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 .<enk
Rortio position in tho Union army. Alter
much dulay, ho , succored in obtaining fr-un'
President Lincoln permission to wine a mnv
regiment of regular troops, of whioh ho \m
made Coldnel. For three years he uchicieil
no marked success; his conduct seemed to
be governed hynuno of tliocuanuon rules,
and ho was phmoumn.’d by,tho New York
Herald ah “ man. Late oyontsshow
fhat there id ii “ tdothod in his madness."
General Sherman in a plain, unassuming
man. lie ia said to bo conservative iu his
principles, and for that reason will probably
not be made a Lieutenant-General; though
his capture of Atlanta, and hia triumphant
march to Savannah, place hia achiavcmouiß
far ahead of those of Grant.
A Hebei, Corpse and a Hebei. Lstiib.—
—During tho light before Nashville on 'fliura
day Hot, in one of the gopherholes in front of
the rebel earthworks, the corpse of private J.
11. Hustings, of comoanv G. 14th Missi«si|)i
redol infantry, was found tho following letter,
written in a plain, legible hand, was taken
from his person :
Cuootaw Auencv, Sept. 9.1861.
Mr. Bastings ; It has been two. month!
since I was honored by the arrival ol a letter
'from you, I infer front' so long a silence that
you have become weary of our correspomieiee.
I will bear of no osouso. You can nnk:
none that can satisfy mo. All the favor I
ask of you is to return my letters. You will
please return them immediately. You can
Send in ah envelope—two 'or throe in I*l
Will send y'our typo and ring by_the first
safo opportunity.. You have my friondship.
but love no longer. 1 hope you will bo hap
pily iparriej to some one you love bettor than
me. 1 wiail you' all that a' Christian heart
can wish another. I shall remember you m
my prayers as a fridnd—never so as a lover.
All nro well. 1 hope you' may enjoy
health.
Yours, respectfully. S— —■
Tho corpse was that of n young man ol p rs :
possessing appearance, of apparently twenty
eight years of age.
Mas. Lincoln’s Kscapu.-— Wo find thefof
lowing .interesting statement in thoMi/iwW
Intelligencer of Wednesday:
It is-estimated that at least 7,000 pers(,n
visited the President’s mansion dunnf
day. At half-past two o’clock the ja|" "*
terrible, and many pressed so determines
to gain admittance that several Indies an
children were nearly suffocated. Fur # “ rl ® ■
time some excitement was created by tlisj'
fusal to admit such of tho colored popular
as wore eagerly.pressingforward to pay I“''
respects to the president. Many of ta
gained admission,'but finally the doors vc
closed upon them, and they were oomp cll .
to wait patiently until.after. the whites 1 ,
gotten through, when they were, admi
and received'by the President.
excitement caused by the incident Mrs
coin retired.
Mori Taxes I— The Now York.
thus orios loudly for more taxes :
“ Let us have a twenty-five per 06nt 1 _ii'cn™
tax, if necessary, with a searching jp,
into ovory man’s business and receipts. i
double tho on all luxauc
superfluities.” '
That is Very consolatory for our a
tax-opressed people ! A twenty-five per.? 0
income .taxi Whow I ■ Had-not-tlie..Gll?i_-
maut bettor taka all the property of tl“ 8 f
pie at once ?
' CCS- “ Oil City” must bo a nice pb« B
live in - , Accounts say that within ten »
there were “ lour murders and nuniot
robberies.”