The New York Herald Newspaper, October 2, 1863, Page 4

2 NEW YORK DURALD FRIDAY tracts of land is always taking place, ant wit! continue to It sen mor ifwen aetoe ne 20 War wore OM at dollars for do 30 aa long ag tho worl and the Mirsissiy'y ae MU: 4 . ote Below sire r t ‘The water which tals upon the earth in t f r i“ nS SeRe See ~ mot Gove gain does not immed:ste!y dud tts way into the Masia this Is tho ine $2 haat own bs A vis sippl, Dut is carried Lack from the high gro peu Nee Sued, \or the reason wiaclrmaw Gover tie 1916 Dftesn, @ ttl) banks to the uwanw i bayous, apa, they iveding to © labor wiil be m ch less at rbed by t fetem th by abou ”. Hd waa sebt by our the Ar as, Ya 10, Red, &o.,it at lust enters the = iy other, Ga inquiry Of the most iuleliigent Cit ry tio Fort Warron, aud afterwards to Bort La Me 8 rivers. of the town, Jam satistied that they the cage fayelie. Governor Morcaead js now in Eusopo. k t ede bo tho Gell, between (bree and foar of seeossi u hopelessly woud, and heneo the movement on Some of the fin plantations se the Socdh are in the zo 4 not the ease, no stream or river the part ot the people for the parjuse where suated. beiybborhovd of Columbia and Gryoncwatio. peta ‘as tal hirag thas: disiance from Tho pl » of General Pow is uaree miles below | Near Napoicon ia the immsnas piaviatto of tive late the g co 4 ov being carried to the S by this war is elated at from six to Thomas P, Anderson, tho build ngs of waich wero satire. Guif 4 of this mighty river called | seve red thousand dolore, Atl the buildings upon | ly destroyed by our gunboats, geo tits heaving Orod ab Dayous. the plantation Lave been dostroyed by our troops. The | assing vessels, pa (or of (he Mississippt is precisely | residence of Genera) Plilow is near Columbia, Tonnessee, | Balaston’ Danean, eolonol im the robol be*vice, and the like the pawis of rona proud aller a shower, though | aad ts sald to Baye beem a palatial one, In this vicinity | wife of Tou Broeck, are two of vbe noirs to the property is abana akareial edie a ng (© the | 1 also the residence o: the oa, Jsishop General Leouidas | All the elaves, to the: number of several hundred, have rising of tho variwite rivers whitch to it, Thus the | Polik, of the rot y disappeared. Beyond Momphis we passed -oight or ton Missour! gives $0 med apyesr tue Ohio a ye A Mamesake of (1 > bgland mighty Southerner, Bamed | stoamors loaded ‘with troops going up tho river. low rorce rer, t set, This ocenrs from | Samuel Polic, of Puillips county, arkunsas, three miles in wamneiea the pe uotry through watch | tho rear of Melons, owned a 4arge plantation, aud was @ ~ - they ruv. ory eeventric main, Ho is perhaps the oniy maa living pe, SSeS eate Rouemenerecey Cvon eabere: by- ho by eccontr mot yan- Biel co an dhieieeneaa, D ahakan aaraione mado a fortune Of 89V@N- | tants, Like Greonville, but two houses ato slanding, and nud ‘ug or boautiful to tempt the cir, LS tow, poor buildings, F jour hundred, beivg seattored here w ogo Gat, The business portioa of the ©), railruad depots and stores, fro bio where it empties into the Bis enormous prices cuarged at the Vvorivus reus nents here, ove becomes aware uh ws eprowckiag Doe, At Cairo our forces were Girst couvopirated mm the Southwest AUSOMON OF LEK OMLO AND MISSISSENET, Yhe City of Ato was fortupately tying at the levoo wheu Larrived, and woo advertised to start for Momphis that -veniug. Where the Viiv 0 win the Mississippi a struggle Bppouis to & oLween those rivers for the mas. tery. it ist + vory Ono sight to soe the immense body of clear water of (ae former rusb with great force into the turbid Mississippi, entirely changing the color of the acter. For come two or three miles below Cairo there appear to be two tho c.eur wator of the Ohio taking the castern side and the muddy Mississippi the western, At this distance the water oa the eastern bani vo- c of & yellowish tint, tacreasing in color ag wo procood, uutil the Father of Waters rolls on without 9 rival, torming one water, of and one channe!, TUR COUNTRY. on each side of tho river, from Cairo to 2 dred miles of New Orleans, is flat and with- sauty, with the exception of igh ground or biuffa channels two or three hundred yards ia length, sometimes a hun- dred or more mi apart. The cottonwood and cypress cover the earth, the former growing so rapidly the young trees hide from view 1 the plantations on river banks which have been de- serted since our army has! taken possession of the coun. try, the tops of the buitdings being in many places oly Visible even from the upper deck. From a few miles below Baton Rouge to New Orleans the scene changes and 13 very Gine, tho lordly resitences of the plantors, avd the white cottages of the negroes, together with the gurden- Uke appearance of the country, forming a pleasing con- trast to the monotony which mile after mile meets tho oye on the upper Mississippi, there 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. conumaus. Tho first point of intorest that we stopped at was Co- Aimbue, a military post of considerable importance and of great natural strength. Brigadier Gedera! Smith, of the Thirteenth army corps 1g now in command. The town of Columbus is siiuatod upon the east bank of the Mi sissippt, and is built on high blufls. From the river i! hae a vory clean and beautitul appearance, and I was gla lo flud on fanding that it lost but little of either of these virtues. Before the war it probably numbered some soven or eight bundrod inhabitants. Several gov- ernmont 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 rod and the body brown, From the river these, with the wel! tarfod earthworks, the bright guns and the piles of cannon balls between, give tho whole the appear- ance of a Tvoneh stronghold or fort. General “o t:'s keadquarters are fn a large brown mangion, (avi the river and not more than one hundred yarda from \t. Your correspondent and others from the City of Aiton pald tue old veteran @ short visit, and were well repuid by him and the menabcrs of his staff. Karly in the war a sharp fight took place at Belmwsat, aparly opposite, In which our forces were victorious, The robe's at that time occupied Columbus, and, though they sent a (ow shots acroas the river, they proved of no use, ‘ag the distance was too great. About the same time that, this battle was Cougbt the engagement at Bird's Polut (a fow miler ahove Cairo) took place. Wieky iho robols evacuated Bowling ¢..¢ee they also Seocuatea C ‘nom our forces took possession of plac ince held it ‘The rovol works on which thelr caazom were planted alii romain; but (ho curreut of the Mississippi has washed arth which fofmod the water batteries. Re ISLAND NO. 10, Tiss ovlobrated avronghold, which #o long resisted our umbu rosais (ue place of grost nataral strongt, A large number of con- tratands a od upoa it, whose business 19 to cultivate the ighaad No. 10. ig a suena) vi is a strong pow by iho ravely af a blut he surrender of Island No. 10. wow isa fae city of (rom twenty. to thirty Uhousaad inbabi tante. Bot the war Memphis was a thriving place, 0! great importauce, and (ast becoming the rival of New Or toans with the principal roads of tho phis was by far the groateat cotton mart iu Tennessee. From Memphi¢ to the mouth of the Ked river spooial lutsinde for the cultivation of cotton; nnd {rein tty Red rivor to the const, togar. the colebrated & ada CoLLOa are raise At this place the first Mississippi took prc ‘The rebel symyatiiizers in Memph the success of their cease, while the ! ter than ever ageinst tho + Yankees eomohow the women can 06 more he! thotr tongues; and while the m use all bis power Lo keep bis thoughts and (eehugs vs, tho (omale, by her bitterness, expose* boul, Among too strangest of all strange things of thes rth aod South, Mem tata gunboat ongagoment 0 a sure sign fo wormeu—to show their zeal for the Southern ea)se~they .9 down tho Mississipp\, is an island of bigh wooded, situated to the right of the chan yur or five miles in length, eutirely com’ river on all sides, and, like Columbus, is @ » the east bank, evacuated Boveral railroads branched from here, connooting is the Along (he coast rice aud tue » despairing of lies are taove bit their temper than le, in this respect, will mm In the year scecoeding the great fainino in Ireland Mr, Polk sold seventy-five thousand bushels of corn for agyen- ty-five thousand dollars, When corn was high he planted cotton, and when cotton was bigh ho planted corn, not @ single nore being used for any othor purpose, with the exception of hia garden, Frier's Point, a Union post, was passed some twelve or Ateen miles bolow Holoua, ARKANSAS RIVER, This river isa navigable stream. Tt ompties into the Misaissipp! river on tho wost sido,afow tundred yards bolow Napoleon, Arkansas, Arkansas Post, about sov enty miles from its mouth, ® amal! place of one hundred iwhavitante, was settled about tho time that William Ponn made the treaty with tho Indians. A bard fought battle took place here under Gen, MoClornand, Gen. Bur. bridge's diviston in front, We lost noarlya thougand men before tho fort surrendered NaPoLNox is a town of six or seven hundred tnba').tanta, The butid- ings are scattered and pour, with tho oxce; of the United States Marino Hospita!, spectable looking streeturs, Stroyed hore that I could ses. (a th the river aro the reins of tho town of f our gunboats about @ yo hero sre the reside the fathor-in Jaw of Gonon Jost below is a very th Ton. Christopher Vielda, wh man during the whole of our trou! Bolivar couuty in the Legisiatnre for a At Napoleon I had the ploasure of soot through a cut-off which did not oxiy! 9ix washings of the river carriot 4 and forty yards of earth, thas roach the opposite side, and shortoning anol twolve miles, The town of Napolgon {3 now, : ately, cus bond, and must Qnally be carried avay and become tho bed ofthe river. Below Napoteon fa the plantation of the celebrated horse producer, Ten Broock, Tho residence t it ig a very plain, low building; but the plantation and usgeo quarters are among the handsomest on the riror, GAINES’ LANDING, This landing, which f situated on the weal bank of the river, was the celebrated one for debarking the Texas emigrants befcre the war. From here thoy crossed the mainland to Camden, on the Wachita, aud from there branched off to Alexandria, Suroveport and other pointe in Northern Texas, The emigration was principally from the States of Northern Alabama, Tennessee aud Georgia, Two stores are all tho buildings here. Carter's Landthg ia. short distance botow. Here the guoriilas fired at every steamer that passed up or down the river for threo or four months, np to within the last tro or three weeka, The place was destroyed by our gunboats, scarcely cvem a vestige of the ruins doing visi- ble, 80 thorough was the destraction. Not far from here, at Catfish Pond, the day previons to our passing, arebel psymaster, with one mulliion two hundred thousand ia rebel bonds) four captains and twenty of their body guard, were captured. while at- tempting to cross the river. CYPRUS BEND is situated a short distance below Napoleov. A skirmish took place here last spring. The guerillas had been firing ‘on every transport that passed up or down the river, when an expedition, under General Burbridge, was sent from Young’s Point. One piece of artillery aud a number of prisoners were taken. coLvMet, before the war was a village of some ti» or three duin- drod inhabitants. It is situated on the vest bank, below James Landing a short distance, The buildings remain apparently uninjured, Threo stores with gigas in frout whow that « drug store, a paint store and a grocery did businose here at one time; but now the sliops are closed, the shutters of the houses and blinds cover the windows, and not a soul can be seen. A’ Napoleon and many other of the smalier towns which wo passed I noticed ti 6 me desertion and desolation. Ruin was everywher ORERNVILLE is. few miles below, on the opposite Aide from Columbia. ‘This place, which before the war had some seventy-five or a hundred houses and buildings, is now in ruing, tho church and two white pita tandivg forth amid them like pale spectres, All here is silent, too. Your mouths ago Greenville was destroyed by our foroos. Some trqudports at the time were on the way to Momphis, when the ofipmy opened upon thom with artil- lery about palf a mile above the town, Killing ant wound ing thiglecn fuon, Sovera! infuutry and two or three bun- ae6 cavatry were Cortumately Gu board, These were Jandod at once, mloy (hg work of dex ry com Py menced. The quem wore chagod, eeveral wound: ed or caplited, wheu the marched ap to Deer crock, setting fire to the buildiug?. ‘Thea thoy starte Greenville, and destroyed every builliog ty the town but the chureh and two hoy A short tine after, at thy seme , avout five hun drod geerillas fired upon th mor Minuosote, with at- tilery and mus Ove vido of the na shot away, Lae Ulloy ‘ee yas gut in fwo, aud, the v becoming Womauageslie, her DOW ftruck the Weal siore bounded of towards the eust shore, aud rau lato the bank ce es, f After liking off what (uey could carry, the guerillas tok © | every person prisoner, and thou ficed the vessel, She 1 was lowled with $80,000 worth sullera’ stores. The un fortunate sutlers are yet au Libby prie co and Columbia L was shown a bar by the pilot, a wundred yards (0 our right, over which bis youre! passed six weeks ago. A short distance beiow Groen ile are two plautations belonging to Judge Grufiu ii or ix very large plantations. fhe two men tioned above cost $900,000. MILLIE ah the uext pout of iterest, bas been a plaue vi eousiderd bie importance during (ue war. An expedition auder General sherman binded near here last December, for the purpowe of destroying the Vick#hurg and Shreveport Rail. Dotween this pi ir owas liv ° have (whore Yankees are) entirely throwa of th road, price to Uke auteck ca Viek=burg, whieh was suc. bo (4 “Ob, hat is owing to their enormous price in the | cesaiul, From thi: pout General Grant moved with the our Northern indies wil! observe, Not at all whole of Lis commatd scros# the peninsula, Millikon's ps are reasonable enongh at Memphis, bat thoy have | Bend © the place where the negroes are sald to uave yeod among themselves not to wear them. itis their | fougt so desperately exerot sigu—thoir badye-thei: rebel fag 4 e+ and flage pinned to their dresses and bonadte, the: & ce Wit opon jan. ‘toot @ their revel mark now and one, the us roar hoops, neithe: esting fa with (he preseat dimensions of your skirts, now you ksow that the mon of the South are despairing and the women hoopless, and your happiness will he inereased | gour bearia’ eootaut No looger wowed to flaunt past oor gallant fellows with thelr ‘They will wear no more hoops. wiso asked if that wat the reason, tossed up her db wt and said, Yes, it ie; and you Yaukees can't make | thouglt that some of your ladies at the Noria, ading his, were to make the size of their hoops loyalty, L would not have told yor Take good advice, ladies be satis The place is now alunvet entirely destroyed. Before (he war broke out ii was a landing place of considerable in portance Pawpaw lsimnd, at the (vol oF Milljsen'# Bend, i some or Ofty tet Ligher than the river, A large cawp of contrabwads i stationed bere, cutting weed fer the gov erumant. Ab y \pera's rom Goueral Grands army was eucamped sym Lune, ant the celebrated cama: was du vucrtsau ny. Atso auch Has beom said about Vicksvarg, ts biale aud ite ‘mauboles,” (will pass it by, ouly saying Ghat he jatter are being rapidly Miled up by order of the author tae, 8» be soldiers make @ nulsanoe of taem. Hore { learned that Kirby Smith ued proclaimed ym 0 ue self Military Plotator of the States of Lowistana, Arkaa Ww very Handsome plaice ii. sud, with te | and Texas, and bad calied for (wo hundred thousand we Do eonge aad sawmills, rescun Cronolnt, Brooklyn, | greos, and had issued @ proclamation commanding Uiat all The pcuation is very picturesque, haying bigh Lille immo. | the white mon Letween tle ages of sixiecn and way e ately in ite rear, winch are seen for wiles and miles along | should immediately bo conscripted, Ge Mos csippl, (be Gburcl spices aud residences gleam The Stara and Stripes are said lo have beeu cased boar y You in bce distance, and a fout tnjbold relies Were | a Lamdred miles to the rear of Vicksburg, and { nhard We th) cy Omens has erected several commod ‘oot | citizens myeolt seeking what was required of them and sr. 8 each aide, upon the river's bank, our troops are | the state to do to bo allawedt to come back inte ile Cau ed bh vbe bobiad them upon the bighest by ad SUrtpee wave from the fort. th nA WAS # after the enemy evacuated Memphis fn thy es tof July of (his gear a force under tw #4 Holme aud Price attacked it; bul they we ' 40. 18 great alaugite os ar fact that thie is the only high gre t see Go wo tean to the Gal? of Mexico on this io ree the subllect of & convention i ‘ ' , 4 ke Wo € era hee wae ate ee 2 *prembceulp, (ora t t f the int rocks sloug the Yanks of ihe Missis wig & sik hundred miles below Cairo. An & luo whole Of Sis distance, @ atone or a | | @ | pebble i aluost A curi@ily. Occasionally a bar of cod J Gravel i@ forme he Missitaiyy ; bot low it occurs, oF d | where the grovel omnes front, is a inystery to the oldest | stearmbort on the rivor . MENS PLAN I forgot to wention these jtemen un | E left Cai a3 ty { they are tonantioas, On oach side of the river lay tho hulls of the ‘Tigress and Goneral Taylor, two trausports driven ashoro by tho guns at Vicksburg whon thoy ab tompted to pass tho forts, oaRTMAge is @ place of two or three houses. General Grant's army srrived hore after marohking across the poatuaula below. Vicksburg, and encamped upon Mr, James’ piaavation, ‘The rostdonce of tho planter cost $40,000, It hasaot boon destroyed. I Perkins’ plantation is bolow Carthago, whoro a portion of Gonoral Grant's army quoampod before moving againss Graud Gulf, CLARE PROVIDIENCR. A canal was dug hore, loading from tho Misalsaippt, ta tended to pasa through Tonsas, by Mason, (o> Red river Tt was a failure, ee @ako Times fs 8 place juat above Grand Gulf, where tha troops concoa- trated previous to the attack on Vicusburg, aad a point from which they marched atter the failure of tho gua. ‘boats to ailonoe the batteries at Grand Quilt. GRAND auLF {ga vory atrong military post, situated om the daat bank of bho river, ovaouatod by the enomy after the fight at Fors Gibson, Tha town, which ia now catiroly deatroyed, was formorly & place of about three huudred {nuabitants, The plantations of Joffyrson and Josoph'Davis are in Luis neighborhood, on the ovat aide of the river. Tho former is in the roar of Mori¢an’s Island; the latter ison ‘the river bank, BROINSNURG {34 point on tho oast bank of tho river, where Genoral Graot's army lauded prior to the attack on Poet Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, Cuampious’ Hull, Big iiaci and Vicksburg, SATOHRT laa olty of Mifteon or twenty tioisaud fbabitanta, situated upon tho cast bank ofthartvor. Natchez is buiit on the highest ground along the Mtsalssippi on this bank. It isa very handsome town, suit {as sevora! coble build ings te and around it, WORT ADAMS, five miles below Natchez, {s the dividing line between Loulsians aud Mississippi. It (a a small towa on the east aide of the river, numbering bofore tho war about two hundred houses. The town ia sow ontirsly deserted. Six miles below, on the opposite aide, it the mouth of the Rod river, On the cast side of the river, near Port Adams, is J. B. Acikiin’s plantation, one of tue largest in the South. He owns between ten and fifteen thonsand acres of land. Bofore tno war broke out he had tive hundred negroes, and raiaed annually from three to five thousend bates of cotton. He marricd the widow Franklia Througt bis wife he became possessed of this immonse wealth. Three Years ago he was worth over two million dollars, besides having cno of the Guest places apd mangions ia the South near Nashyiile, the whole, with improvements, alone costing nearly one million dollars. Mr. Acklin is said to bea Unionman. When our forces arrived at New Or- loans the rebels tried to persuade him to set fre to five thousand balesof cotton which he then nad on hand; but he refused to do so, He is now residing with hig family at bis resideace near Nashvitic. 1 had seen upto this time but two.slaves along tho banks of the river. On this plantation [saw scores, as wo}! as several horses and oattle grazing. The lattor were ‘he first | had seen since Port Hudsoa, Batow Rouge aad Donaidsoavitle f ara unable to speek of, ax wa pascat thom iw. the wight. 1 ‘will, however, mention a fow names of planters along here, whe either own large plaetatious or are in the rebel army. Judge Winehester’s plantation is about déteen inites be- low Donaidsonviile. He is ous of the wealthiest and most infiventia! men in theSouth He has a son tf the rebel atipy, captain of artillery. General Vick Taylor's resideuce im situated about twenty-six miles above New Urieans, on the west side, Duncan F, Kenner, the ediebrated raiser of blooded stock, resided on bis plantation on the est bank of the river, about soren miles velow Donaldsonville. Ho is one of the Yeaders in the confederacy. ‘Tee Duildings yet remain upon the plantation; but all the negroes and horses have been taken, Madam Beuchwes’ plantation, On the erst eixty miles (rom New Grleans and three from gon College, is one of bue hneat plantations And band Nearly ali the plan! » worked alovg the banks of Me river are in the lawis of the agents of the government, THR OMENING OF TRADE. Touching the subject of opening trade wit of Arkansas and Missigmippi, 1 am sorry nothing will be changed from the presens state of things Wet! General Stasle meets aud de'ear The hostile forces ave now wittun ten miles of each other, and a battle is daily expected, You meed nave no fear for the result, as Genera! Steele has, to my vertaty knowledge, « | force sutflotnt to defeat aud rout him wiih ceriauty, And now a leet word for the bteatnboote and our dis tingwished friewds on board. On the City of Alton the notables Were Major General Jehu 4 y aye stall, { Brig General Burbridge, Adjutany Vonce ond Ted tenant Colonel Tiger, Hon, Bor. Camp. Sew York H S. 1. Casey MC. F district, Ky. Wiilam P, Metter } Kea. and gon, of Cincinuati, apecial vent of the Treasury Department for the Miseiesippl; Mr. Vane. a large plea from Kentucky: Mr, Moore, a Intge planter ‘rom Loultians It was thove gentlemen's Kod lies. ws ove mine, to nest steamers onthe M) , the Soltana at Memphis. and burg. The names of the officers are tain William Barnes: Clerk, WH Reed get on three of the City of Alton at ¢ Aliontic at City of Alton Sultana, Captala William Purd, Chief Clerk, Wo. Crop per Ws STK: sew Bgunest. Autonta, Captain Alenr§ Mofovgal, Cierx. Paward Foro Tote boat was fired on by gueritlas while ow her way to Vicksburg a 2 wen week ago last Sunday, Several *h through (he veesel; yor uo perma received usury The Julia, whtets arrived last might, wee fred at by ar tillery uoar the same place on Saturday. Five shots out of twelve struck aer, Mr. S. Cadwattader’s Despatch, Vickgpene, Sept. 17, 1460 TUR INSCRY 10 GANMRAL Gh ast, ‘The steumboat Ben Frankie arrived (rom New Orleant pietely bho base of opets. i ear acd s natal Pgrmuns’ Toxas c | cua aw, Old camping ground whieh we go elfeetuadly ransacked and Gesircyod at Oak Ridge, Kad Commenced Dusying them, selves iu reconstructing @ibor coun nredaioum for @ per- Mavont stay. Gen, Walker's division of Appeired ow the bauk of tbe Wach ta, gpposite Monroe, nearly 44.8000 as we wore oul Of sight, sad commenced atrengthoning their fortifeatiows at tue exme thne thoy Teocoupiedithe Lowe, The whoie rebel force (iat evacit- ated a0 hasti!y on our approaon, foliowod us om the return Gt a rospeotful distauce, aud now bid and ocou)y all the territory thoy did before tho expedition was Manod Nothing but (ho permangut occupation vy federal troops Of all that country will ever roliove it of (Lo prosonce of these « bold riders and marauders.’ Lavy ive om the country, prey on it, and rotura to it whoa driven away, 4a 8000 Aa our troops depart. CONSORTPRION OF MALRY METWERN GIXTABN AND SIXTY YRARA YRARS OF AGB. Rofugses aro coming within our lines ocosstonally from that coolio, and from those we teara that Gen Kirby Smith has been appointed Military Dictator of the Trana- Mississippi Department by the Confederate govoramout, and hag isauod aa order conscripting ull white males be- “Veron (uo agoa of sixtoon aud sixty. Che robel cavalry aro onforcing tho order mercilessly, aud many ero coming to ua for protection, that nothing else would have thrown ta our arms. They all profoas loyally, ali have favors to asic, all have cotton thoy wish the-privttoge of abip- ping. Suck latter-day ropentancos are at 1onat ausploiows. GHROLAMERT OF NEGROM, ‘Thoy iso bring tho nows that at a conference of the Gov Orhora Of States composing that departmont, it was rosoly- od to Korganize aud arm two hundred thousand nogros troops, aud that Geueral Smith will proceed at once to put it in execution. The negroes aro promised thet: froo- doom, and forty or sixty acrosof land at the ontlor the war. How far they can bo depended on to fight for thoic raster, time alone can dolermius, Ag long aa tho maa- ter, whose iatorest ta greatest, etakes all on his slaves’ fidelity, wo must Await tho actual trial before assuming they wil! desert to our standard, and Oght io our bobalr GRNRRAS SMEPH'S OPERATIONS Oa receipt of General Stecle’s official notification of tho fatl of Little Rook, Ars., the division of General Joba © Buith, sent from here to reinforcs bim, waa ordered to returu. Goneral Smith waa to dobaric at Napoleon, Arkansas, ond marca from that point on Litte Rock, The inteudod route passes throvgh a rick and fortilo section of the Stato, but little devaatatod by war. As General Stooie no longer neods their coopera tiow (hoy will soon be back im thois old quarters at tals place. abe ¥ wet GRNERAS LOGAN. General Logan bas roturaed from hla vist to Illinois, but will got resume the office of post commandant imme- diately, tt is said, Since Goneral Smith's doparture to Arkansas. General McArthur has discharged the duties faithfully and well. He may be retained in tho piace. General Kilby Sraith will relieve Genora! Ransom in cotamand of Natchez. Tho latter goes homo ou a short leave of abseuce. General Shorman’s army corps (the Fifteenth), is stiti at Big Black, ana. suforing sevoroly from agud and malarial Cover. THY NXGRO RRATHERTS. ‘Tho negto regiments here are being decimated fearfully. As high as twénty four per day have dicd tn Colonel Gil- christs regiment alone, and stiil the carnival of death goes on. Less than three hucdred are now loft out of morg than ® thousand, Sutervention of France in Amorican Af- iw May be Struck at Mér Naval ors. 6. 70 THE BbITOR OF Tt js generally supposed that whilé Bogland, on account of ber North American possesejons, iz Particularly exposed tothe effects of our rasontment tor her bad faigh during the present war, Frauce, on the hand, presents no ‘ulnorable point of altack, aud that therefore Napoleon can play out hig vole of intervention in Anierican affairs with perfect impupity, This is an errohéous ides. Lor us dee. ‘Toe desire of }rance to build wp & reat uaval power is woll known, It /s a traditions! policy of the rulerg of that country, whateves the form of governmen: that obtained atthe moment, The restricted comméree of France has ver afforded the means for educaling a vumber of # men adequate bv the ambitigys views of ibose who de- sired to see her enagt the part of a great naval Power, able to cope with the navies of Eagiand or of our own country. Fravce has therefure steadily labored to supply her deficiency W seamen, Aud bas fostered, with mdlovinting policy, her dsheries on tue banks Of Newivundiand, a» « school where the requisite wumber of triod seamen could be trained with the ulterior object of manuing ter ships of-war. Limited by treaty with Hugiand to the absolute possession of ouly the little tsland of st Merre, on the Newsoundland coast,and the mere temporary rigut of using & portion Of Che shores of that great rors from Cape Ray to Cape 86. John —for the purpose « fish during the seneyn, without apy territorial jurisdiction or right of permanent cettiement, and compelled to traus porther eexmen to lrenee av tue end of erch Mebing eason, ble bas been (hwarted to some extowt jn mgking that fisuery minister to her views. To remedy this, a few years siuce she entered into a convention with England, by whic the coucaurrent right of fish on the part of the Newfoundiand ‘coast to owas transferred into oan absolote right, to the exclusion of all olluers, whniiat additional privileges were conceded on the shores of Belle Tele abd the coast of Labrador, This ayoused the opposition of the Newfoundiauders, who thus saw (hel Direuright traded away by their paternal yoverument to meet the requirements of Furopean complications, aud « spirit manifested iteely on the promu’gation of the Cou- vention (the negotiation of which had ber onled vip to that moment) py. The Fugiish flag on the ding wae pot at halt mast, Union down: (they protested vebementty to tue home governtnent against this injustice: appealed to the other colonies, throagh apecial delegates appointed for that parpose, 10 g)anq By them iv their vesisiauce to atlack upon thelr rights, of repeated piedy AL Ofhice, 19 the © n Without the conseut of the people of t » Newfoundlander. also contended that th gh of the 4 gute and pr statew as tite attempt te ¢ Tight to fish on a part of viueh only © rept right had wLven the people of th to the Frew prev ione!y was doy American people | ora right wir they eujoyer romon with British | gnhjecte, amd therchy axel Amertenns ae veel! ae Britiah, 1b contravention of the rights claimed vy the former ws ghow lug ont of thelr enogessful Revolation, and aiterwards acknowledged by solemn treatige. The proper representations we these views, sod the North Americah colomies were ae # wnt? 19 Opposition 1 thi sachment. We believe, be fore aug eatin was ta ofr government iu the mat ter, the British authorities, alarmed at the decid taken by the colouies, amd fearing, no douu woud make ouion a A pit ARS conv — mo cone u laud hee ri powmt was sinplied iw by eheckunstod for the Lame Metin Altea ree Pict a ‘ to ibe | cation uf « perma Yesterday, with Geueral Grant and siaf, aud Adjutant | gone torce at St. Pierre of only afew hundred men, and General Thomas oo board. General Grant's inuries ave also reetricted in the Inalter of Forti vatious (Uhoog® in upper , op | DOtl these pointe we are incorm » With or without more sarious than wore rst suppoved, and will, vnder | HOw Kees LEONE we ith governiwemt, obo" treaty (he most siiiful Creatment, contioe hin to tis room tor | Yew got Deon strictly conformed ts) ond apetrponcies 4 several weeks tne leg ie nearly paraiyved He ie woe Able to8it Up; or turn Dimget in hed, though vot com sitoced im danger of she or yal, Lue ayock to bw use he is tallying rapifly and ayeteng Wee fl already able to A (Gand direct the busiagss of bis department. Nétuing has tamspired coteeruing the ex- tension of lie command to the Gaif, though the oficial wotideation (rom Ube War Department is daly expected by nearly ovory ene here. 100 WRIT ARYT CORD. Coutcary (0 Leraree MAVIS®, Geteral Ord's (Thirteenth) army corps till remains eucaped at Carroiiton, six miles above New Orleemy, and from all that ie ais cornable, iikely to remaia (here indedniiely The expected advance on Mob by ow f cagoula, will not take al prese fat aL There itu) evidence Outeide Of military chayuels {lect sueh a movement was iu Contemplation imiacaiate! hat thet Linpression got RbraR, ood (he moving and dix porition of troops gave color lo the report. Frerything bow jadicates a poriod of isotion aud reporw. Many officers and privates are abseat on frloughs recently grauted. The th of these remaining i far from good The whole arly needs rebrigading and equipping, To anor place t diuary Observer Active MUIlArE OperRtiious by any Con. silorabie portion Of the army fv 05! Of Cie range of powsibilition, AWE CAVALRY GORI Cae wenks (Come seome ey ittempted to he evoked by French a in gel Canada on this propored reostsbiskndt ot strate and bis jnpudent manivesto publicly proclaims 11 will We well, however, for the Fraperer of the Frenc to paase and beer in mind that Chis country full, uaderatavd? (he importance of st Peters tn the contingency of — howtiluties We wodersiand fully that SL. Peters is the aucleus around which (rom fifteen lw (Westy thonsead Freoob samen are saneey, trained. H it & eystgm oF extensive (les this } yy ia ied nee she motlves oftive port y That rends ty cay ‘greeo bands’ to that fish satcribed OM the maritime books and thag etch apie to called why dhe noval service ver quired. w i Chis, our firey @ will be the pos. feanion of Chat isinad. We esaily destroy th con. venient depot, Our cruisers and privateers own drive bis lage Gshiog Beat {rom the Bavks, avothilate his sobvol, aud leave wo foothold (or Freuch expeditions, no resting place for trene’ prize courts in our bor hood. Tn (hie policy we would have the active aympathy of nil tho British woarity keou, With feolitigs OF (he Moet iatense bittermess, the yearly increasing French fleet ou the Banks, barring lhe passage of the codish to the shores om which their Asheres are now exciusively carried on, driving out of foreign % prty: for it, nel wll secalve lan ooveralites of some ministry Pugiand tottoring 0 ite fatl Gnd it veces. nary lo propitiate the good will or Une forbear. ‘ance of the © Man of Destiny.” Hore then ia a valuable and vital point m which Napoleon may be successfully oaewiied 4 he suvold venture to carry out his programme, rococo leiag the Soathora coufederacy, and aiding it to establish [8 Indopandsacs, Lat the Emperor beware SW ADE Mat lity >, 1d63—TRIPLE SHEET. "| THE MISSOURD i “roe, Address of the Committee from whe State of Loxas troops 10> | | » | country demanded that’ you shonld | | seuse of duty, strike down with equal suddennes i + ull hoth the rel ! | desires to gphold slavery, eve im eating | wih the tery icenens man wathe Slate. every man who denic? that DELEGATION. Missouri to President Linvwa- ‘ Mr. Pammxnr—On the Lat day of the preset moath of September 9 mass conveutiva Of the radical Un.ton men of Missouri was eid at Joieryos Cliy§ Ii'waa th. largost mass convention ever held in that Statc—mon fro: y quarter of tho State boing pregeut—ali actuated b spirit of unconditional and wawavering loyaley to the Y2- Slitution aad the Uniow, all sincerely attached to you ‘ho Chiot Magistrave of the nation, and al! darnestly des \s- ing that your adututateation syouid redound to the Lone.¥ of your own name and the good of our beloved country. Provious to the assembling of [hat Comyeation, public mootings wore hold ia tho grea! yority of the counties © of tho Stato, (2 almost every vu» of whieh resolutions wore adopted cordiaily sustaining your adminiatration, and divtinciy oudorsiug thoae great foatures of your polloy—the proclamation of omanoipation and the eu. ploymout of nogro teoopa; Upoa which, in our opiaioa, tho carly auocess of tha goverament in aubdning tho re- bolton largoly depends The mass convention, ltkewre, om) hatioally doolared its approval \{ those racasures. In tuaricod contrast with the agen go taken is tho almost ubtor 06 Of Cur oppongala, in thoir mootings, Ia regard Uo those great measures aod to your adailuistration, You Can judge, Mr, President, from thors {sols whe aro your Crienda in Misgouri. Among tho proosedings of (hat muas Conveut.oo was tha Appointmentiof acommittee of ono oF marofcom each coun. ty Of Che State thors ropresented, to proces! to tho city of Washington, aad ondeavor, by ® personal com cronce with you, 40 remove from your mind iniurious impreasions which onr oppononts have long and industriously sought ‘and to procure, if possiblo, a change ip the gov. ernmontal policy in reference to Missouri. In pursuance of that appoiatnicat we, whose namoa aro hereto sub: scribed, seventy in aumber, coming from dfty-seven counties of that State (containing, according to the eousus of 1860, more than three-fourths of ita entire population ,) and representing all tho industrial avooations of tifo, have jouroeyod more than ono thousaad miles to perform tue duty assigied 14, dome of us doing 90 under oir cumstances of muck ditlowlty and porsoual danger. We have brough! with Us a unanimous and confiding faith in your patriotism, genorobity and integrity, and an uaques Honing voliof in your readiness to do whatoyer is right in rd to our State, whenovor you are fully advised oon- cerning ite aftsics Wo represent, a5 we vori!y boliova, a large majority of the poople of Missour:, and a still larger majority of itn lawful voters. We come from a foyat people, Through the fury trials of the last Chirty months tay have been willing to peril thotr all (or the Union cause, and muititudes of tho: havo 1 Dut fost all but their Lives. in that owuse, euce Of their known Wentilica- ! No accumulation of wrong and MY ufficieut to swerve thom for a moment thelr dovotiva to it apd to your administra’ evory step you have taken to subdue the robeilion. No doubts nor caviis bave beid tuem back, no dein ciations deterred them from rendering an open, con- rageous aud honest support to all your ueasures toward that great end. for ourselves, aad on their wehalf, we bid vou Godspeed in every policy touding to re‘ostabli-f the rigutful autnority-of the nation Over every foot of its soil. ‘Who radical Uuion men of Miskourt, vecognizining iw the institation of @lavery the one sole cause aud the very !fe of the rebellion, and believing in their inmost hearts that the continued existence of that tustitution is utterly inconsistent, with the safety oi our country, have doliberatcly planted thomselves in « position uf bostility to it. ‘Iley demand its immediate removal trom Mis- gouri, not cnty for her own sake, bul as her contribution, for the sake of the-Union, toward its entire and tigal extirpation from Aimerican soil, They are opposed to ia gradual removal, because at atime whem the fate of the country hangs wpow the dread arbitrament of a war Dogua and contincad solely for the extension and per. petuation of slavery, they do not belleve that it bas | any claim to the Consideration or forbearance of the true friends of the Cuion apywuere. They hod the institution, inore than men interested iv it, re poa- sible (or all tho horrible evils which bave aifiicted our country for nearly three years; thay find in it ihe ouly element which could ever have precipitated civis war in this lamd; they sce that all the springs of sectional dis- +> Cord, past, present or Cuture, ara in ic; they kuow, from bitter what wrongs, outrages and calamities it is, of toflicting ; they cannot approctato and do uot believe in that tenderness ioward. 44 o7 thuse inte: rested in it, #hich would prolong its mischievous exist- guce 8 single day beyond that, at which it can be legally jtroyed. We rajo.ce that io your prociamaiion of Jani. | ary 1,.1363, you laid the migiag band ot tae nation upon that gigautic enomy of Amerisan liberty ; aud we and yur constituents honor you for that wite and noble act. We and they hold that thas prociamatioa did, im iaw, by its own force, liberate every slave iu the region it covered; thas it is irrevocable, and that from tke moment of its issue the American people sivod to an imjneguable posi tion beore the world, abd the rebellion received its deathblow. If you, Mr, President, tels thatduty to your wishackle the slaves at the rebel States [aan hour, we see no oa: thiy reason u Ne Of MBsOUr! Should Not, from the sine he traitorous and parricidal inatitation in their midst Such, in brief, are the distinguishing traits of the por- tion of the paopie of Missourl who have come to be eatiod radicals." "they aogept the ware in its true sixnifvence 1m regard to the regellion and siavery, and desive no other vellion and slavery are extirpated. We are opposed in Miasouri by @ party which bwlds to conservatism as its fundamental idea. We desire tat you mbouid know who. We Jt comprises slavery was the cause of the rebellion, every man wh wh mapas every man whose bund. ¢ red wth the blood of ton Ineo. every man wl oppose tne isgue Of Your proclamation of emancipati (every mien wRO holds thal prociaiowtion* reyoka | Die,” and that $18 revocation would return to | egroes it freed; every man who op | stment of wegrots |i Our army, every man who carpe at the radical policy 6: your administration } const made to our goyervment embodying | Wier the people of which have | every mau who denounces you, and overs man who would embarrasé your eforts to seve the Union and the m from the assaults of stavery. With them a ociated a rmall body of Wnion imow, who were ) irom the outbreak of vebellion, and a horger body of those who were thn opn'y dis al, and who have since become professediy Usin only they found it dangerous (6 be any ee, and whe are at heart no more putriole no: e the power of Lhe nation fe of the cebellion. From 8 party £0 constituted 10 couservacian could be | expected, nor has auy } estized, Duty, the iuatt tation of slavery and 1 este conugated With it, Ae om Qf xOOIRT orgahization, bit far more as Sig of political power. It Was the représen- tative: of that party who, in the “tite Convention Diissouri, diererarded the loyal sentiment of the siate, and passed soeatled ordinance. of oman jen, whieh Uberating Mireonri at tram the greatest evemy fase a hy upow he for seven years t narter of a that ordivane befor ry of was pasedt oni—aim and strife there ought to b those whe stund by their country ros, and (hose who div ide the.r allegiance bebw ee couplry aud slavery, It has ao bappeved that (he State government of Mis Souri, not by the direet vote oF (ive people. but by tne will Of @ Convention ele ted iu Fehr ne 1861, abd Contiouing ‘tet mn paltence nbd power anil Alp, 14c3, has been ont trusied 1 one whose conservative policy hax been & suree Of great Uocasiness and discord. When, w July 1, that Convention ne ¥. Jackson their the oftice of Governor, mut upnented Hamilton Ry provisionally, to that office, the lagtes ovees$ p Will a proclejysyga t fhe poopie v- siaié, ‘ ih 5 saT thar ue pre tnttuent id satiely all thai no oiuntewall yald be afforded iy scheme or any conttic Nellore Wilh the inaliveibion of eavery & 1) Bhd Uhat to (he utmost exten! of executive power that institution would be protected.” From the day of the Wlication of that protemation to the present, Gover or Gamble's policy snd acty bare be cuaracter, whiie the tn iiount has steadiy advanced its preseDt apt) slavery attiiode, The radicals of Missouri desired gad demard ed the election of «8 yew ConvéBiion. we rose of giing (HE State Oo sia y. Hée, whie such & propesitic in the Legisteture ite aournm ensuing November 1 "pee a aa Tn that body be oppose? iumpegiate turew ali the weight o: his jnhwoues iv which was finally edopted. not fpr ive Upon thal eubieet, MapLcipetion. and FAVOE Of pou ieet ner veyond ing Missourl from that which tas measure \ beygud endurance, bot wih the + well. aortocd latent copbMuibg 1 te Lhe latest possible day, and. in (he inagonge of « ove of tae est pro wiAvery district, subsequently addromed (0 R smeeting of sciuents, “in order (lat something shonja be do save slave property (rom utter waste und spoliation, aud give im seigag een brief oy ; ity to make (be vest | ralnves raioo auywiae conpected y demoustrated tat Uae position assumed ip bis waugural prociamation bas never been abaadoved, im (actor in imtent, and will ney De Ae log ae be oO. tiaues Governor From the antagoulém of the radicals of Miasour! such a poliey have arisen the conthete which you, Mr. President, have heretofore to term & “txetionat all Teepect we deny | that the adic of Missourt have been or # avy sense, a party to any anar: Wo are no (netionists, bat men earnestly jutent ioe our part toward rescuing (his great pation | asaanite which alevery ened AL ie life, W ¥ trying to do that, ‘conservatism in Mit ri is Urylog how not to do it, and yet ! quarrel xhibited, ¢ sol ‘0 loyalty such a8 our comatiinents har fate rSsowsive, becavea, bie poloy fa, ta" ous Wagmeo', ve ia inne t, Caverse te true loyony, wad tothe Vial intcbeoes oF on? Stave. No. faotious ‘apicit dictates ope on We would rejoin to support miniatration it Se coll, ‘tod’ be. tenkicl. to Gur commarys bat | sympathy to be wi "sabato veeew | fal uy between him ond thee word bas ever fallen from him public veomeaioes what wo consider to be a vital raubs thet m the a ie, it a slavery warring against our noble institutions of fi + In our doliborate judgment, yet toarned that truth is belly. unable pained ow to Coater and uphold lovalty, ‘or ( discountonance and suppress disloyalty, do not belie Governor’ Gamble’ hiss yet attained that parte and wo have no hope that he will, You wi bot, therefore, be surprised to lowrn that be hes ever publicly approvest your proclamation of Jaauary 1, ee or the (gear pa nogroes. On the contrary, it ‘a universal beliof of the Loyal poople of Migsourl that hela. Pe gat t@ both, as nearly all who suport bim are e. Ut (3 99 woll understood & fact in Misgouri as any other in Yabite ffvirs that no man's loyalty to the Upton oom. meds Bim te Governor Gainble’s favor, unless it be Soon iapasion by ® woli defined toyalty to the Stave admivistration, which latter description of loyalty bu seourett important anigecd to many whos: appointg ment guid never baye been justly based upou thoir devor, the Union cause, But pot in auch points aloue tho loyal nearta of Missouri learuod that ‘botweew ghom and Governor Gambe there ta dition commen ‘The whole policy of bis admit tra- tion, 60 far as it gouneow itesif, directly or remotely, with the clviatrife im our country, is adverse tu iho, aud lenient, if not faverabts,to their adversaries = Hebua intorposed his officia: influewse to scroen disliy | mon {rom military measures deemed necessary Ww aubdue tho spirit of treason. Ho and bie part sans waed ther in. fluones to procure the removal sf a commanding general of the Departuent of the Missoari, whose oviy odense, # far as Known, was @ just soveriiy toward reves and thoir aidersand abottors. He has, with guath +t ty of law, in the judgment of some of own abdinat urna, drafted into active service under the State, largo: pudies of the enrolled militia of Missouri, every uilicer of which above tho rank of captain holds office at bis ploa Sure. We declare it to be an mcontrovertinle fart Une koown ideutidcation wth the radie 1Uaion party ts simoet Cortaiu .o exoiudo an individual from any offic: «siren in thoso troops. Many auch men have Ween eummars 3 dismissed from important commands, witbont ex: 'n- nation, and their places supplied with’ men 0: do fal Lyally, and fu aome instances by those wie, in the “early stages of tne rebaltivn, violent gecessioniats, and whe new combine w professed Unionigm '& conservatism which ionves : doubt of the quarter toward which their =yuptiies i 1s bas been too marked & fact to earape har tt cers thus dismissed wero generally those who had gttished themselvos Dy tho visor with which ¢ traitors, and those whofed, clothed ana sli while we beligve iL to be strictly tre thit ne one hue | dismissed because of neglect of fuefticieney in that work Companies and regiments of the eurvilod 1 pursued rebels, goerittas, bushwhickers wud Plices with @ legitimate severity, bw under circumstances which lot up: Painiul conviction that therr offense was « resolute elurt torout and destroy those Len’ ders. tn every way the people of Mise forced to learn that rigor toward those or roperty, lie and loyalty, conv the favor of our Kxeovtive, It is equslly weil known vat those who cordially sustan your proclai nO eman pation, and your policy of brow the negroes. tail nuaer his displeasure im the Tat wal 0 a@ypolntmonts. ‘The result of all this is ouly what would soy italy fol. low. Disioyalty, under the alias of counervatism. ia vrs sumptuous and defiant, In largé portions of oor Seat: 1 far safer to be kaown as dislgyal than as truiy le Thousands of Union men have beon driven irom their homes beggared, and multitudes have been tmurdece§ while pursuing th if peaceful avocstious—o! ion in the presence of thetr families—for no offence hut that of on compromising fidelity to the Union, ihe whois country was shocked at the recent awful tragedy at Law enc , o our neighbor Stato of Kanaaa, but were that multiplied « huodred fold tt would not equal the sum of the outrages which loyal moo hayo suffered in \itssourt, but which, occarri: in detached instarces, isolated positions, are little hourd of away from tiny mediate vicinity, and therefore come not w vour kno: fedge. It is a Ismontable fact, that in the larger pare of our State the property and life of # Union man are ; secure now than thoy wore when rebel. armiea were here. Insober truth, Mr. Prosidont, the condition of loyat people there is rapidiy becoming intolerable. To what further extent our suffering brothren can bear inpatienes the load wrewg ‘which prosans then om uilmerfted every side, God onty knows. And all thie we ube. sitatingly ‘lay to the charge of Governor Gambiers pro-siavery conservative- policy, which iafecus all administrations, civil and military, discour gee and depresses loyalty, and elevates. divloyaity into a predominance whieh is gaiting to the last degree to the unconaition»| Unien men of Misseuri, We vlesire, Mr. Vresitent, distinctly to invoke your at- tention to the organication by Governor Gamble of the eurolled militia of Missouri. It ia # mast rio which, ia ovr judgment, the g vernment of the Unitet sttee fs concerned. We havo miready stated that it is se opiuien ge f of tho ablest jurista of our state that the organization that militia rant of law. the Governor, Seventy five regiments have beon organ, ized, and, as before siated, all the officera above tho rank of captain receive their appomtmouts from him. been officially announced t ‘This forage and transportation by the-Uniied States: and yet, by orders fom the headquarters of the State, thoy were proliibited from rendering assistance in enforcing some orders Issued by (eders! authority. Until recentiy they were used for the purpose of returning fagitive slaves: ty their owners. In organising this force. those ctim-m capable of performing military duty, who declared thee the raboltion, we-o, without eom- snutation, exempted from rendering yet have r ceiver full protection ows the loyol uritivmen being eompelled to x over tbele property. At the same time, cttizoun Mave, withoot authority of Iaw, been forced, without having previously voluntarily eulisted, t enter the orvwe of tne . Tt is organized by arbitrary detatl from the carviled militia, by O'ffcers selected to serve in a pro vistonal regiment. term of setvico ia ind natnre and objects wadofaed by iaw aud « | these wh) ave detailed, and the solection of the suidior is independent of any fised rule. His first intimatioo i that le has beea detaied to serve in a provisional rogi went, and he is not permitted to inquire by what autho rily ne has boon detailed, or into waat service Lof time be must serve. Wis vont for hisn to kaow that he bas been dotai ed, and ist ko AL once, Wilhoat time for preparation. and {f be I 0 fails to respond imined it to the call, bo fs hunted out vod _compelied into the ranks at the point of th bavonet. lu Uke exercise of this arbitrary power intole able bardens have fallen upon loyal citizens, from which the disiogal are exompt: 1a a word, & bonna is thus pald for distoyal- id a pounlty exacted for love we call your espeditl notice, Mr, President, to the that on the 17th day of this month, at the very ma. it that steps had m or were about to be (vkea, Corpus, (6 test the legaliy of thiy whe system of Conscription into the service of the State, the commanding generat of tue Deparune it of the Mueroart “4 Geteral 0 droiaring that y froclimation of the Lith iust., suspend ng tho writ of hebeas corpus in certain cases throughout the in that department be hed to Hitia calle! ft.to active serries, wi orders of the department commander.’” General id bas thus made himself a party to Governor oo in the militia, | nied States, weal ply Coal) Missoor tt plated by you ta (hat proc In regord to this whole matter o° the enrolled militia we world Sirther res; e-tolly eat, whether it is egusist- ook with the tivutivn of the Catted st fof uch & force to be organiza! mud Kepygneer army fy ‘Stat. aga. tao Re eyst us to say, with the frankness d) Miteourd is we tecied by the ston eyo ly demande that the be thrown upon ber people aud her troasury. We ask, inerefore, tbe immediate restoratiog of the military eon. trol of that State to the hands of the national oMcers aud froom d the entire Jisobarge of all the enrolled militia er th from ony farther service at (he arbitrary will of the Goverser We further ark, Mr. President, that in the place of Gap Schofield, a dei ment commander to the burden of Protecting her sould i's fo I” yy with slavery e Rae joe! Ned to digappointed ou pihicy: "aw deprived commabit ‘kn ‘been, ‘ab we eeve, shaped conform to Governor Gamble’s pro. whe ing eviietiments from the enroiled militia inte the volumteer service of the United , soring under bi bawe arbi rin By loyal eitivens, without daring to re Governor be ry bave and Brome vstances wi prevent der the enge of wi from loyalists bave been armed. ‘der prob. = £ i I i i E 38s eve, was, om the -y arrented 1 by iirgciier General Gaiar, sotidy ONder Gon, Behold’ comm )«8108 reorutte orders, bie ), side me = lg worse ip to send proerst to iaet Overstep the sod Es Tus onmmrnor nt there be Major pd V. Butler We beleve tuat bis Presence restore order aud ssicad iy tus Bernie Sa i ee COR) aay