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CAPi 5 BAY OCEAN WAVE " CAPEISLANO N.-i [ J. a leach! Editor, • PaUlthir and PrwprlvJor. c r^-T TJJJt DOLLAR PER ASyt/M:-' Thursday. April Z, 18fi2 AX EXPLAXATIOX. - , By a mU from the Rev. Mr. Palmer. we •re informed that the marriage of 8»meol Cat roll nod Mary Jnmvs, pwrportiog to ( hare beep solemnized by dim, a* pobli«hed) In oar led lum*. i* *11 a ftbi ieation, no i eaeh marriage having taken piece. We ceo eel? My that »e published rt m we reeeiv- I ed it, in a note with the name ». Carroll ' A 1 tinned to it. which wo suppose mast , bar* been a forgery; and w# will pay • i .raiiable reward for the detection of thf • forger island no. to. loUtul' No. 10, toward* which* public i attention seem* jn»t now to be more en- 1 * peeially, directed, apprare to be the moet formidable ©bit roc lion, with which our 1 army hu act, thus far. The" fortifica- ] liode teem to be very strong, and tho , barter ie» nwraerom, and theXnrce by | which they nrfc defended' InrJS. -The 1 1 rebels here, it ir said, batteries on the ■ shore, opposite the Inland, mounting , i some serenty heary guns. Our gun and mortar hoatj bare heed 1 operating upon them for numethLig near ^ two weeks, with what result is uot ( known; but it is probable tkat tjA very ; great injnry has been don"' vfe-m. A i r recent balloon reeonncisair^^/ it is tepor- t ted, reveals the last that our shot "hive f fallen beyond thrta. and the range of i the gnus hae been regalatpd oecording- • ly. But, from oil that we can galftpr, ° there is but little prcspect of succefh ' ontil the errirai of a large land force, which, tor tome reason, has not yd be«n ' fcroisheu. The great inconvroieine 't under which our aarai forco iabtrs, is, ► that they hare to attack them fam a , position up the riser, instead of kelow. , as was the cue at Fort* Henr and < Dpnelson. To underaUud this itsipuid t be remembered II si it m vuuruiy atjT-.fr" < w tide-water, nod that, consequently, tbcre j 1 is a current, always setting from our ' fleet towards the rebel battoriet 'r and ' should they approach too near, and be J disabled by the enemy, so as to be for c (he time uoraanagble, they must he s carried down the current, and fall ;into I the hands of the rebels. And with jtbis J Ami lost to or, andlgained to them, (hey f woold meet but little opposition in as- I cendinir the riser to Cairo, St. Louis 1 and other places, at our force in that t direction,' nt present, is no? large, and j It would aeem t© be foily, to rush rub- g 1/ into a position, where there was grett i ^ danger of looaing them. We bare no t doubt of the ohrmatc aucoese ; it ia only f a wntldr of time. And, by the way, it * i* intimated, that a trap ia only being c laid for the rebels, by the apparent tar i * dy and protracted movements, of the • t nary, which will be sprung upon tbcm j at afa unexpected moment; and from nil j b we can gather, we ahould not wonder if k k were true. Let im wait wkh patience. I' iia.i ! ii TELRIBLE CATASTROPHE. . e The city of Philadelphia was thrown . t Into a terrible excitement, on 8atorday ; n last, by tho exploeion of the gun-Car- j * lodge factory of Proleaoor gaaPI Jack- " noo. the w#J| known raaanfacturer of I * pyrotackaie*. The building wan only a ! ^ temporary, one story, frame building, j aboot 5tkby 100 feet. In this a Urge : * number of nieu. boy* and girla were e employed, at the time of tire explosion it The building waa btowa to atoms, j Mew many were killed could not at fim * , ha aasartaiMed, as the bodies were torn ! " to pieces, and only one, the aou of the * proprietors could be recognised. Some r ' ffixty name* cf the wounded were repor- s. ted, many of tkcm moat shockingly bur- i>. "rd or mud Used. Xiie whole aetne was ' C heart reading. ! b At the Wuiettf I'm R«.|Ce the Foorth J I*»a ttfo.mewc WeM lata M.„ 3fiWt aitb 5«0 earn* aat with Id qaiujwred.— - (ucVcnsl ftfodpg bad threo b.re« shot j*

PAEiT^nccimn The best of mslilatians and practices liable to abuse, in the existing eorrup- ' 1 tions and imperTections of hiameo society, • ' even those of a religions n*tur«. Us are j ' amoog tboM who beliere the existence of]; oppoeiag political parties, ir kept within } ' ) I roper bonds, is beoeflcial to aoeiety ; bu:. ^ i ait be tame time, there is -no denying that , 1 , tbo* parties overleap ibe bounds of pro . ' prietf, aod exrry tho srorltinga of their op ! ' .Vposiliet to esce*t. In all goreramsnts, j 1 where tie people are allowed any partici- . ' petioa, I lera always will be opposing par- 1 ties, and epeciaHy so in a government like j oars, repobtcan in form, where the people > 1 ere the cot'eiing power. And, m we be- ' 1 (ore stated, U n well that it sboold be so ' 1 Were there but >ne party, (be mam of the 1 people woolu soo> lose tbeir interest lo the ; 1 uffuirs of the gorerunent, and a few de- ; ' signing ones would b«]d entire control, end i ! thus the government would resolve ilsllf 1 ' into a virtual aristocracy. But wbila the | ' (Tlflorent parties are ali'e. each keeps a i 1 kind of surveillance ovet the other, aud j ' many corroptions ore prevtnted.v That the strife of these pirtiee As carried I ' too far, by all parties, aid iu all depart- | ' men is of government, re osnhe no qnnslion. | 1 When either Repubfcans, WSige, Atneri- | 1 cans. Democrats, vr under whatever names ! ' parlies may *x>*i, resort to felsuhoodi, an- | I just slanderi/ opprnbrioue epithets, nod i 1 misrwprrsfntation*, not exactly downright i 1 perhaps, tbey looye sight of the ! ' ! reaL^K' healthful object of these parlies, j i i au€ corrwpt, instead of purify, the geveru- ; i , meit. And all real patriots should frown ' I I poo ail Such baneful efToitl, from whatever i source tbey may come. All party d'fTeren- ' ess should be conducted upon principle 1 Parties are supposed to be founded upon 1 dtlffereocei of opinion— or the principles 1 ihvolved in llso party measures ; and every | man has a right to his own opinion upon < 1 these measnfes. i.et him, thcii, candidly 1 bis opinion, and honestly maintain and vols that opinion, by which course alone the true intent of different parlies is attained ; and let him not resort to any i ' subterfuge of lies. » ! But there it another respect, in which, in Mr opinion, these party- differences may be | carried too fer; via., in those case* where 1 the resnll of the electtiwf can have little er no beerins on the political principles orJ^ measures of either parly. In the election-, of a President, Senmor, Congressman. , Governor or ntrraber of a State 1-egislc- ! sure, and ia various offices of. appointment , under lhe«e. there is a direct influence, in j , : many instance#, and s t material, indirect > one in iacoy other*, in carrying out the , , measures sad principles of the party in power, and the success or the party, the members of which are supposed to be siu- ' cere in their adherence to .those measures and principle*, believing thkm^-tfPb^ for the public weal ; and heaje it is to be ex- 1 peeled, and is perfectly consistent, that ; party should govern those election* or appointments. And even where the only in- ! , floenco which can be.exerteil by the In- j cumbenl of the office, is the strengthening | of the party, there ia nothing inconsistent ' , the party rale ; and all paftiee bare ; j adopted it. ftence *btn there is a change j j the National or a Stale Administration ! j the former incumbents expect to be dis- ]| placed. But there are other cases, io | Which all toes*, iafiue.'.cas are so iusignifl- { < cunt, ue to oe scarcely p.-eceptible, or even , where the/ do not exist at all. | t And wa refer i ov, especially, to oar : t township, boroogh. und sm ilt city elections.- j. A tfd we have been led u these remarks, ' , by noticing, in ib* " '.illntic Journal ; ".at ( Landing; a kind of exaltation, at the ! ( pn-poa'derenee of the Republican element the composition of tbe Board of Ches- | en*Freebol<ier» imthat county, as well as , , the other township officers. New we do t not know the state of affairs in that re- i j vprct, in that county ; but oar impression f is, that politics had nothing to do with the - a votes for tbOM officers ; that it merely hap- ( pened to be that those men were elected, ; simply because the voters thought them i ( capable men, without giving it a thought 1 , whether they were Republicans or Demo- , erels: which is, in our bomble opinion, at t it should be; for we eao Me no benefleial 1 1 effects from bringing politics into sncb ( •lections; while we can see some evils re- . ■alliag from it: and while we would not - ( attempt to set up a censorship over the ' t or tho voters of Atlantic, or any oth- ( er coanty, we have taken this occasion to , eay, that we hope that politic* will never tie brought into the township elections in May. We want loyal, bonnet led eapu- c men ; we doo'l care whether they are j t or Ropablicans, or whalber they t belong to no party. c — ■*■ i The Preuidrct's late meeange ia bar- , fog n salutary effect in England. a >•

i ' BOKREHP^iniXLlC KEEtMOA Wc hare ofisn seen considerable Oelo^M i and annujaneo in public meeti nga, fi'om lh?^| ! want of a proper understanding of tbe le- ! yiiinaU manner of. transacting business, i i A td especially have we noticed this, in the i it no of adt/ptiog the minulea tttbe p fa t | vilM me*- .tug of the totat tbe j ; following circoci«tatTce^|4|t ofnn it^ ; was fouod tbe clerk tf<MHMNtaff)*a(i i kept a true accountj»f .OkfajKg<W'.i:gs of i j tbe former peeliog, there aai I \ some inac curacies in tb^^fcetion of the j l | i.osiness iMtlf. For instanfo, a committee I | had reported nrd.jh_jt.rrport bad been scI cepted, aod ordered t^Ae entered on the i i minutes, in AM. wlt/n bad been done ; but i I subsequently, "it hod been found, tbat i ! tboogh tbe clerk ha* doiev>aaarder#il. • j there waa some iuaceorary Tli aRRS report, i i from fauts act known to tbe committee at • I • llie time the report was tiade and accep- : ) led ; aud hence, the oext meeting sought j I correct tb« error, by altering*- the min- j t | utes, Now this, if we ondersland the case I correctly, it not ex*c'ly parliamentary, j i | Had the error been discovered before (be j i J report was accepted, the matter sboold ■ I ! been re committeed for correction ; j - when once accepted, and so entered on ; I ! the minutes, those minute* shobld be adop- i I ted. simply ava corrert transcript of the < proceeding* of the former meeting, and j ! tbe error may be subsequently investigated , 1 and corrected, on a motion to reconsider i ' j tbe motion in which' the' error occurred, j | j and when tlius corrected, the correction | ' noted in the miowtee of tbe meeting at i ' ' which the correction is made ; but the Tor- ] < minutes tlioold not be altered,' if the I ■ clork recorded them at tho business was j I i tiansactod. whether tbs bosinese wa* inacj curetely irautacted or not. The only | qu.stion to be asked, on the adoption of < ■ ' minute*, is. Are they a correct transcript 1 1 { of (he business of the meeting in question? | THE BATTLE AT WINCHESTER. | The battle near Winchester. To, which we noticed la*t week, appears to have been , a more extensive and verious affair than | was at flrst supposed. It was, indeed, a ' I hard fought battle. The enemy's loss was ! nbout 225 killed (nearly all of whom wvie', I buried by our men) and nearly 100 wound- 1 I -ed. The number of rebel prisoner* taken ' . was 23S. Our loss wa* less than 100 killed 1 \£nd about 300 wounded. The enemy had j jnbont doable the force, four more pixces of ' cannon, the (elation or the b:illle ground . and almost every other advantage, except a j tighlcous cause, and, -consequently, bravo | i an J enduring ikearts. Uen. hhield', in command, hail an arm qaiw badly shot- j | tered, so th^t he will be laid by for a short | i lime. i The romaf of the capture of New Or j leans- noticed lest week, appe ar* to have ■ been onfoonded, though thers aro indioa- ! cations of n movement in thai direction. OOOD HEWB PROM PL0RU7A. i By the latest adricet from Port Royal | have spme Uemt of interest. | Our troops bavr got possesion, at hefore reported, of several important points on the eastern^oast of Florida, and tnerc is. undoubtedly, a strong and Rowing feelof loyally to the Union. many of the have had enough of the novel- . ty of Secession, and now wish to return to j their allegiance, and claim the protection . of the old flag. It it true that a great of jbe inhabitants are rebel* still; I they have mostly left their homes, at tbe approach of the Union army. Many | since returned, however, now that i they see that' the • yatikees" hare not come there to plunder, hut lo protect rbem. and ' enforce the law*.. The eecetsioniste, under military aathority. have committed all . of depredutioos, both on the persons . j and property of thorn suspected of loyalty to the old government. At Jackso&ilte; a | public meeting wni called, and resolutions , . paired, denouncing the rebel government, , and in favor of reorganising a new State , government, voder the old -Union, It it reported, also; that tha rebels have evacuated l'saascola. and Forta Bareness ' and McRae, and that tbey have virtually , abandoned tho entire stato ; but thiu, bough not at all improbable, needs confirmation. It may prove true and it may be only a rumor. We should not wonder if rebels bud concluded that swampy lit. lie Slala of Biitvy Bowlegs, was not worth , tbe powder It would lake to shoot or da- ■ it. ~ (Ntt LXeiBLATtJRR. ' The LefflaUtvre adjourned, rim dit, ' Friday- last. The bill to cbitiigo ' times of boldinp courts in Cape May, tbe aoppleaaeni to tbe charter of the city of Cape Island, and the bill to ! authorize Cape Island to porchaisn gM < works, ware Anally passed, though we - not award of Ibo exoet provision- of' 1 •ither. v , . I

For ts« "OAs W 1 1 t^HBpBBfNrS MESSAGE and SLAVERY. ! t HPI rF A rncLc II, ^HVweek, in oar artielo on this subject. | f s^reking'of Prreident Lincoln, w,> made j t use of the following language "It Is Cer- j t tain, believer, that he is one of a large ma- c jqritv of the people of the United Bute* 1 *eho believe negro hewdege to be a moral, 1 1 social nod political ovik" There are »onie_ i I no donbt, who wonder bow it-is that Wa c figure out a majority that foster this doc- ' trine. Let such be assured that it it not : I from an origijre) notion or idea of our own; I j but we boM tte umrtiou upon fact* This ! ( majority L compo*eiT<if the Republicans, a j i j good part of th- Doufcto* Democrats and a 1 | ! respectabls parly in tha Bouth. Mr. Da- I j vis, of Eectacky, who, in*b speech in tb» ; - I S. Senate, oa Monday, said "he wa? no . I • friend to slavery in the abstract," and Mr. i I ! Henderson, of Missouri, who, in the same j t body, on Thursday, said he woold vute for j < the President's resolution, are represent^ i i • tivet of this Southern class. Were it call- 1 1 j ed far. wo could quote from speeches of tho i I illu*trioas Douglas, aod from the highest in i I the party desigoaled by bis immortal n-.irae, j < { and from many Southern men, to prove :hal i j there is a majority who agrt* with a* io the I j I belter that slavery is a wrong. But the i case does not require this; for, probably, the i ! fender con'csH to m:nd the speeches to : | which we refer, that contain sentiment* I ! which would corroborate what we have vx j pressed. In our last article, in connection | I with the above quotation, wo said tint »lu- ; was "a carse to Amorica, and the fun- 1 1 dsmental cause of tl>i* Civil "broil ' Tbe ! troth of this expression wo ore slow to ho j < lieve that any un-biatod, candid aVnl scasi- j I I ble man will- question. Kvory day'* occur ; j renci-s brar evidence In justification of our j I assertion The chief (rfisaun why it is "a i '• [ corse to Americs." is because it is "the fun- ] I damenial cause- of this civil broil." Jcffcr- - j son Davis, to his Inaugural Addrcs, said i that they (the Confederate States) were in , cited to leave the Union because tbe Northj ern Mute* were culminating a warfare upon I their domesl-c institutions. This scotiu.ent ' | ha* been echoed and re-echoed all ore- tho ' infatuated South, a? it fell from the lips of ' ' every demagogue, from Davis down to the ] most venal political trickster; and the same - i sentiment, though different in its phrureol1 ogy, wa« engrafted in tho Secession Wrdl j nance of South Carolina, and, its turn, wa* j reiterated in the secession ordinances of | ether Statu*. Although it wa* a malicious ! calumny, yet it had its dor.ired effect io implanting the seed of rebellion in tbe minds ( ' of the southern masses I From the hour that Ksn*as *m admitted I a* a free Slate, they saw that Ju-lgo Doug I las* principles wero triumphant, and well | did the nrch-fiends know that the number ! ol klave State* had attained its highest tig I orqs, Therefore, a* no more States representing their -"peculiar institution," could be added, it was clearly visible that slave power, too, had reached its apex. So plain wa* thii, that Mr. Buchanan, in hi* last annual message to Congress, had honesty and pluck sufficient to remark : "The slavery "question- liko everything human will have "hf day. I firmly, believe it ha* reached "and passed its culminating, point." In. view of tills tbe rebel leaders saw no other alternative by wtpch to satisfy their nppc- < tito of aggrandizement, but to establish a { Confederacy, with negro slavery for it* main edrnep stone. They coulu not accom- j ' plisb this, single banded ami without tbe ; aid of the popular will and voice, and they | taw that ike only way to obtain this was. by instilling into Southern heart* tbe nefarious opinion that tbe party, which hail just been chosen. to lake therein* of the.Uoverninent, w.iuld directly inaugurate a warfare against southern rights aod southern institutions. From -almost every rostrum in the 1 seceded Stale* the lie was advocated, that ; Abraham Lincoln wa* a negro-worshipper, j that bis party were like-him, and that they were purposed on impaverhihiDg tbe Sooth aod degrading the Southern pspple. This was believed, in a great measure, and henre the consequence. Men rasbed to arms,' defied the aathority of the Fefleral Government, and what has since transpired is ftesh in every mind. 7 Here arises an interesting thought.—Why did not tbe leaders wait until Mr. Lincoln's. policy had been- displayed T or, ! as Buchanan said, till he bad committed an ; overt act ? This is a momootoos question! ' Upon this point tbe opprobiam rests that ; will stand forth i^beforaall tribunals to coodomu the traitors. The conspirator* wall j that Lincoln's oath of office would J make hi* administration conservative, and, > io procrastinating ontil bis inauguration. nslr wishes for a Slave Kingdom would . prove •> deceptive phantom; for, whan tho I •outhira public saw tha conservatism of the 1 1 Republican party, oU attempts lo hiedle a ! flame of revolt—* flame m>.4««d*ve as ' -eew aNttta— rfonld here been rebtittd aid ' . 1 J ft

liurted back, like *o inafiy thayder-bolia^ - huiBiliale the ambition of on-principled P [ | aristocratic aipirents. But, wo will not j farther continue to elucidate tbe iasertion j that "slavery U lh« fundamental cause of j this civil broil." liow can any one think otherwise !. All of the great men that have long since j consigned to the chambers of death. I have said, that if ever this Union sboold be, dissolved, slavery would be. the cau*e. — I Washington. Jeffarson. Madi«oo, Hamilton ! Jack*on, Clay, Webster and'Dong- 1 ] thought so; and even Calhoun, although considering it a divine institution, was among thi* list. Word* to this effect are , i on record for our peruke!. I Therefore, in consideration ef the thoa ■ | nand* of patriotic brother*, whom ►farery - xlain; in view of the millions of money i that it is costing us;-in view of this fratrij cidat wsr and all its attendant horrors; Ta consideration of all this, we say, ought :1a- ! very lo exist ss it has. to originate another^ j sncb rebellion? We answer, No! ' Ba*. we are no abolitionist. We detest their doc- • Wo condemn their actions as mit- | chievioui and inflamatory. All we advo- | cote and all we assert can be substantiated J^y the first men in all parlies. H r ore op- f j poied to Qtntral tmor.cipalipn, and is ocr ' I next will much upon rhis point. DON AljPINB. 1 l Hiud Stele i of iwrW, March SSth, 1SSS. CAPTURE OF REAUPORT. La*t week we reported the capture ef I Beaufort. N. C.. the blowing up of Fort V ac<*n, and the burning of tfie rebel itcem. ! er Nashville. It proves true that our under Gen. Burnsqje, occupy J I Beaufort ; but, nt lait accounts, the rebel* held Fort Macon, with a garrison epffffni t<> 600 men, who. it is thpa^lTt. have ' provisions for only a short lySfte, and, beiriR . entirely cot off from supofies, most soon surrender. The stramqr Nashville, from all that we can leaad, instead of being burned, bus run thu yblockodv, au J escaped with a cargo of c,/l<-n. Ve received from lion. j ' ,lno T. Nixon, the report of the late . military commission to Europe, by Mnj.- : R. Dclafivld. nfxl sundry other documents, for which our thauka are due: t j The report of the military commission contain* much v titrable information "i* reference to different kinds of flrearxts, antk tho art* of war. j Secretary Welles, on behalf of the j President, has tent a letter to Lieutenant Worden, the comrfrander of the Monitor, during her enghgemqnt with I the Merriurac, complimenting him aod hi# crew for their heroism on that occasion, and expressing the deepest sympathy with the gaitant Lieutenant h> . affliction. Q3~It tnrns out that Yancy, tbe robe! commissioner to Kcgland, b vs not been captured as before reported. He was reported to have engimed his passage on board a certain schooner at Havana ; and that vessel, in attempting to ran the blockade, was captnred ; but it turned out that tbe said rebel Yaneev was not on board. ; ;..i i Iktsrcstino Tabi.b or Distancm.— ' The ! distances down the river from Cairo to Memphis are as fallow* : Miler. Cairo to Colombo*. Ky. 18 " •• Hickman, Ky. 37 " '• Island No. 1U. 64 " •• New Madrid, Mo. 79 " " Point Pleasant. Mo. 86 " Randolph, Tenn. 178 " •' Memphis, Tana. *45 f A new Military Dbportment, to be call* if j the Department of the Golf, hu been es- ^ I tablished. 'It comprises all the coast of « j the Golf of Mexico west of the harbor of 1'entacola, and *o much of the Gulf States as may be occupied by the National forces * under MqJ.-Gen. Butler. Tbe beadqoarters for the present will be wherever the General commanding may happen to be located. Gor. Picker* of South CaroVu* La* is- , t6»d a proclamation -railing for five additional regiments of troops. He eooly says that j If these regiment* are not farmed h* voluo. teere, in fifteen days, then a conscript will ] be made to meet the regnishigp i — SKLttVKR — At Green" Creek. Feb. 33; I Abraham ifolovar, in the 53d year ef hie HAND— Feb. 1$. 186*. Isaac Yousir. daughter of Bittt M. and Mary Maod, . j aged 21 month*. * STONBHILU— Kwch 19tb, IMS, UmrT , ' tfllxabeth, daeghUr of Jonas esd Aow i< BteoeWR, aged T yewe^ • mewtke.