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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