(»*! AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. Jflllfl B. BRATTON, Editor & Proprietor- CARLISLE, PA., JANUARY 23, 1862. O U fl FLAG “ Forever float that standard sheet 1 . Where breathes the foe but falls before «s? With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, ' And Freedom’s banner leaving o’er ns! Proceedings of the Democratic Slate Central Coamitlce. Tlio Democratic State Central Committee met at Buehler’s Hotel, agreeably to the call of the Chairman, yesterday afternoon, Janua ry 15, 18 G 2, at three o’clock, -when the follow ing gentlemen answered to their names: Stephen D. Anderson, "William D. Boas, J. B. Bratton, J. W. Brown, J. Cummings, H. L. Dieffenbach, 0. M. Donovan,-PhilipDough erty, A. Hiestand Glatz, F. M. Hutchison, S C. Ilvde, J. Monroe. Kreiter, Isaac Leech, , •' ’ ■ ' « ,1»T tt '•Ctll mii . "XWtnwr Robert B. Monaghan, Bernard Reily, A. L. Roumfoi t. Henry J. Stable, Joseph M. Thomp son, Nelson Weiser, John 11. Zeigler, Jacob Zeigler, "William H. "Welsh, President. . On motion it was Resolved, That the next Democratic Con- ention he held in the city of Harrisburg, on Friday, the, 4th' of July nest; at ten' o’clock A. M. Grand Concert.— Madame Anna Bishop, to be assisted by Mr. Edward Sequin, and i)B Speiss, (pupil ofliizsi,) will give a grand Concert at Bheem’s Hall, bn Friday evening. This lady has a reputation as a singer second, to no one. She stands,.indeed, at the very, head of her profession, and has drawn crowd ed houses both in Europe and America. See card in our advertising columns. . £7" Col. Xevi L. Tate, editor of the Co lumbia Democrat, and at present a member of Assembly from Columbia county, paid our town a visit on. Saturday, and remained here till Monday morning. The Col. is a veteran Democrat,, an accomplished • editor, and ,a most industrious and efficient member of the" House. ' Some thirty years ago he worked in our town as n journeyman printer, and for the last twenty-six years h'as conducted a Democratic paper. "We are glad to learn that he is one of the few fortunate editors, and is now in a fair way to he rewarded with “high, er honors.” - . . ' • . . A Long Sixty Days.— Before the present war commenced Secretary Seward in his New York- midnight ,speech said the difficulty ■would all blow over in sixty days. Mr. Cam eron has repeated it frequently, and other knowing .ones are still telling us with a pro. found, prophetic and knowing look, that the ■war . will not last -“ sixty ' days.” Like the Millerites they have probably made some mis take in their caj eolations, for “ the end is not yet.” .The same class of men used to predict “good times,” “starvation in. the South;’' “negro insurrections,” and a hundred.other things. They are either very bad prophets or the short days of winter have been wonder fully stretched in filling up these sixty days. Would it not be more sensible for . men to count the chances and speak rationally. The Anderson Body Guard. —The Louis ville Democrat of the 11th inst., thus speaks of the departure from that city of this fine troop: The Anderson Troop. l —-This splendid body of young men, the flower of Pennsylvania, originally mounted as a body guard to Gen eral Anderson, and, hotter known here as. General Buell’s body guard, will leave to-day, it is expected,, for active service. . This troop has been sworn m as an inde pendent troop for extra-hazardous service, ■ mid they are exactly the men who may be expected to accomplish a great deah whether as scouts, or skirmishers, or extra aids. \Ve expect to hear a good account of them. Yesterday the members of the troop made a present of a splendid saddle and bridle to Lieut. Spencer, one of .their officers. lie is a regular army officer, and is held in high es teem hy all his men. The Pulse Feelers. —A secret circular was some time ago sent over the country, goon after the meeting of the abolition society, at West Chester,-asking republican editors to,] feel the “ public pulse" pn the emancipation question. Whereupon said republican editors nil turned “ piilso feelers,” coming out in fa vor of abolitionism, emancipation, colonization, and the darky-nation generally. Well,, the "public pulse’ 7 has now been felt; and judg ing from the recent silence of these dopuitzed doctors, the case must be a bad one. The public are hardly in the humor now to swal low living niggers, are they ? Oort Future Conduct Towards Enoean Though the people of the United StaMs generally acquiesce in the rendition of Mason and Slidell, yet there is no doubt that they do it under protest. The prevalent feeling is that England has taken advantage of our em barrassed condition now to make demands, •which under other circumstances, she would never have contemplated. . The common ho. Vi»f is that jealous of our growing powers, he has embraced the occasion when our own hands were apparently too much fettered for retaliation, to humble if not to crush us. The common opinion is that the Trent affair was only an occasion and, not even in the judge ment of her own authorities, an adequate cause for hostilities, which she now seeshor golden moment for commencing. There is no dis guising the fact, that the Trent affair lias | deeply planted In. the American heart the seeds-of a hitter hatred towards England > vrhioh no after hollow protestations, or as. Burned friendliness can eradicate, but which we believe will grow and bring forth terrible fruits. A. heavy score' has been charged up against her, which will assuredly not be for gotten when the day of reckoning does come. THE REMOVAL OP CAMERON. President Lincoln, is entitled to the thanks of the nationfor removing Cameron from the Wan Department; hnt, for appointing him Minister to Russia, tho President will receive the people’s execrations. Cameron, with all his low cunning, was about to ho caught and, exposed. The revelations of tho Van Wyck and Washdurnb investigating committees made it necessary for him to flee from jus tice. Tho President was fully convinced that tho War Department had been used for tho exclusive benefit of Cameron and his cormo rant friends, and that n system of most im pudent and consummate rascality had been carried on there. lie knew, too, that Cameron was about to be exposed. Why then did not “old Abe permit things to take their course? Why did he rescue bis recreant Secretary of War front the storm that was about to over take him? In his effort to save Cameron from exposure, by sending him out of the country, the President has shown a willing ness to cover up villainy and to rescue the perpetrator from merited punishment. The people cannot bo blinded by this kind of chi-1 canery. The abettor of crime is hold in law to.be as guilty as the principal. -President Lincoln is. the abettor of Cameron, and as such will receive the curses, loud and deep, of the people, whoso money, to tho amount of forty or fifty ’millions of dollars, has been stolen by the connivance of tho . vultures in the War Department. , ■ Cameron appointed Minister to Russia! In the name of Heaven what are wo coming to ? Forpor. administrations have felt that no man was too great in intellect, experience and honor for this Very responsible position. But the present weak and vascilliating Executive gives this position to a miserable, time-server, wlmsni bi.n-hest, idea of statesmanship is the accumulation. Of dollars, by any means. When Cameron belonged to the Democratic party the highest position ho eyer occupied was a delegate from the West ward of Middle town to a County Convention, and for this ho never was lit, for ho corrupted every Conven tion ho over entered. - But, a Black Ropuoli cau administration, considers •him a suitable man for the positions of tl. S. Senator, Secre tary of War, and Minister to Russia—positions, heretofore filled'.only by educated -statesmen. Is'it to ho wondered at, that when his name came . up for confirmation in the Senate on Friday last, that three prominent Republican ■Senators.opposed,it bitterly, and begged their brother Senafors-not to disgrace the country by assenting.to the nomination? Their-appeals were in vain, and .ho was confirmed by a vote of 24 yeas-to 14 nays. , Trumbell oKlllinois>. Hale of Now Hampshire, and Grimes of lowa, were the. three Republican Senators who spoke and voted against him. Who is Responsible! In-view of.the' startling-exposures of fraud made by the Van Wyck Committee, some of tho Republican papers console themselves , with the reflection that if corruption has oc curred "under this-Administration, its own partisans have' not hesitated to expose it. We don’t' see .how this mitigates the,enormity of the frauds perpetrated by the chosen' agents of, the Government, -or relieves it from the 1 just odium of squandering the public money ' at a time when above all - olheri its disburse ment should have been jealously 1 guarded. In the case of Mr; Cummings, every .opportunity was offered for the perpetration Of frau.d. If the object had .been to squander- the public funds, no bettor plan could have been devi sed than to give' him unlimited power/ to draw on a sum of'two millions of dollars. Xhis loose,,and irresponsible way of doing business invited peculation—and considering the char actorof thedisbursingagentsit iahiird to resist, the conclusion that fraud was expected and Intended. And this is not. an isolated case, for it seems that the same loose system ox" tended throughout all Government transac tions. A multitude of harpies - fastened their ' fangs upon tho Treasury because the opportu nity of plunder was literally thrust upon them. If thoßopublican party wish" to clear their skirts of tho-responsibility.for’-squandering millions of the public money, they should nut merely expose the guilty, but repudiate/ and punish them, whether they occupy high or low places. This thing of exposing enormous peculations and then covering the authors and agents with a thin coaling of political whitewash only excite derision and encour ages future frauds. Professions-Prattites. . The Republican party made groat profes-. sions of economy when it was before the country a supplicant for popular favor, and must stand accountable for the falsification of its promises. . Read the following resolu tion of the Chicago platform, and contrast it with the transactions of the past nine months •. Sixth.— That the people justly view with alarm the reckless extravagance which pom vades every department of the Federal Gov ernment ; that,a return to rigid economy and accountability is indis'por.sible -to arrest .the system of-the public treasury by favored par tizans ; while the recent startling develop ments of fraud and corruption at the Feder al metropolis show that an entire changes of administration is imperatively demanded.” Lot those political doctors take a dose, of their own medicine. This resolution could not fee more applicable if it had been written for the present time. [£7“ The Harrisburg Telegraph of the 26th December, published a letter,from ouo of our soldiers, giving a description of the battle of Drainesvilloi Wo make a single extract: •“ Alter they (the rebels) retreated andwo got into their ambush, we saw some horrible spectacles, every few stops wo came on some rebel who was either dead or dying. Some of our fellows would help them out of- this world by running them through with their bay onets.” This is horrible to think about. Wo have never doubted that deeds like this have been committed at times by the more excitable on both sides. CT’Greely calls Bennett “a lying old brag gart,’’ and Bennett retorts by calling Groely a “ galvanized squash.” They both probably toll the truth. DT7“ The Venango Spectator says: A sol dier in camp on the Potomac, writes us that on Thanksgiving ho received ahox from home, containing sundries, among which was a roasted Shanghai chicken, stuffed with botllea of tohiskj. Trouble in Hie Wigwam. While tho Republican managers at Harris burg are endeavoring to work tho elements of opposition to tho Democratic party into some now • shape), tho-Republicans of Phila delphia, under tho load of Wu. 8... Thomas, Collector of tho Port, are purging tho Repub lican party of all its allies who are not straight' np-and-do wn Black Republicans. Tho Phil adelphia Press of Thursday Inst gives-tho fol lowing neoout of tho struggle between tho Republican and “People’s” parties - “Tuesday evening was tbo commence ment of a now epoch in tho political history of Philadelphia. Tho contending struggle between tho members of tbo Republican and People’s parties was animated and interesting in mnny'of the wards. In pursuance of the call of the Executive Committee,' the Repub lican party met in the different wards, lind selected throe delegates to meet in convention this evening, at tho County Court House, for tho purpose of making rules for their govern ment. In tho Eighteenth ward, 'which, has heretofore been strongly People, after a close contested struggle, tho People’s organization was abolished, or submerged into a Republi can. Tho same result was arrived at in many of tho lower wardai In the Seventeenth the contest narrowed down to tho native and na turalized elements of the People’s party, the latter being successful in effecting a Republi can organization. The test required for suf frage was a pledge to maintain tho Republi can nominees, when' 'fairly and honorably made, and a loyal support to the Administra tion in prosecuting the present war.” This is an interesting fight ns it stands, says the Patriot & Union, and a beautiful commentary upon all the Republican profes sions of no-pnrtyism., It appears that the Republican organization in Philadelphia is making war upon tho “People’s parly,” and that in m,any wards tho latter organization was abolished, or merged into the,Republican party. 'The test required for suffrage, we are tl/i/iffft ia.ni ij.icJ~.tvj.ri- nominees ami the Administration. Nothing appears to have been said in favor of aban doning party for tbo sake of the Union,.-. It appears to us rather ungrateful for the Republicans .of Philadelphia to wage war against their faithful and obsequious allies,' the,so-called “People’s party,” because with out spme such blind as this the State of Penn sylvania could.not have boon carried for the Republican candidates. There has never been a fair and open Republican party in this State. While tho'organization has been substantially Republican, it has not had the courage to come but under that name. It has been an “Opposition,” or a “People’s parly, or any thing.elso but nominally Republican ; and some of its loaders ar e now manoeuvring to make it a “Union” party;" But the Republi cans in Philadelphia are in favor of making a clean record, and coming out in their true colors! Wo wjsh them success, if for no other reason than that Republicanism may be put to the popular test, to demonstrate how really weak it is in this conservative and loyal State of Pennsylvania. . : To be limsligntea. Alleged Frauds in the Legislature of 1861.—1 n the House of Representatives, at Harrisburg, on Frida3’ last, Mr. Hopkins of fered the following preamble and resolution, which, on motion of Mr. Cessna, wore post poned for the present; ■.' I Wuereas, -It is alleged and is believed by 1 many of the citizens of the Commpnwenlth, that improper influences werihused in proou , ring the passage of an act at the last session of the Legislature, entitled An Act for the commutation, of tonnage duties,” And where as, It is due alike to the parties implicated, and ,to the publio at largo that the allegations upon which said belief is predicated, should be investigated in . order, that truth may bo vindicated, and justice be do»e to all, there fore . ~ liesolvcd, That a committee be appointed 'consisting of five, to inquire into all the facts connected with the passage of said act, and that they have power to send for persona and papers. . Mr.. SCOTT, of Huntingdon, offered the ■ following amendment, “ and that . the. com mittee he instructed to’ report the names of all persons or officers either in or out of the i Legislature by whom and upon whom they may find s"ch influences, to he used.” Mr. DENNIS; of Philadelphia, did not think that the Legislature had power to investigate the acts of the Assembly of 1361. That As sembly was ihmd to all intents and purposes, Mr. ABBOTT declared that the resolution was open to the suspicion'that it was prompt ed by other motives than a desire to make an investigation. Mr. WILLIAMS, of. Allegheny, agreed with the gentleman from Philadelphia, that the.Aasembly of 18G1 was “ dead," and more than'that, it was in the condition of Lazarus, foul and repulsive/ When the tonnage tax bill was about being passed, he had stood up in the Hall with the.minority of the mem bers, and declared that those who .voted for the iniquity should. bo known no more as members of the House. He would now point to the members around, and ask if the pre diction had not been fulfilled. The great cor porations of 1801 might subsidize tlie press, but the voice of the people could not be sti fled. . Ho cited a legislative case in Georgia, to show that it was legal to enter into an in vestigation. If it was urged that a contract might bo vitiated thereby, lot it bo under stood that fraud vitiated any contract. Two hills alone of the Assembly of 1901 took 512,000,000 out . of the State Treasury'and benofitted the treasury of Philadelphia pro portionately. Not only wore there two acts sanctioned, but a third one was approved which allowed the Pennsylvania railroad com pany to own all the railroads in the State. — In fact the entire dutyof the last Legislature seems to have been to execute the bidding of the corporations so prominently brought be -1 fore it. Sir. SCOTT, of Huntingdon, urged that legislative corruption was the greatest evil affecting a free Government, striking at the very foundation of the rights of the people.— He favored the resolution. . Mr. ABBOT declared that the true com plaint was not against the members of the Legislature of 1861, but was directly against the act for the commutation of the tonnage tax. This was the secret motive—lot it not be disguised. Mr. WORLEY, of Lancaster, desired the passage of the resolution and amendment.— When the people of Lancaster county found a certain man in tlioir district named for the Legislature of 1861,'they well knew theoause. They instructed three o’f their representatives to vote against the commutation of the tax, and yet had found two of them recreant.—,* Why they were so, was now the question to, be solved, and this could he decided in no better manner than by the investigation as proposed. JB@j“ The New York papers say that Fhe sroNt was strongly opposed to delivering up Mason and SlidEOL. A war with England was, in his opinion, preferable to such humili ation; 0“Tho Fulton Democrat denounces 11, C. Spaulding, of : New York, the. “ Cephalic Pill” man, as a scoundrel and a swindler. Speech of Mr. Dawts, of Mass. On the subject of. the Robber;/ of Ute Govern ment, — Hm'scs starved to death I 2Ac Rob bers exposed, ef'e. On Hthinst. the House resumed the con sideration of the nuiomlincuts reported to the House from the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union to tho Civil Appropri ation bilh ' . • . ' • ' j Mr. DAWES (Maes.) said .—Mr. Speaker, though I have spent tho bettor part of my Congressional life upon investigating com mittees;, no one was over yet raised upon my motion, no resolution was over carried upon my motion calling for inquiry, no motion was over mado by mo, the rosultqf which has been an investigation by this House, and yet I have felt that it was proper for ino to speak, in order to decline tho service that has boon imposed upon me. Hut I felt again that it was ineUmbonl upon me to discharge my du ty as well as I could, and I have, Ithink, discharged it fearlessly and cheerfully, how ever much mortification and discomfiture might come from it. Sir, I have not appealed to minorities, and I believe that the Committee of which I iim one, have taken.notice, in common with the whole country, of the fact, that for some rea son or other, some unaccountable reason, the charges upon tho Treasury of tho country have been such ns to reach nearly to its bot tom. Positive facts have come to tho notice of the Committee and the country, touching the manner and mode of expenditure of the public money. To some,of these items I pro pose to call the attention of the House,' in this connection, and then to ask whether they propose to meet the question at all,and if they intend to meet it, how, arid when, and where. Sir, the .very first coritract'enterod into,by this Government, when the troops loft, their homes in April last, to come here for tho de fend'd of the eapital. was the contract by which they were, to',bo fed. It . was a contract for cattle, not with men-whoso business if was to furnish cattle', not tho men who kriow what the pried 1 of beeves is in the market, and en tered into without even telegraphing to New York, to know 11 in prices of bseves in the market there entered into by the Govern ■mentJxerfl-CMdtb mp,n. ,hxmwjiJt,n_l.his-Rml—tha. 'other branch of this Congress for the hist ten years as old political stipendiaries—men who have made ’ what little they have made by buying the salaries of members at a discount, and then drawing from the Treasury the foil amount; " -.' -. . . ' ' 2200 head .of cattle was the amount of the contract. In twenty-four houra after it was given, it was sub-lot to. men in New \ork who did"not know the price of beef; so sub let that on tho ' first 3200 .head of cattle they put into their own pockets, without stirring from their chair, thirty-two thousand dollars (?32,000j, and the men who did furnish the cattle, pub twenty-six thousand ($26,000) more into their pockets, ,ao that the contract under which these 2200 head of cattle were furnished to* tho army was so made, that the profit.of $58,000 oyer the market price was re alized upon that small number. It takes a- thousand head of cattle longer to roach tho city than .it does to consume .the same number byithe.army. ' The most ample provisions arc needed merely to support the subsistence department of this army. Sir, a million shpes have already worn out by the army, and a,million nioro nave been already manufactured. Now, upon every one of those Sho.es thero has been a waste of seventy-five cents; three-quarters of a million of dollars upon the shoes already worn out, and another three-quarters of a million upon the shoos .already- manufactured has beep worse than wasted in that department, of this Government. Sir, there are h6rse contracts' that have been made, and Government officials go about the streets with their. 1 pockets filled with them, and of which they make presents to -some po litical friend to secure the political doom of some other, while the telegraph announces that the hatchet of political animosity is bur ied in the grave of,-public confidence, while the Specified-among, malefactors. Wo have just heard the result of one of these contracts,. A regiment of cavalry. lias just reached Louisv.ilhLono thousand horses strong. Out of that thousand, a board of army officers has condemned four hundred and eighiy-five, as utterly worthless ; that riot one of therii is worth more than twenty dollars a-pioco ; that they al-o afflicted with every kind of disease that horseflesh is heir to. The whole four hundred and olghty-flre cost tho Government, before they wore mustered into the service, $58,200, and it cost the ,Government, to trans port them from Pennsylvania to: Louisville, over ton thousand dollars more before they were condemned. ' • . , There are now eighty-three regiments ol ctvvalry in the service, each one thousand strong, rr.d it takes $250,000 to put one o; these regiments upon its feet before it moves and twenty millions of dollars have thus beer expended upon these cavalry regiments be fore they left the encampment in which they were gathered ;md mustered into the service. They came here, and then they are sent off here and . there to spend the winter. Many of these horses have been chained to trees, and there they have absolutely been starved to death. I can take.you along, within tho District of Columbia and show you the bones and the carcasses of those horses, with the posts to which they have been chained, and I where they have pined away and died, until tho committee on the District of Columbia have called for legislation on the subject. One more instance. In addition to tho arms in tho hands, of tho six hundred thousand soldiers in tho fiehl, there are outstanding contracts to-day made with private individu als, not made on advertisements, not made with the knowledge of ,any other man, but made with ex-members of Congress who know no more about arms-than does a Methodist Minister, with ex-members of Congress, and their fathers, mothers; sisters'and brothers ; there are outstanding contracts for the manu facture of Springfield, muskets, tho first one of which cannot be delivered in six months from this day. Springfield muskets, 1,092000, at twenty-one dollars apiece, while the Springfield musket is made at the Springfield arpiory for §l3 50. , . . . An ex-momher of Congress is in Annapolis to-day, trying to getmaohinery manufactured, which cannot be made in six months, by which to make these muskets at twenty-one dollars a piece. Before those six months .have passed away, we will have, disposed of the war or it willhavo disposed of us. There will not ono_of those muskets come back herd before tins exigency will, in the providence of God, for good or for evil, ho on us. There are also outstanding contracts for the manu facture, some time hence, of 272,000 Enfield rifles. The gentleman from New York charges me with desiring to blacken men’s names. I de sire to call the attention of the House to the enormous expenditure which is being carried on, and it don’t make so much difference whether it be by A. or by B. I speak by the figure, Mr. Speaker, and I know what I am saying. Twenty millions of dollars was ap propriated by Congress, at its last session, and seventeen millions more have been added to it, which will have to bo paid. Sir, the riot of the 19th of April, in Haiti- | more, opened this ball. From the 21st of April there was organized a corps of plunder ers on the Treasury, and two millions of dol lars wps put at the disposal of a poor unfor tunate man, I think an entirely incompetent editor of a paper in Now York, to dispense it as he could. And he went straightway to,the purchase of linen pantaloons, and straw hats, and London porter, and dried herring, and such-like provisions for the army, until he used up $240,000 of the money, and got soared, and quit. (A voice.) It was $390,000. „„ nA AAA Mr. DAWES, resuming.—lt was $390,000, my friend says. I prefer to keep on the low fiS Again, a .man ha? got a wood, contract at «7 a cord’, for all tho wood ha chooses to bring. Ho goes into tho forests, and ho takes the Government wagons and horses to draw it to tho several camps. He drawe his seven del-, Inrs a cord, and lots tho Government draw the ■wood. (Laughter.) . One hundred millions of dollars hnVo boon, spent since tho first of December, and anoth er hundred million dollars will bo spent before tho fourth of Marob. . . But, sir, I oaro very little whafit may cost to put down this Rebellion, provided it may bo put down. But lam free■ to confess that ray. faith sometimes fails, my faith in man, not in God. Sir, when tho history of those times shall have been written, it will, bo doubt ful upon whom the guilt shall rest, upon him who has spared to destroy, or upon him who has proved incompetent to preserve tho insti tutions that have been bequeathed to us by our fathers, Sir, is it.strange that the public treasury trembles hud staggers like a strong man loaded with .too great, a burden. llow soon will it bo .before the bottom ot the Treasury is reached by this exhausting process,, while wo have no revenue from our custom houses, from oqr land Pftlcs; while our notes of issue which the Government has sent out are already sold at 5 per cent, discount at tho tables of the money-changers, and at b per cent., my friend says, and the sutlers are following the army to the pay of the soldiers as tho shark follows tho ship on its, voyage. I have no desire to criticise the movements of tho army, or criticise its °P e *\ n> " tions, hut in view of tlio ■ stupendous dnffts ■ upon the Treasury, how long will it last? The longest road has an end, and tho deepest well has a bottom. . - p lb is impossible for, this stato of things to continue sixty days longer, or wo will have an io-noriiinious peace. Again, the Secrotary of the Treasury, m • July lasr, said it would cost $200,000 to cxc -1 cute tho,engraving and printing of tho bonds ’ and Treasury Notes, and now it not only has > cost $200,000, but $350,000, and another i $lOO,OOO is asked for. ‘We shonM iilto to have ■ tho question answered belbro tho money is paid. . EM ® Efl a6E.Bflg.gL-i iiir*m^nwcww^ m GRE'AT FEDERAL VICTORY IN KENTUCKY! Engagement for an Entire Day! GE3J. SCnOEPFEDIEFEATSTIIE REBEL GES.ZOLLIEOffKR/' LOSS HEAVY ON LOTH SIDES I deaerul Eolllcoffer and Bnllie Peyiou Killed! the Rebels 1h full Kclrcal. From Fortress Monroe I ILLNESS OF EX PRESIDENT TYLEIi! ABaUle ut Snmcrsel Ely. Ci.vcißn'ati, Jan. 30. A battle was fought st Somerset, Ky., on Saturday, between SehueplFs and Zollieoffer’s forces lasting from early morning until dark. Zollieoflbr was killed, and bis army entirely defeated. Loss heavy on both sides, [fuutuer'pauticui,ars.] Louisville, Ky., Jan. 20'. —General Thom as telegraphs to headquarters 7 that on Friday night Gen. Zollicoffer came up to his oricamp mout, ami attacked him at six o'clock on Sat urday morning, near Welch's.Cross Roads, in the vicinity of Somerset. At, throe arid a half o’clock on Saturday afternoon Zollieolfcr and’ Bailie Payton, had been killed,.and the rebels were‘in. full retreat to their .entrench-, menta-at Mill Springs. The Federal troops were, in hot'pnrsnit. No further particulars have boon'received, nor. any account of the. losses on either aide. From Fortress Monroe, ■ Fortress Monroe, Jan. 19. A Bag - of truce went-to Cranny Island to day with two persons who c.nno down from Baltimore last.pijrlit to go. South. The following is all the news contained in tho Southern papers that have been received : ■ Ex-Proaidoiit Tyler is very ill at Richmond. . A dispatch-dated Macon, Oa., says that the accounts from the wheat regions arc very fa vorable, and that: crops never appear more promising.thus early. The Confederate .steamer Calhoun arrived at Havana on the Oth, making the number of 101 Confederate vessels that have arrived there since- the blockade. Business was ox-' tromely dull on tho Island. The Norfolk Day Book gives a rumor that tho Secretaries of the Federal Navy and Inte rior have resigned, and that Messrs. Oollax, of Indiana, and Holt, of Kentucky, will suc ceed-(hem. The papers contain nothing.in relation-to Burnaide’s expedition. Cost op Abolitionism.— “ What Slavery is costing,” says the Chicago Tribune, quoting Mr. Secretary Chase’.s'Boporb, “la . §897,373,802.” Nay, good sir, that'is what abolitionism is costin'*. Slavery was here at the birth of the Republic, and received the protection of tho Constitution and of tho laws of the United States. While abolition is comparatively a now doviii born of lust .and fanaticism, hut for which the Union would now he prosper ous a»d happy, . . . Therefore say that Abolitionism is now costin'* the country almost two millions of dollars por day, besides, a bottomless ocean of blood.— Bergen Democrat. Wbat is Said of It.— The Washing.ton.oor respondent of Grooly’s Tribune, speaking of Cameron’s removal from the War Department, says: ■ • “If a bomb-shell had fallen into tho Senate Chamber, it could not have produced a great er sensation than did tho President’s nomi-. lint-ion'of Mr. Stanton to the office of Secreta ry of War, followed by tho nomination of Si mon Cameron as Minister to llusia. It was felt to bo tho solemn condemnation, by the Administration arid the regular army, of tho policy of emancipation and arming tho slaves of rebels, so strongly recommended in the report of tho Secretary of War. Sena tors saw in it an open issue with the anti slavery feeling of tho North and West, Tho New York Journal of Commerce cor roborates this view of the matter. It says: “On tho slavery question, it is well-known Mr Stanton’s views are firmly opposed to any of the schemes of proclaiming emancipation or arming tho slaves.” And further, that— “ The appointmen t is said to ho highly sal isfactory to .General McClellan. ’ JSTIn the appointment of a conservative Democrat as Secretary of War, President Lin coln has paid a high compliment to the prin ciples of the national. Democratic party. It is an acknowledgment on his part, that the Union can not be restored nor the Govern ment administered on an abolition basis. JK3» We are indebted to Senators Craw lord and Lamberton, and to Representatives Rhoads and Rex, for Legislative Documents.. [□'•Col. Samuel Colt, the great revolver manufacturer, died at his residence in Hert ford, Jap,lo. Terms of Admissions. Lost there should bonny weak-kneed Dem ocrats, whoso patriotic impulses incline, them to enter the trap about to ho set by the Re publican loaders, wo direct their attention to the following terms of admission to the now party, ns stated in the columns of the Harris burg Telegraph i “ One thing is certain, that between the avowed and fearlessly sustained principles ot the'entire Republican party and a largo por tion of what was formerly the Democratic party, there was no important difference, 'either in the purposes to bo attained or the manner of their attainment. Therefore, a union with that wing of the Democracy is of the most simple, as well ns practical charac ter. It requires no invitation on the part of the Republican party, provided the men who thus boast of their adhesion to a principle are honest, and if there is any renunciation to bo made, it milat bo declared by these same Democrats, who would be expected to give up all their own preferences, with regard to men, all their coirupl predilections on the subject of organizations , and come into the enthusiastic ranks of the Republican party , with those prin ciples of high regard for the Union and re spect for the Constitution, which have so tor rendered these men decent In the eyes of then countrymen,"and which act would give them a position in the politics of the Union which no struggle or covenant of their own, ,as a separate organization, could possibly accom plish. But to ask the Republican party to give up one idea of its sublime principles - to ask them to surrender a single feature ot its creed or compromise its organization to conciliate any. man or set of men, would be ns ridiculous and unholy as the emendation of the Lord's prayer, by omitting the injunc tion against stealing to conciliate the thief, or that on murder to compromise with the as sassin." ' "Wo commend the above to the particplar consideration of the Union Democrats in the House of Representatives, who were treated to so many sugary words before the offices jvjul natronafre of the Le.gislatnriijvcrejlig.l uted. The terms of admission to the. new party are quite easy, providing the applicants are honest— -that point is insisted upon—and are willing to give up their principles apd come Jrito the Republican party. Of opnrse there will be a perfect rush for admission up on such accommodating terms. Wo think that wo she Democrats by scores and by hun dreds petitioning for .admission, in to the. Re publican organization revised and improved, -rHarrisbury .Union. Reported for tho Volunteer. Proceedings of fonit. ..The regular January Sessions for this coun ty commenced on tho 13th.inst., and after the usual preliminaries, such as swearing the Grand'Jurors, &p., proceeded to take up.somo cases in the Common Pleas until the Grand Jury prepared business in the shape of pass- ig upon indictments for the Quarter Sessions. Tiie th at case taken up and tried in'the Common Pleas was. Samuel Megnw, executor of ,11; D. Daihou son, doc’d., vs. Daniel Dalhousen.—An notion to recover upon' six notes, upon tho defend ant, drawn in 1820, payable in 1830,1832, 1833,1834, 1835, 1830—enclosed in a wrap per, endorsed “ No interest to ho demanded on tho within notes until after my decease, ahd'then only to he counted from that date after the expiration of one full year after my decease, .Witness my hand this first day of February, A.-.D;, 1848,.- '{Signed) llf.niey P. ,i . ■ .-. .I Died May 2, 1853.. At appraisement de fendant said he supposed it was all x'ight, and would pay wheh able. Query. —Did not the debt expire by limitation, more than twenty years having elapsed? Jury find, for the plaintiff $B7 67. Watts for plaintiff, Penrose for defendant, . David W. Williams and Abram Killian vs: John Walburn.— Capias in Trover'and Conversion for value of a buggy taken by defendant. This case proceeded hut a short distance'on trial when defendants, confessed a judgment for $9O and costs-v.ahio pf buggy laid at $l6O. Miller and Williams for plain tiff, Watts and Parker for defendant.' ' Henry 0; Rupp, admi’r. of John Moriarty, doo’d./rs. George Schroder.—Action for de fendant on a book account. The defendant was a coach trimmer and •worked for four or five years for plaintiff Verdict for plain tiff $243 30. Miller.and Newsham for plain tiff,' Watts and Penrose for defendant. This concluded the Common Pleas, after which the Quarter Sessions were opened,.as is the custom of late, with “ Neyro ,” who, by the way, appear to delight in getting into Court either that they may receive the wit ness foes, or to get quarters at the expense of the county. The first case taken up was . Commonwealth vs. Ann Hawkins and Ma ry Johnston.—Charged with malicious 'mis chief in having on the night before New Years, broken in the door &c„ of the house of Ann MoMaster. A trite bill against Mary, who made some ■“ striking” remarks upon the door with an axe. Found guilty. Was sentenced to .the county jail five months.— Ann got clear this time, the Grand Jury ig nored the bill so far'as she was concerned. — Gillelan for Commonwealth, Shearer for de fendant. Commonwealth us. Mary Johnstone. —This was only the after part of the play. Her ladyship’s conduct having been called to- the attention of constable Martin, bo clothed with authority, attempted to arrest her, she tried to overcome him and prevent him from arresting .her ; in this she was not so success ful. Ho having before had difficulties with this class, wanted to set an example, had her indicted for resisting an officer. Convicted and sentenced three months to jail, and pay a flno of SI and costs. Sentence to com mence after tho expiration of the time in first base, pillolan for Com., Shearer for, dft. Commonwealth us. George Moudy.—Case of an Assault and Battery on A. N. Sheafor, at tho corner opposite tho Mansion House, in this borough. It appeared to have been an unprovoked assault of a drunken man on a sober, unoffending citizen. Defendant plead guilty, and was sentenced to the county jail for two months, fined §5 and costs. Watts and Gillelan for Com., Miller for defendant. Commonwealth us. Scott Green, F. John ston, Joseph Johnston, Cha rlcs Harris, Mi chael Buck, George McFarlano, Charles Hill, John Briskey, Peter Simpson, John Mobley. -rThose “ gemtdea oh color” were indicted for a Biot and Assault and Battery,- at a ne gro bouse in South Middleton township. It • appeared that one of tho fair sox was about ■ to be married, and it is alleged that rather than let her be married te the “ object of her affections,” these defendants were going t kill him. Thoywent to tho house on the night of the 3d of October last, got drunk, kicked up a muss, soared tho bride and groom away, and had a jolly time generally. The wedding did not take place until tho morn ing of tho 4th of October. Joseph Johnston and Charles -Hill alias Simpson, were tho only ones taken, say they went to serenade— they were not there at all. Not Guilty, but to pay tho costs. Gillelan and Smith for tho Com,, Shearer for the deft. , Comniomvcalth, vs. James Moudy, George Moudy, John Riley.—Charged with the lar ceny of a steer from the drove of a Mr. In graham, hut in' the possession of Mr, Turner of Green county, on the 23d of October.-, The steer was taken , to the field of Mr. James T. Stuart and found there. Defendants ad mit the possession, but insist that they found him astray on the Walnut Bottom..road and took charge of him until reward oifered ; in, tending to, claim tho reward and deliver tho steer. Jury found them not guilty. Oille, lan, Nowsham and Penrose for Com., Shearer and Miller for defts. Commonwealth vs. James Marshall.—This was also a colored affair of etiquette. Ono “ gemroan” saluted two others friendly; defendant draws his weapon and cuts prose cutor, Charles Taylor, negro, along the back; deep cut. Indicted for Assault and Battery found guilty, sentenced to tho Eastern peni tentiary foV one year and three months, pay a line of SI, the costs of prosecution, and stand committed till sentence is complied with. Gillelan and Shapley for Com., Miller for defendant. CommoinvoaUli ps. Susan Taylor.—Negro, indicted for the larceny of a hood and piece of delaine, which she took from the store of ' | Mr.' Charles Ogilby, of this borough, oh the m her possession, and the Jury rendered their verdict of guilty Upon this being shown.— Soutencedto the Eastern penitentiary for fif teen months, restore the property,.pay n fine' of §1 and costs, and stand committed till sen tenced is complied with. Gillclan for Com,, Shapley for defendant. - Commonwealth vs. Henry Patton.—Anoth er “negro” indicted for malicious mischief, This was another wedding affair. . Henry probably feeling,slighted because ho was not invited to it, made a general muss and broko things. Pleaded guilty, was sentenced to three months to oountyjail, §1 fine and costs, Gillclah for Com., McGlaughlin and. Marshal for defendant. Commonwealth vs. Henry Patton, Ezekiel Williams.—Assault and Battery. Williams left for parts unknown. Henry did do it. ■ Nolle Pros entered as to Patton, Nou Eat as to Williams, Commonwealth vs. Dr. Henry M. Inhoff.— The defondant in this case was charged with having obtained moneys from Messrs. D. Me gary arid Elias Hoover by false; pretence.— He sold to them the right to make and dis pose of a horse .medicine in Cumberland and Perrjr counties’of this State,, guarantee ing a certain cure of ring-bone and spavin, and that he was the original inventor and patentee. . This action was for the purpose of showing that the reoelpe was a humbug and that he had not the patent right, and that the diseases could tot bo cured. Defendant proved oases, showed his right to make .and sell, and having been the Original discoverer, hut in sists that prosooutors did not give it a fair trial according to’directions. Inhonf is from , Lancaster county. Jury find defendant Not Guilty, hut that ho pay the costs. Gillelan, Penrose and Shapley for Com., Miller and W. S. Amwog of Lancaster, for defendant. Commonwealth vs. Augustus Jeremiah.— Charged with Larceny and Receiving Stolen Goods, True bill, aipl a-Nolle Pros entered ■ ■ upon payment of 1 costs by defendant. Gilic lamfor Cora., Shearer for deft. Commonwealth, vs. Charles Taylor,—A true bill was found against this colored indi vidual for disturbing a congregation at wor ship, but ho thought it best to settle the hash ■which was done. ■ Commonwealth vs. Sarah Pearson. —Charg- ed with keeping a bawdy house, in this borough, found guilty at a previous term,but now sentenced .to imprisonment in the jail of Cumberland county for one year and six nionths, a fine of $lOO and the costs of pros esution. Giilelan and Shearer for Com., Smith & Miller for deft. Commonwealth vs, James Noble. —-Surety of the Peace on oath of John Campbell. De fendant bound over for two years in the sum of $3OO and the costa. Giilelan for Com., Smith for defendant. ' , Where is Covode. When,the republicans wors trying to ren der national principles and national men un' popular in the North, and striving to divert attention .from their own sectional and revolu tionary cause,-’they opened the windows of a farcical heaven and poured slander and vituperation like hailstones from a dismal cloud upon every department of the Govern ment. There was no treason in words then. Among those who labored for the sectional division of tbo government, slander had be come a profession and bad its loaders, illus trious among whom were the corrupt John Forney,. John Covode, John Hionman, and every other political John, Jobber, and Jay? hawk in the land. False charges were trumped, up by packed committees, bogus testimony was elicited all upon one side, with nothing and proving nothing, and the country was put to a great expense to publish that al curiosity and rediculous burlesque upon testimony, commonly called the “ Covode In vestigation,” Now when frauds of the most unjustifiable .character are cropping out of al most every transaction, these men nave noth ing to say. Where pew is Forney, the fussy little Hickman, little bully Grow, and honest John .Covode? We certainly ought to < have another $BO,OOO report published and circular tod at the public expense. —Sunbury Demo erat. ' Unhealthy.—When Floyd 4 Co., robbed the Government they took their gains and went among thoir friends, hut those pow en gaged, in the same business, ns soon as aro found out put straight for Burppo, not ex notly on account of “ military necessity, but ns the republicans say to “ recuperate” their health. If justice were done them tb o y would no doubt find this.countryanunhealtlij place. ■ 0"A libel suit has been brought in Supreme Court of New York, against proprietors of the Post, by a Mr. Saul i, $lOOO damages. The suit is based on an _ tide in the Post, charging Mr, Smith »»',, > secessionist. to
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