AMERICAN VOLUNTEER;
JOHN B. BRITTON, Editor & Proprietor
CARLISLE, PA„ DECEMBER 25, 1802
No Paper Next Week.— ln order to af
ford tlio hands connected with our office a lit
tle recreation during the holidays, no paper
■will he issued by us next week. The
other editors of onr town-have also this same
understanding with their workmen.. If, how
ever, any startling news should reach us, wo
will issue an Extra.
Sy We are requested to state that both our
hanking institutions will he closed on Christ
mas day.
PIERR.T CHKIST3IAS!
This day (Thursday,) is the anniversary
of the advent ot the Saviour—Merry Christ
mas !■—a day generally observed ns the .occa
sion for friends meeting together at the fes
tive hoard, and exchanging mutual congrat
ulations. Christmas is a day of rejoicing—
of social gatherings —of unrestrained merri
ment. To the young, Christmas brings
mirth in its train—a day of freedom, in its
broadest 'sense—when pa and mn are asked
to stand aside and give way to tho romp.—
"A Happy Christmas;” therefore,, to all our
readers; mole and female, old and young. As
appropriate to the occasion we insert the fol
lowing admirable production of Professor C.
C. Moore. It will be road with delight by
all our young readers:
. A.\miL mir oi? st. sicimis.
’Twasffco night before Christmas, when, all through
. the house,
Not a creature was stirring, not oven a mouse;-
The stockings were hung .by tho chimney with
care;
In bofO that St. Nicholas soon would ho there;
• tThc children were nestled all. snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced .’thro their
heads; • ' ■ ■■ .
And mama in her 'kerchief, and I in ,my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long’ winter’s
nap— , , ’ #
When out on’the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from my bed to . see what was tho mat-'
ter,'j'.-'-
Away, to. tho'window I flew like a flash; -
Toro open tho shutters, and threw tip tho-sash.
The moon en tile breast of tho. now fallen snow,
Gave tho lustre, of mid-day to 'objects below;
When,'What to tuy-wondering eyes should appear,
Jsat'a miniature.sleigh, and eight liny reindeer.
With a Utile old' driver, so lively ami quick,
il knew in u'm.braeht ironist bo St. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his.courses they came, .
And He whittled auil shouted, and" called them by
name
“Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! how/Pfahtor! now,
VUon!
Ob, Comet! on, Cupid ! on, Donclcr and Blixen I
To the top of the porch ! to the top of
Now, dash’away, dash away,*dush
|A.s the leavcs tliat before the inldhumcanpfly, ‘
nhen they meet with an obstacle, mount to the
' 'sky,'
So up to the house-top the courses they flewi
With .the. sleigh full of toys—and St. Nicholas
too: . , ,
And, then, in-a twinkling, I heard on the roof,
The.prancing and pawing of each littlchoof.
As, £ drew id; ray head, and was turning aiound,
Down tho'ebimuey St. Nicholas came with* bound.
.Ho was dressed nil in fur, from his head to his
. foot,'
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and
soot!
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
Aud be looked like a pedlar just openinghis pack;
His eyes—how they twinkled! his .dimples, how
merry! . •
His cheeks like roscs.his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth up like a how, ■
And tHo ou his ch" was, as white, as the
• V-?noVv.-.'-...
'Tbe:Mhmp',of a pipe ho held tight in his teeth,'
it. encircled his head Hkoawreath,
and a little round belly,
Thatahobk. ho laughed, like a bowl' full ,6f
Ho'was' chubby amt pTunipa rigiit joiry oUI elf,
And I laughed, wheu I saw him, in spite of my-
, self.
Aisxrkspi his eye, and it twist of his head,
'&^p^gffeoinarto : know I had nothing to dread. ■;
He spoke net 'a word, but .went straight to ‘his
work,
And filled all tho, stockings—then turnsd with a
“jerk,
And laying his .finger aside'of his nose,
And,giving a hod, up the chimney he rose.
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whis
- .tie, ‘ -, ’■
And" away they all ilew, like the down of a thistle.
}lut I hedrdllim exclaim, ere he drove out ofsiglit,
*' Happy Christmas to all, and too all a ouod
'.'’siobt !”•
130tii Regiment, P. V.—This- reglinont,
composed.entirely of companies from Cum
berland and York counties, was engaged ui
the battle at Fredericksburg, and suffered
severely. .11110 followingis a llstpf tho killed
and wounded, as far.as can be ascertained :
Col. 11. I. Zinn, shot through head.
"Capt, tauighlin, Co. ; E, bead blown off by a
shell.. •
John Fetzer, Go. F, head blown off by n shell.
Capt. Jenkins, Co. D, slightly in the arm.
Sergpant-Major Hosier, arm.
Sergt. Underwood, Co. A, head.
Foster, Co. A. arni.
•J. S. Forrqst, Co. C, slightly in the head.
Lieut. Levi Ilavefstick, acting Adjutant, both
legs and arm shot off,
Lieut. Marshall, Co. 11, slightly in hand.
Daniel L. Smith, in hand.
Jacob.Lafersc, Co. C, slightly in hand.
John-Staley, Co'. 0, wrist broken.
Corp. Laudis, Co. E, in hack, by piece of
shel.l.
Keller Bold). Co. F, in arm.
J. Stcigelman, Co. F, in leg.
Sergt. George Fiirrer, Co. F," in hip.
Joseph Forney, Co; F, in head.
V/illiani White, Co. F, in hand.
—— Culbertson, Go. F, in arm.
— Lamlierton, Co. F, in breast,
:— Stewart. Co. F.
Keller. Coif.
Alfred Sites. Co. G.' in thigh.
.Humphrey Colo, Co. 11, in head,
James Bridgeliouso, Co. 11, slightly.
D. 11. Kauffman. Co. 11.
Richard Gilen. Cx 11, hand.
Sergt, Hood; Co,'A. neck.
George McCauley, Co, I, hip-
Thomaa’J,. Collins. Co. I, hip,
Eli Mevors, Co. K, body,
i—'Kroll, Co. K, head. •
Cumberland Guards.— The Cumberland
Guards of Meelmnioshurg, Capt. King, Buf
fered severely in the battles before Freder
icksburg. ' The company, is attached to tho
7th Reg., P. R. V. 0. Tho following is the
reported list of the killed and wounded :
Sergt. Comfort. Benjamin Baker and Joint
Tonfossen were killed. Lieut. Zug,right arm
shot off. Sergt. Ileffelfinger, Corp. McClain,
Corp. Leib, L. Jones, J. Kimmcl, W. Smith,
George Free, W. Crone, J. Blosser, F. Smith
and M. Hess wounded. J. Welty, F. Smith
missing. ,
llm Regiment, P. V.—ln tins regiment is
one company'from this county, (Co. A, Capt.
Kuhn.) Tho list oi killed and wounded in
this conipany, so far ns wo have been able to
ascertain, is as follows:
Killed—George L. Reightor.
Wounded —Lieut. James Noble, J. Vansant,
Additional.— »We hnvejustreceived intel
ligence of the dentil of George Welsh, n
member of Battery A. P. V., formerly com
manded by Capt. Easton'. Mr. Welsh was
pounded in the battle at Fredericksburg, and
jjied from Ibe effect* of the wounds.
THE RETOLSE tip BURNSIDE,
The repulso of Burnside near Proderioks
burg, is a groat National calamity. Not only
is it a calamity, but it brings sorrow and
mourning to every community in the North.
Our troops fought like heroes, as they always
do, but tho battle was an unequal contest,
■ and a disastrous defeat followed (heir almost
superhuman efforts. ■ Thousands of ourbrave
men foil in front of jJtti enemy, and tho soil
of Virginia has been made rich with the
blood of Northern troops.
Who is responsible for this dreadful disas
ter? Tho miserable cabal who, unfortunate
ly for onr country, have the direction of affairs
in their bands! Wo. think the people are,
convinced, how, if they never wore before,
that-the Abolition programme will not an
swer —that Abolition spile-work and revenge
will not save the country. It is evident now
that those who scoff at the old Union and sot
aside with impunity tho provisions of tho
Constitution, are not tho' men to carry on a
war against the assailorsof tho Union. Tho
one party is-as had hs. the other, and both
must be put down, if tho Union is to lie
saved. ■MoCi.eu.an could and .would have
bagged Richmond, thu rebel'capital, long
ago, had not his plans been interfered with
by a remorseless Abolition faction. 110 was
robbed of one-fourth of the host troops in his
oommand'just at tho time when he was about
to invest the Rebel capital. " The ill-natured
Secretary of War detached these troops from
McClellan at tho critical moment, and or
dered him .to retreat! ' ' Was this trea
son or was it imbecility ? Wo believe, ns
wo are a living man, that the extremists had
determined that McClellan should not take
Richmond; they lid not want him to take it.
If ho took the Rebel capital,-they feared that
this might make him popular with the peo
ple, mid finally elevate him to the Presidency.'
They' desired to persecute' Democrats, and
felt no interest, whatever in the cause of tho
Union. Like Jeff. Davis and his compeers,,
they assailed the Constitution, and those who
desired its perpetuation. . ■ .
But, we are digressing. Wo, were speak-
ing of our defeat at Fredericksburg—a defeat"
that has'brought tears to. the eyes, of every
loyal man and woman in, the,North. This
defeat is. the .legitimate result of- Abolition
teaching. Intho I'a'ngn.ago of the Kevr York
.Herald, -wo hold.the administration and the
Abolition party rosponaihtc'befaro. God hud
the country for the'.disastrous issue of the
battles. •'They led our £al
'ant army• -in t%tlio trap, which the rebels
and
remain with the army and try to save U from
utter annihilation. 'This lie.has fortunately
accomplished, and for this lie deserves credit.
Upon the radicals of the War Department
and,their colleagues falls the whole crushing
weight of the failure. If the army was : de
layed before Fredericksburg, either by the
want of supplies or the non-arrival of’ the
pontoon 'trains, ■ the radicals are responsible-;
for it was the duty of tho'War Department
t to have the supplies ready and, the pentqon
*ff!MSM , Jir , i#i(rtlfhh''Tn f- 'fo'D"Tiv(nT'eir that • tire
army might immediately cross. When sev
eral weeks had passed, and the rebels had
made a Gibraltar of the,low,, hills hack of
Fredericksburg, (hen came the imperative
command from .the radicals of ■ the War De
partment to General Burnside to cross the
river and begin the battle.. la vain did all
Burnside’s officers disapprove the movement.
In vain did soldiers and civilians alike agree
that to rebels by assault was an
.impossibiUtyiv-iTho iVar Department over-.
rulod-aUtolijectrona', arid.'ordercd this- impos
sibility to ba alfifl?Bpted. ' The result was the
slaughter of soldiers;
and of this
the radicals gu, .
The people will remember the excitement
which followed the rout at Manassas; hut
Manassas was innocent and bloodless com
pared to-the magnitude and the cool atrocity
of this slaughter at Fredericksburg. The
gory ghosts which rose .from tho plains of
Manassas to appal tho N, Y. Tribune editor
into a brain fever, .and wring from Ills quiv
ering lips a trembling confession of his crim
inality, wore mock and'placable in compari
son with tho - terrible, maimed and bleeding
phantoms which ra.ust now. surround these
radical wretches, ‘who exult like ghouls over
the mangled corpses of the fallen. . The.idea
of representing tho disaster at .Fredericks
burg as “ a cause for public satisfaction,’' is
worthy of a fiend. To,the radicals, however,
we have no doubt that the news of our re
pulse was’ “ a gratifying announcement.”—
To them the battle was hut the destruction
of a few thousand conservatives, or a new
sacrifice to the manes of John Brown, their
martyred representative. It.is tho policy of
the radicals to rejoice over national misfor
tunes. Their victories are the defeats of the
nation. Their life is the d-ath of. the coun
.try. From the very beginning of this war,
which was caused by their agitations and
developed by their intrigues, tho radicals
'have, in every possible way, aided the rebel
lion. Their object and that of tho rebels is
identical. The dissolution of the Union and
the establishment of an abolitioijized North
ern republic are as much the end of the radi
cals’ ambition as is (lie establishment of-a
Southern confederacy" tho dream of tho foul
traitors who support Joff. Davis. The rebels
aim their cannon at our people, and (lie radi
cals march loyal men in Irontof those cannon
and hold them there to receive the fatal dis
charge. Tho waste of loyal life and blood
and'treasure through radical moans since this,
war began is sickening to remember. If
there bo a just God, this culminating crime
at Fredericksburg ennnnt long remain una
venged. Never before wore the American
people so thoroughly roused and intensely
moved. Never did the very mime of n radi
cal so stink in the nostrils of tho nation.—
The soil of this country, which they have too
long polluted, ought to scorch tho feet ofthoso
miscreants as-they walk. The pious execra
tions of tho country men of. our murdered sol
filers should follow these rafiieal huteliors and
hiss them out of tho land. Unworthy of the
name of, Americans or of men,, these blood
thirsty and ferocious abolitionists should lie
branded with imperishable infamy, expelled
from all civilized communities in' this world,
and assigned to tho company of Judas Iscariot
sud Benedict Arnold in the next.
Contempt of the-Popular Will.
It will ho soon that two or three attempts
have been made in Congress to call for infor
mation in regard to thoarbitrary arrests made
by order of the administration, and that they
wore votbd down two to one. It seems that
tho voice of tho people, as expressed, in the
late elections, has had little effect upon tho
radical majority in Congress. The N. Y.
Herald well says that if this Congress had
“ been guilty of such contempt of tho popular
will before tho elections, tho vote against Re
publicanism would have been ten times great
er than it Was. t)o the party in power • love
the darkness rather than the light because
their deeds are evil V If what has been done
is right, why do they fear to lay tho facts be
fore the country ?, If'the acta of the adminis
tration cannot boar scrutiny, tho remedy is
not to conceal their dark deeds from the peo
ple, but to get rid o'f the perpetrators and
put better men in their places. In no gov
ernment in tho world, claiming to ho consti-
tutional, could such a course ho permitted.
In England, for instance, whoso system is so
much loss free, tho administration would not
daro ti) opnuso so reasonable an, inquiry. If
it did, that would ho tho last of it. ■ How
much more is it tho. right of the people,
through their representatives,,in such a coun
try ns this, to demand an investigation into
all matters.of public administration, particu
larly thtso w.hich affect tho liberties of the
citiz -n ? The hare fact of refusal is priina
facie evidence of injustice or foul play. As
well might, the magistrate of a district insist
upon a murdered man being interred with
out a ooroner’o , inquest. To-refuse inquiry
is the strongest admission of'.guilt. Those
conscious of, innocence always court investi
gation. i. But there is a good -time a coming,
in which investigation will hocomeinovitahle.
and well will it-bo for those who now attempt
tothrow a veil'over black deeds if they es
cape the public-wrath by a mere exposure of
their career. Stem justice' may demand a
greater sacrifice, and the voters against in-'
quiry may thon.ilnd'themselves on the wrong
side. •.Nothing is more certain on earth than
that a reckoning is to ho'made before this
civil .convulsion is over, and that every man
will bo rewarded according 'to Ins deeds.—
This.is hut. tho -beginni^.'outlie'.end.' Let
the fanatics and knaves in-Congress beware.”
Cii.risimas-—The Poor,
Ou (Ins rlay of general rejoicing, it is not
too an noli to ask. of those who have heenhies
sed, by a bountiful Providence, in “ their bas
ket and, their store,” that (int of their own
abundance they shall .contribute something
to those who are'suffering'the rigorous hard
ships, of poverty. The following,' from-the
pen of Mrs. 11. F. Seymore, which tyo take
from, the “ Syracuse (M. l r .j Slur,” is a for
cible appeal to those who are surrounded with
abundance to “ forget not the poor.” . t
hey
!161%
Po-‘
, Those who are themselves blessed with the
comforts of life are apt to forget the nocossi-.
ties of cithers; ’ They-forget, while at their
own luxurious tables, that there are those
who',are eating their last cnist, and know not
bow they shall obtain another morsel; they
forget while seated in their comfortable homes
by warm tires, or as they enwrap themselves
in their cloaks and furs to encounter'the chill
air, that,there are those who are shivering
half elad over enihers of their last
coals, while the* piercing ■■ air is blowing
♦through every orevioe 'of-their iniserahlo'hab-
Station. ■ , ...
There-is.imporfiijous wealth enough in otir
village to relieve 'every child of want in our
midst, and to send comfort, to. every' cheer
less abode; and in what better manner could
the gilts of God, so abundantly bestow upon
many of our citizens, ho employed-.? In what
hotter way could they express their, gratitude
for their niimy blessings? Freely ye. have
received—freely give.” . . •
- Yd who have been prosperous in your va
rious callings the past year, as yo count over
your gains, forget not the Poor-—the starving,
shivering, houseless, homeless, friendless
olios around-you ! Yo who are surrounded
with comforts and luxuries—who are loading
your-tables 'with the. vario'iisldelieaeios qf.tlio
season to entertain a fashionable .assembly
—who are planning gay parties and expen
sive balls’,to lend additional,enchantments,to
the festivities of the season—forgot not the
Poor ! Ye.towvhom God has given, not wealth,
hut sufficient, for your own -comfort, anil the
relief -of others—forgot not the Poor ! Y-o
whose ministries should ever lie those of kind
ness and love,-.enlist heart and ti.-uid in this
work of benevolence, and diffuse joy through
the wretched abodes of-Poverty’mid Want in
our midst; and tho‘ happy-faces and glad
hearts of the recipients of-your bounty, and
the approving voice of your own conscience,
shall 1)0 yOur aimidant reward.
There is a luxury in doing good'which- is
its own reward ; there is a feeling at the heart
ivtifrt we have relieved suffering, or done nn
act of kindness, which is double the value of.
tho good.we have, bestowed; and adds to our
other enjoyments. Tdorbt hot that, those
’noble-hearts who, by their generosity, made
so many little orphan hearts glad on our re
cent festival, felt their own happiness on that
day enhanced hy. tho thought that they bad
added,-to the,joy and- comfort of others.—
•Would that their noble example might he fol
lowed hy nil! Let mi .active nyid acting he
nevolciiuo pervade all hearts, and let its ef
fects ho witnessed in tho evident amelioration
of the condition of the poor among us. .
Let those now give who never gave before,
And those who always"give, now give tho more.
Resignations- IN the Cabinet. —Messrs.
Seward, Chase and Blair -sent in their res
ignations to tho President a few days since,
but Mr. Lincoln refused to accept them.—,
Tho radicals in the Senate are determined to
force Seward tint of tits Cabinet. 'They want
some flunky in his place who can bo used. ..
The Cabinet Imbroglio.— The, latest in
telligence from Washington leads to the belief
that there will bo no change in the Cabinet,
at least for the present. Messrs. Seward,
Chase and Blair, who, wo were informed,
hod tendered their resignations, have, at the
request of the President, re-considered their
notion, and, iejs said, will continue in office.
Ist Reg., P. V. R. C.—The following is a
list of the losses sustained by companies II
and I, both- from this county :
Co. 11, commanded by Sergeant Growl. —
Wounded Corp. William Hastings.
Co. I, eomimindod by Lieut. Wsi. 1). Hal
bert. —Wounded—Seygt. George Keller, 11.
0. Uitner.
The Chicago- Publishers and the Paper
Famine. —The publishers of the' Chicago
daily papers held a meeting on Tuesday
night to consider the great increase
price of white paper, and other items which
have enhanced the cost of publication. They
resolved to advance the price of dailies and
tri-weeklies, 25 per cent, and weeklies 50 per
cent.
A-rihiion- MdnriwT
The contending emotions of sortow'and fin
ger fill the brensb of the Nation to-day. „ Our
armies before Fredericksburg have boon com
pelled to fall back ;-and ■while ire are still in'
the dark ns to'tho actual loss they have sus
tained in the worse than useless encounter
into which tlicy have boon, precipitated ;
while anxiety is wide spread in every heart,
and anguish Wrings the bosoms of the friends
of the gallant slain ; while every patriot
mourns the loss, and every honest man blush
es with shame at the new repulse : while the
clouds gather and the. future looks black with
forebodings ; while there is horror enough,'
God knows,'for-nil of us—anger, deep,-rose
lute and overwhelming, is knitting the sinews
and. stirring up the blood of an earnest out
raged people.
Failure upon failure, millions upon mil
lions, hundreds of thousands of precious lives,
disaster, labor, carnage, sacrifice—and will
not these suffice ?
AVhat more of blood and ruin will the insa
tiate monster passion have ? How long shall
wo stand dumb and silent, and submit ? How
long shall wo suffer ? Have wo notdrunktho
hitter cup of madness to the dregs ? ,
There is no uiero momentary passion in.the
thought. The gathering rage, which-swells
the honest indignation of the land from east
to west, like tlio deep heaving of the troubled
sea, is'a persecutor-of the approaching storm
Which,'if it shall evor come upon us in its
full fury, will sweep before it the cause of the
nation's danger and. agony, as the rushing
turnndu'ewecps and the field in its
mad, resistless career.
Wo have, no heart to write'more oh the
■subject of that ill-judged and murderous con
flict, forced upon General by the
■peremptory conimandsof his superiors—li con
flict in Which, it is said, our loss will full lit
tle shortof-'iO.OOO in killed, wounded arid miss
ing, ending in .a disastrous defeat, and the re
treat of .the army across the river to its origft
nal position near Falmouth—a position' which,
should never have been taken, or, being taken,
never.left td attack'the impregnable position
of the enemy in. front. It. was: ft terrible
blunder, for which-a guilty, administration
mast yet atone. . ■ •
The feeling in Now York-is blit feebly. por-’
frayed in the following extracts from the
Herald and .World-
Frp'm-.tho New Yci-V Herald, Deb. 17.
Yesterday was a gloomy day, in-this city.
It was’not till th.emthal the truth came to he
fully realized—that the slaughter of our'
troops had boon immense, and the’situation
altogether so discouraging that it was neces
sary to reckons the .Rappahannock to insure
too safety of the .remnant of the army
In’ese facts.caused the deepest depression;
mingled with intense indignation and smoth-’
’.ered murmura._ Everybody seemed to feel
that the Ijest'blood 'of the country had been
shed in vain through the imbecility which
directs dur armies from .the city of Washing:
ton. ’. ■ 'yC
The duty.of the Pros ; dqnt, under these
circumstances; .'is' very .plain. lie alone is
directly responsible t.i the country. ■ His-
Cabinet Ministers.are responsible indirectly,
and will liave to render an account hereafter,
as sure as' there is a God 1 in Heaven or an in- -
censed, outraged people here on earth. Eel
him at once provide for the safety of the, re
public hy cutting loose from the radical dis
'organizers who have brought ruin on. the
country. The delis'cry of the country is in.
the; blinds oi lUn yrel'uleut, unit the- people
.who clccteif him vfj to him for-the pro-,
per administration ;if- theiy affairs, and the
sacrifice.of men 1 in ofnoo who are incompetent
to the (ask they'have undertaken'. It is the
! Republic and not /the Cabinet that inust he
preserved. . ‘ ;
From the New York World, 1)0c.'17.
. By Gen. Ilalleck’s orders'the Army of the
.Rappahannock.was inarched up against the
impregnable-batteries of the Fredericksburg
heights, brigade after brigade,.division after
division, one after.another decimated, thou
sands upon thousands slaughtered, from day
break to sunset, until its ruin was complete,
until well nigh twenty thousand bravo. and
noble-souls wet the Virginia hill-sides with,
their blood.’ The. unldcncliing courage, the
dauntless inti-epidy; of our niagnilicbht’nriny
worn never more sublimely displayed. The
blundering strategy, the incompetent goner-,
alship, which lun-lcd them to a fruitless doom
never branded itself so conspicuously as in
discriminate slaughter-mid rinirdcr by whole-,
sale. Again’haye you,’ Abraham LWi’enln, by,
the hands of Jle'm-y W. Halleck and Edwin
M. Stanton,- sent death to thousands upon
thousands of onr brothers and friends, again
■desolation and anguish to .the homos and,
hearts of the-people death that gives no
life to the. perishing nation, ami sorrow
which no patriotism can console, or the con
sciousness of a needful though'costly self-auc- -
rificq-.assuago. By the hanks of the Rappa
hannock there was slaughter which was
fruitless, and hy twenty thousand firesides'
tears to-dey are shed which God alone can
wipe away.
We h ave.no words of anger in an hour like
this.’ The sense, for the nation and
her slaughtered sons -cools even the licit
wrath which mast yet break forth npoir tlio
heads of those whose 'selfishness, whoso’ in
competency, whose.’ recklessness, ami Whoso
ambition have brought onr griff Upon us.
By that sorrow, in which there is not a
family in all the cities rind villages of the
North but shares ; hy flint love for our coun
try which Una not faltered among ua and
does not falter, in,her darkest hour ;by the
hopes which must yet linger in the ho«om of
the chief magistrate; to recover the confidence
of his people and to transmit an honored
name to his and their posterity;’ hy these,
and every other, consideration which the
breaking hearts or the anxious minds of
twenty millions of people can conceive or
frame, wo beseech the President to cut loose,
now and finally-irom his-past and fatal poli
cy, and from the men, of whom it is enough
to say that the Union and the Constitution
might have been saved, but with the resourc
es of a continent find'the arms of twenty
millions of"united;freonien at their hacks,
they have not saveq it. Wo beseech him’ to
call to his Cabinet and aid, the ablest, bravest,
and best men of the’,nation, and so, if mu-eause
is not yet past nil remedy, hy their help,and
a favor of a just Gqd, to make one,final ellbrt
for the salvation of the Republic which fruit
less milliens have, been spent for, and for
which more than a hundred thousand lives
have been yielded up in vain.
From every human heart—from every,
press, except the stony-hearted, false, lying.
Abolition press—from every section of coun
try, comes the cry of horror, the wail of la
ment for onr slaughtered soldiers—alas,
slaughtered in vain—murdered by order from
Washington: What wo have extracted from
the Herald and World is but a faint note of
public feeling—of the suppressed wrath
which is yet to break forth.
ITionderand mouthing. —Adam Thunder
was drafted in Franklin, Pennsylvania, anti'
Theoiloro Lightning Ims boon drafted in a
western town. ‘With the assistance of Thun
der and Lightning we certainly-ought to bo
able to conquer the rebels,. *•*
The Cabinet and tlio Senate,
Washington, Dec. 21,
Last Tuesday the Kepnblioan members of
the Senate niot in caucus, and, alter n session
of four hours, during which several Senators
made 'ffiorco attacks upon Secretary Seward,'
making him responsible for our defeats, and
declaring that the country was tired of the
present conduct of the war. A resolution
was, offered by Senator Grimes, of lo’ivn, de
claring a want of confidence in Secretary Sew
ard, and requesting the President to remove
him. Tliis was passed by a vote of thirteen
yeas to, eleven nays. A long discussion was
entered into; Senator Sumner making a
lengthy speech attacking the foreign diplo
macy of Secretary Seward. -Others were
made by Senators Sherman, Trumbull, Wade,
&o. It was charged that Seward’s policy
was a Fabian one—that of delay,; that lie
had encouraged McClellan in his delays;
that his Idea of ’surrounding the Jlebols was
a delusion ; that ho was responsible for send
ing the Banks Fxpcdition away to the Gulf
instead nf the James river. ■■ They then ad
journed over to.Wednosday.when, alter the
adjournment of the Senate, they resumed
their consultations.
Senator Ham’s amended' the resolution to
road:—“ That, in the judgment of the Sen
ate, a reconstruction of (ho Cabinet would, in
crease the confidence of the country,”.
Senator Sherman objected, because this
was too broad ; that Secretory Chase would
resign at mice if that was. passed.'
Senator Fessenden .then amcndod : it to
road—‘ A partial reconstruction,' and upon
that the resolution passed, and aoonimitteof
seven- was formed. Afterwards ‘ Senators
Howard and Harris wore added, making it
nine.
On'Thursday, Senator King informed Mr.
Seward of the action of the Senatcv arid he
and Assistant ■ Secretary Soivni'd.at often sent
to the President their resignation., .On Tiiurs:
day evening the committee .'of Nino waited
■on the. President and- I laid : the -'matter' before
him. No result .was-arrived at. but speeches
wore made by the enemies of Mr. Seward, in
■which ,ho-was denounced' in unmeasured'
terms. ■
'i'lie Committee retired and left the matter
■in.the hands of the'President,■ believing’that
it was all right. The Committee-from the
Senatorial' Caucus were invited by the Pre
sident to'meet.him at the White. House on
Friday evening. On their-arrival they-found
the whole. Cabinet there, excepting Secretary
Scwa'nl. ••
, The President introduced the.subject and
stated the object of the Commitfopf .
Secretary Chase at once stated that he did
not come there to ;be arraigned-hy Senators.
Senator Fessenden, sard ho 'did not eynie.
there to' arraign anyone.-
The President pa.id.they wore, all there on
an equality, and " invited an, in terchange
of opinion,
■ Senator Harris stated that ho w.is.not a,per
son'al friend of Secretary Seward, though for
merly a law partner, rind "thought,there'wore
a large number of Republicans who wmiM re
joice fit his leaving the. Cabinet, while an
equally,large nnriibbr, vylioi-o in favor of his
remaining. "He thought it would be.impo,-
lilic and uncalled for, because ha quietly op
posed any changes.■
' Secretary-Stariton said that the- resolution"
was evidently aimed at sumo one 1 else besides-
Secretary Seward. If any one supposed he
was responsible-fur Ihc disaster that had oc
curred, they were, mistaken ; that ail the
charges made‘against’ him wci-o false; that
the President know that- Ibe charge that he
was responsible for the movement on Freder
icksburg was groundless j-'that neither lie nor
General Hali'eck wc.ro'Vesponsible.
Senator Grimes made a fierce onslaught
.upon Mr,. Seward, '
Mr. Fessenden was-finn, hut determined. -’
The meeting laslbd until a late hour, and
adjourned Without any 'result being accom
plished.. Secretary Chase however, tendered
liis resignation to the President, in order to
place him in a position to use his own pleas
ure., >.
’, Postmaster Blair who is, next to Mr. Rew
ard, the most oljectionable man,, refused to
resign. In all the interviews the President
defended.Mr..Seward warmly, denying that
he has actively interfered with military move
ments, or that Ids policy bus been detrimen
tal-to the conduct iif the.war. Ho expressed
the most urihouiidod eiinfidence in Secretaries
Stanton and and thought Seciotary
Welles has done all that.could he-done.
The Emancipation Policy.
In the House of Representatives,’ Monday,
the 15th,’ Mr. Samuel C. Fessenden offered
tile following;
llcs'nlred,' That the proclamation of the
President of the date of September 22, 1802,
is warranted hy the Constitution ; that (ho
policy of. emancipation, as indicated therein,
is well adapted to hasten, the restoration'of
peace, and is well chosen as a win- measure,
and is an exercise of power with, proper re
gard to the rights of eitizensand the por.pitui
ty of free government.
Mr, Holman, of Indiana, moved to lay it
on .the table. Disagreed to—yeas 53, nays
80. The resolution was then adopted— yeas
78, nays 51 ; as follows. I
Yeas— Messrs.. Aldrich, Alloy, Arnold,
Babbitt, Baker, Beaman. Bingham, Biair of
Ya.,, Blake, Bnffinton, Burnham, Chamber
lain, Clark, Colfax, Frederick A. .Oonklin-r,
Roscoe Colliding, Cutter, Dawes, Delano',
Dnell, Edgortcn, Edwards, Eliot, Ely, Fenton,'
Sam C. Fessenden. Tr A. C. Fessenden',
Fisher, Frank, Grouch, Goodwin,
Gurley, Haight, Hickman, Hooper, Hutchins,
Julian, Kelley, Kellogg of 111., Wm. Kellogg,
Killinger, Lansing, Loomis, Lovojny, Low,
McPherson;'Mitchell, Moorhead, Morrill of
.Me., Morill, of Vt„ Nodi,, Patton, Pike,
Pomeroy, Porter. Potter, Rico of Mass., Rice,
of Me., Riddle, Rollins ol’N. 11., Sargeant,
Sedgwick; Shellabergor, Sloan, Spaulding,
Train, Trowbridge, Vaii Valkonbnrg, Van
Wyek, Vorreo, Walker, Wall, Waslibnrno,
White of lad., Wilson, Windom, and Wor
cester—7B.
N.vys—Messrs. Allen of 111., Ancona,
Bailey, Biddle, Calvert, Cobb, Cox, Cravens,
OrisficUl,Crittenden, Dunlap, English, Fmike,
Granger, Crider, Hall. Harding, Harrison,
Holman, .Corrigan, Knapp, Leary, Mallory,
Maynard, Meuzios-, Morris, Noble, Norton,
Odell, Pendleton, Perry'. Price, Richardson,
Robinson, Rollins, of Mu., Sheffield, Shiel,
Smith, Steele of N. Y., Stiles, Benjamin F.
Thomas, Fritiuis Thomas, Vallandiglmm,
Wadsworth, Ward, Whaley, White of Ohio,
1 Wiekliffo. Wright, and Yeaman—sl.
The only Republican voting in the nega
tive was Mr. Thomas, of Massachusetts.
K7*Tho Rebels admit a loss of 3;500 at
1 Fredericksburg.
m JOSEPH B.IILY.
On all tost questions thus far decided in Con
gress, the Representative, from this district
has voted with the Democrats.
Wo would uofmontion the matter 1 at all,
for he has done nothing more than it was ex
pected ho would do by the Democratic party
ofthe district, were it not that wo see that
the North American is complaining because
lie did not vote with the Abolitionists. Mr.-
Daily wan the regular nominee ot the Demo
crats and was voted for, and elected as such.
The Noifh American is mistaken in saying
that ho ran ns “the Independent or Union
candidate," Ho did no such tiling and could
not have received the votes of Democrats had
he done so. Mr. Daily has always been a
democrat and his votes thus far would not
seem .to indicate that he has in anywise
changed, or that his election was so much ,of
a “ triumph of Abolitionism” ns wab claimed
by the opposition papers immediately after
the election. . -
Ho would have been false to his trust and
recreant to,his party had he voted otherwise,
than he had done. That ho will continue to
sustain the principles of the party he has
been so long identified with, and which has
repeatedly honored him, wo have no doubt.
The Abolitionists' have no claim upon his
votes on narty questions. They know him
to he a Democrat and they voted for him with
their eyes open. They dare not say he de
ceived them. Had they had any hopes of
electing a candidate.<if their own ho would
not have received their support.— Perry Co .
Democrat .
TlnrClmnge Demanded.
' When McClellan was removed, the aboli
tion' journals tauntingly paid that ‘f the demo;
crats” by their sweeping-victories in thp fall
elections, “ had demanded a change”, and
that “ Mr. Lincoln had complied hy.removing
General.McClellan 1” Hero was menace and
defiance. combined !' Hero was billy and
petty vengeance worthy only of this adminis
tration 1 Here was a change nr father a be
ginning of a change, which' like their
‘‘change” in 1800. seems pregnant only with
disaster ! What has this,petty spite amount
ed to? A disasternus defeat widen M’Clellan
might have avoided; The nigger business
perverting .the War from its legitimate 1 ptiiv
pose, has greatly damaged the prospect of re
union. 'While the folly, ignorance, petty
malice and political intrigue of the, party in
powertsoeais Jo. bo driving us constantly to
ruin. The change demanded;, was not a.
change of Generals, but a cbaogo.nf adminis
tration and of policy. The people are learn
ing a lesson.'
Look to the Record.— The following is
the vote in the .House, of- Representatives
upon Thad. Stevens’ infamous bill to indemni
fy the'President and his agents in their arbi
trary arrests,:,
. Yeas— Messrs. Aldrich'. .Alley, Arnold,
Ashley, Babbitt,■sßaker, Baxter, Bingham,
Blair of Virginia, Jtßlair of Pennsylvania,
Blake, Brown'of Va., Bdfiinton, Burnhiim,
Campbell; Casey, Cbanlboflain, Clark; Colfax,.
Frederick A. Colliding, Roseoe C.uukliiig,
Cutler, Davis, Delano, Duell, Dunn, Edger
'ton,.Edwards, Eliot. Ely, Fenton, Samuel-C.
Fessenden,-Thomas A. IV Fessenden, Pan
el lot, Frank, Gurley, Halo! Harrison,' Hick
man,' Hooper;. Horton, Hutchins, Julian;
Kelley, Francis W. Kellogg, William Kellogg,
Lansing, Looinis, Lovejoy, L-nv. MTinighc,
Moorhead,' Morrill, of Maine, Morrill of Ver
mont, Ni.xon, Koell,- Olin, Patton, Pike,
Pomeroy, Porter, P.<t dr. Rice of Massaebn
setts Rice of Maine, Riddle, Ridlinsof N. II,;
Sargent, -Sedgwick, Scgar, Shanks,. Shelia-'
huiger, Sherman,Sloan, Spaulding, Stevens,
Stratton, Train, Trimble, Trowbridge. Van
Horn, Van, Viilkenburgli, .Walker. Wall,
Wallace, Waslibhrne. ■ Wheeler! White' of
Indiana, Wilsnn; Windoln and Worcester.- ■
Allen (if Illinois, Ancona,
Bailey,' Clements, Cobb, Conway; Cox,'
Cravens, Crisfiehl; Crittenden, Dunlap, .Eng
lish, Fonke, Goodwin,- Granger, - Grider,
Harding, Hobnani Johnson, Knapp. Law,
Lazoar, Mallory, Mciizi.es, Morris, Noble, 1
Norton, Price', Richardson, Robinson, Shef
field, Shiel, Si'oitli, Steele of N. V., Steele of
N. J-, Stiles, Benjamin F, Thomas, Vallan
digham, Vorhoos, White of Ohio, Wioklifle,
Wooilniftj Wright, and Teaman. ■ . .
Hr. Stev.ens said that if the 'hill had been .
postponed-there was ho intention to call the
previous question; The object of the motion
was to allow discussions But this privilege
■was not friends of the hill
wore compeUgd'R®vJ®(ho hill.now. He did
not -*•* V lO power-of. its
of the administra
tion. He .repeated fh at he had eare/.ul/i / cop-.
led the hill from the precedents'of the Enytish
Parliament. He- had not added a word ex
cept wtmt was rendered necessary by the
present circumstances of the country. .
In England the Parliament is omnipotent,
and can pass any law it pleases, without any
constitutional restraint. This is the. prece
dent which Mr. Stevens cites for a Congress
which is governed'liy constitutional restraints
that,prohibits any snob law as he has intro-,
duced.'— Cincinnati 'Enquirer.
llirkhnan’s Ntgro Army.
Hickman's bill, presented by him in Con
gress Inst week, providesfopf 1.00 regimen Is of
negroes’ to. lie raised.. in ..order to suppress
treason, rebellion, insurrection, and ./hr other
purposes. The field officers are to bare double
pay ever those of the Regular Army.
A regiment, -y army regulation, consists
of 1,000 men. There is a Major, Lieutenant
■Colonel and Colonel to each regiment. A
brigade consists usually of four or five regi
ments, which are commanded by'a Brigadier-
General. An army corps consists usually of
not less than 20,000 men,, commanded by a
Major-General. So that for war and “ other
purposes,” there would bo an army, of 100,-
000 negroes, officered by 100 Majors, 100
Lieut. Colonels, 100 Colonels, 20 Brigadier-
Generals, and 5 Major-Generals—all negroes.
Their pay, by Hickman’s bill, would stand
thus:—
White MnjoT, pay ycarlv, $l,BOO
Negro Major, rto * 53,000
White Lieut. Col., nay yearly., 52.000
Negro Lieutenant Ceil., do, $4,000
White Colonel, pay yearly, $2 500
Negro Colonel, do, $5,000
White Rrig. Gen., pay yearly, $4,000
Negro Brigadier Oen., do, $B,OOO
White Major Gen., pay yearly, $O,OOO
Negro Mnj. Oen., do, $12,000
(C - Hon William H. Polk, brother of the
former President James K. Polk, died at Nash
ville last Tuesday morning. Mr. Polk was
a strong Union man, n former member of Com
greas, an officer in the Mexican war, and one
ofthe moateminont citizens ol Tennessee. lie
was a gonial and accomplished gentleman, and
very much beloved.
The look Haven Fire. —We learn from
the Clinton Democrat that the total amount
of insurances upon property destroyed by the
late fire at Look Haven, is $77,C55. The Ly
c oming Mutual Insurance Company iso- heavy
loser—its proportion ofthissum beings3s,3oo.
which must be made up by assessments upon
its policy- holders.
Forney’s Falsehoods.
The official organ of our “ imbecile >•
“ mud-turtle” President is nVftch given (Jp
bad habit of lying. ■ Wo, are told by it t |
the retreat across the Uappahannsok “ p r J R !
that a vigorous policy has at last been i n ! M
gurated, Anh that the country may confident'
ly look for early and favorable results.”
Is the man insane ? Are they all drunk i
Washington—President, Cabinet, .Congress
and all ? Or dor they look npoh'thc people aS
fools, that they permit such stuff as this «
go out to the country in tlic official organ f
The Press —another ■ string of the Forney
lyre —tell us: . ,
“General Burnside is entirely salinfi„i
with the result ofSaturday’s fight; <i s aro j
the general officers, and the whole armv
excellent,spirits" yiSltl
And again :
“ Wo are gratified beyond measure in v
ing able to assure the country that the win
rumors of defeat and disaster .are withoif
foundation , and that the army is still anxious
and ready to move against the enemy!’’
Good Heaven I Can mendacity bo carried
to a greater extent ? Can presumption, ins o v
lenoo, go farther ?
“ Burnside satisfied,” “ the whole army id
excellent spirits;” “ the wild rumors ol'dtioat
and disaster without foundation ft a „d qq,
in the very teeth of the fact, known.to the
whole country, that 20,000 of our troops fell
upon that bloody field without.making any
impression on the enemy’s works, and the
■whole army was compelled to retreat to avnij}
surrender or annihilation ! Yet all this is
given to the people in the President’s official
organa as reliable'intelligence, What a com
mentary on the administration.— Patriot and
Union.
Death, of Central Bayard.
We have been permitted to copy the fol
low! ng’extniot from a letter of Captain 11. 0,
Gibson, of the 3d U. S. Artillery, to a relative
in this place, dated the loth. It will ho rend
with interest, giving ns it does, incidents
connected with the death of the brave Bayard,
on the 13th and the narrow escape of the au
thor of the . letter. His numerous friends
will ho pleased to learn that he escaped un
hurt 'throughout the subsequent engagements,
Captnin'Gibson lias been for some time past
attached, to the Cavalry reserve, .with his
battery, and associated with Oon. Bayarl,
They were both in the late advance, having
been placed in the corps commanded by.Gon.
'Franklin .
“Oh tho'llth our batteries shelled the
town and. the enemy’s camp pri.4lie'bills be
yond. The next day -my battery crossnl
after Smith’s corps, and. two gnus were sens
to ascertain the position and the -force of the
enemy. When the fog lifted, our troops be
came exposed to view and Uiy battery was in
a warin' place for an hour or su. The next
day the enemy continued the shelling and I
was nearer to death than I had over been ho-
I’oro. , 1 had been talking to Franklin ami
turned aivay to.ask.Gch. Bayard to go ami
get some lunch. - He.nuswered with a smile,
“ Wiill l behove 1 will;” When T felt a
.'shock across my back which stunned nie fur
an instant. - I turned and poor Bayard-lay
prostrate at my feet. I stepped to. his assis
tance and in lifting him fouhd.th.it he was
mortally wounded—his abdomen and. thigh
shot away. The shot wont through my over
coat and carried away my sabre, 'cutting the
-slings and waist bells.
I was up with Gen’l Bayard all night.
He died at-noon yesterday (the 14th.) , JW
fellow 1 he .was to havi he&o-nmrV»«'.t tti-wwvr
row. Ho dictated three leltors„one to****-
omV to *■';* * * and oho to Col. V* * Ho
said in it—“ Give uiy love to M’Clellnn and
tell him that my only regret is that I did not
die iittdcr his command.”
During the short time I was with him, I
became' much attached to hiin. Ho was a
true representative of liis name “ sniis'peiir
el tans rcproche.”
OCT’TnADDEUs Stevens, in the debate on
the admission of the proposed now. state uf--
Kanawha, made a very extraordinary speech,
of which the following paragraph is a spedii .
men brick: .
, Isay,.thpn, that we.may admit West Vir
ginians anew state not by virtue of any pro
vision of the -Constitution, but under our ab
solute power which the laws of. war give as
in the circumstances in which wo are, placed.
I shall vote for this bill upon that theory,and
upon that alone; for I will not stultify myself
hy supposing that , toe have any warrant in the
Constitution for this proceeding.
This talk of ‘restoring the Union as it was
under (he Constitution as it. is, is one oj the
absurdities which 1 have heard repeated, until
.1 have become about sick of it. This Union can
never be restored as it was. There are many
thiiigswhich render such an event impossible-
This .Union shall never with my c ilsent be re
stored under the Constitution as it is with sla
very to he protected by it.
This frank admission of the unconstitution
ally of the Western Virginia scheme is cred
itable, but thotieason which it makes isgross.-
By Mr. Stevens’s o\Vn confession ho is as
much a traitor as any man in. arms against
the government. On taking his seat in the
present Congress he swore that he would sup
port the constitution of the United States and
ho expects to repeat that oath in the next Con
gress; to which ho has been elected.- Vet hero
we find him deliberately announcing that lie
is governed iu his votes, not by the Con
stitution, but by his notion of the laws of war
even when these are in conflict with'Hhe su
premo law of the land.—iV. Y. World.
Contrabands vs. Soldiers. —Will °ur
readers, listen to a short sermon ? Text; “the
Devil is good to his own.” Comments: The
government recently awarded a contract for
fifty thousand suits of clothing for contra
bands. About that time nine of our soldiers
iroze to death in the Convalescent Hospital
at Alexandria, and several met the same fate
on the Rappahannock; all for the want of clo
thing and lire to keep them warm. The ne
groes belong to the administration— they aio
Abolition pots, and must bo housed nnd
olothed, fed and nourished. The soldiers be
long to the country—they are our white fel
low-citizens. They are only under the or
ders of the administration—they don’t belong
to it. They may, therefore, sleep in the mu
and rain without shelter—they may freeze to
death for want of clothing and' blankets.—
They are soldiers—there are' plenty more
them—their fate is of no ounsequonoo. Sure-"
ly, 11 the Devil is good to his own,”
liyMr. Van Wick has introduced a bill
in Congress to monthly pay j 1
the soldiers. We would suggest that he in
troduce a bill to provide for paying them
what is due them at the present rate of wages
permontb. Theirpnyisin arrears, we learn,
from throe to eight months, and their fomi
lies at home are Suffering sadly in consequence.-
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