ikHIRIGAJ VOLUNTEER.
SES B. BRATTON, Editor & Proprietor.
CARLISLE, PA.. JAN. 5, 1865
A COLD-BLOODED IIDRDER.
On Saturday afternoon-last a man named
■Wilson T. Van asdlan, was murdered at Cen
traville. this county, under the following cir
cumstances [ .1 . was a soldier, aud having
been at homo for some time, was regarded as
a deserter. On tho afternoon in question
three brothers named Rupert, met V. at a'
tavern in Centrovillo, and determined to ar
rest him and obtain the ?30, which is paid
for delivering a deserter to the Provost Mar
shal. V. was walking homo when the Ru
perts followed him in a' small wagon, and
after passing him stopped their horse and got
out. One of them walked up to V. and said
to him, “ Tou are my prisoner.” V., who
was a strong man, pushed Rupert aside and
walked on toward his house. Howard Ru
pert then drew a revolver, and, taking de
liberate aim at V., fired. Tho hall entered
the body. V. etaggered, throw up his hands
and said, “ Don’t shoot again, Rupert, I am
dying.” Tho Ruperts then carried him into
I.is house, where he died in a few minutes,
surrounded by his wife and three little chil
dren.
Such, we believe, is a history of this most
heartless, cowardly, and devilish murder. —
Tor the sake of obtaining S3O, the Ruperts
were induced to shoot down a human being
in the presence of his wife and babes. It
was not necessary, however, to shoot V. The
throe brothers could have arrested him with
nil ease, but it is believed that they wanted
l«i kill him,.and they did kill him. "We hope
nur Hw-offioors will see to it that the Ruperts
are arrested, li*4gd and punished.
N. B. —Since the above was in type we
have learned that the three Ruperts have
h.'on arrested and lodged in jail to await
their trial for murder.
Interesting Entertainment.—' We are
pleased to, state to our readers that an inter
esting entertainment, consisting of Tableaux
representations of Scripture subjects, an ori
ginal dialogue, short speeches for the occa
sion, solos, duetts and choruses, chants, a na
tional hymn, and other music, will be given
at Bheom’s Hall, on Friday evening, the 13th
hist, by the Reformed Sunday School of this
place. From What wo can learn no efforts
are being spared to make tiro occasion inter
esting, entertaining and instructive, and we
hope our friends, both in town end country,
will give it a full patronage.
Cheaper than Cheapest. —lf you
want to save money by purchasing Clothing
and Gent’s furnishing Goods, call at Julius
Neuwahl’s now Clothing Hall, Samuel Ar
nold’s old stand, in North Hanover street,
between Drs. ICieffor and Zitzer. 4t
JUT” The Boiling Springs Hotel Is for rent
from the Ist of April, 18G5. Apply to Peter
l\ Ben ,Carlisle, Pa. *
h Cliristmos Dinner at ihe Barracks.
The ladies composing the Union Aid Soci
ety of Middlesex township, treated the sick
and wounded soldiers at the Barracks to a
splendid Christmas dinner. All honor to
them. A correspondent thus speaks of the
repast and the fair donors:
Carlisle Barracks, Pa., )
Dec. 26, 1804. J
Mr. Editor: Saturday, the 24th inst. was
a joyful day at this post, especially for the
sick and wounded soldiers. The good ladies
of Middlesex township belonging to the
Union Aid *• Society, prepared . a Christ
mas dinner, and if you had been present,
Mr. Editor, to witness their kindness, and to
have participated in the grand dinner, you
would have said whnt every soldier did, “God
bless the ladies.” The ladies had everything
in abundance, and it was in the very beat
stylo for the occasion. Their presence made
it the more rcfreshing*“to the noble patriots
who have so gallantly, defended the old flag
of Washington. The doctor, (J. J. B. Wright)
who is one of oiir most skillful surgeons, was
present to grace the party. The chaplain,
Mr. Kbss, -attended to his duty in a brief
prayer, followed by some remarks. None,
however, seemed more delighted tnan the ef
ficient Steward, 11. who is ever at
his post striving to make the sick and woun
ded soldiers comfortable. In the name of
the sick and wounded, I wish the ladies of
the society a long life and a home in the
world to come.
A Friend or this Siqk and Wounded.
O” Our African sister —Liberia—is to
have one of our gunboats on credit, ns decid
ed by the Committee on Foreign Affairs, “for
the purpose of assisting in the stoppage of
the slave 1 trade, now carried on contrary to
the will of that Government.” The Secretary
of the Navy is directed to select the vessel
ond complete the arrangements. It is cs
pooled that this new policy of making free
gifts of our Navy (Liberia being one of the
biggest humbugs of the age) will continue
until all the chiefs of the two Guionas, Senc
garabra and the Unexplored Region are pro
vided with one of these interesting relics.
300,000 Moke. —Tlio election is over nnd
the President has ordered a call and draft for
300,000 more troops “ to make up deficien
cies occasioned by credits on tlio last call.”
So states Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of
War. No “ copperhead lie” about this. The
Democrats told the people that if they ro-elec
ted Lincoln there would be another draft,
which statement the Abolitionists emphati
cally denied. Which party told the truth ?
Of course all the Loyal Leaguers will volun
r teer at once. They surely will not wait to be
drafted when the Government wants men.
Butter is sold in Canada at ton and
twelve cents per pound.— Exchange.
What ft pity we can’t send our buckwheat
cakes up there to be buttered 1
, (XT’ Tliaddeus Stevens will soon offer a res
olution in Congress, compelling the dairy
maids in the moon to ranks cheese before
Junraing tbsir milk.
THE LATE ELECTION—THE DRAFT.
Th* Carlisle Herald continues to inaiat that
the result of the lato election sanctioned
11 conscription, taxation, arbitrary arrests,
and continued destruction of life and treas
ure.” It saye these “ concomitants of war”
were advocated during tho into political cam
paign, by tho friends of the Administration,
and itprofeiß’S to ho “astonished” that wo
should attempt to deny this. Tho Herald is
mistaken— it asserts what is not true, IV o
have the proof at hand to nnil its declaration
to tho counter. The iriende of Mr. Lincoln
didnoi advocate those “concomitants of wpr”
previous to the Into election. On thooontrnry
they insisted that if Mr. Lincoln was re
elected, the “moral effect” of his endorsement
by the Northern people would “ cause tho re*
hols to throw down their arms in despair and
make all possible haste to get hack into the
Union.” The election of Lincoln " would be
bettor than a half dozen or more good sized
victories 3n the field,” they said, “ better
even than the capture of Richmond, and that
it would end tho war and restore the Union
in a few days,” &o. Vico President llaulin,
(squawk I) here in Carlisle, told ua that Lin
coln’s ro-elootion “ would strike terror to the
South, and induce tho rebels to beg for meroy
and peace in loss than thirty daya after tho
Bth of November.” On the 2d of September
last the Secretary of War, the tyrant Stan
ton, telegraphed to Gen. Dix, that "one hun
dred thousand new troops,promptly furnished,
is all that Gen. Grant asks for the campaign
of Richmond, and to give a flushing blow to
the rebel forces yet in the field." Instead of
one hundred thousand, tlireo hundred thou
sand troops were “ promptly furnished,” at a
monstrous oxponso to tho people. About tho
samp time tho Secretary of State, Seward,
(bolls 1) delivered a speech at Auburn, N. Y..
inwhioh ho said. “We shall have no'drttft, hoi
cause tfcho army is being reinforced at the rate
of five to ten thousand per day, by volun
teers.” Again, just before the Presidential
election Mr. Solicitor Whiting deliberately,
and to all appearance authoritatively, an
nounced that there were “ moa enough in the
army,” and that “no more -drafts would he
made.” Even Gen. Grant was induced to
write a letter, in which ho made the outrage
ous declaration that the Rebels wore desert-
ing to his standard “ at the rate of a regi
ment n day,” and he hinted very broadly
that the defeat of M’Ci.ellan would secure
peace at oncol Such were the declarations
of Mr. Lincoln’s very particular friends.
And now we have another draft ordered
“for 300,000 more,” which our neighbors of
'the Ucrhld appear to. regard as a very tri
fling affair. It may bo trifling in the eyes of
those wbo have exemption ccrtifiates in their
pockets. It may do very well for the hale
young man who is safe from the draft—and
who paid $3OO to he safe—to talk flippantly
about “ duty,” &c., but the poor man, who
has a wife and little ones to support, and who
was induced to for the “ great Incompe
tent” because wily politicians and thieving
sboddyites assured him that bin re-election
would end the war in thirty days, “ can’t see
it.” Nor will,he find much consolation from
reading in his party organ that the re-elec
tion of Lincoln sanctioned “ conscription,
taxation, arbitrary arrests and continued de
struction of life and treasure.” lie (tlio de
ceived voter,) we repeat, was not told this
previous to the election, but teas told that by
supporting the rail-splitter he would aid in
putting a stop to all these things.
The coming draft is an ugly reality. The
grim fact is staring us in the face. There is
no escape from it that we can see. Men will
bo demanded, and old pack-horse Pennsylva
nia will be sure to have a good round num
ber of solid thousands saddled upon her back,
and the estimates of thedepartment at Wash
ington will never be examined. Our loyal
Governor will not interfere in the matter.—
Whatever the allotments be the? must be
forthcoming by the 15th day of February, or
the wheel of fate will bo turned. Wo to the
poor devils who draw prises in this lottery ol
death. No important election is immediately
before us, and few considerations will be al
lowed to mitigate its severity. There are no
considerations now to induce the Administra
tion to consult much with the people or to
Httcn to suggestions from thorn. The com
ing conscription will bo enforced with relent
less rigor, such as has not attended any of
those which preceded it.
The Bright Side. —Look on the bright
side—it is the right side. The times may be
hard, but it will make them no easier by
wearing a gloomy countenance. It is the sun
shine and not the cloud-that makes the flow
er. There is always that before or around
us which should cheer and fill the heart with
warmth. The sky is blue ten times where it
is black once. You have troubles, it may be.
So have others. None arc free from them.—
Perhaps it is well that none should bo.—
They give sinew ond tone to life—fortitude
and courage to man.- That would be a dull
sea, and the sailor would never get skill,
where there was nothing to disturb the sur
face of the oooan. It is the duty of every one
to extract all the happiness and enjoyment
ho can without and within him, arid above all
he should look on the bright side of things.
.What though things do look a little dark?
The lane will turn, and the night will end in
broad day. In the long run 1 the great bal
ance rights itself. What is ill becomes well;
what is wroug, right. Men are not made to
hang down either heads or lips ; "and those
who do only show that they are departing
from the paths of true common sense and
right. There is more virtue in one sunbeam
than a whole hemisphere of cloud and gloom.
Therefore, wo repeat, look on the bright side
of things. Cultivate what is warm and go
niftl—not the cold and repulsive, the dark
andjmorose.
The tide of travel to tho oil regions of
Pennsylvania is swelling nil tho time. Tho
ears goingin that direction are crowded to
their utmost capacity, and at Titusville the
hotel accommodations, although largely in
creased recently, are still inadequate. • "
O" The House has passed a bill for a uni
f urn system of bankruptcy, nnd sent it to the
Senate.
Congress has appointed an investiga
ting committee to—cover up the Philadelphia
Nary Yard thieving^
“110SRST OLD ABB.”
When every other argumonfc'failed tho ad
vocates of Lincoln's election'; when ho was
donounoedas a üburperLy the ablest Repub
licans in Congress; whon Frbiiont boldly
declared his Administration to bo “ political
ly, financially, and militarily a
when his vulgarity had disgusted nil eight*
thinking people; when nothing to
bo said in his behalf, his paid advocates al
ways played’the card of honesty . lUnfortu
natoly, whatever Mr. Lincoln may l\avo been
before he was re-elected, his lato message is
a very sad commentary upon hiahonesty.—
If ever he was honest he must have become
greatly corrupted by tho associations which
have surrounded him since his residence at
Washington* Encircled ns ho has' been by
public plunderers, living as 1 o has dona in
dully contact with thieving Government offi
cials, ho must have been very sternly honest,
indobd/if ho did not feel tho deteriorating
influence of such villainously bad company.
We very much fear ho must henceforth be
looked upon as tho living illustration of tho
old saying, 41 ovil communications corrupt
good manners."
His message ia in all respects very common
place, yet in curious finacial recommendation ■
ho deviates for once into originality which
gives tho lie to the oft repeated epithet of
" honest Old Abo,” and which is suggestive
of a very low tone of moral feeling. In speak-
ing of this passage the N. Y. World says :
Ho gravely recommends that our Govern
ment shall raise money from our citizens by
corrupting their sense of preuniary honor 1
He wants Congress to pass an act to protect
the purchasers of our Government bonds from
paying their honest debts I Ho gravely rec
ommends that this species of property shall
be placed boyond,_tho. reach not only of tax
ation but of creditors. This, from the Pres
ident of the United States, is a creditable
proposal I But when foreign nations, who
; never hit upon his refinement, shall see our
Government suggesting to -out citizens a safe
method of evading their priyato obligations.
Will not be apt to infer that where such mor
ality prevails, it will he an easy step to pub
lie repudiation ? Private and moral oblige
tion, but the average conscience of men in
commonly supposed to bo the weaker in re
lation to public engagement. It is,a specta
cle.as astounding as it is melancholy to see
the Chief Magistrate of a great nation asking
Congress to enable citizens to cheat their
creditors out of tneir honest dues.
The Congressional Election.—Gov. Cur-
Monday, issued his proclamation, de
claring that Samuel J. Randall, Charles O'-
Neill, Leonard Myrcs, William D. Kelley,
M. Russell Thayer, B. Marklcy Boyer. John
M. Broomajl,. Sydenham E. An,coni\*U'.haddc*
us Stevens, Myor Strouse, iHiilip Johnson,
Charles Dennison, Ulysses Mcrcur, George F.
Miller, Adam J. Gloasbreirner, Abraham A.
Barker, Stephen F. Willon, Glentil W. Scof
ield, Charles V. Culver, John L. Dawson, J.
K. Moorhead, Thomas Williams, and George
V. Lawrence, liavo been returned as duly
elected in their several districts as represen
tatives in the Congress of tiro United States,
for the term of two years, to cominonsc from
and after the fourth day of March next*.
It will he observed that the name of Hon.
A. H. Coffroth, the Democratic member elect
in the IGtb District, is omitted. The Gover
nor has no power, legally, to annul the cer
tificate of election Mr. Cuffroth holds, and
give it to his defeated competitor, Mr. Koontz,
and therefore tlic,Attorney General has filed
an opinion declaring the returns irregular.—
Upon this ground, the Governor’s proclama
tion goes on to say “ That no such returns of
the election in the Sixteenth Congressional
have been scut to the Secretary of
the Commonwealth, as would, under the Act,
of Assembly of 2d July, 1830, authorisze me
to proclaim the name of any person as hav
ing been duly elected a member of tbo House*
of Representatives of the United States, for
that district.” •
The effect of this will be thrown upon the
House itself tho decision of the case, which
will, of course, oust the Democratic member,
and give the seat to an Abolitionist. In this
manner are the rights of the people trample 1
on, by tho unscrupulous parly now in power.
The Judas Kiss. —lt will he recollected
how apparently hartfelt and solemn was the
“God bless you” with which tho victorious
M’Clellan was greeted, after the battle of An
tiotam, by. President Lincoln, and how soon
thereafter the young hero fell before the Ex
ecutive order to “report at Trenton.” Did
treachery lurk in tho words? Were they,
like tho kiss of Judas, only designed to co\cr
a secret purpose to destroy ? If so, then alas
for Sherman! Wo are informed, in the late
Southern .news, that Colonel Markland has
just delivered a verbal message to Gen. Sher
man from tho President. Taking the Gen
eral by the hand tho Colonel said:
“ General Sherman, Before leaving Wash
ington I was directed by tho President to
tike you by the hand, wherever I mot you,
and say for him, ‘God bless you and the'ar
my under your-commandand he further
more added, ‘Since cutting loose from Atlan
ta my prayers and those of the nation have
been for your success/ ”
Wo are further informed that Oen. Sher
man was deeply affected, as was the hero of
Antietam after receiving the same hollow
greeting of gratitude. Docs treachery lurk
in those words of greeting yet and again, and
is tho axo already sharpened for the neck of
this great captain? In but a little while we
shall know whether M’Clellaa’s fate will be
Sherman’s, and have it determined whether
“God bless you” shall hereafter be undor
dorstood as the Federal order for execution. .
The Ins and the Outs. —There scorns to
be an irieprossiblo conflict going on in tho
Republican party upon tho subject of rota
tion in office. It is generally understood that
a cloan'sweep is to bo made of about all the
present office-holders, on this coast at least,
and the “ ins” are greatly worried over the
matter. Those papers which advocate tho
rotation plan are raising quite'a howl over
the incompotenoy and rascality of some of the
officials, nnd a need of change, (hat the pub
lic may be protected. On the other hand,
the organs of those in office expatiate oy the
evil and danger of tho rotation system, and
they frequently quote Lincoln’s joke about
swapping horses while crossing a stream.—
Let the irrepressible conflict go on. It may
possibly work out good to tho country.
XT’ When your friend dies, you must no
1 er say “ peace to his ashes 1” It is treas
onable to say peace, and you would bo called
a "peace sneak” for the utterance.
ALAS,POOR MEXICO!
The news from Mexico, says the Louisville
Journal, shows that the Republican bubble,
if there over waa -enough Rouhlieanism in
that ill-fated country to blow a bubble, Has
bbrst. $t never was ranch —a eort of frothy
"effervesce on the hot water in which that hy
brid people lived; continually—but we dis
like to sea it evaporate into thin air under
iho sharp-pointed sword of the French Em-
peror.
The same tiapqr ha*: the following addi
tional remarks in reference to our quuandnm
Republican neighbor:
The telegraph Jellavits-tkat Ju ( arer.,,the life
and soul of what-little’Republicanism still
lived in Mexico, had losigncrt in favor of
some one of the numerous nobodies of that
land of nononity. it is very possible. Ho
bad little to resign. IIe r had fought bravely,
heroically against overwhelming odds. lie
'has bean doserted in a most characteristically
manner by one leader and follower after an
other. Ilia eyes could no longer turn with
the faintaat light of hope to the great Repub
lic of the North, and it was about time in
disgustuinfi despair to throw up the reins of
power and shake the dust of rule from li.s
feet. If he is tired of Mexico, or unsafe, we
heartily welcome him here, and wish wo hod
a better country to offer him an asylum. 110
i<, we believe, a true patriot and a good man,
but it was easier for the Israelites Ja> make
bricks without straw than for him to make
freemen out of Mexicans. Wq, in fact, arc
making a miserable botch of it, while claim-
very superior material. Wedon’tgive
up, but we fmvo quit boasting of the wonder
ful prosperity of-our institutiona. It won’t
do.
Maximilian has been progressing, milking
a tour through the Mexican States, in which
he 8&j8 ho was received with such enthusi
asm as to assure him that the great body of
the Mexican people are in fayor of the mon
archy. He says that what Mexico wants is
“peace,justice and tranquility,” and that is
true, if Maximilian never told.the truth be
fore and never tells it again.
It is a blessing has never enjoyed
since the reign of the Montezumas, and if
they receive it under a'Monarchy we expect
they will exhibit’an attachment for that form
uf government. We certainly have no right
to blame them. They followed the »gnis ja
iuns ofliberiy through all the boga and quag
mires of revolution, oligarchy and tyranny,
and if they find firm land in their new “King
dom conic/’ who will blame them fur enjoy
ing it?
also gives duo notice that ho will hear
after follow a different „pkriwy towards, the
Juarintc, or llvpublicausvi-'-Heretofore- he has
treated them ns labial, belligerents—hereaf
ter ha proposes to deal with them as outlaws
and robbers.- Further tfcslstaace he thinks
is useless and unjustifiable, and must bo put
down with a »U<mg .hand. Right or wrong,
in this we can’t'help‘it. The interest wt
had in Mexico'is the Monroe doctrine,
with.all Sts associations, is played out. There
only remains to us the mortification ofknow
ing that wo once had such n policy. Maxim
ilian <;ftu pitch all tho men off Chimborazo
and boil All the old women innguudento, and
wo can't holp it. The day of our destiny is
over, and wo never want to hear of Mexico;
never 1 no never I
Death of Col. Charles A. May.
We take the following notice of the death
of this gsßanfc officer from the N. Y. World.
Col. May was stationed for a number of years
at the Carlisle Barracks, and was personally
well known to all our citizens.. The World
Biya
" A brave and ohivalric soldier, a true and
high-soul-ed gentleman, an American whose
name is indissolubly connected with one oi
tho most brilliant episodes of our national
history, passed to Uis rest in this city on Sa
turday, the 24th instant.
“ Col. Charles A. May, of Maryland, en
tered the army of tho United States during
the second presidency of Andrew Jackson,
and, resigning bis commission in 1800, retir
el into private life in this city, where he lias
since resided, winning an honorable mini*
among oar citizens ,as the active and efficient
Vice President, and, Superintendent of the
Kighth Avenue Company.
“ Bat 'on tho rolls of thfit noble army of
the Union, enlisted for all time, tho company
of patriotic 'soldiers win), lighting together
side by side under the one flag of their fath
ers, knew no North, no South, no East, no
West, hub won for all the land a common tii
timph and a common fame, the name of Col.
May, the soldier of Tlosaca do la Palma and
ol Munteiey, is still borne “ foremost among
the foromont.
14 Fow names shine .more brilliantly than
his in tho recortl-Vof the last war waged by
Americans against a foreign foe. Others,
his companions io:arms, during that glorious
episode of our annals, have since made them
selves more widely known in the conflicts of
the civil strife which now desolates tho re :
public. Hut the famo of May neither South
nor North can claim. The story of the re
sistless cavalier who led so many charges on
those fur fields of Mexico belongs to America,
and will be proudly remembered by Ameri
cans as long as knightly courage stirs the
blood of youth; and duty loyally done com
mands the respect of men.
“ C lonel May wns.still in the vigor of life,
having been born Anguit 0, 1818, in the city
of Baltimore; and his singularly stalwart
frame and stately presence, well befitting n
soldier of romance. Boomed to promise him
many years of usefulness and happiness.—
But an organic tendency to disease'of the
heart, to which his brother. Captain .Julian
May, some years since succumbed, developed
itself into sudden and fatal force, and aggra
vated probably by his incessant devotion to
the duties of his pjaition among ns, into
which ho carried a military thoroughness
and exactness of administration, over-match
ed oven his colossal strength of frame.”
(£7* The Now. York Herald says thafsome
persons, v?lio xVcre in straitened circumstan
ces before they got their fingers into matters
connected with “ Soldier’s Fairs,” now keep
their carriages and live in stylo. It is also
said that some of the philanthropic managers
of Sanitary Fairs, the Christian,Commission
and other charitable enterprises developed by
the war, are “making a good thing' 7 out of
their devoted.labors'.‘ It ia believed that the
larger proportion of, the money collected to
aid/these objects is absorbed in “ expenses, 7 '
Mrs. Harriet' Iw Hunt, of Mnasaohu
oetts, has this year, presented her usual pro
test against being taxed, while the privilege
of voting is denied her* She has been joined
this year by another lady, who has similar
wrongs to complain of..
By A happy New Y*ar to all onr palroßt*
UNEXAMPLED POLITICAL CORRUPTION
Judge Pierrepont, one of the advocates of
Mr. Lincoln's re-election, used the following
language in the opening speech in the Op*
dykc-B£ced libel feints
- , " rr Tn 1848'thoro was a great resolution, aa
you well remember, in Franco, xho king
was driven from his realm. His government
was forever overthrown, nnd nor one of Lmi*
T’hillippo’s children hayo over boon able t->
return to it. The greater political philoso
pher, in myjudgomcnt, that has lived at m*y
•time, was then a member ni the' Chamber «*i
Deputies, and arising in Ids place, and in his
solemn voice ho uttered these few words:—
’* Do you know what is the genera!, efficient,
dei’piy-rtoiitcd cause, why private morals are
degraded ? It is because public moral* have
first become depraved I It is beciuso pure
morality doss not govern the principle actions
of life, that it dues not descend to the sma!lor
ones. It ifr because private intornst h.is m
kon the place of 'disinterested in
public action, that ssllishness has become the
!av in private iiro. It has been said that
there are two sorts of mortality, the
one f r politics, and the other for
private life. Certainly if what is pasM ig
mound us really U what I see it to
he, never was the falsity of such an assertion
proved in a more strikingand unhappy m.*n
1 believe that a ohange is taking
placSlpfi’our private moral*, of snob a natim*
as to trouble nnd alarm all good citizens, and
this change proceed*.in great- pail from wha«
is coming to pass in our public moral**?’ 1
Hpoak without bitterness, nr ‘oven, as 1 bo
liftvo, party spirit. Icm nttnoki ig men
against whom I have no party unbuositf. —
But I am obliged to tell the country whut is
my profound and setted convictions, and it in
that the public morals aro becoming, and
that this public corruption will bring hr a
new, in a short time perhaps, at an hour that
is already near, ! a now revolution. De Too*
quevillo was hissed by every man that heard
him, and in thirty days from the utterance
of that speech the king was driven from bis
throne, and France expiated for her crimes
and corruptions by the blood of more than
ten thousand of her sons; and not a vestige
of that throne remains, and the children of
Louis Phillippo aro exiles nnd wanderers on
the face of the earth. Gentlemen, wo shall
exhibit here to-day a state of corruption in
our public affairs in this country worse than
that of Franco.”
'suit was pending previous to
the late election, and Mr. Picrreponk wan an
well acquainted with tho “corrupt” state of
affairs as ho is now, and he also knew* that
these corrupt acta were winked at (aye,
worse,) by those in power ; and yet, ho had
the assurance to advocate, and the American
people the blindness to secure, the reins-al
ment in power of those who have brought us
to this fitato of nffair.-i, The people may shud
dfer to think of the prediction of Mr, Pierre
pont, but that tho government is in the hands
of those who are now in power, i« something
move to bo dreaded.
A Levy to Build a Negro (Jiiurcu.—The
good people of “ Free Maryland” are likely
to have a surfeit of the blessings of Lincoln'*
Administration. Not only are elections car
riud by force, hntasis shown by recentevcnt*,-*
when parties obnoxious to those in are
elected to office, they nro to be compelled to
resign by being seized-and tluown int.) pris
on until they consent to do so. Nor ijj this
all. With a peculiar fondness for the nogro,
the generals who lord It over a generous peo
ple seem to regard the iut-crcshs of negro us
us paramount.
The Snow Hill Shi'hl, published in Wor
cester county, stale* that General Lockwood,
while reci.-rnly at .Newtown, in that county,
levied a sum of $1.0(10 upon person? living
w'tiiin a rang»- of five miles of the vilfuge to
rebuild a nogro church which had been de
stroyed by tiso. The work was supposed to
be that of incendiaries. We shall doubtless
soon hoarof levies being made to endow acad
emies and colleges (hr negroes. By all means
let tho have full string. In
those limes it is only shoddyand the negroes
who reach tho upper level of loyalty.
The New Vork Tribune, in a' leading
editorial, uses in regard to greenbacks, the
following scarcely decent language to be us
ed on any subject:
The greenback that calls iiselj fire dollars
is unconsciously a liar. Jl is really hut o lit
tle over two dollars. And this, like all other
lies, though it seem for the moment advanta
geous, is a general mischief and detriment.
The scheming, gaming few' may make by it,
hut the industrious many must loose,
i As the inanimate greenback did not print,
and cannot resent, what tho Tribune calls tho
“Ho,” or promise to pay, the Ttlbune m this
paragraph virtually calls onr government a
liar Jor issuing the greenbacks. This is a cu
rious method of writing on financial questions,
and does not tend, to strengthen confidence in
government promises to pay.
A Deserter Shot. —Tho Monroe Democrat
of last week says, a Mr, Thos. Christman, of
Iloss township, in that county, was shot dead
by a party of soldiers, on Monday of hist week,
whilstattempting to arrest him. The circum
stances as related to the editor of that paper
are, that after the soldiers gained admittance
To the house whore Christman was, he seized
an axe with which he kept tho soldiers at
bay for a time and finally succeeded in bsca
ping from the house and wlitlatrunningncross
a meadow he was fired upon, ono shot passing
through Hs head, killing him immediately.
Ho was a single man and had been drafted
some time sinee. • 4
££§?*• Our sister--Liberia—is to
have one of our gunboats on credit, as deci
ded by the Committee on Foreign affairs,
“for the purpose of assisting in the stoppage
of the slave tiade, now carried on contrary to
to the will of that Government.’ 7 The Sec
retary of the Navy is directed to select the
vessel and complete the arrangement. It is
expected that this new policy of making free
gifts - of our Navy {Liberia being one' of the
biggest humbugs of the age) will continue
until all the of the two Guineas, Sene*
gambia, and the Unexplored Region are pro
vided with one of these interesting relies.
Zl7* If any man outside of our government
would take pains to consider the questions at
the bottom of Lincoln's policy, and read the
proceedings of Congress and Lincoln’s proc
lamation andetudy Lincoln’s fatherly care
for Liberia, would ho not be led to believe
that the present administration was made up
( f negroes,-elected by negroes, and working
only for the negroes benefit regardless of all
consequences to white men.
Xy The Chicago Tribunt says Con
gress is subject to two disorders —Grab and
Gab,
It grabs nil it can and gabs for snml.o,
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Mono Frauds.—The frauds resorted to by
tbs traitor Abolitionists at the late election
exceeds anythin*; over known in this or any
other country. It is now confidently believ
ed that Lincoln' did not carry a single State
except old disunion Massachusetts. The
“ soldier vote” was a wholesale fraud and
swindle. ‘llero is another item from a Juni
ata paper•
We mentioned two weeks ago the fact that
according to the returns received at the Pro
thoh itary's office in Mdilintown, Company
U., of the 102 d regiment, gave M’Clellan only
13 votes, whereas piivate information recoiv.
cd claimed for him a ra ijority o r 3o votes 1 —
Subsequently, however, a second “ rotu n M
was received by the Prothonotary. which
gave M’Clelhin 24 votes in that company.—
Hut even this has been proved to be .fraudu
lent. 35 members of the omopany, over
their own signatures, have published n card
declaring that they all voted for M’Olollan ;
and four others, whoso names arc not attach
ed to the card, are known to have voted the
lamo way. Thus in one company Gon. M*-
Cleilan has been defrauded out of filteen votes
in the count! How many similar fraud®
were enaoted that never will h* found out?
M’Clem.an, k is reported ■will
nail fur Europe in February. Ilia wife and
child will accompany him, “‘Burleigh” the
Bonton Journal's correspondent in New York,
makes the following sturotnoat in reference
to the General's movements :
A company of gentlemen in this city have
fitted up a fast sailing clipper ship in elegant,
stylo, placed on board every conceivable lux
ury, manned her completely with a fine crew,
put her in charge of one of our.ablest cap
tains, and tendered her to General George 11.
M'Clellan for one year, to sail where ho will
with his family and friends—the entire ex
pense to be borne by the gentlemen. This
ie the Now York stylo of of doing things.
Murder in Oil City.— On the night of the
2Cfi ult., James M’Fate, a wealthy land
owner of Oil City, was murdered at theoutor
edge of the town on the banks of the crook
near the bridge. The murder is supposed to
have boon committed near midnight. The
deceased was shot hi the head with four bul
lets and hie throat was cut. It is thought he
was killed for his money, hut if that were
the object, the murderers wore probably dis
appointed. The inhabitants of Oil City are
terribly exasperated at the occurrence, and
have offered a reward of ton thousand dollars
for the apprehension of the murderer.
OCT* President Lincoln says we have more
men in the North now than we had when the
war began, and that wo can keep It up forev
er. Upon this principle, war is a blessing to
the nation. It increases population and pros
perity. Notwithstanding the hundreds of
thousands whose bones lie mouldering upon
war's battle field, the poople~the suffering
mothers, wives, fathers and orphans—are
benefittedl What a benefactor to the race,
is Abraham the First.
(C7** A corrosondent of the Clinton Demo
crat has made a calculation of the National
debt as given by Lincoln in his message, and
says, that by piling it up in $2O gold pieces
it will make a pile 139,772 miles high, lie
asks any one to view it iu whatever light ho
pleases.and say whether it is not “ a big
thing."
To Our Western Subscribers. —After the
first liny of February next, we will strike from
our list the name of every subscriber outside
of F’c-nnsylvania, wliowill not have paid up
his arrears by that time. Hereafter we will
not send our paper beyond the limits of the
oiuuty, unless it bo paid for in advance. This
rule will bo strictly adhered to.
Judge Taney was eleven years older than
the Federal Constitution. He remembered
when it was established, and he went to the
grave under the impression that he had seen
its end—that it had perished in the mud vor
tex of fanatical violence and passion-.
O” Tlmd. Stevens’ gold bill mot an early
fate. Thud is in his dotage, Ho wanted to
compel people who hold pot greenbacks to
give them at par (or gold'.- But it would not
work. .
Death or Mr. Dallas, —Ex-Vice Presi
dent Georgs M. Dallas died at his residence
in -Philadelphia on Saturday lash, ilisage
was 73:
HOW A REPUBLICAN
'UFACTUBED 181 THE MABYLAND LEGISLATURE*
Fair Maryland lias been mo™ i . ‘
outraged by the Republican party iu U |'' 7
are, and Us minions, than any oU.Vr
Aft«r swindling her out of her full" J*. 111 * 0 -
military intimidation; after ! ’7
her Democratic presses; after oarrvl, V
lew constitution by R.ilJieri’ vui *• 9
hardly one lawyer iii Baltimore win*!.,*
Constitutionally oast, uie mlinhnstru * 0
not yet stated. Maryland must be
to one moio iiutragn.aml (Jonei-,,1 Wait., •
the appropriate instruinont lor t <e work •
The State election of Maryland eiver. i
on the tiny ol tlio presidential Dlcctinn
docs in New York Of I,U, LfealMah,,;*.**
•fclminifliruUvm, by the methotl* which all i
country know* uml thu party founded of
greet inunii iiUiiAflcfond*, chiricd * •*
oWho Wotisa of Beluga.es. B„t to the Banim
■they only elected cloven members. whil. i
Bern crats olect&d thirteen, thus mvim. nl°
•I ittor n majority of two ,in that body " ni)
The Republican paidy, habitually g,,:!,.. f
more brazen nn.l unmitigatol political viil,
lines ti.a.l 111. the p mica which have liv.t
or died on lids continent, devised a new uu
f.r wiping out tins Bcniocratio majority
the M irylno-l Senate. When it bcoaam
known that -llie Democratic Senator Mr
j Holland, (non D iroliostcr (Hicks’) c„'u,o,
had been returned elected by some ei.dit In/'
drud majority. General Wallace caused him
to lie informed that unless he resigned hi
v-ould imprison him and send him beyom!
the lines; alleging, ns a pretext that hclisd
been a member of the Legislature of 801
which hud attempted to carry the Siate'mii
nut id the Union. It is notorious, and the
records prove, that this allegation is u tterl T
unfounded. Nevertheless, Mr, Holland fear
ful of the , effects oh a nervous and delicate
wife, tendered his resignation to the Gover
nor of the State, who issued his warrant for
an election on the 23d of December to fill t|„
vacancy. The calculation is, to defeat an ti
er Democratic candidate in Dorchester by
direct military interference, ns was done in
Caroli 10 and Talbot counties at the fate elec
tion. In Somerset county, Mr. Levin Wat
ers, the Democratic candidate for the Senate"
had been also returned elected by a large
majority. General Wallace wrote him that
some time early in 1801, lie had caused a
secession flag to bo exhibited from his office
and therefore lie was unfit to bo a Semper
and, unless ho resigned, ho would impr.smi
him and send him beyond the linos. Waters
answered that the charge ligubint him was
nu unqualified falsehood ;' that lie challenged
proof, uml declined to resign, inasmuch us Ire
had been elected by a majority of im.ro than
twelve hundred of his constituents. Where
upon General Wallace sent down to his rod
denco.a.guard with n lieutenant, seized Wa
ters, separating him .from Ins distressed wile
ami children, and drugged him to Bultim ire,
whore ho is now in prison, if, indeed, he has
nut been already exiled.
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The citizens ol Maryland are a law abiding
people—-patient, offering no resistance—none,
not oven tj the emancipation scheme ol tho
new constitution, which deprive* them «»f
thoir property without mid'ddlar of coinpea. p
Ration, or even tho hope of any. T ;«y huro
acquiesced, suomitted—nay, more, in a s,ia
of humanity, they arc showing every
position to protect their doincnic* from want
and exposure. Why, thou, should a patty
despot bo fluttered further to trample on their
Spares! rights, and that, too, without t:;o
shadow of a necessity ?'
Of course we tire not so foolish an to pro
tect against these outages.’ Mr. I/ncoln ra
coivcd the permission of his party io contin
ue them. Tho Tribune, will enjoy them,
screech about “ Froo Maryland !" and the
everlasting negroes whom its bastard philan
thropy has sent to death by the bundled
thousand. —iY. Y. JforW.
THE WAS JEWS.
CAPTURE OF SAVANNAH.
;] AH DEE’S AHMY ESCAPED,
SHERMAN'S CHRISTMAS OUT
50 Onns, 13 Locomotives, 190 Cars
and 33,000 Hales of Cotton Taken.
Washington, Doc. 25, 1804—8 p. in- J
A dispatch has been received thin evening
by the Preflident from Gen. Sherman. It h
dated at Savannah on Thursday, the
inst., and announces his occupation of. O'®
City of Savannah, and the capture of
pants, plenty of ammunition, and about -5,*
000 hales of cotton. No other particulars are
given. ' _
An official diapntcb from Gen. Foster W
Gen. Grant, dated on the 22d inat., at 7p*
m„ atates that the City ol Savannah ™ oc
cupied by Gen. Sherman on the morning o
the 21st, and that on the preceding afternoon
and night, Hardee escaped with the rosin
body ot hie infantry and light artillery, romo
ing up the iron clads and the Navy-inro.
He enumerates as captured, 800 prraontyH.
150 guns, 13 locomotives in good order, 1
ours, a large lot of ammunition and nisterrow
of war, three steamers and 33,000 bales e
cotton. No mention is made of the presen
position of Hardee’s force, which had been
estimated at about 15,000. ■
The dispatches of Gen. Shernian and U
Feeler are as follows:
Savannah, Ga., Thursday, Deo. 22, 18M.
His Excellency, President Lincoln :
I beg to present you ns a Christmas ft
the City ot Savannah with one hundred
sfty heavy guns and plenty of ainmunitio ,
and also about 25,000 bales of cotton.
W. T. Sherman, Maj. Oen.
LATER FROM SAVANNAH, SGML PaH-
TIC U LA K S 6 F TUB C A I’T C l<L '
Fortress Monroe, Monday, Deo. --' J ’
The steamer California, Oapt. GodlH.n
rived here at a late hour last eyeiing,
fifty-eight hours from Fort Pulaski, hri'ift'C;
important dispatches from Shonns"
glorious confirmatory intelligence of is® -
ture of Savannah on the 21st inst.
On the 20th, Sherman haying nearly Bo
ploted the investment of the city, and,c*P
turod Fort Lee and several other minor o
works in the immediate vicinity of the P*
oipal intrcnchmenls surrounding the lo ’
and planting his siege batteries in such
proximity to the Rebel linos ns to ® onl ? 1 ‘
effectually every position held by the n>
under command of Gen. Hardee, Be f*- tho'
mens by flag of truce to the effect that j
place was not in a certain time sun-on nC ,
a bombardment and assault would s
commence. , n. n er«l
To this summons the wily Rebel
sent, n reply, that as his co "'™ u “ , no lied
were jet open, and his men uincl, h«
with subsistence stores.of every , ' ff jj
was able to withstand a long siege,
detormined to held the city to “ ,e , niper
moment; and defend tho oitusops a P e .
tv which had. boon-placed finder hj« I
tion, until hie forces were orerpo
cum polled to surrender. by
Every preparation had been th ,i„
Sherman to assault the Rebel p u / ofjt
next day, hut when the morning » fnßn) y
dawned it was ascertained that g 6^sr »l
had evacuated their inlronohtncii .
regiments of infantry were imra , e h ., n uml
vanned, who took possession o ,t/-
shortly afterward Sherman enter
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