07'.1Q HUNTINGDON, PA Wednesday morning, Nov. 30,1864, W“Lowls, Editor and Proprietor Our Flag Forever "I know of no mode in which a loyal ciii- Aril' may so well demonstrate his devotion to his country as by sustaining the Flay the Constitution and the Union, under all circum stances, and UNDER EVERY ADMINISTRATION REGARDLESS OF PARTY POLITICS, AGAINST. ALL ASSAILANTS, AT HOME AND ADROAD."-STEPREN Douoir,tq. .TIIE PRESIDENT'S MEssnox.—Presi ient Lineoln is busily engaged in pre paring his Message for reading at the session of Congress, which opens on Tuesday next. We have much to ex pect frOm. this Message, and believe it will be the most important document ever issued to the American people.— The:President knows full well upon What platform he stood when elected; lie will Consider the vast majority of votes cast for Wm an earnest of the people's, favor in Iris policy, and he will, ache has intimated, subserve us heretofore every interest in their be half and of the country. Since he has field the reins of rovernMent, he has tried, in conformity with the will of -the mass of the people, measures for the extinction of slavery—that pollu ting stain Upon our Nation's charac ter.; but since the popular desire has been Clii . c.pr :manifested to effectually uprootlt; We, may expect further mea Mires bitiqnore 'stringent nature to be !adopted and rigidly enforced. lie can now v,iewelaVery in a far different light from the.time When, four years ago, he took .the Presidential chair. War, faerribleaslit 'is, fine accomplished its good-,- results, - and it is now preying Upon.!Atie vitalsof the rotting body of slaverz and purging it-from our land. .t'as the eOnfliet makes further progress the destruction of this curse and that of t4e . Bolithern Confederacy is inevi table, and it is with pleasure the mind of thaPreilid - e`nt as well as of his coun. trymeii - viiigToWt - trraßrEcetitt._ A re cord:of the victories on. land and sea that . our gallant.forces have achieved, is another - subject the President will dw4l . upon with emotions of gratitude to the victors and to the Supreme Be ing, controls all events for our Nation's•welfare. _, : We hope to present the Message to our subscribers at the earliest possible moment •0416 • BERM, INCENDIARIES IN NEW YORK. ---We give in our columns intelligence of the:atteuipted burning of Now York city by a band of Sputhera,,rebel-em , ie f ieiriaitorous accomplices at the North. This is what we have longtimpecte - dTaiid /Since eve hitve full warning from the case in the metrop olis; it . should lead every citizen to re newed,watehfulness. This is the plan proposed, frequently by rebel editors for retttliation,- and it appears that it has now been carried into effect. The threatened burning of Now York and the bold attempt thereto, is but the outset of other deeds more daring and perhaps more destructive. It is every man's business to guard against the roving spies and fillibusters who per-. petrate these outrages, and secure his own and neighi3ors' property from their' depredations and destruction. The most scrutinizing vigilance by the peo ple at largo, and the most rigorous punishment by the authorities upon the guilty ones, will prevent a general repetition and success of the villains designs. • • Star Now -orders have just been issued from the Provost Marshal Gen eral's office relating to the division and correcting of the enrolment lists, with a view to have them ready for future emergencies. General. Fry, says the namesof ali persons who are liable • to military duty, taking up their resi dence in sub-districts, as well as those who from time to time become liable, shall be 'added to the enrollment lists, and . , all peistiris who enlist or remove permaaently 'frein any district, or whoie liability terminates while in it, will be stricken oft; and in case of re moval; whenever practicable, the Board of Enrollment of the district to which the person removes will be no tified, and he be enrolled by that Board• .Tnu PITTSBURG CO3I3IBRCI AL.—We publish in. our adimrtising columns the prospectus of that able paper, the Pittsburg Commercial, and we invite thWtention of the reader to it. The Comkerciai is ono of the best papers published in the Union, and any of our readers in Want of a paper out of the county cannot subscribe for a better. ..162 The amount of currency issued by the National banks is officially learned at this time to be sixty-four millions of dollars. Two millions were issued last week to new banks. No Affiliation with the North. Mr. Russell, of Virginia, introduced the following resolution : Resolved, That this House deem it proper, in view of recent events, to repeat the views expressed in the res olution adopted by the last Congress, declaring the sense of Congress in ref erence to reuniting with the United States; that it is the unalterable de termination of the Confederate States, who aro suffering all the horrors and cruelties of a protracted war, that they will never, on any terms, politically affiliate with a people who are engaged in the invasion of their soil and the butchery of their citizens. Mr. Clark, of Missouri desired to ! submit .a substitute for the resolution, embodying the same views, but in a more extended form. Mr. Russell declined to withdraw the call for the, question, but asked the yeas and nays, which were ordered, end restilted as follows : . YEAS._B3. NAYB.-,-.NOIIO. We quote this resolution and the appended vote from the Richmond Enquirer of the 22d. It shows, what we have always asserted, that nothing is ever to be gained for the Union .by proposals of peace to the rebel leaders. When these men talk of peace they invariably mean peace with recogni tion of the Confederacy. The North ern papers which still place the respon. sibility of the war upon the Adminis tration know this fact, but studious ly conceal it. Our hope is in the Southern people and the prosecution of the war. How Sherman's Soldiers Voted. The Louisville Journal says: "We have received the following by mail from Kingston, Georgia. General Sherman was unwilling to have them forwarded by telegraph, for fear the location of the troops would be pre- maturely made public and reach the rebels: McClellan. Lincoln 21st Wisconsin, 8 1; 74 811 21st Michigan, 884 94th 0hi0,17. 220200 18th Kentu . clq, 45 17 160 31st Ohio, 89th Ohio, 35 157 15 310 92d Ohio, 17th Ohio, 21i 302 MUM 21st Ohio, 74ih Ohio, 41 206 60 _ 148 E=ll3=l/;1 69th Ohio, 111 214 3:3d Ohio, 38th Ohio, 555 173 14th Ohio, 26th Missouri, 8 240 79th Penn. (detach't) 16 20 904 4057 Totql, Lincoln's majority, These votes are official of regiments in the Ist and 3d Divisons of the 14th Corps, ai.d they comprise all the forces that were at Kingston on the oth, but where they were on the 10th it is pre -mature to state. The votes of the various regiments show them to be quite full, generally, for there is a large percentage in each of persons unqualified to exercise the elective franchise. - Important to the di F er r s ie . nds of the Sol- The following note from Postmaster Bo_wen.ealls attention to the matterof moment in regard to the transmission of packages addressed to persons in the army : Notice to Persons sending Clothing and other Parcels to Officers and Soldiers to the Artily through the Mails. POST OFFICE, WASHINGTON D. C., NO - ember 14, 1861. A large number of packages, intend ed for the army, arrrive at this office with the wrappers destroyed or the address so mutilated that they cannot be forwarded-, and aro, therefore, ne cessarily sent to. the Dead Letter Office. If persons sending would take the precaution to write out on a card or slip of paper the full name of the offi cer or soldier . for whom the package. is intended, the number Of the regi ment and corps to ,which he is attach. ed, as well as the name and post office address of the person by whom it is sent, and fasten the card or slip thus addressed securely to the contents of the package inside the wrapper, it will in all cases insure their safe delivery or their prompt return to the owner. Editors in the loyal States will con for a favor on our soldiers and their friends at home by publishing this no tice in their papers, ,S 7 J. BOWEN, Postmaster. Official Vote at the October Election, The following is the official report of the vote of this State at the October election. It includes the home and soldiers' vote • Districts. Union. Dam. U. maj. D. mni. I 7,742 9,764 2,022 II 11,767 7,290 4,477 111 11,467 9,092 1,475 IV 13,088 9'344 3,744 V 11,007 10,729 278 VI 9,661 12,847 3,186 VII 10,908 7,231 3,677 VIII 5,971 12,076 6,105 IX 11.804 7,344 4,460 X 10.679 11,154 475 XI 6,393 23,016 6,623 XII 10,058 10,573 515 XII 9,724 8,723 1,001 XIV 11,619 11,092 527 XV 10,576 13,382 2,806 XVI 11,242 11,174 68 XVII 9,225 8,716 509 XV 111 11,533 10,681 852 XIX 11,631 0,914 1,717 XX 14,314 10,976 3,338 XXI 10,730 10,855 125 XXII 11,233 7,013 4,220 XXIII 11,882 3.124 3,758 XX[V - 11,727 .10,112 1,615 Majority 13,85 D A REBEL PLOT IN NEW YORK. All the Principal Hotels Fired SEVERAL ARRESTS MADE From the _New York ThliCS, Nov. 20. The city was startled last evening by the loud and simultaneous clanging of fire-bells in every direction, and the alarming report soon spread from street to street that a preconcerted at tempt was being made by rebel einis• saries, in accordance with the fiendish programme recently set forth by the Richmond papers, to burn New York and other northern cities, in retalia tion for the devastation of rebel terri tory by Union armies. The facts gath ered by our reporters appear to con firm the truth of these reports. The plan adopted by the incendiar ies was to set fire at once, or nearly at once, to tke principal hotels and other public buildings in the city. At sev enteen minutes of nine the St. James Hotel was discovered to be on fire in one of the rooms. On examination it was discovered that the bed and cove ral other articles of furniture had been saturated with phosphorus and set on fire. A few minutes afterward Barn um's Museum was discovered to be on fire; but the flames were soon extin guished, and the building sustained very little damage. At fivo minutes of nine fil) was discovered in rooms Nos. 133, 139, 140, and 174 of the St. Nicholas Hotel. The fire was got un der without much difficulty by the fire department of the .hotel, but not until the furniture and th:: rooms had boon damaged to the amount of about $2,- 500. The beds in this case ' also, wore found to be saturated with inflamma tory materials. At twenty minutes past nine the inmates of the La Fargo House were alarmed by the cry of fire; but the flames wore extinguished with out much difficulty, and the damage received was comparatively slight.— Shortly after ton o'clock the Metropo litan Hotel was discovered to be on fire; but by this time the police had given warning at all the hotels of' the design:, of the incendiaries, and the watchmen being on their guard, dis covered the fire in time to put it out before it, had done much damage. The Brandroth House, Frcnche's Hotel, the Belmont House, Wallack's Thea tre, and several other buildings were fired during the cofirse of the evening, but none of them wore seriously dam aged. ARRECTS.—About ten o'clock the Detective Police arrested a woman at the, Metropolitan Hotel, under circum stances that involve her in serious sus picion. She hails from Baltimore, and was noticed going from ono hotel to another, leaving each hotel just previ ens to the breaking out of the tire.— She strongly protests her innocence of the crime charged upon her; but the fact that the fires followed closely in her wake, as she passed from house to house,is a very suspicious circumstance and justifies her arrest and detention.. The police also made several other arrests: but in accordance with a re• quest from Police Headquarters, We refrain from mentioning the names of the parties taken into custody. SCENES AT TUE HOTELB.—The crones at the various hotels, where the usual quiet of the evening was broken by the alarm of lire, and by startling ra more of extensive conflagrations thro' the eit3, were very exciting. At sev oral of the-hotels, the inmates of the rooms were requested to vacate their quarters and permit them to be care fully searched for incendiary material. In several instances. beds in vacant rooms were found saturated with phos phorus and filled with matches. A box filled with inflammatory material was taken from the Metropolitan to the Police headquarters, and after be ing exposed to the air iiira short time, burst into flames. To guard against the threatened conflagration, watchmen were put on at all the hotels, and a dozen pails of water were set on every floor, ready for instant use. Pire.Marshal Baker is busy investirating the origin of the fires, and the Police are said be on the track of several suspected personS. FIE MI 8 250 MEM NEW YORK, Nov. 20, 2 P M—This morning an examination of the Astor House took place, to learn if any at tempt bad been made to fire that buil ding—when, on opening room No. 204 an immense volume of smoke poured out into the hall. The fire had been smouldering during the night, and the flomwas burried to cinders; the bed ding had been saturated with I..urpon two, the chairs placed on the bed and covered with tho bed clothes. This room had been occupied by one person since the 20th inst., and his arrest, it is believed will soon be made. The damage will amount to about $OOO. 2,30 P M—A person in a lieutenant's uniform, named Allison, who occupied one of the rooms fired, was arrested to day. Arrangements have been made for protection against a repetition of the incendiarism. General Dix's order requiring Southerners to register their names, and which has proved almost a dead letter, will be rigidly enfbrced. The Case of Mrs. Sarah Hutchins. BALTIMORE, Nov. 25.—The ease of Mrs. Sarah Hutchins, who has been convicted by the military commission, of sending arms to Harry Gilmore, and sentenced to five years' imprison ment, attracts much attention here, and strong efforts are being made to procure a -mitigation of her punish. meat. Many of the most earnest por. tion of the loyal citizens o 1 „Baltimore earnestly protest against any such le niency, considering that the social po sition of the lady should not shield her from the full responsibility, and that her offence, in extending aid and en couragement to such a public enemy, free hooter and highwayman as Gil more, was an act, not only against the Nation, but, the State of Map,land—a high crime, meriting the most vigor ous punishment—such as will deter many others of her sex in this city and Stain from like offences. GRANT'S INTENDED MOVEMENT.-- Private intelligence represents tha , all is in readiness with Gen. Grant's threes, for .an active forward move. ment, iu connection with Gen. Sher man's operations. The opinion was gaining ground that Sherman's destin ation Was a point neare}• to Grant than Savannah. 35,716 21,857 21,857 Rebel Accounts of Sherman's Ad- Vallee. ItEO.ll TUB LATEST 014ORGIA. PAPERS BALTIMORE, NOV. 25 The following extracts are taken from a file of late Georgia papers re ceived at the American office : Tho Auvustit Chronicle, of the 19th inst., publishes an appeal to Georgians by Senator Hill, as follows: ItionmoNo, Nov. 25 To the People of Georgia : You have now the best opportunity ever yet presented to destroy the enemy. Put every thing at the disposal of our generals; remove all provisions from the path of the invaders, and ,put all obstructions in his path. Every citi zen with his gun, and every negro with his spade and axe, can do the work of a good soldier. You can destroy the enemy by retarding his march. Geor gians, be firm, act promptly and fear not. [Signed,] B. 11. HILL. I most cordially approve the above. JAMES A. SEDDON, Secretary of War. Among the many war rumors on our streets to day is ono that Griffin is captured by the Yankees. As to tho correctness of the rumor, ve, have nothing to say. The Augusta Sentinel, of the 19th, says : Reliable news from up the river has been received. A gentleman who arrived on Thursday evening from Stone Mountain, reports that a Yankee column was moving down tho Georgia railroad, divided at. Decatur, one half going down the Covington road, and the other the Roekbridge road. At Stone maudlin they burned all the unoccupied houses, comprising some two-thirds of the town, and were laying waste the country as they pro gressed. They march in hollow squares with their trains in the centre. They united at Baker's Mill, near Covington, and it was not known whether they would strike for Eaton town or Athens. This gentleman says the view from the summit of Stone mountain of the conflagration of Atlanta was awful beyond description. The conflagration of the "Gatl City" was an ocean of flame as the fiery waves roie — and fed throughout its whole extent. Passengers on the Georgia railroad last night reported that about one hundred Federal cavalry made their appearance at School Circle on Thurs. day, and burned the railroad platform. It is not believed that they have come down any further than the Circle.— Their infantry encamped at or near Old E','heilield on Wednesday night. It is also reported that thoy have burned Monticello and Hillsboro', which, if true, indicates clearly that they design tapping the Central Rail road at Gordon, or some other point. Tho passenger train on the Georgia Road, yesterday, only came from Union Point. The Macon Telegraph of Friday states that the e:ty, on that day, was considerably excited owing to the va rious reports of tthe enemy who are known to be po'gitively mitrehing on the city. Gob. Cobb hag issued an order call ing out every man capable of bearing arms, and all who do not respond, he has ordered to be arrested. The Macon (Ga.,) Telegraph speaks thus of matters at the front : "We have reliable information to the effect that tho Yankees are advancing from Atlanta in this, direction in two col umns, ono on the McDonough road and the other by way of Jonesboro'. Our forces are at Griffin. More than this we deem it imprudent at present to state. A gentleman, who left Forsyth on Thursday, the 18th, at 3 o'clock, in forms us that a courier arrived at that place about half an hour before ho left and reported that there were some Yankee cavalry eight miles north of the town. All the bridges on the road.; from Forsyth to Indianapolis were burned by our forces. The latest reliable intelligence froin the front in Georgia has been received from it gentleman who left Griffin on Wednesday night at 10 o'clock. Gen. Wheeler fought the enemy who was advancing with a force estimated at from 25,000 to 30,000 in two columns, one on the McDonough road and the other on Jonesboro, at Bear Greek, ten miles above Griffin, until late in the evening, when lie fell back to Griffin, and was passing through that city onlts right. When our informant left, onOnfantry forces were falling back to Barnesville. It is probable at the time of writing this, that Sherman has occupied Grif fin, and will rapidly demonstrate. upon Ma'con and perhaps Milledgeville. We learn from a reliable source that Governor BroViin's residence, in Cau. ton, Cherokee county, embracing his commodious dwelling house, kitchen, out houses, .etc., together with his office buildings, were all burned to the ground by the vandal foe a fow days ago. • The officer in oommand of the party sent to do this work, allowed the fam ily who were living on the . premises at the time, only fifteen minutes to remove their furniture from the house, and all that was not removed within that time was destroyed by the flames. The same party burned the court house, jail and academy, with the ho tels and about two-thirds of the best dwellings and, business houses in Can ton. A force of some 3,000 or 4,000 of the vandals were within a mile or two of the town, while some seventy of the band wore sent into the town under an officer with orders to bur» the house of Gov. Brown and the pub lic buildings and houses of all who have been prominent Southern men. It is now evident that Sherman has inaugurated a winter campaign, and that Georgia is the field which he de signs to desolate. A terrible crisis is therefore upon us. Every man in the State, able to bear arms, should rally to the rescue. In the hands of the mili tary authorities, however, the defence of the State is left. We have no suggestion to make.— What wo have long looked for has come at laSt. We have no censure now to cast upon any - one, while we would urge upon every man in the State the necessity of uoing what pa. triotism and duty require him. The Telegraph further says, there is no doubt that too military authorities will do everything in their power to stay the advance of the enemy, and we trust they will receive the cordial support of the entire community. For obvious reasons we refrain from giving any information concerning the move ment, or of the number of our forces. The Savannah Republican, the only paper received at Washington, has those from Beauregard and some citizens: CORINTH, Nov. 18, via SELAIA, Nov.lB. To. the People of Georgia : Arise for the defence of your native soil. Rally round your patriotic Governor and gallant soldiers. Obstruct and destroy all the roads in Sherman's front, dank, and rear, and his army will soon starve in your midst. Confident and resolute, trust in an overruling Provi• derce, and success will crown your efforts. I hasten to join you in defeLee of your homes and firesides. G. T. BIiA.U.REGARD thertmoNo, Nov. 19, 1861 To the People of Georgia: We have had a special Conference with Presi• dent Davis and the Secretary of War, and are able to assure you that they_ have done and are still doing all that can be done to meet the emergency that presses upon you Let every man fly to arms ! Remove your ne groes, horses, cattle, and provisions away from Sherman's army, and burn what you cannot carry. Burn all the bridges and block up the road in his route. Assail the invader in front, flank, and rear, by night and day.— Let him have no rest. The above is signed by Julian Hart ridge, Mark Blandtbrd, J. IL Repolds, George N. Lester, W. E. Smith, J. F. Showmake, James M. Smith, and E. P. Bell. The same paper has the following dispatches: Micox, Nov. 19. The military authorities aro active and vigilant and every man is under arms, and confidence is being restored. The enemy are believed to be on our right—distant about thirty miles. The city will be defended to the last. This would seem to strengthen the belief that Augusta is tleir object.— The Central Railroad, near Griswold vine, was cut at 3 P. M., on the 20th, and the telegraph was destroyed.— (Any mu nieatiori ta;tvvei.in - - savammt, and iktaeon is destroyed, and the wires have been out between cordon and Milledgeville also. Prom the Army of the Potomaol WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—Information from the Army of the Potomac is to the effect that Thanksgiving day was truly a festive occasion among the soldiers. Since the news of President Lin coln's reelection has been circulated in the rebel army, the deserters to our lines have increased largely. h is said by the deserters that the number of soldiers known to be watch ing for favorable opportunities to escape to our lines is astonishing, and the demoralization is so general that the officers fear to trust any of their troops on picket. They have lost confidence, it is sta ted, even in the South Carolina and Virginia troops. Arrival of Paroled Skeletons at An- napolis. BALTIMORE, Nov. 26 The Annapolis correspondent of the American, writing on Friday evening. says two of the first vessels composing Col. Mu lord's fleet of transports, arri ved hero to day with paroled mon from Savannah. The steamers wore Atlantic, Capt. Gray. and Blackstone, Capt. Berry, the former having on board 649 living skeletons and eighty dead bodies. Wine others were buried on the pas 'age. Such was the wretched state :9f these poor men that our surgeons were themselves appalled at the awful sight. Not a single man of the whole number but had to be sent to the hos pitals, many to leave them only for toe graveyard. Letter from the West. MONMOUTH, ILL., Nov. 21, 1864 Friend _Lewis have been think ing for a long time of writing.you letter for publication, but owing to the excitement 4u political affairs in which your readers were necessarily interested, 1 thouaht, it best to allow room for what might more concern them. Now that the election is over, and our old friends got what they so much desired, a "fair election without a fight," and the result being so very soothing to their excited nerves, I propose to drop you a lino or more for publication. But did not Illinois do the fair thing in this election? The memory of Douglas and. his teachings are not forgotten in Illinois. We have not forgotten his dying ad monition, to mark him an untrue pa. triot who distrusts OUT cause and sows dissensions among us, and didn't we clean out all such ? was pleased to hear of your pro cession of Douglas Democrats march ing to the polls on the Bth, and voting for Lincoln and Johnson ; but don't you think it would have looked like a small show, in rortions of this State— for instance in Johnson county where Lincoln, in 1860 received but 40 votes, against 1,563 for. Douglas; now his majority is 950. Or in Pope county, when in 1860 he had but 1 . 27 against 1,202 for Douglas, nowhe has 600 ma. jority. But on the whole, old Penn sylvania did nobly. We were watch ing with great anxiety to hear the re sult on your October election, hoping for the best, but a little afraid withal, that the false pretences of the Chicago platform, with its delusive cry of peace, might deceive your Quaker and other noncombatants into the belief that it would accord with their princi ples bust to vote that ticket, and then . WO 'know how sorely some of your citizens had suffered by rebel raids, and bad insult added to injury by some well-meaning but foolish com ments of editors safe from harm them selves, who intimated that they ought to have protected themselves. And again we knew that while the high price of produce was helping our far mers and producers of Illinois, it was sorely pressing the families of your mechanics and operatives, especially the families of those left destitute by death or absence in the army. But thank God the eitivens of the old Keystone stood firm and nobly, spann ed the arch with the New England Union majorities as one column, Indi ana and Ohio for the other at the Oc tober election. Since that Limp. the only question with us was, how large a majority can we give ? We knew the result was certain, but we wanted to show our deluded brethren of the North, how much they were mistaken when they thought we were willing to give up whipped. Poor little Mack He was a good fellow, but like "poor dog tray," he was found in bad com pany, and had to suffer accordingly• But after all it was a good thing for the peace of the country that he was nominated at Chicago, for it prevented all disQuision of the grave charges preferred against Mr. Lincoln, for in •all these things, his Own friends being judges, he had gone further than Mr . Lincoln, in " suppression of free speech," " suppression of the writ of habeas corpus," " Arbitrary arrests," &e., and then his letter of acceptance killed the platform and the platform killed the letter of acceptance, and both killed him at the polls, and his death killed the copperheads ; and all together kills the bogus Democracy. So that although we lose little Mack, the country can say this, " his loss is our gain." The weather is quite cold here now; all kinds of snakes—political and oth ers have gone into their holes, and one can Intidly- 'realize - that we had a cam paign in blast so recently. People are all turning their attention to the ques- tion of what Sherman is doing. it, is no use to speculate on the probabilities, better to wait and see, and hope and pray for his success, whatever may be his designs. The crops here this sea son were very good, times are brisk, and everything apparently in-a-flour jelling condition. •A Small draft was made on our county to fill the'' quota for the . last_ call. Two of the eight sub districts into which the county is sub-divided, escaped altogether. This township, including the city of Mon mouth escaped, so that the draft fell mostly on farmers who choose to em ploy substitutes in nearly every case. The price of substitutes average about .$BOO. There was not the slightest show of resistance in our county whatever, although some time ago men foolishly talked of dying at home in case they were drafted, rather than go—when the draft came they wisely concluded to live as long as they could, and either went themselves or hired subs. The 0. A. K. alias S. L., &c., are corning to grief out here, and Uncle Sam seems inclined to give them no rest. "Arbitrary arrests" at Indianapolis and Chicago don't seem to exasperate anybody, and the honest Democrats curse them worse than do the Abolitionists. Yours &c., JOLIN PORTER. A Slight Mistakes A short time ago, says the Cincin nati Commercial, about forty deserters from Sherman's army, who bad been picked up in different parts of the county, were taken to Covington un der guard, and furnished with quarters at the barracks, head of Greenup street. They IVere dressed in citizens' clothes, and from their ragged, dirty appear ance, nearly everybody took them to be rebel prisoners. A lady, residing on Madison street, whose secession proclivities aro well known, showed her sympathy for the "poor Confeder ates," as she called them, by going to the barracks and asking of the core. mending officer the privilege of fur nishing a few of the prisoners with a good dinner and some clean clothes. The request was readily granted , and the lady prepared a most sumptu ous meal for about a dozen of the men, and, in addition, supplied now under shirts to four or five of the party ; gave one a pair of shoes and another a coat worth thirty dollars. She even went so far as to comb the hair of sev eral of them with.hor own hands. All these little acts of kindness wore Of course duly appreciated by the men, and when about to leave for the rail road depot en rout for Lexington, they. thanked hor, all, very cordially. Air this juncture the lady asked some of the men to whose command they be longed. "To Sherman's army," was the response. The lady, somewhat surprised, said, "flood's army, you mean !" "No," said they, "we belong to Sherrnan's army." "Thou you are deserters, I suppose," remarked. the discomfated female secessionist. 'Yes; was the reply ; whereupon the ad mirer of Davis, Breckinridge, Beaure guard, &c. , gave her guests a look of unfeigned disgust, and took herself off in a hurry, vowing, no doubt, that the next time she attempted to assist her Mouthern friends," she would make share of their identity. 44,f - Gen. SllOllllllll hes with him, in the Georgia campaign, one of the beet scouts in the Southwest—an old man, a native Georgi an, and a wealthy elaveholder at that, The Cleaning of a Great City. Some idea of the mode ofkeepingit. groat city clean may be gained from the following statement which we clip from a New York paper: " There are two hundred and sixtY eight miles of paved streets •in ttUs city, averaging thirty-three feet lit width. This gives at: area of one thousand one hundred and thirty-nine acres to be cleaned. The City Ittspec, tor has the whole area swept oven every fortnight; about one-half is swept twice every fortnight; about one-quarter is. swept three_ . timeS; three hundred and forty-five acres are' cleaned six times, and seventy-five acres twelve times, iu the same space of time. This is equivalent to clean ing three thousand five hundred and fifty-three acres once in two weeks.— In addition to this work,-the ash carts traverse every mile of the streets; on each side, everyday, Sundays - except. ed. This is equivalent -to traversing five hundred •and thirty-six miles a day, and conveys some idea of the ex tent of this magnificent - metropolis city. The returns of the Bereau of Sani tary inspection of the City Inspector's Department show that forty-thousand three hundred and six loads of street dirt, ashes, garbage, and rubbish have been removed from' this city in-two weeks. At this rate one million forty sevdn thousand nine hundred and fifty six loads would, be removed in'a year. The loads average fourteen. °tibia feet, and this gives an amount equal to four teen million six hundred and seventy- one thousand three hundred and eigh ty-four cubic feet.. This would form a solid cube of dirt two lnindred and forty-three feet in extent, or much higher than the spire of Trinity church, with the same dimensions each way. . . . . The average price paid per load for carting away this - immense mass is about thirty-eight cents. This makes a total exiitnse of $398,223 98 . por annum. RESPONSE TO GEN. BUTLER'S SPEECH -The Richmond Whig makcis the fol lowing response to General Butler's invitation to "come back :" • "'Come back, come back" now,' he• tolls us, 'and quit feeding. on husks, and live with neon/the fat of the land:, But until we want to associate.with, felons and cutcasts, thieves, robbers and murderers, we shall, - we think, decline the gentle invitation. Husks,. after all, though not a very generous, diet, will, keep na up for a time;, and and they are at least preferable to all the fat of Xrcvl,•-xu-ht-te-jure want to - -- - was kind, perhaps, in• Butler to offer, us the good things of his country, but lie ought not to have had tbo deuce to offer to sit down with us at the same table." • . TTRAY. CALF.—Came to the prem. igox of the subscriber in Warrierereark.twp.. •e• about the 20th of September last, a light Itlle pai'4 • • Steor CALF, supposed to bean early epring pair. O•PR The owner is requested to come forward, prove property,! bey charges, and take him away; otherwise lie will be sold according to law. .111.13:0111$021. • Werrioremark tp., N0T.34-31A "rfIIIE lIUMAN FACE DIVINA". 1, A New system of Phyelognomy—Nyes, Ears Noce, Lips, Mouth, flew:l.-Hair, Hands, Yeat, Skin, with ell "Stone OP CLIARACTIqI,i' and how to Stead them, given in the • Phrenological Journal and Life Illustra ted, for 1865. S. R. WELLS, .Editor. . . 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