Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1863-03-10
Northern News.

u. s. SENATOR FROM NEw.JERsEY.
Mr.. Wright, Democrat, he's been elected U s.
Senator from New Jersey. fer six years from 4th
March @
YANKEE CoNsCRIPTIoN BILL.
The Ny. .sHerald 50 correspondent, writing
from Albany, says: lone class say we should
like to see the General Government carry out
the provisions of the bill. Lincoln viii have. to
get more brains before he can accomplish any
thing IN this State.' Another class say the rad.
lcals will have to fight now al large portion of the
Legislature. He continues to look upon it with
perfect indifference, apparently considering the
acts OF the Adm inistratlon as of n importance
whatever, and concludes by saying no one ex
|pec:s sensible or apractical movement on the
part of the Washington fanatics.
SPEECH IN THE N. 7. LEGISLATURE ON THE WAR
In the New Y ork Assembly, on the 26th ult.
uf. hutchinson OF N. 7 rk city, made speech
IN which he held that the formation and success
81 sectlona. party in the North, which had fol
It's creed opposition to State sovereignty, was
the cause OF our present Calamity. He denied
the power to coerce State, and held the actor
OF the South was not rebellion but revolution
Rebellion grew out of dissatisfaction of few
people, who yield at display of force but this is
revolution on great principle of government
| 1t the South triumphed, State sovereignty sue
ceeded; II the NORTH triumphed, then central
lied Federal power would come of victorious
and State sovereigntysis destroyed.
The ssHerald'' says:
''The Secretary CT War expresses abundant
satisfaction at the condition of our military es.
| adjustment, and confident success as soon as
operations can be resumed. He states that We
| have now eight armies in the. field, numbering in
the aggregate five hundred thousand effective
saldiers.''
The small pox is prevailing to an alarming ex-
tent IN the contraband cam, Of negroes at Wash
ington. As many as fifteen die daily. The con.
dition of these poor creatures is said to be de.
plorable. They wander about TIE city and spread
it. Many whites are dying with 1t also. There
is on an average, only one nurse for fifty patients
| The New York ssWorld'' says cit is mani
fest that on every side the most terrible and de
cisive battles Of the whole war are about to take
place.
The Baltimore ssGazette'' saws: s.If it be
true that the weekly average of deaths in the
army of the Mississippi is seven hundred, the
amount OF sickness among the troops must be
/ terrible in the extreme. Under such circum.
stances, the resumption of active operations on
the part OF General Grant appears to be- quite as
much matter Of necessity as of good policy.o
FROM vICKsBURG
Dispatches from New York say that kilograms
/ received from Cairo announce that the famous
s.cut off" at Vicksburg was completed on the
18th ut.
| 1t is asserted that all the gunboats had passed
through, and that the transports were preparing
to follow, and that after the batteries at Warren
ton are reduced, the whole force will be sent to
Port Hudson.
1t is also stated that the small gunboat feet
has reached Yazoo river by Union lake and are
tspiaylng tue mischief = in the rear of Vlcksburg
| 1t is also reported that Federal boats have
reached Red river by way of Lake Providence
| There are also reports thai serious disasters
have happened to the Union troops. and that
gunboats have been captured, but these rumors
lIt says, are not credited.
The ball giving the President power to suspend the
writ OF habeas corpus at pleasure ualiy passed The
| House by vote OF 81 10 10. & 800
| row has occurred between the Federal soldiers
and the negroes at Hilton Head. The tAronicle has
sad and humiliatlng reports of INSTRUMENTATION and
outTages committed BY regiments from New York
New Jersey, fenns wanna ard we say it with shame
| massachusetts. soioier writes: ssThe day AFTER
we landed the troops came In collision with the blacks
the soldiers rapdclous the neg and
luncyil The result was the blacks were driven of
TO the other end of the islam s. General Naglee has
censured the recent sets OF vandalism of the soldiers
Groans were given In the various camps Tor General
Hunter at the close of che evening dress parades Oh
Sunday. Much i'll feeling has been sho n by the sol.
dlers the island ISL FL lem , ana there has been
| serious talk ia some regiments about LAYING down
the.r arms we expecJ General Foster 10 straighten
| things out" ~
General Butler says if he had received in New Or.
cans President Darts proclamation against him. he
would have reoet General and several other O,
hcers then IN his hands Ship Island with orders
That all should be hung upon receipt of informs
that hair OF his head any of his officers had
oeen touched; land jeff DAVIS knows that Massa
ohnseGts man who dared to 64 times for b m at
| the Charleston Convention would dare to do any (.
thing"
Hon j. T. Nixon of New Jersey, says of the Army
OF the Potomac The feeling of despondency among
the men is gone as is the semid sloyal sentiments
among many officers"