armies; to 'provide n envy, and to call forth the militia to execute the legs. • • "Thus is the American citizen amply provided, by means of Constitutions that are written, with protection for alt his rights natural and artificial, domestic and foreign ; but as the war power of the General Government is his ultimate security for his external, so is the militia his ultimate se curity for his -internal or donsestie-rights. - Could the`State Government strike at the war 1 -rower-of the. Federal government without en dangering every-man)/ rights? In view of the existing rebellien,,no man would hesitate bow to answer this question, and yet is it not equally apparent that when the Federal Government usurps a power - niter tbe State militia which was never delegated, every man's domestic rights (and they nre these which touch him most close ly) are equally endangered. The great vice of the Conscript law is that . it is founded on -an assumption that, Congress may take away not the State rights of the citizen, but the .security and foundation of his State rierts. i'lit.'dd,how long is civil liberty expected ~ .tmlast,after ffie securities of civil liberty are de • -strayed? The Constitution of the United States committed the liberties of the citizen in . part to the Federal Government, but expressly reserved to the States and the people of the States all it did not delegate. It gave the Gen eral Government: 0. standingiarmy, but left to the States their Militia. Its p,frposes in all this bal aneeing of powers were wise and good, but this legislation disregards these distinctions, and up turns the whole -system of government, when it .teirser.ts the State Mil i Gain to "national forces" - and claims to• Use and gore - rail:tem as such. Times of rebellion, above isli..Others., are the timei when-we should stick to '-our fundamental law, lest we drift into anarchy on the one hand or into despotism on the other. 'The great sin of the. present rebellion consists of violating the Constitution whereby overy.tuan's civil rights-are exposed to sacrifice. 'Unless the Government he ' kept on the foundation of the Constitution, we Imitate , the sin of the rebels,Und thereby encour • age them, -While we weaken and dishearten the friends of Constitutional order and govern ment."-'The plaintiffs in these bills have good r tight, think, as citizens of Pennsylvania, to • complain of the act in question, not only on the • ground:3 I have indicated, but on another to -which I will briefly-allude. The 12th section provides that the drafted person shalt receive ten days' notice of the ren dezvous-at whichhe is to report for duty, and the 13th section enacts "that if he fails to report himself in pursuance of such notice, without fur- nishing a substitute or paying the required sum therefor, be shall be deemed a deeerter, and shall be arrested by the provost marshal, and -sent to the nearest military post far court mar tial." The only qualification to which this pro vision is subject is, upon, proper showing that be is not able to do military duty the board of enrollment may relieve him from the draft. One of the complainants, Kneedler, has cot forth-thvnotiee that wits served on him iapur seance of this section, and by which-he was-in formed that unless he appeared on-a certain day .be- would be "deemed a deserter, and be subject to the penalty-prescribed therefor, by the rules and artitles bf-war." I believe the penalty of deser - Lien bylbe•military sods is any corporeal pun ishment a court martial • may choose to inflict, ..even to that of being put to death. -Cana - citizen be made a deserter before be has ibeeetneett-soldierl Has Congress the constitu. tiunal.power to an thorize,provost marshals, after drawing the amuse of a freeman from a wheel and• serving him with a ten days' notice, to seize and drag him before a. court martial for trial un der military law? This question touches the foundations of personal liberty. In June, 1215, the Berets of England and their retainers, "a numerous host encamped .upon the grassy plain of Runnymede," wrung from King John that Great Charter which de- Oared, amung other securities of the rights and liberties of English 1110 D, that "no freeman shell be arrested, or imprisoned, or deprived of his freehold, or his liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed er exiled, or in any manner harmed; nor-Will-weqtheaing) proceed against him, nor teed any one against him by force of arms, unless atmording , tcythe sentence of his peers (which in. eludes trial by jury) or the common law of Eng- land." Here was laid the strong foundation of the liberties of the race to _which we belong. And yet not here, for Magna Charts created no rights, but only reasserted those which existed long before at common law. It was for the most part says Lord Coke, merely.declaratory of the:,.. l lUndententsllaws of England:" Far back of • : - ',-liiftetio,: - CKarta; In the customeind maxims of _Haxor't,rtncestry,"tbose px,ieeiples of liberty ' " - ie are cry s Mutes,' he Petition yseasiv4lPVitro n ali - iNtila * rtitlin of Inde pendence, the Bill of Rights to our State Con e titution and the Amendments to our .Federal jj Constitution, and which have thus become the heritagdaf th:ese,4l, l entiffa- s, t Otte - the, 7 ; tll,lArti nlek Ittefig,;A:.trioam'enW: - t`;` 4 4.4r504--abaaP , belranatierfor a apittit/er,: - etheirwigejalffo • stions+6r linlela on.e / presentreent*.Orlad:f44: mont of a giand jury, except incases the lend - or naval forces.or the.militia When' in actual service in time - of . war .or . .public dan ger." What' is the scope 'of= this exception ? The land or'natal forces mean the regular mili tary organization of the Government the stand ing army and navy—into whtgh,ettlzens are in , traduced by miPturri:adtMation.fivirCliVhood or by , :enlisticenw;nl4*giortte, by their own con sent, subject: tlps-Military codined liable to be tried andEPorilibid without any of the forms or safeguards of the common law. In like man ner-the militia whitMduly palled out and placed "In actual service" are subject to the rules and artieldsof war all their common law rights of persobal freedom Lein for the time suspended. But "whet:Care militiamen in actual service? When they have been notified of a draft.? Judge Story, in speaking of the authority of Congress over the militia, says : "The question .when the-authority of - Congress over the Militia becomes.exclueive, must essentially depend upon -the fact when they are to be deemed in the actual .service of - the Tailed States. There is a- clear distinction-between calling forth the militia arid. their being ,in actual service. These are-not-I contemporaneous acts nor necessarialy identical In their constitutional -leaning. The President is not commander in:Chief of the militia, except when in actual service, and not merely when ordered into . service. They are subjected to martial /am only when in actual service, and not merely when called faith before they have obeyed the call. The acts 0f . 1795 and ether acts on the subject manifestly contemplate and recognize this distinction. To bring the militia within the meaning of being in the newel service there must be an obedience to the call, and some eats of organization, mustering, rendezvous, or marching dune in obedience to the cell in the public service." (Story's Com. Law, vol, 3; sec. 1208. ) If it be suggested that this" . plain role of com mon sense and constitutional law is not violated by the Conscription act because it applies to the - "national forces," I reply as before, that this is only a new name for the militia, and that the 'constitutional rights of a citizen are not to be sacrificed io an uneonstitstional name . When Judge - Strong was endeavoring to mark with so much distinetnese the time atwhieh the common law rights' of the citizen ceased and his liability to military rule began—the time, in a word, when be became a soldier—why did it not occur-to his fertile-mind that Congrese tumid render this d is tinction,valeeleSa andmermennin,gby a new nom eneluture--Lby waling the militia "national for ces?" It is not difficult to conceive how such a suggestion would have fared had it occurred or been made to bin. But it is difficult in the pres ence of the - grave issues of the present day, to treat so frivolous a suggestion with the dignity and forbearance the occasion demands. have shown what rights of personal liberty these plairitifilsinhetited from a remote ancestry, and bow they tree guaranteed to them by our consti tutions, and, at what time they are to giie place to martial iew ;and surely, if a wheel. set in mo. Lion by Congress, can crush and grind those rights out • of existence, without regard to the limitations of the Constitution, some weightier reason phould be found for it than the misnomer which the act: so studiously ape ties to the tnili tia—some reason -that deserves to stand instead of Megan Charts, our Constitution, and all our traditional freedom. The only general, reason that I have ever heard saggested,and which is applicable again9t all the views advanced in this opinion. is Called military. neoessiti. The emantry is involved in a great civil war which can be brought to an honorable close only - by an energetic use of all our resources,. and no restraint should be totem- ted, in such circametunoco, Fare only those whioh Christian oivilizatien has imposed. on all war fare. Whatever ie according to the-Constitution, the argument Oath:leo/lay be done, of course— whatever is over and beyond the Conslith Lion is justified ea military necessity, and of that the President and Congress are exclusive and final judges. The amount of the argument is that the exi gencies of the times justify the substitution of martial law for the.Constitntion. But what is martial law ? .Blyekstane and Sir Matthew Hale tell us "it is built upon no settled principles, but is entirely ' . arbitrary in its decisions, is in truth mil tnality - no law, but something indulg ed rathes,lhan:alloweo as law!! .The unrestrain ed will drpne ~ cup number Britten; thegils the ruleirkijiMip,srguntent sebstitutee for the CSISI. stitution. It is of no consequence that the will thus set up for supreme law is that of men whom a majority of the people have chosen, because, according to our system, the majority can on ly choose men to administer the Constitution as it is written. Majorities, as a power recognized by law, have no more right to establish a despotism than a minority would have. But may majori ties or minorities set aside the Constitution un der pressure of rebellion and insurrection ? As the Constitution anticipates and provides for ouch calamities, it is a reproach to its -wisdom to say that it is inadequate to PUCh • areergeneies.—.: , No man has any historical right to cast this re proach upon it. 'No current experience proves - it. • It never can be prwved except by an unsuc cessful use of the legitimate powers of the Con stitution against rebettion,vand then the thing proved will be that thwittetruntent needs amend ment, which its machinery is flexible enough to allow. ; . .Even such a melancholy demonstration would do no more than point out necessary a mendments—ft would not surrender the people to the arbitrary will of anybody. Presidents and Congressmen are only servants of the 'peo ple, to do their will, not as-that will may be tor. pressed under passion or excitement, but as it stands recorded in the Constitution. It is the Constitution, indeed, which makes them Presi dents and Congressmen. They have no more power to set up their will itgainst the Constitn• tion than so malty private citizens Would have.— Outside of that they are only private citizens. •I do not, therefore, feet the force of the argu ment drawn from the distressing circumstances of the time. Bad as they are, we make them worse, the judicial mind ought not to be ex peeled to approve the substitution, for it can recognize no violation of the Constitution as a' legititottre vindication of the Constitution, To place ourselves under despotic sway in order to bring back rebels to the Constitution we given up, is a procedure that. perplexes the to dent of pblitical science, and wilt quite confound the historian of our times. tslja.lo.lt . c.kfil,'Ortitstt. - WREN DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES CEASE TO LEAD . , ICE . CEASE TO ronow." BRESLIN, Editor and Proprietor. LEB.A NON, PA. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25,1868 RIDGE PEARSON'S CHARGE "Do notmaisunderstatid"me on this SlM ject. Men have the most unlimited right to condemn, and if-you please, raffia, the National Administration, and object to the manner in which it conducts public affairs, but not to decry the government under which we live, or express hopes or wishes for a dissolution ofthe Union, the destruction or of our armies, the success the rebels or pith° rebellion.. * * * * -The 'Ateroinietration he may entirely 'condemn ; the Onvernment he is bound to support. Parties will always exist in every 'free country. and 'whether men" will sustain or oppose a particular administration. is ono in whiel there should ever be the most perfect freedom of opinion, but no man or set of men has any right, natural or politi cal, is overturn the government itself. He is bound to support and sustain it. let who will administer its affairs, until the ruler can be changed tinder the pro. visions of the Constitution. There certainly can he no difficulty with persons of ordinary intelligence draw ing the distinction between sustaining the govern ment itself, and. sustaining or opposing those who temporarily administer its affairs. The latter is a question of party, the form- aref patriotism." THE WAR IN EAST TENNESSEE The situation .of affairs in . Bast Tennessee is not only interesting, but critical for our forces in that section, Gen. Burnside is at Knoxville; where he is surrounded by the enemy, hav lug been driven b: ch froth an at, tempted advance in which he was roughly handled. The advance of • - to yield their Tosition, retiring to a j stronger one about one-third of a mile distant. Our loss was one hiro= '' red, one-fourth of whom were killed. &4ieral_Sanders was borne from the •110.4,5ev ti erely wounded. Burnsides troops as soon as the enemy menaced them on Sunday,. fell back about ten ! miles to Lenoir. The enemy came Ap,at dusk and attacked the position, - .repulsed.. On Monday morning a.nOther retreat was made a few miles further to Campbell's Sta. tion,-aboht twelve miles from Knox.- ville. Here a severe contest enNed to check the enemy until the baggage trains could pass on to the city, and after several hours' fighting a third retreat began. On- Tuesday morn ing all the Federal army was in Einoxville, having) , retreated twenty five miles in forty-eight ° hours. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 'the enemy made attacks upon.tbe be sieged town, but were unable to ef fect much. They gradually extend• ed their linesso as to enci-rcle it on the north, west and south, - spreading along the Holston river, which runs south of•the town, and making fre quent efforts to cross it. The Feder al outposts are in a semi-eirele, each about three miles from the centre of the t 0 %I' 117- General Grant is at , Chattanooga, ' but the enemy has cut all the lines of comm'unieation between him and Burnside. Startling nears may soon be expected from East Tennessee:, ANOTHER DISASTER > We are also in receipt of details of ' the disaster, which has befallen the Federal overland expedition from New Orleans tb Texas- This e2spedi tion, .under -command -of General Washburn, bad •advanced nearly to Opelousas, and was within eigbty miles of the eastern boundary of Tex as. The strength oof the expedition was about twelve thousand• As it proceeded, the advance guard was some distance in front of the main body ; and taking . advantage of one of the small streams, so numerous in Western Louisiana, being in terpos• ed between them, the enemy on No vember -3d: precipitated themselves upon the detached advance. They were six thousand strong, and . the Federal force scarcely eighteen bun. dyed. The contest was, therefore, very short, as many of the Federal force as could escaping back over the ':3trearn to tbe main body. The loss was eighteen killed, one hundred wounded, and five hundred and fifty. nine captured. This disaster, and the news that a large force of the en emy, estimated at fifteen thousand was rnanceuvering to cut, off retreat to New Orleans, made the Federal force turn around and retrace their steps. The land expedition, it is re ported, has been abandoned, ,and_ Washillurne's troops, will ,hc, brought back "tn NeWOrleansto sent to the Rio Grande by water. General" Banks' great expedition has landed a . i.lhe" mouth of the Rio Grande,-and - bas taken. the town of Brownsville,-Texas. , There was but little resistance made to his 'occupa tion of the place. The enemy evacu• ated Fort Brown without a-fight, but set the town on ' , fire, tTbe flames were extinguished by the .troops, as. sisted by loyal citizens. FROM MEADE'S ARMY From the army of the - Potomac we have little but the daily details of guerilla attacks and the surmises of news , writers..- - The'rurnors of an ad vance have•died: aw ay ;-th e latest,ree, onnoissance _ba4ing resalted , rather. unfortunately ; and we are now told that the eneniy, inatead of being on the full run to Richmond, are pre senting a bold front, with large niim here, on the Rapidan. The guerillas, for the last two or. three days, have been quite active and very successful in their forays. Vienna and Nokes ville have Suffered; . LATER Gen. Grant, has his, army in rn': tion. The .. threatening •rnovement of Lengstreet, upon Eastern Tennessee .comp Is, him to take the initiative a gainst _Bragg. c The•latterrt must. eith. er. fall . back or 'fig-ht, 'and, , to :lave Longstrcet, he must itio - tho'latter.'-L. Reinforced by Gen. 'Shernsan's corn wand, which is much larger ttlsan the highest rebel guesses have ,placed it, .Gen.. Thomas's force must - largely ex• seed. that of the enemy. *i.if numbers, skill, anti valor can, give 1113 a victory, 'we ought , soon-to hear -nf -onwin the neighborhood of Chattanooga. Gen. Meade's army is also in, mo-‘ tion, and Lee must either fall back. to Richmond or fight a battle.. • Therel are indications that his purpose is to retreat, and the sudden sending away of the Union prisoners would seem to indicate that the rebel government is of opinion that a siege of their cap ital is not an improbable event.. It is well, understood that General IVleade is advancing against Lee un der positive , orders. liis own judg mentis-against so important a move ment without a larger force. So, if reverse should occur,: the fault must not be laid at his door% but at those of the President and• General All the movements in ..411e field seem to be •cooperative, except the one to Texas. IL-Gen. Banks was now operating against Mobile instead of Brownsville, be would have kept 20,000 "rebels employed 'at the former point who are now helping-the armies of Bragg and Longstreet. If ;ye lose Eastern Tennessee it will be because of this aimless Texas expedition. PRESIDENT LINCOLN A "COPPER HEAD."---Wendall Phillips says. that =Mr. Lincoln said to him that "the Emancipation Proclamation was . the , gteatest ►mistake of his life." As •the endorsement of that miserable dace- Ment has been made:a test of "ley alty," how can .Old -Abe himself be loyal if he condemns it, as' he did a weeks before he issued it? The ifad *_ Is in Missouri already call him a the In C . :us tion denguneing hitn as a "Copper head Knight of the Golden Circle." ance, WI ger The "brute".l3utler is down at Fortress Monroe playing the tyrant. Sheuck and - Butler are achieving vic tories almost daily over unarmed people for the "Government." Over armed rebels they.are not so new. ful, as the recollections.of Viepne for the former, and Greatr_Bettiel for the latter, will testify. ne,„ 'Henry Ward 'Beecher, the great apostle of the devil, has been to Europe, and after 'being snubbed . and insulted there for 'his recreaney to his original calling; the "preaching of,Christ .and him Crucified,"—has returned to this country, greatly glo rified by his present disciples. Cern In Missouri the election•peon test was .between the radicals or .ab• olitionlists-and the conserratives der the leadership of the Blairs,.—the democrats being mere lookers•on.— The former beat the latter •by only some. 600 majority. • Who knows but the salvation of our country may yet be effected by the fight now brewing in the opposition ranks? A split in the Denioeratie.„party allowed the destrUctionists to get into power, and a split in•the ranks.of the latter may also oust them. LATE WAR NEWEL—Fort Sumter is still being bombarded, and it ie ex pected that it will be taken soon ! After :Stiitor is taken 'Cllarleston will also be taken, and the "rebellion squashed instanter. The dedication of the Nation al Cemetery at Gettysburg took place on . Thursday. About 15,000 persons are reported to haVe been present, including the President, half a dozen Governors; some gajor Generals and a lot of minor officers civil and un civil. Some folks: who were on the road did not,reach Gettysburg' until the day after, owing to bad railroad management. See- Lincoln has cost his country three thOusand millions of dollars and a million 'of lives, and the end is not yet. What a scourge to humanity that he was ever born .--Tolinstown Democrat. TEE NINE MONTHS' VOLUNTEERS.- TheoSecretar,y of war has decided a gainst the claims of-ttre nine months' volunteers to national bounties; but the heirs of a nine months' man who dies or is'killed in the service are en titled to the United , States bounty of $lOO besides the pay due to the Sol dier at the`date of his decepee. The• widows'and'inotbers of nine months' soldierk are also entitled to, a pension under act of Congiess apPrOved July , 14 1862. ftr We•AevOte considerable space in to•day's•Auvtartsts. to the opin ion of , Judwi Woodward, pronouncing the Conscription Act unconstitution al. It should be read by every free man, although the powers that-be at Washington will treat it as though it had never •been 'd6livered. 'Our rights and liberties are being rapidly absorbed by the central despotism at Washington, but it well that they should• be recOrded, - - do that ifs'We' prove too craven •to maintain them and perpetuate them to our ehildree„ that they, at least, may itnow: what they were deprived of, and that we rendered up Without : - a struggle. Elli stbr The Department of Agricul ture has received one hundred bush. els*of Mediterranean wheat, which is well adapted to the soil of the Mid dle Stated. Agriculturists can 'ob tain samples by addressing Isaac Newton, CommissiOner flf Agricul. tore, Washington, D. C. gr. The folloWing lines. are sum Bested by the fatherly' care whiel Uncle Abe exercises over the shoddy ites, and the way he provides 'for them:-- Chickadee, Chickadee, Up on the tree, - What will ho do, Without any shoe, To keep hiS feet warm,. , Oat in the storm I s n 0,.. The military crave. now,-about 70 persons "from Carbon' county con. , fined in the "'military" prison, Read. ing suspected of the recent murder of Gee. K. Smith. "A. regiment, of "mili. tart'" are also,still quartered in Car bon to "preserve the peace,"' It is all right that 'the murderer of Mr. Snaith shoufd be caught, and such scenes as Ind to his murder prevt3nt ed or punished, lath it *lakes a won: derful difference the world over as to` whose Ox is gored. , A dozen eases of murder and • rowdyisni.have lately occurred nißertis, .-Schuylltilf, 'Car bon, 'and other counties In Eastern Pennsylvania, but-then the other Ox was gored, and no "military" - inter ference followed, stir As yet no effort has been made by the "loyal," citizens of this county to raise their share of the "vigorous war" men to fill Father Abraham's call. What is wrong. Come, rouse rally I or-the thing's "gone up." (/r Gold is again going up, or ratti er plumply speaking, greenbacks arc going-down. (Mr The•abolitionists leant the of. toe •of ;Surveyor 'Gen nral They Chid - kit is wuseless office. Per htvps it is, •but they think so while one of their own party held it. Legislating Democrats out of office and legislating themselves in is a pleasant occupation for them. There'll be thunder for them one of these short days. Cttr: Congress will meet next Mon days. week. The "loyalty and intel ligence" are already engaged in a disgraceful squabble.as to the offices, but the beauty of it would be,tf, in. the end,.they would slip through their fingers and get into the hands :of "traitors." GOD SAVE THE Qiialit!4 3 A has obtained eredqnsg..- in ' tlelgium that t . be of England is dispos ed. :to marry a second time, and thal T r Tizkatula....mt;tt, 4 - .• rfl jLe % j_iiarrara 3 a sly glance" at her. ',The King is a well favored Dutch sovereign, whose hair!is'said to be a little frosted, and Who nil ay therefore: be supposed. ta have arrived at years of discretion.— The London pleas is very indignant at the rumor. - At the same time; while they pronounce it "a foul .Ittrd dangerous dalamtny," theT :also -state threir •fearts about !King IL eopcild's rt .to :England • during- , the =present *month - . 'The advice {hie "crafty . diplomatists," as-they - style 'said neverto hAve'been .given 'to or taken by the Queen Nwithout "injury to her welfare and 'honor:" For our part, we can't see .why. Queen Vie., 'haying faithfully"mourned for:ayear and a day," and 'havjng finally set -u,p an elegant monument to the memo. ry oftlie lamented Albert, hasn't now the.same tight as any other woman to launch but and boa "gay vidder." One thing is certain, however--that love thrives on opposition ; and if the papers keep on, blackguardi-lg Leopold, th;ey will be sure to bring_ •about a,---tmateh—in which event we wisllotir old friericis-much happiness. DELAWARE ELEV*ly.—lle elCC tion for a member of Congress in the State of Delaware, on Thursday, was a mere form—N. B. Smithers, • the administration candifilate, haVing been chosen without opposition As the control of the polls was given to We Military, by command of the Dictator Scheneli, and a test oath was requir. ed of all voters hostile to the admin. istration, the Democrats very proper ly withdrew their candidate, the Hon. Charles Brown, and did not attend the ele6tion. 0:r A Olergyrbat in New 'York has sued his aunt for $5OOO for hitting ham in the tack with a stone because be coul . dn't pay his-board. Cbiekadedee, Chinkadedee, Up on the tree, Where will he go, - Out in the snow ! Come here to Chiekadedee, .Chiekadedee. I'll make a nest, I'll make a nest, Where you can rest, , - Ali nice and warm, Out of the Storm, Come here to me; come here tb me, Chickadedee, Chickadedee. EMI A cerreSpohdiNt of the Chi cage . Times gives the following ac count Of the draftin Wisconsin : 'The 'Provost - has - usurped the place of Gabriel, arid has blown his horn to samisen - the dead from their watery graves in 'Lake Michigan, and its murrouring4aves will here after be condeMned as . disloyal if they refuse to yield up'-the 'skeletons that have rested in peace 'beneath her placid . bosom for - years. Men of sixty years of age are dectared to be long to the first elites, trWclsliable to serve in the rank_s "as they-g'o' march ing along." In three instances the same men have - been- 'thren , tirnes drafted.. 'One 'man, who is 'blind in one ey_e„.and nearly so in .the other, was d‘rrted • in. , : different-. wards.— Your correspondent was drafted . twice in Ibis ward, and it isf'Suppoied that some dozen ballots bearing his name were not ,' taken from the wheel. In one other Instance, his name, :with. ,a;',Blight alteration, was drawn. 'Sure--werk - was intended:— lie intends'to..- - ga far one, furnish a stibstitute'forAhe Other,. and pay his ~'regular t3OO 'lof the -third.—Ex. . . 1 1Vagedy in .111imois-01xE OF THE STANTONS:-T here *.w 'fatal and melanCholy tragedy - in Mt. - Cartnel, Wabash . county, on the 3d inst., resulting iu the death of two promi nent ...citizens of that, place, at the , Ixands of F. AL -Stanton, -Assistant' Provost, Marshal ..of *that cohrity. 7 -- 'The'Ofney Heaaid Says that Z. New kirk, Of that county., .was on„the street,. in an altereatiOn of words..with-some .one, when 'one Stanton-, who is assistant pmvoat marshal for that county, Came up and remarked, "ar rest. him !" [meaning Newkirk.] G. W. Besore, a lawyer of that place, standing a short distance off, remark ed.to Stanton,- 4 : `what authority have you for arresting him ?" Stan ton. drew a revolver and shot Besore, the ball taking effect in the abdomen.-- Besssre was not armed, hence _could not . defentt! himself: . Newkirk then drew -his revoker and shot Stanton, the'ball . taking effect' in his leg 'Stanton then shot Newlirk, hitting him-somewhere in the body. New 'kirk 'shot a second and third time at Stanton, one ball taking effect In his arin.and the other grazing the top of his head. • Besore and Newkirk have. since died of their wounds... Stanton will, probably recover. Besore yvas a premising young lawer—had, been filling the duties of prosecuting at torney for that district by appoint ment of Co!.. thotrln. Casey, of the 10th Illinois, prosecutor de jure. Mr. .13680 re was a prominent lawyer of Mount Carroll and a former-resident: of Springfield. kEir Dr. Cum mings'has'sdladted'the year 1867 as the tloge of the present economy. lie `believee 'that the last despdrate 'battle bolero the end of 'the world vill . take place near Jere -stilem,'betitveen 'France, Bngland and The soldiers taken -from-Meade and Rosecrans secured to-the Adnan istratioli the fall elections, but lost to the Government the fall cam Mins: enreverrtm dered the printed has of persons enrolled in each Ccingressional Dis trict shall be made aod posted where the people cansee them, for the , pur, pose of insoring an accurate register. ExcmptS Who find their names in' the listin ay apply tt.t once ..16r -REV intotrEtt e'rresqn t h igh Trice.of eoal suggesting many ex -pedients for. economizing its use-- Mr. Harper, of the Philadelphia city councils, propoSes a committee to in quire into the feasibility, of warming baulks from a . central source ,- and sup plying the citizens with heat as gas is now supplied. The committee to make:the inquiry into the matter was appointed: .A :PAINFUL REFLECTION, No more prisoners are to be ex changed wirb the rebels. That is the latest orderfrom our war office. The thirteen thousand Union prisoners now in reboil hands are to remain Were, either to be, starved to death or paroled as the famino the '.Sou:h may affect the liumaniTy of Jefferson Davis & Co. All the rebel prisoners we capture, henceforth, wo are to ' keep here, at a distance from "Dixie," in or• der to thin as rapidly as . possible the ranks of the Confederate army.—The cause of the cessation of exchange of prisoners with the rebels, is their re fusal to include -the officers and diers of ,colored regiments in the car. tel. gra- Fresh beef is selling in Indi ana Co., Pa., at from three to four cents for hind quarters•nnd two and three cents for fore quarters. Pork, fresh, selling at six cents per pound. A schoolboy "down East," who was noted among his play fellows for his frol ics with the girls, was reading aloud in the Old Testament, when coming to the phrase "ma - king waste places glad," he was asked what 'it meant. The young. ster paused—scratched his head—but gave no answer, when up jumped a more precocious urchin and cried out: "I know what it means, master. It means hugging the gals; for Tom Ross is alters haggle em around the waist, and it makes' em glad." A "Loyal League" in a backwoods re gion lately debated the gnestion—"Will the extinct of slavery causes a migra tion of NegilMs to the North or South .2" Decided affirmatively --that it will cause them to migrate North or South, and it is now contemplated to debate whether they can conveniently migrate to the place they are in before they go out of it. `" The poorer classes of women in England, as late as the beginning of the present century, were employed in many towns in carrying bricks and mortar on their heads to the masons at work, on even- the highest buildings. Women stripped, from shoulder to loins may even now be seen picking -up lumps of coal from the Tyne mud,- when the water' is low, much to the offence of strangers, if not the people of Newcastle:—New York Evening Post. Yet these wretched women are nomi nally free.. Such povetty and want were never heard of among the Souther r ntlaVes as they are called, and yet our country must be drenched in blood to change their situation and throw their upon their own resources.—England has spent mon e y enough for the past fifty years in aboli tion projects to have rendered all her starving citizens comfortable, and our Abolitionists have wasted' treasure enough in this war to have given com fortable ho mes to all our poor white peo. ple, North and South. Instead of this, they are turning: both_ white and! black out 6f doors and impoverishing the land. The Emancipation Proclama tion.—The original -slraft of the Ern an .cipation '-PrOclaMation is for sale out West rand' one bid of twelve handred dollars has been offered for it.—Some - Loyal .Leageuer g' holies' it 'in'ay be se cured for a loyal =Historical Society." Dick Taypires ;cd'ininisSinn to - rob on the highway, which this eccentric ras cal had drawn up, and forged the seal and signature .to recently sold in Lon don for two.bundied dna forty pounds, just exactly the price offered for the Emancipation Priiclamatfon. IMPROVEMENTS [N BROADiTA.Y—.IIEL S tBOLTeS Ni - E DRUG STORE—If the lordly BeCeili rebels who were wont to promenade Broadway in, Sep mee`and Autumn, and who .10, Confidently pre dieted that grass. would ..,commenue growing in . that thoroughfare ''soot' as they decided to shake the duthi off their feetmnd stop shaking the dust out'of their mkekets for our benefit, could just take one-glance back upon. their old proms rtalle,'es 'Many of them, -we doubt not, would hteglad to do, they would discover two things— first, how silly and self conceited they were, and second, how easily we can do without them.— They would fint change' in Broadway, to be sure, but inetead of grass and weeds, they. would find' inar,bla taking the place .9t" brick, iron in the, pitiee of wood, and all the evidences -of improe., ment and prosperity, instead of Allapidati=:,t and decay. Not the 'least among' the o `,„,re recent improvements that Would striketh`,trattention would'be the magnificent new 'drug store and chemical warehouse lately °Vaned by tbe renown ed Philadelphia pharinacemij o Haase- noun, at No. 594 _Broe.away, adjoining their old favorite resort the Metropolitan Hotel. Th is.es tablishment is just now the lion among the at tractions of Broadway ; nod is daily and nightly drawing crowds to witness its covelty and splen dor. If any thing can make drugs palatable it is this, and. it would almost compensate one fora fibufsickn ess to know that the healing prescrip-' lions were to be compounded in . such a gorgeous palace. Mr. - lIEGMBOLD has leased the entire building, which is2B feet front, 23.5 feet deep, and 5 stories high. The front half - of the first floor is fitted up fur the retail department, and the remainder is used for the wholesale business and as a laboratory for the preparation of the varielis extracts which the name of HELMBOLD bas made so celebrated. The drug store proper is unlike any other heretofore seen in l'nis City, and is probably unequalled in the world. It would be a work of supereroga,tien to give-a de tailed description of teliat every body is flocking to see for lilmselc, but it may not be amissib mention enk novelty connected with itiehitab lishment—the reception room. 'Whir tiVer'lleard of a, reception room in n drug store.? And yet who has' not wished while 7stdeding,Tfrequently a long stand evaiting'fer 'his'prescription -to be prepared, 'that the `keepers_ of these shops had not been'edbeidirith •enough to furnish more comfdrtable accommodations ?..,,Ifemenoun has supplied this desideratum in his new establish : metit, and customers detained their have bnt to step to the rear of the store where they will find lu - serious chairs, sofas and lounges on which to recline, while their feet rest upon the softest of velvet carpeting. This feature is only in keep. lag with the other novelties, and with the genet.. al splendor of the eitablishwen t. Mr. .llzuunoen, we understand, still continues his large establish ment in. Philadelphia, of which the store just opened here is only a branch made necessary by the extensive sale in ibis market of the popular extracts which bear his name.—N. Y. Daily Times, Oct. 31st. ELLISEt LONCACRE LEBANON • jer__,33E„, Located on the Steent-llouse Road, near CarOicrianal ,Street. East Lebanon. • ' 'TII undersigned respectfully inform 1 the public in general, that they e r t till manufacture and • keep on hand, 7", Door. Sash, Shutter, Illiude , flooring., Weather Boards. 0 Gee Spring 3-; , . 11,4 k4 1 4, 11 4 Mouldings, of all iiizes, Wash Boards. Coxing. Surbace. Cornices, and all kinds of BUILDING MATBRiALS Ter Rouses... We alio construct the latest and most im proved Stair Cluing and !Eland Railing, suitable for large and Finial) buildings. We now invite Farmers, Mechanics end Builders to call and examine our Meek, which we will warrant , to giro entire satisfaction tog! who may favor the under signed with their custom. Lebanon, April 23,1862. LONG-ACRE & GABEL, P. B.—There is also all kinds of TURNING at the B a/no 3111 L PlantnVi Sawing, .la., promptly done for those who may furnish . Lumber. Grocery Store. JOHN DILLER "ETAS just opert.d a NEW GROCERY STORE, in hie 11, Building in Cumberland Street, one door West o. Market Street, where he is prepared to supply the pub lie with • :Fresh GROCERIES, of the best quality, such as SU GARS, sifted, crushed, white and brown, COFFEE, green and roasted; MOLASSES; TEAS, Imperial, Young Ityson and Black ; CORN STARCH.; Farina; OIIEESE: New MACKEREL; lIERRING ; HAMS; I.IIiIED BEEF ; Chocolate, Coco. &c.. &c. ALSO, a largo stock of BRUSHES and BROOMS, of -every variety ; also, BASKETS—,Market, Travelingand Fancy. Be is also prepared to supply his old customena with every variety of LEATHER and SHOE FINDINGS, which may be found In his Basemen t, on Market street. 021.. Be solicits a liberal share or patronage. Lebanon, August 12. '63. JOHN DILLER. . WALTER'S MILL. subscriber respectfully informs the public that he has entirely rebuilt the Mill on little Siva tara, formerly krtawn as "Straw's" and later as "Wen gert's,-" about one-fourth of a mile from Jonestown Lebanon county, Pe.; that he has it now in complete running order, and is prepared to furnish customers regularly with a very superior article of • 3111F‘111E—dillE1011[3_111EIL as cheap as it can be obtained from any other source-- Ile keeps also on hand and for sale at the lowest cash prices 011 OP, BRAN, SHORTS, I.m. He is also pre pared to do all kinds of OUSTOMERB' WORK, for Farmers and others, at the very shortest possible notice and in cites., all to give him a trio:. The machinery of the 'Mill is entirely new and of the latest and most im proved kind. By strict attention to business and fait dealing he hopes to merit a share of public patronage. WHEAT, RYE, CORN, OATS, &c., bought, for which the highest Lebanon Mika prices will be paid. FRANKLIN WALTKR. May 7, /862. FITS FIT S: S IT. mcnEY, Merchant Tailor, respectfully an nouncee to the citizens of Lebanon and vicinity that he has just returned from the city with a line as sortment of CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, all of which he will sell or make up to order at krices to suit the Nmee, at his No. I Tailoring Estab lishment In Keim's New Block, 4 doors South of the Buck Hotel, South Walnut street. All work entrusted to his care, will be mannfactnr ed ina workmanlike ma-tner as to fashion and dura bility. Goode purchased elsewhere will be cheerfully made up to order on the canal unoderatC terms. Having had years of experience in the Tailoring and Dry• Goods business, and being inclined to turn to the advantage of his customers, all the advantageirrestilt log from said acquirements, he feels satisfied that it will he responded to by a very liberal share of the pub lie patronage. Friends call once to please me after that please your selves. July 8. 18E3. New .113oOt rind 'hoe Store: THE undersigned announce to the public that' they ./ have removed their Now Boot and Shoe Store to ' Cumberland Street, Lebanon, in John area's building, one door west of the Confectionery Store, where they ".11,64p , intend keeping constantly on hand a general as- Itilitga,Csortment of Ladies, Gentlemen, Misses, Boys and Children's Boots ; Shoes, Gaiters; &c., &c., all of which will be made up in style and quality no to be surpassed by any other workmen in the country. No effort shall be spared to please and ea all who ma favor them with their order; c will y be as reasonable ea possible,. cdtnand their patible with argee a remuneration. fair They also keep a large stock of .110ME,-mADE WORE' which le warranted to be ea'represmited.' The public are invited to call:anti examine theirstock previous to purchasing. Kg— ra Repairing done on short notice: nd at seasonal/tr. tes. • ANDREW MORAL - .43.tatuEL S. MTN& Lebanon, itarch la, i 862 Yck.u.set ATRIBB B , BROIS , Ntor - Boot "Rid' the 6 - oltiff§ l may PiAVoM.. .o.ing.remo,,,,d to big new Warerooma, - 19 West Hotletott Street, Sew York., Takes =great gleasnie Wiatiling , the attention of ii F to,New and _Fittl Scale , 7.octavc , - ' ROSEWOOD - TIAN° 'FORTES. Containing ail the modern improvements : Overratrang Baba, French Grand Alf Harp Pedal, and full Iron Frame, from Gat scro 9 co., 7 1-4 ROSEWOOD PIANOS . - - EY tra finish, fake_ 4474 . -TU 4060. The greet success attending M. Docker's New Scald Piano Fortes is, of itseltcsafifelent guarantee for their superfluity. T hey only 'reed to "he heard to become universal favorites. • 4 1-4 GRAND PrANO :CORTEt.': (For which the Prize Medal eras received atthe last American institute Pair,) he offers s4eig-I.IOOCIO. Er. bucker's Rich-toned and Fuwerigl rinELX430W31:03010 , 1%1111%, Which received the First Frize in 1809 and-.1889...auff likewise at the last Fair, he now offers at the fliftowirc low prices, varying from jEttichCP to tirasaa. These superior instruments possess sufficient power to lead a.congregation oflooo-persone huraplaVehr, All their Iratruments are bergwarranted tof etde4if well-seasoned material, and regulated in the beistatyle, N. B.—Professers and amateurs are respectfully iw vited to 8101100 these very superior ittairameave. October 23,1883- - 4m. • . . tINYARKEIPEIa . AND ,„ pfp:t ER S.T. ALSO TO THE PEOPL=E OFIE ANON r M&ECUS NATHAN respectfully informs the peoplif of Lebanon and vicinity that he has opera,' a No tion and galley Dry Goods :Store in Lebanon West WHOLESALE and RETAIL Trade'°fad artiaeoln his line at the most reduced prices possible. His ant* consists in part of all - kinds of Woolen and Cottoit Stock ings and. Ilom Undershirts, Drawers . Wool.* Caps and Rubies, 3.1 its and Gloves, Scarts,all kirokioC handkerchiefs, Collars for Ladies and Gentler pd,, It ra a t i e r n d t re se sses wi e ng nd i t I r e e t a s d , , E ß ib u b t o to n . s a . n sc d i V s : o l r vzts, :Aj Hp)o y:ecT:ri : anjweo a L :: :..; &c. &large neer:anent of UMBRELLAS anket: ~., SOLE, at the lowest prices.,'Spect,ibles, Poekpt -"7. 4 1. POrtinony:nes, Doininoes;Grardlitte. A /.. -midis tam:,, of Musical InstrvmAlc, Viol ; , rge ~,,m t t Carpet Bags, Satchels, and -. 4, Baskete, 'Trunk,. '3 :: :: :: j° v : s , hl: T e gal l l l , o . i s p t:til ' so :tt i: ::: rge :li if T : H i r n i d et s y ' O d f . ' 7 l. and Fancy line. A' -an be thonght of in Gm Notion :: 9.'i" "l'arest to buy of b r i i i ii d a t i r r e i :SiorZ n _is s th wi ti l eo C i ufinsmadlt craters and s Berland Street, in Funek' _ Heves and Market House. 4, October 14, 1863 Out-Lots at Private Sale' • W . ILL be sold at Private Sale, 8 ACRES OF LAND' situated in Long Lane, near the borough line, in °Sid i wall township- It adjoins the land of Widow EMIRS* on the North, Wm. Atkins and John Krause on theEald; There to a one story LW ILOUBE, weather' boarded erected on the land, and a good. WELL In the gardea.7-- ! The land has dna stones for quarries. This will make a nice home for a small family. . It is free front Ground Rent. Good title Will be , given. - ADAM Malan.- !- N.B.—This tract is now covered with fine grim, tail:: of which will be given to the purchaser. - • Lebanon, lune 13,1544. PRi V ATE SALE OF 'BOROUGH PROPERTY. niing subscriber °Geis for sale the Lot 'of Ground on 1. Market street, Lebanon, 34 square south of Hitt, west side, 33 feet front by 199 deep,, formerly occupied, by George Hess, sr. 'The improvements are a two story weather boarded DWELLING 11013 SE and other improvements. Forfurther information, and terms, apply to . - GEORGE S. GASSER Lebanon, Sept . , 9,1363. OrphanV Court Side. PURSUANT to an order of the - Orphans' Court (9 . Lebano uty, will be exposed to sale by public veudne or o on Saturd NOVEMBER 28,1863, at 1 . 0"elock in the afternoon of that day, a certain mos. • Tract of Laud, late the - Estate of George Phillippi, deed., situate : in' Heide berg township, Lebanon county about(milo • from Shaefferstown, on The road leading to Sheep Mountain, adjoining lands of F. Hoffman ,Jacob Harkey and others, containing . • . 7 Acres and 71 Perches, more or less. The improvements are a two storylog DWEGLI NG HOUSE. weather boarded. I!!! Sweitzer Burn, Weson Shed. and othet neeee.; improvimventa.--aliere is a It. ell. _with pump and running water, Mi. atitcrudsof the very hest of tridt on the premises. Bale will be. held et thepubtle house of fdietatet K. Keoth. i.. Sheelfers - "-T" , ret .W ill be made known by 11.1.DERION. 1101FNAN, Administrator. JOHN 41. Gis By THE COURT ANDREW 1,1 t; ELT, Clerk of Orphaum' Court. [Nov. 4, '63.:1, PRIVATE SALE OF Yocum's Farm. rIIITE subscriber offers at Private Sale his fine farm .1 in North Lebanon Township, Lebanon county,- 3 miles east from Lebanon, :led I mile north of the Barks and Dauphin Turnpike, containing 821 A G'itt,'S of good Farminv. land, Homo of which is Limestone, adjoining lands of Cyrus Eckert, Peter Boyer, John Wolf, Jacob Arnold, and others. The improvements are a two +tory brick 'DWELLING 11.011:1SE. with Basement, SWBITzAg, cr:o.BARN, 36 by 60 feet, Tenant Douse, : * ! r Orchard, with almost all kindeuf —'"j'22r,s- • fruit,W 11 with pump at the house, and a =other at the Barn, both neverTAling, Fenees,are in good order, and the fields are convenient. 8 aeree of WOODLAND, four of which are CHESTNUT SPROUTS. Two-Springs are on this farm. Good title and pocseselon Will be given on the let day of April,lB64. For further information apply to the substriber on the premises. LEVI YOCUM- October 28, 1863. PRIVATE SALE Borough Property. 11 UP. subscriber offers for sale the LOT of GROUND, onCumberland Street. Lebanon, I •Square Rut of the Court 110u5e.33 feet front by 195 deep, adjoining property of Dr. Samuel - Nehru, deed., on the Nast and Mrs. E. Sbindel on the West. ' The improvements.are a - two story weather boarded DWELLING HOUSE and other improvements. For further information and terms apply to LUCETTA. BUCK. Lebanon, Oct. 28,1.863. Myerstown.:Property AT PRIVATE 'SALE.' TE mime - raters offer at private sale the following 'tattletale Real Bantle en the Barks and Dauphin Turnpike, in Itlyerstown Lebanon county, viz:— No:l.—A Lot and a half of Orouno. baying erected thereon a two story Frame ROUSE, adjoin-. lug lauds of Angina:us D. Stoner and Ja cob Spongier. The same lot contains a on two-story frame Shop. Stable, Well of we. .;"1 tar, &e. This property is suitable for two (hostiles. . No. 2.—Two Lois of Ground. 11 wing erected therm:sot • a two-story Stone HOUSE with Eitelt— . ,L,41 2 ,---% en attached, 134 story frame Shot), g g out-kitehea, Well of never failing,wa • ter., Cistern. &e. This propertylil:ki totted on the road called New &twit. leading to Lancaster, in the toms oF.'• rtlyerstoivn, and is suitable "for any tnecbp ai t al ness. • . Possession and good title will 'be given " k it e i s t, day of April, 1864. For further particulars to JOAN A. Dorrems, Aummus D. Fsmisit.. itlyerstown, Nov. 11, '6a„ rtvate OF A ITATATABI,k TAVERN -.STAND, rpillE subscribers offer a> private Paall their valuable. two-story Brick TA VIRRN STARR' , at tbe Lebanon Valley Depot, Myerstorca„ lehenow county, K . The How , lan by X ilk Kitchen ;cito atteckted hy 23 feet; large Shod. Wen, with lawyer failing water. CU. tern, sow. oilier outbuildings. This pr,:apftty ilia& the Ile pot, oboist % roils freak hiyeratewa, and is imitable for almost any b °Abe. April roasegiiori is-Ad um ,06 Ist day of , MK. farttior good titre gl particulars apply to HARRISON DEHART, JOHN &DONORS. WO, Nov. ii, 'it& = PTIATE OF , Myerstown Property; THE subscrib er offers at private sale a LOT br: aGROUND sitnate in Myerstown, Lebanon county, o a n the Rorke and Dauphin Taroptio,,, . djoinlag property oLjaeob 11, Woorn7,- er,,and Widow Ceppenhaver. The itf , provetaente are a Iji- story XramP• ROUSE, Stable, sad other outhotnO, } mgr. /11 Possession and tetree of Ground Rork. good Vila , ' ll De ven on th,e L. day of AprD,1814.7 For liirttetier inform e atio n appli tn. l AUGUSTUS D. STO.Vit :ftyerptown Nov . t 11='83 FE MARCUS NATHAN; :