etit Vtricatder Intelligenctx 01110 E . SANDRSON, EDITOR. A. EIANDKBAON. A i plate LANCASTER, PA., APRIL 14, 1863 Wit Id. PSITEIGINS k 00.'8 ADMIEISING MINOT, 87 Park Bow, New York City, and 10 State 8121. _Ston. S. Peiwissemh Co., ars Agents for The Laneager - Edeairpow, and the mod Influential and largest times- Itog WewSpapershttha 'United States and the iliatuulas.— rewrelled to contract for us at oar lowest rates Iff Mtn Axiom No. 835 Broadway, New York, g r W srattatised to receive advertisements for The intei2f. tenor, at our lowest rates. 813.70w5s Wzassma's ADITIMIEN ACILNCrt is located at N 0.50 North sth street, Philadelphia. He is authorized to receive advertisements and subscriptions for The Lancaster ha. 8. B A Nun, No. 1 fieollay's Building, Court St., Boston, is our authorized Agent for receiving advertisements, he. Aver Y. B. nasals, the American Newspaper Agent, N. corner Fifth and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, is authorised to receive subscriptions and advertisements for Ito paper, at our lowest, rates. His receipts will be re garded as payments. 0 TJ P._A_ C4l- Now our flag is flung to - the wild winds free, Let it goat o'er our father laud, And the guard of its spotless fame shall be Columbia'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. The War News. The long . expected bombardment of the forts in Charleston harbor Commenced on Tuesday last, in strict accordance with the instructions pre viously received by Admiral Di - - PONT. On Monday evening the Fed eral fleet made the first attempt to cross the bar, but failed. The fol lowing day, however, eight iron clads and a large number of trans ports, succeeded in overcoming all obstacles, and four of the iron-clads soon afterwards proceeded to engage Forts Sumter and Moultrie and the batteries on Morris Island. During this preliminary conflict, the frigate Ironsides, mounting eighteen guns was hit and run 'ashore ; but subse quently got of, and was carried out of range of the Confederate fire. At 'two o'clock in the, afternoon, the Ironsides, supported by nine iron clads, re-opened fire upon the forts and batteries at a distance of three thousand yards. The firing was in cessant on both sides until four o'- clock, when the Ironsides and Keo kuk withdrew, apparently disabled. The remainder of the Monitors con tinued the bombardment until live o'clock, when the firing, Which was chiefly concentrated upon Fort Sum ter, gradually diminished. We have no knowledge of the casualties sus tained by the Confederates, with the exception of those at Fort Sumter, where the loss is one boy killed, and five men badly wounded. [p to half-past one o'clock of the following day the bombardment had not been resumed. The Keokuk, seriously 'damaged the day before, foundered on the beach oft Morris Island; and although there were seven iron-clads still within the bar, they evinced, we are told, "no disposition to renew the conflict." In regard to the conflicting tele grams which reach us from the Southwest, purporting to chronicle the movements of General GRANT, it is sufficient to state that the only reliable information we have is the effect that the troops are being rap idly withdrawn from before Vicks burg, and that a large portion of the army had already embarked on board of transports which were on their way up the river. General Steele's division, which was landed at Greenville, Mississippi, with the alleged intention of marching over land to the Yazoooiver to co-operate in the reduction of Fort Pemberton, simply made a raid into the interior, and subsequently - returned to the Mississippi with a quall . tity of beeves and cotton. Gen.•Tirelellan's Official Report. The official report of General M'CLELLAN, detailing his operations while in command of the Army of the Potomac from the evacuation of Harrison's Landing to his removal from command after the battles of South Mountain and Antietam, will be found on our first page, and we invite for it the careful perusal of our readers. It has been withheld from the public fora long time by the War Department, and only now permitted to be published simultaneously with,the one sided and partial report of the Congres sional Investigating Committee into the Conduct of the War. The brave and accomplished young General, who twice saved Washington City from capture, has nothing to fear from the bolition blood-hounds who are upon his track. He stands vindicated before the people and the army, and they will take care of his reputation, no matter what partisan malignity may say or do against him. GEORGE B. M'CLELLAN, to-day, stands second to no living man in the affec tions of his countrymen, and will live in history when his traducers and vilifiers will be forgotten, or only remembered to be loathed and de spised. School Superintendent Governor Curtin has appointed Professor COBURN, of Bradford coun ty, to be State Superintendent of Common Schools, in place of Hon. Thomas H. Burrowes whose time will expire on the first of June. SENATORIAL ELOQUENCE.-Jim Lane of Kansas delivered a speech at a " Union League" meeting in Washington recently.— We make the following "elegant extract" frofn his remarks: "As far as that is concerned, I would liko to live long enough to see every white man in South Carolina in hell, and the negro occupy— ing his territory. All this may sound to you very winked, bot to me there is no place on earth that I think now ought to be desecrated by a traitor." If the white men of South Carolina go to the warm country he names, Lane will be sure to "tee" them there, as he wishes. The Conduct of the War., The report of the " Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War," has just been published. The Committee consists of B. F. Wade, Z. Chandler, D. W. Gooch, John Covode,. G. W. `.Julian and M. F. Odell, nearly all Abolitionists of the ultra stamp. Of course the document echoes the worst pre judices and theories of the Abolition party, and is intended as a partisan campaign document for the fall elec tions. Indeed the virulent New York Tribune has already announced' its intention to issue the report in pamphlet form, for electioneering purposes. The argest portion of the document is devoted to an assault upon Gen. McClellan and his mili tary campaigns, making him the au thor of all the misfortunes and dis asters to our arms since his appoint ment to the command of the Army of the Potomac. It is an ex pane document, its details being artfully wrought up to , influence public opinion against Gen. McClellan and his numerous friends in and out of the army. But we predict that the labor of the Committee in this mali cious work will prove unavailing, and that their vile attempts to injure the ablest General in the service will recoil upon their own heads. The Committee do not account for the disasters which have everywhere at tended our efforts for the past year, while Gen. McClellan has been in retirement and the Abolition radi cals have controlled the policy of the Administration. Arrested for Treason. Four men named Philip Huber, Gabriel Filbert, Dr. A. F. Elia and Harrison Oxenrider were arrested in Berks county on Wednesday last by the United States Marshai, on a charge of holding treasonable meet- iris in a 'barn in Marion town ship, and taken to Philadelphia. They had a hearing before the U. S. Commissioner on Tliurs day, and were admitted to bail on their own recornizance for trial at the next term of the U. S. District Court. rather,, think - the prisoners above alluded to must be '' Union Leaguers, - as Democrats are not in the habit of meeting in secret eon chive as these new-fangled Know- Nothings, 'ycleped Union Leaguers, do. Democrats have no-concealments. Their principles are open and avow ed, and any body can attend their meetings and hear all that is said, at their pleasure. They never meet in old barns and outhouses and plot treason in secret or openly, as the Union Leaguers do. The Cameron Bribery Case. The Committee appointed under he resolution of the House of Rep •esentatiyes of the 20th of January last, to inquire whether unlawful means were employed to seen .c the election of United States Senator, have at length reported, and the re port and evidence is being published in the Patriot Union. It is im mensely voluminous, so much so as to render its publication in the country press out of the question. Suffice it to say, that the testimony given by T. JEFFERSON BovER, of Clearfield, is substantially the same as contained in his expose a day or two after the Senatorial election, which we published at the time, and is strongly corroborated by other witnesses of respectability who were examined (luring the investigation. The Committee, therefore, come to the conclusion, from a careful review of the whole testimony, that un lawful means were employed to secure the election of SIMON CAMER ON to the Senate of the United States, in last January," and ask to be dis charged from the further considera tion of the subject. We suppose this ends the whole matter. Connecticut This State has, as usual, gone for the Abolitionists, but by a - much smaller majority than last year's. Buckingham is elected Governor over Seymour by about 2,500 ma jority. Last year it was 9,148. The Abolitionists elect three members of Congress—Henry C. Deming in the First district, Augustus Bandage in the Third, and Joltn H. Hubbard in the Fourth. The Democrats elect one member, James E. English in the Second district. The Democ racy of Connecticut have made a good fight, under all the circum- stances, against the whole power of the Administration concentrated against them. They (lid all they could, and more we did not expect. VAN AVVCK ON FRAUD In a speech delivered by Mr. VAN WYCK. (an honest Republican) in reference to frauds on the treasury, in the House of Representa tives, Monday, Feb. 23, he said : " The neck begins to chafe where the yoke of this heavy burden is borne. The administration has feared to drive such men from its door, lest hostility should be aroused against it. That which they supposed strength has been the great source of weakness. With a single ex ception, when has one of these men been court-martialed or punished? Today they have injured the republic more than the South in arms. Had they been arrested and placed under the gallows or in Fort Lafayette, your army would have been stronger, and your people at home more united. No wonder that your soldiery and their friends are dissatia. fled. They cannot appreciate the patriotism of stealing. Your army, for a mere monthly pittance, deprived of all the luxuries, and, at some times, the necessaries of life, enduring all the privations of camp and the dangers of battle, while they see base men making mock ery of the misfortunes of the nation, uncheck ed and unpunished, coining gold from the tears and sighs of the people. These things produce more distrust than, change of com manders or circulation of newspapers." fitZr The Philadelphia Press says it is as sured by "that drunken rascal Jack Hamil ton," as old Gen. Houston recently called that political General who recently visited Connec ticut on an electioneering tour, that " when the standard of the Union is raised in the valley of the Rio G'rande, thousands will flock around it." Why the deuce, asks the Boston Post, doesn't he go there and raise it, then, and not hang round here delivering election eering speeches with a view to the next Presi dential election, ae Forney says Union Leagues are formed for ? GEN. MITI.= INEIOW YORK. Gen. BUTLER addressed a meeting of the New York "Union League" on Thursday night week, at the Academy of Music. The admis sions Were by ticket, and the Academy was filled, a large number of ladies being in at tendance. Gen. BErrum's speech was of the worst radical character, as may be judged by the following extracts. We quote from the Tribune: We hare no occasion to carry on the fight for the Constitution as it was. [Cheers.] I beg your pardon, the Constitution as it is.— Who is interfering with the Constitution as it is? Who makes any attacks upon the Con stitution ? We are fighting for those who have gone out and repudiated the Constitution.— [Cheers.] And now, my friends, Ido not know but I shall use some heresy, but as a Democrat, as an Andrew Jackson Democrat, lam not for the Union as it was. [Great cheering, " Good !" " Good !"] I say, as a Democrat, and an Andrew Jackson Democrat, I am not for the Union to be again as it was. Understand me ; I was for the Union as it was, because I saw, or thought I saw, the troubles in the future which have burst upon us ; but having undergone those troubles, having spent all this blood, and this treasure, I do not mean to go back again and be cheek by jowl with South Carolina as I was before, if I can help it. [Cheers. "You're right."] Mark mo now, let no man misunderstand me, and I repeat lest I may be misunderstood —there aro none so slow to understand as those who do not want to—mark me, I say I do not mean to give up a single inch of the soil of South Carolina. If I had been alive at that time, and had had the position, the will and the ability, I would have dealt with South Carolina as Jackson did, and kept her in the Union at all hazards ; but now she has gone out, and I will take care that when she comes in again she comes in better behaved [cheers ;] that she shall no longer be the firebrand of the Union ; aye, and that she shall enjoy what her people never yet have enjoyed—the bless ings of a Republican form of government.— [Applause.] And, therefore, in that view, I am not for the reconstruction of the Union as it was. Yet I have spent treasure and blood enough upon it, in conjunction with my fel low-citizens, to make it a. little better.— [Cheers.] It was good enough if it had been left alone. The old house was good enough for me, but as they have pulled down all the kpirt, I propose, when we build it up, to lfuild it up with all the foreign improvements. [Prolonged laughter and applause.] The satisfaction with which the above ex plicit avowals of Gen. BUTLER were received by the audience, show conclusively the ani mating spirit and revolutionary designs of the so-called Union Leagues. It is not the inten tion of the people comprising these organiza tions, that either the Union or the Constitution shall be restored. Gen. BUTLER boldly de• clares that the restoration of the old form of government is not desirable, and his treason able words are applauded to the echo by his fellow conspirators of the dis-" Union Leagues."-- Gen. BUTLER proposes to build up the Union with all the "foreign improvements," which judging from his tyrannical rule in New Orleans, he probably means those practices of despotism by which Austria and Prussia main tain an iron rule over their subjects. The same sentiments, and couched almost in the identical language, were uttered by THADDEUS STEVENS, at the "Union League' , of this city, on Saturday evening a week ago, and were received with rapturous applause by the audience, being the sentiments of the ad vanced Abolitionists, GARRISON and SU3INER„ He, as well as BUTLER, would arm the slaves and permit them to murder the men, women and children of the South indiscriminately.— heaps of smoking ruins. He advises the subjugation of the Confederate This is the most outrageous act committed States and their acquisition as territories, and by Union troops_ a si e nce the war began. The objects to any restoration of the Union on its bexeepnedeiteiotnentlyo u j Sel k es s r v i l u ie t a p tr ro o v ci e o s us t . o I h t a' is e old basis. He advocates a thorough confisea• pretended to excuse General Hunter for recall tion of lands, tenements, every thing, in short, ! ing the troops, by saying that they were belonging to the rebels ; and this is the only wanted for the attack on Charleston. But he knew they would be so wanted, and he should way he and BUTLER, who has already made a not have sent them to Florida until after fortune by that same process while in New Charleston was taken. As it is, the expedi Orleans, would undertake to restore the tion has disgraced the Union cause, by the Union, if such a thing could be called a rester wanton destrtictio t n he of a beau e ti f fu i l l t e o r N i v i n a w , and rs i e t ration. Such sentiments might answer the than exasperated ererThis is peoplethe scond or third time meridian of St. Petersburg or Vienna, but that Jacksonville has been taken and then they do not suit the people of the Uniter'abandoned, and now in all the region round States, who want to see the rebellious States about where it once stood, where there were all brought back to their allegiance, and the • formerly many Union men, there is not one left. Who is answerable for the wretched Union, as made by our fathers, restored in all policy of capturing towns and then, without its former splendor and power. reason, abandoning or destroying them? It is said that the commander of the expedition and the colonels of the white regiments found it impossible to restrain their men when they began to pillage and destroy. The black soldiers, however, were restrained, and took no part in the vile work. If the commanders could not restrain their men, they are not fit to have commands. The Government owes it to itself and to the country to have this matter investigated.—/Ittlietin. par Neither the spirit nor the language of the following order will be opt to favoraldy impress the public: WAR DEPARTM - ENT, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S Orrjcp, Washington, Nandi 13. Special Orders No. 119. (Estract.) 34. By direction of the .7'residemt the Mow ing officers are hereby dismissed the service of the United States : Lieutenant A. .1. Edgerly, 4th New Hampshire Volunteers, for eircula ting " Copperhead TirkeM," and (Tang oil in his power to promote the minces>: of the rani nurse in his Slate. • By order of the Secretary of War. L. TnomAs, Adjutant General. To the Governor of New Hampshire. Passing over this official evidence that a military officer may not vote as his conscience prompts, further than to ask if an officer is dismissed because of his political opinions, why not dismiss all the private soldiers of the same party, we come to the remark that it is the first time in the history of this nation that any official has stooped to the use, in a Gov ernment document, of the low political slang phrases in vogue. The term " Copperheads " may be tolerated on the stump, to designate the political party now in the majority; but eve submit the question to the judgment of the pub lie, whether it is not out of place when incor porated, " by the direction of the President," into a State paper ? ABOLITION LOVE FOR THE SOLDIER At the late municipal election in Mauch Chunk, this State, the Abolitionists triumphed by a majority of a few votes, and as a conse quence the Abolition sheet at that place felt very jubilant, and headed the result of the election " Good news . for the Soldiers !" Among the defeated was a Mr. Thomas Sprowl, who ran as an independent candidate for Con stable. Mr. Sprowl returned from the war some time since minus the use of one of his arms, lost in the service of his country. Being thus disabled from making a living for himself and family by ordinary wofk, he presented himself as an independent candidate for Con stable. lie happened, however, to be a Demo erat—a good fighting Democrat—such an one as the Abolitionists style " Copperhead,". and the result was that the very men who claim all the patriotism, and who prate about being the exclusive friends of the soldier, not only voted against him, because a full•dyed Republican, and a man that never smelt gunpcwder, was his opponent, but they must needs herald the result as " good news for the soldier." We should think the soldiers may well desire to be saved from such friends. Such is the treatment the Abolitionists bestow , upon the men periling their lives in the field. UNCONDITIONAL. WAR MEN We like the men who never say die—who go for the Union now and forever—who will never consent that the South shall go. But there is a class of unconditional war men which we are not in love with. They are described in the following spicy paragraph from the New Haven Courier, a Republican paper. There is a world of truth in what this honest Republican says of these villains : Contractors have carried on the war. The blood of our men, the graves of the wounded, the tears of the orphan and the wail of the widow, have been coined into money. * They have swindled the Government out of hundreds of millions. They have piled for— tune on fortune, and as a distinguished officer at Washington writes us, all the operations of this war are managed by political swindlers. THE IMON AS IT WAS...:VITIIO AIM AGAINST IT! Welesterday gave some reasons for believ ing (says the Philadelphia Age of Friday week) that the Radicals do not .desire to re store the Federal Union. Facts crowd upon us to confirm that belief; nay, in the white heat of political passim* some of their lead- . en actually confess it in public. The evidence of their treasonable disitnion piarpoie Is ac cumulating each day, and no hypecritieal pro tetragon of " loyalty " . can expnage the-damn ing record. The Union which the Radicals want is not the Union as it was, with the Con stitution made by our forefathers ; it is the Union of all the isms, beginning with Radical , ism and ending in Despotism. It is a Union of which the fanatics dream, and which would require the presence -of a standing army of half a million of men to preserve it if it could ever be established. The following resolution of the series pro posed in the Legislature of Pennsylvania upon "the state of the country," certainly expresses the sentiment of nine-tenths of those who honestly desire to have the Union restored : Resolved, That this General Assembly deem it proper further to declare, that it, together with all the truly loyal people of the State, would hail with pleasure and delight any manifestation of a desire, on the part of the seceded States to return to their allegiance to the Government of the Union, and would, in such event, cordially and earnestly co-operate with them in the restoration of peace and the procurement of such proper guaranties as would give security to all their interests. Against the above resolution, the following Republican Representatives recorded their votes. Benedict, Bozeman, (of Lancaster,) Bow man, (of Tioga,) Brown, (of Warren,) Champ neys, Cochran, Coleman, Freeland, Gilfillan, Grant, Gross, Henry, Huston, Ilutehman, Johnson, Kerns, (of Philadelphia,) Laporte, Lee, Lilly, Maclay, McClellan, McCoy, Mc- Murtrie, Moore, Musselman, Olmstead,,.•Pan coast, Ritter, Shannon, Slack, Smith, (of Chester,) Smith, (of Philadelphia,) Strouso, Sutphin, Twitchell, Vincent, Warner, White. We ask the people of Pennsylvania whether, in their opinion, these men are honestly and loyally for the Union ; they evidently do not want " the seceded Slates to return to their al legiance;" or they would have voted for the resolution. TILE JACKSONVILLE. ATROCITIB j2 S. When General Hunter sent a negro regi ment into Florida, it was supposed to be with the intention of making a permanent occupa tion of the State. The negroes captured Jackson ville and drove the rebels away some distance, showing themselves to be good soldiers, and behaving with great moderation towards the inhabitants. Reinforcements were sent down to them—a Connecticut and Maine regiment —and there seemed to be every prospect that Florida would be completely taken out of the hands of the rebels. But just as everything promised well, an or der came from General Hunter recalling the whole of our troops to Hilton Head instantly. It caused great excitement, but it must be obeyed. The white soldiers then began to pillage and destroy, and scenes of horror were enacted as disgraceful as those committed by English soldiers in Spain or in India. The Union families in the place were in despair, for they knew the fate that awaited them when the rebels again got possession of the town. They hurriedly got on board our trans ports, leaving everything they possessed be hind, and just before the last, embarkations, some miscreants from the white regiments set fire to the town in various places, and in a little while nothing was left of Jacksonville but TIfE TOWN ELECTIONS IN TILE li2l/333 THE 11011 E OF Ms. VALT,ANDIGRA3I.-Dayton, the home of lion. C. L. Vallandigham, usual ly Abolition, has elected the entire Democratic ticket by a handsome majority. ToLsoo.—This city, which was strongly Abolition last Fall, has elected the Democratic ticket by two hundred majority.— Cincinnati Engitirer. The Telegraph " gave us a different ac count! "By authority" perhaps. The following explains the result, telegraph," from Indiana From hidlattopolls. iSpoeirl DiFpatvh to the Chicago Thnes.J INDIANAPOLIS, April 6 The so-called election to-day in this, Centre township, Marion county, was the most out rageous and infamous perpetration upon the ballot-box of a free people ever known in cities ruled by mobs, as Louisville and Baltimore have been in times past. At the opening of the polls, the Republi• cans, having their own Judges and Clerks, excluding Democrats from the inside of the Court House, took possession of them. Citi zens voted peaceably for about an hour, when 'squads of soldiers began to appear, and shortly hundreds of them were on the ground. Every man pointed out to them as a Democrat was abused, insulted, and, in dozens of instances, knocked down. Those distributing Democratic tickets were driven from the ground and their tickets de stroyed. Candidates quietly electioneering, as is customary, were cleared from the precinct by troops of soldiers yelling at them, and they were obliged to run for their lives. At 12 o'clock the Democrats gave it up, surrendered everything to their opponents, preferring this course to one which might provoke civil war. Gen. Carrington had issued an order direct ing soldiers entitled to vote in this township to return immediately thereafter to camp. Upon this order citizens can decide. Whether Gen. Carrington or his subordinates are re sponsible for its not being carried out is yet to be demonstrated. [lf these facts be so, they, in the end, are certain to breed civil war. The moment the people feel that the ballot box is perverted, and fair play is refused, that moment they be gin to prepare the elements of civil strife and of civil war, even here in the North. The only safe outlet of human passion on election day is a fair and free ballot-box, the only sub stitute for the cartridge box.—PV. Y. Express. INDIAN BATTLE Our Government has an Indian war in Washington Territory on its bands. Late in formation has been received of a signal victory by our forces under Col. Conner, on Bear river. Col. C., with less than 300 men, made a forced march of 140 miles through deep snow, during which 70 of his men were disa abled by frozen feet ; and he and his gallant band of only two hundred, attacked three hundred Indian warriors in their stronghold, and, after a hard fought battle of four hours, destroyed the "entire band, leaving two hun dred and twenty-four dead upon the field.— Our loss was fourteen killed' and forty-nine wounded. These Indians had murdered several miners during the winter, and were a part of the same band who had been massa creing emigrants on the overland mail route for the last fifteen years, and the princi pal actors and leaders in the horrid crimes of the past summer. LOCALDEPARTMENT: MISS KATE DEAN'S CONCERT.—A brilliant, crowded and fashionable audience greeted Miss Kars Data, on ber second appearance in - neuter, after over four years' absence, on Thursday evening but, at Fulton Hall. Her singing threughout waa finely rendered, and her pa triotic songs were-moat enthusiastically encored. In her military costurbe, In the second part of the programme: she was decidedly bewitching. looking for-all the world like a "dear soldier 'addle." Min Ltztia Toss's perform ances on the piano were beautifully executed, and her part in Wend Mutts with Hiss Darn "was admirably taken. Pumpmats or WAlL—About 500 Confeder• Ate prisoners passe through this city, on Sunday last at noon, on their way to Fort Delaware. The news of their coming attracted a large crowd to the depot. They were generally fine-looking men,and seemed in the beat Cl spirits, concerning freely ith our citizens, and making many humorous allusions to their present condition. LAMP Lionraits.—.,The Mayor has appointed the folloiring Lamp Ll,ghters, who are now on duty : Dennis Barron, John Clare, Charles Outshall, Frederick Dean, William Lutz, Benjamin Kautz, J. W. Houser, Alex ander St. Clair, James Rogers, Joseph Kautz. REMOVeL.—Our old Democratic friend A L.- ISLNDIELL HOLTON. Esq , has removed from the Unicorn. in Drumore township, this county, to Rnsselville, Cheater county. All ; letters for him should be directed to the latter place. ANOTHER EXCIIRSION.—OR Monday last; says the Columbia epy. Mr. Superintendent Crane placed the Reading and Columbia Railroad at the disposal of the Principal of the Litiz Male Seminary and the citizens of Litiz, for an excursion to and from Columbia. A train of thoir cars, well filled, arrived here about 11 1 ,4 o'clock, and the excursion hits spent part of the day in our town, de• parting early enough in the afternoon for the train to reach Litiz and make the regular return trip on time. Our visitors appeared to enjoy themselves, but were a much less festive party than the young ladies of the pre vious week. We hope that as soon as the weather settles into the promise of Spring, we shall have an excursion from Columbia to Litiz, returning the friendly calls of our neighbors. THE LATE LIEUT. INIISEILER.—We are grati fied to learn, from the Rio .41. jo Weekly Press published at Alborquerque , New Mexico, that the remains of the late Lieut. Lyman Mlshler, Ith U. S. 1., Ewrlved at that place on the 14th ult., en route for Lancaster. The Press says: "The romaine of Lieut. Lyman Mahler, 5111 11. 8. Infan try, who wee killed at the battle of Valverde, February 21, 1862, arrived on Sunday, tinder escort of Lieutenant Mellor, let California Volunteer Cavalry, and taken charge of by Capt. Lewis, commandant of this place. Yesterday [lto commandant had them forwarded to Fort Union, care of 'Captain Craig, to be forwarded thence, via Kansas City, to the family of the dereared at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. General Carleton, on being informed that Lieutenant Misblees family desired to have his romaine rent home, promptly gave directions In the premises. By direction of Lbuleoant-Colonel-Rigg, commandant at Ft. Craig, the remains wore disinterred, and prepared for transportation under the supervision of Surgeon Prentiss. The original coffin was found in a good state of preset-vat - lOn, placed in a strong plank box painted Inside and out, and surround= ed with charcoal." —Since the above was In typo, Mr. Mishler has received a letter how Mr. Strachan datod Albuquerque, March Mb, In which he sap,: t•Through the exertions of several Pennsylvanians from Lancaster County, with the aid of the officers of the sth U. S Infantry, the remains of your son, Lieutenant Lyman Mirthler, have hefts disinterred from their resting place on the battle field of Valverde, and forwarded to the care of Charlie E. Kearney, of Kansas City, Missouri, tr be forwarded from thence to you. On their arrival at Kansas City, you will be informed of the matter, and can make such arrangements for their reception as you may deem proper. Lieutenant Ilishier's death, although he fell while gallantly fighting to maintain the dignity and honor of his country, was a great source of sorrow and sincere regret to all who knew him; for ha was a brave and true man, and, — by his amiable disposition, gentle manly deportment and starling principle, had endeared himself to all who had the honor et his acquaintance.— le was a gentleman and a soldier. Elvin" . ' that no [we dont may occur to mar this effort to do honor to the name of my friend and prevent his relatives from enjoy ing the satisfaction of having Ids remains to finally rest among them in the place of his nativity, I remain, very respectfully," etc. FIRE AND ACCIDENT.—On last Tuesday af. ternoon as Mr. Daniel Cully was engaged in prom ing ma terials for mixing fire-proof paint, in his chop on the alley between Locust and Chestnut streets above Third, fire woe communicated from the stove to his hands which were covered with some inflammable Ingredient, thence to the gee which war generated from the prenaring paint. The room which was on the second story of a stable on the lot of Mr Ilarford Fraley, was immediately on a blaze, and Mr. Cully only saved hie life by jumping into the alley. The alarm was promptly given, and the firemen were quickly on hand, but the wind was high, from the north, and drove the floats across the alley, whore the stables of Messrs. Read and Myers took fire, and burned down, to. gather with a frame outbuilding connected with a bask• building on the pct porgy occupied by Mr. Wm. Dees. On the north side of the alley the flames reached the stable of the albs°, Ilouston. above Fraley's stable, both of which were destroyed. A brick stable on the lot of Rev': Mr. Robbioa, and a brick dwelling house just completed owned by Mr. Geo. Derrick, on the south side of the alley, both roofed with slate, together with the exertions of the fire firemen checked the spread of the fire, and the frame dwellings on Third and Cherry streets escaped. The wind blew dhectly towards these buildings, which are most of them old and highly inflammable. Considering the very favorable circumstances for the extension of the fire, we may account the good fortune attending the efforts of the firemen as wonderful. Had the flames reached Cherry street we would have bad a sad record of loss. As It is, there was no valuable property destroyed. Whether thi re was insurance nn the stables we have not heard. AA at every lire that secure, we wore struck with a do. ficieney in good hose. It 14 astonishing that our tiromen are able to effect any go..d at all with the motorist at their service. Tha dn . ... elloud look to it that every company has a sufficient supply. We wore glad to notice a consid erable length of new hose, belonging to the Susquehanna Engine. Mr. Colly's injorioa aro painful ana earilua. Ms face le burned and both hands—one so badly that it has been, and we believe atilt is, a question whether be will recover the use of it. Ito ss improvintr,, however, we are happy to learn.—Solurday's CoLurnbil Spy. II 1 . FOR WASHINGTON BOROUGIT.—The Borough election in Washington. this count y, to th place on Tuesday last, and the t•Copperheads" made a gloriously clean sweep, not even leaving a greece spot fir the Win] Y 'Vipers' and "Black Snakes." It Wee the first tans the Democracy had eVer nominated a full ticket. The tallow• lug weilltnown, active Democrats were elected . Burgest. C) Ins S hart., Assistant Burgess. Israel Iloober. loan Council. 30i111 Shartzur, 2 unner ward Cyrus Shultz. v" floury Fiehul, j "Lowerd Christian Funk, ) 111,th Coustabla. Georg° Wall. Borough Cons talde. Christian School Directors. John Shartzar, 3 years, William Parkor, 3 years, Jaerph l Charles, 1 year, Christian Funk, 1 year. Audits. Fli Shartzer. Assessor. .Toseph E. Charles. Judge. Pavia Miller. luspectore James Douglass, Henry °Henn, The good oil Borough was only following In the wake of e few other green spots in the hot bed of Black Republican Abolitionism, viz: the City, lirecknock, Colerain, Martie, etc. Would there were more. ANNUAL, REPORT OF TILE FINANCE COMMIT TEE—The billowing is the Annual Report of the Finance Committee of the City Councils, read and adopted, after amendment, at the regular meeting on Tuesday evening: To the Select and Common Councils of the City of 1A...- ter: In dierhargs of a duty imposed upon your "Committee of Finance aid Accounts." the undersigned respectfully present a statement of their estimated receipts and capen• dituree for municipal purposes in the present fiscal year. To meet required appropriations fur cartons objects, in connection with anticipated receipts from sources oilier than taxation—the rate of taxation adopted in the past few years appears indispensable, and is therefore recom mended, namely 00 cents per sloo—however desirable a less rate might be, If the necessary revenue could be thus realized. The financial ronditiOn and credit of the corporation ran hardly be excelled. The loans are eagerly songht for in vestment of capital; but, as no new ones are made, the demand cannot ho accommodated ; the issuing of new bonds being confined to exchange of matured ones. and hence any amount iu the market commands a handsome premium on the face. This mark of confidence in the City's securities is well deserved, and will doubtless be retained, on long es a prudent and economical adminiNtration of its affairs is pursued, and all demands upon the 'treasury paid at sight, as is now done. Your Committee, as "Commissioners of the Sinking Fund," report the amount thereof to he $42,282.06, which is invested in the loans of the City, held by them, bearing par rentum Interest. Tho debt of the corporation consists as follows : 5 per contnm Loin . $ 46,300.00 " 15,000.00 286,412.02 $319.612 02 The loans of the Sinking Fund, being part 42,'29200 thereof, deducted leaves the outstanding debt at $306,329.96 The receipts luta the Treasury aro obtimatud to be as follows: Tax of 90 cents per $OOO, on property valuation of $3.400,000 Water Resets from Duplicate Water Rent from Penn'a Rai' read Company.... Miscellaneous: From ferrules, licenses, fines, forfeits, &c Bent of Market Stalls, including arrearages for 1862 Root of City Property Additions to Tax Duplicates for default of pay merit Addition to Water Rout Duplicate for default of payment Refunded quota from County of Lancaster for Firidgea and Road Damages Balance in lite Treasury at the beginning of the year $,50,100 00 Which sum It Is recommended to ill+burso as follows: To pay Interest on loans at .5. , ,per cent...s 2.515 00 .• 5% 874 50 o n 17,1E4 72 To pay Waier Pipe and laying To pay for repairs of float or main eta. 600.00 To pay grading, paving and repairs of other streets, $OOO for each Ward..... 2,600.00 To pay for making new Turnpike in Fast Orange street, per resolution of Councils To pay for extension of Fewer in Vine street, up Vine and Duke to north aide of East King at..: 1.000 00 To pay Watchmen during Winter months 1,824 -- To pay lighting City in winter, pod dark nights in spring, summer and autumn To pay Fire Companies To pay salaries To pay temporary loan and interest from Decem hoc, 1502 To nay interest duo Pinking Fond to January 1, 1263, To pay miscellaneous Water Works experts, a_ To pay abatement for prompt payment of City Taxes 1,200 00 To pay abatement for prcmpt payment of Water _ _ Rent To pay per coning° for collecting Taxes after De cember 1 - To pay Contingencies $1:0,166 00 In conclusion, tho adoption of the following resolutions ls recommended : Ist. Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils of the City of Lancaster, That the City Tax for the present fiend' year be assented at the rate of 90 cents per . sloo on all pre. porty made taxable_by law for City purposes—namely, GO cents of the rate for interest, and : 0 cents for other objects. 2nd. Rcsolecd, That tho amount of taxes, as ',yeti as other receipts into the Treasury during the year, not otherwise appropriated, be applied to the objects and in the propor tions stated in the foregoing report, and to none other, unless Councils should hereafter differently direct. GODFRTED Z ARM, 8. 8. RATHVON, PHILIP FITZPATRICK, &AFL BHOBER. Lumens Onrs, March 14,1865. , TnE - YENNSYLVANIA , W learn from the Columbia Spy that the water was let into the Canal on Thursday evening last, and that on Friday morn. tog boats were locked through from the Tide Water canal, a large fleet lying awaiting the opening at the month of lithe outlet. ENLARGYD.—The Daily Inquirer made its appearance on Monday In an enlarged and Improved form. It is now the Mae of the Express and furnished at the same rate—six cents per week. FATAL RAILROAD ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning an accident ecenrreid on the railroad a short dis tance this side of Landisville, which resulted in the death of Hr. H. G. Herr, a tamer living in that vicinity. As the fast line, east, was approaching, some pigs belonging to him were on the track, and in his anxiety to drive them off: he was caught and struck by the locomotive, which knocked him off the track and killed him Instantly. Mr. Herr was well known to many of oar citizens whom he served with butter, eggs and other marketing for many years past. No blame whatever is attached to the ongi• neer, who promptly reversed hie engine and ran back, but only to find the unfortunate man dead. He leaves a wife and six children to monrn his untimely death. The din tress of hie wife upon receiving the shocking intelligence was heart-rending in the extreme, and for a time It was feared her reason would be dethroned. Deputy Coroner Snyder who has scarcely recovered from a severe attack of rheumatism, which had confined him to the house all winter, held an Inquest upon the body, the facts elicited being substantially the same as we have stated. It was in evidence that the engineer whistled twice to warn Herr of his impending danger, but the cor ner of the locomotive struck him in the Sid.), knocking him into the fence corner, when he was carried to his home dead. It Is supposed from the nature of the blow that he was apprised otAis danger and was trying to get out of the way when eiruck —Friday's Ezpress. PRETTY STRONG The following article is from that unequivc cally loyal paper, the St. Louis Republican. The language used against the recent Congress is very strong, but who will say that it is un just : "THANK GOD ! —The most unrelenting, un• principled, jacobinical and corrupt Congress that ever assembled at Washington, has come to au end. Scouted by their constituents wherever ac election has been held in the last few months, the majority of the dominant party in that body now go reeling home con temned and repudiated, never to appear again in public life. TEIAD. STEVENS, Q.AVEN LOVE JOY, and two or three others of the party, most intent on engineering the nation to de struction, are spared monuments to present themselves in the next Congress, and there they will take a back seat, divested of the in fluence which partisan policy has given them for two years—now impotent for evil, and indifferent to anything looking to the welfare of the country. Whatever else may betide, the next House of Representatives will be composed of a better, purer, abler, more patri. otic and conservative set of men than was spawned upon the nation by the political revo lution of 1860. They will not mock at the calamities of the country. They will not de• ride and denounce the Constitution—the only real bond of the Union of the States. They will not countenance the monstrous frauds in every department of the government which have made the nation's treasury bankrupt, piled up a debt mountain high, and justified a distinguished Republican member in saying that such frauds exceeded the whole cost of a veer's administration of President Bt7ouiNAN-- $85.000,000. They will, if there is any faith in man, aim at some means of reducing the cost of the war, if, before coming into active service, every department has not become so depraved us to malce4his impossible. If a full Congress could be assembled in the next sixty days, animated by the spirit which we believe controls those already elected, we would hope for most auspicious results. As it is, everything rests with the President. Most fearful powers have been delegated to him by the late Congress. The purse, the sword, the men, the power to do anything which his judgment may approve, are all placed in his hands. It is said that, with the expiring Congress, a new ' policy ' is to be adopted—that the radicals are to be thrown overboard, and that wiser, better and more patriotic men are to be taken into his counsels. God grant that it may be so !" THE CONSCRIPTION ACT-NEGROES Judge Kelly, of Philadelphia, made a speech to the. Republicans in Hartford, on Monday evening, March 23d. The Evening Press reports the speech. Prom the Press we copy the following: f• I am told th . at the details of that bill— the conscription act—do not please the copper heads. It never was intended to, but only to catch some of them and make them fight. But it will be resisted, say some. As true as there is a Cf-rd in Heaven, if the law cannot be exe cuted without, I would march AN ARMY or BLACKS from the South, with a bayonet at the back of every copperhead who 'would attempt to resist " Applause.] This is lovely. In the first place, Judge Kelly has no right to say that Democrats, (tie means Democrats when he says copperheab,) will resist any constitutional law. Ile cannot deny that they have a right to resist, before the Courts, in a lawful manner. an oppressive and unconstitutional act. No Democrat ever proposed any other mode of resistance to any law. But Judge Kelly assumes that the law shall be executed, (he makes no exception to legal decisions,) and assures the freemen of Connecticut that they must go into the army under that act, though it require AN ARMY or BLACKS fronz tire South to push them in at the point of the bayonet ! Here is " Republicanism " far you voters of Connecticut-You are to be driven by negroes of the South WITH BAYONETS AT YOUR BACKS. This is one-of the phases of virulent, destruc tive Abolitionism.—. New Haven Register. The political Bourbons at Washington, who never forget anything and never learn any thing, nre at their old tricks. Pour citizens were kidnapped on Tuesday in the City of Reading, Pa., and taken to a government jail in Philadelphia. The vague charge against them is that they are " Knights of the Golden Circle. It is not said that they were in arms against the government or helping its enemies in that way, but simply that they belonged to an alleged secret society about which nobody knows anything definite. This is the first bitter fruit of the Connecticut election. JouN VAN BUREN, JAMES T. BRADY, Judge DAILY, and their es-Democratic loyal league associ ates, have been telling the country that it must stand by the Administration at the polls and the Administration would hereafter obey the laws and refrain from the unwise nod arbitrary acts which called tho opposition party into being. Oa the strength of these assurances the people of Connecticut, although overwhelmingly opposed to the past course of the Administration, yet fearing that their po sition would be misanderstood if they elected SEYMOUR, voted to strengthen the hands of our feeble rulers so that they would have no ex cuse for not conducting the war vigorously. But see what a return they get. On Monday they vote to sustain the government, and cn Tuesday that same government shows by its conduct that it does not believe that the peo ple have any rights which it is bound to respect. These four men were kidnapped— stolen away as inhumanly and RS wrongfully as any negro was ever torn from his home in Africa. No wonder the crowd swarmed and the jail was surrounded by the excited popu lace $90600.P0 . 970000 . 600 00 This is a matter which cannot be overlooked, especially as all the indications are that it will be followed up by other acts equally nefarious. If there is opposition to the en furcernent of the conscription law the Admin istration will have itself to :blame for it.—N. Y. World. g The foundry and machine shops of McLacahan, Watson & Co., in Gaysport, Blair county were destroyed by fire on Tuesday week. The men employed in it were casting a heavy piece for McNamara's rolling mill, worth $5OO, when it "blowed" end passed through the roof, igniting it so rapidly that it was impossible to arrest its spread. In less than one hour, the entire building including the pattern shop, all valued by the owners as" worth eighteen thousand dollars, were burned to the ground. $:0 ' 22 . .300 00 TOWN ELECTIONS IN MAINE.—The following result of the elections in all tho towns in the oounty of Cumberland, Maine, shows how the Democratic party, which is for the Union as it was and tho Constitution as it is, is making progress: Democratic- Baldwin, gain; Bridgeton, gain; Cape Elizabeth, gain ; Casco ; Cumberland, gain ; Falmouth, gain ; Gray ; Harpswell ; Harrison, gain ; Naples ; Pownal, gain ; Ray mond ; Scarborough ; Sebago ; Standish, gain ; Westbrook, gain ; Yarmouth. Abolition—Brunswick, Freeport, Gorham, New Gloucester, North Yarmouth, Otisfield, Windham. Two years ago, only three towns in the county elected Democratic boards of officers. AN ELEGANT VOICE I—Some people have fine, musical voices, naturally, but you can easily cultivate a fine voice. Try Bryan's Pnlmonio Wafers; they will cure a sore throat, hoarseness, cough, &0., in a short time; 25 cents a box at Kaufman & Co. THE -UNION LEAGUERS OF OTHER The Future• Revealed fii the Past. Week before last there appeared in the Examiner a letter from the Ilon. Thomas EL Baird. formerly president judge of this judi cial district, and ono of the ablest ever upon the bench, givino , some interesting facts in the early local hi'story . of our county. Some parts of this letter are 6 admirably adapted to the present condition of political affairs that we reproduce them.. We recopy, first, the following, which must be read with pro found. interest, not only by citizens of our own borough and county, but by readers generally. In and for a considerable period before, there was great excitement in the public mind, caused by " sympathy " with the European troubles. The President, Mr. Adams, had suggested in a speech to Congress that there were persons who evinced " a disposition to separate the people of the United States from the government," .to. There was, no doUbt, such a party, but how numerous was not known. It was, however, thought to be on the increase, and measures were taken by the federal dominants to suppress it. They accordingly abused those who wished to keep the political power in the hands of the people, and, in contempt and derision, called them "Democrats," a term brought from disturbed France. To put down these alleged "disunionists," the federals formed leagues and passed resolutions, re- pudiating all business and social relations with Democrats. I can furnish a specimen of this same regime, adopted by the Washington "loyalists," as published in the Western Telegraph at the time. The ruling party also required all its members to hoist a "black cockade," as a badge of sycophancy; and Congress passed a "sedition (ace' to punish any one who dared to criticise the administration. Those were trying times. In the town of Wash ington, there wore only thirteen nien who refused to join the league or wear the symbol of adhesion. My father was tumor these, and is it would not displease one of "your orators" to see his father and grand father placed in this "lave," I would say that John Wilson and David Acheson were of this number Here we see a notable example or history repeating itself. The black cockade federalists of 1795, of whom the black Republicans of this day are the lineal descendants and born images, had got into power; and immediately proceeded to spot all : who dared oppose them —to stigmatize them as disloyal—to bring them into odium by nicknaming them, con temptuously, " democrats," as they now do "copperheads"—to crush nut freedom of speech and of the press—to do, in short, all of those despotic, outrageous, and infamous deeds that they are now enacting upon a somewhat more extended But did they surveed Read one further extract from the Jadge's letter. Ifere it is. Speaking as to the same period (1795) ho sacs The people, although they dared not speak, wore yet free to think, and a concurrence of opinion soon prevailed that was astounding when developed.— '1 he Democrats, although they would not put ep the "black cockade" or wear a button, yet they each one got a bet bf paper called a ballot, and with this little talisman they at once revolutionized the gov ernment. Thomas Je'fferson was cleated President. Thomas McKean was chosen Governor of Pennsyl vania, and other changes were made that secured to our country freedom and prosperity. Fellow democrats—you who have been so long trampled upon, who have so long labored and waited for the day of deliverance—take heart when yeti read the above. Can you not discern, in the history of the past, the future that is in Shure for Cajon Ltlaglic, and a e despotismi it vainly attempts to sup port? One more entrant and wo conclude. It is as follows : • When I published the "Advocate" in Pittsburgh some yeses ago, I referred to the violent action of the Federals in 1798, and noticed the proceedings of a meeting they hold in Washington, for the purpose, as they declared, of "giving countonanc: and pre l erence in OUR PRIVATE; DEALINGS to at/ WELL DIS POSED citizens in. the different TRADES, PROFES SIONS AND OCCUPATIONS in life, ACCORDING TO THEIR REGARD FOR POLITICAL DUTY," de. The resolutions were very denunciatory, but they failed in their effect. Three of the "disorganizers"—as they were called—Mr. McDowell, Baird, and Lyle, were elected front Washington county to the Legis lature. Surely The Union Lerguers of 1863 must have literally copied the lessen, es they have inherited the tyrannical and intolerant spirit,. of the federals of 1798. lint they will not'' 4, escape, in history, one jot or tittle al the in famous memory of their predecessors. The odium that will cling around them, will be infinitely dasher and more repulsive; for, as compared with the federalists of John Adams' day, the Abolitionists of this are as black , devils compared with angels of light. The Abolitionists bin against light and knowledge and to an extremity and with a depth of malice unknown Jn Adams' day; therefore shall their condcfnnation be the more com plete and terrilde.— Mt i fon (Pa.) Ex am inn. MORE CONFEDERATE PRISDNERS.- On Satur day last, about five hundred more Confederate prisoners from various sections of the west ar rived here over the Pennsylvania railroad and passed on over the Northern Central railroad to Baltimore. About an equal number went through by the same route on Friday night. From Baltimore they were forwarded to Fort ress Monroe for exchange. Several thousand have passed through hero within a period of ten days, arid we learn that there is a large number yet to come. On Sunday forenoon four hundred and fifty rebel prisoners of . war, a large portion of them officers, recently captured in Tennessee and Kentucky, passed through this city over the Pennsylvania railroad, en route for Fort Del aware. The notorious rebel General Church hill, whose name is familiar to all newspaper readers, was one of the party. Their arrival ' here attracted an immense crowd of people to the depot, many of whom had never before seen so ninny "rebellious rebels" at one time. Many of them were intelligent and fine-looking men, and much better clad than the common run of rebel prisoners. The rain stopped hero but a short time, affording our eititens but little opportunity to converse with the ''robs," most of whom seem to he in a cheerful and communicative mood, and hope ful of the ultimate triumph of their cause. Patriot & Union. THE CONSCRIPTION ACT-110W IT STRIKEC 'THE ADOPTED CITIZENS.—The Washingten correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer Instructions which are being prepared by the Solicitor of the War Department, for Provost Marshals to carry out the conscrip tion law, are nearly completed. They clothe each Provost Marshal with ample authority to carry it out at all hazards, even at the point of the bayonet. Upon which the New York Slant.? Zeilung remarks : " This language does not differ, 1 y a single syllable, from that of the Czar of Russia, when he issues his order to his sa traps for the chastisement of his refractory subjects. We believe Mr. Lincoln has fallen into a fatal error, if he proposes to execute the law of conscription with the bayonet, instead of relying on the good-will of the people, and their inborn respect for the Government of their own creation." A lIEAvy DECLINE.—We are informed that a heavy decline has taken place in the price of " King Cotton," within a few days —it having depreciated about $lOO per bale, or about twenty-five cents per pound, which has frightened speculators to such an extent that they are at a loss what to do. They are in a dilemma, from which they will find it impossible to extricate themselves without heavy losses. Ruin will be the inevitable re sult to many. A. T. Stewart & Co., of New York, have already lost over $1,000,000. In order to keep up prices and control the mar ket, this firm in conjunction with others, bought immense quantities of cotton goods, which they held at enormous prices. A " change, however, had come over the spirit of their dreams," and they will be compelled to sell their goods at a heavy discount. We congratulate housekeepers on the prospect of once more being able to buy muslins and calicos at a reasonable figue. ,Bar" Brigadier General JAMES COOPER, at one time a United States Senator from this State, but for several years past a resident of Frederick, Md., died at Columbus, Ohio, on the 28th ult. lie was appointed a Brigadier General by the President about one year ago, and had command of the military station at Columbus at the time of his death. A GOOD SUGGESTION.—Tho Philadelphia Journal proposes that tho so-called " Union Leagues," which have been instituted to influ ence the next Presidential election, &c., under the auspices of the proprietor of the Philadel phia Press, be called in his honor " FORNEY Luaus," which will be at least a more hon est name than the one they have asaumed.
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