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The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-12
From the Rich,noai Wing, Oct.

VI GLOR Vic ~ ~
! Nothing'is more easy then TO accuse poor
Mr.. Memminger of bringing all our trouble
upon US It is not our part to aggravatt
these accusations 6y charging him with
great but misapplied abilities. He has done
all his knowledge enabled him to do. a
second-ratr lawyer in Charleston, famou;
for tbe energy aud persistence with which
he collected small bills and dunned petty
debtors, his elevation to the head of the
Treasury was stroke of fortune which
must have astonished the good man very
much. He has done his best, bat he has
boon overtaSked-that is all.
But take Confederate money at its mar
ket value to-day, and see whether it is Mr..
Memminger's fault that the cost Of living
is so ruinous. 4 Confederate dollar IS icorih,
sag ten cents In SilceT on gold Therefore
ten Confederate dollars ought to buy as
much as gold or silver dollar in old times.
But will they? Let Us see. In old times
a gold dollar would buy ten pounds Of su-
gar, or coffee, or ten yards of callco. Now
a-days ten Confederate dollars will buy
about three pounds of sugar, a pound and
half Of coffee, and yard and quarter
u calico. So there is something more than
a deprecated currency at the bottom of
these ruinous prices
Things are scarce Yes, but not so
scarce as producers would have YOU belreve.
The Government wanted 60 buy bacon in
Georgia. Mono 10 be had Sugar was of.
fered in exchange, and bacon came in plen-
tlully. Sixty thousand pounds of bacon
were found in Vicksburg after the garrison
had surrendered on the 4th of July for the
want of something to eat.
The fact is, there is such thing as boar
ding. Hence, an artificial scarcity; hence
high prices; hence u salary Of Sl,500 year
barely pays day board, leaving nothing for |
room rent, fuel, lights, clothes, taxes, doc
tors bills, and other incidentels Hoarding !
Could human being hoard the necessaries
of life when felioW-men are struggling for |
existence? They say SO. They say salt |
was boarded last Spring and will be again |
this Fall. They say farmers are boarding
their wheat at this moment, and compelling
poor people to pay S45 and $50 . barrel for
-four, when they might get it for S25 if the
wheat were sent 10 ths mills. They say
therc is a man in this city who has upwards
of hundred hogshead- of sugar boarded
away. They say there is plenty of flour
hoardedin cellars and garrets. They say
that these merciless auctioneers can always
find somewhere "a .tiisndn who has few
barrels of sugar to deal out as prices con
tinue to rise. Every rise in sugar bnngs
out a few more barrels from the secret and
store house of this mysterious
'fiend," who allows the auctioneer only
his 'commiSSi0n."
In the English dictionary will be found
word Of talismanic power, to which we ad- |
wise our readers to turn in this time Of
trouble. IA
That word is, disqorqe
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-12
BurnSide's March.
From the Knoxville Baljotin.

Tbsre have bsen many remarkable achieve
meats during this war. McClelian's mas,
terly retreat to James river-the glorious
passage of Forts St. Philip and Jackson by
Farragut and the splendid campaign Of
Grant in Mississippi are the most note
worthy, To this list must b, added the
march of Burnside from Crab Orchard 70
Knoxville.
Burnside, as he has twice told US since
his arrival, has desired to lead an army to
cur deliverancs from the moment that he
took command Of the Department Of the
Ohio Many things beyond MS control de-
lsyed tue expedition beyond the spring and
early summer. ~ the first place his move,
ments were dependent upon Rosecrans.-
The army Of the rebellion must have its
attention fully occupied before any army,
no matter how large, could venture through
the dehlss Of the IN ,untsius. Rosecraus, it
will be remembered, was far from being at
Chattanooga as late as June last, Bragg
was then endeavoring TO make tie fight to
save the Southern railroad as neartJ Muir
freesboro as possible; but the wiley Rosey,
by rapid flank movements, was so constant
| ly putting Brags in q position where he
must fight on at least equal terms, that the
latter was at last obliged to fall back within
ais defsnces at Chattanooga, Rosecrans fol
| lowing closely on his heels. Middle Ten.
nessee was cleared Of the enemy, anL the
way at last open for the advance Of Burn
side;
During this time Burnside had not been
idle His army had been concentrated at
the soutbstly terminus If the Kentucky
Railroad, aud fitted out especially for forced
marches and hard fighting. All superfui.
ties were cast aside, but every necessary
for a mountain campaign was secured With
wonderful foresight. Large droves of pack
/ mules were secured and loaded with the
/ essentials of the conmisssry department
great numbers OF wagons were prepared t
follow the army as closely as possible.
portion of the army was mounted OH horse
picked for endurance to form the advance
/ The troops Of the Twenty third Arm,
Corps, Major General Hartsuff commanding
, led the advance of this grand army CT de
r liverance. A large part of the cavalry {
! this corps had but JUST returned from th
/ pursuit and capture of Morgan and his ban
. in Ohio when the order for this advance va
b received. The aIacrity and enthusiasts
S which the men have exhibited on this rapi
Q march is beyond praise, and reflects gret
: credit on the organization.
: With an army thoroughly organized al
D equipped for the work before him, Burnsi
d left Grab Orchard on the 2lst of August
re At about the same time Hartstuff comme
% ced the onward movement from Somers
,t with the infantry portion of the army a
9 with artillery 1t may not be proper
this moment to particularizs the roads trs
re- elled, and we must be content with givi
- the time and distance. The army arriy
D. at Knoxville on the Sd, being the fourteen
ne dav since leaving Crab Orchard, but Of
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having had eleven marching days, and tht
distance traevlled was, On the route pursued
by the main army, two hundred and fou
miles; some brigades marching on branch
ing roads made the distance much further
This made an average. by the main army, o
q little over eighteen miles per day. The
march was compact, too. The mounted dl'
vision in front did not run off and leave tue
infantry out of sight and hearing in its rear
If any army during the war has made bet
ter time we should be glad to chronicle the
fact.
1t was this CELEBRITY OF movement that COM
pletely disconnected Buckner, and sent
him flying in disgracefuI haste across the
Tennessee river within Bragg's protecting
folds at Chattanooga, without hazarding a
fight with an enemy under whose feet the
grass never grows. The effect upon Buck
ner was extremely funny. He evacuated
this place with such indecent haste that he
forgot his forces in Cumberland Gap en-
tirely, land left them to be surrounded and
cut Off That this is the fact is proven by
the circumstances that three days after
the entire rebel machinery had gone south
Wdu uCIC az 'pSNNj
the rebel commissary at the Gap HrTived
for the purpose of drawing rations, and on
his arrival first learned that the rebel gov
ernment had departed this realm.
The wonderful march Of General Burn
side is not vet completed, as the rebels are
learning to their cost. Like the men of
Rhoderic Dhu, who srvang into life in the
most impossible pll'es at the sound OF
their leaders, bugie CALL the federal uni
form suddenly -ppears at points where they
are least expected, and then somebody is
surprised and brought, much against his will,
under the @gis of the American eagle. 1t
is as yet too snon to 60 into the history Of
this campaign with particularly, and we
have merely sketched the outline of the
march, in order that our readers may see
that the army started to our deliverance at
he earliest practicable moment, aud made
,he best time on record when it did start.
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p. NJ. GEN. BLAIR calls the men who fol-
low Sumner revolutionary. Why Of course
they are; bat what is he2 They are not
whit more revolutionary, and are much
more logical than be. The notion Of beng
revolutionary up to q certain point, and
conservative beyond, is nonsense. Repub-
lcan is a revolufionist per Sc, and simply
because he is Republican. He wants
Union with with slavery out of it, but, IN
fortunately, our fathers left slavery in it
There is one way TO get it out honestly
that is by al amendment Of the Constitu-
ton: there is another way--a compound OF
the Sam Slick and the Robert Macaire--
and that the Republicans adopted, which
was to keep within the forms Of the Const'
ton. ard violate its spirit.
This wrstched woodcn-natmeg trick has
cost the country moro than any man eau
yet imagine, and may cost US not only part
of our territory, but even the rest OF the
liberty that Lincoln has yet left US. Tbro'
a very small breach at first tue water,
gradually wasting, will oyerwbelm tbs
dykes OF Holland, aud through breach Of
constitutional faith, easily reparsble once,
many men have came now TO lose any OBJ
ssrvance of, any faith in, or any rovsrencs
for the Constitution, or Indeed spy consti
tuition.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-12
Steamboat Burning on the Mis-.
sisSippi.

4 correspondent Of the Tribune writing
from Memphis September Goth, says:
Burning of steamboats, hss become Of
almost daily occurrence On the river. Ii
rarely happens that all empty boat burns;
the conhagration is of boats with full car
goes Of Government stores. There is quite
too much system in this destruction OF
property TO cal it mere accident. Ii is
pretty generally believed that some of the
Confederate agents, who are allowed with
in our lines, take this mode to serve their
master, Jeff. Leniency TO traitors is death
to the Republic; and in every department
where soft arguments are used against the
enemies Of the nation, there the cause OF
the Union makes slow progress. The loss
by the burning OF the Champion is estimat
ed to be Sl50,00O. Yesterday the splen-
did steamer Henry Choteau with full cargo,
was burned near Hickman; the loss will not
fall short of 100000. IN addition to the
actual loss to the Government by this new
practice OF guerrllas, there IS the liability
Of having operations retarded and plans dis
organized for want Of supplies
Nothing short Of an order from General
Grant, forbidding civilians to travel on boats
In Government service, will give security.
Spies and Confederate emissaries can pro-
cure passes as easily as loyal citizens. In
deed there arr so many recent converts 70
Cnionism, and weak brethren, in the EN-
ployment of tie Government, that their
Confederate associates are often preferred
before the stauDch Union men, VINO have
always fought valiantly against treason and
traitors. There are so many operations IN
cotton TO be made through the cooperation
OF men IN good standing within the rebeI
lines, that the friendship OF an enemy Is OF,
ten worth consideration. A ylgorou:
policy would give the profits to the Gov
ernment; that however, may not be desira
BILE, As TT l. i matter that concerns civil
ians
There .s an order iorhidiing the pur
chase of cotton in Mississippi; bnt if thu
cotton is delivered north of the State line
in the border Of Tennessee, it IS an opera
ton. and the authorities take no ,mtarora
bic notice of the transaction This is bu
one of tie many modes employed 20 diver
the funds from the public Treasury 70 pr
yate pockets" O.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-12
The Works Around Newbern.
North Carolina.

A correspondent Of the Providence Jour
nal writes az follows: "Newbern is stus
ted on point of land formed by junction
Of the Neuse and Trent rivers. The Neuse,
something more than a mile wide ut this
point runs little south east, and nearly in
straight line toward the sea. The Trent
comes from the southwest and empties in
to the Neuse at the lower or southeast side
Of the town. The Trent is not more than
an eighth the size Of the Neuse. A line OF
Notifications sweeps round from the Neuse
in the rear Of the town TO the Trent, and
crossing the Trent round 70 the Mouse
again, between the town and the sea, makes
almost half circle about the town. Fort
Andersen, on the north bank Of the Neuse,
with otner works, and the gunboats, com
plete the circle Of deiences Of Newbern.-
The line OF deienceS on the south side OF
the Neusc, embracing six general works,
besides rile-pits and other safeguard, Is
under the command Of Col. Sisson, who,
ever since his return, has in part been per
forming the duties Of Brigadier General.
Fort Stephenson is the first on the Neuss
above Newbern. Next in the lines is Fort
Rowan. Next, in the line is Fort Totten.
the largest aud most elaborate work. Acrosi
the Trent, first comes Fort CASTOR. Next
comes Fort Armory. Fort Spinola, strong
work on the Ncusa is below tho town.
Forts Hatteras and Clark, at Hatteras Inlet
have been manned by natives Of the Island
who are called 'Bufaloes.' Every able
bodied man on the Island is enlisted in tho
two companies stationed in these forts.
the condition Of enlistment being that they
were not TO be ordered OFF the Island.
Gen. Peck, not being aware of this arrange
ment, sent our troops to relieve them
Gen. Foster at once countermandsd the
order.
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STEAMBoAT PROPERTY ON TIE MDsIs-
upon the destruction Of
steamboats, on the Mississippi, tbs ST. Lsuis
Democrat says:
"Whateyer Of doubt NAV have been en-
tertained by any one 10 regard TO the often
eYposed assertion Of deIibe rate plan 70
suppress the commerce Of the lower Mssis-
sippi by the villainous work OF the ipcep-
diary, must certainly be dissipatsd by the
latest developments in that line upon the
river. The list Of sacrificed steamers Is
being legthened with fesrfulsIssd. Indeed
one steamer is not built for every five that
are destroyed, and if the work Of destruction
is not arrested speedily, the result will bs
an irreparabls depletion of our river marine
which is already, and has been for some
time, unequal 10 the demand for ton
mage. ~
MANY lives have been already Lost by
these conAagratiops, and the loss ol
property amounts 10 millions. in steam
boat stock, produce and manufacture
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-12
TERMS oF,ADvERTIsING. .ass1g
&c OLD LINES OF NoSPAREIL, (oR INoH,)
on LESS, MAKE A SauAnE. 3iLsAlL

eI-SpscrAL NorfcEs Double the above rates \
N-Yearly Advertising on reasonable terms, acoof-
70 tha SPACE occupied and the number OF changes
made. -.,,,, :, or istrrss :, o
ers. TO be paid for in Gdrance LIZ
Bnsiness Cards not exceeding 1--WE lines $40 per year
or Is for six months but for shorter period notnlns
VIII be counted less than square o.,
mr. ~ v;Iaoe of Annual Advertising Is limited to
,be AdTertisers own Immediate business; and all ao
Terssments for the benefit Of other persons As wen
M 49, "A ~srt.anents and advertisements OF auction
and real estate sent in by them must be PAID 1or
~ ~ Advertisements not accompanied with written
directions viii be inserted until fofoid an"
accordingly. .,,.oad ", ALI casss
at full rates sor,o,,,camants. 10.
q sermons, 50 cents each.
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PRospEcTIvE RETIREMENT or CsIEF
JusTicE TASEY.-It is thought here in pro
fessio5aT circles that Chief Justice Tsney's
protracted hold on the Beach OF the Su-
preme Court OF the United States, will De
unloosed before the Spring Of 1864. A de-
sire is acknowledgement among lawyers
and politicians that his successor in office
may be statesman whose history gives the
soundest guarantee Of AnG-Slavery seDti,
ment, and whose eminence as lawyer and
Senator has only been surpassed by the
splendor with which 40 has administered
the finances of the United Stated during
the great rebellion.--Nelg York Times
Washington C0rrsp0ndence.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-12

Discussing the eoDstrrutionsiity Q
greenbacks Isgettipz ON .ssal- -1sa6sS ai1f
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The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-12

SEYMoUx LOCKWOOD, q man about thi'ty
years old, was accidentally blown up IN
Springfield, Vt, on Tuesday Of lssf MI
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-02-18
JEFF. Davis Retaliatory Proclamation
Bad Impression for the Rebel
Cause.

JEFF. Davis Retaliatory Proclamation
Bad Impression for the Rebel
Cause.
Correspondents OF the New York Herald
PARIS, January, 1868. we have Mr..
Jefferson Davis proclamsiioa--his br7i-
tlm ea-against General Butler. To
use stereotyped phrase, the Southern
President has regularly "put his foot 10
it," His warmest admirers here do
nounced him with a fulness Of wrath
that l should certainly not have antici-
pated from their previous eneomiums /,
and should not be surprised that the
turning point in Southern sympathy had
at last arrived. The correspondent Of
the London Daily Nsirs has written a
letter to that journal which deserves to
be inscribed in characters OF gold, from
the admirable manner in which it deals
with teh. Davis proclamation and
nothing gave me more pleasure ysster-
day than TO observe that in several parts
OF Paris where the EmperOr's speech Of
the opening Of the Chambers was posted
up, the letter ofthe Daily Ne,us cores
pendent was placed besiaeit The cor
respondent has shown so clearly that
while Davis was prating Of Butler and
the rascal Mumford, he was simply
trembling for his life at the probable ef-
feet OF Mr., Lincoln's immortal cdict
against Slavery, that they who run can
read the argument; aud again and
again heard the exclamation, as men
repeated the passage in the Emperors
speech in reference to the mediation Of
France, Qai dela mediation mails non pas
pour ees tyraas ga possedsnt des esclaVss"- =
Let there be mediation il you will; but
let not the villainous Slave-master have
the benefit of it,
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-02-18

contained ia a statement copied from the
Grst volume off, The American Archives"
IL exhibits not only the contribution OF
troops made BY Massachusetts, TO fhe.war
of the Revolution, but also the contribu-
ton made BY each Of the original thir-
teen States. 81
The following table exhibits a COM
paratiye view Of the population Of the
New-England States and Of The Southern
States, severally and respectively, ac-
cording % The census Of 1890, attended
by al exhibit Of the authenticated
troops furnished by each Of those States
and both sections:
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Number II q nti-
mental troops and

Totai pop iation South-
'eFn States in 1870 s52,sos HID
Thus it will be seen that Massachu-
sets alone, with only about one. fourth
OF the population of the South, furnish-
ed ii ,962 more troops than they all; and
that the four New England States Of the
old thirteen, with a trile less than one
half the population OF the six States OF
the South, contributed Of continental
and authenticated militia troops, little
more than twice as many as the contri-
button Of the South to the National cause
Of Independence. In actual numbers,
the New England contingent, furnished
by population of 1924, 407, was 147,713,
against the Southern contingent OF II, 100
soldiers, furnished by a population of
1,952,504 Thus New- England gaze Of her
sons IN the proportion Of more than four 10
one, compared loih Ole authenticated South
c'n roIcf revolutionary troops.
Thus it appears that Massachusetts
out of population of 475, 200, furnish-
ed t,0ice as many soldiers to the army Of
General WASHINGTON in fighting the great
war of freedom, as were furnished by
Virginia out of population Of over
700.000l The Puritans, who were brought
"from the boys Of Ireland and Scotland
according to JEFF. DAVIS, gave more than
double the number of troops to the ar
mics of 1776, than were furnished by
Virginia, which, although settled by
Cavaliers" nevertheless swArmed with
Tories. South Carolina, the peculiar
home of abe chiyAlry, out of popula-
ton of some $4,000, gave only 5000 sol
diers 10 WASHINGTON The great bulk
of her citizens were Tories, and had it
not been for a Yankee General, the State
would have joined King GEORGE.
Thus, history shows that not only at
the present day, but also in the days of
the Revolution, African slavery and OPP
position TO free government generally
went together.
The bulk of the Tories of 1776 were
Shareholders, and worshipped it as a di-
vine institution, and the bulk of the reb-
els Of 1863 are shareholders also. just
in the proportion that State is controll-
ed by slave interest is il false to free
dom. 1t has ever been, and ever will be
so. 1t results from the very nature OF
things. The shareholders know this,
and those of their number, who fought
for freedom in 1776 like WAsHNeToN,
JEFFERSON, and PATRICK HENRY, abhor
red the system of African slavery, and
left their solemn testimony against it.
The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-02-18
A Little Wanderer.

The following paragraph, from the
Louisville Journal, may be of deep inter-
est to some one in Murlreesboro
Willie Carr, little six.year old boy
who was brought away by some Federal
soldier from the vicinity Of Murfrees-
boro, Tenn, has been taken into the
family Of Mr.. j. w. Conway, Of Madison,
Indiana, where he will be well cared for.
The Courier says that he had on when
found a suit OF soldier clothes, which
were rather large for him; that he says
he went to school TO "Miss Mary" and
that the father OF the children, Julia and
Emma Cassida, with whom he used TO
play, was a dealer in furniture.
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The Cniqn does not usually take so
much trouble to make an ass of itself.
And, TO do il justice, so much trouble is
not usually necessary. The Union, when
il committed this blunder, must have
been in particular bright mood. We
have known it to make as great an ass
OF itself without taking any trouble
Lou. Jour. ~.
We quote these "polite aud virtuOus
euphemisms" TO show what refined ex-
pressions illogical" conservative" or
gAns can sometimes use, when initiated
by = wholesome "article or lecture !"
The temper and wits of the Journal are
both sadly disordered. We wouldn't
call it an aso for the world, but we can't
keep the pub lie from thinking it pro-
PEELED by forty jaekass power"