The New York Herald Newspaper, October 2, 1863, Page 2

tracts of land is always taking place, do 30 a8 long as the word and the Missiesiyy ‘The water which talis upon the earth ip Faia does not immodiste!y find ts way into the Missia ipl, Blt is carried Lack from the bigh ground you He Danks to the swamps bayous, and, they iading to the ehape of tho J Vhite, Red, &o., it at lust eucers the Miasisa ese rivers. Bolow the Re to tho Gall, between (bree and foar bap c c ase, mo stream or river | empty > the Miss jog that disiance from | the ev Og Coaniry the wa er being carried to the | Gulf through the cuticts Of thts mighty river called | bayous. The color of + tor of the Mississipp ciwoly like the pavis of water ona roud after a shower, though | XK ebinges wa er or er color, according to the rising 0° the various rivers which emu) ty Thus the Missourt gives ta muddy appearance, tue Ohio a rel: low ror ce cer, the Red « reddish cast. This cones from the tar color of Uke soll or couutry through whfeh they rue. (ARO, L arrived at we on the afterooon of the 8th. There is nyiud ug of boautifulto tempt the waveil wy ) (air, iS ow, Poor buildings, to we nu © jour hundred, being seattored hore un ti \targe fat, ‘The business portion of the pla ’¢ L tei, Railryad dopots and stores, fronts the lever (he Caio where it em ties into the Bis. fo. com Ue -CnOPMoUs prices cuarged at the Vvorivus reun talutehmeats bere, ue becomes aware that Le is epprowckaay Dice. At Cairo our forces were first coucentrated im tue Swath west JONOHON OF LAK GMO AND MISSISSIZET, The City of Actow was fortugately lying at the leveo whou Larrived, and was advertised to start for Momphis . and wit! continue to | throne Samuel Polk sold seventy-five thousand bushels of corn for agyven- NEW YORK DURALD Pe RIDAY % some Lon or Of few cman the ghe War its wore OMe: « ase MU: 4 ' hve k dweenyilte some t this 1 ho ince " y se thut oan be pe ! i hare tana sued, (or the reason (he oe ru wlicl maw Gover WY CWEEG Md ftw bute labor will be much less di 4 by this efeten th Vo inquiry of the most Bt etewn, Jam satisfied that they consider tho calise of geese u hopelessly gous, and ben o the mevement on the part of the people for the purpese above sialed, | Betybborhovd of Colombia and Urgoncustio wiation of General Piliow is three miles below | Near Napoicom ia the. immense pianiation-of tive late His loss by this war is eclnsated at from six te | Thomas P, Anderson, the buildings of waich wero datire indved thousand dolars, Ai! the buildings upon | ly destroyed by our Gunboats, geortiias haying Arod at the plantation Lavo been destroyed by our troops. The | assing vessels, ‘ence ot Genera! Pillow i near Columbia, Tennessee, | Balaptom’ Dancan, eolonol ia the robel 6e*vice, and tho sald to bave born a palatial one, In this vicinity | wife of Ten Broeck, aro two of be heirs to the property. #0 the residence 0: the Hon, Bishop General Leouidas | All the inves, to the! number of séveral hundred, avo” Polk, of the reve! army disappeared. Beyone Memphis wo passed -oight or ton A hamosace of (iis bigh aud mighty Southerner, pamed | steamers loaded ‘with troops going up tho river. , of Phillips County, Arkansas, three miles im wasabi, the rear of Helene, owned a farge plant. aod was a joksbur, vory egventric man, Ho is perhaps the oniy man living Des Sere te geben torte wc a ees akg who by ecvoniriclty in ono yoar mado a fortune of soven- | tangy, Like Greouvilla, but two houses are standing, and ty five (honsaad doliars, they are tonantioas, on each side Of the river lay tbe In the year sceceeding tho groat famino in Ireland Mr, | pulls of the ‘Tigroas abd Genoral ‘Taylor, two transports driven ashoro by the guns at Vicksburg when they at tompted to pass tho forts. Md ‘Was Beut by our Mout ig Fort Warren, ond afterwards to Kort La Govorngr Morouead is now in Kusgpo. ine Of the fincat plantations sw the Sooth aro in the about $ {5,0 ay of resi and is ty-fiye thonvand dollars, Whon corn was high he planted cotton, and when cotton wag high ho planted corn, not oaRTEAGE Single nore betag used for any other purpose, with the | is 9’ ptace ores houses. Gonoral. Gran exception of hia garden, s feb cwhstbodetbninds across the prermlernrtes f Frier's Point, 9 Union post, was passod some twelre or ‘Vicksburg, and encamped upon Mr, Jamoa’ fifte ites bolow Holeua, on miles bolow Ho! ‘The residence of tho planter cost $40, helig ti ARKANSAS Riven, ‘doen Perkins’ plantation is below Carthago, whoro a portion ‘This river is a navigable stream. Tt emptios into the Misatssipp! river on tho west sido, afow hundred yards | of Gonoral Grant's army encamped before moving agnina) Grand Gulf, ‘ bolow Napoleon, Arkausas. Arkansas Post, about sov enty miles from its mouth, ® smal! place of one hundred LAKE PROVIDENCE, that oveuing. md inhabitants, was settled about tho time that Willlam |” A’cangl was dag hore, leading from tho Where the 0) ‘os ino the Mississippi a struggle | Ponn made the treaty with tho fndlang. A bard fought |’ tended to pasa through Tonsas, by Mason, tuto viver APPEUS Lo Lake place berween those rivers for the mas. | hattle took place here under Gen. McClornand, Gen, Bur. | It was a failure, — tery. it isroally 4 vory fino sight to see the immense body of clear water of ibe lormer rusb with great force into the turbid Mississiyp!, entirely changing the color of the actor. For some two or three miles below Cairo thero appear to be two cuunnels, the c.ear wator of the Ohio taking the eastern side and the muddy Mississippi the western, At this distance the water oa the eastern bank bo- tint, increasing in color as we proceed, wutil the Father of Waters rolls on without a rival, forming one water, one color and one channel, ‘TUR COUNTRY. Tho country on each side of tho river, from Cairo to within a hundred miles of New Orleans, is flat and with- men before the fort surrendered. 43 & town of Gix or seven hundred {nha').tavts, The buiid+ ings are scattered and pour, with tho oxception of tha | Boatd to ailonoe the batterios at Grand Gulf. United States Marino Hospital, which is @ largo and re- Spectable looking stracture, stroyed hore that I could ses the river are the ruins of the town of Pri our gunboats about @ your ago f hero are the rest the fathor-in law of Gonora! C Jost bolbw is a vary fa Hon. Christopher Vieida, wh aun nus ia & place juat above Grand Gulf, where tha troops coficen- ‘rated previous to the attack on Vicksburg, ead a poiat from which they marched atter the failure of tho gan- bridge’s dtviston in front, We lost noarlys thousand NAPOLKOM GRAND GULF {ga vory atrong military post, situated on the oaat bank of of | Sho viver, ovacuated by the enomy after the fight at Port by | Gibson, The town, which ia now catiroly destroyed, wad Near | formorly « place of about three hundred inhabitants. 2 The Plantations of Jofferson and Joseph Davis are in this neighborhood, on the ons side of theriver. Tha former fs in the rear of Herican’s Iaisnd; the latter ia on She river bank, Not ab Oa tho op] ntiss, b ding was do. 6 wad planta army; owned by tho & parsistan$ Union Out beauty, with the exception of high ground or biuflé | man during the whole Of our troubles. He represented BRUINSRURG two or treo hundred yards ia length, gometimes a hun | Bolivar county in tue Leaisiatnce for a tiuuabar of years, | 4% Polnt on tho east bank of the rivor, where Genaral dred or © miles apart. The cottonwood and | At Napoloon I had the plorsuro of noo tnd passing | Grave's arthy landed prior to the attack on Post cypress cover the earth, tho former growing #0 | through a cut-off which dil not oxis: six woeks ago, Tue | Slbsoa, Raymond, Jackson, Cuampioas’ Hull, Big Biacie rapidly that the young trees hide from view | washings of the rivor carriot Bundred | Sd Vicksburg. tifonne the plantations en the river banks whick have been do- | and forty yards of earth, thus aeippt on Fig olty of fifteen or twoaty thouswud Mbabitants, serted since our army has! taken possession of the coun- try, the tops of the buildings being in many places only visible evea from the upper deek. From a few milos below Baton Kouge to New Orleans the scene changes and 13 vory One, tho lordly resitences of the planters, aud the white cottages of the negroes, together with the garden- Uke appearance of the country, forming a pleasing con- trast to the monotony which mile after mile meets tho eyoon the upper Mississippi, thero being nothing but trees, banks and sandbars, with now and then a town, bluff or deserted plantation to relieve it from becoming too wearisome to look upon. coLumnus. Tho first point of intorest that we stopped at was Co+ Aumbu-, @ military post of considerable importance and of great natural strength. Brigadier Gedera! Smith, of the Thirteenth army corps tg now in command. The town of Columbus t+ situated upon the east bank of the Mi-sissipp1, and is built on bigu blufts. From tho river i? has a vory clean and beautiful appearance, and I some soven or eight hundred inhabitants, Several gov- trnmont buildings have been built, and they are tn keep- ing with the others. Along the top of the bluffs are little circular revolving sontry boxes, with domes, the latter painted red and the body brown. From tne river these, with the well tarfod curthworks, the bright guns and the pilos of cxnnon balls between, give the whole the appear- ance of a }vonch stronghold or fort. Gonera! ‘s ieadquarters are in a large brown mansion, (acr ¢ the river and not more than one hundred yards from it. Yonr correspondent and others from the City of Aiton paid the old veteran @ short visit, and were well ropaid by him and the menabcrs of his staff. Early in tho war a sharp fight took place at Belawsat, aarly opposite, in which our forces were victorious, Tho rebels at that time occupied Columbus, and, though they sent a fow shots across the river, they proved of no use, a9 the distance was too great. About the same time that this battle was Cougbt the engagement at Bird's Point (a fow miler ahove Cairo) took place. iu tho rebols evacuated Bowling Greow they also Sfocuated Columbus, when our forces took possession of tho place, and have since held it. ‘The rob orks on which thelr canzon were planted atili romain; but (ho ourreut of the Mississippi has washed no carth which fofmod the water batteries. en | ISLAND NO, 10, % ae Tins colobrated avrongbold, which so long resisted our vance down tho Mississippi, is an island of bigh wooded, situated to tho right of the chan: ‘our or five miles in length, entirely com’ dg tue river on all sides, and, like Columbus, is ® place of grost natural strengt A large number of con- trabands are now cucampod upon it, whose business is wo cultivate the iand NAW MADRE s fewy tallos Wolgry Iylaad Ne. 10. roRT MLLOW on a blut ow the cast bank, evacuated by tho rovely aflor the surrender of Island No. 10. ig a sant! yilings memes? fsa fac city of from twenty-five to thirty thousaad inbabi tunte. Before the war Memphis was a thriving place, of creat importance, and (ast becoming the rival of New Or- teans Several railroads branched from here, connecting with the principal roads of tho orth and South. Mem phis was by far the groateat cotton mart in Tennessee. From Memphit to the mouth of the Red river is the special lutitade for the cultivation of cotton; and the Rod rivor to the const, rogar. Along the coast rice # the colebratod sex tsiauds coton are raised, At this place the first gunboat engagoment on tue Missienippt took plrce. ‘The rebel symyatiizers tr the success of their cause, while the hues are more bit- ter than evor agoiust tho + Yankees,” « sures eomohow the women can a0 more hold their temper than thotr tongues; and while the male, in this respect, will uso ail his power to keep bis thoughts and feelings (rom ‘ws, tho (omalo, by her bitterness, expose both. Among tho strangest of all strange things of there womeu—to show their zeal for the Southern eaise~{uey we (where Yankees are) entirely throws of their “Ob, Uhat is owing to their enormous price in tie South,” our Northerm Indies wi!! observe. Not at ail Jto pe are reasonable enongh at Memphis, bot thoy have ngreed among themselves pot to wear them. it is their ol siga—thotr badge—their rebel flag. No longer swed to Mauut past oor gallant fellows with thelr + 4 @ and flage pinned to thet: dresses and bonnets, they & ve it apon this plan, They will wear mo more hoops. ‘Tot i their revel mark now; and one, the other ©), whee asked f that woe the reason, tosred up her Db at and said, “Yes, it t; and you Yaukees can't make us rear hoops, neither.’ ow If [ thougtt that some of yoar ladies at tho North, wer oading Unis, were to makethe size of their hoops tuo staoeard (or their loyalty, 1 would not have toid yor Uae Ini oresting fact, Take good advice, ladies, be satis ‘Had with (he preseat dimensions of your skirts, now you Ksow that the mon of the South are despairing and the women uopless, and your happiness will be imercaged to gour bearta’ cootent wre fr « very Dandgome plaice irom Vocivnge Mad sawmilis, rescul Memphis are despairing of sud, with ite Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Abe etuation i@ very picturesque, having high bills imne ately (0 (te rear, whieh arg seen for miles and miles along Se Mes esippl, (be church spires and residences gleam Yuu im bse distance, and staudingtout tn,vold relies se ay Here omens has erected several commodious bi it | ach aid@, upon the river's bank, our troops are | wbe bebiad them upon the highest hil the } Biert a4 Seripee wave from the fort. Helena was o we after the onsmy evacuated Memphis. In the fry px tof duly of this year @ force under the rebel Heoores Holmee aud Price attacked it; bul they were ads. 108 er ( thie Is the owly high ground | foe If of Mexico on this side of e piace the sufieet of a convention ix fre som 0 6 ir0ud, 10 Make tate considers er wea w ACEI iow by Nppront faa é 2 the opposite side, and ‘shortening tho channel twelve miles, end, and must Onally be carried away and become tho bed oftho rigor, 4 two or three weeks, The place was destroyed by our was glat to flud on Innding that it lost but little of either | gunboats, scarcely cvem a vestige of the ruins boing visi- of these virtues. Bofore the war it probably numbered | bie, so thorough was the destruction. our passing, a rebel paymaster, with one million two situated upon tho oast bank of tha riy: Natehoz is buiit on the highest ground along the Mtsafssippi.on this banks. Tt isa very handsome town, aad tas several noble build. ings to and around it, The town of Napoleon {3 now, : tely, cna Below Napoleon {a tho plantation of the celebrated horse producer, Ten Brook, Tho residence tipon it is a very | ave mites below } plain, low building, but the plantation and uegeo quarters are among the Landsomest on the rivor, WORT 4nAua, chez, ts tho dividing line between Louisiana aud Miasissippi. It ia a small town on the east aha Pisvas ba ofthe river, numbering bofore tho war yee two 7? * undred houses. The town is sow ontirol; ried. This landing, which fe altuatod on the wost bank of the | gic mites below , on the oppoatte aide, Py the aones of the Tivor, was the celebrated one for debarking the Texaa | Log river, emigrants ofore the war. From here thoy crossed the | Og the cast side of ths fiver, aear Tort Adatay, is 3. B. mainland to Camden, on the Wachita, aud from there | goin plantation, one of tue largest in the South. He branched off to Alexandria, Streveport and other pointe in owns between ten and’ fifteen thousand: acres of land. Northern Texas. The emigration was priuolpally from Bofore the war broke out he had tive hundred negroes, the States of be temihd Alabama, Tennessee aud Georgin, | ang raised annually from three to five thougend bates of Two stores are ail tho bulldings here. cotton. ‘marri widow Through Carter's Landihg is 9 short distance below. the | wire he dosha spochanat cb this peerage ata guerillas fired at overy steamer that passed up or down | years ago he was worth over two million dollars, besides the river for three or four months, up to within the last Laving one of the Sinest placos and mangions ia the South, near Nashville, the whole, with improvements, slope costing nearly oue million dollars. Mr. Acklin is said to bea Union man. When our forces arrived at New Or- loans the rebels tried to persuade him 10 set fire to five thousand bates.of cotton which he then had on hand; ‘but he refused to. do so. He is now residing with hig family at bis resideace near Nashvitic. 1 had seen upto Not far from here, af Catfish Pond, the Way previous to hundred thousand {a rebel bonds) four captaitis and twenty of their body guard, were captured. whilo at. tompting to cross the rivor. this time but two.slaves along the banks of the river. On CrrEUS SEK this plantation [saw scores, as wo!l as several horses and 4s situated @ short distance below Napoloow. A skirmish | oaitio grazing. The latter wore the first | had.seen since. took place here last spring. The guerillas had been firing | y eft Cairo. on every sransport that passed up or down the river, |i port Hudsoay’ Baton Rouge aad Donaldeoaritie f axa when an expedition, under General Burbridge, was sent | unanic to Speak of, aa.wa passat thom im. the night. 1 from Young’s Point, One place of artillery anda number bwin, nowever, montion a fow names of planters along Of prisoners wore taken. here, who cither own large piaatatious or are. in the rebel couvuets, Defore the war was a village of some two or three hin joted Wiuchester's plantation is about A¢teen miles be- drod inhabitants. Tt is situated on the wrest bank, below | iow nonaidsonville. He is one of the wealthiest and most James Landing @ short distance. The buildings remain | ingcential men in theSouth Hé has ason tm the rebel apparently uninjured, Three stores with signs in frout army, ® captain of artillery. show that a drug store, « paint storeand a grocery did } General Dick ‘Taylor's resideuce ia situated about business here at one time; but now the shops are closed, | iyeiny six miles above New Urleans, on the west side, the shutters of the houses and blinds cover the windows, | puncan F, Kenner, the celebrated raiser of \ stock, and not a soal can be geen. AS Napoleon and many | rogiied on Lis plantation on the «svt bank of the river, other of the smalier towns which wo passed I noticed the | ahoutseren miles below Donaldsonville. He ie one of the 8 me desertion and desolation. Ruin was everywhere. Yeaders in the confederacy. The buildings yet remain oar upon tho plantation; but all the negroes and horses have isa few miles below, oD the opposite side from Columbia. | Loon taken, Madam Heuchwas? plantation, on the erst ‘This place, which the war had some seventy-five | pant. gixty miles from New Orlenne and three from or a hundred hounes and buildings, is now in ruin, tho | Femrgon Collage, is one of sue finest plantations And band church and two white bpil Standing forth amid 4} poyoat residences iu the South. them like pale spectrés, All hore ie allent, too. Nearly all the plantitions which are worked Four mouths ago Greenville was destroyed vy our 4 aug panics of the river arc in the Uawls of dhe agents of forocs. Some trquéports at the time were on the way to | the government, Momphis, when the ofigmy opened upon them with artil- lery about palf a mile above the town, Killing aud wound ing tbirleén fen. Several infantry and two or three hun- cavalry wore fortunately ou board, These were landed at once, mls ¥ fag work of desipygyon com menced. The qyom} wore chagod, eoveral kille’, wound- ed oF captured, wheu the force marched ap to Dee! crock, setting fire to tho buildiuge, Thoa thoy started f Greenville, and destroyed every building iu the town but the church and two houses, Ashort time after, at the sume place, avout five bun drod geerillas fired upon the steamer Mivuesote, with ar- tillory and musiketry. Ove eile cl ty asa yy { shot away, tae tilloy: sue Mas Gul in two, and, the vessel | becoming Wimatageable, her DOW struck the West sire, bounded of towards the eust shore, aud rau iato the bank After taking off what they could carry, the guerillas Look every person prisoner, aud (eu fieel the vess was loaded with $90,000 worth of sutlera’ stores fortunwte sutlers are yet iu Libby prieon, Petween this piace and Columbin L was shown a bar by the pilot, a hundred yards (0 our right, over whieh bis vounel passed six weeks ago. A short distauco below Greeny ie are two plantations belonging Co Judge Griffin He owes live or six very large plantations, fhe two sen tioned above cust $900,000. MILLIKEN's ARS the wext point of suterest, las been 4 ylaue of douniderd bie Waportasce during (ke war, Ao expedition uuder HE OPENING OF TRADE. Touching the subject of opeming trade will the people of Arkansas snd Missignippi, 1 am sorry to say that nothing will be changed from the presens state of things until General Steele meets and de‘eats Price. The bostile forces ave mow wiftin ten miles of each other, and a battle is daily expected, You need nave no fear for the result, as Genera? Steele has, to my vertaty knowledge, « force sutfictont to defeat aud rout bim wiih eertauty, And now a Inet word for the Bfeamboois aud our dis tiuguighed friends on board, On the City of Alton the notables Were Major Genera Johy A. wry aud stall, Trigadter Meneral Burbririge, Adjutant Vance and Tied tenant Colonel Viger, Hon. Bee, Camp. New York: Hon. 8.1. Casey, M.C. Pir district, Ky., Wiliam P, Melier Kee. ane 2on, of Cincinunti, special avent of the Treasury Department for the Miseiesippl; Mr. Vance, a large planter from Kentucky: Mr. Moore, a Inrge planter ‘rom Low and others, | It was there gontiomen's good luck, as we get on three Of the finest steamers on the Mississinpi—the City of Alton at Cairo, the Sultana wt Memphis. and the Atlontic at Viexsburg. The names of the officers are City of Alton, Captain William Barnes: Clerk, WH. Reed Sullana, Captalu William Pord, Chief Clerk, W. iH. Crop pet; ARS ‘anit Atlwuta, Captain Henry nade bolt was fired on by gueritias while ou her way to Vicksburg a week ago last Sunday, Severa) ehote went completely {} these“ bold riders and marauders.’ ° Bb Oo, tt ny sted and u uuderstoot, General Ste, hensom had ecMtroely g10Ta the Orde Ws Totrost bo the base OFopers. t ese hardes, phat retreste preeypiteiely Thad we é trope phowiing ou pur seat aod swarms of Mi, Caper’s battalio: Low | uated ab, Old campi yg ground whieh we go efloetusdly ransacked and Gesiroyod at Oak Kidgs selves iu reconstructing other accoinniedalioum for a per- mavout stay, Ger. Wa'ker's division of Loxas troops 10> Apperrod ow the bavk of (bo Wachite) goposite Mowroe, nearly a8.s00n as we wee oul of sight, and, commenced Gtrengthoning their forvitcations @t the sume time thoy reoooupisd:the town, Lhe whoie robot force that evacit- ted go hastlty on our mpproaou, foliowed yb om the return Qt a rospeotful distauco, aud uv bold sod ocoupy all the territory thoy did bofere tho expedition was panned Nothing but tho pormine:t occupation vy federal troops Of all Chat country wil! ever rolioye it of (1.0 presence of Lavy live om the country, proy on it, and return to i «hoa driven away, 4 8000 84 Our troops depart. OONSORTERON OF MALRY METWERN GIXTREN AND ALKTY YRAGA YkARS OF AGB, Rofugecs aro coming witain our lines ocoxstonsity from that sootion, and from thowe we learn that Gen Kirby Smith has boon appointed Military Dictator of the Trana- Mlssiseippi Department by tho Conlederate govoramout, (0d Las isauod oa order conscripting all white males be- ‘Veroen (ho agoa of sixtoon and sixty. @ho rovel cavalry aro enforcing the order mercilessly, aud many aro coming to ‘ua for protection, that aothing lee would Bayo thrown in our arms. Thoy all profoas loyalty, ali have favors to aac, all Lave cotton thoy wish the-privttege of abip- ping. Suck latter-day ropentances are at lonst ausptoiows. (erno¥aterr OF HEGROm, ‘Thoy also bring tho nows that at @ conference of the Gor Ornors Of States compoaing that departmont, {t was rosolr- od to Ferganize and arm two hundred thousand negroo troops, aud that General Smith will proceed at once to put it in oxecution. The negroes are promised thet: freo- doom, aud forty or sixty acrosof land at the onllof the war. How far they cau be depended on to fight for thoir iaastors, time alone can determing, As long as tho maa tor, whose iuterest is greatest, etakes all on his slaves’ fidelity, wo must Await the actual ¢rtal before assuming thoy wil! desert to our standard, aad Oght to our bobalr. GRNRRAS, SMIRA’S OFBRATIONS Oa roosipt of General Stecie's official notification of tho fall of Little Rock, Ark., tho division of Gonerat Joba E Bmith, saut from here to reinforce bim, waa ordered to return. Goneral Smith waa to dobaric at Napoleon, Arkansas, ond march from that point on Little Rock, The intended route passes throvgh a rick and fortilo section of the Stato, but little devastated by war. As Genorat Steoie no longer neods their coopera tiou thoy will soon be back im their old quarters at tots place. ginal be ine aba Can returned to] eh tue day aitor we eve GRNERAL LOGAN, General Logan has returaed from his visit to Iitinois, but wil! got resume the office of post commandant imme- diately, tt ig said, Since General Smith's dopartuee to Arkansas. General McArthur has discharged tho duties faithfully and well. He may be retained in the piace. Goneral Kilby Smith will relieve Genorat Rangom ia command of Natchoz. Tho labter goes homo on a shost leayo. of absence. Goneral Sherman's army corps (tho Fifteenth), ia stitt at Big Black, and: sufforing severely from agus and malarial fovor. ‘THY NEGRO REGIMENTS, The negro rogimenta: are being decimated fearfully, As high as twénty four per day bave diod in Colonel Gil- chewt’s regiment alone, and still the carnival of death goes On. Less than three hucdrod are now loft out of more than ® thousand. Sutervention of Fra: in American Af fairs—Where a Fatal Biow May be Strack at Hér Naval F 1. 6Gs 70 THE EDITOR OF EA pea Te is generally supposed that whilé £ don account of ber North American possessions, ie Particularly exposed to the effects of our sinenstoel Ve Me bad faigh during the present war, Erauce, on the hand, presents no vulnerable point of attack, and shat, therefore Napoleon can play out hig role of intervention iu American affairs with perfect impunity, This is an errohéous ides. Let ‘US get. ‘The desire of }rance to build up. great waval power is wolf known, It's s traditional policy of the rulerg of that country, whatever the form of government that obtained atthe moment, ‘The restricted commeérco of France has never afforded the means for educaling a vumber of #ea- meb adequate iv the ambitigys views of those whode- sired to sve ner enagt the part of a great naval howor, able to cope with the navies of England or of our own country. Frauce has therefore steadily labored to suppiy her Aofciency W seamen, aud bas fostered, with amdovinting policy, ber dsheries on tue banks of Newioandiand, as a school where the reqiiisite mumber of tricd seamen | | could Be trained with the ulterior object of manuing tur ships-of-war, Limited by treaty with Rugiand to the absolute postession of owly the little tsland of St. Terre, on the Newsonndland coast,and the mere temporary rigut of using & portion Of the shores of that great isiaud— from Cape Ray to Cape St. Jobu—for the purpose of enting fish during the season, without apy territorial jurisdiction or right of permanent settlement, and competted to trans porther eexmen to France at the end of exch Mebing | eason, Ble bas Leon (hwarted to some extowt jn mpking that fishery minister to her views. To remedy this, a few ‘years since she entered into x convention with Engiand, by which the coucurrent right of .tieh. ing, on the part of the Newfoundiand ‘coast referred to was wransferred into an absvlute right, to the exclusion of — wll other, wiiist additional privileges were eded on the shores of Belle Sele and the coast of Tabiador., This ayoused the opposition of the Newfoundiuuders, who thus saw (heir ‘Dirturight traded away by their paternal government to meet the requitements of Furopean complications, aud ® spirit manifested Usely on the promu’gation of the Cou. vention (the negotiation of which had been concealed up to that moment) nearly akia to Open rebellion. Png!ish flag on the Colonial Building wae pnt at hait- mast, Unlon down: they protested vebemeutty to tue home govcriinent against this injustice: appealed to the other colmiies Lita . delegates appointed for tuat par wy them on their resistance to this "attack u ah thete ‘Hiabte inaie in a tod Of repeated pledges of sugcaewive egy, ty Colonial Office, (9 the effect that Ne snob Sap Boul if taken without the consent of the people of the colony. ‘The Newfoundianders also contended that this conven tion wag ip direch Yigg. PB ee ges aaa ir wes of the people of the Loited States, ag Me attempt toc neece to theFreual tie oxcloaive right o fish on @ part of Ihe coasts of the iiand. on whieh only @ concurrent right had previously existed, was depriving the American ple Oo right which they enjoyed in common with Britieh mh, hy xclided Amertcans 8e well as ‘avention of the rights claimed by th : ont of thelr emogesstal Revolefion, and afterwards acknowledged by solemm treation, The epreaentulions wera these views, sud the } Wn!t 19 Opposi! ‘on ‘fb Amer: colonies were et ® meroachment. We believe, be 1863,—TRIP LS SHEKT. v w them all the Reason, te Cob Parnups! Texas cavatey wove backat their | Commeneed busying them. The | to oor goverpinent embodying | | THE MISSOURI NELEGATION. y Address of the Committee from whe State of | Missouri to President Lin ‘ Mr. Pammvuwr—On the 1st day of the prese db math of ; Sovtembor 4'mase comyeutive of the radical Un.'on mon of Missoert was beld-at Jotiorwon Cliy” It'was th.’ largest | mass convention ever, held in that State—mon 7 | quarter of the State being. present—ali actiated D' spirtt of unconditional and uowaveeing toyaley to the’ Slitution aad the Uniow, all sinoereiy attaghed. to you ‘ho Chiet Magivtrase of the nation, aad at! earnestly des tng that your admtutatgatiog eouid gedound to the hone.¥ of your own naee and the good of our beloved country. Provious to the asaombling of that Convention, public: tucotings wore hold ia Cho @roa( .yorttgy of the counties Of tho Stato, 12 almost every vu» of whieh resolutions were adopted cordially sustaining your administration, and digtinotiy oudorsiug those great foatures of your Polloy—the proclamation of omanoipation aud tho eu- Ploymout of negro troopa; Upoa which, in our opinion, tho oarty augcess of tho govorament ia subduing tho re- boliion largely dopands The mass Convention, Itkewte, om hatioally declared its approval .( those measures: In marked contrast with the agvien wo taken 1s tho almost ublor stance of our opponoala, in thoir moot! Uo thane great measures a0@ to your ada iui Can judge, Mr. President, from dose (9°19 who are your Crionda in Miesouri. Among the proosediags of that mens Oonven! on waa (ha Apperaumentrof acommitise of ono oF marofoum eat com Uy Of Lhe State there represented, to proce t to the oity of Washington, sad endeavor, by @ personal com oronce with yOu, 0 romove from your mind infurious impressions which ovr oppondate have long and industriously sought 0 create, and $0 procure, if possibio, a change in the gov eramental policy in rofereuce to Missour, In pursuance of Usat appoiatarsa’ whose oamee aro hereto sub soribod, seventy in oumber, coming (rom fifty-seven Counties of that 4tate (camtainiag, aoourding to the cousus Of 1800, more than three-fourths of its entire population ,) And ioproseating al! the industrial avooations of life, have journey9d more than ono thousead miles to perform tae duty assigned os, dome of us doing go under oir. ‘Cumstances of mucl ditowlty and porsonal danger. We have brought with us ® unapimous and confiding faith in your patriotism, genorceity aud integrity, and an uaquea. Honing velief in your readiness to do whatever ia right in regard to our state, whenover you are fully advi oon. cerning ite aftairs Wo represent, a5 we vorily boliove, a large majority of tho poopte of Missour:, and @ atill largor majority of itn lawfut voters. We come from « joyal people. Through the Mery. trials, Of the last thirty months thoy have been. wilting to peril thotr al! tor the Union cause; and multitudes or them have not only porilied ail, but lost all but their tives.in that owuse, or in consequence of thelr Known ‘entttica- lion with ib, No accumulation of wrong and calamity: has bees sulllbiedt to swerve thom for a moment irom their dovotiva to it apd. to your administration im evory step you havo taken to subdue the rebellion. No doubts nor caviis wave held them back; 10 depiun- ciations deterred them trom rendering au open, con- ragesus and houest egers to all your measures toward that great end. Yor ourselves, aad on their behalf, we bid vou Gods every policy tending to re-ostabli-h the rixitful ausnorityof the nation Over every foot of its soil, ‘Tho, radical Union men of Mishourt, rorognizining in the institation of elavery the one sole cause aud the very Ife of the rebellion, and believing in their inmost hearts that the continued Of tbat tustitution is utterly inconsistent, with the satety Oo: our country, have doliberatcly planted:thomselves in « position of hostility to it. ‘Loy demand its immediate removal (rom Mis- gourl, not onty for her own sake, but as her contribution, Ss eed Rrra oP i Ag cutive and tal extirpation from Amer! . ¥ ar® Oppoxed Lo iis gradual removal, because at a time when the fate of the er ee 9 the dread eee of a war un and continied solely for e Saannien Sd pee Petuation of glavery, they do not belleve that. itnas any claim to the oration “or forbearance of the trus friends oF the Caion anywhere: “They hod men interested iv it, re-poa- the institution, inore than sible (or wil the horrible evils which bave afflicted onr country for noarly Ubree years; they find im it (he ouly element which could ever peacipitated-clvil war in ‘Uhis Lawd | oo that alt the ajiriiigs or sectional dis- cord, past, pr HOF futuro, ara ta it; they wow 5 trom jc what ; outrages ealamities it Iscapaluecr tutiet rend they cannot appreciate and do tot boligys in that teudernesa toward. je oe those inte- rested in. it, hich would pi its mis NO Vinils OX ist - asi day Nt is ua wel! understood & fact in Missouri as any other in Yabite affairs thet no man’s loyalty to the Tain com. mei \ds Him to Governor Gambie’s favor, valess it be acoo,wpavied. by & woli defined lwyalty to the State adeah ated which latter aanerntion’ of loyaity bus seourett tmaportant tions to many whos: appoint) ment (wuld never bave besa upeu ther dev: fae Union cause, But mot in auch pointe love tho loyal nearts of Missouri leaigee here a that ‘botwees ghom and Governor Gamb'o ‘ion, bo far as. it qosneow feel ehiceiis ct eeaan, Oe a or 1h the civit erie im our emintey. iw waverse to when t wt wud lenient, if wot faverabte,to their adversaries Heh: iatorpesod fia oMoiai infiuewee to soroen dusty 1 mon (om military measures deemed Ww subdue tho spirit of treason. Ho and hie parteant miog iheicte. fluohes 6 procare the removal of a commanding general of the Departasont of the Miswoar!, whose oviy ovens, Wo far as koown, was & just soverity toward revelw and thoir aiders avd «He has, with gauth ort ty of law, in tho judgment of some of owr-abient jurists, drafted into-active service under the State, largo bodies of tho enrolied militia of Missouri, every officer of which above tho rank of captain holds office at bis plea Snre. We declare it to bo an incontrove-title: fart’ taut Kkaowo idontidoation wth the radio | Uaion party is simort Cortain to excindo an individeal from any offlcr. «sfhicy ta those troops. Many such men have been ummurt 7 dismissed from important commands, without exon Qostion, and their places supplied with men 0 devet fai teyalty, and in aome tngrances by those wie, in the “carly gtagea of tne = rebaliion, wore violent secessionists, aud who now combine witt Professed Unioniam '@ goaservatism which iowves 2 oubt of the quarter toward wh) b their It bas been too may A fact to cay ap cors thus diamissed wero generally those who had guished themselvos by the vixor with which traitors, and thse who-fod, clothed and slo while we believe it to 00 strictly true tit ne one hue | dismissed because of neglect of fuefticiency in that ware Companies and regiment of the enrvilod wilitia, whiter pursued rebels, gooritias, bushwhackers wid plices with # legitimate severity, have b under circumstances which leit upou toy ai m Painful conviction that therr offense was a to we resolute efurt torout and destroy those fendish ders. In every way the people of Misrouri forced to learn that rigor toward those onc, order, property, lie and loyalty, commends no the favor of our Exeortive, It ls equally weil known chat those who cordially sustan your proclamation 0 emane! pation, and yonr policy of arming the negroes, tall nuaer is displeasure in the wal Of appolntinents, ‘ ‘The result of all this.is ouly what would snovitably fol. low. Disloyalty, under the alias of cooservatiam. ia ure sam ptuous and defiant, In larg6 portions of our Sat. 1 16 fer to be known a@ disloyal than as truiy loves. ‘Thousands of Union men have beon driven (rom ‘heit homes beggared, and multitudes have been murdere4 while pursuing th ir peaceful avocatious—o!ion in the presence of their tamilies—for no offence but that of no compromising fidelity to the Union, ihe whois country was shocked at the recent awfnl tragedy at Law enc’, 0 our neighbor State of Kangas; but wore that multiplied « huodred fold it would not equal the sum of tha outrages which loyal moa have suffered in Vilssourt but witch, occurring in detached instaxces, isolated positions, arg little hourd of away from the im- mediate vicinity, an come not w your know. ledge. Tt ina entable fact, that in the larger pare of our State the property and life of @ Union man are tess secure now than thoy wore when rebel. armica were there, i In.sober truth, Mr. Prostdont, the condition of loyal ‘Were is ra) intolerable. ‘Tp Tort rnuffertug brethren can be lapatienes further extent our au! the load of uitmertted: ich se, on er side, God onty knows. thie we che sitatingly lay to the charge of Governor. Gambie’s Pro-stavery conservative poiley, which fafects all administrations, civil and — mi » | discour gee and — dopresges.\ + and @levaten. distoyaity into a predominance whieh is gailing Lo the last degree to the unconaition»t Union taen of Misseuri, We vlesire, Mr. Yresideut, distinctly to inwoke your, at- toution to the organization by Governor Gamble of the tive le day beyond that. at ‘which it can bedegaily | eurolied militia of Missouri. It is ® mast r io which, re’ We rejoice that io your prociamasion of Japu- ; 1a Our judgment, the g yermment of the United sestes. ary 1,863, you laid the mighty band of the ration upon | 1s concerned. We havo acendy stated that itis se. OE rene ome apa eer Niberty; aud we and our ) nen or eeey. oftho ablest jurints of our State that the constituents honor you for that wise and ‘noble act, | ofguulzacion of Yaat willis force ta wishout ‘Any war. We and they hold that tha proctamation did,imiaw, by | rant of law. Jt haw solely from the will of its own force, liberate every slave ju the region itcovered; | the Governor. Seventy five regiments have beon organ Uhat itis irrevocable; and’ that from the moment of its | ized, and, as bofove stated, all the officers above the rank issue the American people stvod ia an impregnable pusi- | OF ID Feceine thoi hia. it hae tion be‘ore the world, ahd the lion xeceivea its | been lly announced this te & State force: ee. deathblow. If you, Mr, President, felt thatduty, to tae authority, whose duty is to enforce country dewanded that’ you showid unshackle the slates t we of the and Uaene iawn alone they | af the rebel States fa an hour, we gee no earthiy reason | are amenable, This force iy furnished with sub tte! | why the people of Missouri should not, from the suiue and tation by the Unied States: fay | of dul rike down with equal suddenness ine | by orders from headquarters of the State, thoy were | phi cop thd in ironed st. pop cen em bp age ger some Nr jogaisming if of the pors | orders Isaued feders! author! Teoensiy they tion of he paople of Missour| who have come to voctiied were used for "tne Ke te staves | radicals. hey aogept: the wame in its true sizninownce | ty bbeir owpers, Tt izing thia {rr08. a8 1m regard to the rebellion and siavery, aud desire no other | oapableof duty, who declared thee + ull both the and slavery are extirpated. | sympathy to be with the rebellion, wore. wit! oom: We are opposed in Picwrart be &@ party which buld« | Mutation, ext milit«ry se-vice. aod Cousotvatisin as its fundamental idea. We destre (hat |. yethave zrceived full protection over since, of the | pyou abould know. who- 1% Jt comprises every {| loyal unititivmen being to stane disloyal men we the State: every man who denies that | thelr property, At tnd pron —_ Pe ped the rebellion; sey, man whe | withort authority of Gunn a | 1 wy wery, every inan’ w! vhices y¥ 101 voluntari|; jisted, t enter the -rvie of | with the ‘rebellion, Cvery man Whose tana are | tate eeeitaraaes One to elybt and toa me. | red with ti@ blood of Union men: every man who | opposed tne isgue of your proclamation of Hon | every, mien wb holds tual procianatiou™ reyoka ble,” and ot it8 revocation would return to slavery the Begroes it treed; every man who op. | poses ihe enlistment of wegrocs who carp? al the radical policy every mau who denounces you who would embarrass your efurts to eave tho Union and the constitution from the assaults of etavery. With them are ated A small Body of 'hien iow, who were irom the outbreak of the vebellicn, and a larger body of those who were thn openly dik loyal, and who have since 4« ome professediy Uain | me:, only becanee they fouvd it dangerous to be any thing ¢he, and whe are at heart me more patrict® now thay when thoy bitterly deaoumeed yor for your early eforts to array the power of (he Hatton for the overthrow of the vebeltion. | From a party £0 coustituied uo comservatian could be | expected, nor has muy heen restived, bot o: tie iuatt tation of siavery and the juteresie cohgected with the foundation gf ool orgahization, bit far the basiq OF Polilioml power. It Was the représen- tative: Of that party who, im the Stite Coavention { Missouri, diererarded the loyal bi state, and pissed « 50 called cipatien, whieh, istead of — Liber once {ram the wation's greatest evemy + that et™Miy upow her absolutely for seven yea and, in « mnoditied form, for a that And we believe that even that ordipance w ip the expectation Of its repeal beforo the date slavery 1 cease, Between stich & part sent there is, can be aud ought te be no ce Antayonivm and strile tween those whe stun mes, and (hose who couplsy aud slavery, quarter of a cord, bat only as there ought to be forever be by their county against 9!) ene. Vide ther allegronse bewwee their It has ao happeced that (he State govermment of Mix Souri, not by the direct vole oF ine people but by the will | Of @conreNtion cle ted ju kebriy 1FO1, Abd Contioulng } , ftwelf in existence and power ant Iv, 1965, has been en- | tragted 10 one Whose -ouscrvative policy ler been a ounee of great Uocasiness and discord. When, 10 July. IsoL, thAL Convention cepered Claihoroe F. Jackson from the oftice of Governor, ait ampeinted Hamilton Ry General sherman Landed near here ast December, for th | (yrougis the vesel; yo uo perBon recived wary fore avy notin fr government iu the oat. Gomig, provisionally, to that ofee. the lager coer =$ re y , the British Warmed at (he decided stand ral La @ proc to Purpose of destroying the Vicksburg and Shreveport Rail: | que Julia, white arrived Iast ight, wae fired at by ur abe By eh tbe and fearing, no doubt, we % ae oh i salt? "bie appetites road, prior to the avtack oa Vicksburg, which was suc- | titery near the same place on Saturday. Five shots out | would make cowmnon cause with oloniate would gatiaty AO otuntenaice would be afforded ceasitd. From thi: polut Geseral Grant moved. with the | or (weive struck uer. on on, as 4 Aaperieny, guaatlm & witbin | to any achemd or any cowiiict cloulaied any dagere Whole of his command actos the peninaula, Millikon's S. Cadwatiader’s D wre vee cenvenine, eto pees tw tala TE Eiliclipineuiecs ontoes ch eghiattenguter tees Bont i the place where tho negroes are said to Lave aici tell teh. sd ot Newfoundland had Fafgred. teu concurrence, whieh iustitution would. be proterted.” From. the day of tue fought so cesperately. LoREDERG, Sept. 17, 16d was aplieg jw dl iat pare ‘ligation ¢f that protemation to the 1, Gover The place is now almost entirely destroyed. Before tne - TUR ANORY 10 GAEMRAL Gh aNT, tout for the t ng at ak or Gamnble’s Sod ects haze bad & pro slavery war broke out i was a landiog ple of cvasidernble ini. | Tue steamboat Ben Frankie arrived irom New Oricant | SURO" MAAR, LPAIP to awe elton of perme, | hac” sisuiiy’ aatences Tomes ts manent state portance. hess wih La : staf, wud Adjutant’ | nope torce at ‘hare i oc Me ondred men, and attitude vedicals of Mireour) red apd demand * Pawpaw Lela, at the (vot of Milljken'e Bend, is ome | General Thomes@a board. General Grant's injuries ares also restrictor e tnalter Of for Hous (thoug® ia ed the election OF @ uewW ConveBiion, for ie forty oe Ait feet higher (ham the river. A large cap of | "Ore tious thaw wore Beet suycned, xnd wii, under | POM aaa og" te formes cat reat Hp*tts “alia seh hs preocenion "Sees pentiey contrabands i stationed bore, cutting weod for the gov. romana” a fer Rim to bis room Mes boon sas thse en ao Ce ny i in the Legislature. at ii adjournment over to the several weeks time leg is nearly paralyred He - ia y lo be evok french a ens. November, #; whole ter f -alagmseeec . ua Via Lower Conds co the proposed GSS Iphiadhte | pangs S: af oe a Ss rom Goueral Grants army Was cucamped sume tune, aut be Able to sit Up, or turn bimsely in bed, though not com sidered ia danger of lie oF yah, Lue syook to ur aud ite ‘meuuoles,’ Lwill pass it by, omly saying Wat the jatter are being rapidly Giled up by order of the authorities, as she soldiers make @ nuisance of them, Hero | learued that Kirby Smith ad proclaimed tum self Military Plotator of the Siates of Louisiana, Arkansas: and Texas, 2nd bad oalied for two hundred thousand Be reo, and had issued a prov'amation commanding Wat ali the white mon Lotweea the ages of sixigen and sais tension of lie command to the Gulf, though the official worifoation (rom ihe War Dopariment is daily oxperted by nearly evory ene hore 100 ORIENT ARMY CORP: Contrary (0 Lovage WAV RO, Geberal Ord's (Tairtoenth) army corps stil remains encayped at Carroliton tales above New Orlesty, and from ali that is ais cerpable, jikely (0 remaiu there indedntieiy Tore are the Jest rocks along the bawks of ihe Missis bow Jadicates a period of jection Aud repoce. Many officers ani; vt shotes, > eon retreated, pot ai) the celebrated camai was du | vous aysterg tyne yevere, 0G te is tallying rapidly and } strate and bis hnpudent manifesto ly proclaims . riodeaune. choad sate teat (hand direct tue vusingsy pé ¢ See ros iter ic hat wan ee tener fan Aes) muck bas beow said about Vick#varg, ls biul* | department, Notuing has teanspired cofeeruing the ex. rc wide the tm of St Peters ts ‘tbe com y of hostilities, We understand fully Abat Bi. Peters is the aucleus around which (rom Mfteen ty (wouty thousand Freach seamen are aunvaliy: MT Cadetded “Ceiob Bein refit ' * ey hat mally only ‘green banda’ to that fishery: that euch are Om the maritime books gas oo |. Kyow our first move w! + anion of That i We enn Ss. Our cruisers and privateers ¢ destroy this con. rive bis veniout depot. fashios | Mould immediately Le conscripted, expected ‘ailvance on Mobile by way of rom, Banks, avvibilate his febing ‘The Stara and Stripes are said to have beew rated boarly | cagoula, wil mob take place a! present, if at wcll a eae ogee aed French expeditions, 80 # Utced milan tothe teat of Viokeburg, and i Mara uve | oi). TWere iu» evidewce outvide ot military chaudeis | Fesbing plage ft renel prize courte a our w - citizens myeelt seking what was required of thom and | tit such a movement was iu contemplation imacaintely, | que British maritime , the people of which bay: the siate to do to bo allowed to come back imto the | but thet Lanpreseion got xbroad, avd (he moving and dis - Pf ReOU, With feolings Of the moet intense bitterness, th Union position of troops gave color to Live report. Frerytbing yearly hg ad dy gy A mg Rt 3 their isheries are now exciusively carried on, driving the olf convertion— ACL GpOD thal rubjeet, ie peon'e. of Melty y © pro slavery body— In that body meen lay) he 0) ate gmpnelyation, and turew all tte weight hi i iw favor of ¥ eed } which was finally adopted. not fpr tue pete ¥: rv ne i ee) ber beyond ie. bot with the tog Miseoort from that which } measure, A beygud end ' weil. tent Of continuing it to the jatest possible day, and, ip (be Inpgoage * delegate from ove of the at ro siavesy districts im the Seat oul stituents, “in order that iby save slave property (rot utter waste and epoiiation. aud ive to brief nmity to make (he best ox Me Fege ay re 4 act s administration anywise conpect Ue porition sseumed never abandooed, i factor in intent, and wall nO D® Aa lopg ae be com> tioues Governor | From the antagoniam of (he radicals of Missourl wo such A policy have arisen the Conthet# which you, Mr. President, have been heretofore to term | hall Teepect we deny ® “tactional | quarrel that the radicals of Missouri have been in apy sense, a party (6 «By such qnar- ¢ no factionists, bat earnestly intent ‘ Viciaave p %. r ; C thoir oxoessive Doantion, as weil out of foreign | 8 great bation : , & & six hundred miles below Gairo. In } and privates are absent on furloughs recently grauted. pom ‘ lepoverwming thee pew, ‘At iis life, We esol), during (ue whole Of bbls distance, a etone or a | The howth of those remaining is far from good. ‘Tho the priyieges for which theie try iam im Mig. | pebble it aly © curiMily. Occasionally a bar of red | whelearmy nocds rebrigading and eyuippiag. To an or- ond all bocRtuse ‘necessities Of sume rylog how not tode it, and yet I. gravel ia vi ta the Mt but how it occurs, of observer active MililAry Operatioue by any Cons to ite fall And it neces. | ; ag our comatitnents have exhibited, ever where the grove f i ceag rer Weekes Propitiate the good will or parchago the | Aid oF ever wi a fact ° out grave a from, is a unystory to thee oben 0 portion Of the ArmE Tor reeks (4 Come soome Seouay. tire thee fo @ fate Raecusive becuase bis i, Yin ey steambout avn on the rivor of Che eange of possibilities. Napoleon may be adverse to true lovalty, and wi introns of out WN Lk PAWEL CAVALRY CORR 1 Oe aaestied 4 he save!) jure to carry out his prog Stave. No factions spirit dictates tnat a recomlniag the Soathera and siding tte | We be! teidloe to bis admin! ton 4 Forgot to 1a m these iten »iebor ol keaping the border Cowution of LowwiAae | gatablish te independence, Lat the ~~ hewsre. we , aad be fat to Gur country; but Near Colnaubla is Gragg’ ce! te bore clear of (ue promlang bands oi cevel cavalry SAME aati, fas comael amd gil got, be pro earery | the earvlied wailitia, by ofieers | suflie/omt for him to know that he has been dotai. ' gad compel in mony — ae ere nee wholly w the means of suppor zation of those troo sob qa anes Ranh ee ae force known as “provisional regimenta,”” Tho strepath of this Corce is unknown. That rests . nti vel the Governor. It ls organized by arbitrary detatl from towerve in a pro Yistooal regiment: term of service is mdefuite, ie natnre and objects undefined by iaw aud unknowa to these wh» are detailed, and the golection of the suidior ie independent of any fised rule. {tis first intimation i that he hag been detaved to serve in a provisional r ment, amd he is not permitted to jaquire by what auido. Tily ve has been detatied, or into want service he oF for what longth of Lime he must serve. must go at once, without time for preparation: Fails to ress immediately to the call, bo iw into the ranks at the point of the bavonet. Iu the exercise of this arbitrary power intolo able burdens have fallen upon loyal citizens, from which the disjngal are exempt: ta a word, & bonne ts thus patd for distoyat- ty, and a peunlty exacted for loyalty. And we call your expesial notice, Mr, President, to the foot that on the 17th of this gonih, at tue very me. moat that steps had been or were sbout to be (vken, by babess corpus, to test the legaliy of this wo system of conseription ini the service of the Stal the commanding genera! of the Depattune st of tl Musonrt issied a Gerieral order, diciaring that your Proclimation of the 1th iwet.. suspend ag the writ of habeas corpus in certain cases throughout the Uniied States; would fa that department be “he'd to ap Ply to all Missour) wilitia calle ft.to active service under the orders of the department commander.”’ General Schofield bas thus made himself a party to Governor Gam bie s system of compn'sory fervice in the militia, im a manver whieh, we reepectfully sagyost, was not ¢ a. templar by ve fo that proclamation. tn this whole matter 0° the enrolled miiitia we res, e-wuily |, Whether it is 4 ak with thé constiiution of the United & {of such & force to be organize! mut Kep,ynder » authorities, and we hope | sey prank ye 4 ree to conse tbat Poin’ io bs luvent ; tinue Steen came Goa see = em | rt. us to say, with the Path mal praey Wpillecconien, cae ar cetel te en uther State t Le pro- tect Be * Neither law, Nee, equity demabhe A iba bar hoon People auc Of protecting her suould be throws upon her her troasury We as troasury. We ask, inerefore, tbe immediate restoration of the miiitary con. trol of that State to the hands of the national oMcers apa troopw, and the entire discharge of all the enrolled militia of the State from ony farther service at (he arbitrary ) will of the Governer. We further ark, Mr. President, that In tng ee OO ‘chofield, a department iuamanter be = ooh = estore order aut peace ety Mo Te Ue ca Ba ‘wou! Mey