, 1863-12-09
Ql)tea9o Qribrtue.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 0, 1863.


AaE NEWS
Congress was fully organized yesterday.
and at noon today will receive the Presi.
dents Message The opposition aro appa-
reutly thoroughly dcmoralized and with
out leader, and, 1ntcful, and hating ona
another, they have only managed BY their
course thus far, in resisting the current Of
events, to show their OWL malice and
weakness. The people may look for speedy
attention to important public measures
connected with this war, which will not
his time, NC trust, be postponed until the
heel the session.
The great frauds in vafious departments
of public business vii, we hope, beexposed
with an unsparing hand. and the knife and
cautey be freely used. Let terror fall
upon the bloodsuckers that have fastened
upon the nation to gorge themselves in q
scason Of public trial like this 4 Covode
investigation should reach and purify MI
these unftag1ant spots, and make an exam
pie Of all guilty parties.
By all means, clear out the useless Major
Generals md Bngadier Generals, andthose
pretty gentlemen, their staff officers The
condemned corral Of army officers is
most expensive institution, and cannot too
soon .bc cmpticdL If Little Mac and Ills
fellows arc 8:orth anything in shoulder
STRIPS, set them ut work, or elsc restore them
to civil life. It will save heavy drain On
the public treasury, and open the path for
better men to rise Let the work begin.
Ben. Butler again strikes Icy note. The
blacks must be used. The wnr has need
OF a1l Of them, and Gen Butler urges that
black and white should be paid alike. So
say the people. And let Congress give
such end to legislation on this point.
Wanted, men 70 kill rebels Complexion
Of applicants no object No distinctions
in pay.
The Chief Quartcrmostc- at St Louis de
scrvcs the thanks f1oyal men. He grasp-
ed md stranglod Knot Of knavish con-
tractors, put the hay market under military
law, secured the Government from robbery
and good prices to the producers the while
lie brought soul1css gang Of lmares to bit
tcr grief Read our St. Louis dispatch.
4 ruy numerous delegation from onr
regiments in the field has come home to
offer to able bodied men exemption from
the draft There is no better nor more
honorable way TO avoid couscription than
to face it, musket in hand, and on your
cap the batt1e-honored number of one Of
our gallant Illinois regiments. That is how
to hugh at the Provost Marshal and his
men.
Gold had IN uneasy day Of it yesterday
huctuating among tie fractions, starting at
40, falling off once, and again, recovering,
and again receding, ut Inst showing an ad-
vance Of half a cent on the first above
named rate
The $500 clause will doubtless be re-
pealed, and with the amendment, Congress
should secure Others, looking to a classih-
cation Of citizens, discrimination in favor
ofmen Of family, the admission of blacks
to full pay and right to serve as substitutes.
The people 1ave outlivcd squeamis'lnesa
They wish the war finished up. They
care not whether black arms or white push
home the bayonets- Let all bar7ie1s Of
prejudice be renoved- Let us have an ar
my as the result Of this draff, whose full
numbers will strike mortal terror through
the lean Confcderacy and whose force will
be Irresistible to sweep rebellion from the
1nnd
The Richmond papers, as evidenced else
where, are in deep depression and will not
be comfoHed Their do1efu1 dumps are all
the worse in being well based, with darker
days to come.
The Army Of the Potomac is doubtless
10 have new leader, but no announce
mcnts have been made. If loyalty was all
that was needed, Meade is not to be sur
passed It confidence Of people and army
were all, then Mcclellan would have need
ed no successor. What is demanded and
waited for in a leader Of the Potomac
Army, is euccess, and the qualities that 60
to make it, are as rare as the task is grave,
tand the reward shining.