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Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-02-20


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Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-02-20

The residence of Josiah Seeber i'm
Washington, Iowa, was lately destroy.
ed by fire.
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-02-20

Ex-Speaker Pennington died on the
10th inst. at Newark, n. j.
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-02-20
BnrnSide'S Victory.

The gunboat Stars and Stripes ar
rived at Fort Monroe, Feb. 18th, from
Burnside's expedition with bearer OF
dispatches for the Government. They
report tho rout of the rebels as com.
plete. We captured 5000 prisoners,
and all their gunboats burned or cap
tured, except two, which escaped in
4 the canal.
The Federal loss killed, AZ; wound
ed, about l40. Rebels killed, about
80, and wounded less than 100.
The advance from Hatteras took
place on Wednesday morning. The
expedition consisting of about sixty
| vessels. The feet anchored off Stumpy
Point that night, and the next day
proceeded to the entrance of Croatan
Sound. On Friday morning after a
reconnaissance, the Underwater lead
ing the column, the attack was COM
menced The rebel fleet was attacked,
and dispersed in half an hour, by the
navy, while the remainder attacked
the land batteries. The fight contin-
ued till dark. During the night 10000
men were landed, aud on Saturday
morning 1000 more. a masked bat
terry of three guns was soon discovered
by the skirmishcrs, and was attacked
in front and on both TANKS. The 2lst,
25th and 9th Massachusetts, the 9th
and DIST New York and the 10th Con
necticut were particularly engaged
The 25th Massachusetts and the 10th
Connecticut suffered most severely.
The fight lasted only two or three
hours when the battery was abandon
ed The rebels made no fight after
being driven from their entrcnchmcnt
which was done by the Hawkins
Zouaves and the 3lst Massachusetts
Regiment. Our troops pursued and
surrounded them and took nearly the
whole command prisoners. o. Jcn-
nings Wise was shot twice while en-
dcavoring to escape in boat.
Col. Russell of the 10Th Connecticut
was killed at the head of his regiment
Lieut.. Col. ID. Mortrilc of the Dcpuri
Zouavcs, whose services were volun-
tary, was killed. No other officers
were killed above the rank of Lieu
tenant.
On Sunday afternoon feet of fif-
teen gunboats started for Elizabeth
City the place was shclled, and hav-
ing been evacuated and partially
burned 10y the rebel troops, was oc-
cupied by our forces. ........
The Sea Bird, which was the flag
ship of Commander Lynch, was run
down and boarded, and the rebel com
mander escaped by swimming to the
shore. ~ ".. F.. ...
Gen. Henry A. Wise was at Nag's
Head and succeeded in escaping to
Norfolk. .#1 &"
Edenton was taken possession of
on Wednesday 10y Com Goldsboro, no
opposition being offered. '.
Norfolk aud Richmond papers at
tribute the loss Of Roanoke Island to
the laundering incfficiency of the navy.
They persist in asserting that 1000
Fedcrals were killed They also
charged some Roanoke Island farmer
with deserving, and plotting the Van,
KEGS to the point where they coult
effect landing, the landing being
flankcd Oh all sides by an cxtensiv,
marsh. r- ..s.# ...
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-02-20
OFFICIAL DISPATCHES.

A special messenger arrived a,
Washington February l4th, bringing
the following dispatches:
Us Flag Steamer Philadelphia, !
Off Roanoke Island, Feb. 0, 1862. !
To Hon. Gideon Wcllcs
SIR--Roanoke Island is ours. The
military authorities struck their flag
to us yesterday. Their means of de,
fence were truly formidable, and they
were used with q determination wor-
thy of better cause. They consist
cd of two deliberately constructed
works, mounting together twenty
two heavy guns, three of them being
l00.pounders, riflcd Four other bat
teries, mounting together twenty guns,
a large proportion of them being OF
large calibre, and some Of them riilcd
eight steamers mounting two guns
each, and each having riflcd gun
with diameter of a 32-pounder a
prolonged obstruction of sunken YES
sells and piles to thwart onr advance /;
aud altogether q body of men num-
lering scarcely less than 5000, of
whom 5000 are now our prisoners.
The fighting commenced Oh the morn
ing OF the It'll, and was continued till
dark. The following morning it was
resumed at an early hour, and contin-
ued until late in the afternoon, when,
by bold charge by our army, the
rebel flag was made to succumb, and
our own was hoistcd every where on
the island in its place. No attack
could have been more completely exc
cuted and it was carried out precisely
in accordance with the arrangements
made before the expedition left Cape
Hattcras Inlet.
have the honor, &c,
j. NJ. GoLpsBoRo,
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-02-20
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Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-02-20

Bid8crs urW crGmHe carefully The forms and ns-
siructions mHerod and ePccjuliy tie tatter part Of
instruction 49,.
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-02-20
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Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-02-20
OFFICIAL.
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- HoShagiom, November 3d. 1861.
PROPOSALS will be received at the Con-
tract Office of this Department until 10 a. m.
of Monday, March 81. 1862, for conveying the
mails OF the United States for four years com
mencing July ], 1862, and ending June 30.
1866, in the State of Iowa, on the routes and
by the schedules of departures and arrivals
herein specified.
Decisions announced by April "a, 1862.
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-02-20

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Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-07
rfut Invention.

We this week witnessed the type-setting
and type-dlstributing machine, invented by
Timothy Alden, once a New York printer,
but a native of Massachusetts,. The inven-
ton cost twenty years of labor, the life of the
inventor, and $4,000 in money. 1t is impos-
sible to convey to the initiated the utility and
genius of this remarkable invention. 1t is,
perhaps, enough TO say, that one machine is
capable of producing the work Of six or eight
men, and with its cost placed at the high
price of 81, 800, it will reduce the price of or
binary type-Setting, at present rates from one
half to two-thirds.
Its great simplicity is one of its most inter-
esting qualities. The fruit it produces are as
near to thinking and reading as one can inn
agine. One directing mind, with ordinary
care, can produce the most extraordinary results
1t may be worked by hand or steam. The
printer will comprehend what such a discovery
is, when we say it picks up the type, spells
the words, spaces them properly, asserts the
types again after they have been used, into
their appropriate channels. and from these
again are drawn out and set up when needed
for a second use. There are one hundred and
ffty-four types and characters, including cap
itals, italics, figures, spaces, points of punctua
ton, and all at once under the control of one
person, who has but to touch the keys of this
circular machine to produce all these combina-
tions.-M Y. Tribune.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-07
A Caution to indiana Republicans.

Union in the abstract is excellent. In times of
public danger all party differences should be
dropped; but just now we wish privately to drop
a hint to our Republican friends in Indiana. Dor
rowing a leaf from the recent record of Wiscon-
sin. In the latter State, on the Union issue,
twenty-one Union Democrats we've elected from
strong Republican districts. and throughout the
entire session these men voted and worked for
the meanest and lowest party measures OF the
hre in the rear Democracy. Some of them out
HerOded Herod by going in advance of men
elected as straight out Democrats, taking this
course apparently to purge themselves OF any
stain from the associations TO which they owed
their election. Watch these fellows Indiana.
Do not surrender too much. Where you have a
loaf under your arm, there may be such a thing
rs being too generous. and pinching your next
meal.-ChieagO Tribune.
This is the second warning that the Chicago
Tribune has given to its Republican friends in
Indiana against allowing themselves to be sold
out by their Democratic associates of the Union"
party. Both these warning articles have been
copied into the Lafayette Journal, a leading Re-
publican organ in Indiana. What does il mean?
Are not the Democrats who have gone into the
Union movement to be treated as the equals of
their Republican associates? Must they be dog
ged and watched as though they were a set of
scoundrels, seeking an opportunity 10 betray
their frieuds2 Perhaps, however, the Tribune
simply means that the Union Democrats of Wis
cOnsin have declined to give in their adhesion to
the ultra measures of the present Congress, and
that this constitutes their bad faith, according to
the Tribune's version. How is it?-N. Albany
Ledoer.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-07

left wing to a better and more healthy position,
and the contraction of bis lines, III said, makes
him stronger than before. In addition to this,
he has now the aid of the g~unbOats upon the
James river, which we're of but little assistance
before. and a better communication for his sup
plies. He succeeded in thus changing his POSI-
ton. ~repelling at the same time a furious on
slaught of the enemy, Furnishing them severely.
The Journal claims to be in favor of a vigorous
prosecution of the war. But how does it mani
fest this sentiment? Upon the first report indi-
eating a reverse, without waiting for the facts in
the case, it abuses in the meanest and harshest
terms both commander and army. The men
who are in the field, fighting the battles of the
Constitution and the Union, facing the dangers
and suffering the privations of the war, should
have not only the generous sympathy of the peo-
pie, but their liberal support. Instead of this,
the Journal seeks opportunities to abuse men
and officers for not accomplishing what the facts
in the case may reveal to have been impossible.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-07

Judge THoxAs. a Republican member q

Judge THOMAS. a Republican member of Con-
gress, in a speech in the House on the 24Ih Of
last month, in opposition to the proposed confs-
cation and emancipation bills, made the follow
ing eloquent remarks upon the duty of obedience
to the Constitution. Coming from such a source,
we commend them to the attention of those who
agree with him in political sentiment:
That the bills before the House are in violation
Of the law of nat ons and Of the Constitution, |
can mott gay il with all Difference to cthers-I
can not entertain a doubt. My path of duty is
plain. The duty of obedience 10 that Constitu.
ton was never more imperative than now. | am
not disposed to deny that / have for it a super
stitI0us reverence. | have wOrshipped it from
my forefathers. In the school of rigid discipline
by which we were prepared for il, IN the strug-
giles out of which it was bern, the seven We rs of
bitter conflict and the seven darker years in
which that conflict seemed to be ~fruitless of good,
in the wisdom with which il was constructed and
first administered and set in motion, in the bene6-
cent Government that it has secured for more
than two generations, in the blessed in6uen-
ces it has exerted upon the cause of freedom
and humanity the world over, | can not fail
to recognize the hand of a guiding and low
ing Providence. But not for the blessed
memories of the past only do ! cling to it.
He must be blinded with excess of light, or
with the want Of it, who does not see that to this
nation, trembling on the verge of dissolution, it
is the only possible bond of unity. With this
conviction wrought into the very texture of my
being, / believe | can appreciate this conflict, can
understand the necessity of using all the powers
given by the Constitution for the suppression of
this rebellion. They arr, as / believe, and as the
progress of our arms ~attests, ample tor the pur-
pose. i do not, therefore, see the wisdom of vlo-
lating or impairing the Constitution in the effort
to save it, or of passing from the ~pestilent beresy
of State secession to the equally fatal one of State
suicide. The fruits of the first are anarchy and
perpetual border war; of the second the growth
of military power, the loss of the centrifugal force
of the States. the merging of the States in the
central Government; republic in name and form,
in Substance and effect a despotism.
Mr.. Speaker, at a time like this the individual
is nothing, the country everything. He cannot
truly love his country who is anxious about him
self. He cannot have a single eye to the welfare
of the Republic if both eyes are turned homeward.
He cannot keep step to the music of the Union
who is grinding fantasies for the village of Bun
cOmbe.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-07
Artemus ward at washington.

Artemus has been on a visit to Washington.
He describes his iterview with old Abe as fol-
lows:
/ called for Abe. He received me kindly.
/ handed him my umbreller and told him I'd
have a check for it if he pleased. "That,"
said he, "puts me in mind of a little story.
There was a man in our parts so mean that
he took his wife's coffin out the back winder,
for fear he would rub the paint off the door
way.
"Wall about this time there was a man in a
edjacent town, who had a green cotton UNI
breller."
"Did it fit him well? Was it custom made?
Was he measured for it?"
Measured for what?" said Abe.
"The umbreller."
avail, as | was sayin," continued the Pres
ident, treatin' the ints24fton with apparent
contempt, "this man sed he'd known that
there umbreller ever since it was a parasoL.
Ha, ha, haP
"Yes, sed /, larin in a respectful man.
ner, shut what has this man with the umbreller
to do with the man who took his wife's coffin
out the back winder?"
ITO be sure" sed Abe-"what was it? ]
must have got two stories mixed together,
which put me in mind of another lit
"Never mind, your Excellency, / called to
congratulate you on your career, which has
been honest and a good one-unscared and
unmoved by Secesh in front of you and Alb
bolish at the back of you-each one of which
is a little wuss than the other if possible!
"Tell E.. Stanton that his boldness honesty
and vigor merits all praise, but to keep his
under garments on. +. Stanton has appar-
emily only one weakness, which it is, he can't
allus keep his undergarments from flying over
his he'd.
~ mean that he occasionally dances in a
peck-measure, and he don't look graceful at it.
/ took my departer. "Good bye, old sweet
nessg' sed Abe, "shakin" me ~corgully by the
hand.
"Adoo, my Prahayrie fower!l" / replied, and
made my exit. TWENTY-FIVE thousand dol
lars a year and found" l s~oliloquised as ]
walked down the street, sis putty good wage:
for a man with a modist a%ppytite, but / reckon
it is worth it to run the White House."
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-07
The Mass Contention.

The Journal is exceeding troubled about the
proposed Democratic Mass Convention, and the
Governor, who is the head and tail of the dis
Union party, telegraphs to the Cincinnati Re-
publican papers that it is exceedingIyrnpalatea-
bic to him. Those who we're engaged in engi-
neering the 18th of June Convention, are AVA
kening to a full realization of the fact that it was
a hunbug. a fraud. a lukewsrm affair from
viii h every honest man will turn in disgust. The
Journal does not want the people to meet to in
sist that the war shall be prosecuted to ''defend
and maintain the suprt macy of the Constitution,
and to preserve the Union as established by our
patriotic fathers'-and to condemn all schemes
calculated to defeat these truly patriotic oh
jects- 1t renews its charge of disloy-
atty against the Democracy, because they
propose to carry out in good faith, or to de-
mand that "our Executive and Legislative
bodies, both State and National" shall, in the
conduct of public affairs, faithfully adhere to the
principles and policy which the so called 9 Union
Convention declared was the duty of the people of
Indiana to the whole country
We do not know what the Journal means by
its term of 'disloyalty." If it is decided opposi-
ton to civil war-rather than such an evil pre-
ferring the disruption Of the Union and the loss
Of a dozen States, then the Republican organ
is a dislOyal sheet. The Journal is on the record,
in terms which can not be mistaken, in favor of a
peaeeable separation of all the States that desire
to go-preferring the loss of a dozen States to the
horrors of a civil war, condeming in advance the
Administration if it should by any means attempt
to force such a calamity upon the country; and
since the commencement of the war it has de-
clared that it had none of these views to take
back, and that it would consent to a separation
upon the single condition that the rebels would
lay down their arms. A paper entertaining such
dislOyal sentiments, in direct conflict with the
"Uui0n" platform, which declares it to be the
duty of every good and loyal citizen to preserve
the Union as established by our patriot fathers"
has the effrontery to call Democrats disloyal
who have voted every dollar and every
man that the Republican Administration
has asked for "to suppress and put
Town a wicked and c~auseless rebellion" We
suppose the Journal, in expressing its disloyaI
SSHllthcub>S oub eChOeS luOSe entertained by the
Republican "Union" party, for it is its acknowl-
edged organ, and it has never been repudiated by
the Republicans in any Of its conventions for en-
tertaining and advocating such sentiments. The
Journal is a disunion sheet; it has openly and
persistently advocated a separation of the States,
and if entertaining and advocating such senti-
ments is disloyalty, it is guilty of that crime.
Yet such a paper has the impertinence to de
nounce its political opponents as being disloyal.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-07
"rhe Battle Besore KIchmoDd.n

The indianapolis Journal, in noticing the re-
cent battle before Richmond, remarks:
But. as discouraging rs it may be to them (the
rebels) to see the enclosing army impregnable to
their assaults, it does not greatly cheer US 10 see
it stick as fast after every battle as if il were a
wall indeed. Battles that leave both parties
where they were, as all before Richmond have
done. are useless murderi. We begin to doubt
whether Mcclellan has the men or the brains for
his work, and il is very hard to lose so many
thousands OF noble men in letting him prove it..
We call attention to this wholesale slahder of
MCCLELLAN and his gallant army. All accounts
agree that this division of the army has fought
bravely and heroically since landed upon the
peninsula MCCLELLAN has fought his way
against great odds. Opposed to him is the
flower of the Southern army, and its ablest
Generals. He has not been permitted to carry
out bis plans, and until quite recently he has
not been reinforced, although it was known
to the War Department that the rebel
army outnumbered our forces. The army
Of the Potomac, instead of being under
one head, so there could be unity Of purpose and
action. was cut up into four divisions, under dis
tinct commands, aud the result has been jeal-
ousies and differences OF opinions az to the Ope-
ratiOns Of each, until It has resulted in ingIorious
repulses and failures. The responsibility of the
failure of Gen. McCLKLLAS to accomplish the
capture Of Richmond ere this, as he confidently
expected TO do, is not with him. If he has not
the men for the work. as the Journal intimates,
be certainly can not be bed responsible for their
inc4pacity or deficiencies. But there is no lack
OF courage OF fighting qualities in the army be-
fore Richmond. They have proven this in every
engagement with the enemy. But f the Journal
means that MCCLELLAN has not had the numbers
to succeed in his work, that accounts for the in
decisive battles which have been fought. and he
certainly is not deserving Of censure therefor.
IL has been charged. over and over again, with
every indication Of plausibility, that the radicals
did not desire the young General to succeed at
Richmond on account of his known conserva-
tism. More than this, it has been stated that
Jealousy of his becoming the hero in defeating
and dispensing the rebel army at its own capital,
has embarrassed his operations. We hope these
charges, for the honor of the country, are I'M
true. But they have currency, and are be-
lieved.
CIKLLAs lacks "brains for his work" The last
engagement is classified by those who were pres-
ent as a brilliant strategical movement, and by
no means an "indecisive battle" His position
upon the chiekahominy was a bad one. 1t was
GA ~pestilent swamp. The Withdrawal Of bis