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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." • .
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