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NEWBERN, N. G , TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 21, 1862.
NUMBER 21.
BYJ.L. PENNINGTON.
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN. 15" 1SG2.
Tin: Yankee nation is just now greatly exer-
cised about the prospective glory that is to ac
crue to them through, the operations of the
great Burnside expedition.
They have taxed their skill at lying to the
utmost capacity of late in attempts to keep the
South fromJcarning its true drinakjri so that
it mightsu locality, as
' very extravagant hopes of what it is to ac
complish. Am well they may look to it with
a good deal of interest, for their salvation, in a
very great measure, depends upon its success.
If it fails to make a decisive blow wherever
it does light down the Hump is gone. It is
bankrupt now, its army is rapidly demorali
zing, its capatalists are growing loud in their
demands for a cessation of hostilities anil a
failure on the part of Burnside to accomplish
something that will arouse and strengthen the
public confidence will prove disastrous in the
extreme and precipitate the breaking down of
Lincoln's machine.
"Where the fleet is to go of course no one can
tell but those who controle it, and it behooves
everybody to be on the alert, ready to meet it
with spirit and determination wherever it does
come. Particularly should we in this lo
cality be wide awake, inasmuch as this place
has been pointed to so often as the latal point.
Let our engineers and military directors be
active and vigorous r.nd let our soldiers stand
to their guns now f.rourall may depend upon
unsleeping vigilance The N or folk Day Bool;
however, thinks, and it is in as favorable con
dition to know as anybody South, that the ex
pedition is intended to operate on the Virginia
waters in unison with McCIellan's land forces.
This view is strengthened by rumors and spec
ulations in the Northern prints alluding to the
game subject. If that is the programme it is
very likely a portion of the fleet will come into
the Pamlico Sound to menace the rear of Nor
folk and engage our forces in the North East
merely to divert their attention while the main
wing will make a last dying effort to raise the
blockade on the Potomac. But of course this is
all conjecture and we must wait for actual de
velopements and in the mean time hold our
selves in readiness to act our part in the drama
whenever the stage is cleared.
Mh.itakv Mattei-.s. General Branch com
manding this division returned Jrom a trip to
Hyde county some days ago and is now at his
Head Quarters in this place zealously applying
himself to the duties of his responsible posi
tion. Col. Lee of the 37th Regiment has been giv
en command of thL post, we learn, and is ex
pected by every train His Regiment is al
ready encamped at or near Camp Gatlin. Col.
Lee is an old Army Oiilcer and his appoint
ment to the command of the post has given
rise to many expressions of satisfaction among
both soldiers and citizens.
TilF. 27th Regimknt. The resignation of Col
Singletary having been acceptel an election for
Ctlonel of the 27th was ordered some time ago,
which election resulted in tin elevation ofLt Co!.
John Sloan to the command of the Regiment, and
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t an eiecuou jmui.uu.ury uc.u i-ijo. -
j onii.fuy was eicti a-i. ouhmk.i ciu ur.m.;
John A Gilmer, Jr., was eleeted Major. Those
gentlemen are all zealous in the discharge of their
duties and under them good servico may he ex
pected of the. 27th in the hour of elanger.
Hore About the lrisey Wiso
leaved Sii'i Crew, ESc.
It will be remembered that we published
the official letter of Commander Lynch to the
Government giving the details of the wrecking
of the Proney and the rescue of the crew, and
it will also be remembered that in this detailed
account only a bare mention was made of the
services of Col. Singletary, but as will be seen
from the following letters the facts are leaking
out despite that very strange report. Below
wc present letters from the Aiice Consul of
France at Norfolk and N. de Fontanges. com
mander of the Proney, to Col. Sir gktary, from
which the public may judge as to who is en
titled to the lion's share of the glory of saving
140 Frenchmen from the sharks ;
Norfolk, Jan. 2d, 1S62.
Sir : I have the honor of addressing you
the present official communication in regard to
the kind treatment received at A'our hands by
the officers and crew of the French Corvette
'Proney," wrecked on Monday morning, -ith
November, at Ocracoke Inlet, N. C. ; also in
regard to your cool, unsurpassed bravery, un
flinching energy and most noble beaiing.on the
occasion. You will please accept, sir, my
heartfelt thanks as well as those of the officers
of the '"Proney" for your hospitality to them
in their hour of distress.
I have also the honor of sending you here
encloseu a letter froio the commander de Fon
tanges, which he wrote at the "Atlantic Hotel"
a few hours prior to his departure. I would
have sent it sooner but fearing that you
might not receive it, as you are liable to be
pent from one post to another, I deemed it
prudent to keep it till I could be assured of its
being certainly received.
It affords me, sir, much gratification to make
mention of your noble conduct in my official
report to my Consul, and have no doubt but
that the French officers have also advised their
Admiral ol the facts in the case.
Please acknowledge receipt of the enclosed
arid much oblige, dear sir, very respectfully,
your obedient servant, LtLLs MIS AN 'J,
Vice Consul of Fr?nrp
To Colonel George B. Sixgletauy, C. S. Army,
Newborn ' r
translation.
Norfolk, Va., Nov. 9th, 1SC1.
Colonel : I am not wining to quit a country
m which I can still correspond wiui you with
out sending you the expression of my jriati-
e. tor
just
.....
J " lilu-L' I liJU.
From the first moment, yon sought to place
all your means at my disposal, and several
times attempted to crois the breakers to come
to our rescue. Final, v von succeeded in cross
.
ing over and come on board in person to se
cure our deliverance. You received a part of
my crew on board your si earner and provided
for their wants until Commander Lynch took
them on board of one of the vessels of his
squadron, in order to re-unite them to me at
Norfolk. I cannot forget such services; and
you may be certain Jhat the government of the
Emperor shalL.kr.ow tl persons to whom
Prance owes the safety of?40cf lief sailors,' I
wish then to thank you for your noble con
duct towards us. 1 w ish likewise to offer you
the thanks of the officers of .he Proney and of
her whole, crew, and the expression of all our
gratitude. Will you kindly receive, Monsieur
le Colonel, the assurance of the most distin
guished consideration, with which I have the
honor to be, Ycur veiv ob't serv't,
N. de FONTANGES,
Captain of Frigate in .he Imperial Navy,
Commanding the Proney.
To Col. Sinoj.ktai'.v, Colonel Commanding
the District of Portsmouth, N. C
Fruni tho iSiJif.iik Day Book.
lati: r.IJ5COSs:A7 NEW
S!
SECHETAIiV CHASES GIGANTIC
FIXAXCIAI.
SCHEME.
From the Lou Jon Times, Dec. 23
Everything in America is on a magnificent
scale. She has mammoth rivers, her water
falls are tumbling floods, her mountains lower
head and shoulders above the pigmy altitudes
of Europe. She is a continont of very marked
feature s. But there is nothing in her physical
phenomena which so taxes our astonishment
as the moral immensities she has lately devel
oped. We have not used to the thunders of
Niagara, and the tremendous distances of the
Mississippi and the high shooting peaks of the
Andes ; but we are not altogether incaple of a
new senstation. We stand aghast when we
have for the first time disclosed to us the tre
mendous vegetation ol her national debt and
the magmtieent scale of her deficits.
The American news we publish to-day is
chiefly remarkable for the wonderful financial
statement of Mr. Chase, the Secretar3' of the
Treasury. In other respects it is til but an
uncertain sound. The populace of New York
was yet hugging the fond delusion that the
seizure of the Trent would be passed over
without resentment. The organs which as
sume to represent the policy ol Mr. Seward and
tiie opinion Oi the inhabitants of New York
were si: II
lC!
pin
up then spirits by b:j
words; i-till boastins' that England bad too
many interests at stake to risk v. quarrel with
the United States, and comforting themselves
with the braggart notion that "Canada is with
in two da's' railway journey ol half a million
of armed men, and lias a-frontier that can offer
no resistance to an invading force.''
The news had only just reached thorn that
England had heard of the exploit of Comm -dore
W -hkes. It will bo rcrti 'inberen that at
the firs.t moment it was received with some
astoinehment, but with great calmness. The
prim-iy impulse here w;;s, not to blus;er, but
to inquire. The people of New Yoik, judging
ten much by their own habits, are delighted to
find us so calm, and telegraphed at once that
"the eff'.ct of the news in Enghmd is not so
unfavorable as was expected." In this fool's
paradise ihey had yet to be disturbed. They
had yet to learn that the more calmly and de
liberately a sensible nation examines the
ground it proposed to take up the nu-re rcso
iute it will be in maintaining that ground.
We are as far as ever from being1 able to judjr
in what mood our demand ot reparation may tlnd
them ; hut it th -io should hve b-eu any doubt
upon the mind of the federal leaders, or any di
vii'n of opinion among th federal populAce
when Lord Lyons made his communication that
nv.gmneent. and stupendous deficit cf forty three
mi ii:n steriiti" rt'unuimsg' ar toe eim r a year
dining which the borrowing1 powers of the fedei
al States were taxed To the utmost ought to aid
these peop e to see their position. Mr, Chase, as
a prudent, or rother a zealous Socr'tary of the
i reasury, dees not trei out of his way to mention
disagreeable facts. He does not tell U3 b w much
of the expenditure ot is'ol was rvled by loans,
and how much by taxs ; nor does he mention
the present amount of the. uen ly hern national
debt of his nation Without this intelligence
however, he states quite enough to enable any
men of business to judge how long this war of
subjugation can last, and what, the probabilities
are of sustaining another w;tr in addith n to -it.
He says tiiat from July, 18GI. to July iio2, the
war expenses -viil b- in round numbers, IU'J,
000,000 sterling, of which he has succeeded in
borrow ing about 10,000, 000 and hopes to get
the rest by paper mot ey , n.ore loans, and taxation
to tbe amount of about !,fO0.(;U0. It he enn
getthe loans, and if people wi!J take his papei
money, and if they will also pay his taxes, ho will
then be able to make both ends meet up
to Ju y. 186'J. But if the South should not be
subjugated by that early date, he fells his coun
try men plainly that he shall want sevenry-six
millions sterling for the service of the next year,
and that at the end cf June, lfG3, the national
debt of the federal States vvhl be niue hundred
miiiions of oiIhj e.
This is pretty well for three j-oars war. Yet,
if we were to examine Mr. Chase s figures very
closely, we should find tho estimate ot expendi
ture, and s-.ill more the estimate of th? amount of
debt, very much understated. However let that
pass. Two hundred millions in three years form
not a bad nucleus to a respectable national debt
It will be observed that there is no question here
as to where the lenders are to come from who are
te supply all the money. There can be us doubt,
of course, thnt they will rush fiomall parts of the
earth to fill up tho vacuum in the fedeial treasury
It is, we presume consistent with all the experi
ence of American financiers that the more pres
sing the need of a borrower the greater becomes
the zeal of lenders to asist him, and the more
deeply tha security becomes deteriorated by mor
gnge the more ready tha capitalst is to double, his
advances. For the first time. Secretary Chase
gives us a glimpse as to what this security is. O:
course national security means the national pa
tieuea of taxation.
Mr Chase is about to make the great experi
ment whether any such securiitit-3 exist in the
federal States. He proposes to raise By an in
come tax the moderate sum of jG'2,000,000. It is
but a fifth of what we raise by tha sr.me tax: but
when Mr. Chase has obtained his 2,000,000 we
5baII hare a fai:h in liis security which we hare I
j n it now. He hone also to get another four mil-
lions from other direct taxes. These six millions.
whn he .jrets thrn. will not go far, as he rrmst
admit ; bat then 'us bus a comrb tc pet of excise
j machinery ready to p t into gear. He s &lut j
( to tix stilln and ppirits. a:d suar, arid teanndt
coffee and tabacco ; lie hs an impost prepared
lor bank notes, legacies r.nd carriage : anil oh,
Mr John Cnc!.t, how can ywur cre!it with the
North have fallen so low ! orfors as part se
curity for this mountain of debt a duty upon pa
per n an 1.113 ODiy " gro torwaro, s mercsmne
I States liiion bffific n vt txxpd n roninmn-.rr
I 1 :
any re peclabie. oh: ta-h;otted kingdom of tie
ni j ..! it- .i i
oiu. neiner seen vnune lax-payeri
mi i- . . t
will bear r.neh a ve,cit. -aV. at once most be a ir Jit-
fer of experiment. Boston ued net to li!e tea
duties, and even mder the present popular an!
enlig-htened government of the fed.etftl States
some timorous man tniht have objections to
take the appointment of lucerne Tax Commission
er in one of the Western 8t flies. We do not find
any estimate of the eoKt r.f the collection of thee
taxes or of the new machinery of excise. ' We
presume that patriotism will supply all the costly
will be voluntarriyjnd -kuo the exchequer, If
this should be jMfUwfc. will gut sou.e four
teen mil!i-ns towSxTtfi-hT expenditure- of serenty
.six millions. And yt it is still dnbieus whether
to this expendi'ure is not to te added the ttiSiif
contingency of a war with England.
Wlir PRESIDENT LINCOLN DARE NOT GIVE CP THE
KEBEL COMMISSIONERS.
From the London Telegraph, Dec 25.
A general impression prevailed at both ends
of the metropolis yesterd.-iy that the latest in
telligence from America wore a more peaceful
aspect ; and there can be no doubt that, if the
o-j councils at Washington were governed by pure
reason and sound sense, the differences with
this country would be brought to a prompt
and friendly termination. Whe have however
reminded the public that the boastful reports
and reckless projects of the Secretaries of War,
Navy Yard and Finance have ben adopted by
the President in the Cabinet, and avowed in
presenting them te Congress. It must be re
membered, also, that the democratic party is
just now supporting the present government
in its suicidal career, but stands ready to avail
itself of the first b"! under -or first public dis
grace. For President Lincoln to persevere,
therefore, in the policy framed for him by his
Secretaries is ruin ; but to recant is to pro
claim the ruin. All this enormous war expen
diture, this destructive tumult for the "loyal"
States, this universal devastation for private
interest all have been incurred withou one
single achievement to redeem the cost.
The army of six hundred and fifty thousand
has done nothing; the "Young Napoleon" has
not had his Waterloo ; and to quail at the first
word of displeasure from Great Britain would
ha for the successor of Washington and of
Jackson to incur irretrievable disgrace in the
eyes of the -mob. But even if they should
discern the utter hopelessness of their present
course, Mr. Lincoln and his accomplices may
think to back out of it by a still more wicked
resort. The notion is that they might turn
tneir young Napoleon upon Great Britain in
Canada, give their army of six hundred aml
oanuea, ana mus, even it mey seramme to a
hasty peace, still have something of military
deeds to report before they wind up.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A lady of Baltimore, who is an earnest ad
mirer of the S xithern character, has forwarded
to Mrs. Jefferson Davis a costly robe as a tes
timonial of the high regard which she enter
tains for her.
The Caucasian, a we;kly New York Journal
successor te the D ty Hook, has been excluded
from the mails by orderoft.be Federal author
ities. Trie editor says that his only offence is
that he has "advocated the suboreimatmn of
the negro to the white man as the formal or
der of American society."
A new militie law has been passed by the
Texas Legislature, in which the worel "mili
tia" has been entirely ignored, placing
the entire forces of the State on a war foot
ing. The schooner S. R. Millory, from Havana,
successfully ran the blockade, and arrived at
Mobile. She brings a lot of coffee, acids, pot
ash, shot, sulphur, quinine, &c. The schoon
er brought Lieutenant P. Ennau, who has
come to offer his sword, and services to the
Confederate Siatcs.
(COMMUNICATE!).
Mit. Vestal: Dear Sir: You will please
hand over to W. P. Ward, two pairs
woollen socks for the most needy of his com
pany from Mrs. Mary B. McDaniel Jo. Co. and
oblige vtrv Respectfully,
" AO
J. vjr. nuD.li
The socks allluded to may be had by ap
plication at this office.
NORTHERN FINANCIAL CRISIS.
A correspondent from Noifolk, who has the
opportunity of reading the Northern papers,
writes ss follows :
"The financial crisis in the North is increas
ing. There will be a break down soon that
will throw the great Mississippi bubble" in the
j shades The banks of New York have a capital
j (total 54 banks in the citv) of of G:),4!o,57t.
They have loaned the Government 72,500,000.
Thus you will see the New York banks have
loaned the Government $3,006,423 more than
their capital. No wonder a crisis is imminent!
In the Legislature at Ilarrisburg, Penn., there
was a caucus in which forty-seven Democrats
refused to go with the Government. There
were only seven Union Democrats. Mr. Gal
latin boldly charges Secretary Chase with fraud
and a violation of obligation with re
gard to finance. Go on fighting, Oh Y'ankees !
Wonderful people ! What a pack of 'Kilkenny
cats" Rich. Dis.
WAR MATTERS.
A dead calm prevails in all quarters, and
we have nothing new to report touching the
situation of public affairs. Some few rumors
have been in circulation for vvo days past, of
the landing of the enemy at certain prominent
points, but nothing has been officially con
firmed, and we place no faith in these vague
sensasion stories. The Southern armies are
waiting, with as much patience as ciicum
stances will allow, the threatened " crushing"
advance of the Lincoln columns. Confident in
their own strength, and in the justice of their
cause, our troops will give a good account of
themselves when the day arrives. Richmond
Di&iotch.
NO TIDINGS OF THE BURNSIDE EXPE"
DITION.
Wilmixc.tox, N. C, Jan. 14. 9 o'clook at
night. Nothing has been hoard here of the
Burdside czpcditioD.
THURSDAY MORNING, JAN. 16, 1S62.
We have received an elaborate report in
pamphlet form, of Mr. Reagan. Post Master
General, in which he reviews the operations
of the department from its incipiency up to the
r-resent time. .
A careful perusal of this document, we
j think, will at least, satisfy the reader that the
i i
es of thct imnrtant position have not
occn wtiollj overiooKea ana .11 go e., i.ir
1 10 disnel the "looi that has heretolore ever
i
, , .. e j,,: I
nnnsr the lrreularitv cf mad accommodations. .
,J'"'b " 1 1vj""-4 'V ' w i ,
Very many complaints have been indulged in
by Lewspaper men and others, at the expense
of the Post Master General, w hich we have no
doubt were based upon real grievances, but t
which have been unjustly hurled against Mr.
Reagan.
It is no easy matter to adjust the machinery
tof a nuW government and bring ad the parts
readily'- into play, rjjyrticularly :a department
so extensive ana comf.Hca.ted as that of the
i post-office.
In his report he reviews at conside-
rable
lenjrth the controversy between the
department and the various Kailro.td compa
nies and charges that a very large number
of roads have refused f) close contracts ami
enter ino bonds, thus, wiile they are willing
to oerform ths work for the pa v. studiouslv
voiding any responsibility, tho rosaltof winch
ha-3 been, mail trains have been detained for
any and every trivial pretense anel connections
thereby broken and ttiail detentions made
greatly to the prejudice of the service.
lie also charges that a large amount of mail
able matter, such as news papers and periodic
als are carried over the roads as freight and
delivered by special agents, express agents
&c, to parties contiguous to the great thor
oughfares, thereby robbing the government
of a large amount of its legitimate revenue and
giving to persons living on the lines of these
roads an undue advantage over those who live
in more remote regions, notvvithsianeling the
latter are put to the additional inconvedience
of waiting much longer for their mails.
He also charges that Postmatcrs, instead of
directing letters, direct to the office of destina-
tion, when the location is known as directed !
in their instructions, almost invariably bundle
thein together and send them to the nearest
distributing office thereby keeping the public
out of their mails a day or two longer and
cheating the department out of a large sum of
money unnecessarily paid to distrbuting Post
Masters in the way of fees for services they
nneht nfvpr to bft renuire.d to do. For all
Lv vs w j 1 . i
others, not enumerated here, he calls on Con-
gress to assist him by legislation as far as j
practicable.
He puts down the whole number of post
offices in the Confederate States, now, at S300.
The i umber of dead letters received and
opened up to this elate he puts down at 8,512.
The number of letters held for postage, at
7,S18. Nine hundred and sixty-sevca dead
letters contained in money $3,751,80, and
1,811 contained drafts, bills of exchange, notes
anel other valuable papers, amounting to
$1,236,643 57, a large amount of which be
longs to persons not residents of the Confede
rate States, and will be placed in the hands of
the proper judicial officers to be disposed of
unler the Sequestration Act. Six hundred
and ninety-four dead letters, containing money
to the amount of $4,5:tS 30, have been returned
to the writers thereof. Fifty-seven letters,
containing $352,05, have been sent to the ot-
ticts at which tbey were mailed to be delivered j
to the proper persons by the Post Masters and I
have been auin returned to the department j
non-residents.
The first delivery of postage stamp.-, by the
i contractors was made on the 15th of October
last, since which time 1,430,700 have been re
ceived, ail of which have been sent to post-offices
near which large bodies of troops were
located, with a view to their special bene
fit. This might furnish a hint to our Post Mas
ter. The Post master General, perhaps, don't
know that we have any soldiers here and that
m.aj- be the reason he has rtot been able to get
stamps.
In addition to the foregoing, the report
contains much that is both interesting and in
structive. Cockt Maktial. An officer's court, we
uiidersiand, is in progress here the object of
which is to determine whether a membjr of
one of the military corps in this department
shall be shot for insurbordination or whether
he shall be permitted to live and reform Now
everybody, of course, will want to know who
he is, what he done and who is trying him ;
but then we can't tell that, for they don't ad
mit us into their coun room. We understood,
however, that vhisky was largely to blame in
causing the difficulty. Soldieis should be
cautious how thry tamper with whLky for it
has killed more men than Lincoln's army will
ever be able to slay.
Again to Hand. Hut ton & Freligh's South
ern Monthly for January is on our desk, filled
as usual with its fine selection of reading mat
ter. Those who want a cheap history of the war
without waiting for the slow and prosy pro
ductions of historians should at once send three
dollars to Hutton & Freligh, Memphis, Tenn.,
and get the Southern Monthly, and at the end
of th? war bars it bound.
unclaimed. One hundred and fifty-two letters posiie iiuncoi iv. .u u..n umo n was me gen
... i r fi eral expectation in camp that we would cross
conta.n.dg $44,14o, have not yet been sent pJom ,mt fts weJlthcr was ,0
out, and 04 letters, containing $30, belong to j we !e(t the ncxt gav and in tvVo davs ha'
CoMPAxr F. We were very sorry to lea n
from a member of Company F, 2nd Regiment
; N. C. S. TV, yesterday, that Captain II. L.
j Col?, its commander, i dangerously ill a
j Fredericksburg, Va. . Captain Cole is a c:t:zon
! of this town and his company was made up in
in' county, and was among the tirst to throw
themselves into the breach tor their country
and freedom.
Caution. As Virginia tdniiplastcrs and
corporation "promises to pay" are not cur
rent m the transaction of legitimate business
in this community thev will not be taken
hereafter at the Counting-Koom of the Progro
OtSce. Persons send.ng us money by mail
are cautioned not to send such trash.
mOM FORTRESS MONROE SAILING OF
CIIAS. HENRY FOSTER FOR II ALTER AS.
Foutkess Moskoe, Jan. li. The U.
steamer 8. JL Spauidiny sails hene'e for llat
teras Inlet this afrernson. Among her pass
engers is Charles Henry Foster; U. S. Marshal
for North Carolina." -- w
Glad to hear it. Hope though, Charles
Henry won't stay down on the Banks this
winter, it's too cld. And besides, il he"! come
up here we'l furnish him a room, a brick buil
ding and a blanket to sleep on.
"MANY A TRUE " WORD SPOKEN IN
JEST."
In one of his bite let ters, published in the
-" ' .; - -. y ' v 1" - "'" fZ
loliuving paragraph."
mong the latest acts of my mauling was
a chap who almost wore his lungs out cry in
lor immediate secession, and when secession
came', and war with it, he held back under
pretence that his business was such lie couldn't
leave home! The truth is, lie was afraid.
Another chsp, of th.3 same kidney, I cought
noseing about for a fat ofliee before he could
Toluntetr. I have sloughtered legions of these
"immediate" larks who were going to play
the devil with the Yankees if war followed se
cession ; and some of them that " pitched in 'T
managed to " pitch out" as soi.n as they smelt
gunpowder.
They sneaked out by various waj-.s some
by one "ailing" and some by another ; and
some bjr getting a little civil appointment at
home. But since I was born I never heard
of so many "ailings" that didn't seem to im
pair the physical man a bit. The hardest case
however, that I have had to chastise, was a
clamorous Secesh gent, w ho had business
South when the first tap of the drum for a
volunteer company fell upon his eas. Ihey
s.syr he hid in a barn as he saw the man ap
proaching to solicit his name, but being found
his excuse was that he had business in the
South that wouldn't let him do it.
The above, we get from an exchange and
are glad to be able to lay it before our rea
ders. We used to hear from " Jesse " frequently
and always very highly appreciated his valua-
ble services, but having heard nothing from
him in some time and seeing such an immense
number of cases in the country calling for his
services, we had feared that he had become
arlarmed at the magnitude of the work before
him and rctiieel from the field in dignified dis-
geist. But we are g ad to know that Jessee j
is still living and actively engaged in hisap-i
propriate calling. By the way, could't he be
persuaded to call round this wa ? We si ill
have a few cases in this pariicuhir locality
that are greatly in need of his treatment and
unless speedily attended to their cases will be
hopeless.
FROM GEN. JACKSON'S COMMAND
OCRS AND THE ENEMY'S MOVEMENTS.
A correspondent of the Lynchburg li-jmh
lirun, who is a member ol the f 2d Regiment o!
Virginia Volunteers, writes trom the Camp of!
the Cross Roads, Berkeley co., Va. Jan. yth, as i
follows :
I wrote you a short sketch of the taking of
u;ali, anj jls surroundings on the morning of ;
the (5th. whilst drawn up in lino of battle op-j
reached this point, sixteen miles from Bath, I
and above twenty-one trom Winchester. ;
We rest here to-d ;y so as to have our horses I
shod. The roads are so slick that it is very !
tlangcrous to rid3 and difficult to walk. Ill
is no uncommon thing to see horses fill lla: i
every ten or fifteen sK-ps on every bill. j
It is reported li ve, on go.-d authority, that j
9,000 of the enemy are advancing from Rom-!
ney to Winchester. They have driven away
the two regiments of militia stationed at the1
Hanging KoeK, aim are now advancing upon
Winchester. Our men arc all anxious to
meet them. If it be true, they will be in n
nice posiiion, when one-half ot our armv ad
vance to meet them and the other half advance j
towards Romney to cut them off. j
I have heard of ne or two incidents of this !
expedition, which I consider worthy of notice.
On the evening of the 4;h instant, Colonel
Rakt of Arkansas, proceeded up the road to
the west of Bath, to burn the Capon bridg , in
command of a brigade consisting of four regi
ments and a battery. When mar the bridge
he saw the camp fires of the. enemy, anil ad
vanced to attack them. It seems that the
enemy were aware of his approach, and bad
taken position some distance to the rear so as
to ambuscade, his command. Before the Col.
was aware of the position of the enemy he was
fired into. Finding himself thus ambuscaked,
Col Rusk halloed with all Ids voice, as if te
forces 3-et in the rear " faring up the 1 Gih and
18th Mississippi regiments, tbe Bth Texas
brigade, anel hurry up that batiery." This
command to ideal forces had the proper effect,
and immediately the enemy broke and ran
like sheep. Rusk, however, from the first at
tack, lost four men killed and eighteen woun
ded. I can write no mor? at present, as the
mail is about to close.
THE WEATHER, Ac.
Petersblkg, Jan. 14.--P. M. It has been
snowing and hailing here all day, and is still
snowing to-night. The temperature of the
weather is about that degree which iudicatts
" the cold snap."
The Norfolk mail train was much detained
to-day by snow and ice on the track, but
reached here to.night at seven o'clock, which
I was about threw hours bey end its ordinary
seneauie time.
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SPEECU OF MR, VALLANDIGUAM, OF
OHIO, IN THE YANXEE CONGRESS OX
THE TRENT AFFAIR.
In our edition of Saturday last , we mada
mention of the fact, says the Richmond
Dipatch, that Mr. Vallandigham made a
speech, on the 7th, inst., in the House
of Ri'presenativcs, on the surrender of Masou
and Slidell. The following is the report of his
remtSs ?vthat occasion.; . i-s -.rv
Mr. Vallandigham, (Opp.) of Ohio, said : I
avail myself, sir, of this the earliest opportuni
ty offered to expres my utter and strong con
demnation, as one of the representatives of tho
people, ol the act of the Administration in sur
rendering up Mason and Slidell to tbe British
Government. For six weeks, sir, they wero
held in close custody as traitors of the. United
S.ates, by order of the Secretary of State,
and with the approval and applauso of tho
press, of the public men of the Navy De
partment, f this House, and of the people of
the United States, with a full knowledge of tho
manner and all the circumstances of their cap
ture, and yet in six days after the iripcrious
and peremp.ory demand ot Great Britain they
were abjectly surrendered upon the mere ru
mor even ot the approach of a hostile fleet, and
thus for the first time in our national history
have we strutted insolently into a quarrel with
out right, and then basely crept out of it with
out honor ; and thus for the first time has tha
American eagle been made to cower before tho
British lion.
Sir, a vassal or fettered and terror-stricken
pres, or servile and sycophantic politicians, in
this House or out of it, may applaud the act,
and fawn and flatter and lick the hand which
has smitten down our honour int the dust ;
but the people, now or hereafter, will de
mand a terrible reckoning for this most un
manly surrender. But I do not trust myself to
speak of it now as I propose some day to speak.
I rose only to put on record ny emphatic pro
test against it and do express my deep convic
tion that the very war which the other day
might have been avoided by combined!
wisdom and firmness, is now inevitable.
Sir, the surrender may be no . fault ,of tho
Secretary of State, but he has sown, I fwir, tha
dragon's teeth, by this, his fatal dispatch, and
armed war will spring from it." -In the namo
of Goei, sir, what does England want with Ma
son and Slidell? It was a surrender , of the,
claim of the right to seize them on board her
ships under her flag, that she demanded, and
yet this is the very thing that Mr. Seward per
tinaciously refuses, and he only . condemns.
Captain Wilkes because he did not enforce thh
asserted right with greater severely against
the offending neutral ship. Why, sir, upon,
the principles of this dispatch, if a merchant
vessel, as at tirst intended, had heon employed
to carry these men out from Fort -Warren to -.
England, she might to-day have benn arrested
on the high seas and they dragged from her
deck, provided only she- were forthwith
brought buck to the port of Boston for confis
cate n.
But more than this, England needs, I do not
say wants a war; but she must and will bnvo
it, and this Administration has acted from tho
beginning .as if it was their purpose to oblige
her in it to the utmost. Look into your diplo
matic correspondence. Look at your stone fleet.
But let that pass. Who, I ask, among all tho
millions of this country, or even in this llouso
or Senate, or the Administration itself, in tho
midst of the dead calm, of stolid security which
seems now to rest over a l, has reflected for a
moment upon the signiflcancy'of the events of
the passing hours ?
A British man of war bears t the shores of
England, there to be received in triumph and
with shouts of exultation as martyrs and he
roes, and with the gustos of the people of Eng
land and as the proteges of their ministers, tho
ve:y men who but for the rash act of Captain
W'lkes, and the still more rash endorsement
(f the Administration and the country, would
six weeks ago have been quietly landed from a
private ship in quiet security as rebels ami re
fugees. All Europe echoes now with their
n. nncs. Ali Europe will rise up to do them
honour, and yet you - surrendered them, did
you, to escape the recognitiou by England of
tbe ConSederate States, and your Secretary of
St ile, i ith Christain resignation or stoic phi
losophy, oarnly rejoices that the effectual check
upon and warning proportions of the insurrec
tion, as we-il as the compara'ive uniiuportanco
of the persons concerned, happily enable tho
Administration alter six weeks of experhnt n, to
cheerfully liberate them, and thus to rcmovo
tii is U icrhai cavi belli, ......
Sir, vmvc me leave to say that tho m-ment
they (Mason ami Slidell) stepped upon the deck
of a British man of war, your prisoners of s'ate,
whom the other day you would have consigned
to felon's cells, became inded the envoys and
ambassadors of a recognized independent State,
and I predict her to-day, in spite of this deep
national humiliation, or rather perhaps because
of it, and, m spite, too, of the surrender, with
out protest, ot the Monroe doctrine, for forty
years the cuecvished and proud policy, of thi
Government, in less than three ' months you;
will be at war with Great Britain, or. else, in
the meunti.iic will have basely submitted to
the recognition of tho Confederate States, and.
the breaking up cf the blockade ; and, if at war
then, a ith hearts unstrung aud hands unnerved
by this very surrender. . i ;
Courage ! courege ! courage I sir. is the beat
and first of peacemakers. I know wull, of course
sir, that hke all other similar; predictions for
some years past, in regard to our public affairs,
you will treat this one also with.-t-oofHng and
incredulity ; but, nevertheles, put it on Tec
ordhere to-day. "The prudent roan foreseeib,
the evil and hideth himself, but the Miopia
pass on and are punished." . . . r rz :-
SPECIAL DISPATCn TO THE RICHMOND" V I ATCil.f
Norfolk, Jan. 13. I have bee-n-info, mod
from a very reliable source that the Burnsid
expedition, which hdt Old Point on Saturday
afternoon last, returned to Hampton Ro.ti
this evening, hi consequence of a j revaiEng
storm off the coast. .. ".,
A high wind, with some, rain, has been pre
vailing her tfnee mdrmncr. ; i , .' -