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probably enhance the wages of white labor, and, 
very purely, would not reduce them. Thus the cus¬ 
tomary amount of labor would s'ill have to be per¬ 
formed—the freed people would surely not do more 
than their old proportion of it, and very probably 
for a time would do less, leaving an increased part 
to white laborers, bringing their labor into preater 
demand, and consequently enhancincr the wages of 
it With deportation, even to a limited extent, en¬ 
hancing wages to while labor is mathematically 
certain. Labor is like any other commodity in the 
market—Increase the demand for it and \ on increase 
the pi ice of it. Reduce the supply of black labor, 
by colonizing the black laborer out ot the country, 
and by precisely so much you increase the demand 
for, arid wages of, white labor. 
But it is (treaded that the freed people will swarm 
forth and cover the. whole land! Are they not al¬ 
ready in the land? Will liberation make them uny 
more numerous? Equally distributed among the 
whites of the whole country, and there would be 
but one colored to seven whites. Could the one, in 
any way. greatly disturb the seven? There are 
many communities now having more than one tree 
colored person to seven whites; and this, without 
any apparent consciousness of evil from It, 1 lie 
District of Columbia and the States of Maryland and 
Delaware are all in this condition. The District, has 
more than one free. CuIop I 1,1 a ix white--: and yet, 
ill its frequent petitions to Congrs ks, 1 believe it has 
never presented the presence of free colored per¬ 
sons as one of its grievances. But why should 
emancipation South send the freed people North? 
People of any color seldom run unless there bo 
something to rim from. Heretofore colored people 
to souk* extent have fled North from bondage; and 
now, perhaps, ( rom both bondage and destitution. 
Bttt if gradual emancipation and deportation be 
adopted they will have neither to flee from. Their 
old m a-tors’will give them wages at least until new 
laborer* can be procured, and the freed men in turn 
will gladly give lheir labor for the wages till new 
homes cati be found for them in congenial climes 
and with people of their own blood arid race. This 
proposition can bo trusted on the mutual interests 
involved. And iri any event, Cannot the North de¬ 
cide for iteelf whether to receive them? 
Again, as practice proves more than theory, in 
any case, ha-i there been any irruption of colored 
people Northward because of the abolishment of 
slavery iti this District last spring? 
Whit 1 have said of the proportion of free colored 
persons to the whites in the District is troiu the cen¬ 
sus of 1800, having no reference to persons called 
contrabands, nor to those made free by the act of 
Congress abolishing slavery here. 
The plan consisting of these articles is recom¬ 
mended, not but that a restoration of the national 
authority would bo accepted without its adoption. 
Not* will the war, nor proceedings under the 
proclamation of September 22, D62 be stayed be¬ 
cause ot the recommendation of this plan. Its 
timely adoption, 1 doubt not, would bring restora¬ 
tion.- imd thereby gl *V both. 
And, notwithstanding this plan, the recommenda¬ 
tion that Congress provide by law fur compensating 
any State which may adopt emancipation, before 
this plan shall have* been acted upon, is hereby 
earnestly renewed. Such would he only an advance 
part of the plan, and the same arguments apply to 
both 
This plan is recommended as a means, not, in ex¬ 
clusion of, but additional to. all others for restoring 
and preserving the national authority throughout 
the Union. The subject is presented exclusively in 
its economical aspect. The plan would, I am confi¬ 
dent,, secure peace more speedily, and maintain it 
more permanently, than can be done by torce alone: 
■while all ft would cost, considering amounts, and 
manner of payment, and rimes ot payment, would 
be easier paid than will be the additional cost of the 
war. if we rely solely upon force. It is much— very 
much—that it would cost no blood at all. 
The plan is proposed as permanent constitutional 
law. It cannot become such without the concur¬ 
rence of, 0 rst, two-thirds of Congress, and afterwards 
three-fourths of the States. The requisite three- 
fourths of the States will necessarily include seven 
of ihe slave States. Their concurrence, if obtained, 
will give assurance of their severally adopting 
emancipation, at no very distant day, upon the new 
constitutional terms. This assurance would end 
the struggle now, and save the Union forever. 
I do not forget the gravity which should charac¬ 
terize a paper addressed to the Congress of the na¬ 
tion by Ihe Chief Magistrate of the nation. Nor do 
I forget, that some of you are my seniors; nor that 
side. The day before a small scouting party of the 
8th Virginia infantry had a skirmish with the ene¬ 
my’s cavalry in Logan county. Our men were out¬ 
numbered, and forced to retreat, though without 
serious loss. 
At 3 o’clock on the 2d inst, parts of two companies, 
numbering in all 60 men, under the command of 
Captain Wilson, who were stationed at IviDg 
George's C. II. ,were attacked by about 300 rebels, 
who crossed the Rappahannock in small boatB at a 
point some distance this side of the C. H , thus get¬ 
ting between the command and the main body of 
the cavalry. Forty of the 60 escaped, and there is 
reason to believe that more of them will yet return. 
Captain Wilson is among the missing. How many 
we had killed and wounded is unknown. The ene¬ 
my left ten dead. 
The following has been received at. head quarters: 
P0ltTllKR8 Moskob, Dec. 2 . 
To Major-General JL IK. llodeck :—The expedition 
sent out from Suffolk yesterday by M*j Gem. Peck, 
captured to-day the celebrated I’ittehurg battery, 
taken from our army, and droveAbe enemy across 
the Black water at Franklin. We have thirty odd 
prisoners, and are picking up more on the road 
Many ot the enemy are killed and wounded. Our 
loss is trifling. J. A. Dtx. Maj; Gen. 
It is rumored that a reconnoileriug force from 
Suffolk under Col. Spears, 11th Pennsylvania cav¬ 
alry, had a skirmish at Blackwater on the 2d inst, 
capturing a rebel battery and taking 40 prisoners, 
without the loss of a man. 
Acting Rear Admiral S. P. Lee has forwarded to 
the Nuvy Department the report of Commander 
Foxhall A- Parker, of the particulars of his recent 
expedition into the waters of Matthew Co,, Va, in 
conjunction with the land forces under Grig.-Geu. 
Negly. lie says: 
On the night of the 221 ult., he. received on board 
of his steamer, the Mahaska, the 35th infantry, under 
Major Cunninghuu), of (he 33>i Pa. Vol., and accom¬ 
panied by the Gen. Patterson and a small tug, the 
May Queen, ori which he mounted a rifled howitzer, 
he sailed for Mohjack Bay. at East River. The land 
forces were disembarked at a wharf a few miles 
from Matthew Court House. To the land forces 
twenty seamen with a 20-pound Dahlgren, were 
added, and this expedition scoured the surrounding 
country, destroying vessels, &o. The Putnam, with 
a howitzer and a detachment of seamen, continued 
on up the river on a similar expedition. They 
together destroyed twelve saltworks and between 
300 and 400 bushels of salt, burned 5 schooners, 2 
sloops, a number of scows, and boats, and captured 
a lighter arid 21 large cannons. They also de¬ 
stroyed a staunch vessel on the stocks, said to have 
been designed for a privateer. 
The Tribune of the 8th inst,, says:—Although we 
have no news of importance from the Army of the 
Potomac by telegraph, it can do no harm to repeat 
the announcement, made in a Washington paper on 
Saturday, and doubtless already in Richmond, that 
a portion of lilt* army had probably crossed the Rap¬ 
pahannock at Port Royal. 
A Washington Special slates that six of our pick¬ 
ets of the Army of the Potomac froze to death on 
Saturday night, while at Camp Misery, Alexandria. 
Seven died Sunday A. M., from effects of the cold. 
fourths of the States will necessarily include seven ,, ®P* u ' Wncnt ol me ■ "iuu. enemy evacuated Tallahatchie on the 1st inst Gen. 
of the slave States. Their concurrence, if obtained, Tub Navy Department has been informed by McArthur’s division occupied the rebel forts there 
K t arAa»i ra l A.P.Ue «» 1T odtag l .hoNor,hA,. ttal nigH There we, no SgMng of«r oon„. 
Constitutional terms. This assurance would end blockading squadron at Hampton Roads, of q nonce. The rebels are believed to be m full retreat, 
tbo struggle now, and save the Union forever. several captures made by the blockading lorcc oil' A Tal i a h a tchie dispatch say Federal cavalry 
1 do not forget the gravity which should charac- Washington, N. C., and the neighboring coast. QCOI1 pied Abbeville at 9 o'clock at night on the 1st 
terize a paper addrepsed to the Congress of the nn- He pays, Nov. 30lh, the U, S. steamer Ml. Vernon . . 1 .,, . fA „.„ nn „ hniir 
tion bv Ihe Chief Magistrate Of the nation. Nor do „ ll1nrw , , b(i *., hn ’ Levi Rowe at Nassau NV inPt ' 1 rebels left town one hour before we 
I forget, that some of you are my seniors; nor that ca P tnu?d the schooner Levi Rowe at Nassau, N. 1.. enteredt They burned the depot, which was tilled 
many of you have tnoro experience than l in the und purporting to be bound lor Beaufort, N. C., w j(jj commisary stores and clothing. Aconsiderable 
conduct of public affairs. Yet I trust that, in view with a cargo of salt. She was at the time standing ... , .. waa a i Kfl .ipslrovod Tim 
of U-o.BrootreoponOhUityrartlpj- u,,o» ,,,,,jou will f or New Tn|«,il Intel. On Dec. 3, tee Ml Vev q ' " L! Zfte Orforf 
perceive no want of resppot to yourselves in auv . ~ , . . rebels have gone to uxtora. 
undue earnestness I may seem to display. nou atld Cambridge discovered two schooners near The following has been received at the War De¬ 
ls it doubted, then, that the plan l propose, if New Inlet; and. in obedience to a signal, the former traent . 
adopted, would shorten the war, and thus lessen its gave chase to, and drove ashore one of the schooners. ....... , 
expenditure of money and of blood? Is it doubled After being tired into she tilled with water, and the Hkxdqoaktkiim ox thk I ibld, * b £* l 
Sfi? wMW-? ? a ; sea made a complete breach over her. while the Cam- Moj-Gen. 77. W. Hailed?, Commander-in-Chief 
D U doubled that we hoce-CoWress and Execte bridge overhauled and captured the other schooner. The Scarry 
live can secure its adoption ? Will not the good which proved to be the Emma Tuttle, of Nassau, w ^ith them. Tbeweather R bad. The streams 
people respond to a united and earnest appeal from yvltb assorted and contraband cargo. The same day Hr e somewhat swollen, making it difficult to cross. 
a, uultahj, off New Topsoil Inlet, cptered 10, 
succeed only l.y rraioerl. It is nut "cmmtofM ncOoooer Brilliant, ol Nassau, loaded with 300 bags toOdimf an.l wmfnp upon Ihe tew pt.art 
imagine hotter? but ‘ can we all do bettor ? Ob- of salt. The master read a written statement of 0 f the enemy, skirmishing took place, lasting about 
iiTutita-P’’ 8 Th mi I the question recurs, intention to run the blockade under instructions of two hours, and resulting in the capture of sixty 
car wo d. bourn? The dogmas ot the quiet past 0 lhe of u , e 3d b CamhridM rebels. The pursuit will be continued to morrow, 
are Inadequate to Ihe stormy present The occo- lts owners. Uu lie night ot me da the Cambncige ar ’ impa8f ,jble to get up supplies fur a 
sion ts piled high with difficulty, and we must think captured the schooner J. C. Raker trom Nassau, 1 con dutiance ot it Gen. Sherman is crossing 
anew, and act anew. vVe must disenthrall our- loaded with salt, the master of which made the at Wyatt. U. S. Guam*, Mttj.-Geq. 
masked batteries on the way down. Here the gun¬ 
boat got aground, and it was found necessary to 
abandon her to prevent her falling into the hands 
of the rebels. She was blown up, and her gallant 
young commander pscaped on a captured schooner 
after much bard fighting, without the loss of a man, 
arriving at Beaufort on the 7th. 
Captain E. W. Mitchell. Quartermaster of Volun¬ 
teers—son of the late Gen. Mitchell—has resigned. 
Letters trom North Carolina give the following: 
We have just finished up an expedition to Hyde 
county under command of Major Garrard, of the 3d 
N. Y. cavalry. All the bridges in the country are 
so thoroughly destroyed that it is more than proba¬ 
ble that they will not be rebuilt during the war. 
Captain James, of the 3d N. Y. cavalry, with a 
mounted force under his command, lately captured 
in the neighborhood of Plymouth, 250 horses and 
mules, and took as prisoners ten conscripts and 
twenty-five obnoxious politicians, besides seven 
prisoners of war. We landed at, Deetsville two 
days ago, made a march of over 100 miles to differ¬ 
ent parts of the count ry, captured several guerrillas 
and two political prisoners, took a Colonel named 
Carter of the I3’h N. C. volunteers, paroled him and 
a Sergeant of the 4th N. O. cavarly; scared the peo¬ 
ple out of Fairfield, destroyed 13 bridges, some of 
them very large ones, met the gunboats and trans¬ 
ports at Yoking Landing, re-embarked by the aid of 
flat boats in eight hours, and thus reached Newbern 
at daylight. 
Movements in the West and Southwest. 
Tennessee. —There is much excitement iu Mid¬ 
dle Tennessee about the enforcement of the con¬ 
scription act, to resist, which a regular organization 
has been formed in Lincoln county, and the people 
there fired upon the rebels while they were con¬ 
scripting. The rebel foragers are seizing the winter 
meat of private families. 
The rebel guerillas attacked Sill's forage train on 
the first inst., but were repulsed with considera¬ 
ble loss. 
The Philadelphia Press has a Nashville dispatch 
dated tbo 7th, which says: 
A battle has taken place between our advanced 
forces and Morgan’s guerrillas. Colonel Moore’s 
brigade repulsed the enemy several times, but was 
finally captured. Our troops made a desperate 
resistance, but were forced to succumb. Our loss 
in killed and wounded was 60, who were left on the 
field. 
Morgan attacked General Frye in the afternoon at 
Gallatin, but was repulsed with heavy loss. Gem 
Frye has been re-enforced, and is now pursuing the 
enemy closely. General Buell and staff arrived at 
Nashville on Sunday morning. 
Mississippi. — From Memphis papers we learn 
that, Gen. Hovey’s expedition, 20 000 strong, which 
left Helena, Ark . some days since, landed at Prior's 
Point, 15 to 20 miles below, marched to Grenada and 
took possession of that place Monday week. A 
large number of citizens fled. The proprietor of the 
Memphis (Grenada) Appeal moved his printing 
establishment to Marietta, Ga. Before the Federal 
occupation the rebels burned fifteen or twenty loco¬ 
motives and one hundred cars. 
A Ilolly Springs special dispatch says that the 
enemy evacuated Tallahatchie on the 1st inst Gen. 
McArthurs division occupied the rebel forts there 
that night There was no fighting of any conse¬ 
quence. The rebels are believed to be in full retreat. 
A Tallahatchie dispatch say Federal cavalry 
occupied Abbeville at 9 o'clock at night On the 1st 
inst. The rebels left town one hour before we 
entered. They burned the depot, which was filled 
with commisary stores and clothing. Aconsiderable 
quantity of ammunition was also destroyed. The 
rebels have gone to Oxford. 
The following has been received at the War De¬ 
partment: 
Hkapqoaktkrh ox thk Field, krar Abbeville.Miss., 1 
December 3, 1802 5 
Mi 1 j-Gen. 77, W. IlaHeck, Commander-in-Chief 
The enemy deserted lheir fortifications yesterday, 
destroying all of their stores they could'not carry 
awav with them. Tbeweather is bad. The. streams 
* 1 _n,„ _i.:„« :. < a.. 
Kfhoimer Brilliant of Nassau loaded with 'mn ha** occupied the place last night To-day pursuit wa 
schoontr HiiJLiaut, ol in t>. a i, loaiea wi dot) bug 1 Itl!(d( , t() Oxford, arid comiug upon the iear guar 
of salt. The master read a written statement of 0 f the enemy, skirmishing took place, lasting atom 
intention to run thB blockade under instructions of two hours, and resulting in the eap'nre of sixt 
selves, and then we shall save our country. 
Fellow-citizens, toe cannot escape history. We of 
this Congress and this Administration will be re- 
memtiered in spite of ourselves. No personal sig¬ 
nificance or Insignificance can spare one or another 
of ns. The fiery trial through which we pass will ' 
light, ns down in honor or dishonor to the latest 
generation. We nay we are for the Union. The 
world will not forget that we say this. We know 
how to save the Union. The world knows we do 
know how to save it. We—even we. here —hold the 
power and bear the responsibility. In giving free¬ 
dom to the slave we assure freedom to* the free - 
honorable alike in what we give and what w'e pre¬ 
serve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last, 
best hope of earth. Other means may succeed: this 
could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, 
just, a way which, if followed, the world will for¬ 
ever applaud tiud God must forever bless. 
M'Ab'iiiKaTos, I)1,18G2. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 
The Army in Virginia. 
The N. Y. Herald's narpers Ferry dispatch 
says that Gen. Geary, with 3.300 infantry. 12 pieces 
of artillery and 50 cavalry, made a inarch on Win¬ 
chester on the 3d, demanding its surrender, which 
was complied with, the people exhibiting many 
signs of joy at his arrival. He reports to Gen. Slo¬ 
cum. that after having left Harper’s Ferry he first, 
met theenemy’s cavalry underWnite,Henderson and 
Baylor near Charlestown, routing them with a loss 
in wounded, and marching into Berryville the same 
evening again. But tbe enemy drew him into a 
trap, killing 5 and wounding 18. The same even¬ 
ing he bivouacked three miles beyond Berryville. 
Next day he advanced beyond the Occoquan, skir¬ 
mishing with rebel cavalry and infantry, and bivou¬ 
acked iu Ash Hollow,between Berryville and Win¬ 
chester, with horses, mules, and several wagon 
loads of rebel flour. 
At Winchester 125 rebels, unable to escape, were 
paroled. 70 conscripts claimed protection, which was 
granted. Five of our prisoners were released. Gen. 
Geary then, in pursuance of orders, returned to 
Harper’s Ferry, though large deputations of citizens 
begged him to remain. Ouv only loss was one man 
slightly wounded. 
Assistant Adjutant General Colonel Paxton of the 
2d Virginia Cavalry attacked the post of the enemy 
near Cold Knop, Greenbriar county, on the 26th 
ult. It was a successful surprise, capturing two 
commissioned officers, 100 horses, 2,000 stand of 
arms, 4 wagons and the camp equipage of the reg : - 
ment The wagons, equipage, and part ot the arms 
were destroyed by CoL Paxton. No lots on our 
made to Oxford, and coming npon tbe rear guard 
Of the enemy, skirmishing took place, lasting about 
two hours, and resulting in the Capture of sixty 
rebels. The pursuit wilt be continued to morrow. 
The roads are impassiole to get up supplies for a 
longer ooutiuuunce ot it. Gen. .Sherman is crossing 
at Wyatt. U. S. Grant, Maj.-Geq. 
same statements as the others. The Raker and 
Brilliant were sent into Beaufort, being unseawor¬ 
thy. The Rowe and Tuttle were sent north for ad¬ 
judication; therefore the lists of vessels—from the 
5th of November, captured off Wilmington uDd the 
coast of North Carolina—includes two boats, one 
schooner, two brigs, fifteen steamers. Total, twenty 
vessels, of which six have been sent North as prizes. 
The U. S. steamer Guide, from Morehead City. 
N. C., on the 3d inst,, has arrived in New York, 
bringing the following intelligence: 
From information received through what is 
deemed a reliable source, we learn that the rebels 
of late have become suddenly and unually active in 
and aWit Wilmington. They are miniug the roads 
leading to the city on tho New Topsail Inlet side. 
In Wilmington the rebels arc actively engaged in 
moving heavy guns. 
At Beaufort, on the 3d inst, Major-General N. P. 
Banks was nominated for the next Presidency by 
the Eastern North Carolina Free Labor Association 
at a large and enthusiastic meeting in the Court 
House, Meetings to ratify this nomination are to be 
held by various local political associations at differ¬ 
ent points. 
The native North Carolina Union troops who 
belong to the organization, strenuously insist upon 
a vigorous and prompt enforcement of the confisca¬ 
tion and emancipation acts passed by the last Con¬ 
gress. 
The Banks’ Texas Expedition is the theme of con¬ 
siderable comment in Southern papers. 
In consequence of tho strong opposition of the 
Free Labor party in Eastern North Carolina, no 
election will be ordered for representatives in the 
57th Congress from this State. Petitions, however, 
are being circulated for an early election to the 
next Congress. 
It has been discovered to be the intention of the 
rebels to abandon all that, portion of North Carolina 
lying eastward of the Weldon and Wilmington Rail¬ 
road. 
Yellow fever is slowly abating at. Wilmington. 
On the 24th nib, the gunboat Elli°, Lieut. Cush¬ 
ing commanding, entered the mouth of New River, 
between Wilmington and Beaufort, and proceeded 
up the stream to Jacksonville, the capital of Onslow 
county, and seized the contents of the Postoffice, a 
quantity of arms and stores, and after destroying a 
large amount of turpentine and cotton, returned to 
the mouth of tho river, being engaged by several 
AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON. 
The pressure upon our columns forbids the pub¬ 
lication of the reports of the various Government 
Secretaries; and although we would be pleased to 
give ihe most important of these (that issuing from 
the Secretary of War.) we are unable 1o do more 
than furnish the following digest 
The Secretary, in detailing lhe military operations 
of tbe past year, points to the fact that tho depart¬ 
ment of the Pacific has been free from any of the 
calamities occasioned by the rebellion. An earnest 
anddeepsyuiputhy has been manifested by theloyal 
citizensof the Pacific States in support of the Union. 
From a survey of the whole field ol operations it 
appears that whatever disasters our anus may have 
Buffered at particular points, a great advance has 
been made since the commencement of the war. 
The Union forces are now in the field under able 
commanders, strunger than ever, resolute and 
eager to be led to crush the rebellion by a vigorous 
winter campaign. The armies of the Putomac and 
the West stand ready to vie with each other in 
deu'iug the quickest and heaviest blow against the 
enemy. 
Taught by experience the ruin of inaction and 
hazard of delay, a spirit of earnest activity seems 
now to pervade the United States Army. In the 
numerous battles that have occurred, our armies iu 
general have displayed the courage and determina¬ 
tion which should inspire officers and soldiers fight¬ 
ing in defence of their Government. 
these hostile acts. To that end Provost Marshals 
were appointed in some States upon the nomination 
of their Governors, to act under tbe direction of the 
State Executive, and the writ of habeas corpus was 
suspended by order ot the War Department Ar¬ 
rests were forbidden unless authorized by the State 
Executive or Judge Advocate. Some instances of 
unauthorized arrests have occasioned complaint, ^ 
and when brought to the notice of the Department 
tbe parties have been immediately discharged. 
By recent order, all persons arrested for discour¬ 
aging enlistments, or for disloyal practices in the 1! 
States where the quotas of volunteers and militia 
are filled up, have beeu released. Other persons, 15 
arrested by military commanders, and sent out 
from the departments where the prisoner was c 
deemed dangerous to public safely, have been dis¬ 
charged upon parole to be of good behavior, and to " 
do no act of hostility to the United States Govern¬ 
ment- While military arreBts of disloyalists are li 
complained of in some States, tho discharging of 
such persons is complained of in other States. It ° 
has been ihe aim of the Department to avoid any 
encroachments upon individual rights, as far as r 
might be consistent with the public safety, but 
reflecting minds will perceive that no greater en- a 
courage merit can be given to the enemy than efforts 
to prevent recruiting and enlisting. 
The expectations of the rebel leaders and their 
sympathizers in the loyal States that the call for c 
Volunteers would not be answered, and that the 
draft could not he enforced, have failed, and noth- 0 
ing is left but to clamor at tho means by which their 
hopes were frustrated, and to strive to disarm the * 
Government iu future, if, in the chances of war, 
anolher occasion for increasing the military force f 
should arise. The expenditures for enlistment, re¬ 
cruiting, drilling and subsistence of Volunteers, ' 
Regulars and Militia amount to $20 61)2 282.91. 
The Secretary says that experience has shown ' 
that serious defects exist in the militia law which 
should be promptly remedied. The laws in relation 1 
to volunteers also need to be amended. The views 
of the department will be communicated to appro¬ 
priate committees of Congress. 
It. will be found that, the Quartermaster’s Depart- * 
ment, upon which ihe charge of colored persons is 
chiefly imposed, h -.s riot found itself burdened with ‘ 
this caie, but on i o contrary, has derived valuable 
aid from this labor, and a considerable portion ot 
field operations has thus far suffered from a scaut, 
rather than from too great a supply of such labor. 
In Louisiana, where at one time there were appre¬ 
hensions of,embarrassments from the number of 
refugees, the reserve of a tract of rich land along 
the railroad to Berwick Bay, opens tip a territory in 
which many thousands can be profitably employed, 
if placed under proper regulations. At. Port Royal, 
such persons have been extensively’ employed in 
the work of Quartermaster’s Department, aud in 
cultivating some thousands of acres of Sea Island 
cotton, the productions of which are used in the 
support ot themselves and families. In tbe opera¬ 
tions of the army on James river, and upon tbe 
Potomac, the fortifications of Washington, and as 
laborers, teamsters, hostlers, and in the loading and 
shipping of stores, they have been of great service, 
and tho demand for their labor lias exceeded the 
supply available. 
It has uot been found necessary to exercise within 
loyal States the power conferred upon the President 
to take actual military possession of the railroads ol 
the country. The various companies met in con¬ 
vention in this city, and united in proposing a uni¬ 
form tariff for government transportation, which 
appears just and equitable, and they have performed 
all the service required of them hy the department 
with a promptness, cheerfulness and efficiency 
which do honor to the patriotism of the managers. 
The President sent a brief message to the House 
on the 4th inst., which was referred to the Commit¬ 
tee on Foreign Affairs, relative to the collision ol 
the war steamer Ban Jacinto with the French brig 
Jules el Marie , off the coast of Cuba, in November 
last. He recommends an appropriation of $9500 
for reparation of the damages to the latter, through 
neglect on the part of the officers of the Sun 
Jacinto, in accordance with the verdict of the 
Naval Commission, composed of the officers of this 
country, France, Italy, and the United States Con¬ 
sul at Havana and Consul at Frauce. 
It is estimated that the amount of Custom House 
Treasury Notes now outstanding, is Ices than 
$14,000,000. It is thought that by the middle of 
January this amount will be absorbed. The Gov¬ 
ernment will be in the receipt of gold from cus¬ 
toms. 
During the past week, the correspondence of our 
Government with France was laid before Congress. 
This correspondence covers 134 pages. Letters 
extend throughout this year. The letter of June 
last to Minister Dayton says:—France has a right to 
make war against Mexico, and determine for her- 
i self the cause. We have a right to insist that 
• Frauce shall not improve the war she makes to 
i raise up in Mexico an Anti-Republican or Anti- 
: American government. France has disclaimed any 
1 such designs, and we, besides reposing faith in the 
. assurance given in a frank and honorable manner, 
l would be bound to wait tor and not anticipate a 
i violation of them, but circumstances tend to excite 
5 misapprehensions between this Government and 
. that of France, in spile of all prudence or care on 
i our part. We studiously endeavor to avoid them. 
1 You will, therefore, be fully authorized in assuring 
s ibat this Government does not inspire and has no 
1 responsibility for the assumptions of different char- 
i acter by the press. When we desire an expluna- 
e tion from France, or when occurrences shall have 
arrived to express discontent, we shall communi- 
1 cate expressly and explicitly with M. Thouvenel, 
s through your good offices. 
e In acknowledging the recept of the President’s 
u proclamation of Sept. 22, Minister Dayton replies:— 
l- You may look immediately for the most misebiev- 
t- ous efforts to pervert and misconstrue the motives 
which have prompted the proclamation, and the 
LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
StanSrnnirVs Seed ami Planter .Sower—Ira Stanbrough, 
TesO.ber .a Book K10].iniL Wanted—Cbaa. R. Wells 
FsxinOt#slut Mi*ctiatiieo —.t It Trren. 
Thr Km nil's Collection—Alains d. Dnbney. 
Concord (Jtarie Vines— T. B. Minor. 
I’eacti Pile, 18CJ—E. Ware Sylvester. 
& 1 )C $ 0 nimx 0 er. 
Under the calls of July and August there are probable consequences which will follow it. \ou 
already in the field over 420.000 new troops ; of 
which 399,000 are volunteers.—332,000 of these have 
volunteered for 3 years. 
A chief hope of those who set the rebellion on 
foot was for aid aud comfort from disloyal sympa¬ 
thizers in tbe Northern States, whose efforts were 
relied upon to divide and distract the people, and 
prevent them from putting forth their whole strength 
to preserve their national existence. The call for 
volunteers and the draft of militia afforded an occa¬ 
sion for disloyalists to accomplish their evil pur¬ 
poses, by discouraging oulistments, and encouraging 
opposition to the war aud the dralt of soldiers 
Anxiety was felt in some States at the probable 
extent of these disloyal practices, and the Govern¬ 
ment was urged to adopt some measure of protec¬ 
tion by the temporary restraint of those engaged in 
must not be surprised if another spasmodic effort 
for intervention is made, based upon the assumed 
ground of humanity. 
Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton, Oct. 20th, says the 
views he is about to express he understood as offi 
cial, and may be made known to the French Gov¬ 
ernment in the course of his letter, he remarks:— 
It surprises the President that the expectations ot a 
recognition of the insurgents are still living in 
European capitals, in view of disappointment and 
failure of the campaign, which by its success was to 
prepare them for tbat hostile measure. 1 he people 
do indeed deserve peace and repose, as they all 
along have desired these objects, but the first voice 
is yet to be raised in demand for peace at such cost 
as tbe loss of the Uuiou, or even of one acre of the 
broad foundation that if covers. 
— The dog tax in Cortland county N. Y., amounts to $1,- 
196 50. 
— Geu. Wool is tying seriously ill at the Eutasv House, Bal¬ 
timore. 
— The number of students in aU the departments of Yale 
College is 617. 
— The Territory of Colorado is about to send her third reg¬ 
iment to the war. 
— The New York subscription in aid of the English opera- 
tires has reached |6I,SOO. 
— The St. Louis Republican, heretofore semi secesh, comes 
out for emancipation in Missouri. 
— A London publisher has issued a Latin translation of 
Longfellow’s poem, '‘Hiawatha,” 
— The Empress of France pays her pet editor $5,000 per 
annum and permits him perquisites. 
— Florence Nightingale has suffered a relapse, and but little 
hope is now entertained of her recovery. 
— About sixteen thousand barrels of apples have been pur¬ 
chased and shipped from Brockport, N. Y. 
— Mrs. Sophia Stewart, the last of the ancient royal family 
of Scotland, lias just died hi her 91st year. 
— A very fine quality of cotton was succoessfully grown, 
the past season, no Kelly'* Island, Lake Erie. 
— Etihu Runitt intends to visit England in the course of a 
few weeks, to remain, perhaps, a twelvemonlh. 
— Lockwood L. Doty, B«q . Private Secretary to Governor 
Morgan, tins been appointed Consul at Nassau. 
— The. Vanderbilt, after a cruise of 4.000 miles for the pirate 
Alabama, returned unsuccessful ou Saturday week. 
— Twelve members of the Sophomore C'lnss in Yale Col¬ 
lege have been '•suspended " for abusing a freshman. 
— The whole number of deaths at Hilton Head and Key 
West from yellow fever during tbe teason wos only 05. 
— The President's Message was telegraphed from Washing¬ 
ton to New York in one hour and thirty-three minutes. 
— The Boston Bee snys the new Richmond correspondent 
of the Loudon Times in no other than Wm L, Yancey. 
— There are now eleven thousand Massachusetts troops at 
Newbern. N. C., and regiments arc constantly arriving. 
— Ludwig lihlaml, the famoua German poet and patriot, is 
ad. Among bards he field a high and honored rntik. 
— It is asserted that five thou*amt of tbe teachers of Ohio 
ve entered the army within the last eighteen months. 
— Fifty of the persons arrerteil in Wisconsin for resisting 
e draft have offered to enlist for three years or the war. 
— Deserters represent many of the Rebels ** shoeless; and 
■e has ordered them to make mocassins out of raw hides. 
— The steamship May Queen, bound south with supplies, 
is lost on the North Carolina Coast. The crew was saved. 
— Parson Brownlow, in a letter from Nashville, says Ten- 
ssee is to all inteutB and purposes brought back into the 
lion. 
— Revenue stamps continue to be used for postage stamps 
■ careless persons. AU letters thus stamped are treated as 
ipaid, 
— Hon. Caleb B. Smith, Secretary of the Interior, will, it is 
id. goon resign to take the vacant District Judgeship in 
diana. 
— The (iiiribaldinns who were recently amnestied are to he 
lit home to their families at the expense of the Italian gov- 
nment. 
— Small gold coin has not been made at the mint for a long 
me pa«t. The coinage now consists mainly of twenty dollar 
ild pieces. 
— Macaulay's prophecy of a university at Timbuctoo has 
?en nearly realized by the establishment of a college at Mon- 
ivia, Africa. 
— Tho Newfoundland fisheries this year have not only 
•oved very unsuccessful as to numbers, but tho fish are poor 
id meagre. 
— In the Austrian War Budget, now under consideration, 
i*re Is an item of 2,5Q0f. for feeding eats kept in the victual- 
ng- magazines, 
— In the Auburn Advertiser is recorded the death of four 
itydren.,being the entire family of Parker L. and Maria At- 
viod, of Venice. 
— “Chopping bees,” to prepare and deliver to the families 
r soldiers in the field a supply of wood for this winter, are 
1 the rage iu Iowa. 
— It is not Kossuth who is dying of consumption, hut his 
>ife. The patriot exile is now in Turin attending her with 
le deepest solicitude. 
— Rhode Island’s credit is good. She has just sold six hun- 
undred thousand dollars’ worth of her bonds at a premium 
f over eight per cent. 
— It is stated on good authority that no toss than 180.000 of 
le soldiers whose names now fill the muster rolls are absent, 
rith or without leave I 
— Tiie Rebel Congress will not convene, unless called to- 
etlicr by Jeff Davis, until the 12th of January. It adjourned 
n the 13th of October. 
— The family of Mr. John A. nutchinson, of Trenton, N. 
., to the number of eighty persons, sat down to a Thanks- 
;iving dinner in Trenton. 
— Two immense columhiads, weighing 14,822 pounds, aro 
in their way to New York, and intended for one of the forte 
lominanding the harbor. 
— Both Houses of lhe New South Wales Legislature have 
wised a bill granting five thousand acres of land for experi- 
nents in cotton growing. 
— The expedition which left Helena last week, said tohave 
lumbered 20.600 men, landed 12 miles below, and moved 
jverlund toward Grenada. 
— A Washington dispatch to the New York Times says one 
xundred oUicers, absent without leav;e, were on Thursday 
week utrickeu from the rolls. 
— Mr Smith O'Brien is going abroad for some years, in con¬ 
sequence of having been deprived of his property by those to 
whom he entrusted it in 1848. 
— The Utica Telegraph says it knows tbat 365 officers of the 
Army of lhe Potomac have sent in their resignations since 
the removal of Gen. McClellan. 
— The demands upon the treasury outstanding are less than 
$14,000,000. These it is thought will be absorbed in revenue 
payments by the 1st of February. 
_Nearly five columns of the Clucinnati Gazette are filled 
with names of soldiers of the Federal army who died in the 
Nashville hospital* since last spring. 
— Mr II. Jacobs, of Rome, has just realized on a Newark, 
N J , shinplaster, issued 27 years ago, which was honored by 
the city corporation on presentation. 
— The N. Y. AUoitment Commissioners state the fact that 
nearly five million aud a half of dollars have been allotted to 
thelf friends hy New York regiments. 
— The life of Garibaldi is said to be in imminent danger 
from his wound in the instep, which is showiug alarming 
symptoms, the effects of had surgery. 
— The weekly statement of tho New York Commissioners 
of Emigration shows tlmt 69,499 emigrants have landed upon 
our shores since the 1st of last January. 
— Nine thousand Italian priests have just presented a peti¬ 
tion to the Pope, in which they entreat of him, in the name of 
religion, to abandon the temporal power. 
— The Nationalities of Turin announces the arrival of M. M. 
Klapka, Kossuth aud Telekt, who, it adds, are preparing to 
start for Greece with a number of Hungarians. 
_Pnisria is in peril of a revolution. In Berlin the 
people are highly incensed, tuil the unconstitutional conduct 
of the sovereign is discussed with great fury. 
