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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1863-09-04

1on5ents of northern papers IS very neager.
Nothing from Charleston up TO last night.
The steamer Spau!ding, expected at Fortress
Monroe, had not reached there the evening be-
fire last nor have Richmond papers Of later
date than the Goth ut been received, There
are various reasons assigned for the apparent
cessation Of operations before Charleston.
Among these are ''the illness of Admiral
Dahlgrcn; the bursting Of the three hundred
FOUNDER parrott gun the impossibility Of any
further advance by land, so long as Battery
Wagner defantly blocks the way the exhaus-
ton Of the t1oops from the deleterious effects
Of the climate, and from their previous labors;
and, lastly, the growing doubt whether i Is re-
really possible for the iron clads to force pas
sage into the inner haybor OF Cha lesion, under
The tremendous fire to which they would be
exposed
A despatch to the New ! York Herald states
that portion OF Gen Averil)s command,
reached Beverly, in Western Virginia. On 5lon-
day last. The expedition does not appear TO
have been very successful.
II is reported that large force Of Confede-
rate cavalry have recently appeared along the
Potomac al Matthias, Cockpit and Shipping
Points. Whites cavalry are still in Loudoun
county and the noI thern portion Of Fairfrx. -
Three hundred Confederate infantry are sta
TONED at Smokers Gap as support for the
cavalry.
/ dispatch from Washington last night
says: ''Within o few days the Confederate
cavalry have been unusually active, having ap-
gcared at Cockpit and Matthias Points, on the
lower Potomac Last night force that cross
ed st Edwards Ferry came down to Rockville,
but fifteen miles from Washington, on the
frederick turnpike. They captured large
number Of cattle, but were unable to get them
over the Potomac and had to abandon them in
the woods. Many anticipate from this an exten-
slve raid by Hood or Stuart. Contrabands
from the Confederate lines persist IN stating
that Lee is on the eve Of making some large
movement" ?"
The latest intelligence from General Burn
sIde8 army as given in the telegraphic dis
patches from Lexington, KY, states that he
mad passed jamestown and through the gaps,
and vas marching on Kingston, then to tap
Soe 'irginia and Tennessee railroad, thus cut
Ing OF the retreat Of the Confederates towards
ne West while another mounted force, which
@so proceeded to the eastward Of Cumberland
gap, would cut of the road. General Rose
.iIaas vas expected to cross 1T the lower end OF
we valley, and thus seize the Tennessee be-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1863-09-04
tween Knoxville and Florence.

appeared at Ipu(h~Fllc. II II .ISlol CcSt eiEae
Hamilton, with from I've 10 six hundred Con
federates, had reached Jamestown near Frank,
linsvie >
The 23d Massachusetts, regiment, II Ns,'F-
bern, n C., mustered, On parade on the 235h
inst, only eighty eight men -one company
having only three n-en, and sons a5 many az
ten.
Mr.. Everett has written 4 letter to the
Springfield mass meeting advocating q Wig
ornus prosecution OF the war.
It is said that another three hundred pound
CT Parrott is on itsway to Charleston TO re-
place the one that was injured.
The ship Pacific, which arrived at New
York on Tuesday from Cardiff, reports on the
eastern edge of the banks, saw great many
icebergs, and was obliged to steer to the south
ward to avoid them.
Senator Sherman, Of Ohio IN speech made
at Dayton, recenty, remarked: = & greatdeal
is said about the Presidents Emancipation
Proclamation. Ny idea of it Is, that this war
ron)d have been prosecuted more successfully
;f the President had not said anything about
the negro.
The shipment OF horses from Detroit tor the
cavalry arm of the =. s. service continues TN
absted. There have been sent TO the seat OF
war, IN the past two months, no less than seven
thousand horses, al Of which have been ob,
tanned from Michigan and Canada.
After brief interval Of suspense, all llnser-
inc doubt as to the identity Of the creature
supposed to be Mana Sahib l5 dissipated, \
late Bombay dispatch says positively, Mana
Sahib has been identified by s Chiab Bramin
nriest. who was taken with him, and turned
Queen evidence.
Illinois recently preferred claim tor about
S47O 900 against the Government OF the H. >.
for two per ce1tum Of the proceeds OF the sales OF
al the public landsin that Stale for road purpos-
es. Acting Secretary Otto has decided against
the claim, and this is also applicable to ONO
and Indiana IN similar CASES.
Three hundred bales Of action were SOLD ae
New Orleans on the 10th, bringing prices tlom
81 TO 583 cts.
i is stated in q letter from Rosecrans head
quarters that General Nithers, Of Mobile,
Ala, Major General in the Confederate ser
vice, has resigned He VAS graduate OF
West Point, and has been in command Of Ala-
bama troops since the commencement OF the
war.
Rv the arrival Of the Morning Star a6 New
York We have New Orleans news TO the 21th
nit There is q prospect Of active WORK n
that department, as General Banks had been
engaged in reviewing the troops, and Gen. der,
! ~c-o La..4 70 uicit the north. mas OA8
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-05-01
Capture of Cities.

The New York Times is infinitely dis
gusted at our failure before Charleston,
and hopes the attack will not be at once
renewed, because nothing would be gained
by its capture beyond the complete clos
ing of the port to confederate supplies:
Moreover, it must not be forgotten that the
scarcity from which they have all along suf-
fered, and which will do more than anything
else to bring them to their knees, is scarcity
which their friends abroad cannot supply, as
it is a scarcity, not of arms, but of food. To
increase this, we have only to drive their ar
mics back into the Cotton States but the oc-
cupaton of cities will not affect it in the least;
for corn does not grow on sidewalks, and hogs
are not generally raised in front parlors.
The fact is, that this hankering of the public
for the capture of rebel cities, natural as it is,
has been the curse of the war. 1t derives no
support from strategy, because no Southern
city is great political centre, like Paris, the
fall of which carries the nation with it,
Our shame and sorrow lies, we repeat not in
the fact that the rebels hold Charleston, or Sa-
vannah, or Mobile, or Galveston, but in the fact
that Lee dares to be in the field with 100 600
men, within two days march of Washington;
that Bragg is intrenching himself with like
number at Tullahoma. Whenever we have an
initiated these, Charleston, and all other South
ern cities, will fall into our hands without the
firing of a single shot, but not one minute
sooner.
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A Foreign Generals Opinion of the
Army of the Potomac.

The editor of the Washington Chronicle,
describing recent visit to the Army of
the Potomac, where he met General Fog
liardi, the Swiss General who was sent
out by his government to observe the
operations of war in this country, gives
the following flattering judgment passed
by that officer upon the Army of the Po-
tomac, as follows:
In the evening called on General Fog
liardi and asked him his opinion of our
troops, and was not more gratifed than
surprised at his judgment of our army.
He said that it was fully the equal of any
of the European armies he had ever seen,
both in drill and discipline. The march
ing was equal to the best, and in all the
minutiae and detail which marked the true
soldier, our army was perfect. Colonel
Dickinson tells me that Gen. Fogliardi
was indefatigable in his researches; that
he seemed to see everything, no matter
how insignificant; that he examined the
uniforms of the men their performance of
the manual of arms, the horses, equip
ments, harness and wagons, the arrange
ment of the camps, the cleanliness of ev-
erything connected with these temporary
habitations-in fact, that nothing escaped
his practical eye. The General told me
that in everything denoting the discipline
and subordination of regular troops, in the
regularity, propriety, and neatness of eve-
rything connected with the encamp-
ments, the accoutrements of the artillery,
infantry, and cavalry, our army was equal
to anything he had ever seen in the field.
An army in garrison is very different
thing. But the Army of the Potomac was
in better order, more "prOpre" and zen
regle" than even the famous camp of the
French army at Chalons. Our men and
officers may well be proud of such praise.
When we reflect that the European armies
are the result of centuries of education,
labor, tradition, and military pride, we
may well tlatter ourselves at having achiev-
ed such results in two years. But General
Fogliardi is not alone in his opinion. Many
European officers of distinction and expe-
rience were present at the grand review of
the army which took place last week be-
fore the President. They were unanimous
in their commentator, and in the opinion
that they had seen nothing in Europe that
could surpass it. What do you think of
whole corps, extending more than mile
in one line, changing its front to one at
right angles with its former position, by a
simple wheel, just as platoon of forty
men would do? Yet this was done, and
the same movement could doubtless be
performed on the battlefield, to the great
discontinue of the enemy who should
happen to be within range of their rifles.
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Fighting among Themselves.

A letter in the Mobile Adoertise,, from
Shelbyville, Tenn, dated the 1st inst,
makes the following statement:
You will be concerned to hear of an
affair that transpired yesterday morning
at Tullahoma, between Slocomb's Wash
ington artillery and Austin's battalion
of sharpshooters-all Louisiana. 1t be-
gan among a few of the men, but, like
most disturbances in camp, grew in di
mansions until the entire force on both
sides became engaged. 1t was a regular
pitched battle at last, in which the COM
handing officers joined and fought with
desperation. The artillerists were first
driven back the sharpshooters peppered
them in gallant style, but in their turn
had to fall back before the heavy shot
of the artillerists; and so, across the road
which separated the camps, the battle
ragged furiously for a full hour-vlctory at
last perching on the banner of the artil-
lerists. The commanding officers, Austin
and SlocOmb, received several severe
wounds, | learn; but were at last accounts,
getting no better fast, the surgeons having
failed to provide sufficient quantities OF
the proper medicine.
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why our Great EFen are not i'm Pub
lie Life.

We never had greater men in science,
in learning, in art; we never had greater
lawyers, or greater merchants, or greater
engineers. Evidently, therefore, the prob
lem to be solved is not, why men of large
capacity have failed us, but why such men
are so apt to turn aside from politics, and
devote themselves to other pursuits. 1t is
because the new doctrines and new poll
cies have had the effect to make an en- -.
lightened and experienced craftsmanship
a disqualification for the highest offices in
the national government. Not the fittest,
but the most available candidate is sought
for, one who will revive no grudges, AVA
ken no jealousies, new man, and, above
all, man who is not power in himself.
Thus all the candidates educated for the
place are passed over; and what is worse
a policy is inaugurated which makes it
certain that soon no such candidates will
be left. Hence the answer to the oft re-
peated question, by which it is thought to
silence complaints against official iDcom-
potency. Where can you find better men
Where, indeed You can find good men
and great men; but why wonder that you
cannot find great statesmen, men educa-
ted and trained for public life, men who
have already won the public confidence,
and whose names are in everybody's
mouth why wonder that this is impossi-
BILE, when you have been pursuing for
years course which has made it impos-
sible.-Dr. Walker.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-05-01
Destructive Fires,

DENVER CRY, Colorado, April 19.-At
2 O'Clock this morning, a fire broke out
in the Cherokee House, in the centre of
the business part of the town, and made
such Roadway before it was discovered
that it was impossible to check its spread
to the surrounding buildings. 1t crossed
F and Blake streets, and, in less than an
hour, the greater part of four blocks were
in flames By blowing up and tearing
down buildings, the fire was checked about
5 O'Clock, and, at the present writing, is
pretty well subdued. Unless the wind
rises, no further damage is apprehended.
The loss will probably reach 81, 100000,
some of the occupants of the buildings
losing everything. The loss in flour and
other provisions is very heavy.
TORONTO, G. W., April 2O.-The flour
ing mills and stave and single factories in
Brighton, the property of II. c. Bettes,
We're burned yesterday. Loss $40,
partly insured.
A considerable portion of the village of
Youngstown, New York, opposite Niagara,
Canada West, was burned this morning,
including Barton's Hotel, Connor's Hotel,
and adjacent buildings.
ST.. LOUIS, April 81. = The distillery of
A. E. Tilton, corner of Main and Poplar
streets, was burned yesterday. Several
tenements adjacent were damaged. Loss
about $15, 900 No insurance.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-05-01
RAILROAD MATTERS.

New York, April 2S.-At a meeting OF
gentlemen representing the Erie, N. T.,
Central Pennsylvania, North and South
Shore railroad lines, held at the St. Mich
olas Hotel to-day, the following resolu-
tons were unanimously adopted:
Resolced, That this convention adjourn to
meet at the American House, Buffalo, at 10
A. NJ, April 20, to consider the subject of pay
ing commissions on passenger traffic, and the
proposed advance in rates upon emigrant
travel. ou
Resozred. That the Presidents of all the rail-
roads between Boston, New York, Philadelphia
and Baltimore, and cities 81 Of o Cincinnati and
St. Louis and Chicago ana connecting lines
meeting in Buffalo or send one delegate to
represent their companies, with full powers to
act upon the subjects to be submitted to the
consideration of the convention. ~ 9fj to
(Signed) NATH'L MARSH, President.
LEWIS L. HAMPT, Secretary.
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INSTRUMENTATION Paramount to the
Constitution.

ThezProclamation Paramount to the
Constitution.
There is remarkable passage in the
letter of Secretary Chase to the Sumter
meeting in New York. Abiding to the
subject of slavery, he says:
What matter now how it dies? Whether as
consequence or object of the war, what mat
ter2 Is this q time to split hairs Of logic? To
me it seems that Providence indicates clearly
enough how the end of Slavery must come.-
1t comes in rebel slave States by military order,
decree or proclamation, not to be dlsregarded
or set aside, in any event, as a nullity, but
maintained and executed with perfect good
faith to all enfranchised, and it will come in
loyal States by the unconstrained action of the
people and their legislators, aided freely and
generously by their brethren of the free States
l may be mistaken in this; but if I am. anoth-
er better way will be revealed.
This unquestionably reveals the position
and deliberate purpose of the Administra-
ton Party. If the South tomorrow
should propose to return, just as she went
forth, asking no guarantees but tie Con-
stitution, she would not be permitted to do
SO. The proclamation would be an insu-
perable bar to her return. M. Chase
says it "cannot be disregarded or set
aside in any ecent." The proclamation is,
therefore, paramount to the restoration of
the Union, so far as it can be SO made by
the party in power.
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her older daughters. For ten months did
these poor girls strain their eye-sigbt.
while sewing in the little darkened room
which they were compelled to occupy; and
when demonstrated with by kind friend.
who endeavored to show the mother the
absurdity of this living in the dark, the
reply made was, Sure, and wouldn't you
have US do like the quality?" Many sim
liar instances might be given. l shall
mention but one.
About year since the writer was asked
10 visit, in consultation with medical
friend, poor man in the last stage of pull
monary consumption. The visit was made
at eleven o'clock of bright, clear morn
Ing and yet on entering bis chamber we
were positively obliged to grope through
the dark to find his bed. He had lost his
wlie three months before, and in spite of
the remonstrance of his attending physi-
clan, had persisted in living in this dark
ened chamber, that he, too, doubtless.
might be 4" like the quality"
These instances are not exaggerated.
any one need but walk through some Of
our smaller streets to convince himself of
their truth. In view of these facts 7
would earnestly appeal to my fellow citi
zens to lend their influence to discounte-
nancing this unnecessary practice. I an
peal to clergymen, to physicians, to all
classes, to give their aid to discouraginc a
fashion SO detrimental to health, and in
everyday reprehensible. Some of our
Oldest families have steadily refused to
adopt this advertisement of their grief
which was unknown to their fathers, and
it needs but the cooperation of a few
more of our influential citizens to set the
example, which will be gladly followed by
Others. Thus will their own homes and
those OF their neighbors be rendered more
healthful, our city present more cheerful
appearance, while the chamber of poverty
and sickness will be lightened of one of its
most depressing concomitants.
PIJYSICJiN
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-05-01
Open the Shutters.

a writer in the Philadelphia North
Ame,'ic0,3 has communication under the
above caption:
How to propagate scarlet fever and to
perpetuate consumption i'll a family The
writer, who signs himself GA Physician"
states that there is no more certain method
of etfecting these results than the practice
now adopted by many of our citizens, of
keeping the house closed for weeks or
months after death has occurred in it,
The author of this paper, who is also a
physician, would earnestly call tie atten-
ton of your readers to the melancholy re-
suits OF this practice, which, though of
comparative modern origin, seems to have
taken deep hold among us, and which, in
the language of the writer before quoted,
"is fast giving to Philadelphia, one of the
most healthful cities in the world, the APP
pearance OF town smitten with the pes
thence. No house can be in healthful
condition which is not daily opened to the
light and the air. I haye no doubt many
OF your readers can give personal testimo-
ny to the depressing effect on their ner-
vous system, from which the inmates of
such houses suffer-, ea&E12f.s
If the practice be Objectionable in our
larger houses, it becomes grievous ca
lamity in the houses of the poor. But a
few days since was called to see a poor
woman in the last stage OF mortal disease.
She lived in a little house with one room
on a floor. Five months before she had
lost daughter by consumption From
that time until my visit she had lived in her
little room with the shutters closed, com
pletely excluding the light and pure air
So effectual was this exclusion, that al
though my visit was made at an early af-
ternoon hour, was compelled to resort to
artificial light to properly investigate her
case. ~ .,-...,:.,,..-, 49,. .... - ..,.s.rt
Another instance was that of poor
washer woman, left a widow, with young
family dependent for support on her and
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-05-01
Gen. Burnside,s Order No. 6.
PROPOSED WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER OF GEN.
ERALS.


The following purports to be copy of
an order issued by Gen. BURNSIDE while in
command of the Army of the Potomac,
and which has heretofore been kept secret ::
GENERAL ORDERS-NO. 8.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.)
January 49, 1863.
Ffrs-Gen. Joseph E. Hooker,
Major General of Volunteers and Brigadier
General of the United States Army, hav-
ing been guilty of unjust and unnecessary
criticisms of the action of his superior
officers and of the authorities, and
having, by the general tone of his
conversation, endeavored to create dis
trust in the minds of officers who have
associated with him, and having, by omis-
sions and otherwise, made reports and
statements which were calculated to create
incorrect impressions, and for habitually
speaking in disparaging terms of other Of
ticers, is hereby dismissed from the SER
vice of the United States, as man unfit
to hold an important commission during
crisis like the present, when SO much pa
tience, charity, confidence, consideration,
and patriotism are due from every soldier
in the field --i-fI- .it.." Y (
This order is issued stbject to the ap-
prevail of the President Of the United
States. !. Ai@'t '.t +i-'.' ,i
n1-Brigadier General W. T. H.
Brooks, commanding 1st Division, 9Th
Army Corps, for complaining of the poll
cy of the government and for using Ian
gnage tending to demoralize his command
is, subject to the approval OF the Presi-
dent OF the United States, dismissed from
the military service of the United States.
Third Brigadier General John Newton,
commanding 9Th Division.6th Army. Corps,
and Brigadier General John Cochrane,
commanding 1st Brigade, Sd Division, 9th
Army Corps, for going to the President of
the United States with criticisms upon the
plans of their commanding officer, are,
subject to the approval of the President,
dismissed from the military service of the
United States. Isl" 90 90 i--o4a@ 81
- Fourth-It being evident that the fol-
lowing named officers can be of no further
service to CHS army, they are hereby re-
lieved from duty, and will report in person
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without delay, to the Adjutant General Of

without delay, to the Adjutant General Of
the United States Army: 1at lr OH
Major General w. B. Franklin, COM
handing Left Grand Division. -. ..-
Major General W. F. Smith, command
ing 9Th Army Corps.
Brigadier General Sam. D. Sturgis, COM
manding I'd Division, 9th Army Corps.
Brigadier General Edward Ferrero,
commanding I'd Brigade, I'd Division, 9th
Army Corps.
Brigadier General John Cochrane, COM
handing LIST Brigade, Sd Division, 9Th Ar
my Corps.
Lieutenant Colonel J. II. Taylor, Act
ing Adjutant General, Right Grand Di-
vision.
By command of Major General,
A. E. BURNSIDE.
LEWIS RICHMOND, Asst. Adjt. General.