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VOLUME IV. BY J. L PENNINGTON. THE KEWBERN WEEKLY PROGRESS AS INDEPENDENT NE WSPAPER, ' 18 ISSUED FROM THE PROGRESS BUILDINGS, Erery Tuesday morning, at TWO DOLLARS a war for single subscriber, and only ONE DOL LAR AND A JIALF to clubs of six or more. The Paper will not be sent to any one till the money is received, and all. subscriptions will be discontinued when the time paid for expires. Money, if mailed in the presence of a Postmaster, may be sent at onr risk. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN. 8, 1862. 'TSorXS-Wesl&rrt Virginia. We find extensive . correspondences in the Virginia papers complaining bitterly of the abandonment of the North West by our soldiery and urging vehemently upon the- war derjartmeat at Richmond to send to assist them in beating, backtb Ynki j thieves and robbers, and savemg meir eountry from disgrace and ruin. It sickens the heart to read these mourn ful accounts, and it is to be hoped, and we de Toutly pray, that if this fine country, compri sing a fourth of the area and a third of the white population of that old and honored Com monwealth, is to be abandoned to the enemy that the Government will at once notify the honest inhabitants of the fact that they may abondon their fated homes and come down where they can enjoy the pleasures of civilized society; for in that, hitherto, prosperous and gappy country, are to be found as wise and patriotic men, as intelligent, frugal and chris-tain-hearted matrons and as sprightly, inter esting and lovely, maidens as are to be found anywhere in God's creation, and it is a crying shame that such people should be sacrificed to tHs gratifying of the wicked lusts of I tch vile wretches as now infest and menace that country. All sober and considerate men everywhere, both in America and Europe, agree upon this ne proposition, that the Northern people and government are intoxicated with malice, ha tred, and envy, and it is said that the leaders about Washington absolutely keep themselves drunken with rum, otherwise they could not venture to perpetrate such hdrid deeds of wickedness and crime as have marked their course at every turn since thi3 degrading strug tie commenced. And vet. in all the border WW Southern States thousands of men have been and are still found wicked enough to wink at, and actually aid the enemy in his deeds of un paralleled outrage. Had the people of Mis soori, Kentucky, Western Virginia and Mary land acted with the promptness of North Car olina when Lincoln committed the ocert act the struggle would not have lasted to the pre sent time. But unfortunately those States were cursed with leading men that merited el evation at the end of a rope much more than to offices which they perverted to the distruction of their country. The great bane of our country has been the yielding, on tho part of the people, instead of governing themselves, to be governed by an unprincipled set of demagogues. The people are right, and could they have had their way those States never would have been overrun as they have been. We are happy, however, to see that Ken tucky is raising her head and we begin to feel confident that the day is not far distant when she will hurl back the invading foe to his own native haunts of iniquity and abomination. The following extract from the pen of the Editor of the Bowling Green Com ier, has in spired us with new hope and zeal. We com mend it heartily, to tbe careful reading and prompt emulation of all faint hearted persons hereabouts. True, that Burnside with his ex pedition is said to be on his way here and so it may be, but if all our people will but come up to the work in the spirit of the extract, better would it be for Burnside were a millstone hanged about his neck and he cast into the midst of the sea: OLD KENTUCKY. 13- writer, after alluding to the tardiness which at first characterized the movements of Kentucky, says : Thank God that sleep is at last broken. The giant is at last aroused. -There's life in the Id land yet." Kentucky was not dead, but slept. She is now awake, aroused, erect, defia t, self-reliant, she is Kentucky again ; and her sons, with arms of giant strength and hearts of oak and stubborn resolution, are in the field to shield Her from evil, to defend her rights, to vindicate her good name and honorable fame, and, by their deeds of valor and heroic endurance, to make the title of Kentuckian again the syno nym for all that is generous and true and fcrave. Yes, " there's life in the old land yet "life in the veins of freemen, in the gale that sweeps across the borders of the State, in the soil in which rest the remains of the illustrious dead, en the highest peaks of the Cumberland and in the valleys of the Ohio, life everywhere, in the Spring tide, healthy, vigorous, growing, life that cannot be crushed out by tyranny and usurpation, life immortal as freedom it self. Kentucky is alive. Her true sons, jealous f; ; her fame and her honor, and proud of her history, no longer clothe themselves in sack cloth and ashes and scourge themselves and seek through, fasting and prayer to avert the wrath of Beaven, but, as they contemplate her present position,, and consider the many indica tions of her regeneration they celebrate her deliverance with feasting and thankskiving and byms of joy and praise. The scales are lifted frot the eyes of the people of Kentucky. They see things as tbey are. Yawning at their feet is the- dark and bottomless gulf into which they well nigh drifted; and escaping from it, with lusty efforts they are stemming the dredful current down which they lately floated-without a struggle, -challenging tb -admiration of the worldin their A CHEAP NEWSPAPER FOR THE MILLION. NEWBERN, newly developed strength and newly manifest ed spirit. ' . " ' i .. In the mouutains of Eastern Kentucky, with Marshall and Williams, and Barnes, and May, and Moulfree at West Liberty, and Hazle Green and Owenaville and all through the Blue Grass counties, are indications of life and power that must strike terror into the coward hearts of the tyrant and his hireling tools and base-horn min ions, and cause them to cry out for help against tbe people, and teach them that their days are numbered in the land. Thank God .' Kentuckians, "there's life in the old land yet1'" Let the loyal sons of sVirginia's daughters, elddest born of States in the first im pulse of their joy gather around the "flag of the free," and bear it. through fire, and flood, aod death, to the borders of tbe.Coroon wealth on the east and north and west, sweeping away as chaff before the wind, as stubble before the fire, all those who have thrust your State iuto a dishon ored grave, and made you the slaves of strangers who are not worthy to unloose the latches of your shoes. Anotheb Rumpis. We nnderstand from a gentlemen, who ought to know, that a stout rumpuss was - kicked up at the Washington Hotel night before last by some gentlemen with a drop in the eye, in which a portion of one side of the house was knocked down and other mischief done, but to what extent we did not learn. These difficulties will continue to happen while tar rooms are permitted to be kept open at night. These institutions had better be closed at once, from sun down to sun up in the week, and all day on Sundays, or it will soon became a military necessity here, as it has in many other places. We are credibly informed that if a grog sel ler ventures to open his shop at Norfolk or Portsmouth, after dark, he subjects his entire stock to the mercy of the man who goes around i with an axe. The Richmond Examiner of. Monday has what it calls a commanication from its Washington City correspondent, which by the way, as we take it, is bogus, and smells very much like it had originated in the office of that paper, but which makes its points too well and strikes its blows too plump to be lost. After giving the war department at Richmond a regular curryig down, in which it publishes a long list of names of those who have been per mitted to go to Yankee land with free passports, charging that all, cr nearly so, are Lincoln spies in the regular employ of the Hump Government, it winds up in the following style: Whoever may have kept in his memory the most striking incidents in the lobby history of this corrupt capital must be aware of the fact that once, when printer was electected by a Dem ocratic Congress, H. Greeley had a share of the profits. How this was engineered is immaterial ; but I learn that a still more ingenious device has been practiced by him and Simon Cameron, in relation to Southern contracts. I am credibly in formed that these astute politicians, and several others of no less notoriety, are participating largely in several contracts made in Richmond ; and I suspect the names of some of these agents are ih the above catalogue of names. One of these contracts from all accounts, will yield a clear profit of a half of a million of dollars. There will be no war with .England. Having plunged into the slough of dishonour, Seward will wade through rather than turn back Yet it is said in diplomatic circles that the stone-wall blockade is an offence against God and all the world Wfir is a calamity, but the Yankees are making its evils eternal Providence formed the ports for the use of mankind in all ages, but Lincoln is destroying the work cf God, and would exfiipate the planters upon whose pro ductions the whole civilized world is in great measure dependent. If. therefore, such Vandal barbarity should be likely to involve the united States in a war with England, the Yankees will submit to the degradation of fishing up the stones again, one by one, and takeing them all back. Lincoln's programme, however, does not now contemplate a subjugation of the cotton States He would submit to a political separation to mor row if the ports were sealed against the rest of the world, and the people would bind themselves to trade only with the North. But he does mean to conquer the border States and that with as little fighting as possible. The plan is to threaten the communications of the army of the Potomac, and when it falls back to advance and entrench. They mean to d'g their way into the heart of Virginia. If thpy get the Tennessee rail road and send a column to capture the ocean shore road, they think the Southern army will retire into North Carolina. They will follow and when you turn upon they will entrench. They swear to have Delawere, Maryland, Virginia, North Caro lina, Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee by threatening communications and entrenching. The ocean at present is theirs. Wo have rumours here of dissensions between Mr. Benjamin and General Beauregard, which aids and comforts the enemy. The genius of Beauregard is much dreaded, and Lincoln would be happy to learn that his arm had been paralyzed. And the Yankeess are still fearful that President Davis himself will some day vault into the saddle of his war-horse and charge into the North That is his true policy. The apprehension that an invasion of the North would exasperate and rouse all the Yankees to arms was an egregious error. The way to rouse them was the policy adopted, viz : awaiting their attack. If you had attacked them, many in doubt of the result would have, unarmed, awaited events. The revenue policy of the Provisinal Govern ment, unfortunately, plays into the hands of the enemy. By the the reports of Mr. Seward's spies in Europe, who, like curs, have dogged the footsteps of Messrs. Yancy and Mann, I learn that just when an association of shippers were preparing to send over a large number of cargoes, amounting to fifty millions in merchandise, for Southern ports, aropy of your tariff was adroitly furnished them, which, as the French say, caused interpellations, and destroyed the enterprise. The ub- merchants ii terrocrated Mr. Yancy on the s ject, prefacing their con munication with remin iscences of Sonthern statesmen, and Southern traditions, which had induced them to believe the South was pledged to free trade. They had read the speeches of Calheun. Haviug no cor respondents in the South, if they landed fifty millions in merchandise, they would also have to send out seven and a half millions in specia to pay tbe duties. That 15 per cent, added to tbe enormous insurance, and other risks, deterred them from moving further in the matter. They asked no money for their cargoes ; all they de sired was an exchange of their commodities for our cotton. Yancy was in candour compelled to admit that a duty of 15 per cent had been im posed by the Confederate Congress. Tbesa merchants have concluded that their safest course is to send the ship to New York, and rely upon the smuggling capacities of tbe speculators North and South for the sale of tke goods and upon obtaining cotton through the instrumental ity of Lincoln's fleets. Brownlow is to be a Brigadier. A band of incendiaries has been sent to Yir- ginia to burn the railroad bridges. TEE CHICKEN Q UESTION. (1.) SXBAEL TO ADDtTMS. (Extract.) SINGLE COPIES $2.00 ; TO CLUBS OF SIX OR MORE ONLY K C.9 TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 14, "CnicKEN Department, ) Apelad, November 30, 1S61. ( Addums, your'e a smart chap. Did the thing decently the other day. We'll whip em ail soon. By the by, Addums, we have " gone and done it," I'm afraid. One of our boys has just grabbed four of old Cornfed's Sne cocks out of one of Bull's royal coops, and I wpuldn't be surprised if that last old chap rows , about it ; so look shaTp and keep your eyes skinned, for you are my man. I'll just tell you Addums (tho' you needn't to say nothing about it- cept vjion apinch) that the chap warn t ex actly authorized to steal the chickens. .You understand. Yours, &c., WILLIAM SNEAK." (2.) BULL TO LYON. "Bull Pen, Nov. 30, 1861. Ehe other night one f my royal chicken coops was assailed by a rock from a fellow in tbe service ofWm. Sneak, Esq., and no one appearing to defend it, it was invaded and four notable cocks, which cousin Cornfed had en trusted to-my .cares, were abstracted..."-' If the afoi esaid Sneak has not returned tnem to you before this, show him this note, and takci him hv the hair and tell him that I will have those chickens instante-r, or him, as 1 have half a mine5 to do I am, &c, I will lick anyhow. BULL." (3.) SNEAK TO LYON. "Cu cken Department, ) Apeland, Dec. 2, 13&1. Jly Lord .-The respectable Mr. Bull's let ter, which you sentm, says so and so, though you know all aboul it, I'll say it over again to fill up and get started. AY ell, the fact is the rock teas dashed at the coop, but, as the boys tell me, 'twas all in the most eft'ectionate manner. Furthermore, be sides, and moreover, you ought to have said, but "doubtlessly" and very properly waited for me to say, that the cocks in question was real fighting cocks of the contrabands char- acle 1. o But ti e pints is these Was these cocks chickens ? Misrhtn't a fellow peep into his neigh- hour's coop ? 3. Did he peep scientifically ? 4. Spying the cocks, and taking them for chickens, hadn't he a right to nab them ? o. Oughtn't he to have took the coop too i As to the first, cocks is chickens, by all the laws of henroosts, (see opinions of Duck in Mudpuddle, &c.) As to the second, I would like to ask, "Hasn't you peeped into coops yourself?" As third and fourth will "doubtless" be agreed to, we pass to the 5th, and there's the r ub that's a fact. Sometimes I think he ort to have took the coop, and then I think he ortento ; sometimes I am duhus ; and then agin I don't know what to think ; and then, specially since the recep tion of My Lord's letter, all my arguings will slip over and get on the wrong side ; and so, consequently, I am very much afraid, (not really afraid, though ; no, who's afraid?) but I mean I feel compelled to decide that he ought to have took the coop. Insomuch, however, as he did not take the coop with the chickens, and in acordance with the American doc-trine well, the fact is, as you say you want the chickens, and are so uolite about it I have decided to "fork over." But see here, (in your ear,) don't help old Cornfed any more. The cocks are in the Bosting coop ; send and get them. Your humble, obedient servant. W. SNEAK." (4.) LYON TO SNEAK. Pish for your palaver; I didn't ask for that. Think I'd read it? I've sent it over to the old man, who'll see about it. Meanwhile I take the chicken and advise you to look out for squalls. LYON. Foreign JVcivs. From the Norfolk Day Booh of Monday we get the following additional Yankee and for eign news: Boston, Dec. 31, 18fil. When the intelligence that Mason and Slidell were to be surrendered was first flashed over the wires to this city, the solid and many of the weak men of Boston were loud in the ex pression of their indignation. The Merchants' Exchange echoed with the declarations that "they never should be given up," even if war with Great Britain were to ensue. The ex citement, however, gradually subsided, and on the receipt of Secretary Seward's letter to Lord Lyons the decision of the government was acquiesced in, cordially by some and doggedly by others. Since then the telegraph has kept the city in some degree of ferment by reports as to when and how the rebel Commis sioners were to be surrendered. It was 3'estcr day stated, on apparently good authority, that the Cunard steamer Niagara, now in this port, would get up steam at once, go down to Fort Warren, and take the Commissioners and their secretaries, and their baggage, to England, minus other freight and other passengers. Then, again, it was reported that the Brit ish stealer Persia would come in hot haste from the St. Laurence, and relieve Fort Var ren of its formidable quartette of rebels. But neither of these reports proved correct. It is true Captain Moodie, of the Niagara, with his usual alacrity coaled his ship, and at seven o'clock had steam up ready to go somewhere ; but the fact was that the Niagara was simply to leave her berth to make room for the Per sia, which might, according to the agent's ad vice, arrive here in the ordinary course of busi ness, but without any view of taking to Europe the rebel Commissioners. Mr. E. C. Bates' Cunard's agent, had already made arrange ments for coaling the Persia here : but a dis- patch received this morning informed him that the Persia would not come to mis port, out proceed to New York. Furthermore, it was stated on authority that the Commissioners would go to Europe, when they did go, by neither the Niagara nor the Persia. It is surmised that the America, - which leaves your port to-morrow for Liverpool, may touch here and take off Messrs. Mason and Slidell, who are very anxious to go by the first opportunity ; but that matter rests with Lord Lyons. They are, as it were, now in his hands, although not actually delivered up, anil we have not here yet ascertained what dispo sition he will -make of them. It is certain, however, that no parade will be made about the matter when they do go, or by what ves sel. A dip of the flag, and a gun or so may salute the British ensign and that will be all. There never was a more quiet city than that of Boston, pending this event of rendition, which has been chronicled as of such vital im- nortance all over the civilized world -Mayor iivirrhtman liac Tin fpnrs nf. trouble, ana nis r 1 a. 1 f 4iAnriD liftlo rrn-irr! nf hnrhnr nnlice boats do all the police duty outside the walls of Fort uai arren. TKK SUBStrrCTE8 TOR JLESSUS. XASOS AND SH- DELL. From the Toronto Loader Dec. 27.J Some davs since it was stated that Mr. Breck inridge, late of the United States Senate, but now of the Southern Confederacy, had sailed in one of the Cunard steamers as Ambassador to England in place of Mr. Mason. Then it was said the statement was incorrect. It proves, however, to have been true, as will be seen from the following paragraph, which we take from the Halifax (N. S.) Espress, of the 13th inst: . Some few weeks ago it was announced in a despatch to this paper, that immediately on the receipt cf the intelligence of the capture of Messrs. Slidell and Mason in the Southern States, Messrs. Hunter and Breckinridge had been appointed in their place; and that the lat ter would make his way on to Halifax and pro ceed in the Cunard steamer to Europe. Tho despatch turns out to be correct. Mr. Breck inridge, it appears, arrived here a week ago. accompanyed by auothei gentleman and took passage this morning in the Canada for Eng land. It appears thut.the authorities in Boston were aware of the fact of Mr. Breckinridge be ing here, and the Attorney General of Boston sent a notice to the captain of the Canada, pre vious to his sailing from Boston, forbiduinghim taking Breckinridge on board. We learn that Captain Muir very quietely replied that he was not suppssed to know who his passengers were ; and he would like to sec any passengers taken out of his ship, while under the protection of tbe British flag. It is also stated that a simi lar notice was served on the captain of the Canada here; but we are informed that no no tice was taken of it, and Mr. Breckinridge is now on boarr the steamship en route for Eu-rone. IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE SOUTH. From our Charleston ecxhanges of the 3d, we gather the following important extracts: AKRIVAL OF TKE OCKAN STEAMER EI. LA WARLEY RUNNING THE SHAM BLOCKADE. The good people of Charleston woke up yester morning to bo hugely delighted with the news thnt the fine ocean steamer Eila Warley, Captain Swasey, from Nassau, N. 1'., had entered our har bor with the first rays of the rising sun, and was already safety moored to our wharves. At early dawn she appeared off Charlc stoi entrance in full view of the blockading vessels. These i mined ia Jy gave chase, and commenced a rapid fire of shot and shell, all of which fell short. Af.er passing for seveial miles under the enemy's tire unharm ed, the noble steamship finally came within the protecting range of the guns uf Fo.rt Sumter, and swept majestically up to the city. How far tho Yankee naval officers indulged in piofameosple tives, as they beheld what would have been a very plump prizes ip from their grasp, we leave to the imagination of our readers The Ella Warley brings a valuable assorted cargo, consigned principally to Messrs. John Era ser & Co., Hyatt, McBuruey & Co., and Kerrison & Eeiding. Her passenger list is as follows : G. S. Sharp, London, II. D. B. Gorris, Havana. J. B. Murdoch, Manchester, England. H. F. Black Nassau, Jno. F. Young, Scotland. J no. E. Edwards, Liverpool. Jno. II. Mooney, Scotland. Angus Smith, Scotland. We hear that the Ella Warley also brought Mr B. T. Bisbie, whose name, however, does not ap near on her nassenirer list. Mr. Bisbie was sent out several months ago as bearer of dispatches to Messrs, Yancey, Rost and Man, our Commission ers abroad. Ho reached Nassau in the English steamship Gladiator. He left Charleston yester day by the 'Z o'clock cars, for Richmond, carrying important dispatches from Mr. Yancey to the State Department. When the Warley left Nassau, the steam ship Gladiator and the British ship Elzia Bon sali were both in that port. Ibe (J. S. gun boat Flambeau, which has been cruising olf Nassau tor some time, left that station on last Saturday, bound, probably for Key West. The want of coal was the cause of her depar ture. The Lincoln Government had sent out two schooners laden with coal supplies for the Flambeau, but the Nassau authorities refused to allow the last named vessel the use of the harbor for the purpose of coaling. One of the coal schooners was the E. W . Perry, com manded by Capt. Adams, well known here as the former master of the schr. Geo. A. Tittle. The Yankees reported that one of their trans ports was leaky and hoped by this dodge to get permission to transfer a portion of her coal on board the Flambeau, within the harbor, but the trick failed. A number of the enemy's vessels have lately been seen near the Bahamas. What Lord Derby, and the owners of the English cotton ships, and John Bull generally, will say, when they hear of the Ella Warley having run into Charleston harbor in broad day light, with the Southern flag flying and in wilful and comtumelious disregard alike of stone and paper blockades, is likely, we imagine, to be a little stronger than anything they have yet said. From the Courier of the 4th we obtain the following news from the coast: The anxiety to hear yesterday from our troops now directly facing the enemj' at Port Royal Ferry, was intense. It appears now that the report of a renewal of the fight on Thurs day was unfounded. The party who first at tempted a landing being driven to their gun boats were afterwards reinforced and succeed ed in effecting a landing. Under cover of their gunboats they took possession of the ferry and the battery erected at its head. Tbe guns, however, with the exception of one which was accidently thrown from its carriage, and after wards spiked, were safely removed by our troops. A report from some of the pickets that the enemy were marching on the Comba hee road endeavoring to outflank our troops, caused them to fall back about three miles and take up a position out cf the reach of the fire from the gunboats. Our pickets, we learn, extend as far as Gar den's Corner and Bridge Church. The enemy have commenced entrenching at the Ferry. Their gunboats, the most of yesterday, were engaged in shelling the woods and plantations 111 the neighborhood of Port Royal. Several buildings at Page's Point, in striking distance, were riddled with shell. It is beiieved that these movements of the enemy in running up the small creeks and inlets are with a view ot testing the most advantageous point to throw a large attacking force upon the line of the Savannah Rail Koad. They will find it a "hard road to travel," however, should they ever gain confidence enough to advance ' to meet our troops on anything like an equality. It may not be prudent to speak of the pre parations that have been made for their re ception, but we feel assured that their move ments will not be so rapid nor so pleasant as those which have been made upon an element where no opposition could well be made to their progress. ' The prisoner captured by our men on, "Wcdi $1.50 A YEAR INVARIABLY 1862. nesday afternoon, we learn had been wounded by a sbot in the back and died Thursday night. He stated that the force which landed at Port Royal ferry was but two thi-usand strong. We did not learn his name, but it was stated j that he was from Michigan. There had been no further demonstration in this direction up to 11 o'clock Friday morning. From passengers from White Point wc learn that all was quiet at that post, some of the enemy's gunboats now and then make a move ment in that direction and have been throwing a few shells but doing very little damage. SPECIAL DISPATCn TO THE PETERSBCRG EXPRESS. Nokfolk, Jan. C. By flag of truce from For tress Monroe, the Day Book has obtained the New York Iterald of Friday last. Messrs. Mason and Slidell, accompanied by their Secretaries, sailed in the British man-of-war, JiinaJdo, from Provincetown, Mass., on tbe 1st of January, during the prevalence of perfect hurricans. , Generals McClellan and Marcy are better. Three thousand troops, for. Picayune. Butler's Expedition, sailed on the Yankee ship Consti tution on the 3rd of January. Gen. Williams, of Kars, is erecting fortifica tions to command Detroit. Spanish troops entered the city and fort at Vera Cruz, on the 17th of December, without opposition. The Mexicans abandoned all their artillery and munitions. The French fleet has arrived at Havana. The London Times is highly indignant at the Stone Blockade, and calls it an act of hos tility to the whole human race. The French Press criticises Lincoln's mes sage unfavorably. H. SECOND DISPATCn. There is trouble amongst the operatives in all the Northern navy yards. They refuse to answer to the roll call ; and hold meetings to protest against government requisitions. Hon. Mr. Eiy has made a speech in New York, in which he sajTs that Gen. McClellan' S vast army had too much to do, and that Lin coln is fighting a people who are terribly in earnest who will war even to the knife, and will spare neither life nor treasure to prevent the Federal auvancc. The ability, of Stevens' iron battery to withstand shell and shot was to be tested on the 4th. The London Times denounces the barbarity and bloodthirstness of the Puritans, and com pares Lincoln to the despots of the old world, and descants on his lack of statesmanship. THE BURNSIDE EXPEDITION. It appears from a correspondennt, writing to a Cincinnati paper, that the burnside expedi tion is fitting out for the waters of Eeastern Virginia. What facilities the said correspon dent posesses to get the truth of the matter, wc do not know, but it seems to accord with the statement made by a party from the North who passed through here several days since. That seemed to be his opinion, founded on common rumor prevalent at the North, togeth er with the fact as reported that the vessels comprising the fleet were of such a nature as not to be prepared for a long voyage. JVb?' folk Day Book. DEMORALIZATION OF THE LINCOLN ARMY IN THE WEST. Nashville, Jan. 5. The Legislative Coun cil of Kentucky, yesterday, elected II. C. Bur net and Wm. E. Simms, Confederate Senators. It was reported at Bowling Green 3'esterday that 4000 Federals were at Brownsville, and that their cavalry scouts to the number of about 300 had driven in some 30 Confederate pickets. Captain Eaton, who has just deserted from Lincoln's army at Calhoun, reached Ilopkins ville on the night of the 31st, together with 4 others deserted from Fort Clarke, reports that the Federal army at Calhoun are being demor alized. Deserters occur daily, and threats of mutiny are openly and defiantly made. He stated so great is the dissatisfaction pervading that the army itself will desert by thousends. FlKE. On Saturday evening, the 21st ultimo, one of the Messrs. Fries' eras houses was discov ered to be on fire, but fortunately the eve'iing was calm, and the fire was confined to the house in which it originated. A large number of our citizens promptly repaired to the spot with the two Engines, and aided in extinguishhing the flames. The new gas house, erected immediately in the rear of the one consumed, had just been finished, and beiug fire-proof, was uuinjured. Gas was again on hand on Sunday evening. Salem Press. PERSONAL. The Tarboro' Southerner says : L,t. Col. Johnson taken prisoner at Hatteras, and released on parole, passed through this town a few day ago, on his return to his home i n Green ville. He states that the prisoners at Fort War ren.are treated as well as could be expected, and that the war feeling at the North was unabated. He appears to be in fine health and spirits. Capt. Yellowly also passed through this town on his way to Greenville. He reports everything quiet at Roanoke Island, and no expoctatiou is entertained of an attack there. From his ap pearance, we would infer that camp life also agrees with him. NEWS FROM CALIFORNIA. Disasterous Floods and Immcuse Loss of Prop erty $530,000 in Treasure En-Route for New York. San Fkancisco, Jan. 1., .1802. The stormy weather has interrupted tele graphic communication within the State and over the Sierra Nevada since the 24th ult. The floods here have been renewed to a great extent throughout the va.ley and a portion of the State. Sacremento and Stockton have been partially overflooded again, without, how ever, much damage. Business with the interior is suspended. More property has been destroyed in the State by this freshet than by all the freshets heretofore since the country has been settled by Americans. The weather was pleasant to-day. The steamer Golden Age sailed for Panama, with one hundred passengers and $590,000 in treasure for New York, and $170,000 for Eng land. Judge Hoger yesterday issued an injunction staying the sale of the Broderick estate until the question of the forgery of Mr. Broderick's will is investigated. Arrived 23th ult., steamer Uncle Sam, Pana ma; 29th, ship IL B. Forbes, Boston; bark Zephyr, New York; oOtl ship Red Gauntlet, New York. Sailed 29th, ship Euterpe; New York; Nonpareil, Falmouth. FORTIFYING THE CANADIAN SHORES. In addition to the fortifications newly erec ted on the Canadian shores, and which we have previously noticed, we find the following interesting paragraphs - : - - IN ADVANCE. NUMBER 20. HATES OF ADVEP.T1SIKG IN THE WEEKLY PROGRESS. The following are the oidy Rates of Advertising in the "Weekly Projrres to all save tho wli tract by the year and advertise in both weekly an'l daily papers t One square (12 lines minion) one Insertion, $1 00 Subsequent insertiocs, each, .10 cents. Any number of squares will be charged in pf( portion. All advertisements marked (tf) till forbid will be continued till ordered out and claretl a above. From the Detroit Free Press. Jac. 1. THE FOUTlFICATIOSS AT WINDSOR, C. W. A few weeks ago a corps of engineers, under coramandof General Williams, arrived at Wind sor, and proceeded at once to lay out fortifica tions commanding the city o: Detroit. The plans have been completed and the works commenced, and, if continued, will ready to mount guns in a short time The fort is situ ated on arc imminence a little to the left of tho main village, and nearly in the rear of tho Town Hall, and completely commands the whole river front and principal business part of this city. The fortifycations consist of breast works," embracing an area of about 10,000 square yards, and surrounded by a ditch forty feet in width. The same corps of engi neers are now at Collingwood, selecting a site for similar fortifications there. MASON AND SLIDELL. Their departure from For Warren Arrival of the Biitish Sloop-of-War Rinaldo at Prince town Description of the Vessel List of Her Officers Sailing of the Rcbel Commissioners for England, &c, &c. Boston, Jan. 2d. 18G2. The British war steamer Rinaldo, seventeen guns, arrived at Provincetown on the night of the 31st ult. The commander said he was ordered to lay there, began unbending his sails, and appeared perfectly at home. Tho Rinaldo is a screw steam sloop of war, 200 horse power, mounts 1 guns, and manned by 200 men including the otiicers. Her guns, im pounders all on the main deck. Two of thosa cannon are pivots, each weighing over 10,000 pounds. The intermediate deck is used for the accommodations of the officers, and com fortably fitted up. The lis of officers, is as follows : Commander Hewitt. First Lieut A. Arlington. Second Lieut K. Torton. Master C. Smythe. Surgeon A. Archer. Assistant Surgeon A. Melson. Paymaster A Thompson. Commander Hewitt, while in this port was noted for his gentlemanly conduct and unas suming manners. The steamer Starlight left Fort Warren at eleven o'clock yesterday morning. She had on board the following persons: James M. Mason Minister to England. John Slidell Minister to Fvsvnco. Geo. Eustis Secretary to J. Slidell. James E. Macfarland Secretary to James M. Mason. The above named were en-route for Province town, where they, on their arrival, were to be transferred to the Rinaldo. The Starlight arrived at Provincetown at 4L o'clock last evening, and the rebel emmissaries were transferred to the British sloop of war then liying in the harbor. The Rinaldo snilwd from Provincetown at 6 o'clock last evening, en route for England. The rebel commission ers were on board the vessel, and at the time she lelt the harbor the wind was blowing a perfect hurricane. MISCELLANEOUS. Gen. McClcllan's health is rapidly improv ing. He attends to business in his room. The Workmen engaged in the Brooklyn Navy Yard had a strike on Thursday last. They wanted them to work from sunrise to sunset and to reduce ther wages to the same as that paia outside. The workmen held a meeting and refused. There were 3,500 en gaged in the Yark, 500 of them went to work and tlie ballance continued on the strike. The New York Herald, of the 3rd instant says : We transfer to our columns an elaborate re view of the Southern situations, from ihe Rich mond Examiner of the 28th ult. In alluding to the present rebel government it says : 44 It exhibits a want of prescience and enter prise, a lack of the larger statesmanship and ability, to comprehend the nature of the move ment they were in. Its policy has been a se ries of makeshifts, which have been annihila ted by each succeeding wave." COTTON FABRICS. Before the war spun cotton was selling at from 90 cents to $1 10 per bunch, and ordina ry cotton cloth at 8 to 10 cents per y aid. Now the former is $1 75 to $1 90 per bu ch and the latter 20 to 25 cents. We are glad that the factories are still able to turn out these fabrics, and we know that all the materils they use, except cotton are much higher than for merly ; but then cotton can be obtained at 7 to 8 cents per pound, and labor is cheaper than heretofore. Under these circumstances it seems to us that 30 to 40 per cent, on former prices wo aid be a fair profit for the manufac turers ; as it is more than 100 per cent, is paid by the people for these fabrics before they reach them through the merchant. We do not know which of these classes the manufactur er or the merchant is realizing the greatest profit, but wc do know that those who- need and must have these fabrics are paying enor mous prices for them. We again urge our readers to start the card?, spinning-wheels, and looms, and manufacture their own cloth. Wc know cards are scarce, but let them all be gathered up and used.--The spinning-wheels and looms can be made, at home. Cotton is cheap. Spin it, and therr weave it into cloth. We can well remember the day when the hum of the wheel and the treddles of the loom were heard in almost every dwelling. We must also have more wool and more flax. Let no more sheep be butchered,, but save them all for their fleeces ; and let con siderable crops of flax be put in next spring,, for the staple will be needed for clothr and the seed for oil. Standard. FROM THE SOUTHERN COAST. Handscoko', (below Hew Orleans,) Jan. T. No additional vessels have been added to the Federal fleet in the sound. They seem to be do-in"- but little. The firing and consternation which resulted on the Sd inst., is reported to have been from one of the shots having senonsly injured a French vessel off Ship Island- u ft Jt
Newbern Weekly Progress (New Bern, N.C.)
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