Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye from Burlington, Iowa • 3

5fc IfVft MftCVWR. 1 tonciai twrt tomrhn. Adair, Alamakee, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Carroll, CaSS, Cedar, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Clarke, Clay, Clayton, Clinton, Crawford, Dallas, Deris, Decatur, Delaware, Des Moines, Dickinson, Dubuque, (not re'd) Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, not re'd. Fremont, not re'd. Greene, Grundy, Guthrie, Hancock, not re'd.

Hardio, Harrison, Henry, Howard, Humboldt, Ida, not Iowa, Jackaoo, Jaeper, Jefferson, Johnson, Jones, Keokuk, KOSSUtb, Lee, Lino, Louisa, Lucas, Madison, Mahaska, Marion, Marshall, Mills, Monroe, Montgomery, Muscatine, i O'Brien, Page, Palo Alto, i Plymouth, Pacaboutas, Polk, Pottawattamie, Poweshiek, Ringgold, Sac, Soott, Shelby, i i Story, Tama, Taylor, i Union, Van Buren, Wapello, -if 6:1 S1 Warren, Washington, Wayne, Webster, Winnebago, not re' Winneshiek, Woodbury, Worth, not returne Wright, Total, 1 BM. BMTI Aro. StAta. tono mux mv 3 -aw oousnis. 116 61 116 6t 95 177 96 792 1047 791 1046 661 1004 664 1002 44 43 44 44 6S6 640 686 689 817 406 819 406 245 397 244 896 472 291 472 291 746 617 741 617 6 10 6 10 S8V 2Q7 889 207 14 20 14 20 ai 82 24 26 156 122 168 122 1111 988 1UV 982 148 148 83.

18 8 18 8 482 297 482 189 496 300 496 ,800 4 8 4 8 1491 1166 1491 1181 1285. 1185 128f 1184 47 41 41 4S2 296 432 701 1209 488 060 ,3 661 1086 719 1697 726 1647 1.704 1647 WHJ 81 2 81 2 1660 8181 1668 5: Buchanan, Bnena Vista, Butler, Calhoun, -st co I 963 616 981 6it 448 171 448. 113 nvi Sid 80 BK J05 80 96 132 11 132 11 213 260 218 250 ,169 -wo64 169 64 484 216 434 .210 825 269 826 269 1615 869 1617 868 304 217 808 217 46 .,,46 17 si? siiiii. 627 684 627 633 1058 1492 1069 1491 818 678 812 578 1154 1116 1154 1116 1040 1889 1060 1316 1041 920 1040 92) 938 '979 984 977 50 19 60 18 1729 2889 1727 2889 1717 1216 1716 1216 893 644 840 507 373 376 872 374 590 640 690 640 1831 1151 1880 1142 977 1201 978 1198 657 818 667 818 370 220 870 221 457 127 4671 129 126 101 126 103 686 681 637 128 100 128 100 1852 1310 1852 1310 2 8 2 8 .370 .286 870 236 8 17 Yf 3 17 .21 1 L-21 1 14 ilO. 1S i 899 625 899 625 98 1 t-xfi bi iand i JioJtfw MVA is bfrj-ntsfi' fine, STAW.

feint, Kanaas Reginmit, 80 Iowa soldiers in 25th Ma Reg. Infantry, Iowa soldiera in Gol. Mo. Reg. Infantry, 6 Iowa soldiera in 15th Mo.

Reg. Infantry, Iowa soldiers in 7th Mo. Reg. Iowa soldiers in Camp McClellan, Scott Co. 316 Iowa soldiers raised by.

act of Extra Session, '62, Ch. 1, Iowa soldiers in boepi tals, St Louis, Mo Iowa soldiers in Keokuk Hospital, Go's. A 14tb 14 10 1115 1066 1119 1066 847 382 851 544 478 546 478 266 i. .86 266 86 17 19 17 1980 1178 1978 LI 80 61 81 42 4 3 829 274 829 274 565 280 565 282 827 216 827 216 141 196 141 196 1363 1238 1468 1230 1231 1474 1280 1472 766 765 586 1222 688 1222 888 396 499 898 601 194 283 194 233 ...95 .97 75 86 75 35 14874 4116 14862 4112 66014 50899 66988 50786 sorgkan firowsrt Canvcatloa. The Northwestern Sorghum Growers and manufacturers held a convention at Roekford, Illinois, last week for the purpose of ing matters pertaining to the culture of the Cane, and the various methods of manufactur ing the syrups.

The Chfcago Tribune, reporter was presept, sums up the conclusion arrived at as follows: First, then, sorghum in all parts of the Northwest, where the larger varieties of In-5 dian corn perfectly mature, is an acknowledged success. Its adaptation to tlie soil and climate, the ease with which it can be ted, and the certainty ot a remunerative crop, are by exprience which has been long enough and broad enough to satisfy all. Second, though the yield of syrup is large, (here the accounts may vary with the variations of soil and temperature, the perfection of machinery used, the knowledege, care and skill of the manipulators,) and profitable at any figure that syrup is likoly to reach, the question, Can crystaliied sugar be profitably produced from the sorghum is yet an open one that the Convention was unab'e to settle. A large number of fcamples of 6ugarhave been produced, but mostly the result experiments made on a small scale, and without regard to cost. But they prove the possibility of staking sugar from sorghum.

Its profitable pfoduction, in competeition with the cane, is another matter, for the solution of which, longer trial, more capital and additional experiments are required. Third. The amount of syrup made in Illinois, this year, is estimated at two milliona of gallons, of which Winnebago county alone gave fifty thousand gallons. Fourth, in most of the rural diafricts, where the attention of the farmers has been turned to sorghum, the domestic syrup has nearly or quite driven cane molasses out of the market, The former is the clearest the most toothsome, and now-a-days much the cheapest. Fifth, the consumption of saccharine food among the rural population where sorghum is grown, has largely that formerly contented themselves with four to six gallons of molasses per annum each, now find a barrel of syrup none too much for the year's faot of great importance to dentists and manufacturers of artifioial teeth, and not without its value to the political economist.

This, we believe, is a fur aammary of the conclusions arrived at saying nothing of the discussions which the manner of planting, cultivating gathering and manufacturing provoked. The is eminently satisfac tory. IK FKOXT or Burnside is reported to have remarked, upon having his attention directed to the mud forts which were being thrown up by the enemy for the defense of Fredericksburg, "Let them work, poor fellows, it will keep them warm." This seems to be the sentiment among those who are charg ed with the conduct of military affairs in Virginia. Fully understanding the merits of the case, they are satisfied to wait patiently the arrival of the moment when the advanoe may be made with safety and all the elements of success. -jtttM 'I Company, 8 2d Reg't Infantry, 176 8d Reg't Infantry, 276 4th Meg Infantry, 326 6th Reg.

Infantry, 269 6th Reg Infantry," 288 7th Reg. 206 8th Reg. Infantry, 127 9th Reg. Infantry, 840 10th Reg. Infantry, 264.

11th Reg. Infantry, 306 12th Reg. Infantry, 105 ISth Reg. Infantry, 263 14th Reg 102 15th Reg. Infantry, 209 19th Reg.

144 17th Reg. Infantry, ITS 18th Reg. Infantry, 298 19th Reg. Infantry, 216 20th Reg. Infantry, 861 2tat Reg Infantry, 486 22d Reg.

Infant-y, 452 28d Reg. Infanttyi 491 24th Reg. Infantry, 24 88 51 12 5 27 82 62 72 11 81 18 177 276 883 259 289 210 127 840 22 88 44 0 65 4 26 88 70 70 11 82 18 9 304 104 266' 102 210 141' 170 296 217 850 486 444 490 '589 265 842 411 863 269 887 446 444 llff 60 50 48 45 81 25 166' 115 105 110 157 72 84 147 160 92 326 208 167-i. 88d 'Reg. -336 84th Reg.

410 88tfe Reg1. Infantry, 872 86th Reg. Infantry, 345 87th Reg. 13 S8ch Reg. Infantry, 454 89th Reg.

852 40th Reg. Infantry, 295 let Reg. Cavalry, 488 2d Reg. Cavalry, 821 2d Reg. do recruits, 45 8d IKeg.

Cavalry, 448 4th Reg. Cavalry, 276 5th Reg. Cavalry, 6th Reg. 1st, or Grifith's Bat'y, 2d, or Dodge's Bat'y. 8d, or Hay den's Bat'y, 8 Go's at Ft.

Roidall, Oapt Millard's Go at or near Spirit Lake, 52 Iowa soldiers in 1st braaka Reg. Infantry 28 Iowa soldiera in 5h 114 61 42 45 89 28 174' 119 106 109 157 72 146 84 147 15v 98 90 228 208 167 l689 25th Reg. Itifatitryj' 2641 26th Reg. Infcntnv 842 87tbReg. 482 28tb Reg.

Infantry, 862 29th Reg. Infantry, 269 80th Reg.rlefantryj S40 81st Iofantry, 447 82d Reg. -419 8B7 848 13 454 358 -284 490 325 44 444 274 81 81 141 284 78 '28 89 14 188 284 78 25 28 91 .14 28 85 65 brif Vr.Q 85 64 104 80 105 14 58 28 80 19 Bissell's Mo. Eng'r Regiment, Iowa soldiers in 21st Mo. Reg.

Infantry, Iowa toldiera in 7th Mo. Reg. Infantry, 8 Iowa soldiera in 10th 19 175 8 177 48 7 48 189 820 4 3 64 '61 Co. A 89th 46' 42d Regiment, 65 66 74 .1 74 205 32 204 32 50 34 47 14,874 4,116 14,862 4,112 THI NORTHERN PIAOI is stated in Yankee papers that ex-Senator Bigler of baa written a letter proposing a plan of peace. We have not seen it, nor any hint as to the terms he suggests, but as we suppose he was in earnest, and meant to submit something practical, we are forced to conclude that he advises the North to abandon the war, and let the South alone.

Nothing less than this would be practical, or have the appearance of being in earnest. With bis appreciation of the merits of the controversy, and his knowledge of Southern character, be can have no doubt that so long as the North continues to make war the South will eontinue to make resistance, and there can, consequently, be no peace. The first step toward pacification can come only from the North, and it must be a suspen aion of hostilities and the pacification can then be completed only by making the suspension permanent Tbis is inevitable from the oharac let of the war itself they invade, we resist they assail, we defend they seek to subjusate we to maintain our liberty. Tbey must cease to invade, toasBail, and to attempt to for we can not cease to resist and defend without rain. All this must be plain to Mr Bigler and when he talks about peace, he will talk idly insincerely unless be calls on the North to 6top making war on the South.

This is all we ask, or bjve ever asked. In the long controversy that preceded and brought on the war, the cry of the South was always "Let us alonfc" Aggression was, from the beginning, the policy of the Abolitionists. Tbey sought by every possible art of legislation by ail the influence of popular commotion by stealing or tampering with their fidelity and through every means by which they might render the posses sion of such property insecure and dangerous, to destroy the value of tbe institution and to compel us, against our wigbes, our rights, and our interests, to give it up. We protested and deprecated, and implored. If we attempted wa8 oaly to repair some wrong of theirs, or guard agaicst some impending uaoger.

Wc acted always on the defensive, and with a patience and forbearance that was but little short of pusillanimity. But nothing could make them pause After years of outrage and endurance, finally despairing of any reformation, we resolved that, as we could not enjoy our rights in tbe Union, we would separate and this we proposed 'to do peaceably, with of taking or claiming anything that did not belong to us willing, indeed, to relinquish much that did belong to us, and to have an equitable reckoning with our life pattners upon all questions of property that were inevitable from tbe act of separation. In tbis painful but unavoidable step, we again besought them to let us alone, to let us go In peace. But they would not. Their infatuation and rage broke forth with redoubled fury, and tbey precipitated war upon us.

It is sheer non contemptible even for a quibbleto talk about our having begun the war, because we fired the first gun. The fact is, they have been pressing us back for thirty years. When we reached the wall, and conld go no further, we struck. It was a blow of self-delense. Every blow that has been stricken since has been prompted by the same impulse.

We fight because we are unwilling to be overran, plundered and enslaved. We will continue so to fight as long as we can lift an arm. The simple question, then, for Mr. Bigler and the Northern peo pie to consider is, whefter they will cease to make war upon ns. When they have determined on this, the formal stipulation of peace can be easily arranged.

Until they have so resolved, tbey will get no hearing from us for anything they have to propose. Of this they may feel Whig. The opinion is, that we should take good care of children at all sesons of the year, bat it is well enough in winter to Ut them slide. 3 I A 5 5 I Trtfcw. i 5 1 8 6 2 Vylist was 4rritten on tbe Tallahatchie, and Contained a plain, unvarnished account events resulting in the surrender and occcpanon of the forts, woareon the northern side of the river, awaiting the building of the bridge which was to carry us safely over tbe Tallahatchie.

In their hasty retreat yesterday morning, the rebels set fire to this bridge and the railroad bridge, sd that it wo necessary to Improvise something upon which tbe cavalry could MoArthur's division came down with axes and spades, and by three o'clock this morning we were ready topursee the enemy. Gapt Reese, of Go. 8d Michigan, formerly employed in the Ttibnne office, with a doz more, twata the river and visited Abbeville last evening, Ad found that the enemy bad abandoned the town, first setting Are to the depot bandings and cotton in the villige, and destroyinga large quantity of corn and commissary and chHhtng. He at once established between ville and the river, and placed guarde around the property which tbe negroes had rescued from the flantep and reported to headqtiarfers. The 11th Illinois crossed the river before us, and it wmh broad daylight before wewere able to leave the fort, end eight o'clock before wereaoh'd Abbeville.

This village Is of nhieh-Wss topographically, thaiE I expected to find I had been led 4o think that thfrcountry back from the! river whs strtmgly fortified, but I feaw nothing but natnrhliWtiflcatiotHt This fcfcttire is not peculiar this coantry' round aftbut Abbfcjille. Prom Grand Junction to the Tallahatchie, and evln to road leads over' a series of, natural forts, capable of being held by'eb enter prising enemy for an indefinite Theonly obstructions are at the river, and the forts commanding the approach from Holly Springs and tbe railroad bridge. These seem impregnable, and the wttoder is that the enemy did not tibink them so. Tbe citizens say that the reason given for haaty evacuation, Is the fear of being flanked flroffl the Mississippi River. They say' that onr people are moving upon Grenada, and they fear they should have been caught in a pocket bid they remained.

Now that the movement is completed so far as tbe forts at the Tallahatchie are concerned, it may be proper to say, that our Generals were fully prepared to admit the atrength of their forts and the probable unfortunate result should they attempt to take It from tbe front. An expedition was even being planned for extensive flank movements in the direction of Wyattand Soeky Ford, when intelligence waa received of their surrender. I searched Abbeville all over for trophies, bat except a copy of the Grenada Appeal of the 28th, found nothing worthy of There was plenty of corn and commissary stores, clothing and cotton in flames, bat I was no trav cling warehouse, and was obliged to leave them behind. The day was cold and dreary, and to add to our discomfort, before we started for Oxford it began to rain, and so eontinued without intermission during the entire day and night. Long 'before we reached Oxford the roads had become almost impassable.

I have heretofore described our skirmishes witb tbe enemy, and those of to-day were nowise different except as to locality. Some hours before noon the reports of our rifles indioated that we were driving in tbe enemy's rear guard. We pressed him hotly until within three miles of Oxford, when a shell and solid abot fired at our line of skirmishers admonished us that it was necessary to exercise a little caution. The first shot, a six pound solid, fired, killed a horse of one of the Tbis was the only accident during the day. Just about tbis time some negroes tofd us that a party waa just outside our flanking liue upon our right, setting fire to the railroad bridges and cotton gins.

Col. Dickey, of the 4th Illinois, detailed a company to attempt their They took them without the loss of a rebel Captain, one Lieutenant, and thirty-four men, by one company, is considered, ic this army, aatiafactorv. Prisoners were gathered in by our seoutB uatil the number exoeeded one hundred. Just behind where the guns were planted the enemy's cavalry, dismounted as skirmishers, were drawn up in line of battle, but our skirmishers with their revolving rifles played such havoc witb their ranks that they were glad enough to retire and reiorm a mile further on. Their last line but one was formed oo tbe brow of tbe slight elevation upon which the town is built.

This line was broken aB before and reformed on tbe court house square. Here was an opportunity for a cavalry charge, which the boys were not slow to embrace. One company charged down the street at a run, and soon charged back again, as behind the rebel cavalry was discovered a line of infantry. Tbey were soon routed and we bad possession of Oxford. The town is delightfully located, with fine grounds, public buildings, schools, etc.

We have taken nearly 200 prisoners, several commissioned officers among them, including Major Duckworth, commanding the 1st Tennessee cavalry regiment We have killed and wound ed twenty. When we started on the Oxford road, Colonel Mover, with the 3d Michigan Cavalry, was sent on a road nearly parallel and leading to this place. He struck the enemy's pickets four miles from Oxford, driving them tor nearly a mile and a half, when being heavily reinforced by artillery and infantry the rebels made a decided stand. By a flank movement, after a Bhort con test, our boys drove them into ground and whipped them. The enemy loss was heavy.

Our loss one Captain and three enlisted men, wound ed. Night coming on, Col. Moyer moved his troops three miles to the rear and bivouacked for the night It is likely that the contest may be tenewed to-morrow. CoL Lee will doubtless send him reinforcements. Inaportaui movements.

Correspondence of the New York TrUjnxie. QUB'S. OF GXN. BCKSBTOX,) you Dec. 6,1862.

Again I repeat, Gen. BurnBide will not disappoint the army, the Administration, or the loyal people at least, eo far as the Army of the Potomac in motion. To-day been an active one, in every de partment. One grand division is on the march, and may BOOS expect to hear from It, in close ooi.fiict with tbe rebels. Another one has teen reviewed to-day, and a close examination made ot the fighting condition.of the Tbe third bas already undergone inspection, and is momentarily expecting marching orders.

All tbe heavy reserve artillery, too, seems to be in motion. The pontoon trains and tbe Engineer's Brigade have disappeared lrom tbe vicinity of headquarters, but where they or any other portion of tbe army have gone, I shall not for the present inform you. Perhaps you may learn by tellgraph, before this reaches yoa, what movement is on foot if so, all will be right but for one, shall keep my plighted wosd. Everything, for tbe next three days, will depend upon the profound secrecy of tbe movement. Over across the Rappahannock, the Beal will be broken, and tbe public will soon learn all tbey should know of what the army of the Potomac has been doing.

The telegraph informed you some days Bince that Gen. Woodbury, commanding the Engineer Brigade, and Major Spalding, his chief assistant, bad been and were still under arrest for not forwarding tbe pontoon train in advance of the army. It is true that Gen. Woodbury was under arrest for two hours, but as soon as all tl facts were made known to Gen. Burnside, was instantly released.

The censure will sOOn, probably, fall upon another party not connected with the army in the Add, and It is to be hoped that the proper committee in Congress will investigate the matter. Nearly one month's delay, and perhaps the failure of tbe campaign, may result simply mm tbe non-arrival of the pontoon train. Whoever WM at fault should be HOTOKUfllM (With. The Saghver Oorpe now in a high state of efficiency, as all know in the army who have seen what it has done In the pafct weeks in" repairing roads and bollding bridges. It is now mt work night and day, and the taak it baa to.

perform is almost Herculean in its features. If prpperly support-, ted and protected I have not the least doubt of its stccess. My last letter was written from Port Conway, 25 miles below Fredericksburgh. In. it I spoka, of the large quantities of grain still remaining unthreshed in the large plantations.

I have been informed to-day that it is the intention Oar Generals to apply all except what Is absolutely necessaiy to the support of the and these depending upon them to tbe of the army. Immense quantities of grain hate already been brought op the river and shipped to Richmond by railroad. If we should be oonapelled to fall back, which God forbid, the Valley will probably be left in such condition that the Rebels for a long time to come will cease to consider it a granary. Our recent cavalry loaaea have been tbe.souroe of much mortification to the Generals, commanding tbe different brigades. Bold enterprises have been proposed to tbe commanding General, wblcb, 1f tuccessful, would banish our defeats from memory, bat by some wise reason, Generals are held in the leash until the.

time to $rjfe a jjeclsive blow. General Stuart tnay'perform all'tae brilliant deeds what w6 want are victories, cVtrthing fcifd annihilating: in aB tbeit 4tfd: when merged in one grand struggle, shall, create really "a change ofiant of tbe universe." While marching to day the troops, seemed In the best of Spirits. TUd roads are (low comparatively good for infantry and if weather continues pleSssnt, lobg and quick niarchcrfaay be relied upon until we com9 face to ia battle line with the enemy.1 The rAilroad from 'Aquia Creel Is now trans wrtlng rations faster than they can be taken Vom the boats at the wharves. Everything connected with this department is most admirably conducted and if many more Major Generais are to be made, Gen. Haupt should be ode ol the first to be honored the doable star The gunboats continue to make occasional trips between Port Royal and a point a few mile a below Fredetickcburg.

Last Spring the Rebels threw up an earthwork close to the bank of the river opposite the plantation of Mrs. Jane Gray, and fired a few shots upon the Anacosta as she oame up but as yet nothing but a few stray pickets have been seen in this vicinity. Our boats bate passed and repassed, but have not been molested by a single shot. Thus far all the Rebel earthworks discovered are within a few miles of Fredericksburg. That they have been industrious and skillful, no one will deny bat that tbey have prevented Gen.

Barnside from crossing the river remains to be seen. Probably, as I have said before, tbe question will be determined before the close of tbe week. In the morning I leave these when I next write you, I trust it will be from the south Bide of the Rappahannock. r. The Baudpatloii Proclamation IB naeeee.

From tbe Naahvttle Union, Nov. 27tb. i The rebel slaveholders of Middle Tennessee comprise perhaps five-sixths of the filled with alarm at the approaching evil which menaces them with rain. It is evident that they do not regard the President's Emancipation Proclamation as brutwn thunder and no lightning some newspapeas regard it- On the contrary, they look upon it as the most terrible woand yet inflicted upon the peculiar in stitation, which, as it is the chief corner-Btone of the Butterant Confederacy, so it i i the chief corner-stone of the rebellion, whose death involves tbe death of tbe Southern The slavefe have heard of the proclamation, and are following th? example set by them by tbeir masters. Whoever else may affect to doabt the proclamation is a live document, the rebels of Middle Tennessee do not doubt it, and they quake in the extremity of their terror as the day draws near when it shall take effect in WiUon, in Willamson, in Maury, in Ratherford, and in Davidson Counties, the reoel masters have for two weeks, past, been gathering up their slaves and running them off as expeditiously as possible.

Wbole tions which once counted their scores of black, chestnut brown, saddled colored, olive tinted, Saxon now depopulated. Their former inhabitants have "Laid down the shovel and the hoe, i And hung up the fiddle and the bow And have been driven off to the land of cotton mouth snakes, and cottonheaded politicians. We have our doubts whether these fagiti7e masters will find the change for the better It looks tc us like leaping out of the frying pan into tbe fire. What will they do with their alaves when they get tbem Sooth There is ho work for them to do, no cotton or tobacco to raise, and nothing for them to eat. It does not seem to us that to collect hundreds of thousands of restless, excited negroes together, is exaotly the best method of securing and strengthening the divine institution of slavery, which is sanctioned by the Lord'B Prayer and the Sermon on the Mount.

To use a plain term these rebel slaveholders are a set of asses they were never troubled with mueh brains, and they have improved very mueh, of late, the wrong way. If we wanted to stir up mischief, insubordination, and the devil generally, in the cotton States we would advise these slave owners of Middle Tennessee, to do just as they are doing. Jnst let them pile up their negroes four deep over Mississippi and Alabama, until those States look like the deck of a slaver, and beyond all doubt we shall speedily witness an irrepressible conflict, compared with which all other conflicts will appear tame and spiritless. Who would have believed 12 months, ago that during a bloody civil war the rebel slave owners who have always dreaded insurrections among tbeir slaves, even when they were separated from each other on isolated plantations, would, at the most dangerous period of tbe war, mast the ilavet in one formidable body, and thus render thein immeasurably more powerful to inflict injury? This is precisely what the rebels are doing. But we have beard nobody their doing so.

If tbey can stand it, we guess that we can endure it not only patiently but comfortably. In fact, we confess we rather like tbe movement. The rebels are kindly putting their heads close together so that we can soon sever them at one blow, as if they had but one neck. Nor does it require the gift of prophecy to tell what will follow this Btate. These splendid plantations, whose area is vast, whose fertility is unsurpassed, and whose climate is delightful, will not be allowed to lie idle.

An army of hardy, enterprising grants from the north-west will soon poar in to fill the plaoes left vacant by the slaves and, in place of half Bavage, woolly-headed, coalblack, ragged Africans, as uneducated as the mules they drive, there will be a multitude of indastriouB, thinking, well clad, educated, news paper reading, oharch and school going white farmers, able and willing to serve the State in peace and in war. The exchange will not be a bad one it will soon doable our CoL Benton's Regiment, after waiting an unasnal length of time for the arrival of the proper officers, has at last been mastered in and paid off, and is now to all intents and purposes, in the army of the Union. The full number of men in the and file is 981 the average height, five feet nine inches average age, 25 Bluffs Nonpariel, MMUII lalKpntH "Corporal Greta Up Qrdply fried "Here!" waathe answer, load antclsar, Worn the lips or a soldier'who stood near And "Hta the word ibe replied. "Cyrus Drew a silence This time no answer followed the call Only his rear-man had seen him fall, Silled er wounded, he cbald not tell. 1: There they stood in the falling light, These men of battle, with grave, dark looks, As plain to be read as open books, While slowly gathered the shade of night.

The fern on tike hill-sides was splashed with blood, And down in the corn, poppies Were redder stains than the poppifts knew And crimson-dyed trai the river's flood. For the foe had crossed from the other side, That $ij, in the face of a murderous fire That swept them down in its terrible ire And their life-blood went to odor the tide. 'Ilerbert Cline! the call there qame Two'stalwart soldiers into the line, Bearing betweeb tbem this frerbert fTlibe, Wounded and bleediAg to aMfrer lis name. "Exra Kerr voice anEf ered Kerrbut no man replied: Tbey were brothers, these two the sad wind i 1 And a fcfindder crept: thfongb the cornfield 'a soldier "Deane carried dair' regiment's colors," be said, "When oat was fehot I left fclm dead Just aftfr thfumemy wavered and broke. "Close lo the roadside his body lies I paused a moment hnd gave him to drink He AUrmured hie name I think And Death came with it and closed his eyes.

'Twas a bat it cost as dear For that company's roll when called at night, Of a hundred meriSrho -went into the fight, Numbered but tweffty that answerd "Here!" MOBS last Saturday three Monitor gunboats were Whitney and Catalan at New York, and tbe Nantucket at Boston. The Keokuk differs somewhat from the others, in model and construction, being intended for ram as well as iron clad. The following description will give an idea of its new points: First: The armor of her bulwarks and its arrangement Second! The mode of mailing her turret Third: The speed of the trip. 1. The bulwark, or outside armor, with which the construction of Monitors has made Americans familiar, consists of iron plates laid over one another.

Thus when we say a battery has inches of iron armor on her sides, we mean that 4 one-inch plates, and one half-inch plate, are laid over each other and fastened. But this is not the case witb the Keoliuk. Mr. Whitney bas adopted a new plan. Over a ground-work of half inch rolled plates there are bars of iron four inches thick, alternating with strips of yellow pine, of about equal thickness.

Over all tbeae, then, there are two or three f-inch plates of iron. So that, in reality, the exclusively iron mail on the outside is not quite two inches thiok, while the whole armor, the edge iron, wooden lining and plates together make over Many deem this as good as six inches of plate iron. 2. The turret Is somewhat similarly The small batteries already in service, except the Monitor have in their turrets eleven 1-inch iron plates, all laid over each other, and constituting an exclusively iron wall eleven inches in thickness. The Keokuk's turrets have the 4inch.

iron- bars, inside or outside the plates, and although "tbe turret baa six and a half inches of Iron," as stated in our first account of the vessel, only two inches or less of it is laid on in plates, tbe rest being edge-turned bars, which, as in tbe bull, frequently alternate with strips of pine. So that tbe exclusively iron armor of tbe turret is only two inches, while the mass taken together is deemed by many as strong as if all tbe plates were laid over each other. 8. Tbe Keokuk was to be a "ten knot vessel" when she was originally designed, but move iron having been put on her than was intended, it is conceded that she will lose a knot thereby, or only make nine. The first indispensable attribute of a ram is strength, tbe second Hence the most last namedpeculiarity of this singular ship has been over" looked by all who' have written about her.

She will be fast, and her Btrengtb is apparent to all who look at her. A steam ram must be able to catch the vessel she wishes to destroy, and to strike her with as much velocity as possible. It is to make tbe Keokuk tbis kind of craft that Mr. Whitney has ao assiduously labored. Were it feasible to drive ber twenty mileB an hour, she would be all the better ram for it, bat she is net meant so much to be the perfect thing herself as to illustrate in what manner perfection can be attained.

Her englneB are 600 horse power, and if they drive her nine miles an hour, as the authorities expect it would be easy to build one four times ber size, with proportionate speed. It is, therefore, aB a ram, well guarded, more than an impregnable iron-clad, that tbe Keokuk challenges oriticism. Tbe Keokuk is 160 feet in length, 86 feet beam and 18 feet 6 inches in depth. Her capacity is 800 tuns. Her shape is almost that of an egg, tbe aides tapering toward tbe central deck so as to cause the glancing off of any shot which may strike.

She has two turrets, each having three port-holes. In each turret will be an 11-inch Dahlgren gun. The gone are to revolve within tbe tar rets, which are to be stationary. The turrets will be 20 feet in diameter at tbeir base, and 14 feet in diameter at the top, and will rise above the armor feet. She bas a ram forged from solid wrougbt-iron, projecting five feet from her bow, which constitutes a part of her keel, or, in fact, is part of the backbone of the vessel.

She bae water-tight compartments at each end, by meaug of which sbe may be auuk at pleasure during action. The smokestack rises about six feet above the main deck, and is located amidships, between the two turrets. She will be so fitted as to be steered from the after- wtu ov MIKU as ww ue sieereu iron wie She will have two propellers driven by two double engines of 260 horse power each, and the speed for which she is calculated Is about 10 knots an hour. SKATING City Council has wisely granted permission to Mr. establish a skating school and park at the foot of Ripley street.

No exercise can be so safely and profitably indulged in as skating, and a general attendance of the young of both sexes at the school about to be opened would prove decidedly advantageous in tbe development of both mind and body. Mr. is well known as the enterprising proprietor of the German American Imitate and aiming school, and our citizens may be assured that he will do all in his power to provide a pleasant park and thorough instruction to his pupils. He will enclose sufficient space, protecting it from northern winds by a high bo wd fence will also have a house provided for the security of coats, cloaks, and will provide all needed aparatus to save the learner from falls, We wish this praise worthy effort of Mr. Riepe abundant Gazette.

rr htttt bOM WttAi down to their winter ooaditloa: In BNI Innalitlss tho work and tho peculation gmtly dUnished. The settlements far in the mountains, and near the nmmit of tbe Snowy Range, experiencing meet change. At Boekakfa Joe, Montgomery. McNulty, the headwaters mt tbe Bloe and Swan rivers, and at Tarry all, work has nearly oeased, except is tbe leads, and deep placer At TarryaW about seventy flve men are still at work and doing tolerably quite so well, however, as last winter. At Georgia Galch only two claims are being worked.

In French there is much more work going on. From Galena, Delaware and Gold Run, we have no very recent reports: On tbe Patch, and at other in the neighborhood of Breckinrttfs, a large number of men are atUl at work. We have recently been shown some beautiful specimens of gold from Nigger Galch, which ts reported to havcyieMed largely daring the last rammer. Montgomery Is the liveliest locality in tho Western just now. Work forward with the utmost apirit and ire going up, being opened.

All there open the lead and they are developed the procpcct better. Buckskin Joe comparatively deeerted. Several of the heavleat mining companiea and are still pnahingibto the Stafaell A Harris aed Mr. Bond have again the Great Phillips, after a siege with the "cap." Mosquito district is rapidly rising in fsvor. Some 'very encouraging runs have recently been made from taken from tbe in that neighborhood.

California Gulch baa about the same population as last winter, and they are probably doing -about the same, which pretty well. Tho then are deep, aed in tbe winter, the barrow ander the froet and get good pay. At Cash Creek the expectant who ataid there, lived daring tbe on hope, and winter cane only to Convince them that tho "good time earning" waa only deferred," and they scattered to other The disappointment mu occasioned by the failure to get in water. Work on the ditches occupied the season, and water aid not reaoh the diggings until a week before it froseup. Big pay is expected there next season.

About forty miles below thia last named point, on the Arkansas River, are extensive bar In which about one hundred and seventy five men are No Snow had fallen there at last accounts. Miners ara doing tolerably well, making all the way from expense, up to ten dollars per day clear, to the band. The gulches beyond the Arkansaa are generally deasrted. A of new discoveries have been made in that oonntry, during the past summer and fall, iffafch promise well, but so many blgh and snowy mountains Intervene between them and the source of supply, that the miners dislike to risk the winter there. They will be thickly peopled early next Mountain Gazette.

LATI EAST TBNNESSIK Robert Carter arrived In this city sight before last, direct from Greenville. He reports very few troops in Upper East Tennnessee. All the available force in that section of the country bad beenjordered to Tullahoma and Murfreesboro. An order had been issued for all the cavalry in East Tennessee to report at Knoxi ville to he dismounted. There were some three hundred cavalry in Hancock and Counties, who gave out that tbey were going to Big Creek Gap to occupy it but Mr.

Carter thinks they were going to Knoxville to be dismounted in parsoanoe of the order to that effect. There were some four hundred troops at Greenville but they were under orders for Tullohoma. There are some two ments at Kingston, Roane County, an 1 a heavy force at Chattanooga. The rebel newspapers say that their grand stand is to be made at Tullahoma, and that only a small force been thrown out at Murfreesboro as a feint and a check to the Federal forces. Mr.

Carter is a reliable man, and it is perhaps, to him and his demotion, that Colonel Robert Johnson owes his life, for Mr. Carter kept him secreted at his honse and took care of him for four months, after he had been proclaimed an outlaw by tbe infernal edicts of the bogas Confederacy. He also says that the inhabitants of East Tennessee are not responding very readily to the Conscript Law, and that the Confederacy have, jest at this time, too mach business on tbeir hands to enforce That thousands of Union men are scouting in the mountains, determined to suffer any hardships of exposure, even unto death, before they will be forced into secession Com IMPOETAKT TO has been decided bythe authorities at Washington that if a soldier is discharged before he has served two whole years, or to the end of the war, if sooner ended, he forfeits $100 The back dues for wages, and fiftty cents for each twenty miles traveled from the place of bis discharge to the place of enrollment, he ia entitled to on the pay certificates from his nearest paymaster. If a soldier is killed or dies of disease before the end of two years or the close of the war, he has under the liberal construction of the law, served to the end of war, so far as he is Dr can be concerned. Congress intended by tbe provisions of the law that no one should have the bounty until the end of tbe war.

Tbe $100 bounty, by tbis law, will be immediately paid, so soon as ilited. Under an order and rale of tbe war Department, there can be procured for the wives of soldiera imprisoned in tbe South the monthly wages of the soldier to the date of allowance, except the last month's wages, which the Government reserves. If no wife, the minor children, by guardian, are entitled. If the soldier is unmarried, bis widowed mother is entitled. An important decision has been made by the Secretary of war and Pyamaster General in effect, that a soliier is entitled to pay from the day he enlists, and that he is not to Wait until his company is foil, or the formal master of the regiment into Government service.

Neacroee ia On the 5tb instant the Provost Marshal General of the Department addressed a communication to Major Geneaal Cartw, stating that certain slaves had applied to him for a paper that could protect them from arrest or molestation. They asked military protection, as slaves who had been emancipated by the act part of the forward turret, the pilothouse to be of Congress of July 1 th, 1862, on account of amnlv mailed, and Wa the disloyalty of their master, amply mailed, and shaped like an egg. 1IU who at thie time is in the rebel army, and upon this statement the views and wishes of General Curtis were asked, that an answer might be given in conformity to snch instructions as he tho't proper to give. The answer of General Curtis Is as fellows HSADQCABTBBS DEP'T OP THX MISSOURI, 1 ST LOUIS, December 6,1862. If negroes belong to they are free.

If they run into our lines for safety, we are to protect. It is competent for any officer to judge of the status of the negro, from available testimony. By testimony I do not mean to exclude snch testimony as we usually take to ascertain truth, and do not confine to what is technically called legal testimony but the mere averment of a negro himself that he is the slave of a rebel, should only be "prima faeie" evidence of the fact, which may be ersed by other proof. Provost Marshal General and Provost Marshals of Districts may certify as to the status of the negro, and such certificate must be respected by all persons within my command. (Signed) 8.

R. CURTIS, Major.