AMERICAN VOLUNTEER.
iOHfli BaBHATTON,, Editor & Proprietor!
CARLISLE, PA., DECEMBER 19,1801,
“ Foreverfloat that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe put falls before usT.
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet.
And Freedom’s banner waving o’er vs . „
Our patrons are. reminded that we want
jionet, not bo much for ourselves as it is
wanted by bur creditors. Friends, you can
all "help us a little, and every dollar you. may
pay us, will be thankfully received and duly
acknowledged. Like generous patrons, as
you always have been, send or bring in your
mites, whether for Subscription, Advertising
or Job Work, and be assured that you will
thereby discharge an honest obligation —io
:e press —and thus gladden the
bVTg fi t Of tmr
O’-Our; distant • subscribers, North, West
and East, will greatly oblige us by remitting
their indebtedness by mail, and we hope they
will do Soj without further invitation.
A Hint To Advertisers. —A bulk window
in which to expos? your wares, is it very good
institution, because it attracts the attention
of tho'pcbple to your place of business ; but
an advertisement is better. People who pass
your place only see your bulk window, but
your advertisement' penetrates every street
and alley in the place. “ The mountain would
not come to Mahomet, so Mahomet wont to
the mountain.” The bulk -window will not
go to the purchaser, but the purchaser will
go to the bulk window, if it is advertised in
the newspapers. It is a plain case, and few
at this late day but what can see it. Those
who have goods suitable for holiday presents
should let the public hoar from them—where
they are and what they have.
Consecration' of St. Johns Church.— The
consecration of St. Johns Church, by Rt. Rev.
.Bishop Potter, will take place on Wednes
day, the 18th inst., at 10 o’clock, A. M. Ser
mon by Rev. B. B. Lacock, of Harrisburg.
Confirmation services at 7 o’clock, P. M,
Services on Thursday, at 10J A. M. and 7
P. M. "...
The English. Lutheran Sunday SChooi.
of this place will celebrate their anniuersary
on Wednesday evening next, (Christmas,) in
the First Lutheran Church. The exercises
will consistof addresses, dialogues, and hymns
by the scholars, all appropriate to the occa
sion. .
Tickets of admission, 10 cents, each.. They
may be had of H. S. Hitter, IP. Sa.vtOn, D.
Huoads, J. Cornman, or at the door of the
church. .
The exercises will commence at 0 J o’clock.
Davis’ Panorama op The Great HEREr,-
iios.—This splendid series of moving Pano
ramic views will bo exhibited at Rhecm’a
Hall, for two evenings only—Thursday and
Friday. It starts from home with a splendid
reputation, and there is little doubt but what
the young and energetic artist will be liberal
ly patronized here. The bills of the day fully
describe, the scenes, which are upwards of
one hundred in number, and are just at the
present time deeply interesting. Tickets 25
cents. An entertainment for children will
take place on Friday afternoon—tickets 10
cents.
The Good Work Still Progressing.
We loam, that another box of blankets,
Blockings, &c., -was shipped a few days ago
by A. L. Spongier, on behalf of the'ladies of
Carlisle and vicinity to “The Cooper‘ Shop
Hospital,, of Philadelphia,” for the use of our
sick and. wounded soldiers, who are greatly
in want of such articles, the receipt of which
has been , handsomely acknowledged by Dr.
A, Nebinger, on behalf of the Institution, with
many thanks to the kind donors. The follow
ing are the names of the contributors and a
list of articles forwarded:
Mrs David Line, 2 blankets; Miss Martha
Duncan, 2 pairs wollen socks; Mrs Rebecca
Henderson, 2 pairs socks; Mrs Mary Line, 1
blanket and 2 pairs woolen socks; Mrs Katy
Simmons, 2 pairs do; Mrs llettie Craighcad j
2 pairs do; Mrs Ann U Seymour, 3 pairs do;
Mrs L M Baird, 0 pairs do; Mrs Charles
McClure, 2 pairs do; Mrs John Spahr, 4 pairs
do '; Mrs Dr T C Stevenson, 1 blanket and 1 j
pair woolen socks ; Mrs David Ralston, 1 blan
ket; Mrs William B Mullin, 2 pairs woolen
socks ; Mrs Win M Beotom, 2 pairs do; Mrs
John P Rhoads, 2 blankets ; Mrs Johnson, 2
pairs woolen socks; Mrs Jacob Kutz, 1 blan
ket and 2 pairs woolen socks; Miss Ulrich and
Mrs Squires, 2 pairs woollen socks; Mrs
Charles Ogllby, 2 pairs do; Mrs Dr Baugh
man, 2 pairs do; Mies Whiteman, 1 pair doj;
Mrs Dillman, 2 pairs do; Miss Jane MoDow- j
ell, 1 pair do, and 1 pair gloves; Mrs John
Irvine, 2 pairs woolen socks; Mrs John Star- (
ret, 2 pairs do; Miss Rachel Toner, 2 pairs i
aV. Ml RB n ll S n w nd Emi, 7 Mi ”er, 7 pairs 1
do, Mrs II X. Burkholder, 1 pair do- Miss
Bottle Noble, 3 pairs do; Mrs Watts 1 c
pair do; Miss Juba ’Watts, 3 pairs do; Mis’A 1
Cqrnman, 1 pair do; Mrs S mifner, 2 pairs do; <
Miss Annie Lamberton, 1 pair do; Mrs M
Damberton, 1 blanket; Mrs Joseph A Stuart
2 blankets; Mrs Rev J Ulrich, 2 blanketshpd
4 pairs woolen socks; Mrs Barbara Ann Lebn,
1 blanket and 2 pairs woolen socks; Mrs Rev |
J Clero, 4 pairs woolen socks and 1 pair mitts;
Mrs N Hantch, I.comfort and 3 pairs woolen
socks;"Miss Susan Zells',T pair woolen socks f
Mrs Jonathan Heagy, 2 pairs do; Mrs Wm
Morrison, I 1 pair do; Mrs Jacob Rhcem, 2
bed gowns and 2 pairs drawers; Mrs Dr II
M Johnson, 3 pairs woolen socks, and Mrs
George W Shcafcr, 4 pair woollen, socks.
Now, if Ever.
4 Craven Cry,
“ The Sccesh are upon us I Hoi niggers io
the rescue!” Can it be believed that there
are' American freemen dastardly, enough to
raise a cry liko thnt?’ .There is not a day wo
do not hear it. It is-bnwled.at every pointof
the compass, and comes down to us from oven
the sacrftd .walls, of the : Capitol. They de
mand emancipation ns n military necessity.'
In effect wo are-told that the twenty millions
' of the North are no match for the six millions j
of the South—that we are doomed to defeat,
unless we got the help, of the black man. —
They do not, like to*havo it put just in that
style, but it amounts to exactly that. Short
of that, their “ military necessity ” would bo
a misnomer, and their claim- to nbolitionise
under the war power the baldest pretext.—
Wo say that a viler insult was never dealt
upon the Northern name. The worst libel
over uttered by Southern slave-drivers does
not equal it. If it be true that, with such
‘ numerical odds in our favor, and with the no
blest cause that ever appealed to man, we
must crave the,succor of slaves; if we must
look to the poor, blind, creeping African to
help vindicate our birthright and'stay us up
■in our extremity, then let it be recorded, we
are “ mudsills "iapdccd. There is no word of
scorn too low for us. We cannot court the al
liance of slaves without proving that wo are
ourselves fit to bo slaves. It is our heritage
that- is assailed', not theirs; and if our own
good right arms, with all the advantage they
have, cannot protect it, we may as well at
once advertise our degeneracy to the world,
and prepare to take ouf place ns underlings.
Emancipation ns a military necessity! A
military necessity! If emancipation must
come, for the honor of our fathers, for our
own for the prospects of our
children, for the good name of free gpvern
,-ionf- -.1 nil. fj a- ilin flin-nify nf rliP-.-vylutn. rnnC
let it take any shape but that. So says the
World.
> Terrible Locomotive Explosion.— We
learn from the Columbia S pi/, that a terrible
explosion of li locomotive* engine occurred on
. Thursday afternoon of last week, while the
engineer was preparing to take the noon
train, which,was behind time, from i(Frighfs
ville, York county, to York. The engine ex
ploded whilst in the net of backing npfor the
passenger car, in Front street, Wrightville,-
killing the fireman, Mr. Jessie Partner, in
stantly, and so injuring the engineer, Chns.
Gciselman, that he died in about half an
hour. The explosion was terrific, and shat
teredengino and tender, throwing fhe form
er a complete summersault, blowing frag
ments. in every direction.. The accident hap
pened directly in frontof Solomon McCanly’s
Confectionary, and the explosion (shattered
that and neighboring houses for half a square
breaking windows, covering everything with
mud and soot, and in one instance knocking
a considerable hole through a brick wall.
The track was torn lip and the ground hol
lowed by force of the blow. Attached to the
engine was a train, of freight cars, which
were, wo believe, uninjured. Several per
sons standing near narrowly escaped destruc
tion.-
K7* The aduiiasjon that are recog
nized ns property by the Constitution dnd
laws of the United States is an abandonment
of the whole Republican theory upon this
subject, and a recognition of the principle of
the Bred Scott decision. The Republicans
denied that slaves were property, because
they wanted to interfere and set them free,
pov thoy'olaim that they arc propertyyfor the
accomplishment of the same object.
The reason why the radical or Aboli
tion Republicans'in Congress so bitterly op
posed an amicable settlement of our difficul
ties on the basis, of the Crittenden Compro
mise is now apparent. The adoption of that
measure would have preserved the union of
all the States, and prevented the carrying out
of their fanatical Abolition views. . To free
the negroes is all they care about, no matter
what becomes Of the white laboring man or
the country. The course of these radicals in
Congress note is not to be misunderstood.
Ton Much Talk. —Gen. McClellan' recent
ly said there was too much talking done by
his officers—a hint which some of them fail to
take. Col. Cochrane, for instance, not only
made a long hour’s speech when Gon. McClel
lan would have said but twenty words, but
he even undertook to mark out and proscribe
the policy which the Government should pur
sue,in the prosecution of the war. This was
mbdest for a Colonel, truly. Compare it with
the course to the two highest officers in the
army, Gens. McClellan and llalleck. The
former declined to speak at all in response to
a recent serenade, and has made no speech
of over six lines in length. Gen. llalleck,
" hen serenaded on his arrival .in St. Louis,
spoke thus:
“I thank you for the compliment of this ser
enade. I appear before you as a stranger,
and under orders from the Government. I
am sent hero to restore peac’o and quiet to
your city, and to drive every hostile flag out
of your State, and by your assistauce 1 1 fill do
it.”
These officers are soldiers ; those who make
long stump speeches are politicians'and dem
agogues, generally. Tho people will have no
hesitation as to which are to bo trusted.
EtST The Newport Aryus, speaking of tho
Thanksgiving Sermons preached in Boston,
says :“ If these sermons are to.bo regarded
as tho voice of tho Boston Pulpit, they settle
the question as to tho object of the war, as
tho Pulpit understands it. They all unite
in affirming that it is to put down the slave
power. They all say so, in plain English.—
But the President, in the meantime, persists
in declaring that such is not his purpose.—
Now, why don’t ho just send these Rev. gen-
tlemen down to Fort Warren,- ns he has other
people who have home false witness against
him? Ho might do so without either making
or breaking anybody, if the Fort did’nt gain
more than tho Pulpit would lose by sueh an
operation.’”
Treasury Notes for Postage. —Some of
our Pennsylvania postmasters having declined
o receive United States Treasury notes, pay
able on demand, the Postmaster General has
£-lOdicailng4lißtrit-isHlrei r -dn t T
to, “fee SUCh » payment of postage';
but of course, ,t >, not- expected that.they
will put thenißelves to inconvenience hy re
turning specie in any unreasonable amounts
byfway of making change.'
0“A onroful rending .of tlio proceedings
of Congress up to this time would create the
im occasion that this was a special session,
called for the purpose of considering matters
exclusively appertaining to the “ colored
folks." ’
Thointorcst of the white man appears-to
have sunk into insignificance. Every'Abo
litionist,is loaded to tho muzzle with negro
resolutions. Henry Wilson wants them all
lot out of. jail. We shall soon expect to see
a proposition that no negro-shall-be punished
by imprisonment. — Columhus { O.) Statesman ..
If Congress was- composed entirely of ne-
I groes their legislation could" not bo more for
tho race than it is now. No proposition is
received with any favor, says the Cincinnati
Enquirer, unless it proposes to do something
lor tho black. A foreign stranger would sup
pose, from tho deliberations of Congress, that
tho whites had no questions of their own for
deliberation or discussion. Tho members had
hardly taken their seats before a. dozen of
them sprung up and pulled out a batch of
resolutions relating to some negro-grievance
or disability, or directly proposing negro
emancipation. The more violent the propo
sition for, the negro —tho more extravagant
and absurd—the greater tho favor of its re
ception. Congress seems actually to have be
come slarJc mad, and the porformances'which
have been enacted there in the shape of res
olutions and propositions have excited tho as
tonishment and indignation of tho country.
The members —tho practical, useful members
: —who wish to do something for the country,
can not get a word in' its behalf. Unless
there iS some improvement or reform soon, the
Congress will be voted.a,political nuisanccof
the worst character—an intolerable nflliction
upon’the patriotism and 1 good sense of the
country
After all, the negroes are hut five millions
to the whites’ twenty-fire millions, and we
insist that the former shall not monopolize
r dfcwvivoie-aUcn^
turc. If Congress would try half as hard to
restofe the Union ns it does to free the negro,
it would undoubtedly accomplish the task.
The Civil War. in America.— Thus, then
if we are to believe Senator Sumner, the sur
est way of re-establishing pCacc in North
America will.be fe let loose several millions
of blacks and incite them to murder and in
cendiarism., ■
We are .certainly no partisans of slavery,
.but we do not hesitate te say that* such. a
course would be a,profanation of liberty, fal
sifying its divine origin, and serving only as
an element of disorder and destruction.—
Translated from the Paris 1 ays of Nov. 3.
, Not at homo, only, but abroad,- there is a
“ reaction” of ideas, on' the subject of emanci
pation. The mere ipse dixit of a fanatic on
tho subject, no longer carries conviction,
though strengthened by the position and high
sounding title of “ Senator.” In times when
all principles and theories relating to order
and'good government are tried by the surest
tests—it is not surprising to.find men as well
ns principles, sinking to their natural level,
however puffed up and pretentious before.
Thus Fremont has found his. The influence
of the Beecher and Greely faction is lessen
ing; while “ Senator Sumner, the-Jove of
the Senate,” whoso admirers have held up his
statesmanship for the approving gaze of the
world, has sunk to the 'role of an Abolition
lecturer of the grade of Wendell Phillips, full
of stale .quotations wherewith to garnish the
slender thread of the “ one idea” he elabor
ates. The fall is not singular, for such must
be tho fate of men claiming tho right of di
rection in public affairs, yet whose minds have
no cosmopolite element, or capacity to grasp,
harmonize and comprehend the different in'
terests and relations which inspire two sections
of a country, but are narrowed down to a
single theory, on which they spend their force
and wreck themselves politically. The race
has had its day hero and in Europe, and their
peculiar ideas are meeting with just condem
nation when characterized as elements of
disorder and destruction.”— Albany Argus.
Aid and Comfort,
The leaders of the Southern rebellion in
duced the timid and vascillating to join their
ranks by constantly, assorting that the Feder
al Govornmept intended to conquer the South
and set free the slaves. j Of course this was a
lie, invented to “fu-o the Southern heart.’'
But what must bo the gratification of Mr.
Jefferson Davis and his fellow conspirators
when they discover that tho Republican mem
bers of Congress have determined to convert
their falsehoods into truths by making the
war what they have hitherto falsely said it
was—a War against slavery? If this is not
givng aid and comfort to-the enemy wo do not
know what is.
Tiiadeus Stephens. —Tho veritable-“ Old
Thad,” who figured so extensively, in the
“Buckshot war,” andwho went in for “throw
ing conscience to the devil,” that tho power
of Ritner might bo perpetuated, has come
up from the cateoombs of that great “ Buck
shot” battlefield, and appears to be usurping
tho powers of a dictator down at Washington,
recommending that General McClellan shall
bo arrested, &c. Where is a second John
Snyoer with his big Hickory broom ? It is
high time that “old Thad” was. again swept
out of our legislative halls. If ho is allowed
do control our nation, he will soon end it
whore ho ended his lallroa'd—out in the wil
derness.
Wo are to bequeath a thousand mill
ions or more of debt, growing out tills rebel-
to our posterity ; that, just now, seems
inevitable. Shall we bequeath them- tho cause
of it, too, so that they may have a like contest,
while National credit shall be impaired by
the debt wo are creating?— N. Y. Tribune.
Wo trust not—we hope' Hint when this waj
shall have ended in the restoration of the
Union with thorightsot the Statesunimpaired,
that the Abolitionists Who are the original
cause of our National troubles will never bo
hoard of again except as n warning to future
generations.
3 .'O’ While the Democracy were constantly
tolling the Republican Abolitionists the ca
lamities to which their sectionalism would
lead, and for which wo were called Union-
Savers, Banks, Giddings, and such. Republi
cans were saying-, “ let the Union slide!" —
Now had wo Democratic “ Union-savors" hot
ter go to those “Union-sliders" to ho good
Union mon, or still fight for tho Union, the
J Constitution and tho laws, under our old han
‘n—■- —
DT7”Are white freemen capable of preserv
ing the institutions of this country? If not
let us acknowledge ourselves the slaves of
slaves, by imploring the negroes to conic to
>our assistance.
Dr. Breckinridge.
The Kov. Dr. R. J. Rredkinridge, of Ken
tucky, undo' of the Hon. J. C. Breckinridge,
late candidate for the Presidency, and now
an officer fn the Confederate army, is one of
the most loyal men in the Union. In a recent
letter to a friend in Baltimore, he thus strong
ly expressed'himself:
“Wo shall. have bloody wprk and a good
deal o{ it; but Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and
Illinois, (remember that one-third of the peo
ple of.tho three last, named States are the
ohildren of Kentuckians,) will put out their
whole military stronth to repel this invasion,
and follow the routed rebels to their utmost
don. If the whole of the balance of tlio loyal-
States can regain Virginia,! and hold Mary
land and Missouri, the four States I- have
named above are a full match for the remain
ing ten Secession States, and if you will com
pare the facts concerning tlm four States now
rallying against this atrocious invasion, with
those of the ton most southerly Secession
States, you will see that I speak soberly.—
This invasion of Kentucky was pure madness.
It opens along four hundred miles the rout
for armies into the South, and it makes the
secession of Kentucky from the Union surely
j and eternally impossible. One-third part of
the population was "disloyal; the other two
thirds are as loyal as any people that live.:—
fliis is what I have said continually, and they
have been fearfully fried, they have continu
ally vindicated my judgement of them, and
they will,do it to the end. I think God mill
give-us the victory, and that the national life
°J our country will he restored ”
Destruction of the Cotton Crop.— The
Richmond Dfspate/i, of the 11th inat., received
by the Old. Point boat, contains the following
mail items;
o Tlig Charleston Courier of the Bth says,
that on .Wednesday nighta detachment of the
Beaufort artillery, 22 men, passed over to the
Island and visited Beaufort, where utter des
olation and abandonment was relieved only
by the presence of one light and* a barking
dog. There were no signs of the enemy either
on land or water;.. Our men t.hpn
to tliifwork of destruction, ’The chief objoci
trns to destroy the stops of cotton and provis
ions on Paris ' Island,'which, being near the
enemy,, was crowded by the negroes, who had
flocked there to escape from the, control of
their owners. Owing to the want of boats,
■this object was but partially effected. Seven
bales of cotton and seven hundred
bushels of corn were burnt on Or. Thomas
Fuller’s plantation.-
Returning to. tliQ. battery plantation, the
work of destruction was resumed, and the
torch was successively applied to the cotton of
twelve other plantations, and the contents-of
five barns wero-emptied and consumed. 'Sev
enteen crops, amounting to-nearly-four.thou
sand bales, were thus effectually removed
from the fangs of the destroyers.
The Lmuton Times on the Mason mil Slidell
Arrest.
. The .London Times la more moderate in its
comments on tho Mason and Slidell capture
than the News. .. ..
While denying' that the Tedoral Govern
ment, ore its own position, that tho existing
war is a mere rebellion, has a right to over
haul neutral ships, it nevertheless admits that
England herself has established-the prece
dents which tells against her in this mat
ter of the, Trent; but those precedents wore
made under circumstances very different,.it
asserts, from those which now occur. Eng
land was then fihting for existence, and did
in those days what, she would not do now, or
allow others to doib
In discussing the question whether,Mason,
and Slidell were liable to capture as belliger
ents.or contrabands, on board tlio Trent,,the
Times states it as tjßkfipipjon of very eminent
jurists that tbTa^iSßfuotthe fjufistion to bo
adjudicated by tb<; boat’s' crew; Tho legal
course would have been to take the ship itself
into port for adjudication. It concludes with
the expression that Englishmen will discuss
the question with calmness, and appeals to
the Federal States not to provoke a war by
such acts! 1
Gen. llaleeck Sustained. —The first groat
conservative victory was gained in Congress
on 'Wednesday of last week when the resolu
tion offered by Mr. Lansing, of Now York,
condemning the order of , Gen. I-lallcok rela
tive to fugitive slaves, Was laid on the table,,
on motion of Mr.. Yai.i.andioham, by a vote
of yeas ,78, nays “64. AIL the eloquence of
Field Marshal Thqd. Stevens and Gen. Owen
Lovejoy could nob induce the House to cen
sure General Hallock.,.
OCT* The special Washington dispatch of
the New York Herald, says it is stated upon
reliable authority that the estimate of the re
requirements of the Government during the
next fiscal year will make it necessary to call
for appropriations amounting to one thousand
and sixty milliohs'of dollars.
DCT’Thelloiiscol Representativohave passed
a resolution requesting the President to in
augurato.systematio measures for the exchange
of prisoners in the present rebellion. . This is
a good move, and one demanded by humani
ty arid common sense.
• JJSy The Intelligencer, a Republican paper
at Tunckhannook has suspended. So they go
down one after another in these prosperous
times which they promised the people one
year ago; Peace to their ashes, and may. the
blighting political miasma, which they spread
over the country, sink with them.
JKaJf" The Democrats of Detroit, Michigan,
at the recent election, elected their candidate
for Mayor, by about 400 majority, and seven
of the ton Democratic nominees .for Aider
men. The Republican majority last fall in
the city on Presidential electors was 514.
New U. S. Senator mow Kentucky.— :
The Legislature of Kentucky, on Tuesday,
elected lion. Garret Davis to the United States
Senate for the, unexpired term of John C.
Breckinridge. lie was nominated by only
one majority over llo.i. James Guthrie. Mr.
Davis is a resident of Bourbon county, and
was a member of the House from 1839 to 1847
inclusive. Ho was a warm Whig, a devoted
friend of Henry Clay, able and intensely con
sorvativc. Ho opposed the last Convention
and the new Constitution of Kentucky, and
was thrown into the shade in consequence.—
Mr. Davis now is about 58 years old.
A Significant Hemark of President
Lincoln, —Said a , leading Democrat of the
West, the other' day, to the President, “If
those who helped to place you in power were
as truly your friends, and as unselfish' and
honest in their Support of your Administra
tion, ns those who opposed you, you would
have less trouble.” “Ibegin to think to,"
replied the President.
IHT” A general’ order has been issued by
General McClellan, enjoining upon recruits
officers the necessity of exercising more care
than heretofore in regard to the class of men
they accept for service.
Mr. Editor: —As it is natural to take pride
in the talents and skill of our artists, and to
rejoice irf- their success, I take the liberty of
requesting you to publish a few lines giving
some account of a magnificent Panorama, de
signed and executed by Mr. Habby IR Davis,
a young and gifted artist who has been 1 for
several years a citizen of Harrisburg, whore
ho painted the Panorama, and whore ho ex
hibited it last night before an assembly of
from twelve to. fifteen hundred. It is styled
the “ Panorama of America and the Great Ko
bellion,” and;consists of one hundred and-two
scones, covering about fourteen thousand feet
of canvass. The scones aro all American in
character, dither historical ok physical, many
of them bearing upon the customs and man
ners of 1 the aborigines of this country,. The
first scene gives us a representation of the
Discovery of America, and is followed by oth
ers of remarkable events in the early history
of our country. The part, however, that at
tracts most attention and excites the greatest
interest is that pertaining to the great rebel
lion, consisting of forty-eight scenes, in which
the most prominent incidents of the civil war
now raging in this country, aro exhibited.—
This portion opens with a view of the evacu
ation of Port Moultrie, and ends with the re
treat of the rebels from Fort Walker to Bluff
ton. The.whole affair isadmirahly conceived
and skilfully executed, and its representation
afforded the greatest gratification to the largo
and discriminating audience' before whom it
was exhibited. It has been pronounced a
complete success, and I have no doubt it wlil
command'universal admiration wherever it
will be exhibited. As it is the design of Mr.
Davis to exhibit it in Carlisle,' immediately
• after ho has finished exhibi ting it in Harris}
..I’PAr]. I 1- ;.;’ ;. - . . jl. C.......it.
and. its vicinity, not to fail, of seeing one of
tho finest exhibitions of the kind oj’or given
before tho American public. I assure you it
is no catch-penny affair, ns all who have al
ready seen it will, testify. Mr. Davis is not
only a good artist but he is also a gentleman
in tho true sense, of the'word. He designs
to afford both instruction and amusement.—
Tho designs are all of a moral and patriotic
character, so that tho strictest moralist could
not find fahlt with them. I hope, therefore,
that the good people;of Carlisle will give Sir,
Davis a full house whenever ho will exhibit
there his great “ Panorama of America and
tho Great Rebellion. ' R.
White Hall, December 13, 1801. , ,
The White Feather Party, —There is at
length a party in. the country', to.whom this
nanio most righteously.belongs; the frighten
ed newspapers and their, frightened allies,
who are shouting that the armies of the
Ifir.th, a.half million strong, with. McClellan,
at their liead,cannot ooiuj aer the soliels, and who
demand an alliance, .offensive-and defensive,
with tho slaves.of the south to assist bur, fee
ble, forces! Ibis weakness has at length ran
.into .alisoluto cowardice. They .'turned
fairly with their backs to the enemy. They
stand now, trembling in absolute 'fright, and
begging.for the emancipation and arming (if
tho negroes, as the last hope of the-Union. In
all'directions, we'see them, with' white, faces
shaking in their shoes and stammering, or
crying, .‘.I the negroes, the negroes, wo can't
save ourselves, let us get the, negroes to help
ns, or all is lost.”/ Mark the-nsen, and when
ever yon hear this .cry for negro help, rest
assured that you scS a mim who Is a’ thorough
coward, and who Is. busy . doing Ids best to
bring reproach on the ability and courage of
the Union army. Hereafter there can bo no
doubt who are the cowards, and wearing tho
whiter feather.— Journal of Commerce. ,
New York Doc. .12.
The Mississippi Oovf.enotson hie Kedei.t.-,
ion. —Gov: Pettns; of Mississippi, in bis mes
sage to the Legislature, urges that all private
griefs and political aspirations be set aside-in
favor of united action". “If the ship,” ho says,
“is lost, the captain goes with it I —if our cause
is lost, all who hold big. places in the South
ern States must perish first in the fall.” This
is the rebel patriotic idea. It is the “big
places,” out of which they expected to bo
turned, which induced them to rebel, and the
fear of losing-those they now hold in the reb
el government keeps up their resistance, , In
this idea there is very little consideration for
the people.or their prosperity, which agrees
entirely with the object'of the rebellion, which
is to deprive the common people of their po
litical rights and vest all political power in
their assumed masters. Vo dobut the.fear of
losing the “big places” will make the loaders
hold out desperately. If they could be caught
and disposed of the rebellion would not exist
many hours after. The frankness of Pettus
proves that' the rebel oligarchy have made
considerable progress already towards despo
tism, for such a public admission could only
comb from One who, had too much contempt
for public opinion, to attempt to conceal the
selfish considerations, which iuspire tho class
to which he belongs.
o*Two of JbuN W. Founevls favorites,
(because they were distinguished revilers of
Sir. Buchanan,) have been making their
marks. We refer to Cob Kerrigan of Now
York, under arrest and on trial for offences,
some involving the charge of treason; and to
Geo. N. Sanders, who is writing letters ex
tolling the secession movement, and hoping
that life European lovers of freedom will ex
tend their sympathies to the South.
{jgy-Tlio evidence is daily accumulating, of
a dark, deep plot by which the Federal Gov
ernment is to bo forced if possible, into the
emancipation policy of the Abolitionists or as
the alternative, the recognition of the South
ern Confederacy. “No union with slavehold
ers,” has been the watchword, and the effort
is now to make it the war cry also.
The Providence Post concludes, from
tho recent elections, “that everything, so far
as tho heart and mind of tho people Can at
this time bo felt and discerned, is looking
bright with cheer for the future, and that
it will not bo many years before wo shall have
the good, and dignified, and glorious old days
of pure Democracy back again.”
o”lnThe case of Catharine N. Forrest
against Edwin Forrest, a full bench of the
Superior Court of Now York has decided
against tho motion of defendant fur a new
trial, and confirmed tho award of $4,000 a
year alimony.
O*A plucky little British middy recently
slapped tho august oars of his royal highness
Prince Alfred, who thereupon indignantly re
ported to tho officer in command. Investiga
tion showed that tho indignity was tho result
of princely impertinence, and all tho satisfac
tion which His Highness got therefore was a
piece of advice to tho effect that in future ho
nacTbetterltoep a civil tongue in his head.
BSf Hon. David Wilmot, United States
Senator from Pennsylvania, - has returned
home, on account of find health. Ho is said
to bo very ill, and his disease is supposed to
be cancer in the stomach.
For the Vo.lualeor,
A magnificent Work of Art,
THE WAR NEWS.
PROM WASHINGTON..
Brilliant Victory in- Western Virginia—Two
Thousand Rebels Defeated by Seven Hun
dred and Fifty Federals—Rebel Loss Two
Hundred; Federal ImsS Thirty—A Georgia
General Badly Wounded—The Rebels Burn
their Barracks and Retreat for Staunton —
Western Virginia Cleared of them—lmpor
iantNcws From the South—lncendiaries at
work in Charleston —yj. Great Conflagration
Raging There—Later from Europe — War-
Like Preparations—The Release of Mason
—and Slidell Demanded 1
A Great Conflagration atCliarlcg
■ ■ ton; -
Fortress Monroe, Doc. 13,
A telegraphic dispatch to the Norfolk Day
Book of to-day, from Charleston, S. C., states
that a fire broke out in that place on AVednos
nesday night, which was supposed to have
been the work of an incendiary, and at tho
date of tho last dispatch, 5 o’clock on Thurs
day afternoon, tho conflagration was still rag
ing. The Round Church, the Theatre on
Broad street, the Institute and other public
buildings are stated to have been destroyed.
Tho fire had swept across Broad street. As-,
sistanoo was sent for to Agusta.
[later.] • ■
Baltimore, Dec. 15.—AVo learn from the'
Captain of tho Norfolk boat that he-was in
formed by tho captain of the steamer Illinois,
from Port Royal, that ho passed within six
miles of Charleston harbor at 10 o’clock on
Thursday night,, and that a tremendous con
flagration , was evidently at its bight in that
city. Tho-reflection on.the clouds exceeded
anything ho ever -saw* and 1 the whole bay,
with the dark outlines of Port Sumpter, was
brightly illuminated.- It did not appear like
the reflection from smouldering'ruins, but.
from an uncontrollable conflugiation. This 4
is later than the Norfolk Day Book dispatch.
Another Battle in iVcstcrn Vir-
jp-i-MuL
CINCINNATI, GOO. 14'.
A special dispatch from Ghent Mountain,
to the Commercial, says that yesterday one of
the hardest and he,st fought battles of tho war
was fought at Allegheny Camp, Pocahontas
county, Western Virginia, Omi. 11, 11. Milroy
commanding the Union troops, and Gen.
Johnson, of Georgia, commanding the rebels.
The light lasted from.. daylight till three,
o’clock, p. m. The Uniondoasis about 40, and
the rebel loss over 200, including a major and
many other officers. Thirty prisoners were
captured.
■Gen. Johnson,of Georgia, was shot in .the.
month, but not'fatally injured.'■ The .Twelfth
Georgia regiment suffered severely. '
Gen, Milroy.’s force numbered 750-raori,
the Ninth and Thirteenth Indiana; the Twen
fifth and Thirty-second Ohio, and the Second
Virginia regiments. Geo Johnson’s force-,
numbered over 2,000. The Ninth ' Indiana,
fought bravely to the last. Aftordriving the
enemy into their barracks no loss, than five
limes, our forces retired in good-order. The
rebels set fire to thoir barracks and retired to.
Staunton. - Gen; ■ Mi iroy has thus driven ■ tho
jast of' tho rebel army out of Western. Vir
ginia. ,
B.virpnroira. Gee., 14.—--No. Norfolk .papers
have been received hero, and the only ac
count of tho.dispatch-published by. the Gnw
lipoic is contained in our letters from Fortress
JloiVroe. Thrt'e Were reports of negro insur
rections current among, the passengers, hut
it was impossible-to say .whether they arc
well-founded or not. .
movement of Troops'.
It is reported' that the; First Massachusetts'
Cavaliy leaves hm-C nextwook, and their- dba<-
tination Is Said- to be Texas.-
Three hundred seamen loft the Navy Yard
this, afternoon, via Fall River. Their destina
tion is Unknown.
Later iroiudtiiropo.
The Royal'mail steamer Europe himarrived
at this port with highly important 'intelli
gence. She was detained at Queenstown till
the 2nd by order of the Government. .She has
the. Queen’s messenger on board with dis
patches for Lord Lyons.
London, Goo. I.— The Observer stated that
the Government has demanded from Presi
dent Lincoln and his Cabinet the restoration
of the persons of the Southern envoys to the
British Government. Yesterday afternoon,
after 5 o’clock, P. M., Her Majesty'helda pri
vy council at Windsor Castle. Throe of her
Ministers, including the first Lord.of the Ad
miralty, and the Secretaries of State and War,
traveled I'Am London to Windsor hy special
train to ho present. Previous toleaving town
■the throe ministers had. attended the Cabinet
council at Lord Palmer’s official residence.
. The Observer also says, that a special nios-.
senger of the Foreign office . has been ordered
to carry to Washington the demands of the
British,Government for Lord Lyons, and will
proceed to-day hy packet from, Queenstown.
The public will be satisfied to know that
these demands are for an apology, and to in
sist ou the restitution to. the protection to the
British flag the persons of those who were
violently aud illegally torn from that sacred
asylum.
The Observer adds, there is no reason why
they should not, bo restored to the ((uartor
dock of the British Admiral at New York, or
Washington itself,.in the face of some ten or
twelve men of war, whoso presence in the
Potomac would render the blustering Cabinet
at Washington as helpless as the Trent was
before the guns and cutlasses of the San Ja
cinto. It is no fault of ours if it should come
even to this.
The arrangements for increasing the force
in Canada are not yet complete, but in a very
few hours everything will bo settled. In the
meantime, a^Jargo'ship, the Melbourne, has
been taken up and is now loaded with Arm
strong guns, some 80,000 Enfield rifles, am
munition and other stores, at Woolwich. Itis
not impossible that this vessel will be escorted
by one or two ships of war. The rifles are in
tended for the Canadian military and a strong
reinforcement bf field artillery will be dis
patched forthwith.
The Timex’ city article of tho 30th says the
position of the Federal States -of America is
almost identical in every commercial point
with that which was' occupied towards us by
Russia before tho Crimean War. Russia had
a hostile tariff* while wo looked to her for a
large portion of our general supply of bread
stuffs, but there is this peculiarity in our pres
ent case, that tho commencement would be by
the breaking up of the blockade of the South
ern ports, at once settling free pur industry
from the anxiety of the cotton famine, and
giving, sure prosperity so Lancashire through
tho winter. At tho iamo time, we shall open
our trade to eight millions in the Confederate
States who desire nothingbottcr than to bo our
customers.
At tho Privy Council, on Saturday, an or
der was issued prohibiting tho export from
the United Kingdom, or carrying coast wise,
gunpowder, saltpeter, nitrate of soda, and
brimstone.
Tho Times has no hope that tho Federal"
Government will comply with the demands of
England. •
Tho Morning Star declares that the state
ment of instructions having been sent to
Lyons to obtain iluV reiditntinn of {lie -
Confederate Commissioners or to take leave
of Washington, was premature, and so exag
ofated as to bo virtually untrue.
The Liverpool Courier believes that tho
Warrior has been.ordered to Annapolis with
the ultimatum of the Government. .
The steamer Jura arrived out on the
inst. .
The London Times in alluding to the de
cision of tho British Cabinet, that tho arrest
of Mason and Slidell is a clear violation of
tho law' of Nations, believes that Lord Ly OD3
will bo instructed by the first steamer to d e .
mand reparation, and if not complied witli
will bo instructed.to withdraw tho legation
from Washington.
The First Execution in the Army of the Polo
mac—A Deserted Shot. ■
Gen. Franklin was yesterday furnished with
a, copy of the order for tho oxceutiorj of AVer,
11. Johnson, a private in the Lincoln cavalry
According to report, his offence was desertion!
Supposing himself to bo in tho presence of a
party of the enemy, he expressed joy that ho
had'made his escape. The officer in com
mand then had n private conversation with
him, when he freely and anxiously gave such
information of tho United States army as
.would have- been of great importance to tho '
rebels. His revelation concluded, ho was ar
rested, and much to his surprise,, on-diaoover
ing his mistake, was taken back- to biff own
camp a prisoner.
The execution took place this afternoon in ,
tho presence of about 7,000 soldiers belong
ing to Gen. Franklin’s division. b
A detachment of twelve men word dotaill3,&
for tho purpose. Eight of them first fired*®;
when Johnson fell,on his coffin, but. life
being extinct, the other fourdn reserve
with the required effect. ' - , "
This is the first execution in the army of
tho Potomac.
Public Meelin&jij. livcrpcol bn the Mason and ji
. Sfidelbitmt.
: New York, Dec. 12.
The steamer. Sousa brings a copy of the
London TiHies.pf the s§3th ult., which confabs
ah held in Liverpool
with roferemh) TOhe Slidell and Mason affair, v
ThaHoUtttiifogjmScard was posted on charge:
“ Outrpge|a|i|pfib British flag—Southern
CommissiUnsfirfdroibly removed from a Bri
tish mail steamoiv A meeting will be hold
in tho cotton sales ,rooms, at Jilrco o’clock.”;
- si3j®r ! f^ ls:f *^
crowded to excess. Tho chair was occupied
by James Spence,, who read, tire following;
resolution
That this mootuig having hoard
■with indignation that an. American. Federal
ship of war has forcibly taken from, a British
mail steamer, certain passengersw-hn- were-,
proceeding peaceably under the shelter; of
,our flag from-’ one neiitrnl, port to.another; do
earnestly call upon tlie Government to assert
the dignity of the British flag by requiring
prompt reparation for this outrage. °
, This resolution was advocated by the chair
man, who considered that he'was expressing
.the feeling of lha people, when bo said that
it was the duty of the people to impress on
..the Government the imperative necessity of
vindicating the honor and dignity of the Bri
tish name and flag.
Mr. John Campbell considered that there ;
was reason to doubt whether tho facts related
and acted on hy>this meeting wei-e in reality
a breach of international law, and referred to
the opinions of the,law officers of tho crown
as being, in some measure, inclined to show,
that ancli a step as taken with respect to tho ■
southern commissioners was justifiable under ,
tho existing state of-intematConal law. .ITo
urged the propriety of postponing the consid
eration of the subject,till to-morrow, ,
, Mr. Suit sustained Mr; Cainpbell’s views,
■The chairman suggested, in order to meet
the'objection.of Mr, Campbell; to strike out
the words, “ by requiring prompt reparation ,
for this outrage," .and thus amended, the feso
.Uitilm was passed, by, nearly » n mini metis
.vote. Several merchants csprCsStid' tlioir
views after the adjournment that tho meeting »
aSd-its action-was premature.
Boston-, Goo. 141
iSncEssiort Desoi.atiox in Missouai.—Tho
Springfield correspondent of tho. St, Guiis,
Ne ws Writes:",-...■ ------
.“From our lasfnigW’a.etonpNig place fnettr
Little York) wo discern sei-on fires—all around
uS., The nearest was a farm- where nuthiufil
ings grain-stacks, and the house worc-all fired
at the same time. ' Friend'and fie are treat
ed alike; farm liouos, corn fields, fences', in .
short everything that might ho of the least
use to the Union army—to.the army whom
they have alwaysridie tied publicly and f’eared
socrotjy—is destroyed, a id a desert' thirty'’
miles wide is separating- us srom : th«,retreat-*
ing foe. Where the hand of industry hath
commenced to place its marks' of civilization,
nnv only proofs of drabol o.il barbarity arc vi;-
ihlc.” .... . .
Halifax, Bee. 15
On the lith inst., by Rev. Jacob Fry, Mr.
Samuel Berry, to Mrs. M. rgaret Trego,
both of Fraukford township.
; On the 12th iast., at the residence of the
bride’s father, by Rev. A. Johnston, JosF.pii
F. Culver, Esq., forrncrly of this county, and
Miss Mary Murphy, all of Pontiac, Livings
ton county, lllitjoisi . . ,
On the 15th inst., by Rev. Wm. Kipp, Mr.
Gavid Lantz and Mrs. Catharine Lacy,
both, of llogestown.' - „
At Mochan.icsburg, on the 14th inst., An
drew J. Kauffman, Esq., in the 60th year of
his ago. " ' ■
CARLL3LE MARKET.—Gee. 18, 1801.
Corrected Weekly hy Woodward & Schmidt
Ftoun, Superfine, per bbh, ' ‘ $4.R7
do., Extra, do., 6,13
do., Rye, (to., ’ , 3,25
White Wheat, per buabol, ' ' 3,.'10
Red Wheat, . d 0.,. 3,20
Rye, do., ' 00
Corn, do., 62
New Coax, do.,
Oats, * ' do.,
Srmxo BAm.Br, do.,
Tall do. do.,
Ci.ovEKSEcn, . - do.,
.IpMOTIIVSKEI), do.,
MARKETS.—Dec. 17.
Flour, superfine, : : : : :$5 50
“ extra, : : : : : : (V 12
Rye Flouii, : . : • : 400
Corn Meal, : : : : : 2 87§
Wheat, red, : : : 131 a 1 37
u white, : : : - : : 140 a 1 43
Rye, : i : : : , : : : 70
Corn, yellow,
“ white,
Oats, :
Whisky,
Cloverseed,
IVTOTICE is hereby given that the following
A 1 mined persons have filed with the undersign
ed, their petitions for licence, under the several
acts of Assembly, which petitions will bo presented
to the Court on Monday, tho 13th day of January
next.
' HOTELS. -
Carlisle.-—W, W.—David 11. Gill, P. Aughin-.
baugb. '
Carlisle.—E. W.—P. Y. Herman, John G. Hoff
man,
-.-Penn v ....... n-.,. -
West Ponnsboro Township.—Jacob Chisnelh.
retailers; •
Carlisle.—E. W.—vS..B. Pannobakcr.,
Carlisle.—W. W.—William Bent?.
Meobaniosburg.—T. J. Kerr. .
■ J. B. FLOYD, Clerk*.
Carlisle, Doc. 10,1861.
Marti rb.
lirb.
Markets.
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