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"CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION, AS
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AND THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND
HIM."-DANIEL WEBSTER.
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LLIICASTEII, February 24tb, 1863
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nothing." This is our ultimatum,
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fair to our paying subscribers, nor
just to ourselves, that more time
should be given.
Another Draft Proposed
A bill has passed the United States
Senate giving the President full
power to draft whenever, wherever,
and whoever he pleases, thus setting
aside all State law or State rights on
the subject. This fresh entertain
ment for the people has been gotten
up by the Abolition leaders in Con
gress, and will doubtless become a
law. Thus, after calling out already
a million and a quarter of men, and
after the expenditure of nearly two
thousand millions of dollars, they
want more. They prefer this rather
than the honorable settlement of our
National difficulties without any
more bloodshed. Their plea of
treating the patient, who is already
fearfully debilitated and exhausted,
is to bleed and blister him. Would
it not be better for Senator WILSON,
who introduced the bill, to get his
own State of Massachusetts, and the
other New England States and New
York to put in force the first draft
ordered six months ago, before at
tempting another ? Are we of
Pennsylvania to be continually vic
timized by abolitionized New Eng
land ? Are we to be plundered
without ceasing by Yankee tariffs,
swindled by her paper money, our
young men slaughtered by the thous
and, our Commonwealth loaded
down with debt, and our bright
prospects crushed out and ruined by
a -New England Abolition war ?
Pennsylvania nobly responded to the
first draft, whilst the States east and
north of her did nothing ; is it, there
fore, fair that she should now be
placed at the mercy of the Aboli
tionists, and the power placed in the
hands of the President to conscript
by the wholesale her able-bodied
men who remain? It is enough for
us to, ask the question, to show the
unreasonableness' of the proposition.
Our State has already furnished more
brave men for this war than any
other State in the' Union, and is
willing to do her duty in this respect
in the future ; but she asks other
States to be put on the same footing.
Let them be compelled to furnish
their quotas of the first draft, and
then the Old Keystone will cheer
fully consent to a second. Let there
be fair play in this matter all round.
"Union Leagues."
The Abolitionists are getting up
what they call " Union Leagues " in
several sections of the country, and
we see, by the Express, that a move
ment of the kind is contemplated
in this city. We suppose it is to be
something of a Know-Nothing con
cern, and one of the leading objects
(at least it is so-in Philadelphia, and
we opine the same principle is to
govern them everywhere else) is to
have neither social or business inter
course with Democrats. The ostensi
ble object, to be sure, is the support
of the Government in the prosecu
tion of the war; but, in reality, it is
for the purpose above indicated, and
for ulterior partisan objects.
Of course, this is a game that two
parties can play at, and we shall see
which can stand it the longest. In
the mean time it would,be well for
the Democrats everywhere fo organ
ize into associations, and thus be
prepared to meet the Abolitionists
at any and every point. There
should be a Democratic club started
in every ward; borough and town
ship in the county. Will our friends
see to it in time ?
THE WAY THE DOWDY GOES. PORNEY ON OAWERON.-TEIDN AND
A committee of the Senate appointed to in, I NOW.
vestigate frauds in the chartering of ships for
the Banks' and other expeditions, have made'
a report which reveals more than the usual,
amount of frtnd and corruption in Govern
meat often and employees. They show , that,
one of the Government agents named Coblens
chaitered to Government thirteen vessels val
ued at $66,283, at the rate of $947 per day, or
$345,655 per year, which is Only 529} per cent.
on his investments I
Another Government agent named Hall is
represented to have been in the business eigh
teen months. He has charged from five to
twelve per cent. for lie services, and has be
sides received large per centages on the earn
ings of the vessels from their owners. No less
than 163 vessels were chartered through Hall,
while he was agent for the owners of twenty ?
two others employed by the Government. He
was a poor man eighteen months ago, but is
now rapidly acquiring wealth by the receipt of
a large daily revenue from commissions upon
the earnings of vessels still in the Government
employment.
Another of this band of disinterested "pa
triots" named Loper is stated to be in receipt
of enormous revenues, from the chartering of
transports, derived partly from commissions
received on vessels where he acted at the same.
time as agent of the Government and agent of
the owners, partly from the charters of vessels
belonging to transportation companies, of
which he is a large stockholder, partly from
vessels owned by himself, and chartered by or
through himself, as Gdvernment agent, to the
Government, partly from collections of money
due to others on transportation account, and
partly from his "influence." Mr. Hall of
Baltimore testifies that he paid Loper $13,000
at one time for "getting business for bim,"
and besides considers himself bound to pay an
additional sum of 2i per cent. (one-half) of the
earnings of certain vessels.
After showing up the various swindling
transactions connected with the business of
hiring vessels for various expeditions, the corn
migee declare that the facts and testimony
point to John Tuck, Assistant Secretary of
War, "as the person through whom these gigan
tic and shameless frauds on the Government
were chiefly perpetrated 1"
These frauds amount to millions of dollars,
and the chief criminal in them is declared by a
Republican committee to be a high Govern
ment officer I
Thitrie "the way the money goes ;" the way
the people are swindled under this Republican
administration, and the load-mouthed "pa
triots" denounce as "traitors" all who do not
aid them in this stupendous knavery.
THE CONSCRIPTION BILL
The following is a summary of the chief
points of the conscription bill which has just
passed the Senate:
After a preamble which sets forth the rea
sons for the measure, it is enacted that all
able-bodied male citizens, and foreigners who
have declared their intention to become citi
zens, who are between the ages of twenty and
thirty-five years, shall be declared to con
stitute the national forces, and liable to per
form military service when called upon by the
President.
Section second exempts from service such
persons as are rejected as physically or men
tally unfit for the service; also, first, the
Vice President of the United States, the judges
of the various courts of the United States, the
heads of the. various executive departments
of the government, and the,Governors of the
several States ; and second, the only son
liable to military duty of a widow dependant
upon hie labor for support; third, the only
son of aged or infirm parents dependent upon
his labor for support ; fourth, where there
are two or more sons of aged and infirm par
ants subject to the draft, the father, or if he
be dead, the mother may elect which son shall
be exempt ; fifth, the only brother of children
not twelve years old, having neither father
nor mother, dependent upon his labor for sup
port ; sixth, the father of motherless children
under twelve years of age dependent upon
his labor for support ; seventh, where there
are a father and sons in the same family and
household, and two of them are in the mili
tary service of the United States as non
commissioned officers, musicians or privates,
the residue of such family, not exceeding
two, shall be exempt ; and no persons but
such as are herein exempt shall be exempt—
provided, however, that no person who has
been convicted of any felony shall be enrolled
or permitted to serve in said forces.
Section third makes two classes of the en
rolled citizens. The first class consists of all
those subject to duty between the ages of
twenty and thirty-five years who are subject
to duty. The second class embraces all others
subject to military duty, and they are not to
be called out until the first-class has been
called into service.
Section four to ten inclusive makes the
District of Columbia, each of the Territor
ies, and each Congressional district an en
rolling district, and authorizes the appoint
ment of a Provost Marshal for each district,
under whose superintendence the draft shall
be made. All persons who are enrolled are
liable for two years from the date of enroll
ment to be called into the military service of
the United States, for three years, unless
sooner discharged.
Section twelve declares that when the draft
shall be made in any district, the enrolling
board for that district, consisting of three
persons, the provost marshal as president,
and having a practising physician or surgeon
for one of its members, shall make a draft of
the citizens subject 'to military duty, of the
numbers required, and fifty per cent. in ex
cess. All conscripts are to report in ten days.
Those who wish may procure exemption by
furnishing a substitute, or by the payment of
three hundred dollars. Any conscript failing
to report for duty, or who does not procure
exemption, is to be treated as a dese'rter, un
less be can show he is not liable to military
duty.
Section fourteen provides for the inspection,
by an army Burgeon, of all drafted men, and
the discharge of those not able-bodied. After
the required number of able-bodied men are
obtained the remainder will be discharged.
Section eighteen is to encourage militia and
volunteers now in the service to re-enlist by
the payment of additional bounties.
It is also provided that when a regiment of
the same arm from any State has lost half its
men by battle, that the companies of the
regiment shall be consolidated, and all super
fluous officers discharged. Another section
empowers courts martial to reduce to the ranks
officers who shall be found guilty of absence
without leave, to three years or during the
war.
The remainder of the act provides for trials,
&c., grades of rank, and ie of no importance
to the general public,. All the most impor
tant points of the bill are presented above.
In a note received from the publishers, we
are requested to announce that " The Age "
will not be issued until late in the month of
March. This delay is occasioned by the con
tractors not being able to baild the press on
which the paper is to be printed at the time
specified. The proprietors are getting one of
Hoe's last fast.
ONLY TWENTY MILLIONS :
The U. S. Senate has passed the bill appro
priating Twenty Millions of Dollars to aid in
the abolition of slavery in Missouri I This
sum divided among the loyal States according
to population, would require from Pthinsylva
nia only about $2,500,000 !
TIRE CONSCRIPTION BILL.
The Philadelphia Press states that the Con
scription Bill passed the Senate on last night
week by unanimous vote. How this una
nimity was obtained we learn from the Phila
delphia inquirer, whose Washington corres
pondent states that as soon as it became
evident that the Republican Senators intended
to
,pass the bill, all the Democrats, except
five, left the Senate.
ForneY's Press is severe upon Mr. Boyer, Of
Clearfield, in consequence of the disclosure
recently made by that gentleman in reference
to the attempt of Simon,Cameron to bribe him.
Mr.-Forney thinks that Mr. Boyer's children
will have cause to blush over hie memory—
that he "regards party triumphs of more
value than personal honor, truth and the feel
ing of respect that should exist between man
and man."
It is strange that the admirer .of John
Brown does not perceive that Cameron's chil
dren have some cause to blush, and that
Cameron "regards political triumphs of more
value than personal honor," etc. Since _Mr.
Forney is, in 1863, so blind to Cameron's faults
in this matter of bribing, or attempting to
bribe, members of the Legislature to vote for
him for Senator, we are induced to go back
and learn what was his opinion in 1857, when
he seemed to understand such things better.
We " appeal from Philip drunk to Philip
sober." In 1857, Forney received the nomi
nation of the Democratic caucus for the United
States Senate, and Simon was the candidate
of the opposition. It is well known that
Simon beat Forney, although the Democrats
had a majority of the Legislature, and it is
well known that Forney was very indigpant
in consequence. He then edited the Pennsyl
vanian, and the following is what he wrote
and printed on the day after his defeat :
" Yesterday will long be remembered as the
most disgraceful day in the political annals of
Pennsylvania. Corruption has triumphed ;
villainy has been- successful, and Cameron,
whose
.name is but a synonym for all that is
vile add infamous in politics, has been chosen,
not to re present , . but to disgrace our noble old
Commonwealth in the United States Senate
for the next six years. Despised by every
honest man of all political organizations,
proven over and over again to be morally and
politically dishonest; false in turn to every
party, to every political sentiment, to almost
every obligation that honorable men respect,
a Pennsylvania Legislature has been found
weak enough and base enough to exalt him to
a seat in the highest political assemblage of
the country. All are familiar with the many
base arts and appliances by which this bold,
bad, cunning man has for years ministered to
his ambition. Destitute of integrity of pur
pose and character, neither honest nor capa
ble—utterly MEI principled and corrupt—power
less for the accomplishment of any good par
pose for any party—he has long persistently
enrolled himself in the list of candidates for
the United States Senatorship, without possess
ing a single qualification for the post, or a
single claim of a proper character, aid has
throughout relied entirely upon intrigue and
corruption to foist himself upon a body with
which he is totally unfitted to associate.
* * * * * * *
" Simon Cameron will go to the Senate to
serve no honest purpose, to represent no
honest political duty. He will go there in
quest of plunder, ready to betray friend or
foe to obtain his ends. He will go there as
ready to sell his own vote and influence as
he has been to purchase votes and influence to
assist him in securing his election.
" He will go to Washington. as all men un
derstand, not as the representative of Pennsyl
vania or of any honest interest of the State ;
not as the exponent of any party or of any
principles, but to re-enact upon the national
arena the part he has played through life—a
speculating, unscrupulous, dishonest jobber—
to cover himself with infamy—to plunder the
Public Treasury himself, and to fasten upon
it the horde of harpies who surround him, and
who have buoyed him up in all his political
measures for the sole purpose of using him as
the burglar uses the crowbar with which he
opens the shutters of the house be would rob.
"We read in old story books of trained
bands of robbers, who lived in the dark and
dingy caves or bristling fortresses, and who
sallied forth under a chosen captain to plunder
every traveler who excited their cupidity.
But civilization has broken up, in a great
measure, such a system of operations, while
humarrnature remains the same. The Treasur
ies of States and Nations are now the points
aimed at, and corrupt politicians are the
bandit chiefs who lead on the refined scoun
drels of the age. Of such men Cameron is the
chief. He enjoys the bad eminence of being
universally regarded as the most corrupt poli
tician in the State or country. He is the em
bodiment of all that is infamous in a public
man. Low cunning. treachery, venality and
corruption are his attributes. It is absolute
folly to talk of him as a politician or exponent
of principle, in the usual acceptation of the
term. He scorns all such considerations. He
would join or betray any and every party that
ever existed, and denounce or advocate every
principle that was ever suggested, in a single
week or day, if he could promote his selfish
ends thereby."
POLAND AND THE SOUTH
We are not surprised to find our radical
contemporaries somewhat chary of their al
lusions to the terrible insurrection which has
broken out against the Russian sway in Po.
land. The events which are now for the time
being " blotting .a whole country out of the
"map of Europe as completely as if the sea
" had covered it " are a terrible commentary
upon the madness of attempting to govern
millions of men in absolute defiance of their
prejudices, their passions, and their interests.
The men who have openly proclaimed their
readiness to make a Poland or a Venetia of
the South have now a fresh picture 'before
their eyes of the beauties of the system they
are mad enough to dream of importing into
the western world. After nearly a century
of military iule, after two territorial partitions
and innumerable excesses of despotic violence,
the Polish nationality is still vigorous and
vindictive enough to make the mightiest mil
itary empire of the world weak upon the side
where most it needs to be strong, and tc rise
'in furious revolt against an intolerable act of
military conscription.
Warsaw, indeed, we are told " is quiet" un
der the pressure of forty thousand Russian
bayonets, but the oVerwhelming force of the
largest army in Europe cannot preserve the
peace in the ,provinces of a kingdom not much
larger than the State of Louisiana. The fana
tics who fancy that the system by which a
Butler made " order reign in New Orleans "
could be succestfully carried out in the ad
ministration of a territory half as large as
Europe might learn a lesson from the past and
present of the land of KOSCIUSKO, were it
possible that anything could instruct those
who insanely imagine themselves commis
sioned of heaven to speak, like ANACHARSIB
Ccoors, for the whole human race, and divine
, ly inspired to remodel the institutions of a
nation and the destinies of a continent.
PROTEST OF ILLINOIS.-A letter from Spring
field, 111., thus refers to the resolutions adopted
by the Legislature of that State, in reference
to Mr. LINCOLN'S emanciliation scheme:
Mr. Green's joint resolutions protesting
against compensation to such States as may
abolish slavery, were adopted by the House
yesterday and their adoption has been report
ed to the Senate, which has already acted upon
them. These important resolutions have now
been adopted by the Legislature, and have
gone to the world as the opinion of the people
of Illinois on the subject of compensated
emancipation. \ Mr. Lincoln's own State is the
first to repudiate his new heresy. Other
States will follow, and he will find that his
scheme will be one of the most unpopular
ever devised by an administration.
Kum IT.—Horace Greeley, in a late issue
of hie New York Tribune, says : " I was will.
ing in the winter of 1860-61, to 'let the Cot
ton States go,' if they really desired it. I was
not only then willing that the Union should in
good faith make them the offer, hat I now deep
ly regret that it was not made and acted on."
While such is the avowal of the most influen
tial man and paper in the Republican ranks,
the Republican papers here have the impu
dence to assert that the war is prosecuted to
preterve the Union I
OUR RELATIONS WITH PRANCE.
The President has transmitted to the Sen
ate the recent correspondence between the
Government of the United States and the.
Government of France on the subject of medi
ation for the termination of the existing civil
•
war in this country._ The eorr. spondence
embraces notes between Messrs. Seward and '
Dayton and M. Drpuyn de Lhuys in refer
ence to the proposals of France to Russia and
England of last November, and an important
note of M. Dronyn de Lhuys to M. Mercier,
dated Jan. 9, 1863, propOsing to our Govern
ment a congress of 'conference between the
United States and "the authorities which
may represent the States of the South,"
which note and proposal have' been commu
nicated officially by M. Mercier to Secretary
Seward. The answer of the.latter to Mr.
Dayton,- the Minister of the United States to
France„ dated Feb. 6, is also published.
The definite proposal of M. Drouyn de
Lhuys to our Government is as follows:
Representatives or Commissioners of the
two parties could assemble at such point as
it should be deemed proper to designate, and
which could for this purpose be declared
neutral. Reciprocal complaints would be ex
amined into at this meeting. In place of the
accusations which North and South mutually
cast upon each other, at this time would be
substituted an argumentative discussion of the
interests which divide them: They would
seek out by means of well ordered and profound
deliberations whether these interests are
definitively irreconcilable, whether separation
is an extreme which can no longer be avoided,
or whether the memories of common existence,
whether the ties of any kind which have made
of the North and of the South one sole and
whole federative State, and have borne them
on to so high a degree of prosperity, are not
more
.powerful than the causes which have
placed arms in the hands of the two popula
tions. A negotiation, the object of which
would be thus determinative, would not in
volve any of the objections raised against the
diplomatic intervention of Europe, and, with
out giving birth to the same hopes as - the im
mediate conclusion of an armistice, would ex
ereise a happy influence on the march of
events. Why, therefore, should not a combi
nation which respects all the relations of the
United States obtain the approbation of the
Federal Government.
Mr. Seward's reply to this proposal reviews
at length the circumstances of the war, and
claims that the Government of the United
States has had and avowed only one purpose
in carrying on the war, a determination to
preserve the integrity of the country, and that
it has never admitted and laxity of effort or
betrayed any despondency as tp an early and
complete triumph of the national cause. A
review of the war, he says, gives the Govern
ment no occasion to abate that confidence,
our land and naval forces having steadily ad
vanced until the insurgents now retain only
the States of Georgia, Alabama and Texas,
with half of Virginia, half of North Carolina,
two-thirds of South Carolina, half of Missis
sippi, and one-third respectively of Arkansas
and Louisiana. The National forces hold
even this small territory in cicee blockade
and; siege. This Government, if required,
does' not hesitate to submit its achievements
to the test of comparison, and it maintains
that in no part of the world, and in no times,
ancient or modern, has a nation, when ren
dered all unready for combat by the enjoy
ments of eighty years of almost unbroken
peace, so quickly awakened at the alarm of
sedition, put forth energies so vigorous and
achieved successes so signal and effective as
those which have marked the progress of this
contest on the part of the Union.
Mr. Seward then refers to the divisions of
sentiments "among those who hold themselves
forth as organs of public opinion here," and
thinks that the French Government has given
them an undue importance, and he refers to
these divisions and the freedom of speech
and suffrage exercised by the people as the
medium through whioh the agreement of the
nation is habitually attained, its resolutions
formed and its policy established ; but he in
forms M. Drouyn de Lhuys that not one
voice has been raised anyw hare, out of the
immediate field of the insurrection, in favor
of foreign intervention, or mediation, or arbi
tration, or of compromise, with the relin
quishment of one acre of the national domain,
or the surrender of oven one constitutional
franchise.
Mr. Seward characterizes the proposition of
the French Government ae amounting to
nothing else than a discussion between the
Federal Government and the insurgents upon
the questions whether the legitimate authority
of the former shall not be renounced, and
whether the country shall not be delivered
over to disunion, to be quickly followed by
ever-increasing anarchy. He fails to see that
any good results would be likely to arise from
Email a discussion, and says there is not the
least ground to suppose that the controlling
actors of the insurgents would enter into such
a conference in a spirit or through agents fa
vorable to an offer of peace on the condition
of the maintenance of the cnion. He says
that the Federal Government has not the least
thought of relinquishing the Union, and that
an offer of peace at the cost of disunion would
be immediately, universally, and indignantly
rejected by the American people. It is a
great mistake that European statesmen
make, if they suppose this people are demor
alized.
In conclusion. Mr. Seward submits that the
Congress of the United States furnishes a con
stitutional forum for debates between the
alienated parties, and that this body has the
power of calling a National Convention to
adopt its recommendations, and give them all
the solemnity and binding force of organic
law. Such conferences between the alienated
parties may he said to have already begun.—
Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and
Missouri are already represented in Congress,
and representatives have been sent, also, from
Louisiana, and others are understood to be
coming from Arkansas.
Notwithstanding the remarkably sanguine
views of Mr. Seward in regard to a speedy
suppression of the rebellion, it is gratifying to
note that in the late correspondence, the Sec
retary of State has not indulged in the definite
expression of prophetic periods which rendered
his early diplomatic notes of such startling
interest. He now simply confines himself to
the modest rehearsal of the wonderful aecom•
plishments of the Federals, and challenges a
comparison of our success in managing a
great rebellion with that of any European
nation under similar circumstances. Thus
our wily Secretary outwits, outwrites and
circumvents the shrewd and designing Euro.
pean diplomats. In all their tricks he is their
master, and as an artful dodger he yet stands
head and shoulder above them all. If Lincoln
cannot conquer the rebellion in the field with
his guns, Seward can establish his ability to
accomplish this feat upon paper, and if the
foreign governments will listen to him, he will
arrange the affair satisfactorily to all con
cerned.
IMPORTANT \ ADMISSION.—Tbe New York
Tribune says :
"A majority of the people of the rebel States
would doubtless gladly assent to a restoration
of ' the Union as it was ;' but the Richmond
`despotism has already told us that it will do
nothing of the sort."
An immgneo majority of the people of the
loyal States would also " - gladly assent to a
restoration of the Union as it was, but the
Washiagton despotism has already told us
that it will do nothing of the sort." Here we
have the great and important fact that an im
mense majority of the people of the whole
country, and a majority in each section,
would gladly stop this terrible war and return
to a state of peace upon the basis of " the
Union as it was ;" but the rulers in the two
sections wickedly refuse to put an end to the
conflict. They insist upon further bloodshed,
devastation and suffering, for objects which
the people of both sections abhor and repu
diate.
TIRE STATE LEGISLATURE.
No legislation of any public importance
was enaoted•diiring the last week. A large
number of lead hills were noted upon, but
nothing of opeoial importance to Lanoaatei
county.
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
TER MUM' SNOW or TVS SZatiON.—The
deepest mow of the season fell on Sunday lest commen
cing before day-break and etopplag about dusk. The depth
of the anon was about nine or ten India., and dace that
time the lovers of alelghing bars had a good time of it.
SIMEON ON MASONRY.—Rev. J. E. MIRE-
D= delivered a sermon on Masonry, In the Duke Street
M. E. Church, on Sunday afternoon. to the members tf
Lodge No. 43, A. Y. M. Notwithetanding the heavy snow
storm which prevailed, there was a good attendance of
the fraternity and others.
•
CITY Assessos.—ln the list of City Officers,
publithed last week. the office of City Assessor was, by an
overtight. omitted. The gentleman elected was JAXIIS H.
Bums, Lq., of the 8. = Ward. This is an excellent
selection. and the Democracy of the Southeast were de
serving of Some recognition for their gallant bearing and
glorious redemption of their ward at the late election.
• Stumm] Arrasi.—A young man, named
WILLIAM Einzio, was shot in the village-of Fairfield, Fru
more township, this county, on Thursday evening hit, by
a squad` of soldiers, belonging to the Provcat Guard at
Conowingo Bridge, who're» in Reich of deserters. The
affair took place In a carpenter's' shop. Ax the soldiers
cams In at one door the young man ran out at the other,
and they, supposing him to be the person for whom they
were searching, fired at him, one of ambling striking him
hi the wrist cf the right hand, and loilicting a dangerone
wound. They found out that Ramo was not the person
they wanted, he never having been enlisted at all, and
shortly afterwards gave them.-elves up, and were brought
to this city on Friday afternoon, and lodged in the County
Prison to await their triaL
Teas LATE SZROZAHT MCCRACIEZN.—The Po;
mains of the late Jour( 0. kfoOnlczer, Orderly Sergeant of
the Union Guards, let Pennsylvania Reserves, were
brought to this city on Friday last. in charge of Mr. Jesus
&hunk. Undertaker, for re-Interment. It will be remaint
bared that Serg't McC. wu wounded In the second day'.
fight before Richmond, from the effects of which he died
on the 14th of Joly, at the Hospital in Annapolis, at whiCh
place he was buried. Hie remains were re-interred at
Zi0125 Cemetery on Sunday afternoon. Peace to the gal
lant young soldier's uhea.
PANORAMA OP JRRUSALIM.—Barolay's Pan
orama of Jerusalem. a magnificent series of paintings, and
said to be the best of the kind extant, was to balexhibited
three different times yesterday at Fulton Hall. Prom the
reputation of this Panorama, we have no doubt the exhib
itor was greeted with fall houses.
Ntw CIGAR STORI.--We refer our readers
to the advertisement of Mr. D. G. SPRICEII. In to-day's In
telligences Our friend Davy, who is well posted in the
Tobacco bneineu, has opened an eetablishotent at No. 1434
North Queen street, where he keeps on hand the linen
Foreign and Domeetic Olgare, Tobacco, and In fact every
thing pertaining to a first-ciao Cigar Store. We have tried
his cigars, and they are decidedly nice to puff.
MESSRS. J. W. FRITZ nod Buirtainv FRITZ,
of Strasburg township, will leave thin city on Monday text
for the 122 d Regiment, (Col. Franklin's). Boxes can ba
sent with them by being left at the Pennsylvania Railroad
Freight Depot. Prise $1.50 per 100 pOhnds) Proceeds, after
the necessary expenses are paid, for the benefit of the Pa
triot Daughters of Strasburg.
For The Intelligeneer.
Mp 33118. Rot t:ma: Why does not some enterpricing typos
start a daily paper in the village of Litls? Two daily
Journals are now flourishing in your city, and the county
can well support a third. Besides the apparent chance for
pecuniary advancement, the city journals would be
relieved from the duty of having their local columns ma.
nopolised by a "penny.a-liner's" report of Litta gowip and
slander, from grave and momentous political demonstra
tions to the more ordinary proceedings of a shooting match
fora mammoth turkey or swine. Why all this should be
suddenly foisted upon the good natured reading public we
are at a low to know.
Litie hem lotig recopied a Oleo in the geography of the
county; Its institutes of learning have long been favored
and of old standing; nearly everybody hoe seen the
Spring, and if not has heard of it. Its Inhabitants, hith
erto notes enterprising and energetic as they should he,
are neverthlese 'ober, industrious and respectable people.
The completion of the Railroad has, however, etimuleted
them to new exertions, and already there exist In embryo
two coal and lumber yards, with a new hotel looming up
in prospective. There Is one trait of character which, per
haps to some extent known, though not no well appreci
ated by the outside public, is the periodic-political enthuer
ill.O manifested here, which last trait of character has
furnished no let, than half a dozen 'locals" for your pa
perm. Each correspondent depending upon the strength
and paucity of his remarks for notoriety, without much
regard for his reraonal characterl for truth or verach,...-
The last of the 'run" published uudor the auspices and by
gracious nem:Heston of the newspaprr king of your city,
who bald°, being gn editor of a paper more noted for its
else than its editorlile, sojourns at Ilarrisburg and nue •
CH UR in the Senate Chamber, and Is popular for the very
patriotic course he took and the feate of equestrianism he
performed at the memorable battle of "801 l Run," not to
forget the rentlemsn's knowledge of the growth and cul
ture of -beans." Thia detailed account of proceedings of a
Ladies' Democratic Supper, in which the dear creature:—
God have mercy upon them—are handled in the editor's
usual gallant style. wherein he shows hi. rapturous adorn.
Von of women by comparing the "clouting beauty" of the.°
Litia ladles to that of colored glass. tie is a ladies' man
and no mistake!
But besides the ladles and their beauty, others receive a
share of attention, no less than a member abut to the next
Congress, and n banker, both from Harrisburg, with n very
polite, generous and manly allusion to one of the oldest
and meet respectable citizens of Litiz, who. In the editor's
vocabulary is styled an "an , e.delunian." These four pay.
ties—the ladies, Congressman, banker and the ll•nteedlo-
Invian"—all tome in for • lavish share of ahead, and are
assailed at the dictation of time° whose record and antece
dents should not make the act, or the manner of the act, sur
prising to them. Recollecting the Instruction that eh wily
"rejoiceth not in Iniquity," and the Injunction being sal.
utary in this CARO, the temptation is strong to rejoice,
rattier than to feel indignation at the gross indecency their
opponents thought proper to perpetuate. Tree It is not a
matter of sorpriso that n simple, unostentatious, unan
nounced assemblage of ladles in a private parlor should
have been potent to reveal at once Otto character and pres
ence in the community of the demon of fanaticism. The
bent authority says that "the devil the father of Ilea"—
If falsehood is the evidence of his agency, then the reporter
who only furnished details, is entitled to preeminent die.
titration In the ranks of the 'prince of evil."
In regard to the loyalty of the people of Litia no one can
entertain a doubt. That it hen sent ea many of its young
men forth to battle an any other village (in proportion) is
a fact, and furnishes just reason to be proud; but why a
man whore days am numbered, whose life's nrrent to fast
ebbing. and whom years already exceed the time nenally
allotted to man, - three score years and ten"—for the last
tan years a cripple, In ill health', and for the moat part
confined to his house. should be selected and math
leasly dragged forth, and, as In times gone by, maligned,
slandered, villified, aye he hen seen been thrmtened with
violence by men living in what purports to be a christian
community, end whose education and innate sense of right
or wrong should at least not destroy every feeling of mo.
rality and justice, but make them charitable enough to
reaped grey hairs and old age. Th a same 'Mute-deluvian"
with all his bodily Infirmities still retains a vigorous un
derstanding, a mind cultivated by self exertion. and not
brought out stocked tend stored by the munificence of the
church. He. too, has his representative in the ranks of the
army. one who has tasted the stern reality of the war. and
tested th• rigor of rebel role Having lived through the
last war withe England, the war with Mexico, and so much
of the present rebellion. always sustaining the Govern
ment in and by the Constitution, never advocating what
be was not prepared to do himself, nor eryieg war, war,
and when necessity called upon men to to subject them
eelves to a draft for the protection of those principles he
•ntertnined, or the institution. he professed to I've, he
never claimed exemption and shielded himself behind a defect
of right. a popular excuse generally known as . ruaraight.
winos."
'Tia slander,
Whose odge is sharper than the sword ' • whose tongue
Out-venoms th• worms of Mile ; whose breath
Rids. on the posting winds and cloth bolls
All corners of th• world! Kings. queen. and states,
Maids, matrons, nay the secrets of th• grave
This viperous slander enters.
_ - -
The beet explanation that ran be offered In the premie.
Is found In the old story of a prisoner confined within •
cell, the walls of which contracted hour by hour, and in
spite of hie frantic struggles remorselessly crushed out hi.
life. The Abolition Republican party In In a political cell
of this peculiar constrnolion, and its threats and blas
phemies, its appeals, thunders and reproach., are but the
froth, the shrieks and the fury, the walling. and 4x•era.
lions which it emit. as It strains itself to escape a fate that
Is inevitable. “Cfnamcx."
THE SOLDIERS STOPPED READING
An order has been issued prohibiting the
circulation of all newspapers in the Army of
the Potomac until further notice. This is a
very strange movement, and one it will be
very difficult for the administration to justify
before the country. The soldiers are also
American citisens and have a right to know
what is going on in the world. Of course it
is obvious why this order has been issued.
The all but universal dissatisfaction of the
country with the negro policy the radicals are
forcing upon the government is very clearly
indicated by the newspaper press, and the
feeling is quite as common in the army as
elsewhere. The administration hopes by this
means to prevent a knowledge of the growing
discontent from reaching the soldiers, for fear
it would affect their morale.. But in this, as
in all other measures, civil and military, the
administration shows its want of common
sense and foresight. It is not the newspapers
that are to blame for the state of feeling
throughout the country and in the army ; Mr.
LINCOLN'S advisers are responsible for that.
It was changing the war for the Union into
one for abolition that has done all the mischief,
and while this policy obtains 'natters will grow
steadily worse. The absence of newspapers
will increase and embitter the feelings of the
soldiers, who will learn all the government
wishes they would not learn from their private
correspondence and by report. The time is
not- far distant when Mr. LINCOLN will see,
what is obvious to all sane people at the North,
that this is among the most foolish of the many
foolish expedients of his counselors.—N. Y.
World.
q' This has since been denied by the
Republican papers.
THE PAPER BUBBLE
The New York Methodist, a paper that has
zealously sustained the war policy of' the
administration, including the emancipation
proclamation, gives the following in its money
article of last week, treating of Mr. Chase's
bill for more paper money :
It is now known that the use of less than
$250,000,000 in legal tender notes has caused
the price of gold to be 150. Under the pres
ent acts of Congress the price of gold will be
at least 175 less than two months, and
within four months 200. Long before the
$1,000,000,000 of paper money is in circula
tion, the price of gold wilt rule at 400 or 500 ;
the commerce of the country will be paralyzed,
and every_ bank in the country will be insol
vent. Every laborer, clerk, and those who are
supported on fixed incomes from dividends,
rents, bonds and mortgagee, etc., will be re
duced to a state of poverty, suffering and dis
tress, to which no parallel can be found on the
page of history, no, not even in the rebel
States, because there they are supported by
the system of slave labor.
The practical working of these legal tender
acts of Congress, and the paper-money system
of Mr. Chase, is to confiscate the earnings and
property of the 20,000,000 a loyal : eitisens for
the benefit of Government offioials, politicians.
contraotors, and a bords of totterrung tomcat,
tore.
WHO SHALL USE THEE
A Reply to the Daily Evening Inquirer
of the 16th tact. •
kissens. Enrronti: In the , loan, of the Inquirer above
referred to we find the %Mowing sentence, In an editorial
headed "Who shall use than 1" :
. We would be pleased indeed if some of our noted Dem
ocratic friends, either In this city or county, through our
own columns or by.means of the haelligencer, would can
didly and fairly tell us why the Union armies should not
be Increased by our baying the services of the negroost"
,In mks to the challenge thus thrown out, and for the
purpose of giving ear readers the pith of the argument he
uses, and Which be no doubt considers "cod reasoning
and calm. dispassionate argument," we quote the fbllowing
paragraph:
. Shalt we hem the benefit of the nestro's services In be
half of the Union, or shall the rebels have the exclusive
privilege of his services against the Union? This is the
practiced question which is involved in the proposition for
enlisting and arming negro soldiers. The negro we have
In the country. We can't abolish him. He Lathed tact.
lib will remain while the present contest sootiness spite
of all we can do. He has arms strong enough to bear a
musket or handle a cannon, legs able to make m atch " ,
and brain sufficient to enable him to nee his physical abil-
Mee In the art and practice of fighting. Bodily the main
difference between him and the white man is only skits
dap, and the color of the arm does not detract from Its
rower, nor of the hand from its skill in the management
of weapons. We have the negro then, able-bodied and
healthful, with a capacity of infinite nee upon one side or
the other In the present struggle; and the question now
Is, which party la to have the advantage of his Aram,
hand., Ism in, In the prosecution of the fight/ If we
don't use him the rebels will. They ars doing this all the
time. The prejudice against Steffy does not go to the ex
tent of deterring them from making him mend wherever
they can. That feeling to confined exclusively to the
breasts of certain Union men. Shall the rebels enjoy •
monopoly of Ouffy's servicee and abilities?"
It will be seen by the foregoing argument that the fact
of the rebels using the negro is a strong reason why he
should be need in the Union army. Itmust be remem
bered, however, that the people of the South regard their
negroes as Inferior beings, and rise them for the support
of their cause and their armies just as we use our horses
and cattle. They have ever held that there was e. brad
distinction between the races of the African and the Can
casino, and that the negro should no more participate in
their achievements of military glory than civil or political
renown. The capacities of the negro can fit him for the
plantations and the labor of the intrenchtnents, but not
for metal or military equality. The object cf this digrts
don is not to apologise ibr the rebels, hot, to prepare the
way for the few observations I with to make upon the
subject in hand.
I wish it to bp distinctly understood that I am writing
as a Democrat and for the Democracy, and atovirse regard
the Abolitionists to a distinct sect over against the Afric
cane, and held precisely in the same category with them
in the general tenure of my article.
When through the perfidy of Republican rule the sada°.
ttve gong of peace wilt ershanged for the hoarse cry of "to
arms I to battle for thetohntitation and the Union I" three
fourth, of the brave men prho then melted Into the field,
under the impreseion c that they were marching to battle
and to victory in the cause of the Union alone, were Dem
ocrats: a large poetic of the balance conservative Repub
licans, and a few-Abolitionists. These men represented
every phaae of iiMety, every grade of labor and the Indus
trial pursuits of the country. Their principle. were graded
In their respective echools of political thought and sent'.
ment, but all except the latter held that the war was for
the support of the Government regardless of all Issues that
might in the future flow from the question of Slavery.—
No one dreamt that a bold and rathiefts hand would
attempt the dastardly act of changing the war Into an
Abolition craned., or attempt to thrust the contemptible
f
negro into a military equality with th , any more than
they could eetableh a ended or politica equality In time.
of peace. Recent movements of the ministration and
legislative act, of Congreen have der loped the sad ' feet
e t d
and proven how fallacious are all t pretensions and
promise, of dark, designing men. It t he Interests of
those men thrill deceived that we wish to voeate In our
opposition to the "Negro Conscription Act," which we
regard an an Abolition measure, and one that is little
better than an act for the purpose of forcing the amalgama
tion of the rage.
LIWZ, Feb. 18th, 1889
With those whose feelings and desires qualify them to
hold fellowship with the "American eitiserte of African
descent," either in or out of the Army, I have no centre
verey. lam well aware there are many who can see no
difference between "the arm strong enough to bear a mns•
ket," the "legs able to make marches." and tracks too, or
the "brain" quite as wall developed in theintelllgent exer
cise of which they eau direct the use of those weapons of
war, in the black man and the white man. Who regard
the distinction merely as that of "color," and which!, but
"skin deep" Who might with perfect complacency enjoy
the odor, admire the features, and, In their social inter
couree, In the field drink oat of the same cup, lodge in the
same bunk. eat of the same rations, enlist in the nine
regiment, fight side by side in the lame battle, and accord
the same honor after the victory is woo; and when the
wounded are brought off and cared for, can render the
gams surgical aid to the swarthy, blubberly negro that
they do to their white fellow.citisen.
Such men of course cannot be made sensible of the reason
why °agrees should not be used in the Army. We are free
to admit that the difference between them and the negro
is only "akin deep," for we have always held that opinion,
and can meet cordially grant the acknowledgment. And
since the war for the Union is changed Into a war for the
emancipation of the slave, I confess that I regard the Ne
gro Conscription Act. an AMIGA measure, about the
proper legislation. In such a war I have always contended
that the Negroes and Abolitionists should be the combat•
ants. All this of course we can concede to those whose
senses and hatinote render it agreeable for them to associ
ate In a military or social equality with the negro. But
they ehould remember that the organisation and endow
ments of all men are not exactly alike. There is a broad
distinction, and if their nature gravitates to the level of
the African, they ehoold not seek to drag others Into the
same dogreded ephete. If their digestive apparatus was
created with that peculiar function which will enable
them to stomach - weol, we will not quarrel with them if
they 'hanker carter it." Bot a Democrat, in hie physical
otganiastion, as well as in hie instincts, mental endow.
manta, moral habite, military asnociations, political princi
ples, and social desires, holds a higher and nobler grade in
the scale of humanity. The negro himself concedes thin,
and Gl°w who are removed from them to the extent only
of
..the color of the skin" should at Last be capable of
about the same feeling, of charity.
The nryrrnes of the South, who labor in the Intrench
merits, and till the eon for the support of their emit.% do
not seek to enforce this equality either by legislation or
servile insurrection, notwithstanding Mr. Lincoln'. procla
mation. "They are loyal," but to their masters, and to
the nature and position In the world that God has given
them.
We of the North who boast of higher intelligence, and
who nay at home to make lawn and labor for the comfort
and support of the men who have volunteered to fight our
battles, should profit by their example, and not seek to
outrage the blob seneibillties and degrade the manhood of
our soldiers, by forcing upon them an equality in the field
with a race of beings they cannot tolerate at home.
The idea, however, that appears to be held by the advo
cates of this metsure is, that the negro may as well he
placed in the field as a target for the bullets of the rebels
as the white man. They say "we do not entertain aufacb
Cot respect for the rebellion to be very particular about,
the means need for its suppression." This of amine ie the
natural sequence of the change that has been made in the
object of the war. When it was for the Union and the
Conetltution. or alleged so to be, It wee "a privilege, nay,
a glorious thing to be found in the ranks battling for the
support of the Government." Then there was a high
"respect" for the cause for which fathers, husbands and
brothers were.wllling to leave the loved ones at home, and
brave the dangera 'of the field of battle. A "respect for the
rebellion" wan never thought of, nor wee the idea that
"the means employed for its suppression" would ever be
regarded ea of to low a character that the negro could be
introduced as an element to raise It. to a higher grade of
excellency nod efficiency. If that idea had ever been
dreamed of a corporal's guard could not have been mu,-
terel to all the Northern States, instead of the hundreds
of thonnande who rushed to arms at their country'. call.
But It is regarded as a war measure. If they can't raise
their idea. higher than to regard the condition of the
country as a "little joke," and the war as an Abolition ern
eade, in the prosecution of which a mass of human beings
are to be placed in position as targets for each other, then
they ehould allow all the patriots in the Army to return
home, and make targets of the free negrotte, the contra
bands and the Abolitionists until they are all killed off—
Thin would be this beet war measure that could be adopted,
for there is but little doubt that as soon as that would be
accomplished the rebels would lay down their arms and..
return to their allegiance.
As may be inferred from this article, I have not much
love for the negro, and very little more for the Abolition
ist, and if the Union could be restored and the war stopped
by a war measure of the character Just proposed, I would
not only not shed many team but plead guilty to a little
treed satisfaction for the sacrifice, provided all the Abell.
tioniste could or would be among the martyrs.
An 'this article Is already long I propose to defer my
reasdne, " Why the Union armies should not be increased
by our having the Services of the Negro," until next week.
OBSERVER.
NEGRO SuLDIERs.—The Newburystort Her
ald, a sensible Republican paper, talks as fol
lows in regard to the negro soldier bill :
The proposition to put 150,000 blacks in the
army is more to be commended for its pecuni•
ary advantages than on humanitary grounds.
It will be pretty sure to save the government
the expense of colonizing the 150,000, or a
large part of them. To march contrabands
against exasperated rebels is to march them to
certain death. There is nothing the enemy
would so much desire ;
they would kill them
as they would brute beaste,ewithout showing
quarter or dreaming of mercy. If we had the
whole four millions to select from it is very
probable 150,000 good soldiers, with a few
months drilling, could be had from them,
especially if the mulattoes were selected. Bat
there is not one negro in ten that will fight
away from the plantation where he was raised
and the master in whom he confides ; and if
we ever have a battle depending upon a large
number of blacks in the army, we shall have
such a slaughter as has not been known in
modern times, and will astonish and startle
the whole civilized world. The old story of
the wicked children who were torn to pieces
by the bears that came out of the woods, will
be repeated on a large scale.
SUBCRIBERB SHOULD PAY UP.—The Water
town Reformer thus concludes a well writtea
article on " Money, Produce and News
papers," and we commend the suggestion it
embodies to the careful consideration of a
certain Glass of our subscribers :
" There is one thing the people can do while
printers are testing their ability' to outlive the
crisis, and that is to pay promptly and cheer
fully their subscriptions. There is abundant
means in the country now for doing this, and
if done, it would go far to prevent the neces
sity of doubling the rates of newspapers or of
discontinuing them altogether. But a black
cloud at midday is not more obvious to the
eye than the publishers of country 'newspapers
cannot endure the present dispropotion be•
tween outgoes for stock and income for 'sub
scriptions, except patrons exercise a sensible
degree of nobleness in paying promptly at
present rates."
ser The Democratio State Convention of
Connecticut, which met in tbe'oity of Hart
ford on the 18th inst., was the largest ever
assembled there. Hon. Thomas H. Smogs,
Minister to Russia under the Administration
of ex-President Ponca, and one of the "most
gallant, chivalrous and unflinching Democrats.
in the Union, was nominated for Governor.—
The nomination was bailed with great enthu
siasm. We hope to see viotory perching on
the banners of the Connecticut Demociraoy.--.
Will our friends of the Hartford Tema please
•.
mike a note of that?
ftr The le teMgemeer
PHILADELPHIA CORRESPONDENCE.
PartAinurtu, February 19th, 186 S.
Mmes. Sterols : Money making now a mania withal
that le realty frightful 14 behold. Not nen this le any new
thing; but the severity of the disease' is something that
most bewilder any calm loO'kerton, If there can be a calm
looker on amid the excitement. The rapid- rise In every
description of. goods, merchandise, stocks, in fact every
thing that le marketable—seen to money Itself—l, with
out a parallel in our history, and the temptation to get rich
fast is so alluring that few can resist lt. Men bny gold
one day and sell it the nest for 2 per rent. sidemen; the
figure paid down Third street to-day is sixty per cent.
Premium! They buy ootton in the bale and cocoa-nuts by
the bushel; they buy wool in the sank and walnuts in the
shell: they buy diamonds and drugs, pianos and Pick'
axes, steamboats and sour 'host, clothes pine and cochi
neal, paving donee and pulverised sugar, old rag, old
paper, old harass, water lots, stooks in the moon, in fact
anything and everything that l enteralm • substance, a
value, or no value at all. Once in, wedge.fashion,
a man is bound to go through, somehow, even If he come
out nowhere. It looks bright and prosperous enough now;
fortunes are med., in a day, but when the crash comes, u
come it mast, stand from under.
As an Illustration of the state of the times, a gentleman
abopt a year ago took in payment fur a debt of some
amount a number of shares of stock in a rotten railroad
company, giving his receipt for said share, at an estimate
of three dotterel each, though he knew to a tolerable degree
of certainty that they were not worth one nickel for the
whole batch. Lest week he sold this delightful property
at seventeen dollars per .hare, clearing about twenty
thousand dollars by this little business transaation.
All this excitement in trade Isnot without its benefits,
while it lasts, even to the rag-picker In the streets. Every
branch of businese feels the impulse of the upward move.
meet in prices, and though the advance makes the emu
series of life cost more than formerly, labor is paid for at
prices that are altogether without precedent. A man most
be lazy indeed who goes without employment in these
times. The only possible thing at a discount in beggary.
One of the (lone of the city Just now is the fine British
steamer Prineces Royal, captured while attempting to run
the blockade at Charleston. The government hats appraised
her at a valuation of one handed, and twelve thousand
dollars, and efforts will be made to Incurs her for refitting
•as a gunboat. She will be sold at auction in a few weeks.
The cargo, consisting of everything of value to the rebels,
including the iron plating and machinery for two rebel war
vessels now lying useless in Charleston harbor, is valued
at over a million of dollar,.
People hereabout are again beginning to grow weary at
the prospect of another draft With all this anemone=
some ntetty audible mutterings are beginning to be hoard,
and f its are InqulrM r what has been done withthe splendid'
army that was robed hen fall. and why a general in whom
every soldier and every man not a politician leas the most
enthusiastic confidence is not again placed in numeric!.
People will speak one and this is only the beginning of a
clamor that le net going to be quieted very easily.
In literary matters we have to notice, first, the publica
tion of Dickers' annual story, "Somebody's Luggage,"
prfuted in ano at twenty-flee centpamphlet. by T. B. Peter
con t Brothers, of this city. It is an odd Jumble of curl.
one narratives, and could never have been contrived or
executed by any other man living than Dickens. In say
hag this much we bespeak for it an attentive perusal from
the million, who read actdoadmire this wonderful author.
The same publishers issue, In a fine octavo pamphlet, the
new novel, "Aornra Floyd," that is now creating so great
a sensation in this country and In Europe. This story Is
an Innen, of the rapidity with whiche good writer can
write herself into the effendi:lnn of the public. One year
ago nobody hod aver heard of Ml , B Brandon. Now she is
as high io favor an Mrs. Wood, Miss Motors. or the author
of Adam Bede. Led off by the London rimes probably
the greatest literary authority in the world, everybody is
doing homare to this new star. Aurora Floyd may well
be called a novel In a thoonand. It has not been equalled
duce Wilkie Collins' Woman in White, for power, gruel ul
nen. vigor, and dramatic action. Everybody will aeon be
reading it.
The same author last year wrote another capital novel,
" Lady Audiey's Secret," which Dick & Fitzgerald, of New
York. have Just brought nut iv a neat half dollar pamphlet.
It will be seen th et Miss Brevidon having achieved a tnc•
mew is not going to be smothered by the weight of It; so
she keeps her p•n moving. Lady Andley's Secret is as good
• novel as Aurora Floyd. and will come in for a share of
the sensation produced by that brilliant b ok. The inci
dents are highly dramatic, the dialogue is easy and natural,
and the style vigorous and ma-.!y, singularly Bo for a
woman. The plot rf the story is very ingenious, and the
'hamsters well marked.
Another fine story in the pamphlet form, (and a very
beautiful pamphlet it le, from no lees a ores, than Hough
ton'. famous one, of Cambridge lis 'The Prodigal Son,"
by Dutton Cook. published by T. O. H. P. Burnham. Boa.
ton; Peterson Brothers here. This tools a story of English
life, and drawn by the bend of a master. The return of
the prodigal to the father's roof; the hitter, unrelenting
spirit manifested by that father, involving a fearful scene
inet prior to his death ; the melancholy of the unforglven
eon; his happy marriage; the fearful pereecution of his
evil genius, and the threatened overthrow of all hie new
found pear., which triumphs at het; all these delineated
with great skill and power. We have eoldom read a more
fascinating tale. and commend It In the warmest terms of
which we are capable to all our readers.
The same 'publisher lames a intone little brochure, neat.
ly bound in I6mo, to wit, "The Stars and Stripes In Rebel
dom, a series of papers written by Federal Prisoners in
Richmond, Tuscaloosa. New Orleans and Salisbury, N. 0..
with full appendix." This little volume la a treasure of
its kind. It shows this resources of the private. or our
armies who fall into rebel Mande, and the means taken to
kill time and to keep patriotic fires burning. The essays
of which It In rompoeed are on a variety of entlicte, and
fairly exhibit the high intellectual standard of the rank
end file of our 'simian. The little volume is meeting
already with a large sale.
A ve•y beautiful picture, from a design by the inimita
ble Barley, is juct publiehed by Mneer, J. B. Tilton k Co.,
Boston. It typifies "Morning, Noon and Night" In a
group comprising a young child, - a mother, and a grand
father. The light and sheds In this picture are perfect,
and the grouping admirable. We pronounce the picture
a very gem, and richly deservlug a handsome frame.
Already it adorn. the mansions of several of our citizens.
The same tublinhers human beautiful and valuable pub
lication, a perfectly elegant volume, entitled" The Legends
of Charlumegue," by the author of The Age of Fable, etc.
'I his volume In one of the ri •beet and most sumptuous In
extern/al Appearance published 'hie racoon. It Is printed
on cream Told paper. le profusely and elegantly embellished,
and boned In purple Briglieh 'ellen), making It suitable
as a gift book, or as a work of permanent value for every
private or public. library. No hotter author than Mr.
Bellied) could have been selected to write such a volume.
tile previous works on the Aga or Feeble and the Age of
Chivalry prepared him for the task, mei his familiarity
with the literature and the legend of the middle ages peen•
Ilarly muddle! him for this work. We could not begin to
give a synopele of the contents of this volume, and must
refer the reader to the wr.rk itself. It is for all readers.
In one of thees beautiful duodecimo volumes peculiar to
the preset r f Meagre. Ticknor k Nelda Boston, the admirers
of the 111110115 Country Parson have recently been delight,
eel with another collection pressers, the fourth "The Graver
Thoughts of a Country Parson," by the anther of Recrea
tions, Leicure Hours eto There nrer thoughtful, earnest;
beautiful essays. addressed to the understanding of all,
old and young, grave and guy They ere distinguished
by that etrong common Renee so characteristic of his
writings. We feel to reading him an If a true and tried
friend were addressing us with kindly remonetrances.
There is nothing sharp er repulsive In any word he says ;
all Is genial, tender, persuative. That man meet be hard
ened Indeed who does not unbend before the kindly Jetta.
renew of this delightful Country Parson. We wish he could
send forth a new bank every month.
Another volume of the rams thoughtful east, and also
issued in beautiful style, 16 mo, by Just been Issued from
the same preen " A Present Heaven " laby the fair author
whose previous volume, The Patience of Hope. was so elo•
quently introduced to American readers by Whittier, the
poet. In this work, says that good authority, The Athe
naeum, the writer is at hoe best—her poetry at tie highest
—her Tipton at its clearest. Bhe seems peeullarly fitted
with natural gifts for entering into the hearts of the poor,
the muff-ring, the eppressed, and to be endowed to walk
there with a brightening influence, cheering, soothing, ex
alting. with wordn of comfort and look. of love. a kind of
Florence Nightingale, walking she hospital of ailing souls.
The sentiment of this little volume Is of just that kind
which will make It acceptable to thousands of readers who
look for something in a book to make them better, and
more ready to brave the ills of life.
VROM VICKSBURG
CAIRO, Bob. 20
A special Cairo dispatch says that the sickness la
the army at Vioksburg is increasing. A barge non
taining seven thousand bushels of coal ran the
blacked, on lelaturday night, without accident or
discovery.
The Vicksburg Ins& of the flth inst. says the
river is overflowing the banks on the Louisiana side,
and the town of Desoto opposite is nearly submerged.
It was expected that the whole peninsula would soon
be under water.
The Appeal correspondent's, of the fth says there
L now no longer • doubt that the whole forms of the
enemy is eoneentrated within seeing distance of the
Bit,.
The mortar boats were towed down yesterday to a
point near the rendezvous of the fleet. Priory mo
ment we may impost to announce the commence
ment of the attack.
The town of Bolivar Landing, fifty , miles above
Memphis, has been destroyed by the gunboat Cones
toga, in retaliation for the guerillas ilring on the
steamer Jenny Lind.
A Cairo telegram says the ram Queen of the West
has gone up the Red river for the purpose of des
troying the rebel vessels there. If this is true,
one shier entree of the rebel 'applies will be oat off.
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