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800 DOUGLASS' MONTHLY FEBRUARY, 1863 [[line]] [[3 columns]] [[column 1]] GENERAL THOMPSON ON THE AMERICAN QUARREL.—— Our late representative, General Thompson, has addressed a letter to one of his most active friends in Bradford, which with interest by many of his old supporters, who still regard him with unabated respect and admiration. The letter is to the following effect:——"I am glad to find you go with me not only on the moral and religious grounds of the American quarrel, but on the commercial and political. The way to put an end to the Cotton difficulty would clearly have been, that the moment the South commenced a war of invasion the North should have replied to it by sending an army with an Act of Emancipation in one hand, and an offer of Amnesty in the other. Instead of which the industrious classes of England allow themselves to be made game of by any man who has an interest of any kind in the continuation of slavery. It is to this the thing will come at last, taking always the intervention of any cross accident like a European interference, which should give the Rebellion too strong a preponderance to be resisted. But it is to be hoped the time for this has passed. Gladstone's recognition is clearly making no way. It is looked on as the effort of an old Liverpool family interest in the Slave Trade and everything pertaining to it." [[line]] EFFECT OF THE PROCLAMATION.——Gen. Clusseret has written to a Senator, under date of Winchester, January 7, a letter, in which he says: "We have received——Gen. Milroy and myself——the President's Proclamation of Freedom. In consequence, we yesterday posted on the walls of Winchester, and scattered throughout the country, from farm to farm, an order from Gen. Milroy notifying all slaves that they are free, beginning from the 1st of January, and have the right to claim wages from their masters, or quit them, and that in this case, the troops will protect their rights precisely as they will those of all other citizens." A correspondent of the New York Tribune also writes of the effect the proclamation has already produced:—— "The northern neck of Virginia, the heart of aristocratic and wealthy slavery, is alive with a vast hegira of bondmen and bondwomen, traveling under President Lincoln's pass. The proclamation is depopulating the whole region between the Rappahannock and the Potomac. In farm wagons, in coaches, on horseback, afoot and in buggies, with valuable property, in every case, this second movement from Egypt to the promised land fills the highways and the woods. "The freed slaves come straight to our lines. On the other side rebel raids daily snatch valuable slaves, and hurry them southward and westward to the mountain fastnesses for security. It was so that masters hid away their perilous property in the mountains of San Domingo. In Baltimore, the proclamation daily strikes the fetters off the large number of slaves sent for safety to that city." [[line]] COLORED SOLDIERS——In Congress on Monday Jan. 12th Mr. Stevens (Rep., Pa.) introduced a bill setting forth that the terms of the enlistment of soldiers will now expire, and as it is expedient to have soldiers whose constitutions peculiarly fit them for Southern campaigns, therefore, be it enacted that the President is authorized and required to raise, equip, and organized 15,000 persons of color, of African descent, to serve five years as artillery, infantry and cavalry, to receive $5 per month, the noncommissioned officers $10, together with rations, etc, one half to be set aside for the use of their families, and in case of no families, the money to be retained for them until the expiration of their term of service. Commissioned officers to have the same pay as those in the regular army; company officers may be either white or black; and recruiting stations may be established either in the North or South. The further consideration of the bill was postponed until Wednesday, 21st inst. [[line]] THE NEW-YORK TRIBUNE. 1863. THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE, first issued in 1841, now in the twenty-second year, has obtained both a larger and more widely diffused circulation than any other newspaper ever [[/column 1]] [[column 2]] published in America. Though it has suffered, in common with other journals, from the volunteering and departure of tens of thousands of patrons to serve in the War for the Union, its circulation on this 6th of December, 1862, is as follows: DAILY - 50,125 SEMI-WEEKLY - 17,250 WEEKLY - [[underlined]]148,000[[/underlined] Aggregate - 215,375 Preeminently a journal of News and of Literature, THE TRIBUNE has political convictions, which are well characterized by the single word REPUBLICAN. It is Republican in its hearty adhesion to the great truth that "God has made of one blood all nations of men"--in its assertion of the equal and inalienable rights of all men to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"--Republican in its steadfast, earnest, defiant hostility to every scheme and effort of the Slave Power, from the annexation of Texas to the great Rebellion, to grasp the empire of the New World and wield the resources of our country for its own aggrandizement--Republican in its antagonism to the aristocrats and despots of the Old World, who fondly hail in the perils and calamities suddenly thrust upon us by their American counterpart the overthrow and ruin of the Model Republic--Republican in its hope and trust, its faith and effort, that this atrocious Rebellion must result in the single overthrow of its plotters, and the firm establishment of equal rights and equal laws throughout the whole extent of our country, wherein Liberty and Union shall indeed by "one and inseparable" henceforth and forever. THE TRIBUNE devotes attention in calmer times, and to some extent in these, to Education, Temperance, Agriculture, Inventions, and whatever else may minister to the spiritual and material progress and well-being of mankind; but for the present its energies and its columns are mainly devoted to the invigoration and success of the War for the Union. Its special correspondents accompany every considerable army and report every import incident of that great struggle which we trust is soon to result in the signal and conclusive triumph of the National arms and in the restoration of Peace and Thrift to our distracted, bleeding country. We believe that no otherwise can a fuller or more accurate view of the progress and character of this momentous conflict be obtained than through the regular perusal of our columns. And we earnestly solicit the cooperation of all friends of the National cause, which we regard and uphold as that of Universal Humanity, to aid us in extending its circulation. [[short line]] TERMS. The enormous increase in the price of printing paper and other material used in printing newspapers, compel us to increase the price of THE TRIBUNE. Our new terms are: DAILY TRIBUNE, Single Copy - 3 cents. Mail Subscribers, one year (311 issues) - $8 SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. One Copy, one year (104 issues) - $3 Two Copies, one year - $5 Five Copies, one year - $12 Ten Copies one year - $22,50 An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty and over. WEEKLY TRIBUNE. One Copy, one year (52 issues) - $2. Three Copies, one year - $5. Five Copies, one year - $8. Ten Copies, one year - $15. Any larger number, addressed to names of subscribers, $1 50 each. An extra copy will be sent to every club of ten. Twenty Copies, to one address, one year. $25 and any larger number at same price. An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty. The clubs of thirty THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE will be sent. To clubs of fifty the DAILY TRIBUNE will be sent gratis. Address THE TRIBUNE Tribune Buildings, New-York [[/column 2]] [[column 3]] When drafts can be procured it is much safer than to remit Bank Bills. The name of the Post Office and State should in all cases be plainly written. Subscribers who send money by Express, must prepay the Express charges, else it will be deducted from the remittance. THE TRIBUNE ALMANAC for 1863. will be ready about Christmas. [[line]] IMPORTANT FACTS. Constant writing for six months is done cheaper with Gold Pens than with Steel Pens; therefore it is economy to use Gold Pens. The gold pen remains unchanged by years of continued use, while the steel pen is ever changing by corrosion and wear; therefore perfect uniformity of writing is obtained only by the use of the gold pen. The gold pen always ready and reliable, while the steel pen must be often condemned and new one selected, therefore there is great saving of time in the use of the gold pen. Gold is capable of receiving any degree of elasticity, so that the gold pen is exactly adapted to the hand of the writer; therefore the nerves of the hand and arm are not injured, as it is known to be the case by the use of steel pens. Improvement made in the machinery for manufacturing gold pens, and secured to the subscriber by letters patent, have enabled him to overcome the many imperfections hitherto unavoidable in their production, and also to bring the cost within the reach of all. He is now selling gold pens at prices varying from 25 cents to $1, according to size, the average wear of every one of which will far outlast a gross of the best steel pens. Sold by all dealers in the line throughout the country. 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We take the liberty of using the names of the following gentlemen who will receive names and subscriptions for Douglass' Monthly in Great Britain: Halifax-REV. RUSSELL LANT CARPENTER, Milto Place, Dublin-Mr.WM, WEBB, 52, High Street, and 8, Dunville Avenue, Rathmines. Derby-Dr. SPENCER T. HALL, Burton Road. Glasgow-Mr JOHN SMITH, 173, Trongate. Leeds- Mr. ARTHUR HOLLAND, 4, Park Row ; Rev D CROFTS. Newcastle-on-Tyne Mr WALTER S. PRINGLE. [[/column 3]]
