Weekly Gazette And Free Press (Newspaper) - August 30, 1861, Janesville, Wisconsin q APG Arrnt ot psj moat to tho rebellion is the aumer now-being made by the at at several places north Among them are three women who guilty of treason It f also that there commanding our troops at Bull's Run wbp Vas a trailer These facia are They excite suspicion hnd apprehcn- sion minds must arouse lo dangers which surround tho The safety of ourselves and our friends de- maati immediate action We again mend oar people lo form themselves into Guards and to themselves Hie The people of the wholo country have been astonished at the want which has characterized the manner of con- ducting the war They hare vainly ored to find tbe cause of it While the rebels with fewer men and less money than we have are able to point to efficient re- sults we are nominated by How can this we traitors among Is the cabinet sound and What is the matter at Washington These are questions asked every by thousands of people troubled by the aspect of public fairs We believe that the principal cause of the want of vigor in the prosecution of war has been discovered and that it consists in the extreme age of at Ibe head of the of tbe of the army We copy the ing from the Chicago At the risk of frightening our loyal read crs we will state the ages of those who arc- now responsible for the military lion of nation the aud Secretary of War neither of whom es lo be a man General of tbe whole army Gen Scott or as somo 79 but who has relinquished tbe performance of tbe duties of his high of- lice to Gen who is at the prime working acting age of 36 Adjutant Lorenzo Thomas CC years Inspector General Sylvester Churchill 75 years Commissary General George Gibson SG long a confirmed invalid holding the most important post in tho army Assistant Commissary General Colonel Taylor 71 years feeble and sickly and therefore incapable General C A 75 years frail and infirm Paymaster Benjamin T ned 70 years Chief of Engineer Corps Joseph G ten years The fatal deficiency of ar- tillery in battle is easily accounted for Chief of Topographical vinos years Efficiency and activity can hardly be expected iu that de- Ordnance Department Henry K Craig 76 years A very important it and one a bale active man to fill it Chief of Ordnance James W Kipley 70 years Most ol the head clerks and assistants in the bureaus belong to the cle tribe ind have little else than age and red-tape habits to recommend them to public confidence They have held their offices since Washington was by the British and expect to retain them until it is burned by the rebels It requires nothing more than the ment of facts like the above to make rent the main cause of the lack of vigor in the army Since Gen McClellan bns pied by ibe consent of Gen Scott the sition of things begin to To longer no to Iho fray but are v Ont and Ibe way each man bot and reap Where would bo ripening grain f When up thu roir of voices tiro due Not of anil duty your speak Have rc soft polling you gootle r lora null men as well Urso not altar With ni to If vou bosom fuller When appeal to on Point nut out a path to others your to tread Fulton M ith 3 onr ft dead Even now tbo With trump of men are rife Join jour on Join thorn iu be or Colonel Hot Battling V r a truth All arc aro oue Should you a jonr tu v 60 I Bnt merely to You aev tin the to way Bo moved Klao lotion anil Sons of old Under Iho nod through the So pasted thoy the parted M ith cloven Katid A solemn u KraTo 10 lie band So lie in desert of Onto of Lund n her tugo of glory hty And along lite ted And d fearfully Still Under tho cloud the God no HO No mighty hirth But corned by of No among nations earth Hut in a ecu Sons of who their Jn Who of bloud that O day is not yet done I lie Count it it Unit He kd uj on the and AXTI Judge bell at a meeting in Milwaukee last ning made a radical speech Neither he nor Mr R Carpenter seem to be afraid of being called abolitionists fo considering slavery the cause of tho war or in in its downfall if that result follows as one of the incidents of the wir commend their example to those who because they seo a nigger somewhere ahead are withholding thuir support Irom the ers have assailed or are constantly com- plaining of every measure adopted by the government for its own preservation OUT or MAILS The pers referred to by the recent order of the post office department which arc presented by the Grand Jury of New York us al are the Journal of Commerce daily and weekly Day Freeman's nal aud daily and weekly Brooklyn Eagle Toe nd ministration have ordered that all communication with the seceded states by letter or otherwise through express companies or the shall cease president having claimed heretofore that there shall bo no commercial dealings the rebels we have at a total policy adopted THE AT ABOUT LINCOLN us the Louisville Courier's the ex- in when the guns and of war for the Slates cump in Garrard were passing through that town We have another count from a more trustworthy source of the particulars of that it appears that there was a lively sensation when it was known the guns had arrived on Louisville train John C is to have said that if be hud fifty men lie the taking those guns through ly there was n commotion The ists sounded the alarm by blowing a liorn nnd to their armories The Union Home Guards gave the alarm by ringing a bell and to their armories In n few minutes the streets were full of armed men who were running in all tions loading guns as they hurried lo the places of rendezvous Thu man who wts to receive the guns and taka them out to was to this tinse cool as a ber told lit have rouble he said that he hud anticipated an ment had provided for contingencies by having an escort at hand Sure enough it was not long before two hundred United States cavalry made their appearance and it known that five United not for oil Then Jlr Breckinridge was not so anxious as he had been lo guns with fifty u of tho peace So the guns tc were put the und taken to their destination A Baltimore correspondence of the Now York A few days since I with a from Virginia who was in army and escaped for his life not to against the stars and stripes Ue informed me saw a letter form one of his comrades written to his wife after Bull's Kuu which when their regiment came into battle in the afternoon tbe dead were piled up behind three and bur deep so thai it was impossible for ibe men toga a foothold that they were obliged to rush front of aud in Ibis way were nearly cut to pieces He put slain of tile at three and stud the entire army wus so demoralised by the fight that for ten it was impossible for the com- officer lo do anything with the disheartened men and would call to tbe following extract of a letter from one of the most prominent and reliable citizens there and be states is undoubtedly Great excitement exists iri Whitley and Knox counties About rebel troops now Cumberland and Big Creek Gaps about each Cumberland Gap is or Knox county Big Creek Gap on county the former com- manding the pass to the nnd East Tennessee via Bean station the ter that through East Tennessee to Georgia and via Tbe rebel government is plying all its arts of arbitrary oppression and tyranny upon the loyal citizens of East Tennessee who sue flying to the Kentucky border for safely There are now at about SOU who have thus fled and about 300 or 400 at nil for the Federal ready be mustered into the service for One company of 100 have already been mustered Journal Auy 24th McConnell has been pointed quartermaster of the regiment of has the appointment for the regiment TOR WAY TO uo after the firing into the Irain on tha Hannibal and St Joe last week near myra Gen Pope ordered Gen Hurlburt to occupy the country with i force quartering the roops on the lie gave inhabitants six days to and bring in the parties rind if they were not produced a contribution was to be levied on horses mules provisions itc to of on residents of tbe and on the inhab ants of The six day nave not jet expired aid we learn tha Hourly ball the people of the county scouring the woods for the I This is way to do Louis BY TELEGRAPH FOR THE DAILY GAZETTE BY USE Depot Va Aug 24 East evening while Gov ad- dressing a crowd in front of a hotel at Cumberland some secessionists raised a dis- which resulted iu their being en and the of the office a secession newspaper this morning The train west wbich bad Gov Thomas on board when about eight miles this side of Cumberland came deuly on several cross ties thrown across the track At the same time a number of armed men were seen descending a boring hill the increased tbe speed of the locomotive and succeeded in throwing the ties from the with but little damage to the engine Some federal scouts then fired into the train supposed to be by mistake but wilhout doing any age The design of the secessionists was lo take Gov Thomas prisoner Aug Detective King of New York assisted by Deputy U S Marshal Archer of Ohio ar- rested Daniel C of Orleans at Crestline last Lowber edged himself bearer of dispatches from England to Jeff Davis but entire ignorance of their contents Dispatches are in his trunk which were seized in New York some days since The officers and prisoner leave this evening for Washington via New York NEW YORK Aug Tbe Tribune's McDowell is appointed to n division comprising the brigades of Gens I'.ud Mayor Barret's arrest was not solely foe refusing to take the oath of but also on good and substantial grounds Several women been arrested others placed under surveillance lor giving aid and comfort to rebels Capt and Licot Wilson of the marine corps and midshipmen and Cenas have to Fort ton They had tendered resignations Their names have been stricken fiom the roll to the NEK Aug 21 The Herald's dispatch Washington says tbe entire blame of the recent affair at Lexington Kv belongs to Sen ridge who incited the assault on troops Tbe Union men in western Virginia and eastern Tennessee mako urgent requests for tlie services of Gen Lander in shut tion A collision occurred recently at Norfolk between Alabama and Virginia regiments Five or six were Killed N J 2 i The True American tlic Democratic gan of New Jersey suspended ibis ing and gives as a reason that the ment has virtually interdicted tho tion of every doos not support the Tbe paper is est and one of the most prosperous in the state Aug 2 i Government has purchased the W and Allen for blockading purposes at u cost of Aug 21 Capt the fourth Michigan regiment Inis arrived here having escaped Richmond Col Corcoran is well and Col Wilcox is doing well There ire slill hundred and fifty prisoners at Richmond of whom seventy live arc officers Captain confirms previous counts of the immense strength an 1 of the fortifications Tor the defence of mond Aug 21 to Evening Post is staled on good authority the federal force in western Virginia is sufficient o government in quarter Senator Johnson declares he will not return to Tennessee unit's he ncc uu punies a army A detachment of federal cavalry and yesterday explored the road towards Leesburg Va n distance of 8 miles nnd bis arrival to all the medicine and hospital stores in the federal here ibus depriving aboul 400 of our wounded of medical A part of the medicine was subsequently restored by order of Gen Price NEW YOKK Aug 25 The Times special Washington Tbe rebels in the vicinity of Taylor's tavern aboat five miles from Fort ran took fright last night They fired five rounds of artillery at imaginary foe Seven wagon loads of com were seized this on their way to Virginia Two prisoners escaped from Richmond arrived here One is Capt the fourth Michigan He says the rebels acknowledge their loss greater than ours Aug 25 The of war was launched to-day at tho navy-yard A man named was arrested day as a southern agent He was ed Stoat of Richmond engaged in for the rebels A coil of field telegraph wus found in his baggage Me Aug 25 An extra of the Banger Democrat a cession paper deposited in the post office has been stopped by the who has notified the The crat was suppressed by Ike people a week ago BRIDGEPORT Ct Aug 25 In cleaning out the office of Ibe Farmer last night a mail bag was found filled with letters etc for secessionists in Alabama Georgia Some of them explain tbe treason home politicians Special to ilia Tribune Aug 24 Gov Gamble will issue probably to row morning a proclamation for troops to aid the government in ex- pelling the invading hordes of from the state He gives lhat if not be will commence It is said that Ibe ber will at once respond A battery of guns arrived to night Illinois will at once be placed at com- manding There are now troops including 200 Home Guards in the cily merits are expected to-morrow Jefferson Cily is but it 13 known that is approaches as rapidly as To-morrow Col Marshall's Illinois regiment of cavalry start towards Lexington to observations and drive the out of that Every preparation is be- ing- made to defend the city To-day a de- of 500 of Col Guards arrived from expedition They have been an to Jamestown The place is above hare The soldiers left on Wednesday for on ha steamer They took no provisions with them there being plenty ot rebels in the vicinity they visaing and they being instructed lo quarter upon tbe secessionists At Sandy they discovered mounted rebels on the bank who upon ing the steamer coming lied Ten men were immediately detached in pursuit anci coming within sight ot tbe rebels Two immediately dismounted their escaped into woods Their animals were captured md a double barreled shot gun n lieutenant's uniform also into hands of One of horses had n sabre cut across head mid tbe rider was known to have bi du engaged in M the balance of the forces were to Jamestown which is about bur from Sandy Hook They ed two of most noted secessionist in the whole state Geo Jones and C besides seven others of lesser note From ilie first mentioned who is a er the troops look ten horses and levind ammunition and provisions from all rebels in the They returned with 20 horses a quantity of provisions and nine prisoners Une ot the was put upon the nnd the names of nil in other day with such effect upon the trains They will be arrested at if slill in the vicinity was lie of the of Circle The property of Union men wjs left between here nnd a one hundred aud ten miles west Aug Our forces have had another sharp inish Hawk's Nest with a of i rebel cavalry The rebels were routed with a loss of two prisoners nud a number wounded A large number j away their arms in light NEW YORE Aug 26 Bank of decrease of specie decrease of circulation increase of deposits The large are tbo result of government tions Jfo Aug Reports today give information of dec's forces withdrawing from Greenville towards Ferry where they arc also to station near the Ar- kansas line This seems to pre- vious reports that the western division of tbe rebels is hastening to join Gen Pillow A body of Jeff Thompson's force is represented to hare 8 miles back of Commerce they ate throwing up fortifications On Sunday afternoon aUnion man named Sloore was killed and another named Hill was mortally wounded by a gang of five secessionists at Shotwell Toll Gate Ky 7 from Covington Both men were stabbed in the back A party of Union men have gone iu pursuit of the murderers who have fled towards the Tennessee line NEV YORK A up The steamer Great Eastern fiom Quebec arrived off he 15th The London Times city articles on the financial ing against the American and that the earnest of tbe friends of America be awaro that the difficulties thin in sight may accumulate with sufficient rapidity to bring the north and south to reason Aug 20 Special to are alarmed by lato arrests they begin to the matter is growing to them Several of suspected loyalty are under tbe of tbe authorities The regiment have been transferred to a new brigade BOSTON Aug Orders have been received from to refit the Congress for purposes Mr of Kentucky is now bore to T ST Louts Aug 20 ISC I A riot occurred to-day at garden among a lot Provost at once proceeded to the ground and succeeded quelling it before any result To daily of tiie Major stiy lias issued Iho following which will appear iu the papers and go into to or TUE St Louis August The disturbance of the public peace day having boen traced by this department to the unauthorized and improper sulo or liquor to soldiers irresponsible and parlous it is hereby ordered thai this 1 no- Uco all and oilier places kept for tha retailing of spirituous or intoxicating liquors iti tbe city aud county of St Louis except tbe with tbe principal hotels and may after duo special to open he and closed and the sale exchange or away any such agcs except ns is hereby expressly forbidder Any violation or of this order will be visited with severe J Marshal Trouble is in of citizens h ul will joy In consequence of ibe large numbers of the order i as dividers were becoming merous v Aug The of ibe Gen hert aud left morning for sources docs not discompose Generals Scott and It was tbe natural result of orders given Gon Banks to fall back along the road to Frederick and then march to a on the Potomac near Point of Rocks movement is with the view of bis columns in closer operation with those of Smith The lailer arc variously located at Great Chain bridge etc changing and querable by any force ihi enemy can bring Again let me be discreet is to the bers and locations of each division but I may say that between Fort Washington on tbe city on and our Arlington outposts on the one and ten thousand federal troops are under arms and can be in a day at any point of action We arc largely also to artillery and cavalry force If Gen has made any error it has been in overlooking the essential part arms of tbe service especially have played in modern warfare Artillery is Gen arm will be used in the next I predict with terrible der and effect MEW YORK Aug 27 The proprietors of the Daily News tm attack on their establishment applied to he the police dent for prelection A force of police held iu reserve at the lower stations but their services were not called into re- It is understood that forty tinned with revolvers were retained by the News proprietors to meet emergency The Washington ence 2u'th that the rebels had from the Union lines on the south side of the Potomac on the Virginia side we are led to believe tbe is tbe fact the 20th New York regiment Col encamped Ball's cross and was ordered to occupy a tion on a hill to ilia of their They had no sooner done so than the my has a within range fired fifteen shells into the new camp causing them lo take a new position It is ascertained the rebel of nine guns of large aud ed and can leach fortifications 0 i tin It is that the rebels at where their force is now at have two of the engines the to be used on that line WASHINGTON Aug Tribune's of iome traitor the plan of Gen lor making a iu Sorce of infantry cavalry aud artillery which might have resulted in cutting the from side of Fairfax was to the their stampede Lelieu East Tennessee speak of a foice nt Cump Boone near the head quarters of the Knights ol tbe Golden Circle Their plan is men to Jay country from Gap through Enst and to the Ohio rivor and along to Pennsylvania The whole 01 cc not to move but divided into parties An Atinck on apprehended Col collected nearly 2.000 Unionists secured arms for rebels him Ten 1st who won in Mexico iev Col Campbell aic joining tbo forces leaves for Chicago 1 o v The President directed to-day a general's be lo E A skinnis'n between some fifty pickets of New Toil aud Jd Mich a of rebels A ol the killed two of and tit least Fa at husband's home near Harper's his nud of to Gen and soon Aug 2d Flag of truce arrived Irom with thiee ladies and a number ol prisoners captured by con federate As the o lied nl i on In Hie North Front tho Now York Ledger At the present time those citizens in some ot the border elates who sympathize with tbe confederates think it bard that they cannot be at peace and at war in tbe Un- ion and out of simc time They claim the protection of the constitution as in n time of profound peace and universal obedience to laws while they render cret aud when circumstances admit open did to those arrayed in arms against them They assault the forces moving de- fense of tbe capital they convey supplies and arms to tbe enemy they recruit his ranks openly by stealth and to effect these objects they sometimes avail selves ot position and authority de- rived the government which they sail nnd when that government in self de- fense interferes to arrest these treasonable movements and they clamor that tbe liberties of the citizen ara invaded There are presses for tho most part in the border states though some of them are found in cities more remote from the scene of action which are dally pleading the enemy misrepresenting and vilifying tho government of tbe United exaggerating ol unfavorable intelligence and themselves to the utmost lo dishearten the friends nnd de- fenders of constitution and tbe Union But such is the all but superstitious tion of tbe people to tbe liberty of the press that these pernicious journals have with tbe exception of a single instance in St Loais never been with Jo have been thought better by those in to tolerate tbe of these un- patriotic presses than to elevate them to greater importance by prosecution or lo en- croach in slightest degree upon the dom of public discussion which in dinary limes is justly regarded us one of the greatest of liberty But it is to sacrifice the end to the menus We should in this respect learn wisdom from tbe enemies of the regard as unbecoming our ian resort to lynch law by which every expression of opinion adverse to the popular sentiment is in the seceding states we to that in a traitorous press om selves we practice a liberality which awakens no gratitude at home and is never reciprocated by the opposing It is an absurdity in terms under the erable name of liberty press to mit ike systematic and a is utmost in defending the country from general and political chaos Tbe governor of Malta was ones ed in parliament for some alleged severity tho editor of a journal in that land and tbe liberty of press was to be in danger The Duke of lington said he was as friendly as anybody to the liberty of the press in London but u free press in the Island of Malta was as out of place as it would be on the quarter-deck of a man-of-war suppose the most enthusiastic champion of tbe erty of the whole press hardly think it right to publish a journal the walls of Fort McHenry in which the officers of thai should be duly advised to and tbu mea be constantly excited to ny nod whose columns should be filled with persistent abuse of the government and all in us defense Why journals of lhat description be allowed to their poison beneath its walls the excitable population of a large So too with reference to the freedom of speech in debate one of tbe vital of human liberty The late session iu congress has witnessed the ty on the part of the majority in both es of a truly romantic oust The nets and the motives of the government in of the insurrection admitted bj one of its most distinguished chiefs to pro coed mainly Irom the disappointment of leading aspirants lo office Lave been day to day with a persistence would be harmless in lime of peace but winch in time of war have no other effect upon the popular mind than to and dishearten those who M- staking life and fortune on the cause of the This generosity ex cites no ou the part of ntum i is and so far from e Madison contract for the overcoats for the been let at cents per coat Surgeon Crane of the 3d regimes has 03 senator of the district county The resignation kt been received so late that the district not bo represented iu slate board of which assembles it the senate chamber on the 3d September Iowa County Advocate say that one of Mr children lately playing near a well some sixty fcc deep fell in and when taken out by hij father was uninjured and ran off to hi play as usual The state of New York has furnished the government with crs Parrot guns and thirty more have been ordered Everybody will soon have an ty to invest iu the government loan ury notes of will be issued hearing in- lerest of one cent per day Every soldier who loses his gun through or throws it away ie henceforth to have its value from bis wages It is proposed to teach military science iu the State University Wo are in favor of that Every slate must hereafter have a good military school Toe gunboats for the Mississippi are to be 175 feet long 50 feet beam and tbe en 15 feet 2 inches and extra heavy timber The engines are to be 22 inches in diameter six feet stroke with five boilers The boats arc to be of order but tbe wheel will be bo arranged as not to A Mobile paper states that tbe British fleet in the Gulf of Mexico watching oar ships numbers thirty-five sail It regards that fleet as the force of an aily and is jolly over the prospect of seeing it run off the Lincoln ships in the Gen Fremont telegraphed to ton for ponder recently aud was informed that obstacles were iu way preventing its shipment The general re- plied that no matter what obstacles were in the way the powder must be shipped and lhat without delay That is the right kind of A K Lawrence ESQ quartermaster general has and N B Van Slyke Esq takes his STATE FAUX executive of the State Agricultural Society tbe state fair in consequence of tbe occupation of ibe fair gr by regiments quartered KSf The ninth are to encamp at Milwaukee Ivo horjes tho government agent in Chicago alry service were refused on bv Capt ebb on account of defects Ur ie that no bball through his hands SSr The county of Cook III including the city of Chicago has levied a tax of for the support of the families of volunteers OK J DiV on of Madison has been appointed surgeon of the 7th regiment and C Ayres of Green Bay Tbe Stoughton Guards arrived at Camp This makes belonging to the 7th now in camp R Fox Esq the newly ed surveyor general of Utah has started for Ibat delightful
