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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1863-09-08
PUBLISHED (DAILY) ~
EDGAR SNOW DEN, JR.
@ 0FFICE-No. lo4 King street, over
9 omna's formerly French's) Book Store.
FROM CHARLESTON.


Tho steamer New Jersey from of Charles
I'M Harbor on the 5th has arrived at New
York, and reports that Operations we're pro
grsssjng GayorabIy. On Tuesday general
engagement took place between the iron-clads,
Forts Wagner, Sumter and Moulorie which it
is said caused much danaaga to the forts. >
Fleet Captain Oscar G. Badger, successor to
Captain Rodgers, had leg broken by the ex-
ploson Of shell, and it was feared that am
putaton would be necessary. The Irousides
VAS at anchor and not engaged when the New
Jersey left. Four monitors had gone up near
y abreast Of Fort Sumter preparatory 20 re-
ueWing the attack. The land batteries were
hring night and day The bombardment Of
Charleston was resumed, and the new bate
rios would open st the proper time. The
steamer Constitution had arrived of Charles
ION With her cylinder broken, and proceeded to
Port Royal for repairs.
Whether it be strictly true says the New
York World that one confederate iron n-clad, ;"
armed with steel rant, was actually ready for
sea at Liverpool at the end Of last month, and
that another similar vessel was fast approach
Ing completion in the Clyde, may we'll be ques-
toned. The information comes to lis iq the
form Of memorial addressed to Earl Russell
by the Executive Committee Of the Emanci-
patton Society" and it is signed by persons OF
no particular note or weight, OF whom our
domestic experience Of the average philan-
tbropst warrants Us in supposing that their
zeal may in this case have outrun their knowl-
edge, It is certainly far from probable that
vessels 50 formidable in character should have
been carried forward for comp pletion in British
mercntile dockyards without attracting the at
tention Of our own representatives in Great
Britain, and We venture to believe that the
harbor Of New York is not likely to be imme-
dately attacked by these monsters Of the deep.
Nor Is it at all more likely that the Confederate
m1an-ofwer Atlanta is undergoing repairs In
the Imperial dockyard at Brest, or that
'aundry vessels on the model Of the Alabama
2Ge building for the Confederates In French
ports. These stories come &c Us through
English correspondents in Paris, who may nat
afally be supposed not ayerse 60 dlscharglng
Gpon French shoulders a portion Of the odlnm
incurred IN this country by the English shlp
merchants
!na A~E, e ,5on4Fso ~ay.nrkSEf Y
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1863-09-08
FROM THE " EST.

DisDatches have been received at the u. S.
War Department from General Burnside in
which he states that his cavalry advanced upon
Knoxville on the 5th inst, and after some re-
sistance the city was captured. When GeneTa
al Burntides forces arrived before Kingston
some resistance was made, but the Conteder"
ates soon fill back. ''At this point a cavalry
force, sent out from RosecransS army at Chat
tanooga, (eighty miles distance south, } joined
Ruruside's forces. The latter pushed on his
column to London, at the mouth Of the Little
Tennessee river, where sharp fight took place,
hnt the Confedcrates were defeated With con-
Siderable loss The Federal loss In all the skir-
mishes was trihing He also captured 8
large amount of stores, trains, transportatlon,
&c.;; and enables Burnside to cooperate With
Rosecrans. The latest dispatches received
from Rosecrans, to the Sta inst, say the SIT"
uation is entirely satisfactory.
The Louisville Journal has dispatch which
SAWS that Hamilton and Hughes had gone into
Columbia With six hundred men. Hawthorne.
with from two hundred and fifty to three hum
dred, was eight miles from Glasgow, and small
sonads two miles nearer Glasgow.
The ST. Louis Democrat Memphis dispatch
saws that Gems Grant and Thomas have gone
70 New Orleans, and that Gen. Banks is going
to TEXAS, in WHICH case Graat will be placed
IN command of all the Mississippi region.
The New Orleans correspondent Of The New
vork World says that the movement on No
bile had undoubtedly been abandoned. There
vara no indications Of such movement, and
no situation Of affairs in the army ana navy
seemed @ 10 preclude the possibility OF It,
The Potomac aotillg reports that there ere
no a;ona racently Of Confederate troops on toe
potQmsA
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1863-09-08

Jhe whole number Of deaths reported ID
sSa# York last week, was Eve hundred aald six
Ey'nve, an Increase Of 6f1y-eighs compared
With the official returns for the week proceed
'IaS' About City ner cent. we're children un~
Ger i've years Of age.
Aesrly all the churchesin New York, which
LAG bean closed tor the last Eve or SIX weeks,
@sF2 ~ Sunday rs-Qpana3 for sarvica.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1863-09-08

PASSES TO visit the Old Capitol are onta1neo
10 Washington, on Tuesdays and Fr1daya
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-11-12

This is the quota Of the District,
which the late proclamation of the
President requires to be furnished, by
volunteering, on or before the 9th of
January, 1864, to avoid II DRAFT,
Tho Scidto Gd;ettc Of the I'd inst,
says:
"capt. RoBY, Provost Marshal, has
bceninstructed TO fix the quota of each
ward and township, and the number OF
men recruited in each, prior to the 9th
ofJanuary next, will be credited to it
and II It's entire quota is furnished, thcr
II will escape the draft; otherwise il
will be drafted for n number sufficient
TO supply tho deficiency.
What townships or wards have pre-
yionsly done, iu raising men, will no
be taken into consideration. Tie,
ilreall TO be considered rs having fur
njshed their quotas on tho 25th Of DC
tobcr. All men raised under this neN
cali go into old regiments, oxcer
enough to fill the 8 h and 18th Obi
iCaxalry, and the colored regiment
No;hew organizations will be attcmpI
ed, There is the utmost eonfdeno
snong officers, that the greatest pa
of ohio's quota will be furnished
volunteers
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-11-12
Grand Demonstration In Dayton.

DAYTON, Nov. IA grand demon
stration came off here to-day, in the
shape of "A wood and provision process
sion for the relief of the families of vol
uLteers. There were 325 wagons hcav-
lily laden with wood, 10 drays of flour.
and 80 wagons filled with farm pro
duce. The procession was headed by
Il German brass band of Springfield
and everything went off with high cclat
and patriotism.
The demonstration will be repeated
in January.
The donors, who were farmers, din
ed at the Phillips House, the guests OF
Dayton.
We invite the attention of our read
ersto the above items, clipped from the
telegraphic columns of the daily pap
ers. We would suggest to the farm
crs and business men of Fairfield, the
importance Of similar donations to the
families ofsoldiersi in this county. From
observation, we know that many ofthc
soldiers families will be sorcly pinch
cd during the coming winter for the
ncccssaries Of life. The levy under the
lato act providing for the rcliefof sold
iors' families is scarcely sufficient to
keep them in fuel, There are many
of the substantial men Of the county,
who to induce men to volunteer prom
ised that their families should not suf-
fer while they We're absent fighting
the battles Of tho Republic. We now
call the attention of such to the sub
ject, and to the promises made, in the
hope that they will look up the famil
les of our gallant soldiers, and give
them any needed assistance,
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-11-12

the peace men have been stupidity and
egregiously wrong in suppOsing that
the people of the loyal States would al
low the war to end in any other way
than by the triumph OF the Union over
armed opposition. The keystone struck
by the lamented Douglas, in the first
year of the war, touched the most SEN
sitive and enduring chord ofthe popu-
lar heart, The war can only end by
prOStrating armed resistance; and
while it lasts the people will never al
low it to be made Il secondary question.
The people have not, by these elect
ions, indorsed the Emancipation Proc
lamation, nor the State suicide theory,
nor the arbitrary arrests, nor the abil-
ity Of the Administration The Re-
publcans have dextrously put these as
far as possible. into the background,
and presented to the people the simple
issue cf the war. 1t is the war, and
not the administration, which the peo-
pie have indorsed and beyond an in
dorsement Of the war these elections
have no significance. We ask the peace
men to accept the logic of events.
The war is,indeed, the ready excuse
of the Administration for its stretches
Of power; this excuse, as the advocates
Of peace justly maintain, must be ta-
ken away by ending the war. But as
the people have declared they will not
allow the war to end except by the tri-
umph of our arms, the only way to
bring the Administration to trial for
its malversation is to dispose, as speed
lily as possible, of the case which stands
first on the docket. 1t is clear that
while war lasts no party can succeed
that does not make its energetic prose
cution the paramount object. We said
this, in substance, after the Connect.
cut election; we repeated it after the
Maine election; we reiterated it after
the Ohio election we trust it needs
no further enforcement now.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-11-12
rnR REBEL coNsPIRAoY.
In our last issue we published tho {

In our last issue we published the de-
yeiopcmcnt Of q conspiracy to release
the rebel prisoners held at Camp Chase
and at the Ohio Penitentiary. Since
then the Grand Jurors of the United
States, for the Southern District of
Ohio, have found bills of indictment
against School Commissioner, Cathcart
and others. The indictment against
Cathcart charges him "with giving aid
and comfort to General John Morgan
in his operations against the Govern
mont Of the United States, and with
giving assistance to the rebel govern
meat, called the Confederate States of
America; in combining with divers
persons to procure the release of five
thousand rebel prisoners at Camp
Chase: and also, the release Of Gener-
al Morgan and his officers from the
Pcnitcntiary; and also, with conspir
ing with divers persons to effect the
capture of the gunboat Michigan, the
property ofthc United States
Further proceedings were postponed
until next Monday, when the parties
will be brought into Court to hear thcil
plcadings. The trial will take place AT
some future day.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-11-12

UMoNIsTs in Roman. CoppERuEADs
in Udtic. Those marked CE) We're
members of the last House of whom
% are Union and II Copperhoad.
The above mNjorities are nearly all
official. 1t will bo seen that of the 81
members constituting the House, the
Unionists have elected 6S by the home
rote, and they are nearly certain to
elect the member in each of the follow.
ing counties, viz: Adams, Allen, Ash
land, Brown, Hancock, Marion, Pick
away, Sandusky, Seneca, Tuscarawas
Wayne and Wyandot, by the aid Of the
Army vote, thus adding II to the num-
ber. ,...
The next Legislature may be pretty
safely classified us follows
SENATE. 80, Cop, 81. maj. ..
HousE...U. so, Cop 17-U, maj...6'
Union majority on joint ballot, 8
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-11-12
QUOTA OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY UN-
,' DER THE COMING DRAFT.

We arc indebted to Surgeon LEWIS
for tho following letter giving the
quota of Fairfield county under the ap.
proachipg draft. Tho numbcr given.
$50, does not include the 80 per cent.
over to bo drafted to supply the place
ofoxcmpts.
1t will bc seen that all credits for
volunteers in the county have been
exhausted, but full credit will be given
for all volunteers raised between this
Gate and the time of the draft. Re-
roruiting officers will report the num-
ber of men raised to the District Pro
vost Marshal every ten days. Each
township in tho county is independent
Of tho remaining townships, and will
be credited on the merit draft for any
number of recruits raised over its
quota. The quota in the city will be
43. The apportionmcnt by wards will
be published as soon as the officers
come in possession Of the data from
which to make the same.
The coming draft will bc made from
tho first class, viz: from those between
the ages of 90 and 35.
BY a united effort in raising volun'
teers the whole county may escape the
draft. The city ought certainly tc
raise the required number between
this and the 9th Of January, thu limit
of tho time allowed:
OFFICE OF PRovOsT MARSHAL AND !
on, BOARD OF EMBODIMENT OF 18TH
,r DISTRICT OF Ono, (
CHLLIoOTnE, o., Nov. 5th, '63.
MeSsrS. Editors: Below please fine
quota under the draft for Fairfield
county, with the proportion for eacl
townshiD: ..
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-11-12
.. For the Lancaster Gazette.
STAR OE HOPE.

Ifit were not for the expectation Of
future good; something better than the
present; man would be inconceivably
wretched From the cradle to the
grave there is mourning and tears and
phantom doubts. We seem indeed to
be at every step oppressed beneath the
ban Of unpropitious fate. Friends we
cannot rely upon: we know not where
to place our trust, The past teaches
that the sun ofto-day may be behind
the cloud of tomorrow. The loved
ones of our own household, where we
think doubts can never arise, and to
whom we turn for consolation and
confidence when cold selfish world
presents its icy face, may, before the
autumn passess away, be hid from our
sight in the cold grave, and we left in
consolable or, as time fits away, con-
tinents way intervene between us
The wheel of Torture, by a single turn,
or a succession of turns, may leave us
in abject poverty. Disease may rack
our bodies, making life itself loathing;
yet we do not utterly dispair. Hope,
blessed hope, ever springing up, whis-
pers, tomorrow will be better than to-
day, Let the tempest rage; friends
forsake, earthly comforts depart and
loathing disease torment; the star of
hope is seen cresting the billows, and
will guide, to the haven of blessedness.
Blessed hope; gilt of heaven! day star
Z of our lives, cheer us on; when thou
art present, all is well,
\ = ECLECTIC,
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-11-12

The first sentence of my article in
last weeks Gazette was incorrectly
printed The sentence should have
read thus: "That that l say is this,
that that that that gentleman has ad-
vanced, is not that that he should have
proved to your lordships.' y
The 1st, 4th, 9th, and 7th that's of
this sentence are Tadjectives; the I'd,
9th, and Sth are relative pronouns, and
the Sd is a conjunction. The meaning
ofthe sentence may be rendered plain.
cr by substituting for the relative that
its equivalent which, and by supplying
after the 1st, 4th, and 7th that's the
noun thing, thus: That (thing) which
l say is this, that that (thing) which
that gentleman has advanced, is no
that (thing) which he should hav'
proved to your lordships."
/ JOHN WILLIAMS.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-11-12
IMPoRTANT movEMrNr.

Call for Meeting Of Delegates. of the
War Democracy Of the Northeast at
Chicago, on the 25t@ day Of NoUem-
Der, 1863
The War Democracy of Ohio, Indi-
ana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and other
Northwestern States, having separ-
ately proclaimed their devotion to the
time-honored principles of the Demo
cratic party, as propounded by Jetfer-
son, and illustrated by Jackson, and
practically carried out by the faithful
statesmen and heroes of that party of
the present time-having also manites-
ted their reprobation and rejection of
the dislOyal and odious hercsies which
the secedcrs from that party are un-
blushingly seeking to ihterpolate into
its established creed-and desiring as q
paramount public duty, in this hour Of
our public danger, to unite the coun-
sells and cndeavors of all loyal men of
the Democratic party in the interests
Of their country, and to extricate the
faith, honor and organization Of that
party from the hands of unworthy
demagogues, they propose to hold a
conference at Chicago, Ill.,, on the 25th
day of November, 1863, for the discus.
sion of these AMI other important sub
jects.
The War Democracy of the several
western States are, therefore, request
ed to take such measures as they may
think proper to cause themselves to be
represented in that conference.
PRESCO WRIGHT,
Chm State Central Com, Illinois
AUSTIN H BLOWN,
VIM. J. ELLIOTT.
For State Central Com, Indiana
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-11-12
Not Indicted.

The Grand Jury, at its late sitting,
failed to find bills ofindictment against
Jesse Anderson, Daniel Croft, Geo. G,
Reek, Jacob Huber, Sam1 Griswold and
Jones Gibbony, who, it willbe remem-
bered, were last summer held to answer
to a charge of melting riot If the
small and malignant Copperhcads at
whose instance they were prosecuted,
have gratifed any personal spite OF
made any political capital by the oper.
alton, they ore welcome 10 it,
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-11-12

1t will be noticed that the quota of
this district which consists of Franklin,
Clarke. Greene and Madison counties,
is 1860.
The Provost Marshals have been in
structed by Colonel Parrot, Provost
Marshal General of the State, to as
sign the quota of each ward and town
ship in his respective district, as soon
as possible, and have the same pub
lished, so that those subject to draft
may know what is required of thcm.-
There is no doubt but that gref t
many Of these sub districts will raise
their quotas by volunteering, and sho'd
they do so they will not be subject to
the conscription, though the district at
large may still be behind in the mat
ter. We trust that the people Of Ohio
will not be backward on this subject,
but on the contrary, that they will all
put their shoulders to the wheel at
once, and should they do so, Ohio will
be able to say to Father Abraham by
the New Year, that her quote has been
raised by voluntary enlistments. That
is what we can and should do, and
it rests with the people to say whether
it shall be done-O. S. Journal
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-11-12
HOW TO STOP VIOLATIONS OF THE
CONSTITUTION.

The New York World, the leading
Democratic journal of New York,
publishes the following sensible article
on the folly of the Peace Democrats,
and the way to restrain what il thinks
unconstitutional tendencies of the Ad-
ministration. Let the Peace Demo
Gratis read and remember that the on
ly way to "eirectually restrain the un-
constitutional measures ofthc Admin
stration," is to end the war, and that
the people will not "allow the war to
end in any other way than by the tri-
umph of the Union over armed oppos-
stion: eI....
From the New York World, Nov o, 1881
The Peace Democrats, whose unfor-
tunatc position has lost us nearly all
the State elections ofthe present year
have been quite right in supposing that
we can effectually restrain the uncon'
siitutional measures of the Admins
tration only by ending the war, and
thus taking away their excuse But
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-11-12

Total for Fairfield county.,....359
The city will be divided into wards
and the apportlonmcnt made for each
ward, but as yet we hav'nt the basis for
calculation from the Department All
credits were exhausted under the last
draft, consequently each stands the
ihll quota. Respectfully,
J. W. LEWIS,
d h. Surgeon 18th District.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-11-12
Prov idlng for tho soldiers Families.

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. S.-Tho farm.
crs of Marion county made very i'm
posing demonstration here on Satur-
day, with wagons loaded with wood
and produce, donations to the famil-
es Of soldiers. Several companies OF
the Invalid Corps and the cd Indiana
headed the procession.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-11-12
Feeding our Prisoners.

For some time the rebel papers have
shown strong symptoms Of an ap
prooching famine in the South, and in
dications have reached us that Federal
prisoners in the hands of the rebels
were being only hnlffed. n late Rich
mond paror spoke of the immense
quantity of food consumed by 10000
"hungry Yankees held at Richmond,
and limited that, in case of greater
scarcity, when they would be COM
PEELED to choose between their own
people and the Yankees, the Yankees
would suffer. Letters lately received
from Federal officers in the Richmond
prison state that daily meat-rations
have been discontinued, and dispatches
from Washington announce that the
Government is about to take measures
to furnish our prisoners with provis.
ions.
What commentaryupon tire power
abundant capacity, and fathcrIy care
ofthe Government under which We
! live, and alsoupon the exhausted, help
less and miserable condition of tha
great failure of the nineteenth ccntu
ry called the Confederate Government
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-11-12
The Next Ohio Legislature.

THE following are the Senators cleo
ted to the next General Assembly, with
the majorities Of each, by the home rote
Those in Roman are Unionists; in ital,
ics Counerhpa6S.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-11-12
NEGRO RECRUITING.

Major Stcarns is still prosecuting the
work Of raising negro troops in Nash
vile with excellent success Three reg
imcnts have been raised and the fourth
begun in that immediate vicinity,
while large number Of negroes have
been raised to work on some import
ant railroad improvements which are
being constructed under Government
direction.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-11-12
.co,;aItion OF the South.

In vain do the rebel journals whis-
tie to keep their courage up, and make
ghastly efforts to hurl their old scorn
anddcfance at the Federal Govern
mcnt. In the same articles in which
these efforts are made, the cry goes up
for bread, and the certain indications
appear that the power of the Confcd-
etzscy is gradually giving way. The
Richmond papers for some time have
contained articles bowailing the ap-
preaching famine, appealing to the
planters to bring out their produce,
and regretting the presence Of so
many "hungry Yankees" in the Rich
mond prisons. Meat rations have been
discontinued to the prisoners, and the
rebel army is represented as being on
ly halffed. Desertions are frequent,
and captures Of rebel prisoners made
easy, because OF their halt-starvcd
condition and the prospect of suffi
cent food within the Federal lines.
While military operations during
the coming winter will be impedcd by
bad roads, high waters, and winter
quarters, the famine will be at work
| supprcssing the rebellion, BY spring
the new levy oftroops will be in the
field. the armies will be strengthened
and rested, and a few months opera.
tons will perhaps finish forever the
exhausted Coniederacy. In all this
we do not rejoice at the famine. Heav
en- help the poor ofthe South, many
Of whom are friends Of the Union
But we recognize the famine as al
agent and co-workcr in suppressinG
the rebellion over which we have
no control and for which we are MOI
responsible.