AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. JHIi B. BEiTTON, Editor h Proptlßlor. CARLISLE, PA., DEC. 15, 1864. Christmas.— This eyer-welcome holiday will soon he here, and, as “ Christmas comes hut onoe a year,” every one ought to be made happy and Joyous on the occasion, . The lit tle ones in particular should he made glad and cheerful. This can be easily done by presenting them with some of the many beau tiful holiday gifts and nick-nacks offered for sale at the Confectionary Store of Mrs. IvEir »er, East High- and see her largo and beautiful assortment. IC7” The Boiling Springs Hotel is for rent from the Ist of April, 1865. Apply to Peter F. Eds, Carlisle, Pa. * Snow— Sleighing—Cold Weather. —On Friday, night last snow fell in this vicinity to the depth of some seven or eight inches, since which the weather has been intensely cold, and the sleighingfino. Good Will Hose Company. —By reference to our advertising columns, it will be seen that tho members of this energetic Company intend holding a Fair, in Rheem’s Hall, com mencing on'the evening of December 24, and closing January 2. The proceeds of the Fair Trill be appropriated to tbe liquidation of the debt against the company and the purchase of new hose. We hope our citizens, and par ticularly the ladies/will contribute liboraljy to the Fair, and thus assist in a worthy ob ject. Remember the Poor. —During this intense ly cold weather the sufferings of tbe poor must, indeed, be great. The ladies of the Benevolent Society "are, wo understand, most active in their charitable labors, and have minstered to the pressing necessities of not a few who were in great distress; but, never theless, humanity demands of every one, in an inclement seaon like this, some personal attention to the wants of the unfortunate and afflicted. There are many very deserving ca ses which do not come within the object or Scope of the society, and which are doubtless well known in their respective neighbor hoods. The bestowal of a small gratuity, or an old coat; or pair of shoes, or pair of panti loons, or shawl, in these instances, would of ten be productive of more happiness than tbe giver could pocsibly anticipate, and would af ford to him a pleasurable emotion not often so easily gained in this cold hearted and un charitable world. Try it I Who Looks after the Fiß» r Pmas ?—We hope that whoever may have had this duty assigned him will perform it faithfully and punctually. It is a matter of most serious moment to every citizen either owning or oc cupying property in the Borough. In such intensely cold weather, unprotected as ttic Plugs are, many, if not all are probably frg»i sen up and should at once be attended to.-J- The importance of such attention we need cot comment on. Evenings at Hoke.; —The days shorten more and more and the long winter evenings creep upon us. About one-third of society’s working life is now night. The preoiousness of this soft, shaded part of the day cannot bo too highly appreciated. Because you must close your shop and put off your money-ma king till to-morrow, do you count the even ing as worthless 7 Or, is it fit only for silly chit-chat, dissipation, and the darning of old leeks? « Husband your evening, hours. The night is a profitable season of mental culture, so cial happiness and rest. Books, conversa tion, music—these fit well the night. Happy now are they who have homes. A fced L to sleep in, and a table to eat at do not consti tute a home. Any old bachelor, with a sala ry, can purchase so much of the world's comfort. But the magnetic fireside circle; the smiles of a mother or wife; the talk of the sensible old folks; the Songs of sweet voiced sisters ; the affectionate good nights of children (who should be put early to bed) ; the wholesome occupation of heart and mind, in social and intellectual enjoyments; or some one to read the American Volunteer aloud, while the girls sew and grandmother mends stockings, and Bill straps his skates; those are the unpurohasable comforts of home and the winter night. A Parody. —The following effusion we clip from a 'Western paper, where subscri bers »?a hard up, and only pay as the boy •aid, "in spots.” It is a parody on two ver ses of thdt'yery well known poem—“Hohon linden,” and we trust will jjgrove irresistible to all delinquent patrons: In seasons when our funds are law, Subscriptions are provoking slow, And no supplies keep up up the flow, Of dimes receding rapidly. * ' * • O'* * « The pnespeot darkens 1 On ye brave. Who would our very bacon save?— Waive, patrons 1 all your pretexts waive, And pay the printer cheerfully 1 Price op Newspapers and the Tikes.— For the past month we have scarcely opened a newspaper that has not had something to say about hard times, the exorbitant price of paper, paper monopolies, and increase of charges, &c., Ac. No would it not bo advi sable to hold, a convention of. newspaper pub lishers to consult upon the matter, as to whether some mode cannot be adopted to be nefit the printer and equalise the expense and income ? We think it would,.if all'were to unite in good faith. {D* Indemnity for the past—pay tip; Sr eurlty for the future —pay down. IC7" It U stated that all babias born after the 4tb of Matab next, muei be “ stamped" to bp legitimate. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. . On pur first page we publish the fqurth an nual mosrttgo of President Lincoln. Wo are sorry bo occupy so much space with a docuftfent 'of so little consequence, for cer tainly’it is the most nonsensical state paper that %Var emenated from mortal man. Be- yond question it is Lincoln’s own produc- tion, and of course is filled with" strange crotchets and supremely absurd suggestions. To use the language of the New York World, “it is in the main, a tepid recital of certain points and statistics from the report* of the heads of the executive departments, in a style not better than is attained by every abridger of documents in a newspaper. It does not reach even the subordinate merits of method and proportion. The NaVy, which has done next to nothing besides maintaining the blockade, occupies five times the space given to the Army; and the notice of our mil itary operations is in two widely separated parts, as if the materials of the message had been tumbled together by accident. Faults of arrangement, however, are trivial when com pared with poverty of matter. The 'brevity of.the message would, under any circumstan ces, be a merit; but in this case the merit would have been more conspicuous, bad it been still shorter. Succinctness resulting from closeness and condensation, is a very different thing from the penury of a barren intellect. The intellectual poverty of the mes- sage is in no degree attonod for by patriotic fur- vor or elevation of sentiment. It is amazing that a man called to be the chief actor in the most momentous pivil struggle the world ev er saw is lifted to no inspiration. If Mr. Lincoln understood his epoch, one would naturally expect that its grandeur would im press his emagination. But tho message is as cold as it is. feeble. We would not be un- derstood by this criticism asjmplying that a state paper should ever bo a rhapsody; but a mind deeply impressed e'asily stirs other minds to their profoundest depths without any breach of official decorum. Forecasting sagacity and a vigorous grasp, of the situa tion would bo worth all-the feeling in tho world; but when a chief-magistrate cannot instruct and .guide, it would bo some partial atonement if he could inspire, electrify, or encourage. But in Mr. Lincoln’s debility ol inilaleot keepsjcompany with a torpor and vul- garity of feeling. He never rises to the lev el, or even appreciates the proprieties, of a great occasion. The coarse and scanty dra pery in which he clothes his starveling con ceptions is perhaps a merit; it can at any rate, be said in his favor that his style matches well with his matter.” In eaoh of his last two messages, Mr. Lin coln made a laborious effort to rise above the dead level of oommen-place, by the presenta tion of a project. But injboth cases his font of statesmanship was unsuccessful. In 1862 he expounded at great length a scheme for compensated emancipation in all the slave states, to bo completed by the year 1900. This was tho only salient thing in that mes sage ; but it was treated with contempt even by his own party. It did not live long enough to cry; so far as we can recollect, it never received the compiment of discussion in the hody to which it was addressed. In 1863, he propounded another scheme,hut, to escape' the contemptuous treatment of its predeces sor, it was cunningly devised to dispense with the congressional co-operation. This was the famous reconstruction project, in which ho astutely argued that setting up now state governments and prescribing the qual ifications for suffrage was a right which he could exercise in virtue of—the pardoning power! His own party in Congress was so far from acquiescing in this odd assumption, that they interposed and passed an act to su persede his plan; and when ho voted it, the Republican chairman of the appropriate com mittees of the two houses gaye him a public castigation in a paper marked by great force of reasoning and vigor of invective. Even the party convention that nominated him fpr re-election was prudently shy of indorsing his reconstruction project. Warned by these failures, he makes in the present message no attempt to turn the vehicle (no coach hut a cartj out of the rut of trite common-place.— He contents bis ambititon with dull abstracts of the reports of his secretaries, and servile echoes of the Republican press. With one or two significant exceptions, there is not a new idea in the message; certainly none that any mortal will remember when the message is a month old. . Such a document affords no scope for par-, ticular comment. It is beneath it. It is idle to confute what nobody will remember; and as for commendation, even the Republican organs will be at a loss where to bestow it.— Mr. Lincoln holds out no hope of peace ; he has nothing more original to say on this in teresting subject than to reiterate and expand his’Niagara manifesto. In a curious finan cial recommendation he deviates for once into originality; but it is an originality which is painfully suggestive of a low tone of moral feeling. We must indeed concede to Mr. Lincoln the possession of a perfectly balan ced character; his conscience is worthy of his intellect, and bis sense of decorum worthy of both. He gravely recommends that oar government shall raise money from our citi zens by corrupting their sense of pecuniary honor I Ho wants Congress to pass an act to protect the purchasers of government bonds from paying their honest debts! He gravely recommends that, this species of property shall be placed beyond the reach not only of taxation but of creditors. This, from the President of the United States, is a credita ble proposal! But when foreign nations, who never hit upon this refinement, shall see our government suggesting to onr citizens a safe method of evading private obliga tions, will they hot be apt to infer that where such' morality prevails, it-- will bean easy step to public and pub lic debts'stand on the same ground of moral obligation, but the average conscience of men is Commonly supposbd‘ to be the Weaker .in relation to public engagements. Hr is a'spec tacle" as iastonnding as it is melancholy to see the chief magistrate of a great nation asking Congress to enable citizens to ohsat their erditors ont of their honest dues. True.—'the Democratic party baa notroioa in’ the Administration of this Government. — Abolition ExetiUtitgt, That ie true, and the mournful condition of the country is-an evidence of tile fact. TDE SOLDIERS’ TOTE. lb is now very generally admitted-that at least four-fifths of what was counted as the “ soldiers’ vote” at the last election were fraudulent votes. Thousands and tens of thousands of letters containing proxy votes were opened by peijnred Postmasters oil over the country, who abstracted the McClel lan ticket and placed in its stead the Lin coln ticket. - Again, in hundreds of instances soldiers wore allowed to vote as-often as they pleased, provided they voted for Lincoln, and at the same time the M’Clellan soldiers were not allowed to vote at all. Thus the soldiers wero used by politiaal 'gamblers, whose business it is to rob the Government by permission of the administration. It is almost universally believed that had no fraud been resorted to, and the soldiers permitted to vote as they pleased, McClellan woull have received at least five votes for Lincoln’s one in the armies. The law in this and oth er States giving soldiers the right to vote in the field, was urged and carried by the Abo litionists for the express purpose of gaining votes by fraud. The soldiers have been used by “ loyal thieves” to carry out a stupendous piece of villainy, and by this villainy Lin coln is declared elected. Be is not elected. — Wo venture to say that could the fraudulent and coerced votes be thrown out of the cotint, it would be found that ho failed to carry more than two or three States. The Indian apolis Gazette, a loading Abolition paper, admits that Indiana was carried by fraud, but it unblushingly approves of the fraud, on the ground that “the end j ustifies the means.” The Gazette says { “If thousands of soldiers voted in this State, on Tuesday last, who wore not legally entitled to vote, it were better, provided they voted the 'Union (abolition) ticket, than for the election to have been carried by the op ponents of the administration.' The contest was squarely between the government [Lin coln] and the rebels [M’Clollan Democrats.] The end Justifies the means, in such on issue. It were better that half a dozen Massachusetts regiments should vote, than that the State should, fall into the hands of the opponents of the administration. Does 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 7 The contest is a national one. The soldiers are in the na- tional service and if they can be used in the rear, to gain a victory which is quite ns im portant ns a victory at the front and in the field, why not do it 7” The above is a frank admission. Hero is another item on the same subject, which goes to show that Illinois, like Indiana, was car ried by a fraudulent soldiers vote. The Chi cago Times, of a recent date says : “ An lowa soldier stated yesterdav, in the presence of quite a crowd, that on Tuesday he voted for Lincoln eleven times, between Cairo and Lasalle.’’ . Frauds similar to the above, we repeat, were practiced all oyer the country, and by these frauds Lincoln succeeded in foisting himself a second into the chair of state. Can a country prosper that is governed by sadh. unadulterated soouudrelism 7 And yet Lin coln, in his message, points to the number of votes oast (or rather counted) at the late election to prove that the present desolating war has increased our population more rap' idly than it ever increased before when we had no war I HAVE THE PEOPLE THUS DECIDED ? Tho Carlisle Herald is of the opinion that the result of the recent election endorsed and sanctioned a great many unpalatable things. In speaking of tho re-election of Lincoln and tho meaning it conveys, that paper, in a re cent article, said: “ They (the people,) have sanctioned con scription, taxation, arbitrary arrests, and con tinued destruction of life and treasure.” Have tho people thus decided ? Previous to the eleotion did the Herald or any other Abolition journal dare to advocate “ conscrip tions taxation, arbitrary arrests, and continu ed destfuotion of life and treasure?" IVe arc sure it did not; nay, more, we are sure that a very different argument was used both Iby the Abolition press and by the stump speakers ot thatparty. Vico President Ham lin, in his speech before the “loyal” people of this county, gave 1 them to understand that the re-election of Lincoln would bring peace in “ thirty days," and that therefore no resort would be bad to further “ conscription, tax ation, arbitrary arrests, and continued de struction of life and treasure." All these things, Hamlin averred, were.to cease as soon as. it was ascertained that Lincoln was re elected. Seward, too, the Seoreatary of State, in.a letter published a week or two before the election, told us that peace would immediate ly follow the re-election of Lincoln'; that the rebels were even then whipped and con quered, but were making a “ show of fight” in the hope that Gen. McClellan wculd be successful, Sets. Indeed, every man connected with the administration, every Abolition pa per, every shameless preacher who on tho stump favored Lincoln, advocated his claims because, as they said, his re-election would “secure peace very soon.” But tho Herald now says that bis election " sanctioned con scription, taxation, arbitrary (unlawful) ar rests, and continued destruction of life and •treasure 1” True enough; we said this be fore the election, but our assertions and our warnings were pronounced “copperhead false hoods" by a subsidized Abolition press. Let those who voted for Lincoln, therefore, in the belief that they were supporting a policy that would end the war in “ thirty days,” as “ squawk Haulin’’ told them, now turn to their organ, the Herald, and read what his re eleotion means. We are firmly in the belief that hundreds of men in this county voted for Lincoln who ore frightened at the result. For a time forgetting their own and the coun try’s best interest, they allowed themsevlves to be swayed by their office-bolding and of fice-hunting party leaders into snpporting bis re-election. But they already fear when more taxes and drafts come,-these leaders will be of no service to them—fear that they hove been deceived to' their own irreparable in ju ry. There it much ground for their appre hension. ' Jgy Hon. Salmon PI Chase,date Secretary of the Treasury, has been appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by President Lincoln. In point of qualifications he comes Up to Forney’s stand ard : “ Sound on Slavery, the draft and. the legal' tender." Thus we drift along to anar l ohyand destruction. THE ABUT COMMITTEE. On Sabbath ovoninc, tho 4th inst., a large and enthusiastic meeting was hold in the Lutheran Church of this place, in behalf of the U, S. Christian Commission,. The Rov. T; Atkinson and Koy.Dr. Patterson, address* ed the audienco ppou tho claims of the Chris tian Commission to the sympathy and 00-op eration of the Christian people of this commu nity, An army committee "was appointed to execute the plan proposed by,tho-Agents of the Commission,, fof poetical operation with in the limits, of this, county. TU,o- following gentlemen originaljy constituted this Com mittee : Williapi Biair, H. Saxton,'J. JR. Tur ner, J. P. Ilnssifer, Prof. S- D. Hillman, J. W. Eby and J. B. Parker. At the first meet" ing of -the Committee, Prof. S. D, Hillman was chosen President, and J. P. llasslef Sec- retary. , " On motion of H. Saxton, it was resolved that the Committee be increased; and that all tho Clergy of the borough and one Lay mem ber from each Congregation of tho borough shall constitute tho, Army Committee of Car- On motion the Committee adjourned to meet on Thursday evening, at GJ o'clock, P. SI., in tho lecture room of tho Second Pres byterian Church.’ At this second mooting of the army Committee tho following members wore present; Prof. Hillman,* Reverends Bliss, Philips, LefovrC, Thompson, Kulm, Clero. and Messrs. Saxton, Kby, Turner, Wolf and Hassler. On motion the following reso lutions wore adopted : Resolved 1. Tint it is deemed advisable to furnish a Clerical and Lay Delegate of the Christian Commission to servo in the army of the Potomac'for a period of six weeks each, so as to keep up a constant supply of service from Cumberland county. Resolved 2. That a Committee of throe be appointed, whoso duty it shall bo to.use their best endeavors to procure the necessary Del egates both Clerical and Lay, for the purpose above named. Ou motion Rev. Samuel Philips, Rev, Francis J. Clero, and Mr. Henry Saxton were appointed members of the above named Com mittee of three. , Ou motion tho minutes of this and tho for mer meeting of tho Army' Committee were ordered to be published, and also. Whatever else the Committee of.three may deem advi sable, in order to carry out the object of tho Army Cpmiujttcc. On motion, adjourned to to meet ot the call pf tho President. s; D. HILLMAN, Pres. J. P. Hassler, Seo’y. COMMITTEE’S CIRCtJLAft, The army and navy, of. the United States numbering hot less than 500,000 men, besides a vast number of persons attached to the va rious departments of field, office and hospital duty, now present the widest of all fields, and’ the strongest of all claims to the services of Christian men and women. There are OlftEOiVS BAND* very niany almost insuperable obstacles in * the way of tho.supplv ot Government Chap- Senator Hals has beon-removed from the Inina. In this emergency, the Christian chairmanship of the Senate NavaTCommit- Commission calls for the voluntary efforts of th telegraph informs us. because he delegates clerical and lav; and seeks to oatab- / \ lishthroughout the country, as many army reiterates his charge of " corruption and im- Committees as ; poaaihle, lor the maintenance beoility” against the Navy Department.— of a constant succession of religious and oth* That committee has, therefore, formally con er ministrations among our brave defenders. atitutß(J itsolf B simpla •• Gideon’s Band," and The plan proposed is to secure the attendance .... of onb delegate after another for six weeks’ will, of course, confine itself hereafter to roe time, from every part of tho country ; and by ommending everything which Mr. Welles furnishing a commission, an outfit and trans- may propose, and approving everything portation, to provide, wherever our men are whioH jj h Welles may do. required to go. the serving ministry ot the m .i • , . , . - word of God and the comforts of home. To this eomplexion has the possession of This appeal was powerfully urged here on power brought the party of “great moral Sunday, (the 4lh Inst.,) by the Rev. T." At- ideas,” Senator Hale is the original nboli kinson and Dr. Patterson ; and a Committee t; on j ß t 0 f the Senate. Ho fought the battle was appointed to work up tho awakened in- . ■ , , „ t .Jf . , ... j terest of tbo community into something prao- og alna t slavery when to fight that battle was I tical and tangible. That Committee enlarg- to risk popularity, prosperity, and social po ing its members, appointed us its executive, sition. And now, because he insists upon to present the Appeal to as many as possible. „ beoring hiß testimony’’ agaisnt what he be to? such Kelp ns each nan render to our sol- .. . .. , . . ...^ diors and sailors. Will you not consider beves to be the " Corruption and imbecility” whether you cannot devote a few weeks to the of one of the greatest departments of the work of a ministering servant, to the souls government, his fellow-abolitionists f)U{ him and bodies of those who rtro exjposed to every o ut of doors! The Suuners and Sewards hardship and deprived of almost every com- m , fort, in order that you and vour’s may enjoy aro wl,er m tl,elr da y Bnd e enorß,lon - Tlle y tho blessings of life, liberty and tho pursuit ware ready enough to sacrifice the peace and ol happiness, under thu Constitution and happiness of their country, that by fanning Government? The demand comes hoitle to t [ lo f ur y 0 f fanaticism they might reach the us all: and some hero are ready to volunteer „ , . ... . their services, provided other* will follow fle» h -potB-of the administrative Egypt. But them. Tho undersigned are authorized to thata fanatic once in powershuuld trouble his make all the, arrangements necessary for the friends with his honesty, they can neither un execution of this plan here; and respectfully dorannd . nor tolerate, solicit the name's of any who may be willing to work in hospitals, or with the army or na* vy in the* service’* of the Christian Commis sion. No salaries, hut all necessary expen ses will be paid The Lady’s Fbienp. —The January num ber of tbe Lady’s Friend is already on our table, and fully bears out the high reputation of this now monthly, which is now entering upon tbe second-year of its existence. The leading steel engraving, “ Hush I it is A sleep,” is a beautiful picture, and will doubt less go right to the hearts of the ladies. The Fashion Plato—a double one, as usual—is very handsome - indeed, admirably engraved on steel, and richly colored. Then there is a colored design of a Work Table Companion, a very useful lady, as she seems, in road and yellow and blue; and numerous other engra vings'of. the Fashions, Work Tabid Depart ment, &c. The. Music of this number is a piece entitled “ I Stood Within our Cottage Hall.” Among the literary contents which are oven unusually excellent, we may specify “A Great Match,” by Emma B. Ripley; ‘‘Little Mat;” “A Story of a Household,” by Mrs Ilosmer; “ Folse,” by - P. 11. Case ; “ Cupid ot the Cope,” by Miss Donelly ; “Through the Paper-Mill," by Viginia Town send-; “James .Smith’s Story,” by Julia Gill; “Castle Linlooh,” by Aunt Alice; “Mrs. Gordon’s Prescription,” by C. M. Trow bridge; “ Sister Lil," by Mrs. Tuok?r; “Lov ed and Xlated,” by Ido Mason; Editorials, &o. &o. Price $2,50; 2 copies $4,66; 9 copies $16,- X)0; 21 copies $35,00, Specimen numbers will be sent .to those desirous of making up clubs for 15 els. Wheeler & Wilson's oele drated Sowing Machine are furnished as Pre miums. 'Address Deacon & Peterson, 310 •.t • ' ' .Walnut street, Philadelphia.' , Now is' thilime'to send on subscription! for 1805,. , ■ A BiUli, ArPAis.—ln his annual Beport to Congress, Secretary Fesbsnpen mentions that one hundred thousand dollars were sto len from his office recently. He has no idea who stole the money, and merely mentions the.fact for the information of Congress. Of course this amount is in .the’ pocket of some loyal” Lincomf man.' A' small affair. Hon. Osona* Thompson, the English Abo- 1 litionist, who was among the first to. agitate the slavery question in this country—some thirty years ago, is now being lionized in our large western cities. An Abolition paper in Cincinnati alluding to his oxpooted arrival in that city, takes great pains to prepare tho people for iiis reception ; it says : “ Hon. Qoorge Thompson, of England, will arrive in this city this morning from St. Louis, and' on his arrival will proceed to tho Burnet House, where rooms have been en gaged. Mr. Thompson has been unwavering in his support of tho cause of our National Government in Parliament, in tho press, and everywhere, and never for umomentfalterod even in tho darkest hour of the republic.— Ho deserves h cordial reception from tho loy nl people of America, such as be has received wherever he has visited.” When Thompson first visited this country tho sorb of reception he mot with was like that with which the Hibernian received his poor relations—“ contempt but now, that hie teachings have produced their desired ef fect, ho is lionized to an extent not surpassed in obsequiousness by our people’s toadyism a few years since to the Prince of Wales! As regards the position which Thompson holds in England, it is as the Cincinnati pa per remarks, similar to that occupied in this country, by that frothy humbug Gsoaos Francis Train ; tho difference being that he is less popular," without being any more in "(luential. In other words, ho is merely nn extravagant, sensational rhetorician, whom nobody trusts, upon whose constancy none can roly, but who ie ready to mount every hubby that will bring him either cash or no toriety. Like a horse in a livery stable, he is prepared to serve the purposes of any naan for a stated sum in the coin of the realm; and, like a footman, to put oh any sort of toggery that may be dictated'by the tastes of bis employers. In short, he is a dealer in words to fit ail sorts.of principles; and conse quently he is.preoisely tho hero to excite the admiration of our loyal Abolitionists. Mr. Thompson came to this cunntry thirty years ago, invited by a few, and paid, to stir up au Abolition excitement. Having never seen slavery, ho knew no more of its essen tial characteristics than he has known of several other subjects upon which—with equal indifference to the consequences, he has attempted to get up unwholesome agitations. Haw much of the parentage of the Abolition fanatneism which inflamed the.country and led to secession and war is his, we do not pro fess to know ; but admitting that he is the author (if all of it—and this is what his to adies claim for him—if he is gifted,with the malignity of the devil, he will find abundant food for his, hottest malice in a survey of the condition to which he finds us reduced. Another Classical Joke nr Mr. Lin coln. —“How do yonf New-York Democratic chaps take my eletion 7” asked Mr. Lincoln, a few days ago, of a prominent New-Yofk MoClellanito, with whom tbe executive is pleased to be on good personal terms. “ Oh, pretty well, on the whole,” was the reply.— “ Some of our boys coriiplain, however, that you carried the state by your postmasters steaming the envelopes that contained Mc- Clellan and Seymour votes, thus loosening the gum, opening the envelopes, and substi tuting Lincoln and Fenton for McClellan and Seymour ballots." “Ha, hn,” laughed the President, leaning forward and grasping his ankles tightly; “so they say, do they, that I came the ‘gum game on them’to be re-elected 1 Well, there’s one comfort about it, old fellow, and this you may tell them for me; that if I tried to cheat—which they al so did—by gum, I was successful, and they weren’t 1” The New-York MoClellanito had not a word to say, though, as a general thing a man of gumption. Samuel Philips, Francis' J. Clerc, 11. Saxton. [CT" Mrs. Bants and Mrs, Hartman, wives of two of the political prisoners, in a Lin coln hostile, started from Bloomsburg on Monday Inst, to visit their husbands, in Fort Mifflin. ’ Bants and Hartman, are both in del icate health. Mrs, Bants and Mrs. Hartman, traveled near two hundred miles to see their poor sink husbands, carrying well-flllod yalie ees of Butter, Bread and Provisions, etc., for them, and— shame upon the brutal military authorities —when they called at the gate, door of Fort Mifflin, they were denied the poor privilege of seeing their kidnapped hus bands, or even delivering to them the provi sions they had brought for them from their families at homo. IO” A man in Baltimore was arrested on Friday last, charged with' “ cursing the Pre sident.” -If that is to be' the order of the day, increase /Jour police and enlarge ybur pris ons, gentlemen I The subject is so inviting for such indulgence that you . already have that sort of cause for arresting hundreds of thousands of our people, male and female, old and young, from the piattling babe to’ the patriarch full of years*at the verge of his 1 grave: O" The city' of Philadelphia is over forty millions in-debt. AN ENGLISH LION. •OFFICIAL RESULT ( or I4S ioViMßltt ELECTION IS JOE STATS Or PENNSYLVANIA, Adams, * k Allegheny, * Armstrong, Beaver, Bradford, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Bucks, Butler, Oambria, Cameron, Carbon, Centre, - Clearfield, Chester, Columbia, Clinton, Clarion, Crawford, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Elk, Erie, Fayette, . - Franklin, Fulton. Forest, Qroone, ■ • Huntingdon, Indiana, Juniata, • Jefferson, • Lawrence,. * Lancaster, * Lebanon, Lehigh, Luzerne, • Lycoming, - McKean, Meteor, Monroe, Montgomery, • Montour, . - - Mifflin, Northampton, - Northumberland - Porry, - ‘ Pike, Potter, - . Philadelphia, • Schuylkill, • Somerset, Snyder, - Sullivan, Susquehanna, • Tioga, - Union, Venango, - • Way no. Wnr/on, Washington, - Westmoreland, Wyoming, York, • . - IM:1 f'- “ While it in melancholy to reflect that the war has filled so many graves and .carried mourning to so many hearts, it is same relief to know that compared with the surviving, the fallen have been so few. While corps, and divisions and brigades and regiments have formed and fought and dwindled, gone out of existence, a great majority of the men who composed them are still living. The same is true of the naval service. The election returns prove this. So many voters could not else bo found.”— Lincoln’s Message. Wo hope this will put a quietus to the vile copperhead charges, that dead men were dragged from their graves to poll a big vote for Mr, Lincoln. The election dearly prov es that Divisions, Brigade's; an d Jlejjimetits, that litHli gutii out oj existence, are still lioing. This will bo joy to the sorrowing widows and helpless orphans; how happy will they be to know that their cherished ones, mourned ns dead, have merely gone out of existence, and are still living. 867* The Jackson Mississippign has a re markable editorial in favor of peace. It as fames that both sections have been wrong, and argues that war was necessary to' purge the land of bigotry, fanaticism, despotism, intolerance. Both sections must abate some what of their high pretensions. It says ol slavery: “ The North was fanatic; the South was arrogant. Tho North bullied; the South bantered. Slavery was the rock that ship wrecked the ship of State. Both sides be trayed the same eagerness te keep the ques tion ever prominent. , Demagogues at the North rode into office on the anti-slavery hob by ; demagogues at the South rode into office on the pro slavery hubby. Tho two antagoniz ing elements met at Washington, and there commenced the tug of war—the war of wind, the sure fti'atnsoi of the war of blows." Tub great advantage of citizens titling Cre ditors us Vroll' as debtors, with relation to the public debt, is obvious. Men readily per ceive that they cannot be much oppressed by a debt which they owe to themselves. Lincoln’s Message, Sfagbifioant idea, ft you iW'yotrr pocket book, don’t? fret; recollect it is only a debt ■you owe to yourself. If you have not the pa pers to show, have them made out at once, and when the interdet'beobmbsbue take the. money out of one pocket and put" it in the other, and, according to Mr. Lincoln’s idea, you will be just about as well off as if .you owed the amount to.the government, and the government o\fred it to you. Of course, you can understand now, that it is just as' easy “ to pay a big debt as a bigger one.” Tribute of Respect. —The members of the. Grammar School of'Diokinsen College, at a meeting held December 9,1864, unanimously adopted the following preamble and resolu tions : Whereas, In tbs exercise of His will it has pleased Almighty God to remove sudden ly from our midst one of our most respected and esteemed associates, Charles Johnson. Therefore ’ Resolved, That ne deeply deplore the loss of one with whom wo have been .connected by intimate relations, and who, by bis friend liness and sociability, won our highest es teem.- ( Resolved, That to the -family and friends of the deceased we tender ohr most heart felt sympathy, in this, their sad bereavement and irreparable loss. ~. Resolved, That a copy of the above be sent to the family of the deceased and to the press for publication. W. L, Aldridge, t G; W. BttfNET, Committee. . Jt. A*. Miller, ] The Ledger Sold.—The Public Ledger, which was started in the year 1836, by Messrs. Swain, Able & Simmons, as an ex periment with a penny paper, was sold re cently to Geo. W. Childs, Esq.,‘who is not a novice in the publishing business,; He is de serving of, and wo hope will reap, an ,abun dant reward for the labor Ink must bring - in his new sphere. “ Nobody is hurt."— Lincoln, Ask the widows and orphan o. SPECIAL Wo give below a copy ofthe l&w nas„.,t i, the lost Congress, providing for the nsBe J meat of a special tox on incomes. This t ‘ according to the law, should have been | looted ox the Ist of October last, but *1 Adb” was afraid its collection at that f might injure his election. and> t«erehm“ ordered his tax-collector, to hold off until J ter the election. Several other taxes si, V which the people have been kept in J"' ranee, will now he collected <•' . E "°‘ Be.it resolved by the Senate an< j , Representatives of the United Slates of » ? tea in. Congress assembled. That, in to the income duty already imposed bv I there shall be, levied, assessed, mid Colby's on the first day of October, and sixty-four, n special income dutv the gams, profits or income for the ' ending the thirty-first day of December IZ. proceeding the tirafe herein flamed, by |l* . mg, assessing,-and-collecting, sit’d dot? „r it persons residing within the'' United Slat! or of citizens of the United States , ’ s ding abroad, at the rate of five per cent,,™ on all sums exceeding six hundred dollar, and the same shall ho . levied, assessed mated, find collected, except -as to the according to the provisions of existing lor the collection of an inemflo duty, annual ly, where not inapplicable hereto ; and the Secretary of the Treasury is'hereby nutlnr ized to make such rules and regulation,,;, to time and mode, or other matters, to enforce the collection of the special income dutv herein provided for, or may bo necessary- Provided, That in estimating the annual gams, profits, or income, as aforesaid forth, foregoing special income duty, uo deductions shall bo made for dividends or interest re eflived any association, copnrntion m company, nor shall any deduction be made for any salary or pay received. McChllnn.'Lin coin, . 3016 ; 2612 -12414 , 21519 3241 . 3526 2304 , 3237 3007 6865 . 2752 2336 - 13266 0710 - 2GR6k 3292 • 7,335 6436 - 2947 3475 —3o3ft 2244 - 232 335 2251 1721 - 3399 2817 2801 1506 - 5987 8440 3367 1914 - 2135 .1066 2833 1780 - 4526 ■ 6443 4356 3004 - 4220 ' 5544 2141 3664 - 835 348 3722 69U 4126 3221 - 3821 3802 906 094 - 62 85 - 3076 1583 2477 3321 - 2179 4320 1753 • 1437 - 1808 1823 1389 3408 - 8451 14409 2779 3780 - 5920 3908 10045 7615 4:07 3401 - 052 707 3569 4220 - 2698 v- 085 7943 6872 - 1490 1130 - 1716 1643 6944 3720 - 3608 2915 -4 2440 2400 - 1180 260 080 1390 - 44032 55791 9540 7851 . 1719 2788 . 1368 1679 • . 070 309 . 2959 4203 - 1584 4073 - . 1352 1945 - 3341 3849 - 2989 2274 ‘ - 1505 2541 4579 4951 - 5977 4650 - 1402 1337 - 8500 . 5568 The Elect. —The. movement among the war preachers,; to have the Constitution of the United States so altered as to make it re cognize the Christian religion as the founda tion of the government, is arresting public attention just now, and the press is beginning to speak out. It is suggested that the inno vocation or alteration would be a dangeroui one—to which the reply is made, that no sectarianism wquld be involved in the change. Certainly not. War preachers who are bent upon having all men of one mind in prosecu ting the war, would never think of sectarian ism. Clergymen who. denounce their own church members ns traitors who differ in opinion with them on politics, would never think of denouncing men as heretics for a difference of opinion on church not a bit of it. The elect would bo mild and soothing as new milk to the reprobatei out side the pale of “ our church." Of courseno reprobate would ask office orferaolument from a recognized “ Christian’’ government. 270,308 200,389 Gen. Sderhan’s Guide.— lt is stated that Gen. Sherman ban with him, in his Georgia campaign; one of the best and most reliable scouts or guides in the Southwest—an old man, and a native of Georgia, and a wealthy planter and slaveholder at that. lie wai well known to persons in the habit of visit ing army head-quarters a year ago, end “Mack” of the Cincinnati Commercial thus speaks of him: When the war broke out ho denounced the Southern leaders, and in consequence of his Union sentiment was compelled to leave bis home, near Macon, between two days. . His, neighbors missed him, nud suspecting, right ly, that he hud gone off to join the Yankees, they followed him so closely that he was o bliged to hide in the m -untnins in the north ern part of the state fop several weeks. They, have , since organized all kinds of raids for no other object than to catch this one wan. After being in the North some, time, ho vol unteered his services to Gen. Buell, bet* he received n position as volunteer aid to General Ilosocrnns, to whom he was of greet service in the campaign terminating at Clint nnooga. lie has been with Gen. Sherman since last June. There is no highway or by way in the interior of Georgia with wine > he is unucqu tinted,.scarcely a town or vil lage in which he is not known. Ho used to nay that with a brigade of cav alry he could find cotton and niggers e.'.eng within a hundred miles of Atlanta to liqui date the national debt. Ho is one of the let rich men of the South who have romamc faithful to the Union cause, when they knu that to do so was to lose their properly, tnei homes and their comfort. 'On his P re * cn trip he Carriej with him a black tit of h • whh look-pleasure in persecuting h'.ol foe years ago. lie think., he will make it a«ii than even with them before he gets throng - An. Eccentric Hen. — In a stable on farm of Mr. Gerald, of Fayette are throe little pigSr probably six. w One. which is called ‘Hitman,” *w«"W takes the middle berth when turnond , snooze. As soon ns the mother was| from the pigs an'old white hen too JLjj quarters with them; and B*sßrtffdrt«rmi« . to make them comfortable, maniftrtn^ all respects the same care’ And , that a hea does to her brood, colling them, when finding ® fi?? „ and to Carry but fully her motherly > broods them ns She would over ?r the little She' does this by getting astride of j, one, while it lies ill the middle, a ing her wings so ns to cover these side. No amount of force or ™ nra , . |, tr will induce her for one moment adopted family, but if the pigs ere . with in any wav, she is ready to figM f battles as though they belonged to , ered tribe. PFetty well .for Mrs. W* American Agriculturist. ■ , Beasts do not gbt Drhnk.-—o e ” er °' ler. in an order dismissing Lieuts»«”' ' Clancy, of the colored Light A rullcrJ ’ service, says: . Wc i,ir “He was in a slate of intoxieatios J . reported as beastly, but that H ® v j, mistake, as beasts do not get drunk. General Butler ought to know. Case or Poisoning.— The a . nn ?_ g tsen' Isaac Whisler of Mifflin Township, . poisoned by eating applobutter nro e t 0 earthware crooks. , All pf . ff« bo lying in a very critical con , t(ICC )d should think that, in the preson stage of Chemical science the us , in glazing .crooks might be disp If not, the crooks themselves she pensed with. —Neuniille Star, |rr The people will become Ban ' After they, hove wandered .through 0 „| end trackless' oro before them, when all- the horror sturei have been felt by them, y rdel j their to that party woioh ha ® e T * whio^ 111 !, liberties, ana call upon that P polil ,c “J. guided theta safely thrroag tu yto eat storms of three quarters of a oeniu 3 theta.’ , 810,000, <> ol) ; & Daring the last * Worth of petroleum b««'b eoa Tf *. O- A man ohoked hi»J*‘f 0 t ° io ** ’ other d»> in Sjwiogfiwdi
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