AMERICAN VOLUNTEER,
JilllJi B. BRJTTOJi, Editor & ProptleTor
CARLISLE, PA., DECEMBER*B, T 863
Democratic State CommTtlee.
The Democratic State Central Committee
■met at Reading, on the 11th inst. Thu Chair
man, P. W. Hughes, Esq., and ton or twelve
other members, were present. On motion, a
.Resolution was adopted, fixing Wednesday,
the 17eA of June, 1863, ns the time, and Har
risburg as the place, for. holding the next
Democratic State Convention, to nominate a
candidate for Governor, and a candidate for
Judge of tiie Supreme Court, in place of Hon.
Walter H. Luivrie, whose term will expire
in 1863. '
C 7” A gold dollar or a silver quarter has
•become a groat curiosity. Ragged shinplas
tors have taken their place. Had such a
condition of'affairs occurred under a Demo
cratic administration what a howling would
drave been raised by the Abolitionists.
Butchering.— The season for butchering
the fat porkers is at hand, and those who
have furnished themselves with hogs aro now
engaged in reaping the reward of their fore
sight and prudence. An abundant supply of
sausages, hams and puddings is a pleasant
subject to contemplate in view of the ap
proach ofuvinfer.
Aurora Boreai.ir.— There was a fine au
rora borealis on Sunday evening. It ap
peared about twilight, and continued for sev
eral hours, though its greatest brightness did
not continue for. more than an hour. The
light ran up in streaks'nearly to the zenith,
and reflected nearly as much light as a .half
full moon. ■ ■ .
The War News, —The war news, to ho
found in another column, is highly important.
The battle fought on Saturday, was bloody
ai.d desperate, but without any decided ad
vantage to our arms. There lias been no
general engagement since. But the contest
will..hefrh'tiewed shortly',, and by nest week
wi) hope to be able to announce the fall of
Richmond. The Union loss on Saturday, we
ace it stated, waso.OOO.
f’) sly I so 7-—The President, in. his iUes
sago, is not sure whether the four millions of
blacks that he. proposes to set free will'come
North or. remain in the South and work for
wages. . But, granting that they will come
North, it would only be one negro to every
seven white men, and ho thinks that would
be no great inconvenience. According to this
calculation the Borough of Carlisle, with a'
population of 6;000, would be entitled to re-,
ceive about 850 blacks. Glorious privilege,!
, Sweet Potato Coffee. —Tho present pro
digious price of good coffee has suggested to
lovers of the beverage an economical arrange
ment.hy which their tastes may be indulged
and yet'their purses not too heavily taxed.—
Sweet potatoes out into pieces the size of oof
lee grains, roasted in a slow oven for the same
length of time that coffee is, and then mixed
with an equal amount#! coffee, will, it is as
serted,- produces a beverage fully as palata
ble as the original article.
_ The llot.ydays.— Tho great season of fes
tivity and joy is near, at hand. Will it bring
with it the cheer and hilarity of former days?
We fear not. The elite of Washington may
hold banquets, levees, soirees, and sing«and
dance among the mangled and dying forms
of our country's sons, but to tho thousands of
bereaved and broken family circles it will
eurae fraught with heavy grief. The memo
ries of former happy holidays will only em
bitter and increase.their sorrow, ns thoughts
of the dead and absent loved ones pass
through their minds.
. The Ladies and Soldiers. —lt is stated on
good authority that many of our soldiers are
Buffering,for the want of mittens and stock
ings. Cannot the. ladies repeat the good
deeds of last winter and supply their wants ?
We believe that .it only requires to be made
known to set thousands of fair lingers to work,
and besides that they can have-the pleasure
of making a Christmas present. If the short
time before that day arrives does not give them
the time to do it, send them so that they reach
them by New Year’s day, and 1 the present
will be none the less welcome. Almost every
fair daughter of our county has a friend in
the service of his country that a pair of warm
mittens or, stockings would prove very ser
viceable to. In behalf of our suffering sol
diers, therefore, we ask the ladies, to go to'
work at once:
“Let those hew knit whonevcr knit b/forc ;
■■" And those who always knit now knit the more."
Godey’s Lady’s Book.— The first numhei
of the new volume of Godey has been veoeived
aud fully justifies the promises of the pub
lishers concerning the new volume. The
fashion plate is designed and executed in the
best style of art, and more than sustains the
previous ‘reputation of Godey in this depart
ment, in'which be is without a rival’ The
frontispiece is an allegorical, representation
of the departure of the . “old year” and the
arrival ofthe “new,” and notwithstanding the
fact that picfures of this .kind have been got
ten up annually for many years, yet prqdiic"
tidn far excels anything of the kind wo have
ever seen, and is strikingly original in its
conception. Besides these, there is a largo
variety of other engravings, and the literary
and instructive articles are of tho choicest
character. Every one who makes any pre
tensions to keep up with the progress of the
age should subscribe toGodey’s Lady’s Boob.
Terms—S3,oo peranmun, payable in advance.
Mr. Stevens' bill to idemnify President Lin
coln and other persons for suspending (lie
■writ of habeas corpus, passed the House on
Monday last by a vote of 90 to 45. What ne
cessity can there bo for indemnifying the
Administration for its arbitrary arrests, if, as
the Republicans claim, they wore all legal
and proper ? °
Second Arbi™..-I. Livingston has just
received hie second invoice of T'all nnd Win
ter Goods, consisting, in part, of ahcavy stocß
■ of piece goods, which - will ho made up to
order in a fashionable nnd substantial man
ner, ■or sold by the yard. In ready made
clothing bo defies competition, in price or
tjuality. Cloths, Ciissinieres, Vestings, Sat
inets, Army Ghodb, &«., in great abundance,
and of every style and quality. Call and ex
amine bin immense stock before buying else
where, -
WEST VIBGIIHS.
Thb bill for the admission of West Virgin
ia into the Union, ns a separate State, which
passed the Semite at the last session, passed
the House on Wednesday ol last woek, by a
vote of 90 yeas to bo nays. Two nominal
Democrats—Mr. Haight, of Nbw-York, and
Mr. Lehman, of Pennsylvania—voted for the
bill; and, on the other side, 13 Republicans
and 15 Southern Union members, voted
against it.
The passage of.this hill, wo need scarcely
say, is in direct violation of Article IV., Sect,.
3, of the. Constitution, wbicb-dodaros that—
“ No now State shall bo‘formed or erected
. within the jurisdiction of any other. State ;
' nor any'State bo formed by the junction of
two or "more States, or parts of States, with
out the consent of the legislatures of the
States concerned as well as of Congress.”
The disregard of this plain provision of the
Constitution can only bo excused upon the
assumption that the State of Virginia is out
of the Union—which would bo an admission
of .the right of secession, and a virtual ac
knowledgment of the existence of the South
ern Confederacy. But the people hove trad
repeated evidence that constitutional prohi
bitiousare no impediment in the way of the .
radical purposes of the present Abolition Ad
ministration, amlMberefure this new instance
of usurpation of power need cause no sur
prise. The Ncw-York World, in alining to
it,'says with great truthi |
“ Congress has on more authority to cre
ate the State of ‘ WestVirginia’ that. it has
to create the State of .Western New York.—
But as all, the loading '.measures of this ad
ministration are violations .of the Constitu
tion, this ujirticular 'instance only makes a
small addition to the list. Its confiscation
acts, its emancipation proclamations, its pa
per legal tender, its extension, of martial law
over the whole country, its biistiles, its deni
al of habeas coiyas, are fruits naturally to
•have been expected from a party which em
barked,in politics under the banner of the
‘ higher law,' and whose most distinguished
leader, among.a hundred, similar utterances,
once said to an audience of his admirers:
‘ Correct your error that slavery has any con
stitutional guarantee which mu;/ not be released
and ought pi n!o be rdwguished. Saj' to sla
very when it shows i/s bond and demands the
pound,of flesh, that if it draws one drop, of
blond its life shall pay the forfeit.-' This com
parison of the Constitution to the bond of
Shylock in Shakespeare's ‘ Merchant of Ve
nice; a bond which it is meritorious; to citv
ounivcht as Portia circumvented the revenge
ful and pitiless ,few, is of'a piece with the
•whole subsequent history of the Republican
party, which has never from tho beginning
had any respect.for the Constitution."
The object of creating a new State out of
■the territory of an old one, in this palpably
lawless way, is far.from patriotic, whatever
hypocritical pretences Republican members,
who feel that an apology' for their votes is
necessary, may make to that effect; for, un
der no circumstances,.can that be patriotism
which sets at naught the highest law of the
land, and, violates the sacred'oath that they
have taken to support it. No—the object of
this new exorcise of usurped power is plain-
lyjand truthfully.told by the paper from which
we have already quoted:
“ But what, is tiie object of this flagrant vi
olation of the Constitution ? It is to over-
ride and out-vole in Congress the,-regularly
elected representatives of the people!. The
new Slate of West Virginia is wanted as'a
precedent. The administration is engaged
in■ ■•cultivating"*.;largo crop, of such bogus
states for speedy admission into the Union.—
Their representatives in Congress,will be its
subservient tools.. Such bogus states will
■have no more right to representation in Con-
gross than' the JRnngtown debating society.
Sham representatives without any legal con
stituency nro wanted to cancel the yptos and
influence of the representative's of New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, and other
states which have elected conservative dele-
gations to Congress. We warn these trick-
etors that this game will never succeed. If
they prefer to learn this truth where alone,
fools learn, in the -school of experience, they
will find tho tuition feus unprofllably high.”
[from the Express of Oct. Ofcli.]
Humors of Hie Day—The "Sine Hundred
' Thousand,’ Coming.
It is with feelings of the supremost satis
faction that wo are enabled to announce that
the-Nine Hundred Thonsand’-men whom tho
Tribune promised, would be'furthcoming to
swell the grand armies of the Union,-as soon
as tho President’s Abolition Proclamation
was issued, will arrive'in this city {over the
left) from Central Now York, Now England,
. etc., some time in tho bourse of next week, in
tho following; ■
Order op procession
Provost-Marshal, with A ids,in Lincoln Green.
Senator Sumner of Massachusetts, escorted
by Cbaaseus dfAfriquo.
Provost-Marshal,
Gov. Andrew of Massachusetts, with Knights
Altona
Band.
Contra-Bands.
Managers of tho Underground Railroad, two
abreast.
Provost-Marshal.
Joshua R, Giddinga, Prederiek Douglas,
(black man) and Abby Kelley Foster, rep
’ resenting tho Three Graces.
Strong-minded women.
Rev. Henry AVard-Screeeher.
Sergeant Fit/.geraUl, ul the Cuveoran Legion.
Band— List, 0 List!
.More Contrabands.
Superintendent of tho Negro School at Port
Royal.
Provost-Marshal.
Shoddy Contractors.
The Libellers ot Gen. McCUllan, biting a file.
Aunty Slavery led by Uncle Tom.
Fremont.
More Shoddy,Contractors.
Tho Ghost of Magna Clmrtn,
Ooddessof Liberty,with a broken Constitution,
Knights of the Order of Fort Lafayette.
Provost-Marshal.'
Army Speculators.
Field-Marshal Horace Greeley and Staff, with
assistants hearing Pandora’s Box.
Tablaux—'Representing Servile Insurrection
—Young St. Domingo—Apotheosis of Tous
sairit I'Ouvorturo, oto.
Provust-Mnrslinl.
The Genius of Disunion.
Banner with the inscription “ Let the Union
Slide."
Band.
Air —John Brown's hodij lies a mouldering in
the grave, etc.
Provost-Marshal.
Rev. Dr. Cboovor, with a Man and a Brother.
Delegates from Ester Hall.
Postage Stamps.
Wide Awakes.
Contraband!)'.
Provost-Marshal.
~ More Wide Awakes..
Mine hundred and ninety-nine thousand Sub-
stitutes.
tlJ h tTmU °° f h ? Pro °esBion will ho along
RinllnfT"'*"' 1 through the
Realms of Imagination, until it reaches the
Limbo of Vanity and Paradise of Fools'—-
when the crowd will bo dismissed ut til next
Election Pav.
What General Scott Tlionghl.
At the Groat Democratic' mebting, bold in
Now York on the evening of thelSth of Oct.,
tho following important letter W'as read by
John Van Burou:
Washington, March 3, 1801.
Dear Sir:—Hoping tlmt in a day.or two
tlio now President, will huvo happily passed
through all personal dangers, and find him
self installed an honored successor of .the
great Washington, with you as tlio' Chief of
his Cabinet, I hog leave to repeat in writing
what I hove before said ;to you orally, this
supplement to my, printed view dated in Oc
’tober last, on the highly disordered condition
of our.so late happy and glorious Union. To
meet the extraordinary 'exigencies of the
times, it seems to me that I am guilty of no
arrogance in limiting the President’s hold of
selection to one of the four plans of procedure
subjoined. . . '
First—Throw off the old and assume a new
designation—tho Union party, Adopt the
concilatory measures proposed by Crittenden
or the Peace’Convention, and my life upon it
wo will havo.no new case of secession, but ou
tho contrary au early return of many if not
all the’States which have already broken off
from the Union. Without some equally
benign measure tho remaining slavoholding
States will probably join tlio Montgomery
Confederacy in less than sixty days, when
this city; being included in a foreign country,
would require a permanent garrison of at
least thirty thousand troops to protect the
Government within it.
Second—Collect the duties on foreign goods
outside the ports of which this Government
has lost the command, or close sitch ports by
acts of Congress and blockade them.- .
Third Conquer.the seceded States by invad
ing armies. No doubt- this may Bo done in
two or throe years by a young and able Gen
eral—a AFolfe, a Dessaix, or a llocko—with
300,000 disciplined men, estimating a third
for garrisons, and alossofayotgreaternumbor
by'skirmishes,' sieges, battles, and Southern
fevers. -The destruction of life and property
on the other side would be frightful. How
ever perfect.tho moral and discipline of the”
invaders, the conquest completed at that enor
mous.waste of human life to the North and
Northwest, with’at least ?250,000,000.added
thereto and cut bono fifteen devastated provin
ces, not to be brpughtinto harmony with ’their'
conquerors, to be held for generations by
heavy- garrisons, at ah e\ppnso. quadruple
the net duties of taxes , whioh it would be
possible to extort.from them, followed by a
protector or an emperor.
Fourth—Say to the seceded States, y Way
ward sisters, depart in peace.” '
In haste, I remain, very truly yOurs,
Winfield Scott
To lion. W. 11. Seward.
Tho reader will observe that this letter
was written the day before President Lincoln
was inaugurated. It shows what alterna
tives Gen. Scott thought were presented to
tho President, and he gives consecutively the
methods in which ho thought our national
trouhles.might be settled ; and, no doubt, ar-
ranged'them in the order which seemed pref
erable to him. That is to say, the plan he
approved most was placed first, and so on. It
will bo soon that ho decidedly preferred the
adoption of conoilatory- measures and confi
dently declared they would bring healings on
loir wings. If-this plan was rejected, he
thought.the next best expedient was to col
lect duties outside of seceded ports, or close
them by act of Congress. - Failing in this, he
would conquer the South by invading armies,
hut he fortold, partially, 'the horrors which
such a course would entail. In case neither
of these suggestions were acted on, ho saw
no way but to allow the seceded States to go
in peace. This letter shows clearly' that the
old General was opposed to coercive measures.
He desired that the Republican party should
abandon its fanaticism and adopt the Critten
den Compromise or the conoilatory measures
of the Pence Congress,, which he declared
would traiiqnili'ze tho, country and preserve
the Union. With what pain and heaviness
of heart must he have witnessed tho rejection
of Ins wise advice. He never faltered in
the support of the Union, but it is very clear
that he did not approve of tho course of the
President and his party. "Wo doubt not
that the President has repented long since,'
and regrets sincerely that he did not adopt
the policy indicated by General Scott, and
urged by the patriots of the land. Thurjow
Weed has said that Mr. Lincoln had declared
that ho regretted it. The little excitement
he dreamed of and which ho declared would
bo of short duration, has well nigh ruined
the country, while lie has the sad reflection
to brood over that by a wise, eoncilatory
and patriotic course, he .might have prevent-
ed it.
The Methodist Church in Decline.—A
correspondent of the AVestern Christian Ad
vocate gives- certain startling facts in relation
to the Methodist Church; Ho says; ‘Of the
forty-eight annual conferences, all but six re
port losses ranging from 5,172 to 51, An
equal aggregate annual loss fur twenty years
would exhaust the entire church.’' ’ That
this is attributable to political preaching, no'
sane man doubts for a moment. ,
Honorably Discharged.’ —That is the word
now ; “ honorably discharged.” It should
bo printed in gold, and hung out over, the
door of every man who has had tho honor of
an incarceration in an Abolition hostile, to
let tho world know that “ honorably dis
charged” moans dishonorably arrested.
JO®*The arrest ot John 11. Harmon, at
Grand Rapids, Michigan, and his being sent
off to Fort Lafayette, are creating consider
able excitement in Michigan. A" few more
such arrests, it is said, will turn tho State
over to the democrats.
AVe thought the government tad stopped
arresting democrats and shutting them up in
Forts. It seetns that Secretary Stanton has
still got his sneah-s at work.
O' U. S. Senator Arnold, of Rhode Bland,
having been biassed as a Republican, by
some of tho radical journals, has written a
letter repudiating all sympathy with that
party and stating that ho was elected as a
Union man, and in opposition to the Repub
licans.
Tiuelt Advice. —lt behooves us, says the
Louisville Journal, to heaven mind that the
war we are prosecuting is a war ot restoro-
iton, not of extermination. .Whilst we re
member that wo are patriots, we must not
forget that our enemies are men.
KIT” Dr. Edson B. Olds,-of Fairfield county
Ohio, who was arrested last summer by the
government for expressing bis opinion on pub
lic affairs, has just been elected to the legisla
ture by a majority of 2000!
Dl7”Qen. McClellan is said to b'o preparing
o history of military affairs while he was in
command.
Prom tho Now York Herald.
LETTER FROM JUDGE GOULD, OP NEW YORK.
The Arrests by the War Department—The
Petty and contemptible Tyrants at Washing
ton held up to the scorn of the people—They
are warned to beware!
The letter following sufficiently explains
itself. It was sent to the President two days
.after its date by a friend of his, who afforded
the first opportunity that could lie relied on
to insure the delivery to the President in per
son, and it was so delivered. It was read,
and a verbal reply' that the case would bo in
vestigated was given. But no pretence was
made that the’ cause for the arrest was not
correctly stated in my letter.
Though the claim to “ investigate” by
means of an arbitrary arrest, personal duress,
and whatever secret appliances a Cabinet
inquisition might see fit to resort to, was re
asserting the right so to arrest for such causes,
and thus was a claim as utterly at viirianoo
with all law, as would have been the similar
arrest of a man who {in Now Turk) bad
picked the Secretary’s pocket, still .steps
wore taken to present the ease again to the
President and the Secretary, through (their
personal and political friends (and tEmsfa;.
nigh position), in the hope of
dress without publicity.
'Betas up to this time; (after nearly throe,
weeks) nothing hits resulted, except an infa
mously rigorous imprisonment of Mr. Tracy,
forbearance has reached its limit. It is
highly important that the people shnnljl thus
and now have a specific statement, showing
the enormity of actual oppression exercised
in this case, as a warning to thorn and to the
administration, Yours, &e.,
GEO. GOULD.
Troy, N Y., December 4, 18G2.
JUDGE GOULD TO UR. LINCOLN'..’’ -
New York, Nov. 14, 1862. .
To liis Excellency Abraham Lincoln, Pre
aideot of the United States;
Sir—On my arrival in this' city, from my
resilience in Troy, N. Y., I find that.a cousin
■of mine, G. Golden Tracy, a broker of this
city, has,been, first, arreYtod and sent to Fort
-.Lafayette; and, second'y, to-day taken ns
a.prisoner to Washington. The newspapers
say—and so far as I can learn by all inquiri
es of authorities I can bear nothing different
--that the cause of the arrest is seme deal
ings ko has had in contractors’ drafts on
government officers for moneys; and, it is
said, some frauds were committed in or by
the drafts, and he is charged with complicity
therewith,
If this be so; it is a.crime cognizable by
the courts, and only by the courts. And I
am amazed at the,fatuity of public officers' 1
who can take no warning from the distinctly
uttered voice of a free people.
I am, and always have .boon, an unwaver
ing enemy of this rebellion—(cursed in its
origin, most aroused.its progress)—and asrip
porter of the .administration. lam a Judge
of the highest court of .this Stale. And if no
honest voice has yet reached the ears of our
government, I wish to say, and to be heard
in saying, that Star Chamber process and
Secretary’s warrants are dangerous instru
ments to' play with,-and that,- among us, the
true, staunch-supporters of the government,
who would crush treason with the iron heel,
but who know the. law, are compelled to
hang their heads in .silence at the mention of
cases which’ have Occurred in our midst.
Spies are hardly icautioned when they are
whore they can-do infinite harm; but a pow
erful hand arid an oppressive one is laid on
•a person here, .who’ is not in a position for do
ing mischief, if he would, and who is supposed
to have no friends.
In. this respect, I thank God, there has
been a mistake. It.is true.that he is a young
man, of not much means or influence ; it is
also true that he has a young wife (married
not long since) ; and Tor no assigned’ cause,
and’ for . no .-assignable cause that those
in power..dare : to give breath to, ho is
taken away -from hoffte, without giving to
, iiis wife.au instant’s iuitoryiew or. a chance to
see him. Is this country the, France of a
century ago?
The young man is ’the grandson of that
UriahTracywlio lived and died it Senator of
the United, Strites’from Connecticut, who was
the first man buried! in the Congressional
burying ground.at Washington, and whose
ashes are insulted by this: atrocious invasion
of the liberties of the people in the person of
his doscendent.
I am Out speaking merely my own opinion
of such arrests. I know the opinions, and
the feelings nf mnnj of my! brethren of. the
bench.' And if the government is really de
sirous uf so proceeding as to make it bur dutj T
to make public our .opinions, they will be
.heard, not merely in the writ of habeas cor
pus, but in open declaration to the, world.
Had I been a few hours earlier made aware
t?f this case, I should not have troubled you
with a word ; but I would have seen that the
process of the. Supreme Court of this State
was so executed us to protect its citizens nc
cusetbof sneh offences from any arrest, other,
than one under the appropriate process of the
courts.
I beg again tp assure you, in all sincerity,
that this kind of proceeding baa gone too far
already, and that, while to tho Inst of our men
and our moans we are ready and determined to
sustain the law, and tbegovernment in enforc
ing the law over this whole land as one country,
we are also determined to be judged by the
law, and not by any Secretary or any one
who is not commissioned for that purpose.
We know, and acknowledge the rules of war,
where the necessity of the case requires the
existence of martial law. Bqt wo know,
also, the common law of liberty, and the
broad, great charter of the constitution.
I write warmly, zealously, because I can
not bear to think of our-cherished govern
ments taking any course to injure itself • at
a time, ton, when our only hope of escaping
the eternal disgrace and humiliation of let
ting the cause of human liberty perish in our
hands is to. sustain this government of this
Union, and to have it a government worth
sustaining. With great respect, ymirs. &c.,
GEORGE'GOULD,
♦
NEXT GOVERNOR.
Mb. Bratton , —Among all tlio persons
proposed ns candidates of the Democratic
party for Governor, I know of no one so well
qualified in every way as. the Hon. George
Sanderson, formerly of tills county, and
now the able and patriotic mayor of the city
of Lancaster.
I need not say to you tliat in- Lancaster
and Cumberland counties lie is deservedly
popular with the Democratic party, and ob
noxious to no party ; but I may add, that he
is well and favorably, known throughout the
State, and would make a stronger election
than any candidate I have board mentioned.
Ho is known to bo honest, enterprising,
and independent, and is well qualified to
promote the interests of the Commonwealth.
Dickinson.
Hangman Cray.— The N. Y. World refers
to Cassius M. Cray ns that‘shining apostle
of higher law, who draws the salary of a Ma
jor General and spends his time in going
about the country abusing those who pay the
taxes.'
JUST Owen Lovejoy is re-elected to Congress
from the sth district of Illinois; but his great
mnj’orityof9,Bs7 two years ago,
now to 675. Hero is a loss to the blatent ab
olitionists of 9,160 I A loud call.
IKT'Oen. Sherman has - issued-an order at
Memphis;-Tennssee, against the proposed is
sue of shinplastor currency by the city.
lu compliance with instructions,' the com
mittee roportfed the following which were
unanimously adopted:
Whereas, Col. R. Biddle Roberts having
been called upon by the Governor Of Penn,
sylvnnin to fill a more important position',
thus, rendering his resignation necessary as :
Colonel of the Ist RogiirfSut; (the announce-.
Bienb of which foil upon us like an electric
shock,) bo who led ns through many a bloody
conflict from “Mocbaniesville” to "Antic
tain,” where our hopes and aspirations were
blended in one. common thought, “ the pres
ervation of this’groat nation.” Therefore,
Resolved, That tho manifestations of re
gret at the parting of our brave and honored
commander, wore of the purest sincerity,
rendered doubly impressive by the circum
stance of both officers and men calling after
him, “ come back,Colonel, come back.” -
Resolved, That the reputation wen and, en
joyed by tho Ist Regiment, the estimation in
which it is held by its various Brigade, Di
vision and Corps commanders, wasnnd is duo
in a great measure to tiro example, the im
perii;! i government and enforcement of strict
discipline by him, and tho unlimited confi
dence reposca in him by his officers and sol
diers/miider any and all 'circumstances.
. Resolved, That time cannot oflaeo from the
hearts of his comrades in arms, the reoi.lloo
tions.of the glorious past, and his gallant
leadership at “ Meuhanicsvillo,” “Gaines’
Mills,” “ White Oak Swamp,” “ Bull Run,”
together with tho crowning act of'liis milita
ry career during his connection-with the Ist,
lending'it in advance of till others to tho:
.bloody, summit of “ South Mountain”—his
sharing without complaint with his meii/ tho
toils and privations of n long campaign, ac
tuated by no other motive than a genuine
love of country;—have so endeared him to the
regiment that
' "Tho teiu* of rogrot will intTus’.rofy swell”;
when the stern fact stares us in the face, that
ho is no longer with us, and of.us. ;
Unsolved-, That the foregoing preamble and
resolutions bo published in the. newspapers
of the following named cities and, towns of
Pennsylvania: Pittsburg.Philadelphia, Har
risburg, Carlisle, Lancaster, West Chester,
Phoeuixyille, Gettysburg, Modia/md Cho-ter..
, W.-O. TiLLEV/Uapt. cmn’dg.lst Reg.
L. TV. Read, Surg."and Med. Dir. Div-
T. B. Barton, Capniin Cu. B.
J. R. Doiison, Captain Co. G.
W.-W. .Stewart, Captain Co. K.
0. W. Niei.ds’,. Lieut, com’dg Co. A.
J. R. T. Coates, Lieut, com’dg Co. 0.
W. 0. Wasson, Lieut, eom’dg On. D.
P.'.l. O’Rourke, Lieut, coin'd* Go. E,
1. 11. GRabaji, Lieut, -eom’ilg 0n.,1.
■ W..T. McPiiail, 2d Lieut. Go. E.
W. IX Halbert, 2d Lierit. Co. I.
11. N. Minnioh, 2d Lieut. Co. K.
Pennsylvania F.xeclrive Ciiamiicr, )
Harrisburg, Pa., Duo. 2, 1802. f
Capt. W. Cooper Tallet, commanding Ist
Reg. P. R. V.' C.; Surgeon L. \V. Read ;
Captains Barton, Doiiso.v ami Stewart;
Lieutenants Coates, O’Rol-rke, Orahaii,
Wasson, -Nields, MoPiiail, llaluert ami
MiNNicir:
Gentlemen, —l lake great pleasure .in.ae
-knowledging the receipt of a copy of n aeries
of resolutions adopted, at a meeting of the,
officers of the First Regiment Penna. Reserve
Corps, held at Regimental Hoad Quarters in.
Camp, near Rappahannock Station, Va.
It has at all times been riiyteffdrl to secure
the respect, esteem and confidence of the offi
cers who did me the honor tit serve under mo
the time I commanded the First Reg-'
infont, and I shall cherish thisdestinionial of
theii; regard while life lasts..
You have been with-m.o, gentlemen, during
the moat eventful scenes of any life, ami if
you are satisfied with thc.discipline'of the
'Regiment'and my conduct : witl| the.; same,
■upon many .a. hard fought lipid, I must; in
deed, feel'more than satisfied;
It was a noble command,, one that might
gratify the ambition of the loftiest spirit in
the land, and if it lias now from bard service
and severe losses grown small, ami if its otii
••rs •
cers.are few in numbers, we must never for
get that its hmno and fame ought to grow
brighter and clearer eachdav of itshistory.
Wo cannot but feel when -we think of
those who.have fallen ; they wore our friends,
and associates, but they perished gallantly in
a glorious cause, and have left behind theai
names ns imperishable as, we trust, bur coun
try’s fame will be—“their monument must
he the hearts of the people, their requiem the
■blessings of the free.” .
' For the Vjery complimentary terms, gentle
men, in'which' you have ~been pleased to
'express yourselves, accept my heartfelt'ac
knowledgements,.'and ho assured that this
evidence of your kind consideration of mo
when I. was faraway will form a bright epoch
in the history of my humble life.
Accept the assurance of to y warmest wishes
for your future health and prosperity, and
for, the eon tinned usefulness of the officers
and men of the First llegimeut in the service
of our country.
[From tho Congressional proceedings of Jlondny.]
Mr. Kiehardsbn, of Illinois, proceeded to
review the message, observing that it was re
markable for what it says, anil still more re
markable for what it omits. The one half of
the twenty-one pages is devoted to the negro.
There was no page, no sentence, no lino as to
the bravery,and good conduct of those in the
field fighting to maintain tho flag and the
Constitution of .the Union. No sorrow was
expressed for tho lamented dead—no men
tion made, of the maimed and wounded—no
sympathy was expressed for tho widows and
tho suffering orphans made in the,progress of
this war, which epuld have been avoided by
honorable comproriiise if tho President and
his friends had desired to avoid civil war.
For tho Voluntoor.
The, sum and substance of thismessage
was to tax the white man, mortgage him and
his posterity forever, to free, feed, clothe, and
colonize the negro. When our people, anx
ious for the restoration of the Union and the
return of peace, look to the message to see
what informntion-they'could got on that sub
ject, they could draw only by inference that
the war would end in thirty-seven years, pn
vided nil the President’s plans were adopted
by Congress and the people. But, then, the
President gave the consolation that most of
ns would be dead by that time. Every pro
posed change of the Constitution .was for the
negro. No proposition was made to change
the Constitution for the benefit of the white,
or-to perpetuate the Union of those States by
preserving the Constitution of the country,—
The people will, in duo time, compromise
for the benefit of white men, and mot for the
negroes. Ho had hoped that the President
would so conduct himself that he might ac
cord to him his support; but ho had hoped
against hope. The President had violated
the pledges ho made in his inaugural address,
by his proclamation of the 22d of September.
0“ What a poor world this would ho with
out women and newspapers—-how would the
nows get about?
MSP* A lady in Boston, was seriously in.
iurel by tho explosion of an air-tight can of
tomatoes, which she had placed on tho stov^
[Eor tho American Volunteer.'
Complimentary lo Col. Roberts.
Head Quarters, Ist Bog., P. R. V. 0.,: )
Camp near Rappahannock Station, Va. >
November 12th, 1802.. )
,At a meeting of tho officers of tho Ist Reg
iment, P, B. V. 0., held at Regimental Head
Quarters, tho following committee was ap
pointed to draft resolutions expressive of their
regard for their late Colonel, R. Biddle Rob
erts, viz: Cupt. Win. Cooper Talley, Surgeon
L. W. Read, Capt. Thomas B, Barton,. Capt.
J. K. Dobsonand Lieut. P. I. O’Rourke. .
Very truly.your friend,'
If. 15iddj,e Huberts.
The President’s Message
THE WAR NEWS.
THE GREAT BATTLE ON THE
RAPPAHANNOCK BEEEN. .
Bombardment and Fatrlial Destruction of
Capture and Oecupd'iion Of
the City by General Burnside’s Forces.' '
Headquarters, Abmv of the Potomac, )
Dec. 11—9 A.M. f
Everything last night was bustle and ac
tivity, as to-day was the time fixed for brass
ing of the fivor. . ,
During the night the pontoons were con
voyed to the ’river, .and the artillery of one
hundred ,and forty-three pieces, placed in po
sition opposite the city. , .
At five o’clock this morning the rebels
fired two signal guns, arid during the latter
part of the night rockets, wore frequently
soon to, ascend within their lines.
At five'p’clock the’construction of throe
bridges, ip. front of the city, was commenced.
When -the bridges were about half complet
ed, the enemy opened a murderous fire of in
fantry from the houses on the river bank.
The engineers wero' driven from the bridg
es, and several killed and wounded. *
• At six o’clock General Burnside ordered
nil the guns to be opened on the city. The
cannonade, which has continued up to the
present firiie, is terrible. The city is on fire,
and its destruction appears to be certain.
The enemy about 7 o’clock, this morning,
opened with their heavy guns from their
works, but SO far have done no serious inju
ry. .
General Franklin constructed his bridges
about three miles' below, the city, meeting
with but slightopposition.
Ilia troops are now crossing. . The, gun
boats are now shelling the enemy about 15
miles down the river, where.they have bebri
concentrating their forces for the past two
days.
The concentrated fire of our batteries on,
tlie city has .had the effect of driving back
the enemy’s infantry; and the Work on the
bridges has again been commenced. "
The troops are all under arms near the
river, prepared: to rush over as soon as the
bridges are completed. . ‘ '
Headquarters, A nay of the Potomac,
Dee. 11—-Noon.
On the attempt being made to finish the
saridges in front of the city, the rebel infantry
again opened Their fire. -
The artillery position again open oil.on the
■city, the result being that it was fired in sev-. ;
oral new places.-
. The enemy Inivo used very little artillery
up to this time, as it would endanger their
own men, who are bolding the river front.
General Burnside has,just issued ah order
to concentrate every available gun upon the
city, under the cover of the fire of which it
it is believed that the bridges can.be finished.
The killed and ' whinnied - so far do not
amount tu move than fifty men.
Later.
HeACQUA RTERS, AttJIY. OF ,THE PoTOUAC, ,1
Hoc. 11—Evening. f
But little firing took piece, between one
and throe o’clock, during, which time alltho
available batteries word placed' in position.
They then numbered one hundred and seven
ty-sis guns, • •
At a given signal all the batteries opened
nn the city. The (ire was terrible; but the
rebel-sharpshooters could not be driven from
their hiding places.’ The shot and shell.went
crashing-through the houses, in many cases
sotting them on fire, causing a dense smoke,
which, together with the explosion of so.iargo
a quantity of powder, almost hid the city
from view..
It soih became evident that the bridges
dould not be built except by a bold dash,—
Volunteers were called for to cross in small
he mist The order was nosoonor givim than b uu
dreds of the bravest slopped forward,.; but tj.ll
could'.not go. ,
About, ono Inititlred men won 1 selected.—
They, were soon on their- way, while the ar
tillery threw n perfect Ktonn of iron hail on
the opposite- hank, They reached the'oppo
site shore,- hut- nut without loss; With fixed
bayonets,they rushed upon the enemy, killing
several and taking one hundred and otre pris.
oners; who were safely landed oh' this side.
At-hnlf-past'fourtwo bridges were finished
opposite the city, when the troops immediate
ly bogan to. crossover. The enemy were soon
driven from the city hack to their line of ivories.
The two bridges in front of Geni Franklin
'were successfully laid early in the day ; but
his troops did not.cross. until- the" two upper'
ones were ready.
A sufficient force is now on the opnosite
side of the river Jo resist pny attaok that is
likely to he made; •
. The rebels tired but few guns in the morn
ing, arid none in . the afternoon, although
their works were in easy range during the,
forenoon. '
The rebels burnt the railroad bridge just
outside the citv.
Between thirty and forty houses were burnt,
mostly in the business part of the city.
During the day between eight and nine
thousand rounds of ammunition were tired
by our artillery.
Everything is quiet to-night. The indica
tions lire that a battle will be.fought to-mor-.
row, '
THE BATTLE NEAR FRED
ERICKSBURG.
The Rebel Cavaltq/ Raid in oar Rear—Fsde
ral Infantry Charge on the Enemy’s Works
—The Union 'Troops Twice repulsed—Suc
cess of Gen. Franklin’s Division—The En
emy Driven Bade with Great Slaughter —
Capture of Five ■ Hundred Prisoners —- The
Position of the Enemy—Names of the Killed
and Wounded.
Headquarters in the Field, 1
Saturday, 11, a. m. | *
The battle so long antloiprted is now pro
gressing. . ' 1
The morning opened with a dense fog,
which has not yot entirely disappeared. .
Gen. Reynolds’.corps on the left advanced
at an early hour, and at 9.15 engaged the en
emy’s infantry. Seven minutes after the
rebels opened a heavy tiro of artillery, which
Ims continued so far without interruption.—
Their artillery fire must bo at random as
the fog obstructs all view.
Our.heavy gtins are answering them rap
idly. As the sun gets high it is hoped that
the fog will lift. At this writing no results
are known. Not much infantry has as yet
become engaged.
A portion of the enemy’s cavalry crossed a
ford above here, and yesterday Wore found on
our right rear. A sufficient foroo has been
sent out to meet them.
SECOND DISPATCH,
Headquarters Arsit op the Potomac, 1
Saturday evening, Deo. 13. J
' The fog began to disappear at 7 o’clock this
morning, affording an unobstructed view of
our own and the enemy’s position.
It being evident that the first ridge of hills
in the rear of the city, on which the enemy
had their guns posted behind earthworks,
cculd not bo carried except by a charge of in
fantry, General Sumner assigned that duty
to General French’s division, supported by
General Howard’s;
The troops advanced to the works at ten
minutes before 12 o’clock at a brisk run,—
The enemy’s guns opened a rapid .fire upon
them. When within musket range of the
base of the ridge they wore met by a terrible
fire from the rebel infantry, who were posted
behind a stone wall and some houses, on the
right of the lino. This cheeked their ad
vance, and they fell hack to a small ravine,
but not out of musket range.
At this time another body oftroona m
to their assistance in splendid style not w*
standing the gaps made in their ranks K.'r
fire of the rebel artillery. When thev
rived at the first line they advanced on dn,o'
lo quick time, and with a command of fiT i
bnyouots, endeavored to dislodge the ,„if„i
from their hiding places. Tim oorisentrail i
fire of artillery and infantry which t"!
forced to face was,too much, and the cent/
gave way in disorder but was afterwards
rallied and brought back. ua
■From that time, the firing was spiritedly
continued, rind never ceased until soinetimS
after darkness set in this evening. uo
General franklin, who commanded the at
tack on the left, met Wftb better suocOhs Ip
snoo'eeded, after a bard day’s fight, in" di°
ving the enemy about one mile. At one time
the rebels advanced to attack, but they wor e
handsomely repulsed with terrible slaughter
and a loss of between four and five hundred
prisoners, belonging to General A. H. imp.
Command,
General Franklin’s movement was directed
down the river, and his troops are encamped
to-night not far from Massaponax creek. F
Our troops sleep to-night whore they fun,do
to-day- . ■
The dead and wounded are.boing carried
from the field of battle to-night. ’•
The following is a list of the officers killed
and wounded, as far as known :
. Gen. Jackson,ofthe Forinsylvania Reserves
killed. ’
Gen. Bayard was struck in the thigh by a
shell, and afterwards died.
. General Vinton was wounded in the side'
but not seriously, , ’
Gen. Gibbons was woundad in the hands.
Gen. Kimball received a wound in the
thigh.
Gen. Crihhyell was wounded in two places
but not seriously;
Col. Sinclair, of Pennsylvania, was danger
ously wounded.
Capt. Hendricks, who was commanding
the 9tli New York militia, was Wounded se
riously.
The following is the loss of officers in the
sth New Hampshire regiment, which was
actively engaged in the battle.
Col. Cross, wounded in the abdomen.
Major Sturdevant and Adjutant Dodd,'
killed.
The firing of musketry censed at about 0
o’clock, but the rebels continued throwing
shell into,tlio city until 8 o’clock thia-evening.
The position of .the rebel forces .was asfol- ‘
lows : General Lcngstreet was'on the left;
and held the main works of the fnemy. , Gen;
■A. D. Hill and General Jackson wore in '
'front ijf General Franklin, with Jackson’s
right Testing on the Rappahannock. Gener
al D, 11. Hill’s forces.acted.as a reserve.
The troops, are in'good spirits, and dot in
he least disheartened.
The losses cannot bo accurately, estimated
at this hour.. ,
■Washington, December 14.
It is thought here that about 40,000 of oar
troops vverp engaged in yesterday’s battle.'
From information received early this morn
ing preparations were 'making all night for
tiie conflict to day. General Burnside remain
ing hn t)io field, giving orders and looking to
the position and .condition of his forces,'
Additional'surgeons and everything which'
the necessities of the wounded require have
been dispatched from-Washington,
FOURTH UISFACH. WASHINGTON, Deo. 14.
It is proper to,caution the' public Against
hastily crediting.'the many unsupported ru
mors concerning yesterday’s battle. Some of
them here prevalent have no other basis than
surmise, or are mere inventions. In the ab
sence of-facts. Rebel sympathizers are respon
sible fov not a few of these fictions. Gen-’
demen in high public position repeat the as
sertion as coming from Burnside, that ho lias'
non en-ongh and therefore desires, uo;furiher 1
■oiiifureemeuts. ’ . '■-stfe- ’k ?
THE LATEST NEWS : FROM
BURNSIDE’S A II MY, . , „
Kp. GENERAL RENEWAL, OK.TIIE BATTLE;
Fraiii (be Ariuy ortlie Potomac,'
Headquarters An/iy of the Potomac, I
Monday, Dee. 15—II A. M,; J
, There was considerable tiring during yes
terday between tjie advanced troops id' the,
two armies. At one time the enemy showed'
adispnsition to move upon General Franklin’s
command.
Occasionally the rebels would throw a few.
shells among our troops,-just to remind us»>f'
the fact tliat they were still there.
With those exceptions, everything was
quiet. ' '
There is some skirmishing this morning,
with considerable artillery tiring.
. The body of General Bayard was sent lo
Washington to-day. lie was to have been
married next Wednesday.
SECOND' DISPATCH.'
, Headquarters Army of. the Potomac, T
Monday Evening, Deo. 15. j-
The weather. to-day has. been clear and
warm, with a strong southerly wind.
The roads are in very good condition.
The position of the two armies remain;
nearly the same.'
There was not much ortillery.firing this af
ternoon by either of the parties. , Those shots
the rebels did tiro were thrown into the city.
The enemy, who are in plain view, are not
idle, but are busily employed in strengthening
thier position.
Most of the woupded were to-day removed
from the city to this side of the river, ns, on
the renewal of the battle, the rpbel guns would
likely cause its destruction,
Over seven hundred prisoners have been ta
ken since our army crossed tho river.
A New Field fob Babby. —John S. Rnrey,
the horse tamer, has been sent to the Array of
tho Potomac by General Halleek, to inquire
into the sanitory condition of the horses, and
to suggest some system to cheek the morality
among them. -
Hy* Among the Indians taken prisoners in
Minnesota, was a negro, who, it is alleged,
killed 33 whites with his own hands. Ho
was born at Mondota. Principally upon his
testimony most of tho Indians were convicted.
By the betrayal of his savage allies, he has
endeavored to save himself.
3&nMs.
CARLISLE MARKET.—Doo. 17, 1862,-
Corrected Weekly hy if. O. Woodward.
Fi.oun, Suporflno, por bbl., MB'
do.. Extra, , do.,
do., Ryo, do.,
White Wheat, por busbol, J'jjj
Red Wheat. do., VJx
Rye, now , do.,
Corn, ■ do.,
Oats, now ? do.,
Old do..
Spring Barley, do.,
Fall do,, do.,
Cloverseed, do.,
Timothysebb, do.,
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS.—Doo. 17.
Flour,- superfine,
“ extra,
Kyi: Flour,
Corn Meal,
Wheat, rod,
" white.
Hyb,
Cork, yellow,
. “ white,
Oats, -
Clovbrbbbb,
Whisky,
1,15
1,20
6,00
1,62
- 63 7
7 76
. . 6 60
3 60
1 47 ft I 4®
1.65 a 1-85
. - 07
. 6 60'
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