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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1862-06-06
NUMBER IA.

that ten days ago dispatches we're sent to the
commanding officer to hold Mobile at all haz-
ards, as it would be the base Of important ope-
lations, in prospective, and that reinforcements
were sent to them Immediately thereafter.
The Boston Traveller says that an intelligent
Officer of the =. S. Army thinks that only a
small portion Of the contrabands can be relied
on by either side and that the Z. S.
government has suffered more than it has gain
Cd by negro spies .
The president Of the Girard Bank has an
nounced that the circulation Of one dollar notes
is no profit to the institution, and that if it is
no Inconvenience to the community the notes
will be exchanged for T. S. treasury notes.
The Charleston Mercury says that by the
possession Of Stono, only James: Island inter
venes between the Federal feet and the city Of
Charleston-and that the distance is only eight
miles.
It is stated that last Sunday, during the
storm near Cincinnati, hailstones from three to
seven inches in diameter fell, doing great
injury to the corps and vegetables.
The common council Of the city of London
have unanimosy agreed to present the freedom
Of the city to lIr. Peabody for his nunifcent
gift.
The heavy cannonade of Saturday last shook
the city Of Richmond, and many Of the inhab
itants of the city it is said, are rapidly leaving
it.
There is yet direct railroad communication
from Richmond, via Atlanta and Mobile, to.
Memphis and Corinth.
The residence Of Gen. Jeff Davis, on tile.
Mississippi river, has been battered down and
destroyed.
4 Confederate steamer came to Jacksonville,
Arkansas, on the Sd, and destroyed a quantity
of cotton and sugar there.
FREE NEGROES. following is e table,
showing the numbered free negroes, North and
South, and also exhibits what is perhaps not
generally known, that there are more free ne--
eroes in the fifteen slave States and in tie l'ls--
t1ict Of Columbia, than in the nineteen Free
States:
n the Free States. California, 3,S15; Con-
nccticut, 8, 452; Illinois. 7,969 Indiana, To-:
O69: Iowa, C23; Kansas 623; Maine, l,l95;
Massachusetts, 9.454 Michigan, {. .S23; Min
ncsota. 229; New Hampshire, 40; New J e..
sew ii g47: Nev York, 49,G05 Chic, 3G;-
2::5 Oregon, ~; Pennsy lyanla, 16, 343;; H..
TSlnnd. sos; Vermont, 58l; Wisconsin,
All. To:aI, 222, 145.
n TIE Slave ctates-Alabama; 2:630; ~
kansas, 1877; Delaware, l9, ,123; Florida, 9oo
Georgia, }, 3,459; Kentucky, ~, l46; Loulsiaha,~
1868 Maryland, S3>1l8 NlsslsSlPp, lP (, Iot' ~
Missouri, 2 1888; North Carolina, 30oJ!; ooota~
-C.rolina Q 649: Tennessee. 339; Virginia. ~,
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-27
The SpeakershIp.

The organ of the Democratic party Of New
Jersey, the Trenton True American, of Nov.
90, thus responds to the remarks of the STATES.
MAN, in reference to the Speakership:
The SPEAKERsHIP OF TIE NEXT CoNaREss -
The confidence of having majority of Demo
Gratis and Conservatives In the next Congress,
is leading to an inquiry ss to the person to
preside over its deliberations. In this connec.
tion we find the name of Hon. Samuel 8. Cox
brought forward by the Ohio Statesman 10 terms
of high and we'll deserved praise. Our knowl-
edge Of Mr.. Cox and his political course salts.
fes us Of the correctness of what is said Of
him in the Statesman; besides which, as Jersey
men, We feel O peculiar interest In Mr.. G. His
father and grandfather were Jerseymen. The
latter was in the army Of the Revolution from
Monmouth county, and fought at the battle Of
Monmouth and other of the well contested en-
gsgements ON the soil of his native State. The
former served his apprenticeship ss printer in
the True American Office, under the proprietor
ship Of James ]. Wilson, and was for many
years intimately connected with that gentle
man, until he removed to Ohio. Mr.. Cox is,
therefore, as near to being a Jerseyman, and q
good Jersey Democrat, az he can be, without
being actually to the manor bern.
The ancestor of Mr.. Cox referred to, was
Gen. James Cox, of Monmouth county, N. j.,
a Revolutionary Captain, and when he died, in
1910, member of Congress, sustaining MADI.
SON as he had sustained TVERsoN-slways a
Democrat.
We trust that the general expression of the
Democratic press Of Ohio in favor Of Mr.. Coz,
will lead to unanimous action by the Ohio
Democratic delegation. Six of the present
Democratic members cOmplimented Mr.. Cox
with their votes ct the beginning of the present
Congress, and others from other States gave him
their votes. We have no doubt of hIs eleva-
tlon, If there be unit In the delegation.
The Logan Gazette, Richlsnd Democrat, and
other papers, copy approvingly the notices of
Mr.. Cox for the Speakership. which We have
made; and the tribute paid to our member by
the New Jersey Democracy, among whom be
had been speaking before the recent election,
Is well deserved compliment to hisnational
reputation.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-27
\, take such an oath, as / fully believe the one

ly, take such an oath, as fully believe the one
10 be incompatible with the other.
All the most sacred safeguards Of the Con.
stitution have been violated 10 my arrest and
imprlsonment. II, then, my arrest and impris'
onment have been by order Of the Administra'
tion, how can support the one without viola
ting the other2
II the Administration has any charges to
make against me, let II make them OF once and
put me on trial; am ready to meet and reiute
them Justice, and not mercy, 10 oil l ask OF
expect of this Administration.
II II has no charges to make, what right has
IL to impose upon me any oath that 10 not I'm.
posed upon all other loyal oiLlzens2 Because
am In prison, and consequently 10 the power oi
the Administration, docs that give any right TO
impose degrading conditions upon met You
may as we'll say that the hlghwaymap, who
With bis revolver at your head demands your
life or your money" has the right because be
has the power to take them.
cannot and will not do any act that even bY
implication can be construed into an admission,
on my part, that am rightfully charged with
any offense. Either put me upon my trial, for
any and all alleged offenses, or give me On
"honorabe discharge" l am entitled, as ON
American citizen, to demand this. My honor
90 man and o citizen forbids my acceptance
OF any thing less. The Administration may
persecute me even unto death. am In Ito pow
er, but it cannot take from mo my honor or
self respect.
lam, sir, very respectfully, yours, etc,
EDSON b OLDS.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-27
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

THE draft in Iowa will commence on the 2SEh
inst.
GEN. ]. ]. REYNoLD, left lafayette Indiana, on
Monday, for Lexington, Ky being ordered to
report there for immediate service.
Qua feet has taken Indiauola and Ssluria,
Texas, and the rebels have fallen back to La
vaca, General Magruder has superseded Gen.
Hebert in the coDmaul OF that Department.
The yellow fever is prevalenton on the coast
GEN. PcPE will make the pleasant city Of Mad
iIon, Wis, his headquarters for the winter, and
he desires to rent furnished house for himself
and family. He claims to have fnished up the
Indian war in Minnesota.
INTELLIGENCE from innumerable sources oil
points 80 the conclusion that Jackson is retreat
ing rapidly to join Lees army. There is, doubt
less, general concentration of the rebel troops
for the defense Of Richmond.
THE indications are that the rebels intend
making serious resistance to the crossing Of
Tue RhppauhuEUCh. n iIOm NuG ElNCi
they are reported to have large defensive works.
A collision, It ia thought, is not just now very
imminent. The rebels display their battle flag
a white and red Gag, with red crOss-acrOss
one Of the principal streets of Fredericksburg.
I. o,n be plainly seen.
JEFF. DAVIS hes iseued sn order, directing
Gen. Holmes of the "Trsns- Mississippi Depart
msnt," in case General Mcneil, who sho. ten
guerrilIas in Missouri, is not surrendered, to
execute the first ten United States officers who
are taken prisoners.
TIE Lynchburg, Va, Republican states tha.
the call of the Secretary of War for forty-6ve
hundred negroes, to work on the fortifcations
about Richmond, is being promptly responded
TO, and the slaves forwarded to the scene of
their labors. The South.slde cars carry down q
number daily, and the quota called for has
nearly been filed
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-27
Abolition Txeason.

LOWELL, MASS, Nov. 19, 1862
EDITOR STATESMAN: Ia these days of progress
Il has become quite popular to charge Demo
Gratis with treason, and, inaamuch as the treason
that the Abolition saints Of modern times harp
upon, consists Of opposition to the tyranny, cor.
ruption, and unconstitutional policy Of the
present administration, Il Is little TO be wonder
ed at, that such treason does exist and s spread.
ing with the swiftness of contsgion, as men
open their eyes to the solemn realities of the
hour. The elevation of the present Adminis-
tration to power has furnished the first instance
since the foundation OF the Government, that
Endorsement Of official administrative acts has
been made test Of "loyalty" to the Union,
and unless the eigns OF the times are deceptive
II win furnish the last. Democrats should
know no such thing 40 "loyalty" TO any man,
be he Abraham Lincoln or the greatest states.
man on this continent. Loyalty signifies "idel.
ity to prince or sovereign" and as the people
are the sovereign, power in this Government,
they will call the Preaident to rigid account.
ability for hia misdeeds instead Of sbdicaiinR
In favor Of King Abraham the First.
There is another form Of treason which ia
now rife throughout the country, and in its on.
ward progress il has spread desolatiCn and ruin
over our once happy land. With fratricldal
hand Il has struck q staggering blow at the root
Of our free institutions--tha sacred compact
which In times gone by clasped our hearts In O
bond Of brotherhood, and made ne Gt once the
fear and admiration of the world. It isathe
treason which has organized an opposition TO
constitutional law and under the guise Of q high
morality has proclaimed "higher law'--a
law Of conscience-which with its fanstical fol-.
lowers signifies no law at all, d Il 10 that form
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-27

Of treason which has furnished consolation and
encouragement to the enemies OF our country
when we have been engaged In vindIoatIng our
rights against the arms Of foreign governments.
with what bad graoe does the charge Of
treason come from the leading spirits Of the
present AdmlnistrAtion--fro Seward, Hale
and Chase, who favored the consideration Of o
petition for dissolution Of the Union In Con-
gress. And with what bad taste II comes from
q party which aaunted its sixteen starred flags
in the bretzs during the last Presidential cam
paigu, and denounced Democrats In o sneering
manner as "Union savers"!
II 10 indeed gratifying to know that the 60.
Der second thought Of the people has made H.
self heard throughout the Great West In denun.
citation of the principle of pinning our faith on
any msn's back, and allowing him the privilege
Of picking our pockets without questioning his
object and murmuring syllable Of disapproba-
tion. II We are to dethrone our own reason TO
the caprice and passion Of Others, let us at
least know that their past record has been such
as to furnish some shadow of . warrant for go
foolish a course. L W. H.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-27
ThanksgIvIng our Greatest Tom
pOral Blessing.

This is the day set apart by the Governors
proclamation, 10 compliance with time-honor-
ed custom, as q day of Thanksgiving, Prayer
and Praise.
Sixty years ago, Ohio was admitted into the
Union as State, making the number OF States
seventeen. That number has since doubled -
Bat the population, the wealth and resources OF
Ohio and the Union at large have since that
time more than trebled. Here is cause for
gratitude.
The people of some of the older States have
kent this annual autumnal Festival or Holiday
for two centuries or more. Ohio has observed
it for three score years, or since her birth as
State. It's observance to-day is tribute to the
memory of the patriotic founders OF our state
as we'll as q manifestation Of gratitude to God
for the institutions of civil and religious liberty
they bequeathed US.
Whatever our sins as people and as individ-
uals, and they are doubtless many, We have
reason to rejoice and be thankful to that be-
nifcent Being, who "msketh his sun to rise on
the evil and the good and sendeth bis rain on
the Just and the unjust" for the continuance OF
many temporal and spiritual blessings which
We have heretofore enjoyed, often without rec
ogniziDg the source whence they flowed.
Among the temporal blessings showered up
on us in the past, the greatest was our Nation
al Government, which our State Executive, in
his Proclamation, describes as "the best ever
enjoyed by any people," and as q system "in
form after Gods own laws, and SO gentle that
it's reins we're scarcely felt by the governed"
That "best" National Government owed its
birth and its life to written Constitution
adopted by the States and the pecple-that sys-
tenn modelled "aiter Gods own laws" was g
system In which the States, like the planets in
our solar system, revolved, as 1t were, round
great central orb, each attracted to 1t, yet as
independent in its separate sphere as the CEN
trail orb itself. Hence, the crime Of him, by
whatever name he may be called, or under
Whatever disguise he may make the assault,
who lifts parricidal hand against such Gov
eminent and such system of celestial pattern,
ls like the treason against high Heaven Of q
monster who, having the power, should attempt
to hurl suns and planets from their sphere, and
glut his demonisc passions with "the wreck of
matter and the crush of worlds"
That system Of Government, National and
State, go like the Government Of the Universe,
solar and planetary, is in peril from open and
secret foes. On this great Festival day, while
our gratitude should ascend to Heaven, for the
preservation of that system hitherto, our earn
est petitions should follow, seconded by the
most viglant and determined efforts, that the
attempts of lie enemies to overthrow ID or mar
lie fair proportions, shall be utterly foiled and
brought to naught.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-27
Baltimore Political Prisoners.
We find the following in late letter from
Baltimore to the New York World:

DAtiWore W the NeW IOrK WOTtd:
A lovely and accomplished daughter of Gen
Charles Howard, one of our distinguished ci,i.
zens, died here last night after a brief illness
of three or four days. Her father, who was one
Of our Police Commissioners during the 18Th Of
April mob, and was subsequently sent q State
prisoner to Fort Warren, where he has been in
caIcerated for eighteen months, by epecial per-
mission got leave to come home temporarily,
arriving in time only to see his daughter die.
Her brother, Frank Key Howard, Eco, who was
editor Of paper published here, called the
Exchange, was also sent to Fort Warren more
than year ago. He could not obtain permits
sion to come homo, and his sister goes to the
grave unseen by him.
The term for which William Geo. Brown ESQ,
was elected as Mayor Of Baltimore having e1.
pired, it is thought be will be allowed to leave
Fort Warren and come home He has been
confined there as q State prisoner eighteen
months A better Union man-at the time be
was areated-than Mr.. Brown, does not live in
Maryland. He certainly exhibited more fir m
ness and loyalty in the trying scenes of the 18th
April mob even than Governor Hicks This all
cOncede.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-27
Tho Journal and Secretary Chase

The Journal, at the close of an article on
"our EXPORTS" says: 1--WE can not only laugh
and grow fat, but we can fght and grow rich"
1t should have added, with Secretary chase
for our finanoier." This brings to our mind
q fulsome eulogy upon tho Secretary in Mon
days Journal, which we should not have
noticed, were not certain statements made In q
way calculated, If not intended, to misleAd and
deceive the public.
The Journal states that Secretary CHASE
being in want Of money, borrowed the other
day thirteen millions Of dollars at an interest
Of five per cent. per annum, and that the loan
was taken by bidders at an average rate of
fraction over three per cent. Premium
This looks all very fair On iis face; but there
are few additional facts that ought to be borne
in mind before we go, as the Journal does, into
Wild extasies over the financial skill Of Secre-
tary CHAsr, and firt our paper credit in the
faces Of European capitalists.
/. The FIVE per cent interest is payable an
nually by the Government in gold and silver
coin. This the Government must pay in order
to keep up its credit even to effect such loans,
as it is said, Secretary CHASE has just effected.
This five per cent. interest, go payable in coin,
is equal, in the present state Of our circulating
medium. to seven or eight per cent, and will
probably soon be equivalent to ten or twelve
or course moneyed men understand this, and
are quite willing to make investments on which
they can realize such high rate Of interest,
and provide themselves with the "yellow boys"
while the common people have to put up with
"paper trash"
2. The money borrowed and the bonus or
premium bid for 1t, are paid over to tho Gov
eminent, not in coin, but in green backs" or
other paper, which in the market is at a dis
count, taking gold for the standard, Of thirty
or thirty three per cent. So that In the loan Of
thirteen millions and the bonus paid, the Gov.
eminent actually realizes only the equivalent
of about eight or nine millions in specie.
g. Secretary CHASE cannot to-day effect
loan, either in this country or Europe, payable
in coin, or in Bank Of England noies, or other
specie paying paper, without discounting his
Government bonds from thirty to fifty per cent
on their nominal value.
The bare statement Of these facts Is sufi.
cient commentary upon the Journals euIogy of
Mr.. CHASE.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-27

the whole South, not to astter themselves
that the recent Democratic triumphs promise
any "aid and comfort" to the cause Of the Con-
federacy. He says further: "But one sensi'
ment ahimates the bosoms Of the great body o.
the people Of the loyal States, and that is the
putting down of the rebellion, the restoration
Of the Union, and the causing Of the stars and
stripes again TO float over every State now In
rebellion " fE
Thus does Parson BRowNLow vindicate the
Democracy against his own foul and wicked
aspersions. Let the Abolition papers that stil
charge a majority of the people Of the loyal
States as being "rsbel sympathizsrs" and
"traitors," be taught by this example of thelI
paid and petted lecturer, stumper, and letter
writeIl
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-27
The Chicago Papers.

The Newspaper Publishers in Chicago have
advanced their subscription rates from rs to 100
per cent. They say to the public:
The undersigned, publishers of Chicago daily
papers, have mutually agreed to charge here
after the prices below specified for the several
editions Of their respective journals, In conse-
quence of the growing scarcity OF cotton rags,
white paper has materially advanced in price,
and is still rising. The margin for profits here.
tofore enjoyed Is consumed by this advance in
"print." O!her items entering into the cost of
publication have also advanced very consider.
ably.
The undersigned discover that an adherence
to old subscription rates will occasion serious
loss and eventual ruin Of their business They
might 90 on awhile, by sinking their capital,
but prudence forbids, and fair minded public
would not, and do not, desire IL. The publish
ers of all daily newspapers, East as well 90
West, will be forced to put up their subscription
rates or suspend their publications. They are
generally preparing to take the former course
The advance Of rates resolved upon barely GOV
era the increased coat Of publication.
This ls signed by the Publishers OF all the
daily papers In Chicago.
The scALE OF PRICES agreed upon is as fol.
Iowa:
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-27
Par.on BrownIow in the south.

PArson BRowrLow publishes characteristic
address, "To the People of Tennessee" In the
Nashville Union of the 22d inst. Il is chiefly
devoted to THOMAS J. CAMPBELL, Of East Tenn
esaee, whom the Psrson denounoes as "the cor
rupt, lying, cowardiy and murderous Judge
Advocate Of tho hel,-born and hell bound drum
head court-mastial, that tried, hanged, and i'm
prisoned Union men Of Knoxville, whilst [hel
was imprisoned.n II is intended as reply to
a card published BY cAnRsrLL, in which sundry
inlquitIes and falsehoods Of the Parsons are set
forth. ds. as
Our object 10 noticing this address or reply
is. to show that the writer Of II talks somewhat
differently In the South from what he talked
when he was making Abolition speeches and
writing Abolition letters! While in the North,
he charged that the Democrats were "rebel
sympathizers," q"tsaitors," knights Of the
Golden CircIe,' etc. He inaisted upon Il
that Democratic victories IN the Northern
States would furnish occasion for universal ro-
joicing throughcut the Southern Coniederacy.
He callel upon the Administration to put down
the Democracy BY the strong hand Of Federal
Power, because, ss he claimed, they we're Civ
ing 'aId and comfort to Jxy5. DAVIS Now, the
Parson tells the people Of Tennessee, and Of
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-27
Col, EckIeY.

CosHocToN, November 2lst, 1862.
EDITOR ONO STATEsMAN;-In the Journal of
yesterday II ID stated that Col. EckIey is at the
head Of bis regiment. This Is probable, but
for four months previous to the battle of Corinth
this shining apostle Of Know Nothiogism was
at home, busily eleolioneering for Congress
During his long absence his regiment was In
two fights. Lieut.. Col. Bartilson commanded IL
in the fret, and the brave Major Larning led II
at the terrible battle of Corlnth, where he fell
Tiis correction sdue to the memory Of the gal
liant L,rnng, whose wife and children mourn
deeply his loss, and charge IL to Ephraim R.
Eckley. The citizens Of TasoiraWas and Gosh.
octon are highly incensed against him, and on
ly wish for an opportunity TO treat him az be
deserves There ia no doubt that the brilliant
General Eckley will 6nd it convenient soon to
resign Major Earning was life long Demo-
crat, q thorough soldier, and noble hearted
man. Will the Journal render "bonor to
whom honor 10 due7'
Y1ura SR