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!”