The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1863-02-12
FRoN THE WEST.

Jno. II. Noggan's Command, for Cincinnati and
Louisville papers Of recent date. From these
we get no newer kilograms than those received
via Richmond, but through their columns we
are givon several glitnpses Of the revolution
in progress "out West" The newspapers
there are certainly speaking oai as decidedly
az any one could wish, and more so than most
men could exprct. The Cincinnati Enquirer,
for example, thus replies to an abolition con.
temporary and neighbor:
The Cincinnati Times, a concern Of the mn.
latto breed, which wend be extremely noxiouS
II it were not utterly contemplate, is trying
its atmost TO promote disorder in this commit.
nifty clanioTing about traitors, and urging on
the Government to deeds of violence upon
peaceable citizens. The Times had better con-
suit prudence little, and look out for its own
safety for if the process which it is laboring
to Introduce should ever begin, we would
| guarantee that within tine not unreaSopably
long, it will be scraped up and thrown out
| like the nuisance that it is. 1t will be good
place to begin; and there is nothing about the
concern which wilrender ii sacred above those
whom it wishes and is labering to have de-
stroyed.
We hope the advice which we give the
Times will be accepted as sincere, and in good
faith. We do not want our streets sprinkled
with blood, a they will be whom the measures
it urges are adopted. The class of men here
about, whom it calls by all the blackguard
names II can invent, are in the majority. That
majority is daily growing larger. 1t will moi
accept in quiet the practical adoption Of the
policy 1t Is laboring to inaugurae and will
aot be apt to forget in the hour of retribution.
the dogs, big or little, that have been laboring
for base purposes to gain Fictitious and un.
wholesome notoriety, by putting their lives or
their liberties in jeopardy.
THE COST OF THE WAR,
The Dubuque (Eowa) Herald, presents Iu-
gubrous statement concerning the "cost of the
war," for the contemplation of the far West"
it says
A million Of dollars IN gold will weigh about
tive tuns; l,550,000 600 would therefore weigh
more than 5000 tuns. single tun il full
load for a Wagen with one pair of horses
placed in one line, and following thirty.three
leet to each team, the number Of teams neces-
Sary to haul this amount Of gold would occupy
a road OF about Nineteen miles in length. This
is the amount Of solid geld that will be nsees.
sary 10 pay the indebtedness new proposed to
be authorized in addition to that which We
already owe. This is the debt we shall sosper
or later have to pay in gold or its equivalent
with interest, or else resort to r, pudiatiOn
GOV. SEYMOUR CALLS THIN UP TO THE SCRATCH
The Buffalo IN. ~ Courier centains the
following, which shows which way the wind
begins to blow in the Empire Stats;.
When the order for the draft was issued
from the War Department, il will bo recollec
ted that Mr.. Stanton assumed to authOrixs
every pOtiy officer in the country to make
arrests on suspicion and imprison victims.
The abuses 10 fellow we're apparent, and in
many localities have been realized. We are
pleased to notice that beginning has been
made in the work Of calling to account such
officers as improperly used tho power with
which they supposed themselves clothed, The
Albany correspondent OF the Herald says the
Governor has received some thirteen distinct
and specific charges against Charles Kennedy.
the Sheriff. Of Chautauque County, for arbi.
trary arrests Some of them charge that men
have been arrested as soon az they landed in |
the county from boats plying upon the lakes
and forced to enlist in the army Others that
he had arrested his personal enemies without
cause and compelled them TO enter the army.
These charges are all indOrSed by some Of the /
most responsible men in the county. The
.sssgyernt has cited him to appear for trial and
has giSetisTsit' iganty days to prepare himself
the CLERGY AVE -a&s S5E.s..,ss-,;-.
We clip from the body Of a long articls in !
the Cincinnati Enquirer upon the clergy and
the church, the following paragraph, striking.
ly illustrative and true:
The business Of tho Christian Church,
Of every clergyman, aud Of every religious
journal and itS conductors, is ito save s0us.
A large propcrtioA Of the clergy Of the North
and nearly all Of the religious journals and
their conductors, have, for the last two years
greatly slighted or totally abandoned the work
Of saving souls, and turned their attention to
war and politics. OF all the citizens of the
the clergy, aud OF AL the journals, the
religious, have been the most bitter, extreme,
and inexVrable for carrying on the war; and
have shown the least consideration for itS
dreadful hazards and deplorabe consequences.
They have seemed TO be NEST delighted when
bIeod VAS most copiously she'd and with an
at which the future will wonder,
have even gloried over the slaughter which
BUR own almieS have suffered, as If there was
something pleasing 10 them in the mental con.
Isnpation Of vast human sacrifice.
The characters Of men are 10 be Judged, not
by their professions, but by their acts. Where
! man assumes to have experienced the reli-
sion Of Jesus Christ and fails to live accord
ng to its precoPts, il is perfectly fair to con-
,lude that he lies. All his pretenses of sanct-
" love OF the Savior, and tender care for the
Iouls OF men, when unaccomp1incd by cor
responding life and conversation, are simply
iadges OF that meansst and most cowardly ef ~
'flenaes against GSd and man--hyPocriiy. II
Q not to be disputed that the clergy and the
Of the religions journals are in IA. !
'or Of war. Il iS true that fsw Of them ex. !
libit an appetite for the labO of tha march .