War matters.
Our summary is made up from late papers received at this office:
A visit to the British steam frigate Immortalize.
The
Annapolis correspondent of the New York
Herald, under date of the 12th instant, furnishes us with the following extract:
‘
This morning the
Governor,
Speaker of the House of Representatives several members of the Legislature, accompanied by
Dr. Thompson, paid a visit to the British frigate
Immortalize, now lying in our harbor.
They left the dock at eleven o'clock, on board a small propeller, and in a few minutes were standing on the deck of
John Bull's defender; and a right noble vessel she is. She carries 53 guns, 50 of which are 32-pounders; one large
Armstrong, 100 lbs, and two smaller Armstrong guns.
She is worked by screw and sail, and can make thirteen knots an hour easily.
Her mission to this port was to take off Lord Lyons, in case there was war; and when she entered the bay, and the captain saw the large fleet which was lying here, belonging to
General Burnside, he hardly knew how to act.
After examining the vessel thoroughly, the party were entertained with luncheon at which the wines and ale (hale) of old
England were merrily discussed We returned to shore about two o'clock, well pleased with our visit and the gentlemanly officers of the vessel; and one wish, I am sure, was unanimous--"that she may never visit our shores with any hostile intent."
’
From the
Hartford (Ct.) Courant, of the 15th inst., we gather the following account of the funeral ceremonies of the late
Col. Samuel Colt, of revolver notoriety:
‘
The funeral of
Col. Sam Colt took place on Tuesday afternoon, at his late residence on Wethersfield avenue. The time for the obsequies was fixed at three o'clock; but two hours before the appointed hour the people began to gather on the avenue in front of the house and on the grounds about it. At two o'clock there was a stream of people upon both sides of Main street tending to the place.
Upon no occasion have the people of the town come out in such force as they came out yesterday to testify their respect to the man who had added so greatly to the prosperity of his native city.
At three o'clock there was a dense mass of men, women and children packed upon the walks and street in front of the house.
At that time, too, the workmen in the armory, marshalled by
Wm. H. Green,
Esq., a contractor in the establishment, marched from the meadows, preceded by the armory band.
The gate opened, and two by two they filed into the north wing of the building, through one of the parlors where the body lay, took their last look of their late employer, and passed through the library to the exit on the southern side of the building.
There were ever fifteen hundred of them all, and about an hour was consumed in their passage.
The Colt Guard, Company A, Twelfth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, followed, under command of
Capt. Geo. N. Lewis.
Then came the
Putnam Phalanx,
Captain Gordon, and a few of the multitude in waiting outside were admitted.
The body lay in a parlor, encased in a metallic coffin and looked very natural.
Upon the case were laid wreaths of camellias and white roses in evergreens.
The services were conducted by
the Rev. Mr. Washburne, of St. John's Church, assisted by
Assistant Bishop Williams, and
the Rev. Messrs. Abercrombie and
Fisher.
The Episcopal burial service was read, and the pall bearers,
Gov. Thos. H. Seymour,
Hon. Henry C. Deming,
E. K. Root,
James H. Ashmead,
A. W. Birge,
Horace Lord, of this city;
Col. May of
Palo Alto fame, (of New York,) and
Chas. Woodbury,
Esq., of
Boston, bore the body to the tomb, which is situated near the lake upon the grounds surrounding the house — Here there were prayers, and then the remains were lowered to their final resting place.
The armory band played a solemn dirge, and the vast concourse dispersed.
The services were not concluded until a late hour.--Among the notabilities present besides the gallant
May, there were
Col. Deming, of the Twelfth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, and his staff,
Mrs. L. H. Sigourney,
Hon. Isaac Toucey, late
Secretary of the Navy, and others.
’
The approaching movements of the Federal army.
The following extract from a letter received by one of our prominent citizens, says the New York
Post, comes from a responsible source, and hints at certain movements said to be impending:
Washington, Jan. 12.
--My dear Sir:* * * * *
The night of rebellion has passed, and the dawn is about breaking.
Before the present month has gone these things will surely come to pass:
General Halleck, with the great flotilla and an army of one hundred thousand strong, will sweep like an avalanche down the
Mississippi, where they will be joined by
General Butler in New Orleans and
Mobile,
General Buell, with nearly or quite the same force, will march into
Tennessee, capture
Nashville, and co-operate with the
Union forces in a manner and direction it would not be politic now to point out.
Generals Rosecrans and
Kelly will advance from
Western Virginia, and do their share in harmony with the general plan.
Generals Banks and
Stone will move in conjunction with the rest from the
Upper Potomac.
General Burnside will do his appointed work.
General Sherman will explain by deeds, not words, his inaction.
General McClellan will force the rats from their holes at
Manassas, attack them at three points at once, and fulfill his modest pledge that the war will be ‘"short but desperate."’
We see it stated that the reason for ordering on shore the men who had already been shipped on board the
Constitution at
Boston was a difference of opinion between
Governor Andrews and
General Butler, The Governor claimed the right to control the recruiting and organize the regiments; and
General Butler claimed to be independent of the
Governor, and to be authorized to recruit the regiments in what
Governor Andrews considered an ‘"irregular"’ way. There was a sharp correspondence between the parties, the
Governor refusing to issue commissions to the officers, and
Butler persisting in recruiting in
Massachusetts whether the
Governor like it or not. How the difficulty was arranged is not known; but the fact that the troops went on board the
Constitution again on Monday indicates that it was somehow settled.
General Butler, it is said, has promised to make good the
State bounty out of his own pocket, if the
Governor refuses to pay it.
Refusal of Mayor Brown and Mr. Winder to accept Yankee Overturns.
The Boston
Advertiser, of Wednesday, the 15th inst., says.
‘
Yesterday an order was sent to the fort to allow
Mayor Brown of
Baltimore, an additional furlough of ninety days. An order was also forwarded for the release of
W. H. Winder, of
Baltimore, upon taking the oath of allegiance,
Capt. Jones, who carried down the orders, reported upon his return that
Mayor Brown refused to accept the furlough, inasmuch as he was restricted from going south of the
Hudson river, and that
Mr. Winder refused to take the oath of allegiance.
’
Discharged Confederate prisoners.
We take the following paragraph from the Baltimore
American, of the 15th inst. The most of the gentlemen referred to have arrived at
Norfolk by way of a flag of truce:
For several days past a number of Confederate prisoners have been sojourning at Barnum's Hotel.
Their names are as follows:
Captain Tansall, formerly of the U. S. Marine Corps;
Captain J. W. Poole, of the North Carolina Volunteers, and former
ly an officer of the
Baltimore City Guards;
L. J. Johnson,
Captain of a
North Carolina corps;
Surgeon James L. Lindsay, of
North Carolina;
Surgeon William M. Page, of
Virginia;
R. W. Jeffrey, of
Virginia;
Captain William Sutton, of
North Carolina;
James T. Lassell, of
North Carolina; and
Lieutenant-Colonel Pegram.
All these persons have been confined for some time past in
Fort Warren, and nearly all were captured by the
Federal forces at Gape Hatteras, and having been discharged by the authorities at
Washington, they will soon return to the
Confederate States.
They would have left yesterday afternoon for
Fortress Monroe but for the fact that the regular steamer was detained.
Last evening they were the principal guests of a fashionable party given by a prominent Secessionist.
The Northern bombardment.
A Madrid journal — rather an out-of-the way authority for such news — declares that the plan of the
London cabinet, in case of a war with the
United States, is to direct a simultaneous bombardment, by three naval divisions, against
Portland,
Boston, and New York.
Another fleet will attack
Fortress Monroe and ascend the
Potomac to
Washington.
Revolt of Negroes--one of the Guard killed and another fatally wounded.
From the
Lancasterville (S. C.) Ledger, of the 15th inst., we copy the following:
‘
We regret to hear of a distressing affair which occurred near
Pocataligo last week, resulting in the death of one
Lancaster volunteer and dangerously wounding another.
Peter Twitty and —
Bradley, members of Company E.
Capt. Clyburn, (Blair Guards) were sent from
Page Point to headquarters in charge of three negroes (runaways) who had been taken by our pickets.
On their way, the attention of the guards being diverted for a moment, the negroes rushed on them, and in the struggle which ensued,
Twitty was killed and
Bradley dangerously wounded — The prisoners made their escape.
The body of
Peter Twitty was brought home and buried at Fork Hill Church a few days ago.
’
Disappearance of the fleet from Port Royal.
The Charleston
Courier, of the 18th inst. says:
‘
By an arrival yesterday from the neighborhood of
Broad River, we are informed that the large
Lincoln fleet, which has been stationed in Port Royal Bay and vicinity since the fight at that point, has suddenly disappeared.
It is surmised that they have left to join the
Burnside expedition, or have gone on another raid against some point on the coast of
Georgia.
’
The Yankees again Shelling Sewell's Point.
The Norfolk
Day Book, of the 18th inst., contains the following account of another little exploit of the
Yankees against
Sewell's Point:
‘
The Federals at the
Rip Raps amused themselves on Thursday last by throwing a number of shells at
Sewell's Point.
The shells thrown were of a new pattern, and were doubtless sent for the purpose of testing their qualities.
One of them, which fell about thirty yards from
Corporal Larke, of the
Norfolk County Light Guard, who was on picket duty with a squad of men at the time, was after wards dug up by that gentleman and brought to this city yesterday.
Corporal Larke informs us that fifty-three of these shells were thrown at himself and party, but that a number of them did not explode.
The one he recovered buried itself some five feet in the earth, and on taking it out he removed the small brass cover and took off the cap, which was thought to be defective.
One of the shells struck a gum tree and took it off clear.
They were fired through the port holes of
Fort Calhoun, and not from the same point as those they have heretofore favored us with
We suppose that the
Yankees will not thank us for it, but a decent regard for truth compels us to add that nobody was hurt — not even a rooster.
By the way, an allusion to roosters reminds us of a correction we have to make.
It will be remembered that in our account of the shells thrown some time since at
Sewell's Point, we stated that no further damage was done than the killing of an old rooster.
A gentleman from the battery there just informs us, that the statement was incorrect, that the rooster was not killed, but was only wounded, and that he has now entirely recovered.
We know this information will distress the Feds, but the truth must be told.
’
More Vandalism.
The
Martinsburg Republican, of the 18th instant, says:
‘
The marauders are now making almost daily incursions from
Maryland into this co in the neighborhood of Falling water and Little Georgetown.
Several persons have lost chickens, geese, and shoats, within the past week, and one or two barns and stables have been burned near the river.
Jo. Kearns and his party are suspected for the most of of these outrages.
But a few days since they captured
William Davis, who had returned home from this place, and took him to
Maryland as a prisoner.
’
What Thurlow Weed said to Bennett — an important Dispatch to the New York Herald Intercepted.
From the New York
Sunday Times, we clip the following:
‘
Some months since it was publicly announced that
Thurlow Weed shared the hospitalities of the eccentric-eyed sage of
Washington Heights, at his own residence, and much curiosity was manifested as to "what was the matter."
Weed is not the man to spend his time with a scalawag like
Bennett without a purpose, and our
Washington correspondent, in a private note, gives us the facts in the case, which are very curious.
After
Bull Run, it will be remembered, the government was compelled, by a sense of self-preservation, to practically suspend the
Journal of Commerce, Daily News, Day Book, and other disloyal papers.
The
Herald all this time was perfectly loyal; but about the time
Mr. Chase was negotiating his first loan, it began to show its secret venom to the loyal cause by attacking the financial policy of the Administration, and was preparing, true to its instincts of mischief, for a terrible onslaught on the
Government.
Secretary Seward, however, was determined not to submit to it, and he consequently sent
Weed to see
Bennett and inform him of the feeling at
Washington.
He was notified that if he opened on the
Government his paper would be seized and sent to Fort Lafayette.
Bennett "dom'd" a good deal, but was silenced by a copy of a dispatch dated at the
Herald office, which had been seized by the
Government early in the war, which proved the
Herald establishment to have been in the interest and pay of
Jeff Davis.
The old Scotch traitor was completely cured by this exhibit, and promised to support the
Government earnestly, and especially
Mr. Seward.
This is the first time this matter has been made public.
’
Speech of Mr. Lovejoy in the Federal Congress--his views of the surrender of Mason and Slidell.
The following remarks were made by
Mr. Lovejoy, of
Illinois, in the House of Representatives at
Washington, on the 14th inst., upon a bill which was presented to make an appropriation to carry into effect the act providing for the exhibition of American products at the
World's Fair.
Although its publication has been deferred till the present occasion, we are sure it will command the attention of many of our readers who have not read it:
‘
Mr. Lovejoy, (Rep.,) of
Illinois--I am very decidedly opposed to this bill.
I think it is enough for us, in all conscience, to have been humbugged and dishonored and disgraced by the
British nation, without now appropriating thirty-five thousand dollars for the purpose of an American exhibition there.
Mr. Kellogg, (Rep.,) of
Illinois, inquired if it had been through the action of the
British Government, or of our own Government, that we have been thus dishonored and disgraced.
Mr. Lovejoy--I understand how it was done.
That disgrace was all that the nation could bear.
We marched up to it sweating great drops of blood.
We came to it as
Christ went to the cross, saying, "If it be possible, let this cap pass from us;" and yet we are required to say that we did it cheerfully — that we did it gladly — and that we now appropriate thankfully thirty-five thousand dollars to fit out Commissioners to appear at the Court of St. James.
Inasmuch as we have submitted to that disgrace, as we have submitted to be thus dishonored by
Great Britain, I think the least we can do is to acknowledge it, and to stay at home till the time comes that we can whip that nation.
Then I will be willing to go and appear at their World's Exhibition.
Every time I think of that surrender, the words come instinctively to me which Eneas used when requested by Queen Dido to rehearse the sufferings which had befallen the Trojans during the siege and capture of
Troy, ‘"Oh,
Queen!
you require me to renew the intolerable grief of that siege by re-acting it."’ Every time the
Trent affair comes up, every time that an allusion is made to it, every time that I have to think of it, that expression of the tortured and agonized comes to my lips — I am made to renew the
horrors which I suffered when the news of the surrender of
Mason and
Slidell reached us. I acknowledge it, I literally wept tears of vexation.
I hate it and I hate the
British Government.
I here now publicly avow and record that hate, and declare that it shall be inextinguishable.
I mean to cherish it while I live, and to bequeath it to my children when I die, and if I am alive when war with
England comes, and if I can carry a musket in that war. I will carry it. I have three sons, and I mean to charge them, and do now charge them, that, if they shall have at that time reached the years of manhood and strength, they shall enter into that war. I believe there was no need for that surrender, and I believe that the nation would rather have gone to war with
Great Britain than have suffered the disgrace of being insulted and being thus unavenged.
I have not reached the sublimation of Christianity — that exaltation of Christianity which allows me to be insulted, abused, and dishonored.
I hear all that as a Christian; but to say that I do it cheerfully, is more than I can bring myself to. I trust in God that the time is not far distant when we shall have suppressed the rebellion, and be prepared to avenge and wipe out this insult that we have received.
We will then stir up
Ireland, we will appeal to the Chartists of
England, we will go to the old French
habitants of
Canada, we will join hands with
France and
Russia to take away the
Eastern possessions of that proud empire, and will take away the crown from that government before we cease.
I trust in God that that time will come.
I trust the appropriation will be voted down One of our commissioners, I understand, is the individual who writes those pleasant letters asking us to submit to insult cheerfully — to smile at this bitter cup, drugged with the bitterest ingredients that were ever pressed to human lips, and not to make a face about it. I don't believe there was any necessity for this surrender.
I am strongly inclined to believe that we would have been all the stronger for this difficulty with
Great Britain, for it would have made us feel the necessity of making short work with the rebels.
After further debate, the
House passed the bill by a large majority.
’
The Mayor of Alexandria, Va., on the Southern rebellion.
The following substance of the remarks made by
Lewis Mackenzie,
Mayor of
Alexandria, Va., at a Union meeting held in that city on the 8th inst., has been unavoidably crowded out of our columns till the present issue:
‘
I am not, nor is any Union man in
Alexandria, accountable for the coming of the
Union troops here.
The Secessionists brought them here, and on them let the responsibility rest.
I do not believe they came with a view to interfere with our slaves, or to interfere with slavery.
They had a right to come to endeavor to restore
Virginia to the
Union--I was struck very much by the message of
Governor Letcher to the Legislature now in session in
Richmond, when he states that on the 8th of January, 1861, one day after the last Legislature met, he had caused an inquiry to be instituted upon the probability of being able to capture
Fortress Monroe.--He did not tell the people of
Virginia, on the Legislature either, this a year ago, that a scheme was on foot to seize the
Government fortress; and yet during all that session, till April, resolution after resolution was offered and adopted, asking the
Federal Government not to increase the forces of the
United States either at that point or
Harper's Ferry.
If he or the Legislature had intimated this intention to the people, what would in all human probability have been there sense?
I did not believe
Governor Letcher.
nor do I like now to believe he was in favor of breaking up this Union, but has been forced into it from circumstances beyond his control; and the pressure around him. For him as well as the former Governor, I had a great regard and respect, and stood by them when they were sadly in want of friends in the House of Delegates; for, somehow or other, although, elected by the Democrats, they had hardly a friend of that party in the Legislature to speak well of them.
In the management of this war I think there has been great bungling.
The expenses are enormous, entirely out of proportion to the results so far obtained.
I do not believe it can be carried on by either party beyond 1862, and the taxes and burdens on the people will break down the country unless greater progress is made and the enormous expenditures reduced.
I am for the
Union--for its restoration if it can be done.
God grant that it may, and that speedily All our hopes as free citizens are centred in the
Union.
Let it be sustained; and if the question must come whether we shall have liberty or slavery, let slavery go!
’
Salt discovered
The
Albany (Ga.) Patriot says:
‘
We have been presented by
Mr. C. D. Hammond with what is considered "rock salt," which presents very much the appearance of a lump of isinglass.
He informs us that it was discovered a few miles from this city, in
Lee county.
When ground into powder, it has the exact taste of the common sea-water salt.
It is thought that there is a large mine on the premises, embedded in the earth.
The lump before us-was dug from a lime sink.
’
Miscellaneous.
Mr.Williams and
Mrs. Barney Williams are playing at the
Walnut street theatre, and Mr and
Mrs. John Drew at the
Arch street,
Philadelphia.
Lieut. Col. James Kearney, of the United States topographical engineers, died in
Georgetown, D. C., on the 10th inst., in the 78th year of his age.
Late English papers state that the privateer
Nashville, was still at
Southampton, but the
British Government had forbid her to arm.
A portion or the household effects of
General Buckner, of the Confederate army, has been sold at
Louisville to pay city taxes.
Secretary Smith, of the Interior Department, will, it is said, be appointed a Judge of the U. S. Supreme Court.
Charles Dickens has resumed his public readings in the
British provinces
General Sigel, it is said, means to resume his occupation as school teacher in
St. Louis.
