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Now our fig la.flung to the wild winds free, Let it float o'er - our father land, - And the mud of its spotless fame shall be Columbia's chosen band. WAR. NEWS. Public attention is beginning to be attracted towards the various naval and military expe ditious, which have been for some time in pro cess of organization, and are now said to be nearly ready for active service. Independently of the Port Royal expedition which already reached its point of destination, there are three other expeditions, more or less formida ble, which are intended to operate against the Southern States of the seaboard, and the Mississippi valley. We have first of all what is oalled at the North " the stone fleet " con sisting of some fifty old whaling vessels, which have been loaded with stone, and are to be sunk in the narrow channels leading to some of the Southern ports. A portion of this fleet.has already set sail, and the remainder are soon to follow, together with a supporting force of gunboats and transports carrying troops. The military portion of the expedition, it is said, will be commanded by General B. F. BUTLER, Another and still more formidable expedition, under General BURNSIDE, is also fitting out, to which the regiments now con centrated at Annapolis are to be assigned.— Whether these troops are intended to reinforce General SHERMAN at Port Royal, or are to be disembarked on some other part of the South ern seaboard, is altogether a matter of con jecture. A third expedition, composed of some eighty vessels under the command of Capt. PORTER, is likewise getting ready for sea. In addition to these, an imposing flotilla of gunboats, river steamers, and floating bat teries, is on the point of departure down the Mississippi river. The naval operations will be under command of Flag-Officer FOOTE, whilst Brigadier General SHERMAN or General HALLECK will have the chief direction of the military movements. The steamer Illinois, which reached New York on Thursday last from Port Royal, fur nishes the latest intelligence from that portion of the Southern coast. General SHERMAN was busily engaged in throwing up intrenchments across the whole breadth of Hilton Head Island, and an expedition composed of two brigades, under General VEILLE, was getting ready to sail, but its destination had not been disclosed. Nothing is said in regard to the rumored skirmish at Beaufort ; but when the Illinois sailed the town bad not been occupi ed, although two gunboats were anchored in the river near by. Information had been received at Port Royal of the occupation of Tybee Island, at the mouth of the Savannah river, by a detach ment of marines from the gunboats Pocahon tas, Seneca, Augusta and Flag. No opposi tion was offered to the landing of the troops on the Island, the works upon it having been wholly abandoned before the arrival of the gunboats. By the steamer from Fortress Monroe, which reached Baltimore on Thursday we have some later reliable intelligence, via Norfolk, from Pensacola. Fort Pickens had not been breach ed as reported, but General BRAGG is described as being hopeful of early success, and as con centrating at intervals a terrible fire upon the fort. Before his reinforcements arrived which were then on their way, he expected to make a practicable breach, and then to storm the place 'With fresh troops under cover of his artillery. Five vessels of war which Col. Baowst had called to his assistance had been driven off by the batteries, some of them were badly, damaged. On the other hand we learn that Col. Brown had destroyed the Navy: Yard with hot shot and shell, and that Pensacola had been evac uated by order of General BRAGG. It was feared however that Col. BROWN would eventually be forced to surrender. Ater The Court of Common Pleas of Phila delphia—Judges ALLISON and LUDLOW—have decided the contested election case in favor of ROBERT EWING and ALBERT LAWRENCE, the Democratic candidates for Sheriff and Clerk of the Orplaims' Court, and have approved their official bonds. The defeated candidates—through their Counsel—have filed a petition contesting the election on new grounds. The Court ap• pointed the 7th of December for a hearing of the complaint. SLAVE PROPERTY In anticipation that the report of the Secre tary of War will recommend the emancipa tion of slaves belonging to rebels, the Phila delphia Bulletin, among other arguments in favor of that policy, advances the following : The most valuable property of the Southern people is their negroes. They are recognized as property by the Constitution and the laws of the United States. Agt• - •The admission that slaves are recog nized as property by the Constitution and laws of the United States is an abandonment of the whole Republican theory upon this subject, and a recognition of the principle of the Dred Scott decision, which the Bulletin has hitherto denounced. Aps- The New York municipal election takes place to-day. There are three candi dates for 'Mayor in the-field, viz: Messrs. WooD, (Mozart) the present incumbent, GUN TNZR, (Tammany,) and OPDYKE, (Republican.) They will, doubtless, have an exciting time of it. ser The Stars and Stripes now wave in six of the seceded States, to Wit: in North Car line, over 'Fed Hatteras ; in South Carolina, at Beanfgrty ip Florida, at Key West and Fort PiokenevipAseiseippi, at Ship Island; in Eastern'teniiesee; *lndia the northern and weetern'eic. /I - IBADRACGAIID vs. DAVIS There is quarreling in &cassia, says the New York World. The President and - his Commander-in-Chief are said to be . "wine as the poles asunder" in their war polini— Dioqs is for the .defensi ve attitude;„Besuitz— n4iiiis,bent on beceinini,tbe aisiSnt. The modern Alcibiades - - represents a; party who demand an attack on Wishington and the capture of Maryland; his master thinks ,the present limits of the confideracy large enough for his supervision, and would feel quite satis fied in being able to - hold his own. Thus divided in policy, of course they must clash in time of action. This it seems they actually did at the battle of Manassas. The recently published abstract of Gen. Bssuracsan's re port of that engagement, made public by the General's own consent, states that previous to the battle he forwarded to Davis a. statement of his plans, including a proposal "to join "the armies of the Shenandoah and Potomac, " with a view to the relief of Maryland and " the capture of Washington." The report, hoWever, says thatAl the plan was rejected by the President." The document further states that, on the 13th of July, when contempla ting an attack on Gen. McDowid, %Ann— inan telegraphed the War department for a juncture of Gen. JorimsroN's fOrces with his own, and that it was not until after several repetitions of the request, during the course of four days, that the President consented to order JOHNSTON to his assistance. The prom- inenee given -to these points in the abstract of the report, and the permission of their publi cation by BEAUREGARD previous to the formal publication of the complete document by the proper authorities, indicates plainly an in• tention on the part of the 'General to throw the responsibility of the failure to attack Washington on the shoulders of DAVIS, while the extraordinary delay on the part of the government in publishing the report is strong probable evidence that Dews shrinks from giving publicity to evidence that would bring upon him the anathemas of all rebeldom. It was at least prudent to keep the report under seal until his re-election to the Presidency was secured. This antagonism between the President and the General has created an op position in the press. The Charleston Mercury takes sides with BEAUREGABD, and throws the whole blame of the " inactivity " of the army on Devis. The Mercury asserts, on its certain knowledge, that President Dews on the battle field ordered the pursuit of the Federal troops to be arrested after the battle of Bull Run, and that General BEAUREGARD, in a letter to the Congress at Richmond, " complained bit " terly of his not being enabled or allowed to " realize the fruits of his victory at Manassas, "by following up the enemy." The Rich mond Dispatch takes up the matter in the interest of DAVIS, but is evidently embarrassed with the consciousness of handling a bad case, and can say little more than that the President " has acted with the best motives, " and perhaps had sufficient reasons for an " inaction, which, with the light possessed, "appears totally inexplicable." Such is the condition of affairs among the rebel leaders. DAVIS, in attempting to con trol the army, has lost, to a large extent, the confidence of the people. BEAUREGARD, in submitting to his domination, has probably become practically his master. The inactivity of the rebel President perhaps arises from causes that Deers perfectly comprehends, but which the people themselves would be very backward to appreciate. It may be that, with respect to the coveted capital, the Presi dent, more than the General, has considered the after question of—what to do with it ? Or it may be that the ruler in chief fore sees that the natural process of abolition going on in Maryland might in a very few years render her a troublesome apperidage to his government. Or, far more probable than either, it may be that Mr. DAVIS so well knows the impossibility of either capturing Washington or conquering Maryland, and still more of bolding those positions if taken, that he deems it better to let the utopia alone. We apprehend the difference between Davis and BEAUREGARD Consists in this—that DAVIS knows well the Federal strength and the rebel weakness, while BEACRECARD compre , hends neither. He may be a little wiser after a lesson or two from Gen. MCCLELLAN. RECEIVING HIS PAY When Mr. CRITTENDEN offered his compro mise resolutions in the United States Senate last winter, and which had they been adopted, would have secured continued peace and pros- perity to the country, no man opposed them with more bitterness than Mr. WrLsoN, the Massachusetts Abolition Senator. Nothing but war would satisfy him ; " no compromise, no concession," were the words of his speech. It appears by the subjoined article, which we take from a Republican paper, that the valiant Senator is now receiving his pay. Like all other Senators and members of Congress who obstinately refused to listen to peace proposi tions, he is piling up a princely fortune at the expense of the people. What care these leading Republicans for the sufferings of the people so long as they can profit largely by the war? But to the article we have been speaking of: '‘ A LARGE CONTRACT.— Senator HENRY WILSON, of Massachusetts, has a contract for making one million pairs of army shoes.— Twenty five cents a pair, we are told, says the Boston Post, by those who are familiar with the modus operandi of giving out contracts, is a small sum to make on a pair that sells for $2,25. This leaves the Senator the snug little sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dol— lars !" der' The New York Tribune says: "A gentleman in St. Louis writes us that Gen. Halleck's recent order respecting fugitive slaves " is, so far as Missouri is concerned, "the most retrograde step taken since the " war began, and fully carries out the objects " of the most rabid Secessionists." Gen. Halle& ordered the fugitive slaves to be turned out of his oamp, and that no more should be received. His army has a certain work to do, namely, to suppress rebellion, and cannot afford to waste its time hod energies in either catching runaway negroes or pro tecting them from capture. Gen. Halleek wisely determined that the operations of the army under his command should not be ob strutted by a crowd of fugitive slaves, who, in many cases, were mere spies of the enemy. DEATH OF COL. WATI[OITGH.—CoI. John G. Watmough died at his residence, in German town, on Thursday morning, of cancer, which originated from a wound received in the war of 1812. Deceased took an active part in the late war with Great Britain. He was wounded in the attack on Fort Erie on the 15th of August, iBl4, from which he never recovered. In 1830, Col. Watmough was elected to Con gress, and subsequently was made High Sheriff of Philadelphia. He also held the position of Surveyor of the Port of Philadel phia. SHERIFF OF PErnanimPnie.—Robert Ewing was commissioned Sheriff of Philadelphia, by Governor Curtin, on Friday last, and imme diately entered upon the duties of his office. Justice, though tardy, has at length tri umphed, and the vile machinations of a band of Philadelphia rascals have signally failed. ser There are seventy mills in New Eng land now engaged in making cloth 'for the Government, and the value of the goods is $20,000,000. MAGISITLIbiII OV Titili iNA.R. WIZ .11.111 IT BLOCKADIL ' Although as yet we hind had no very do- The work of sealing up certain Southern eisive actions, when &layered with soma 4 rte with sunken ebiPe le to be Prosecuted 'the bloody battled of the past, yet irt.-)siKetn--1: with energy and . dispatch. The Government iipurchasing an imffiense number ofolitylutt; lode of preparation, the present civil war in jug vessels and other epperannuat#4 s ,aft. America has searwAtly'a parallel in hiOcrri;;= Some of them hiiiiiSeentlihirttor fortivaii Some et- our "engagements'! and sf. a mb it % of service, and are stilliita,_ _ una) e . ,aoFifhtofi_oiq,.. . . - --.-- - felt' and comfortablyßouna tnag obe„ : ,, No. ishes," too; have not been so veryinsigtuficant, difficulty is encoanteratin procuring all the' and when zompard with mali eelifliete in _vessels that are wanted nn iateJ4ttlert: oar own two ' wars with Engle*, w il t take j i - all ;the approaaheettilhoes ' . siecieities; -ilink faiabove - them.. The Albany Bee t iltry, whese inhabitants have been chiefly instru. Journal has made the following interesting mental in g ettin g up the rebellion, will be commerce compilation from history, citing a few incidents hermetically closed against comparativel triflin t, and a r , at a eat war I from the war of 1812 to show what petty fleet will be d e tached g from os the dull blockading affairs, relatively, were some of the most bril- service- and_put to livelier business: Of_the bent victories achieved by our arms_: _ (DAAt:v - 114 1 ?-iinfillip . -"china - eV liiaiiii 'to The first "little" Of any . importance was that of Brownstown, near Detroit, fought Savannah. Ga.,-is ouly 250 yards across in the narrowest place, and can be_perfeotly . barred August 9th, 1812. Our_force wee ,only 600,, by-s i r 4 s7a t tux„,i, ect icic. ! When theca ate sunk that of the British and Indians - . combined, 750. Oar lois was 18 killed and 63 wounded' in' the mud, by their own gravitation, and fastened - down - bythe drift which will speedily' that of the enemy 160. - cover them, a blockade. will be established Gen. Hulls " army," which disgracefully which the powers of earth would find rather surrendered at Detroit six days late; only difficult numbered 2500 men ; while that of the enemy to be 'raised ' Charleston caw be stopped' up with a few vessels; and there is consisted of only 700 English and 600 In - - diane. No wonder Gen. Brock, who corn no port at the South whose future commercial fate does not appear to lie at the mercy of the mended the latter, wrote to Sir Georae Prc h .; When I detail my good fortune, y ou r ishment for rebellion is employed. The inten: Federal. power; when. this new species of pun- Excellency will be surprised." At the battle of. Queenstown, two columns tions of the Government with regard to some of the Southern ports are , not known. ,A few, , of 300 men each, did about all the fightiag.on of the harbors which erevery geod. and' are idle, says our side. ne Gen. third sn rt Reof t nsse h laer, in his report.: wanted es the basis of naval - bad 'military Ope . " Opart men m ig ht have saved all." As it was, some looked on, rations, will probably be reierved.' 'The har bors of Charleston and Savannah will positively' while " many fled into the woods; 7 leaping their brethren to their fate. • ' be blockaded by the fleet which left New ton- At the Beige of Fort Erie, the English threw death° other day, and any vessels, that may 2000 red hot shot without hurting amen.— be spared after that task is effectually ageom. plished, will be used at points further South. Our loss was only 4 killed and 7 wounded. While the large stone fleet is doing this bred- Brigadier Gen. Smith abandoned his favor. B ssort nd are closingire project of invading Canada West, because, inlets nß' smaller along fleets of thetheNorthsame Carolina a although he had been preparing the greater coasts. A number of vessels laden' with stone part of; the summer, and had energetieally were sunk last week in Ocracoke Inlet,. theen drummed up volunteers, he had •succeeded in trance of Pamlico Sound.--Journal- of Con:- collecting only 1500, and he did not think the coerce, expedition would be successful unless he had 1500 more. At the battle of York our force was 1700 that of the enemy 700 English and 100 Indi ens. Our loss was 306 in killed and wound ded ; that of the enemy 100 killed, 300 wound ed, 200 prisoners. This was one of the mos brilliant of our victories, yetit is not to be com pared with the battle of Belmont or that o' Ball's Bluff, either as regards the number en gaged or the losses sustained. At the battle of Sackett's Harbor, the enemy's force 1000; ours, 500. His loss in killed and wounded was 150 ; ours, 154. Among the trophies taken by our troops were the British standard and mace. Over the latter hung a human scalp. Com. Perry's victory on Lake Erie was es— teemed a " big thing" in its day; yet his whole fleet consisted of only 54 guns and two swivels ; that of the enemy 63 guns and 2 swivels Our lose in killed and wounded was 123 ; that of the enemy has never been definitely known. At the battle of Chippewa our loss was 328 ; that of the enemy 514. At the battle of Fort Erie our lose was 84; that of the enemy 582. At the battle of Baltimore the enemy's forces numbered from 7000 to 8000 ; ours was prob ably less than half that number. Oar loss was about 170 ; that of the enemy some 700 in killed, wounded and missing. Even the battle of New Orleans looks insig nificant to eyes that have witnessed a recon noissance on the Potomac, 16,000 strong, and a review of 70,000 troops. The British force, including sailors and marines, was about 14,- 000 ; that of Gen. Jackson, 3200 on the left bank of the river, and about 800 distributed in positions hard by. Our loss was seven killed and six wounded ; that of the enemy, 700 killed and 1400 wounded. It is safe to say that, notwithstanding the torpor of a large share of our army, and the taunts that we have thus far been "playing at war," a greater namber of lives have been lost within the past five months than during the " War of 1812." DEATH OF THE KING OF PORTUGAL The King of Portugal died on the 12th inst., aged 25 years. His disease was typhus fever. Prince Ferdinand, the King's brother, died a few days ago of the same complaint, and another brother, Prince Augnsti, was also ill. Prince Louis Phillippe, Duke of Oporto, succeels to the throne. He left England (whore he was on a visit to the Queen) for Lisbon, on hearing of the death of Prince Ferdinand. The deceased was born at Lisbon, on the 16th of September,-1837. He was the son of the late Queen of Portugal, Donna Marin 11. de Gloria, and of the King Don Fernando de Saxe Coburg Gotha. He succeeded to the throne of his mother, under his father's regency, on the 15th of November, 1853, and visited England and France at the time of the universal exhibition of 1856. He also visited Switzerland and Belgium previous to his ma jority. Don Pedro was married by procuration at Berlin, on the 29th of April, and in person at Lisbon, on the 18th of May, 1858, to the Queen Donna Stephanie Frederique Wilhel mine Antoine, daughter of Prince Antoine Charles de flohenz Bern Sigmaringen, who was born on the 15th of July, 1837. This amiable Queen died about two years ago, very suddenly, of fever, resulting from sun stroke. The late King had six brothers and sisters, the eldest of whom succeeds to the throne.— The others are Prince Don Jodo, Duke of Beja and Saxe; Prince Don Ferdinand, Duke of Saxe, (also dead;) Prince Don Auguste; Princess Donna Marie Anne; Princess Donna Antonia, Duchess of Saxe. The reigning Emperor of Brazil is also nearly related to the deceased. The Duke of Oporto, Prince Louis Phil lippe, who now succeeds to the throne, was born on the 31st of October, 1838, and has therefore just completed his 23d year. WHERE THE DANGER LIES. Ex-Governor WRIGIIT, of Indiana, late Minister to Prussia, recently made a speech at Indianapolis, in which be said: " There is . more danger this day from a divided North than from anythig else. A firm, decided, united North, will settle the question, and that speedily. But we must not listen to those violent, miserable Aboli— tionists of the North who are asserting that the object of this war is to interfere with the institutions of the South. This is what the Secessionists of the South love to hear, be. cause it unites the South just in proportion as it is believed." And Governor WRIGHT ought to have added, we . can never have a " united North" until Abolitionism is effectually " crushed out."— The Louisville Democrat, a gallant Union paper, is right when it says: We make no apology for this wicked effort in the South to destroy the Government. We grant the necessity of suppressing it; but the Abolitionism, that has produced it, must also be suppressed. Abolitionism and Secessionism must be buried in the same political grave.— The patriot who loves his country must con— sent to sacrifice them both. WHAT DOES IT ItIE.AN I It is a somewhat singular coincidence that the Republican newspapers of this State, with few exceptions, came out—some guardedly, some openly—all about the same time, in favor of the Government declaring the emancipation of the slaves as a military necessity. What does this simultaneous movement mean ? Were they instructed to feel the public pulse on this question, and ascertain whether the Public mind is rife for a revolution in the policy and the form of our government? We apprehend that the time is not very far distant when these newspapers will curse the day that they were beguiled into making for themselves so ugly a record. So says the Patriot & Union. A LARGE CANNON.—One of the largest can non ever made in this country, was cast at Algiers' foundry, at South Boston, on Satur. day week, under the inspection of captain Taylor, of the United. States Nayy. It weigh e4 0,000 pounds. ' I GREAT BRITAIN. The speech of Mr. Adams, the American Minister, at the Lord Mayor's banquet, has attracted considerable attention. He was silent as to the war, but very pacific. towards England. The London Daily News says it was a frank, manly, sensible, and seasonable speech, and must be cordially welcomed by England at large, especially as a_ small but active faction is doing its utmost to misrepre sent American diplomacy and create ill feel— ing. The London Morning Post says that the speech was marked by the most friendly statements respecting the good feelings of the American Government and people towards England, and hopes that no occurrences will happen to belie these statements. The London Times is characteristically sar castic, but at the same time is complimentary to Mr. Adams. Dudley Mann and Yancey:were guests at the grand banquet of the Fishmongers' Com— pany in London. The latter spoke to a toast for the restoration of peace in America. He spoke strongly in defense of the confederate cause, eulogized England for her recognition of bel— ligerent rights. He said the confederates did not desire intervention, being able to maintain their independence, but they did desire a re— cognition by the European Powers. He as serted that there can be no basis for negotia tions so long as the confederates are treated as rebels. When they are treated as a belli gerent power, then the morning of peace will dawn, as the confederates will be inflexible only on points of independence and honor. Lord Palmerston made a speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, and referred to American affairs as follows : Although circumstances beyond our control may threaten for a time to interfere with the full supply of cotton, so necessary for the pro ductive industry of the country, yet no doubt that temporary evil will be productive of per manent good, (oheers,) and we shall find in various quarters of the globe sure and certain and ample supplies which will render us no longer dependent upon one source of production for that which is so necessary for the industry and welfare of the country. (Cheers.) Gen— tlemen, when we look without we see, no doubt, in many parts of Europe circumstances which, if not dealt with by prudence and dis cretion, may lead to local disturbances, which, I trust, will not at least extend themselves to bring us within their range. (Cheers.) On the other side of the Atlantic we witness with the deepest affliction, (cheers) with an afflic— tion which no words can express, (oheers,) differences of the utmost lamentable kind among those whom we call our cousins and our relations (Cheers.) It is not for us to pass judgment upon these disputes. It is enough for us to offer a fervent prayer that such dif— ferences may not be of long continuance, and that they may speedily be succeeded by the restoration of harmony and peace. (Cheers.) ST. LOUIS INVESTIGATION The committee appointed to investigate the claims against the Government, incurred du— ring Fremont's administration of the Western Department, has been in session at St. Louis something over three weeks, and claims amount ing to more than $6,000,000 have been pre— sented and approved. Many witnesses are examined daily, and,their evidence relating to different claims still continue to be presented daily, in large numbers, and the labors of the committee will hardly be concluded for several weeks yet. CAN IT BE POSSIBLE T. The Harrisburg Patriot, of Wednesday las The report comes from Washington in a semi-official shape that the forthcoming report of the Secretary of War will distinctly recom mend the placing of arms in the hands of slaves—and that the Secretary of the Treasury will develop the same idea in a modified form. The fact that several members of the Cabinet are committed to the emancipation policy, in creases the anxiety to learn what position the President will take—and also whether he will permit his counsels to be divided upon this vital question. If the President is determined not to be made an instrument in the hands of the Abolitionists for the destruction of the Union, it is not only desirable that he shall take a firm stand, but that the agitators shall not have a foothold in the administration of the Government. While the President says one thing, and leading Cabinet officers another, we may expect the agitation to continue and divide public opinion at the North, to the danger of our cause. When Mr. Buchanan. permitted Howell Cobb to gainsay his argu— ments upon the subject of a protective tariff, he incurred the displeasure of the Republi— cans and received their severest denunciations. If there was reason for unity in the Cabinet then, there is much greater reason for unity now, when a division in the counsels of the Government may destroy the very existence of the Nation. ger. The rebel Government suffers from swindlers as well as ours. The New Orleans Merchants' Journal declares that the hugest swindling is done by army contractors, and as• serts that the money they have cheated, the - Confederate Government out of, by the sale of useless and unseaworthy steamers, bad medi cines, poor uniforms, and miserable provisions, since the commencement of the war, would have furnished clothing for the 100,00 Q men on the Potomac. seir Brig. Gen. T. W. SHERMAN, comman• der of the Union army now in South Carolina, was a New England lad of lituited pecuniary means. When he first visited Washington to obtain admission to West Point, he walked the whole distance from his father's house in Rhode Island to the National Capital. That long, tedious march, revealed qualities which ensured his success with Gen. Jackson, who was then President. The old hero had wonder. ful insight into character, and, in this in stance, was not mistaken in his man. IW' °ingrate. met on yeetardny. We shalt publighiliePresidQat's Mesons inext weok.vil LOCAL DEPARTMENT. LANCASTER COUNTY BLBLII Soon:r t .—Th e . • is Committee of the Lancaster County Blida So. dirty .. et on Thursday afternoon last, and elected Rev. I. ..• Dion:sn President, inAgaceof Dr. John Miller, d • ar - •Ataxia= JI/oCzarat,Ath Secretary: 7 ln ;bob,. 0! Ilowtiiaorgellantlerion, resigned-7 2 /10n. EutxmckEenexe.3 sea awl Cnitagests easar were eleakid Pice:Preeidenta, an • _ , "jralitlf. Hue*, Telmer and Librarian. - ). .. likiicurttuAlescartegg —Rev. Masers. Kerb% Iteredit uckarlins. 4 Sauer / 04 1 , - km r, H ~,, T iltil• , kart, New." Providenie; Boyer, Hinkletown - Orimee, Columbia; Rutter, Chestnut Level; Early, Lea cock t. Arnold, Chnrchtown ; and lie.ssre. John 8. Gabl - James Black, Horace Mittman, Daniel Heltahn, William 0 Baker, John S. Miller, Henry P. Carson, Edward J. Zab .. and John J. Cochran, City; and Mr. Cottrell, Columbia. The following resolutions, relative to the death of Dr. Joint Muzim, were unanimously , adopted: .-licaolved, In the removal of Our highly esteemed fellow citizens, Dr. Miller, the Lancaster County Bible Society . :been digstfeed at s; long trleiraind halite/Mend: Resolved, We recur with pleasing reminiscences to th • urbanity and benignity with which he was wont to prod.. for several years past at our anniversaries. ;Resolved, , Thanka are doe,to God, our Maker, for havin. pared him so:long among net_ whilst as a physician . Bought to comfort the body—in his Christian ephens, by - Um word of Oak - able to make wire unto salvation h. 'would administer for the maladies of the soul .Resofece4 Our brief memorial in view of his bonen . departure It is our privilege to record, with the Insbuctio that ft lie conveyed by our •Seeresstry to his bereaved fami ly, with atom we teoderly condole, at,the mime time co • gratalating thim that they have not been called to moo • as thoeie 'Who have no hope. ' The Treasurer% Report with= read, ahowing a ' ' - In his hands of $349,17. In the evening the-Annual Report was read by J ... BIAM4dIaI., and:addressee were delivered by Mr. Bract and Rev. Mtwara. Kama and gym. • STABBING Arritey. —A boy, named Alexan— der Irving, employed as a carrier of the Philadelphia Led ger in this • city, was arrested, on yesterday morning an committed to prison by the Mayor, for having stabbed gentleman meted Kilgore In- the back with a kWh', o. Sunday evening, near the Duke Street M. E. Church. Its - boy was drunk and disorderly, and Mr. Kilgore was remon 411410Erth hint for hie bad conduct at the time. . PROP. Axes& McCoy.—This gentleman who has gained, some celebrity by hbs oratorical powers delivered his lecture on "The London Times on the Re . lion and the War for the Constitution" on 'Friday evenin • last, In the Court Room, to a crowded audience, The lee. tore -was for the tenet of the "Children's Home." It w to be repeated for the same purpose last evening. TN" A Naw , Dasse:—The Daily Expres appeared oo Saturday _evening in an entire new dress looking =alight and pretty as a blushing maiden Just enteldolLWPoulter teens. • - THE CONTESTED CASE.—The contested elec tion in this county, for Directors of the and Prim. hurpectors, will be disposed of by the Court on Monday next, the 7th inst. Tn HOWARD EVENING/J.—Prof. EDWARD Bemis, of the State Normal School, Millersville; delivered the last lecture before the Howard,. on "Parental Educa tion:" lectdre was interesting and eloquent, and drew forth an animated dificumlon from Rev. Mr. Rosen miller, James Black, Esq., Jay Cadwell, Esq., and Mears. Wilson and Colson, of Millersville. The lecture this evening_ will be delivered by R. W. &COM, Dui. Subject: "Ought the General Government to favor the Construction of a Pacific Railroad?" A HEAvT flowreicT.—HENßY E. LEMAN, Esq., the well-known Rifle Manufacturer of this city, has received from the War Department at Washington a con tract for rifling and repairing a large number of arma.— The contract Is, in fact, a very heavy one, involving an expense to the Government of nearly $BOO,OOO. In order to execute the job speedily, Mr. LIMAN hair already com menced enlarging his Works in Walnut street, and he will employ a large force of workmen, so as to rifle, repair and put in comple order about one th ousand mneketa per day. It is understood that muskets so repaired and supplied by percussion locks are equal in every respect to the new ones made at Springfield. ATAL ACCIDENT.—On Saturday afternoon week, while a party of men were practising shooting, at the public house of William Frymyer, In Warwick town ship, a young meg named Henry H. Carpenter was acci dentally shot, which resulted in his death. One of his companions, another young man named Oensemere, was about to discharge his piece, when he discovered the lock to be out of repair. Whfle attempting to adjust it the gun accidentally discharged; Carpenter, who was passingln front of it, received the full contents of the piece in the abdomen, mutilating hlm In such a manner that death ensued in a few hours. Both young men were of sober and industrious habits, and the sad catastrophe has spread a gloom over the whole neighborhood. SHOCKING ACCIDENT WITH A THRESHING Meomtka.—Near Mill Creek, on yesterday week, while en gaged with a grain thresher, Amos llicCarter met with a most serious accident. While the machine was running at full speed, by some mishap, Mr. McCartey had his leg caught in the machine, and so terribly lacerated as to make It necessary to amputate the limb at the knee. The surgical operation was performed by Dr. Henry Carpenter, of this city, and Dr. Samuel Ringwalt, of New Holland.-- The unfortunate man is young, of steady habits, and well thought of by all who know him. It is hoped he may speedily recover, and be enabled to secure such business as will make him useful, notwithstanding his lose. BANK OFFICERS.—The following gentlemen have been elected Bank Directors In this county COLUMBIA Bass.—Dr. Barton Rvans, William McCankey, David Wilson, Samuel Truscott, Benjamin F. iliestend, Aaron Gable, George Bogle, Joseph H. Black, Rudolph Williams, Dr. Henry John, Michael H. Moore, E. K. Smith, Henry Copenheffer. Homey Jay Botts..—John G. Iloerner, Henry Hiestand , Henry Shaffner, Jacob Uhrich, Christ ian Grebe, Samuel Patterson, Benjamin Groat, William DicDannel, James Lynch, David Zook, Abram Shelly, Joseph Dotweiler, Christian S. Erb. Christopher Hager, Esq. has been re-elected President of the Farmers' Bank of Esq., and Edwin H. Brown, Esq., Cashier. John Landes. Esq., has been reelected President of the Lancaster County Bank. and William L. Peipor, Esq., Cashier. Hon. Isaac E. Hiester has been elected President of the Inland Insurance and Deposit Company, and R. F. Ranch, Esq., reelected Cashier. Dr. Barton Everts has been re-elected President of the Colum bia Bank, and Col. Sam set Shoch, Cashier. John G. Hoer- ner, Esq., has been re-elected President of the Mount Joy Bank, and Jacob IL Long, Esq, Cashier. The above are all admirable selections, and indicate that the Institutions will be conducted on safe and sound principles. " MESSERSMITH'S RESERVOIR PEN."—We write this item with one of Weethaeffer's Reservoir Pens, and which we have no hesitation In pronouncing the best we have ever used. It has two most excellent qualities, which are not often met with in other steel pens, viz: holding the ink a long time, and at the mime time letting it down easily and freely. WESTEIAEMIEt has had the pens manufactured expressly to order, and they can be obtained in wholesale or retail quantities at his establishment, No. 44 North Queen street. THE TEACHERS' INSTITUTE.—The following resolutions wero adopted by the Teachers' Institute, at the close of its session on the 24th ult.: WR3REAS. Tho Teachers of Lancaster county, having as sembled in Fulton Hall, for the purpose of securing greater unanimity and cooperation in their efforts to promote the cause of popular education; therefore, Resolved, That the gratifying fact, revealed by the num ber of teachers who deemed it their duty to attend the meetings of the Institute, is convincing proof that the cause of Education is advancing, and that the profession of Teachlog is rapidly approaching its position among the learned professions of the age. Resolved, That the attention and interest manifested in the class drills indicate marked improvement In the art of Teaching. Resolved, That the reading of the Bible abould form a part of the daily exercises in our Public Schools. Resolved, That the indefatigable and undivided atten tion of the County Superintendent, In conjunction with the Evocative Committee, In organizing and conducting the exercises of the Institute, fully deserve our unqualified approbation. Rewired, That the thanks of the Institute are duo the lecturers for the zeal and devotion in the great cause of edncation. Resolved, That the thanks of the teachers are hereby extended to the citizens of Lancaster and others for the interest they - have exhibited Jo behalf of the Institute. Resolved, That these resolutions be published in the various city papers. TRIBUTE or RESPECT.—At a meeting of the Kegley Body Guards, 77th Regiment. P. V., held at Camp Nevin,. Hardin connty,Rentucky, A.F. Baldwin was called to the chair, and D. H. Gates acted as Secretary. The death of Private JOSEPH finny,* which occurred at Lances. ter, Pa., having been announced, is was by the company unanimously Resolved, That in the death of our reg So ted and beloved fellow soldier we have sustained a foes which fills our hearts with sorrow. We knew him as a soldier, faithful and efficient in the discharge of every duty; as a friend ever ready to respond to the calls of true friendship; as a companion kind and genial in his intercourse with no. We knew him as-k chrietian, upright and honorable in all his actions; we knew him as a patriot who loved his country better than his life; we knew him as a soldier ever ready to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. 'Buolved, That while we bear testimony to the worth of our departed friend and fellow soldier in these the more public relations of life, we do sincerely sympathise with those who mourn him as a son and brother. May "He who death all things well" sustain and comfort them in this their hour of deep affliction. Resolved, That the company wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days. . Resolved, That this testimonial of our appreciation of the character and worth of our late fellow soldier and compan• lon be published Da each of the county papers of Lances. ter, Huntingdon and Blair. *The deceased was a resident of Spruce Creek, Hu nth:lg don county, Pa. PRENTICE ON CAMERON Col. JOHN COCHRANE, of New York, recently made a most unfortunate speech in Washing— ton, (accepting the proposition to arm the slaves of the South, if our soldiers should fail to conquer the rebels,) followed by Secretary CAMERON, who gave it a hearty endorsement. Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, than whom a more devoted friend to the Union does not live, thus speaks of this Cochrane speech and Cameron endorsement : " Never during the conflict has there been a period less calculated than the present to suggest a resort to extreme and desperate measures. Never has there been a period more fitted than the present to awaken confi— dence in the perfect ability of the nation to achieve success in the ordinary course of war fare. Yet this is the moment seized by the Secretary of War to speak with a flourish and with no little ambiguity of what should be done and what would ,be done if the nation were driven to the wall, and reduced to the last extremity. " Such infinite fatuity is a burning disgrace to the Administration. It is insufferable.— Nothing else could be so well adapted to pro long and embitter the war and to complicate the great problem of conciliation to which even victory can but clear the way. Assured ly, if our beloved country survives the malig nity of her assailants in this strife and the stupidity of her defenders, she will become the pride and masterpiece of the human race.— And we cherish an abiding faith that she will survive both." GOVERNMENT COHERE - CT.—The Government contact for army oloth has been awarded to Messrs. Bullock & Co., of Philadelphia, at the following prices : 450,1 11 ,yarde sky.l3l . pe olotb,, $1,02i .800 yds sk v y•tdueurmy cloth, double, 2,00 -100 1 ;000 yds dark4due armrolotb, " 2,70 PHILADELPHIA. CORRESPONDENCE. Pamansunia, November Mir, Mgt. Mums. Kerma: Thankeitivhig Day. Cloudy-and corn meal:dace emanglient down, but within bright and cheer ftli. Churchill the natotatng to retain thinks for the bounties of a year - (Mayor W ood ,has nothing to be thank. fial for if we remember his last year's proclamation seighaind afterward. Chi Irma' dinners! turkeys rend The War and the West. lawropkin pies and eidciten salad and everything thatEpt. WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. ores fancied in hie drama:. The day Ls universally ob- Thei e ffect the war would have upon the material served, according tO theselfenored custom; and we do pity Strom thebeatruirof our heart that they have wan n t er e staof the country has been the subject of much oan].) ant thentselvep from us and have no iThanks- •eurawaaY and ape elation, That and the new tariff Prlnitri . '..i'-havelreatlY reduced our imports. The imports into fitne satiectei shei t ituffthought with us to-day is the .New . , ork Snore July 1,-1861,, exclusive of specie, exereibig pan:Rahn of our opble State. We have Plat ire 'Oily $96,847,808, while for a corresponding learned th at Governor Curtin bee telegraphed to the War Feria:l.-last year they were $175,272,275. Here is a Headquarten that the Keystone State has eight more regi- ailing off of almost one-half. Now, the receipts of manta in readiness toleave for the seat of war. We wonder ldfrOm EtIrODB and California, since January 1, if Pennsylvania wouldn't like to take the contract for - furnishing the extra two hundred thousand men which it i 1861, have been $68,739,000, while the exports have Is said will be asked for as a reserve. And yet that con. I been only $3,260,000, leaving a balance in our hands tumacions Joann], the New York Herald, with persistent of $63,487,000 for the first eight months in the year. spite, continues to Hato its readers upon the relative war These figures account for the great amount of viola strength of the two When Cameron, at in Eastern banks, being almost double of any year a speech In Gotham, said that Pennsylvania had sent 15,- 000 more men into the field than New York State, the before, notwithstanding their advance to carry on IHrakl wilfully made the figures 1,600, and only last week In a brindle of "statistics," with • Btrange forgetfuln of theT plain .The Eastern and Central States cannot corn even so much of an admission—liars ought to have better of a want of prosperity, notwithstanding the- war. memoriam—it rated Pennsylvania at 50 or 60,000, and New There is some lessening of commerce, but then their York 90,000. Even Ohio was put down at higher figures ships find employment in the service of the Govern tharithegrand cad flelittnne Sudo , But, bawl Bennett- meat; - lbrishirth they are well paid. Wherever 1 go, tie - been ban-whipped a dozen times. pecially Instead of awelling. events our quid stoics are trying I fi n d . se in New England. Great speculations have hard to get up a war with-England, and France, and the ca Spain; and Beloochistamt You•abitdd see thefigares at °atm made in cotton and groceries. A gentleman the stock exchange from. day to day. Yesterday,-op in informed me that a friend of his who went to Europe the clonds; to-day, down to 'zero): to-morrow, up again a few weeks since, had just returned, having made pertuipa,or down even lower. And so we go. In the mean• clear $300,800. The shoe, woollen, and even the time Maion and Slidell are chewiog the ender sober refleo cotton manufactories, are doing a g ood business. An don in Fort Warren, and'Jeff.l). ilhoplogithat England agent for sellin theproducts of several factories will send out big nalp to take Ahem out. 'Bat Jefferson g p told me that they were never making money • faster. D has hoped other things before - now which have never come to pus. The stoppage of the navigation of the Mississippi, Since we wrote you a few weeks ago in referent) to the and the consequent transportation of the products of stnpendone election fraud attempted Upon Philadelphia the West over the railroads has so increased their by Ukelele* Republican', the case has gone through vart: business as greatly to increase the valeta of stooks ons exciting. transformations, the present result of which • and bonds, most of which are owned in Pennsylvania, Is that litc Robert Berinii, the . fallikelecrod DsmOhstio NewJersey,New York and the New England States. candidate, holds his certificate of elaction,Aehich has been The amount of tons transported - over the railroads confirmed by the Court. And yet the case is not ended, and canals in the State of New York, this year, is for with a diabolical determination to detbat the cholee of the people the Republicans have prevailed on Aldermen 9,391,987, and the'istimated -value is $943,945,698. Thom ionteirt the deebdom 0 temporal The amount of tons carried over the railroads in All son!gn quarterly Reviews Scott it Co.'s 're. Massachusetts is 4,094,369,. and the aggregate value print) for the convent quarter have treated us to well writ-. $587,382,147. The tonnage of the public works of ten, if notalways equally sympathetic, articles on the eri- these two States is 13,486,357, having a value of MIS in this country. The best appeared in the "London $1, 611 ,327,845. So much for closing the navigation Quarterly Review ," hat the Noith - Brittsh Review (Nevem. ber) also diseetirres, sind in a meaner that ought to shame of the Mississippi. Add to this the pay these rail some other British authorities, the London Times In ear- roads receive for the transportation of troops and amain. We like to read an honest Englishman's criticisms army materials. Then the supplying the immense on our national calamity, and always look with interest army gathered in the Atlantic btates, and the expe for those of Messrs. Scott & Co.'s re-prints containing them. ditions by sea, furnish a ready market for all the The otherpipers in the North British are far above medi- surplus products of these . States. ocrity. But while the East is thus reaping golden harvests The famous Blackwood's Magazine Is now publishing from the war, how ilk with the West? The Missis from month to month the two finest stories it has give n . river to the world'aince the Scenes of Clerical Life by the author sippr is a solitude. Our steamboats are rotting of Adam Bede. The first Is The Chronicles of Carlingfard, at the wharves. The vast number of men, and the one of those delightful parish stories 'peculiar to English vast amount of capital employed directly and indi soil and English Writers. The other is Captain Clutter- redly in the commerce of that river, are idle. Not buck's ,Champagne, a West Indian Reminiscence. ' Both so, as already stated, with the shipping at the East. were begun in the October number, and are continued in, Ev ery: old ship, steamboat, and other water craft not the number .for November just Issued. With the cont. employed in commerce, is hired by the Government mencement of these two stories a favorable time is offered at enormous rofits. Western steamboats and West to begin new subscriptions to Blackwood, which is offered p by Scott & Co. at $3,00 per annum, a third of the British em men engaged in navigation alone suffer from price, or with any of, the Reviews at $2,00. the war. Think of the fuss that has been made here Some of our readers may be familiar with tbo story of over the little expense incurred in employing a few "The Red Court Farm," and will.remember RIBA a meat boats and water craft in Cincinnati to constntot a powerful and impressive narrative. From the pen of the pontoon bridge at Paducah ! same fair author, who is now known to be Mrs. Henry Let us now look at the condition of our agrioultur- Wood, Messrs.. Dick & Fitzgerald, New York; Peterson ists at the West. While those of the East find a Brothers, here • 'have just published another story, equally vivid and aberirblng,' entitled. East Lynne, or the Earl's ready and remunerating market in their cities , their- Daughter. Though not belonging to the "sensational" manufacturing towns kept busy in making war school this novel will - yet make its mark as one of the best materials, and, above all, in supplying the wants of stories of a highly wrought character issued this year. Wo the vast armies gathered hero and all along the At have not space to unfold the plot here, where our readers lantic coast, what is the condition of the farmers of might perhaps look for it, but it will b e found original, the West? The competition of the Mississippi being unique, dramatic, and absorbing. For a pamphlet novel out off they are at the mercy of those who control it is beautifully printed. We urge the publishers by all Eastern railroads and water navigation. Flour. bears, means to go on with the series, which will include The Red Court Farm, The Heir to Ashley, etc. transportation lin consequence of a foreign market Another charming English loveatory is published by but at an enormous cost for carriage, all of which Messrs. Peterson .k Brothers, to wit, For Better, For Worse, comes out of the pockets of the producers. But re-printed from the Temple Bar Magazine. During its pub- what shall we do with our corn, that most valuable lication In Temple Bar this fine story was of Immense ad- of all the products of the West? The transportation vantage to the Magazine, and at once placed it on a par is so expensive that not a bushel can be sent to an with its rival, The Cornhill Magazine. Though a story of the affections it is not sentimentally sickly, like •93thel'a Eastern market. Not a bushel can be sent down the Love Life ;" neither is it exaggerated, like "The Woman Ml 3Bl pßi• fir • What shall bo done with it ? It must in White;" nor wanting in the finer shades of morality, rot in the fields, or be burned for fuel. But the war like "Adam Bede." Margaret, Ethel and Grace axe char. not only outs off the avenues for the transportation actors which win upon the reader, and the narrative un- of our produce to market, but it also outs off the folds cheerful glirepses of life at an English rectory such avenues through which we have received our grocer as we have rarely read out of Goldamith'sstory. ies, fruits, and a greater part of the purchased neoes- The same pubiLthers issue a now book of stories by arias of life consumed by our families. Southern Charles Dickens, entitled The Lamplighter's Story, Hunted Down and Other Novelettes, uniform with Great Expecte- fruits anger, coffee and other groceries , which we tions. Few writers tell a story so well as Dickens, as the formerly received from New Orleans, now reach us Carol, the Chimea, and the Cricket on the Hearth will bear by coming round by the way of New York at an us witness. Some of Dickens' best stories are included in enormous expense, all of which we have to pay, this volume, and for one of them alone, Hunted Down, the while it leaves a nice profit in the hands of every author was paid five thousand dollars by an American Eastern man through which it passes, and along newspaper publisher. The volume is published in various every railroad over which it goes. While the people styles of paper and cloth, to match the other editions of of the West thus suffer for the want of a market, Dickens issued by the Messrs. Peterson. A singular story is The Romanee of an Obscm-e 'Man, from increased expenses of transportation on which issued In one of those uniformly beautiful little volumes it exports and imports, it has also to pay a greatly characteristic of Messrs. Ticknor & Fields' prase. Original increased price for dry goods and other purchased In its subject mad its treatment of ft, the narrative will articles of consumption occasioned by the war and charm the reader at the outset for its polish and the ear. by a war tariff. neatness of its thoughts, while he becomes gradually inter. Now, while the West thus suffers, and is destined ested in an original and sensible study of the African to suffer more and more from the war, what harvests character, written without violence or fanatical prejudices: The hero is a northern man, who removes to a cotton state, does it reap from it? Nothing save the unfadir% and thoroughly familiarizes himself with the peculiar io- glory won by our bravo troops in every conflict in atitutlon; and his views are worth candid consideration which they have been engaged. Their good order, at this time. Though not regularly announced, the an- sacrifices and bravery stand out boldly, iu the face thor's some, wo learn, is Mrs. Samuel B. Putnam, of Bos• of the world. the admiration of every beholder; and too. She writes like the late Major Winthrop. all this, notwithstanding much bad generalship and From the same press la just hunted, Ina volume of great a constant change of officers, showing either ince beauty and elegance, the long promised Sermons Preached at Harvard College, by James Walker, D. D. The repute• Parityin their app ointment or fickleness in their ro tten of the Doctor foreshadowed the success of these clear, moval, and which has kept our brave troops most of logical and very Interesting discourses. As an impressive the time doing little less than playing " hide and pulpit orator he has had few to surpass him, nor are the seek." While enormous amounts have been lavishly peculiarities of his eloquence lost in the transfer of the and speedily paid for' horses, mules, wagons and living thoughts and words from hie lips to the printed other army equipments here, how grudgingly have page before se. In reflecting his mind, says the Atlantic the little sums contracted for the armies of the West Monthly, the published Sermons at the same time reflect same kind his manner , and suggest the mode of their delivery. There will show , aid for thebought, as comparison are twenty.five discourses in all, every sermon being prim wll at a less price than was paid here. Meal in illustration, and adapted as an aid to the formation It was hoped that when we elected a Western of 'wand Christian character. We know but few better President, and had four Western men in the Cabinet, books. H. that the fact would not be forgotten there was a West. Especially was it hoped that the fact would be manifest when, at the first sound of the war trumpet, our brave pioneers rallied around their country's flag, all ready for battle the moment they had shouldered their knapsacks and rifles. Especially should it have been remembered when they had stained many a battle-field with their own blood, and drenched it with the blood of their enemies. Bat what has been done for the West'? The brave Lyon was loft to perish for want of succor ; not a move has been made to open the navigation of the Mississippi, even the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is left closed, when a few men and a little expenditure of money would open for our produce that important avenue of transportation. One-half of the mon and expenditure of money which has been used in trying to get to Richmond and overrun Virginia, if used in. the West, would have opened the Mississippi from its source to its mouth, would have crushed out re bellion in all the country west of that river, and ended the war by depriving the Confederates of the power to establish a great Confedetaoy founded on slavery, and to open a market for the indefinite ex tension of that institution. In answer to all this, 1 know it is said that the money to carry on the war is supplied by Eastern men. Admitted. And, admit further, that, in sup plying it, they are, in some degree, actuated by patriotic motives. But do they lose anything, or expect to lose anything by thus investing, their stir plus earnings? On the contrary, do they not regard the investment a good one, and are they not making, and do they not expect to make money out of it? What better can they do with this money Ginn to get seven and three-tenths per sent. upon it? The loss isnot with them; but the lon is with those who have to pay the interest upon the money, and finally the principal. And how are these to be paid? By direct taxation and high tariffs And on whom will the burden of these mostly fall ? On the farming inter ests. They are the ones that always suffer most from heavy taxes. Incomes can be lessened in amount by many fraudulent means, and all kinds of property hid from the tax gatherer except real estate. That 'cannot be hid nor can its value. The great West, then, has got to bear the chief burden of the great war debt already contracted and fast accumulating. Let this truth be sounded all along its rivers, and all over its vast plains and prairies. The people of the West are generous to a fault, patient in suffering and sacrificing brpatriotism, but is it not time for them to speak out in reference to the evils at hand and the greater evils approaching? Is it not time for them to let it be known here in Washington that there is a West, that we have 'rights, that we know our rights and dare maintain them ? I tell you that the East is growing rich oat of this war ; that anxiety for its close is fast dimin ishing, and that its prolongation is not considered the evil Abet it was. It is the West that is interested , in its close, and that should demand the adoption of, measures that will most speedily bring _peace. FRANKLIN. SPEECH OF JOHN COCHRANE-CAM ERON'S ENDORSEMENT. Extract from. Cul. JonN COCHRANE'S Speech at Washington, Nov. 13ti, 1861.1 In such a war we are justified, are bound to resort to every force within our power. Having opened the port of Beaufort, we shall be able to export millions of cotton bales, and from these we may raise the sinews of war. Do you say that we should not seize the cotton? No • you are clear upon that point. Suppose the munitions.of war are within our reach, would we not be guilty of shameful neglect if we availed not ourselves of the opportunity to use them? Suppose the enemy's slaves were arrayed against you, would you, from any squeamishness, refrain from pointing against them the hostile gun, and prostrating them in death? No ; that is your object and purport ; and if you would seize their property, open their ports, and even destroy their lives, I ask you whether you would not use their slaves? Whether you would not arm their slaves and carry them in battalions against their masters? If neces sary to save this government, I would plunge their whole country, black and white, into one indiscrimi nate sea of blood, so that we should in the end have a government which would be the vicegerent of God. Let us have no more of this dilletante system, but let us work with a will and a parpose that cannot be mistaken. Let us not be put aside from too great a delicacy of motive. Soldiers, yon know no such reasoning as this. You have arms in your hands, and those arms are placed there for the purpose of exterminating an enemy unless he submits to law, order and the Constitution. If he will not submit, explode everything that comes in your way. Set fire to the cotton. Explode the cotton. Take property wherever you may find it. Take the slave and bestow him upon the non-slaveholder if you please. Do to them as they would do to us. Raise up a party of interest against the absent slaveholder, distract their counsels, and if this should not be sufficient, take the slave by the hand, place a musket in it, and in God's name bid him strike for the liberty of the human race. Secretary Cameron's Speech. SOLDIERS : It is too late for me to make you a speech to-night, but I will say that I heartily ap prove every sentiment uttered by your noble com mander. The doctrine which he has laid down lap prove as if they were my own words. They are my sentiments—sentiments which will not only lead yon to victory, but which will in the end reconstruct this our glorious Federal Constitution. It is idle to talk about treating with these rebels upon their own terms. We must meet them as oar enemies, treat them as enemies, until they shall learn to behave themselves. Every means which God has placed in oar hands it is our duty to use for the purpose of protecting ourselves. lam glad of the opportunity to say here, what I have already said elsewhere, in these few words, that I approve the doctrines this evening enunciated by Colonel Cochrane. HIB COUNTRY FIRST.—Gen. MCCLELLAN per emptorily declined to give a musical welcome to his wife, by a combination of the military bands for that purpose, on her arrival in Washington. Ho wants no demonstrations or nonsense of that sort until he has earned them. That is the sort of man the people need. Mark the contrast between Gen. McCuLten and Gen. FREMONT. "Jessie" would have been serenaded, even though it might have taken money out of Uncle Sam's pocket to pay for the job. She would probably have been serenaded by contract, some old California friend being the contractor. tom' Wm. B. LEBO, Esq., of Schuylkill county, has been appointed a Commissary in the army, with orders to join Gen. Halleek's division. Mr. Lebo, it will be remembered, was one of the three Democratic.members of the Pennsylvania Legislature, whose votes elected Gen. Cameron to the. United States Senate in 1857, over Col. Poway. oar The Providence Post concludes, from the recent elections, " that every thing, so fai as the heart and mind of the people can at this time be felt and discerned, is looking bright with cheer for the future of the Democracy ; and that it will not be many years before we shall have the good, and dignified, and glorious old days of pure Democracy back again." jar Tho Confederate Congress has passed a bill for the removal of the Capital from Rich. mond to Nashville, and the rebel Congress will soon:assemble there. This removal very plainly indicates that Richmond is not consid— ered safe quarters during 'the coming winter. aft. Hon. Samuel A. Purviatice, of l'enn recently appointed CcUsal General at Calcutta, has "c7iT.A.R I•TM"ViTS- Prom the Weabbigton Correspondent of the . Cinching Feeding the Army The following figures show the amount of commis sary stores which will be consumed in one month by the United States army when brought up to the. standard authorized by Congress, viz : 500,000 men. It will be seen that the labors of the commissary de partment areanything but trivil, and that the cost of feeding an army is a somewhat serious item :-11,250,- 000 pounds of pork, or 18,750,000 pounds of fresh beef; 105,380 barrels of flour; 37,000 bushels of beans, or 1,500,000 pounds of rice; 1,500,000 pounds coffee; 2,250,000 pounds of sugar; 150,000 gallons of vinegar; 250,000 pounds of candles; 600,009 pounds of soap ; 9,384 bushels of salt, and 6,000,000 pounds of potatoes. • Rebel Supplies from England. Mr. George Francis Train furnishes the N. Y.Herald with an account of the aid and comfort given to the Southern rebels by our " neutrality" friend over the seas. We quote : England's neutral position is contemptible. Ihave seen one, two, three vessels load under my very face with cannon, rifles, shoes and blankets for the South! em conspirators. Tessier took in . eighteen large rifled grins, two one hundred and twenty pound. Whitworth's seven thousand five hundred Enfield, ei4hteen thousand Belgian rifles, ninety thousand pairs of shoes and ninety thousand overcoats in the Bermuda. The Fingal] left the Scottish shore a fortnight singe with a duplicate cargo. The Thomas Watson, lam glad to see, has been sunk off Charleston. One or two other vessels are now due at the pirate rendezvous ; but this letter, made public through your columns, is to make sure and stop the Gladiator, eighty horse power, six hundred tons ; steams nine and a half knots, old Lisbon screw steam packet; sold by Bake,. Adam k. Co.; loaded by the "Private Joint Stock Company " (unlimited) of English and Southern secessionists, with six hundred oases rifles, cannon, shoes, blankets, provisions and a large quantity gunpowder, which she took in last night at Erith. She clears to-day for Teneriffe and Nassau. I have given all these particulars to A. B: Marchand, Etiq. ' Commander United States war steamship James Adger, just arrived at Southampton via Queenstown and _Falmouth, one hundred and sixty-three men and nine guns, who is fully alive to capturing this English ptrate—estimate value of cargo sixty thousand pounds—having on board the -i requisites for an army of twenty.five thousand men. The chief men in the company are reported to be Sable, passenger and ship brokers, Liverpool ; Capt. W. D. Hughes, Southerner; Prieleard, Charleston firm of Frazer, Newholm tb Co., Liverpool; Bake, Adam ct Co.,putohaders and deimatohers of the • steamer, and saac Campbell (V. Co., army outfitters, Gerneyn street, London . The usiness is done in - shame, and is so profitable that if the two ships are - taken the Bermuda's profit will cover the loss of the- (Attire. Capt. Bird will go in command, Harrop , mate, Hughes as supercargo ; bales and cases marked- , • W: D. H. in a triangle beneath. o • ' If your gunbeatalget .infirrmation on. the er-,!.. rival of thiemall, / illey . can—an case she exapea James Adgir--431teh her at Nassau. There they will; no doubt, dlooharge into schooners, not wishing
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