Chicago Tribune from Chicago, Illinois • 2

7 FROM THE ARMY CF IKE POTCfuUC. 7 LAKE STREET. FROM m. GBANT'S AHMY. suggest to their preachers through the State to earnestly, zealously, and energetically set THURSDAY, DECESIBEIi 4, 18G3.

at least $5,000 from the Treasury. It is not yet known at what date the abstraction of the unsigned notes commenced. The denouement, humiliating as it is to the confederacy, must be doubly so to the Secretary of the Treasury and his officidls. When even slaves find ready access to the embryo currency of the country, Bnd by the scratch of a novice pen divert their 'ssue to their own emolument, it Is a Kioment indeed to tremble for the cause. The whole matter, we learn, will be sifted tc-day before Comr issioner Watson, Commissioner oi the Confederate States.

Lis prophets, he would have exacted a penalty commensurate to tho offense an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Who then would have remained whole We are in favor of the scheme because it 8 a broad, comprehensive, and we believe, an enduring basis of Union and cooperation between the now discordant and Bcmi-hostile parties of the North. The magnitude of the task tha't the government has undertaken in the restoration of so many rebellious States to the Union, forbids the hope that it will end otherwise than disastrously to the country, unless the North can be as an unit in the prosecution of the war. And we are ready to accept and act upon the President's suggestion, and compromise with the friends rather than the enemies of the Union; and at the end secure a part of that for which we contend, rather than by a rigid adherence to abstract proj-ositions without regard to expediency, face the certainty of losing all. And we do not see why this compromise may not SCO Elisor.

JLL SHIST5 Of erer ityle. or both Foreign acd Doiaf Jlaaufactarc, Just received at STRYKER CO'S, 141 LAKE STREET. BOSKET HIItHO.NS. miJininu itiBRftKig, BELT HIHIION, VELVET HIDBOMT9. laree estocl of Frewii OoxX.

I JUBTOPEKE0 AT 1 BTRYKER CO'S. LUPZHS" FREKCH MERUJOcS, Ottoman Valours and Rejts, A fins stock ol nvtr itfiea DBESS GOODS, JUST RECEIVED. FIODE CHECK CASSEWEEES, For Boj" Wear. Heavy IrleUona and Double CaaLmore, Bui labia for rail and Winter Wear. Vow opening at STRYKER CO'S.

ALEXANDRE'S KID GLOVES, Wool Roods, aad Fontajs, ALL FBESH GOODS. Bom nOTCitltl In FALL CLOAKS, laclnSJ.it tha new "ZOUAVE 8ACQUE." Also, a Tery extensive atock of Sbairla, SOW READY at STRI KER 4 CO'S, 141 LAKE STKEKF, Biyl9-r471j mcuh, when compared to ths merchants of Leavenworth. There are th'rty merchants here to-dty who have stocks on averaging $00,000 each. Tbe peddlers make no attempt to rival such competitors, and gratefully and silently pocket the dimes they receive from an occasional sale of a can cf peaches or a box of eardinca. Last year, a few enterprising men In the vicinity ot Emjxjria enured in the shipping of flour to Colorado, and we were told at tha time that that the business was highly remunerative.

nsiii has 6uown that tne i even a better wht at ruling than corn growing State winter wheat being leas dependent on rrins In summer, and therefore a surer crop) and the shipping of flour to the gold region must hereafter become an extensive" sourcj ot profit to our agricultural population. LeacentcartU Cunoervutive. The ltebel Losses. Frcm the Savannah Republican, Nov. 17.

Our loss in killed and wounded may be roughly estimated at, Fort Douelaou, 'at Roanoke and on the Norrli Carolina coaet. 000; at Etkborn 3 503 at Sbiiob, lP.CC'O; at Williamsburg, Seven Pints and before Richmond, iu tbe Valley of the Shenandoah, 5.0(H); at Cedar Run, at the second buttle of Mia-nasfas, 3 000; at Boonston and Cnmptoa Gaps, 4.C00; at Sbarpsbnrg, at Cor.ntb, at Perry viiie, andS.OOJ for those ko have fallen at outposts, la etc. These figures a.id?d together nibke tbe firightinl sum of 75,000. Of the number, it would be Bfe to say that one third, cr 25,000, are now in their graves, having either been killed outright or die I of their n.nti. Quite as many probably more-have died ot from sickness, To thw should be added 5,000 more, for those who have been maimed, and whose health has been ruined lor life.

Thus our lasses iu ten months t-f the present year may be estimated at 75,030 men, who have either perished or been disabled. If tte truth was known they would probably reach 100,000 by the end of the year, for the death from disease, ia the hospitals, in camp and at home, generally exceeds those in battle. For every year that the war continues, we must expect our cisuilties to be quite as heavy as they have bjen the present year. Tbe Fourth. Iowa District.

The Iowa City iStute Prest speaks of Mr. H. M. Martiu, the late Democratic candidate for Congress in tbe 4th district, as "our Congressman elect," and announces that he intends to contest the teat with Mr. Griunell, on "the constitutionality of tbe law authorizing the soldiers' vote." This is decidedly cool, to say the least of it, wheu this same 11.

M. Martin was a member of tne Legislature which enacted that law, and himseif urged its paeeaae and voted in its favor! Cool, very, conidering that Mr. Grinne'l's majority is only 13T1, and that he cannot be ousted from bis seat without the disfranchisement of the brave thousands who have left their Iowa homes to light for the preservation of the Union. What do Democrats care for that, however; they had no business to go, of course, and certainly have no right to vote. The voting must be done by the Democrats Who stay at home, not by th Republicans bo fight.

Davenport Gazette. WHOLESALE BUYERS WQI find In onx Btora a large stoek of ZEPHYR WORSTEDS, Yarei, Hoods, Voblag aad Skating Cap SKIRTS AITO CORSETS, Hosiery and GlOTea. Brrttona, TJreaa Trlmminsra. BraldJ, BulClcga. Velvet Hibbona.

Including A tOMTXJilli assortment ol NOTIONS, Onr ttoek Inrltirir. will find oorflanrea VEKI CLObE forliET CAbiL GRAVE afc IRVINE, T8 Lak. SXrU SUTLERS' GOODS, WINTER GOODS, DRESS GOODS, CLOTHS. CASSIMEHES, HOODS, NUBIAS, SONTAGS, Amdthe most extensive and attractlTe stock of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods AT WHOLESALE IX CHICA90. t3T Orders accompanied wtta money, or reference, secure onx best attention.

30WEN BROTHERS, IUPOBTEB3 AND JOBBERS, M6o3S-Sa and 76 Late etraat. Chicago. 300 BALES Blue Twilled Flannels ALSO. 300 BALES Grcj Mixed Flannels, FOB BALE BZ R. W.

KENDALL, 35 PAEK PLACE, SEW YOBK, nols-xtiMw GI0TH EOTJdE. i.2, BENEDICT 34 3S take Street, navs now In store the largest stock ol Cloths, Cassimeres, Vesting SATIAETTS, Sheep's Grey, Heavers, Pilot, Itlellons, And all ctter (roods for VTVS ever xhlr Ucd In tale market. MEKi HAS Vs are lnrited to examine our doe- cf eaoua jrf aU kinJ lor OFFICERS' UMFOSriS, Ulne Cloths, ltlae Flannel. Blue CafcsLcaerc, 1CC2. DRY GOODS, 1352.

AfiD FANCY, for the fall trade, dale (euCCKtSOES TO UAJiiiOS. CALK) 53 Lake Street, Chicago. we effer to 19 Trsrf; a lar( ni well assorted toclt ol and WOOLK DElsa UCwBS, WCBSTE3 GOODS, YAKKEES OTIOXSj H00? S5LUT3, HOSIERY. Ard gF-t Good in onr Line. Onr stack wa before the late In (xrts.

and LeMevio we rnn oiler Biipertcr liidnceme.iiM. ajucit an Biauilaa-tma troa all wiahlug to puruiaaa. HAfiMOif. GAI.S CO. CLOAKS CLOAKING.

153 and 155 lake stre CLOAKS IN STOCK AND fiii AD TO ORDER, AND CLOAKING MATERIAL IN LARGE VAUIETlf. ALSO. Reps and Ottoman Dress Goods, A BrLJSNDID LINB OP THEM. W. R.

WOOD CO. tOC3I-TS19-lm GROCERIES, Swing, BriggscjOo, EOrTH TTiTES SOT, Offer lor aale AT TEE VEKT LOWEST PBXCSS CLOSE BTJTEKS AST) PROMPT MEH, well (elected ftocK At Wholesale. fish, TOBACCO, RICE, SPICES, TEAS, COFFEB8, SYRUPS, MOLASSES, SOAFS DHIED "FRUIT, WOOEEN WAUK, and all article utnaily tnoi3afl their lino. We M-re DOOflrM mmt of onr roofia for euh, asa Ueve Ut we can mnke It to the Interest el all aiH In this market to call and examine our axol otuorc During. EW1NG, BKl'ititi Ko.

TX Soath Water itreet, CUcalO. m. Ii. Kwlr- fit. Lorfla, Mo.

1862. CLOIimtL IS3Z. MARTIN WHOLESALE CLOTHIERS, Lake Street, Chicago We stare full lock ofrB m.aA Winter dooda. AT LOW PRICES. ran26-tt-3ral St Ml StTMt, CUKg, 522 7L1TS, SHEET DEALKB Dl Tinners tcciu 1BBSTI wn IIOYre's Improved Seolsal themselves to work to correct the evil at once, Kentucky is not In any way Included in the President's proclamation.

That proclamation exprtsi-ly refers to States, or portions of States that are engaged in armed rebellion.aad It distinctly states that any State, or portion even of a rebellious State, that shall be repre-resented in the National Congress on the first fiay of January, will be relieved from the ope ration of the proclamation. therefore, hope that the Rev. 3Ir. Adams, the Rev. Mr.

Snethen, and all other preachers in the State, who have the pastoral care of African churches trill at once show by their acts that their duty In recognised and performed. If the apostle Paul could tell those members to the Conn tfiian Church, who were called into Christi anity" while they were slaves, not to acceept freedom even ff it were offered to them, those who are subalterns of Paul may feel secure in walking in his path." Cieo. Boyle. Unconditionally loyal Kentuckians have long been urging the removal of Gen. Boyle, whose order to the same effect with Gen.

Hal- ltck's Order No. 3, has just been published. They believe that men of their own stamp should command the Union armies. Smuggling fob the Rebels. Considerable contraband trade is still going on across the Potomac.

Two Baltimoreans were arrested near Alexandria, who were engaged in carrying goods and information to the rebels, and ten Jews were brought np as prisoners by the flotilla who had upon thtir persons ever $1,200 in coin and Treasury notes, aud about $300 in Confederate paper. Contested Seat in Congress. Judge Jjs. II. Birch, pro-slavery and secession sympathizer, who was a candidate for Congress in the Sixth Congressional District of Missouri, announces his purpose to assert his right to re present the district in Cpngress.

Austin A. King is the candidate reported to be elected. 17th Wisconsin Eegimetst. The Madison Journal announces the resignation of Cal. L.

Doran ot the 17th Wisconsin regiment and the appointment of Lieut. CoL Malloy to the vacancy. CoL Doran has been placed under arrest by Gen. McArthur. The Iman Troubles.

The Secretary of the Interior is satisfied that the late Indian troubles in Minnesota originated in the insur rection in the Southern States, and were aided by British emissaries from Canada. To Go into Winter Quarters. The steamships Detroit and Milwaukee, belonging to the railroad company, are soon to go Into winter quarters at Grand Haven. They are to be repaired somewhat for the coming season. The ArPBOAcuiNG Battle.

Gen. Burnslle yesterday told an officer of high rank, who was about visiting Washington on official business, to return by Monday, without till, as he meant to fight during the coming week. No Reception at White House. Sirs. Lincoln, on account of the death of her sob last spring, will have no receptions at the White House this winter.

PAl'lili CONSPIRACY. HigH Price of Paper aud Its Cause. From the N. Y. Times, 1st Inst It is undoubtedly true that the hijjh price ot paper of all kinds is due primarily to a scarcity of the material out of waich it is made.

Cotton, which enters largely into the manufacture ot paper, has been almost entirely cut oil' from the markets of the world; and the war has also excluded the large quantity oi rope and other articles which were formerly supplied from the Southern States for tte roanu'acture of paper. When the war first broke out, the demand for books fell off largely everywhere, and the Southern market for iiBper ol all kinds was suddenly closed. This cuuscd an immediate fall in price, and I aj-er was Eevtr before so cheap as uurirg the lirist eor after the war began. The, low piics, howevtr, caused very many of the mil to ttop, and checked the production in every quaiter. WhtH toe stock on hand was exhausted, ar the absence cf the raw material tvr its further manufacture began to be felt, the inevitable remit was a rapid and very con-sidcrafcle increase in price.

It ought to be known, however, that this natural tendency was very greatly aided by a combination of the leading papar makers of tbe country, who have upunthe opportunity to cruth out small dealers and to enrich tfiemstlves at the expense of the public. Thtce men are do actively eogiged iu perfecting this coiubinatiou, for the purpose of forcitg prices to a still higher point than they have jtt reached. They met in this cHy iu Si-j-ttruber, and orgauized Tue Paper-ftiaki'rs' Association of the United St vhieU ia governed ty a number of officers, nine of -whom coi-stuute a quorum lor the transaction of buriness. Five of these per-scne, heirs a majority, therefore, have the lisht to dictate rules for the government of nil the paper-makers of the United States who thall bt come meinbersoi the association; and tbfy hope to make their machinery strong erouth to crush out all who refuse to join item. Tlaj claim tho rieht fix the prices of all kinds oi paper, to regulate the time of working cf the various paper-mills, and generally to control the buniue of making and sellinsr prper, without rterard to the liws of supply, and demand by which business of all kinds ib usnfiUy govt riser1.

Aud they have a fipeebl etancing committee of seven, whose duty it is to "carry iuto effect orders, votes and resolves of the association and government." It is easy to see what a powerful engine for the oppression ot the community, suca an in c-f unprincipled men, may easily become. While the price ol paper, frem the scarcity of rags, would undoubtedly have largely increased, it could never have been so rspidiy and enormously as it has been within the past two month3 but for toe inm edipte interference ot this combination. They have, by their action, direct and indirect, more than doubled the price of printing paper, and trebled that of other kinds. Tte natursl effect of such measures will be to dimmish the consumption, and thus reduce the piice. But the Paper Makers' Association cxi ect to defeat "the operation of this natural law by dmiuishing the production In the same ratio.

TSey claim the right to put all the paper mills ia the country, subject to their control, at work on half time, whenever they find tb price ot paper sprain fallirg off. We UBderrtand that "the government" of this association is to hold a meeting in this city to-morrow, lor the purpose of perfecting their machinery and increasing the price of paper still further. Some persons who have the most faith in the working of these schemes do tot hesitate to predict that printing paper will sell st forty cents a pound before the winter is over. In the long run, as a matter of course, such arbittcry ar rellish combinations ruin all but a few of the strongest and wealthiest members. But they have the power, meantime, to inflict very serious injury upon the commnnity at large, and do it irreparable dMiiape to the business which they assume to prtitect.

We don't believe that our Illinois paper makers are parties to this iniamous conspiracy against the public good. If the combination persist in their operations, newspaper and book publishers must club together aud build paper mills of their own, and never af lerwards purchase a Eheet from the swindling eitor-tiorers. directory or Jloepltkls. The attention of clergyman, editors, and others is requested to the foHowiDg notice. Which is of interest to all who have iriends iu the army, and which it is therefore shonid be widely published: D1BECTOBT OF THE BOSriTALS.

The Sanitary Commission have establishes an office of information in regard to patient in the of the District of i-olmnbi, and of Frederick City, Narylar-d. By a reference to books, which are corrected daily, an answer can, under ordinary ctrcamstanees. be given by return mail to the following questions 1st. Is giving rams and at present in the hospitals of -the District, or of ir'rcdericfc city Sd. If so, what ia his pronsr address 8d.

What is the name of the eurfeou or chaplain cf ilie hospital 4th ft not in Uiit.il at present, has ha recently been In hosrit-il 5th. If so, did he die in hospital, and at what date 6ih If recently dUcharpred from hospital, was he discharged frem service Ttb. If not, what were his orders on leaving? The Commie thin if" prepared also to furnish more specific information as to the condition of auypatient hospitals, withintwen-ty-fcnr hours efttr a request to do so, fromaaorH-cer of anv of its correrponfimg societies. The ofiice of the Directory will be open daily freiu 8 o'clock a. m.

to o'clock p. sod acccsa-ble in urged rase at any hour of the nlht. The number of pslients in these hospitals ia about So.OOO- If found to be practicable, the duty here nndertaten locally by tho commission will be extended to Ll elude all the general hospitals iu the country. JTitkD. Law Olmsted, General Secretary.

Adama Hruse. 244 street. D. Kov. 19.

1S52. A Card. At a meeting of the soldiers in convalescent barracks, Kvausville, (iu charge of Surgeon W. D. Turner, of the Chicago Light Ar-tilltry.) from the States of Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, isconsin, Michigan, Iowa and Minnesota, a committee was appointed, consisting of one member from each of the above Stites, which, as a true exponent of their fellow soldiers, offer the following resolutions Jtetolred, That an expression of our sentiments be tendered Surgeon Turner previous to his leaving us to join his regiment In the field.

Hemlved, That our feclmtrs are those of love ana admiration of huii as au officer aud accomplished euraeon. Jiesolrtd, That his unremitting efforts to promote the welfare and secure the riehts of soldiers under bis charge, wiil ever command our grateful remembrance. Jltsolrtti, Thatonrttarks are alsodue to himself and tady for their sindi.tits md generosity in ad-n-inii-teruig to the wants of the families of volnn-tt ere lift in destitution wliile their husbands are fhjbliig their cc-nutry'e battles in the field. Xtxjitfd, That a copy ot these resolations be published in the Evaasville Journal that a copy be sent to bis own State aud published iu the tlilCAUO TkllSLKK. J.

A DrmiAJf, Secretary, Co. G. Western Sharpshooters. COHKI1TEE. Stafford co.

t.5th Ind. Fkauk FKJTKnt. i-lshOhio. VlUCEST J. ViTTIK, CO 14ih 111.

E. E. Dkherson, CO F. 18th Wut. Kxr.HOLAS Cakr.

co K. 30h Iowa. HabvstJ Hopkins, co Sd Uich.Cav. AiiAUi K. Lee, co.

Mi Hinn, Hew Esrihwcrks Thrown np by the Eebtls Aear Fredericksburg. Tte Significance of the Eecent Visit of 1110 President, EiiAiKjrjARTma Armv or Tire Potomao, faunuay, Kor. '64 p. iu. Seme camps of the enemv.

visihle voator. day, disappeared ljst nieht. Thev nrohahiv have retired to the valley behied tae ranee of 1 t. uuioui uic io ui leuericKbourg. New rebel earthworks almost dailv make their appearance, and the range in the rear of me ton ib crown-a almost continuously with redoubts and rifle pits.

Three hundred infantry, belonging to the 12th and 17th New York regiments, were re-pcrted surprised and captured last evening a lew miltB above that point on the Kappiiian- IlOCK. Abo ot dusk last eveninsr the enemv com menced throwing np a new line of eartnworlis reiow reaenc KEOurfr, rrom otJU to boo work men teinir visible lroui our siirual station. Five gunboats are reported to have advanced up the Rappahannock opposice King George Court House. Tne right wing of the enemy extends nearly to that, point, but at some entrance irom the river. A tew shots were throw over the river veswrdav.

The rebel army have paid pari icular atten tion to tee oeit nse ot the uoruonsvnie road, which is the chief one leading; out of the city to the and west. A Ions Une of earth works, freshly thrown up durica the ntcrttt. rose to view In the morning ou the line of this rcaa. 10 say notlunir ot these accumulate works cf defense, the formation of the mi; ack ot the town renders tiie position one ct the strongest iaiagiDable. The first line ot hi I which rise like an ampitheatre front the river plain occupied by the to vo, is traversed by indentations or ravines running at various angles, the siies oi which are covered by preparations for batteries, and several ot them have guns iu position, capable of pouring a raking cross-lire upon any acvauc-ing column.

Behind the first range, with an interver ing valley of irregular as the Mittoponix Valley, is a still more formidable range ot hills, which iu turn will no doubt be strongly fortified. There are also their favorite woods for shelter. To cross this river.and carry the positions I have described, with a large army to oppose us, i tbe most stupendous undertaking which has been presented to any military ommander during the war Nothing has passed between the town and our own lines for several days, the status quo, at least on our part, being observed. The anemy have no large military farce Iu tbe town, but do not hesitate to come and go at will, in small squads of cavalry. The pickets, near the place, of course, have quarters in the be uses of the town, and at our distance it is difficult to decide as to how much good faith the authorities observe in keeping their own promises not to allow stores or supplies to pate out of the town.

The rest of the pontoon train was expected last evening, and horses and mules in considerable numbers Lave arrived. The weather this morning is cool, clear and the sur. rises rosy aud dear, and gives promise of a fine, crisp day just such as gives elasticity to the step, and life to the spirit of the soldier. Tbe frotsty temperature of the nlgut must have stiffened and dried the roads so that the wsgou trains can move with greater ease. A wagonmasttr yesterday told me that oiie of the uauis became "stalled" oa the way hi her from Bellp'ain; and tht after the load of hard bread had been taken out, eight borstrs and mules could not haul the wagon out of tbe mud.

Last evening we could hear the welcome sound of the steam whistle, near Potomac river, to which point the locomotive now travels with materials for completing repairs of the bridge. General nooker, yesterday, slated tnat it would take tiro days more to fitish the work. We shall then be ready to rec ise the locomotive and ears which are already on the way from Alexandria. Tne former were safely conveyed away when the troops evacuated this position last August. The freight cars were destroyed.

No one who has not given his attention to tbe subject is awaie of the enormous amount of stores wbich ifriequired for the simple sub sistence of a large aruiy. Allowing four pounds per day per man, it wiil require net tou3 tor one week subsistence lor tiuO.UiX) men. To supply the current demand of an army of men st five pounds each, and accumulate, a ten day's supply, will necessitate the transportation cf tone. Tuis estimate does include the most bulky portion of sop-plies forage for the animals. A large part of tijis, in the present bare condition of the country must also be hauled iu wagons over tae Eiiiuc reads by wbich the food is transported.

ims would turnisn a mil careo lor lour nrst- cljs-s Liverpool 6hips each ten days. The lorsge will keep ctmstaet employment a lltet cf -00 schooners of lot) tuns each. To all ltt it be remembered there should be added the cumbrous poutoon tra ns aid transportation lor tnouaiins ot norses and mules required lor keeping up the work-irg ice of tte army. No estimate is here for ammunition and miscellaneous sup plies. TUB PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO GEU.

BUKXflDB. Washington, Nov. 29, lSe-i The object of the President's visit to Gen. Burnside continues to be tae theaie of speculation. I thick that, without from the line of strict propriety, I cau say taat it hau reference to the iKi.iy y.iuen has attended the ad vauce across the Rappahannock.

Wh'-n lien. rJurneide ass-umed command of the Army ot the Potomac, he at once wrote to the Government concerning a change of base, aud a rapid advance, aud specifying certain bupplies which would oe xnuispensa'xc to tue movement, lie bated his movement on the assur ance cf rectiMDg them. His plan was approved ai the supplies promised. Ha executed lis part of the programme with a rapidity ard vigor ot which the couutry has already een informed. But wheu he reached the designated poiut, lie found none of tte frlits neither pontoons, forage nor provisions.

Tne Government hud failed, and bis movements were of necessity arrested. I surmise that the President went down to see about it to ascertain preeist-ly where the responsibility for thisiailuie rested toasjure GLn. BurLside of his stear.y and hearty support to renew promises of all the supplies ard reinforcements he might need, and to him that, whatever might be. the pressure upon him, ne wisnea mm to ngnt no xntecuwe battle there. The vii-it was intended and calcu lated to aid Gen.

Burnsidc's advance. We learn here that the rebels continue to strergtbtn their position in the outskirts of Fiedericksburg; that they are throwing up earthwoiks nearer the town, aud that four or five separate forts have already been completed and made ready for their guns, wh: jh had not. however, betn mounted on Fridiy morning. The rebels aie evidently preparing for an obstinate resistance. We shall see whether a combination of pluck and Btrategy cannot circumvent and overcome them.

Condition of tbe Planters aud Plantations. Correspondence of the N. Y. Tribune Cajip OPElxrsA, Railroad, 25 Mii-ss fbom 1 Ksw OKLKA-N8, Kov. 14, 1803.

A scouting party, last night, brought into camp nity or hixty negroes, of different ages and s'zt who have just emerged from a state of bondage to freedom. Tue transition is sadden and great; but whether the change will prove to be an actual curse to them or a blescing, is a question which tiuie alone cau determine. The once wealthy masters look woe-begone, as if they lelt that the day of doom had come. The plantations are many of them almost entirely deserted. Some of the slaves go to tbe ciiy, to be enlisted as soldiers.

Some are wiliicg to work on the plantations in saving the sugar crops, at $10 per month, and some msy be hanging about the several ni'iitary From maiy of the plantations the masters and mistresses are gone, having retreated with their army and guerilia bantfs beyend our lines, to await, probably; tbe day never to come; when they shall retake this rich country and be restored to their posst-fcbions. Such is their iufatuauon, that every man among tfcem we converse witn seems possessed of the belief that the Yankees wiil yet be driven out of this country, and the Confederate Government be tstab-iukhed. I have never belore seen such a striking verification of the old heathen saying, Quern JJeus vult jxrdere prim demetitit." Yesterday, our Colonel detailed a company of men, with an officer, to go between thirty and forty miles from here, lor the purpose of taking possession of two large plmtations, just confiscated, having a considerable quan-ti'y of eugar on them. By this act, '200 or SCO slave are emancipated, whose condition heretofore, certainly, hts been worse than that of the serfs of Russia. Allow me to say that, in my view, the gov-erxmenx has now got the bull by the horns, and it wiil cot take long to effect his destruction.

It is to be regretted that the government did not do this long ago, for tnen he could not have done us much harm, and the wsr would soon have been brought to a close. I have resided in the Southern States ever since 1 was a grown man, and I am now gray-headed; and therefore at the commencement of this war, I was not an abolitianitt. But when these States seceded, and thtir batteries were actually opened on Fort Sumter, I knew that slavery was doomed, and from that day I have been an aboiitionut. I do not feel myself at liberty to misinterpret and misapply the plain teachirgs of Providence. All Southern men with whom I converse, who are tor tbe Cnion entertain similar views to myself.

It is absurd to t3lk ot consirvotisus now. You will find Jack Hamilton a putty good exponent of the lTr ion feerng in these Of all traitors aeairt this great aud good government, Nortcern traitors are the basest; for they are without excuse, having re slaves to lose. If such men as Davis, SJidell, Yancey and others, serve to be decapitated, what to be inflicted on Ben. Wood, John Van Buren, and their confreres Tlic Pike's Peak Trde. Messrs.

Losee Jennison yesterday started a train for Denver, containing goods to the amount of $75,000. The commerce over the plains bet ween Leav-enwtrtb and Colorado is much more extensive than the general public is aware ot Being in the hands of individual merchants and freifehteis, and no longer controlled by a few heavy companies, It would be very difficult to secure full statistics of this rade. We know that no week goes by without one or more trains leaving this city for Denver. But the departure of these heavily ladened wagons on their leng jonrcey has become bo frequent as to no longer attract attention, or lead even to a newspaper item. Our bankers and merchants, however, are fully aware of the stent and importance cf the mountain trade.

One banking house here, Clark, Gruher alone, buy worth of gold duet tvt ry wetk. If any one thinks Pike's Peak has played cut," he only to take a walk through our 6treets to be speedily convinced of fcis error. Tiis trade is a constant source of emolument to cur citizens ef that thriving Territory They buy gcots in Leavenworth because it is for their iulerest to do The traders of Omaha, St. Joseph, Nebraska aud Kansis cities, are mere peddlers, living from huad to HEATQUlliTEKS AT II DLL SITJNCS. SKIRMISHING IN FRONT OF THE TOWN.

Col. Lee's Caralry Advance. Arrival of Gen. Sherman's Column from Memphis. Special Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune Eollt 8PMN08, Nov.

29, 1S32. I write this letter in the Court House of Ilolly Springs, In the office of the Provost Marshal, surrounded by soldiers aud citizens, and amid a liabel of tongues; and if my ac count of the capture of this village should prove incoherent and unintelligible, please ascribe rt to my surroundings. As I told jou we should, in my last, -we were in the saddle and miles away towards Holly Springs long before daylight, and by 10 o'clock had reached a point three miles beyond Lamar, where, utder the shadow of the grand old fortst trees, (e pread our lunch and fed our horses, preparatory moving on Holly Springs. It had been our intention to encamp for the night just beyond Coldwater, and at daylight or just before to make the grand entry Into town, in the hope of capturing another batch of prisoners, but Providenee or the Deity of WTar interfered and willed it otherwise. Just as we came In eight of Hudsonsville, we saw at the door of a planter's house, a couple of "butternuts," who on our ap proacn, iook to meir neeia and ran as if the eutire Federal army was after them, ui course a squad was sent in pursuit, and there was the tallest kind of a horse-race for three miles or more, resulting in our being distanced.

They would carry the news of our approach, and it was thought best to ride rap-ioly to town. A company was sent in the advance, and had approached wit hin a half mile of the village, when an orderly came rallop-iag down to the rear, with the intelligence that a large body of troops were forming ia line of battle in the streets, and making an attempt to outflank us on the right. Of course preparations were made to counteract this disposition oi their forces. Four companies were dismounted and deployed as skirmishers, a company sent to our left to flank their right, and the balance of the column galloped rapidly at his centre. As our Bkirmisners came within rifle range, sharp, quick shots were given and received, at the end of which the enemy lied, followed by our cavalry at full charge.

Thty passed through the town on the run, and discovered 800 of the enemy egiin drawn up ia line just beyond the town S.milardispoiiiion was mat of our forces. Dismounted men were Sent loiward as skirmishers, and cavalry charged at the centre as before." The skirmishing and driving was continued in this way from three until dark, when our troops were withdrawn, stronjr pickets posted on all the roads, a Provost Marshall Lieut. Stoddard of the Iowa appointed, and the town run after the approved method of the "Km-688 Jayhawkers." Horses and mules taken, and several soldiers captured and paroled. Of the former we must have obtained at least fifty and of the latter ten. The "city organization" was hardly completed belore the different companies, sent out on the several roads leading into town, began to come in with their reports.

The conclusion reached Jrom these is, that durine the afternoon Col. Lee's command must hive killed and wounded at leat twenty or thirty in the skirmish. A rebel Captain was killed, and we captured a half dozen prisoners. lo-morrow. the cavairy division witn two sections of artillery, early in the mornins starts for Lumpkin's Mills, threejmiles beyond which is the headquarters of the army of West Tennessee, under command of Jackson, Gen.

Pemberton's Chief of Cavalry. I look tor a fight to-morrow. We shall go out numbering at least 2,000, besides the artillery, comprising the flower of be cavalry force of this wma of tbe army. With how many we shall return is i-nc-wn only to uoa who watenes over us. following tue cavalry division, and only four miles to the rear, en the banks of the Coldwater, 18 encamped Gen.

Him'lton's army, and just beyond, Gen. McPherson's w'Esr. 01 conrse mere is JiKtiv to De wort atiead. If the rebels will stand np and fight i-Ke men, wnicn tney promise to Co, we will wbio therh. They are equally confident of succesp, find may achieve it, but I think not.

Our les3 in to day's Ekirmish is one man wounded. Last edntsdav Gen. Sherman moved from Memphis, and to-night our pickets hive heard the roll of tbe drum to the westward, as it sounds the different calls of the night. The sound comes from the direction of Tala- hoosa. So certain is Col Lee that Gen.

Sherman is approaching, that he has just dispatched six men, guided by a rebel whom tfe has prested into service, to open communication vitb him. This done, we snail move conjointly upon the enemy first at Lumpkin's nils, auu then at me lananatcme. waai is the next peint aimed at is of course unknown, cr if known, considered imprudent to cotrmunicitte. Our entrance into town Knocks the bottom out of confederate notes. To-day I saw a baker refut one Jor a card of ginger-bread, and ke a doliur en an exploded MicUigaa wild cat, instead.

Mrs. Cra'ts, tbe daughter of a Connecticut Yankee hersel! and family ardent rebels, in vited r.s to purtflKe ot her nosprtable board. The tirenaoa AiWal ot the liottt is before me. The ksdii.g article is an approval of tha treasonable articles which lately appeared in theCMaago Times, contrsdijtingtheatatement of a publican paper that the rebels never gained a single pusitiim by force of arms." Nov. SOih Daylight.

Col. Lse has jusrjre-ceived a communiCMlion from Gen. Sherman. He is on Pigeon Roost road, encamped on Red Bank Creek, nine southwest of Holly Springs, and nine miles north ot Tullaho-nia. Oil Sunday he will march south to join probibly senthwe st of Lurrpkin'a Mil's.

1 close this aorupiiy to seno Dy courier 10 be mailed. Save Your Bags, Loda, Iroquois IU Dec. 1, 1S02. Editors Chicago Tribune: To tue Women of tue Nobtti to you who are interested in improvemcnt.in doing all you can to help the soldiers who fight and suff er, and also to ameliorate the condition of those Buffering at home, and all others, let me call your attention to one small matter, which, perhaps, you have overlooked save your rags. You would think what you would save would amount to little or nothing; but let me assure you if every one of us will save all the rags in the house, it will most assuredly help to make paper cheaper.

I am a woman and a housekeeper, and I am confident no man has the most remote idea of the amount of rags burned and destroyed ia every house in the country, in a year. Every one knows the va3t importance of keeping paper as cheap as possible therefore let those who would not ttiuk of saving rags for the sake cf selling them, save them for toe good they will do. Let it but become fashionable to keep a little rag-bag by the sewing machine, and carefully collect all ravel ings and scraps, and paper will be cheaper. I will make a proposition Let every woman In the land carefully search up all the rags in her house, and send them to the "paper man" belore the 1st of January, 18G3, and wait the result. 8.

Davis' Nlseers In tue Treasury Aoie UtuHlness. IFrom the Chattanooga Rebel, Nov. 19 A most remarkable instance of forgery has just been developed in Richmond, iu the arrest of certain slaves, the servants of some of the high officials in the government, who have been detected In forging Treasury notes, and even entering the Treasury office and obtaining sheets ot the unsigned notes, for the ope-rasions of the colored expcits. That there has been "a nigeer in the woodpile," and that he has succeeded in getting his finger "full of de notes," is a melancholy certainty. The Examiner of the Ufa gives the following account of the affair: Facts, known to the detective agents for some days Dast, developed themselves yesterday in the arrest of certain negroes, one or more of them having the entree of the Treasury Department in the capacity of menials, which substantiates in a most positive manner previous assertions as to the loc6eand caraless manner with waich the great interests of the Confederacy are conducted in that department.

Yesterday, Special Government Detective Wt skington Goodrich, assiFted by Mr. Crad-docfe, detective of Capt. Maccnbbia, attached to Provost Marshal messenger to the President, arrested the folio or ing negroes, on the charge ot entering a room of the Treasury Lepartinent, abstracting the notes, forging the signatures thereto, ana circulating them. The charges are distributed among them, but these are the bon ton names, servants, as they are, to some of our first officials and citizens: Dick (or Richard), slave of David Clark, and servant to President Davis Oliver, slave of Dr. Sydenham Walks, of Manchester; Emanuel, slave of William W.

Crump James Stewart, slave of Henry Cor-beil, proprietor of tbe Richmond House; Henry, slave of J. K. Caskie. It sefms Jrom the development of facts, which are confused, as yet, that Dick, the President's servant, was the count erteiter and forger and Oliver the who fitted a key to tbe Treasury office and obtained the sheets cf the unsigned notes for the blick expert to work upon. A batch of twenty dollar confederate notes, with the forged names attached, done in the chirography of the negro Dick, were found, a number of them haviug been presented to the cashier of the Exchange Rank by the negro Stewart, and refused on account of the bungling manner in which the signatures were executed, though the plates bad every appearance of being genuine, which is the fact.

The- extent of this Ethiopian depredation upon the Treasury is unknown at present but it is known that bills unsigned, represtntirg were abstracted oa last Friday night week. Neither is it known yet how far the ramifications of this black society cf forgers ard counterfeiters extend, but it is bumied that thoee arrested comprise the IradiDg spirits. Dick, as the servant of trie Pres.idi.-iit, had access to the department at all bonis; also Oliver, wto was a servant to au officer hose office was in the building, and between them it is supposed they hatched tie plot, which so far has shown an abstraction ot REBEL TERRS OF PEACE. The telegraph brings the following lirtxwua piece oi news Fernando Wood, In a apcech In New Tork on S-atttidayiiitht, eidhehad received Information, and had communicated It to the ROTermmant, that, nder certain circumitance tho South were ready to re torn. Leading statesmen of the Sonth, men of poeitirn aid influence in the Southern Confederacy, hsd expreeecd a desire to return under a Demetratic ruU the past to be forgotten; thepub-lie debt on loth sides to be provided for; and bygones be by-gonee, if the North -would, and the Union once again be restored.

The announce ment was rccivtd with tremendous cheers. We have long been anxious to find out what terms of compromise the tories in the Democratic party -were -ffiliiBg to offer to the rebels to bribe them back. Here we liave an inkling of It. The traitor Wood an Bounces that he has been in communica tion with tho rebel leaders and received their terms, and had communicated them to the government. He is quite ready to concede all that is demanded, and the Five Point loafers who listended to him announced their acquiescence in "tremen dous cheers." Tut in a little clearer language, the cer tain tircumstances'" under which the rebel leaders are ready to return" and which the tories are willing to concede, read as follows 1st.

To return under Democratic rule that is, President Lincoln, Yice President Hamlin, and Speaker Grow, are to resign; the Cabinet all to resign the Republican Sei-atois generally to resign; most of the Republican Representatives to resign all Republicans holding office to resign. 2d. Breckinridge, or Joe Lane, or some good rebel Democrat, to be declared Prei dent, another ditto Vice President; Wood, or Voorhccs, to be made Speaker 0 the Ilouse; Floyd, Cobb, Thompson, Vallan- digham, Bright, Gwin, and to constitute the new Cabinet or better still, make Jiff. Davis ish a Cabinet and Congress to match. The reins jof government to be handed over to the Democratic traitors of the Suiith, and the coun try to be ruled hereafter in the interest of the slave-breeders.

8rd. The "public debt on both sides to be provided lor." Tbat is, the debt created by the rebels and all the damages they have, sustained, to be saddled on the Federal Government, and the great STorth and West be taxed to pny the expense of the attempt to destroy the Union. One or two thousand millions io be added to the present National debt, in order to reimburse the rebel Democrats for losses have sustained while com-miirtrg treason. Also, to provide pensions for the wounded rebels and for the relatives cf those killed in battle or by disease. 4ih.

A general amnesty act to be passed. Iso puniibment to be inflicted for treason and rebellion on the leaders. The confiscation Act to be repealed. The proclamation revoked. Slavery to be reestablished in the National Capital and in the Territories, and all contrabands to be returned to slavery.

Oth. The." Constitution es it be pmtndcd, granting slave breeders especial guars dees and privileges, and forbidding tLe election of any anti-slavery man to any clliee. 6ih. All anti-slavtry papers to be suppressed free speech to be interdicted the properly of Abolitionists to be coniis-rateo, si-d themselves exiled or hung. The slave code of the South to be extended ovor the Noith and incorporated intotha fundamental law of the land.

On these condiiiors the Union can be re. established by compromise." Such, istiie Democradc plan for adjusting our national difficulties and we are told it wa3 received vu.h tremendous cheers." We thick the musses, however, prefer the Republican plan ci fighting it out, crushing the rebellion by military power treeing Lhe Slaves ol the traitors; coufiocatiug their property and paying therewith the co3t of the war establishing forever the principles ot freeuoin and the right of the majority to govern abatiug the cause of the present and preventing future civil wars, and en-suiing to the Nation centuries of peace, prosperity and happiness the fruits ol universal freedom and homogeneity of institutions. OOJIPESSSATEW i.7IANCIFAVIO:V. The striking presentation of the oil economic facts and the confident re-a33ertion ot the old economic prophecies touching the present and future of the Gret Republic, in Mr. Lincoln's Message; and the throwing of both icts and prophecies into the scale as arguments of weight ia favor of tha scheme of Compensated Emancipation to which he is firmly conimiUe will certainly arrest the attention and challenge the admiration of all his loyal countrymen.

Those even who do not give their adhesion to his plan must be impressed by the overpowering magnitude of the cousideratious by which he enforces his plea for Its adoption; and all men every where will surely lie convinced of the manliness, the thorough honesty and the lofty patriatisin of its author. Compensated Emancipation, inasmuch as it will seem give the sanction of the Constitution through the proposed amendments, to the most monstrous heresy of the nineteenth century, that man cau have merchantable property hi man, vill be eminently distasteful to tens of thousands of citizens hi the North, each of whom is as Sincere, as earnest and as patriotic as the President himself. And they will not be lacking in arguments founded on und'spu-table maxims ot religion and morality, nor in facts derived from careful scrutiny of the practical and pecuniary objections to the scheme, to prove that it ought to be abandoned. But the legislation of the country, State and National, commencing with the first session of the first Congress, and not yet concluded the action ot all parlies in their creeds, plai'orms, tests and resolutions the declarations of the pulpit, and most ecclesiastical bo.jies, and the assurance, a thousand times repeated, cf each man ia the country, that it was no part of the purpose of the North to disturb the Institution of slavery where it was fortified by the guarauty ot local la-v, leave no men nor party an excuse now, in this moment of imminent national peril, for regarding the slavery question in its natioiial aspect as one that must be adjusted alone by abstract rules of right and wrong, without making the safety of both the wbite and black races, and the pecuniary, social and industrial consecpieaces to the nation and the world integral elements in the principle upon which we propose to act. We mean that the conventional right of the loyal owner to his -Slave, by virtue of the locJ 1a-nnder which he lives, has been so universally admitted that we canuot, now, without changing the whole aspect of the war, and driving a large minority of the people of the North from support of tho Union cause, deprive him of the property the right to which every man of us, has, as one part of the whole, a thousand timc3 solemnly guaranteed.

Indeed, we know not why should do so. If slave holding is guilt, the men of the North are all partners therein. Equally with the slaveholder himself -we have insisted that the law of man was superior to the law of Cod. With him we have opposed innovation upon the conventional right to buy and Bell men. The dealer in slaves has held and we have enjoyed and all our partieg our statesmen and our pulpits have defended the holding and the enjoyment.

This, says the President, is a world of compensation. Then let us pay. And fortunate may we consider ourselves, if, by the ordi- nations of Providence, we can compound fbr the iniquities that lie at every Northern door, and the innocent blood that marks every Northern door post, by giving up a portion of the substanco with which the detestable traffic in men mu le us int. Ja. cld.cn times, wLin God was visible to FSODI GEN.

BIRSSIDE'S A KMT. Bad Weather and Bad EoalsThe Eject of JUcVkUan't JJilay Jm oj trie ramoons Tfie Itebels Working litcessMdlyTiicy Out strip us in bntrgy. Correspondence of the New York Tribune. Bkadqtjahtsbb Gen. Sumseb, Kov.

80,1862. We are beginning to experience some of the trials of winter campaigning. Ail last nii(ht the rain again fell steadily, and this morning water is standing in great pools in almost every camp. The soldiers are grouped around their camp-fires dry ing their wet garments, aud bearing upon their faces tha unmistakable hioications of having spent a sleepless aud ucpieaeant night. Rain ia more disagreeable to a soldier tfean snow.

Itmakes the most patient and uncomplaining frettul and discontented with binisclt and all his surroundings. And at this moment rain is peculiirly unfortunate, and has a depressing influence upon the entire army. The roads fiom Aquia Creek and Belle Plain are almost impassable. Within a quarter cf a mile ot Gen. Bumside's headquarters, I ss three heavy transport wagons stuck fast in the mud, all the mules they could hitch to them seemed powerless to drag them forth.

What a fear till loss to the country has been MeClelian's refusal to march when ordered to do so by Gen. Hilleck. Then we were having the most delightful weather, and the roads were all in a most superb condition. From Harper's Ferry to F.ichmond we would have hardly encountered a mud pool. And then, too, we would have had bur enemy nearly 200 miles from his base now he is within sixty, with railroad transportation.

Gen. Burn ide may be embarrassed at this point, and it ia barely possible that the campaign may prove a failure it so, it is but simple justice that the onus of the failure be lifted from the shoulders of Gen. BurnsiJe and hesped those of McCleilan. When we are to move it seems impossible to tell. The great pontoon train comprised ol forty-eight boats, each thirty feet long and drawn by eight mules, arrived several days since and is ready to be laid at a moment's notice, or rather these in charge of it ready to meke the attempt to lay it, in the face of the batteries erected against it, will be quite another matter.

The laying of the train, if it is clemmed advisable to cross the river here, will be under tbe direction of General Woodbury, who commands tbe engineer brigade, composed of 3,000 practical engineers. If not exposed to the fire of the enemy it can be put down in one hour and forty minutes. Gen. Lee is working incessantly night and diy in erecting fortifications all along the h'ghts back ol Fredericksburg. The Bowling Gikcd road, the telegraph road, and the old turnpike to now commanded by earthworks at every angle.

On the Gor-donsville road, where there seems to be a very large encampment, I counted this morning fourteen intrtuchments, nearly all oi which have been th-own up since Mondiy. Five came in sight of the signal gicss this morning hich were not there last night, proving conclusively that during all the cold, piercing rain, which made even those sitting beside a warm lire in a comfortaole house shiver, they were at work straining every nerve to strengthen their position. Every day's delay now cn cur part is gain to them. The railroad from Richmond is tunning as far as Massapo-nax Vall but seven miles from the all their supplies and reinforcements are undoubtedly received from that Bource. Ir.

is but simple truth to say, in tbe sight of what is traaspiring in liont oi us, that if we but displayed half the energy and selt-sacrifice of the enemy, we could drive him into the Gulf of Mexico in three months. I am bow writing in the Phillips House, well known to the old srniies of the Rappahanock and ct Virginia, and soon to be as familiar a spot to the army of the Potomac. Gen. Sumner has taken it for his headquarters. The plantation contains 800 acres.

When I arrived here lust Spring with McDowell it was In admirable condition, being well fenced, under a high state of cultivation, and giving evidence t-f thrilt and culture, aud enterprise in its proprietor. Now the entire estate" is a barren waste. Not a yard of ferce cau be iouLd upon it. The debria of old camps is scattered all around. Even the fine brns which are so rare in Virginia attract the atten tion no logger.

Nothing but the mansion it- ftlx, and teat lerriDiy dctaeed, reui.us ot ail trv had made so beautiful ana inviting. Mr. Phi'lips, of course, i a rebel, but frdm all that lean learn never icteresUd himself much in tbe political questions of the day. lie owned between forfv ar.d tifty negroes.and whs told by Jeff. Davis and his crew that up- cn tn inauguration 01 Abraham Lincoln tney would all be set free he, of course, became a rebel.

But one slave now reaif ios upon his flirtations. Bis overseer is still here, but from one week's end to the ether has nothing ia the world to co. He mumbles and swears a good deal between Irs teeth about what the Yankees have done to him, and cannot be made to admit that tha class to which he belongs, the poor whites, now have an opportunity to impiove their condition. With his one old negro to command, he bad rattier remaiu here than be the owner of the lintst farm iu Illinois. N.

P. Keliel Opinions of Brass's lnviston 1' Kci.nii y-IrfNiilimoii aatt nis-rouieut anicng tue oniederaies. The following intercepted letters illustrate the destitute condition of the rebel soldiers, and their contempt for some of their officers Thirty-two Mue Eoese. C. Camp, ak Knoxvillb, Oct.

30, lat2. To Mr. H. M. Luces Mt Dear HIaxweix I suppose by this time you have become acquainted wiih the account of Bragg's retreat from Kentucky.

Don't you think it a shameful piece ot buci-nees? When we went into Ken'ueky I thought we were well prepared to meet our fee, ready for any thing, and that, before we lelt, Kentucky would bs free and ours. But as soon as the enemy appeared iu force, Bragg turns about and runs like the devil, atd nearly killed all bis men from itigue and starvation. We have seen as hird times as ever soldiers have seen. For fourteen days we marched steady, without rest, avtragiug twenty miles a day, over mountains and rocks and most of the men barefooted, and, worst cf all, nothing to eat. Four clays we eat nothing but parched corn, and the balance of tbe time hatf a pound of flour and a pieee of fresh beef without silt.

Our retreat was so quickly got up that so preparations were made for provisions. It is what you may trm a regular stampede. The army, I think, is in a very disorganized state, and we will have to get some one else in command before it is ever organized again. And what looks so bad is that we are stationed near a railroad, where the men expect to get things, and no clothing or shots are procured yet. Last night our Quartermaster drew aud issued to our regiment about twenty pairs of shoes, thirty uniforms, and two overcoats, now ridiculous to give that little to 500 men, who are every one entirely destitute of and Ehoes.

Men are Eufferiag what devils have never suffered. Imi-giue lying down at night barefooted and an eld, iorn-out, summer uniform on, with a rigged blanket to cover with, aud next morn-, ing awake coverrd wi'h ecow, and alnijst frozen to death. I suffered the same myself, but bad on When I awoke I found my very fcair frozen, and snow all over us. They have given out about two teats to a regiment for the sick to sleep in. I have the promise of one.

If I ever get it I will be glad. I expect you will think me very complaining today, tut it is only giving you an idea of what we have to go through. I feel first rate today, and as bright as a lark, and ready to pitch right in. Want of laborers. From the Quincy Whig.

The little dash of winter which recently snowed down upon us reminds us of the condition of our farming friends, whose corn, to a great extent, mains nngathered. There are not laborers enough accesble to them to secure their crops, even with the most lavora- ble weather. Hence every little omen of the early setting in of winter fills them with anxiety. Not oily aia tbeircrops nngathered and unhoused, but they have been unable to make their usual fall preparations for ano'her sea-eon. All their work is "behind-hand," and is daily becoming more so.

This is true not mtrtly of a few here and there, but It is very generally true all over the tjtate among those whose agricultural operations extend beyoud the ability their own unaided hands. We hear of their offering very extravasrant wages, without being abie to procure the requisite aid. The fact is, there are not laborers enough in tbe State, by many thousands, ft save the crops already grown from destruction, to say ncthiDg of preparation for future operations. Most ot the volunteers from this State under tbe last two calls were from the farming population, and as a general thing they were the most indnt-trious, entereriring aud reliable laborers which tie country afforded. Many neighborhoods were entirely deprived of able-bodied yonne men, and only the lame and the h.zv, aid thOEe who were already overburdened with were leil behind.

This difficulty" will be more seriously felt ht reaJter. The present price of iaoor exceeds the value of the produce which it will raise, even if latd were rent free. Hence there must result diminished agricultural production, iu-crented prices and "diminished exportation. To this evil, now merely cr mainly personil to the farmer, but prospectively general and national, we would call timely public attention. The continuance cf the war renders an increased supply of agricultural laborers an imperit.ns public necessity.

How shall that nt ces sity be met He who can solve this question will confer upon his country a very great benefit. Let the wise give it their attention. Third Congressfonel District of Mif souri Aoell l'robfcbly Elected- The official vote in this district reported from fierson City, foots with B97 majority for Scott over fcoeli, with the counties of Dundiin, Pemiscott, Stoddard, Butler, Ripley, Remolds, Shannon, Cape Girardeau and perhaps one or two mili ary companies iu ayne. cell's majority in Cape Girardeau (ollicia:) ia 876, leaving Scott only twentn-one majority, ard tbe military vote from Wayne, whatever it is, to come in. It is believed that the vote elects Noelh Missouri Democrat, 2d.

Off the Track. The Rochester Demoerat says: John Van Buren made a funny mistake at a political meeting ia New York on Friday evening. In a speech to the Democracy Jotn went on for some time to eulogize tte Rt publican candidate for Comptroller, when be wos remindei that he was talking on the wrong side 1 And thereupon he proceeded to advocate the election of the Democratic Eomii.ee After all, it is possible that he im-sgined bis endorsement of Mr. Haws would dxmsge him more than anything else he could do. be made, and why it may not include, as well the entire population of the Border slave-holding States, as the Democracy of the North.

The latter profess that they re gard slavery as a national misfortune, if not a grievous sin. The former avow, we know not how sincerely, the superiority of their devotion to the Union, above their admiration for slavery as an institution; and that they need oly be guaranteed against direct loss by the emancipation of their slaves, to impel them to say that the institution shall be destroyed so that the Union may be saved. If these professions and avowals are sincere, and if the rigidity of Northern Anti-Slavery belief may be made to accommodate itself to the facts presented in the national situation, there is no reason why harmony in the National Councils, in the State Legislatures, and among all men who profess Unionism as their political faith, may not be restored, and why the rebellion may not be certainly and speedily brought to a close. If we, and those acting with us, who are Aboli tionists, and who hate the whole system of Slavery as an abomination too loathsome for toleration in any Christian country, cau so far recede from our demands for the quick freedom of all men beneath the shadow of our flag, as to postpone the consummation of our hopes and a realization cf our beliefs for a length time equal to a generation of men, for the sake of peitce, for the return of prosperity, end for the preservation of the Union, why, in Heaven's name may we not be met witii the spiiit that the President evinces, and that we are endeavoring to imitirte. We appeal to our opponents to answer as sin cerely as we put the question An indissoluble political Union in the year of our Lord 1900, among one hundred and three millions of people, everv man of whom will be as God made him, the possessor of freedom in himself and the parent of larger freedom in his successors cn undissoluble Union among a great family of States, each in the enjoyment of its local laws and institutions whde all are protected by the central authority, which will be the dominating power over all the other nations of the world the people and the States presenting to mankind the most glorious example of liberty guarded by law, of fruitful industry, of intelligent prosit erity, and of conscious happiness, that Heaven ever permi.ted for the guidance and instiuction cf the human We point out this glcri jus.

prospect and beg cur opponents to lay aside their prejudices and hates and assist in i's reaiiz tiion-Let thenr remember that the Republican party cannot alone carry the President's plan into effect; that the co-operation of seven slave Statc3 is required 3veu State3 that tbe Democracy can induce to come into the scheme; that no party has the courage, in face of opposition, to propose for peace and freedom, a half even of the sum that it would give to war and the chance of a victory for. slavery; and that the country in lias matter must be unanimous. The cost of the great boon that the President would confer will be immeasurably than the expenses of a ear of bloodshed and rapine, and In the end the work doiie will prove so beneficent that men will wonder thit it ever could have met with one to hinder its progress, or to scoff while it was going on. Let the Democracy carry the golden words of Mr. Lincoln to their hearts The dog-" mas ol the quiet prist are inadequate to the stormy present.

The occasion is piled high ni'h difficulty, and we must rise wi'h the occasion. As our case is new, so we must thick and act anew; we must dis-" enthral curselvcs, aud then we shall save our country. In giving freedom to the slave we in-" sure freedom to the free. Honorable tdike in what we give and what we pre-" serve, we shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of the earth." The controversy in Missouri concerning the proposed re-assembling of the State Convention to anticipate the action of the Legislature in the election of United States Senators is quite destitute of foundation. The Constitution of the United States, Article section 3, clause 1, says The Senate of the United States shall be composed cf two Senators from each State, chosen by tTie Legislature thereof for sis years, aud each Senator shall have one vote." The Stale Convention of Missouri can no more elect a United States Senator than it can elect a member of President Liucoln's Cabinet, or a minister plenipotentiary to the Court of St.

James. Apparent Ibjuaticc. Another butch of military appointments has been sent into the Senate by the President, but one name one of the best in the service -Allien we expected to see, does not appear. C. S.

Hamilton entered the service in this war, in the first months, as Colonel of the Sd Wisconsin. Bat military labor and life in the field were not new to him. A graduate of West Foint, he was in the regul.tr army a number of years, and was promoted to be Captain in the Mexican war through which he served, earning a splendid reputation for bravery ft) ability. At the time he voluu- tetred in the present war, he was comfortably situated and doing a fine business in Fond du Lae, Wisconsin. He volunteered from pure patriotism.

Soon his merits were partly appreciated at Washington, and he was male a Brigadier General. For months ha was with Gun. Banks, on the Upper Potomac, where lie rendered valuable service. Shortly ater he led the advance successfully into Winchester. And when the army went to the Peninsula, he was placed over a division.

Most ui justly to him asd injuriously to the service, he was relieved by McClellan, of his command. Harper's Ferry was aain menaced, and Gen. Hamilton went there, ai in a few days jut that place in a posture of deft-Bee. Then he to be assigned to Gen. Haileck ia the West; and he was so assigned.

We do not need to review his career since he came West. His deeds some of tbtm very brilliant are well known, and will be remembered. He planned and fonght tho desperate but successful battle of Iuka; and he did good lighting at Corinth. On Gen. Itcsccrana' being transferred to the department of the Cumberland, Gen.

Hamilton, being the senior Brigadier, succeeded to the command of Gen. Rosecrans' corps. His position is now on the left, while Hurlbut has the centre, and Grant the right of the advancing and victorious army of the Mississippi. But still Hamilton Is only a Brigadier General. Ttls is manifest injustice.

He should be made a Major General at once, and his commission should date back three months at least. We shall hope to announce his promotion before meny dajs. Au AppciU to CoIorcd.Preaeliera. The Louisville Journal appeals to tha colored preachers of Kentucky to tell their flosks that the President's proclamation does not apply to them. The Journal says: "It Is a well-known fact that an impression prevails to a considerable extent among the slave population in Kentucky that they will be free on the first of January, under the proclamation of the President of the United States.

this delusion Is not speedily corrected, it will be likely to lead to disastrous result to the negroes, and we know of no better means for correcting the delusion than through the pulpits of the African churches. We, therefore, fore the sake of the welfare of the negroes, SPECIAL NOTICE TO BUTBK3 OF HATS, CAPS, GUCKSKI'i Ladles and f.i ntlpruru'sFurs, Eobts, Sec, Sec. We are noT raeelvla onr third larfre rtoek of FALT. AND IXTtK llilit wh eti males our Uie larrett Hiidbexl atorteritnth I- sT. all of whirl, Lt3! TUAN fitStX KAaTtl.S We lETite riftt1eTiiar attention to our of FT-TBA HhArT ni'CK GLdVKK MITTS OMJNr.

Hi ITS. lAIUES nl lii.Ma KIM! GiiOi'S; 'an I trzea f'TMA KI'R H-ldotiKir WAUM WlXIfaij an-J IH)Ve. OllDERS Will a'wsyi receive prompt and careful attention. WEEER, WILLIAMS YALE, 2m 25 Lake ttrettt, CUcapo. GROCERIES lSCrATil STREET.

CO. WHOLESALE Csii buyers are Invited to extmla our Moth. col-ly STATE FA IK, lbtil. TUE CNLY GOLD E1EDAL Ever awarded to Be-winn Machine In Illinois. Tills MacMselia taken t.

pr.te aire last bUd In amattas New Tom, V.l-.-hlgan, Ncwjeibcy, Iowa, Non. Ohio. Aal.nrotlaa, Indiana, Ktnlnckv-, Caiuurol. Ill'uolA, Teiinesee. Itclmi'cB ever, Slate Fair at wldcMt has bet.

lilhit.d In iffii. x- The worlr made the Orover Bakr Me'i. baa received the flrat Premium at-ererv K-ir inx li lilted btaieb where It baa neen eili'inte'd to Price Forty Jo)lr aad -Upwards. loel-xfcl! 1 tfj TIIE OLDEST SEWING HA-C11IKE IS THE WOKLD. Til LI ORIGINAL HOVE Sewing Biacliises.

Invented in 1845 Perfected in 1852. Signal reward to the frreat American Inventor At tnlct hv the Howe Sewing Macuine at Ui lutirnatiooai World's iaLr ti.li, season la Loudon, Eng land, wuare Uie HOWE MACHINE Tockthe TfflTAr1r1 Gold Mcil a first an Mchwst Prrminm for exr.ellciicy ol alio, lour oihur WOKl rtMTll lor Til" lilir OlUBrei.6 grsdee ot work; alo, four Mentions for pool work, comprising tha only Prenslmni given-tuber for exciVeuvy or for work. Tims the OnEiniu How Sowing Jlncliine. liom biota nil oUitri dcri va their vitality, hus established KaIf hf U.km Sv Go.d M-t ft.B ont rf fonr HinoaH Mentions cot ot fiVt. at a World's k'alr.

where nil of tbe )raiii r-vir lMrtcdini-, ia country liurapsi, were on tiiai, the beat Sewing Machine In the world. Cff- Ancxte wanted In tue Western And Nurla- Ciicniare, conflnJrtsr fall description of an be bad on ftpsLcadon, or neat by mall. General Western LZ-1 SALESROOM Tna-IXOKHNCK" RE WING MACRIKltf Duke pock mmuXKr ttitciiea on Ci ti-l tie Bane Machine. Thus Uie r-oiK, vowlsz Lock, knot and doublb knot, all of whica nREie the at-am ulike on boto a'des ol Ut tine. J-'itLer or ail can produced Macidna is in motion.

The liave tne Tr.nrBL rtmt kc-j. Widen enables i-ie ojieraLor be u.e carry wy. or to cbie and fasten ttie ecd of seaioa, whicti, writ tnnkine a Ions' a Bnnrt tutcU, la fr almpiy by turumir atnunili ikirti. Tnefr motions are all powrr. There m- BO errinpi to get out ol order.

Tbej are aa aia-iue lij'it the mo-t liiJrenenca.ic i.c and Wit a1. Tr)e1r noiKWTjbs, and can ed wnere qoief nt- cat fry. TbeT bey an FA8TKST fP.TTI" lil.P, mKlLg five titdiee jIS Tat-T oli no dreea. Te-r IT.i. TVOlii tiie woncar of all, beeaow of lt Ageatewanwd thromrhuot tiie WuTi a amr.ll lnve tment o( rar tal.

a new caa be readily eitabliaaod. For drculare aa aamDie of vo-a. addrea ILCBZhCX tEWlKa JACB3JTE C0 robtOfflceHorinf. Kiorwn 1 Lake street. e-r1 llorit alone make a SKWTNa MAC Hit) It Tbe people are rrceivins tn.t giuwlag uona are uvi Tnat ir le economy and wisdom to onrrniuw ooi EKlG MACHINE of known praotical ailiity.

Vliere are liv.lMO iaacUluea In Ujk in Uiu couutry anri JCurOe. Ttil B'acldrte la PEOITTABLE anil AVAUAni A LITE-HMK. at la eqaai to Its searrmreatea. aw KKrrr. rnvniK-ii) of 10 to per ct (on tta cobtj may be obtained in use by lu px.

Tbin IsVueorJy unwiso. in. rnanicg tne I 1 1 w- v. IHH Midnsing tbe QLAoS FOOT. fcKi.

B. CUlTTtiSDIV, Reaiwal A nt for Illinois, i-onHn, Iowa, KorlkerC ueaerai luo Lake HUM. tLirv fW circnlar may be bad oa iP'diMU' 01 by ii-iiOi; tC I Our Gunboats In tbe ICappabaunock. TLe Falmouth correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, ucder date of Nov. 20th, eavs: The gunboats have arrived at last.

We bave been long and anxiously looking for thiir presence, and now tney are here. The 2d United States dragoons first opened communication with them, day before yesterdiy, eome twenty miles from ttas point, down the river. We like to see the gunboats, as their prtsecce is always a sure sign of work. The enemy have a holesome died of tne Pennsylvania Dutch bake-ovens," they throw around so ludiscriminately, and notwithstanding their desire to die in the last ditch," they don't want to ha killed by one of these infernal machine they prefer, like Hudibras, to run awsy nnd fight another day. JTOVEMBER 19TH, 1862.

FROM AUCTION, lOO PIECES FULL BOILED ISTcat Uriglit Colors, CHECK SILKS, FOE SIX SHILLINGS, Cost One Itollar to Import. W. M. ROSS iz 1G7 ICO Luke Street. AT G.

c. COOK a 10 18 STATE STREET, 02er tD the trade a large assortment of GRGOiiRIES. Sugars, Coffees, Fish, Syrups, Spices, Molasses, Soaps, Fmits. Cordage, Eice, Tobaccos. WOODEN WARE, Aod all articles included in their line, which will be sold at low figures.

G. C. COOK Wholesale Grocers, 16 18 STATE STREET deli6J15tnet ryim IiOCK UTVER PAPER JL MABCFACTTJUIMG COMPACT, Of Beloit, "Wisconsin, Eave ettkblisted a h'EW PAPER WABEHOUSE, Xo. 73 Randolph street, Where they will keep for psle nd manufacture oriitr Book, Xew and Wrspi-ins tapers. EAGS Tssh will lie fa'd for Bags, Old Hone.

Binder Shavings, ana Ola Papers. dtu fTLOUU BARREL HOOPS. 500,000 FLAT EXTEA FLOUR AS EEL EQ0F3, For le by fle xS 2w MAG ILL LATHAM. MY DAUGHTER, MARY lft Lasnlle on the of tbe ah of NeTcmbei for CMcms'o, ulnce wbich nothtnc htM bn beard from her. bins la twenty-une yar of aire, was drefcMd In mourning, is ol light complexion.

ha darfc rown fcalr anrt rarjr Mack Any n-raoB who can kitp respeetinsfher wtil con-lrr a Mttsinir npon ber ailicttd mother nd anxious mends br wtticMing ilia. U. la. fciWAKP. Chicago INDLING WOOD.

Why will bonsftkpeoer put 00 per cord for wood, and tee exr-ei cf prfpanc? for when they can purchase tne brraDQiar Feel, or riiird wnod kiiid-111 of KEI.LOGG GKkY. Cor. Market and Wshlnrton-3t. XJOTICE. Madam Andrews, In- be eratnlttd at So.

Ma-U'on street, between Welia acc. Market Clalnrojant exaoilDaaons. l. he ItLs the pa, present and future. Tunm-M cent.

Boars from A. M. to P. il. 3m AM THE AGEXT FOR THE "ale ot ttieb-st Iros FKEr MIT.Tj AVO SFIEIXK3 row In use.

taktoe Icto price. da-bility, 'he work tliy wit- oo. The Mills ca be eet at FAIMEK FLI MON'POVS, M.iiwriHtiis. earner of Ti'et liter anil wauton streets, or at lUMK JONES' Airrtciitnraj store No. li.T Lake street for Bajtttii'uasddrMa rr.e.

Po Oftice hox W. not? 155 G. 811i.P Aiil, Agent, Box 150.000 "WHITE OR BURR O.K TIES F.ir nirdc- nlars apply attheofflceot the Superintendent of tae U-hiiO Alton ii. li Kooih 3. Maaoais lespla.

Tic x5oS-lni IlSt OILS! OILS! 1000 bbls. miLrvr at, iron SALE. In store anil to arrive. "Kier'a. Ian'a.

Benton and Adeiseo" brands, white and straw coJora, ou consignment, fid at lowest market Pjleea deZ x658 St 1OT Stuifl Yi ater i.reet. UCKSKLN" GOODS. The best etoc In town and lowest nrtces. Army Gloret. Officer' G1ot Fanr-er'B iOTe all kinds oi ttlavee i.5!Aylv5o1t,4 kttpplie hoi sale and Ketail reduced price.

B.BOtvi:s. 20 Ctrk fret, (np.ta'rs), oTer the sited Stales Express 0ce. DOOUTTLE, Banker itsd ISO. 43 bocth Clark itreet, Chicago, UllmeU. IVParUcEiar attention gfrea to PRIME BARLEY MALT AX.

WA Tf oa kud aad fnr at leweft rtc ftB.rlfYeartKitiiarMU.a HopsT 9Lra.lv Boanti trKBBiK -pjEW YOKE DYE-HOUSE, 129 West Bandolph street, Chicago, IEU "WILLIAM ROBBSTSOff. the CJleVateJ I Ml Dyer and Clothe Cleaner. uiWiCiau oa I.audulfc ttteet, petmwieoUr..