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VOLUME 7. : CAPE ISLAND. NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28% 1361. NUMBER 26. ' •'"i 1 " - 1 1 " . " - - — - - - ....... „ ■ ' 1 - . ...

THE SOUiHERN BLOCEAB.E. ~ Every now nnd then soiilbeYn reports I reach us, announoing that vessel* hare ran the blockade and carried cargoes into rebel ports. Many hare been heard complaining of the Administration for not making the blockade stronger and^ more efficient, llut now we Brmly lieliere that these reports are base deceptions, and giro as our reason for so I thinking, the following article, from the' New Orleans Crueent ; "The heretofore magic word, cotton, li scarcely lisped now-a days on the . flags. Some panics — wonld-be operators — hope that the blockade may be broken or raised, bnt hoping will not effect It It is manifest that Great Britain will adhere to the position the assumed months agq-*-a strict neutrality. There has been much talk aud a great many comments on what has been termed running the blockade. Reports — and thcj.^ill prove to be simple reports — say that 516 vessels bare - ran | the blocaade since the ICih of May Intt. This is a very wild estimate, even j if it is snpported hy returns or state- ! raenta in tl>e departments at Richmond. The blockade was enforceJ off the months of the Mississippi river on. the i 25th of May, at whfch time there wen- ; forty sail of vessels in tbis port outward j hound, which wero permitted to go to 1 sea. The blockade commenced off Mo- j bile and I'eusacola about the same time. Venielt were allowed to leave these • ports till the 8th of June. j. "So far n* New Oilcan* is to he con- . sidereJ,*the last arrivals via the Bnlize j were i>a the 2'Jili vt May last. Tlierc have been some arrivals and departures of schooners from the bayous on the j Gulf. There have hern some coasting; vossels-on tho co «st of Carolina evading the blockade ; hut all these will nut count up 516: On the other hand, lire 1 lldssian stmmcr South Carolina has captured seventeen schooners in attainting to rail the gauntlet between Sjew Orleans and Texas ports. There hgje been only three or four vessels from Europe Lon$theUertBtida — that have saci ■ cessfally ran the niockpde Some fewWest- Ihdia traders hare met with snc- . -cess on the Ctroliuu coast. It is mis leading foreign. Governments to make assertions of this characlev^lhat the blockade is easily avoided, when not a vessel has entered the port of New Orleans via the fiver for over five month.-., and only one via the lakes from n foreign port. Great Britain and France recognize tho closing of our -port.-, whether it is effectual or ineffectual. It is, however, thought the steamer Nash- . - rille ha* got out of the port of Charleston, ami gone somewhere. It is also evident that ttfe steamer Theddora, or Gordon, made a successful trip from that port to Cuba end back." COL. COCHRAN E'S SPEECH. The Hon. John -Cochrane, an cx-mcm- j r'fl>et^>f Congress, and nlways^strotrg j Democrat, and who is nor Colonel of a New York regiamnt, delivered a speech 40 his soldiers, V few days sioce, ut Washington, in the presence of a large i .concourse of citizens. We copy the j following from his remarks : — He argued that secession and rebel- j lion mast be pat down by force of arms • at -gvery cost. The Constitution, by tHl neceess" ^ of the controversy, he Mid, «tm cms, oeyond the arena of the strife, and there let it rest, sacred and hallowed, until at the eud of the' cou- . troversy, it can be restored to its pristine vigor end ancient brilliancy. Thu upe^tcr also favored the seizing and arming of, the slaves and marching them by battalions into war against their mas- * terz. You hare no sympathy for white rebels, and yet yon will spare the black j slave whom they use. Why if it be lie- j ces-mry to save this government, I wouM I _

, plunge their whole people, black and ^ i white into one indiscriminate sea of i . carnage rind slaughter, aiid luiild upon ■ it a government which shall be a Vice- j ' I gerent of God. Let us have no more ) ' of this dallying mtb conservatism, this ! ■ don tain g in -Cabinet allien your soldiers-) 1 (^arcMrtshlnt in the field. Soldier*, you : J knJw no smensHU*oniiig as this. You hurXanns fnyo^r hands, -and those ami jfere jor the purpose of extermina- | ' ling tho ciie\y until be submits to law, 1 1 . order and the Constitution. Then ex- j 1 plodo. whatever magazine of combusti- ! 1 " hies is in youryay ; act fire to nnd coo-! ' : same the cotton. ; export the cotton ; j 1 take jiroperty wherever, yon find it; take ' 1 ■ the slave and bestow hint upon the nou- ' , slaveholders if yoil please ; do unto ' , them as they would do unto you ; raise ! ' i up in their midst a, party interest against the present slaveholder ; distract their ; counsels. " Do' all this, utid if that .he 1 ! not sufficient, take the slave hy the liand | place a musknt irf it, and bid him in j ! God's nirae striko for the liberty of the J ' human race. This, said Col. Cochrane, ■ ' j was not abolitionism or emancipation. | 1 I Abolitionism was to place the slaves | 1 ) above their masters in the social scale 1 '! Emancipation was to free them. This ; 1 war was prosecufed for no such purpose. • : The South commenced the war and the \ North was not responsible for its conse- j 1 qUCUCCS. . KLW JERSEY'S WAR EXPENSES. ' | Tito whole amount expended hy this ] j State, says the Trenton Gazelle, in j equipping the thirteen regiments fur-j-nUhed for the war, is $603,303,811 Of; j litis there was expended on the first req- ; isition — for four regiments of militia — i three months'- men— $167,817.21. On! the second requisition— for three rcgi- i incuts for the war, $179,015.40 ; and1 ]on the third requisition— aUo three] j years' rciriuuhits-- $318.4 17 20. More] loin this the State has fnmisliid extra - clothing fo her men, umoiinting to 10,- i i 914.09— making the total $685,217,90. , That the work has been most economically disbursed every owe knows ; and ; we are informed that the nmuunl speci- . j fied'abovc is less than is allowed hy lite government ^contracts by $30 000. As too expense of arming and equipping the thirteen regiments is to be refunded by the General Government, the State i has ttved the War Department just the , .tmouivt specified above. If all th'u ! i -Slates nnd department* of the govern- ; meats managed their affairs with equal prudence nnd ecoiioinvihe expense of the war could be very easily borne. Secretary Seward made the following speech to the Germans, under Gtfucral { Itlenker, who serenaded Gen; McClcn- 1 Ian, by en imposing military torch-light ' i ptocetsion : . FxLlow Citizens and Solmers: — I sec before me one-twentieth part of; our ar- ! ray gathered for (be defence of the Union, and as large an army as any KiOnj arch on the laco of the earth has ever ' I called iuto the field. A sty-arc as any, I 1 and yet it is an army that does not cou- ! 1 tain a single cons -ript, [Loud cheer1 j ing.] Every soldier is a volunteer. — j l Every soldier is a citizen. [Cheer- | , j lag.] It piay well be so, fur you have j }'j come tfp to defend the best Government \ - on the face of the earth, thu first that ) has existed eighty years, and now it is j to fup|»ort it that yon arc here. Fellow j ' ] citizens, I knew whejt tbis trouble began ! , we should have soldiers, but another': ' thing was wanted. We have foond it. j ! The gathering to-night shows -that we j ' have H. It was a General, nnd he i* ■ here to-night; (meaning McClellan.) — ' j Fellow-citizens, who shall be King ?— 1 Shall :he Goddess of Liberty with her ' azure. robes flowing aronnd her walk ' abroad, <r is it plunder f Who shall ' reign, King Cotton f Net a voice • ! answers for King Cotton. Wont say Fan then Tor the Goddess of Liberty ? — Cheering.] That , is |t, tb.n. The I I Goddess shall reign. j

LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE. ( Look on the bright side of tilings I: is the right side. The limes may he but it will make them no easier by | a earing a gloomy and sad coantenance. | I It t» the sunshine, and not the i^ond. that makes the flower. Full ono half . our .ill* arc so only in imagination ; Therqia always that before or around ns, 1 which should cheer and fill the heart ! with warintn Thi sky is blue ten times, where it in , black ouce. You have troubles, it may i So bare others. Nonj are free { from them. Perhaps it is all well that: none should he T'uey«gi*e sinew, and ! tone to life ; fortitude and courage to tin man. That would be a dull sea, I a-id the sailor wonld never get skill, i where there was nothing to disturb the surface of the ocean. It i* the duty of every one to extract I nil the happiness and enjoyment lie can • ; without und within biro ; and above nil, | j he sbbuld look on the bright side «f ' ' things. What though things do look u j 1 it-tie dark. The lane will turn, and the j night end in broad day. In the long 1 run, nnd very often in the short, the • I great balance rigJtU itself. K What is ill, becomes well ; what is j wrong, right. Men were mot made to! hang down either their heads cr their L lips, and those who do, only show thy j they are departing from the path of tnle ! c mimon sense and right. There is mure ; virtue ittxfue tun beam, than in n whole L 1 heinisjfcereof cloud and glooui. Thcrqs ' f.ire, w8S>cat, look on the bright sfiie 0 things^/ Cultivate what ii warm oim[ genial; not the cold, repulsive, datk^ I and morose. HOW TO TELL A TRAITOR. j When you see » man always apologii zing for the coarse of the Rebel* ami . ; never coiideining thein— always finding ' ! fault with tho course the Govorunioul is ! pursuing, an<l never giving utterance to ) a manly patriotic sentiment — nlwny-i dc- i lionucing the {'resident for u..consiitntiounl nets and nevtr teferring to Jeff. Davis's efforts to deitray tho Constitution, tel him doum at a traitor alLeart ! We have these people In oar country — men who go sneaking and prowling about, and who seek every opportunity to discourage the patriotic sentiments nnd outburst of our pepplc. Watch them! Pnt your mark upon them, for, in • the words of the gallant Holt, of Keni tueky, "they aro more daugerou* than ' the Southern rebels." A Secession Flao, — Lately tho loyal i people of Troy felt greatly outraged by the rumor that n gentleman, known to j bo a loyal citizen, bad a secession flag flying from his house. Of coarse there was a tremendous hue aud cry raised, and an excited party started for the j premises. On reaching tho houso it ! was found to be n lady's balmoral, that i had been washed and hung from a'tiack window to dry. The husband avowed ' his determination to standby- .thy' flag j ' us lung as bo lived. ' It is estimated that the southern States bold the property -#f northern men to tho amount of eight hundred million of : dollanr, all of which thoconfcderate gov- ! eminent intends to confiscate. This cs- ; 1 tiiiiatc, the Independent says, is made | mi the unthority of Jeff. Davis. A j Urge part of this consists, we suppose, i of deb s long since repudiated and reckj oned - worthless by the creditors. An*i oilier great pirt has hen so immensely I i depreciated by the atrocious and suicidal policy of the confederate rulers, ; ! that it will , prove of comparatively little value. The repudiated debta due to northern creditors , aro claimed by the confederate govergiieni under its powers of coafisealidn. Gen. Drayton, who commanded she rebel i force* a* Fori. Walker. S, <J., when cur fleet captured it, and Capt. Drayton, of the i'ocahonta*. ono of tho resaela in oar fleet , arhieh tiooibsrJod it, aro brothers : '-RrolhI er *li»lt rise up against brmhar,"

I'ltOUL AM ATIOX, - : BY charles s. oldes. i j covcaxoa or t«k state or amv Acascr. | . While under the rod, aad^uflering laeri- | i " ted ihastiseuiftnt for our many national sins, j i ; let its not forgot the maay unmerited bleu- ' j ings that are yet R|urcd to us, Wt they too j i < be withdrawn. \ i | That we may give meet ami cnited ax- j < preiisiiU) to bur gratitude, It reccommend ' that Thursday, the twenty eight d»y of'; i November, instant, bu observed by tho peo- i : ! pie of this State as a day of Thanksgiving J ' to Almighty God, from whom comolh eve- I ry good and perfect gift, )itd thut, abitain- j ' f ing from uli ocedlers: aeeular employmeut, | ; they assembly !a thofr several places of 1 ; worth p to o (Tor to Him the sacrifice of, 1 1'rayer, I'raiso aud Thank.-gtviug. ! Given under my band aud pnvjr seal, this ; fir t day or November, ' A. D. eighteen hundred nrnl sixty-one. j' CUABLBdS.'OLDKN. Atte.t,' i C. M. UckHKat, private SeereUrv. COM. WILXES. '( The New York 'Express give* tho fol" : 1 lowing sketch or that officer. '•Commodore Wilkes, who is in command ' of 'the tSun .1 av ulo, and who assumed the j - responsibility of the ir.t-tortani net of so- I . curiug tho per«ons of Slidcll ami Mason,] ! will he remembered av the eotmtwndor of 1 the greataAj>phuii|o t'tii'iii: loll ». lai'iity r 1 - odd^far J goae by. and the fruits of which ] vfre seen in III lyii iiallllTi i|||lllnl pre pur- , 'i ed by hiin/IBrtlie government.' lie is ail, > ttblu yw 'loyal ' officer, very decided iu , c'lugSVter and detennined in purpose. ' , Jim* present Secretary of the Navy selec- .; (lifted him a$ one of the officer.* to destroy j cort.uu government vessel* iu Norfolk h.tr- i l»or dud the naty-yard there soon after tho I commencement of. the rebellion. There | : 1 with Lieiilemint Phelps aud •others, ut ;. ] i most importai t moment, ho rendered most ' efficient service. • Soon alter, Whnn all was nneorlain in '• i regar.l to the integrity of many of thu na- : val . nicer*, ami when so many bad re-igned ! or were preparing to reStJi". ho was selected ; i to go to Africa to bring home the naval ' i 'squadron on that elation. Several of tho . , vessels stationed there, on hi* order*, have . : preceded him. The San Juotntn hu* been expected at this port lor some i:in», and Ins family, whose homo it in \Ya*hiugton, - : has lieen ay aitir.g bis arrival for jteverul , week*. It was lAiewn however, by them ■ and others thut he was upon the watch for • llio rebel steuinurs Nashville or Theodora. ' Tho United States Consul at Cuba hud 1 5 had communication with him" in regard to, , . the seizure or the very men whom hi* vigi- , lance and loyalty have now made prisoners. , ; of war." 1 | A Pnorn«<v Pct.rti.t.v.ti.— Whea Mr.' Wi^throp, the distinguiihed Senator f-o n 1 Massachusetts, wes in Virginia, hat u little 1 ; while before the war, he met with Mr Ma < : son, and received front -him very polite and > ; cordial treatment. In 'alluding to a furrimer visit which Mr. Mason had made to 5 ' lloston, "Mr." Winthrop expressed tlu hope j to styi him there again soon, and to bare ^ 1 the opportnnity of returning hi* k:nd at- " j teattun*. Mr. Mason replied with great ^ etuj-retsmcnl, "Sir, 1 (ball not vl-it ISostoti 1 j again until t come a* an ambassador." j j Iowa Eucctiox.— The official returns of j the latn election hi Iowa for Judge of life ' | [supreme Court resulted in the reelection | of Lowe, Republican, who received fil.DUU ( ' votes, to 41.031 (or Klwood, and 2o48 scat- ^ i tering. For Congress, jn the Second di*. j trict, to supply thu vacrfncy caused hy the resignation of (Jen. Curtis, Wilton, lte- * i puhlimti, received 29,323; Neal, demo- - : crat, 21,429. Majority for \Vihcn, 7,894. u i TakMisxnm or War,—' The toral nnm1 j l>or of Ftench troop* sent to thu Crimean • | war, daring tho 24 month* of (u cumin - - I uai.ee, numbered 3d9.2tiS men ; of whom - . 200,000 entered the ambulance* und hospl. |r ! tals to receive medical aid ; 50.000 foi . ! wound*; ami. 150.000 for diseases of vorions kind*. Tho tuul mortality wat 69.- ' 229, or 22 1-2 per centum. Of these 10.320 died of wound*, .a*_d nearly 53,000 frem diseases. e — — •■■■« ' — A Caxadiax Co* r li i.sst. -»Th e Toronto Globe, speaking of our naval expedition, says that "the assembling within a few 'I weeks of the immense fleet, and stores nelr cessary fbr - so lar^e a force, U'credltahlc ® to the resource* of the American people. A It ha* been doao with very little publicity, >- and an absence of braggiug truly srouikr tul under the ctrcumstauci's."

Toe Ma*iecUu'*eH> caatom, or "turkey ( for Thanksgiving dinner," is as old a* the j.Slate-iUclf. Tlfe boys at Washington from that'Stnte aro not disposed to forego tho | time-honored enstom, and are already prej paring to aoCare their turkeys, and haro a old time In camp. Though iterated I froaj their friends, they will keop up tho ; custom, and, in spirit at least, unite with their distant dear ones in grateful acknow- ' lodgement for their manifold temporal blesjiugh. Ou a person asking another if be UTiered in. the appearance of spirit*, he replied : j "No; but I believe in their disappearance. for I miss a bottle of Whiskey, aud I live in. a lodging house." ' Casr.Mu-.rxs. — Why i* 1'restdent Lin- | cola like a hangman ? Hecattso bo baa »u». 1 tended the Writ of llabeus Corpus. What block i« there attached to tho rebel state* thut Xronld cause a gacat rejoicing ! with the truilori If removed T WbyAthe ! block-udo. ' lSenjsmin .Stark has been appointed U«ii- • ted States .Senator from Oregon, In placo | tif.lh- Utb t'-donel Baker, lie i< u native . of Connecticut, and iu poliliM^w— pgaco | Democrat. Tho .steamer tlhampkiflfat* New Yrirk, front Aspinwalkjwrioght $875,000 in gold, -—ttiul Gvii^«»Wmiier. Seualor N'osaiith, "00 \ ntdn.of thu 2d*U. S. infantry, with all their J 1 i The steamer Edinburgh, at .New York / front Liverpool, brings a small quantity <f '. • artus, and un immut$te quantity of blankets - and army cluths, ; Tho Next rxcil.uiionl.oii tho taps is tic . expedition which i* now gelling up under tne uii'pices'of M^jor GeneralJButlcr and Brigadier. General Bornaide. it is to bo t contposcd mainly of New F.ogland toon, and wilkj.tr!>- in an unexpected quarter, i A southern paper say* there I* a largo - demand fur|guld iqjponctorv circles their, 1 which is sent over into Kentucky for tho I pure!tJ*".of supplies for tbojjontb. Ganeral Zollikoffer and hi* rebel army l-j Kentucky have retreated from Cumler- , 1 I ind fonl^to'Cuoibrrland gap.'^obstructing j the road in their rear by blasting immerse ..-v'*" '• ' \ large Euglishjsiraiiier laden with war 1 murtition*, has been captnred and taken to r i Key West by a C. B frigate. Knoxvdlc, Tenn , In* been placed uaJer martial litw. The Baron Von Hermann, of Prnw"ia< t iint been appointed an aid to General Word. NOW IS THE T! ME TO BUY • fall and winter CLOTHING, i. h. smith's store, '- 1 perry St, near oWn-n* Ham, O ! ■ At PRICKS -Xo Suit «ltrttAUn TI.MKU ! - I I v.lii; Iint in K »u|>rl> e< GOOD*, tbr autsrrttier 8 Men's and Boy'a CLOTHING,) • - C.etfL't rnrnUtung Cowl), Hats nod Caps, U mbrclit • ta*'^c|5»TlltN*J m*itr to-order. .In t'« jMonnUo „ • Strie. an t at «tu>rt aoiter. Goods Snld by the ) aid. " 1 N. n— CUTTING and IIEPAIRING door. Uit.4Ut.UtL - J . M IX LIN ER Y ! MISS MARY C. PRICE • ABOVE COLD SPUING, lln* openc<l n New ami FasittONABLK ( AMortmenl of FALL ami WINTER Millinery Goods, i- nnd isltow ready to wait on'hll who 0. may cnll.X tlet.Satb, |K1. *«- FOR THE ARMY. MraaV). It. A. J- I1DBOK, at DIltOGETON. aid aupidy any Society with )*rn fnr tor yoli- uolrera, at the tuwest pMsiMr |ir<eo*. lei the .r. _ I plication hr audti threugh the dulr authorised a;cnt. n( the •octetlre. • 1 Thry have tcea supptjlnj soeirtlr) la Atlaatk. • Cum'-a-rUnd, Mlrm aa t Glon-.awtre, and would be JI alad to rerritr ookre Irom Cape il»j. r j Nuv.^t. 2.w. FOR SALE, ]■' A SUI'KUIOR CAHlllABE AND FA11M 1IOHSE. The HOME t« J-onog. wand *ad RewUo, sad .0 sold only Cor the w ant of use. Apply «a the prcailu-*; ' ' JNO. WILEY. w Cape May a II , Nor-ll. 1MI. St. "■ so TICK OF A P PLICA TION. 8 A ppiientlOJrwtll.be made at the next reretoaof JYtoe UfltUture of thta 8Utr. for an act to anthorire the eHr'of tape Wa.td. In her ror-anat. c»V, parity, to puirhaae capital atork a»f the t apr _lr- ^ hunl i;*a Corayary, to an aiuouni o>»: ' xcrr*.lna Tea Nov. IUh, l**t." » ] ' ' • * •* "'A