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Patriotic Father.

Tho Rev. DR.. Alexander Jones, Rector Of
st. Peters Church at Perth Amboy, N. j., ia
a native of Charleston, s. c., and was for many
years the pastor of an Episcopal Church in
Virginia. He has six sons born in the South,
who are all serving in the rebel army Of the
Potomac. DR.. Jones himself, however, not
withstanding the treason of his children, is .
most devoted and thorough-going Union man.
He read from his pulpit the recent circular Of
President Lincoln and Lieutenant General
Scott asking the loyal women of the coun-
try to exert thenseI ves In behalf Of the army
hospitals. and after commencing the work to
his congregation, said, with mark ed emphasis.
that it was peculiarly incumbent on him who
had 50 many sons fighting to destroy the best
and noblest Government the earth ever saw,
to do what he could to support that Govern
ment, and to atone for the wrong done BY his
children. In conclusion, the reverend doctor.
lifting up his hand and voice, exclaimed, with
energy and feeling: May the Star -Spangled
Banner fioatain triumph, over every part Of
this, even though"-he added in lower tone
~" it shall float over the field Whers mi sir .sO,,s
are lyitg," In view Of all the circumstances,
we think. II would be hard to find on record 4
higher expression Of patriotism then this,yz.
Ne,cayE Advestiser. ...s.,5,si ..s'
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Troops Moving South.

According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, twen-
ty-fve thousand troops left Carondelet, Mis-
oo221, e-skk -sks 9th, for Cairo. The same day
eight thousand troops passed down the Ohio to
Louisville. Gen. Thomas brigade, also about
eight thousand strong, is to move to Elizabeth
town, in the vicinity of Louisville, where is
the great rendezvous for the troops and stores
intended for the expedition to Nashville, the
new capital of the rebel Confedcracy. Twen.
ty-fve thousand troops will soon be on their
way from Western Virginia to Louisville, and
the Nashville division will number nearly
100000 men.
The Louisville Democrat of Friday con-
tanned some significant intimations of this
Nashville movement. 1t said
'Our readers may as well prepare to heal
before the close of this month news as stirring
as that from the feet, and this time the news
will be of more interest to us, because of it
nearness. Kentucky will, to great extent
end the war, so far as the land forces are con
cerned"
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Z This unique feet sailed on the GOTH 1t
was composed Of old whalers, bought at New
Bedford, New London, Nantucket, Sag Har-
Dor, Edgar, Mystic and Newport. These are
double-deck, strong vessels, and after. being
stripped of their copper and other fittings
were loaded with stone. The New York
Post says:
/ The crews consist of six men each. These
will return by the men-of-war, who will as.
sist in the work of sinking. Each ship will
be anchored in the place chosen for her, and
will then be sprung round broadside to the
channel, thus effccting as great d stoppage as
is possible, when this is done, and she is in
position, the valve will be withdrawn. and
when the vessel is nearly level with the wa.
ter's edge, the men will leave in small boat
It's reported that an enterprising rigger has
gone down with the feet, with the intention
to take off what pieces Of spars and rigging
may remain abyoe the waters edge after the
ships are sunk. 8 K, Y fY sI9e
The captains Of the ships are all well ac-
quainted with our coast, first4rate seamen, and
good pilots. Each captain received on the
day he sailed sealed orders, not to- be opened
till after the pilot left his vessel Ha
The feet numbers twenty-five vessels, their
tonnage ranging from 25o, to 6OO--their ag-
igresate tonnage being 1876 tons.
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Union. Rebels.


Great arrays Of statistics from India are Civ.
en- in the London papers to prove thatthe peo.
plcof India are going into the cotton business
Extensively. A Calcutta letter in the Times
snder date Of Sept 2sd, says: si5'
Thenatiye mind seems to have been thor.
ougly reused on the cotton question. Ae-
counts from all parts Of the country, bnt more
especially from the rich cotton districts on the
banks Of the Gadavery, speak Of the area Of
land cultivated with cotton as far exceeding
the proportion of any previous year. Bonn
bay and Madris have taken the lead in r
race, but neither central India norsthe ~
west have been slack in their preraand Ions
If these have not been as. forwaFfable % give
have been expected. tla cause liss1 H,,,.gd Il,
certainty which has hitherto pFsyaife I'D
ing the duration If The civil 5Ear in America.
If that were to be hn affairof only few
months, and il. At the expiratiopof that time
the Southern States were 10 their normal con-
dition Of cotton alipe TO England theonly
result Of the of the native capitalists
would bsterrible u ss and possibly ruin.
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If we except Banks-and we think he
should not be excepted-none of our COM
manding Generals are abolitionists. McClel-
Ian is nothing Of the sort. Nor is Dix, whose
anti-Abolition proclamation has been SO well
received and produced so wonderful an effect
in Virginia. Nor is Sherman, whose prccla-
nation to the South Carolinians is SO distaste-
ful to the Abolition journals. Nor is Sher-
man, who is managing the Union cause so
we'll in Kentucky. Nor is Hunter, to whom
Kansas and Jim Lane have been assigned
Nor, last though not least, is Halleck, who
succeeds Fremont, and whose order excluding
fugitive slaves from his lines is likely to ex-
cite Aboltionism to higher pitch Of despera-
ton than it has reached since the Presidents
modification of Fremont's proclamation
General Halleck is of Democratic stock, and
we sec the fruits of his good training in his
first general order He prohibits tiagittu negroes
from coming acitlin his lines at dW; and he
proceeds upon the experience that they are
the best spies which the rebels can procure.
And so undoubtedly they are. Abolitionism
would arm the slaves. Thus armed nine
out of ten of them would probably fight for
their masters. General Halleck understands
all this, and his affective measures to keep
the negroes where they belong are Just the
right measures.
In all this connection, was there ever any.
thing SO pestilent as Abolitionism 7? 1t is q
great pity that things cannot be so ordered
that both the Abolitionists and negroes should
be armed and set upon each other 1t would
be war the termination of which all good peo-
pie should pray might be like that which
once happened at Kilkenny. Chicago Times.
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r "A " Z N N "A, Q FL I Q :
Saturday, November 23, 1861.
Captain Charles wilkes.

The name of Capt Charles Wilkes, who SO
neatly nabbed Slidell and Mason, is name
known both in navigation and science. He
was born in New York, in 1905, and original
" entered the naval service of his country in
1918, a; t'le early age of thirteen years. In
1888, having previously distinguished HIM
self by his scientific ability, he received from
the American Government the command of a
naval expedition, intended to explore the
countries bordering on the Pacific and South
ern oceans. His command consisted Of two
sloops-of-war, brig, and two tenders, and he
himself had the grade of Captain. Leaving
here shortly after his appointment, he doub-
led Cape Horn, crossed over to Polynesia,
Van Dieman's Land and Australia, advancing
as high as the sixty y-frst degree Of South lat
itude he then visited the Feejee Islands and
Bdrneo, and returned to New York in 1912,
after having visited Singapore and the Cape
OF Good Hope. Ihls memorable expedition
of four years was fertile in useful observa.
tions, which Captain Wilkes recounted in ;
very able work in FIVE octave volumes, enti
tied "a Narrative Of the United States Ex-
pioring Expedition In 1843, the Geograph-
ical Society of London presented him with a
gold medal as token of their appreciation of
his labors. He has also, since then, publish
ed a work entitled Western America which
contains valuable statistical details and geo.
graphical facts, and maps relating to Califor-
mia and Oregon Commodore Wilkes receiv-
ed his present commission in 1856. He has
been in the service altogether forty three
years. Ten Of those years he has been on sea
service twenty-six engaged on shore or other
duty, and seven years unemployed.
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There has been great deal said of late
about opening cotton ports, OF, in other words
establishing trading posts at the South, a,
though that were the chief purpose of oul
great naval expedition. The New Yorl
World, generally regarded as an organ of th'
Administration, scouts the ida as one gener
iated in the brains of would-be cotton specula
tors. It says that the "opcning of cottoi
ports'' would present the ridiculous anomal.
Of the Government violating its own blockade
and turning broker on q large scale to replenisl
the exhausted treasury of the rebel Confeder
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Frona the south.

SOUTH CAROLINA AND HER lNvADERs.--.
South Carolina began the war and 1t Is, PER-,
haps, fitting, in the nature Of things that she
should end it. The range and hate Of her.
enemies have precipitated them on her coast.
They came to punish her for daring to assert
her liberties and independence Hence, -
General Butler, of Massachusetts,, says. The
war is to be illuminated by her burning cities
and villages" We have foreseen, and hRye
deprecated the wretched policy which has in-
duced the invasion of the State. We have !,
wished, that it could have been otherwise
and that the redemption Of Maryland, and the
protection of South Carolina had been accom-
plshed by fighting on the banks Of the Poto@
mac. -
But since all our efforts to shield South Car.
olina from invasion have failed we await with
cheerfulness, the fate which is upon us. There
are few calamities without some redseminG
advantages, to those who suffer We can, and
we will, make this invasion another occasion
for illustrating the characteristics Of Southern
soldiers. Let the invaders, .come.n b the
unanimous feeling Of our people Our YAM.
kee enemies will, sooner or later, learn to their
cost the difference between invaders for spoils
and power and defenders of their liberties
their homes and their native land. II they
can take Charleston, with twenty five thou
sand men, let them have it. We are unwor~i
thy to possess it, and it win be fitting me-
morial-laid in ashcs-of our imbecility and
base degencracy.
But if on the contrary, we shall give to
every one of our invaders, who shall remain
on our soil, prison above it, or grave be-
meath twill it not end the contest ? Caro-
linians, the great cause Of the Confederacy
rests on your arms Strike for the independ-
ence of the Confederate States, your homes,
and your native land. 1t has pleased God to
place upon you the responsibility of closing,
as He did that Of commencing this glorious
war. Free and far, let your names spread
amongst the nations Of the earth as one Of the
frecsts sbravest and most enlightened people
that has lived in the tide of time. Let us all,
with one heart, repeat the noble sentiment of
one of her dead sons: "Itis better for South
Carolina to be the cemetery Of freeman than
the home of slaves. Charleston Mercury.
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L ~ 2
6T Ex-Commodore Fatnall, who COM
manded the pop-gun feet Of the rebels at Port
Royal, owns larse amount Of property 1t
Sackett's Harbor, New York. Measures have
been taken for the con6scation Of his furniture.
which is estimated to be worth $l5,O0O. IA
libel and information we're filed By the Distrct
Attorney, and last week motion for condsm,
nation was made in the United States Court
at Buffalo. Eli Cook Appeared for Tainallas
claimant Of the property, and proposed 70 an-
swer and defend. The District Attorney ask
cd leave to amend tho lihel. which was grant.
ed, and then three weeks were allowed NJ,
Cook to answer the amended lihal AFTER II
should be served The case viii probably b
tried at the next term in Albany. Al,a
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n NFQop. Is . well-estabIished I.
49,;
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TTT7T ~ FooD. 1t is well-established fact
-, ,Ig,I .aSst those classes whoget the least
srb Il pm ma HI mortality is greatest and disease
selected stos.a / One Of the most common forms
ofadS tess generated bg an exclusively yegeta-
BILE eidiet is scrofula, and when traceable to this
cause the most speedy remedy isthc addition
Of anilpal food to the diet. There are also
many other forms Of disease produced BY the
want of animal food, which require for their
cure but On abundant supply Of the needed
ntateEsals bssa1a VII .elilsa aigafel ydi
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from the Fifth wisconsin.

We may DC put into winter quarters, bu
the report around here now is, that two Regi.
ments from this Brigade are going down tC
Fortress Monroe, and that they are the 9Th
Maine and our own. We should like to go, as
it is getting very tiresome staying here and
doing nothing. Itwould be something Of q
change.
We had grand division review yesterday
About 10000 men were on the field, all o,
whom exerted themselves to the utmost tc
show'off, as President Lincoln was present.
Gen. Mcclellan comes up to see us every
week, and the men think there never was
another man like him -..5
We are having very fine weather, the days
being warm like summer, and the nights cold
and chilly. To stand picket now is pretty
hard, as the cold nights make the men almost
frozen.
There is no prospect of an immediate at
tack in this direction, the enemy having re-
tired four or FIVE miles from our lines.
We have just received the official report Of
the fight at Beaufort, and also of that in Ken.
lucky. Our men are now very much elated
at the prospect of whipping the rebels, as the
fight at Leesburg somewhat diminished thcil
ardor. Yours, NJ. W. P.
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The POSITIONS OF GREAT MEN.--The liv-
ing ex- Presidents, ex-Vice Presidents and ex-
Cabinet officers, stand as follows on the pre-
sent war :: g sE.4
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4 The Stiry and Stripes now waycin six ol
tho seoeded States TO wit Sin North Caro-
lima over Fort Hattsras; in South Carolina,
4 Beaufort; in Florida, vt Key West and Fort
Pickens;in Mississppi at ship Island; n East
ym Tennessee, and il the northern and vest
! ern seotions of Virginia
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VI The ChafIeatcn Mercury calls Preaidsnt.
Lin61ln q xnsles We'll, : snake has an
suzIia6b araoant of hqc ets.
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transportation from the North to the South !;
one from Richmond along the seaboard, and
the other through Western Virginia to New
Orleans. A third might be secured by COM
pleting link of about forty miles, between
Danville, Va, and Greenborough, NC. The
construction Of this comparatively short line
would give us through route from North to
South in the interior of the Confederate States,
and give us access to population and to
military resources from whichwe are now, in q
great measure, debarred. II, he says we hus-
band our means, and make q judicious use Of
our resources, it would be difficult to fix q
limit to the period during which we could
conduct war against the adversary whom we
nov encounter. The very efforts which he
makes to desolate and divide US, must exhaust
his means, while they serve to complete the
lcircle and diversity the productions of our in
dustrial system, The reconstruction which
ne seeks to effect,sby arms becomes daily
more and more palpably impossible. Not
only Do the causes which induced us to sepa-
rate last fall in full force, but they have been
strengthened, and whatever doubt may have
fingered in the minds Of anyimust have been
completely dispelled BY subsequent events.
! 4, instead Of being . dissolution Of . league,
it were, indeed, rebellion in which we were
engaged, we might find ample yindicaton for
the course we have adopted in the scenes
(which are now being enacted IN tho United
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IG &. W. BENNETT q I
SPECIAL SALE

SPECIAL SALE
0UU -'' CtARPETINGs. AND MATTINGs,
On WEDNESDAY a R EGTdio Next April TO- ., !,
eG ofk precisely, shall sell 28 and 80 South Charles
100 PEEgTG EESS OF "a ANP 4 EEAyY MIXED CAR
400 66ERh2G aKsrpE a. 3S? 5, WHITE AND RED
bst r and of recent Importation Adapted to
credit for anr a sd0 cash that amount co Gays
ap5ts F'@ BENNETT & co,
- FARM FOR SALE
IL By virtue Of decree of the Circuit Co,rt sr
pubc sale at Mersve. Anne ATn T1SS,fe, viii offer at
Annapolis and EridgG Railroad, RRf i5 H.
GELS OF LAND situate and lying in Anne Arundel com
T PaR 6G j. RoGer m Th
and are de- bed in deed from lemmoa adminstra-
and recorded in Lber n H. G., No g. folio $50, &c as
Begnnine for the first parcel at bounded stone the
running with and by he thrteenth line Of said It No
deYFssd north t'ty four degrees fortyone minutes east
one RanaTed and fourteen poles and eight nhs of pole
70 stone THENCE north twenynine degrees thir
FG mn eS vest sXtE-tve p"es; thence south eighty
I ee m,S GGgI.Ss zen minutes east eight poles;
minutes east, ght poles thence norb hItynVe
forty minutes east twenty two poles: IN no,b @
eight degrees fifty five minutes east ten poles thence norb
seventy Gereas TWEEN yfvc minutes east six mol,
thence north sixty degrees v-ve m n ties east TWEEN
tTthree poles thence south thirty eight degrees FIVE
minutes east twelve poles thence nth fy-nne degrees
trty-tYe minutes east, twenty Fl poles; thence Sou
fortyseyen degrees trtyive minutes east twenty Six
poles thence north eghty degrees forty minutes eas-
twentyfOur poles thence south forty de grees five
minutes east twentysight poles thence south twenty
three deSre shorty minutes ea your Poles thence south
thrtytwo degrees i've minutes e,t ureen poles thence
south fifty degrees five minutes east twenty-five DO les
thence sgh twelve degrees five minutes east, leven poles
to bounded white oak tree thence south seventy de-
gee ten MINUTES west one hun red and three poles thence
youth eightythree degrees hftv-ve minutes west one
hundred and nifty two les thence north Gtyseven de-
Etes twenty i've minutes west f5rytwo poles, to the he
inning, containing and laid out for two and
land. "
And heginnir$ FIR the second parcel the ginning
stone OF Inc land above desc ned running Herewith
two courses to wit Nor irtyfo degrees and fotyone
minu Is east one hundred and fourteen poles ard eight
tenthS OF pole to boanded stone; thence north
nine degrees ard thirty menutes east siXtyve poles,
and thence by st aigh line to the place of beginning
tanning twenty one acres and twenty eight peches,
less.
Terms-one ird cash the day of SALE the ratiG-
cation thereof onehird in year ana the Ia in two
years from the day OF sale the credit to he
cured by the bonds Of the purchaser with surety
tues to b. approved by the trustee and hearing interest
from the day Of sale W W. GLENN.
mh2l eo&ds Trustee.
kMES p CH NOE
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St0raQf

SlQfa9R.
gNTUHAGE WANTED-At low rates, on first
- brtk) foor Of Warehouse No u Smiths wharf APP
MY T. ChAELEj PEN ERGASF,
at Y Smiths wharf.
GTURAGE.-Roo can be had in a fir e-pro
~ Warehouse Commerce str A pply to
$500 JOHN HEN DEkSON y CO.,
t-i9tt corner Pratt and Commerce streets
GTORAUE FOR GRAIN AND FLOUR can
> be obtained in desirable Wareouse having
P MALCOM Il co,
~ Wood street. Bowlvs wharf
STORAGE WANTED.-On first floor of " are
AOhoGss n II Smiths wharf at low rates, by
. CHARLES PGNDERGAST.
!e@a u n Smiths wharf
- TNRAGE.-Capacity to the extent of 10000
2baErels merchandise can be obtained at Hendersons
wharf. Apply TO JOHN HENDERSON Il co,
myl7-n corner Commerce and Pratt streets.
STORAGE WANTED on either Floor or Cellar
~ of the large Warehouse, No l22 :. Eutaw street. oppo
ute baltimore and Ohio Railroad Depot Apply on the
premises to REP WOLF. feS-tf
STORAGE WILL BE TAKEN AT Low
0raes in Warehouse No. IS South street
W. J. SMITH,
au22u 6s South street.
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The great economy in the OF hse PIPES for Sewer
age will be fonpdlo exceed by far the use of other
material for the purposes. All orders addressed
above will be promptly attended to- Goods delivered in
the city free of charge mhI5n
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9ublif SaIrs
EY SAMUEL III. COVE

Ssss LARGE AND ATTRACTIVE SALE OFss.s
--j-z 5000 FRUIT, SHADE AND
EVERGREEN TREES
From TIE Concordrtde NurSery, De,alCdre County Pa
VIII b. sold on MONDAY MORNING, April SL1, 1861
commencng It 10 O'clock at No 81 Baltimore stree
3 nnn PEACH Trees, consisting # new and choice
O5OOO varieties, all Of which grown from the natu
raj seed and Ludded from young bearing trees all
tegd free from disease and true to n me.
ALS0-A large variety Of EVERGREEN and SHADE
TREES, of handsome growth
This sale Of Fruit and Shae Trees viii be Of the most
attractive OF the season
Terms cash, in Baltimore funds.
No pOstpJuCment on account of the weather.
W. H. Il CHAS. PETERS,
COncordVille, Delaware county, Pa.
SAMUEL H. GOV r, Auct.,
apG 2t 81 RaItinora street
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y OPERTF AGENT,
No. 81 SECOND STREET.
Has for sale, FARMS, COUNTRY SEATS, CITY RESI-
DE\CES. BUILDING LOTS and GROUND RENTS anil =

AMI handsomely improved. Three o. 500 each, at g.
% and per cent; of $3.50 per mt;
one Of $50 per angn At 6 per cent; Of SIP, at 66
per cent; two OF SI2y at per cent; Of each
c"nt: four Of So each at 6G per CENT AID so
ciCh At 65 per cent pplY WM II. MARRIOTT, oker,
No q North Charles street mh2A-tf