of October to act as a private armed vessel in the service of the Confederate States on the high seas against the United States of America, their ships, vessels, goods and effects, and those of their citizens, during the prevailing war. The Beauregard saw no vessel previous to her capture, and did not fire a gun after leaving port, not even for practice. Captain Hay says the vessel is owned by a stock company, and that her bills, when ready for sea, were fifteen thousand dollars. Mordecai Hines was the agent of the company. Captain Hay served on board the Jeff. Davis as prize-master. He also taught the young midshipmen navigation. When the bark Alvarado was taken, he was placed in charge as prize-master. She was chased ashore by one of our fleet and burned. John B. Davis, the first lieutenant, was on board the Confederate man-of-war Winslow when she seized a vessel off the North Carolina coast. While the Anderson was overhauling the Beauregard, this officer attempted to fire the twenty-four pounder, but was prevented by the crew. Archibald Lilley, of Charleston, is the purser of the privateer. He could not have had access to the Treasury Department of the Confederacy very lately, for his fiscal balance showed the amount of cash on hand to be twenty-five cents. Paymaster Lilley is a very seedy-looking individual, and by no means a fair specimen of the chivalrous South Carolinian. Joseph H. Stuart, second lieutenant, was born in Clifton, England. He is a seaman, and was on board the brig Mary Goodel when she was captured by the Jeff. Davis. He enlisted in the Davis as boatswain, and while on board, the brigantine Santa Clara and bark Alvarado were captured. He was also in the Davis when she was lost on St. Augustine bar. The names and nativity of the crew are as follows: Oliver Ruse, carpenter, aged twenty-one, born in Charleston; Wm. Dangler, cook, aged twentysix, born in Redbank, N. J.; Peter Parry, seaman, aged eighteen, born in South Carolinawas on the Jeff. Davis; James McGivern, seaman, aged twenty-two, born in Liverpool; John Burns, seaman, aged forty-five, born in Dublin; John Conway, seaman, aged thirty, born in Philadelphia; joined a French company of Zouaves in New Orleans; went to Warrington, deserted, arrived in Charleston destitute, and enlisted on the Beauregard from necessity; Daniel Culle, seaman, aged sixteen, born in Glasgow; Henry F. Randolph, seaman, aged twenty-five, born in New York-he is deaf; was seduced on board, and not allowed to leave the vessel; Wm. Boyd, seaman, aged twentysix years, born in Ireland; Charles Butcher, seaman, aged twenty years, born in Prussia, was formerly on the steamer Isabel, running between Havana, Key West, and Charleston; he testifies that the Isabel is being transformed into a gunboat; she is nearly ready for her armament; Captain Rollins, the former captain, | will command the Isabel; John Cameron, seaman, aged thirty-two years, a native of Scotland, was on the Jeff. Davis when she captured the barks Alvarado, Enchantress, and schooner Waring; received as his share of prize-money, five dollars; Thomas McBurney, seaman, aged twenty-seven years, born in Ireland; Alanson T. Swan, seaman, aged twenty-five years, born in South Carolina; Michael Kenney, seaman, aged thirty years, born in Ireland; Andrew Jackson, seaman, aged twenty-two, born in Ireland; George Valentine, seaman, aged twentyfive, born in Maryland; deserted from his company at the Charleston Arsenal and enlisted on the Beauregard voluntarily; Henry Maylan, seaman, aged twenty-two, born in Ireland; has been deck hand on the New York and Charleston steamers; Henry Pahlow, seaman, aged fortytwo, Prussian; Richard Robinson, seaman, aged forty-seven, native of England; William Perkins, seaman, aged forty-five, born in Ireland, was ten years in the Third regiment United States Artillery, Col. Yates; Richard C. Busey, seaman, aged forty-one, born in Baltimore; was decoyed on board while drunk and forced to sign the ship's articles; he was a member of a company stationed on Sullivan's Island at the time of the bombardment of Sumter; he says but one man was killed at Moultrie by the bursting of a shell; John Sommer, aged twenty-seven, native of Germany, was paid twenty dollars advance when he shipped-could get no work at Charleston; Frederick Kleinca, native of Germany. The above twenty-seven men are the hardestlooking, most desperate and wretched set it has ever been our lot to encounter. We pity the fate of the unfortunates who might have fallen into their power had they not been arrested in their wicked career by the gallant Captain Rogers. That such a vessel, such a crew, and so miserable an armament and outfit should have been permitted to leave the harbor of Charleston, is most wonderful. Their cause must be a desperate one when defended by such ragamuffins as now disgrace the walls of the jail of Key West. The following is a true copy of the letter of marque and reprisal: JEFFERSON DAVIS, PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA: To all who shall see these presents, greeting:-Know ye, that by virtue of the power vested in me by law, I have commissioned, and do hereby commission, have authorized, and do hereby authorize, the schooner or vessel called the Beauregard, (more particularly described in the schedule hereunto annexed,) whereof Gilbert Hay is commander, to act as a private armed vessel in the service of the Confederate States on the high sea, against the United States of America, their ships, vessels, goods, effects, and those of their citizens, during the pending of the war now existing between the said Confederate States and the said United States. This commission to continue in force until revoked by the Presi- | the Secretary of War. Soldiers, you have been dent of the Confederacy for the time being. Given under my hand, and seal of the Confederate States, at Montgomery, 14th October, 1861. JEFFERSON DAVIS. By the President: R. TOOMBS, Secretary of State. SCHEDULE OF DESCRIPTION.-Name, Beauregard; tons, 101 4-95; armament, one gun; | number of crew, forty. The following is a list of the officers of the sloop-of-war W. G. Anderson: Lieutenant Commanding-W. C. Rogers; Executive Officer -Henry C. Pitman; Second Executive OfficerThomas Hutchinson; Sailing Master-William Bailey; Master's Mates-Warren Hallett, Robert C. Carey, Russell Davis. The Anderson has six thirty-two pounders and one rifled cannon; and a crew of one hundred and ten men. [See Doc. 172}.] called to the field, not as marauders and mercenaries, but as the defenders of our high faith, defenders of our glorious reputation, defenders of our honor and renown, around which cluster the memories of the past, and whose feats and performances will yet distinguish the future. You are led forward by a commander under whom to serve is a pride for the highest among us. He enjoys the confidence of the people, and his reputation already renders powerless the arms of your enemies. By him these victories we have assurances of triumphs we have won victories in the South, and by yet to come. Beaufort is ours-Charleston may be ours-the whole country now disintegrated may be shortly united by the force of those arms of which you are a part, and the Union once more signify to the world the intent of that glorious motto, E Pluribus Unum. Then no longer shall be heard that fell doctrine of secession which would tear us asunder, and distract, part from part, this glorious Union; but we shall all be as we have been, one and inseparable, under the flag of our glorious nationality, won by our fathers, and preserved by you. (Applause.) Here is assembled, upon the banks of the Potomac, an army, the like of The motive which the world has never seen. which has gathered that army together never before was presented to the eye of history. It SOLDIERS OF THE FIRST UNITED STATES CHASwas congregated by no despotic order; it was SEURS (bravo Colonel): I have a word to say the voluntary wish, the motive power, of every to you to-day. You have engaged in an ardu- man composing it-the power of men rushing, ous struggle. You have prosecuted it; you in- as with one purpose, to reinstate the flag of tend to prosecute it; you have stood unflinchour Union and save the Republic. That, solingly before the enemy; you have proved your-diers, is your mission; and you have a comselves patriotic, able, and tried soldiers, and you are entitled to the meed of praise. I, your commander, this day feel that it is a proud duty to extend to you the hand of approbation, and to declare that you are worthy of your country. Doc. 157. COL. COCHRANE'S SPEECH, DELIVERED AT WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 13, 1861. THE following is Colonel Cochrane's speech, made to his soldiers on the occasion of the presentation of a flag: Soldiers, you have undergone labor; you have faced the enemy; you have stood without retreating before their fire; you have borne the inclemencies of the season, and you are ready to advance with that grand army of which you are a part. Your country opens its arms, receives you to its bosom. It will always praise and applaud you. Its commanders stand at the head of the column, and, with you behind them, they are not to be deterred. But the command is forthcoming-forward, march! toward the enemy. Take his possessions, for they are yours, they are yours to occupy; they are yours to enjoy; you are no marauders, you are no plunderers of property not your own, but you are the avengers of the law; you are the right arm of the Constitution; under your flag march patriotism, and order, and republican institutions; in your train follow peace, prosperity, and liberty; you are the servants of these high potentates, and the arm through which they strike is the arm of the worthy public servant who stands behind me on this occasion, | mander who, with lightning speed, will lead you to conquest, and with equal speed will transmit the glory of your labors to the remotest corners of our country. And now, permit me, though the shades of night are falling upon us, to indulge in a few words as to the cause of the war, and the means by which it is to be brought to a successful termination. The material aid I have already adverted to; the motive power remains to be commented upon. On the one side you have the Confederate army; on the other side you have the grand Union-the Federal army. Now, the difference between these two words, in their common acceptation, is the cause for which these two armies are fighting. It is secession against federation; federation against secession. Nationality against disunion; confusion against order; anarchy against a good, free, and liberal Government--a Government made equally by the Fathers of the South and the Fathers of the North. We are in a revolutionary period. The South contend for the right of revolution. We admit the right, but while we admit it, we invoke the sole umpire which may be invoked on such occasions-the umpire of the sword, the umpire of force, the ultima ratio, that last effort to which men appeal when they have differences otherwise irreconcilable. They-the South-have resorted to arms, and they have he submits to law, order, and the Constitution. compelled us to the same resort, and if they If he will not submit, explode every thing that claim that it is a war of self-preservation on comes in your way. Set fire to the cotton. their part, it is equally a war of self-preserva- Explode the cotton. Take property wherever tion on ours, and if we are in controversy for you may find it. Take the slave and bestow very existence, then I contend that all the re- him on the non-slaveholder if you please. sources, all the means within ourselves, indi-| (Great applause.) Do to them as they would do vidually, collectively, and nationally, must be to us. Raise up a party of interest against the resorted to and adopted. (Applause.) But absent slaveholders, distract their counsels, and some friend, a doubter, exclaims: "Would if this should not be sufficient, take the slave you disrupt and tear asunder the Constitu- by the hand, place a musket in it, and in God's tion?" Where is the Constitution? Would name bid him strike for the liberty of the huyou tread and trample upon that sacred instru- man race. (Immense applause.) Now, is this ment, and no longer acknowledge its binding emancipation? Is this abolitionism? I do force? No longer be bound by its compromises not regard it as either. It no more partakes and decrees? I answer, No. The Constitu- of abolitionism than a spaniel partakes of the tion, by the necessity of the controversy, is cast nature of the lion. Abolitionism is to free the behind the arena in the strife. Nay it rests slaves. It is to make war upon the South for there safe until, the present strife being over, it that purpose. It is to place them above their shall be restored to its original purity and force. masters in the social scale. It is to assert the Like the Sybil leaves when lost, the remainder great abstract principle of equality among become more valuable in our eyes, and in the men. But to take the slave and to make him midst of carnage we will clasp to our bosoms an implement of war in overcoming your enethat instrument whose worth has never been my, that is a military scheme. It is a military transcended by human efforts. Soldiers, to necessity, and the commander who does not what means shall we resort for our existence? this, or something equivalent to it, is unworthy This war is devoted not merely to victory and of the position he holds, and equally unworthy its mighty honors, not merely to the triumph of your confidence. Emancipation! Are we which moves in glorious procession along our engaged in a war of emancipation? If so, who streets; but it is a war which moves toward commenced the war? Not we. And if we did the protection of our homes, the safety of our not commence the war, we cannot be charged families, the continuation of our domestic al- with its consequences. Where had it its origin ? tars, and the protection of our firesides. In It had its origin in the South. It was and has such a war we are justified, are bound to resort been a war of the South against the free instito every force within our power. Having tutions of the North. Let me illustrate. Are opened the port of Beaufort, we shall be able we to free their slaves? We do not intend it. to export millions of cotton bales, and from Do you recollect the resolution which was these we may raise the sinews of war. Do passed the last session of Congress, which disyou say that we should not seize the cotton? tinctly declares that it never was intended by No; you are clear upon that point. Suppose anybody in this wide land to free the slaves? the munitions of war are within our reach, Compromise," too, has been talked of in this would we not be guilty of shameful neglect if matter. Why did they not compromise? Bewe availed not ourselves of the opportunity to cause it was not their object. I say it fearlessuse them? Suppose the enemy's slaves were ly, for I infer it from scenes in which I was an arrayed against you, would you, from any actor. At Charleston I remember, when Mr. squeamishness, refrain from pointing against Douglas could not be nominated for the Presithem the hostile gun, and prostrating them in dency, they were not satisfied to remain in the death? No; that is your object and purport, Convention. Trying all their schemes, and and if you would seize their property, open failing, they professed themselves satisfied, and their ports, and even destroy their lives, I ask yet, satisfied as they proclaimed themselves to you whether you would not use their slaves? be at midnight, the very first thing next mornWhether you would not arm their slaves, (great ing was to secede from the Convention. This, applause,) and carry them in battalions against you know, was a foregone conclusion. Noththeir masters? (Renewed and tumultuous ap-ing could be satisfactory to them except that plause.) If necessary to save this Government, arms should be resorted to, and the fate of revI would plunge their whole country, black and | olution abided by. I declare, therefore, that white, into one indiscriminate sea of blood, so the war is not of our organizing, but it has that we should in the end have a Government been forced upon us by a crafty enemy-an which would be the vicegerent of God. Let us enemy resolved to do or die; to destroy our have no more of this dilettante system, but let free Government, or perish in the attempt. us work with a will and a purpose that cannot And what is their object? Why, their object be mistaken. Let us not be put aside from too is to tear down this proud, noble, and benefigreat a delicacy of motive. Soldiers, you know cent Government, to establish a reign of terror, no such reasoning as this. You have arms in anarchy, and confiscation in the land; to imyour hands, and those arms are placed there for plant upon this our soil the hideous doctrine of the purpose of exterminating an enemy unless the right of secession, so that when one State 66 SOLDIERS: It is too late for me to make you commander. The doctrines which he has laid approve every sentiment uttered by your noble down I approve as if they were my own words. They are my sentiments-sentiments which will not only lead you to victory, but which will in Constitution. It is idle to talk about treating the end reconstruct this our glorious Federal with these rebels upon their own terms. We must meet them as our enemies, treat them as they shall learn to behave themselves. Every enemies, and punish them as enemies, until means which God has placed in our hands it is our duty to use for the purpose of protecting ourselves. I am glad of the opportunity to say here, what I have already said elsewhere, in this evening enunciated by Col. Cochrane. these few words, that I approve the doctrines (Loud and prolonged cheering.) secedes another may secede, and still another, | Secretary of War. Mr. Cameron came before and still another, so that within forty-eight the regiment, and said: hours, by the light of their reason and the exactness of their judgment, you may establish on this continent thirty-four independent Gov-a speech to-night, but I will say that I heartily ernments. Thirty-four, did I say? Why, no, not thirty-four merely, but every county, and every city, and every village, and hamlet; nay, every person who suffers from indigestion at the dinner-table, may claim the same right, and thus, soldiers, we shall have the confusion and disorder which will plunge into dismay and ruin the best and most benevolent Government in the world. Now, what is our object? It is simply to arrest the sway of this fell spirit of secession. It is to maintain our Government, to establish and vindicate law and order, without which neither happiness nor prosperity can exist. You are engaged, too, by the strength of your arms to protect our commerce with other nations, and when victory crowns your devotion to your country's cause-as it assuredly will-you will be proudly pointed at as the champions of American rights, as men who have maintained their dearest principles, and as those who, from this time forward, shall live THE MORALS OF THE UNION ARMY. in the most grateful remembrance of the living, and whose names shall descend with marks of imperishable honor to the remotest posterity. But, soldiers, to accomplish all this, not merely arms are necessary, not merely men to carry them, but that powerful and overwhelming spirit which constitutes and makes us men, that DEAR BRETHREN: I write to inform you that spirit which lifts us up above the creeping a new era has dawned upon us. We can scarcely things of the earth, and brings us near the Dei- find words to express our joy and gratitude. ty in accomplishing his work on earth. Oh, The chapel tent you kindly donated to us has then, let us not think that the "battle is to already been the means of inconceivable good the strong "-let us not merely depend on to us. It is truly wonderful what a decided imdiscipline and order, but with that fervid-provement it has made in our regiment within ness of soul which inspired our fathers at Bunker Hill, and Saratoga, and Yorktown, come forward and give effect to all that is valuable in the name of patriotism, and honor, and religion. Never, no-never, will you succeed until that spirit is once more manifested and developed which actuated the soldiers of Cromwell, who, on the field, invoked the Lord God to arise. So let it be with us. We must be, at least, one with him in spirit. Let us, like Cromwell, invoke the Almighty blessing, and, clothed with the panoply of patriotism and religion, strike for our homes and our country. (Immense cheering.) Let us-oh, let us, without reference to any differences of the past, keep our eye steadfastly on the great object to be achieved, the nationality and independence of this country-the salvation of civilization from the insults and assaults of barbarism; and then, but not till then, will you be worthy to be recognized as a distinguished portion of our great American army. (Long continued cheering from the whole regiment.) Immediately after the speech of Col. Cochrane there was a tumultuous demand for the Doc. 158. CHAPLAIN INSKIP'S LETTER. VA., To the Army Committee of the N. Y. Y. M. one week. * * * * On Monday night we held a temperance meeting. A large number were present; indeed, many more than our chapel would contain. One of the private soldiers delivered an address of great earnestness, which was listened to with profound attention. He was followed by the chaplain in a few brief remarks. Several were induced to take the pledge. Capt. Mallory, the president of our Regimental Temperance Society, occupied the chair. Our society now numbers about seventy-five members, and we hope to have large accessions soon. On Tuesday evening we formed a literary and debating society; officers were chosen, various committees appointed, and a highly interesting discussion ensued, which seemed to interest the men very much. On Wednesday and Thursday evenings we held our prayer meetings. The attendance was excellent, considering that about one-half of the regiment were otherwise engaged. About fifty were present, of whom half were members of some Christian church. Of the others, ten arose to solicit the prayers of the people of God. On Friday evening we had an amateur concert of miscellaneous music. We were honored the loyal States, and especially with Maryland, which has just proclaimed her devotion to the Union by the most triumphant vote in her political annals; to restore to commerce its accustomed guides, by reestablishing the lights on your coast; to afford you a free export for the produce of your labor, a free ingress for the necessaries and comforts of life which you require in exchange, and in a word to put an end to the embarrassments and restrictions brought upon you by a causeless and unjustifiable rebellion. on this occasion with the presence of Brigadier- | United States, to reopen your intercourse with General Keyes and his staff. The pieces sung were in several instances decidedly religious; others were of an amusing character, but all contained some ennobling moral sentiment, which was all the more gratifying because the young men made their own selection. The chaplain presided and made such remarks as seemed just and needful. The object of this concert is to draw the attention of the men from other and pernicious methods of recreation. Night is the time when gambling, one of the most pernicious vices of camp life, is more generally practised. Many engage in this vice as a mere recreation. We propose to furnish them such recreation as will be a blessing to them. TO THE PEOPLE OF ACCOMAC AND NORTHAMP TON COUNTIES, VA., NOV. 13. THE military forces of the United States are about to enter your counties as a part of the Union. They will go among you as friends, and with the earnest hope that they may not by your own acts be compelled to become your enemies. They will invade no right of person or property. On the contrary, your laws, your institutions, your usages, will be scrupulously respected. There need be no fear that the quietude of any firesides will be disturbed, unless the disturbance is caused by yourselves. Special directions have been given not to interfere with the condition of any person held to domestic servitude, and in order that there may be no ground for mistake or pretext for misrepresentation, commanders of regiments or corps have been instructed not to permit such persons to come within their lines. The command of the expedition is intrusted to Brig.-Gen. Henry H. Lockwood, of Delaware -a State identical in some of the distinctive features of its social organization with your own. Portions of his force come from counties in Maryland bordering on one of yours. From him and from them you may be assured of the sympathy of near neighbors, as well as friends, if you do not repel it by hostile resistance or attack. This mission is to assert the authority of the If the calamities of intestine war which are desolating other districts of Virginia, and have already crimsoned her lands with fraternal blood, fall also upon you, it will not be the fault of the Government. It asks only that its authority may be recognized. It sends among you a force too strong to be successfully opposed-a force which cannot be resisted in any other spirit than that of wantonness and malignity. If there are any among you, who, rejecting all overtures of friendship, thus provoke retaliation and draw down upon themselves consequences which the Government is most anxious to avert, to their account must be laid the blood which may be shed, and the desolation which may be brought upon peaceful homes. On all who are thus reckless of the obligations of humanity and duty, and all who are found in arms, the severest punishment warranted by the laws of war will be visited. To those who remain in the quiet pursuit of their domestic occupations the public authorities assure all they can give peace, freedom from annoyance, protection from foreign and internal enemies, a guaranty of all Constitutional and legal rights, and the blessings of a just and parental Government. JOHN A. DIX, Major-General Commanding. HEAD-QUARTERS, BALTIMORE, Nov. 13, 1861. Doc. 160. COLONEL JENNISON'S WELCOME TO CAPTAIN JOHN BROWN'S SHARPSHOOTERS. A WRITER in the Chicago Tribune gives the following account of the reception: CAMP JENNISON, KANSAS CITY, TUESDAY, November 12, 1861. To-night I have looked on scenes such as a few months ago men would have been considered demented to have foretold. Captain John Brown jr.'s company of sharpshooters arrived here this afternoon, having, on reaching Fort Leavenworth, unanimously decided to join Colonel Jennison's command. They will be attached as mounted riflemen. Some sixty men are here, under Lieuts. Bostwick and Hoyt. Captain Brown is still in your city, finishing the recruiting, and will be on in a few days. It is by all odds the finest body of men I have seen, and as they marched up the main street, sing |