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B. corner Fifth and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, is authorirad.to readiest sabsciptions and advertisements for this paper, at our lowest rates. the receipts will be' re. Plead u PaYmente• OUR M, Now our flag is flung to the wild winds free, Let it float o'er oar father land, And the guard of its spotless fame shall be Colombia's chosen band. "CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION, AS THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS TO THE LAST PLANK, WHEN NIGHT AND THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND HIM."-DANIEL WEBSTER. From. the Southwest. Froth Tennessee the news is stir ring. All the Confederate partizan corps in the rear of Rosecrans are active. Gen Wheeler's command on Cumberland river has succeeded in destroying two Federal gunboats and three transports, which were, in all probability, a part of the flotilla that recently left Memphis, bound, it was supposed, for Nashville. The reported defeat of fifteen thousand Confederates under Van Dom at Franklin on Friday of last week, with terrible slaughter, turns out, if we may believe the testimony, an eye witness, to have been nothing more than what he styles " a cavalry dash " of some two thousand men, who drove in the Federal pickets and occupied the town, but were subsequently shelled out of it by the Federal batteries. General Granger, we are told by the writer, did not march out to give them battle, " hoping to decoy the enemy to the South bank of the river." In con clusion, the writer says : "Evidently the whole thing was a feint, or a re connoitering of a new fort which we had nearly completed." lie does not state the loss of the Confeder ates, but notes the fact that they left their dead and wounded behind them. The Federal loss he estimates at thirty men taken prisoners and three wounded. On the afternoon of the same day the passenger train was intercepted by a detachment of Confederate cav alry, : between Murfreesboro' and Nashville. They destroyed the train, recaptured forty-three Confederate prisoners, and carried off part of the guard and most of the passengers, among whom were some thirty or forty sutlers with a•.large amount of "greenbacks " in their possession. A nephew of Major General Rosseau was also taken, together with some fourteen thousand dollars, entrusted to his care by soldiers for delivery to their families. Quite a number of Federal officers fell into the hands of the Confederates on the same occa sion. The Court Room The County Commissioners estab lished a rule, upon the completion of the new Court House, prohibiting the use of the Court Room for politi cal meetings. We presume that rule has been rescinded, or the Republi cans would not have held their meet ing there on Saturday evening. Of course it will be granted for a Demo cratic meeting. At all events the Commissioners will be waited upon for that purpose before a great while. NOT A CANDIDATE Governor CURTIN graciously condescended to inform the Legislature, by message, just as. they were ready to adjourn on Wednesday last, that he would not be a candidate for Gu bernatorial honors in the ensuing campaign, having been promised by the President a for eign mission upon the expiration of his pres ent term of office. Rumor says that he is to go as Minister to Spain. The Republican papers are shedding an abundance of crocodile tears over the Govern. ernor's determination, and are saying all man ner of pleasant things about him. But the Gov ernor is sharp. Ho knew that the chances of a second election to the Executive Chair' of the Commonwealth were exceedingly uncer tain, and therefore he wisely concluded to se cure a good fat office from Old Abe, rather than trust himself in the hands of an outraged and independent people. We admire the Gov ernor's foresight and shrewdness. HON. C. L. Vit.L.L.A.NDIGRAIII. We have received from Mr. JAMES B. G nose, Photographer, Dayton, Ohio, through our old friend Mr. Llama Mclituacs, lately of this county, an excellent card photograph of that fearless champion of the rights of the people, HOD. CLEMENT L. VALLA.NDIGErAM. MT. GROSS is prepared to furnish the same at $2.50 per dozen, or $1.25 per half dozen, and we have no doubt they will be extensively sought after. THE FREEIgAN 9 13 JOURNAL. The New York 'Freeman's Journal, deci— dedly one of the ablest papers on our exchange list, has been enlarged and otherwise im— proved. We are glad to see this evidence of prosperity' on the part of its noble, high toned editor, who was incarcerated in ono of the Lineoba. Bastilee fur having dared to tell the truth: THE NEW RING OF GREECE Tho Greeks, not being able to get for their king a brother of the heir apparent of the British crown, - have done the next best thing , they have got his brother-in-law. They have chosen the younger brother of the Princess of Wales, the almond son of prince Christian of Denmark. It is • , understood that the=, great Powers do not object to the arrangement.— The baptismal name of.the king elect is Chris• tian•Willism.Ferdinand-Adolphe-Geprge, and it lactated that he is to reign under the title of " (Jorge the •First, King of the Greeks.'?— •:_ was berg December 24th, 1845; so that his age iii bettieen 18 and 19 yeara. • THE LATE FAILURES. Who is responsible for the failures on our Soutfiern coast, Asks the Bulletin. The co nt . try has been hoping to hear of success some where, but through some direfully bad manage ment, on the part of-commanders, or some body else, we have had failures everywhere. Troops were detached from General Foster's command to2reinforce General Hunter, and Foster has been left so Weak thathe has PrG bably been compelled to surrender, while not a soldier was needed or used by General Hun ter in the attack on Charleston. So also the expedition that had begun so promisingly in Florida was abandoned in order that Hunter's force might •be strengthened. Jacksonville was Wantonly burned, the Union people .had to fly or brave the vengeance of the rebels, and all that we had gained in Florida was given up. If anything had been done, or even at tempted, by -General- Hunter's army, there would be some excuse for these strange move ments in North Carolina and Florida. Who also is responsible for the failures down the Mississippi ? The army under General Grant has been engaged for months in extraordinary enterprises, not one of which has succeeded. There does not seem to be any practical head there, that can tell the differ ence between sound plans, based. on military soience, and an empirical strategy that consists chiefly in digging canals, cutting levees, and pushing boats through bayous shut in almost impenetrable forests. The lives wasted, the property destroyed and the time lost in these remarkable and profitless enterprises are sorely trying the patience of the nation, and the people are in an agony of anxiety that some wise head and strong band be assigned to the command of the Army of the Missis sippi. Every one of our failures, even if it is only a failure in a canal, is a victory to the rebels. They hap gained as much by each of General Grant's impracticable undertakings as they did by General Sherman's defeat before the Vicksburg defences. With the numerous failures and evident want of judicious glajas \that are observed at the East and the - West, the people scarcely look for success anywhere. General Hooker's Army is believed to be in motion; it is in splendid condition, and its commander has the confi dence of all the officers and men. It will do all:that an army of its size can do. But un less the general plans of the war are such as to make other forces co-operate with it, there is danger of disaster ; and all our late military movements seem to have been made without reference to co-operation. Time is slipping by, and in a few weeks many troops will go out of service. These few weeks are most precious. If General Halleck, who is the military chief of the Government, is the right man in the right place, they may be made to bring us splendid victories. We earnestly hope that they may, though late events have not been calculated to create much confi• deuce. ACqUITTAL OF JUDGE CONSTABLE. Some time since the Abolition sheets exult ed over the news that Judge Constable, of the fourth Judicial District of Illinois, had been arrested by the military'authorities on the plea of discharging deserters. The arrest was a most high handed outrage, among the many outrages committed by this Administration. The men that took Judge Constable into cus tody did not belong to Illinois, but to Indiana. They had no authority for their acts, but the authority of military power. They knew nothing of the facts, and admit now that they knew nothing of them on which they made the arrest. The Court was dissolved by a threat of force. The Judge was seized upon the bench and onnvayed away by armed sol diery to another State and restrained of his liberty fur weeks. But more fortunate than many of the victims cf this Administration, Judge Constable has had a speedy trial before Judge Treat, of the Illinois United States Court, ed has been triumphantly acquitted, and discharged from arrest. Those who caus ed his arrest are the law breakers, they have not only violated laws, but the Constitution, which is the supreme law, and the personal rights and liberties which it is the object of all government to preserve to the citizen.— Judge Constable the innocent has been tried ; how soon will the guilty ones be ? It may be not now, but the day will come when these despots and their minions will be glad to es cape from the avenging Nemesis that will fol low them. HAVE WE A CONSTITUTION! It has again become necessary to remind the occupant of the White House of the ex istence of an instrument known as the Con stitution. Although he is sworn to sup port it he seems to be entirely forgetful of it. Among the general orders recently issued is one proposing to carry into effect an act of Congress which was not approved by the Pres dent until nine days after the adjournment of that body. This act, which is "to provide for the collection of abandoned property, and for the prevention of frauds in insurrection ary States" bears the Presidential sanction under date of March 12th, 1863. Congress adjourned March 4th. The Constitution very explicitly provides that— "If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress‘by their ad journment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a lam." In view of this provision, the National Intel ligences is puzzled to know where Mr. LIN COLN got his authority from, to thus set aside a plain provision of the Constitution. We suppose from that inexhaustible magazine of Executive power—" military necessity." GENERAL BUTLER ON THE WAR The report of Gen. Butler's speech at the Academy of Music, in New York, on the evening of April 1, as given by the Journal of Commerce, contains the following passage: " There is no occasion to carry on the war for tho Constitution as it is, but only against those who have attacked the Constitution.— He was not for the Union again as it was; he did not want to go cheek-by-jowl with the State of South Carolina, and when she comes back he would take care that she comes back well chastised, and understanding the repub lican form of government. He wishes the Union reconstructed with all the modern im provements." [Applause.] In the Tribune's report we find the expres sion upon this point stated thus; "And now, my friends, I do not know but I shall use some heresy ; but us a Democrat-- I am not for the Union as it was. [Great cheering. " Good !" " Good l"] I say as a Democrat, I am not for the Union be to again as it was."• ' THE; QUEEN AND PRINCE. Forney's Press, a few days ago, contained an account of the visit of President Lrbroots to Gen. Hooker's army. It appears the President was accompanied by Mrs. Lincoln and his son Thomas, a boy of ten years of age. The cor respondent of the Press must be a great stick ler for aping after royalty, as he dubbed the President's wife the " Queen of the White ,House," and his son as " Prince Tom." No wonder that FORNEY advocates an infu sion of Monarchical ideas and dogmas into our IteptiPpn system. We suppose the next thing he - Will do, will be to dub Mr. Lincoln "King Abraham I" There would be no in consistency in this, as he is now as absolute as any King in Europe, and wields far more power than the most of them. GHEELEY ON THE PROCLAMATION* Houses Gamisy has at last come to the conclusion that the President's Emancipation Proclamation is just what the President him self declared in advance that it wonld be, : a" Pope's bull against the comet," or a worth less piece of criminal nonsense. In reply to a Mr. Porrs, who seems to have argued in favor of the'efficiency of the President's pro clamation in the work of emancipation, the Tribune says : " Bat suppose the rebels were to-morrow to lay down their arms and return to uncondi— tional loyalty, and their several States to be thereupon recognized and accepted as mem bers of the Federal Union, and suppose them thereupon to re-affirm and re-enact the laws under which slaves are now held by them res pectively, which is topverride and subvert these laws within the sphere of their legiti mate action ? Shppose, even, that every slave now held in Georgia were actually set free, and that Georgia, having returned to loyalty and been again recognized as an equal mem— ber of the Union, shouldproceed to reduce them once more to slavery, what does Mr. Potts pro pose to do about it? We have not the smallest doubt that an ex-slave living in any free State, who should be pursued as a fugitive, might plead 'the President's proclamation and his virtual acceptance of its conditions by desert ing the rebels and adhering to the Union, as a bar to hie ex-master's claim. Bat that the Union, or any one acting under its authority, could interpose between two native or natural ized inhabitants of Georgia and override ,the Constitution and laws of that State—she being peaceably, undisputably, loyal within the Union—and defeat the claim of the one to hold the other as his slave, we do not understand. The President has not assumed to abolish the laws of any State, mach lees to forbid their re-enactment after the perfect restoration of the Union." So we have it at last admitted, by the very highest Abolition authority, that the docu ment which purports to . abolish slavery for— ever, does not liberate a single slave, nor affect the future condition of a single slave except to free him from the operation of the fugitive slave law in a free State 1 For what, then, was it issued, and why was it demanded by the Tribune and its associate disunion advo— cates? Its sole effect has been to unite the South and divide the North—to strengthen the rebel cause and weaken that of the Union.— And we have no doubt that this was what was desired and expected by GREELEY, STEVENS & Co. They and the whole radical crew wanted the Union broken up. To that end they had labored for years ; and they feared that this darling object could not be accomplished by the rebellion without the aid which such a measure would afford them. Hence they de manded the Proclamation ; and having got it, and it having produced its desired effect, they have now no further occasion to conceal their real opinion in regard to its utter inefficiency towards abolishing slavery. How wicked and infamous are such frauds upon the people— such crimes against the country 1 Yet how characteristic of the radical leaders. IS THIS A FREE COUNTRY' In one of Mr. SEWARD'S letters to the Brit ish Minister, published in the " Diplomatic Correspondence,"occurs the following most re markable and disgraceful sentence: "My lord, I can touch a bell on my right hand and order the arrest of a citizen in Ohio. I can touch the bell again, and order the im prisonment of a citizen in New York ; and no power on earth but that of the President can release them. Can the Queen of England, in her dominions, do as much ?" If the object of Mr. SEWARD was to humili• ate the people of this country and to disgrace and degrade them in the eyes of the whole civilized world, he could have not done it more effectually. le boasts of the arbitrary and unlimited power of the Government.—boasts that it is a more perfect despotism than the English monarchy, and glories in the fact that it dares to override the Constitution and the laws and to ruthlessly trample upon the rights and liberties of the citizens whose servant it is I And in the wantonness of his arrogance, he tauntingly asks whether the Queen of England dares to thus outrage the laws and the rights of citizens in her do minions. No, she dare not ! Conduct on her part like that pursued by our Government, would cause her throne to be upset and her self and family driven in exile from their land ; yet we are called a free people, and our Gov ernment a free. Government, while the English people are the subjects of a monarchy I Read mow what Lord CHATHAM, the greatest of English Peers, skid : " The poorest man in his cottage may bid de fiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it ; but the King of England can not enter it. All his power dares not cross the threshold of that ruined tenement. WELL SAID Mr. C. C. Burr, of New Jersey, a short time since, addressed the Democracy of Stanford, Conn., in which he descanted upon the new doctrine set up by the politicians, that the " President is the Government." The speaker remarked that the government was composed of more branches than the Executive, and that as well might "An organ grinder say that he was the organ as Mr. Lincoln say he is the gover ment." That is the idea exactly. Whoever claim ed that Mr. Polk was the government during the Mexican war, when Mr. Lincoln was op posing that war with all his might—when those who are now leading Republicans were wishing our gallant soldiers welcomed " with bloody hands to hospitable graves ?" Mr. Lincoln is for the time being the Executive of the Nation, and while he administers the governinent within the Constitution which he has sworn to support, he is entitled to our re spect 4 ; but if he does wrong, no man necessar ily opposes the government by opposing the his acts. LATEST FROM SUF FOLK In all probability a bloody battle has been fought before this time, or will be fought very shortly at Suffolk, Va. Longatreet is in com— mand of the rebels, and is represented to have a force of 35,000 or 40,000 men and eighty pieces of artillery. If this is so we may well tremble for the result, for at the outside we 'cannot have more than 10,000 or 12,00 b troops at Suffolk. The special correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune writes from that post, dated the 15th of April, as follows : About four o'clock this morning the enemy attacked us on our left, coming up the Eden— ton road some 5,000 strong. They were shelled from Fort Dix, and retired about five miles. At the same time a feint was made to cross the Nansemond, but our gunboats were sufficient to drive the rebels back into the'woods.— Major General .Peck is confident that he can easily, repulse the enemy, and Longetreet will find -himself " in a peck of trouble" before -lougs — If he manages to get back to his line of defense on the Blackwater there will be a terrible blunder somewhere. Oar troops are in fine condition and good spirits, and if prop er measures are taken promptly a large por— tion of Longstreet's forces can be " bagged" with perfect ease. Our communication with Norfolk remains intact, but may be inter— rupted in a day or two. It is expected that a general attack will be made on Friday or Saturday. THAT'S So.—The Louisville Ky. Journal, the ablest Union organ of the Border States, truly says that " the Union man of Kentucky who should forget to denounce the Secessionists would be about as true a specimen of hie class as the Northern Democrat who should forget to denounce the Abolitionists. Each would speedily find his true level—the latter in the bosom of the Abolitionists, the former in the bosom of the Secessioniste." LOCAL DEPARTMENT. • New Penman?. ScHanzas.—A new paean ger Schedule went into operation on the Pennsylvania iiallroad on Tuesday, and the different trains now leave this city as follows : . _ . . . Through Enron ------ ------...." - ......,..,,_.8.40 " Mount Joy Aceommodation--.«—,— ---- .......... 0 00 „.« Lancaster Aseommodstion----- --- . 7 24 . At Fact 14"................. --- -. ------- ... 7 ............ .....2 21 pir. Mount Joy Accommodation, No. 4,:....:. ..._ «... ....5 Harrisburg Aecommodation—..... ..... : ... .... 6.43 • . ~ Through Irpnuts----..—. . ..... 1.21 a.m. Fast Mall 10.55 " Mount Joy Accommodation ..... 1105 " 223 p. m. Harrisburg Accommodatron 608 " Lancaster Atxummodatlen_ . _ ... ...-.........- ......... " Mount Joy Accommodation, 7.50 " • TEM MAILS—CHAtias OF Houßs.—ln come• sequence of the change to the Passenger Schedule, the mails, by railroad, arrive and, dere at the City Post-office aa follows: ARRIVAL& Through . Mall from the Bast-1.21 a. m. and 223 p. m. Through Mail/from the West-30 a. In. and 2.25 p. m. Way Mail from the East-10.55 a. m. Way Mail from the West-9 a. m. and 225 p. m. Southern Mall from Baltimore and Washington, 245' p. m MAILS CLOGS. Eastern Through Ilan, for Philadelphia,l.3o p. m. and 8 p. df Way Mall East, for Philadelphia and intermediate offioes, at 8 a. or. New York and Northern and Eastern States, L3O p. m. • For Harrisburg, and Cumberland, Franklin and Perry counties, at 10 a. m. and. 8 p m. Northern Central, Juniata and Western New York, at 10 Way Mall Wed—For Landieville, Balungn, Mount Joy, Elizabethtown, Middletown, illghapire, Hempfield, Mountdßie, Wrightsville, Baytown, Bainbridge and Fat mouth at 10 a. m. For Columbia, York. &c., at 10 a. to. For Baltimore and Washington, D. C., at 120 p. m. and 8 p. m. Flttebtirg Through Mall at 130 p. In. and 8 p. m. • For Columbia, York, Marietta anal Harrisburg at 10 a. m and 5. p m. A " UNION LEAGUE." MEETING.—The so Call ed "'Union League" of this city held a meeting in the Court Room (the first time that place was ever need for a political meeting) on Saturday evening last, which was ad. dressed by that '• life long Democrat" of the " Jeffereonlan and Jacksonian" (and we don't know how many other oniana) school, Hon. Prase; C. SHANNON, of Pittsburg, an Abolition member of the late Legislature from Allegheny county. The room was filled with ladles, Democrats and from 200 to 300 Abolitionists—the former predominating largely. Judge SHANNON was heralded as a great and overpower ing orator by the Abolition organs of this city, and atter he had spoken. those miserable creatures, the "Copper heads," were to hide their diminished heads, and never to show their ugly faces ondhis terrestial sphere again. The Judge is a tolerably fluent talker, but is extremely vain and egotistical, and he did not at all sustain the reputa tion which had been manufactured for him by the pure and incorruptible editor of the Express. Indeed, his speech was a miserable failure, according to the testimony of sev erable Republicans who spoke of it afterwards. Of coarse, his principal topic of discussion was the " Copperheads," although in one part of his long winded harangue he made an ill-natured fling at the "second Washington," who in a sort of a way fills the Presidential chair, when he said, Oh I that there was an Andrew Jackson now in the Pres idential chair!" This hit brought down the house, to the utter diemay of the leading Abolitionists present. It was. exceedingly unkind of the Judge to thus indirectly thrust a fling at the dearly-beloved "Old Abe," and for this we doubt whether Hon. PETER C. SHANNON, the "life-long Democrat." will be again very soon invited to address the 'loyal," stay al./tone patriots, 'ycleped the "Union League," of this city. Calls were then made for "Stevens" and" Champneye." and Ilea. PCSJAIIIN Contents Inztlesay arose, and made a few horned remarks which soon made the crowd begin to disperse. But the funniest part of this fanny meeting was at the conclusion, when lion. Tuannsue STSVSNS moved that the thanks of the meeting ,be tendered to the " learned" gen. tlemen far their able and eloquent addressee. (Of course, Mr. STEVENB never pays any ironical compliments.) Cur " learned" member from this city, not to be outdone in politeness and gallantry, then moved that the thanks of the meeting be tendered " Hon. THADDYIni Stevens for his manly and patriotic (?) course in the late Congress." Both these appropriate resolutions, allhoucti pvrtaking consid erably of the "you tickle me and I'll tickle you" order, were adopted, and the gathering of 'the ',happy family" dispersed, and It is needless to say that Peter, Benjamin and Thaddeus "went on their way rejoicing." The meeting was exceedingly tame and spiritless, (the only mark of any great applause being when Gen. Jack son's name wee mentioned by Judge Ssestov,) and it fell like a wet blanket on those who got it np. So much fur the first public demonstration of the " Caton League" of the city of Lancaster. A KNOW-NOTIIING' LODGE REVIVED.—Last night week, a young gentleman of this city, Mr. LEFEVER BITZER, a step-eon of Col. Aitpazir Ream, leas asked to visit the rooms of the Union League, by another young man, a "loyal" member of the acme. He did so, and had hardly got In the room, whoa be was surrounded by a num bar of "loyal" patriots, who wanted to force him to sign his name to their roll. He told them no, ho would like to examine their writings first before he would sign. They still badgered him, and he pointedly refused to sign his name. At last thoy found they "had caught a tartar," and ordered him out, saying they did not want him thero. Scene No. 1. The same evening Mr. CRARLEB MEDFORD, of this city, al so got into the rooms, and they tried a similar game•on him. Ha, however, saw a pigeon hole or two in the door leading to the ante chamber, and concluded it was an old Know• Nothing Lodge revived, and " wouldn't go In." A similar ceremony was gone through with his case. Scene No 2. Of course there is no secrecy In the doings of these in tensely "loyal" etay-at home patriots I We shall publish something shortly which will open the eyes of all order loving, law-abiding and Constitution-believing citizens to the dangerous character of those so cilia] Union Leagues. GOTTSCHALK IS COHING.—It will be seen in our advertising column, that I. 51. tiOTTMCIIALK, the mi. neat Pianoforte Virtuoso and Composer, will give a Grand Concert at Fulton Hall, on Thursday evening. Of course everybody will go to hear the groat performer. LANCASTER COUNTY BANK. —The Charter of this Bank hue been extended fur live years, by a most flat tering, vote In both houses. The vote in a full Senate wag 27 to 8, and in the House 59 to 2U. Th.ll we believe, la the largest vote received by any bank during the session. and le a gratifying commentary upon the position of the Bank before the people. IN Tow - N.—A. M. HommooK, &A., of the New Orleans Picayune, is now on a visit to his brother, Col. M. P. HOLINLOOS, of this city. Mr. H. bee for many years been the principal business partner of the Picayune, which is the leading and most enterprising paper in the South. DEATH OF CAPT. FREDERICK KLEIN .—InIOI - has beau received by his family of the death of Capt. Frederick Klein, of Co. K, 79th Regt. P. V., at Nash ville, Tennessee. Capt. Klein left Columbia as a private in Capt. Welsh's company, in the three-months service, where he made himself a name as a lirst.rate soldier. On his return be Immediately commenced recruiting a com pany for Col. liambright's Lancaster County Regiment, which company he ocmmanded through the greater part of the arduous Western campaigns participated in by the gal lant 79th regiment. We have not learned thr particulars of his death, nor have we the date.—Cblumbia BROUGHT Home.—The remains of Peter Sultzbach, of Marietta, a member of Capt. Samuel G. Mil ler's company, 135th Regiment P. V., who died in camp, near Belle Plain. Va , were brought to his home in that borough, on Wedneedhy merniog last and burled ou Sun day morning. COURT OF QUARTER SESdIONB.—The April Term of the Court of Quarter Seaslone Cohrt commenced yesterday—Judge Lena presiding. FINANCIAL Ii.EFUJILT OF TUE FINANCE COMMIT• TEE —Several errors occurred in our publication of the re port of the Finance Committee last week. We republlsh it this week as It was adopted, after being amended by COuncils: In discharge of a duty imposed upon your "Committee of Finance and Accounts," the undersigned respectfully present a statement of their estimated receipts and capon. ditnres for municipal purposes in the present fiscal year. To meet required appropriations for various objects, in connection with anticipated receipts from sources other than taxation—the rate of taxation adopted In tho post few yearn appears indispensable, and is therefore recom• mended, namely 90 cents per sloo—however desirable a less rate might be, if the necessary revenue could be thus realized. The financial condition and credit of the corporation can hardly be excelled. The loans are eagerly sought for In vestment of capital; but, as no new ones are made, the demand cannot be accommodated ; the issuing of new bonds being confined to exchange of matured ones, and hence any amount In 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, so long as a prudent and economical administration of its affairs is pursued, and all demands upon the Treasury paid at sight, as Is now done. Your Committee, es "Commissioners of the Sinking . Fond," report the amount thereof to be $42,28206, which' is invested in the loans of the City, held by them, bearing 6 per reotum interest. The debt of the corporation consists as follows: 5 per ceetum Loan . $ 46,300.00 5% " 15,000.00 6 286,412 02 I Total $348,612 02 The loans of the Slaking Fund, being part 42,282 06 thereof, deducted leaves the outstanding debt at $100,329.96 The receipts into the Treasury aro estimated to be as follows: 'fax of 00 cents per $lOO, on property valuation of $3,400,000 $30,600.00 Water Rents from Duplicate 9.700.00 Water Rent from Penn's Railroad Company..... 600.00 Miscellaneous: From ferrules, licenses, fines, forfeits, &c 200.00 Rent of Market Stalls, including arrearages for 1882 1.500.00 Rent of City Property 350.00 Additions to Tax Duplicates for default of pay meat 200.00 Addition to Water Rent Duplicate far default of payment 100 00 Reunded quota from County of Lancaater for Bridges and Road Damages 250 00 Balance In the Treasury at the beginning of the year 6,366 00 $50,188.00 Which sum it to recommended to disburse as follows: To pay interest on loans at 5 per cent...s 2,81500 66 514 e 66 " 0 " 874.50 17,184 72 -$20,374 22 To pay Water Pipe and laying 300.00 To pay fur repairs en main streets, and grading, paving and repairs la other streets, each ward, $1,264 5,066.00 To pay for making new Turnpike In East Orange street, per resolution of Counclla 1,500.00 To pay for extension of Sewer in Vine street, up . Vine and Doke to north side of East King at... 1,500.00 To pay Watchmen during Winter months. 1,824.00 To pay lighting City in winter, and dark nights in spring, summer and autumn 9,000 00 To pay Fire.Companics 1,900 00 To pay sallailes • 4,075.00 To pay temporary loan and Interest from Decent. bar, 1882 1,428.00 To bay interest due Sinking Fond to January 1, 1863 1,308 03 To pay miscellaneous Water Works expenses-- 2,800.00 To pay abatement for prompt payment of City Taxes 1,200.00 To pay abatement for prompt payment of Water Rent 300.00 To pay per centage for collecting Taxes after De cember 1 000 00 To pay Contingencies 3 000.00 0,166. In conclusion, the adoption of the following res ss olutions oo is recommended: lit. Relived: By the Select and Common Councils of the City of Lancaster, That the City Tax for the present fiscal year be assessed at the rate o(90 cents per $lOO on all pro perty made taxable by law for City purpores—namely, 00 cents of the rate for interest, and 30 cents for other objects. 2nd. Essayed, That the amount of taxes, as well es other receipts into the Tressary during the year, not otherwise appropriated, be applied to the objects and In the. proper- MODS stated In the foregoing report, and to none other, unless Col:mons should hereafter differently direct. GODIIIMED ZARA!, . B. 8. BATRVON, PHILIP PITZPATIIIOII, ~ BM% BECHER. I maga% Oirr, March 17, 888. THE CHAltfft OF CONSPIRACY.—We stated last week that four citizens. viz: Philip Haber, Augustus P. Mfg. Gabriel Filbert and Harrison Oxensider, were ar• rested in Berke county, on a charge of conspiracy to create disaffection against the Governsosus of the United States and to. mist the execution of the law.. The arrest wag made on the complaint of William Y. Lyon, of the city of Reeding, who ailment that he - recently, attended a se. SSA an meeting In Marion toishlp, .Barks county, which - be. diatribes is foible In his evidence before 11.11. Commis- HeasHlt, at Philadelphia: Hieing recalled information of • a Meeting in Marion township, I went to the barn of Jacob &Ilan, and eon pealed myself under the straw; alter a while and others eame in; - isaw. aotne'peopiri there I should blow, others that I siumld not know;; Mr. Filbert was there, I think; the men were lif the barn below me; there might have been a hundred there for all I know; I had to con. oral myself to avoid detection; Mr. Huber told the men to search the barn and see if there were any spies In the place; the men then thrust pitch forks In the straw, to as• certain if any one was under it; after this, ha directed pickets to be thrown out, outside of the barn; he used the word picket; he then made a speech; said,that the war was an unholy war; thiat the Order to which he belonged was a million strong ttheerspualsation, he-said , first start Ord in the South, and had Signs, pass-words and grips; he than administered sn obligation to the men; don't know Ulm had a bible; eighty three men took the obligation; he repeated it was they would swear to do certain things; all seemed to like the oath; they said yea; 'before they went into secret session, a public meeting was held, and three who were willing to sign went into secret session ; a dollar was paid as an told:Alen fee. The witness was here asked to give the obligation, and be took a memorandum from his pocket, and gave.the fol lowing questions es those put by Mr. Huber to the candi dates: Are you In, fever of the abduction of Abraham Lincoln, by force, if necessary ? Are you in favor of a Northwestern' Confederacy ? Are you in favor of resisting the draft or conscription act by force, if necessary ? While the witness was giving the quaaticns, Mr. Huber became very much excited, and said, in a load voice, "It's a lie; I say it openly." Witness—l can't say positively who were in the barn, except Mr. Huber. Dr. Mfg, Oxenelder, Filbert and Ha ber were at the dwelling, where the public meeting was held. After the arrest of Hater, I put questions to HO bee, telling him that be was not bound to answer them. He said In reply to questions, that what was to be,done was under the Constitution and in support of the Union. He said the object of paying a dollar was to assist one another in ascertaining whether the conscription is con• etitutional or not. On the cross examination the will:teem said that on the night of the meeting, he had his face blackened to dia. guise him. When he arrested Htzber"he searched him. and fmnd a paper on him, In pencil mark, which contained the dates and places of meeting, of the aesoclation. In en• ewer to qeestions by J. Glancy Jones, Eaq., of Reading who represented several of the defendants, the witness said th.t ha had known Filbert for twenty years, he had been County Commissioner of Berke; that he had always borne a good character, and was a practising physielan la Berke county, and has always borne the character of a law. abiding citizen. Of Gen. Oxensider, he had not heard much. Frederick H Prints and Isaac Gerhard were examined and testified to being present at the meeting. They car roborated the first witness. The hearing was at this point continued. Mr. Jones asked for the discharge of the three defendants, Dig, Oxensider, and Filbert, as there bad not been any testimony ageing theca. Mr. O'Neill also asked for the discharge of Mr. Huber. Mr. Coffey said he would consent to taking the personal recogninances of all except Huber.. The latter he should ask to enter bail in $5,000. The Commisssoner fixed the bail at $3,000 each for Iffig. Oxalistiler and Filbert, and $l,OOO for Huber. The ball was entered for all the defendants. LecAL LEGISLATION.—During the past ses sion cf the Legislature the following bills relating to Lan caster county were passed: A supplement to an act granting certain ferry privileges at Peach Bottom. An act to annex part of Ephrata twp. in Lancaster county to Earl township for school purposes. A further supplement to the act Incorporating tho Man helm, Petersburg and Lancaster turnpike or plank road company. A farther supplement to an act to incorporate the Lan caster, Lebanon and Pine Grove Railroad Company. An act to lay out a State road In Berke and Lancaster counties. An act relative to the Columbia school district in Lan caster county. A further supplement to an act to incorporate the Marietta and Mount Joy turnpike road company. A farther supplement to an act to incorporate the Wash ington and Maryland line railroad company. An act to incorporate the Linden Ball Seminary at Lithe, Lancaster county, Pa. A supplement to an act to incorporate the Conestoga and Big Spring Valley turnpike road company. An act to extend the charter of the Lancaster County Bank. An act extending the Auction laws of the City of Lan caster to the Borough of Strasburg. A further supplement to the Charter of the Borough of Marietta. An act extending to the City of Lancaster, an act au thorising the arrest of professional thieves and burglars in the City of Philadelphia. An act to incorporate the Strasburg and Big Spring turnpike road Company. An act relative to the Millersville and Safe Harbor turn pike road company. A further supplement to the Reading and Columbia rail road. ESCAPED FROM PRlSON.—Sometime last night, Win. Good, a convict in the Lancaster County Pris on, managed to make his escape. We have not learned how this was effected. Good was convicted at the August session last year on four indictments one for stealing looks from the Pequea Librars Association, one for steal ing four surplices from the Pequea church, one for steal ing an overcoat at Reese's Hotel, and the fourth for steal ing a microscope, coin detector, Ac., and was sentenced to several years' imprisonment. He has made some half doz en attempts to escap., in two of which, including the last, he was successful. The other occasion he was shortly of ter arrested by c.fflcer Reser. He is evidently a shrewd, calculating scoundrel. In one or the attempts to escape, be exhibited considerable Ingenuity, and but for his igur.r. once of drugs would probably have succeeded. He one day feigned cr.rti reness, and requested the under-keener to procure bite :.Dace fiza, which was done. A few days at ter wards ho pretended that ho was boors. and wanted mor. Woe which was supplied him. A night or two of is- this, when the night watch came to Good's cell he found him eating figs; Good offered the watch our. which was arnept• ed and eaten. In a few minutia an "exposition of sleep" came over the wad h, when he quietly laid down and was soon In a sound el , op; Good then went to work and cut a ho'e through the done of 'do call, and had already made his way into the yard when the watch, having 'received an overdose of mwpillue in the fig, woke up with violent pains, and, suipectiog that he loud been drugged, gore the alarm, when Good was secured before getting outside of the prison walls. Tim plan was admirably laid. 'Whether be escapeddaer, night by a ruse equally ingenious we have been unable to learn, as the prison officers are remarkably reticent about the affair.—Thursday's Express. COLUMBIA UNION DEMOCRATIC CLUB.—The Secretary sends us the following account of the organiser U. of the Columbia Bolos Democratic Club: Com:mine, April 15, IE3. M 9.9.911.9. EDITOIN : There was a vary large adjourned meeting of the Democracy of Columbia, held in the town Bell, on last Saturday evening. April 11, for the purpose of hearing the report of the different committees. The Committee appointed to select officers for the govern ment of the club. reported the following gentlemen, who were present and took their respective positions: Pres-- dent—Wm. Patton; 'Vice Presidents—Robert T. Ryon, Soloman Detwiler; Recording Secretary—Samuel F. Eber , Isle ; Carresponding Secretaries—Nicholas sl'-Donald, An ew Zeller; Treasurer—A Pelee; Raeutiveo , mmlitee Joe. 51. Watts, H. 51. North and Samuel E. Mexico. As the Demo rats are now properly organized you may ex pect to hear a good account of them this fall, Your.; truly, Samuld. P. EIIZALLIN. P. S. The name of our club 19 the Columbia Union Democratic Club. S. F. E. A BLACK LEAGUE The North is just now full of itinerant Abo lition lecturers who pass for refugees from the South—old slave owners who have been ter ribly persecuted by the rebels, but who, sin gularly enough, prefer preaching abolitionism in the North to fighting their persecutors at the South. One . of this class, the Rev. AL BERT N. GILBERT, who is heralded as a Ken tuckian, a State about to be invaded by the rebels and that needs all her loyal men at home—was a prominent speaker at a Bleck League meeting in Philadelphia, a few days since. In the course of his remarks he uttered the following villainous sentiments " We know they speak the truth when they say that the negro slays everything within his reach when he rises in insurrection. We have all learned the history of St. Domingo, and it would be terrible to have a St. Domingo mas sacre re-enacted upon our soil. But the Pres ident has declared this a military necessity, and if blood must flow, we must not dread the consequences, blood must flow in this war. I speak it meaningly, and as a Christian, deliberately and calmly, that I would rather see every woman and child in the South per ish than that the Southern confederacy should succeed in attaining the objects of its leaders, [Applause.]" These are his words, not colored or garbled, but taken verbatim from a Republican organ. And it is with such men, false to their God —false to the Constitution—false to manhood, that Democrats are salted to fraternize in " Loyal Leagues !"—Albany Argus. VOTING BY PROXY The Senate of Pennsylvania having an Ab olition Majority, last week passed a bill pro viding for soldiers to vote by proxy. Tho un constitutionality and absurdity of the thing made it ridiculous. Think of one man at home claiming to.vote himself and fur a half dozen other men represented to be in the army ! What a nine election this would make I The Abolition Senators evidently thought that they had played off a very clever political trick upon the Democrats, but they overshot the mark. In their anxiety to catch the Dem ocrats in a trap, they have placed their names on the record in favor of a bill which will be pointed to in all coming time as an evidence of the extent to which the Republican party were willing to corrupt the ballot-box, to secure a political victory. TEIE CULTETRIST.—We have received the first number of a now Agricultural Monthly, styled the "Qulturist," published in Philadel phia and edited by A. M. Spangler, Esq., formerly of this place. The "Oulturist" is a neat sheet, liberally illustrated and filled with excellent matter, and is furnished to subscri bers at the amazingly low price of 25 cents a year. To make this enterprise pay the sub scription list must be large, and we therefore enjoin upon all our agricultural readers the remitting of a 25e. cent note to the office of the "Oulturist," 25 North Sixth St. Philadel phia. PORK PACkING rx CINCINNATI.—The Price ,Current_publiehes the annual Pork Packing statement, showing the total number of hogs packed during the season at 4.069,000, being an increase over last year 0f1,300,000. There is a net increase in pounds of meat of 327} per cent, and in pounds of lard 27 per cent. From the Johnstown Democrat UNION .LEAGIIIES , ..THEIR OBJECTS.. TEEM SOU. DEELS• Ma. Furor': I cmave permission to inquire let. What are the 4.llSion Leagues," of which we hear so much now-a-days? 21. Who orighisted them, and for what purpose ? 3d. Is it nee in order to prove that they are "loyal' men, for Dusts to join each organisa tions? If you will be pleased to answer these inquiries you will confer a favor upon one whose heart . 1 yeameth after knowledge," and who even in the opinion of his Republican neighbors is A. LOYAL MAX. We proceed to answer the inquiries of " A Loyal Man," we trust with fairness and truth fulness. "Union Leagues" are avowedly organiza tions in and through which men are to assure the Government of their loyalty, and of their determination to support it in the exercise of its power to suppress the rebellion, but in re ality they are secret political oath-bound ec cieties for the purpose of advanoing the inter este of the Republican party. They are sim ply a second edition of Know-Nothingism, with this difference, that, instead of the dis franohisement of the " Irish and Latch," we are to have the enfranchisement of the " nigger." The parent order of Know-Nothingism and its legitimate off-shoot Union Leagueism were both originated and created and controlled by the same men. The one was "intensely American"—the other is "intensely loyal." We publish below one of the oaths of . this " Union League," and if any one will take the trouble - to compare it with the old Know- Nothing oath there will be found a remarka ble similarity : OBLIGATION 1 (with your name) do solemnly swear, in the presence of God and these witnesses to support, pro tect, and defend the. Constitution and Government of the United States, and the flag thereof, and aid in maintaining the laws of the United States, and to defend this State or District against any invasion, insurrection or rebellion, to the best of my ability, without any mental reservation or evasion whatever. Furthermore, that Italie aid and assist in electing true and reliable Union men, and none others, to all offices of profit and trust, from the lowest to the highest, to town, county, State and General Gov ernment. And should I ever be called to fill any office, I well then and there, faithfully carry out the objects and - principles of this League; and far ther, that I will protect, aid, comfart, and defend all true members of the Union League, and will never make known in any way or manner to any person or persons not members of the Union League, any of the signs, passwords, proceedings, purposes, debates or plans of this or any other council under this or ganization, except when engaged in admitting new members into this organization [place your right hand on the Billy Bible, etc.] and with my hand up on the Holy Bible, Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States of America, under the seal of my sacred honor, I acknowledge myself firmly bound and pledged to the faithful per formance of this my solemn obligation. So HELP HE GOD. Our readers need scarcely be told that this is a solemn obligation to support the nomi nees of the Republican party. Under the rule established by the Administration and its ad herents, those only are " loyal" or " true Union men" who support its policy. While Democrats acknowledge and stand by the Gov ernment—which lasts forever, and represents the whole American people—they utterly scout and deny the doctrine that they owe any allegiance to the Administration, which lasts only for a term of office, and represents only a political party ! Hence it follows that Dem ocrats are disloyal—and Republicans only be ing loyal—only they are to be supported by members of this order for all offices from the highest to the lowest. If one goes into a Union League Council he will find therein the identical men, who a few years ago, figured in Know-Nothing councils, and,in later times, as " Wide-Awakes" and Black Republicans. Here and there, as is the case in this place. will be found a pretended Democrat, but he is such no longer. Whatever he may have been in the past, he cannot now claim to be a mem ber of the Democratic party. If he has en. joyed its confidence and profited by the hon ors and positions it has had the power to be stow, he only adds to his defection the crime of ingratitude. While such will be used by this new order, they will not be trusted.— They may make them Presidents or Secreta ries rf Councils, but beyond that they may not go. They may fetch and carry and wait at the feast, but they may not sit down to eat thereat. However mush necessity there may be for Republicans to take these oaths and 'peke blatant professions of love for the Union and respect and veneration for the Constitu tion, none whatever exists for Democrats to joie such organizations. The Democratic party may safely trust public judgment upon its past and present history, and it needs no such se cresy--no such hypocritical and false obliga tions to assure the patriotism and integrity of its members. D is upon the record as unal terably opposed to all secret political societies. It condemned and crushed out Know Nothing ism, and it condemns and will crush out just as surely, this lying League, which'seeks, un der cover of false pretences, to fasten anew upon the people under another name the wick ed and odious fanaticism of Black Republi canism. Against all such organizations we entreat the Democracy to be warned in time. THE CONFEDERATE FLEET BUILD- ING IN ENGLAND A London letter dated March 28, published in the New York Times, says: " If the statements publicly made, and ap parently based on good authority, are to be believed, the Confederates within a month will have at sea one of the most formidable fleets that ever steamed out upon the Atlantic.— The steamers now prepareing will be as fleet, as strong and as powerful as British machin ists can make them. You have not begun to fortify the Nothern ports a day too soon. I cannot tell when the blow will fall, " I only know that the Confederates here are in radiant jubilation. They care nothing about Vicksburg or Charleston. They expect to go home in "ninety days." They care nothing for the new Union movement in the North. They care. not for recognition. The money market has recognized them—that is enough. If cotton is not king, it is at least a hard subject, and has given them a loan of £15,000,000, with the offer of six times as much. This is glory enough." A Washington despatch to the Times says that Secretary Seward, in a recent letter to Mr. Adams, the American minister, offers to become the purchaser for the United States of all vessels building in England for the Con— federates, at the contract or other prices. FROM WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, April 16 There is very great difference of opinion as to the nature of the dispatches just sent out upon the subject of the departure of vessels from England for service in the hands of the rebels. But if I am not misinformed, they are of such a character as will involve the withdrawal of Mr. Adams should they not be complied with. The foreign mail, at New York yesterday, brought further dispatches from our Ministers at England and France, but their nature is unknown. Advices from Newbern to Sunday last rep resent that General Foster still held out, and though closely besieged, there were confident hopes that succor would yet reach him, and that he would drive back his besiegers in tri umph. There seems to have been an error in supposing th t his provisions were nearly exhausted, as ho is said in these advices to have a sufficient quantity to last until the let of May, if ru.t longer. The dispatch telegraphed here about Ad miral Wilkes being a paroled prisoner at fh vana receives no credit in government circles. We have nothing later from Charleston, save a confirmation of the return of General Hun— ter to Port Royal. Thus both the land and naval attack is postponed for the present. The report in the New South that the - attack was renewed on the 11th, was unfounded. The Portland Advertiser states that in .the steamer North America, arrived at that port on Saturday last, were no less than seventeen American captains c,f merchantmen, eleven of whom had sold their ships abroad on account of the immense war risks and the absence of demand for freights under the hazard of ship— ments in America bottoms, and four of whom had their ships captured by the Alabama. ANOTIIER WARNING TO ENGLAND.—It is re— ported in diplomatic circles that Secretary Seward forwarded a second dispatch to Min— ister Adams yesterday, to go by the neat steamer, similar in its general tenor to that written upwards of a fortnight ago, in which Great Britain was warned of the consequences of sending forth more Alabamas to prey on our commerce. This second dispatch is, it is stated, oven more decided in its tenor than its predecessor, and goes even so far as to inti— mate that if the British government permits the rebels to build and dispatch their pirati— cal cruisers from its ports it ought justly to be held responsible.— Wash. Cor. N. Y. Trihune. To VOCALISTS, SPEAKIRB, &o.—As your voice and lungs are much taxed, and often get out of order by ?ons, colde, ito., try a box of Bryan's Palma= W e' afers. Only 25 cents a box, eold by Kaufman & Co. Froze the Chlaago Times THE ELECTIONS Wisconsin, all hail! From the returns re ceived. it is estimated that the Demooratio candidate for Chief Justice is elected by a majority of ten thousand. This is a splendid triumph. La Crosse and Kenosha have elected the Democratic municipal tickets. The Abolition majority in Connecticut .is a little leas than twenty-five hundred. There the influence of the shoddy contractors, and the fact that vast numbers of people are making money oat of the war—that, as a whole, the people of the State are making money out of the war—were worth five to ten thousand votes to the Abblition ticket. In Wisconsin it is different. There the people are losing money by the war. In Indiana and Ohio the gains are large for the Democracy. We discover how the Aboli tionists have succeeded in Cincinnati. The Democrats carried the city last fall by 155 majority, and yet they poll 99 more votes now than they polled then. The Abolitionists. poll 1.395 more votes than they polled then. The Democracy were beaten by an enormous fraud. The returns from the Illinois township eleo tiens look splendidly. FROII MILWAIIKE MILWAITES, April 7. The election passed off quietly to-day. The Democratio ticket for municipal officers was elected without opposition. Cothren, " Cop perhead," for Chief Justice, has 3,249 major ity in the city. his majority in the county Is about 5,000. The returns from the interior indicate the election of Cothren by 10,000 majority. The Democrats of La Crosse have elected their entire ticket. Fred. Robinson, Democrat, is eleoted Mayor of Kenosha. FROM INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS, April 7. Every other township but this in this county increased its Democratic vote yesterday.-- Hancock county, which went 200 for the Re publicans at the last election, goes, Bumming up the township, 300 Democratic and this is the tenor of the returns from all the precincts throughout the State. I shall transmit you the earliest authentic figures. ILLINOIS SPRINGFIELD, April G. At the township election, to-day, the Dem— ocratic ticket was successful in the city by 134 m.‘jority. Only 1.700 votes were polled, to 2,100 in November last. N. W. Broadwell, Democrat, is elected County Judge, there being no opposition. From the Dayton Empire Glorious Triumph--The Whole Democratic Ticket Elected by over 150 Majority—Dayton a True" Union City. The Democrats of this city achieved a grand and glorious triumph. For the first time in many years they nominated a ticket, and made an open, straight fight. The Abolitionists also nominated a ticket, and the issue was made fair and square. We met them on their own ground and their own issue and beat them badly, routed them, horse, foot and dragoons. be entire Democratic city and township tickets aro elected. by majorities ranging from 100 to 150. Last fall the Abolitionists had a majority in the city. Democratic gain nearly three hundred since last fall. Well done "Copperheads." Democratic majority in the city and county, 1,200—a gain of eight hundred. From the Columbus Crisis, April 8 A Democratic Mayor ! A Democratic Mar shal ! ! Every City Officer Democratic on the General Ticket !! ! Twelve out of eighteen Councilmen ! ! ! The first Democratic Coon. cil ever elected in Columbus !! ! Out of the fourteen new Councilmen, the Democrats elected eleven and the Abolitionists three. Holding over Democrats one, Abolition- ists three—making Democrats twelve, Aboli tionists six. 11=1 At St. Paul, Warren (Democrat) id elected Moyer. At the town election at Ithaca, on Tuesday, six Republican and three Democratic super visors were elected, a gain of two Democratic supervisors and one thousand votes on the election of last November. ALBANY, April 14. The Democrats carried the city to-day by 2,600 majority. TRENTON, April 14. E. S. Mills, Democrat, was elected Mayor of this city yesterday by 378 majority. The whole Democratic city ticket is elected by an average majority of nearly 400. The Demo crats carry five out of the six wards, and elect all the ward officers. LAMBERTVILLE, April 14. The whole Democratic ticket was elected at Lambertville, without opposition. A CHAPLAIN DIMMED FOR SPEAKING WELL or Gs :v. MCCLELLAN.—The Falmouth corres pondent of the Providence Journal informs the good people of Rhode Island that the Rev. P. Burkhard, chaplain to the first regiment U. S. Dragoons, has been dismissed from the service by the President. The cause of this unceremonious treatment was a speech which the reverend gentleman made to his former congregation at Schenectady, N, Y., in which hedopicted the dangers he had passed through, and incidentally alluded to " Gen. McClellan's high military qualities." For this he was sum marily punished. The dismissal from the service of Lieut. Ed gerly, for voting the Democratic ticket, is a worthy counterpart to this manifestation of Presidential displeasure. The New York &czars Zeilung calls these proceedings " a means of encouraging enlistments."— Age. THE 'f DEVIL."—ITere is a desoription of the mysterious thing called the " Devil," which the Confederates captured from our fleet at Charleston : " An iron frame floated to the water edge by pontoons, is pushed ahead of the Monitor as she runs in. Its length from the bow of the Monitor is from twenty to thirty feet. An aperture is made next to the vessel, of the shape of her bows, intended to receive it. The breadth of the "obstruction remover" is twelve feet. From each side of the extremity a strong iton bar or shaft runs down alFo twelve feet, the Monitor drawing from eight to ten feet of water, thus rendering it impossi ble for any torpedoes over which this "obstruc tion-remover" passes to injure the vessel. "A number of iron bars are used, not only to form the net work so ae to either push for ward or explode every torpedo less than twelve feet under ;water, but also to strength.. en and steady the masts. At the bottom a heavy tie bar unites these two vertical rods, upon which rests the percussion torpedo, con taining seven hundred pounds of powder,— Above this is a hammer which catches in a spring so stiff as to require two men to set it, but constructed so that the lever which pro trudes in front, forming the handle or other end of the hammer, will cause the spring to give with little pressure. This is to remove piles." This " Devil" was invented by Captain .Ea.. meow at New York, to clear channels of tor pedoes and other obstructions. He sent four of the machines down, but three were lost in a gale. The other arrived safely at Hilton Head. HEAR JEFFERSON.-" The supremacy of the civil over the military authority—economy in the public expenses ; ac * diffusion of information arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public opinion. Freedom of Religion, Freedom of the Press, and FREEDOM or PERRON under PROTECTION of the Habeas Corpus and Trial by Jury, impartially selected. These prinoiples form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and the blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the test of civil instruction, the touch•stone by which to try the services of those wo trust; and should we wander from them, in moments of alarm, let us hasten , to retrace our stops and regain the road which alone leads to Peace, Liberty and Safety."-Thomas Jefferson iter A heavy robbery of Government funds was made at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Sunday night week. The paymaster's safe was broken into and robbed of nearly $140,000 in legal tender notes. •
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