AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. JEN B. BRATTON, Editor & Proprietor. CARLISLE, PA., JAN. 12, 18G5, HgT We are indebted to lion. George H. Bucher, pur Senator, for Legislative docu- ments. ' APPOINTMENTS BY, THE COUNTY CollMlS siONEns.—At a recent meeting of the Board ■of County Commissioners, the ap pointments wore made for the oneuing year : Cleric— James Armstrong. Attorney —ll. Nnwsham, Esq. Physician to Jail —Dr. S. P. Zeigler. Mercantile Appraiser —J. U. Wunderlich. Keeper of Public Buildings—Geo, Taylor. Another Murder. —Our town is certainly becoming noted for crime and wickedness.— On Wednesday evening of last week a party of soldiers met at a lager beer saloon in South Ilauovor street, and becoming heated from dririk, commenced to quarrel. After indulging in abusive language for some time they left the saloon and renewed-tho quarrel on the street, in front of the Second Presby terian Church. Finally, private Peter Golteno (an Italian,) drew a knifo and in flicted, several severe cuts upon the body of Sergeant Samuel Shannon, of the Perma nent Party. The injured man was taken to his quarters at the Garrison, and after groat suffering, died from the effects of his wounds on Sunday evening last, at about 7 o’clock. Shannon was considered a very worthy young man, whose parents reside in Centre county. His body was sent homo for inter ment. Severe Snow-Storm.— On Saturday last old mother earth was visited by the most se vere snow-storm that wo have over experi enced. Indeed, many of our oldest inhabit ants have no recollection of such severity in the weather. The snow fell as thick and fast as a summer rain, and thh wind howled and whistled like an equinoctial storm, which blew the falling snow in all directions, mak ing drifts in some places several feet <^>en. — It was what wo would call a new-fashioned snow-storm. It was a perfect blinder to pe destrians, who had-to plough their way thro 7 St, with tho cold wind in their front, rear and flanks. . No matter which direction you turned you could not escape the chilly blasts —nary a bit. Our market was slimly atten ded, there being scarcely a dozen farmers present, and very few people to buy. The loafers, who generally crowd our daylight markets, were all absent, and were, no doubt, hugging a hot stove in some of the bar rooms about town. If so, we would advise them to keep their situations on a fair mar ket day. The oars, too, were roughly han dled by the storm. The afternoon train from Harrisburg, due here at auarter before three o’clock, did not arrive until seven at night. The snow ceased falling about three o’clock in the afternoon, but the wind blow terrifi cally until late at night. The cold was in tense; the thermometer standing at 13i de grees above zero. Wo learn by the papers of Monday that the storm was a general one, and accounts of the railroads being blocked up by the drifted snow roach us from all di. rections. May God have meroy upon the Buffering poor in this trying time. Mr. Whitney’s. Impersonations.— At Rhecm’s Hall on Thursday evening, Jan. 19, Mr. Charles "Whitney, a gentleman highly spoken of-in intelligent circles as an elocu tionist and impersonator, will give an exhi bition of his various powers. Wo insert the following notice of Mr. Whitney’s extraor dinary powers: [From tho Boston Journal.] Ilia tragic impersonations are worthy of tho best masters on the stage, while his com ic selections are tho most intensely comic of anything of tho kind ever presented to tho public. Some of the latter cause his audi-. once to lose entire control of themselves, so great is his perception of tho ludicrous. —Vehement, as in M'Duflie—insinuating, as in Ilayne—pathetic, as in Clay—humor ous_ and sarcastic, ns in Randolph—ridiculous, ns in Wolf Jim—imposing and sublime, as in Webster—awful and almost majestic, as in the Indian Sachgm; to every sort of style ho gives the highest effect. —London News of ike World. J J. T. JJeadbj, ike celebrated author, remain ; _ In tho representation of King Lear, espe cially, we have been deeply intereitod. Tho ideal of Shakspero seemed to he fully actual ized by him in the pathos and spirit of the drama, and given with wonderful power and effect. . Highway Roeeery. —On Tuesday evening last, a most daring and atrocious highway robbery was committed in the very limits of our town. Tho victim was an old man named John Karns, who was attacked in tho lan o leading to the Agricultural Society’s grounds, and most cruelly beaten and robbed. Amos Swigert, who lives hear tho scene of this dastardly outrage, witnessed the whole affair, and recognized tho robber as Henry Hipple, a young-rascal who seems to have taken to tho road for this genteel employment. Hipple attacked tho old man with some sharp instrument, and with it inflicted two very severe wounds in the head. Ho then, proceeded in true Jack Sheppard style to rifle his fallen victim's pockets, from which he took about one Hundred and Eighty dol lars. Swigebt followed tho freebooter to his homo, and rapped at the door, inquiring for .him. The response was that Henke had gone out. Swigebt answering that that was nll'he wished to know, turned to go away when Henky made his appearance and of fered -Mr. S. half tho moneyto say nothin" about the affair, This of course was refused, and information at once lodged with one of our Justices, when a warrant was issued and HipplE arrested by Capt. Kdhn while trying' to escape through tho back yard of his house. Ha is at present luxuriating in his apart ment at the Hotel des Jacobs, reflecting upon the uncertainty of human affaire generally, and of gentlemen of the fancy profession par ticularly.—Herald, \ “DAD IT-BERN TBES FOBSEEK;* \ln hia annnftl RQpott to Congress, W.P. Fembnden, Secretary of the Treasury, uses tliialanguage: i • " Onythe dth'day of March, A. D. 1861, the nation was, comparatively, so inoon fliderablo as. hardly to deserve (ho name.— Aoouatomed \o a degree of prosperity before unexampled ita the history of nations, the people of the fruited States had grown rioh and powerful, without,being conscious of na tional burdens, \ud equally unconsoioue of thoir own vast aud increasing ability to sus tain a weight which, could it have been an ticipated, might have seemed altogether-be yond thoir strength. Unaccustomed, for a Jong course of years, to great national efforts, it was fortunate that thoir power of endur ance should be tested only by degrees, db tbo.’ struggle whioh Providence had prepared for them developed its vast proportions, and the necessity of groat and long-continued effort became apparent.. Ilnd it been tbon fore seen that what was believed to bo a contest for months was to ho continued for j6*rs, and that hundreds of millions of .public debt would bo swollen into thousands of millions before tho close of that contest, it may well bo doubted whether, ignorant as they wore of their own immense resources, the people might not have shrunk appalled from an un dertaking which contemplated saorificss so far exceeding all former experience.” True enough, Mr. Feasunden. The day; that Lincoln and his swarm of fanatical 1 thieves took possession of tho Government, wo had no dobt “ deserving tho name,” and wo had enjoyed a degree of prosperity be fore “ unexampled in tho history of np.tions,” We had grown “rich tm& powerful,” and the American flag was respected by all na tions and all men. Then a man felt proud to bo considered an American citizen ; then wo wore a fiee, prosperous, groat people, with none to molest or mako us afraid. And by whose, agency had this prosperity and unexampled greatness - boon brough t about? Mr. Fessenden himself will be frank enough to acknowledge that the coun try was indebted for its greatness and pros perity to tbo Democratic party—to the party that is now maligned and persecuted by the remorseless rascals who through fraud, bri bery and villainy, obtained control of the af fairs of the nation. Yes, tho Democratic party made this country groat and its people prosperous and happy, and both country and people have boon ruined by this wretched, blundering, thieving, imbecile Lincoln ad ministration, Every honest man will admit this. Our country is ruined, our people are ruined, and tho wail of widows and orphans can be hoard in every community, arid nil because n too prosperous people wore led to believe tho lies of a traitorous Abolition fac tion, whoso adherents were constantly as sailing our country, its Constitution and laws, and bellowing lustily ■“ for a change’’ in tho management of public affairs. And a change tho people got, and with it slaughter, taxes, robbers, 1 iw-breakers and scoundrels in ail departments of the Government. But again. Mr. Fessenden intimates that could tho people have forseen four years ago what has taken place, they would have ” shrunk appalled” from an undertaking so momentous. This is probable ; nay, it is true. But tho people unfortunately, wore not consulted. They petitioned Congress by tens of thousands in favor of tho Chittenden Compromise, but their petitions woro not heeded. They then asked that they might hn psrmiUcd lo Toto a u Old proposed Com. promise, hut they were denied this privilege. A little blood-letting is what wo want,” was tho answer of Senator Chandler ; and he might have added with equal truth, “ and we (the traitor Abolitionists) want also a good deal' of plunder; wa want an opportuni ty to steal.” Perhaps, four years ago, Mr, Fessenden, in tho simplicity of his heart, did believe that tho war was to bo a'contest "%{ a few months. ’ Perhaps most Abolition slang whangors so believed. They had been Belong in the habit of sneering at tho South and her people, and representing them as' weak and helpless, that they may have been led to im agine that they could g«t up a little war of “ sixty days,” as Seward said, “ wipe out the South,” do a “ big thing” in tho way of stealing, and then enjoy their honors and their plunder the balance of their lives. If such was their belief, (hey were fools.' No body else so believed. On tho contrary all men of sense predicted just the reverse,— When Douglas, in the Senate, with tears in. h'm eyes, advocated the Crittenden resolu tions, he begged tho Abolitionists not lo pre cipitate tho country into war, “ forif you do,” ho said, “ mark it, it will be tho longest, bloodiest and most desolating contest tho world ever witnessed." Douglas and the Democratic party were right. Beyond ques tion it has been tho “ bloodiest end most des olating war the world ever witnessed,” and when or how it is to end, God alone knows. Had wo statesmen at tho head of affairs, we might hope for a reconciliation, with a whole Union, inside the present year, but with poor Lincoln at the helm, wo confess wo have no hope, for we believe as we. live, that ho is now what ho expressed himself to bo twenty years ago-a disunionist like Banks, who said about tho same time thatiio desired " to see the Union slide.” Interesting Entertainment.— Don’t for got the interesting entertainment to be giv en at Rhoom’s Hall on to-morrow evening, the 13th inst., by the P.oforraed Sunday School of this place. It promises to be a very interesting and instructive affair. Man Shot.—A few days since a soldier at tempting to desert from the garrison was shot by the guard, from the effects of which he died two days after. C6i.ii Weatueb.— Beyond question this is tho coldest, most old-fashioned winter wo have had for many years. Tho ice crop nev er was better. JSZJ" A. G. Mabi.att, President of the Ir ving Female College at Meehan icsburg, died on Monday week. Deceased was a good citi zen. and an ablo instructor, and his death is deeply deplored by die community in which lie resided, and particularly by all connected ‘with the College. CuEAPEB TUAN THE CHEAPEST.— If yOU want to save money by purchasing Clothing and Gent’s furnishing Goods,.call at Julius Nonwahl’s new Clothing Hall, Samuel Ar nold’s old stand, in North Hanover street, between Drs. Kiefler and ZiUer. 4t TUB GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. Tbs Message of Governor Curtin is a 360- umont of more than ordinary interest— ; mado so by tho extraordinary nature of tho sub jects to whioh it refers. Wo will notattompt an abstract of it, for it ie not too long for any one to read who desires to be informed in ro-. Iption to public affaire. The coolness, not to say bad fooling that is known to exist between the Federal authorities, and our Stale Exec utive, is plainly discernible in several portions of tho Message; and if we may form a cor rect opinion Jrom.tho .Glovornor’e representa tions, he has bad good groand of complaint against the manner whioh our Commonwealth has been treated at “Washington. The fail ure of the President te moke good his pledge to recommend an appropriation by Congress to reimburse tbo State for the money expon-' ded in the payment of jjfie troops called out for the defence of tbo border during the in vasion of 1863, is an instance of’innttention, if not downright bad faith, in a matter where in trifling (even by a Presidential joker) is inexcusable, whioh will by no means tend to strengthen the attachment of tbo people of Pennsylvania to thoir Federal rulere. The Governor presents his grievance in milder terms than the provocation would warrant; land it is to be hoped that this public refer ence to it will bo all that is needed to secure prompt redress. Tbo operations of Sheridan’s army in the Shonaudoah Valley have, as tho Governor thinks, obviated tbo necessity for calling into sorvioo so largo a force for State defence as the fifteen regiments authorized by the Act of 22d August last; and therefore he has de termined to raise only 5,000 men for present purposes. These men, if drafted by the Fed eral Government, will be furloughed for the pSriod they may bo required in the State ser vice. Tho Governor expresses surprise at the large quota assigned to I’cnnsylvania under the re cent call for 300,000 more troops ; hut here again the' fact that our true old Common wealth, has frvlK-n uitu disfavor at Washington, is oyidont in the Governor’s curt remark tliet ho “ is not informed of the principle on which tho draft is to bo made.” The Governor declines to give his official aid to the raising of troops-in this State for General Hancock’s corps of veterans, because ns he alleges, the authority to appoint the cimmissioned officers is illegally attempted to bo taken from the States that furnish the troops, and cxoercised by the Federal Govern ment. The statement of the fact that his in quiries as to whether the new corps is to ho ■enlisted in the regular or volunteer service, has not boon answered by the War Depart ment, is another instance of the disposition that exists in that quarter to snuh our hither to facile Executive. Tho. Governor claims that he has been care ful to oxoroise tho powers of bis office as cau tiously as possible, and to usurp none. This will hardly he disputed,. The fact is, the chief complaint against him is that hohas been too little, rather than 100 much, the Governor; that he has been more ready to yield a ser vile obedience to,the demands of the Admin istration at Washington, than has comported with tho rights and dignity of a great and sovereign Commonwealth. Had he, at tho clni-t, ilrmlj Put -with moderation, asserted tho rights which belong to Pennsylvania, in dependent of tho Federal Government- - rights that were hors anterior lo the forma tion of the latter, and which eho nevor sur rendered—which ho might have done with out insubordination to its rightful 'authority, or failing in any duty that a manly allegiance to it required ; he would to-dny stand before tho world in his proper relation toward the Government at Washington —ho could demand the consideration which ho now fails to roeoivo ovon through solicitation—and would he treated as an ally to bo respected, rather than as a vassal to bo humbled. "Where is the Second Corps?— The follow ing significant remark was recently made by the gallant General Hancock; “ I have left tho Second corps dead on the field between the Knpidan and Petersburg.’' Could there bo a more crushing commenta ry on tho overlaud route policy ? The Second corps numbered 29,000 men on tho Ist of May last. A few weeks ago it had lost over thirty brigade oonHnandorsroveP'2:' - 090 commissioned officers, and within n frac tion of 29,000 men 1 AVlmt survive, of this gallant corps are but a few than tho recruits.which, from tinfo to time, joined it while on its bloody march. When General Hancock said, “ I have loft tho Sec ond corps on the fields between the Rapidan and Petersburg,” he didn’t exaggerate. It was extinguished in that dreadful campaign, and is no more ? Itwns sacrificed to the Mo loch of fanatic egotism fhat prosidos over tho Wkite House, It is dead and gone, and the men who are.now called upon to fill up the vacant ranks will-not recruit, but replace its vacant soldiers. How to Fill the Army.— The Shoddy press told us that the soldiers who voted for Lincoln “ voted as they fought.” Of course those who staid at homo and voted for Lincoln “voted as they would desire to fight.” So g md an opportunity is now presented to' these latter of fighting ns they voted that they should not neglect it. Three hundred thou sand of such voting \varriors are now wanted to fight, and, judging them from their own standpoint, their ominontpatriotismdemands for them tho first rank in battle. Of course little dependence can bo placed in the milita ry enthusiasm or fidelity of those who voted in a, different direction; besides that an un willing conscript is. likely to make a very un willing soldier. s®* The Commissioners of Chester county refuse to offer any bounty for volunteers to fill the quota of that county under tho Inst call. They are Republicans and Abolition ists, and therefore cannot bo accused of “ Disloyalty” in thus refusing to encourage enlistments. It has been suggested,,howev er, in explanation of this 'conduct, that all the voters in Chester county who dooided-for Lincoln and a continuation of tho war at the last elootion, intend now to act up to their" professions, and volunteer in a body, and so “ avoid tho draft.” It would appear to be no more than consistent that those who t idled fight, should bo willing to do fight A PEACE MISSIOH 'STOPPED. ' A few Jays ago the Washington despatch es apprised iu of : the ; departure of,' Francis P. Blair, sr., and Montoovery Blair, his son, on a mission in Biohmond, with a Tiew, as was alleged, of ondsavoring, by friendly conference with flte Rebel nnthorilios, to open tb« way to negotiations for pence. They had not proooeodad farther on their Journey, how ever, than General Qrant’s flendqunitors, before'they wore given to understand, by the refusal, of,a pass through our lines, that it had not, the approval of. the War.Dnpnrt ment; and so tho mission abruptly terminh- Jod. Tho Now Fork Ti ibuni’a epocial des patch'contains probably all that is publicly known in regard to this abortive movement: Washington, Jan. 3, JBO5. Francis P. Blair, senior, and Montgomery Blair foturned yesterday afternoon without peace. Montgomery. Blair went north by rail Inst evening. All that is known of their mission is thisi tho President was fully apprised of tho mo tives and purposes that induced the cider Blair to desire to go to Richmond, hut he de clined to make himself responsible'!,)! tho journey. Ho would not give a written authorisation of it, nor officially promote it, but he told Mr. Blair that he should allow Oon. Grant to act on his own sense of duty nnd policy in for warding him to Richmond oT refusing him a passage through our lines. It is understood here that when the Blairs reached Grant’s headquarters a telegram from the Secretary of War was there ahead of them, apprising the General that their mis sion to Richmond was self-assumed and with out tho authority of the President, and sug gesting, iu the spirit and tenor of tha des patch, if not in Words, that the mission had better bo etoppod. The Blairs stayed at headquarters two days and then retraced thoir way home. It is un derstood that Montgomery-Was not to go into Richmond with his father; that ho was to await his return at City Point! To strip this mission of oil diplomatic cha racter, a rumor has hoen pushed to-day that Mr. Blair simply endeavored to get to Rich mond to recover portions of his political cor respondence taken last year by Breckinridge from his mansion at Silver Spring, and which was of so dolicafo a character that mercy to living politicians and decency to dead ones required that it should bo recovered and sup pressed at all hazards. From the above it is evident that tho Pre sident was willing and even anxious that tho Blairs should go to Richmond on a pence mission, but yet “ he deolinod to make him self responsible," nnd wanted to enddle the' responsibility upon Gon. Grant. Stanton, who, it is well known, controls Lincoln, nnd gives him a kick occasionally, put a sudden stop to the mission, by telegraphing to Gon. Grant to refuse passage to ’the Blairs. So they returned to Washington, fully convinced, wo presume, that Abraham Lincoln spoke the truth when he said (a few months ago,) that he (Lincoln,) had " no influence with the present administration.” Tnr. Blairs off Again on a Reported Peace Mission. —The tiro Blairs {father and son,) are ngain off for Richmond, to have a peace talk with Jeff Davis. , This time, it is said, they carry with them authority from President Lincoln. A correspondent of the Now York World, writing from Washington, Jan. 8, says: The two Blairs loft hero yesterday for Gen. Grant's headquarters, whore, it is said, pas ses are waiting for them, signed by the rebel Secretary of War, permitting them to go to Richmond. This fact gives the late peaoe mission renewed vitality here. Cumin Against Bounties. —Following tho had example of ttio Lincoln “Longue,” the Oovernorof Pennsylvania, in his meetings, which we print this morning, takes ground against the payment of local bounties to vol unteers. He too, it sedins, ilosites that “the ploughshare of conscription shall reach the subsoil,” and that tho poor man shall not hare a helping hand extended to him when he seeks to escape a fata which his neighbor, grown rich by war prices, per haps by government contracts, finds no diffi culty in avoiding. One of the arguments of Gov. Curtin seems to imply thpt honesty is not necessarily a concomitant of modern “loy alty” among Abolition office-holders—in these days there are hut few others—for he says that of thd largo .Timount paid by counties, townships, wards and municipalities for boun ties to volunteers “immense sums have been appropriated by cheats and swindlers, in "vl'aiiif en's'e's'bclieved to be acting in complicity with the agents of the government.” That is to say, “the government” bad ohosorf ns its agents men who, in complicity with cheats and swindlers, steal immense sums of money appropriated to pay bounties to volunteers, therefore there shall he no substitution for the drafted poor man unless ho can pay for tho privilege of remaining with his wife and family out of a purse that is kept constantly drained to purchase tho merest necessaries of life to koop himself and them from star ving. Tho philanthropic and benevolent log ic of modern Abolitionism passeth nil under standing. So says tho Philadolphia Age. A New RmnoAn Through York Cuuntv, —AYoTcarn from tho'York papers that there was considerable excitement created in the lower townships of York county,.a fow days ago, in consequence of the appearance of a party of engineers, &0., in their midst, sur veying, or running out, a route for n railroad from tho city ot Now York to Washington, ns diroot or ns near an air lino ns the surface of tho country will admit. Tho' route, enters York county at Wrightsville, and proceeds in a southerly direction, passing through Windsor, York, and, Hopewell townships, immediately through Wintorstown in'Hope well, thence through Slirowshorry township to the Maryland lino, entering that State be tween tho villages of Now Market and New Freedom. A Worthy Son.— Robert Lincoln, son of our noblo President, it is said, is going into the army as soon as ho graduates at Harvard. — Exchange, ' ' - It isgsaid that'Robert, the “worthy son,” has oorraled, by means of official position, in the way of army contracts, a bushel or two of the “root of all evil.” Bob is. well .liked by the •‘fast”youngmcn of his acquaintance, because, we suppose, he’s a precious youth, carries a fancy oane, parts his hair in the middle, and sports a love of a moustache.— An old granny with a broomstick, Would clean out “a hundred thousand more, we’re a ooming Father Abraham” —of such "a-gu ing-into-*ho-«rray” fellows. THE NEW SENSAtM Exciting Rumors of Approaching Intervention in American Affairs. Englnsi;! Sc France Jo Htccog nizc (lie South on iUarch 4. BOLD MOVE OF THE REBEL LEADERS. Mom Important. Utterances of tho Richmond -Press, Kh'QI.AKJ) FREVA7UMO FOR WAR. Trotips Held in Readiness to Embark lor America. TSiE CAJi’AMS liV AMS, [From the iVcio York World.] ‘WarhisotuN, January 4. If stories which are obtaining wide cur rency hero are to be believed, there is nk last •real danger to bo apprehended of interven tion in onr affairs by England nnd France. It is known hero, and is aVid to have been known in tho Strike Department for several days, that England has been quietly organiz ing a largo force of men, to be hold in readi ness for Homo important duty. An order , moreover , is known to have been issued, per cmptorily refusing leaves of absence to the of ficers of several of the best regiments of the English army, and the recent marvelous promptness of tho Canadian authorities in raising men, even-at xho expense of nii_ en forced draft, under.tho pretext of on appre hended invasion by the* Fenians, is thought to poiilt clearly to the fact that they had been instructed to seize the first opportunity of organizing all available forces for any emer gency. • , The recent notice of tho abrogation of the Reciprocity treaty, and the evident determi nation of the government to push work with all possible upon the gunboats intend ed for service in the northern lakes ia also noticed by those who are now watching the signs of tho times with intense interest. Additional excitement has been awakened by the important leading editorials in the Richmond Exammer and the Sentinel of tho 2d in^fank. These are believed to have been prompted by Louis Napoleon, and to have been put forward to prepare the minds of the southern people for the last bold move of the rebel leaders. That tho South is now harder pushed than at any previous time during the war cannot be denied, and the unwillingness of England and Frace lb ace the Union restored is well understood. The;/ Kill never permit ike Month to be conquered. It is believed that the pro graming will be in effect as follows;. Notice will he given, after the 4th of March, that England and France recognise Mr. Lincoln ns President only of snob Slates as are repre sented in the electoral college, which is tarn tamnunt to a recognition of confederate inde pendence. ■ The course hinted at by the Richmond papers is believed to have been adopted some tims since, and the Confederate States have already offered themselves ns colonies of England Prance, or at lea-t asks those powers to assume a protectorate over them. Aftotis. The CANADIAN PRESS, Startling Confirmnlionn of the Report of Intervention—The Disunion of the United States to he Offi cially Affirmed by Lord Russell. [From the Montreal Hv’g Telegraph, Jan. S.] Humors have benu prevalent for sumo time of increase of the imperial military force in Canada. It is now stated in military and oilier well-informed circles, that the Oold slrenm Guards ami either regiments to the number of ten thousand men, have been order ed to hold themselves in readiness to embark for Canada. Tho reason given in tho same ciroles for this movement is the intention of the governments of France and Great Britain, on’.lhe inauguration of Mr. Lincoln in March next, to i cognise hint as the President only of those states for which he lias been elected; thus officially affirming tho disunion ot the formerly’ United States spoken of by Earl Hmsell in his Ibttor to the confederate com missioners. Anoiliei - Account—No Orders Yet Is sued lo the Troops (From tho Montreal Gazette, Jan. 4.) A rumor has been current in this city for three or four days that a iiuiiihef of ffoah ro gimeuts, including tho Coldstream Guards, had had intimation that they might prepare or he in readiness £o remove to Canada; ahd it-was understood to ho current in military circles—in fact so positively so that every body believed it. AVe learn, however, upon inquiry in a quarter whiohjleavos us no room for doubt, that it is not true that any order has been given on the subject, or any official intimation of such a movement of troops sent to this country. This rumor was coupled with another, that on the 4th of March next, the day of tho reinstallatiun of Mr. Abraham! Lincoln in tho President’s chair, Groat Bri tain and France will only recognize him as the President of tho States for which hs is elected, and in that way make a recognition of the Southern Confederacy, Canada Arming—Tlie Quality of its Forces—A Draft. The year 1805 finds Canada arming. It is about to put forth its .strength. Its force consists of one hurnl-ed.and twelve battalions of militia, termed “ Service Militia,” and these arc to ho filled by a draft at once, and ns follows : In Canada "Wear., 01 battalions. In Canada liast, 51 *• Total, The battalion will muster 795 men : and 132 battalions will, therefore, give 80,04 b or with tho officers, 100,000 men, in round num bere* THE RICHMOND PRESS. Another Rebel Opinion’ in Favor of Freeing the Slaved a'rrd Bccomiii"- Colonies—Foreign Alliance Prc-° ferable to a Return to the Union—Slavery to be Sacri ficed for Independence. • [From the Richmond Inquirer,-Jan.;!.] All of us are fast getting ourselves under stood. Colonial vassalage is a preferable ihing to Yankee s/aoerg. This is the first out cropping of this year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. Wo quote: •• It would he a good bargain to secure the mate rial aid of England and Franco by a formal sacrifice of our institution of slavery,” says the Examiner, which is pulling a finer point upon the proposition than me gave to it, not withstanding overt mas pronoun ced van to sirickeh. Wa did not propose to abolish sla very for any amount of material aid, but up on tho guarantee and actual accomplishment •df our independcn e, through a treaty offen eirb and defensive with England ah'd AVo Relievo nhoae States are fully able to conquer their independence withoUtaTolfhaal act of abolition, but it will bo the work of years, a , war yjXmanj many yonra dUring which every be overrun knd every able bodied man deported, but that id the end (it nmy bo of another thirty yeara war,) wo shall triumph and gain oyr.indepondence. Wo asked, shall wo wage that vrar, and pre serve tho germ of slavery, or shall we, recog nizing the prejudices and opinions of the world, abolish Slavery for immediate Inde pendence, The Examiner duos not regard tho question a a practicable. Very well.— Then let ua ask, with the avowal that, for tho material aid of France and England, it would bo a good bargain to nuke a formal sacrifice of out'institution of elavery. Tho opposition is, therefore, only to tho practicability, and not to the essence of the proposition. All are agreed thpb .independence and ponce would not bo dearly purchased with the sac rifice of slavery. The spirit of tho people of these Slates is, that they will make any sac rifice,rather than accept any terms >.f reunion with 1 our enemy. If wo can convince our enemy and the world of that, tho people of iheie States are ready and williug to impov erish themselves, disrupt their institution, enorifice the conVictiutrti of .years, and obliter ate the very subject that occasioned the war, in order tlmi.thoy may triumph in iu groat object—independence. We shall have made our conquest really impossible, and’eventu ally Secured our liuqrty; fur, though a peo ple actuated by shell a spirit may be over powered and overrun, they caft never be con quered nor conciliated into subjection. But if the preservation of slavery lifts been of more importance than our independence; if our people had shown a, willingness to save their negroes ab the expense of their liberty/ the onorny would not have been long in mak ing the offer. General Sherman, may have discovered some such weakness in his march through Georgia, and hence the remark at tributed to-him, that slavery would, not bo destroyed by reunion. Tho enemy would stop the war to-day, and give ua what re mains of slavery, if T we would return to tho Union and obey its laws and submit to its authority. The enemy is fighting more for' power and the plunder of them States, than for abolition, which would diminish our pow and destroy the plunder. Abolition proofs maliops are war measures designed tC fright en the timid slaveholder hack to the Union, as well as to purchase support from tho anti slavery party. But tiicy are dclunct with tho war, and the war would cease if Vre would submit; and what was loft of slavery would bfc preserved by the enemy, if not 'under the nauao of slavery yet under some other.mime. Neither the abolition of slavery by oar. own net, nor the change of its character by tho act of the enemy, will deport tho negroes, or deprive the white people of the laboV of these hsgroei*. They.will remain among us, sub ject to law and obedient to tho will of the do .mutant whits. If we wore to yield tho con flict and submit to the enemy, tho negroes would exchange the present humane system of domesticity fpr the cruel and harsh system of compensated labor. And if wo purchased immediate independence with the ajicrifice of slavery Clio negroes would remain among us, free, it is true; but kindly treated by their old masters, and taken care of very muoh as at present, tho authorities can now under stand and know the extent to which, the peo ple of these States are willing that they should go in Ibis matter. Any sacrifice that Secures independence will bo readily made. Rebel Report or a Union EiFEiiiTinN dp Roanoke • River— Riaa.strouo Result*.— Tho Yankee gunboat movement up tbo Roa noke river resulted, ns is known, very adverse ly. From an interview with ado serving and efficient dlflaer Iron* that locality, wc gather some interesting items, which wo present to our readers. The expedition comprised twelve gunboats, and several barges, tho lat ter of twenty oars' each. Two of the bargee, which wont ahead as torpedo-hunters, were vigorously attacked by our sharpehoorere, and lost thirly-ono killed. Tho crows ihca dis played a signal,of surrendered ; hut before the harvos could bo Reourod a gunboat up proaohnd and shelled bur forces so furiouslv E 3 to oornp'ol the relinquishment of their pr z » whioh drifted down the river to the gunboats. Tbo barges exploded several of our torpedoes! but failed to clear the river. Tho gunboats continued their progress, when several of them -were blb'wn up. Deterred by these lue ses, and. by She hazard of util I greater, they then beata retreat to Jameevillo, twelve milo's above Plymouth.- Up tn tho last dittos only six of tho twelve bontsdiad returned. Their officers stated-to the citizens of Williamsfen, twenty-two miles below Fort Branch, that they had lost four of their boats by turpiedoes. When asked whore the’ other two were, they made no reply. They also admitted tho loss •of one thousand men. Admitting their statement, which is believ ed tobo true, we enn iioiomit foi 1 tho other two missing boots. The officers in charge of tho torpedo foroo in reconnoitring, discovered a sunken boat of.which no.one was aware, nnd .out-from ■lier 'nbout 'fiftoen-feet of her boarding-nettings,’ of very largo size. Iho Sixth gunboat was sunk by our light field bat tery. Among the gunboats destroyed was the powerful Otsego, double-ender, bearing fourteen oleven-inoh guns, and manned by a crow of throe hundred, reinforced by the same number of infantrymen. Four of hoi- ruon, who wore picked up at different times, all ag.ieed that of the' six hundred men on board not moi-o than sixty escaped with life from the wreck. A worthy and reliable mechanic, who was pressed into the Yankee service to make coffins for tho officers and boros for tho men fished up from the wreck, declares that up to the time of his relnse over two hundred hud been made, and shipped to Plymouth, tho men to be buried there, and the officers to be sent to the United States. The work of fishing up the dead was still being prose cuted. Many of the dead bodies of those blown up on (lie different boats hud floated down to Jhmoyillo. Thus has resulted an expedition doubtless designed for the reduc tion of Fort Branch and tho capture of Hal ifax.— Itichmond Sentinel, Jan. 3. A Mauommedan’s War Order.—Aboub ekre then causing his army to be ranged a rouml him in a circle : ‘.‘Warriors of Islam,” naid ho, “attend a moment and listen well to tho precepts which I am about to promulgate to you foe observation in time of war. Fight with bravery and loyalty. Never use artifice or perfidy towards your enemies, do not mu tilate tho fallen, do, not slay tho aged, nor the children, nor tho women ; do not destroy the palm trees ; do not burn the crops ; do not cut down the fruit trees, do nut slaughter animals except what will bo necessary. fur. your nourishment. You will find upon your route -men living in solitude, in mediation, and in adoration of God ; do them no injury, give them no offense.”— Lamalinc’a Turkey. Tho religion of Mahomraed would not per mit tho indiscriminate plunder and burning of bouses, mills, fences, and stacks of grain,, »f both friend and foe, as the want of some sort of religion did both Sherman and Sher idan. Yet the man who gavo utterance to the foregoing extract is called a pagan and a heathen. If that be heathenism, give it to us in profonoo to the Christianity of such or ders as was recently isstfed by Sherman and Sheridan, by whoso order largo portions of Georgia and Virginia, wore rendered desolate by pill'mgo and plunder, and friend and foe, involved in one common ruin. That may bo the religion of Abolitionism, but it cannot be tb*t of the Prince of Peace. 112 battalions. /B*saS3SSSS m Bomo reflections upon the Du) . ndul twenty yen™ ago. ns tmntraßti/*JI" 7* ° f which tho fermentation of fn nn ti„! ‘ i OUm ring tho Inst few years, hronSt r3llll - We reproduoo some of the th tho Enquirer ; *° “'oughts of Tho public men 0 f tho last .. ■ , rapidly passing away. U.„, f'j. rat '2 n “re las, of Pennsylvania, is no 'niure^’p I, ' l)a> - yoaro ago—and it seems but a '-‘J in our recollection— he wm, , n P°ri'>'l tho people of tho United fh„| ' , U P°“ ly over their highest and martdieailhi P lO . ,i,ij tiro body, tho Senate at Wason,.., *°SiBla then in the bight.of its.*!,,™ no/' - - Il ""s tuad giants like Clay, Webster Cnli" 11Uelip “- ton, and others, gave it immmUT t““’ J i°'“ contrast between it then and now : /“a wonderful, dt hardly appears assembly. Over Hits ’body Mr ii || ded with tlio must marked ability 11l , s P'e.i an elegant and polished gentleman an! "’V lent parliamentarian, mid a toatesa’i.n T' lU tore and refinement-just the pi urn. , u wr tho i&vssas&xrtf* plaeud up,lf, thetiekntwiih James K i'T tuv I readout, and clouted iu [ .... ’ mli.ro Fiuliiighuyson, of New • * now a lot) docoasfld, •'* " I,J h Wnilo Vico President, Mr, DaIK« casting vote in the Senate of tho United r™! 10 u. favor of the repeal ~£ ShecelehrX-r'mV nigti prutcetivo tariff of 1842 mid f, lr Jl “ k stitutmn of tho more liberal tariff „p i Vr-' us stead, Mr. Dallas's name was fw/ J 111I 11 niostiunod for tho Presidency in IW? ,u J y ' Conventions for tho last fifteen years T ° ma political views ho was omineiitlv ... i being a State Rights, free trade i tho strictest sect. rato ‘ Of all the men who over filled thb ofll.-a Vice President. Millard Filnu.ro and J.l n n Breckinridge are now tho only BurvivJ 0" «>• Presidents only Mr, I*mr™ M X ohauan and Mr. Filmoro, survive. /Tho statesmen whp.directed tho - affair, nf thooountry, mid under whoso auspices ii'ij came prosperous ami-, wealthy, aro bci|i ; spared the sight of further culii,pities misfortunes which in those clays of oy have fallen upon it. Death in them from a land torn by factions a „„ m p ed with fanaticism-—tho proy of |,i,/■(■■» „„,l folly, and which is now drenched"vvitl, f ra . tornal blood,’and whoso future appears dark us its past was bright and brilliant. As the Constitution is being i„ tho guilt of revolutionary fully, it is, ncidia-.j not* inappropriate that tho statesmen ware tho political landmarks of the age elm, it Vtns .rejected should take their departure and no,longer by their presence remind n . „f tho mournful change. When omit, m.,nil,],, mediocrity Usurps the place id talent. Yi’i,™ coarse ignorance is seen in linn of puli-W relinmnent—.rawness of 'experience, Wiic-n Vulgar brutality hears away iu the highrVt positions—tho men of (ho past, who m/rkt. tod it otherwise, seem In have out-lived tUr proper destiny, and to ho strangers iu u strange land. . ID" Will iam Tccuinseh Sherman, Mninr- General, whuse reesrit uchievcnouta fiavd made- him fanionn, is a mUivo of Ohio, and i« a tmn of Judge Sherman find ft brother of tlon. John Sherman/ lie is n highly cJuca ted man, At the breaking mit of v/ar iio wan the principal of an academy m the oca; of Georgia. lie trust offered a Majur-Guiicr al'd commission by tho rebel authorities, but declined it and went to Washington tu .