 1564. They wore asresteci by James Dc Long, Con sul atTangiers, andtheirrelease was attempt ed by a mob, which proved unsuccessful. They were finally put iu irons, placed on board the Ino, and brought to this country. After an examination in this city, he was paroled to go to Alabama, and not to return North until the close of the war. Lately, in violation of his parole, he mado his way North, and from thence to Nassau, where he made heavy purchases for the rebels, consisting of boots,‘shoes, Ac. As soon as he saw them ready for shipment be made his way North again, and a week or so ago ho ar rived in Washington. His arrival was not known for several days, as he kept perfectly concealed during the daytime, walking out only at night, and then under a deep dis guise. Last evening, while in conversation with some friends, ho made somorathcrlmprudent remarks, at least for himself which wore beard by a dckcUye, who kept a close yrakh upon him, ami followed him to the residence of Dr. Riley, on 14th street, above F. The detective reported to Col. Baker, who ordered him to keep a close watch on the house, and he (Col. B.) would this morning arrest Tun- Bfcdl. True to bis promise, Col. 8., with sev eral assistaute, surrounded the house, to pre vent his escape. Col. B. "Walked up stairs, and, after searching several rooms, could not find the gentlemans was in quest of Dur ing this time he hehrd two ladies speaking about him, one of whom was very sorry she could not shoot the Colonel. This made him prolong his search still farther, and he was finally gratified in finding the Individual he was In search of In bed, reading with great avidity a copy of the Baltimore 2>’«n, and hav : ing at his side copies of the Chicago Times and New York World. Mr. Tnnsiall was every indignant at his ar rest but he soon saw that It was of no use. He was sent this afternoon to the Old Capitol on the charge of being a rebel spy. He has openly violated his parole, and, therefore, is liable to bo hung. If all the facts narrated above arc proved' against him, and there is no reason to believe they wont, his file will serve as a warning to others. Tmnstall is on Alabamian, a cousin of ex- United States Senator Clement C. Clay, from the same State, and is highly educated. Thanks to tl&c Sanitary* Com mission. Fiusra House Hospital, i MonynEEbßoiio Pike, Feb. 12,1863.)' Editors Chicago Tribune: The undersigned begs leave, in behalf of the wounded soldiers in this hospital, to ac knowledge through your paper the receipt from time to time, of liberal supplies of bed ding, clothing, dressings, food and delicacies from the United States Sanitary Commission, under the direction of Messrs. Seymour and Atwater of Ohio; And but for their- prompt and generous response to our frequent calls, our brave meu must have suffered, in spite of our beat endeavors to prevent it. Let the friends ot the .sick and wounded soldiers, North, East and West, continue their “Sa maritan work” of gathering up and pushing forward with renewed vigor, through proper agents, large supplies of sanitary goods, thereby binding up the wounds and pouring In oil and wine, for husband, Cither and brother, who emphatically faU among thieves and robbers in lias land of rebeldom. I have the honor to be gentlemen, your obedient and humble servant, A. P. Woodbupp, Hospital Seward, U. 8. A. The West and the War, [From the St. Louis Republican, (Bern.) nth. A politician named D, A. Mahoney—who was some weeks since released from the Old Capitol Prison in Washington—has written a letter, published in the New York Worlds in which he assumes to speak the sentiments of the Northwest in relation to the farther pros ecution of the war. His text is the recent speech of Mr. John Van Buren, in New York, and as the presumption that Mr. Van Buren reflected the sentiments of the Democracy of New York has not been contradicted, Mr. Ma honey contends that there is a vast chasm be tween the Democracy of that State and the West. New York is for a vigorous prosecu tion of the war, while, according to this wri ter, the people—especially of Illinois, Indi ana and lowa—are opposed to its farther prosecution. And thepractical design of this communication, as he says, is to produce a concert of action “between the conservative elements of New York and of the Northwest.” In other words, Mr. Mahoney is in New York engaged in the business of creating a public sentiment favorable to the demands of the rebels for the division of the Union. He iias probably not had enough of martyrdom, and is laboring to get himself again arrested as a State prisoner, giving moral aid and comfort to the enemy. This Mr. Mahoney is the editor of a paper printed in the town of Dubuque—a paper which was long excluded from the mails on account of disloyalty—and one which has con sistently opposed the war from the start. Last fall, while under arrest, he obtained a paitial endorsement from his party in the fid district of lowa as a candidate for Congress, but was beaten more than 0,000 votes, though he at that time claimed to be a Union man. We have not recently seen any pretensions on his part that he now belongs in the category of Unionists, but would rather suppose he prides himself on being anything else. We shall not inquire into the claim of Mr. Mahoney to represent the political sentiments ofthe Northwest. We cannot see where he obtained the knowledge of the popular ten dencies of that section which enables him to speak with such positiveness; and in truth, do not believe the alleged facts on which bis assertions are based, to exist at all. Whv is the West opposed to the further pro secution of the war and in lavor of disunion, for the two, as the ease - stands, are iden tical V Mr. Mahoney says it is because of the abolition policy of the Washington Adminis tration. Now we agree—it would be useless to deny—that the West is thoroughly opposed to many of the pet measures put lorth at the National Capital. But two wrongs do not make one right. Mr. Lincoln and the whole Republican and Abolition party, have it not In their power, by any extravagance or nonsense, to palliate the gigantic “mis take” of the South, or to render Union a particle less desirable. On the other hand, there is no evidence that were the present Administration Democratic or even pro-slave ry, the leaders of the rebellion would feel si desire to return to their sillcgiaiice. They say that were a white sheet of paper pre sented. them whereon to write their own terms of fellowship with the people of the North, they would take nothing but the unconditional recognition of the South ern Confederacy. They—the leaders, who, after all control the people by means of their military despotism—were practically in the same hostility to the Government before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, be fore the confiscation bill was passed, before the fugitive slave law was in effect nullified, as now; and they demand no more now than then. It is true the ultra measures of Repub lican partisans have solidified public senti ment at the South to a great extent against the Administration, and perhaps rendered re union more difficult; but with those with whom our armies have to deal chiefly, the ori ginal secessionists, there is no proof that the case would have been very far different had the war continued under the conservative na tional policy adopted at the beginning. -Ills no argument against the war ibat some per sons support it because they believe it will result la the abolition of slavery. Whatever side issues there may be In the minds of dif ferent persons, the contest is still one for Union, and pre-eminently so. Wc can only have Union now by rigorously prosecuting the war, for to cease hostilities, in the face of the uncompromising demands of the rebels, is simply to consent to the disintegration of ; the country. Wholesale l>oscrtcr.«. The Atlanta (Ga.) Confederacy gives the fol lowing evidence of the compulsory nature of the service exacted by the rebel military authorities, and of the Wnolcsale desertions therefrom; There was a large numberof deserters in the country. It is estimated that over half of the men who went into the service from the Northeastern counties in the State were at home without leave, and most of these were skulking in the mortmains to avoid the en rolling officers, who had been instructed to arrest them. Others, under a few despera does, had banded together to resist any at tempt that might be made to arrest them, or to release from the jails those who had been arrested. Some of these hands had arms and ammunition, and were subsisting by plunder. There were also a few men who were enemies to the Confederate States, prominent among which is the notorious Jeff. Anderson, who escaped jail from this city last spring, with the bridge burners. There are also a few men among them who were prisoners of war at Cr.mp Chase, Ohio, had taken the oath of alle giance to the United States, and were there in on released by the Yankees. Whether ihtsc had been active, or in any way instru mental in engendering or furthering the dis turbances, or trying to spread disaffection, or whether they themselves were really hostile to the Confederate States, has not been definitely ascertained. Most of the deserters are men who have volunteered—very few among them being conscripts. Indeed, the conscription InWin that section have never been enforced. The Insurrection iu Poland. We have already published some details of the insurrection in Poland. The Russian ac counts report that the rebels have been crush ed, but Russian official bulletins arc not the most reliable in the world. The Warsaw cor respondent of the Berlin Xatioml ZeiUiug, writing on the 25th ult., says: I can only confirm my account of yesterday, that the country is in complete revolt. Ac cording to the arrangements of the revolu tionary party, the outbreak was not to take place until the Ist of May, but the Govern ment themselves have hastened the catastro phe by the unhappy recruiting movement. From all parts of the country come bad reports, one following the other. In Kiele and in Sledlie Provisionary Govern ments arc established. Fighting has taken place at many points with varied results. All the telegraphic lines arc broken, and on the Warsaw and St. Petersburg and the Vienna Railways, the rails are torn up and carried off. On the Warsaw and St. Pctcrsbnmline the in surgents have haye burnt the bridge. All the lines have become insecure, and it will cost the Government much trouble to become masters of the movement. The insurgents seem to be about to carry on a guerilla war fare. So far the rebels, but more important is it for the extension of the revolt that all the landholders have declared to their peasants that they desire no rent from them, and that all the ground they hold is given them forthe future. The couutry people now begin to waver, and at many places they already make common cause with the rebels. Altogether, it is estimated that 200,000 rebels areln the country. A Sensible Disposition of the Conlrabamls. • [Washington Dispatch to N. Y. Tribune.] Gen. Doublcday, one of the wisest, as well at one of the most skillful officers in the ser vice, has suggested the following disposition of the contrabands in Northern Virginia. He s?ys that every day fugitives come into camp, and there being no provisioufor the reception and care of them, they are suffered to wan der about the country, and arc too frequently picked up and tSken beyond the Rappahan nock to do workfor the enemy. Gen. Donblc day recommends that tho most available of the numerous peninsulas along the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay be fortified across their narrow necks, and used as places of refugo for the negroes. They would thus be able to defend themselves, and the fish and oysters in the bay would give them employment and sustenance. As an example of a suitable lo cality, he indicates Mathias Point. A line of fortifications across its neck would afford pro tection to thousands of these wanderers m the wilderness at very light expense to the Government. One advantage secured would be the establishment of places of refuge, to which all inquiring fugitives could be direct ed! These points would also form a basis ol operation for colonization, If that policy shall cyer be induced, the attack ON SIAXfiSM nisJily Interesting from an Arltansa* and Sntelligentsront—Tlirec Hundred of lllndman’M-Uca Frozen to Berrth—UlndmanOrdo-edto VlcXa burs—His Ihcu Kcfuce to Go, [Fromthe St. LonisDemocrat,lßtii.} The following letter, addressed to Gen. Da ,vidscn, has been communicated to headquar ters, and is courteously furnished for publica tion: Camp, Hahlow'b Mill, Feb. 11,1&33. General Davidson: .Dear Friend : Yesterday evening I re turned from the Batesvillc expedition, which was a complete success so far as par arms •were concerned, there not being a man In jured on our part. Some eight or ten of the cucmy were wounded, live killed, and It is supposed several were drowned in attempting to swim the river. As The ferryboat couldnot take them across with eulHcient rapidity many rode their horses into the river and un dertook to swim It. I saw several deserters direct from Hind man’s army, and from all their accounts he has certainly the most incficlcnt and dissatis fied set of men on earth. Hindman himself has requested a a transfer across the Missis sippi River. Tour army can be subsisted within twenty-five miles of Jacksonport, in the way of forage, six months, at the rate of 3,000 bushels of com per day. There are mills within six miles of Batesville. sufficient to grind 1,200 bushels of corn. Marmaduke has stripped the country of all good horses and mules; consequently we obtained few, Hindman has been once ornered to Vicks burg, but his men refused to go. Three hun dred his men froze to death on their retreat from Van £urcu. About 200 deserters arc concealed In the cane and brash within twen ty miles of Batesville. A few came Into our lines; many more would have done so, but our stay was too short. The hearty prayer of a heavy majority is for the permanent occupa- the country by the Federal army. We took about forty prisoners, two Cap tains and one Lieutenant Colonel. The pris oners were badly frostbitten. Col "Waring was obliged to parole them at Evening Shade, twenty-fiVemilesfromßatesvllle. Conscripts answer very well to make numbers, but don’t do well to fight. Going home, it strikes me to the heart to sec the deplorable condition of my State; hearing the earnest prayers and appeals of both my personal friends and ene mies for deliverance from the vile thraldom with which they are surrounded. ««£*«*** Toucan say to Gen. Curtis that the very w oret men in the Statp have been to Memphis, bought salt and many other things they need ed, in abundance. Some physicians, who arc secessionists of the deepest dye, sent their wives from in and about Batesville, to Mem phis, and brought supplies and medicines. Got. Curtin and a New Polical Party, [Correspondence of the Philadelphia Press.] Hariusbubg, Feb. 16,15U3. The statement that Gov. Cnrtin, at a recent dinner in 'Washington, held a conversation ■with Secretary Seward In relation to the for mation of a new political party, is without foundation. Nothing took place at that din ner, except the exchange of ordinary civilities, and no reference was made to the ’renomina tion of Gov. Curtin by any such new party. Neither is Gov. Curtin acquainted with Thur low Weed, who is alleged to be the head of the new party. This disavowal is made by authority of Gov. Curtin, who does not wish to have his name associated at this momen tous crisis, with any movement calculated to distract the country. He is entirely ignorant of the organization or principles ot any new party. Vallaudap;linm’s* Speech. [From the Cincinnati Commercial, ISth.] We are informed that several thousand cop ies ofVallandigham’s recent speech have been procured by Northern traitors, and forwarded to the Army of the Cumberland. If General Rosecrans finds any of the agents of the reb els within his lines, attempting to circulate the speech of the cowardly traitor and liar of the Third Congressional District of Ohio, we wc presume they will be hanged suddenly. They would be lucky, in the first place, if they were to escape death at the hands ofthe soldiers. The men of the Army ofthe Cum berland arc not in the humor to be tampered with by the dastardly treason-mongers of the North, whom they have reason to hate with greater bitterness than they do the graybacks that they whipped at Stone River. TlioSewspapcr and Boole Pul)' fishers. Boston, Monday, Feb. IC, 1553. There was a large attendance uf newspaper proprietors and book publishers before the Legislative Committee on Federal Relations to-day, to urge the importance of memorial izing Congress for relief against the paper makers’ monopoly. It was shown that the cost of school hooks alone was five millions of dollars annually, and that this combination of paper manufacturers added thereto twenty per cent., which was a serious tax on the ma jority of parents; also, that nearly all the re ligions publications, weekly newspapers, and, books heretofore published for the people, would be compelled to suspend entirely or be greatly restricted in their usefulness. The daily papers would also he compelled to fur ther advance their price. The publishers closed their case by present ing the following resolutions: Jteeolud* That the welfare of the community, as well as the dithislon of education and general intelligence, call for the adoption of some measure which shall cheapen the cost of paper and prevent any combination of wealth or of interest to keep up the value of the article at so high a point, as to inflict a severe tax upon education and the dissem ination of information generally among the people. Repotted, That so fur as regards the protection of capital and industry, the book and newspaper publishing business, employing vastly more of capital and labor than the production of the raw material. Is entitled to the highest consideration. Retired, That our Senators and Representa tives in Congress be requested to vote for an amendment of the tariff, which shall reduce the duty on imported paper from 32 to 5 per cent, or as near thereto as may be deemed practicable and ex pedient. p?»r* The New Tork Times has a very intelli gent and reliable correspondent at Paris, wri ting underthe signature of “ilalakoff,” who has resided many years in that city, and has access to the best sources of information. His •letter by the last steamer contains the follow ing passages: “Whatever answer Mr. Seward may make to the Commissioners 1 proposition of ALDrouyn de L’Hnys,U is almost certain that the efforts, or more properly speaking, the intermeddling of the French Government, will not stop here. They will not go to the extremity of an armed intervention, unless invited to it by the atti tude of the Democratic party in the North; but they may be led to a recognition of the Sonlbj if- by that recognition, there is any bopt of dlscom-aglng the North to tho extent of giving np the contest. * -* * * It Is, therefore, to the fictions and dissatis fied people in the North, that the French Gov ernment looks for co-operation in this work, and it is for this reason that whenever Mr. Saulslmry or Mr. Vallandichara rises np or sits down in Congress, the European tele graph has a tremor of joy, and all the suffer ing nations are made to hear the joyous fict in the least possible space of time.' It is for this that every movement of the Democratic party is watched with the same interest as a mariner watches the needles of a barometer, and that for the French the important part of cnchjdispatch from America Is that which rc- Isteslto what wc have a right to call treason in the North. T W. DEAN - HAS REMOVED tl • bSB dOB PRINTING OFFICE to 24 SOUTH CLABK STREET, Under Traders* Cask. feDaiiwt T O LOAN—S2,OOO or $3,000 for one.two or three years, on first class improved cltv property, worth at least J9.0C0 or Sio eoo at pre sent rates. Apply to BURNHAM & MARTIN. 65 Randolph street .or address ” L K,” Chicago Post Odlce. ;cIS-iiiT4-3t JJOKEY TO LOAN AT LOW RATES. A pply to WAITE & TOWN'S. Attorneys at Law. 1W Washington street. feiS-a216 at TO EXCHANGE—S3,OOO worth of wild and productive real estate In Indiana and Michigan for goods of any hind, orwoaldpntlt In as capital and take a partnership in any pood bajlnes*. by a strictly business man. Address **F Q.” Tflbone offcc. statins when and where on interview can he fel9 a 213 A TTENTION. —The undersigned J-3L begs leave to Inform all friends of a pare glass of 'wine, that they have opened la connection with their wholesale department, a AND SPLENDIDLY FIXED SAMPLE ROOM, at their business place, •TO LASALLE STREET, opposite the Conn House, where they will sell Ml kinds of (their own Importation) wises, especially Rhine, french. Hungarian and Port Woes, Sherry. Maderlaacd Champalgnejn foil and half bottles. fer.OMMES* ULLIUCH. 7G Laaall£?t., opp. the Court House. fclS-alfOlm TNTOEMATIOX WANTED—Of X JOHN mXUASIS. bj birth an EnsUshman emi grated to America in 1150. settled in Milwaukee. Wia.. Tea Milwaukee In November. 18», and went to Chica go ; nothing has been beard of him since. He I 4 about go years of age. rather corpnlcnt. about * feet«lnches high, pray hair, and lame on right side. Any Informa tion concerning him will be thankfully received by hU nephew. George Wood ward. Box 1077. Pittsburgh, Pa. felS-allTlw JIVUGLE TREAMINGS, lEI GLE OBIMIHEXTS. JET AND STEEL ORNAMENTS. belt pins and buckles. POUIPADOI’B SIDE COISBS. Few styles received dally at No. 78 LAKE STJBEET. We have also opened a largo lot of f RENCHCORSETS of oar own Importation— latest Parisian style. GRATES & IRVINE. 73 Lake street. QAXL IN AT BABNUM BROS,, 138 Lake St, AK2> SEE NEW STYLES OF BACK COMBS STEEL AND JET JEWELRY, PEARL AND IVORY PANS, SHOPPING BAGS, And other new Goods now bring received. 138, between Clark: and lasalle Sts, no LAKE STREET.—We invite * O tbe attention of tbe trade to oflr large stock of CORSETS, SKIRTS, HOSIERY, Velvet and Trimming Ribbons, EtGLE ASD STEEL TEUDIHCS, GILT AND JETDEESS BUTTONS SiLK AND WORSTED Embroidery and Dress Braids, THREADS, 4c,, &c., AH of wWck wc will sell at less than NEW YORK PRICES for net cash. Close buyers are Invited to call, 6JKAVES & IKTOE, feV-zTtTZ 73 LAKE STREET. QROCEREES. I mm, BRIGGS & CO., 75 South Water street, Chicago, Offer for sale AT THE VERY LOWEST PRICES to CLOSE BUYERS AND PROMPT MEN, a well selected stock of GROCERIES AT WHOLESALE, EMBRACING Sugars, Pish, Teas, Tobacco, Co flees, Rice, Syrups, Spices, AXolasses, Soaps, X>i’ietl Fruit, ■WOODEN WAKE, and an article* usually included la - their Use. We hare bought most of onr goods fbr cash, and be* llcve that ire can make It to the Interest of all purchas ing In this market to call and examine our stock before Duylng. EWING. BRIGGS & CO., No. 73 South Water street, Chicago. Wm. L. Ewing. St, Louis, Mo. Clinton Briggs. I rhimm Thomas Heermans. JLhlcago. mylS-rtSl-ly QEOCEKIES. 16 & 18 STATE STREET. G. C. COOK & CO.. WHOLESALE GROCERIES. Ca*h Layers arc inyltcd to examine onr stock. noMy QLOTH HOUSE. FIELD, BENEDICT & CO., 34 & 36 Bake street, Have now la store the largest stock of COTHS, CASSLiIERES, TESTIXCS, SATINETS, Sheep’s Gt-reys, Beavers, Pilots, Meltons, And all other poods for MEN’S WEAR, ever exhibited In ttds market. Mhbcbasts are Invited to ex* amine oar stock of goods of all kinds for OFFICER’S UNIFORMS. Bine Cloth*, Bine Flannel*, Blue Casslmerc*. apT-plOl-ly PAPER HANGINGS AT WHOLESALE TO THE TRADE, FOR SPRING SALES. At Less than N. T. Priees. E. G. L FAXOJf, 70 Lethe Street, 70 BEDDING WAREROOMS, 70 LAKE STREET Purchasers of Bedding for the Winter, or to re-famish for Spring, should call and examine. MATTRESSES, Blankets, Comforters SPREADS, Etc. STEAM CURED FEATHERS. OLD FEATHERS RENOVATED AND MATTRESSES MADE OVER. E, €?. £. FJUXOJV. TOHN GR AT, DEALER IK WOODEN WARE, BROOMS, Pails, Brushes, Mats, Twines, Cord age, Tubs, Chorus, Cradles, TVagons, Chairs* Baskets, &c. Nos. 15 Fulton and 202 Front Streets, New York. J»23-zISMm JJAWSOK & BARTLETT Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in boots and shoes, 80 Lake Street, Chicago, Hl* We would respectfully call the attention of City and Country Merchant* to oar extensive stock of Boots and Show which we have now in store and are dally re celvlng from oar Factory la West Boylsten. which coaslsists of a fan assortment of those Celebra? ted Custom-Made Patna Kip and Calf, and Grain Water- Proof Boots; together wltha full stock of all styles of FAIL AND WINTER ROODS, Of the beat duality and mauufhcturea, which we are gTRTKER & 00., 141 LAKE STREET, Are cow offering THEIR ENTIRE STOCK OF WINTER CLOAKS •A.T COST! Comprising an the best style* in market. Shawls of every description. WOOLEN HOOH§, SKATING CAPS NUBIAS, COMFORTERS, SONTAGS, SCARFS, ALL AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. To close the Season. . ¥OOL BED BLAMETS At less price than they can now be bought for. DRESS GOODS, GLOVES, HOSIERY. AV» KIDUOVS, >OO best styles of Balmoral Skirls AT LOW FIGURES. Pf The attention of the trade U called to the above goods. STRYKER 4c CO., 11l LAKE STREET, nyl9-rtt2-Iy 'J'O GRAIN SHIPPERS. Richards’ Iron Corn Sheller, I, MILLS FOR WAREHOUSES, DISTIL AM) FARMS. Capacity....No. 0.4.000 to 3.000 bushel* per day. Capacl ty... .No. 1.7.DC0 to 1.000 bushels per day. Capacity....No. 3,1.000 to 1.500 bushels per day. Capacity.... No. S. 400 to TOO bushels per day. These machines are in use In all the Northwestern State?, and are universally acknowledged superior to all oilier*. They hare won golden opinions front Western Grain Shippers. ILLINOIS CENTRAL UAILBOAB STATDIEST. Chicago. October. 138?. We have six of Richards* Champion Com Shellers now in constant operation, at onr cribs at Burnside, nnd after shelling about eight hundred thousand bushels of corn can safely say that for capacity and equality of work. In our opinion, these machines have no superior. We have repeatedly loaded cars ol four hundred bushels In slxtTmlnute£ with tho No. X, and. In thirty-five minutes with the No. 0 Machine, convey* ing the car com. by feeders, from fifteen to fifty feef, and cle> ruing the shelled com into cars, always shell lug the Cora quite clean from the cobs, without grind. Inc or cutting the craln, and cleaslngjintl delivering it In Boperlor condition for market. Their substantial construction Is amply attestedbvthcfhct that we have run them night ana «uy to tliclr utmost capacity, with powerful engines, with but slight delavs for repairs. Weccmmcn'dthem to the grain shippers of Urn west, after-ample trial and experience. (Signed! R. B. MASON. Com pt roller Land Department L C. 1L R. Portable and Stationary* Engines, Warehouse Elevators and machinery. Belting, etc., furnished to order. Address all orders to SICHABD3 MAinrFACXTreiyo CO., P. O. Box 732. Chicago. HI. J. HARRIS. President. > J.C. RICHARDS Soperlatccdcnt.) Ja2Lz373-lmsrAT gUTLER’S GOODS, WINTER GOODS, DRESS G-OODS, CASSni£RES, BOOBS, NUBIAS, semes, And the most extensive and attractive Stock of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods AT WHOLESALE IN CHICAGO. gWOrdcr? accompanied with money or rcfereacar secure our best attention BOWEN BROTHERS, IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS. 73. 71 and 7t3 Lake street. Chicago. THE OLDEST SEWING MA- X CHINE IN THE WORL*. THE ORIG-INAL. HOWE SEWING MACHINES. InTCntcd !n IS4s—Perfected In 1802* Signal reward to the great American Inreator— fir# Premium* taken hr the Howe Sewing Machine at the International World's fair this season In London. Eng* land, where the HOWE MACHINE Took the Imperial Gctfd Medal ns the first highest Pro tnlnm for excellency of Machine; also four other Gold Medal* as First Premiums for the four different gradaa of work: also four Honorable Mentions for good work, comprising the only Premiums given, either for excel lency or for work. Tims the Original Howe Sowing Machine, from which all others derive their vitality, las established Itself by taking tiro Gold Medals oat of tlx, and four Honorable Mentions oat of five, at a World's Fair, where all of the leading Sewing Machine*, joth in Utls country and Europe. were on trial, u tbs jest Sewing Machine in the world. %3T Agents wanted In the Western and Northwest ern State*. Circulars, containing (dll descriptions ot Machines, can be bad on application, or sent by mail. Address J.S.BP.TAST. General Western Agent. 63 Lake street. Chicago. myn-gi-ly. mi ■ 1 Merit alone makes a SEWING MACHINE ralnab ! « The people are perceiving that glowing repreescat Hons arc not merit. Time It in economy and wt-dom to purchase only SEWING MACHINE of known practical utility. There arc 109.000 Machines In use in this country aid Europe. T1 Is Machine Is PROFITABLE and AVAILABLE A LIFETIME. It U equal to TEN Seamstresses. AN ANNUAL DIVIDEND of 100 to SCO per cent, (on it* cost) may be obtained lo use—by lu poa«»3or. Tills Is the only SEWING MACHINE In the world making the LOCK-STITCH with the ROTATING BOOK, and Uelog the GLASS FOOT. G£OBC£ B. CHITTENDEN, Genera! Acent for Illinois, Wisconsin. lowa, North ora Indiana Minnesota and Karau 106 Lake street. Chicago. CtrClrcul&rs maybe had oaapplicaUoa mhSI-cCW-ly The “FLORENCE” SKVTIXG MACHINES maka •tlrche* on cupand the same Machine. Tims the lock, double lock, double kxot and xtot. all of which make the seam alike on both sldeaoftha fabric. Either or all con be produced while the it*' chine Is In motion. Thev hare the r.irisstßLX rzn> motto* which en able* the operator to hare the wort carry either way, or to change the direction and fasten the end of scams. wLHi, together with making a loud and a shortatitch. Is done simply done by turning a thumb screw. Their motion? are all Poamrs. Thera arc no springs to get oat of order. They are so simple that the moe* Inexperienced can work them perfectly and with case. They are Kotaxtsss, and can be worked where qalstla necassary. THET are the FASTEST SETTEES in the WORLD, making five atttcbcF la eaoh revolution. TheroU ms dresses. Their STITCH la the wonder of all, pecaoae of It? combined zlasticztt. BmcfQiH and hxauxt Agents wanted throughout the Western conatry With a small Investment of capital, a profitable.bad ness tan bo readily established. h or circulars andtlUn* p!c 01 work, address FIOEZNCE SEWIHG WAchIME C 0„ Post Offlce Box 2162. Salesroom. 124 Lake street. set rt9o-ly To avoid the stbaet ok ms ms, lutsrr posnrx*, close applicatios and yanomio cab*, heretofore necessary on a large proportion of work done onSew- Inn .vacnUifa. we now furnish each machine with "UARNUM'S SELF-SEWEE.** which guide* the work Itself, and is of Incalculable value, especially to Inex perienced operators. falli93t-lw L CORNELL & CO’S SE VTJNGt • MAC; TNES. of all stitches, at £3 Lake street. Wilcox £ Gibbs’ Twisted Loop-Stitch; Taggart M Farr Double-Lock SUtch; Empire Shuttle Lockstitch. The Simplest. StiT.en. Fastest and moat perfect to b« found. Also.Bamnn’s* 4 Sat* Sxwxx "MachlneSap pile*. *C. L. COBXKLL * CO.. delS-yiST-Oa Box a. Chicago, DL A GREAT DISCOVERT HAS recently been made in tho Art of Tanning Leather, by the u?e of a Weed common in all part* of the rai led States, Hide? by this process have been turned In this City la EIGHT DAYS, and pronounced eooal. If not superior, to any tanned io one f o * 7 by the oldpro cesa. Spcclmcnaoflhli Leather miybe seen la Room 13, RLns*l>nrr Block, where the InrenujrßWhc eeeitteatoo to. Cjß and eramine It. ItU-aldldt CAG&’Aff SALT.—3,OOO barrels SAGINAW FINE SALT, For aaleby .w. .. . It ycCTTESNEY. corner isjulh Wa’.cr and WcIU sts. 1