Ea Eil &■ ■g Ije American Volunteer. r.i UJLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING LI. ►U U BRATTON & KENNEDY. OFFICE-SOUTH MARKET SQUARE. ’KiiMS :~Two -Dollars por year If paid strictly advance; Two Dollarsand Fifty Cents If paid Lhln tlireo months;' after which Three Dollars II bo charged. These terms will be rigidly ad red to In every Instance. No subscription dls itlnucd until all arrearages are paid, unices at > option of tho Editor. professional starts. 'NITED STATES CLAIM AND SEAL ESTATE’AGENCY! •wm; b. butler, t ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office In 2d Story of InhofTs Building, No. 8 South ’ Hanover Street, Carlisle, Cumberland county, PonHlons, Bounties, Back-Pay, Ac., promptly ; p °AppncilUoM by mall, wlll .rocolvo Immediate at pani™iar attention gluon to tho selling or rent ing of Real Estate, In town or country. In all lot tera of Inquiry, please enclose postage stamp. July 11, 1807—ti T M W EAKLEY; Attorney at Law. *1 . office on South Hanover street. In the room formerly occupied by A. B. Sharpe, Esq. Tjl E. BELTZHOOVER, Attorney H . and Counselor at liAW, Carlisle, Penna. 4 Office on South Hanover street, opposite Bentz s (Store. By special arrangement with the Patent Office, attends to securing Patent Bights. ■ Dec. 1,1805. i ' • CHA9. E. MAGLAUGHLIN, Attor ney at LAW. Office In Building , formerly -.'--roccupicd by Volunteer, a few doors South of Han-, (on’s Hotel. Deo. 1, 1805. ' _ fOHN. a GRAHAM, Attorney at I law. Office formerly occupied by Judge ■ ■-yfirahara, South Hanover street, Carlisle, Penna. fof Dec. 1,1805— ly. }' ,'Tv /r C. HERMAN, Attorney at Law. VI Offlco In Rheem’s 1 Hall Building, In the - 1 tear of tho Court House, next door to the "Her-. - o id M Office. Carlisle, Penna. V-; i Deo. 1,1865. • air. SADLER. Attorney at Law, . Carlisle, Ponna. Office In Building for oocnplcd by Volunteer, South Hanover street. - Dec. 1, 1805. -TTT KENNEDY Attorney at Law, •VV Cj.»U*lo- JtViatia. Ofllco same aa that ol the “Amoiicuu Volunteer,” Bohtb side of the Pub lic Square, v Deo. I 1805. JOHN LEE, Attorney at Law, S i 5» I North Hanover Street, Carlisle, Pa., •Xi hob. 15.18IH)— ly. $5 TAMES A. DUNBAR, Attorney at •! Law, Carlisle, Penna. Office a few doors West of Hannon’s Hotel. '.y Dec. 1,1805. IT\R. J. R. BIXLBR offers his profes- I y sional services to the citizens ojf Carlisle and vicinity. ..... a. Office on Main street, opposite the jail, Intno room lately occupied by L. Todd, Esq. ~<* April 11,1807—ly | PwR. GEORGE S. SE ARIGHT, Den 'wk I j tist. From the Baltimore Oollcnc of D'cntaj Suryiry. Office at the residence of his mother, VA* Ensl Louthor Street, throe doors below Bedford, v!t Carlisle, Ponna. .. Dec. i, 1805. - JUrg tSooiss. BPEIN G! X 307 1 1867. BAM GAINS Now opening In ■I DOMESTIC GOODS, ■;| DBESB GOODS, ’ CABSIMEREB, battinetts and j bans, WHITE Q OOD.S , BEESS TRIMMINGS, ZEPHYRS , RIBBONS AND NOTIONS ;f RING’S NEW STORE, NO. 05 WEST MAIN STREET, Opposite the Mansion House, Next door to the Post Office, Carlisle. April 18,1867. OUT DRY GOODS MEN! TO THE PUBLIC. II have just returned from the East with my Spring Stock, and as usual. I am selling Goods a little cheaper than any other Dry Goods House In town. Ido not think It necessary to occupy a column of newspaper to endeavor to keep up ray I reputation for selling Cheap Goods, nor do I .> control elect ions, and that the Democratic instinct from Main to Georgia rebelled when Mr, Biddle put the screw on tbo money mar ket to effect political power, we cannot suppose it will sleep while Radicalism openly wields at will the voles of twelve States by military power, and attempts to eke out its force to command the govern ment by the profligate expenditure of money and subjecting all industry to enormous taxation by tariffs, rotten banks, and thus installing an odious oli garchy upon the country. If the Ameri can Constitution was nothing more than u printed record of atempoary agreement, I should feet alarmed at the present usur pation of Congress upon it; but when I remember that there is not a line of it which is not incorporated with the blood of the nation—that it is the written ex pression of principles to which the American people and theirancestors have adhered for centuries, modified to suit their exact condition here, I feel that the Constitution is not a mere paper, but the reflex of the very nature of our people ; and that though it may be hero as it was iu the old country, that civil war leads to temporary suspension of constitutional ac tion, the return of peace leads necessarily to a return to the normal action of the government and the restoration of con stitutional rights and privileges. The confederates did not undertake to change the Constitution, but adopted it us their own because it was the express image of the American mind, and it must be per petual. To oppose it is. like lighting against God ami Nature ; ami it would bo as well to undertake to reverse the laws of gravitation. The Radicals know this, and ace aware of their doom. It is a mis take to suppose that they are reposing in ease and confidence upon their places ami patronage in the federal capita!. The consciousness of tneir guilt and the knowledge of their fate speaks in their faces and through their eyes. 1 thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your in dulgence. If I have trespassed upon your patience, you must tell me your selves, as I have been tempted to it by the polite attention you have paid me. If J have said anything to revive your hope and restore your confidence in the genius and indestructible nature of our govern ment, I am more than compensated for my effort. Be assured it is not in the power of the Radicals to triumph over the people. It is not in the ingenuity of man to withdraw the government from the'people. The Radicals are the lineal descendants of the old Federal party, who sought to destroy our republican system, and they must meet the fate of their’pre decessors in their inglorious work. The Ago oV the World mid Man. How old is the world? Tho general answer.of Christendom has been, “ not quite four thousand years from the Cre ation to tho birth of Christ, and there have been JL,BGS years since,, making in all 5,870." And yet we have all seen within a week or two that Professor Marsh, of yaie College, in describing the fossil bones of a mastodon, but recently found at Cohoes, New York, gives the opinion that the animal must have exis ted over ten thousand years ago—pr more than fljmr thousand years before the time when,.as tho Scriptural commentators have usually supposed, Adam gave names to all tho newly madccreatures. Nobody appears to be shocked by this statement; and in fact there is scarcely a scientific man, including some of the most devout believers of the age, who does not ascribe to the world a much greater antiquity than that claimed in the old-fashioned chronology. The evidences leading to this conclu sion are drawn from nearly every depart ment of natural science, and, of course, become irresistibly strong as they are brought together. To give an idea of them in a brief compass, intelligible to every mind, perhaps we cannot do better than to condense Agassiz’s estimates based upon the formation coral, reefs off tho southern coast of Florida.— These reefs are built up by an Insect that begins to work on the ground in water of twelve or fifteen fathoms deep and he cannot live unless he has the constant ac tion of the open sea upon him, so that he stops at tho pclght of high tide. By nu merous experiments it has been ascer tained that the coral builder con structs about half an inch in a century ; but hr order to err, If at all, on the safe side, Agassiz doubles his estimate in his calculation, making it an inch In a cen tury. Now outside the Florida Keys there is a long coral reef with an average height of seventy feet, which, therefore, must have been begun 7,000 years ago, orl.OOOyears before the creation of Adam. Secondly, the Keys themselves are noth ing but inner repetitions of the same sort of coral reefs, of at least the same average height; and the builders must have fin ished them before they began on the out side reef, as appears from their neessity of having tho open sea, and from the fact that there are now no vindications of the beginning ofa reef outside of the one wo have mentioned above. The Keys, there fore, swell tho record to 14,000 years.— Next wo have the shoar blufl’ of tho main laud, which carries the coral con struction, and which carries the earth’s record above..J2o.ooo years. Moreover, there are, as you go inland seven well de fined and successive coral reefs/which, added to the foregoing, would make the world seventy-five thousand years old.— And Professor Agassiz regards this a very moderate estimate. * Expensive Rivalry.— The marquis of Westminster (said to b the wealthiest English peer) lately appropriated $250,000 for the purpose of establishing a penny daily newspaper as a rival to the Times, This paper was named the Day, an « was very ably edited. The oxpensiveiuss of tho undertaking Is evidenced by the fact that the above largo sum was exbaustt