usm CARLISLE, PA., UIARCH 2 r 1865, Poutld' 'SjtusE.—Hills for tbe following Balea pT’poraonal property have recently been printed atthis, office. Any person,desiring particulars can see •» copy of the’bills by cal ling at our office:, , Sale ■of Josmh. Swiler, one mile oast of Carlisle, near the County PoorJlouso;horses, «olts, cows and joung cattle, sheep and hogs, household’and’kitohon furniture, and farming implements. on the 4th of March.’ ' f. Sale .of John Shoemaker, Silver Spring’ township, > work horses, colt, milk oows, : young cattle, bull, shoots, sheep, farming implements and household furnitoro, ou the Oth of March. Sale of Mary, A,Blaok,m South Middleton township, on the farm of Mathew Moore, brood an ares, rniloh cows, young cattle, breeding -fii-.w, ■ehoats, farming' implements and house hold furniture, on the 11th of March. i Salo-ofHenry D; Newman, South Middle ton township,. milk cows, heifer, shouts, household furniture, and.farmiug implements, on tho 11th of March, ■ Sale of John S'. Kelso, Penn township, one mile north of Centreville, work horses, milk oows and yonng cattle, breeding s6ws, uhoats and pigs, - farming imploriionts and household furniture, on tho.ldlh of March. ■Sale of Mrs. Anno S. IVert, North Middle ton township, hear "Carlisle Springs, milk cmvs, sheep, cook stoye and household and kitchen furnitrire, on the 14th of March. ' Sale of Margaret Dill, Administratrix of •Jacob Dill, dco’d., Silver Spring township, -adjoining Hoguestown,, work horses, colts,’ fat steer, milk cows, young cattle, sheep, bogs, breeding sows and pigs, farming im nk'monts and household furniture, on the l'l;b of March. - ' Sale of Wm.G.Peffor, Frankford township a fourth of a mile north of Hays’ bridge, work horses, mules, milk cows and young cattle; a'lot of superior sheep, and farming implements, on the 16th of March'. Sale of Jacob Waggoner, on the Waggon er’s Gap Head, five miles north of Carlisle,' work horses, cows and young cattle, breeding saw, farming implements, and household furniture, on the 17th of March. Sale of John Heckman, sr., in South Mid dleton township, one mile east of Papertown, -a variety ofhouishold and Kitchen furtituro, on the lUth of March. Kelioiods Notice. —We are .requested to announce* that the Rev. John Chamhebs, the 'eminent divine of Philadelphia, will preach next Sabbath morning .and .evening in the Second Presbyterian Church of this place.— U is also expected that Mr. C. will proaph some evening of next week, of which notice will be given. [ll7* The* Democrats of West Pennsborough township are requested to meet at Kersville, ori Saturday evening, March 11th, at 4o’clook, .to make arrangements for the spring election. We beg leave to inform those who de_ sire obituary notices and “ tributes of re rpect” to appear in' our columns, that our charge ia 10 cents per line. Wo charge for everything inserted by request, even to aline All the editors in town do the same, nod we are. mutually pledged to adhere strictly to tl ose as well ns all onr other terms. Per sons who have sent us obituary and other no tices, without the cash, will therefore know why they did not appear. New Grocery Store. —By reference’ to tlieir advertisemnt, it will been seen that Messrs Wn. Blair & Son have just opened a new and extensive Grocery store on the cor ner of Hanover and South streets. Their as sortment is, of course, entirely fresh and very complete, and has been selected with great cnte and at,the lowest cash rates, A good grocery store, has long been needed in the South end ol tbe town, and wo have no doubt the now candidates for public favor will re ceive a liberal share of patronage. _ Spring Election.— The Spring Elec .tion will soon take plaoe, and it behooves our democratic friends to be up and doing.' Ma ny men seem to regard the loeal elections, ■which occur .annually in the boroughs and townships where, they reside, as of but little importance. This is an entirely wrong view ■ to take of the matter. ‘The offices to bo fill-'' od, if of comparatively littlemagnitude, are _ nevertheless higiily important. Much depends upon, having the right kind of men for Bur gos, Assessor, Council men, Constables, and /or election officers. It is the duty of every good citizen to take an interest and a-part in the selection and election of those who are to fill these comparatively humble positions. To Democrats we would say, nominate your very best iqen, and then make a vigorous ef fort to seoure.their election. We have known townships to be carried at a spring election by a littlo vigorous work, in which our oppo nents had. a decided and reliable majority. They trusted too much to their strength. It is important that the year should be begun aright, in order that wo may retain, if not increase, the present proud majority which we now hold in “Old Mother Cumberland." A manly effort made in the spring gives strength and energy for the more impotent contests that come off in the fall. Lot our friends throughout the county see how well they can' do at the coming election for town ship officers. A properly directed effort, if vigdroualy end judiciously made, may ena ble them to carry townships they never serried before. TVe hope no reader of tbe VoLPHTEEttwill fail.to take such an interest in this matter-as'its importance demands. Cumberland Fire Fair recently held by the members of this time honored and vigilant Fire Company, was, we are happy to say, if complete success. Du ring the continuance of the Fair, Rheemhi large hall, in which it was hold, was nightly ' crowded with the youth and beauty of the borough, and everything passed offin a pleas ant and hnrmomoua manner. The net pro «•«<&' of the Fair; as we havebeeb informed; wsre 11,481,18 j.oxpeneea ?363,73; balance due * 1 ?117,48. - This!isw4er pretty suhn,' afid : wKihi ,: it ehiws the liberali ty ojF. our bitizsae.jviy. onahlo' the. Company <» ■its l , and perhaps purebMerndroneidfuFappsratns. ■ , J t r; >- ■ ■"-/ JRVBNIUAL DiiyilUCTlOl OF THBfJIEGBO. ; ,{Wo folly ngroo'with the Louisville Demo eraf'on thVy ieyrit'takes of the poEcy'oftjia abolitionists. - -,A free people eon takecare of themselves. iThey must not bo-treated' as children,its slaves in-fool.." Turn) ihe jrrhito race loose and ll (take cure ofthem ■,eel vos. They want lie nursing find super?!', sing. That would make them slaves. If you take care of a man, ho must servo you ■and obey your directions. That is,a natural law that Congress can’t appeal. Tho negroes under Government control on plantations down South are not free. Tim system of sla very is only changed, and changed for the worse. Why should the white man bo taxed and oppressed to tako oaro of a people fit .to bo free?- Why should the white rogues.be enabled' to cheat those American citizens of African decent, by making bargains for them, taking,prpecods. Of their labor and pocketing ' it ? If the Abolition theory is true, set the negro free—let him shift for himself as white men- do. There is no harm in throwing . young ducks in the water, although wo would : not treat young chickens that way, for they can’t swim. In this sea of competition with this white race tho negro, in our opinion, will perishhe can’t swim. The Indian has kept out of it by instinct; but ho is washed away by the tides that followed him in bis retreat. • lle struggles hard and gets killed for his re sistance, The negro will perish an victim to the progress of this ambitious, rest less white man; The Abolitionists, however, don’t believe it.. They are filled with adroi ' ration of Sambo and expect to make.somo | thing wonderful oat of him. Nothing but the experiment will satisfy them, They feel a lofty and virtuous scorn for the advocate of the system of slavery, on tho grouud of hu manity. They will make attorneys, judges; electors, Congressmen; &0., out of the negro race. If their theory be correct, thef*arc right in all this, and they will hammer away ■at it.with as much zeal and furor-as they have assailed tho of slavery. If they are right, then the free States must bo vastly re formed. They have treated the negro upon the same principle as the South, although not the same way. Jibe more rapidly tho exper iment goes on, tho sooner tho absurdity will bo manifested. Those familiar with the ne •gro race from history or experience will see the end without the experiment. If carried out, it will end in the destruction of African slavery with the destruction of the whole race on this continent. Moderate counsels might save some trouble to white and black, but wo are to have no moderation. If, - THE NEGRO MUST VOTE. The Lancaster Intelligencer says, every move made by the real loaders of the party now in power, and every authoritative utter ance which falls from the lips of thoir ora tors, evidences a fixed determination on thoir part not to rest satisfied until they have bro ken down every barrier that stands in the way of the negro being made the equal of the while man. Their efforts in that direction are made the same persistent energy, and pushed with tho same untiring fanatical zeal whiph, from very small and insignificant be ginnings, eventually made them a power in this country. They are bent on retaining thoir hold upon office. Tlmy know that military, pressure,' and the enormous influ ence accompanying the annual disbursement of thousands of millions of money being re moved, the Democratic paity will sweep them from power at once and forever. They dread the day of reckoning with the- white race of this country, upon whom they have precipitated eo mapy woes in their mad efforts to benefit the negroes. They want the negroes to vote in order that their votes may counterbalance the influence of-poor white men, who are Democrats, both by-in stinct and from a proper appreciation of their. Own interests. They are commencing to abuse the foreign element .of our population, 1 notwithstanding the Irish and the Germans; have filled the ranks of our -armies ever since the war began. It will not he long after the war is, over until we shall see this fanatical party engaged in another Know-Nothing cr,u-‘ sade. They show "the cloven foot very plain ly, already. The speech of Sfot she-virago,* Miss Anna B. Dickinson, is a pieoo with the 1 general tone of the utterances of the Aboli tion orators and presses of the day. It will be remembered that she -was one of the most* distinguished Republican orators who spoke last fall, Tho decree has gone forth against .the Irish and the Dutch. The -negro is to bp allowed, not only to ride in street aridrailroad cars, to sit in churches in the game pews, and* in houses of amusement, but ho is to be gran ted the right to vote, in order that the reign of shoddy may be made eternal. The plea that they have fought in the army is to he 1 the unanswerable argument in their behalf. It was to furnish this very plea that they were put into tho Army in the first place. The de sired result is not accomplished yet, how,over and we are of tho opinion that these very Irish and Dutch will have something to say about the matter before it is. ' _ IC7” Tho Martinet!!?Troupe, now perform ing, at Kheem’s Hall, has been well encour aged each evening. The company is compos ed of adepts in their profession, and the man ner in which each one sustains his part is highly creditable to all. Those who hove not .witnessed the performances of this celebrated company, -should not fail to attend one eve ning at least. Statb Central Cohb jtte.- -The'Democrat-* io Slate Central Committee ns called by its chairman.to.roeetaMhe'-Buehler Houses Har risburg,on the Hth Inst, at 2 o’clock, T>. M., to decide in regard to the meeting of the next Democratic State Convention. , / t7*Some ef the Abolitionists in tho'Unl ied States Senate have got up a bill which -provides that, ifnny volunteer or drafted man desert, the, diatriot -to which he .ia credited shall bo heldtiresponsible'for his jusexpired 1 term. Thjs is just about as any of the legislation of that party bat wo have no idea that it will pass or becoaia a law, as the abolition sections of-the- country would bo about the only onea'effeofed'by it. Demo cratic com muni ties don ot send cowards and deserters-, to, any Vuoh .a, lawcould' not oppress them and itjsfqr this reasopthat it win never hepaModi.-' ; -' ,r . ; Desbbteh Shot.—Ua Wednesday night lost an attempt was made to arrest Henry Fletch er, of Middleoreek,township, who is a deserter from the draft. ; 'JCho house was surrounded j u B ,f} u - o^c#Vj “ r 7> and admission demand •d/ Ims being refused the door was forced, when Fletcher leaped-from a rear window*, and .altempjejiito gain a piece of woods near fc y- “« W repeatedly : ordered to haltl by otie<of the eoldierewhosawhiro jump, from the window, and'hpon. persisting in hit at- I tempt to escape,,was fired upon and fell. Upon being oarriSd,into.the* honse.it woe found he was badly'wounded, being shot through the body, .Asne was ■ too. severely hurt to be removed, a surgeon was. sent for,-, add h*wae„]eft with his friends. Since then y? Mm* whether *he }. alive or, dead.— Sqtyerts'Jl*rM,, '' '• 9 ' piEfttfiLlT? OF . 'Wqare rabidly tending to amopied avis* loorariy.-^.Evon,in.England, wherothanobil ity arid other mim’ of wealth control.logisla tion, tile holders,of seouritiesof the Govorn ment'havo to heat their just proportion of the taxes. But by the legislation of Congress, oiir wealthy men and our bunks and' other monied corporations, who invest their''capi tal or moneys in United States stocks, paya ble in gold, giving them an- income equal to from tyrelve to fifteen percent, premium, are exempt from nil local taxation upon, such investments. Our farmers,, mechanics, and other indus trial classes, therefore, have to sustain 'near ly the whole burthen of State, county, town, city and village taxation, including highway taxes, andsaxcs for the support of our com- schools.' And the United Slates Gov ernment, by ordering drafts from the citizens’ to increase th’o army, instead of offering such bounties ns will insure volunteers, compels the States, counties and other localities, ; to offer such bdurfties arid to provide fur their payment by local taxation. The result of this is to throw nearly the whole exponsq.of recruiting for the well ns the ex ' pease of the State; county and other localities upon the industrial classes, for the special benefit of. the monied-aristocracy who have . invested their property in United States stocks, payable iri gold. The contractors; those special favorites of the United States government, who have made railliaus by spec ulations upon tho misfortunes of thuir coun try, and have invested their enormous pro fits in United States stocks, are also exemp ted from all local taxation. No one should hereafter bo elected tj Congress, or to the State Legislature,, who will not pledge him self to oppose, and prevent such unequal tax. ation, whenever ho has an opportunity, to do so. And members of Congress, who have already boon elected, should bo instructed by their constituents, and Senators should bo instructed by tho Stato Legislatures, to re peal all laws which have a tendency to ex empt the property of tho men of wealth from looal taxation, so as to relieve tho industrial classes and the citizens of email moans from tho enormous weight of local taxation which is now so unjustly thrown upon thorn. Coi-ored Peopi.e in the Cabs.— The pas senger milway companies have counted'the votes taken among their passengers as to whether or no colored people should ride promiscuously, in, thoir oars. Taking tho av erage on the various linos, the vote is iii the tho negative ten to ono. So unrelenting is the prejudice -on the' part of tho people againat-tbo„iuingUng of colors in these puh lio Vehicles, that the receipts ol the Sixth street line,'which, carried tho colored people in that way diminished one hundred and seventy-five dollars por day from tho -very day they began tho experiment, while the number of colored people riding averaged but about two hundred per day. As wo gel this statement officially, there can be no ques tion about it. When the Board of Directors first discussed the subject they resolved to run every fifth ear for colored people, and such whites ns chose to ride with them. The requisite number of signs wore painted. A ! tho last moment this action was reconsidered, and tho Board, with but one dissenting vote, resolvid. that the passengers should he car ried without regard to color. Tho signs were deposited in a loft of tho'depot ns use less lumber. The result of the oxpcrimonf was as wo have stated. The daily receipts of each car'diminijhod from five to eight dol lars a day, which dimunition was a corres ponding gain to the parallel roads.' Justice jo the stock holders demanded a different course of notion, and .every fifth car is now re served for colored riders. - (On tho Tenth and Eleventh "street lino, out of four thousand votes taken, less than three hundred were in favor of the proposed intermingling of.colors. North American. Secretary Stanton’s Insolence. —When Senators Bell ami Andrews called upon Sec retary Stanton to effect a reduction of the State’s quota, they found him, says the Alba ny correspondent of the Brooklyn Uayle. >. ’ “ More unreasonable than Fry, and, of 'course, characteristically more insolent. After one bftho Senators had'correctly and clearly made known the positibn'of the State in oonnotiun with- the draft, he turned- upon him, with impudence and iuaolcuco in his tone and manner, and remarked : ‘ Well you’ve made a pretty good stump speech’, havn’t you.?’ lie maintained, in a greater or less degree, this bearing for on hour, or two. He said .New York was always asking for ; postponment and credits, tnd that, she had furnished too many paper, man; ’that this time he wanted men in boots arid would have them, arid that he did not want tb enter into any details, bift wanted it t’ojb&'uhcleri stood, once for all, that he would never con-, sent to tbe reduction of the quota of the State.- He was satisfied that Fry was right, and he' intended to stand by him. lie was told’ that the committee did not expect to succeed with hirii in their application forjustiiio; "that they’ had called upon him as a matter of cb'uf lesy, rather than in the hope of convincing him that’ Provost Marshal General Fry was wrong arid that having performed that duty, it was, their.purpose to seek justice of the President.-confident that from his reputed anxiety to have mutual justice meted out to all, he would see that tho Empire State was not asked for more than her share. The ex pression of tho determination to appeal to tho President cooled him down somewhat, and he was more.cburteous during thef bmain der of.the interview ;'but afthe close, he re peated that he would pot- consent,to a reduc tion, arid that.ho would earnestly advise the President against it. - I should have hereto-' fore stated, that during tho interview, Colo nel Yan Buren, on the part of the committee from the Assembly, assured Stanton that twenty thousand men could not possibly bo raised by the city of Now York, under this draft, when ho turned upon him roughly, and wanted to know whether ho'intended that as a threat to him [ whether-this committee bad come to Washington lb threaten him and-he inquired of-the members of thb committee; whethar-.they approved .of tho Col onel s remarks, making the inquiry in such a tone us to justify the iriipression, that had ' they answered affirmatively, Im was oil the point of turning them but of the office^" : CHARLEsTOjf; /The City *f Hharleston, the. oldest in robet lion(havitigenterpd upon itq inglorious oh roer of treason on the 20th of t>odombsr, : iB6O. With the secession of the Stifle, and inaugurated the war by firing on Fork Sum ter, April 12, 1801,) is also ono of the oldest in the United States, having been founded in 1672. Its population was recruited, some yearo afterwards by. Huguenot refugees, who emigrated- from Franco and solllod in pretty numbers |n South Carolina. It was not till 1783 that-it was incorporated as n ’city. Fifty-two years previously, in 1731, ■it contained- _eir 'hundred houses and five' churches, and a'thriving business was done in its pert.- - During the-Revolutionary war the possession of the harbor uf Charleston ,wos the qlijoct of more than ono British ex pedition. A.garrison, of four hundred on Sullivan’s Island, under command of Colonel Moultrie, achieved great distinction' by the ropulso on June 2s, 1776, of a British squad ron of nine ships of war. On the, 12th of May, 1780, the oity w«s surrendered Co Sir Henry Clinton by .General Lincoln, the cor ; partition and principle citizens refusing to 00-operato in its defence, and offering to ac knowledge the sovereignty of Great Britain. The British held it till May. 1782. It is alqotho largest oity in the State. It is built on a peninsula, or tongue bf land, between the Ashly and 'Cuoper livers, which unite below the town, -and form a spacious harbor, communicating with the oocan at Sullivan’s Island, seven miles distant. Both harbor and oity somewhat resemble Now' York and ifs bay'in miniature. -'Thera is, however; this striking diflbrenoe: ! that the portion of Charleston called the Battery, and corresponding'to the Battery in the city of New Yurie and to State street, is the most fashionable part of the city. The city is regularly built,and extends nearly'two miles in length and a mile and a half in breadth: Some of the streets are from sixty .to seventy foot briiad, and some are narrow—for instance, Kibg street, the Broadway of Charleston.— The streets run mostly parallel to each other, running across from river to river, and inter sected longitudinally nearly at right angles. They are shaded with beautiful trees. Sev eral of the henses are embowered in a pro fusion of foliage and flowers. Many of the dwellings have piazzas and are ornamented with vinos and creepers, while the gardens attached lb'them bloom with tho orango. tho peach and other trees and shrubs, in great variety. The city has, of course, sufferadrriuohin appearance.from the ravages of war., The shells which have been almost dai y thrown into the oily from our forts on Alorris Island have much injured the lower part of thcoity. A correspondent of the South Carolina Ad vocate thus, describes tho desolation of the oitj: “ Passing through tho lower wards of the city you would be particularly struck with the sad desolation, Tho oiegant man sions and familiar thoroughfares once rejoic ing in wealth aud refinement and the theatre of busy life—the'well'known and' fondly 'cherished- churches—some of them ancient landmarks— whore large assemblages..were wont to how. atjhyly altars, and spacious halls that once blazed with light and rung with festal songs, are all deserted, sombre and cheerless; aud this is enhanced by the for bidding aspect of that vast district of tho city which was laid In ashes three years ago, and winch remains in unmolested- ruins as the monument of Charleston’s long and drea ry pause in the grand march.of improvement. Hero you perceive her humiliation;". Till! Amemded Tax Bill.— The amendato ry Ilovenuu bill has finally passed the House ot Cuugi-ess, with numerous! amendments, among which' was one preventing any person not enrolled for military service (except such as are physically exempt) .from tating put poddler’a. .1 iodises. On smoking tobacco, made of shows, the tax was fixed,at .fifteen cents, and eg all other kinds of smoking to bacco thirty -five cents a pound. ■ The duty on diamonds and jewelry (a shoddy luxury) was reduced to five per oeutum ail valorem. Beer, lugur and other fermented liquors,-'to remain at $1 per barrel. Substitute brokers ; are to pay ,$lBO license, SlO on. each Btifisti tute accepted. A tax of two and a half per centum on . the net reoeipts .of railroads, ca nals, stoamlwits, ships, barges, canal boats, vessels, stage, coaches, and vehicles tran sporting passengers and property-for hire where the net proceeds are $3,000, and five, pet cent, on the excess. On iustrumei'tsol writing; where.stamps; have been omitted, it was determined that on payment,of $5O, tjm same might (je attached, ip. addition to the cost ot the stamp ; but where the stamp, has hepu accidentally omitted it may, bn attached upon merely paying for, the. same. -State banks are required to pay,a taxof ten per cent, on Bio amount of any'(State banknote paid out V'L, e,I J °9 aad after the first of ry ’ i „ The amendment to tax; all sales one-hall of one per, centum, was nomoon curred in—yeas 02, nays 75 ; and.the amend ment to tax sales of gold ten per cent, was, also, uon-conourred in—yc,as 38, nays 94. litriNo Female Oolleoe,— We Jolip, the following commendatory notice of,ope of our ‘•local, institutions” from,the Towaontown We, believe the aotioo ls well deserved.: r ‘ " . first pines Institution of lonrii ‘ng, situated at Mechiinicsburg. Pa in the garden eputof the far-famed Cumberland Valley, baa lately changed owners,- on no ®°“nt. »!>« fieath of Mr. Mabi,ati. the late Principal. ,Jt has-been purchased by-Key JLhoupson P. Bob, A. JI„ for §10,200. Mr. -Eoe is. well known through this county and State, pa having been connected with a Fe male, seminaw at York, and lately with the Cumberland Valley Institute at Mechanios burg. Ifo, has been a most successful and laborious Teacher, and under hie’manage ment, aided by those Teachers at. Irving College who will remain,, that Institution cannot foil to flourish as it has done in the past. We can safely recommend it to those of our readers who have daughters to edu cato. . , . , . , OP".?n -tile Pint. Ward of Philadelphia, “apy ,heart-rending scenes took place at 1 .iiiifoaLN’s lottery—the draft. One little boy, upon bearing bis father’s name called, fellin. ,n fit,|pnd waa taken homo insane. A man whose; name was read out,, burst into tears nntj exclaimed, “ Oh, royGod, what will be;, come of my sick wifeahd four little children ?” He Ijad yiited fqr Jaximux and war for; the h.egro,, but, never supposed he would be caught himself; . v . Jpr A Washington-boot-maker states au ,&?»»&&$; tßkt JasP is Avery bij thing, ' ; v :‘. . ■ ~ ’ f» „ - ' TAXUifi'CBDDE PETROEtUM. Ou the subject-of -, taxing crude petroleum, the Now York Worid expresses yiowa whioh will;doubtless receive a hearty 'endorsbmont in Pennsylvania. It-saya that if our nation-: ■ el legislators would -aot tho part ’of wisdom, they-should at present reject nay and every proposition looking to tho- imposition of a’ tax of any kind, light or heavy, upou crude petroleum. 'They should reject such a nug gostiou, not alone because of Clio vast capital embarked .in the ■ petroleum business, not because of personal, individual, or see tionul interests, but for the most weighty na tional reasons. By an rmondment to tho Internal Revenue hill it is proposed io levy a fax of six cents per gallon upon, crude poire loom, equal to about two dollars and forly emits per barrel.. It is dcltiunstratab’lc, we think, if this amendment becomes a part of the law, and is -enforced, that an injury will thereby ho inflicted upon what promises to become ultimately the first- inf terest uf tho nation, equal to its reduction-to a merely nominal standard. A tax nf Sis cents,per gallon on crude petroleum .would* inevitably.add ten cents, per. gallon In the' cost of the refined article, which already pays 'a duty of twenty cents per gallon. ' lit this event, tho export trade will almost entirely cease ; for the coal.nil no\, 'manufactured in, Great Britain is furnished at a cost-of about' twenty eon taper gallon, in gold—much cheap: or than our oil could, under the cltcumstfia cos mentioned, bo offered in; the same, pi in any other European market. m Again, the petroleum business ip in its'in. fancy, True; it now gives signs of becoming tho most gigantic oommoroialifitqreat ofithis groat continent; but unwise legislation will so bind it about, cramp,and cripple it in its adolescence, that it will.bo utterly uuable.tq approach oven half its natural and, proper growth. If a tax must be-placed upon pe troleum, good sense dictates that its imposi tion should bo postponed until,it acquires that commoroidl strength which will enable it to bear the load. Jt should be remembered that America docs not stand alone in the' markets of tho world as the producer of rock oil.' In half the countries of Europe, Asia and Africa it either exists naturally or is nr tificiiiliy evolved, is either manufactured' or rained. In.the United States,*it is, true, the indications are that the supply is boundless. But if our vast interior seas conld'ljo trans formed into so many migjity'pools of petro leum, wpmipuJiiCßbt bo .eho cent'the',richer -tberefrir, uiflo»B',\v° were, able to deposit the -oil at a cheaper Ato than aufiiompetitpiy; We can Undersell all rivals, we can, and we fhu-st do. if, Id order to se cure the monopoly. •- Lot oiir capitalists pro ceed in the wdrk.of scouring this ; let vis make, (Is wo can, tho United States the vast oil well of tbo universe, and'set all the na tions pumpingt and then—tax. : ‘O' Tho secret of living cheap in Wash ington- is exposed by a correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial as follows,; Many military officers, rsaident in Wash ington, have a way of living Tit a cost much below tho ordinary price of hotels Or board ing houses, though X may bo pardoned fur doubting whether,:nll. things considered; it is f s honorable asit might he~ It is dime in this way: A colonel, or a major or a. captain is entitled to buy from the Commissary De partment at first arico, or about half the-re tail market price, what is needed, for his subsistence, I have heard lately of one or two of those gentlemen going to live in a board ing house, and keeping it supplied with beef, pork, flour, coffee and sugar at commis sary prices, by protending to have a mess of ■thirty- or forty, and making requisitions' ac cordingly. Thisis getting to bo a-.common practice hors, and I think it ought to bo ex posed and stopped,. Officers who . engage in .this, petty .business dp .so of course, on considoration that for the seryioo .they ren der they shall bo paid free board. It is nim ply converting tho Commissary Deportment, into a retail grocery establishment. How True. —Tho CihoinnntlitraxeWe says ; “ The patriot in this war is the private sol dier ; the man who endures all the hardships and faces all the dangers of tho war with no shape in its rewards, and hut an undivided portion in its glories, which hringno person al honors. They advance to the charge which decides the’fate of the battle in the face of a storm of death, or they rush to tho assault of murderous fortifications, a glorious victory is won, the cOmm-ander’s name rings throughout tho land, 1 the.’swift gratitude of tho Government'rripnnte the popular impulse ’and -promotes biro, perhaps repeating, if at; the instant; .they fall to unknown-graves, their names even too numerous’ for ’the;war bulletiqs.'; An indifferent addenda ,io 1 the glorious usoription, mentions our loss at so paany thousands, 1 and the country congratala-: tea itSolfon' the cheapness of the victory, arid pays it® debt of'.griifitudo'in honors and of ferings to the fortunate- commander.” CARBOtreoijNiy PnisoNEns.—Saya the Car hopDemocrai; . ; “ pis Majesty at- Washington has at last .Oansed 'lhe ' dungeon's doors to be opened which confined tho citizens of thisbounty,’ ar rested without euthority of law, fiii-no (dfeiioo except the crisis pf being -Hcfitucrats. and tried by a bevy of shbulder-slrappijd hirelings of tho Abolition despotism -in a mnimor un known to the laws ot ihe land. When Mr. Lincoln saw-tlmt-he '.could -make no.oapitjil out of the matter, ho caused tho.prisamdiiM-s to be-thro.wn open and prisoners to -ba releaa. - ed,-without tolling why. they wore imprison ed or why Set free. Thii not of tho so-called President amounts- to an acknowledgment that these sufferers under his tyranny were innocent, and that the ‘tiourt Martial r .whioh disgraced our Court Hbuse was no legal tri bunal; but tho mere creatures of-his will, soiit to make an appearance of law for thu mcrS purpose of removing from this'oounty a few Democrats would-be in the way at election.” The; Postmasteb Genebal and fag Press.— The postmaster General expresses himself .dissatisfied with the action of the Sonttte, in striking out from JVJr. Oollaiper’a. bill, the provision requiring publishers of newspapers at)d_ periodicals to prepay the .postage on all printed matter. going through ■the post-office. -Ho will endeavor, if possible, to.liave'it re-inserted tin. the .House, and sent baek to'the Senate thus amended. ,1 do .not. think ho will,succeed. His idea'seoms to be.' to make publishers instead of postmasters, collectors of postmffice dues, but if he wjji himself undertake the business of publishing for awhile, be will ascertain the lamentable fast that it ia»quite as mush as he pan -do to him far Ms ,paper, and lot fhe postage be taken care of by others. Mr. Dennison is. of the .opinion that his favorite.idsp.vyilJ. yet be carried into offset, and he will hot abandon it even if, as eoems prpbqbie, it’is defeated in this Congress. , ARTICLES FROITISOI] TIIEEN PAPERS ■ ;City Coversd witH Renown; ? . [from tbo Rlcbmond-Diflpatoh,.February 23.] • We believe that the evacuation vf CHarleo ton and of all the ee'nbord cities would,Jong age have added ,tb tho stvcdgtli of tliWcoQ fcderupy. Ik is mortifying to‘ give up aoity' which is the peculiar object of federal Ten' gennoc, and which has been so long and so heroically' defended.. But, after .four, years' resistance to tlio utmost power of the United Slates, Ur lo*cs* no honor by the evacuation, which military necessity compelled. Tlio may hold Charleston Tor a time,- as the Jlritisa did in the revolution, but the end ortho war will restore it to the confed erate. flag, uud it will enter a now career of prosperity and .iiMportnuusn. ,:WJmtover the. event 'of the (Jharleatoiu-bae cov ered itself wifh renown, ftnd f Vvlli lung live-in history. ' ‘ - Not Cli.-irlcsloji Cny, Imi-live Shell of n C’iiy Chpiurctl by 'l tip Fed. nils— ■ Tlio Living Clrdusloii Npt..Taken': >■: ri>m i 7 U is not 'Ciou'iffOnn city, but the empty and ruined shell, of a aity, that the entimy hare found lying with its door open, and ,en t'oruil .without opposition. Tho Xankeo na tion particular , about i its title, to boast and vaunt; alse.it. would say very lit tle about its reduction of'Charleston. After, three years of immense and superliunmn.effdrt Jo take that place by regular siege, after burn ing more' powder and throwing more weight of iron ball dod shellthan ever war expend-, edin any siege since the world began, and all in yain—at . length, finding the back door of the.plaoo left pujfposly open,,they slip in ;: and etraightway the whole Northern people, sing* '2i JJeum and lo Ttiumpbei- on the re: duotion of the hot-bed of secession. . They find. there a few jews, some .telegraph oper ators, (who are Yankees), npd a wilderness of shattered and tenantless. elope and lime; not Charleston, but the abandoned bull of Charleston. ’ .The soul and spirit of that he roic city lives still; but not m those rains ; it;.is in the field with General Lee and General Bureguard, where the “ hot-bed of secession” yet blooms with vigorons branch-, es, and gives promises of blood red fruit. , But our'enemies try to persuade them selves that' they have subdued the famous city, andeven flint theylmve conquered South Carolina. ■ How triumphantly'they will dis play their felon flag upon the glorious ruins of Sumter. How majestically their provost . marshal will tread the deserted regions of King street and Meeting street, and'predom inate. like a, three-tailed pacha, over.a Sew. Dutchmen nttd bid women left to be nwod’by that mighty ' Yankee power. But as 'for tbo real, living Charleston, and'' immortal palonietto state, the Yankee nation will find that it lias still to reckon with them. A Spunky Negro—A dolored Union- ist in Favor of the South, [From tho.nichmoad.Sentinel, Fob, 22.] . Among tho hi’cjy returned prisoners Were jive negroes, vrlio resisted nil solicitations-to join the enemy or titles tliß'oath. One ot these, named Dick,- of Petersburg, was quite a character. The -Yankees often engaged" him in conversation, but. Dick was a match for-thorn afnll points.. 1o told thenvhe was a Union man of the John Minor Betts school, but that day was past with him now. Ho hud been in favonof dic-Unjon as it was, and not as the Yankees proposed tomato it.-r- Diek had been made a prisoner since the bat tle of Gettysburg. Jury Commissioners.—On die first ihstant, Mr. M’Cluro introduced in the House, a bill “ to change the manner of selecting jurors in the several counties of this Commonwealth.” The act provides lor the election by the peo ple lif two jury commissioners in ooch county, whoso duty it shall bo to .select the grand and petit juries. In electing them hilt one candidate shall bo voted for, as in- tho ease ■of inspectors of election—the intention ap pearing to bo to secure one commissioner from, each political party. In ease of vacancy the court of common, pleas shall (ill by appoint ment. Tito fees to bo three! dollars ffer day. - - a There is a provision in the bill excepting the city of Philadelphia ami the county u( 'Allegheny 1 fHe.,'operation of die act.— When it is considered that’ these are the groat eastern ami western strongholds of the Abolition party’,'the Selfishness and injustice of the act is plainly evident. After thefts ex ceptions, there would be about Ihirli/seveit •Democratic counties where the Abolition party wouhl secure such privileges mid onlv about twenty-five Abulition comities in which Deniocrats -would secure a voice iutho so' lection of juries. If the bill is not intended as a political scheme to givin power and an excess of priyiligea over the Democracy, Why not apply it also to Philadelphia city and Allegheny county ? If it is agood thing ("or so many Doiriocratip counties, if must prove equally beneficial to'the larger cities and" counties flbyoted to Abolitionism. The hill Washeferred to the (Jenert.l Judiciary Com mittee, Where, we heliev.oi'it-still rests.—Pa triot Union. ' '> VOTE OF THANKS, ! At ,n. meeting of the Cumberland' Fire Compapyj-hold at, their hall, on Thursday evening, Febrttjvry 23, the following resolu- tions were passed : Resolved, That the Cumberland Fire-Com pany tender their thanks to the citizens’of Carlisle.and vicinity who so generously con tributed to the Fair of the Company. ! Resolve)!, That the thanks of th> Company be tendered to Mrs; 0. Inhoff, Chairman of the Ladies, Contrailtee, find to'the other la dies whd so kindly assisted at the Fair. Resolved, that the thanks of the Company 'bo tendered to the nipmoors of the Cl.i d Will Fire Citntpany, for their valuable asiistnnco in conducting the Fair. .lh \t the thnnlfs of tile Company ,be tendered to.the cdjtora of llio. Volunteer, Herald, pnd for gratuit* uusly publishing notice* of the Fair.: •For tho benefit of tho jiuflUo tho following .statement of .tha rimoipts of tlio Fair is subjoined; ' ■ , Not Receipts ol -Fair ■Expenses : r 18 >• • 303 73 Not Profit*- ■- . sl~ur 45 BOBST. ftIoCAP.TKBY, « lyesideai. , E.D. QciaLsr, Secretary. A pvEtiTisiNO.—i'ew of our .business men understand the great secret of advertising— its utility, its profits pud benefits. In Europe ns well as in the united States, thousands of .won, especially tjie medicine vendors, from small beginnings, by a judicious piflent eys toi» of advertising-, have reaJizedprincely fortunes. Never say you have no time' to at. tend to your advertisings Jl.ia and requires the same ears as the selection' dt a business location, for Jn both you seet publicity. Tha man who never advertises, or does so grudgingly, willsoon be Igft behind in the race for business and .wealth by' his shrewder and more enterprising neighbor wbb resorts to the columns of the newspaper to giye publicity to bis business,' ' WLMINGTItt o Cfis . BKT ''"' S 0 ? ns oinm c.al report of the' ca,,i u re oVwT' viu K Ol ■' l - Srivioj,. f T, ' ant ’ City Point-' Onr }° P ’ * ! "&m Wilmington on tiio moru'ing „ f ~7“ After the nyuouatbn of P„n A,,, 221 '"«i; Schofield directed Cox-to fII dor3oll »Uc[ l “St bu\wa»To olo»eI OUr milei ’ ifesTsLioV "0«"h“"“f/.° n l no M^VtoS stand behihd Town creek but „ b 0 o mat, ° » Ux crossed his troops below tl, 1,10 20 'li, boat, attacked them T tl o rear ™ 1" “ fl “ hem, taking two. guns and ■inn ” n(l r euted , :On the dt Oox gU pnrs U Tt T?" 1 ' nver, opposite Wilmington wh ™T k'? ick es wore on fire, and on his arri a u, br |T 1 nT r, bl ! rn,ns oRtt ™ and rosin in n rekc, » and loft that night. Our n . l1 ' 9 city, Fort AndorsOh, Amount to XaTvoo 61 ": 118 * ere and $0 gtina. . lut 'prison- Citlzbua State that thn », » one thousand bales of nettop J ? rct sand barrels of 1 our. Tlio n„; , l : . n »n>«- Showed, itself quite strongft 1. in S >«■ lorry fnllowid'rioL nThwmd Lieut. Col., A. D 0 nmTii C °““l? 0lt ’ General '’ T Brevet Brigadier : Art Opinion Wanted.— The Supremo Coen of Miohiganynn Abolition concern ha,H • ; ded the Soldier’s Voting Law of £ StaTo' unoonet.tut.oual. We wOeder if the “1„ !, Abolition press will denounce those a, Co„ perheadt? Hardly; The VermontSupram* Court, also mfChsely ’’loyal,” has decided tbo same way We respectfully inyitp an opiu- 0“ The Hon. Hugh JloOulloch, of Indiana (now Controller of the Currency,) i„ to ba appointed Secretary of the Treasury. tu !uc , ceod Mr Fessenden. The appo.ntmsntwa. tendered to Ex-Governor Morgan, of Now York, but ho declined it. ",-T“? '■ 9l' has-bWn found" at last. He exists in the person of Josonh- MCn’ a rea ' d « l ? t of Wisconsin, and i. „„ hundred and thirty nine years old, as tho re. cord o the bapjismdn tho Catholic Church at Detroit, whore ho was bore, it i 8 !a id snows. ’ CT* Thpre are six colored churches in Sa vannah,, Ihreo of theml- have largo, and. splendid organs. The phatfira urn colored’ been. Another proof tho hardships that the negro snffers front thU galling chains of slavery.” H 'j ' fi@“The groat trotingjuutch in'Barisho tween tho American,horse Shepherd andthd French horse Express resulted in a victory for tho American horse, ho winning byn huiK died yards. ' American Silver is at a discount of 25 per cent in Oartada. Send it along this way. Vfo’l) toko it at par, in pay for thd Volunteer. ► Jftarwtl. In this place, at Shrincrs Hotel, on the ult., by tlio Rev. Samuel Phillips, Mr. Wit* uAm B. Stiu i.itn to JMiis Fannie Snyder, of Carlisle. In this place, nk tho Reformed Parsonage on the same .day, by thq same, Mr. Elias Mountz, of Frankfort twp., to -Miss Eliza Ur 'Kaufman", ; of South twp. On the 23d nit, at the residence of the br.dc's hither by frho .Key, Father Oerdeman, Mr. Juim M. Klein, to Miss’ Cecelia Sites, both ut Carlisle* On tho 23d uli. at the 1 residence of tbff bride*n father, by the Roy. John C. Bliss of Cnrli.-Ic, Mr, Guo. tP. Heady of Shippoafi •Unrur. to Miss • Anni&VE;, oldest daughter of Mr. John Stuart, of South Middleton twp. : iis. Xrv this borough, on Monday ~mornfrg, the 13tb ult., of consumption, Mr. James MoudtV aged'ubout33 years. : On Tuesday morning last, after a lingering' illness. .Mrs, Citfisriuiha-. Feucer, aged 47 years 5 months amt 111 days. ' ■ Dearest molhorl'thou hast loft ns, Can .wo see thee bore no more, ■ .Thoq.bast left.ibis world of sorrow Por luat bright nnd shining-shore. , They 101 l us that .a'God of love, ; 6aifinother'.’ JDcutb, lihc? called, above,- Oh, ; tbon ? we’ll oftuu turn uuroycfl, ■ And]ook.on‘yonder hnppy skies', - ' And think/oi; thee, our mother^ ■MarktM CARLISLE MARKET’—March- 2d, 18M- Flour, Superfine;-por bill-. ■ ■ .' ' ' ,M do.; Katra,. ' - - " 'K ■ do., , Jtyo, i.. ; do., .. i’I 0 White Wheat, per. bushel, ' • lip.n Wheat, .*• * • do., Urn,.’ ,1,,. Coax. ; ,-y c1,,.’ . OATS,. dn,,' j- f . Datiley, * do., ', ft Fall- . • do., ; do., ..V CI.OVBUSKEH, ' t { \ o , f • ■ • d 0.,,: PHI h ADEEP'IIIA MAUKrI Olareh. Id ’6). If lour, superfine,! “ -IiXTUA, ilyn Flour, .Corn Meal, WueXt, reel, . Rt«, Con.t, Iflllaw, - “ Wki,- - :-i . Oats, . > - OLOVKRftEEJ), Whiskey, • :•!' -: i; > JilSf m mES >■ • WILLIAM DEVENNEY, Auctioneer. March' 3. Catharine 1 Chapman, . do 4, Jrisihh %pr; Nop Middleton. ;,;do '6, S.'AC-Piigue'.'iVi'lddfoßo?; ; ■ _d°' ’ 7,'Jacobi MiddletjoSr do : ’ Pqtdr StfttnlihMßh. .• i ;)3o , 9i SB^uel I CuIp,.'SnVeV;SPVI,nA',., idle ' "l^.^jiW: l joiridepbblU;'ft!M*f“ w !*l. 'd0;',’,.16, John Sterh/Silvor. Spt'idg-, '. • ' do 10. Margaret A.' Dill, oilVOf Spring. ■do "'l7i John Westfaul, MpPrpo, / do , 18,, Andrew Mpnroe, 'dp 21, Mr*. C; B. Young, Carlisle, do 22, Jacob go|tjsj Wpat ■lO UP ; 10 SO ■ ;gfs . BSO 2520? Sfc 2 70-, , . I 7t. 1 oo; 1 It 15,00 3 30
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