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n • — nr? • — a-- ■ Slai ®«JB ®tait | Cape island n. j. ----- — — X. m. XtBACH. Editor and Proprietor. Thursday. Jan. 1,1863 OMR DOLLAR PER ANNUM! nraozicATixo own n the abut. It it unnecessary, qmong thaw who ore aeqoainted with ci, and know our views on lb a ump«r*nei question, to express our Approval of tho army regulation, prohibiting tha use of Intoxicating drink* among oar loldiera. It i« perfrctly right, and should b« rigidly enforced. Nothing will do more to pro mot* th* health, the peace, and. the efficiency of the army ; and those who may sarvlvt their trrm of aervice will be retamed to their homca and families with •f" ""N nrauch higher state of morale, even though they may have been temperate before, then they otherwlee would; 'while, without doubt, many heretofore •dieted to Intoxication, will be wholly reclaimed, by the necessary result of the •aforcemeut of this regulation. Bat while we approve of the rrgniatioa, n a far as it goes — or ss fsr at it is carried ont— we have one fault to And vritb, either the xeguleriju^iu; the manner it Is executed 'The regulation ohould extend to, and<b* rigidly exccu ted opon, not only the privetg-ooldicr and non-commissioned officer, but to •vsry officer, whatever may be his grade, from the General- i«-Ohief down to a lieutenant. If intoxication render* e V private aoldior unfit for duty, hpw much mora the officer, opon whom, In many cases, the life or death of hundreds and » thonssnda depends. If a colonel or general la fit to command a regiment, a brigade, a division ot-a corps of men. on a battle-field ia a atate of intoxication •fcyit a drunken aeldier not fit to fight •ader him f Perhaps aome of thoae officers resort to the cup, to screw up their .courage, in the time of battle ; dot if so, tbey should be *»horae, under the protection of their wlvee or mother*. -Wo be*e •ae young eon in the army; and may God grant that be may never face dinger, and meet death in a atate of intoxlaatioo, or wbea the least under the intuenev of intoxicating drink, In whiterar position, high or .low, be may be placed. We have made these reifiaritt, beceuse we believe there are good reasons fair so doing. It is a truth, beyond a doubt, S -*» that we have in the Union army, a large aamber of officers, from loser to bightr positions, who ale the moet besotted wrotehes on the face of the earth ; and there Is the best of reasons to belisre, that. In almost numberless instances, tbey bars been almost beastly drunk on tbe field of battle and there is no doubt that thousands of our brave soldier* bare been slaughtered in conaeqneaea I* la true that they are soma liana arraigned and tried for It, but it generally happens that, after investigatiou, the arey cleared. And why t simply because those who here tried litem are as deep Id the mud as those who are tried. Could we bare the control of the Batter, we would diamiss from tht aertice, with the utmost disgraoe, any offiMr who ia lu the habit of ueing intoxi Mtiwg drink. We might be arbitrary, bat if we bed the content, we would Mod every euch wrerch to ,Ht« .home, whatever might be .hie p^aitlon, as a disgrace to hit country, and a wholesale butcher of loyfel Americans. ovm aatltosd; Everything ia progressing finely in our Bailroau enterprise, sad the people have every confideuoe that it will be completed ia due time for next Summer. It Wie the Utealiou to have had the iron laid to Port Elisabeth, and the cars running there, by the eg'lj P«rl of this Booth, ead weald have been, bet for ee«M Uule4el*y in delivering the tire Mid iron, at the time expected. TWe, ww hereto doubt, will eooa be eecotn. pKshvd, at least before Spring, noletv navigation should, dosa. sad remain elMod, M as to praveut tbo delivery a the mwteaiel. When thte it vmmI V —

plisbed, it will, at leaat, ehorten our stags route several miles, and over tbe worst of the road too, mahing ^ the joarney to Philadelphia considerably leas tedious, snd muke tbe arrival of onr 1 nisil an hour- or two earlier. Aad even 1 these two circumstances will be quite 1 an accomodation. 1 Last week «e published a letter of 1 Mr. Dungan, to Hon. T Jones Yorke " in answer to an invitation to accompany Mr. Yorke, Commodore Stockton and ' Gen Cook on a trip over the line of ' the road, to view the progress of the j work. Tbe letter gate something of a | statement tf the progress of the work, t and was therefore, no donbt, interesting io those interested in the enterprish. ^ud we should here remark, that the i above named gentlemen started en their ! trip ; but, on their arrival ul Millvilie, found everything ao satisfactory, that they declined proceeding any father, and returned. As far as the eye can reach, you may see the work ready for tbe ties and iroo. WAR AND OTHER NEWS. The Secretary of tho Treasury has . sent in his hill to the Committee of Ways slid Meens. It proposes to raise , $300,000,000 for tho services of tbe present fiscal year, and $600,000,000 for tue next fiscal year. It is to be raised . in auy ol the ways heretofore authorix- ( id by Congress. , Colonel Spear's lllh Pennsylvania , cavalry had epite a skirmish ou Wednes- , day week, near Franklin, on the Blacki water. The enemy's pickets were drirr en in, but a large force uasembliog to | obstruct his farther ad ranee, he retired, r The town of Winchester hni again i been taken by our troops. Tire rebels . 2500 strong, retired upon their ap- « qiroach. The people are in a state of I destitution. A female at Nashville, who was on 1 the point of departure for the south, ' was arrested and her trunks were overr hauled. They were found filled with ' quinine and other articles. r A dispatch from New York says that nut of an appropriation ol over a mil ion and a half dollars for expenses* in recroiting and organising volunteers, nearly $800,000 has bceu paid on'fraut duleal accounts. A negro insurrection is feared in , Franklin county, Missouri, aad a body , of soldiers have bfeen sent out to overawe tbea. 1 Mr. John 8. Rnrey. who was sent by Gen. Halleck to examine into Uie condi- ' tiou of tbe horses iu the army of the 1 Potomac, has made bis report. He says > that the cavalry barer* suffer most ; that > tbe arlHIery horses are somewhat better, 1 and that the mule teams, are iu good ' condition. lie thinks the great cause of ' deterioration is the want of skill, judge- ' metit and fare in the rider who attends to the horse. There are two candidates for Congress in the North Carolina district — one on the platform of free labor, the other on i he gronnd of opposition to confiscation ( aud emancipation. The latter receives the support or Union Governor Stanly Ltst week we noticed the capture of Kingston, N. C., by the Union troops. The expedition was commanded by Gen I Foster, and later official reports ray that he had advanced still farther and barn- , ed the railroad bridge at Goldsboro, and i torn np several miles of railroad track. Four engagements were fought — at 8oothwest Creek, Kingiton, frbile Hall and Qoldsboro, and the enemy were handsomely whipped each time. 1 General Barnside sends a dispatch ' that the nnmber of wounded will not exceed, 6,000 ; about half of whom are ' receiving treatmeat in tbe hospitals. ! Hon. Celeb B. Smith has been con- ' firmed es Judge of the District Court o' the United Staleafor the District of tadUaA Tbe President has written a letter to the Army of the Potomac, which ia promalgatad in general orders, thanking them for the coo rag* and valor display, ed a* thelBttle-deld.

nh riBi ijLgiiiinniai i " i I I II . — " — " £ The first below eras written with the in- t ion of having it attached to. the cor- , reepondance of last Week; bat owing, we 4 presume, to the irregularity or urdines of ' the mail arrangements from canip to Wash- ( ingtoo, it was not received till two dqys to > , lete. It was written oa Saturday, Dee. 1 20th.— Enrroa. . , Not an'il Sunday did we find out tbe ' exact loss of Company F. Although I ' bnvq tent them to. you Ooee, still I will give them now. with their condition. S«r- ' geenl Albert S. Edmunds was killed and on the field. Corporal C. P. Ludleio. ' slight wound in beck, now able for duty ; ' Dan'l II. White, shot through right breast by a bell, wound eerious ; Ueo'l Horn, shot through loft cheek by grape ehot, and ugly wounds bat not dangerous; Joseph S. □ igbee wound in beck, rather badly, but not dangerous ; Jonathan floffmen, shot iu finger, but now reported for duty , Jeremiah Tyler, shot! throngh the wrist byr boll ; went between the two bones- painful wooed ; Wm. 8. Smith, wound through • boulder, but ndl serious; James S. KU drid ge, w^ile ou guard at the Colonel's headquarters ia tbe city, wes slightly wounded on the hand by a fragment of shell. It how becomes my duty to refer to the Reddest part of jsur loss—the death of beloved Sergeant Edmunds. To thfask that he is gone to return to u* no more am this world we ^aanot bear to contemplate, lo the whole company there was not a finer 'young man. All knew him but to love him, snd ail together mourn his uotimely lose. Not only was he a true friend and ao excellent companion, but he was a competent soldier, and, betides knowing his duty, he was ever ready io do it. Like a brave , man be met his death. The last Ume I on. ticed him was when we were rushing into the battle. I looked around, eaw him el hie post spoko to bim. Bui there is ) 1 one consalhi^ thought, und that is. the assurance we have that he wes prepared to f meet death. Y»s. ws believe his spirit is to-day dwelling in Heaven above. Were bis merits not well known I thuqld write much more, for too much cannot be said in 1 bis praise, 1 Ciwr niab Pxicbssicksrcro. Ya., } Headquarters 2Mb It'-g. N. J. V . V -MondaV, Dec. X'i. IBM. j Dtar Wat * ;—l will now ettempt lo finish my account of our campaign in Frederlcksburg. When I last left off 1 believe ' I was speaking in reference to tbe fight. 'I here is one point mom which I must mention. It is that four sons of Cape i May supported the colors during the baitl*. Sergt. Asron Learning carried the Etate and Co-pora's Holmes, Reeve* and i Shoemaker Sweve color-guards. This ie considered the tqosl dangerous position in the regiment, and it is one of the mast honorable. Tba colors received many shot*. It it said that oar fightiog Saturday ere- ( ning presented one of the graudcsl scenes of tbe war to those that viewed it from a distance The sharp flashes of cannon and muskstry, crossing in every direction must have shown brilliantly. We littla thought of lie beauty while fighting, however. The day after(tba battle— Sunday— we stood by our arm to tho city, axproting every moment that we should be seat into lb# field, for It was a general impression that the 9th Army Corps was to hear the brunt of the battle that day, and as the hardest fighliag of tbe war has been on i Sunday our minds were made up that W should; have a hot timti Bot nn orders r came to adranee, and tha principal fighting of tba day was between pickets. San- ' day night Co. P, coiled away in a smell story -«nd-a-half house. Thiaking it possi bis we might have ao arddoas'task preeen- ' led to on Mondey, we fslt thankful for a nigbt'a (noose in a hoaee. At sn early hoar in the morning we turned oat, quite re freshed, and the day paased off like tha one preceding. Utile fighting occurred, except between picket*. Ocoassionally the rebels would be u "little careless" and let ly a bomb into tbe city, wbieb, luckily, injured no one, although it canted many of the beys to "fir around and keep their eyes opon." Daring the day I- attended the funeral of Setf't Ed*ard L. Inwovend, of Co. I. Onr beloved Chaplain spoke at the grave, and made «n impressive prayer. The owmradus of the deceased manifested deep sorrow si bis loss. He woe loved by then all. and all wha havs ever had tho plearars or his ncqsaintsoce will admit that he wot a man worthy of being loved. Had be lived, I am confident be woatd have ranked higher io mftiiary title before the expire- < tiou of bit term «£oervfou than «t the lime \ •f Ms death. Bfc qeehltue wWeesreW j

la tba death of Hergtanu 'fflwnsend and Bdmunade. Cape May has loit, two of her most promising stars. In what ever circles tbay ware known, whether mil- t nary or vociai, they will be *iwd »"d , mourned. t In the afternoon, squadi detailed from ( each company, tearcbed the city aad gath ( «rwd together all the old iron that coold bo ^ found, which was deposited In the river. ^ We knew no mure, bot we thoaght this act ^ looked as thoauh there was to ba an evsc. f untioo of the city, aad sure enough tbi* was the indention. About sunset tbe 25ib ^ was ordered to go out on piuket. The city , was te be evacuated during the nigbt. ii> the muruing the picket* were to fell back. ( cro*« tbe river and tha pontoon bridge* . token up All of this, of coorse, was to , b ■ performed as secretly a* possible. At ( T o'clock we started for the picket line. | Being hoi i ss a reserve »e were not long reacmng our po*t. which was behind a hill. | • here we "lay low." 'I'liioking lbs rebels might iie.tr of the evacualiou, we rather ex^MCted our outer picket! would be attacked and ue our orders were to eupporl them :u such a case, every man thought it more than prubalile that we should participate ia a squabble before we reached this'- side the Rappahannock; but. after we bad spent ^W'o or three hoor*W\deep meditation, we wended Jur way back nNjis city, and as midnight was upon us, oar brigade, wbicb was the first to euler Frmlericksburg, hud j recroued the rivet, being Ilia last brigade that left it. After three hours tiresome inarch w.g we gamed o«r present camp, and pitched our muslin dog-houses. Or thr Bank or rut Rappahannock. 1 Tuesday, Dec. 23d- J Dear Wave :— 1 haste to furnish you a ' aheel of scribbling from this point I am situng ou the bank of the Rappahannock, directly oppo»it« Fredericksburg Our regiment came out here on picket dulj this morning.' Co. F. is guarding two of the J self same gun* that helped to shell the Clt) opposite. A part of the regiment is pick- ' eting along the river's edge Tin Secrsh 1 pickets are on the other side. We can 1 talk to each other, bring only about a lxmdred yards opart. Tliw "grey backs" parade the streets in numbers. From appearance 1 but lew of the cititer.s have i^gmeil. Ti 0*1 that have are of the poorer class, who could find no oilier home. I imagine they fniin-l their domieif- in something else than 'tipple pie order." The weather -a Vers ol tipring. It is the only day t»r n-er a - week that we could recline on the ground with cotnrort, and our boys are taking their ' ease on the bills around. Tbe - Ltcey House" stands a short distance from us ' It i» owned by Maj. Lacev, confederate " officer, nn tho staff of Cm. Smith. In - time past it has hern a splendid place or ' residence, hat its romsntiri>ni. beauty and I comfort is nn more. Soldiers have harbor. 1 ed neor it. This, to a soldier is esplanition • enough. I hod a conversation with an old - citisen of Fredericksburg ibis morning. Our shell* routed him out of his house aud ■ home, and he skedaddled into our lines. ' Ho gave me tbe Fredericksburg 'price cur ' rent." Floor 835 per bbl ; Sugar. 81 25 1 per lb ; Coffee 82 ; Salt. 840 ger ba»liel ; 1 matches, 50 cents a box, and everything > else iu proportion. What do you think of - this f The almost numberless fortifications of > the cnerfr s't- in view from our position I As 1 look st thtm 1 t. ink ho* craty. or i ifno.-ant and how wicked must have been tbe geoerel- who ordered infantry to attack > the rebels in such positions Our whole ■ army would not dri«e them from such i strongholds, by same means. Since our rvtrest the eneirfy have thrown np i entrenchments on tbe some hills that we . occupied (luring tha bait!#. Flags of trace ■ cross and recrtfc. the river every hour or so I fur various purposes. When Union and Secrsh oliioers or men meet on ths-a occas. ■ I s.ons they converts isi'h sociability. Wa r sleep not to night, and go in off picket to t morrow. CnsiwrsiAs Pav. 1P62. 1 Friends of Cape May Eoldiars, "A Merry Christmas to yon All." If oar thoushts i .have aver tnrnad toward home it it to-day. i How ws rscall the past Christmas days we have enjoyed with yon all. A good fat r turkey, or a wild posse, well eluffatl^and i roasted, would make at "lsugh'"all over.' i couM we dins on thum to day : bat never f mind ; perhaps we may enjoy the next i Christmas with you. Col. Dsrrom has i given us all a "play day" in camp Kaoy , urn spending it in visiting their friends in other regiments. Nearly all the New Jarsey regiments are in this vicinity. Thar* 1 coaid be do great mow* without Jertejmen i Whether there will be another battle , here ie herd to toll" Air the si -k and wounded are being e»nt North. This oi ther meaas • fall berk" or 'go abend."— j The health of our regimonl {a on tho da elm*.- For active Servian we cannot mas ' |etoT««L J*#. t.

Fur Be " OBua " * nxxs'T sdwjjui l ntudl. Edward L. Townsecd is mere. On the battle field be fell; and his manly for* will no more behold. Of hit many vlr» toes \ need cot speak. In Capo Msg bu lo owned by a widowed mother Mm Bilk- „ o- ly can riosr tbe loss of a noble, only sun— by a sister whose lore for bim was all aud more ' ban that tond--r pas. I en uo> ually Is— by another, toe. they tell bo, i even bis betmtbed. How deaeiste are ibeoa hearts now. Ok what au oehiog void therein I Thtlr grief who eaa describet But they are not nlon# In fbelr sorrow. Who among thoee that know bim, has not exclaimed sine* bearing tho Sad sews, "ow it cannot be— ha will return to nt whoa hi* * - brave comrade* corn#:" But let m usrvw our hearts, for Tuwasend it no trore.'The reveille will never again awaken bim from s. umber. Sleep oa brave aoldiar I No soldier's blanket sver enfolded a nobler heart. Let me. he exclaimed to bis friends before leaving, appear ou tbe battle fluid whore i the c qfiict rages. If I thoaght I should not I would not leave my home. Upon the alter of his country has bo sacrificed his life. In tbe defence of that Uoieu gi»« en to us by onr forefatbere has be fallen. Let him deep beneath the folds of that flag which ha dared to defend, evsn to the giving np of Lis life, against toe attacks of I Vile and loathsome traitors; and while be sleeps, let a* who mourn take comfort from ' the thought, that could oar brave departed speak to us. h« wouid tell us. "That sweet It i* fur one's Conntry to die." , . Prof. Phelps, io a letter addressed te the wetter, thus speukt of our yoaag beres "Poor Townsend ! I gave him the tribut* of my leers when I eaw. hie nam* on the I'.si of the immortal dead. Aloe I the brave fellow 1 There are loo few like Mi ■ that are left to as, I sorrow over hi* lew .»# of that or a brother. My hMrtfelteym- •*" pathirs ere with those who like myself ku*W him bet to love him." We can only ask with thfi poet— "Wb*. so loved, is lelt among the living I" B. [Adrerttsemwt.1 Friend Leech:— In perusing the colsmts of your lost week's issue, my attention wee arrested by an article, comiag from a* 1 agent in this city, complaining of tte roursr of peltry which had been pureawd bv the Finance Curamiilea, by advertieiiig the Atlantic H»>tel property ip tbi* city for sale, to pay the tax -on paid property, fur the year or 16S1. etati»g at tha same time, that he held the receipt for the payment of laid tax on aaid property, which had been rettUd a long time ago. The Finance Committee bad no knowledge at , the time that tb# advertisement went lo press, nor do tLoy y*"l bono toy knowledge whatever that tbe tax oa tbe property to * " which the agent refered, far tbe year of IHOl, speaking in a legal point ofvie^, woe etar paid. II r. Editor, if yon *h«uldiM>g. lect to pay your tax to tbe collector, at tha\ proper time, till it was retarded to a Jes \ tire, who iesned a warrant, placed It In tbe hands of a constable ; and yon should rag. lect snd refuse to pev that officer, and ffir# hire no satisfaction, bat only say, to that . officer that yon would pay whst yon gut ready, till forbearance ceased ta be a virtue, . no-J 6nally the matter peered into tbe bsads of tha Finance Committee, aud yon ■till rafaso t<* settle with that committee, and go and settle with a perfon net authoriz'd to receive tales, neffr doing to would not satisfy the city of 0*£e Island, snd yos woold still be a debtor in thy eyes of" the law to tlo city for. said tot. -This Is pro. risely the case with our asent-ja question, and tbo Finance Committee has ao author, ity to cross said tax from tho «srro«t.. If the Finaree Committee bad any poritire 4 A > ssurance that the agent had dona ti ls thing ' ignorantly, they might have entertained different view# in regnrd to tho cotrrws if polity pnisaed by onr ogril ; sod bo might not have been subjected to such an wnplooo> ont reflection t bot stilly not* r;h»tanding all thio. if bo can prodoce o saiisfsctory receipt that bs has paid tba tax ia quostis* to sny person aalborised to receiro it, vtko committee will take gnat pleasure in Ufss ing off rrom the tax warraat'aoid tax. ahd justifying felly tha eoareu of policy pntmred byour agent in queetion. Hopiag in the future that they will not meet wRh any more 7b» foolery, we remain,— Reaper tfully Youre. J >sn H.-KkSssbt, ) Fiamree Jo us W. Rlaxu. J OommittM. Cspe Island, Deo. 27tb, 1162. CALL AND SETTLg.. 'I * top* toeM , Hw-V "to