AMERICAN VO JllllJl.fl/Ii&lTlOX, Editor St Proprietor' 'CARLISLE, PA, JANUARY 8 18C3. Tun President's . Piioclasiation. —Tho President's -emancipation 'Proclamation ap pears in our columns -t-his morning. Wo have no'oommcnta.to make nt present, except that.it-is-c. wicked, unconstitutional, and at tho -sa-aio ■time, ridiculous act, which will •drawdown upon tho President at onco the Condemnation nnd laughter of the world. ■New YEAa’a -Day.-?—Bright and glorious was tho advent of the new year. Tho sun rose majestically in an unclouded shy, and shone warmly and brilliantly during the entire day rendering outdoor oxcroiso onjoyahlonnd exhilarating. The streets wore thronged with gay promrnaders, attracted from their dwell ings by the delightful weather and cheerful aspect of things generally, and the town pre sented something like a holiday appearance, •although the occasion, was not specially ob served as snob. Wo do not remember over -having experienced a more pleasant New- Year’s day in this town thandhat which m ark cd the advent of 1863. The Girard House. —By reference to our advertising oolumns it’will bo seen that the celebrated Qirard House,■ in Philadelphia, wliichjut long ago was regarded as tho house, of iher country, has, after ‘being closed .for some time, owing to the exigencies of the! times', been opened again under tho superin-j tendence of Messrs. Kanaoa, Fowler & Co.,’ gentlemen whoso ability in this particular line of business, is unquestioned. Mr. Caas. 'DuffY, is at present the agent of the firm, and ciin ho seen at the hotel in that city, ready’to facilitate the public, in tho,stylo for which- this house has heretofore been so pro verbial. WttK .np.PiuVEH. —The present week is being observed by Christians in- all parts of the world as a week of prayer for the conver sion. of the world. .'rhe'Glii!relies of our town are holding .meetings in oonaert, each eve ning this week, itho servicesconinicncihg.nl.. 7 o'clock. The Tallowing is, the list of suh-| jects for the evenings; that yet remain : . : Thursday, Jan. B.—Services in tbeGerman Reformed Church.—The (Conversion . of the Jews-s-the - more extensive and’successful. Preaching of the Gospel among the Heathen —the revival of pure Christianity among the Ancient Churches ot the East—the over-, throw of every form of anSt-Christian error— the.com farting and .liberation of them jvho arc in bonds for the Gospel’s sake—the prev alence of Peace among all Nations!—-a. Moss-, ing upon the soulsof all Brethren and Sisters engaged in Missionary labor among Heathen and other nnevangelized populations. ■Friday. January 9.—-Services in the First. Methodist Church.—The Word of God : The universal-recognition ol its Divine inspiration and authority—the power of the Holy Spirit, to accompany its circulation and perusal,— The Lord’s Day: The acknowledgment of its sanctity and obligation—,a blessing upon all efforts for promoting iw’bctter'obsorvance at Home and cn the Continent. Saturday, Jaii. 10.—Services in the F.mary Methodist Church.—Thanksgiving for our numerous Temporal Blessings'and Spiritual Privileges:—Prayer for Kings nnd all in an ..thority— fur all who .are suffering from war, or segreity," or any other afiiiclion—for all sorts and conditions of men. 0“ The Legislature of lin'd State convened at Harrisburg on Tuesday. In the Senate Mr. Lawrence of Washington county, was elected Speaker, and Mr. Hammersev of Philadelphia, Clerk. In the House, Mr. Cessna of Bedfort, was elected Speaker, and Mr. Zeioler of Butler, Clerk. The Dem ocrats have a majority of eight in the House, and the Abolitionists have seven majority in the Senate. A Rascal Trapped. —ln New York a fel low already married, by the aid of an accom plice dressed in robes, made a sham mar riage with a lady. When arrested, he claimed that he, had not committed a bigamy ns the second affair was no marriage. Un luckily for him, in that State a simple decla ration before witnesses is valid, and so the fellow goes'to. the State Prison. SptT Against Gen Simon Cameon.—Three inf the released police commissioners of Bnt ' timoro have brought suit against Simon Cam eron, for illegal arrest and imprisonment, the damages being hud at $20,000 in each case; ■ and also attached the property-arid interest of Mr. Cameron in the Northern Central rail -Way company, to abide the result of the suit. tOTOne of onr neighbors has a 'five dollar -gold piece, which he meane to keep for the purpose of showing his children the curren cy that the country once had. Ho hopes the -act won’t fall order the ban of the President’s proclamation against ‘disloyal practices.’ KSJr Those who havowide intercourse with members of Congress, discover, that those from the West and Northwest return to Washing ton with decidedly conservative views of the proper conduct of the war and of our politi cal future, while the Eastern and Tew Eng land mem Iters grow more radical daily. ICyPorney lias got anew name. The New York World calls him the President's Dog. Forney harks for tire President, and is wailing outside of his dnnrfortho bones that bis Con gresaionallackies may throw to him.. Generals in Danger, — A member of the Senate war committee is represented to have impetuously remarked'* on Monday, t‘There are throe generals who ought to be bung!” A great ninny people believe that several Sena tors shei ld # ifor tbn some nnnishment. Strength of Gen. Burnside’s Aruv.—A gentleman just frowv Virginia, states that the total number of rations issued' daily to the army of Gen. Burnside is 240',000. This would go to show that he bos an army of about 200,000. - Bo*'* The Abolition lenders and presses are making a general effort to increnio the circu lation of that pestilent disunion sheet, the New York Tribune. Such men need watching. The Utica Telegraph, says it knows that not less than eight hundred officers of the army of the Putomao sent in tboir rosig. nations upon the removal of Gen. McClellan, j; 7“ft i* reported that one thousand desert ■era froffl ’C'ui.ioecticut regiments are at home. Cotton- : is now .brought into Massachu setts from Vermont, takeufrom mattrauas. iUNTEER, “3lassaclmsfft» nml Sop Hi Wrillina Made It." A Boston letter-writer, announcing the death ,of Major Willard, slain in the battle of Fredericksburg, alludes, to him ns “another willing offering from tho noble, educated tip per class of Massachusetts,” and concludes: “Wo yield them up almost without a tear —for this tear is Massachusetts’ irnr —Massa chusetts ami South Carolina vmdtyil, and we demand tho duty and the glory of our full share of the sacrifice," . Tho above is an honest, truthful confession from a negro worshipper of Massachusetts. Yes, ye butchers of your countrymen—ye God-defving.Christ-donying Infidels—ye Ab olition demons, who have- declared you will have an anti-slavery Constitution, an anti slavery Bible, and an anti-slavery God, you made tho war; and now with the fiendish cruelty of damned spirits, yon boast that you have not n tear for the ten thousand heroes, murdered by the pitiable imbecility or wicked fanaticism of your Abolition blood-hounds nt Washington. J'ou made tho war, you hoastingly proclaim to tho wailing widow s, the agonizing parents, and the disconsolate brothers and sisters of the murdered dead. Y'os—with vour hands gory, and your looks clotted with the heart’s blood of ten thousand sons of the North, murdered, cruelly butchered in one day, be tween the rising and setting; sun, with tine gibbering glee of fiends fimn the pit, you, proclaimed ton nation in mourning, “wedid all this — WE MADE THE WAR.” . Yes, yon made the war. You have spoken the truth in this, iif yeti should never speak it again, and how have you-Sustninod it ? Why is it no draft has been" made in Aboli tion Massachusetts .by your Abolition Gov- ernor,, in obedience to the mandate of your Abolition President? Although thousands under your quota, your Abolition Governor ordered no draft, and your Abolition Presi- dent did not attempt to enforce it in your Abolition State. It was reserved for the. loyal states of Pennsylvania; Ohio and Indiana, to have their sons hurried ofl'from their tranquil homes, their weeping wives and sorrowing parents, to fight the battles for the Abolition ists, to sustain the Wa,r which you .craven-, hearted negro worshippers of Massachusetts n >w prociuyp to the Slates of the .North, was made by you. . ■ Why is it, wo ask in the name of justice and humanity, (hat flic draft-was only made i i Pennsylvania, Cjllio, and In liantl ? Is it because These: States have placed their heel Upon the neck of the Abolition despotism in auguratodhefore the .election, and arrayed themselves under the banner of Liberty and Law, and Union"? Is it for this their sons are to be crushed under the wheels of the ponderous car of the Abolition Juggernaut, at the fearful immolation of ten thousand per day? And yet the bloody demon id Abolitionism is not glutted with human still fight on, fnjht on/ Why is it, we again ask, in the name n( justice and humariity, that no draft has been made from any Abolition Statc.in the Union ? And why is it-that in Pennsylvania, Ohio, anil Indiana, the loyal, law-abiding farmers. mechanics and laborers,' aro“*bwrrie*d off on ten days notice, from theirhomes, their wires and little ones, by the stern mandate of Aa rasi.ast Lincoj.m, while the thriving Aboli tionists of Massachusetts are permitted to remain comfortably at homo, and gorge their insatiate desire for the almighty dollar, by selling rotten ships to our Abolition govern ment, in which they uniist hdvo anticipated thousands.of human beings would bo buried in the vasty deep ? Can Abraham, Lincoln answer why. this is so? Can it be, since Lmcot-W can find no.foreign soil to w.hidh he will bo permittcd.itoehi.p his stolon Southern negroes, that,the. Abolition programme now. is to kill off Northern white men, to make room for the sable sons of . Africa frdra the South? God forbid! General Lincoln has issued the following address to the Army of the Potomac, which may bo regarded as one of the jokes of the season. To be sure it is.rather a serious sub ject for joking, hut then we have a notable precedent in history to justify it. “Nero fiddled while Rome was burning.’’ To the Armv op the have Just read your Commanding General’s pre liminary report of the battle of Fredericks-;, burg. Although you were not successful, the attempt was not. an error nor ike failure, olhe" than an accident. The courage with which you in ttiv open field maintained the contest against an intrench.d foe, and' the consumnte skill and successwith which you crossed and rem-ossed tiro river in the fiico of the enemy, show that yon possess all the qualities of a great army which will yet give victory to the cause -of the country and ol popular government. Condoling with the mourners for the dead and sympathising with the severely wounded, I congratulate you that the number of both is comparatively so small. I tender to you, officers and soldiers, the thanks of the nation., ABRAHAM LINCOLN, “ The. attempt was not an error, nor the failure other than an accident, “snys Gene ral Lincoln. Well, a few more such “acci dents” would ruin the country, and wo can tell Mr. Lincoln that the people want no more of them. And then ho congratulates the army that the number of killed and wounded is “ comparitively so small!” This must be consoling to the relatives of the ten or twelve thousand men who fell a sacrifice in this reckless attempt to do, an “ impossi ble” thing which Mr. Lincoln says was riot an “error” but only an “accident." We opine, the people of the country, who think for themselves and form their opinions from the facts in a case, will estimate this sage opinion of the President at its ime value. A Pertinent Question.— Our Intelligent President—who, by tbe way, is a bit of phi losopher as well as a.joker—on one occasion sagely remarked : “ People of any color sel dom run awa. T , unless there is something to run from.” to this sagacious observation of “ the honest Abe," a wag of an editor asks; “When Mr. Lincoln, dis guised in a Scotch cop and cloak, skedaddled from Harrisburg to ■Washington oily, what did he ‘ run from ?*” ET” American silver is four per cent, dis count in Canada TUB WJB. lintolif's 'last Jdke. Exbcbewe Mansion. I Washington, Dec. 22, 1862.- ) i Solenin Trmb. In the eloquent and truthful speech deliv ered at Brooklyn, by Horatio Seymour,. a few days before his election as Governor of Now York, wo find the following important paragraph.:.’ ' * * , •** “You of the beautiful city'of Brooklyn while you every day looked onfon tho beau tiful bay yonder, nnd saw vessels deeply freighted with the rich productions of the .South ; while you found in your workshops ten thousand evidences of tho wealth of tho, South to buy, nml the ability to'produce, you.’ were ipado'to believe, for years past, that this was a helpless dependent, poverty strick en* imbecile people. • How came it that against your early teachings, against your reading in history, against tho daily obser vations nnd experiences of life, you entertain. this monstrous mistake, which ons dyed the land red with tho.blood which has. flowed from tho veins of your brethren. Go hack, my radical friends, to your teachings, to your radical press, to your prayer meetings. Go back to the sacred house of God, and you will see thnt this monstrous lio was told by no necident'and by no inadvertence. I toll you this fatal ignorance was tho result of lung years of systematic fondling thnt spread upon the land tho terrible calamities thutmow flood it. Sivy what you please, think what’ you please ns the cause cSfthe Say it is slavery, say it is abolitionism, say it is ambi tion, say it is tho thirst for 'wealth, but every man knows, from one end of the country to tho other. North and South, thnt if tho peo ple had been well informed "with regard to each other’s powers and resources, North and South, this vvar, my friends, would never have been. I assert that the groat nnderly - ing cause of these evils has been ignoranco.”j There is not the slightest doubt ns to the entire correctness-of Governor- . Seymour’s conclusions. The Abolitionists havß been. busily engaged, for nearly half a century, in stilling those “ monstrous lies’’ into the minds of the rising generation. They taught the young, not only to despise the institutions of the South, but to contemn its people!— They industriously sought to arouse section- al feelings, by every moans in their power.— The sacred desk, the prayer meeting, the Sabbath school, the nursery, public speak ers, newspapers, and school teachers, have all done their part. Hence the people were prepared to believe all tho absurd stories about the poverty, inherent weakness, and imhecility.rtf the Southern people. Hence it was, too, that Seward and all, the designing men, who laughed at The idea df resistance on tho purt of the South, obtained the ready ear ot the people, and deceived them. , Every one remembers fhe'utter.ignorance.displayeil: by newspapers- and politicians during the early stages of tho war. ■ T’heylaugh at the idea that the South could offer any 'formida ble resistance lo the Government. “Pooh, pooh,” said they, “ we will blockade their ports, cut them off from cpmmuhteation with the North, and iho beggars will starve to death in thirty days.” The negroes, too, were to rise speedily and put an end to thoir existence arid tho rebellion with it. Slavery, they said, would prove a powerfol element of weakness. The Southerners couldn’t, get arms, or ammunition, or bread, or clothing, They could do nothing. The people were promised that, with thousand men, wo would march victoriously from Rich-, roond to Nov; Orleans. Not another man. Would be needed. W"e have heard riien ofor dinary intelligence assert, with great posi tiveness, Unit so degenerating wore the influ ence of slavery, the Southern penpio could not fight, if they would. Wo remember sec- ing a picture of a Southerner fighting. Ho was represented as being a poor, lazy devil, supported 'by two negroes with iif front, upon whose shoulders rested his gun ns he took aim at the Yankee. Had the peo ple known as much as (hey do now, we would not have been deluding the land with the blood of our brethren to-day. But they were taught wrong, and seemed resolved to know no better until taught in the bitter school of experience. He, who knew better and undertook to advise the people, was at once branded ns a “traitor,” and he was bunted down in hie business, and every other way, with ns little ceremony-as if 'he were a murderer. But time will bring nil things right. The people, though sometimes gross ly deceived and imposed upon, are honest, and desire to do what is right. They are. coming to their senses, as the elections last fall fully demonstrate, and already one of the good effects Is that it is not nearly so much a crime to speak .the truth .as It was ay ear,, or six months since. M IIOSEST ■ ASE.” Where he those wh„o, twelve months ago, thought “ honest Abe” the right man in the right place, and wto donyed to the people the right to quettion his wisdom or his mo tives'? Who so slow ns to do him reverence now 9 Who so lost to honesty and candor ns to defend his cause, and uphold his meas ures? Where now are those who, even six months ago, .with bare-faeed. shameless men dacity, persecuted and imprisoned the peo ple, who did not believe either in his honesty or his capacity ? The man Lincoln and his fawning, power-j loving, and servile merniydons, denied to the people the rights they boldly exercised against Washington himself. They declared that Li-ncoln teas the Government , and whoever said aught against the President, was an-en emy to the Government. Such people live amongnaa yet. They are the people who love power more than liberty; who have disgraced themselves by doing the’ dirty and disgusting work of petty tyrants and persecutors, and who are always, willing to debase and barter-away their manhood for the poor privilege of standing in the sunlight of patronage and power. They are the same people who have ever been hateful to free men—who in all ages, and among all men have been despised and scorned by noble and generous minds; but who love their degre dation more than their characters, and care not a fig for tho opinion of any one who ha? no power or holds no office. They are flat terers of office holders, the despised pimps and scorned sycophants of place and patron age, whom a free, just and generous people, will, sooner or later, visit, with that terrible Indignation whioh at all times, and among every people, has ever overtaken such dis gusting characters.. The day of retribution is not far off; the hand on the dial la nearing the hour whioh is to strike the doom of these already terror-stricken and infamous wretch es. ItT* D; S. Senator Pearce ofMd., died onSab utrtay weak, ' Cat of Ills Own Month fs fie Condemned. Mr. Lincoln and all the Uopulicnns claim that ho has absolute power under what is palled the “war power.” Ho may deprive .tho robols'oTthoir"property of every nature arid kind, and do every other act which he chooses to do. Ho may also abolish or sus pend lawsin the loyal States, depriving citi zens of their liberty, and life too, wo suppose, by a single'dash of his pen. When compar ed with the sentiments uttered by him in his inaugural address, ]iow strange his present attitude appears 1 Kow ridiculous ho stands before tipi world. In that address ho dis tinctly declared, that he proposed neither the inclination nor tho power to interfere, with tho institution of slavery where it rests. lie also re-endorsed a resolution in, the Chicago Platform, declaiming tho purpose of tho. R epublican party to maintain inviolate tho rights'of-the -States. As a curios’ty, we re publish an extract from his inaugural, to which we invite attention : The apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States, that, by the accession of a Republican administration, their peace and 'persOinfl.socurity are to bo endangered j but there has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. In deed the most ample evidence to the contra ry has nil tho while existed, and boon open 'to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him Who now addresses you. I quote, now from one of those speeches, whore 1 declare that X have no purpose, directly or 'indirectly, to interfere with tho institution of : ■slavery in 'the States where it exists. [be- Here I have no right to do so, and I have no inclination to do_ so. Those who nominated me, and -elected".'mo, did so with tho full knowledge 'that >1 had made this and many similar.declarations; and had never recanted them. And more'than this, they placed in the platform for my acceptance, as ii law to themselves, and to mo, tho clenraud emphatic resolution which I now read': “ Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the Stales, ami especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment, exclusively, is essential to tho balance ol power on which tho perfection and endurance of one political fabric depend ; and wo denouncethe lawless invasion, by an armed force, of the soil of any State or Terri tory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest pt crimes.” . I now reiterate' these sentiments, and in doing , so I only press upon the public atten tion tho paost conclusive evidence of which th^feb^, susceptible. The property, peace of nO section, are to bo in any by the-now incoming ad ministration. I add to this, that all tho pro tection .which consistently with the Constitu tion and the laws Can be given;, will ho cheerfully given, to all the States, when law fully demanded, fur whatever cause, as cheer fullyrto one sectionals to another. Sails Brought Against Officers of Gov. On Saturday weak, three of the former Po lice'Commissioners pi Baltimore, lately rev leased from Fort Warren—Charles Howard, IVm. 11, Gatchelland John IV. Davis,-. Esqs. ■ —brought suit in tho Superior Opart-in that city against lion. Simon Cameron, late -Sric-i retary of War, for illegal arrests and - false imprisonment, the damage being laid at $20.- 000 in each co#*’; and also attached, the property and intmtaet of Mr. Civjneron'in the NoHbovn'DßwtrdSJßjtUway Company, to abide the result of tlrefpfe ' ■ A suit. was, a* o instituted in the same Court, by Si Toaokle IVallin, Frank Howard and Henry JI. Warfield, Esqs., against Gen. Wool, for false imprisonment and detente n at Fortress Monroe, while ho was in com mand at that post—the damage in each case being laid at $20,000. Ex-Marahal Kano publishes a card in which he declares : “ In due time ami upon proper occasion Mr. Secretary Seward shall hear from me in a way which will procure for him, if ho has,not already acquired it, the contempt of eyory honest man and woman in tho land." We observe, likewise, that the grand juries in several, counties in New Jersey ha'vo re turned true bills against persons who came from the city of Washington and arrested prominent Democrats. A somewhat conservative Senator, (Mr. Trumbull,)'in a speech in the .Senate, the other day, said :There is danger in these srrests, and if thp Republican leaders have a spark (if wisdom.and foresight they will re fuse to justify the loose sys tom which Mr. Stanton has inaugurpted. • The people will amt sustain .them if they do, and they will ■soon be withent majorities in'Congress and the Stale Legislatures.” The thing does be gin, to look “ dangerous"—and in more ways than one, too 1 BT7* The Niagara, which, on account of its rottenness, had to put into Philadelphia With five hundred of Bank’s troops, is an old lake steamboat, built in 1814 (eighteen years ago) at Clayton, on the St. Lawrence River, for' the American Steamboat Company, and first ran in the Ontario and St. Lawrence lino, call ing at Rochester. She is only four hundred tons burden. She was once driven ashore near the ’Genesee teiver, where she remained six weeks. Altogether, she was, probably, little better than the frailest shell that ever a race crow owned. It is announced that the rest of the expedition is to be sent only in ocean steamers; . But what of the contractors and inspectors. Are they to go unhung? Troth frosi..;Browni.ow.— The notorious old Parson Brownloiv, although to subserve bis own pecuniary interests be makes aboli tion speeches and defends the outrageous con duct of the administration, yet lets out some truth occasionally. In a recent published letter ho says: “ The amoKnt of corruption in every de partment of itbe government is perfectly as tounding, -and at the same time disheartening to a loyal man. .If I were editing a public journal I wouhj expose these frauds, this treachery, add all connected therewith, if it cost mo my lifei” P" It is reported that the Abolitionist Lovejoy pronounces “ the Constitution apiece of rotten parchment that ought to bo trodden under foot." The next Congress should ex pel the infamous traitor. As they of, the present have set the example and meted out to others, so let' it be meted out to them. jjgy-A very gallant and skillful officer in the army from Michigan, was asked, the other day, why,ho did not receive tho promo tion which was long siqce duo him. He re plied, "Because I bove had no opportunity: yet In make on Abolition epeeeh." ermuent. Vltkle 'Me oiiil Tfl Tickle You. Gen." Burnside-has assumed a partial re sponsibility. President Lincoln has compli mented, him upon his victorious retreat across thcßappahannook. During tho mag nificent and most masterly change’of iront on tho Peninsula, Oori. M'Clollan novo'r.rc coived a'word of praise. It is reserved for unsuccess to he complimented, whether-iu the Cabinet, the Army or tho Navy. tVc, through our President consequently praise the butchery at Fredericksburg; but notice, that while dßurnsido'assumes the responsi bility of tho attack upon fortified heights, ho docs not state that ho was.responsible" for flic selection of that route. While on the Peninsula lie, as well .as all the other-com manding generals under -M’Olellan, unani mously decided that that was the proper point from which to assail the rebel Capitol, and he does not now say that ho over assent ed to the programme of the imbecile Lincoln, tho'legal War Secretary Stanton, and the blustering Halleck. Tlic President Thanks *tl«! Smy of ine Potomac. Washington, Dec. 23.—The President has issued the following ; Executive Mansion, I Washington. December 22.. J To Ihe Army of the Potomac: I have just read your commanding gener oral’s report of the battle of Fredericksburg. 'Although you were not successful, the at tempt wns not r.n error, nor the failure other than ah. accident. The courage with which you, in an open field, maintained the contest against an. entrenched foe, and the consum mate skill and success with which you crossed and rccrossed the river ip the face of the enemy, show that you possess all the qualities' of a great army,- which will yet give victory th the cause of the country and of the popular Government Condoling with, the mourners'for'the dead, and sympathizing with the severely wound ed, I congratulate you that the number of both is comparatively so small. I tender to you,'officers and soldiers, the t hanks of the nation.. ABUAHAN LINCOLN. : A Brw.rnx or Debt. —Tito Chairrtuj||nf the Committee of Ways ami Means in Ulragress. Air. Tlmddeus-Stevens,' has introduced a bill repealing the law, requiring tho payment of interest on the public debt in gold, and au thorizing the issue of a Billion- Dollars of U. S. Bonds fpr-tho purpose of .providing means to carry on ! tir||avar. In this connection it may ho well for us to try and comprehend just wlint n billion is. It is easy to nay that it is ten hundred thousand millions ; but that convoys no adequate idea of too yasrne“s- of the.amount. What, then is 'a billion ? A very short answer will suffice for a long story. It is a million times a million. But , who could count it.? No man ! A quick hank tellur can count one hundred arid sixty or severity a minute. But lot us suppose lie could go ns far as 200. ;Tlienone hour would produce 12,000, a day 288,000. and a-year or 305 day 5.100,120,000. , Let us suppose, now, that Adam at the beginning of his existence had begun to count,, had continued to do so, and was counting still ho would ipiit know, no l cording to the usually supposed ago of bur globe, have counted near-enough. . For, to conrif a brlliou, he would require 0.520 years, 34 days, 5 hours and 20 minutes; Nor Sup posing wo poor Adam 12 hours daily for rcst|||9HKm sleeping, he would, uso 10.0d1.-yfflHHHPriys, JO hours and 40 minutes.-v-AfeoTSro^e. J Tartn -vs. Bil’.DEaD.vsil.— Lot us present acts iu reply t > more assertion and rlioilo mont..dc:- Before opposition—political op-, position—to slavery-arms in the North ; be fore a-spirit ilf• liiorifi'llty and aggression against the institution magnified itself in the free States; before the halls of Congress were, converted into arenas for Abolition gladiators to wage war against >tho South; before the ■ Constitution, because it tolerated dhwery. was anathematized as a league with hell rind a covenant with death;; before the operation of the Fugitive Slave -law was resisted by physical force and thomoral force of personal liberty hills ; before the -election-of a section al President, by a soctiima'l party, on sec tional grounds—while the Democratic party, wore, in power, and posfessod.the strength to restrain Abolition fanaticism, the Union re mained intact; the inoment it was over whelmed, and sectional: Constitution-de nouncing Abolitionism triumphed, secession ensued, the Union was broken, and civil war ’ens.icd. Wo present these incontrovertible truths In 'the Telegraph, in.opposition to its.frot'h and bubbles. Will the editor accept them, with the compliments of the season, as our Christ mas gift? —Patriot Union. [Lv” lu handling over a hundred dollars, the first two days the past week, wo actually received One- Goiid Dollar! !t is salted down in the cellar of our Portmonaie. Oh, for the glorious days once more of a Jackson and Benton Sound 'Currency.— Columbia ■Democrat. Yes, or a James Be chan an currency, when ■gold was the chief circulating medium. Wo have not-seen a ('old dollar for months: noth ing but rags, a whole handfull for a dollar! It takes the Republican party to bless the country. The London Post on tiie Emancipation Proclamation. —The London Post (Governr ment organ) of October Gth.-thus speaks of President Lincoln's Proclamation: It is scarcely possible to. treat seriously of this singular manifesto. If mt genuine,* the composition would ho entitled to no little praise as a piece of matchless irony. * * * It is not easy to estimate how utterly power less and contemptible a government milst have become which could sanction with its approval ■snub insensate trash. A few weeks since, trembling for the safety of its ’Capitol ; a t the present moment unable to force a passage into the enemy’s territory—it still takes upon itself to dispose, of property which it is powerless to seize. (Cy. Tho Providence Post says, “wo had Richmond at our finger’s ends, but tho prize was snatched away by Abraham Lincoln l— AVas McDowell needed to defend Washing ton?- No? Nobody believes it. We do not think Abraham Lincoln believed it at tho time I Tho truth is, it was deemed better that we should lose a thousand chances of capturing Richmond, than that George B. M’Clellan should capture it!” Carrying out the Doctrine. — T he Boston Post, of the 30th ultimo, says : “ Wo understand that Ilia Excellency, the Governor, and tho Massachusetts Secretary of State, dined with a colored friend in Soiithao street, on Thanksgiving day, and were sumptuously and elegantly entertain ed." Winter Quarters.— An opinion prevails at Washington that tho Army of tho Potom ac vfill' soon go into winter quarters either at Alexandria or Washington city. [CT” The radical sheets declare that there are some pestilent fellows, calling themselves Democrats, who are conspiring to restore tho Unionl What a calamity 1 A CONGRESSIONAL PROTEST. ' In tho House of -Representatives, recently, Hon. Geohoe 11. Pendleton of O|iio, in be half of.himself and thirty five colleagues, pre sented tho follqwingabie,’dignified and crush ing protest against the pttsshgo of Mr. Ste vens’ bill “ to indemnify the -President for certain arrests.” &c. Ms - . i?.’s motion that tho Protest ho entered ’upon tho Journal of tho House was, of course, ‘ voted down by a corrupt and tyrranioal majority. In looking over tho names signed to this~protest, wo don’t see Mr. Bailv’s. Wo regret this, for we consider the question at issue one of mon strous import, and one which no Democrat should attemptto shirk. Wo hope Mr - Baily will bo able to'explain why his name was not signed to the protest: j . On the 9th day of December,. A. D. 18G2, and during tho present session of Gongro.-e, Mr. Stevens, ofPa., introduced bill No. 591, entitled “ An Act to indemnify the President and other persons for suspending the privi lege of the writ of habeas corpus, and acts done •in pursuance thereof,” and second reading moved that its consideration be made tho special order for tire Monday following; wiiich motion being objected to, he moved the previous question, and this be ing sustained, under the operation thereof tho bill was read a third time and gpssed. This bill involves questions ofthe gravest 1 importance. It proves that all-suspensions of tho privileges of the writ of habeas corpus, all arrests and imprisonments, upon whatev er pretext or by whomsoever made, under the authority of the President, however arbitnry, or unjust, are confirmed and made vahd and all persons who advised, •or execu ted, or aided in exccuting sneh ttbra, tire, dis charged from nil liability, whether to the State or to individuals, in respect thereof; and that all proceedings against them of-eve* ry, nature,' whether for the rocitvei’y of’tlttiua ges, or the infliction of punishment, ■•‘.com menced or to he.commenced.’’.are discharge I and made void. It also 'provides that the President may, during tlto existence of the rebellion, at tiny time anthlitiy whore'thr ingh out any of the United'States, and as to any person, suspend the writ of habeas torpus. — The bill is framed unon the idea that ti e acts recited were illegal ami'witlnintjustcausoor excuse; that they wore viola ions of 'the rights of persons arrested and imprisoned, mid that for them redress might be had in the Courts of the United’States by resort in the peaceful, rcgubrr'nitil ordinary adminis tration of the law. It was formed upon the idea'that the citizen was arrested without the existence of crime on his part, or even prob able cause to suspect it; and that in making such urreslsthe substance, as well as the form, of those provisions of law intended to secure personal 'liberty were entirely disregarded. It makes no exception of those cases in which the arrests have been made with nial-| ico and the iuipfreoninorttH inflicted with cir-- mm st an cJjwiutjilily hud cruelty—in which the "ptlbftwgood” Gits been made the clunk 4 ' wherewith to ciivor tbg-giatification of politi caj|ifonjpsJM|ir privatehatred. It distin guishw i^*hbthipa^^w° e n, the cases in wliich’bri honest mjsrako dins been: .followed bv its i nun ed ia to corfedt ion, and tho cases in which malignity has by.false pretences been enabled to procuro tho’ariest and to prolong the imprisonment to’the loss of property, the destruction of health; and in some cases till; the insanity, suicide or lingering death of the, Unhappy victim.. It.distinguishes jn nothing between the active officer 4 , zealous in the full , discharge ol his official duty, and.tiro base' miscreant who volunteers to assume the- do*, grading character of spy and informer tba.tj he may with moro effect secretly nso the false- 1 hoodi which the venom of his own heart has prompted., him to invent. Tt proposes to oil .offences —to proto tall offenders, amt V, take away nit redress Tor 4 injuries, however great, with whatever circumstances of aggra vation or had motives Inflicted. If these acts had been done in all cases from tho purest’motives, with an.eye single to (lie public good, .with - tup little aggression ns possible on private rights, with all cir cumspection and care -that only those who were really guilty'should snffef Such confine ment ns would prevent The commission 'of an, unlawful act—if the. public'goofl Were, ini fact, subserved by. them, it might ho proper to protect tho President and, those acling’iin der his authority, from criminal prosecution and penal sentence —it might he proper to protest them trom pecuniary loss l(y 'the payment front the public treasury in kite damages 'Assessed against them. Even 'tlhen, whilst admitting that circumstances like’these . would,' in seasons of great public diL'trge’r,' negative all wrongful intent in the cominis-. sion i.f these illegal acts, it must ho Lite duty of the representatives of the people to affirm that, at all times, the President of the United States, before'nil other men, should adhere to the farms'of legal, procedure when direct ing his powers against the personal liberty of tire citizen. It could never be proper to indemnify the Pre-idea t and those acting, under bis Authori ty, at the expense «f the cilitf.en whom they , ■had injured, or foiy.M fod'hoir security by the destruction uf his remedies. The Constitution of the United States guards most carefully the fights of a citizen 3 it ■was ordained to 'es tablish justice, insured dowics'tie tranquility, and to secure the blessings of liberty ; and so steadily was this object’Cvcr kept in view, that in addition to tire preservation o’f all powers not granted, there are special prohi bitions of seizures without wiyrant. detention without indictment, imprisonment without a. speedy and public trial, or deprivation of life, liho ty ai d j roaerty, without due process i f law ; nnd clauses which extend the judicial power uf the United Slates to all controversies between citizenfofdifferent States,and seen re a trial by jury inall cases whore the value in ou troversy exceeds §2O. Congress has hitherto uniformity maintained, and ns■ fur as was necessary by .its legislation poriected, these, guarantees of personal liberty, .and tho courts of justice have enforced them by the assessment of damages for their infraction. This bill proposes to deprive the courts of the power to afford such protection. It will, if carried into general and practical applica tion, relieve the people of the duty of appeal ing to peaceful and legal means of redress; and ■will pruVobo more summary and less un constitutional ipeasnres. Yet this bill—with out precedent in our history—suggesting such grave questions of constitutionality and expediency —believed by many members to be utterly subversive if the rights of tho citi zen and of tho express provisions of the Constitution—by tlio force of more members, and against the remonstrance of the minority, wus passed within one hour uf its first intro duction, without having been printed, with out having been referred to any committee, nnd without any opportunity for considera tion or discussion. The undersigned, members of the House of Representatives, do therefore mostsolemn ly remonstrate against this notion of the House, and respectfully ask that this their protest may bo entered on the journal. They protest against the refusal of the House to permit consideration and discussion of the bill, ns nn arbitrary exorcise of pow er by this majority, unjust to their constitu ent.-'. and derogatory to its character ns a le gislative body. We protest against tho passage of .the hill: Ist—Because it purports to deprive the citizen of all exfs'ing peaceful legal modes of redress for admitted wrongs, and thus com pels him tamely to submit to tho injury in flicted or to seek illegal and forcible reme dies, 3d—Because it purports to indemnify tho President and all noting under his authority, for acts admitted to be wrongful, at the cx- ponso of tho citizen against whom ful nets have been perpetrated, in viol m df.tho plainest principles of justice ttn ,iT most familiar precepts of constitution,,! t a 3d—Because it purports to coofh'n TV make'■valid, by act of Congress, arrests S imprrsonffients which were not only Ull , ranted by the Constitution of the u n - t a ‘j States, bpt wore in palpable violation of express prohibitions. 1 113 4tb—Because it purports to authorize tW President during this rebellion, at any tin, - as to any person, and everywhere tlirooifK* out-the limits of tho United States to pend the privileges of tho wit of habeas car" pus, whereas by tho Constitution the no WC p to suspend tho privileges of that writ is omf fided to the discretion of Congress al, ln ‘" and is limited to tho places threatened by tho dangers of invasion or insurrection. J ° 6th—Because, for these and other reasons it is unwise and unjust ; an invasion of p r j! vato rights ; and encouragement to violent' and a precedent full of hope to all wh,', would osOTp 'despotic power and perpetrate it by the.arbitrary arrest and imprisonment of all who oppose them. 6th and jxnnlly—Because in both its sec tions it is in deliberate, palpable and dan gerous violation of tho Constitution, ” accord ing to tho plain sense and intention of that instrument.” and is therefore utterly null and void. Signed] GEO. 11. PENDLETON, JNO. LAW, W. A. RICHARDSON, C. A. Vv’ICKUFFP J.C. ROBINSON, CHAS. BIDDLE, P. B. FOUKG, J. A CRAVENS JAMES R. MORRIS, ELIJAH W,\Ud' A. L. KNAPP, . P. JOHNSON, ’ 0. X. VALLANOIOIIAM, JOHN D. STII,E3 •0. A, WHITE, G. W. DUNLAP, ’ \V. P. NOBHB. . H. B. WIUUHT, W. K. WADSWORTH. W. ALLEN, W.. 1. ALLEN, A. HAHDINO, S. S. COX. 11. P. GRIDER, B. 11. NORTON, C. B. CALVEUT, O. K.SIIIRL. J K. KERRIGAN. F. E. ANCONA, . HENRY WAY, il. LAZEAR. ■ 11. 11. NUGENT. • NEIIEMIAII PERRY, , O. lI.YEAWAN. C. Y1BBA1U), , 11. P. GRANGER, Efl.l\ClPlfl.OJl iPRfICL.IIUTIO.V. . 'Wasiiimuto.n, Jim. 1. By the President of the . United Stales■ of . * America. A PROCLAMATION; AVhcreas, on the 22.1 diiy of September, in the year of our Lord, 1802, a proclamation wiw issued by the President of the United Stales, uontnining, nrnong other things, the follow ing, to wit: ■ ' “ That nh the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, 1803, all persons hold ns slaves within any State, or designated part of a Stiito, the people whereof shafi then be in rebellion against the United States, snail ho thenceforward and forever free, and the Executive Government Of the United States, including the. military arid naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain tlm frfeoiloth of 'So eh persons, and will do nonet or diets to'repress such persons: or anvul, them, in •any effort they may make for their actual freedom ; that the .Executive will, nh the firstoMTannary aforesaid, by pruulii iuatioii, designate this Slates and parts id StajWflßfeny, in which the people thereat resnHHtt shall then he in rebellion against thell|r|PSr States; and the fact that any StftWnnd’the : people thereof shall, ini Unit day, be in gopd faith represented in the Con gress of tile United States, by members elms: en thereto at elections, wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, bo.deemed conchj sivft'ovidence State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States.'? , ' ■Ko-w, ■therc/oro, I, Abraham. Lincoln, Pre sident of the United, States, by virtue of the power in mo vested, as Commnnder-ia OWcf of the army n'riil'navyjif thoUlritod.SsllOl.ill time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit aid necessary war .mea sure for. suppressing the said rebellion, da,an this, the first day of Jai nary, in thayenrnf onr Lord one thousand eight hundred ami. sixty-three, and in 'accordance with my par-' pose so to do, publicly proclaim,-for the fall, period .of one hundred, days , from'the day dirst above mentioned', order and designarciH 'the States and parts of St'ates wherein lliii people thereof respectively are this day in rebellion' against the United Slates the Id lowing, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, L iil-ianii.v, except the parishes of Saint Bernard, Palipie mines, Jefferson, Saint James, Ascension, Assumption, , Terre hone, '■ Lafourche. Saint. Martin bind Orleans, including the city «l New‘Orleans, Mississippi,' Alabama. Fleriiln, Georgia. Sojith Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia, 'except dire forty eight counties de signated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley,.Accomae, Northampton,. Eli«aheth City, Turk, Princess Anno ami Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth, and' which excepted -parts are for the pro lent left precisely as if the procla mation were riot issued. And by virtue and of the power, and for the purpose ••aforesaid, 1 do order and dcclivro, that all persons,held as slaves within the said designated Slates and parts of said States are. ■arid. henceforward shall he, free : and that dire ‘executive government id the United Stales, including the military and naval .authorities thereof,will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons: and 1 hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to ho free to abstain from t* 11 violence, mwes't in necessary self-defence, and I recommend that in all Cases, when allowed, they labor faithfrillv for reasonable wages. And 1 further declare arid make known, that such persons of suitable condition will bo received into the .armed service of tbo United Slates, to garrison f rts, positions, stations mid other places, arid to man vessels of nil sorts in service. ' . • And upon this net, sincerely believed to bo an act of justice, warranted by the Constitu tion upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, olid tip) grace nS favor of'Almighty God. In witness whereof I have hereunto sot niy hand and caused the seal of the United States to ho affixed, . . Done at the city of Washington this first day of January, in the year of our Lord loos, and of the Independence of the United States of America the o : ghty-sevonlh. ABRAHAM LINCOLN; By the President. William.ll. Seward. Secretory of State. Jackson Once Surrounded. —An army c " respondent fora Southern pa jier, tells the > • lowing incident that ooouvjrcd jn Maryland * tween Stonewall Jackson and the La i > They surrounded tho old game cock; I" 0811 "Ladies, this is the first time I was ever s . rounded,”] and cut every button off uis o and, they say, commenced on his pants, at one time it was feared he would he in uniform of u Georgia Colonel —minus a copt a shirt collar and spurs. For on whs badly soared. ■' Tub Way They Pius it Up.— The c»tima ted expenses of the General Government, the year commencing on the Ist of June pile up ns follows 7 lfi3 ogg 07 Civil list, . . $ VowinO © Intercourse with foreign nations gg Miscellaneous, 97 Interior Department, «« non 14(5 81 War Department. 057 255 01 Navy Department, o !,*>•> Total, The Dead op the Anderson Tr001 !:'". .. despatch Worn Nashville, says that 0 dead of the Anderson troop have been tab to that place. No names ere given. 8827,279,134
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