OUR AIMir C0RRESP03DEXCE. GO. GRAM'S EXPEDITION WESTWOKTII OTH DOCGLAS. Eulogy Pronounced Before the Constitutional Convention. Ttalla of I be Retonnoisaanee around Columbus.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 183-3. IDE SITUATION It is impossible to overestimate the Talue cf the victory at Mill Spring-, in Kentucky, of old communities, will, in due time, accept and embody them in the laws by which our Western States are to be governed. Two years ago, a bill to repeal all laws for enforcing payments of debts passed one branch of the Wisconsin Legislature; and though we did not see in the discussion to which it gave rise any ecunciiition of the true political philosophy of the measure, the statements of its uses and economy, regarded from an utilitarian point of view, were sufficient to pass it. The Senate, startled by the radicalism of the proposed innovation, hesitated, and the bill was finally lost. Without leaving upon VTovidcd Gen.
Thomas las the means of of appropriating the pittance that is necessary in order to complete a work of so much national importance? Will not Mr. Lincoln himself, know ing, as he does, the necessity of the work, and, laying aside for once his characteristic modesty add the weight of his high official position, and thereby ensure the lasting gratitude of his own State and of the entire West The President slonc, without using any improper means, can secure the passage of the bilL It is not only bis but, in. view of the national necessity for the work, people of the West believe that it is his duty, to ensure the success of this measure. The mount required for three, probably for two days, to carry on the war, would connect the Lakes and the Mississippi by a tliip canal for all time to come. In this connection it may be well to recur to the effort made a few weeks ago to procure a survey of the route.
Hon. Win. B. Ogden and a few of our citizens started a subscription for the purpose, but for various reasons effort in that direction- was suspended. Facts enough, however, are known to warrant the action of Congress, and if a general and vigorous effort is now made in the way above indicated, it is hoped that a favorable result may be realized.
For this let every Western man work with all his might gOUE OF THE BARGAINS AT W. M. ROSS CO'3 Great Closing Out Sale: heavy SILKS For Three Bhlllli gs. DOLLAR SILKS FOR FIFTY CENTS. GOOD BLACK FOB BIX SHILLINGS.
-EXTRA RICIT WIDE SILKS FOIt VNJB DOLLAU. SO pieces Heavy Real Lyons Silks for six shillings, worth twelve shillings. I'Jch Faris De Lalnes for fifty cents, worth one dollar Extra quality Printed French Hcrinoes for fifty cents, worth one dollar. SCO pieces Choice Styles Wove Wool Vslentlaa for one. and-six-penee, worth three shillings.
5,000 pieces Kew Styles Phillip Allen and American Print Works' Prints for one shilling. SHEETINGS, SBIRTINRS, FLANNELS, TICKS, STRIFES, And Domestics of everv description, as low as can be) bought in tlie United States, and mueh below their present value. Look for Great Bargains. W. M.
BOSS ft 167 169 Lake Street. Cde38-W5 tfel'tB gSIGNEE'S SALE OF A STOCK OF DRY GOODS. The balance of the Stock or T. 13. CARTER Will be offered at a great bargain for CASH.
If not sold by the first ot February It will be closed out at Auction. Merchants are requested to examine the Stock. ASH CART Kit, Jal3-kS212w Assignee. From the Springfield Journal, 18th. Mr.
Wentworth. Mr. President I was not aware of the programme of this afternoon. I did not suppose there would be any remarks made here, except, perhaps, by the mover of the resolutions consequently, nothing was further from my intention than addressing the Convention on this occasion. Nor did I conclude to say anything until the sentiment fell from the lips of the gentleman from Shelby, (Mr.
Thornton,) namely: The good that men do. lives after them." The remarks concerning the life and character of the distinguished statesman which have fallen from the lips of honorable gentlemen at this time have been confined almost to a single question in American politics, which has now gone to the court of final resort. It may be settled by battle, to-morrow, or the next day, or not for years. We are all anxious for its settlement, upon the immutable principles of justice. And there is no one that doubts such settlement will have to abide the fate of this war.
I leave it with the war. I propose to speak of other traits of Judge Douglas's character than those that have been enumerated. I propose to enlarge upon the text, "The good that men do lives after them." I desire to apply that text to the age, to the day, to the very hour, to the scenes by which we are surrounded, In which we now live, and to speak of facts with which we are all familiar. Judge Douglas died poor. He had filled almost every position in public life all but one to -which he had aspired but he died poor.
He had been a politician. He was a partisan hitt-Self amongst partisans and competitors but never in the severest contest in his career was charged by the most bitter of his opponents that he had put his fingers too far into the pnblic treasury. Sever was he the richer for any position he ever held. A poor boy he came into your Legislature and a mere boy he went out of your Legislature the richer for no charter that passed it for no scheme of private speculation or plunder. He went into Congress.
He sat tn his seat there session after session, while untold millions were passed upon but whoever said, much less, whoever believed, that one cent of public money went wrongfully into the hands of Stephen A. Douglas Like Clay, Webster, Benton and other great and honest men, he died poor. How many gentlemen are there now within the sound of niy choice. who have had business with Stcnhen MAP OF THE COTJNTKY WHERE THE EXPEDITION OPERATED. Xbo Flood a Cincinnati.
The flood In the Ohio river reached Its height at on Thursday, and at noon of that day began to recede at the rate of four or five inches an hour. It attained the height of the flood of 1859, submerging the entire landing from Vine to Lawrence streets. The Ohio and Mississippi railroad track, (which Is also used for the Chicago train via Lafayette,) was submerged beyond the city, and passengers had to be carried by boat to Aurora, Ind. There is considerable loss by the flooding of warehouses, and still greater distress to poor families who were driven out of their houses by the hundreds at Cincinnati, Newport and Covington. In coanection with this flood the Cincinnati Gazette gives some pertinent allusions to former great floods on the Ohio, as follows One of the most remarkable of these is that which deluged our troops last summer on the Kanawha and extended.throughthe upper part of the Ohio Valley.
This was a most extraor-nnry example of the effects of sudden rain. The rise commenced on Thursday afternoon, the 26th of September, and at 1 a. m. of Sunday, the 39th, the Kanawha at Charleston had risen fif ty eiyht feet. On Friday evening and Saturday it rose forty-five feet in twelve hours.
Probably there Is no instance on record of so sudden a rise in any river of this country. This rise extended over the leading streams of the upper Ohio, and its effects were severely felt as low as the Scioto. On Sunday and Monday the 29th and 30th, the upper Ohio carried down great quantitlos of logs, fences, boards and bridges. In the Scioto Valley, large quantities of com were carried ott This flood, great as it was, made but little impression, our readers will recollect, in the Miami country and below. Great floods on the Ohio very rarely occur.
Some observations during the last hundred years seem to show that extraordinary floods (those which rise above 53 feet above low water mark at Cincinnati) maybe expected, at about an average period of eighteen years. Not more than two or three such floods have occurred in the last half century. The river was very high (coming on to Front street) in February, 18-28. The greatest flood of which we have any account is that of when the Ohio rose to 31 feet at Pittsburg 45 feet at Wheeling 63 feet at Cincinnati, and 51 feet at Louisville. This flood commenced rising on the 10th of February, and continued to the 21st, when it was at its height, destroying an immense amount of property.
At Louisville, nearly all the frame buildings near the river were floated off, or destroyed. The loss and suffering by the flood was very great. The numbers above stated show that at the height of the river on the 21st of February, the surface of the Ohio was precisely that of a great wave, 900 miles in breadth, one edge of which was at Pittsburgh, the crest in the neighborhood of the Miamis, and the lower edge near the mouth. The velocity of the current of the Ohio is a point on which there are great mistakes made. This Is owing to the fact that the velocity is widely different between the surface and the thread or centre of the current volume.
The actual progress of the flood is determined by that of the central thread; and we know that of the flood of 1832, by the height of the flood at various points. Then the flood of 1833 was at its height at Pittsburgh on the 10th of Februarv, at wheeling on the 11th (evening) S3 miles; at Marietta on the 13th (noon) 176 miles, and at Cincinnati on the 17th (midnight) 450 miles. Then it appears that the tcave of the Ohio, as determined by its crest, traveled from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati, 460 in seven and half days at the rate of sixty miles per day, or two and a half miles an hour. This would be denied positively by any one who stood on the bank and looked at its driftwood passing by. The denial would be just in regard to that test for the central surface of the Ohio river, at its flood, actually passes along at the rate of about six miles an hour.
RANSPORTATION. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY'S Express Freight Line, A. Douglas, and where is the man that ever following it tip with quick and rapid blows upon the rear positions of the enemy. The forces of Zollicofftr, dispirited by the unexpected resistance of the Yankees, whom they were taught -would run after the first fire, broken and disorganized by their defeat and the death of their leader, cannot soonb rallied; and having lost their artillery, baggage wagons and commissary stores, they will be compelled to retire before our brave boys, and leave the "gaps" and passes," which they were set to guard, open or but poorly defended. If, then, out of the ten thousand men under Thomas and Shoepff, enough can be spared to take advantage of the victory won, we may expect that the rebel nest at Bowling Green will be disturbed, and that even the stronghold at Manassas will be In commotion.
The prize to be gained is the possession of the great trunk railroad running in a northeast course through Tennessee into Virginia, over which the army at Manassas receives a large part of its supplies. This once in our possession at KnoxviHe, "the rebel line, which now stretches from Columbus to Fortress Monroe, is broken, and the two extremes of their army are divided a calamity, seen from a rebel stand point, that cannot be overestimated-In this case, they have not only to fear the destruction of their forces in detail, but the compulsory abandonment of their strong positions on the Potomac, by the impossibility of furnishing the dally supplies which their 200,000 men require. We shall not, in vie of the obvious fkcts of the situation as plain to the rebels as to Gen.McClellan and Gen. Buell be surprised to hear that a strong movement is being made from Manassas to Knoxville or some other strategic point along the line of the Virginia and Tennessee road; and thateaving 75,000 men before "Washington, the rebel leaders will transfer the active operations from the Potomac to the valley the Cumberland, and make a daring attempt to force Buell out of Kentucky, and carry the war across into Indiana and Ohio. This, or a descent upon our forces at Beaufort, or upon Burn-side's men as soon as they land, seems to be a necessity that the now scared but boastful leaders of the revolt cannot avoid, unless they are foolhardy enough to brave the fate that awaits them if they remain inactive where they are.
With the line of communication with the South cut off at Goldsboro, and with the Tennessee road interrupted at Knoxville, the rebel army, opposed in front by a superior force, ready to take advantage of any movements out of the intrenchments that six months' labor have made impregnable, would find- itself compelled to choose between starvation, a fight against odds, or surrender. We dare hardly hope that the sagacious who have thus far baffled all our efforts, will permit themselves to be thus cooped up without striking manful blows to open the communications without which they are lost. Hence, we say, thai this Kentucky victory is but the first of a series of grand movements that will have a quick and perhaps decisive effect upon the progress of the war. Let us see now what Gen. Thomas will do! Rotes from Our Illinois Troops.
From a pressure of correspondence we present the following from several of our Illinois regiments at various points of the seat of war, which will be read with interest TUB CHICAGO YATES PHALANX AT BATH LIST PRISONERS. From the Tates Phalanx of this city, the Thirty-ninth Illinois.formerly Colonel Light's, now Colonel Osborn's, now at Cumberland, Maryland, we have from an attentive correspondent a detailed sketch of the late affair, in which the regiment bore a gallant part, at Bath. The news has been mainly anticipated in the account of the affair previously published. We are furnished, however, with a list of names of members of the regiment missing and believed to be prisoners. The regiment was posted at various points to guard the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad In Virginia, but, as has already been stated, full back before the sudden advance of an overwhelming body of the enemy.
The loss to the Tate Phalanx in this retreat our correspondent thus describes Such was the rapidity of the approach of the rebels that we were compelled to decamp in more hurry than was desired, leaving tents, camp equipage, knapsacks, baggage and commissary stores in possession of the secesh, who had doubtless a good time in getting something to eat and to wear, for, according to all accounts, they are poorly supplied, and eating for subsistence raw turnips, pumpkins, aBd such like things. Companies and lost nearly everything, and many of the ofli-cers their personal baggage, with letters, miniatures, Ac. a great loss Xor these noble men at this time. Many of the men lost blankets, knapsacks, and all their little comfortable things. The chaplain was Obliged to leave his testaments, tracts, papers and magazines, which he had collected on his recent visit to Chicago.
Our losses are principally attributable to a lack of wagons, having only five for the whole regiment. The termination of the skirmish would have been ot a fearful character to our troops had it not been for a well-directed volley from an ambush formed by Companies A and under command of Cipt. Munn. Such was its effect that it arrested the progress of the advancing Toe and gave time for us to cross the river in safety, although our only means of crossing were a flatboat and two small skiffs and thus about 75 or 100 crossed at a time. Two companies forded the stream and suffered much from being wet up to the middle, and in this condition were compelled to pass the whole night under arms, apprehending the Immediate advance of the enemy.
The following names are appended to this account of those believed to have been taken prisoners: Company Frances S. SfcCauley, John Lusen. Nelson Wallis, James L. Grant, Win. Crum, Jas.
L. Lacey, Malcolm E. Waite. Company A Emory Stebbins. Henry Fuller, Marcellus Friiik, Price.
FROM 1 HE 52HD ILLINOIS-UOW THEY WERE "COERCED." Catbo, January 22. Editors Chicago Tribune This moment my eye fell on your extract from the Journal, a squalid little sheet printed In St. Joseph about one Ben Loan Gen. Ben coercing the (Lincoln) 52nd Regiment. At first I felt as much provoked as any one of my amiable temper could be but when I had time for a second thought, I laughed as boisterously as any one of my profession dare to.
The idea that Missouri Home Guards" could coerce Illinois troops, is so supremely ludicrous tnat I laughed so boisterously that I did not know but the doctrine of "falling from grace" might be true. Yes, Missouri troops with the mullet-headed Ben Loan at their head "get out! Well to the facts Gin. ZSen did demand some contrabands," and what occurred between the officers I know but little and care nothing. But our men went down to the cars with loaded guns, according to order, and the Colonel being unwell, the Major told Gen. Ben, if he wanted a brush with the 52nd he should be gratified, if he did not remove his men from the track." Men and his slave hunters, one after the other, soon "vamosed the ranch," and the track was clear.
Off went the 52ud and Jkn went to the otlice of the Journal to get a puff" to hide his defeat. 1 did see some contrabands" in the quarters" at St. Joseph, and diet tee the tame In dear old Quincy" ever dear to us since the glorious reception it gave us. How the darkey came to Quincy I cannot tell. I do know they were the same I saw in St.
Joseph. This news is a fair sample of the way the Home Guards" of Missouri get a reputation, and the only way they can get it, by a from some pro-Blavery squib of a paper making loud professions of Union, principles, but loves slavery more than anything, unless it be whisky. Now, my dear sir, please send me the Tribltse to Cairo, so that I may keep posted in regard to that champion, Gen. Ben. Loan.
the.minds of any the idea that the Tribune is committed to a change of such magnitude as that to which we refer, we say, in conclusion, that the public can lose nothing by a full discussion of the subject, and that we shall, by liberal use of our columns, be glad to spread before the people of the country the facts and philosophy which it may elicit. Let our friend in the Convention bring forward his resolution iWOJSEY ORDER SYSTEM. The Post Office Committee has reported a bill for the establishment of a money order system, at suitable Post Offices, to be known as "Money Order Offices." The success of this experiment will depend upon cheapness, simplicity, and honesty. The last seems provided for with tolerable certainty. As to the second, there appears to be no unnecessary red-tape in filling up the order.
But nothing is said in our special dispatch in relation the description of money which will be taken in payment of orders, or will be paid out in their redemption. If a man pays gold, the order should call for gold. If he pays Treasury notes, the order should be redeemed in Treasury notes. It would add greatly to the public convenience if bank currency were receivable for orders, but this would be attended by loss to the Government, and would open a wide door for frauds. The value of bank bills is not uniform some are worth more than others they are current in one place and uncurrent in another they are good to-day and worthless to-morrow.
Hence, the money order offices dare not deal in them, as the Government would be constantly subject to loss from their depreciation and collapsing. We may therefore take it for granted that nothing will be receivable but coin and Treasury notes. The next thing to be considered is cheapness. If the commission to bCcharged on orders is felt to be too high, people will decline buying them, and the law will be a dead letter. Our dispatch states the commissions as follows: An order between $1 and $10, five cents; between $10 and $30, fifteen cents between $30 and $50, twenty-five cents.
Is not a quarter of a dollar too high a tariff for $31, except for great distances? We think it will exclude three-fourths of the business that might be done. It is nearly one per cent, for transmission. So also fifteen cents on a $11 order is a prohibitory impost. We cannot see the justice or business wisdom of charging a commission of five cents on a ten dollar order and charging fifteen cents on an eleven dollar order of charging fifteen cents on $30, and twenty-five cents on $31. Any express agent or bank cashier could point out the error in the principle adopted by the Committee.
The true rule is to charge a per cent, on the amount of the order. Then the commission will be exactly in proportion to the value of the service rendered. We would propose the following scale for the consideration' of the Committee On all sums over ten dollars, five cents, and three mills per dollar on the excess over ten dollars. For example, on $20 the commission would be five cents on the first ten. IMTEKESTING DEBATE Mack Laves in.
the District of Cotunilia A New Ibint ly Senator tbmeroy. There was a very interesting debate in the Senate last week on the General Jail Delivery bill introduced by Senator Grimes of Iowa, to liberate persons Incarcerated in the District, and charged with no offence. It was designed to correct a very longstanding abuse which, upon examination, the committee found to exist in the jail of the District. It was found that for many years persons had been held from term to term of the court without Indictment and without due process of law. To meet that state of facts, this bin provides in its first section that all persons, excepting such as are held on final judgment, shall, at the adjournment of the court, no bill of indictment having been found, be discharged from confinement, there being no process pending against them.
The pro-Slavery Senators furiously opposed its passage. Powell of Ky. offered an amendment to except Fugitive Slaves, Insisting that colored persons must prove themselves to be free that the presumption they are escaped slaves shall be held against them. He churned that the slave laws of Maryland were in force In the District, and by those laws colored people who could not show free papers were presumed to be slaves and were arrested and thrown Into prison to await a claimant. He contended that slavery was fastened upon the District beyond the power of Congress to abolish it.
By the conditions of the deed of cession from the State of Maryland, and read as follows from the act of Congress passed in 1801: "Be it enacted by the Senate and Bouse of Eepre-tentatires of the I rated Slates of America in Con-gree assembled, That the laws of the State of Maryland, as they now exist, shall he and continue in force in that part of the said District, (the District of Columbia,) which was ceded by that State to the I'nited States, and by them accepted as aforesaid." Senator Powell then insisted that the bill was unnecessary, because If there were any laws in the State of Maryland that would authorize the release of these persons after a bill of indictment had been ignored, it certainly exists now in the District of Columbia. There can be no doubt that all the ancient law of jail deliveries is in force now in the District of Columbia. There never has been a period since the formation of this District when those laws were not in force in it. They are in force to-day." Mr. Morrill, of replied.
The Senator from Kentucky starts the objection, that there is no necessity for the bill at all! and that, according to the principles of the common law, which he insists was in force here, the law Is precisely what this bill now contemplates and what this bill seeks to make it. The first answer and the obvious one to that is, that it is not so understood In this District. It is not, and for a quarter of a century and more has not been, here practiced by the court. They do not so recognize the law, do not 60 act upon it. The abuse exists, notwithstanding the interpretation given to the law by the Senator from Kentucky.
is a sufficient answer. As a measure of practical legislation, let this Congress speak authoritatively on the subject, and correct a long standing and flagrant abuse. Senator Kennedy of Maryland sustained the position taken by his pro-slavery brother, Powell, but threw no new light on the subject. Senator Pomeroy made the best point elicited by the debate, and one which we think can not be successfully answered. It removes the legal objections against the power of Congress to abolish slavery the District.
Ho spoke as follows Mr. POMEROY, I agree measurably with the Senator from Kentucky that we do not so much need law on this subject as we do the execution of the law rightfully. But, sir, I want to remind the Senator from Kentucky that the law which he refers to as being- the law of Maryland wok passed in 1791, five years before. Laws that Maryland might subsequently pass can have no force iu this District. The only law of slavery in Mary hind in 1791, when she ceded this District to the United States, was a law passed lu 1715, and I want to remark here, that there teas no law for perpetual slavery in Maryland at the time she gave -up the title to this District.
The law of 1715 was, that slaves and negroes imported into the colony, and their children, their immediate children, should be slaves during their natural lives but it did not extend to descendants generally; and unless there are slaves in this District to-day whose father or mother either was imported into Maryland, or the direct children of the first generation of slaves imported into Maryland, they are not slaves here to-day legally. What we need is the execution of the Law as it really is, for there is no law for slavery in this District. Maryland passed a law in 1795, and has been passingat various times statutes on the sub ject. The point I make is simply this that there being no law tor perpetual slavery at the time the District was ceded, the subsequent laws of Maryland are not applicable, and, therefore, there is no perpetual slavery here, and the fugitive slave law of 1793, aud the fugitive slave law of 1850, do not apply, becan6e they only relate to States, and not to this District. One other word iu'reference to the presumption as a matter of evidence.
The Senator from Kentucky has just told us that these personB when taken must prove their freedom. I think the rule of the courts usually in all slave States is that where a majority of colored men arc slaves, a colored man has to prove that he is free; but where a majority of the colored people are free, if you undertake to establish the slavery of a man, von ninst nrore that he is a Tn thia Great Western, Hew York Central and Connecting Roads, TO AND FROM THE EAST AND WEST, Controled and operated by the roads forming the Line Ample facilities for giving prompt despatch to pro perty, via GREAT WESTERS RAILWAY TO AND FBOM Chicago, New York, Boston, For Bill La dine fttirt Contractu, pplT at Company Office, corner Lake and Dearborn street, Chicago. MERCHANTS VISITING THE EAST Are requested to call at the Company's FREIGHT and TICKET unices, for Bills of Lading, Contracts, lickete, Kta. In Boston, deliver Freight at Beaton and Worcester Eailroad Depot. In Kew Tort, deliver Freight at Hudson River Railroad, No.
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WALLINGFORD, Chicaeo and Western Aent, Corner of Lake and Dearborn streets, Chicago. Chicago, January 1st, lfS. An Explanation. Some weeks since we published a paragraph referring to the alleged shipment of undressed pine lumber from Pittsburgh to Fort Leavenworth, on a Government contract In the same connection we adverted to the forwarding of lean horses from' Pennsylvania for Illinois cavalry. The article and charges contained coming to the notice of Secretary Cameron, he promptly instructed Capt.
Potter, TJ. S. Quartermaster in this city, to investigate the matter, and this has been done with the thoroughness characteristic of that officer, whose energetic and faithful prosecution of his responsible duties here constitute him an example which we could wish a more general one. We append the following opies of dispatches and communications covering the case, which will expiain themselves. We desire to say, however.with reference to the letter from Gen.
Meigs touching the shipment of horses westward from Pittsburgh that entire and full justice should be done the representatives of the Government in a matter which, unexplained, was open to all the objections comments it received. Lean horses" did arrive in Chicago, billed ttirough from Pittsburgh, greatly to the disgust of our cavalry officers, who deemed that being called to mount such steeds would be "sharp set" indeed. But the iact is explained below that these horses while on their way east were detained and sent back. And still more than the 1 an steeds" came out excellently well, after a few weeks good care and feeding, and are now, some of the best in the regiment to which they were sent. The explanation is thus full and complete, and we are glad to make it.
Next, as to the lumber shipment. We use Capt. Pottei's own words to us hi explanation of his dispatch below. There was foundation for the statement that lumber was sent, but it was not true that it was lumber in the rough. It was a quality of pine scantling, cut to proper length, with holes bored for ropes, and intended for use in cavalry horse barracks.
The following are the official documents which show these facts. The dispatch from Pittsburgh evidently does not refer to the particular shipment of lumber which attracted the notice given to the matter. Qr ARTE EM ASTER GENERAL'S Omcl. Washington Citt, Jan. 3, 1S62.
Von. Simon Cameron, Secretary of War: Sra I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2d inst. 1 he article In the Chicago Tribune charges that lean Pennsylvania horses were sent to Chicago to mount Illinois cavalry. At onetime the supply of herses coming to the army of the Potomac threatened to be iu excess. Horses ordered for a certain Artillery force were arriving while the gune themselves hadnot reached here.
Fearing an excess at the moment, I directed the Quartermaster at Pittfburgh to stop all horses being bronirht to this place through Pittabnrgb, and to send them West to supply the wants of the service there. A few hundred horses werethnRstrmnfil nr Pitta. rtxnng liJaiUincg. HANDLER FULLER'S 30 Tliirly Dollar $30 SEWING 3kXACIII3VE, Having the NEW ECCENTRIC FEED, Which is never falline. Is capable or dolne as wide a range of Sewing as any other machine, and ia undeniably the simplest Double-Threaded ITIaclilne Ever Invented.
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Box Ssa, del7-hT402m CHICAGO, PORTLAND AND BOSTON EXPRESS LLSE, 1863 isea. Under management and control of the Great Western Bailway of Canada. By a new and most desirable arranffement for Ship-pera of Produce, the Great Western Railway Company" are to running an EXPRESS FREIGHT Through from 'Windsor, opposite Detroit, to Forlaad "Without Change of Cars. Leaving Windsor every and SaTtrsnaT in charge of a SPECIAL JilKSSKNGEli, who will go) through with each train. This arrangement is such aa to guarantee care and dispatch not heretofore given to Fn icl*t, and at regular Rates.
t3T Freight destined for this Express Line should leave Chicago on Mondays and TiiritsnAYa, and be consigned to "Care 1'OHTLAND AND BOSTON KX-PiiKfS, WINDSOR, t'W For information in reenrd to Itliis new line, contracts, bills lading, annly to A. WALLIKGFORD, Agent Great Western Uailwaj-Company, Corner Lake and Dearborn Streets, Chicago. illustc Storm SPECULATIVE IqtlUT. A private note from Springfield, tells us that a member of the Convention, well known for his freedom from the trammels of conventionalism, and for his lack of reverence for what has nothing but age to recommend it, proposes to bring in, at an early day, a resolution for the organization of a committee to inquire into the expediency of repealing all laws for the collection of debts. lie does not, our Informant tells us, expect, perhaps does not wish, the Convention to take any decided action on a question of such magnitude burgh afcd at points west of that city.
I nave not information at hand as to where the particular lot of horses thus turned back came from, but I believe they all, curtaiuly the greater part of them, mubt have been purchased by contractors in Ohio, Indiana or Illinois. They were stopped as they entered Pennsylvania at Pitts- ggQ AND $35 EACH. TTXIOX SETTLG MACHINES. UNIOX SEWIXG MACIIIXES. HXIOX SEWIXO MACIIIXES.
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Post-Offlce Box 1481, Chicago. t-SEJJD FOR A call and examine them before purchasing elsewhere. ao34'61-T-T fr5ni 11 II. The number was small in comparison to the great stock of hordes required for the army of the Potomac; and artillery having since arrived here, and many horses bavin' been worn out in service. and three cents on the second, making eight cents on $38 it would be thirteen cents four mills on $00 it would be seventeen cents.
In order to avoid the fraction of a cent, let all such be counted as a full cent, so that on a thirty-eight dollar order the commission would be fourteen cents. To facilitate making change, let postage stamps be a legal tender for all frac tions of a dime. But without this, any change can be made with three and five cent pieces where copper coin is not procurable. A commission of three mills is as high as further purchases to a small extent have since been but he is anxious to have inquiry turned in the direction indicated, in the hope of preparing the popular mind for what he is MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. JULIUS BA-TJEIX.
convinced will be the next reform in Government that the people will demand. We KAsrTicrrnBia or Special Correspondence Chicago Tribune. Cairo, January S3, 1862. Last night's dispatch from this place informed you of the return of the last of the reeon-noitering expedition, which left Cairo, Bird's Point, and Fort Holt, between the 9th and 14th of the present month. The results of this expedition, over which so much fuss and feathers" were at first displayed, have appeared so trifling that it hardiy repays one to write the events of the same.
The community is deceived and doubtless the enemy and the soldiers are dissatisfied. Along, tedious, and disagreeable march, through mud and mire, has been made, and no results were apparent to the troops or any one else, until informed at the conclusion of the recon-noissance, the learning of which gives an entire change to the face of affairs, and are thus explained. In the first it was apprehended and generally believed here that Gen. Buell' force would speedily make an attack upon Bowling Green, and information having been received at head quarters that large reinforcements were about to be sent to the assistance of Buckner, it was deemed eminently essential, by the General commanding this Department, that means be adopted to frustrate these designs of the rebels, and consequently this expedition was set on foot, and so far as it went was successful. Besides the above there were other objects to be attained.
Secondly, a thorough knowledge of the topography of the country in the vicinity of Columbus what streams, roads, and ravines were to be encountered hereafter, and estimate what would be their bearing in favor or against us. In this particular our success was most complete, as Gen. Grant In person, accompanied by his staff and engineer corps, under the escort of Capt. Osband's Chicago company of cavalry, scoured the country for forty miles around Columbus, often getting within a mile or so of the enemy's pickets. So that for future operations Gen.
Grant is fully cognizant of all roads, bridges, around Columbus, by which he may facilitate his success when taking this field for action, which we have every reason to believe will be at an early day. In the third place, in consequence of the "masterly inactivity" into which these troops have been suffered to fall, it became obvious that they would require some practice in the field and on the march before they could be handled to advantage All the above ends have been attained, which, though at first seem smell, upon consideration are of some weight in the scale of future operations. The several regiments comprising expedition were as follows: McClernand's column comprised the 10th, Col. Morgan: lsth, Col. Lawler; 27th, Col.
Buford; Col. Eeardon; 80th, Lieut. Col. Dennis; 81st Lieut. Col.
White; and 4Sth, Col. Haynie Illinois Infantry Kegiments; Swartz's and Dresser's Artillery companies Col. Dickey's, Captains Stewart's and Dollins's Cavalry. Gen. Paine's column consisted of the 30th Illinois, Col.
Marsh, (ltft in command of Fort Jefferson:) Sth, Col. Onlesby; 2id, Lieut. Colonel Hart, and lltb, Col. Wallace: and 10th Iowa infantry, Capt. Taylor's Chicago Liilit Artillery, aud a portion of Col.
Kellogg's Illinois 7th, and Xoleuian's and Burrell's cavalry. The column under Col. Cook consisted of the 7th and 2Mb Illinois infantry, and Delano's company of cavalry. On the arrival of all of the above troops at Fort Jefferson, on Tuesday, the 14th, Gen. McClernand's column took up the line of march in the direction of Blanifville, and encamped first night at O'Jfeil's Mills.
On Wednesday, Gen. Grant and staff, with Capt. Osband's Chicago Cavalrp, left here to take the field, and upon arriving at Fort Jefferson, the two remaining columns under Gen. Paine aud Col. Cook were ordered to march in the same directien as McClernand's, whose column the same day moved forward and encamped on the farm of G.
W. Martin, some twelve miles this side of Columbus. Cook's command passed some two miles beyond Mc-Clernand the same night, where they en-camped and Paine's brigade reached, part at O'Keil's, and a portion the cross-roads, some two miles beyond, where they also encamped same night. The second day McClernaud moved in the direction of Millburn and Lovelaeeville, which last point he reached on the third day, from which he countermarched in the direction of Fort Jefferson. Paine's brigade was cut up into small commands, and took different directions, recon-noiterirjg in the vicinity of Columbus while CoL Cook's force marched down the south side of Jlaj field Creek to Elliott Mills, where they encamped and from which point several reconnoitering forces marched is the direction of Columbus, and at one time a force of Delano's cavalry went within two miles of Columbus, but did not encounter any of the enemy's pickets.
Friday, having failed to draw the rebels out of their entrenchments or fortifications, and having accomplished all that was proposed though kept a close secret up to this time the various commands were ordered to return, and Sunday found most of the regiments embarked from Fort Jefferson for their old quarters. McClernand's brigade having marched the greatest distance, did not reach Fort Jefferson until next day (Monday), arriving here on Tuesday. During the first day's march the roads were endurable, but at the close of the second day a series of rains set in and continued, stopping at intervals only, until the last of the troops arrived at Fort Jefferson, making the roads a complete channel of what one might term liquid mud. The incidents of the march and rcconnois-sance are of but little merit. Some pilfering and petty marauding were attempted by our troops on some of the citizens, but was speedily and effectually stifled by General Grant, who threatened to shoot any soldier who molested any private property of the inhabitants.
In one instance, where some of the soldiers pilfered some honey, the members of the regiment were fined one dollar each. It having been ascertained that O'Neil, the proprietor of O'Keil's Mills, was an active secessionist, and had been aiding the rebels at Columbus, by sawing timbers for fortitiea-tions and casem*nts for rebel gunboats, an order was issued for the. disabling of the mills, which was more than carried out by Col. Morgan, who effectually destroyed the mill and its contents by fire. When the active forward movement is made from this point, which is looked for to occur during the coming month of February, we may look to see the advantages and fulfilment of the predicted benefits of this grand recon-noissanee.
Until then, its achievements must remain fruitless. One of the most important questions which now agitates this department is the fitting-out of the gpnboatswith suitable crews. When it is taken into consideration that the inducements offered at this point to seafaring and river men are very inferior to those offered in the East, it will be conceded that this will be no easy business to fulfil. True, the pay of gunboat-men here is equal that offered to men of the same class in the East bnt there is no bounty given, as in the last-named section, and Jack Tar is not over fond of fresh water service while the usual pay of river men is almost double that offered" in the gunboat service. One advantage, however, is that the time of service or enlistment Is much shorter than that of the army, as the provisions extend only to one year, if not sooner discharged," while those who enlist in the land service are required to serve three years.
Flag officer Footc has been laboring here under the most trying circ*mstances. It appears that neither the army nor navy will claim this service as a brancbof their's. So it stands alone in the centre reaping no assistance from, either, except what has been fairly forced from the heads of departments. It is almost impossible for those who are unacquainted with the complications of the navy service, and outfitting, to comprehend the disadvantage of fitting out a squadron of any kind, in the absence ot a navy yard. Yet here has Flag Officer Foot been obliged to battle incessantly between these two elements, (the army and navy,) both of which claim the advantage of the services these gunboats render, while neither appear willing to accord them assistance.
It remains now to be seen to what extent the army will respond to the recent appeal made through Gen. Grant, and published in the TswciiB of yesterday. Matters of news are becoming alarmingly scarce, and a long season of monotony is almost apparent. Reinforcements are arriving almost, daily. The river is still rising at 13 p.
m. Calko. LLIOT'S IMPROVED shall be very glad to know that the subject is to be discussed, and that the theories of a certain class of thinkers, who maintain that the governing power has no legitimate functions except such as are exercised di-reetlv for the nrotection of nronertv ami the business of the country will warrant. Unless the people perceive that money orders can be procured cheaply as well as easily, they will be neglected" to use a commercial term. The scale of charges proposed by the Committee will not yield one-half or one-fourth as much receipts as that we have suggested.
If the main purpose of the Committee is to add to the Post "District there are ten thousand free colored uarca to Droacn the proposition to him, that with his success with this or that legislative enactment, he might possibly be the richer And how few of our public men in this corrupt age, can thus be spoken of? There is another evil of the times, with respect to which, Judge Douglas shines as conspicuously as he does in the matter before alluded to. It is the fashion now-a-days when a man attains public position, to drag all his relatives into office after him. It is a noted fact in the history of mankind that greatness do'nt appertain to a whole family that when a large amount of brain is concentrated iu one head, it is very often taken in the same proportion, from the heads of others of the same family. Judge Douglas, when elected to office, considered that when the people voted for him, they did not vote for the whole family of Douglases, and their collaterals. Never did Stephen A.
Douglas in his life put his hand upon a recommendation for one of his relatives. I know it is true he had relatives in office, but they acquired those offices as he acquired his upon their own intrinsic merits. My first acquaintance with Judge Douglas was during his campaign with John T. Stuart. He was then as poor as he was when he died.
He had not the means of carrying on the campaign in a manner to secure him a proper degree of personal comfort. All his succe ss depended on his talent. Well do I remember when I parted with him in hie go, after he had made his first speech there, lie was leaving on horseback. I asked him what I could do for him. He said: "Keep the issue flainly before the people." And when asked him what he considered the issue He took a pencil and wrote Shall our Government be a Government of Banks or a Government of thepeoplef" Words that have never died on my ears to this hour.and I hope never will, while God gives me strength to put a vote in the ballot box for the old Jacksonian principles.
He stood on that issue, and no man did as much to implant the sub-treasury principle in the hearts of the American people as Stephen A. Douglas. The next time I saw Judge Douglas, he came to Chicago as one ot our Supreme Judges, who then performed circuit duties. He was ridiculed as the baby Judge," aud especially was he ridiculed for his presumption in daring to come to Chicago to hold court, where we had then, as now, some of the ablest lawyers in the Union. I remember an agreement which was made among his political friends It was, that they would not disturb him during the evenings, so that he might have an opportunity to study the grave questions of law which might come before him for determination.
But I never found him with a law book in his hand. The fact is, no man ever studied books as little. He had an intuitive sagacity, that grasped every legal question the moment it was submitted by a member of the bar. He knew what the authority -ought to be, and I can safely say that, unpopular as he was with the bar wheu he came to Chicago, he went away the most popular Judge wc ever had in that circuit. We met again, and that was in the American Congress, to which niy colleague (Mr.
Ficklin) has alluded. I shall never forget the hour that great hour to me when ho arose on that floor and the speech concerning Jackson's tine that great effort, with reference to which General Jackson afterwards took his hand and complimented him, by saying, that he hud ec cr found his owu full justification till he read it in the speech of Judge Douglas. That speech made him a leader iu the House of Representatives. And well do I remember the great celebration of the democracy on the Sth of Januiry, 1844, in honor of the passage of the bill refunding General Jackson's fine. It was the last time the United States democracy of America ever assembled in full glory on a festive occasion.
I think I see the stars that composed that galaxy of talent and patriotism now shining before me. There were Silas Wright, CoL Benton, Levi Woodbury, General Gaines, the late Vice President King, Judge Wilkins, Senator Sevier, General Dodge, and, in fine, every one of that glorious old band of Democrats who adorned that day but the most of whom hive, with General Jackson, preceded udge Douglas to their final destination. On that occasion, ever to be remembered, there was no man more highly comDliinented by all present than Judge Douglas for his efforts in the halls of Congress. The Elijahs marked him out as the Elitha upon whom the mantle was soon to falL I knew Judge Douglas well at the time of the passage of the Illinois Central Railroad bilL There was money at that time in that bill, but not for him or for his emolument. Illinois stocks had previously gone down very low, and our State been almost brought to he verge of repudiation.
It was understood that the bill was to pass the next day. A stir was made in the lobbies and anioDg the hangers-on about Congress, with the idea that a good time was coming, and mar-y started to New York to speculate in stocks. Judge Douglas had the same opportunity through moneyed friends as others, but it was his boaft that he never would make a cent through his political position. Douglas was naturally a great man, as much so as any man that everadorned American history. He was ambitions, bnt it was not so much as the ambition of his friends iu his behalf.
With them there was no man like Douglas. With them there was no place that ought not to be filled by Douglas. With them the old proverb that there is a time aud place for all things was entirely set aside. With them here was always the place for Douglas, and now was always the time for Douglas. Many have asserted that he would have been President but for his own anxiety.
In his own case, as that of the gallant Clav, it was not his over-atixiety, but that of bis friends. Scarce was one Presidential election decided before they began the contest in his name for the next. Mr. President I make these remarks as due from onej who opposed Judge Douglas in the latter part of his career, so far as related to the extension of human slavery, but from one of his most ardent friends and admirers in all those measures in which he walked in the loot-steps of the fathers of our Constitution. Indeed, he may be said to be the only man whom personally, over and above all others, I ever desired to see made President.
I never wish to become so strongly personally attached td any other man. It is dangerous to be so, for we should always follow principles rather than men. But when I almost adored him I agreed with him in principle. Our separation continued for several years, upon onr disagreement touching the propriety of the extension of tee Ordnance of '87, to all new territory. But when he made his last speech in this Hall and in the Wigwam at Chicago, I recognized him no longer as a partisan, but as a patriot, fighting for the same constitution, the same flag and the same country as my self.
-After those speeches the last particle of animosity iu my bosom and in the bosoms of my political associates died out. I thought I saw that the enemies of our Republic's existence reasoned well for the furtherance of their designs, when at Charleston they declared it necessary to destroy Douglas before they could destroy the constitution of their eountry. From the property of a mere party. Judge Douglas, by these speeches, became the "property of all the loval people of the country. His speeches, like those of Patrick Henry in the Revolution, roused his countrymen as one man to the defence of their flag.
He at once culminated in the zenith of universal admiration but in the mysterious workings of that Providence who overrules all things for good, that culmination was of short duration. He died the great man of the time, and whom have we, as a popular leader, to take his place And to recur again to that sentiment upon which my remarks have been predicated, may the good that Stephen A. Douglas did live after him; may hia dying advice to his children be engraven upon all our hearts, and be the incentives of all our actions. PEARL" DRUMS AND BRASS INSTRUMENTS. 99 South Clark Street, Manufacturer and Importer of Musical Instruments and Strings.
Having connection with manufacturtna-bouses tn Berlin, Leipslc, Dresden, England and Paris, is prepared to furnish Dealers, Baada and Individuals; with every article la their line At the lowest N. York Prices. Post Office Box S404. oel5-d2KHy Office revenue, the commissions they propose to charge will defeat their object if their intention is to accommodate the public, they have missed their aim. The telegram states that Postmasters are to be paid one-third of the amount of the the punishment of crime, are to be subjected to analytical examination by a body of shrewd, practical men.
The fabulous "jewel in the toad's head" is not more wonderful, if received as a fact, than the other fact, that, in the heart of the most burdensome and atrocious despotisms, are to be found the most radical Democratic thinkers. The book in which Democratic theories are insisted upon with the most logical force, and in which they are pushed to the greatest extreme, was by Wilixajc Hcstboldt, the Minister of a despotic Prince. It was read in Germany as a harmless speculative recreation of an active mind, and, though it was finally suppressed by the Government, its author, regarded as a blameless enthusiast for an commission on orders issued, and one-eighth of one per cent, on the gross amount SEWING MACHINES. SEWING MACHINES. WE KXOW, AND 6PEAK FROM EXPERIENCE when we Bay that Elliot's Impkovkd run Szw-vsa MacHnrss, Bold by O.
F. Coixnrs Co, 13V Lake atreet, Chicago, are the cheapest and moat economical of any machine we have seen for family aaa. The Idea that because a Sewing Machine la onu It cannot be good. Is driven from our mind, and from that ot oar better half," by the good works "and the entire reliability of the machine above referred to, which la sold at the low price of S30. We recommend it in the fullest confidence to our friends.
Chicago Democrat. $30 EACH. 830 EACH. paid, which would be giving the postmas niaae tor this army. Of the alleged transportation of pine lumber from Pittsburgh via.
Chicaeo to Fort Leavenworth, 1 know nothing. I have telegraphed to the Quartermaster at Pittsburgh to ascertain, if possible, the foundation for snch a report. 1 am very respectfully, your oh't 31. C. ALeius, Quartermaster Gen'L VnitedStatis Military Telegraph, I Beceived Jan.
4, 1S62, from Chicago, To Gen. Meigs: I have investigated the matter regarding the transportation of lumber from Pittsburgh to Fort Leavenworth. It has no fonndation in act. Some Inmber did go through, but as near as I can learn as in short pieces, manufactured for particular purposes bars to put between horses on cars and malls. If I can get anything further, I wUl write fully by mail.
3. A. Potter, Capt. and A. Q.
M. rsiTED States Milttabt Telegraph, Received Jan. 4, 1303, from Pittsburgh, To Gen. Mciirs Telegram of 3d received. The timbers were circular platforms forgnns, forwarded on requisition of Cot Sj mington.
A. Montgomery, Maj. and Q. M. The illustrious Jenkins at Washington has been looking into the kitchen concerns ot the English Minister resident at Washington.
What he tells us is of great importance, and we are not disposed to keep it from our readers. Lord Lyons Is not married, and is about 45 years of age. His residence is on street, in the vicinity of the President's mansion, in the section of the city where most of the foreign embassies reside. His suite occupies the residence lately occupied and still owned by ex-Senator Hamilton Fish. It is a brick mansion, plain and unattractive in its exterior, and not very cxtravagautgin its dimensions.
His manner of conducting his establishment, however, is after the lordly Englishmen. Hia retinue of servants is complete, and after the most approved ancient custom of the realm. His steward is a sort of petty lord, having his office servants at his bidding, and his horses and carriages like any other lord. There is some fifteen servants in all connected with the establishment. Ilia horses, five lu number, are all choice blooded animals.
There is one pair of matched bay animals for his coach. The others arc saddle horses, which, in the style of the true Englishman, the distinguished lord and attaches are in the habit cf using. His cellars are stored with the choicest wines and rendu and nothing is wanting to the mansion of that due to the time-honored customs of an English lord. jJaper Panamas. Jj G.
L. FAXON, CASH JOBBING HOUSE. PAPER HANGINGS, CURTAIN PAPERS, Table Oil Cloths, mndw Shades, FIXTURES, TRIMMINGS, Al TILE LOWEST CASH PRICES. No. TO Irftke Street.
ters about one-half of the gross receipts from the business. This i3 altogether too liberal, and more than can be afforded by the Department. Instead of one-third and one-eighth, we would suggest twenty per cent, on orders issued, and ten per cent on orders redeemed, making 80 per cent, instead of nearly 50 per cent, as proposed by the Committee. The Post Office Department has need for all the profit that can be derived from the proposed system. A properly contrived and conducted impossible condition of social and political life, remained in his place, undisturbed.
But the fundamental truths which he laid down, and from which he deduced legisla tive maxims that the most Democratic of money order system would be very useful to the public, and may be made the source of a handsome addition to the Post Office our Free States would refuse to adopt, sank deep into the soi in which they fell, and the fruit is a school of European politicians far in advance of the most enlightened publicists of the United States. They have revived and given new force to, among other things, the reasons which have long been urged against all laws for the collection of revenue. Post Office Box 8618, Chicago, TIL delg-nMe-lw TheM machJnefl re ubmI throughout the country satiBlActlon to all wbo use them, and are. an aoubted ly, the most economical. bet made, and cheapest in use.
They are tuily warranted. The recent valuable improvements embraced In onr machine, render it perfect in every respect and Tartly auperior to the Pkarl as originally made. wefurnteb full and expUcitdirectaonsforusfnrtbera. Each machine, when sent out, is in perfect mnnlne order, with sample of sewing; on cloth in proper podiuoa. So that a person can commence work at once.
Our Machines ail tand on a handsome table, and are worked by a treadle. for descriptive circular and sample of worinelosinfrstampforrerurn postage. On receipt of we will send machine, by return of express or, if so ordered, we will send a machine and the bill wtUi It, so that It need bo( be paid tor 0X1 received. AGEKTS WASTED. Address GEO.
7. C0IXIXS OmcB-120 LAKE STREET, (upstairs), CHICAGO, tdeH-hTTifMyJ THE THE ItU- AOls AD inKHUiAN CANAL. debts; and as their conclusions are not without a certain degree of weight, we By a paragraph in our special dispatch of yesterday morning, our readers were pleased to learn that the House Military Committee voted to report a bill providing for the enlargement of the Illinois JjRAKE 1UIIU tmr PAPER HANGINGS, Window Shades, Fixtures, HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER; FAFEB HAKGERS, ETC. ETC, No. 184 Clark Street, Chicaeo.
focls-ly) briefly state them, thus FROM THE 41Tn ILLINOIS, COL. KNOBLE3 DORFS. A. Statement of its Condition Its Marche and rivatiottg Thr Camps at -Roila JVo Wintc Quarters nor Winter HviUils. Camp heab Roixa, Jan.
SI, 1S62. On the 19th day of November, 1801, the third division of the Western army arrived In this camp worn down by a long march, and many laboring under the influence of disease. We had hoped we would find some comfortable quarters where we might rest for a while and recruit our strength. From that time until now we have been kept here in our tents, much of the time without any means of warming our tents, and derived the smallest privilege of trying to better our condition by any improvements which we might make. Officers asked the privilege of building winter quarters, but were told that they could not, from the fact that we might he called upon at any hour to march.
Here we have lived, or rather stayed, while our comrades were dying around us every day. Surgeons were not allowed for most of the time to attempt to build comfortable hospitals lu which our sick might have at least a possible chance of recovering. We have lost between forty and fifty men in the last two months, and I have sometimes followed to the graveyard as many as three at one time. Why we were thus treated is wh.it we should like to know. In good faith did we leave our homes to serve our country, and if these men had fallen on the field of battle it would not have been so bad.
But to see them slain by disease, and bo efiorts allowed to be put forth to save them and make them comfortable during the bad weather, is heart-sickening, and discouraging to our men. They chafe under such treatment and ask for something to bo done. We can now report nearly two hundred and fif sick, and we could not send out now over four hundred men fit for service In the field. In the way of clothing, we have been well provided for. Gov.
Tates has sent us during this month 800 double blankets, 1000 good woolen shirts, 1000 pairs good lined pants, and 1000 pairs mittens, for which we feel to him truly gra'eful. In the way of clothing, we are well provided for; but why are we left here in this (as it appears to us) sickly hole to waste and die away and do no good MATTERS AT ST. JOSEPH, MO. Effect of Secesh sympathies Military movements Rumors. St.
Joseph, Jan. SI, 1863. This town, which two years ago contained more than thirteen thousand inhabitants, now, exclusive of soldiers, does not exceed four or five thousand. Many business houses, which formerly received from fifty to one hundred dollars daily, 'are now vacant, and rapidly going to ruin. Instead of three daily and one weekly paper of respectable eize and appearance, we have one little, puny, sickly looking sheet, poorly edited, and scarcely able to prolong a lingering exigence.
Blue army coats and soldiers are by far the most numerous moving objects which meet the eye. Of the latter, there are now stationed here the universally detested Sixteenth Illinois, commanded by the imbecile CoL Smith the Illinois Fiftieth, and the so-called Twenty-Fifth Missouri Regiment; also about a squadron of cavalry, under command of Major Berry, together with some State troops, their number to me unknown. The Illinois Forty-Second left here a few days ago for Dixie by the way of Cairo, and rumor sys the Fiftieth will follow them this week. She also reports that a huge pile of charges are already on file against CoL Smith at the branch ircumlocution office" (the Brigade headquarters at Palmyra.) If I have a right understanding of that condition which constitutes what is termed society, this community is as far removed from it as can well be conceived. The whole mass of population is disintegrated, every man has become so individualized that he can scarcely be said to have any sympathy or affinity for any other, fie suspects and watches every one, and knows that everyone watches hira; in the midst even of a multitude he is solitary.
A sort of apathy paralyzes every business energy and excludes the thought of enterprise from the mind. The foregoing are a few circ*mstances chargeable to the rebellion. trgT Some would-be Canadian army contractors were made unhappy thus in an attempt to impose upon the military authorities: Two thousand iron bedsteads were wanted for the troops, and while the contracts were pending speculators bought up all iron in the market suitable for the purpose, and held it for a large advance. The War Department decided at once to substitute baudets for bedsteads, and the contract for these has been let at about one-fourth the price of iron bedstcans. Bedstead Iron has fallen considerably since.
tW The New York Sun, speaking of the condition of different classes in that city, says Operatives are- comparatively better off than any class, and the bard times seems most to affect merchants and. tradesmen whose business is outside of any onnection with army eurplies. Many families accustomed to pay and 1 1,300 rent, are now occupying upper rooms at $200, and the number endeavoring to lessen expenses by taking boarders has so much increased that regular boarding-houses have been affected by loss of custom, and the decline in prices. 157" The Wisconsin Senate, has adopted resolutions recommending Gea. Frans Slgol to promotion as Major GcacraL I.
A reposes confidence in and trusts Lim with his property. This is a transac The really dazzling splendors of the establishment, however, are the most strikingly seen ana Micliigan Canal as a war measure. Everybody knows that reporting a bill, however pressing the necessity of the work for which it provides.is on the occasion of some special dinner. The plate of the entire establishment is exclusive JLtaXt Oil mtoxk. tion with which the State has nothing to do.
The individuals concerned are free agents, and if A deals with a man who cannot or will not pay, he has no right to call upon the State to repair his blunders. But, if cheats by fraud or misrepresenta ly of gold and silver. On occasion of a dinner, the table Is always laid with plates of the richest enameled gold, most of which have QHICAGO LEAD AND OIL Cor. Clinton Fulton sU, Wert Side. but a small part of what is necessary to secure its passage.
True it is, that such should not be the case, but people must adapt themselves to facts as they are, and act accordingly. What is now requisite to been handed down from generation to gener tion, he then becomes amenable to criminal pcrsonfr-and only about three thousand slaves, and therefore the presumption is in favor of freedom and the majority being free, if you claim that a man is a slave, yon must prove it. Tlie Western National Armory Probabilities In favor of Rock Island. The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial notices the arrival in town of a delegation to solicit the proposed new Armory for Cincinnati, but says the Queen City is too late, and that the pins are already set. He adds: The probabilities about the location of the National Armory have hitherto all pointed strongly in the direction of Rock Island, HI.
The partizans of that locality were earliest in the field, and have been the most active and persistent in petitions and outside influence of every description. Even as long ago as last February, I recollect that petitions were pouring in here in behalf of Rock Island, and at the extra session of last Summer the stream still continued to flow. It is safe to say, that scarcely a day has elapsed of the present session of Congress without witnessing the presentation of both in Senate an4 House, of hundreds, if not thousands, of names, all praying for the location of the new Armory at Rock Island. This place has two or three States in its favor which can hardly be said of any other of the mooted localities. The Illinois and Iowa Senators and Representatives, after a preliminary push in behalf of Chicago on the part of some of them, will go for Rock Island to a man.
They arc backed up by an array of petitioners far more formidable in point of numbers and of territory represented, than any other place can hitherto boast. Then, too, the Pennsylvania interest (all in favor of Pittsburgh), which is strongly represented iu the House Committee on a National Armory, will go for Rock or some other far West town, by way of depriving Chicago or Cincinnati of it. Mr. Speaker Grow, with the pretcrnatnrally sharp eye of a Pennsylvanian for home interests and the main chance, has constituted the Committee hich has charge of tliis important matter so as to favor Pennsylvania in a disproportionate degree. The Comniiitee Consists of nine members, of whom two are from the Keystone State, while he has appointed Mr.
Moorhead of Pittsburgh, its Chairman. The follow ing ia the composition of the Committee which is an important element in the determination of the question, since the Eastern members, whose constituents are not directly interested in the location of the armory, will vote mainly for the place recommended by this Committee James K. Moorhead, of Chairman. John W. Wallace, of Pennsylvania.
J. L. N. Stratton, of New Jersey. Charles Delano, of Massachusetts.
John A. Bingham, of Ohio. W. Kellogg, of Illinois. T.
W. Kellogg, of Michigan. Wm. Vandever, of Iowa. James S.
Rollins, of Missouri. An Anecdote or Camtna IT. Clay Ilin Quarrel vrltU lorn HarsluUl. (From the New York Evening Poet. The following capital story, told of Caesius M.
Clay of Kentucky, we believe has never before been in print. It will be remembered that Mr. Clay served as captain of a company of Kentuckians in Mexico, until, taken prisoner by the enemy, he was compelled to re-mainn inactive spectator of scenes in which he would gladly have been an actor. Thomas F. Marshall, the fluent orator and illimitable imbiber, was also a captain iu the same regiment with Clay.
Marshall was in the habit of coming drunk on parade, much to the disgust of all, and greatly to the disorder and breach of all discipline in the. regiment. Captain Clay, though the strictest of all the captains iu obeying the army rules, and in requiring obeditnee, determined to give Captain Marshal a hint of his disapprovaL So, as soon as he became "officer of the day," when his command was second only to that of the Colonel, he put on his military paraphernalia, and, riding up to the guard-house, cried out in a loud voice, Officer of the guard!" and when the guard officer appeared he said I command you to empty the guard-house of all the prisoners; so long as I have command iu this regiment no soldiers shall be punished whilst captains arc allowed to violate the rules of war with impunity." The guard house was emptied, and great expectation was excited to see the issue of this flagrant breach of duty. But no notice was taken by the Colonel ot the affair. At the next encampment the famous quarrel took place between Captains Clay and ir-sfcall, in presence of the whole regiment.
Clay proposed to fight Marshall oa the spot with broadswords; bnt Marshall pleaded that it would embroil the regiment. Thereupon Clay most bitterly replied, that "Marshall, at Lexington, did not fear to embroil, by his inflammatory appeals, the people, in an affray where women and children were endangered; out here, where the two met on equal terms, where men wore swords, with war as their profession, he feared to embroil others It was the plea of a poltroon and assassin The nest day Marshall tried to drown himself and his mortification in the San Juan river. Such wb Cli ruvengfj upon the leader of the moi Of 1616. prosecution. ation in the family, and is probably the brightest and most complete set of plate to be LEAD PIPE, BULLETS, found in the country.
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life and Times of Buchanan. Fearful of the justice of a verdict from the people. James Buchanan is now emploving a celebrated writer to compile a history of the "Lim and Times of James Buchanan." tlis in this business is ex-consnl Francis J. Grand, who is kept by Mr. Buchanan at Wheatland.
Everv chapter is tinder the supervision of the ex-President, who carefully revises aU allusions to matter in which he is concerned. It is generally understood that the pook will be a whitewashinz process, the chief aim. or which will be to gloss over the treasonable Buchanan with the rebellion. Patereon Guardian, Ut. A statement of this sort has been traveling the rounds of the press for a month.
The Lancaster (Pa.) Express makes a semi-official denial of it on behalf of Mr. Buchanan, and for the other party named we may say that Mr. Grand has been a guest of the Tremont House, in this city, for two months past, enjoying that repose and peace of mind that come of virtuous living and good company. He has not been engaged in writing a biography of bis friend, nor has he, that we know, any such intention. tSf- The Ohio legislators arc taken with the retrenchment mania.
They propose to save something of course at the spigot The errand boys are docked half a dollar a day. It is proposed to accumulate a fund for war purposes by deducting $350 from the salary of the Supreme Judge next to be chosen. Appropriations are indeed made for official reports of proceedings, but the papers at the Capital are to get nothing for pr'nting inasmuch as they should be only too thankful for an any force that England could fit out in the Canadas against us. Ship yards in perfect security could be established all along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, to huild lake class of non-producers, (lawyers,) whose trade it is to defend wrong equally with right, whereby the nice moral sense cf men is destroyed. IV.
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The committees of both are still at work upon the serious qnestion of the ways and means to carry tn the war. Mr. Tha'd-dens Stevens, the leader of the Houe complained yesterday to the country of the impatience of the newspapers, and of hostile criticism of the slowness of the committee over which ho has the distinguished honor to preside. He said they had been obliged to wait several eeks for the estimates of the Treasury Department, and consequently could do nothirg. But it must surprise any one familiar with the condition of the finances, and the sure results of the growing depiction of the Treasury, to find that men who are held re-apotisibie for our system of taxation and revenue should be so utterly in the dark for eight mortal weeks after the meeting of Congress, that they are only just now beginning the study of the subject Truly, it ia discouraging sign to find the commonest elements of nuajjcial questions are now being looked jr by our committee of Ways as.d Means, of no work that will cost so little that is so essential to the safety and the perpetuity of the entire American Union.
Now that a bill is to be reported, let all the people of the West at once send in petitions, urging upon Congress the necessity of the immediate passage of the act, with a sufficient appropriation to do the work speedily and wclL Let the representatives and senators of the West be buried, if need be, in an avalanche of letters, soliciting their best exertions in favor of the bill. Will not the Legislatures of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, WfecODEin, Minnesota and Iowa, or as many of them as are now in session acd cur Constitutional Convention at pass strong resolutions la faror wbo maintain mat tae existing re- Jrcparrtx (Glue. lations of debtor and creditor, so far as their legal status is concerned, should be abolished. To most of our readers they will be-matter for thought; and jgABco*ck PEEK, 111 BlITBOLFH STREET. Mahogany, Eosewood aad Walnut, A CHAKBER4IKIK6B001f COMMON FCBJUIUH 8KX1T TAXIBTT.
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