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The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-24
The Rebel Prospects of the
Campaign.
From the Richmond Whig Oct. IA.


As the campaigning season of the third
year of the war approaches Its close, the
principal army Of the enemy, bruised,
bleeding and alarmed, is engaged with all
its might digging into the earth for safety.
The second largest force, the once grand
Army of the Potomac, is fleeing before the
advancing corps of General Lee. The third
under Banks portion of which has Just
been severely chastsed by a handful OF
men, is vaguely and feebly attempting some
movement against Texas. The fourth, uH-
der Grant, has ceased to be an army of Of
fence. The fifth, uxder Gilmore, with a
number of iron clads to aid him, lays futile
siege TO Charleston. Nowhere else have
they anything more than garrisons or raid
ing forces. At all points the Confederate
forces are able to defy them. A few weeks
now aud all fighting dependent on march
ing an man9uvering will be at All end till
the middle of next spring By that time
all the trained and seasoned troops of the
enemy will have so nearly completed their
term of enlistment, that no valuable service
can be got out of them. Incapable negroes
and merceuary substitutes will be the only
reliance of the great Yankee nation, to
fieht their battles. These facts will press
upon the attention OF the Washington Con
gress this winter-a Congress, most o
whom are believed to be hostile to the war
They will see the necessity of devisine
means to raise new armies, or of takinI
steps to bring about peace. The forme
seems almost hopeless undertaking. Th'
alternative will present many attractions
especially in view of the approaching elec
ton of President, and it is far from impos
sible that it may be accepted. We may ii
dulge this hope without relaxing vigilanc
= or exertion. t.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-24
The Position of Meade and Lee
i'm Virginia.
From the New York Herald

Though it is reported from the Army OF
the Potomac that General Lees force was
drawn up in line of battle near GAINESVILLE
ON Monday last, we do not believe that
battle is at present Eminent" or even pro-
bable in that vicinity. We several days
ago expressed our conviction that Less late
advance was made only to cover move
ments in some other direction-perhaPs
against Burnside in Tennessee; and We
have already seen that as soon as General
Meade came to stand still Gen. Lee wa:
gone. And though our cavalry NAV fnc
Lee in line of battle, it is only line Of bat
tie hastily formed to protect the retreat
and when our infantry comes up 1t Will b.
found that Lee is again upon the go. Som'
evidence that Gen. Lee did not intend o
expect to fight may be found In what tool
nlace at Bristoe Station. That little fight
"a a visit TO the field BY one Of our CORES
pondents disclose, was very severe one
the body of rebels who made it, and VIII
were thrown forward TO be slaughtere
without the power to fight.
Nevertheless, though abattle near Gaine:
Vile is not on the rebel programme, no OF
can count entirely On what may happe
when two large armies lie near to one anot
er. Accident, any little dispute betwee
p!ekets, may precipitate battle that q
general would wish to avoid, and thus it
not impossible that We may hear Of b'
tile in Virginia very soon.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-24

NEGROES IN New OhLEASs,-The influx
of fugitive negro women into New Orleans
from the surrounding country is already e
subject Of much local concern. Many oi
them, who are totally unfit for homework
Of any kind, are said TO be living iD idlenes'
and want. If allowed 10 remain in the city
in their vicious fagrancy; it is apprebended
that tLey will soon becOme 4 serious bur
den, If not curse to the community. The
New Orleans Piedyune suggests that they
should be sent TO save The maturing crops
on the sugar and cotton plantations, where
their services for several months TO come
would be worth many thousands OF dollars.
Phil. Ledger.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-24
The Value Of ChatfanOOga &
the Rebels.

The Chattanooga Rebel, Of the 9th inst,
publishes significant alticle on the real cit
uation in Tennessee. After admitting that
Rosecrans holds the door to lower East Ten.
nesses, it argues that tits of the first impor-
tance that he should be dislodged, and
adds: = lo Ql@ 81
If we continue to gaze listlessly from the
bold knobs of Missionary Ridge upon tho
comfortable barracks of tie federals below,
then may we tremble for the next campaign;
for. as sure rs there is any surety in the
future, the spring of 1864 must see us far
from the borders Of Georgia or near to the
verge Of destruction. Nail it to your door
posts, men of the South, aud refuse to be
deluded into any other belief! Food and
raiment are our needs. We must have
them. Better give up the seacost, better
give up the Southwest, aye, better to give
up Richmond without a struggle, and win
these, than lose the golden field, whose
grain and woof are our sole hope. The en-
envy has just one army too many in the
field for US. We must crush this overplus;
We must gain one signal Stonewall jackson
campaign. Destiny points the very
place. Be Rosecrnns the victim. Defeat
him, pulverize him, run him to tho Ohio
river. and then close the war with tho next
iummer. And how2 Nothing easier. The
bee which has really stung ouP Hank SO
long, once disposed of, our triumphant le
gions have clear road before them. Fed
sumptuously through the winter we'll shod
and clad, they have only to meet dispirit-
ed foe, retake the valley Of the Mississippi,
secure the election Of peace Democrat to
the Presidency in the fall and arrange the
terms of treaty aud independence. .
These results can be accomplished no
where else than in this department The
Northwest is our real adversary.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-24
Removal Of Gen. Rosecrans.

The removal Of Gen. Rosecrans from the
command Of the Army Of the Cumberland
has been fully determined upon. Gen
Thomas will be his successor. The fact
that Gen. Rosecrans was with Gems Nc
Cook and Crittenden asleep in Chattanooga
while Gen. Thomas was fighting brave
and desperate fight alone, has been known
t. the Government for weeks. IL is also
understood that Gen. Rosecrans has failed,
ever since the battle Of Chickamauga to
exhibit in his dispatches spirit equal TO
the circumstances in which he found him
self 1t is now ascertsined that Gen. Rose
Grams came very near losing his command
during the siege of Vicksburg, in conse-
auence of his refusal to assist Gen. Grant
after repeated orders by the Government
and requests from Gen. Grant himself, by
attacking Bragg SO as TO make diversion
in Grants favor, and prevent the reinforce
ment of Johnston. The Government is
satisfied that he was too cautious before
crossing the Tennessee, and too rash after
ward, in the first case hesitating to obey
orders to move, and in the second disre
garding orders not to move too rapidly;
that, in 4 word, the Chattanooga campaign
was really failure.-N Y. tribune.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-24

IT is stated, on what appears to be good
authority, that the Secretary Of War has
sent agents into Maryland to buy up tbs
slaves for the purpose Of filling up the ne.
GRO regiments with them. The standard
price for negro soldier is precisely what
an Abolitionist pays to get rid Of going to
the war-three hundred dollars. It does
not appear that the feelings Of the negro
are consulted in the transaction; il being
taken for granted that, although the Ato.
litionist is not willing to lay down his life
for liberty, the negro is; which places the
patriotism Of the latter upon ground con
sidsrably higher than that Of the formal
Gin. Enquirer.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-24

PROPOSAL To RAISE REGIMEsT o.
SHARp.sHoorERs.-C W. S Rowland OF
New York. who is well known in connec
tion with the organization Of Rife Regi-
ments, has made proposition to Govern.
ment to raise 1000 sharpshooters in the diff
ferent States under the new call for 300,-
600 men The men to be mustered in for
three years, and subjected to four months
drill in the shool Of the soldier, and all tho
details Of rife shooting, at the grounds Of
the National Rife Association, near New
York, where competent instructors from
the celebrated English Rife School AT
Hythe are engaged. The men to be tho
roughly fitted to act as instructors in rife.
shooting, and to be detailed rs such to DIFF
ferent regiments, or to be attached as
sharpshooters in squads of ten to regi-
nents now in service. The plan has receiv.
ed the hearty approval Of our most dis
tinguished Generas.- Washington Coryes.
pondent ofhe N. Y. Tribuns.j
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EARL RUssELL's TREATMENT OF MASON

EARL RUssELL's TREATMENT Of Mason.
1t is asserted that Earl Russell returned
MIR. Mason's letters unopened, and refused
to see him. This is an unfounded accusa-
ton. Lord Russell simply declined to re-
cognize the Confederate envoy in any Off.
cial way, which would have been done had
he received dispatches through Mr.. Mason''
hands from Mr.. Davis, and granted Mr.
Mason's private diplomatic interviews
! London Court Journal, Oct. 5.
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nents lvsr,ents. 10. and advertisements Of auction
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lsga ra.o, rt;ssments not accompanied with written
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bstes. ,-..;,,. 40 Funerals, and announcements
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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-03-14
About Tools.

We find it very convenient and profitable
to have a work bench and a set of tools
consisting Of three planes, three saws tone
cross-cut hand saw, one sitting saw and
one panel saw, for trimming, &C. n bit
stock with a set of bits to fit, five chises, a
square and scratch awl, a drawing knife,
one pair of small pinccrs, 4 hammer and a
nailboX, drawer in work bench with par.
titions to put an assortment of bolts, screws,
wrought nails, tacks, files, whetstones,
chalk and line, &c.
The above bench, tools and all, will cost
about thirty dolrrs, aud if well taken care
of, will last farmers lifetime. Now, if
he has much ingenuity, can save enough by
doing his own repairing at odd spells 30
pay for the tools III two years, and in some
cases in one year. Many times during the
year something will break when most need
ed--a horse rake, for instance: and while
you are going to some mechanic to have it
fixed. you could mend it yourself, and save
expense, if you only had the tools. You
could also make your wagon boxes, hay
racks, sheep and cattle racks, milk rack =,
sheep troughs, ladders, board fence and
picket fence, farm gates. grape trellis and a
thousand and one other things, which, if
bought or hired made, would cost three
times as much and you would not like them
as well like the lady who cultivated one
flower and said she admired it more than all
remaining in the garden which the gardener
had attended. Rurat Ncn Yorker.
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5clcrt l)octrn.
Coming Home.

o brothers and sisters, growing old,
DO you all remember yet rtrccs,
That home, in the shade of the rustlinl
Where once our household met?
Do you know how me use 70 come from
school.
Though the summers pleasant heat
With the yellow fcnncfs golden dust
On our tired Little feet?
And how sometimes in an idle mood
We loitered by the way =;
And stopped in the woods to gather flowers
And in the fields to play
Till warned by the deep ming shadows fall
That told of the coming night,
We climbed to the top of the last, long hill
And saw our home in sight!
And, brothers and sisters, older now
Than she whose life is o or,
Do You think of the mothers loving face.
That looked from the open door?
Alas, for the changing things of time;
That home i'll the dust is ow
And that loving smile WAS hid from us,
In the darkness, long ago!
And We have come to LIES last hill,
From which our weary eyes
Can almost look on that home that shines
Eternal in the skies
So, brothers and sisters, as we go,
Still let us move as one,
Always together keeping step,
Till the march Of life is done:
For that mother, who waited for us here,
Wearing ii smile so sweet.
Now waits Oh the hill Of paradise
For her children coming feet!
PHEBE CARY.
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FRENCH NoTloNs OF AMERICAN
GEoGRApnY.-'rhe Almanach du Maya
Yin ri toreSque has the following para
graphs, contained in an abstract of
events of the war in the United S;aes ::
May 22-The Federal troops assem-
blcd at llarper's Ferry, cross the Poto-
mac, and after first engagement occupy
Alexandria.
May 27-Tho Federals, commanded
by General Banks, experienced frs,
reverse. They rccross the Potomac,
and fall back upon Williamsburg.
May 80 and 3l-A great battle is
fought near Richmond on the first day
the advantage remains with the Confed-
crates on the second day they expert
cncc considerable loss, and abandon
CORN h.
AT er seven days of bloody fighting
near Richmond (June % to 20,) $4,000
Federals, commanded by Mcclellan,
retire before the Confederate army,
which, vi h reintorcements brought by
Generals Beanregard and Jackson, have
been increased to 10000 men. They
take position GU the James river, seven
teen miles from Charleston.
We learn from the cover of the book
which has furnished the foregoing gems
that 'the Central Committee of Primary
Instruction in the City of Paris has
placed the Magazin Picturesque on the
list of books proper 10 be given as prizes
in the public schools"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-03-14
Treason Disarmed.

Governor Cannon, aware of the willy
foe he has TO deal with, is resolved to
throw himself in the breach between the
treason-sympathizing legislature of our
State and the glorious cause of the
Union and Liberty. With Roman firm
ness and courage, he stretches out his
arm for his beloved Country. The cop
perheads in the State Legislature, by
way of paralyzing the efforts of the
Government to restore peace and union,
passed law few weeks ago, making it
Il penal offense for any person to assist
the United States au hori,ies in making
military arrests within the State; hop
ing thereby to make Delaware The head
quarters of traitors and copperhead Sc
cessionists, whence they could mature
and send forth their plots and plans of
treason safe from the legal consequences
which would inevi ably be visited upon
them but for the new law. But our
watchtul, wise, christian Governor -
God bless him-cones forward in all the
majesty and dignity of patrio ism and
loyalty, and tells the copperhcad legis-
!ators, that "1he State Of Deiamare
shaH not be made the refuge of Foreign
1rnitors or domestic Conspirutors. =" and
although he is not invested with the
veto power, he holds the cons itutional
privilege of pardon, and that he will
defend, maintain and assist the Govern
mcnt of bis Country in arrestng traitors
within his own Commonwealth despite
their law and Legislation to the contrary =:
and if there eau be found a jury base
enough % convic any citizen of Della
ware for serving his Country in the
manner prohibited by the comprehend ac
of legislation, he will pardon the faith
ful prisoner and restore him 10 all the
privileges of freedom and citizenship at
once.
Thanks should mingIc with the daily
prayers of every lover Of lis Country
that we have so true and noble patrio,
at the helm. Gratitude and blessings
will be invoked upon his head from the
homes Of the brave men whose lives are
being daily mperillcd in the cause of
free government and the absent ones
as they march to battle will catch up
the inspiring words of their honorcd
Governor, and bring out from the car
mage and smoke of conhict-high stream
ing IN the air-the starry flag Of the
republic, all the more vic orious and
glorious -DeIaUnye JOurnui.
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General Isa INK = Last Order. Pro-
vidins for the Employment OF
COlOred People.
HEADQUARTERS DEPT or THE GULF, /
NEW ORLEANS Feb I6 IS6} {

HEADQUARTERS DEPT OF THE GULF,
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. IT, 1863;
The accompanying order and cireu-
lars. relating TO the immediate employ
ment Of negroes, will explain a system
of labor that has been. suggested and
adopted for the present year. The pro-
vost marshals are authorized and direct
ed to receive and record the assent of
planters or other persons thereto, and
when such written consent is given, Off
GERS and soldiers, and especially the
chaplain of the army, and all other per-
sons acting under the authority of the
United States, arc requested to assist,
as far as practible, without violence, in
inducing the return of negroes and their
families to the plantations where they
have been accustomed to labor.
Without regular employment, many
thousands OF negroes must perish during
the year. More than sixty thousand
dollars were applied to the support of
dependent and destitute persons in the
month of January. The support of
unemployed negroes will increase the
burden to such extent as to make it
lmpracticable to continue this charity -
The immedia cultivation of corn. gar,
cotton, and other products, is impera-
lively demanded upon every considcra-
ton Of public interest, and for this no
other labor now is available. On the
plantations, they will have secured to
hem by the officers of The Government
sufficient and wholesome food, clothing,
kind treatmen, and Share of tue crop
they produce.
he compensa ion may seem small !:
but, III view of the pecuniary advance
that must be made and the risks that
at end industry in period of war, 1t is
not inadequate. Those who are not
thus engaged will be employed on the
public work or in the quartcrmaster's
department without pay, except their
focd and clothing, medical attendance,
and such instruction and care as may be
furnished to hem and their women and
children. In view of all the facts, and
at er most anxious consideration. the
commanding general believes i; to be the
best system of labor that can now be
adopted, and, assuming the entire re-
>ponsibility of the act, he calls upon the
commanding generals and all officers of
he Government to assist in its immediate
execution. n. =. BANKS,
Maj r General Commanding.
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promised by the existence of this war,
cannot but indulge the hope that, in
family council, we may give TO the sub
ject the consideration to which it is so
eminently entitled. 1t would hardly be
too much to say that the increased re-
suits of her manufacturing and CONNER
cial pursuits, and tie general apprec;a-
ton of the landed interest, under the
new system of labor, would, to great
extent, compensate for the loss entaied
upon US by the change.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-03-14
THE ATCUAFALAYA PASS

Atchatalaya means Lost Water
and the water thai was lost to the region
it traverses was missed when the Red
river gave up its own independent chan
mel to the Gulf. But once channel
always a chanel in the Southwest, and
the neglected Lost Water set up for
itself as a bayou two hundred and fifty
miles long, by which the rebel steamers
have been finding their way from the
Gulf through to Vicksburg, thus giving
New Orleans the 60 by. All this the
Lake Providence cutoff will correct.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-03-14

Tuss oE BULLETS. The army of che Uni,
ted States used, during the year 1862, sly
teen thousand tuns Of bullets. BY an i'm
provement in elongated bullets made by L.
d. Williams, recently adopted and gradual
ly being brought into the service. such q
reduction in the weight is affected that it is
calculated a saving of six million dollars a
year will be mad; in the expense of metal
and of transportation. 1t will save to the
army of the Potomac alone two hundred
ammunition wagons.
WORTH or \ PAPER DOLLAR. men
read Of gold being at 10, they naturally
conclude that Il paper dollar is worth but 80
cents; but the 30 cents in gold, 20 per cent
premium, is worth but 81 cents in paper, so
shat paper is worth about 60 cents on the
dollar when gold is quoted at 10.
Those who profess to know say that the
warm Gulf Stream is gradually drawing
nearer our coast, modcrating our winter
weather. The sharks which have ircquented
our coast for the last two summers and the
mildness of the winters for the past two
years are cors dcred proofs Of this fact
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ditiicult 20 realize runy me danger Of
our position. When it is recollccted
that we are in the midst of one of the
mos embl tered conflicts that have ever
a tended the march of human ms i;u-
tons, and that his war, whether justly
or not, has been referred to slavery as
its exciting cause, we cannot hope for
any more favorable state Of the public
mind han exists at the presen. time
In my judgmen , the relation between
master and slave has become greatly
modified, if no, fatally weakened, by the
events which have already TRANSFERRED ;
and reason as We will, We must accept a
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LAKE PROVIDENCE CUT OFF.


The lake is 40 above New Orlca rs,
IN Louisiana. At no reno period The
present lake has been he bed of the
Mississippi river At it's lower OK rem.
ity, the water in the lake reaches to
within less than half mile of tho river,
the old bed Of the river is still deep
hollow be ween The two, through which
the river is prevented from flowing at
high wa er by two immense lcvces across
Its mouth on tue river bank. The sur
face of the lake is fifteen feet below the
present level of the river, so that, by
only cutting the levec, boats of nearly
any capacity could run into the lake to-
day.
The lake is connected with a chain of
bayous southwark until the exploration
comes out on the Tensas river These
bayous are being connected with short
canals, and when once Bayou Baxter and
Bayou Mason are thus joined, the Mis-
sissippl turned into Lake Providence,
will go rolling toward the gulf. Down
the Tensas, deep, not wide river, and
even how navigabie for one hundred and
fifty miles by large steamboats,, we pass
through the richest cotton region of
Louisiana. At Trinity it unitcs with
the Washita, to form the Black river,
which flows into the Red river thirty
miles from its mouth.
The Washita river is navigable for
large boats for three hundred miles
from its mouth. Tho Red river is the
soutbernmost of the great western trib-
utaries of the Mississippi, and, with its
tributaries, has an entire length of two
thousand and one hundred miles. 1t is
navigable by steamers to Shreveport,
five hundred miles from its mouth, and
traverses throughout region of pre-
eminent fertility. That is tho Red river
to which the Lake Providence cutoff
will open.
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GnoG.--Mixed liquors are called grog'
because Admiral Vernon, who was first to
mix his sailors allowance with water, was
nicknamed " Old Grog " from his wearing
grogram coat and this name tgrog) was
given to the adulterated liquor he compelled
the seamen Of the feet to drink.
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( 0MBINATI0N.--The Combination 10 40.
~ knowledgcd to be the best Cook Stove ever
introduced into this county. 1t has large over.
full size fucs and the plates are very heavy. The
Stove is warranted to give satisfaction in every
respect large number Of thcse Stoyss are nav
IL Use For ale hy Il ", sTlPlrH