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A. *ANDERSON, Associate.
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OURIA _A_ Gl- _
Now oar flag is flung to the wild winds free,
Let it float o'er oar father land,
And the guard of its spotless fame shall be
Colombia's chosen band.
"CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION, AS
THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS
TO THE LAST PLANK, WHEN NIGHT
AND THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND
HIM."-DANIEL WEBSTER.
DEMOCRATIC WARD MEETINGS
The Democrats of the City of Lancaster are requested to '
meet at the following-named places, on SATURDAY EVE.
MG NEXT, the 24th instant, between the hours of 6 and
8 o'clock, to settle candidates, to be supported at the eosu,
big City Election on Tuesday, the ad day of February, for
the daces of Mayor, High Constable, City Constables, Se
lect and Common Councilmen, Assessors, Judges and In
spectors. The Northwest, Northeast and Southwest Wards
will in addition nominate candidates for Aldermen. At
said meetings each Ward will appoint three delegates to
meet in convention the same evening, at 9 o'clock, at Mes
senkop's Hotel, East King street, to add up the returns for
Mayor and High Constable, and declare the nomineen of
the party: •
. . .
N. W. Ward—Sl:tuber's Hotel, North Queen street.
N. E. Werd—Weguer's Hotel, East Chesnut street.
S. W. Ward—Fltznatrlck's Hotel, South Queen street
E. E. Ward—Effioger's Saloon, South Queen street.
—The Democrats of the city are further requested to
meet at the above-mentioned places on Wednesday (to.mor
row) evening, at 7 o'clock, for the purpose of, placing in
nomination all 'the caudidntes who desire to be supported
at the Nominating meeting. on Saturday evening.
BY ORDER OF THE WARD COMMITTEES.
Last Notice
We have erased a few names, but
shall postpone striking off the most
of our delinquent subscribers for two
weeks more, in the hope that within
that time they will pay in whole or
in part what is honestly our due.—
A number have already paid, and
many others are probably waiting an
opportunity to do so. We hope that
all who wish to continue THEI.TEL
LIGENCER will see the necessity- of
complying with our terms, at least
so long as we are compelled to pay
the present enormous price for paper,
and that those who do not care about
it, will at least have the honesty to
pay what they owe, before we part
from them.
Army of the Potomac Moving.
According to letters from the
Army of the Potomac, a movement
'of the troops had taken place, and
the army had crossed the Rappahan
nock above and below Fredericks
burg. This indicates immediate
action. It is believed that the rebel
army has been reduced in strength,
for the purpose of holding the im
portant railroad connections in Ten
nessee and North Carolina. The
danger was that the whole army in
front of Burnside, from the long in
activity of that General, would he
spirited away piecemeal, to oppose
our movements in those quarters.
The forward movement of Burnside's
army will check this purpose and
either relieve our other expeditions
of the danger of being overwhelmed
by superior numbers, or render
Richmond liable to capture.
The Prospect Brightens
The triumphant election of Mr.
BIICKALEW to the U. S. Senate is one
of the greatest political triumphs
ever achieved in Pennsylvania, and
is the dawn of a better day in our
good old Commonwealth. Too long
have the people of this State been
tyrannized over by Abolitionism—
too long have they been tied to the
ponderous car of this political Jug
gernaut. The Democracy can now
stand erect and point with pride to
her position as soundly conservative.
They can say, and say it with em
phasis,
to the tyrannical hordes of
Abolitionism, who have been ruling
the country with a rod of 'iron for
the last two years, " thus far shalt
thou go, but no farther." The elec
tions of October and it ember have
secured us two Senators in Indiana,
one in Pennsylvania, one in Illinois,
one in New Jersey and one in Dela
ware, and in the course of two or
three years more that branch of the
National Legislature will be
thoroughly purged of the foul party
whose dominance in Congress has
been so fatal to our beloved Union.
And, not only so, but we shall then
have the Executive also, and peace,
prosperity and union will once more
bless the land.
Let us all learn to wait patiently
for "the better day coming," when
Democratic pilots shall be put on
board the old Ship of State, and the
noble vessel released from her dan
gerous position among the shoals
and breakers of Abolitionism.—
That day will assuredly come, but
we must bide our time.
We return our thanks to His
Excellency, Governor CURTIN, for a
pamphlet copy of his recent Annual
Message. Also to Senator HiEsTAND
for copies of the Daily Legislative
Record.
State Treasurer Elected.
On yesterday, both branches of the
Legislature met in Convention an
elected WM. V. MCGRATH, Esq.,
State Treasurer, by one majority.—
The vote stood as follows:
McGrath (Dem.) 65 votes.
Moore (Abo.) 64 "
There were four absentees—two
from each party who had paired off.
ILLINOIS,SENATOR ELECTED
Hon. WM. A. RICHARDSON (Dem.) has been
elected to the U. S. Senate, by the Legiela
tare of Illinois. The vote stood : For Rich
ardson, 66; Yates (Rep.) 37.
Ski - . Charles - R. Ituckalew.
This distinguished gentleman
having received the caucus nomina
tion of the Democratic members on
Monday night, was duly elected to
the U. S. Senate,'_on Tuesday, hav
ing received every Democratic vote
in the Legislature. The vote was
as• follows ' viz: BLECKALEW (Dem.)
67 votes", CAMERON (Ab.) Totes;
and 1 Vote was cast fbr Wk. D.
KELLY (Ab.) by Mr. Laporte, of
Bradford county.
The nominees before the caucus
were all good and true- men, _either
one of whom would have been ac
ceptable to the partyJ but as the
choice fell on Mr. BUCKALENV, of
course the friends of all the other
candidates cheerfully submitted to
the will of the majority, and by so
doing secured to the Nation for the
full term of six years the transcen
dent talents and sound conservatism
of one of the most gifted men and
able orators to be found in the broad
limits of this Commonwealth.
Mr. B. will be the intellectual in
ferior of DO man in the Senate, and
we venture the assertion that he will
be more than a match for the Sum
ners and Hales and their Abolition
compeers in that body, in sound
logic and brilliant statesmanship.—
Being yeta young man, in the prime
of life, he will soon make himself
felt at Washington, and we predict
a brilliant future in his history.
We jud.. , ,e from our Western exchanges that
the feeling against_New England and New
Englandism in that section of the country is"
every day growintr-:more-bittet- In 'reading
the proceedings of a Vemee'ratie- convention
held in Huntington county, Indiana, our eyes
fall upon the following resolution.:-.
Resolved, That when' wit,staley,ot(r,preaent
unhappy difficulties as , a country, as" well as
their origin and surroundings, the responsi
bilities of their authors and the consequences
to future generations, the solemn and impos•
ing proportions of the subject inspire with a
contempt for everything of a deceitful or time
serving character, and impel us to speak
frankly, and make the solemn declaration:
That had it not been for the fanaticism end
peculation of New _England, our generation
would not have witnessed the ghastly spectre
of disunion ; and, were it not for the same
causes, still potent for evil, those difficulties
could readily be adjusted. Therefore, we de
clare that, when we have exhausted every
reasonable effort for the restoration of the
Union as it was, should New England stand
in the breach, we, as Western men, will con
sult Western interests and Western pride,
which alike forbid that the great Mississippi.
valley should be divided, and thereby render
ed tributary to a ruinous system of Yankee
intolerance, cupidity, class legislation.; No!
never will we for one moment consent to, sur
render the fellowship of any of our gallant
sons, of the rich commerce of her broad acreZ -
No ! The great Mississippi valley, now and
forever one and inseparable.' Then will we
cheerfully say to New England, with all her
cupidity, with all her meanness, fanaticism,
follies and moral:turpitude, we bid you good
bye, remembering you only forthe wrongs you
have done us."
This resolution was adopted at a party con
vention, but its sentiment is by no means con
fined to any party in the West. Gov. Morton,
of Indiana, an ardent Republican, has pub
licly declared that when the old Union is lost,
the Great West will leave the North look out
for itself.
A leading paper in Illinois quotes from a
cotemporary a brief history of New England
ism and its fruits, in which it declared that
" the Puritan element has poisoned every
stream, social, religious, or political, with
which it has ever mixed," " compelling obedi
ence to its bigotry, regardless of all law and
all righteousness :" and thus concludes :
" Such being the fact, is it wonderful that
a desire to be rid of New England is begin
ning to find expression ? Is it wonderful that
an intelligent people, who know how much
the country has suffered at her hands, and
who, seeing the drift of her present policy,
foresee the consequences of further association
with her, desire to get rid of such a curse to
the peace and liberties of the people? We
think not, and we predict that if New Eng
land persists in her present pblicy, she will be
" left out in the cold" to draw subsistence
from her bleak and barren bills, cast off from
the " protection" and commercial advantages
which she has so ungratefully enjoyed at the
hands of the other States of the Union. And,
rather than that she should rule the country
with her selfishness and intolerance we should
wish her left out in the cold. So far as her
deserts are concerned, she deserves to be tied,
half naked 'and half fed, to her own barren
rocks, exposed to her own bleak winds, her
cries unheeded by the States whose indul
gence she has so long abused, and unheard by
Heaven, so long insulted by her hypocrisy.
THE NEW COMMANDER. She seems striving to provokei this fate for
Late Washington despatches contain the herself, and she may succeed."
following item : And the feeling against New England; says
the Post, is not confined to the West. It is
A special despatch from Washington to the quite as strong, though not as universal, in
Herald says that rumor was prevalent on the Middle States. We copy below, from the
Saturday that the President has declared an Philadelphia Evening Journal, a short article
intention to take the command of the army which shows what this feeling is:
in Virginia in person.
Wawa SHALL WE LOSE!—The people of
The Union will be saved, beyond doubt, this country are fast verging to that point
when the martial figure of the rail splitter when they will be called upon to answer the
appears, like Uriah the Hittite, in the fores"e —ANiaenw
Eng
qluestion, t i
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h e
e s tt all St w at e es lo ?
front of the hottest battle, and foils, by the "Which South
will
answer neither. We will answer so to y o, but
exercise of his fiat-boat experience, the skill unless a different management of our military
of Lee, the strategy of Johnston and the dash affairs is effected, the question nevertheless
of Stuart ! What a pity it is that the bril- may anah b ah e n i u m l f d )O ta
imposed upon us as po e n ew
aseanfnar one ltern will
an
Hoot
hoot idea hadn't been conceived before. In ewer, let the New England States go, for in
order that our readers may see the estimate that event we will have a lasting and perma
that Lincoln put on himself as a military neat peace. Should slavery be abolished to
man, we copy from one Of his speeches in morrow, and this vexed question be forever
Congress the following: settled, New Eng anders would never rest
quiet until they had imposed upon the country
SENSIBLE TALK. " By the way. Mr. Speaker, did you know all their heresies, political and religious, and
The Newburyport (Mass.,) Herald, a Re- lam a military hero? Yes, sir, in the days had taken to themselves the entire manage
publican paper, talks sensibly and rationally of the Black Hawk war, I fought, bled and ment of the Government.
when it says " there is no doubt that our came away. Speaking of General Case' •
They are not content with being equals. Al
schemes of emancipation have concentrated c a 'a t r S e t e i r li o r i e ti n n '. i defe m a e t,
(b' f my u
was own. about
b I t was s not
though they preach for equality of the blacks
near with the whites, it is with a sinister purpose,
the whole power of the South, as Mr. BLAIR it as Cave was to Hull's surrender ; and like and they hope through this equality to assume
said, months ago, it would, and made the him. 1 saw the place very soon afterwards.— a dictatorship which will make the people of
rebels ten fold stronger than they otherwise It is quite certain that I did not break my all the other States slaves to them.
would have been. To day the proclamation ,word, far I had none to break; but I bent a Their policy from the beginning of the
musket pretty badly on one occasion. If I Government has been to make all others ay
of emancipation would be supremely ridicu- Cass broke his sword, the idea is, he broke it tribute to them; first; by commerce, then ep bi
lout, and would so he regarded by all the in desperation ; I bent the musket by acei- protective tariffs, and now, in the abolition of
world. Equally injurious to tie cause of the dent. if General Cass went in advance of I slavery. They will next try on their Unitari•
in i n t :: : •kit i d n g adiortleberries, h l guess I our- • anism, Congregationalism, or Independentism,
Union has beer the radical plans of blottino•
wild onions. as the established religion of the country, and
out the States, and the talk of governing hail pv,„,ivrianv chargesl• uon the . .y ,
Ise fighting Indians. it was • thus supply places for a horde of intinerant
the country by military force. There were more than I did, but I had a goo d many religious beggars at the expense of the people.
never six millions of people of Anglo-Saxon bloody struggles with the musquitoes ; and Their ancestors emigrated to this country be
although I Lever fainted from loss of blood, cause they could not control the Government
origin in this world that could be governed in
I can truly say I was often very hungry, of England, and when in Holland, fool the
that way, and many generations will pass Mr. Speaker, if' I should ever conclude to , Dutch, and from the day of their la ' riding at
before such are born. Our only hope of ever doff whatever our Democratic friends may Plymouth until the present time, to grasp the
bringing this war to a successful termination suppose there is of black cockade Federalism reins of government and ride rough-shod over
is upon the Constitution as it is, with the about me, and, thereupon, they shall take me all others has been their favorite object.
up as their candidate for the Presidency, I If there must he a division then of this
rights of every State not only respected by'-• protest they shall not make fun of me, as they country, let New England go by herself; we
the General Grivernment, but guaranteed.— have of General Cass, by attempting to write • can get along a gredt deal better without than
The States must have the formation of their me into a military hero." with her. In this event we would at least get
own institutions in their own hands; and as The condition of the country is well ex- clear of a people whose sole disposition is to
equal States in the Union, each member must amplified by the fact that General Mean,- " l e r• and then sorryon an organized • system
cloak of religion stealing urger the that its people do not infringe upon the LAN is in retirement, and the author of the 1 f public • er th•:
tr ,
rights of others to seek to disturb their peace above in command of the army.
or prevent their prosperity. If we do not
SOUND DOCTRINE
" We must grapple with the great ques t
tions of the day. We must confront the
Mangers of our position. The truths of our
financial and military situation must not he
kept back. THERE MUST BE NO AT
TEMPT TO PUT DOWN THE FULL EX
PRESSION OF PUBLIC OPINION. It
must be known and heeded to enable govern
ment to manage public affairs with success.—
There is a yearning desire among our people
to learn their actual condition. They de
mand free discussion."
xgr. We clip the above from Gov
ernor SEYMOUR'S Message, and there
volume of truth and philosophy
in the extract. The people do not
know their actual condition. They
do not know the sentiments of one
another. Thousands of timid peo- .
ple have not dared to express their
opinions, for fear that some Aboli
tion spy, or eavesdropper, or malig
nant neighbor, might be ready to
have them transported to a Bastile.
Governor SEYMOUR declares that this
state of things shall no longer be
tolerated. The fetters on public
opiniOn must be taken off, and "free
discussion " must henceforth be the
order of the day in these United
States. We say amen to the noble
sentiments uttered by that noble
Chief Magistrate.
Stigic. Charles R. Buckalew, the newly-elec
ted Senator, is a lawyer of eminent ability re
siding in Columbia county. He is about
forty-three years of age, originally a Whig
and never a Jackson Democrat, but choosing
the school of Democracy as opposed to the fa
natical course of the Republicans.—N.
World.
The World is mistaken. Mr.
BECKALEW has always been an active,
consistent, radical Democrat. Be
sides he is only now in his forty
second year, and therefore could not
have been much of a Jackson Demo
crat thirty years ago, the last time
the old Hero was a candidate for the
Presidency.
want slaves, we will have nobody force them
upon us ; and if we do not want them. we
Will have nobody interfere with us. Each
one must be the judge of its own interests,
and the director of its own affairs. The Con-
stitution originally guaranteed that right, and
we must stand by its provisions t ) the letter.
It is our bond ; made in good faith, and to be
carried out in good faith."
raj— The Cincinnati Times states that Mrs.
Mary Ann Kidney, the wife
~of a Union sol
dier, died of starvation in that city recently.
11er husband has received no pair for months,
in consequence of which this poor woman died
from actual want of food to sustain life.
Tens of thousands of idle negroes are now
supported by our Government in ease and
comfort. Hundreds of millions of dollars are
asked for by the President to pay for the free
dom of hundreds of thousands more who will
have equal need of support. And all this,
while not only are our soldiers suffering from
privations and neglect in our camps " Misery,"
1 and in our hospitals, but their families are
dying from actual want of food because they
have not received any pay for monta from the
Government.
THE WAY THE MONEY GOES.—lsaac A.
Cook, of Illinois, a Paymaster in the army
has been arrested for a defalcation of a guar_
ter of a million ($250,000.) The money was
lost by gambling. Thus one after another of
the Abolition officials have been detected in
swindling the Government out of enormous
sums of money. The catalogue of defaulters
has increased until the defalcations have
swelled into hundreds of millions of dollars.
The history of the corruptions under the Lin
coln Administration that have been discover
ed, would fill volume upon volume, and yet
the full extent of these frauds and defalcaticras
will never, perhaps, be known.
Bar - Amongst the killed at the battle of
urfreeshoro, Tenn., was Capt. J. Bowman
Bell, of the 15th Regiment 11. S. Infantry.---
Capt. B. was the son-in-law of our esteemed
fellow-citizen, Judge Hayes. His remaitis
were taken to the City of Reading for inter
ment.
! Dar We direct the attention of capitalis is
to the advertisement of Frederick county (Md.)
lands, in another column. A desirable see
' Lion of country for safe and profitable invest
mantis. .
STANDING - COMMITTEES OP THE
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.
Federal Relation's—Messrs. Lowry, Penney, Clymer.
Johnson, Lamberton
Pinanco—Messra. Connell, Fuller, Mott, Dried, Fossil!.
Judiciary.—Messrs, Penney, Bound, Clymer,Bonghter,
Jchnson. •
Accounts—Messrs. Eterrill, Hamilton, Lambaste°, Wil
son, Donovan.
Estates and Escheats-Messrs Robinson, McCandless,
•Lamberton, White, Wallace.
Pensions.—Messrs. Johnson, McCandless, Donovan,
Stnteman, McSberry.
Corporations.—Messrs. Hierrtand, Nichols, Reilly, Bough
ter. Ridgway.
• 'Banks—Messrs. Fuller, Connell, Stein, Robinson, Ham
.
-Mors
Canals—Messrs Hamilton, • Turrell, Wallace, McCand
less, B ughtsr.
Railroads.—Messre. Nichole, Lowry, Glair., ilieetand,
Ridgway.
Election Digricts.-111essrs. .McCandless, Stntzman,
Me-
Sherry, Boughter, Reilly.
Reform —Messra. Ridgway, Lowry, McSberry, Graham,
Mott.
Education.—Messrs. Tassel], Graham, Kinsey, White,
Stein.
AK' iculluro.—Messra. Reilly, Nichols, Bucher, Kinsey,
"Smith.
Military.—Messts. White, Donovan, Lowry, Mats, Pen
ney.
Roads and Bridges—Means Stutzman, Bucher, Serail,
Hamilton, Stark.
Vice and Immorality.—Messrs. Graham, Bucher, Turrell,
Stein, cerriil.
Claims.—Mesers. Wilson, Stutamen, Donovan, Stark,
White.
Library.—Messrs. Bound, Wallace, Robinson.
Printing.—Mere. Robinson, Fuller, Bucher, Boughter,
McSberry.
New Counties.—lleesrs. Clymer, McCandless, Wilson,
Glass, Turrell.
Ways and Means.—Messrs- Hopkins, (Washington). Nie
man, Smith (Chester), Ludlow, Craig, Jackson, Thompson,
Kline, Brown (Northumberland). Beebe, Pershing, Olm
stesd, Cochran, MeMurtrie, Laporte.
Judiciary System, (General)—Messrs. Rains, Barger,
Vincent, Champneys, Shannon, Pershing, Brown, (North.
timberland), Ludlow, Rhoads, Johnson, Brown, (Warren).
Judiciary System. (Local).—Messrs. Brown (Northam•
berland), Ludlow. Cochran, McCulloch, Glenn, Magee,
Benedict, McMathis, Bowman (Tloga).
Pensions and Gratuities —Messrs. McManus, Early, Win
dle, Boileau, Bowman (Lancaster), Ellis, Graham, Pottei
ger, Fox, White, Huston.
Claims—Messrs. Beebe, Nelson, Boyer, Smith (Philadel
phia), Rex, Josephs, McManus, Graham, Myers, Grant,
Freeland, Strouse. Lilly.
Agriculture and Manufactures.—Messre. Weidner, Mc-
Clellan, Ellis, Gross, Hutchman, Hess, Ritter, Walsh,
Hoover.
Education.—Mesars. Early, Wakefield, Twitch°ll, Row
land, Horton. Jacoby. Grant, Boilsar, Here , Kline, Bow
man (Tielra), Benelict. McClellan. Lilly, Henry.
Arcounts.—Msesre Rowland, Patton, Laporte, Fox, Mc-
Clellan, Kerns (Schuylkill). Kline.
Vice and "Imuaorality —Messrs. Wakefield, Bdwman
(Lancaster). Barron, Sutphin. Graber, Elite, Warner.
Militia System —Messrs. Jackson. Magee, Champneye,
Witnley, Johnson, Keine Shannon Glenn, Vincent, Myers,
Coleman, Hitter. Mexander, Lee, kamsey.
Election llistra&—Messra. R6X, Barron, Windle, Labar,
Camp. Foster, Graber. Mueeelmnn, Lehman.
Banks.—Messrs. Wirnlev, Beck, Gross, Craig,.Qulgley,
Hopkins (Philadelphia . ). Josephs, Moore, Rhoads, Brown
(Mercer). Wolf, Welsh, McCullough, Lehman, McClay.
Estates and Esch.ats.—Messrs. Rhoads, Glen, Brown
(Warren), Nelson, Mc3lurtrie, Wolf, Cochran, Hoover,
Beebe.
Bonds, Bridges and Canals.—Messrs. Hoover, Graham
Hutehman, Potteiger, McCoy, Labsr, Trimmer, Noyes
Korn, (Schuylkill), Foster, Mayer, Warner, Camp, fillfil
Corporations.—Messrs. Quigley, Trimmer, Olmstead,
Young. Brown (Mercer), ICoyes, Rowland, Henry,
Boyer, Delhi., Schofield, Brown (Warren), Berns (Nina
dolphin). Sutphin.
New Counties and County Seats.—Messrs. Twltchell,
Noyes, Barron, White, Beebe, Boileau, Gi!titian, Freeland,
Mayer, It binsoo, Hess, Horton, Jaeobv.
aannpara Blll,—Messrs. Kline, McCoy, Patton, Robin
ann, Eluteliroon.
Library.—Moseirs. 0 rant, Wakefield, Alexander, Horton,
Kerns (F'hilale!phia)
Rai!road, , Masers. Thompson, Jackson, Stull:, (Chester),
G lemon, McManus. Young, Walrh, Rex,
JOhl,lll, Early. Benedict. Smith (Philadelphia), Harvey.
City Pee--suer Railroads.—Messrs. Hopkins (Philadel
phia), T , •utig. Moore. Quigley, Josephs. Smith (Philadel
phia), Grabion, hWeldnrr. Lee, Brown (Mercer), Pancoast,
Schofield, Kerns (Phil.,.delphis), Dellone, Slack.
Miurs and Mineral=.—Messrs. Wolf, Lobar, Dellone,
Ja
coby, Pot teiger, Mu,selman, Strouee, McGlay, Warner,
Moyer, Wlfite. Gaup, Robinson, Houstr.n. Harney.
Printing Monti°, Magee, Wiudlo, Alexander,
Twit, boil
Pub.ic Buildirg,—]levers. Ramsey, Kerns (Schuylkill),
F,Teih II a.
Federal ltelalinns.—Messrs. Pershing, Nelson, Champ
ney.:. Nieman. Cross. Trimmer, Smith (Chester), Shannon,
Myers. lloplri T. (Waililigton),Schnfleld, Fleury, Olmstead,
Thompson, Viurent.
Dive:et, —Mes:rs. Boyer, McCulloch, McCoy, Weidner,
Bawman (liege), Patton, &rouse, Pancoast, Ramsey, Rit
ter, :clack.
STEVENS , NEGRO BILL. from Pennsylvania, which gave rise to a vast
Mr. STEVENS, of Pa., introduced a bill on deal of partisan excitement and occasioned 8.
the 12th inst., setting forth that as the terms great many revolutionary rumors, passed off
of enlistment of many of the soldiers will yesterday at. Ifarrieburg without any of the
unpleasant w
results;was
corrupted so confidently
there
teew
asn predicted.—
s n expire, and as it is expedient to have Nab
occa
soldiers whose constitutions peculiarly fit' sion for the muscular fotce, said to have e been
them for the Southern campaign : so profusely provided ; and there was no ne—
cessity to call out the military, although each
dent is authorized and required to raise, equip
Therefore. be it enacted, (IT., That the Presi
and all of these events have been for some
and rganize a hundred and fifty thousand time the object of both the night and day
dreams of the great " unoccupied public" of
persoris of coh r, of African descent, to serve
five years as artillery, infantry and cavalry, the Commonwealth. Nobody was killed, no
hr receive five dollars per month, and the non body wounded, and there was not a voter
commissioned officers $lO, together with ra missing. It is to the credit of the principal
parties concerned that none of the tions, one-half to be set aside fir the use
disreputa
ble or revolutionary proceedings fomented by
of their families, and in case that they have
irresponsible persons, feared by some and
no families, the money to he retained f m '
hoped by others, were resorted to by either
them till the expiration oftheir term of eer—
side. There was a full Convention of both
vice; commissioned officers to have the same
Houses, and every vote in both bodies was
pay as those in the regular army. Company
officers may be either white or black. Re- ' cast.
The contesting candidates were General
cruiting stations may be established either in
Cameron and the Hon. Charles R. Buckalew,
the North or South.
Mr. Cox moved to lay the bill on the table. the former receiving sixty-five votes and the
Not agreed to—yeas 56, nays 83. latter sixty-seven ; eo the choice of the Legis
On motion of Mr. STEVENS, the further con lature fell upon Mr. Buckalew, and he is the
-
sideration of the subject wae postponed until the United States Senator elect to succeed
Wednesday week.—[to-morrow.] Judge Wilmot, from and after the third day
of March ensuing.Mr.Buckalew, although
We hope STEVENS will succeed in passing widely known throughout the State as a lead
his bill. We want to see this thing of negro ing man in his party, is still a young man,
soldiers tried on, as, we think, the war will being about forty-two years of age. He is
soon be ended after they take the field. a resident of Bloomsburg, Columbia county,
and a member of the Bar. Prior to 1857 he
had served seven years in the State Senate,
THE END OF TILE FORREST CASE.—The For. and was in his third term when he resigned
rest divorce case, which has been carried from to accept the appointment of Minister Resi-
Court to Court for years, has finally been de-
dent to the Argentine Confederation, which
place he held until re-called by President
tided. Mre. Forrest, (formerly Miss Sinclair, Lincoln. The new Senator is a man of first
of London,) in a suit for divorce, had former- rate intellectual ability and of strict integrity.
ly obtained a decision giving her $3,000 He was once happily described by a specula
alimony, from which Mr. Forrest' appealed ' tor whom he had- disappointed, in these words :
and his counsel wae sent to California to find I can do nothing with Buckalew;he's
testimony against Mrs. Forrest. The attempt just like one of our mountain streams cold,
failed, and the appeal resulted in a decision pure and clear."
. .
for $4,000 a year instead of $3,000. The
friends of th
hileit
woulde
have been gratifying to the
National Administration to
final decree gives Mrs. Forrest about $40,000 have returned from this State a Senator more
of accumulated alimony, and thenceforth in accordance with their views, it is a matter
$4,000 a year. for congratulation that :the " fierce democ
; racy " have made choice of as good a man,
SNOW STORM AT CINCINNATI. personally, as Charles R. Buckalew.—Phila.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 16.—Out door business
Inquirer, Jan. 13.
was generally suspended yesterday on account
of the snow storm. The street railroads were FROM BURNSIDE'S ARMY.
stopped from running, and the trains on all NEW YORK, Jan. 13.
the roads leading to the city were behind The Potomac army correspondent of the
time. A number did not arrive at all. I Herald says : "Preparations and orders which
The roof of the barracks on Vine street fell always precede a movement of the army in
in ; also the roof and a portion of the gas dicate that a very few days will again find us
works, and several other buildings, having in motion and as we hope and expect, in the
been crushed by the weight of the snow. No direction of Richmond.
lives have been lost so far as is known. The At what point the attack will be made is
storm is general throughout Ohio and Indi- not known, but unless the present order of
ana, and the snow ranges from six inohei to , things . is_ohanged, another great battle may
two feet in depth. - be looked for in a few days. • •
Priori the Providence Post
THE FEELING AGAINST NEW ENG
LAND. •
NEW UNITED STATES SENATOR.
The election of a United States Senator
LOCAL DXPARTMENT.
RELIGIOUS.—Rev. Mr. WEDEKIND, pastor
elect, preached his first discourse in St. John's Lutheran
Church, West Orange street; on Sunday morning last, to
a large end attentive congregation.. The foundation of his
sermon wee taken from the words. "In the name of our
God we wilt sat up our Banners," 20th Psalm, sth verse.
He opened by a beautiful alluetton to what should be the
aim of every person sattiog out in life. and then gate an
exceedingly brief bet interesting sketch of the felt• He
urged upon the congregation of St:John's the duty and
importance of setting' up their Banner. end having it
scribed upon it the principles. •'Holiness to the Lord,"
"Union," "Benevolence," "Fidelity:" These principles be
enlarged upon in appropriate and eloquent, language. He
-was pointed end clear in his remarks in reference to the
duties of the pastor to hltraongregation, and vice versa.--*
The reverend gentleman is an eloquent, earnest and Im
pressive speaker, end we doubt not will be a worthy sac
cessor to the eloquent sad gated Seats.. ,
RETURNED UnittE.—Lieut.. DANIEL H. HEIT
BOIL of the 122 d Regiment, has been brought home, not
basing been aide for acme time past.to attend to his dot'ee
on account of a severe attack of foyer. He is now confined
to bed at his mother's residence, in North Queen street.—
Lieut. H. Is an excellent officer, and , we hope to liter of his
speedy recovery.
THE OLD FOLKS' CONCERT. —That famous
troupe, the " Continental Old Folks," will give a series of
concerts in this city, commencing on the evening of Mon
day. the 26th of Jaituary next. The success which at
tended the "Old Folks" throughout, the whole country is
an evidence of the esteem in which they are held. When
in this city a year ego, they attracted some of the largest
audiences ever assembled in Fulton. Hall, and we predict
that on their re-appearance in Lamest:ter,. they_. ill meet
with the, same success. Thostw o wish to knotty what
singing in " Ye_oldearllme" was like, should not fail to at•
tend ongtor oil of the Old Folks concerts.
-- 'ICKNOWLEDGMENT.—The-ladies of the Dor
cas Society acknowledge the followlog donations: Hon.
James Buchanan. $2O; Mennonite Ami.h Society, per
Christian Beller, $2O: A. Herr Smith, Esq., $5; proceeds
of two lectures by Prof. Wickersham, per Jay Cadwell,
Esq., $27.25.
_„
AN EXTRACT FROM ALETTER F 77TH
EGIMENT, P. V.—A letter f nt Obreiter, of Com
pany-IL, - Capt. F,r lb.: - de ed January 3d, 1863, on the bat
tle-field at Murfreesboro, says: Our regiment was In the
fig s ot foi the last five days, and ban lost considerably. but
we are in goad spirits. Among the wounded are John
Gembe, slightly; Corp. R. McMillan, of Safe Harbor. in the
leg, and we suppose there are more of Company K lost, as
there are a good many missing, some of whom, however,
base been heard from. We lost oar Brigadier General and
our Colonel in the second day's fight.
Wo were on picket on the right of the line on the morn
ing of Dec. 31, and were driven in. Our division was In
the hottest of the fight the whole day. We lost all the
artillery belonging to the division except one piece. This
division was a small one. Gen. Sill. our commander, was
killed. The fighting was not heavy on the third day. but
last evening, the fourth day, there was a sharp engage.
-mast on the left, when we drove the rebels a c naiderable
, distance taking some 20 places of artillery. The 78th and
79th were engaged yesterday and fought bravely.
Of Company K the following are present and uninjured:
Capt. Pyfer, Lteute. Sbroad and Hans. Sergts Jac. Pont.
and John Obreiter, Corp. N. Sturgis ' Privates H. A. Brigh
ton, Fr. Balzer, F. Dumont, Jr., John Donnel, H. M. Eris
man, Henry Gast, Jacob Isenbarger. James Jordan, James
Kautz, Jac. Lyons. Adam Pontz, Fred. SCIVICIM, Samuel
Watson. We bad 35 officers and privates before the action,
but most °t i the missing will be here again; they were lost
when we were driven in. There are four or five of whom
we have heard nothing. but the rest are all safe.
On the second day's fight our right wing was turned sad
driven back about 1% mitre, but regained as much on the
left 012 the fourth day. There were two wounded and one
killed in the 79th, yesterday morning, by a shell. The
78th took the flog of the 26th Teun. (Rebel) Regiment lest
night; it is also said that they took a battery—but we
are not certain that It woe taken by the 78th. On the
second day our regiment charged! on a battery ; we had
no support whatever, and, when within 100 yards of the
battery, they poured canister into no. and a wh le brigade
appeared behind It—so we had to fell back with pretty
heavy loss. We had two color-bearers shot them, and the
old flag is riddled badly.—/nquircr.
A NEW BooE.—T. B. Peterson & Brothers,
Philadelphia, have just issued Miss M. E. Braddon's new
book of 300 pages from •` Temple Bar." entitled `• Aurora
Floyd." The Ladies' National Mogasine thus speaks of it
Aurora Floyd is destined to excite a sensation not in-
ferior to that created by ' East Lynne.' Miss Braddon, in
deed, Is much more cultivated than Mrs. Wood, and there
fore, her novel will he liked, by persons of refinement,
even more than was 'East Lynne.' The interest is abs,rb.
ing. It is a sensation novel, in fact, divested of all clap
trap. The reader pities and admires the heroine by turns;
for she is, with all her faults, a noble creature. John
Mellish. too, is a first-rate character, a thousand times
greater than the proud lover who casts Aurora cff. and
whose selfishness is chanted by John's trust and generosity.
We commend this novel as altogether the best of the year."
Price 75 - cents For sale at J. M. Westliseffer'6 llookstore
and by the publishers.
LIST or JURORS to serve in the Court of
Common Pleas, commencing Monday, February 2d
David Agnew, Paradise.
Frederick !trimmer, City. •
Henry Barton, Upper Leacock.
Andrew Barkley, Drumore.
David Cully, Marti,
George Drybread, Earl.
William B. Drake, Little Britain.
Amon Diller, Earl,
Jacob Esbenshade, Manhehn Twp.
Henry Ruby, West Hempfield.
Samuel E. Fairlamb, Little Britain.
John Finger, Columbia.
Elias G. Groff, Earl.
Jacob M. Greider, West Hempfield.
Edward Haldeman, West Hempfield.
Peter Hurisecker, Manbeim Twp.
Jacob L. Hess, Prquea.
Samuel Hess, Begin,
Benjamin Iluber, Lancaster Twp .
John Haldeman. Corm',
Adam Konigmacher, Ephrata.
John B. Knox. Leacock.
David N. Landis, East Lampeter.
Daniel F. Lefever, Drumore.
David Mel in, Columbia.
Jacob S. Miller.
Ge ge S. Maun, Manor.
Moderwell, bra more.
Simon S. Nagle, Marietta.
Samuel Patterson, Mount Joy Bor.
David Sailor, Washington Bor.
Calvin A Shaffner, Marietta.
Robeit Taggart, Paradise.
Adain Trout. City.
John Thomas, City.
John C. You Camp, City.
What Lancaster County pays to the State.—
The Report of the Auditor General shows that
the whole amount paid into the Treasury for
the fiscal year ending November 30, 1862, was
$5,211,747 63. Of this amount Lancaster con
tribured.slss,B63 38, as follows:
- TAX ON BANK LIVIDENDS
Columbia Bank
Farmers' Bank
Lancaster County Bank
Mount Joy Bank
TAX ON CORPORATION STOCKS
Columbia Bank
Farmers Bank
Lancaster County Bank
Mount Joy Bank
Columbia and Chestnut Hill Turnpike.
Columbia and Marietta
Columbia and Washington
Lancaster and Ephrata
Lancaster, Elizabethtown k Middle
town Turnpike 106 56
Lancaster and Susquehanna Turnpike.. 1116 25
New Holland 76 60
Willow Street ".... 279 SO
Chestnut Hill Iron Ore Company 150,00
Columbia Gas 81 73
Lancaster Gas
... 400,00
Columbia Water 80 00
Fulton Hall Association 78 37
TAX ON REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE, TAVERN
LICENSES, &C.
From M. 11. Shirk, late Treasurer,.... 696 41
" Lancaster County (State Tax),... 101,817 60
Tavern Licenses, Jno. Denlinger,
Treasurer, 5,390 00
" Tavern Licenses, M. H. Shirk,
late Treasurer . 1,226 10
" Retailer Licenses, Jno. Denlinger,
Treasurer 5,650 00
" Retailer Licenses, M. H. Shirk,
late Treasurer,. . 6,387 84
" Brokers' Licenses,Jno. Denlinger,
Treasurer 200 00
" Brokers' Licenses, M. H. Shirk,
late Treasurer, 199 50
Distillery and Brewery,Jno. Den
linger, Treasurer
" Distillery and Brewery, M. 11.
Shirk, late Treasurer,
Billiard Rooms, Bowling Al
leys, ... 471 65
" Eating Houses, Beer Houses, Ac., 007 50
" Patent Medicines, 38110
" Militia Tax, 504 27
TAX ON WRITS, WILLS, DEEDS, AC.
From Peter Martin, Prothonotary,.... 1,022 83
0 Geo. C. Havithorne, Register,... 140 00
Geo. Whitson, Recorder, 643 00
TAX ON CERTAIN OFFICES.
From Peter Martin, Prothonotary,......
" G&ii. C. Hawthorne, Register,...
" Henry Musser,Clerk Qr. Sessions
COLLATERAL INHERITANCE TAX
From Geo. 0. Hawthorne, Register,..., 9,476 37
TAX ON ENROLLMENT OF LAWS.
From Chestnut Hill Cemetery 50 00
" Mutual Insurance Company,.... 10 00
City of Lancaster(Tax on Loans), 769 33
BANKS PAYING INTEREST ON THE
, P,ILI3LIc DEBT,
EQUIVALENT TO CURRENCY;'
From Farmers' Bank of Lancaster
" Lancaster County Bank
" Mount Joy Bank
" Columbia Bank •
" Farmers' Bank of Lancaster.
ESCHEATS.
From Carpenter l'ilcCleory, Esq., Dep
uty Escheator in the case of the es
cheated estate of Joseph Wright,
formerly of Lancaster county, deed.. 262 50
OM=
From Farmers' Buell" of Mount Joy, for
oxpences incurred by the Common
wealth under the Free Banking law. 588 70
ACCRUED INTEREST.
From Daniel Herr, formerly Treasurer
of Lancaster county .....
" Columbia it Marietta Turnpike Co
The following are the amounts paid to cor
porations and individuals in Lancaster county
during the same period:-
11. E. Leman, repairing old muskets. 1,144 00
do 1,812 37
do I( .. " 1,325 50
II (I if
do 729 00
" " "
• do 1,621 56
" .1 II
do 2,357 40
" I( .41
do 2,01593
-
do " Id .1
(I 6,92525
do " " 3,215 50
di'
do " " 3,13900
do fli id 61 2,563 48
do " ( I di 1,45872
"
do " " 1,D26 33
Total Received by Leman
Pensions and Gratuities
Common Scheehi
Abatement of State Tax . 5,078 80
L. W. Barmany, Mercantile Appraiser. 29 43
Wm. B. Wiley, Philip S. Baker, and
others for costs
Taa Arieas EiPaiss — Co: RP& the Howard
Express Co. have bein authorized by the Government to
transmit packages and parcels to the soldiers connected
with Gen. Buroside's army In Virginia. This will be glad
news to the thousands who have been 1111.1.10 US to forward
articles much weeded by the soldiers, but prohibited by the
late order Issued by the tilted States authorities.
Rrv. Ma. WEDEKIND preached his farewell
sermon. on Sunday last, in Zion's Lutheran Church, of
this place, to crowded congregations- He goes to Lanese.
ter. Hie successor hers wilt probably be Rev. L. A. God
vnlitt, of Shippenstrtag, hay been the pastor of
'Zion's cougregelloci for aborit thirteen years.— Wednesday's
Lelssurcirs 'idvertirer.
THE 79ra.—Col. Hambright's Regiment
"vas In the last days light at . Marfrtesboro, and escaped
with but slight•loas In killed and. wounded. Among the
former are Corporal Mark Erb of Capt. Nevin's company,
and Priiate Abraham Shroy of Lieut. Benson's company.
The wounded as far as ascertained are J. H. Friday,
Corporal E. W. Hollinger, Michael' Brandt, Benjamin
Bones, all of Co. E. William A. Patton of Co. H and Sam
net Pi -kle and Isaac Quigley of Co. G. Most of the wounds
were slight, and the men are doing well.
QUARTER SESSIONS' COURT.—The January
Term of the Court of Quarter Sessions commenced yester
day—Judges Lona and Baurrom on the bench.
COLUMBIA AND MARYLAND LINE RAILROAD.
—The following gentlemen have been elected officers of
the Columbia and Maryland Line Railroad:
President-0. S. Kauffman. Esq,Columble.
Directors—Jeremiah B. Haines, Fulton tap ; Jacob
Tome. Port Deposit, Md.; Gen. B. A. Shaeffer, City; Jos
eph Reliance, Fulton twp.; James McSparran, do.; Jacob
F. Frey, Manor; John A. Sheaff, City: John Long, Drn
more tap.; Samuel J. Reeves, Philadelphia; Jeremiah
Brown, Fulton tap.• ' W. W. Miller, Safe Harbor; Jacob
B. Shuman, Washing ton Bor.
Tnctscirer—Joseph Reliance.'
Secrdtary--Geo. F. Breneman.
Chief Engineer—John A. Sheaff
Soliiitor--Gen. B. A. Shaeffer. ,
HARRISBURG CORRESPONDENCE
HARROW:MG, JILIIUSJ7 19, 1963
HESSE& EDITORS: The election of U. S. Senator having
been accomplished this place has resumed its wonted quiet'
and excitements have not been as plentiful as one week
since. The election drew an unusual number of people to
the Capital. find was the subject of earnest conversation
and almost breathless interest. For, betrayed as the Dem
ocratic party had been on previous occasions, they were
resolved, for once at least, that they should be properly
represented, and that full justice should be done to the
expresnion of the popular will at the ballot-box: and the
quiet, dignified, but determined sentiments of the vast
number of our party at the Capital were re echoed with
great unanimity by their representatives in the Senate
and Ronne on this occasion, who thus discharged their
duty before Sod and man, and can be pointed to with
honor down to the latest generation of free, Constitutiooal,
Union-loving American citizens. Positions, honors, emol_
umeuts. all that is valuable to this lira and contribute to
Its pleasure, were offered to swerve members from the
allegiance due to the glorious old party of Jefferlion and
Jacknon—the party that only can and only will rule the
country successfully. Thanks, however, to their nobler
natures, these bribes wore spurned from the outstretched
hands of the tempter and his satellites. Simon could not
•wiggle.wegglo" himself into the U. S. Senate • which
though corrupt and a disgrace to any country at this time,
will soon receive sufficient purging so as to give it a Demo•
cratic basis, in which a Warm man will once more feel '•at
home." The leaven is working there even now. The
"Winnebago Trust Funds" were not trusted sufficient!),
and the course of the Minister to Russia is fast rushing
downwards If the party to which he belongs shoald by
any means succeed in retaining themselves in power, life
would indead become a barthen to a freeman, and purity
could be found in the Dictionary—bet nowhere else.—
Perhaps it w,uld be expunged altogether from the lexicon,
and then a 'bast farewell" would be given to honor, man
11.d and the principle.; of right. Bat Heaven avert the
catastrophe
I cannot help contrasting Cameron's situation wills that
of the high-minded patriot and almost martyr, Col. WALL,
of New Jersey, who was torn away from his friends and
placed in the filthy recesses of Fort Lafayette by order of
the "Simon" Pure (F) And his offence was—that he WAS a
Demon-at Truth is said to be stranger than fiction, and
no it to in this mese. 'ln the short space of 18 months the
persecutor, with all hie ill-gotten wealth, is rejected and
cast ont by an outraged people, and the persecuted Is cov
ered with honors, and can become the Judge of the tree.
tore who fancied his money and low conning would not
only rotate him in place but keep him safe from the shafts
of a corning retribution. His star sinks without one hope
of a pure ray emanating from it, while his victinis sun
rises gloriously and will shine permanently even in these
times of gloom and woe. Lane Deo! Virtue, Liberty and
Independence—the noble motto of our State—can once
more Mame the horizon of our grand, but once debased,
Commonwealth.
Mr. BuczAtzw, the new Senator, will do honor to the
people's choice. His eloquence and his state , manlike
qualitirs are not denied even by his enemies, and we feel
sure that the interests of our good old State will find their
champion in him His manners aro modest and mime=
log, but in cauversation his eloquence shows forth In
almost every sentence, and the intellect appears to guide
the subjects before him. All appear pleased with the
choice that has been made, and all the other candidates
nobly supported his cause after his nomination in caucus
was made.
The business before the House has not been very large
during thus last week, but the session prowlers to be un.
usually interesting. Mr. Cessno. the Speaker, is an tines.'
ceptionable Parliamentarian, and is fully alive to the
interests cf the occasion. The Chief Clerk, Col. JACOB
ZEIGLER, is au foil in his position and popular with every
body. Indeed all the officers are well worthy the confi
dence of the House.
Mr. JACKSON, of Sullivan county, offered a resolution In
the House to prevent the immigration of negroes into our
State, which will no doubt be very soon discussed. It Is
a movement which has been long desired by the people of
this :tats, and unless we thus take timely precaution we
will be overrun with the •free Americans of African
dasce:vr," the unctions, greasy nigger—faugh I
Col. rforKras' bill in reference to the Tonnage Tax will
doubtless soon be on the tapir, and, from his his high
character as a legislator and an honorable man, will receive
all the.atteution that he wishes it to have.
$ 927 09
2,828 22
2,155 64
244 51
Tbero has been no Lancaster County legislation of par
ticular moment as yet, at least I bate not learned of much
that will inteteet 3 ou. Sons Verrone I J.
967 50
1,413 44
1,077 '52
103 1 9
31 79
09 ) 2
11 92
170 49
TUE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMA-
A dispatch from Springfield, Illinois, states
that one of the largest and most enthusiastic
Democratic meetings over assembled in the
capital of that State took place there on the
sth instant, to express their views of the
President's Emancipation Proclamation. A
committee on resolutions was appointed, con
sisting of one from each congressional district
and three from the State at large, who report.
ed the following, which was unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, That the Emancipation Proclama
tion of the President of the United States is i
as unwarranted in military as in civil law ; a
gigantic usurpation, at once converting they
war, professedly commenced by the adminis- I
tration fur the vindication of the authority oft
the constitution, into a crusade for the sud
den, unconditional and violent liberation of
three millions of negro slaves—a result which
would not only. be a total subversion of the
Federal Union, but a revolution in the social
organization of the Southern States, the im
mediate and remote, the present and far
reaching consequences of which cannot be
contemplated without the most dismal fore
bodings of horror and diSmay. The procla
mation invokes servile insurrection as an
element in the emancipation crusade--a
means of warfare the inhumanity and dia
bolism of which are without example in civil
ized warfare, and which we denounce, and
which the civilized world will denounce as an
ineffaceable disgrace to the American name.
The meeting was addressed by Col. Rich
ardson, R. T. Merrick, Judge Marshall, W.
C. Goody and I. Norris, who were enthusias
tically applauded throughout. They were all
vigorous in their denunciations of the procla
matjon.
la HAT A SOLDIER SAYS
The Providence Post publishes the follow
ing extract from the letter of a young clergy
man who enlisted in one of the Rhode Island
Regiments and fought at Fredericksburg.—
The Post says ho was remarkable for his
frankness, earnestness and patriotism, and
had unbounded faith in the policy of the ad
ministration, believing that by fighting alone
could the rebellion be put down. What he
now thinks will be learned from his letter, as
folilows :
383 05
269 39
1,481 65
283 58
322 50
2,106 77
" Well, this war is a big institution. My
private, ' treasonable' opinion is, that if the
affair continues to be managed in the same
way and by the same men who have charge
of it now, it will take about eight hundred
years to settle it. I left home with a patriotic
motive, and called upon my friends and ac
quaintances to go and fight for the Union. I
looked upon the subject very much as almost
everybody at home looked upon it. But now
the fence is down, and I :an see. The beam
is out of my eye, and I behold great droves
of government swindlers, hordes of thieving
contractors, and plenty of ambitious officers,
growing fat, while men fall on the field in
heaps like winnows, bringing sadness to
thcusands of loving hearts, until from the
bottom of my heart and with indignation I
cry out against wickitdness in high places,
and call upon the God of Abraham to inter
pose in behalf of our common country. No
matter if it be treason to say it, the majority
of this army believe that fighting can never
settle the difficulties under which we are
laboring. The army was never so dishearten'
ed and disgusted as at present, lying editors
and correspondents to the contrary notwith
standing."
$155,863 38
$29,334 04
401 00
11,418 00
$46,320 01
ItiAtiftSfellirOWiritiflClNAltt Irlt901:17111Nar4 1
The startling exhibit, made by Mr. Spauld
ing, in his speech day before yesterday, of the
colossal expenses of the war and the enormous
strain which must be , Put on the national
credit, cannot fail to arrest attention and make
a profound impression on the public mind.
Eloquence, of course, there Wasnone in Mr.
Spaulding'a speech ; he makes no pretensions
to it.. As a, display 'of financial 'eagaoity it
ranka equally low ; though a successful busi
ness man, Mr: Spaulding . has no reach of
Mind be is as ordinary's man as the general
average of Congresimen, rising above the
dead level of their dreary mediocrity only in
a knack. of making money, and is the influ
ence due to wealth acquired by personal ex
ertion and a run of good luck. But as Bos
well was the first of biographers because he
was the most servile of flunkeys, so Me.
Spaulding has made the most instructive
speech of the session because he felt the inca
pacity for large general views has made a most
careful collector of facts.
His speech required only the faculties of an
accountant ; it is mere arithmetic without
statesmanship ; but there was nothing which '
the country so much needed to know as the
exact rate of the national expenditures unem•
bellished by the colorings of theory ; and this
desirable knowledge Mr. Spaulding has given
us in the satisfactory nakedness to be expect
ed from a mind too barren to clothe them with
any sort of drapery, whether of eloquence,
acumen, or even plausible sophistry. It
would be a great advantage to the dispatch of
public business if Congress were more large-.
ly made up of useful and diligent men like the
honorable member from the Buffalo district.
The nation is annually bored by conceited
mediocrities mounted on stilts, who make vain
attempts to conceal their mental poverty under
turgid and empty rhetoric. Mr. Spaulding
has set this hoard of spouting pretenders an
excellent example in not attempting to fly
when nature had odly given him faculties to
burrow, and, bad as is his political economy,
he has laid the country under obligations by
the facts he has dug up and brought out into
the
"We could not," says Mr. Spaulding, "shut
our eyes to the vastness of the volume of debt
that was open before us. It was very soon
made apparent that our national debt would,
at an early day, reach s2,ooo.ooo,ooo—equal
to half the debt of Great Britain." If Mr.
Spaulding, had perceived the full significance
of this comparison to the enormous public
debt of Great Britain—a debt which has so- -
long been the financial winder of the world
-he would have added that, in the pressure;
of the burden, our debt would be not half equal,
but fully equal to that of England, inasmuch as
the interest on ours is at twice as high a rate.
And this staggering result will be reached by
the end of the fiscal year, fir which it is the
duty of Congress at this session to provide ;
that is to say, on the 30th of June, 1864. The
following brief paragraph from Mr. Spauld
inir's speech embodies statements on which
every • etleating man in the nation will do well
to ponder :
" The time has arrived when our finances
must engage the earnest and united attention
of all loyal representatives. We were in great
peril last year, but our dangers are now two
fold now what they were then. It wins very
difficult last year to provide the money to meet
the large appropriations made for the support
of the army and navy. It will be still more •
difficult to meet 4e enlarged requirements of
the current and next fiscal year. Ths army
bill appropriates over $731,000,000, which,
added to the estimates 'of all other expendi
tures for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1864,
amount to the enormous sum of $1,095,431,-
183 56, to which must be added the amount
still required for appropriations and deficiency
of the year ending June 30, 1863, and which,
according to the Report of the • Secretary of ,
the Treasury, amounted on the Ist of Decem
ber to the sum of $554221,131.59, making
the whole aggregate required to meet appro
priations during th,e next eighteen months,
$1,646,634:11.5.15g
,
Dividing this enormous sum, which the Gov
ernment must raise within the ensuing eigh
teen months, by the twenty millions of in
habitants on whom the burden will fal), gives
something more than eighty-two dollars for
each individual of the population. The sig
nificance of this result will not be adequately
perceived unless wo consider that only a
fraction of the population either own property
or earn wages. We will assume that the
average type of our population is a family
made up of the two parents and three child.
ren ; that is, of ono person who earns money
to every five consumers. This estimate of the
ratio of non-producers is doubtless too low •,
[ every town has a large number of aged and
decrepit people, spinsters, confirmed invalids,
. students, and young professional men who
' have not acquired a business sufficient for their
maintenance, to say nothing of paupers, the
inmates of asylums and other public institu- •
tions, transient foreigners in our large cities,
! and the soldiers that make up our brave
; armies.
But taking the low estimate we have adopt
ed, which makes the average type of our
population a family of five persons, of which
only the head owns property or earns money,
the share of each such individual in the ex
penses of the next eighteen months is $4lO.
If every such- head of a small family were
notified to morrow that he must give to the
[ Government within that period the sum of
' $4lO, there would be sad faces at the frugal
family dinner To furnish such a sum would
be felt to be entirely impossible. If it fell
only on one such family in ten, or one such
j family in five, by dint of scraping together
and borrowing, the requisition might be met.
But when every frugal family in the land is
under an equal necessity of borrowing, selling
superfluous articles, or appealing to the lenity
[ of creditors, a man cannot depend on his
neighbors to help him through, as he would
in an emergency which fell on him alone. •
It may be said that the Government does
not ask him to pay that much, only to lend
it; but it really amounts to the same thing.
Pay it he ultimately must, together with the
interest on it, unless the nation disgraces
itself by repudiation ; and if procured as a
loan, somebody must lend it. Those who
neither pay nor lend are in the condition of a
man who has- given his note, which is a
mortgage on his income or his earnings until
it is paid, the obligation of which he can no
1 more evade than he can that of a note of hand.
Such, then, is the share of each man, in aver
age'oircumstances, of the public expenses of
[ the next eighteen months, with a great debt
already accumulated, and a depressing future,
certain to bring its own burdens, Stretching
beyond. Such immense sums as those ex
hibited in the authentic figures of Mr. Spauld
ing merely awaken a vague feeling of aston
ishment, until they are separated into, frag
ments and each man's part of the burden
brought home and laid down at his door.
Even if the business and currency of the
country were in'a:healthy condition and on
I the most stable footing, the raising of such
vast sums would naturally awaken deep con
cern and alarm. ,But when, with such
[ demands on the people,' the finances are so
j managed as to bloat and debauch the currency,
and portend a commercial revulsion compared
[ with which those of 1837 and 1857 were
bagatelles, the time has come for the crazy
and windy declamation of the Abolitionists on
1 the manifest destiny of the African race to
I give place to rational thinking by men of
sobriety and sense.— New Fork World.
IMPORTANT DESPATCHES TAKEN
WASHINGTON, JIM: 14.
Our bl. eluding fleet has just captured some'
very important despatches from Jeff. Davis
and his Secretary of State to Mason, Slidell
and others in Europe.
These despatches give many important facts
and details in regard to the c edition of the
rebels. They give the strongest statements
of the desperate straits to which the rebel
leaders are reduced, and show that unless
they can quickly get relief, either by Euro
pean interference or by dividing the free
States, and thus paralyzing the efforts of the
Government, they must give up their bad
cause for lost.
These despatches arrived here yesterday.—
They were put up in a tin box, loaded with
lead at one end. 80 as to sink quickly in an
emergency. But our sailors were too quick.
The Government is strongly urged to make
public these captured despatches, and will
do so as soon as certain special information
contained in them is made use of.
air The New Englanders are going to lay
away the Emancipation pen as a curiosity.
The President has presented the pen, which
signed the proclamation, to George Livermore,
of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The stockings
in which Mr. Lincoln stood when he signed
the document, were promised to Charles 8 im
ner, who is to preserve them, unwashed, in
an air-tight glass case, for the admiration of
iuture ages.—New Baden Rigiater.-