The New York Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1862, Page 2

En the holy cause; but ovr honor will be saved untarnished, and our children’s children will rise up te call u® “ blessed.” HOWELL COBB, R. TOOMBS, M. J. CRAWFO_D, THOMAS R. R. COBB. ‘THE REBEL PRODUCE (COTTON) LOAN, CYRCULAR PROM THE ERBEL SECRETARY OF THB TREASURY—HOW AND WHEKE IT IS TO BE COL- LECTED—RATES OF BROKERAGE COMMISSION TO BE ALLOWED. ‘The following offeial letter, addressed by the Secretary of the Treasury to the Register of the Treasury, will b® found of interest to the public:— ConvEpeeats Starms oF Asnenaca, ‘Tre.sunx Devakiasnt, Ricumonn, Jan. 8, 1962. Rowemt Trier, Eeg., Reorsrek:— Sm—The following arrangements have been determined upon for collecting the subscriptions to the Produee Loan. As these subscriptions are, in substance, offers to take so much of the Joan of one hundred millions of bonds au- thorized by the act of August 19, 1861, the issue of said bouds and the carrying into complete effect the subscrip” tions, are regular duties of your bureau; but imasmuch as they are new and onerous, additional clerks will be fur- nished you for the purpose. I think a chief clerk, with a salary of $1,500, should have the chief charge of the bu- siness, with one or two clerks under him. But until Cougress shall allow such a clerk you will use the services of the clerks now allowed. Mr. De Bow has heretofore been discharging the duties of the chief clirk without any salary; but as he has nearly completed the arrangements for the subscription, the re- maining cs tails are too onerous to be discharged by any unpaid official, and Mr. Norrell, the present clerk, will continue to discharge the same, under your direction, un- til other arrangements are made. The organization for collecting and closing the subscrip- tions will bo made as follows:—A principal agent or broker will be appointed at each of the principal cities, where the subseriptions are payable. These agents wil! f all the subscriptions payable at that p) ll other places within the same State, and point subordinate sgents, subject to the approval “ec y of the Treasury, to collect any subscrip- tions which may be payable at such other places: and shall superintend and direct the action of such subordi nates, and cause them to account with him weekly; and shall require them to pay over weekly to such assistant treasurer or depesitary a8 he shail Gesignate, ali moneys coliected by them. The agency at New Orleans shail ‘n- clude the State of Mississippi, except where its sub- scription may be payable at other prizcipal agencies Fach agent shall, on receiving payment of a subscrip- tion, issue to the subscriber a receipt for the same, ex- changeable for stock or bonds, in tbe form prepared by the lopartment. Those receipts shail be reported by excl: inate to his principal, aud by each principal to t nearest Assistant Treesurer or depositary, and the money recvived shal! be paid over to such treasurer or deposita ry. The treasurer or depositary shali deliver in ex change for such receipts the bonds or stock which they call for, and :ective agents who received the s.b- scription be bound,as partof the service paid for by their commissions, to apply for the said bonds and siock,and exchange them with the parties hoiding the receipts. ‘The compensation of all the acents, both principal and subordinate, shall be by a brokerage to be deducted from the amounts collected by them at the rates set forth in the schedule hereunto appended. The following placs have been determined upon for the location of the princi pal agencies, to wit:—Galveston, New Orleans, Memphis; Mobile, Apalachioolo, Augusta, Charleston, Wilmington and Richmond. You will be duly notified of the persons appointed agents at these places, and will at once prepare of subscriptions and books of receipts to be forward sach. Circular instructions wiil also be furnished you to (orward to the agents. C. G. MEMMINGER, Socretary of the Treasury. RATES OF BROKERAGE COMMISSIONS TO BE ALLOWED, On ali sums of $100,000 and under, one per cent; on ail ‘Sums Over $100,000 aud Jess thau $500,000, one-fourth of one per cent additional; on ali sims over’ $500,000 and eas _than $1,000,000, cne-firth of oue per cont adultional; on ail Suis Over $1,000,000 and less than $2,000,000, one: south of one per cent additional; on all sums over $2,000,000, one-tweatieih of one per cent additional, until ths whole compensation of any one agent shail reach #009 in one year, beyond which no chargs shall be a!- iowed. GENERAL BUCKNER’S ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF KENTUCKY. ‘The following address to the ““freemenof Kentucky” was picked up by @ Union soldier on the late baitle oear MillSpring. Like all previous protocols, pronun- Ciamieutos aad addresses, it abounds with the usual amount of slander, mendacity and misrepresentaticn, as to the policy of the federal government :-— r Be rere yd - . ‘he condition of the conn’ readers it unnecessar; thetit should cube eapeipsiags fer you. rt isguo has deen forced upon every citizen of Keutucky by the edict of Abraham Lincolp. We are told that we must befor orazsmst him. We must give our active sup- Port to hie arbitrary acts or we must them. We ust aid Lim in overthrowing the cunstitation of the Cuited States, or we must oppese bis usurpations. We must aid in building upon the ruins of the fair fabric of constiti:tiona! liberty @ despotic authority as arbitrary 48 (hat of au Oriental despot, or we m st battle like men fer the preservation of ‘ho priuciglow of liberty guaran- taad by the constitation. We must be lis instruments to drag frcm thew homes and immure in b.s numerous dungeons ail who have enough of iudepencence in their natures to express ditapprobacion ot lis policy, or we must actively oppese that policy, We must cot in or- der that his imperial will sail have undispu:ed sway, tha. the jadicixi urmive shail be trampled beneath bis un- hallowed (et, or we must dete:mine to maintain the ic ge cf Lberty as expounded by the judicial ti- 1.148. We most aid bim \m reviving the letre de cachet, that instrument of tyranny which bavishes bis political vic- tims to the prisons of his numerous Vastites; or, like the meu of an ther day, we musi wipe away thes? barbarism which tho advoeace of free ch has re- vivel a8 a moans of ensiaving us, We must sustain an usurped (yrauny wBich has Lo alfliaticn with the con stitution Cr with justice or wo must resist the application of the fetters with which he seeks to bind 1s. Wemus: ay our lives, our fortunes, our horor, our ei , iu orcer that ho may consent to be the ng slaves; or, like men who at least are deseended [rom freemen, we mest with our own arms make good our claim to a legitimate parentage. These, fre ~e ( Kentucky, ave the issues which have ben » Kentucky hus been to a great extent excmp' fcom the ovis with which the President has 0 ght 40 attict our vister Southern States. We have been iulled with tho ryren song of peace into a lethargy from which it was hoped we would, not awal We lave beem void thet the armies of dexpo which are to eucamp upon our soil will ha petal of the mest delicate flower or brui @ that dec Tales our ful : gone, though in some instances commanded b; lors wisurparsed in tho best qualities of men, th course ts market by dosolation and lighted by tue ta of burning felis and houses. It might rather be thom, as of t1e hosts of Attila, thet whe © the grass never grows. The Prosident promised peace to ue mother, Virginia; he promised peace to our daughter, Missouri; bo now sings in cnr cars the dolusive su ind. It ts the peaco which reigns in his water-girt Baztiles- it is the peace which is found in the graves of his victims. Freemeu of Kentucky, we have becn slow to oppose the ugurpations of Abrabar Lincoln. Wo have heard Lis Promises that he would observe the nentrality of Ken. tacky, and we havo heard the echoed reassarances of hi choson instruments. We have seen the lawless military orgunizations which for months be bas been engaged in imtroducivg among us, to overawe the tree sentiment of Kentucky. We hive 'witnesced the clandesiine iutro- duction “among us of arms and munitions, and the iw deflanee of the constitu:ion, of his mili tary camps to subjugate us to the will of a Northern (a We lave seon a portion of our own people, Preaching peace and good will towards ours ives and our brethren of the South, drawing trom beneath the cloak of neutrality the assassin dagger, which is aimed to pierce our hearts. When its point is already at our breast, this mask is a! last thrown aside, and we iddenly fin’ ason of Kentucky, @ gentleman distin. guished tn history. but now a willing servant to execute the will of bis master, coming among us to direct the blow which other slaves have prepared. When our own Legislatur, disregarding every obligation imposed pon them by justice, hemanity and the constitution, have stripped 1s of the defences which they were bound to throw around us; when the gold of Philip has spened the gates of Athens: when her guardians. equally influenced by craven fear and by venal avarice, have,as they think owed the fair form of Kentucky an easy prey to the ‘her, (his gentleman now sicps forward trom a, “lace in history t rivet the chains which we make ber the victim and the slave of lust/| wo indeed slaves, tha e | ius at the fect of deapotte pent € our ancestors buried with them in loyalty to constitutional liberty vility to the too!s of acknow. ‘ our trembling knees be. “ * to the tyrant’s ship? Were ' the feet of ‘abrow | ueky, are ‘in ol NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1862. ‘age from the homes of those whose sone now show thoir gratitude by returning to enslave us. Citizens cl Kentucky, we who, are now contending for freedom ‘constitutional libert, loyal in our observance of the constitution. It is mot we who have its principles beneath our feet and called into being a wilitary despotism which threatens the existence of civil liberty. e revered the constitt tion as the ark of civil liberty, We loved the as the means of perpetuating its principles. When the Union ceases to accomplish that end, and instead, serves only as the meaus of founding & military despotism it is the destruction of the constitution. "Tho constitution being destroyed by these whose ty ranDy wo resist wo adhere still to the immutable prinoiples - which it ia based. We have comprcmised (og Cand ciples only to preserve peace in Kentucky. The apoie gists of Abrabam have construed our lov re peace into cowardice, and have brought to bear upon the hand of despotic power. With tao poignard at our breast, they expect us to carress the hand of the —_ and to lick the dust from the iron heel of tyranny, whic aised ush us. Weare a Kentucky, whatever our former opinions, ihe principles of civil liberty. Though an inturlated Nort ‘order to redues our land to the con- ‘a subject Roman prov in ae saa eeesituti n tho rude fabrie of military des- potism, let us recognise sti:l as paramount the holy oa Piles of eivil liberty, which God and our fathers have given us. We recognise in no body the right to oppress us. Neither the President of the United States nor the acrvi.e Congress which assembled to register his edicts, nor the Legislature of Kentucky and exec’ : irthright of our freedom, have the authority to suatch from us cur God-given heritage of liberty. known. We make no war upon the Union. We defend the principles of the constitution against the fanatics who have destroyed the Union. We make no war upon alliance with that fanaticism. We defeud ourselves ouiy from the asscuits of those who would tear from us the holy pringiples of liberty, without which there ean be no Union. We make no war upon our bretliren of the North. We seck only to repel their efforts to subjugate us to the condition of their political serfs and vassa's. Tho federal forces were already encamped upon our soil, threatening not only our liberty, but te liberty of the South, As a matter purely of self-defence, the Cou- federates now occupy afew points in our Southern bor- der. They offer no molestation to our people. Thoy will withdraw whenever the federal forces withdraw, or whenover the State of Kentucky takes it upon hersel! to kcep-out both parties equa Tne people ot fessions of ne trol the Legisiatu: from whieh they been honest in their pro- | adventurers who con- ave alone used neutraliiy as the might pour their deadly jorthern hatred, which, like the poison of oe oe et jo was to infect our land with death and disaster. commend the ingredients of their poisoned ch their own lips. Let the people of Kentucky take their fate in their own hands. Let us unite as one man to expel from our land the Northern forces who reiuse to retire. Our people de not waut them ere, Let them leave us to the peace which they promised us, and the Confeder- ato forces will likewise leave us. For one, ! have alike refused cflice from the North or from the South because the position of my State was respected. But when a revolutionary and despotic faction invade our soil to aid in the destruction of our liberties by the minions of a Northern race have no interest and no sympathy in common with Kentucky, let us seek friends and gilies among those 0. common blood aud sympathies, and in- terests and institutions. Frecmen of Kentucky, let us stand by our own lovel, land, Join with me ia expelling from our flesides the armies which insane despotism sel among Ls tO subjugate us to the irou rule of Puritanical New England, Let the cong of Kentucky—the descendants of those gal- tant mon Whose names adorn the brightost pages of our history—decide the fare of our own State. Our banner has tloated proudiy wherever it has been displayed. Under it we have fought tho battles of the country in the North and in the South. Under its folds our fathers drove back the savage from the hemes of iniant jndiara and Ohio, In gratitude, the sous of tho:e whose fathers were rescued by ours from the tomahawk and the scap- ing knife return to diag vs in chains ut the feot of a re- lentless despotism, which is already pressing heavily upon themselves. When in the hour of our country’s peril the exweme North siunk away from the raging con- test, thousands of Kentuckians poured into the frozen havebeen true and | grace of the fair name of t! oe—may rear abové the | Belmont and carried to Cairo, made which has sold for geld | escaped unhurt on the North to fight on British soi! the battles of New Pngland. In return she sends us her hosts of fenatics to despot! us of our homes and of our 1i H. Seward she inviies the outyasts of all nations to join iu and on every hill top let its folds be kissed py the breezes of Heaven, Let our jone star shine, an emblem of hope, from the deep sky blue of our banner, over the brothers ! | the opinions of the European press, from which it has | motto of our state bes; eak, under the Providence of God, hem . D. BUCANER. Ressmuviter, Ky., Sept. 12, 1861. CAPTURE OF A UNION COLONEL IN KEN- TUCRY. we ‘ing from Bow! a under date of Ji c nog jate of January 20, says:—Lieutenant Colonel Gillock, of the Federal é Guard in Metcaif county, was captured about six miles from Edmondson, the county seat, by a portion of Colonel Helm's Keotucky cavairy, stationed at Glasgow, day before yesierday. TheColonei had come over to sce his sinter married, and was cpjoying himself in high glee when our cavalry, uninvited, made their appearance, not for the purpcss of taking part im the hilarities of the wi ul y whom brought to this place yesterday and lodged in jail. {From the Norfolk Day Book, Jan. 31.) oo readers may Leyean’ 9 this paper, we predicted trouble to Kiug Long Legs from | his ‘stone fleet”? method of increasing the efficiency of | bis blockade. We felt projoundly convinced that ‘tn | august potentate in question was getting himself into a scrape, and at that time urged various reasons to show commercial Europe would never allow him to incor. | p ¥e into the code of public law his new and barbarous doct; ine that a blockade may be perfected. Ia accordance with our viows, as then advanced, we find that his Majesty has, as usvial, gotten himself into an awkward dilemma; that be tas skipped, must un- gracefully, out of the Mason-tlideil frying pan plump into the “stone fleet” fire, wherein his Ay is Likely, in our jadgmont, to get his royal robes considerably singed. on From time to time we have laid before onr readers ten seen thaw jwigwent of the transatlantic journals is adver to" this perpetual Wockade. They | are unarimous and emphatic in declaring against | the wanton obliteration of harbors, made by wie Al- | mighty for the benefit of ail the’ world. It is de- | pounced abrond as areturn to the barbarous practices of antiquity, fur what difference {s there between plough. ing the land with salt and destroying a great commercial } dopot? Cigariy pone. They are but ditferont means to | the simé Sh i—that énd che destcyction of pred ctiy mntroversy it isa tov c4 pacity. Beyond all ¢ | val barbarism, an epen and audacious detiance of | doru doctrines, and has met with univ eration. Diect of blockades, as @: abyt mtliar to the jr: vundantly clear, and is f is the law, which shows it but the recept ce rs is in difees gontravest) ‘ous principle of obfiitation whic ument has sought to gatablish ‘ says that profound thtuker quent divine, Robert Hall, “of an Europe prepa consists, whatever interrupts their intercourse is fatal to their prosperit, It was upon this ground, long ago anno: England insisted upon foreing the Sataae trem’ coe traditional policy of excluding foreign trade; and on this principle that the late United States acted in their negotiations with Japan. In that, the inverse proper tion to that now aunouneed by King Lage is of uni- versal acceptance among civilized nations. And, fortu- nately ‘or us, his intention has been so unmiatakeably welcped as to render an issue with foreign Powers ine- vi His novel blockaders have been sunk on ( jt bar.cn Rattlesnake Shoal and at Horn inland. prone od nm hyo display of his intention, a plain on 18 auitANs, and no diy i Saee ne plomacic subterfuges. Femove his sunken barrier enews by the Europa, which suggested these re- Secsine, 0 jaing us fully in our belief; for even the South most carry —— in Great Britain and on the Continent. ‘e@ have prenounced the consequence of & temporai suspension of the relatious of trade. Such” being to be a limited right, plain, b maratime Po mury and want to thon the indisputable fact, bow can ti ment expect the gr as toe sortie commercial and maritime Powers & sytem caculculated to per- increase all Ume—their present commercial depression he) distress? There can be but one answer to this question that his Majesty will receive sume time betore he accomplishes bis vindictive schenies of comprehen. sive (struction ang univer algruin of the South, Truly, a8 wo havd said, he has hopped out of the fry. jpg panof one trouble into the fire of another, and as he is wu Bray nor politically a Shadrach, Meschac Abednego, tay expect bim to get pretty scorchet—au occurrence to which we shail obj-ction. Like those of that French King, whose misadventure wove into a story, let us hope bis Majesty’s minis- ters may share his Majesty's fate. FRAUVOLENT NOTES IN CIRCULATION. (From the Richmond Enquirer, Jan ir woll fit 30. The attemtion of the pubslic is particularly Saifed to the advertisement of the Treasurer of Sirgyin, notifying ot tw cireumgtances under whjo% s@rut of the can- SE Ue of thé Hanks, Nad HOMO heels of Dank notes Z2fo pot signed bY the OP" cers of tho banks, may . ecattered about, *oq probably au attempt them upon (DF yyndrant and unwary, haying and CAP” Jed oF never issued by the barks *) regrets that any one should be 50 8 any mutilated and im; erfect a that the burning and destecy Twas not, as it was intended and com; NIA. NDULGENT HEBEL SOL- who have fre r ineident who Join in the grasp of friendship; aud let the soldier | Uncer whose potent Hi ‘the strength of the cause which He commits toour Or, shut up his woe, like a horse, in a stable, Hi bor that, in a Focest inaue of | Was tumbling ¢» ruin like a fabric of dist; sal | persion of commercial relations with the | tn which ids upon | To fasting vivist the | to their duty as to absent themselves from their comps- nies, thus throwing ali of the work upon the few good soldiers who mai.tain their posts, 49 the scandal and dis @ Eighth Virgin regiment, won on the fields of Manassas Leesburg. If this or- der is not promptly obeyed I will in ten days have hand- bills posted in every village in the country, offering a reward of thirty doliars for the apprehension of each de- Union | serter and his delivery to the nearest military post; and I will #0 minutely describe cach man, his appearance, character and habits, that the publication itself will Prove a severe penalty for his offence. NORBORNE BERKELEY, Major Commanding Eighth Virginia Volunteers. ‘Haxanguarters First Corrs ox Potomac, } Jan, 22, 1862. Approved, by order of General Beauregard. THOS. JORDAN, Acting Adjutant General. ARKANSAS. AN ESCAPED PRISONER FROM CAIRO—A FAITHFUL SERVANT, {From the Helena (Ark.) Shield.) A few days since Major, a slave belonging to Mrs. Rabb of this vicinity. who was taken prisoner at the battle of his escape and retured home, and is now at the plantation among his real friends—a happy, contented, honest darkey. Man interesting inci¢ents connected with his captivity, peril- ous escape, fortunate meeting with friends in the depths of the forests of Missouri, his arrival at Columbus, where he had the happiness of fading that young master had jeld, whi battie he was tuken prisoner, are all related by Major in a manner at once con cise, straightforward and doubsless honest, ‘ On the morning of the battle he was instructed by bis, Fieemen of Kentucky, let our objects be distinctly | master, Mr. Rabb, who was a private im Compan; A ‘Thirteenth regiment Arkansas Volunteers, to renin ad the hospital tent during the progress of the conflict; but the enemy having gotten possession of the encampment our brethren of Kentucky who have been seduced into | he, with others, was taken prisoner and was token to Calro—was confined in ove of the guard rooms several days, during which time he was frequently interrogated a to whother he would like to return home. Peing shrewd cnough for unprineipled captors, he told them that he had no regard for his owners, ond was de- lighted at the presvect of freedom, whi of course. He was Subsequently taker captain for his cook, with a promise of $12 per month, but up to the 3ist of December received nothing. On that night he managed to craw! through the lines, secured an old leaky skit, which he had seen in the willows about a mile above town the day previous, whilst out with an oificer’s servant watering horees. He found tho skiff destitute of oars, but with a bit of plank a8 a substitue, poor as it was he boldly pushed out into the stream—landed upon an island first, mistaking it for the Missouri shore, where he wandered about se. veval hours: again embarked, reached the main shore, he was near being discovered by a sentry near at Bird’s Point, But he eluded the drowsy Lin- colnite, escaped into the woods and made for Columbus. ‘Yhis was on Wednesday, January 1, and he wandered abont until Friday following, when he came upon an humble dwelling far back in the forest. He tells us that at this time he was greatly fatigced and worn out by constantly trayelling and the cravings of hunger. He determined to venture into this rude hut, and did so, finding it te anted by thre> stalwart men, whom he soou found wereS uthorvers, to whom he, without reserve, told his tele of s and privation, and who kindly proffered to acc: m ‘any him to Columbus, where the four started and reached their destination about noon the next day, whore the poor flow expericneed the joyful happi- ness of again ing his young waste Lincoln and i ons Will learn from the story of Major, which v ie‘ly narrated, that they cannot convert srch as he (aud there are many such in the South) into incendiaries and executioners. ‘The trath is. we kuow many servants whose attachments for their masters and owners amount almost to frenzy or ado-a. tion, There are, may be, afew who might be induced to raise their hands in an insureoction put on foot by abo. lition emissaries, but the loyal slaves in our midst would sofar outnumber them that they could do but slighy miechief, THE REFINED POETRY OF THE SOUTH. {From the Southorn Confederacy.) THE DEVIL'S Vi8IT TO “OLD ABE.” BY REV. EP. ROH, OF TA GRANGE, GA, Written on the occasion of Lincoln's proclamation for prayer and fasting acter the batt!e of Manassas. Revised and improved expressly for La Grange Reporter, by the author. Old Abo was sitting in his chair of state, is my ies, aud through William | With one foot on the mantel and one on tho grate, Now smoking his pipe and then scratching bis pate; the carnivai of blood. Let ug once more fling to the | For he bad heard some disastrous news of late, breeze the proud standard of Kentucky. in every valley | ag fearful as death and as cruel as fete; Tm an old earthen jug, on a table near by, Was a gllon of Buckeye,” or ‘choice oid rye,” To cheer up his hopes, which were ready to di charms old Abe would be able ike bill, ‘on the table; ‘To lay all bis gri fe sat in bis chair, Wiha fad beeen ; ng al ag Wty Bk ees stare. eae tke g wid rates Neneerea® tn his lair. 5 His check re bigh and his visage was rough, t of the Nashville Cnicm and American, Like a mideitng of Geaot at wrriakled ana tough, His noze was as long, and as my Sa big As the snout of a half starved Illinois pig; He was long in the legs and long in the face, 4 Longtellow born ot long logged race, ‘et longin: grace for @ much longer space, THN h gneeobeae . iz through d finished bis political wild Bringing wreck on his country, and endless disgrace On the blockheads who'd placed him in “the very wrong The news had just reached him of rout and defeat, of his «Grand Army” bi disastrous retreat; His best men were slain on the field of tho fight; His legions wero scattered with panic und fight; And his plans had all met with a ruinous blight; THE REBBLS eR Ee THE STONE | His treasury was bankrapt, Rie Ssaoces smashed; His credit was gone, and his bills were uncashed; His country with terrible foes still begirt, id Old Al “Pm afraid,” ,* the; Thus ting and thinking— “Twixt smoking and drinking— His head on his bosom was gradually siuking— When @ sound met bis ear— So sharp and so clear, r -ang to his feet—standing breathlese to bear, With his mind fuil of dread, and his heart full of fear, ‘Twas not like the roll of the burricane’s thunder, Nor the carthquake that cleaves the (all mountains asunder; ‘Twas not like the storms which tumultuously sweep O’er the lone bending woods and the dark rolling deep; Buta barp angry crashing, ‘4 confisidn find Sasbing Like things in general, Protu is Dust smashing, “it's the Devil!” thought Abe, in the sorest of frights, Or A rebel ‘masked batiery”’ on “Arlington Heights. On the wings of the midnight winds it dew, And nearer it camo and loader it grew, Til! Warhington City seemed ail in a stow. It panced ju a loor, The ‘* White And thelt died T9A9 With au explosive roar. “It’s the déPil!”’ eaid Lincoln; and sure he’s right, For just at that moment their gleamed on bis sight ‘The glare of a horrible culphurous light, aelrctiug a form so ghastly aud grim, That his heart ceased to beat and his eyes grew dim. ‘That foru: stood before him, inaj eat With large coven feet and huge horns on bla head. Mr. Lincoln was seized with a torrib!e qua‘ ing ‘And the dones in bis skis were rattling and oak Like the “dry bor a" Walley of tah With such a dread: on 4a threatened to make a ‘long division” Of hie and mofabers, without legal decision,”’ “How's your heaith, Mr. Liucoin’”’ saif Old Nick with » grit, “‘Thave only stepped in To renew old acquaintance with your honor ag’ia. w are Seward, aud Scott and good Mrs. L? 1 all your friends are stil! hearty rel. ‘Thus saying, he seated himself in a chair And gazed at Oid Abe with an inipudent stare; ‘Took @ drink of ‘‘hot lead” mmebdody burt.’’ @ journey subd! Over miliions of miles in a monmnt of time. “You, yourself,’ amid the flend, with a wink ef bis eye, “Can travel like blazes,’ when jer is ; circumlocution argument can | But all this aside—allow me to state: Thave come here on busiaess momentousiy great, Which deeply involves your political fate. What means, Mr. Lit |, tei tt ioe, vited the whole Yankee nat! ind prayer, and to’ humiliation? It is strange how a thrashing Sas altered your.notionr, And called into action your pious devotions It seems to me, sit, you're & witmeical set, Ever twisting and turning like am eel in @ net. You flounder and floet, And turn in and tarn out, ‘TMi my wits are puzzled to know what you're @out, And now , in all andor, [ must call your attenti To the truths which at present you'll allow toma. tion. ‘You know, in the first place, you owe your etectil n To che aid and protection Of a demagogue crew who own my direction. i invented your platform, and give '8 eclat, About ‘niggers, and ‘freedom,’ and the great} ‘higher of this platform—outotretching be} ow, the kingdoms which I would bestov/, If you and your party would only agtee ‘To fall down: in worship and homage to me. Obey my directions, fulfil my commande, Spread carnage and death over all these lands, By « horrible warfare, such as would win Success to my cause, snd a triumph to sin. To all of these terms you most promptly agreed, And made them your grounds of political creed I gave you my subjects—the best I have got, Such as Cameron, and Seward, and ‘ Oki GrannyfScott,’* § Assisted by Greeley, and Bennett, and Weed, Ae mycoreble scoundrels as Tophet could breed, ‘To fix up a plan for “preserving the Union,” In the bonds of a bappy fraternal communion, terrible warfare of conquest aud blood, as Dever was known since the day of the flood purllgus of hel! y to swell gedom all In a stew, funatical trappt et witeh burnit iswes and sc jh 1 (Hy pocritien) pri } nd lomage » victory came, (ec prowel and + Your armivs wen "10 the They wont forth to Helen of ¢ To ateal the young chickens and caytu 4 the whole Yankee name, Like ‘ Willivm Come-Trimble-Toe,’) an derelict | fn the pages of history, no loftier piace Can be claimed for your thieving and cowar 'y race, ‘Than to tell they were valliant in stealing s hen, ‘But rag in confusir n from the prescnce of men, gl ‘atlast your Grand Army was foreed toa fight, ‘were routed, defeated and driven in dight Overwhelm’ witli confusion from he plains of Manassas, a miserable pack of terrified « w To sow {ares of contention all over your soilt— ‘Yo build up your party with lying pretensions, With demagogue tricks and Chicago Conventionsr Uf this is tho fruit of my labor anc 3 Jam sure | deserve the remorse that I feel, For becoming the tool Of a shallow brained fool, With the form of and the head of a calf, It is sowing the whirlwind and reaping the chaff." “What say you to this?’ cried Old Nick, waxing hot; Quoth Pre-ident Lincoln, ‘You must ask General Scott.’’ “Old Scott's an old ass,'and Seward to boot; ‘And as for yourself’, you're a pitiful brute, ‘Too meun t0 let live, and too worthless to shoot But to come to the point more directly in hand, Allow me once more in good faith to demang ‘The grounds of this pitiful, vile proe}*“pation For fasting and prayer by the ¥*.oie Yankeo nation, Do you think that Jehovw. will favor your cause, While you murder, 94 steal, and viciate laws? Will your prayers bo heard when you ask the Eternal ‘or nee ta £ccomplish your objects infernal? And abandon your pitiful Yankee tricks.” Quoth “Honest Old Abe,” I’m in a very bad @ “Yon are right now, for once,”” said Old Nick with a grin; “But suich are the fruits of transgression and sin. ‘Then where lies the blame? Not with me, Iam sure, Yon made the disease: you must scck fur the cure. And now, in conclusion, your atiention [call To asingle fact move—'L 8 the satdest of all.” ‘As he spoke the hot tears cane fish to his eyes.) “The Gospel bi the firt her of lies’— Ant the ree true. From the very beginning T have tutored the world in lying and sinning; But its irs up my soul with grief and yexation To see your abominable Yankce nation Outs: ipping me far in tho depthe of its shame, And heaping reproach on my kingdom aud name. I've one word to add; it’s a terrible one! Lhe race of your treachery is almest run ; Your political sky looks dark and dun ; ‘the fate clouds are gathering o'er your setting sun ; You have ruined your nation—degraded its name— And hurled on its people a heritage of shame ; You have murdered its glory and pride at a blow, And filled its proud cities with wailing and woe. ihe avenger is coming. O’er your dark future path, is brooding a storm of terrible wrath. ‘Tho wrongs of oppression , the blood of the slain ; The pleadings of widows for their lost ones again, The cries of the poor, all starving for bread. ‘The curse of the nation, overwhelming with dread, Shall break like an avalanche full o : your head. ‘then woe to the day when Beauregard comes With his fiery legions from their Southern homes ; When the roar of their guns shall Oll you with fright, And the flash of their sabres shall gleam on your sight. Ah ! then shall you sink to a merciless tomb, ‘And the shouts of their triumph shall herald your doom. Your fate is now writ by the * hand on the wall :? O'er your ‘house on the sand’ the bleak tempest shall fall, Apdaweop you away i 8 to hell— Thave fixished my mission. Farewell—farewell !”” Thys saying, he left in a moment of time, wound up his speech, where I wind up my rhyme ; Hé left General Scott in a passicn and worry— id Abe in a ft, and his wife in a flurry. NEWS FROM LIBERIA. Our Monroyia Correspondence. Mowkovii, Liberti, Nov. 20, 4801. Defence of President Benson and His Congo Poticy—The War Movenient of Spain—England an Ally of the Negro Reyhlic—Hostility of the Native Trile—Death of @ Bride from New York—Public Works and Industriay Progress, cc. ‘Yhe receipt afew days ago of one or two copies of the Herap by the friends of the President, containing a statement in referencs to the treatment of the Congoes per ship Nightingale, had a verytindigestible effect among the many sup} of hig Excellency in this city. A isectag POETS let ight sibs Ww to coFrect what they tormed misrepresentations; but, after indulging ina tirade of abuse against whom they supposed was NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE. Fortarss Mowror, Feb. 2, 1862. The gunboat Daylight sailed to-day for the mouth of York river, to retieve the Young Rover, whieh is on the Dlockade in that vicinity. ‘The Young Rover will proceed to the mouth of the Rap- Pahannock, to relieve the Dawn, which will go to New York for repairs, ‘Tho Mystic is still off the Rappahannock river. ‘The troops of the Now England division, who have been encamped on the beach here for two wocks, ro-embarked on thoonstitution this afternoon. Tho Constitution is still taking in coal, and probabiy will not sail before to-mor- row moruing. ‘The hoaith of the troops is improving. ‘The Young Rover, with the D'Epincuil Zouaves (Fifty- third New York Volunteers) on board, sailed for Annapo- is this morning. OUR FORTRESS MONROE CORRESPONDENCE. Fourrsss Moynox, Jun, 26, 1962. Order for a Court Martial to ‘Try Colonel Joviah Harlan, Eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Caval- ry—General Wool’s Staff—Of Whom it is Composed— Specimen of a Letter Sent Here to Go South—It Means Nothing and Yells Much—Ma/ters at Camp Hamil- ton—The Heaith of Colonel, Max Weter—Removal of the Squadron of Mounted Rifles to Camp Hanilton—Their Prebble Encampment at Newport News—Ladies at For- 1 e—Oflicers on Leave of Absence, ke , dc, nartial is to commence its session onel Josich Harlan, of the Eleventh rogimont Vonnsytvania cavairy. What the charges that have }inen preferred a t the Colonel of that rog! iment hes Sot yet transpired, and will not be made pudlic entilat (hee! se of the court martial. ‘the follwing spreial order Cron: hoadquarters has been ucd for the organization of the court and time of its session: — tress Toure for the trial of SPECIAL ORDERS—NO, 24, Hespqvarrers, Diparemet ov Vincinta, Fortkes Mosnog, Va., Jan. 24, 1862. A general court martial, to consist of tine membi (a greater number cannot be conycnod without 1 injury to the service), is appointed to meet in t Room of Fortreas Monrce, Va., at eloven o'clock Monday, the 27th inst., or as soon thereafter as ;iacti cable, for tho trial of Col. Josiah Harlan, Eleventh reg’ ment Peunsylvania cavalry. DETAIL FOR THE COURT. 1. Col, Max Wober, Twentieth reg’t N. Y. Vols. 2! Col. J. B. Carr, Second reg’t N. ¥. Vols. 3. Col, W. L. Brown, Twentieth reg’t Ind. Vols. 4. Col, P. T, Wyman, Sixteenth reg't ass. Vois. 5. Col. J. W. Andrews, First rog’t Del. Vols. 6. Col. John E. Bendix, Tenth reg’t N. Y. Vole. 7. Col. E. W. Pierce, Twenty-ninth reg’t Maze. Vols. 8. Liout. Col. 8. i. Staffurd, Eleventh reg’t N. Y. Vols. 9. Ma‘or D. 8. Lamson, Sixtoonth reg’t Mase. Vols. Captain E. B. Carling, Aid-de-Camp, United States Army, appointed Judge Advocate of the Court. Should any f the members namod in the order bo pre- vented from attending, the court will nevertheless pro- ceed to and continue the business before it, provided the number of members present be not less than the mini- mum prescribed by law. By command of Major General WOOL. Wa, D. Wurrtx, Assistant Adjutant General. Gen. Wool’s staff is at present all here. Major Wm. P. Jones and Major Le Grand B. Cannon, both of whom have been absent for some time owing to ill health, haye both roporiéd thgmgelves for duty, and argo great assistanc? tothe Goneral fi the gxecution of hia. diious dutics. Major Jones, at the time fd Was het before, was Marshal, and merite! the esteem of everybody for his efficiency. This department is at present ably adminis- tered by Capt. Phineas A. Davis, of the Richardson Light Artillery. Major Jones isan old and staunch friend of Gen, Wool, having served with the veteran hero in Mexico and Cslifornia. Major Caunon is too weil known in New York, and, in fact, throughout the country, to need any eulogy at my hazds. Enough to say that, though blessed with a large fortune, his patriotiem prompts him tb serve his country in this the hour of nead; and he could scarce- the author, they scemed to lose sight of the object for | ly have bzen assigned to a worthicr position than Aid-de- which they had assembied, and contented themselves by passing defamatory resolutions against T. M. Chester, instead of vindicating the governmont from the charges. ‘The mere passage of resolutions, in these days of po litical imtrigue, will mot relieve an individual or a gv yorament from an imputation where there is just cause To Snepcion- No one would haye been more happy than your soFF@evapsent._to Rave retracted every word uttered against the adu-aigiration of President Benson if any of his friends had pow**4 Saint 4 mi:cepresentation. It is a duty Iowe to the SUblic to correct any misrepresentations that may occur as o. as couvinced that injustice has been done to any o2e. Nothiug has been hoard of Spanish hostility since last month, of which { informed you. We are hourly ex- Decting the mail from the States, which will inform us of the progress of the war, and Fernando Po, which will ad- vise us of the intentions of the Governor General to. wards Liberia, It is thought here (hatas soon as England can lay the whole affair before the government of Spain the Governor General will be recalled. Her Bri Majesty’g_stgamer Falcon came here some two ago to settle, ‘Festa, peaceably the diiex'ties between this goverument and any Spanish: men-o war that might be sent here with hostile inten din the event that #he could not bring about an amicable adjustment thea she was to assist the Liberians. ident Benson gave a splendid dinner party to tho officers of the Falcou on the 19th instant, extending his invitations to them through the commander, who at, tended, accompanied by his first lieutengnt, purser and the captain's private secretary. Several prominent citi vens wore preseat, aud the whole affair passed off with eutize sa-isfaction to the assembled guest: The native tribes are stil! engaged in wars almost ad- Joining the settlement. A very short time ago a battle was fought not more then about thirty or forty miles (fom gh « city, in which our allies routed their enemies with groarglaughtor. The kings aud head men who have euldg jheir Hostility against this government waiting for the Spaniards to destroy this city, wouty-foor hours after every settlement ou the river will be attacked. A Liberian has just returned trom the interior, aud while at a town oue bundred and fifty miles back @ report reached thore that seven Span. war wore ia this harbor, and immediately am Was beird throughout the town. The ited, n made by President Benson to fernational exbibition iheria cepresented in the May in bngland. Some very excelient native curi tles, ai well 4s wome superior Liberian productions, Jed. James 1. ‘Kime, Esq., who romeut, has just returned from ine collection of native articles, which ratand wi'l be exlibited here before they are gent to Europe. Ir in with regres that I inform you of the death of Mra. eter Downing, whose marriage about one year ago pro- cored A yreat sensation in the negro upper-tendom of +w Yors, she emigrated here about six months ago, in the bark Edward, with her busband; and, in conse- quence of being enceinir, she bad been in bad health from (he limesne left your city until about two weeks delore =e died, when ahe seemed to revive and give as- surance of & permanent resuecitation. She gay rth wa heultby daughter, which is now dving weil, and a few hours after went into a state of insensibility for four days, from which sh@ never recovered. Mre. Downii of Providence, R. I.,and is the same Cle superior culture and mplishments of all who were fortunate enough to wmich il] add to hig Hf w wi to hig great po ity both ‘jen. He is oertalnig, a great fa. provements in ee T con vorite With the people of Liberia, and already they speak of him as their mext candidate for the Presidency. ithe ho one can defeat him. Nov. 20, 1861. Yosterday was observed throughout the republic asa day of thankegiving. In this city the attended church 1p the ne aS the afternoon: enjoyed their social interconfée in tive even: The mail arrived yesterday from the States and along the South coast. ASpanish steamer-of.war was at Cape Pa'mas abont two weeks ago. The natives im that vicinity, who were only waiting to hear that the Spaniards had’ conquered the JAberians at this point, before they would rise, hail- ed the arrival with much glee, They even boarded the man-of-war and infortne’ the commander that the Libo. riaos were preparing to fire into them. He sent an officer on shore to see if he could be allowed to got water, which privilege being granted, and the natives’ faise- hoods exposed, the commander camo on shore and in- formed soveral persons that the wholo affair had been misrepresented to the Governor General of Fernando Po, and that good foclings were entertained by him for the people of Liberia. ‘Thus ends our Spanish difficulty. Tho Spanish captain who fired into the Quail-—so the Spanish commander informed the people at hoo . mas —reported on his return to Fernando Po that he had sunk her in this harbor. Itis very unpleasant for an officer to be the messanger of his own shame, ‘The members of tho Legislature arrived here yester- day, There can hardly bo any what they will authorize the President to chastise some of the tribes in Liberia for their manifest hostile attitude during the Spanish excitement. ‘The ingurrectionary spirit was rife in each of the counties of Lis State, No important mea- sures are yet pen the bapir. This morning this a> efor the iaternations! exhi- hition wore exhibited im the ha. of tho%itouse of Repre- eontatives.4 They mostly consist of native comntry eothe, s warlike Iisiremerts from gfriesn iron A frit, WON ore, iy Hing (hose owed Ly elreus y otue. things. ‘The sraeiting alleutapeelm y y cnn eoarcoly be banten. | red, aud the young eyes bright. Gen. John EF. Wool. ile speaking of Geu. Wool's staff I must correct an crror which some time ago occurred iu :egard to some of the names. The following is a correct list:— Col. Thomas J. Crane, Topographica! Engineers, Inspec- ral. r Gene Major William P. Jones, Aid-de-Camp. Ma,or Le Grand B, Cannon, Aid-de-Camp. Major Ernest Vou Vegesacke, Aid-de Camp. €. Von Herrman, Ait-de-Camp, Major Jobn M. oe »M. D., Medical Director Caps. Wm. D. Whipple, Assistant Adjutact General and Chief of Ftaff. Capt. Hiram Stephens, Assistant / djutant General. Capt. Grier Talmadge, U.S. A.,Cir ow Capt. J. MeL. Taylor,’U. 8. A.. Com: ry Os Subsis Sse = Aid-deCamp, Breve: . #21: B. Carling, 7... A., Aid-de-Camp. Capt. ‘James ‘SMaward, Jr., & ‘Master. Capt. C. T. Christa’ |, Ald ans aygovant Marshal N port News. ~ First Lieut. Simon Coructors, Aid.de Cau.” Liout. DeWitt Clinton, Aid-de-Camp, Chict of Ordnance Department, Mieut. T. Gagit¥!ors istant, Lieut. Wm. H. Harris, U. 8. A. Chief Engineer, Capt. C. S. Stewart. The above staff is probably ove of the most efficient of any corps of officers gurrounding any of our gencrale. Althoug! [sina exteusive, their time is constantly occupied, the letters per tag of truce going to and com- ing poe the South being the greatest tax upon their energies. The number of letters that are received here daily amount to about eight hundred on an average, and among that number are any quantity of rich episiles. Some treat on domestic aflaire, othors on business, many gain on love; but occasionally there appears an episti whites: on its face apparently amounts to nothing, bat ac- tually ‘ys more information to the enemy than all the newspaper publications combined. 2 following ich wae Feceived here some time ago, was ad: party jn New Orleans, and, of course, re. e been euabled to obtain a copy thereof.” mat encluséa, but do not think it safe to The 1 publish:— To Mf. W. 9.-—T saw Pythive’ wife the other day, and told me that she went to visit her mother and took with r the nurse and children, and ieft at home the gover- hess and cock. ‘They took splendid caze of the premises. The only contretemps which took place were hardly worth mentioning. Those everlosting waterpipes barst,and the plaster came down in the drawing room, the mocking bird died, the kiteben clock got burnt up, and the cut glass spoonholder got smashed. Nothing else marred the nor of their life. All the young chceks are rosy Sarta Claus came as usual down the pursery chimney, but brought nothing for bel week. ‘There ie noth another carrier pigeon. AtCamp Hami'ton everything is quiet,the roads be- ing too moddy to allow anyMwills or field exercises to be undertaken. ‘This morning J called upon the com- mander of the camp, the popular and much respected baby dined at the snug box Inst but patience on demand, and Colonel Max Weber, of the New York Twentieth regi- ment, Turner Ritles, who has been*acting Brigaaier Gene. ral for nearly two months. He is enjoying good health, and only regrets the bad weather, as it keeps the troops ipactive. hy is he not appointed Brigadier Geseral is asked by all. ‘The squedron of moanted riflemen, which have lately been augmented to a batialion, in command of jor, (. Dodge, son of William E. Dodge, Fsq., of New York, 6 reinoved their encampment to Camp Hamilton, and are very pleasantly located. In a few days th: squadron will ative bere, when I eball send of the officers. There ia some talk of sending this body to Newprrt News to be attached tu Brigadier General Joscph K. F. Mansfeld's command. ‘The Eleven: Ivania cavairy are doing well; the horses since the arrival of tue regiment have im- wed rapidiy and are in excellent condition. Mrs. 8. . Spear, the accomplished lady of lieutenant Colonel Samuel B. Spear, has been spending m few days at Old Point with her bueband, stopping at C. C. Willard’s Hy- ein 4 Anumber of ladies arrived here yesterday from Balti- more, among whom | noticed Madame Hoym, the talent. German actress, and wive of Captain Otto Hoym, of the Twentieth regiment New York Volunteers, stationed at Newport News. Owing to the inclemency of the weather, a number of officers have gone Bome on leave of absence. Forrness Monnog, Jan 26, 1802. An Iron-Clad Rebel Vessel Lying Of Cranry Iland—Ge- ting Ready to Attack— Activily of Our Navy to Give Her a Warm Reception—General Mansfield Ordered to be Ready for a Supposed Attack by the Eneiny—Reconnoitre of the Mounted Riflemen to Newport Newt—A Practicat Inven- tion to Handle Heavy Gune—A Commission of Avillery Oficers Appointed to Report on its Merite—A New Light Battery of Parrott Guns for Company L, Fourth Artillery, Captain R. V. W. Howard, de., de. ‘The latest intelligence we have from Seceeh, by way of @ flag of truce, is that an iron-clad vessel 48 lying off Craney Island, dently awaiting an opportunity to slip hor cable, and either put to sea or else engage our feasels in the harbor, Great activity is observed by our feet in the harbor,and should this rebel craft be go intrepid qf to undertake s0 hazardous an expedition, she will find ‘a warm reception. For the information of the rebels 1 will state that we bave upwards'of two hundred guns on the shipping in the harbor, and about as many more on the parapets and water battery of Fortress Monroe, which will not play an unimportant role in such an ongagement. ‘The batteries on the Rip Rapaare also to be taken into consideration, and if the rebel cra(t ehould oven reach this p'aco she would be compelled to come betweon th® Kip Paps and tho fort, and then pass four first class United States war v General Manefield received to be on the qué tht to this moment T have not hoard anything of an attack or Nowport News. 4 Yesterday morning Aeting Brigadier General Max Weber went on a reconno seance to Newport News. He was accompaiied by a company of mounted rifle men, in command oi Captain. A. Melick. Major Chay... Dodge, who commands tho battalion, also accompanied the expes dition, and was highly complimented by Geucral Weber on the vilicisnoy and discipline of his command, Beside the above officers, Lisut, (o!. Francis Weiss and Adjutant Charles Lorch, of the Twentieth regiment New York: Volunteers; Captain H. M. Burley, Provest Marshal of Camp Hamilion, and Dr. K. B. Kiown, Brigade Surgeon, were also oc the party. On the way 0 Newport News not the slightest obstryction was observed, avd on ar- ris tog at Camp Butler, Newport News, the reconnoitering. paciy Wore Tocetved with great cnihusiasm, and deafen ing Cheers were given for Gen. Max Wober by the troops at tue latter place. When the roconn:itering party re- turned, it was after dark,and™ the objcct for which it went oul was obtained to the satisfaction of the com: muting oicer, A commission, consisting of Major Joseph Roberts, Captain R. V. W. Howard, Company L;Captaln Frederick XM. Follet!, Company D, and Captain Richard Lodor, a!l of wth regiment United States Artillery, is at present ecide upon the merits of an invention of towart, of the ‘Third artillery, whereby rns can be run to and from battery by ineans jiass, with great ease and rapidity, Captain .s boon here a fow days, and yesterday applied si aus (0 a ten-inch coltinbiad, in the presence of on, all of whom expressed themselves tied’ with the result of the experiment. ou Bi highly sutis ‘The advaniavos of thie apparatus are so great that one (je the heaviest gun, whereas tho old and rule makes it necessary for (our men at least - n into battery. ‘The commission bave uot yot reporieu; but [ have no doubt that the invention Will be adopted by the government and at once applied to the guas on this fort. Captain RV. W. Howard, one of the above commission, has receivel a splen tid now battery of Parrott guns, and also a new set of horses and equipments. Captain Howard is seserying of this dis- jnction, as he 8 a braye and gallant’ office. Petor to his comlug hero he served in Weatern Vir with General Rose whare ho waaa terror to tho revels e Ishail give a sketch of the lifo of Ata future ti i ora stationed Captain Howard; also, some other Ono oil! hue Forrres Moxnox, Jan. 27, 1962. The Harlan Court Maytial Comnenced-—Departure of the United States Sloop-of-War Pensacola for Ship Istand— Arrival of the United States Guntoat Monticelto from Witniington, N. C.—The United States Brig Perry Runs the Polomac Blockade and Arrives Safe in Hampton Roads—The Blockading Steamer Daylight Ripaived— Non-Arvival of the S. Re Spaulding from Port Royal— Anxiety About Her—Scout of the Ninely-ninth Regimen New York Voluntecre—They Capture Two Boats and De stroy Seven Othert-— New Establishment cf the Adams Ex press Company—Appoiniment of a Special Deputy Pro- vwost Marshal—Devices for Smuggling Liquors—Heawy Firing at Caney Island—Masmic Celebraticm, de. , Ge. ‘The Ha:laa Court Martial commence? its seston this morning at eleven o'clock. Acting Prigadier Genoral Max Wedor, who was appointed President of the court, was excused from serving on the trial, inasmuch as ke bad been engaged cn the Poard of Exainination having the subject of the efficiency, &c., of Colonel Harlan undor consideration, which consume about sixteoen days: Colonel Joseph B. Carr, of the Second regiment New York Volunteers, stationed at Camp Butler (Newport News), being noxt in rank, was appointed President instead. Major George Stetzel, sonior Major of the Eleventh regi, ment Pennsylvania cavalry, was the only witness oxa- mined before the court adjourned for the day, From present indicating it would scem that the trial of Harlan will occupy a long timo, as a large number of wit- pisses SFO subpoenaed for the prosecution and tho de- fence. ‘The United States sloop-of-war Pensaccls, Capiain Mor” ris, has been ordered to proceed to Ship Island, aud to carry Majors Watson and Locke, United States paymas- tors, to pay. the troops at present stationed there and at Biloxi. She left her anchorage at one o'clock P.M» From the fact of her having made 80 nar- row anescap ofthe rebel batteries while running tho blockade of the Potomac, the Pensacola has oxciled cone siderable iaterest while in Hampion Roads, and great numbers of officers and others took occasion to visit hor. nd from the efficiency of her officers, crow, and immense batteries, great things may be expected. ‘Tho Uniled States gunboat Monticsilo, Lieutenant Braine commanding, arrived here this morning (rom Wilmington, North Carolina, where she has boon doing duty ov the blockade. ‘Ihe Unitol States brig Perry came into Hampton Roads yesterday afternoon from Washington, having success fully run the bicckade of the Potomac. The battorics at Cockpit Point, Aquia creek and Evansport opencd fire om her; but either the rebel gunners did not understand their usinees, or the darknoss of the night provented thom roe discinguishing her. Atall Fea she arrived here safo, without a scratch on her. ‘The gunboat Daylight, Commander Donnison, formerly atationed cif Cape Henry, came into the harbor this evea- ing. For the past six weeks this vessel has beoa under- going repairs at Baltimore, and has had a number cf im- provemon's made in her machinery ‘and about the wood- Work. Hor place was supplied by the Cambridge, which ‘yo: sel is algo at present in the harbor, having run down ‘or a fresh supply of provisions. party, com of four companics of the -siment New York Volunteers (formorly of James W. gpl Brigade,, ; White and Lieutenant Cauley, and a squad: uth regiment Ivania cavalry, the detach- amand of D. W. Wardrop and M: “1, were sent out yesterday by Acting Briga- “x Weber to the Back river. “Last week dier General Ma “g’ number of boats thore, and could our pickets founa. " for oysters. A forryman plainly see the em bg brought to headquarters, who is Y mded atk scouting party meationod ‘pt in confinemed. posession of the boats, and above was sent out to nnadle to do 89, to destroy cither bring them in,or,if . accompanied the exrori- them. A number of wagoms avy a state as to prevent tion; but the roads were in so ‘of the boats, and Col. thou from bringing more than tW. ven very fine yaw's. Wardrop wes compelled to destroy ® — “\exe craftz on tho There are upwards of one hundred of % tition will start Back river, and in @ few days on ex roof are not from here, and if @ larger number | vnors have brought back it will be because tho rebet o Nav! Hieht; the Kev ment in con Richard Nixo. become frightened and taken Shem away. opened The Adams Express Company bavé at lamb te their new office, which isa very fine bustditia, azn doarda, in the shape of a letter T. John D. Sabon y3 tho ind’fatigabie superintendent, das labor od bard this building Anished, and his efforte hay» beon crowitm With snecess, The office is situated on the beaoh: amt Joining the Quartermaster’s Departraent, and ocsipics w very prominent and central location, tending to acon: modate the vast and constantly incrsasing demowl of the occupants of Old Point Comfort. Mr. Sanborw has been appointed Special Deputy Provest Marshal by Mor General Wool, which is for the purpose of examirtug: packages containing liqnor. If any spirituoos —_ pan through his office now he is held respousible.. Hence the? appoimiment by the Commanding General, which confers: on Mr. Sanborn the right of opening parcels und boxes. ‘The practice of sending liquor to eoidiers has beon car- ried to such an extent that namerous devices have beon resorted to to smuggle the contrattmd article into the lines. The latest dodge’ wes discovered b Captain Davis’ efficient assistant, Andrew J. Devol, Hsq., which was a very fine russet leather trunk, insid of which was a tin case, the exact size of the trunk, con. taining whiskey of double rifle range. only mark theres was ‘*George Paul,” writton in peneil, aad the “contraband”? article would certainly have passed hat not the liquor teaked and the smell of the fluid attracted attention. A trap to catch the owner of the trunk and contents, when he should call for it, was frustrated, as no one seemed to own the article, having apparently sus- pected something to be “rotten in Denmark,’ and never came to claim it. Heavy fring was heard this afternoon in the direction of Craney Island. But I presume it emauated from tising by the Ninth Virginia artillery, Lieutenant Colonet ‘De Laguill. As the roar of artillery was kept up for some Lime, it excited considerable notice, and was witnessed = Peasant the troops from this point and Camp jamilton. On Friday evening next a grand Masonic jubilee, in commemoration of St. Jobn’s day (27th of December ult.), will take place by National Zouave Lodge, ¥’. and U. D., which promises to be a very tino aif ir. ‘The celebration of the varie | at this lat y is owil to the sickness and absence of Captain salmon Winches ter, the W. M., who has returned hero lately entirely re- covered. Genoral Wool and staff and other dignitaries. are expected to be present. Fortress Moxnos, Jan, 28, 1362. Arrival of the Eastern Slate from the Burnside Brpedi- tion—No Operations as yet—Eecape of Fifteen Contrabands ina Boat from the Redels—They are Taken upby the Gun- boat RescueTheir Story Regarding Matters in Rebel- dom—Reported Launch of the Merrimac—How the Batte- ries are Situated—A Flag of Truce (by Land) Coming to Hampton—Magruder Sober for Once—A Word About the Constitution—Shameful Neglect and Extravagance of the Government—The Ship Turned into a Hospital—Parven- gers for * Dizie”’— Females Sent Forward—The Rebel Qyi- cers Sent to the Rip Raps—Departure of the Eastern State for Hatteras, de. Be. ‘The United States gunboat Rescue, commanded by Mar- tor's Mate ©. A. Blanchard , while on picket under Sewall’s Point last night, and while cruising about, espied a smail boat containing several persons. The launch of the ‘Rescue was lowered, and, on coming up with the strange boat, it was found to contain fifteen contrabands, who said that they had escaped from the robels by stealing a boat,and seemed anxious to reach our lines. Captain Blanchard placed them on board of the Resouc brought them to the flag shipMinnesota. The boat, which is a twenty foot ship’s yawl, scoms dilapidated, and (he oars were muffled with ropes to prevent giving an alarm. I found the negroes very intolligont, and tho spokesman of the party informed moe that they and seve. ral howdred other slaves were engegod in digging tronchos at Sewall’s Pofnt and along shore betweon the notices a day or two ago ‘Tho votoran general, of course, hat Nis wes prepa o1 to gave order, wad cume Of grape aud © ilaty Voint avd Tanner's creek. On the batteries between ths | two beet montionad places are thirty-fAye guna. On ©