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              """""mmmmmmmm " " " " . mmm io B BMBB mm a -ammmmm, ' 1 ' ' ' i i i i i , i ii i j . . j , r ! ' . . . i i . i ii mi ii I - 11 1 1 . Ir ' J - - i 1 ' i " " " ' ' VOLUME NUMBER 41, TUESDAY; : JAITUAIIY ' 9 IB rCBUSKXB BTXKT TVXSBY XOaxtSQ BT Ofilec In "Woodward Block, Sd Story. 'Tn. fxEEMS. Two Dollars pet annum, payable In ad-Yvanee $3.50 within alx montha; $3.00 after the expi-ration of the year. tEfit sQcmcfraiic sBatrocr EDITED BT L. HARPER. n A razxxAx whom the tecth makes trek. MOTJHT VERKTOBf, OHIOi TUESDAY MORNING, - .- - JAN. 23, 1862 we Hi. Seward's Novelties. The spectacle of an army avowedly hostile m . its mission passing to its destination over soil it proposed to invade at the first blast of war, would be something mrocin the history of States. 1 ' Imagine Russia asking permission of England - to make' Malta a depot for its navy during the Crimean war, or France transporting its troops, for the Italian campaign by way of Salzburg, Vienna and Trieste I Eve. Journal. Mr, Sswaks is the fruitful inventor of nov elties. . - The "irrepressible conflict," which proclaim- that free and slave states could not live togeih er in the aame union, was a vovelty of Mr Siwaid. Nostatesman from the day of Wash ixgton down, ever dreamed of it. His speech to the Duke of Newcastle, must insult you," was a novelty. His threats against Canada were novelties. His promise to theouth Carolina Commis-eioners that Fort Sumter should be peaceably evacuated, was a novelty ; and its falsification ' iras another. - His prophecy, that the var would be over in thirty days, was a aovelty ; as have been all his prophecies since. . The fulfillment of one of them would-be an agreeable novelty. " His invention tof the idea of blockading one's own ports was a novelty in international law ; and his treatment of rebels as foreign enemies, while denying them belligerent rights, was an other. His letter to Gov. Hicks, sneering at the representatives of monarchies, was a novelty in diplomacy. ' His circular to the Governors of the States, on the subject of frontier defences, was anoth er novelty.. ' . His declaration that the recognition of the South by European powers would be resented by us by a general war upon all Europe, is novelty in doctrine, and would be a greater one in practice. , r Ilia arrest of loyal citizens, in peaceful states, by telegraph, is a novelty, which it is to be hoped may return to plague the inventor, - His invention of a passport system, without law, which annoys loyal citizens and gives free cope to traitors, is another novelty. Hia long reply to a demand, never made, in the Slidill and Mason case, and his dexter : us proving our right to Seize and our duty to surrender those envoys, is a novelty also. His countenance of universal corruption, at time' of great national necessity, is a novelty in the minds of all patriots. -His selection of such diplomatic representa tives as GiDDnr gs, Hlfxk, Bcklikgakx & Co is another novelty. ; His proposed surrender of the right of. privateering, without an equivalent, is a-novel-', ' 'rz-:-' ' - "A . Hia abandonment of the Monroe doctrine is , a novelty. '.'".'"' His irritating despatches to foreign courts are novelties in manner and temper and sub' stance, . . . . : . - . . - , . ; v . His invitation to England to send her troops to Canada, through Maine, is a maniacal nov- elty. " r Z - Finally, Mr. Si ward, acting as a statesman and managing the affairs of a great nation, in a great crisis, is a novelty that the world has never yet seen the like of, and probably never " Will again. . , : Reviewing Mr. Sswakd's labors for the last year, we doubt if Den as, or Walter Scott, or the inexhaustible Sylvancs Cobb, was half) m prolific & novelist as Wi. H. Szward. JVr. . . 3T. Argus.-, . - . . TThat : h'u oeen Gained! ' ' tJaCO the beginning of the war, sixty millions of dollars per year was sufficient revenue for the ; most ample needs of the government. The ex- penditures of the government are now, and will ' be so long as the war continues, at least sixty . millions per month, or seven hundred and twenty millions per year. Says the New York . "W ere the rebellion subdued to-morrow these expenditures must 'equal twice' and perhaps " . ' ' thrice the average for y ears past. We shall do - well if we get on with $200,(XX),000 annually. . ., .W must keep up, for years, a large standing ...army, which costs $1,000 a year for each man, irtnkaad file. sWe shall not hereafter be con-tent without a powerful navy. We are to render impregnable if possible, ill bur important rarbors. The civil list grows a pace with onr JncreasUg y ears,r We shall have on the first of y. J niy next an annual interest account of $40 . t WU.K-M. ;ow uh present, consequently, we i must biduiieu to the golden era in our historv la which we were scarcelv conscious that we ''had . MVnrnmenL so. lightly did its burdens forest upotf ' ui; and eater upon, that la Which the almost sole prooiem pi a,iaieeman wiu oe to make the credit balance the debit side of the millions, and. with all the future expenditures it has imposed, with the long series of 7- of Democratic rule, which imposed no .direct taxes and only demanded forty to sixty millions from import, and tell us what has been gained by the triumph of Republicanism. And remember, that this enormous expenditure, past, present and prospective, is among the smallest of the consequences of the Republican triumph. Greater than this is the interruption of trade, manufactures, commerce, agriculture, and every kind of peaceful industry; greater still is the loss of tens of thousands of lives; and greatest of all is the destruction of the old Union, for the Union, with all" its cordiality of sections toward each other, and love of its institutions, will never be restored. . The authority of the government may be re-established over all the States, but it will be the compulsion of the sword and not the voluntary allegiance of the citizen. ' What has been gained by the triumph of Republicanism f What has not been lost by it? Chicago Timet, Tr-nrw Claw on Abolitionism. ' ' ' I A XlpCei.oay UUM. . , Tb'r ar not av fow entiemn Who are now . .rncIC Jfomeroy oi ;uc .beAJro: (Wis.) ranked in th opposition party, against Preai-1 petnoermiixtn being MBtmog dent's policy, who were fprmerly admirer pfJ wdj guartf ror iTcsiaen Auncoin, and, alter ttmW m v anil wnittAmed - to Mimrd I due consideration, decided to "go in" provided his interpretaUons of the national law with wlpwiag basis couia oe aaopted and rigid- j iag lhat i jjaTe n0 acquaintance with you. nev I tucky, who ht think have plenty and to spare -OUT Amy Correspondence; that would last yon for year, of .the fan and . - - f ' : ' " ' joviality of a Soldier' life, i . . ',,' . Camp Mostov,, . 'i '' - A near a I can learn we are. to intercept Bardttffmi, NtUo Co. Ky Jan: 11th. J ! Zollicoffer, and keep him firom making toft Editor Democratic Bamner t Notwithstand- los acquaintance with the good folk of Ken- UeCleIlan,s "Siort and Desperate War." The New York Times publishes a letter which it editorially endorses as from "a person who speaks from the highest possible authority," from which we extract as follows.. It is certainly encouraging and hopeful: Washington, Sunday, Jan .12. Mr Dm Sia: You do quite right to hold fast to your faith in Gen. MeClellan. I can un derstand your own impatience and that of the public but the greatest fault-finders, and most timid and faint-hearted patriots, .will be all aglow witn aamirauon, and admit, with min gled shame on the part of the cavaliers, and pride in the hearts of all true men, that the de lay has been imperative, and that the apparent inactivity oi tren. JVlcUiellan nas been but a compulsory part of his erand plan of the cam paien, and a precuraer of vaster and more com- Frenensive results u consequence. In ere is, am sorry to say, an active clique here, who are trying to injure Gen. MeClellan, because he but carries ut the present purposes of the Administration in not now making this a war of emancipation. .Let the "on to Richmond set be patient yet a little longer. The war will be over, and their dearest wishes, perhaps, be realized, by the" logic of events" sooner than their wildest dreams anticipate. In trying to influence the President against Gen MeClellan they bite a file? The only possible effect; of this hunting and hounding, by cprrespondential and telegraphic missives, a man who made himself terioxuly sick more so than the public know by his sleepless and untiring energy, will be that it may, perhaps, somewhat impair his usefulness witn the- army. He has now the entire confidence and affection of the whole army, Generals and privates, such as no other commander can hope to attain. Any attempt to weaken him with the army, in these respects, would be a calamity to be deplored by the whole nation. The full fruition of all our hopes is at band. 1 repeat, keep steadfast in your faith in Gen. MeClellan, for which you have good cause, and all will .soon 'be well. I write warm I v about Gen. MeClellan, be cause 1 know and love the man, Your sugs tions to attack Manassas even at the risk of defeat? Vjimrgronfid thareftatterTie- beaten than rot to pieces, is not like your usual good sense. Any military man would tell you that to hurl our forces against these strong mtrenchments would be sheer madness. But Gen. MeClellan has them caught in their own trap. They are like a fox in a burrow with one hole, where thep must soon be forced out. and then Gen. MeClellan will fall upon them like a thunderbolt. The public will not then complain of his want of energy. I tell you it will be so fearful as to have wailing and mour ning go up from every southern household.' Knowing what-1 do, and nave thus but barely ii in lea at as tne grand plan ol the campaign. I repeat that the rebels are doomed, and seces sion will never again raise its hydra head in the land. The folds of the giant constrictor are now tightening around the rebellion, and the coming month will see it.crusned out completely and forever. Again I say, look out for M a short war and a desperate one." Yours ever, much reverence, xo such, and to all men, we commend Mr. Clay' remarks in the Senate, on the 7th February, 1839. He said : " But. Mr. President, I will not. detain the Senate longer on the subject of slavery within the District (of Columbia, ) and in Florida, and the right of Congress to prohibit the removal of slaves from one State to another (" where they are recognized as property.") These, as I have already intimated, with ultra Abolitionists, are but so many masked batteries, concealing the real and ultimate point of attack. I hat point of attack is the institu tion Of domestic slavery as it exist . in those States. It is to liberate three millions of slaves held in bondage within them. And now allow me, Sir, to glance at the insurmountable obstacles which Tie in the way of the accomplishment of this end, and at some of the consequences which would ensue if it were possible to attain it. The -first impediment is the utter and obsolete want of all power an the part ofthe general government to effect the purpose. The Constitution of the United States creates a limited government, comprising comparatively few powers, and leaving the residuary mass of political power in the possession of tne several States. It is well known that the subject of slavery interposed one of the greatest difficulties in the formation of the Constitution. It was happily compromised and adjusted in a spirit of harmony and patriotism. According to that compromise, no power whatever was granted to the general government in respect to domestic slavery, butfhat which relates to taxation and representation, and the power to restore fugitive slaves to their lawful owners. All other power in regard to the institution of slavery, was retained evclusively by the Slave State, to be exercised by them severally, accor ding to their respective views of their own pe culiar interest. The Constitution of the United States never could have been formed upon the principle of investing the general government with, author ity to abolish the institution at pleasure. It never can be continued for a single day if the exercise of such a power be assumed orusurped.- . : ' '. The free States have no more power or right to interfere with institutions in the Slave States confided to' the exclusive jurisdiction of those States, than they would have to interfere with institutions existing in any foreign country. Iv adhered to throuraOUl tne war: - The company shall be entirely composed of Colonels, who shall draw pay and rations in advance. - - JSvery man shall naye a commission, two servant and white kid. Each; man shall be mounted in a covered buezv. drawn bv two white stallions. . Under the seat of each buggy shall be a cupboard, containing cold chicken, pounded ice and champagne, a Members of Congress and military officers at Bull Bun. . Each man shall have plenty of cards and red chip to play poker witn. ertheless at the instance of Lieut. Williams. I shall endeavor to give you a faint idea of the doings of the 65th Begt. O. "V.- First, 'when we left Camp Buckingham, it was with a new feeling, akin to both pleasure and sorrow pleasure, that we were leaving a place that had become old and stale in inter est to us, who had all the stimulus excitement and activity can bring ; sorrow, that we were leaving the vicinity of trusty and tried fnendsthe friends of our youth, severing ties of the fat of-th and, of which he wishes enough to grease the wheels of the Southern Confederacy. . : . Tours, Jbc, . OxDixvr Sasgxakt. The only side arms to be opera glasses, cham- at one swoop,' that in the decrees of fate, should i paigne glasses, and gold-headed canes. - I haVe been ordered differently ; yet we have a ,Th du1 or the company shall be to take sVeetand gentle sister, always near us, eheer- it be allowed to approach nearer than ten miles l"g "d vnervating us to do noble and patriot- of the seat of war. s I ic deeds. She it is, who takes up the dark and Behind each buggy shall be an ambulance, bloody veil of futurity and shows to us a plea- soarrangeu as to in w a nrst ciass .ant scene, where a landscape is being opened ous sleeping and dressing room at night. ' and there is seen (in the last rays of a glorious The regimental band must be composed of land lingering sunBet,) a beautiful rivulet, wind- pianos and guitars,-7iayea by young ladies, Jmg and meandering its silvery way through who shall nexer play a quick step except in case of retreat. ?H ; - Reveille shall not' be sounded till late break' fast time, and not then if any one of the regiment has a headache. In case of a forced march into an enemy's country, two miles a week shall be the maximum, and no marches shall be made except the country abound -in game, or if any member of the regiment object! .. ' Kid gloves, gold Ifcoth pick, cologne, hair dressing, silk underclothes, cosmetics, and all other rations, to beJfurnished by thegovernment-;'-.' 5 - .-- Each member of the regiment shall be allowed a reporter for soate New York paper, who shall draw a salarjCyOf two hundred dollars a week for puffs, fromthe "incidenXal" fund. Every member shall be in command, and when one is promoted all are to be. Commissions never to be revoked. 4 v - A Speech firca O. Prentice. ' In a recent speechjn Kentucky, delivered' on the occasion of a fla presentation by George D. Prentice, occurs tie foUowing beautiful paragraph; ... i .. .: , .' Chivalrie patriot never, oh! never Will any ACt of vnurs apt a iftin nnnn this nmnrl - A Bemarkahle Statement. I cutcheon. or unoif om-selvaa. Following it Thefollowing extract from a recent letter of I over hills, and valleTf, and rivers, and moun- a correspondent of the Ohio Stats Journal, (the tains, wherever the path of dnty and of glory central Republican organ of this State,) who leads you will, if nesd be. forget cold and hun- is with the 19th Ohio in Kentucky, makes vc.t'on to your cotiniry. You will follow it some queer assertions relative to the feeling of with the knowledge lhat it is upheld not only ti. nAinlA nl Am- nwn ffwftrw. in that Snt by your own stroiirriehf. arms, but by the c ,1,- I prayers of thousand. lbved ones in your Says the writer: , v home, and milium. tnii of million. f Great dissatisfaction .exists among the I aiiflt wWWli.rP ill be bone mid the AsroTJironrG fbatjds is govkeit- . C0NTBACTS. Speecb of BIr. Dawes of Maas. We take the following from the New York Tribune's report of the proceedings had in the House of Representatives in Congress on Mon day, January 13. : The disclosures made as to the almost boundless corruption and fraud in Government contracts, and the pointed and direct manner in which Mr, Dawks makes his statements, cannot but arrest the attention of the reader and will amply repay an attentive perusal. : Mr. Dawks, it will be seen, is a Repub lican member of Congress from Massachusetts, and a member of the House committee appoint ed to investigate Government contracts. : His statement are therefore, made upon facts pro ven before the committee : . Mr. Dawes (Rep., Mass) from the committee of Investigation on Government Contract, in resuming his remarks, commenced on Friday last, said : Sir : t have not failed to notice, and I believe the committee of which I am a member have not failed to notice, in common with the whole country, that for some unaccountable reason, the charges Upon the JNational Ireasury, at this time of war, have been much as to reach nearly the bottom of the public chest. During this investigation, startling facts, have come be fore this committee, and to the notice of the whole country, touching the mode and manner of the expenditure ofthe public monev. Some of these items I propose to call public attention to, and then to ask gentlemen the plain ques tion, when they propose to meet this question if at all, and if so, how, when, and where f The very first contract entered into by this Government, after the troops had left their a pleasant valley, past the dot of our fathers ; the homes of our wife, the castles of our fair one's J"; loved ones ; ones' that (had not ambition her sway,) were the pride, the ornament, the stay of our existence. Need I tell who this Sister is, it ia, "Hope," fondly cher ished "Hope." ;v: - We left Camp Buckingham on the 18th of November, arriving at Cincinnati at 12o'clock the same night. ' Nothing unusual occuring on the way unless We - may call' h an unusual thing for the citizen of our foyaState to cheer until their lungs would split. These cheenngs greeted us on every 'Railroad Station and farm house on the route.' - We embarked at once on board the steamer Telegraph, for Louisville, Ky., getting all our men and baggage on board without an accident occurring, we left the wharf at 2 o'clock in the morning of the 19th, and soon were fairly afloat on La Belle Reviere -ih noHle Kti-eant - that liM 'rirra kiiim to one of the nroudeat States of the Union on . conleAer.' Aprfl last, to defend the . f uawtal. by which thev were to be fed. was a TJijionj mert in-Kentucky in regard ;tol&9 polM eliaaiof iteef - We arrived at Louisville at T o'clock: P. M. of the same day,- but did not ' disembark until the next morning, when we did so Without any of this noise and confusion, bustle and hurrah of hacks and runners, that greet the traveller in all our large towns and cines. .Bat we came not as travellers, but as soldiers, able and ready to defend and take care of ourselves. In our march through the city, we saw faces of: various hues- some fair enough to make the hearts of the weary soldier audibly palpir cy purUeoTSaidn la rteTery glance at ItestwahMng folds will thrill gard to the slavery question rest assured that j your hearts and nerve your arms more than at least in xuis omie mere m ihiuhwkuububv the blasts of myriad trumpets. It may be on this subject. If the objectof the -Govern- blackened by smoke and flame; it may be rid- ment is to lree theslaves, the volunteers of JS.en-1 -led and rent by the leaden and iron storms ef tucky will at once disband and Uke sides with j oattle ; but to vour eyes it will be all the more the South, together with a large proportion oi beautiful and glorious. Assailed by overpow- nonnern iroops. xnimumj appear airung mn- erm number8, it may even go down before the .fjgannm and.ifeen. J utr. " Taefitaja aaA. Stripe wera wavLovr our heads by fair hands, and true and loyal i men greeted us as brothers. A few dark and dismal faces were seen, but they were silent The colored population' showed their joy in various ways, waving of bonnets, hats, aprons. contract entered into for cattle. It was not made with a man whoee business it Was to supply cattle to the m&jckel, not with a man who' knew the' price ' of beef m the markets of the country, but was entered into by the Government here with a man well known in this and in the other .branch of Congress, for the ast ten years, as an old. stipendiary one of the class of men who, in times past, made their money in such operations as buying the cer tificates of members for books at a discount. and then charging the full amount. - This contract . was made so that the first twenty-two "hundred head ef cattle forhiahed a cBargeotratehlcnnffnn thfetforfr- iaal contractor to sub-let it in twenty-four hours after to a man in New York Who did not know the price of beef, so thathe put into his pockets without stirring from biscbair,2,UU0, and the men who actually furnished the cattle in ques tion put into their pockets S26,OUU more, so national ledger; i i.i. Thi. is a picture which few1 contemplated when the Northern Republican leaders would grant no compromise and no concession, either s to avoMLWar, to holdMie powerful Sjtate of .xranease ana JMOrw jUAoiiA w tne i. , JJpssm to help the rovemment in awar against , " rebellion in the more Southern Stale. TbeRe- puWieaa leader; least of allCcoefcmplafcd it,' ia-'irr v..J2.aui. their action, would have 74 beenthesame;, renTye theyounUdhe .u.'cost or cared Jbr the cost of anv aciioj, f t VV i .wt onlea it threatened damage to the Repub- . ' J- iRenemeT;-we'are, not yet in the second vear I of RepubUcaa rule. Contrast this' firstyear : wit us expenoitur orseven nonared and fifty Paper Honey Opinion of Georg;e "Waah.- ington. : Piter Coorsa, of New York city, has ad dressed a petition to Congress in reference to the proposed issue of paper money by the Federal Government. After referring to a letter addressed by a member of the Maryland Legislature to Gxoacx Washington, in regard to an issue of paper money by that State, Mr. uoofzr says, speakmg oi vyashinotom s an swer: His reply was in the following ever to be re membered words. He said; "Had I a voice in your legislature I would give it decidedly against the emission, for the reason, that people always mistake as to the amount of money nec- essary ior a circuiaung medium. He said. that "it is not the amount of money in the country tnat maces it plenty put it is the rap idity and the certainty with which it passes the round of circulation, and that in exact proportion as you alloy the precious metals or pour paper money in the volume f circulating me dium, just in that proportion will everything in a country's rise," and that labor would be the last that would feel it. - He then declared that "such a poliey would not benefit the farmer' or . the mechanic. It will only,benefit thelebtor, as it ' will enable him to par debt with a shadow iastead of a ub- Btance." ' " v - ' -. Mr. CooFxa adds : ' " '. . , Nothmg should ever tempt the government to lose its hold on the Sub-Treasury, and the power it has exerted, and will continue to exert. to rare our country from the fluctuation in pri ces growing out or an . unchecked and unres trained use of paper monej . : ; A Ybiee from the Tomb.;,.",!! ; The National Intelligencer gives the follow ing adjuration addressed to hia countrymen by James Madison the "Father 6f the Constitu tion." The original is in i)6flesaion of -Jamea C. McGnire, of Waahington . . r : . ' anvicx'Ta iWr 'tinrTaT- - : 1 A this advice,' if ever if see the JUgi V y i - A am no morev it ;may be eon- uaw HMnung irom the tomb, wneretnttn aion can be respected, and the "happineea of man alone conceited. ..' It -will K MtitleVI therefore, to whatever ' weight can1 be'd erived guage in your part of the country, but let me assure you that it is true. I have mingled with them and conversed with them freely on this eubiect. They are willing to fight for the Con stitution and the maintenance of the laws and go on conquering and to conquer until the last rebel has laid down his arms, and the Angel of I Peace again folds her wings over a united coan-trv: but thev will not submit to this eternal croaking about slavery. I am satisfied that if the mass of the people of Kentucky and Ten nessee were convinced that this war was not a war on slavery, it would not be one month be fore a rebel could not ' be found within, their j borders. Their designing leaders have-suc ceeded in making them believe that the only obiect of the Government is to rob them of .. . . .1- i i their slaves, ana tney seise upon tne aoinga oi Congress of late to verify the former assert'on. and the enect is beginning to be Been and felt abroad. . from good intentiona, and from the experience of one who has aerree hia tmntn ;,.;,. tatkme throtigh a period of forty year who mm 7viimi, sna-aaaered throe rh hi lift;;.td the cause oT it liberty and ,wSo as. borne a , part in most of the tranaaptien which will constitBte. epoch of it destinv. 1 T he. advice nearest to my heart and W est- in -my mnvictHma,! is that the Union efi uuse-cnaies oc cerwci ana perpeauuea. Xt the oben'enemt to it Ini regarded is k TanJora iier ugxiuuiM! iu lu"ulbcu. out aa the serpent creeping with hi deadlv-wiies in to Paradise," : . ;." resistless shock, but from every fall it will rise, a star of hope and worship to its friends, an ominious hale-fire to its enemies. By this sign ye will conquer." The liberator Explain. The Boston Liberator, GAKaisox's paper, Tur-aishes its explanation of the disuse of its motto " The Constitution is a covenant with death an an agreement with hell." .The explanation is this that whereas the Constitution is now abrogated in relation to the South, "a covenant with death and an agreement with hell" no longer exists. The -Boston Courier. remarks on the Liberator's explanation as follows::This, it will be perceived, assumes the dissolution ofthe Union as a fact accomplished, and is as treivonable, though not quite so irreverent and profane as the Liberator's old use of Scriptural language. But will this assumption answer? Is there hot a covenant with Kentucky an agreement with Maryland f Is it not the declared policy of the Government to restore all things, to the utmost jot and tittle,' under the Constitution, interfering with slaverv oalv 1 . t . i , .ri . rebel indictment against the President in this j J"81 " f ViT,, JlIZ 7 u vc. saj waai t aaB wasrvx OVI ty vil u T DUll Letcher on Lincoln. The annual message of John Letcher, Gov ernor of Virginia, delivered to the legislature of that State on the 6th insU, after abusing Secretary Cameron for his proposition to use the countrabands in army service, recites the banners, and grining, showing their ivory ex- that the contract under which these twenty-two ten8ively. We camped in sight of the city. Some of the boys concluded that we had at last arrived in a pleasant place, where Summer lasts all the year round, but they soon found to their sorrow that cold snaps came here too the climate being as variable and fluctuating as a "young woman's love at sweet sixteen.We remained in this camp (which is called Camp Buell) eight days j we then struck tents and slung our knapsaks for our first long march, which lasted four days, in which time we travelled forty-six miles." Whilst we were in camp at Louisville, some of our officers took to night walking that is they attended the Theatre, where I understand it, they were considerably smitten with the eyes and fair cburtenances of a few of the ladies of Louisville, Th is lead to an introduction. hundred head of cattle were furnished to the army was so made that the profit of $58,000 was realized over the fair market price. It takes a longer time for a thousand head of cat tle to reach this city from the States where they are purchased than it takes the army to con sume them. I ask the House, at this rate, to consider how long the most ample provisions of the Ireasury would be able to meet the simple demands for the subsistence of the armv. bir. poorly as the army is shod to-day, a million of shoes have already been worn out, and a mil lion more are being manufactured, and yet up on every one of these shoes there has been waste of seventy-five cents. Three-quarters of a million of dollars have been already worn out and another three-quarters of a million of dollars upon shoes is now being manufactured. In that department ofthe Government contracts have been so plenty that Government officials have gone about the streets with their pockets filled with them, and of which they made pres ents, to the clergymen of their: parishes, and with which were heeled old rtolitinl bafm ttnA which resulted in an invitation en the part of cored political fends. Even the telegraph has the ladies, which of course was accepted. Of announced that high public functionaries have the result I know nothing, unless some weep- the love-feast which were got up to t " i i w... celebrate these political reconciliations, thus amusing style : .;. The history" of Abraham Lincoln "is a history of repeated injuries ' and usurpations, all having for their object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these'' Confederate States, -y" --"'r To this end "he has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power." " ,; - lie has combined with rierpon and other traitors in Virginia "to subject us to a jurisdic tion foreign to our constitution and unacknowl edged by our laws, giving assent to their acts of pretended legislation." ' ' ' ' . - He is- endeavoring to' quarter large bodies of armed troops amongst us." He is endeavoring to cut off our trade with all parts ofthe world." : - He is endeavoring to impose "taxes upon us without our consent." He is endeavoring to deprive na, "in many casea, of tne beaeht of trial by jury "He has abdicated government here by de claring u out of his protection, and waging wavagainst ns":- v.-.-.; ir-U-irsz v-.- rile has plundered our seas, ravaged; our coasts,, burned our town and destroyed the live of our people." . -. i .' -: " lie i at this time transporting large bodies of mercenaries to complete the work of death. desolation and tyranny already begun with! circumstance of. cruelty and perfidy scarcely par alleled ia the most, barbarou ages,. and totally unworthy tne head ot a civilized nation theory as thcJberator profeseee, k has lower ed its treasonable' Black Flag, it is surely lean ing on a broken reed, " The Eeaignation of Hon. Ht.' Cameron General MeClellan. . The Waahington correspondent of the New York Exprede write:-. . 'i' .. - The "resignation," (that is not the word axaovAU urUie word Yof Secretary Cameron, means much, means everything.. The ostensible cause ia, he and General: MeClellan could not and would not work together . The General. had ne confidence in the Secretary, either as a statesman, soldier, politician or man, and the General would not work .-with him, or nn-der him The General. I am- told, had no -confidence in the ecrecy or prudence of the War xepartment, even a a trategicpureau end hence the greater necessity of parting. The President then had. to choose between his Secretary and his General; and he did not hes itate a moment, in preferring the Generalv - lne Jrc8ident went so farijndeed, as rpraeti- eauy to eavetJia tienarai to nam the War secretary, who named an eld, well tried, confidential frieadV ia the person of Mr fitaa ton i he new Secretary- .ana the General - will iaul togethert khd the CJierhhs: the entire confidence of the. other. A .r '" cation of young affections being nipped in the bud with the harsh frost of adversity. While on the march we were: well treated by the citizens, some of them going with us for miles, whilst the darke'a of Dixie trotted along side, carrying our guns, knapsacks, etc, and filling pur canteens with milk or water. They look fat and greasy enough and are -well enough clad to make us think that there are some black folks aa well taken care of here as they would be on the ''Western Reserve." Here their loyalty ia not to be doubted ; it shines out in all their action. Bardstown, near which we are now encamped, is the County Seat of Nelson County. It is ; aboes;the r size- of -Frederick town. The Country - around it is quite rough. : There is much- romantic' scenery in this pact of Kentucky. Since'weVe been in this Camp, there has been a great deal, of unpleasant weather, caus ing much . sickness ; principal complaint ia camp diarrhoea,' .making the camp almost a hospital: it ' has somewhat abated. An Indi- an Eegihient close' by ns have a humber of case of meMleAKported. :1 E verythiag is in an active slate today the imosity was buried in the grave of political confidence, and the national credit was crucified among malefactors. We have reported to ns the first fruits of these contract. A regiment of cavalry lately reached Louisville, one thousand strong, and the Board of Army Officer there appointed for the purpose, have condemned four hundred and eighty .five out ofthe one thousand horses as utterly worthless. The man who examined those horses declared, upon his oath, that there was not of them that was worth twenty .dollars. They were blind, spavined, riegboned, afflicted with the heaves with the glanders, and with every disease that horseflesh is heir to. These four hundred andeighty-five horses cast the Government, before they were mastered into the service, $58,200,' -beside more than an additional $1,000 to transport them from Pennsylvania to Louisville, where they were condemned and cast off. ' ' Y Mr; Mallory (Un, Ky.) asked what regi-iment those horse belonged to, and who furnished them. ; ; -' -. ' - i. Mr. Dawes They belonged to CoL William's regiment of cavalry, and they were purchased m Pennsylvania, from which State they were forwarded to Louisville, where they were" condemned.' There are 83 regiments ofcavalry today, one thousand strong. "It take $250,000 to put one. of these regiments on foot before it m a . moves., Awenty muuona oi aoiiars ;Aaa thus been expended on these cavalry reghaeht before advertisement, not made with tnakaowledg ef the public, but made, by .ex-membcra of Con gress, who knew no more ofthe difference be tween one ciss oi arm ana another than eoe . a Methodist minister. There are oetatandisr contracts for the, manufacture of Springfield mneiceta. the first one of which cannot be delivered in six months from this day. There ia a contract for the supply of one million and nine- ty thousand, muakeu, at twenty-eight dollar a piece, when the same quality of musket are manufactured at Springfield for thirteen and a half a piece? and aa ex-member of Congress is now in Massachusetts, trying to get machinery made by which he will be able to manufacture in some six month hence, at twenty-one dollar a piece, those rifled musket manufactured today in that armory for thirteen dollar and a half. " . . Providence, before six month, will dispose of this war or He will dispose of us. Not one of these muskets, thus contracted for, will be of the slightest service in this emergency, or 'be fore the Providence of God, whether for good or for eviL will dispose of it. I ask my friends , from the North and & orth-west how they ex- Esct to benefit by an armory at- Chicago, at ock Island, and at Quincy, when 1,092,000 muskets will, according to this contract, be thrown upon the country, and that after the war ia over; ana at seen an enormous price, in addition to other outstanding contracts for the manufacture, some time hence, of 272,000 Enfield rifles? Besides, there are 75,643 sets -of harness, to be delivered by and by, at the cost of $1,978,446. I have not time to enumerate all these contracts. JWhen we appropriated at the last sessionof Congress, for this purpose, $20,000,000, tfurty-eeven million and some thousand dollar had been, already Pledged . to-contractors not for the purchase of arms Tor . men in the field, not to protect them m fighting their country's battles in thia great emergency and peril, but for some future use, for some future occasion, or to meet some present need of the contractors, I don't know which at this moment. And not only the appropriation at last aeasioa has been exhausted, but il7,000,TOOpit-upon it. The riot of the 19th of ApriL in Baltimore, opened the ball,' and on the-21sl."of . April, in the City of New York; there Was or-ganized a corps of plunderer of the Treasury. Two millions of dollars were intrusted to the . poor, unfortunate,- honest, but entirely competent editor of t paper, in New York, to dispense it in the best manner he could. Straightway thia gentleman began' to rjurchase linen pantaloons, straw hats, London porter, dried herrings, and such like provisions for the army. till he expended in Una way 3VU,ua ox xne money, and then ne got acarea ana quit. Langhter.j - ; ' There is an approptiauoa, also, for the sup ply of wood in the army. This contractor i pledged the payment of $7 a cord for all the wood delivered to the different commands wood collected after the labor of the eoldier themselves had cut down the trees to clear the ground for their batteries, and then this contractor employs army wagons to draw it to the several camps, and he has bo further trouble than to draw his $7 for a cord, leaving the Government ' to draw. the. wood. - Laughter . It cost two million dollars every day to support the army in tne neid. . A . nunorea. minions oi aoiiar have thus been expended since we met on ' the 2d day of December, and all that time the ar my has been in repose. What the expenditure will increase to when our eye shall be glad dened with the sight of an army in motion, I do not know; ' Another hundred millions will go with the hundreds more I have enumerated. Another hundred millions may be added to these before the 4th of March. What it may cost to put down the rebellion I care very Httle, provided, always, that it be put down etrectual-y. ' But, sir, faith without works is dead, and 1 am free to confess, that my . faith sometimes fails me I mean my faith in the men, not my faith in their cause. When the history of these times shall be written, it will be a question upon whom the guilt will rest most heavily upon him who has conspired to destroy, or upon him who has proved incompetent to preserve, the institutions bequeathed to ns by our fathers. It is no wonder that the public treasury trembles and staggers, like strong man with too great a burden upon him. A strong man in an air-; exhausted receiver is not more helpless than ia the Treasury of this Government beneath the exhausting process to which it is subjected.-The mightv monarch of the forest himself may hold at bay the fiercest, mightiest of his foes, while the vile cur, coming up behind him and opening his fangs, give him a fatal wound, and although he may struggle be boldly and valiantly, the life blood is silently trickling from his heart, and he is al last forced to loosen his grasp, and he jjrowa faint, and falters, and The Treasury notes isened in the face "of these immense outlays, without a revenue fromcustom-houses, from land sale, from- any. source whatever, are beginning to tail ia. tha market. 3 ' . 'i-i J .i a n JiMi A memorial ha been' started and "uji -h A viUau wca ns na numer; Aumon .conntyu . - s spend the winter, -Any iliy hundfc rpf them k 4.i;' ) ( pnaly gned in. iome 6t tlielw England town - i Marching1 order ia camp creates la activity can be seen around thWcityhaine l t trees, rarkver-J- and exHtemenfr whlcK m not to Ween''t aU wjf tattm to dec! Gang 1 -ivJt.il 4i;'V-'avrtliV- A -VlV fc of two hundred bones; in- venous -ce. have men ire washing and eooking rations foranoth-1 they left the encampmnUr where they 'Were r.arhV oW which 1atart tomorrow: om-1 nrea eernct,rana niared t th destmatiqnbemfTbjahon, Marion county. Ii Kaym Iwv 0fvrkAmtr mn m.tA imi! liuVio 91 1 Elmira, and to Annpoi: and to th'reity, to i iJltw -York duxrehes. . -tv ' " " w ""T. wjw mTft,w. up ioa; jnuwuir w w wi on toe jjwtrteroT Colombia have slied ror a in Coegrea assembled: MrM-. IjCyor IlegimentalfSeeres yetifhai a meaaurt of Ie"lUiiott to protect the city from ' ' The-nndlmi'rhed. tatizenk 'Ar- tha Tfnited I mffM a nYMnwi hM! I thedxisctr to be apprehended from theee fforee cateevTwg of yon to drop the egro bnestion j tux. i.-TiriZi .s i Oolgothaa, Aaeovernor of one cteoCer- andattend o the business ofthe country I ""T 7" Kl-- Tl " to aaexndge of another State io The pefcfW ny ihen eeenV V '.. - hu3imtaae.6e.e 'P' men. wno, rain on weight eaeix mile vi m: imenta -or ca vairv. - and wnen w ooupt are suDstantiai ly true:r .,t. ope&amg m enuxene. idui di una arum hard way in.this city. In? ti large;, aristo- cratio, np-town house or worships where he salarief are t5fi(X ojr t3,000 peryear.and the aggregate expense nearly double thia amonnt, there i aancialdistreas, v-Mostr of th ;pew holder art men olT repnto weaiih but - the ed, would be signed by about fonxd&fths.ol.t'h failures andlosBe of: the war exert a, xjowerful I aenalble people ofuntTvTTul it is of wo influence and fearfuyy crippht iheirresaurce,! nse to "encT Itlo the present Congress, which Irgftaasesemen with relaptance ; and the .mods for paroh Ttx- penditnres are collected witadiScuuy:--, -ven the.bepevoie Aand charitatdecontaiiona bf ny Mof these hitherto jprciWwihgoodttd td and sreatly reduced- , ; 4 nerathat it cannot white'mivi w athoughi npon .rPeacaUi".her ce nol!-nowned than war.' v V'l'k-. , l ; tThia wright, yon witt perceive at a glance,! tnlitlia thecoinntMeexwveiT .2i ..-'fcJSJV 5?-??.w t.vZTii tn lUmam at the hotel, white another -M Sundere7Tt it the keyhole wtchine like 4 heavUy on our back a our cori bead, muaj j mastiff while he iaaid eoot-4 1 p $40,000 profit and hominy does in our Btomach. , This rives 1 on the homee; andcalculales 5d. w more upoe us a. pomjxras andjm ticula.rly on the last day a. h oi on that particular day, at least, then you I CLL there are numerous otrtttn din eontracta. coold ia reality get at one laaoa a picture mad with private individualsnot maoe epos I . . - mmjk m.mm.- K Am, M-m K tfl r la V portant .rDceLpar- JiZZZ uT mitluYwi fhould J mrnjL Th. baads of the 501000 aoleram the Already have they begun to sell at six per cent. discount at the tables of the money changers ; and at the very time, -too, that we here exhibit the singular spectacle of fraud, and of a struggle With the committee of Ways and Mean itself, in an endeavor to lift up and sustain the Government of the country. . Already the sutler that curse of the country is follewi eg the Paymaster, a4hahark follows the ship, buying up for for dollar every five dollar of the wage of the soldiers, paid to them in Treasury notes. I have no desire to hasten the move-meets of the army, or to criticise the conduct of its leader, but in view of the- tapendona draft npon the Treasury, I must, aay that I long for the day of striking the blow which w-'l bring this rebellion to an end. ' Sixty da vg longer of thia state of thiags will bring about a result one way or another. ; It is impossible that the Treasury of the United Stats can meet, and continuerjto meet, thi state of things sixty days lotger; and aa ign6miniou peace must be submitted to unless we see to it that the credit of the country ia n stained,, and : snstained, too, by the coa victioa going . forth from tk is hail to the people of the country that we will treat as traitor not onVy those who are bold and manly enoughlo'meet ns,lace to face in the field of etrife, bat all thee also, who elandee-tinely anditeahhily sack ths rife -Uood-lrom ja in thi mighty straggle.;,Whatejej-jns-uree may emanate fromthe eomm ittee on 1 V jw and Means to meet aad retrieve this slsia,of things, they will but mil Eke a dead-reJl-r-on the public nnle they give thia suae, tlxt J the extraordiaary, aad extreme tnes&sresJio resusciUte, revive, ad replenish the Treaery, are not made to fill farther and longer the ready gorged pockets of the public plsedere. i now, then; are we to contribute "b thut matOr to revive poblicconSdeace ia our jitlio ;mt, if.it bene when these appropriations e?ae t?p that we probe them, that we ascertaia whethW there be anythiiig ilhemlhal at, this moment caabeparadM.4rtrslng"atv uw m to protect ana aave Treasnry froca.. farther wholesale .or other syitem.of plunderias.-,, The 'Staunton ' (Va.) 'prorcwe'o have learned "from V priest; '"tiat Archbihon Ituiiea , ha peen deputed to . Euro p by a council of the Talkers of.'ltfeaXV:"lat hit viSttenre tt mw tl LJzrcta-i. t the umirpeademeeof AiiUiC&ira. r