The New York Herald Newspaper, May 12, 1863, Page 10

10 THE ARMY OF THE PPy¢psac, CONTINUED M T™ «RD PAGE. William to the village of Ay! is said, destroyed eighty wagons and ae Ene pte doy ol fenging to the government. | “t.6y carried away the teams ing vo the wagonk, 4a io some eighty or ninety thoir own exhausted " gh 10M Hone ey ported that Mey burnt the gr’ nes at Aylett’s, and visited the Plantations of P. 1 “aylett, Confederate States District Attorney . and of PR a Wilham R. Aylett, Mrs, A* and others, who own plaptatious bear Avietts, stealing horses, negroes, &e. The: Matapomi river, near Ayletts, and proceed: a“ county of King and Queen towards Glouces- 4, 'bet of thei depredations beyond Aylotie we # this time no reliable account. The detachment > crossed tho Pamunkey at the Pipingtree, proceeded erossed 1he down the ‘ter Po! have , atoss the county of King William %0 Walketon, om the @Mxttaponi, and cressed into King and Queen. There is a @amor Mat they burnt King Wilttam Court House, but ‘M4 te net deomed reliable, A negre in prisou Weatonce of death at that place, for an attempt te murder ‘Whe enavager @& Mesers. P. H. & W. R. Aylett, is said to ‘have been released by the maramders. Of the robberies @usamiited ty this detachment, in its course through ‘King Willlam, we have no account, The ferry boais at 1 Town and at the Pipimgtree re destroyed, but ‘What at New Castie,on the maim stage live from Richmond “eo Tappabannock, was not injared. ‘The destruction of the large train of government wagons at Aylctts, and the stores of grain at that piace, is the most serious loss which we Rave sustained from the raid. ‘The gowornment was deriving large suppites fronv thas speotion of the State, and imad, unfortapetely, withio the ast weok largely increased tis wagon trains. CHICKAB@HINY BRIDGE. Yenkee cavalry just pow fill the éaginations of the coumtry peuple as completely as gunboats did those of our @itisens twelve months ago. A scouting purty cannot muko a harmiess (and certainly useless) reconnoissance Dest they are at once maguitied into a thousand Yankees. Yesterday eveuiug workmen were evgaged repairing the Ghickahominy bridge, when a young man rode down from Adiov's water station amd informed them that a very large ferce (never lesa than @ thou bad arrived at that place, und fired on him as he ‘The gentleman in ‘@arge of the railroad hands, aithough he thought it most ‘Mkeiy that the cavairy seen were some of our own troops, @id not fee! authorized to risk the capture of his engine ‘and workmen, and, therefore, to the city with “his whole party. Up to tho time of going to press we have heard othing frem this point, Without any absolute knowledge on the subject, we assured that there are no hostile Yankees nearer Seimond than Paes vig op the east, and Louisa Oourt House on the nort [From the Richmond Enquirer, May 7.) “WHE YANKEE RAID AT COLUMBIA, PLUVANNA COUNTY, VIRGINIA. ‘ During the recent raid the Yankees visited the town of Qolumbia, in Fluvanna county, on the James river canal, about fifty miles above the city of Richmond, their inten- tion being to blow up, if possible, the aqueduct at that place, and to do what other damage they oould to the wanal ‘The Despatch, in an extra yesterday, the following jioulars of the Yamkees’ visit to Columbia, deriv 5 ‘@ gentleman who arrived in Richmond yeaterday:— Reference bas been made to the fact that the Yankees wisited the above village (distant, dy canal, about fifty miles west of Richmond), their intention being to blow the aqueduct at that place and imflict what damage they could on the canal. From a gentleman just arrived from Columbisfwe have the following particulars of their ‘visit to that pluce:— * The Yankees, to the number’ of several hundred, ap- peared at the village at ten o’clock on Sunday ee and immediately commenced sending out men to bring ‘all the horses and —— es Rene —_ yo ro a ta ‘Village proceeded to destroy tl ges, to work to drill a hole in the top of the aqueduct wall. ‘They gave this up a! inking drill about six inches. ‘They then put two kegs of powder in the canal at the aqueduct, and he fuse tothem; but it went ut, and no exp! took place. ey did not cut the At Mrs. Alien’s farm, one mile below Columbia, they Burned a barn and destroyed all of the brid span- ming the canal between Elk Island and Columbia, save They a'so burned the bridge on Mr. Harrison’s farm \eading over the canal, and two bridges at Colum- They took Hoesen of the canal Teabella, Captain Snoddy, and burned her. She was @wned by the Captain, and ied with his furniture and They afterwards suid they would not have it had they been aware it was private prpeerty: ‘sawed of the wooden beams of the canal be- ‘Columbia, Bix of Mr. Galt left with the Bog the good horses they could find, Mr. Elsom, and shot one because it was fat to travel. zens ma i rag egy tec eyed rap re busy committi it when one couriers dashed into the village e and’ told his com: wos rs f 7 We, Goochland county, miles eust of Columbia, when a skirmish e:sued, the Yaukees rapidly retreated. Our informant does think there arc any Yankees this side of the Three = road. While at Columbia they broke open a vase Delonging to Mr. Hodgson, and distributed the @ontents—sugar, rice, bucun, Ac.—to the negro, A part of the goods were afterwards recovered. DAMAGES AT COLUMBIA. ‘The damages done by the enemy at Columbia, Flu- vans, covsisted in burving the small bri over the eanal, ieownne VE : cat ea robbing a mall grocery istribu proceeds among them. geives and a parcel of nt The whole damage (ex- ‘eapt the robbery) is ropaired to-day. RETURNING RAIDMAKBRS. cota cargoes t Wellington Maurice (brother of Cor- iam), Central Railroad, on yestor bundred U while scouting above Beaver Dam, near fp emoovene’ about Sve = seanees, toe pees lerick’s Hall. They rere thought to party which committed sundry mall depredations on Hanover Court By ths Virgins and Teananoes Gale (Ale ing e Virginia an on even’ Co apnea So agerry) |, We are placed in pos- of jt Edgar’s battalion, stationed at Lewisburg, Greeubrier county, were sur- ig by one thousand Yankee ca’ late on Friday t last; but with consummate skill he rallied bis men, fought the enemy with determined bravery, beating L back, killing aud wounding a number. The a io _a fiag of truce asking permission to bury ir dead, which request Colonel Edgar refused. His forge was barely eight hundred men, his loss resultiog from sorprise was suppoeed to be heavy; bat, netwitn. ding this, he fought the enemy, as our informant lign, giving them a total defeat. ~ “We permitted to make the following extract from a ‘Private letter received in Richmond:— battalion has had a fight at Lewisburg. ry of the enemy, or mounted infantry, to the num- eight hundred, attacked Fdgar, and he repulsed them. Receiving tim information of their coming, ‘Major Edgar went out r dark, two miles ia advance isburg, barricaded the road, posted his men, three ired in number, in ambush, put forward a small » with orders to fire and fall back us if a mere was out before Lewisburg, all of which worked to i pied alee frst two hours before day, rode pa, Square and were routed. We killed eleven, cap- Seven wounded and four unwounded. The enemy Pent in a flag of truce to bury their dead, and a second for a doctor to attend the wounded they had carried ‘We had not a man killed, nor have I heard of one ‘wounded. GENERAL DIX’S ARMY. Active Operations on the York River. THE SIEGE OF SUFFOLK, Destruction of the Rebel Works— Their Extent. ‘Zhe Department of Virginia Again in Active Operation, er West Porvr, Va., May 9, 1868. PRe Fourth Army Cory In Motion— West Point Occupied by Our Troope—A Buccesfud Reconnoissance to White Blowse, de., de. A portion of the Fourth army corps, Major General Brasmus A. Keyes commanding, reached this point short ly after one o'clock on Thursday last (7th inet.) The Groope were copveyed thither in a large fleet of trans ports, convoyed by a fleetof gunboats, The landing of ur troops was andiaputed by the enemy. Immediately on landing General Koyes ordered a reconnoiseance up the York river road towards White House, the old base of operations of eur army last summer, For this purpose Company F, Captain #dwards, and Company D, Captain Paul, Fifth Peunsylvania cavalry, were selected. The wo companies were divided intosmall partics, mov. ‘ng on different, aed, where the mature of the country por. mitted, 0» paraiie! roads, After the commands had peo areded.2 fow miles from town the detachment of Com- pany F, Sixth New York cavalry, Lieutenant Crozier, was Grea uyon by « party of ambushed rebels, killing 4wo of opr horses,emong which was the leutenent’s. ‘The horse, therefore, reared on his hind lege in a death Ghroe, falling heavily on bie rider, crashing the latter in wach & manner that he died ehortly afterwards, Lieut. Ororier was (com Hoboken, Now Jersey, and ae a gentto- mao and soldier wae unsurpassed. His lose is deeply re- @retied by bis command, The ambushed rebele wore aeaght, They belonged to tho Tenth and Fifteenth regi- qents Virginia cavalry, The reconnoissance was con- taued io White Mouse, where all the troops met. All Phe track on the York River Railroad from West Point to ‘White House was recently removed by the rebels, tho raitroad depot and bridge across the Pamunky was do stroyed by order of Captain Paul. On the trip our cava: :y rescued @ Lieutenant Fetes, paid to General Kilpatrick a NEW YORK DERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 18683—TAIPLY SHEET. and fifteen men, who were made prisoners near Fred- ericksburg, aud were then in charge of a rebel guard and Deing conveyed to Richmond. One lieutenant and four . privates of the rebel guard were captured by our men, Our cavalry returne@ to camp the next morning with no other mishap than (hose already mentioned. Major General Dix accompanied the expedition to this point. Admiral Lee, with a portion of his fleet, is co-oper#ting with Major General Keyes. ‘Weer Ponrr, Va., May 8, 1863, Owe Pickets Within Twenty-five Miles of RicWmond , de. While public attention has been 80 thoroug)ay engrossed Fecently by movements on 4 large scale ow Whe Rappahan- Bock, aud while all the eyes of the Norty, have been upon Major Generals Hooker and Stonemas, a small but well considered enterprise hae succeeded, under Major Genera E. D. Keyes, in taking a considerabte force from the lat- ter’s command at Yorkfown and Yanding them at West Point, whence Major Hall, of theSixth New York:cavalry, night before hast penetrated to the White House and de- atroyed the Dridge there, in spite of the opposition of the enemy, and Drought in some thirty prisoners, driving the rebels into the Mattapony river, Genoral Keyes, who has been in the saddfe ever since his arrival on Thursday morning, is indefatigable in his exertions, is in capital spirits, as he always is, ie im the eld, and is entirely ready for any emergency. Acting Major General Gordon is also here, a serviceable eMicer and we have no fear for the future. The:pickets of Major General Keyes ero now within twenty-five miles of Richmond, and you may be assured thatrif this officer finas.a chanoe he will got into the city and find in strife and struggle some reeompense for his Fonginactivity at Yorktown. ’ Major General Dix was here day before ‘yesterday on his special despatch boat for s short visit, and returned to Fortress Monroe after a short interview with Major General Keyes, leaving, as I have no doubt he thought, the-command at West Point in excellent hands. You may look for stirring news from here sudden!y, Rear Admiral Lee and Captain Crosby, of the Minneacta, nme up York river this morning. Oar Fortress Monroe Correspondence. Fonrnmas Mownos, May 10, 1863. Colonel Kilpatrick at Old Point—tenerat Dia in Consulia- thom with General Peck—Arrival of Another British Man-of-War—Fine Weather—Re-Enlisiment of New York Iroope—Reports from the Army of the Potomac— Rebel Forces Witharawn from Lee to Defend Richmond Against Future Raids—General Dia to Co-cperale with General Hooker, de. , dc. ‘The steamer Swan having left Weat Point at an early hour this morning, brought down the mail from our troops stationed there and at Yorktown , also Colonel Kil- patrick, of @eneral Stoneman’s corps, who left his com- mand at Gloucester Point—also a few wounded and disa- Died soldiers. Everything is quiet in that neighborhood, and such movements as have been made by Gen. Keyes’ forces which the public have a right to know, are depicted in the letter from the Hzzatp correspondent with the ex- pedition. Major General Dix left here this morning for Suffolk, to consult with General Peck in relation te affairs on the south side of the James river, and his visit may havea it influence on the movements of the Army of the mac. storm Das at last subsided, 3 &t the same time it is as hot as in the middie of August. i 1 a Rappahani cheering to everybody in this department, as’ known fact that General Leo’s rebel army is nearly up,and a decided movement on the rel fall to em sucess. From various sources I stress exists in Lee’s army, and 4 the hopes id out to the rebels of being Cea plenty of provisions after defeating the ‘Yankees’ goaded one she -cepenele valor exhibited during the late on- ‘Since the eucceestel raid of Gen. Stouemad to the very gates of Richmond the rebels have taken better care to | abiaren the fortifications around their capital. A large from Lee bas been withdrawn for this purpose ; and while our army is reinforced the army di- minishes, and now is time to strike and drive the rebel hordes bac upon Richmond. The nment may rely upon General Dix, command. this department, for his hearty co operation; and what be can and will do is of most vital importance to the Army of the Potomac. Our Suffolk Correspondence. Survo.x, Va., May 8, 1863. Causes of the Abandonment of the Siege of Suffolk—Redel Works Around the Town—Our Troops Levelling Them— Anotner Allack Anticipated—Suffolk Rahibits Itself— Megro Remarks and Obvservations of the Rebels—Reded Trade with Suffolk—Feeling of Our Troops im Reference to a War with England=Contraband Work on Forti- y e., de. Tecent movement of General Hooker at Fredericks. burg relieved us of the forces of Longstreet and Hill, who were closely besieging us up to Sunday last; and * they are now probably far on their way to reinforce the closely pressed legions of the rebel General Lee. The fact that the siege of Suffolk was not abandoned sooner shows that Lee did not anticipate so rapid and immediate ® movement on the part of General Hooker, and, more over, shows that Lee has need of every available man to oppose his active opponent. The rebels had drawn ap excellent cordon of works around us, and were evidently prepared to sustain @ repulse in case they made an as- Sault upon us. On the South Quay road there are three parallels of redoubte and rifle pits, the outer liae—some four miles from the Nandemond—being the strongest. On the Petersburg road there, are two lines running ‘Vhrough the dense woods which immediately appear near the Draw Bridge battery. Their lines are strengthened by every artifice which the surrounding materials fur- nished. In fact, their lines of contravailation proved that they undertook the siege of Suffolk with a powerful force, and with the firm intention of reducing the place. Large details from the different regiments here are now actively engaged levelling the rebel works, and ore long the face of nature in our vicinity will be somewhat smoother. It is anticipated that, should the force of Lee be suc- cessful in repulsing General Hooker's attack, there will be au immediate and powerful advance made upon this place. but we are prepared for them, and only regret that they did not attack us a week ago. Upon the disappearance of the enemy the inhabitants of this forlorn looking ex of the Dismal Swamp be- pap their "ir oie aes and by met aD ir theurpeives. ir eal ‘spit Dima! Svam; faces thay had evidently tatended should mot be again exhibited to the Yankeo barbarians whom, within a week, they bave *0 reviled, judging that our lenity was the re- sult of posillanimity. The lower the order of animal life the less it appreciaies kindness. ‘The remarks of some of the negroes after the re. H li treat of the enemy were amusing—'Goess the rebs didn't take dis yer place,” exciaims @ sable represeutative of Congo, as bie face opens like a ino. ‘* Dem Yankees kuowe right Febs, ” exclaims another. MAskis eRe A free negro and his family, living some four miles dis- tant from town, on the l’etersburg road, informed me that the rebels had taken his three suns ((reo), fearing they would give information to our forces, that they nad rob- bed him of eleven hogs out of Afwon, when, thinking it was better to kill and seli than have the ba we heartily tired of the contest. Large numbers of the mon were barefooted aud covered with rag@. Their rations when they first arrived before Suffolk were one-fourth of & pound of bacon or beef, and gome teal or Your. The ration was aflerwards increased to one-hal’ a pound of beoon or pork. Longstreet had a large wagon train with him, and bas probably cleamed the country in this vieinity of everything eatable, Before (he siege of Suffolk commenced, onthe 11th April, quite & brisk trade was kept ap with the rebel families who live within twonty miles of the place. Passes wore 80 easily obtained that the country ple flecked to Suf- fotk to themselves with wi they required to carry 00 AB Coeesful war againgt us; ‘ear militar: summers wcted their duties #0 loarely Uxat no d eatity was experienced by any one ta enter id leay: town when thoy chose, This @ the way we ange pnd tus is the way we expect to subdue this infernal redel- ‘The force that was besiegiog us ie now pro! ould it have been able to do sb if our followod it upt the force of a blow is its weight multiplied by ite velocity. but we the prineipie, ard stiil pu our old track, of blows in aud ceasion instard of However, our military authow rities know best, and will do but one thing ata ti Our nowspapat® inform us that a war with Pn, hot an improbabt.ity, I venture the eonal observation, Bhat there ia n ta ren ie abort to Mx pire but month if {hey cay have the ly op- vice whee na dh ticipating in suc's q war. ‘There is bot asdldier in the army but whe’, feels deeply the stinging. "tmsuits which have bee ‘¢ifered 10 his native land by “pertidwas albion”’—ir guts which are pateat @ the most feebie mind, an¢,which en:cnder a hatred of knglish piratical policy * shich can only culmir: . Our. goidiers are ready for the double task of foreign a: a ipt-enecine strife; and, however Wercuiean the task, it Vall be undertaken with a determination to conquer all or bury the republic ¥, ‘A word about contraband labor. than white; not because our soldiers cannot do more than a vexro; but, not considering themselves hired as laborers, ‘our troops, knowing that their pay—work slow er fast— ta exactly the same, are dts to shirk the task of throwing up earthworks. 1 bave noticed that the contra- ands employed apon our fortifications around Suflolk throw up double the sumber of cubic yards of earth in the same time that the same number Of our troo;s do. ‘Yet the contrabands ¢o not come up to the standard of the quantity of eart& a man can throw out of a ditch per day, ag they sekicen exceed six cublo yards per ten hours. The Attack upon the Rebel Works. FYROM A CAPTAIN OF THE NINTY-NINTH NEW YORK. ‘Texvonxs Barons Surroix, Va., May 4, 1863. Just returned from another expedition, and, thank God, this time without the loss of aman, After keeping up sharp sheltmg of the woods all round ws during the night, when morning dawned no enemy saluted us with his ac- customed feu-de (not) joie. We were immediately or- dered to fall in, and supported by a Michigan regiment, formed line outside our works, and charged over the same ground as on Friday last. But oh, how differ. ent! Not a rebel in those death-dealing breastworks and rifle pite, that only three days before belched forth such murdeous volleys on our devoted but un- broken ranks, and that for twemty-four days poured out their incessant rattle on each unfortunate whoso duties or necessities compelled him to cross the pinteau ‘between the trenches and camp, where, indeed, he was nosafer. Every tent has its marks of rebel lead. Mine is decorated with ex such remembrances of our secesh beleaguers. And as there js nothing from which one may not extract comfort, I console myself with the thought that they will afford some slight ventilation during the very bot weather, which is already upon us, But to It orpoaee to ws actually comprehended what an utter impossibility we had undertaken, and it ‘was then, too, that I, for one, felt how deep was our debt Of gratitude to fimlanty for having carried so many of us unscathed through such @ deadly conflict against such tremendous odds. After a hasty glance we formed columa and steadily advanced, our fealing the way, till wes arrived at thelr deserted camping ground and found nothing but newspa the asual debris incidental to such places. verily and {deed gone, and alter marching some distance farther and capturing a few stragglers, we met another body of our troops who had gone round by another road and found no foe. I have not learned yet how matters are on the other two fronts, but hear that Foster is driving them also. From here they have *‘skedaddied,”’ atte What is the next movo i THE ABOLITION CRUSADE. LESSON OF THE HOUR. LECTURE BY WENDELL PHILLIPS. Demand for the Sacrifice of Seward and Hal- leck, Blair and Chas. Sumner, | ao, ao, eo, ‘Mr. Wendell Phillips spoke tm the large hall of the evening, by invitation—as the Union,” The price of admission .was tweaty- five cents, double the amount for and the proceeds over expenses to be for the benefit of the anti-slavery cause. better by having her snug in bed at that hour of the evening. Infant prodigies should not be trotted out on all ‘occasions. The proceedings were opened by the nomination of a chairman, the meeting having been got up under the au- spices of the republican club of the Sixteenth ward. Mr. Phillips was presented by the Chairman as the man who had done more than any other, except John Brown, to bring the people to the banks of Jordan. (Applause.) FaiTH AND PATIENCE. Mr. Pamiré said:—I understand this is a ward meet- ing—a meeting of the Sixteenth ward of New York, the ‘Danner ward of radical republicanism. (Applause.) A very reasonably sized meeting for a ward mesting.. Jam glad to be for the first time in my life adopted into the politics of New York city, and to address a ward meeting on behalf of justice and liberty, “The leason of the hour,’’ it seems to me, is patience and faith. ‘Possess your souls in patience,’ not as having already attained, not as if we weve already perfect, but because the whole nation, as ope man, has for more than a year set {te face Zionward. Ever since September 22 of last year the nation bes turned its face Zionward; and ever si Burnside took the heim of the vesse! it bas moved toward beard pee (Applause.) Now, when a nation is moving, and moving in the right path, there is no reason for » there is ne occasion for despair. We have at last found out the and we are in car- nost. Patience, the passion of souts, all that makes conquest certain when the human heart i@ once capable of that great courage. No mat- ter what the clouds on the horizon may be, no matter how siow the motion, either official or national, may be, now and then God lifts the cloud and shows us the blue sky bebind. No matter how darkiy political mis- takes or treacheries may lower, the moment comes whea the great North sees that it ts a pha: and that behind the great heart of the nation beats true to its destiny. (Applause.) When I stood on this platform months ago, men said “You must not be surprised if bloods flows in the strects. Traitors are trying tw take the great capital of the North out of our arms, and the de- tmocratic party of the State is behind them.’ morning t was treachery tn the leading democrat of Albany, and the Mayor of New York defeated him in bis first move. espa When the counties came w be represented, the leaders found an army, with officers and po rank and file. The Goliah of Connecticut copperherds bas been killed, not by a stripling, but a girl. (Appiause.) Or, if we may add to her merits, that of Goneral Hamilton, of Texas, the eloqueut champion of the Unien in the contest in Counecti- cut. Then we may almost sey that out of the mouths of girls and slaveholders God is perfecting hiberty. (Ap- plause.) No Ihave no doubt, no despair. Gradually, one after another, the shame of the North fell away. It # to be along Oght. It is no local struggle Iti one share of great battle going on the world over, which Segan ages ago. Our army is only one grand division, one army corps, doing ite duty in the struggle betwixt free institutions and caste institutions We are only on the outskirts of that struggle; and wherever caste lives, wherever class power extends, whether it be on the bavks of the Thames or the Seine, whether by the side of the Ganges or the Danube, there the South hasan ally, as surely as the surgeon's knife gives pain when it touches the living Obre. Against that ja a marshalling of everything that ts strong in human. reliishness, the domocracy of the North dves battle, That democratic element of the North is strong enough, were it one and united, to have crushed all its foes on contivent in ninety . There never wi since the commencement of the struggle, if the North bad been a unit, the war not have been ended in three months. And so 4 have left slavery where jt found it. has never been nit. With the North as a unit—with the demooragy intellicent, resoived, in ear- nest, the South never woul have risked the struggle. WET POINT ROUTINE. But she knew that the North was divided into three great parties. One was routine—West Hoint, too lagy to think, (Applaase, mingled with some hisses.) It converte bunkerism love indvience—indolence and cowardice—too lazy to think, and not daring to think. The man of the past is the man who got his ideas before he was twenty, and who would rather thik as his father thought than take the labor of thinking for himself, He is a hunker and will die such. Neanerows, The second elemen) is the element of rate—hatred of the negro, nogrophobia, the Saxon contempt of the black slave and Lhe weariness of the qvestion. was (he democracy of North, in the good sense of the term—the man who believes in the manhood of bis brother the world over, and was wY!ing he should nave bie rights. Against such a Nort the Sonth rebelied— one band tied bebind it by negro hatred and the other Outside of that z constitutional serapier, and Waet Point on ite shoulders. (Laughter ond applause.) Against euch a Worth the You remember it well. The Novth ply the tine owd the plum mot that never dared to hive a log t youd know 10 binek ond no whee when jt recognize! stm Autios, and the Nortiy thal, Dold te wutnit It i@ more valuable | and im civil Iife, delioved and obeyed the old pro- dance ” pra ng re, ap Ag moe?” pace th ‘institution eed tag ca 8 ih fashion to bestow , 90 Jong tay before it, That North the, goytt as wo the abolitionists ¢ iw the issue is to show, but we hope so—mist’ sk ag we did how fur the canker had gone, how great weight this routine and hunkeriam had on the body Of “the people; that North rallied iteelf for the struggle, "Aured out her money like water and her sons with over growing wiilingness to meet the great battic betwixt, democracy and liberty, betwixt God and the world and the concer: (Appiause.) ‘The gowernment was equally in the dark, equally unde- cided, equally uncertain what course to pursue, and for a long time we stumbled. Why? OUR RULERS ARB EDUCATED WHiGS. The old whig party—good as it was in many respects, virtuous in many of its impulses, correct in certain of Its aspirations—| one defect. It had mo oomfidence in age 74 Is had no trust in tho masses; it did believe in the congcience or the intelligence of millions. looked out upon the Old World as in a probate court, of which the educated and the wealthy were the 5 And so when this government entered on the great work of defending a nation in its utmost peril. Jared not They fing ives on the bosom of the milliong and trust the to the hearts of those who loved it. Your President gat in Washington doubtful what he might do and how far he might go. Month after month stumbiing, faithless, uncertain he ventured now 4 little step and now another, surprised that at every step the nation was be- fore him ready to weioome any word, to support any policy, to hold up any blow that he chose to aim—so that matters of vexed dispute, matters.of earnest doubt, the moment the bugle gave a certain sound, have passed into | atte dead issues, You know that band” worth the constitution. But Butler pronouveed that magic word, ‘‘ contraband.” Applause.) He sum- mong the negro into the arena. It word. I do notknow that it is sound iaw, but Lord Chaiton said nullus liber homo is course laton, but it isyworth alle the classics. ‘* Contraband” is a bad word, and may b) ‘bad law, but it is worth allthe constitution. (Cheers. For in a moment of critical emergency it summoned the saving elements inte the national arena, and it showed the government how far the sound fibre of the nation ex- tended. Then Fremout. (Loud cheers.) Mr. yaihes. ont Isay when he pro- ition” on the banks ef the the government, EMANCIPATION A DEAD ISSUE. The government doubted unti] the 22d day of Septem- ber, 1862, but the moment the ot the word, it has floated into @ dead issue, and now nobody doubts or debates about the emancipation of slaves. (Applause.) It only shows you how strong the government is if it will on); act; How certain the heart of the people is to support it if the government will only trust it. mld be only made to ac- cop § = has L treasure of Northern streng! fe have not yet put forth beginning of our wer. If we fail, it will Decause we deserve to fali, because we have not virtue end to the means, There is no ynscience and the intelligence of the Decause thus far the § g Bees ea Felattci if thon 3 ee i t k i ? 5 A t i i Lj 3 Hd Fr at HA z Hy ets i se $ Ee the nineteenth century.: (Applause, For that class | have ever the door of conciiiation. The labor, the toil, the muse! democracy of the Sout is blood repre- sents them both. The eonverted master, when he sees matters in their truc | the slave restored to his rights—and when at last for the firat time in her history Virginte*bas a Laberge 1 has not » horde’of pirates ig government. Yer, the South has not yet felt the first symptoms of exbaustiia. Yet no dolusive hope that her conquest is to come from any such serviee. This war will never come to aclose by @ great battle. It is too tn its source—it is too wide in ite influence for that. great struggic in England betwixt the demo- and the nobility lasted from 1660 to 1860 taking a King’s Nife in 1te progress and it failed. The greatstroggle Detwixt the same parties in France begna in 1793 and has not yet ended. Our own Révotution began in 1776; and never until the outbreak of the French Revolution concen- trated the attention of the monarchy upon Europe was this country left in peace. PREPARS FOR ENLISTMENTS. Ten or twenty years {t will take to call for the sacrifice ‘such a Prepare yourselves for long en! istments. how Ves eg nein Ae Tan boop be hela Een taro ea Og ‘masses to the great functions to which Pro videoce has summoned them. The government looks to its initiative, government dare not mitiste a policy. and asks what its opponents will consent i ‘That ange the condition of the ey outepoken, perpetual, constant education of public opinion. x N& DORE NOT BELIRVE M THE GOVERNMENT. Ido not believe im the government at Washington. ——,) I believe in nationality. 1 believe in events, believe in the jvevitab’e tendency of these coming ten Years towards liberty aud unton, HOW BMANCIPATION 18 TO, But it i# to be done as i i rz id iF two chief—and both live in Washington, (Laughter.) And the sad news that 0. @ of them mewn to take the feild, (Laughter Lineotn and Halleck, these two commanders in Weehinggn, have hither Washington, exere that even a Honaparie won! tempted to fight dred mies d t# tors them i (au be Well, 1 thivk because our rulers were educated whigs, | living man—uot @ printed book. Appianes.) In my opinion I am beyond likiugs and kings. The times are too serious: for the iuduigence of antipathies or likings. All these othing but dead lumber to be used up, w be ito the gulf, that the flowing cusigns to liberty and peace. ‘WEST POUT AT WASHINGTON, But never will the rebellion be put down while West Point rules at Lens hank np nage! ane ar while the second commander-in-chief cuts out of the pro- gramme every one that goes against bis own routine, HALLBOK COMPARED WINH HUNTAR, BUTLER AND PHELIS, There are two great distinctions to be made of the men ar the head of the army. There is on our side such a man as Halleck, who the negro, who hates novel- ties, distrusts ideas, rejects Aerdgrner aged red tape. On this side are such men as Hunter, Butler and Phelps and Fremont—(i of ideas, SIGEL IN THE FIRLD. ‘Sigel is in the fleld, and | hope he will drag on the rest of them, and.until he does +0 there will be no suecess. A cook takes an onion, and when preparing to cook \t she peels off layer after layer, till she gets to the sweet, sound vegetable, We must get to the soutid national element, the civil and military purpose, the earnest belief and in- tense devotion to victory, the entire belief im justice which meets Stonewall Jackson on equal terms, Never ‘unti! then shall we succeed. COMPARIGON OF SEWARD AND BUTLER. T have com; General Halleck and General Fremont. ‘You may avother parailel—Seward and Butler. Mr. Seward does not believe in the war. He believes in di- plomacy ; he believes in compromises; he believes in poli- tics. He has professed again and agniu’ that this war, like the divisions of former times, could be quieted in sixty and ninety days. He thought so. Wf be had not thought so he had never risked his fame 6a statesman by the prophecy. He said it by the voice of @ regular army officer in the cabin of that ship which ‘went down to dismantle Norfolk, when foreign bred sol- diers begged American officers to stop and give them 300 men to gave two thousand caunon from the arms of the Confederates. One of his class took the Colonel into the cabin and said-—‘You do not understand this thing. ‘This is not a war, it 16 a quarrel. We have had a dozen Of them. We will yet over it in sixty days.’ He be- Neves it now. He receives commissioners, and sends Frenchmen to Richmond to know terms. He sends letters abroad dealing with rebeis as equals, in fact. Butier is the first man—and it ought to be on his grave- stone when he dies—who hung arebel. (Applause.) If I were a politicun and a ral 1 would not let it go down to history that Butler was the only man—aud he a democrat—who dared to hang a felon. said to Louisi- ana, “England calis you belligerents—a fine word. You armies give commissions. All I know is* that you are felons, If we take a Frenchman we shoot him. If we take ay Engiish- man ve shoot him. If Pade a @ Loursianian we hang him.” (Applause.) The whole si Department of he Southwest was in that g world may digu! gu insurrection as it pleuges; but to the government it is felony, punishable with the gibbet. And when he said to the merchants of Ne “Every inch short of the gtbbet is pure grace,’’ he rep- resented the only theory that will ever conquer tna re- Dellion. The government is in arms, against criminals who have wasted its treasures and tilled 260,000 of martyr and patriot graves : and they are rebels, not belligerents. If Mr. Seward is a repubiicon, God grant us a demo- cratic successor to the Presidency. I want somebody to occupy the Presidential chair who believes in government and believes in the people; one that willact without hay- ing bis eyes over his shouider to ree how far the poopie setaally him. We want leaders that initiate, that “REND OF agrraTiON. 5 Now, friends, my belief is, that you and I are bound to create an obliging, ex;eoting, imperative public opinion, thet shail compel the goveroment to the adoption of such Reiss ataen Tne ated’ ode A I re in events, thoug! ve that events stronger than, the Cabinet are bringing us onward, whether we willor no. 1 believe also in men as harmonizing tha issue of events. ‘MONSIEUR FOMION (OME AGAIN, Let me make the geverais, and 1 do not care who makes the proclamations. Let me put at the hoa of the ad- vance columns of the Union certain men whom I could name, and the Cabinet af Washington may shut them- seives up and go to slecp, with Rip Van Winkle till 1873, (Laughtor.) For | kuow nen “Ono blast upon whoge bugle horn Were worth a millfon men,’ put them in the heart of the rebellion, where our armies ought to be. Waar is vingoma, ‘Lbeleve in Hooker. I believe in bis succesa, When it ts done, what of it? Gratify the north, startle Europe. Go far, no But tis ae Bar- Hs Ie wilt What 2 istenance from her ucres. States. The buss of the-re- there that our army should stand, If victorious, the bottom of the tub is out. If contested, the armies must be withdrawn {rom the cirovm:erence and Sight if it fs in the centro; and you know whos» names the ve cherishes as a househokt word in every , whore bidding will rise around the Stars S Will the slave fight? Well, if avy man asks you, tell hi “'no.”? If he asks you will theslave work, tell him “no; ‘but if he asks you whether the negro wiil fight, tell him ‘+yea"— (laughter and appla.se) work even for patriot- ism without wages. He has‘worked at Fortress Monroe. The United Statcs promised him twelve dollars a moath— no, ten, keeping the first three for any stray contraband that may join bim, taking the second four for the hing Of the coatraband himself, and the other three Uncie sam keeps. (Laughter,) Will he fight? Ask Higginson. WEGRO FOLDIFRS “ AFRAID OF THE HOSPITAL" He says in, one of his private letters that when he car. ried that first regiment to St. Mury’s, one soldier got seven buckshot in his neck, and unlikesome white vol- unteers, afraid of the hospital, be got a comrade to aig them out with a jack kni¢ and went on to the next bush. Another, wounded in the left arm, afraid of the hospital, kept it socret forty-eight hours till the swellmg and pain ‘was too great to be borne, at List he owned up sick; and the third, injured in the leg, bore it im silence for tho sake of fgbiing one more skirmish, sud when they sent bim on picket duty, owned up and went to the hospital. Do you think these men will fight? And another, with almost ludicrous recklessness, weut into the skirmish ‘forward twenty paces. forward a dozen rods, fire, fail back ten, forward again, fire.” receiving fre, but they noticed he moved very clomally, rather awkward, did not keep proper drill: and when he came out of the battle rather” scant of rations, he picked op a when he en. tered the skirmish and hold it all the while between his lege. (Great laughter.) That man deserved his rations. INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL BUTLER—1W8 OPINION OF NWGRO 4 b! 3 3 ‘be Colonel oF Major ? ‘ ‘wo are; for those.” “Then give me another regiment,” Massachunetts democrat. In twenty-one days another. “Give me a beg e! fourth,” and in af Ul 4 ze BEE E- ae 4 53 f i3z 5328, : H ! i 3 i # Hh thai “Tam glad that my slaves are gone Aud, by the way, to go back a moment, if loyal men surrender their siaves to save the Union, don’t you sup- Pao the disloyal will surrender theirs bo federacy! 10 you sapffoxe the South will stop before she Tne on to her banner “emancipation” with such willing ners General Hamiiton comes to Boston abd has the provntee of the Cabinet over and ever and over sgain that he tno: g) to Texas ated shot the back door of the rebel. Hor, cnt of whieh trator mean to follow w beaten und through whieh Vickehure eete*her today. Why don’t pe have it? Your own citizen ofthe deat, too leave Wi ington comes Abraham Lincoln is not President of the United Because bebind him cur! his parposes, making i nds, his bank stock, save the Union. The goverpment may make every slave reeman, uo matter whore he is, in Kenwu! Louisiana, now or to-morrow, with compensation or without it. Military necessity the door, but the moment Liveoln enters it there ie but one duty under the constitution, aud that is to exe- cuse justice betwixt the master and the siave, Everywhere throughout the Union there ig but one thing the goverpment canuot do to and that is to make the freeman Everything else is within its power. 3} doubted somewhat when | heard the news from the Rap- pshannock, until I saw that reverses had taught the na tion where its strength lay. Until Sigel was callea to Washington { doubted whether the goverument was being educated in this pathway. The moment he went! saw Sunlight bebind the cloud. (Applause ) God grant us 80 maby reverses that the goverpment may learn ite duty. God grant us that the war may never end tntil it leaves us on’ the. solid grapite of impartial Uberty and justice. (Appiause.) What we have got to teach Washingwon is that that js the full purpose of the miliens, and under and initia the Gertaluty of succes; the millions, not the leadera—none Of thom utterly im) artiat. neither President. (abmet nor Senate. Leave oif Seward, peel off Halleck, peet off Blair, peel off Sumner, of Massachureits, Senators as well ad others, aud | will tell you way. When the government. called on New England for a negro regiment, and we wen? from county to county urging the blicks to cnitst, one Massachusetts coivnel da ed to eay. in the face of the ene- my, that he had rather be whipped under negroes than- conjuer at their side. In that hour oi emergency and critical issue his cave went within twenty days betore the Senate of the Luited States and the very week that bis apology wus tiled in the War Office ‘at Washington, Massachusetts Senators . begged their reluctant brothers to make him a trixadior general, (Cries of ‘Shame, sbame."') A private, ignoraut, um- educated, just mustered into service, muiinied in ther streets of Koston and Col, Sewell shot tim rufhtfully. (Applaise.) A Massachusetts coluel my tivied in face of the enemy and a Massachusetts Senator made himw # brigadier general. (“Soame, sbame.”) :uch repubd- canis will never put down the rebeilicn—,«pplause)— never until men welcome the negro, the foreizner, the: German, all races, and until, us men melted together foto @ common nationality they hurl 4 thunderbolt at caste aud despotism , wiil the North deserve i» trismph at the hunds of « just God? (Applause.) But the North wil triumph. I hear it. PRRORATION, To you remember that disastrous siege in Indie, whem the Yovich girl ross ap from her pw-let in the hospital and id to the sickening hourts »{ the English, ‘Tf the the Campbelis coming,’ and they said, it is Getiriam.”” 0; 4 know Pit \hear it afur if? and in an hour the bagsipe burst udon their triumphant ears, and the * banner of England floated in safety over ther heads, So J hear wow, in the distunee, tne first notes of the jubilee arising irom the gropinz bearts of the millions, Soon, very goon, you will hear it at the gates of the cita- del, aud the Stars and ~tripes shall guarraptee Hberty to all, :roin the lakes to the Gulf. (Applause) Mr. jigkack Geesney, in answer toa pretty general cal) from the audience, made a brief address, ex; ressing hie belief thut the rebellion was in u fair way 0, being over- thrown. REMARKS OF WI!LIAM LLOYD GARRISUR. Calis were then mude for Wx, Lioxp Gakrison, who, 08 coming. forward, was grevted with hearty a)p.ause. He bad ‘ittle to after their: ondurrement of the sestiments expressed by Mr. Phillips land their tokens 0! regard for the mgmory of JohD Brown, whose soul was stil murching om; ati alter hav- ing er. dorset General But'er bimeelf. if be should,pow say anything. however strong aguingt the rebellion or agaings slavery, be might be accused of stealing the thunder of others. He was against the rebellion oot: and! branch, Every d op of blood t bis-vetns ry pulsotion of his heart was gene the rebeltiun and hast beouSrom the Lon trate, of le was for the abolirion of the rvbellion and for the abolition of slavery, which was the. cause of the Tebellion. (Cheers ) He would not give wcisher one or the cther any quarter, He wes to the death xguinst the rebellion, and to the death vgiiust slavery, There must not be left oue slave to clack his chains on thé \inerican continent. (Applaure,) ‘There must nut be found a re- cugniced io all ths jand. If the constitution ‘Meant liberty he was for the constitution. it nion meant lierty be was fer the Union. But the terms 6 natitution and Union were equivalent,. aud he would het hear the word liierty once houestly and boldly wttered from the iia of @ man, than the constitutim and the Union «hundred times over. This struggle is (or liborty, or else it ts nut werthy of the ‘smile of God and carmot meet wii his epproval, jn the olden time, mey called out ‘-eaoe, peace, when tnere was no peace.” And tho prophets prowounosd we against them. Goppe: beads , oF vnday are the iegitimate deecendiuts of those men who eried peace, peace. He was himself a radical peace men; but he knew it was not possible 16 Rave peace, while lati. at tempted. to mingle jut. one the element of 'y on the: one hand and freedom on the other, We must be all tree or all slave, and with the grace of God we will be ali «n the side: of {reed.m. To-morrow would be the Tweoty-ninth anoiversary of the- Anti-Slavery Society, aud he trusted iheregyould be no need of ug more than one other aunivérsary—and that would be to comp.ere the third decade of the society, and to celebrate the jubilee «i ireedom, when every man shail be free, when tbe monarch’s of sinvery shall be. severed 10m oue end of the country to the wther, and when there shal! Be nove ts molest or make afraid. He ‘was for the uboiition of the revellion, for the abolition of slavery, also for the abolition of the Anti Slavery Society, (Laughter) Abraham Linooin had showed binself nos tile to future slavery agitation, by deciaring freedom to~ three millions of slaves, aut he would thank hin in the pane ‘f justice, of humanity, and of God, andy. he would Low complete the great werk, by declarmg. freedom throughout ail the jaud, and to all the inhabitants thereof. (Applause. ) ‘The weeting immediately afterward separated. Joe Coburn at the New Bowery Theatre. BE GIVES & BPARKING EXHIBITION AND MAKBS & SPEECH. The New Bowery theatre was denrely crowded last Bight in conse yuence of an announcement that Joe Co- burn, the conqueror of MeSoole, would give an exhibition of the manly art of +ell-defence, The audience was mainly composed of the rough stratum of society. Sprinkied bere and there throughout the immense as sembiage wei few persons (ourselves for ietance) of more respectable exterior, like golden. nugyete among the pebble stones. The doors were opeaed ab seven o'clock, and trom that hour to the conclusion of the fiest piece the number increased. With’ accession of numbers came acces-jon of heat; oranges ag. candies went down, while the theru meter weut up. Shirt col Jars sutlored considerably avd play bilis were turned imto fans. The GOrat piece scoapicd awout an Lor and a half, Tt was fail of horrors (fo r murders), and would ao doubt have been timprersive bad not one of the gods performed av impromptu «iron a tin whistle when the actors were about making Mavic beat points. At thirty Minutes past Hine the promyter's bell rung, aud he eur- tain rose on the crib scene of ‘Tom and Jerry; or, Life in Louden.” necessary, as all about it, and the ave an opportunity of doing s* ‘The wterest Of the scene of course centered on the ring exhibitions. The first Sick and Jim McDermott. Mr. combatants to the audicuce, and after shaking honus they went to work in a very business-like manner. A ter two Drie! rounds, eoding with «clinch anda mutual jummel- Hing about the head piece, made their bow ana retired again int» private life at the Of the stage. Mike Nor- ton, @ stout, well built nan, and very light aud nenhic on his pins, was then introduced, and in anther minute Joe Coburn, the Champion of America and the hero of the evening, made bis appearacce on the stage. Hie was greet with suoh cheers as only the Bow. ery 8 can give. liefore time was cailed the gave Joe three more chers and then sparring commenced. For some minutes the two combatants squared away at each other with an evident desire to find an opeuing. Atiast Joe .o: in hie loft on Nortn' ; the audience cheered, and Joe again time on his adversary's chest, ‘the Femainder of the round was a series of feints and dodves, during which Joe managed to make about three hits to Norton’s one, The second round was svon over, bei similar to the first,.and ending in a clinch and some har. mmelling. When the cu felt Joe was called aud presented with a jet about the size of the centre bed in some small frout gardens up town, The andience wished for am specch; but Joe was evidently not aw fait in that line, and gradually eaget away to the side, bowing his thank> time. Mr. Clark came forward and said he was by Mr. Coburn t» return them his sincere thanks ration had made, was then per- his oratorical powers. He tiem, | shall here to morrow ‘Saxe. "te the of which brief ‘bow, and carried his bouquet of applause and laughter. The { is a list of the names of the soliiers be x eon ae Now Jersey regimout, who wel roweeh ot a Ferry, on the Cumberland — becbeee : Emery, Goorge A. i : ii i Hy iq g 3 i ij He 7 ti