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WEARINESS.
With weary steps I loiter on,
Though always under altered skies.
The purple from tbe distance dies,
My prospect and horizon gone.
No joy the blowing season gives,
Tbe herald melodies of spring ;
Bat In the songs 1 love to sing
A doubtful gleam of solace lives.
If any care for what is here
Survive in spirits rendered free.
Then are these songs 1 sing of thee
Not all ungrateful to thine ear.
—ln Memortam.
Dickens and Thackeray.
Dickens and Thackeray are at present
the lords of tke novel; and as partisans of
one or of the other, the world ot novel
readers are pretty equally divided. Critics
are perpetually comparing one with the |
other; and we are sorry to observe that j
these gentlemen, with something like in- ■
gratitude, are inclined to speak disparag
ingly of Dickens, and to sigh amid his
autumnal leaves for the freshness and full
ness of his spring. In the possession ot
two such men, to measure one against the
other is somewhat ungenerous. When
similar comparisons were instituted in Ger
many, betwc i Schiller and Goethe, the
latter was wont to say, “ The fools, they
ought to be thankful they have two such
men to quarrel about.” Preference in the
matte r of Dickens and Thackeray is the
result of mental constitution, and cannot
be effected by argument. Dickens has by
far the more exuberant genius, the richer
plenitude of gilt; bis faults are tbe faults
of excess. He is a pomegranate which
has burst with its ripeness. He overlays
bis work from sheer wealth of resource.—
Humor, whim, and animal spirits carry
him captive at times. He has the keenest
eye for oddity .that ever perhaps looked out
on the odd world. To him 'the street
pump h.as a rakish aspect, and he reads a
man’s character in the way he wears his
hat. There is a certain titfulness and
levity in his mind, which is its chief
fault, aud which lies at the hot
tom of all the defects which have
been laid to his cha-ge. But the
prime test of a writer is the depth to
which he has affected his time; and the
application of this lest Dickens need not
fear. His wit and humor have colored
the Dnguage of the streets; people un
neciouslj quote him in drawing rooms ;
and from him are gathered halt the tell
ing points in the “ leaders” ot cur morn
ing ntwspapers. Then it we think for a
moment, no other English writer —with
the exception ot Shakspeare end Scott—
has peopled the popular imagination whh
such a medley of characters, with whom
we have become quite familiar, and of
whom we constantly catch ourselves talk
ing, as if they were personal acquaintanc
es. And then these characters are so
queer, bo unique, so pertectly original, so
unlike the oilier persona we meet in books;
and, still more, we always think of them
with a certain pleasantness; we greet
them with a smile, a hearty good morning,
a kind motion of the hand, as it were.
Thackeray's good points, on tbe other
hand, are quite dissimilar from thm-e of
his rival. Less efflorescent as a geuius,
he is greater as an artist. lie commands
his flowers; his (lowers do not command
him. His mind is altogether ot a quieter,
manlier, firmer texture. There is nothing
lyrical or impetuous about writing.
Above all things, he is reticent, and he is
credited for what he to himself as
well as for what he gives. He speaks
when he says nothing. His stories are
nnromanlic in Dolnt of characters and
incidents ; the movement is far from rapid ;
and, in his later works, more especially,
be turns continually on his reader and
lectures him on '.be spot. Avery consid
erable volume ot moral essays could be
culled from Thackeray’s novels. His style,
directness, high-bred ease, continual flexi
bility and grace, and adaptation to the
matter in hand, is perhaps the most per
tect of any cotemporary writer. Line ot
the most unsentimental, be is one ot tbe
tenderest of writers, when his mood deep
ens, Alter its truth and rarity, the most
curious tiling about his pathos is its unex
pectedness. It is always sudden, short,
surprising. The moving stroke, the sen
tence sighing of graves, a far-off happy
time, the touch w hich is like the touch ot
a spirit's finger, comes out from the midst of
common-places, or characteristic cynicism
tinged with pleasantness ; and if the tears
are on the cheek ot the reader, they are
there before he is aware. His leisurely
style of writing conduces to finish; aud it
be bas not Dickens’ variety ot ci racter,
what be basis more sharply defined, and
stand out in bolder relief. We are not so
intimate with the cut of their garments,
their modes of progression along the
streets; but we are more intimate with
their hearts. Thackeray’s great charac
ters are worth more than Dickens’ great
characters; aud, indeed, one or two ot
them, Warrington and Colonel Newcome,
tak their place along with Uncle Toby
and Parson Adams as permanent glorie:-
of English fiction. These do not amr.se
from eccentricity of attire or odd forms
ot expression, or tri m peculiarities ot gait
or feature ; but they become friends
whom we esteem, whom we love, for
their goodness of heart, for their manly
purity, for their contempt of al 1 lying and
baseness. Young people are the chief
novel readers now-a-days; and then these
high, simple, heroic gentlemen—with ihe
soul of an ancient knight beating beneath
the modern garb—no young man can find
better companions in nil the range ot fic
tion. They can at once stimulate, advise
and rebuke. — Aiorth British Renew.
The Poet of the Puritans.— Milton
was a Puritan ; one who instead ot trust
ing himself ami his hopes of the universe
to second-hand hearsays, systems and tra
ditions, had looked God’s W ord and bl
own soul in the face, and determined to
act on that wtiich fie had found. And
therefore it is that to open his works at
any stray page, alter these effeminate
Carolists, is like tailing a.-leep in a stitlmg
city drawing room, a.ind U coco French
furniture, not without untidy traces of lust
night's ball, and awaking in au Alpine
valley, amid the scent of i-woet cyclamens
and pine boughs, to the music ol trickling
rivulets and shouting hunters, and to set
above your head the dark cathedral :.>K-s
of mighty pines, and here and there,
above them and beyond, the spotless peaks
of everlasting snow ; while far beneath
your feet —
“The hemisphere of earth, in cloteet ken.
Stretched to the ampleet reach of proapect, lies.”
Cookino and Piety.— I've nothin'
to say agin her piety, uiy dear, but I
know very well 1 shouldn't like her to
cook my victuals. W hen a man comes in
hungry an' tired, piety wont feed him I
reckon. I called in one day when she
was dishin’ up Mr. Truman’s dinner, an'
I could see the potatoes were as watery
as water. Its right enough to be speritu
sJ —I’m no enemy to that; but I like my
potatoes mealy. I don’t see s- anybody 1
’nil go to heaven ’he sooner for not dig.-"-
tic their dinner —providin’ they don't die
sooner, a mayhap Mr. Truman will, j-oor
dear man! [Adam Bede.
|y I haven’t another won! to say,
B jr—I never dispute with fools," said a
gentleman, who was getting the worst of
an argument, “No,” was the reply,
“ you are sure to agree with them ”
A boy weighing eighteen pounds
wasborn on the 18th inat, in Naw Bed
ford. Both mother and child are “ com
fortable, and doing as well as could be
expected.”*
Republican Union State Convention-
A Republican Union State, Convention will te
"eld at the Capitol in the _ci!y of Mtdi'wn, at 12
o’clock M.,
On Wednesday, the 19th day of August
next, to nominate candidates for State officers to ;
t-e chosen at the general election in November,
aud to tuke such other action as the public wellare
shall seem to demand.
The chief public questions now before the coun
try are those relating to the present war, snd the
propet method of dealing with the rebellion. There
is no reason why those who concur substantially
in opinion upon these subjects should not now act
together politically, whatever may have been their
antecedents. We therefore cordially invite ail
electors te unite in the election ol delegates to the
State Convention aforesaid who approve ol the fol
lowing propositions
That the Union be preserved in its integrity;
That the constitution and laws of the United
States be enlorced throughout the whole national
domai* ;
That the rebellion be suppreesed, not by com
promises with or concessions to traitors, but by
the sword whose agency they have themselves in
voked;
That the National Administration should be
heartily and generously supported, in its efforts to
put down the rebellion.
Bach Senate and each Assembly district will be
entitled to two delegates in said state Convention.
The Cent'Nl Committee recommend to the dis
trict committees that the conventions for the elec
tion of delegates be held as early as Saturday, the
Bth day of August.
Madison, July sth, ISOS.
HORACE RUBLEE, JOHN P. LEWIS,
8. J. TODD, B. P. COOPER,
G. W. 11AZELTON, J. E. MCNGER,
JOHN LOCKWOOD, CUAS. EssLINGER,
J. W STEWART, J M. GILLETT,
C. S. CHASE, S. U. CLOUGH,
W. E. SMITH,
State Oentral Committee.
THE RECENT VICTORIES
A PEOCLASIAIIOS BX THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES.
It has pleased Almighty God le hearken to the
supplications and prayers of an afflicted people,
and to vouchsafe to the army and the navy of the
United States, on the land and on the sea, victories
so signal and so effective as to turuisb reasonable
grounds for augmented contidence that the Union
of tnese Sta’es will he maintained, their constitu
tion preserver, and their peace and prosperity per
manently preserved.
hut these vlsttories have been accorded not
w.thout aacruice of iife, limb and liberty incurred
by brave, patriotic and loyal citizens. Domestic
affliction iu every part of the country follows in
the train of these fearful bereavements. It is
meet an J right to recognize and confess the pres
ence of tne Almighty father, and the power of ilis
hand equally in theie triumphs iind these sorrows.
Now, Therefore, be it known that X do set apart
Thursday, the sixth day of August next to bo ob
served as a day for national Thanksgiving, praise
and prayer, aud I invite the people of the L nited
States to assemble on that occasion in their cus
tomary places ot worship, and in the forms ap
proved by their own conscience, render the hom
age due to the Divine Majesty for the wonderful
things he has done in Che nation’s beba.i, and in
voke tue influence of Ilis Iloly Spirit to subdue the
anger which has produced and so long sustained a
needless aud cruel rebellion; to cnangu the hearts
ol the insurgents, to guide the counsels of the
Government with wisdom adequate to so great a
national emergency, and to visit with tender caro
and consolation throughout the length and breadth
of our land all those who through the vicisitudes of
marches, voyages, battles and sieges, have been
brought to suffer in mind, body or estate and fami
ly, to lead the whole nation through paths of re
pentance and submission to the Divine will, back
to the perfect enjoyment of Union and fraternal
peace.
In witness whereof 1 have hereunto set my hand
and Caused the seal of the United States to be
affixed.
Done at the city of W ashingten, this loth day of
July, in the year of our Lord ono thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence
of the United States of America the eighty-eiphth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President, M. U. Sewaed,
Secretary of State.
Treason at the North.
A good many recent occurrences Lave
shown ample justification for the summa
ry arrests which the Government has
sometimes made, hut we have noticed
nothing so clearly indicating that it would
have been better for the country it more
of its secret toes at the North had been
arrested and punished, ns the revelations
growing out of the arrest of John O’Neal,
John Benedict, and John Moore in Phila
delphia, on a charge of high treason, and
the seizure of two vessels freighted with
contraband goods, money and a rebel
mail, together with the testimony ol an
important witness, proving a deep laid
conspiracy against the Government in
New York, Philadelphia, and elsewhere.
In the mail seize ! on its way to Richmond
were several letters implicating several
prominent peace Democrats in contraband
trade, the planning of a piratical expedi
tion from New York for the destruction of
American vessels, sending information to
the rebels, and other acts of treason, for
which some of them are to be tried.—
Among the letters w\as one from Professor
Dickson, ot the Jefferson Medical College,
at Philadelphia, who writes to his South
ern friend, “ the cry in the streets ot the
tall of \ icksburg is killing me by inches,”
and fills his letter with information most
valuable to the rebels, and most likely se
riously to barm the Government of the
Union to which he had professed to be
loyal. When t-hall we get rid ot traitors
at the North I
Major McCook. —Among the most re
gretted incidents of the late battle of
Buffington Island, at which Morgan was
defeated, was the wounding mortally ot
Judge McCook, father of ‘'the lighting
family of McCooes,” and a worthy sire
o: worthy offspring, whose place >r the
annals ot this war will be a j imperishable
as any part of its record. The dispatches
from Cincinnati announce the death of
this -tirling oid patriot, on Monday last,
at Pomery, Ohio. The death of Major
McCook tarnishes some melancholy coin
cidences in the history of his family con
nection with the war. His youngest son,
Charles, was killed at the battle of Bull
Bun, on the '2lst day ot July, 18G1. Gen.
Robt. McCook was killed on the 21st day
ot July, 1562; and the father was killed
on the 21st day of July, ISG3.
S3- TiifKLOw Weed, recently of the
Albany Journal, has sent his check for
#■l*oo to New York, to be nsed for the re
ief of the colored people of that city,
who ! uve been rendered destitute from
t.*e edicts of the recent riot in that city,
fue check is accompanied with a good ]
letu-r, except the indnlgence of a few j
t.mgs at Wendell I’uiljups and others,'
which it would setni to ns, that good
taste would have omitted j c a i etter 0 f
this kind. But Mr. W D cannot well
omit giving a man he hates dig, when
ever a chance offers. He is a good hater,
well as a warm triend.
Tbe Politics ol rSnjor General Grant.
It is a matter of entire indifference to
us to what political party a victorious gen
eral in ti e Union army belongs. We
desire victories, and a vigorous prosecu
tion of tbe war, till the rebels shall lie
down their arms, that have been raised
against the government. It a democratic
general achieves these victories, we feel
just as well as though he were a republi
can. A man who fights tor his country
with energy, and believes in suppressing
the rebellion, and in nsing the best possi
ble means to effect that object in the
shortest possible lime, is to our mind, a
true patriot, and a good republican enough
tor ns. But as many of tbe democratic
papers are claiming the recent victories
on the Mississippi, under Gen. Gkant, as
special democratic victories, it may be
well to know the position that gallant
general occupies politically. The foliow
ing article from the Galena Advertiser ,
published at the residence of Gen. Gbant,
throws some light upon the subject, and
will be read with interest by ail true pat
riots :
“ It is alike unpatriotic and ungracious
to be higgling as to what may have been
the politics ot any of our brave Generals
in the field, who have been nobly fighting
lor the Republic. With truly loyal and
patriotic men it makes no difference as to
what purfy a soldier may have belonged
to before me rebellion. Rushing to the
defense ot his Government and his coun
try, risking his life on the battle-field, he
challenges the respect and the gratitude
of the good citizen. Yet we find that
certain Copperhead newspapers, that
preach peace and denounce the war, have
the unparalleled udacity to claim certain
successful Generals as *• Democrats,” us
ing the term in their own sense. Some
papers spmpalhizing with the rebels, hav
ing claimed our fellow-citizen, Maj. Gen.
Grant, as a ‘ Democrat,’ it may be proper
for us to sav a word touching his politics,
speaking bv the best authority. Being in
the army up to within a tew years before
the war broke out, and being a military
man, lie never cast a vote in his life. In
1860 he was friendly to the success of the
late Judge Douglas, though he rtfen ex
pressed himself as having great confidence
in the houesty and patriotism of Mr. Lin
coln. IBs father, the venerable Jesse K.
Grant, now residing in Covington, Ken
tucky, is a staunch Republican, and voted
lor Linccln and Hamlin. His brother, Mr.
O. U. Grant, now in charge of the busi
ness house in this city in which the Gen
eral was engaged before entering lire ser
vice, is one ot the most active and efficient
Republicans and Union men. The Gen
eral himself is now a su"porter of the Ad
ministration and its whole policy, without
qualification or evasion. In 3862 he was
one of the signers to a call on Mr. Wash
burne to again become a candidate for
Congress for this Congressional District.
He looks with horror upon the ‘ peace
party ’of the North, which is instituting
a * fire in the rear ’ ot the gallant army
which he has led to victory and glory.
All his friends and supporters in this
city are Republicans or War Democrats,
whiie the copperheads are cordially hos
tile to him. In the late splendid celebra
tion here, got up in his honor, as the he
ro of the Mississippi and the captarer of
Vicksburg, the leading “ Democrats ” ut
ter'y refused to participate in it, and
whiie the dwellings of our loyal people
blazed in magnificent illumination, the
houses of the others mentioned were
closed in darkness, and were as black as
midnight. To those interested we may
therefore say, that the present political
status ot Gen. Grant is m>t a matter of
doubt.”
Mk. Geo. W. iStceges.— A “ Badger
soldier,” whose letter was mislaid, writes
us Irom Keokuk Hospital in warm praise
of Mr. Stukges, the Wisconsin State
Agent, to look after sick and wounded
soldiers there and at St. Louis. lie thinks
him emphatically the “ right man in the
right place,” speaks highly of his zeal, ef
ficiency, energy, indomitable perseverance
and pleasant address, and adds:
“ W hile in Keokuk—and l learn from
some members ot my company in the hos
pital at St. Lcnis, that he does the same
there—Mr. Sturges visited, every day, all
the Wisconsin soldiers who were sick ; and
by his good advice, cheerful countenance
and humorous anecdotes, cheered and en
livened them, causing them to feel that,
although .-way from home and friend?,
aad deprived of many little comforts and
delicacies to which they had been accus
tomed, they were not forgotten nor neg
lected by the State of their adoption, and
under whose dag they enlisted. All sol
diers who are acquainted with him have
the most implicit confidence in him, and
go to him for counsel and aid whenever
they are in trouble, without fear of being
deceived or baffled off.
‘ Soldiers from every State have applied
to him and received gratuitously any as
sistance which they needed. About one
hundred soldiers from Illinois signed a
petition to the Governor of their State,
requesting him to appoint Mr. Sturges as
Agent tor Illinois at this post.”
be publication of the Troy Times
has been resumed. It will be remembered
that the Times office was destroyed a lew
days ag by a mob. The editor, in the
first paper of the new issue, says:
“ The Times shall be in the future, as it
always lias been, the advocate of law, the
defender of public integrity, the upholder
and champion ot every men who earns
his bread by the honest sweat o. his
brow. It will support the Government
and defend any policy calculated to re
store most speedily a perfect reunion of all
the states in our Republic. And it will
denounce and oppose , fearlessly and un
hesitating, the had and dangerous spirit of
criminal lust, lawless violence, and un
wholesome op ; nion, which was the source
ot the secr.es our city has witnessed tfiis
week, and, in a more extended sphere, has
been at the bottom of our desperate na*
tit-nal disorders.”
The 10th Wisconsin. — A correspondent
in the 10th Wisconsin, writing from Do
ck erd Station, Tenn., July 11th, says that
regiment is in the Ist Brigade, Ist Divis
ion, 14th Army Corps, commanded by
Gen. Thomas. The writer, in speaking of
the recent forward movement ot the army
says:
W e have been pretty hard up for ra
tions some cf the time. In the two cays
at the Gap our regiment sustained no loss,
though several were struck by spent balls.
Our first day there, the enemy, from a
hill about a mile in our front, shelled our
position, Several in the division were
killed. Shell and shot whizzed freely
over our heads. Tne health of the regx- 1
ment is good. The army is in good spir
its and has all confidence in the ability of
our Generals.
The Prescott Journal says of the
call for a Republican State Convention :
Under it all those who love their coun
try more than party, and would wage war
on Jeff. Davis, instead of President Lin
coln, can co-operate.;
From Norfolk—An Atrocious Murder. 1
Noefolk, Va., July 19, 1863. 1
A tragedy occurred here on 11th inst.,
which has not attracted the attention ot |
the country only because the accounts of
it reached New Yofk at a juncture when j
the city press was Jw holly occupied with
the great riot. It h a representative, and
is to be a historical case.
Lieut. A. S. Sanborn, of Thelford, Vt.,
2d Lieut. Cos. B, Is U. S. colored troops,
had quietly been .raising a colored com
pany here for a couple of weeks, lie
first appeared :n the streets at 5 o’clock
on that afternoou with bis company, which
then numbered fifty men. The company
was fully armed and uniformed; looked
well and acted well. They were passing
along in the very centre ot the business
part or the town, marching by the flank,
on the side-walk. The secessionists were
in a tronbled state of exasperation. Dr.
David M. TV'right, a prominent citizen and
choleric man, while standing in the door of
Foster & Moore’s store, accosted Lieut.
Sanborn with th* words —“ You cowardly
son of a bitch.” The Lieutenant halted
his company ; sent bis Ist Sergeant after
the Provost Guard ; walked up to Dr.
Wright and said—“ You have insulted a
United States officer; consider yourself
under arrest.” Dr. Wright, who had
drawn a pistol and plated it behind him
as soon as the company halted, immedi
ately tired two shots in quick succession.
The Lieutenant rusbed forward ; pushed
the Doctor back into the store; struggled
with him a moment; fell, and expired in
five minutes; shot through the lungs. The
negroes charged bayonets upon the Doctor,
but the officers and Provost guard rushed
in and saved him from their avenging
bayonets.
There was intense excitement; shouts
and brandishing of weapons; but amid
all, the assassin was Rifely conveyed to
the office of Major BoVay, Provost Mar
shal, where a full examination ot the case
was made, interrupted only by the violent
and abusive exclamations of the Doctor.
He was committed ou the charge of mur
der, and on that charge will be tried. His
trial is to commence to morrow, before a
military commission composed as follows:
Brig. Gen. Foster, late Colonel of the 13th
Indiana; Col. Dutton, ot the 21st Con
necticut, aud Col. Donahue. Major J. A.
Bolles, A. D. C., Judge Advocate. The
prisoner has secured two eminent Union
men, Hon. L. J. Bowder and Hon. J, U.
Chandler, as his council. The trial must
be “hort because the facts, and I have
stated all the material ones, are few and
simple. In all Union circles here there is
bat onelopinion, that it was a cowardly , base
murder. The copperhead officers, are, if
possible, loudest and most vindictive, and
none were tound who objected to march
in procession with the negro company at
the funeral. Y.
From the 12th W isconsin.
The Suncndcr of Vicksburg — lntel course with
the Itebel Soldiers —They leant to quit Fighting
—A Hi'nt for Johnston—Recent Deaths in the
Twelfth.
Correspondence of the State Journal.
Yicksboeo, July 6lh, 1863.
At length the struggle is ended, and
Yankee perseverance has added another
name to the record of glory. The “im
pregnable fortress ” that has bid insulting
defiance to us so long, and with whose in
vulnerability we have been taunted so of
ten and so jeeringly, is now ours, and it
is our turn now to rejoice over the posses
sion of the American Sebastapol.
The surrender of Vicksburg terminates
gloriously a most brilliant campaign; be
gan at Bruinsburg on the Ist of May,
sweeping round through Jackson, defeat
ing the enemy at every step, and in two
short months finishing with the uncondi
tional surrender ot the rebel stronghold.
The history of the war shows no similar
instance of continued success, in carrying
out so great a plau, to & certain and calcu
lated end.
On the 3d the rebefs proposed an armis
tice preparatory to surrendering, md the
rest of the day wes spent, as rlso the
night, in trying to get as favorable terms
as possible, but Gen. Grant, true to bis
former traditions, retrained firm, and on
the morning of the memorable elh, the
rebels surrendered, marched outside their
works, slacked their arms and cobrs, and
became prisoners of war. As official re
ports will reach you ere this, 1 will not
trouble y u with guesses at the auount ot
men or material captured.
Geu. Logan’s division took possession
of the town, fortifications, amimnition,
Ac., &c., and great was the rejoicing ot
the boys as they entered what had been
forbidden land to theirf so long.
The rebels were very iree in Lieir inter
course with our men —ucknowlelged hav
ing had to live on quarter retione tor
weeks, and that finally they had been re
duced to mule l)ttj rations. Some regi
ments wuuid not eat such food, the com
missary stores had been brokea into, and
even lighting and mutiny had ♦ccurred on
account ot scarcity ot food. The hard
tack in our buys’s haversacks was speedily
distributed, the “ rebs ” ft eel/ offering to
bacco, money, or anything they had, tor
something to eat. it was sad to see men
so eager lor food, and makhg such efforts
to get a single cracker t-> appease their
| hunger, so long unappeasfo.
A great majority ot tLe “rebs” are
anxious to get tome, atd propose to stay
there. They have hai enough ot war
and ail its hardships, ani are down on the
Confederacy generally. They think it
they cannot hold such b place as Vicks
bnrg they cannot hold anything against
us, and it would be wisiom for them to
quit any way and makt peace. A great
many were anxious t fade canteens,
knives, Ac., so as to have some remem
brances ot the Yankees to take home to
their families, as they expect to see them
very soon now, believing they will not be
sent North to be exchanged, but be takeu
across our lines and paroled.
1 received the muster ind pay roll of
! Capt. Grayson’s company (A) of Louisiana
Artillery, Col. Chas. A. fuller, command
ing, from the 31st Dec., IS6E, to 30th
April, 1663, from which j extract the tol
lowing items: Out ot 8" members only
53 could sign their names; that 3 had
deserted since last mustjr, and 2 killed
and 4 wounded during tha same time.
There is also a report attached ot the
doings of said company, which may prove
interesting to some ;
“ On the 11th March, 1563, ttU Company received
orders from District lleadqaarttr, Vicksburg, to
proceed to Grand Golf, Miss. Arrived at Gland
Gulf, March 16lh. Engaged three of tne enemy’s
vessels on the evening of March 2th ; in action :
twenty minutes. This Comosny engaged six of '
the enemy’s Iron-dais, on th. dTta April, for seven j
hours, at a distance of 200 yards, heeult of the i
engagement: one iron-clad sunk, and two seriousiy
damaged. On the night of the t9th April, sunk
one transport.”
This report mu?l be taken with great i
allowance, particularly the damage in- i
dieted on the iron-clads.
Yesterday our division started into the j
country, Col. Biyant commanding the 3d
Brigade, h-> usual. It is supposed that
Joe Johnston and his army are in great
demand just now, and a huut n r the same
is to be indulged in right away. There
are three or four Divisions feeling for him
in different directions, all anxious to make
“ the way of the transgressor hard.” I
had the pleasure ot seeing a copy of the
Vicksburg paper, of June 30lh, yesterday,
a column issue, printed on the sized side
of wall paper, announcing the death of
Gen. Green, ot Missouri, a Col. Irwin and
a list of some eight ladies injured by shot
and shell in the city.
Since my last we have had several deaths
in the Regiment—Palmer, of Cos. K;
Squires, ot Cos. E; Curtis, of Cos. B ; Wood,
of Cos. C ; and Pomphn, of Cos. A.
Yours truly, W.
North Carolina.
North Carolina is rapidly earning the
distinction of a “dangerous character” in
the Rebel Confederacy. She has evidently
fallen into a state ot chronic disaffection.
She insists upon considering herself a vic
tim of misplaced confidence in having
joined her fortunes to the new Dahomy.—
Finding herself in bad company,she spares
no pains to conceal her dislike ol her as
sociates. On the contrary, she takes ad
vantage of every opportunity to express
her b id opinion of the Richmond Junta.
Nor does she content herself with mere
“growling.” More than once has she
threatened to unfurl the standard of re
volt. Her present Governor was elected
on a specifiic Anti-Jeff'. Davis issue. Her
present Legislature is over whclmingly hos
tile to the prosctq tive policy of the Rebel
leaders, bume of her strongest men r.re
unequivocally committed in favor ot seces
sion from Secessia Tue subject ol with
drawing her troops from the Confederate
service has been more than once gravely
discussed.
More than this: S yin to ms of returning
affection fer the old Union are unmistaka
bly manifesting themselves. The Raleigh
Standard takes distinct ground in favor of
construction of the Union, and expresses
itself willing to acquiesce in the policy ot
gradual emancipation. The Wilmington
Journal —rabidly secession—charges that
the secret object of the present meeting
of the Legislature is to make overtures of
peace to the Federal Government; while
the Raleigh Journal —also ultra secession
—announces the discovery of a secret po
litical organization, “ whose purposes are
most infamous and treasonable ” to the
rebel cause.
These “ manifestations ” are not to be
mistaken. They reveal a deep and wide
spread disaffection among the people
toward the sham Confederacy. Row
much genuine Union sentiment there is,
we are not prepared to say ; but that that
State is on the verge of revolt against the
iron rule of Davis and bis aristocratic
minions, there can hardly boa doubt. —
Albany Journal.
From Gen. Blunt's Command.
Correspondence of the Leavenworth Conservative.
Cabin Creek, Fifty Mileb North of }
Port Gibson, July 10, ISO?, $
Arrived here about noon to-day. We
expected to meet the rebels, as we saw
saw troops coming out ot the times be
fore we reached here. They proved to be
the escort of a. Union train returning
from Fort Gibson to Fort Scott. When
the old man (Blunt) heard of an enemy
being in the brush, he seemed to be anew
man. He was all alive, active, enthusias
tic and ready for the work. I really be
lieve Blunt with ten men would tight a
thousand rebels before he would retreat.
A week ago the troops guarding a train
from Fort Scott had a tight with Gtn.
Cooper and Col. Stand Waitie. The reb
els numbered 1,000 men—2oo Texans and
800 Indians. As far as 1 can learn, the
fighting was between Capt. Stewards
company, 9th Kansas, the Colorado 3d
and 3d Wisconsin, on our side, and the
Texans on the ouier. Stewart’s compa
ny rooted the Texans in a fair charge,
losing one killed and fifteen wounded.
The loyal Indians, commanded by Col.
Foreman, (who, all say, acted bravely)
were ordered by him to cross the river.
Immediately the Indians on both sides
disappeared in the brush. Not one ot
them was killed or wounded, and not one
was seen again on the ground. This skir
mish settles the fact, it it needed confir
mation, that Indians won’t stand in a lair
stand-up fight.
AH reports from the lower country are
to the effect that we have to rely mainly
upon the colored soldiers. An Irish Dem
ocrat, an officer in the 3d Wisconsin cav
alry, told me: “ I never believed in nig
gers before, but, by Jasus, they are hell
tor fighting.”
Gen. Blunt means to beat Grierson,
Kilpatrick and Pleasanton, in the raiding
business, and it is not impossible that we
shall reach the Galt of Mexico. His hatred
of rebel? can be likened to the terrible
animosity of Haynau. He seems to have
a divine ambition to kill and destroy
them.
The Arkansas is very nigh now, and it
may be five days before we can cross it,
but you may as well announce now that
be has done so. We shall reach Fort Gib
son by to morrow night.
Profitable Wool-growing. — A. Lud
low, Esq., has kindly furnised Ur- with the
following item, from which it will be seen
that sheep raising is fast becoming one of
the most profitable branches of business
to which the farmer can turn his atten
tion : Mr. L. sheared this spring 454 sheep
getting from them lbs. wool,
which be sold at 65 cents per pound, re
ceiving tor it the round sum ot f 1,816 42.
it will be seen by computation that this is
an average of 6 lbs. ounces to the fleece,
the cash value of which wa? $4 to each
head of sheep. When we take into con
sideration that no special effort has been
made to select large sheep, but that the
fleeces are taken from a whole flock as
they run, if speaks well for Mr. Ludlow’s
care of stock and skill in improving it. It
any of our cotemporaries can beat this,
we shall be please to see the fitrures. —
Monroe Sentinel.
As Avenger,— The New Orleans Era,
of the ,lllh iuet., relates the following
incident of a Wisconsin soldier :
A private in the 4th Wisconsin, Isaac
Earl, has sworn to avenge the death of
Col. Bean, by killing a rebel Colonel. He
has mounted the enemy’s breast works
twice to-day, and although exposed to the
fire of the sharpshooters, strange to say,
he escaped unharmed. He is determined
to try again, and until he “get-’’ a colonel.
He says there were plenty of rebel lieu
tenants and privates within range, but he
was looking for higher game. He has
gained a very good idea ot the position of ■
things and the lay of the land inside, and !
has given the information to tue proper
persons.
Lieut. Col. Whittlesey. —The Chicago
Tribune's \ icksbnrg correspondent, in
noting the promotion of Capt. Whittle
set, ot the 11th Wisconsin, says:
It gives me pleasure to add that Col.
hitilesey is an accomplished gentleman,
a brave and efficient officer. Promotion
is rarely bestowed on one more deserving.
He has filled every position in the line
and staff, to which he has been assigned,
with distinguished ability, and Lis present
position is considered by bis friends a
stepping stone to higher ones they know
he can till so well.
From Florida.
Operations at Charleston — Gen. Gilmore — Col.
Montgomery and his Black Regiment—Hotc
the First Regiment teas Demoralized—Sales of
Forfeited Property.
Correspondence of the State Journal.
Ferxandina, July 8, 1863.
Ihe recent changes in the command of
this department have induced the idea of
an immediate and vigorous attack on
Charleston, while the rebel force is with
drawn and engaged in other fields. While
at Hilton Head, a few days since, I learned
that the most active and vigorous exer
tions were being made on Folly Island to
construct batteries that would command
the works on Morris Island, and that guns
had already been successfully planted so
as to do this. But as three ot the Moni
tors lay quietly at Hilton Head, and the
successor to Admiral Dupont had not
come on, it was not generally supposed
that a demor-etration on the enemy’s
works would be immediately made.
Tne appointment of Gen. Gilmore to
the command of the department, is con
sidered a reflection upon Gen. Saxton, his
senior, and who, from his intimate knowl
edge ot the affairs of the department, as
well as his military qualifications, was pe
culiarly fitted for the command. It is
painful, also, to the triends of freedom and
the policy of emancipation, to have the
representative man of that pol.cy thus
overslaughed. It is hoped that uis not
designed to effect a radica’ change in the
policy ot the department, in regard to the
blacks, bat sending three pro-slavery gen
era's here known o entertain no special
regard for the honor ot Gen. Saxton, is, to
say the least, indicative of had faith
toward the Iroeman,
Gen. Gilmore id a young man, ami an
officer ot energy anil ability. From per
sonal intercourse with him, I am inclined
to believe he would be at times hasty and
perhaps rash. But he evinces intellectual
power of no ordinary caste, and a stirring
energy almost amounting to impetuosity,
lie is evidently ambitious of distinction,
as all our officers are, anil w ill seek honor
by action rather than sloth. His force i
too small for the work that is to be done ;
nevertheless, if he wills it, he has suffi
cient to keep the enemy busy and vigilant
here, and thus prevent his withdrawal to
assist in other quarters.
In person and physiognomy, Gen. Gil
more has a striking resemblance to Chas.
D. Robinson, of the Green Bay Advacate ,
though he evinces a more active mind. —
I think he will be a popular commander,
though there is ranch doubt of his military
skill outside of his peculiar forte as an
engineer.
One ot his first orders was to recall Col.
Montgomery and his black troops from
St. Simon’s Island, where they had estab
lished headquarters as a base of operations
into Georgia and Florida. There seems
to be some doubt at the North about the
propriety of Col. Montgomery’s mode of
warfare, which perhaps is rather irregular
and sanguinary, and this may have in
duced the order for his return to Hilton
Head. Bat it is perfectly apparent here
that with the present force there is no
other mode of securing a permanent ad
vantage over the enemy. His raid up the
Oohambee was successful and productive
of great advantage, which could never
have been secured but by a bold dash and
a blow that would strike terror. By the
same course he could have before this se
cured a brigade of soldiers from the slave
population ot this State and Georgia, if
left to prosecute his successes regardless
ot consequences to the rebels.
Col. Montgomery, too, has incurred en
mity from his effort to check the insubor
dination and demoralization among the
black troops, by a summary execution of
a deserter. Owing to the injustice of the
Government in refusing to recognize and
pay the Ist regiment formed by General
Hunter, there was no power to enforce
discipline, and it dissolved into its original
elements, and the soldiers were led to be
lieve that it would continue to be so.—
Accordingly, when tired of the routine of
camp life they would one by one drop out,
and find their way to their families and neg
lect to return. Col. Montgomery endeav
ored to prevent this by double guards and
rigid surveillance, but it was found im
possible. When out on active service
there was no desertion, but on return to
camp in the neighborhood of their fami
lies and friends, after a day or two’s rest,
seventy were absent at roll call. Col,
Montgomery then, as a last resort and the
only effective means of stopping the leak,
issued and published an order giving a
certain number of days for the return of
all deserters without penalty, and saying
that all arrested alter that tune would be
summarily shot. It was not heeded, and
atter the time expired an arrest wa? made
—it would have been easy to have made
thirty—the deserter was brought in on
Saturday night, ami when confronted by
the Colonel admitted that he knew the
order and was without excuse. “ Then at
half past nine o’clock to-morrow morning
you must die,” said the Colonel, and at
that moment lie was shot. “He died
like a hero,” says the Colonel, “and in
obedience to a military necessity too im
perative to admit ot qualification.” I
approve the act most emphatically, and
believe it will take more ot the same dis-
cipline to correct the evils which have
resulted irom the protracted injustice of
the Government in refusing to keep faith
with the colored soldiers tirst enlisted.
The effect of this execution was bjdu
tary, and the same mgnt sixteen deserters
came in under an order immediately issued
extending the amnesty for some days to
all who returned voluntarily, and many
deserters from the fleet also returned.—
None ot the mure recently escaped slaves
desert as they are all anxious to return
and meet their masters “ in battle array,”
The 4th of July was duly observed here
by the black population. In fact it was a
day long to be remembered, as the first
anniversary of our national jubilee when
't could he said that our flag was truly
the emblem of freedom. I have never
witnessed a more joyous and appreciative
audience than that assembled f ere on that
day. The whole atfair was originated and
mainly conducted by the blacks them
selves, and a better operated celebration
I never attended. The colored schools
were out in procession in lull numbers
and did honor to their teachers, their race,
and the occasion. A -plendid dinner was
served in one of the churches, and although
provided exclusively by black women, at
their own expense, was equal to any public
dinner I ever sat to on ench an occasion.
More than three hundred partook and stiil
the bounteous supply Of rood was not ex
hausted.
Speeches were made by Col. Piaisted.
jot the 11th Maine. Comm.-.ndiit < i ! t
Post and President of the day ; Col L’trie
j tifcld: Mr, Robinson, a refugee *rn Jack
1 sonvjhe; Mr. Reed, and a colored fcergeant i
l ot the 4th Regiment. T el> daratn nor j
Independence was listened lo with j
interest by all.
In the evening a grand dance of the
colored people w.-is had at the man-ion
occupied by Col. Idtilefieid, as headquarters
of the 4th colored regiment, Co w being
recruited here. You will receive a full
account of the proceedings in the little
paper published here, a copy_- ot which I
send you.
The sales of forfeited properly here,
under the direct lax law, by the Commis
sioners of the United States, came ofl
week before last. About $ 15,000 was re
cfevfd, and a large amount of
bid in by the Government. The amount
of tax and penalty to be collected was a
little over $3,000. 7t was the first sale in
the State under this law and was looked
upon with distrust in consequence of mis
representations of the law, but on the
whole the result was satisfactory, and a
large amount of the most valuable pro
perty was transferred from rebel to loyal
owners. Many officers and soldiers pur
chased homes, and about forty fugitive
slaves secured permanent residences for
their families. R.
The Promote. 2 ol the Mob lu New York.
[From tho Sew York Times.'}
Last January we took occasion to ex
press our opinion ot the “ Democratic
Union Association’’ whieh held its weekly
gatherings at the corner of Broadway and
Twenty second street, and which on dit
ferent evenings was addressed in elaborate
harangues by Vallaudigham, Pendleton,
Wall, Voorheea, Brooks and other men ol
that stamp. We showed that, in every
essential respect it was “ the exact coun
terpart of the Club ot the Cordeliers under
Marat ia the revolutionary France ot
1791.”
Every syllable of that exposure and
warning now finds its verification in the
practical revival in this same City of the
Parisian street scenes ot 1793. This surg
ing savagery against which we are now
fighting as tor our very lives, is but a
translation into practical action of the
Jacobi at oal eenline. s then and there
uttered. Let us o-.ie a single specimen ;
and to make certain that the report does
the speaker no injustice, we will quote
from the report in the World , a sympa
thiser and fellow-worker, lu his studi
ously prepared speech before the crowd
at that place, Vailandigham said :
“ Your misrepresentatives—for such they have
become, not speaking the will of tho peop.e—hate
attempted to clothe the President with the power
of conscripting [hisses] every man in the United
States between tho ages of twenty and forty-five,
[A voice— ‘ They cannot do it. They will have a
nice time.’] to compel them to enter the army, and
enable the President to Keep up a war wW't by
that bill Uselt, he and they confess to be against
the will of the people.”
And again :
“ The iTuriaion is made upon the Msumpticn
that the President, the Secretary 01 State, and the
Secretary of War—[hissee] —may sand forth their
minions, and lay their hands un the people ot this
country. [A voice— 4 Let them try ll.'J ”
Tne wind is not more sure to raise the
waves ttiau -ucb language, kept up week
alter week, was to bring on just such
bloody commotion as we are now ex
periencing. Because the President dts
aoled Vallatidigham from his revolutionary
work, Gov. Seymour, but three short
weeks ago, united in canonizing him as a
martyr ; and yet to day he stands aghast
before the men who are but carrying out
Vallandigham’s “bloody instructions.”
The Itearttnii in North Carolina,
The Raleigh Standard is iu favor of a
reconstruction ot the Union, and thinks
the probable terms of reconstruction be
tween the North and South will be the
adoption of the gradual emancipation sys
tem by ail the rebellious states, which
North Carolina, in common with the other
slave Stales will accept it the F'ederal
Government insists upon the same as the
only terms that can be granted, notwith
standing the life ot the iustitalion is not
in the least impaired by this war, as is
generally believed at tile North. Noth
ing nut a great standing army between
the masters and slaves could impair the
institution over which is thrown the shield
of State and municipal laws, together with
the inherent will ot me Southern people,
hence these terms are the cheapest the
government cau offer, and the best the
South can accept.
The Wilmington Journal , an original
secesh sheet, in speaking ot me assembling
ot the North Carolina Legislature, upon
call of Gov. Vance, ostensibly to consider
the question ol the Confederate currency,
charges that other and inure important
objects occasion the called session. It bit
terly denounces the Kecoustructionists as
intending to use the Legislature as a means
of accomplishing other purposes.
The Raleigh State Journal alleges the
discovery ol a secret political organization
whose purposes are most infamous and
treasonable, which has doubtless ramifica
tions throughout the Btd%, and says that
developments may swiftly bo made which
will startle the most apathetic.
(jov. Seymour an Accomplice.
On Saturday , said Gov. Seymour in his
speech on Tuesday from the City Hall
steps to his “ friends,” the incendiary,
thieves and murderers, who even then
were sacking dwelling houses, and slangh
tenng the most harmless, the most inoffen
sive, the most defenceless, and the most
powerless class among us— “on Saturday
said Gov. Seymour. “ I sent the Adjutant-
General to Washington to urge its (the
Draft's) postponement.” On Saturday!
Two dijs before the outbreak! W.mt
belter proof than this can be given that
the Governor anticipated the events of
Monday { But did lie go to the civil and
military authorities to warn them of what
was coming ? Did he use his own power
as Chief Magistrate ot the {State to avert
this dire calamity by having in readiness
a sufficient force to quell it on the instant t
He did none ot these things—but he went
to Long Branch only to return to the
burning and maddened city on Tuesday
morning when the insurrection was under
full headway.
Jeff. .Davis in Hot Watkk. —The rebel
newspapers are now denouncing Jeff.
Davis and his Administration for moom
petency. The Richmond Whig attributes
their disasters to u the scattering of forces,
the prejudice against men ot proved abili
ty, and the partiality fur men of proved
incompetency.” It says:
Whether the President thinks the coun
try lias suffered enough at the hands of
his favorites, it is impossible to say. But
if he thinks the gratification of his evil
passions and the fantastical preferences,
or it lie supposes the persistence in Lis
system ot divided forces, under pet lieu
tenant generals, or more consequence than
the independence of the confederacy, then
we need no longer doubt what late is in
store *or us.
The Richmond Examiner bays*:
Mr. President Davis’ proclamations and
pronnnc:amentos, his horrible threaten
ings and gloomy appeals have been so ef
ten repeated that they are the sneer of
the world. Bat never have they resulted
in one solitary performance. lie is very
obstinate, very bitter, -when he gets into
a quarrel with some Southern officer over
whom the law gives him temporary con
trol lie is very firm indeed ' maintain
ing a minion or a measure against the
smothered indignation ot a people who
are c< no pel led by their present unlortun-
Miuato-n to support silently a great
deal from b"ir officials. But when his
duty brings n.m into contact with the en
emy he is gentle as tfie sucking dove.
A Richmond Pa ran os the New Yoke
Riot.—l he fodowing is the first paragraph
of an editorial in the Richmond Enquirer
ot tiit- Itj'b, on liit- New York mob;
‘‘ Riot, murder anti conflagration have
btguu in New <rk It is a world’s won
der ti.at the good woik did not commence
long ft>;o. And this ouibr-ak may be the
openii g si ene of the inevi able revolution
wbicii i- to tear to pieces that most rot
ten secrecy, and leave me Northern half
of the uid American Union a desert of
blood soaked a.u-s. e bid it God
B}>et-d.”
Major Calkins is in command of three
companies of the Sd Wisconsin Cavalry
with Gen. Bltot’b Arkansas expeditS