gttit CARLISLE, PA. Friday, 'Decombet 9, 186.1. B. nt. PiiITTENGIL I. & CO., .-11T0.: 37 Park Row, New York, and*6 stet, St. Billiton, are our Agents for the Mani) n hose cities, and aro authorized to take Advertise. Oats and Subscriptions Ow Ile at our lowest rates. Gov. Curtin has been presented by Bishop Wood, of Philadelphia, with a solid silver medal, ten inches in circumstance, commem orating the Catholic Catholic Cathedral in that city. itar Tho official vote of Minnusota, in cluding few votes too late fur cuunting in, Lincoln, 26,097. McClellan, 17,137 Union Majority, 7,660. It is estimated that from 3,000 t.. 1,000 Soldiers' votes wore not cast, or at least nut received DS. The complete official vote of I nd i toe for President is declared to be: Lincoln, 160,422. McClellan, 1i10,212.J. Union Majority, 20,190. The vote is over 8,000 more than in I SGO, notwithstanding the absence of many thous ands of soldiers. Xt,&^ The Soldiers' Vote of Ohio was can vassed yesterday. This, with the Home Vote, produces the following resu lt : Rome. Soldiers' Total. Lincoln 224,008 40,067 264,865 McClellan 105,811 9,740 205,557 Union maj 28,197 31,221. r. 0,418 In 1803 the soldiers voted 41,4,3 o,r Brough and 2,391 for Vallandigharn—t, , t;tl, 43,811 ; this year, 50,713; a gain of 0,800 in the whole veto. There was a brilliant ovation to the. lion. Schuyler Colfax, in Philadelphia, at the As sembly Buildings, on Thursilay evening. Mr. Colfax made a few remarks upon the glorious result of the recent election, adding that our Only terms to the insurgent titates were an allegiance to the Government, and an acknowledgment of the Constitution as the supreme law on the land. The lion. Wm. D. Kelly, and - Myer Strou3e also de livered addresses. Major General Banks has received his or ders and instructions from the President with reference to the military and civil govern ment of the Department of the Gulf, and will return to New Orleans forthwith and resume command of that Department, and will carry out the policy of the Government, which he so ably inaugurated in bringing Louisiana back into the Union as a free State. The General will leave Washington in a few days, his delay being wholly'eaused by official matters. A few days ago Mr. Stanton di-mk-ed twenty clerks from the Quarterina , ter's De partment, sonic on a charge of di locally, and some for intense zeal in their ,mposition to Mr. Lincoln's re-election. One of than came directly to Mr. Stanton and asked hint if be considered a man disloyal beentete he favored the election of Gen. McClellan.— By no means," was the reply, but when n young man receives hie salary from nn Administration, and spends his evening , in denouncing it in the most oirensi ve language, he cannot complain if the Admini,tration chooses one Of its Mende to take his place. This is what I have done in your case." AN ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE GENERAL GRANT.—A gentleman who wits a passenger on the train which brought General Grant from Baltimore to Philadelphia, on Friday week, relates the following rather remarka ble incident: The General had been sitting for a long time nt one of the windrws of the car. During the evening he left his seat and passed into one of the forward cars, where he remained. Another gentleman who had seated himself in the position vacated by the Gen., was subsequently startled by two leaden bullets that came crashing through the win dow-pane and lodged in the other side of the car. Fortunately these messengers of death struck a little too high to do any .ittfury. Whether this was the result of accident or was a deliberate attempt to assassinate the General will probably never be known; but the fact that two bullets were utsly tired into the window at which General Grant had only a moment before been sitting cer tainly looked more suspicious than other wise. Trains of cars front Baltimore some times curry secret reliel agents, 1111(1 /CHIN one of them thus attempted to rid the Con federacy of its most powerful opponent. During the past month the marine losses have amounted to 49 vessels, valued at $l, 987,900. Of this number ten were ship-, nine were barks, four were brigs, nineteen were schooners, ono steamship, and tw sloops. Of the above, eight were captured and destroyed, six were abandoned at sea, one sunk after collision and foundered. Be low is a table of the monthly marine losses fur the last eleven months : Tottil losses for January-,„35 vessels, $l, 927,500; total losses for February, 33 ves sels, $2,600,500; total losses for March, 49 vessels, $1,508,300: total losses for April, 62 vessels, $2,100,550; total losses for May, 24 vessels, $1,085,000; total losses for Juno; 22 vessels, $875,600 ; total losses for July, 133 vessels, $2,350,000 ; total losses for Au gust, co vessels, ;1,580,000; total losses for .Sept., 33 vessels, $001,000; total losses for October, 87 vessels, $1,305,600 ; total losses for .November, 46 vessels, $1,037,000. Total fox_ cloven months,. 423 vessels, valued at $18,370,450. The State Election Returns TiAmirsnuao, November 29.—8 y a pro vision of the law controlling the election of Presidential electors, it is made the duty of the Governor to.a.seertain the votes of each elector, and then declare the persons thus e lected by proclamation, and censea notifica =tion to-be delivered to each perion chosen on or before the last Wednesday of NoveMber next After stieh'election. ~Lniilv appears that up te.neon to-day fif teen _counties have fulled to.report their vote for. electors. This failure is accounted for en , ground of time having boon exteadcd 113r' the iMligranting die elective franehise to the 'soldiers. Lacking those fifteen comi ties:the-returns are do:Mtge incomplete, and , Momotiee can issue to-morroVto the electors thus chosen. . • The contingency growing out of this state of .affairs will require the attention ; of the 'Legislature, and no doubt secure the passage ~ef a law preventing the recurrence of a sim ilar state Of aftliira. It; is evident that' the lew' on. the subject •Is ' , more , 'directory than , obljga tory, anq, • that : 'any ,action • whibli• 'the • , (ioverraor may take us Po promisee ,looking .-merely ,tho execution of justice, will. be "'a eala :far . ors y right-minded , , LAxones'•Vr.634.,,—Purchasoys . may rely on getting the Qakford ,i3ojts j l,Avitinentafillotol, l'hi.6lolphin. Sin THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. We have received the , message of the Pre sident, but not in .timeke lay it hefore , our renders in this week's issue. The message is a plain business-like statement of 'the ope rations of the Government during the past year. _lt commences with the announce ment of the satisffictory state of our Foreign relations and. alludes specially to our friendly intercourse with the pH ucipal South Ameri can nations. It recommends the full en- couragement of emigration. The President claims that the (1 uncial affairs of the Guyer mnent have been success fully administered, and speaks favorably of the legislation of the last session of Congress on'the subject of the revenue. the aggre gates of the operations of the Treasury De partment are stated as follows: The receipts during the year from all sources upon the basis of warrants signed by the Secretary of the Treasury, including loan., and the balance in the Treasury on the Ist day of July, 18t8, were $1,394,7146,C07 G 2, and the egg-regate disbursements upon the same basis were $1,298,056,101 89, leav ing a balance in the Treasury, 1113 shown by warrants, of 5,96,734,095 73. Deduct from these amounts the amounts of the principal of the public debt redeemed and-the amount of issues in substitution therefor, and the ac tual cash operations of this; Treasury were: Receipts $581.07a,(D6 57: Disbursements, .$865,231,687 BG , sthich leaves as the cash balance in the Treasury i 518,8-12,558 71. Of the receipts there e ere derived from customs $102,3 I It. I:f2 99. From lands, $588,332 29; from direct taxes, $475,648 96.; from internal revenue, $109,711.18.1 10; from miscellane ous sources, $17,811,448 10, and from loans, applied to actual expenditures, including for mer belanitcs, $623,443,929 13. There were disbursed for the cit it service, $275,075,994 4G; for pensions and Indians, $7,517,930 87; for the War _Department, $090,791,842 97; for the _Navy I/el:art:tient, $75,838,201 77; for interest on the public debt, $53,685,121 68, making en aggregate :if $803.234,087 86, and leaving a balance in the Treasury of $16,842,568 as before stated. The National debt is stated to be one bil lion seven hundred an,r ninety thousand mil millions, six hundred and ninety thousand, four hundred and eighty-nine dollars and forty-nine cents. Another year of war will increase it nearly five hundred The National flanking system is proving ac ceptable to capitalist.; and people. There luive I:. en 111 r: hundred and eighty-four Nll - Ittltherl7.o(l 011 the 2:3th of No s, ember, and it is hoped that there will soon la. no banks of issue eNeept those nut horized Lc Congress, and no bank note circulation not secured Lt the Government. 1 he imp„rt „1 "f \Var is re ferre.l to n , r (letaik: of the military ope rati, , t),lttring lh pmr. 'FM. general exhibit of the Navy, includ in4 , :tslll.ra , :( MI till' 1,1 Of 1),:- C. taLcr, IS6I, ,i 1 ,% %, a t 4, tal c nhil,inhibit of ,is hundred tunl ,eviiiity -ono vii-isek, carrying four thomand six hundred :mil o.'ll *IIIS, :0111 ul :110,3', 1 1; ton, , being, aCtllal increase during the year over :La (1 \ - e an losses I.y shipment,or in, battle of S.; e,,cls, li, guns and -1,217 tons. The total number of men at this tin r in the naval service, including ulliecrs i, about lifty-one thou,: nil. There have been captur ed by the any during the year, three hum and twenty-four vessels, and the whole nuns -I,cr of naval I•llpltirt , ,1110 . L, , truties COI.II - thirtivllllllllllr , lialld,l•Vellty-11111C of hiall tutulllllllll'l , l alld ^iXty•, , Vt•ll )11 . 1‘ ,It . :1111CrS. The g rl/ , , / Cl . l2lis 11:,4 frunl „1 prop , rte thus far reported, amount to A large minium of -kWh proceed, i> ;till under tidjuilti•ation aunt yet to be total expeniliturc of tIM Illipartnient every di,criptinn ineltiding the cost of the ininien-e,imadriiii, that hat , * Mitt 1•Xl•ii•lia , -incl. the Fairth , lay ,if March 1860 to the first- of r 186.1, are $2:18 7 (11 - ‘,262,35. The po,tal ro,iairces for tilt• near ending dune 30, 1:911, amounts to $12,1111.78G,20. The excess of expenditures Liver receipts be ing 20,665,212. Th., quantity of public land iliapo.ied of durili thi 11 1 ..11 , 11112;;', 11 111 1) ,,,. 111- 1 ,, T wa, -1,22 sere:, of which 1,538 fill acres were entered under the Ihmaistcad law. The remainder \vie, located with mili tary land warrants, ii! , riiitiltural scrip, certifi ed fu railroad, and sold for ca,h. The Cad' re .'j vlat trout ,/11, anal I•Wati4 , ll 1.01 1 1,100, and the income from , ales during the li,cal tear acting June :10th, 18.14, $O7B, 007 21, agiiimt :1.41110,1177 ',f• - ,) received during the preceding yeti•. After the nyital ,it the :Wove statisties the IllSSflgi , is di•voted to at review of the war and the incidents by which it I ns been at tended. The movements toward the aboli tion of slavery in the States of the border and Louisiana and A.rkansaS are claimed as favorable to the re-establishment of a dura ble Union. it is recommended that the bill Ann riding the Constitution so ns to abolish slavery entirely and which fillivd ul the last bt , reconsidered 1 111,1 p a ss e d a, there is an absolute certainty that the nets Con gress will adopt it. The result of the election is claimed as an expression of the determination of the poo pie to maintain the integrity of the Union Peace is proffered to the insurgents by simply ceasing to fight the Government and submit ing to the national authority. No attempt will be made to modify or retract the Emancipa tion Proclamation nor will the Executive 'l7 , turn to slavery any one who Is free by its terms or by any act of Congress. The mes sage closes with the declaration that war will cease Oil the ptu•t of the Government, whenever it shall have ceased on the part of those by whom it was begun. We will give our rondo's the document entire next week. Personal Ex-Secretary Chase hits been appointed Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, vice Taney dec'd. The Senate confirmed the appointment immediately upon its an nouncement. lion. James Speed, of Kentucky, has been appuintgd, by the President, Attorney Gen eral of the United States, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Judge Bates. Mr. Jdhn.G. Nicolay, the President's pri vate secretary, is again at his post, having recovered from his recent illness. Gen. Betram A. Shaeffer, ox-State Senator from Lancaster county, died at his residence in Lancaster .to-day. His funeral will take place on Wednesday afternoon. Major-General Cou<Ji, cominanding De liartinent of Stisquelitinna, tuts been transfer red to General Thomas' department. Colonel Joseph Holt, of Kentucky, has declined, the post Of Attorney General ef the United,States, , vice Bates, of Missouri, ten dered, to him by,the President. Gen. Hancock tins been: presented ,a beau carriage from friends in NeW York. Ittrs.;Sherrnati, wifo of the (louertii, left Cincinnati on Friday for South llorul Linn; where she is to spend the winter;.iiper -intendink the education 'of their who 'are .. intuates of the Catholid • institution of-that lace. - • ( "Bennet IL Young, the leader Of the Kob el guerrillas who made the raid from Cana 7 da into Vermont, is a :native of Kentucky, ,and was a student of divinity under Stuart :Robinson, formerly of baltimore, ,the Rebel ediOr of the 'Tri4c !PpesN/14rign,,iwho,is,re fiiding in Canada. - Belle .Boyd having ,Announeed tho'publi cation of a history Af her adventures, the ProVidencp:But/eifn , suggests the4 there is a law again§t each' publicanOm;',.• Distances of Sherman's Monte' Tho following information cannot fail to he. Of. interest to those who are desirous traning'tho course of 'Oeneral ;, Pherman in 'his, great movement. - Wo learn then, that the first station directly south of Atlanta .ia East' Point, six ,rnitee ,helOw, which is thb junction of the Alacoa, arid Western Rail roti'd with the Athintn and Miintgomeri road. The main railroad chain which the Rebels pcissess extends from Meridap, on the Mississippi Central, through Belma and Montgomery, Alabama, Columbus, Macon, and Augusta, Georgia, Columbia, South Carolina, and the principal cities of North Carolina. The most direct point at which this road can he cut is atlfacon, Georgia, which is distant one hundred and four miles from Atlanta. Montgomery, Alabama, is one hundred and seventy-five miles from At lanta. DISTANCES TO MONTGOMERY The distances on the Atlanta and West Point, and West Point and Montgomery roads, are as follows : Mike. I To East Point, 3 To Opelika, " Fairburr, 121 " Auburn, " Palmetto, 7 " Loehepogn, " Newman, 151 " Notasulga, •t Grantville, 121 " Chehaw, 1L gnnscillo, " Franklin, " Lagrange, 131 " Cowles, " Long Came, 61 " Shorter'i, " West Point, " (That's, " Cusseta, 111 " Mount Mhiga, •' Rough & Poquly " Montgomery, 11 Total from Atlanta to Montgomery 175 FROM ATLANTA. TO MACON. the distances are as follows : Miles. Miles. To East Point, 71 To Barnesrville, 6 " Bough& Ready 5 Goggin's 4 " Chapman's, 7 " Collier's, 6 " Jonesboro, 4 " Forsyth, Lovejoy s, 1J " Smarr's, 5 " Fayette, 9 " Prattsville, " Griffin, 8' " Howard's, 10 " Thornton's, 6 " Macon, 5 " Miner's, li -- Total 104 There tire no streams of consequence to cross on this route MEE Is situated on the west bank of the Ocmul gee river, and is the capital of Bibb county, Ga., thirty miles southwest or Milledgeville. It is at the head of steamboat navigation and at the junction of the Georgia Central with the I.Lation and We-stern railroads, ono hundred and ninety-one miles from Savan nah. It i s a pla c e of scion note, having, eight church-, a college, two banks, four printing offices and about six thousand'in habitants. :1 bridge :189 feet in length crosses the Oentulg.e. FROM M‘CON TO SAVANN All IS 183 nSilrs, nii l tlie f lluiciii i, zL 1:11)10 or distunees : EMI To Grits , 1 , 1 " Whittaker, " Gord , .ll, " _Mclntyre, " Tooindiuru, Ocon.• •• Robin •• I , "\v,•ti " so,actopol, " Burton, Burton, " Herndon, Cti•hing, / Till:, road er,..,ies tic ()go ehrt FiVer noar Toiiin.lioro, and again at l', ~t wiek. At Millen is the junction of the. bran( h roact to Augit,tit, which run , tity• north fifty-three miles and crosses Briar, Buckland, .Meßean, and Spirit creeks. To Hen. •• Sett rb. ,r(,' 8 " " Ede.n. 8 " Blowi " Poplor, " Cal r, 3' :3avaltinkh, News Items Th e no w S tate of Nevada sent to the United Status Sanitary Coninlis,ion $9:1,0u0 inguld and silver, equal to $1G3,000 in currency, waking an average of fifteen dollars and thirteen cent... in currency, for each voter, according to the vote given fur the Consti tutioi. last June. A portion of Ow Pvnitontiary in :Nvw Or loaio, the trait \ring. was bur . nud on the nigh of Nov. 22 the tiio having 1.a.0n eati , e(l, i is supposed, by otrole, , ness of cola! alyand. quortorrd in tho building. The loss to tin Gov-orinnont i 8 644 down ill about 57.5,4)00. Franz. Ittlier was hanged in front ,•f `row gate Jail, in I,,mdon, ”it the 11th of her. At the last, moment be c,otle,,ed the murder of 111 r. 13rigg,,. It is e,tiniated that Ow crowd which had as•enibled to witne.. the t.xoeution nunilocred Itt Icn t one hun dred n i men. At the requei,t Of Postmaster-General Dennison, several officers of railroad and ex press companies between New-York and Washington a,sembled at the Post-Utlice De partment on 'Thursday to consult upon a more perfect system for the safe and speedy transportation of the mails between the two cities. No action was had in the meeting, which thereupon adjourned until yesterday. Major Theophilus Steele, a son-in-law of Dr. Breckenridge, and an officer in the Con federate army , was captured a few days ago and brought to Louisville. lie has long been in command of a gang of outlaws, plun dering indistriminately wherever he has a chance. The people in Louisville aro not much disposed to treat hiin as a prisoner of Rev. Dr. Cook, Principal of the Wesleyan Aenelemy at Wilbraham, says the Meth odists of this country have,:for the last twen ty years, established, on a❑ average, one school in four , months, at an average endow ment of $lO,OOO, making sixty schools in that time at a cost of $400,000. The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette asserts that one of the last messages that,passed over the telegraph wires to Atlanta, before the place was aban doned, was ono of several thousand words in cypher, from Grant to Sherman, embody ing the final counsels and directions of the Lieutenant General. During the month of November 401 boats ,have cleared from Cumberland, Md., loaded with_4B,oBo,o4 tons of coal for Eastern,mar 'tots, producing a revenue for the Canal Com pany of $44565,80. • Fort the entire season 2,245 boats have been manifested, carrying 245,476,08 tons,of cowl to Georgetown. The old establiShed neWspapers The Pub. lie Ledger hasb,cen purchased GeoFse W. thd well=kridWil' • 'took . publiSker. x4 lllessrs. & Abel, after twenty-eight years successful, management of the - paper, retire witti fortunes estimated at several mil limn; of dollars. The city of Pittslmrg has forty-five foun dries consuming :forty six thousand'tons of metal annuallYy oral raying a million dol hies wages. .•—• ,• • •: • ho,restilt of the Presidoittisil elec. tihn in New York was decliirod the State - nv yesterday , ' . Stith ds 'U n flirt 368X6 , 11611986. :Union mit:. , . The official, canvass of the election • , in Wisconsin shows the- following lionie ' - vot'e:. ninepin, 68,800 ;- TheSeltliers''VOtels net'yeCall in. tAssentlad - becemer 7, 1863. .txpires Marc 4, 1864. List of Members of the Senate and House .• of Representatives. Wm: P. Feaspiidon, iot M isiEW JIAMPSLIIRE Daniel Clark, John 1' Rale.- 'VERMONT. Jacob Collanier,... Solomon Foot. MASS ACIIUSETTS Henry NVilmen, Charles. Sumner, CoNNECTICUT. James DIA on, Layette 5 Foster, IMODE ISLAYD floury B Anthony, WiWain Sprague. NEW YORK Ira Harris. Edwin M Morgan, PENNSYLVANIA Edgar Cowan, .Charles It Quekalew, NEW JERSEY Wllllrm Wright, John C Tea Eyck, DELA WA It It. *James A Bayard, •IV,lllard Satilsitury, 111 - 11eq. 4 MARYLAND Thomas 11. Ilicka, Recordy Jammu, N LA *John S Carllly, Samuel ° .Bowdon, NV V I Itl; 'TA. Waltman T --Vau Winkla, HOUSE OF REP 1 *l.o,enzn P Swoat, 2 Sidney Pulliam, 3 .lnm•e G. 4 John Froderick II Piko. VE.R.IIOI\ 1 *Daniel Marcy, 2 Klsrord It Robin'', 3 ,limos W Patterson, NEW ISAMPSIIDIE. I Frederick Woodbridge 2 Justin S Morrill, 3 Portus Baxter. SIASSACIIUSETTS. 1 Thomas 1) Eliot, 2 Onhes Ames, 3 Alexander II Rice, 4 Samuel Hooper, 5 John B Alley, 6 Daniel W Hooch, 7 George S Boutwell, H John D 13+11.1w in, y Woo 11 Washim, ne, 10 floury 1. Dawns, ISLAND I Thomas A Jenks, 2 Nathan F Dixon, CON N Ecr I CUT. 1 Henry C Deming, 2 *James E English, a August us ltrundegeo, 4 .14.1. II I lu hbnrd. ti EW YORK.. 1 •11eniy rlehhins. 2 • 1 1nrtln 3 .)I,es 0 1011, 4 .11enjamln Wood, 5 •Fernanda Wood. ti •El.jah Ward, ..101111 W Chandler, 8 • /antes Brniks, 9 • nsoti Ilarrickk, 19 Ratltnr.l. 11 ..liarlek 11 II Infield, 12 - .limner A NOlStill, I.; . .1 , 41!1 C Steela, 14 *,lulu V 1, I'ruy9, Ib ..1,101 A tiria‘vold, In ()Hand 17 Cal yin Ilurlhurd. 14 James Salnuel 1111er, tO Ambrose \V Clark. 21 .Vranois IC Vrlla tl, 22 Di wilt 1' Littlejnhn, 23 Thom. 1. 10$14. 24 Theodore %I Pnineroy, 20 U lulnl II s ok. 2 . ; Wks :11 11., I 1,1,, 11n1)11 Nan N lakouberg Freeman Clarke, 29 A udustus Frank, 30 *John 11 Ganson, 31 lleuheo 1.1 Fenton. N ENV ./1.:11SF: 1 .Inlin 1' Starr, 2 ~ laor, Miadlatnn, 7 •NmU Steele, 4 `Ar..lrew 1, 'amt./era, il. ~hci(,ii " I, =EMI I.VA \ 14 1 Stunned .1 Randall, 2 charlas 3 I.t,ottrd NI) er, , , 11'm4 I) Eel i . fi 01 II tiSsel/ 111.1y0r, D 7 .1.41 n II S K Ancona, 9 'l'lllddenc Stevens, 10 "llynr :341otni, 11 .PlAllipdohnson, 10. t - Dig:34llBpp, - - 13 II M Tracy, 14'11'mII Millar, 15 ..loFa•ph Bailay, 16 °A 11 4 .2olfrotli, 17 Sr, hil.ald +dell letor. I' .la•not. T I I ale, d c; ien IN" 20 Ann), 1l yora. 21 *John 1. Imo •on. K )lourhead, 23 T 1,1111,14 WI I Ilxmx, 24 .Joshe Laminar. MARYLAND. 1 J A J Creswell, 2 Edwin 11 Wel”,ter, 3 ,loney Winter Davis, 4 Francis Till , lllllS, 5 Miii,jalnltt U I larrla, I L II Chandler, 3 henjainin NI Kitchen, DELEG NEW MEXICO.. I P Peren. L' fAII. 'yohn F Kenney, ASII I NtVKIN *tirot}.7e I.: Colo, Cul.,u m e n iu Itoman type REC.\ I' lini•onilitlotril Union Men.. oppii%itiou or I.iippechi.ails. Unnue .‘I ~fond'.. ITOU'4: OF 11k:P1tESENTATIVE: 1 Unronilitional Union 'feu Oppomltiiin ea Doubtful abuut We clip the following items from the last number of the Oil Cityßryister: Cherry Run is still the favorite sha inn of the oil-seekers, and its worshippers are daily. on Oh' increase. There is good reasmi for its popularity. Not a single N 1 t.olll' knuwl edge has been drilled there during the pres ent season that has failed to obtain oil. IVe cstiinate the daily production of Cherry Run aL about 1,1 00 barrels. . Interests are being sold there at good prices; and the purchasers who buy fur speculation are making a good thing of it. There is a rumor that $4,0.,0,- 000 had been offe;o1 and refused fur the Smith Farm, which is located just above the Reed & Criswell well and enjoins the lauds of the Cherry Run Petroleum Company. It embraces fin.y acres, and was bought a little over it yew• ago for :5,500. The owners could'ut see it. The sum being too , small, Besides, they are afraid to put a price on it. Tills ft yudds the owner a royalty of fif teen hundred dollars a day, consequently they are not in needy circumstances, by no manner. of means. The Linden well on Main street, Oil City, just above the Petroleum louse, is one of the ino6t, remarkable wells in the Pennsyl vania Petroleum Region. It commenced to flow on the 10111 day of October, ItiUl, at the rate of twenty barrels per day, and has daily yielded a supply that has not varied flue bar rels during this whole period, and appears to be as vigorous to-day as when lirst struck. The Linden formerly belonged to Woods, Alorange A; Co., of Pittsburg,, and its origi nal cost was $2,5e0. It is now owned by the Linden Oil Company, of Pittsburg. This well shows plainly that the fiat upon which Oil City is situated, is second to none inpoint of productiveness, as oil territory. There has been a considerable degree of development upon the oillands in the vicini ty of Tionesta and upon Tionesta Creek, during the past season, and largo tracts Of land' have been bought in that locality by eastern capitalists. Lately ,the excitement has considerably increased. Engines are be ing put to work, every available loot of ground has been bought or leased, and some farms have changed hands at' liberal figures. All the sign's seem to indicate that.the com. ,ing seasonwill be au oiceedingly prosper ous one for the oil 'business in that locality. Tho Reed & Criswell well, on . Cherry Run, which vas-sold some time, since; realized the sum of $650,000 to AfeSsrli: Criswell, .Reed, and some other parties Who owned it, .this being the total amount paid to thorn Or the well and thatwo acres upon_which it is blea ted. Tho 'well is yielding about two -hun dred barrels of oil, per day, und will soon pay ler itself. •A, little over a year ago blr. Cris. well' aimed le' seal:hese two acres for the •stiin of :F1,509, but could.find no,ono to buy it. . Lucky that,ho_did,not. Aloiid•Elliiiw of oil and gas - Wlis struck ono day laSt week, 14'the drillers, at one of the P.OW wells just street. Quite a: lam "Maar of now - derricks liwre :been erootral tepo'n.: the flat' between • Main: street and pm iriv,er., sludl not bp, : surPrised to hear of soul's o:l:eeilent wells Wino' struck THIRTY—EIGHTH COIsTGRESS. EOM 01110. John Sherman, Benjamin F Wade KENTUCKY *Garrett Davis, .Lazarus W INDIANA. *Tbomun A lieu&'eke, Uunry 8 Lone, ' Lyman Trumbull, '*Wm. A. Itlchordoon, MlBBOI D . Gratr. Brown, John 11 Henderson ' MICHIGAN. Zacbarlah Chandler, Jacob M. Howard, lOWA James Harlan, James IV. Grimes WISCIONSiN. Timothy 0 Mow° James It. Dno tiitln. NITNNEM.YrA. Alexander Ramsey,. Morton S Wilkinson, KANSAS. Samuel C Pomoroy, James li Lane, CA LI FORNIA John Conness, *James A 3l'Dougnl, OREGOig. Benjamin le Harding, ' , James W Igewsmite, RESENTATIITES Can DELAWARE. District, , Nnthantol B Si - Others 01110. 1 *Cleome II Pendleton 2 *Alexand• r Long, 3 Robert C Schenck, 4 .J 8 McKinney, 5 *Fronk C Lo Blond, ti*Chittnn A White, 7 *Samuel S Cox, Wil dam Johnson, 8 *lVerron I' Noble, 10 James NI Ah 131.7, IL •Wells A ❑utehins, 12 *Wm N 13 *John O'Neill, 14 *Oeorgo Bliss, 15 *Jellies IL Morris, 10 *Joseph W White, 17 Ephrlarn It Eekley, 0.8 Rufus 6 SpalilL g, 19 Jacob A Uarileld, KENTUCKY. 1 Lucian Audereon, 2 *Lieorge II Veltman, 3 *Hunt y ((rider, 4 *Aaron Harding, 5 *Robert Mallory. 6 (3 roan Clay Smith, 7 Brutua .1 Clay. S *Win 11.Ihiudall, *Win II Wadsworth, INDIANA. I*John Law, , 11.111. A Cr:lrina, *lleury IV Ilarrlngton 4 *Wm S I lultuan, 5 lit.urva WJ 1111.1, 6 Ebenezer Dumont. 7 *Dame I W VI rhos, S„Uodiuye S Orth, 9 Schuylur Cul far., l..)*Jefa ph K. II 4- James McDowell, I lAA 1 Isare N Arnold. 2 ,1,•11n P l'arns(sorth, 1 Elihu II NVa,..lllntrno, 4 .1 lr. NI II orris, 511x1, I,nsjos. 1.1 .1,(v” U Nol.;(1, 7 ..lohn It Edon. 8 .11,bn T :(telvalt, ll.l.enin II Hog., 10 thony 1. 11 12 .11 in 4. Nlcolonon, 1.1 .1 .71101, 14 7 %lnm, (7 Allen, 1 Ftani.i. 2 !lorry I' 3 *John 4) Sctt., 4 John Vi" McClung, II lioyd, ils:111 .7 Iclnz, 111 , 1.jalnis oitnni A 11.11, (0 *Juno, 11o1line. Mt 0 .1.11(1%N. 1 F, rnnndo e It.aman, 2 Charleq Upon, 3 John W Longyenr, le, ;t od, .AuustUß C Baldwin, Jollu 1 , 141,ga. E)11 A. . 1 Jame F\V llouit, '2 Hirst'', 1 , 11,, 3 William 1t Allison., 4 Jam. - - IS till 5 John A Hasson, 6A %V U II Lard 11— W11.4C 1 IN511117 1— I Mams S Brown, 2 Ithumar C Sloan, 3 A In.t.a. Cobb, 4 Charles A Eltnillgo, 5 Ezr., Wheele, 6 NN nl ('•r 11 ylclndnn CA 1,1 FoILN lA. Thrums II Shannon, Wrlintn 11Itl1, (:,,'11,,11 us (.014, MINNESOTA. William W 164 0 ,41, Ignatiu4 Ikon nely. III( , N. John R M ;nide, K AN6AS. A C ivEsT illmm ll Ilt,wn, Ii Kulllan V Whaley, Ili= NEBRASIkA, Sainnel H I..kily. CJIAItA ). Hiram I' Iluurit•tt, Wllllniu II W1,1111(43, Opp. Ifnu markul 11 LA'llo‘ Items from Oildom OUR LAST DAY IN DIXIE "Edmund Kirke" contributes to the Do comber Atlantic, a:concluding chapter of bis Richmond journey; froM advance shoots of which we make the folloiving extracts: At the outer door stood Tack and the am bulance! Their presence assured us a safe exit from Dixie, and my feelings found'ex pression somewhat as follows: ~ .11ow are you, .Jack? You're the best looking darkey I ever saw." "I'd berry well, masse, berry well. Hope you's well," replied Jack, grinning until he made himself uglier than _Nature intended. "I's glad you Links T's good-lookhi." "Good-looking! You're better-looking than any man, black or white, I ever mot." "You've odd notions of beauty," said the Judge, Binding. "That accounts fur your being an Abolitionist." "No it don't." And I added, in a tone too low for Jack to boar, "It only im plies, that, until I saw that darkey, I doubt ed our getting out of Dixie." Z`so•Judgo gave a low whistle. "86 you smelt a rat?" " Yes, a very big one. Tell us, why were you so long behind time?" " tell you when the war is over. Now I'll take you to Libby and the hospitals, if you'd like to go." We said we would, and, ordering Jack to follow us with the ambulance, the Judge led us down the principal thoroughfare. A few shops were open, a few negro women were passing in and out among them, and a. few wounded soldiers were limping along the sidewalks; but scarcely an able-bullied man was to be seen anywhere. A poor soldier, who had lost both legs and a hand, was seat ed at a correr-street, asking alms of the col ored women as they passed. Pointing to him, the Judge said: "There is ono of our arguments against reunion. If you walk two squares, I will ahoy you a thousand." "All asking alms ~f black, women? That is another indication of what you are coining to." Ife made no reply. After a while. SC2I a ning our faces as it' he would detect our hid den thoughts, he said, in an abrupt, pciiiited way. "Grant was to have attacked yesterday Why aititik't he do it:- " HOW kn"w ?" " on came from Foster's only the de y before. That's where the attack wit:, to hare been made." " W h y wasn't it mule?'' "1 don't know. Some think it wit, be you came in, and were e.,•pected out that way." t• Ohl [hat account , fur your being S late! y,nl think we are spies. , ent, in to , and report )r) the route?'" "No, 1 (lit not. I think you mell , . twst won, and 1 se :mid so.- And 1. hav,r, no doubt it wa: h-cao , o Le quid r•,)." that WO gut out of Itiohniond. By this (line we had. reitelle(l adi v brick. building, 1 . 1,111 o , l'll'T tor . ;111)111 Sign , bearintr. in bliwk Istter, on a "hits ground, tho I= It was (lire,. storit-- high. mid, I w.ts fo,t in width and a htindr,d and ti 11•\ f•I kith the street, i . l' I tier I,l * Llll4lir III.• 10111 ii tht• l't 111.• 1:11111 1:0. :11”Pt !!1 , .;111.1. It- 111 , i)21111! rt lwi" -IV it., uul:eil dr, an there with a chi , ky !:t114.. hrd ztihl 2,tvinlf \vll.oll py:trano, 11.1\,ti 1-,,4,,t•.1 '11:110•111111 ,. 'mil it L i nipl ni t matt, Ii grity It iuu nlal Ith it 1,10 1,,.11t tutu a liii inq gait, wi•ii• t LrGuu it, \vitli ,iti bill 1111(111er , J1411,•1 • -. wit in s '• I It \v 11111 Itii In mlv mII nl n. 11. ti• it hi. [l , •iiprk' 11t• t is it I i11'; 11,1 , • ••;•-•,,N•Onll 1114' , ' 111,11 I.4•iNt) MO, uI wou n •n will fu itt th, , it how.. hii4h-sttuldoil ttlitirt molt!. \Vith a h a n r itthl greitsy \rti Nvall, hung' routhi with liattle-seviii 2 ,, tint! t !wt.}, lith,,g l • l l l ,h, tho iii , . youthful-Ithd:ing man, r,,( , as we 4.l,ter,d, awl, in a hall-lannip)u, ,liall-i , bsequi , ,AN way, bald t".l wig, Unid-- `..1.11! 01:1(1, I am very glad to see - 'rho rettirtiod the gr,!etin4 with a that w,i, in Atrilon.2:e. , ntra-t with it,ttal frank 201,1 eonliii tn.uulrr , loaf then intrmlitood the otlieur to o, u,‘• Major , 'l'orti er, Ise wr of the I,ll)h‘. I had hoard of 111111, :111.1 it wou Wllll 1:01110 retuctanci, that book hi, pr.M.1.4.(1 lIIUIII. Iliitvi!Ncr, I did it, awl at tho ,11111,. thiw _ Are rulated to i' Fay Sir. lum L,f. \ - i i . r : m i a r am . •." I nevt , r ram a tp . .2, - ro-wilipprn. nor n grt,-trwit•r \vlio not 114'1111; to that 18.111- MEE BM liclwo I c old add :timther word the J "Aid •' No, .Mitjor: these gentlemen hail from Georgia. 'free urr btranger.; here :old I'd thank you to =how tlonn over the poi-m i ." -Certainly, Colonel, utto,t certainly. 111 but it with groat pleasure." And the little num hustled about, putt on his cap, gave a feworders to his , obordinates, and then led us through another out door into thy: prison. lle WO, a low rods in ad vance with Colonel Jacques when Judge OLIN +aid to nte— Your prisoneN have belied Turner. Y o u see he's not the. hyena they've represented." lln not sum; of that," I replied. ••Thei-.0 cringing, mild-mannered men are the. worst sort of tyrants %viten they have thy. bower • ,. But you don't think him a tyrant." 'I. do. lie's a coward and a bully, or 1 can't read English. It is written all over hi:; face'' The Judge laughed boisterowdy, and call ed out to Turner. "I say, our frionil lioro is painting pair portrait." hope he is making a handsome intro of me," said Turner, in a sycophantic way. 'No, he isn't. lle's drawing you to the life—as if he'd known you fur half a coutu- We had entered a roonf about forty feet wide and a hundred feet deep, with bare brick walls, a rough plank floor, and nar row, dingy windows, to whose sash only a few broken panes were elin , ing. A row of tin wash-basins, and a wooden trough which served as a bathing-tub, were at one end of it, and halt' a dozen cheap stools and hard bottomed chairs were littered about bhp Boor, but it hail no other furniture. And this room, with live others of similar size and appoint ments and two basements floored with earth and died with dehris, compose the famous Libby Prison, in Aid', for months togeth er, thousands of the bust and bravest men that ever went to battle have been allowed to rot and to starve. At the date of our visit, nut mpre than a hurdred prisoners were in the Libby, its contents having recently been emptird into a worse sink in Georgia.; but almost twelve tiome times thirteen hundred of our officers have been hived within those half dozen desolate rooms and filthy cellars, with a space of only ten feet by two allotted to each for all the purpoSes of livingl Overrun with vermin, perishing with cold, breathing a stilled, tainted atmosphere, no, space allowed them:format by'day, and ly ing down' at night " wormed and dovetailed together like fish in a basket,"—their daily rationsonly. two ounces - of beef and a small lump of hard corn bread, and their lives the forfeit, if they . eaught but one streak of God's blue sky through those filthy windows—they , have endured there all the horrors of a mid dle passage. My soul sickened as I looked on the,scene of, their wrqtchedness. If the liberty wo are fighting tOt were not worth oven so terrible a price—if it wore not cheaply purchased even with, tho blood and agony of ,the .any, birave:and,,truo souls who,,haye Bono inlo that, foul den only to die, or to come out the'shadoWS of Men—living ghosts;' con .damned to walk the night and, to fade away before the breaking of the great day that is coming—:who would nit cry out for peace, for peace on any terms P • , And 'while these- thoughts word in .ray mind, the cringing, foul-Mouthed, brutal,; contemptible ruffian- who Ind 'caused' nIY th LIBBY _AN I' :-4()5 krt. pm a misery stood within two paces of me ! I could have reached out my hand, and, with. half an effort ; have crushed him, and I did not do id 'Some invisible Power held my arm, for murder was in my heart. " This is where that Yankee devil Streight, that - raised hell so among you down in Geor gia, - got out," said Turner, pausing before a jut in the wall of the room. "A flue was here, you see, but we've bricked it up. They took up the hearth, let themselves down into basement, and then dug through the well, and eighty feet underground into the yard of a deserted building over the way : If you'd like to see the place, step down with me." "We Would Major. 'We'd be t glad ter," I replied, adopting, at aldet from the Judge, the Georgia dialect. We descended a rough pliMk stairway, and entered the basement. It was a damp, mouldy, dismal place, and even then—in but July weal her—as cold as an ice-house. W hat must it have been in mid-winter? The keeper led us along the wall to where Streight end his party had broken out, and then said: "It's three foot tipiek, but they went through it, and all the way under the street, with only a few case-kniV,!S and a dust-pan." " \Val, they war smart. But, keeper whar was yer eyes all o' thet Bine? Down our way, el it man couldn't see twenty Yankees a V;'llekin' so fur six weeks, by day-light, in a clear place like this yore, we'd red“m he warn't fit to tend a pen o' niggers." The. Judge whispered, " You're overdoing it. Hold Turner winced like a struck hound, but, smothering his wraili, smiling ly replied: "The place wasn't Clear then. It was filled with straw and rubbish. The Yankees cov ered the opening with it when any one was coining. I caught two id' them down here Ono day, but they pulled the wool over my eyes, and 1 lot them ,or with a rew (hi s s in u dungeon. But that fellow titreight would outwit the devil. Ile was the most unruly cmdinner I've had in the twenty months I've been here. I put him in keep, time and again, but I never could cool Inin down.' -IVlotr i, thi lieop,'!" i rued. Ye', got lots o' thorn, ha'nt ?" "No—only six. 6tvp tlii3 way, and I'll show you.- betb.r English," said the Judge, /IS we fell a few paces behind Turner on our., , way to the front of the building, "there are sumo scivedmasters in deergia." Wal, that• ha'nt—nut in the part I come front." The , durlp, , oons w,ro loNv. clone, dismal ttliitrtnienti, !thintt twetve feet square, bi,ard cil off friiiii tif the crlhu•, and he narriiw grating 1111.1t.1' sue fijdc' W:1 k. Their flours NVV.I3 .111.CI'll,tVa with filth, and their walk ditinp with the rain, tchit It in wet weather, !Intl down the lid 11,,%v twiny (I,,e4ple.tiiin,•illy Imig4 lit•lP . \ 11,0:01 . , 11111 I have i'\%,nly in ..;I•11. nhont nEtny iL- t[it.y trill v~nni~~rUlt,l\ '• I r ,, k ,, it! tut Ihrlt 1111 , 0.4111 kt( Itif,tiL , , lin't 11111,11 t,r brag itli int wail: into I it 1.. W ill , t 1 111111, 1:11,111:2; tt ,trtlit2ja. r 1 tir,t• Itt ih" I, Hi: Ing I%) 11, fp!' I ill. itptolfltr•tit. le•v -:1111-!.,•1 m I. L, r I)L \l.lv, ,tVt;4"'. 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'•lt i• 11 , 1. 11;i ,w r1,,, , ,pu k 71,•,, 1,2'1 It titt•t,ittl:rtt••it =1 In th, ii,.lllltl API it tint NVith !Hy — S4. ye keep. t hi, rwan far a ,htaptiii gal key, Vc-,” The prectice mice in a IL Lily mu the Yohlik,-.. YoU tido, 6.rlad thew rcnninq Lvith in throo feet mf tho windmvs. Sometimos thoy do, and thou tld., boys tithe a lop at thew." And mi.: climes hit lvn?? 11 rue ..n VeN, ims.,,l n lot 2; Lour in tho Libby, an/1 then vi,ited, Thunder and the ho,pi tals for our wounded. 1 should 1)1• glad to de,oribe N% hat 1 saxv in tho.. , ...in , titutioils, - but tin• limit; of my lapel forbid it. It wa, live o'clock when we hobo the .fudge a friendly goc and took our seat, in 1110 AA WO did -6 - 61. he :+aid to us— " 1 have taken your parole, Gentlemen. I eh.tll past to your hunur not In di;(.1,,,0 anything you have seen or heard that might operate against us in a military way." " Yon may rely upon 11 , , adg“ ; :11111 (lay give IS a chance to return the eourte,y and kindne,s you have shown us. IVe nut forget . Wci arrived near the Union lines just as the sun was going down. Capt. Hatch, who had accompanied us, waved his 114 - as we halted near a grove or trees, nail a young officer rode over to us from the llVltre , t pick et-station. We dispatched him to tieneral Foster for a pair of horses, and in half 11,11 hour entered the Oeneral's tent. He pressed us to remain to dinner, proposing to kill the fatted call'—`e for these my sons were dead and are alito again, were lost and - are found." Wo let him kill it (it tasted wonderfully like salt pork), and in half an he or were on our way to General Butler's headquarters:" [Lore ended our last day in Dixid, and hero, perhaps should end this article; hut the tune has come when I can disclose my real purpose in seeking an audience of the Rebel leader ; and as such a disclosure may relieve mo, in' the minds of candid men, from some of the aspersions cast upon my motives by rebel sympathizer:, I willingly make it. In making it, however, I wish to be understood as speaking only for myself. My companion, Col. Jaquess, while he fully shared in my motives and rightly estimated the objects 1 sought to accomplish, had oth er, and it may be, higher aims. And I Wish also to say that to hint attaches whatever credit is due to any ono for the conception and execution of this " mission." While I love my country as well as any man, arid' in this enterprise cheerfully perilled my life to serve it, and I was only his co-worker ; "- should have not undertaken it alonh. No reader of this magazine is so young as not to remember, that, between' the first of 'June and the first of August last, a peace simoon swept over the country, throwing dust into the people's eyes, and threatening to bury the nation in disunion. All. at once the North grow tired of the war.. It began to eoun Women oy andike bhitid 'it had cost; and to oxerlook theigrentprinefples for Which it. was waged; Men of nil shades of T politi cat oninion4— radi6Millemblieans,eas well as honest Damocrats—cried.out- for concession, compromise, arniistiee—for, anything to ond_ the warD4anything but dibunion. To 'that the North. „would - not consent, and . peace I knoW could not9mi had without it. 1 knew that, because on the Sixteenth of. June, Jeff. Mimi - had - said to a prominent Southerner that he would negotiate only on the basis of Southern Independence, and that declaration had come to me only live days after it had been made. Tht people, therefore, were under a delu sion. They were crying out - for peace when thorn was no peace—when there could be no pea:Fe : consistent with the interest and seen of the country. The result of this de lusiom were it not dispelled, would be that the Chicagu_Convontion, or sollle ether con vention, Would nortyinitte a man pledged to peace, but willing to concede Southern Inde pendence and on that tide of .popular frenzy he would sail into the Presidency. Then the deluded people would learn, too late, that peace nwant only disunion. They would learn it too late because power would be in the hands of a Peace Congress and a Peace President, and it required no spirit of pro phesy- to predict Willa such an Administra tion would do. t would, make peace on the best terms it could get; and the best terms it could tel would be Dieu don and Southern Independence. The Peace epidemh; could be stayed, and the consequent danger to the country avert ed, it seemed to me, only by securing in tangible form, and before a trustworthy wit ness, the ultimatum of the Rebel President. That ultimatum, spread fin• and wide, would COllVillee every honest Northern 1111111 that war was the only road to lasting peace. T. get that ultimatum, and to give it tk) the four wincls of heaven, were my real ob jects in going to Richmond. „. I did not shut my eyes to the possibility or our paving the way for negotiations that might end in peace, nor my ears to the bles sing; a grateful nation would shower on us, if Our visit had such a result; hut I did not expcet these things. I expected to Is smear ed from head to foot with Copperhead slime, to he called a knight r errant, a searcher after notriety, an abortive negotiator, and a med dlesome voluntecYdiplomatist; hut I expect ed also, if it goal Providence spared our lives, and my pen (lid not forget the English language, to he able to tell the North the truth; ttnd 1 knew Ow /tott/i would slay the Peace epi,iruiir, nil kill the Peace party. And by the Id, -sing .1' God, and the help of the Devil, it did do that. The Devil help ed, for he inspired Air. Benjamin's circular, and that f.reed huiuc the Lolt Wl' had driv en, and shivered the Peace party into a nlll - of fraL7lllellt , , irn*nvnt now 11 good War Wan twit I the (I‘.l dug shall Iloat again over 1110 1,111It(V. 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The ,letv'- uwnert,lL culllpcittor Libor market, against the free working l n, in . up on Llie labor of his , JaVeS, Mill he regard, with di,like the cla.-; whit..ll comes into the labor market to bid agaihst him and the la bor he controls. This fel is notorious in the South. It has long attrocted the attention of free white workingmen there, but they have been too weak to the powerful minority of slave holders.. In 186 , 1, Cohort C. Tharin, of Alabama. (MCC IL 111 W partner of the tli,tori (is William L. Yancy, endeavored to set up a new:Tallier called the Non-Sbire/0,!,/er, to urge the 1111,Sngl; t law forbiding the employment of slaVeS in any lout rid InbOr and ZU, SUL' Ile the. ,ought to prOtlq't tilt free ine,;hatties, and seeure then' "ild"1 111, •nt. Mr. Tharin was Ann nuttily 1.111v . 11 front the State. In 18.i3, the trot• meelmnies of Concord, Caliarras comity North Carolilla, held meeting; at whtect they complain”d that-the wealthy owners of,,":dave mechanics were in the habit of under-bidding them in con tracts." The free mechanic who led in this movement was driven front the town. A Long Island carpenter removed to a South ern town ; he has asked for on e,timate for certain ,rm . ,: in Ids trade. The person who proposed to 111lVe it done demurred at price, and rvinarkud that he could do bettor to /my a carpenter, !et him do the work. and sell him again Wills) it was done.Thl! I rte carpenter, being it man Or, )401160, paCkcil up his tools and returned to New York, where the capitalists cannot kr ! , a carpenter and sell hint again. Olmsted relates, in his "Texas Journey . ," that at Austin, the capital of the State, the German mechanics complained that when the labor for building the state Capitol Was given out, many of them came 'With offers, but were underbid by the owners of, slave mechanics. But when the lice mechanics had left town in search of employment else where; the slaveowners threw up their con, tracts at advanced prices. In the iron mines and furnaces near the Cumberland river, in Tennessee, before the war, several thousand men found employ almost -without exception they wercfslaVes.' - One company hadgt capital of s7oo,ooo—it owned seven hundred slaves, Of Course, that many free . workingmen 3vere robbed• of employment. In Virginia, a wealthy • we-owner told Olmsted that hu used Illisk‘Y's reaper rather than McCor ' "because it was more readily repair ed by the slave-blacksmith' en thq farm." Another• planter in Virginia employed a 'gang of Irishmen in draining 4onic land. But mark the reason he pi:velar this use of free labor. "It's dangerous work" Wholesome), said " - and negro's: life his 'tocrvaluable to be, risked:at it. If a negro, :dies, -it, is a considerable ; leak you, •,Ictiow.'!_ 'This Eib,vehadoi. , aid Mit core how - Many Irishmen died in his malarlons'ditehes. So, _too, odthe southwestern steamboats, slaves are cuiployed to clothe lightest find least dan gerous work ; 'but Irish And Gernmn free workingnien. ' nil•hired- to perform the' ox, liausting. arid ' . idarigerouS labor. Thus, 'on the Alabama river, 'Olmsted observed • that R=NIIMI WE i:tt FREE AND BOND LABOR \VIJII.IIi , I,I It slaves were sent upon the,bar.k to. roll down. cotton bales, but Irishitien Were kept • below to drag them away. The mate of the boat said, by way of explanation, "The nigger& are worth too much to bo risked here; if the Paddies are knocked overboard, or get their bucks broke, nobody loses anything I" Alfred E. Mathews, of Starke county, Ohio,. in his "Journal of his Flight" from Mississippi, in 1861, remarks : "1 have seen free white mechanics obliged to stand aside while their thmilies were suffering for the necessaries of life, when slave mechanics, owned by rich and influential men, could get plenty of work ; and I have heard these same white mechanics breathe the most bit (.l•V curses against the institution of slavery and the slave aristocracy." In his journal at Columbus, Mississippi, he writes "Busi ness is very dull . . Many of the free white mechanics have nothing to do, and there is a great deal of suffering atnongst them. Most of what little work is to be done is given to the slave mechanics. An intelligent car penter, an acquaintance of one of the per sons in the office where I was engaged, canto up one day and told his friend that his fami ly were sutlering for provisions; he had no money, and could not get work at anything. lle assured me this was the case with others of his iicquaintanee." This in a town of three thousand live hundred inhabitan - tA. On a rice plantation in South Carolina, the planter showed Mr. Olmsted "shops and sheds in which blacksmiths, carpenters, and other mechanics—all slaves—wore at work." Of course, this planter employed no free me chanics. Indeed, the writer of this article was told by a wealthy Alabamian in 1860, that the planters in his region were deter mined to discontiLue altogether the employ ment of free mechanics. '•On my own place," said this person, have now shive carpen ters, lilacksmalgt, and wheelwrights, and thus L en independent of free mechanics." These instances, culled from Southern life, show the bearing of the slave system upon the free working population. The planters do not need the assistance of the free labor ing ala they despise it, and discourage it. What is the result? Let,`"niudsill" Ham mond, Governor of South Carolina, bear witness. In an address before the South Carolina Institute, some years ago, he said: -.'cording to the bustcaleulations which, in the ali,enee of statistic facts, can be made, it is believed that of three hundred thousand white inhabitants of South Carolina, there are not less than fifty thousand whose indus try, such as it is, is not in the present condi tion of things, and does not promise hereaf ter, such a support as every white person in this country is and feels himself entitled to." 1 n another part of this address, he said : ••Eighteen or at most nineteen dollars will cover the whole nece, , ary annual cost of a full supply of W 11.41.501110 and palatable food, perehased ill 1.111. Market,' fur one person in South Carolina. It would seem, therefore, J hat c.llllplvtoly had the 8/1/V0 system rob bed die free workingman of the opportunity to emit, an honest livelihood, that one-sixth of the free white population of Smith Caro lina 0.111.1 u. 4 .tinit even the paltry stns of dollars per annum ! 0o completely h.ive the sho eholder, monopolized. the labor thoin Lace, : . MEI '1:11.. bit 6-1. hnurd o 6 tt u "frer white - in t II 6.r thr n..gro t , ltun spo hk'n f. 1).--; any MP' \VI nider ti it, When C 1 .11 , 1 , 1 , ..1 , 1 hat i hr.r &CC. 1111..11 frt.' tile \V1 , 11,2, , tio.y -lltrer, I,ot are too ignorant to th , qo ? Thoy hate the I f thy w,•r, 'mire in,tel- I igoa ilit. WtMid hit the .laveholclers, who :•l. rho authors of ail their wary. tis be- Mr. Linuoln. Itim,dr a Southern man, and a ( , n , of the oppre , -,P(I and ~Itc, l free Ivorl:ingmen ntthe South, un th:it ill will not ,uffer the re or Ho. 111'0,11mM:3 I'llloo of mo- dra;r. , 4t..l lhr c,.lllltry into a rich ar. Ile nun-, not so 11111011 to free tin t , ) free the Ire enien. Ile, se s, as a taint n , y,tem Llecsr:ides and Ii oournq •- Cree Libor, and whose ,upporters 11:1t , • and rein-, to I'lll ploy free workingmen, ruinous I. tin 111 . 0,11/Prity of the country, and le,e—arill Ihr parent ~1* Putt r(,1 4 , jeal- = nn,l 11c knows, ion. th, Sl'etirity f free 7,overn mew red , upon the virtue, intelligence. and pr.,,je•riry of the working (lass ; and that if NV i• de-ire the perpeLuity cif our Union and our iiherti. we ino-t ,weep out or the way t rid necessary ton ml deba-e the work- 111;111.-.\'. Y. I•:, ,n, GENERAL SHERMAN'S ARMY =ZEE WASHINGTON. DEC. 2, who ha' scen Richmond contain only a repetition of the , tatentent that Sherman was still "flounder jug' in the interior of Georgia," and that a iletaclitnent of our cavalry sent out in the di-. rection of Beaufort m ere all either captured, i 11,1, or ili,persed. MT OPIN DINS (IF HEBEI. PAPERS-OFFICIAL GENERAL UItANT. The GIl rein Iles been received at the- War Department: CITY POINT, Va., Dee. 1. /I'm. Edwin 31. Stanton, Secretory of War: Tho Richmond E.t.a miner of to -day itdmitA that Sherman will suceepd in reaching the (.4 , :L t. Other papcm, admit that he ham t hc Oconee. S. lin.‘ NT, Lieutenant General HIS ARMY REPORTED WITHIN FORTY MILES The New York papers say that n letter dated Port loyal, South Carolina, Novem ber revived yesterday by a gentlemen in th, t ei ty from his correspondent at that place,' %, There i= good 110 W, to-day by flag of truce —Sin•rman within forty miles of Savannah." An, shirr letter, from the same correspon dent, sky:, that the (.itizens of Port Royal have been called to :111116 and organized into n biome puard, in consequence of departure of a part of our troops from that point to co operate with Sherman. A de.patch just received from our corres pondent in Washington reports that the Richmond papers of Wednesday contain no mention of Sherman's movements. GEN KRAL SG ERNIAN NEARING SAVANNAH NEw Yon K., Dec.2.—An Augusta despatch uctlie '2lith ult., in Richmond paper received here, ,nys that General Sherman's army was 4.; miles south of :Augusta, and so far has liven baffled. [Ili; indicates tliat he was far on his way to Savannah.] Gen. (.rev's Roowinnissaiw—Hi3 Official Report-07 1 ,110.0(j' Stonli'Creek Station— A Smart Little Fight—Depot Burned and. 20) Prieonees Take n—Properly Destroyed at Du rhl Station. CITY POINT, Vii., Thursday, Dec. 1,1804, Gen. Gregg's cavalry was sent South this morning on II reconnoissance, more particu ha' ly to discover if the enemy were, moving troops South. The following dispatch is just received in relation to it: HDQRS. ARMY OF THE Porom.A.E, Thursday, Dec. 1, 1864--8 /19 Lieut. Oen. GRANT : I htive just heard from Gen. Gregg. His dispatch is dated 8:4 sp. m. Ile reports having captured Stony Creek Station, which was defended by infantry and cavalry, in works, with artil, lery.. He captured two pieces of artillery,. but had no means of bringing them of, so he. .spiked them and destroyed the carriages. Ile had 190 prisoners, eight Wagons and th i rty mules. lie burnt the depot, with 8,- . 000 sacks of corn,. 500 bales of hay, a train, of ears,-a large amount of-bacon-clothing, ammunition, an.: other Government stores, and destroyed all the shops and public build- . ings. The Second Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Gregg commanding, had the advance, and is re ported to have most gallantly carried } the enemy's position. 'Gen. Gregg is now returning to-camp. - • No information snaky be obtained of any troops passing Southwiird;' either cavalry, or infantry. The bed of the branch road Om -Stony. Creek was seen to be graded, biit'.no rails were laid. . At Duval Station, south of Stony Oieek, Much- property Was destroyed, -and a -largp amount of p,ritilroad iron found. An' 'effort was being made' to destrok it by fire,: when the staff-erne& who brought the dispatch left. The enemy shOWed of having concentrated, and were following ; but the Officer thinks Gep. Gregg will be m camp by midnight • - , pgono G. *tit.pz, ifaj.,Gen THE ~WAR. 'S nF SIIERMANN WIIEREA- ME —lt is said by those miters of Wednes- =4 or free
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