The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1863-02-12
DisafectIon in the Rebel states.


DtsaflectIOn in the Rebel states.
Whils jar DAVIS was looking to the
NorthWest for sihe 6rst CLEAN of peace, -
based upon the cisintegration of the States
thus far adhsring to the Union, and while
apprehensious where felt in the North, of
serious disaftOtion of large bodies of the
people, strong symptoms Of reb lion
within rebellion made their spy earauoe
within the South. and il their lie ia gleam
ofpeacs" now perceptibls on the horizon.
il is in that direction.
The dispatches of the rebel Secretary
Of State. BENJAMIN. which was captured
a few weeks since, advised us tha. the
visit Of JErr DAVIS to the Southwest, was
Tor the purpose ofoveTcomiDg disssnsions
In that quarter, aud that his presence was
urgently required. His visit to Murfrees.
hOro, we learn, was expressly to close up
quarrel between BRAGG and BREcK1So.
RIDGE. 10 which. whole divisions were in
2 volvsd. There has be,n a long standing
grudge between the Mississippi troops and
the Tennesseeans. aud the Kenuckians
10 .ba Confederate army have been treat.
cd as IL they were Of an inferior race
The cotton State troops and the Virgin
ians have betn inhsImotit us, and the
North Carolinians nave heen unpopular
among the troops Of other States, The
Confederate Congress soma time since
passed law exempting. from military
service, the owners of twenty negroes,
but such indignation was excited by i,
that, We understand, II was repealed -
JErT DAVIS undertook its defense in his
Jackson speech, but the poor white trash
wers too deeply dissatisfied to see it,
Some Of Major General HISDMAy's dis.
patches we're captured some weeks ago
and they acknowledge the destitutioD apd
Generalization Of the troops in Arkansas
and 1t is now ascertained that the rereat
ed defeats that have been suffered BY the
rebels in that State have almost totally
destroyed their military organizations
The New orlears Delta, of January 20,
"aysit is "daily receiving accounts across
the lines OF the dreadful condition Of
things in rebeljom." The soldiers were
only kept from open muiny by promises
that the war should end in ninety days.
The swanps Of Louisiana, heretofore the
habitaIions OF allgators and fugitive ne.
groes, ares esswarming with white men, fled
to avoid conscription The Delta says:
"Tho demonstration among ih, Louisi.
ana and Arkansas troops. at Port IIud
son,i represented to be extreme and thou.
sands would dcser: If an opportunity of.
fsred. The conscriplion is found TO be a
very slow and also very dangerous bu.
sinsss. Tie people in the country kill
every officer who comes around hunting
conscrips. At kas, twenty have been
killed 10 the performance of this kind o
duty"
The Atlanta Confedsracy, OF January
20. publishes an order from Colonel g. w
LEE. dated at Dahlouga, G'orgia. JanuA
~ ya6. Colonel LEE says he has "bear
reliably informed that there are a numbe
Of deserters,torieS and conscripis resisting
the laws in Northern and NoIthsasterl
Georgia and in Southwestern North Caro-
lima" These are the mountaineers o
those States. and OF kindred blood to lh,
East Tennesseeans. Colonel LEE has des
patched force ito suppress any ,usur
reotionary movements. 10 capture desert
erS, aud generally to restore tranquiIit,
10 this part of the country" aud he fur
ther warns the dlsadccted, tia, ait vii
be a fruitless attempt to war against ill.,
Government. and must result 10 disastrou
delea! to all who may be so douded as t.
attempt IT,"
lie then proceeds to boast Of Soulher
victories, and INDUCES. in tho usual de
clamation about the establishment" @
the fact" that the EARNS Of tho South
ern Confedcrcy will he crowned with sue
cess in the end We can Judge fror
this what would be the effect of a few de
oided Union victories. destroying the dc
lusion Of Southern invincbility. m
general order Of Colonel LEE certainly in
dicatSs a gravity of trouble in the South
the existence Of which has hardly bee
suspected in tho North; and this view O
the matter is confirmed by paragraphs i
Southern papers, Of which we have latcl
observed soVSral, giving accounts Of shar
skirmisheS between the Con federats troop
aud the Toriss-Ihat is, the Union men,
Governor Vance Of North Carolina. .ha
issued a proclamation, dated "at our cit
OF Raleigh" Janury 26, which com
mences.
at has been made known TO me lha,
large number OF soldiers from our ann,
are absent from their colorS, without pro
per leave, 10 This the hour Of our great
est need"