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rr— T— 5' . , = {{a <£ayt Haj fltaas ®lsbt : J CAPE ISLAND X. • J. S. LEACH. Editor and Proprietor ' 1 ' 1 Thursday. Feb. 12, 1868 «... ■■■ — — — i i OS E DOLLAR PEK ANNUM' ] THE STATE 07 APTAIKS. *' X^ut week week we published «n ar.-,j ticle under the bend of "A Bebel \ iew," j copied from a BitluWl paper, Rer- , haps many cf oar reader#' bad read -it before tliey sew ii in the Were, a* it bod been in "some of the doilies J but a second reading wilt do no one any injury ; and if any one baa not read it carefully, or does not remember ite import, we ask mem to torn to the last Wore, and read it alowly and carefully. It is a striking article, considering the sourco it cauto from. Tbs rebder will bo struck with the thought thattbe facts therein stated ware nearly all known to him before, at least so far ts relates to the position of the Union army and Government, and yet that be had never before considered them in the same connection. At least \ this Is oar experience: and we have j seen no urticls, even in the strongest j Union papers, thai baegiveu on so much light aud hope, or so much confidence in the power and stability of our gov- ! ernment, or that has given such n comprehasmWe view of the-atate of things, ; both in connection with our own gov- j ernmcnt. and that of the rebelsThe people of t' - North frequently ct/ out. that we have accomplished j n 'thing; bat by ^perusal oi toe article , refcred to. they will be convinced that i it reWs think very different]^ and that they fe«l, aw well at know, what we I have done ;>nd 'W it has driven thcui , to dasperale straits. It wonld be in j vain for us to attempt to tell what the i V ~ Union avmy and Government have done, fjr altar all our efforts we should fall j infinitely short of the truthful picture j delineated in the aforesaid article ; and | we will only ask tho render ngnih to re- 1 for to it ; and if he is not couvjfced that 1 wo have done something, then wo w .11 prononnce bun Incorrigible. Apropos, we refer to aqpio extract* from aomo rebel deapstchcs and official correspondence of Gen. Ilindman, recently captured at Van Burtn, Arkansas, which give interesting particulars of the condition of affaire in that region. Urn. ifiadmun says : • Surely the Secretary is not apprised of the condition of our troops, and tho slmo.t Utter exboustation of tho resource# of tho eouutrj. In this corps I couW show him 7000 men absolutely in rags, without countlug the .Umosl naked Indian*. What you ore sending mo I» distribute pro rata among all. but that cornea slo'ely and in small quantities, and the great majority continue to suffer exposure— to sicken and to die. 1 suppOM that it is the same with -our other ttoops. Unless these poor men we comfortably clad this month, not half »( tbein will live through tbo winter. Another army cannot be raised this side ♦f the Mississippi-" In auotUer letter ho nays that if "soplias are not immediately teat, and In forger quantities and fsr more ranidly, God ouly knows what 1 am to do." Here is another and more fatal admission, made by Ht'odmau in a letter dated in December ; "Wherever the enemy getl south of tlie Boston mountains and establishes himself be can press you down to Louisiana! or into Taxa* wilhoot diffieulty."--Oihrr dispatches refer to the late battler in Arksnsas, ooaUiaiag contradictory statements ol the losses on both sides, but ibeee Me net material to the point at issue —the deplorable condition of the rebel forcee and their inability to hoM their ground. The raeeat taccesses of «nr army » in the Arkansas region have probably put. the finishing touch to the whole besmrf*. AH of ibcue thioga go to show the woadiliua of affairs in the Seutb ; thai their own uii'de'ds aud rebellion have oat wiled oa them uolokldtttreas, which, with the. aid of tho aword, mn*t iwl> ually t.bj«rote them, and make them acknowledge the power aud authority of the Government they have d.r«I de SGSSIi

i iuiik existing among those prole»*iug to N j be loyal men of the North ; and If ever rt 1 we fail. aod»6bls gr*at, powerful and oi l prosperons country is debased, divided N and virtually destroyed, it will .be for k 1 the ■want of unanimity among ourselves, | and not by the power of the .rebellion. I I Rememl»er that. We have traitors In -o ' tho North, as well as in the" Sonth ; and t< i some of them are in positions of honor- b i trust and profit, Both in civil and tnili j J tare life # ' l WAR AND OTHER NEWS. J The most important and interesting j item of news connected with the war, ' dbriug th'e past week, is a reported naI val etqjagement off Charleston, S. C. j ^ , The reports, however, up to the time we ^ j write, on Monday, ore all, from rebel ^ ! sources, uo official report having been | _ [ received by the Nary Department, or, . at least, nono having been made public. ! f According to these roperts it appears I that two rebel iron-clads, recently Gtltd I oat, on the 31st of January sallied out'1 of the harbor, under command of the ' , rebel Commodore Ttigrabam, and atj talked the Federal gunboat Mcrcedlla I , | and soon sunk her. Tlie 'cominaudcr, 1 i j Capt. Stall wogen, and u boat's Crew. ; , j wpnl on bourd the rebel gunboat, and j 1 , ) surrendered. They also report diaab- ! Ifng the Quaker city, Imt that she after- 1* | wards esc iped. Ingraham also thinks 1 ; he snnk atreilier of our vessels, upd set ,j still another on fire. Tho rest of our 1 I i fleet ran away. The fleet is said to coir- ... . I sist of thirteen vessels in a]!, all Wooden t vessels. Most of the crow of tho Mpr- > I I codi la are reported to hare snnk with , | the vessel. , | Tli'.- foreign consuls at Charleston are , [ said to have visited tho scene of the j • affair, and have decided that the blocki ud,! has been legally rfiiscd, Usid Gen. I | Beauregard and Coin. Ingraham liuvo „ , issued a fiaining prociamntiou loi that j i effert. - ••'There seems to bo but little doubt I I tint tho raport, though coming from n jjj' ' 'yHig rebel source, is at least hair trdfe. | ft h propablo that the Mcrccdita wax t j snnk, and that the other vessels, not ex*j i peeling such an attack, were not pre- | pared, did not bnvo snfficiriit steam up, t j nor their guns shot ltd. and consequtut- ^ j ly moved out" of reach ; but so far as wt- ; have been able to learn the Government ! does not admit that tho blockade has ] been legally raised, nor it it believed jf j that foreign nations will so regard it. ! According to iiiterxaiional laws in m ! such cases, if the blockade has been lorn j gaily raiiad, it cannot again be enforced t- i until sixty doya' notice lias been given " j to that effect, which would giv-. the Ah > u els a fine chance to get supplies. " This affair proves (be superiority of iron clad vessels of war over the old l( wooden ones. D Later nccoonta by the ChacJrstoii pair pera stale that there was a large blockar. ding fleet off tho harbor, including i 0 a number of our iron clods, and au attack on the city was hourly expected. *' From the beat information we can get, r an attack on that city has bete contemplated at no very distant date, and the , preparations were nearly complete before the recent .affair happened, and that may have the effect to hasten it ' « somewhat. Should we get possession ,r of tb*tju|lk °f wickedness, it would set >r at rest fo cvet the question of difficulty r wit. foreign nations, in reference to • y the raising of the blockade. ,t Since the above was written, direet , » advices, by the arrival of the prise , •I steamer Princess Royal, at Philadelphia, ' have been received. None of ourvee- t f gels were sank, avid only two, the Mrr- i 11 - cidita and ' Keystone State, were disabled, and tbey, with one engine, were ! * enabled to go to Port Royal. Shots 1 lL went through one of their boilers, j r More than twenty of onr men wero ; killed by scaldlag and otberwlse. The t l* raising of the blockade is a humbog. I f No more contraband goods are to he j ; neat to the west without special permit. from the enatom house. This hw been " rendered nrettsary by tho large sopplies . A>roptlWt»»vivsd. at Norfulk from j '

fia the Di»inal Swump Canal, 1 1, reports that n JJ. 8 .fleet consisting of : '• one hundred and twenty vessels had left [ c bound Sooth, destination not " • j; We hear from China, via San c that we may expect a supply j f, -of cottou from that quarter. The. cot- • b is represented' as of good quality, j1 not so fine as the American. ! Tho steps taken Ly the Secretary of ( • ibe Treasury for the recovery of the ] 1 certificates of indeuluess.rcccutly stolen ( from the office of the Treasury of the ' 1 : United States have been successful. All r1 • the certificates have becu recovered, and ; ' ! are now in the possession of the gov- j eminent. They were in sums of $5000 j ^ each, antf, amounted in nil to two and a I ! half millions of dollars, hut being un- ' , : finished, and the department Im'ving no- • ! tificd the public of the' loss, ibevthiefi probably found it usclesa to offer /them j ; in the market. Through rebel soorces, the capture o j the U. S. ves»ul Morning Light, at Sa- | bine Pass, is reported. The steamer Konuokc, nt New York from New Orleans, brings intelligence that th'e rebel troops in' Louisiana are ; much demoralised, and are oulyTtept to j their duly bj promises of peace. There ; is also mack opposition to the conscrip- , Hon law, and rcveral offirers have been ' shot in attempting Ao enforce it. The pintle Alabama is reported to huve received] some revere shots in her encounter with the Hatter?*. She had landed 1 liei prisoner* at Port ltoyal, Jamaica. J K2. £S0V "1,'slBESOl.tTnofiS. On Thursday lait, Mr. Soorol, of in-d-'n. t*Vnr pemo«raf)j introduced, in tho. j N. J. llouve of Assembly, tie following Joint lte&olnnons. . afiich have the. right ring: li. yilvcil. That tbs unparalleled event* 1 of the poet two jiar* have revealed to |i|p cfkwnaf the C oiled Htatos beyond question. «r the jwrihdity of donbl, tbot n peaceful recoiieHiatmn 'upon the form of k our Uonstituii-M Is yepelled and iciiwd by every t*Vatjj now in rebellion : and that i saresaiou reeafts tre.-ou. aud ju the heurts ri-of iu supporters, gbrth or. sooth, means , war ogaio»l oei^ 'uutry and the duiuUgratmn of our uatiAi. Resolved, That tho cititeus of the Uni- , •<- d Stale* in the Statu of New Jersey,/ bclisving it the dnty of evrry'cood citiz. n toVacrifim rasn, estate, app'.soie or life 1 iUetf al tbo sacred call of Sheir wmmtry, I ; now declara tbeir unaltenihlo detrniicatii'ii to sastain the goveroinent in its efforts to i maintain the honor, the integrity aud Ibe . existence of our national (Jniou. 1 Resolved, That n? difference of political ( opinion, no badge of divecsit.y npon points of party disllnclipa shall restrain or witbold in the devotion of all we bare or can : • command to ibe vindication of onr govern- ^ m«nt, the mafeteuance of its laws, and the ' defence of the flag of our country. _ ! OtJB AHHT C0EEE8P0SDEKCE. Headquarters 25th Reg. N. J. V.. ) < OrroMTK Fatroitmntsat'Ro, Vs., I 1 j Wednesday, Feb. 4. ls«3. j Deer IFora:— 1 hare nothing marvelIons to record for your columns at this , writing. Onr camp has not beea startled . . with marching orders *s_ usual. The bad , condition of the roads renders it impouibie Tor Gen. Joe Hooker to display his I military genloi, as Coinmaoder-in-Chier of this great Army, even if he had desired to L move. The opinion is extant here that ' tbe army will not move for some weeka yet, I so uncertain is the weather now. One day r it is pleasant and warm, tbe next it may » : be freexlng cold and then may follow a rain or enow. For two days the weather , has been biting cold. Y ester Jay morning, just na our nsgiment was going on picket | a snow equal 1 visited as. It did not ' amount to much, though 1 feared It wae i going to prove doubly diaagroeablo to the ' boys The cold wu severely felt by them ■ ! lost night, ; 1 There is one thing to particular needed I here for eomfert, and that is wood. Notli- , j ing is more scarce. The many troops that j , bare been here', long ago Tel led tbe trees , ; around, and wood can only bo obtained at " a distance of some miles. In clnr weather j wood chopper^ go and cut. nod onr teams s ' haul,1 which ip part aupplies the demand bat what we are to do in eaea nf a long , storm it the query. Tbii Is no fuel I of any ( ' officer in oor regiment. Nearly all the ! regiments of the Ninth JL G. are thus ait- ' i oaied. >1 Hooker haa iwutd »o oids* that a liasr ' ■ • • _ • —

t<-d i.umi). r o^ruseo* :hs will be gmnlej"v« J.I troops in his arth^.-. for wprriod not ex- 1" p ceediog tetT days. Furiougbi ,for some t< eight or" len"a our recjmwnt Irwva U( J made out knd.*rtv(i>r* a/d to he' signed by j * tbe pro^gs^flrtgadier3*had Msjor/'Gener*ls. j s'1 I Colonel goes home to-morrow, for_ a = t' j days. Thjs will he the first time ho j | has been away mmrtlio regitnebt- since he j n joined it. ! o I I was intending to get the a'monnt of t ' money paid the regiment recently, but linvb, ] t ; npt been able np to now. Iqncle. Abe k j has bren to sen as again. Ho « • came on at the special request of- the Gape » ■ boys ta take their money home, and j t poo donbl he bus distributed it at our home* : I : ore this. \V« have also- hod a visit from . t ] Uncle Tommy Hughes, of Capo Island, j j His presence was q'alte cheering tons, lie | | j the pleasure of sleeping in one or our ; ' I potato holes, if it was a pleasure. He did j ' ' not euy that he found it -as comfortable as u . ■ ! Cag.0 Island fire sida or bcd-rointi-Cnpe May lunN-U^jnourn the loss of ( | another of hrr brat« volunteers, in tbe i j person of 'Sergeant Morris B. Stites, a(: I member of Co. G, anj a late cilixen of ; ' ; Beesfey's Point. Ife diedjn jiur regimental i hospital Sunday night lost. 1 urns not acquainted with ilihn, V.trt hi* company covpy rode* speak a(n?m in terms of praise and> esteem Hfeaniu out of the late battle 1 j unharmed, but tvphoid fever gave him into i the arms of (loath. Mr. Reevut look hi* looiainAoinu to bis dear family and • friends or 'rtiCMiay. ! I wn the Hospital yet. Serg t < '<>leI man F. Cudlam is actiug Sarg't- Major | during niy illness. Well way tho soldier prixo health. Friday, Feb. Cth. Wo arc ojiiin under marching orders. ! Hooker i* detcmiinrd. that his army shall , do sometbinc, and from present appearati- ! ces, it seem | that lie pay* no respepl to the una tlier, for while it was snowing and i sleeting yesterday, an order came for tfs . to ptvparo. iiuinedialely for a match to Acqnij Creek, whete we were to go on . transports und be taken to Fortress • Monroe. It was said that the same order 1 wo* i, sited to nil the Ninth .Aim* Corps, and ' 1 -kocur^ tL.s to tw trne. Bnt it lias con- ' tinned raieiug foom yesterday until tho > ] present time, which is about 11 A. M. f , Friday.' Tlio., ro*ds aro iu a terrible condition, and uh:il 14 to Ua^gaiuwd by 1 : attempting to move, 1 am at a lots to ' I conceive. Orders Wpre. rvci'iveli this 1 i morping for us to he ready to march at an ■ > hour's warninr. Whether we » ill leave to-day Or not up one can Ujf. On# thing • i i* certain, if we do march during this storm, •. and oar rood is to Arqaia Creek. 1 foretell 1 that there Will be many a solder unfit for 8 ! service, aud fit subjects for a hospital by • the time we reach that point. l.«i u* march ' one or two days iu uiud and water, and ' ' encamp out one or two nights, and lien ' 1 look nut for richness. Rut let tu# refer , back to the first order. Hooker tays thai 1„ wo are going to Fortress Monroe. Now * f it doe* not look reasonable To our boys 1 that if Geaeral Hooker was intending to 1 send • ho Ninth Army Corps to Fortress - Monroe, 'ho would bare said ro in a s j general order. Therefore, among onr i s|MCulaUons, wo have thought it probable J that our destination is N.or;h Carolina, to j reinforce the Union army urjjirr General • Foster. The rebels have Attached a part of their army 'about Frederic-'borg, and sent it to North Carolina, tbus rendering ( it necewary for our army "here in bo j reinforced. It will' be remen'Hcred that | j the old regimenta of tho Nin'.H Army Corps have seen service in tlmt Statu, ana |, f tfeis is one reason why -ww imagine we ore j ^ hound there Our sick are to lit sunt to j > the General Hospital. Washington. ^ t I am still iu the hospital, but 1 am goiog i wherever the 25th goes, Providence per- ' * mitting. 1 have just learned that tbe 1st - Brigade am being transported on the cars i t to Acquis Creek. Perhaps our Brigade— I r the 3d— will go down that way. 1 boposo.. Four days' rations have been issued to Ibe regiment, but 1 am afraid the pork and I junk will be lost, as it is rainiug so that , they cannot keep fires to cook with. t It is now afternoon. 'I be raio has ceased, j aad it may clear off. Haven't struck tents yet. May oot be ordervd off until mom j icg. Kvery preparation is being Ussde. Many are of thh opinion tbat no general t advance of tbe grand army under Hooker t can be made much before April, «n , account of bad weatber j bat some think r that Hooker will make occasional raids t serosa the river, for tbe parpose of keeping the " rebs" at'bar here, while the armies of t North Carolina, the West, the Quit and j. the Mhnlsarppi operate to advantage in t their respective spheres. Tbi* would be . politic, no doubt. We can only Judge of Booker's capahii- - it j to eMumend the tray ee time psetee

In all the cnpiinaods he has held in tbe A past be' bus show-o bimkelf to ho a competent command* r. nnJ I- oaiy hope be may ejrer be sdccessfpL Sorely it is time that soars American general sprtag that run successfully nianeavro a ksudred and fifty thousand men. Col. Derrom has gore tos leave of '■ absenca for u few days. He did not know of tho intended move when he left. Lient. Cul. Ayret is oow In conimind. I do not that wo will uku «ver. 55B njen Suoth with us. The five mouths now pa*K. ; ed lias reduced us considerable. 1 hope , : wo shall not have much decrease during i > the comipg four months. If wu go tc Carolina, however. We expect to sen battle now end then. , 1*1 Lieut. Rogers, of Co. A, has been promoted to Captain, and put in command .j j of Co F. Our boy* jhiiik well of bi n. j " He is on efficient and bravo officer. I hare sren him on the battle-field. «.• Before closing 1 will just aay. that iu ttte i I hospital teat where 1 am, Mt.^ Clayton G. ' Supp, pr Lower Township, is in charge, and * i* assisted by Mr. Katts, of the Middle | Township. When you cannot have your own dear "relatives of home" to minister ' lo your wiinte iu tho day of sickces* it is j some satisfaction to have your native 1 S^ighbnrhood freiods at your hud-side. j f J. Uasxvir.t.i: Lkaco. Ji. 11. — When we more I slmll end.-aror lo keep >ou potted. * / Caur 7ru Rkomkxt, N. J. Votw.. Near Foluiontb, Ve, Jan. 30. 1863. Friend Lrack ;—tVu Inn- at last received a portion of onr pay. though w« Uavo threw month's p»3/ coming yet, which • ' is promisud -us soon. Rcveising a part, i however, helps na along wonderfully. It has put tho hoys ill a great deal better humor, for there is nothing sn depressing to * the spirits of a soldier a* to know that hi* fimily at home 1s in wont. It js bard eronehforra to beer the hardships and privations of a campaign, witbont onr familius sharing them. ' V.'t- have nl! byon made glad b*rw with the announcement that General Hooker i**io hill command of tho Army of tbo Futoumc. With the exception of General kj, McCii llun." »h all think that Hooker i* thu best mon to have command of ihisarr y. His past career in tfce Army or the Polomac tir#d not he rehearsed by me. for every 5 1 schoolboy I* ■ familiar with hi* fighting i qualities General Mct'ielian HM t>ot givt 1 him the name of " Fighting Joe * for no- 1 ' thing. We in this Division, foe{ justly \ : pri (I ot ii i* elevation, and we f,vl esery . confieiluoce thai he will lead a* on to vieI tnry. for we all know h^s fighting abilities. ■ When you boar of the Army ol the Polo- • mac moving o-sin, yon may set your hesd- % i iog up that, " Tbe Army of the' Potomec I hu* again met the Rebel army, and repulsed * i -tliVm on every band, and the rletorions ■ I looker is in clore pursuit." It ia a corn- . mon thing, ever since hie promotion, to hear the men soy, " we must get our fight, i ing boots on -now, for we are going to Bich- ■ mond." Tl.o*^ no see confldenco is restored i nt once, which is indfspensahlo lo victory, i 1 think* you will not hear' of any mon, • blunder* or disgraceful retreat*. All wo , > ask now is. that Stanton and llalleck will i leave him alone, and let him light his own I way. B'.d work out bis own plan*. [ think, i howsver, that R will I* impossible to make I u forward movement .under two month*, o* / : tb-*-road* here now ore entirely impassable \ , fo- artillery and heavy wagons. Under V. t. Hooker's lead we are impatient to ha lod ' *"". »nd pnt this nunaturrl rebellion u an \ i j,end. ^ ' 1 ^ppy to inform yon that General i Sickles, or this Division, has bPen promo- | ted to *- Msjor Generalship. This Is the •i second Major General this c* lebinted, Dil * - j vision has made. Oor little Jersey brigade L alone has made four Brigadier Uenerals, I I namely . Oonerals Peterson, Cerr. Revere! - (formerly onr Colonel.) and Molt, of the Fifth New Jersey Volunteers. General * » Carr now commands the first brigade of 1 I this Division, and General Mott oar Jersey \ brigade, (the third brigade of this Division.) and General Revere the second brigade of . tbe same. The first and second brigades i are composed of New fork. Pennsylvania aud Alasewchulmtts regiment*. So ynu tee . our Jefsey Bines are oa bend io command I Our little Seventh has not bdhn behind in . r honor*, for she has mode one Generr.l, » three Colooele, four Lieutenant Colonels, E and four Majors. Borne of them are In S i command of the new regiment*. 1 f Wo hnTt been having terribly bad j| f weather fiere, lately. It doe* bet little 1 | now but rain, snow and blew, phich u not ■ , very desirable, 1 can assure yon. v ^ I Your* truly, Guoora W. Sxna. J %W*tJ (to Mrtir. ' ^9