THE PRESS, ropLISHID DAILY (SUNDAYS SICORFTSD,) ' 0Y JOIIN VII. FORNEY, et $O. 111 SOUTH . FOURTH STRUM i rog DAILY PRESS, 0.0 LOCO Pea Plunk, payable to the Carrier ti b ubscribere out of the City at Stows Doiitieas . tb:iory, roes DOLLARS FOR SIX MONTHS, Two Doi,. to e 'Tonga DiosTus—invarinbly in advance for the is oi °` % _.,.,'",.Adlstileetaonts Inserted at the astral rates. 61z cosstitate sottare. irojiyirßl-WEICIELY P 11.1089, pi to Ibtbseribere otit of the City at POUR DOL. rVOX In advance. •I:;4;i i mposi RETAIL DRY GM)DS. ' is gU do LANDEL.L, FOURTH ,AND • 'ARM - • Es:A 'L...,....„ RATS. IN STORE 1 - 'NB STO4*. OF 'GOODS FOR FAMI.,*.r..I.OO,STpM. WO BLACK 1000 PLAIN. GOOD BLACK CLOTHS. c oo PLAIN CLOTHS. fo01) BLANKETS. 001) M USLINS. • coop LINENS. ' GOOD FLANNELS. 001) BALMORALS. cOOD FINE SHAWLS. G oop TABLE LINENS. -' ROD TOWELINGS. GOOD NAPKINS, TICKS, dm., &o. If ur STAIRS DEPARTMENT. BOYS' CLOTHING AND; • LADIES' CLOAKS, READY MADE OR RADE TO,ODDER. , • • , COOPER & CONARD, S; S 00R. NINTH and IiAREET Eta. _. IMES R. CAMPBELL & CO., IMPORTERS AND CASH DEALERSaN DRY GOODS, AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, CHESTINTIT filTRITyr, gore juat resetfred..and are now °farina, magnificent MP!. SHAWLS, AND DRESS GOODS, 'ECiALLY ADAPTED TO THIS SEASON ()ICH AND RELIABLE FURS OF OUR OWN IMPORTATION AND MANUFACTURE. hoti t+ BAY SABLE, ROYAL BRUME, DARK SABLE MINK, REAL CHINCHILLA, DARK SIBERIAN SQUIRREL. IMF FASHIONABLE STYLE; FOR LADIES; MISSES, AND CHILDREN. FURS MADE TO ORDER. J. W. PRt>CTOR & 00., No. 920 011BNU'r STREET, PHILADELPHIA. EN'S AND BOYS' WEAR. Cassimeres for linal dem Suite. Citssimeres for Dress Snits. Cassimeros forßoys' wear. Cloths adapted to every use. Boys' Clothing, ready made. Men's and'Boys' Suits made to ordor. BL ANKETS. A tiptop lot at fn. Damaged Gray Blanketa at +2 5+ and +3.50. fkorse Blankets—Army Blankets. Domestic Goods at lowest prices. TABLE 'LIVENS. Fine Table Damasks and Cloths. .• The &mons power-loom Table Linens. Bargains In Napkins, Sce.,lo, ".„ PRESS, GOODS. . •yardenerveig styles Dolalnewat 85c. • ' l' ins Rena Bineßcam ;Blue Yaramattas. .Brown Reps Brown optins, Brown Cohnrge Balmorals 32:70, 33 1 +3.20 and +3.50. • 1100PkR &a CUr4ARD, S. E. cornerNINTH and MARKET Strsata. EIMIN HALL A - BRO., 26 South SECOND Street, Err , : minced tho prices of lacy Silks, Rich Printed. Dress Goods,.' (lake Shades of Kerb:toe% Beautiful Colors of Ittfps or poplins, Ali-Wool De Lames, k: kinds of dark dress goods reduced. Also, Fiue Long Broohe Shawls, ' fvnCentreliong Cashmere Shawls, Poeh new stylesdbf Blanket Shawls. 4.4 Lyons Silk velvets, pure Silk. de234f DRY GOODS FOR WINTER. P,ep, Poplins, Nadi Merinos, Colored 111sPitY of Phi,. 0 officers, and have since gone ron7l-..'11- ; successful, and An offer from the PennsylvaniMpeheation, .1•:: . ~ the field. The draft was eininentlf .;...isrendezvous,_ of a donation of fifty thousand alit the Der; when the men had been marched to the i'd3 :.VV•nority paying bounties to volunteers. I detonation.' my agency in the matter ceased, and all autiiil• because Thad no authority to accept it'egraph; and control over the men devolved on the Unite; .._,_ the public ~and was unwilling to •undertalCnany . States officers. I cannot but commend the people o -- `ll:rszsement of the fund in my private caPt3ll Pennsylvania for their cheerful obedience to the -re- 'bit- ri .sin ee received a letter on the subject f ro, i quirements of the Government on this occasion.. havest-1 4- , N - 01 - 's ib ', sof disposin g 0 I, All the expenses of the draft- are, of course, to be company suggestles other m s-tr), essag paid by the United 'States, and I learn that officers - money, a copy of which ieannexed pins . ' L. are now in the State charged. With the' settlements. If the . Legislature should accept the done ion, - 1 and payments. • •.- :. . • ' recommend that it be' applied towards the erection Including the threemonths - volunteers, Pennsyls 'of an asylum for our disabled soldiers, and that the vania has furnished to the General Government: trustees appointed to superintend the erection and more than two hundred thousand men since the. ' management of the asylum be authorized to accept breaking . out of the rebellion, besides some fifty: such further contributions as our citizens may offer. thousand who were in service, or actually ready for in a well-managed establishment of that kind it is it, as volunteer militia under the call of the 11th of - .ptobable that the pone to be allowed by the Go - September last, making, in the whole, more than' yersment to the ill enable them to support m ll s two hundred and fifty thousand men. . . themselves with corni t. In October last a body of rebel cavalry, with a • : By an act of Congress, passed on the second- day battery.of artillery, suddenly crossed the. Potomac, of July, 1862, lands were 'granted to-the several and made their way as far as Ohambersburg; plun- .Stateslor the endowrnent, support, and maintenance, . during whattbey found of Supplies useful to them, by each' State, of at least one college for teaching and committing other depredations. They went out such branches of learning as are related to agricul-• of the State by . crossing the South .Mountain, , ture and the mechanic arts, Without excluding other and thus reachmg the Potomac below Harper's scientific and classical studies, and including military Ferry. The troops in _the field were not pre- tactics. I recommend that proper provision be made pared at the moment to punish this attempt by the Legislature for having the lands thus granted on her ' soil, and it is to be much regretted to this State selected, and the title made to the State, that efficient measures could not have been taken and that Congress be requested to allow the lands • by . the army to capture the rebels on their return to and their proceeds to be used by the State in the con-. . the Potomac. Immediately after I received notice atruction and support of such an asylum as I have that this force had crossed the line of the State, I above suggested. called into service. the Anderson Cavalry, then en- . . The details .of the operations of the. common camped at Carlisle, and two companies of regulars ' school system. during the school year that termi at the barracks at that place. These troops were nated on the-first Monday in June,lB62, manifest pushed iforward in the direction of Chambersburg ' scarcely . any evil effects from the roubled state of and South Mountain. The cavalry at Camp Curtin, the country, Absence of the usual degree of pro consisting of one full and two imperfect. regiments, • gress in the various department/ is the only result mere .armed as infantry, and, together with two observable. To have held its own, however, during 'companies of infantry and a battery of volunteer the severe ordeal to which, in common with all our light artillery of Harrisburg, were in readiness ' great social interests and enterprises, it has been to go forward, when Major General Wool arrived subjected, is the strongest proof of its inherent and'esiumed the command of all the forces. Ile vigor, arid of the hold it possesses upon the affec had ; previously ordered part of his command from tions as well as the judgment of the people of the Baltimore, and marched the troops , to Gettysburg. State. .: The rebels marched with so much celerity that. It has come to my knowledge that in some parts : ' .they did not encounter any of the forces of. General of the State a system exists of paying the wages of , . Wool, and escaped from the State. I recommend workmen and laborers not in money, but in orders :that application be made to Congress for an appro- on storekeepers for merchandise and other articles. 'lllation to compensate our citizens for the damages This system, by preventing all competition, leaver) • which r they suffered.by the raid. the men to the uncontrolled discretion of the store- On the two emergencies to which I have referred, keepers. It is a system most unwise and unjust, I acknowledge valuable counsel and assistance from and it affects classes of useful citizens ) who, as they . ;Brigadier' General Andrew . Porter, of the iJnited live by the proceeds' of their daily labor, have not States army, who thus testified his affection for his adequate means to resist it. I have no doubt that native State, and zeal in her service when threat- most of the difficultiei which occasionally occur be ened. And on the same, and other occasions, lam tween employers and their workmen are due to the indebted to Colonel Thomas A. Scott, Colonel John prevalence of this system. That every man, for . a A. Wright, and Colonel J. B. Parker, members of fair day's labor, should receive a fair day's wages, br iny staff, who came promptly on my summons, and but the dictate of common honesty;.and while' it served with their accustomed zeal and fidelity, with- would be most unwise for the State to interfere at out pecuniary compensation.. .all with the rate of wages, it is, in my judgment,tn- The militia law of this State is greatly defective, cumbent on her to, protect her • laboring popula tion and I earnestly . recommend the appointment of a by requiring that, whatever may be the wages stipu commission to prepare and submit an efficient Byte rated, they shall be so paid that the recipient may tem, to be reported before the adjournment of the . purchase necessaries for himself and his family Legislature, so that action may be had on the sub- where they can be had beat and cheapest. Ido most jest at the present session. In the hurry of ordinary earnestly recommend this subject to-the Legislature business the Legislature might not be able to give for prompt and effectual action. • the necessary attention to the preparation of a pro- I believe that the 'several charitable institutions . per measure, and events which have already occurred to which the:_Legislature has been accustomed to prove the necessity of some effectual legislation on grant aid have been well managed , during the past .the subject, so that, our people may be adequately year. ' ' protected. • -.-. The Wyoming canal is still in , the hands of there, The State is in possession of the • following ord- ceiver. Certain creditors of the company having in nance, arms, and ammunition : stitutedproceedings in the Supreme Court for Bening 63 pieces of artillery, of which 22 need repairs. thecanal under the mortgage, the Attorney . General 2 batteries of new cannon, consisting of 12 bas intervened in the suit to oppose the making of a • ' Gri ffi n rifle& cannon, - 6-pounders, 2 cats-" decree of sale. No decree has been-made, and the sons, and 2 battery wagons, presented to proceedings are yet pending. Meanwhile, it being • - . the State by the Committee of. Safety of alleged that the subscribers and stockholders have - ' Philadelphia', in September last. ' • paid up but a small' part of the nominal capital of 26,492 muskets and rifles, of which .11,614 are the company, an information has been filed in the ready for isstie; 4,460 in the hands of me- Supreme Court by the Attorney General.to compel . • chanics for repairs, and the balance, hay- them to pay up the capital, or such charges and as ' .. - ing-boon used _by tho.militla calledouein '. ' • !elements as- May be necessary to extinguish the - September last„ require cleaning debt due - to the Commonwealth. - This-prodeeding 12,427 sets infantry accoutrements complete,' is also still pending. It is understood-that the gross 1,298 swords and sabres.• . - .., ~ , • . receipts of the canal during the last season have 684 pistols. '• - •'• - • . •... --' " been about one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, - 1,938 rounds artillery ammunition. s. , • - , , , and the annual interest on the mortgage bonds of 1,522,000 rounds ammunition for small firms. the company a little over fifty-one thousand dollars.. • The following arms accoutrements, and ammuni=. . In pursuance of the joint resolution passed 11th' tion have beenlurnished. according to law, e to , the April, 1862, the Attorney General has instituted. border counties, •nti to volunteer orga nizations . Preeeedings on the proper cashier's bonds, to recover' formed under the militia wit of 1858: ' • - the money. due to the Commonwealth by the Bank, 5;840 muskets and rifles with accoutremente . .of Commerce, at Erie, and . I have employed John 1 complete, were issued to, and are now in -H. Walker, Esq., as special counselforthe Common- • possession of border counties. • .. ' wealth, in the prosecution of the officers of the bank ' 4,055 muskets and rifles, and 2,041 sets of ac- in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Erie county. ' coutrements issuedlo;and now in pos- In accordance with the provisions of the act of session of organized companies. Also 6th May, 1862, an information in equity was filed-by: " 80,000 rounds of ammunition issued t o the Attorney General- against the Delaware and' border counties and organized corn. Hudson Canal Company and the Pennsylvania Coal panieri. Company. The case was argued before the Supreme' 1,755 muskets, and 895 sets of accoutrements, Court at Sunbury, in October last. were issued to Colonels Brown and By an act passed on the 16th day of May, 1861, a. ' Glantz's regiments on going into the company was incorporated by the name of the Navy service. . - Yard, Broad-street, and. Fairmount Railway Com-. - n pieces of artillery, issued to Ist Pennsyl- Pally. It being alleged that the company, instead of vania - Artillery, Colonel Charles T. making a:railway on the route and in the' manner' . . Campbell, commanding, on going into prescribed by its charter, is constructing a railroad the service. . . of a different character,by a route extending from 628 sabres, 1,056 pistols; and 628 seta of accou- the. Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baitiniore Rail tremenp, issued to organized cavalry road depot to the Philadelphia and Trenton depot, companies. both within the city of Philadelphia, the Attorney Showing an aggregate of General has proceedetisgainst the company by quo 107 pieces of artillery, wars ant° for the violation of its charter, and has also 39,045 muskets and rifles, filed an information for the purpose of restraining 1,740 pistols, the company from proceeding in the construction of - 1,826 sabres, ,their road. Both these proceedings are now pending. 22,203 sets infantry accoutrements, . • By the act of 29th March, ISI6, it was provided 628 sets cavalry accoutrements, • that citizens absent from home in actual military 1,603,938 rounds of ammunition. .. service might exercise their right of suffrage as if - in.. addition to the above the following military they were present at the i nitial plhcea of election. property of the city of Philadelphia is reported, by This act was substantially re-enacted in the general the "Borne Guard of the city of Philadelphia,” to election law passed on the 2d of July, 1839. The Su be In its possession-viz : - preme Court has recently decided that, by reason of a . 6 20-pounder Parrot rifled guns. - phrase in the constitutional amendments of 1838,the 2 10-pounder Prussian rifled guns. 'provision has become unconstitutional. Penneyl -1 10-pounder English rifted gun. vania has sent to the service about two hundred 12 caissons for 20-pounder Parrot rifled guns. thousand citizens, who, by this decision, are disfran. ' 2 caissons for 10-pounder Prussian rifled guns, 'chised. This seems to be a hard measure-that men • with tools and stores. who testify their devotion to the country by going to '. 1 12-pounder rifled howitzer, Dahlgren. the field should thereby lose the most inestimable 1- 12-pounder rifled howitzer, 750 pounds Dahl- right of a citizen. I recommend that the necessary . • - gren. steps be forthwith commenced to amend the Con -2 field carriages for do. • stitution, •so as to give the right of suffrage to the . . 2 small howitzer guns, 12-pounders, with ear- citizens who are thus excluded. • . . riages, tools, and stores. ' I 'cannot close this message without speaking of 1 12-pounder rifled howitzer, Dahlgren. • the unbroken loyalty and spirit of the freemen of . 1 12-pounder smooth bore, .750 pounds Dahl- Pennsylvania. .They 'feel that on the preservation &Ten- • - of the Union and the suppression of the most cause -2 fi eld carriages for do. less and.wicked rebellion which history records, de -2 small 12-pounder howitzers, with carriages,. pend the honor, the interests, and the whole future tools, and stores. welfare of • the Commonwealth. They will never ' 195 saddles. tolerate schemes for destroying the Government of 127 saddles, with traces, breast straps, &c. .. the United States, or for forming, separate Confede -68 saddles, incomplete. racial, or any otherschemes for creating general con ' 2,296 muskets and lilies. - fusion and ruin, and aiding and comforting the trai -2.oo.pistols and 111 holsters. • tom who are in arms against their country. 1,997 rounds of shot and shell. ' This . State has furnished more men. for the de -672,8111 rounds musket and rifled cartridges. fence of. our - institutions, and has lost more by the The foregoing does not include the arms and casualties of war, than any other State. She has equipments that have been issued to the several gi v enfreely, her, blood and treasure and is ready regiments of -the Home Guard, and which are in to give as much more of both as may be needfu l. . their possession.by' Her people intend that, the blessing of God, this For the details of military operations and of static- rebellion shall be suppressed, and will not be turned tics I refer you to the reports of the Adjutant Gene- from their settled purpose by the wiles of masked enemies or the 'vacillations of feeble friends. On ral, Quartermaster General, Commissary General, Surgeon General, and the Chief of Transportation, - - istheir the e they ' ( right) insi that contrary ey . will asinsi st which accompany this message. . competent integrity, earnestness, Intellect and In regard to the election of officers in the reserve vigor Shall be employed in the public service to corps, and the recruitment of the regiments of that preserve the Government and to maintain the unity corps, and of our other gallant regiments of voltm- of the country. A. G. CURTIN. teers, I propose to send a special message in a few, EXECUTIVE DEPAn.ruENT, Harrisburg, Jan. '7, days, as I desire to treat the,se subjects somewhat at 1863, large, and to submit to the, Legialatrue some docu ments relating to them. • By the thirteenth , section of the actof May 16th, 1861, I was authorized to draw my warrants on the treasury for a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars for compensation to suchpersons as might be -esinikireCtO serve the country in a militar-s , capacity. At the rare - erstsrs - sm.t-3_.....sesine.4 l l } N , awn from the treasury eight thousand rive knt lars, and had paid out up to the Ist of December, 1361, six thousand niur-hundred dollars, when my . account was settled. .Since that time I have drawn two thousand dollars front the treasury, part of which, with the balance in• my hands, has been expended in the payment of Members of my personal staff the ser vice when I required assistance, and in procuring in formation, and to persons employed when the State was threa tenedi with 'invasion in September, 1862, and during the raid in October last... .. An account of these expenditures will befound on Me in the'office of the Auditor General. $1,G51,6a3 72 K 763,353 35 $1,030;178 82 $10,781,000 $M1.178 74..• 37U :-370 41 64 52 ' 1189 $262,801 67 Under the act of 10th April, 1888, it is my inten tion to take early measures for the sale of , the pow der magazine in the city of Philadelphia. The pow der magazine at Harrisburg is not judiciously loca ted. A State powder magazine ought, in my judg men t to be erected on a suitable site in the - vicinity of this place, and I recommend the attentlon of the Legislature to the subject. In September last two batteriesof rifled cannon were presented to the Commonwealth by a com mittee of citizens of Philadelphia, through S. V.. Merrick, Esq., which are now in the arsenal in that city. ..I recommend, that provision be made for pro curing carriages, caissons, and other equipments for them. The liberal donors are entitled to the thanks Of the Commonwealth for their patriotic gift. Under the joint resolutions of 28th of February, 1862, measures were promptly taken for the relief of our sick and wounded men in the field. The wounded at :Winchester, Strasburg, Front Royal, 'Williamsburg' and Fair Oaks, and those in the corps of 'Major General Banks' were duly .at tended, ou . the field or in the vicinity, by Surgeon General Smith. and a corps of , surgeons under his direction, and were brought into this State. The same system. would have been continued, but, in June. last, I received a letter from the Surgeon General of the •United - .States, - representing• that it was found Inconvenient , to the service, and . must create 'difficulties. in . , the regular identification of the soldiers for pay-and pensions. • - • In compliance with-his views; I was reluctantly obliged to discontinue the: system • but I haVe 'not ceased to urge on the War Department the propriety of sending our sick and.wounded men into the State, where they can 'be nursed` and cared for by their ' friends, and have to.say thatat length , such au :ar rangement- was -made with, the , authorities at - Washington, which it was•hoped would be effectiVe, but there has been such tardiness in putting it into practical operation - that I recommend the Legisla ture toinvite the attention of the War Department 'to the subject. Our suffering men have a right to the sympathy and aid of their State to 'be so Iren dered as not to injure the service. f the bringing' them home to be attended could produce even incon • ventence to that I would not urge'it. • Rut it is cruel - to leave them to the care.and (I regret to say it) fre quently to the neglect., or worse, of strange officials, at points in the immediate vicinity of all the' abun dant comforts which the solicitude of their families and friends would rejoice to provide for, them. In addition to the expenses of attending and bring ing home our sick and wounded, as above stated, I have expended leis than-$4,000 in the transportation of friends- of siek, killed or 'Wounded volunteers, and other persons sent by me for their care to the several battle-fields and hospitals, and in bringing . home for interment the bodies of those slain. The whole expense incurred under the joint resolution was 0,119.83, the details of which will be found in the report of the Surgeon General and orthe chief of transportation. THREE CENTS. NEW YORK. Abstract of Governor Seilnourls Message'. .a.rassis - v, Jan. 7.—Governor Seymour sent ,In. his. Tn."A"-i. - ". - L..risiLature to-day. On the subject of national affairs he ' "Not only is the national&eat stake, but every personal,s every family every sacred interest . it* volved. The truths of our financial and Military. situation must not be kept back. There must be no. 'attempt to put down the free expression of public.. opinion. "Affrighted at the ruin tkey.have wrought, the. authors of our calamities at the North and South insist that this war has been caused by the unavoid able contest-about slavery. This has been the sub ject, and not the cause of the controversy. 'Vre•are to look for the causes, of the war, in the pervading disregard of the obligationeof the • laws and Consti tutions, disrespect for 'the constituted authorities, and, above all, in the local prejudieee which have grown up in two parties of the Atlantic States—the two extremes of our country. • • "There is no honest statement of our difficulties, wliieli'does - not" teach that our people must reform themselves as well 'as the conduct of the Govern ment arid the policy of our rulers. It is not toolate to save our country, if we will enterupon the sacred duty, in the right way. Where it is the right of our Government to decide upon measures and policy, it is our duty to obey and give's ready support.to their decisions : This is the vital maxim of liberty.: ' This war should have been averted, butits flood ' gates were opened. . The Administration could not grasp its dimensions, nor control its sweep. The Government was borne along with the _current, and , struggled, as best it could, with the resistless tide. Few seemed ableto comprehend itsmilitaryorfinaa. cialproblems. • Hence, we are not to sit in harsh judgment upon errors in conduCt or polity.: "But while we concede all these excuses for mis takes, weitre not to sidoPt errors nor sanction viola • tions of principle. The same causes which extenuate ' their faults in judgment mdst make us more vigilant to guard against.their influences." ' . The Governor urges that economy and integrity in the adminietration of affairs are vital in periods of war. He says meddling • and intrigues' have thwarted and paralyzed the valor of our soldiers and skill of our generals, within the influence of the capital while our armies have gained victories in fields remote therefrom. 'STATE RIGHTS The: GOvernor says: The National Constitution must-be held inviolate; and` he contends. that the rights of the States must be respected as not less sacred.; There. are dilibrencesof opinion as to the dividing, line between State and National jurisdic tien,! but there cane be none as to-the existence of such separate jurisdiction, each covering subjects of, legislafion and jurisprudence essential to the public security and welfare.; (A consolidated 'Government in this vast country would destroy . the essential home • rights and liberties of the people.) • The so vereignties of .the States, except as they-are limited by the Constitution, can never.be given up. With. out • them our Government cannot stand. It was made and it can be.changed byState agency. This is shoWn p f y the following provisions of the instru ment " The ratification of the conventionsof nine States shall be sufficient to the establishment. of this Con-. - etitutlon bettieen.tlieStatrAno`ratifying'the sarne. ,, Again, three•fourthp ; ot : the , States !can add to,or take aWarfroie the powers of the Gemeral GOVern ment, by demanding a Convention in whioh amend, ments can be proposed, which, if ratified by three fourths of the States, become parts of the Constitu tion, Ingle they OK thus take away or at% to it; power, THE WAR PXMSR. (PUBLISHED MMT.) Tint WAR Passe will be 'coat to enheoribara by roan (per annum in advance} at 82.00 Five " " SG 9 Ten " . 6 1 7.00 .00 Twenty Copies" 3.00 Larger Clubs 'than 'Twenty Will be charged the lame rate. 81.60 per copy, rhe.m64,4 2 , must always accompany, the order. avxf in no inatance can these term" be deutatedfroot; ab tJ afford icier:, little more than the coat of the paper. 4111- Postmasters are requested to act se Agate for Tam Wan Paso. s agje. To tho.getter.up of a Club of ten or twenty, an ..eattra copy of the Paper will be given. the General Government can in no way touch one right of the States or invade their jurisdiction. The obligations which reit upon-the • States to respect the Constitution, laws, and authorities of the General Government also demand that the General Government shall show equal respect for the rights and constituted authorities of States. ' To State legislation and authorities we look for the: good order of society, the security of life and property, the protection of our homes and ail that is nearest and dearest to us in the relations, duties, and actions of life. It is dangerous and demorali zing to show contempt for State authorities and laws. It undermines alike the foundations of State arid National Government, by breaking up the so- • cial syStem. If horde laws are not respected, the more general authority will not be'regarded. ARTISTIC/OSY ARRESTS; On the subject of arbitrary arrests, he says • ' "Cur people?have, therefore, viewed with alarm • practices and pretensions, on the part of officials!, \ which violate every principle of good order, of civil liberty, and of. constitutional law. It is claimed • 7.• that, in time of war, the President has powers, as ".. (3`• ommander-in-chief of our armies, which authorize N. fm la, to declare martial. law, not: only within the • nhere of hostile movements, whereother law cannot • • . • enforced, butalso over our whole land. That, at is pleasure, he can disregerd not only the statutes .1 Congress, but the decisions of the national : 'udiciary ; that, in loyal States - , the least intelli _ent class of officials may be clothed with of only to act as spies - and informers h••"'''''' elm without due process of law., to se .; „ nd i .ur citizens, and carry theta.. ,yrond The imprison - of the State, to hold them prisons without a hearing or a knowledge le offencea- with which they are barged. only the paseions 'and prejudices of hese i : nor agents lead them to acts of tyranny, • .ut eir interests are advanced and their positions ecured by promoting discontent and discord. Even to ask the aid of counsel hiti been held aeon offence. It has-been :well said that "to be arrested for one knows not what; to be . confined, no . one entitled to ask' where; to be, tried, no • one can say when, by a law nowhere knoivn or established; -or to.linger out life in a cell without trial, presents a body of tyranny which cannot be enlarged. . • "The suppression of journals and imprisonment of persons has been glaringly partisan. Conscious .f these gross abuses,'arkattempt has• been made to 'geld the violators of latv and suppress inquiry into S - ir motives and conduct: This attempt will fail. - - .stitutional acts cannot.be shielded 'by do .al laws. Such attempts will not save the . • • e they will brink a just condemnation action &try to pervert the powers of legisla vernment. • of oppression. To justify such tive power . - tt s drawn from the practice of GO which reitrain.. no restraint upon legisia citizens by writtese o k av "I shall net inq ail under our system, trWerinnent and protects the hellion have forfeited ;'cations." can suspend a single right rights the States in re. States.. I denouft&th., lent - that this rebellion in the South takesliw.....- Ik 'rititenn'of.the loyal benefit of one principle civil pat ; civil war crime to abduct a citizenilifithis allort.h..the my duty by the Constitution to s a high are enforced. I shall investigate - every lation of our statutes, and see that the olfele.,_ brought to justice. Sheriff's and District Altr7f are admonished that it is their duty to take u.. that no persons within their respective counties arc. imprisoned nor carried by - force beyond their limits without due process of legal authority." "The removal to England of persons charged with offence, away from their friends, their witnesses,- and means of defence, was one of the acts of tyrann3r for which we asserted our independence. The ab duction of citizens from this State for offences charged to have been done here. and carrying them • many hundreds of miles to distant prisons in other 'States or Territories, is- an• outrage of the same character upon every principle of right and justice. The General Government has ample powers to es tablish courts, to appoint officers to arrest, and com missioners to hear complaints, and to imprison upon reasonable grounds of suspicion. It has a judicial system in full and undisturbed operation. Its own cotirts, held at convenient points in this and other loyal States, are, open for the- hearing of all com plaints. If its laws are not for the punish ment of offences, it is due to the neglect of those in power. • "Government is not strengthened by the exercise of doubtful powers, but by a wise and energetic ex ertion of those which are incontestible. The former course never fails to produce discord, suspicion, and distrust, while the latter inspires respect and conti deuce. • "This loyal State, whose laws, whose courts; and whose officers have thus been treated with marked and public contempt,. and whose -.social order and sacred rights:have been violated, was- at,' that very time sending forth great armies .to protect the Na tional capital; and to save the National officials from flight or capture. It- was While .the arms of New York thus sheltered them against rebellion, that, without consultation with its chief magistrate, a subordinate department at Washington insalted our people and invaded our 'rights: Against these wrongs and outrages the people of the State of New York, atits late election, solemnly protested. " The submission ofour people to these abuses, for a time only, was mistaken at home and abroad for 'an indifference to their liberties. But it - was only in a spirit of respect for onr.inslitutionm.that they ivaited until they could express their will in the manner pointed out by our laws. At the late eleo tion they vindicated at once their regard.dor law and their love of liberty. Amidst all the confusion of civil war, they calmly sat in judgment upon the Administration, voting against its candidates. Nor was thin the only strikinyroof of respect for the ri , Constitution. The mino.of nearly equal num bers, yielded to this deci sion without resistance, although the canvass was animated by strong parti san excitements. This calm assertion of rights, and this. honorable submission to the verdict of the - ballot-box, vindicated at once the character of our people and- the stability of our institutions. Had the Secessionists of the South thus yielded to con stitutional decisions, they would have saved -them selves and our country from the horrors of this war, and they would have found the same remedy for every wrong and danger." "MARTIAL LAW. "The claim of power under martial law is not only destructive of. the right of States, but it overthrown • the legislative and judicial departments of the Gene— ral Government. It asserts for the President more power as the head of the army, than as a repro- - eentative ruler of the people. This claim has brought discredit upon us in the eyes of the world. • It. hat strengthened the hopes of rebellion. It has weakened the confidence of loyal Statee. It tends to destroy the value of our •Government in the . minds of our people. It leads to discord and discon tent at the North, while it has united and invigo sled the South. 1," If there is- a•necesssty which justifies that policy, t us openly and honestly say there is a necessity which justifies a revolution. But this pretension is - not put forth as a necessity which overleaps for time all restraints, and which is justified by a great exigency; it is a theory which exalts the military power of the President above his civil and tonsil- - tutional rights. It asserts that he may, in his dis— cretion, declare war, and then extinguish the State and. National Constitutions by drawing. the pall of martial law over our vast country. * * * "There is little to fear in periods of peace and prosperity. If we are not protected when there are popular excitements and convulsions, our Government is a failure. If Presidential proclama tions are aboVe the decisions of the courts and the restraints of the Constitution, then that Constitu tion is a mockery: If it has not the authority to keep the Executive within its restraints then it cannot retain States within the Union. Tlrose.who - hold that there is no sanctity in the Constitution, must equally hold that there is no guilt in there-- bellion. "We cannot be silent and allow these practices to become precedents. They are as much in violation of our Constitution as the rebellion itself, and more dangerous to our liberties. They hold out to . the Executive every temptation of ambition to make and prolong' war.' They - offer despotic power as a. price for preventing peace. They are inducements • to each .administration to' produce discord and in-. cite armed resistance to law, by declaring that the condition of war removes all constitutional I re- • strainte. They call about the national capital hordes of unprinpled men, who find in • the wreck of their. country the opportunity to' gratify avarice or ambi tion, or personal or political resentments. This theory. makes the passion and ambition of an admi nistration antagonistic' to the interest and happi ness of the people. It makes the restoration of peace the abdication of more than regal authority in the hands of those to whom.is confided the govern ment of our country.) , The Governor declares that the President , s-Eman-..- cipatioa proclamation is impolitic, unjust, and uncon stitutional,. calculated to create many barriers to the restoration of the Union; and to be misconstrued by the world as an abandonment of the hope • of.re storing it—a result to which New York is unaltera bly opposed, and which will be eft'ectively resisted. The Union, he says, will be restored by the Central and Western States, both free and slave, who are • exempt from the violent passions .which control .at the extremes. • "Those of the central slave States, which rejected the ordinance of secession, which sought to • remain . in the Union, and which were driven off. by a con temptuous, uncompromising policy, must be brought back. The restoration of the whole Union s will be only the work of time, with such an exertion of power as can be put forth without needlessly sacri ficing the life and treasure of the North in &bloody and calamitous contest. We must not wear.out the lives of our soldiers, nor txhaust the earnings of labor by war for uncertain ends or carry out vague theories of extermination—means not only. destruc tive of lives and property in the South, but also a waste of the blood and treasure of the North. — The exertion of the armed power must be aceom our 'Union 4111 - 111t - fellailifill olio •to restore sections." The Governor concluder. : "At this moment the fortunes of our country are influenced by the results of battles. Our army irethe field must be supported. All constitutional demands of our General Government must be promptly re sponded to. Under no circumstances.. can .a division of the Union be conceded. We will, put forth every exertion of power. 'We will use every policy of con , ciliation. We will hold out every. Inducement to ' the people of the South to return to their allegiance, coneastent with honor. 'We will guaranty them every right, every consideration demanded by the • Constitution, and by that fraternal. regard which must prevail in a common country. But we can never voluntarily consent to the breaking up of the Union of these States or the destruction:of the Con stitution." THEIR PATRIOTISM Ar.f.PICEOTATED.—ThO fame of the Philadelphia Refradimen,t Saloons ex tends to all parts of the free. States; The Boston. Transcript thus speaks Of theni.,': iu . connection with a reference to the 60th ItlssaachuSettaßegiment : Massachusetts owes a debt of gratitude to the citizens of. Philadelphia for the kindness which they have shown her soldiers while remaining in that city. Six companies of the 'soth Regiment, tiow there, were furnished with a genuine New England dinner on New. Year's day, by the Union Volunteer Refreshment Committee. The above association has issued a card arranged expressly for the such. which containsall the places of. interest in Philadelphia,, and their location ; it also contains the names of the ' field and line- °freers of the regiment. Upon the card is•the .following inscription : ' "The 50th Reg. Mass. Volunteers. 'Welcome to the city cif Brother : iy Love—The Union' Volunteer Refreshment Com mittee wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. "An effort IS being made to have the re giment detsiiled for, provost-guard duty in that city, city, which speaks well for the. discipline and good behavior of our Kasiachusetts boys. THE • AGItICULTVEAL SOCIETY.— ester d ay, Morning the Philadelphia SooletY for Promoting Agriculture held a stated monthly meeting. Among the donations to the society was a sample of rhubarb wine sent by J. IV: Williams, of Montgomery county. The wine is manufactured in the folloviing manner: Gather • the • plant when fit for the table ;. cut in small slices ; to four or five gallons of .rhubarb add ' five or'three quarts of water; then steam or boil for fifteen minutes; then strain through a sieve or oul lender ; place the juice or extract one side in a cool - place for twenty-four hours ; then pour off without s • disturbing the sediment at the bottom; then add three pounds of sugar to the gallon ; place the whole in a cask for fermentation, at, least five days, with the bung uncovered; then place the bung on , loose until such time as the wine ceases to-ferment-Mine 'made in this way, in one year, will prove to be a good wine, pleasant to•the taste. The report of the treasurer for 1862 was read. The receipts were $600.92, and the expenditures ss4s, leaving a balance of $26.92. The election of officers for 1563 requited 14 ti:le choice of the old ()Ricers,