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t- - .t icmi-tUccklij Sentinel. O. .JAOOHS, Editor "ToTIIK KITM.'Al" ASH IMIUMASIlMiV OK YOUll U.VIOS. A GoVKItXMKNT nut TUB WIIOt.K I.S JACKSONVILLE, OIUCUOX. WEDXESIIAY EYGNINII, DECEMBER 20, 1FG2. Tup. Nkwh. Wo received ti sensation dispatch Tuesday cvotiinjr. which we duly lny bi'fnro our readers lo day. lis essence , is that tliu Cabinet hits exploded, Diirnsidc resigned, anil that tho rebels are all desert ing to I hi Federals. There arc two Item's that the dispatch U silent about. It docs tint inform in whether France has recog-uhu-d our wayward sister.-', or not." Nor dors it inform us whether John Hull has a ring in his nose, or not. We tire also left in the dart; as to the t fleet upon Mr. L'ncoln, resulting from the breaking up ol . the Presidential household. Uncle Abe, wo presume, withstood the tffed of the ex plosion with the resolute calmness of a philosopher. When everything is on its beam end, explosions and reconstruction . are the order of the day. If anybody feels Hail over litis dispatch, they had better be Lynched at once. North Carol iuu The testimony of .Southern papers is to the died that a white-man's, or free-labor, party lias long been ipiietly organizing in the Old North State, and that she will soon' swim; into the Union again, under the principles of Compensated Emnncipu lion, so forcibly recommended in the Pres ident's Message. North Carolina was ' forced out of the Union by the military pressure of n slave-holding mob she will come bach lo her constitutional moorings through the enlightened action of the nun-slave-holding musics. The action of the people of North Car olina' is significant nnd important. It lights up the future with n ray of hope. It clearly indicates the method by which the Union is to be restored. The non-slave-holding classes of the .South must be inndo the basis of that restoration. They tire the class to be propitiated by the Gov eminent. A just legislative diseiiminn lion ought to be made in their favor, nnd iigainst the slave-holders the priucinnl conspirators in the work of disintegration nnd death. The non-slave-holders ought to lie made to feel, by the nutnistukiible action of the Government, that they are looked to as the hope of the nation, und tts the firm basis on which the Union can be restored, in all her former prcstigo nnd power. ft is under this view of tiio Ftihject thai we heartily support the President's Kniun dilution Proclamation. Not Unit it will benefit the negroes, but that it will have the tendency to propitiate the non-slave-lidding whiles. Carry it out and labor will be made honorable, and thn poor, landless white men will no longer be com pcllo.l to offer their sinews in the market against uncompensated slave labor. Not only so, but it will enfranchise the poor white man socially and politically. Here tofore, the slave owner lias been the ruling Class in tiio South, and. in order to pcrpot uatc Ilia power, lias assiduously hedged up the road to political preferment nnd ollieial position to all save his own class. In or der to vote In most of the seceded States, man must be a landholder, nnd in many of them a slavo owner. The injustice of such laws nro manifest. That injustice is keenly felt by tho large majority of the dis-fronchised non-slave-holders. Helper's vindictive work is but tho bitter oulgiish ings of a proud mid BCiwitivo tnnn, feeling that lie wus crushed by a social despotism ; that because he was not able or not dis posed to own a negro, he could not bo per mitted to exercise the franchise? of nn American citizen. We do not Jnatifv l.ia bitterness, nor counsel complinnco will bis fierce adrice ; but wc arc well assured that u vast majority of the non-slave-holders keenly feel the radical antagonism ex isling1)etweon slavery und their social' nnd political welll'iire;' As the slaveholder precipitated' this rebellion suddenly und forcibly upon' thd people of the South, in- volvlng the non-slave-holders, against their earnest protestations, in the genera', ruin, it becomes the duly of the Government to show this class, in the clearest manner pos sible, that it understands who the urch conspirators are. We believe thnt the Pres ident's Emancipation Proclamation makes just discrimination against thcslavc-hnhhr, and is eminently proper nnd necessary. The confiscation law, while it reached nil the properly of the landless non-slave-holder, virtually exempted from its operation the slaves of the rebel .slave-holder, unless he actually used them in the furtherance of tho rebellion. This virtual exemption made the Emancipation Proclamation u necessity. There is no hope of propitia ting the rebel slave-holder. He is an im placable enemy to the Union. As disa greeable as the task may be, his power must be broken nnd his prestige destroyed. This can only be cflcctuully done by the enfranchisement of the tiou-shivc-holdiiig classes of (lie South. They must wield the political power of that section. Here tofore, it has been wielded by the slave holders, and tho basis of that power has been slave properly, Remove the basis, and the superstructure fulls with it. EIc vale und enlranchisc tho laboring, white man of tho South, make him the ruling das., and you will not only restore the Union, but restore it on a basis as permit nent us the everlasting hills. Ditch ('asm. Our starving correspond ent is all right. Hu has won his ditch ease. The case originated in a controversy between Davidson and Griffin und oiheis, iw to which had the better right to the water of Elk Crick, near Auburn, in Duker county. The case was argued for tho pluintifls by Geo. II. William; for the defendants, by W. W. Pufji. The decision was made by Judge Slialtuek. It was adjudged that Davidson & Co. had u better right to the water, and tin injunction was granted to restrain the defendants from further use of the same. Davidson has spent .'1,000 in the prosecution of the suit. m- - - - ! MM I). wuMi Attkmpt at Romikhy' The Portland Time Fays that on Ilia evening of the Kith an attempt was mude to rob the ' City of Paris Store," kept by Jocob Myers. The robbers attempted to (-fleet an entrance to the store by means of u sew er leading to the basement of the building, having crawled through the sewer, they commenced to bnro through the lloor, ami having bored three holes, they evidently became alarmed and decamped, leaving i heir tools. The Fame paper gives nn occount of nn other allempl to rob the store of Messrs. Ixvi ,v Rluck. on the mornirg of the 17th. It wus unsuccessful. r'r.!i:it.ti Loss at FiiKoKiucKsnuiin. From the different and somewhat conflict ing reports and rumors, we gather that the Federal loss, in killed, wounded nnd miss ing, is somewhere near fourteen thousand. It is probable that tho rebel loss was not as great, from the fact that they were de fended by rillu pits, stone walls und en trenchments. (JK.NT.iiAi. Rit'rt.Hu's LnY.it atuuk. The orduis und ollieial correspondence of Gen. DuthratNew Orleans eonstilnte tin im portant part of tho history of the rebellion. Their value is thus recognized by Richard White, in his notes to the American edi tion of The Jloolc Hunter: Add to tliefo Gen. Dutler's orders and official correspondence ut New Orleans, which, for hitting the nail square upon the head, and clinching it with it twist of hu mor, liavo not been surpassed by any writ ings ot their kind. Ry reading them, the man weary with the weight of tho grand style, or weary with the flippancy of the fa m'illiar. may obtain real mental refreshment. At thu sumo time he cannot tun admire the sagacity which contrived the measures which they announced, and true benevo lence of their purpose. Rarely has a man been placed in such trying circumstances its llio:u! in which Gen. Duller found him self placed by thn capture- of New Orleans. Still mnro rarely has a man so placed ad ministered affairs so wisely so wisely und so firmly, that in that city, tho most disor derly and dangerous place in the country in ordinary times, there has been such quiet and order since ho settled himself well in power (as I have been told by foreigners who came from there), that u woman might walk from ono end of tho town to another, with n 1 1 ensure in her keeping, without fear of molestation ; and this in possession of a conquering army! To be sure. Gen. Hutlcr, Knew lus men ; anu so tiiey snarcu his humor. Napolkon Fiiist. lie wus everything. He was complete. Hu had in his brain the cube of human faculties. Ho made codes like Justinian''; he die In ted like Cm-' snr ; his conversation joined the lightning of Pascal to tlicUhtindeibolt of' Tacitus'; He made history, and he wrote it'; Ins bul letins are Ilnlds;'hc combined the figures of Newton with the metaphors of Moham med ; he left behind, in I he Orient, words us grand as the Pyramid. At Tilsit, lie taught majesty to emperors; at the Acad emy of Sciences, he replied to Laplace ; in the Council of Slate, he held his ground with Merlin. He gave a soul to the geom etry of those and the trickery of these ; he was legal with the attorneys, und siderial witli the astronomers. Like Cromwell blowing oat one candle when two were lighted, he went to the Temple to cheapen a curtain-tiissel. lie saw everything ; he knew everything which did not prevent him from laughing a good man's laugh by the cradle of his iittie child. And all at once, started Eu rope listened. Armltri set themselves in march, pinks of artillery rolled along, bridges stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry galloped in the hurricane ; cries, trumpets, u trembling of thrones every where ; tlie iroutfers ol I lie Kingdoms oseil lialed upon the map J the sound of u super human blade was heard leaping from its sheath ; men saw him standing en ct in the horizon, with a fl imu in his hands and a resplendency in his eyes, unfolding in the thunder his" I wo wings the Grand Army mid the O.'d Guard ; mid he was the arch angel of war. The Tribune, speaking of the proposition for a National Convention of the States, favors the adoption of that idea under certain conditions : We object to a Convention of the States under pledges to devise new guaranties Tor a particular interest new advantages for any section. President Lincoln openly ami earnestly favored a (Jon veil I ion in the early part of 1801. So did Governor Morgan. So did we. The whole Repub lican party would have united in the call of a Convention hail the malcontents pro posed it. in full view or the moral certainty that we should hnvc a minority therein. Dul they would have no Convention, he cause they wanted n fight. When they have had enough of this, they will quit it, and peace under the Union being restored, wc shall be inclined to look with favor on any demand for u Convention that may come from any rpiarter. Hut it must be emphatically a free Convention not mort gaged to any interest, tiny theory, any section but a delegation by the whole people of the United Slates of their sover eignty tosueh persons as they may esteem worthy to assume the momentous trust of revising their fundamental law. And if their should be mi understanding or com pact beforehand that the Democrats of the free Sates and the late rebels of the South i would combine to rule and "run" that Convention, that coalition would probably impel us to oppose the er.ll. Postoo.v H ti i no ks. -For the benefit of those who may not have a very definite idea how thc-e bridges nrc constructed, we give the following from nn eastern exchange; ! Pontoon boats me flat bottomed, thirtv I feet long, two and a half feet deep in Uw,lmPIy. l''y w Innocent of secession, center, two nnd it half feet wide at the bow, ' " rrtW H'r- 1"' xinfulness gcn'rully. and five feet wide itt the stem, swelling out i ,'ll,,'.v ,'l,,"'t H",m '"O slavery question iw at Hie sides to the width or six feet. Each I ll K"lom. They hud no Congrcs. faro fits on it running gear of four wheels, and ,,,,,,,,w ',,,,,ril" romoiiM. or Associated is ued as n baggngo wagon for the pon-l'1'1''' I'10"" lmui,H VV,S consequently toonl.-rs. carrving its proportion of strong P"""- Lute suppers, dyspepsin. gas conipa- pieces nnd ol plunK. (Hi reaching n river, ""' l vw w,im l""iuiane, pn-n.v waner the boats are unloaded, floated across bvL,,rl''' ,w ot,,l'r metropolitan refinements, cables made, fast up the stream, then the string pieces are laid across from one boat to the next, und on those are placed the plunk, each twenly-onu feet long, which form the gangway of that width. It is u lino siglil to see ti regiment come lo a river bunk with a pontoon train, unload and launeli their boats, moor them in a line, and i in less than fivo minutes from tins timo ino worn nail' was given, nave n iiriilLre, I say six nunureii leet in lengtn, over which nn army can safely puss with artillery and baggage. a ',,... ,r.l.,i'i. .,..iar..,t..i safo maniifiieliiww.wi.ru ri.nonllviirMi.nl. I ing the claims of their respective articles. ' " ' iJt r,,rfi ,,,B vnr w,,s ."J", fwpw-1 One was a Yankee, the other wasn't. JIuj!tt,,,t' n,,'J w,,s u ,l,,m? ,o1 cPOMf",!Jr,,b,0,b,,,i that wasn't told his Morv. a ,,,., ,., nv- ' w. '' t,,,l,0l fuel ones and one I had been shut us in one of his safes, then it was exposed tliree days to the mot in tense heat. When thn door wus opened, thn cock strutted out flopping his wings und crowing loudly, ns if nothing had hap pened. It was now the Yankee's turn. A cock had been shut up in one of his safes with a pound of fresh butter, nnd the safe was submitted to the trial of a tremendous heat lor moro than it week. The legs of tho safe were melted off. and the door itself wns so far fused us to requiro tho use of n cold chisel to get it open. When it was opened, the cock was found frozen dead, and the butter so solid thnt a man who had knocked ofl'n pleco of it with n ham mer had his eyo put out by u frozen butter splinter. .. , ,. ,. Only Onk. Wo huvo heard of only one officer in I he Union nrmy who offeied to re sign on account of the Proclamation of Freedom. That was Lieut. Johnson, of the 17th Kentucky regiment j and he was placed under ttrrest, dismissed from the ser vice in disL'rnce, and his insignia of office stripped from him in presence of the whole I regiment; Appeal, Fkknanoo Wood. The Iribune de votes a hull-sal iricilk. half-serious article to Fernando Wood, the negotiator, who wants the Nortlf, upon llHKuVc'or victory, with the giime'sei'urely in biind.'tosuofor pence. The article' is written with' peculiar power,' concluding us loiiows : Thus'fur.'wilh occasional sops of pond fortune, we have been compelled to drain many a bitter cup of national humillia tiou. Hut that which lo the intelligence, the honesty, and the public pride of our people would be bitterer than battles lost, thiiii homes made desolate, than brave ones muidered. than fortunes scattered, than so cial serenity disturbed from morning until night, and again from night until morning that which could be rendered tolerable by no patience and no philosophy, would be the spatiiele of I he loyal States suing for peace und treating for'forgivmw. It is not to be considered without a blush. It would make us the opprobrium of history. It would prove us too conleniptlhV even to point a moral. The students of n fu ture age would deem us too iimignificunt even for reference, and the United Stnt'H would make an escape from contempt only by lapsing into oblivion. If anything could reconcile us lo such n fate, it would be that in the general forget ftilnci, man kind would no Innecr remember that we produced a Fernando Wood or a James Hiichanun I Oiikgon's CosTiumrnos. Rev. H. Del lows, Chairman of the National Sanitary Fund, thus acknowledges Oregon's contri bution for the relief of the sick nnd disabled soldiers : "The widow's mito was worth nil the gifts of the rich combined. Oregon's gift is not a mile, though a mite would have been her share. Rut the Columbia does not roll the proper name of our country through her wililcrucst without waking the patriotic blond that flows in the veins that thinly people its banks. Oregon's heart is warm und loyal. She stands it stern, faith ful sentinel nn the northwestern outpost! The Pacific Ocean allows neither in'-unncss, iiihumaniiy nor disunion, to pollute her coast. The Western line of the continent is even truer than the Eastern." Pi.kstv ok .Mk.v Yi;t. Thcteis.nccori' ing to the eensu, an oxee of 7l'l.2.r8 males over females in the United States. This fact is n note-worthy one, and ought lo (piiel the fears oflhose'who llmiight the war would cause an undue preponderance of women nftcr pence. No matter how bloody the war may be, or how long it may last, it cannot destroy thicn-qmirtcrs of u million of lives. The wuste of life may make the sexes nearly even, but even then we shall be belter oh" limn in England, where the IcmuliH are in excess by nearly u million, and the social problem of "i he day is ll0W 1 provhle tlieiii with Husbands or oc jCiipalinns. Arlcmus Ward says; "The rod man of the forest was form'lv a very respectable person. Justice to tiic noble nbonryginc warrants mu in says in that nrrigeruerly he win a majestic eiiss. At the time Chris. nrrove on these shores (I allooded to Chris Coliimbiii.) the savujis was virtuous and were unknown among them." Falmouth, Viikii.sia. Tho Army of tho Potomau was at last accounts back again to this place, which is opposite Fred ericksburg, and on the east side of the Rup- pulmiinock. An Eastean correspondent 'gives iho following flattering uccount of this, now noted oeitlily : This jilaee, Falmouth, is n dirty, doleful, dismal, half deserted village, und probably hud Iroui three in four hundred inhabitants MM . 1 -, 1- ... oui-e. mu iiuiiiiiogs tire ucgrimcci who "?'.J. "J1" dlizens with Stupidity mill woolen mill were operated here. The for mer weru running up to recent period ; al so the woolen establishment. Thu machin ery of the latter was taken down the day our advance force reached here, and sent lo Danville. lis owners hnvu been manu facturing cloth for tho Confederuto Gov ernment, and received the clever sum of seven dollars per yard for a coarse mi.-er.t-hie pantaloon si nil'. There urn also two flour mills here, but they nro "resting from their labor," while the millers umuse them selves in bobbing for cat-fish nnd eels in the muddy nnd turbulent Rnppahuunock. The milleniiim has been put oiT indefi nitely, because the Lion, hearing that the small-pox is raging union tho sheep, posi tively objects to lying down with the Lamb. It is tho opinion of tho doctor that thn lawyer gels his living by plunder, and the! lawyer munis tlie uoctop gets his by ' uge?', " Excuse me, madam, but I would like to ask why you look tit me so savagely?" " Oh beg purdou, sir ; I thought you was my husbuud," BRADBURY & WADE, JACKSONVILLE, vitoloaialo cfe 7Lota.il -DKALKIW 1N- DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS & SHOES, FANCY CrOGHS, IKC.A.TSa A.EJ3D CJ&.?Pl5if GROCERIES, PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, Tobacco & Segars, PRODUCE, HARDWARE. GLASSWARE. QUEHNSWARE. WOODKNWARE, MINERS' TOOLS, All of which will be sold at low prices, for CASH, or desirable PRODUCE. ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF SUMMER GOODS AT REDUCED RATES, To make room for FALL STOCKS. .TTTTTTTT .... A Choice Selection of tho GFCSIM f" Ever offered In this market, embracing-? C ' varieties of 3 Hlnck, Green & Jnpmiesc, ' : In bulk, papers and caddies, nt '. '. prices to suit the most particular. .' T'lTT'lT JUST RECEIVED, A FRESH INVOICE OF PICKS. PANS, SHOVELS. RUDDER ROOTS. DLASTING POWDKR AND KUSK HAY und MANURE FORKS. Agricultural Tools For JScilo cvt Cost : 20 Stcel-point PLOWS, complete, of various sizes ; 10 cast Plow-points ; 2 setts extra steel Mould-Roards. Points mid Laud Sides. 2 pntent Strnw-Cuilers ; U lurge Iron Kettles, fur farm use. The above will be exchanged for flour nt tho market price. RRADDURY &. WADE. Jacksonville. Oct. '2l, 18(!2. ,'Mtf nT.TfV --rKrTVi -t PTTfENTX TTrtlTSR A 11 VJL liV 1LJ U iJliJt BRADBURY & WADE. THE CITIZENS OF Vimn Ml) VICINITY Will dud it to their advantage to purchase of us, us we shall keep on hand n good supply of FANCY AND STAPLE MERCHANDISE!! KOIl S.W.K AT JACKSONVILLE PRICES. Wo will take nil descriptions of Produce that can be deposed of without a loss. RRADDURY & WADE. Phceulx, Oct. JJOth.