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AMERICAN VOLUNTEER.
BRATTON & K BNNE-DY,
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
CARLISLE, PA., JAN. 25, ISGG.
REMOVAL!
The American Volunteer Print
ing Office has been removed
to the South Side of the Market
Square, immediately opposite the
Market House; in the building
formerly occupied by Stephen
Keepers, Esq. ,
MEETING OF THE DEMOCRATIC STANDING
COMMITTEE
A mooting of the members of the Demo
cratic Standing Committee of Cumberland
County,.will take place at the public house
of Mr. SnaciN'ETt, in the Borough ol Carlisle,
on Saturday, January 27th, ISM, at one
o’clock, P. M. A full attendance is reques
ted
JOS. C. THOMPSON,
Chairman.
Received this day (Jan. 9th 1860,)
Japau Tea, Sugars and a large
variety o£ Groceries and Quocnswaro for
Wholesale and Retail at Wji. Blair &> Son,
South End, Cai lisle.
Lecture. —llev. Otis Uihsou will deliver
a lecture, in llheems Hall, on Tuesday even
ing Jan. Gist 1800, on China, its scenery,
t;ade, oustoins'&c Mr. Gibson is a graduate
ol Dickinson College.
Range for Sauk.—A most excellent range,
nearly new, and as good as now, is offered
fur sale cheap. Inquire at this office.
We understand that a number of gen
tlemen from our town and vicinity^arc nego
elating for the purchase of nearly thirteen
thousand acres of timber and mineral lands,
located in the Shenandoah Valley, near Har
risonburg Vn., which they propose develop-
ing immediately.
Wo have no doubt, from what information
wo have, that the investment will be an ex
ceedingly peotitable one, and we are glad to
know that tho capital of our country is this
winter seeking legitimate investment and not
being thrown away in the purchase of worth
less oil stocks.
Cumberland Fire Company". —At a stated
mooting of this efficient company, held at
their hall, on Saturday evening last, the fol
lowing officers were elected fur tho ensuing
year:
President —Robert M’Cartney, Sr.
tecrcianj —L. D. (.Quigley.
Trp.is'ure.r —Geo. A. Ddliimn
Directors —Ist, Andrew Marlin ; 2nd,
Martin Kuhn ; bd, C. R. Sanno ; 4th, An
drew Sheaffer ; sth, A. T. D'eeiuor.
lipemcn —John Avney, Allred Brannon
Wm. Grove,
C ouiinillee of Accounts —Stephen Keepers
Hiram Gibb, Jonu i'elker.
Committee of li 'p nrs —Jcs*e Hays, Lev
Minich, Solomon Stoutior.
Election of Bank Officers.-—At an elec
tion held at First National Rank of this
place, on the 9th inst., the following named
gentlemen were elected its officers for the
ensuing year:
President —Hon. Samuel Hepburn.
Cashier— Joseph Uoifer.
Tellers —Messrs. Sinead, Orr and Brenne
man.
Directors— Samuel Hepburn, William Ivor
John S. Steritt, W. R. Muhin, John li. Lei
dig, Isaac Brenneman, W. F. Sadler.
Remarkable Occurrence.— Snake in a
Man’s Stomach. —The Newvillc Star of the
Valley says that William Hatton, a young
man residing in Sbippcuaburg, one day last
■week, vomited a live snake about IS inches
long and more than ha/J an iwh thick! lie
swallowed it while drinking from a pool in
Idaho, about four-months ago, and has suf
fered groat distress in his stomach ever since,
complaining especially of a sensation of cold
ness. lie returned to liis home in Shippens
burg, expecting soon to die. After undergo
ing an unsuccessful treatment by a groat
many medical men, he stated his caso to a
physician in Philadelphia, who prescribed
an emetic, which was taken, with the above
result, It came uear strangling him, and
before he was relieved, lie was black in the
face.
Our Standing Armv. — W a have repeated
ly denounced the determination which is ex
hibited to keep up a huge standing army,
jiu*t vhnfc all need uT Mich an institution has
passed away. Wo heartily commend the
following timely remarks on the subject which
wo find in the Now York Tribune of yester
day :
Wo entreat Congress to ponder long and
anxiously before consenting to pass Gen.
Wilton’s bill proposing to increase the .person
el of our Regular army to some Seventy
Thousand men. If that bill becomes a law, at
least Thirty millions per anum will be added
by it to the taxes of our people; and for what?
“To add Forty Thousand men to our Army,"
say you? Thou you are grievously mistaken.
, We shall utmost have but the skeleton of an
army; officers without soldiers, regiments on
the books dwindled to companies on parade ;
bloodless, fleshlcss skeletons, with bony jaws
grinning at the folly which called them'into
being. Mon in Congress ! save us from this
costly illusion 1
Amplo experience proves that the ranks of
our little Army of Fifteen to Twenty Thous
and never were nor could be kept full in time
of peace; they wore oftener scarcely half full.
Now, War is going out of fashion ; and every
man in our ranks beyond the first Twenty
Thousand will hare cost §5OO by the time ho
has. fairly joined his regiment. Then why
expand ! We are groaning under unprece
dented taxation, which must bo yet more so
-verely felt as prices decline toward a specie
standard. Economists in congress 1 save us
from the passage of this most neollessly
oppressive measure I
CQyThree of the persons who robbed the
Adams Express safe ou the Now York and
New. Jersey railroad have been arrested, and
§200,000 of the stolon funds recovered.
THE OUTRAGE CONSUMMATED.
The greatest outrage in the world's history
has been enacted by the Rump House of Rep
resentatives at Washington. On Thursday
last, that superlatively infamous body passed
the bill giving the negroes residing in the
District of Columbia the right to veto at all
elections. During the last four years thou
sands upon thousands of ignorant and worth
less blacks have rushed into Washington
and Georgetown, and at this time they out
number the whites almost two to one. Thou
sands of these negroes receive their rations
from the Government (by order of Stanton, )
in defiance of law and right. They are no
more capable of exercising the right of suff
rage than are the government mules that are
quartered at Washington. Against the
unanimous protest of the white citizens of
the District,of Columbia, the Capital of the
Nation is virtually transferred to'the control
and keeping of the black strangers who are
stopping thefo at the expense of the United
States Treasury! Was there over such an
outrage perpetrated upon a free people ? The
Capital of the United States—the city named
after George Washington —a city of im
mense wealth—a city of intelligence, refine
ment and enterprise—is wrested from the
keeping of the men who own it, and trans
ferred to the tender mercies of ignorant
blacks, one half of them paupers and thieves,
and who ar£ merely staying there because
they arc found in victuals and clothes by a
set of official scoundrels who worship ne
groes and call it “ loyally."
In the name of decency, whore is this fa
naticism to stop.? Must our cities as well as
the. country at largo bo utterly disgraced
aud ruined merely that tho morbid spirit of
New England. fanatics may be gratified,
llow can these fanatics—these crav.y
arrested in their mad career? Will Presi
dent Johnson go with them? is a question
that is now asked by thousands of anxious
men. Wo confess that wo have little confi
dence in Johnson ; beyond question ho is an
ufiruvemeut on Lincoln, but yet wo fear
io lacks nerve to act as his conscience Uio
ates. We have endorsed many of his views.
but felt provoked to sec him remain listless
and dormant when those views wore assailed
by reckless and fanatical fouls This bill
conferring the right of suffrage upon the
blacks will, beyond a doubt, pass tho Senate,
when it will go to the President for his ap
proval or rejection. If he vetoes it well.
If he signs it, and makes it a law, then his
name will go down to posterity stamped as
infamous. If he gives his sanction to this
diabolical outrage, he will do it with eyes
open, and under the conviction that he dis
graces both his country and himself.
A few words now in reference to tho
campaign last fall, and wo are done. We
told the people then I (nit the Republicans
were contending for a principle, and that
that principle was negro-equality and suff
rage. But with what vehemence did the Re
publican speakers in all parts of this county
denounce our assertion us (also ? Their lead
ing spoutor on the slump read our articles to
lus heavers, aud thou branded them “ false
from beginning to the end,” assured the peo
ple that the “ great Republican party” had
no such object iu view, aud that U was pre
posterous for us to make such a charge, &c.
Who stan Is convicted of falsehood now ?
Who told the truth last fall ? We ask the
people to think of those things, We ask Ro
publicans—wcll-disposod Republicans, who
were misled by l- demagogues and falsifiers —
wc ask them to think of things. When
wo bramleii leading Republicans Inst fall as
disunionists, whoso object was to keen cer
tain States out of the Union, after the Presi
dent and General Grant had declared that
they had never been out of tho Union, wo
felt satisfied that wc spoke the truth to the
letter. AVhcn wc charged that negro-equali
ty and negro franchise wore tho objects of
those leaders, we felt equally satisfied that
wo made no misstatement. Look now. at tl 0
proceedings of Congress. Our charges arc
sustained. Disunion and negro equality are
two subjects acted upon. Ruth arc favored
by tho Republicans of tho two Houses, and
the issue can no longer bo evaded even by
, lies. Oil, what a sorry day was it for tho
; people of these States when they elevated to
j power this treasonable, stealing, deceptive
i party.
BRICK’’ PWIEBOY (WIDEN BE,IST BOTTLED
• BUTLER,
At last tills groat American thief and plun
dering murderer has resigned, and is no more
an officer of the army ho disgraced. Grant
has bottled him up forever, and in a few
words proved tbo truth of our oft expressed
opinion of this natural thief, coward and mil
itary ass. What ho will do now is more than
wo know. Most likely go to shop-lifting,
grave-robbing or insulting women. At heart
a traitor—by instinct a thief—by education
a robber—Benjamon F. Butler has won a
name fur infamy, venality and ineompeten
oy second to none in tho world. Ho was one
of tho peculiar tools of Lincoln and tho Re
publican party, and ,has been a nightmare
on the American people for the past five
years. An original secessionist, he never
had a patriotic motive in his heart. Ho nev
er deserved a position in the army ho nev
er fought a hattlo—ho never won a victory
lie never lost an opportunity to steal from
and plunder tho defenseless—he never made
the Union flag other than a signal to mark
the depository of stolon goods, and should
have been dismissed tho army long since.
The greatest curse a mother could put up
on a child would bo to wish it the heart and
attributes of Ben. Butler, whoso sun has at
last sunk in the deepest infamy, and whose
eternity wo trust will bo spent in the home
«/ hi*employer. Thief, robber, abolition pa
triot, mililitary plunderer, woman in sillier,
grave-yard robber, soldier murderer, egotis
tical ass, pet of Republicanism, child of the
devil, cock-eyed abortion of humanity, hot
tied braggadocio, played out politician, dis
honored general and traitorous citizen, fare
well.
Tims one by one of the political generals
and cf.utcs of our national trouble—ono by
one the cotton-thieving, plundering scoun
drels who have strutted their brief hour on
the bloody stage, drop into infamy. Bottled
Blunderer, Big Bethel Butcher,' Brnggadu
cin, Ben Beast Butler, farewell.
A SCENE IN CONGRESS.
Tho Republican newspapers arc in ©esta
tes over the passage of the bill giving every
miserable, greasy, ignorant nogroin the Dis-
trict of Columbia the right to vote. Wo may
expect their columns to bo adorned with tho
most graphic descriptions of tho grandeur of
the scone presented in the magnificent hall
•of the House at the. momc*nt of tho passage
of Ibp bill. Imaginative imagery will" no
doubt bo exhausted. Poetry will bo called
in where plain prose halts, and all tho lyres
in the land of New England will bo newly
strung to sing parnns to tho white men in
Congress who were bold enough solemnly to
vote that noil her they nor any of their race
were a whit bettor than tho horde of negroes
who filled the galleries of the llcuso of Rep
resentatives, and sat trembling with delight
as the sonorous aye of each Republican del
egate was recorded against his own race and
in favor of that which many of them delight
to laud as the superior one. Tho scene pre
sented on tho occasion was one just suited
to tho stylo and tho capacity of modern Yan
kee poets, and it will no doubt be sung in
strains of fitting melody. By and by art
will, as is her custom, come to tho aid of po
etry, and painting and sculpture will be tax
ed to their utmost to perpetuate the glories
of the over memorable occasion. It was un
questionably a strong and stirring spectacle.
: Tho Washington correspondent of tho New
York Herald sends to that paper the follow
ing telegraphic photograph of tho appearance
of the House, and tho conduct of tho Repub
lican members at tho moment when they had
succeeded by legislative enactment in placing
the negro on an equality with the white man.
Hare is his sketch taken mv tho instant and
forwarded by lightning:
The galleries wore filled by anxious speo-
tutors and listeners of both colors, tho blacks
preponderating, however. Tho passage of
tho bill was hailed with such boisterous and
prolonged applause .on tho floor that Speak
er Colfax lust his temper, and said that ho
would not in future attempt to suppress tho
galleries unless members behaved themselves".
Jubilant radicals rushed into the lobbies,
tho halls and tho barber shops, and gnwpcd
tho greasy hands of every thoroughbred
freedman they found in those localities
Coming down from the galleries big darkies
jostled loftily against tho high burn dames
of this DinUict and trod upon their drapery
with an air ot divine right. In the street
cars they hobnobbed with successful Con
gressmen and grinned familiarly in the fa
ces of the heretofore ruling race. —Lancaster
Intelligencer.
—Every Ruin per in Congress thrnms'upon
he string of negro military service in the
cause of tho Union, but none of thorn will de
scend to particulars. Pray, what military
services have tho “pet lambs” rendered?
We know that they prevented the capture of
Richmond by their cowardice in tho Peters
burg ,mino affair. Wo know that they wove
kept in holiday trim in camp when tho hard
fighting was performed in front of Richmond,
and that, when tho last “rebel” hail depart
ed, they wore nmohol in tho back -way to
make a little capital for them. Wc know
that, since then, whqn they have not been
engaged in mutinies and In killing their offi
cers, they nave been stirring up insurrection
among other negroes, and plundering and
murdering the defenseless men, women and
children of the South. Wo know, ah-o, that
they nro now robbing and murJen’ng from
Texas over tho Mexican border, under tho
flag of the United States, from which nation
al trouble may speedily result. If those and
hundreds of kindred “services” entitle them
to suffrage and political rights, then we must
confess that humbuggery and crime hare at
last arrived at a premium.
ANNUAL REPORT
Of the Board of Managers o/*“ The Female
Benevolent Society of Carlisle” Januar)/,
- 18GG. • *
Tho_ managers respectfully report to the
subscribers and friends of tho Society, that
they number lifty-ouo names ‘on their list of
beneficiaries, many of whom include families
of 'several individuals. The majority have
boon visited and assisted regularly every
month during tho year 18(53, others only oc
casionally as the managers'doomod necessary.
Balance in the Treasury Bee. 31st
1804, . §lO3 72
Collection in North West Ward in
1805, 83 25
“ South East, 55 10
“ South West, 49 74
“ North East, 35 00
“ In Lutheran Church, -10 50
Also, in wood, coal and flour, amount-
ing to a 50
Collection in St. John’s Church, 32 -15
“ Ist Presbyterian “ 21 50
2d Presbyterian " 17 2(1
Intorost'ou Rail Road Bond, 38 00
Total receipts in money. §4BO 52
Expended in the four Wards, '498 72
Leaving a deficit in tbo Treasury of $l2 20
The winters of 1805 and XBGG, have been
so unusually severe as to require extraordi
nary demands on tho Treasury, and but for
tbo surplus of 1804, would have obliged the
managers to call upou tho patrons of tho So
ciety for a special contribution. That, how
ever, enabled them to reach the usual period
for collecting with but a small deficit. Tbo
managers have supplied many families with
food and fuel who might otherwise have per
ished, though their funds do not allow them
to bo ns liberal as they wish. There are still
some vagrant beggars who will not submit to
tho wholesome rules of tho Society and oimlit
therefore to be discountenanced* S
Who Told tub Truth.— When the Demo
oratic papers, previous-to the las£ Slate elec
tion, charged on the Republican loaders that
they would attempt to place the negro' on rtii
equality with the white man, the Republican
papers denied it amijioclarod that the charge
was untrue. John- Cessna, the Chairman
of the Republican State Committee, issued
an address to the people of the State, assur
ing them there was no such issue before the
people and that tbo Republican party intend
ed nothing of tiro kind. Now, what are they
doing? Stevens, Sunnier, Wilson and oth
ers, have introduced at least forty propositions
into Congress to brock down the barriers
God lias established between tbo black and
white man. They are attempting to do it in
tho District of Colnmhia.and in all the South,
ern States, and they will try it in the North
ern States as soon as they can. Sumner has
oven introduced n bill -into the D. S. Senate
to allow negroes to sit on juries with white
men. Our white laborers and mechanics,
many of them at least, will not see tho
danger they are in until itis 100 late.
THE RUMP CONGRESS.
1 “ What is doing by the Rump Congress ?”
is a question propounded to us almost daily.
Wo have not as yet attempted even to give a
•resume of tho proceeding.* of this delectable
body, for the reason that there has been
Buoh a sameness in its daily doings, that we
considered it a waste of sppco to lumber our
columns with them. In a word, the Rump
Congress ia doing literally nothing except
attending to tho comfort and interests of the
negro. But, some of our readers insist on
seeing the official proceedings, and we have
concluded to gratify them. Wo therefore
condense the doings of tho Senate for a
week, and next week will give tho proceed
ings of the House for tho same week.
Senate. —Prayer by tho Chaplain, in
which ho offers up a petition for “ our color
ed brethren.”
Mr. Wilson (disuninnist) introduced n
bill for fixing tho strength of the army on a
peace bails. By this bill tho army will bo
150,000 strong, and one fourth of the force is
to bo composed of negroes.
Mr. Sumner,’ (disunionist,) presented tho
petition of colored hum belonging to tho
Methodist church, in favor of equality and
universal suffrage.
Mr. Sumner delivered a short speech eulo
gistic of tho negro.
Mr. Wilson (disuuionist) reported a bill
providing for a national asylum, whore
wounded colored soldiers may bo supported
at public expense.
Mr. Chandler (uisunionist) oifeicd tho
following resolution:
Resolved, That the President is hereby re
quested to withdraw unr minister from tho
Court of St. .Tames, and make proclamation
of national non intercourse, which is hereby
declared to tnko effect after such proclama
tion shall have been issued.
fit seems that Ciiakduju is anxious to get
up another war for the benefit of New Eng
land.]
On motion of Mr. Monuirm, (Jisunionisfc,)
the bill giving the negro the right of suffrage
in the District of Columbia, was taken up
The bill confers the right of suffrage upon
all male persons of twontj uno years and
over who have resided, mho year in the Dis
trict before llio election, and prescribes the
punishment for interfering with the exercise
of the cdoctive frn.’u-'ahc in the ease of any
person or persons.
Mr. Davis (Doling made a powerful speech
in opposition to the bill, lie was (allowed
by Susinru ami Monniu, in favor of it, both
of whom denied Mr, Davis’ declaration that.
“this is a white man’s government.”
Mr. Wilson* presented petitions from ne
groes of Gem-gin? asking for equality, a por
tion of the public lands, and tbp right to
vote. Senile adjourned.
In the Somite, next morning, prayer by
the Chaplain, in .vhieh he thanked God that
the coloro 1 men of our land had crushed th°
rebellion.
Mr. SrMN'ER (Disunionist) presented the
petition of cUi/.cns of the District, of Co
lumbia (Stanton's clerks), asking for the
repeal uf all laws in operation in the Dis
trict making distinction on account (if color.
Mr. CiiAN’ni.Eii’s resolution favoring turn
intercourse with Great Dritaln was taken up
and tabled—yeas 25, nays 12.
The bill priving the franchiser to the “ pet
lambs” of the District of Columbia was
taken up. 3fi-. P.wii (Dem,) again opposed
it, and Wii.s.in (Disuinonisi) siippurfod it in
a set speech. “ The galleries,” the reporter
of the New "York Tribune says, “ wore un
usually crowded with (Moved Indies and gen
tlemen.” Pill postponed. Senate adjuurueJ.
Next morning: Pmer by the Chaplain in
behalf of the negro.
Mr. Sumner presented petitions from loyal
men of Massachusetts, Connecticut and
Maine, in favor of negro suffrage and negro
right**.
Mr. TRUJfccr.t (IHsuniunisfc) presented a
petition from colored men and women of Col
orado, on tho subject of reconstructing the
Union.
Mr. Doolittle (Republican, but hi fuyor
of a whole Union,) made a speech in defense
of the President and in opposition to the rad
icals. He hinted very plainly that the men
who followed the teachings of Sumner and
Stevens, were as guilty of treason as the
leaders of the rebellion had been.
Mr. Anthony (Dlsuiuouist) was in favor
of the negro voting, and opposed to recogniz
ing tho Southern States. They wore out of
the Union, and let them stay out,
Mr. 'Wilson (Disunioniat) presented a pe
tition from former slaves in Virginia, asking
a portion of the lands ol that State, and the
right to vole. Senate adjourned.
Next morning: Somite met. Prayer for
the negro.
■ Mi, i rumijull (Disunion, III.) called up
the bill to enlarge the powers of tho Freed
men’s Bureau. A long debate followed, dur
ing which Mr. Wade (Disunion, Ohio,) re
plied to Mr. Doolittle’s former speech. Mr,
Wade was severe on tiio President, and in
sisted that the “radicals” were tho only men
to bo trusted. lie favored negro suffrage,
negro equality, and the right of the negro
to occupy a scut in Congress. Tho debate
took a wide range, ami at a Utc hour the
Senate adjourned. The negroes filled tho
galleries, as usual.
Counterveitino or the United States
Notes, i'ho New York Vast referring to the
number of counterfeit notes in circulation,
remarks:
'Compare tho nolo of the Notional Bank
in J>laino and on_o_of a National-Back in Mis
souri, of the same denomination, and you
will find them exactly alike. They are print
ed from plates made from the same dies;
iaco ana back, lettering, scroll work, figures,
all are in every particular alike. Only tho
name id tho hank is peculiar to each. There
are, it is said,, some two or three hundred
persons mi tho country whoso chosen profes
sion is tho manufacture and circulation of
forged notes. Those men must have heeu
greatly delighted when they became aware
ol tho national currency scheme. Under our
■former hanking system every bank in tho
country hud its own devices, its own plates
and took especial precaution to guard its
notes against forgery. Groat skill and inge
nuity were developed hi this way; mid
(hough wo had hundreds of hanks, the tribe
ofonuntorloitcrshad n hard time of it. and
n lalse i o e oouldj ot ling pass iii.ditectod.
: . since the national hank system has ob
tained, it is complained that counterfeitin'l
- increase.! frai fully.
wll ° is unhappy, and can find no
comfort at home,,is unhappy indeed.
Lossino’s Pictorial History of the Civil
War.—Wo understand that our neighbor,
D. J. Oormanv, of the Mcehanicsburg Jour
nal, has taken the agency for tho sale of
“ Bossing's Pictorial History of the Great
Civil Wav.” His agency embraces East
Pcnnsboro', Lower Allen, Upper Allen,
Hampden, Monroe, Silver Spring, Middlesex,
North and South Middleton, and tho boroughs
of Carlisle, Mcehanicsburg, and Now Cum
berland, and ho intends commencing tho
work of canvassing in a few clays.
The first volume of this work is iuw pass
ing through tiio press, and will bo out in
February. Wc have given but a cursory ex
amination of tho advance sheets, and, al
though wo cannot endorse all tho opinions
therein expressed, it seems to be tho fairest
and most impartial history of tho war which
lias appeared on this side of tho ocean. It
will bo published in three or more volumes,
of six hundred pages each, in an elegant
stylo of typography, beautifully illustrated
by about two thousand engravings. As a
record of tho important events of tho great
civil.war, it should find a plnoo in every
household in the land.
Tho military history is brought down, in
this volume, to tho close of the battle of Bull
Run, in July, 1861, ami contains a full ac
count of the great uprising of tho people ;
the rush to arms ; the willing sacrifices of
fered ; tho benevolent operations organized.;
tho attempts to seize tho capital and • over
throw tho Government; tho sending out of
privateers to depredate upon tho commerce,
of tho country; the darkening of lighthouses
on the coast; and other great events incident
to the opening of the terrible civil war, which
has no parallel noted in tljo records of man
kind.
This volume contains more than four hun
dred engravings illustrative of the subject,
of which about one hundred and thirty arc
portraits of prominent men on both sides,
including Governors of States, Generals in
the field, and Statesmen and Conspirators in
council; also views and maps of battle
grounds; headquarters of officers: weapons
and ships of war; forts; arsenals ; medals
of honor, and other gifts of gratitude; cos
tumes of soMibvs; and a groat variety of
other subjects, whereby the eye is well in
structed concerning the materials used in
the conflict. In those few words wo give
but a faint idea of the great variety and im
portance of the contents of the volume, which
contains six hundred pages of text, and co
pious illustrative foot notes.
The author has aimed to give, in this
work, a full and faithful chronicle and pic
ture of the civil war in the United States,
snd the publisher (Mr. Childs) is with gen
erous liberality, and good taste, bringing it
out in beautiful and costly style at a very
moderate price. It is elegantly orbited on
fine white paper; and it is, in every respect,
an eminently superb and valuable work.—
the succeeding volume will bo issued as rap
idly as due regard to a careful preparation
will allow. The last one will contain bio
graphical sketches, in Cyclopedia form, of
all the prominent actors iu tho war, loyal and
disloyal, of both sexes, and in every condi
tion in life. This portion of tho work will
bo illustrated chiefly by fac similes of tho
signatures ol a large portion of tho persons
named. It will also contain an elaborate
analytical index. Judging from the char
acter of tho first volume, we unhesitatingly
express the belief that this work will ever bo
regarded as the standard History of tho Civil
War.
Mutilated Fractional Currency.—ln
the House of Representatives, on the Bth inst.,
Ancona introduced the following resolu
tion, which, on motion, was allotted:
J?csolvcd, I hat the Coiumittco on Banking
and Currency he requested to inquire into
t-ho expediency of providing by law for the
redemption of mutilated, defaced and worn
out fractional currency, by the United States
Internal Revenue collectors or other financial
agents of the government in tho Severn! coi
eotion districts of the country.
This is what should have boon done long
ago. The Government owes it to the people,
whom it compels to receive its fractional
currency as money, to provide the easiest and
moat inexpensive mode within its power, for
the redemption of that which becomes dcfacod
and mutilated. Even if the people have to
submit to some loss in tho redemption of this
trash, which we cannot hut consider unjust,
it would bo hotter for them to hoar a discount
of ton or oven twenty per cent., than to lose
all, which is the practical effect of tho pres
ent almost impossible mode of redemption.
In every Collection District, there should ho
some Government Officer designated, to whom
tho poor man, who holds any amount of mu
tilated currency, if it ho no more than 25ots,
could go, and claim its exchange for some
thing ho can buy broad with. Wo hope tho
Committee to whom Mr. Ancona’s resolu
tion has been referred, will act upon it speed
ily and effectually; and not lot it sleep in
their pookota, as is too often the ease with
resolutions of inquiry, until tho close of the
session, when it will ho too late to act upon
it.
Sorllitarollna.
Shocking Butcheries by Neqrocs—Onc killed
and Two Dangerously Wounded.
Wilmington, Jan. 11th, IB6o.—Two ne
groes, supposed lo belong to tbo 37th col
ored regiment stationed at Fort Fish
er, entered the house of Samuel N. Connor
on Middle Sound. There wore in the house
at the lime, Mr. Thomas Pickett, Mr. Can
non, Miss. Pickett, Mrs, Carter, and Mrs.
Pickett. One of the negroes fired upon them,
? n “ *•?.** Mr : Piokott, two shots taking of
feet. Miss Pickett-was dangerously wound*
cd in the head, and Mrs. Ourloy was mortal
ly wounded in the throat. Cannon escaped
and brought -the neighbors to the rescue :
but the negroes had escaped. TSfforts are
making to arrest them.
~ E ■^ ATIONAI ' Debt.— -The Secretary of
1 10 Treasury has published a statement of
tho public debt on tho Ist inst., which wo
give below m a condensed form :
Debt bearing interest in coin' pj,icr, US,SOI SO
iroot bearing interest in currency ],170,-176,235 50
tlobtiniuured not presented fur pn-yin't: 1,160,880 32
■foot bearing no interest ■150,619,050 37
. llcl,t $2,807,310,357 09
Amt. in 1 ronsury—coin $15,736,550 09
Amt. in i'rcns,—currency -11,993,371 H
cash, in Trcas. $3,710,581,530 19
ibis 'Statement compares with that of Kov.
SO as follows :
Amt. of debt Jen. 1, 1300 $2,710,531,03(1 19
Amt. ot debt iNov. 30, 1805 , 2,711,033,31-1 73
Increase
Tho Fair Committee of the l'iub
Cchi’anv adopt this public method of^ re
turning their thanks to tho citizens of
lisle and vicinity and Philadelphia, for their
o-oncroiia aid and patronage.previous to and
during their lato Holiday Fair; and point
with pride to tho statement of the business
transactions, herewith appended, as the best
evidence that this lias been tho most success
ful enterprise of the kind over had in our
place. The Committee desire to make es
pecial mention of tho following ladies, gen
tlemen, and associations :
The Lady Mamujan— Mrs. CL W. Sheuficr,
Mrs. John llumor, Mrs. Joseph W. Patton,
Mrs. Lewis F. Lyno, and Mils liettio Mar
tin. These ladies were present during the
entire week, and by their unwearied exer
tions, their watchful care and excellent taste
and judgment, contributed very largely to
wards the splendid success our storemenfc
exhibits.
To tho young ladies who served tho Com
pany so well as sales* ladies, the Committeo
extend their most cordial acknowledgments.
To the members of the Good, Will, Cum
berland, and Empire X'hro Companies, who
so unselfishly and with such largo hearted
liberality gave their money and their per
sonal efforts to the'good cause, we gratefully
extend tho hand of fellowship, with the as
surance that tho old Uxiox will never forget
the debt, or hesitate to discharge it when
opportunity efforts.
The Carlisle Brass Band and Garrison
Band furnished tho delightful music which
attracted and Entertained tho unprecedented
crowds which nightly filled the spacious
hull.
Mr. Jacob Itheevi, tho estimable proprio-
:or of the Hall in which tho exhibition was
held, by bis constant attendance and ener
getic labor during the whole week, made oar
succors certain. lie has tho unreserved
thanks of tho Committee and the Company.
Mr. Simon IV. JSarly , who managed the
Bcstaurant in such a satisfactory manner,
anti lent his personal exertions to the general
management of tho Fair, deserves particular
mention. Tho Committee are unanimous in
(ho expression of their kind regards to him.
Too much cannot be said of tho general
liberality .of the business mon of our place
and of Philadelphia, who gave, without stint,
both money and valuable goods. To our
people generally, who visited our Fair night
ly, and contributed of their moans unspar
ingly. we desire to say that the gratifying
result of their patronage shall be expended
in a manner to do credit to their liberality,
and assure, as far human effort can.
the security of their lives and property from
the red demon conflagration.
| And now, we again return to (me anl all
our heartiest acknowledgments for their sym
pathy and assistance, and our warmest con
! grfitulations on the happy result
Gross proceeds ol the Fair,
Deduct all expenses,
Net profit, , 82200 GG
Respectfully,
L. T. Gukentield,
C/taiVmuM.
Messrs, Editors. —There hns been some
feeling on the part of the citizens of our coun
ty us to the number of vagrants charged to
the public keeping. A scene in our County
jail a night or two ago, convinced me, (before
inclined to think the burden on the public
too great!) that the public knew not the ben
efit received from thus incarcerating tins
class of the community. They are nearly
all foreigners, and with no other settlement
than the place where found. They are of
the lowest cast ami most brutish habits, dan
gerous except under strict watch and ward.
Is it certain that our county Poor House was
not burnt by some vindictive murderer of this
kind? Jail is the host place for them, and those
who imagine a sine cure for the Sheriff, and
handsome board-pay for their keeping should
have witnessed, as the author of this did, a
strong able-bodied man brought into prison as
a vagrant, and this lie indubitably w, with
thefrenzy of mania potn upon him, biting,
threatening and frying to do violence to every
ono about him ; dangerous to himself and
others.
Tho sheriff 1 under the oommitniont was
bound to receive him. It was quite lalo in
the evening, himself and family we: o put on
duty by the dreadful condition of the prison
er. The jail resounded with his moans, cries
and awful blasphemies, lu tho midst of this
the wife of this very man was brought in,
committed as a vagrant also, and suffering
from a terrible drunken lit. Now Mr. Edit
or this is hut one instance. lam informed
similar cases are hy no moans rare. Isitbettor
to have these characters shut up, or allow
them to wander round endangering in their
drunkeness and insanity the lives and prop
erty of our community? la the Sheriff, or
other peace officers to bo blamed because
scenes sucli as I have described are conceal
ed within tho walls of the prison, ratlier than
have the public streets of tho County town
disgraced and rendered unsafe. “An ounce
of preventive is worth a pound of cure.” An
insane vagrant might take tho life of useful
and valuable citizens or apply the torch to
property of immense value, and then it is too
late to lament a miserable economy which re
fuses to pay officers for protecting tho com
munity.
It is to be considered, 100, that if those
wanderers know that they will find a place
whore they will neither freeze nor starve,
that they will travel a considerable distance,
to roach such a place, and thus stacks, out
buildings, barns and houses of farmers for
miles arc kept clear of the scourge. It is
true this class has increased but this fault
is not that of thO'peaco officers. Congress
should take means to prevent their being
sent into tho country. Any one who doubts
about tho very large majority of these per
sons being foreigners, let him pass one single
evening in tho office of tho sheriff, or with
tho Steward of the Poor House, and doubts
willjie removed.
Our Supremo Conrt has said, “vagrancy
is a crime.” Tho laws roquiro tho officers
to arrest and tho Sheriff to receive, and tho
only true ground of complaint would be that
vagrants when they woer not guilty of tho
crime. ‘Who pretends to say that this is tho
fact ?
The AVar Between the President and tlio
Radicals.
Tho Washington correspondent of the Now
York Tribune (radical'] thus evinces his fears
of a rupture between the President and the
Destructives. lie says:
“The situation is,'therefore,'essentially the
same ns it was before tho recess. The ques
tion is whether it will long remain so. The
1 resident, in his conversations with' mom
borf, is still profuse in assurarois that he is
tar from desiring a conflict between tho Ex-
OQ.utive and Congress, but ho does not seem
willing to say what ho would do to avoid it.
It it is true, as is generally assorted and bo
icvod by many, that tho President intends
to use lus ofheml patronage for tho purpose
ol luroing too immediate admission of South
ern delegations, ho may produce’tho desired
ellect upon a few individuals, but ho will
tueroby rather precipitate than prevent an
open rupture. Tho employment of such
means would only tend to exasperate men
who are always willing to como to a fair and
Iriondly understanding, hut who will never
yield to anything that looks like force or cor
ruption.”
90,728,821 SO
An exchange, in dossvihing a rooent cele
bration, says : “ Tlio procession was very'
line and about two miles in length as was
also tho prayer of Dr. Perry, tho Chaplain.”
■1,918,2214-1
A CARD.
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Gil 95
[For tho Volunteer.]
DOWNFALL VNAPOLEM^ii
Some one, curious in'the stating ’ h
ity, has been making calculation
Napoleon 111. will come to hh ? Sl,o »#
1809. Tho calculations are
very odd coincidences of dates , "bfc
try to explain. In the first pl| lce '
tho elates of tlio principle event, n JtK
of Louis PlnUipo and bis Queen
grouj-.o together ao as to aum.’un i«t r l
year''of his downfall. Tluis LoauiM
was bum m 1773 and ascended tho.t ‘f
1830. Now to 1830 add soparatelv i T
cs 1,7,7, 3, of his bi'rtl. date, and tl H
ISIS, (hasi 1830 and land 7 and 3 mi’S
Tho same result is 7 runoiied
take tho year of his marriage. ti, , I,
occurred in 1800, and ho ascended thlff
in 1830. Now 1830 and 1 and
make 1818, Again, if we take Z
his Queen's birth 1782, and go th r !
same process—lB3o and I and 7 and gJ&f•
arrive at tho same fatal year, 18-18 i 'A'
ho lest his throne. 1 o, t'j
The secodd part of tho calculation :.J
Napoleon 111. was horn in 1808. n>, . i
Jed the throne in 1852. Now, ft (
I with 1852, and add tho separate fif'etrl
birth year, wo oomo to 18ti9— for Uj;,, il: (o
and 8 and 0 and 8 make 1809. So 'j’V:
his Empress. Eugenio was horn’ilp
Taking tho data of his ascent to 11,, aV
in 1852, wo have : 1852 and 1 audB
and 6 again bringing us to tiio fatal
Ho mal'riod Eugonio in 1853, and (ati t ,>
year 1852 and adding the separate fiJV;
hia marriage year, and it still point,
Thus 1852 and I and 8 and 5 anil’ >
18G9. In fact, these French historical
are lull of sneh curious indication/ /
pierro fell in 1794 Taking that
adding tho separata figures ol it asabm. ono of
wo have 1794—and 1 and 7-and 9 Jl- VUlei
making tho date of Napoleon’s fall
Pursuing the sanio method, we tol'i./AS*
and I andB and 1 and 5, making 1830
of Charles X.’a fall. Goingon tolB4S’S’-fiffil
of Louis Phillippo’s downfall, and
that 1848 and I and S and 4 and 8
onco more to tho fatal 1809. '
But there is still imoilierlatalliy*(,(V f K»ftW
those Eronoli dynasties, which is put j„Sj
form; Seventeen years was tho limit(sl®*
supremacy of Napoleon I, ; seneni,.,..
the restored Bourbons reigned • s;h ' ( 'i
years Louis Philipo occupied the thro»e-t ?
the same seventeen years being aarf-dtall!
Napoleon 111., it caries him to
ISG9 as the eul of bis career. And ilii.pin-jaBS
seventeen is also pro-ieod by strangecaiasig
cea. Taking the figures in tlio ywr.rf r <s®
birth, 1808, and adding them .up
8 and 0 and 8, and they sum up
the agorot in tho year of the
182 G, and adding them, 1 and 8 tid>«|l'v9
and they also make 17 ; then takiii-(4st
ures in tho year of his marriage, lsVi, vldWp
8 and 5 and 3, and they likewise twit'/// 1 *"!;
Tlioso cu.uuidcnees arc extraurdiiisiihf’Mt®
ough to set the wonder-mongers
some of them see the finger of late in
And it. not uufrequontly happens tli,;t,A:®api
shadowy prophecies sot influences i« v.v.i
1 that enable them to work out their .er ('petib
filmont. The Btnnparloi are all cjnSr! “M
fatalists, and these things may raMtw/wffi
present head of tho family a groat iiiant/
letios about 1809.— Philadelphia Lcim i'i'-fiS®
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In DUlsburg, on the 14th inst., JmW®
ileiges, agud 05 years and G days' I
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3Harmfr.
At the house of the bride’s father, Jtu.f ‘
1860, by the Rev. 11. K. Fleck, L. I f . IfeK
er, to Miss. Frances R. Stejqhei.iux, tv
of Silver Spring twp.. oumb. oa, Pa.
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Mnthls. -
CARLISLE MABKJS'i'.—Jnn. 21,18C5.
Flour, Superfine, per bbl.,
do., Extra,
■ do.. Kyo, do.,
Winn: Wheat, per bushel. *«[. v 4xS
Red Wheat, do.,
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Corn, d M’•
Oats,
oi’iuxa Carlky, •
Fall do., I?' -
Clovkrbiskd, s;|'.vVj
Tnroriivsisuu *
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PHILADELPHIA MARKET, Jana'S
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Hyb Plouii, - .
CokxMcal, d- :
WnKAT,rod, - . . .. 215a23-’v&
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Coun, yoliow»
u wbito,
Oats,
Oloversbed,
Timothy Seep,
Flaxseed,
Baulky,
Whiskey,
A VDITOH’S NOTICE. Tho underset
appointed auditor, by tlio Court of C-mc.ij
Pleas of Cumberland County, to marshall and hi
tribute tho balance in the hands of William
requested of tho Hanover and Carlisle Turnf-ihj
Hoad Company, to and among: tbo creditors dj
said Company, hereby gives notice to all
od, that ho will attend to tho duties of his appoint - !
mont at tho Prothonotary’s ofiico in tho Borer.* 1
of Carlislo on Friday, the 10th day of I’ebruirj
18GC, at 10 o’clock A. M.
JAMES 11. IRVXtfE,
uUidiiQt.
Jim. 25, 1860—3 1.
FOR SALE.—The subscriber has for salt
at Ills residence, one mile south of the Stwf
Tavern, in Dickinson Twp., a fine Family Hori?t
Falling Top Buggy ned Ilarness. Also, two Tit ll
rate Milk Cows, which will ho sold cheap*
f. m. Hutchison
Jan. 25, ISfiO—
0. Z. BEETZ, M.TI:
D. S., rospectflKr
f-<g& offers bis prolessM
serviaoa to tbo citizens oC Carlisle and UsviciiM ,:
Olfieo North Pitt street.
Carlisle, Jan. 18, 1805—3m*
Notice. ’ , f
TVTOTICE ia hereby given that EctW|l.
Xi Testamentary have been issued on tho wW 15 •
John Shaoffor, late of South Middleton tffP*
bcrland co., dooM., to -the undersigned -exocuioj l
who reside in tho same township. All person* 1 ®
debtod to said estate are requested to mflkop 1 ! 1 .
mont Avitbout delay, and those having claim 3 '* 1
please present them for settlement.
DAVID SHAKEL'ER,
JAMES, SIIAEPIW
iJxeeidori-
Jan. IS, 1806—Ot.
STotscc,
]\TOTICE in horoby given that 'ottevs 0
J-N Administration on tho estate of D r * ,!*
Mateor, l:Ao of Lisburn, Uupper Allen townsW'
have boon granted to the undersigned' residing f‘
said township. AU parsons indebted to tho /»*
estate are requested to make payment imnicdu
Iy, and those having claims against said o-<
w *ll also present them for settlement;
MARGARET L'A J. MATEEK,
AdmiiM ta^rlS "
• Carlisle, Jan.. 11, 1308—Ct.
WoflScc. .
r Agiicult.iml Society of“CmnboE ;^ ;
County will mem, hi tho Court llouso nfl
day. the tkh of February ISflli, at II o'clock# A* *
By order of tho President.
D. s. tmoFi.
SccreWy'
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