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The New York herald., 1863-05-06

hold IN order 70 cut Of the supplies Of TIE enemy 'rcm
TIC Red river country ana prevent rsniorccmenIs from
The ssocessiu march Of our army 40 70 New ibcr a
gave easy % OpcoUaas aud Washcgtfn, on tho
Banks yrtnaily boida the sugar prodagug region q
LOUISIANA. The country Bordering on the Tccho, Tho
Courlhboan eed negnoqrng oay aud akc s dey,,ea
n better adapted Than any ether regon o ibe s9a,h
The planters 70 ths sectep q me Sile bad lsttcred
tiefnseves Win the hopo that ther rhatei position
tho difficulty % access from the GI would prevent
tie dasOlatng effects o. the war iron reaching them
Hnte t Is said thoy have iasou less actire ra-t
IN tae rebellion than oilers IN more expfe
locaities Heretofore their rcmo'encfs from the
sct8e ~ hosfhes has protected thsm irom
any ntencronae with their labor system hut ihey
aIe about Il realize lAe ia onect o, var ull not be
inaerricoi from this tnot The fcore " ii rai . tho
state have been mi lhsrent 20 the for % . well
hat they have 81 as much ~ ana cgl ft 20
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Newbern weekly progress., 1863-01-17
A Revolutionary Relniniscence.

From some sketches of Valley Forge, we
take the following account of the army in its
winter quarters
"Having decided on his winter-quarters
being here, Washington arrived with the army
at Valley Forge on the 10th of December,
1777. The voice of prayer and praise was
heard throughout the camp the next day, in
accordance with the appointment of Congress
for a day of thanksgiving and praise 1t was
glorious triumph of patriotism over suffering
and want of principle, over neglect of virtue,
over starvation, to exhibit such spectacle on
the border of winter forest, whose SHOWS
were stained with their blood dtracked march.
." Next day they began to build their huts,
the marks Of which are still visible in one or
two places Those most visible are by the
side of the road toward the river, halfway
from Valley Forge to Port Kennedy. Each
regiment was divided into pa, ties of twelve,
and each party was to build log-hut IA feet
by Is. and Ct feet high, the sides made tight
with clay, and the roof to be formed of split
slabs anything that would serve as sub
stitute Gen. Washington offered dollar to
each man of the party which completed the
first and best hut, and one hundred dollars to
the man who would substitute a better and
more available available ruoGHg iiIan slabs.
"Out of 1900 men who arrived here,
5000 " ere unfit for duty. Groups of 80 and
100 were to be seen here and there in their
nakedness, huddiing around fires to keep from
freezing. Others were sick from exposure,
and sadly presaging their fate
Happily the trees were felled. To bring
the logs to their places men harnessed them
selves to them like beasts of burden. Hut
after hut rose till there were over thousand,
all in sigft of Washington's tent. These huts
were ranged in parallel rcws, with spaces be-
| tween, like the streets of town. Those of
the same State were together. The huts OF
the officers were in the rear of the soldiers,
one to each of the superior officers. The in
trenchments were outside of the whole. In
these huts was placed bed of straw the
ground, and these Sons of Liberty as Col.
Barre called them in the English Parliament,
crept in to- suffer- and staTve, and die. The
farmers around were many of them Tories,
whom large offers to pay, and threats, were
alike powerless to move. Washington acting
under a resolution from Congress, ordered
them to thresh out one-half their grain for
seventy miles around, by the first of Febru-
airy, and the other half by the first Of March,
under penalty of its being seized as straw.
desperation, others burned their grain. About
this time the whole army passed week with
out pound Of meat in the camp. They had
but one commissary to purchase provisions in
the camp, and he reported mot hoof to
slaughter, and not more than twenty five bar
rels of -four In communicating this fact to
Congress, Washington said, From my soul
pity those miseries, which it is neither in my
power to relieve nor prevent
Mrs. Washington joined her husband in
February, and not only shared his privatlons
but did all in her power to mitigate the suffer-
ings of the soldiers"
Newbern weekly progress., 1863-01-17

But none of them like the senator from
Kentucky Mr.. PowelD, said he was opposed
to coercion. He argued in favor of an iron
will and nerve, and determined policy on the
part of the Executive to crush out the Rebel-
lion by every possible means ; and he would
take the property of the rebels everywhere.--
He wanted to see the Mississippi River opened
by the brave Western boys, and the supplies
of Rebellion cut off. He wanted to see hum
dred thousand Shareholders running one way,
and million of niggers the other. Applause
in the galleries. He wanted to strike at the
heart of the disease, and then we should see
daylight. There was nothing to despond
about He thanked God we had an army, a
another thing-that we had General in the
field who was not fishing for the Presidency,
who, with his staff, was to be found in the
thickcst of the fight, and his name was Rose
Grams. IAppiause IN the galleries. lie would
never yteru 70 any foreign Intervention
Americans must settle their own diffiulties !;
and it was oaly in the event of guerilla war
fare that he feared foreign Intervention. He
would labor signally for the good of the coun-
try, and for no party.
The bill was then postponed until tomorrow.
Comfort Of the Sick and Wounded.
Mr.. Wilson Rep, Mass. } introduced bill
to provide for the greater comfort of the sick
and wounded soldiers in the hospitals, and to
promote the efficiency of the Medical Depart
ment.
The bill provides that the rations of the SOL
ders in hospitals be commuted at the rate Of
80 cents per day, which shall be reckoned by
the Commlssary Department as credit to the
hospitals, to be expended in the same way as
the hospital fund is under the present regula-
Newbern weekly progress., 1863-01-17

or disbelieve, will depend upon the constitution
of your minds. If your minds are SO constituted
that you desire to find him not guilty why then
very likely you will disbelieve it. You are to
and il that your judgement will be un-
biased; but, if you cannot you will return a
verdict accordingly. 1t is not, strictly speaking
for You to consider what will be the effect of
your verdict but, if such a consideration should
occur to you and you cannot help attending to
it, the verdict will be influenced by it to a GER
tain extent. You are probably aware that when
you retire You will be locked up until you con-
trive to agree. You may arrive at unanimity by
fair discussion, or by some of you starving out
the Others or by tossing upi but your conclu-
sion, by whichever of the processes arrived at.
will be more or less in accordance with your
oaths. Your verdict may be right. it is to be
hoped it will. At all events. gentlemen of the
jury, you will come TO some conclusion or other,
unless it should SO happen that you should sepa-
rate without coming to any"
Newbern weekly progress., 1863-01-17
Wheat in the United States.

The report of the Superintendent of the Cen
suS presents some interesting statistics as to
the growth of the great food staple, wheat in
the United States. 1t appears that IN ls49 the
total quantity of wheat grown in all the States
and Territories was 100, ,4S5, 944 bushels
against Ill, 1S3, ,391 bushels in 1s59-being an
increase of nearly seventy per centum, or near
IL double the increase of population. 1t Is not
to be supposed, however, that the increase has
been equal throughout the United States. On
the contrary, the old wheat growing States
Pennsylvania, Virginia. Ohio, and New York
fall considerably below the average, owing,
as it is thought by the superintendent of the
census, to the destructive agency OF the wheat
midge, and the consequent unwlllingness OF.
the farmers to subject themselves to repeated
losses from this cause. The increased produc-
ton of wheat in the country at large is, there,
fore due to its extended cultivation in the
Northwestern States, where the yield has been
! prodigious, and has defied the means OF trans:
portation to bring it to market. In Illinois.
for instance, the crop has increased in ten
wears from 9,41s.57S bushels, in 1S49, to "a.
! 159 500 bushels in 1859 and in Wisconsin
| from 4, ,286, 131, in 1S49, to 1882, $40 bush
| els in 1S59-or an increase respectively OF l6O
and 275 per cent, while the increase of popu-
lation for the same period has been 101 and
! 154 per cent. The superintendent believes
that the older grain growing States will show
more favorable rate of increase in the next
decade, from the fact that the bar upon its gen
eral cultivation-the midge-is diminishing
where it was formerly the most destructive,
and wheat growing will, in consequence, be
resumed in many localities where 1t had been
almost abandoned for time.
! Canada promises to be an enterprisng COM
petitor of the United States for this essential
article of food in the markets of the world
From some tables which we have seen, We
learn that its production of wheat for $40, was
IL, $40, ,425 bushels against "a, 6S2, $50 bushels
in 1S59-being an increase of nearly one hun
dred per cent, while that of the population
was only forty-six per cent 1t will be remern-
bered that in the same time the increase cfour
population was 554 per cent, and of the pro-
duction of wheat not quite seventy per cent.
Newbern weekly progress., 1863-01-17
Punch. charge to the Jury.

The subjoined charge was cut from an old
file of the Lancaster Intelligen GER, into which
it was copied from the London Punch about
fifteen years ago:
"Gentlemen of the Jury: You are sworn in
all to decided according to the evidence at
the same time, if you have any doubt you are
bound to give the prisoner the benefit of it.
Suppose you have to pronounce the guilt in
nocence of gentleman accused of felony. You
will certainly doubt whether any gentleman
would commit such offence; accordingly how
ever strong may be the testimony against him,
you will perhaps acquit him. The evidence of
your own senses is, at least, cre6itable the
witnesses if, therefore, your eyesight convince
you that the prisoner is a ell-dressed person,
you have right to presume his respectability
and it is for you to say whether a respectable
person would be likely to be guilty of the crimes
imputed to him. In like manner when You see
shabby looking fellow in the dock, charged,
for example, with sheep stealing, the declaration
rests with you-frst, whether or not that
individual is ragamuffin, and, secondly, how
far it is probably that man of that description
would steal sheep.
OF course. as has been said before. you will
always be guided by the evidence; but whether
the evidence is trustworthy or not, is matter
for your private consideration. You may believe
if you choose. or you may distelieve it, and
" neither, gentlemen Of the jury, yeu " Ill believe
Newbern weekly progress., 1863-01-17
A GENERAL CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TRAP.
The same correspondent tells the following q
he expense of General Steele:

| The same correspondent tells the following a
the expense of General Steele:
| short time since General Steele issued sr
order confining soldiers more closely to camp
and prohibiting all sky -larkng' after ten o'clock
\ few evenings since, as report goes, the Genera
himself found it necessary to be on the streets
after the hour before named. He promptly
and unceremoniousy halted by patrol, who
demanded his pass. Il have no pass, sir,'' said
| the General, throwing his sharp eye upon the
soldier and making a strong advance. Then
you've got to go with to the provost" said
the sentinel, at the same time laying heavy
| hand upon the gentemanly looking citizen before
him, whom he no doubt took for a rebel spy.
I II am General Steele said the commander,
falling back his dignity, and reserving to
the last extremity the astounding announcement,
before which he expected the sentinel to quail
and subsidc.
II don't know that, and don't care d-n if
you are," promptly replied the soldier, stubborn
and unabashed; my orders are Imperative not
discretionary if you are General Steele, you
got pass and If you haven't, you must go to
the provost MARSHALL Through the interposi-
ton of shoulder strapped friend, it is said, the
general was finally permitted to go on his way
rejoicing
SINGULAR FIDELITY OF A DOG ON THE BATTLE
As Hon. John Covode. in company with a num-
ber of officers, was passing over the battlefield
beyond Fredericksburg, their attention was
called to a small dog lying by a corpse. MIR. Co.
vode halted few minutes to see if life was ex-
tinet Raising the coat from the mans face, he
found him dead. The dog looking wistfuly up,
ran to the dead mans face and kissed his silent
lips. Such devotion in a small dog was so singu-
lar that MIR. Covode examined some papers upon
the body, and found it to be that of Sergeant w.
H. Brown, Co c. Ninety first Pennsylvania.
Tho dog was shivering in the cold, but refused
to leave her masters body, and as the coat was
thrown over his face again, he seemed very I'M
easy, and tried to get under it to the mans face
He had, it seems, followed the regiment into
battle, and stuck to his master, and when he fell
remained with him, refusing to leave him or tc
cat anything. AS the party returned an ambu
lance was carrying the corpse to little grove O
trees for interment and the little dog following
the only mourner at the funeral, as the hero!
comrades had been called to some other point.
Newbern weekly progress., 1863-01-17
Tho Largest Barn i'm the Country

The Shakers are famous for their grea
barns, and the largest one that they have is
Lebanon, in New York. 1t was recently
erected at the cost of about SIS, 900, and is
thus described by correspondent of the New
York Tribune:
at is 196 feet long, SO feet wide, five stories
high the walls of good fat, quarred stone,
five feet thick at the foundation, carefully laid
in lime mortar, cement pointed outside, and
plastered inside, rooted with tarred paper, ce-
ment, and gravel 1t also has three wings,
wooden building, which form four sheds about
100 feet long upon the east and west sides of
two cattle yards, on the south side of the
main building, with lofts for straw and grain
connected with the barn.
| ''The lower story of the barn is q manure
cellar, and the west end Is level with the
ground, so that carts can b driven in and out
with ease. Thd next story is the COW stable
which is on the level with the yard, the cows
! standing with their heads towards the centre,
with passage between, supplied with water
pipes and cocks. In this passage, roots, cut
feed, or water, can be given in iron feed boxes,
which SWING on pivot into the passage. Be-
hind the COWS, the floor drops a couple of
inches, a space of three feet, and back of that
rises again.
The depression is to hold the manure. On
the side behind are iron rails, upon which cars
twenty feet wide, and discharge their loads,
the rails and turn table being so constructed
that the manure is well distributed with but
little labor. The idea is entertained of making
the whele cellar into liquid manure vat,
which could be distributed by its own gravity
upon the lower part of the farm, or sent higher
up by the water power that drives the mill not
far distant. -.-. -..
The cows are all fastened in their stalls at
each milking, in summer, and all at one move
ment. They are driven in all together, and
each ons takes her place, where her name is
printed overhead, and then by pull of cord
all the movable stanchions are closed. They
are opened by reverse motion, and all of the
COWS are hurried out in drove, so that they
never make deposit the floor. They are
left few moments to do that before they are
sent to the pasture.
! There are six large chimney ventlators from
the rear of the stalls to the roof. The floor
above them supports the great hay mows, be-
tween which is the floor for feeding hay, which
is sent down to the cows through box tubes,
and these, when empty, also assist ventilation.
There are openings from this floor into tho
straw lofts over the shccs, and also to the
store rooms for roots and grain.
Newbern weekly progress., 1863-01-17
INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.

| The following incidents of the war are clipped
| from the letters of correspondents
SPARKLING OUTSIDE OF THE LINES IN DIXIE
A correspondent writing from Helena Ark.
relates the following:
As general rule, the "beauty" sympathizes
with the "chivary' of the South. turns the cold
shoulder upon the Yankee invaders, and seldom
approXimates acquaintance and friendship nearer
than s'the retort courteous" Indeed our bravest
and best, if not best looking. soldiers. in view of
these prejudices play the Benedict, and have
sworn constancy to glory" which, Bulwer says,
sis The only mistress which true genius should
WOO"
Yet shoulder. straps" especially when backed
by little perseverance and good address, have
always been potent in subduing the obduracy
and prejudice of the female heart. Hence, there
are exceptions to the rule above mentioned. Per
crempiia gratia. Lieut.. Bailey, of the Ninth H.
linois cavalry, has been ''courting fair "secesh'
damse, living upon plantation three mites be-
yond our picket lines. How, where, how Of
ten the smitten lieutenant got the permits is as
| great mystery to me, as how and of whom these
merchant vessels" get their permits that are
continually passing this ultima thule of Federal
command Il suppose) Ito trade in the direction
of Vicksburg. AS it is rumofed here that our
worthy and gallant general, F X. Steele, is about
| to lead to the altar a handsome and wealthy
Dixie lady living within the lines, it is possi-
| BILE that the lieutenant found favor with the com
mander, upon the theory that SO fellow feeling
makes wondrons kind )" But let that pass.
Lieut. Bailey went out last Sunday to pay real
| sociable Southern visit i'll Western parlance,
he brought his knittin'." with the evident intent
| to stay awhile
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday passed, and the
happy lovers took no note of time" But,
alas course Of true love-" &c, Tuesday
night, about midnight, when the moon shone
bright, and "t the soft wind did gently kiss the
trees, and the lieutenant, doubtless IN dreams,
felt kisses softer still, band of unscrupulous
guerillas, who worship at the shrine of Mars
and despse Venus, stole in upon him, dragged
him from his dreams and his bed, and bore him
| far away southwark.
| We read in the book of Judges of one Samp-
| son, who was caught in like manner. HIS
lady-love we are told, had sold herself to his
enemies, yet osensibly gave him warning. |
have not heard that the leutenant's Delilah
rushed into the chamber of her lover, crying
The guerillas be upon thee, Baley!" And
| if she had done so, it was lost labor. A fair
show for the lieutenant's strength and safety
lay in his feet, and he was caught with his
socks Off,
Newbern weekly progress., 1863-01-17
Important from the Southwest.
ROUT of the REBELS IN ARKANSAS

HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF THE FRONTIER,
Van Buren, Ark, Dec. 2S, 1862.
Kajor Gen. Curtis:
General-The Stars and Stripes now wave
in triumph over Van Buren,. On learning that
Eindman had been reinforced, and contempla-
ted making another attempt to force his way
to Missouri, I determined to make the attack
upon him. Leaving my transportation north
of the mountains, l marched from Prairie GroVc
at o'clock in the morning upon the place,
distance fifty miles.
At 10 o'clock my advance came upon two
regiments of rebel cavalry at Dripping Springs,
eight miles north of the riyer. Dashinz upon
them with three thousand cavalry and four
mountain howitzers, a brisk running fight took
place, which was kept up into the town, re-
sulting in the capture of all their transporta.
tion, forty wagons, with six mule teams, all
their camp and garrison equipage, one hundred
prisoners and a large amount oil ammunition
Four steamers and ferry boat were also
captured. The latter, in attempting to cross
the river with rebel troops, was sh.lled from
the howitzers, when in the middle of the
stream. The boat was disabled, and a number
Of the men were killed. The remainder jump
ed overheard and swaan ashore.
Three large steai1ers, heavily laden with
government supplies, had got up steam, and
attempted to escape down the river, but were
pursued by the cavalry five miles and brought
to by the fire of their carbines, and returned
to the levee.
The enemy then brought their artillery to
the opposite bank of the river, and commenced
shellinS the town for the purpose of driving
out my cavalry, but resulting in no other
damage than the destruction of some buildings.
My artillery, coming up, soon silenced their
batteries. Quite number of the enemy have
been killed during the days operations. The
only casualties on our side are five or six men
slightly wounded.
My long range guns are now shelling the
rebel camp across the river, five miles below
this place. If the enemy does not retreat dur
ing the night, 1 shall endeavor to cross my
troops over the river in the morning and offer
them battle. Respectfully, JAS. G. BLUNT,
Brigadier General Commanding
Newbern weekly progress., 1863-01-17
Rhode Island Items.

Business is lively at Hope Valley. The ma
chine shop of Mcssrs Nicholas and Langwor-
thy is fully occupied in building the printing Z
presses of Geo. p. Gordon, of New York. The
Aldrich Mid, at Hope Valley, running on
blankets for soldiers, and turns out about one
thousand per week.
We understand that Messrs. 0. NJ. Still &
Co, have hired mill in North knastown,
which will enable them to turn out much
larger quantity than heretofore. The wool is
to be colored at their Stilmsnville MILL then
sent away to he spun aud woTe, and returned
for flushing.
Newbern weekly progress., 1863-01-17
From TPNus.

The Neso Orleans Dcha of the 2Sth ult, says ::
The bark Island City arrived yesterday from
Galveston, and anchored below the city, bling-
ing IS passengers from Texas, among whom are
many females, all in destitute condition. They
were brought up to the city last evening from
the bark by the steamer Iberville. All was quiet
at Galveston when the Island City sailed"
The steamer Marion from New York arrived
at New Orleans On the 29th.