®lje Cattcasffr Intelligencer GKO* BASDBBBOV, KDITOE. A* BAJPgBSOM. A»locUt»« LANCASTER, PA..DECEMBER 16,1862. CIRCULATION, sooo copies i Brnyiumow Pbzcx, $3,00 per annum. 49*& M. Pirrmum.ft Co.’b Anymore Asbvot, 87 Part Boy, NewYorkCtty, and tofitate street Boeton.' A IC. liiuMUi ft 00, are Agent* for Tm Lamctuttr MUOtaeneer, and the most influential and largest drcula ting Newspapers in the United States and the Chejr art authorised to eon tract for ue at our lowest rata ft Abbott, No. 835 Broadway, New are authorized to receive advertisements for The iWdfc* gmcer, at oar lowest rates. 49* V. B. PAi.nxa, the American Newspaper Agent, N. B. cornerKfth and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, is authorised to receive subscriptions and advertisements for tills paper, at our lowest rates. His receipts will be re garded as payments. 49* Jons Wzßsna’B AnvzßTXszna Aaxvcris located at No. 60 North 6th street, Philadelphia. He Is authorised to receive advertisements and subscriptions for The Lancaster TntdUgmcer.'' B. 5. Nn.cs, No. 1 Seollay’s Building, Court BL, Boston, Is our authorised Agent for receiving advertisements, Ac. OUR DF 1 Xj .A. (3- . Now our flag is flung to the wild winds free, Let it float O’er our father laud. And the guard of Its spotless fame shall be Colombia’s chosen band. “ CLING TO TOE CONSTITUTION, AS THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS TO THE LAST PLANK, WHEN NIGHT AND THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND HlM.”— Daniel Webster. Tax on Newspapers. The Government tax on news papers is excessive. It reaches them in four different ways. The tax on white paper is enormous—so also the tax on ink, on every advertise ment, and on the income of the pub lisher. It would seem that the tax —direct and indirect'—was purposely arranged to embarrass newspapers. It certainly forces them to raise their prices, curtail their dimensions, or continue to publish at a ruinous loss. The price of white paper has in creased within the last two or three months nearly one kundredper cent. — If all who are indebted to us will pay what they owe us, during the present month, we shall continue to publish The Intelligencer at its present size and without any addi tion to the price. But we cannot longer afford to send it to people who never think of paying the prin ter. A GREAT BATTLE, The events of the laßt three days on the Rappahannock, at Fredericksburg, show that the bloody drama of the rebellion has reached its. crisis, and the armies on both sides are about to decide the issue in one of the most desperate and sanguinary conflicts of the war. The whole mass of the rebel army, nearly two hundred thousand strong, is assembled in front of Burnside. His first movement for ward has been'desperately disputed in one of the fiercest of fights, lasting all day Saturday and ending without any positive advantage gained. The rebel entrenchments, formed upon aridge of hills just outside of Fredericks burg, were attacked in front by Sumner’s army corps. These entrenohments were defended with a great number of -pieces of artillery and rifle pits in front of infantry. Sumner’s oorps stormed the entrenchments, but the con centrated fire of artillery and infantry was so fieroe npon these devoted troops that they were compelled to fall back. A fresh body of troops attempted to drive the rebels from their works, bat were met with the same de structive fire, and gave way in disorder.— Franklin, on the left, with his division, suc ceeded in driving the rebels from the works in his front, and continued to hold his ad vantage at nightfall. From the number of general officers killed and wounded on our side, it is evident that the loss has been very severe. Six Union Generals, commanders of brigades, have fallen in the first day’s fight, with a number of other officers of rank. The wounded and some of the dead were removed from the front, but the attempt to remove the rest of the dead was unsuccessful, as the rebels fired upon the parties-engaged in the work. The bodies, therefore, lie unburied upon the field where they fell. On Sunday morning there was some firing along the line, but it did not continue long, and the attack was not redewed. WHO BEGAN THE WAR I Secretary Chase, in his report, deserves great credit for setting at rest the question under which administration the war com menced. Radical Abolitionists have labored hard to make the impression that the war was began under Democratic rule. The Secretary, however, is of a different opinion, for he says, in the very beginning of his re port; that “ the breaking out of the existing rebellion, soon after the incoming of the present administration, demanded the employment of all necessary means for the preservation of the territorial integrity of the republic,” &c. Now, this is a very candid admission, and gives the lie direct to the Abolition charges that the war was commenced during the ad ministration of President Buchanan, and we hope that the radicals will profit by the con fession of one of their own number, and a leading member of the administration. They surely will not attempt to deny the allegation of Mr. Chase that the war commenced after President Lincoln came into power. CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME We read in the New York and Philadelphia papers glowing accounts of meetings being held and immense sums of money subscribed to relieve the poor operatives (or, more appro priately, white slaves) of Lancashire,- Eng land:' This is all well enough, provided there were no poor in either of the above-mentioned cities to be taken care of. When hundreds and thousands of the families of our poor soldiers in the field are now suffering for the necessaries of life, we think the charity which sendß hundreds of thousands of dollars across the Atlantio is exceedingly questionable What a vast amount of good might he done at home with the money subscribed, instead of Bending it to benefit the subjects of a gov eminent which has been mainly instrumental in bringing about the ruin and distress now prevailing in our onoe happy land. “ Charity begins at Home" is a trite adage, but ought not the less to be praotioally carried out be cause it is so. *©“ U. s - Senator S. G. Arnolu, of Rhode Island, having been classed as a Republican, by some of the radical journals, has written a letter repudiating all sympathy with that party and stating that he was eleoted as a Union nian, and in opposition to the Republi cans. ISN’T THIS TREASON! We elip the following paragraph from the Congressional proceedings as published in the Philadelphia Press of Wednesday last: Mr. Stevens, (Rep.) of Pennsylvania, said it wash mockery to hold that the Legislature of Virginia had everassented to the new State. According to his principles, he conld vote for the bill on the ground that the revolutionary State, being a belligerent, was not entitled to the privileges of the Constitution. With his consent, the Union can never be restored as it was under the Constitution as it is—with slavery. The remarks of Mr. Stevens were made in referenoe to the bill for the admission of the State of West Virginia into the Union. One year ago in the Honse Thaddeos Stevens took npon himself the solemn obligation to support the Constitution of the United States, and one year later he says publicly, in a speeoh in the same place, that he is not for a restoration of the Union under that Constitu tion. This is’ the same Thaddeos Stevens also who, two years ago,' said in the same place that “ rather than give concessions to rebels, he would see the Government shattered into ten thousand atoms." When we brought this charge home to him during the campaign last fall, he had the audacity to sit down and indite a bare-faced falsehood to his constitu ents, saying that he never made use of any such expression. “ With his consent, the Union can never be restored as it was under the Constitution as it is— with slavery.” Hearken to that, ye de voted followers of the Bnekshot War Hero— ye, who said that Stevens was no Abolition ist, but that he was a better Union man than Gen. Steinman, the Democratic Constitution al-Union candidate. Stevens a Union man ! So is Jeff. Davis !’ THAnnEDs Stevens will never give his con sent to a restoration of the Union as it was under the Constitution as it is. Oh, no 1 not so long as one of his dear black brethren re mains in slavery. No, no 1 our soldiers may die and be killed off by thousands fighting for that Constitution and Union, and their fami lies at home may starve for the want of the necessaries of life, but this unfeeling old man, with one foot on the brink of the grave, cares nothing for that. His love for the negro over comes all the finer feelings of his nature, and sooner than stop this war by a strict adherence to the Constitution, he would see every white man killed and the Union destroyed forever. In the name of the 7,000 Constitutional- Union loving men of Lancaster county, we demand that Thaddeds Stevens be arrested and tried for treason. Had wo an honest and patriotio Administration we believe such would be the oase. But, as it is, Stevens stands high with the powers that be who have thrown aside the Constitution as a thing of the past, and for two years more the conser vative citizens of Lancaster county will be disgraced and misrepresented by this hoary headed Abolitionist and hater of everything that is good and just. LOVE AND CAKE FOR THE NEGRO I The well-informed New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger has the following paragraph in his letter of Friday, which will be of peculiar interest to while people : “ A well-known clothing firm in this city has just been awarded a contraot for the man ufacture of fifty thousand suits of clothing for the contrabands. They are to he .fur nished as soon as possible.” A week ago we read in the dispatches from the Army of the Potomae that some half dozen soldiers on picket were frozen to death from the extreme cold weather, and on ac count, of course, of not having sufficient olothing to keep themselves warm. And yet in the face of this, and worse still in the fact that many Boldiers’ families are aotually starving and perishing at home for the want of sufficient food and clothing, the Adminis tration at Washington sends an order to a New York firm “ for the manufacture of 50,- 000 suits of clothing” for a horde of worth less negroes ! But what care old Abe and his minions for the “ poor white trash ” Bince they have taken the gallant Sambos and love ly Dinahs, those “ American citizens of Afri can descent,” under their special protection ? When while men get into power again, these Abolitionists will have a fearful account to render. Heaven, grant that the time may speedily come. • $1,000,000,000 OF U. 8. BONDS Mr. Stevens, from the House Committee of Ways and Means, has introduced a bill author izing the Secretary of.the Treasury to issue a thousand millions of United States bonds, sim ilar in amount and form to those authorized by the act approved February 25, 1862, with interest payable semi-annually in the lawful money of the United States, and the principal payable in twenty years in gold or'silver coin of tho United States ; also to issue legal tender notes of the United States, the amount not to exceed, with those already authorized, five hundred millions, to enable him to call in all the five-twenty and seven-thirty Treasury bonds now in circulation, and cancel them, and authorizing him to redeem the United States legal tender notes held as a loan and bearing interest. The law authorizing such loans is to be repealed. The bill aims at the virtual suppression of the banks by the imposition of a tax of 50 per cent, upon all their circulation over one half the amount of the capital paid in, to go into operation ninety days after the passage of the bill: A HAPPY TORSION. We are in regular receipt of The Deseret Rotes, a spirited and well-conducted little paper, the organ of Brigham Young, pub lished at Great Salt Lake City. It contains weekly sermons from Brigham and other high church dignitaries. The number of Novem ber 12th has one from President Daniel H. Wells, delivered in the Bowery, October 26th, which is full of spice and originality.— To show our readers how happy Brother Wells feels, we quote the following paragraph from the sermon in question : “I feel gratified that I live in this day and age of the world ; I am thankful for this privi lege. 'Would you not have preferred to live in the days of Jesus?' says one. No, nor in the days of Moses, nor in the days of Noah. Had I lived in Noah’s days I might have been drowned in the great flood. I prefer to live now—to-day—in the days of Brigham and Heber and in the days of the great Prophet Joseph and Hyrum, although they did not stay long with us. They are not far away from üb, neither is the Lord. Brigham is here, Heber and Daniel are here, and the Twelve Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ are here, and the or ganization of the Church and kingdom of God is.here with the Holy Priesthood whioh is after the order of the Son of God ; and this is the great chain whioh opens up a commu nication between the heavens and the earth, and in it there is safety ; and through it truth will prevail over the face of the whole earth, and by its power the kingdom of God will be established upon the earth, no more to be pre vailed against. What matters it to us who speaks in anger against it ? The truth is all the same no matter who walks it under their feet. The eternal principles of salvation and exaltation are the same, no matter who does despite to them.” DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION* The Democratic State Central Committee met at Reading on Thursday last, the 11th inst., when a resolution was adopted, fixing Wednesday, the YUh of June, 1863, as the time, and Harrisburg the plaoe, for’ holding the next Democratic State Convention, to nominate a candidate for Governor, and a candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court, in plaoe of Hon. Walter H. Lowbis, whose term will expire in 1863. WHAT DOUGLAS SAID* At the extra session of the Senate after Mr. Lincoln’s inauguration, Judge Douglas ex pressed himself muoh pleased with the polioy whioh seemed to be foreshadowed in the In angnral; and he said that he would_ not have labored eo hard to defeat Linooln if he had thought be would hare acted with as mnoh wisdom and patriotism as were there indicated. Mr. D. said he labored hard to defeat the Republicans; whereupon the great Manches ter statesman, the second Ohoate, oar dis tinguished Senator Clare, exolaimed in tri umph, " you couldn’t quite oorne it 1” To this Mr. Douglas replied: “ I could not quite come it, and yon Bee the consequences. Seven States are out of the Union, civil war is impending over you, com merce is interrupted, confidence destroyed, the country going to pieces, just BECAUSE I COULD NOT DEFEAT YOU! No man in America believes these consequences would have resulted if I had been successful in my efforts to defeat you. You can boast that you have defeated me, but yoxCJiave defeated your country vnth me. You can boast that you have triumphed over me. but you have tri umphed over the unity of these States. YOUR TRIUMPH HAS BROUGHT DISUNION, and God only knows what consequences may grow out of it I” The following is an extract from the last speech ever made by Judge Douglas. It was delivered in the City of Chicago, only a few weeks before his death, and was applauded to the echo by Republicans as well as Demo crats. For uttering similar sentiments to-day, the followers of Mr. Douglas are denounced as traitors» 11 We cannot close our eyes to the sad and solemn fact that the war does exist. The Government must he maintained and its ene mies overthrown; and the more stupendous our preparations, the less bloodshed and the shorter the struggle. But we must remem ber certain restraints on oar actions even in time of war. We are a Christian people, and the war must be prosecuted in a manner Recognized by Christians. “ We must not invade Constitutional rights. The innocent must not suffer, nor women and children be the victims. Savages must not be let loose. Bat while I sanction no war on the rights of others, I will implore ray countrymen not to lay down their arms until our own rights are recognized. “ The Constitution and its guarantees ARE OUR BIRTHRIGHT, AND I AM READY TO EN FORCE THAT INALIENABLE RIGHT TO THE LAST extent. We cannot recognize secession.— Recognize it once, and you have not only dis solved the government, but you have destroy ed social order, and upturned the foundations of society. You have inaugurated anarchy in its worst form, and will shortly experience all the horrors of a French revolution.” These words were uttered on the first day of May, 1861. Less than four weeks after wards, he was told that be was dying, and asked if he would send a message to his eons. His answer was—“ Tell them to obey the Laws and support the Constitution.” And these were his dying words. — N. H. Patriot. CONTEMPT OF THE POPULAR WILL, It will be seen that two or three attempts have been made in Congress to call for infor mation in regard to the arbitrary arrests made by order of the administration, and that they were voted down two to one. It seems that the voice of the people, as expressed in the late elections, has had little effect upon the radical majority in Congress. The N. Y. Herald well says that if this Congress had “ been guilty of such contempt of the popular will before the elections, the vote against Republicanism would have been ten times greater than it was. Do the party in power ‘ love the darkness rather than the light be cause their deeds are evil V If what has been done is right, why do they fear to lay the facts before the country ? If the acts of the ad ministration cannot bear scrutiny, the remedy is not to conceal their dark deeds from the people, but to get rid of the perpetrators and put better men in their places. In no govern ment in the world, claiming to be constitution al, could such a course be permitted. In England, for instance, whose system is so much less free, the administration would rot dare to oppose so reasonable an inquiry. If it did, that would be the last of it. How much more is it the right of the people, through their representatives, in such a coun try as this, to demand an investigation into all matters of public administration, particu larly those which affeet the liberties of the oitizen? The bare fact of refusal is prima facie evidence of injustice or foul play. As well might the magistrate of a district insist upon a murdered man being interred without a coroner's inquest. To refuse inquiry is the strongest admission of guilt. Those con scious of innocence always court investigation. But there is ft good time a coming, in which investigation will become inevitable, and well will it be for those who now attempt to throw a veil over black deeds if they escape the public wrath by a mere exposure of their career.— Stern justice may demand a greater sacrifice, and the voters against inquiry may then find themselves on the wrong side. Nothing is more certain on earth than that a reckoning is to be made before this civil convulsion is over, and that every man will be rewarded according to his deeds. This is but the be ginning of the end. Let the fanatics and knaves in Congress beware.” IST* Thaddeus Stevens, in the debate on the admission of the proposed new State of Kanawha, made a very extraordinary speech, of which the following paragraph is a speci men brick: I aay, then, that we may admit West Virginia as a new state, not by virtue of any provision of the Constitution , but nnder our absolute power whioh the laws of war give us in the circumstances in which we are placed. I shall vote for this bill upon that theory, and upon that alone; for I will not stultify myself by supposing that we have any warrant in the Constitution for this proceeding. This talk of restoring the Union as it was un der the Constitution as it is, is one of the absurdi ties which T have heard repeo ted until I have become, about sick of it. This Union can never be restored as it was. There are many things which render Buch an event impossible. This Union shall never with my consent be restored under the Constitu tion as it is, with slavery to be protected by it. This frank admission of the unconstitution ally of the Western Virginia scheme is cred itable. but the treason which it masks is gross; By Mr. Steyens'b own confession he is as much a traitor as any man in arms against the government. On taking his seat in the present Congress he swore that he would sup port the Constitution of the United States, and he expects to repeat that oath in the next Congress, to which he has been elected. Yet here we find him deliberately announcing that he is governed in his votes, not by the Constitution, hut hy his notion of the laws of war, even when these are in conflict with tho supreme law of the land.— N. Y. World. NEWSPAPERS The publishers of the religious newspapers of New York and Boston held a meeting recently and adopted resolutions recommend ing that the price of the papers should be raised or the size reduced on the Ist of Jana ary next; that notices of marriages, deaths, obituaries, and societies, should be paid for as advertisements ; and that “ the law of the last session of Congress, levying a heavy tax on the materials of our business, and on the ad vertisements, and finally on the income of the publisher, is peculiarly oppressive upon news papers, the circulation of which ought to be stimulated' and not curtailed during the war." The New York Tribune, Times, Post and Herald have raised their subscription prioee, and the Albany papers have reduced their size. Papers all over the country are either increas ing the price or reduoing the size of their sheets, and all papers mast do so in order to lire. It is the high price of white paper that renders this neeessary; the heavy taxeß to whioh they are subjected, burdensome and nnjuBt as they are, could be borne, if paper eould be had at the former priee. But the prioe of paper has nearly doubled in the last.two months, and is likely to go np high er still. LOCAL DEPARTMENT. Promoted.— Col. Thomas Welsh, of the 45th Regiment, has been promotetHo a Brigadier General. The Colonel has seen bard service, and Is veil deserring of the honor conferred npon him: Why not also promote the gallant Ham* right to a similar position ? No la the -Army has more fairly earned inch promotion. ~ Relief to Soldiers' Families. —The Coun ty Oommiasionera, at the requeat of a committee of citiienr, hare agreed to extend weekly relief daring the winter, from the Ist of January* to the destituteCcniUrt of aoldiers -from laneasUr county now In the ;Pnloo nmyT The Commluloner* will appoint a committee in each ward, bor ough and townihip for the purpose of ascertaining the needy, ftc. Suicide. —On Friday evening fast, a woman of loose character named Ann Stamp, residing In Middle street, this city, committed suicide by taking a large dose of landanom. When fonnd by the Watchman,. between 11 and 12 o’clock, the was quite dead. An inqoest was held on Saturday morning by Deputy Coroner Snyder, at which the a bore fact was elicited from the testimony. Returned —News from the 79th. —We had the pleasure on Satnrday of shaking hands with our old friend Lieut. Jons Rxss, who has been on an extended visit to the “bloody 79th.” He brought home Lient. Wm. P. Leonard, of Company E, to reernlt his health wbieh has been much shattered since the battle of Chaplin Hills, In which tenlble engagement he commanded the company, and distinguished himself for gallantry and courage— When Lieut. B. left the 79 th, it was encamped at Great Creek on the road to Nashville, a few miles from that city. The Quartermaster, Lieut. Lewis Zicbir, was Issuing ra tions for 491 men—all that are left of the 1,000 brave boys who left here bale and hearty, fifteen months ago, to battle for their coantry. Disease and death have been busy in their ranks since, and the above number is all that Lieut. R. reports the men in good health and mo6t excel lent spirits. The boys may hive been In another fight by tbfs time, as a battle was daily expected near Nashville.— Col. Hambbight had expected to come home with him, but, anticipating a battle, was unwilliog that his men should go into a fight without him. Democratic Jubilee at Litiz. “ Shout the glad tidings o’er laud and sea, The people have triumphed, the people are free.” The Democracy of Litiz and vicinity intend celebrating the recent Democratic victories by a Jubilee at the Litis Hotel oq the Bth of January, the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans. The Democracy of Warwick, led by such men as Dick Tshcdy, the veteran Bisjaaiia Krutzr, the Ljchtehthalxhs, John 11. Ebb and Pam. Keller, are a gal lant band, and altbocgh In the of an overwhelming, bitter and unscrupulous opposition, they never falter or flinch from the good old landmarks of Democratic faith. We know they will have a happy time at their jubilee. A Handsohe Monuhent.—Oar visits to the Cemeteries are few, and until a day or two since a very handsome monument escaped oar notice. It is erected on the family lot of Samuel D. Young, Eisq., and is one of the most striking objects in the Cemetery. We cannot techni cally describe it. It 1b a square shaft tapering gracefully, and neatly paneled, surmounted by a draped urn. It is a piece of work that does credit to Mr. Lewis Haldt, of Lan caster, by whom it was executed.—• Columbia Spy. Col. R. Biddle Roberts.—The officers of the Ist Pennsylvania Reserves lately held a meeting to testify their regard for their late Colonel, R. Biddle Rob erts, who has resigned. The following proceedings took place: Headquarters Ist Regiment. P. R. Y. C., ) Camp ntar Rappahannock Station, Va., V November 12th, 1862. j At a meeting of th 9 Ist Regiment, P. R. V. C., held at Regimental Headquarters, the following committee was appointed to draft resolutions expressive of their regard for their late Cilocel, R. Biddle Robertß, viz: Capt. Wm. Cooper Talley, Surgeon L. W. Read, Capt. Thomas B. Bar ton, Capt. J. R. Dobson and Llent. P. I. O’Roiirk. In compliance with instructions, thecommittee roported the following, which were unanimously adopted: Whereas, Col. R. Biddle Roberts having been called upon by the Governor of Pennsylvania to fill a more im portant position, thus rendering his resignation necessary as Colonel of the Ist Regiment; (the anDonncemeut of which fell upon us like an electric shock;) he who led us through roaoy a bloody conflict from “Mechanicsville” to “Anlietam,” where our hopes and aspirations were blended in one common thought, ‘-the preservation of this great nation.” Therefore, Hesohcd, That the manifestations of regret at the part ing of our brave and honored commander were of the purest sincerity, rendered doubly impressive by the cir cumstance of both officers and men calling after him, “come back Colonel, como back.” Jiesolved, That the reputation won and enjoyed by the Ist Regiment, the estimation in which it is held by its various Brigade, Division and Corps commanders, was and is doe in a great measure to the example, the impartial government and enforcement of strict discipline by him, and the unlimited confidence reposed in him by hiß officers and soldiers, uuder any and all circumstances. 2?csoZt-ed, That time cannot efface from the hearts of bis comrades in arms, the recollections of the glorious past and his gallant leadership at “Mechanicsville,” “Gaines’ Mills,” ‘‘White Oak Swamp,” “Bull Run,” together with the crowning act of his military career during liis connec tion with the Ist, leading it in advance of ail others to the bloody summit of “South Mountain” —his sharing without complaint with his men the toila and privations of a long campaign, actuated by no other motive than a genuine love of country—have so endeared him to the regiment that “ The tear of regret will intrusively swell ” when the stern fact stares us in the face, that he is no longer with us and of us. HescHted, That the foregoing preamble and resolutions be published in the newspapers of the following-named cities and towns of Pennsylvania: Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Lancaster, Harrisburg, Carlisle, West Cheater, PhcenU ville, Gettysburg, Media and Cheater. Wm. Cooper Talley, Capt. com’dg Ist Regiment. L. W. Read, Burg. aod Med. Director Div. Thos. B. Barton, Captain Co. B. John R Dobson, Captain Co. G. Wm. W. Btowart, Captain Co. K. Cbeyney W. Nields, Lieut, com’dg Co. A. Jos. Jt. T. Coates, Llent. com’dg Co. C. Wm. G. Wasson, Lieut, com’dg Co. D. P. I. O’Rourk, Lieut, com’dg Co. E. I. H. Graham, Lieut, com’dg Co. I. Wm. T. McPhail, 2d Lieut. Co. E. Wm. D. Halbert, 2d Liont. Co. I. Henry N. Minnigb, 2d Lieut. Co. K. HICKMAN’S NEGRO ARMY, John Hickman’s bill, presented by Jiim in Congress last week, provides for 100 regiments of negroes to bo raised, in order to suppress treason, rebellion, insurrection, and for other purposes. The field officers are to have double pay over those of the Regular Army. A regiment, by army regulation, consists of 1,000 men. There is a Major, Lieut. Colonel, and Colonel to each regiment. A brigade consists usually of four or five regimentß, which are commanded by a Brigadier-General. An army corps consists usually of not less than 20,000 men, commanded by a Major- General. So that for war and “ other pur poses,” there would be an army of 100,000 negroes, officered by 100 Majors, 100 Lieut. Colonels, 100 Colonels, 20 Brigadier-Generals, and 5 Major Generals—all negroes. Their pay, by Hickman’s hill would stand thus: White Major, pay yearly, $l,BOO Negro Major, “ “ S 3 600 White Lieut. Col., pay yearly, $2 000 Negro Lieut. Col., “ " $4,000 White Colonel, pay yearly, $2 500 Negro Colonel, “ “ $5,000 White Brig. Gen., pay yearly, $4,000 Negro Brig. Gen., “ “ $B,OOO White Maj. Gen., pay yearly, $6 000 Negro Maj. Gen., -‘ “ $12,000 THE NORTHWEST INDIAN TROD- IiLES AGAIN The St. Paul, (Min.) Pioneer says that Mr. McTetridge, who arrived in St. Paul from Pembina, reports that a few days before ho left, a party of Pembina trappers had returned from tho region of country near Devil’s Lake, some two thousand miles from St. Joseph, and states that one thousand Sioux Indians are eueamped there and that Little Crow was supposed to be with them. The trapperß found tbat the grass had been burned clear to the Rocky Mountains, with the exception of a small tract south of Devil’s Lake, where the Indians were encamped. They expressed no desire to harm them—who were half-breeds —but inquired very particularly whether there were any Indians yet remaining on Red river. They said that they did not intend harming the half-breeds, or any one across the line. They report their having plenty of horses, cattle and mules. It is supposed by the trappers tbat they would get their winter supplies from the Hudson Bay Company, and do all their trading with them. The settlers at St. Joseph had nearly all left, and gone to Fort Garry. A determination is expressed to open the war against the frontier settlers in the spring. This Bbows very conclusively that a large military force should bo stationed somewhere in that section of country. FREE MEALING, The firßt session of the present Congress, (1861-62,) anxious to give a fair chance to the dominant party to steal largely and with out danger of investigation or punishment, passed the following act, which the President approved July 17th, 1862. ** Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the operation of tho act, entitled * An act to prevent and pun ish frands on the part of officers intrusted with the making of contracts for the Government,’ approved June 2, be, and the same is hereby suspended until the first Monday of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.” “ Approved July 17, 1862." This, it will bo perceived, suspends the operation of the law providing for the punish ment of stealing until January, 1863. No wonder the administration is so warmly sup ported by all the publio plunderers—no wou der gross frauds have occurred in all the departments—no wonder contractors and speculators, thieves and robbers, have grown wealthy and impudent. Who ever before heard of free stealing being enacted by Con gress and approved by the President. —Patriot & Union. Corn Ae Fuel. —The editor of the Nebraska Advertiser, published at Brownville, N. T., discusses the comparative cheapness of com as an article of fuel. He says that oorn is worth ten cents, and ooal forty cents per bushel, and wood two dollars per cord. At these prices he oonolndes that the ohoice is altogether dependent upon whioh is attainalli with the least tronble—in-other words, that twenty bushels of corn are of .the same value for fuel as a cord of wood ready to put into the Btove. - Tor The Intelligencer. HOW, AND THB9. Mtwnm. Editor* : It would be necessary to close oar eyes at passing events, and to forego the privileges of a carefal observer wore we to Ignore, by a respectful silence, the les sons of the lata elections in some of the free Btatea. It is scarcely possible for na to notice an instance where ww and ejTerfare more palpably developed than In the result of those elections, which seems to have changed the whole complexion of the policy of the dominant party toward the conservative element of the North. Ever aloee we have been enjoying tbe Inestimable blessings of Black Republi can rule, the public mind has been held in check, and the movements of Democrats considerably restrained; bat now there is a marked improvement. That state of doubt, sus pense and slavish fear which the opposition sought to fasten upon the Democracy, and which for a time at least seemed to prevail, has changed to that of confidence; for the long concealed (act. for which true,loyalcitisaw so long sighed, was most emphatically nnfolded, that there was a powerfol ander-corrent of political conservatism, which most eventually rise to the surface and become the salva tion of all that was dear to the true American heart. Now there seems to be,at least universal toleration, if not actual liberty, and with it are looming op in tbe dim distance the promises of personal safety, and the peace and order of society for the immediate future. The sleeping giant of Democracy has been aroused, and the fading form, spectre-like, of tyranny, which too long usurped the place ot civil liberty, is accordingly yielding to the sanctions and guarantees of the Constitution. We see it in tbe growing boldness of the press and the confident freedom of speech, as tbe shackles of Bepublican restraint are being removed from the Democracy; and in the Coarts which are again endowed, to some extent, with their ju«t elements of power, in the partial restoration of the writ of Habeas Corpus. We feel it in the growing con sciousness of a more comfortable expansion of the cords which restricted oar movements and actions as free citizens of a free country, and in the respect shown to personal liberty by the emptying of the forts and bastiles of politi cal prisoners, tbe details o! whose incarceration will mark tbe annais of tbe nation with a dark stain, as emblematic of Abolition rule and Republican despotism. The free States now seem to enjoy comparative quiet, if not absolute peace. No more demonstrations of brag, ban ter and violence menace tboee who have the temerity to assert their Constitutional rights. No more imputations of “secessionist and traitor” to arouse feelings of malice and disgust in the hearts of the accused, and to stamp the accuser with the brand of fanatic and consummate fool No more fear upon the part of those whose only crime was a generous devotion to the true interests of their country, upon retiring at night, that, peradventure, before the mornini; sun would again smile upon a happy family the midnight Marshal would have entered that home circle, and violently torn Its head and protector from the loving group, and consigned him to the nearest dungeon or con veyed him to the confines of a strong fort, hundred of miles away. The. Democracy have spoken, and no lesson seems so salutary, no castigation so potent and effective as good, old fashioned Democratic majorities 1 This seems to be fait even in tbe hall* of Congress, for the members so long dead to every remonstrance are be ginning to see the band-writing upon the walls of tbe Cap itol. and their knees are smitiag together with fear as their single Abolition idea is developing to ao actual com prehension of the vital fact that they are “weighed in the balance.and found wanting.” They are accordingly pass' log resolutions, which they hope will adjust their accounts with tbe people aud close forever their dark catalogue of infamy, and save the actors in tbe drama from tbe terrible retribution which awaits them in the future. Now all is chaoged, to some extent at least, for the better, because the ‘•leaven” of Democracy is most palpably permeating tbe entire mass of the body politic, and will soon fill the public mind with hope and confidence. But if Pennsylvania had given the Black Republican party fifty thousand majority, and all the other States had been equally foolish, what would have been the trne con dition of the North thenf Wo need but-to recall the insane fury of the infamous press-gang that prevailed immediately after the fall of Fort Snmter to aid oar minds in tbe formation of a proper solu tion of the qaery, “t chat then ?'* Men rushing from bouse to house, under the impulse of a great popular delusion and false patriotism, filled with the wildest possible excite ment and actuated by tbe worst passions of the buman heart, loudly calling for the colors of every loyal Democrat, openly denouncing as ‘ traitor and secessionist” those who refnsed to comply with their Imperious demands, and threatening personal violence to those wbo presumed openly to avow their adherence to the principles of the old time-honored party which was ever conservative and Amer ican in its character, and whose policy gave the conntrv all the prosperity it ever possessed. Dally tirades of abase and menace wore leveled against the Democracy by the journals in the Interest of that party which instigated oor DatloDal disasters, and perverted and deatroyedthe liber ties of the people. This spirit of restless ferocity did not confine Itself to the operations of the excited street mob, or the degraded pen of Black Republican journalists. But it haunted tbe legis lative halls of all the free Stajes; and lest the exercise of a better judgment, through discussion, and the influence of a conservative minority might point out some feasible plan by wbich even the horrors of a civil war might be avoided, it swept the Capital of the Nation in a perfect hurricane of partisan frenzy. Even in tbe department of the Executive and in the deliberations of the Cabinet, in stead of the calm councils of statesmanship and patriotism prevailing, a recklessness of power was manifested, not only by conniving ot the clamor of the mob in lower places, but by aiding in the general work of infamy in the daily arrests of some of the best of onr Northern citixens without “due process of law,” or even their knowing what crime caused their incarceration. This despotic storm seemed to come upon us as an avalanche, sweeping every vestige of common sense and common humanity from the councils of a partv whose very existence seemed to pervade the whole atmosphere with a general doacha of filth, scat tering the seeds of discord and despotism over the entire territory of all the States not already in actual rebellion against its machinations. Leave tbe picture which we have above Imperfectly and faintly drawn, foreshadow the gloomy shades of & still more terrible doom for all who would have even breathed an opposition sentiment against the Administration of Mr. Lincoln, or the policy of his party. We need not harrow up the many instances of despotic rule which everywhere mark the history of ages pa6t, or open the floodgates of antiquity Jor streams of oriental crime and national de pravity, to instance tbe probable eveuts which might at this hour be transpiring, had that party receivod through the ballot-box the popular sanction to the course they have seen fit to pursue since they possess the power of the Gov ernment. Then would tbe Forts, which have so long been diverted from their legitimate purpose of being protectors of tbe people in the enjoyment of civil liberty to engines of des potic rule, been this day emptied of tbeir-precioaß captives ? Would there be a cessation of the foolish clamor of ‘‘trai tor,” “secessionist” and “rebel,” which so long blackened tbe mouths of despicable Abolition hounds, and blotted tbe sheets of vilo Republican jonru&lß that wonld sell them selves to bis Batanic Majesty, if perchance they conld thereby break down tho Democratic party and destroy its constituency bad not tbe spell which bound them to their idol been forribly broken, not by the weapons which they had forged to destroy the Democracy, but hy the Constitu tional leaven used by the people in razing the temple of infamy to the ground, which in their vain glory they reared as a monument to their superior skill in the admin istration of the powers of the Government. Are there not good reasons for supposing that had the misfortune of a Republican victory in the Northern States at the ballot-box befallen the country, in addition to onr present calamities, a tyranny far more galling than we have as yet experienced would now be razing throughout the Government, with all who took prominent part In tbe election canvass of their respective States as tbe victims? Civil rights wonld have become a by-word—martial law would have been proclaimed in all the States, and at tbe pleasure of petty, unprincipled, political demagogues, ev ery man who would have offended tbe dignity of those puppy Republican enthusiast wo»:ld have been thrown Into prison, their property confiscated and appropriated, their families reduced to beggary and want, and tbe black est crimes perpetrated in the face of an outraged and insulted popular sentiment. Before, tbe bewilderment of the public mind rendered it difficult to tell how far the iniquitous course of the Administration at Washington was sustained, but now it would have been sanctioned by a popular vote, and all the inquisitorial machinations of a depraved party frenzy would have been raked np and vis ited upon citizens whose only crim« Is. or was, that they adhered to the only principles which can restore and per peiuate tbe Goverument as it was before this crazy Aboli tion party, by a freak of the Constitution, obtained control of its administration. Obssrvxk, For The Intelligencer. MISS LUCY HAS HAD AN INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT LiNCOLN-SHE EXPRESSES HER OPINION OF HIS MESSAGE. I called at the White House one day last week. I was immediately ushered Into the presence of onr worlhy Chief Magistrate. I found him chatting with some visitors and regaling them repeatedly with a characteristically choice “stoiy.” I joined tbe circle, paid my respects to tbe inter esting epeaker. and eat down to listen. lam fond of gath ering information. I like to catch the outpourings of great minds lam certain, from the manner of tbe President, that he detected in me an appreciative spirit. One gentleman, after a while, urged the appointment of the gallant General Fremont to the command of the Army of the Potomac. He said, “this is the proper time to do it. A battle is pending. Burnside will conduct it and may obtain a victory. Then he will be tbe hero demanding all worship, and onr Pet’s chaDoea for promotion will be at an end.” I then engaged in Ihe conversation. I suggested tbe policy of removing Generals on thi eve of an engage ment. I was convinced that the preparations for a final and derisive stroke were retarded. I reminded them that we did not want peace so soon. It wonld be ruinous to the interests of the Administration party. It would cause “tho noble Army of Contractors” to groan in spirit and collapse in purse. It would perpetuate tbe slavery of our colored brethren, and return too many Breckinridge Dem ocrats to their homes and to tbe “Poll*.” A gentleman here referred to the Message. Wo thonght tbe terms of Emancipation were .made too easy, too inex pensive for the country, and too indefinite and remote for the good of those it proposed to benefit. I interrupted him. I urged, let the slave be liberated at once. I know that Niggerdom will shout for joy. and Yankeelsnd pro long tho glad refrain. I believe “the world will ever ap plaud, and God mast forever bless, Abraham Lincoln.”— Two or three Contraband ladicß, who had entered unper* ceived, now clapped their hands ecstatically and cried— “Dor nober was rich a l'reeldum as Mass* Linkarn. and we’il neber teo his likes agin !” I perceived that “Massa Linhum” looked pleased. His perplexed features relaxed and broke into a most expansive smile. He energetically shook the hand of each. I fell into a revory upon the in fluence of Woman. I said to myself eveo the great Ruler of this mighty Nation is vulnerable to tbe flatteries of the fair sex. I was recalled to the outside world. Father Abraham enqoired if I had any other objection to the Message? I replied, no. I consider it an exceedingly satisfactory and luminous document. I detect in it your engrossing concern for tho Negro. I regard it as devoted almost exclusively to his interests. I think It is the only question worthy the attention of yourself, Congress, the United States and the whole world at this time. lam in favor of settling it without delay. I sgreo with yoa that gradual emancipa tion “would be a prudent and economical measure. Cer tainly it is not so easy to pay something as it is to pay nothing, but it is easier to pay a large sum than it is to pay a larger one, and it is easier to pay any sum when we are able, than it is to pay it before we are able.” I am convinced that in tbat short sentence, bursting with wisdom, you have promulgated troths profound and im mortal as Abraham Lincoln himself. I am persuaded they could have birth only in r Lincoln brain. I pronounce them Lincoln troths. I baptize them Lincoln Originalisms. I class them among Liucoln profundities. I acknowledge that in all my reading I have never met their equal. I have no hope of seeing their like in all fa* tnro researches I insist, nevertheless, that the “oppressed shall go free” now. I spurn tbe selfish fear of increased expense and taxes. I calculate that sufficient fands could be withheld from the monthly does of our soldiers to liqui date all liabilities incurred in the execatioo of this human itarian scheme. If starving wives and children cry, iet them cry l The everlasting black man must be freed. I took leave, followed by the admiring glances of onthos ieam-lighted eyes, just as the Contraband ladies com menced chanting their musical appeal; “ We are come, Fader Abrahim, A little band bnt strong, To tell yon dat for freedom 3 We cannot wait so long. Oor brndders groans from out de Souf Am ringin’ in our ears^ Must dey yet watch, ami wait, and weep For thirty-seven years?” LUCY BTONE, JuitlOß. The report of the Secretary of the Na vy gives a general history of the operations of the Navy during the year. In Maroh, 1861, there were forty vessels in commission in the United States Navy, and in all but seven thousand six hundred men, two hundred and seven only of whom were on the Atlantic coast; At present, there are afloat and pro gressing to rapid completion four hundred and twenty-Beven vessels, carrying three thou sand two hundred and sixty-eight guns, and of the capaoity of three hundred and forty thousand and thirty-six tons. The Beamen and other employees now on board the vessels number twenty-eight thousand, while at the Navy Yards and Stations twelve thousand' mechanics and laborers are daily employed. LIST OF EXEHPTED HE9. The following ia an official list of drafted men from this county exempted by Surgeon Wilson, st Harrisburg, which will he interesting to all oor readers, inasmuch as it releases theee persona from foture proceed ings of a draft, and the ground of their excuse will be a matter of interest: Alexander, Is&ao, age 24, examined Nov. 5; exempted on account of hernia. Ayers, Jacob, age 43, Nor. 8; loss of teeth and hem orrhoids. Buskin, Charles, age 34. Nor. 5; chronic gastritis. Beker, Nathaniel age 27, Hot. 6; hernia. Bryant, John IL, age 89, Not. fi; general debility. Brown, Amos, age 23. Nor. 0; general debility. Binkly, Samuel, age 28, Nor; 6; detective and fractured right leg. Biteell, Edwin, age 28, Not. 6; hemorrhoids and dis eased hrogs. Baker, Solomon, age 83, Not. 7; hernia. Bond, Jonathan, age 42, Not. 7; defective feet. Belrbower, Ephraim, age S 3, Not. 7 ; loss of teeth. Berkholder, Meono, age 34, Nor. 8; near-sightedness. Bidden, Lewis, age 43, Not. 8 ; lots of teeth. Bathurst, Joseph, age 22, Not. 8; diseased knee-joint. Boley, Henry, age 48, Not. 8; loss of teeth. Brown, James, age 24, Not. 8; loss of teeth. Bruner, Isaac tge 31, Not. 5; hernia. Badger. John, age 38, Nor. 5; deafness. Bom told, William, agB NoT . 6 . hem „. 25, Not. 5; rheumatism. Brodmrtj Johi l ago2S,N°r,6; hernia. 8- ’ *8022, Not. 6; 100. of tooth. Bechtol, John, ago 44, Not, 6; ago and general debility. BudhtO'l John, age 25, Not. 10; chronlo bronchiUr.' Brehm, Cyrus, ago 83, Not. 10; chronlo eoeama. Bowman, John W„ ago 35, Nor. 10; hernia. Bnrnilo, David, ago 43, Not. 11; chronlo opthalmla. Bush, Urlas, ege 27. Not. ll; hernia. oJMngaman, Alexander, aga 28, Not. 19; epilepsy, (on Samnol, age 42, Not. 24; chronic gastritis and general debility. a Conrad, Charles, age 25. Not. 5; defective feet. Carper, Gotlieb D, age 34, Nov. 10; bronchitis. Cruse, William M., ago 34, Not. 11; rheumatism, chron ie, (on oath.) Conrad, Jacob, age 28, Nov. 11; periodical insanity. Conrad, Joseph, age 34, Nov. 12; disease of lungs and heart. Cooper, Edward S., age 28, Not. 15; bad cicatrix of left foot. Denning, Abraham, age 43, Not. 10; ptyregium of right eye and rheumatism. Druchenwood, Peter, age 32, Not. 10 ; loss of teeth. Dracbenbroad, Peter, age 26, loss of teeth. Dailey, Smith, age 36, Nov. 10; epilepsy. Duke, Adam, age 84, Nov. 11; Injury of right hand. Dotee, ITenry, age 44. Nov. 5; hernia. Doerstler, Henry, age 26, Nov. 6; asthma. Dennis, James, age 85, Nov. 8; deformed left band- Deam, WllliamC, age 21, Nov. 8; Injured right shoulder. Eshelman, Christian, age 83. Nov. 6; physical debility. ETangood, Emanuel, age 44, Nov. 5; chronic rheumatism. Eaheltnao, Wendel, age 22, Nov. 8 ; epilepsy, (on oath.) Easton, Gabriel E., age 28, Nov. 6; fracture of left knee loint. Ebersole, Christian 8., age 30, Nov. 5; badly united fracture of right leg. Frankfort, Bamnel. age 28, Nov. 10; disease of heart x.?vi®! UBon i I^iara B-* age 36, Nov. 11; predisposition to phthisis and loss of teeth. Furlow, Henry, 33, Nov. 11; temporary insanity from fractured skull. J Furniss. Thomas, age 32. Nov. 6; hernia. Fry, Jacob, age -.2, Nov. 6; epilepsy. Fiaher, Abrahem H., ago 23, Not. 6; rheumatism (on oath.) v Fi-y, Jacob 8., age 46, Nov. 6; age and rhenmatiam. ’ Fox, William H., age 21, Nor. 5; asthma. Fnnk, Jonathan, age 27. Nov. 6; disease of spine Flory, Herman T., age 28, Nov. 6; hernia. Fry, John, age 41, Nov. 8; loss of teeth. Ford, David, age 44, Nov. 8; anchylosis or left elbow Joint. Gilchinttcter, William, age 40; Nov. 5 ; defective feet. Grimm, Abraham, age 37, Nor. 5; incipient phthisis. Grnm, Frederick, age 39, Nov. 5; chronic gastritis. Gardner, Geo. W., age 32, Nov. 5 ; chronic ulcer. Gass. Henry, age 40, Nov. 5; rheumatism. Garber John, age 24, Nov. 6; incipient phthisis. Gree, Lewis, aga 30; Nov. 6; incipient phthisis. Gramp, Frank M., age 38, Nov. 6; rheumatism and loss of teeth. Gamber, Joseph, age 36, Nov. 6; epilepsy. Gochenonr, Abraham, age 25, Nov. 6; rheumatism and loss of teeth. Green, Benjamin, age 39; Nov. 6; epilepsy, (on oath.) Gibson, William, age 44, Nov. 9; varicose veins and loss of teeth. Greff Nathaniel, age 21, Nov. 7; size (height 5 feet) and want of stamina. 1 Garman, Isoac. age 21, Nov. 8; lucipient phthisis, Groff, Jacob, age 37, Nov. 8; weak eyes. Garman, George K., age 32, Nov. 8; loss of teeth. Groff, Aaron 8., age 29, Nov. 8; hernia. Given, John, age 36, Nov. 10; loss of teeth and rheuma tism, Giles. John W., age 26, Nov. 11; scrofula. Greoer, Frederick, age 40, Nov. 5; loss of teeth. Hartman, John, age 24, Nov. 5; stammering. Herr, Peter, age 26, Nov. 5; chronic rheumatism. Herr, John, age 28, Nov. 5 ; defective left hand and gen eral debility. Horst, Samuel Y., age 38, Nov. 6 ; hernia. Hackenberger, John, age 28, Nov. 6; injured right arm. Haines, Thomas J., age 30, Nov. 6; physical debility. Hester, Frederick, age 43, Nov. 6 ; discharged from the United States service. Hammond, J. Wesley, age 32, Nov. 8; defective eyes. Hummel. Joseph, age 44, Nov. 8; general debility. Hoover, Qnincy, *ge 30. Nov. 8; hernia. Hayes, Charles, age 30, Nov. 10; varicoEe veins. Hoffman, George, age 27, Nov. 10; weak knees. Hildebridle, Richard, age 24, Nov. 10; hernia. Holwager, Jacob, age 28, Nov. 10; bothrio cephalus. Henpy, Abraham, age 27, Nov. 11; general debility and predisposition to phthisis. Henry, John K., age 31, Nov. 11; hemorrhoids. Hassler, Michael, age 43, Nov. 21; diabetes. Jg>e, John, age 25, Nov. 10; size, (height 5 feet in ) Irvine. John, age 27, Nov. 11; chronic opthalmia. livine, Ja ob. age 40, Nov. 11; hernia. Johns, John, age 34, Nov. 6; scrofula. Engle, Samuel, age 28, Nov. 5; varicose veins. Eepner, JoslAb, age 31, Nov. 6; rhenmatiam and incipi ent phthisis. Kline, David, ago 44, Nov. 6; aneurism. Kemror, George, age 37, Nov. 6; chronic bronchitis. Kofrnth, John, age 23. Nov. 6; loss of index finger. King, Henry, age 28, Nov. 7 ; rheumatism. Krieder, Joseph, age 26, Nov. 8; diserse of heart. Kind, Joel, age 40, Nov. 8 ; general debility Kersey, John, age 26, Nov. 8; defective right hand. Kramer, Joseph, age 38, Nov. 8 ; badly distorted spine. Kline, Man-in, age 29, Nov. 10; partial anchylosis of right knee joint. Kendig, John, age 44, Nov. 10 ; size, (height 5 feet 2 in.) ann want of stamina. Kochel, Faancis, age 25, Nov. 10; Incipient phthisis. Kirk, Henry, age 36, Nov. 10; hemorrhoids. Knlpe, Samuel N, age 22, Nov. 11; maleformation of spine. Lockhart, Peter, ago 31, Nov. 6; spinal irritation. Lockhard, Samuel, age 42, Nov. 5; spinal disease. Lines, John, age 36, Nov. 5 ; incipient phthisis. Lane, Israel, age 23, Nov. 10; doafness. Lippold, William, age 43, Nov. 10 ; varicose veins. Lomlonberger, Louis, age 32, Nov. 11; badly uoited frac ture of right leg. Lenhardt, John, age 38, Nov. 11; loss of teeth and pre disposition to phthisis. Leibold, Henry, age 28, Nov. 11; hernia. Lockhard, Washmstun, age 27, Nov. 24; rheumatism and predisposition to phthisis. Master, Valentine, age 34, Nov. 6; general debility. Mlttirgor, Abraham, age 21, Nov. 6; epilepsy, (on oath.) Morphy, Daniel, age 37, Nor. 5 ; rheumatism. McCniloogh, Henry, age 35, Nov. 6; conjuntlvltts. McClhid; William, age 44, Nor. 6; rheumatism, hem orrhoids and general debility. McGonst, James, age 28, Nov. 6; varicose veins. Markley, John, age 21, Nov. 6; spinal disease. Manning, Martin K.,' age 40, Nov. 6; physical debility. Marqaad, William, age 36, Nov. 6; hemorrhoids and deafness. McCreary. Israel, age 28, Nov. 7; hemorrhoids. Meaner, Moses, Age 40, Nov. 8; loss of teeth. Meaner, Jesse, age 44, Nov. 8; chronic gastritis. McDonough, John, age 24. Nov. 8; hernia. Maxton, Milton, age 28. Nov. 8; bad cicatrix on left foot. Melllnger, Daniel, age 25, Nov. 10; Injary of head. Martzoll, Henry 8., age 24. Nov. 10; general debility. Michael, niram, age 24, Nov. 10; weak eyes. McNeal, John G, age 30, Nov. 10; defective right hand. Mclntyre, Andrew, age 41, Nov. 11; Injury of left side and right foot. Martin, Lewis, age 30, Nov. 11; weak lungs and want of stamina. Musser, Christian, age 41, Nov. 11; loss of teeth. Metzger, Joseph N., age 39, Nov. 18; atrophy of right side. MeUkey, Henry K. f age 27, Nov. 27; coxalgla. McGuin, John, age 29; Nov. 24; hemorrhoids. Neidmyer, William, age 24, Nov. 8; frosted feet. Otto, William, age 35, Nov. 5; imbecility. Otatot, Benjamin, age 34, Nov. 5; rheumatism. Omit, Jacob, age 24, Nov. 6; incipient phthisis. Powden, Adrian, age 43, Nov. 5; rheumatism, (on oath.) Painter, Henry R., age 44, Nov. 5; general debility, re sulting from typhoid fever. Pieffer, John H., age 31, Nov. 6; loss of teeth. Plank, Joseph, age 25, Nov. 8; weak eyes. Porter,.Henry W., age 32, Nov. 8; incontinence of urine. Phlte, James, ago 23, Nov. 11; epilepsy, (on oath.) Reese, Daniel, ago 24, Nov. 6 ; diseased finger. Rocfaenstnne, Bernhart, age 25, Nov. 6 ; fractured skull. Reasler, Henry L, age 22, Nov. 7; hernia. Roth, George, age 28, Nov. 8; epilepsy. Rowe, Henry, age 39, Nov. 8; loss of teeth. Reed, Isaac, age 38, Nov. 10 ; Incipient phthisis. Rhoades, Emanuel M., age 32, Nov. 10; hhmorrhoids, (on oath.) Ream, Harvey, age 21, Nov. 10; white swelling. Robinson, William, age 42, Nov. 10; hemorrhoids and scrofula. Rutter, Isaac, age 31, Nov. 10; loss of sight of right eye. Raider, Abraham M., age 30, Nov. 10; hypertrophy of heTt. Regai*, Franklin 8., age 29, Nov. 11; deafness.. Shunk, Jr hn Y , age 26, Nov. 5; hemorrhoids. Shary, Michael, age 34, Nov, 5; physical debility. Sharp, John, age 28, Nov. 6; chronic gastritis. Sbickley, Peter, age 32, Nov. 5; hemorrhoids. Shuman, Milton, age 32, Nov. 6; deafness. Strickland. George, age 41, Nov. 5; varicose veins and general debility. Sheppard John, age 37, Nov. 6 ; fracture of tibia. Schenk, Daniel, age 20, Nov. 6; injary of left frot. Senner, Frederick, age 38, Nov. 6; varicocele. Shand, Henry, age 24, Nov. 6; hernia. SheDk, Michael R , age 33, Nor. 6; disease af lungs. Sipple, John, age 34, Nov. 6; hemorrhoids. Bmitb, John, age 44, Nor. 6; rheumatism. SlDger, Benjamin, age 32, Nor. 6; hernia. Sbnitz, Andrew 8., age 32, Nor. 6; epilepsy. Shickley, Jacob, age 44, Nor. 6; badly united fracture of the left orm. Shaffoer, Isaac, ege 31, Nor. 6; size (height 5 foot and 2 inches) and hernia. Seegar, Darid, age 32, Nov. 6; hernia. Sheok, Joseph, age 24, Nor. 6; asthma. Steiner, Andrew, ege 35, Nor. 8; valvular disease of heart. Steiner, Henry, age 38, Nor. 8 ; diseased longs. Slick, Frank, eg* 23, Nor. 8; weak lungß. Shuler, gamuel, age 35, Nor. 8; epilepsy, (on oath.) Schaeffer, Aaron, ege 41, Nov. 9; cicatrix of left foot. Slate, Joseph, age 21, Nov. 8; incipient phthisis. Schoeader, Henry, age 34. Nov. 8 : epilepsy, (on oath.) Schneader, John, age 33, Nov. 10; periodical insanity. Sehweigart, Amos, age 30, Nov. 10; blindness of righteye. Schopp, William, age 26, Nov. 10; injury of knee joint. Smith, Harrison, age 22, Nov. 10; spinal affection. Bteffin, Godfrey, age 40, Nov. 10; varicose veins. Senneinneib, George, age 34, Nov. 11; stamnering. Schaeffer, Benjamin, age 34, Nov. 12, chronic disease of lungs and throat. Bhowalter, Daniel, age 29, Nov. 19; partial anchylosis of right knee joint. Smith, John, age 41, Nov. 20; loss of teeth and general debility. Tramp, Samuel 0., age 21, Nov. 5 ; bronchitis (chronic ) Thomas, John, age 44, Nov. 8; loss of teeth. Tremble, James, age 26, Nov. 26, chronic disease os spine and liver. Tremble, Daniel, age 32, Nov. 25; valvular disease of heart and ptyregrum of right eye. Usner, Jacob, age 24, Nov. 8; rheumatism. Urieh, Solomon, age 35, Nov. 8; defective chest. Usner, William, age 26, Nov. 10; wpnt of stamina. Vincklioner. Carl, age 42, Nov. 6; varicocele. Weigand, Harman, age 26, Nov 6; defective feet. Watson, William, age 27, Nov. 6; varicose veins. Waltz, Philip, age 45, Nov. 5; badly united fracture of ulna. Wakefield, Hiram, age 82, Nov. 6; hernia. Wagner, George F., age 29, Nov. 7 ; asthma. Weisch, John, age 24, Nov. 7; weak eyes. Winehold, John, age SO, Nov. 8; asthma. Wolf bill, Edward, age 38, Nov. 8; loss of teeth. Wise, William, age 38, Nov. 8; dyspepsia. Weltzel, Arroo,age 34, Nov. 8; vamose veins. Walters, John, age 44, Nov. 8; chronic nicer* of legs. Wenger, Adam, age 44, Nov. 8; hemorrhoids. Wesley, Jacob, age 84, Nov. 8; asthma. Witmoyer, Joseph, age 32, Nov. 8; disease of heart. Winehold, William, age4o, Kov.lO; melancholy, on oath. Wolf, age 40, Nov. 10; dyspepsia and disease of heart. Wonder, John, age 44, Nov. 11; scrofula. Young, Levi, age 40, Not. 6; chronic bronchitis. Yerkee, Isaac, age SO, Nov. 6; Incipient phthisis. Zerble, Joseph, sge 38, Nov. 8; dyspepsia. V&* The girls in Lawrence Mills now re ceive on an average sixty cbkts pxk week. and their board. Oh, the poor niggers. Qo away white girls 1 PHILADELPHIA CORREBPOHDEHOE. pHnADiiPHiA, December llth. Misses. Editors : This morning everybody Is reading the eloquent testimony of General McClellan in the McDowell Court Martial case. Tbat testimony proves several things, not a few of which have a direct interest to others than General McDowell. Matters of grave moment to the country, placing censure for certain military failures where It belongs, and vindicating General McClellan from the assaults of his enemies, are disclosed by that testimony and be must indeed be blinded by party or by hate who can fail to see In the facts brooght to; light by the cross examination of the yonng General, a manly, honest, un wavering course through all tbe trials that surrounded him in bis peninsular campaign, and the reaultr tbat have flowed from it. Until this examination all the assaults of enemies, and the ill timed counsels of friends; have failed to draw from McClellan one word daring all the exciting charges and counter^charges that have been raised during the year past. No man Was ever acted with more prudence, though no man can know what must have been the ag gravations under which he kept that silence. It would have been forever kept, no doubt, had not the confessional of tbe Court Martial, and his oath, compelled him to open his mouth. But when he does speak every word tells, aud some truths come out that must be very palatable to some body who thinks tbat nothing can ever hit him. because he Is—and so op. Seriously though, this Court Martial of another General wav tbe very tbiog wanted to put McClel lan and the Administration In their proper places before tbe people. McClellan stilt hag the inside track. All oor public bodies are moving spiritedly In the matter of sending relist to the suffering poor of the cotton dis tricts of England. The Board of Trade Corn Exchange Association, etc., have all taken tbe matter in hand, and subscriptions are coming forward liberally. Twenty thous and dollars have been lifted In two days among a very few individuals. It is thus that we show to old England that notwithstanding her bad treatment of ns and our cause in our terrible crisis we bold her no resentment, and are as willing as ever to feed her starving millions. Will this additional lesson of contrasts have no weight with her? We have just seen a sample of tobacco grown in your county. It was consigned to a commission honse here, and we onderstand tbat other firms in the city are receiving consignments from other portions of the Btate, particular ly along tbe Bosqnehanna. Though not a new thing for the State, the culture of tobacco in Pennsylvania may still be regarded as an experiment. And tbe extent ot the article cultivated this year leads us to classify It a success ful experiment Regions now raise It where a year or two ago It was as great a'novelty as a banana tree or a pine apple. Pennsylvania tobacco is now bringing in this city from 14 to 18 cents per pound. Squads of men continue to pass through the city on their way to Washington to join their regiments In the field. There are no full regiments now passing through however, and it may fairly ho considered that all onr men are now in tbe field. But few men are being recruited, tbe whole number mastered in l&st week by Col. Raff being bat eighty-nine. Now Is onr time therefore to give the rebellion itsquietas. Now that the New Year is approaching, all newspaper dom and magazinednm-is brushing up and making the best show possible much as the shops put all their Christ mas goods in the windows and make an extra display, to please and tempt the public. Oar old friend Gleason, of the *• Literary Companion,” Boston, is still in the van. we notice, and promises a very attractive year for 1863. Many of the best writer? in the country are engiged, and as to the typographical appearance of hia paper, there is nothing prettier published. We wish him abundant success, and as his paper is bnt two'dollars a year there must be a host of new subscribers added between now and January. Mr. Littell is also on hand for tbe new year with hit favorite ‘‘ Living Age.” This admirable (periodical, as its name implies, is a fair reflex of the age, presenting in agreeable form its politics, literature, biography, history, science, art. etc. Ail the leading British periodicals are levied npon regularly, and everything that can interest the American reader is extracted and published. The plau itself is admirable, and there is no man better fitted for Its execution than Mr. Littei], who has occupied the chair editorial for nearly half a century. The Aga is ripe In knowledge. All the good children from four to eight years cf age will want a pretty little picture book published for the holidays by Mr. Jas. G. Gregory, Now York. It is entitled “The Country Picture Book for Fojs and Girls,” Is in the quarto form, is printed with large type, and contains a dozen full page illustrations, beautifully engraved, of scenes in the country about the farm. It is the prettiest thing of tbe kind yet published, aud should be remembered by all parents cf good children. The same publisher issues two capital books of adventure for boys, arranged from the enchanting novels of Cooper. Tbe first is “ Stories of tbe Sea” and contains all thobestof those graphic adventures narrated in the Red Rover, the Water Witch, Pilot, and others of the Fe.\ tales of the great author. It was a capital ideal to select these spirited narratives from tbe larger worifs, arrange them for the U 66 of yonng readers, and the editor has succeeded In his task to a charm. Boys from ten to sixteen years of age will find this fresh and vigorous book suited to them exactly. The companion volume is entitled “Stories of the Woods, or Advontures of Leatberstocking ” selected from tho?e foraouß books, the Pioneers, Dcer-slayor, Pathfinder, etc., In wbich that Bplondid hero figures. All literature does not contain n more attractive portraiture than Le&therstocking, and a good work Is done io this volume In introducing him to young readers The outline -of his whole career, which rune through five of Cooper’s large novels, is here presented in Cooper's own language mostly, and, with the elegant illustrations by Darloy ornament tbe volnme, we ore safe in saying that u mure charming book for hoys has never been published. No books uro better suited for Christmas presents to a lady, especially, than the exquisite blue and gold volumes ot the poets, published byThknor A Fields, Boston. The latest instalment of tbis delightful series contains “ Poems by Adelaide Anue Proctor,” a lady on whom by the au thority of the London Athenmum, the mantel of the lamented Mrs. Browning has fallen. Miss Proctor is a daughter rf Barry Cornwall, and an honor to him* Her poem of the Two Spirits, and many others In this chfewping volume, will eqnal tbe best of her father’s. She dpSs not imitate her parent, bnt looks oat into life as it is, and em balms her own perceptions in divine verse. All tbat she has written, including three published volumes, is con tained in this one compact little bcok, and If there is a more entertaining volume published for ths * season ” we have yet to see it. Tho lyrics, One hy One, a Dream, a Doubting Heart, etc., have long since won undying fame. Messrs. Ticknor & Fieldfl also pabllsh the first transla tion into English of “Titan,” that grand Rciuauce of Jean Pan! Friedrich Richter, and tbe work on which (be was engaged ton years in ifo compos-itlon) ho was content to rest his fame. Great credit is due tho translator, Charles T Brooks, and the publishers, for this literary enterprise, which weregard as one of more than common importance. Now thantis accomplished it roams a wonder that the work was never done before. For Carlyle, and Mackintosh, and DeQuiocr-y, and Macaulay and ail the great intellects of Europe have paid tribute to the genius of Richter, and its exhibition in “Titan.” The very oeme suggests solidity, strength, and grandeur, aud bo who buys the book ex pecting these will not bo disappointed. For a Christmas gift of a perennial value “Titan” is tho very thing. It mast at once become the book cf tbe day. Published in two beau tiful duodecimo volumes,‘.bevelled boards and gilt top, and got up as only Ticknor & Fields know how. The beauty and solidity of their books is without parallel. The public who feel interested in Victor Hugo’s last romance, Los Miserables. ought probably to be cautioned against a miserably cot up copy which is being forced into the marl et. We ajiude to tbe translation known as Wraxhall’s. Tho genuine edition is that published by Mr. G. W. Carleton, who introduced tho work into this country and expended thousands of dollars for advertising it, etc., and who ought to reap now the reward of-hls enterprise. REVERDY JOHNSON ON BUTLER. The New Orleans Della, a paper now under the control of General Butler, or Borne of hiß minions, having made a coarse attack on the Hon. Reverdy Johnson, lately commissioned by the President to go to that city and settle some of the difficulties Butler had got the oountry into by his ridiculous, Buper-servicea ble conduct, Mr. Johnson, after fully vindi cating his actions and refuting the charges against him, disposes of Butler and his minions as follows: The imputations upon the Commissioner in these publications, and in several prior ones, from the same source, would seem to have a common origin. What the motive inducing them is will perhaps be seen when his report, and the actual state of things in New Orleans in particulars not covered by the report, be cause not withia the jurisdiction of the Com missioner, shall become knowD. Unless the almost universal belief of gentlemen of intelli gence and integrity in the city, having every means of knowledge, be wholly unfounded, and the reports of officers of the highest char acter in the service of the Government, who have officially visited the city sines it has been in the possession of the military, be also wholly unfounded, a state of fraud and corrup tion exists there that is without a 'parallel in the past history of the country. That Major General Butler is cognizant of it, or would approve of it if he was, is not for a moment to be believed. But if be will exert the acuteness and energy which have hereto fore had a different direction into the investi gation of the conduct of some of those around him, he will soon discover that the people of New Orleans, since they have been under his sway, have been perhaps as much sinned against as sinning; and he will also discover why it is that an officer who aoted under the immediate commission of the President, and whose whole coarse, after full examination, has received his decided approval, and who, not to disparage that Major General, and with out subjecting himself even to a suspicion of self adulation, may claim to be his equal in intelligence, political integrity, and personal honor, is assailed by some of the persons con nected with or under his command. They cannot but know that their aspersions are utterly false. Growing rich themselves on the necessities of the helpless people around them, by extortions offensive even to decency , they seem evidently to be under the apprehen sion that tho Commissioner’s report, or the knowledge which they fear he may possess of their conduct, may Dot only be used to put AN END TO THEIR CAREER OR PLUNDER, BUT TO SUBJECT THEM TO THE PUNISHMENT DUE TO their misdeeds. This notice of their assaults is not taken from any apprehension that his character can suffer with those wbo.know him.' The correspondent and the editor, (who are BOTH, IT IS SAID, OFFICERS IN GEN. BUTLER'S department,) by their exhibition of them selves ARE INDIVIDUALLY UNWORTHY QF RE GARD. Their statements cannot obtain CREDIT WITH GENTLEMEN who OV6r 808 in Vul gar scurrility a want of moral oharaoter and proneness to falsehood, But the Commis sioner deems it due to the cause of truth, to the confidence reposed in him by the Presi dent, and to the information of the public, who have an interest in the subject, that their falsehoods should be, at the earliest momeDt, exposed and refuted. Rbybbdy Johnson. One Hundred African Regiments fob seven Years. —Hon. John Hickman's bill to suppress rebellion, treason, insurrection, and for other purposes, authorizes the President to raUe one hundred regiments of Africans to be uniformed iu some marked or special man ner ; armed and equipped to servo seven years; pay six dollars per month, one-half to be re tained until term of enlistment expires; the non commisioned officers to be paid as same in regular army ; the commisioned officers'to have had collegiate eduoation and to'be either white or black, and to receive twicethepayof officers in the regular army; non-commission ed officers tobeeither whiteor,black jaaaofe company to have a chaplain or teacher.
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