Si\t BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, JAN. 13, 18fi5, THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. We give in fttll, this week, the annual Message of Gov. Curtin. It is a clear, Imsiness-like, prac tical, and to us, a very satisfactory document. It will repay a careful perusal. The Governor says that theyear 1864 closes with a train of brilliant successes, inspiring the hope that the Rebellion will soon be crushed and peace re stored. The public debt has been reduced nearly £ll7, 000, leaving it on the Ist of December $39,- 979,603. less the railroad bonds received for the sale of the public works, amounting to $10,300,000. He says that the quota of the State for the new call for Volunteers is 66,939. and and alluding to the President's statement' that the call is chiefly to supply deficiencies^n former calls expresses sur prise at the deficiency, and can oniy account for it by the assumption that the men never reached the army, although enlisted and mustered in after the payment of large bounties by localities sending them. He estimates that the people of the State have in this way been robbed of twelve millions of dollars, not including money fraudulently taken from men who actually entered the army.* The troops sent into service from Pennsylvania during 1864. were 91,706, including 17,786 re-cnlisted men. The whole number of troops from Pennsyl vania since the commencement of the war, includ ing the ninety days' militia, is 336,444, besides 25.000 militia furnished in 1862. The gallantry of our soldiers in the field sheds luster on the com monwealth and that their merit is appreciated is shown by the continued liberality with which the men and women of the State contribute the means for their comfort and welfare. SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA AND CON NELSVILLE RAILROAD. The Engineers of the S. P. & C. R. R- have been engaged for several weeks in running the va rious routes above us to the summit of the Alle gheny. They returned to this place last week, af ter having completed a survey of the three routes proposed. We have no.idea at this time which of the routes will be preferred by them ; but sup pose that the Deeter's Run and Breastwork route will be the most feasible one. We believe no fur ther surveys are to be made this winter. They will be resumed early in the spring. It has been currently reported here for the last week or two that the company only desire to ex tend the line of their road from Mt. Dallas, the terminus of the Bedford Railroad in this county, to the terminus of the ConnelLsville Railroad Lu Fayette county, and that no road will be built from Bloody Run to Chambersburg. We do not pre tend to say that this report is correct, although theie is a plausibility about it which we do not like tod well. We think it wonld be bad faith on the part of the company, to the citizens of the counties below us, as well as to a hirge portion of this county, to deviate from the plain propositions suggested by those who were interested in secur ing the incorporation of the company, and so con fidently accepted by those who urged the adoption of the measure, in the countries referred to. We be lieve it was fairly understood that the road was to start at some point in the Cumberland Valley, and we hope that, that understanding will be ad hered to. If there is any foundation for the re report spoken of, it is evident that the Central company only desired to occupy the ground to keep others from doing so. This argument was used last winter against the incorporation of the propo sed company and from present appearances, there was good ground for it. It would be well for the parties interested in a Grand Trunk Road to see that their interests are not thus overridden. We of course desire the road above all things, but if a road is to run through this section, let it be a road that will traverse the entire southern border and develope the entire southern tier of counties, otherwise the project will be a failure to a certain extent. "** THE DOWNFALL OF THE CONSPIRACY. The conspiracy which was headed in this Legis lative District by B. F. Meyers and O. E. Shan non for the purpose of defrauding the soldiers out of the right of suffrage under the Constitution has most signally failed and come to grief. The Leg islature convened on the 3rd inst, at Harrisburg and after a short discussion, by a decided vote, admitted D. B. Armstrodg and Moses A. Ross, instead of B. F. Meyers and Hiram Findley, whio were attempted to be foisted upon the people by one of the most transparent frauds ever perpetra ted updn the ballot box. This was as we predict ed a month or two ago, and it could not well be otherwise. We do not feel any inclination to ex ult over the result, because we have from the first, felt confident that justice would be done. A resolution, we learn, will be offered in the House of Representatives, asking for the appoint ment of a committee to investigate the fraud. This is right and proper, and when the facts appear let the guilty parties be brought to justice. And, further, we hope that the Attorney General will uudcrtake the prosecution in person. Mr. Mey and his tools, in such an event, will learn that trampling upon the laws, is not as pleasant as "downy pillows are." Mr. Meyers is evidently very sore over the ef forts of Hon. John Cessna to have justice prevail He writhes and makes as many ugly faces as Pmch or Yankee Notions. This must be fine a musement for Mr. Cessna. We shonld be lothe to display our discomfiture as conspicuously as he has lately been displaying his through his paper. Poor fellow, we pity him, but loathe the spirit, which prompted him to act so so selfishly. Surely the hand writing on the wall has been deciphered: " Than art weighed in the balances and art found wanting. WANT TO COME BACK.-- -The New York Times has the following dispatch from Washington. "It is rumored that Gen. Sherman has commu nicated to the President that the Georgia State au thorities have applied to come back into the U nion, and that Secretary Stanton's visit to Savan nah has some connection with this subject. It is also believed that Secretary 7 Stanton's visit to Sherman will result in the inaugeration of a new 1§ policy in Shejpnan's command in reference to the treatment of negroes who may come into his lines hereafter. Such negroes will be armed and allow ed to do effective service in the limon ranks.' AN* IMPORTANT ORDER has just been issued by Provost-marshal General Fry, announcing that un der the recent call for 300.000 troops, issued on the 19th of last tponth, the numbers specified actually be placed in the field. No credits are, therefore, to bo allowed for any under this call who were in the United States service at the date above-mentioned, and a thorough revis ion of the quotas of the various districts must now take place. A Cry of Despair. Two remarkable articles have lately appeared in the Richmond Sentinel and the Richmond Enqui rer. They contain the most distinct and unmis takable confession nf failure that has yet come from rebeldom. If it be true, morever, that the article in the Sentinel was written by Jefferson Davis himself—as the Richmond Examiner inti ■ mates —then it becomes still more important and authoritative. These articles tells us, in almost so many words, that the Confederacy has sustained so many re verses of late that it is no longer able to defend it self effectively, and that it is time to look about for foreign assistance. How deep this conviction of its impotence is, is shown by the fact that these writers are willing to purchase foreign aid by the sacrifice of everything distinctive in southern life. "If France and Eifgland," says the Enguhrr, "will enter into a treaty with these Confederate States,, recognising our nationality and guaranty ing our independence upon the abolition of slavery in all these states, rather than continue the war. we should be prepared to urge the measure upon our readers. We believe such a proposition would be favorably received and acted upon by those na tions. and it ought to be made to them. That is, we will give up*our independence, adopt pro tectorate, and abandon our social system itself, to be saved from the domination of the people of the North. Two sentiments are stronger than all others in the southern heart; the one is the love of rule, the ambition to govern, the sense of personal su periority. and the other is devotion to slavery, which has been intellectually petted until more than half the people have really persuaded them selves that it is a divine institution. Yet, as deep seated as these sentiments are. we herr fee their leading men proposing to give up both in their ut ter despair of otherwise sustaining the fotfunes of the Confederacy. Rather than submit to the Yankees, whom they have taught themselves to hate with an infernal malice, they would go back to the embraces of the nations of the Old World. Nor does 'this purpose proceed from foolish pride alone ; it is the only course left to the lead ers of the rebellion. Having stirred up and eon ducted a most needless yet bloody civil war. they cannot retire from it without acknowledging their utter criminality. Having for many years alleged a long list of giievanees against the Yankees, whom for the past four years they have accused of every sort of atrocity, they could not now submit to them without the most painful feelings of hu miliation. To find "the spaniels" whom they used to talk of "whipping into obedience," them selves holding the lash, is a very sad reverse to the picture. To see "mudsills" "greasy mechanics" and "Puritans" swaying it in the very homes of the chivalry is anything but pleasant to to the "high toned gentlemen" of the South. They must es cape that degradation at least, either by going to Europe or getting Europe to come to them. A repetition of the experience of Mexico, an imperi al conrt with a multitude ofnew-inade dukes, earls, counts and barons, would be the more delightful contemplation, but if that cannot be had they will migrate to South America or to the other conti nent. But the masses of the southern people will not be under the same necessity. They had Itttle or nothing to do in originating the war. and may a- Wandon it when they please, without much loss of character. Neither w'll they find it a severe dis grace to come back under the laws of the Union, in the making of which they all had a hand. We do not believe that the inhabitants of Savannah feel themselves particularly degraded in being re stored to ali the blessings of the Union. Sher man's army has not appeared there as a conquer ing force but as a liberating force. It has enabled them to throw off the despotism of Richmond, which was fast starving them to death. They are once again free, and will be soon in the way of prosperous trade and industry. It suits the purpose of the rebel leaders to repre sent success of our arms as a subjugation; to them indeed it is a subjugation; but to the people it is rather an emancipation and a relief. The consti tution and laws of the Union are so benificent; the operations of the national government touch them so lightly and at so few points, that it is a gross a bu.se of words to call the reimposition of their authorityaconqucstor a subjugation. When Au stria sends her troops into Venice, or England hers into India, to force upon the reluctant people strange modes'of government, and a foreign authority, we may cail the act a conquest; but when our Yan kee troops penetrate the South, they do so to break off the fetters which a selfish oligarchy has rivetted around the necks of the masses. They go as deliverers, and will l>e so estimated in histo ries written by the children of the very men who are now most bitterly opposed to submission. THE CONFEDERATE PACTIONS.— Interesting compilations from recent rebel newspapers shows that the fight of the Jeff. Davis and anti-Jeff. Da vis factions is constantly growing moro sanguina ary. The lines between them are now strictly drawn# and the tone of their respective organs to wards each other is deliciously bitter, from a Northern point of view. The newspapers oppos ed to Jeff, accuse him in the most open and vehe manner of being the cause of all their recent disas ters, and they in turn are charged by JefFs organs with destroying confidence in the ability of the confederacy to achieve its independence, preven ting the full enforcement of the conscription ami encouraging desertion. It is claimed by the Rich mond editors that the saltworks at Saltville can soon be repaired, and that Hood has not lost near so many men as the Northern journals report. The Richmond Whig is very many over what it con siders two failures of General Butler—the Dutch Gap canal and the attack on Fort Fisher. A European Protectorate of the South. The leading rebel papers forshadow the possi bility that the rebel States, rather than yield to the power of the Union, will offer themselves as qiuusi colonies to France or England. This event should not, if the European Powers are just, re sult in their recognition of the dissolution of the Union, for it would be a confession that the in sur gents were unable to take the Southern States from the Republic, and, therefore, foreign inter ference could not have the least possible justifica tion. Hitherto intervention has been demanded by the South, contemplated, it maybe, by Europe on the ground that the States in rebellion main tain a successful war. That ground fails beneath the feet of a demoralized army and a tottering con spiracy. France and England would not dare to violate international law, or the common justice of the world, bv assuming a protectorate of the States which would thus acknowledge that they had no power of themselves to withdraw from the Union. "Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow." If the suggestions of the Rich mond papers are to be adopted as the policy of the Richmond Government, the demonstration of the failure of the rebellion ought to be the destruc tion of the danger of European interference.— The Press. The Peace Humors. The N. Y. Evening Post comments as fojvs, on the Peace rumors, of which notice was jkcfc in our last issue. S4 The question." "sajjtli© Post, why Mr. Blair did not go to Kiehsmd. is getting discussed in some of the Joir.a' v even before it is all certain that he in tided to go there ; and the Tribune blamejMr. Stanton for a telegraphic notice to General which the Secretary may never ha're sent If, however, Mr. Blair's own statement whetit is published, should confirm in every pvrticulaj the rumor which comes from Washington, we sou d be disposed to praise the conduct of 31 r. Stuton and General Grant. In fact, these officers'could not do less thpi ro fuse Mr. Blair permission toro through till lines of the army. If 31r. Blair may pass, so mi Mr. Brown, Mr. Jones and Mr. Robinson : eve! Mr. Smith might demand the same privilege. One man is as good as another, and though. Mr.Blair is an eminent and venerable citizen, thep are probably a thousand Browns and twenty thoWaud Smiths in the country who are thought, by their wives and intimate friends at least, to be he e quals, in diplomacy, of Mr. Blair—or any fiber man. Why should General Grant pass 31 r. Bfaur through his lines ? The President, according to the reports from Washington, refused to author ize this visit; he saw very clearly that to do this would give to the nimble rebel chiefs occasion to clgim a formal and effective act ol recognition ; j nor would the allies of the rebels in Europe have omitted to assert the duty of other govern!'ients to follow the precedent set by the United £ tatcs government. This would have added grealy" to the already heavy labors of Mr. Seward, aril, to tell the truth we are strenuously opposed to doy thing which is likely to extend still furtho- the formidable dimensions of the annual volumes of diplomatic correspondence. But why should Mr. Blair goto Richmond ? The Tribune takes for granted that he waS goii lg down there to ask Jefferson Davis if he was near ly ready to give up. Now, says our conten i porary, —"the recognized object of war, at least amoig civ ilized and Christian nations, is an honorabU and satisfactory peace ; and how are we to know when this end has been rendered attainable, unlets we take some means to ascertain." When the rebel leaders are ready to relinquish the struggle we shall know jt by the fact that they lay down their arms, send their soldiers to their homes, and themselves leave the country. We confess that we do not believe Davis, Beauregard, Benjamin, Seddon and other of the chiefs will do. this so long as they have the slightest hope oi" wearying or cheating the people of the North o it. of better terms ; and when they read in a leading: northern Journal: "We do not know, and have at no time felt confi dent, that the rebels are yet prepared to agree to any terms of pacification that our government either would or should deem acceptable ; but we can im agine uo possible barm that could result from ascer taining precisely what they are ready to do" they will say to themselves: "That writer, at any rate, acknowledges us as the rightful disposers of southern destinies ; he does not believe in the dangerous stuff talked at the North, about our be ing usurpers; he take? it for granted that we are to be, and ought to be, treated with, as the legiti mate owners of the southern states —and if that is so, if that is the ground upon which the Norrih. places us, we may as well fight on ; for we have* nothing to loose, and everything to gain. If \*e> are to be treated with, if we are to name and ac cept terms, we can do that as well sfrer another campaign as now." And if" 31r." Bfair ha i *beem sent to Richmond ouany such errand, 3lr. Davis would naturally have replied : "Call again ; we are not ready just yet, though Grant and Shermnsa only know how soon we shall be." It seems to us that a person who would go to Richmond to inquire about terms of peace, fails, utterly and lamentably to comprehend the nature of the struggle. It is not the southern leaders, but the Southern people—not the less than three j hundred thousand slave-owners, or less than one ! hundred and fifty thousand planters, but the wO ' lions of non-slaveholders, who are to be treated with. Now, as the President once aptly remarke< I we cannot get at the southern people without firs t overturning the power which stands between us and them —the military power of Jeff Davis.-- The one condition preliminary to negotiations i s that Davis and the other rebel leaders shall b s driven out of the country. When their power i s broken, when they can no longer coerce the popu - lation of a region over which they have usurpei 1 despotic anthority, then indeed will haveeome th e time for judicious negotiations with the Souther n people. Then, we hope 3lr. Blair and every other ma n who can haveinfluence with those people will go down amongst them, and declare to them the so! e conditions upon which they can have peace.-- When that time comes —and it seems to us n< <t very far off—we shall be glad to see whole squad rons and regiments of diplomatists pervading the South, and telling the people there that tbey ea o never have peace unless tliey establish and multi ply free schools, encourage and reward fice labor, secure and maintain free discussion by speech and press, establish and defend equal rights for all men. Those are the true' and only conditions of peace. THE. DEATH of the Hon. Wm. Lewis Dayton, U. S. Minister to France, is announced by the la st arrivals as having taken place in Paris, Dec. 1, by a sudden attack of apolpexy. 3lr. Dayton was born at Baskinridge. N. J., Feb, 17,1807, dud had consequently almost completed bis fifty-eighth yea/at the time of his death. He was graduated at Prineton College in 1825, and after passing through the usual course of legal study, was ad mitted to the bar in 1830. After being elected to various offices by the people of his State, he was placed on the Fremont ticket as candidate for Vice-President. On the inaugeration of Mr. Lin coln he was appointed Minister to France. He was a man of ability and integrity. f NEW LITERARY PAPER. —The new literary en terprise in this citv, the New York Weekly Re eu w, is an exceedingly elegant, valuable, sprightly and attractive journal. Its first issue came out on Saturday last, and its success in every respect was proved at once. The lighter topics, in art, espec ially in music, and in theatrical gossip and general affairs, are treated with ability and vivacity. It gives evidence that there is abundant talent in thi< city for the conduct of a journal of its cast, as we are sure there is a sufficiently large community of the right kind to give it a handsome support. — New York Times, 10 th inst. t THE NEW YORK Independent makes its appear ance at the opening of the year in an enlarged form. It is now we think the largest newspaper in the country. It contains a sermon and a star article every week from Rev. Henry Ward Beech er, a large amount of information on religious top ics, a carefully prepared summary of news, an ex cellent Washington letter and the most compre hensive review of the markets, of any paper that we see. Terms $2,60 a year in advance. Weary of the War. Evidence is constantly accumulating to show that the mass of the southern people would gladly return to the allegiance to the United States gov- , era meet, were it not for the absolute despotism >< under which they live. A 'fexas newspaper, pub- j lished at Houston, called the Nact Bulletin, has a letter froui a correspondent in the Texan rebel i army, who says: "I am sorry to say, Mr. Editor, that there are very many of the citizens in the eounties through which I passed in favor of reconstruction : and I was told by intelligent and influential gentlemen— true southern men —that 'if the vote was taken, two thirds of the meu at home would vote for reconstruc tion.'" Wc recently adverted to another southern ex tract which betrayed the fact that the most of the men in Hood's army were weary of the war, and ( anxiously longing for peace. Since Sherman has occupied Savannah the people have contentedly accepted the change, and a public meeting, at which the Mayor precidod, has passed resolutions declaring that the people of that city gladly return to their olu national allegiance. We have many accounts from. Georgia, North Carolina, and eveu the interior of South Carolina, from prisoners who have traversed those regions, and who found the people weary of the war, longing for peace, and fully expecting the triumph, of the old flag, which they were ready to acknowledge again. Under these circumstances it is no wonder, that thewebel organs at Richmond are growing desperate, and make preposterous efforts to hoid up the phantom of a European cononial yoke.— Nor th American. THEIR Tnonu.ES. —The latest rebel newspapers present a very interesting picture of the troubles in to which the cardinal secession doctrine of State rights has brought its advocates. T'ae Governors of the different rebel States, from their disposition to be punctilious in regard to their pec.uliar rightful or assumed perogativee, interfere seriously with that unity of action and pespotism whic'a Jeff. Davis is desirous of maintaining. He has now on his hands a quarrel with the Governors of MS.ssiasipni, Georgia and Alabama. The Richmond Whig blinks the recent alleged peace mission of tb.e two Blairs enti tled the United States to be considered the most impudent nation that has ever had existence. A correspondent of the Charleston Courier, speaking of the charge against General Grant, of the Rich mond Sentinel, that the lavishly sacrifices his men, says that "Hood has butchered his troops as reck lessly as ever Grant did." PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. George M. Dallas, an eminent citizen of Philadel phia, died on the last day of the year 1864. in the seventy-second year of his age. He belonged to a historic family, and was born July 10,1798. In 1813 he accompanied the distinguished Albert Gallatin as secretary to St. Petersburg, when the offices of the Emperor of Russia were tendered to bring about a peace. In 1817 he was appointed Deputy Attorney- General for the city and county of Philadelphia, and in 1838 gave most efficient support to Gen. Jackson. In the same year he was elected Mayor, and shortly aft*r was appointed United States District Attorney. In 1831 he was elected United States Senator t<fcfill a vacancy, but declining a re-election in 1833, Was made Attorney General of the State, and on the ac cession of Mr. Van IJuren to the Presidency, was ap pointed Minister to the Court of St. Petersburg.— Re-called at his own request, in 1839, he was tender ed the appointment ot Attorney General, in place of Felix Grundy, hut declined it to practice his profes sion. In 1844 he was elected Vice President of the United States, on the ticket with President Polk, and incurred no littie antagonism in his own State oy the support the of 1846. Towards the close of Mr. Polk's administration he was appointed Minister to the Court of St. James, as the successor of Mr. Buchanan, and served in that capacity during Mr. B.'s administration. Since then he had withdrawn himself from active politics, and contented himself with the practice of his profession, of which he was a distinguished ornament. Of courtly manners and well cultivated intellect, he was for many years a jironiinent leader of the party which exerted a para mount control in Federal politics. Major General Benjamin F- Butler has beeD re moved by the President from the position of com mander of the Army of the James and the Depart ment of Virginia and North Carolina, and ordered to report at Lowell. v Massachusetts. The official document in the case directed hiin to turn over his command to "the person named by Lieutenant Gen eral Grant as his temporary successor." General Ord, lately in charge of the Twenty-fevurth corps, has succeeded temporarily to the important position. The loyal men of Philadelphia have subscribed and raised a fund with which to purchase and pre sent to to the wife of Lieut.-Gen. Grant a new first, ■class residence, furnished from top to bottom. Mrs. Grant has been officially notified of the giauiying fact. It was her New-Year's present. The cost will be nearly $50,000. Tfte widow of the deceased Gen. Birney has also been presented with a house costing SIO,OOO, and an additional $20,000 hare been ' invested for her benefit. Gen. Thomas has been appointed Major General in the regular army, vice John C. Fremont, resigned, to date from Dec. 13, the day of his great victory over Hood. The appointment is said to have been made at the request of Gen. Grant. Brevet Maj.- Gen. George Crook has been made full Major-Gen eral of Volunteers. The Secretary of war has gone to Fortress Monroe, Hilton Head, and Savannah to consult with Generals Grant, Foster, and Sherman on important matters relating to the service. The supplies and exchange of prisoners, organization of colored troops, raising the blockade of Savannah, and the siezure of rebel property and products, are among the subjects of consideration. The President on Friday sent to the Senate the nomination of a large number of military officers, including Sherman, Meade, Sheridan and Thomas, for Major-Generalships in the regular army; Han cock and others for Brigadier-Generalships in the regular army, and about forty M^jor-Generals and Brigadier-Generals of Volunteers. Ex-Governor Kit-hard Yates, Union, of Illinois, has been chosen United States Senator to succeed William A. Richardson, Democrat, whose term ex. pires with this Congress. Mr. Yates was a member of the House of liepresentaves from 1861 to 1866, elected by the Whig party. For the past four years he has been Governor of the State. Secretary Fcssenaen has been nominated for re election to the United States Senate by the caucus of Union members of the Maine Legislature. Of course this fore-shadows his resignation of the Secretaryship of the Treasury. He will, without doubt, be elect ed. • The Hon. Jacob M. Howard was, on Wednesday, Jan. 4, re-elected by the Legislature of Michigan to the Senate of the United States. The Hon. Wm. L. Stewart has been elected U. S. Senator from Arkansas from March 4th, 1865, re ceiving a two-thirds vote of both houses on the first ballot. It is reported that Mr. Francis P. Blair, senior, has departed from Washingten on a second peace mission to Richmond ; but as the nature of his terms or special designs nothing has yet become public, GENERAL NEWS. HEAVY ROBBERY AT THE CUSTOM HOUSE.— Cn Friday night the 80th ult, the fire proof or money i vault, in the Philadelphia Custom House was robbed -of a quantity of gold, bank notes, &c., amounting to about SBO,OOO in currency. It seems that the keys of the fire-proof are kept by the Cashier, Mr. | J. M. Alien, who says that on Friday afternoon he took them to his home as usaal. On Saturday mor- , nine, on getting up, he found that his pantaloons had been removed from the room, the door of which had been locked on the inside. The key of the safe was missing. Attempts were made on Saturday to get the safe open, but without avail though a lock smith was employed lor the purpose. At last an en trance was effected by breaking through the wa'l in the rear. On entering the fire proof, it was discov ered that the money had been taken. Three or four bags of gold were lett behind. A bottle of chloro form, a Colt's pistol, and some gunpowder were , found inside of the fire proof. Allen, the \ ashier, • was arrested in the forepart of the week on suspicion of having himself committed the robbery, and u P°o an examination suspicious so far as he was concerned. MORE THAN THAT. —fhe Harmburg Telegraph announces, (as creditable to our patriotism, we sup pose,) that "one firm in Westmoreland county pays $70,000 as an annual tax on their production of whiskey.' We don't know where the Telegraph got its information, but we can say to it, that it did not get it correctly. We have one establishment in Westmoreland whose tax on the product of whiskey in July. August and September—just three months —amounted to $100,787,00 ! Put that in your pipe and give us another puff for patriotism I —Greens, burg Herald. There is a rumor current in London that the Prin cess Mary of Cambridge hasjmarried Viscount Hood. According to the royal marriage act, a member of the royal family cannot maiTy without the consent of the Sovereign, or without giving notice to the Privy Council. The giving notice to the Privy Council 1 does not make the marriage absolutely valid, for jt may be decided illegal by act of Parliament. It is . known that the Princess applied for permission to r the Queen, and the Queen refused her sanction. — However, there is no fear, if the marriage has been ' contracted, that it will be dissolved by Parliament, for the Princess is very popular and the English t people are very sick of German alliances. The Princess Mary is thirty-one years old. Viscount ! Hood is rich, handsome, and enjoys a very high * reputation. SHOCKING CASU ALTY. —A sad calamity occurred in West Buffalo township, Union county, Pa., on Friday evening Dec. 30. Three little children were burned to death, the precise origin of the fire being wholly a matter of conjecture. The parents were both absent—Mr. Strickler was lumbering in the mountains, and Mrs. S, was out of the house a few moments, attending to domestic duties. Returning, she found the inside of the dwelling in flames, but was unable to rescue one of all her children. The oldest child was three and a half years and the youngest but a few months old. DESERTERS RESCUED. —Some days since two Dep uty Marshals arrested two deaertors near Troutville, Clearfield county, aud started in the direction of Brooklyn with them. The news of the arrest com ing immediately to the ears of a "Cop," he at once started to inform the "faithful" of the mishap to their two brother,s and soon about twenty of the "gang" were ready, with rifles on their shoulders, and started in pursuit of thee Marshals, overtaking them where the Punxsutawney and Brookville roads diverge. The Marshals being outnumbered ten to one, were compelled to relinquish their prisoners— which they did without much hesitancy. The res cuers and rescued then returned toward Troutville, yelling and hurrahing and laughing over their suc cess in driving off the officers of the law without their prisoners. NATURAL ASTOXOMER. It is perhaps not generally known that there lives at South AMams Mass., a natural Astronmer, in the person of Fisher Jennings, Esq. . He claims that he can without the aid of al manacs or other books, calculate the changes of the moon, rising and setting of the planets, eclipses of both sun ami moon for any number of years ahead, the appearance of all the comets. Ac. He knows all the planets, not however by the name given in the books, but by names of his own. All this knowl edge he claims was not obtained from books, or teachers, but by "laying forty days and foriy nights in a hog trough waiching ihe stars !"— North Ad mis Transcript. An Anti-Slavery Convention was held in Frankiort, Kv.. on Wednesday Jan. 4. Resolutions were adopted adhering to the Baltimore platform, requesting the representatives in Congress to vote for a constitu tional amendment abolishing slavery, endorsing Co lonel Burbridge, and approving of vigorous retalia tory warfare against guerillas. Great harmony pre vailed in the convention. Oil has been found in Fayette county, and wells sunk to a depth of eighty feet, are now flowing a splendid quality of the greasy fluid. The oil fever is raging in Cambria county, where several compa nies have been organized to bore for oil. The Sultana Djemila, one of the daughters of the late Sultan of Turkey, becoming jealous of one of her slaves who she imagined was regarded with fa vor by her husband, hail the girl's head cut off and placed under a cover on the Pasha's dinner table.— On removing the cover the Pasha was so affected that he fell back a corpse. WAR SUMMARY. The occupation of the city of Savannah by our troops was quickly followed by the establishment of an express aepot in that city, in connection with the Harden Express. It is expected that the in a short time the commercial relations between the two sec tions will render the full resumption of this line necessary. At present only soldiers' parcels are sent. Secretary Stanton has left Washington for For tress Monroe, Hilton Head and Savannah, to confer with Generals Grant, Sherman and Foster a im portant matters connected with the military service of the country. The Rebel pirate Olustee made her escape from the port of Wilmington, N, C., on Christinas night, while nearly all our naval vessels in that quarter had their attention engaged by the attack on Fort Fish er. On the next day she was discovered and chased for some distance by the United States steamship Lillian, but finally turned upon her pursuer, whicn was obliged to make a hasty retreat, owing to having only two guns against five "heavy ones carried by the pirate. By the arrival at Fortress Monroe on Thursday sth inst., from Hilton head. S. C., we are informed that General Sherman's army had not yet entered on any extensive movement since the capture of Sa vannah; but detachments from it were out in search of armed rebels. General Kilpatriek. with his cav alry, was watching the movements of Hardee. The main portion of Sherman's troops were resting in the vicinity of Savannah, re-equipping and prepar ing for their prospective campaign. Rrichmond pa pers of the sth inst. confirm the report that Hardee ville, S. C., on the Charleston and Savannah Rail road, twenty miles from the latter city, has been captured by General Kilpatriek. Additional evidence of th satisfactisn felt by a large portion of the people of Savannah at their es cape from allegiance to Jefi. Davis and restoration to the protection of the old flag is furnished by the fact that many of its leading mercaants have already sent to the city of New York funds to cancel in full their indebtedness to our merchants at the time of the commencement of the rebellion, and others have made partial payments, with promises to clear off their old obligations fully aud honorably ns soon as able. The money for this purpose consisted of United States Treasury notes, and arrived a fotw days ago, in charge of an army officer. Richmond papers of Friday, January 6, in addi tion to what has been already telegraphed, contain the following : The Examiner says: "Yesterday a commissioner from Grant's lines arrived at Varina under a flag of truce, with 1,500 blankets for distribution amongst the Federal prisoners in Richmond, in addition to 1,000 received last week. "Of the fifty-odd thousand Yankee prisoners held in the South, not over 2,000 are confined in Rich mond, and more than half of those are in the hos pitals! For a year past the great body of them has been drafting South, and Richmond, hard pressed to feed its superabundant population, and the large army defending its gates, is relieved from the incu bus of an overstocked prison post in its midst." A captain, lieutenant and seven men of Mosby's command were captured on Wednesday 4th inst., at the Relay House, on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road. '1 hey were dressed in citizens' clothes. The Richmond Examiner of the 2d yives curren cy to a report that General Steriiny Price had died in Arkansas, of apoplexy. Rebel papers of Wednesday Jan. 4, contain a dis patch from Beauregard, at Charleston January 2, announcing that the Federal raiders have returned from the Molrile and Ohio Railroad, going west ward. The rebel General Gliolson was badly wounded. Hardee telegraphs from Charleston on the, 2d that the Federal troops are landing in force on the South Carolina side of the Savannah River, and are driving the rebel pickets towards Hardee*, ville. An official report states that the .-alt works were not very severely damaged by the Union troops. A special dispatch from Cairo Male that Gen. Dana's raid on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad was completely successful. Twenty-five bridges *ere I burned, four thousand carbines, a large amount of ' ammunition, and three hundred army wagons were captured. Many officers aud men were taken pris i oners, and thirty-two rail-cars were destroyed. General Steadman's cavalry have pursued, cap tured and burned Hood s pontoon traiu. Some Obo mules, 100 wagons and 200 hogs were ulk> captured. A deserter reports that Hood had been ordered to Tuscaloosa to reorganize bis .shattered army. Previous to the capture ot Savannah. Lee drew urge supplies of meat froin Florida- the cattle being transported on the Alabany and Gulf road to that city, and thence cent north ware.'- through this channel over eleven thousand head .were sometimes forwarded per week. It is now effev. tuslly closed up. Richmond papers of Friday say that th e report of Gen. Sherman having crossed theSavannu h river I is confirmed, and that he is believed to be m oving |on Grabamsville. Gen. Hood's army is reported to j have crossed the Tennessee river, and is moving to ward Tupelo, which it expected will be the luturt base of operations. CONGRESS. THURSDAY, Jan. 5. CONGRESS re-assembled on Thursday, after holiday adjournment, In the Senate, the Pension appropri ation bill was passed. A joint resolution to make free the wives and children of slaves who enlist in the U. S. Army was discussed. In the House a bill to provide for the temporary government for the new Territory of Wyoming, cut out of parts of Washington and Utah territories, was referred to the committee on Territories. A resolution provi ding for the appointment of another Lieut. Genera! of a lower grade, with a view to confer the honor on Gen. Sherman, was offered and objected to. A res olution of thanks to Gen. Sherman and his army was referred to the committee on military affairs FRIDAT, Jan. 6. SENATE. —Petitions for the abolition ofslavery and an increase of the pay of army officers were receiv ed. A resolution asking the Secretary of the Inte rior for information in regard to the employment of pension agents in the various States was adopted.— The bill to regulate proceedings in criminal cases, relating especially to the punishment of treason, was passed. The bill to drop from the rolls of the a/my unemployed officers was taken up, and after consid erable discussion was indefinitely postponed by a • vote of 28 to 8. Mr. Sherman introduced a bill levy ing a tax of twenty cents per pound on leaf tobacco, thirty cents on cavendish,-(plugand twist) five cents on smoking tobacco, ten cents on fine cut chewing tobacco, fifteen cents on snuff, ten dollars per thou sand on cigars, and five dollars per thousand on che roots or cigarettes in paper wrappers sold for not over fifteen dollars per thousand. Referred to the Committee on Finance. The House resolution of thanks to General Sherman was passed. Adjourn ed. HOUSE. —Passed the resolution of thanks to Gen eral Sherman and command. The Committee on Ways and Means was instructed to consider the pro priety of providing for a commission of meniliers of the Senate and the House to examine and report on a system of taxation bearing equally on the property ' and industry of the country. The Senate joint reso lution amending the Constitution so as to abolish , slavery throughout the country was discussed at length, but no final action was taken. Adjourned. , SATURDAY, Jan. 7. 5 The Senate was not in session Saturday. The House met as usual. On motion of Mr. , Holman. of Indiana, (Dem.,) the Secretary of war was directed to inform ihe House why he has not ' communicated the information relative to the filling up of new regiments, asked for in December last, and further directing him now to send iD the same. The House then resumed the consideration of the I Senate's proposition for the amendment of the Con s stitution so as to abolish slavery. Mr. Bliss, of 0- bio, (Dem.,) argued against such a change as im proper and destructive to the rights guaranteed by • the Constitution. Mr. Rogers, of New-Jersey. (Dem.,) also spoke against the constitutionality of such au amendment. Mr. Davis, of New-York. j (Union,) argued in favor of the amendment. Mr. • Ashley, of Ohio(Union,) gave notice that he should n*>ve the previous question on Monday or Tuesday next, in order to get a vote on the resolution. MONDAY, Jan. 'J. ! SENATE. —Several petitions for increased pay of f army Officers were presented. The Military Com mittee reported the resolution for the distribution of the proceeds of the captured Savannah cotton among Gen. Sherman's army, with a recommendation that 1 it be indefinitely postponed. Agreed to. A resolu tion directing an inquiry into the treatment of the il Indiana tribes by the civil and military authorities was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. The Judiciary Committee was instructed to report what legislation is necessary to enable the President . to call an extra session of the Thirty-ninth Congress without Sixty days" notice. The joint resolution freeing the wives and children of colored soldiers was then taken up. Mr. Dawes moved to amend, so as to make the action of the resolution prospective onjy. After considerable discussion, the amendment was voted down, as were also one of Mr. I'-rwell. that the owners of slaves shall be compensated, aud another by Mr. Saulsbory, that States that have not attempted to secede shall be exentptcd from the op erations of the resolution. The-resolution was passed by a vote of 27 to 10. After an executive session, adjonrnc-d. The House of Representatives concurred in the Senate amendmdnts to the Pension Appropriation bill. A bill directing the Secretary of the 'lreasurr to refund the tax collected on spirits prior to March 7, 18(14, was introduced and referred to the Com mittee on At ays and Means. The Senate resolution to amend the Constitution so as to abolish slavery throughout the country was then discussed up to the adjournment. PREPARING to Evacuate.— : It is stated that the rebel officials are now busily engaged in preparing for the evacuation of their capital ; that much of the government property an! many of the employers have already been sent into the interior of the South, and that hundreds of fam ilies have taken the hint und removed into Georgia and North Carolina. It is said that Jeff" Davis has become convinced of his inability to hold Richmond much longer, and that the whole city is being mined, with the design of bjowine it np as soon as it shall have been abandoned. The Richmond Exnmiytrr, which i* telling much wholesome truth to the reikis lately, not on ly declares that it prefers to submit to the Yankees rather than will for foreign help, but also ask: neither England nor France will so ninch as rec ognise us, how would they receive such an invita tion as this, now that we are sinking and perish ing under the mighty power of the Yankee na tion ?" RUPP, SHANNON, & CO., BANKERS, Hertford, Pa., BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT. Collections m<ie for the East, west, North r,j South, and the general business of Exchange, trans acted. Notes and Accounts Col lotted, and ReluittoßCf promptly made. REAL ESTATE bought and sold. G. W. Rcpe, 0. E. SHANNON, F. HSNKlUC apr.lo.'fi t-tf. f BEDFORD HOUSE, " AT HOPEWELL, BKPFOHU Covstt, PA.. BY HARRY DROLLINUKR. IjIVERY attention given to make guests comlort* 1 !e > li who stop at this House. Ilopcwell, July 29, 1864. Ladies' Furs. Tho largest assortment at CHARLES OAKFORD I SONS, Continental Ilutel, Philadelphia.
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