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A He to authorized to receiVr4dvert*Ments and subscriptions for The Lancaster 1.1 , ; 71 Now our flag is flung to the wild winds free, Let it float o 'er er oar - father land, :And the guard of its spotless fame shall be Columbia's chosen band. THE PRESIDENT'S 3IESSAGE This anxiously-looked for State paper will be found published at length on our first page. It is a cleverly written document, moderate in tone, but without any strong points calcu lated to influence public opinion. Should, however, the President adhere firmly to the views e the slavery question set forth in his Message, and we have strong hopes that be will from the rebuke ho administered to Sec retary CAMERON, he will command the legiti mate support of allconservative citizens, North and South, and be instrumental in bringing the unnatural war in which the Nation is en gaged to a speedy and satisfactory conclusion. The firmness displayed by Mr. LiNcois in raseeing the report of the Secretary of War is worthy of all commendation, and he will find that by keeping his eye steadily fixed on those great cardinal principles presented in the CRITTENDEN resolutions of the July session of Congress, and those enunciated in the late proclamation of Gen. Dix to the people of the two eastern counties of Virginia upon this subject, he will make himself a name and a fame which will forma bright page in the country's history. In referring to the Message, the Baltimore Clipper has the following just remarks : To adopt the views of some of the ultras upon the subject of slavery at the North is equally as dangerous as a submission to the secession dogmas of the demagogues of the South. The administration has started right upon this delicate question. Let there be no fal tering now, and the result will speedily be manifested by a return to their allegiance of our straying brethren of the South. Do not let us treat them as the erring tribe of Israel was served. the wickedness of Benjamin was great, and fearful was the punishment inflicted upon him therefor. Notwithstand ing he at first beat off the eleven tribes in two pitched battles, yet finally he wq.s himself beaten down in the strife, at the third at tempt, and a tribe was nearly blotted out in Israel. When the passion of the hour sub sided, the wail went up for their little bro ther, and the people were anxious that he should be restored to his former position, and his sins and iniquities were forgiven him, and assistance rendered him to re assume his functions as one of the tribes of the house of Israel. The parallel will hold good in our present case. A woful sin has been committed by some of the States of this Union, particularly by that petted and spoiled little sister, South Carolina. A sin we humbly conceive not only against their country, but against God and humanity. A heavy punish ment is no doubt to be inflicted, in justice for the vastness of the iniquity. But let us not embrace the extreme measure so earnestly de sired by some of the hot headed zealots who have attempted to drive the President from his true position—otherwiSe we, like the children of Israel of old, will also deeply regret the destruction of one or more of the tribes of our Union. NEW YORK ELECTION The municipal election, on Tuesday last, resulted in the election of GEORGE OPDYFE (Rep.) for Mayor, by the following vote : GEORGE OPDYKE (Rep.) 25,584 G. C. GUNTHER (Tammar Dem.) 24,813 FERNANDO WOOD (Mozart DUD.) 24,174 The returns of the vote for the other city officers indicate the election of a majority of the Tammany candidates. In the Board of Aldermen six Democrats out of eight are elected, and thirteen out of twenty-four Coun oilmen. There is some talk of contesting the elec tion of Mr. OPDYK.E. It is claimed by the friends of Mr. GUNTHER. that sufficient vntes were thrown out, on account of some trifling informality, to have elected him by about eighty of a majority over Mr. OPDYKE. This, however, is denied on the part of the friends of the latter gentleman, and hints are thrown out that an investigation may make it very unpleasant to Mr. GUNTHER. So the matter stands for the present. The vote for Mayor being so close has pre vented any great amount of boasting, as which ever candidate is elected has but little more than one-third of all the votes cast. It was an expensive election, however, to the candi dates, according to the Express of that city, which says that " OPDYEE'S bills amounted to $20,000, GuNTEtrat's $20,000, and WOOD'S to $lO,OOO. OPDYKE is, in part, reimbursed by the heaiy Custom House taxation, but GUNTHER ' s and WOOD'S are dead losses." The salary of the office, we believe, is $6,000. What the " pickings " are may be inferred from the expenses of the candidates at an election. NEW YORK Aauus.—We have received the first number of this weekly paper, just started the City of New York by Messrs. COMSTOCK & CASSIDY of the Albany Argue. It presents a very neat appearance, is soundly Democratic, and has several very able editorial articles.— Such a paper has been long needed in that great metropolis, where the Democratic party has been distracted by contending factions.— The editors promise to steer their course clear of ,all cliques, and labor to unite the party on sound Constitutional principles, and the first number gives promise of a successful career. We bid them godspeed in the good work. COL. SAMUEL 0. STAMBAUGH Oar old friend and fellow•citizen, Colonel Sexual, C. STAMBAUGH, Surveyor General of Utah Territory, arrived home on Sunday last, after an absence of over two years in Mormon dorti: The Col. looks hale and hearty, and meets with an enthusiastic welcome from hun dreds of old friends, all of whom are right 'glad to again get a shake of his hand. say' The. New York World, of Saturday, 'Pairs tbat money is abundant in that city at 6 per cent:'- Ne - . w4h we could say the same IA thing Lancaster. EII,fiLDICIPATION_AND GODIPEN SA.' The President in his message assumes that a large number of " contrabands " wiltneces-' sexily be liberated by the present war s and? recommends that provision be made foi *Ong them to some country purellased for that , yinrpose. 1-tis a iorecommended.tbat.authority be given tcKlake, in Benz of biles, a tain' :valuation of these trOnblesome per sons id States desiring to get rid of them. The Ab olition leaders in Congress go finich, farther , than thhi, and demand' that all`the Alves be emancipated, the Government affording rea sonable compensation to loyal owners for the loss of their property. We suppose that there are fed persons who stop to reflect upon the impracticability of this undertaking from its very magnitude. If this war lasts another year, at the existing rate of expenditure, the total war debt of the United States cannot be much short of $1,500,000,000, the annual interest on which, at seven per cent., would amount to $105,000,000. Add to this the ordinary expenses of Government after the return of peace, which would not be less, with the .ntmost economy, than $60,000,000 a year, and we find the necessary expenses of Govern ment amounting to $165,000,000 annually.— With the return of a moderate degree of prosperity we could not expect a revenue of more than $65,000,000 from customs—so that at least $100,000,000 annually will have to be raised by direct taxation. Now should Congress enter upon a system of general emancipation with compensation to loyal masters, the burden upon the Govern ment would be greater than it could possibly carry. The Secretary of War estimates the lowest value of slave property in:the Southern States at $700,000,000, which:is not more than one•fourth the actual value in times of peace. Taking one half of this amount as representing the property of loyal masters, and the. Gov ernment would become liable for the payment of $350,000,000, and an expenditure of an equal sum would be required to purchase territory for colonization and means of trans portation. But estimating the total cost at not more than $500,000,000, that sum at seven per cent. interest, would increase the amount to be raised annually by direct taxa tion to $135,000,000. Pennsylvania, which contains about one tenth of the population and wealth of the Union, would be compelled to pay over $13,000,000 annually, in the shape of direct taxes, to the General Government, in addition to what she pays indirectly on duties on imports, and in addition also to taxes for the support of the State Government and the payment of interest on the State debt. Takin g only a dollar and cent view of the case, we do not believe in the ability of the General Government to fulfil any pledge it may make to compensate loyal masters for the loss of their slave property. People will begin to ask why they should be taxed to pay for what they receive no equivalent, and what contributed to the wealth and prosperity of the country. While this policy of emancipation would depopulate and impoverish the South, and heap enormous burdens upon the North, it would at the same time be a relinquishment by the Government of an important object of taxation. The Constitution gives to the slave States the three fifths slave representation in Congress upon condition that in imposing direct taxes, slave property shall be rated at its actual value. While slavery remains in the South, it is an object of taxation, and could be made defray the expenses of the war—but if the Government undertakes to carry out a general system of emancipation, it would sweep away at one blow some two billions of taxable property, and to that extent destroy its own resources. The only sensible, rational and economical manner of dealing with this question is to leave it just where the Constitution left it—to the control of the individual States. The mo ment the general Government meddles with slavery, it embarks upon a sea of difficulties ; and nothing better illustrates the wisdom of the framers of the Constitution in reserving to each State the exclusive power over its own domestic concerns, than this fact. —Harris burg Patriot. Eter The denunciation of the Confederate Confiscation Laws by the venerable ex-Judge Petigree, in open Court, at Charleston, S. C., has astonished many people, says the Har risburg Patriot. He denied the power of the Confederate States to set up such an " inqui sition," and said the proceedings of the confis• cation act were precisely like those of the English Star Chamber. With regard to the apparently required violation of professional confidence in compelling compulsory answers to interrogatories, ho said he must be better instructed before making up his mind as to his duty, for, said he, " there are cases when it is either dishonor or death and death will certainly he chosen by every man who deserves the name." These are the kind of men the proper p-osecution of the war will bring to light throughout the South, as our forces ad vance. Let the objects of the Government be the restoration of the Union, the Constitution, and the enforcement of the laws, and we shall find loyal men, fearless patriots, in every sec tion of the nation. But make it a war for un constitutional purposes--for slavery emancipa tion instead of a restoration of the Union— and the division between the North and the South is eternal, and the end of the war beyond the existence of the present generation. Each State must be left to decide its domestic insti tutions agreeably to the guarantees of the national compact, or we shall know peace no more—anarchy will doom our fair land to des olation, and ruin conclude our history. TOO LATE, 'ABOUT SPEAKING Secretary CAMERON has recently announced that the affairs of his department will hence— forth be conducted upon principles of strict economy. The General should have made this announcement months ago, and enforced the provisions thereof up to the present Cm: ; as by so doing many thousands of dollars might have been saved to the Government. Making such an announcement at this s age of the game, rooks very much like " locking the stable door after the horse has been stolen." But notwithstanding the Secretary of War may have made the above declaration with the full determination of enforcing its provisions, no sensible man will believe for a moment that he is able to do so. The National Capital is infested with Government robbers who will get their hands into the Public Treasury in spite of all the efforts which may be brought to boar against them. If a little more watchfulness was exercised, and less favoritism displayed, the operations of the plunderers might be curtailed to some extent. THE REBEL EXHAUSTION Robert J. Walker, who is at Washington, asserts with great positiveness that the rebel treasury will be completely broken down be fore next March, and that the rebellion will by that time prove an utter failure. Mr. Walker has had an extended experience in the South and understands the capabilities of the rebel States as well as any public man not engaged in the rebellion. Other Southern men assert that while ho does not underrate the material resources of the South, he does not give full credit to their desperate energy and bitter hatred of the North. Prominent Kentuckians, who are unquestionable friends of the Union and the Government, say that from their knowledge of Southern character they are convinced that it will take two or three great victories on the battlefield to cure the rebels of their folly. They assert that the South cannot be starved into good citizenship, but that. anything which shall convince the great mass of Southern people of their inferi ority on the field of battle wiU plunge them instantly in the depths of despair. le' Onermas SUMNER, U. S. Senator from Massachusetts, was invited to deliver an ad dress before the Soldiers' Relief Society of Haverhill, Mass., a short time since, and did so. And he charged and received $25 for his ,servi ces I If any man in this country has done a • meaner:thuag, considering all the cirournstan .cei; we iIEIVO failed to notice it. THE EMANCIPATION POLICY. The Louisville (Ky.) Journal, the ablest and most influential Union paper in the border States, thus argues the great questioticennect ed with the prosecution of the war. The policy advicated bya large portion of the Republican party, with Gen. Corium at their headomp ported by a few " pro-slavery.Demoorats," and soldiers of fortune, is justly characterized as wrong, inexpedient and atrocious. They would arm the slaves and let them loose to pillage, ravish, murder and destroy, with the full knowledge that friend and foe would be— come alike the victims of these brutal tools of abolition hate, and women and children would be sure to be the greatest sufferers therefrom. This is the direct and certain result of this emancipation policy advocated by Secretary CAMERON. Of this policy the Journal says: It is wrong and inexpedient, in a measure ut terly fatal. Moreover, it is in other respects I unworthy of a virtuous and ehlightened nation. his wrong, because it proposes a step not mere ly unconstitutional, but radically and perma nently inconsistent with the ends of the Con stitution. It proposes to annihilate one of the great institutions of the country, as a means of preserving the country. In short, it proposes to preserve the whole by destroying a part. The policy is thus illegitimate and absurd. If our antagonist were a foreign enemy, the case might be different, for in that event the end of the conflict would be simply to master the ene my, but in the present conflict the end is not only to master the enemy, but to so master him as to preserve the country in its full constitu tional integrity. The chief and real end of the war is the preservation of the country ; the mastering of the enemy is but a means to this end. What in a foreign conflict would be the end is in the present conflict but a mode of se curing the end. This is a distinction which, from the nature of things, must characterize civil war in all free governments. It is a vital distinction. It, however, -is a distinction of which Mr. Cameron appears to be either igno rant or oblivious. Of course, the waging of the war in such a way as to destroy a constituent part of the country for whose total preservation the war is carried on, would be so far forth to sacrifice the end to the means. The policy, as we have said, is illegitimate and absurd. Nor does it derive the smallest comfort from the fallacy that as slaves arc property they should be set free with as little reluctance as cattle in a pad dock. Slaves are property ; but to set the slaves of the South free would be not merely to confiscate so much property, but extinguish at a blow the institution of slave property in this country. It would not only dissolve the cast ings but shatter the mould. It would break the die as well as melt down the coin. It would not alone pluck the fruit of the tree, but cut up by the roots the tree itself. In other words, itwould, as we have contended above, destroy a constituent part of the country for whose pre servation the entire war is prosecuted. The policy, therefore, is wrong, being illegitimate and absurd. But it is also inexpedient. If it were in itself justifiable it should not be adopted, be cause it is calculated not to promote but to re tard even the secondary end of mastering the enemy. The adoption of such a policy by the Administration would virtually proclaim that the conflict was no longer waged for the pur pose of re-establishing the Union, but for the single purpose of subduing the enemy at what ever cost to the institution of the country ; that the chief end of the conflict was, not as at first to preserve the country, but to do the enemy all the injury in our power ; that, in fine, the revolting South was thence forward to be treated in every respect as a foreign enemy, and not as a domestic one. This; at least, would, be the construction put on the act throughout the slaveholding States. It would be taken as convincing proof that fanaticism had acquired the ascendency in the councils of the Government, and that henceforth the conflict on the part of the nation would be prosecuted in the spirit of the bloodiest and most unrelenting of foreign ware. Nor would this construction be confined to the South.— The necessary tendency of the act would be to unite the South, and distract the North, in a measure far exceeding any possible advantage derivable from the immediate consequences of the policy. As the next result of the policy, the rebellion would be strengthened, and the nation weakened indefinitely. This result would be inevitable. The policy, therefore, even if right, would be fatally inexpedient But we have shown that it is fatally wrong. This, however, is not all. The policy is in human as well as wrong and inexpedient. We need not enlarge on this point. Disciplined armies formed out of the best varieties of the white race are sufficiently disposed to insubor dination under the maddening influence of active war. What degree of subordination could be maintained or expected in an army formed out of a newly emancipated race, so inferior that its claim to the nature of man is disputed by the learned.:we leave every one to imagine for himself. It must be plain to all, however, that such a body could be restrained from murder and outrage only by a body of regular soldiers nearly, if not quite, equal in numbers ; but, as the policy in question clearly excludes everything of this description, the sable hordes would consequently run into murder and outrage comparatively unrestrain ed. Nothing else could follow, in the nature of the case. The policy, accordingly, involves a savage cruelty unworthy of a virtuous and enlightened nation. It violates the rules of civilized warfare, and, whatever retaliation might warrant, as against a foreign enemy, is not to be thought of by the country in this strife with her own infatuated children. The policy, we repeat, is inhuman as well as wrong and inexpedient. Too Mum TALK.—Gen. MCCLELLAN recent ly said there was too much talking done by his officers—a hint which some of them failed to take. Col. COCHRANE, for instance, not only made a long hour's speech when Gen. MeetFt LAN would have said but twenty words, but he even undertook to mark out and prescribe the policy which the Government should pursue in the prosecution of the war. This was modest for a Colonel, truly. Compare it with the course of the two highest officers in the army, Gens. MCCLELLAN and Ilettkok. The former declined to speak at all in response to a recent serenade, and has made no speeech of over six lines in length. Gen. HALLECK, when serena ded on his arrival in St. Louis, spoke thus: " I thank you for the compliment of this ser enade. I appear before you as a stranger, and under orders from the Government. lam sent here to restore peace and quiet -to your city, and to drive every hostile flag out of your State, and by your assistance I will do it." These officers are soldiers; those who make long stump speeches are politicians and dema gogues, generally. The people will have no hesitation as to which are to be trusted. FOREIGN NEWS The steamer North American reached Port land on Thursday evening with Liverpool dates to the 22d ult. The capture and burn ing of the American ship Harvey Burch had given rise to some discussion, especially as to whether the Queen's Proclamation of neu• trality had not been violated by landing the captain and crew of the Harvey Birch on British soil. The London Times refers to the fact that the United States Steamer Adger had been permitted to anchor in an English port, and says it were better to keep the ships of both belligerents out, but if this cannot be done they must be let in alike. The steamer Adriatic, ostensibly fitting out for the West Indies, was supposed to have been purchased by the Confederates. Messrs. Mason and Slidell were expected to arrive at Southampton on the 29th in the steamer La Platte. ELECTION OF OFFICERS OF THE MASONIC GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA.--At the annual session of the Grand Lodge of Penn sylvania, A. Y. M., held in Philadelphia, on Monday week, the following gentlemen were re-elected officers-of the Grand Lodge for the ensuing year, commencing on St. John's day, December 27th, 1861, on which day the in stallation will take place : John Thompson, R. W. Grand Master. Thos. C. Skerrett, R. W. D. Grand Master Lucius H. Scott, R. W. Senior G. Warden J. L. Goddard, R. W Junior Grand Warden P. Williamson, R. W. Grand Treasurer. Wm. H. Adams, R. W. Grand Secretary. kf.lltf:%oll)AVl: l oo , ' , ErlailA ARHING THE SLAVES. WHAT LOVELY WEATHER. —Who ever saw THE QUARREL BETWEEN PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND mare lovely weather at this season of the year than postai- SECRETARY CAMERON. day and Sunday were/ Fires were left to go out, and over- _The readers of our Daily of yesterday morning *coats and furs were thrown - aride. The weather must bave , may hive been surprised to find no allusions to the been very much of the nature our soldiers have at Hilton Head. South Carolina. Many supposed it ,topia l which..excitedmost . .i arta titerest . .a d t is t av be Eetleral Ma-. - edition of Indian Summer. 3t maybe '0.2-to b wilaird but we-were tropo ta—namei y,:T he rep almost led to think that lovely Eay had gone'astray, and tween the President and the SeeretarY got mixed up in some way with cad and bleak December, regard tri that portion of the ., IDsport .of. the litter for certainly we could say, in the descriptive language of which . treats of, the use' - to be made of t fir slaves 'of a good old hymn— • ',_Confederates. Other rnals had information On ...December is as pleasant as May." ' this subject; we- kad none; simply because, while • A SOLDIER'S FIINERAL.--CorporatMooszy, theft' Washum awn whose death occurred on the banks of the Potomac i coo- lowed to come throu deapittcheereepeoting it were al gli in due course, ours was sup ple of weeks since, and whose parents reside in the Borotu II pressed by the Government censor in the Washington of Mount Joy, was buried there on Sunday last. The Ar- telegraph office. Having received it by mail, we give tillery Cadets, Capt. Yowl% of this city, attended the fur- it now as part of the history of the times, simply eraL and performed the sad but impressive military burial remarking that we do not understand that it W 29 services suppressed for lack of truth, but rather for excess of THE HOWARD EVENINGS.—R. W. SHENK, Esq., delivered the last lecture before the Howard Associa tion, on the question, whether the,Government, should favor the construction of . &Pacific Railroad? The lecture was able and practical, and °Wired au interesting discus sion from Messrs. Barr, Swans, Wilson, Brown, Cadwell and Dickey. . . The lecture thi a evening will be delivered by the Rev. Mr. RoszNattitzu. Subject: "The PublleNtrtue and Death of Begulue." AN ACCOMMODATING AGENT.—ODE of the most accommodating and gentlemanly Agents we know of is Mr. Lay' &mum, who has charge of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's Office at Gap Station, in this county. Mr. E. is a young man of much suavity of manner, and much of his time is given to the comfort and maven. lenm of the traveling public. Such an Agent as Mr. E. is, therefore, a great acquisition to any Railroad Company.— Would that all Railroad Agents were of the same material • ADMITTED TO PRACTICE.—On motion of A. H. Hood, Esq., on yesterday week, ANDiim M. FsAtrrz, was admitted to practice law in the several Courts of this county. We understand that Mx. F. passed a very creditable examination. He Is a young man of much In telligence and energy. PREPARATIONS FOR C AS.--The ap. preach of Christmas is seen In the preparations which are being made for it by those of our shopkeepers who expect to profit by it. Already, in the windows of the toy and fancy shops are exhibited articles of sport and use,: suitable for Christmas presents. Booksellers begin to exhibit their handsomely bound volumes, suitable for the season, and jewellers make an unusually fine display. The children are now counting the days from this to the advent of Christmas, and wondering what presents they will receive. As the season is one to which the young look forward with peculiar pleasure, shopkeepers prepare to gratify their desires. DONNELLY'S PERPETUAL ALMANAC 18 it moBt useful invention to business men, lawyers and students. It is a simple contrivance, with which to find the day of the week for any given date. It is sometimes very im portant to know this, and, in the absence of some such convenience as the above, to know it may coat much labor and inconvenience. The author labored at this Almanac for many years. The invention is a thoroughly Lancaster institution, the author, PATRICK Dourrmr, Esq, and the publisher Mr. JOUR SHEAFTER. 82 North Queen street, are Lancasterlans. Its use, therefore will be consumption of domestic goods. Examinethe invention and judge of its merits. A FRIGHTFUL RUNAWAY.—Yesterday after noon, says Thursday's Express, Mr. John Shenk, farmer, residing in Manor township, drove to the city a far-look ing horse, which the day before he had purchased from a drover at Funk's Sale Stables, North Prince street. While Mr. S. was in the house paying for the horse, a boy untied him from tho post in the yard, in order to let another vehicle pass. The horse became frightened, and started at a full run up through Mr. Kauffman's yard into North Queen street. The buggy was (Whet to pieces against an awning post at Mr. Amer's store; the beast more terrified than before, with the shafts thrashing his back and heels, dashed at a fearful speed towards Centre Square, and so reckless was his rate, that, unable to turn at tho corner, he sprang against the large show window in G. M. Zshm Is Co.'s Jewelry Store, making a complete smash of the window. The horse next plunged into the door way of the Oyster Saloon under Ditlow's Exchange Hotel, in which position he was captured and returned to the stable. The horse was considerably injured by the glass and iron sash of Zahm's window; the clocks and jewelry in the window were but slightly injured; the heavy, clear glass wee left in complete fragments, producing a very singular breakage leaving the pieces scored in parallel lines, as if ruled with a diamond. COL. HAMBRIGHT'S REGIMENT.—A corres pondent of the Louisville Journal thus speaks of the effici ency in drill of Cot. Ilambright's Lancaster County Regi ment, and also of the general good health of the men: "Cella Revue, November 25.—The general health of the Fevers' brigades forming this division is improving. The ratio of sick per thousand in many of the regiments is quite small. In conversation with Dr. Myerlet, the effici ent division surgeon, be informed me that in the 79th Pennsylvania regiment, General Negley'e brigade the ratio was but nineteen. As I had some curiosity to vieit, a regi ment of such effective strength, I took the opportunity of riding down to their encampment near McCook station.— On the occasion of my visit the regiment were out in an adjoining field, on dress parade. In company with a friend, we watched for some time with pleasure the admirable and accurate movements to which Col. Hambright has brought his men up to in battalion movements. The regiment is full, and was, as we learned, recruited in Lancaster cons. ty, Pa. "We turned from the parade field tc the encampment grounds. In riding through the different streets of tents, we encountered the surgeon of the regiment, Dr. Wright, of Pittsburg, who was going from tent to tent, making a personal examination of their condition. The' straw in every tent was required to be turned np from the bottom and its condition noted,.and reported by the surgeon to the commanding officer, who at once orders the captains to have fresh straw procured for {such as require it, and everything removed that was likely to affect the health of the occupants. This regiment has a large bake.oven in operation, and good fresh bread is issued aeveral days in the week to the men instead of flour rations, as Is the cos tom in many parts of the division. "May not the small ratio of sick reported by my friend Dr. M. for this regiment in a measure be attributable to the interest the officers take in their men, and the efforts the surgeon makes to have the laws of health regarded as well as to establish and enforce a rigid sanitary condition of the camp t C." TERRIBLE EXPLOSION AND Loss OF LIFE.— On Thursday afternoon about 2 o'clock, says Saturday's Columbia Spy, the engine preparing to take the noon train, which was behind time, from Wrightsville to York, ex. ploded whilst in the act of backing up for the passenger car, in Front street, Wrightsville, killing the fireman, Mr. Jesse Bonner, instantly, and so injuring the engineer, Charles CieDelman, that he died in about half an hour. The former was from Glen Rock. and the latter from York, and leaves a wife and family. The explosion was terriffic, and shattered the engine and tender, throwing the former a complete summersault, blowing fragments in every direc tion. The accident happened directly iu front of Solomon McCauley's Confectionery, and the explosion shattered this and neighboring houses for half a square, breaking win dows, covering everything with mud and soot, and in one instance knocking a considerable hole through a brick wall. The track was torn up and the ground hollowed by the force of the blow. Attached to the engine was a train of freight cars, which were, we believe, uninjured. Several persons standing near narrowly escaped destruction. The responsibility for the accident rests with the manage ment of the road. The engine was en old one, unfit for use, and evidently so disordered that the engineer is said to have expressed a determination, should he succeed In running to York without an explosion, to refuse farther service upon it. It bad been recently disinterred from some depot and tinkered up to answer the demands of the branch road, the rush of Government freight over the main road requiring the full motive power of the Company. Such is the common report, which may or may not Ile. We hope the matter will be investigated, and the reopens i hility properly placed. OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS The Washington correspondent of the New York Times gives, in the following condensed form, the pith of the foreign correspondence with the State Department, from which copi— ous extracts have been published : England entertains, or at least expresses, no sympathy fur us, but rather the reverse. France has not been cordial, but has been less offensive than England. Austria has been friendly, and from the out set has declared that she would not recognize the Southern Confederacy. Prussia and all the German States have been equally cordial. Russia has been friendly, but anxious for the war to end. Sweden and Norway have been friendly from the beginning. 4 "Belgium is undecided, but passive. Holland is disposed to follow the lead of England at a respectful distance. Italy is full of warm sympathy for our Government and for freedom. Spain, though not aggressive, has an evident leaning towards the Jeff. Davis Republic. Denmark is friendly. The Pope though ho announces that his Government is not of this world, but that he is concerned with spiritual things, yet if he were to express an opinion, he, as a good Christian, will always be on the side of law and order. THE MESSAGE IN CANADA A large portion of the Canadian press, in commenting on the President's Message, give a hostile interpretation to that portion of it which suggest " adequate and ample" meas ures " for maintaining the public defences on every side." The Toronto Leader says these words indicate the " Coast line and the great lakes as especially calling for attention. Fortifications and depots of arms and ammunitions, with harbor and navigation improvement, are recommended in this connection. Evidently, then, the fed eral government, not content with Mr. Sew ard's call upon the otates, intends itself to proceed with lake defenses ; the use of which can have but one end—war with England.— And on the supposition that Mr. Seward's circular was interpreted by the British govern ment as a menace—as in truths it was—we may rest assured that its indorsation by Pres ident Lincoln will not tend to shake the imperial determination with regard to military preparations in this province. With the fed eral power employed in preparing for a collis ion upon its northern frontier, the defensive works commenced in Canada will undoubtedly be pushed forward without delay, and on a scale commensurate to the emergency." THE EFFECT The resolutions introduced by Mr. ELIOT, of Massachusetts, and Mr. STEVENS, of Pennsyl vania, into Congress, are simply propositions to render tho restoration of the Union imposi ble, the war interminable—a cry for blood, taxation, poverty ; the food craved by reckless fanaticism. Those who like the programme may prepare to enact their parts. The pro bability is the, audience will be too large for the performers—the hisses louder than the applause—that the lights will be extinguished and -the mains will fall amid general.eleora don of the authors of the tragedy, and a dirge from the orchestra. From the N. Y. Tribune, Deeember 4th THE SUPPRESSED DESPATCH WASHINGI9N, Dec. 2. The call of the - roll hid scarcely ended in the House, when the temper of the people was strikingly manifested by their Representatives hastening, without delaying a moment for Presidential or other messages, to pass a resolution emancipating the slaves of Confederates within the militaryjurisdic lions. Before the Sete upon it was recorded, a pain ful rumor pervaded the Hall that-the President had taken open issue on this very question with Secre tary Cameron, and had recalled from the Philadel phia Post Office the undelivered copies of the War Department Report which the latter bad mailed yesterday for the use of the newspaper press. The city was filled with rumors of a breaking up of the Cabinet, and the influence of the revolution we are passing through, in attaching men to principles while weakening their hold on laws and forms, was everywhere strikingly and most suggestively con spicuous. The excitement occasioned by this Rime live opposition to the necessities .of the war and to the popular will, to-night sways the hotels and par lors of the city. The history of the difference be tween the President and the Secretary of War has at last taken this shape. The Secretary presented his report to htr. Lincoln on Saturday. On Sunday afternoon he mailed it to the principal papers of the North and West, as is customary on the day preced ing the reading of the Message. On Sunday night the President, having taken time to read it, found it not in his heart to agree with the Secretary's doctrine of the right and the duty to make a military use of the slaves of Con federates—to arm them, if necessary—and in all ways to use them as we would any other property of the Confederates to suppress this rebellion. He sent for Mr. Cameron ' and required him to suppress this whole portion of his report, on the ground that its recommendation was premature and ill-timed.— The Secretary promptly and resolutely refused to suppress a word of it. The discussion between them was protracted. It ended as it began, the President insisting upon the alteration, and the Secretary re spectfully but firmly refusing to change a syllable of his recommendation. A subsequent interview in the afternoon had a similar conclusion of debate, but a new and strange conclusion of Exeoutive will. The President announced his purpose to strike out the entire passage about the emancipation and arm ing of the slaves before sending in the report with his Message to Congress. Mr. Cameron declared he should net recall or suppress the document in the hands of Northern and Western editors, and that the printers were at liberty to do with his report what they pleased. Which of the two copies will the people read and the army prefer ? THE SUPPRESSED PASSAGES The original report, with that portion of it which recommends the arming of the slaves, appeared in the Baltimore Sun, of Wednesday last, and has been published unabridged and unaltered in some of the New York and Eastern and a considerable por tion of the Western papers, to which it was furnished in advance. For the sake of reference we also ap pend the passages suppressed by Mr. Lincoln. They • are as follows.: Beason and justice and self-preservation forbid that such should be the policy of this Government, but demand, on the contrary, that, being forced by traitors and rebels to the extremity of war, all the rights and powers of war should be exercised to bring it to a speedy end. Those who make war against the Government justly forfeit all rights of property, privilege, or security, derived from the Constitution and laws, against which they are in armed rebellion; and as the labor and service of their slaves constitute the chief property of the .rebels, such property should share the common fate of war to which they have devoted the property of loyal citizens. While it is plain that the slave property of the South is justly subjected to all the consequences of this rebellious war, and that the Government would be untrue to its trust in not employing all the rights and powers of war to bring it to a speedy close, the details of the plan for doing so, like all other mili tary measures, must, in a great degree, be left to be determined by particular exigencies. The disposi tion of other property belonging to the rebels that becomes subject to our arms is governed by the cir cumstances of the case. The Government has no power to hold slaves, none to restrain a slave of his liberty, or to exact his service. It has a right, how ever, to use the voluntary service of slaves liberated by war from their rebel masters, like any other property of the rebels, in whatever mode may be most efficient for the defence of the Government, the prosecution of the war, and the suppression of the rebellion. It is as clearly a right of the Govern ment to arm slaves when it may become necessary as it is to use gunpowder taken from the enemy.— Whether it is expedient to do so is purely a military question. The right is unquestionable by the laws of wax The expediency must bo determined by circumstances, keeping in view the great object of overcoming the rebels, re-establishing the laws, and restoring peace to the nation. It is vain and idle for the Government to carry on this war, or hope to maintain its existence against rebellious force, without employing all the rights and powers of war. As has been said, the right to deprive the Confederates of their property in slaves and slave labor is as clear and absolute as the right to take forage from the field, or cotton from the warehouse, or powder and arms from the magazine. To leave the enemy in the possession of such prop erty as forage and cotton and military stores, and the means of constantly reproducing them, would be madness, It is, therefore, equal madness to leave them in peaceful and secure possession of slave prop erty, more valuable and efficient to them fur war, than forage, cotton and military stores. Such policy would be national suicide. What to do with that species of property, is a question that time and cir cumstance will solve, and need not be anticipated further than to repeat that they cannot be held by the Government as slaves. It would be useless to keep them as prisoners of war, and self-preservation, the highest duty of a Government, or of individuals, demands that they should be disposed of or employed in the most effec tive manner that will tend most speedily to suppress the insurrection and restore the authority of the Government. If it shall be found that the men who have been held by the Confederates as slaves are capable of bearing arms and performing effi cient military service, it is the right, and may be come rho ditty, of the Government to arm and equip them, and employ their services against the Confederates, under proper military regulation, discipline and command. Bat in whatever manner they may be used by the Government, it is plain that, once liberated, by the rebellious act of their masters they should never again be restored to bondage. By the master's treason and rebellion he forfeits all right to the labor and service of his slave ; and the slave of the re bellious master, by his service to the Government, ' becomes justly entitled to freedom and protection. THE ERTEN:HON OF THE BOUNDARIES or DEL AWARE AND MARYLAND.—The Secretary of War recommends the annexation of all the counties on the Eastern shore of Maryland, viz : Cecil, Bent, Queen Ann, Talbot, Caro— line, Dorchester, Somerset and Worcester, and Acco . mac and Northampton, Va., to little Del aware. This would make Delaware quite a large State, extending into the ocean, with the Delaware bay on one side and the Chesapeake on the other. Maryland, the Secretary says, could be compensated by the annexation of all of Virginia lying east of the Blue Ridge. This would include Richmond, Petersburg, Lynchburg, Norfolk and Portsmouth—the largest cities in the State—and embrace about fifty counties of its most populous part, being something less than half of the whole of Vir ginia. It would seem to us better to leave this matter to the States after the rebellion is crushed. par The Newport Argus, speaking of the Thanksgiving Sermons preached in Boston, says : " If these sermons are to be regarded as the voice of the Boston Pulpit, they settle the question as to the object of the war, as the Pulpit understands it. They all unite in at. firming that it is to put down the slave power. They all say so, in plain English. But the President, in the meantime, persists in declar ing that such is not his purpose. Now, why don't he just send these Rev. gentlemen down to Fort Warren, as he has other people who have borne false witness against him ? He might do so without either making or breaking anybody, if the Fort didn't gain more than the Pulpit would lose by such an operation." A SIGNIFICANT REMARK OF PRESIDENT LIN COLN.- Said a leading Democrat of the West, the other day, to the President, "If those who helped to place you in power were as truly your friends, and as unselfish and honest in their support of your Administration, as those who opposed you, you would have less trouble." " I begin to think so," replied the President. THE REBEL CAPITAL It is now reported that Richmond is still the rebel capital, though how long it will remain so is uncertain. The report of a vote to re— move it to Nashville, which came from rebel sources, may be explained, by the fact that the rebel Congress sits with closed doors, so that the world outside is sometimes wholly in the dark at to its dation, and the rebels them— eelvo are often deceived. Tit&TYMVENTH CONGRESS-SECOND SESSION. Mr. Chandler to obtain the appointment of a committee to inquire into the disasters of Bull Ron and Edward's Ferry, Wasensona, December 2, ISBL but, on motion of Mr. Fessenden the subject Was poet. Sioterz.—The Vice President called the Senate to order , poned. A bill was introduced by Mr. Trumbull, confiscato at noon. About-forty members were present. • INS the property of rebels, and giving freedom to .the The Senate concurred (*the resolution of the House for slaves. It was received to the Committee on the Judiciary the appointment - of a joint committee to wait on the Prod- The proceedings in tne House were not of special Impel , dent. I tame. Both Houses adjourned over till Monday. Mr. r 2ramhull MO nave notice that he would introduce, • tomorrow, • a bill to emescate the property of rebels 'against the authorltertie the. United !Mates Government. and give freedom te.penions - held to labor in the slave States. The committee appointectto wait on the President re ported thak he would-rtounianicate his message to Con. greets at Dam to-mcgrow.. - -Adburned. Housr—eThe House Rae opened at noon with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Stockton. The foil of members was then called by the Clerk. , Mr. Hiokman ( Pa) pr esented the certificate of the pro. visional government of North Carolina, dated at Hatteras, certifying to the election of Mr. Foster, as a member of Congress !Non that State. Mr. Watts, delegate from New Mexico, was sworn in. A resolution was unanimously passed, declaring that as Col. Corcoran had been confined as a convicted felon by the rebels, that the President be requested to similarly confine James M. blazon, now la custody in Fort Warren. Mr. Eliot (Maur.) offered the following : Resolved. By the Rouse of Representatives of the United Bates of America: That, we do hereby declare that in our judgment the President of the United States, as the Com mender in-Chief of our army, and the officers in command under him, have a right to emancipate all persons held as slaves in any military district in a state of insurrection against the National Government, and that we respectfully advise that such order of emancipation be issued wherever the same will avail to weaken the power of the rebels in arms, or to strengthen the military power of the loyal forces. • -... Mr. Mum (Md.) moved to lay the resolution on the table, but the motion wax dlinurreed to--yeeui 56, against 70. On motion of Mr. Stevens, (Pa.,) tho further considera tion of the resolution was postponed until to-morrow a week. - - Mr. Campbell (Pa.) gave notice that he would runup the following resolution next Tuesday a week : Respired, That In legislating to meet the exigencies of the present rebellion, Congress should • confiscate the property, slaves included, of all rebels, and protect the property and rights under the Constitution and the laws of all loyal citizens. SvevEss (Pa.) submitted the following for future consideration: WHEREAS, Slavery has caused the present rebellion In the United States: And whereas, There can be no solid and permanent peace, and union in this republic so long as that institution exists within it: And whereas, Slaves are now used by the Rebels as an essential means of support. ing and protracting the war: And whereas, By the law of nations it Is our right to liberate the slave, of an enemy, to weaken his powers : therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Cmgress assembled, That the President be requested to declare free, and direct all our generals and officers in command to order freedom to all slaves who shall leavst their masters or shall aid in quelling the rebellion. Second, And be it further. Resolved, That the United States pledge the faith of the Nation to make full anti fair compensation to all loyal citizens who are and shall remain active in supporting the Union, for all the loss they may sustain by virtue of the resolution. Mr. Odell (N. Y.) submitted the following, which was adopted: WHEREAS, Ca. Alfred M. Wood, of the 14th regiment, New York State Militia. who was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Bull Run, has now, by the rebel authorities, been ordered to confinement in a felon's prison, and by the same order is to be treated as prisoners convicted of infamous crimes; therefore. Resolved, That the President of the United States be respectfully requested to order John Slidell to the same character of prisoner, and to the same treatment, until Col. Wood shall be treated as the United States have used all prisoners taken in battle. Adjourned. SENATE —The Senate met at the appointed hour of 12 n' on, and was opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Noble: Mr. Grimes, of lowa, introduced the following resolu tion : Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives In Congress assembled, That the thanks of Congress he, and they aro hereby tendered to Captain Samuel F. Du pont, and through him to the officers, petty - officers, sea men and marines attached to the squadron under hie com mand. for their decisive and splendid victory achieved at Port Royal on the 7th day of November last. The resolution was laid over, to go to the Naval Com mittee when appointed. On motion of Mr. Foe, tof Vermont, It was resolved that the Vice President appoint two members to fall the vacan cies in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institu tion, occasioned by the death of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, late a Senator from Illinois, and the withdrawal and expul sion of Hon. James H. Mason, late a Senator from the State of Virginia. At a quarter past 12 o'clock the Piesident's Titivate secre tary appeared and announced a message from the President of the United States—the annual message on the general affairs of the country; which was at once read. It occupied about one hour in the reading, and having been concluded, the usual number of copies was ordered to be printed for the use of Senators. On motion of Mr. Hale, of N. H., the Senate adjourned until to-morrow. • • • ... . Senator Pearce, of Maryland, was in his seat to-day ; also Mr. Wilmot, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Kennedy, of Mary land, was still absent. Mr. Cadge, of Virginia, was present both yesterday and to-day. Donn OF REPEF.BENTATIVEB.—Mr. Maynard of Tennessee. rose to a privileged question, and presented the credentials of Dr. Clemens, elected from the 4th Congressional district of the State of Tennessee. On motion of Mr. Kellogg, of Illinois, tha papers were referred to the Committee on Elections. . . - . .. Mr. Lovejoy, of Illinois, moved to take from the Speaker's table the President's Message and read it, which was agreed to. The Clerk then proceeded to the reading of the Message, at the cone] utdon of which • . . . . hi r. Wasbburue, of Illinois, moved that it be refjred to the Committee on the Message, and printed, upon which he demanded the previous question. Carried. Mr. Colfax, of Indiana, moved that twenty five thousand extra copies be printed. Agreed to. Mr. Dunn, of Indiana, offered the following: WHEREAS, Henry C. Burnett, a Member of this House, from the State of Kentucky, bas taken up arms againet the Government cf the United States, therefore, • • Resolvrd, That lipnry C Burnett be, and he Is hereby expelled from the House, and the Governor of Kentucky ba Co notified. Resolved. That the Sergeant at Ara; bo directed not to pay the said Henry C. Burnett his salary at the close of the session. Mr. Wickliffe, of Kentucky, raid ho Intended to offer a similar resolution, and at the proper time would deliver an obituary on hie colleague. The resolution was then adopted. Mr. Vallandingbam called for the regular order of burl nese. Mr. Stratton, of Nevv Jersey, submitted a resolution granting twenty days to Mr. Yetree, of Pennsylvania, the sitting member, to take rebutting testimony in the con• tested ease. Agreed to. On motion of Mr. Cox, of Ohio, the House adjourned. WaHTNOTON, Dec. 4, 1881. SENATE.—Mr. Chandler introduced a resolution to expel Mr. Breckinridge from the Senate. Mr. Powell took the ground that as Mr. Breckinridge had resigned, he could not be expelled. Mr. Trumbull insisted that he should be expelled, and offered a substitute for Mr. Chandler's resolution as fol lows WHEREAS, John C. Brerkinridge, a member of this body, has joined the enemies of his couotry,Wnd is now in arms against the Government which he had sworn to support; therefore, Heso:ved, That tie traitor Breekinridge be expelled from the Senate. Mr. Chandler accepted the substitute, and the resolution AB thus amended wax unanimously adopted. Yeas, 38; nays, none. Yeas—Messrs. Anthony, Browning, Carlile, Chandler, Clarke, Collanter, Cowan, Dixon, Doolittle ' Fessonden, Foote, Foster. Grimes. Hale, Harlan, Harris, House, Ken nedy, King, Lane. of Indiana, Lane, of Kansas, Latham, 31cDouttall, Morrill, Nesmith. Pomeroy, Sherman, Sim mons, Ton Eyck, Wilkinson, Wilmot, Wilson.. Absent or not voting-3lesars. Bayard, Bright, Johnson, of Tennessee, Johnson, of Missouri, Pearce, of Maryland, Polk, Powell, Bice, Saulsbuty, Willey. The standing committees appointed are the same as the extra session; with the following changes: Mr. Harris on the Committee of Foreign Relations, in the plans of Mr Breckinridge; Mr. Nesmith on Committee on Military Affairs, in place of Mr. Baker; Mr, Clarliie on Public Lands, in place of Mr. Bingham; Mr. Clark, on Indian Affairs, in place of Mr. Foote; Mr. Willey, on Pen. alone, in place of 3lr. Bingham; Mr. Pomeroy and Mr. Carllio, on Territories, in place of Messrs. Baker and Brerkinridge. The Committee on Enrolled Bills consists of Messrs. Browning, Willey and Saulsbury. . _ Mr. Wilson, of Naas, offered the following, which after some debate was adopted: Resolved, That all laws now in force in the District of Columbia : relating to the arrest of persons as fugitives from service or labor, together with all other laws concern ing persons of color, within the District of Columbia, be referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and that the Committee be further instructed to consider the expediency of abolishing slavery in the District, with com pensation to the loyal holderaof slaves. Mr. Hale submitted the following: . . - Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be in structed to Inquire Into the expediency and propriety of abolishing the present Supreme Court of the United States, and establishing instead thereof another Supreme Court, in pursuance of the provisions of the Constitution which, in the opinion of Congress, will meet the requirements of the Constit u lion. Mr Sumner, of Massachusetts, said he had received from persons in St. Louis statements and protests on the subject of Gen. lialleck's course in the surrender of slaves of rebels. Something else than such Wray; as this were needed at this time. Every slave so surrendered would rise np in judgment against them; and after further con demning the course of General Haneck, he submitted the following: Resolved, That the Secretary of War be requested to Bend to the Senate copies of any general orders to the mili tary department of Missouri relating to fugitive slaves. Mr. Grimes submitted the following Resolvd, That the President be requested to furnish the Senate with copies of the charges, testimony, and findings of the recent court of inquiry in the case of Col. Dixon U. Miles, U. S. Army. The Tiee President announced that be had appointed Senators Fessenden and Trumbull Regents of the Smith sonlan Institution, in place of the late Senator Douglas, and Mr. Mason, of Virginia, expelled from the Senate in accordance with the resolution of the Senate, adopted yesterday. Mr. Hale introduced a joint resolution to present the thanks of Congress to John H. Russell, of the U. B. vessel Colorado, and the forces under his command, in the suc cessful attack on the rebel vessel Judith at the Pensacola Navy Yard, and destroying guns of the enemy, etc. It was referred to the naval committee, with the House resolves tendering thanks to Commodores Dupont and Wilkes, re. spectively, for the victory of Port Royal and the capture of Messrs. Slidell and Mason. A resolution was also introduced and referred for in demnifying the owners of the British ship Perthshire, im properly detained for a supposed breach of the blockade. The Senate adjourned. WORSE or REPRESENTATIVES —Mr. Gurley gave notice of his intention to introduce a bill to confiscate all property belonging to persons in the rebellion against the Govern ment of the United States, including persona recognised as slaves, who shall be made tree men; to provide for their employment during the present war; their subsequent apprenticeship to loyal masters, and final colonization. The usual extra number of copies of the President's message and accompanying documents were ordered to be printed Mr. Van Wyck, from the select committee appointed to enquire into Government contracts, reported a resolution that the committee have leave to sit during the session of the House, and have leave to report from time to time. Adopted. I Mr. Upton, of Virginia, introduced a bill providing for the restoration of Alexandria, Virginia, to the District of Columbia. Iteferr d. Mr. Cox, of Ohio, submittal the following: WHEREAS, The exchange of prisoners in the present war ! for the Union has already been practiced indirectly, and as such exchange would not only Increase the enlistment and vigor of our army, but subserve the highests interests of humanity, and as such exchange does not involve the recognition of the rebels as a Government ; therefore, Retolred, that the President of the United States be re ! quested to inaugurate systematic measures for the ex change of prisoners in the present war. Referred to Mili tary Committee. Mr. Lovejoy, of Illinois, reported a bill making it a penal offence for any officer or private of the army and navy to capture or return, or aid in the capture or return, Pf fugi tive slaves. Postponed until Tuesday, and made special the order. Mr. Watts, of New Mexico, submitted a preamble and re3olution requesting the Secretary of War to report to the House what measures have been taken to enforce and punish Bush officers now on parole as were guilty of treason the surrender of Fort Fillmore, New Mexico, on July. 18, 1881. Adopted. Mr. Hutchensou endeavored to introduce a bill to abolish slavery in ;he District of Columbia, but It was ob. Jected to by Mr. Co; of Ohlo.- Adjourned. In the Senate Mr. Sumner presented a petition from citi zens of Haverhill. Maieschtusette, aeon¢ that the Immo, of Confederates be Merits . d and those of Union men also on Mir payment. An effort was made by PHILADELPHIA CORRESPONDENCE. Pertunstruta, December 6th, 1861. Minn.Aliarrona: The principartalk to political circles is of . -Secretary Cameron's Report, and the expurgated pas. sages' whkii the President and Air. Seward would not alien , . to appear. Even the President's Message, which is as Conservative on the one great question as the tone and temper of the times could dettumems overshadowed In the discovery of the bold and headstrong policy (I) of the Penn sylvania Cabinet member, as far as it regards the abolition and arming of the slaves. One gocd revolt, however, has folloired the discovery, and that is a knowledge of the ex act position of the President and his Premier on the all absorbing topic—a knowledge which perhaps we could not have gained so fully or so satisfactorily in any other way. We are glad, exceeding glad, that Old Abe has firmness enough to resist the abolition element whirl' surrounds him now so extravagantly, and that Mr. Seward is far sighted enough to drop for awhile his hobby, and, pushing clear of the entangling alliances which it would fasten Upon him and the country, set himself to the sole task of restoring the nation to the unity and integrity It once en joyed. • At the Navy Yard there is another decided flutter of boatel under wing, setting off for ports down the coast.— Nearly a dozen gnu•boals, etc,, have sailed within a week,' the two last being the Keystone State to-day, and the Itasca yesterday. They all sail under sealed orders, nor will their destination be known yet awhile, though some • knowing ones, who know nothing about it. whisper New Orleans. The force employed at the Navy Yard is greater now than ever, and work is being rapidly pushed forward. The Tuscarora Is nearly ready for sea, as is also the Brook lyn, of the Gulf Squadron. The iron plated steamship—a vessel of first-class power and proportions—ls likewise tie ing rapidly pushed forward. In contemplating the necessities of the war it is cheerful to think how many and Tartans branches of trade and manufacture are bendittedpy it. Meer artisans have changed the character of their works, it is no less true that the requirements of the war enter Into alined every branch of manufacture. Thus the stove works of North, Chase A North are convertrd Into a foundry for the casting of shot and shell, and 600 men find employment where 100 bad work before. Spade and scythe mills are turned into manufactories of bayonets; the Bush Hill Iron foun dries into casteries of cannon; the great plantation wagon works up town are making army wagons, etc.; even slop. shop talior,suut on the dignity of working for the army, sod so on, and so on. Let us ho thankful that the poor will thus be taken care of this winter, and that we are not In Secessia. Of course, with all this work, places of amusement are flourishing. Forrest, the great, la drawing crowds at the Academy; the theatres are all well filled; concerts are well attended; and Sanford makes crowds laugh nightly. Last week we announced the publication of that char-m -ing new story from the Temple Bar Magazine, to wit, For Better, For Worse. A much Seer edition, at the low prico of twentyrtlve cents, is published by Mr. T. O. R. P. Burn ham, Boston, and may be had here of Lippincott & Co.— For our part we confess to a liking for handsome type, clear . paper, an I a clean page generally in whatever bcok we have to read, and all these are combined in this neat edition of Mr. Burnham's. Of the story itself what can we say that has not been already said ? Compared, as it has been, to John Halifax, East Lynne, and all the favor ite fictions of the last ten years it would be useless In no to say one word about it. lint we must say that a more readable story has seldom been written. The publication of the beautiful series of Dickens' works, with the illustrations by Darley and Gilbert, is continued by the issue of the Old Curiosity Shop, in those exquisite 18 me. volumes. Mr. James G. Gregory, the publisher, is conferring a vast obligation upon readers, Intellectually and morally, by the publication of this series of books— We hold that no safer writer than Dickens ever put pen to paper. His works will live with Shakapearcea, because of their remarkable fidelity to nature, their moral tone, and consummate skill and power. One single character In the Old Curiosity Shop, that 01 Little Neil, will give Dickens a passport to public hearing, wherever purity, innocence, self-afterificing devotion, and a clear. unquestbuir g, spun. taneona religion, are held to be worthy of emulation. Mr. Gregory's edition will hereafter be everywhere accepted as the standard edition of this and all the other works of Dickens. Convenient in shape, and exquisitely printed on cream-tinted paper, there is nothing ivanting to make these books absolutely perfect. Mr. S. McHenry, here, Is the publisher's agent. Very timely and interesting are a couple of handsome volumes, Just issued by Messrs. Mason Brothers, New York; (Lippincott, here.) with the title The Cotton King dom, A Traveler's Observation on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States: By Frederick Law Olmstead. Written dispassionately and with a clear desire only to get at the truth of facts now interesting to every one, these volumes will prove to be among the most acceptable pub lished this year. Mr. Olmstead is well known by three former voluminous works of travel and statistics, and it is from these that the present work is compiled at the request. of several organs of public opinion in this country And In England. It is a carefully studied picture of the condition of the South immediately preceding the rebellion, their resources, agriculture and commerce, the workings of their institutions, the characteristics, manners and customs of the people, and their social and political views and feelings. These, with incidents of travel and abundant anecdotes, make up such a work as we heartily commend to all. Complete is one volume, blue and gold, is the taking announcement of a new edition of John G. Saxe's Poems, just from the urea of Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, of Boston. Among our numerous Americas poets there is no one in whom we have a more abiding faith than Saxe. Wit, hu morist, philoeopher, satirist, and tender-hearted, sweet voiced singer as well, his changeful current ranges through every variety of human emotion—fair landscape, fitful storm and April mottled sunshininess. All the poet's writings are included in this little gem of a volume, from Progress and the Money King down to the smallest poems. It is a real acquisition to the blue and gold cabinet !Hilary, and every reader should buy it. Jost on the heels of this are two morn volumes of Sir Walter Scott's Tales of a Grandfather, in the beautiful Household Edition of Ticknor A Fields, uniform with the Waverley Novels. These volumes are the third and fourth, and lead us into he most stirring scenes of this remarka ble work. Scott wrote the "Tales" as a labor of love, fur the purpose of popularizing the history of his native corm ! try, and to illustrate the bravery and heroism of her sons ' The many editions, and the thousands of shapes in which the Tales are to be had, prove how successful was the au thor, though in no form In which we have seen it is it more pleasant fur perusal or conrenlont for reference than this Household Ediiim. Two more volumes will finish It. WABHIXGTON, Dec. 3. A biographical sketch of Alexia de Tocqcoville, (whose, "LIM and Letters" Messre. Ticknor S Fields herein press,) a timely article en Cheap Cotton, a paper on French Prin ces and French Intrigues in America, an article on the Mistakes of Educated Men, with the fine story of the Doctor's Family, these are the principal papers in No. 914, for December 14th, of Litton's Living Ago. We look with int rest for the succeeding numbers, as they will contain full extracts from the British Journals on the Trent affair. These alone will make Littell much sought after. 11. Mons. EDITORS: I fee that our boys have quite neglect ad you in not writing to you oftenor than thoy have, there by keeping the public in niter darkness of our whereabouts, which, I am sorry to say, shows a lack of promptitude on our part; bnt, hereafter, you shall hear from us often, as we intend to keep you informed of all tho movements of the let Reserve.' . . We are now quartered in Virginia, abut five miles from the Chain Bridge, at a place called Langly. It is a good camping ground. indeed as flue a one as we have yet been encamped on. It seems the farther South we go the better we like it. We left Camp Tonnally on the night of the 10th of Oc tober, at 7 o'clock, crossed the Chain Bridge, and halted about four miles on this side, where we 'Tut up" for the balance of the night in an open field. We spread our blan kets, and slept soundly until morning. At daylight we were again ready for the road. We •fell in line" and marched about a mile farther, and again halted, where we now artl. Our tents did not arrive until a few days afterwarda, and the weather being very disagreeable, rain falling nearly all the time, you may know we did not feel very comfortable; but Hsieh little inconveniences soldiers often meet with. -.- About the middle of last month the Id Reserve Brigade went nut on a scouting expedition as far as as Draineaville, a small village about twelve mites from here, brit could see nothing of the Rebels. It moms they hod heard of our coming, and made good their escape. We staid there a day or two, and then returned to Camp, where we have been lying idle ever since; but we expect, some Roe morn ing, to be aroused to march forward to meet the enemy. A few weeks ago all of our Regiment were I applied with extra blankets. They are of the very beet quality, and at very necessary these cold nights. The only objection we have to them is their weight on a march. We see It stated in several papers that the Patriot Ladles of Pennsylvania are going to supply all the soldiers with stockings, gloves, and other little necessaries; but thereat Is. we have more clothes now than we know what to do with. The health of our men le generally good. Sore throat diseases are the only complaints. Anything happening in our Regiment you shall be informed of at the earliest op. portanlty. C. MESSRS. EDITORS: On Monday eveuing we received orders to "fill in line," at daybreak, on the following morn ing, each man Lobe provided with one day's rations In his haversack. We were immediately provided with that, and many were the conjectures of our boys as to the intended movement. We slopt soundly that night, and et daylight every availably man was in lino, ready for the field. We did not leave until about 8 o'clock, for some reason un known to us, and we were not in a very good humor, as it was bitter cold. We then marched about nine miles down the Leesburg road,and halted some three miles from Drains vile, and then we found out the object of the movement. W. had started out on a &ragbag expedition, commonly called "stealing grain." We then loaded our places, slung them across our backs, and started after the desired article. We coon came upon a field of corn, (about fifteen acres,) and went to work Immediately, 'ducking it and loading it into the wagons. The rascally "Secesb, ' who bad once owned the corn, had ft all nicely topped for us, and left the ears hanging very invitingly upon the stalks. I have often heard It remarked, that white men could not stand it to work In the fields In the South, but I am pretty certain that the owner of that field never had a pack of "niggers" who elearcd it rya' ekeithan we did. We got about a thousand bushels of corn, and about revel:ay or eighty tons of hay, and having no more teams with us, hail to leave about a hundred tons of the latter article behind. . . We "fell in line again on the road at haltpavt 2 o'clock, and darted home well pleased with the meccas of our ex pedition. We reached Camp about 5 o'clock, P. IL, nothing the wont° for the tramp. This morning the 24 Reserve Brigade started out on a foraging expedition, but have not yet returned. C. THE AUDITOR GENERAL. AND THE BROKERS. —Hon. THOMAS E. COCHRAN, the Auditor General of this State, recently issued a circu— lar inviting the attention of the brokers and bankers to the provisions of an act of Assem— bly, enacted at the first session of 1861, relat ing to brokers and private bankers. The first section of this act requires a return to be made under oath, to the Auditor-General, of the receipts from commissions, discounts, &c., and requiring a tax of three per cent, upon the aggregate, to be paid into the State Treas ury, for a sinking fund for the reduction Of the State debt. The third' section provides a penalty of ono thousand dollars, to be collect el as taxes on bank dividends are now col— lected. The brokers have determined to test the constitutionality of the not. Allar The Richmond Enquirer states that the war has already cost Virginia some $lO - ; and judging from the tone of an ar ticle in the same journal, it considers the price a heavy - one for making itself " the chopping bloOk of the North and ,Soutb, and nook - pit of contending nations, the Flanders of America." DEMOCRATIC "Vicroitv.—The municipal elec tion in New Haven, Conn., took place on Friday week, and resulted in a clean Demo cratic victory. The Democrats run a straight ticket, and the Republicans ti so.called "Union delta," and the Demoorata carried the city by a majority of from 100 to 200 on the different candidates, - Tausemr, December 5 ARMY CORRESPONDENCE CLASP PIRIIPQ:11, November 30tb, 1861 CAMP Pir.apoxr, Der-amber Gal, 1861
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