AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. Was B. BRAWN, Editor ■& 'Proprietor. CARLISLE. PA.-, NOV. 24, 1864. MB ABOLITION JUBILEE in this place on Friday evening Was a sorry affair. Like *H fdririer demonstrations by the pio-baid 'party in this oounty.it was a ißiilc, I'ho ■“ loyal citizens” of the town— 'that means all who have been praying for -a dissolution of the Union for a quarter cff aeon tury —had been requested to illuminate their I houses with tallow dips. Few, hoWoVer, -re ■sponded to the request, And only a couple dozen houses in the ■Whole town wore lit up. | Two hundred dollars worth of rockets and other firo-worfcs hod been purchased dor the occasion, which wore being -conveyed in a ■wagob dhtbugh onr streets. ■ A stray spark .agdlfed the whole batch at once, and the rackets exploded and whizzed with a noise resembling the explosion of Grant’s mine in front of Petersburg. The 'horse bitched to the vehicle tan off, the hair of his tail in a blaze, which afforded a slight illumination in that part _of the town, at least; the driver Was “ spilled out” in the mud, and the wagon smashed to pieces. At last accounts the poor horse was still on a full run, with a “ Roman Candle” close to his nether end. So'com menced and so ended -the .fire-works. Next in order was a good-sized balloon, Which Was christened Abraham Afrioanus the which, well lighted up, was to penetrate the clouds at a given hour. The time for this part of the performance had ar rived, hut-alna, again, just as the balloon was about to take its departure from earth, a young negro struck his delicate foot against it, causing tho flamo of the spongo to touch Its paper aide. In an instant tho balloon was in flames, and in another instant in ashes,— Alter this second accident tho shoddyites proceeded quietly ,to- their homes, satisfied, Wo presume, with the entertainments of the -evening. Really, we felt for our Republican friends. Thoy wanM a little fun, and had expended •a considerable amount of their ill-gotten gains to have it, but, .like their rotten principles, it all ended in smote. It was a piece of pre-, Sumption, however, for the Abolitionists of Cumberland to- attempt to rejoice over the fraudulent election of Lincoln-. The Demo cratic majority in the county was the larg est that has been cast for a candidate for President since the days of Jackson, and this fact should have induced the shoddy!tes of t?iis county to say very little about their " victory." Indeed, we hear that Gen, Caii- ERun, the Chairman of the Abolition State Committee, threatens that no man in Cum berland shall receive a cent’s worth of patro nage from the Administration after the 4th of March next. lie says they.cheated him, and spent the money ho sent them, without accomplishing the political work they had •promised. lie despises them, and is of opin ion that they are pigmies in a political fight with the-democracy •of old Considering the amount of money they spent •—money from the corruption fund—the thou sands of lying documents that bad been sent them, the number of “ able speakers," em bracing so-called Christian ministers, Now England Infidels and Buckeye blackguards, who had*' harangued them, great results Were promised by our Cumberland county Abolitioniste. But, instead of accomplishing ** great results,” they received the best drub bing that had been administered to them for the last thirty years. They havo not contri buted much to the “ grand ‘result," and for them to attempt to put on airs and to rejoice over the work of other counties, is supremely ridiculous. No wonder their balloon and their rockets refused to go up—the political atmosphere in old Mother Cumberland is too pure to be polluted with anything carrying Abolition freight. The only results from their jubilee was the burning of the tail of a horse, and the destruction of a few pine-knots and tallow candles. O” J. W. Sbilet is opening a large and elegant assortment of Fall and Winter Cloth ing, Boots, Shoes and hats, which he promises to sell at the very lowest prices. Do not fail give to him a eall, as yon can depend upon the fact that the goods will prove to be as good as they are recommended, and that he will let no man undersell him. Store in North Hanover St., between Shreiner’s Ho tel and Halbert's Corner. St. Kdmobs or Peac*.— The Eastern papers Are filled with rumors of peace, hut it is only because the wish is .father to the thought, We were always for peace and labored hard to procure it, and we believe the masses are yet for' pence, but they were misled in regard to the means of obtaining it. It can easily be seen, from the manner in which‘newspa pers grasp at these straws, that the public mind desires peace. We hope it may come. Wo pray for itsadvent. But we hope against Hope. Bach » result is utterly impossible under tbo present regime and policy. We might as well 6ipeet salvation without repen tance, War is inevitable and we must let it come. McClellan and his policy oonld have brought us' peace.' Lincoln cannot. He is committed on the question of war and subju gation.' Eeader/do not become sanguine when you hear these idle peace rumors.— They ore idle fiction. This nation is not yet scourged as its sins deserve. It mustbe and it will bo swept with the besom of destruc tion;. i; ‘ tfj- IVilliam Turner and his wife, of New Fultz, New York,‘went to find some hickory nu« one .day lost Week, looking their three ohildron’up in the house. When they return ed they found the bouse in ashes and their children jbutn.od,to death.. The oldest child, tras about seven years.- • [£T Sugar from sawdust, and old rags is th e *«U (JiftOOtery, ' " ENOBSOBB { G Will OF FXEtfJTITB PATRO^ AGE, Ono of the greatest dang'dls toour liber’Sßis is the corrupt exorcise of 'Executive iu/iuttncW in the distribution of public office. Of-thus . feature ia our political system, the wise and 1 virtuous atatsmea who fnutted the Oonstlta tion, and afterwards revised it in tho State Conventions, wore especially jealous. They endeavored to separata the tfaroo groat depart ments of Government, so that ho two-could ‘combine against tho other for tho subversion of civil order and freedom. But-events are >fast proving that the conservative balance whioh they strove to institute in the, frame -work of the Government, has proved bo a sad ■failure in practice. The Executive has too I ranch favor to bestow in the shape of salaried •offices, and every day isaugmopting this.pow er. It is frightful to contemplate theenor mous amount of this means of corruption, ■which is ContiUally accumulating in his hands. - ' A host of officials, dependent oh'his pleas- j sire, scattered all over tho'land. and controll ing, individually, as local politicians, a cer tain number of voters, who control, in thair turn, many more, is a machinery competent in time, to establish, if it has not already es tablished, a despotism in tho midst of a the oretically free people. That it has boon employed corruptly is as certain as that It exists. Since tho day on whioh Mr, X'jNoottvassumed the Presidential office, tho appointing power has been used to Toward political partisans and punish politi cal opponents. Custom has oven given this gross wrong a kind of sanction. It is brave ly-avowed and justified us a salutary right of the reigning dynasty. Executive patronage is openly exerted to force.the most iniquitous measures through Congress, so that those who are members of the same political party with the Administration, but who' are too honest to approve of all of its opinions and acts, nro vindictively dismissed from positions under the government, and their places accorded to others who are subservient enough to do the bidding of an imperial master. Events now transpiring at Washington prove that our lib erties aro passing into the keeping of tho President. The head of tho State is becom ing autocratic in his sway., Tho ono man power is superseding that of th.a people or their representatives. At this moment throats of executive vengeance, and offers of excep tive favor, are being notoriously employed to win men away from their honest convictions of duty to their consciences and principles, to destroy tho independence of tho people’s roprosonfative-Cand to stiflotho voice of froo debate. This is a fact which indicates un mistakably the tendency of our system to centralize power in the hands of a corrupt and weak Chief Magistrate, and it is full of fearful omen. Court Pboceepinos. —The Nov. Sessions of our county Courts commenced on last Monday morning of last week. His Honor Judge Grahm presiding : But few persons were present besides Jurors, Witnesses and those directly interested in the proceedings. Mon day morning was consumed in the usual pre -1 liminary business of the Court. In the after noon the list |of eases in the Common Plens was taken up and the following, disposed of. Miller vs Smith was the first case tried.— It was an action of Ejectment brought by W. H. Miller Esq. to recover a lot of ground lying in the South West portion of town. Verdict for Plaintiff. 'Penrose and Newsham for Plaintiff. Parker and Williamson for deft. Nicholas A, Myers, rs Cumberland Valley | XI. R. Co. This was an action, of trespass to recover damages for injuries resulting from an accident on the Railroad some two years i ngo. Mr, Myers was a conductor on the freight cars of Henderson and Reed and while attempting to out loose the hinder portion of ( the train when in motion was thrown from tho platform and passed over by the oars. I This accident cost him bis right foot. He j instituted proceedings against the Company and about a year since bo obtained a verdict for $lOOO, in our court. Tho case, was taken ' to tho Supreme .Court on a writ of Error, when ruling the Court hplow was reversed and a venire de novo awarded. -This'is con sequently the second time the case has been } tried. The jury found a verdict for the Plaintiff. Damage $2550, Millet and New; sham lor Plaintiff; Watts for Defendant. The Criminal list was taken up on Wed nesday afternoon. The first ease was in tho Oyer and Terminer. Com. vs. XV. H. Smith, XVelsh, and Isaac Wheeler. Robbery. True bill. This indictment was founded on oath of James Mpudy. Some months ago these defendants were keeping a restaurant in town, at which place the alleged robbery occurred. The prosecutor testified.that ha had gone to their saloon late one night, and when about to leave was knocked down by these defendants and robbed pi his pocket-book and 'money amounting to over $lOO. The next morning ha made information against them and they were arrested. The officers who made tho arrest testily that they recovered from each of the parties some $2l, which they acknow ledged was Moudy’s money. Defendants ac quitted. Gillelon and Herman for Common wealth. Penrose, Shearer and Culver for defendants, j Com. vs, Rebecca McAllister. False Pre tence. True bill. Defendant convicted and sentenced to one month’s imprisonment. Gii lelen for Commonwealth. Herman for defen dant. Coro. ve. Matilda Windsraakor. Larceny; BUI ignored; ' Com. va. Regina Shade. Disorderly house and selling liquor to minors. True bill.— Continued. Com. vs. Wm. Soars! "Argon. BiUjgnorod. Com. vs. Charles Swigerc t alrd sI G. 11l Eok enrode. Conspiracy, false pretense, fraud, and furnishihg liquor to minors. True bill. Penrose, Shearer and Gillolen for Common wealth. Maglaaghlin and Nowsham for de fendants-. Hitch Your Horses.— Quito a numbsr of individuals haven habit of leaving their hor ses stand unhitched along the streets, while they run about to attend to' their buisiness, This is unsafe, not alone for' the person that owns the team, bu t for others! If it were only those careless enough to allow their horses to stand unhitched that wpuld suffer in con sequence of a-rrfa off, then it would mattor little, for a few lessons would teach them to be more careful. ,*©* A man in Vermont set a trap for hears that ware troubling his sheep, and going out early one morning tound a “varmint” caught. He rushed for bis gun, fired and killed a block sheep of his own flock 1 C - The “ freedom” which Administro tionists talk so'muoh about fighting for, must lie the freedom to peraesute the “ semi-traitors of the North,” who believe in the dootrinea of Washington and Jefibwon. LUTUIiEM REJOICE. WhGtt'wo hear a shout go up from the A.b 61ition>ranka for the victory they havo achiev ed, womannot/bbt keep thinking of tbo timo »lhe children bf Isreal Bhoughtod so joyously around the golden calf, nud forsook’tho God wfio had led 'them from the land of Egypt* And we i*omombor too how that they wander ed for forty years in tho wildernos, and re booted in sack cloth and ashes for their fool ishness. And when their roponfcnnc’6 was full, and they returned to tho God of their •fathers, lie led them safely across tho Jor dan and no onrthly foe could stand boforp 1 them. ' Tho American people have wandered from their faith. They have fallen down in ado ration nt the'feet of the Mack monster brought forth by infidelity and abolitionism, and tho spirit of Patriotism gazes sorrowful ly on while they about over their own destruc tion. Bub when they wander through tho bloody and trackless desert which war spreads out before them, when all the horrors which are in store for them have been felt, they will return to their old political party and-call for assistance upon that power which has guided them for eighty years, and never once failed, though the darkness of, three wars had to bo met and passed. No Democrat can feel that ho is to blame for the ruin which tho deluded people have brought upon us. Xako Moses of old, vro leave our brethorn to worship tho God their own bonds have made, in sorrow rather than anger, and turn to gather strength amid the horrors and privations of war, as lie received the “ tables of slono” amid the thunder and lightonings of Mount Sima. So says the Bdllefonta Watchman. Tna 'Columbia County Prisoners. —A. let ter from one of ffaj prisoners taken in Colum bia county last'summer, and placed in, Fort Mifflin, thus ‘describes their deplorable con dition; “ Wo aro back to old Fort Mifflin again.- The evening wo came here John was a very sick man, but is now somewhat bettor. I am nearly deaf being in this damp eo)|, and gvi 11 soon bo totally sci if I don’t get out. , “Abraham Kline is very sick with diar rhoea. Joseph Vansiclo is insane—totally lost his reason. Goorgo ITurliman is so crip pled with rheumatism ho ean scarcely get about. The cell at this time is„dripping with water from the arch over us, and oven the sides are nil wot, Tho soandorl man living could not remain in here without becoming injured in health, much loss weakly old men as we are.' Wo have done’ nothing to desorvo such punishment.” * * S. Ki ln, connection with tho foregoing, wo copy the following from a letter, written by Geo. B. Scott, of Reading, Tho letter, from which the following extract is taken may bo found in the Columbia Democrat of hist week. lie says: , “ Forty-five wore placed in ft coll in Fort Mifflin, about fifty, by eighty leet, under ground, the walls wot, and the den so dark that in cloudy weather, nothing could be seen without a candle*,. Criminals, in all jails I know anything about, havo bods or cots to sleep on ; those men were deprived of fo great a luxury, and compelled to lie on boards, un til within a few days previous to their release when two were given them. They wore al lowed but ono. blanket each. Their living'consisted of pork, bread and coffee. Occasionally beof was furnished.— Frequently the meat was spoiled. Some per haps, would atop hero in this narration ; the consideration of dolicaoy shall not prevent mo from telling tho worst part! of this horrid af fair, They were compelled fo eat and sleep with their excrement in the same room 1— Bufing the first two weeks sickness brought on by the change of food, water, &0., caused them to fill a tub, tho size (if a half barrel, twice a day. This was emptod into tho bay, and from:tho bay, their muddy, filthy water was pumped for coffee and drinking. Ono of the victims died a few days since, in a hos pital near the Fort. He was an old man, with board and hair whitened with the frosts of 58 winters. Another is nearly dead, and others oro sick with diarrhoea. One alsd has been a soldier, and bears the marks of a bat tle/’ Progress. —lt is astonishing to contemplate the progress of science and civilization from 1800 to 1800, a period scarcely more than an ordinary life time. Dense forests have been cleared array, turnpikes rvers made and then superseded by canals, and these by railroads. Steani was applied to machinery, filling the country with mills and the rivers with steamboats. Coal was discovered and brought into market in a , thousand districts. The telegraph has been applied in the transmis sion of news in every civilized country.— Books and newspapers hays multiplied as the sand upon the sea shore. Petroleum oil has become a staple of the earth. The popula tion of the United States increased from 'sev en to thirty millions. Cities have sprung up like exhalations where, but a few years ago, there was the howling wilderness or- the un inhabited prairie. Odd has hson discovered and mined by the millions of dollar's worth. But with all this a cruel war is now devasta ting what civilazation had beautified and adorhed. A Question of Time. —The democratic party has performed a high and holy duty in tho contest just closed. It has labored to preserve tho purity of tho church, to save tho liberties of tho people and to bring peace and Union without further bloodshed and ruin, From 18G1 it hast been been steadily gaining on tho popular vote. The full return of rea son is only a queston of time and, four more long dregry and wasteful year’s of war, will satisfy oven those who seek the last dollar and tho last ditch, In the meantime let de mocrats remember that they have a , duty to perform. Let them stand -unbroken amidst the storm, and be prepared whenever the time comes, to' rescue from the wreck of our republic what little'there may bo left of lib erty and country to transmit 'to their chil dren. The future looks desolate and fearful, but the good S'mariton has his work, to per form. Even after the thieves and robbers have loft nothing bat tho mangled forms of humanity behind them-. Horiubi.e Raxlkoab Accideh*.—tA most terrible railroad accident ocoured on the In dianapoiia and Lafayette Railroad, a few days ago, in: the collision of the'passenger train and-the cattle train. ' Twenty-eight dead bodies were taken from tbe'wfeok, two more paaaengors havo died, and from 20 to 30 are wounded. The tilled and wounded were mostly retured soldiers. K 7” Wo. have no important'war hews- <his week. ANsIeK, RIKIWtTES. Tlio Leyvisburg Avyns demands answers to • certain questions, as follows:: Who withheld from the soldiers the Mc- Clellan electoral tickets sent to them by their friends at home? „ ■ • . ■How many MoClollnn soldiers were detail ed and put on distant duty, and wore thus, kept from the polls on election day ? liow many McClellan soldiers wore ordered from tho polls .by their Abolition officers when it bceanio'kiiown haw they were going to’vote-? ' s ' liow many McClellan soldiers, who wore serving as ole'rksjh ttio several departments because of their physical weakness, wore forced to vote lor Lincoln, orj as tho alterna tive, -shoulder a kuaptnek and musket and go to tho front? Wo have already learned of throe who were treated in this manner. Whore did you got so many Wore votes than there wore voters in the regiment? 1 ' Answer-tboso questions, ami you will know why MuOlollau had not a majority in the 51st P. V-. and iri many other regiments. A member of the. 51st, just from the front, de clares that the returns purporting to ho the, result in that regiment are absolutely false. Who is to blame? Those who uso tho army as a tool to elect Abolition office-seekers, at is a startling and lamentable fact that the great majority of-Congressmen, Senators and Assemblymen, recently elected in Pennsyl vania, Ohio, Indiana, New York ! nmi Mary land, wore elected' by forged and fraudulent petty majorities, invented by the • Abolition officials who-superintended ’the army.vote. — Tho ’'people are not represented by_mon of their own choice, hut 'by corrupt politicians who have been fopoofi 'upon them by ballots that never entered the ballot-box, and wore never in tho bands of a voter, excepting those of tlic villinns who forged them. Masssy-lin sotts, that little, rocky, barren, sterile, frigid, yellow patch of soil, hitched fast to the east ern herder of New York, and which is about ns -ho-ge as the one-eighth pan of that Slate, through the potty tyrants and scheming poli ticians and generals whom she has,.through the power of Lincoln, in tho army and in the various departments of Government, has re elected Lincoln, and elected nearly all tho Congressmen, &e ,in the other Stales. For qjgnars and negroes fill her place,in the army, and she is growing ricli on tho win- while the other States nro being reduced to beggary and woo. Shame on the mighty States who suffer and tolerate such outrages 1 They can not bo called independent Stales! The Indiana' X'RAtfDa Justified. —What* eyorthc eastern Republican .papers may do, the western organa of that party make no bonea'at all of admitting.tho gigantic frauds in Indiana and 'justifying them. ■ Witness tlm\lndianwpoUp( ; f3«fccde of the I7tl\ of-OeVo* bor: ■- s - ’ If thcraßanda of Bbldiora voted in the State, on Tuesday last,.who wore’ hot legally enti tled to vote, it were’, better, provided they vo ted the Union [Abolition] ticket, than for the election to have been carried by the opponents of tho Administration. The contest was squarely between the government [Lincoln] and .tho i-ebe's [MqCleDan. Uemooin's,] The ghd'juelifies tho means, in such an issue, li were better- that half a dozen Massachvs Vs rcgunmisskouldoote, than lhatihe State should fall into ike hands of ike opponcts of Ike Ad' ministration. Docs; any one think that the Administration is going to allow-the,State of Indiana to fall into the hands of its enemies at a time, like this ?. .Tho contest is a nation al one. Tho Soldiery are iu the nationalscr vico and if they can he used in tho roar, to gain a victory which is quite as important as a victory at the front and in the Held,.why not do it? Purity of OiiißAcrEa.—Over tho beaaty of tho plum and the apricot thero grows o bloom and beauty more exquisite than the fruit itself—a soft, delicate flush overspreads its blushing check. Nuw, if you Htrikoyour hand-over tbat, it is gone. Tho (lower that hangs in tho mountain, impended with dew, arayed with jewels, once shake it so that the beads roll off, and you may sprinkle water over 'it as you plcaVo, yet it can never be again what it was when tho dew fell silently on it from Heaven. On a frosty morning you may see panes of glass covered with land scapes—-mountains, lakes, trees, blended in a beautiful fantastic picture. Now lay your hand upon the glass, and by a scratch of your finger, or by the warmth of your palm, all the delicate jtraeoyy will be obliterated. •So there is in youth a beauty and purity of character, when once touched and de filed,can never bo restored, a fringe more delicate than fro3fiwark t .and which* when torn and broken will never bp re-embroidercd,— & . lie who l.asspfittqd.and spoiled hiagarments in youth, though ho may seek to make them white again, can never wholly do it, even were ho to wash them with his tears. When a young man loaves his father’s house with the blessings ol n mother’s tears still wot up on liia brow, if ho once lose the early purity of character, it is"a loss that he can never make whole again., Such is tho consequence of crime. Its effects cannot be eradicated ; it can only bis forgiven. The Western 1100 Trade. —The slaughter ing of hogs in tho wostis about to commence. Tiio Cincinnntti Gazette of Saturday says ; .There was rather a bettor inquiry for hogs to-day, and wo heard of sales amounting in tho aggregate'to about'l,ooo head at SI I per 100 lbs-, gross, for those averaging 263 and 275 lbs. and $l3 25* a $l3 50 per 100 lbs,’not for 200 and 210 lb.'averages. A-few of the houses commenced-slaughtering to-day, and a few hogs wero.cut. The Chicago Tribbho, of Friday, remarks The receipts since Monday amount to 20,- 041 hogs. Bntored'sales at the various yards 11.309 bead, at $9. 50 n $10,75, chiefly at 10 a $lO 25 per 100 lbs: Under tho influence -of several drawbacks tho market has been un settled and business rostricted ( ;.tbo result of which is that there are in the yards this eve ning abqdt I0;000 hogs unsold.' . The Louisville Journal says: .The hog market for packing has not opori-. ed here, hud wo hear of qb.contracts on tho part-of packers. Fridas are. p'i'etty well sus tained, and wo quote a sale' to!a speculator of 2,000 fat hogs, at Pi cents, bn foot, to be weighed on delivery at tlio farmers’ pona,- Hogs, heavy and well fatted, sold at 9J to Xoi cts. gross. ‘ Tlio offering fit the Shelby House wore of gbo’d qualities, but no cattle sold higher than 0 to Oi'cSuts, which was the highest average rate paid by butchers'for good conditional fat beeves. Sales of heavy hogs were mado as high as 11 cents. EtorEß with a Nrrmo. — The wife pf a man named Henry Suckers in Ohio, recently olop-' .ed.with a negro, taking with her a little black eyed and beautiful daughter, . This latter fact led him in pursuit of thoTuijitives. which ho found in a' negro boarding house, nt Windsor, The wife claimed, bis forgiyness but wae, of istfufsb, refused. The father took his child," .but the mother’s entrbaties lod him to ngroe tb take her homo to her parents provided aho would agroo to-remain there. This she prem ised, and on Friday night they all started for Ohio together." • ‘ ’- 1 ' MTUKDAY' NIGHT. . Under tin's caption " Brick Pomo'royi” one of tho most humorous, rnoy and spicy, of our western writers, thus truthfully, eloquently and feelingly discourses'. Onco more the sun goes down icto tbo wcs- , tern ocean of time to usher in 'a Sabbath morning. Again has tho wheel of the week rolled aroundj cxnshing tho life out of many a strong man and loving woman—tho heart- > out of many a true love, who, alone, unenred for and neglected, is, left to wander over ,tho - shoals and broken rocks on time's shoro, to . die broken-hearted and with no loving hand to smooth the hair and drive tho doath*damp •therefrom. . Saturday night! Blcssjd night of all its brethren. Prized night of all tbo week—loved corpse of all tho six which have 'boon lain under the place of midnight. Night of respite from labor and communion with the heart. Night of repose for tho mind and tho resuscitation of d'riven energies* Who of our readers does not. thank. God for this boon*? And huty-will it bo spent? Wo can look into its hidden loaves and see, as in an album, full many a picture. ®lapp7‘firesides end homo circles, whore sit.,the loyed ones of mature years, caressing ■oaeh other with lic»*rts full of added lovo, and toying with the innocent gifts from o>od.— How blessed is this night to sunh, and how fervent should bo tho prayer of thanks {or His mercies. And there are rooms whoro lovers sit lip to lip—hand in hand—palm to pahh—eye to eye—heart to heart—silently threading the labyrinths of tho weried future which allures far more than it repay*. -And there are deserted homes—-wives alone, wea ry vigils keeping—widows’humming, for their hearts Ho on Southern fields of death— Diansions whore even love-is glided-—cottages and cabins nhero affection 'lightens up tho hour us the noonday sun light’s God’s Tem ple—mothers praying for nvbsent- children, and in,fear lost those with thorn frill*not ho nor man's high estate—children wild oh live road to ruin—the tempter and the tempted— tho good and tbo bad—the old and tho young oven iw-ruiing a separate picture. Why, the world is foil of.pictures.- v Saturday night is an index; Wt* can 'look buck on hours misspent—words wo would but cannot recall, vows we have broken—hopes which have died us rose loaves fall from your , hands and,float over the brinks of Niagara—, promises we have made but to be broken— friends wo have, betrayed for nothing—Wind acts we might have done but did not—relief: we might have granted but for selfishness-*■ happiness we might have given but for a wicked heart. How tho floodgate of tho week opens on Saturday .night 1 Yet wo learn no wisdom from the past. Tho sumo old story] “It might have boon,'? Who will fortify the coming week with new resolves; for good?— Wo can all do it. It will not bo long ere tho grave closes over da—a few thin tears—a few sobs—a few looks**-a few. sad thoughts—a few regrets—a few shovels full of earth-r-a few feet under tho sod—a few days of sad ness, real or counterfeit, and our souls are away on tho sea of eternity, and those; who know us now will kiss other lips-r-will clasp other hands—will road each other's eyes— .will return each other's embrace?—will min gle their tears or wed thoir joys together-.- will lovo thoso they now wot-of—-will-forgct us forever. Do you over think of this—think how thin earth and its allurements are ? Is it worth while for us to hatfl each other for so brief a time? Will tho sheen of selfish- ness mellow the mould in which wo must lie, or whiten tho marble which may perchance stand sentry over nur hod fertile grrntsleep* Let ua look hack over life and the time to do it is on this Saturday night. How to Take It. —-Wo observe, with grati fication, that the Democracy take their re cent defeat at the polls much bettor than wo anticipated. While they, of course, feel somewhat regretful, they arc not greatly cast down. They feel that now tho whole respon sibility of this bloody and infamous war is with the Republican party, and in their hands will bo the conclusion, bo it what it may. The skirts of tho Democratic party are clear of it. and with' clean hnnds, unstained by fraternal blood, nor bathed in widows’ tears, they can lift their eyes and hearts to heaven, conscious that whatever ruin and de solation may come upon tho country, they did it not. As a party, Democrats have no cause for grief, though they will bo obliged to share tho common ruin. With Lincoln null his crew now rests the destinies of this country. The prospect is, indeed dreary, and the po litical, and oven the social horizpn is hiing with black. Dut Democrats are not to blsttne for it, and when tho great catastrophe stares us boldly in tho-face, brought on by Lincoln and his parasites, wo can exclaim, not in tri umph, but in sorrow, “ Thou const not say we did : it.” ' What ta Tabs Loyai.tv. — Tho following is from tho last letter ever written by Senator Douglas! ‘‘l know of no mode in which a loyal citi 1 - aen may so wolf demonstrate his devotion to' his country ns by sustaining its flag, the" Constitution, and the Union, under nil cir cumstances, and under every Administration regardless of party politics, against all as sailants at homo and abroad. Wo should never forget that a man cannot ho a true Democrat unless ho. is a Ipyal patriot.” Mr. Douglas here makes a very proper distinction between that loyalty which sus tains tho Constitution and.tho Union, and that spurious loyalty which supports an Ad ministration in all nets and measures what ever, even though they violate tho Constitu tion and lead directly-to the" destruction of tho Union. Tho truth is, that Mr. Lincoln has done and is doing so much that is unwar ranted by law and opposed to a restoration of tho national pence and Unity, that loyalty to him or his administration, is positive dis loyalty to the Constitution and tho. Union. “Butler is in favor of proposing peace and offering an amnesty."— Phila. Bulletin. Why not "spot him" as a traitor then?— No “ Copperhead" ever proposed liny thing more or worse tbhnthnn that.lt is claimed that the re-election of Lincoln is a condem nation of," pdpoo” and “amnesties;”, so;tho quicker Butler, with suol) notions, is bustled out,.the. better. “ Peace,’’indeed 1 Wasn’t it asserted a hundred times; before the elec tion, that the only pence commissioners that would bo sent should be snob ns Grant, She ridan, and Sherman? What right has shoddy to be on the Chicago platform t Get orr it AT ONCE ! « .. ■ • ■■ ■■■■■ O fid, Lansh'orry, Who shot Assistant' Phj- VQat Marshal Butler,-in Clearfield county,, was a Republican and hpd votedlbr Mr. Bin coin ; besides that the only' newspaper lib' took was the Republicon shpet of that ob'uß l ' ty.' It lias been asserted that this. trogedy' was the result of Democratic teachings, and that the man was Democrat.- During some' recent excavations in Rome a magnificent gilt biohiie statue of a youthful Hercules, fourteen'febt high, was [ was discovered. Tkb presidential Elceiloij in Eng-iand. ' jFrom'tho Condon Post Npv(X : Not one of tho.least surprising results of the Amovioan;-'oivil war has been tho thor ough inßighfr'whioh has been afforded to!,Ea roponns into the operation of purely demo cratic institutions in the great trarisatlnritio’ republic. Uutil tho secession of the South ern jStatos, and tho events which.immediate-' ly succeeded it, most persons wore content to 'believe that for all practical purposes the form of government established in the Uni ted States was pretty much tho same ns that -existing in Great Britain. Tho formir, it is true, is a republic; tho latter a limited mm archy. In America tho Chief Magistrate is called a President, and is elected for a limit ed period; in England ho is styled a King, holds office for Jife, acd derives his title by descent. In tho one both bouses of the Leg islature are composed of members nominated by the people; in tho other, one house alone is elective, the,second being composed of an hereditary nobility. But iii all that'boncorrr od the working ot a Government, and in all that regarded the political citizens of the Stale, there .seemed but fett distinctions to be drawn.’ Tho Englishpn-vpreigh rules by re sponsible ministers, and can himself do no wrong, whereas the American President may at any time he personally'impeached by tho llonSo of representatives i.t the bar of tho Senate ; hut in the ono case, as in tho other, tho-chief niaeislrate is directly or indirectly, obliged to acknowledge parliamentary con trol. Meddled in ft great measure as the American institutions are after those of the country which laid the foundations of the fu ture republic, the same safeguards are provi ded in tlie United Slates as in Groat Brit tain 'for the protection of individual liberty, and for thcSpoedy and impartial administra tion ot the laws. .. 'ln America, ns in England, the chief of tho State and his -ministers are powerless to deprive a citizen of his-liberty, or hy-ftrhitrary decree tu'u<inliseate his prop erty, or interrupt him in tho exercise of avo cations which the -law.proiiimneos to bo harm less; ft nil in the one country,‘as in the other,' if the State authorities declare the lawto bo. outraged, the -d"c sion of the issue thus raised vests solely with the fe.Uow c’uizens of tho accused; ; P r tho enjoyment of political liberty and’personal security the ■ United States of America, before tlie eumnieuccinent of the civil war, and Great Britain .may be 1 said to jiavo' stand on nearly the same footing. Tlvero were, indeed, some who pretended that the political institutions of the American ro pnhlio wore ns much superior to those of, the English nr narchy as the latter arc of those n( a pure despotism, and who never tired of impressing upon the British nation tho ’ox-, pondionoy of getting rid of a monarchy which was a costly sham, and of an aristocracy which made no other use of its power A«d in fluence than to grind 'the : operative classes into the dust. It was, of course, impossible to say what England might have been if these suggestions '.yens acted uponand the pros perity of the American Union anti the even working of its constitution rendered it diffi cult to affirm -positively that the change' would necessarily to'.followed by disastrous results. --Since then, however, circumstan ces have arisen' which hare pttt a strain tip on those institutions'wliieb wrr-, so warmly pniised.-and have fni-nißhrti-a'nnt-nnfnirtcst n( their boasted efficacy. From what is now and baa been fur the last three years, taking place in the Northern States of America, wo may form a tolerably fair estimate uf What would bo likely to arise, in times of civil dis turbance, in a Statu‘wh ich framed its insti tutions after the American pattern. . • • *, * The reply given by Mr. Lincoln to the deputation otTennesseeans which wait ed upon him to protest against tho proclama tion of their Governor, perhaps not inaccu rately represents the light lit which the meas ure is regarded by the majority of Americans, and we recommend it to tho jinost attentive consideration of vueh of nor countrymen as are wearied of our national institutions, and would Willingly see thorn replaced by those of tho Western World. The, President affect ed to doubt that tho protest 'cunhi in effect have proceeded from any save political oppnn ants in How York, but when made to under stand that, incredible though it might seem, i it truly represented the sentiments uf many of tho loyal citizens of Tennessee, he said, “1 expect to let tho friends uf George B. MoOlel- I, lan manage their side of tho contest in their j own wtty, nml I will nVanago' nYy side of it in my way.” In other words, the restriction oi the right of franchise to those who will sup port thA present government, at an election on which.the esfiatenob of that government depends, and at a time When;in'-conformity with tlie oortsti Union, the g'WeVnm’ont should be displaced, if such seemed 1 agreeable - to’ tho national will, is simply a- Oliver stroke - if e liotioneering tactics... It is .true Governor Joltoscn’isaoatididata'for the Vico Presidency and Mr. Lincoln seeks for re-election, amj the '.adoption of the measure - by the ono and ! the I sanction given to it- by the other m‘ay bo thus (accounted for. But that a' peAplo which, nlbre I than any other in the World boasts of til'd’ pro liticol - -liberty which it enjoys,- and' which isheera at ,and - disparages as ofluW fllh - in stitution's' of .every qouritry tUbfC’ ti’m'n )U century’ eld, should - at the mbot orit-' .cal peraod of i xistence poi-m.it its Chosen servants to’assume despotic powers,-with no nobler erid : than to prevent tiiotr own- dismis jsion, may well excite tho astonishment' of a .kindred nation, which, in giving, to it .the -germ of . its future existence, believed olso that it had handed over traditions and mem ories which would not have been so soon for gotten. ' " Attacked nr Crows. —A gentleman of Wheeling went hunting a few days since,, and not finding any better game, he took a shot at a flock of orowj that wore cawing in ■the woods. lie wounded one of the birds in the wing when it fluttered to the ground ami live gentleman picked it up. Thu hurt bird fluttered a'nd erh'd. most piteously, when sud ddhly the whole (lock came to its assistance and made an attack upon the hunter. Th“y fluttered about his. head and picked - anil scratched him with such violence that he was obliged to defend himself with a stick, and finally compelled fo Jet the wounded crow go and beat a retreat. Tlio BeDuWicah papers in Tennessee announce the biebtion.rosuUs with great grav ity;. Lincoln hy hundreds, and M'GlelUn, nonet As there was no .M’Olellah electoral ticket in the field, Ihb ,result was expected, but the Republicans prow I ni Instilly, over the result asi,Cob,Forney was wniit to do ,in. the olden times when lie was a Democrat, npd yld, Oodnrus township, in; York oomity.Ponn’n,; need, to ,be Amjennced by., its local,.return Judge fomowhataafter' .this fashion, ; " For Gdvornor, David, B. Porter, have, dree hun dred ! and dvfenty four,. voteses, nn'd Joseph Bitner had no yoteses.’’ .'.These, were hi (he Democratic times that used to try toe, .old Whig sdul.Sjin, Pennsylvania. and the. Code-, rus vole w : ns no boglisarticle, such, as the Mili tary-Governor of Tennessee sanctioned.— LouiwilU Journal. . , . 1 ■ D 2?" Mayor Gunther,of Now York, has of-' fered a reward of live hundred dollars for-tho apprehension and conviction of the man who,- oiy Sunday morning, the Gth Inst;, murdered pOliobmanJoseph Nnlot, of the Twenty-Ninth preoinot. Officer Nnlel had arrested Ihri man (btattempting to ljrenk, ihto a disreputable' libuso in Twenty-fourth street; and .was. con veying bin? to the station. house, They bad ■proceeded, as far ns •Ttr’enty-ninlh . street, whenithe prieonsr'nuddonly -drew ,o pistol,- fired the fatal shot; and Psoapodb, ‘ • j' Superstition is, worse thanpatbeism, since it must bo loss offensive to deny the ex istence of a like do.ty Saturn than to ad mit his existence and affirm that he .was such an unnatural monster as to devour chil dren. •r v ; Oenhral Shorman lias boon hennd fmv. Oft. Monday. Inst the hplnmn which las to Milledgeylllo and tfiif!S a 'lo Amzusta^ 80 ' aovonty- miles southeast of Atlanta rnJn thatching forward, tffad mooting sonrioly P l d ? opposition'. Tlio-polumn which’was iMn.r s ' oast to Augusta froin At|ama w«“ about ? ?6 ty miles on its road. It likewise was most unopposed. Nothing bus yot boon t,„ ' of Hood. ’Atlanta is oynWoii, tbo 0 t' aril no Moral post south df Rosaca, ami wo 'IT hbar nothing more of Sbormnn o*coml through Southern channels. There has l " no fighting of ditiy importance, W " m There Ima boon a contest between the t opposing armies in East Tonnossee. ,'J 1 ? ly Breckinridge an Vanghn, oamftmnd'inc if Confederates, rttadoa rapid retreat from Ball" Gap 'towards Southwestern Virginia 17 Sißo'iti with the Federal army, follower" 1 Suddenly tin Confederates turned on QiU.T' dnfeatnd him, and forced him to retrentT’ Bull’s Gap. Then. making an atlaek they tJ. the past, and Qtllam withdraw toward Kao * vill. The losses in killed nod wounded i' not reported. The Confederates captured four hundred Federal prisoners,six “ and fifty waggons. After this contest tho Federal troops retreated rapidly toward. Knoxville;'and on Friday tho Confo i criUp carao up with them at Stravvbery I Itins,caI ot Kuoxvillo, A buttllo was fought, huttiM result is not yst announced. ' After the capture of Plymouth, North Car olina, tho. Confederates retreated to a town near by called Washington. On November ,10th, they evacuated Washington, nnd occu pied a position on the llonmiko Jtivor just above Plymouth. The Federal at once occupied Washington. Wo have a report .that'a Federal oxncilr thin was sent out on Lire west side of the Jlk sissippi, below Na'ehez, on November 2d, is capture a herd of cattle, which was to]jo oroaaod over nnd sent to Hood’s army. Af ter a severe battle, about one-fhirduf thecal tie wore captured. Tho. Confederates wcis 'prevented from crossing any over tho Missis sippi. On Monday hist tbo Tiillnliassoosnlely ran the blockade into Wilmington Hurhor. ‘ Slio is now thorn. General Oanhy has died at Now Orleans. ~Phil’a. Aye, Nov. 21. Thoro is but little military intelligence to day. No new information has been sent us oP General- Sherman’s movement. There is ( a report, not well aushcntioatcd however, that on Saturday last nine, hundred Confederate prisoners arrived at Nashville,.who rrtre cnp lutiid at Atlanta n[few di Jrs before, having, at the,despatch stales, rustled in to pillage, ns they thought the evacuated. On Ninsinkr 10th the burning of the town of Rboine,Geor gia, wns begun by orders from Sbornmn.— This was a Federal post on the Coosa River, abnat twenty miles west of Ihe lino of the ' Chattanooga did Atlanta Railroad. Hume wpa evneuatod about the 12th, arid the. Fe deral troops that had been there now fora part of the Federal column which is march ing front Atlanta directly east to Augusta, Nothing authentic has boon hoard from Gen, Hood’s army. . Goo. CiU’fi.y,,who commanded the Federal -troops-ju jtlissuurJ..thfttJid.l.i)wed..B'lso’«iC: treat into Arkansas, has made a report,— Curtis states, that’ho cnpiuicd oho piece of artillery and Price's “ own carriage." In East 'Vonnosses, Gen.Gillum hasrotreu l tod all the way ’to Knoxville. All the osiim try oast of. that place has been given up to the Confederates. ’ At Petersburg everything is reported ipti et. A heavy rain storm interferes with mil 1 itary movements,—Ape, A’os. 22. The PeTßopeljM Interest,— The petroleum interest has become a shining light in the commercial world. There appears to be some* thing more substantial than gas about it, mid it decidedly grows fatter every day. TVs kyo now n working interest m this State, repre senting one hundred and sixty millions and two hundred and thirty companies. Jinny of these companies arc possibly bogtts,and really represent nothing at all; butadmiUing that even half of thoro are genuine, it shows an immense addition to our own national wealth, and a vast increase to the ranks of our newest order of aristocracy, an aristocra cy which ought to glide along more smoothly than either of those which have preceded it —the codfish or the shoddy—for it certainty did'S not want the lubricating material. i iSi’" TUP'election being oVCtvGon. Dii, in g'C'ncrlvl oVd'crJ, “deems his presence on tilt frothier st'o longer nccesaryf” Goa. Bailor, !fos‘, has tlken bis departure",■ the Dutch 'cii'diV requiring, it is'supposed, his undivi'W attention 'in t'li'o interval ofWttepuWng. The transparency of, the CdVm'liV.rd'd trick, wipe t Linoolh, Stanton, Seward & Go., arranged got troop-i into Northern Slafesto control the November election, la'hotf dvidoht'to’persons Of the dullest ooitiJiVehenhibiiV The' vfWC thing is a fair exemplification of Bepubhian- Iknr, as Shoddy iladeta'tdtids the terni. R.ATrtEa Biou. —-A bright idea urns promn • gated last Sunday evening by the Pastor ot the Presbyterian Ghuroh of Mauoh Ohunk.- As it is from a man of genius and something how, it deserves to be vridely circulated* ; Wfts in.substance follows:.“That all ernmants and rulers Wore ordained by t 9 Almighty, and to criticise or ridicule rulers, was te criticise and ridicule God.fi there T putting'the Almighty on a par with Lincoln. Stanton & Got bright idoal-QaC'F. """ la criticising Lincoln.and .Ohaso for tpakmg c harem put' of the. Treasury Dopartmoa criticising the Almighty ? , ; , Connecticut i? the’, only State irori which we have oompletefreturna of ifro Pf c,1 ‘ dontinl election,- 'The.figures ore as fiillotrst Lincoln, 43,935 . McClellan- • : 4b 508 Lincoln’s majority,- ■ - t 5.427-- I’orty-onc thouria'rid five hundred end ®'S 1 Democrats in little Connpo.tioujmlono.l T® a away Lincoln's .tyranny) frauGni® 1 ?* nr " tronago vote; and’ Gonneotiout will beDsm® erntio. Surely, Democrats, J Qurnuinbef" »r«, great; and wo have no cause to bp dpspon on , or, afraid. ■ ■■f’n . X7-‘Tlio AbpUtimußtif arc already getting 1 into a snafll-, The radicals want Seward of the Cnbinnt, and the moderates want kebp bim .in. Let tbo family figbt go oa* bodes gop4'fpJ.tJid ' *. ' ;; JET" A' repyttUing officer jo. Massaohueo having toid’.some whitb soldiers that one fa recruit wgs; worth; t*o' f. ( k’pooked dOWW j\nd Ijht-ajbhtf h,s P - ; denco arid -, . ' A Ynnkoo in : No.w turns oatS^ 000 to 4Q;00 pies every week l;1«' ° fonfffiuridingri, rind hris fob horses ana .* pnstepgaged'in iJeliverjng;his P>® 8 . “ city., . i? hi : . OCT* Lincoln’s majority » n Coo “°° tl ° Ut ’ niy about 2,400, amj in Oregon V.‘ u • THE WA)l;
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