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ife Cap, P® #ftai oMaht, | CApi lSI.AN/l N*. •'• 1 1 .■'■ — : i $. 8. LEACH. Editor and Proprietor* | Thnraday. By. 11. 1862 i OM K DOIiLA^PEK A N rtUM' ' OVM CAMT CORBUPOHDEN CE By this paper it will he wen tliat our regainr camp correspondence frqm the 26th Regiment if temporarily interrupt- . ad, the cause or which most of oat read* era are probably acquainted with, viz., the marching of the regiment, in company with the reft or the brigade, at the following, gathered mainly from private letters written nt different timet, jntt he- 1 fora leering camp, and while on CTe march, will ahow. The firat wni a brief ' note written the day they. Jeft cauip, and } intended to bare been hunched to the corrttpondenae of last week, hut wat recaifad one day wo late, after that edition wne printed. On Sunday. Nor. 30th, just at they

ware. going oat to attend Divine acr- , rice, die order came for them to prepare t to leave camp at noon the next day — ' \- They were ordered to prepare eeren 1 days' . rations of, pork and biscuit ; nod " wore proridedV''h ■®bU ehelter-tenw Where imjr.wera g««g. of eoacM. was 1 1 anknown, except to the few. Some aop- ; poaed to join Bornaide, and others to join 1 »*•!■ ! Another very brief note, written on , Tuesday morning, at 8 o'clock, somewhere iu Maryland, informs ua that they •tailed from Fairfax Seminary at 2 j ' o'clock on Moxday afternoon, passing ; ' through Washington at 6, and encamp I ad some two or three mile* from Waili- 1 I ington that night, after a march of ' ' tweWe miles. On Tuesday morning tbey again look 1 op the line of march down into Mary- j 1 •land, along near the Potomac, and ao continuing from day to day aqtih Friday wight, when they arrived opposite Acquis Creek, where they \encaw|ird

about a mile and n half from Puto- 1 * mac, having marched about twelve tn la* " a day since tbey started.- . Xae weather 11 was good during the march, ualil some c lime before noon qn Friday, .when it » commenced reining, which finally turn- ' od to anow, which msde very muddy I marebinr. and anything but comforts j-J ble encamping at night, oe everything rab?nt them was wet ' The last information we have wee n ' * note written on Saturday morning, at « 6f o'clock, when they were expecting to < cross over the Potomac thai day, ami ' inarch towania Fredricksburg, to Join I Bomside there ; and from their poaitioii i • wa presume that we* their real destlua- > < lion, tbongb everything is ao aoeertaiu i i in war. We art informed that the 25th ■ wen praise for good marching, and not i a man in Company F had giveh^ut on | i the way. I The sodden change in the weat'irr on ! i Saturday, after oor last letter was writ- r ten, most have been severe on onr boyt, ■ with nothing bat their light alu llsr tents j I to cover them nt night, which. are lit:!- ' mora than at) apology for u covering, i Like the equator — an imaginary line—- ' tbey are little more than an imaginary I I covering. * i After arriving at tbeir destination, if i wot immediately raltrd into battle, we i ■ball get a mora complete acecnnl of ! tbeir march. THxTtEwi Very BtUo of general nt we, or news from the army will be fonnd in the Wove this week. The reason of this is. ' trst, that there is no news of special interest; nod second, that we have filled no considerable a portion of onr apcre with e synopsis of the President's Mekong*. ' The indications are that the forego on both sides tre concentrating near Fredriektbeig, preparatory for a great batUa; while it is the opinio?! of eomr, thai the rebels are falling back towards Richmond. TklsJs a tfano of iotooar y ',.,to»wst wad awapaaaa. bsppnaa if VmrtiH reacts haag wpaa the m x IM faauW in Virgnsla Tor rrb ■ m-e ia a deplncaWy d stiteie csndiibm •ad eaa ararreHr heid to : other through M» «tMar. If badly arhipp-d now. end I sua I ■■■llj Wtll fight With deapr ratios. Maf M haw thotifhtrrwt raise.

the ntgsimairs message. 1 1 I Rreeidcnt Lincoln on the, first day of) | | the spaaion of Congreea (Dec 1st.) com- ' S mnnirated to bfith houses hie second ! i ! annual message, which win read, and ! been published. . CircumUevces pre- < dude the possibility of onr publishing i it ; nor do we deem it expedient to me'ktrsny rery extended extracts from it. , The Message is peculiar in iu style, to the author. It is n plain, aiiuple, straight forward document, »o ti.at no ! . Ine need fail to folly understand its im- 1 port. Like nil other documents of ! the kind, It does not merl the views of all. The friends of the author eulogise, i ' ! while his enemies criticise and condemn. J ! in many rcspecta. ' In compliance with a request of the j ' House of Representatives, at the la.t 1 secsiutt of. Congress, the President sub- : nuts all correspondence with foreign j aalions, iti connection with which he j rgmnrks : r : . . . I

"If the. condition of our relation* 1 Ajth other nations i< less grattfymg j i thahS^has usually 1i»en ut former per- i \ ioda, it ia ce/tamly more aalUfactory j than % nation so mihaiipilj distracted a* | ' we are, might reasonably liuve appre- 1 neadei y'y ; Tne message remark! that, — "The | < with Great Britain fur- the sup- 1 > presioM of the slave linde ha* been put , into operation with a good prospect of complete Aitccesa. It is an iK-casion uf special pleasure to acknowledge that 1 the executiuu of i', on the part of her | Majesty's Govt rmuent, has been marked I » ills a jeulou* respect for the authority | of the United S.utrs and the rights of) | their moral and loyal citizens." , j In refering to- the blockade, he sug i gwst that, unintentional and uuavoida- j i olr in times like these, some ti istakes i j neve la-en committed, which have in- | hinged upon tin- right* of Aiegtral pow 1 | era, which as far as could be, have been ' aitj teicd ; while, in other cases, the! Government bar. been unable to agit-r j with the Governments agiievrd ; as well , us still other cases where the United j

Siate* or" their ririzriis have suffered from other na ions, which have not been redressed ; and to meet these a proposition has been made en thoe .• Governments to call mutual .con ventiotis fur their adjustment, which ha* received with favor, though not i yet formally ado|it<d. Iq regard, to African colonizitiou, it does not •*ppe«rsriiut any d< finite arrangeqieuu have been made, though matiy free negroes hare expressed a wish to that effect It appear* that some of the -'-paulsh American Hepuhobject to their reinov.il.to their rcI specif ve territories ; and consrqnmily . there are now no places but Liberia i snd Ilayti to which they can be sent ; j ' and to these places the persons proposed tA colonized do not seem inclined to I *oI The dorelopment of the tenitoriey is eefcred to with a snggestion that rata* sures e.Souid be adopted more fully to advano* it., especially in reference to j thi ir vest mineral resources. Inference is then made to the condition* of the finances, staling that the vast expenditures lucidenl to ths war have been promplly met; but ibet the conlinrance of the war, with its necessary expenses, demaods the best rvllections of Congress. And ie meet the went! of tbn people, in the present emergencies, the organization of Banking Associations, under a general net of Congress, is suggested. The gross receipts of the Treasury, fcr'.ho fiscal year cnuing June 30th, 1869, including balance on hand nt the commencement of the year, and the loans daring . the" y?ar._w<iri> $683,885,247.06. or which sum $529,692,460.50 was ia loans <n various forma. The expenditure* daring the nam# year were $570,841,700.25; leaving a balance ia the Trei wny, on the 1st of July, of $13 043 546 .W1 Of the above $1'6 U9€.W(L0fi was but f s temporary loan, for the ri-lnAiorie mwnt oT -the |mblii- — bt, which btiig 1 d< -duclrd from lir above, leaves the ac-iualr-ceipuf..r the je-r $487 738 824, I 87, and the actual expenditures $474 - . 744 788.16. "1« the operation' af the Poet Ode* )

[ D.-partment them feema to * be an tm- t ! prbvemmt. since tbe secession of the 1 ! Southerii Sutes, and principally owing 1 ! to that fact. The receipts from the Stale* during the past year are i only about $50,000 lesa than from all . the 8t*te« during the previous year, while the exprnses of the last year were 1.481 394-98. lees than the prerioumrwar. The deficiency In this Drpartroi;nt\darlog the j»sst year was 2.ll2 81r&7, against $1,551,966.95 for the previous j year. The subject of the (gabl'ic lands is ' ! n»xt refered to, etathig lltwi they have I . ceased to be a source of revenue, owing , to the operation of the Homestead law,j which come* in operation on the 1st ol ! January next, which offers such induceJ j ments to settlers lo prevent sales for I ! cash sufficient to meet the expenses of • the General Land Office. 1 1 -The Indian difficulties are also briefly u j noticed. The tribes south of Kansas , have renounced their allegiance to the j

United Suite, snd formed treaties with i the! rebels. The Chief of the Chero i ' has visited Washington for the < I purpose of restoring their former rela- i p and asserts that they were com- ; pelled'by superior force lo do as they did. Reference is made to the trouble* ! with the Sioux in MitinraoU. which wi * wholly unluoked fpr, and, consequently unprovided fur. It is estimated that not less then 800 persons were killed 1 by them, and > large amount of proper- : ty destroyed, and a large portion of I I the Stale depopulated. The peoplo of| J that State are anxioua for the removal I of the Indians beyond their limit*, as a j guarantee against future hostilities A : } remodeling of the Indian system is sng grstei'l, I The Pacific Railroad, the Agricaltur- J | *1 Department, und some other min»r [ j matters are next refer rd to; which is i ; followed by a discussion of the preseni , I difficulties of the country, which forms | a large part of the message. In thi*

j discussion he assumes that slavery is the prime cause of these difficulties, utid 1 proceeds to argae that dixunion is in ad 1 equate to remedy the evil, allowing the difficulties of separation resulting to r both parties, arising from the peculiar conformation of nnr territory, and ttir i , mutual dependence of eei;h part on the other After arguing .those points at t considerable leneth, the message pro ' 1 poses, ai the most expedient, the mo«| ' economical and most humane remedy ' the removal of the- cause of the difficul ( ties, by the gradual, compensated abul | ishment of slavery by an amendment to (lie Constitution. The amendment pro- , posed, with the remarks immtdutcly i preceding it, w* give below, in the Ian- I gnage of the messige, ua follows . i " Oar national strife springs not from our | permanent pa«t. out from the Und we intra- ' (■it, not from our national homestead.— 1 There is no possible severing of this but 1 , would multiply and not mitigate evils ' , ■ - . i among As. % •• In. ill its adaptation and aptitadss, it demands\Uninn and abhnrs separation ; in f ict It wanld ere long force re union, how. .-ver madn of blood und treasure t!^i sepa ! r.tlioii might hove cost. Our strife panains to ourselves— to the passing generation of ' men. and it can,, without convulsion, be • crashed forever, with the p.uJbig of one - generation. In this view 1 recommend the i adoption of the following revelations and \ atticlor.-ameud atory to the Constitntba of the United Slates. " Rrlb'ived.fiBy the Senate-and Home of Rwpresentatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, two-thirds • of both Houses concnrrinr that the follow. • iog articles be proposed to tha Legislatures B or Conventions of the several Hlate*. as I amendments to the Constitution of the . United tsutas. all or Any of whitft article* j when ratiPed by three-fourtba of the said Legislature* or .Conventions to he vofld as part or parfs of «oid Constitution, via; * '• Article 1.— Every Stale therein llave- * ry nuw exista which shall abolirh ths same i therein at any lime or limes before tbe firat I of January in tbe year ¥ aer Lord owe * j|jmns4, wine hundred, aboil rweeive com 1 I |<en*atino from the Uetisd States a* ftdK ] |«M. to wit : i* i •• The Vreeideat of the Untied -Bute* , I shell deliver- tA every sneh Htate bonds of . i tbe United Htalee. searing interest et - the Irate of -8 for each slave shown to huee beew tberaw W 'W etgMh cearuv «f ike

United rftate*. "aid btmda to "<e delivers tl sufch rilete by in-tslaents or in one per- c cel. at the completion of the abolishment, n arcnnlingly as thw »ame Jlrall baVe been u gradual or at one time, within such 8tatc. : snd Interest shall begin to ruo upon any r such bonds only from the proper time of its e delivery as aforesaid Any State hatiag t received bond* as aforesaid and afterwards re-introducing or tolerating slavery therein < shall refund to the United'Slates the bonds I ro received, or the value thereof, and ull in. < vjerest thereon. I Article 2.— All slaves who shall havs •njhtrd actual freedom by the chance* of , i the. war "at anytime before the end of the ! rebellion, shall b« forever free, but all o»> _ ; , » er< of each who shall not have been ilisloj- 1 , al. shall b«» compen«ated fur them at I atme raid as i* provided for State* .mdnpot log the abolwhmvni of slavery, bat in such a way that do slave shall bo twice account r *d for. • ' •' Article 3 —t'onaress nray appro pi ial# money and otherwise provide for colonising f ' free co'lwred person* with their own cos sent at any place or places without the t- United Stater. ' The President discusses theig afti

cies nt considerable length, to show i .at 1 this will end the » nr. and .remedy the ail's now existing, with less cost to the Govern im-nt. both in Irtasnre and blood than the prosecution uf the wur j without ili a measure, n; d that it will result iu the ultimate benefit of all partus concerned. Bui we have not space to follow out tint argument, and there fore only gi-e his view* upon one part titular point — one wl ich i* often rni-. d , in the free autre — together with the | closing remarks of the message, in iis ! own language, as follows : . | I cannot make I'. l-etter known tb«o p " I already is thai 1 strongly fa* r cwh.n r.. lion, and yet I wish to say there la a. ! Jjection urged against free mtared personal remninins in the country which* i* largely \ j imaginary, if not sometimea nralirtous I It is* insisted that I li-lr presence wnnl.i 1 ' injure and displace whits- labor and white 1 laborers— If there ever could be* proper 1 time for mere arguments, that time sucely » is not now

In tiiues like the pre«ertVinen should nt- f i ler nntbing lor which they wdbl.d n>-l will! i ingly he resjo hsiblc il.rr uvh time an.leier | nily. I* it tm» that the colored |«w ph- 1 1 can displace any m»*re white lahor b» he ug i free 1 h ll by r«m lining s|i*es**|f they j i alny in their old places, they jo»i|- no while labor if tbey leave their old place* they leave J them Open to white laborer- . Logically | cipation e»en without de|Wirtatinn would i probably enh-ince the demand for white la hor-and saiely would not reduce it. Thus the customary amount oT labor would still to !>e performed The freed people would sorely not do more than their old proportion of it. and very probably for a time would do le*« leaving an increased part to ah.tr laborer*, bringing their labor into greater demand, and consequently enhancing the wages of it. With deportation even to a limited ex tvnt, enhancing wages to while labor is at ithama'icaily certain. Labor ;s like any other commodity in the msrket ; increase the demand for it and you increase t lie price of it. Reduce the supply of black labor bjr ] colonizing tbe black laborer net of rite conhrty. and by .precisely so much von in. crea«e the damand for wages of white It bar. Bat it is declared that the freed people will swarm forth and cover the whole land. Will liti«raunn mafeeihem any in -re ou memos? Equally distributed among tha States of the whole country) and there would b« but ong colored to Zeren whiles, could the one in any way greatly disturb . the seven? : — • — ^ _ There are many commnnitir* sow having more than one free colored periou to seven whiles, and this withoat any apparent son sequences of evil from it. The District of Colombia and the State* uf Maryland arid Delaware are all ia thi* gnadiliun. The District bat more than One free colored to | six whites, and yet in ita frequent petitions to Conxresa I believe it ha* urrer presented the presence of free blacks as ftie of its grri van cei. But why should emancipation sooth send the freed. people nowh T i>ople of any color seMom 'no n ideas there be something 1 to ran from. Heretofore, en*iav -I 'imopie '« aomo extent, ka«o Bed north from bond. age. and now. i>*rbaps. fro « bo h >-<rau*ge and Ua-tiiuij .n bet if gradoal en aocipa 1 lion nod do jorlatioa ue odfpUd they efli f have neither to fleo from i Theif old man era will gi*« them wago* • at laast until new I above rr con be pmenred. » and tbo Man 11 tin will finely pn

thoir ihbor for tbe.r wag ef tiSoe» can be procored for them in* eoogwniah climates ond with peoplo of thoir own blood unil race. Tbis proposition eon be trotted to the mutual interests involved, and ia any eraol cannot the North decide for itself whether to receive thpm ? Again, as practice pruwat mora than loeory, in__»ny case, has there been aiy irrupof pt-lorod people northward, beeanse of the abolition of slavery in this District Spring? W hat I hare said of the proportion of free colored persons to the whitoa in the District' is from tbweensns of I860, having . reference to persons celled contrabands or those made foeu by act of Congress abolJ iiliing slavery here. f The plan consisting of 'these article* ri recirinvonded, not but that a restriction of tbe nuptial authority would be accepted ^-Witliour?ts adoption ; nor will the wacgtior proceedings utifer the proclamation of Sept. 22, 1862. be stayed U-causs of the recommendation of thi* plan, flu timely' ' nduptino. 1 doubt not, would brlog restora- _ . ' linn and thereby stay both. ' \Viil mitniliivlariilini* tt.i, nlan. lha re. 1 And notwithstanding tbi* re-

commeutlation that Congress provide by law for compensating any State which may adopt emancipation before this plan shall have upon it hereby earnestly renewed. Hut-It would be only an edvanee ) part nf the plan, -and tbe sauie arguments ' apply to both. Tin* pian is recommended as a means, i not in exclusion of. but additional lo ail ut tiers fur restoring tr;J preserving tho OS- , ii'iiiul authority throughout the Union.— - I Tbe subject is presented exclusively is lit e.-'UKi • ical aspect, Tbe plan wuald. Ibm confident, secore j p.-ui-e more speedily and maintain it more ; prr» aiiet.tly llii-n ran be done by force ' s'.me while all it would cost, considering «>■!.. uiita and manner of payment, would be ee-i-r paid than will be the additional cost » ; of l lie war, if •« rely solely upou force. It \ is worth much, very much, tbut . it would . cost no blood at all. t - Tbe plan is proposed a« a permanent e C 'li.titotiui) law.' It cannot become tech r w i In-ill the concurrence of 6r>t. two thirds y ' o Cuiig.-e>», and alterwards. three-fonrth i o i be States. Ths srquisite three fourths t- j the States will necessarily include Seven

. Their c uruirvace, if obtained, will give a-ur.ufe ot their *e«eea!ly-«fh)ptteg eoran. Cipatiuu al no very distant day upon the j n -w riMisiiiulional tern-s. This assurance would end the struggle now, and rave the u.i.,u . I do uot forget the gravity which should j clrararlerixe n pa^T addressed lo the Congresa of the nation by the Chief Magistrate of tbn nation. Nor do 1 forget that some of you are my senior* ; oor that many of you have more experience than 1 In the conduct of public affair*. £'et 1 trust that in vie* of n.e great responsibility resting upon mo. ynu will perceive no want of y* •peel to yourselves in awy undue etraesi-' 0-*s 1 may svein to display. Is it doubled, then, tb a the plan J propose, if adopted would shorten the wor, and thus ietsen it* exuenditoret of mosey and of blood ? 1* it doubted that it would restore tbe naftonal authority and national prosperity, and perpetuate tbem indefinitely? Is it doubted that all bere. Congress and i Kjcrujive. can secure its adoption ? v' 1 | Will out the good people respond to n i untied and earnest appeal from as ? Can we, can t hay, by nay other mesne, so certainly or so speedily insure the»« »i. 1-* objects ? W# can succeed only by cobi cert. It is not '• Csn we imagine better ?" . bur 'Can we all do belter? It is no object, whatever is possible j still i tlie"qoe»lion reenra "Caa we do better?' s r flw^ogmas or the quiet past are iaade,i quale ib the stormy present. The occasion » is piled bWh with difficulty, snd w* must vise high wyh tbe occasion. As our case ( ia bow. ao wa must think anew and act t anew. We mn>t disenthrall ourselves, acd then we shall save tb* country, r Fellow C it; sent— we osnnot ssrapo his1 tnry Wo. ef this Congress and this Ada ministration, will bt rrmeinbersd, in tpit« ) of nurselvea. No personal significoooo or t ihsignificanca can spare one or aootbvr it . es The fiery trials tbraaxh which wo p- »r , "ill light ut down into honor or dishonor— to I bo latest generation. Wo ray - Wo ore for the Ualdi" "Tbi wbvid wilpoot forget that wa any this. Wo S know bow In oav# this Union. Tho world g kooaa we know bow to tava it. Wo— ovoe " "* h,Tv,7ho,,, lb* «d bear the r»- " freedom to tbe free— honorable a|fea t what wa give and what - we prujuo ,, !i fi t' rave or mranly lose the Jssi. •"*h-r Otlmr mesas ma j socen d— this Cioaot fail The way i* plain, peaceful, generous (rat I. — a way which, i.* follow^, ths world wiM m wrar oppfowd. oad God most fererar Hfje . ■ ; -v ' if- "