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THE WILMINGTON JOUBNAL. " CO VFED ERATE iSSio"''A"OA- ' Tn ir -orf hs Wxst la contradictory, that U to saj the Fe report Indicating the fall of Yicisburg ls wee r wholly contradicted by official adyicea ahowfna: great vATtA loHBea. and the continuad posaegaioB orm fcoM bv the Confederate troopa. Wa do not pretent to deny -Hnatinn est XTfrtT9 in critical- The fact Of thfl f m.nM'i.f n beea able to reach the Yazoo Rlyer at TT vhoii' Bluff is an nnfarorable clrcmatance. Haynes' Bloff and Bnjdet'9 Blattmta points on the Yazoo which hara been iortifled to protect tho raft or obstruction in the rirer, which ii twelTa miles from the month of the Tazoo and alao twelre miles from Yicksburg by land. .Helsra, Arkansas, la Bald to hare been captured by our .troops, is some fifty milea below ifemphia, and nearly op posite to the month of the Yazoo Pasa. Itia the point at .which the Yankee expedition which proceeded through thai paw, rendezvoused, and from which it started- If Gen eral M ABjfADCXB has indeed hanged a whole negro regi ment with their white officers, he baa done a bold and juat thing, bat whether a judicious thing remains to be seen. "Conflicts.' Old Billy Fkt used to publish a papeT in Philadelphia daring the earlier part of the century, before the era of telegraphs ; and, when newa was scarce'notbing pleased Mr. Fey better than to get hold of something startling. He has been known to come into his office In a state of the most agreeable excitement, chuckling and grabbing his hands over what he called "a fine murder, bojs ! a fine fat murder !" and then he would trsce it oat in all its particu lars, and dwell over all its details with evident satisfaction. There is a claea pf newspapers in this State who welcome a cotflict, real or supposed, between the Confederate and State governments with all the glee that Mr.' Far used .to exhibit over a fine murder. They chuckle oyer it. They roll it as a sweet morsel under their tongues. They ventil ate it, ihsy parade it. They pioture Jktf Dxtis and the Confederate authorities, civil and military, something in the guise.of the Cornish gianta in the'story-book, to whom enter Gov. Vakce as Jack the Giant Killer, "andcuta eff all their heads." They actually plunge and cavort, so excited do they become at the idea of Btirring up, smelling out, cr otherwise getting hold of a fine fat conflict, a promising dismrbance, a cheering difficulty, from which harm may come to somebody. Now we think that these things are always rather to be deplored than talked about. Why, if Governor Yancx be the immense and stupendous giant-kiilsr spoken cf, he can . attend to these little matters like cutting off Blunderbore's head, &c, -without preliminary beat of drum and flourish of trumpet through his organs. One would think that true friends of the Confederacy, knowing its critical position, would like to tee all such matters adjusted as quietly as possible. But the truth of the matter is that party feeling is " at tte bottom of the whole thing party capital is the return sought after party advantage the object airced at. There are too many who cannot for a moment rise above such things. Like the vase in which roses have once been dis tilled Yon may break, you may ruin the vase if you will. Bat the cdor of party will cling to it still. We have changed a word or two in the last line. Per fume would sot be ihe word when applied to eucb doings. Death of m Goad Plafi. DocToa Edward Noeth, a distinguished Physician of Charleston, died at his residence in that city on Tuesday mornincr. the 26th instant. At the time cf his death he was in the fity-founh year of his age. Dr. Nobth will long be remembered here aa one of those who came to give their skill, their time, their services to our people during the terrible epidemic of last Fall. To say that he won the cateem of all, and that his death will be deeply regretted by the people cf Wilmington, is simply to say that our people are not insensible to the high qualities of head and heart exhibited by him, nor urgrateful for im ' portant services rendered to their town in the hour of its deepest affliction. Dr. North was a skillful Physician and a good man. Yicksbusg BtfJ stands and the enemy is gone to woik en trenching. That is about all the news we have from that quarter, and is probably all we will get to-day by telegraph. Madame rumour would supply us with any amount of news were we not bo stupid and stubborn as to decline making use of it. But indeed it ia natural that as all minds dwell upon Vicksburg, and all eyes are turned towards it, all tonguss should talk about it, and where, with few ascer tained facts there is much talkiag, there will be apt to be no lack of invention. There has for some days past been a sort of feeling in the air that Lee was on the eve of doing something making some important movement cf which the enemy would hear in due time. If the enemy is taken unawares, it will not be for want of abundant warning on the part cf the Tfiofcmortd papers. Something probably is on the 'lapis. NOT DEADA BAD RULE. An Election for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attor. ney General, Members of Congress and of the State Leg islature, cace oS yesterday in Virginia. The candidates for Governor irere Thos. 8. Flournoy, Wm. Smith and Geo W. Mnmford. In Virginia, as in North Carolina, party is not dead. It does not even sleep. Mr. Flournoy was sup ported avowedly as a Whig or anti-Secesaionist,and no doubt secured a solid vote, for the party which so supported him was fully org-ntzed. Mr. Smith, aa ex-Governor of the State, and Mr. Mumford, a distinguished citizon, had both aapported the Democratic party, but were not brought out by party nor on such ground, as is evidenced by their both running. Under theBe circumstances we think it more than probable that Mr. Flournoy is elected, although he may not be. As for that we do not care, nor ought it to make any diSerence that Mr. Flournoy had been a Whig, and it does not make any difference. But the fact that he was run as such, and a consolidated party support given to him as such, with the view of o3traciBing all Democrats, 'Srces 8ioni3t3, or aa the cant ia, "Destructives," does make a difference. It makes us think about the old proverb, which declares it to be a bad rule that won't work both ways . It causes us to pause and pat the question to ourselves and to the people in and out of the army. Whether this rule in Virginia and North Carolina has not been working alto gether too much one way? It is about time that the matter was beginning to be understood. Is one class of public &hd private citizens who have thrown aside the panoply of party in a feeling of patriotio Bclf-sacrifioe, to be constant ly assailed, ostracised, excluded and denounced by a strict party organization and fer party purposes ? We ask thiB ot as a paxtizau, ard we address ourselves Eotto the par ty prejudices of those with whom we have acted in former times and with whom our connection has never been d''s solved, but we speak to all. We ask any man if he can ex peot a rule to keep working all the time one way, as it does in Virginia and North Carolina. If there will be partisan organizations, exhibiting the proBcriptive sphit display ed by the majority of the last Legislature, and Hading expression through the columns of the so called 44 Conservative " organs, is it not evident inat mere wm be there musl be yea there ought to ba some counter-organization to hold this arrogant ar rangement in check. For ocr own part, we do not care a copper who ia in clEce so he is the right man and gets there properly, and were it not for the existence of an organized party in the State based upon principles totally at variance with this feeling, we would not have deemed these remarks necessary. As that organization day by day draws the reins tighter , w e are compelled to look at the thing as it is, and to enter into a calculation of the length of time that this movement can go along without check or opposition. Does any man thiuk it can go on all the tima ? We trow not. Does any man think it ought to do so ? Who ttv?d answer in the affirmative ? Old Mb. CstrrrENrEN, of Ky., has come out for an unan imous Bupport of Lixcoln and a vigorous prosecutios of the war. Buch thing! win men come to when they stray away from the pafhs cf rtcWtude. The Southern Literary Messenger for June is at hand, which is prompt, more so than usual with that or any other of our Southern periodicals. Its leading article is Howi son's History of the War. The other contents appear to be prigfctly and entertaining. Published by McFxblani 4 FxaorssoN, Eichmond, Va., at $5 per year, f3 for six months. .Teti 'performances last night at the Theatre paused of f ery satisfactorily ; of course, all the parts were not filled equally well, and some of the new hands might have been snore peifect in their parts, but such little drawbacks saust be looked for ia times like these. Mr. Mobtijcxb, ft sew performer, made his first appearance, and promises to be a favourite. Without being a star, be-is still a good per former, is at bpme on the stage, and is easy and uncon strained in his actios and gesticulation! There was a very fTfflboiue. ' FATii.AcciDXKT.--We learn that an accident occurred J this morning at the Clarerdon Iron Works, resulting In the j almost Instantaneous death of ayenng man namea wills, aged about 17 years, who was employed there In running the stationary engine used in driving the machinery- We have ao particulars artier than that the deceased in attempting to adjust a belt was eaught up In and carried around the Bft which was revolving with great rapidity. He was completely broken up. Coroner Prkin with a jury is now holding an inquest. Corresponder.ee of the Journal. Kikston, N. C-May 25th, 1863. Messrs. Editors.- Oar crmy under Gen Hill baa returned from the pursuit ot the enemy on the Core Creek road bebw this place. The Yankees were fol lowed to Tuscarora, about seven milea from Newbern. At tbia place tbey have a block houa2, which complete ly commands the road. In addition to this, they have a car which they call a Monitor, carrying six heavy guna, and rendered bnliet proof by a covering of rail road iron. Itia driven by an engine up and down the railroad track whenever the emergency may require. With these formidable defences and a heavy lorce of infantry, they checked the advance of our troops and tendered further pursuit dangerous. I he nature of the position being sach that it could net be flaoked, our forces, after a close reconnoissance, were withdrawn. The Yankee loss in the several skirmishes has not been ascertained. Co!. Jones, of the Buffalo regiment of M picket 'catchers," was killed. Tbey also lost some prisoners. Our loss was two killed and one hundred and three taken prisoners. Odc piece of .Starr's Fayetteville bat tery was captured. "We regret to learn that Lieut. Wetmore, of the same battery, is among the captured oi our men. On the day of the fight at Gum Swamp, the enemy also advanced to Trenton, and possessing themselves of the place, burned the Court House and other public buildings, together with several stores and private dwel lings. Vq had no force at the latter plave except a few cavalry, acting a ? picket guard. As usual, tte ecemy burned and pillaged everything on their route. Private residences of uneffendiDg citi zens were robbed and burned, and the inmates driven on. xours, o. j. i. Frera the London Times, April 13. Tlte Ieapoilamnt;Vshlngtoi)--A British View oflt. The old curse of America is once more upon her; the evil spirit has returned with seven other spirits to his old haunt. Mr. Lincoln has held the Presidency of the United States lor two miserable and disastrous years. It is unnecessary to dilate upon the results of bis Ad ministration. It has destroyed a vast mass of property and happiness, and scattered to the winds tfce best hopes of the American people. Of how many States may it be said with truth that Mr. Liricoln has found them a garden and left them a desert; of how maoy flourishing institutions that he found them a reality, aod has made them bat anaine ; of how maoy families that be found tbem united and prosperous, wbile they are now deci mated by war and divided by factions ! The excheqaer of.Americi was full, and is empty; her credit wa3 high, and it is all but extinct ; the evil of to-day is regarded bv those who can foreeee and calculate the future as altogether light and endurable, as compared with the disasters that are looked for from to morrow. In little more than eighteen months from this time the people of the North, or-of whatever portion of the United States may still be under the Federal Government, will be called upon to elect another President. It "? a long while to look forward to, especially in the prestnt state of things, but the stake to be played for is vast, and' no means of securing it must be neglected. The republi can majority in Congress have, before separating, done everything in their power to secure another quadrennial period of edec. These reckless men deserve a fcremost place among the representatives of the people who tave from time to time made themselves notorious iu the history of the world by surrendering the liberties of their country into the hands of a dictator or tyrant. There is hardly a right secured by the Constitution to the States or to individuals which ths lare Congress of the U. S. have not invaded, a principle of Jreedom which tbey have not trampled under foot. The office of President, plain and republican as it came from the hands of the founders of the federation, is hardly recog nizable beneath the mass of powers with which it is overlaid. The first citizan of the Republic, the servant of the people, the head of an Executive, exercisicg cer tain few and early deSoed powers, has become by the treason of a legislature exercisicg functions which law had limited with equal care to that with which it limit ed its own, the most absolute autoarat on earth. Yet it is feared that all this power and all this vio lence may be unable to perpetuate itself, and time Las been found, in the mitfst of a civil war, to get up an organization evidently created for electioneering pur poses. The word has been passed to say little'abou; the abortive proclamation of the President or the emanci pation of the negroes, and to get up meetings every where in favor of loyalty and of the preservation of the Union. This movement does not appear to have been crowned with any particularly brilliant success, and now it is succeeded by a measure so desperate and so dan gerous that we, who have never expected much lrom Mr. Lincoln, confess that we stand aghast at bis reck lessness and hardihood. The last resources of Air. Lin coln has been to turn the messroom of every regiment into a debating society, and its soldiers into miniature constituencies. The papers from America are foil of addresses agreed to by meetings of regiments presided over by their colonels, with a captain and chaplain for secretaries. The regimcnt3 from Pennsylvania, New JerEey, and Connecticut have takeu the lead in these political man ifestations. Their addresses have a suspicious likeness to each other. They are all manifestations of violent republican opinion. They assert views favo rable to the continuance of the war, and denounce, not as mistaken friends, but as enemies, much more detested than the southerners themselves, thoae among their fellow citi zens who have presumed to think or talk of peace. J hese military logicians will tolerate no ditlerence of opinion. We that ia not with tbem and he that is against them is, to use their own language, hellish, dia bolical, and worthy of death, buch language deserves attention when it is held by men who may at any mo ment become the excutioner of their own sentence. Henceforth there is but one opinion' in America, and no distinction is to be observed between the man win counsels peace, and the man who actively carries on war. Tbe dungeons of the State and the" sword of the army are equally ready for both. RostKCRAKTZ. A literary friend favors ua with the following curious account of the Rosencrantz family surely the modern Roecncrfnz roust be one of its legit mate scions : Woodlands, Tuesday. Dkas Y EiDON : Here is something for a paragraph in your paper. You will remember that Sbakspeare, in Hamlet makes Rosencrantz and Guildenstein, the two parasites and spies set upon the steps of Hamlet, by bis uncle. Weil, ia reading over an old volume ol Blackwood's Magazine, I found a paragraph, which corresponds with Sbakspeare's use of Rosencrantz, and with our knowledge of the General of this name in the Federal army, it may be well to remark how judicious ly Skakspeare has chosen his subordinates. In Blackwood, for October, 1819. at page 46, order the head of "A r.a," this pns?ngn occur!?. copy for you literally. HI. Pope exposes, in admirable poetry, the idle vanity of those, whose "Ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood." But I never have met with folly more strikingly ex emplified then in an account of the family of Rosen crantz, in Hoffman rs Historical Portraits of the Worth ies of Denmark. "This family says Hofiman through a long train of descents of pereons filling the highest office, offers few events worthy of attention, exept that one nobleman of this name was executed for forgery and another banished for a libel." When the Federal Gen. Rosencrantz shall be execu ted, for what shall it be horse stealing, cr burglary, or simple failure to prove all the monster that Lincoln would have him ? Make of tbe paragraph what you please. It is at least, curious. Chas. Courier, A Moving Appeal. Tbe Memphis Appeal is be coming quite peripatetic institution. When Memphis fell it went down to Grenada ; soon the Federals got incontinently near, and it went on to Jackson. Now it has again changed its base to Meridian, where for the present it will issue a slip. It has been nalled.the "Mov ing ApftaV and is to bs hoped that it bas struck tbe right meridian at last. Federal Ateccities in Arkansas. A gentleman writing from Ozark to Little Reck, says that a few daya since a Federal scouting party left Fayetteville with tbe black flag hoisted. They murdered twenty fire citizens, among them Lewii Hewitt and three of the Applebya. The toriea there openly preached ex termination, and threaten to murder every Southern taita, wemaa ml child. Vt; bta the Eichmoad Sentinel, May 20. Views f New Bnltnder. '"" .- We publish below a fetter found in the deserted quarters of a Yankee quartermaster at tbe recent re taking of Fredericksburg by tha driving of Sedgwick across tbe river. We confess that on its perusal, we could not have regarded it as genuine, but for tbe an questionable source tbroetgh which we obtained it, and by which its authenticity is fully vouched. ' The writer is that ehrc wd, keen, calculating, and jet impudent and brazen viliian, which, in equal perfection, ia found nowhere but.in New England. His specula tions concerning the war and its effects upon the re spective interes8 of New England and the Northwest are eminently sscacicuf ; bat yet the unmitigated and cold blood d selfish by which be avows bis policy to be guided, wa should baidly have expected to have been so plainly confessed. Ho w this full fledged son of New Englard ih's reprtstntative man of that plague-spot of the earth gloats over the iraoduleflt gams pilfered from the South during the period of our unhappy asso ciation with Cape Ucd ! How he felicitates himself that New England d anaged to convert into hewers of wood ttr.d drawers of water for herself, those to whom, with tie forms that pass for solemn among honorable people, the bpd plighted fcer affections and her faith ! What an unspeakable villain ! And pee how be turns to tbe Northwest us now the roct promising prey, to secure which he consents to Jet tbe South go ! He speaks too of bis intended victims with the utmost con tempt, sneers at tbem for the " dull thick brains " which make thfm laoi'e victims for Yankee " cute cess." We have italicised some of the words f the letter, altering it, however, in no other respect. We trust it may chance to fall iuto the bands of citizens of that Northwest whose in'erests ae made to sport of Yan kee cupidity, and who are the ross-lves so coarsely ridi culed and disparaged. This much may be said for the writer of the letter the villainy whicn he applauds ia bis people, he fitly reprewnts in his own personal conduct, if we are to be lieve hia boasts of nn ill-Rotten fortune : Frkdericksbueg, May 2, 1863. . Dear Ji nx : I write from the town of Fredwicks bcrg, wi icb, tie papers will have informed you, was taken by our vic oricus troopa. Sedgwick's corps made easy woik of takirg this pluee, end also Marye's Hill so easy as a most to icdace us to think that it was one of L(e" trick. We had been under he impression that den. blocker had been entirely successful, bat the reports we huve from the Confederate pr sooers and othe.- circumstances, induce us to moderate our joy You may be jurpricd by the avowal, when I tell you that I urn coty a Peace man. I do not thank Juhn Van Brireo for bis prw-ech. encjnragint? volunteer to enlist, Uc:iu-.e those ii ihe field require soccer. Why does h? ? iv aLd not come himself? That will be a test ol hi- rel patriotism. I have seen enough of tbe carnt'ge ud wounding of our nun, not to say anything of tbe di ast d and dv iUi in our campa, to sicken me of this war. A' d yet 1 wr.u'd 1 e willing to go on with it if acy Piitioual goed coird rrndi to us in New Eogland or the I orthern tlan:t- .-t rates. But I regard Ihe ooatiiiUL'i c.3 cf the war s ur min. L t the South go. Let th'-m take Maryland, fven'ucky and Tennessee. We can tuild another capital in a place better protect ed na'urllay. Besides, it will never do to let ourcapi tal remain so near tbe border, and there will be a nice thing to secure the grounds for the cite of the new capi tal. We, in iew .hogiaod, are smart enough to know how to make it a rood thin?. You see how tbe rail road interest has prospered during the -war. The closing of the M ississ'ppi bas caused all tbe trade of the great w est to come to ua d:rectly over our railroads Open the Mississippi, and foftr-tiftba of the trade will go down the Mississippi, apd ihe price of our railroad stocks vvillgodowu with it. Besides, if the Union is restored, lints i f radroads and c oals will be built through Virginia; they are more than half finished now. The.se will draw off ihe trade from us, and build large citie3 in Virginia. 1 am not a patriot of such a large mart as to wish thi? at tbe direct expense of our own cities in which we both have so large an interest. It is natural lor the people of Ohio, Indiana and Il linois to enfertoin different views of their policy. Their interest is du cell y opposed to out s. They have contri buted largely to the war, and will -continue, in spite of tt-ii . i r .l i ji . - v uiiiiuuitmm, iu w lur inc war so long ana no longer than they think the Union can be restored, and the free navigation of the Mississippi can be secured. It is pain ful to our army to acknowledge that the prospect of this is but faint. 'I he jerception of tins impossibility, is en tering cvr n the dull, thick brains of our Western men. They are flow to perceive this but like all sluggish dull men, when they do perceive it, they will withdraw from the war and vent their vindictive malice against tit. This ia my great fear. We must retain the great and fertile West and its hard laboring, simple-minded people. We have grown rich and strong in New En glajid.trennaynan'a and New York, in former times, from our Sou v hem Stab s Bui their statesmen have taught them no longer to be used as hewers of wood and drawers of watr for us. It they come back, fire well t the trr fi, fishirg bounths, and on r great rail roads o California, it ere are enungh voters in tbe West, w.-io, by uniting witn them, e-ouid defeat the tar iff tnl other measure so essential to u?. And foriu nately, :;s we lose the South, our old vassal, we retain tbe grenf vVest. This wiil Beeure us cheap corn, and we will act cm ton as c eap as ever from the South; for it is evident that whatever they may say now, in mo ments ol ps ion, the cotton planters who are largely in the mbprity, will not consent to loy export duties on cotton. They have not the population to fco into man ufacturing and to shipping, and we will thus continue to furnl h them wiih both, except so far as a certain portion of tbe trade will come from Europe. But I do not think this loss is to bu weighed against the other advantage? of peace Bride's, it is evident we cannot conquer a "peace." Tbe cotton States will go certain ly; and ail we can secure will be Virginia aa a compet itor. V by should we lose the substance in grasping af ei the "hadow '! I fear, if this war continues mocb longer, L at the West will see all thi? aa plainly as I do, and will e-e for making a peace for itself, and secure their real interest, eith r by Union, or treating with tbe Sou'h You ki ow how we were all frightened about tbia some me-nths since. Tbey were quieted by the promise that we would soon conquer the South ard restore tbe Union. But we have tailed at Vicksburg, we have tailed at Ciwlrstou, and I lear we shall fail here. The war wilj be a long ard bloudy war. I fear its effects upon the West. The South offers them the free navi gation of the Mississippi, and her interests, you and I knew, a-e iili tbe South. She can best obtain her ob ject by i.bandouing this war, and uniting' with the South. I frar she will do it, and we will be left out in the cold. You know Ko we all shuddered at this thought last f.!L. I rr-i k the great West an adequate compensation tr 'he Sos ot thv South. Look bow much more riji i!j ha- t'oruls lion increases. The South was everything to us nu before tne West was set tled ; and the .d.a has ben fostered on us by our fath ers tfcat tbe South was -s int i!. But all things change with time. You may, at Gist view, say that peace will not ?e cure these objects that the West will leave us after paace. You were never in greater error now is her only opportunity.sind if lost, she is hooked to us by links of steel. Ihe memory of thia bloody struggle will long survive, acd tbe West wiil not wish to encounter us. She will he easily managed and kept quiet in tima of peace. You know how long we cajoled and used the Sonth, who have much more intelligence and astuteness than the Western clod hoppers. Tbev never travel beyond New York or Boston, and the ideas of earthly grandeur are embodied in what they see and hear of these cities. Besides, we own their railroads, and do their banking and they will not stir. It requir ed a great movement, like tbe emancipation of the De groes, which struck down, tbe valno of all property at the South to move them. Any other exaction would have been submitted to as they submitted in time past. We have done enough to satK-fy our martial glory. We retain our fUg cur glorious flag. We bave bruised the bead of the serpent of slavery. ist us stop ; England and France, one or both may interfere, and then we must succumb. Look to the destruction of our commerce at sea, if Jefl Davis succeeds even in get ting a few more ships from England. I tell you it is time to stop this war. 1 don t like to contemplate the future. Talking of taking Richmond. What of it ? Why you might burn as many houses in New York as there are in Richmond, and ' they would hardly be missed. But suppose the possibility of the Southern Navy burning New York, Boston and Philadelphia, (sach a thing 1 yon know is possible; and what will be tbe enact ? I have written a long letter ; my duties have not called me into the field actively. A quartermaster's place is one of comparative safety, yon know, ?nd to a cute man, are of some profit. We can occasionally make a good thing of it. I am glad that there can be no complaint this time about furnishing pontoons in time and sufficient cumber. I hare made a fortune, and between us, I wish to enjoy some frnit of it before, by long rar, the money I bave becomes depreciated, worthless, and perhaps repudiated. It will not do to publish this, or acy part of this letter. It btj bfea ca my mind for ' long time, bit I feared to write it. . I shall be perfectly safe with yon and a few others whom we both know. . Ufe ho views as you think proper, but don't involve me or yourself. I have no lover or ambition for Fort Lafayette. -Give my love to all in quiring friends. Perhaps you' can safely showHhis to . . Without signing my name, I am ' Your friend. lo the Editors of the Richmond Enquirer - Ivor, Va., May Hth, 1863. Gentlemen I employ the first moments of leisure in camp, to send you a responsible statement of the facts regaiding the capture cfStriblirg's Battery at Hill's Point, on the Nansemond river, below Suffolk,, on the afternoon of the 19th of last month. The erroneous information you received wa3 made the basis of unjust and CDmerited censure of Maj. Gen. French, and I am constrained, by a sense of duty, to correct the misapprehension or misstatement of the truth, in order that an intelligent public may judge fairly, with a full knowledge of all the acts before them. This statement would bave been sent to you sooner if I bad seen the articles refened to earlier. Before arranging the facts iu their order, I propose to correct the plain errors of jour informant, and, as far as I may, to arrest the injurious impressions msde by them. In the first place, Hill's Point is not a peninsula, as stated, but a bluffy river bank, at a point where the riv er commences to widen, and in front of the works, look ing directly down tbe river, is a large marsh at the mouth of tbe west branch of the NaDsemond river, and at tbia marsh the bluff turns north west, somewhat at right angles with the river. Some time in 61 or 6 & our forces, then occupying Suffolk, constructed at this point, a very heavy end strong earthwork for five heavy enna. You were again led into error ps to the time the place was surprised and the battery taken. It was in broad daylight, and not at night as stated. It is not true that Captain Stribling or any other officer protested against placing the battery in the po sition. Stribling's Battery consisted of five gun?, tbe WJrka bad places for that number, and I was ordered to place t at battery in the position after I had thorough ly examined and inspected the place, and bad ex; plained tbe character and strength of tbe position to both Generals Lougstreet and French. I am eatisQed that Captain Stribling is too good i d officer to bave authorized such a statf-rcunt, end the irjnd:cioui person who made it could not have seei ia how unenviable a position he was placing himstlf a subordinate, in cred iting him with a p tteU cgainetthe ord rs of a superior officer. These facts are, Messrs Editors, that on Wednesday, the 1 5ih of April, I went down to the West branch of tbe Nansemond river, with fenr light batteries, two twenty-four pounder howitzers, being the heaviest guns I bad, with orders to blockade the river, prevent the enemy's gunboats from going up or down, and if possi ble, to destroy them. After examining the river bank for several miles, I became satisfied that my only char ce to carry out myordtri lay in getting my batteries on the bank of tbe river where it was narrowett, and where we ccuid get nearer to tbe boats. It is true that I knew that I was running the risk ot having some of the batteries koocked to pieces by the aine and eleven inch ordnance of the enemy and the thought may have occurred to me that there was a pos sibility of capture, but in my simplicity, I thought these ritk3 inseparable from a state of actual war by opposing enemies, and besides, seeing an infantry force in the works, having learned that guns of Gen. Hood's divis ion had been in there before my arrival, and were with drawn because the platforms bad been burned away, and the parapet, (some four-and a-half feet high,) was too great for tbe small guns to fire over, and seeing that we had pickets on the bank of the river both be low and above tbe position, Ihe whole under command of a fields fficer, I felt it was safe to occupy tbe place, and was ordered to do so. The fact thnt the river was blockaded from Friday until Sunday afternoon, is conceded by the enemy. The fact that we damaged one boat, and completely disabled another, is evidence of the fact that the battery wa3 ju diciously placed, and the additional fact that the place sustained a furious cannonade for four hours from tbe heavy guns of the enemy's boats and batteries without a single casualty, ia the best proof you can have of the great strength of the work. When I went down to the works on Thursday, the 16th, I found our infantry from Gen. Law's brigade doing picket duty on the river. That night tbe enemy attempted to land a small force and did drive in cur pickets. This fact I reportad to Generals Law and Hood, whose troops Gen. French had told me would support the batteries. On Sunday, however, there were no pickets on the river above, all of them having been withdrawn into the fort, as I learned afterwards, so that there was n) one to prevent the landing of the enemy, r give notice ; and tbe ground immediately ia rear of the woik being higher than the work itself, and rece ding gradually to the mouth of a branch where tbe ene my landed, the forces in the work could not discover an attacking column f until it was iu a few rods of them. 'I he coip?oc3, limbers and horses wire a!l withdrawn to camp for the reason that there was not enfficient shelter for them at the place. It js a little singular that no mention 13 mads of the capture of the infantry in the work. Every one who knows any thing about artillery, knows that it isjuot or dinarily self-protective ; and u the infantry support is notpropeily posted, or inadequate, certainly'it ia unjust to censure a General for it who had no control over it. and was with his command in front of Suffolk, ten miles i away. Io conclusion, Messrs. Editors, two courts of Icquiry. have been asked for, and until the whole truth can be elicited before an impartial tribunel, it is unjust I to judge, and of course ungenerous to censure. v ery respectfully, L. M. Sucmaker, Major and Chief ol Artillery, Dep't Southern Ya- Tbe Black Flag. " The exact count of prisoners thns far taken dnrine the battle of Sunday is not known, but must be, all roid, nearly if not quite ten thousand. They were brought in singly, in pqaad and in regiments, and our men say they could have taken many more but lor the trouble ot boiherxnq with them on the field. Thsy wocld bathek choot than captcbb. Baltimore American. We copy the above, says the Chattanooga Rebel, from a leading journal of tbe North. It is not to be mistaken. In a single glimpse it gives us a clear insight to tbe spirit now animating tbe foe we are daily meet ing on tbe tented field. Not content with the invasion of our soil, the des struction of our homes, and tlte oppression of all, irre spective of age, ser or condition, the dastards of the North who have not the courage to raise the blaci flag cannot conceal the actual existence of the bloody code in their hearts, and confess the crime of adding to their many moimiMes that of murder on the battle field. We commit thia paragraph to the soldier. It is for each mm in the South to choose for himself how we will reply to it. Let no one imagine that there is the faintest shadow of civilization now pervading those who are now waging a merciless war against U3. . They prefer to shoot rather than capture. So do ws I We have never advocated tbe. black flag. God forbid that we should. It is a demoralizing banner. It is al so a two edged sword. But we mast resist force with force, and if to shoot rather than capture be their game, let us see who will make most out ot it. We are not a cannoneer cf merely paper bullets. We know very well that there is a difference between sitting snugly in an editorial room, far in the rear, and braving the dangers of tbe front. We know too that the moral sense of our army is humane and. christian. Bat here we have a declaration of cold blooded murder levelled against us, and it is our duty to meet it and resist it. Each man to bis own duty. It is for the soldiers to decide for themselves how far they will be governed by charity on the field, or how maoy prisoners they wiil ta'ie. Let them read the extract above and ponder it kng aid well. A man residing at Schenectady, who has Jong been in the employ of the Central Railroad Co., and is now a fireman on tbe road, applied to the superintendent, for a pass to take him to some point on the? road which he desired to visit. The superintendent declined to grant the request and said : The company employ yon, and pay you so much per month for yonr services. When your wages are paid, our obligation ends. If you were at work for a farmer at one dollar a day, and disired to go to Saratoga, would yon expect him to hitch np his team and carry you there for nothing?" The fireman replied, No, air ; but if he had his feam hitched np, and going directly to Saratoga, I should think he was a d d hog if be didn't let me ridel" I don't io much care about the boars." said Mr Wenalty, to the head of a genteel family, in which he resides, "but the fact is, ma'am, I hain't got the blood 19 spare ; jcn m ut yrwa . From the Ealeieh Progress.:- ' Particular of the Gum Swamp Affair.; " . Editoe Progress :JD(w: Sir : I prrpose to give yon the particulars of the recent fight at Gum Swamp Gum Swamp crosses; the railroad come nine miles Southeast of Kinston. CAt this point also the Dover road - cresses the railroad. Several days preceding the fight, the 56th N. C. T Col. Faieon, was sent to Gum Swamp on (picket. His headquarters were jast this side, on the Dover road On the other side of the Swamp are earthworks f jr infantry, while on this are earthworks with an embrcsure for a piece of artillery. Col. Ratledge with the 25:h N. C. T, and a section of Starr's baltery wss held at Wise's Fork, four miles in rear of the Swamp, as a support to the regiment do ing picket. Col. Faison had bis pickets more than a mile to his front and left, and nearly two miles bp tbe Swamp on tbe right. On the afternoon of Tfinrs day, tbe 21st, intelligence was brought by scouts of the approach of the enemy. Oar Colonel immediately doubled the pickets ia front and on the right fhnk, and sent about half tbe regiment into tbe trenches, lest tte enemy Should attempt a surprise at night. About dawn, the next day, our pickets were driven in. Between 5 and 6 a. in., the enemy formed hoe of battle in cur front, ard Ehortly thereafter attacked us. Alter a brief fight of half an hour, they retired, slacking, but still keeping up their fire, for 'about an hour, when they renewed tbe attack ; but after a short fight retired as before. From this time until nearlv 11 o'clock, desultory fire was kept up on both sides. We firfcg at every Yankee or body cf Yankees that appeared in rarge, and they whistlibg their "bullets close around Col. Faison and others who were continually passing up and down the lines fur nishing fine marks to their sharpshooters who were concealed in the bushes or babind trees. As scon as the presence of artillery with the enemy was discovered, Col. Faison sent to Col. Rut'elge asking bim to move down to bis support with ihe 25th and a pi?ce of artil lery. This Col. llutledge did, arriving about 8 o'clock. Leaving his reg ment on thother sids of the Swamp, be came into toe bresstwoiks in 'front. The evident .hesitancy cn the part of tbe enemy in our front struck the attention cf Col. Faison and led him to suspect that the enemy "were endeavoring to flank him. lie there fore sent three companies to the right to reiufcree tbe pickets there, and sent scouts from time to time much beyond them to give information cf any movement cf the enemy in that quarter. 'Ihey reporteJ, however, everything quiet. Between 9 and 10 o'c'oek, firing was heerd immediately in cur rear. Cof. Fiiison weut back to learn the cause, Wbea he reached the inner breast works, he saw the enemy comirg down tbe Dover road frcm the direction olKmston. He came back and ordered tbe ce mpaies in front, (six in number.) to follow him ; be led them up the railroad in grder to pass through tbe en emy and unite with the 25th at the next cressicg of the railroud, some three-fouitha of a mile in tbe re.ir. As soon 3 the enemy in front saw us leave tbe breastworks, tbey.cioeed in upon us, firing vol ey after vol y up the rail and Djver roads,vwhiie the three regimen's which had gained our rear pourtd a destructive fire from fron and left into the little column aa it moved steadily up the railroad. Tbe c-neny had already gained the breast works this side ol the swamp, capturing the pieces ol artillery there, and used the works against U3 as we pass ed w.tbin 40 yards of tbem. 1 he fire Lr half an hour was exceedingly severe. Oar men keeping in ranks and perfectly cool, related the fire and loadtd and fi ed as we advanced. Marching tome distance up the railroad. Col. Fa'son saw Col. llutledge, with 3 cf his companies in tbe swamp cn our nht, when we were informed that General liiusom, who had arrived just before the Yankees were discovered in our rear, bad esc iped to- wiras jvinstoD, leavmg oiaers ior tne zotu to sve toemselves, which -they did, five companies which were statijned south of the railroad escaping tbroagh the syajnp cn the left, tbe three with Col. Tlutledge on the railroad through that on ihe right. Tbe expected junc tion being now impossible, Colonel Faison ordered his companies into the swamp along with the three of Col Kutledge. The enemy were so close upon cur men on ail sides that we lost 148, most of them supposed to be captured and many woundtd. We now know of but 14 wounded ; among them Lt. D. S. Hay or Orange, mortally. The behavior ot the officers and men en gaged deserves the highest praise. It was a "glorious sight to Eee our three or tour hundred, who having fought the enemy for four hours in front, now marcbod under four fires to meet an enemy .in the rear many times their numbers, with as steady a step and in as good order as though on drill. But mcst conspicuous was the gallantry of Col. Faison, as be directed their movements. Hia men Jove him for his cool courage, if for nothing else. The unfortunate results of this tffur are nothing more than might have been expected. Col. Faison had often expressed his disapprobation of keeping any other than a cavalry picket at Gum Swamp ; because, the awamp can be crossed at any point, and it is im possible for a picket force to extend its flanks so far as to meet the enemy at any poiat he may select or his crossing, without weakening too mnch the force at the station itself. In this instance, the enemy crossed wifh three regiments, some miles to our right, retaining three in front t hold our attention there. The firing cn both sides was uninterrupted, with the exception ol half an hour, frcm 5 27 to 10 30, A. M., five hours. Had Col. Kutledge and his Regiment bs:n permitted to remain and fight, as he and tbev wis':cJ to do, untij we could make a junction with bim, the result would probably bave been different. The order for their retreat, compelled oar retreat acd const qient lose. Getting around the lankees by passing through tbe swamp, we met reinforcements lour miles below Kins- ton. The euemy was diiven before us, Gen. Hill car rying us by next aftercoon to their entrenchments, 7 miles frcm Newbern, where'he sent them with eeveateen pieees of artillery. . Yours truly, Ax Eye Witness. We continue our extracts from Northern ropers of tbe 20th inst : VALLANDIGHAM. The aetion of the Government and military authori ties in this case is generally condemmed by Yankee papers,' even those of theAbolition faction. Ths Her ald says : If General Burnside on bi3 own responsibility initia ted those late military proceedings against Mr. Yallan digham, he has foolishly dashed himae'f against a stone wall much more difficult to carry than that along the heights of Fredericksburg. If he has acted under in structions from Washington, the administration has committed the grave mistike. In either event it is within the power cf President Lincoln to reverse these proceedings and to turn over the party accused to the involved a serious warning from the kryal States seraics these arbitrary arrests a warning which, it was hoped nact put an end to them. Under this conviction the people of tte several States coccerned in our late Spring iuoc up iu jjuaimu uie auraimsirauon aau tne war against ah the peace clamors of the copperheads in uoonecticut, where these agitators were tbe most numerous and violent, tbey were moat siecallv defeated But this Vallandigham affair furnishes the very capital Al J . T 1 l-i .1 mtsi utinocrauc iaaicai3 wnicn ttiey nave m:st de- sired, and puts tbem m a constitutional position from which they cannot be displaced. Tte public sentiment of New lork and of all the loyal States on this point is with them, and the administration must quash thef e - A. " . mr- . miuiary proceedings against vallandigham, r.nd reccg u l j me viiaiuy ci ine civn law in tne loyal States, or nic-ic win ue u:vu war ia ice xxoriu. Ibis is tr.e great danger underlying all these appar ently mconerent proceedings of tte rodxal democracy ai union oquare. Froai tbe New Fork Tribune. Mr. Clement L. Vallandigham is a pro-slavery Dem ocrai oi an exoeedingty coppery cue. llis politics are as bad as bad can be. If ttere were penalties lor hold ing irrational, unpatriotic and inhuman views with re eard to political ques'ions, he would be one of the most flagrant o7tnders. But our Federal and State cotsti tutions do not recognise perverse opinions nor unpatri otic speeches, a3 grounds of kfliction, beyood the in flictions cf the speeches themaelvts, and then the hearer suffers the penalty, not the speaker. So 'we don't ex actly see how Mr. v . is to be lawfully puuished for making a bad speech, unless by compelling him to make it to empty sears. We agree fully with General Barnsida that Vallan digham ought not to make such Epeeches that be ougm io oe asDamea ot himself but then he wiil make fiem and won't be ashamed so what will you do about it ? "Send him to the 1 rv Tortus'as " sata the Gener al probably as a hint to him to "dry up." "Set him over into Dixie, ' the President ia said to-suggest as an alternative. T ut this is the worst joke Mr. Lincoln has yet made. They doa't trouble themselves to try and silence opposition orators down that way they kill them on sight, and save a world of trouble. Mr. Vallandie'aam must be aware that any person making jnst such speeches in Dixie against the war for seces- sion,aa ce maices on our Biuo uf.aiuoi, me war ior ice Union, could not live cut tbe nrst.day's experiment. He would he shot by the first rebel that could obtain a musket, and that would be the end of him. Sending Icopperneaaa uvnu v wcuuvu, vruero tuey cave eptxuuca only -on the side cf "ths powers that be," would set ft , 1- Jmn 4a TnffJa I ii . I dozeiri'Hneh tonirripn vtaonlnn J, - ------TO "-ao"ts ni every one so ;t. . Besides, "carrying coals to Newcastle' has nti i?4 considered politic nor tatesman like. - 3 " t' TTrom the Evening Post, May 1 1 j BUENSIDB AND VALLANDTQIUM O-ceial Burnside's response to the Circuit n from which a rit oj habeas corpus s W of C. L. Yallandtgbam. arrested for frnnB,.-A.",e Ca --' spoken, and tried by a military commission iaXXft ' ed on another rase. It ia pc. nntrintio ; .,. : ' ''M t cided in its expressions ot lovaltv. and L".! ,eo tak tic run side tions are wrong He assumes that because he and L13 Foldieis Im -indulge in "wholesale criticisms of the policy eft' eV eminent," because.it would be aa olhuv in viuutria tu uuuciuiiiii; iug tuuuuiua Ul lit perfect wisdom and integrity of the e ... rul iini it.., But he forgets that persons ""ia tbe m hta"y un r ' service of tbe United States" are subjYct to nr'' law, while the ordinary citizen is subject excliioV'v" civil law. Military law i3 a part ot the law of t' as much as the civil law ; but it is applicable oi"'? t particular class, acd administered ouly by' rc 1 buaald. Soldiers in service, cadets at YV" 3t '0;; ' ' . io;jo ut uuit-io uuu ui .113 WlLUjn UiC B( 1 IUI lit does not belong to either ot ILcse categoric.-.' Get,. IHenghrr ond U n Brlga-le. Wo reprint tbe singular letter of General M;v resigmrg his com mission. Truly ht and x have received but a poor return for their devotion"' it is the refura they ought to have expected : IIkapq'ks Ijusii Bri.udk, Hancock's Division, Ceng's Coups. ' Army of Potomac, 'lay 8, lC Mf.jar John Hancock, As. Adj. Gn : 1 beg most respectfully to tender through yc u, to ; proper authorities, my rteigna. ion aa brigaii r-u-.i' commanaiuir wnat v.as ot.ee kuown as the I ado. Inat brigade no loncer exists. Tbe the enemy's jvoiks on the 13:b Decrmbrr it to something less than a miui.i.Uiii r ginuuf jf iv., try. For several wet ks it rem iir.e-J in t! ( slj.a, ' condition. Brare ftll.ws from ti e convuh set nt c. and from sick beds at home radu.d y lcinCi'M-ul tandful .f dtvou.d men. Ncvirthus it f.4;I d t, r the'strerglb or proportioLS of anything l.kc an (! i-., regiment. These facts 1 reprej' nteJ as tUury i .,,.1 , cibly as it was 'n my power to do ia a in-. ir.o:,i! , e;retary otWar, iu which. mmrriul I pujul brigade which bad readend such s rvicc a:"-. in-j , suca d stres ing losses should be temporarily i-1 v ,j i , . duty ia ibe fi.;ld, so as to give it tune ui.ii iuu. iu some measure to renew itself. The mcriiOiial was in vain. It never even w.,s n nowledgtd. 'The deprdssicu caused by tbii r.i !r aod it o nsif'erate treatment ot a galb.-nt ten. ,.i , (; brigade that had never ouce failed to do i;s dry it, hbt-rully and heroicu'Iv, almost unGttcd rue to r n u command. True, however, to those who h- b . tl t. to me true to a position which I consiilnr 1 .- 4 tm :, der tbe circumstances I renamed wrh wnat v.y? i of my brigade, and, though filing that it w.n t s . riGce ra ter than a victory that ue wer go;n,', 1 1, compared (hem acd led them thro ici ub tl.o" o;: lions rLCju:red of them at Scott's .Mii:.i u-;,l (Jl.;;-. lorsville, b?yond the Eappehanncclc. A mere bacd'ul. ray commiud did i's duty at tl... positions with a fidelity and resolution v-IulLi w n i tbe adiriralioa ol tbe army. It voulJ be my una., happiness, as it would surely bo my highest bu.w, remain in the companionship and charge of hic'i m , but to do so any lo igtr would be to pirfetunb: a i lie deception, in which the hard won bone ih i. l' soldiers, and in them the military reputation ol u i .. old race would inevitably be iuvolve.l :w:l e . n m, I cannot be a party to this wrcrg. My tcut.niy . science, my pride, all that i3 truihfu!, nniitu', :.:., and just within ma forbid it. In tecderitg my resignation, however, the t:i.' dier General in command of tbia poor vtstnirc ar.d r of the Irish Brigade, I beg sincerely to a-sure y u V: my services, i.i any capacity that ein prov. ux hi, freely at the summons and disposition of the (iovr meut of tlft United States. That Government, tbe cause, and the liberty, tbe cob.'c inemoik:; uvA t (uture it represents are, entitled ucquesti r.ably :. unequivocally to the life of every cit.-z n v.l.o i sworn allegiance to it, a&d partaker, of its lt.. protection. But, whilst I offer my own i to sustain this gloiious good povernmenf, 1 fed it t, . my first duty to do nothing tbat will wnntenly tbe lives ol others, or, what would he f-tiil tauic r ons and irreparable, inflict sorrow and hnrniihti i. a race who, h ;ving lost almost everything dc, !: i their character for conrage and Ie.valfy, nn bv;: ,. fcift, which I for one, will not be ed vain or st lti.-!i u- endanger. I have the honor to be, mojt rc.--P' c!;.. and truly, yours, Thomas FrancIo Mkaohu!, Brigadier General Commun ! i,.'. BY TELEGKAPil. tOlt THK JOURNAL.. FROM ViCK3BUntI. L'onii,z, Hay V 'ihe special reporter of Iho AdvcitiK-r acd IK;-' r Jackaon, aajs that the enemy hs retired frci-i Ibo a..:: ate front of oar fortifications at Vic kubarp, unJ in 1l od to be fortifying. Tbe want of water will probably U him back to Eig Black river. Albert Adams has had a spirited Bkirraish ia Yaoo, ', irg and wounding acme twenty Federal.-?. VALLANDIGHAM Vv'ITDIN OUIt LINF.i. FnELBWiLi.E, Tcnn., May - V" Valiarid"gham has been received within our linm hi i now at a private houdo in the city. lie intends r . !,;: t Virginia ia a day or two, but h uadeciied yet us t w point. IliB health ia 'excellent, PpiriU cot J;preferf r. hia expression and movements are full of ordncatija energy. EXILE OF VALLANDIGDAil. Ehelbtville, Tenn., Hay I!?, lfcC3. Vallandighara ccmes upon cornpul-ion witlii -i the (';i ' erato lilies, acd ia received aa a citizen of Ohio, C. , exilo from hia country for no offence except love U ;r : stitntional liberty and tho Una principles of Lis ft ment, which Lave been outraged by the OIp; s: -:n ' Line-in administration ; being forcibly d.ck l t rot.-.'-i.-in ths United Etatej he ia obliged to e.eh it. fruu tl.o federate f?tates. IMI VNA DEMOCRATIC STATE CON V? NTH'N- t" uki.etville, Tenn., May 2 :h. K- TI13 Ciuci n aii Enquirer of the 2'2d fnnr., LiJ bet s ccived. The array intelligence is ur.ImpQr t. Tbe Indiana L eecocratic State Cocven nt In'i'.r apolis on the 20th instant; 7,500 peopl.iTMr pu-.-i Regiments of Infantry an1 batteries tf rtl:iry f::i::' tte place cf meeting, and nobody was a'loc-i rdtu ': ' circle wid.cut a special permit. P. W. Voorhcea, Treatdsai of thj Convent;-::, ravie boldest speech je. Fcaolutioca were adopted that all powr U itiLrttt the people ; that tha milit iry power waa strictly hub nate to the civil power ;that tbe Cotttitution et.net ed t;.' Cougreaa can make no law abrjjgirg ihe f t cJ m of ec aDd tha press, or the right of tie pecpla J afljt-iallo discus3 the actB cf ibeir public gi'tvu.. A day Las trr w. wbea te public eervauta, aettrr tatraselfea bve il-'f employers, have two wars on tf.cx hinds, ot-e on tb -rfv and the gtLer os the ConsiKQ'ion and those lionU -n cpholdkg it. Tte arrest cf VallaDdiham for lit fi r, " of hia right of free dactssitn, taa been receivt.l ty tl diana Democracy with jaat dipapprobfititn ai jav tvMcs" that the first and mcst aacred r gbt of citizens bai t-r-atrickea down in duidon. Tie Iodiana Dercoc j"" statd furri by,Yllandigbim ia hit dofence of tte ts rights of cozati nticnal freedom. Alexandria, Va. Most of them do not know whit do, and the white people don't knpw what to Jj " them. biauui;d. On the 23ihlrat., fa Brunswick County, bv tb ; Rev. Bishop Atkioson, Mr. VVILLIaM BOUDUI. " Mra. LEONORA WATTEUS. VIKU. Ia thia town, on the 28th, at 1 o'clock fa tbe bxci GEORGE M. HALL, of Coaaoaptlos, ia the 31t log tne responsiD:iity, th t wrAlmt ,i!0i .1 ' 1 1 n its propriety. Yet, we think darWou 4V" tbrougb it which ought to be ex, d c. V. !' will himself be among the first to rectify t 'a S3 soon as.it 13 made manifest to him. that the army may be guilty of effaces created by and tried by its courts ; but we doubt whetir "it ' be extended to others in aov case. Mr. 'n r
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