itanot MO! 'SHUN DEMOCRRTIC PRINCIPLES CRASS TO LEAD S WE °mbar. TO FOLLOW." WK. N. BRESLIN, Editor and Proprietor LEBANON, PA. WEDitiSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1862. to.. The reported confession of Lovering, that he had murdered Adeline Bavor, is all a hoax. Pennsylvania has furnished S Regiments of Infantry and 1 of Cavalry more than her quota to the National Government. sfir in the vote in Congress to award the 'contested seat of Wm. F. Lehman, the sitting`: member, Mr. Killinger•of this district voted for the minority report. which give the seat to Lehman, and against John M. Butler, Republican. ,J2r- The Rending Gazette truth fully , calls the action of Congress, on the franking privilege, the pop ? Wavily dodge. The franking priv ilege should be curtailed, but as the free carriage of newspapers -within the counties where publish led, is about the only benefit the poor man has from the government, to deprive :him of it, would surely be commencing at the wrong end. Let the abuses of the franking priv ilege be first lopped off. Then let those who can "afford it be deprived of it. But do not always commence reforms with the poor man. . While millions are squan dered and stolen from the govern ment by contractors and others, re forms and retrenchment are bc-gun on the poor laboring men in the employ of the government by Con gress lopping off a fippenny-bit of their daily wages. fro whila millions are lost to gov ernment in the abuses and perver sion of the franking privilege,. Con gress proposes to inaugurate a re form by commencing with the poor men who receive their county pa pers free of postage. A bully Con gress ! Ile: A large portion of the time of the Legislature was occupied, last week, in the discussion of res olutions getting up Investigating committees, a-la-Covode and Vati Wyck. One committee is to in vestigate if any corrupt means were used last winter to procure the pas sage of the act for the commuta tion of Tonnage duties ; and an other to smoke out officials engag ed in the contracts and frauds last surnener when our soldiers were clothed with shoddy. The latter resolution was bitterly fought by the Republicans, on the plea that its object was to cast imputations on the Governor. Two Courier begs the question so entirely in its defence of Mr. Deans that a reply is unneeessary, in fact a reply to anything it might say on that subject would be superfluous. As to the Courier's talk about "l7nion,"—the thicker it piles that on itself the better. It needs it.— The people of Lebanon county de cided last fall what appreciation they have for, such lip-service.— With that verdict we are -content, while the Courier is forced to act the self-boasting Pharisee. THE abolition papers are pub. lishing an imaginary conversation between Gen. McClellan and Jim Lane &Kansas, in which itis made to 'appear that the former authori zes the latter, to carry on a war on "abolition-jaykawking principles" alai is, k l off the rebel white peo ple and parcel out their lands to loyar blacks. No such conversa tion took place, and the principle is wholly at variance with,all "Or ders" relative to the duties of the army. TheSe fellows are not con tent with iiiekiry3 the President ap pear silly, but are als - o trying'their hasCsit Owing Gen.-Mc(llellan in the gawp :false ,attitude before the • , TES TO eeretaly of 'War be gin aright, and prornsses to be just the natin for the place-and occasion. Among his first cats 'liras the Iv point pent oftvka comngsaioners to preceo4-wkih and attend to the welfare 'of the heretofore neglected Union iniannera: in BiehnliniViirici elsewhere. 4 ' l '" 4 " . 94- '" g The Pottsville Democratic k Standard, iet an able article on the next Presidency, mentions in that connexion the . name of lion. WIL LIAM BreLta, orPennsylvania. It is early as yet to talk of the next Presidency, but when the proper tittle comes, we -are sure, there is no man that we know at present whom we would support with more sincerity. He is a pure patriot and an, honest man, and by-dint: of in dustry and perseverance has al ready risen from the printer's stand to some of the highest positions in the gift of the American people.— If the warning voices of the,vener able Crittenden; the lamented Dou glas, and Wm.. Bigler, cab 0 worked together and became itiseperable friends, had been. listened to, Anar chy and civil war would not have stained with fatricidal, .blood our heretofore happy and s prosperous country. . • THE Libanon- Demokrat,' of last week, has a rude and-malicious attack on Oen". MCOlellan under the heading of "Es*.etwas letz." Theintimations are a hat- because the army does- - not'}idianee and whip the rebels, that the .head of the army, McClellan, is - a traitor. Such "fires in the rear" of the com mander of our armies are appear ing in many Republican sheet, and are a repetition of the "Onward to Richmond" cry, which produced the disaster at Bull Run: As every body knows, our army was not prepared for an advance then, and after this disaster everybody admit- . ted that it would take at least six months to place it again in - the con dition it was before the battle.— The six months have.now elapsed, and if' it were ready to advance it would., be more than" the people themselves expected. Committees of Congress and others have called upon Gen. MeClellen, learned his plans, and declaredthemSelves sat isfied with them, as also is. the President. Perhaps, if the editor of the Dentokrat were to-Call on the General be would also detail to him his plans, and satisfy him of their correctness. CANDIDATES FOR. FT. WARREN The Republican papers are be ginning to find fault with Gen. Mc- Clellan, and throw slurs on him, questioning his loyalty and The President should appoint a lot of Republican newspaper editors generals of our army; and; with our friend of the Libaron ._Denaiik . rat at the head, there would be instant ly if not quicker, a splendid ad vance Movement'on to RichniOnd.' They would no doubt reach their destination, if it should not happen to them as it did to the dog. that started to catch . the rabbit. Eve ry-body said he -would have suc ceeded in the chase if 'he had not stopped—you know the rest. . MERE is not a word of truth in the report, said to have originated in Washington last week, that. Mr. Buchanan had refused a seat inrMr. Lincoln's Cabinet. No such offer has yet been made. MAYOR SANDERSON, editor of the Lancaster Intelligencer, has been re nominated for. Mayor of that city, by a Union. meeting of the citizens. The Republicans are get. ting up opposition tickets. The election takes place next Tuesday. MANY of the appointments sent into the United States Senate for confirmation by *Gen. Cameron, have been referred back to Secre tary Stanton, -and it is said that lots of them will never again see the light of day. GEN. MCCLELLAN AND urs PLANS. —On Wednesday, genoral McClellan appeared before the Joint Committee of Congress on the Conduct of the War, and _the result was most those members who had been preju diced against him,confessedthat they had done him injustice, and that they were completely in the wrong. Ac cording to all accounts, his explana tions of the campaign, past an& pro spective, were most satigfactory, and inspired the fullest confidence in his generalship. His magnificent plans startled and astonished the Congress men. The interview of General McClel lan on Wednesday with the Congres sional Committee on the War is said to have resulted in satisfying the Com mittee that the plans of the Com manding General will surely effect the speedy suppression of the rebel lion and the termination of the war. General McClellan is now thoroughly restored to health, and will.vigoreusly prosecute the campaign .upon the safe and wise ground he has laittilOwn-for himself. *tr . - According to our notion` Gen. McClellan made a big mistake in 'en trusting the secret of his plans to u. parcel of Abolition Congressmen,. They wilt be sure 'to blow them to Nebeldoia in a jiffy. They want a long air which will crush (tilikatte re44 , 14:til the-, 401Oked*geltileinen are fee,` CM T&E'TRENT AFFAIR.-49EIN BULLS, IRE Auvr,AsED.—By , the steamship City e New York, whish.left Queens town on the 9th inst.,we learn.i that the news of the surrender of Mason,. and Slidell reached London on the precceding day, and so immediately re-established confidence, that Consols at once advanced one to one and a quarter per cent. In England there foro,-"the long agony is over." The preparations for war, made by - Lords Palmerston and Russell,on their own responsibility, without consulting the 'pleasures of Parliament, have been thrown away. It is estimated that as much expense as $5,000,000 was `thus most needlessly incurred-.-r-:by no means a desirable outlay, at a mo ment , when the Financial Minister win have to; announce. to Parliament a deficit of nearly $20,000,000 in, the year's revenue tea, The Ninety-third Pennsylva nia Regiment, Col. J. M. MlCarter, has been added to Gen. Peek's bri gade, in consequence of the • extent and importance of the district mon pied by it, which extents from George town to Tenallytown, and along the Potomac :to the Great Falls. This brigade is composed of the Ninety eightb,Pne Efundredand Fourth and Ninety third Regiments Pennsylva. Volunteers, and Fifty-fifth and Sixty second New York Volunteers. ' Their headquarters is at Tenallytown. xreirN. S. Swayne,adietinguished Ohio lawyer, has been appointed by the President one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of .Ttidge M.cLean. ne., The-last number of the Bed. ford Gazette contains the card of John Cesana, addressing - to the citi zens of Bedford county, in which he says: "To those who see fit to charge upon me a•desire to'enter the Legis lature for ulterior purposes ' I have only to say thatl offered to thefriends of the late sitting member, and to himself; that if he would aid in the passage of a law to separate the two counties in.the future, I would with draw from the contest and permit him to occupy the place during the present session. This proposition was refused, partly upon the ground that.it would be granting too much, and partly because it would Trobably Make a "yearling"-of the gentleman, chosen by the people of Somerset to represent the county of Bedford. I then determined that the rights of the people of Bedford county should be vindicated, or, at least, that it should not be my fault if they were again outraged. • * * * * * * * There will probably be some ex penses attending this contest. -.The State is first required.to pay it.. Then the. State is authorized to draw upon the county for the amount. Having become enlisted in thiu controversy, Lintend to see it out, and whatever bill may be presented against the coun ty, I intend to furnish-rthe money to pay. fri - One hundred an& twenty - -.fiye condemned government horses were sold at auction - at Washington, on Wednesday a week, bringing from orie.dollar to ninety•eight drillers, or an average of twenty.eight dollars o:trSeLator Wade told the Presi dent, a short time ago, that he (the President) "was within a. mile of hell."—Oltio Statesman.. The President received that infor mation from a dirty d-1! ilter• Mr. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, has submitted to Con gross a statement, longer than a Pres ident's message, defending himself against the implications of fraud con tained in the report of the Van Wyck Committee. He admits that the Gov ernment was outrageously swindled in ,a number of eases, but denies that, he had any agency in these transac tions. Re defends the operations of Mr. George D. Morgan, of New York, as advantageous and an actual, saving _to .the Government in the purchase of vessels. Mr. Morgan himaelf denies that he made 95,000 in three months from comtnissians. He only made $75,000. sar The treason-of Abolitionism is daily becoming more and more ram- pant, as President Lincoln shOws a disposition to prosecute this.war -on the platform of the , The official call for the annual meet ing of the New York State Anti-Sla very Society opens with a ferocious attack upon President Lincoln's Ad - - ministration. A STARTLING ANNOTINGEIRENT.—The New York Tribune makes a calcula tion of the expenditures of the Gov ernment per day, and estimates the total sum not far from three millions of dollars. Some estimate, and with pretty good reasons, the aggregate not far off.of $3,236,000 a day, mak ing the amazing sum of $1,182,454,000 per-year ! mik„ Jobn B. Henderson, a - Douglas Democrat, a member of the State Convention, an uncompromising ion man, and _Brigadief general in the State service bas,been appointed by Lieutenant• Governor Hall, of Mis souri; to fill Trestoli POlkts sent in *the ITnited`Bilttia Sinati. * , Polk 'wail' expelled.' THE CABINET Rumors contincte• rife; of 'other changes tObe-madain the cabinet,— Radical Repablibanalieem to be ..as ,tounded, while Corservative men off' all parties are highly gratified. The President has not, up to the present time, been sustained by the Republi can party as a party. On .the con trary, a portion of the men who placed him in office, deserted him, or devo ted themselves to the attempt todrive him. into their peculiar measures.— The-result was, that instead of hay. lug the united, support of his, own be . . z fOund .himself alternately cajoled and abused by one part of it, While the other portion either stood aloof, or regarding4heaselves. as al. most out-generaled by their, radical allies, hesitated .as to the course they ought to pursue. IR 'this aspect of affairs, it was certainly most desira .ble for the-President- to receive sup port-from some 'source on which he could rely. The conservative men of his party-werawilling togive it if he would..t.hrow the ,radical. men over. beard, -but they alone were a minori. •ty of the nation. The Democrats stood real ) , to unite =with them in sustainieg the President in a conserv ative course. They have only 'await ed the intimation that their cooper ation would be accepted. The ap pointment of___Mr.,Sta9,ton is a step coward the union - of all - `conservative men. It is not to be'denied, howev er, that there have been some lines of policy pursued by the Administration which the Democrats as a whole can• not approve, and they await in some anxiety the future developments of the Cabinet changes. If, indeed, the President.is willing to accept the ad vice and assistance of the Democrats is conjunction with the. conservative Republicans, and if this willingness is indicated by the invitation of' others into the Cabinet councils, the nation will spring forward in the work of the Union with tremendous energies and Mr. hincoln will instantly ex change the doubtful, erratic, untrust worthy support he has received hith erto, for such a firm ' hearty and, pow erful sUpport as he has never, before imagined,. May the pxchange be speed v I A CONTRAST.—Decidedly the most brilliant military campaign in which Our Country ever engaged, was the Mexican , War, during t))e administra don of. President Polk. EX-Presi dent Buchaaan was then Secretary of State, and :the late oovernor Mar cy, Secretary of War." The most ex tensive means had to: be provided for the Maintenance of a large army in a distant country, and millions of Money passed - through thehands of the government officers. But we do not remember that anyone of them was ever charged With peculation or dishonesty.' Certain it, is that not a Whisper was ever heard affecting the integrity Of Mr. Marcy, and he retired from" office enjnying the re spect of the nation. The Democrat ic administration of President Polk, in that campaign, set an example which might have been profitably fol• lowed .by those holding high places under Mr. Lincoln. .It certainly is not necessary to the successful prose. cution of a war that all concerned in eondueting it should turn highway robbers. Officiat announcement of the VictOry in Kentucky. WASEIINGTON, Jan. 22, 1862. The following was received at head quarters to-night : LOUISVILLE, Jan. '22', 1862. To Major Gen. McClellan, Command ing U. S. A. The following has juSt been receiv ed froM General Thomas: The rout of the enemy was com plete. After succeeding in getting two Pieces of artillery across the riv er and upwards of fifty wagons, they were abandoncd with all the ammu nition in the depot in Mill Spring.— They then threw away their arms and dispersed through the mountain by-ways in the direction of Monticel lo, but are so completely deinciralized that I do not.believe they will make a stand Short of Tennessee. The property captured on this side of the river is of great value, amount ing to eight six pounders and two Parrot guns, with caissons filled with ammunition ; about one hundred' four-herse wagons, and Upwards of 1,200 horses and mules, several boxes Of arils which had never heen open. ed, and froth 500'' to 1,000 muskets, mostly with flint locks, but in good order; - subsistence stores enough to serve the entire 'command fdir three days;' also a large amount Of hospi tal stores. As soon as I receive the report of the brigade commanders I will furn ish a detailed, report of the, Battle. Ouiloss waS thirty-nine killed and 127, wounded. Among the- wounded were'Col. McCook, of the Ninth Ohio commanding a , brigade, and his Aid, Lieutenant Bilrt, of the Eighth 'Uni ted' States Infantry.' The' loss of the rebel's was Zollieof fer and 114 others killed and buried, 116 wounded, and forty-five prison ers, riot woueded, fiVe of whom are surgeons and Lieutenant Col. •Car.. ter, :of?he Seventeenth Tennesiee regiment. GENERAL THOMAS; ll: C. Blizrx, Brig, Gon. Corfg Zollicoffer was shot through the heart, at the head . of hisstalf, by Cola Fry of the - Fourth Kentucky. It rip. pears that ZollieofferiOst his way in the bushes, and suddfinly emerged before - Col. 'Fry, who .was'accompa nied by some stair. +Afters. The two parties mistook each other for friends and.4pproached within a feW yards of each othgr„ finding their mistake; both , halted and prepared for a hand-to.hand conflict . One of Zollicoffer's aids shot at Col. Fry, but only brought his horse down The Loyal Col. immediately -drow his six shooter, arid brought Zollicof fer from his sAktietir first 'fire.-- The, rel4ef Stiff .detserte'd their body, yriptcti was: taken to SiniierSet the day tifir ifiel3gfre. Doings in,Congrem MONDAY, January . , 20. In the' Senate, the Retrenchment Com mittee reported abill to-reduce the pay of Naval officers. Bills' were introduced and referred, providing for a daily over land mail from Utah to Oregon ; authoriz ing the Secretary of War to appoint one or more Assistant Secretaries for one year; and punishing spies with death.— The Consular and Diplomatic Appropria tion bill was taken up, several amend ments proposed- by the Finance Commit tee adopted, and the bill passed. The re port of the Judiciary Committe on the res olution to expel Mr. Bright—declaring that no sufficient cause existed to do so-- ; was then considered. Messrs. Wilkinson, 'Morrill, and Trumbull spoke in favor of Mr. Bright's Mcpulsion, and Messrs. Bay ard and Pearce spoke against it. Pend ing the discussion the Senate adjourned. In the HouSe, Mr. McPherson, of Penn sylvan:a, reported a bill, which was re ferred to the Committee on Military Af fairs, diScharging froth the service, on the first of March, the Bands of the Volunteer regiments. On motion of Mr. Morehead, of Pennsylvanian, the Secretary of War was directed to furnish the House with the names of those who distinguished themselves in the recent brilliant affair at Drainsville. Mr. Vallandigham, of Ohio, gave notice of his intention to ask leave to introduce a bill to apolish the Post-Office Department. Mr. Hutchinson, of Ohio, introdUced a bill to establish territorial goyernthents in the revolted States. Re :(erred to the Committee on the. Judiciary. Mr. Allen, 'of Ohio, offered a resolution, that in the judgement of the House no part of the appropriation now or hereaf ter made, nor of taxes now or hereafter to be laid by Congress, shall he used in or applied for the presecntion of a war for the emancipation of slaves in the slaveholding States of the Union. On motion of Mr. Blake, Of Ohio, the resolution was tabled. Yeas 91; nays' 37. A resolution was a dopted, ordering 'the' arrest of BenjaMin Bickley for contempt of Congress, in re fusing to appear before the Investigating Committee at Cincinnati. A bill was re ported and passed appropriating ten thou .sand dollars to pay the expense's - .of that committee. The Committee. on. Ways and Means were instructed to report on the expediency of a stamp tax on bank "netes. TUGSDAY, January 21 In the Senate, the Judiciary Committee were instructed to . inquire into the expe diency of amending the Natnraliiation laws, so as to confer the rights of 'citizen ship on foreigners serving in the present war. The bill providing for the comple tion of the defences of-Washington was taken up, and the amendment of the House agreed to. A new section, repeal ing the act allowing the discharge of en listed minors, providing that no persons under eighteen years of age shall be mus tered into the military service, and that the oath of enlistment shall be conclusive as to age, was agreed to. Also an amend ment imposing the . death penalty upon spies and persons forcing safe guards.— The bill was then laid aside. Thel bill authorizing the Secretary.of War to ap point two additional AsSiStant Secretaries, was taken up, amended so as to give the appointment to the President, and making the offices only for a year, and then pass ed. The resolution relating to the expul sion of:Mr. Bright, was thpataken up, and Messrs. Sumner and Lane, of Indiana, spoke in favor of his expulsion. Mr. Bright replied, subsequent to which the Senate adjourned without taking any de cisive action on the matter. In the House, the Senate bill authoriz ing the appointment of two additional As sistant Secretaries of War, was passed.-- The bill requiring postage to be paid on printed matter carried outside the mails was taken up. Seieral amendments, and a substitute offered by Mr. Colfax, <were voted down, and finally, the original bill, on motion of Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts, was laid , on the table hy a vote ofseventy five against sixty. WEDNESD AV, January 2-2 In the Senate, the resolution from the House, appropriating $lO,OOO to pay the expenses of the Van Wyck Investigating Committee, was concurred in. The bill from the House, providing that the exam ination of witnesses before Congressional investigating committees shall not excul pate them from answering in a court of law, was reported back from the Judicia ry Committee, and passed. The Special Committee on the conduct of the War re ported a bill authorizing the President to take possession of certain railways. The resolution to expel Senor Bright was taken up, and after a speech in favor of it by Mr. Garrett Davis, of,Kentucky, the Senate went into executive session. In the House, the bill, to increase the number of Clerks in the War Department, was reported and passed. Mr. Mallory, of Kentucky, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported a resolution, which was adopted,• requesting the Secre tary of War if notincompatible with the public interests, to inform the House, as soon as practicable, whether, and in what time, a sufficient military force can be ex tended to the line of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, in order that the road may be repaired. Mr. Spaulding, of New York, from the committee of Ways and . Means, reported a bill to authorize the is sue 0f5100,000,000 of United States notes, and for the redemption or funding tbereof, and for the funding of the floating debt of the United State's: • The bill was made' the special order for Tuesday next. The House, in Committee of the Whole on the State`of the Union, resumed the conaider ation of the bill making appropriations for Executive, LegislatiVe Unit Judicial expen ses, and a general debate ensued. • Tiviasnair, January 23. In the. Senate, the reSolution declaring that Marshal Lemon, in the order he trans mitted to the Senate, is guiltYpf contempt, was pissed. The bill for the' completion ofthe defences of Washington was amend ed sons to provide that no further work shall be commenced, and s then passed. The bill to increase the clerical force of the War and Navy_ Departments, 'as a mended by the House, was also passed: The case ormr. Bright Vccupicd further attention' until the Senate went i nto exe r cutive session. The House passed a bill authorizing the President to appoint inspectors for any of the llghthouses on the coast. "Among the bills reported was, one fioin l the: :Post Of fine Committee; fo eSfablishlt pOsial ey, ordei Astern; ;fi*re, of iiiocreeitriegeNfigVriniglinarieß 5 sion in Committee on the Military Acad emy bill. . FRIDAY, January 24 In:theSenate;.bills were passed appro. priating4lo,ooo'for the-expenses of the, House Committee on contracts; creating two new bureaus in the Navy Department; and the bill relating to certain judicial, dis tricts of the U. S. Circuit Court. The credentials of 1111r!.INYilson as Senator from Missouri were presented, to which objection was made but withdrawn after explanation, and he took the oath. The case of Mr. Bright was continued. The House .passed 'bills appropriating $lO,OOO for the expenses of the Committee on Contracts ; appropriating $25,000 for the protection of overland emigrants ; and the bill to amend. the Jndian Intercourse act. The SenateN. amendments to the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill were considered ; thoSe inci tiding Flor ence among the Censul Generalships, and striking out Hayti, :Liberia, &c., were concurred in. The bill will be returned to the Senate. THE BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA Dr. J. H. Seltzer, surgeon of the Eigh ty-eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, gives a most deplorable account of the doings in the slave pen at Alexandria, which is now used as a guard house for our soldiers.— The walls of the, "pen" are high, andthere is no root to shelter the unfortunate sold iers who are placed.in-it, from the weath. er. The mud and . filth is made deep. and there are 4ten'tetweeli. two and three hundred soldiefa tOnftned iii the place at the same time. • During the bad Weather they Must , nec essarily contract colds, ..which lead to worse diseases, particularly during the bad weather which has prevailed for some days,past. In addition to this, the prison ers are often without food for twenty-four hours or more at a time. The most of the soldiers who are confined in this hole are arrested for drunkenness, which makes them quarrelsome. They engage in fights betwetn themselves, which Often end in serious results. A few days ago one of the men had his thigh broken, and anoth er his back broken, in.one of the disgrace ful fights which almost daily occur in this - . slave pen. Some of the drunken. men who are put into this place, when' they come to-their senses, almost beg to be . Shot Ifthe cannot be released. There are plenty of houses evacuated and belonging to Secessionists, which could be used as guard-houses, and the men at least protected from the inclemency of the weather. it, was a miserable hole, not fit for the slaves to be stalled in before the rebellion broke out, and is certainly now not- a fit place for the meanest soldier in the army to be con fined in: A STARTLING STATEMENTS—The Chica go Tribune publishes the following para graph editorially: We hate before us three cartridges, bronght to us from Annapolis by a friend. They are a portion of the ammunition for the Enfield rifles served out to Burnside's forces for the great expedition. To the eye they are alike in appearance, and the slight difference in weight dould not in stantly be detected. But the difference is that one of the three contains not a par ticle of powdcr. A prominent officer of the expedition told our informant that this was about the proportion, throughput the entire lot of Enfield cartridges—one third of them carefully put up without powder. Now here is a case ,for investigation.— Was it fraud or treachery;' that seeks ,to palm off on our brave troops, .on the eve of an expedition, sham cartridges ! Let us have an explanation of this affair;-Sec retary Stanton. " DECEASE OF ' X-PRESIDENT TYLEir.:-The announcement of the death ofJohn Tyler, Ex President of the United` States,. at Richmond, on Friday night last, after a brief illness,xertched us last week. John : Tyler was born in Charles City county, Virginia, in 1790. He was elected to the Virginia, egislature at the early, age of twenty-one years. , In 1817 he, took his seat in Congress, and in:1826 was called to the Gubernatorial chair, from which he was transferred r a year or two later, to the United State Senate. A difference of opinion ,between General Jackson and himself subsequently led to his resigna tion of the otbee of Senator. He remain ed in retirement until placed by the Whigs on their ticket akcandidate for .the Vice Presidency; in 1840, The campaign re sulted in, the triumph of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too." The death of President Harrison, one month after inaugmation, elevated _ the Vice President: to the chief office ofthe na tion. His administration 'was .marked by vetoes of several acts which Were 'favor ites with the party that had called hini to power, especially the bank 'act, and many of his former friendi were thereby estrang ed. On the expiration of his term, Mr. Tyler retired to his plantation near Hamp ton, and was not further identified with public affairs, 'until last winter, when he participated in the efforts for compromise and became the President of the Peace convention, On the failure ofthese meas ures, he cast his lot with the rebels, and took an active part in the secession of his State. "UN= Toil"—A correspondent of the New buryport Herald, writing 'from Rock ville, Md., sais that "Uncle Tom,". the he ro of Mrs.. Stowe's lambus cabin roinailce, was owned in - Rockville, and that part of his family are still owned there by one of the ladies, who acknowledges timer to be a secessionist, and an admirer qf Jeff. Davis. iffir' r , The election in the,Bucktail Reg iment for a colonel, to take the place of Hon. .Chas. J. Biddle, has resulted in the choice 'Of Capt. McNeil. COUNTERFEIT SMALL NoTes.--Peterson's Detecter'contains the following descrip tion ofa neiv counterfeit small note : Easton Bank, Easton; Pa. 2s altered. Vig. man infield cutting grain, man ploughing on left end; two CuPids on right' end. The Genuine has female, shield, die, on left end _; horse's head on right. COST OP ASOLITIONISIS.--"What slavery is ebsting,",sayn the Chicago Tribune, quoting Mn Secretary Chase's Report, "is $ 86 7 1 ,372,802." Nay, good'sin that 'is what - abolition, ism is costine Y he /a e X . firb "f, egla ', .13.t'Par-A g o vernrkelle 'ccißt'3,-, Aar:v.4/16)dg Air The objects of the new expe diticen of General Grant in advancing from Cairo are said to have been ful ly. accomplished; It prevented thi rebels from sending reinforcements to Bowling Green, and gained valua ble information in regard to 'the ge ography of the country in the Vicin ity of Columbus, and the.condition of the roads and streams.- E,FromAe St. Z.o.u.blican of lrednesdayl FORWARD MW .13ACKWARD. TheYop4litieu:w4 i dh, left Cairo last Friday week;-and'-that which de parted froM Paducah on Wednesday last, hare :Weed- out :to be nothing but "extensive repeunoissances."— We gatheefro - 606,latest: intelligence received from those quarters that,the seven thousand trofepa ofGee. Grant's command, and the six thousand of Gen. Smith's will immediately return to . their barracks: Thus has ended the "big thing': which an impatient public had been coaxed,iuto'e.XpeCt ing. Itt9— The only infofmation yet re ceived frotn the Burnside expedition has reached us through rebel sources. It is reported that a large numberof the vessels comprising it are inside of Pamlico Sound, and that - attacks up on Newborn, N. C., and lloanake Is land, are expected. The ohject of the capture of New bern is supposed to be to establish , a basis of, operations against the rdilroall communicatiOns of 'Virginia with the SOlitheasfein States-, and the object :oLa move ment agar istikoan'okelsland is said to be to threaten Norfolk - and to flank the rebel army stationed: there. If General Burnaide can succeed In gaining possession of these readu, and ourarmies in Kentucky are en abled to destroy the railroad commu nications of Virginia with the South west, via Tennesgee, the rebel army on the Potomac will be in a. - terrible dilemma. It Fill either be compelled to disband, to retreat, or to attack, at a disadvantage, the:UniOn fOrecs -un der General McClellan. ser John Tucker, Esq., ofPhiladel- Oda, and Peter T. Watson, .Esq., of Washington, liatie (.been appointed Assistant" Sccutaries of War .u-nder the new act passed by Congress.-=-• Mr. Tucker was formerly the-Presi dent of the Reading 'Railroad 'Com pany, and he is well known in this State. Mr. 'Watson is an .eminent patent lawyer, a,.Man_olinfinence.and large fortune., Col. Tbornas,4.-Scott will retain his present . position. -(0 - Nearly all the letters fro the army are inisclirettod-7--H-that i4,,'direet ed to misses. "Who gOes there .?."- said, ark Irieh sentry- of the tritish At-Bt. Sebastian. "A .friend," - was the prompt reply. ,"Then. 'stand ..W i hero ye are, for be the powers yer -itho first friend I've seen in this murther in' country." ::ThgaThe appropriation billtnow-, be fore Congress, for-the support Of the army, for the year commencing next June, foets.up overs44o;oo6,ooV. ser Col. Lamon, Marshal of tile District of Columbia,was "invited" off_the floor of the House the other day by the Speaker. - Lamon- had in sulted some of, the members by refus ing them egress .into the prisons of Wash ingtorr to visit the Diggers', Too BAD.—At the recent election in Illinois for members of a Constitu tional Convention, tIW Democrats . a chieved a glorious victorY, literally sweeping the State. ConSequently, the Convention, contains a large ma jority of Democrats. The, -Republi cans are very much worried at' this, and are fearing - poor 8041 that the Convention may by its action - seces sionize the State. A luek:r . idea how, ever occurs' to them in the midst - of their gloom and despondency; .'which it, that the Government SHALL ARREST T.H.E DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS and confine theinin' Fart Warren, This ridieulous'propoeition we find hy's, letter to the New York Times, from Chicago. Su c Ira,proced ing would be a slight stretch - of pow er,.the latter admits, but then just to think of the unparalleled audacity of the Democrats in - out-voting the .Reptiblicans. Too bad, too bad-I Kr- Secretary Stanton seems de termined to disappoint those who - would make money out of their corm -try's needs; and he is equally bent on using the weapons We have in our hands before looking about for others. An application at his Department'for a contract to manufacture firearms called forth a sharp reply, to the -ef fect that the Secretary-of War'ln tend ed to discover when,-where, and bow the arms alrewly- ft) Actual service were to be used before turning his at tention toward all:S . Bh supply; and, moreover, that ho was determined:tq devote his energies to setting in or der for efficient motion the,:attiay across the Potomac, leaving the - con, tracts to rest for a time. This looks well. ' HUNG` firmsr.zr.--,Pavi44,-1!(ler, man ofintoxicated"b4bits hung _him self in the stable oll'Aitte'r''S - , icUnfon" Hotel, in Manbeim, sometime during the night of Sunday week. Deceas ed appeared iahispaaal state of mind on the previous evening and gave no indications whatever of committing , the'hask act. "How ARE You !"--A friend meets another in the Street; "How are you!' is the question. "lii,ow are your conaes back as a reply ; 'Yankee like, answer one question by asking an ether. Each pass on, both know how each other are, about as much as they did before asking. Every one - has got into the habit of saying "how are you!" Na one in fact expects an answer:, They have becoixte.so.used to repeating the question • - that- it is -useless to try to say asything else. 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