AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. MN B. BRATTON, Editor & Proprietor. , ' CARLISLE, PA., DEC. 1,1804. ‘OFFICIiI VOTE. TheTdllowingiß the official rote Tor Presi dent and Vico President, in Cumberland county s M’CltUan, 'Lincoln, 4013 -3243 345 363 ;Como vote, • - Army vote, -McClellan's majority, 752 O” We again urge all who nro indebted'to its by note, book account, or otherwise, to come forward and settle. 3f you 'Can’t pay, coma and settle at any rate. The uncertain ty of the times renders it necessary for every man to have his .account with the world os nearly square-as possible; We want to pay pur-debts, and in order to do this, those who owe .ns must pay. Wo do not desire to make trouble or boats to any man, and, therefore,, give this notice. In our absence, our ifore-i man is authorized to make settlament and re ceipt for use IC7” A Union Meeting tff all the churches of this place, will bo held in theTSnglish Lu theran Church, on Sunday evening next, in behalf of the Christian Commission. Rev. Thomas Atkinson, who has been connected with the Army of the Cumberland, will bo present and address the meeting. He comes here with the highest recommendations, as a faithful laborer and interesting speaker.— He will bo greeted by a crowded house, as the Christian Commissrolr hag hosts .of friends here, because of its noble work. Service* will begin at CJ o’clock. Rail Road Accident.-— The morning train ■west, on the Cumberland Volley Railroad, met with a serious accident, on Thursday last, one mile and a-half this side of Kings ton. A rail broke, while the train was pass ing over, and three of the passenger cars were thrown off the track a considerable dis tance, and greatly damaged. Fortunately no one was seriously injured. Had the train been going at full speed, the loss of life might have been terrible &■ relate. Another train was at once despatched from Chambersburg, which brought the passengers through by noon. The oars which were thrown off were principally damaged in their running gear, and will speedily bo repaired. The engine, baggage car, and one passenger car were not thrown from the track. This accident entirely disarranged the running of the trains on Thursday until half-past nine o’clock at night, whan too first train arrived from Har risburg. Thanksgiving. —Thanksgiving-day passed off very quietly and pleasantly in our town. The stores and places of business were gen erally closed, and public services were held in all of the churches, the colored brethren not excepted. In fact, everybody seemed to enjoy “ Uncle Abraham’s” Sunday. DC?* Gbdey's Lady’s Book for December, is n beautiful number—closing the year quite ns brilliantly as it was begun, vyhioh’ is not always the case with our so-called fashiona ble Magazines, “ The Return” is a fine er,- graving of a Winter Scene ;■ and '* Tho Na tivity” is a highly appropriate and splendid picture, representing six: tableaux- of events connected with tho Birth of tho Saviour. In addition to these, there are numerous Wood Engravings, a double extension Fashion Plate,- and several plates of Winter Fashions from tho celebrated New York houses of A. T. Stewart & Co. and Brodie; The literary con tents are also in keeping with the general excellencies of the Number. The opening paper is a Christmas story by the favorite Authoress, Marion Ilarland, entitled “Seven Years.” Numerous new features are prom-- ised for the now Volume, which commences with the January issue. Now is the time to . eubscribe, and make up clubs for Qodey.— The terms for 1865, are as follows : One copy, one year, $3 ; two copies, $5 50 ; three cop ies, $7 50 j four copies, §lO ; and so on. Ad dress Louis A. Godey, 6th and Chestnut st., Philadelphia. Wo will club the Volunteer and Lady's Book one year, for §4 50. . The Done las Estate. —The Chicago Times of Wednesday, says that the executor under the will of the, late Hon. Stephen A. Douglas appeared in the counjy court the day previ ous and exhibited receipts to show that he had paid Mrs. Douglas, over $7,500, and the two children of the deceased statesman $7,000 after discharging all claims on tho estate, — All the friends of the late lamented Douglas will bo. highly gratified to learn tho above intelligence's the report had gone abroad that Mr, Douglas bad died insolvent. tSB~ Ex-Governor James 11. Hammond, of South Carolina—a Senator of the United States when the secession movement began —died at his plantation near Hamburg, South Carolina, on Sunday, the 13th inst., withihtwo days of 57 years of age. Since the outbreak of hostilities ho bad remained quietly at home, superintending the affairs of his large estate,.until declining health withdrew him from active occupations. 3DP* & private- letter from New Orleans, Eonisiana, states that the immense 'quanti ties of cotton stowed in the interior of Texas, and which Banka failed to reach last spring, is being rapidly sent over the border into Mexico, where it-is bought up by Mexicans and European speculators at comparatively •mall figures. TsANKsaiviNQ DtWNBB.—The gallant sol diers of o,nr armieaworo treated to a iwliey dinner on Thanksgiving day. They will no dtmbt bo ab{e to gobbling the enemy in short Ord'er now. 'The official veto of Pennsylvania at tho Oc tober election, on tho Congressional tickets, is at length'published. It includes both the home ffod soldier's votes, aud is hot given sep arately! <ae eras expected atfd'desired. Ac cording'ho those returns, tho Abolition ma jority fn’Oatobor was 13,859. ly-wilh the appearance of, tho tables, a letter frora-Hon. Eu Slifzr, Secretary cf tho Com monwealth, to tho editor of the New' York Tribune, v&s published, in which the Secre tary declares that it is iraposible to give l tho official “ homo vote," and thaf“it can never bo known or officially announced’' whiofi par ty had the majority of that vote. This moans simply, that tho Democrats mere in the major ity,htii that the result is never to be official ly announced, in order that the Abolitionists who made hots on it'need not give up their money. The alleged “ impossibility” of ob taining tho official home vote, appears very strange in view of the foot that tho Return Judges of every county mot as usual, accor ding to daw, on Friday next after tho election (October 14th) and made up a complete re turn of the homo vote, which was deposited,- as usual, in the office of the Prothonotary of their proper county; where it yet remains of record. A dbpy of this return was, in many cases, forwarded to .the State Department at llarrisburg; bat, if the vote of any county was wanting to make up a complete table, it was only necessary to apply to tho Prothono tarica of counties from which the homo vote was not separately returned, by some one how-, ing tho authority to demand it—Secretary Slifec, for instance—and it would have boon obtained, if tho Secretary of tho Common wealth chooses. If an Abolition majority on tho Congressional tickets had been apparent, no matter how email, this “ impossible” state of things would never have occurred, and tho stake holders of the numerous bets pending on tho result would, long ago, have been call-' ed upon to pay the money over to the fortu 'nato winners., That’s what’s the matter! r •4358 8606 3608 IVo may add, that the Harrisburg Patriot has the figures to show a clear Democratic ma jority of 514 on the home vote.' Is This Eelioion.— The profanity of cer tain clerical politicians in the recent Presi dential campaign isenough tomato one shud der, and to wonder whether we really live in a Christian land. We have before us, ns wo write, a sermon from a Rev. Mr. Towne, re cently officiating at the North Congregntion alist Church, in Bridgeport, Conn., hut now settled at Milwaukee, Wis., in the course of which he spoke as follows tho-Suuday before election*. ■ - “The election of Tuesday Involves issues which aa angel might tremble to think of. The interests suspended upon the stake move earth, and hell, and heaven. The armies of tbo Union and her navies are waiting to hear from it. The dark marshaled hosts ot treason are waiting to hear from it. Tho friends and the foes of Liberty on tho other side of the Atlantic, and in every part of the civilized globe, are waiting to hear from it. God, on his eternal throne, is wailing to hear from it, that Tie may see whether, as a nation, we will forsake the sin and keep him,or keep the sin and be forsaken by Him.” ■ This is blasphemy of tho boldest and most shocking description. Yet shocking as it is to one’s moral sense, it is but a mild specimen of What, unhappily, is too common in some of our modern so-called churches, whore the ne gro, rather than God, is worshipped. DC?* The October election in Pennsylvania was carried on the home vote by the Demo crats by 514 majority. In order to save loyal- leaguers from- pay ing up their lost bets, the Tribune, dress, and other abolition journals, declare, and for this they seem, but only seem to- have tho authority- of the Republican Secretary of State, that the official vote can’t bo known. Tho official vote can bo known.’ Tho full official,home vote of all but five counties in the State is known, and the.full official home majorities in those five counties is also known. By those, it is proved indisputably, that tho Democrats carried tho October Pennsylvania election, on the home vote, by 514. We publish a letter- from O. L. WaBP, Esq., Chairman of the Democratic State Cen tral Committee of Pennsylvania, which clears up the whole matter decisively. DC?* The administration papers are claim ing that the result of fhe'lato election is an overwhelming .popular indorsement. of Mr. Lincoln’s policy. It is no such thing. The overwhelming popular majority does not ex ist. In many of tho States the vote is close, and it is doubtful whether the Republican majority on tho popular vote of all thb Slates entitled to participate in the election is more than 200,000, if it is that much. When the immense efforts employed to secure Mr. Lin coln’s re-election are considered the majority Obtained by him must be regarded ns small indeed, and anything but a strong popular in dorsement of the policy of the Administra tion. Attempt to Born New York. —We copy from the. World of Saturday a detailed ac count of the diabolical attempt made on Fri day night to set fire to tho City of New York. Whether tho attempt was made by a gang of thieves intent on plunder, or by desperate rebels seeking to avenge Sheridan's execu tion of Grant’s orders in relation to the val ley ;of Virginia, or by a new John Brown gang of Abolitionists in revenge for’ New York city’s unwavering devotion to Demo cratic principles, is a mystery which may or may not be cleared up hereafter. Tub New Fractional Cobbencv. —The plates of the new fifty-cont fractional curren cy are nearly ready for printing. The notes will be of the same breadth as those now in circulation but nearly twice as long. The new fiye-cent notes will be of the same size os the old ones, while the ten ond twenty five cent notes will be of length graduated be tween the highest and lowest denominations. It is probable that a three-cent note will be issued for the greater facility of making change. Where aee They f—Eighteen millions of new copper cents and six millions of two •cent pieces have been coined within the lost two months. The Electors of President and Vice President, will meet in the capitals of their respective States on the" first ■Wednesday of December amj cast theii'TOtea* "THE jIOMR TOTE IS OCTOBER. A’PROJEGT FOR PEACE. Mr. Ornoa li. MoConuics, of Chicago,'tho great Reapdr. and -Mower manufacturer, vtho was a Democratic candidate for Congress lat the Into election, suggests that tho Democrdt io party, through the action of a National Convention, mud-having obtained tho feanotion of Mr. -'Lincoln’s Administration, propose of peace to tho South,-and endeavor to restore the Union on the basis of tho Oonsti tutiom%^ Tho Now'TforJk, World considers such a project impracticable, inasmuch os tho Demo cratic party is shorn of all power by tho de cision of tho people at tho ballot-boxes; and closes an able article on the subject as fol lows; “No. Democrats have but one duty.— They must await events. They are utterly divested of responsibility; They discharged their plain duty to the country in proposing to assume the admininistration of its affairs through a term which no party, however suc cessful, could survive. But ouo duty remains —tojlot events flow. “They also sor-vo-who only stand and wait,” ' “ Tho Democratic party and its policy will bo vindicated,-and that in no long time. But it is now a defeated party, and the dufer of a ■constitutional opposition is to await such vin dication. Argument, appeal, reason, all have failed to convince the proud, strong North that war f(4r abolition’s sake must fail. But events will teach the bitter lesson which in their pride and strength itho people now re fuse to learn. “There is no logic so TOCKorblo as tho logic of events, none so merciless, and while events are “marching on," tho Democracy has only .to stand still nntil all the people see, what they have foreseen. There is no need to or gue about tho matter. The and will prove it, and meanwhile tho Democracy has only to stand still and wait. It is compact, harmor nious, well organized. Its principles aro un assailable; its policy awaits tho sure vindica tion of timo. Its defeats is more enviable in a partisan sense than tho victory of its ad versaries. It has no prouder record in all its past, identified though its past has been with the prosperity, the increase, and the glory of the republic, than tho record of tho contest just closed, in which it grappled with an ad ministration wielding power so vast, expen ding treasure uncounted, controlling tho ser vice of stipendiaries so innumerable reinforced by tho fears of tho patriotic and tho sympa thies of all traitors—against that administra tion fought its fight stubbornly through to the end, and won a clear majority of the voters of the North, excepting only those who havoi as office-holders or dependents in one branch or another of the public service, a direct per sonal or pecuniary interest in tho contin uance of power where it is now lodged.” The World is right. The party that desir es peace, must have tho authority to propose the terms, and the power to comply with them. Tho Democratic party has neither. Depriv- of all official influence, it has yet the comforting consciousness of freedom from responsibility at a time when its weight is fearful to be borco. Its members have nothing to do but to patiently discharge their constitutional duties to the Government as good citizens, and await events. Tho time will come, sooner or later, when their position in-tho late canvass and throughout the war will be fully vindicated,and when the people will again gladly place the administration of affairs in their hands, as the last resort to save tho Government from utter min. . Mean while; to those whose continuance in power tho people have decreed, belong the duty and responsibility of proposing terms of pence, or concerting measures of war. Tho Democra cy are exempt, at least, from that duty and service. FROM lIE.4DQ.UAIITERS UP SALT GIVER. SAFE ARRIVAL OF THE DEMOCRATIC , FLEET. . . A Million and a half of Democrats on Hoard. THEIR GOVERNMENT, CURRENCY, PRI CES, &o. Tho Democratic fleet, flavin" on board tfle million lind a half of Democratic freemen-who recently cast their votes for George B. Mc- Clellan, arrived at Safe Harbor, on Salt Riv er, after three days fast sailing. Safe Har bor is about 500 miles below Salt River city, the place of rendezvous for tho defeated par ty, but as wo Democrats expect to remain in the salino'regions but one year, and then-re turn fo send up tho Abolitionists to the ex treme limit of Salt River navigation, vro did not deem it expedient to go up farther. As Abraham’s subjects whom we left be hind are making frequent inquiries about the condition of affairs up hero, wo thought it ad visable to give them an answer publicly, so as to .sayo us tho trouble of answering them individually. Our trip was delightful. The country is beautiful beyond description. At every city and town we passed, the banks wore lined with .people who expressed their admiration at the magnificence of the fleet and the for midable appearance of the crow. It was universally remarked that a larger, more peaceable, orderly and respectable party was never seen on tho river before, although some party or other sailed annually up tbo river. As soon as wo landed we struck our tents, which were considered all sufficient for our temporary Stay. Tho goyernment wo estab lished-for ourselves is based on tho affections of tho people—lt is thoroughly Democratic. Abolitionists and free niggers, alias “intelli gent contrabands,” are not allowed to come among us. If any one makes bis appearance here he will be dispatched forthwith to Abra ham’s Kingdom. Wo have a Christian gen tleman, a scholar and a statesman for Presi dent—not a “ smutty joker" and a rai.lsplit ter. v We have no war, or stamp duties here, and no assessors, enroliers, provost-marshals or tax-gatherers to harrass us; neither are we cursed with greenbacks or shinplastera. Gold and silver is our currency. haven Democratic currency and Democratic prices. The following are our market prices; Coffee per lb. ' 12J Tobacco - “ " B 5 Bacon “ “ 10 Butter " “ 15 Muslin " “yd 12J Whisky " gal. (for medicine} 50 With these prices current, the Democrats feel quite at home, and considder the transfer from Abraham’s dominions where rye coffee and Shoddy goods , command ezhorbitant pri ces, a great blessing.. As -the boat is about ready to reluAAo Yankee land we must close this but would yet add by way of information that here we can kindle our fires with unstamped matches, and that pur undertakers, grave-diggers and tombstone makers’ have no need of government licences. —Somerset Democrat. figy Some workman who were engaged in digging a cellar in Somerville, (Mass.,) a few days since,oxhumedtlio remains o[ five Rev olutionary soldiers; identified by colonial bat tons foundi with the remains. THE Id PENNSYb VANIA—AN AB TIIORITATITB STATEMENT OP RESULTS lb ike Editor of the World i . ■ I have number of letters of inquiry from various quarters, in regard to tho late elec tions in our state; and am induced mainly by considerations of convenience, to beg your indulgence inigiving ageneral answortbrougli your widely, disseminated columns, I undertake thistho more freely pevhups, from Laving soon tbo strangely absur^ttflSv.; grnm of General Simon Cameron to/tlio New York Evening Fasf, claiming-” ffom fifteen to twenty ihousanii majority in tho h'mpe vote of tf»o State,” for tho abolition candidate for the presidency. Allow mo to premise; , A roccnt amendment of our stnto constitu tion gives : to 'the volunteers in our army tho right of suffrage, while thus employed. The legislative enactment in pursuance of this amendment provides, 'that wlioro ten dr more” of tlreso volunteers are together at nny point, they may open a poll on tho same day of the election in tho State, under given vega' lations. nnd subquontly make returns of tho votes .thus given to tho secretary of tho com monwealth, and to the prothouotary of the respective'Counties. 'ln cases where “ loss than ten of these sol diers nro separated from their respective com mands,” they ore authorized to place their ballots in sealed envelopes to be sent homo by mail. Tho provisions are very similar to your lifew York absurdity on tho s'nmo sub" joot. These proxy votes nro required to bo offered at the proper polls on ike day of elec tion, and nro‘ entered precisely in tho same way on the poll books as tho homo votes of tho same town or precinct.' , j It will bo perceived that it is almost impos sible to ascertain, in nny subsequent inquiry, .exactly which are tho home votes, and which came through proxies from the array. In my position, however, it became impor tant to ascertain, as nearly as possible, how many thoro were of those dotatohed voters, where located, and their political preference. I-have notes of-some six thousand, and, I as sume, at lonsf.'that number of these proxy votes were cast at each of tho recent elec tions. Of those, not less than five thousand wore given to tho abolitionists. They were ' chiefly from the hospitals, which are govern"' ed in a majority of cases, by old women of both sexes, oftho abolition school, whocould stop the grog or the gruel of any recusant or even send him to the front. In this way, at least, five thousand of these proxy votes were given to tho abolition candidates at.both the late elections, and have been persislenly coun ted with the homo vote, in tho statements of tlio abolition press. But in the October election, counting oven these army votes given by proxy with-the homo votes, there was an acknowledged Dem ocratic majority-"of some five hundred and fourteen. So that all tin,so wagers which predicted that tho. Democrats would oary, or had a majority of the homo vote in tha last October election in Pennsylvania have been won. In our State, ns far os I know, such wagors have all been paid. There really and honestly-was a Democratic majority of some four or five thousand in the home vote, at that election. In the vole given foi presidential enndi didates, in November, so fur from there be ing “ fifteen or twenty thousand abolition ma j •rlty" of the “ humovi tes” in Pennsylvania, at stated by General Cameron, there will not be two hundred, counfiny even the proxy votes, as hofore! Rejecting those proxy votes in the estimate, I assert there would again be found a clear Democratic majority of four,or five thousand of the home voles; and my be lief is that the majority against General Mc- Clellan, taking everything into account, will be found to bo less than that so counted of the abolitionists in Pennsylvania in Octobor. Mark tho prediction. I had written -thus far, when I met with tho statement of the lion. E. Slifer, published in tho New York Tribune. 'I see no reason to duubc his estimate of the whole October vote of the Stator showing a majority of some thirteen thousand in favor of the abolition candidates for Congress, I note the difficulty he presents in reference to.his ascertaining officially tho homo votes, ns distinguished from tho army votes. Practically, however, tho proxy voles given nt the homo polls can be ascertained, and have been accurately given in what,l liiive tinted above. C. 1,. W*w>. Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, of Pennsylvania. Towards, November 23. Clearfield.— The Democracy has no Conces sions to Make.— Just now the Shoddy organs are eloquent in tbeir appeals to the magnan imity of the Democrats, j IVc uro no longer “copperheads,” “sympathizers with rebels,” “secret traitors, worse/ 1 ban traitors with arms hut a “party unpatriotic impulses,” and “devotion, to tho ( ri o t cannot be ques tioned.” Then the'most padiotio appeals are made to let “by-gone.s be bv-gones,” and b« of one mind,-and yield to President Lin coln a blind and unquestioning support in all ids schemes, whether right or wrong. In short, that tho Democrats forgct’ , their own history, ignore the teachings of the fathers of ■the Republic, their own principles, &o. Tho Democracy has no concessions to make. Wherein Mr. Rinooln docs right it will ap prove ; as it will as fearlessly condemn what ever ho does wrong. But those probers of “conciliation” are basely deceptive. They are as treacherous as sin. - Look.at tho evidence: In Maryland tho Democrats are forced to pay whatever tho military fines may fall short of defraying the expenses of the “Freedman’s Rest” in tbatState. Until this, and all other indigni ties, are removed, the Democrat who offers to accept the proffered “ conciliation” is a base-born, soulless, cringing coward. That is what tho Clearfield (Pa.) Republi can has to say about it—-and it is the organ of as honest, patriotic, intrepid, true, staunch, and intelligent a body of Democrats as ever rallied around the banner of Constitutional Liberty. Prophetic.— Seward, in his speech at Au burn, on the 7th, enld: Yon hove already abundant evidences of the exhaustion of tile rebels, but not yet ev idence of their consciousness of that exhaus tion. Those evidences will appear immedi ately on"the announcement of the re-election of Abraham Lincoln. The Montrose (Pa.) Democrat says that the people are hopefully looking for “those' evidences,” and' went Seward &. Co. to prc-. duoe them before another draft dispels the il lusion'. I PENNSYLVANIA EIBOTIOMov., m Wo present herewith the Homo returns of 'the election of tUo Bth; —absolutely official from 83 counties—the majorities given in some other comuics official, hut unaccompa nied by the full'figures—‘-the remainder from reports by letter and telegraph to the Patriot and Union: . McClellan. Lincoln. 2886 . 2302 - - 11588 19427 Adams, - Annstroug, Medford, Horkts • Blair, v J- . - - 3039 3105 2585 1954 - - - 12931 0197 - -2406 2827 . - -- 7235 ' 6197 'Buuks, Butler, Cambria, Carbon, Centro, Clearfield, 'Chester, 'Columbia, 'Clinton, ■Clarion, Crawford, Cumberland, Dauphin, Fayette, - r Franklin, - - Fulton. Greene, - .2877 3064 1 2894 ■ -1859 -i - 2180 1610 - - - -3256 2410 - - 2762 1361 . . - - 5828 8076 3185' 1739 . - - . - 2013 1450 - - ■ - 2705 1655 - 4354 5783 4013 3243 ... - -3809 - 4932 -- 3840 ■ 2848 - 3562 •'B5lO . ■ - 869 'OO5 • - 2063 4433 2257 2805 . ~ - 1957 - 3764 1604 1276 - - 1750 1414 ... - 1324 3137 - 7987 13400 2680 3581 - 6780 -3081 - 0541 0046 . - 4002 ’3056 ■« - . - 2608 581 - ■ >■ ■ 7774 6500 -. v 1458 998 > >■ 1517 1430 i 6812 3498 - 3888 2080 untingdon, Indiana,, Juniata, Jefferson, Lawrence, Lancaster, - Lebanon,- Lehigh, Luzerne, Lycoming, . Monroe, Montgomery, Montour, Mifflin, Northampton, - Northumberland - Perry, Pike, Philadelphia, - Schuylkill, Sullivan, Susquehanna, - Tioga, V epnngo, Wayne, Warren, Washington, Westmoreland, _• Wyoming, York, - . - , 2148 2018 . . ' - - 1151 237 . 42047 51555 . - 9245 7.IGG . , . 647 330 2805 3846 . - - 1611 4116 . ' - - 3240 3573 - ' 2872 2003 ’ - 1448 2300 - - - , 4419 . 4520 - 5683 4084 - 1322 1179 - ' - 7282 4057 COUNTIES OTlfrctit., UNOFFICIAL AND REPARSE!). JUc-OkHan. I'>’!cn!n. 900 3381 100 1500 Beaver, '‘Bradford, Cameron, Delaware, Elk, Erie, Forest, Mercer, McKean, Potter, *Snyder, Somerset, * Onion, BECAPWOt.A'tIOK, Official full vote, • Otßcial and reported maj, Lincoln ahead so fat", * Official. The Burning or Rome, Oa. —A frightful scene. —A letter from Kingston, Qa, under date of Nov. 11th .says : ‘ Romo was evacuated at 10 o’clock this fore noon by our forces, but not until the Etowah .House, a respectable throe story brick hotel, was consumed by fire. Stragglers managed to ignite a lot of straw iu tho building, and there being no fire engines in the town, it was impossible to subdue tho flames. A block of four brick stores was also wantonly destroyed by skulking stragglers. All the barracks were laid i u ashes, and a black veil of dense smoke bung, over the war desolated city all day, arising” from the' smquldenng ruins. Owing to the great lack of railroad trans portation, General Corse was obliged to de-. stroy nearly a million of dollars worth of prop erty, among which a few thousand dollars worth of condemned unserviceable Govern ment stores, Nino rebel guns, captured at Rome by our troops, were burst, it being deem ed unsafe to use them. One thousand bales of fine cotton, two flour mills, two rolliugmllla two tanneries, one salt will, an extensive foun-' dry, several machine shops, together with the railroad depots and storehouses, four pontoon bridges, built by Gen. Corse's Pioneer Corps for use on the Coosa and Etowah Rivers, and a subatantinl'frostlo bridge nearly completed for use, werts destroyed This'trestle, con,- structed by the Engineer Corps, I am told would have coat fifty thousand dollars North. Recollecting the outrages perpetrated upoa Colonel Streightby the “Romans,” ourtioops as soon as they learned that the town was to bo abandoned and a portion.of it burned, re solved to lay Rome in ashes in revenge. The roaring of the flames as they leaped from win dow to window, their savage tongues of fire darting high up into the heavens, and then licking the sides of the buildings, presented an awful but grand spectacle, while tho mounted patrol and infantrymen glided along through tho brilliant light like the ghostly spectres of horrid war. Destruction op Property, in the Shen andoah Valley. —An officer of the Ist Rhode Island cavalry, serving in Sheridan’s army, gives tho following account of property de -etrnyed by the cavalry division alone during its operations in the Shenandoah valley, from August 13, 18(1-1, ns copied from tho provost mraslml’s report: “Eight hundred and eighty barns, 57 mills, 4035 tons of hay, 1,010,702 bushels of wheat. 4 saw-mills, 3 furnaces, 1 woolen mill, 515 acres of corn, 750 bushels of oats, 1347 cattle driven off, 1231 sheep driven off, 725 swino driven off, 500 barrels of flour, 225 tons of straw, 272 tons of fodder,''2, tanneries, 2 wagons with flour, 1 railroad depot, 1 locomo tive engine, 3 box oars, 14 nriny wagons and contents, 38 ambulances and medical wagons, 81 muskets, 4 cessions end contents, 20,000 rolls of carbine ammunition. Total value, §3,850,372.” Official Vote of New Yore.— The com plete official vote of the State of New York, for President and Governor, shows the follow ing result: FOB PRESIDENT. 1804. , IBGO. Lincoln, 308,730 I Lincoln, . 302,646 M’Olellan, .301,934 [ Douglas, - ' 312,510 Lincotn’s mnj. 6,790 |' , iiino6la , B mnj. 50,130 FOR GOVERNOR. 1804. 1802. Fenton, 369,570 Wadsworth, 295,897 Seymour, 301,209 Seymour,, 300,040 Fenton’s mnj. 8,307 Seymour’s maj 10,743 377” About a thousand lives a- day this ad ministration, and. war ace costing the country. The Rennsyleania . Oil Region—Arabian Rights and California Outdone—The .. Mode 0} Rating for Oil. To most of our readers the “ ooal-oil-rer cion" of Western Pennsylvania is almost ns much of a mystery as Otaheito, or the island of the South Sen, so charmingly pictured by Herman Melville.' They have heard of big fortunes being mada there, and have some vaugo idea of a region all filled with spout ing wells of inflammable’oil ; but few have have any realizing sense of actual state of things, and many look upon it ns a hum bug of the "Morns Multicnalas" sort. Yet there it is, right in the, upper, and western part of the old Keystone State, along the Al leghany and its tributaries —ns real as the gold mines of 'California, and a groat deal, more ‘tenipting to. the seeker alter sudden[ wealth, Fur hero ate fortunes ihuilo, nllhost. literally, in a day; and hero, too, are tlioj gulls and the flats cheated out of their inoh*' ey, every day and every hour, as in other parts of this wicked world. _ Petroleum, or rock oil, in its-Crude state exists far down in the bowels <j'f the earth, in strata of “sand rock" lying ht a depth of from dOO to 500 foot from the surface. There ■are no natural spouting oil is'on ly obtained by Inborous boring ; and for tills 'business, capital is required. Those who have acquired the greatest wealth in Iho shortest time, iu the oil region, are persons who had the luck to possess or inherit lands beneath which the evidences ot rich, oil de posits were found, and which consequently sold, after the oil mania had fairly sot in, Ibr almost fabulous sums. Two thousand dollars was considered a largo sum four years ago for a farm of from, 'three to four hundred acres. These forms have been sold at from six hundred thousand to one million of dollars each, and parties who now oWn them, principally joint stock companies, of course hold them at, a-much higher figure. There are parties, also, who hold individual fractional interest, such as one eight, one sixteenth, one thirtieth, &0., and the value of thoir proportions can only bo reached by the books kept at the wells.— But in some instances, if these',values wore considered, the property would bo hold ot an almost incredible sum for h farm,-at least two to three millions of dollars. . The value of the soil alone bordering on Oil Creek, say two miles on each side, and extending from its month to Titusville about twenty miles, is estimated to bo worth in the market at this time-—if it could bo purchased' at ail—two hundred and fifty millions of dob jars. This small area has yielded, since. 1800, about six million dollars’ worth of the oil I And this is but a siqall part of tho oil region. All tho coal fields of Pennsylvania, yielding an annual value of more than 550,- 000,000, produces less wealth tfijjn her wella of rook oil. • It is produced in absolutely inexhaustible quantities ; and at such a comparatively tri-, fling expense, (after tho machinery has paid for itself,) that the article ought to bo sold in our’ grocery stores for imo-balf its pres’ent price, which is about 20 pet gallon. Four distinct and separate profits are made on it boforo it reaches iho consumer; and with all those, it ought to ho oheiiperlthau it is—al lowing fair profits to the company, the mid dlemen,, tho freight-carriers, ami tho store’' keepers. It is.second only to gas fur illumi nation purposes; and it has already driven whale oil pretty much out of tho market. ■242,984 237,296 2850 450 100 520 191 / 900 , 435 420 11,337 Parties going tliore, either buy or lease the land ; if leased, giving usually one hull the oil as a royalty to the landholder. After getting an engine and the machinery neces sary to put down this well, consisling.uf dri ving wheels, connecting the engine with a walking beam,.said beam having about thir ty-irich stroke, the process of drilling is com menced. An iron pipe, six inches in diame ter inside, and one mob thick of metal is driven into the earth forty to sixty feet, with a ram, like a spile driver, uiitil the solid rock is reached. This being cleaned out by means of a pump about six foot long,, with a valve in the bottom, the tools, weighing soma eight -hundred pounds, and thirty-five feet in. length are attached to an inch and a half cable'and McClellan . ' Lincoln. 237,296 - 420 11,337 243,404 . 248,633' 243,404 5,229 the process of drilling in the solid ruck com menced, A centre, bit, about three ami a half inches wide, very sharp, is. first used ; and after running this from three to six feet, nearly round, ia used to made the hole round and smooth, the sand pump being used to draw out the drillings as the work progres ses. At a depth of a hundred and sixty foot, after passing through a slate rook, the first sand rook is reached. This is about thirty feet thick! After passing through a soap rook some hundred and twenty feet, comes the second sand rook. This varies from ten to twenty-five feet in thickness. Passing through another soap, and slato rook conies the third sand rook, at a depth of about four hundred and thirty feet. In this rock the oil is found “in the largest quantities. Some small wolfs have boon obtained in the second sand rook. After the well is down to tho depth of four hundred and sixty feet, it is tubed With two inch gas pipe, and if it does not flow spontaneously, pumped to see if there bo oil in it. It sometimes happens' that tho boring proves unsuccessful, oven after months of la bor. Then these wells are abandoned, and new ones sunk, and so on until oil is struck. When this is done the oil first flows slowly, or, in some instances, it rashes up with snob force and Volume as to send the stream as Wgh as th e derrick, some forty foot, and car rying with it nil theheavy boring apparatus, ALwcII like this produces sometimes ns high as fourteen hundred barrels per day, when it will suddenlysUbsido, or cease flowing’-al togetbor. Then the pump is resorted to, and tho oil pumped up at the rate, generally of from five to twenty barrels per day. In the meantime other wells are being sunk, and, on good producing flats or bluffs, will yield from forty to fifty barrels a day, ond in other localities be utterly unproductive. It frequently happens that veins of salt water, of the highest saline gravitation, are struck {ns at Franklin) from which the host quality of salt could be produced by applying some of the apparatus in use. in tho salt wo>;ks at Syracuse, N. “ST. But people huring fur oil think of i othing but oil, and if thoir wells should force up golden nuggets they would probably fcol disapp anted. The Sewlekly well, on French crook, was sunk six bundled and ten feet, flowed for for four months one hundred barrels per day ; but stopped and has now been aban doned, with others in that locality. But so confident are tho owners of the land that oil is to bo obtained there, that speculation has revived, and eight wells are now going on what is called the Tollman farm, between Mendville and Franklin. This farm has a front of one milo and a third on'French creek. Although the oil produced hero is in small quantities, the quality is superior, l equal to tho celebrated “ Mecca" oiljof Ohio. The investigations on Oil areek prove the supply there to be large, and that tho results ofboring are almost as favorably ns a year ago; and the fact that a well has been sunk at so great a distance os Brio, Pa., indicates tbot the process of boring over the whole in termediate region may bo continued with re sults not dissimilar from the above. Oil City is built on Oil Crook, at itsoonflu enao with Allegheny river, at the base of a mountain, with nothing to spare lor a flat— unless it bo the victim of some Logos oil com pany. It has but one street,-and the grading of it has just commenced, and all tho rocks, boards, boxes and debris generally are thrown into the middle of it. The buildings on one side of tho street all rest up on-stilts or spiles. THE OIL MM, HOW Oil, IS ODT-UXED. TEE RESULTS Of BOHISQ. oil errr. MEM a=a»“>- The population are all bii„„ „ ~ noy—.but they go to Church a*ld d' n * grogshops on Sunday. Tha town •“ wealth and mud—the creeks all „ 8 scowling boatmen. It i« well a •• ' el" doe? not occur every day lik„ ' rf Inat May, when thousands ot Uai» ! pell-mell, one over the other, crash; pl smashing, the oil bnrating from bn "" " wasting by millions of gallons, nod it'V men swearing and holluoine lik„. ’ Choi taws. b M mi Titusville, Mcalvillo, Franklin and o are other noted oil places ; the l aUf “ 7 ing wilderness when Lincoln’s war 1,,,!" 1 and still rough and lull of stem,,, ' ingtliffie rhilronds'centering there , ‘ladefph'ih ’find 'Erie, the AtWtia ' V Western, and .the Gil Creek road I V risbn from $2, to SVSO „n H" J Downdr, O’f Boston, eU-lia the extonskZ" factory located in tlurrv, mol rents it i company that now carries it on li. at $500,000. The works cost SO am “ ploy 175 men,-and pay ?1 78 io-«u, j Have refined 'lOO. Imrrols per day'f jr (i , month, consuming 240 barrels crude 1 products ol distilling are.—l, aiifi gasoline or naptha ; 3, water scwß'; burning oil; 5, lubricating nil, by chilli or pressing with ice, similar to Ilia pro* making linseed oil. Fifteen tons Jf icc daily consumed in this process. Tp—, of the oil region, from data obtained at 11 refinery, lias been about 5,001) barrel* day for the last year. ' THJB StIUJONAIRE*. Many of the richest "oil piincos" rtert borers three years ace, without a dull now they own milliona, Jatncs T atr sales of leases and shares, has mode or his seemingly poor farm a fortur.o like bus’ ; say four millions, or about tho amou alleged to have been plundered by Gee, hi lor in New Orleans. M. E. Olmstoad, anol or very rich man, from Meadvillo, went | or three years ago into tho oil region, had to borrow.fifty dollars to entitle him secure a lease for himself and sons. -Tl wealthiest is a youth by the name of Job Steele, not yet 21—a very “ lucky” fellow. An orphan, and a poor lad held byUdonli parent;-, has f.dlon heir to a portion of tl most valuable nil land in the region-. Ilir come is eight hundred thousand dollars day, and continuallyjjnctcaaing. C. V. ( ver, another ntdlliunwre, was nominated Mr. Lincoln's partjr fur Congim, with View to tho “ patriotjwi” nee of his wealth tho canvass* Dr Kfflbcrt, of Ruaseville, In not three yearn ago tends enough to !lf|iiijn a three hundred dnUlir debt, llis.lncmw now estimated at linen thousand por.duj.n ta million per year# Ue lias refused to td grecntweUs. Imvilfc a room in his house at ready nearly-fiiljHl with hundreds of tlitm] and requires 7-wJs, 10 40s, or other gorerr ment (■ecuritipsjflror his ail lands and tenses lie is a uarcfadyaial worthy man, and win ho conTwssi’tfmthe fashion, Ido world, his c-ini* iug Will not he unlike that of Memo Gliriil) from the cave in the Mediterranean, Till! WAR, Wc have no news of General* Sliermnn'J progress, fcilhor through Northern nr South* ern channels, later than that printed jnatcr* day morning. There how seems 10 bo gres doubts pt the reported capture of Milled villo though it hn ( s been evacuated hj tl Confederates. The detailed accounts of llui nrd’s progress towards Augusta, show Ihil ho was chocked before he was within hit? miles of tho town* A tlatitA liua been entered by-a detnehment'of Soiithern troops, llw entirely nbobdimed by the federal avwj.ai tvru-tliirds had been burned. General Thomas, in Tennessee, lifts rfelitt* ted to Franklin, ten miles south of Nnslaille, The Con foil era ics follow liim closely. They have cut the coimnunicntion between Nasi' villo nnJ Chattanooga, and excepting tin leu garrisoned posts near Chattanooga, now bull all the country south of Nashville. ' From East Tennessee, detailed Southern accounts of the late movements have been re eolycd, but they give no now information,— General Gillom, with tile remnant of the F * dernl army, is at Knoxville,, recruiting bii command. A force of Confederates is it Strawberry Plains, sixteen miles cast «1 KnoXvillo, watching Oillom. There ffMnot be any movements in that quarter tor roe time. Breckinridge, with the main Confab crate army, when last hoard from, was just south of Cumberland Gap. Gen, BuriirMp, with the. Federal troops from Kentucky, hid reached Cumberland Gap, and it was Im strongly garrisoned to be attacked by bath inridge, with any prospect of success. The Federal rroonnoisanoos which hare been sent south .from Winchester, in ths Shenandoah Valley, have found Earlys® ll ' peat, at Strasburg, much stronger limn wi supposed. No attempt will to made Is > tack it. Sheridan's army is still Winchester. Moseby has just attacked other party of Federal cavalry at Cablctowfl; north of Winchester. Moseby lost one"»» killed and five wounded. Twenty o Federal cavalrymen escaped) thirty wet killed and Wounded, and thirty-one c “P t “ t ‘ ■lt is reported through Southern c 0 0 that numerous Federal vessels havobwa 8 ' on the Georgia const, below the River. They are thought to bo a n cc ‘ to aid Sherman. , , j A Charleston newspaper states «• week a two hundred pounder' P» rrott ■’V burst in Battery Wagner. This b»t| c! S the one which continually shells The Florida has been run into ttt Monroe by a Federal transport. Fli» da was sunk. 110 particulars l *! are reported. . The Confederates are said to bo P rS f. j for an attack on Newborn. The 6 garrison of the town is now but feet sand men. . t . Generals Hancock and Pope are m ington, Hancock is coming homo on of absence.— PTiila. Age, Nov. 29. ICT* A gentleman traveling * top pe * 0 country tavern to pet to say all nig >■ met at tho gate by a servant boy r a accosted him; f m tho “Boy extricate that quadrupe . vehicle, stabulate and denote him , # i, e n equate supply of nutritious “ 11 ® 0 . 1 ,1 wftr d you the morn again, shall arise Iw* nn ,icabl« a peculiar compensation for you bospitality.” - J'«»! ,r ® aß * The boy ran into tho bouse and sa . „ aey, A dutohmah out hero wants to s 86T A'young lady' recently e p „ n „ tan d- London, and would have got o ear , and her guardians if sho biwimo cft?wr y I . ions about the welfuro.-of; *m,\qr. As* which she would tnJrtoaWng countrywoman .wou-M ’fifty* so vexatious as-tbis!”
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