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The daily Wabash express. (Terre-Haute, Ind.) 1857-1867, 1862-04-23
More Heavy Guns Ordered ut pitt.
burg.

The telegrams 10 The PA.iAdelphia Press
say-Thc Navy Department has ordered
he casting OF hny - inches Dahlgren guns
At fittsbarg. The drausht q monll-. &c..
have been prepared By Capt. Dshlgrcn, and
Il i understood that the guns will be much
shorter and thicker than the - inch RodmAn
gun. Most OF them all DC smooth bored.
and are designed for ne on board the new
ves-sis. Of the Monitor styse. and Others.
sh0>e construction hs- bcen already directed
BY Secretary Welles. The Department !.
vesy anxious that Congress vii take early
action. whereby the keels. &C. Of addit Dad
ganboat- may be AZ once laid. II i felt that
there viii be use for them for a consider bic
pcriod. a least While those already coussfac.
ted are subject % great wear and tear ~
engines aad tmbeFs BY actual war service
Those which have been III ~ from mcr
chant vc-~sir are only Sc 70 h-ief r~erio~ls Of
duty. TIE engines sud timber not being Of
half TIC strength Of vesss.s thAt are con.
zsracted for the navy.
The daily Wabash express. (Terre-Haute, Ind.) 1857-1867, 1862-04-23

Tie Madison Courier lsafns that ihe
stsameE S~itIeriant + r. &c converted bs
tie Government into = ram. for the rerrcsc
OF ranni0g into. an3 smashing and .inkirs
rebel vesssik. She vail DC ;skea L. TO
Madison Marine kailsay. where the work
of preparing her fof TIE ssrviee : %
De 81 ouce comrseacet The Lanca.ter =
~ % at 9 > .ir1.iar 80 ~ the Govern
msnt
The daily Wabash express. (Terre-Haute, Ind.) 1857-1867, 1862-04-23

Nor THE RisHr BrRSETT.-In the battle
AZ Pittsburgh our forces captured James
Burnett, a brother Of the notorious traitor.
Ex-Hon. Henry &. Burnett he IL said 10
be A clever follow. abating HE treason His
brother Il the one wanted.
The daily Wabash express. (Terre-Haute, Ind.) 1857-1867, 1862-04-23

Our uoops have taken yearly 2. 900 rebel
prisoners since the lst Of January lsss. "a
elusive Of those captured 20 fitsseaFT Land
rnx. VIZ Roanoke Island. 2.s27i Sping
Geld, No, 600: Fcrt ponsl.on 800. fs.
Ridge. 100. Ss~beru. 200. island No 10.
500; other place. Ss Total. ri Isl.
The daily Wabash express. (Terre-Haute, Ind.) 1857-1867, 1862-04-23

teat.
j.. Sensitiyely tender OF his lost prestige,
Beauregard appears TO be straining every
point to give his defeat at Pittsburg the ap-
pearance Of victory; but through all his brag-
cart dispatches it n clear enough that he
foresees the general verdict that he was
badly whipped. The falling infection
from bis telegraph to Richmond. to his nag
of truce note to General Grant, published
this morning, is significant. To the rebel an-
thorities he claims "a complete victory,
but TO General Grant he says: loving TO
ethe heavy reintorcements you received,
'and to the exhausted condition OF my men
IL deened Il prudent 10 retire" Is this the
| o in which to sing 10 friHnPhef Who
ever heard the shout of victory pitched II
such a ~peeeaui key as this!
The victor in a pitched battle encamp'
upon the battlefield, or marches on IN pur
sui. Of the vanquished and flying foe, an'
needs to ask no mans permission to stay an
bury his dead: and least of all does he IN
dulge in apologize vhines about the particn
lars of a 6ght from which he deemed
prudent 70 retire.
The daily Wabash express. (Terre-Haute, Ind.) 1857-1867, 1862-04-23
COAL COAL
N Q w 4 n I"
4. =. coxr< Us cows.
COMBS A BROTHER.

yIAvfSo r<o-.u, ye4sb.~t ~ Coal bse. ar
III u~rly kns~u =. the '.sCaF NfSxs," ous
snf -tlres. quarter miles vest a us city, st res
prepared % hsruish the ciussus a TrfTe-heu> <st
.~te}ustr ~ffs a gcot sruois a vell.srssnet coal. :
ssurss - spii tbsss pxrticos umsa
We are also As>rs Ger ts Hisklsnt, Brasil snt
fsuertbrrs col hiD<s
- orders isn 81 the vss Connty Scales "a 81 ts
rss1a~oss e ssdesr rrcpxistT. rssT The B&I17t
t.alrr~a pseo< ~fh ss ais3 ~ sfcrt ree~.
o1vs ~ . trfa-
The daily Wabash express. (Terre-Haute, Ind.) 1857-1867, 1862-04-23
Beauresard ~Apologizing for his DE
feat.

Terre HAute. Indiana. April Il, isdt.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-11-06
A River Iron-Clad Ready.

The United States iTon-clad frigGte Chill.
neothe has been finished, manned, and
sent out on her first trial trip within the
past few days. The vessel left the wharf
at Jacksonville, Indiana, in compliance
with orders from headquarters for trial
trip Of seventy-two hours, on which her
machinery and armament we're to be test
ed. The battery consisted Of two tremen-
dOus Il-irch guns, Having got down the
river, firing commenced e. various dis
tances, from 100 to 1000 yards. The re-
suit may be summed thus in paragraph.
There was no recoil, no shaking Of decks,
no bursting Of turrets or giving way of
gun-gear. The experiments with ord
nance were in short successful in every
sense, and the consequence is that the
Navy Department is informed that the
ChillieOthe is ready for any service to
which she may be ordered on the coast,
The machinery worked very satisfactorily,
giving the shipa speed of eight miles an
hour more than specified in the contract
The Chillicothe is one of the Ohio River
iron clads,n and was built at Cincinnati by
Brown, McCord Juniper. She Is los
feet long, 80 feet wide, and 81 feet deep.
her armor is put on in plates-On the
deck an inch, and on the sides two inches
thick. She has two engines, with cylin-
der thirty-two inches in diameter and four
feet stroke. The machinery was built at
St. Louis. The Chillieothe is now in com
mission, and viii soon be actively en-
ployed.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-11-06
nIisceIInneons Items.

4" Can you tell me how the word saloon
| is spelt p was asked Of n cockney by
Philadelphian. Certainly" replied the
LOndNner, with look of triumph, " there's
a hess and hay, and hell, q and two hoes
and hen"
The west end of the Peoria & Oquawka
railroad was sold on a mortgage the other
| day for two millions and quarter dollars.
We don't endorse those Generals who
make their most rapid marches when there
is no enemy in frpnt of them.
"Josh. does the sun ever rise in the west? q?
"Ne7er" "Never" "You don't say so !!
Well, you won't catch me to emigrGte to the
/ West, if it is always night there. I've got
a cousin who is always boasting how pleas
ant it is out in that country; but it must
be all moOnshine.,'
"Come 10, children, out of the rain, as
the whale said when he sucked in the lit.
tic fishes.
The train which conveyed the Governor
| General Of Canada from Hamilton to Tor
onto, on Monday week, accomplished the
distance, forty miles, in forty minutes.
The potato disease is making sad havoc
I III 5ULub pOtulO AGllS III LpoulIG COUNTY
| Mass. and oil are more or less affected by
it. The rot seems to receive a check as
soon as the potatoes are dug and exposed
10 the sun and air.
"You have lost your baby, hear" said
one gentleman to another. ayes, poor lit
tie thing-it was only five months old. We
did all we could for it. We had four doct-
ors, blistered its head and feet, put mustard
poultices all over it, gave it nine calomel
| powders, leached its temples, had it bled,
and gave it all kinds of medicines, and
! yet, after a weeks illness, he died" It's
| strange.
An important seizure has just been made
/ at Washington Wharf. Thirty tons Of lead
were about to be shipped to Baltimore, Of
which no inconsiderable portion was COM
! posed Of melted bullets, which had been
sold at the grogshops for what soldiers can
buy there.
The Hon. Elisha NJ. Huntington, Judge
Of Q. S. District Court for the district of
Indiana, died at st. Paul Minnisota, few
days since.
One day last week, New York house
sold to another firm $780, 900 worth of tea,
and took the buyers notes for the goods
| This is said to be the largest transaction
of the kind on record in New York.
The Pope has ordered photographs to be
taken of his two hundred and fifty eight
predecessors, from portraits both in the
Vatican collections and the Papal Mosaic
mandatory. Petagna Is the artist in
! trusted with this task.
The Charleston Mercury quotes. with
evident appreciation, the answer of a rebel
sentry to a General officer who rebuked
him for not saluting, "Oh, hill, General,
saludng played out" The "white trash
| begin to be diseontented.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-11-06


"0h, never believe that p she exclaimed
"Colored women do love their chiren
Tho they don't nevor take no comfort with
EN-. Oh, won't you take me and my
chifen North2 an well serve you all dt
days Of our life
The mother wall in her voice, the mother
love in her eyes, was most piteous, but for
all helping purposes l was as helpless as
herself. By way of consolation l said
There must be some kind people in the
! South, and you are such COED servant, l
think if you are sold away you will find q
good master"
There may be kind people in de South, -
she moaned, "but never foun' EN-. They
is all cruel TO US poor colOred folks; Oh
dey are de cruelest people de cruelest
people! I've never had nothin' but trou-
ble since l was born into dis world. I'd
rather die and have my chiren die than to
be sold South. When got here I thought
was safe, and that I could work for my
chile the rest of my life. Now the can
non is thunderin': When cook their sup
per don't know as they can ever eat it.
Jaekson's come. know he'll get us. Ny
only hope is de Lord. pray to the Lord
Jesus night and day that He'll help US poor
colored people. Nobody else can"
When 1 saw the kidnapping crew march
into town, my first thought was of Ellen.
The next morning, after more than two
thousand contrabands had been driven
from their hiding places, in the gray light
of the dawn, l saw Ellen creeping up IN
der the kill with her baby in her arms
Poor hunted creature, thought, has the
Lord she trusts in helped her to escape p
That same morning l looked up to see her
again trembling in the middle Of the room.
30, can't you help me?' she exclaimed,
"can't you help me, and I'll serve you so
well you'll never be sorry. Can't you take
me North y "Ellen," | said, " they won't
let me go without you; they would never
let me 20 with you. But hay'n't you es-
capped? The colored people were all car
ried away yesterday "No; my master
is coming to-day. l expect him every mo-
ment. He sent me word yesterday that he
was coming to take me to Richmond Jail
and sell me down South. He'll sell my
husband and he'll sell my chiren. There
is no help! no helpI' None that could
avail her. The agonized hopelessness of
her voice. the wretched helplessness of her
condition, touched every spring of compass
sion. No one has disturbed your home?
asked, ayes" she said. 1.-THE southern
soldiers came yesterday. They took all
that had to eat, even my supper off the
table. They took all we had to wear, even
de shoes of my children's feet, that I had
earned by washin'. Then they turned us
out. We slept out doors last night. Oh,
dey is de cruelest peoPleI" l saw her 60
with an aching heart. could not help
her. | didnot see her again. Her master
came. She is now among the slaves in the
Richmond Jail, who are to be sold "dowu
South"
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-11-06
Smuggling by Ladies'.

The Memphis correspondent of the Chi
Cago Tribune details various e1pedients
resorted to for the replenishment Of the
larder and the bar oflhe COnfederacies. +"
They are enough to "make horse laugh" "
Here are some of them:
"a woman was passing the lines on the
2lst in carriage. She was desired to
alight, and did so with evident difficulty.
The guard was suspicious, and turned her
over 10 the attentions Of female, an in
telligent contraband,' by whose attentions
she was safely delivered Of a girdle pass
ing round her waist, from which depended
by strings, no less than twelve pairs of
boots, each boot contained bottles Of whis-
ky, or military lace, and other articles
much needed in Dixie. A colored woman
was found passing the lines in a condition
suggestive of excessive dropsical or other
symptoms. She was required to elight
from the vehicle. She obeyed with the ut
most difficulty, and when on the ground
stood in painful position with her feet
very far apart. Examination brought to
light, far beyond the ample dimensions of
calico exposed to outer view, five gallon
demijohn, suspended by strings Ingenious
ly fastened to girdle at the waist"
Some Of the boys thought that liquor
should be called black-strap" at lcqs
excellent brandy" writes the reporter.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-11-06
seymour ProbabIy EIeeted.

The reports from New York are that sey-
mour is probably elected Governor of New
York. We hope that further returns may
show this to be a premature conclusion,
but fear not. The total disproportion Of
Union voters to Democratic ones who
have volunteered, has operated there
as in Ohio to ensure the success
of the tory ticket But although the re-
suit is greatly to be deplored, it is no time
for despairing On the contrary, the mos
vigorous and determined energy is called
for te prosecute the war to the speedy res
toration of the Union before the recently
elected tories get the position from which
they can hope to cast their official iEau-
ence in favor Of dishonorable eomPrOm-
ise and peace.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-11-06

For the service in foreign countries, to
protect the commerce Of our own country,
and to harass that of the enemy, we ought
to have about twenty to thirty 50-gun frig-
ates, not oased; and as many sloops Of
fourteen to twensy-four guns, Of the high
est speed obtainable, SO that we may be
able to strike unexpected blows, and to
evade their iron-cased sdversaries, which
will never obtain the same high rate Of
speed at sea as can be given to them.
In my opinion, wooden ships (uncased)
will never be entirely done away with. The
same opinion Is fast gaining ground in
Europe, and our own present war has offer
ed US hundreds of examples how effectively
wooden ships can be used in warfare, not
withstanding the destructive effects Of mod
ern artillery. No time should be lost by
our Government in creating powerful
feet, fit TO cruise in all the seas of the glabe.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-11-06

Mr.. Montgomery, editor of the Vicks,
burg Whig says Of the railroads of the
South:
"Being deprived of supplies from for
eign countries, and having no manufaotor-
les at home, the railroads throughout the
South are in the condition that any roads
would be which were used to their utmost
capacity for such length of time without
repairs. The machine shops are utterly
unable to keep the locomotives in order,
and the roads are gradually but surely be-
coming useless, and their existence is
simply matter of time. The rebel gov
ernment has taken military possession of
the roads, and every employee has a mill
tary rank, conductors ranking as Cap
tains, and so on"
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-11-06

- 'SitiEens wishing conveyance 20 either OF the
above Ersshs or Boatsi viii be caod for By Coaches
ot steFens omnibus Line, by leaving ther address
q t9e omn9ns Oaice, ii7 superiorst, next door 70
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-11-06

THE REBEL REIGN AT HARPER's
FERRY.


A woman who was at Harper's Ferry at
Its surrender furnishes the New York
Evening Post with a very interesting ac-
count of the rebel reign there, from which
we extract as much as our space viii al
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-11-06

After these imperial leaders marched
their slaves-their white slaves, true serfs
of demoniac masters-fghting in their
rear for eternal serfdom, which they are
taught to believe is Southern rights, man
ly independence. On, helter-skelter, on
the sidewalk, crowding the streets
swarmed a worse than Egyptian plague (!
Never until saw it with my own eyes
did | believe all that 1 had read of the
outward destitution and degradation of
the Southern rank and file fact. 1t can
not be exaggerated. Gather the scum of
New York from her dirtiest dens-stretch
it along the streets in its squalor, filth and
wretchedness, and it would be comely
sight compared with that presented by the
Southern SCUM in the great army of the
South. The tatiers and the skin of the
men were the color of the earth beneath
their feet. Bare-foeted, half-naked, foul,
filling the air with unbearable stencil,
fouting their dirty banners, gazing eager
" about with their starved faces intent
only on plunder and on finding something
to eat Thus the deliverers Of Maryland,
the regenerators Of the nation, entered
Harper's Ferry.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-11-06
APPEARANCE OF TIE REBELS.

First came the cavalry, the flower, "
the chiYalry," the aristocracy Of the
South, spurred and mounted like the
knights of old; each man in his spirit
and person, in his dauntless daring, in his
insane devotion 20 one idea, repeating the
princely crusader Of the midd ages
They look what they are, high-blOoded,
hieh-bred, infatuated men. Every eye
burns and scintillates with passion, and
its very glitter is the ire Of insanity
Careless, reckless even of life, all they
value risked upon a single stake, they ask
only to win or die Unlike the infantry,
they know what they are fighting for
They will tell you without asking, I am
lighting for Southern rights for my home,
for my negroes" Their intercourse with
those whom they consider equals is mark
ed By q lavish generosity and q eourtly
courtesy; but TO interiors they are super
cilious, tyrannieal and often brutal. They
hold a slave scarcely as more than beast,
vet they rate him higher, and would choose
him as a personal associate, sooner than
they would Yankee.
They accept no pay from their govern
ment for their military service. They
furnish their own equipments, horses and
slaves, and as fast as their steeds wear
out they supply their places with fresh
ones from their distant plantations, or
from the farms of Unionists through which
they pass. AudaciOusly they dashed by,
dressed in complete uniforms of light gray,
the insignia of military rank marked upon
the collar of each coat. The uniforms of
the cavalry are trimmed with yellow:
those of the artillery corps is red, with
cans Of scarlet.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-11-06
THE SLAVES AND sLAvB-HUXTERs.

They were accompanied by negroes, the
servants of the army, who certainly looked
no more degraded than their Anglo-Saxon
masters. Fast after this mongrel army
followed another Of slave-hunters. They
had been waiting at the rear Of the battle,
that at the very first opportunity they
might follow the victorious rebels into
town and secure their runaway chattels.
Burly, red-faced farmers, dressed in the
pet rebel color (light gray,) with broad
trimmed white hats, or horses, and slowed
away in ancient chariots, crowded down
the road in hot haste. When l saw them,
I appreciated as could not before the ter
ror which had prevailed among the contra
bands-their piteous CONSERVATION when
they learned that "JaeksOn could get in -
NEGRO woHAS's STORY.
Only the day before, in the middle OF my
room, had stood a mulatto woman, with the
imploring mother look in her great dark
eyes, as she moaned, "Oh, lady, can't you
buy me2 If you will only take me North
viii serve you as long as live, and my
children viii serve you" "Why, Ellen, u
said, 20 can't take myself North, much
less you Don't you knew that the rebels
have shut US in on every side?" Deed
l know il" she said, "but can't you get
out someho0?" Oh, pray to de Lord all
de time to keep NE away from de southern
people. They are such a cruel peoplel
don't care for myself, but my little chill en-.
I've had 'leven chill en-; all dead but four;
all died from sufsration, cause had to
work so hard, for massa couldn' take care
Of EN-. My Oldest, as nice little girl as
you ever see, was burned to death before
my eyes, and l eouldn' do nothing for her.
was a COOK, and if left the house for a
minute to see after my own chill en- massa'd
whip me; sod missus. Manya time mas
sa throw stick Of wood at my head
once he hit me on the back and I was laid
up for a long time, and my little baby
died. never ran away till massa said he
was goin' to sell us all down South, away
from the Yankees. Then took my baby
and walked twenty miles in one night,
and my husband came after with the other
three. couldn't be sold away from my
chilen."
81 have been told, Ellen, said, athat
colored mothers do not love their children
as white mothers do, and that it does not
grieve them so very much to part with
their babies."
Washington telegraph., 1862-05-21
I or the Telegranh
Sunday Reading.

HNo man hath sinned without having
inward misery because Of his sin, an in.
ward consciousness that in Christ only.
and in the way of Christ, is true peace and
true happiness TO be found. If we were
to open our hearts, we should all confess
tc one aaother that our sins have broug hit
US into trouble, and that even when we
were seeming TO be without thought of
God, clear, Irresistible, mysterious whis-
nerings of the Spirit have been heard
within our sonls the still small voice of
God has pierced through the innermost
chambers of our hearts; we have trem-
bled at "ur ourselves, and our Spiritual
state; and with great bitterness of spirit
have we cried out AT such times as these.
Let me die the death of the righteous.
and let my last end be like his.'''
"Strange, indeed, are the times when
sinners have desires for peace at the last
As with Ba!aam, 80 it is with us now F.
10 the very midst of eur sins, the desire
for the peace of God comes over Us: We
have the terror of the Lord sweepinr
across our souls, We start at shadows: we
dread the end and issue of our presen !
careless unspiri'ual ways; we wish we
could break these bands Of sin: we feel
that all which passes for pleasure is often
bat hollow show, aud brings to the mind
no real joy there are ;horns in our earl h.
Y Joys, dislPp"intments, vexations of
spirit, annoyancns. the stiDgs of an uneasy
conscience reproaches which our hearts
utter to Us with ."
g AS ;hresling separates the wheat
fr"m the chat, So oocs afliction purify
virtue"
$ The vanity Of human life is like q
river constantly passing away and yet
constantly coming in +"
g God maketh His sun to rise on til.
evil and on the good, and sendeth rain or
the just and on the unjust In many
things they seem to be the same there
appears no difference between them. no
- great gulf fixed - good aud bad arc all
mixed up together, and live side by side,
and often have much in common here
they often weep together and rejoice TO-
gether; rheir fiel ds touch yea, they OF,
ten dwell under the same roof. are not
separat. d into distinct companies. hay,
not their separate districts; the rain fall
= Ike upon their land the san shines on
them with equal warmth and strengtn,
in many things good aud bad fare alikc.
lie wLo i mos, charitable in biz iulg.
meut is generally the least unjust"
Washington telegraph., 1862-05-21
II d e Z c, ~

Z resolution and order of the s77f=zis 70
ID Board of Directors of the Nsss.
ssssIppi, Guachita and Red RiYeT
ss s iifoad So.n pany. of November 27th,
1861, L am authorized tn sell anv lands situ
ated in the Champagnoita Swami Land Dis-
.trlct (soid or granted to said Company by an
act OF the General Assembly of the State of
Arkansas, approved 18th day of January, 1861. !
SAID lands to be sold Mt price not less than
Two uOliars per acre, and to receive in payment
thepeI"r hoEds OF money Of the Confederat te
States of America, aal War Bonds or Trc.srr,
Warrants of the State of Arkan-,s. aDi 20 exc
cute deeds to purchasers. All persons having
pre-emption claims upon any of the said lands
are hereby notsed that if said claims are not
redeemed within ninety days from this date
shelr rights under their pre-emption will be
forever barred.
JAS. THoS. ELLIOTT.
Pres NJ, o. g. R. R. r. Co.
Oainueh, Nov Is, 1861, 47-tf